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Westerner a real pleaser FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT WERE HITS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Westerner Days Fair and Exposition is unlikely to go into the books as a record breaker but organizers and vendors were pleased with this year’s version.

“It was fairly good,” said Colin Branner, who runs My Antique Portrait with his wife Carol.

“It was steady enough that I couldn’t get around to see all of the grounds,” said Branner on Sunday as a couple were having the picture taken in old-fashioned western clothing.

It wouldn’t be a fair without candy apples and cotton candy

and providing them was Corey Austin’s job at his prime spot at the top of the Grub Hub. It was Austin’s third year at the fair.

“It went pretty good. The weather was better than last year,” he said.

On Saturday last year a massive storm blew in forcing Westerner organizers to shut down the fair early that day.

It wasn’t as dramatic this past Saturday, but steady afternoon rain kept the crowds away. “(The weather) wasn’t great, but what can you do?”

Wrap Daddy’s Mike Morter was also making his third appearance this year from his home base in Kelowna.

Please see FAIR on Page A2

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Bandaloni, the one-man band, performs for a crowd Friday evening at the 2014 Westerner Fair and Exhibition.

Better lake protection against algae sought HUMANS TO BLAME SAYS PROFESSOR

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF An early-season blue-green algae alert has shut down much activity on Pine Lake because of the potential for illness and even death, and according to one expert, better lakeshore protection is needed instead of development.

A week ago, Alberta Health Services issued a blue-green algae advisory for the lake

east of Innisfail.

David Schindler, a University of Alberta biology professor, said shallow Alberta lakes are very susceptible to these alerts and the occurrences do pre-date development.

However, he said humans do a lot to exacerbate the increase of phosphorus into the lakes, which causes bluegreen algae blooms to occur more frequently.

“Septic tanks, land clearing for cottages and agriculture, fertilizing fields, lawns and gardens, pet excrement all cause increased inputs, especially of phosphorus,” wrote Schindler in an email to the Advocate.

“Our studies show that most lakes in Central Alberta have

PINE LAKE increased two-to-three-fold in phosphorus inputs since the mid-20th century.

“The key to preventing blue-green algae involves better management of the phosphorus entering the lake.

“Society is too weak-willed to deal with the problem.

Less development, less use of fertilizer, more protection of lakeshores are what we need.

“People ignore this need, and are continually sold ‘magic bullet’ solutions like bubblers, copper sulfate, compounds to lock phospho-

rus in sediments, etc. Some of these have a short-term effect, but none is a longterm solution, being overwhelmed by development,” said Schindler.

“At 74, having spent my life determining how to control these blooms but everyone simply ignoring the evidence and continuing to destroy our lakes, I am very sad.”

Lakes in Alberta are monitored by summer students working as public health inspectors, under the supervision of professional inspectors.

The students take samples from the lake for cell and microcystins, one of the toxins, and also observe the lake.

Dr. Digby Horne, AHS Cen-

tral Zone medical officer of health, said these advisories happen every year in certain lakes, but are pretty unpredictable.

Pine Lake has had a bluegreen algae advisory for many years, including consecutively since 2011.

The alerts typically come later in the summer.

“Often the recommendation is made on visual evidence of a bloom because it can sometimes take a while for the microcystin toxic levels and algae cell counts to be determined,” said Horne.

“If they see a bloom, then they post an advisory at the lake right away.”

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FLYBOARDING

New sport makes a splash

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Laila Lawrence, of Edmonton, gets some air as instructor Chad Bell looks on while flyboarding at Sylvan Lake on Friday. The fast-growing sport is proving a big hit with Sylvan Lake thrill-seekers.

WEATHER Mainly sunny. High 20, low 10.

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Short of donning a personal jet pack flyboarding is as good as it gets, raves Timothy Ash. The 24-year-old Edmontonian checked out the fastgrowing sport at Sylvan Lake on Friday afternoon and came away impressed.

“That’s pretty incredible,” he said. “How can you really get better than a personal jet pack. That’s the closest thing to it.

“I think everybody should try it.”

Laila Lawrence, 23, also took her first flyboard flight on Friday and had a blast.

“It was super fun. I would

definitely recommend it.”

Lawrence, who waterskis and wakeboards, said while it’s not that difficult there is definitely a learning curve.

“I kept bending my knees and then it would make me fall.”

But she soon got the hang of it and is looking forward to trying it again some day.

Alberta Flyboard Inc. has been offering flyboard lessons for three years at Sylvan Lake.

This year, they have expanded their previous mobile operation by opening an office next to SunSport Recreation behind Chateau Suites at Sylvan Bay.

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70th anniversary trip to Normandy Joe Young’s journey back to the beaches of Normandy to mark the 70th anniversary or D-Day wasn’t like any other trip.

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WILDFIRES DYING DOWN IN PARTS OF B.C. Firefighters tackle a flare-up at the Smith Creek fire located on a hillside in West Kelowna, B.C., Saturday. Cooler weather and rainfall in parts of British Columbia have helped to quell wildfires across the province, but some areas in the southern and central interior are still facing an extreme danger rating. About 2,400 of the 2,500 people who were forced out by the blaze near the municipality of West Kelowna, B.C. were allowed back into their homes on Sunday, but were cautioned to be ready to leave again. Also, about 100 firefighters from Ontario arrived in Edmonton on Saturday, many of whom were dispatched to help battle the Red Deer Creek wildfire which burned on the boundary between B.C. and Alberta. The fire was estimated to be 35,000 hectares in size on the weekend and was still listed as out of control.

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FLYBOARD: Growing Alberta Flyboard co-owner Brody Wells is one of four certified instructors based out of Sylvan Lake.

The company also has four instructors spread between Wabumun, Jackfish Lake and Cold Lakes.

He first heard of flyboarding several years ago and immediately was drawn to the adrenaline-pumping sport.

Before he and business partner Rodney Biggar had even tried flyboarding they secured dealership rights.

“After we actually got on it it was as good or better than we had ever imagined,” he said.

They set up their business in 2012 and expanded the rental side of the venture last year.

Flyboarding first drew attention in 2011. The board is powered by the engine of a personal watercraft such as a Sea-Doo. High-pressure water passes through a 30-metre hose to the flyboard itself, which pushes people into the air through a pair of water jets.

A light rider using a powerful watercraft for propulsion can soar as high as 15 metres, he said.

After a 20-minute orientation session, riders are set to go. Based on Friday’s riders, it seemed that it took only a few minutes for them to get the hang of it enough to soar a couple of metres or so above the water.

Wells said the Sylvan Lake location has been doing really well.

“Last weekend, I think we had 80 people come through the doors in one day, which is just absolutely phenomenal for a new business.

“We’re just continually rolling with it.”

Besides rentals, Albert Flyboard offers sales, service and installation, and a three-hour certification course for those who want to buy one.

A flyboard costs about $7,000, plus $750 for an adaptor kit and $350 for the certification course.

Wells, who has always loved water sports such as water skiing and wake boarding, has become a top notch flyboarder. He has represented Canada at the world championships, which were last held in Qatar.

He, Biggar and two other Canadians were the only ones from this country to compete in the event, which is judged on tricks such as somersaults and twists and height achieved. He finished sixth in 2012 and 22nd last year.

“It’s a rapidly growing sport.

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of great technique out there.

“We’re carefully watching and coaching ourselves.”

Renters must be at least 16 and less than 350 pounds (157 kg). First-time flyers must pay $29 for a basic course. Then flyboard rentals cost $89 for a half hour up to $219 for a one-hour lesson.

Group lessons are available for $185 per hour plus $20 per person for a minimum two people and a minimum two hours. The company also takes its flyboards on the road for parties or corporate events.

For more information go to www.albertaflyboard. com. Also check out Team Canada Flyboard on YouTube to see Wells and other instructors in action. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

FAIR: Good solid crowd “It was a good, solid crowd,” he said, adding many didn’t let the rain stop them. “When it rained they stuck it out.”

Morter said he’ll be back next year with his wraps, which included popular gluten-free and caesar salad versions.

Westerner marketing manager Erin Gobolos said the weather was unco-operative this year.

“But that’s something we can’t control. Overall, everything else went really, really well.”

Especially popular among music lovers was the decision to not charge extra for the big concerts, which featured rising Canadian rockers The Sheepdogs, country sensations Brett Kissel and Tim Hicks, as well as retro favorites Diamond Rio, Harlequin and Honeymoon Suite.

“Everything we heard was super positive. People were actually shocked. They were quite happy when they found out it was free (with admission),” she said.

It’s an experiment that will likely be continued next year.

“Overall, the concerts did really well this year. We were really pleased with how they turned out.”

Other new entertainers such as the All About Science show and speed painter Dave Sharp were popular. “And of course, the Super Dogs are always a huge hit.”

Gobolos said given the weather challenge, it is unlikely they will break the overall attendance record.

“Our goal at this point is to beat our 2013 record, which is actually our second highest year.”

Overall attendance for the five-day event was 95,488 last year, down 7,177 from the 2012 recordbreaking total of 102,665.

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ALGAE: Highest in Alberta A 2012 study published by 16 scientists in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science found the highest concentration of microcystins in many Albertan lakes, including Pine Lake.

Blue-green algae can be fueled by sunlight, higher temperature, nutrient loading to the lake or even water turbulence.

“The algae can make themselves more or less buoyant and they can do that in relationship to turbulence in the water,” said Horne.

Horne said blue-green algae can also be fuelled by fertilizers from land adjacent to the lake getting washed into the lake by rain.

“You provide more nutrients to blue-green algae, when conditions are right,” said Horne.

The toxins can still exist after the bloom has disappeared from site.

Horne said there are neuro and liver toxins.

“If you were to get enough of a neuro toxin or liver toxin, this happens with animals sometimes, you can get death within several days,” said Horne.

It would take a significant amount of exposure, either through contact or ingestion, for death to occur, but it is still a possibility. Horne said age would be a factor as young and elderly people may have reduced ability to fend off toxic effects.

“The advisory could be on for some time, right up to November,” said Horne, adding cooler temperatures can help alleviate the issue.

As part of the warning, people are advised to not drink the water; not swim or wade; avoid contact with algae along the shoreline; do not feed whole fish or fish trimmings from this lake to pets and limit consumption of whole fish and fish trimmings from the lake.

Fish fillets can be safely consumed.

People who come into contact with or ingest the water may experience skin irritation, rash, sore throat, sore red eyes, swollen lips, fever, nausea and vomiting and/or diarrhea.

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A3 Beef label rules to take effect

MONDAY, JULY 21, 2014

FOR MECHANICALLY TENDERIZED BEEF

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Canadian shoppers will be able to see next month if the beef they’re buying has been mechanically tenderized.

Labelling regulations to take effect Aug. 21 are designed to protect consumers after the largest meat recall in the country’s history two years ago.

Health Canada says beef that has been mechanically tenderized must have a sticker saying that.

Packaged steaks must also have cooking instructions that the meat must reach an internal temperature of 63 C and must be turned at least twice.

Health Canada says the rules are meant to ensure that tenderized meat is labelled from the processor to the consumer, since it’s hard to tell just by looking at it.

But Bruce Cran, president of the Consumers’ Association of Canada, said the cooking requirements are too complicated for most people and he wants mechanical tenderizing banned outright.

“What average Canadian having a beer and a steak is going to measure the temperature of the meat?” Cran asked. “This process has the potential to seriously sicken people or cause fatalities.”

Mechanical tenderizing is a process for tougher cuts of meat where needles or blades are used to penetrate

or pierce the surface, or to inject the meat with a marinade or tenderizing solution.

While it makes the meat more tender, it can also inject E. coli bacteria that may be on the surface of the meat into the centre. That makes the bacteria harder to kill when cooking, particularly if a steak is done rare.

Federal officials began looking at issues surrounding mechanically tenderized meat after a massive E.-colirelated beef recall from Alberta’s XL Foods in 2012.

The plant was shut down for about a month when E. coli was found in processed beef. Eighteen people fell ill after eating meat linked to the plant.

Cran says irradiation of all meats is the best way to ensure meat is safe.

Health Canada received an application to irradiate ground beef, poultry, shrimp and prawns a decade ago, but a spokesman says the public was worried about the process.

Another application from the industry is under consideration.

Mark Klassen, director of technical services with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, supports irradiation but says mechanically tenderized beef is safe as long as it’s cooked properly.

“We’ve had very few cases of illness,

even though mechanically tenderized beef has been in Canada in large quantities for a long time,” Klassen said.

“It’s had a very good safety record.”

Klassen said the association was involved in the research that supported the new labelling, including the cooking instructions.

explained, to ensure that outer area of a steak is cooked. The testing determined that sometimes the internal temperature can be OK but the outside can still be undercooked.

“We’ve been able to achieve our food safety objectives and we’ve been able to achieve a more consistent temperature, which contributes to a better eating quality as well,” Klassen said.

Keith Warriner, a food science professor at the University of Guelph, said labelling is good as long as the message is simple.

“Labels alone aren’t enough to change people’s attitudes and behaviours,” Warriner said, noting an education campaign might be needed.

— BRUCE CRAN, PRESIDENT OF THE The labels will appear CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION OF CANADA in supermarket meat coolers at a point in the He says it also tested the labels with summer when barbecue season has ala sample of Canadians to make sure ready been sizzling for some time. they were understandable and practiGeorge Fleming, sales supervisor at cal. He said the research determined Barbecue Country in Edmonton, said that earlier Health Canada instruc- customers aren’t usually talking about tions to bring the meat to the same in- mechanical tenderizing when shopternal temperature as ground beef, 71 ping for grills.

C, made the beef tougher. He said 63 C But he said he usually tells them to is safe as long as the meat is turned at go to a butcher shop for the best cuts. least twice.

“You pay a little more but you know The extra turning is necessary, he the meat hasn’t been tenderized.”

‘WHAT AVERAGE CANADIAN HAVING A BEER AND A STEAK IS GOING TO MEASURE THE TEMPERATURE OF THE MEAT? THIS PROCESS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO SERIOUSLY SICKEN PEOPLE OR CAUSE FATALITIES.’

Debt clock keeps ticking WILL MEAN SERVICING COSTS WILL “CROWD OUT” OTHER NECESSARY SPENDING

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Alberta has never had more money coming in but debt continues to rise.

That’s got to stop, said Derek Fildebrandt, Alberta director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

To drive home that message, the federation has taken its debt clock on the road this summer and made its 23rd stop of the 25-community tour in Red Deer on Saturday at the Public Market.

As Fildebrandt spoke the large digital display behind continued to increase steadily, a visual reminder to Albertans of the implications of not spending within our means.

The clock stands at about $10.1 billion, and is projected to increase by $4.7 billion in the 2014-15 fiscal year.

If spending isn’t brought under control debt will rise to $21 billion by 2016-17 and cost Albertans $1.4 billion a year in interest payments alone.

“That’s $1.4 billion that doesn’t build roads, schools or bridges, hire teachers or train nurses. It goes to the banks.”

With no end to Alberta’s growth in sight, not getting a handle on debt will mean servicing costs will “crowd out” other necessary spending.

“Government borrowing money is just borrowing prosperity from tomorrow. It’s borrowing taxes from the next generation.”

Besides raising awareness, the federation is also trying to get a firm pledge from MLAs to commit to tackling the debt.

Wherever they go, the federation

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Derek Fildebrandt, the Alberta director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, discusses the province’s $10.1-billion debt with Red Deer’s Angel Escobar (left) at the Public Market on Saturday morning. The federation has travelled to 25 communities with its mobile debt clock to highlight the province’s financial problems. asks local MLAs to sign its debt-free pledge, commit to honest budget reporting, balance the budget and come up with a plan to repay the existing debt.

So far, most of the Wildrose MLAs, including Sylvan Lake-Innisfail riding’s Kerry Towle, and a pair of Liberals have signed the pledge. None of the ruling Progressive Conservatives have signed.

Fildebrandt said Alberta is an enviable financial position and should not be facing debt issues.

“We have record revenues in the last few years. We’ve never had more money coming into government coffers in our history.

“The problem is we have never spent more in our history.”

More spending was necessary to keep pace with growth but the government has boosted spending far past growth rates, he said.

Many of those who have checked out the federation’s mobile clock are surprised by the number, which goes up by about $100 per second.

“The most common reaction is,

‘Thanks, for ruining my day,’” he said.

“People find it hard to believe that just a few years ago the debt clock was at zero, and in fact we had $17 billion in the bank in the sus-

tainability fund.”

The debt clock went to Rocky Mountain House on Saturday afternoon and was to wrap up its tour in Airdrie later in the day. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

A teenager was killed in a workplace accident at a gravel crushing site southeast of Drumheller on Saturday.

RCMP said Emergency Services from Drumheller and Dalum were called to the scene about 9:30 a.m.

A 15-year-old employee was working with a large piece of equipment when he was fatally injured, said RCMP. Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is investigating.

No further information on the victim has been released.

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No place for nuclear dump Is dilution really the solution to pollution — especially when it’s nuclear waste that can stay radioactive for 100,000 years? A four-member expert group told a federal joint review panel it is.

The panel is examining an Ontario Power Generation proposal to bury low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste from the Darlington, Pickering and Bruce nuclear plants in limestone at DAVID the Bruce site SUZUKI in Kincardine, beside Lake Huron. According to the Toronto Star, the experts reported that 1,000 cubic metres of contaminated water could leak from the site, although it’s “highly improbable.” But even if it did leak, they argued, the amount is small compared to Lake Huron’s water volume and the quantity of rain that falls into it.

If the materials were instead buried in Canadian Shield granite, any

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leaking waste would be diluted by active streams and marshes, the experts claimed: “Hence, the volumes of the bodies of water available for dilution at the surface are either immense (Great Lakes) or actively flowing … so the dilution capacity is significant.”

Others aren’t convinced. The Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump group has more than 62,000 signatures on a petition opposing the dump. Many communities around the Great Lakes, home to 40 million people, have passed resolutions against the project, including Canadian cities Toronto, Mississauga, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Windsor and more, and local governments in the states of Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York and Ohio. The United Tribes of Michigan, representing 12 First Nations, is also opposed.

Michigan’s Senate recently adopted resolutions to urge President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Congress to intervene, and for the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes Commission and all Great Lakes States and Ontario and Quebec to get involved.

According to Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump, burying such highly toxic wastes in limestone next to 21

per cent of the world’s fresh water “defies common sense.” The group’s website notes, “There are no precedents anywhere in the world for burying radioactive nuclear waste in limestone.

The repository must function to safely contain the nuclear wastes for over 100,000 years. No scientist or geologist can provide a 100,000 year guarantee.”

The Great Lakes are only 12,000 years old!

On top of that, retired Ontario Power Generation research scientist and chemist Frank R. Greening wrote to the review panel stating that OPG has “seriously underestimated, sometimes by factors of more than 100” the radioactivity of material to be buried.

Greening says the company acknowledged his criticism but downplayed its seriousness, which he believes raises doubts about the credibility of OPG’s research justifying the project. “Their response has been, ‘Oops we made a mistake but it isn’t a problem’ and that really bothers me as a scientist,” he told Kincardine News. “It is rationalizing after the fact.”

According to the newspaper, “a radiation leak at a nuclear waste site in New Mexico — cited by OPG as an example of a successful facility — is further fuelling criticism of the project.”

In February, radiation was detected

in vaults and in the air one km from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, where radioactive materials from the nuclear weapons program are stored.

The facility, the world’s only deep geologic repository, had only been in use for 15 years and is closed for now. The cause of the leak isn’t yet known.

Those and other factors led the joint review panel to re-open hearings beginning on Sept. 9. They initially ended on Oct. 30, 2013. A federal cabinet decision is expected sometime next year.

This “out of sight, out of mind” mentality must end. We can’t continue to dump garbage into the oceans, waterways and air or bury it in the ground and hope it will disappear. If we can’t find better ways to use or at least reduce waste products, we must stop producing them.

In the meantime, this project must be halted. The Great Lakes are already threatened by pollution, agricultural runoff, invasive species, climate change and more. We can’t afford to add the risk of radioactive contamination to one of the world’s largest sources of fresh water.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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The lawn at this eyesore on West Park Crescent has not been mowed all summer. Who is responsible for this mess?

Where is the irresponsible landlord?

I live on West Park Crescent in Red Deer, across from this eyesore. The tenants moved out weeks ago, and as a result the lawn has yet to be mowed (hasn’t been mowed all summer, as a matter of fact). It is clearly vacant.

West Park has numerous homes that are rental properties.

As a homeowner who lives in her mortgaged dwelling, I have had mostly good experiences with the numerous landlords that I’ve had to direct matters to, but there are always exceptions to every rule.

Sadly, my mistake was that I failed to obtain the contact number of this particular landlord.

Regarding this home and it’s neglected yard, I have called the City of Red Deer twice, leaving voice messages with no response. I have also emailed them with no reply. I am now going above and beyond as my limits (as well as those of my surrounding neighbours) are maxed.

Perhaps publishing a little story about irresponsible landlords might be an interesting topic for the Advocate? I would be glad to assist in any way that I can. In the meantime, feel free to use these pictures — maybe then we will get the yard dealt with.

We are proud of our West Park community, whether we are renters or home owners, and find it very disheartening when irresponsible and uncaring landlords let it go into a state of neglect. Please help!

Annie Quinnett Red Deer

Stand up and stop AltaLink sale Canadian engineering giant SNC Lavalin is selling its entire stake in AltaLink to Warren Buffett’s U.S. company Berkshire Hathaway. The deal is worth $3.2 billion!

AltaLink is delivering electricity to 85 per cent of Albertans and owns more than half of Alberta transmission lines.

The recent infrastructure upgrades to AltaLink were paid with Alberta taxpayers’ money. Ratepayers are paying for assets belonging possibly soon to Warren Buffett.

If this sale goes through, Albertans will lose further control of our precious resources, control over critical infrastructure, control over regulations of essential services and over how much electricity is

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transported to the U.S. AltaLink’s assets are around $6 billion, Warren Buffett’s company would get it for just over $3 billion. That’s a huge gain to the expense of Albertan ratepayers.

None of the Alberta or Canadian resources should be sold to foreign countries. CBC Radio reported recently about large holdings and pending sales of Alberta resources by Asian companies that are not revealed to Albertans. Just as the disputed temporary foreign worker program is again discussed behind closed doors between Alberta government and business leaders.

Why is this done in secret? To avoid public outcry.

Is our government acting in the interest of Canadians or the interest of big business?

If you don’t want your resources foreign owned, under foreign control of price, and you worry about how much we get to keep, how much our children and future generations will have in Canada for their use, you must speak up, make your voice heard.

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Newfoundland: a bee haven that offers research clues ‘THERE ARE FEWER AND FEWER PLACES AS WE LOOK AROUND THE WORLD NOW THAT CAN CLAIM TO BE FREE FROM THE MAJOR BEE PESTS. AND WE’RE ONE OF THE FEW.’

GLOBAL HIVES STRUGGLE

BY SUE BAILEY THE CANADIAN PRESS PARADISE, N.L. — Newfoundland’s healthy honeybees are an increasing draw for researchers in the race to understand why colonies across much of the globe are struggling or dying off.

“There is definitely interest in what’s happening here,” said Dave Jennings, a director with the provincial Natural Resources department.

“There are fewer and fewer places as we look around the world now that can claim to be free from the major bee pests. And we’re one of the few.”

Honeybees are crucial pollinators for fruit, vegetables and other crops.

But stressors blamed for decimating hives around the world include invasive parasites such as the Varroa destructor mite, climate change and the use of pesticides.

The Canadian Honey Council has estimated that the bee population across the country has dropped by about 35 per cent in the past three years.

The island of Newfoundland, however, is gaining attention as an increasingly rare haven.

Jennings said there are now about 38 beekeepers with hundreds of colonies. There has been growing interest in Labrador but long winters with extreme cold pose a major challenge, he explained.

It’s a tiny sector compared to other places in Canada but Newfoundland produces a growing array of beeswax products. The honey is a particularly pure wildflower variety that sells out quickly to local consumers, Jennings said.

There are no recorded cases of predominant bee parasites such as Varroa destructor or Nosema ceranae that have plagued honeybees elsewhere.

And the absence of massive corn and soybean farms on the rocky island with its comparatively short growing season means neonic pesticides are hardly used, Jennings said.

An international panel of 50 scientists last month called for tighter regulations and an ultimate phase-out of such products. The group calling itself the Task Force on Systemic Pesticides compared so-called neonics or neonicotinoids, a type of insecticide that’s chemically reminiscent of nicotine, to the use of DDT in the 1960s.

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— DAVE JENNINGS, A DIRECTOR WITH THE PROVINCIAL NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT

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Paradise, N.L., beekeeper Aubrey Goulding, operator of Paradise Farms Inc., works with one of his hives recently. Newfoundland’s healthy honeybees are an increasing draw for researchers in the race to understand why colonies across much of the globe are struggling or dying off.” neonics sprayed as a preventive pesticide over crops or to coat seeds are killing bees and other insects on a massive scale.

