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Hail hits Edgar Farms INNISFAIL-AREA PRODUCER FACES WORST SEASON YET

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Doug Edgar has seen 46 crops at his Innisfail-area farm and never faced a worse hail season.

Edgar Farms has been hit five times this season, beginning in May, and last Thursday’s hail storm was the worst.

Earlier hail setbacks led to half a dozen workers being let go and he had to lay off another dozen after the last storm, which devastated 70 acres of vegetables.

Doug didn’t want to put a dollar figure on the damage — “a lot” is all he would say.

Edgar Farms is a well-known and award-winning local provider of asparagus, peas, beans and rhu-

‘THERE ARE FIELDS OUT HERE THAT LOOK LIKE THEY’VE BEEN COMBINED OR HEAVY-HARROWED . . . THERE ARE TREES OUT THERE WHERE THERE’S NOT A LEAF LEFT ON THEM.’ — ELNA EDGAR EDGAR FARMS

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The value-added nature of their produce means insurance doesn’t come close to making up for the losses. He points out a pea pod that has 10 per cent damage, is still a total write-off as far as selling it is concerned.

Red Deer man ready to pay it forward again

Like most farmers, Edgar leans on a philosophical attitude when faced with adversity.

“You just suck it up and get on with life,” he said.

“It’s not just us alone, it’s other families too.”

Elna Edgar, Doug’s wife, said the damage can be seen all through their area.

“There are fields out here that look like they’ve been combined or heavy-harrowed. There’s nothing left in some of the fields.

“There are trees out there where there’s not a leaf left on them.”

Edgar Farms store remains open. Asparagus season ended in June, so pickled and frozen asparagus is available, along with Angus beef, preserves and pies.

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SPLASHING TIMES

THURSDAY AT A LOCAL DAIRY QUEEN LOCATION

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF It’s not every day someone gets a second chance.

But a Red Deer man who lost it all, and got it back, is about to pay it forward again — despite getting hit with criticism for one of his previous random acts of kindness.

“Jim,” not his real name, said Tuesday he does not want special recognition, or a pat on the back.

It’s simply giving back — nothing complicated.

Jim is the same man who went into a Tim Hortons in Red Deer and paid for 500 cups of coffee, to the tune of $850, in July 2013.

He had heard about someone else in Edmonton doing something similar and thought it would be kind of cool to do it in Red Deer. So he did.

He and his wife were then quite surprised and upset with some negative reaction that followed.

In a letter to the Advocate this week, Jim said: “My wife and I were shocked and sickened to hear/ read about the amount of people who went out of their way to criticize me for either buying people coffee who they think can already afford the luxury, thought that it was a marketing scam for (Tim Hortons), thought I should have spent my money on the homeless, taken my money to the food bank, given it to the women’s shelter, given it to Red Cross, and the list goes on.

“The irony of these comments is that we actually do give to the homeless . . . women’s shelter . . . Red Cross . . . Salvation Army . . . food bank . . . Third World countries . . . etc., and it is a lot more than what we spend on coffees.”

“There are a lot of good people out there. Lot of people loved it. Lot of people were appreciative of it . . . but there’s a few that just wouldn’t let it go,” said Jim in an interview with the Advocate.

“The thing is I do spend my money somewhere else. But it’s like I don’t go around and advertise I did this this week and I did this last year. Kind of like defeating the whole purpose of trying to give, you know.”

On the bright side, there was a lot of positive reaction to the Tim Hortons donation as well.

Jim’s undertaken random acts of kindness for the past 10 years.

“I’m doing it because I’ve gone through some hardships and been in places I shouldn’t have been in in the first place.”

At a very low point in his life, he made a vow: “If I ever get myself back together I’m going to give back to my community when I can.”

“I don’t want recognition. I’m not looking for any of that.”

Come Thursday, he will again pay it forward at a certain Dairy Queen in Red Deer.

He is paying for 500 treats to be given out free to children under 18.

Thursday is Miracle Treat Day, where $1 or more from every Blizzard purchased is donated to an Alberta Children’s Miracle Network Hospital to help children in need. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Hundreds of children and adults spent part of their day keeping cool at the Bluegrass Sod Farms Central Spray and Play Tuesday. Bluegrass Sod Farm hosted their annual family picnic providing a barbecue lunch, face painting and musical entertainment.

AltaLink expects Western Alberta Transmission Line to be done by the middle of next year

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Two decades ago, the Alberta government attempted to forecast the province’s electricity needs.

“They were thinking that we would reach 11,000 megawatts by the year 2028,” said Scott Thon, president and CEO of AltaLink. “Last year, we had just over 11,000 megawatts — so 15 years ahead of what the best experts in 1994 thought we would do.”

What those experts hadn’t counted on was the explosive growth that energy-rich Alberta would experience — growth that would strain a power transmission system built in the 1970s and 1980s. That’s necessitated an aggressive push to strengthen the system, with initiatives like AltaLink’s hotly contested Western Alberta Transmission Line (WATL) connecting the Genesee area west of Edmonton to the Langdon area east of Calgary, and a half-dozen transmission reinforcement projects in Central Alberta.

“We’re at a place where we’ve driven this ’74 Chevy for a long time and we’re going to have to buy a new car,” explained Thon, adding that other provinces are in a similar situation.

“We hit that first, but you now see it happening in British Columbia; you’re seeing it much more in Saskatchewan. Those western economies that have been very strong, they’re now having to face all of the things that we have for the last five years.”

In Alberta’s case, much of the associated work is behind it, said Thon. In the case of WATL, work on the terminal stations at either end is well underway, nearly all of the towers are up and crews are pulling

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Contractors assemble one of the transmission towers that will be part of AltaLink’s Western Alberta Transmission Line running through Central Alberta. wires into place.

“We’re thinking it will be in the middle of next year that that project will be done.”

And once that big north-south line is in place, AltaLink will be able to boost electricity supplies in Central Alberta, said Thon.

“That WATL line will be kind of the express highway between Edmonton and Calgary and we can use all of this infrastructure that’s already there to really power up the Red Deer and Central Alberta regions.”

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Actress Lauren Bacall dead at 89

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Lauren Bacall, the slinky, sultryvoiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood’s most storied marriages, died Tuesday at age 89.

Bacall, whose long career brought two Tonys and a special Oscar, died in New York.

The managing partner of the Humphrey Bogart Estate, Robbert J.F. de Klerk, said that Bacall died at home, but declined to give further details.

Bacall’s son Stephen Bogart confirmed his mother’s death to de Klerk.

She was among the last of the old-fashioned Hollywood Lauren Bacall stars and her legend, and the legend of “Bogie and Bacall” — the hard-boiled couple who could fight and make up with the best of them — started almost from the moment she appeared on screen. A fashion model and bit-part New York actress before moving to Hollywood at 19, Bacall achieved immediate fame in 1944 with one scene in her first film, To Have and Have Not. Leaving Bogart’s hotel room, she murmured: “You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?

You just put your lips together and blow.”

She was less than half Bogart’s age, yet as wise and as jaded as him. Her sly glance, with chin down and eyes raised, added to her fame; she was nicknamed “The Look.” Bogart and Bacall married amid headlines in 1945, and they co-starred in three more films, The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948). Their marriage lasted until his death from cancer in 1957.

She appeared in movies for more than a half-century, but not until 1996 did she receive an Academy Award nomination — as supporting actress for her role as Barbra Streisand’s mother in The Mirror Has Two Faces. Although a sentimental favourite, she lost to Juliette Binoche for her performance in The English Patient.

