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Trails and so much more WITH PARKS WITHIN THE PARK, WASKASOO HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Picnics, bird watching, horseback riding, fishing, paddle boat cruising — you name it.

Waskasoo Park, Red Deer’s great outdoor treasure, has it all and much more.

Dave Matthews, Parks Planning and Technical Services supervisor for the City of Red Deer, says when people think about Waskasoo Park, they think about the more than 110 km of trails.

But there’s much more to discover on a hot summer day, including all the parks within the park, such as Heritage Ranch, Maskepetoon Park, Bower Ponds, Great Chief Park, Rotary Recreation Area, Three Mile Bend and Great West Adventure Park.

The park stretches almost continuously along the Red Deer River banks from River Bend Golf Course and Recreation Area in the northeast to Fort Normandeau in the west, and along the two main tributaries of Waskasoo and Piper Creeks.

It was more than 30 years ago that the province initiated an urban parks program, giving funds to municipalities to help develop parks. Red Deer received $23 million to develop the park system.

As a result, Waskasoo Park quickly became one of the city’s most valued assets and tourist attractions.

Over the years, the park continued to be developed; playgrounds, picnic grounds, shelters, paved trails and community facilities were added.

Many of the park’s offerings — such as Lions Campground, River Bend and Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary — are connected by the winding trails such as the popular McKenzie Trails. McKenzie Trails Recreation Area is in northeast Red Deer at the end of 45th Avenue.

“Depending on where you go, there’s always something different to see and something to experience,” said Todd Nivens, Kerry Wood Nature Centre’s program co-ordinator. “If you want high activity out in the bright sunshine and lots of noise and excitement, you have got Bower Ponds with the play park and the ball diamonds.

If you want quiet, contemplative, cool refuge on a summer afternoon, you have Maskepetoon with its tamarack forests.”

The official opening of Maskepetoon Park, part of the overall park system, came in 2013. Located on the southwest side of Oriole Park, the lesser known gem was originally an undisturbed river valley that was bisected

by Hwy 2 bypass in 1959. The development of the 75-acre park of forest and marshland took about four years, in order to preserve the ecology, do trail and boardwalk construction, vegetation reclamation and signage.

Pedestrians can stroll along the paths and trails that wind through the forest and marshland.

Nivens said there’s an immense variety of things to do in Waskasoo Park on a summer or winter afternoon.

But he said if you’re looking forward to having a picnic, one of the best places is at Fort Normandeau, with its expansive fields and new picnic shelter, fire pits and tables.

As an added bonus, all the exhibits in Fort Normandeau’s interpretive

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ABOVE: Riders at Heritage Ranch enjoy the equine program offered through the summer.

LEFT: Through the warm summer days Discovery Canyon at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area can be a busy place but on warm evenings the water feature can be very inviting and a relaxing place to spend some time.

centre were just re-opened this year after renovations over the winter.

“For people who are looking to get off the beaten track, I honestly think Fort Normandeau is one of the places that people need to spend more time at,” said Nivens.

Nivens also noted that Waskasoo Park is accessible by foot, transit and vehicle.

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The Three Mile Bend Recreation Area, located on the North Bank Trail next to the Red Deer River off Riverside Drive at 76th Street, is a 55-hectare natural area that offers an offleash dog park, a remote control car track, canoeing ponds and freestyle ski jump.

“You could literally spend a day on a bicycle and have a dozen different experiences at half a dozen different park nodes and some of them can be as simple as sitting on the riverbank dangling your feet on the water to having a picnic in the park,” said Nivens.

“The beautiful thing about Waskasoo Park is that it’s a fantastic way for people to disengage and really get in touch with the fact that Red Deer is a nature-based city.

“We have this fantastic natural heritage that runs through the heart of the city.

“If you really give the park some time and really take the chance to slow down and explore parts of it, people are really going to get a good appreciation for the whole speed of life in the park.”

In 2010, the city set in motion a plan to revitalize the identity of Waskasoo Park. Some of the signs were about 30 years old and were falling apart. The finishing touches on the new signage in Rotary Park, Kin Kanyon, Bower Ponds, Great West Adventure Park, Maskepetoon Park and Oxbows Off Leash Park were completed this year.

For more information about Waskasoo Park and other outdoor amenities, go to reddeer.ca/recreation-and-culture. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Fire ruled accidental

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

LACOMBE

The fire that destroyed three homes in Lacombe on Monday was ruled accidental by Lacombe Fire Department.

The fire started in the front-attached garage of the home at 4511 Henner’s Pointe. Heat and flames damaged the homes on either side, at 4509 and 4513 Henner’s Pointe.

What caused the fire has not been

determined.

Lacombe fire chief Ed van Delden said some of the evidence collected at the scene requires additional testing and review by labs and professionals.

“Determining the cause of the fire requires a high degree of certainty with corroborating evidence and this process can take days,” van Delden

said in a press release.

All three families — a total of six adults and seven children — in the homes escaped the early morning fire without injury.

Damage was estimated at about $3 million.

Van Delden said it was impossible to determine when the fire started, but the initial 911 call came in at 5:11 a.m. and the fire department was dispatched at 5:12 a.m. The first engine left the station at 5:21 a.m. and was on

scene at 5:24 a.m.

Upon arrival, firefighters found 4511 Henner’s Pointe fully engulfed in flames.

The Clive, Blackfalds and Bentley fire departments also responded to the fire. At one time, there were 40 firefighters at the scene.

The fire was declared under control at 6:57.a.m. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Campaign targets invasive species

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Lacombe County peace officer Ray Kawai (left) and Logan Van Imschoot, a conservation officer with Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation, inspect Gord Bredo’s boat for invasive species on Friday afternoon before it enters Sylvan Lake.

Maybe they’ll catch some people who misuse the lake . . . It’s a great idea to make people aware of what’s going on because it’s all over the States and we did it to ourselves, you know.”

Zebra and quagga mussels are virtually impossible to eradicate once they have hitchhiked into new territory.

One female mussel can produce up to a million eggs in a year and they will

cost the province $75 million annually if they sneak across the border.

By noon, every boat that had come through the station had opted to have the 10-minute inspection carried out, for a total of about 20 boats.

“It was unexpected for sure but kind of cool,” said Chantal Goudreau

of Edmonton, who was headed out for a day of boating with boyfriend Kurtis Kowall. “We learned some new things and it’s good to have that message reinforced because some people just don’t know.”

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The Sunbreaker Cove boat launch at Sylvan Lake had a hint of a Wild West vibe happening on Friday.

A “wanted dead or alive” poster greeted boaters ready to hit the water, calling on them to catch the pesky culprits on the run for destroying aquatic habitats across the continent: the zebra and quagga mussel brothers.

Lacombe County and Alberta Environment staff were behind the holdup at Sunbreaker, hosting an awareness campaign to put a stop to the spread of the invasive, non-native mussels who are currently making a mess of the Great Lakes and smuggled their way into Manitoba last fall.

No mussels have been found in Alberta waters yet.

Voluntary boat inspections were offered from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the overflow parking lot and an information tent was set up near the launching ramp.

“It’s to raise awareness of what the species are, what they can do to the lake if we do get them and how to prevent them coming to Alberta,” said Cajun Paradis, acting environmental co-ordinator with Lacombe County.

Many of the states below Alberta, including Idaho and Montana, have mandatory inspection stations for boats leaving and entering the country.

They stopped eight boats in the last two years that were positive for mussels and on their way to Alberta.

“Two of those boats were headed for Sylvan and Gull Lake,” Paradis said.

Conservation officers with Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation and local peace officers checked out a number of boats destined for Sylvan Lake, crawling underneath the vessels and peering into every nook and cranny of the motors.

“It’s the first time we’ve ever been inspected and it’s pretty official,” said Sylvan lake resident Gord Bredo.

“We don’t take our boat anywhere but Sylvan but it’s good for boats heading out of province.

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FireSmart Ecology Trail opens near Nordegg

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Expansion is going ahead on Fairview Cemetery to meet the needs of Lacombe city and county residents.

On Monday, Lacombe city council approved the Fairview Cemetery Expansion Master Plan, developed by LEES + Associates: Landscape Architects, based on projected service needs and a comprehensive community consultation process.

“The master plan design is projected to meet the interment and commemoration needs for city and county residents for 75 years,” said Mayor Steve Christie.

The expansion will add 10 acres to the cemetery, located at 4430 Woodland Dr., and will enhance the role of the cemetery as a local cultural asset and an important link to the city’s trail system.

The plan includes contemplative sites, trails and parkland; field of honour enhancements; incorporation of local history; and reduced maintenance.

Council also approved changes to allow additional urns to be placed in an occupied plot to allow more family members to be buried together in a family plot. Placement of one single or two double depth caskets in a single burial plot will also be allowed.

Phase 1 of the expansion will provide a 13-year supply of interment options. The project will be tendered in July 2015 with construction to start in September 2015. Phase 1 will allow for the nearby No. 4 Ball Diamond to be used until the end of August 2015, when it will be decommissioned and relocated to Michener Park.

The new 13-km FireSmart Ecology Trail near Nordegg opens for the first time this long weekend to hikers and mountain bikers.

The opening comes during Frontier Lodge’s mountain bike competition Fat Tire Festival, with guided trail rides of the FireSmart Trail available.

The trail runs through 10 km of previously clearcut forest between Goldeye Lake and Shunda Lake, 12 km west of Nordegg on Hwy 11. It will give people the opportunity to watch the forest re-grow.

The forest was harvested over the last two winters with trail development started earlier this year.

The FireSmart project is about reducing the threat of forest fires to nearby communities. The forest was so old that a fire would burn with such severe intensity that it would be difficult to control.

The clearcut will also renew the forest with aspens that will return nitrogen into the ground, and are also not very conducive to wildfire spread.

New grasses and plants will take hold, providing new habitat for local wildlife.

Barry Shellian, wildfire ranger and information officer for Alberta Environment Sustainable Resource Development, said it didn’t take long for plants to sprout.

“It went from a grey meadow and it’s green now,” Shellian said on Friday.

“It’s going to be exciting to watch.”

He plans to shoot seasonal videos on the trail to show how the forest springs back to life.

The primary start to the trail is at Fish Lake Provincial Recreation Area and it runs to Satellite Hill, adjacent to Goldeye Centre. It will also connect with existing trails and will be lined with interpretive signs.

FireSmart Ecology Trail was developed by the Alberta Environment Sustainable Resource Development staff in Rocky Mountain House, in partnership with Frontier Lodge, Tourism Parks and Recreation, Sundre Forest Products and Mountain Equipment Co-op.

Shellian said eliminating the heavy canopy of tree limbs means more snow will also hit the ground for winter recreation.

“We created a healthier forest. We created a safer community. We created bike trails. We have it all set up this winter for people to ski through the trails as well,” Shellian said.

The trail is open to all non-motorized forms of travel.

Brad Andrews, executive director at Frontier Lodge, said about 100 participants are competing at the 23rd annual Fat Tire Festival, along with many spectators. For a list of Fat Tire Festival events, competitions and guided trail rides, visit www.frontierlodge.ca/FatTireFestival. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

mussels can also travel on hip waders, paddles, life-jackets and other aquatic equipment. Boats and gear should be cleaned with hot water and all excess water should be drained from bait buckets, ballasts, bilges, coolers and internal compartments. Remove seals and let everything completely air dry.

Pamphlets, boat shammies, dry wallets and float-

ing key chains were also handed out during the campaign and any participants in the inspections were eligible to enter a draw to win a marine safety kit, fire extinguisher, life-jackets and other prizes.

It was the first targeted event at a boat launch in Alberta for the mussels education campaign. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

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Recent warm temperatures have brought the insects out in full force at McKenzie Trail Recreation area in Red Deer. Along the banks of the pond, several species of dragonfly’s, such as this one, and damselfly’s can be spotted flitting through the shrubs around the lake and over the water.

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Starting on Tuesday, crews will remove the existing asphalt surface. Then by Aug. 8 or 9, a layer of oil will be applied to the road surface. Motorists will be able to use 48th Avenue during this work, however traffic delays are expected and flaggers will direct traffic around equipment. Parking along 48th Avenue will not be allowed during construction.

Sections of 48th Avenue will be close on Aug. 9 and 10 for paving: on Aug. 9, from 55th to 49th Street, and on Aug. 10, from 49th to 43rd Street.

All road construction is weather dependent and scheduling may change due to weather conditions.

For more information on road closures, visit www. reddeer.ca/roadclosures.

Innisfail reconsiders moving waste transfer site Residents of an Innisfail trailer court may have been handed a reprieve as the town has reconsidered a decision to move the waste transfer site closer to the residential neighbourhood.

The town planned to move its dump to green space it owned adjacent to the Westwood Court Mobile Home Park, but they were met with opposition from residents of the trailer park.

The trailer park is located just east of the intersection of 42nd Street and 57th Avenue in Innisfail.

Last week, a press release from the town said it

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The best thing boaters can do to prevent the spread of mussels is clean, drain and dry their watercraft, said Paradis.

Remove all mud, plants and animals at the access area or dock and soak gear in a mixture of bleach and water for at least one minute as

would reconsider the plan after presentations and expressions of concern about putting a waste transfer site at the location.

A review is now underway and the town will look to include a third option for the location of the waste transfer site.

A review could take eight to 10 weeks to complete.

The results of the review will be presented at a public forum and residents will have the chance for input before a final decision is made.

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‘Malicious actors’ constantly probing federal computers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Malicious hackers are “constantly probing” federal computer systems so they can break in and steal coveted information, says the head of Canada’s electronic spy agency.

Communications Security Establishment Canada chief John Forster says the revelation this week that a Chinese state-sponsored player infiltrated the National Research Council’s computer network shows Canada is not immune from such aggression.

China has vehemently denied involvement in the cyberattack, accusing Canada of making baseless accusations.

But Forster used the attack on the research council — whose specialists study everything from aerospace technology to crop science — to defend CSEC’s role in protecting federal computers.

“These malicious actors are constantly probing Government of Canada systems and networks for weaknesses so that they infiltrate them and steal valuable information,” Forster wrote in a letter to the editor of the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper.

“When we detect emails or other communications that contain malware or other threats, we block, collect and analyze them. And, we work with appropriate departments to take action to neutralize the threat.”

The spy service takes strict measures to protect the privacy of Canadians in doing such work, Forster insisted.

CSEC employs mathematicians, codebreakers, linguists and software experts with the aim of both collecting foreign secrets and shielding Canada’s confidences from prying eyes.

Leaked revelations from Edward Snowden, a former U.S. intelligence contractor, have raised questions about CSEC’s surveillance activities, which include monitoring foreign email and telephone communications for information of intelligence in-

terest to Canada.

The intrusion at the National Research Council, and the government’s public declaration of CSEC’s role in detecting it, underscore the agency’s defensive work in cyberspace.

CSEC says it cannot monitor global communications in the modern era of Internet-based traffic without sweeping up at least some Canadian information.

As a result, the defence minister specially authorizes CSEC’s cyberdefence efforts. Otherwise, these activities would risk violating the Criminal Code provision against intercepting private Canadian communications.

The agency doesn’t keep personal information about Canadians if the material is considered irrelevant to protecting networks, Forster said in the letter to the Globe.

However, the spy agency has acknowledged that it maintains an information bank containing the personal information of “potentially any individual” who communicates electronically with a key federal computer network while CSEC is assessing its vulnerability.

For instance, the personal information of a Canadian might be kept if a foreign cyberattacker engages in phishing — an attempt to compromise a government department’s system by sending a carefully crafted email that appears to originate from a known or trusted sender, the spy agency says.

Details of the cyberattack on the research council are unclear, though the federal privacy commissioner’s office says it involved personal data.

CSEC’s general information-security advice to federal departments suggests the attack could have flowed from something as mundane as ordinary use of social media like Facebook or Twitter.

In one security bulletin, the spy service warns agencies that rogue parties frequently embed malware in social media websites or related applications.

Liberal fundraising momentum stalls

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are partly blaming the Ontario provincial election for a slowdown in fundraising going into the summer months.

The Ontario vote, however, doesn’t appear to have had a similar impact on the federal New Democrats, who gained ground in their second quarter party fundraising drive.

Newly released fundraising numbers, deemed “scary” by the Liberals’ fundraising director, show the Liberals raked in more than $2.8 million in the second quarter of this year.

But that’s roughly $100,000 less than what the party collected in the same three-month period in 2013 when Justin Trudeau was chosen to lead the Liberals. The party also saw a decline in the number of donors, from just over 38,000 in April, May and June of 2013 compared with the slightly more than 32,000 who gave the party money over the same time frame this year.

In a fundraising message delivered to party supporters earlier this week, Christina Topp, the Liberals’ senior fundraising director, said her party’s numbers are troubling.

“Q2 fundraising numbers were just released and they are scary,” Topp wrote in her email.

She thanked supporters while encouraging them to do more.

“Our own progress is incredible — we’ve rallied over 30,000 donors for the past five quarters!” she wrote. “But they (the Conservatives) are pushing on strong and we need your help to keep up our great momentum.”

Nonetheless, another party official said the Liberals are pleased with the latest numbers given that fundraising efforts were scaled back.

“We have kind of the same broad donor base (as the Ontario Liberals),” said party spokesman Olivier Duchesneau. “So if you take that into account, I don’t think the three per cent (decline in donations) is very significant. We’re maintaining our results from last year.”

Canadians urged to stay away from Ebola-affected countries OTTAWA — Health officials are telling Canadians to avoid travel to three African countries hit hard by an outbreak of Ebola virus.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says the recommendation that Canadians avoid all non-essential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is in line with an advisory issued by the United States.

The agency had said Thursday there was no need for a travel warning, based on information from the World Health Organization (WHO).

But it has upgraded its travel health notice, saying Canadians can help health officials control the outbreak in the affected countries by staying away.

The health agency says while the risk of contracting the illness remains low, travellers could find it hard to access health care services if they get sick, and could also be exposed to the virus while seeking medical care.

A statement from Health Minister Rona Ambrose and Lynne Yelich, minister of state for foreign and consular affairs, said the travel recommendation is meant to protect Canadian travellers and allow health officials in the affected countries to focus their resources on responding to the Ebola outbreak.

“The government is closely monitoring the situation and is in close contact with our missions responsible for the affected regions,” the statement said.

“Canada and its international partners are working around the clock to provide support to the affected regions.”

The statement said Canada has committed $1.41 million to date, and is providing Public Health Agency of Canada experts and a mobile lab in Sierra Leone to the Ebola fight.

It said there are no confirmed Ebola cases in Canada.

The World Health Organization says that, as of Thursday, 729 people have died as a result of the outbreak.

Just over 1,300 people are known to have been infected since February. In response, the WHO has launched a $100-million plan to combat the outbreak.

WHO Director General Margaret Chan was to meet today with the presidents of affected countries

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Drugs, breaching conditions lands man in jail for a week One of two suspects arrested in connection with an armed robbery west of Innisfail early on June 5 has been sentenced in Red Deer provincial court after pleading guilty to a portion of the charges against him.

Michael Holt, 33, of Red Deer was arrested and charged on June 7 by Innisfail RCMP investigating an incident at Kelly’s Campground, about 10 km west of Innisfail.

Holt was sentenced to seven days in jail for charges of possessing illegal drugs and failing to comply with release conditions. He is to return to court on Aug. 27 to deal with additional charges, including fraud and breaching a probation order.

Also charged in connection with the Kelly’s Campground incident is Dillon Bristow, 21, of Innisfail.

Bristow was arrested on June 13 on multiple charges, including armed robbery, possession of stolen property, trafficking cocaine, wearing a disguise to commit a criminal offence, hit and run, flight from police, break and enter and breaching release conditions.

His next court date is set for Aug. 15.

Fraud charges withdrawn against Red Deer-area man Charges have been withdrawn against a Red Deerarea man accused of using a fake credit card to purchase tires and parts at a number of stores.

A preliminary hearing was held this week for Josil Francisco Cabuhat, 33, who faced numerous charges of fraud and possession of stolen property, as well as a quantity of methamphetamine.

Crown prosecutors are not required to state their reasons for withdrawing charges.

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Letting your freak flags fly It used to be long hair that caused the kerfuffle. Specifically, long hair on the male gender of the species in particular. There was a time when a longhaired hippie type guy would be refused service in restaurants, sneered, snorted and spit at, and even physically pushed around, on account of his hair was over his ears, or even — heaven forbid! — touching his shoulders.

I know — I was there. I lived this crime against humanity. And all the time that I experienced the weird prejudice that is visited HARLEY upon anyone HAY who looks a bit different, all I wanted to do was grit my teeth and grow my mop longer. Like David Crosby, the rock star of Crosby, Stills and Nash. He wrote a song, one of my favorite CSN songs at the time, called Almost Cut My Hair. That’s how big a deal it was in those days. He didn’t, of course. Cut it that is. In fact the lyric goes: “I just feel like letting my freak flag fly, I feel like I owe it to someone. …”

But then freak flags somehow became little nubby ponytails on some artistic type older male dudes and even I had to swallow that bitter taste of prejudice a time or two.

And somewhere between spiky Statue of Liberty hair, head-shaved Mohawk hair strips, and technicoloured tresses, a new expression of independence and anarchy that I managed to avoid, began to emerge: male earrings.

It started with guys piercing one ear and one ear only. At first, most earlobe hardware was confined to a single post thingy or a small hoop thingy. Then came small diamonds, and then larger hoops and then dangly chains, or feathers or lots of metal such as shiny kitchen utensils.

Kidding about that last part, but only barely.

But the next body poking development became guys drilling holes in both earlobes and wearing earrings in both ears. From there it was only a short downhill slide to poking more holes in the ears, and then the nose, lips, eyebrows, spleen, toes and other important body parts and affixing various pieces of metal into said holes.

And in the history of bodily rebellion manifestation, for the first time there emerged a crossover to the opposite gender and both males and females of the human species — the most unruly and defiant (and those with the

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highest pain threshold) began to fully express themselves through piercing.

Puncturing the skin with metal accoutrements. Especially the skin in the facial area where it’s hard to avoid noticing, and apparently in other more sensitive areas that are better left unnoticed, if you get my drift.

I try not to exercise my subconscious prejudice that once again rears its ugly head, but I must say I’m thankful that facial pincushions are not particularly mainstream. Yet. But the next phase of the bodily expression evolution seems to be becoming as common as the common cold. Or, more accurately perhaps, a serious flu epidemic.

It’s ink, of course. In the sense of staining your skin with pin pricks of ink to form what the kids today call “tattoos.” Of course, the rest of us call them tattoos also because that is what they are — and they are everywhere.

Tattoos are colouring the skins of males and females alike, young and old, the seemingly sensible and the obviously deranged.

According to a recent article in Maclean’s magazine, nearly 40 per cent of millennials (kids who reach adulthood around the year 2000) have at least one. And I don’t think very many of them say “Mom,” “Mother” or “Home Sweet Home” like tattoos used to on

the biceps of sailors returning home from foreign lands.

Superheroes, snakes, flowers, hearts, Japanese letters and complicated graphic comic book art seem to be getting under almost everybody’s skin these days. Also, the name of your current love is always a popular choice for in-your-face tattoos. And therein, as they say, lies the problem.

Get this: the article says the latest rage in skin staining is something called the “divorce tattoo.” This is for people who experience a broken relationship and either want their former partner’s tattooed name removed and/or they request a new tattoo that not too subtly announces the breakup. Popular divorce tattoos include a balloon attached to a string of words: “Sometimes you need to let things go …” or an anchor (thank you sailors) with: “I refuse to sink.” You get the idea.

Apparently, it’s getting to be a problem in the tattoo world. Take Hollywood, for example (please!). The Maclean’s article includes a list of just some of the celebrities who have “taught us that tattooing your lover’s name on your body is a very bad idea: Angelina Jolie, Heidi Klum, Eva Longoria and Johnny Depp all have had homages to their partners removed.”

And that’s not all. A 2014 U.K. study

found that “four in 10 people regret their ink, and one in six full on hate it.”

They are part of a growing group of “tattoo regretters” — and I say it’s about time they joined the rest of us.

Us tattoo regretters who don’t personally have tattoos but deeply regret the tattoos that everybody else has.

So you want to get in on the next big business boom? Try tattoo removal.

In fact, laser studios are, as we speak, cropping up faster than you can ink your arm with a skull and crossbones.

Lucrative? You bet. To remove just one square inch of ink, you and your laser can charge $100 to $500 per treatment. For six to 10 treatments.

It’s apparently more painful that getting the tattoo in the first place and takes four to six weeks for the removal scar to heal. Yikes. This, I figure, is a long way from growing your hair long because you are in a rock band. I shudder to think what the next phase in human body expression might be. But whatever it is, I’m sure it’ll be pretty big and scary. Because some people just gotta let their freak flags fly.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Innovations: believe the dreamers, not the experts

BY VIVEK WADHWA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE History is littered with the failed predictions of experts. Yet governments hire high-paid consultants to advise on policy; businesses use them to vet research and development projects; and venture capitalists have them make investment decisions.

Experts excel in looking backward, protecting their turf and saying what their clients want to hear. Their shortterm predictions are sometimes right, but they are almost always wrong in forecasting the more-distant future.

Experts are the greatest inhibitors of innovation — the ones who shouldn’t be listened to. Entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, founder and chairman of XPrize Foundation, says it best: “An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.”

Look at some of the most famous historical examples: ● “The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.

The device is inherently of no value to us.” — a Western Union internal memo from 1876 ● “Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord Kelvin (William Thomson), president of Royal Society of London in 1895 ● “There is no reason for any individuals to have a computer in their home.” — Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of DEC in 1977

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The problem with experts is that they think they know it all; ignore data that don’t fit their points of view; and extrapolate from the past on a linear basis. If some disruptive technology hasn’t come along in the past, the assumption is that it won’t happen in the future.

What’s worse is that experts often try to block technologies that might upend their roles. After all, if things change too fast, they will no longer be experts.

You see these specialists in government, business and academia. Government experts usually have an agenda.

Business experts are typically old-timers trying to protect their jobs. Academics specialize in digging deep into fields that most people would consider arcane or obscure. They gain tenure by writing academic papers and being extremely knowledgeable in a narrow area. They often remain in the same field for decades and can’t see the forest for the trees.

Technology is, today, moving faster than ever. Advances that took decades, sometime centuries, such as the development of telephones, airplanes and the first computers, now happen in years. Witness how smartphones and social media have come out of nowhere in the past seven years and changed the way we interact and communicate.

We are always connected to each other and to our employers. Computing power is advancing at exponential rates and causing acceleration in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D

printing, sensors and medicine.

When advancing technologies converge, they lead to artificial intelligence-based apps that analyze data from medical sensors, with the potential to disrupt the medical industry.

Smartphones apps such as Uber and AirBnb are already threatening transportation and lodging. Amazon.com has made bookstores disappear and Apple has changed the music industry.

Which experts ever predicted these disruptions? The experts are becoming more wrong — and irrelevant — than ever.

More current examples: ● In the early 1980s, McKinsey & Company created a forecast for AT&T of how many cellular phones would be in use in the world in 2000. It estimated this number to be 900,000. The actual number was greater than 100 million. ● In June 2007, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told USA Today there was “no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item.”

The iPhone currently has 42 per cent market share in the United States.

Silicon Valley’s most respected venture capitalists can’t see even the near future. Mary Meeker, of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, produces a yearly report, Internet Trends, which is the tech industry’s bible. Its May 2013 report analyzed the leading players in social media and made predictions on the future of mobile technologies. It did not even mention WhatsApp, which Facebook acquired for $19 billion in

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As an academic expert in advancing technologies, I may lack the credibility to write this article. When entrepreneurs come to me for advice, I tell them, as I am telling you, to take it for what it’s worth. No one can accurately predict the future of business any more, because too much is happening too fast. At best, you can gain an understanding of the overall trends and the types of opportunities and obstacles that lie ahead. You can look backward to understand what problems have already been solved, how others overcame hurdles, and what types of business strategies worked best. You can learn what questions to ask. You can realize yourself when your idea is either just plain silly or impractical.

I tell entrepreneurs that if they really believe in their gut that they have a world-changing idea, then they should pursue it. They shouldn’t let anyone stop them — no one really knows more than they do. As Diamandis also says, “The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.”

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Is manufacturing poised for growth?

Manufacturing is not dead, yet it is sary to form the Ontario Auto Mayors’ far from healthy.

Roundtable to address Ontario’s failKPMG, the multinational ure to capture new auto inconsulting firm, believes, dustry investment. All have however, that the tide is been feeling the pain from turning and that Canadian the continued shrinking of manufacturers are poised Ontario’s most important for an upsurge in growth. manufacturing sector.

But is this wishful thinkIn its bullish report on ing? While there are innomanufacturing, KPMG arvative Canadian manufacgues that Canadian manuturers who are doing well, facturing is “well positioned in the aggregate it appears to become more relevant to be a different story. and influential than ever Certainly it is a critical before.” Yet while the U.S. issue. As the KPMG survey economy is recovering, creDAVID on the outlook for Canadian ating export growth potenCRANE manufacturing points out, tial for Canadian companies “manufacturing is responand costs are raising in Chisible for almost one-third na so that there is less outof Canada’s exports, consourcing and more reshortributing significantly to the country’s ing of components to North America, it overall wealth and economic stability.” does not follow that Canadians will be Last year, close to 80,000 manufactur- big beneficiaries. ers generated $591 billion in sales and While the federal government is foemployed nearly 1.8 million Canadi- cused on efforts to make Canada an enans. So it is hard to see a strong Cana- ergy superpower, the U.S. is focused on dian economy, with good jobs, unless how to make itself a manufacturing suthere is a strong manufacturing sector. perpower, with major investments and The state of manufacturing is also incentives to drive a new industrial important politically, particularly in revolution in advanced manufacturing. southern Ontario, which will be a criti- At the same time, Mexico is easily outcal battleground in next year’s federal doing Canada in attracting automotive election. This critical region is still and other tech-based investment. struggling.

