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Minister rebuked for mass email

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF On the day Education Minister Jeff Johnson was rebuked for contacting teachers via their personal email addresses, his department clarified what limited information it wants from school boards on teacher discipline cases.

Alberta privacy commissioner Jill Clayton announced Thursday that Johnson was wrong to send a mass email to the personal emails of over 34,000 teachers in February. Clayton recommended that while Johnson should be able to communicate with teachers directly through their business email addresses, all personal addresses of teachers should be removed from the minister’s mailing list.

“The heart of this matter is transparency,” Clayton said in a release, “Even if you have authority to share information, it is important to be up front with people as to why their personal information is being collected and how it will be used.”

Signed simply “Jeff,” the minister’s conversational-style February missive called for greater co-operation and exchange of ideas between the ministry and teachers on issues such as curriculum redesign and contract talks with the Alberta Teachers’ Association. The privacy commissioner received 34 complaints in March from persons who had received the message.

Johnson wrote in his email, “We need to have open communications and ensure you have access to accurate information. ... You will be hearing from me on a regular basis.” He also called for teachers to contact him directly.

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A look at the outdoor pool at the Recreation Centre site. A committee is bringing forth another proposal to council for an aquatic centre, which could be located at the site.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Three years after Rotary Recreation Park was earmarked as a potential site for an estimated $90-million aquatic centre, a committee is bringing forward another proposal to council on Monday.

The Red Deer Multi-Use Aquatic Centre Ad Hoc Committee is recommending a $74.6-million facility with a 54-metre indoor pool ($71.1 million) and a 25-metre outdoor leisure pool ($3.5 million) at the downtown site.

Council footed $200,000 for a threephased study that included a site selection process, a concept and business plan in 2010. The final report was received as information with included a $90-million price tag for an aquatics centre connected to the Recreation Centre a year later.

At the time, council reasoned the cost was too high to move it up in the 10-year capital plan.

The new ad hoc committee determined that the site was the best fit, followed by Michener Centre and an

undetermined greenfield site (undeveloped), based on the information available and guiding principles. Some committee members suggested a north site near Hazlett Lake as a potential greenfield site.

Committee chairman David Lustgarden was reluctant to speak about the committee’s work and recommendations before his presentation to council.

Lustgarden said the committee worked hard to understand all the issues around a potential multi-use aquatic centre.

He said the recommendations are not a scaled-down version because nothing was ever finalized. In March 2011, the 2010-13 council approved Rotary Recreation Park as a potential site.

“There was all kinds of suggestions and recommendations and different amenities that were included in an aquatic centre,” said Lustgarden. “It really is a multi-use aquatic centre . . . . If you took everything we had on the table, it might come to ($90 million) or higher.”

He said the committee made rec-

ommendations based on the current needs of Red Deer and into the future.

The potential timing of building the proposed project and the uncertain future of Michener Centre emerged as major considerations and concerns, according to the committee report.

Committee members also wrestled with the difficulty of making a decision without knowing where city council would land with the project.

All councillors said “yes” to a project to build a 50-metre indoor pool in the Advocate’s pre-civic election survey in October 2013.

Rising inflation each year if the project continues to be delayed was a concern. As a result, the committee does not recommend a phased construction approach as a fiscally responsible or cost-effective option for the proposed facility.

The committee met 10 times from April 30 to June 26.

Principles were built on accessibility, fiscal responsibility, community focus and sustainability.

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Road construction season brings traffic snarls

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Due to the road work on 55 St., traffic is down to just one lane just before the intersection on 49 Ave. While traffic is not hectic in the evening, it is very slow moving throughout the morning and afternoon.

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Construction season has choked traffic at two major points on separate north-south roads in Red Deer.

The realignment of Taylor Drive began in May with traffic being reduced to one lane in each direction starting from the bridge over the Red Deer River, west of Ross Street, and ending at 45th Street.

Under normal conditions, Taylor Drive has two turning lanes heading north on Taylor, two lanes heading

south on Taylor from Ross Street and is as wide as three in each direction south of Ross Street.

An extra wrinkle to the summer driving season was thrown into the mix on Wednesday as construction crews started work on 55th Street from 50th to 48th Avenue. This work will close some lanes on 49th Avenue until September.

That started Wednesday when two lanes on the west side of 49th Avenue were closed, just north of the 53rd Street Music Store.

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Hot dog eaters prove size does not matter at weigh-in

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Competitive eaters prove that size does not always matter.

The top four contestants in the annual Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest on New York’s Coney Island weighed in Thursday with seven-time champ Joey Chestnut tilting the scales at a solid 205 pounds — 75 more than his top competitor, Matt Stonie, who finished second last year.

Chestnut hopes to demolish his competition by downing 70 hot dogs in just 10 minutes Friday just steps from where holiday beachgoers are showing off their bodies.

Two-time female champion Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas, at a mere 100 lbs, will try to eat more than 45 hot dogs to defend her title against 115-pound Miki Sudo.

The top four stared each other down at the weighin for dramatic effect as Mayor Bill de Blasio presided. Although he joked he was just in it for the free hot dog.

Thirteen women and 17 men will compete Friday before a live crowd of about 30,000 and a TV audience of about one million.

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PRIVACY: Johnson will comply with ruling In her report, Clayton stated that the department can seek information from teachers in conducting “evaluative analyses” on education, but that Johnson did not include in the email any particular purpose for which teacher feedback would be used.

In an email to The Canadian Press Thursday, Johnson said that he would comply with the ruling, but also that a middle ground is required. He said many teachers are not provided with a work email account and thus need to use their personal email in a professional capacity.

“As the ministry is both the registrar and regulator of the teaching profession we will work with the privacy commissioner to ensure we develop a method of communicating on professional matters that reaches as many teachers as possible.

“I believe teachers deserve to hear from me directly about issues and developments that may affect them.”

Opposition parties and the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) applauded the ruling and said Johnson had violated the trust of educators.

The ATA had called on the privacy commissioner earlier this week to rule on whether Johnson had overstepped his mandate by asking school boards across the province to provide records of all complaints regarding teacher misconduct or incompetence over the last 10 years.

On Thursday, the Alberta School Boards Association informed boards that they would now only be asked to provide five years of records and that no personal information need be disseminated. Details requested are what occurred, how it was addressed, and the financial impact on the division. The deadline for providing the records has been extended four days to July 15.

In his letter, Johnson wrote that many board chairs have expressed concerns regarding the process of dealing with teacher misconduct and incompetence and that improvements to the process are needed.

The request comes on the heels of the government-commissioned Task Force for Teaching Excellence report, which claimed that as both the union representing teachers and the body responsible for enforcing teacher discipline, the ATA is in conflict. The report recommends giving the Education Ministry authority to handle allegations relating to teacher conduct.

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Sharon Braun and pianist Cheryl Cooney perform for a crowd at the Snell Auditorium as part of First Thursdays in the Snell. First Thursdays, held at the Red Deer Public Library’s downtown location, is a series of free lunchtime concerts held on the first Thursday every month. comply with the request, and some board chairs say they are supportive of efforts to improve the discipline machinations.

“It’s not a big item but it can become big specific to one incidence when it does happen. It can take many hundreds of hours and many thousands of dollars to address; it is very challenging,” said Guy Pelletier, Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division chair.

Chinook’s Edge School Division board chair Colleen Butler agreed that the process needs to be simplified, as it can be cumbersome and costly.

“Teachers still need to be protected, you can’t be going on a witch hunt. There has to be a due process that’s fair, but I think that right now it’s very difficult to move forward with it,” she said.

Pelletier said most boards will seek other ways to resolve such situations to avoid the protracted procedures. Settlements may be reached or the teachers in question may move on.

Red Deer Public School District chair Bev Manning said the existing process has worked for her division in the 8-10 cases it has dealt with over the last decade. She said the board would simply like more detail from Johnson on what exactly he is trying to accomplish by collecting all the information. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com — with files by The Canadian Press

POOL: Council will consider information The committee passed resolutions on the guiding principles, amenities, dive tank, site, cost estimate and aquatic standards. It was formed earlier this year to review information and make recommendations on size, location, included amenities and phasing of an aquatic centre to city council.

Council will take the information into consideration when debating its place in the capital plan and the community amenity project. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

TRAFFIC: As far as the eye could see Lars Kay, a sales staff at the store, said vehicles were lined up all the way south from what he could see.

“I could see vehicles all the way down, as far as the eye could see,” said Kay. “It looked like Los Angeles.”

Kay said the traffic jam affected their business,

resulting in quieter days because of the hassle it has become getting to the store.

Further south on 49th Avenue, at Alberta Art and Drafting Supplies Ltd., a store manager saw the traffic snarl as an advertising opportunity.

“This is our time to shine,” said Lorette Frank.

“The traffic was just packed and slow moving. If we would have a couple of people dressed up as paint tubes it would have been great advertising.”

With traffic stuck for a long period, Frank hoped drivers took a long look at their south exterior wall mural.

“It was a continuous stream,” said Frank. “There were a lot of people a little upset because it was so slow. They’d come in and say ‘Oh my gosh, it took me 10 minutes, 20 minutes to go a block.’ ” Meanwhile, Red Deer Transit has had to make adjustments. Many buses regularly traverse 49th Avenue to reach the transit terminal, Sorensen Station.

Dennis Downham, Red Deer Transit senior operations supervisor, said they have put two extra buses into service in the north as a result of the backed up traffic.

“We managed to deal with it and minimized the impact to the passengers,” said Downham. “We put what we call two overload buses, to assist regular services operating out of the city centre because they were inconvenienced or delayed because of the traffic congestion.”

The two buses have been dispatched to the Parkland Mall area to keep service running as scheduled.

“We have to deal with these situations as they arise and we deal with them the best way we can.

Our main priority is to cause minimum disruption to our patrons and that’s what we achieved Wednesday and that’s what we’re doing today (Thursday).”

The ripping up of 55th Street is long overdue, to replace the pipes underneath. Alex Monkman, Red Deer environmental planning engineer, said the sanitary pipe is 60 years old and the original water pipe about 100 years old.

“We’re up-sizing that pipe and increasing the size of the sanitary so we can allow growth in the Riverlands and Railyards areas of downtown,” said Monkman.

Because that portion of 55th Street needed to be repaved and was being dug up for new pipes, the city is redoing its structural base. Monkman said the repaving should make the road good for another 15 to 20 years.

The Taylor Drive realignment project is aimed at improving traffic flow at a busy intersection and improving access into the downtown, Riverlands, Railyard and the river area.

The work on 55th Street is scheduled to wrap up in September, while the Taylor Drive realignment runs until October.

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BRIEF Calgary woman faces charges after more than 30 dogs seized from home CALGARY — A Calgary woman is facing dozens of animal cruelty charges after more than 30 dogs were seized from a home.

Police and bylaw officers were called to the house in the Acadia neighbourhood in May when a delivery person smelled a foul odour.

The Calgary Humane Society says feces and urine were found throughout the building.

Health officials later declared the house unfit for human habitation.

Veterinarians also determined 17 of the dogs had been in medical distress.

Beverly Jean Creed faces 51 counts under Alberta’s Animal Protection Act and is to appear in court Aug. 27.

Man charged after police allege he planned to meet 13-year-old at hotel

turn of their son. “We’re very confident that we are going to find these family members and we are hoping that we are going to find them alive,� he said.

Andrus said officers have closedcircuit video from homes and business near the Liknes’ house and it’s helping with the investigation.

He said police are also getting information from the public, including the people who attended the estate sale.

Police had asked anyone who attended the sale and bought something to bring a photo of the item to a community centre Thursday and speak

with investigators. Six tables manned by police officers with notepads were set up inside for interviews.

Andrus estimated as many as 300 people attended the sale. He said between 20 and 30 had gone to the community centre as of Thursday afternoon. “I would say it is less a mystery to us. I can’t comment on the degree.

Again, we are getting good information coming in and we are going through it and determining the relevance to the investigation,� he said.

Police also took family members through the home to get a better sense

Internet.

Police allege the man believed he was conversing online with a teen, but it was actually an investigator.

He was arrested last Friday.

Police say it’s possible there are more victims in the area.

Jason Arthur Laurier has been charged with 13 offences, including attempted sexual assault and making child pornography.

process is over and wants to move on with healing after losing her son.

Man gets seven years for fatal stabbing, pleaded guilty to lesser charge CALGARY — A Calgary man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing of his friend has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

Byron Blanchard and 18-year-old Joshua Hogarth were out drinking before being kicked out of a bar in August 2012 for fighting.

Blanchard was initially charged with second-degree murder in Hogarth’s death.

With credit for time served, Blanchard still has four years and three months to serve.

The victim’s mother, Debbie Hogarth, says she is disappointed with the plea deal.

But she says she’s happy the court

Horse-loving William Shatner to play it safe as Stampede parade marshal CALGARY — William Shatner says he will choose the captain’s chair in the back of an automobile as opposed to a captain’s saddle on the back of a four-legged steed as he presides over the Calgary Stampede parade as grand marshal Friday.

Shatner, 83, played Capt. James T. Kirk in the origina Star Trek series as well as in the movies, has won several Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe and is an avid horseman who has competed in a number of events.

Traditionally, Stampede parade grand marshals travel the route on horseback. But Shatner is choosing to ride in an antique car with his wife Elizabeth and says that while he would like to get in the saddle, it just wasn’t practical. “I don’t know the horse. I’ve ridden

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Shatner said he rode one of his horses in the last parade he was in and was placed behind the UCLA marching band. In order to keep the horse calm his trainer gave it a sedative.

Two dead in fiery crash east of Edmonton ST. PAUL — Two people are dead following a fiery crash involving three vehicles east of Edmonton.

RCMP say other motorists managed to save a 12-year-old girl by pulling her from a burning minivan.

Police say two adults — a 49-yearold man and a 52-year-old woman, both from Edmonton — couldn’t be helped as the minivan went up in flames.

The crash happened Monday afternoon on Highway 28.

Investigators say an SUV crossed the centre line and collided with a truck, and then hit the minivan.

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Alvin Liknes, his five-year-old grandson, Nathan, and his wife, Kathy, disappeared under suspicious circumstances in Calgary earlier this week.

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CALGARY — Calgary police say closed-circuit video and tips from the public are bringing them closer to understanding what happened to a missing five-year-old boy and his grandparents.

But homicide unit Staff-Sgt. Doug Andrus said investigators still don’t have any suspects they can name. “We have no suspects we can name, but . . . we have information that’s allowed us to move forward with this investigation,� Andrus said at a news conference Thursday. “I think everyone here, first of all, wants to ensure that we do a complete and thorough investigation. We identify the people responsible and we hold them accountable and I don’t want to do anything to jeopardize that. “Are we closer than yesterday, I would say we are.�

Nathan O’Brien and Alvin and Kathy Liknes were reported missing Monday and police believe their disappearance is suspicious.

The boy had been at his grandparents’ on a sleepover after the couple held an estate sale at their home on the weekend. Police have said there was evidence the three may have been forced from the home.

An Amber Alert remained in effect.

Andrus repeated what he said Wednesday when Nathan’s parents made an impassioned plea for the re-

of whether anything was missing.

The grandparents were planning a move to Edmonton and then on to Mexico when they disappeared.

Police have said there are no custody issues with the family — the boy’s parents are married and he is their biological son. Police have also said officers have no history with the family.

All of the family’s vehicles have been accounted for.

A blog has been established so Canadians can send messages to the family along with information on how to reach Crime Stoppers.

One person wrote about meeting the missing boy once at a birthday party. “Nathan was such a graceful and polite little man,� said the poster who gave the name Susan Bergquist. “We are doing all we can here in Red Deer to help out with social media and will be here for any further efforts to help with the return of Alvin, Kathy and Nathan.�

Another person offered a message of hope. “Every day, I am thinking of Nathan and his grandparents. I believe that they will come home safe to their family,� wrote the person who gave the name Selina Bishop. “The police are working hard to solve this one. Someone saw something, and today they will find that someone — and that will be the clue that leads them to Nathan. Stay strong.

Love each other.�

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Failing grade for minister Alberta Education Minister Jeff Johnson is on a mission. He believes that any organization with 35,000 professionally-certified employees — such as the public school system at 62 school boards across the province — is bound to contain a few duds.

J o h n s o n wants to find those duds.

In the past 10 years, not one Alberta teacher has been fired for incompetence. There have been those GREG extremely rare NEIMAN instances of professional misconduct that ended up in the legal system (think sexual interference). But no member of the Alberta Teachers Association has ever been found to be such a bad fit in the classroom that the employer needed to let them go.

School board members — the teachers’ direct employer — might (or might not) tell you that sometimes teachers are quietly asked to retire, resign, take long-term disability or be outright paid to leave. Once this process is completed, both sides sign legal non-disclosure agreements; that’s why they might not tell you about it.

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That’s because it is far cheaper and easier to buy a resignation than undergo the convoluted and costly process of legal documentation needed to justify complaints of incompetence or poor professional conduct against an ATA member.

It’s like once a teacher gets that professional certification, you’d almost have to kill someone to have it revoked.

That certification is there for life.

But you just can’t have 35,000 human beings performing vitally important and extremely complicated tasks involving children from God-knows-what family backgrounds mixed together with kids with special needs in overcrowded classrooms that have far too few supports and not have a few failures. Spectacular failures, actually.

Mathematical probability demands it.

At least, that’s how Johnson and a lot of critics of the current system see it.

Yet, by standards recognized around the world, Alberta’s public education system works. Works very well, in fact.

You can’t be a global leader in public education from kindergarten to Grade 12— as is the case in Alberta — without a consistently strong staff base.

So that’s why the teachers union — along with a lot of others — don’t trust the motives behind the minister’s demand that all our school boards cough up private dossiers on all their teachers who have ever been subject of a complaint in the past 10 years.

The ATA has lodged a complaint of its own against the ministry with the government’s privacy commissioner, Jill Clayton. That ought to clog the wheels in Johnson’s plan for quite some time.

But Johnson remains adamant. Tick, tock. Johnson wants those files by July 11.

More, Johnson appointed a task force that reported last month, with recommendations that teachers submit to formal renewal of their certificates every five years.

We’re told other jurisdictions do this. Like New Zealand and several states in the U.S. Let’s see, the U.S. is ranked where, somewhere around 62nd in the world for the quality of its public education system, and Alberta — at No. 3, is going to emulate their professional practices?

How’s that working for them down in Michigan? Teachers happy, feeling the love, there?

Other recommendations from the task force suggest a program of mentorship for new teachers (with time and resources for that paid, of course), and financial rewards for high performers (likewise paid extra, not taken out of existing classroom supports, right?).

But anything that costs more money isn’t going to be part of Alberta Education’s plans. Just the get-the-teacher thing.

Bottom line: this is going nowhere.

The long-governing Conservatives are having a leadership battle right now

and no candidate is going to alienate 35,000 well-organized, well-educated voters.

Campaign leader Jim Prentice has already come out publicly against any plan to require teacher recertification.

And that demand for private employment record dossiers? Forget about it.

Johnson claims that although school boards are tasked with hiring and firing, he’s in charge of the school boards.

He says he can dissolve any board that doesn’t comply with his directives.

Go ahead and try. His ministerial power, plus five bucks, will get him a latte in a coffee shop somewhere, where he can contemplate the end of his political career.

In a short time, Alberta will have a new premier. Then we will have a new cabinet. In a short time after that, we will have a general election — the first in living memory whose outcome is uncertain.

As much as Jeff Johnson would like it, the time period going forward is no time for the Tories to create blood enemies among teachers, civil servants, doctors, nurses, health-care support workers or long-term care staff. Or among Albertans who feel these workers are important to Alberta’s future.

This is a summer squall that will soon blow over. Johnson needs to ensure the rain doesn’t all fall on him.

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

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BY DOUG FIRBY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Over the summer holidays, Canadians hit the road — exploring our country from sea to sea. This can be a very scary thing.

Some people, it seems, get a bad case of “holiday brain” when they get behind the wheel of a car. On Tuesday, I witnessed some of the worst driving by Canadians I’ve ever seen. One of them was the young woman driving behind my wife and me as we headed to our Rocky Mountain Canada Day celebration.

Clipping along toward the mountain town of Canmore, I had to slow down quickly because of a traffic jam on the Trans-Canada Hwy ahead. In my rear view mirror, I saw a little blue car bearing down on me at frightening speed. At the last minute, the driver spotted me, jammed on the brakes and narrowly avoided a crash.

As I had watched this potential wreck unfold in my mirror, it became obvious that the driver was talking on her cellphone.

Even the near-collision distracted her from her call for only a few seconds; once she was stopped, she was back chatting.

And, as we exited the highway and crept into town, to my amazement I saw that she continued to chat on the phone and then used her free hand to ap-

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ply eye makeup, which she did by looking in her own rear view mirror.

Alert readers will wonder how she managed to steer with both hands occupied. The short answer is, I don’t know.

No doubt, this is a particularly egregious example of distracted driving. But, sadly, not an anomaly.

Although fatality rates have steadily fallen over the past 20 years, drivers in certain parts of Canada have gotten worse — way worse.

A recent online poll by Angus Reid reports that nine out of 10 respondents say they have seen someone talking on a cellphone while driving. Albertans tend to multi-task and run red lights more often than drivers in other provinces, the survey found.

But, it turns out, while Alberta does have bad drivers, it is not statistically the worst. It ranks fourth worst, according to Transport Canada figures, with 12.8 deaths per 100,000 licensed drivers.

Northwest Territories has 20.5 fatalities per 100,000 licensed drivers, Saskatchewan is second worst with 21.2 per and Yukon is worst with 27.6 per 100,000 licensed drivers.

The safest province? Anyone living in the Greater Toronto Area might be surprised to learn Ontario is overall the safest, at least on a per-driver basis.

Thankfully, driving in the rest of the province is unlike the GTA commute.

And what of Quebec? If you’ve driven in Montreal,

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you might expect that province to fare poorly, as well. But, in fact, their fatality rate is also quite low.

Automotive technology can take some of the credit for the declining death rate. The way cars crumple now means that fewer of us are likely to get seriously injured or killed in a collision. It has to be the improved technology, because it sure as heck isn’t the drivers.

It seems the gradual decline in driving quality follows a parallel with a similar erosion in civil society. People are ruder on the transit, in queues, at Tim Hortons and at sporting events. Should we be surprised that they behave the same way behind the wheel?

When was the last time someone actually slowed down in reaction to you signalling that you’d like to enter their lane?

These days, a signal seems to serve as an invitation to speed up and block your path.

How different from the first time I drove in Alberta nearly 40 years ago, when drivers would pull onto the shoulder of a country road to let you pass (a practice since outlawed). I don’t recall drivers using the mirror to apply make-up either back then.

Asphalt civility? It appears that it’s become another bit of road kill on the freeway to urban nirvana.

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BRIEF Can’t stop Bernardo from communicating with the outside world: MacKay HALIFAX — Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay says there’s nothing the government can do to prevent Paul Bernardo from communicating with a woman who is reportedly planning to marry the convicted killer.

“That’s not really an issue before the Justice Department,” MacKay said Thursday after a funding announcement in Halifax.

“There hasn’t been an action. There hasn’t been preventative steps taken to prevent contact . . . We can’t stop a person from communicating through letters and emails unless there is something that is seen as harassing or criminal in its intent.”

MacKay said that whenever he hears Bernardo’s name, his thoughts turn to the victims “who will not be able to have relationships, who will not be able to enjoy many of the things that (Bernardo) will enjoy in his life.

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Floodwaters surround cottages and homes on Crooked Lake, Sask., during Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall’s aerial tour of flood-ravaged southeast Saskatchewan on Wednesday “Crops can only withstand being under water a certain amount of time.”

Norm Hall, president of Agriculture Producers Association of Saskatchewan, said it’s too soon to assess how badly farmers were hurt.

“It got really ugly in a hurry,” Hall said. “It’s the gamut of farms and everybody’s being hit.”

At least 40,000 hectares of crops have been affected so far, but it could

easily go above that, he said. Farmers are also concerned the floodwater has damaged roads and grain storage bins.

The torrential rain and flash floods prompted more than 100 communities in Saskatchewan and Manitoba to declare a state of emergency.

About 300 people in Saskatchewan and 565 people in Manitoba have had to leave their homes because of overland flooding.

There are flood warnings for 28 Manitoba rivers and streams. Flood watches are in place for Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba. About 78 provincial roads, hundreds of municipal roads and dozens of bridges are closed.

Dozens of basements have taken on water in Brandon, however the city’s emergency co-ordinator said no one has been evacuated.

“My thoughts are first and foremost about the victims that he left behind.”

The QMI news agency is reporting that an unnamed 30-year-old woman from London, Ont., has admitted to writing letters to Bernardo since last fall.

The news agency says the woman’s parents are insisting she has changed her mind about marrying Bernardo, and the agency quotes the woman as saying she is “rethinking” her plan.

In the early 1990s, Bernardo and his then-wife Karla Homolka were convicted of crimes related to the rape and murder of two teenaged schoolgirls, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy.

Bernardo was declared a dangerous offender and sentenced to life in prison. Homolka served 12 years for manslaughter, having struck a deal with prosecutors in 1993.

first-degree murder charges and two counts of attempted murder. He has not entered pleas on the charges.

Judge Irwin Lambert said he received from the defence on Thursday an affidavit signed by Victor Bourque, the accused’s father, outlining why he believed a psychiatric assessment was justified.