She finally got a statuette in November 2009 when she was presented with a special Oscar at the movie academy’s new Governors Awards gala.

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HAIL: Plenty of other families affected Based on the claims pouring into the Agriculture Farm Services Corp.’s (AFSC) offices, plenty of other families have been affected.

“We have 539 inspections generated out of that night,” said Brian Tainsh, from the corporation’s Lacombe office.

AFSC is a provincial Crown corporation that provides farmers, agribusinesses and other small businesses with loans, crop insurance and farm income disaster assistance.

Hail damage has extended from Red Deer to Airdrie, with claims also coming in from the Strathmore, Olds and Three Hills areas.

“Basically that Highway 2 corridor was hit pretty good.”

While the claim numbers are high, even more came in following the July 17 and 19 hail storms that hit locations across the province.

“Throughout the province those days gave us more claims. They were spread all over Alberta those nights.

“We’ve got lots of hail here. Since mid-July, just about every day there is a storm somewhere in the province.”

About 100 inspectors are out checking fields for damage. They are working on the July 17 and 19 storms currently. Some farmers had two or three storms hit their fields.

Typically, inspectors wait 10 days before going out

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Through this week the Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society is hosting what they are calling their ScanVenger Hunt. Taking place at the Cronquist House at Bower Ponds, the hunt will have participants using their smartphones to follow the QR clues around Bower Ponds to collect all the stations. Here Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society manager Delores Coghill, left, and Cronquist House interpreter and programer Malorie Montpetit scan the code on the front of the building.

The Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society is also hosting a Murder Mystery evening this Friday. If interested, contact the house at 403-346-0055 to register. to the field to better assess the lasting damage.

The random nature of hail storms is apparent when talking to other area producers.

“In the immediate area, we’re sitting pretty good,” said Terry Young, who farms near Joffre. “There were no issues at all this year. We’ve had the odd storm.”

He’d heard there was more damage and golf ballsized hail further to the east between Joffre and Delburne. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

ALTALINK: Transmission line upgrades approved AltaLink recently obtained Alberta Utilities Commission approval for transmission line upgrades at Red Deer, Sylvan Lake, Didsbury, Innisfail and Ponoka, as well as for new substations near Innisfail, Didsbury and Ponoka. These changes will increase line capacity from 138,000 volts to 240,000 volts in most cases.

Dennis Frehlich, executive vice-president and chief operation officer with AltaLink, said the first of the regional upgrades should begin this fall.

“We’ll be able to have that in place in the 2015 time period, which will be in time to meet future load growth in the region fairly well.”

The remaining projects should wrap up by 2016, he added.

The two men expect WATL and the Central Alberta upgrades to satisfy Southern and Central Alberta’s electricity needs for decades to come, especially since WATL has been designed so that its initial 1,000 megawatt capacity can be easily quadrupled without adding lines.

Numbers are unofficial.

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Meanwhile, the pending sale of AltaLink to Berkshire Hathaway Energy by SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. still requires approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission.

Thon expressed optimism that the $3.2-billion deal will proceed.

“At the end of the day, Albertans won’t see a difference in the operations,” he said.

AltaLink will remain subject to Alberta Utilities Commission and Alberta Electric System Operator controls, said Thon, and will have the same management team and independent board of directors that it does now.

Berkshire Hathaway has committed to reinvest its earnings in Alberta and Canada, and to double its community and charitable contributions over the next three years, to about $6 million.

Operationally, AltaLink should benefit from access to increased resources and the opportunity to share best practices with other utilities owned by Berkshire Hathaway.

Asked about critics’ objections to a foreign company owning the electrical transmission system in Alberta, Thon pointed out that AltaLink previously had shareholders from the United States and Australia.

“Financial capital from around the world has really built Alberta, and there’s nothing different in this.”

At the end of the day, he summed up, it’s all about ensuring the timely and efficient movement of electricity between producers and consumers.

“We have some big initiatives that we’re working on to try to speed up that process, because I know we get a lot of feedback from customers who say we need to get faster at hooking them up, whether they’re a new business that needs power or whether they’re a new generator that wants to supply.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Water ban mostly lifted

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TAILINGS SPILL

LIKELY, B.C. — A drinking water ban that followed a mine tailings spill in British Columbia was mostly lifted Tuesday and fish from the area were declared safe to eat — the latest signs that health officials believe the spill won’t have a significant impact on people or aquatic life.

The tailings dam at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine failed last Monday, sending millions of cubic metres of water and silt spilling into lakes and rivers in a remote area about 600 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

More than 300 people were ordered not to drink or bathe in their water as the company that owns the mine, Imperial Metals (TSX:III), started cleaning up the mess and the government set out to test what exactly leaked out.

Initial test results came back within drinking-water and aquatic-life guidelines, prompting the local health authority to partially lift the water ban last Friday.

Dr. Trevor Corneil of the Interior Health said most of the remaining ban was lifted Tuesday afternoon, with the exception of Polley Lake, which sits next to the failed tailings pond; an adjacent creek that flows into Quesnel Lake; and a small portion of Quesnel Lake.

“I have no reason to believe that this water was ever exposed to unsafe levels of contaminants from the mine breach,” Corneil said during a conference call with reporters on Tuesday.

The area that remains under a water ban is largely uninhabited.

Another major concern has been

would normally be the busiest time of the year.

The leaders of the Williams Lake Indian Band and the Soda Creek Indian Band say they want to see independent testing that examines the fish, not the water.

Some experts have suggested it is still far too early to say for sure what impact the spill will have on salmon in the long-term.

The First Nations Health Authority, which oversees aboriginal health care in B.C., is preparing a program to catch and test salmon to assess the potential impact on human health.

Corneil said the salmon tissue testing would provide “additional reassurance,” but he insisted there was no need to wait before giving people the all clear to eat the fish.

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans issued a notice last week closing the recreational salmon fishery on Quesnel River and Cariboo River because of the tailings spill, though the closure doesn’t apply to First Nations.

The recreational salmon fishing ban remained in effect as of Tuesday afternoon.

The provincial government said water and debris continues to flow out of the tailings pond, though it has “decreased dramatically.” The company is building a temporary dyke to block more tailings from leaking out.

The province has said it will be the company’s responsibility to pay for the cleanup.

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Seven facing 23 charges under Wildlife Act LAC STE. ANNE — Alberta game wardens have broken up a ring trafficking in wild meat and fish in central Alberta.

Seven people are accused of illegally selling big game meat and fish to undercover agents.

Officers seized 322 packages of moose and elk meat, worth about $6,500 on the black market.

They also seized $1,000 in cash and a 2013 Ford F-150 truck.

Investigators received a tip that wildlife was being illegally bought and sold in the Lac Ste. Anne, west of Edmonton.

The investigation wrapped up a month ago.

The board is investigating.

Insurance Bureau of Canada pegs Alberta hailstorms damage at $25M CALGARY — Two hailstorms that hit north of Calgary have been classified as a catastrophe by the Insurance Bureau of Canada and damage is pegged at more than $25 million.

Last Thursday, the city of Airdrie, was hit with a thunderstorm that produced hail stones as large as golf balls in some areas.

The hail punched holes in the siding, eaves and windows of homes in the city and dented and smashed windows and lights on vehicles.

On Friday, another thunderstorm swept through the area also bringing heavy winds and hail.

Residents are still cleaning up from both storms and auto body shops in the area say it will be months before they can deal with the backlog of damaged vehicles.