The latest step in a wide-ranging For example, mayors representing U.S. manufacturing strategy is the 13 Ontario cities have found it neces- launch of the National Network for

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Manufacturing Innovation, regional public-private partnerships or hubs designed to accelerate the development and commercialization of advanced manufacturing technologies. So far, four have been established, with a US$240-million federal investment and matching funds from private partners.

Moreover, KPMG’s report, based on a survey of 154 Canadian manufacturers, finds that companies are focusing their efforts on the U.S. market, as opposed to growth opportunities elsewhere, and that their attention is heavily on continuing cost reduction, whereas their global competitors are more focused on increasing research and development and new product lines, organizational restructuring and improving speed to market. This Canadian focus hardly seems like a recipe for long-term success.

A recent C.D. Howe Institute report found that Canadian business investment per worker, which includes R&D as well as machinery and equipment, is falling relative to the U.S. and other advanced economies.

In 2014, the average investment per Canadian worker appears likely to be 71 cents for every $1 of new investment per U.S. worker. Canada’s numbers look better than they should because investment in Alberta and Saskatchewan oil and gas and pipelines is high. But this is in the construction phase. Once built, oilsands plants and

pipelines provide relatively few jobs.

But the really bad news is in Ontario, where investment per worker this year is projected at barely half the level in the U.S. and in Quebec to slightly less than half.

Even though corporate taxes are higher in the U.S. than Canada, Michigan alone reports that it has attracted almost US$5 billion in announced investments by Tier-1 auto parts suppliers in 2009-13 and roughly US$14 billion by auto assemblers in the same period. Actual capital investment in all of Canada in the same period by all parts suppliers totalled less than half that amount and by auto assemblers roughly one-third of that amount.

The reality is that Canada has to take manufacturing a lot more seriously, and this has to include the political level.

As Steve Rodgers, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association observed recently, “it would appear that the vast majority of our politicians have lost sight of the importance of manufacturing in our economic health and well-being.”

It is indeed remarkable that none of our political parties has tried to become the champion of manufacturing, given its vital importance to our future well-being.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

We need caring, not conformity Approximately 150,000 people attended over a period of about 120-plus years, and about 4,000 died while attending in that time.

The government of the day declared that attendance was mandatory; therefore, all means and measures were brutally put into effect to assure none escaped the order of the CHRIS day.

SALOMONS By now you will know what I am referring to; if you don’t, you don’t know Canada.

Being a naturalized Caucasian Canadian, I have had my moments in learning to appreciate these attendees and their offspring. But in working at the kitchen, I have learned a great amount about this group.

I had my first encounter with these people in the first month I was in Canada. In 1953, we immigrated and lived for a few months in a log cabin west of Rocky Mountain House. One day as I was walking to the main road to wait for my siblings on the bus from school, I heard a noise and off to my left in the trees were a young boy about my age and I think his father. They were hunting rabbits or birds or whatever.

They just raised a hand in greeting and moved on, and I stood in the middle of the road trying to decipher what I had just experienced. At age six, I was terrified!

Ten years later while working in Rocky, I went to the pool hall and was invited to play by a rather large fellow.

While we played, in our conversation we found that it was this fellow and his father on that road. He gave me his name but being the forgetful person I am, I’ve since forgotten it.

As we talked, he told me that he did not go to a residential school as they had a school on their reserve, but he knew all about it and the terrible experience that it produced in so many of his people.

In my mind and in my understanding, no one, not the government of the day, the settlers, the churches, no one, took any meaningful time to learn

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about the people they tried to highhandedly work into their own lifestyle.

We still don’t.

In the last few years, everyone has tripped over themselves trying make right a wrong that simply cannot be erased. And we still try desperately to use the ‘conform to us’ angle in spite of all we have seen but not learned.

The way I see it, can we not just accept a people for what they are without trying to change them into clones of ourselves?

I understand that a certain amount of conformity has to take place in order to function in a multi-racial society, but people of another race or nationality will never think like I do simply because they did not grow up in my environment.

Strangely, we accept people from

another country easier than we accept those who were in this country before us. It just so happens that we won the battles for supremacy, and now have the audacity to dictate how the rest are to live.

It is my firm belief that we are all created as beings of different capacities and genetic makeup, but we are all first and foremost human beings, totally separate and unique from any other species in this world.

If then we are created with different characteristics, why can we not learn to accept each other as uniquely individual beings? Our failure to do so has put us into the quandary that we now face. I feel that because we did not accept our native peoples as they were created, they have totally rejected our philosophies and are reverting to the

lifestyle they think they had before white man came on the scene.

All of our attempts to reconcile are being rejected, and confrontations are on the increase.

So it begs me to ask the question: is it too late? Is there nothing we can do to re-establish a meaningful and a workable relationship with our indigenous people?

As hard as it may be, I believe if we get off of our high horse and learn to accept and care for these people as our brothers and sisters. Then and then only can we stop the confrontations and live as one people; no race, no colour, just one people.

As we were meant to!

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

Alberta ‘advantage’ a distant memory THE PROVINCE IS MISMANAGING ITS FINANCES

BY LIVIO DI MATTEO AND JASON CLEMENS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE For more than two decades, Alberta has been a shining light in the Canadian economy, leading all provinces on almost every measure of economic performance. However, other jurisdictions in North America have also prospered from natural resources and yet rarely has Alberta been compared to these like-jurisdictions.

A recent comparative analysis of Alberta and nine other energy-producing jurisdictions in North America (two Canadian provinces and seven U.S. states) with comparatively large oil and gas sectors concluded that Alberta fared well economically but performed quite poorly when it came to government finances.

There is little doubt that Albertans enjoyed one of the strongest economies in North America over the past decade. Of the 10 energy-producing provinces and states analyzed, Alberta ranked second for economic growth, second for the level of per capita GDP, first for job creation, and second for its unemployment and labour-participation rates.

An area of concern in Alberta’s economic performance worth noting is productivity growth. Alberta ranked

dead last for productivity growth over the past decade with an average growth rate of 0.4 per cent compared to an average of 1.6 per cent for the other energy-producing jurisdictions. North Dakota, which ranked first in productivity growth, recorded an incredible average growth of 4.1 per cent. Alberta’s poor performance in improving productivity should be of great concern to policy-makers in the province since growing productivity is the key to increasing incomes and standards of living.

More worrying, though, is the lacklustre performance of the provincial government when it comes to managing its finances.

Since the recession, Alberta has found it impossible to balance its total spending relative to the revenues available resulting in deficits and borrowing. In 2011-12, the most recent year with comparable statistics for both U.S. states and Canadian provinces, Alberta was one of only three energyproducing jurisdictions to maintain a deficit. The remaining seven jurisdictions, including Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador, all enjoyed surpluses.

The combination of deficits and aggressive capital spending has seen Alberta run down its rainy day accounts by $19.4 billion, declining from $31.5 billion in 2007-08, to just $12.1 billion

in 2012-13. At the same time, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador were paying down their long-term debt.

The two most common explanations for deficits ring hollow. First, the comparisons completed are for energyproducing jurisdictions eliminating the “we’re different because we’re an energy-producing province” argument.

Secondly, since 2005-06 Alberta’s program spending increased by $22.1 billion more than needed to account for inflation and population growth.

Had the Alberta government simply maintained the real value of per person spending in the province, Alberta would have recorded successive balanced budgets. This marked increase in real per capita spending is what generated deficits over the past number of years rather than any particular dearth of revenues.

Part of the run-up in provincial spending is reflected by the growth in public sector employment. Over the past decade, the average growth in government employment has been slightly higher than private sector job growth: 2.9 per cent vs. 2.8 per cent. Although it’s a small difference in growth rates, its cumulative effect over a decade is to increase the size of the government sector.

The lack of provincial government spending control has meant a dearth

of any incentive-based tax relief or reform since the early 2000s. This is particularly worrying when comparing Alberta’s taxes to the other energyproducing states. Alaska, Texas, and Wyoming impose no personal income taxes.

Wyoming and Texas also impose no corporate income tax. And generally speaking, Alberta’s tax rates compared to the U.S. states that do have personal and/or corporate income taxes tend to be high.

Alberta has forgotten the lessons of the 1990s when painful reforms were required to put the provinces’ finances back in order. Surprisingly, many newly-prosperous energy-producing provinces and states seemed to have learned the lessons of Alberta better than Alberta.

These provinces and states have imposed better discipline on spending, borrowing, and taxes, and reaped enormous benefits from doing so. Alberta could and should learn valuable lessons from their experiences.

Livio Di Matteo is an economics professor at Lakehead University and a Fraser Institute senior fellow. Jason Clemens is Fraser Institute Executive Vice-President.

They are authors of a recently released report comparing Alberta’s performance to other energy-producing jurisdictions in North America. This column was provided by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Israel pushes deeper into Gaza SOLDIER IS CAPTURED

BY MILITANTS, CEASEFIRE COLLAPSES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GAZA, Gaza Strip — Backed by tank fire and airstrikes, Israeli forces pushed deep into southern Gaza on Friday, searching for an Israeli army officer believed to be captured by Hamas fighters during deadly clashes that shattered an internationally brokered cease-fire.

The apparent capture of the soldier and the collapse of the truce set the stage for a possible expansion of Israel’s 25-day-old military operation against Hamas.

President Barack Obama and UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for the immediate release of the soldier but also appealed for restraint. In Israel, senior Cabinet ministers convened late Friday in a rare emergency meeting after the start of the Jewish Sabbath.

The search for the missing soldier centred on the outskirts of the town of Rafah, on the Egypt-Gaza border.

At least 140 Palestinians were killed Friday in Gaza, with at least 70 killed in the Rafah area along with two Israeli soldiers.

Earlier Friday, Israel and Hamas accused each other of breaking the truce, which had been announced by the U.S. and the UN, and took effect at 8 a.m.

The breakdown meant there would be no reprieve for the 1.7 million residents of Gaza, where large parts have been devastated by airstrikes and shelling, and at least 1,600 people — mostly civilians — have been killed and more than 8,000 wounded. Israel has lost 63 soldiers and three civilians.

The fighting in the Rafah area continued into the night, with residents reporting airstrikes along the EgyptGaza frontier as well as heavy tank and artillery shelling. The Israeli military said it was searching for the missing soldier and had sent automated calls or text messages to Rafah residents to stay indoors.

“We are under fire, every minute or so tanks fire shells at us,” said Rafah resident Ayman Al-Arja. “I have been thinking of leaving since 2 p.m., but tank fire can reach anywhere, and I was scared they will hit my pickup truck. Now we are sitting in the stairwell, 11 members of my family, my brother, his nine children and wife.

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Palestinians run for cover from Israeli soldiers, following a protest against the war in the Gaza Strip, during clashes near the West Bank town of Tulkarem on Friday. A Palestinian man was shot and later died during clashes with Israeli troops near Tulkarem, Palestinian security sources said.

We just have water to drink and the radio to hear the news.”

The 45-year-old Al-Arja added: “We are just staying put waiting for God’s mercy.”

The heavy shelling in Rafah was part of operational and intelligence activity to locate the missing officer, 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin, the Israeli military said.

An hour after the cease-fire began, gunmen emerged from one or more Gaza tunnels and opened fire at Israeli soldiers, with at least one of the militants detonating an explosives vest, said Israeli army spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner.

Goldin, a 23-year-old from the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba, was apparently captured in the ensuing mayhem, while another two Israeli soldiers were killed.

“We suspect that he has been kidnapped,” Lerner said.

Obama called for Goldin’s uncondi-

Ebola moving faster than efforts to control it in West Africa DEATH TOLL SURPASSES 700

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CONAKRY, Guinea — An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea’s capital.

Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director-general, said the meeting in Conakry “must be a turning point” in the battle against Ebola, which is now sickening people in three African capitals for the first time in history.

“If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socio-economic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries,” she said, as the WHO formally launched a $100 million response plan that includes deploying hundreds more health care workers.

Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said the WHO pledge “needs to translate to immediate and effective action.” While the group has deployed some 550 health workers, it said it did not have the resources to expand further.

Doctors Without Borders said its teams are overwhelmed with new Eb-

ola patients in Sierra Leone and that the situation in Liberia is now “dire.”

“Over the last weeks, there has been a significant surge in the epidemic the number of cases has increased dramatically in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and the disease has spread to many more villages and towns,” the organization said in a statement. “After a lull in new cases in Guinea, there has been a resurgence in infections and deaths in the past week.”

At least 729 people have died since cases first emerged in March: 339 in Guinea, 233 in Sierra Leone, 156 in Liberia and one in Nigeria.

Two American health workers in Liberia have been infected, and an American man of Liberian descent died in Nigeria from the disease, health authorities there say.

Plans were underway to bring the two American aid workers — Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly — back to the U.S. A small private jet based in Atlanta has been dispatched to Liberia. Officials said the jet was outfitted with a special, portable tent designed for transporting patients with highly infectious diseases.

While health officials say the virus is transmitted only through direct contact with bodily fluids, many sick patients have refused to go to isolation centres and have infected family members and other caregivers.

Inmate injected 15 times during botched execution in Arizona

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona executioners injected Joseph Rudolph Wood with a lethal combination of drugs 15 times during the nearly two hours it took for him to die, according to documents released Friday.

Wood’s July 23 execution renewed debate over the death penalty and the efficacy of lethal injection. It was the third execution to go awry in the U.S. this year.

Arizona officials say Wood, who was convicted of a 1989 double-murder, never suffered and was completely sedated. His attorney says it was a “horrifically botched execution” that should have taken 10 minutes.

Records released to Wood’s attorneys show he was administered the sedative midazolam and the painkiller

hydromorphone in 50-milligram increments 15 times, for a total of 750 milligrams of each drug. He was pronounced dead after gasping more than 600 times while he lay on the table.

“Those are pretty staggering amounts of medication,” said Karen Sibert, a longtime anesthesiologist and spokeswoman for the California Society of Anesthesiologists.

Sibert, an associate professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said patients who are sedated before a surgery typically receive no more than 2 milligrams each of midazolam and hydromorphone.

“It would be rare that I would use more than 2 milligrams even for a lengthy surgery,” Sibert said. “If that is accurate, that is absolutely a lethal dose.”

tional and immediate release and said it would be difficult to put the ceasefire back together. However, he said the U.S. will continue working toward a cease-fire.

He said Israel committed to the truce, but at the same time called the situation in Gaza “heartbreaking” and repeated calls for Israel to do more to prevent Palestinian civilian casualties.

“Innocent civilians caught in the crossfire have to weigh on our conscience, and we have to do more,” Obama said. He added that Israel must be able to defend itself, but that irresponsible actions by Hamas have put civilians in danger.

Israel has gone to great lengths in the past to get back its captured soldiers. In 2011, it traded hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier who had been captured by Hamasallied militants in 2006. The capture of two soldiers in a cross-border operation by Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas

in 2006 sparked a 34-day war between the Iranian-backed Shiite group and Israel.

A Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, would neither confirm nor deny the capture, saying the event was being used — along with the killing of two Israeli soldiers in the Rafah area — as a cover for what he called a “massacre” in Rafah.

The violence killed at least 70 Palestinians and wounded 440 in the Rafah area, according to Gaza Health Ministry official Ashraf al-Kidra. The dead included paramedic Assef al-Zamily, killed when an Israeli tank shell hit an ambulance in which he was riding, alKidra said.

Another 70 Palestinians were killed elsewhere in Gaza on Friday, according to al-Kidra.

Ban blamed Hamas for violating the cease-fire and demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Goldin.

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In Moscow, the Kremlin said Putin had characterized the sanctions during the phone call as counterproductive, adding that they seriously damage bilateral co-operation and general global stability.

The Kremlin said both Obama and Putin underscored the urgency for bringing an end to fighting in eastern Ukraine and spoke positively about a meeting that took place the day before in Minsk, Belarus, among members of a diplomatic “contact group” pursuing an end to hostilities. That group includes representatives from Russia, Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

The call came as the U.S. was poised to send an additional $27 million in military aid to Ukraine in an effort to strengthen the struggling nation’s national guard and beef up its ability to protect its border. The money comes amid increased congressional pressure on the administration to increase support for Ukraine as it battles Russian-backed separatists.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HRABOVE, Ukraine — Wearing gloves and carrying blue plastic buckets, international investigators finally began gathering up body parts and victims’ belongings Friday in the fields where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came down.

Artillery boomed in the distance as the 70-member team of Dutch and Australian experts painstakingly combed a patch of scrubland not far from the site of bloody clashes between Ukrainian soldiers and pro-Russian separatist rebels.

The team’s top priority: collecting the remains of as many as 80 victims that have been lying out in the open, baking in the midsummer heat, for more than two weeks because investigators were prevented by the fighting from reaching the scene.

Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg, head of the Dutch recovery mission, said in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that the experts were able to gather some of the human remains. He would not give details out of respect for the victims’ relatives.

The pace set Friday hinted at the magnitude of the task ahead.

Aalbersberg said a team of 30 experts spent two hours after lunchtime searching an area of just 30 square yards (25 square meters). The overall area to explore covers more than 8 square miles (20 square kilometres).

“If we have maximum capacity, we think we need at least three weeks to do a full search, but that’s a very thin prospect,” he said.

The objects collected included papers and books belonging to some of the 298 people killed aboard the Boeing 777 that was shot down on July 17 with what the West says was a Russian-made missile fired by the rebels.

In a haphazard effort overseen by the rebels, more than 200 bodies were collected by rescue workers and were turned over to Dutch authorities last week for examination and identification.

Everything discovered Friday was first identified and photographed, then put into bags by recovery workers wearing protective gear. The bags were then placed in the blue buckets.

Some recovery experts photographed pieces of the plane’s fuselage and tail. Rebel fighters guarded the perimeter of the zone and kept their distance from the investigators.

The remains will be put in refrigerated train cars Saturday, taken 190 miles (300 kilometres) to the city of Kharkiv and then flown to the Netherlands. Nearly 200 of the victims were Dutch.

“Perseverance pays off,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said. “The first step has been taken, but the security situation is still volatile.”

Several hours before the team arrived at the crash site outside the village of Hrabove, at least 10 Ukrainian soldiers were killed when their convoy was am-

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Australian and Dutch investigators examine pieces of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine Friday. The investigators from the Netherlands and Australia plus officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe traveled from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in 15 cars and a bus to the crash site outside the village of Hrabove. Then they started setting up a base to work from at a chicken farm. bushed by rebels in a town 12 miles (20 kilometres) to the south.

Thirteen more soldiers were unaccounted for after the attack, officials said, and the bodies of four other people were being examined to determine whether they were soldiers or rebels.

The investigators plus officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe travelled to the crash site from the rebel-held city of

Donetsk in 15 cars and a bus.

The three-hour journey took the investigating team through the government-held town of Debaltseve and back into the separatist-controlled territory where the wreckage lies. At Debaltseve, the convoy was joined by Red Cross vehicles.

As the experts began working, artillery fire could be heard in the distance. It was unclear how far away the shells were landing and which side was firing.

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ALBERTA’S PROVINCIAL HISTORIC SITES AND HISTORICAL ATTRACTIONS BRING THE PAST TO LIFE, GIVING VISITORS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CHALLENGES AND TRIALS THAT SHAPED US INTO THE PEOPLE WE ARE TODAY

Alberta’s past is brimming with stories of the hardships and triumphs early settlers experienced as they sought to tame a wild western frontier, but few accounts are as unique as that of Stephan G. Stephansson, who lived near Markerville.

Stephansson was a hard-working Icelandic homesteader who suffered from insomnia, an unusual malady in his day. After working long, hard hours farming his homestead by hand to support his wife and eight children, he would be unable to sleep at night.

As he sat up night afDEBBIE ter night, Stephansson OLSEN began writing poetry in his native language — to calm his soul and to fill the long nights.

Over the years, he produced 2,300 pages of Icelandic poetry, which was published in six volumes entitled Andvökur (translated as Wakeful Nights).

His prolific writing and the high quality of his work made him famous in his homeland and he is still regarded by many experts to be one of Iceland’s greatest poets.

A visit to Stephansson House (www.history. alberta.ca/stephansson), about 30 minute southwest of Red Deer near Markerville, is a chance to see the home of this great poet and come to understand a little more about his life and the lives of Alberta’s early homesteaders.

The story of Stephan G. Stephansson is also a reminder that the challenges and trials we face can help to shape us into the people we are meant to be.

If Stephansson had not suffered from insomnia, he might never have discovered his talent for poetry and the world would be lesser for it.

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ABOVE: A 30-minute drive southwest of Red Deer you’ll find Stephansson House, a provincial historic site and the former home of the Poet of the Rockies.

RIGHT: Kathleen McGourty from Red Deer is spending the summer dressed in historic costume.

She is one of the summer tour guides at Stephansson House. Here, she demonstrates how to use the oldtime washing machine.

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TOP: Pop inside the Dickson Store Museum to see an old-time mercantile and have Sarah (pictured here) make you an ice cream cone.

LEFT: A young girl walks her pony in front of the historic Markerville Lutheran Church. While we were visiting Stephansson House, we also popped by Markerville to visit the creamery museum and the historic Lutheran Church.

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ABOVE: Sixteen-year-old Rylan Clarke is in the far left of this formation leading the group of riders. Every day at the Fort Museum of the NWMP in Fort Macleod, young riders re-enact the musical ride that had its beginnings there.

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BELOW: While visiting Stephansson House, it can be worth the time to drive out to see other historical sites in the area like the Markerville Creamery and the Dickson Store Museum, pictured here. where a young woman wearing a babushka works in her garden harvesting beets and a group of children are gathered around an outdoor table to enjoy a lunch of homemade soup and bread. This kind of street scene would have been commonplace in many small Ukrainian settlements in the late 19th century, but today you can only find it in a living history museum like the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village just outside of Edmonton.

Alberta was once home to the largest Ukrainian settlement in Canada and even today, about 10 per cent of Albertans can trace their ancestry to the Ukraine. Sites like the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village help to tell the story of these early immigrants and are fascinating to explore even if you have no genetic ties to these pioneers.

Living history museums are a way to bring the past alive. Places like the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Fort Edmonton Park and Heritage Park in Calgary use costumed interpreters who offer a glimpse into the lives of early settlers. A visit to these sites can open up the past in a unique way and reveal the day-to-day lives of immigrants who shaped Alberta.

More information: For a complete list of provincial historic sites, visit www.history.alberta.ca.

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HISTORY: Fun and exciting Alberta’s provincial historic sites and historical attractions allow visitors a chance to step back in time to learn the stories of the past in a way that brings that past alive. As 18th century Irish philosopher named Edmund Burke once said, “those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” While the merits of his statement have been debated over the years, there is no doubt that those who don’t know history will never have the chance to learn from it.

Here are a few other Alberta places to visit that make learning history fun and exciting:

Fun with forts Inside a replica historic fort, a group of 12 riders dressed in the red serge of the North West Mounted Police (NWMP) skillfully guide their horses through a series of intricate manoeuvres that are set to music.

For visitors, it’s a chance to observe a real-life re-enactment of Canada’s iconic Musical Ride in the very place where it began — Fort Macleod.

For the young riders, being part of the show is an experience of a lifetime. “Spending the summer riding horses with my friends is a fantastic job,” admits 16-year-old Rylan Clarke of Fort Macleod. He is in

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“It’s not all fun and games, though. We are representing history and we have to execute the manoeuvres well, treat the uniform with the respect it deserves and help visitors connect with the history of the Mounties and the fort.”

Before Alberta became a province, forts were built all across the frontier. In the early days, these forts were centres of trade and places of refuge around which communities were built. Almost every major centre can trace its past to a fort of some sort — including Red Deer. Some were built for the fur trade, others like Fort Normandeau near Red Deer served as a crossing site, and many others like the one in Fort Macleod were built by the Mounties as bases of operations.

Visiting a fort museum and participating in hands-on activities is one way to catch a glimpse of Alberta’s colourful past and it’s fun for visitors as well as for those whose job it is to re-enact the past.

“The best part of my job as a rider at the Fort Museum is meeting people from all over the world,” said Clarke. “I have become a better rider as I have performed the Musical Ride and have shared the story of the North West Mounted Police.” It is a story that features the western heritage still at the heart of modern Alberta.

More information: For a complete list of Alberta forts past and present, visit www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/ab.html.

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Flight NZ9 was due to depart late Saturday from Honolulu for Auckland, but airline officials told the 227 passengers the plane was unable to leave because of problems related to an engine sensor.

They trekked out to Honolulu Airport twice more only to be told a similar story. Some took a flight on another airline. The Air New Zealand flight is now scheduled to depart Tuesday morning — barring any further delays.

The airline has issued an unusual public apology and promised every passenger will be compensated with cash or equivalent in a rewards program.

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cision that in addition to our unreserved apology we will also be compensating each customer,” Carrie Hurihanganui, the airline’s general manager of customer experience, said in a statement.

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● Aug. 10: Markerville Creamery is holding its annual Cream Day festival from noon to 5 p.m. There will be a mini-carnival, bouncy castle, live entertainment, farm animals, ice cream making demonstrations and homemade pies (www.historicmarkerville. com). ● Aug. 16 and 17: Sunnybrook Farm Pioneer Days Festival will include a pioneer breakfast, tractor pulls, tractor parade, threshing demonstrations, homemade pie, children activities, concession, facepainting and more at the site in Red Deer (www.sunnybrookfarmmuseum.ca). ● Aug. 23 and 24: Fort Normandeau Days will feature loads of great hands-on activities that allow visitors to experience life at the Red Deer Crossing in 1885 with First Nations dancing, children’s games, traditional foods and craft displays (www.waskasoopark.ca/Historic-Fort-Normandeau.html). ● Aug. 24: The Stephansson House Penny CarniPARSON’S val will feature refreshments, live entertainment, HOLIDAY TOURS old-fashioned carnival games and crafts from noon to 5 p.m. Children should bring pennies or nickels (www.history.alberta.ca/stephansson).

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BY CAROL PATTERSON SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE “Can you overdose on cherries?”

I asked as I tucked into a platter of French toast, the bread barely visible through a mountain of Wisconsin’s tart cherries. The cherry-laden brekkie followed the previous evening’s dinner of beef tender jubilee — tenderloin covered with dark-red Montmorency cherries — and cherry crisp dessert.

This was July, the height of cherry season in Door County, Wis. — formerly known as Cherryland U.S.A .

— and chefs were adding cherries to menu items like a kid first discovering ketchup! Door County sits on a long peninsula between Lake Michigan and Green Bay. The peninsula’s limestone soil, along with cool breezes off the lake, create ideal growing conditions for cherries. By 1959, Door County was producing over 4.5 million kg of tart cherries.

Tourism development has caused declines in agricultural production in recent decades, but there are still plenty of cherries.

In my culinary version of adventure travel, I tried all things cherry — cherry margaritas, pork loin with cherries, cherry ice cream, cherry wine, chocolate-dipped cherries, cherry bars, even cherry-clam linguini.

Instead of achieving cherry-saturation, I wanted more. That was when I questioned whether I might be on the path to destruction, like early explorers who perished in the area.

Door County gets its name from the water passage between Green Bay and Lake Michigan. With frequent high winds and shoals that some say has sunk more ships than any other fresh water body, the area became known by French explorers as Porte des Morts — roughly translated as ‘Death’s Door.’

Fortunately, eating cherries is not as dangerous as traversing Death’s Door. Researchers have discovered that tart cherries — the kind seen in pie fillings — may be a super food.

Michigan State University scientists were among the first to identify three powerful anti-inflammatory anthocyanins in tart cherries. These compounds may protect artery walls from plaque and help relieve pain.

The tart cherry is also a significant source of melatonin, an anti-oxidant that can reduce brain deterioration associated with aging, and improve sleep. It might be coincidence or placebo effect, but I slept better in Door County than at home.

The Door County farmers I met seemed to be walking advertisements for the health benefits of cherries.

Dale Seaquist and his family produce 60 per cent of the cherries grown in Wisconsin. Dale will admit to being in his 80s, but he carries himself with the posture and vitality of a man two decades younger.

Carrie Lautenbach-Viste at Orchard Country Winery and Market is a fourth-generation cherry grower. Her smile was bright as she showed off new cherry products including cherry wine, grilling sauce and salsa.

Her employee, Bill Gonnsen, expounded on the financial benefits of this miracle fruit, “Cherry growing is a very sustainable business. With only 100 acres we are able to employ 19 people part-time for six months and nine people full-time. That is more than a relatively small piece of land can support with other crops.”

Fuzzy Sunstrom has lived his whole life in Door County, running Fred and Fuzzy’s Waterfront Bar & Grill.

“I want people coming to Fred and Fuzzy’s to be able to enjoy cherry margaritas and sunsets while dining al fresco like they might in the Florida Keys,” he said, bounding up to our table.

I was not sure if it was the fresh air or the cherries that gave Fuzzy his energy, but I ordered a margarita just to be safe.

Cheating Death’s Door had never been more enjoyable, with cherry antioxidants cursing through my blood and cherry stains on my hands.

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BY DONNA SPENCER THE CANADIAN PRESS B.C. 25 Calgary 24 CALGARY — The B.C. Lions came from behind to beat the Calgary Stampeders 25-24 on Friday.