Bourque did not speak during his brief appearance Thursday in Moncton provincial court, but his lawyer, David Lutz, said he was making the request for a psychiatric assessment after speaking to his client’s father.

“I have met extensively with the father and to a lesser degree with the mother,” said Lutz. “I’m aware of the circumstances that led up to this horrific incident and I feel based upon my experience that this is an appropriate case (for an assessment), based on the content of the affidavit.”

Lutz did not elaborate on his re-

marks and would not comment outside court.

The Crown agreed to the defence request to send Bourque for a psychiatric assessment, which will be conducted at the Shepody Healing Centre in Dorchester, N.B. Bourque, who wore a grey T-shirt that hung off his slight frame, glanced into the public gallery a couple of times where members of his family sat while he was in court.

Constables Dave Ross, Fabrice Gevaudan and Douglas Larche were gunned down after responding to a report of a man with firearms in a residential neighbourhood on June 4. Two other RCMP officers — constables Eric Dubois and Darlene Goguen — were wounded and later released from hospital.

The shootings and ensuing manhunt brought the city to a standstill until an arrest was made about 30 hours later.

Man accused of killing three Mounties to undergo psychiatric assessment MONCTON, N.B. — A young man charged with fatally shooting three RCMP officers and wounding two others in Moncton, N.B., last month will return to court July 31 after undergoing a psychiatric assessment.

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Doug Chorney, head of Keystone Agricultural Producers, said the recent torrential rain means farmers could lose this year’s income if seeded crops are wiped out and more.

“On a farm, when you get a disaster like this, you lose your home, you lose your potential for income for at least a year and you may have to dig into your savings to finance recovery,” Chorney said Thursday.

“It’s significant, very significant. It’s going to be felt for many years in rural communities.”

Adding to the stress, Chorney said Manitoba is activating the Portage diversion which funnels water from the Assiniboine River into Lake Manitoba.

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VANCOUVER — Much of the case against two men charged with the executions of six people, including two innocent bystanders, relies on a cast of unsavoury characters: former gang members whose own crimes have overshadowed their testimony.

That has left the Crown with the delicate task of convincing a judge that those witnesses — including a former gang leader and a man already serving a life sentence for two unrelated murders — have turned their backs on their old lives and come to court intent on telling the truth.

Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston are each charged with conspiracy and six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of six men found in a highrise condo in Surrey, B.C., in October 2007.

In closing arguments Thursday, Crown counsel Mark Levitz acknowledged that a former gang mate, known only as Person Y, received financial compensation for his co-operation.

But the man agreed to become a Crown witness because he had become “disillusioned� with the gang life, Levitz said, and the money will be of little use to him as he serves a life sentence after pleading guilty to the two murders. “He had no motive to come before this court to pull the wool over this court’s eyes,� Levitz told a B.C. Supreme Court judge. “This court can have great comfort that he is telling the truth.�

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OTTAWA — Two new reports paint a troubling portrait of post-military life for the country’s soldiers, suggesting that for many the return to the civilian world is marked by health concerns, a sense of social isolation and less cash.

The Statistics Canada surveys, released in tandem Thursday, present a challenge to the Harper government, which has staked a lot of its political reputation on supporting the troops and has poured tens of millions of extra dollars into both the veterans affairs and defence budgets to help ex-service members achieve a soft landing in their new lives.

The Pre- and Post-Release Income survey and the Health and Well-Being of Canadian Armed Forces Veterans reports examine the quality of life and financial burdens of the country’s former service members over a 15-year period, starting in 1998.

The income survey, which measured to 2011, looked at the tax and Veterans Affairs records of 70,771 ex-soldiers and found that both regular and reserve members experienced an income decline on shedding their uniforms.

In the case of wounded soldiers released on medical grounds, the drop is steep. It could amount to as much as 20 per cent.

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VANCOUVER — More than four years after the Olympic flame went out on the West Coast, the Vancouver Organizing Committee released its final reports Thursday and turned out the lights.

VANOC said the Games broke even, with total revenues and expenses just shy of $1.9 billion. The group that organized the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics has no more assets or outstanding debts and has asked government to dissolve the company. “It was 11 years ago yesterday we took the stage in Prague and we made promises,� CEO John Furlong said in an interview. “We made commitments in the name of the country, we made commitments to the IOC and we made commitments to the Canadian public that we would deliver the Games in the black and so we set out to do that.�

It was a challenging journey, he said, pointing out the global economic collapse in 2008. “I think that worried us,� Furlong said.

With the Sochi Games in the not-so-distant past and fresh concerns about the World Cup in Brazil, Furlong said there has been much discussion about the cost of such large events and the difficulties some countries have had. “I look at our situation and think we are a very good model of how to do these events. This is, to me, very good for the Canada brand of being reliable, being trustworthy, keeping your promises, being on time and on budget, being responsible about the things that really matter to the public,� he said.

cal condition and who quit or retired, saw an average income decline of two per cent, but that figure jumped to 11 per cent if the ex-soldier sought rehabilitation or training services at the veterans’ department.

The income slide is felt the most in the lower ranks, the survey said.

A spokesman for Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino pointed out the survey results show that ex-soldiers after three years as clients of the department receive on average $70,700 — or $5,891 a month.

In an attempt to stem criticism, Fantino caused a stir last spring when he told a parliamentary committee that some wounded troops receive as much as $10,000 per month — figure that included every government entitlement.

It turned out there were only four veterans eligible to receive that amount, all of them senior officers and severely disabled.

His spokesman said the Statistics Canada data does not capture all the government has done lately. “The averages provided in this report are reflective of income from 1997-2011 and therefore the data is informative but not necessarily reflective of today’s reality,� said David Pierce in an email. “Minister Fantino recognizes there is more work to be done and remains committed to improving the lives of Canadian Veterans and their families.�

HALIFAX — The federal government is open to amending its proposed prostitution law, but Justice Minister Peter MacKay says the Commons committee reviewing the bill must move quickly.

MacKay said Thursday he’s looking forward to taking part in hearings that start Monday in Ottawa.

The Conservative government is open to constructive changes, he said, but he added that the bill is constitutionally sound and adequately responds to a Supreme Court decision that recently struck down parts of the existing laws. “We’re always open to amendments if they’re constructive amendments that we believe it,� he said after a funding announcement in Halifax. “This is what the committee process in all about.�

MacKay said the committee is under pressure to act quickly because the court ruling in December

stipulated that a new law must be in place within a year, which is why hearings are being held during the summer recess. “Our message is: pass the bill,� he said. “There is a sense of urgency.�

The minister said the bill has been subject to extensive consultations including online input.

Under the old laws, prostitution itself was actually legal but almost all related activities — including communicating in a public place for the purposes of prostitution, pimping and running a brothel — were criminal offences.

The Supreme Court was concerned that the provisions unduly increased the risk to sex workers and declared them in violation of the basic Charter right to security of the person.

The Conservative bill criminalizes the purchase of sexual services, targets those who benefit from prostitution and outlaws the sale of sex near places where children gather.

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NDP staffers split with union OTTAWA — More than 600 New Democrat parliamentary staffers are parting company with the labour union that represents them after it refused to unequivocally endorse the NDP in last month’s Ontario election.

It’s not simply that federal New Democrats are furious about what they view as Unifor’s betrayal of the provincial NDP. They’re also worried that Unifor could similarly refuse to categorically support the NDP in next year’s federal election, thereby endangering the staffers’ jobs, which the union is supposed to protect.

Exactly who initiated the divorce is disputed.

Unifor national president Jerry Dias said the decision to go their separate ways was “absolutely mutual.� “This will be an amicable divorce,� Dias said. “Their position is they want to belong to a union that has complete, blind loyalty to the party and I understand that ...

But the facts are that one local union within Unifor is not going to dictate the politics of an organization of over 300,000 people.�

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While Unifor is largely supportive of the NDP, Dias said sometimes its priorities are different.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON — Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard stumbled in her first two Grand Slam semifinal appearances this year.

The third time proved to be the charm Thursday at the All England Club.

Bouchard defeated Romania’s Simona Halep 7-6 (5), 6-2 to become the first Canadian to advance to the women’s singles final at Wimbledon. It was the latest achievement in what has already been a historic run for Bouchard at the sport’s most prestigious event.

“After doing well in the past few (Grand) Slams, I’ve been believing since the beginning of the tournament that I can do really well,” she said.

“I’m just trying to take it one match at a time. It’s really important not to get ahead of ourselves.

“I totally feel like I belong, and I’m just so excited for the next match.”

The 20-year-old from Westmount, Que., has yet to lose a set in her six matches so far at Wimbledon. No Canadian had ever reached the women’s singles quarter-finals here in the Open era — never mind the final — before Bouchard.

There could be a Canadian in the men’s singles final as well. Milos Raonic of Thornhill, Ont., will take on Switzerland’s Roger Federer on Friday with a berth in Sunday’s championship on the line.

This is uncharted territory for Canadian tennis.

Before this tournament, no Canadian had ever reached a men’s or women’s Grand Slam singles final, according to Tennis Canada. The last Canadian to reach a singles semifinal at a major was Robert Powell at Wimbledon in 1908, the organization said.

Montreal native Greg Rusedski reached the U.S. Open final in 1997 but he was representing Great Britain at that time.

The 13th-seeded Bouchard, who converted her sixth match point to complete the 94-minute victory, will next face sixth-seeded Petra Kvitova on Saturday.

“To get to my first Grand Slam final, it’s very exciting. It’s what I’ve worked so long for, you know,” Bouchard said.

“So I’m just proud of myself for today’s effort.”

Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon champion, beat fellow Czech left-hander Lucie Safarova 7-6 (6), 6-1 in the early semifinal.

Bouchard lost in the semifinals at the year’s two previous majors, the Australian Open and French Open.

She’s projected to rise to No. 7 — the highest ranking for a Canadian woman

— by reaching the final and would go to No. 6 by winning the championship.

Bouchard would also be the youngest Grand Slam champion since Maria Sharapova won the 2006 U.S. Open at age 19.

“I’ve put in a lot of hard work and it’s been kind of years in the making to me,” Bouchard said. “So I believe in myself and I expect good results.

I’ve had a good start to the season, but I expect myself to do even better than that.”

In a semifinal that was delayed twice in the first set — first by a left ankle injury to Halep, and then when a woman spectator fell ill during the tiebreaker — Halep double-faulted on break point in the second set and then was broken again by Bouchard to give the Canadian a 4-1 lead.

The third-seeded Halep, who saved three match points in the seventh game and two more in the final game, appeared to be increasingly affected by her ankle injury and looked down at her feet several times after hitting shots.

“It was difficult to continue ... I felt a big pain in the moment, but then was better with the tape,” Halep said. “But still, I couldn’t push anymore with my leg. My first serve was really bad after that.”

On Bouchard’s first match point, Halep hit an ace, but Bouchard did not appear ready to receive, and she went to speak with chair umpire Kader Nouni. But the point stood and Bouchard failed to clinch the match.

“When Simona tossed I heard someone scream in the crowd,” Bouchard said. “It had happened a few times already. This time I didn’t feel prepared to return, so I put my hand up. I felt like we should have replayed the point, but he said, no, it was her point.

Just happy I kept my focus and didn’t get distracted.”

The tiebreaker was delayed briefly when the female spectator became ill.

With Halep leading 3-2, Nouni jumped from his chair to alert security officials to the woman’s illness and told both players to go to their sideline chairs.

Temperatures on Centre Court were 25 degrees Celsius under sunny skies.

Following a delay of about five minutes and after the woman was escorted from the seating area by medical staff, the tiebreaker resumed. The woman returned to her seat later in the match after treatment.

Halep had never been past the third round at a Grand Slam until last year, when she made it to the fourth round at the U.S. Open. Then she reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open in January, and got to the final at the French Open last month, losing to Sharapova.

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Eugenie Bouchard celebrates winning the first set as she plays against Simona Halep of Romania during their women’s singles semifinal match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday.

In the first semifinal, Kvitova — the only women’s player born in the 1990s to have won a major title — improved her record to 25-5 on the Wimbledon grass. The 24-year-old has made at least the quarter-finals for five years in a row.

“I know how (it feels) when you hold the trophy so I really want to win my second title here and I will do everything I can,” Kvitova said.

She saved her best for last: Up to 6-all in the tiebreaker, Safarova had won more total points, 40-39. From there, though, Kvitova won 31 of the last 48 points in the match.

Kvitova beat Bouchard 6-3, 6-2 in their only previous meeting, a secondround match at the Rogers Cup in Toronto last August.

“I find her as a very solid and talented player,” Kvitova said. “She is confident in her game right now. She’s

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moving very well ... she’s playing aggressively.”

After sealing the victory, Bouchard appeared pleased with her performance but kept the jubilation to a minimum.

“It’s not like a surprise to me — I expect good results like this,” she said.

“So for me, I was like, ’OK good. It’s a step in the right direction.’ I get to play in the final and I still have another match so it’s not a full celebration yet.”

Bouchard is the only woman to have advanced to all three Grand Slam semifinals this year. The 2012 Wimbledon junior champion said she’s proud to be the first Canadian to make it this far in the tournament.

“It’s always exciting and special when I can make history,” she said.

“My job is not done, I want to go another step further. So I’m going to stay focused and enjoy it after.”

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Blue Bombers 36 Redblacks 28 WINNIPEG — Running back Nic Grigsby’s three touchdowns gave the Winnipeg Blue Bombers a come-from-behind 36-28 win over the Ottawa Redblacks Thursday, spoiling the expansion team’s CFL debut.

Demond Washington’s 96-yard kick return for a third-quarter touchdown was also huge for the Bombers, who trailed for most of the game.

With three first-quarter touchdowns, the Redblacks jumped into an early lead. But after that, the Bomber defence pretty well shut them down for most of the game.

Quarterback Drew Willy and Winnipeg’s offence had trouble cashing in on their chances until Grigsby gave them their first lead at 12:28 of the final quarter with his third touchdown.

The game marked the return of Ottawa to the league it left in 2006 due to money troubles.

That, plus Winnipeg’s win in its season opener, put a few more fans in the seats with a count of 27,553 and they were deafening when the Redblacks had the ball.

CFL commissioner Mark Cohon was on hand for the occasion.

“I think we have a great franchise in the Ottawa Redblacks,” said Cohon, who started working to bring Ottawa back into the league shortly after he became commissioner in 2007.

“When we did that deal, to where they are today, it’s a much stronger league and they’re very happy to be part of something that is growing. And I think they’re one of the big reasons why there’s a lot of excitement this year around the league.”

Running back Chevon Walker justified the pre-season hype he received with two Ottawa touch-

EDMONTON — The Edmonton Eskimos have had some dynamic receiving duos throughout the franchise’s history, and they’re hoping another is developing this year.

Veteran slotbacks Fred Stamps and Adarius Bowman have shown they can be the one-two punch — like Brian Kelly and Tom Scott in the 1980s or Ed Hervey and Terry Vaughn in the early 2000s — that gives opposing CFL defences more trouble than they can handle a if they can stay healthy.

In the Eskimos season-opening 27-20 win in Vancouver last weekend, Bowman had nine catches for 105 yards and the heavily guarded Stamps four for 40 yards. Both caught crucial touchdown passes.

The Eskimos may never have another duo like Kelly and Scott, who terrorized CFL defences the five years they were together in Edmonton and were key players in the Eskimos five straight Grey Cup victories. But with the Eskimos preparing for their home opener tonight versus Hamilton, both Stamps and Bowman were anxious to establish themselves as a pair to be reckoned with.

“I’m going into my fourth year with Fred now and I think we go at each other, tandem with each other, so teams can’t do double team and triple team on him when you have guys like me and Shamawd (Chambers) making plays,” said Bowman. “So if everybody continues to do their roles and I continue to make my plays when they come, Fred’s going to do his thing.”

Last year, in 16 games, Stamps’ “thing” was 68 receptions for a CFL leading 1,259 yards and 11 touchdowns. Bowman played only the final nine games and had an impressive 44 catches for 697 yards and five TDs. The only season the two have played together for more than half a season was 2011 when they both played 15 games. Stamps had 82 catches for 1,153 yards and eight TDs while Bowman chipped in with 62 catches, an identical 1,153 yards and four TDs. The thought of both of them being healthy all season has them, along with quarterback Mike Reilly and the Eskimos offence, salivating.

“Man, the sky’s the limit,” Stamps, who has had five straight seasons of more than 1,000 reception yards, said of the pair’s potential. “It’s exciting to see something like that. It’s big to have him back, healthy again. As the season goes on we’re going to get stronger and stronger.”

Reilly said the Stamps-Bowman duo gives defences multiple things to worry about on every play.

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Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Aaron Woods strong-arms Ottawa Redblacks’ Antoine Pruneau as he attempts to take him down during the second half of CFL action in Winnipeg Thursday. downs and Dobson Collins had the other. Brett Maher had two field goals and a single on a miss.

Lirim Hajrullahu had three field goals for the Bombers.

Unlike last week, when they opened their season against the Toronto Argonauts, there was no early Bomber scoring drive. Willy went two and out.

Instead, Burris took advantage of midfield position on his first possession to set up Ottawa’s first touchdown on a four-yard run by Walker to make it 7-0.

He followed it about two minutes later with a 58-second drive and 26-yard pass to Collins and the Redblacks took a 14-0 lead.

Up to that point, the Bomber offence hadn’t managed to get out of their half of the field.

Willy finally connected with

Nick Moore for 51 yards to get in scoring range on a six-play 73-yard drive with about four minutes left in the first. Grigsby carried it the last yard to get the Bombers on the board. But Ottawa wasn’t finished and Walker caught an eightyard pass to make it 21-7 before the quarter ended.

The Redblacks stalled in the second with penalties (eight to Winnipeg’s four in the first half) and trouble handling Winnipeg’s defence.

Winnipeg narrowed the gap with Grigsby’s four-yard run for his second touchdown of the night.

Hajrullahu’s 47-yard field goal as the half ended made it 21-17 and he hit with a 16-yarder just over four minutes into the second half to bring the Bombers within one.

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NHL’s Western Conference has become an arms race for top-two centres

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong targeted Paul Stastny in free agency. But before he even had the chance to sign him, the Dallas Stars traded for Jason Spezza.

“I’ve got to say I was a little bit nervous this morning when Dallas made their acquisition what our Plan B would be,” Armstrong said.

Such is life in the Western Conference, where contending teams are playing an escalating game of “Can you top this?” specifically down the middle of the ice. Having a strong one-two punch of centres is necessary given the Los Angeles Kings’ duo of Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter and now the Anaheim Ducks’ combination of Ryan Getzlaf and Ryan Kesler.

“If you want to be one of the elite teams, you have to have it,” Stars GM Jim Nill said. “You look at the other teams that are winning on our side now, you need to have two elite centremen.”

Nill came from the Detroit Red Wings, who won Stanley Cups thanks in part to having Steve Yzerman and Sergei Fedorov and later Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk. In Dallas now, he has Tyler Seguin and Spezza.

The Stars need them to compete in an ultra-competitive Central Division, let alone the Western Conference. The NHL’s new divisional playoff format makes that a necessity.

While Anaheim has to worry about getting through Cup-champion Los Angeles, Dallas has to contend with Jonathan Toews and now Brad Richards with Chicago, Alex Steen and Stastny with St. Louis and Matt Duchene and Nathan MacKinnon with the Colorado Avalanche.

Armstrong said Tuesday that the Blues’ first goal had to be dethroning the Avalanche, who finished first when St. Louis scuffled at the end of the season. Enter Stastny, signed to a US$28-million, four-year deal not long into free agency.

“They’re the champs and they’re the first team we have to take a look at catching,” Armstrong said on a conference call. “If we’re fortunate enough to do that and get into the playoffs, we want to have the guys that can compete at that time of year.”

Signing Stastny away from Colorado was a good place to start. Of course part of the rationale the 28-year-old

had in leaving was a compliment to the Avalanche’s superb centre depth.

“You look at Colorado and you had these dynamic players in MacKinnon and Duchene and they’re young and they’re still developing,” Stastny said.

“You never know what’s going to happen down the road when MacKinnon kind of becomes a centre and (maybe) he pushes me out of the way, you never know.

“I look at St. Louis, their window to win the Cup is now and for the next seven or eight years.”

Even with the San Jose Sharks in a rebuilding stage, the window is cracked wide open for the Blues, Avalanche, Blackhawks, Kings, Ducks and Minnesota Wild. Of that group, only the Wild, with Mikko Koivu and Mikael Granlund, lack a pair of strong, established centres, but also got Thomas Vanek to mix in with Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.

And only now, after signing Richards to a $2-million, one-year deal, are the Blackhawks able to match-up down the middle with the best in the West.

Chicago came one overtime goal away from going to the Cup final anyway, but its most glaring hole was at second-line centre.

“We certainly have been searching for someone who is an experienced centre in the NHL,” GM Stan Bowman said. “It’s a big moment for us to be able to add someone of his calibre as a hockey player and as an individual.

He brings so many things to the table for us.”

The same can be said in Dallas of Spezza, who said he always considered the Stars a good fit as he was on the verge of being traded by the Ottawa Senators. In the process, he rejected a deal that would’ve sent him to the Nashville Predators and made them playoff contenders.

Spezza said the Stars’ young talent “is an envy of a lot of the league,” but that was only enough to get them in the playoffs and no further this past spring.

Ducks GM Bob Murray said last week that Dallas was “on the way.”

Having Spezza not just behind Seguin but ahead of Cody Eakin and Shawn Horcoff down the middle — with Benn, Valeri Nichushkin and Ales Hemsky on the wings — means the Stars are formidable now.

“To think about being on a powerplay unit with those guys and to play with them, hopefully we can create

Ranking the top two centres on each team in the NHL’s Western Conference

some depth where it makes it difficult for teams to have kind of waves of guys coming at you,” Spezza said. “It’s a great situation to be on a team with such talented, for sure.”

Further along the development curve, the Blues feature the kind of centre depth that exemplifies wave after wave. Steen and Stasnty with captain David Backes possibly moving to wing and the Vladimir Sobotka.

“There’s a variety of great players on this team and whether some are natural centremen or they’re playing wing or vice versa, you can move different pieces (around),” Stastny said.

“I think that’s what makes good teams really special is they have the ability to make three or four even lines or go top-heavy and make two really effective lines.”

To get out of the West, teams need to have talent at least two lines deep.

That helped Chicago win the Cup in 2010 and 2013 and made it an attractive destination for Richards, who took much less money than he could’ve gotten elsewhere after being bought out by the New York Rangers.

“When you look at the opportunity to play here it’s pretty exciting because you know if you’re playing centre on the top two lines, you’re playing with a great player or probably two great players,” Richards said. “I’ve watched these guys play for the last six, seven years and Patrick Kane is one of the most explosive players in the league, and it’s not just him. It’s a great group that’s been together and knows how to win.”

As Nill said earlier this week, to get good players, you have to have some good players. There’s no shortage of that in the West, which has produced four out of the past five champions.

While the Blackhawks built heavy on defence and down the wings and relied a lot on Toews, the Kings made it look absolutely necessary to have depth at centre. Kopitar had 26 points in 26 playoff games and Carter had 25.

Murray said he knew right after his team lost in seven games to Los Angeles that it had to have a better No. 2 centre. So he traded Nick Bonino, Luca Sbisa and a first-round pick for Kesler.

“Just having those two guys back-toback, the two Ryans, it makes Mr. Getzlaf’s life a little easier,” Murray said.

“I think we’re going to be a harder team to play against.”

That’s just what the West needed is

Ranking the projected one-two centre punches in the NHL’s Western Conference: 1. Los Angeles Kings: Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter The Stanley Cup winners set the gold standard in the West.

2. Anaheim Ducks: Ryan Getzlaf and Ryan Kesler Kesler’s addition gives the Ducks the size they need against L.A. 3. San Jose Sharks: Joe Thornton and Logan Couture If Thornton stays, the Sharks are still stacked down the middle.

4. Dallas Stars: Tyler Seguin and Jason Spezza Spezza makes Dallas much more than a one-line team.

5. St. Louis Blues: Alex Steen and Paul Stastny So many good centres, a couple will have to play on wing.

6. Colorado Avalanche: Matt Duchene and Nathan MacKinnon Losing Stastny hurts, but MacKinnon gets to shift to natural position.

7. Chicago Blackhawks: Jonathan Toews and Brad Richards Getting Richards solved Blackhawks’ biggest off-season need.

8. Minnesota Wild: Mikko Koivu and Mikael Granlund Wild are strong on the wings but no slouches at centre.

9. Phoenix Coyotes: Martin Hanzal and Sam Gagner Gagner is small, but Coyotes upgraded by dumping Mike Ribeiro.

10. Vancouver Canucks: Henrik Sedin and Nick Bonino If Bonino continues to develop, Canucks will be just fine.

11. Winnipeg Jets: Bryan Little and Mark Scheifele Scheifele’s development is key for Winnipeg.

12. Nashville Predators: Mike Fisher and Olli Jokinen It will be up to Peter Laviolette to maximize Predators’ talent.

13. Edmonton Oilers: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl Draisaitl is the future, even if he’s not the present.