The bureau says hail season in Alberta typically runs from June through to September and says vehicle and

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A aerial view shows the damage caused by a tailings pond breach near the town of Likely, B.C. Tuesday, August, 5, 2014. The B.C. government says water testing results following a massive mine tailings spill are within guidelines for drinking water and aquatic life. whether fish that live in or pass through the affected lakes and rivers would be harmed by the mine waste.

Corneil said that based on the water testing and what health officials know about what spilled out of the tailings pond, the fish in the area are safe to eat. He said that assessment doesn’t apply to fish located within the area still under a water ban.

“We actually have no evidence there has been any exposure to these fish, and therefore I can say with confi-

dence ... that these fish are safe to eat,” he said.

Corneil said even if fish passed through sediment contaminated with heavy metals, they wouldn’t be exposed to such toxins for a long enough period of time to pose a danger to humans.

The chiefs in two First Nations communities in the area have said their residents don’t trust the government’s claims that the fish are safe, so they’ve opted not to harvest salmon in what

homeowners should check policies to ensure they are up-to-date and cover their needs.

“It’s a fact that the frequency, severity and cost of severe weather are on the rise all across Canada,” says Bill Adams, IBC vice-president, Western and Pacific.

“We’re certainly seeing this in Alberta and the Prairie provinces where homes are being damaged more frequently by hail, heavy rainfall and strong winds, which makes it critical for people to know how to protect themselves and their property.”

The IBC says severe storms in Alberta resulted in more than $700 million in insured losses in 2012 and in 2011, storms and hail accounted for another $380 million in insured losses.

The coroner says the woman was seen falling off the 150-metre cliff.

She was dead at the scene and her body was recovered by a Waterton Search and Rescue team.

Helicopter’s hard landing injures four WHITECOURT — Four people on board a helicopter that spun, hit trees and rolled in a remote area west of Edmonton have suffered minor injuries.

Chris Krepski with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada says three passengers and a pilot were on a Bell 206 helicopter when “it encountered a loss of tail rotor effectiveness due to the wind.”

He says the people on board were doing pine beetle survey work west of Whitecourt at the time.

Krepski says the helicopter is owned by Valhalla Helicopter and was extensively damaged.

Edmonton woman killed in 150-metre fall from B.C. cliff KELOWNA, B.C. — An Edmonton woman has been identified as the person who fell to her death from a cliff while hiking in southeastern B.C. The BC Coroners Service says 23-year-old Sarah Lamarche was hiking with a friend on Aug. 7 when she fell.

Lamarche had been working at Waterton Lakes National Park in southwestern Alberta.

The coroners’ service says the woman and her friend began their hike in Alberta, but crossed into remote country in B.C.

Judicial council set hearing dates to determine whether Manitoba judge fit to rule OTTAWA — The Canadian Judicial Council has announced new hearings to determine whether Manitoba Justice Lori Douglas is fit to sit on the bench.

The hearings, set for November, come four years after Douglas was first accused of sexual harassment by a former client of her husband, lawyer Jack King, and two years after the first hearings were scrapped under accusations of bias against Douglas by the panel of judges and lawyers deciding her fate.

There’s also confusion as to how the case can proceed now that King has died and the accuser, Alexander Chapman, has moved to Trinidad.

Council director Norman Sabourin said Tuesday that lawyers for Douglas are working with the new panel and the Independent Council to figure out how to handle King’s testimony.

He testified in the first hearings but died in April of cancer. Sabourin said if the various parties can’t agree how to handle that situation, it will be dealt with in preliminary hearings scheduled for October. The inquiry has been dragging under the weight of numerous court challenges, resignations and ill will between various parties.

Douglas’s lawyers wanted the whole thing quashed by a federal court. The original independent lawyer hired to present the case quit in 2012. In letters released recently his resignation came

because he felt he was not being allowed to operate independently.

The five-member panel also resigned. A new independent council was appointed, as well as a new, threemember panel to hear the case.

Douglas has been on paid leave from the bench since August 2010.

The accusations stem from an incident in 2004 in which King attempted to get Chapman to have sex with Douglas, including sending Chapman nude photos of her. King’s law firm paid Chapman a $25,000 settlement for the matter. King was chastised by the Manitoba Law Society for it in 2011.

Police standoff with armed man ends peacefully in Saskatoon after 13 hours SASKATOON — A standoff between police and an armed man in Saskatoon has ended peacefully.

It started about 4 a.m. Tuesday when police were called to a home in the 100 block of Avenue O South following reports of a man firing a gun and threatening to harm himself. When police arrived, a 20-year-old man barricaded himself in the basement of the house with a gun. Thirteen hours later, police negotiators finally talked the man out of the house and put him in handcuffs.

Gunshots echoed through the neighbourhood throughout the day as police tried to control the situation.

Tyler Stewart of Stewart Properties manages the property and says the man involved has a history of mental illness.

“We knew right away it was a fellow who doesn’t rent there, but he is the son of the lady who rents there and because of his history with mental illness, we thought he was hospitalized, but I guess he got out,” Stewart said.

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Middle East’s new realities After half a century of stasis, there are big new strategic realities in the Middle East, but people are having trouble getting their heads around them. Take the United States, for example. Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state in President Barack Obama’s first administration, is still lamenting her former boss’s failure to send more military help to the “moderate” rebels in Syria.

“The failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton GWYNNE told Atlantic DYER magazine recently. She’s actually claiming that early and lavish military aid to the right people would have overthrown Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, while freezing the al-Qaida/ISIS jihadis out.

If only.

Clinton travels a lot, but she never really leaves the Washington bubble.

There are intelligence officials there who would gladly explain to her that almost all the desirable weaponry sent to the “moderates” in Syria ends up in the hands of the jihadis, who either buy it or just take it, but she wouldn’t listen. It falls outside the “consensus.”

Yet that really is how ISIS acquires most of its heavy weapons. The most striking case of that was in early June, when the Iraqi army, having spent $41.6 billion in the past three years on training its troops and equipping them with American heavy weapons, ran away from Mosul and northern Iraq and handed a good quarter of them over to ISIS. In fact, that’s the weaponry that is now enabling ISIS to conquer further territory in eastern Syria and in Iraqi Kurdistan. Which, in turn, is why Obama has now authorized air strikes in Iraq to stop ISIS troops from overrunning Irbil, the Kurdish capital.

By now, he has also presumably abandoned his proposal of last June to spend $500 million to train and equip “appropriately vetted” Syrian opposition fighters. (They were then supposedly going to overthrow Assad with one hand while crushing the jihadis with the other.)

But Obama has not yet dropped the other shoe. A lot of people have not dropped their other shoes yet. They all know that the whole strategic environment has changed. They realize that may require new policies and even new allies. Changing horses in midstream is always a tricky business, so the realignments are only slowly getting underway, but you can see where they are going to go.

The proclamation of the “Islamic State” in eastern Syria and northwestern Iraq has huge implications for ev-

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ery country in the Middle East, but for most of the great powers — Russia, the United States, China, India, Britain, France and Germany — it is almost the only thing they still care about in the region. They all have Muslim minorities of their own, and they all want the Islamic State stopped, or at the very least isolated, contained and quarantined.

That means that both the Syrian and Iraqi governments must survive, and they will probably get enough outside help to do so (although it will take time for the U.S. and the major European powers to switch sides and openly back Assad). The army of the Iraqi Kurds might hold its own against the Islamic State if it had better weapons, so it will get them (although Baghdad will not welcome a more powerful Kurdish army).

Containing the Islamic State to the north will be a simpler task, because Iran and Turkey are very big, well organized states whose populations are

relatively invulnerable to the ISIS brand of Sunni fundamentalism. But to the south of the Islamic State is Saudi Arabia, and that is a country that faces some tough decisions.