Trailing 21-13 after three quarters, Andrew Harris scored on a four-yard rush and Ernest Jackson on a 65-yard catch in the fourth.

The Lions improved to 3-3 while the Stampeders dropped to 4-1 with their first loss of the season.

Ron Yell produced a touchdown for the B.C. defence, running back an interception to score in the first quarter.

Kicker Paul McCallum was good from 45 and 21 yards in the game.

Kevin Glenn completed 22 of 32 passes for 203 yards and a touchdown in his return to McMahon Stadium.

Glenn started the majority of games for Calgary the past two seasons for a 20-8 record.

He was claimed in the expansion draft by Ottawa and subsequently traded to B.C. The veteran won his first game as a visiting quarterback at McMahon, however, as he was 0-8 wearing enemy colours in Calgary.

Glenn was intercepted once in the game.

The Stampeders were working their way into position for a winning field goal in the final minute, but an Anthony Parker turned the ball over on a fumble.

Defensive back Keon Raymond ran a 63-yard interception back to score for Calgary. Marquay McDaniel had an 18-yard touchdown catch and backup quarterback Drew Tate capped a scoring drive with a one-yard dive.

Rene Paredes was good on his one 35-yard field-goal attempt.

Bo Levi Mitchell made 21 of 31 pass attempts for 196 yards and a touchdown.

He was intercepted for the first time this season.

The Lions host the Hamilton TigerCats next Friday with the Stampeders at home to the Ottawa Redblacks the following day.

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Dave Shyiak of the Manitoba Classics stretches out but ends up falling just short as first baseman Mel Krammerrer of the Edmonton-based Prairie Combines makes the play at the Edgar slowpitch diamonds on Friday. Teams from across the country are participating in Red Deer during the Canadian Senior Men’s Slowpitch championships.

Subban, Canadiens wait for arbitrator’s ruling after going through hearing

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — P.K. Subban will soon have a contract to play next season for the Montreal Canadiens, though not the way either side wanted it to happen.

Unable to hammer out a deal, Subban and the Habs went to arbitration Friday morning. As participants left, it was all too clear the hearing didn’t go particularly P.K. Subban well.

S u b b a n emerged from a meeting room at a downtown Toronto hotel and was measured in his comments but shied way from discussing what was said behind closed doors. He called it “an educational process.”

“There’s dialogue and discussion and decisions were made today in relations to both of our positions and ultimately we have to live with those decisions and move on from here,” Subban said. “I know that obviously the arbitration process is over. It is in the hands of the arbitrator now.”

The independent arbitrator, who heard arguments from the two sides,

has up to 48 hours to render a decision on how much Subban will make on a one-year contract. Subban’s camp and the team can continue to negotiate until that ruling, but the apparent tone of the hearing made that seem unlikely.

Montreal general manager Marc Bergevin left the hotel telling reporters: “I have nothing to say guys, so don’t ask me. No comment.”

Subban’s agent, Don Meehan, also declined comment.

Subban, the Habs’ 25-year-old franchise defenceman, did the talking for himself. Wearing a grey suit, the likable superstar answered questions for three minutes after the meeting, which lasted for roughly four hours, but was unwilling to shed any light on what was discussed.

This was the first true NHL arbitration hearing for a restricted free agent since Shea Weber of the Nashville Predators went through it in 2011 and was awarded US$7.5 million, the highest amount determined through this process. Earlier this off-season, the St. Louis Blues took Vladimir Sobotka to arbitration to keep his rights after he decided to sign in the KHL. Arbitration cases are so rare because a team often criticizes a player as part of its argument for a lower salary. Subban wouldn’t say whether what he figured the Habs thought of him changed as a result of the hearing.

Throughout his comments, Subban attempted to shift the focus away from arbitration and on to hockey.

“At the end of the day, it’s been an educational process for me, and I’ll continue to say that because it has been,” he said. “I’ve learned a lot. Like I said, I’m just excited now to continue to move forward, and that’s all you can do from here is just move forward, move on and get ready for the season.”

Subban, who had 10 goals and 43 assists in 82 regular-season games last season, would be a restricted free agent again next summer if he and the Habs don’t agree to a long-term deal before then. If that happens, it’s entirely possible Montreal elects to take him to arbitration again.

Asked if he was still open to negotiating a long-term deal with the Habs, Subban said: “I think that’s kind of a discussion for a later date. It’s not a discussion for today, obviously.”

Subban’s camp reportedly sought US$8.5 million through arbitration, while the team requested $5.25 million. The arbitrator is not restricted to picking one of those numbers.

After signing a two-year, so-called “bridge” contract just after the lockout ended in January of 2013, Subban made $3.75 million this past season and counted $2.875 million against the salary cap. He won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenceman during the 2012-13 season and made Canada’s Olympic team in 2014.

Subban, who could be eligible for unrestricted free agency in 2016, said nothing about arbitration really surprised him.

Barber, Levins win bronze in pole vault, 10,000 metres

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Moses Kipsiro, right, of Uganda wins the men’s 10,000 metre race from Josphat Kipkoech Bett, of Kenya, left, who came second and Cameron Levins of Canada who placed third in Hampden Park stadium during the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday.

GLASGOW — Canada’s Cam Levins powered down the homestretch and onto his first international medal podium — no longer an “also-ran.”

The 25-year-old from Black Creek, B.C., won bronze in the men’s 10,000 metres at the Commonwealth Games on Friday with a spectacular kick down the stretch that had him leading until five metres to go.

The medal was validation for his move to Oregon last year, to train with a who’s-who of distance running that includes British star Mo Farah and American Galen Rupp.

Finally on Friday night, Levins felt he belonged.

“I know I’m in the right spot, and I don’t feel like I’m just going to be an also-ran now,” Levins said. “I feel like I’m a deserving member of my team.”

“When you’re running with the Olympic champion in two events (Farah), the Olympic silver medallist (Rupp), multiple-time world medallist (Matthew Centrowitz Jr. of the U.S.), all my teammates are medallists in something.

“This is validation that what I’m doing works, and training with the people I am is going to make me just as good.”

Levins led a three-medal night for Canada at Hampden Park. Shawnacy Barber also captured bronze in the pole vault, while Angela Whyte capped the night with a bronze in the women’s 100-metre hurdles.

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COMMONWEALTH GAMES Canada remained third in the overall medal standings with 75 medals (30 gold, 14 silver, 31 bronze), well behind England (140) and Australia (124).

Also Friday, Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que., won gold in the women’s onemetre springboard and gymnast Ellie Black of Halifax won gold in the beam event and bronze in the floor competition.

Scott Morgan of North Vancouver, B.C., won the men’s vault for his fourth medal of the Games and Kevin Lytwyn of Stoney Creek, Ont., took bronze in the men’s horizontal bar.

Ryan Bester of Hanover, Ont., won silver in men’s singles lawn bowling and Toronto boxer Mandy Bujold won bronze in the women’s 51-kilo category.

Matt Hughes was fourth in a 3,000-metre steeplechase final that included three Canadians.

With one day to go, Canada has 16 track and field medals in Glasgow.

Levins, who posted “Tonight’s the night!” on his Twitter page before heading to Hampden Park, ran virtually the perfect tactical race, keeping within striking distance of the leaders until the bell lap. He made his way up to the lead, and looked headed for victory until the final few metres.

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Slaton TDs lift Argos to first in East

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Montreal Alouettes’ Kyries Hebert, right, looks on as Toronto Argonauts’ Steve Slaton runs in for a touchdown during first half CFL football action in Montreal, Friday.

The Alouettes (1-4) did not score a touchdown for a second consecutive game despite switching back and forth between quarterbacks Troy Smith and Brink, with Tanner Marsh also seeing action on short yardage plays.

Sean Whyte had a field goal and two singles for the Alouettes, who were coming off a bye week after a 41-5 de-

feat at B.C. two weeks ago. There were boos from the 20,692 at Percival Molson Stadium as they left the field at halftime.

“Right now it looks like we have a two-quarterback system, even though neither quarterback played as well as we anticipated or wanted them to,” said Montreal coach Tom Higgins, who

Djokovic all smiles despite ‘terrible’ draw at Rogers Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Novak Djokovic heard the names of the players he could face in his opening match at the Rogers Cup and buried his head in his arms. The world’s top men’s tennis player didn’t need that big of a test out of the gate.

Djokovic wasn’t happy about having to see either 22nd-ranked Gael Monfils or 35th-ranked Radek Stepanek right away, and he could’ve done without Andy Murray being in his quarter of the draw, picked Friday afternoon at Queen’s Park. But beyond his tough road that awaits at the Toronto tournament, Djokovic can’t help but smile given his recent fortune.

Within the past month, the 27-yearold won Wimbledon and got married, and he and his new wife are expecting their first child soon.

“It’s been probably the best month I’ve had in my life with Wimbledon title, with wedding and of course a baby coming up,” Djokovic said. “I’m going back to the business, back to my office, but of course filled with posi-

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GAMES: Dad competed Levins crossed in 27 minutes 56.23 seconds — barely a tenth of a second from gold.

Moses Kipsiro of Uganda won gold in 27:56.11, while Josphat Kipkoech Bett of Kenya ran 27:56.14 for the silver.

“I started tying up in the last 50 metres, I was hoping they wouldn’t catch me, but they did and I’ll learn from that,” Levins said. “But I’m so happy to be on the podium. It’s my first time ...

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tive energy, with joy, all the beautiful emotions that a person can experience right now. Hopefully I can use that to perform well on the tennis court.”

Part of Djokovic’s joy is that he’s playing some of the best tennis of his career. Winning at Wimbledon and in Rome and reaching the final of the French Open at Roland Garros gave him a sizable boost of confidence.

At the Rogers Cup, which begins with qualifying rounds Saturday and Sunday while the main draw gets underway Monday, Djokovic returns to hard-court play for the first time since winning the Sony Open in Miami in March. Djokovic got to town Thursday with designs on getting some extra practice in.

“One thing is to practise, the other thing is to play an official match,” Djokovic said. “I’m looking forward to the first match, even though the draw is terrible for me. Still, not my fault.

Obviously that’s something that I cannot influence.”

Djokovic was joking throughout the draw about the difficult path he’ll have to take in order to win his fourth Rog-

ers Cup title. Murray, seeded eighth, would be his quarter-final opponent, and Djokovic would have to get through either third-seeded Stan Wawrinka or seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov to reach the final.

Roger Federer, whom Djokovic beat in a memorable five-set match to capture this year’s Wimbledon trophy, headlines the bottom half of the draw as the second seed.

Federer moved up after defending champion Rafael Nadal withdrew earlier this week because of a wrist injury.

Even without Nadal, the Rogers Cup features what Ontario’s lieutenant governor, David C. Onley, called “an Alist of international tennis stars.” It doesn’t get more A-list than Djokovic.

“I really do wish you well in the tournament,” Onley said to Djokovic.

“As a Canadian, though, I’m just wishing you a little bit well in the tournament.”

There are three Canadians in the field: sixth-seeded Milos Raonic, unseeded Vasek Pospisil and wild card Peter Polansky.

but I’ll go back and train harder.”

Levins is already known for his gruelling mileage, which has included three runs a day. After capping a college career that saw him win both the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at Souther Utah, he and his now-wife Elizabeth moved to Portland to train with the Oregon Project, the star-studded distance group coached by running legend Alberto Salazar.

Barber, a 20-year-old who grew up in the U.S. but has dual citizenship — he lists Toronto as his hometown — cleared 5.45 metres for third in the pole vault.

“I wanted to be on the podium, but I just came in to play, and of course I hoped for a bit better, but I can’t complain,” Barber said.

Barber’s dad, George, was from Kincardine, Ont., about an hour outside

of Toronto, and was a pole vaulter on Canada’s national team in the 1980s.

Barber was born in the U.S., but the family spent its summers in Kincardine. He chose to compete for Canada, he said, because “I thought I would be very proud to follow in my fathers footsteps.”

His father introduced him to the sport, assembling a pole vault pit in their barn in New Mexico.

“He was always a big fanatic about pole vault, so I just kind of picked it up,” Barber said.

His dad, who’s 53, even competed at last year’s Canadian championships, where the younger Barber claimed his first national senior title.

Barber, who competes collegiately for Akron University, also broke Doug Wood’s 21-year-old Canadian record last season.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 31 Spain 7 MARCOUSSIS, France — A superb performance from Magali Harvey led Canada to a 31-7 rout of Spain on Friday at the 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup. Harvey led Canada’s offence with 26 points on three tries, four conversions and a penalty.

Mandy Marchak had the other try for Canada.

Canada dominated the game and came close to a shutout before Spain scored a try with a few minutes left on the clock.

Canada next plays Samoa on Tuesday.

The Canadians (1-0) are trying to improve on their best World Cup result of fourth, achieved in 1998, 2002 and 2006.

The team was a disappointing sixth in 2010.

Canada led 24-0 at the break thanks largely to Harvey, who had all of Canada’s first-half points.

Harvey opened the scoring in the 18th minute when she collected Andrea Burk’s chip and dove into the corner of the Spanish goal area. She converted her try to put Canada up 7-0.

Harvey stole the ball moments later and ran it back 60 metres for her second try in five minutes.

After kicking a penalty, Harvey converted her third try of the game at the 36 minute mark to give Canada a sizable first-half lead.

Canada continued to dictate play early in the second half, with a successful penalty and Marchak’s try increasing the lead to 31-0.

Spain (0-1) started to show life after Olivia DeMerchant was shown a yellow card in the 60th minute, reducing Canada to 14 players for 10 minutes.

The Spanish pressure finally paid off when Rocio Garcia scored a try in the closing minutes.

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“We’ve got to find a quarterback that can move our offence. We’re not getting production from that position. I have to find a way by hook or by crook to get more than five points. That’s not going to do it in the CFL.”

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Toronto 31 Montreal 5 MONTREAL — Coach Scott Milanovich says his Toronto Argonauts are getting better.

They played with discipline, stuffed Montreal’s offence and got a big game from running back Steve Slaton in a 315 defeat of the punchless Alouettes on Friday night.

The Argonauts (2-4) ended a threegame losing skid and, despite their record, moved into first place in the woeful CFL East Division.

“It was big,” said Milanovich. “The big thing was we bought into what it takes to win.

“We had less penalties. We protected the ball better. We protected our quarterback and we got after their quarterback. That’s the formula. Its the first time we grasped that.”

Slaton, who rushed for 52 yards and caught six passes for another 48, caught a TD pass in the final minute of the first half and added another on the opening drive of the second.

“Steve’s talented,” Milanovich said of the former Houston Texan. “Unfortunately, he’s been hurt for four of our first six games, but he’s got some burst.”

Linebacker Jamie Robinson scored on a late interception off a pass by Alex Brink and kicker Swayze Waters added two field goals. The Argos also got four points on a pair of safeties in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter.

Toronto rebounded from a 37-9 loss at Saskatchewan last week despite a so-so game from Ray, who completed 19 of 33 passes for 186 yards. It hasn’t helped the veteran QB that the Argos are missing a handful of receivers to injuries, including stars Chad Owens and Andre Durie.

It helped a lot that the defence held Montreal to only 125 net yards and that, as a team, Toronto took only four penalties to Montreal’s 12.

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Petit homer snaps Jays’ streak

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Houston 3 Toronto 1 HOUSTON — Gregorio Petit’s wife Yessica didn’t come to Friday night’s game because she had a headache.

She thoroughly regretted her decision after Petit hit his first career home run to help the Houston Astros to a 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

The homer put Houston on top in the eighth inning and the Astros held on for the victory, snapping Toronto’s six-game winning streak.

“My wife is mad because she didn’t come to the game,” Petit said. “I got like seven messages, all smiling faces. It wasn’t really smiling, but crying faces all over in my phone. (She said) I won’t forgive myself for this. I missed the first one.

He tried to console her.

“It’s OK,” he said he told her. “You could YouTube it.”

The game was tied at 1-1 when Petit launched Aaron Loup’s first pitch into the first row of the Crawford Boxes in left field to give the Astros the lead. Jose Altuve connected on the next pitch by Loup (3-3) for a ground-rule double before stealing third base.

“I threw two pitches and the next thing you know I give up a home run and a double,” Loup said. “I guess it just wasn’t my day today.”

Houston got an insurance run on a sacrifice fly by Robbie Grossman.

Jose Veras (1-1) got the last two outs of the eighth inning for the win and Chad Qualls threw a scoreless ninth for his 12th save.

Melky Cabrera singled with one out in the first and reached third on a single by Jose Bautista that crashed off the wall in left field and knocked a number out of the scoreboard there. The Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Dioner Navarro.

Toronto starter J.A. Happ gave up three hits and one run with six strikeouts in seven innings.

Happ retired the first 11 batters he faced before Chris Carter singled on a dribbler with two outs in the fourth inning. Matt Dominguez drew a walk before Carter scored on a single by Guzman to tie it at 1-1.

Houston starter Collin McHugh did not factor into the decision after allowing five hits and a run in 6 1-3 innings to remain winless since June 3.

Jake Marisnick, acquired Thursday from the Marlins as part of a six-player deal that sent right-hander Jarred Cosart to Miami, went 0 for 3 in his Houston debut.

MOUND WORK The game was delayed in the third inning when the Astros complained about the mound being too

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Houston Astros’ Gregorio Petit (3) looks back toward the dugout as he runs the bases after hitting a home run against the Toronto Blue Jays during the eighth inning of a baseball game Friday in Houston. soft. Three members of the grounds crew came onto the field with rakes and other tools and worked on it for several minutes.

McHugh threw a few warmups pitches after they finished and the crowd cheered as the workers walked off the field and the game continued.

SPELLING TEST? The Astros had a bit of fun teasing rookie pitcher Mike Foltynewicz about his difficult to spell last name on his first day in the clubhouse after being called up from Triple-A on Friday. They used tape to spell his name phonetically (Fultynevichz) and affix it to the nameplate above his locker. He got a good laugh out of the ribbing and said there’s no trick he can give them to help make spelling it easier. “I had

Garcia matches Firestone record with 61 to take lead

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AKRON, Ohio — Sergio Garcia doesn’t know anything about being in a zone. He had no trouble identifying the best round of his career.

Garcia one-putted the final 11 holes and made birdies on his last seven holes Friday in the Bridgestone Invitational to tie the course record at Firestone with a 9-under 61 and take a three-shot lead into the weekend.

He had a birdie putt on every hole on the back nine, missing only a 15-footer from the fringe at No. 11. Garcia shot 27 on the back nine, a course record.

“Just one of those moments that you love and you enjoy, and you wish there were no end,” he said.

It matched the tournament record held by Tiger Woods, who shot 61 in 2000 and 2013, and Jose Maria Olazabal, who shot his 61 in 1990. Woods went on to win by 11 shots in 2000 and seven shots last year. Olazabal won by 12 in the World Series of Golf.

Garcia still has work to do.

He was at 11-under 129, three shots clear of Justin Rose, who had a 67. British Open champion Rory McIlroy birdied his last two holes for a 64 and joined Marc Leishman of Australia (67) four shots out of the lead.

McIlroy played in the group behind Garcia, and could hear what was going on if he couldn’t see it.

“Every time I looked, he was putting a ball in the hole and the crowd was cheering,” McIlroy said. “I knew that he was making a few birdies.”

Graham DeLaet (69) of Weyburn, Sask., is tied for ninth at 4-under par.

Garcia was five shots out of the lead when he had to scramble to save pars on back-to-back holes to close out the front nine on what seemed to be an ordinary round. Two good swings on the 10th hole led to a 20-foot birdie putt. He hit 8-iron to 2 feet on No. 12 and 3 feet on No. 13 for the easiest birdies he had all day, and those turned out to be the start of his big run.

The Spaniard finished in style, making birdie putts of 15, 25 and 20 feet on his last three holes.

It reminded Garcia of the Travelers Championships earlier this summer, when Kevin Streelman closed with seven straight birdies to beat Garcia and K.J. Choi by one shot.

“When I made the one on 17 I thought, ’This kind of looks familiar from what happened not too long ago,”’ Garcia said. “Obviously, Sunday would be even nicer. But I’ll take what I can get.”

His previous best score was a 62 on three other occasions — as a 19-year-old at the Scottish Open and Byron Nelson Classic in 1999, and at Mount Juliet in 2002 at the American Express Championship.

Woods also shot his 61s at Firestone in the second round. He could have used something remotely close to that to stay in range of Garcia. Instead, Woods hit only four fairways off the tee and couldn’t seem to make anything on the green. It added to a 71, leaving him 10 shots behind.

“I didn’t hit the ball well. I didn’t putt well. I didn’t do anything well,” Woods said.

Goodell defends two-game ban of Ray Rice

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CANTON, Ohio — NFL Commissioner Roger camp in his first comments since the suspension. He Goodell defended the league on Friday against criti- called his actions “totally inexcusable” and acknowlcism that it was too lenient in suspending Ray Rice edged he must live with this for the rest of his life. two games for his “horrible mistake.”

The six-year veteran will miss the season opener “We just can’t make up the discipline,” Goodell against Cincinnati on Sept. 7 and the Sept. 11 game said. “It has to be consistent with other cases. And it against Pittsburgh. was in this matter.”

Rice allegedly struck then-fiancee Janay Palmer, Goodell stressed that the Baltimore Ravens’ run- now his wife, on Feb. 15 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. ning back has assumed responsibility for his con- The 27-year-old player has been accepted into a diduct, has no history of assault and is following a version program and upon completion could result court order to enter a diversionary program follow- in the charges being expunged. ing his domestic violence arrest.

“We’ve dealt with it in a serious manner, and we’re very confident that this young man underSINCE stands where he is and what he needs to do going forward,” Goodell said. “I think what’s important here is Ray has taken responsibility for this. He’s been accountable for his actions. He recognizes he made a horrible mistake that is unacceptable by his standards, by our standards.

• Bluetooth Handsfree • Mobile Video • iPod Integration And he’s got to work to re-establish himself.”

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trouble when I was younger, too,” he said. “I don’t think anybody’s going to really get it right ... they can just keep it nice and short and call me Folty.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Infielder Brett Lawrie (broken right index finger) began a rehabilitation assignment with Class A Dunedin on Friday. Manager John Gibbons said he will probably need at least a week of rehab games before he’s ready to return to the team.

Astros: Rookie OF George Springer, on the disabled list since July 20 with strained left quadriceps, is inching closer to his return. “He’s taking batting practice,” manager Bo Porter said. “He was able to do the outfield work (Friday). So we’re pretty excited that he’s coming along well.”

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BRIEFS Lawmaker proposes license plate celebrating James’ homecoming CLEVELAND — An Ohio lawmaker wants to give the state’s motorists the chance to score a license plate honouring LeBron James.

State Rep. Bill Patmon is planning to introduce legislation to permit the sale of a commemorative “LeBron James Witness 2.0” plate honouring the Akron native’s decision return to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

“When LeBron came home, it was a big deal for us,” said the Democrat from Cleveland. “It might not be for the rest of the world, but it’s a big deal for Cleveland.”

James, a four-time NBA most valuable player, was drafted by the Cavaliers in 2003 but left town for Miami after seven seasons. Last month, he announced he would re-sign with Cleveland.

His representatives declined to comment Friday on the license plate proposal.

San Antonio Spurs sign point guard Tony Parker to contract extension The San Antonio Spurs have signed point guard Tony Parker to a multi-year contract extension.

The Spurs made the announcement on Friday.

Terms of the deal were not immediately available.

Parker averaged 16.7 points and 5.7 assists in 29 minutes per game last season to help the Spurs to the franchise’s fifth NBA title.

Parker has spent all 13 seasons of his career in San Antonio and was due to make $12.5 million next season in the final year of his existing contract. But the Spurs made sure he will stick around longer than that, locking up the 32-year-old Parker, who is one of the elite point guards in the league.

Former Lakers forward Shawne Williams signs with Miami Heat MIAMI — Forward Shawne Williams, who spent part of last season with the Los Angeles Lakers, has signed with the Miami Heat.

A six-year NBA veteran, Williams has averaged 5.7 points and 3.1 rebounds in 251 career games, including 36 starts. He averaged 5.6 points and 4.6 rebounds last season in 36 games with the Lakers, including 13 starts.

Williams also played last season with the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA Development League.

He was the 17th overall pick in the 2006 draft by Indiana.

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Commonwealth Games MEDAL STANDINGS

Today

● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur at Red Deer Golf and Country Club. ● Tennis: Provincial 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 championships at Red Deer Tennis Club, 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m. ● Slowpitch: Canadian senior men’s championship at Edgar Park, 9 a.m. start. ● Peewee AA baseball: Provincial championship at Great Chief Park.

Sunday

● Peewee AA baseball: Provincial championship at Great Chief Park, 9 a.m. start, 3 p.m. final if no tie-breakers. ● Tennis: Provincial 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 championships at Red Deer Tennis Club, 9-11 a.m. ● Slowpitch: Canadian senior men’s championship at Edgar Park, 9 a.m. start. ● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur at Red Deer Golf and Country Club.

Monday

● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur at Red Deer Golf and Country Club. ● Slowpitch: Canadian senior men’s championship at Edgar Park. 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. ● Peewee AA baseball: Provincial championship at Great Chief Park, final at 10 a.m. if one tie-breaker; noon if two tie-breakers.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Kansas City 22 11 5 6 32 D.C. 20 11 5 4 32 New England 21 8 11 2 28 Toronto 19 7 7 5 27 Columbus 21 6 7 8 25 New York 21 5 6 10 33 Philadelphia 22 5 8 9 34 Chicago 20 3 5 12 27 Houston 20 5 11 4 22 Montreal 20 3 12 5 21

GA 20 20 33 28 27 32 36 33 40 37

Pt 39 37 26 26 26 25 24 21 19 14

Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 19 12 5 2 35 Salt Lake 21 8 4 9 32 Los Angeles 18 8 4 6 29 Colorado 21 8 7 6 31 Dallas 21 8 7 6 34 Vancouver 21 6 4 11 31 Portland 21 6 6 9 35 Chivas 20 6 9 5 21 San Jose 18 5 8 5 22

GA 27 27 16 27 31 29 35 33 20

Pt 38 33 30 30 30 29 27 23 20

Friday’s results Kansas City 1 Philadelphia 1 Saturday’s games Portland at Los Angeles, 12:30 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 3 p.m.

New England at New York, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Salt Lake at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Seattle at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games D.C. at Houston, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Chivas, 8 p.m.

Friday, August 8 San Jose at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 9 Montreal at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Dallas, 7 p.m.

D.C. at Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

Chivas at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Milwaukee minor league RHP Mark Williams (Brevard County-FSL) 50 games after testing positive for an amphetamine in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Activated LHP Andrew Miller. Designated RHP Ryan Webb for assignment. Signed LHP Joe Saunders to a minor league contract.

BOSTON RED SOX — Activated OF Yoenis Cespedes and OF/1B Allen Craig. Recalled OF/INF Mookie Betts, LHP Tommy Layne, RHP Anthony Ranaudo and RHP Alex Wilson from Pawtucket (IL). Activated 3B Will Middlebrooks from the 15-day DL. Placed OF Shane Victorino on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 31. Designated 1B/OF Mike Carp for assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Designated RHP Zach McAllister for assignment. Recalled OF Tyler Holt from Columbus (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Called up RHP Mike Foltynewicz from Oklahoma City (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed LHP Tyler Skaggs on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Michael Roth from Arkansas (Texas).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Designated INF Brian Roberts for assignment. Optioned INF Zelous Wheeler and OF Zoilo Almonte to Scranton/WilkesBarre (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Purchased the contract of RHP Phil Klein from Round Rock (PCL). Designated LHP Ryan Feierabend for assignment.

National League MIAMI MARLINS —Placed RHP Henderson Alvarez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 30. Recalled LHP Dan Jennings from New Orleans (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed LHP Cliff Lee on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Cesar Jimenez from Lehigh Valley (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Activated RHPs John Lackey and Justin Masterson. Recalled OF Shane Robinson from Memphis (PCL). Optioned RHP Carlos Martinez to Memphis.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sesignated 2B Dan Uggla and OF Tyler Colvin for assignment.

Called INF Matt Duffy and OF Jarrett Parker from Fresno (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Activated INF Asdrubal Cabrera. Optioned RHP Aaron Barrett to Syracuse (IL).

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed RHP Josh Mooney.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Released C Todd Jennings.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released INF Shelby Ford.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Released LHP Eric Katzman.

Frontier League JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed RHP Ethan Carter. Released UTL Jose Garcia and RHP Brett Zawacki.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Placed RHP Kurt Schluter on the suspended list.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed LHP Ryan Brockett.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Signed INF Daniel Johnston. Released INF Sam Montgomery BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DENVER NUGGETS — Signed G Erick Green.

MIAMI HEAT — Signed F Shawne Williams.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed F Cleanthony Early.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Signed G Tony Parker to a multiyear contract extension.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed LB Derrell Johnson.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed OT Adam Gress and CB Chandler Fenner. Placed OT Troy Kropog on injured reserve. Waived/injured CB Travis Howard.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed K Shaun Suisham to a four-year contract extension through the 2018 season.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed TE Anthony McCoy and DT Jesse Williams on injured reserve.

Released WR Randall Carroll. Signed LB Marcus Dowtin and WR Ronald Johnson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League MINNESOTA WILD — Signed D Justin Falk to a one-year contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Named Dr. Craig Slaunwhite director of fitness. Agreed to terms with F TJ Galiardi on a one-year contract.

ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Agreed to terms with C Alexandre Lavoie on a one-year contract.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Agreed to terms with D Matt Case.