14. Calgary Flames: Sean Monahan and Matt Stajan Young Flames would love No. 4 pick Sam Bennett to be ready soon. to ratchet up the difficulty level. Already last season there were arguably six Western teams better than anyone but Boston in the East, and with the Bruins losing Jarome Iginla to Colorado and other off-season movement, the balance of power appears to be even more lopsided for 2014-15.

“I really think that the competition is really strong in just our division,” Armstrong said. “Our conference is very strong, obviously.”

Blue Jays get stifled by Gray, Athletics in series opener Athletics 4 Blue Jays 1 OAKLAND, Calif. — Sonny Gray’s fastball wasn’t as sharp as it usually is, and the Oakland Athletics’ young pitcher even had a quirky replay go against him.

A rediscovered curveball, stellar defence behind him and timely hitting on offence made it all a moot point.

Grey allowed four hits over seven innings to bounce back from his worst start of the season and the A’s beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 on Thursday night.

“The idea is to really get that (curve) going again because I think the last five or six starts it’s been OK, but it hasn’t been a big factor for us,” said Gray, who walked three and struck out five. “We did some things a little different this week and I was able to find that again and get it going, especially early in the game.”

Gray (8-3) was knocked around in his previous start when he was tagged for five runs in five innings against Miami on June 28. He was much sharper this time around and got some help from Oakland’s defence which turned three double plays, including one in the eighth after Josh Thole’s leadoff single.

Jose Reyes hit a fly out to deep right and Oakland’s Brandon Moss made a strong throw back to first baseman Nate Freiman, who tagged out Thole trying to get back to the bag.

“He’s still a little spotty with his fastball,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said.

“That kind of makes him at times who he is, too.

He can paint you on two pitches and then miss by a foot. His curveball was a big factor today.”

Grey might have been in line for a shutout were it not for an odd replay in the second inning.

After Toronto loaded the bases against Gray with one out, Anthony Gose hit a grounder to Freiman. Freiman appeared to tag Munenori Kawasaki as he ran for second base, but umpire

Vic Carapazza ruled Freiman missed the tag and Kawasaki was safe.

Freiman then threw to catcher Stephen Vogt, who stepped on home plate for a forceout with Edwin Encarnacion, the runner on third, approaching.

Toronto manager John Gibbons requested the review, arguing that Kawasaki was out and that Encarnacion should be allowed to score because there would have been no force play at the plate.

After a delay of 4 minutes, 27 seconds, the call was overturned and the Blue Jays were given a 1-0 lead.

“We can’t put runners back,” crew chief Bill Miller said.

“We have to go with what happened on the field, and what happened on the field was (Vogt) tagged home plate but he did not tag the runner. Unfortunately that was in direct relation to the call on the field at first base.”

Melvin immediately came

out to argue and the A’s played the remainder of the game under protest.

It didn’t matter. Freiman doubled in Brandon Moss in the bottom of the inning, and Vogt scored on a passed ball to put the A’s up 2-1.

Craig Gentry singled off Toronto starter R.A. Dickey (6-8) in the eighth and scored on John Jaso’s double. Alberto Callaspo’s sacrifice fly made it 4-1.

“We just didn’t get anything going offensively,” Gibbons said. “They outplayed us, pure and simple.”

Dickey, who beat the A’s on May 24, when he allowed two runs over 8 1-3 innings in his best outing of the season, lost his fourth straight start.

The knuckleballer struck out six and walked three. The loss drops the Blue Jays into a firstplace tie with Baltimore in the AL East. It’s the first time since May 21 that Toronto has not held sole possession of the top spot in the division.

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Blixt back in familiar spot at Greenbrier

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Jonas Blixt’s memory of raising the trophy last year carried over to a strong start at the Greenbrier Classic.

The defending champion shot a 6-under 64 on Thursday to take a onestroke lead over former Stanford star Patrick Rodgers and seven others at Old White TPC. Blixt tied for second in the Masters but missed the cut in three of his last four starts. Returning to The Greenbrier resort brought him back to a comfort zone.

Starting on the 10th hole in the morning with little wind, Blixt had six birdies on his front nine and made the turn at 5 under. Six of the Swede’s eight birdies came on putts of 10 feet or less. He also chipped in from the rough for birdie on No. 16.

“The golf course is in perfect shape, like last year,” Blixt said. “You come back with a bunch of confidence knowing that you won here before.

“If I can get my putter to work the

PGA TOUR way it did today, I felt like I hit the ball on line every time, and it could be a really good week.”

Rodgers is looking to make his third straight cut since turning pro. He holed a 118-yard wedge for eagle on the par-4 first hole — his 10th hole of the day.

After the round, he was back on the driving range.

“Being a new pro out here, you’re always trying to figure out and establish your routines,” Rodgers said, “and mine is just kind of cool down after the round and working on the things I felt like I can improve, and hopefully be ready for tomorrow.”

Also at 65 under were Chris Kirk, D.A. Points, James Hahn, Jason Bohn, Joe Durant, Jim Renner and Danny Lee. Steve Stricker, who has wife Nicki carrying his bag this week, was among eight player at 66. Jimmy Johnson, his regular caddie, was already scheduled to carry Chris Kirk’s bag when Stricker became a late entry at The Greenbrier.

Stricker is playing only his eighth tour event this year. He’ll compete again next week at John Deere and is leaning against going to the British Open unless he has one or more high finishes before then.

“We’ll just keep plugging along and see what happens,” Stricker said.

Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson played alongside Keegan Bradley and Webb Simpson, getting a close-up view as he contemplates his three captain’s picks for the Sept. 26-28 event at Gleneagles in Scotland.

“The Ryder Cup’s a long way in the distance,” Watson said. “I’m watching other people as well. It’s fun to be out here to get to know the young players a little bit better.”

Watson took a similar approach in April, playing with Jordan Spieth at the RBC Heritage and Patrick Reed at Augusta National.

Watson has said he would use a wild-card pick on Tiger Woods if he’s healthy and playing well, leaving all

sorts of possibilities with the other two picks.

Simpson, who shot 71 on Thursday, is 17th in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings and Bradley, who shot 67, is 18th. Others ahead of them in the Greenbrier Classic field are Kirk at No. 11, Brendon Todd at No. 13 and Kevin Na at No. 15.

The top nine get automatic berths on the U.S. squad. Reed, also in the Greenbrier field, is at No. 9, while Phil Mickelson, not playing this week, is 10th.

“You’d think that one round or two rounds wouldn’t determine us being on the team. That would be kind of silly,” Bradley said.

“It doesn’t hurt to play well. Put it that way.”

Bubba Watson, the top-ranked player in the field at No. 3 in the world, had a 68. Only two rounds of 65 or better came during the afternoon when the wind picked up and the greens became more firm.

“I wish I could guess the wind differently, but otherwise it was a good day,” Watson said.

Carmelo Anthony’s tour continues during NBA free agency period

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — At this time four years ago NBA free agency was a circus. LeBron James was joining Twitter and Chris Bosh was offering regular updates on his free-agent wooing.

It’s a touch different this time around.

Teams are holding their cards very close in most cases, Miami’s “Big 3” of James, Bosh and Dwyane Wade are basically silent on their plans and the overwhelming majority of free agents don’t seem to be anywhere close to finding a team for next season.

Then again, no one signs until July 10. Here’s a primer on where things stand:

TOUR DE MELO

He’s in Chicago, he’s in Houston, he’s in Dallas and on Thursday, Carmelo Anthony visited Los Angeles. He was also going to meet with the Knicks while in LA, and there’s still the possibility that Anthony will end up right back where he started with New York.

Whatever happens, the Melo Watch is the story of free agency so far. There have been some slipups along the way, most notably what the Rockets were thinking by plastering images of Anthony wearing Jeremy Lin’s number (Lin, who remains a Rocket for now, wasn’t impressed). Anthony-to-the-Lakers might be a long shot, but it would seem his wife, La La, has a name made for L.A.

teams, including Oklahoma City.

Lance Stephenson is negotiating with Indiana, which probably still remains the frontrunner to retain the guard.

Greg Monroe and Chandler Parsons are expected to get nice pay raises next season, regardless of where they are, and Luol Deng seems like he’d fit with a number of teams who actually have some money to spend.

LOWRY STAYING

‘BIG 3’ UPDATE

The top free-agent point guard isn’t free anymore. Kyle Lowry agreed to a four-year, $48 million deal late Wednesday night, meaning he will be staying in Toronto and continuing to lead a young Raptors team that was a break or two away from getting to the second round of the playoffs this past season.

Clearly, teams aren’t waiting around for the Heat to make moves, but there’s still a sense that when the Miami dominoes start moving, things leaguewide will start happening in a hurry. As for James, he posted a vacation photo of himself smiling and standing among family Thursday afternoon at an undisclosed location. If he’s anxious, it’s not showing.

NAMES TO WATCH

The first two days of free agency came and went without really a peep from the Heat or any of their players from the last four runs to the NBA Finals. The ’Big 3’ are all tweeting, sure — but it’s almost entirely limited to the World Cup or their kids. No hints on basketball moves, yet. And Pat Riley has remained quiet, like always.

Jason Kidd left Brooklyn in infamous fashion but many eyes are on player movement, and with good reason. It might seem odd in some circles that names like Paul Pierce, Josh McRoberts, Spencer Hawes, Shawn Marion, Jordan Hill and NBA Finals hero Boris Diaw aren’t getting more attention. Look for that to change, quickly.

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Friday’s results Hamilton at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games Saskatchewan at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Thursday’s summary Blue Bombers 36, Redblacks 28 First Quarter Ottawa — TD Walker 3 run (Maher convert) 3:40 Ottawa — TD Collins 26 pass from Burris (Maher convert) 6:43 Wpg — TD Grigsby 1 run (Hajrullahu convert) 10:49 Ottawa — TD Walker 8 pass from Burris (Maher convert) 15:00 Second Quarter Wpg — TD Grigsby 4 run (Hajrullahu convert) 8:34

Wpg — FG Hajrullahu 47 15:00 Third Quarter Wpg — FG Hajrullahu 16 4:23 Ottawa — FG Maher 49 8:58 Ottawa — FG Maher 45 14:15 Fourth Quarter Ottawa — FG Maher 19 3:52 Wpg — TD Grigsby 3 run (Hajrullahu convert) 12:27 Wpg — FG Hajrullahu 37 14:30 Ottawa 21 0 4 3 — 28 Winnipeg 7 10 3 16 — 36 TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Passes made-tried Returns yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-Lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

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Receiving Ottawa: Johnson 5-76, Henry 3-52, Walker 2-37.

Winnipeg: Moore 5-88, Kelly 3-63, Grigsby 2-50.

Passing Ottawa: Burris 17-30-241-2-0. Winnipeg: Willy 21-33-307-0-1.

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Wednesday’s Games Toronto 7, Milwaukee 4 Cleveland 5, L.A. Dodgers 4 San Diego 3, Cincinnati 0 Washington 4, Colorado 3 Pittsburgh 5, Arizona 1 Chicago Cubs 16, Boston 9 Atlanta 3, N.Y. Mets 1 Miami 5, Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 2, San Francisco 0

Thursday’s Games Baltimore 5, Texas 2 Detroit 8, Tampa Bay 1 N.Y. Yankees 7, Minnesota 4 Oakland 4, Toronto 1 Houston at L.A. Angels, late

Thursday’s Games St. Louis 7, San Francisco 2 Philadelphia 5, Miami 4 Arizona 10, Pittsburgh 2 L.A. Dodgers 3, Colorado 2

GB — 1/2 6 10 10 GB — 5 6 1/2 7 12 1/2 GB — 1/2 9 1/2 12 12 1/2

Friday’s Games Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 4-5) at Boston (Lester 9-7), 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 3-2) at Minnesota (Gibson 7-6), 1:10 p.m.

Toronto (Stroman 4-2) at Oakland (Milone 6-3), 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 5-7) at Cleveland (Tomlin 5-5), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Cobb 3-6) at Detroit (Smyly 4-7), 5:08 p.m.

Seattle (Elias 7-6) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 7-1), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (Darvish 8-4) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 5-4), 5:10 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 8-5) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 8-6), 7:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Hammel 7-5) at Washington (Roark 7-5), 9:05 a.m.

Philadelphia (R.Hernandez 3-7) at Pittsburgh (Cole 6-4), 3:05 p.m.

San Francisco (M.Cain 1-6) at San Diego (Stults 2-11), 4:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 9-2) at Cincinnati (Simon 10-3), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (Darvish 8-4) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 5-4), 5:10 p.m.

Miami (Eovaldi 5-3) at St. Louis (Lynn 8-6), 5:15 p.m.

Arizona (Collmenter 7-4) at Atlanta (E.Santana 6-5), 5:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 9-2) at Colorado (Jurrjens 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, 2:10 p.m.

Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4:08 p.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:05 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 7:15 p.m.

Texas at N.Y. Mets, 7:15 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

Toronto at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Miami at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Washington, 2:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 2:05 p.m.

Arizona at Atlanta, 2:10 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 2:10 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 5:15 p.m.

Texas at N.Y. Mets, 5:15 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Altuve Hou 83 344 42 Beltre Tex 71 269 43 VMartinez Det 79 300 44 Cano Sea 81 313 46 MiCabrera Det 82 316 53 Brantley Cle 80 308 56 Trout LAA 79 299 55

H 118 90 98 101 100 96 93

Pct. .343 .335 .327 .323 .316 .312 .311

Home Runs JAbreu, Chicago, 26; NCruz, Baltimore, 26; Encarnacion, Toronto, 26; VMartinez, Detroit, 21; Moss, Oakland, 19; Ortiz, Boston, 19; Trout, Los Angeles, 19.

Runs Batted In Encarnacion, Toronto, 69; NCruz, Baltimore, 68; JAbreu, Chicago, 67; MiCabrera, Detroit, 67; Moss, Oakland, 62; Trout, Los Angeles, 62; Donaldson, Oakland, 61.

Pitching Tanaka, New York, 12-3; Porcello, Detroit, 11-4; FHernandez, Seattle, 10-2; Scherzer, Detroit, 10-3; Buehrle, Toronto, 10-5; Richards, Los Angeles, 9-2; Kazmir, Oakland, 9-3.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Tulowitzki Col 82 283 66 Lucroy Mil 79 305 40 MaAdams StL 71 264 27 Morneau Col 81 302 35 AMcCutchen Pit 83 314 44 Stanton Mia 85 320 60 Gennett Mil 75 244 35 McGehee Mia 84 325 31

H 99 101 84 96 99 100 76 101

Pct. .350 .331 .318 .318 .315 .313 .311 .311

Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 21; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 18; Frazier, Cincinnati, 17; Rizzo, Chicago, 17; Byrd, Philadelphia, 16; Gattis, Atlanta, 16; JUpton, Atlanta, 16.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 61; Morneau, Colorado, 59; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 55; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 53; Desmond, Washington, 51; Howard, Philadelphia, 51; McGehee, Miami, 50.

Pitching Greinke, Los Angeles, 11-4; Wainwright, St. Louis, 11-4; Simon, Cincinnati, 10-3; Lohse, Milwaukee, 9-2; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 9-2; Ryu, Los Angeles, 9-4; WPeralta, Milwaukee, 9-5.

Soccer FIFA WORLD CUP At Brazil 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 Argentina 1 Switzerland 0 (OT) Belgium 2 United States 1 (OT) Quarterfinal Friday, July 4 Germany at France, 10 a.m.

Colombia at Brazil, 2 p.m.

Saturday, July 5 Belgium at Argentina, 10 a.m.

Costa Rica at Netherlands, 2 p.m.

Semifinal Tuesday, July 8 TBAA at TBAH, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, July 9 TBAA at TBAH, 2 p.m.

Third Place Game Saturday, July 12 TBAA at TBAH, 2 p.m.

Final Sunday, July 13 TBAA at TBAH, 1 p.m.

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T Kansas City 16 7 5 4 D.C. 16 7 5 4 New England 15 7 6 2 Toronto 13 6 4 3 New York 16 4 5 7 Columbus 16 4 5 7 Philadelphia 17 4 7 6 Houston 17 5 10 2 Chicago 15 2 4 9 Montreal 15 3 7 5

Seattle Colorado Salt Lake Dallas Vancouver Los Angeles Portland Chivas San Jose

GF 22 22 22 18 24 18 25 16 23 16

GA 14 17 21 16 24 18 28 32 26 26

Pt 25 25 23 21 19 19 18 17 15 14

Western Conference GP W L T GF 16 11 3 2 33 16 7 5 4 23 16 6 3 7 25 18 6 7 5 28 15 5 3 7 25 13 5 3 5 17 17 4 5 8 28 16 4 7 5 16 15 4 7 4 15

GA 23 18 22 28 22 11 28 26 16

Pt 35 25 25 23 22 20 20 17 16

Wednesday’s results Chicago 1 Toronto 1 San Jose 0 Chivas 1 Friday’s games New York at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

New England at Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

Portland at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s games D.C. at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Montreal at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Chicago at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

The Greenbrier Classic Thursday At The Old White TPC White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Purse: $6.5 million Yardage: 7,287; Par 70 (34-36) First Round a-denotes amateur Jonas Blixt 33-31 James Hahn 32-33 Jason Bohn 31-34 Joe Durant 31-34 Chris Kirk 32-33 D.A. Points 32-33 Patrick Rodgers 30-35 Jim Renner 30-35 Danny Lee 32-33 Sang-Moon Bae 34-32 Michael Thompson 33-33 Steve Stricker 34-32 Kevin Na 34-32 Troy Merritt 31-35 Chris Stroud 33-33 Pat Perez 33-33 Chad Collins 34-32 Michael Putnam 32-35 Davis Love III 32-35 Ben Curtis 34-33 Charles Howell III 33-34 Patrick Reed 32-35 Charlie Beljan 32-35 David Lingmerth 31-36 Tyrone Van Aswegen 32-35 Kevin Chappell 34-33 Luke Guthrie 33-34 Robert Allenby 32-35 Keegan Bradley 33-34 Bobby Wyatt 33-34 Gonzalo Fdez-Castano 31-37 Mark Wilson 33-35 Marc Leishman 34-34 Woody Austin 36-32 Scott Langley 33-35 Ricky Barnes 33-35 Robert Streb 31-37 John Daly 34-34 Brice Garnett 33-35 Will Wilcox 34-34 Jim Herman 34-34 Billy Hurley III 32-36 Tim Wilkinson 33-35 Camilo Villegas 32-36 Johnson Wagner 34-34 Angel Cabrera 34-34 J.B. Holmes 34-34 Bubba Watson 35-33 Steven Bowditch 33-35 David Hearn 33-35 Justin Hicks 33-35 Jamie Lovemark 35-33 Chad Campbell 34-35 James Driscoll 34-35 Brian Davis 34-35 Jeff Maggert 34-35 David Toms 35-34 Bill Haas 34-35 Troy Kelly 32-37 Trevor Immelman 33-36 Patrick Cantlay 33-36 Greg Chalmers 34-35 Gary Woodland 33-36 Stephen Ames 35-34 Steve Marino 33-36 Josh Teater 32-37 Bud Cauley 32-37 Wes Roach 35-34 Andrew Loupe 35-34 Kevin Tway 33-36 Martin Flores 33-37 Kevin Kisner 36-34 Brendan Steele 34-36 J.J. Henry 32-38 Jimmy Walker 34-36 Scott Stallings 35-35 Heath Slocum 34-36 Spencer Levin 36-34 Will MacKenzie 36-34 Scott Gardiner 33-37 Brad Fritsch 35-35 Jason Gore 34-36 Nick Watney 33-37 George McNeill 34-36 Ted Potter, Jr. 34-36 Matt Bettencourt 34-36 Morgan Hoffmann 34-36 Brendon de Jonge 36-34 Oliver Goss 36-34 Alex Aragon 34-36 Bronson La’Cassie 33-37 Darren Clarke 35-36 Jhonattan Vegas 35-36 Justin Leonard 36-35 Scott McCarron 35-36 John Peterson 38-33 Benjamin Alvarado 35-36 Richard H. Lee 35-36 Derek Ernst 35-36 Jonathan Byrd 35-36 Vijay Singh 37-34 Brendon Todd 34-37

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Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended N.Y. Yankee RHP Alfredo Aceves (Scranton/WilkesBarre-IL) 50 games after a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Released LHP Scott Downs.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with 1B Michael Papi on a minor league contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with SSs Juan Pineda and Ozziel Sanchez on minor league contracts.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP David Carpenter to Arkansas (TL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned INF Yangervis Solarte to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

Selected the contract of INF Zelous Wheeler from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Designated INF Dean Anna for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Edgmer Escalona on a minor league contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Designated LHP Jeff Francis for assignment. Reinstated LHP Eric O’Flaherty from the 60-day DL. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned LHP Jeff Beliveau to Durham (IL). Recalled 1B Vince Belnome from Durham.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned LHP Christian Friedrich to Colorado Springs (PCL). Reinstated 3B Nolan Arenado from the 15-day DL. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned INF Carlos Triunfel to Albuquerque (PCL). Recalled INF Erisbel Arruebarrena from Albuquerque.

MIAMI MARLINS — Assigned OF Brent Keys outright to Jacksonville (SL). Placed RHP Tom Koehler on paternity leave. Reinstated LHP Brad Hand from the 15-day DL. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent RHP Jim Henderson to the AZL Brewers for a rehab assignment.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Sebastian Nunez and Junior Fernandez, SS Starlin Balbuena and 2B Esequeil Delgado on minor league contracts.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent SS Ehire Adrianza to Fresno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Assigned 1B/3B Greg Dobbs outright to Syracuse (IL).

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed INF Donald Blunt.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed RHP Mackenzie King. Released LHP Cole Nelson.

Frontier League WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Signed OF Jarod Jamerson.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Named Alvin Gentry, Ron Adams, Luke Walton, Jarron Collins and Bruce Fraser assistant coaches.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Indianapolis WR LaVon Brazill for the 2014 season and Miami DE Dion Jordan and Kansas City OL Rokevious Watkins four games for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released DB Korey Banks.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Named Darcy Regier senior vice-president and assistant general manager and signed him to a multi-year contract.

BUFFALO SABRES — Signed D Tyson Strachan to a one-year contract.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Agreed to terms with D Tim Gleason on a one-year contract and RW Jared Staal and D Michal Jordan on one-year, twoway contracts.

DALLAS STARS — Named Derek Laxdal coach of Texas (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with F Nick Tarnasky.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed F Petri Kontiola to a one-year contract.

American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Signed F T.J. Hensick to a one-year contract.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with F Kevin Walrod.

SOCCER MLS — Suspended FC Dallas F Fabian Castillo four games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions during the June 11 game.

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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2014

Bouchard, Raonic generate buzz in hockey-mad Canada with Wimbledon showing

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Eugenie Bouchard and Milos Raonic are giving tennis unprecedented exposure in hockey-mad Canada.

How long it lasts remains to be seen, but the possibility of a Canadian sweep at the world’s biggest tennis tournament has created a national buzz.

Bouchard won her semifinal on Thursday to become the first Canadian to reach a Grand Slam women’s singles final. Raonic has reached the final four of the men’s draw and will play his semifinal match on Friday.

The sport has enjoyed a steady rise in popularity over the last few years in this country thanks in part to the success of the two rising Canadian stars.

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., had a breakthrough season in 2011 and has risen to No. 9 in the world rankings. The 13thranked Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., broke through last year and has reached the semifinals at every Grand Slam event this season.

Bouchard’s game has caught the attention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Jim Parsons, star of “The Big Bang Theory,” has been a regular at her matches at the All England Club.

“Congratulations to (at)geniebouchard for making history,” Harper posted on Twitter Thursday. “Canada will continue to cheer you on as you head to the Wimbledon finals.”

There hasn’t been this kind of buzz around Canadian tennis since Carling Basset, like Bouchard both talented and photogenic, advanced to the semifinal of the U.S. Open in 1984 and was ranked as the eighth best women’s tennis player in the world.

But Tom Tebbutt, who has covered Canadian tennis for 40 years, says this is bigger, particularly because it’s happening at Wimbledon. The tournament at the All England Club enjoys a bit more panache than the other Grand Slams. “(Bassett) was 16 years old at the time, and she was a darling and everybody was infatuated ant there was TV coverage at home, so that was slightly similar,” Tebbutt said. “But this is the biggest Grand Slam of them all.”

Tebbutt said it’s hard to say whether this momentum will continue, but the establishment of a national training centre in Montreal has helped players like Bouchard, Raonic and Vasek Pospisil develop their game.

“They have a guy named Louis Borfiga who they brought in from the French tennis centre to run it, and he’s done a good job there.”

But he also said that even if Bouchard and Raonic win at Wimbledon, that doesn’t mean the sports fabric of Canada will be altered permanently. He brought up Canadian golfer Mike Weir, who won the Masters in 2003. Neither he nor any other Canadian golfer since has been able to sustain the momentum Canadian golf had after that landmark victory.

“It wears out after a while,” he said.

While the going is good, the Montreal suburb of Westmount will ride the wave. Mayor Peter Trent says he will be reissuing an invitation he sent out to Bouchard six months ago to visit city hall for a reception.

“We very, very proud of her,” he said. “The fact that she lives in Westmount, the fact that she went to school in Westmount, has become well known (and) everyone now knows great things happen in Westmount.”

Andrew Maislin, sports co-ordinator in charge of tennis for City of Westmount says there’s been a “big uptick in registration, especially young girls registering for tennis lessons,” since Bouchard started to get a lot of publicity.