The Wahhabi strand of Sunni Islam which is Saudi Arabia’s official religion is very close to the beliefs of the jihadis who now rule the Islamic State to their north. Much of their financial support and even their weapons have come from Saudi Arabia. But the rulers of that kingdom would be extremely unwise to assume that the jihadis regard Saudi Arabia’s current political arrangements as legitimate, or that gratitude would restrain them.

Nor will the long-standing U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia endure if Saudi ties to the jihadis are not broken. Riyadh will have to decide, and it will be aware that its oil is no longer so vital to the United States that it can have it both ways.

The Iranian-U.S. rapprochement will continue, and the issue of Iran’s

alleged nuclear weapons ambitions will be settled amicably despite Israel’s protests. Indeed, Israel may come under irresistible US pressure to stop whacking the Palestinians or the Lebanese Shias every couple of years, stop the settlement programme, and get on with the two-state deal. Washington would very much like Israel to stop alienating the people it needs as allies.

Further afield, General Sisi’s new regime in Egypt can count on strong American support, and may even be encouraged by Washington to intervene militarily in Libya and shut down the Islamist militias there. Tunisia will be the only remaining flower of the Arab Spring, although there has also been a certain amount of progress in Morocco. But in the heartland of the Arab world, war will flourish and democracy will not.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles on world affairs are published in 45 countries.

Mulcair must stem growing unease Canada’s New Democrats have a history of patiently playing the long game, a virtue — some would argue — that has at least partly been borne out of electoral necessity.

In contrast with their Liberal cousins, it is not in their culture to turn their knives on a leader at the first signs of potential trouble.

Given the miserable summer the party is having, that’s fortunate for NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. If he were leading a party with a strong killer instinct, he might be fighting for his political life by now.

CHANTAL Mulcair may not be contending with a mutiny but he HÉBERT may have to grip his ship’s wheel with both hands if he is to stay the centrist course he has set the NDP on, for he is sailing in increasingly choppy waters.

In politics, the success of a strategy is inevitably measured in votes and, so far, Mulcair’s approach is yielding negative returns.

On that score, the loss earlier this summer of Olivia Chow’s former Trinity-Spadina seat was a blow to party morale.

The fact that it was not offset by NDP inroads in the other three ridings at play in the July set of fed-

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eral byelections compounded that blow.

Polls suggest that Mulcair’s attempts to woo suburban Ontario are continuing to fall on deaf ears.

More than a year into Justin Trudeau’s leadership and even from third place in the House of Commons, the Liberals remain widely perceived as the default alternative to the ruling Conservatives.

If anything, July’s byelection results reinforced that perception and it stands to give Trudeau a strong edge on the NDP when it comes to recruiting candidates for next year’s general election.

And then, even more so than when Parliament is sitting, the summer is a season when events determine the hand a federal opposition leader has to play.

As it happens, fate has dealt Mulcair some pretty poor cards over the past month.

The near-completion of a comprehensive trade deal between Canada and the European Union was the major economic development of an otherwise quiet domestic summer, but it offered the NDP precious little to chew on.

The final text of the agreement is still under wraps. More importantly, Mulcair has used this deal to cast the NDP as a more trade-friendly party.

The Canada/EU deal enjoys the backing of Quebec’s political establishment and the support of every current provincial government.

It would be political suicide for the federal NDP to go to the barricades against it but that does not necessarily sit well with some of its traditional allies.

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Among the major federal parties, none struggles internally with the Middle East file to the degree that the New Democratic Party does and its Quebec ranks are not immune to those divisions.

The Middle East policy of the party is not a ballotbox issue in most of the ridings the NDP holds in Quebec. (Mulcair’s Outremont riding may be the main exception as it is home to a significant Hasidic community). But a vocal part of Quebec’s intelligentsia is critical of Canada’s pro-Israel stance and some of its members are increasingly taking the NDP to task over the fact that only shades of grey seem to distinguish its position from that of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

In an effort to nuance the NDP’s position on energy exports, Mulcair has cautiously endorsed a plan to link Alberta’s oilsands to the refineries of Canada’s East Coast.

But Quebec’s influential environmental movement begs to differ and its opposition could resonate in many NDP-held ridings over the next year.

For Mulcair, a difficult summer has so far not turned into one of epidemic discontent. But this is the season when all parties are getting in gear for the 2015 election and the exercise is driving the New Democratic Party not on the coveted fast lane but into some potentially deep potholes.

With a year to go to the next federal campaign, popular support for the NDP is not growing but unease within its ranks is.

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WAKEFIELD, Que. — With a multibillion dollar surplus just around the corner, federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver suggests the spending tap is about to be slowly turned back on in Ottawa — just in time for a general election.

After years of austerity budgets under predecessor Jim Flaherty, when the Harper government ran deficits in the wake of the 2008 recession, Oliver is now talking about “prudent spending,” paying down debt and trimming taxes.

Next year’s spending plan — Oliver’s first since taking over the finance role earlier this year in the wake of Flaherty’s sudden death — is expected to be the first surplus budget in seven years.

Kicking off a summer retreat at a quaint country resort in Wakefield, Que., not far from Parliament Hill, Oliver hinted Tuesday that the package would include income tax cuts and other tax reductions, thanks to an expected $6.5-billion surplus.

“I’m talking about reducing taxes for Canadian families and individuals, yes,” he said in response to a question about whether he plans to cut income taxes.

Ottawa last recorded a $10.3-billion surplus in 2007 before the world economy turned Canada’s books red in the form of a $6.1-billion dollar shortfall the following year.

In 2009, that deficit ballooned to a record $58.2 billion as the government tried to fuel job creation.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINDSOR, Ont. — Canada’s selfstyled “Prince of Pot” returned to a raucous welcome from supporters Tuesday after serving his U.S. sentence for selling marijuana seeds, vowing to continue his activism even if it means more arrests.

Loud cheers and large clouds of pot smoke arose as Marc Emery, 56, arrived in this border city after completing his five-year sentence for selling marijuana seeds from Canada to American customers.

Emery hugged his wife, Jodie Emery, who wants to run in next year’s federal election for the Liberals — Leader Justin Trudeau supports legalizing marijuana — then launched into a long, pro-Liberal speech peppered with prison anecdotes.

“I do believe that they are sincere that they will legalize marijuana,” Emery said.

“I know it’s the most uncool thing in the world to have to say, especially to young people, that voting is the answer, but it is. It absolutely is.”

Legalization of marijuana — which Emery said should include expunging the record of everyone ever convicted of a related offence — is the only issue in the next election that can have a “profound impact” on Canadians’ lives, he said.

“Critics say, ‘Well, Canadians are interested in far more important things,”’ Emery said. “I say, ‘What? What are you interested in? The economy? The environment? Health care? You can’t do anything about that by voting. No vote’s going to change that.”

Emery acknowledged that he has a lot of work ahead, as many people in the “cannabis culture” don’t often vote, but he called it an “underestimated voting block,” with a lot of potential power.

“If we can get this Liberal majority government next year we’ll never need to go to the polls to make marijuana legal ever again,” he said.

In the meantime, he plans to hit 30 Canadian cities next year ahead of the election, tour universities in the winter and take his message international, going to countries such as Spain and Ireland.

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BRIEF Harper offers ‘additional help’ to Obama in phone call over crisis in Iraq OTTAWA — Stephen Harper expressed strong support for U.S. air strikes in Iraq during a telephone conversation today with President Barack Obama.