Through 217 of 261 Medal Events England Australia Canada India Scotland New Zealand South Africa Wales Nigeria Kenya Jamaica Malaysia Singapore Cyprus Cameroon Northern Ireland Uganda Trindad & Tobago Pakistan Samoa Papua New Guinea Grenada Bahamas Mozambique Ghana Namibia Botswana Kiribati Bangladesh Isle of Man Nauru

G 48 40 30 13 17 13 12 4 7 7 7 4 6 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0

S 49 40 14 23 14 11 10 10 6 8 4 6 2 4 3 1 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

B 43 44 31 15 17 15 16 20 13 4 7 5 4 2 3 6 4 3 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0

Total 140 124 75 51 48 39 38 34 26 19 18 15 12 8 7 7 5 5 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1

Sri Lanka Barbados Fiji St. Lucia Mauritius Zambia

0 0 0 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 0 0

0 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1

NOTE: Two bronze medals awarded in some events.

WHAT CANADA DID ON FRIDAY ATHLETICS Women’s 100 hurdles — Angela Whyte Edmonton, won the bronze medal.

Women’s 800 — Melissa Bishop, Eganville, Ont., placed eighth (2:02.61).

Women’s 4x100 relay — Canada (Khamica Bingham, Brampton, Ont.; Crystal Emmanuel, Toronto; Phylicia George, Markham, Ont.; and Kimberly Hyacinthe, (Terrebonne, Que.) qualified for the medal race with a time of 43.66.

Women’s 4x400 relay — Canada (Fawn Dorr, Marten River, Ont.; Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Montreal; Noelle Montcalm, Windsor, Ont.; and Chanice Taylor-Chase, Ajax, Ont.) advanced to the second round after posting the fourth-fastest time in qualifying (3:31.02).

Women’s discus — Julie Labonte of Ste-Justine, Que., placed 12th (52.3 metres).

Men’s 4x100 relay — Canada (Aaron Brown, Toronto; Andre De Grasse, Markham, Ont.; Dontae Richards-Kwok, Mississauga, Ont.; and Gavin Smellie, Kingston, Jamaica) earned a berth in the final with time of 38.41 in the semis.

Men’s 4x400 relay — Canada (Daundre Barnaby, Brampton, Ont.; Brandon McBride, Windsor,

Ont.; Philip Osei, Toronto; Michael Robertson, Williamstown, Ont.; and Brendon Rodney, Toronto) did not advance after being disqualified in their opening round heat.

Men’s 3,000 steeplechase — Matthew Hughes, Oshawa, Ont., finished fourth (8:21.9); Chris Winter, Vancouver, sixth (8:29.8); while Taylor Milne of Guelph, Ont., was disqualified.

Men’s 10,000 — Cameron Levins of Black Creek, B.C., won the bronze medal (27:56.23); Mohammed Ahmed, St. Catherines, Ont., finished sixth (28:02.96).

Men’s pole vault — Shawnacy Barber, Toronto, won the bronze medal with top mark of 5.45 metres.

BADMINTON Women’s singles — Michelle Li, Markham, Ont., advanced to semifinal round witha 2-0 win over Sarah Walker of England.

Women’s doubles — Alex Bruce, Toronto, and Phyllis Chan, Vancouver, were eliminated following a 2-0 quarter-final loss to England.

Mixed Doubles — Derrick Ng and Phyllis Chan, both Vancouver, lost their quarter-final match 2-0 to Scotland; Alex Bruce, Toronto, and Toby Ng, Vancouver, lost 2-0 to England in the quarter-finals.

BOXING Men’s 51 kilograms — Shawnacy Barber, Toronto, won the bronze medal.

Women’s 51 kg — Mandy Bujold, Kitchener, Ont., lost her semifinal bout to Nicola Adams of England.

Women’s 75 kg — Ariane Fortin of Quebec City, advanced to the gold-medal match following here semifinal decision over Lauren Price of Wales.

DIVING Women’s one-metre springboard — Jennifer

Abel of Laval, Que. won the gold medal; Pamela Ware, Beloeil, Que., finished sixth; and Emma Friesen, North Vancouver, was 11th.

Men’s three-metre synchronized springboard — Maxim Bouchard, St-Constant, Que., and Riley McCormick, Victoria, placed fifth.

Men’s 10-metre synchronized tower — Bouchard and Vincent Riendeau, Pointe-Claire, Que., finished fourth.

GYMNASTICS Men’s horizontal bar — Kevin Lytwyn, Stoney Creek, Ont., won the bronze medal; Anderson Loran, Saskatoon, was eighth overall.

Men’s parallel bars — Kevin Lytwyn of Stoney Creek, Ont., finished sixth; Zachary Clay, Chilliwack, B.C., was eighth.

Men’s vault — Scott Morgan of North Vancouver, B.C., won the gold medal.

Women’s beam — Ellie Black, Halifax, earned the gold medal; Isabela Onyshko, Brandon, Man., placed seventh.

Women’s floor — Ellie Black won the bronze medal; Stefanie Merkle, Peterburg, Ont., finished a spot behind in fourth.

LAWN BOWLING Men’s singles — Ryan Bester, Hanover, Ont., took home the silver medal after losing 21-9 in the final to Darren Burnett of Scotland TABLE TENNIS Women’s doubles — Anqi Luo of Mississauga, Ont., and Mo Zhang, Shijiazhuang, have advanced to the semifinals after defeating Northern Ireland and Malaysia.

Men’s singles — Eugene Wang, Shijiazhuang, was eliminated with a loss in the quarter-finals to Jian Zhan of Sinapore.

Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

Glenn to ) 13:28 B.C. Calgary

Football Calgary at Hamilton, 1 p.m.

Montreal at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

GP 6 5 5 4

CFL East Division W L T PF 2 4 0 141 1 4 0 100 1 4 0 75 1 3 0 80

PA 154 119 144 113

Pt 4 2 2 2

GP Winnipeg 6 Calgary 5 Edmonton 5 B.C. 6 Saskatchewan 4

West Division W L T PF 5 1 0 168 4 1 0 123 4 1 0 130 3 3 0 127 2 2 0 96

PA 140 77 84 116 93

Pt 10 8 8 6 4

Toronto Hamilton Montreal x-Ottawa

Week 6 Thursday’s results Winnipeg 27 Hamilton 26 Friday’s results Toronto 31 Montreal 5 B.C. 25 Calgary 24 Saturday’s results Saskatchewan at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Week 7 Thursday, August 7 Saskatchewan at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, August 8 Edmonton at Montreal, 5 p.m.

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

Saturday, August 9 Ottawa at Calgary, 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, August 12 Winnipeg at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Week 8 Friday, August 15 Edmonton at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 16

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Argonauts 31, Alouettes 5 First Quarter Mtl — Single Whyte 58 2:45 Mtl — FG Whyte 49 8:01 Tor — FG Waters 30 15:00 Second Quarter Mtl — Single Whyte 53 3:01 Tor — TD Slaton 10 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 14:16 Third Quarter Tor — TD Slaton 5 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 2:57 Fourth Quarter Tor — Safety 2:20 Tor — Safety 4:54 Tor — FG Waters 42 13:15 Tor — TD Robinson 46 interception return Waters convert 13:27 Toronto 3 7 7 14 — 31 Montreal 4 1 0 0 — 5 Attendance — 20,692 at Montreal.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Passes made-tried Returns yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-Lost Sacks by Punts-average

Toronto Montreal 18 9 104 44 186 123 290 167 33-14 33-19 129 189 1-0 0-46 1-0 0-1 2 1 44-7 47-8

35-12 30:52

118-4 29:08

7 7

3 14

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12 3

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25 24

Net offence is yards passing, plus yards rushing, minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

Attendance — 27,266 at Calgary.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Toronto: Slaton 12-52, Ray 3-22, Steele 2-18, Woodson 3-11, Gale 1-1. Montreal: Whitaker 1231, Brink 2-13.

Receiving Toronto: Mann 5-75, Slaton 6-48, Coombs 4-38, Fayson 1-23, Adams 2-7, Bradwell 1--5. Montreal: Stafford 3-37, Stala 3-33, Gilyard 2-16, Carter 3-16, Johnson 1-12, Diedrick 1-7, Whitaker 1-2.

Passing Toronto: Ray 19-33-186-2-0. Montreal: Brink 9-2360-0-1, Smith 5-10-63-0-0.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Passes made-tried Returns yards Interceptions-yards by Fumbles-Lost Sacks by Punts-average Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

Lions 25, Stampeders 24 First Quarter B.C. — TD Yell 34 interception return McCallum convert 8:41 Cgy — TD McDaniel 18 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 12:13 Second Quarter B.C. — FG McCallum 45 6:36 Cgy — TD Raymond 63 interception return Paredes convert 9:00 Cgy — TD Tate 1 run (Paredes convert) 12:58 Third Quarter B.C. — FG McCallum 21 11:46 Fourth Quarter B.C. — TD Harris 4 pass from Glenn (pass from Glenn to ) 5:01 Cgy — FG Paredes 35 9:02 B.C. — TD Jackson 65 pass from Glenn (pass from

Net offence is yards passing, plus yards rushing, minus team losses such as yards lost on broken plays.

B.C. Calgary 19 18 108 132 277 227 385 359 32-21 31-22 120 154 1-63 1-34 0-3 2-1 1 1 24-8 84-7 82-6 50-9 32:43 27:17

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing B.C.: Harris 15-70, Logan 4-23, Gore 1-9, Partridge 2-5, Glenn 1-1. Calgary: Mallett 14-116, Sanders 4-15, Tate 1-1.

Receiving B.C.: Jackson 3-82, Harris 5-73, Taylor 9-60, Iannuzzi 2-35, Arceneaux 3-27. Calgary: Mallett 6-59, McDaniel 3-50, West 4-49, Sanders 2-31, Parker 2-14, Fuller 2-10, Sinopoli 1-9, Cote 1-5.

Passing B.C.: Glenn 22-32-277-2-1. Calgary: Mitchell 2131-227-1-1.

Baseball Baltimore Toronto New York Tampa Bay Boston Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Houston Texas

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 61 47 .565 60 51 .541 55 53 .509 53 56 .486 49 60 .450 Central Division W L Pct 59 47 .557 56 52 .519 54 55 .495 54 56 .491 48 60 .444 West Division W L Pct 66 42 .611 65 43 .602 56 53 .514 45 65 .409 43 66 .394

GB — 2.5 6 8.5 12.5 GB — 4 6.5 7 12 GB — 1 10.5 22 23.5

Friday’s Games Baltimore 2, Seattle 1 Cleveland 12, Texas 2 Detroit 4, Colorado 2 L.A. Angels 5, Tampa Bay 3 Boston 4, N.Y. Yankees 3 Chicago White Sox 10, Minnesota 8 Houston 3, Toronto 1 Kansas City 1, Oakland 0 Today’s Games Kansas City (Vargas 8-4) at Oakland (Lester 10-7), 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Greene 2-1) at Boston (Webster 1-0), 2:05 p.m.

Seattle (Paxton 2-0) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 5-5), 5:05 p.m.

Texas (Mikolas 1-3) at Cleveland (House 1-2), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (Matzek 2-5) at Detroit (Porcello 12-5), 5:08 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 8-6) at Tampa Bay (Archer 6-6), 5:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Pino 1-3) at Chicago White Sox (Carroll 4-6), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 9-10) at Houston (Oberholtzer 3-7), 5:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Texas at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m.

Colorado at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Seattle at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

L.A. Angels at Tampa Bay, 11:40 a.m.

Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Toronto at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Baltimore at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Detroit at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Texas at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 58 49 .542 Atlanta 58 51 .532 Miami 53 56 .486 New York 52 57 .477 Philadelphia 49 61 .445 Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 61 49 .555 Pittsburgh 57 51 .528 St. Louis 57 51 .528 Cincinnati 55 54 .505 Chicago 45 62 .421 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 62 47 .569 San Francisco 59 50 .541 San Diego 48 60 .444 Arizona 48 61 .440 Colorado 44 65 .404

GB — 1 6 7 10.5 GB — 3 3 5.5 14.5 GB — 3 13.5 14 18

Friday’s Games Philadelphia 2, Washington 1 Detroit 4, Colorado 2 Cincinnati 5, Miami 2 San Francisco 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Milwaukee 7, St. Louis 4 Pittsburgh at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Atlanta at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Philadelphia (A.Burnett 6-10) at Washington (Zimmermann 6-5), 5:05 p.m.

Colorado (Matzek 2-5) at Detroit (Porcello 12-5), 5:08 p.m.

Cincinnati (Bailey 8-5) at Miami (Eovaldi 5-6), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Peavy 0-1) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 5-5), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 11-5) at St. Louis (Masterson 0-0), 5:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Worley 4-1) at Arizona (C.Anderson 6-4), 6:10 p.m.

Atlanta (E.Santana 10-6) at San Diego (Kennedy 8-9), 6:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Wada 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 12-5), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Colorado at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Cincinnati at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Atlanta at San Diego, 2:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 10:10 a.m.

Baltimore at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Darnell, Swarzak (5), Duensing (6), Fien (8), Thielbar (8), Burton (8) and K.Suzuki; Sale, D.Webb (7), Surkamp (8), Guerra (8), Petricka (9) and Flowers.

W—Guerra 1-2. L—Fien 5-5. Sv—Petricka (7).

HRs—Minnesota, Parmelee (5). Chicago, Flowers (7).

K. City Oakland

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Je.Williams, Adcock (5), Klein (6), S.Baker (7) and Chirinos; Salazar, Crockett (7), A.Adams (7), Carrasco (9) and Y.Gomes, R.Perez. W—Salazar 4-4.

L—Je.Williams 2-5. HRs—Cleveland, Chisenhall (10).

Seattle 000 Baltimore 001

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Elias, Wilhelmsen (6) and Zunino; W.Chen, A.Miller (8), Z.Britton (9) and C.Joseph. W—W.Chen 12-3.

L—Elias 8-9. Sv—Z.Britton (22).

L.A.A. T. Bay

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Shoemaker, Grilli (6), Jepsen (7), J.Smith (8), Street (9) and Iannetta; Hellickson, C.Ramos (5), Yates (6), Beliveau (6), Jo.Peralta (8), Balfour (9) and J.Molina.

W—Shoemaker 9-3. L—Hellickson 0-1. Sv—Street (5). HRs—Los Angeles, Trout (25), J.Hamilton (7).

New York 000 Boston 002

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Capuano, Kelley (7), Thornton (7), Warren (8) and McCann; Ranaudo, Layne (7), Tazawa (8), Uehara (9) and D.Ross, Vazquez. W—Ranaudo 1-0. L— Capuano 1-2. Sv—Uehara (22). HRs—New York, Beltran (13), Jeter (3).

Toronto Houston

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Happ, Loup (8), Jenkins (8) and D.Navarro; McHugh, D.Downs (7), Veras (8), Qualls (9) and Corporan. W—Veras 1-0. L—Loup 3-3. Sv—Qualls (12). HRs—Houston, G.Petit (1).

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Guthrie, K.Herrera (7), W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez; Gray, O’Flaherty (8), Otero (8) and Jaso. W—Guthrie 7-9. L—Gray 12-4. Sv—G.Holland (30). HRs—Kansas City, Ibanez (5).

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 000 Cleveland 102

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Colorado Detroit

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F.Morales, Masset (7), Logan (8) and Rosario; Verlander, Nathan (9) and Holaday. W—Verlander 109. L—F.Morales 5-6. Sv—Nathan (22).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Phila.

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R.Hernandez, Papelbon (9) and Ruiz; Fister, Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos. W—R.Hernandez 6-8. L—Fister 10-3. Sv—Papelbon (26).

HRs—Philadelphia, Byrd (21).

Cincinnati 000 Miami 000

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Latos, Broxton (8), A.Chapman (9) and Mesoraco; Cosart, Hatcher (6), A.Ramos (8), Da.Jennings (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—Latos 3-3. L—Cosart 0-1.

Sv—A.Chapman (25). HRs—Miami, Stanton (26).

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Vogelsong and Posey; Niese, Black (9) and d’Arnaud. W—Vogelsong 6-8. L—Niese 5-7. HRs— New York, Duda (20).

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W.Peralta, W.Smith (7), Jeffress (8), Duke (9), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy; Wainwright, Maness (6), Motte (8), S.Freeman (9) and Pierzynski.

W—W.Peralta 13-6. L—Wainwright 13-6. Sv—Fr. Rodriguez (32). HRs—Milwaukee, Ar.Ramirez (13).

St. Louis, Holliday (11).

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Golf BRIDGESTONE INVITATIONAL At Firestone Country Club, South Course Akron, Ohio Purse: $9 million Yardage: 7,400; Par 70 Second Round Sergio Garcia Justin Rose Marc Leishman Rory McIlroy Rickie Fowler Charl Schwartzel Patrick Reed Keegan Bradley Graham DeLaet Brandt Snedeker Hunter Mahan Jim Furyk Adam Scott Thomas Bjorn Henrik Stenson Francesco Molinari Matt Kuchar Gary Woodland J.B. Holmes Harris English Ryan Moore Seung-Yul Noh Jamie Donaldson Miguel A. Jimenez Bubba Watson Tiger Woods Jimmy Walker Steven Bowditch Ernie Els Zach Johnson Bill Haas John Senden Branden Grace David Howell Matt Jones Kevin Stadler Fabrizio Zanotti Brendon de Jonge Angel Cabrera Webb Simpson Jordan Spieth Hideki Matsuyama Graeme McDowell Chris Kirk Russell Henley Matt Every Brian Harman Victor Dubuisson Ben Crane Alexander Levy Luke Donald Lee Westwood Brendon Todd Jason Dufner Kevin Na Thongchai Jaidee Phil Mickelson Stephen Gallacher

68-61 65-67 64-69 69-64 67-67 65-69 67-68 68-67 67-69 68-68 71-65 69-68 69-68 69-68 71-66 67-70 71-66 70-68 69-69 69-69 65-73 69-69 68-70 69-69 69-70 68-71 69-70 69-71 71-69 70-70 71-69 74-66 69-71 69-71 70-70 71-70 70-71 72-69 73-68 72-69 71-70 70-71 71-70 69-73 72-70 74-68 72-70 72-70 73-70 72-71 73-70 72-71 74-70 70-74 71-73 70-74 71-73 74-71

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129 132 133 133 134 134 135 135 136 136 136 137 137 137 137 137 137 138 138 138 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143 144 144 144 144 144 145

Richard Sterne Jason Day Martin Kaymer Tim Clark Pablo Larrazabal Daisuke Maruyama Ian Poulter Joost Luiten Scott Stallings Jonas Blixt Steve Stricker David Lynn Louis Oosthuizen Kevin Streelman Mikko Ilonen Yoshitaka Takeya Gonzalo Fdez-Castano Tano Goya

75-70 74-71 77-68 72-73 71-74 73-73 73-73 73-73 72-75 75-72 74-73 76-72 75-73 78-71 75-74 74-75 79-71 76-77

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145 145 145 145 145 146 146 146 147 147 147 148 148 149 149 149 150 153

BARRACUDA CHAMPIONSHIP At Montreux Golf and Country Club Reno, Nev. Purse: $3 million Yardage: 7,472; Par 72 Second Round Note: Unnder the modified Stableford format, players receive 8 points for double eagle, 5 for eagle, 2 for birdie, 0 for par, minus-1 for bogey and minus-3 for double bogey or worse.

Nick Watney 18-8 — 26 Geoff Ogilvy 16-7 — 23 Wes Roach 12-10 — 22 Tommy Gainey 11-10 — 21 Tim Wilkinson 16-5 — 21 Jeff Overton 7-13 — 20 Bryce Molder 10-10 — 20 Brendan Steele 9-11 — 20 John Huh 12-7 — 19 Woody Austin 11-8 — 19 Johnson Wagner 10-8 — 18 Jason Allred 7-11 — 18 Hudson Swafford 9-9 — 18 Arjun Atwal 7-10 — 17 Mark Wilson 8-9 — 17 Padraig Harrington 10-7 — 17 Rod Pampling 11-5 — 16 Greg Chalmers 3-13 — 16 D.H. Lee 11-5 — 16 Kyle Stanley 5-11 — 16 Kent Jones 5-11 — 16 David Lingmerth 9-7 — 16 Lee Janzen 8-7 — 15 Justin Hicks 9-6 — 15 Nicholas Thompson 10-5 — 15 Thorbjorn Olesen 10-5 — 15 Danny Lee 11-4 — 15 Eric Axley 11-4 — 15 Andres Romero 7-7 — 14 Robert Streb 10-4 — 14 Mike Weir 4-10 — 14 John Rollins 12-2 — 14 Jonathan Byrd 7-6 — 13 Kevin Lucas 11-2 — 13 Brian Stuard 4-9 — 13

Retief Goosen Tim Herron Tim Petrovic Billy Mayfair Chad Campbell Ben Curtis Jim Herman Doug LaBelle II Charlie Beljan David Toms Chad Collins Miguel Angel Carballo Jamie Lovemark Chris Smith Michael Putnam Kevin Chappell Ricky Barnes Derek Ernst Marc Turnesa Patrick Rodgers Rory Sabbatini Steve Flesch Joe Durant George Coetzee Morgan Hoffmann J.J. Henry Bronson La’Cassie Kevin Tway John Mallinger Ryuji Imada Cameron Beckman Martin Laird Oliver Goss Len Mattiace D.J. Trahan Trevor Immelman Brice Garnett John Merrick Troy Matteson Andrew Loupe

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3M CHAMPIONSHIP At TPC Twin Cities Blaine, Minn.

Purse: $1.75 million Yardage: 7,114; Par 72 (36-36) First Round Marco Dawson Rocco Mediate Jeff Maggert Vijay Singh Bernhard Langer Kenny Perry Gary Hallberg Mike Goodes Gene Sauers Bobby Wadkins Doug Garwood Paul Goydos Scott Verplank Jeff Sluman Kirk Triplett Joel Edwards Peter Senior

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Duffy Waldorf Steve Elkington Dana Quigley Rod Spittle Hale Irwin Bob Gilder Jose Coceres Steve Pate Joey Sindelar Chien Soon Lu Blaine McCallister Kevin Sutherland Mark O’Meara John Cook Bart Bryant Tom Pernice Jr. David Frost Scott Dunlap Bill Glasson Brad Bryant Wes Short, Jr. Russ Cochran Olin Browne Tom Kite Fred Funk

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CANADIAN TOUR Purse $150,000 Par 72 Completed First Round Stephen Carney Daniel Balin Brock Mackenzie Joel Dahmen Ted Brown Linus Gillgren Joe Panzeri Matthew Smith Wes Heffernan Mauricio Azcue Cory Renfrew Scott Stiles David Holmes Timothy Madigan John Catlin Jon McLean Andrew Georgiou Kevin Stinson Sam Ryder Blake Snyder Christopher Ross Ben Silverman Joshua Creel Jay Vandeventer Sean Shahi Michael Gligic David Byrne Jay Myers Michael Schachner Samuel Cyr Spencer Lawson

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LUANN Aug. 2 1990 — Iraq invades the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC. 1974 — Alberta acquires control of Pacific Western Airlines. The airline would return to the private sector in 1983.

1945 — The Allied conference at Potsdam concludes.

1944 — Parliament passes the Family Allowance Act. 1909 — First passenger flight in Canada made in the Silver Dart at Camp Petawawa in an evaluation by the Canadian army. Original plane was built by the Aerial Experiment Association formed by Alexander Graham Bell.

1786 — James Strange claims Vancouver Island for Britain.

1610 — Dutch navigator Henry Hudson, in the employ of the English, enters the inland sea now known as Hudson Bay, but thinks he has found the Pacific Ocean.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 2, 2014

Former Travelaire site sold

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The site of a proposed commercial centre in northwest Red Deer has changed hands.

Edmonton-based Canadian Urban Ltd. has transferred the 10.68-acre parcel at 6712 and 6714 Golden West Ave., where recreational vehicle manufacturer Travelaire Canada once operated, to Albari Holdings Ltd. and 1835901 Alberta Ltd. The transfer documents indicate that the sale price was $1,785,085.

An official with Alberta Investment Management Corp. (AIMCo.) confirmed with the Advocate that AIMCo. has invested in the property, and is working with private developer Hopewell Development.

AIMCo. is a provincial Crown corporation responsible for the investments of pension, endowment and government funds in Alberta, including the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund.

It manages more than $75 billion in

assets.

Hopewell, which is based in Calgary, is one of Canada’s largest commercial developers. It’s active across Western Canada, and in Ontario.

Canadian Urban bought the land in 2007 from Travelaire’s parent company, Glendale International Corp. The property was leased back for Travelaire’s use, until Glendale filed for bankruptcy in January 2010 and Travelaire ceased operations.

In April 2013, Canadian Urban obtained development approval from the city for eight commercial buildings on the property, with these to cover a total of 32,500 square feet. A spokesperson for the company said at the time that an anchor tenant would be sought for the largest of the proposed buildings, and the others would be used by businesses like fast-food restaurants and other shops.

Despite plans to commence construction last year, no work has been done. This April, the city renewed the development permit for a year. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

The site of the former Travelaire Canada recreational vehicle manufacturer in north Red Deer, which is now slated for commercial development, has been sold.

Harvest will be above-average: crop report

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A lot can happen between now and harvest, but Central Alberta farmers are currently on track for an aboveaverage crop. A report issued by Agriculture Financial Services Corp. on Friday projected that 2014 yields for this region would be five per cent above the 10-year average.

It calculated this year’s canola output at 36.5 bushels per acre, spring wheat at 43.5 bushels, durum at 38.8 bushels, barley at 62.3 bushels, oats at 66.2 bushels and field peas at 41.1

bushels.

However, these figures would still fall 20 to 25 per cent short of last year’s yields, when farmers enjoyed a bumper harvest. And they’re not as high as those anticipated in several other areas of Alberta this year.

Crops in the Peace River region are expected to beat the 10-year average by 20 per cent, and the northeast and northwest areas are projected to be 14 per cent better.

Southern Alberta has the lowest anticipated yields, at two per cent above the 10-year average, with the province as a whole expected to be up five per

cent. Much of Central Alberta received 15 to 20 mm of precipitation prior to July 29, said the AFSC report — with rainfall benefiting farmers to the north as well.

“With most crops now entering the kernel-filling stage, this moisture will be very beneficial for both yield and maturity,” said the report.

In Central Alberta, 63.7 per cent of the crops were rated good or excellent, down from 68.4 per cent a week earlier and below the five-year average of 73.4 per cent.

A decline in crop ratings in Central and Southern Alberta was offset by

higher numbers in the northeast and northwest regions of the province.

As of Tuesday, spring cereals in Central Alberta were in the mid-pollination stage, with winter cereals in the early dough stage The report estimated that local canola was 63 per cent podded and field peas 73 per cent podded.

Subsoil moisture for the region was rated at 64 per cent good or excellent, a drop of one per cent.

Hay and pasture land was rated at 58 per cent good or excellent, with first cut haying 85 per cent complete, as of July 29.

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Companies sought for trade mission to Qatar, U.A.E. The provincial government is calling for Alberta companies to participate in a trade mission to Doha, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Scheduled for approximately Nov. 3 to 14, the trip will begin in Doha and then continue to Abu Dhabi, where the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference will run from Nov. 10 to 13. That event ranks among the top three oil and gas events in the world. Participating companies will have exhibit space at the conference, as well as the opportunity for oneon-one meetings, market briefings and networking events. The trade mission is being organized by Alberta International and Intergovernmental Relations, along with the federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, the Canada Arab Business Council and Export Development Canada.

For more information, contact Dennis Schultz at 780-427-0279 or dennis. schultz@gov.ab.ca, or Ryan Radke at 780-644-8188 or ryan.radke@gov.ab.ca by Aug. 22.

Red Deer couple nominated for entrepreneur award A Red Deer couple are among the finalists for Entrepreneur Of The Year awards for the Prairies.

Craig Howes and Heather Murphy are competing in the Emerging Entrepreneur category of this year’s awards, which are sponsored by professional services firm Ernst & Young.

They created Go Tire Inc., a business that provides mobile services, including tire changeovers and maintenance, windshield repair and replacement, and auto detailing.

Howes and Murphy are competing against three other Emerging Entrepreneur finalists, with two of these are from Calgary and one from Edmonton.

Entrepreneur Of The Year awards will also be presented for Business-toBusiness Products and Services, Business-to-Consumer Products and Services, Manufacturing, Energy Services, Oil and Gas, Professional and Financial Services, Real Estate and Construction, Technology and Communications, and Social Entrepreneur. The Prairies winners will be announced Oct. 16, with the overall Prairies winner to represent the region at the national level.

Last year, Dallas Lenius and Dean Hall of Force Pile Driving in Red Deer, Merv Pidherney of M. Pidherney’s Trucking Ltd. of Rocky Mountain House and Don Sutherland of Studon Electric & Controls in Red Deer were among the finalists for Entrepreneur Of The Year awards for the Prairies. Pidherney went on to win the title in the Energy Services category.

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Construction is underway on the Wheelhouse Garage development in McKenzie Industrial Business Park just south of Red Deer. Plans call for 27 garage condominiums, ranging in size from about 1,200 to 2,200 square feet, for sale to individual owners. Each unit can be customized for anything from vehicle storage to recreational space. Additional information about Wheelhouse Garage, which is being developed by a group of local businessmen, can be found online at wheelhousegarage.com.

Ottawa hails new rail shipping regulations

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — The federal government hopes new rail transportation rules will speed up deliveries of grain and harvest some goodwill with farmers hard-hit by a shipping bottleneck.

The Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act includes measures that set minimum grain volumes that Canadian National (TSX:CNR) and Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) must meet from Aug. 3 to Nov. 29.