As for mites, Newfoundland’s sheer distance from infected mainland bees means they would most likely only be introduced if imported.

“You basically can’t import honeybees in this province without getting a

permit,” Jennings said. “We very much restrict that because we want to keep the pests out.”

The province relies on the co-operation of beekeepers and is also assessing its control of bumblebee imports used to pollinate cranberry and blueberry crops, he added.

“It’s something we’re keeping our eye on.”

Recent studies highlight how different species can pass on parasites, said Geoff Williams, a senior research associate at the Institute of Bee Health at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

“Certainly with any type of import, whether or not it’s a honeybee or a bumblebee, there’s the threat of this transmission of pathogens.”

Williams said Newfoundland can help researchers gauge the toll of the rampant Verroa destructor mite and other parasites elsewhere.

“There’s really only a handful of locations across the globe that don’t have this mite,” he said. “It gives you great baseline data of what honeybee populations were like ... before Verroa.”

Williams visited Newfoundland in 2010, collecting samples from hives around Corner Brook and St. John’s for research that was part of an article last month in PLOS ONE, an international, peer-reviewed online scientific journal.

He laughed when asked about reports that even the bees in Newfoundland are friendly.

“It depends on the day,” he said.

“Certainly when I was over there I didn’t have any issues with really aggressive bees.”

Beekeeper Aubrey Goulding and his wife, Viola, run Paradise Farms Inc., selling beeswax candles, skin balms and honey in Paradise, N.L., outside St. John’s.

His bees are among the healthiest on the planet, he said. But he dreads that mites will somehow be brought to the island. He called for ongoing vigilance when it comes to bee imports and said residents can also help.

“Honeybees do visit people’s lawns, clover and even dandelions. So if you can refrain from using pesticides, that’d be a great plus for the bees.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A new internal government report has once again raised questions about the Harper government’s penchant for sending large teams of Canadian election monitors to Ukraine.

The March report, prepared by an outside consultant for the Foreign Affairs Department, is the latest in a series of internal government assessments that raise red flags about the missions.

The reports began in 2004 under the Liberals and have been repeatedly embraced by the Conservatives, most recently in May. Ottawa sent about 350 people to monitor the May 25 presidential ballot in Ukraine in a Canadian-led bilateral mission.

Approximately 150 went as part of

a separate multinational effort led by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is seen as the most credible international body for conducting such missions.

The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the independent audit of Canada’s Election Observation Missions program, known as EOM, which notes that the multilateral OSCE missions are widely viewed as a much better idea than the Canadian bilateral ones.

The consultants, Plan:Net Limited, presented the Foreign Affairs Department with its 195-page report on March 20.

On April 23, Harper announced Canada was sending 500 observers to monitor the Ukraine mission, and that 350 of them would be part of a bilateral mission under a Canadian banner.

“As has been noted, generating visibility through a bilateral presence in EOMs comes with its dangers,” the

report said.

“EOM best practices suggest that a decision to give greater emphasis to bilateral election observation could have implications for the reputation of Canada amongst other donors, recipient countries, and multilateral organizations.

“Does Canada want to continue to be a credible and respected player in the field of EOM? Or do political imperatives trump development goals, at least in the short term?”

Despite raising those questions, the report offers “a qualified yes” in support of Canada continuing to contribute to both kinds of missions, to promote the country internationally while participating in multilateral global efforts to promote good governance.

Foreign Affairs is defending the missions, saying they help advocate Canadian values, such as supporting democracy.

“Canada actively supports both bilateral and multilateral election observation missions as effective mechanisms for supporting free and fair elections,” department spokesman John Babcock said in an emailed response to questions.

“This is part of Canada’s broader support for the promotion of democracy, a key Canadian value.”

Canada also sent hundreds of observers to Ukraine’s parliamentary elections in 2012 and its presidential election in 2010, in addition to participating in OSCE missions.

After the Liberals’ first and only Ukraine observer mission in 2004, a separate internal report concluded that they “should not be considered as a precedent but only as a ‘last resort option’ for future Canadian observer missions.”

Since then, that advice has been repeatedly ignored.

Joy of 24 hours of fame seems to be attraction of Twitter parodies ORDINARY PEOPLE SEIZE ON A MOMENT IN POPULAR CULTURE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Meet Matt McGuire: software developer, activist and for one day in 2012, the Canadian penny.

When the federal government announced the penny would be no more, McGuire started a Twitter account called Savethepenny, sending out a flurry of joking tweets, such as, “want my two cents? this sucks.”

The penny account garnered thousands of followers at its peak, he said, but his Internet infamy ended almost as soon as it began.

McGuire sent out so many messages that Twitter blocked him from sending any more that day, so the Canadian penny’s Twitter presence more or less burst onto the scene and fizzled out in a matter of hours.

The account is one of many in a phenomenon that sees ordinary people seize on a moment in popular culture, post Twitter messages — often as an animal or inanimate object — then just as quickly fade away.

When reports emerged that a shark was spotted in Lake Ontario — it turned out to be a hoax — not one, but two Lake Ontario sharks appeared on Twitter. At one point the two were even sassing each other.

The day a monkey in a little coat and diaper was found in an Ikea parking lot in Toronto, several people began tweeting as the Ikea monkey.

The phenomenon knows no borders — when musician Pharrell showed up to the Grammys in a comically oversized hat, someone created a Twit-

ter account for the hat and despite a significantly lessened flow of tweets, more than 20,000 people are still following it.

There are many long-term Twitter parody accounts — ones satirizing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford are numerous, to say the least — and while they serve the same purpose, these ones are quite fleeting, said Queen’s University media professor Sidneyeve Matrix.

“The word that comes to mind for me really is this kind of microfame, or like Internet celebrity,” she said.

“The joy of that 24 hours of fame, that just seems to be part of the picture.”

People who start those types of accounts tend to be very engaged citizens with pop culture savvy who can spot the trend that will engage other users, Matrix said.

McGuire said what makes this type of parody account successful is timing and finding the right issue.

“I think they become popular for a short period of time because they’re just relevant at that precise moment in history,” he said.

It was fun, but weird, to tweet as an inanimate object, said McGuire, who also has a personal Twitter account.

“You kind of put yourself in the place: What would a penny think in this situation?” he said.

“Well, a penny doesn’t think, so you get to have a little fun. You get to inject your own personality into it and you just kind of go with the flow of interactions from other Twitter accounts and other users.”

Matrix said cyberdisinhibition al-

Canadian teacher accused of sexual assault

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The family of a Canadian teacher detained in an Indonesian jail on allegations of child sexual assault has been trying to enlist Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to help win his release.

Neil Bantleman, 45, was working as a learning co-ordinator at the Jakarta International School, a prestigious school popular with expatriate families. Bantleman’s arrest stemmed from a Jakarta police investigation into the alleged sexual assault of three kin-

dergarten students at the school, local media reports said.

He was detained along with teaching assistant Ferdinand Tjiong, who is Indonesian. The Jakarta Post reported that six outsourced cleaners were arrested for allegedly raping a young boy in a school bathroom in March.

Later the parents of two other students filed police reports claiming their sons were sexually assaulted by teachers.

The newspaper also reported that one complainant, whose family is suing the school for US $125 million, implicated school teachers.

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A small monkey wearing a winter coat and a diaper apparently looks for its owners at an Ikea in Toronto on Sunday Dec. 9, 2012. The day a monkey in a little coat and diaper was found in an Ikea parking lot in Toronto, several people began tweeting as the Ikea monkey. lows people to say — or tweet — comments they wouldn’t otherwise post under their own name.

“We have a voracious cultural appetite for news satire as we know from the popularity of late-night television,” she said.

“But the other thing is that the anonymity that’s afforded by these kinds of accounts, I think, it’s going to free up people to share satire that might be too political for them to share on their personal accounts.”

That’s how the shirtless caiman was born.

After a caiman was captured in a pond in Toronto’s High Park, some Twitter users, including former Liberal MP Bob Rae, noted the alligator-like reptile was shirtless.

It was a reference to a group of anti-Rob Ford activists who had taken to calling themselves the Shirtless Horde, inspired by a shirtless jogger whose rant at Ford during a Canada Day event touched off a social media frenzy.

The woman behind the shirtless cai-

man Twitter account doesn’t want to be identified by name for the very reason Matrix mentioned; the shirtless caiman sends negative tweets about Ford — statements the financial district worker would not be comfortable sending under her own name.

But she didn’t want shirtless caiman to be a “one-day wonder,” like the pennies, the sharks and the Ikea monkeys, so she developed an anti-Ford persona for the shirtless caiman, who is gay, married and has adopted a caiman baby named Pedro with his partner, she said.

“You can’t maintain a caiman account because the caiman has disappeared to Reptilia (zoo), it was supposed to be put up for adoption,” she said.

“Constantly it’s on my mind: What happened to the caiman? Why has no one followed up? Without that followup information there’s nothing else you can do with the caiman except fictionalize it at this point.”

The Ikea monkey did not return a request for comment.

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KOREA CEASEFIRE CEREMONY Commemorate the Korea ceasefire on July 28 in Red Deer. The public is invited to support Korea War veterans starting at 10:40 a.m. at Veterans’ Park at the corner of 49th Avenue and Ross Street. There will be speeches and a moment of silence. The Korean War ended on July 27 in 1953.

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A temporary moratorium on new development in a flood-prone area upstream of Sundre has been proposed by Mountain View County.

Council voted last week to assign staff to come back with a bylaw that will prohibit new development in an area next to the Red Deer River known as McDougal Flats.

If passed, the bylaw will temporarily bar all future development in a 9,600-acre flood hazard area along a 13-km section of the river identified by consultants Golder Associates in a recent report. The moratorium will remain in place until lifted or modified by council.

That wouldn’t happen until county planning documents are updated for the lowlying area that has partly flooded several times in the last few years.

Building homes and other developments in Alberta floodways became a hot issue after the 2013 floods caused billions in property damage.

Some questioned why homes were allowed to be built in some areas known to be in flood plains or floodways.

As a response, the province passed Bill

27, which places strict limits on the types of development allowed in flood-prone areas.

The same legislation requires municipalities to update their plans to ensure they meet provincial regulations.

Mountain View County Coun. Al Kemmere said the bill says no building should happen in floodways.

However, a draft floodway map prepared for Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources by consultants Golder Associates left council unclear exactly where the floodways were in the county.

“Rather than move forward with any kind of development of application for development, we’re trying to protect people and trying to protect the county on future development by just putting a moratorium in place until we get a more defined floodway and a more defined map so we know exactly where the areas

of risk are,” said Kemmere.

The bylaw is expected to come to council for first reading on Aug. 13. A public hearing would follow at a later date before council considers second and final readings.

Kemmere said no time line has been set for when the map will be fully completed and the county will have all the information it needs for planning. “ T h e moratorium is just temporary in nature — COUN. AL KEMMERE u n t i l w e can get more accurate data.”

The report is expected to indicate whether flood mitigation measures may be needed in development applications, whether cautionary notes will be required or if there are areas that should remain off limits to development.

“We’re just not quite sure. We need more information.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

‘THE MORATORIUM IS JUST TEMPORARY IN NATURE UNTIL WE CAN GET MORE ACCURATE DATA.’

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Journey not like any other GOING BACK DIFFERENT THIS TIME, SAYS 95-YAR-OLD VETERAN Photo by RENEE FRANCOEUR/ Advocate staff

‘SEVENTY YEARS AGO WE WERE YOUNG, THE WAR WAS ON AND WE WERE IN IT.’ — JOE YOUNG

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Joe Young’s journey back to the beaches of Normandy this year to celebrate the 70th anniversary of D-Day wasn’t like any other trip.

“It was a pilgrimage, I’d call it,” said the 95-year-old Second World War veteran. “Some people ask if I enjoyed myself but enjoy isn’t the right word. Seventy years ago we were young, the war was on and we were in it. Going back now is ... different.”

Young made the trek overseas for a week in June with 121 other veterans, who all gathered first in Ottawa.

“Seeing as we’re all in our 90s, we had to have caretakers so my son Roger came with me,” said Young, who still lives on the farm he bought 44 years ago in Lacombe County between Joffre and Red Deer.

They flew on a Canadian Forces plane to Gander, N.L., then to Deauville, France, and took part in the official remembrance ceremony at Juno Beach on June 6: the day the Allied forces swept into German-occupied France.

“I wasn’t there on D-Day; my regiment landed afterwards.

Maybe two to three weeks after,” he said. “I drove an ar-

Nettie Young and husband Joe in their farmhouse in Lacombe County. Joe recently returned from a trip back in time to Normandy, France for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. At right, their wedding portrait.

moured vehicle out of a tank landing ship onto the beach.”

Young, who grew up in Carrot River, Sask., was a member of the 8th Reconnaissance Regiment, a light armour arm of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division headquartered in Swift Current.

“There was 43 of us on the train and when we got to Saskatoon, we all went down to the recruiting station together. They told us they were recruiting for the artillery and for a new armoured regiment and it was the suicide outfit. Well, everyone of us joined that one,” said Young, who signed up in 1941, with a chuckle. “We thought there wouldn’t be as much walking, you see.”

Young has returned to Europe nearly a dozen times since the war ended. This trip, however, was the first time he found the grave of his best friend Lance-Cpl. Clifford Cushing of Regina, buried at Brettevillesur-Laize.

“He was my best friend. ...

Same age as me. Just a young guy.”

But the highlight of the week in France was picking up his two grandsons, Jory and Travis Young, who are still backpacking the continent, and driving to the Vimy Ridge memorial.

“That is something I’ve always wanted to see and I’d seen

pictures but I still never expected it to be so big,” said Young.

“Every Canadian should see that. All those names. ...”

Young was wounded in France in August 1944 by a large piece of shrapnel that perforated his upper back. He was taken to England to recover. But he went back to the regiment in 1945 for the liberation of Holland.

“We billeted with the Dutch people in Oldebroek. I remember there was not a thing in the stores. Food had to be dropped in that winter or they wouldn’t have survived. The Germans were starving, too ... I always say no one wins in a war.”

After the war, Young donned his uniform one more time at a dance just north of Carrot River. He met his future wife, Nettie, that night. They’ve been married for 65 years.

“I was 29 and she was 19 ...

I always tease her and tell her I had to skip a generation because most of the women my

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age were gone or already married when I got back.”

The couple have 11 children and moved to Central Alberta after Young grew “too tired of the long, hard winters” in northern Saskatchewan.

Young no longer drives but said he is glad he was healthy enough to make it back to France.

“He always wanted to go back to where he landed and that’s something we hadn’t done yet,” said Nettie.

She stayed at home during the D-Day celebrations but caught a glimpse of her husband on CBC’s The National with Peter Mansbridge on the evening of June 6.

“He was filmed walking down to the beach and looking out over the water,” she said.

“They didn’t know who he was, didn’t have his name but it was quite the moment. And we all recognized him back here.” rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate. com

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FOCUS GROUPS HAD “LITTLE ENTHUSIASM” FOR PROPOSED BITUMEN PIPELINE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Public-opinion research for the federal Finance Department suggests key government policies are out of step with Canadians’ priorities, including the Northern Gateway project.

Members of focus groups consulted prior to the February budget had “little enthusiasm” for the proposed bitumen pipeline to the British Columbia coast — even those who said they support the controversial project.

And among the 12 groups consulted — from Coquitlam, B.C., to Bridgewater, N.S. — the economy

itself was not a top-of-mind concern.

Rather, the groups spontaneously raised education, health care, pensions and veterans as their key issues.

They also called for more processing and refining of Canada’s oil resources at home, and to do so in a more environmentally safe manner.

The findings of the January focus groups, commissioned from NRG Research Group, suggest the Harper government’s central policy themes — trade and the economy, with an emphasis on energy exports — are resonating less with ordinary Canadians.

“There is little enthusiasm for the (Northern Gateway) project, even among supporters,” says a Jan. 25

report on the findings.

“Detractors worry about the environmental consequences in the event of a spill, particularly as a result of a tanker accident off the B.C. coast.”

“There is an appreciation that increased market access for oil will be economically beneficial but there is still a desire to do so in a more environmentally safe manner.”

The Harper government has made Northern Gateway a central plank of its energy strategy, and has pilloried environmental groups who oppose it, labelling them “radical.”

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returned and “the world has experienced enormous wealth creation,” with the rich shopping for planes.

Pratt & Whitney Canada, a business jet engine manufacturer that laid off more than 400 workers in 2009 and 2010 — about 4.5 per cent of its workforce — has a “very solid pipeline of products,” President Paul Adams told reporters in May. The subsidiary of Hartford-based United Technologies Corp. has “steady growth in product deliveries,” he said.

Improvements in the top part of the business — jets costing $26 million or more — have driven the market’s recovery, he said. Total business jet deliveries were valued at $20.9 billion in 2013, compared with a peak of $24.7 billion in 2008, Aboulafia said.

The industry hit bottom at $18 billion in deliveries in 2012, he said.

Shipments of business jets peaked at 1,313 in 2008 and tumbled to 672 in 2012, a 48 per cent drop, according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. The number rose in 2013 by a tiny 0.9 per cent, but it was the first time in five years that shipments had increased from one year to the next.

The business jet became a symbol of corporate excess when Detroit auto executives flew to Washington seeking bailout money.

MONTREAL — At a time when other provinces are moving to encourage airline traffic by decreasing or eliminating aviation fuel taxes, Ontario’s decision to hike them will likely boost air fares and put the province at a competitive disadvantage, airline and airport officials say.

In a budget tabled last week by Ontario’s newly elected Liberal government, Premier Kathleen Wynne has proposed to phase in a four-cent-perlitre increase in the aviation fuel tax to 6.7 cents by 2017.

The current tax of 2.7 cents per litre has been in place for more than two decades, but would rise by one cent per litre each year.

The increase, which the government has pledged as part of $29 billion it has dedicated to transit and transportation infrastructure uprgrades in the next decade, is expected to add an estimated $100 million in costs for airlines — cost that will likely be passed on to consumers through higher fares.

“It will cause the ticket prices to go up but you might not notice it because it’s a small portion...of the fuel bill,” said David Tyerman of Canaccord Genuity.

For Air Canada, the estimated $50 million in addition costs represents a fraction of the more than $11 billion it spends annually on fuel, salaries, currency fluctuations and other factors, said Tyerman.

Airlines constantly adjust prices for cost increases and declines, but unlike fuel prices and currency fluctuations that can change rapidly, this tax increase is predictable and will be easier to plan for in advance, the analyst added.

However, the association that represents Canada’s largest air carriers said the tax increase will put Ontario at a disadvantage.

“I suspect maybe other provinces feel they are more competitive now,” said Marc-Andre O’Rourke, executive director of the National Airlines Council of Canada.

He said Ontario’s rate would be “completely out of whack” with other provinces and would be one of the highest fuel taxes in North America. The association is calling for the increase to be put on hold while the implications are studied.

British Columbia became the latest province to eliminate its international fuel tax in 2012, joining New Brunswick, Alberta, Quebec and Saskatchewan.

Newfoundland and Labrador has no fuel tax for international flights but charges tax for flights to the United States.

Manitoba has the highest rate at 3.2 cents, but nothing for U.S. and international cargo flights.

B.C.’s move to eliminate the fuel tax to match nearby jurisdictions in Alberta, Washington state and California cost the government $12 million in annual revenue.

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Workers assemble a PW500 engine destined for a Cesna Citation at the Pratt & Whitney plant in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Sale of private jets, like the Citation, are rising again in 2014 after the deep recession when the company plane was an easy target for spending cuts.

Large-cabin private jet makers take off RECESSION’S IMPACT STALLS SMALLER PLANE BUILDERS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. — Private jet sales are rising again, climbing out of a deep recession when the company plane was an easy target for spending cuts.

The chief executive of General Dynamics Corp., maker of Gulfstream jets, says corporate customers are back and wealth creation is bringing out shoppers for private jets.

The president of jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney says deliveries for private planes are growing after hitting bottom in 2011.

The improving market has not been universal.

Signs of strength have been in large-cabin planes, while sales of small and mid-sized planes stall.

Credit markets also have not fully recovered, making it harder to finance some private-plane purchases.

Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace consultant, compared the industry’s uneven improvement with the bumpy economic recovery.

“In its own very high-end way, it mirrors what’s going on,” he said. “It’s the haves and the have-nots, but it’s all haves.”

General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic told investor analysts in May that corporate customers have

There are ways to reduce driving costs Summer is a wonderful but all-too-short season in Canada that usually comes with higher costs at the gas pump.

A new report from Scotiabank says the average cost of energy prices and utilities has risen by about five per cent this year.

The average household spends about $5,000 a year on energy and utilities, with gasoline accounting for about 56 per cent of household energy costs, followed by electricity, water, natural gas and fuel oil.

According to the Canadian Automobile Association, it costs $10,866 a year to drive the average mid-size car in Canada, or about $0.54 per kilometre.

TALBOT That estimate is based on BOGGS driving about 20,000 km a year with gas prices at $1.25 per litre, and paying $2,075 for insurance, $89 for licence registration and $6,725 a year for maintenance and depreciation costs over a five-year period.

There are a number of pretty well-known, simple

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and ecologically friendly driving tips that can help you reduce your gas consumption and costs at the pump.

Don’t floor the gas pedal.

Not only do jackrabbit starts waste fuel, one second of full-throttle driving can produce the same amount of carbon monoxide as a half-hour of normal cruising.

Keep your tires properly inflated. A single tire underinflated by two pounds per square inch (PSI) increases fuel consumption by one per cent.

Remove excess weight, such as roof racks and items from your trunk.

Roof racks increase aerodynamic drag on your vehicle and increase fuel consumption. If you need to use your roof rack, try to arrange items in steps with lower items at the front.

Vehicle weight is a major contributor to higher fuel costs — for every 45 kg of extra weight you carry in your vehicle, fuel consumption can increase by two per cent.

Only drive the vehicle that you really need. Do you really need a huge four-wheel-drive adventure rig?

Have a look at a leaner, more responsive wagon or crossover, many of which are available with fourwheel-drive for winter conditions.

Reduce your speed.

Driving at 100 km/h versus 120 km/h can save you

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15 per cent in fuel economy while dramatically reducing emissions.

Reduce highway speed and use your cruise control if you have one.

Fuel consumption increases above 90 km per hour. Tests have shown that most cars use about 20 per cent less fuel when they are driven at 90 km/h instead of 110.

Don’t idle. After starting your car, simply drive away slowly.

Your car will warm up faster than it would if you leave it to idle in the driveway. And you’ll save fuel in the process.

Service your vehicle. Regular maintenance helps to prevent poor fuel economy.

You can also increase fuel efficiency by improved technology, such as high-efficiency tires that reduce rolling resistance, higher efficiency fuels like diesel, downsizing your engine and choosing a manual or advanced technology transmission to reduce drivetrain losses.

Changing a vehicle’s shape, materials, engines and transmissions also can help you save on fuel.

Conventional steel in automobiles can be replaced with high-strength, low-alloy materials without compromising safety or performance.

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VEHICLE: Options to consider Changing the shape of your vehicle can greatly reduce wind resistance and fuel consumption.

Back in the 1990s, car makers produced concept vehicles with 40 per cent less aerodynamic drag than conventional vehicles as part of a U.S. government-industry co-operative partnership.

Choosing a diesel engine can increase fuel efficiency, since diesel fuel is burned more efficiently inside an engine.

Smaller engines also tend to operate closer to optimal efficiency levels during typical driving conditions, and when driven properly, manual transmission vehicles are more fuel efficient than automatic transmissions.

Hybrid electric vehicles are another option.

They are composed of an internal combustion engine, a large battery pack and one or more electric motors to deliver power to the driveshaft.

While hybrid vehicles integrate both forms of power, it’s possible in some cases for the electric motor to displace the internal combustion engine as the primary power source.

Plug-in hybrids use a higher capacity battery that allows them to run ell-electric at higher speeds and for longer periods of time.

And the power can be topped up with external electricity from a household outlet.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

FOCUS: Not routinely made public The focus groups, along with a public-opinion survey of 3,000 people, were carried out in advance of the Feb. 11 budget under a $135,000 contract.

The analysis of the 3,000-person survey’s raw numbers was conducted internally by the Privy Council Office rather than by the polling firm, under a policy dating from April 2010, and like all other such internal analysis is not routinely made public.

Treasury Board policy requires web posting only of public-opinion analysis commissioned from outside firms.

Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, intended to carry bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to the port of Kitimat, B.C., got the federal cabinet’s blessing on June 17 on condition that 209 issues be resolved, including consultations with First Nations.

The project faces stiff opposition from numerous groups, including B.C. First Nations, and must overcome several court challenges.

New Democrat environment critic Megan Leslie said the focus-group report “shows what the NDP has been saying all along, that B.C. MPs, Conservative MPs, are going to have to answer to this.”

“There is not support for this project in British Columbia and across Canada,” she said in an interview from Halifax.