The two leaders talked about the latest developments in the unfolding crisis and Harper expressed Canada’s willingness to do more on the humanitarian aid front.

Jason MacDonald, a spokesman for Harper, says the pair agreed on the need to confront the terrorist threat posed by the al-Qaida splinter group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The group has already swept across northern and eastern Iraq, occupying almost one-third of the country.

MacDonald says Harper indicated Canada is ready to offer additional help, and that Canadian officials will work with their counterparts to identify additional avenues for humanitarian relief.

On Sunday, the federal government said it would send $5 million in additional emergency supplies and humanitarian aid to Iraq, including food, medicine, cooking materials and blankets.

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about Canada’s ability to create jobs, nothing that the improving U.S. economy is expected to help the job-creation effort north of the border.

Not long after Oliver’s remarks, Statistics Canada admitted Tuesday that it made a mistake in its most recent job numbers, which said just 200 new jobs were created in July, a figure well short of expert expectations.

The agency said a revised report would be issued Friday.

“Taking the very rare step of issuing a formal correction . . . suggests that this will not be a minor revision,” Scotiabank said in a note to its clients.

Oliver also said Tuesday that he saw no immediate concerns about a potential downward correction in Canada’s housing market.

“We’re monitoring the market carefully, but are not alarmed by what we see.”

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hunt against the NDP.

NDP’s controversial satelliteoffice expenses offside, Commons committee rules OTTAWA — The committee that oversees House of Commons spending says the Opposition New Democrats owe a “significant” sum for salaries improperly paid to aides who worked out of satellite party offices in Quebec.

That sum will be on top of the $1.17 million in free mailing privileges the board ruled in June were wrongly used by NDP MPs to send almost two million mass partisan mailings to households in 26 ridings.

John Duncan, a Conservative MP and spokesman for the multi-party committee, says the latest dollar figure has yet to be determined, but he expects it to be a “significant number” since the wrongdoing dates back to 2011.

“The rules are clear and it is clear, once again, that the NDP has broken the rules,” Duncan told a news conference on Parliament Hill.

The NDP used parliamentary resources to pay for offices that were not properly authorized, he said, adding Commons administrators are being asked to prepare various options to ensure the recovery of the funds.

New Democrats have already launched a court challenge against the board’s ruling on the mailings, and are expected to do the same on the satellite office issue.

NDP whip Nycole Turmel said earlier today that her colleagues have done nothing wrong.

Turmel blames Conservatives and Liberals on the board of internal economy for indulging in a partisan witch

Bloc MP Fortin quits; says the party no longer exists under new leader MONTREAL — Bloc Quebecois MP Jean-Francois Fortin is leaving the party and will sit as an Independent until the 2015 federal election.

Fortin said in a statement today the Bloc Quebecois he joined no longer exists.

The 40-year-old has represented Haute-Gaspesie-La Mitis-Matane-Matapedia since 2011.

Fortin says new Bloc Leader Mario Beaulieu has a one-dimensional, uncompromising approach that ends the credibility established by previous party leaders.

Canadian cleric defends campaign to oust Pakistani government TORONTO — A Pakistani-Canadian cleric who is leading the campaign to topple the government in his native country says he will continue his fight, despite a murder investigation launched against him by Pakistani police.

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who left Canada in June to return to Pakistan, is calling on thousands of his supporters to march on the capital Islamabad on Thursday in a bid to oust the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Qadri and another anti-government leader — former cricket legend Imran Khan — allege that the nationwide election last year was widely rigged and are demanding a new vote.

TORONTO — Toronto’s police chief has filed a defamation notice against Mayor Rob Ford’s brother for comments the city councillor made earlier this month.

Doug Ford suggested two weeks ago that Chief Bill Blair helped leak information that police were preparing to subpoena the mayor in an ongoing investigation as “payback.”

At the time, Blair said Ford was lying and warned that he was prepared to take legal action.

Toronto police spokesman Mark Pugash says the defamation notice was handed to the councillor on Monday night.

Pugash says the notice asks for a public retraction and apology.

He says the legal action is being

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The annual summer economic retreat is billed as an opportunity for the finance minister to gather information in preparation for his fall economic update and the budget in the spring.

The two-day gathering saw a pareddown list of just 16 invited guests, including the heads of investment firms, big retailers and resource companies, economists and one newspaper columnist.

Many invitees were unavailable due to conflict schedules over the summer holidays, said Oliver, who dismissed suggestions that the guests might have been chosen on the basis of their political leanings.

Officials said the minister was seeking ideas on how to create more jobs, along with feedback on the government’s current fiscal plan.

Prior to the start of the meeting, Oliver said he’s not overly concerned

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. — The police chief in a St. Louis suburb where a police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager said he’s holding off on publicly identifying the officer because of death threats.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said he planned to release the officer’s name on Tuesday but changed course after threats were called into the police department and City Hall, and posted on social media. The officer was placed on administrative leave Saturday after fatally shooting 18-year-old Michael Brown. “If we come out and say, ‘it was this officer,’ then he immediately becomes a target,� Jackson said. “We’re taking the threats seriously.�

Jackson didn’t disclose specifics of the threats, but he said the decision came after a stream of death threats against the officer and other officers.

The case has stoked racial tension, protests and looting in Ferguson, a predominantly black city with roughly 21,000 residents. Despite calls for calm from Brown’s family and civil rights leaders, crowds turned violent for two nights.

A large crowd that gathered throughout Monday at the site of a burned-out convenience store turned rowdy at nightfall, with people throwing rocks at police, Jackson said. Officers used tear gas and shot “beanbag rounds� meant to stun them.

There were at least five arrests but no reports of looting, St. Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman said. The night before, nearly three dozen people were arrested following a candlelight vigil as crowds burned stores, vandalized vehicles, assaulted reporters and taunted officers. “People are tired. They have reached the end of their rope,� Ruth Latchison Nichols said after a crowded town meeting Monday night hosted by the NAACP. “Enough is enough. This is a state of emergency.�

By early Tuesday, the streets were once again calm. A handful of police officers sat in patrol cars near the burned out gas station, vastly outnumbered by news crews putting together their early reports in Ferguson, which is nearly 70 per cent black.

National NAACP President Cornell William Brooks implored residents to “turn your anger into action� while condemning the violent response to Brown’s death. The organization hosted a community forum Monday that drew hundreds of people.

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A makeshift memorial sits in the middle of the street where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police, Monday, in Ferguson, Mo. The FBI has opened an investigation into the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager on Saturday whose death stirred unrest in a St. Louis suburb. “To sneak around under the cover of darkness, to steal, to loot, to burn down your neighbourhood — this does not require courage,� he said. “Courage is when you strive for justice.� “Martin Luther King did not live and die so that we may steal and lie in the middle of the night,� he added.

Witnesses have said that Brown had his hands raised when the unidentified officer approached with his weapon drawn and repeatedly fired.

Authorities have been vague about what led the

officer to open fire, saying only that the shooting — which is being investigated by St. Louis County police — was preceded by a scuffle of some kind with a man in which the officer’s weapon discharged inside a patrol car.

Brown’s parents, who planned to drop their son off at a technical college Monday, have been among those calling for calm. His family also is asking for people to come forward with information or videos related to the shooting. Police have said there is no security or police video of the incident.

Use of untested Ebola drugs ethical, says WHO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Using untested Ebola treatments to help quell the current unprecedented outbreak in West Africa is ethical, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.

But the Geneva-based global health agency said countries that use experimental treatments have a moral obligation to collect data on those who are treated so the world can learn what works against Ebola — and which treatments to stop using, if any turn out to be unsafe.