The railways are also to provide more information about grain shipments to allow for better monitoring.

There are also provisions to more clearly define service level agreements that can be arbitrated by the Canadian Transportation Agency.

The legislation, effective Friday, was passed last spring after a rail bottleneck left huge amounts of grain from a record crop sitting in bins across Western Canada, causing producers financial hardship.

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companies to double the amount of grain they were moving each week to a minimum of one million tonnes or they could face fines of up to $100,000 a day.

“The regulations passed today are intended to maximize the amount of grain moved by rail before the winter season and allow the government to reassess the situation later in the fall, with the longer-term goal of returning carryover stocks to normal levels by the end of July 2015,” Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said in a release.

“Today’s regulations are the latest step in our ongoing efforts to create a rail supply chain that farmers and all shippers can depend on as they grow the Canadian economy.”

CN President Claude Mongeau said the new law isn’t necessary and could hurt the rail sector.

He said the railways did a reasonably good job last fall and this year of dealing with a record grain crop. The supply chain is now operating normally and is ready to deal with the next grain harvest, he added.

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lems to fix, there is no need for such burdensome and ill-advised regulatory intervention,” he said in a release.

“The government’s approach can only stifle supply chain collaboration and may ultimately undermine investment in the rail sector.”

CP President Hunter Harrison was also unhappy with the new rules.

“Today’s disappointing announcement by the Government of Canada is very unfortunate and clearly demonstrates that despite the facts, this government has not listened,” Harrison said.

“Issues relating to the transportation of grain will not be solved in Ottawa but by the joint collaboration of all partners in the supply chain.”

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said the regulations will help avoid a repeat of the grain bottleneck.

“Our government has made tough decisions for the benefit of our producers and to maintain Canada’s good reputation as a global supplier,” she said in a release.

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MARKETS COMPANIES

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 98.97 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.19 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.12 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.15 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 48.44 Cdn. National Railway . . 71.11 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 204.63 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.93 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.87 Cervus Equipment Corp 22.31 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.97 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.90 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 31.08 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.09 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.44 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.46 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.47 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 57.49 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 68.55 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.97 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.49 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 53.98 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 104.17 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.78 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.65 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 53.07 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.48 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American stock markets racked up losses for a second day Friday, despite a relatively strong U.S. employment report.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 115.48 points to 15,215.26 after the U.S. Labor Department said the American economy added 209,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 of a point to 6.2 per cent. Generally, economists had looked for the U.S. economy to add 225,000 jobs with unemployment rate holding steady.

The Canadian dollar declined 0.19 of a cent to 91.52 cents US. New York’s Dow Jones industrials fell 69.93 points to 16,493.37, the Nasdaq gave back 17.13 points to 4,352.64 while the S&P 500 index lost 5.52 points 1,925.15.

Stock markets tumbled Thursday in their biggest oneday slide since early February, but analysts were hard-pressed to identify a single reason for the drop.

The TSX fell 240 points or 1.55 per cent this week, leaving the index still up 11.8 per cent year to date. However, the Dow industrials dro pped 467 points or 2.75 per cent this week, wiping out all gains year-to-date.

There were scattered earnings disappointments, but analysts have been generally pleased with the second-quarter earnings over the last couple of weeks.

In the background are worries that strong U.S. economic growth could result in the Federal Reserve hiking rates earlier than expected.

But there are also concerns about the ripple effects from Argentina again defaulting on its debt, and tensions between the West and Russia over that country’s support of Ukrainian rebels blamed for shooting down an airliner last month.

On top of it all, cracks in stock markets are appearing at a time when indexes are close to all time highs and the bull market has run practically non-stop for over five years.

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.12 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 60.36 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.54 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 28.50 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.59 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.13 First Quantum Minerals . 25.06 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.28 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.62 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.65 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.23 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.34 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.99 Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.51 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 31.76 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 68.50 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.40 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 59.32 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 45.95 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.34 Canyon Services Group. 16.09 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.53 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.95 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 23.06 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.33 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 98.80 “So, my view is that the market was looking for any excuse to sell, really,” said John Stephenson, president and CEO at Stephenson and Co. Capital Management.

“You have tremendous amounts of cash sitting on the sidelines, at least in the retail population, and people are just bloody well nervous that they’re going to lose their shirt, especially when they look at how far the market has come,” Stephenson said.

The financial sector was a major source of weakness, down 1.1 per cent after Portugal’s second-biggest lender posted a record US$4.68 billion loss and said it needed an increase in capital.

The energy sector was down 1.6 per cent as September crude lost 92 cents to US$97.26.

The base metals sector declined one per cent with September copper down one cent to US$3.23 a pound.

The TSX found support from a rise of about 1.4 per cent in the gold sector as investors looking for safety pushed December bullion up $12 to US$1,294.80 an ounce.

In earnings news Friday, pipeline company Enbridge (TSX:ENB) reported adjusted earnings rose to $328 million or 40 cents per share from $306 million, or 38 cents, a year earlier — a penny better than expected.

Its shares were up 45 cents to $53.90.

Regional telecom company Bell Aliant (TSX:BA) reported a second-quarter profit of $72 million, or 32 cents per share, compared with $66 million, or 29 cents per share, a year ago.

Revenues were down at $683 million from $692 million year-over-year. BCE Inc., which already owns 44 per cent of Bell Aliant, recently announced it’s seeking to take full ownership of the company through a $3.95-billion deal. Bell Aliant shares gained four cents to $30.94.

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

Stocks:

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 68.72 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.85 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.80 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 55.15 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.93 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.30 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.110 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.30 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 43.43 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.33 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.95 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 10.54 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 69.35 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 80.00 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 73.48 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.22 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 41.38 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.38 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.36 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 50.88 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.30 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.92 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.31 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.05 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.37 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.08 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.52 S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,215.26, down 115.48 points Dow — 16,493.37, down 69.93 points S&P 500 — 1,925.15, down 5.52 points Nasdaq — 4,352.64, down 17.13 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.52 cents US, down 0.19 of a cent Pound — C$1.8376, down 0.33 of a cent Euro — C$1.4665, up 0.65 of a cent Euro — US$1.3422, up 0.32 of a cent Oil futures: US$97.88 per barrel, down 29 cents (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,294.80 per oz., up $12 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.063 oz., down 20.6 cents $741.48 kg., down $6.62 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $7.00 lower $434.30; Jan ’15 $7.00 lower $438.40; March ’15 $6.90 lower $439.10; May ’15 $6.90 lower $435.40; July ’15 $6.90 lower $431.20; Nov ’15 $6.40 lower $419.70; Jan. ’16 $6.40 lower $425.70; March ’16 $6.40 lower $429.50; May ’16 $6.40 lower $429.50; July ’16 $6.40 lower $429.50; Nov. ’16 $6.40 lower $429.50.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 $1.00 lower $136.50; Dec. ’14 $1.00 lower $138.50; March ’15 $1.00 lower $139.50; May ’15 $1.00 lower $139.50; July ’15 $1.00 lower $139.50; Oct. ’15 $1.00 lower $139.50; Dec. ’15 $1.00 lower $139.50; March ’16 $1.00 lower $139.50; May ’16 $1.00 lower $139.50; July ’16 $1.00 lower $139.50; Oct. ’16 $1.00 lower $139.50.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 208,740 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 208,740.

Solid hiring stretches into sixth month

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. ECONOMY

WASHINGTON — A sixth straight month of solid 200,000-plus job growth in July reinforced growing evidence that the U.S. economy is accelerating after five years of sluggish expansion.

Employers added 209,000 jobs last month. Though that was fewer than in the previous three months, the economy has now produced an average 244,000 jobs a month since February — the best six-month string in eight years.

At the same time, most economists don’t think the pace of job growth is enough to cause the Federal Reserve to speed up its timetable for raising interest rates. Most still think the Fed will start raising rates to ward off inflation around mid-2015.

The Labor Department’s jobs report Friday pointed to an economy that has bounced back with force after a grim start to the year and is expected to sustain its strength into 2015. Economists generally expect it to grow at a 3 per cent annual rate in the second half of this year after expanding 4 per cent in the second quarter. Consumer spending is rising, manufacturing is expanding rapidly and auto sales are up.

“There is no doubt that the economy and the labour market have been strengthening,” said Sung Won Sohn, an economist at California State University’s Smith School of Business.

“People are rejoining the labour force.

All these factors point to moderate, but sustained economic growth in 2014.”

Speaking with reporters Friday afternoon, President Barack Obama declared that the economy “is clearly getting stronger. ... Our engines are revving a little bit louder.”

In an encouraging sign, more people without jobs have started to look for one — a shift that nudged up the unemployment rate in July to 6.2 per cent from 6.1 per cent in June. Most of those who began searching last month didn’t find jobs. But the increase suggests they’re more optimistic about their prospects. The jobless aren’t counted

as unemployed unless they’re actively seeking work.

Americans’ paychecks, though, are barely growing. That helps give the Fed leeway to keep its benchmark short-term rate near zero without worrying so much about higher inflation.

Investors were unimpressed by Friday’s data. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 69 points, and broader indexes also dropped. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note dipped, suggesting less concern about a Fed rate increase.

Encouragingly, a higher proportion of July’s job gains were in higherpaying industries. That’s a shift from much of the recovery, which has been marked by outsized gains in lower-paying fields such as restaurants, retail and home health care aides.

Manufacturing added 28,000 jobs in July, the most in eight months. Construction added 22,000 and financial services 7,000, its fourth straight gain.

Accounting, bookkeeping and computer networking jobs also showed gains.

And architectural and engineering jobs jumped 8,800, the most since January 2007.

“This is particularly important for new college graduates as it suggests that the market for individuals with higher education is finally firming,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial.

Job growth is pushing up wages in some sectors. But the increases haven’t been widespread.

Ted Toth, vice-president of a factory in Pennsauken, New Jersey, that makes parts for satellite, radar and GPS systems, says he has four available jobs that pay from $20 to $32 an hour.

But he hasn’t been able to find employees qualified to fill them.

His company, Rosenberger North America, raised wages 6 per cent earlier this year to fend off efforts by competitors to poach its employees.

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Demand for SUVs and pickup trucks drives July sales THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Purchases of trucks and SUVs helped boost the Canadian auto industry’s sales last month, which Ford, Chrysler and General Motors said was their best July on record.

According to DesRosiers Automotive Reports, there were a total of 176,995 cars and light trucks of all makes sold in Canada last month, bringing the total for the year so far to 1.085 million.

A new report from Scotiabank estimates that total sales this year could reach 1.93 million units, which is above its May estimate of 1.89 million units.

Scotiabank senior economist Carlos Gomes said most of the gains are from sales of light trucks, which include cross-over utility vehicles that are smaller than the sports utility vehicles that were popular a decade ago.

“These vehicles are much more fuel efficient and they are much more practical than a small car for example. It is the best of both worlds for the consumer,” Gomes said.

Gomes said the Big Three’s sales volume has also been helped by reining in price increases and offering pricing promotions more frequently.

Ford of Canada said Friday that its overall July sales were up 15 per cent to 28,923, compared with 25,188 a year ago, helped by a 26.2 per cent increase in truck sales. Overall sales of Ford trucks totalled 23,205 last month compared with 18,392 in July 2013. However, Ford’s cars didn’t fare as well as their sales slumped by 15.9 per cent, falling

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Chrysler Canada trailed Ford with a seven per cent gain, with a total of 28,007 cars and trucks sold in July, compared with 26,209 a year ago. Its sales were up 11.8 per cent compared with a year ago, boosted by Jeep sales which gained 58 per cent.

Chrysler’s Canadian truck sales totalled 24,700, up from 22,095 last year, while car sales fell 19.6 per cent to 3,307 from 4,114 in July 2013.

Truck sales helped General Motors Canada post a 24.2 per cent gain in sales for the month for a total of 19,566, up from 15,756 a year ago.

GM truck sales were up 28.6 per cent at 13,666 for July, compared with 10,625 in the same month last year. Car sales were up 15 per cent at 5,900 compared with 5,131 a year ago.

Last month’s sales for Japanese automaker Nissan were strong, with truck sales growing by 51.9 per cent to 4,897 units Versus 3,223 trucks in July 2013.

Overall, Nissan and its Infiniti luxury division sold 11,434 vehicles up from 8,176 vehicles in July 2013. Truck sales picked up for Toyota and its Lexus brand too, rising 6.8 per cent from a year ago to 8,785 trucks. However, the Japanese automaker reported overall sales growth of just 1.7 per cent as car sales slipped 2.7 per cent. In total, Toyota, Lexus and Scion combined to sell 18,039 vehicles, up from 17,734 a year ago Honda-branded sales totalled 14,574 vehicles, up 8.3 per cent from 13,454 a year ago, but sales of Honda’s Acura luxury brand fell 18.6 per cent to 1,373 from 1,687.

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Running the Distance for Kids In May, the Catholic Education Foundation held its fifth annual fundraising gala at the Black Knight Inn. This year’s theme, Running the Distance for Kids, was inspired by Michael “Pinball” Clemens, inductee to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

Pinball brought messages of hope and winning against the odds and the importance of community.

Over 250 guests attended and took part in the warm hospitality offered at the Black Knight Inn, the splendid food served and an amazing array of silent auction items. The Notre Dame jazz band and the Maryview School choir complemented the festive celebration.

Gala chair Penny Omilon says: “The Red Deer

community is incredibly generous and recognizes the importance of supporting our youth — our future. We are so grateful to all those who helped raise these much-needed funds; they will make an incredible difference in our schools supporting the great work already taking place. Our students will have more opportunities to grow in their faith, one based on love, generosity, gratitude and forgiveness.”

Shelley Holitski, foundation board chair, adds: “A total $45,520 will go towards 17 school-based projects and four division-wide initiatives. The faith-based projects vary in scope from literacy initiatives, band workshops and leadership retreats,

Photos by AMANDA WASCHUK/freelance

Catholic Education Foundation board of directors: Front (left to right): Lori Lane, Shelley Holitski (chairperson), Middle (left to right): Penny Omilon, Millie Hoffos. Back (left to right): Carlo Simonot, Amy Corrigan, Kurt Schultz, Diane MacKay (trustee), Rod Steeves, Paul Mason (superintendent).

to health and wellness programs and much more.”

She adds: “These projects are not funded by our tax dollars and would require schools to do significant fundraising.”

Five scholarships of $500 were awarded Red Deer and Rocky high school students.

Every year, the foundation contributes to its endowment fund held with the Red Deer and District Community Foundation. The amount is set at the annual general meeting in September. The endowment fund is worth over $219,000. “Growing this fund is our ultimate goal as it will ensure that our Catholic schools receive funding in perpetuity,” Holitski says.

LOCAL HOME

FRONT BENTLEY FAIR AND RODEO KICKS OFF ON THURSDAY The Bentley Fair and Rodeo rides into town on Aug. 7. Jam-packed with bucking bulls, pie socials, cabarets and horseshoes, the event kicks off with a pancake breakfast at Legion Park from 7 to 10 a.m. on Thursday, followed by the annual parade at 1 p.m.

A children’s magic show, bench show and various stage entertainment at the Blindman Valley Ag Centre fill up the rest of the day. The rodeo starts at 6 p.m. on Aug. 8 at the Bentley arena with the beer gardens open from 5 to 11 p.m. Admission is $8, $6 for youth and children six-years-old and under are free. Aug. 9 marks the horseshoe tournament at 9 a.m., a bazaar show and sale, children’s activities at the library and the farmers’ market. The rodeo begins again at 5 p.m. A cabaret dance hits the floor from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. with fireworks interrupting at 10:15 and a drive-in movie after the light show. The horseshoe tournament continues on Aug. 10. This is Bentley’s 48th annual rodeo. For all events, visit www. bentleyagsociety.com/ calendar-of-events.html.

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Long road to learning U.K. STUDENT FINDS WORK EXPERIENCE AT SAFE HARBOUR OPENS NEW AVENUES

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Distance did not deter U.K. student Anna Lucas when it came time to decide where to do her four-week work experience placement — she headed for Red Deer.

Lucas decided on Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing for its non-medical detox and aboriginal supports.

“You choose where you want to go, anywhere in the world, as long as you organize it and fund it yourself,” said Lucas, a thirdyear mental health nursing student at London South Bank University.

“I wanted to work in addictions, and I knew I wanted to work in Canada and I found this place.”

She returns to London on Sunday after completing her month-long placement.

It was the first time the nursing program offered an elective work placement component and only two other students in her class of 32 travelled outside England.

“One went to Ireland and one went to Poland. So (Red Deer) is the furthest. They were both from those countries as well so they went to stay with family.”

Lucas, 24, backpacked around British Columbia and Alberta about two years ago.

“It’s just a beautiful place. I just love it,” she said on Thursday about Western Canada’s Rocky Mountains.

She said participating in sharing circles and sweat lodges have been highlights for her while volunteering at Safe Harbour.

She took part in two sweat lodges where prayer songs and steam fill the air to soothe the spirit.

Lucas said the sweats were intense.

Everyone has their own reasons for attending but all benefit from gathering together, she said. “You can kind of feel all of

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Mental Health student Anna Lucas of Romsey, England, has spent the last four weeks working in Red Deer gaining experience at the Safe Harbour Society. the emotions that people are feeling.

“The first time I went it was a mixed one, there was men and women, and I got a lot of strength from that one. From the second one I went to, which was all females, it was kind of more like a calmer, joyful kind of experience.”

Lucas said she will definitely hold on to the role of spirituality in recovery for mental illness and addictions.

Before studying in London for three years, Lucas lived in southern England, originally in Totton.

She said in England, the focus is on medical detox for substance abuse and she was able to learn about non-medical detox at Safe Harbour.

When she gets a job in England, she wants to raise more awareness about the

root causes of addictions and work to reduce the stigma of addiction, like staff at Safe Harbour do.

“I’ve seen their compassion and kindness for people and their genuine desire to help people. That’s one of the things that’s really shone through in my experience.

It’s kind of reflected in the way the clients respond as well. There’s a real mutual respect.”

She hoped in the future other mental health nursing students at London South Bank University will consider Safe Harbour for their work experience.

“I’ll definitely talk and talk and talk about it when I get back and probably bore people to death,” Lucas laughed.

“It was brilliant that I got here.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

55TH STREET IMPROVEMENTS SENIORS CONFERENCE An evening miniconference that is part of National Seniors Day will be open to all adults, offering sessions that could be important to the future of Central Alberta residents. The mini-conference, which is scheduled for Sept.

30 from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Sylvan Lake Community Centre, 4725 43rd St., features two sessions of important topics: one about downsizing and moving forward and the other about advanced care planning, personal directives and care designations. These sessions bookend a roast beef dinner with entertainment from Flashback Freddy, who performs hit songs from the 1950s and ’60s. The event costs $10 per session and another $10 for the supper; anyone who wants to attend must go to at least one session and the supper.

The deadline to register is Sept. 22. To register, call Maryan at 403-887-5428.

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Crews with Pidherney’s continue to work on 55th Street in Red Deer. Underway since July 2 and scheduled to continue until September, work is being done to replace water and sanitary services utilities to support future development in the Riverlands and Railyards areas. The existing utilities are approximately 60 years old and are at capacity. According to the City of Red Deer, new sidewalks and a multi-use pathway will also be added along the stretch of roadway.

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BRIEF Shooting accused face long wait for court date The two men accused in a triple shooting last year at a Balmoral Heights residence have to wait until early next year to continue their court proceedings.

Brad Voykin, 25, and Josh Cusler, 28, both of Red Deer have been charged with attempted murder in relation to a March 2013 shooting east of Red Deer.

Andrew Phypers, defence counsel for Voykin, filed the paperwork to also become Cusler’s counsel. He had previously been represented by Patty McNaughton.

A preliminary inquiry, used to test the strength of the Crown’s case, began in May of this year. However, a continuation of the original four-day hearing has extended court proceeding for Voykin and Cusler.

Phypers said the earliest day to continue the inquiry he could find available was Jan. 30, 2015, but he said he would endeavour to find a closer date.

Voykin and Cusler are accused of shooting at another individual at 55 Balmoral Heights, east of Red Deer, last year.

Gasoline Alley upgrades to close Liberty Avenue Parts of Liberty Avenue in Gasoline Alley will be closed starting Aug. 11 as work beings on improving the storm water system in the area.

Signage and barricades will be in place and temporary detours will be in effect.

The temporary closure of Liberty Avenue runs from the memorial pond to the pond north of Costco.

According to a Red Deer County news release, the construction is expected to wrap up by mid-October.

A modified public transit route will remain available and some businesses access will be temporarily affected, but will remain open.

For more information, visit www.rdcounty.ca.

Township Road 39-0 was temporally closed at the intersections of Range Road 24-2 and Range Road 24-3. It reopened around 8 a.m. but cleanup continues, said Jim Feeny, CN public and government affairs director.

CN crews arrived at the scene around 9 a.m., he said. The cause of the derailment is under investigation.

Jail riot trial set for next year

Canadian National Railway crews are on site handling grain cars that derailed around 5 a.m. this morning halfway between Joffre and Alix.

No one was injured and there were no dangerous goods on the train, stated a news release from Lacombe County.

It is believed that 16 grain cars derailed.

One of the four accused in a riot at the Red Deer Remand Centre will head to trial early next year.

Chol Achuil Chol, 27, has been charged with assaulting a peace officer, uttering threats, mischief over $5,000 and participating in a riot.

He, along with John Tuik Jok, 26; Diing Geng, 22; and Athiang Geng, 23, are all accused in a March 5 incident where Red Deer RCMP were called to the Red Deer Remand Centre to assist correctional officers in managing a disturbance in one of the cell units.

According to police, a minor misunderstanding escalated into violence when an inmate allegedly swung his fist at a correctional officer and made threats.

In Red Deer provincial court on Thursday before judge John Holmes, Chol elected to be tried by provincial court judge.

He faces his trial on Jan. 15, 2015, in Red Deer provincial court.

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

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U.N. official says Vietnam seriously violates religious freedom SOME IMPROVEMENT BUT SECURITY AGENTS CLOSELY MONITORED OFFICIAL’S VISIT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANOI, Vietnam — A U.N. official who went to Vietnam to assess religious freedom in this Southeast Asian country said Thursday that security agents closely monitored his visit and people he wanted to meet were harassed and intimidated.

Heiner Bielefeldt, the U.N. special rapporteur, told journalists he concluded that serious violations of religious freedom existed, while noting some improvements.

Planned visits to three provinces were interrupted, Bielefeldt said.

“I received credible information that some individuals whom I wanted to meet with had been either under heavy surveillance, warned, intimidated, harassed or prevented from travelling by the police,” he said.

“I was closely monitored of my whereabouts by undeclared ‘security and police agents’ while the privacy and confidentiality of some meetings could have been compromised.

“All these incidents are in clear violation of the terms of reference of any country visit,” he said of his 11-day, fact-finding mission.

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Le Hai Binh told a press briefing Thursday that the government has done its best to facilitate the special rapporteur’s visit including arranging all requested meetings.

“The reception of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on religious freedom to visit Vietnam demonstrated the goodwill, co-operative and open attitude of the Vietnamese government as well as the seriousness of Vietnam in implementing its commitments when it applied to join the U.N. Human Rights Commission,” he said.

Religious freedom is guaranteed in Vietnam’s Constitution.

The communist government officially recognizes nearly a dozen religions in a country of 90 million, but those not sanctioned are banned.

Hanoi says only lawbreakers are imprisoned, and no one has been arrested or imprisoned for their beliefs.

Bielefeldt said he heard quite a number of allegations of harassment, house arrests, imprisonment, destruction of houses of worship, beatings and pressuring people to join official religions and renounce their own.

He said he can’t make full assessment of individual cases but his conclusion was “there are serious violations of freedom of religion or belief taking place in this country.”

Bielefeldt cited as an improvement that space for religious practices has increased in recent years.

“Generally, I have noticed some improvements of the situation of religious communities, they can practice their religions better than they used to in the past,” he said

LOCAL EVENTS

Tuesday Heartland Cowboy Church is on the first and third Tuesday of each month, 7 p.m., in the Stettler Agriplex. Dates in Aug. are Aug. 5 and 19. Call 403742-4273.

Aug. 9 Day in the Park event sponsored by Victory Church at Oriole park School playground features giant slip and slide, dunk tank, worship, food and drinks. Registration starts at noon and activities start at 1 p.m. Free but pre-registration required. Contact vcrd@vcrd.ca, or 403-3432484.

Upcoming events Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.N. Special Rapporteur on religious freedom Heiner Bielefeldt gestures during a press briefing in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday. Bielefeldt said that security agents closely monitored his visit and people he wanted to meet were harassed and intimidated. He said that serious violations of religious freedom existed, while noting some improvements.

“Their space for practicing has cautiously been widened.”

United Kids Camp 2014 — It’s a Beautiful day in Our Neighbourhood — will run Aug. 11 to 15, 9 a.m. to noon for children ages five to 11 years at Gaetz Memorial United Church which will co-sponsor the camp with Sunnybrook United Church.

Parent and youth volunteers welcome. Call 403-3472244, or 403-347-6073, see Facebook, or gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca.

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Regina-based guitar virtuoso Jack Semple is set to headline Jazz at the Lake at Sylvan Lake on Aug. 16.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF The blues is a language Jack Semple is fluent in.

The Regina-based guitar virtuoso has played country, jazz, folk and rock ’n’ roll over the years. But the blues keeps beckoning him back.

“It’s the ultimate guitar music because it’s simple and basic, but contains this whole range of emotions and great passion,” said Semple, who headlines at the 12th annual Jazz at the Lake Festival in Sylvan Lake on Saturday, Aug. 16.

His favourite guitarist is American bluesman B.B. King, because “you can listen to him play and he might as well be talking to you. I can hear everything he’s saying.”

Semple is no slouch on the six-string himself, having won the MuchMusic Guitar Wars contest in 1992 and a Juno Award for best roots recording in 1991.

He has also been twice nominated, in 1999 and 2000, for a Gemini Award for his soundtrack work on the television series Incredible Story Studio.

And Semple has two Western Canadian music awards for his acoustic instrumental album Qu’Appelle and his most recent blues release, In the Blue Light, which takes blues riffs beyond

the traditional three-chord structure into more original songwriting terrain.

Semple, who grew up on a farm north of Regina, picked up the guitar at age 10 when his brothers taught him the basics. As soon as he began taking formal instruction at the local music store, he was hooked. “I ate up the lessons and practised all the time. I took to it like a duck to water.”

He got so good that staff at the same music store called him up three years later and asked him to start teaching guitar there. He was 15 years old.

It wasn’t long before Semple had joined his first band and guitar playing became his life’s work.

He was playing with The Luxury Blues Band when the local group was asked to open for The Lincolns, a popular Toronto-based funk, rhythm and blues band that was touring through the province.

“The Lincolns were my favourite band. They were my heroes,” recalled Semple, who approached the group’s musicians as a fan after the concert.

He was astonished when they turned the tables and began praising him for his performing skills. “They said, ‘Who are you? You sing like Daryl Hall from Hall & Oates and play guitar like Stevie Ray Vaughn.’ ” It so happened that the lead guitarist for The Lincolns was planning to

leave and Semple was asked to take his place. “I couldn’t believe my luck,” said Semple.

He moved to Toronto during the mid-to-late 1980s, The Lincolns’ heyday, and Semple had a good run playing festivals and touring with the band.

But in 1989, he decided for the sake of his wife and growing family to return to less costly Regina to be closer to their parents.

He quit the group and began a solo career, which has so far involved 10 acclaimed albums and contributions to television and music scores. Semple also appeared in the title role of Guitarman, a 1994 Canadian TV movie.

Living away from the musical hotspots of Toronto or Los Angeles has only gotten easier with the Internet, said the 57-year-old guitarist, who regularly emails in his recorded tracks for other people’s albums, commercials or soundtracks.

Occasionally he finds himself in odd situations — such as sending the vocals he recorded for a commercial jingle for a Regina restaurant to the Vancouver-based jingle company that hired him for the job. “The restaurant’s just a couple of blocks away from me and they could have hired me directly, but they hired this company out of Vancouver,” said Semple, with a chuckle.

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Ariana Grande is new princess of pop with hit single

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Ariana Grande is the new princess of pop, topping the charts with her addictive single “Problem,” impressing critics with her thick, gliding vocal range and maintaining an image that her young Nickelodeon fans can vibe with, signature ponytail and all.

The 21-year-old is having the best time of her life. But it’s also the worst.

Her grandfather, with whom she had a very close relationship, died last week.

“I personally felt like I’ve been not as appreciative as I could be of the music success I wanted all my life because I’ve been distracted by my grandfather and his health and this being such a dark time,” she said in an interview.

Grande said she hasn’t had much time to “sit back and realize and just enjoy” her musical breakthrough, and what’s coming next may not allow any time for it.

Her sophomore album, My Everything, arrives Aug. 25 at midnight, moments after the MTV Video Music Awards, where Grande is nominated for three moonmen. She released a new single, Bang Bang, this week with Nicki Minaj and Jessie J, which quickly topped the iTunes charts. The Iggy Azalea-assisted Problem, which has sold 2.6 million tracks so far, is spending its 13th consecutive week in the Top 10 and another single, Break Free, is a rising radio hit.

“What’s so attractive about Ariana is, No. 1 she’s an extraordinary talent, No. 2 she’s an exceptional actress, and the third part of it — which makes her a triple threat — is she has this wildly successful fan base on the Internet unlike anything we’ve seen in some time,” said Monte Lipman, the CEO and chairman of Republic Records who signed Grande when she was 17.