That trend seems to be true across the country.

“We’ve been growing this sport sort of three per cent to five per cent a year for the last few years,” said Tennis Canada president Kelly Murumets. “That’s considered a real accomplishment. I believe after today’s match and after yesterday’s (Raonic) match, I have to believe that the trajectory is a great deal more significant even than that.”

Raonic will next take on Swiss star Roger Federer with a berth in Sunday’s men’s final on the line. Bouchard will play Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the final on Saturday.

Murumets feels the success and widespread interest in their results at the tournament will lead to more Canadians getting involved in tennis.

“I think that it’s extending the excitement of the sport which then inspires the next Milos Raonic and the next Eugenie Bouchard,” she said. “I think that kids in all corners of the country can think that, ’Gosh if they can be it, maybe I could as well.”’

There are other benefits as well. A raised profile drives awareness of the sport, which in turn drives resources for more facilities and tournaments across the country, Murumets added.

Canadian tennis observers and non-sports fans alike are paying attention.

“Historically tennis has been on the sports page,” Murumets said. “We’re now on the front page of newspapers. And it’s news outlets that are speaking with us about the business of tennis.

And so I think that changes the fanbase.”

CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Hamilton Tiger-Cats to decide soon whether they can open stadium

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — CFL commissioner Mark Cohon says the Hamilton Tiger-Cats will decide in the coming weeks whether they can open before construction of their stadium is finished.

“What they’ve potentially talked about is opening with not the full stadium ready but they have to make that decision in the coming weeks,” he said in Winnipeg, where the Ottawa Redblacks played their first regular season game against the Blue Bombers.

The Blue Bombers are experts on missing stadium opening dates. Theirs was delayed an entire year.

Cohon said he was in Hamilton on Wednesday and the TigerCats were meeting Thursday and Friday with Infrastructure Ontario to review where they are with the project. But he also stopped in Ottawa this week and says the Redblacks revamped home field is expected to open on schedule July 18. The Redblacks have brought the CFL back to the nation’s capital after almost a decade, a move Cohon started working on in 2007.

Meanwhile, the commissioner admitted only six of the nine CFL teams are expected to break even or make money this season but says a new TV deal and players’ contract has positioned the entire league to do better in the future.

“I think what the deal does, and this is important, it creates the foundation moving forward for our teams to prosper,” he said of the new CFL contract with the players.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, July 4, 2014 B5

Earnhardt looks for Daytona sweep shuffled to the rear. When it became clear he had his work cut out for him, Earnhardt opted to take it easy and nurse his Chevrolet home for a clean finish.

Fans were livid.

“I think I got real selfish at Talladega and what the result and how the result affected anyone I never took into account,” he said. “I really just was out there thinking more about me and what I thought and what I wanted to do and how frustrated I was.

“I forgot that there’s a team behind me depending on me and a lot of fans there to see us race and show up to spend their hard earned money.

Definitely was a difficult thing to go through.”

Earnhardt has eight wins at plate tracks — four behind Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon for the active-driver lead — and wants another win. Johnson, who goes into Saturday night with three wins in the last six races, believes his teammate has a shot at the sweep. Before Johnson did it last year, the last driver to sweep Daytona was Bobby Allison in 1982.

“If I don’t have a chance to win the race, I wouldn’t mind if he did,” Johnson said.

“He’s going to be fast. He’s going to be strong and have a very good opportunity to win. That stat went 30 years for a reason. It’s not easy because in plate racing, anything can happen.

He’s the one who gave me that phrase about ’If I make it to the white, and you’re in the picture, you have a shot at winning.’ If he can make it to the white he will definitely be a threat.”

Earnhardt is aware of the ability to sweep, and recognizes how difficult it would be to complete.

“I would love to sweep the races at Daytona because that is a cool thing, but I just love winning here,” he said.

“To go to Victory Lane here, regardless of what we did in February, would mean a lot to me. I expect that we will try to do the best thing that we can to help us strategy-wise so that we are toward the front.”

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It had been 31 years since a driver won both Daytona races in the same season when Jimmie Johnson pulled off the Sprint Cup Series sweep. A year later, his teammate wants to complete the feat.

But for Dale Earnhardt Jr. to win the Coke Zero 400, he can’t race the way he did at Talladega Superspeedway in May. The Daytona 500 winner went to Talladega thinking he’d win another restrictor plate race, but instead finished 26th in a performance that still haunted him Thursday when he showed up at Daytona International Speedway.

“It’s embarrassing man, I hate to talk about it,” Earnhardt said before the first of two practice sessions for Saturday night’s race.

“The way we ran and what I chose to do at the end of the race was just uncharacteristic really of anybody that is in the field trying to compete. I just got really frustrated with the way things were working out for us and lost sight of the overall big picture and what you’re out there trying to do and who all is out there depending on you to do what you need to do. I learned some lessons.”

He’ll attempt to apply the lessons in the 400-miler Saturday night, where he’ll most likely race hard and try to lead much the same way he did when he won the season-opening Daytona 500. The February race had a frantic pace because of a rain stoppage that lasted 6 hours, 22 minutes. When the racing resumed, Earnhardt was determined to win his second Daytona 500.

Earnhardt led six times for a racehigh 54 laps — all after the rain delay — and ended a 55-race losing streak that dated to 2012 with the win.

But at Talladega, he wasn’t at all the same racer.

Earnhardt led 26 laps early and gambled he’d have no trouble making it back through the traffic when he was

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. prepares to get in his car during a NASCAR Sprint Cup practice session at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Thursday.

Hamilton wants emotional home win at British GP to reboot bid for title

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SILVERSTONE, England — Lewis Hamilton wants an emotional home crowd to back him all the way this weekend as he seeks to claim his second win at the British Grand Prix and reboot his bid for the Formula One championship.

Hamilton, who secured victory at Silverstone in 2008 on his way to taking the title, says there is no greater satisfaction for a racing driver than winning his home event.

“I really want to win this race,” Hamilton said on Thursday. “It is a great feeling if you can do that, and the British fans are special, so I want to win for them, too.”

Hamilton trails his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg by 29 points after eight races in the 19-race championship.

Rosberg has finished in the top two at every race, while Hamilton has been less consistent, winning four races in a row, and retiring twice without scoring.

As Hamilton met the media at a news conference, Rosberg was able to keep out of the limelight, ducking out of tricky questions demanding the German’s response to some of Hamilton’s latest claims.

Among these, reported this week by British tabloids, were Hamilton’s suggestions that he had the superior natural talent and that this, beyond all else, would carry him to victory and give him an overall advantage.

Rosberg, widely seen as more serious and scientific in his approach to racing, told Sky Sports he did not want to talk about that question: “You know, Lewis and I have known each other well for a long time, since we were 13 years old, so I don’t think much has changed,” he said.

The title duel between the Mercedes men was the centre of attention, but not the only topic of gossip in the hazy heat at Silverstone, where Felipe Massa is set to race his 200th grand prix, and Susie Wolff will on Friday become the first woman to take part in a grand prix for 22 years.

Wolff, married to Mercedes team chief

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Toto Wolff, is set to run alongside Massa for Williams in Friday morning practice.

The last woman to take part in an F1 weekend was Italian Giovanna Amati in the opening three races of 1992, when she failed to qualify her Brabham car.

“I know Susie and she has a lot of talent, she deserves it,” Hamilton said, smiling and relaxed.

“But she was mostly in a higher formula than me in karting and junior racing series.”

Last year, at Silverstone, Hamilton claimed pole position for Mercedes by half a second, but after opening up a clear lead in the race, he was one of the first to suffer from a spate of spectacular tire failures.

He ended up finishing fourth while Rosberg, again showing his consistency, came home victorious.

“I have to do it this time,” Hamilton said. “I need to close the gap, but I am not expecting Nico to be forced to retire.

Since the first race, in Australia, we have been very close and we both know it.

“I just have to focus and do the job. I believe in myself and my talent ” Massa, enjoying a rensaissance at Williams after a struggle in his final seasons with Ferrari, claimed pole in the last race in Austria, his first since 2008, as Williams proved their revival is for real.

He finished fourth behind teammate Valtteri Bottas as the two Mercedes drivers recovered from being off the front row of the grid for the first time to finish first and second.

“That performance proved everything we wanted as a team,” Massa said. “So we know what we can do and can do it again.”

In the wake of their football team’s early elimination from the World Cup and defending champion Andy Murray’s Wimbledon exit, the crowd and many in the British media are hoping for a home winner.

Asked about this, Hamilton smiled.

“Maybe you should ask Jenson (Button, his former teammate at McLaren) ... But me, seriously, I would love it. There is nothing better than that.”

Derek Laxdal new coach of Texas Stars after coaching Oil Kings to Memorial Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Fresh off coaching the Edmonton Oil Kings to a Memorial Cup, Derek Laxdal has been hired as head coach of the American Hockey League’s Texas Stars.

The 48-year-old from Gimli, Man., takes over for Willie Desjardins who was recently hired to coach the Vancouver Canucks.

The Oil Kings, who are owned by the Edmonton Oilers, and the Texas Stars made the announcement on

their websites Thursday.

The Oil Kings won a pair of Western Hockey League championships during Laxdal’s four seasons behind the bench.

After posting a 50-19-3 record this past season, Edmonton defeated the Guelph Storm 6-3 in the Memorial Cup final.

Laxdal coached the ECHL’s Idaho Steelheads to five 40-win seasons and won the Kelly Cup in 2007 prior to his arrival in Edmonton.

The Texas Stars are the AHL affiliate of the Dallas Stars.

Former UFC champ Hughes says GSP should retire for good

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAS VEGAS — Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes says Georges St-Pierre should retire for good.

St-Pierre has been on hiatus since vacating his 170-pound title following a controversial win over Johny (Bigg Rigg) Hendricks at UFC 167 last November. The 33-year-old from Montreal cited unspecified personal matters, saying he needed time away from the sport.

Hendricks went on to win the welterweight crown while St-Pierre, who continues to work out, required knee surgery after an injury in training. St-Pierre has not announced his future plans other than to say that if he comes back, it won’t be in 2014.

Firas Zahabi, his longtime coach, told the MMAFighting website recently that he expects his fighter to return.

“I think there’s a lot of fire left in him,” he said of St. Pierre. “Especially since he got injured now, he’s

probably more motivated than ever ... I think there’s a lot of martial arts left in him.”

But Hughes, who lost the UFC title to St-Pierre at UFC 65 in November 2006, says now may be the time for St-Pierre to finish on a winning note.

“The UFC would hate me saying this but I’m going to say it anyway,” said Hughes, now vice-president of athlete development and government relations for the UFC. “If I was GSP, I’d probably hang them up.

Here I am a guy that lost my (last) two fights and I’d love to get back in there (to finish on a win). And Georges got his hand raised the last fight. So if I had to give advice, I’d say, ’You want to get out? Get out.”’

The 40-year-old Hughes, a UFC Hall of Famer, prefaced his remarks by saying he is a fan of St. Pierre.

“I like him. He always gets his hand raised and he always does it with a method. But he took a punishment with Johny Hendricks and you could tell that by his face at the (post-fight) press conference.

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No surprises for Costa Rica coach as he prepares for Netherlands

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

scoring the crucial opening goal in the Netherlands 2-0 defeat of Chile.

Van Gaal could push left back Daley Blind from defence to midfield or opt for Feyenoord’s Jordie Clasie, who has yet to play in Brazil and has only eight caps to his name. Van Gaal’s most experienced midfielder, Wesley Sneijder, appears to be running into form.

The team’s top scorer in South Africa four years ago broke his Brazil duck against Mexico with a sizzling drive in the 88th minute, after substitute Klaas Jan Huntelaar had headed the ball back.

Substitute Huntelaar then calmly slotted home a stoppage time penalty, but he said the assist for Sneijder was his most important touch.

“That moment was so intense,” he told Dutch website Nu.nl. “It was an explosion of joy and adrenaline that gave us the feeling we could force a result in the regular 90 minutes.”

Messi’s Argentina faces new challenge in attacking Belgium

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS So far none of Argentina’s opponents has been able to stop Lionel Messi.

Perhaps Belgium has what it takes. But even if doesn’t, the Red Devils present a fresh challenge for Argentina at this World Cup. For the first time in Brazil, Argentina faces an opponent with attacking potential that rivals its own.

“We will have to adapt, but what really interests me is to see how they will adapt to us,” Belgium coach Marc Wilmots said.

Argentina has struggled on its road to the quarterfinals, relying on single moments of Messi magic to break stalemates against mostly defence-oriented teams.

On Saturday in Brasilia, it’s up against a young, sparkling team that’s considered a dark horse for the title. Even though it needed extra time to prevail against the United States, Belgium unleashed offensive qualities in that game that could present major problems for Argentina’s at times shaky defence.

Belgium fired 38 shots, half of them from midfielders Kevin de Bruyne and Eden Hazard, and strikers Divock Origi and Romelo Lukaku. An impressive performance by U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard kept the score down.

Meanwhile, Argentina’s attack hasn’t been as fearsome as predicted. Center forward Gonzalo Higuain is scoreless after four games and his attacking partner Sergio Aguero is out injured. Ezequiel Lavezzi is replacing the Manchester City striker but was largely ineffective against Switzerland.

Then there’s Messi.

The little genius has delivered when Argentina needed him most, scoring in every group stage match and setting up Angel Di

Maria’s extra-time winner against Switzerland in the round of 16.

In a tight game, the Swiss shackled him successfully until his decisive run in the 118th minute.

“We knew that we would face a situation like that, but that’s football and we had luck on our side,” Messi said.

“We’re aware that all matches are going to be very close and that details will make the difference.”

Wilmots was unwilling to compare the strengths of the two teams but noted that except for a few players, Argentina’s performance at the World Cup has exposed some weaknesses.

“Obviously they have Di Maria, Lavezzi, Higuain and Messi,” Wilmots said. “But I also saw they showed a lack of balance within the team and that they had problems.”

If Messi is in extraordinary form, he will cause problems for Belgium, Wilmots conceded Thursday.

“But if you ask me as a coach whether I prefer a good collective or one great player, I prefer the team.”

Argentina left back Sergio Rojo is suspended and will probably be replaced by Jose Basanta in Saturday’s game.

Wilmots said Belgium left back Thomas Vermaelen is likely to return after missing the U.S. game with a hamstring injury, while midfielder Steven Defour is back from suspension.

Belgium and Argentina haven’t met in the World Cup since the 1980s, when they were both at their peak.

In 1982, Belgium beat Argentina 1-0 in their World Cup opener. Four years later Diego Maradona scored both goals in a 2-0 semifinal win on Argentina’s road to its second World Cup title.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — At this point in the World Cup, the Dutch know plenty about Costa Rica — once one of the surprise packages of the tournament. What they may not know is that Costa Rica’s Jorge Luis Pinto learned his coaching from the Dutchman who invented ’total football’.

Well-travelled Colombian coach Pinto studied at the University of Cologne early in the 1980s when Dutch coach Rinus Michels was coaching the city’s Bundesliga club.

“In those years I spent my time watching him training and talking to him,” Pinto said.

“When I didn’t have class, I went to see the club practice. I saw many things and learned a lot.”

Michels was a good teacher — a few years later he would lead the Netherlands to its one and only international title, the 1988 European Championship, having pioneered the ’total football’ approach — where players can change their positions during a game.

Now Pinto aims to stop the Dutch taking another step toward their first world title when his Costa Rica team meets the Netherlands on Saturday in the quarterfinals at Salvador’s Arena Fonte Nova.

It is not only Pinto who knows the Dutch game well. Bryan Ruiz had a successful spell with FC Twente before joining Fulham and now plays at PSV Eindhoven alongside likely Netherlands starter Georginio Wijnaldum and supersub Memphis Depay.

Ruiz has teamed up with a strong, fast-paced striker in Joel Campbell, propelling Costa Rica to the surprise top spot in a Group D that also included England, Italy and Uruguay.

Pinto’s team also has a miserly defence that * $ has conceded just two year goals in the tournament so far.

“Costa Rica has a very good team,” in-form Dutch forward Arjen Robben said.

“I think before not a lot of people would have expected them to go through to the next round but I think they are a very strong team and it’s going to be another very difficult game for us where we have to give everything to go through to the semi-finals.”

Not surprisingly, Costa Rica will be attempting to shut down the Dutch striking partnership of Robben and Robin van Persie, who are looking to get back on the scoring sheet after combining for six goals in their team’s first two matches but failing to find the net since.

“We just can’t afford to give them any room to manoeuvr,” midfielder Celso Borges said.

“They can make you pay if they get an opening.”

The winner in Salvador goes on to a semifinal against either Belgium or Argentina in Sao Paulo on July 9.

Costa Rica will be without defender Oscar Duarte after he was sent off in the 66th minute of their penalty shootout victory over Greece.

Goalkeeper Keylor Navas skipped training on Wednesday with a sore shoulder, but he is expected to be fit to play.

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Rising movie star Ronda Rousey still committed to MMA UFC 175

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Ronda Rousey is constructing her escape hatch out of mixed martial arts, even if she’s not planning to use it just yet.

The UFC bantamweight champion has turned her celebrity and charisma into a budding career as an action film star. Many MMA fighters dream about it, but Rousey is actually doing it: With upcoming parts in “The Expendables 3,” the newest “Fast and Furious” chapter and the “Entourage” movie, she’s seeking success outside the cage even while her fighting career is near its peak.

Rousey has little down time between Bulgarian film sets and endless training back home in Los Angeles, but she isn’t looking to relax while her window of opportunity is open.

“There’s really not much of a model for this,” Rousey said. “I’m making it up as I go along, and I think we’re really starting to find a groove and a way for it to work without me falling asleep in traffic again.

That’s not good.”

When Rousey (9-0) makes her fourth title defence against Alexis Davis at UFC 175 on Saturday, she isn’t the main event in the biggest show of the summer. Rousey honestly prefers sharing the bill at big events, this time with middleweight champion Chris Weidman’s title defence against Lyoto Machida.

On the big screen, Rousey won’t always be satisfied with occasional supporting roles.

She wants to be a star, preferably in a series of action adventures that could keep her occupied well after her MMA career ends.

“One of my goals with the whole movie thing is I want to just be able to have my own franchise, and I feel like that’s something that doesn’t happen overnight,” Rousey said. “That’s something you have to put a lot of thought into.

Yeah, it would probably be extremely difficult for me to play Queen Elizabeth in some film, but I feel like a franchise is a great fit for me, because then I could find something that just fits me being myself. And then I would just have to continue to be myself, and I know I’m good at that.”

For all of Rousey’s outside interests and attention, her last two months have been focused on Davis (16-5),

a Canadian expert in jiu-jitsu with a five-fight winning streak. Rousey is an enormous favourite, but she has yet to take an opponent lightly in the sport she took up professionally just over three years ago.

“My sister is getting married, and the whole day I’m going to be thinking about beating Alexis,” Rousey said.

“Anything that comes up that should make me super-excited, I really do not have the capacity to enjoy until I beat Alexis.”

Rousey made back-to-back films in 2013, but her bout with Davis is her third fight in just over six months. She has enjoyed the chance to get into a training groove after learning

that ring rust is real when she returned in December from that 10-month absence and mildly struggled to finish off Miesha Tate.

But Rousey showed a tough chin in that bout, and her tight schedule has kept her focused on improving the weaker aspects of her game. Rousey’s Olympic-caliber judo skills

and signature armbar submission hold are still vicious, yet her coaches are impressed by her improvements in striking.

In the future, Rousey would prefer to fight twice per year, devoting the rest of her time to a film career. She also still dreams of a fight against Gina Carano.

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The last time a Davis Cup tie was held in Halifax was in 1998 when Canada defeated Mexico 3-2 in the first round of Americas Zone Group I. The Nova Scotia government and the city have both provided Tennis Canada with $65,000 in grants to bring the event to Halifax.

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FRONT PHOTO RADAR CURRENT SITES Red Deer police will be armed with photo radar at many playground areas and traffic corridors in Red Deer until July 15. The playground zones are on 57th Avenue; 55th Avenue; Oak Street, Oleander Drive, Nolan Street, Allan Street, Addington Drive, Inglewood Drive and Davison Drive. The traffic corridors being monitored are along 30th Avenue, 40th Avenue, 32nd Street, Taylor Drive, Riverside Drive, 67th Street, 49th Avenue, 50th Avenue and 19th Street. Police have the right to change locations and sites without notice.

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Pine beetles stay clear ALBERTA THREAT REMAINS NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF OUR REGION

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF For yet another year, Red Deer and the rest of Central Alberta have nothing to worry about when it comes to the ravenous mountain pine beetle.

“Once again there are really no beetle populations of note in the Red Deer area,” said Duncan MacDonnell, a public affairs officer with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development.

The results of the 2014 spring surveys in regards to beetle mortalities over the winter were recently published, highlighting

areas south of Grand Prairie as the main concern.

Alberta Environment stated “extremely high beetle success was detected in small pockets in areas south of Grande Prairie, northwest of Edson and west of Manning.”

No surveys were conducted in the southern part of the province, due to the low number of beetle-attacked trees, said MacDonnell.

“People ask why it hasn’t spread further east. Well, there’s not much need to move onto another restaurant when there’s still lots on the table where you’re at,” he said.

“They’re in the heart of the pine basket in Alberta.”

MacDonnell said measures to control the pest — such as single tree cut and burns and asking forestry companies to harvest susceptible pine ahead of other wood — will continue in the designated hazard zones.

Over $400 million has been fed into the mountain pine beetle program since 2004 in Alberta, which has six million hectares of pine forests at risk.

The pine beetle, a little black bug about the size of a grain of rice, has gnawed away at a massive number of B.C. trees for the past two decades. The infestation in the west-central area of Alberta started in 2006. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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A summer camp with a Scandinavian twist will take over Deer Valley Meadows near Alix starting on Aug. 10. The Trollhaugen Camp is Scandinavian-focused with programming for school-aged children to seniors. Applicants do not have to be Scandinavian to attend. Participants will enjoy working on projects, participating in activities such as sports, orienteering and folk dancing. Accommodations are provided or bring your own RV. Meals are catered. The six-day camp was formed to promote and preserve Norwegian heritage through history, crafts, traditional skills and culture classes. Although the focus is Norwegian, all things Scandinavian are embraced. Application forms and information is available at www. trollhaugenalberta.ca.

Registration deadline is July 15. Call 780-417-5157 for more information.

ANIMATED FILM SHOWN The Red Deer Public Library is celebrating its 100th year by including 100 years of animation as part of a free film series. On July 13, the library will show Grave of the Fireflies, a Japanese animated film. The drama follows two children born during the final months of the Second World War. Their struggle is a tribute to the human spirit and the stuff of nightmares. Though it is an animated film, it is not recommended for young children. The film will be shown on July 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library, at 4818 49th St. For more information, visit www. rdpl.org.

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Ann Baker, right, browses through a large collection of pig-related items from Phyllis Wilson during the Golden Circle garage sale on Thursday morning. The sale, which is one of the major fundraisers for the Golden Circle’s programming, runs again today from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Teen faces October trial A teenager accused of threatening to open fire at a Red Deer high school will go to trial in October.

The 17-year-old boy was charged with mischief and uttering threats by Red Deer City RCMP, who were called to investigate after a note was left on a desk at Hunting Hills High School just before 3 p.m. on April 16. Police allege that the note indicated that students in the school would be shot that afternoon.

The school was not evacuated but students were not allowed to re-enter after leaving for the day. All extracurricular activities were cancelled while police officers, including a service dog, searched the building.

The youth was released from custody shortly after his arrest.

His trial is set for Red Deer youth court on the afternoon of Oct. 9.

High school plans formed Plans for three high schools in northeast Red Deer are taking shape.

On Monday, city council will consider documents related to the build of three high schools, including a memorandum of understanding between the city, the Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division, the Red Deer Public School District and the Greater North Central Francophone Education Region.

Administration has been working with the three school divisions to develop preliminary options for the future planning of the schools that will be on the same site and will include competitive sports field facilities.

In February 2014, the province announced roughly $30 million in funding for a new Catholic high school. Construction is slated to begin in 2015.

Deer City RCMP called to investigate complaints of an incident inside the remand centre.

Geng has asked to be tried by judge and jury in the Court of Queen’s Bench with a preliminary hearing to be held first. Preliminary hearings a may be held to test the strength of the Crown’s evidence before proceeding to trial.

Also arrested at the scene were John Tuil Jok, Diing Geng and Chol Achuil Chol.

Chol, 27, has not yet entered his plea.

Jok, 26, will stand trial by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench. A date for his trial has not been set.

Diing Geng, 22, will stand trial in Red Deer provincial court on Feb. 9, 2015.

Olds College project starts New student housing for Olds College is a year away, but the first stages of construction started on Thursday with a formal ground-breaking.

Olds College, with Shunda Consulting and Construction and College Hosing (Olds) Co., broke ground on the new student and conference accommodations on the campus in Central Alberta.

When completed, anticipated by the summer of 2015, it will house 450 students on the Olds College main campus.

The new student accommodations will replace the current housing facilities in Frank Grisdale Hall, a 46-year-old facility.

The new construction will house 30 more students as Frank Grisdale Hall’s current capacity is 420.

The new residence, named Olds College Centennial Village, will be located to the east, behind the existing Town of Olds Aquatic Centre.