“It’s also really heartening to see that people spontaneously talked about resource development through a sustainable lens. They talked about refining and processing here in Canada.

People get it.”

Asked for comment on the report, a spokesman for the Finance Department said only that the research helps measure the “evolution” of Canadian attitudes.

“The use of quantitative (telephone survey data) and qualitative (focus group) research allow the Finance Department to get a clearer sense of the evolution of the public mood towards the state of the economy, Canadians’ sense of personal economic well-being and government actions in the economic arena,” David Barnabe said in an email.

Among the other issues participants raised: ● Canada Pension Plan reform: “This came up more often in Ontario, and the sentiment typically focused on the need to ensure this program is adequately funded.”

The government has resisted calls to improve CPP though has endorsed other pension-related reforms.

The Ontario government has since promised its own public pension plan. ● Veterans: “Concerns expressed whether enough was being done to help individuals with health/mental issues arising from their military service.”

The government faced a barrage of veterans’ criticisms over the last year, especially related to military suicides, but says it has improved benefits and care. ● Health care and education “continue to come up regularly in the discussions.”

The government has said these are areas of exclusive provincial jurisdiction, but has promised stable, predictable block funding.

The report also found that lowerincome households were less sanguine about the state of the economy than wealthier households, citing few wellpaid jobs being generated and saying “the gap between rich and poor is growing.”

“Unbalanced or unequal are words that come up frequently to describe

the economy for these individuals,” says the document.

“Participants often stated that economic decisions tended to support the corporate sector more than average families.”

Said Leslie: “Canadians have a broader perspective on what the economy is than the Conservatives, (who) talk about their laser-like focus.

“I would actually say that it’s an incredibly narrow focus, on their own navel.”

The focus groups, two in each community, were conducted in Coquitlam, B.C.; Calgary; Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.; Toronto; Quebec City; and Bridgewater, N.S.

JETS: Glut of smaller planes And Citigroup, which downplayed the risks of subprime mortgages, was pressured by the White House to cancel the planned delivery of a jet.

Aboulafia said in a report in April that even in the recession, sales rose 0.3 per cent for the top half of the private jet market.

The bottom half, which accounts for jets costing $4 million to $26 million, fell nearly 56 per cent, “one of the worst market cataclysms to ever impact any mature industry segment,” he said.

The poor performance of small and mid-sized business jet purchases are partly due to tight credit, while larger jet purchases are more likely to be self-financed, he said.

Edward Jones analyst Christian Mayes also cited as a reason a glut of smaller planes that were manufactured.

Industry details drawing distinctions between business purchases and those by the rich are not available.

However, one reason financing is not as big of a challenge for large jets is that “some big celebrities still buy multimillion-dollar jets no matter what because they want to get from point A to B as fast as possible,” Mayes said.

Steve Varsano, founder of The Jet Business, a London-based seller of private planes, credited a boost in international business travel.

Business planes also are increasingly used by mid-level managers, not just chief executives, he said.

As airport security requirements snarl air travel, businesses save money by cutting travel time with private jets available on demand, he said.

“It’s a time machine,” Varsano said.

“You’re running a multibillion-dollar company, and time is money.”

TAX: Could boost business in U.S. But a report said it generated an estimated $20 million in new payroll and consumption tax revenue in the first year resulting from expanded international flights into the province, said Elizabeth Thomson, public affairs officer for the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.

While some provinces have eliminated fuel taxes on international flights, they all charge for domestic flights, ranging from 0.7 to 3.2 cents per litre. At 6.7 cents, Ontario would be more than double its provincial neighbours. Most U.S. airports charge little or no fuel taxes.

O’Rourke said the province may not receive the full benefit from the tax increase because airlines may decide to fuel at airports outside Ontario to save money.

Douglas Hartmayer, director of public affairs for the operator of airports in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N.Y., sees the tax boosting business on his side of the border.

“I think that anything that widens the gap and makes it more expensive to fly from Canada vis-a-vis Buffalo is going to drive more people to airports in the United States,” Hartmayer said.

More than 2.3 million Canadians a year are believed to use the Buffalo airport, a two-hour drive from Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, Canada’s busiest travel hub.

Most of the cost difference between Canadian and U.S. airfares is attributable to federal tax, fees and surcharges, said Susie Heath, press secretary for Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa.

She said Ontario’s fuel tax is significantly lower than what is charged at airports such as London Heathrow and Paris de Gaulle.

“We know that these changes affect different communities in different ways, which is why we’re working with the Ministry of Transportation to ensure that we are providing relief to vulnerable communities, especially those in remote and northern areas.”

A study led by Fred Lazar, associate economics professor at York University’s Schulich School of Business, concluded the tax hike will hurt the provincial economy, cut jobs and drive away tourists.

He said the provincial GDP would fall between $67 and $97 million in 2017, resulting in a decrease in up to 2,907 full-time jobs and discourage at least 292,000 air travellers.

Lazar calculates the tax will increase air fares between $1.25 to $12 per ticket depending on airport and destination.

That would hamper Air Canada’s efforts to make Toronto’s Pearson Airport a North American gateway and hurt the smaller airline, Porter Airlines, which uses Billy Bishop Toronto Centre Airport as its network hub.

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A frame from a video shows what the posters claimed was a shark near Kingston, Ont, posted to YouTube on July 10, 2014. An online video hoax of a shark in Lake Ontario that caused real-world consternation this past week demonstrates the attention-grabbing risks marketers are taking in an increasingly media-fractured universe, experts say.

Lake Ontario shark hoax shows risks posed by viral marketing EFFORTS TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD VIA “PRANKVERTISING” OR “GUERRILLA” MARKETING CAN EASILY BACKFIRE Jeremy Robinson, creative director with Toronto-based Jar Creative, said engineering a “viral” video without An online video hoax of a shark in provoking anger or upset is difficult.

“We’re in unchartered territory,” Lake Ontario that caused real-world consternation this past week demon- Robinson said.

“A lot of this stuff is brand new and strates the attention-grabbing risks marketers are taking in an increasing- people are going to push the boundarly media-fractured universe, experts ies. Ultimately, it’s up to the brand to determine what they’re comfortable say.

The problem, they say, is ef- with.”

What’s clear, experts said, is that forts to stand out from the crowd via “prankvertising” or “guerrilla” mar- Discovery’s shark campaign did reach part of advertising’s holy grail: awareketing can easily backfire.

“Until you’ve done something, you ness spread via social-media sharing can’t really say, ’OK, maybe that wasn’t and water-cooler chat — in this case the smartest idea’,” said Stephen Mor- about the possibility or improbability of sharks in gan, former the lake. creative direcLess clear tor with MR.G is whether the in Toronto. heightened “There is awareness definitely no would transrule book.” late into more It was only Discovery on Wednesviewers. day — six days Monica LeBafter the Youarge, assistant tube video — STEPHEN MORGAN, FORMER CREATIVE professor of surfaced that DIRECTOR WITH MR.G IN TORONTO marketing at frightened Queen’s Unisome lake users and sparked safety concerns that versity school of business, said grabultimately reached the Ontario legis- bing attention is one thing. Creating a lature — that Discovery Canada admit- negative attitude is another.

“I’m not really inclined to go watch ted the finned creature was a life-like Shark Week now — I’m more just anmodel.

The idea was to create some buzz noyed at the Discovery Channel for for a TV series on real sharks, not making me worry,” LeBarge said. “(But) it’s not surprising to see cause terror, Discovery Canada president Paul Lewis said by way of an ex- things like this happen when people planation. “There was no anticipation are trying to be cutting and edgy and on our side to cause any kind of fear or maybe just aren’t thinking through what the implications are.” upset at all,” Lewis said.

David Soberman, professor of marSome observers were skeptical.

Morgan said creative talent at ad keting at the Rotman School of Managencies aim to be “disruptive” and agement, said Discovery might have that in his opinion: “You can bet the been onto something initially, but (Discovery) creatives hoped for that, should have stepped in to unmask the even if they downplayed it to the cli- deception more quickly.

“They might have let it go too far,” ent. Shame on agencies for selling this Soberman said. kind of stuff.”

“You have to close the loop quickly.

Those behind the fake shark video said they decided to come clean when You can actually upset people. Once it they became aware of stories of people gets to six days, some people may have already lost face.” talking about not getting in the water.

Morgan said he doubted Discovery “The intent really was simply to stir up some discussion,” Lewis of Discov- would see any kind of spike in viewership. ery Canada has said.

At the same time, he said, any illSometimes, the disruption appears to be inadvertent, as happened earlier will the ad might have caused will likethis month when a summer marketing ly subside quickly. After all, we live in campaign run by Coors Light Canada a fast-paced world where people are — featuring a briefcase attached to a constantly bombarded with messages metal railing — prompted an emer- and images.

“We can’t hold their attention,” Morgency response and closure of a major intersection in Toronto during rush gan said. “So even when things go bad, it will be forgotten in no time.” hour.

On one point there is substantial The briefcase, one of hundreds hidden across the country, was part of a agreement: that marketers and advermonth-long challenge to find prizes tisers will keep pushing the limits to using an online map and social-media try to make people sit up and take notice. clues.

Much of those efforts will happen At other times, the law of unintended marketing consequences kicks in through social media, where a deluge of Facebook “likes” or a tsunami of with a vengeance.

In one example from 2006, a blog- shares — in other words, having a vidger helped his buddy get a PlayStation eo or some other message “go viral” — is the modern equivalent to striking Portable for Christmas.

A furious backlash ensued when gold on the Klondike.

“There’s a sense of urgency: What people discovered the bogus blog was do we do to get the message out?” said simply a Sony marketing ploy.

And studies suggest people tend to Michel Neray, chief differentiation ofpass on negative information at double ficer with Toronto-based The Essential Message. or quadruple the rates of positive info.

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1991 — Chatham, Ont.-born Ferguson Jenkins is admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The first Canadian admitted, he won 284 games during 12 seasons and won the

1971 Cy Young award as top NL pitcher.

1890 — A crowd of 2,500 attend a sodturning ceremony for the Calgary and Edmonton Railway in Calgary. The last spike driven at Strathcona, south of Edmonton, on July 27, 1891. The rail line cut the five-day stagecoach journey to a three-hour train trip.

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A11 Fantastic return for Sheepdogs

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MUCH HAS OCCURRED FOR SASKATOON BAND, INCLUDING ROLLING STONE COVER It was a grand — some might even Canada, well, the talented musicians say heroic — return to Red Deer for certainly succeeded in Red Deer.

The Sheepdogs.

Their one-and-a-half hour concert The Saskatoon band’s bassist, Ryan delivered killer three-part harmonies, Gullen, scanned the crowd of a couple duelling lead guitar solos, and even thousand who caught The some step/turn/kick rock ‘n’ Sheepdogs’ Saturday Westroll choreography. erner Days concert at the Some curious fair-goers Centrium and said, “last who ambled into the Centritime we played here was at um to listen from the stands The Vat to 10 people. later moved to the floor to “This is pretty fantastic. get closer to a group that Thank you very much, Red created a club feeling in the Deer!’ voluminous arena.

It’s been seven long years The Sheepdogs grabbed since the five shaggy rockattention with a funky iners put on a show here. And strumental intro, then a lot’s happened in that moved to boogie beat of time — most notably, The How Late How Long.

LANA Sheepdogs beat 15 other This involved some inMICHELIN indie bands to win a 2011 ventive playing, courtesy of contest to get on the cover singer/guitarist Ewan Curof Rolling Stone magazine, rie and Rusty Matyas of received three Juno Awards Winnipeg’s Imaginary Citin 2012, and topped the charts with five ies. (Matyas is filling in until the group singles. can replace Leot Hanson, who recently If their goal now is to make a great left the band after opening a bar in live impression on audiences across Saskatoon.)

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With the heavier sound of I Need Help, a few of the wackier fans were waving the spoils of their carnival games in time to the music — namely, those large inflatable hammers.

And, sure enough, a few came down, Thor-like, on the heads of fellow fairgoers.

Howling guitars and a slower groove gave vent to emotions behind The One You Belong To, but the band soon sped up again with the pulsating, psychedelic melody of Feeling Good, and Gonna Be Myself.

With little kids dancing in the stands, young fans body surfing on top of the crowd near the stage, and a teenager boy spotted skipping across the Centrium floor, there’s something undeniably optimistic about The Sheepdogs’ music.

Maybe it’s the vintage organ, stacked harmonies, or the band’s laidback vibe.

But even when bearded Ewan (his bushy hair now shorn) sang I Don’t Get By, Crying, or Ewan’s Blues — a fantastic, wistful song featuring keyboardist Shamus Currie on the trombone — the

mood wasn’t a downer.

Southern Dreaming, with its plinky, electric ukelele guitar sound, or the lighthearted Hello L.A. is more indicative of the band’s upbeat spirit, which really is reminiscent of the late 1960s, early 1970s.

A highlight was when the tune Hang Onto Yourself was delivered with the two guitarists, bassist and keyboardist (brandishing a tambourine), lined up at the front of the stage, stepping in synch like a white, somewhat ungainly version of Sly & the Family Stone.

Drummer Sam Corbett stood behind them, whacking his drum sticks together above his head, as the audience clapped along. Another memorable moment was hearing the band’s scorching version of Neil Young’s Southern Man. The biggest hits Who, The Way It Is, and I Don’t Know didn’t get played until right at the end of the concert. But who cares? The Sheepdogs had us at hello. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Film legend James Garner, reluctant hero in TV’s Maverick, Rockford Files, dead at age 86

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Few actors could register disbelief, exasperation or annoyance with more comic subtlety.

James Garner had a way of widening his eyes while the corner of his mouth sagged ever so slightly.

Maybe he would swallow once to further make his point.

This portrait of fleeting disquiet could be understood, and identified with, by every member of the audience. Never mind Garner was tall, brawny and, well, movie-star handsome.

The persona he perfected was never less than manly, good with his dukes and charming to the ladies, but his heroics were kept human-scale thanks to his gift for the comic turn. He remained one of the people.

He burst on the scene with this disarming style in the 1950s TV Western Maverick, which led to a stellar career in TV and films such as The Rockford Files and his Oscar-nominated “Murphy’s Romance.”

The 86-year-old Garner, who was found dead of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on Saturday, was adept at drama and action.

But he was best known for his low-key, wisecracking style, especially on his hit TV series, Maverick and The Rockford Files.

His quick-witted avoidance of conflict offered a refreshing new take on the American hero, contrasting with the blunt toughness of John Wayne and the laconic trigger-happiness of Clint Eastwood.

There’s no better display of Garner’s everyman majesty than the NBC series The Rockford Files (197480).

He played an L.A. private eye and wrongly jailed ex-con who seemed to rarely get paid, or even get thanks, for the cases he took, while helplessly getting drawn into trouble to help someone who was neither a client nor maybe even a friend.

He lived in a trailer with an answering machine that, in the show’s opening titles, always took a message that had nothing to do with a paying job, but more often was a complaining call from a cranky creditor.

Through it all, Jim Rockford, however down on his luck, persevered hopefully. He wore the veneer of a cynic, but led with his heart. Putting all that on screen was Garner’s magic.

Well into his 70s, the handsome Oklahoman remained active in both TV and film.

In 2002, he was Sandra Bullock’s father in the film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

The following year, he joined the cast of 8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter, playing the grandfather on the sitcom — and helping ground it with his reassuring presence — after star John Ritter, who played the father, died during the show’s second season.

He even scored in commercials. During the late 1970s, he was paired with actress Mariette Hartley in a popular series of ads for Polaroid cameras.

Their on-screen banter felt so authentic that many viewers mistakenly believed they were husband and wife.

He said he learned about acting while playing a non-speaking role as a Navy juror in the 1954 Broadway hit play The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, starring Henry Fonda and Lloyd Nolan.

“I had no lines, and I had trouble staying awake,” Garner recalled.

After Caine Mutiny, Garner found work in Hollywood as a bit player in the Cheyenne TV series. Warner Bros. gave him a screen test and signed him to a sevenyear contract starting at $200 a week.

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Actor James Garner in 1989. Garner, wisecracking star of TV’s Maverick who went on to a long career on both small and big screen, died Saturday July 19, 2014 according to Los angeles police. He was 86.

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Woman dislikes babysitting autistic child on vacation Dear Annie: My significant other of 20 years is a great guy, and he’s been wonderful to me.

Here’s the problem: “Bob” has an 11-yearold autistic grandson.

Every time we have taken “Russell” on vacation with us, it hasn’t exactly been relaxing.

I am 62 years old and work MITCHELL a difficult full& SUGAR time job. I’d like a real vacation instead of babysitting a child with special needs.

I have offered to take Russell on the weekends, but he says that isn’t good enough.

Here’s the kicker: Russell lives nearby, and Bob can see him anytime all year round, but won’t visit at all.

Yet in the past 10 months, Bob has tak-

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en several short trips with his friends, mostly to go fishing.

These two weeks are my only vacation, and frankly, I am not up to having Russell the entire time.

My daughter says I should be more compassionate and would feel differently if this were her child instead of Bob’s grandson. Am I being selfish? — Can’t Handle It Again Dear Can’t: No, although we understand why your daughter wants you to be more compassionate.

It bothers us that Bob won’t spend time with his grandson unless you are around to take care of the boy.

This is unfair to you, making your vacation another “job.”

It is also unfair to Russell and his parents, who undoubtedly resent that Grandpa isn’t willing to visit during the year.

Your offer to take Russell on weekends is kind, and we think Bob should take you up on it.

So here’s the compromise: You have two weeks of vacation. Spend one week relaxing, and take Russell for the other.

If Bob insists on taking him for two

weeks, we recommend you spend one week on your own and let Bob learn how to deal with his grandson until you get there.

And then take the boy on an occasional weekend so he spends more quality time with his grandfather.

Dear Annie: I had to chuckle when I read the letter from “Fluffy’s Competition,” because my husband told me I loved our Jack Russell terrier more than I did him.

My response was that I loved her, but it was a different type of love.

She has since died, and we have another Jack Russell, and she is my husband’s little girl.

He now knows how much you can love a pet, and it is completely different.

Oh, by the way, we just celebrated our 46th anniversary. — R. Dear R.: We heard from a great many animal lovers. Here’s a short sample: From Florida: I lived the same situation for 18 years with my beloved husband and his cat, Tom-Tom. He loved his cat so much. For years, they lay side by side, each suffering and dying from cancer.

I always said, “If I gave my husband a choice of me or the cat, you know who would have to go.

And it would not be the cat!” They lived out their lives together and are together in heaven.

My message to the wife is to love the cat as you do your husband. If you have love in your life, you have everything.

Arizona: Wait a minute.

This woman knew he had Fluffy when she married him and how he felt about her.

Did she think he would get rid of the cat? It seems to me she is the one with the problem.

Has she ever tried to be friends with Fluffy? Perhaps he is spending time in the bathroom with Fluffy because his wife is ignoring her.

We have had six cats in our married life, but we loved them all.

Perhaps Fluffy needs to be treated like a family member and not as an unwanted guest.

Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Khaleesi, a 4-year-old Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), looks over her new home at the Knoxville Zoo, in Knoxville, Tenn.

HOROSCOPES LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your spouse or business partnerships have offered you many surprises over the last little while.

Today will not be any different. Greater abundance and joy are on your doorstep, waiting for you to acknowledge the blessings being presented to you. Public dealings will go well!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The more you care for others today, the better able you are to also increase your health, work and daily life. The shift within your daily activities will lead you to greater abundance. Go out and socialize with others, it will help you learn more about your personal truth.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A shift in your romantic situation will have you counting your blessings. A new positive perspective on life will open up many doors for you today.

Those on your daily routine could be the next best thing in your life. Go out and enjoy other’s company now!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): After some time of feeling like you were the black sheep of the family, you’ll finally uncover that you share similarities with them.

What you value and what you are passionate about today will be rewarded and cherished. Express yourself as you please now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You will find greater value with expressing your truth today.

Others will be keen on accepting these attributes as something that is uniquely and exceptionally you.

Share the knowledge you have acquired to date with family and significant others in your life now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A shift in your finances today will be instigated by your true worth emerging.

The more you communicate today, the more likely you will notice how supportive everyone is towards you.

Those on your daily routine will emphasis what makes you special and a treasure!

Birthday Affirmation: There will be a need to communicate with friends and groups you are part of today.

Learning and sharing with others is emphasized and will go over extremely well for you.

This will help you understand your autonomy more and get you in tune with your personal truth.

Interactions through sales and relating to the public will run wonderfully today — Enjoy!

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): On a subconscious level there will be a shift.

What is it that has been troubling you for some time?

Today you will notice that the more you communicate your truth, the better able you are to see who will be in your future.

Go out and socialize within your community.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today you are feeling great about who you truly are.

Hang out with friends, express your true dreams of the future you want.

There is great support for you whether it is financial or verbal.

Friends will offer you blessings now that will shift your view of what is to come.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Blessings will come in disguise today.

First you will intuitively know what direction you need to take in order to make your dreams come true.

This will also involve friendships and fulfilling their desires.

They will reciprocate that back to you on a very public level.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are focused on your career today.

You are feeling abundant and this will in turn help you actualize all sales and dealings with the public.

A shift in perspective will occur that will help you understand why you experienced all the lessons you endured with family and home life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There will be a shift in resources from your spouse or within your business.

Perhaps you have learnt something new or simply your perspective on your current situation has changed therefore allowing more abundance into your life.

Renewed optimism will happen today!

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Learning and sharing with others is LARISA MAIRA emphasized and will OZOLINS go over extremely well for you.

This will help you understand your autonomy more and get you in tune with your personal truth. Interactions through sales and relating to the public will run wonderfully today — Enjoy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Powerful interactions with others will be emphasized this year.

Through others, you will learn to stand your ground when it comes to your career and simply how others see you in the public.

Tensions with family will be much better as the year progresses, but this area will start off rocky.

Any issues you’ve had with paper work to with your perspective will shift for the better.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today you are starting to feel more comfortable with being your true self.

Whether those in your life agree with you or not, you have every opportunity to be who you are with no compromise.

Those who are your friends will want to join in

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A long time coming for Adamson CAMROSE DRIVER WINS SECOND NORTH AMERICAN PONY CHUCKWAGON CHAMPIONSHIP

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Lee Adamson may have been nipped out at the line in the dash for cash, but the blow was softened by wrapping up his second North American Pony Chuckwagon Championship — 20 years after the first — at the Westerner Days on Sunday.

The Camrose driver’s overall time of six minutes, 32.43 seconds was 3.06 seconds faster than Neil Salmond of Weekes, Sask. in the Uncle Ben’s RV outfit, who did win the final race and $4,500 cheque with a time of 1:16.91.

“It’s always special to win a big show like this,” said Adamson who was driving the A-1 Rentals rig. “The best of the best are here in Red Deer and you always want to show well in a show like this.”

Adamson held a lead of 3.36 seconds after four heats, an almost insurmountable lead as long as he ran a clean final race but the competitor in him did not want to play safe.

“You know when you’re in a heat like that, you want to win the show, but you throw it balls out, type thing. You want to make sure you’re right there with the boys and make it a good show,” he said.

Even bigger for Adamson, 46, was the chance to watch his son develop over the week.

Cole Adamson, 18, was driving his grandfather’s — Ray Adamson — Pidherny’s wagon in Red Deer, the third event this year he’s had the chance to do so. After a couple of tough penalties knocked him out of contention the first couple of days, he was one of the fastest drivers over the last three heats. The proud papa

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Camrose’s Lee Adamson gets through the barrels at the North American Pony Chuckwagons Championship at Westerner Days on Sunday afternoon in Red Deer. says he will be the new fulltime driver of that wagon going forward.

“He’s come a long ways,” said Adamson of his son. “It’s his first year wagon driving, but he’s going to be a good driver, there’s no question there. We figure if we can get him the good horses he’ll do the rest.”

Adamson was the sixth ranked driver in the All-pro Canadian Chuckwagon and

Chariot Association standings heading into this past week with strong showings in Grande Prairie, Saddle Lake and Ponoka. With his win at the North American Pony Chuckwagon Championships, he should jump up a few more places.

In third place was defending champion and eight-time champ Keith Wood out of Saddle Lake in the Westock Frame & Wheel Alignment

Ltd. rig in Red Deer at 6:36.22, while Sedgewick’s Curtis Hogg was fourth at 6:36.23 in the Kellough Enterprises Inc. wagon.

Rounding out the top 10 were Louis Johner of Mayerthorpe (Paradise RV in Red Deer, 1:17.43 on Sunday, 6:31.13 total), Gary Thiel of Sherwood Park (Pumps & Pressure Inc. in Red Deer, 1.18.07 Sunday, 6.37.42 total), Kevin Desjarlais of Elizabeth Métis Settlement (The Pipe Yard in Blackfalds,

1:17.79 Sunday, 6.37.58 total), Brian Miller of Drumheller (Westerner Park Board of Directors, 1.17.73 Sunday, 6:40.22 total), Eckville’s Marvin Hubl (Eldorado Pressure Services in Rocky Mountain House, 1:18.11,6:42.68 total), and Chance Thomson of Alder Flats (PureChem Services, 1:20.53 Sunday, 6:43.66 total). jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

McIlroy goes Buccaneers suffer ‘embarrassing’ loss against Ft. Mac Monarchs wire-to-wire to win first Open Championship

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOYLAKE, England — Walking off the 18th green as the British Open champion, Rory McIlroy kept gazing at all the greats on golf’s oldest trophy.