MTV reprised its Total Request Live for a day for Grande. Amy Doyle, the network’s executive vice-president of music and talent programming strategy, said MTV sat down with Grande’s team to plan ways to help launch her new album.

“If ’TRL’ was around today, Ariana would be a fixture in the same way Britney (Spears) was when Britney was of the moment,” said Doyle, who said the network had been thinking of ways to bring back “TRL,” but hadn’t come up with the right idea until they thought of Grande. “She was absolutely the perfect artist to do that because her fans are active and she’s very social.”

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Between putting out solo albums, touring and occasionally flying to Toronto and other places to play with musicians he’s met along the road, Semple also enjoys performing in a family band called The Gene Pool.

“All of us are musicians,” said the guitarist, whose 14-year-old daughter Zenaya is the group’s lead singer, son Keiran is the drummer and other daughter, Kaitlyn, plays banjo and mandolin.

As Jethro Tull covers are part of the repertoire, Semple’s wife, Tara, a flutist for the Regina Symphony, also joins the band for some numbers. “It’s a very fun thing,” said Semple.

When he plays in Sylvan Lake this month, his music will be more bluesy than jazzy, but he noted that blues is actually the root of all contemporary musical genres, including jazz, country, rock and pop. “It’s the fundamental element.”

Tickets for his 8 p.m. performance at the Alliance Church in Sylvan Lake are $35 from the Sylvan Lake Aquatic Centre, 403-887-2199.

For scheduled events, performers and more information about the festival that runs from Aug. 14 to 17 at various venues, visit www.jazzatthelake. com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Ariana Grande dishes on Problem, horror films and working with Justin Bieber, Iggy Azalea NEW YORK — Ariana Grande’s Problem was an insta-smash, but the singer acknowledges that she wasn’t sure how people would receive the song, which has become one of the year’s biggest hits.

The 21-year-old powerhouse vocalist dishes on creating Problem, her budding acting career and collaborating with Justin Bieber and Iggy Azalea.

WAS PROBLEM PROBLEMATIC? The saxophone-laced Problem is a contender for song of the summer, but Grande says she was somewhat afraid of the track.

“Once we wrote it and recorded it, I was like, ’Hmm, I’m kind of scared of this.’ It started to intimidate me a little because it felt different for me and it was such a risk with the whispers,” she said.

“It took me a lot of time. I had to separate myself from it for a while. For a couple months I didn’t even listen to it.”

Grande says taking a break from the song, which has peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, gave her a new perspective.

“I heard it again when it was finally mixed and done and I was like, ’Oh, wow. Hmm, maybe I am completely wrong,”’ she said, laughing.

“I was like, ’Damn, maybe I should have taken the time to really appreciate it’ and now I finally hear it.”

ARIANA’S A BELIEBER Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ariana Grande performs at the iHeartRadio Ultimate Pool Party at Fontainebleau’s BleauLive at Fontainebleau Miami Beach in June in Miami Beach, Florida. Her sophomore album arrives on Aug. 25. after Grande released her debut, Yours Truly, which featured the multiplatinum Top 10 hit “The Way” and drew comparisons to Mariah Carey. At about the same time, Nickelodeon premiered Sam & Cat, which at times was the network’s most popular series. The network announced this month the show wouldn’t have a second season.

Grande said she’s learning to find herself outside of her TV character.

“I have a lot of mixed emotions about it because it’s easier putting yourself out there as somebody else than it is to put your actual self out there,” she said.

“It took me a long time to embrace that and to become comfortable enough in my own skin and let down that sort of Cat Valentine shield.”

Grande’s fans from the show have carried over to her music career, a transition other entertainers have struggled with. When The Way was released last year, it sold an impressive 219,000 units in its first week. Problem sold a whopping 438,000 tracks in its debut week in May. Grande is changing her image, but not drastically: She’s traded her puffy,

princess-style dresses for miniskirts paired with knee-high boots. And Grande says she’s ready for the celebrity spotlight.

“I feel like I’m doing all the right things in my personal life to maintain a healthy space to make sure I am ready for all of this and ready for the attention that comes with this because, you know, I’m mostly focused on music, but I understand that there’s a lot that comes with being a part of this industry,” she said.

Grande’s new album will also help her land an audience outside of young kids, thanks to its eclectic collaborators: The Weeknd, Childish Gambino, A$AP Ferg and Big Sean make appearances; EDM darlings David Guetta and Zedd work on tracks; and hitmakers like Max Martin, Benny Blanco, Ryan Tedder and Rodney Jerkins are also part of the lineup. There’s even a ballad written by One Direction’s Harry Styles.

“It’s interesting because when you hear it, it makes sense,” said Grande, who picked the collaborators.

She added: “If I don’t want to do it, it won’t be done.”

Her upcoming album, My Everything, features collaborations with the Weeknd and One Direction’s Harry Styles, but it almost included Justin Bieber.

Bieber posted a photo of the singers — who share the same manager — in the studio earlier this year, but Grande said they never completed the track.

“We were working on it. We were in the studio together ... we were going to do it, but then we both got busy,” she said. “I had to focus on my stuff and he was focusing on his, and it just sort of didn’t really get done.”

Grande says the collaboration will eventually happen.

“We feel like we owe it to our fans to do something one day. We will finish it and put it out one day, but it just wasn’t the right time.”

SCAREDY CAT Grande appeared in the Nickelodeon series Sam & Cat and Victorious, and said she’s received a number of other scripts.

“There were a couple things I really wanted to do, but I had to turn down because of the music and what’s going on right now in my music career,” she said. “It disappointed me so much because they were horror-related and horror is like my favourite thing in the world. But hopefully down the line I’ll be able to work with those people again.”

DIGGING IGGY Iggy Azalea’s recent breakthrough with the No. 1 smash Fancy got a boost thanks to Grande’s Problem, which was released about the same time.

Grande said she’s happy she decided to work with the Australian rapper before she became a whitehot success.

“I really wanted Iggy from the start. I said, ’This is going to be a girl power record and we should absolutely have Iggy on it.”’

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Growing up on screen ‘BOYHOOD’ STAR ELLAR COLTRANE SAYS IT’S SURREAL TO SEE HIS LIFE UNFOLD ON FILM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Batman creator’s personal early copies of the comics coming to an online auction NEW YORK — Batman creator Bob Kane’s own copies of the Caped Crusader’s earliest appearances are going up for auction.

ComicConnect is selling Kane’s file copies of Detective Comics Nos. 27 through 45 and Batman Nos. 1 through 3.

The auction house declined to put an estimate on their value, saying such items rarely come up for sale.

The comics come from the collection of Hollywood screenwriter Bob Underwood.

The sale also has a nearly mint copy of the first Incredible Hulk comic book.

The 1962 issue is one of four copies known to exist.

It could bring $300,000.

There’s also a 1942 Archie comic book. Archie No. 1 marked the first time the red-headed character appeared in his own magazine.

Its pre-sale estimate is $150,000.

The 5-session auction begins Monday and runs through Aug. 29.

Banksy Spy Booth artwork at centre of preservation campaign defaced by vandal LONDON — A mural by street artist Banksy that sparked a local preservation campaign has been defaced.

Spy Booth shows three agents in trench coats and trilby hats eavesdropping on a phone booth.

It appeared in April on a wall in Cheltenham, western England, home of spy agency GCHQ. A local group was formed to save the work after the building’s owner attempted to have it removed and sold.

Local businessman Hekmat Kaveh had agreed to buy and preserve the mural, but on Friday it was covered in scrawled graffiti letters.

Kaveh said he hoped the work, which was treated with anti-graffiti paint, could be restored.

Banksy works have fetched as much as $1.8 million at auction, and several of his outdoor pieces have recently been stripped from walls and sold.

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This image released by IFC Films shows Ellar Coltrane at age six in a scene from the film, ‘Boyhood.’

There’s all the personal aspects of it and how that affects me, but I think the true meaning of the film is really beyond any of the characters or the story,” he said.

“That’s the conduit for expressing this exploration of the passage of time, which is how we experience time and how we interact with each other.

That’s really beautiful to me. I think I’ve learned a lot just by watching it.”

As Coltrane grew older, he began to have more input into the film. He helped write a scene where he and his dad go camping, for example, and Linklater would check with him whether he’d had a particular experience for the first time — a first kiss, a first beer.

“He didn’t want me doing anything for the first time on camera,” said Coltrane, although he added that Linklater was always tactful and respectful.

“It was like, ’OK, if I’m talking about having a girlfriend, then I’ve probably kissed a girl.”’

But he said his own adolescence deviated quite a bit from Mason’s — he was home-schooled and his parents were artists who were together at

the start of filming. Still, he saw “Boyhood” as an outlet “to explore my own emotions as a teenager.”

“I think almost everyone goes through the same kind of emotional phases and troubles as a teenager,” he said. “It can be an entirely different (situation), but there’s always something I can take from it and relate it to my own life and ... use my experiences to kind of flesh out the character.”

Boyhood captures time in an unusual way. Rather than show the moments that are typically thought of as pivotal, such as Mason’s high school graduation or losing his virginity, the film shows him having a beer in his robe after getting his diploma or pillow-talk with his first girlfriend.

“You grow up expecting: ’Oh my god, I’m going to graduate from high school and I’m going to be an adult, or I’m going to lose my virginity and I’m going to have all this confidence, and everything going to be awesome.’ And it’s not like that. Graduating is boring and sex is awkward at first. It’s not this defining moment,” said Coltrane.

“It’s these little moments that define

you and I think people really crave that. People really crave just the mundane, or at least I do. For a long time, it’s been like a story is only worth telling if there’s tragedy or if something fantastic happens,” he added.

“There’s something really comforting about having this very intentionally made thing that’s not about any of that.

It’s just about these things that everyone experiences — these things that aren’t fantastic or cool or sexy. They’re just what people do.”

The Austin, Texas-born actor said he hopes to continue working in film, although he acknowledged he got lucky with his first starring role.

“I don’t think I can do much better.

I’ve had a hell of a start,” he said with a laugh.

“People have been kind of warning me, ’You know, most movies aren’t going to be like this.’ But I think that’s kind of a good thing. I don’t have much to strive for.

“It can be about the process of making films and not trying to gain success or notoriety, which is how it should be.”

Godfather of Makeup Dick Smith dead at age 92

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Dick Smith, the Oscar-winning “Godfather of Makeup” who amused, fascinated and terrified moviegoers by devising unforgettable transformations for Marlon Brando in The Godfather and Linda Blair in The Exorcist among many others, has died.

He was 92.

Smith, the first makeup artist to win an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, died Wednesday night in California of natural causes. His death was confirmed to The Associated Press by the president of the Make-up Artists and Hairstylists Guild, Sue CabralEbert, who declined to give further details.

“Our lives have been blessed by our father’s steadfast love and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your kind words in remembrance of him,” Smith’s sons, David and Douglas Smith, said in a statement.

Widely regarded as the master in his field, Smith helped pioneer such now-standard materials as liquid foam latex and make special effects more realistic and spectacular. He was also known and loved for his generosity, whether exchanging letters about his craft with a teenage J.J. Abrams or mentoring future Oscar-winner special effects artist Rick Baker, who in 2011 presented Smith his honorary statuette.

“He took makeup to a whole new level; it’s unbelievable what this man has done,” Baker, whose own credits include Men in Black and Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, said at the ceremony.

“His work inspired a whole generation of up and coming artists.”

With Smith on hand, the middle-

aged Brando was transformed into In the 1960s, his experience turning the jowly patriarch Vito Corleone, Jonathan Frid into a 100-plus-year-old the teenage Blair into a scarred and vampire for the series Dark Shadows” wild-eyed demon, and William Hurt helped prepare him for “Little Big into a mass of protoplasm for “Altered Man.” His other notable aging projects States.” included Walter Matthau for The SunSmith and Paul LeBlanc shared an shine Boys and Hal Holbrook for the Oscar in 1985 for their work on Ama- 1967 TV special Mark Twain Tonight! deus, for which Smith spent hours each for which Smith won a Primetime Emday turning 44-year-old F. Murray my. Holbrook and Matthau were among Abraham into an elderly man as Mo- those who participated in a 1991 TV zart’s rival Antonio Salieri. documentary about Smith.

“Dick Smith is the best makeup man A native of Larchmont, N.Y., Smith in the world,” Abraham, himself an described himself as an introvert with Oscar winner for Amadeus, later said. little interest in special effects until “Once I looked into a mirror, at my spotting an instructional manual while face, I felt like it was completely con- attending Yale University. vincing.”

He became so obsessed that he Smith also fashioned a mohawk out made himself up as the Hunchback of of a plastic cap and chopped up hair Notre Dame, scaring his classmates. for Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver and He later turned up at a screening of created breasts out of foam rubber for Frankenstein as the title character.

Katherine Ross in The Stepford Wives.

After school and serving in the ArThrough foam latex and a newly flex- my, he acted on his father’s advice and ible kind of false eyelashes, Smith took a chance on television. managed to capture extreme old age One of his early assignments was in Little Big Man, which starred Dustin applying makeup to Democratic Party Hoffman, in his mid-30s at the time, leaders at the 1948 national convenas a centenarian claiming he had sur- tion. vived the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Out of all the praise he received, “Even when the characters were Smith liked to cite a compliment paid fantastically weird, I always tried to by Laurence Olivier, whom Smith make them believable,” Smith told the worked on for a 1959 TV production of Washington Post in 2007.

The Moon and Sixpence.

“Actors have to feel like they are Olivier’s character was based on the person they are portraying.” the painter Gauguin, who died of lepBefore breaking through in Hol- rosy. Smith never forgot Olivier’s relywood, he was among the first great sponse after he completed making up makeup artists for television. the actor.

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TORONTO — Ellar Coltrane was six and had precious little acting experience when he was first cast in Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s ambitious comingof-age tale filmed over a period of 12 years.

So when Coltrane first watched the film in its entirety, the 19-year-old could barely remember being the mischievous little boy biking around the neighbourhood or going to a baseball game with his dad.

“Things do come back a little bit.

That’s kind of part of what is strange about it, just how little of that stuff from the beginning I do remember.

I look at this little person and I recognize myself in that seven-year-old, but I don’t remember being seven,” he said.

Linklater, director of the Before Sunrise trilogy and Waking Life, has long been fascinated with memory and time. For Boyhood, he reunited the cast and crew every year and shot about 15 minutes of the film at a time.

The movie follows the life of Mason (Coltrane), whose parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) are divorced and figuring out their own identities as adults at the same time.

Linklater’s daughter, Lorelei, plays Mason’s sister Samantha.

Linklater anticipated that seeing Boyhood would be intense for Coltrane and asked him to watch it alone for the first time, the actor said.

“It was very emotional,” recalled Coltrane in a recent interview in Toronto. “It’s hard to really describe. It’s kind of terrifying, but very beautiful and kind of comforting at the same time, I think.

“There’s all these little phases and sections of your life, especially as a teenager, that in the moment, experiencing them or looking back — like a yearbook photo — can be embarrassing and kind of painful to re-experience,” he said.

“But something about seeing it all together in context and presented as this very gradual and almost complete package ... it puts it in perspective and kind of makes it easier to see myself as a complete person, or something.”

But Coltrane has watched the film many times since and still can’t wrap his head around the “surreal” idea that audiences all over the globe are watching him grow up.

“I’m focusing less on myself, which I think is a much better experience.

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Husband flirting without wedding band on Dear Annie: My husband, sans wedding band, enters a bar alone and buys drinks for female strangers sitting alone.

This invariably leads to conversation between them.

On one occasion, the woman was a prostitute.

He says he is just being friendly. I say he is coming on to them. He does not buy drinks for female strangers when I am with him. Am I being unreasonable and jealous, or is he behaving like a horndog cad? — Friendly’s Wife Dear Wife: You don’t need MITCHELL our take on this. You already & SUGAR know. Your husband is flirting and, without the wedding band, is seeing whether he can pick someone up.

He may not have acted on it yet, but if this keeps up, it’s only a matter of time. We doubt he’d appreciate it if you did the same thing. Tell him to knock it off.

Dear Annie: I found it interesting that you didn’t suggest to “Minus One” that the co-workers, whose spouses were not included in a wedding invitation, simply go as a group.

ANNIE ANNIE

I have been invited to a number of weddings for people my husband doesn’t know. Since he is not comfortable with strangers, I generally attend the wedding and then leave. There have been times when another co-worker and I attended functions together.

It is becoming more difficult to determine whether it’s poor manners, changing times or indifference that creates these situations. — C. Dear C.: Several readers suggested this possibility, and if that works for you, it’s fine with us. In some instances, the bride or groom posts an open invitation on the bulletin board, but it’s only for informal events, and you won’t get an accurate head count.

But when you care enough to invite someone to your wedding, the spouse (or significant other) should be included.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Feeling Like My Husband’s Mother,” whose husband is immature.

I felt for the guy.

It seems like she wants to fix him. This approach is inherently flawed. He is just having fun. I am sworn by the covenant of men not to share this information with women, but in this case, it seems necessary.

The husband is acting normally. Any guy will play out his years until his body tells him to stop. In this case, I suspect it will be a skateboard accident that slows him down.

There is a natural switch in a guy that moves from fun-lover to responsible husband. This change often happens in his 30s, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. This guy is just not there yet. This is why women marry older men. They want a guy who is more mature and secure. This woman did not make that choice. So, she now has a new choice to make. It is important to note that she will not change this guy by nagging him.

OK, you may now ask, “What are her choices?”

She should look for the easiest way to secure a future, which seems to be her real goal. They could start that savings account with an automatic withdrawal from each person’s paycheque. They could make sure they both have accounts with the maximum removed from each cheque each month. They should learn to live on the adjusted income, which can still be fun. Most importantly, she should invent ways to have fun with her husband herself. Otherwise, she needs to find a new guy who has already made the switch. Be warned, though: Those mature guys are usually already taken. If not, those guys can come with other baggage she has yet to learn about.

She may reach a time when she fondly thinks back on the day when her only problem was an immature husband. — John in Waikoloa, Hawaii Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

HOROSCOPES Saturday, Aug. 2 possibility for you to meet “the one” this year, if you are single.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Victoria Jackson, If not single, more romance will enter your life this year, mark54; Nadia Bjorlin, 33; Lynn Shelton, 48 ing an absolutely wonderful joyful year. Pregnancies are likely, THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will allow you to see the as are creative projects. They both will go extremely well this larger perspective on all that is going on within year! your life now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fears could If others are not acting friendly, then realize come up today with regards to romantic interests that they are only projecting what you are repreand business partnerships. senting now.

Release any worries, but keep your future Let go of your beliefs and try to address them visions to yourself. Channel your creative vision again, there could be a tendency to defend cerinto projects and work now! Change of venues tain aspects of your vision like it is part of you. Let will happen, go with the flow! go of that attachment now!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There will be a HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, strong focus with others in your life today. Those this year will prove to be the year whereby your at home or your family might say things that could upset you. Allow this to be a new opportuvoice will be heard. nity to see a new perspective. If not, there will be You will almost have a persona that is bigger changes made at home through others that will than life. rock you a bit.

Make sure to represent yourself according to LARISA MAIRA GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Work can create your family’s values.

OZOLINS some stress for you today, but don’t imagine the This is not the year to overstep those boundworst. You will have a strong need to communiaries. It is a year to work within them to establish cate with others, be compassionate. greater presence for yourself and those within Whatever challenges you are going through, your household.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your creative voice has defi- so is everyone else. Communicate your ideas out, it will be nitely expanded, and you are able to see the larger perspec- advantageous!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today you will be thinking tive of your passionate vision.

Do not let others hold you back from your inner excitement of future creative projects, with children, or perhaps having now, but do make sure your vision is in accord with the natural children.

Conversations will lead you towards the “what if’s” and laws of the world.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will be able to see the perhaps not the reality of your financial situation. Stick to what larger perspective of your family and home life situation now. is true, and use your fantasies to inspire further creativity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will likely attract some tense Perhaps you are looking to buy a house.

Today is a good day for all business and commercial ac- encounters with those within your home or family now.

Yes, you feel generous, but realize you will not be able to tivities, especially in relation to your home. Project positivity to build the home you want overnight. others now!

Stick to your realistic goals and budget now and release GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today will be a day to fully any feelings that come up now. express your truth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): See others for who they are, Try not to overdo it, as there is a tendency to just want to let everyone know exactly what you are passionate about.

Business contacts with work and those within your daily life will go extremely well today.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Business expenses will help you expand your vision forward.

You can almost see the entire vision of what you would like to have happen for your creative projects.

It will be a day to incorporate all that you’ve learnt this week into your future vision.

Actions speak louder now!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are definitely speaking your mind today.

Simply be mindful as to not put your foot in your mouth with family and those within your household. You will learn more about who you are through discussions with family now.

Others are projecting what you are representing now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Learn through discussion.

Allow for siblings to help you represent your vision forward.

There could be a bit of irritable energy in play today. Just be sure to realize that others are mirroring back what you are sending out. You are optimistic but perhaps a little unsettled now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Remember today that others are definitely projecting what they are sensing from you. Just be mindful that their reactions are based on their beliefs, not yours. Be patient and learn as much as you can through those joyful, yet, somewhat irritable interactions now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Now, today will be a day when you are heard, seen, and are in the spotlight.

A whisper from your mouth will be heard throughout the land, there is no need to overdo it at all now. Your vitality is high and you are ready to take on the world. You have a keen ability to see the larger perspective on what is going on with the government — this will help you move forward now!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The more able you are to open yourself up to more possibilities of what your divine connection is, the better able you will be to grasp the larger perspective on life. You know that others are simply trying to help, but at times it does reduce you to feeling low and unable.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today will be enlightening with regards to your true connection with others.

Yes, there will be some irritability with friends, but they are trying to help you move forward towards your dreams. Allow them to stir the pot a little, they will offer you great insight.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Others in your life are offering you a greater perspective on life and your passions.

Perhaps you are simply passionate about your direction because they are inspiring excitement for you now. Channel your energy wisely today and utilize all lessons learnt this week.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Channel all that you have learnt this week into researching truth within your health, work, and daily patterns.

Perhaps, you will feel slightly irritable with foreigners, or something you’ve heard on a global scene. Do not let your vision be dampened by them!

SUN SIGNS

Sunday, Aug. 3 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Evangeline Lilly, 34; Tony Bennett, 87; Mike Holmes, 50 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There will be a strong need for you to communicate today.

Do not lose yourself in fantasy as you might become irritable when you realize not everyone has the same kind agenda as you.

Allow for creative energy to flow through you now! If you feel sick, then allow the day to alter your plans, it will help you release any issues from the past and will pull you further along.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year you will be attracting others to you.

Family members will be seeking you out. There is great

not for who you’d like them to be. Try not to give so much that you are left with nothing for yourself. Find someone you trust and communicate everything out. If you can’t find anyone today, then challenge that energy into your art form!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will be feeling quite generous with friends today, but there will be one situation or person that will rub you the wrong way.

Today you are not likely to back off in any way. Stick to the truth, or it might reveal itself at home or through family.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Lots of focus on you and your career today.

You can become slightly irritable with what is going on now, but don’t let anything bother you. Channel all that creative and visionary sight into your work! There will be a strong need for you to get your point across today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today will have you dreaming of all possibilities of travel, to study, to see the larger perspective of what is going on in the world. Communicate with others now, just watch your internal dialogue. You will tend to look at the negative more than the positives now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are liable to feel a bit anxious today. This is because you are day dreaming a bit more than you should, and perhaps are dreaming up the worst case scenario for yourself and with groups you’re involved with. Express your uncertainties, others are kind today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Others will seem to have the plan, and they seem to be on a mission. You might not want to participate with their goals, but will feel the need to at least be generous with your time to listen. Whatever they are communicating now will help you release subconscious blocks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will be feeling particularly generous with others today. Either you will have bursts of energy, or there will be changes that need to be made to your daily routine in order to incorporate new understandings of your current experiences. You’ll get those realistic goals now!

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HOROSCOPES Monday. Aug. 4 ARIES (March 21-April 19): There will CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: be good camaraderie with those within your Billy Bob Thornton, 58; Barack home space and with your family Obama, 52; Lee Mack, 45 today. There is a definite focus THOUGHT OF THE DAY: on business relations and the Today will be a pleasant day. close bonds you have with othNothing too outlandish will hapers now. You will make an effort pen. You might feel like you are to get along with everyone now! being cut off from others in some TAURUS (April 20-May 20): way.

Being compassionate with those This will prompt you to be significant relationships in your more giving and today should life will be needed. be good.

Today will highlight the lesYou might feel like you don’t sons you’ve learnt through interknow where to place your faith. acting with individuals, as they Trust your passions now. Even will most likely come up again.

LARISA MAIRA if it’s just a cold drink and lovely You’ll try to find that balance OZOLINS meal that inspires you, follow that through expressing yourself truth! properly.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today GEMINI (May 21-June 20): is your birthday, this will be one You might feel slightly held back where you will be seen. Your vitality will be at work, or perhaps health issues are being high and this year’s focus will be on the fu- expressed now. ture.

Understand what you ingest will nurture You’ll be thinking about how you can im- you into proper balance. Socialize with those prove your work life situation and this will be who are in line with your dietary needs and done behind the scenes. true direction and pleasant feelings will be Home life will take on an added impor- had. tance this year, as will family interactions and CANCER (June 21-July 22): Today you loyalties. Past wounds or injustices will be will organize enjoyable activities. healed!

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GREELEY, Colo. — Police in Greeley, Colorado, are investigating who’s got the goat — a grand champion animal that vanished this week from a county fair.

The Greeley Tribune reports the red-colored Boer goat was reported missing Monday, hours before it was scheduled to appear at the Weld County fair’s junior livestock auction.

Two of the animal’s halters also were gone. The goat is owned by 18-yearold David Smith of Niwot. Powered by Smith’s father says he Central Alberta’s doesn’t want to insinuate that someone stole the career site of choice. goat.

He says it’s possible the goat escaped and is just out in a cornfield somewhere.

Despite the goat’s absence, the auction went ahead, and the prize-winning animal sold for $5,500 to MS Biotec.

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The truck driver, from Peabody, Massachusetts, was cited for failing to secure the axe, which carries a $200 fine. Police say it could have been worse if the car’s driver hadn’t been obeying the 65 mph speed limit.

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

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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.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 C7 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There ideas and good cheer will be had by all.

Take the time to make sure everyone is are certain things you do that prevent you having a good time, and make sure to add from truly living out your dreams.

Allow for those on your daily routine to your favourite foods and drinks into the mix. It step in and help you discover what they are will be a good day!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your focus today and to help you eliminate them from your will be on your home life and with your family. life now. Take the steps needed to create a Have that private dinner with them, turn off brighter future!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Signifithe phones and computers and simply relax with their comfort. There will be tons of activ- cant relationships will be more supportive and ity going on for you with family now, it could helpful towards you today.

Friends will offer you some lessons that be a little intense. Find a quiet spot.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You might be will create some tension, but all in all a great day to take solid steps forward towards you feeling slightly held back today.

Socialize with friends and within groups dreams.

Great support will be given as you exnow as they will offer you more enjoyment.

They will be compassion, nurturing, and sup- press projects.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You might portive to all the ideas you might be having now and will show you how to implement feel like you are on display now. This can be good, or not, but do realize that others are them!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Finances might there for you.

Those found at work, or within your daily be a bit of sore spot today. You will most likely be focused on your public presence and life will offer you much needed support and your dreams now, so it will not be such an is- compassion if needed. Focus on creating a sue. Plus, your dreams are coming true. You solid ground on a public level.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How you will feel compassion from others as you step are expressing yourself and what you are exforward towards them!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): New health pressing today will be well received, although knowledge will be brought to your attention the news being sent out into the world is not today that will allow you to nurture your di- the most satisfactory for many. After today rection forward, in whatever direction you you will want to relax a little more and will seek out good cheer and comforts. choose.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally There will be a strong focus on you, and this will encourage you to keep your vitality syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate. and spirits high now!

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SATURDAY, AUG. 2, 2014

How much texting is too much texting?

Dear Harlan; I recently went out on If talking about sex works you up to a date with someone and it went great! the point where you’re going to turn She even said, “Let’s do it again” at the me off, you need to talk to someone. end of the night.

Shutting people down because they I will ask her out on a second date don’t share your belief system isn’t soon. We have been texting here and nice. It’s cold and dangerous. there since the date. The question that You might be shutting out loved I would like to ask is, How much tex- ones, friends and family who need your ting is too much texting? support, guidance and unconditional I don’t want to drive love. this person away by being Thanks for taking the clingy. Any advice? — Sectime to write. I do appreciond Date ate your thoughts — even if Dear Second Date; As a you don’t appreciate mine. rule, I hate rules.

Hey Harlan; I recently Go with instincts. Look revealed my feelings for a at texting like you’d look friend and colleague. at calling during the early She wasn’t interested in stages of a relationship. being more than friends at How often would you call the time, but I’m hoping this her? will change. I’m flying from Also, be careful not to where I am at work in Mintext all the headlines in nesota, to where she lives in your life before the date.

New York. She invited me Save something for the date. and the friend I’ll be travelHARLAN One last thing — no sexing with to stay with her. We COHEN ting. Most women don’t dig talk every day (we work tounexpected penis pics popgether) and still maintain a ping up on their phone. great professional and perDear Sir; I have written to you be- sonal relationship. fore about my concerns with your writI know we’ve both said that we love ing about people sleeping together each other as friends, but the romanwith no avail. tic in me and the whole flying across There are times when I think you the country circumstances, are leading give good advice, but will no longer me to believe that this weekend could read your column. It’s not a fit. — MGK be something special, or even another Dear MGK; Since you’re done read- heartbreak situation. ing my column, I’ll write to your friend Any tips on how I can manage my (she can pass this along). expectations? — Flying High I’m not a fit? You would rather read Dear Flying; Lose the friend. something that reflects your same Seriously, drop the third wheel. Ask values, beliefs and ideas? What a big your friend to make plans one day and bore. It’s like listening to yourself ram- night. If there’s going to be any chance ble on, right? of romance, it’s not going to be a threeI’m like a cold splash of reality. Re- some. freshing.