The statement came following a daylong meeting Monday of an expert panel the WHO convened to

advise it on the thorny ethical issues of using experimental drugs in this outbreak. It was comprised of ethicists — including University of Toronto professor Dr. Ross Upshur — a representative of a patient advocacy group and others.

While the statement may clear the way for additional use of experimental Ebola products, it made no reference to the fact that there are barely any supplies of any of them in stock. Making clinical grade experimental drugs is costly and in the early stages of drug development companies generally only make small batches.

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MOSCOW — With a theatrical flourish, Russia on Tuesday dispatched hundreds of trucks covered in white tarps and sprinkled with holy water on a mission to deliver aid to a desperate rebel-held zone in eastern Ukraine.

The televised sight of the miles-long convoy sparked a show of indignation from the government in Kyiv, which insisted any aid must be delivered by the international Red Cross. Ukraine and the West have openly expressed its concern that Moscow intends to use the cover of a humanitarian operation to embark on a military incursion in support of proRussian separatists.

Compounding those anxieties, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday was set to travel to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula Russia annexed in March.

Putin so far has resisted calls from both pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and nationalists at home to send Russian troops to back the mutiny, a move that would be certain to trigger devastating Western sanctions. But dispatching the convoy sent a powerful visual symbol helping the Kremlin counter criticism from the nationalists who accuse Putin of betrayal.

The convoy provoked controversy as soon as it started moving early Tuesday from the outskirts of Moscow on its long voyage toward the Ukrainian border.

Russian television showed hundreds of white

trucks which authorities said were loaded with nearly 2,000 metric tons of cargo from baby food to portable generators. A Russian Orthodox priest sprinkled holy water on the trucks, some of which bore a red cross, before they departed.

Officials with both the International Committee of the Red Cross and Ukraine’s government said, however, that they had no information about what the trucks were carrying or where they were headed.

A Ukrainian security spokesman said the convoy of white-tarped vehicles was being managed by the Russian army and could not as a result be allowed into the country.

The government in Kyiv said the Russian trucks could unload their contents at the border and transfer the aid to vehicles leased by the ICRC. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded that the convoy hit the road only after Ukraine had given the green light. “We have received a note expressing the Ukrainian side’s readiness to accept the aid,” he said.

Lavrov added that Russia has bowed to Ukrainian demands the convoy enter its territory through a checkpoint designated by Kyiv and that Ukrainian number plates be put on trucks there.

Lavrov said that the idea to unload the trucks on the border and put the cargo on chartered vehicles had come under discussion, but had been rejected for cost reasons.

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mand to put Ukrainian representatives on board the trucks alongside Red Cross staff.

The Ukrainian government has insisted that aid must cross at a government-held border crossing. At least 100 kilometres (60 miles) of the long border between the two neighbours is in rebel hands.

Valeriy Chaly, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, said a suitable transfer point could be between Russia’s Belgorod region and Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, which has been spared the major unrest seen farther south. Chaly said that any attempt to take humanitarian goods into Ukraine without authorization would be viewed as an attack Ukraine has stressed that the effort to alleviate hardship in the conflict-wracked Luhansk region should be seen as an international undertaking.

Officials in Kyiv have said Russia’s involvement in the humanitarian mission is required to ensure co-operation from separatist rebel forces, who have consistently expressed their allegiance to Moscow.

French President Francois Hollande discussed the aid delivery Tuesday with Putin, saying “he emphasized the strong fears evoked by a unilateral Russian mission in Ukrainian territory.” Hollande told Putin that any mission must be multilateral and have the agreement of the ICRC and Ukraine, according to a statement in Paris.

NATO was following the situation closely, spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said.

“Without the formal, express consent and authorization of the Ukrainian government, any humanitarian intervention would be unacceptable and illegal,” she said.

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With the talks continuing well into the evening, it was unclear whether the two enemies had made any progress as a temporary truce expires midnight Wednesday.

The negotiations took place after a three-day truce brokered by Egypt took effect Monday. A similar truce collapsed last Friday after Gaza militants quickly resumed rocket fire with its expiration.

The monthlong Gaza war has killed more than 1,900 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians, Palestinian and U.N. officials say. In Israel, 67 people have been killed, all but three of them soldiers.

Hamas is demanding an end to an Israel-Egyptian blockade that has ravaged Gaza’s economy. Israel says the blockade is needed to keep Hamas, which fired thousands of rockets into Israel during the war, from smuggling weapons. Israel is seeking guarantees that it disarm.

With the truce set to expire, Egypt pressed the sides hard to reach a deal.

“The talks are difficult but serious,” Moussa Abu Marzouk, head of the Hamas delegation, wrote on his Facebook page. “The delegation needs to achieve the hopes of the people.”

Hamas, shunned by the international community as a terrorist organization, seized control of Gaza from internationally backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007.

Any deal will almost certainly include an increased role by Abbas. The Palestinian leader recently formed a unity government backed by Hamas, ostensibly putting him in charge of Gaza. But in reality, Hamas, with its thousands of fighters and arsenal of rockets, remains the real power.

Another member of the Palestinian delegation reported some progress, saying Israel had offered a number of gestures aimed at improving life for Gaza’s 1.8 million residents.

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July jobs numbers botched

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

STATSCAN REPORT

OTTAWA — A cloud of doubt settled over Canada’s dismal July jobs numbers Tuesday as Statistics Canada announced that it made an error in formulating the figures.

Corrected data will be released Friday, one week after the agency reported a measly 200 positions were created in July — a number that fell woefully short of expectations and left the Conservative government reeling.

“We had an independent analyst that was working on something else and by comparing numbers, he signalled to us something after the release of the data,” Sylvie Michaud, director general at the education, labour and income branch of Statistics Canada, said in an interview.

“So we investigated and we’ve been able to isolate the error. We know where it happened in the process, so we’re rerunning all the tables to prepare for another release this Friday.”

Michaud offered no hints about whether the corrected labour force survey would amount to good news or bad news for the Canadian economy.

The monthly jobs numbers are a significant economic indicator.

The news of a formulation mistake came as Finance Minister Joe Oliver met with guests at a two-day summer retreat in Wakefield, Que., to discuss the Canadian economy. Job creation is one of several key items on the agenda.

Economists had expected the economy to bounce back from an unanticipated decline of 9,400 jobs in June, and add as many as 20,000 new jobs the following month.

Instead, Statcan reported that the number of full-time jobs fell by 59,700 while part-time jobs increased by 60,000 — figures it now suggests were faulty.

Soon after Statistics Canada released its July figures last week, Sco-

Ebola drug developer sees wild swings in stock price

tiabank economists suggested they didn’t add up.

“What caught our attention was a series of remarkable coincidences that — while not statistically impossible to explain collectively — nevertheless arise with the regularity of asteroids hitting our planet,” economists Derek Holt and Dov Zigler wrote on their Scotia Flash report.

Among the peculiarities, they noted, was the fact that full-time job losses were almost exactly offset by part-time job gains, while the drop in goods-producing jobs was precisely matched by a rise in service jobs.

As well, they pointed out, “35,400 people left the workforce all because they voluntarily counted themselves out of searching for work as the number of unemployed dropped by 35,700 despite no job growth during the month.”

The Statistics Canada report also suggested 42,000 construction jobs were lost in July, even though housing starts rose for the month.

“It’s pretty rare — so rare that I can’t recall a prior occasion,” Holt said of the error.