On the claret jug, his name is etched in silver below Phil Mickelson.

In the record book, he is listed behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the youngest to get three legs of the career Grand Slam.

And over four days at Royal Liverpool, he had no equal.

“I’m immensely proud of myself,” McIlroy said after his two-shot victory Sunday that was never really in doubt. “To sit here, 25 years of age, and win my third major championship and be three-quarters of the way to a career Grand Slam ... yeah, I never dreamed of being at this point in my career so quickly.”

He had to work a little harder than he wanted for this one.

Staked to a six-shot lead going into the final round, McIlroy turned back every challenge. He made two key birdies around the turn, and delivered a majestic drive at just the right moment to close with a 1-under 71 and complete his wire-to-wire victory.

In another major lacking tension over the final hour, what brought The Open to life was the potential of its champion.

After nearly two years of turmoil, McIlroy looked like the kid who shattered scoring records to win the 2011 U.S. Open at Congressional, and who won the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island by a record eight shots a year later.

Boy Wonder is back. Or maybe he’s just getting started again.

McIlroy won by two shots over Sergio Garcia and Rickie Fowler to become the first start-to-finish winner since Woods at St. Andrews in 2005.

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Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland kisses the Claret Jug trophy after winning the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, Sunday.

Even with one major left this year, the Northern Irishman already is looking ahead to Augusta National next April for a shot at the slam.

“I’ve really found my passion again for golf,” McIlroy said.

“Not that it ever dwindled, but it’s what I think about when I get up in the morning.

It’s what I think about when I go to bed. I just want to be the best golfer that I can be. And I know if I can do that, then trophies like this are within my capability.”

McIlroy put an end to this major with a powerful drive down the fairway at the par5 16th, setting up a two-putt birdie to restore his lead to three shots. He finished with two pars, tapping in for par on the 18th green.

The hard part was trying not to cry when his mother, Rosie, came onto the green with tears streaming down her face. She was not at the other two majors.

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Monarchs 14, Buccaneers 9 Red Deer Buccaneers head coach Duane Brown needed just one word to describe their 14-9 Alberta Football League loss to the expansion Fort McMurray Monarchs on Saturday at MEGlobal Athletic Park in Lacombe.

“Embarrassing,” he said.

“The entire first half we could not execute anything, we couldn’t do a hand off, we couldn’t catch the ball, we couldn’t run the ball, we couldn’t throw the ball and the offence clearly let the defence down, they played an amazing game.”

The Buccaneers offence was as dysfunctional as a Jerry Springer cast. It took them until the fourth quarter to get over the midfield stripe, and that only lasted one play as they were called for holding and brought back to their own 50-yard line. In the process they committed seven turnovers and another two on special teams. Of their nine points, their offence accounted for none of them. It was plain bad.

Their lone touchdown was scored on a botched punt attempt as Matt Merkley picked up the fumbled snap, found a lane and ran 95 yards for a touchdown, Tylor Johnson kicked the point after. Their other two points came via a surrendered safety by the Monarchs at the end of the game.

But it also meant their defence was stout.

As bad as the Bucs’ offence was, Fort McMurray almost matched them, but that was more due to the tenacity and aggressiveness of the Bucs, as opposed to outright dropping the ball.

The Central Alberta front four gave Fort McMurray quarterbacks Chris Piercey and Jacob Welsh no room to breath on Saturday, and put them on the run all game. When they did get the ball away, they were met by the likes of rookie linebacker Mitch Martel or defensive backs Keegan and Kenton Poelszer, Tylor Johnson and Jordan Willie, who shut down the Monarchs’ top offensive star Kwami Osei.

They put on a tackling clinic.

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Central Alberta Buccaneers’ Cole Stewart narrowly avoids giving up a safety against the Fort McMurray Monarch in Alberta Football League action at MEGlobal Athletic Park in Lacombe on Saturday. Monarchs won 14-9.

“From start to finish, they were a powerful, dominant team, that’s what they have been all year, the last two years,” said Brown of his defensive unit.

The Monarchs scored one touchdown on a punt return

by Dylan Elias in the second quarter, the other came off the only sustained drive for either team in the second half, finished off by fullback David Bosch on a one-yard run off tackle.

This was the second big game in a row for the Poelzer brothers, who have turned into leaders in the Buccaneers secondary.

Both play aggressively, tackle hard and fly around the ball. Rarely is either beat for a big play.

“They’re two very different men,” said Brown. “It’s cool to see, that brother relationship and how they work off each other and it’s fun to watch.”

Neither, however, played

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football growing up in high school. Kenton, 33, came the closest, playing rugby. Keegan, 30, meanwhile, was a hockey player. But they both loved football.

While the two were living together in Edmonton in their early-mid 20s they decided to come out for the then Red Deer Buccaneers as job opportunities brought them back home.

That was eight years ago.

“We play now just to play together as brothers, and as brothers with the rest of the guys on the team,” said Kenton, who stands in at six-footone and 195 pounds and is an accountant in his professional life. “It’s a lot of fun playing together.”

As expected, there was some difficulty in picking up a sport on the fly, but it wasn’t the physicality. They have that in spades.

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Blue Jays’ bats salvage series win CABRERA LEADS JAYS TO WIN OVER RANGERS BUT BUEHRLE DENIED THE WIN AGAIN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 9 Rangers 6 TORONTO — It was about as ugly a win as you can get.

Toronto starter Mark Buehrle fell trying to throw a pitch, balking in a run. Closer Casey Janssen didn’t finish the ninth. Even Rogers Centre couldn’t make up its mind, opening and then closing the dome.

When the dust had settled, the Blue Jays had defeated the lowly Texas Rangers 9-6 Sunday, securing the series win over the worst club in the majors.

The teams combined for 27 hits.

But it was hardly a precision batting display. Texas left nine men on base while going 4-for-15 with runners in scoring position. Toronto stranded eight and went six-for-13 with runners in scoring position.

Melky Cabrera answered a Texas comeback with a leadoff homer in the seventh inning and singled home two more runs in the eighth to lead the Jays. Cabrera gave Toronto a 6-5 lead when he sent reliever Neftali Feliz’s third pitch of the day deep to centre field. It was the left-fielder’s 12th home run of the season, delighting the crowd of 36,011 on a 23-degree day.

One inning later, Munenori Kawasaki made it 7-5 with an RBI single after Toronto loaded the bases with one out on three singles. Then Cabrera slammed a single to right-centre to bring home Anthony Gose and Jose Reyes.

Toronto (51-49) has now won seven of the last eight completed series against Texas (39-59) at Rogers Centre.

Perhaps more importantly, the Toronto offence woke out of its slumber.

The nine runs were the most by the Jays since they scored 14 on June 20 in Cincinnati. Toronto, which had lost its last three series, also notched its first multi-homer game since July 2.

“We came to life today,” said manager John Gibbons, who noticed a change in attitude early in the game.

“I felt a little more energy in the dugout. The guys seemed a little more relaxed, some funny comments.

They’ve been grinding it pretty hard lately. It’s been wearing on them.”

Janssen, recovered from a stomach ailment, gave up three hits and a run in a nervous ninth and was replaced

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GOLF: Masterpiece Before leaving, McIlroy turned and applauded the fans in the horseshoe arena who were witness to another masterpiece. This could have been another romp except for a shaky stretch early for McIlroy, and solid efforts from Garcia and Fowler.

Garcia pulled within two shots with four holes to play until he put his tee shot in a pot bunker just right of the 15th green. His first shot failed to get over the 4-foot sodden wall and rolled back into the sand. He made bogey, and two birdies over the final three holes were not enough. Garcia shot 66 and was runner-up in a major for the fourth time.

“I think that we gave it a good effort,” Garcia said. “And there was someone a little bit better.”

Fowler, playing in the final group for the second straight major, didn’t do anything wrong. He just didn’t do enough right to make up a six-shot deficit. Fowler played without a bogey, made three birdies on the last four holes and shot 67.

“He played awesome,” Fowler said.

finally ended it by inducing former Jay J.P. Arencibia to pop out on a 3-and-2 pitch for his fourth save.

“I just didn’t see that crispness coming out there,” Gibbons said of Janssen, who converted 14 of 16 save opportunities in the first half of the season.

Left-hander Brett Cecil, coming on in the eighth with no outs and a man on second, snuffed out an earlier Rangers threat.

Cabrera went 3-for-5 and has now hit safely in 11 of his last 12 games and 23 of his last 28. He also made a fine catch in left field, snagging the ball at his shoe top.

“I just think the all-star break did him wonders,” said Gibbons. “He’s out there every day. It did most guys some good. He just needed to refresh a little bit. His hand, speed, bat speed looks a little bit better. That’s the key to hitting, if you get a good swing. ” Buehrle did not look fresh as he went six innings in his eighth unsuccessful attempt to record a win since June 1.

“He was a little off,” said Gibbons.

“It’s too bad he hasn’t had a win in so long,” he added. “Because he’s definitely pitched well enough to have a few more under his belt. But that’s the way baseball is sometimes. There’s no justice in this business.”

The day wasn’t all bad for Buehrle. He picked off two Rangers and is now five shy of tying Andy Pettitte for most career pickoffs (105). Plus he was headed to the Tim McGraw show after the game.

Todd Redmond (1-4) got the win for one inning in relief of Buehrle while Feliz (0-1) was tagged with the loss.

Down 5-2, the Rangers had rallied for three runs in the sixth to tie the score as the bottom of the order loaded the bases. The Buehrle balk and a Daniel Robertson two-RBI single made it a whole new ball game.

“That’ll make the bloopers,” said Gibbons.

Buehrle, who called it “embarrassing,” said he went down because his cleat caught. He would have tried to throw the ball at the plate but was more concerned about not hurting himself going down.

“Obviously I haven’t been as sharp as I want to be the last times I’ve been out. It hasn’t been really that good. I don’t know. Just a couple of those days.

Don’t want to have them but they’re going to come in the course of season and (I) just need to turn it around.”

“And it was just kind of fun to throw a few shots at him coming. To see him win was pretty cool.”

It was the first time two straight majors were won wire to wire. Martin Kaymer did it last month at Pinehurst No. 2, taking the U.S. Open by eight shots.

McIlroy, who finished at 17-under 271, wasn’t the only big winner Sunday.

Ten years ago, his father and three of his friends each put up 100 pounds ($170) at 500-1 odds that McIlroy would win the British Open before he turned 26. The kid made good on the bet with a brand of golf that had him marked early as golf’s next great player.

McIlroy moved up to No. 2 in the world, perhaps on his way to regaining the No. 1 ranking that once looked as if it would be his for years. He ended the 2012 season by winning his second major and capturing the money title on the PGA Tour and European Tour.

Since then, the road has been bumpier than some of the dunes at Hoylake.

McIlroy signed a megadeal with Nike and switched out all his equipment.

He changed management for the second time, leading to lawsuits that are still to be decided. And after getting engaged to Caroline Wozniacki on New Year’s Eve, he abruptly broke off the engagement in May with a telephone call.

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Toronto Blue Jays Melky Cabrera is congratulated by teammate Jose Bautista after he hit a solo home run against the Texas Rangers in the seventh inning of their baseball game in Toronto, Sunday.

Jays GM says talks continue to improve team, but is there extra payroll available?

TORONTO — Toronto general manager Alex Anthopoulos says he is looking to add to the Blue Jays by trade but danced around the issue of whether he can add payroll in the process.

Can you take on additional salary, he was asked?

“We can add players,” Anthopoulos, who doubles as senior vice-president of baseball operations, said prior to Sunday’s game against Texas.

“We have the ability to have dialogue at any time. I don’t see any reason why we won’t be able to add players.

And obviously players make money.

No one plays for free.”

He declined to get into specifics when asked if it was dollar in, dollar out.

“Those are things we keep in house,” he said.

Toronto’s current payroll is reportedly around US$137 million.

The issue of whether the Jays had hit the salary ceiling has been raised since the pre-season when free agent pitcher Elvis Santana chose Atlanta

His path to victory in The Open was much smoother. McIlroy made back-toback bogeys on the front nine and had to save par from a pot bunker to avoid a third. But he steadied himself with a birdie on the par-3ninth, and when Garcia made a 10-foot eagle ahead of him on the 10th to cut the lead to two, McIlroy answered with a birdie.

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., tied for 32nd place after shooting a 71.

Jim Furyk was among four players who tied the course record with a 65 to finish fourth. Tiger Woods was long gone. He finished his 75 as McIlroy was still on the practice range. Woods finished 69th — his worst finish over 72 holes in any major — and wound up 23 shots behind, his largest deficit ever in a major.

BUCS: Mental stuff “The toughest thing to pick up is not to let the mental stuff beat you,” said Keegan, who is five-foot-10, 190 pounds.

“You start looking too much, you start over thinking and you just have to re-

over Toronto amidst reports that several Jays players had offered to restructure their contracts to find the funds to sign Santana.

“I think we have enough resources to do what we need to do,” Anthopoulos said. “I think there’s ways we can be creative. I don’t have any doubt that we have the ability to add players. How that gets done, obviously we can always be creative.

“We have a very strong payroll, we’re thrilled with it. Ownership has been outstanding with us from that standpoint.”

The GM said while there were no imminent trades, he was involved in talks in the “conceptual stage.”

Anthopoulos said offence was one area that needed improvement. Toronto (50-48 going into Sunday’s game) had lost 18 of their last 27 games with many bats having gone quiet.

“Clearly offensively we haven’t played as well as we can,” he said.

Anthopoulos, speaking to reporters in the Toronto dugout, was optimistic that a quick return to health to the likes of Edwin Encarnacion, Adam Lind and Brett Lawrie will boost the team.

“Our (No.) 4, 5 and 6-hole hitters are out. So getting those guys back is huge, no matter what,” Anthopoulos said. “But we’re going to look to add by trade as well. Hopefully both.” act. The more you think about it, the worse it is ... just do your job.”

The loss on Saturday was a hard one to swallow, but both refused to point the finger at the offence, looking to themselves and opportunities the defence had to stop the Monarchs or put points on the board themselves.

The defeat dropped them back to .500 on the season with one regular season game left on the schedule, Aug. 9 in St. Albert against the Stars.

Their expectations still remain high for a long playoff run.

“I really feel like we have a championship-calibre defence, and if clean up a couple of mistakes on defence and everywhere, we’ll be good,” said Keegan.

The game against the Stars will carry extra motivation. The Stars upset the Buccaneers in the playoffs last year as the Central Albertans were primed for a run at the title after a 5-1 regular season.

“Every day, every practice, every time I go to the gym (I remember it),” said Keegan. “It’s not a nice feeling.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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● Senior men’s baseball: North Star Sports vs. Printing Place, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Women’s fastball: Snell and Oslund vs. N. Jensen’s, TNT vs. Topco Oilsite, first games of best-of-three semifinals, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Sunburst baseball: Fort Saskatchewan at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park 1.

Wednesday

● Junior golf: McLennan Ross Tour event at Olds. ● Women’s fastball: N. Jensen’s vs. Snell and Oslund, Topco Oilsite vs. TNT, second games of best-of-three semifinals, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Midget AAA baseball: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1.

Parkland baseball: Red Deer at Innisfail, 7 p.m.

Friday ● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Outdoor Classic tournament at Edgar Park and McLean fields, first games at 6 p.m., last games at 7:30 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Irricana at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1.

Saturday ● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Outdoor Classic tournament at Edgar Park and McLean fields, first games at 9 a.m., last games at 7:30 p.m. ● Men’s third division rugby: Calgary Rams at Red Deer, noon, Titans Park. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, doubleheader at noon and 3 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Men’s second division rugby: Calgary Hornets at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Titans Park. ● Parkland baseball: Irricana at Lacombe, 7 p.m. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Edmonton Warriors at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-five Rocky Mountain League North Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Kinex.

Sunday

Thursday

● Women’s fastball: Snell and Oslund vs. N. Jensen’s, TNT vs. Topco Oilsite, third games of best-of-three semifinals, if necessary, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Senior men’s baseball: Printing Place vs. North Star Sports, Nighthawks vs.

Lacombe Stone and Granite, 7 p.m.,

● Soccer: Red Deer City Soccer Association Outdoor Classic tournament at Edgar Park and McLean fields, first games at 9 a.m., last games at 3 p.m. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● Parkland baseball: Red Deer at Innisfail, 7 p.m.

Football Ottawa Toronto Montreal Hamilton

GP 3 4 4 3

CFL East Division W L T 1 2 0 1 3 0 1 3 0 0 3 0

PF 57 101 70 41

PA 80 112 113 69

Pt 2 2 2 0

Edmonton Calgary Winnipeg B.C. Sask.

GP 4 3 4 4 3

West Division W L T PF 4 0 0 108 3 0 0 73 3 1 0 118 2 2 0 96 1 2 0 59

PA 58 30 108 69 84

Pt 8 6 6 4 2

Week 4 Friday’s results Ottawa 18 Toronto 17 Calgary 10 Hamilton 7 Saturday’s results B.C. 41 Montreal 5 Week 5 Thursday, July 24 Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Friday, July 25 Winnipeg at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 26 Ottawa at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Saskatchewan, 8 p.m.

Week 6 Thursday, July 31 Winnipeg at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Friday, August 1 Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m.

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

Saturday, August 2 Saskatchewan at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Canadian Football League Leaders TORONTO — Unofficial 2014 CFL scoring leaders following Saturday’s game (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S Pt Shaw, Edm 0 10 10 6 46 Waters, Tor 0 9 10 2 41 Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 10 8 0 34 McCallum, BC 0 9 8 0 33 Maher, Ott 0 4 9 2 33 Whyte, Mtl 0 6 8 2 32

Bowman, Edm Paredes, Cgy Milo, Sask Allen, Sask Arceneaux, BC Grigsby, Wpg Harris, BC Walker, Ott Medlock, Ham Barnes, Tor Feoli-Gudino, Wpg Fuller, Cgy Gable, Ham Kelly, Wpg Marve, Wpg Owens, Tor Parker, Cgy T.Smith, Sask Steele, Tor C.Taylor, BC Washington, Wpg Adams, Tor Bradwell, Tor Coehoorn, Edm Collins, Ott Cornish, Cgy Cox, Mtl Dunn, Wpg Green, Mtl Guyton, Edm C.Johnson, Mtl J.Johnson, Tor Lefevour, Ham Lumbala, Mtl McCarty, Edm McDaniel, Cgy Molden, Tor Partridge, BC Player, BC Price, Cgy Randle, Wpg Sinopoli, Cgy Stafford, Mtl Stamps, Edm Swain, Sask Tasker, Ham Watkins, Edm Watson, Wpg Whitaker, Mtl Willis, Edm Maver, Cgy Schmitt, BC

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MONDAY, JULY 21, 2014

Baseball

Monday

British Open Sunday At Royal Liverpool Golf Club Hoylake, England Purse: $9.24 million Yardage: 7,312; Par: 72 Final Rory McIlroy, $1,665,788 66-66-68-71 Rickie Fowler, $785,910 69-69-68-67 Sergio Garcia, $785,910 68-70-69-66 Jim Furyk, $478,380 68-71-71-65 Marc Leishman, $359,639 69-72-70-65 Adam Scott, $359,639 68-73-69-66 Edoardo Molinari, $263,536 68-73-68-68 Charl Schwartzel, $263,536 71-67-72-67 Victor Dubuisson, $192,492 74-66-68-70 Shane Lowry, $192,492 68-75-70-65 Graeme McDowell, $192,492 74-69-68-67 Dustin Johnson, $144,654 71-65-71-72 Robert Karlsson, $144,654 69-71-70-69 Ryan Moore, $144,654 70-68-73-68 Stephen Gallacher, $117,318 70-72-70-68 David Howell, $117,318 72-70-70-68 Francesco Molinari, $117,318 68-70-75-67 George Coetzee, $105,073 70-69-74-68 Keegan Bradley, $93,968 73-71-69-69 Angel Cabrera, $93,968 76-69-70-67 Chris Kirk, $93,968 71-74-68-69 Matteo Manassero, $93,968 67-75-68-72 Phil Mickelson, $78,876 74-70-71-68 Justin Rose, $78,876 72-70-69-72 Chris Wood, $78,876 75-70-73-65 Byeong-Hun An, $65,350 72-71-69-72 Thomas Bjorn, $65,350 70-71-76-67 Darren Clarke, $65,350 72-72-67-73 Brian Harman, $65,350 72-73-68-71 Ben Martin, $65,350 71-73-70-70 Jimmy Walker, $65,350 69-71-71-73 Kristoffer Broberg, $52,964 70-73-70-72 David Hearn, $52,964 70-73-71-71 Hunter Mahan, $52,964 71-73-72-69 D.A. Points, $52,964 75-69-72-69 Branden Grace, $46,271 71-72-69-74 Louis Oosthuizen, $46,271 70-68-76-72 Jordan Spieth, $46,271 71-75-67-73 Thongchai Jaidee, $36,253 72-72-72-71 Hideki Matsuyama, $36,253 69-74-73-71 Koumei Oda, $36,253 69-77-74-67 Kevin Stadler, $36,253 73-72-71-71 Henrik Stenson, $36,253 72-73-73-69 Brendon Todd, $36,253 73-73-74-67 Marc Warren, $36,253 71-68-72-76 Gary Woodland, $36,253 75-69-72-71 Gregory Bourdy, $27,358 75-69-74-70 Paul Casey, $27,358 74-71-73-70 Stewart Cink, $27,358 71-75-73-69 Zach Johnson, $27,358 71-75-71-71 Jason Dufner, $25,030 70-74-74-71 Bill Haas, $25,030 70-72-73-74 Tom Watson, $25,030 73-73-75-68 Matt Jones, $23,791 71-74-72-73 Matt Kuchar, $23,791 73-71-74-72 Kevin Na, $23,791 76-70-70-74 Kevin Streelman, $23,791 72-74-69-75 Jason Day, $22,808 73-73-74-71 Jamie McLeary, $22,808 73-73-75-70 Ryan Palmer, $22,808 74-71-76-70 Chris Rodgers, $22,808 73-71-73-74 John Senden, $22,808 71-74-75-71 Brandt Snedeker, $22,808 74-72-71-74 Luke Donald, $22,040 73-73-71-75 Billy Hurley III, $22,040 73-72-76-71 Thorbjorn Olesen, $22,040 75-71-73-73 Charley Hoffman, $21,613 74-72-76-71 Brooks Koepka, $21,613 68-77-74-74 Tiger Woods, $21,356 69-77-73-75 Martin Kaymer, $21,185 73-72-72-79 Matt Every, $21,015 75-71-73-78 Rhein Gibson, $20,844 72-74-74-78

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LPGA Tour-Marathon Classic SYLVANIA, Ohio — Scores Sunday from the $1.4-million LPGA Marathon Classic, played at the par-71 (34-37), 6,512-yard Highland Meadows Golf Club course: Final Round Lydia Ko, $210,000 67-67-70-65 — 269 So Yeon Ryu, $128,069 68-67-68-67 — 270 Cristie Kerr, $92,905 70-67-68-67 — 272 Kelly Tan, $59,015 68-70-68-67 — 273 Katherine Kirk, $59,015 69-68-68-68 — 273 Lee-Anne Pace, $59,015 66-68-68-71 — 273 Pernilla Lindberg, $32,044 71-68-70-65 — 274