The new residence is fully financed from the private sector as College Housing (Olds) Co. is responsible for the design, construction, financing, operation and management of the new facility.

The new student housing includes single private rooms, individual washrooms and showers, double size beds, large closets and Wi-Fi, as well as a fibre connection with a one gigabyte Internet service for each room, a coffee shop, conference rooms and exercise room.

A mother and her two small children have been left homeless after a fire ripped through their two-bedroom suite, causing about $20,000 in damages on Canada Day. Wes Van Bavel, Red Deer Emergency Services fire prevention officer, said the fire on the second floor of a building in the 4700 block on 51st Avenue ignited around midnight.

The three residents and a friend were alerted by smoke and were able to escape without injuries.

Van Bavel said the fire appears to be accidental. It occurred in the cavity of a wall on the main floor and worked its way up the outdoor staircase to the suite.

He said smoking materials are suspected as the cause of the fire.

“Once again, please dispose of your cigarette butts appropriately and not on the ground where there might be garbage or dry leaves or in peat moss planters,” said Van Bavel. “Make sure your smoke alarms are working because there was not a working smoke alarm in this suite. Thankfully, they were awake and they smelled something.”

The Canadian Red Cross stepped in and helped the family with accommodations and supplies. Van Bavel said the wall and the staircase will have to be ripped down. He said the family will likely not be back in their home for at least a couple of months. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Deb Comfort, Neighbourhood Facilities supervisor, said parking has become a concern for residents with the increased volume of visitors to the market in the Arena parking lot downtown.

Parking is limited around the market and nearby residents have had some issues with vehicles parking on private property or blocking driveways and garages.

“There are also instances of emergency accesses being restricted and back lanes being blocked by parked vehicles,” said Comfort.

Starting this weekend, enforcement will increase to deter people from parking in restricted areas.

Avoid being ticketed or towed by obeying the signs and staying off private property.

For drivers requiring disabled parking, there are stalls at the entrance allocated for pass holders.

Residents are encouraged to use alternative methods of transportation to visit the market. A supervised bike corral, located in front of the Arena, is available for cyclists. Transit also has a dropoff location along 48th Avenue across the street from the event.

The market is located at 4751 43rd St., east of the Red Deer Lodge and south of the Red Deer Recreation Centre.

For more information visit www.reddeermarket.com.

Lagrelle sentencing in August

City of Red Deer enforcement teams will be cracking down on motorists who are parking in restricted areas during the public market on Saturday.

Sentencing submissions will be heard in late August for a man accused of a drunken rampage in Red Deer on June 9.

Admitting that he was drunk at the time, Andrew Lagrelle, 27, pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday to charges laid after he robbed a liquor store, stole a car and then sped off, losing control at a sharp corner near Sunnybrook Farm and striking another vehicle. He ran from the scene, broke into a house a few blocks away and stole a set of keys before using a knife to threaten police who had tracked him down.

Crown prosecutor Ed Ring has asked for a global sentence of three years on charges of armed robbery, assaulting a peace officer with a weapon, resisting arrest, possession of stolen property, breaching probation and breaking into a dwelling house.

Represented by Red Deer defence counsel Patty MacNaughton, Lagrelle remains in custody pending the outcome of his sentencing hearing, scheduled for Aug. 25.

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A treat for poetry lovers Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

By Billy Collins $30 Random House Publishing It’s possible that you have never loved poetry. Maybe you are still whining about some poor teacher of yore who (though he/she could teach many subjects very well) always ruined poems.

You could not start over with a better book than this one by the once Poet Laureate of America.

This book contains poems from four previous books, along with 51 new poems, so it PEGGY is a very good representation FREEMAN of his witty observations and their interpretations.

The first poem, in the new poems section is called Foundling. It’s an introduction of sorts to himself, describ-

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ing his first memory, that of laying in a sewing basket (used as a baby carrier), on the steps of a “nunnery.”

“Too young to wonder about anything.”

His poems are mostly light, of course, but because an observer of daily life cannot manage a smile every minute, some are wry or thought-provoking.

In the poem entitled Promenade, he says, “as the world continues to run in all directions with its head in its hands.”

He wonders, just for fun, about putting a small collar on the friendly robin in the garden and taking it for a walk, “where we would pass the locals with their children and orthodox dogs in tow.”

The Unfortunate Traveler tells of a trip to France.

With camera in hand, Billy goes to see and record the sights. Alas, people crowd in front of him with their cameras.

So he has pictures of arms, and backs and heads, “... so into the little door of the lens came not the kiosk or the altarpiece.

No fresco or baptistry slipped by the quick shutter.” And yet they bring back memories of that wonderful trip.

The piece that finds the poet flying at 33,000 feet,

“Slack of jaw and fishy of stare” from watching the movie, then, he turns away to listen to Serenade in D minor by Dvorak.

It “made me a better person ... Leaving me to return to the many ways we have concocted to waste our lives.”

The poems of Billy Collins are often poignant, as in Central Park. He stops by the carousel and reads the sign that tells the history of that calliope. Once it was powered from below by a blind mule, who, strapped to a wheel, walked in a circle in an underground cavern.

It breaks his heart and he says, “Poor blind beast, I sang softly as I left the park. Poor blind me, poor blind earth turning blindly on its side.”

My favourite poem here is entitled To My Favorite 17 Year Old High School Girl. It describes the great early success of people like Judy Garland, who at 17 was making $150,000 a picture, or Joan of Arc or Annie Oakley, but “we think you are special by just being you, playing with your food and staring into space.”

This collection is a treat for all poetry lovers.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

Little Mosque creator shares humorous tales

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The creator of the hit homegrown sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie wanted to tackle more serious subject matter with a book of intellectual essays — but Zarqa Nawaz’s editor wasn’t having it. Instead, Nawaz — who also wrote for and served as a producer on the CBC series — was encouraged to turn a lens on herself.

The result is her humorous and heartfelt new memoir Laughing All the Way to the Mosque (HarperCollins) in which the Regina-based Nawaz writes about life growing up Muslim in Canada. The book features colourful and funny personal anecdotes spanning from her own childhood to becoming a married mother of four with career changes and other milestones in between.

“You can tell in the heart of each story there’s an issue that I was dealing with, but it’s in story form.

So I wrote it in sitcom-type form — like an episode of a TV show — which is what I know,” Nawaz said in a recent interview at the publisher’s offices in Toronto.

Nawaz, 46, shares stories of her desire to fit in during childhood which was sometimes at odds with her traditional upbringing, like wanting her mother to pack her a sandwich for lunch instead of curry chicken, and to be able to wear a dress without pants underneath to school. Nawaz also recalls having to explain to her mother — who had been taught that leg-shaving was un-Islamic — why she wanted to remove her leg hair so she could wear shorts in gym class without embarrassment.

And in an unconventional act of rebellion in her teens, Nawaz writes of her decision to start wearing the hijab, which was “the new, modern way of being modest.”

“I think it threw (my parents) off and put them in a dilemma because suddenly, I was declaring myself the better Muslim, the one who knew better than they did,” she recalled. “They learned religion dif-

ferently. It was just like you were born into it, you did things because everybody else was doing it. We were learning the text and rules and it was becoming rule-based for us. ...

“Suddenly religion became this nitpicky thing.

And it caused a lot of conflict between kids and their parents at a certain point, I think, because that’s not what religion was to them. And for us, it was a way of defining ourselves and being different from them.”

Nawaz also is candid in sharing challenges and unpleasant moments which also surfaced. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S., Nawaz recalls her late father-in-law talking about being visited by the RCMP after one of the neighbours spotted a packing cube on the driveway and “thought it was a little suspicious.” She delves into how the issue of separating men and women in her mosque became contentious when a shower curtain was strung up for female worshippers to pray behind.

Nawaz writes as well about the creation of “Little Mosque” which ended its six-season run in 2012. It centred on a Toronto lawyer portrayed by Zaib Shaikh who leaves the city behind to pursue his true calling as an imam in the fictional town of Mercy, Sask., leading Muslim community members in a mosque housed in a church.

The debut drew 2.1 million viewers and the series went on to air in more than 60 countries. But Nawaz said when the show first came out the Muslim community had a really difficult time with it.

“Gradually, as the years went on and the show became established, the community calmed down and they realized nothing catastrophic really had happened and they started becoming fans of the show.

But at the time, it was really painful and difficult,” Nawaz admitted.

“It was so new. It was such a new concept. The Cosby Show was for African-Americans ... a show (about) a family in a living room, so we didn’t even make a leap to a Muslim family in a living room. We went straight to the mosque,” she added, laughing.

“We didn’t even give them baby steps to lead them.

We went: ’We’re going to go straight to the mosque.’

The first Muslims to do comedy about religion in a mosque and about faith and just go after all the sacred cows.”

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Provincial legislation hurting rural hotels TOUGHER SMOKING, DUI REGULATIONS BAD FOR BUSINESS: BOWDEN HOTEL MANAGER

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR John May has been in the hotel business for 25 years, but he fears his career won’t survive the summer.

The manager of the Bowden Hotel blames recent provincial legislation related to smoking, and to driving while under the influence of alcohol, for cutting business at his bar in half. Other small town hotels are under similar financial pressure, said May, pointing to the closure of hotels in Didsbury and Crossfield, and of the Empress Hotel in Lacombe, as evidence.

“The small town hotels are going the way of the elevators.”

May estimates that the prohibition against smoking in public places, implemented on Jan. 1, 2008, reduced business at the Bowden Hotel by 30 per cent.

And since Sept. 1, 2012, when it became an offence to drive with a blood-alcohol level in excess of 0.05, the hotel has suffered a further 20 per cent loss in revenues.

He also complains about high taxes on alcohol.

“They take away 50 per cent of my business and raise the prices on the booze I’ve got to sell.”

The changes have the greatest impact on rural bars, said May, explaining that such establishments have a smaller population base upon which to draw, and their customers often don’t have access to cabs or public transit.

He wishes the province had left control over smok-

ing in the hands of municipal governments.

Warren Haag, who owns the Elnora Hotel, shares May’s frustrations.

“It certainly has been a negative, and some of the rules are just silly,” he said.

For example, said Haag, patrons at the Elnora Hotel can’t light up on its outdoor patio. And many have no idea how much they can drink before they risk running afoul of the law.

“If 0.08 is impaired, then why would you be harassing people at 0.05?”

The nearest taxi company that his customers could call is in Delburne.

“So a cab ride one mile will cost you $30.”

Haag pointed out that almost all of his staff over the years have been smokers, and that there would be plenty of food-service jobs in Alberta for anyone adverse to working in a bar where smoking is allowed. Although the Elnora Hotel is not in danger of closing, the new smoking and driving restrictions have probably taken a 25 to 30 per cent bite out of its business, said Haag.

“It certainly has a negative effect.”

The loss of a community’s hotel can be devastating, he and May agreed.

“It’s almost a kiss of death for a town,” said Haag, describing how residents go elsewhere to socialize, and end up eating and shopping there as well.

In addition to serving as a local gathering place, hotels provide jobs, generate taxes and produce other economic spin-offs, added May. He thinks the Alberta government should compensate hotel owners for the losses they’ve suffered.

He’s spoken with a lawyer and would like to bring a class action lawsuit against the province.

“We’re trying to get that organized right now, but we’re a small hotel. We can’t afford to take on the government all by ourselves so we’re trying to get other small hotels to contact us.”

Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Kerry Towle, who is a member of the Wildrose Party, has been sympathetic, said May. But the Conservative government doesn’t seem willing to talk.

“Maybe they’ll take a look at things if they see like 50 or 70 hotels.”

A spokesperson with Alberta Justice told the Advocate he couldn’t comment on the issue because there’s the potential for legal action.

Haag isn’t optimistic the hotel owners will find relief through the courts.

“It would probably be to some extent deserved, but I can’t believe it’s going to happen.”

But he expects the Elnora Hotel to remain for some time to come.

“We’re doing pretty good, but not as well as we should be doing,” said Haag, who is seeking to sell the business because of health reasons.

May isn’t as optimistic about the future of the Bowden Hotel, which has operated since 1930. However, he’s not ready to give up on the hotel where he’s spent most of his working life.

“After 22 years, you kind of feel for the place. It’s home.”

May can be contacted at bowdenhotelltd@hotmail. com. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Exports provide boost to economy STATSCAN REPORT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian exports to foreign markets surged by a surprisingly robust 3.5 per cent in May, narrowing the country’s trade deficit and setting the economy on a more sustainable growth path.

For contribution to economic output, the Statistics Canada report was even more encouraging as volumes increased by an even bigger 4.2 per cent, as price drops shaved 0.7 per cent from the value of shipments.

The May data on one of Canada’s most important economic indicators was stronger than economists’ consensus forecast, but in line with what analysts had been anticipating would be the next stage of Canada’s economic recovery, with exports and business investment replacing housing as drivers of growth.

Imports also rose in May, although by a smaller 1.6 per cent, bringing Canada’s trade deficit to a slim $152 million from an upwardly revised $961 million in April.

“The export-driven recovery in the trade balance in May supports our expectation that net trade will provide a lift to growth in the second quarter even after accounting for the unexpectedly large deficit recorded in April,” said Dawn Desjardins, assistant chief economist with the Royal Bank, in a note to clients.

“Additionally, the increases in imports were in part due to higher equipment purchases that likely signal a strengthening in investment growth,” she said.

With the housing market and construction slowing, the Bank of Canada has been counting on an export recovery to boost business confidence and convince firms they need to invest in new equipment and machinery to expand production capacity.

On that front, there was more good news from the U.S. — Canadian exporters’ largest market by far — with the American economy creating 288,000 new jobs in June, and exports receiving a boost there as well.

Markets saw the developments on both sides of the border as supportive for growth, lifting the Canadian dollar about a third of a cent to slightly above 94 cents US, one of the higher levels in several months.

“Economists, ourselves included, have been bemoaning the lack of export-led growth in Canada,” said TD Bank economist Leslie Preston.

“However, Canada’s trade position has been steadily improving since its post-recession low in mid-2012 (and we) expect Canada’s export sector to continue to accelerate through the second half of the year in line with the U.S. economy.”

Preston noted that Canada’s exports are now 12.7 per cent higher than a year ago, a pace that hasn’t been seen since the end of 2011.

The May trade data was strong in the composition as well as the bottom line, with a key contribution from the auto industries (plus 9.8 per cent) as well as the usually reliable energy sector, which rose 3.4 per cent.

As well, exports in consumer goods rose 4.4 per cent, and food products rose 10.5 per cent.

Overall, export values rose to $44.2 billion in May, while imports increased to $44.3 billion.

Exports to the United States rose 2.1 per cent $33.5 billion, while imports slipped 0.2 per cent to $28.7 billion, raising the trade surplus with the U.S. to $4.8 billion from $4 billion in April.

Exports to countries other than the United States grew 8.3 per cent to $10.7 billion, while imports from those countries rose 5.1 per cent to $15.6 billion, narrow that trade deficit to $4.9 billion from $5 billion in April.

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Cameron Branston, a commercial officer at Alberta’s U.K. office in London (left); Richard Baggley, an official with HSBC bank; Garett Cupples, owner of GenTex Oilfield Manufacturing Inc.; Matt Cornall, an investment attraction officer with Central Alberta: Access Prosperity; and Darrell Greenman, president and CEO of AGES Corp. and a director with Vibe Drive, at the Canadian High Commission in London.

Lots of potential for local companies to do business with U.K. TRADE MISSION TO ENGLAND DEEMED A SUCCESS

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR He might be biased, but Matt Cornall sees plenty of reason for Central Alberta companies to look for business partners in the United Kingdom.

An investment attraction officer with Central Alberta: Access Prosperity, Cornall returned to Canada on Wednesday after leading a trade mission to England — his home country. He was accompanied by Darrell Greenman, president and CEO of AGES (Advanced Global Environmental Solutions) Corp. and a director with Vibe Drive; and Garett Cupples, owner of GenTex Oilfield Manufacturing Inc. The trio spent most of their time at Sheffield, in Northern England, where they met with representatives of U.K. companies and attended the 2014 Global Manufacturing Festival. They also visited the Canadian High Commission in London.

“The mission went fantastically well,” said Cornall.

Economic development officials from Sheffield and representatives of HSBC bank arranged a special program for the Albertans, he said, and a commercial officer from Alberta’s U.K. office also offered support.

“Companies were able to get really valuable oneon-one meetings and factory tours with guys who they’ll genuinely have the potential to do business with,” said Cornall.

Greenman was pleased with his experience in England.

“I met some incredible people and I do believe there are going to be some great things happen between a couple of our groups.”

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thinks the choice makes good sense.

“When you actually sit down and look at the business connections and potential, they’re huge,” he said, describing Alberta’s need for U.K.’s advanced manufacturing capabilities and the U.K.’s need for Alberta’s oil and gas technology and expertise.

“That potential collaboration is huge.”

Plus, continued Cornall, the two countries share a common language, have similar cultures and legal systems, and are poised for liberalized trade opportunities under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union. The U.K. is also seven hours closer than China, he added.

“To me, it’s almost a no-brainer.”

Greenman confirmed that dealing with U.K. companies proved “extremely simple,” and acknowledged the importance of being open-minded when looking for trade partners.

He’s travelled and looked for foreign business opportunities in the past, but said the process was much easier when it was organized like the Access Prosperity mission was.

Cornall thinks the number of local companies that took part was low because people here are so busy.

But such a commitment is important to ensure future business development, he said.

Greeman said he’s extremely busy in his businesses, but recognized the value of the mission.

“I don’t like to close the door on potential opportunities, so I made the call to go for it — and I’m really glad I did.

“There’s a whole other world out there.”

Cornall is hopeful Access Prosperity will organize a similar trip in the future, perhaps in conjunction with next year’s Global Manufacturing Festival at Sheffield. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com digitally publish its weekly television listings.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 97.07 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 51.70 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.25 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.29 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.82 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.56 Cdn. National Railway . . 69.60 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 196.00 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.64 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.25 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.67 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.05 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.66 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 30.71 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.29 General Motors Co. . . . . 37.74 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.74 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.13 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 86.69 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 66.52 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.78 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.02 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 51.02 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 102.12 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.91 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.51 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.36 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Thursday even as job creation data from the United States blew past expectations and raised hopes for a stronger showing by the economy in the second quarter.

The S&P/TSX composite index backed away slightly from Wednesday’s record-high close to decline 2.68 points to 15,207.11.

The TSX was held back in part by gold stocks as bullion prices retreated in the wake of data from the U.S. Labor Department showing that the American economy produced 288,000 jobs in June.

Economists had forecast that about 215,000 jobs were cranked out last month. There was also relief that the U.S. jobless rate edged down to 6.1 per cent from 6.3 per cent.

Canadian employment data for June will be released July 11.

U.S. indexes ran up smartly in a shortened session ahead of the Independence Day holiday Friday, when markets will be closed.

The Dow Jones industrials closed above the 17,000-mark for the first time, up 92.02 points to 17,068.26, the Nasdaq rose 28.19 points to a 14-year high of 4,485.93 and the S&P 500 index gained 10.82 points to 1,985.44.

The jobs data also persuaded analysts that damage to the U.S. economy in the first quarter was contained and second-quarter performance will be much more impressive.

The economy contracted by 2.9 per cent in the first quarter, largely because of severe winter weather.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.24 of a cent to 93.99 cents US as other data showed that Canada’s trade deficit with the world narrowed in May. Statis-

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The strong jobs data and solid manufacturing reports from the U.S. and China earlier in the week boosted the Dow industrials 216.42 points or 1.28 per cent this past week. The Toronto market also headed for a strong gain, led by mining and financial stocks.

The gold sector was a major weight on the TSX, down about 1.25 per cent as the jobs data pushed August bullion down $10.30 to US$1,320.60 an ounce.

The tech sector was down 1.2 per cent. BlackBerry (TSX:BB) slipped 10 cents to $11.29 as the smartphone maker said that it is selling its research and development department in Germany to Volkswagen Infotainment, a subsidiary of the automaker that makes interactive technology built into vehicle dashboards.

The energy sector slipped 0.22 per cent as August crude moved down 42 cents to US$104.06 a barrel.

The TSX base metals sector led advancers Thursday, up 3.4 per cent while September copper was one cent higher at US$3.28 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,207.11, down 2.68 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,037.79, up 1.72 points TSX 60 — 869.06, down 0.58 of a point Dow — 17,068.26, up 92.02 points S&P 500 — 1,985.44, up 10.82 points

Deloitte: crude prices to stay strong for rest of 2014, but dip next year CALGARY — Deloitte is expecting U.S. oil prices to stay strong for the rest of 2014, but drop off in the coming years without the ability to export to global markets.

The advisory firm predicts West Texas Intermediate will average US$100 per barrel for 2014, decreasing to US$93 per barrel in 2015 and US$85 by 2018.

Alberta natural gas prices are expected to be C$4.80 per 1,000 cubic feet

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 102.59 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 70.97 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.48 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 34.61 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 57.44 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.61 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.20 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.105 Precision Drilling Corp . . 15.54 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 45.53 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.16 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 17.86 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.40 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 73.50 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.87 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.66 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.68 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 40.11 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.84 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.55 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.41 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 73.59 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.57 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.69 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.30 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.11 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.96 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.12 Nasdaq — 4,485.93, up 28.20 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 93.99 cents US, up 0.24 of a cent Pound — C$1.8248, down 0.62 of a cent Euro — C$1.4476, up 0.11 of a cent Euro — US$1.3607, down 0.47 of a cent Oil futures: US$104.06 per barrel, down 42 cents (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,320.60 per oz., down $10.30 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.434 oz., down 4.0 cents $753.40 kg., down $1.29 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’14 $14.60 lower $475.00; Nov. ’14 $5.30 higher $455.90; Jan ’15 $5.00 higher $459.50; March ’15 $4.70 higher $460.20; May ’15 $3.90 higher $459.10; July ’15 $3.60 higher $458.60; Nov ’15 $2.20 higher $458.60; Jan. ’16 $2.20 higher $465.40; March ’16 $2.20 higher $469.20; May ’16 $2.20 higher $469.20; July ’16 $2.20 higher $469.20.

Barley (Western): July ’14 unchanged 125.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $132.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $134.50; March ’15 unchanged $135.50; May ’15 unchanged $135.50; July ’15 unchanged $135.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $135.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $135.50; March ’16 unchanged $135.50; May ’16 unchanged $135.50; July ’16 unchanged $135.50.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 425,380 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 425,380.

this year, dipping to C$4.40 next year and rising to C$6 by 2024.

Meanwhile, Deloitte is lamenting the fact that Canadian spot oil prices are becoming increasingly difficult to discern, with big oil companies choosing to stop publicizing their data in recent months.

Without the daily spot numbers, Deloitte has worked out a way to compile its forecasts using near-term futures market data.

It sees a US$7 price-gap between West Texas Intermediate, a key U.S. benchmark, and its Canadian counterpart, Edmonton Par, for 2014, decreasing to US$2 per barrel over the long term.

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Those factors should be enough to “tip the market” back into one that favours buyers.

“Softer housing demand, combined with rising listings, will likely push the Canadian housing market towards a buyer’s market over the next year and a half,” said Petramala. “As home buyers have more choice, they will also have more bargaining power and price pressure will ease. These features would be consistent with the makings of a soft landing in Canada’s housing market.” The report said the “soft landing” has already come to certain regions, like areas east of Toronto, while expensive cities “with more froth” like Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria will soon be seeing more weakness.

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver reported Thursday that home sales rose 28.9 per cent to 3,406 in June. The total compared with 2,642 sales recorded in June 2013 on the Multiple Listing Service. Last month’s sales were 0.6 per cent above the 10-year sales average for June.

Meanwhile, the TD report said home prices in Edmonton and Calgary were expected to post the biggest growth rate over the next two years, as those cities continue to see population and employment gains.

BlackBerry sells its Germanbased R&D assets to Volkswagen Infotainment

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WATERLOO, Ont. — BlackBerry (TSX:BB) is selling its research and development department in Germany to Volkswagen Infotainment, a subsidiary of the automaker that makes interactive technology built into vehicle dashboards.

The deal will shift about 200 BlackBerry employees in Bochum, Germany, to Volkswagen.

The move comes as the Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker pushes ahead with a plan to become profitable by its 2016 financial year.

Volkswagen will assume BlackBerry’s leases for offices at the Bochum University Center and the Design Support Lab. Research and development centres are typically shrouded in secrecy for competitive reasons, and BlackBerry declined to outline what products it fostered there.

In a statement, BlackBerry said the

Bochum centre oversaw hardware, software and mechanical development, as well as certain testing, certification and quality management responsibilities.

BlackBerry chief executive John Chen joined the company last year and began to make dramatic changes that included stripping out parts of the business, selling real estate and laying off employees to cut costs.

He also secured a manufacturing agreement with an outside company and began an aggressive push to improve relationships with longtime government and corporate clients.

BlackBerry has centralized most of its vehicle connectivity development at its QNX Software Systems division in Ottawa.

QNX develops technology for cars and trucks, including dashboard systems that connect directly with a driver’s mobile phone and outside networks, but is also working on systems for the health care industry and mining companies.

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TORONTO — Canada’s housing market will continue to stay hot for the rest of the year, with home prices expected to rise on low interest rates and increased demand, says a report by TD Economics.