In an updated report Tuesday, Holt also questioned Statistics Canada’s decision to wait until Friday to release the corrected figures when “they know they have an error now.” The mistake, once unheard of for an agency that used to be heralded as among the best of its kind in the world, is just the latest in a series of quality-related controversies that have dogged Statistics Canada in recent years. Earlier this year, auditor general Michael Ferguson concluded that the agency’s top survey on job vacancies is too vague and provides little value to governments and other users. Ferguson said the Statistics Canada survey of employment, payrolls and hours doesn’t provide specifics on the precise location of job vacancies within a province, and answers few questions about which particular jobs need filling.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A Canadian company developing an experimental Ebola drug has seen its stock swing wildly in recent days, but analysts say the underlying outlook for Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. hasn’t been swayed by the outbreak of the deadly virus.

Vancouver-based Tekmira’s stock (TSX:TMK) closed down nearly 22 per cent at $20.25 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s drop followed a nearly 60 per cent surge over the previous two trading sessions.

“The recent trading activity in the stock has been more trading driven than investment driven,” said Doug Loe, an analyst with Euro Pacific Canada.

But longer term, Loe said he sees upside potential in the wider array of products Tekmira has in the development pipeline.

Tekmira announced last Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had “verbally confirmed” it would relax a clinical hold on its TKMEbola drug, potentially enabling its use in individuals stricken with the deadly virus.

The outbreak has killed more than 1,000 people in West Africa since March.

Jason Kolbert, an analyst at Maxim Group in New York, said investors were “freaking out” because a Spanish priest, who was reportedly treated with another Ebola drug called ZMapp, died Tuesday in Madrid after being flown out of Liberia.

Kolbert said he sees “no relationship whatsoever” between the prospects for ZMapp and TKM-Ebola, as the two treatments take completely different approaches.

“However, just as the people were focused on Ebola and kind of drove Tekmira shares higher, now you’re seeing selling in the stock. It’s just volatility associated with a lot of, I’d say, retail buying of Ebola biodefence names.”

“It’s a pendulum. It tends to overreact.”

The World Health Organization said Tuesday that it is ethical to use untested Ebola drugs, but that countries using experimental treatments have a moral obligation to collect data so the world can learn how to combat the virus. The statement makes no reference to the fact that these experimental therapies are currently in short supply. On Monday, ZMapp’s San Diego-based developer, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, said it had exhausted its supply of the product, components of which were created at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. Experts have said it will take three or four months for another small batch of ZMapp to be made. That drug was given to two American relief workers who contracted Ebola in Liberia and both appear to be recovering.

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Employee loyalty dropping off WORKERS QUESTION THEIR VALUE IN ORGANIZATIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Employees increasingly expect to get more out of their jobs, and are more willing than ever to walk away from an employer if they feel undervalued or unfulfilled.

But while the first instinct of many bosses is to throw more money at the problem, a higher salary isn’t always what disaffected workers are after.

“People often think it’s just money, (but) pay is just one of the things the more sophisticated companies would look at,” said David Sissons, vice president at Hay Group, a global management consulting firm.

Career and development opportunities, clarity of direction, purpose, work environment and work life balance will go a lot further to entice top talent to stay engaged in a workplace, he said, over a big pay cheque, free food or ping-pong tables at the office.

Lisa Delorme, co-founder and chief executive of Rent frock Repeat, spent 14 years working in a corporate setting with Education Management Corporation, Coca-Cola and Xerox, moving up the ranks and reaping many of the perks and benefits that come with senior positions.

But despite her achievements, Delorme couldn’t fight the feeling that

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something was missing from her work life.

“I just wasn’t enjoying the learning process anymore; I recognized that I had gotten very complacent,” she said.

“I still had some good challenges, but it wasn’t enough.”

She decided to team up with a friend to start her own company, which makes designer dresses available to rent for a fraction of the retail price, at her store and website, rentfrockrepeat. com.

Despite the challenges of running her own business and the lack of security that comes with that, Delorme, 43, says she can never see herself going back to her old jobs.

“I just wasn’t stretching myself ... whereas the last three years have been kind of like going to university and getting my MBA times 100,” she said.

Employee loyalty has always been a concern for companies, but it’s an issue that’s becoming more prevalent, given the amount of uncertainty that remains in the marketplace after the 2008 downturn and the recession, said Tina Dacin, a professor of strategy and organizational behaviour with the Queen’s School of Business.

“Since 2008,with the economy in a downturn, the tenure of top people in organizations is actually going down,” she said.

“There’s huge amount of turnover (and) a lot of the high-potential programs that organizations put in place are not actually delivering because ... by the time people get to the end of the program, the job has often changed.”

Employees at all levels also expect more for working in a connected world where they are expected to be available 24 hours a day, said Dacin.

And as the recession hangover begins to pass and job confidence increases, overburdened or disaffected employees also see more opportunity to be mobile.

“People don’t really expect a job for life anymore, so ... if they see an opportunity that’s a better fit, then they’re going to take it,” said Shannon Young, human resources manager with Randstad Canada, a leading HR and recruiting firm.

“We’re actually seeing across all levels that employees are taking more of a free agent approach, they’re taking control of their own careers and seeing themselves as their own managers.”

A recent Randstad study found that although more than half of Canadian employees said they had the perfect job, 65 per cent would leave for more money, to improve their career opportunities or if they found a job that was a better match with their educational background.

bitt Burns found that 55 per cent of those recently polled in this age group say they’re currently looking after children, parents, in-laws or other relatives.

About one-third of the 800 people who responded to the Pollara online poll said they are caring for a senior.

Thirty-nine per cent said they worry that the demands of a being a caregiver will have a negative impact on their financial goals, such as saving for retirement.

“There’s a sense among those in the sandwich generation that they’re getting squeezed and are being forced to balance a plethora of financial priorities, from paying down their mortgage to saving for their child’s education to saving for retirement,” Sylvain Brise-

bois, regional manager at BMO Nesbitt Burns, said in a statement.

“The stress that comes with caring for children and aging relatives, balancing a career and generally keeping up with daily tasks can make it hard to focus on the future and saving for retirement.”

The study also found that those polled in this age group are behind with their savings plans.

The average amount that those polled want to have save by retirement is $818,000; but the average amount that has actually been saved as of date is just $258,000.

Only 40 per cent say they have a financial plan in place. Pollara conducted the poll for BMO between July 29 and 31.

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Businesses Rona posts need clear Q2 profit direction of $42M

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The challenges of change pushes our comfort levels.

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Statistics indicate that developing and following through with specific goals is a key factor to personal and business success.

Working through this exercise is critical to building a great working environment that will actually attract the right people. I call this creating a “destination workplace.”

Let’s face it, with a less that three per cent unemployment rate, anyone you would consider hiring already has a job.

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DESPITE LOWER REVENUES lion to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) in the quarter and $27.9 million MONTREAL — Rona Inc. reported year-to-date.

“These savings directly contributed $42 million of net income from continuing operations in the second quar- to a 25 per cent increase in adjusted ter, turning around a year-earlier loss net income in the second quarter and as the major home renovation retailer 80 per cent increase year-to-date,” worked to control costs in a challeng- Sawyer said. Consolidated revenues from continuing operations were lowing environment.

The profit amounts to 35 cents per er at $1.193 billion, down 4.4 per cent from $1.249 billion share for Rona and in the same quarcompares with a ‘THE PROGRESS ter last year as Ronet loss of $38.7 milna was impacted lion from continuACHIEVED TO DATE, by what it called a ing operations, or UNDER OUR BUSINESS challenging envi32 cents per share, in the same quarter PLAN, SHOWS THAT WE ronment in the first last year.