Other than getting alone time, plan I’m also kind-hearted, loving, warm, the best day. Do something you’ve alsupportive and encouraging. I tell the ways wanted to do with her. Have fun truth. And I’m smart enough to know doing something with her that doesn’t that condemning and shaming behav- depend on her. Then see if romance ior doesn’t stop it. pops up.

HELP

You just want to have an amazing time. Showing her that you’re comfortable being together after getting rebuffed makes you look confident, interesting and attractive.

Dear Harlan; Last week, I planned on going out to dinner with a girl I like, and I was fairly sure she liked me as well.

We worked together for about a year, and while I’m normally fairly shy around girls, I’ve always found it easy to talk to her.

A few months ago, my parents moved about two hours away (I currently live with them, but I’ll be moving by myself to a different part of the country next month), but we still were planning a dinner date before I moved.

So, fast-forward to two days ago: While driving up to see her, I become increasingly anxious. I’ve always suffered from anxiety to some degree, and currently am taking an antidepressant.

As I arrived closer to my destination, my stomach started feeling worse and worse, and I eventually retched a few times before finally throwing up. I moved to the side of the freeway, called her up and told her what happened.

I felt terrible, and apologized several times for this predicament. She sounded accepting over the phone, and said that we could go out for dinner another time in the next few weeks, or she would text me about her availability the next day.

However, the problem came when I texted her twice, explaining that I would be going back home, and we could do another event later, but she didn’t text back. Then, I sent her a Snapchat, apologizing once again, but saying that I would see a doctor and hopefully feel better (and I will, as soon as possible).

She opened it, but didn’t respond to that either. So, I feel confused because even though I’ll be moving farther away in a month, and I’m not sure of

her relationship status, I still like her as a person, and still want to be able to talk with her and maybe see her in the future.

Basically, I don’t want this to ruin our friendship. I’m worried that she thought I stood her up or made an excuse not to see her, and is ignoring me as a result, but I drove two hours before I finally threw up, and I was entirely honest about what happened, which was something I couldn’t control. (Just having a female friend who I can talk with and feel comfortable around is a big deal to me, especially considering I’m really shy around most other girls.)

I will see a doctor about my anxiety and other related gastrointestinal problems, but I don’t want to lose a friend over this. What should I do? — Sick Dear Sick; Forget about it. You did nothing wrong.

You told her the truth. She can do whatever she wants with it.

Your only job is to focus on managing your anxiety. When you’re this uncomfortable, you run the risk of making other people uncomfortable. But there’s a fix. You even said it. Work on managing the problem.

See a doctor. Dive into therapy. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

Once you know how to manage this, it won’t control you.

It will be a small part of you. As for this girl, give her room to get over the broken date. Treat her the way you treated her before. If she’s not responsive, give her more space. When you do reconnect, explain what you’ve done and why you’re in a better place.

Now you just need to get to that better place.

Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

Rising band 5 Seconds of Summer getting more than five seconds this summer

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INGLEWOOD, Calif. — 5 Seconds of Summer fit the boy band mould: a quartet of young men with a feverish female fan base touring with British megastars One Direction. But the Australian pop-rock group identifies more with Pete Wentz than Harry Styles.

“I (grew up) watching, you know, live rock ’n’ roll bands and I wanted to be like Tre Cool ... from Green Day,” said 5SOS drummer Ashton Irwin, 20.

“To be called a boy band coming from those roots and writing our own songs and starting in the garage, it’s just, I don’t think it’s the correct term for us.”

The group’s first full-length, selftitled album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s 200 albums chart this week after selling 259,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. 5SOS’ debut single, She Looks So Perfect, became a Top 40 hit and the follow-up, Amnesia, has peaked at No. 16.

Irwin said the “high-energy rock album” was inspired by guitar bands of the ’90s and early 2000s, including Blink-182 and Jimmy Eat World, as well as contemporary performers such as Imagine Dragons.

Despite that, One Direction has had some influence on 5SOS. “We’ve become comfortable. I think we’re just like really very used to having each other on the same tour,” said

Irwin.

“They’ve had us on their tour for like two years now.”

The Canadian and U.S. leg of One Direction’s Where We Are stadium tour kicks off Friday in Toronto, where 5SOS will open.

“The way they treat their crew and stuff like that, it’s a real family type environment and really we look up to that,” Irwin said.

The rising band is also performing for larger audiences: 5SOS announced this week they would headline an arena tour next year.

Despite the group’s early success, social media stardom and devoted fan following, the band — which includes vocalist Luke Hemmings, guitarist Mi-

chael Clifford and bassist Calum Hood — is taking their newfound fame in stride.

“I don’t see us as having any fame factor,” said Hemmings.

“We’re just dudes in a band that plays some stuff.”

They also co-write most of their music that, like the breakup song Amnesia, focuses on love — or lust — and heartache.

“It feels nice to write about girls because it gets it off your chest,” said Clifford. “It’s good.”

But there’s no time for love. “(We’re) married to the band, we always say,” said Hood.

Online: http://www.5sos.com/home/

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Even small rooms can be modern and feel spacious with a smart budget. This project makes use of panels, a greyscale colour scheme and a modern, yet affordable, four-poster bed. The room before is below.

Small room, big ideas COLIN & JUSTIN

DESIGN Yes, we’re stubborn — but only because we care. We refuse, point blank, to let even the tiniest room feel decoratively underplayed; that’s why we’re especially excited to show what we can do with diminutive square footage and seriously limited cash.

Our shopping motto (“It’s not how much you spend but how you spend it that makes the biggest difference”) remains pertinent at all times.

What’s more, absorbing today’s epistle, you’ll note that the transformation was conspired via big box stores and retail outfits that don’t require a second mortgage to plunder their aisles.

It’s fair to suggest that with our guidance, your imagination and a spot of auspicious retail therapy, anything is possible. Here’s how we played out this week’s designer spell.

Adding features adds value Rather than make the room appear smaller, our simple panels actually extend the feeling of width and height.

As indulgent as they seem, however, they’re actually little more than picture rail and decorative trim.

If you’re inspired by this project, you’ll need a mitre cutting block and a hacksaw, but their purchase will be the best 40 bucks you ever spend.

Put simply, the block and blade pairing makes corner

cutting a synch.

But don’t rush in. Our best advice is: measure twice, cut once.

To envision how your space will appear with panel-type embellishment, plan it on graph paper or sketch your ambition on the walls using chalk so you can rub off any mistakes. Clever, huh?

Finally, attach panels using discreet pins, remembering to counter sink the nail tip so you can sand, fill and over paint as required.

Colour Did we just hear someone bitch that we paint a large proportion of our project rooms in grey scale? And your point is?

OK, so we frequently plunder the smoky palette (this one

has a soft blue/green tinge) but come on; for how long have decorators — the world over — painted everything cream?

Or taupe? Or beige?

Grey, for us, is wonderful but, more importantly, it’s the colour of choice for many clients, and that which our paymasters want, we provide.

Sure, we steer their ships, but our job is often as much about honing and translating mixed up tastes and signals as it is designing from scratch.

We therefore sniff — we sense — and we uncover buried taste. Interior divine?

Well, certainly, something along those lines.

To create this little box of Austrian inspired magic, we used 70 BG 44/129 Rococo Blue

by ICI. Visit ICI Paints for further info.

Modern four poster Who says that four-poster beds can’t be modern and affordable? Certainly not us.

This model, believe it or not, is past stock from Ikea, the big blue and yellow shed, but you can find similar inventory.

All that glitters We picked up a pair of matching $20 bedside tables from a junk store and treated them to a little bit of shimmer.

To create a timeworn antique look, we sprayed them with silver paint and left them to dry.

Next, we gently brushed a little black paint over the

raised edges and details — doing this helped bring our look alive while providing some much needed extra visual texture.

Use bold patterns carefully To further promote the understated but luxurious atmosphere, we added bed detailing with a large damask print.

The key, however, to using dramatic pattern is to select a low key tone-on-tone palette.

Layering everything upon a simple white $30 quilt set from HomeSense allowed us to keep the final look fresh and crisp.

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Creating a smooth wood finish Question: What should I use to polish interior woodwork I’m finishing so it’s really smooth?

I’ve watched your YouTube video on wood finishing and found it really helpful.

The only thing I don’t know is where to get the 3M rubbing pads you recommend.

Answer: Rubbing down a wood finish as a final step is key to astonishingly smooth results on furniture and all interior woodwork, and my instructional video at stevemaxwell.ca/wood-varnish-finishing/ shows the complete wood finishing method I’ve developed over the last couple of STEVE decades.

MAXWELL The hidden key to success that most people miss is using the right kind of buffing pad for the final rub down work.

3M makes a family of products called ‘rubbing pads’ and there are many grades and types. The only two you need for finishing wood is the fine and superfine grades. Rubbing down a final finish with the fine creates a non-shiny matte finish. Continued rubbing with the super-fine pad creates a glossy result.

I buy my 3M rubbing pads from Lee Valley Tools (www.leevalley.com; 800.267.8767). Search for 3M rubbing pads on their site and you’ll find them.

HOUSEWORKS

Assessing a cabin foundation Question: What should I do about the foundation underneath the unfinished cabin I just bought?

I’m really worried because the foundation is just piers sitting on circular pads of concrete on the ground. Is there anything I can do in the future if

Photos by STEVE MAXWELL/freelance

LEFT: Masonry pier foundations work well underneath small and medium-size buildings without a basement.

Piers like these can be retrofitted to strengthen failing foundations, too.

RIGHT: This random orbit sander is sitting on a super-fine 3M rubbing pad, ready to buff a urethane finish.

This final finishing step creates glass-smooth results. the cabin starts to move? Maybe I should just rip the cabin down and start from scratch?

Answer: I definitely wouldn’t rip down your cabin and there are two reasons why. Your foundation could last quite well as it is. Or if it does move over time, the foundation could be improved and stabilized. The only way to know for sure is to wait and see. Seasonal movement of shallow foundations from

frost is entirely dependent on how well the soil underneath the foundation drains. I know one house in particular that’s 100 years old and it hasn’t moved at all even though it has a surface foundation in a cold, Canadian climate. This place is built on sandy soil that doesn’t hold water.

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Nurturing the nesting instinct One of the most joyful decorating experiences has got to be preparing a nursery. All the dreams and good wishes for our children start here. This room represents a starting point, and a safe haven where bunny rabbits can talk, bees whisper secrets, wild animals are our best friends and birds teach us how to fly.

We spend many hours in the nursery, day and night, feeding, changing, reading and singing to our babies, so this room is a haven DEBBIE for moms and dads, too.

TRAVIS You have a happy range of colours and themes to choose from, and my advice is to go with what your inner child loves.

I visited my good friend, TV buddy, decorative artist and teacher Jimmy Connelly at his Toronto studio (www.jimconnellystudios. com) and was inspired by a series of pillows and accessories he had created around the theme of nesting. What a perfect image for a nursery!

We got busy with the paints and thought about

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painting on fabric and all the ways you could use stencils and here are the results.

The fabric-painted nest pillows are an easy project that can be replicated on curtain panels, bedding, or a fabric picture. Here’s how we did it: The cover for the large cushion is cotton, readymade, 20-inches-by-20-inches. It’s important to use cotton so that the paint will be absorbed. You can use any water-based paint. We used Chalk Paint (TM) Decorative Paint by Annie Sloan. Two paint brushes, a two-inch bristle brush for the border and a stencil brush. A bird stencil — this one is called Kingfisher and is wearing a crown.

Cut a piece of cardboard to size and slip it into the cushion cover so that the paint won’t bleed through to the back panel. For the borders, thin the paint down with water, and apply a four-inch turquoise border with the two-inch paint brush. Follow with thinned down pink paint, overlapping the turquoise border by two inches. Paint the centre with thinneddown cream paint.

The cover is going to be wet, but that’s OK. Continue with the stenciling. Use tape to hold down the stencil.

Using a stencil brush, stencil stone grey over the entire pattern, bird, branch and letters. Now stencil turquoise over the bird’s breast and tail, pink for the wing, and gold for the crown. Make the bird’s eye by dipping the end of a thin brush in black paint and dabbing in place.

To make a drop shadow on the letters, remove the tape and move the stencil up and over to the right about an inch, Fill in the letters with gold.

The letters will now look gold with a grey shadow.

Once you have started painting, it’s hard to stop.

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ABOVE: Jim Connelly creates a nestful of painterly projects for a happy baby’s room.

LEFT: Step by step photo 2 — stenciling bird:

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SPACES: Custom product often costs less Occasional furniture If you have space, add a smart chair and an occasional table (this one came from www.morba.ca) to provide extra visual layers.

Creating a cute wee nook like this gives you somewhere to enjoy a cuppa at the start of the day or even a glass of wine as you prepare to settle down for the night.

As far as upholstery goes, you might be surprised to discover that custom product often costs less than the high street. We invariably use N’Shape Design at Tycos due to the company’s excellent pricing structure and Farnk, the owner’s, creativity. We simply provide a photograph (or drawing) as well as fabric choice and scale and he does the rest.

In our own home, for private clients and during TV shows we are no strangers to the upholsterer’s exacting standards.

As we prepare to wrap up today’s transformation, allow us to reference our original colour choice: grey — as discussed at the top of today’s sermon.

As a modern neutral, grey is sufficiently lowkey to serve as the perfect backdrop for all manner of decorative whims. Hey, with a change of bedding and window dressing (perhaps in sunny yellow, dramatic black, or simply crisp white), the bedroom could be easily transformed — or seasonally adjusted — to suit mood. Our schematic watchword, as we often opine, is therefore ‘flexibility.’ And there’ll be plenty more of that from us next week.

Colin and Justin are regular home and design experts in print and on TV. Find their international product range in stores like HomeSense, Winners and Marshalls. facebook.com/ColinJustin, twitter.com/colinjustin, colinandjustin.tv.

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Mixing modern and vintage POP ART’S FUN VIBE PLAYS WELL WITH DIFFERENT DECORS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mid-century modern style is now firmly planted in the home decor landscape. And one of its elements, pop art, is cultivating a 21st century following.

Eye-catching, graphic, often tonguein-cheek or sassily whimsical, pop art decor plays well off the vintage vibe and yet also makes contemporary furnishings, well, pop.

In the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism dominated the art world, with Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock among its superstars.

The canvas served as an arena for aggressive applications of paint. Conceptual, nonfigurative art found a strong following in the art world, if not always with average Americans, at least at first.

In the effervescent, culture-obsessed 1960s, artists like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney created collages, mixed media art and lithographs that depicted the talismans of popular culture. They took inspiration from consumer culture, from soap boxes to soup cans, flags to the funny papers, Marilyn Monroe to Mao. While some critics derided it as jokey, low-brow or too focused on materialism, the approachable imagery connected easily with mainstream America. It was hip, fun and relatable.

“I consider pop art a classic,” says Jennifer DeLonge, an interior and product designer in Carlsbad, California. “It was such an important time in design and it continues to withstand so many fleeting trends. As a designer, I’m always drawn to pop first because I appreciate graphic lines and very obvious colour.”

DeLonge has launched a social marketplace app called Reissued that brings lovers of vintage, one-of-a-kind and hard-to-find items together to buy and sell. A bright yellow 1960s Coke

bottle crate was recently up for grabs. (www.reissued.com ) Fab.com’s pop art decor includes Quinze + Milan’s giant Brillo box pouf.

Also of note: Karlsson’s minimalist wall clock made of two oversize red hands; Finnish designer Jonna Saarinen’s abstract, printed birch tray in vivid tangerine and red; and lithographs in the Masters of Pop Art collection that includes Warhol’s portrait of Muhammad Ali, Keith Haring’s “Untitled” series, and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Blonde Waiting.”

Biaugust’s whimsical little black upholstered chairs shaped like ponies, lambs and buffalo are available at Mollaspace. Here too is a vivid bubble-gum-pink and Slushie-blue map of the world, as well as acrylic coasters printed with blank cartoon-speech bubbles that can be written on with a reusable pen, and a series of canvas storage bins printed with old-school boom boxes, radios and TV sets. (www. mollaspace.com ) A few pop art accessories in a room make a statement for a modest price.

Creative Motion’s cylindrical table lamp printed with comic-strip imagery is under $50. A collection of kicky, ’70s-style graphic print pillows from notNeutral pack pop punch. (www.wayfair.com ) Canvases and throw pillows from the Los Angeles art decor studio Maxwell Dickson feature some arresting, edgy designs, including a photorealistic image of a tableful of empty liquor bottles, a typographic traffic jam of colour-blocked letters, and the word “POP” exploding like a cartoon graphic. (www.maxwelldickson.com ) The Museum of Modern Art’s store has lots of pop art items from which to choose: Damien Hirst’s white wall clock with colorful polka dots would be terrific in a child’s room. Verner Panton’s black and white Optik pillow features a dizzying kaleidoscope of circles and stripes that’s as much “op”

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WOOD: Seasonal movement No water, no seasonal frost movement.

If your cabin does move, shore up the existing foundation in a permanent way.

You may need to dig down below the frost line and make some concrete or stone pillars to make this happen.

Or if seasonal movement is very small, simply jack up and shim your cabin back into a level orientation every four or five years.

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Question: Why do some deck and fence experts recommend against installing wooden posts directly into concrete in the ground?

It seems like such a solid way to support outdoor structures.

Answer: There are two reasons it’s not a great idea to sink wooden posts into concrete.

One is the promotion of rot, and the other is danger of seasonal shifting because of frost in the ground.

Unless the outside surface of the hole you dig is very smooth and bell shaped, winter frosts can grab the concrete and push it up over time, ruining your foundation in the process.

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A lampshade is easy to decorate with graduated colour, creating an effect that imitates the look of a night sky. As you move from top to bottom, thin down the paint to make it a lighter version of the same colour. Stencil patterns can be reproduced on virtually any surface.

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Positions available immediately.

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Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com

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FULL TIME POSITION FOR LEVEL 2 RDA required for a busy family dental office in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.

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Please drop off convincing letter & resume in person to 30C Gaetz Ave. Crossing, Red Deer (Between Quiznos & Booster Juice) Tuesday through Friday Between 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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I miss you beyond words my sweetheart. I would do anything to be able to hug and kiss you just one more time, hear that incredible infectious laugh, and feel you next to me. We had 46 wonderful years together and it was an honor and privilege to be your wife and walk this journey with you. I will love you forever Wayne and the connection between us will continue forever. We all love and miss you sweetheart.

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LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

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Journeymen Pipefitters Journeyman Welders (B Pressure & Structural) Experienced Oilfield Labourers Lead Hands Preference Given to Experience in Demolition & Construction of Well Jobs _____________________ JOB FEATURES: • Competitive Wage • Comprehensive Benefit Package • 14 on / 7 off Shift • Camp Positions _____________________ If you want to join a growing company, please apply to: Email: hr@alstaroilfield.com Or Fax: 780 865 5829 Please quote Wabasca Job on Resume Committed to providing our workforce opportunities for personal growth, while providing quality energy construction solutions.

MIDNITE OIL FLUSHBY (Rod Rigs) Experienced Manager/Operator & Derrickhand Positions Available All Tickets Required. Email Resume to safety@midniteoil.ca or Fax 1-866 452-0286 RIG WORK

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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.

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

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He is missed by his family so much. His name is Diesel.

He is a large orange tabby with a white belly. He is very friendly. Was last seen wearing a black collar.

He went missing from his home in Eastview Estates just off 39th. A REWARD WILL BE OFFERED to anyone who finds him.

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GODFREY Albert 1918-2014 Mr. Albert Godfrey passed away on July 26th, 2014 in Innisfail, Alberta at the age of 95. A formal obituary and service information will be available at a later date.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPELS 4820 - 45th Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222.

TIPMAN Tina Marie It is with great sadness that the family of Tina Marie Tipman announce her passing after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis. Tina passed away peacefully in her sleep on June 26, 2014 at the age of 40 at the Lacombe Extended Care Centre after a long and painful battle with M.S. Tina is predeceased by Lloyd Tipman and her son Stephen Wise. She leaves behind her parents Fred and Sue George, a daughter BrittenyAnne George of Maple Ridge, BC. and a son Breht Schuelke of Calgary, AB., numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and many caring friends. A memorial service will be held Friday August 15, 2014 at Stettler United Church at 2:00 pm.

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MacLEAN Wayne Douglas After courageous battles with cancer Wayne passed away at home in Water Valley on Saturday,†July 26, 2014 with his loving husband, Brent Rock, and his family and caregivers at his side. Wayne lived a full and fearless life and maintained an optimistic and spirited attitude with grace and dignity. A Celebration of Wayne’s Extraordinary Life will be announced at a later date.

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SCOTT Arthur Innes Scott passed away quietly at his home in Red Deer County on July 28, 2014. Born in Scotland August 27, 1920, he immigrated to Canada with his parents and brothers in 1927 where they settled and farmed in the Clearview District. He was predeceased by his brothers Bill and Allan, his second wife Gladys (Auvigne), daughter-in-law Shirley (Jim), and companion Lee Kowk. He is survived by his sons Jim of Red Deer, Brian (Helen) of Delburne, daughter Cathy (Lorne) of Edmonton, Stepson Greg Kurp (Char) of Red Deer County, Stepdaughter Gloria Kennedy (Lyle) of Prince George, and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. A Memorial Service will be held at the Heartland Funeral Home, 4415 49 St., Innisfail Alberta on Wednesday August 6th at 1PM. A private family interment will be held at a later date.

Memorial Donations in Arthur’s honor may be made directly to the charity of one’s choice.

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Maple Leaf Environmental & Safety Ltd. is a proactive, dynamic and progressive company. We are recruiting for the position of Plant Shutdown personnel: Rope Rescue, EMR’s, EMT’s and Safety Advisors for projects throughout Western Canada.

Please e-mail resume & qualifications to: kanderson@ mapleleafsafety.com or lgrayston@ mapleleafsafety.com Fax: 403-637-2024 Canyon Technical Services is a leader in the oilfield service industry, providing customized fracturing and pressure pumping solutions to oil and gas producers across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. At Canyon, our employees are ‘Champions’, dedicated to fulfilling our Vision of “improving the industry one job at a time” - our ‘Champions’ have made Canyon one of the most sought-after providers in our industry. If you are looking for a career within a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then Canyon is looking for you! Canyon is preparing for an extremely busy 2014/2015 and are looking for qualified employees.

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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 Permanent F/T shift. $18/hr.

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Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s We are currently seeking to fill a number of positions Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: which are necessary in 5111 22 St. order to maintain the 37444 HWY 2 S level of supports we have 37543 HWY 2N come to be known for.

700 3020 22 St. Successful candidates will FOOD ATTENDANT be responsible to provide Req’d permanent shift personal support and weekend day and evening mentorship in accordance both full and part time. with individuals’ needs and 15 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + aspirations, within their benefits. Start ASAP. home and community.

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Apprentice & Journeyman Welders Absolute Fusion is a Repair & Maintenance and New Fabrication Facility. We are looking for Welders with Mechanical Abilities to join our team.

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ROOFING LTD. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 Requires hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but SLOPED ROOFERS not limited to: vacuuming, LABOURERS dusting, washing floors, & FLAT ROOFERS making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning Valid Driver’s Licence bathrooms. Performance preferred. Fax or email based bonus program. info@goodmenroofing.ca Must be fluent with verbal or (403)341-6722 l& written English, be NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer F/T COMMERCIAL T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 GLAZIER or email: Journeyman & apprentices info@ramadareddeer.com We offer competitive wages. Full benefits after Looking for a new pet?

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The Red Deer Advocate Classified is the community’s number-one information centre and marketplace.

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Red Deer Advocate Classified: • Helps lost pets find their families • Brings buyers and sellers together • Serves as a key resource for renters • Helps families find new homes • Puts individuals in touch with each other • Provides job seekers with career information • Serves as a great guide to garage sales • Makes selling and shopping simple

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Trican is founded on the principles of service excellence, operational safety and technical expertise, and we are proud to have received numerous accolades as a top employer.

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f Premium compensation package f New Equipment f 15/6 Schedule

Fracturing Crew Bus, Cement Bulk, Cement Operators

To apply for the above positions, in confidence, please email or fax your resume and a copy of a current drivers abstract. We thank all applicants; however only those selected for an initial interview will be contacted.

How to apply:

WHAT MAKES US ATTRACTIVE: • Values-driven organization • Full coverage benefits program • Global technical leader within our industry • Focus on safety, training and development • Career advancement opportunities • RRSP matching program • Health Spending Account

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WHERE IT ALL COMES TOGETHER Join our Calfrac Red Deer Team Trades

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If you’re like most people, you want to be part of a winning team. By providing industry leading training and attracting people who are focused on the right core values: ethics, energy, and an entrepreneurial spirit – we’ve created that winning team. We are eager to learn more about what you’ve done, what you can do, and where you would like to go!

IS HIRING!

As we grow, we are currently looking for local talent in a number of Field and Maintenance positions including:

Operators, Fracturing and Coiled Tubing (Class 1 drivers license is required)

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Transport Operators (Class 1 drivers license is required) Supervisors, Fracturing and Coiled Tubing (Class 1 drivers license is required)

Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanics Electronics Technicians How to Apply:

SAFETY REWARDS TEAM WORK OPPORTUNITY SCHEDULE

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER CONCRETE FINISHERS CARPENTERS OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATORS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

www.eaglebuilders.ca

In-Person: 7310 Edgar Industrial Drive, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 3R2 Online: www.calfrac.com/careers 427124G19-J11

CALFRAC Where it all comes together

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online: canyontech.ca/careers fax: 888 249 3895

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS: • Valid Class l license preferred; fewer than 6 demerit points • Pressure pumping experience is preferred • Physically fit- heavy lifting required • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources

or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014

100,000 Potential Buyers???

TRY SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

CALL 309-3300 DEADLINE THURS. 5 P.M.

EASY!

Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview.

Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

/MAVERICK

Supply

Inside Sales Person Required for Rimbey/Ponoka Oilfield Supply Store

Duties to include: Inside Sales Inventory Control Clerical Duties Operating Forklift

Customer Service Heavy Lifting involved Deliveries Shipping & Receiving

Please Send Resume to: Email: rick.davies@meridianvalve.ca

Fax: (403) 843 - 3775

In Person: 5618 – 44th St, Rimbey

Daily The Red Deer Advocate Daily The publishes Red Deer Advocate advertisements from companies and corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

/MAVERICK

Heavy Duty Journeyman Mechanic

position (two positions are available).

Duties are to commence as soon as possible with the positions being based out of the Rocky Mountain House Transportation shop which is a comfortable and well equipped facility. The Division offers a trade competitive salary rate plus a comprehensive employer funded benefits package as well as a Defined Benefit Pension plan.

The ideal candidate will have a Heavy Duty Journeyman’s certificate, good communication skills, and the demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision. A Heavy Duty Apprentice or Journeyman Mechanic willing to work towards Heavy Duty status may be considered.

Duties will include regular maintenance of School Busses, completion of semi-annual inspections of School Busses and other related duties. Further details on the position may be obtained by contacting Mr. Cal McRae, Shop Foreman, at 403 845-4255 (1-866-445-4255 toll free in Alberta).

This competition will remain open until satisfactory candidates are found.

A complete application package will include a resume and a minimum of three references. The successful candidate will be required to submit a Criminal Record Check and Intervention Record Check. submit package to: Competition No. MECH-2014-BUS Wild Rose School Division 4912 - 43 Street Rocky Mountain House, AB T4T 1P4 OR Application package can be emailed to humanresources@wrsd.ca (please show competition number and applicant name in Subject line) Competition No. MECH-2014-BUS Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

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

Supply

Warehouse Person/Shipper-Receiver Required for Ponoka Oilfield Supply Store

Duties to include: Shipping & Receiving Inventory Control Assisting Inside Sales Operating Forklift

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

Deliveries Heavy Lifting involved Clerical Duties

Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Helpers

Email: rick.davies@meridianvalve.ca

Fax: (403) 843 - 3775

In Person: 5618 – 44th St, Rimbey

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Please Send Resume to:

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

EASY!

Moving & Storage

1300

Contractors

1100

FENCES & DECKS 403-352-4034

Moving & Storage

1300

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

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE

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International ladies

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Eavestroughing

1130

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

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Contractors Come in and see GUTTERS, soffit, fascia why we are the talk BLACK CAT CONCRETE 403-391-2169 of the town.

Garage/patios/rv pads www.viimassage.com sidewalks/driveways EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822

1100

Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Escorts

1165

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* reno needs. 403-506-4301 INDEPENDENT w/own car

Misc.

Services

1290

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Painters/

1310

IN & OUT CONSTRUCTION Decorators All your construction needs, big or small, we do JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. it al! 403-318-3116 Free Est. 403-872-8888

Massage Therapy

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

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Applicants qualifications should include: Understanding of Quality standards and Quality Management systems Establish and maintain a QC/QA program for monitoring supplier quality, including audits and controls Knowledge of pipe processes and operations Good technical writing skills Strong communication skills and able to work within deadlines Capable of using Microsoft Office, such as Excel, Word and Outlook.