The bank upgraded its forecast for the real estate sector Thursday, predicting that home prices will gain an average of five to six per cent by the end of 2014.

“More strength may be bubbling under the surface,” said TD economist Diana Petramala, author of the report.

In February, the bank had expected Canadian home sales to flatten out, and called the market overvalued by about 10 per cent. It did not give an estimate on how much it thought prices would rise or drop. That earlier forecast was based on the belief that mortgage rates would creep up in the spring, but rates still sit near record lows and continue to prop up demand.

Low interest rates have helped with the affordability of condos, where prices are at their “most favourable.”

First-time buyers who may have been pushed out of the market earlier may also be returning back due to the rates, which have in part driven the demand for single-family homes.

In May, the national average resale home price grew 7.1 per cent year over year — surpassing its 10-year average growth rate. But looking past the shortto medium-term forecasts, Petramala

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History reveals Game of Thrones scenario NEANDERTHAL ANCESTORS IN SPAIN POINT TO GAME OF THRONES ERA OF HUMAN PREHISTORY

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES In a cave in northern Spain a team of scientists has retrieved the remains of 28 prehistoric humans, members of an enigmatic species that could be described as a little bit Neanderthal.

They had Neanderthal faces, with heavy brows and protruding noses. They had powerful mandibles and mouths that could open extremely wide, indicating they used their teeth as gripping tools.

But they didn’t have the large skulls or other robust skeletal features seen in the prototypical Neanderthals who, hundreds of millennia later, roamed Ice Age Europe.

These were apparently ancestors of Neanderthals, inhabitants of a line that many thousands of years earlier had split from the ancestors of modern humans. An international team of scientists published the description of the Photo by ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Spanish fossils Thursday in the journal Science, but has not yet Scientists in Spain have uncovered evidence they believe shows a closer given this population a new spe- link between Neanderthals and humans than previously thought. cies name. That will come later, the scientists said, after consultaThe scientists suggest that the evolution of the tions with colleagues.

Neanderthal lineage is tied to an adaptive trait asThe discovery does not dramatically change the sociated with chewing. Although the paper in Scigeneral picture of human evolution, but it compli- ence does not speculate about what, exactly, drove cates it a bit, providing new evidence that there were the evolution of specialized features for chewing, many distinct, and largely isolated, human species Arsuaga in the teleconference said he believes these existing simultaneously, and competing with one an- Neanderthal ancestors could have used their teeth other in a harsh environment marked by advancing to grip meat or other objects. and retreating ice sheets.

“We could speculate that Neanderthals had three The lead author of the new paper, paleoanthro- grasping organs instead of two,” he said. pologist Juan Luis Arsuaga of the Universidad ComA key finding is the date of the fossils: Six distinct plutense de Madrid, refers to this as “a Game of techniques converge on an estimated age of roughly Thrones scenario.”

430,000 years old.

As he put it, there was no Middle Pleistocene kingOne technique dated crystals of calcium carbondom ruling over everything, but rather many compet- ate that had built up on skulls at the bottom of shaling houses vying for low pools. Another the same land. dated the light col‘THIS IS A BIG ADVANCE. I’M SORRY THAT “Hominin evoluored mud that sits IT’S STILL SORT OF SWINGING OUT THERE tion was not a peaceatop the red mud in ful, boring process IN TAXONOMIC LIMBO INSTEAD OF HAVING which the fossils are of very slow change embedded.

BEEN GIVEN ITS OWN DESIGNATION.’ over time,” Arsuaga This precise datsaid during a teleing makes the Sima — IAN TATTERSALL conference with rePALEOANTHROPOLOGIST FROM THE fossils the oldest in porters.

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY the Neanderthal linThe fossil site, in eage and confirms a cave called Sima that the ancestors of de los Huesos (“Pit of Bones”), is in a chamber at the modern humans and the Neanderthal line diverged bottom of a vertical shaft. Arsuaga believes it was a more than 430,000 years ago. mortuary — a repository for the dead. There are also Arsuaga and his colleagues believe these protomany fossilized bones of bears, and claw marks on Neanderthals possessed the power of speech and the wall. The bears may have fallen into the pit and lived in social groups. The fossils in the Sima pit become trapped. come from people who lived close to one another in Archeologists have bones but not much else to time and were possibly members of a clan, the scienwork with — there are no cultural artifacts in the pit tists said. other than a single hand axe.

There are few human ancestors more intriguing The first bones were first found at the Sima site than the Neanderthals, who could be described as many years ago, and Arsuaga and his colleagues the best example in the history of the planet of an originally lumped them together with another early intelligent species that has gone extinct. human species called Homo heidelbergensis. But They had large craniums, and larger brains than the new analysis, which includes the description of modern humans (though that doesn’t mean they were 17 skulls, concludes that these early humans were smarter). They existed as recently as about 30,000 physically distinct from their heidelbergensis con- years ago, when their kind disappears from the fossil temporaries. record.

“This is a big advance. I’m sorry that it’s still sort How they died out, and why, and to what extent of swinging out there in taxonomic limbo instead they may have interbred with anatomically modern of having been given its own designation,” said Ian humans, is an ongoing source of debate. Recent reTattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American search shows some admixture of genes, with modern Museum of Natural History, who was not involved in humans outside of Africa having roughly 1 to 3 perthe new research. cent Neanderthal DNA. Arsuaga and his colleagues believe the fossils But as a species, the Neanderthal vanished. In show that the Neanderthals lineage did not get all their place came anatomically modern humans, who its distinctive anatomical features as a complete set, evolved in Africa and are the ancestors of everyone but rather these appeared individually, in “a mosaic alive today. pattern of evolution, with different anatomical and The Neanderthals, Tattersall said, “obviously functional modules evolving at different rates,” in were very intuitively smart. They were great tool the words of the Science paper. makers. They were ingenious. They were resource-

NIH funds network to give patients with mysterious diseases a place to turn

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WASHINGTON — The government is expanding its “mystery disease” program, funding a network at six universities around the country to help diagnose patients with diseases so rare they’ve been told they’re undiagnosable.

The National Institutes of Health has evaluated hundreds of these cold-case patients in its campus research hospital as part of a pilot program since 2008. Demand is so great, there’s a waiting list.

So on Tuesday, the agency announced the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network, a four-year, $43 million initiative to bring more doctor-detectives on board in the quest to at least put a name to more patients’ puzzling symptoms, and eventually find treatments.

The network “will focus on the rarest of disorders, often those affecting fewer than 50 people in the entire world,” said Dr. Eric Green, director of NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute.

It’s a field that can be “bleak and frustrating” for patients and doctors alike, said NIH program director Dr. William Gahl. More than 3,000 patients have applied to the pilot program, which so far has enrolled about 600, NIH said. Gahl put the “solve rate” at about 25 per cent. Scientists say newer, more powerful genetic technologies give hope for unraveling the cause of more of these mystery diseases.

Louise Benge of Brodhead, Kentucky, and her siblings suffer debilitating pain in their hands and legs.

After she enrolled in the pilot program, researchers discovered they inherited a rare genetic defect that makes calcium build up just in the arteries that feed those limbs, making walking and other movements difficult. Now researchers are testing a medication.

“They have been really good about helping us and trying their best to figure out something for us to be able to get our life back without having all this pain,” Benge said.

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TAYLOR DRIVE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT The Taylor Drive Improvement Project is about improved safety, access and traffic flow as well as creating better connections for drivers and pedestrians to the downtown. This is what crews are working on this week: • Finishing the new concrete curbs at 49 Street and Ross Street • Trenching for new street lighting on Taylor Drive • First stage of installation for new traffic signals at Taylor Drive/45 Street, Taylor Drive/Ross Street and Ross Street/52 Avenue • Continue asphalt trail on east side of Taylor Drive

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ful. They were living through difficult times.”

But they did not create symbolic objects, such as artwork, and presumably their speech did not include symbolic language, he said. They may not have imagined the future or created narrations of the past the way we do. Tattersall said the first symbolic objects are geometrical engravings on smooth ochre plaques in southern Africa, dated to about 80,000 years ago.

The new discoveries in Spain add to the mounting evidence that human prehistory was a complicated period with a diverse cast of human species.

“We tend to think it’s normal for there to be only one kind of Homo in the world,” Tattersall said. “But if you look back on the fossil record, you realize it’s totally routine to have several different types of species of Homo in the world, trying to exist at the same time. What is unusual is for us to be on our own. I think that says something very specific about how different we are.”

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Development Officer Approvals On July 2, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Sunnybrook 1. A.Wiebe – a 0.4 metre relaxation to the maximum height of a proposed detached garage, to be located at 39 Selkirk Boulevard.

Discretionary Use Clearview 2. Prominent Homes Ltd. – a show home, to be located at 13 Caribou Crescent.

Northlands 3. Western Energy Services – an above ground tank for the storage of used oil, to be located at 811349 Avenue Close.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on July 18, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/F-2014 Amendments to R1N and R1G Land Use Districts City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to amend the R1N-Residential (Narrow Lot) District and the R1G – Residential (Small Lot) Districts. The amendments will align these residential districts to the City’s new Neighbourhood Planning & Design Standards and will contribute to creating better neighbourhoods as the amendments will enhance the streetscape appeal of these housing types.

The changes include: R1N Amendments: • Reduce front yard setback to minimum 4.0m.

• Remove regulation restricting that no more than 33% of the “net residential area” shall be developed as RIN. • Add “Home occupations which will generate additional traffic” as a use to the Discretionary Use table.

• Add a requirement that home occupations generating traffic shall provide one additional onsite parking stall at the rear of the property.

• Add a requirement that all new R1N development and home occupations that generate traffic shall provide a hard surface walkway connection from the rear parking stalls to the primary dwelling.

• Remove the wording from section 2 (e) requiring that housing setbacks shall be staggered.

R1G Amendments: • Add “Home occupations which will generate additional traffic” as a use to the Discretionary Use table.

• Remove the maximum 33% of “net residential area” design criteria requirement for combined R1G and R1N developments.

• Add a design criteria requirement that all bi-level and 2 storyR1G homes must contain developed floor space over a minimum of 40% of the front attached garage.

• Add a design criteria requirement that for all bungalow style R1G Dwelling Units, the setback distance of the front face of the living portion of the home from the front face of the attached garage shall not exceed 5 m.

• Replace the existing “30.0 m lot depth minimum” requirement with the new “32.0 m lot depth minimum” requirement.

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, July 21, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services

by Friday, July11, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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Insulin pumps may control blood sugar better for some Type 2 diabetics: study TORONTO — Insulin pumps appear to be significantly better at controlling blood-sugar levels in some people with hard-to-treat Type 2 diabetes compared to the standard therapy of multiple daily insulin injections, an international study has found.

Type 2 diabetes, in which the pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin or the body doesn’t use the hormone effectively, is typically controlled by diet and medication, but most people also end up needing insulin therapy to manage their blood sugar as the disease advances.

However, about a third of these patients have difficulty achieving optimal blood-sugar control with insulin injections, which they must administer several times a day. Poor blood-glucose management can lead to such complications as vision damage, cardiovascular disease and kidney failure.

Insulin pumps deliver continuous amounts of rapid- or short-acting insulin through a catheter placed under the skin, without the need for self-injection.

The 2010-2013 study involved 331 people, aged 30 to 75, with Type 2 diabetes in Canada, Europe, Israel, South Africa and the United States. Researchers randomly assigned roughly half the patients to receive treatment with insulin pumps, while the rest continued with multiple daily injections.

Each therapy delivers both long-acting insulin (basal) and rapid-action insulin (bolus) taken near mealtimes.

Before being split into the two groups, all patients had gone through a two-month “run-in” period to optimize their blood-sugar control, “adjusting doses the best that we could,” said Toronto endocrinologist Dr. Ronnie Aronson, a co-principal investigator of

the OpT2mise trial published Thursday in the Lancet. Each group then followed their therapy regimen for six months.

“At the end of the six months, we found the blood sugar had improved significantly more in the group that was pumping as opposed to the group that had remained on multiple daily injections,” Aronson said Wednesday.

“And that difference was quite significant both from a statistical point of view and very meaningful from a clinical point of view.”

The study found that 55 per cent of diabetics on an insulin pump were able to meet their blood-glucose target, compared to 28 per cent of those on daily injections.

“That’s nearly twice as many,” said Aronson, noting that “glycated hemoglobin” — the three-month average of blood-sugar readings — dipped by 1.1 per cent in the insulin-pump group versus 0.4 per cent among those injecting insulin.

“So there was a difference, or a benefit, of 0.7 (per cent), which in diabetes terms is enormous. And the pumping group was able to do it with less insulin. And that’s really not been seen before. That’s a very significant finding as well,” he said.

“The main implication is that for patients with Type 2 diabetes who are already using insulin and struggling to achieve the optimal control of their blood sugars, using a pump may be a more effective way to improve their blood sugar, to improve their chance of getting to target levels and to do it with less insulin and in a safe way.”

Doctors don’t know why the device is more effective in controlling blood sugar for some people, but it may be that continuously pumped insulin is better absorbed and used more effectively by the body. Medication-dose compliance may also play a role, Aron-

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“When you’re using an insulin pump, you’re definitely getting all of the prescribed insulin in a given day.

When you have to remember to take three or four or five injections a day, it’s possible that from time to time you may forget to take those injections.

“It’s probably a combination of both.”

Lead author Dr. Yves Reznik of the University of Caen Cote de Nacre Regional Hospital Center in Caen, France, agreed that pumps enhance insulin absorption and increase insulin sensitivity due to the drug’s continuous delivery through the skin.

“Our findings open up a valuable new treatment option for those individuals failing on current injection regimens and may also provide improved convenience, reducing the burden of dose-tracking and scheduling, and decreasing insulin injection omissions,” Reznik said in a statement.

The study was funded by Medtronic, which manufactures insulin pumps, but Aronson said the company was

CDC says no signs of anthrax illness weeks after lab safety incident NEW YORK — Officials say there are no signs anyone got sick from anthrax after a lab safety problem at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Earlier this month, the CDC said dozens of workers at three labs in Atlanta may have been accidentally exposed to anthrax. But on Monday, CDC

“entirely hands off. We had full independence. We were not interfered with or influenced.”

In a Lancet commentary, Dr. Pratik Choudhary of King’s College London said the study “provides a compelling case for the clinical effectiveness of insulin-pump treatment in Type 2 diabetes, suggesting that it can help improve glycemic control in this difficult to treat group of patients who are unable to achieve glucose control despite increasing doses of insulin.”

“However, cost-effectiveness of pumps in different health-care systems will need to be evaluated,” he writes.

In Canada, there are several models of insulin pumps made by different manufacturers. Their average price tag is about $7,000, which does not include the $250 monthly cost for supplies. The devices can be used by people with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. Some private insurance plans will reimburse all or some of the cost. Several provincial health insurance plans also cover the cost of insulin pumps for certain groups of diabetics.

officials said anthrax spores have not been found on surfaces in the labs and it’s not clear that any dangerous anthrax was released.

About 60 workers were offered antibiotics and vaccinations as precautionary treatment. The CDC says about half can now stop taking the medication.

A CDC internal report on what went wrong is expected later this week. Earlier, the federal agency said anthrax samples used in research hadn’t been sterilized as expected.

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Aurora has spent her short life in hospitals, here and in Pretoria, South Africa. She was born there with a condition called gastroschisis — some of her gastro-intestinal organs were outside her abdomen.

It’s a condition that can generally be successfully corrected with surgery. In Aurora’s case, however, most of her small intestine had died before she was born because a blood clot had cut off blood flow to the organ. It had to be removed the day after her birth, leaving her with only six centimetres of small intestine and 15 cm of colon — not nearly enough to draw nutrition from food.

Aurora gets most of her nutrients via a tube, requiring her to be hooked to equipment for all but six hours a day. She needs a bowel transplant but is now healthy enough to leave hospital while she waits for a donor organ to become available.

Her hospital stays have kept the little girl alive and she currently appears to be thriving. She chatters and grabs for toys and squawks when she is unhappy that something she wants is out of reach.

It’s all normal baby behaviour — but not necessarily skills that come easily to infants who call hospitals home.

Spending the first weeks, months and sometimes years of life in a hospital can seriously impede the normal development of a young tyke, sometimes depriving them of the stimulation and the opportunities to play that help babies learn to roll over, crawl, sit up and stand. Making sure a young child reaches these key milestones can get short shrift when the baby is a patient hooked to tubes and monitors in a hospital crib.

“We often thought: ’When is she going to do this or that?”’ admitted Aurora’s mother, Nicole Blomerus, a Vancouver native. Aurora’s father, Harold, is South African. “You’re so focused on the medical issues and that’s all that you really have time for. So even if it’s a thought in the back of your head, you don’t act on it,” she said in an interview Monday.

Aurora’s surgery left her with a condition called short bowel syndrome. When doctors in South Africa told Nicole and Harold Blomerus they could do nothing further for Aurora, Nicole went online to see if Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children might be able to treat their little girl.

They quickly received an affirmative answer, though it took four months to get Aurora to Toronto.

By the time she arrived, she was very sick, her liver stressed by the diet she was on.

At Sick Kids, the family found Aurora’s healthcare team wasn’t just concerned about her physical health. Staff from Sick Kids’ Beanstalk Program approached the family to assess how the little girl was doing developmentally, devising a plan to involve everyone on Team Aurora — her parents, her healthcare professionals and hospital volunteers — in helping the little girl catch up to where children her age would be.

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1952 — Parliament passes the CNR Capital Revision Act; releases Canadian National Railways from 50 per cent of its debt.

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1905 — The House of Commons passes a bill establishing Alberta and Saskatchewan as provinces.

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Readers divided on children crying in church Dear Annie: I had to respond to Dear Mom: Our mail was divided “Frustrated with Noise,” who had a evenly on this one. Read on: problem with children crying in From Florida: I am a children’s paschurch. Obviously, this pertor with many years of exson doesn’t have children. perience.

How are these kids supEvery church I have posed to learn how to beserved in has had a fully have in church if their staffed nursery with loving, parents do not have them trained volunteers and a participate in the services? well-equipped and excepYes, loudly screaming chiltionally clean environment. dren should be removed But when we suggest paruntil they can calm down, ents take advantage of these but otherwise the children services, some of them act should remain. as if we are trying to sell As a young mother, I attheir children. tended church alone with It is the responsibility of MITCHELL my two young sons. the parents to realize that & SUGAR Once, the baby started not everyone is overjoyed crying, and I did not want listening to their child cry, to leave my 4-year-old in the scream or otherwise disrupt pew, and he was unwilling the service. to leave with me.

We are pleased to help, but we can’t When I later apologized to the won- care for children if parents won’t bring derful Franciscan friar who was the them to us! officiate that day, he simply stated, Fargo, N.D.: As a pastor, I am keenly “No worries. He was just singing his interested in knowing how people feel praises to God.” We should all take this about having children in worship serattitude toward our youngest church vices. members. — Experienced Church Mom It is very important for people of all

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Perhaps creative projects or your children are creating some stress in your life today. Well, by the end of the day it will be better. Until then, work through any intense interaction with greater compassion.

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get what they want. We have self-centered parents raising another generation of kids even more self-centered.

Boston: My father was a minister. It was most troubling to him, too, dealing with this touchy subject. One Sunday morning while preaching, a child started crying. The mother got up to leave, and my father stopped speaking. A loud snore broke the silence.

My father said, “I can preach over a crying baby, but not over the snoring of adults.” There was applause as the mother sat back down. What happens when babies cry on airplanes? There’s no place to send them, so please be understanding.

Huntington, Vt.: Be grateful that a young family is coming to your church.

“Make a joyful noise.” In Vermont (and probably elsewhere), we are lucky if anyone comes to church. Church is dying here.

I’ll take the child’s loud noise, crying and screaming any day. Every town needs a church.

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Any congregation or parishioner who feels otherwise needs to take a good look at the Bible. Did children listen silently when Jesus was speaking? Of course not.

But does Jesus create a separate room for the children? Does he tell the parents to get control or get out? No. In fact, Jesus says, “Let the little children come to me!” Church is not a social club for adults. Church is a place where people of all ages are to be welcomed and loved unconditionally.

Texas: I liked your response, but here’s the problem. Most churches are so desperate to get bodies in the door, they won’t attempt to instruct parents in how to behave.

These parents, like the children they coddle, won’t see themselves in this letter. They’ll say, “It’s just a little crying spell, and she’ll get over it in a minute.” But if it happens week after week, it means the child is exerting control. Instead of raising children, these parents are raising their own little center of the universe, teaching them that if they scream enough they’ll

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Few fits the bill HOPPING MUSICAL GENRES A BLESSING AND A CURSE FOR TORONTO-BASED GROUP

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The Jessica Stuart Few is becoming a jazzy/folky indie band for all seasons.

Need a contemporary jazz act? The Jessica Stuart Few can fit the bill — as it did at last summer’s Sylvan Lake jazz festival.

Want some diversity at a rock concert? The Jessica Stuart Few can step into the mix, as happened at the last North by Northeast festival in Ontario.

The Toronto-based group that plays on Friday, July 11, at the International Beer Haus in Red Deer has also performed in an eclectic folk-roots lineup at the Northern Lights Boréal Festival in Sudbury, Ont., and shared the stage with other indie bands in Victoria.

“With 35 songs in our repertoire, we can fit anywhere,” said Stuart, the group’s singer/songwriter, guitar and koto (Japanese harp) player. But being able to hop musical genres can be both a blessing and a curse, admitted the Vancouver native.

While Stuart loves not being pigeonholed, she recognizes this versatility means her music gets little commercial radio play in Canada and, she believes, a small chance of scoring a Juno Award nomination, since those are judged according to genre.

On the other hand, her high-energy, yet poetic tunes are regularly played by CBC Radio and campus stations, as well as pop/rock stations in Japan, where the single Don’t Ya rose into the Top 40.

And the group’s 2013 album, Two Sides to Every Story, is in the running in the jazz vocals category for the 2014 International Independent Music Awards — which Stuart thinks is an amazing coup.

“It’s a very, very nice nod,” she said, considering 7,000 bands from across the globe submitted CDs and applications to the awards program.

Stuart is the daughter of an ethnomusicologist, who played all manner of world melodies around the house. She recalled dancing to Balkan gypsy tunes as a child, and still likes any melody that “feels organic and natural.”

Her motto is: “if it’s music that comes from the heart and has a groove, and if kids can dance to it, then everybody else should be able to appreciate it.”

While her group’s tunes are often described as jazzy, and jazz is thought of as cerebral music, Stuart said, “That’s not how I approach it at all ... I’m attracted to unusual harmonies and chord progressions.” She usually starts her compositions by coming up with an offbeat melody line. Stuart said “the lyrics tend to follow the story the music is telling.”

For instance, the title track to her last album sprang out of a sort of back-and-forth conversation that seemed to be happening between instruments and the vocals. “It was like two sides of a conversation and I tapped into some feelings I had about life experiences” — and presto, a new song was born.

While Stuart never studied music at a post-secondary level, she took up the guitar and learned how to play the koto during a year her family spent living in rural Japan when she was nine.

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Her motto is: ‘if it’s music that comes from the heart and has a groove, and if kids can dance to it, then everybody else should be able to appreciate it.

The university linguistics dropout proved she has a natural affinity for languages, as well as music, when she wowed Japanese reporters by conversing with them in their own language during a recent tour of Japan. “They were really excited about that and incredibly receptive,” she recalled.

The Jessica Stuart Few will perform in Red Deer with drummer Jon Foster and double bassist Charles James. For more information about the show at the International Beer Haus, call 403-986-5008. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Whimsical video gets a reaction HILARY GRIST IN RED DEER ON TUESDAY

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The ‘formula’ for love is charmingly spelled out in chalk in Hilary Grist’s new video for her song Chemical Reaction.

Not only does Grist fill a classroom-sized blackboard with scientific calculations in the video, her chalk-work doodles eventually expand to create an entire beaker-filled laboratory, then a brick neighbourhood, a city skyline and, ultimately, a whole planet and universe.

The Vancouver-based singer/songwriter performs on Tuesday at the International Beer Haus in Red Deer, admitted she needed a really, really big board for her ambitious stop-motion animation project — so she created one.

Grist and her musician/filmmaker husband, Mike Southworth, transformed several walls in their studio apartment into a 30-foot-by-12-foot chalkboard.

The project involved so much drawing that Grist didn’t have the heart to erase all the work yet, so one wall remains covered with the chalk cityscape.

The 33-year-old singer estimates about two weeks of doodling was required to make the three-minute video. “You need eight pictures for every second of film,” she said, so a whole lot of erasing and redrawing went on to create the effects.

While Grist did a lot of the sketching, the Chemical Reaction project was so enormous, she had to bring several other artists on board. “We’d be drawing for five hours and then it was, OK, I guess we’re going to have to erase it now,” said Grist, sighing at the memory.

But she believes the result was worth it.

Viewers have been impressed with the whimsical, handmade feel of the video, said Grist. Unlike computer-generated imagery, this stop-motion animation isn’t slick or ambiguous. “It feels human and people can appreciate all the work that goes into it.”

The video for Chemical Reaction, a tune on her second album Come & Go, can be watched on YouTube along with Grist’s previous chalk animation projects and film-noir-ish, non-animated short made for her rendition of Waltzing Mathilda. (That video project won a grant from Shaw’s Optik TV and Public Records and was recently used to open an Okanagan film festival.)