Julieta Granada, $32,044 68-72-68-66 — Kris Tamulis, $32,044 73-69-64-68 — Lindsey Wright, $32,044 67-70-69-68 — Mo Martin, $32,044 67-71-67-69 — Rebecca Lee-Bentham, $23,04568-67-72-68— Ai Miyazato, $23,045 68-72-67-68 — Mirim Lee, $23,045 71-67-68-69 — Karine Icher, $19,259 73-67-73-63 — Lexi Thompson, $19,259 71-72-66-67 — Candie Kung, $19,259 70-67-69-70 — Tiffany Joh, $15,586 71-72-67-67 — Mariajo Uribe, $15,586 67-70-71-69 — Austin Ernst, $15,586 66-73-66-72 — Brittany Lang, $15,586 70-66-69-72 — Brooke Pancake, $15,586 69-69-67-72 — Jaye Marie Green, $15,586 72-68-63-74 — Laura Diaz, $15,586 62-69-71-75 — Jennifer Rosales, $11,950 70-69-71-68 — Jenny Shin, $11,950 72-70-67-69 — Meena Lee, $11,950 72-70-66-70 — Stacy Lewis, $11,950 70-70-68-70 — Beatriz Recari, $11,950 70-68-70-70 — Marina Alex, $11,950 69-69-69-71 — Brittany Lincicome, $11,950 69-69-69-71 — Katy Harris, $8,491 74-69-69-67 — Jennifer Johnson, $8,491 73-69-70-67 — Moriya Jutanugarn, $8,491 72-69-70-68 — Chella Choi, $8,491 71-72-67-69 — Haru Nomura, $8,491 69-70-71-69 — Kristy McPherson, $8,491 71-68-70-70 — Marissa L Steen, $8,491 67-73-69-70 — Na Yeon Choi, $8,491 69-71-68-71 — Belen Mozo, $8,491 71-68-69-71 — Caroline Hedwall, $8,491 69-68-69-73 — Sarah Jane Smith, $5,881 70-71-71-68 — Eun-Hee Ji, $5,881 72-69-69-70 — Danielle Kang, $5,881 69-71-70-70 — Amelia Lewis, $5,881 69-74-67-70 — Katie M. Burnett, $5,881 67-73-68-72 — Pat Hurst, $5,881 71-70-67-72 — Kim Kaufman, $5,881 70-71-67-72 — Kayla Mortellaro, $5,881 69-67-70-74 — Heather Bowie Young, $4,698 71-69-71-70 — Moira Dunn, $4,698 70-69-70-72 — Christina Kim, $4,698 69-70-70-72 — Victoria Elizabeth, $4,698 71-69-68-73 — Morgan Pressel, $3,997 72-70-71-69 — Mina Harigae, $3,997 70-69-73-70 — Ji Young Oh, $3,997 72-71-69-70 — Dori Carter, $3,997 70-70-70-72 — Mi Jung Hur, $3,997 73-69-68-72 — Maude-Aimee Leblanc, $3,99769-72-69-72 — Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $3,401 71-71-73-68 — Brianna Do, $3,401 73-69-71-70 — Jeong Jang, $3,401 71-69-70-73 — Line Vedel, $3,401 71-68-69-75 — Lisa McCloskey, $3,190 75-68-72-69 — Sydnee Michaels, $3,190 70-72-71-71 — Jenny Suh, $3,015 73-69-73-70 — Paula Reto, $3,015 72-70-72-71 — Paula Creamer, $3,015 72-71-70-72 — Ayako Uehara, $2,840 71-69-74-72 — Maria Hernandez, $2,840 71-70-69-76 — Ashleigh Simon, $2,734 70-73-75-69 — Julia Boland, $2,734 74-69-71-73 — Cindy LaCrosse, $2,734 69-71-68-79 — Jimin Kang, $2,648 70-73-73-72 — Paola Moreno , $2,648 68-74-73-73 — Mindy Kim, $2,599 72-70-75-72 — Chie Arimura, $2,566 71-70-76-74 — Web.com Boise Open Sunday At Hillcrest Country Club Boise, Idaho Purse: $800,000 Yardage: 6,807; Par 71 Final x-won on first playoff hole x-Steve Wheatcroft, $144,000 64-66-65-65 Steven Alker, $86,400 62-66-65-67 Justin Thomas, $54,400 68-65-64-65 Andrew Putnam, $33,067 66-68-65-66 Chase Wright, $33,067 64-66-69-66 Zack Sucher, $33,067 60-67-68-70 Matt Davidson, $24,933 65-70-67-65 Daniel Berger, $24,933 69-66-65-67 Bill Lunde, $24,933 66-61-70-70 Joey Garber, $18,400 69-65-67-67 Fabian Gomez, $18,400 65-70-67-66 Andres Gonzales, $18,400 67-66-69-66 Fern. Mechereffe, $18,400 71-64-66-67 Garth Mulroy, $18,400 66-69-64-69

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Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Cincinnati 1 Toronto 4, Texas 1 Cleveland 6, Detroit 2, 1st game Cleveland 5, Detroit 2, 2nd game Chicago White Sox 4, Houston 3 Boston 2, Kansas City 1 Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 1 Baltimore 8, Oakland 4 Seattle 3, L.A. Angels 2, 12 innings

Monday’s Games Texas (Mikolas 0-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Greene 2-0), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (Lackey 10-6) at Toronto (Hutchison 6-8), 5:07 p.m.

Cleveland (House 1-2) at Minnesota (Kr.Johnson 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 5-8) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 8-1), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 8-8) at Arizona (Nuno 0-1), 7:40 p.m.

Baltimore (B.Norris 7-6) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 7-2), 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 5-4) at Seattle (Elias 7-8), 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Altuve Hou 96 402 51 135 .336 Cano Sea 93 364 49 122 .335 Beltre Tex 84 321 52 106 .330 Brantley Cle 94 368 66 120 .326 Chisenhall Cle 83 273 41 89 .326 VMartinez Det 84 317 46 102 .322 Trout LAA 93 361 69 113 .313 MiCabrera Det 94 359 58 111 .309 MeCabrera Tor 98 404 59 124 .307 KSuzuki Min 82 285 26 87 .305 Home Runs JAbreu, Chicago, 29; NCruz, Baltimore, 28; Encarnacion, Toronto, 26; Trout, Los Angeles, 23; Moss, Oakland, 22; Donaldson, Oakland, 21; VMartinez, Detroit, 21.

Runs Batted In MiCabrera, Detroit, 75; JAbreu, Chicago, 74; NCruz, Baltimore, 74; Trout, Los Angeles, 74; Donaldson, Oakland, 70; Encarnacion, Toronto, 70; Moss, Oakland, 67.

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

Washington Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia Central Division

L 45 45 46 47 57

Pct .545 .545 .531 .520 .412

GB — — 1 1/2 2 1/2 13

W 54 55 43 43 40

L 44 45 55 56 58

Pct .551 .550 .439 .434 .408

GB — — 11 11 1/2 14

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 Pittsburgh 3, Colorado 2, 11 innings Washington 8, Milwaukee 3 Philadelphia 2, Atlanta 1 San Francisco 5, Miami 3 Arizona 9, Chicago Cubs 3 San Diego 6, N.Y. Mets 0

GB — — 8 8 1/2 11

Kan. City 000 000 000 — 0 4 1 Boston 102 300 00x — 6 9 0 Ventura, Bueno (5), S.Downs (8) and Hayes; Lester, Tazawa (9), Mujica (9) and D.Ross. W—Lester 107. L—Ventura 7-8. HRs—Boston, D.Ross (6).

Tampa Bay 211 001 000 — 5 11 2 Minnesota 010 002 000 — 3 6 1 Archer, Boxberger (7), McGee (8), Balfour (9), Yates (9) and Casali; Correia, Deduno (5), Duensing (8), Perkins (9) and Fryer. W—Archer 6-5. L—Correia 5-12. Sv—Yates (1).

Houston 103 030 400 — 11 17 3 Chicago 001 213 000 — 7 10 0 Cosart, D.Downs (6), Veras (6), Sipp (6), Fields (8), Qualls (9) and Corporan; Joh.Danks, Thompson (5), D.Webb (7), Surkamp (8), Guerra (9) and Nieto.

W—Sipp 2-1. L—D.Webb 5-3. HRs—Houston, Altuve (3), M.Dominguez (12).

Seattle 300 000 200 — 5 10 0 LAA 102 000 102 — 6 16 0 C.Young, Medina (7), Beimel (8), Rodney (8) and Zunino; Skaggs, Grilli (7), Salas (8), Thatcher (9) and Conger, Iannetta. W—Thatcher 1-1. L—Rodney 1-4. HRs—Seattle, Seager (16). Los Angeles, Calhoun (11), Trout (23).

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 3, Cincinnati 2 Miami 3, San Francisco 2 Pittsburgh 5, Colorado 3 Washington 5, Milwaukee 4 Atlanta 8, Philadelphia 2 Arizona 3, Chicago Cubs 2 San Diego 2, N.Y. Mets 1 L.A. Dodgers 4, St. Louis 3

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 3, Cincinnati 2 Toronto 9, Texas 6 Detroit 5, Cleveland 1 Boston 6, Kansas City 0 Houston 11, Chicago White Sox 7 Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 3 L.A. Angels 6, Seattle 5 Oakland 10, Baltimore 2

National League East Division W L Pct 53 43 .552 54 44 .551 46 52 .469 45 52 .464 43 55 .439

W 54 54 52 51 40

Baltimore 000 010 100 — 2 3 1 Oakland 201 133 00x — 10 15 3 Gausman, McFarland (5), R.Webb (6), Matusz (6), Guilmet (8) and C.Joseph, Clevenger; Gray, O’Flaherty (7), Doolittle (9) and Jaso. W—Gray 113. L—Gausman 4-3.

Monday’s Games L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 10-5) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 8-6), 5:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 5-7) at Philadelphia (Cl. Lee 4-4), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 6-7) at Atlanta (Teheran 9-6), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Latos 2-1) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 106), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Fister 8-2) at Colorado (F.Morales 5-4), 6:40 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 8-8) at Arizona (Nuno 0-1), 7:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Niese 5-4) at Seattle (Elias 7-8), 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Tulowitzki Col 91 315 71 107 .340 MaAdams StL 84 313 32 101 .323 McGehee Mia 96 373 38 120 .322 AMcCutchen Pit 96 366 57 117 .320 Morneau Col 89 333 38 104 .312 Lucroy Mil 91 350 46 109 .311 Goldschmidt Ari 98 367 70 114 .311 Puig LAD 92 347 53 107 .308 Gennett Mil 87 289 42 89 .308 Blackmon Col 94 354 53 108 .305 Home Runs Rizzo, Chicago, 23; Stanton, Miami, 23; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 21; Frazier, Cincinnati, 20; Byrd, Philadelphia, 19; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 18; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 17; JUpton, Atlanta, 17.

Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 65; Stanton, Miami, 65; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 62; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 61; Desmond, Washington, 60; Morneau, Colorado, 60; Howard, Philadelphia, 58.

Pitching Wainwright, St. Louis, 12-4; Simon, Cincinnati, 12-4; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 11-2; Greinke, Los Angeles, 11-6; Lynn, St. Louis, 11-6; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 11-7; Lohse, Milwaukee, 10-4.

Sunday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 002 003 001 — 6 12 0 Toronto 031 010 13x — 9 15 1 Tepesch, Sh.Tolleson (5), Feliz (7), West (8) and G.Soto; Buehrle, Redmond (7), Cecil (8), Janssen (9), Loup (9) and D.Navarro. W—Redmond 1-4. L— Feliz 0-1. Sv—Loup (4). HRs—Toronto, D.Navarro (6), Me.Cabrera (12).

Cleveland 000 000 100 — 1 4 0 Detroit 200 200 01x — 5 9 0 Tomlin, C.Lee (5), Crockett (6), A.Adams (7), Rzepczynski (8) and Y.Gomes; Smyly, Chamberlain (8), Nathan (9) and Avila. W—Smyly 6-8. L—Tomlin 5-7. HRs—Cleveland, Y.Gomes (13). Detroit, Tor. Hunter (13).

INTERLEAGUE Cincinnati 000 010 010 — 2 6 1 New York 000 020 001 — 3 11 1 Cueto, M.Parra (6), LeCure (6), Broxton (8), A.Chapman (9) and B.Pena; Kuroda, Betances (7), Dav.Robertson (9) and McCann. W—Dav.Robertson 1-2. L—A.Chapman 0-3. HRs—Cincinnati, Frazier (20).

NATIONAL LEAGUE San Fran. 002 000 000 — 2 6 1 Miami 200 000 10x — 3 6 0 Lincecum, J.Gutierrez (8), J.Lopez (8) and H.Sanchez; Hand, Morris (8), Cishek (9) and Mathis. W—Hand 1-2. L—Lincecum 9-6. Sv—Cishek (21). HRs—Miami, McGehee (2).

Phila.

010 000 001 — 2 9 1 Atlanta 024 002 00x — 8 8 0 K.Kendrick, Hollands (6), Diekman (7), De Fratus (8) and K.Hill; A.Wood, Hale (7), D.Carpenter (9) and Laird. W—A.Wood 7-7. L—K.Kendrick 4-10.

HRs—Philadelphia, Mayberry (6), Byrd (19). Atlanta, C.Johnson (7).

Milwaukee 002 100 001 — 4 7 0 Wash.

010 300 001 — 5 12 1 Gallardo, Duke (7), W.Smith (8), Wooten (9) and Lucroy; G.Gonzalez, Stammen (4), Storen (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton. W—R.Soriano 2-0. L—Wooten 1-4. HRs—Washington, Zimmerman (5).

Colorado 210 000 000 — 3 8 2 Pittsburgh 020 001 20x — 5 12 0 Matzek, Belisle (7), B.Brown (7) and McKenry; Locke, J.Gomez (7), Watson (8), Melancon (9) and C.Stewart. W—J.Gomez 2-2. L—Belisle 2-6.

Sv—Melancon (18). HRs—Colorado, Rutledge (3), McKenry (2). Pittsburgh, N.Walker (14).

Chicago 000 001 010 — 2 6 0 Arizona 000 002 10x — 3 6 0 Arrieta, Russell (7), N.Ramirez (7), Strop (8) and Jo.Baker; Collmenter, Ziegler (8), A.Reed (9) and M.Montero. W—Collmenter 8-5. L—Arrieta 5-2.

Sv—A.Reed (23). HRs—Chicago, Rizzo (23).

New York 000 000 010 — 1 3 1 San Diego 000 100 001 — 2 11 0 Za.Wheeler, Eveland (7), Familia (8), Black (9), Edgin (9) and d’Arnaud; Despaigne, A.Torres (8), Quackenbush (8), Benoit (9) and Grandal. W— Benoit 4-2. L—Black 2-3. HRs—San Diego, Grandal (9).

LAD 012 000 001 — 4 11 0 St. Louis 010 002 000 — 3 7 0 Kershaw, B.Wilson (8), Howell (8), Jansen (9) and A.Ellis, Butera; C.Martinez, Motte (5), S.Miller (6), Choate (7), Maness (7), Rosenthal (9) and T.Cruz.

W—Howell 2-3. L—Rosenthal 1-5. Sv—Jansen (28). HRs—St. Louis, Bourjos (3).

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Kansas City 20 10 5 5 29 D.C. 19 10 5 4 29 Toronto 17 7 5 5 26 New York 20 5 6 9 32 New England 19 7 10 2 24 Philadelphia 21 5 8 8 33 Columbus 20 5 7 8 23 Chicago 18 3 4 11 26 Houston 20 5 11 4 22 Montreal 18 3 10 5 18

GA 18 20 23 31 31 35 26 28 40 31

Pt 35 34 26 24 23 23 23 20 19 14

Western Conference GP W L T GF 18 12 4 2 35 20 8 7 5 32 19 7 4 8 28 17 7 4 6 26

GA 24 29 25 16

Pt 38 29 29 27

Seattle Dallas Salt Lake Los Angeles

Colorado Vancouver Portland Chivas San Jose

19 19 20 19 17

7 6 5 6 4

6 4 6 8 8

6 9 9 5 5

28 29 32 21 17

24 27 33 30 19

27 27 24 23 17

Saturday’s results Kansas City 2 Los Angeles 1 New York 1 San Jose 1 Columbus 2 Montreal 1 Chicago 1 Philadelphia 1 Dallas 2 New England 0 Houston 2 Toronto 2 Salt Lake 1 Vancouver 1 Sunday’s results Chivas 1, D.C. 3 Wednesday’s games Chicago at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 24 Montreal at Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 26 Kansas City at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Columbus at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Chivas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday, July 27 Dallas at Vancouver, 3 p.m.

Portland at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Monday, July 28 Los Angeles at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, July 30 Toronto at D.C., 5 p.m.

Colorado at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

New York at Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned OF Mookie Betts to Pawtucket (IL). Reinstated OF Shane Victorino from the 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with RHP Aaron Wilkerson on a minor league contract.

Sent C Ryan Lavarnway to the GCL Red Sox and 3B Will Middlebrooks to Pawtucket (IL) for rehab assignments.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned INF Carlos Sanchez to Charlotte (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled RHP Zach McAllister from Columbus (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Chad Smith to Toledo (IL). Transferred RHP Joel Hanrahan to the 60-day DL. Selected the contract of RHP Drew VerHagen from Toledo. Recalled RHP Corey Knebel from Toledo.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned INF C.J. Cron to Salt Lake (PCL). Designated 3B Ian Stewart for assignment. Agreed to terms with LHP Sean Newcomb and RHP Chris Volstad on minor league contracts.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned C/OF Chris Herrmann to Rochester (IL). Reinstated SS Danny Santana from the 15-day DL. NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated OF Carlos Beltran from the 7-day DL. Agreed to terms with Cs K.J. Alexander and Jake Hernandez and RHPs Travis Hissong and Matt Marsh.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Transferred OF Wil Myers to the 60-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Sent LHP Joseph Ortiz to the AZL Rangers for a rehab assignment. Assigned National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with 3B Mailon Arroyo, RHP Wei-Chieh Huang and OFs Juan Araujo, Remy Cordero and Victor Rodriguez on minor league contracts.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned LHP Luis Avilan to Gwinnett (IL). Selected the contract of LHP Chasen Shreve from Mississippi (SL).

CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with LHP Jordan Minch on a minor league contract.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP Eddie Butler to Tulsa (TL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned INF Justin Bour

to New Orleans (PCL). Selected the contract of UT Jordany Valdespin from New Orleans. Transferred INF Rafael Furcal to the 60-day DL. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Assigned RHP Kevin Shackelford outright to Huntsville (SL). Placed SS Jeff Bianchi on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 13. Reinstated SS Jean Segura from the bereavement list. Sent RHP Jim Henderson to Nashville (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent C Wil Nieves to Reading (EL) for a rehab assignment.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jeremy Berg on a minor league contract.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Traded RHPs Huston Street and Trevor Gott to the L.A. Angels for 2B Taylor Lindsey, SS Jose Rondon and RHPs R.J. Alvarez and Elliot Morris. Reinstated RHP Nick Vincent from the 15-day DL. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Stetson Woods, Logan Webb and Jordan Johnson; LHPs Mark Reyes and Nick Sabo; OFs Hunter Cole, Byron Murray and Dylan Davis; SSs Jameson Henning and Austin Slater; and C Aramis Garcia.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent OF Eury Perez to Syracuse (IL) for a rehab assignment.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Traded F Kris Humphries to Washington a protected 2015 second-round draft pick.

DALLAS MAVERICKS — Signed F Rashard Lewis.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WR Tori Gurley and DB Kamaal McIlwan. Added DB Leodis McKelvin to the active roster. Placed G J.J. ’Unga and DT Marcell Dareus on the non-football injury list.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW YORK RANGERS — Signed F Lee Stempniak.

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with Fs John Albert, Patrice Cormier and Eric O’Dell.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Announced the fine and one-game sus-

pension of Sporting Kansas City D Aurelien Collin has been rescinded.

SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed D Matt Besler and M Graham Zusi to designated player contracts.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned SS Carlos Sanchez to Charlotte (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Taylor Thompson from Charlotte. Transferred RHP Felipe Paulino to the 60-day DL. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Zach McAllister to Columbus (IL). Sent RHP Justin Masterson to Columbus (IL) for a rehab assignment.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Drew VerHagen to Toledo (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Assigned 1B Carlos Pena outright to Round Rock (PCL).

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned 1B Neftali Soto to Louisville (IL). Reinstated OF Skip Schumaker from the 7-day DL. Agreed to terms with 2B Donnie Murphy on a minor league contract.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent RHP Nick Masset to Colorado Springs (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned INF Ed Lucas to New Orleans (PCL). Recalled RHP Anthony DeSclafani from New Orleans.

NEW YORK METS — Sent C Taylor Teagarden to Las Vegas (PCL) for a rehab assignment. Designated RHP Buddy Carlyle for assignment.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent RHP Joe Wieland to the AZL Padres for a rehab assignment.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MILWAUKEE BUCKS— Awarded the contract of G Kendall Marshall on a waiver claim.

FOOTBALL National Football League NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed TE Nate Byham.

HOCKEY ECHL READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with F Adam Hughesman on a one-year contract.

Top ranked Marlins win 21 medals at Ponoka swim meet The Red Deer Marlins, now ranked as the No. 1 team in the Alberta Summer Swim Association, snared 21 medals — including nine gold — in the Ponoka Gators Invitational meet Saturday.

Winning gold were Priya Thomas and Rhett Becher in the six-and-under girls and boys classes; Noah Thomas and Sean Ravio (tie) in the seven-eight boys class; Delaney Lehman and Owen Halford in the nine-10 girls and boys divisions; Lauren Bettenson in the 11-12 girls class; and 13-14 girls and boys competitors Claire Halford and Liam Stalwick.

Six-and-under girls and boys swimmers

Grace Hitchcock and Justin Squire earned silver medals, as did 10-and-under girls swimmer Sara Matieka, 11-12 boys swimmer Grant Claerhout, 13-14 girls and boys competitors Jane Gosling and Cale Kooyman, and Amy Cookson and Aidan Johns in the 15-17 girls and boys categories.

Bronze-medals winners were Corey Ovio (six-and-under girls), Payden Vanmaarion (nine-10 boys), Erik Sveinson (13-14 boys) and Paige Olmstead (15-17 girls). ● The Innisfail Dolphins are No. 8 in the ASSA top-10 rankings.

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, July 21, 2014

High salaries don’t always mean high performance BIG CONTRACTS THAT DON’T PAY DIVIDENDS MORE COMMON THAN MIGHT BE EXPECTED The free-agent sweepstakes ended in a flash and two of our favourite players (Radim Vrbata and Benoit Pouliot) found themselves new homes and significant raises.

For those who can’t get enough hockey in July, the league has served up its next round of entertainment: the arbitration game.

What could be more exciting than following the stories of 23 players as they, their employers and a phalanx of lawyers and agents slowly wend their way toward a settlement on the courtroom steps?

NHL salary arbitrations have detailed rules and a veneer of science to them as the combatants try to come up with “comparables” to assess a player’s worth.

The problem is that the data always look backward. So, for example, the Colorado Avalanche will argue that Ryan O’Reilly should be paid less than Matt Duchene based on, among other things, Duchene’s superior offensive totals last season.

What’s missing from the process -

and indeed from nearly all salary conversations in sports - is consideration of the fact that every player carries a significant risk of being a bust in the future.

Because the players and data considered in arbitrations are so constrained, let’s imagine a hypothetical free agent instead.

Let’s say Brian Flynn (0.71 points per 60 minutes of 5-on-5 ice time last season, cap hit of $637,500) was looking for a raise. It would be silly for him to compare himself to Alex Burrows (0.73 points per 60 minutes, cap hit of $4.5 million) or David Clarkson (0.65 points per 60 minutes, cap hit of $5.25 million). But if a team is looking to sign a free agent, they must recognize they could pay Burrows or Clarkson money and still get Flynn production.

How often do these disasters happen? Put differently, how closely tied are salary and actual performance?

To find out, we looked at every for-

ward who played in the NHL last season. We didn’t want to skew our data with guys who didn’t play much, so we only took players with 20 or more games and an average of at least 10 minutes per game during 5-on-5 play.

We then excluded anybody working under an entry-level contract, since they’re subject to a separate cap.

That left us with 284 players.

We separated those players into two groups - ones who signed their last contract as a restricted free agent (RFA) and ones who signed as an unrestricted free agent (UFA). That left us with 144 UFAs and 140 RFAs. We then looked at the value each group provided to their team by calculating the correlation between cap hit and the following measures of performance: (i) average time on ice (5 on 5); (ii) goals per 60 minutes (5 on 5); (iii) points per 60 minutes (5 on 5); (iv) total shots (5 on 5); (v) power-play time on ice; (vi) power-play goals; and (vii) power-play points.

The correlations are positive, but they aren’t as high as you might think.

For UFAs, the correlation between cap hit and goals per 60 minutes was a paltry 0.35. To put this in context, this is only a shade better than the -0.28 correlation we observed last week between draft order and career performance of forwards.

You’d expect money spent on veteran forwards to be more reliable than draft picks spent on 18-year-olds, but the difference is actually marginal.

The correlation between cap hit and ice time for this group of hand-picked veterans was 0.53 during 5-on-5 play

and 0.58 on the power play - an improvement, but that still means lots of pricey veterans riding the pine.

Clarkson and Burrows may stick out for Canadian hockey fans, but those big UFA contracts that don’t pan out are actually not that rare.

On the RFA side, the results were better. Goals per 60 minutes and cap hit had a correlation of 0.46, while ice time and cap hit had a correlation of 0.72 during 5-on-5 play and 0.75 on the power play.

One thing that surprised us was the extremely high correlation of 0.90 between power-play ice time and powerplay points for both RFAs and UFAs. There are two possible explanations for this: either the best players get lots of power-play time and score because they’re just that good, or else many mediocre players who don’t perform during 5-on-5 play are padding their stats with generous power-play time.