HUMAN RESOURCES RECRUITER • • • • • • •

Experience with MS Excel, Outlook, Word Efficient & Organized Able to multi-task, can work with our without supervision Extreme attention to detail Ability to work with deadlines SAP experience an asset Position will require some overtime

JOURNEYMAN / APPRENTICE PIPEFITTERS BOILDERMAKERS Email: resumes @newcartcontracting.com Fax: 1-403-729-2396 Email all safety and trade tickets

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CANADA CARTAGE is looking for Class 1 Drivers for local P&D work in Red Deer. To apply, send resume and commercial abstract to: edmontoncareers@ canadacartage.com Fax: 780-454-3188 CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

Fluid Experts Ltd. 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 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

Misc.

Help

860

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Roofing

1370

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

880

Misc.

Help

880

Misc.

Help

ACADEMIC Express

FLUID Experts Ltd.

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Shop Supervisor

Is seeking to hire

for our Red Deer location.

This position is a fulltime and is a salary based Professional position with company • Community Support benefits upon hire. 11-3 Truck Driver Worker Program days off schedule. Duties Position Available include maintaining shop, www.ads-pipe.com • GED Preparation assist minor repairs of units and equipment, Advanced Drainage Would you like to take the monitor inventories, Systems, Inc., the world’s GED in your community? loading of fluid trucks with largest and most innovavarious products for the Oil tive manufacturer of HDPE • Red Deer & Gas industry. Will also drainage products are • Rocky Mtn. House be trained to blend various expanding and are • Rimbey products supplied to our currently accepting clients. Ideal candidate applications for a certified • Caroline • Castor would be from the trucking Class 1 Driver, with a industry with fluid Hauling minimum of two (2) years • Sylvan Lake experience with class 1 B-train trailer experience. • Innisfail • Stettler license. Fax resume w/all • Ponoka tickets and current drivers ADS Drivers are required abstract to: to safely operate company • Lacombe 403-346-3112 or email to: equipment and provide a Gov’t of Alberta Funding roger@fluidexperts.com high level of customer may be available. service, delivering our products within Alberta.

GROWING National com403-340-1930 ADS Drivers are required pany seeks mechanically www.academicexpress.ca inclined service person for to be drug free and maintain legal transportation Periodic basic equipment paperwork and driving maintenance in the Red practices. This position Deer area, for 5-10 service requires a valid Class 1 calls per month. Service License, with previous off times flexible. Perfect for a road forklift experience a young retired person. Will CIRCULATION definite asset. We offer train, must have own quarterly cash safety RUNNER reliable vehicle and basic bonuses as well as a tools. Fax resume or letter (Part-time) comprehensive of interest to 905-760-1233 medical plan. or email to dispatch.

DO YOU: canada@air-serv.com.

• Want extra income BENEFITS INCLUDE: • Signing Bonus paid • Know the city well upon completion of • Posses a clean, valid drivers license a 60 day/120 day • Have a friendly attitude retention period • Enjoy customer service • Company provided Group Canadian Benefits • Want part-time work (12-22 hours per week) • Voluntary dental • Life insurance LUBE TECH As part of our customer • Short-term and longwanted for busy service team, you will be term disability dealership, possible dispatched in response to • Retirement Savings chance for advancement.

Plan (RSP) and Deferred service concerns to deliver Fax resume to 341-5066 Profit Sharing Plan newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

(DPSP) RESIDENTIAL APT A delivery vehicle is provided.

• Paid Vacation MANAGER Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

• Safety Bonus 23 suite apt. complex.

Hours of shifts are: Live-in role.

Responsibilities Morning shifts of All applicants are subject incl. cleaning, maintenance, Monday through Friday to a pre-employment yard care, administration.

5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. physical and MVR check.

Fax to 403-346-5786 Saturday starting at 7 AM. Interested Applicants may Wednesday to Friday shifts starting at 1 PM. TURPLE BROS. submit a resume, along with a current drivers * All shifts based on 4 hours LTD. abstract to: and likely run longer Is taking resumes for: * $13.19/Hour.

Accessories Dept. with ADVANCED DRAINAGE experience in clothing or SYSTEMS CANADA INC. Please address resume to power sport industry.

4316 Gerdts Ave. the attention of Doug F/T positions avail.

Blindman Ind. Park and drop off to Please email resume to Red Deer County, AB. 2950 Bremner Ave., HR Department T4S-2A8 Red Deer, AB or email: brenda@turplebros.ca dsibbet@reddeeradvocate.com Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail Employment ken.mccutcheon@ DISPATCHER REQ’D. Training ads-pipe.com Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Position closing date: Verbal and written August 8, 2014 communication skills are TRAINING CENTRE req’d. Send resume by fax OILFIELD TICKETS to 403-346-0295

FALL START

900

SAFETY

Business Opportunities

870

START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

Misc.

Help

880

COMPANY req’s live in retired maintenance person for our apartment operations. Journeyman plumbing exp. an asset.

Call Mike for details 403-342-4923

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

FARGEY’S PAINT NOW HIRING

F/T & P/T POSTIONS. Competitive wages.

Must be energetic, & business minded. Some heavy lifting may be involved.

Own transportation a must.

Willing to work evenings, weekends & at other locations.

Please drop resume in person to Jenny or fax to 403-340-8636 FITNESS Orientated Sales Rep. Needed - Fitness Mechanics. Send resume to info@fitnessmechanics.ca or call 1-855-348-4487.

Advocate Opportunities

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in: GLENDALE

880

KENTWOOD

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

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The easy way to find a buyer for items you want to sell is with a Red Deer Advocate want ad. Phone 309-3300.

Truckers/ Drivers

CERTIFIED QUALITY CONTROL/QUALITY ASSURANCE

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

880

Misc.

Help

850

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:

APPLICATIONS are invited to fill a 40 hour per • week regular full-time

Central Alberta LIFE

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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

Trades

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

Concord Security is currently looking for career minded individuals who are looking to gain experience in the security industry. Here is your opportunity to take your career to the next level and be part of a growing team. Looking to fill positions that are full time and part time. Experience is an asset but not mandatory.

Successful Candidates must possess the following: 1. Valid Security License OR valid criminal Background check (company will assist in this process.

2. Strong work ethic 3. Strong Oral and Written comprehension of the English language.

4. Great communication skills 5. Must be flexible and willing to work different shifts and locations 6. Physically able to conduct foot patrols 7. Great customer service skills 8. Previous experience is an asset but not mandatory!

9. Must be at least 18 years of age.

Please submit resumes to:

calgaryinfo@concordsecurity.com #1635 - 1632 14th Ave NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1M7 ph. 403-252-8005 fax 403-252-8086 www.concordsecurity.com

LEADER IN COATINGS WORLDWIDE

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave. ORIOLE PARK Otterbury Ave KENTWOOD Kerr Close & Kingston Dr. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

STORE ASSOCIATE

1 day a week in:

We are currently seeking a vibrant individual to work part-time as a Store Associate in our Red Deer location. (May lead to full-time).

The ideal candidate will be responsible for servicing our valued customers by: - Assessing their decorating needs.

- Providing them with expert advice on paint, wall coverings and other decorating products.

- Informing them of application techniques.

- Assisting them in selecting the proper paint and materials to complete their project.

You will also assist with store promotions and store maintenance such as stocking shelves, creating product displays and general housekeeping.

Average 32 hours/week.

Previous sales experience and paint knowledge would be considered an asset, however, we will train.

If you are outgoing in nature and service oriented with the ability to work independently as well as with a team please drop off your resume attention: Cody Goertzen #5, 2319 Taylor Drive, Red Deer

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

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FULL TIME SALES POSITION

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Sales & Distributors

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 D7

Antiques & Art

1520

POT BELLY stove, exc. shape, $200 403-347-3849

Auctions

1530

Clothing

1590

1650

Farmers' Market

NIXON HONEY FARM Limited time offer!

DESIGNER SIMON CHANG SUMMER HAT (Dress hat - weddings & special occasions) - Hot pink. 22” size. $50 403-227-2976

FRESH LIQUID UNPASTURIZED RAW HONEY - $3.00/LB. Bring your own containers.

403-227-2719 or 227-0092 INNISFAIL To book your appointment.

Tours also avail.

Look for us at Red Deer Farmers Market Wed & Sat & Innisfail Market Thurs!

Also look in local grocer.

Sporting Goods

1860

GOLF BAG WITH MISC. CLUBS. $100.

For more info call 403-314-0804

Travel Packages

1900

3060

Suites

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates

Houses For Sale

4020

1910

1660

11 Morris Court, Blackfalds.

A Must See! Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

3080

3090

1640

Supplies

1550

SOLID CORE CEDAR CLAD, 2’ DOOR W/FRAME. Possibly sauna/cabin. $100. 403-227-2976

Advocate Opportunities

3110

1650

2010

3140

2140

3160

SASKATOON BERRIES, Space Equipment east of 30th Ave on Hwy 11. Garden Open Mon. - Fri. 9-9, Sat. Supplies SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft.

500 GAL. gas tank w/stand & Sun. 9-6. 4L U-pick $13. $1000 Phil 403-350-0479 $100 403-556-6473 We pick $25 403-318-2074 2 LARGE Christmas cactus $50/ea, 2 large Storage Philodendron $15/ea, or Horses Space offers 403-556-6473 LAWNMOWER rear RENT or sale, storage unit WANTED: all types of bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. at Sylvan Lake, all horses. Processing locally old $190. 403-314-0804 concrete const., 24 x 48 in Lacombe weekly. w/water/power/heat, 16’ 403-651-5912 Household door, no GST 403-347-0016 Appliances

1680

1710

CARRIERS REQUIRED

FRIDGE, Kenmore 21 cu ft. 8 yrs. old, black, $200 o.b.o. 403-343-2754

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

Household Furnishings

Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake

1720

TAN COUCH & MATCHING CHAIR, + Green Swivel Rocker $100 for all. 403-347-1308 TO GIVE AWAY loveseat and sofa, blue 403-340-2947

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

1760

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

2 BDRM. 1 bath bi-level. 6 appls, water softener & drinking water purifier. $1450/mo + $1300 d.d. **RENTED**

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

3 BDRM, 1.5 bath townhouse for over 40 yr old employed tenants. 6appls, private yard & parking, 1 small pet with additional Sec. Dep. of $500.

Quiet people, no drugs, no partiers, no police etc.

At #9, 15 Stanton Street, Sunnybrook. Rent & S.D. $1400/mo. 403-341-4627.

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Castle Cres, Clark Cres. area $71/mo.

Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive area Chism Close, Cunningham Cres area $115/mo.

3050

WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

1830

MORRISROE AREA

MORRISROE MANOR

Metcalf Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA

4100

Income Property

Fully finished b-level in Springbrook. 4 bdrm, 3 bath.

Deck and fenced yard. $324,900. 587-377-7301

4040

Tires, Parts Acces.

22 Parkland Drive (Parkland Beach) NEW PRICE! $389,000 CA0038198 Perfect year round cottage living at the lake. 24x48 Shop w/flr heat, bath, w/d.

Margaret Comeau 403.391.3399 RE/MAX real estate central alberta

Auto Wreckers

Businesses For Sale

4140

Investment Opportunities

4180

Nestled in the Town of Stettler sits this Street of Townhouses. Yes you read this ad right, own 17 townhouses on 47th Street.

All 2 storey unites that have separate titles, are 3 bdrm., 1.5 baths, fenced yards, and 100% tenant occupied.

All 17 unites in 1 pkg. Check it out: MLS: ca 0037180.

Call Peggy Lane, Assoc.

Broker @ Coldwell Banker Ontrack Realty for more info.

403-872-3350

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Automotive Services

5010

HELP-U-SELL RED DEER 403-342-7355

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

NEW CONDO

Antique & Classic Autos

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

Acreages

5020

4050

1840

Sunnyside Cres.

Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Sutton Close Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr. also Lister Cres. & Lockwood Ave. also Ladwig Close Lund Close

Opportunities

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS

VANIER AREA Vanier East

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

RED DEER ADVOCATE

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Open House

GRAND OPENING SPECIAL - 1 ONLY!

Collector Car Auction

Farms/ Land

MUST SELL

1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

Phone 403-314-4301

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

MUST SELL

Sept. 19 - 20, 2014 Westerner Park, Red Deer Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGauctions.com

4070

A MUST SEE 3 bdrm. 2.5 baths, 2 storey.

Many upgrades, front att. garage. $372,000 incl.

GST, legal fee, appls. pkg.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

Public Notices

1989 GMC Sierra Auto 350. s/b, no rust. Glass exc.

144,000km $4900 403-340-8950

BY OWNER

Cars

5030

457 Acres Prime Farmland $2,285,000.

2012 FORD Fusion SE Surface Lease Rev. $37,535. 10,000 kms, $16,900 exc.

12 miles E. of Ponoka must sell 403-340-0558 on Hwy. #53. Email: 2008 PONTIAC G6. New tires, c_mcleod@telus.net brakes & battery. Ready to Call: 780 910-9467 go. $7000. 403-346-6470

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Directory

Notice of Wage Assessment

Tour These Fine Homes

To: • Scott Kneeland o/a Kneeland Contracting

2006 VW Jetta TDI 137,000 kms, fully loaded,sunroof, diesel, auto, $11,900 403-346-1392 340-9068

Take notice that the Director of Employment Standards for Saskatchewan has issued a wage assessment against you in the amount of $8,423.93 pursuant to section 2-74 of The Saskatchewan Employment Act. If you do not appeal this wage assessment within 15 business days of the date of this paper, judgment will be entered against you. The appeal must be accompanied by a $500.00 deposit.

2003 DODGE Neon loaded safetied 403-352-6995

The wage assessment can be appealed by serving a notice of appeal to:

2001 BUICK LeSabre dk. red exc. cond. 403-352-6995

Director of Employment Standards Employment Standards Branch 1870 Albert Street Regina, Saskatchewan, S4P 4W1 Tel (306) 787-8390 401183E9

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

8th Annual Fall Finale

Beautiful views overlooking scenic river valley. Only 6 miles from Red Deer on pavement.

Starting at $254,000 HelpU-Sell RD 403-342-7355

5180

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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

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Vehicles Wanted To Buy

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Vehicle Recycling

Will pick up your unwanted vehicles in Red Deer and make a cash donation to a charity of your choice or pay you. Dispose of your vehicle the responsible way with the only environmental approved facility in Red Deer. A1-Willy’s Parts Place. 403-346-7278

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2 bdrm 18+ top floor condo at Cosgrove place. Wood fireplace. $147,900.

403-350-1779

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3 Bdrm. condo on south hill.

Great investment or starter. $158,900.

2005 HONDA Odyssey EXL mini van, leather, trailer tow hitch, p. sliding doors, p. seats, roof rack, sunroof, great family vehicle, $5500 403-782-7098

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MULTI-USE commercial/ Motorhomes residential, 2 large suites with separate shop & yard. 2001 CHALLENGER 31’ $549,900. Help-U-Sell no slides, exc. cond, Red Deer 403-342-7355 $30,000 obo 403-347-4397

ROLL off bin rental, truck & bins, turn-key. Offers.

Retiring. 403-341-5866 eves

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Alexander Cres.

Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Andrews Close Archer Drive/Austin Dr. Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atlee St. Allison Cres

Well kept sturdy 2 bdrm. in quiet friendly neighborhood.

New high efficient furnace. $219,900. 403-346-9245

4000-4190

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Springbrook 1.5 storey 2 bdrm. Hardwood, lrg lot. $239,900. 403-352-3839

2004 DODGE Dakota 4x4 Good shape. $5700.

403-598-4131

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Want to live next door to school? Move to Stettler 2 bdrm. trailer.Comes with insulated porch, a/c, wash1996 FORD Ranger 4wd, er/dryer, household furniture (optional). Asking auto, $4175 403-304-1082 $10,000. IN ADDITION, 1995 MAZDA B3000 TRUCK very large 2 bdrm. with topper, new battery. trailer Asking $13,000.

403-343-2043 after 5 p.m.

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MOBILE in Benalto.

3 bdrm., 2 bath, bright open design. Appliances included. $149,900.

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4X8 DYNAMO COIN OP POOL TABLE & Various Arcade & Pop Machines.

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Houses MANTLES GRAND CASUAL 3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. For Sale $1000/mo.

403-343-6609 BLUESTONE SET 1 Teapot, Cream & Sugar, #2 Ardell Close $599,000 Salt and Pepper, CA0037342 2 Platters, 1 Dutch Oven. Suites Bungalow w/Bonus Room $100.00 for set. w/att. Dbl. Heated Garage 1 French White Corell Cassrole Dish large. $10. 1 BDRM. suite across from 4 Beds/3 Baths 1770 sq ft.

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Mike 403-350-1620 PIANO, beautiful sound.

403-782-7156 or 357-7465 403-986-6889 Good student piano. $200.

62 Rutherford Drive 780-583-3280 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. $264,000 CA0037360 apartments, avail. immed, PRICED TO SELL. rent $875 403-596-6000 GREAT INVESTMENT Cats OPPORTUNITY. Bi-Level LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Half Duplex, 4 Beds/3 Baths.

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7 Logan Close $474,900 403-782-3130 CA0038372 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

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BIG STRAPPER VINTAGE WEDDING TRAVEL ALBERTA Wanted AUCTIONS DRESS. Ivory brocade w/ Alberta offers LAST WEEKLY SALE July detachable train. XS - Size 4.

SOMETHING 1 BDRM. w/ 4 pc bath, N/S, 30. Resuming Weekly $200. 403-227-2976 for everyone. no drinking, no pets, $400, Sales Wed. Sept. 24 @ 6 pm.

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2008 30’ 5th wheel Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits $200. 403-227-2976 Furn. $550. 403-466-7979 Canyon large slide avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 2006 400 Suzuki quad.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of

DONALD ANDREW MCFAYDEN who died on February 11, 2014.

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by

September 9, 2014, and provide details of your claim with

Concentra Financial

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Tunisia closes border crossing with Libya AFTER PEOPLE FLEEING VIOLENCE TRY TO BREAK THROUGH

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RAS AJDIR, Tunisia — Tunisia closed its main border crossing with Libya on Friday after thousands of stranded Egyptian and foreign nationals, fleeing militias’ fighting and violence in Libya, tried to break through the passage, the Tunisian news agency said.

It was the second eruption of unrest at the border in as many days, as thousands of Libyans stream into neighbouring Tunisia, along with foreign nationals. Tunisia is the only escape route as fighting escalates in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, where rival militias have been battling for weeks for control over the airport.

Friday’s unrest took place when thousands of Egyptians, barred from entering Tunisia because they had no visa, held a protest then broke through part of a fence at the Ras Ajdir crossing, Tunisian security officials said.

The police responded by shooting in the air and firing tear gas. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

An Associated Press reporter at the crossing said no one managed to make it to the other side and security forces used vehicles to physically block access. After a Tunisian police officer was wounded by gunfire from the Libyan side of the border, authorities closed the crossing, the official Tunisian news agency TAP said.

A day earlier, two Egyptians were killed during a similar protest demanding to be let through. Tunisian officials say thousands of Libyans have been crossing the border each day the past week.

Libya is witnessing its worst factional violence since the downfall of the longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 civil war. Along with the fighting in Tripoli, which the Health Ministry said has killed 214 people and wound-

ing more than 980 others, Islamic militias the past week overran army bases in Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi, and claimed control of the city.

In a sign of a backlash, thousands of residents of Tripoli and Benghazi rallied Friday evening in protests against militias. They waved Libyan tricolour flags while clapping and chanting against militias.

“I am out today to protest against the terrorists and for the sake of this city and its sons,” said Mohammed Makhlouf, a Benghazi-based movie director. A fighter jet flew overhead in a show of support for the protesters, where women had a strong presence.

Protesters tore down posters of an Islamist lawmaker.

On his Facebook page, Abdel-Moneim al-Yassir, a lawmaker in the outgoing parliament and head of its National Security Committee, called for a “popular uprising to rescue Libya” and work out the disarming and demobilizing of militias.

Earlier Friday, a powerful explosion ripped through the main police headquarters in Benghazi, nearly flattening it, witnesses said. The blast shook nearby houses and echoed across the eastern city.

The headquarters was empty because of earlier shelling by militiamen.

Friday’s blast appeared to be from explosives planted inside the building, said witnesses at the site. They spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for their own safety.

The Tripoli violence erupted in early July when militias originally from the western city of Misrata, which are allied to Islamist politicians, carried out a surprise attack on militias from the western town of Zintan who control the airport.

The move was in retaliation for a months-long campaign aiming to crush Islamic militias being waged by army troops led by a renegade general, Khalifa Hifter.

The battles have destroyed parts

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Evacuees disembark from France’s Navy frigate “Montcalm” at the Toulon harbor, southern France, Friday, following their evacuation from Tripoli. As tens of thousands of foreigners sought to flee fighting in Libya, European countries scrambled to send more ships and military planes to the North African nation. of Tripoli’s international airport, and shelling earlier this week hit three oil depots, sparking a raging fire that firefighters have struggled to put out amid the continued fighting. The National Safety Agency, which oversees emergency services, said that one depot was still on fire on Friday.

Militias have held sway in Libya since emerging from the 2011 civil war that led to the ouster and death

Gadhafi. The central government, police and military have largely had no authority. The violence has also forced the newly elected parliament to change its venue for its first session, due to take place on Saturday. It was scheduled to convene permanently in Benghazi but now with militias’ having upper hand there, the lawmakers changed its venue to the eastern city of Tobrouk.

Americans detained in North Korea will be tried soon

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PYONGYANG, North Korea — Two American tourists charged with “antistate” crimes in North Korea said Friday they expect to be tried soon and pleaded for help from the U.S. government to secure their release from what they say could be long prison terms.

In their first appearance since being detained more than three months ago, Matthew Todd Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle told a local AP Television News crew that they were in good health and were being treated well.

They also said they were allowed to take daily walks. The brief meeting was conducted under the condition that the specific location not be disclosed. Fowle said he fears his situation will get much worse once he goes on trial.

“The horizon for me is pretty dark,” he said. “I don’t know what the worstcase scenario would be, but I need help to extricate myself from this situation. I ask the government for help in that regards.”

It was not clear whether they were speaking on their own initiative, or if their comments were coerced. The TV crew was permitted to ask them questions. North Korea says the two committed hostile acts which violated their status as tourists. It has announced that authorities are prepar-

ing to bring them before a court, but has not yet specified what they did that was considered hostile or illegal, or what kind of punishment they might face. The date of the trial has not been announced.

Ri Tong II, a North Korean diplomat, declined to answer questions about the Americans at a news conference Friday at the United Nations. But when pressed in a follow-up question he said their cases were “legal issues” and they had “violated our law.”

Fowle arrived in North Korea on April 29. He is suspected of leaving a Bible in a nightclub in the northern port city of Chongjin, but a spokesman for Fowle’s family said the 56-year-old from Miamisburg, Ohio, was not on a mission for his church. Fowle works in a city streets department. He has a wife and three children, ages 9, 10, and 12.

“The window is closing on that process. It will be coming relatively soon, maybe within a month,” Fowle said of his trial. “I’m anxious to get home, I’m sure all of us are.”

Fowle also produced a letter he said he had written summarizing his experience in North Korea. The attorney for Fowle’s family said Friday his wife hadn’t seen the video, but had read news reports about his comments.

“I can tell you that she is very upset, as you can imagine,” said attorney Timothy Tepe. He said he and the fam-

Tropical storm Bertha dumps heavy rain in eastern Caribbean

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Tropical Storm Bertha swirled through the eastern Caribbean on Friday as it unleashed heavy rains and strong winds in the region.

The storm’s maximum sustained winds increased slightly Friday to 50 mph (85 kph), but no significant change in strength is expected in the next two days. Bertha was centred about 20 miles (30 kilometres) northwest of Martinique and was moving west-northwest at 24 mph (39 kph).

Tropical storm warnings were issued for Dominica, Martinique, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. A tropical storm watch is in effect for the eastern Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands.

Bertha passed just north of the French Caribbean island of Martinique, where officials said they were bracing for heavy winds and dangerous swells and urged everyone to stay indoors.

Government spokeswoman Audrey Hamann said in a phone interview that power losses were reported in several parts of the island and that authorities were trying to restore electricity.

She said officials did not immediately know how many people were affected.

In St. Lucia, emergency management officials reported overcast skies with constant showers.

“It looks like we’re just beginning to see the start of it,” Junius St. Hill, acting lead fireman, said by phone. “Today’s a holiday, so most people would be indoors anyway.”

In Dominica, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit ordered all businesses closed by Friday afternoon to prepare for the storm.

Antigua-based regional airline LIAT also cancelled several flights in Dominica and St. Lucia.

The storm generated some rain and wind as it passed just north of Barbados earlier Friday, but no damage has been reported, said Judy Thomas, director of the island’s emergency management agency.

“It’s had no impact,” she said in a phone interview.

Bertha is expected to generate up to 8 centimetres of rain across the eastern and northern Caribbean, with isolated amounts of up to 15 centimetres) in certain areas.

Officials in Puerto Rico are welcoming the rainfall amid a moderate drought that has hit the island’s southern region and a small portion in the northeast.

More than half of the U.S. territory also is experiencing abnormally dry conditions, with the government reporting $20 million in crop losses.

Strict rationing measures are scheduled to go into effect starting Aug. 6 if the storm doesn’t generate enough rain.

“Whether it falls where it needs to fall, that’s still to be seen,” said Jose Antonio Estrada, National Weather Service meteorologist.

He said the storm is moving quickly and that its effects would be felt all day Saturday in Puerto Rico.

Authorities closed El Yunque rainforest, a popular tourist attraction in northeast Puerto Rico, until further notice.

ily were still gathering information and likely would have a statement on Monday. Less is known about Miller, or about what specific crime he allegedly committed. North Korea’s state-run media have said the 24-year-old entered the country April 10 with a tourist visa, but tore it up at the airport and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum. A large number of Western tourists visited Pyongyang in April to run in the annual Pyongyang Marathon or attend related events. Miller came at that time, but tour organizers say he was not planning to join the marathon.

“I expect soon I will be going to trial for my crime and be sent to prison,” Miller said. “I have been requesting help from the American government, but have received no reply.”

A handwritten note on the front door of his family’s home in California asked for privacy. Neighbour Carol Stewart said Miller first travelled to South Korea about four years ago to visit a brother stationed there with the U.S. Air Force.

He found work teaching English and learned Korean, Stewart said in a July 1 interview. She has since declined to comment out of respect for his parents’ wishes.

“He liked it a lot, and he’s been there ever since,” said Stewart, describing Miller as the shy one of the four brothers. North Korea has also been holding another American, Ken-

neth Bae, since November 2012. Bae, a Korean-American missionary who turned 46 on Friday, told a Japanbased pro-North Korean news organization earlier this week that he felt “abandoned” by the U.S. government.

He is serving a sentence of 15 years of hard labour for what North Korea has claimed were hostile acts against the state.

However, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Thursday the agency is in regular contact with Bae’s family.

Last summer, authorities moved Bae from a work camp to a hospital because of failing health and weight loss. He was sent back to the work camp earlier this year, only to be taken again to a hospital less than two months later. His family says he suffers from diabetes, an enlarged heart, liver problems and back pain. Bae’s sister, Terri Chung, said in a statement Thursday it was the first word the family has had of Bae since April.

“After months of silence, it is devastating to hear Kenneth talk about ’feeling abandoned by the United States government,”’ she said.

“Although we acknowledge and appreciate all the efforts the U.S. State Department has been making behind the scenes to secure Kenneth’s release, the fact remains that after almost two years, Kenneth still remains imprisoned in North Korea.”

WORLD

The tiny porpoise lives only in the upper portion of the Sea of Cortez.

It is threatened by gillnet fishing and China’s appetite for the swim bladder of another endangered fish hunted in the same area.

The bladder of the Totoaba fish is used in soups, and the vaquitas often are caught in Totoaba nets.

The report from the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita recommends a total ban on gill nets in the area of the Sea of Cortez where the vaquita lives.

BRIEFS

Search-and-rescue team helps scientists pull rare whale fossil from California backyard RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.

— A rare whale fossil has been pulled from a Southern California backyard.

Paleontologist Howell Thomas of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County says the 16- to 17-millionyear-old baleen whale fossil is one of about 20 baleen whale fossils known to exist.

The fossil, lodged in 1,000-pound rock, was hoisted from a ravine by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department search-and-rescue volunteers.

Using pulleys and a steel trolley, crews pulled the fossil up a steep backyard slope and into a truck bound for the museum.

The fossil was discovered by 53-year-old Gary Johnson when he was a teen exploring the creek behind his family’s home.

Johnson called Thomas after a whale fossil was recovered in January at a nearby school.

China’s appetite for fish bladders may send porpoise to brink of extinction MEXICO CITY — An environmental panel says fewer than 100 of Mexico’s vaquita marina porpoises are left and they are in imminent danger of extinction.

A report released Friday say studies using underwater listening devices have found only about half the number of porpoises counted in 2012.

French officials: first remains of victims of Air Algerie crash in Paris for identification PARIS — France’s foreign and transport ministries say the first traces of passenger remains from the site where the Air Algerie plane went down in Mali last month have been brought to Paris for identification.

A statement said the first “organic and biological elements” collected arrived in Paris Friday.

Information from families to help identify the victims has also been gathered.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has previously said the remains were “pulverized,” making identification exceedingly difficult.

France says all 118 registered people onboard died when the plane crashed on July 24, but Burkina Faso puts the figure at 116, saying two passengers didn’t board.

French authorities say bad weather was likely at the crash’s origin near Burkina Faso’s border, but exclude nothing.

Experts are analyzing the two black boxes of the MD-83.