Grist is best known for writing the song Tomor-

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The video for Chemical Reaction, a tune on Hilary Grist’s second album Come & Go, can be watched on YouTube along with her previous chalk animation projects. Grist is in Red Deer on Tuesday row is a Chance to Start Over, which became pivotal to a romantic story line on a second-season episode of the TV series Grimm. Her tunes have also been used on DeGrassi: The Next Generation, Being Human, Endgame, the W Network series Tess & Scott, and the Hallmark Channel’s Cedar Cove.

Grist grew up in Quesnel, B.C. as an introverted student, who didn’t aim to be a singer/songwriter. “I loved science-y stuff, and I still watch a lot of popscience shows, like (CBC Radio’s) Quirks & Quarks,” she said. “If I wasn’t a singer I might have been a (scientist). ... Well, maybe later in life. ...”

She accompanied her school choir on the piano — until the choir teacher discovered she had a lovely voice and encouraged her to sing. “I was about 14 or 15 and I totally fell in love with singing. I got really, really passionate,” said Grist, who later studied music, specializing in jazz for voice and piano, at Capi-

lano University.

“My original thought was I’d do a Diana Krall-type career” of singing mostly jazz standards. But Grist discovered that the challenge of songwriting made a music career more interesting.

“People tell me there’s a pop/ jazz/folk feel to my music, and I think that’s where that bit of jazziness comes from.”

Grist, who also plays guitar, will perform as a duo with her drummer husband at the International Beer Haus.

The other singer on the bill is fellow Vancouver artist Dominique Fricot, formerly of the band Painted Birds. (Both he and Grist are embarking on a dual album release tour across Western Canada.)

Tickets to the 9 p.m. show (doors open at 7:30 p.m.) are $10, available in advance or at the door. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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A ludicrous tale enters its second season

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Eric Bana plays NYPD Sgt. Ralph Sarchie, a retired beat cop and demon chaser, Deliver Us From Evil.

And this is what the devil does!

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and Lulu Wilson barely register as Sarchie’s annoyed and/or terrified wife and daughter).

Aussie actor Bana’s Bronx accent might be a tad suspect, but he’s got the chiseled machismo needed for a cop brave enough to take on any beast, no matter whether it’s of the satanic or jungle variety. He’s also boneheaded enough to walk straight into the lion’s den at the Bronx Zoo — which, natch, is in the midst of a power failure.

He’s got a fine sidekick named Butler, played with buoyant banter by Joel McHale (TV’s Community), who plays with switchblades in a manner that would have most people calling the cops, if he wasn’t already one himself. He tears up the screen, but we don’t see enough of him.

The testosterone teaming goes straight to hell with the priest character played by Édgar Ramírez (Carlos), a chain-smoking and whiskey-guzzling padre who seems to be channelling Serpico-era Al Pacino.

For much of the movie, Ramírez’s Fr. Mendoza stands around nattering about “true evil,” which manifests itself in da Bronx as tattooed, frothing and biting zombies, led by Chris Coy’s demonized Marine. They’re motivated by strange hieroglyphics that Sarchie takes forever to figure out, despite possessing “radar” that allows him to see devil people.

It’s a chequebook gig for Ramírez, but it could have been so much more — there are interesting parallels in the wartime horrors witnessed in Iraq by the Marines and the street savagery Bronx cops deal with daily.

Derrickson and co-writer Paul Harris Boardman (the two also teamed for The Exorcism of Emily Rose) don’t pursue anything deeper than the usual supernatural shtick.

They don’t even bother with a current soundtrack.

The film features several ancient hits by The Doors, perhaps a nod to producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a music-loving baby boomer.

But at least we get a good laugh out of the devilish Doors connection, in an exchange between the grim Sarchie and the smartass Butler.

A possessed women starts muttering the lyrics to Break On Through (To The Other Side).

“It must be drugs,” Sarchie observes.

“What if she’s just a big fan?” Butler retorts.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Be very afraid when you see “inspired by” flash on the screen at the start of Deliver Us From Evil, a not-so-scary supernatural horror movie set in Noo Yawk, da Bronx to be exact.

“Inspired by” is dodgier than the usual “based on,” which itself is no guarantee of fidelity. The subject in question is the real-life career of NYPD Sgt. Ralph Sarchie, a retired beat cop and demon chaser who figured Ol’ Nick was “a different kind of perpetrator … but a perpetrator nonetheless.”

If we actually had more of the sergeant’s spark from PETER Eric Bana, who plays Sarchie in the film, then Deliver Us HOWELL From Evil might not have been DOA. A flatfoot trying to collar Beelzebub in da Bronx’s toughest precinct isn’t so terrible an idea, when you consider the regular devils a copper there must deal with day in and day out.

Alas, the movie is just another dumb riff on The Exorcist, which like that vastly superior film begins in Iraq and then finds “primary evil” at work in America, requiring believers and non-believers alike to get out the holy water, crosses and mystical oaths. Possessed and post-trauma stressed Marines, returned from Iraq conflict, are the devil’s playthings this time out, along with a few hapless innocent bystanders.

This also means it’s time for writer/director Scott Derrickson to reach into his usual bag of tricks, seen previously in Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose and indeed all films of this ilk: supernatural baddies, zombified human proxies, threatened tots and constant jump scares.

Don’t forget that favourite horror cliché: the light bulb or flashlight that suddenly goes out because “the Prince of Darkness” is present. This makes for an especially dim movie, because da beast is in da house so often.

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The way certain skeptics feel about climate change is the way I feel about the dome — and everything under it.

I just don’t buy Under the Dome, on any level. I think the story is a shambles and the concept is dumb. I doubt its worthiness as a hit, and I think Stephen King is a hack.

Nevertheless, I’m open to having my mind changed by the evidence — or the plain testimony of fans who know it’s not fantastic television even as they gobble it up. When it debuted last summer to relatively great ratings, “Under the Dome” (based on a novel by King) was something of a surprise.

Between it and SyFy’s over-the-top Sharknado — which became a Twitter sensation no one saw coming — envious network executives started ordering up “limited” “event” series and specials (leaving behind outdated terms such as “made-for-TV movie” and “miniseries”) that are designed to lure viewers who are too jittery to commit to the usual fare. This trend also provides a soft landing for shows that bomb — remember, you were told it was a limited engagement.

All right, whatever. Those poor people of Chester’s Mill, Maine, who were trapped under the dome at the end of Season 1 are still trapped under it as the series returns Monday night in an episode written by the belletrist King himself.

In case you missed the extraordinarily helpful Cliffs Notes-style recap that aired recently, the town’s control freak, Big Jim (Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris) had heroic drifter Dale “Barbie” Barbara (Mike Vogel) noosed-up and ready to hang from the gallows.

Indeed, things have become so bad under the dome that the townsfolk constructed a gallows to deal with reprobates. (And they’ve been under the dome for only two whole weeks!) Since the mysterious clear dome descended and sealed everyone off from the rest of the world, the story has only partly dwelled on the panicked tendency of the residents to act on their worst instincts.

Instead, Under the Dome is a rapidly expanding Xfile, preoccupied with supernatural cause and effect.

Four young people — Big Jim’s son (Alexander Koch), his ex-girlfriend (Britt Robertson), her kid brother (Colin Ford) and a petulant teen (Mackenzie Lintz) — discovered they can commune with the dome and have tried to interpret its meaning or intent. They learned about the “pink stars falling” and the weird egg and the monarch butterflies. So far it’s amounted to nothing but a whole lot of running around and shouting “LOOK OUT!!” — and occasional deaths, which are on the uptick in this new episode.

Even if the novel serves as a template, Under the Dome often has the quality of making things up on the fly in the grand tradition of shows that like to string viewers along — and viewers who like to be strung along. (They exist!)

In my more accepting moments, I see Under the Dome less as a TV show and more as a campfire game in which someone tells a small part of a horror story and then it’s up to the next person to keep the story going, no matter how ludicrously.

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TORONTO — The 11 teams of two set to run the second Amazing Race Canada were carefully chosen with an eye for eclectic diversity — but nervously huddled by the Toronto airport with mere hours to go until they begin the country-wide sprint, it’s the similarities that stand out.

Almost without exception, the pairs seem to be immersed in a strange combination of plucky optimism, gee-whiz wonder and, to varying degrees, nagging anxiety about the very-public test that awaits.

The competitors seem to give the most thought when asked about their weaknesses, or the specific challenges they hoped to avoid — as if those topics were already top-of-mind.

On that note, Canadian Olympic gold medallist hockey players Natalie Spooner and Meaghan Mikkelson worry about being made to shave their heads.

Vegetarian married couple Laura Takahashi and Jackie Skinner fret about overcoming eating challenges, though they recently confronted some seafood as preparation (“we cut the head off a fish and stuff,” marvels Skinner, “it was actually kind of fun.”) Vancouver bartender Ryan Steele, paired with co-worker Rob Goddard, nervously admits he isn’t “outdoorsy,” that he doesn’t rock-climb, doesn’t know how to drive a boat, doesn’t “know how to do a lot of that stuff.”

Others possess slightly more, ahem, abnormal fears.

Markham, Ont., occupational therapist Shahla Kara concedes a deep (if bizarre) phobia of Popsicle sticks (“It’s just the wood, I can’t handle it,” she said, to the admirably faint irritation of friend and partner Nabeela Barday). Real estate broker Audrey Tousignant-Maurice, a native of St-Hubert, Que., states a preference to avoid eating anything “chewy,” while actor partner Alain Chanoine (they’re dating) would rather not eat a live spider, though he says any food can be appetizing with a “little hot sauce.”

And laid-back buddies Mickey Henry and Pete Schmalz — who could fill the irreverent role of season 1 fan favourites Jet and Dave, if in a more gently sedated fashion — reel off the lengthiest array of potential stumbling points, including but not limited to wrapping presents, singing, and “sober dancing,”

which Schmalz calls “a nightmare.”

Oh, and the opposite sex.

“Love may blind us,” said Henry with a grin.

“There’s a lot of cute girls out there.”

“That’s what my mom’s worried about,” replied Schmalz. “’Don’t just find a hot girl and fall in love with her.”’ “’No, you guys go ahead. You’re so cute,”’ agreed Henry with a shake of his head.

Of course, such admissions of weakness are fleeting during this hopeful, halcyon period where every team believes it has a chance at winning the race’s grand prize package — which this year includes $250,000, a free year of Air Canada flights and a pair of Chevy trucks.

At this early point, teams aren’t allowed to socialize even as they brush shoulders through the promotional process. The forced silence only seems to encourage teams to size up their competition like predators in the wild — albeit predators prone to issuing wacky nicknames.

Kara and Barday have correctly surmised that Spooner and Mikkelson are athletes (“hockey players, lacrosse, rugby?” Kara muses) and have christened hale twins Pierre Forget and Michel Forget “the bobsled brothers.” (In fact, they were professional freestyle skiiers who now co-run a meatpacking company).

The twins also find themselves fixed on the radar of Henry and his friend Schmalz, who points out: “Those French guys are kind of scary.”

Well, even in a group in which self-belief seems in ample supply, the Forgets do stand out. Though they were both talented skiiers, Michel long ago put his own career aside to encourage his brother — and Pierre plans to pay that act of altruism back by passing on his share of the potential award money. When it’s pointed out that season 1 twins Treena and Tennille were eliminated in the first episode, Pierre replies with a smile: “The first twins that is going to win is going to be us.”

The two men certainly share a closeness. At the onset of the interview, Michel pauses to extract something lodged in his brother’s front teeth.

“We touch each other all the time,” explained Pierre. “We can be at a dinner facility, dinner table, (our) foot will cross. We work together. If we have to sleep in the same bed, let’s say, it’s (like a) couple — we’re touching legs and stuff.”

“We can take showers together,” Michel piped in.

“Toothbrush? Whatever,” Pierre added. “It’s my half and I’m his half.”

Still, almost all the teams competing this year possess a timeworn familiarity.

Henry and Schmalz have been inseparable pals since they were two, while Kara and Barday have been friends for 20 years.

Halifax couple Jen and Shawn King have been married 21 years and share a 17-year-old son (he regarded their entry with typical teenage skepticism), decorated ballet dancer Rex Harrington and fiance Bob Hope have been together a decade, and Takahashi and Skinner saw their marriage evolve from a friendship forged over 16 years ago.

Then there are the teams bonded by blood.

Winnipeg’s Nicole Foster will compete with her 19-year-old son, Cormac, whom she had when she was 19. She says they share a closeness rare for mother-son duos.

Similarly, Sukhi Atwal and her younger brother Jinder Atwal have been inseparable since the elder sibling learned growing up in Terrace, B.C., that her parents would let her do pretty much whatever she wanted, so long as she let her athletic little brother tag along.

“I’d be at house parties at age 12,” Jinder smiled.

“No he wasn’t, Dad!” Sukhi replied, laughing.

So most teams are sanguine when asked how they’ll deal with the inevitable intra-pair conflicts that have become a voyeuristic guilty pleasure for longtime “Amazing Race” fanatics. (How many rejoiced in the squabbling between savvy Montreal doctors Brett and Holly last season, and the former’s near-constant “Hol’!” tic?).

But only one pair seems to relish their potential for bickering.

“If he comes at me, I’m getting at him and vice versa. It’s going to be a lot more explosive,” said Tousignant-Maurice. “But we’re going to try not to, right?”

“If it’s going to go down, it’s going to go DOWN,” replies Chanoine enthusiastically.

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What became of them?

How many are still married? What have they learned about marriage and each other?

For the most part, they’re keeping such details to themselves.

Eight couples took Block up on his interview request (plus one engaged couple who’ve hired him to document their upcoming wedding), which turns out to be a barely sufficient sampling.

We meet some couples who are still together and muddling through everyday life, having adjusted the happilyever-after equation to make room for the children that sapped them of energy and spark, to say nothing of the curveballs (a leukemia diagnosis, a mental illness, an affair) that life had in store.

One woman understandably verges on tears when her husband ruminates honestly on the moments he wishes he wasn’t married; given a chance to respond, she instead swallows and says: “When things are going good, I don’t want to sit and think about when they’re [going] bad.”

Though no one here disparages the weddingindustrial complex, the couples are all well past the point of reliving the glory (and expense) of their nuptial experiences. Perhaps Block is too congenial to probe; for some reason, there are many circumspect pauses in the film, as if the couples regret letting their videographer back in for an update.

But the documentary has its tender moments — happy and sad — that are worth waiting for.

After we’ve watched video clips of her “special day” from 19 years earlier, one woman says: “So here I am, with my granite countertops in Mamaroneck, getting divorced.”

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DANDURAND Michel (Mike) The family of Michel (Mike) Dandurand are saddened to announce his passing on Wednesday July 2, 2014. A detailed announcement will appear in Saturday’s paper.

RONALD GLEN CAMERON 1927 - 2013 In memoriam Carry on! Carry on! Fight the good fight and true; Believe in your mission, greet life with a cheer; There’s big work to do, and that’s why you are here. Carry on! Carry on! Let the world be the better for you; And at last when you die, let this be your cry: Carry on, my soul! Carry on!

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HEALING Lorna Marjorie Teresa 1935 - 2014 Lorna Marjorie Teresa Healing passed away peacefully on Wednesday July 2, 2014 in Red Deer, Alberta at the age of 78 years. Lorna was born December 2, 1935, in Lacombe to Dorothy and Edward Carter. The second daughter in a family of six, she grew up on a farm south of Morningside. She attended school in Morningside and then Lacombe.

Lorna married her sweetie, Sidney Allen Healing on August 8, 1952, and they had nine children. Lorna had a big heart and devoted most of her life to helping others: she was a playschool teacher, a home care and hospital aide, a babysitter, foster care mom, and a seamstress. She enjoyed reading, doing crossword puzzles, playing crib, knitting, sewing, doing every activity offered at Extendicare, and spending time with her family. Her playful disposition and feisty sense of humour made everyone want to spend time with her. She will be fondly remembered and deeply missed by many family members and friends. Lorna loved caring for people, and the family would like to thank all those who cared for her, especially over her last years.

The doctors and nurses at the Red Deer Regional Hospital (Dialysis, Unit 39, and the Emergency Room) were always kind and patient. The family will be forever grateful to the dedicated Nurses and Home Support Workers at Extendicare Michener Hill.

Thank you all for your gentle concern and professional care. Lorna was pre-deceased by her loving husband Sidney; three daughters Peggy, Diana and Deborah; her brothers Jack, Don and Pat; and her sister Mary. She is survived by her younger sister Carol. She is also survived by her children and grandchildren: Gerald (Shirley) of Blackfalds; Dan (Wendy, David, Danielle, Andrew) of Calgary; Kenneth (Sholina) of Red Deer/Arizona; Kelly (Jennifer, Alex, Sydney, Katie) of Sylvan Lake; Linda (Tom, Amanda, Melissa) of Red Deer, and Jody (Lisa, Jace, Ty, Cole) of Eckville.

For those wishing to pay their respects, visitation will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, July 5, 2014 between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. A celebration of her life will follow at 11:00 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, with Father Les Drewicki officiating.

Interment will occur at Fairview Cemetery in Lacombe. Condolences may be forwarded to www.serenity.ca Arrangements in care of Joelle Valliere, Funeral Director at Serenity Funeral Service, Drayton Valley, Alberta 780.542.3338

RICHMOND Roy Nov. 29, 1927 - June 29, 2014 On June 29, 2014 Roy Richmond passed away in the Lacombe Community Health Care Center.

Roy was born November 29, 1927 in Lethbridge, AB. He worked at various CPR stations in Alberta as an operator before coming to Lacombe in 1951. Roy worked for 25 years for the CPR before retiring in 1984.

It was in Lacombe that Roy met and married his soul mate Min Lukat on June 12, 1953. Roy is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Min, two children; Garry of Golden B.C. and Rhonda (Stephen) Villeneuve of Chilliwack, B.C., granddaughters Tracey and Trina, as well as several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parent Wes and May, siblings Nancy, Wes and Gordon and grandson Shawn Richmond.

Respecting Roy’s wishes, there will be no funeral service. A private family interment will take place at the Fairview Cemetery, Lacombe. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Lacombe Palliative Care Society, the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, the Canadian Cancer Society or to a charity of the donor’s choice. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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SABAN Mate Mate (Mike) Saban passed away on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at the age of 80 years.

He was born on November 12, 1933 in Licki Novi, Croatia, to Dragica and Anton Saban. He came to Canada at the age of 25 on the ship Arosa San in 1958.

In 1965, he married Diane and together they had four children. They moved to Alberta in 1975 and started M&M Painting, a commercial painting company, which he ran until his retirement. Mate will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Diane, his children; Robert Saban, Suzie Saban, Juanita (Joe) Allison, and Barbara Pickett, nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and his special companion, Koko. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Special thanks to Dr. Holmes and all the staff at home care, in particular Danelle.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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LASHMAR It is with deep sorrow that we announce the sudden passing of Diana Lashmar in the early hours of June 26, 2014, after a short bout with cancer. She leaves behind her loving husband, Barry, 3 sons and 1 daughter, 9 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild. Son, Brad, his family: Jackey, Mitchell and girlfriend Amanda, Garret, Nicole, Hunter of Red Deer.

Son, Guy, his family: Carol, Dayton, Rhaelyn, Cale, Keaton of Calgary. Son Mark, his family: Teresa, Abigail, Gabriel of Edmonton. Daughter Holly of Calgary. Diana was born in Strathmore and spent most of her adult life in Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer.

While in Edmonton she and her husband operated a cleaning business. She later followed her passion for sewing and was well known in Edmonton sewing circles. In semi-retirement, she and her husband moved to Red Deer in 2000, where she was with a local ladies clothing store for some time. She also spent some time with a local hotel where she enjoyed meeting people selling tickets at conventions and other events.

Words cannot express how much she will be missed by family and friends.

MacDONALD William Duncan April 2, 1934 - July 2, 2014 William “Duncan” MacDonald passed away July 2, 2014 in Red Deer, Alberta. He leaves to mourn his loving wife Delores, his brothers Howard (Lorraine) MacDonald, Don (Jean) MacDonald, sister Jean Hagel, as well as six stepchildren, 12 step-grandchildren, and 4 step-great grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held on Monday July 7th, 2014 at 10:00 am at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45th Street, Red Deer, Alberta.

The burial will take place at Swalwell, Alberta with a reception to follow at Acme Hall, Acme, Alberta. In lieu of flowers donations may be made directly to The Lending Cupboard, 5406 43 St, Red Deer AB T4N 1C9 or to STARS, 1441 Aviation Park NE, Box 570, Calgary, Alberta, T2E 8M7.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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RANDS Bertha 1920 - 2014 Bertha Rands of Red Deer passed away peacefully at Symphony Senior Living Inglewood June 30, 2014 at the age of 93 years. Bertha was born in Galahad AB to Robert and Ethel Lees the 4th child of their 6 children.

Bertha enjoyed a happy life on the farm at Galahad. On November 22, 1942 she married Alfred Rands of Alliance and together they built a successful mixed farming operation there. To their union were born 4 children, Linda, Harold (Carol), Judy (Trevor), and Kathleen (Fred).

Bertha enjoyed gardening and was a strong supporter of her community.

She served as a horticultural judge and was a leader for several years of the local 4H club. Bertha was a member of the Argyll WI for 65 years and served as a facilitator of the Flagstaff Adult Education Council. Her many memberships included the Order of the Eastern Star and the UCW. Bertha leaves to mourn her passing her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She is predeceased by her husband Alfred, her parents, her siblings and son in law Ian. The family wishes to express a special thank you to the staff of the 2nd floor of Symphony Senior Living Inglewood for their excellent care and infinite kindness to Mother. A private family service will be held at a later date.

Cremation entrusted to the Rocky Mountain Crematorium.

As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Bertha’s name to the Forestburg Chapter of the Eastern Star or The Alzheimer’s Society.

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F/T FARM LABOURER Experience with natural gas â&#x20AC;˘ Onsite support to our NEEDED IN RED DEER AREA. compression is an asset but corporate office includ- Feed lot, hay, silage, crop not essential. Preference Professionals ing network equipment exp. an asset. Pen checking will be given to those with (workstations, servers, knowledge reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Will train trade certification and/or routers, switches, printers, if you have limited exp. experience. Please fax warehouse manageCall 403-373-4403 resumes to 403-443-5288, ment systems etc.), apply in person at corporate backups (on Something for Everyone 227, 17th Ave N., and offsite) and various Everyday in Classifieds Three Hills, AB, or email to software products such Peter.Pattison@gaspro.ca.

MS Office, Simply Accounting etc.. â&#x20AC;˘ Some travel, within Janitorial Canada, to complete IT Barden Oilfield Hauling Central Alberta setup at store locations Ltd. is now hiring Bed Residence Society may be required Truck and Winch Tractor Operators. Experience a A CARF accredited Qualifications: must. Fax resumes and 5 NOW HIRING agency has long been â&#x20AC;˘ Candidate must have a yr. CDA to 403 341 3968 Well Testing Personnel recognized for providing Computer Systems or email: bardentrucking@ Experienced Supervisors â&#x20AC;&#x153;Qualityâ&#x20AC;? support services Technology diploma or telus.net. No phone calls please. & Operators to individuals with equivalent in experience CCCSI is hiring sanitation Must have valid applicable LOCAL SERVICE CO. developmental disabilities. â&#x20AC;˘ Excellent customer workers for the afternoon tickets. Email: lstouffer@ in Red Deer REQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EXP. We are currently seeking and evening shifts.

Get service, communicatestalta.com VACUUM TRUCK to fill a number of p/t paid weekly, $14.22/hr. tion & organizational OPERATOR positions which are Call 403-348-8440 or fax skills required Must have Class 3 licence necessary in order to 403-348-8463 â&#x20AC;˘ Team player; willingw/air & all oilfi eld tickets. maintain the level of ness to adhere to Something for Everyone Fax resume w/drivers supports we have come to company policies & Everyday in Classifieds abstract to 403-886-4475 be known for. procedures OIL & GAS OPERATOR Successful candidates will Bearspaw currently has a be responsible to provide Remuneration: position in our Stettler field personal support, Based on experience and operations for an intermediate supervision, and training education. oil and gas operator. Applicants in accordance with Excellent benefits must have experience as a individualsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; needs and package, competitive heavy duty mechanic or aspirations, within their wage, perks. journeyman instrument home and community. mechanic and possess Applicants should possess Apply in confidence to strong mechanical skills, prior experience in the careersit@chatters.ca or be quick learners, motivated human service field, fax resume to and hard working and live ideally providing community 1-888-409-0483, clearly or be willing to relocate based supports. identifying the position you within a 20 minute commute Experience with dual are applying for. Only to workplace location. This diagnosis, dementia, those suited for the posiposition offers a challenging unique challenges or tion will be contacted, no work environment, attractive personal care are definite phone calls please. benefits with competitive assets. Hours of work vary, pay and significant room with shiftwork and F/T E-Commerce /graphic for promotion. alternating weekends design position person Please submit resumes generally required. wanted to join our growing dynamic team in Red Attn: Human Resources Forward resumes to: Deer. Benefits and comemail:kwolokoff@ C.A.R.S. petitive wages. Send bearspawpet.com #101 - 5589 47 St. resume with portfolio and Fax 403-252-9719 Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 salary expectation to Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Fax: 403-346-8015 careers@buyairsoft.ca Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Email: markw@carsrd.org

755

Professionals

800

830

GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales reps selling skin & body care products in Parkland Mall 4747 67th St. Red Deer, $12.10/hr + bonus & comm.