All of this should send a clear message to NHL general managers entering into contract negotiations or arbitrations: predicting the offensive production of veteran forwards is far more difficult than it seems.

The Department of Hockey Analytics employs advanced statistical methods and innovative approaches to better understand the game of hockey. Its three founders are Ian Cooper, a lawyer, former playeragent and WhartonBusiness School graduate; Dr. Phil Curry, a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo; and Ijay Palansky, a litigator in Washington, D.C., former high-stakes professional poker player and harvard law School graduate.

Glenn and Arceneaux lead Lions to mauling of Alouettes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lions 41 Alouettes 5 VANCOUVER — It was after Week 2 of the CFL season when the B.C. Lions were stumbling along winless and looking like a team with no chance at playing in a championship Grey Cup game that they are set to host.

That feels like a long time ago now after quarterback Kevin Glenn had 301 yards and two touchdowns Saturday, as the Lions rolled over the Montreal Alouettes 41-5 for their second straight victory.

Glenn was impressive, going 23-for31 before leaving late in the third with a minor muscle strain that he says isn’t serious. As for those critics coming after Glenn and his Lions after Week 2 — when they lost 24-9 to the Als in Montreal — the quarterback says everything is right on track.

“It’s a marathon, and you want to gradually get better every week,” he said.

“Last week we weren’t perfect and naturally this week we weren’t perfect, but we made plays when they were called upon.

“We want to make sure we’re growing as a team till the end of the year when you’re playing your best football.”

Wide receiver Emmanuel Arceneaux caught three touchdown passes, including both of Glenn’s, as the Lions moved to 2-2 after last week’s impressive 26-13 win in Regina.

The Als (1-3), meanwhile, have just one win on the season — against B.C. — and it was a tough outing for Montreal quarterback Troy Smith, who finished with a scant 45 yards passing before being replaced in the fourth.

“It’s not what we are, but it was what we were tonight,” said a downcast Als head coach Tom Higgins. “Credit the B.C. Lions, they did almost everything that they needed to do. We did not execute.”

The West Coast has rarely been kind to the Alouettes as they’ve now been outscored 163-30 in their last four games in Vancouver. Their last win in B.C. was way back in 2010, when the Lions played in Empire Field for one season.

But as easy as it is to point to Montreal’s damning history in Vancouver some of the credit must go to an improving quarterback in Glenn. The 35-year-old veteran, brought in in the off-season to back up injured started Travis Lulay, has been steadily improving as of late and feeling more comfortable with the Lions offense.

“That’s what happens when you’re a new guy on a new team — it takes a

Norway’s Kristoff thwarts breakaway duo with win in 15th stage at Tour

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NIMES, France — Almost at the line, Jack Bauer and Martin Elmiger were exhausted but could see it coming — their first Tour de France stage victory. Those last 50 metres, however, got in the way.

A bunch of sprinters leading the pack came speeding like a runaway train and plowed past the huffing breakaway duo in the final milliseconds. Stage 15 belonged to Norwegian speedster Alexander Kristoff, his second stage victory in this Tour.

The 138-mile (222-kilometre) stage went smoothly for overall leader Vincenzo Nibali of Italy. He made sure his main rivals couldn’t claw back any time, and he kept his yellow jersey by finishing in the trailing pack.

After two days in the Alps, Sunday’s stage offered some relief over a flat course from Tallard, southeast France’s parachuting capital, toward Nimes, known for its Roman arena and bullfighting. More relief comes Monday — a second rest day.

This ride showed yet again on the Tour how mighty efforts so often go unrewarded.

Bauer is a New Zealander who had a better shot of holding off the sprinters than Swiss champion Elmiger. Bauer dropped his bike after the finish line, sat on the ground and cupped his face in his hands, crying. They had led nearly from the starter’s gun.

“It’s a fantasy for any cyclist to win a stage at the Tour and especially for a Kiwi cyclist, not many of us turn professional and not many of us get a chance to start the Tour de France,” Bauer said.

The 29-year-old rider came to the Tour to help Garmin-Sharp leader Andrew Talansky, who dropped out before Stage 12 because of injuries from an earlier crash.

The pack perfectly timed its move on the breakaway duo and proved too strong. Bauer was pedaling with his last remaining strength, and when he looked back a last time they were already zooming by. He finished in 10th place, with Elmiger 16th.

“I really gave it absolutely everything, and as you can see from my meltdown at the finish I was pretty disappointed to come away empty-handed,” Bauer added, noting he’s usually a support rider.

“I thought I had it, but then I realized in the last 50 metres that I had nothing.”

The Swiss rider with IAM Cycling took it more in stride. This, after all, wasn’t the first breakaway to fail in this Tour.

“I am not disappointed because I actually did not have the best legs today,” Elmiger said. “Being caught by the pack is not so bad when you are convinced you have given everything.

As I have already said three times this Tour after breaks have failed, one of these days the wheels will turn in my favour.”

Kristoff, a Katusha rider who also won Stage 12, sighed in relief.

“It was a little bit late for comfort.

It was very close,” he said. “I thought I would be second. ... We turned on the gas.”

“Of course, that’s a pity for them, but I don’t feel sorry for them,” he said.

“Normally, the break should never have had a chance, but they did. They were really strong guys. ... That must have been really hard.”

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Montreal Alouettes’ quarterback Tanner Marsh, left, is sacked by B.C. Lions’ Solomon Elimimian (56) and Alex Bazzie (53) during second half CFL action in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday. little time to get comfortable and get going,” said Glenn. “And everybody wants it to happen faster, but sometimes it’s just what happens. It takes a couple games to get in the groove and the game plan running your way.”

Glenn surpassed a milestone on the first play of the game. He ducked a hard tackle before throwing a 16-yard bullet down the middle to slotback Courtney Taylor that put him over 40,000 career yards.

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Riggers victorious in home tournament BOUNCE BACK FROM FIRST LOSS OF SEASON TO DOMINATE FINAL AGAINST CALGARY

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Riggers 12 Wolfpack 0 The Red Deer Riggers weren’t leaving anything to chance in the final of their own senior men’s baseball tournament Sunday at Great Chief Park.

After suffering their first loss of the season within provincial borders — 3-2 to the Calgary Wolfpack — Saturday night and edging the Fort Saskatchewan A’s 9-7 in a semifinal Sunday afternoon, the Riggers buried the Wolfpack 12-0 in a championship game that was called after five innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.

The Riggers jumped all over Wolfpack starting pitcher James Carr, scoring seven runs while collecting eights hits off the former Red Deer Stag over the first two innings and change. Game, set and match.

“We went out with the approach that we owe these guys one and kind of got back to how we were playing before,”

said Riggers playing manager Curtis Bailey. “We made some good contact, scored a couple runs in the first (inning) and kept it going the rest of the game.”

Curtis Mazurkewich stroked a single and two-run double for the hosts, while Jared Chatwood contributed a single and double and drove in two runs, Jason Chatwood and Kerry Boon each had two RBI, Kevin Curran had two hits and knocked in a run and Josh Edwards also brought a runner home.

Dustin Northcott worked all five innings on the Red Deer mound, giving up just three hits.

The Riggers failed to get a run off the second Calgary hurler — Austin Orstad, who worked two innings — then touched Neil Robinson for five runs in the fifth.

Earlier, Jason Chatwood cracked a two-run, walk-off homer in the eighth inning to lift the Riggers to their semifinal win over the A’s. Mazurkewich slammed a two-run homer in the second inning and also singled and

walked, and Jason and Jared Chatwood each had two singles.

Reign Letkeman pitched five innings for Red Deer, giving up six runs on eights hits. Joel Peterman got the win, surrendering one run on four hits over the final three innings.

James Fischer pitched the entire game for the A’s.

The Riggers ran into a hot pitcher in their round-robin loss to the Wolfpack Saturday night. Both Red Deer runs were unearned while Curtis Smith gave up only six hits over seven innings.

“He was good. We’re a pretty offensive team, but the guy threw well and he shut down our offence,” said Bailey.

“He had three really good pitches that he threw for strikes. He had a good change-up and a fastball with good velocity. I tip my hat to him.”

Bailey admitted that the loss might have been a blessing in disguise.

“It was probably good for our egos a bit to know that we aren’t invincible,” he said.

“I don’t think we were realistically going through a whole year undefeated and I think we learned (from the loss).

“We bounced back in the second game against them (Wolfpack). For example, Curran had a rough game yesterday and tonight he made some great plays.”

In Saturday’s other games, the St. Albert Tigers edged the Wolfpack 2-1, the Calgary Cardinals defeated Fort Saskatchewan 7-6 and got past the Edmonton Confederation Park Cubs 13-9, and the Cubs were thumped 10-0 by the A’s.

The Cubs beat the Tigers 12-8 in Sunday morning’s fifth/sixth place game and that Wolfpack downed the Cardinals 5-2 in a semifinal.

The Riggers return to Sunburst League play Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. against the visiting A’s.

It will probably serve as Red Deer’s final regular-season contest as a postponed contest with the Tigers is unlikely to be played. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Rampage one win away from North final

Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Edmonton Scottish Angels’ Christina Le battles with Red Deer Renegades defender Leanne Laundry in Albaeta Major Soccer League Women’s action on Saturday at Edgar Athletic Park in Red Deer. Edmonton won 4-0.

Renegades stumble in regular season home finale WILL LOOK FOR FIRST WIN IN FINAL THREE GAMES ON THE ROAD

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Angels 4, Renegades 0 It’s one step forward, two steps back for the Red Deer Renegades Alberta Major Soccer League women’s team.

After finally getting their first points of the season in a tie last weekend with the Lethbridge FC, they came out with a lackluster performance on Saturday in their home finale and were beat 4-0 by the Edmonton Scottish Angels (7-3-0).

Zoe Kreutzer had two second half goals for Edmonton while Brenna Coady and Leanne Kadatz both tallied once in the first half.

It’s not so much that the Renegades (0-10-1) lost, but how they lost that bothers head coach Paul Morigeau.

“When you compare it to the start of the year and the debacles we had then, it kind of gives you hope and then you feel a little more disappointed almost,” he said. “We had some good chances in the first half and then we got scored on right at the end of the half to go down 2-0 and then I just don’t think we showed up in the second half.”

There were a couple of bright spots for the Renegades.

Goalkeeper Micaela Stone did her best to give the Renegades a fighting chance as she was shelled with 35 shots during the game. By contrast, Red Deer managed just two on the Edmonton net.

Meanwhile, midfielder Kiera Fujimoto had arguably the best game out of any Red Deer player in the field.

“She just worked so hard. Every single touch she had was good and just holding it up and calm on the ball, the ball never ended with her,” said Morigeau. “She was terrific all game long today.”

The head coach chalks up their struggles to the closing of a long season beset with injuries and an inability to even practice with a regular lineup.

Though, he wishes the effort was much stronger on Saturday.

There is still three games left in the Renegades’ season and Morigeau is hoping that they are able to finish strong and get that first win of the season.

This weekend they are in Calgary to play the Alliance (2-7-1) on Saturday and the Callies (8-3-2) on Sunday, and then finish the season on Aug. 9 in Edmonton with a rematch against the Angels.

“The two games in Calgary, we have a good chance of getting (a win) there, those teams are on the drop a little bit, and maybe we’ll learn a wee bit from this game,” said Morigeau. “We should have the same roster for the next three games, so that should be nice. Soccer truly is a game of chemistry, more than any sport people have to be in synch with each other because there’s 22 people on the field trying to do stuff with there feet. There’s just not a lot of margin.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Legends go undefeated to win Western Canadian 44+ baseball title in Kindersley The Red Deer Legends scored five runs in the top half of the final inning to earn an 8-4 victory in the final game to capture the Western Canadian 44+ Baseball Championship in Kindersley, Sask. on the weekend.

SENIOR BASEBALL The Legends went undefeated in four games.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

JUNIOR B LACROSSE

Rampage 12 Warriors 10 (OT) The Red Deer Rampage took advantage of a frustrated and undisciplined opponent Sunday at the Kinex and are now one win away from advancing to the junior B tier 1 North final of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.

The hosts struck for four overtime goals — including two on the power play — to pull out a 12-10 victory and take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series. Game 4 is set for Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Kinex.

Tempers flared during the extra frame — necessitated when the visitors notched a man-advantage marker of their own with 11 seconds remaining in regulation time — and the Warriors were too often the instigators and were penalized as such.

“Lacrosse is a physical game at the best of times,” said Rampage head coach Ron Just. “These two teams have played three games in less than two and a half days. I don’t think the teams liked each other when the series started and they’re certainly not going to like each other when it finishes.”

The Rampage grabbed the early advantage in the series with an 8-7 win Friday at Edmonton and were edged 12-11 by the Warriors in Game 2, also in the provincial capital.

After stealing home-floor advantage in Game 1, the Rampage held service in Game 3, thanks to a give-goal outing from Reid Swier, who connected twice in overtime. Pearce Just tallied twice in extra time and finished with two goals and three assists, while Ryan Beatson notched one of his three goals in OT and Cole deGraaf and Spencer

Lee tallied single goals in regulation time.

Red Deer outshot Edmonton 50-42 while getting a 32-save outing from Darrian Banack. Dawson Reykdal picked up four assists for the winners.

The obvious goal now for the Rampage is to finish the series Saturday at the Kinex.

“We sure don’t want to go back up to Edmonton. They’re a big, tough, physical team and they play really well in their rink,” said Ron Just. “We managed to split on the weekend and by winning Friday we got home-game advantage, but we have to make use of it on Saturday.

“All three games in this series have been close. It seems like every time we make a mistake they score on it, but we played well enough to win today . . . we found a way to gut it out. We know we can play better than what we have but a lot of that is they way they (Warriors) play. They’re really in your face all the time. They play physical and make it hard for us to play our game.”

Rhett Baldwin was the winning netminder in Friday’s contest, while Beatson fired three goals, Mitch Vellner potted a pair and Lee, who also had three assists, deGraaf and Dawson Reykdal each tallied once.

Davis Reykdal netted three goals in Saturday’s setback, with Dawson Reykdal and deGraaf each scoring a pair. Single goals were contributed by Lee, Beatson, Colton Woytas and Brandyn Blain.

Connor Hartley had five helpers for the Rampage, who used both Baldwin and Banack in net. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

MIDGET AAA BASEBALL The Red Deer Midget AAA Braves (10-20) had an up and down NorWest Baseball League weekend, going 2-2 in four games in Edmonton.

They opened with a 10-9 loss to the Edmonton Cardinals, despite taking a 9-7 lead into the bottom of the seventh. After walking the bases full, Jesse Muirhead got the next batter to fly out, but on the next two hitters, the Braves proceeded to commit four errors, literally throwing the game away.

Jordan Muirhead accounted for three runs batted in and a run despite going 0-for-2 at the plate for Red Deer, while Blake Thomson was 0-for-4 with two RBI and a run.

The Braves bounced back in the second game to beat the Cardinals 9-2 as Micheal Ozga pitched a complete game, giving up two runs, one earned on seven hits and three walks with

LOCAL LACROSSE

Silverbacks thump Rage to earn berth in Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League senior C final Ray Williams sniped five goals to lead the Blackfalds Silverbacks to a 12-5 thumping of the visiting Vermilion Rage and a berth in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League senior C championship final.

Tyler McRobbie scored twice and added three assists for the winners, who swept the best-of-three North final and will face either the Calgary Irish or Okotoks Erratic in the provincial series. David Wilton also notched two goals for the Silverbacks, who got singles from Shandi Werenka, Luke Flett and Dylon Cardinal.

The ‘Backs rolled over the Rage 124 in the first game of the series Saturday at Wainwright. Troy Klaus and

three strikeouts. Zach Olson was 3-for4 with two runs and an RBI, Ty Wagar was 2-for-2 with one run and an RBI, and Griffin Moline was 2-for-3 with one run and an RBI. The Braves won their first game on Sunday, beating the Sherwood Park Dukes 8-4. Dylan Borman went 6 1/3 innings, giving up four runs, two earned on eight hits and three walks with four strikeouts. At the plate, he helped his own cause with a two-run home run. Jesse Muirhead was 2-for-2 with two runs and two RBI and two walks and Olson was 1-for-4 with a three-run home run.

The Braves were mercied 11-0 in their weekend finale against the Dukes, getting only three hits in five innings off of Sherwood Park pitcher Greg Hollman. Jesse Muirhead took the loss, giving up all 11 runs, 10 earned, on nine hits and two walks.

The Braves host the Dukes on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park in their final game of the season.

Werenka, who each added two assists, McRobbie and Justin Kinnear potted two goals apiece, while Williams, Cardinal, Jason Brook and Trent Olesen also scored and Flett contributed five assists. ● The Red Deer Renegades’ junior B tier 2 season came to a conclusion during the weekend with back-to-back losses to the host Lethbridge Barracudas in a best-of-three South final.

Nate Bellanger notched two goals in a losing cause as the Renegades fell 11-5 Sunday.

Ryan Svederus and Justin Moltzahn each had a goal and two helpers and Ryan Strome scored once.

On Saturday, Declan Johnston and Chase Boswell each scored twice and added an assist, Svederus fired two goals, Bellanger and James Wood each scored once and Moltzahn had three helpers as the Renegades lost 11-8.

“We ran into a hot Lethbridge goaltender and we were playing with a short squad. The boys battled hard but we came up short,” said Red Deer head coach Rob Kachor.

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Canada’s gunning for golds CANADA FIELDING ITS A-TEAM AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES IN PREPARATION FOR RIO MORE ON THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES B10

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS There are still two years to go before the curtain goes up on the 2016 Summer Olympics, but many of Canada’s top athletes are already on the road to Rio and this month’s Commonwealth Games are a key stop.

For athletes such as decathlete Damian Warner, rugby sevens captain John Moonlight, and swimmer Ryan Cochrane, the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow mark not only the biggest event on this year’s sports calendar, but another chance to gain valuable multisport experience ahead of Rio. “Our little tag line for these Games is ’The road to Rio goes through Glasgow and Toronto (and the 2015 Pan American Games),”’ said Brian MacPherson, CEO of Commonwealth Games Canada. “This is where future Canadian sport stars are born.”

Trap shooter Susan Nattrass, a sixtime Olympian, will carry Canada’s flag into the opening ceremonies on July 23 at Celtic Park — normally the home ground of the Glasgow Celtics.

She’ll lead a Canadian team of 265 athletes, the largest-ever for a Commonwealth Games outside of Canada.

“In our statistics, 70 per cent of our team going to Glasgow this year will end up on Canada’s Pan Am Games team next year, and 50 per cent will end up on Canada’s Olympic team in Rio,” MacPherson said.

Canada is fielding its top team in every sport except judo, and the squad includes numerous world and Olympic medallists such as Cochrane, Warner, heptathlete Brianne Theisen-Eaton, high jumper Derek Drouin, divers Meagan Benfeito, Roseline Filion and Jennifer Abel, mountain biker Catharine Pendrel, track cyclist Zach Bell and boxer Ariane Fortin.

The Canadian team’s goal is to reclaim its traditional spot among the top three in the medal table, after finishing fourth four years ago in New Delhi behind Australia, England and host India. Canada claimed 76 total medals in 2010, including 26 gold, 17 silver and 33 bronze.

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Canada’s Ryan Cochrane leaves the pool after taking silver in the Men’s 1500m freestyle final at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain, Aug. 4, 2013. There are still two years to go before the curtain goes up on the 2016 Summer Olympics, but many of Canada’s top athletes are already on the road to Rio and this month’s Commonwealth Games are a key stop.

“It’s ambitious but it’s also realistic,” Chantal Petitclerc, Canada’s chef de mission in Glasgow, said of the team’s goal to finish in the top three.

“This team is very strong. The Commonwealth Games deserve to really have their place in the importance of bringing our athletes to those (world and Olympic) podiums. We are sending our best athletes, and with Pan Ams next year and Rio after that, I think it sets up a really, really great calendar for our athletes on the way to Rio.” All 18 of the medals Canada captured at the London Olympics belonged to athletes who had competed at the Commonwealth Games.

Canada could win medals in virtually every sport in Glasgow, with a good chunk of podium performances coming from its 50-member track and field team and its swim team of 33 athletes.

Warner, who won bronze at last summer’s world championships, is the favourite to win decathlon gold in Glasgow, but said he still needs more multisport events under his belt before Rio. “I’ve been lucky enough to go to the Olympics and world championships twice, but at the same time, I haven’t been doing the sport for too long, so I still need all the experience I can get,” he said. “So it’s great to go to competi-

tions like this where I’m are favoured to win, and it is big-scale but not as big as the Olympics.”

The Games feature some 4,500 athletes competing in 17 sports over 11 days. It’s the only fully integrated major Games, with 22 Paralympic events in five sports. All of the sports will be on the Rio Olympic schedule except lawn bowls, netball and squash.

Squash player Shawn DeLierre said he cherishes the chance to compete for Canada on a multisport stage.

“It’s for the country, it’s for the beauty of a Games. In some people’s minds, the Games are massive,” he said. “It’s one of those things where you’d say at the end of your career, ’I did all those.’ And people are like, ’Oh amazing. That’s where we could recognize you.”’

“To go set foot out there, to put on the clothing, to get with everybody else and go to battle, it’s a lot of fun,” he added. “Not just for squash — every other sport. There is a commonized feeling of strength and good spirit in the air.”

Glasgow, a city of just over half a million, has rolled out the red carpet for the Commonwealth countries. The land of kilts and castles has embraced the Games. There have been no controversies about construction delays.

Tickets are affordable starting at 15 pounds (C$27). Many events are sold out.

“That’s an anomaly compared to past Games, a reflection on the community support over there,” MacPherson said.

The venues includes storied Hampden Park — Scotland’s national soccer stadium — which has undergone a major facelift and will host track and field and the closing ceremonies, and Ibrox Stadium, normally home to the Rangers and the site of rugby sevens.

Many of the world’s top athletes will be competing, including English track star Mo Farah, a double world and Olympic gold medallist in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres.

Paying for the honour to represent their country

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Before Andrew D’Souza could represent Canada at the Commonwealth Games, the badminton player had to harness his inner entrepreneur.

The 20-year-old from Ottawa is Canada’s No. 2-ranked men’s player, but based on his Commonwealth ranking, is one of 47 “pay to play” athletes on the Canadian team bound for Glasgow who had to pay their own way to the Games.

So D’Souza organized a badminton exhibition in Ottawa to raise the $3,000 it’s costing him to compete at the Games.

“It’s fairly common,” said Andrew Dabeka, D’Souza’s coach. “Our sport took a nosedive in terms of government funding over the years, and so more and more of these types of programs are on a self-paid basis.”

D’Souza, winner of two Canada Elite Series Circuit events this season,

charged admission and sold raffle tickets at last month’s exhibition to raise the money for the trip. The event drew about 150 supporters.

Other self-funded athletes on the Glasgow team were fortunate to have their trip covered by their club or national sport organization. Athletics Canada, for example, is picking up the tab for the eight self-funded athletes who are part of the 50-member track and field team. Canada is sending 265 athletes to Glasgow — its largest team ever for a Commonwealth Games outside of Canada.

“We set, based on our budget, a maximum number of athletes we could afford to fund, and that, for better or for worse, was 220,” said Brian MacPherson, CEO of Commonwealth Games Canada.

The 220 funded athletes, MacPherson explained, are those who are capable of finishing in the top three in Glasgow.

“If they’re below Top 3 but better than Top 8, then that’s the ’pay to play’ group,” MacPherson said.

Commonwealth Games Canada toughened its qualifying standards for Glasgow — athletes must be capable of finishing Top 8, compared to Top 12 four years ago for the Games in New Delhi. There were only two athletes on that team who had to pay their own way, MacPherson said.

“Budgets are budgets, we can only afford to fund so many, but we do al-

low for pay-to-play through the NSO (national sport organization), but they still have to be Top-8 calibre, that’s the very minimum,” MacPherson said.

D’Souza, who’s never competed in an international multi-sport event, is used to footing the bill for his badminton endeavours. The human kinetics student at the University of Ottawa said it’s been a joint effort between him and his parents to pay for trips such as the Pan American and Pan American junior championships and the world junior championships.

“It’s a tough situation,” he said.

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to because you can’t afford it. . . but you have to (if you want to improve). It makes no sense to me, really.”

Dabeka, a member of Canada’s 2008 Beijing Olympic team, said badminton has lost a large chunk of its funding over the years because it’s considered a “fringe sport.”

He said there are five Canadian “carded” players, who receive funding through the federal government’s Athlete Assistance Programs. Dabeka said when he retired in 2009, there were six. Around 2003, he said, there were 10, and back in the early ’90s, there were about 20.

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Racers double down at Toronto Indy CONWAY, BOURDAIS EACH EARN VICTORIES IN INDYCAR DOUBLEHEADER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A dramatic weekend that featured a postponed race, plenty of rain and enough collisions to fill a junkyard was won by a pair of unassuming drivers who held their nerve as others cracked.

Sebastien Bourdais and Mike Conway entered the Honda Indy Toronto overlooked in favour of a championship duel and the return of a hometown driver.

They shouldn’t have been.

Bourdais, who hadn’t won a race in six years but previously conquered the 11-turn, 2.81-kilometre track at Exhibition Place in 2004, led all but seven laps in the morning race Sunday to win from pole.

He was initially angered when he thought the Saturday race was cancelled by a slippery race track.

The race was merely postponed, and Bourdais returned to his car Sunday waiting for his luck to run out. It never did. “I’ve got a big smile across my face and I can’t seem to get rid of it. It’s just really cool,� said Bourdais. “The whole race I couldn’t stop thinking. I was very stressed out. It felt too easy, it felt like it was too much under control and it felt like it was way going to go wrong at some point. I don’t know, it didn’t. I was surprised about that because that’s what happened all season long so far.�

Conway, who only competes on road and street courses but won at Long Beach in April, didn’t have the pace of his rivals. That showed in the opening race with a 15th-place finish. But Conway saw something no one else did in the second race of the doubleheader.

Rain fell once again and caused multiple collisions. Yet, unlike Saturday, the weather eventually showed some mercy and Conway spotted a drying track before almost anyone else.

Usually a team tells a driver when to make a tire change. Conway told Ed Carpenter Racing, however, he was coming in on Lap 43 of the 80-minute race. “I knew I had to make a call at that moment because my wet tires were kind of going off and we were only going to go slower, and I knew the slicks would be for sure quicker,� said Conway. “So yeah, worked out, worked out really well.�

The afternoon race had been a fight for the lead between Penske teammates and championship contenders Helio Castroneves and Will Power. But both went to the pits for new tires, allowing Conway and several others to the front of the pack for the first time.

Conway took the lead on Lap 51, while Castroneves dropped off the pace. Conway benefited from yet another delay when another collision collected several cars and triggered a red flag.

As he waited for the race to resume with less than five minutes remaining, Conway tried not to get too excited.

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England’s Mike Conway leaps out of his car after winning the second race of the Toronto Indy in Toronto on Sunday. “For sure I sat there in pitlane, I was like, could be another win in the cards,� he said. “But I couldn’t tell anyone that. For sure you think it but you’ve got to put it in the back of your mind.�

For Bourdais, the victory was vindication. The 35-year-old Frenchman finished over three seconds ahead of Castroneves, while Tony Kanaan finished third. Bourdais won’t challenge for the IndyCar championship this year, he finished the afternoon race ninth, but the comfortable win was reminiscent of his four Champ Car titles between 2004 and 2007.

Champ Car and Indy Racing League merged in 2008 to form IndyCar. Bourdais took a hiatus from open-wheel racing until his return in 2011, but he’s yet to find himself in the title race.

He didn’t seem to care after winning his first race since November 2007 in Mexico City. “To be back on the top step in the way we’ve done it today, pretty much like the good old days. It’s very

special,� said Bourdais.

Last year Bourdais finished second and third, respectively, at Toronto. But his weekend was marred by an embarrassing moment when he accidentally dropped his second-place trophy and smashed it.

This year Bourdais held onto his trophy with both hands.

James Hinchcliffe never had a chance of winning — or dropping — a trophy. The Oakville, Ont., native was eighth in the opening race, matching his career best in Toronto through four years in IndyCar. But he slid into a tire barrier in the afternoon race and had to settle for 18th. It all amounted to more frustration for Hinchcliffe, the lone Canadian left in IndyCar. “It’s one of those things, we’re sitting up here, talking, saying, ’what do we have to do to catch a break, here or anywhere this season ...,�’ said Hinchcliffe. “The guys gave me a solid car, I’m just sorry we couldn’t turn it into a result.�

Rosberg gets another victory, this time on home soil STRETCHES POINTS LEAD OVER HAMILTON WHO FINISHED THIRD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOCKENHEIM, Germany — Nico Rosberg won the German Grand Prix on Sunday to stretch his lead in the Formula One drivers’ championship over Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton, who finished third after starting 20th. “It’s an amazing feeling to win at home. It’s a very special day,� said Rosberg, who led throughout to become the first German to triumph at Hockenheim since Michael Schumacher won in 2006.

Hamilton, who crashed in qualifying and survived a number of scrapes throughout the race, could not pass Valtteri Bottas in the closing laps and the Finn took second to give Williams its 300th F1 podium finish. “It was not easy and required input from all the engineers. Thanks to all the fans. I saw many Finnish flags so thank you,� Bottas said.

Hamilton was pushed back to the penultimate row of the grid due to his qualifying crash and a penalty for changing his gearbox, but threaded his way through the field despite a broken front wing caused by a collision with former teammate Jenson Button of McLaren.

His super-soft tires wore quickly in his final stint and he did not have the grip to get past Bottas. Rosberg leads Hamilton by 14 points going into next weekend’s race in Hungary.

Four-time defending champ Sebastian Vettel was fourth, ahead of Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso who won his exciting battle with Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo for fifth.

Alonso and Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg, who finished seventh, are the only drivers to have scored points in each of the ten races so far this season, and the Spaniard’s points finish means Ferrari has finished in the points for 77 consecutive races.

There was a collision at the first corner between Kevin Magnussen’s McLaren and Felipe Massa’s Williams, which flipped over and slid across the run-off area in a shower of sparks.

The McLaren also left the track and Ricciardo had to steer wide around them to avoid the damage, dropping him down to 15th and compromising his race.

Magnussen had to pit to repair damage to his left front tire but Massa’s race was over. The Brazilian emerged unhurt from the car to cheers from the crowd. “I’m okay. The accident was a little bit more scary watching than being inside. I just saw everything the other way around, but I am fine,� Massa said. “I am so disappointed at what happened. It’s another race and another car that has pushed me out and finished my race. With a car that that is very competitive and fast that’s so disappointing.�

Massa said the Danish driver was at fault although a stewards’ review found no wrongdoing. “I was in front and doing the corner in front. If someone needs to watch, it’s the car behind,� Massa said.

It was looking like it could be another a 1-2 for Mercedes as Hamilton quickly worked his way through the field. The Briton hit Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari to overtake both the Finn and Ricciardo in a brave move at the hairpin on lap 13. A piece of Raikkonen’s front plate flew into the air.

On lap 30, Hamilton tried to overtake Button on the hairpin but damaged his left-front wing and that proved critical in finishing third rather than second. “I did as good as I could. It was hard to get through the pack safely and I had a little bit of a collision with Jenson,� Hamilton said. “I thought he was going to open the door which he has done a couple of times lately but that was my bad judgment.�

Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat retired on lap 46 when his car burst into flames. The Russian was visibly an-

noyed, hitting a barrier in frustration.

Adrian Sutil of Sauber spun on lap 50 of 67 and stalled in the middle of the start-finish straight. The race director had to make a big decision on whether to bring out the safety car, which would have pulled Rosberg back to the field, or let the race continue, and he chose the latter even though it took a couple of laps before they moved the car. “That would have made it more difficult,� a relieved Rosberg acknowledged.

It has been a remarkable couple of weeks since the German’s first non-finish of the season at the British Grand Prix. The 29-year-old married his girlfriend, watched Germany win the World Cup, signed a contract extension with Mercedes, and he has now won his home GP for his fourth victory of the season.

Rosberg had previously not finished higher than eighth place at Hockenheim, in 2010. The best he managed at a German GP was fourth at the Nurburgring the year before that

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HAMILL Hilda 1919 - 2014 Mrs. Hilda Hamill of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at The Beverly Centre Lake Midnapore, Calgary, Alberta on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at the age of 95 years. Hilda was born on May 26, 1919 at Eatonia, Saskatchewan. She grew up on a farm in the Zorra Area, the eldest of all her siblings.

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Heavy Equipment Operators Requirements: Valid Driver’s License H2S Alive Standard First Aid WHIMIS and/or CSTS or PST Pre-Access A&D Testing Ground Disturbance Level 11 Please e-mail or fax your resume to: hr@tr3energy.com Fax: (403) 294-9323 www.tr3energy.com Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

TREELINE WELL SERVICES Has Opening for all positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, (No GDL licenses) and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work reference names and numbers.

Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services SOUTHPOINTE Permanent F/T shift. $18/hr.

COMMON and BOWER 40 hrs/week, + benefits , 1 PLACE Mall Locations.

Vacancy, 2-3yrs. exp., Positions for criminal record check req’d, SUPERVISORS. Looking Apply in person or fax for motivated and hard resume to: 403-314-1303 working individuals. Having your own transportation is Celebrate your life a plus. On the job with a Classified training, but experience in ANNOUNCEMENT fast food is an asset, and must be avail. to work all store location hours.

JJAM Management (1987) Starting wage $13.50/hour Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s with restaurant exp.

Requires to work at these Please specify which store Red Deer, AB locations: you are applying for.

5111 22 St. No open LMO’s to hire 37444 HWY 2 S foreign nationals at this time.

37543 HWY 2N Email resume to 700 3020 22 St. awbsp@xplornet.ca FOOD ATTENDANT or phone 403-391-0555 Req’d permanent shift and ask for Lynn. weekend day and evening both full and part time.

15 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + Sales & benefits. Start ASAP. Distributors Job description www.timhortons.com GRATIAE is seeking Education and experience 5 Retails Sales reps not req’d. selling skin & body care Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 products in Parkland Mall 4747 67th St. Red Deer, $12.10/hr + bonus & comm.

RAMADA INN & F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d.

SUITES Email resumes: req`s Permanent gratiaereddeersr@ ROOM ATTENDANTS gmail.com Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 WANTED: CASHIER. Above hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 average wage & benefits. $14/hr. Duties incl’d but Flexible hours. Drop off not limited to: vacuuming, resume to 5211 50 Ave. dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance Trades based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal BRICAR CONTRACTING l& written English, be now hiring Labourers, physically fit. Applicants Dozer, Excavator, & may apply in person at Exp. Rubber Tire 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Back Hoe Operators.

T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 Send resumes by or email: Fax: 403-347-6296 info@ramadareddeer.com or email: aron@bricar.ca

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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for experienced F/T SERVERS Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve.

Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Sales & Distributors

COMFORT COLLISION & RESTORATION Accepting resumes for Autobody Technician.

If you have a genuine interest in classic cars & take pride in your work please fax resume to 403-343-8442

830

FULL TIME SALES POSITION

One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

Sales Experience is a requirement.

Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

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Red Deer Advocate

Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview.

Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

Trades

850

ZUBAR Production Services is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Personnel Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

Must have all valid tickets.

VALVE TECHNICIAN/SHOP ASSISTANTS Isolation Equipment Services Inc. an expanding Oil Service Company is willing to train the right candidates as valve technicians and/or shop assistants in its fast and mechanical environment.

Professionals

Duties include but not limited to the following: • Assembling and repairing control valves/frac heads • Calibration, testing and troubleshooting of valves as well as measurement and valve related instruments • Disassembly, cleanup and evaluation of parts • Signing and documenting date compliance sheets • Pressure testing processes with experience, will train • Forklift experience/loader experience, will train • Must be 18 years of age or older to apply • Must supply driver’s abstract Benefits: • Excellent hourly wage • Lucrative Safety Bonus and Christmas bonus • Excellent benefit plan • Retirement plan Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to: Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239-37428 RR273 Clearview Industrial, Red Deer County Attn: Lori Enzie

810

Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is now hiring for: - Technologist (Party Chief) - Technician (Rodman) In the Red Deer and surrounding area Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program. We are a Construction/Land survey company based in Airdrie.

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Please send resume to: FAX: (403) 948-4924 or email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

We are currently seeking a well-organized and reliable individual to join our Fleet department out of Red Deer Alberta.

Heavy Equipment Mechanic Credentials: Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic Trade Certification, 3rd period apprentice, 4th period apprentice, Heavy Duty Equipment Red Seal Endorsement, Commercial Vehicle Inspection Certificate an asset, must have a valid Class 1 or 3 Driver’s License.

JOB OVERVIEW - Diagnose/troubleshoot & complete repairs on all company equipment which includes, diesel/gas powered automobiles, Heavy Trucks, Oilfield Well Servicing Equipment, Cranes, loaders, forklift and trailers.

- Adjust equipment and repair or replace defective parts.

- Test repaired equipment for proper performance, clean, lubricate and perform other maintenance work, verify and repair emission control systems.

- Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times and streamline work processes.

- Use of computer to input information on the units and for the company maintenance program regarding work/purchase orders.

- Order material/parts that are required to complete the repairs - Be able to work under pressure in certain situations that require a quick turnaround process.

- Must be able to read, write, spell and verbally communicate clearly in English.

Benefits: • Excellent hourly wage • Lucrative Quarterly Safety Bonus and Christmas Bonus • Excellent benefit plan • Retirement plan Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to: Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239 Clearview Drive Clearview Industrial Park Red Deer County Must be 18 years of age or older to apply, and able to pass a pre-employment test.

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850

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CRYSTAL GLASS CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d needs EXP. D GLASS for moving equipment.

WORKER. Drop off reResumes to be dropped off sume at: 4706-51 Avenue at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. or fax 346-5390 or email: Cres. Red Deer. branch208@crystalglass.ca DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Experienced Heavy Equipment Operators and Ready Mix Truck Drivers

Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Class 1 Operators to join our team of drivers hauling clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry.

Home most evenings, scheduled days off, company benefits with exceptional pay structure that includes guarantied salary + hourly when hauling. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

required for Lafarge Operations in Central AB. Must be able to pass a drug test and a physical.

Please include references.

Please send resumes Attn: Bruce.Ernst@lafarge.com or fax 403 347 8060 IMMEDIATE OPENING ARMOR INC is looking for licensed Diesel & Suspension Mechanic for light duty automotive performance shop. Diesel & transmission exp. preferred.

Top wages offered. Phone 403-346-9188 or email donavan@armorinc.ca

Now Hiring:

JOURNEYMAN PIPEFITTER for FACILITY PROJECT

• • • • •

The successful applicant will be a ticketed, Red Seal Journeyman Pipefitter/Steamfitter Be able to complete ISO drawings Measure existing and new piping projects within an Oil and Gas Plant Organized A Self-starter Team player

This project runs from August 18 to August 30 2014, and will be by hand only-tools supplied LOA and travel pay also supplied Are you looking to grow your career in a drug and alcohol free environment, surrounded by a great team?

Then Profoxx Energy would like to hear from you.

We are a professional fast growing company that offers competitive wages and benefits in a fun and safe environment.

Submit your resume to: careers@profoxxenergy.com Or by fax 780-622-5056 We thank all those who apply, but only those chosen for interview will be contacted

RED DEER BASED TRUCKING COMPANY Looking for Class 1 Tank Truck Drivers & Pressure Truck Operators.

Exc. benefits package & top industry wages.

Please fax resume to: 403-346-3766 STETTLER TRANSIT MIX Drivers wanted for mixer/pumping concrete.

403-742-2134 or email:stettlertransitmix @gmail.com

TITAN TRANSPORT LTD. We are a flat bed company based out of Saskatoon, SK. with an office in Calgary.

We are currently looking for company drivers as well as owner operators.

You must have a min. of 2 yrs. exp. with flat beds.

Canada/U.S. Call 1-800-667-7080 or 306-374-1739 Ask for Robert

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880

STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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Shop Supervisor for our Red Deer location.

This position is a fulltime and is a salary based position with company benefits upon hire. 11-3 days off schedule. Duties include maintaining shop, assist minor repairs of units and equipment, monitor inventories, loading of fluid trucks with various products for the Oil & Gas industry. Will also be trained to blend various products supplied to our clients. Ideal candidate would be from the trucking industry with fluid Hauling experience with class 1 license. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

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 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

PROMOTIONS MANAGER NEEDED. Must be personable & outgoing. Flexible hours.

Drop off resume to 5211 50 Ave.

ENROLL TODAY!

CHILD’S ANTIQUE WOOD HIGH CHAIR - No Tray. $30. 403-506-9453.

GLENDALE

KENTWOOD

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

COMPANY req’s live in retired maintenance person for our apartment operations. Journeyman plumbing exp. an asset.

Call Mike for details 403-342-4923 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 EUROSPORT Looking for mature person with retail sale experience for F/T position at Collicutt location. Interest in sports would be an asset. Apply with resume to: Eurosport Main #118, 5301 43 St. (Old Brew Plaza) PERSIMMON PATCH F/T & P/T POSITIONS Monday - Friday Apply at 6810-52 Ave. No exp. necessary, will train.

880

FRONTIER BUS LINES Ltd. EXPERIENCED MOTOR COACH DRIVERS

Full time and part time positions available.

Must be willing to work evenings and weekends, and must have previous experience driving either motor coach or semi. Clean Class 1 or Class 2 with air.

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED

Will consider either full or part time.

Previous motor coach repair experience preferred.

MOTOR COACH CLEANER

Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work flexible schedule.

Please email or fax resume to:

frontbus@platinum.ca 403-347-4999

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1660

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

1680

Garden Supplies

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake

LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $190. 403-314-0804 SEARS ELECTRIC LAWN MOWER $50.

403-346-5745

1710

Household Appliances

FRIDGE, Kenmore 21 cu ft. 8 yrs. old, black, Like New. $200. o.b.o 403-343-2754 FRIDGE, McClary $100 obo. SOLD MAYTAG WASHING MACHINE good cond. $175.

403-877-3323

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Academy of Learning HCA program offers:

1550

Building Supplies

3 On-Site Clinical Practicums No Waiting List Scrubs are provided

SOLID core cedar clad 2’wide door w/frame $100 403-227-2976

PERMA WASHING MACHINE (Sears).

Good cond. $175 403-877-3323

Household Furnishings

1720

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

Household Furnishings

MAPLE TABLE WITH 4 CHAIRS & LEAF $125. 403-506-9453.

SOFA bed, mid brown, brand new. $100 Firm!

403-343-3097

1860

Sporting Goods

SET OF SIX IRONS: 5 iron - pitching wedge.† KZG heads, graphite shafts (senior/”A” flex), right-handed, new grips.

In excellent condition.† $150.†Call (403) 342-7908.

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1900

Travel Packages

1760

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

BOOTS, cowboy & motorcycle, (Harley Davidson) cowboy boots is size 6, $75; motorcycle boot is 7.5. $125.

403-342-5056 BREVILLE Juice Fountain Elite juicer. Nearly new.† $200. Call (403) 342-7908.

ELEC. wood splitter inclds. cord and half wood $150. ***SOLD*** SEARS ELECTRIC LAWN MOWER $50.

403-346-5745 Vintage HOHNER accordion (circa 1940’s) with carrying case. $140.† Call (403) 342-7908.

1810

Pets & Supplies

30 TABLETS for dogs and cats only to help maintain proper liver functions, exp.

2015, $50 403-227-2976

1830

Cats

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

JF 1350 sileage cutter, exc. cond. 403-588-0958

HOME gym w/leg press $500 403-358-1420 HUGE INVENTORY OF FLY FISHING INVENTORY Vices, materials, feather capers, shaneels, threads, etc. Asking $35 obo. **SOLD**

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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rentals

1860

Sporting Goods

2010

Farm Equipment

3 KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY. 403-782-3031

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

1 BR w/den in secure bldg.

Gas FP, 4 appl & W/D in suite. Ref req. Secure dep $900, rent $1000 mo. incl util. For appt call, Eileen 403-304-5815 After 6:00 pm.

Advocate Opportunities

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Advocate Opportunities

1720

NORDICTRACK TREADMILL CHILD’S ANTIQUE WOOD $250 obo. Must sell. Very gently used 2009. Lots of HIGH CHAIR - No Tray. bells & whistles, c/w mat & $30. 403-506-9453. manual. 403-358-5730

Advocate Opportunities

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

1630

EquipmentHeavy

AFFORDABLE

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

HEALTH CARE AIDE Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Job Search and Resume Writing Course First Aid / WHMIS

1580

Firewood

Classes Starting Soon!

FALL START Community Support Worker Program

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

LUBE TECH

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

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Children's Items

JOHNSTONE CROSSING

900

Employment Training

Advocate Opportunities

wanted for busy dealership, possible chance for advancement.

Fax resume to 341-5066

Call Today (403) 347-6676

CEA AIR Are you looking to grow your career in a drug and (Custom Energized Air Ltd) a respected leader in the alcohol free environment, pneumatics industry is surrounded by a great team?

Then Profoxx Energy would GROWING AGAIN and we are looking for: like to hear from you.

We are a professional fast Exp’d Industrial growing company that Inside Sales /Order offers competitive wages Desk Personnel and benefits in a fun for our Red Deer Branch and safe environment.

A mechanical aptitude and /or knowledge in pneumatics Submit your resume to: careers@profoxxenergy.com is an asset. Compensation is negotiable depending on Or by fax 780-622-5056 experience includes health plan.

We look forward to hearing We thank all those who from you; please submit apply, but only those resumes to: chosen for interview del.trynchuk@cea-air.com will be contacted

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

Is seeking to hire

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Red Deer • Rocky Mtn. House • Rimbey • Caroline The successful applicant • Castor will be a registered apprentice • Sylvan Lake • Innisfail Pipefitter Steamfitter • Stettler AND BE • Ponoka • Organized • A self started Gov’t of Alberta Funding • Team player may be available.

• Able to take direction

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

880

ACADEMIC Express

REGISTERED PIPEFITTER APPRENTICE

This project runs from August 18 to August 30 2014,

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FLUID Experts Ltd.

GROWING National company seeks mechanically inclined service person for Periodic basic equipment maintenance in the Red Deer area, for 5-10 service calls per month. Service times flexible. Perfect for a MEGA CRANES is now hiring exp’d Class 1 drivers. young retired person. Will train, must have own Boom/crane truck tickets reliable vehicle and basic an asset. Please email tools. Fax resume or letter résumé with drivers of interest to 905-760-1233 abstract to or email to dispatch. cathy@megacranes.com canada@air-serv.com. or fax 403-885-4292

• Now Hiring:

880

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RED DEER ADVOCATE

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

Phone 403-314-4316

INNISFAIL The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

Phone 403-314-4316

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

INNISFAIL Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

************************** To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

SPRINGBROOK

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING! Phone 403-314-4316 To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

Phone 403-314-4316 * Adults * Youths * Seniors *

WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

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Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 3 days per week

ANDERS INGLEWOOD AND VANIER AREAS

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION

GRANDVIEW AREA

35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres.

Westpark Cres.

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

3900 - 4200 Blocks of 43A Ave.

RED DEER ADVOCATE

EASTVIEW

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

Ellis St. Area $97./mo ALSO South Half of Embury Cres.

South half of 46 St. and 35 Ave. Close $70./mo

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

3 days per week, no weekends

MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. Sunnyside Cres.

Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Sutton Close Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr. also Lister Cres. & Lockwood Ave. also Landry & Lawson Close Law Close/Lewis Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

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CARRIERS NEEDED

ANDERS AREA Allwright Close Archer Drive/Austin Dr. Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atlee St. Allison Cres

Phone 403-314-4316 **************************

Phone 403-314-4301

For More Information Call Jamie at 403-314-4306

ROUTES IN:

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Drive Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER Const. Ltd. Decks, reno’s, roofing, flooring. Free est. Call Geoff 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

FENCES & DECKS 403-352-4034

Eavestroughing

1130

Massage Therapy

1280

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

FANTASY

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

International ladies

Escorts

1165

MASSAGE

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! Fencing 403-986-6686 Come in and see CHAINLINK FENCING why we are the talk Commercial/Residential of the town.

Dog Runs/ 403-304-5055 www.viimassage.biz

1169

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, or cutting small trees?

Call James 403-341-0617

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869 RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

Window Cleaning

1420

ROBUST Cleaning Services WINDOW CLEANING outside/inside. Free quotes.

403-506-4822

B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, July 21, 2014

UK welcomes back sports stars TWO YEARS AFTER LONDON OLYMPICS, BOLT HEADLINES COMMONWEALTH GAMES IN GLASGOW

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Competing in just one event, Usain Bolt is likely to race in Glasgow for less than 20 seconds. Just convincing the sprint star to come to the Commonwealth Games, though, should go a long way to elevating the status of a sporting spectacle that might seem anachronistic.

Two years after the exuberance of the London Olympics, where Bolt left with three golds, Britain is welcoming the world back this week — or former members of the British Empire at least — for Scotland’s largest-ever multisports event.

Across 11 days, 4,500 athletes will be competing in 17 events as the 20th Commonwealth Games is broadcast for the first time to television audiences in all 71 competing nations and territories. How full the venues will be on those screens remains unclear, with the insatiable appetite for Olympic tickets in London not appearing to have been matched north of the border.

The ticket website shows “high availability” still for many events, including Wednesday’s opening ceremony, headlined by rock star Rod Stewart at the home of his beloved football club Celtic, and Susan Boyle, the church volunteer whose soaring voice turned her into an overnight reality TV star.