F/T - P/T No Exp. Reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d.

Email resumes: gratiaereddeersr@ gmail.com SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T - P/T Beauty Treatment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty cert. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Location Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@ gmail.com

850

Trades

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Helpers

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

860

Truckers/ Drivers

CLASS 1 DRIVER SOAP Stories is seeking 5 with fluid hauling experience, retail sales reps. Selling soap local runs. 403-373-3285 & bath products. $12.10 hr or fax resume and copies + bonus & commission. of all valid tickets to F/T & P/T. No exp. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d.

403-986-2819 Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to CLASS 1 or 3 drivers reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d for moving equipment. **POSITION FILLED** Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Trades CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & Absolute Fusion recycling. Email resume Contracting is a welding, with a min. of 2 references fabrication, maintenance Restaurant/ to: canpak@xplornet.ca and repair facility requiring Hotel a supervisor/instructor.

Tired of Standing?

Knowledge and experience Find something to sit on EAST 40TH PUB in fabrication with in Classifieds REQUIRES EXPERIENCED engineered drawings or EVENING COOK. designing from instruction.

Please apply in person to Strong mechanical ability 3811 40th Ave. for repair and maintenance.

Must be able to organize HERITAGE LANES and instruct up to 10 employees.

BOWLING Comprehensive Benefit plan.

Red Deerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most modern 5 Wages are negotiable with pin bowling center reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience and attitude. permanent F/T front Please forward resumes counter staff for all shifts and references by fax to (days, eves. and wknds).

403-309-7134 or by email Please send resume to: to info@absolutefusion.ca htglanes@ No Phone Calls Please!

PIDHERNEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S telus.net or apply in person requires experienced DUE TO A LARGE DRIVERS RAMADA INN & INCREASE IN BUSINESS, CLASS 1 ,3 & LOWBOY, SUITES PIKE WHEATON FOREMAN, req`s Permanent CHEVROLET OPERATORS AND ROOM ATTENDANTS is currently seeking LABOURERS Attendants. Exp. not nec.

SERVICE ADVISORS. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 We offer competitive For work in Rocky hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 wages, a great working Mountain House area, $14/hr. Duties inclâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d but environment, and a great as well as out of town not limited to: vacuuming, benefit package. locations. dusting, washing floors, Please email resume to Priority will be given to making beds, empty trash, Joey Huckabone those candidates with disinfecting & cleaning joey@pikewheatonchev.ca experience. bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Classifieds â&#x20AC;˘ Top wages and benefits Must be fluent with verbal Your place to SELL based on experience l& written English, be Your place to BUY â&#x20AC;˘ Possible career advancephysically fit. Applicants ment opportunities may apply in person at EXP. PAVERS WANTED 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Call 403-341-6900 Valid First Aid and H2S T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or Fax: 877-787-1605 tickets required. or email: We offer competitive info@ramadareddeer.com F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS wages, benefits package, - Good hours, home every and opportunities for THE RUSTY PELICAN night, $4000-$6000/mo. advancement. is now accepting resumes Contractor must have truck for experienced or van. Tools, supplies & Please reply by fax F/T SERVERS ladders required. Training 403-845-5370 or E-mail: Must have Refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s & Pro-Serve. provided, no experience hr@pidherneys.com Apply within: 2079-50 needed. Apply to: Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Looking for a new pet? satjobs@shaw.ca Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Check out Classifieds to calls WILL NOT be accepted. NOW HIRING in Red Deer find the purrfect pet.

850

820

830

Sales & Distributors

WANTED: CASHIER. Drop off resume to 5211 50 Ave.

Reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d immed.

Certified asbestos workers and demo laborers.

Wage negotiable.

780-818-8524

STETTLER TRANSIT MIX Drivers wanted for mixer/pumping concrete.

403-742-2134 or email:stettlertransitmix @gmail.com

850

Trades

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offers a dynamic work environment, an excellent group benefit plan and flexible work schedule.

Duties Include: Oversee all accounting functions including payroll, invoicing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger and other duties as required. Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual corporate financial reports for all companies.

Liaise with operations management teams.

Visionary with strong leadership, supervision and communication skills.

Strong technical and analytical skills as well as communication (oral & written).

Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.

Bachelor of Commerce/ Business Administration and minimum 5 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; proven experience.

Candidate should apply with cover letter stating salary expectations & references to: employment@catile1.com

Sales & Distributors

IS HIRING! We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: - QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER - CONCRETE FINISHERS - CARPENTERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full BeneďŹ ts and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

-PDBM +PCT GPS -PDBM 1FPQMF Sat, July 12, 2014 10am-2pm Blackfalds Module Yard 5421 Blackfalds Indust Way

www.eaglebuilders.ca Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources

or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

WorleyParsonsCord Teamco is seeking all levels of:

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Accounting

Bring your resume & come meet our team!

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning

1070

CLEAN FREAK FOR HIRE Avail. to start cleaning houses on July 7. Call: Sharla at 403-357-7801 pls leave msg.

Contractors

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1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER Const. Ltd. Decks, renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, roofing, flooring. Free est. Call Geoff 403-302-8550

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DALEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Home Renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Contractors

1100

DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Eavestroughing

1130

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Escorts

1165

TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Painters/ Decorators

1310

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

WALK-INS WELCOME Free Est. 403-872-8888 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 OUTCALLS Swedish Relaxation Massage.

Call 403-550-8494

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD.

15 Yrs. Exp., Refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avail.

VII MASSAGE 403-896-4869 #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its Fencing BEST! Seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 403-986-6686 Services CHAINLINK FENCING Come in and see Commercial/Residential why we are the talk Dog Runs/ 403-304-5055 HELPING HANDS of the town.

Home Supports for Seniors. www.viimassage.biz Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning,

1169

Flooring

1180

RV FLOORING SPECIALIST

20 YEARS EXPERIENCE BONDABLE. 403-596-7025

1372

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

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D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, July 4, 2014

Position Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products are expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years B-train trailer experience.

870

START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

Misc.

880

ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company Help equipment and provide a high level of customer ACADEMIC Express service, delivering our ADULT EDUCATION products within Alberta.

AND TRAINING ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and mainFALL START tain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position • Community Support requires a valid Class 1 Worker Program License, with previous off road forklift experience a • GED Preparation definite asset. We offer quarterly cash safety Would you like to take the bonuses as well as a GED in your community? comprehensive medical plan.

• Red Deer • Rocky Mtn. House BENEFITS INCLUDE: • Rimbey • Signing Bonus paid • Caroline upon completion of • Castor a 60 day/120 day • Sylvan Lake retention period • Innisfail • Company provided • Stettler Group Canadian Benefits • Ponoka • Voluntary dental • Life insurance Gov’t of Alberta Funding • Short-term and longmay be available. term disability • Retirement Savings 403-340-1930 Plan (RSP) and Deferred www.academicexpress.ca Profit Sharing Plan COMPANY req’s live in (DPSP) retired couple to caretake • Paid Vacation and maintain our apart• Safety Bonus ment operations.

All applicants are subject Journeyman plumbing exp. an asset. Call Mike for to a pre-employment details 403-342-4923 physical and MVR check.

Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers abstract to: ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS CANADA INC. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ ads-pipe.com Position closing date: July. 18th. 2014

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309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

LABOURERS & FLAG PERSONS

Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND flag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489 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.

HELP wanted for roadside sales. Cash paid daily.

Must have valid drivers license. 403-588-3263 Dave

Advocate Opportunities

880

Misc.

Help

Dormitory Assistant - Golden Hills International Program GOLDEN HILLS SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 75 is accepting applications for the position of Dormitory Assistant in Drumheller, AB.

Misc.

Help

NORAL-TECH Ltd Manufacturer of 12 Volts electrical control panels for specialized trucks. We are currently seeking 2 full time assemblers with automotive related electrical experience. The successful candidates must be able to read and interpret electrical drawings. Email resume normand@noraltech-com PT office help and or Class room Instructor req`d. Please call Street Wise Driving School.

403-340-8848

The Dormitory Assistant will report to the Dormitory Supervisor and assist with the following: •

•

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Supervising dormitory students and enforcing dormitory rules, regulations and schedules Developing a rapport with students to meet their social and cultural needs Maintaining a positive dorm atmosphere for students Guiding evening and weekend activities

This position commences September 1, 2014, and can include accommodation and meals in addition to a monthly salary.

The dormitory assistant will provide supervision primarily on evenings and weekends based on a schedule. The successful applicant should have good interpersonal skills and enjoy working with youth. Experience working with children is an asset.

Criminal and Child Welfare checks will be required.

Please submit resume to the undersigned on or before 12:00 p.m. on August 1, 2014.

Human Resources Department Golden Hills School Division No. 75 435A Highway No. 1 Strathmore, AB TP 1J4 Phone: 403-934-5121 Fax: 403-934-5124 or 403-934-5125 e-mail: humanresources@ghsd75.ca

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

RED DEER &DISTRICT BRANCH PART TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE TELEPHONE REPRESENTATIVES (RECRUIT VOLUNTEERS FOR ANNUAL DOOR-TO-DOOR CAMPAIGN) August 11 - October 2nd 8 weeks 4pm-8pm MONDAY to THURSDAY 16-20 Hours/ Week Call from home is possible $12/ Hour Call 403-346-4631 Or Visit #06-5015 48th Street SIGN MAKER: FULL TIME PERMANENT position creating signage.

Onyx / Graphtec. Work independently in our sign division. Top pay for industry for experienced person only. Apply in person. Minuteman Press 4646 Riverside Drive 403-348-0302 SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift.

11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

Antiques & Art

1520

OLD stream line steam type electrical train. 80 yrs old.

W/original box. 403-505-3113

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in: GLENDALE

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools

1640

CRAFTSMAN ELECTRIC HEDGE TRIMMER, 22 inch, 4.0 amp, works great. $55.

Call (403) 342-7908 WELDING hoses with meters & wheels. $250. 403-505-3113

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

KENTWOOD

JOHNSTONE CROSSING Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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

Household Furnishings

1720

2 APARTMENT SIZE END TABLES, $20.

FAN (Hot/Cold), $25.

APARTMENT SIZE DESK, $15. All good cond.

403-348-1905 3 PC. Mahogany wall unit $125; 403-358-5568 DESK, 29.5 x 60”. Good Cond. $35. Can view at Kijjii Red Deer ID# 601488522 403-342-5842 FUTON Black Tubular frame, w/mattress and matching cushions, valued over $400. Like new! $200.

403-314-2026 KENMORE dryer 220 V $150 403-358-5568 KENMORE H.D. Washer

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

J. D. LA150 Lawn Tractor c/w 54” mower deck, WHITE French Prov. Double hydrostatic drive, 26 hp. Dresser with mirror, $50, optional front bumper & Desk to match, $35. electric hitch. As New. Mattress & box spring $2300. obo 403-347-7611 3/4 size, $40.

Book case, $30.

Arborite kitchen table, $25.

Advocate Arborite end table, $10.

Opportunities 403-347-4250

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

Phone 403-314-4316

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

1830

6 BEAUTIFUL Kittens, ready to go! Free to Good Home. 403-343-2522

TO GIVE AWAY: Microsuede sage green chair with ottoman. & Small rocking chair with red upholstery.

403-506-9453

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK

LARGE COMPUTER DESK, $85.

20 DRAWER FILE CABINET, $35.

403-347-4250

G.E. STOVE TOP, black, 30 x 21, Like New! $175.

403-342-1752

WILLOW BASKETS, ideal for flowers. (2) Large, $40. ea. (5) Small $15.ea. 403-346-7825

1690

1800

Cats

STEREO & TV STAND, with glass door. $200.

403-343-8453

Lawn Tractors

Office Supplies

FRIDGE, McClary $100 obo. 403-314-0804

LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $200. 403-314-0804

INNISFAIL

INNISFAIL

FRIDGE, G. E. Self defrost $40; WASHER & Dryer, Maytag H.D. , gas. $100. set.

403-742-4330

LARGE COMPUTER DESK, $85.

20 DRAWER FILE CABINET, $35.

LOGS 403-347-4250 Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

MOVING Price depends on location.

LIVING ROOM, Lil Mule Logging 3 piece set, sofa, loveseat, 403-318-4346 chair, blue swivel chair, Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner $150. for ALL. BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / 403-742-4330 lve. msg.

Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 SINGLE box spring $40; 2 swivel metal bar stools, Garden black, $40/pair 403-346-0674 Supplies

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

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

1710

Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

1680

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Household Appliances

Homestead Firewood $150. 403-358-5568

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

NO COLLECTING! Phone 403-314-4316

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900

Employment Training

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CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

LAST YEAR FOR THE PENHOLD CADET CAMP Hiring, dishwashers and servers. Age 14 and up.

Great for first time jobs, Flexible hours to suit students planned vacations.

Apply 8 am - 6 pm at the Penhold Camp at 3453 24st Springbrook.

Daniel.cormier@ compass-Canada.com

880

278950A5

Professional Truck Driver

Business Opportunities

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860

Truckers/ Drivers

Misc. for Sale

1760

4 DRAWER large wooden desk $100 403-318-9043 Glasses for Sale: Have a set 16 Libbey/ Imperial 13oz glasses.

They have never been used. Asking $15.

Pick up only. 403 358 3073 LARGE (8-skin) sheepskin rug from New Zealand.† Never used.† $200.

Call (403) 342-7908 O.S.B., 6 sheets, 5/8”, 2 @ 24” W, 2 @ 17” W; 2 @ 16” W, All are 8’ long.

All for $20; 2 sheets of 3/8” O.S.B., 1 @ 21” W; 1 @ 10” W; all 8’ long and misc. pieces of wood, All for $10; Light truck tire, P255-70R16, Goodyear Wrangler, lots of miles left. $10; 24 Legal Size file folder hanging folders; All for $5.; Pressure cooker 7 L, Lagostina, stainless steel, easy lock closing, $80. 403-314-2026 WINE making equipment $55; Coleman dbl. high queen size air bed w/elec. pump $35, 2 golf carts w/2 bags $10/pair.; Ladies clothing size 12-14, $2 - $10; 403-343-2618

CRUELLY trapped and dumped in the country, orange and white neutered Male 403-782-3130 FREE: BEAUTIFUL KITTENS variety of colours desperately need loving home. 403-782-3130 TO GIVE AWAY TO GOOD HOME 6 Kittens 8 weeks old.

587-679-6412

Sporting Goods

1860

BLACKBURN BRAND MAGTRAKSTAND. Bike training stand. $25.† Call (403) 342-7908

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 BDRM. 1 1/2 bath condo townhouse unit in Sylvan, avail. now 403-341-9974 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

CLEARVIEW

2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls.

Rent $1075. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. Aug. 1.

403-304-5337

GLENDALE

3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1125. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. July 1 403-304-5337 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Anders Park 12, 64 & 137 AHLSTROM CLOSE July 4, Fri. 4 - 8 July 5, Sat. 9 - 3 Composter, queen bed, Inversion, couch, bikes, light fixtures, BBQ, golf clubs, books. Exc. items!

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22 DAVISON DRIVE July 3-5 Thurs. & Fri. 3-7 & Sat. 9-3 Dining rm table, chairs, hutch & buffet, kids toys, bike stroller. 10 new bridal gowns.

23 KIRKWOOD CRES. MULTI FAMILY July 3, 4 & 5 Thurs. & Fri. 4-9, Sat. 9-12 Books, appls., pocket bike.

21 ROSE CRES. Fri. 4th, 5-9, Sat. 5th 9-8 Sun. 6th 9-4. Downsizing.

Sporting goods, household items, tons of misc. items.

Downtown

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You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

63 AYERS AVE. Saturday 5th only!

9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Office items along with household items.

Anders on the Lake 18 ALBERTS CLOSE July 4 & 5 Fri. 4-8 & Sat. 10 - 2 Household items, patio table, weed eater, purses, furniture, etc.

194 ASMUNDSEN AVE. July 4 & 5 Fri. 2 - 8 & Sat. 9 - 12 HUGE VARIETY, HIGH QUALITY, LOW PRICES

Clearview 100 COSGROVE CRES. July 5, Saturday 10 - 4 YARD SALE *********

Davenport Ellis St. Area $97./mo ALSO South Half of Embury Cres.

South half of 46 St. and 35 Ave. Close $70./mo

Deer Park

48 LONG CLOSE July 5, Saturday 9 - 2 Queen sz. bedspreads, VHS & DVD kids movies, household misc.

GOLDEN CIRCLE Senior Resource Center, 4620 47A Ave. Thurs. July 3, 10-6 p.m.

Fri. July 4, 9-6 We have a huge variety of good quality items, and also 7 additional venders selling items. Antique dolls, housewares, items too numeroud to mention.

Eastview 11 ELLENWOOD DRIVE July 3, 4 & 6 Thurs. 4-9, Fri. 12-8, Sun. 2-6 Weather Permitting

Fairview - Upper 28 FERN ROAD Alley Entrance ONLY -Dog July 3 & 4 & 5 Thurs. & Fri. 1-7, Sat. 9-4 Gigantic Sale, Xbox 360 games, wedding supplies, tools, many asst’d pieces.

Inglewood

ANNUAL GARAGE SALE Sat. July 5 10 am - 4 pm 6 DAYKIN STREET Proceeds go to Elder Abuse Prevention Hotline.

Any donations are welcome to the Redwoods.

171 ISHERWOOD CLOSE July 4, 5 & 6 Fri. 1-8, Sat.10-7, Sun. 10-7 Keyboard, record player, books, household, lumber...

68 INGLE CLOSE July 3rd & 4th Thurs. Noon-8 & Fri. 9-6 MOVING SALE Everything must go!

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Mustang Acres 104, 6834 59 AVE. Sat. 5th & Sun. 6th 10-6.

Crafts, household items, clothing, and many other items.

Oriole Park 125/127 OVERDOWN DR. July 5 & 6 Sat. & Sun. 10 - 4 MULTI FAMILY All Proceeds to Autism

53 ROWELL CLOSE July 4, Friday 4 - 7

Garden Art Show & Sale

West Park MOVING SALE - DON’T MISS THIS MULTI-FAMILY SALE! Thurs. 3rd & Fri. 4th 10-8.

3902 55 AVE.

Woodlea 5342 42 AVE. Fri. 4th 10-6, Sat. 5th 9-6.

MOVING SALE plus woodworking tools & wood.

18 Otterbury Ave.

JULY 4, 3-7 & July 5, 9-4. Out of Town Downsizing. Lots of tools, woodworking, elec. and BENALTO hand tools, camping gear, DOWNTOWN STREET SALE, ladders, oak table & chairs, Sat., July 5th, 10 am -3 pm treadmill, folding bike, etc. 18+ vendors. Great Variety, including antiques!

30 OBRIEN CRES. Large Garage/Acreage Sale July 4, Fri. 4 - 8 July 3-5. Thurs. 4-8, July 5, Sat. 9 - 4 Fri. & Sat. 9-8 & Sun. 12-5.

MULTI FAMILY 38169 TWP RD 280.

Something for Everyone From 32 St. overpass on Hwy 2 go west & follow Riverside Meadows signs to Fort Normandeau.

5808 56 AVE. July 3-5.

Thurs. & Fri. 11-8, and Sat. 11-6 Books, garage door opener, misc. stuff for everybody!

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Sylvan Lake 36 LAKEVIEW CRES. Sat. July 5 ONLY! 9-4.

Moving and Purging! Hunting/fishing, sports and household, etc.

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2 BDRM. lrg. main level suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail July 1/Aug. 1.$1050/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 2 BDRM. N/S, no parties, no pets. $850 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1610 403-342-4923 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

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Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-596-2444 Newly renovated bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

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1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

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5050

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1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

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New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

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Affordable, move in ready home. Open Áoor plan, fenced yard, 2 car heated garage, 2 full baths, 4 bdrms. + den $244,900 403-352-8490

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

1994 CHEV Z71 e/c, fuel tank c/w 12V pump, tool box, runs good. 361,000 km. $4000 obo. 403-343-2058

Motorhomes

5100

CORSAIR 28’ Motorhome 403-783-2330 or 704-9109

NEW CONDO

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

LAKE FRONT LOTS FOR SALE

PINE LAKE - ALBERTA Lots have been developed to house recreational Rooms vehicles or park model.

For Rent SEASONAL LOT RENTALS “Cheapest in the area” CLEAN, quiet, responsible, $3000/seasonal 306-402-7776 Furn. $550. 403-466-7979 www.sandycovepinelake.com ROOM, kitchen access.

403-343-0421

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi. A1 cond., E450, V10, loaded, rear 3 pc bath, power bed slide-out. $31,500. 587-876-2308

5110

Fifth Wheels

3090 3110

Offices

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

403-343-9300

Warehouse Space

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

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4010

4180

Caroline 4 Plexes for Sale Excellent Investment; Cash Flowing www.sabanasales.ca 403-615-1316

3140

SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft., over-head door, paved parking, $1000.

Phil 403-340-8603 (W), 403-350-0479 (C)

Mobile Lot

Investment Opportunities

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Automotive Services

5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Cars

5030

2010 LINCOLN MKZ, white, 21,000 km. As new. $25,500. 403-783-2805 2008 PONTIAC G6. New tires, brakes & battery. Ready to go. $7500. 403-346-6470 2003 DODGE Neon loaded safetied 403-352-6995 2002 TOYOTA CAMRY. Like new. Light gold colour. Only 1 owner.

Low mileage: 80,900 km. $8,500. 403-342-1683

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Houses For Sale

BY OWNER ANDERS PARK $354,900 Bi-Level, 1380 sq. ft., 4 bdrms., 3 baths, fully Ànished, 22 x 24 garage.

403-343-3013

4 slides, satellite dish, 7500 w generator, king bed, $49,900.

403 358-403, 357-9541

5140

Utility Trailers

UTILITY Trailer 5’x9’. Like new. $425. 403-505-3113

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

HITCH - Àts Chevy. New. $100. 403-314-0804 REBEL alum. tool $100 . ***SOLD***

Auto Wreckers

box

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

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2011 ALPINE 39’,

2001 VOLVO S60. Loaded, very good cond. 182,000 km. $6500 obo. 403-343-2058

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Russian Communists party activists gather in support of pro-Russian fighters and local citizens who live in Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Moscow, Russia, Thursday. Ukraine’s president shook up the leadership of his struggling military on Thursday, appointing a new defense minister and top general tasked with stamping out the corruption that has left the country’s armed forces faltering before a pro-Russian insurgency. A flag of the Donetsk people’s republic is in the background, a sign of the Donetsk people’s republic is on a T-shirt of a demonstrator.

Ukraine president appoints new defence officials

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko shook up his faltering military Thursday, appointing a new defence minister and top general while speaking angrily about the years of decay and corruption that left the forces unable to deal effectively with the wellarmed eastern insurgency.

His tougher tone, analysts say, reflects public pressure to continue the fight against the insurgents in the regions bordering Russia— even with a rickety military that’s had little success.

Poroshenko denounced the “complete collapse” of the government’s ability to supply the armed forces in a sometimes angry, finger-wagging speech in parliament.

He won quick approval for his choice of former top police official Valery Heletey as defence minister, replacing Mikhailo Koval. He also tapped Lt. Gen. Viktor Muzhenko as chief of the military’s general staff and Yury Kosyuk, an agriculture magnate and one of Ukraine’s richest men, to oversee defence issues in the presidential administration and to help “purge the army of thieves and grafters.” Accusations of corruption have been rife as Kyiv’s operation against the rebels continues.

“Today the revival of the army is starting from scratch, an army which is capable of fighting and winning,” Poroshenko said in parliament.

Poroshenko’s shakeup underscores the complex job he faces of making peace overtures and at the same time suppressing the insurgency that threatens to tear his country apart or create a permanent twilight zone beyond government control.

Other pressures come from outside: Ukraine

and the West say Russia is helping arm the rebels and letting its citizens cross the border to fight, while key allies France and Germany are pushing Poroshenko to pursue talks over attacks.

President Barack Obama consulted with German Chancellor Angela Merkel by phone Thursday about how to get peace talks back on track.

The White House said they discussed diplomatic efforts to bring about a lasting ceasefire and agreed that the U.S. and Europe should levy further costs on Russia if it doesn’t de-escalate the situation quickly.

Poroshenko’s forceful words and demeanour Thursday contrasted with his emphasis on starting a peace process voiced in his inaugural address June 7. He declared a unilateral ceasefire for 10 days in hopes rebels would lay down their arms and join talks.

But the cease-fire was repeatedly violated and ultimately expired. Foreign ministers from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France are pushing to get talks going again by Saturday, with the aim of achieving a cease-fire honoured by both sides.

Rebels in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, where more Russian speakers live, have declared independence and occupied government buildings.

The insurrection, in which more than 400 people have died, started after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was driven from office by a protest movement among people wanting closer ties with the European Union instead of Russia. Russia called Yanukovych’s ouster a coup by radical nationalists and seized Ukraine’s Russian-speaking Crimea region.

Poroshenko was elected in a special election May 25 to replace Yanukovych and faces high expectations.

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