Even track and field events, which start Sunday at the Hampden Park national football stadium, have tickets still on sale for all but two of the 10 sessions. Not though on Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 when Bolt will appear for the first time. Unlike in London when he swept the 100, 200 and 4x100-meter relay titles, the Jamaican is restricting himself to the relay in Glasgow, with just a heat and inevitable final. Organizers should be relieved Bolt is participating at all, given his lack of action this season due to a foot injury.

“I have received lots of requests, invitations and messages of support from my fans in Scotland who are looking forward to a great event,” said Bolt, who skipped the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Like Bolt, a recent foot injury prevented compatriot Shelly-Ann FraserPryce, the double 100-meter Olympic champion, from participating in the Jamaican trials so her involvement

in Glasgow will also be restricted to the relay. Although the enduring relevance of the Commonwealth is often questioned in the 21st century, FraserPryce’s affection for the organization’s sports festival is clear.

“It ranks high because I’ve never been to a Commonwealth Games before,” Fraser-Pryce told The Associated Press. “I’ve always thought (after) winning an Olympic gold medal, a world championship gold medal and a world indoor gold medal that if I had a Commonwealth gold medal that would top things off.

“I don’t think it’s outdated (the Commonwealth Games), I just think that a lot of persons who believe that are the world powers who aren’t here. So they believe that it’s not a big thing, but ... we are part of the Commonwealth and we see it as something big.”

Organizers will be hoping to recapture the high spirits of London 2012, with an array of British Olympic medallists splitting off to compete under the home nations’ flags. Perhaps offsetting Bolt’s truncated participation, English favourite Mo Farah declared himself fit to try to add to his 5,000 and 10,000 Olympic titles and shake off the frustrations from his lacklustre full London Marathon debut in April.

Away from the temporary Hampden Park track, Bradley Wiggins will also have a point to prove in the newlybuilt velodrome and on the roads of Glasgow after the 2012 Tour de France champion was omitted from the Team Sky squad for this year’s race.

The Tollcross swimming pool should be the scene of some of the most fiercely, competitive action, with the sold-out 100-meter breaststroke final pitting Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa against Australia’s world champion Christian Sprenger.

The rugby sevens will take on greater significance this time as New Zealand chases a fifth consecutive Commonwealth title as the sport prepares for its Olympic debut in Rio in 2016.

Squash’s struggle to gain inclusion on the Olympic program raises the significance of Commonwealth gold for many, including Nick Matthew, the Englishman defending singles and doubles titles from Delhi.

The 2010 Games were beset by organizational chaos and damaging headlines for India over the wellbeing of both venues and athletes. Although a sickness and vomiting bug has broken

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Canada’s Susan Nattrass waves to family in the stands after completing the first round of qualification in the women’s trap shooting at the Beijing Olympics in Beijing, China, Aug.11, 2008. Nattrass will lead Canada into the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The six-time medallist and seven-time world champion has been chosen as this country’s flag-bearer for the opening ceremony, Wednesday in Glasgow, Scotland. out in the last week in the Glasgow athletes’ village only workers appear to have been affected.

Scotland’s preparations have largely gone under the radar — a reflection of the smooth project as much as the global sporting radar being tuned into Brazil for the World Cup for much of the year. The Glasgow budget did however jump by more than 50 per cent from the bid to 563 million pounds ($962 million), and the Scottish government has been forced to dip into its contingency to fund what could be another high-politicized Commonwealth Games in Scotland.

The 1986 Edinburgh Games left the Scottish capital in financial crisis af-

ter 32 of 59 teams boycotted the event over the British government’s ties with apartheid-era South Africa. This time, domestic politics threatens to dominate the games agenda, with politicians in the final stretch before Scotland’s Sept. 18 referendum on whether to break away from Britain.

A flurry of home successes and repeated renditions of “Flower of Scotland” will undoubtedly raise patriotic passions among the tartan-clad spectators, but how that translates at the ballot box will be unclear. But whether pro- or anti-independence, Scots will be united for the next two weeks at least on delivering a world-class event to savour.

Coach Marrone: Bills DT Dareus held out from start of camp because of failed conditioning test

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Add a failed conditioning test to Bills starting defensive tackle Marcell Dareus’ string of off-season troubles.

Dareus missed the start of training camp Sunday because he did not report in shape, coach Doug Marrone announced shortly before the Bills’ first practice in suburban Rochester.

Though he declined to say whether he was disappointed in Dareus’ latest setback, Marrone said: “Obviously, you want your players to come in ready to go. We’re here for a long period of time, and we’ll make up for it.”

Marrone provided the update a day after the Bills placed the 2011 firstround draft pick on the active/non-football injury list.

“I just think right now he just needs to focus on getting himself ready, getting on the field, and focusing on football,” Marrone added. “And I think that’s what he’ll be ready to do.”

Dareus was not present for the start

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Under the observation of trainers, he must now work himself back into shape, then pass the tests to be cleared for practice.

This isn’t a good start for a player who has encountered a series of onand off-field problems over the past seven months.

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Dareus was charged with reckless endangerment and ticketed for several traffic violations, including drag racing.

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West condemns tampering BODIES FROM DOWNED JETLINER PILED IN BOXCARS IN UKRAINE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOREZ, Ukraine — Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner into four refrigerated boxcars Sunday in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing condemnation from Western leaders that the rebels were tampering with the site.

The United States, meanwhile, presented what it called “powerful” evidence that the rebels shot down the plane with a Russian surface-to-air missile and training. Although other governments have stopped short of accusing Russia of actually causing the crash, the U.S. was ahead of most in pointing blame on Moscow for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that killed all 298 people aboard.

“Russia is supporting these separatists. Russia is arming these separatists.

Russia is training these separatists,” Secretary of State John Kerry said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Australia spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone late Sunday, urging him to use his influence on the separatists to ensure the victims could be repatriated and international investigators could have full access to collect evidence. They said European foreign ministers will be meeting in Brussels Tuesday to consider further sanctions on Russia.

More than three days after the jetliner crashed, international investigators still had only limited access to the sprawling fields where the plane fell.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a blistering opinion piece for the Sunday Times, said “the growing weight of evidence” suggests the rebels shot down the plane, and if that is so, “this is a direct result of Russia destabilizing a sovereign state, violating its territorial integrity, backing thuggish militias and training and arming them.”

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose country lost 28 citizens in the tragedy, said Putin “said all the right things” during their telephone conversation about ensuring an international investigation into the disaster.

“I’m now going to try to ensure that as far as Australia humanly can, we insist upon these things happening,” Abbott told Sydney Radio 2GB on Monday. “The site is being treated more like a garden clean-up than a forensic investigation, and this is completely unacceptable.”

Russian officials have blamed Ukraine’s government for creating the situation and atmosphere in which the plane was downed, but has yet to directly address the allegations that the separatists were responsible or were operating with technical assistance from Moscow.

The 109-square-kilometre (42-square-mile) crash site, spread out on farmland and villages, looked dramatically different Sunday, a day after armed rebels had stood guard while dozens of bodies lay in the summer heat. The rebels were gone, and 192 bodies were loaded into the refrigerated train cars in the rebel-held town of Torez, 15 kilometres (nine miles) away.

The Ukrainian government said in a statement on its website that a second train with four refrigerator cars had arrived at Torez station.

Emergency workers, who the rebels have allowed to operate under their control, were searching the sprawling fields. Cranes moved pieces of the plane around, apparently to look for more bodies underneath.

By Sunday night, Ukraine’s emergency services agency said the total number of bodies found was 251, with dozens of body parts.

Kerry expressed outrage at the “grotesque” behaviour of the rebels at the crash scene.

“Drunken separatists are stacking bodies into the back of trucks, removing materials from the site,” he told ABC’s “This Week.” ”On Friday, we had 75 minutes of access to the site; on Saturday, three hours of access. This is an insult to everybody.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose country lost 192 citizens on the plane, told a news conference that repatriating the bodies was his “No. 1 priority.”

He said all efforts were aimed at getting the train with the bodies to “territory controlled by Ukraine,” adding that a Dutch military plane was

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A pro-Russian fighter guards the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ensures rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.

U.S. tries to make case that Ukraine separatists downed passenger plane, with Russian complicity WASHINGTON — Video of a rocket launcher, one surface-to-air missile missing, leaving the likely launch site. Imagery showing the firing. Calls claiming credit for the strike. Recordings said to reveal a coverup at the crash site.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, a former prosecutor, on Sunday built a case holding Russian-supported rebels in eastern Ukraine responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, with Russia complicit in the deaths of nearly 300 passengers and crew members.

“A buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence ... it’s powerful here,” Kerry said.

“This is the moment of truth for Russia,” he said, levelling some of Washington’s harshest criticism of Moscow since the crisis in Ukraine began.

“Russia is supporting these separatists. Russia is arming these separatists. Russia is training these separatists, and Russia has not yet done the things necessary in order to try to bring them under control,” he said.

In a round of television interviews Sunday, Kerry cited a mix of U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence and social media reports that he said “obviously points a very clear finger at the separatists” for firing the missile that brought the plane down last Thursday.

“It’s pretty clear that this is a system that was transferred from Russia into the hands of separatists,” he said.

Video of an SA-11 launcher, with one of its missiles missing and leaving the likely launch site, has been authenticated, he said.

An Associated Press journalist saw a missile launcher in rebel-held territory close to the crash site just hours before the plane was brought down Thursday.

“There’s a buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence,” Kerry said. “We picked up the imagery of this launch. We know the trajectory. We know where it came from. We know the timing, and it was exactly at the time that this aircraft disappeared from the radar. We also know from voice identification that the separatists were bragging about shooting it down afterward.”

In one set of calls, said by Ukrainian security services to have been recorded shortly after the plane was hit, a prominent rebel commander, Igor Bezler, tells a Russian military intelligence officer that rebel forces shot down a plane.

Shortly before Kerry’s television appearances, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, released a statement saying experts had authenticated the calls.

“Audio data provided to the press by the Ukrainian security service was evaluated by intelligence community analysts who confirmed these were authentic conversations between known separatist leaders, based on comparing the Ukraine-released internet audio to recordings of being sent to Kharkiv to set up a coordinationcentre.

Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said reports from the group’s investigators in Ukraine suggest some bodies were incinerated without a trace.

“We’re looking at the field where the engines have come down. This was the area which was exposed to the most intense heat. We do not see any bodies here. It appears that some have been vaporized,” he said from the

known separatists,” the statement said.

A new set of recordings apparently made Friday also appears to implicate rebels in an attempted coverup at the crash site.

In one exchange, a man identified as the leader of the rebel Vostok Battalion Alexander Khodakovsky states that two recording devices are being held by the head of intelligence of the insurgency’s military commander. The commander is then heard to order the militiaman to ensure no outsiders, including an international observation team near the crash site at the reported time of the call, get hold of any material.

The man identified as Khodakovsky says he is pursuing inquiries about the black boxes under instructions from “our high-placed friends ... in Moscow.”

In another conversation with a rebel representative at the crash site who reports finding an orange box marked as a satellite navigation box, Khodakovsky is purported to order that the object be hidden.

U.S. aviation safety experts say they are especially concerned the site will be “spoiled” if it cannot be quickly secured by investigators. Based on photographs, they say it is a very large debris field consistent with an in-flight explosion and the main evidence to be collected would be pieces of the missile.

Because the integrity of the plane and actions of the pilots are not an issue, the experts do not believe the flight recorders will yield much useful information.

U.S. and Ukrainian authorities have been at the forefront of accusations that the separatists, aided by Russia, are responsible, although other countries, including Australia and Britain have offered similar, if less definitive, assessments.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said in an unusual front-page piece in the Sunday Times that there is growing evidence that separatists backed by Russia shot down the aircraft.

“If President (Vladimir) Putin does not change his approach to Ukraine, then Europe and the West must fundamentally change our approach to Russia,” Cameron wrote.

Putin and other Russian officials have blamed the government in Ukraine for creating the situation and atmosphere in which the plane was downed, but have yet to directly address the allegations that the separatists were responsible or were operating with technical assistance from Moscow.

In his interviews, Kerry accused Russia of “playing” a dual-track policy in Ukraine of saying one thing and doing another. That, he said, “is really threatening both the larger interests as well as that region and threatening Ukraine itself.”

He lamented that the level of trust between Washington and Moscow is now at a low ebb, saying it “would be ridiculous at this point in time to be trusting” of what the Kremlin says.

Kerry also said the administration was hopeful that the incident would galvanize support in Europe for increasing sanctions on Russia over its overall actions in Ukraine.

crash site.

Rebel leader Alexander Borodai denied the rebels were trying to tamper with evidence, saying the bodies would be turned over to a team of Malaysian experts he was expecting.

A group of investigators that included Malaysian officials was in Kyiv, but said they wouldn’t go into rebel-held areas until they get better assurances about security.

The Ukrainian government, which has responsibility for the investigation, has also asked for help from the

International Civil Aviation Organization — a U.N. body — and Eurocontrol, a European air traffic safety organization.

Borodai insisted the rebels have not interfered with the investigation, and said he would turn over the plane’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders, or “black boxes,” as well.

“The bodies will go nowhere until experts arrive,” Borodai said in the rebel-held city of Donetsk.

But it was clear that the rebels were interfering in the investigation.

Mother’s appeal sums up nation’s anguish at failure to get victims home

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A distraught, grieving mother summed up a swelling mood of despair and anguish in the Netherlands on Sunday at faltering efforts to repatriate the bodies of loved ones killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, appealing directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to return the bodies of her son and his girlfriend.

Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, whose son Bryce and his girlfriend Daisy Oehlers were killed when the plane was shot down Thursday over Ukraine,

said she was appalled their bodies and those of other victims had been left lying for days.

“I am not a politician,” she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “But I know for sure that Mr. Putin can do something.”

Earlier, at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, she made a simple, but heartrending appeal to the Russian President: “Mr. Putin, send my children home,” she told Sky TV. “Send them home. Please.”

International monitors say armed rebels have limited their access to the crash site and Ukrainian officials said armed rebels took 192 bodies away

from their workers by force Sunday.

Fredriksz-Hoogzand’s son and his girlfriend were among the 193 Dutch victims of the crash, making this nation of 17 million the hardest hit by the tragedy. The Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down, killing all 298 passengers and crew.

Grief is turning to anger for the Dutch as pro-Russian rebels hamper efforts to recover the dead and investigate the cause of the disaster.

“No words can describe it,” Fredriksz-Hoogzand told AP. “Bodies are just lying there for three days in the

hot sun. There are people who have this on their conscience. There are families who can never hold the body of a child or a mother.”

She said she sent Bryce and Daisy on vacation to Bali to get over the grief of Daisy’s mother dying two and a half months ago.

“It’s a tragedy on top of a tragedy,” she said.

Asked Sunday night what delay was acceptable in returning bodies to their families, Prime Minister Mark Rutte replied: “Zero. Nothing is acceptable.

All this should be done two days ago.

But we are working as hard as possible to ensure a quick repatriation.”

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Getting up close and personal SCORES KILLED IN FIRST MAJOR GROUND BATTLE IN TWO WEEKS OF ISRAEL-HAMAS FIGHTING GAZA, Gaza Strip — The first major ground battle in two weeks of IsraelHamas fighting exacted a steep price Sunday: It killed 65 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers and forced thousands of terrified Palestinian civilians to flee their neighbourhood, reportedly used to launch rockets at Israel and now devastated by the fighting.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the offensive would continue “as long as necessary” to end attacks from Gaza on Israeli civilians.

But Hamas seems defiant, international cease-fire efforts are stalled, and international criticism is becoming more vocal as the death toll among Palestinian civilians rises.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon called Israel’s latest incursion “atrocious,” and said it must do far more to protect civilians.

In Israel, public opinion will struggle to tolerate rising military losses in an open-ended campaign. Already, Sunday’s deaths marked the highest number of soldiers killed on a single day since Israel’s war in Lebanon in 2006.

The ferocious battle in Gaza City’s Shijaiyah neighbourhood came on the third day of Israel’s ground offensive, which had been preceded by a 10-day air campaign.

In all, at least 432 Palestinians were killed and more than 3,000 wounded in the past two weeks. The overall death toll on the Israeli side rose to 20, including 18 soldiers, along with dozens of wounded troops, during that period.

Sunday’s battle began when Israeli troops backed by tanks entered the densely populated Shijaiyah district just after midnight Sunday. They were met by a “huge” level of resistance

by Hamas fighters who fired anti-tank missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons from houses and buildings, said Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an army spokesman.

Residents said they came under intense Israeli tank fire.

“The gate of hell has opened, and shrapnel came through the windows,” Shijaiyah resident Jawad Hassanain said by phone. He and his family fled to a nearby building after their house shook from explosions.

After daybreak, the extent of the devastation slowly became apparent: At least 65 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 300 wounded, Gaza health officials said, while dozens of homes badly damaged or destroyed.

Casualties were rushed to Gaza’s central Shifa Hospital. Wailing parents, some covered with blood or dust from debris, carried children peppered by shrapnel, and the emergency room quickly overflowed, forcing doctors to treat some patients in a hallway.

During a brief Red Cross-brokered lull later in the day, rescue workers toured the neighbourhood to retrieve the dead, pulling bodies from the rubble of homes.

In a last sweep of the area on Sunday afternoon, rescue workers heard the faint voice of a woman in the rubble of a house.

“I’m here with my husband and niece,” the woman said, adding that there were also three bodies near her.

“I’m here under the shop. God please, I can’t breathe.”

In the incident witnessed by Associated Press journalists, rescue workers tried to organize a bulldozer, but the situation was deemed too dangerous and the crew left. Later, the rescue workers returned with a bulldozer, after co-ordination with Israeli forces through the Red Crescent, and pulled the three from the rubble, said Said Hamam, a member of the rescue services.

The 13 Israeli soldiers were killed in several separate incidents in Shijaiya, including gun battles and rocket attacks. In the deadliest, Gaza fighters detonated a bomb near an armoured personnel carrier, killing seven soldiers inside, the army said. In another incident, three soldiers were killed when they became trapped in a burning building, it said.

Despite the losses, the army chief, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, said Israel intends escalate the operation. Gaza residents received automated phone calls late Sunday, warning them to evacuate refugee camps in the centre of the Gaza Strip.

Israel had launched the campaign to hurt Hamas’ ability to fire rockets and to destroy tunnels dug by the militants to sneak into Israel to carry out attacks.

Shijaiyah was targeted as a Hamas stronghold and because 8 per cent of more than 1,700 rockets fired at Israel since July 8 were launched from there, said Lerner.

The military said that since the beginning of ground operation late last week, it has killed 110 Gaza fighters and targeted more than 1,000 sites linked to militants. Soldiers also exposed 14 tunnels, all interconnected and leading toward Israel, and deto-

Iraqi prime minister condemns Islamic State group’s actions targeting Christian minority Iraq’s Christian communities date back to the first centuries of the religion. Before the 2003 U.S-led invasion, BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minis- around 1 million Christians called Iraq ter on Sunday condemned the Islamic home.

But since then, the community has State extremist group’s actions targeting Christians in territory it controls, been a frequent target for militants, saying they reveal the threat the jihad- and attacks prompted many Christians ists pose to the minority community’s to leave the country. Church officials now estimate the community at around “centuries-old heritage.”

The comments from Nouri al-Maliki 450,000.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kicome a day after the expiration of a moon strongly condeadline imposed by demned “the systematic the Islamic State group ‘WHAT IS BEING persecution of minority calling on Christians in DONE BY THE DAESH populations in Iraq by the militant-held city TERRORIST GANG Islamic State and assoof Mosul to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face AGAINST OUR CHRISTIAN ciated armed groups,” in particular the recent death. Most Christians CITIZENS IN NINEVAH against Chrisopted to flee to the PROVINCE, AND THEIR threats tians in Mosul, accordnearby self-rule KurdAGGRESSION AGAINST ing to a statement reish region or other arTHE CHURCHES AND leased Sunday. eas protected by KurdBan also expressed ish security forces.

HOUSES OF WORSHIP concern about ab“What is being done IN THE AREAS UNDER ductions and killings by the Daesh terrorist THEIR CONTROL REVEALS of minority Yazidis, gang against our Christian citizens in Nine- BEYOND ANY DOUBT THE Turkmens and Shabaks, and reiterated vah province, and their EXTREMIST CRIMINAL aggression against the AND TERRORIST NATURE that targeting a population because of its churches and houses OF THIS GROUP.’ ethnic background or of worship in the areas faith could constitute a under their control re— NOURI AL-MALIKI crime against humanveals beyond any doubt IRAQ’S PRIME MINISTER ity. He also said the the extremist criminal U.N. would intensify its and terrorist nature of this group,” al-Maliki said in a state- efforts to address the urgent humaniment released by his office, using the tarian needs of the displaced.

Prime Minister Al-Maliki, who has Arabic acronym for the Islamic State ruled the country since 2006, is under group.

“Those people, through their crimes, pressure to step aside and not seek a are revealing their true identity and third consecutive term. Many in Iraq the false allegations made here and accuse al-Maliki’s Shiite-led governthere about the existence of revolu- ment of helping fuel the crisis by failing to promote reconciliation with the tionaries among their ranks.”

At the Vatican, Pope Francis ex- Sunni Muslim minority, and say he has pressed his concern Sunday for Mo- become too polarizing a figure to unite sul’s Christians, offering prayers for the country and face down the militant Iraqi Christians who “are persecut- threat.

Iraq’s new parliament elected a new ed, chased away, forced to leave their houses without out the possibility of speaker last week — the first step toward forming a new government. Lawtaking anything” with them.

Residents in Mosul also say the Is- makers are expected to meet Wedneslamic State group’s fighters recently day to possibly vote on a new presihave begun to occupy churches and dent.

By custom, the largely ceremonial seize the homes of Christians who have post goes to a member of the Kurdish fled the city.

These actions stem from the harsh minority.

Ala Talabani, a lawmaker from the interpretation of Islamic law the group seeks to impose on the territory it con- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, said trols in Iraq and neighbouring Syria. the party had narrowed its choices of Already in Mosul, the extremist group presidential candidates down to two has banned alcohol and water pipes, names: former deputy prime minister and painted over street advertisements Barham Saleh, and former parliament showing women’s faces. It has, how- speaker Fouad Massoum. Talabani, ever, held off on stricter punishments who took part in the discussions Sunday, said the Kurds would decide on so far. one name by Wednesday.

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Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike hit an area in Gaza City on Sunday.

Escalating their ground offensive, Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes battled Hamas militants in a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City early Sunday.

The fighting, including heavy Israeli tank fire, killed scores of Palestinians, forced thousands to flee and damaged or destroyed dozens of homes. nated six of them, including one with a length of 1.2 kilometres and an access point within a house, the army said.

“It’s like the Underground, the Metro or the subway,” said Lerner, the army spokesman, referring to the tunnel system.

The first days of the current ground offensive were in marked contrast to Israel’s last major invasion of Gaza in January 2009, known in Israel as Cast Lead, when Hamas fighters rarely engaged Israeli forces.

Now, Gaza’s militants seem better armed, including with anti-tank rockets.

“I see an escalation in weaponry,” Amos Yadlin, a former Israeli military intelligence chief, told Israel TV’s Channel 10. “This isn’t the same weaponry as in Cast Lead.”

Netanyahu said in nationally televised comments Sunday that the

ground campaign is vital to Israel’s security because the tunnels could be used for “mega terror attacks and kidnappings,” but acknowledged the operation is “full of risks.”

Speaking earlier to CNN, Netanyahu said the ultimate goal is to “restore a sustainable quiet” for Israel’s citizens. Once that is achieved, he said he hopes to enlist the international community “to demilitarize Gaza,” but did not explain what that would entail.

Asked about the mounting number of dead and wounded among Palestinians, he said Israel is only targeting militants.

“All civilian casualties are unintended by us, but intended by Hamas.

They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. ... It’s gruesome,” Netanyahu said. “They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead the better.”

New York officer stripped of gun, badge after apparent chokehold is used in fatal arrest

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A New York City police officer involved in the arrest of a man who died in custody after being placed in an apparent chokehold has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty, police said.

The city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board said Saturday it would review more than 1,000 chokehold complaints it has received against officers over the last five years in an attempt to “discern why officers continue to use this forbidden practice.”

At a rally in arally in Manhattan’s Harlem neighbourhood, prominent civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton said the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner could strain the black community’s relationship with the police department.

“This is going to be a real test to see where policies are in the city now and

whether the change that we feel occurred has occurred,” Sharpton said, referring to promises made by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton to improve the relationship between officers and the city’s minority communities.

The NYPD has faced criticism and legal challenges over its use of the stop and frisk tactic, which allows officers to stop anyone they suspect is about to commit a crime or has committed a crime. There has also been an outcry over the NPYD’s extensive surveillance of Muslims disclosed in stories

by The Associated Press.

Officer Daniel Pantaleo, an eightyear NYPD veteran, and an officer who has been with the force for four years were both taken off the street after the Garner’s death on Staten Island, police said. The department would not identify the second officer but said he would retain his gun and badge while on desk duty.

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