HAVE ROLLED OUT THE halfT hofethec oquarter. mpany Last year’s secsaid the decrease ond quarter includRIGHT INITIATIVES TO primarily reflects ed a $106-million IMPROVE EFFICIENCY the closure of unloss from disconderperforming tinued operations, AND TURNAROUND stores, a late spring which took Rona’s UNDERPERFORMING in Quebec and Ontotal net loss for the tario which had a BUSINESS UNITS.’ three month period negative impact to $141.04-million.

— ROBERT SAWYER, on sales of buildDiscontinued RONA CHIEF EXECUTIVE ing materials and operations didn’t seasonal goods, have an impact on coupled with a dethis year’s second quarter. The Montreal-area company cline in housing starts in Quebec. Rona launched a program last year to im- (TSX:RON) saw improvement at stores prove its operating efficiency and de- open for at least a year. Same-store liver $110 million in total cost savings sales fell by only 0.7 per cent in the and has closed a number of big-box quarter compared with a decline of 3.4 stores in provinces such as Ontario per cent a year earlier.

Rona’s adjusted net income from and British Columbia.

The company has also been lower- continuing operations for this year’s ing prices, cutting the number of avail- second quarter was also $42 million, or able products and introducing new 35 cents per share — two cents above categories of products to attract more analysts’ estimates.

RBC Dominion Securities analyst customers to the stores.

“The progress achieved to date, un- Irene Nattel noted that cost cutting der our business plan, shows that we helped drive the “modest beat” on Rohave rolled out the right initiatives to na’s adjusted results.

“Q2 results underscore that Rona improve efficiency and turnaround underperforming business units,” chief management is doing a good job with executive Robert Sawyer said in a controllable costs, but the challenging environment continues to moderate news release on Tuesday.

Rona said the net cost savings progress on rebuilding top-line momenachieved by its plan added $10.5 mil- tum,” Nattel wrote in a research note.

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JOBS: Grappling with funding cut Another Statcan survey commissioned by Employment and Social Development Canada, which included input from 25,000 employers on workplace demographics and skills requirements, never got past the data-collection phase because funding ran out, Ferguson noted.

The auditor recommended the agency determine whether to keep certain surveys alive even after a department or organization stops providing fund-

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Statcan has been grappling with a $29.3-million funding cut over the last two years.

The Conservative government’s decision to do away with the mandatory long-form census questionnaire in 2010 cast doubts on the quality of the data produced by its replacement, the voluntary National Household Survey, in 2011.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 98.39 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.71 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.40 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.29 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.85 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.00 Cdn. National Railway . . 73.28 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 208.85 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.80 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.41 Cervus Equipment Corp 22.11 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.80 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.55 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 33.09 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.47 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.70 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.44 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.68 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 56.40 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 70.21 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.36 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.46 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 54.39 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 109.81 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.58 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.75 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.63 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed slightly higher Tuesday as geopolitical uncertainty weighed on sentiment, while traders also considered data showing how the UkraineRussia standoff is damaging investor confidence in Europe’s biggest economy.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 12.59 points to 15,274.23, with most of the lift coming from rising gold stocks.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.02 of a cent to 91.56 cents US, off the worst levels of the day, after Statistics Canada announced that it would release a revised employment report for July on Friday.

A statement on the agency’s website said an error had been detected and that it would launch a review of the data verification process.

Statistics Canada reported last Friday that the economy created only 200 jobs last month, a far cry from the approximately 15,000 positions that economists had forecast.

U.S. indexes also declined with the Dow Jones industrials off 9.44 points at 16,560.54, the Nasdaq down 12.08 points at 4,389.25 and the S&P 500 index off 3.17 points at 1,933.75.

After two days of gains on markets, the tone was more cautious Tuesday as Ukraine said it would deny entry to a Russian aid mission because it has not been certified by the Red Cross and could be a covert military operation.

Ukraine insists any aid must be delivered by the International Red Cross.

There are concerns that Russia could use the initiative as a pretext for sending troops into separatist-held territory.

“For the Ukraine issue, that’s a concern that we have and I think it’s a concern that will be long standing,” said Ben Jang, portfolio manager at Nicola Wealth Management in Vancouver. “(Russian President Vladimir) Putin is extremely popular and some days the markets are anticipating a speedy resolution and some days they aren’t but

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.27 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.77 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 68.11 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.22 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 28.65 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.94 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.17 First Quantum Minerals . 24.74 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 31.50 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.17 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.40 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.67 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.20 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.11 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.29 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 30.57 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 35.85 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 68.49 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.92 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 61.25 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 45.74 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.28 Canyon Services Group. 16.09 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.61 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.890 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 23.69 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.57 Russia is willing to sacrifice . . . for long-term gain.”

Also, Germany’s ZEW indicator of confidence among professional investment analysts sagged to a 20-month low in August. The ZEW institute’s index fell to 8.6 from 27.1. Market observers had expected a fall to only 17.0.

Fears about a possible escalation of the crisis in Ukraine have weighed on Germany’s business confidence in recent weeks.

The TSX gold sector led advancers, up about 1.77 per cent with December bullion up 10 cents to US$1,310.60 an ounce.

The energy sector led decliners, down 0.63 per cent as the September crude contract in New York declined 71 cents to US$97.37 a barrel after the International Energy Agency cut its forecast for global oil demand.

The base metals component was down 0.3 per cent as September copper shed early gains to close two cents lower at US$3.15 a pound.

In earnings news, construction company Aecon Group Inc. (TSX:ARE) posted a net loss of $12.2 million or 23 cents in its second quarter, attributed mainly to lower revenue and margins in its mining construction segment.

Analysts expected a net profit of 15 cents a share. Its shares fell 37 cents to $16.24.

And shares in home improvement retailer Rona (TSX:RON) jumped 39 cents to $12.77 as it reported quarterly net income from continuing operations of $42 million, or 35 cents per share, compared with a loss of $38.7 million, or 32 cents per share, in the same quarter in 2013. Adjusted earnings were $42 million, or 35 cents per share, compared with $33.6 million, or 28 cents per share, year-over-year. Consolidated revenues from continuing operations were down 4.4 per cent at $1.193 billion.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Tuesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,274.23, up 12.59 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 98.49 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 69.02 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.03 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.33 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.05 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.72 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.06 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.090 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.43 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 42.53 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.38 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.33 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.98 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 69.13 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 79.77 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 72.22 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.23 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 41.39 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.53 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.40 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 50.53 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.18 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.68 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.69 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.09 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.64 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.38 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.64 Dow — 16,560.54, down 9.44 points S&P 500 — 1,933.75, down 3.17 points Nasdaq — 4,389.25, down 12.08 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.56 cents US, down 0.02 of a cent Pound — C$1.8362, up 0.28 of a cent Euro — C$1.4599, down 0.16 of a cent Euro — US$1.3367, down 0.18 of a cent Oil futures: US$97.37 per barrel, down 71 cents (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,310.60 per oz., up 10 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.761 oz., up four cents $731.77 kg., up $1.29 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $2.90 lower $435.40; Jan ’15 $2.90 lower $440.40; March ’15 $2.70 lower $442.30; May ’15 $2.70 lower $439.80; July ’15 $2.80 lower $436.60; Nov ’15 $2.80 lower $431.20; Jan. ’16 $2.80 lower $437.20; March ’16 $2.80 lower $441.00; May ’16 $2.80 lower $441.00; July ’16 $2.80 lower $441.00; Nov. ’16 $2.80 lower $441.00.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 unchanged 136.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $138.00; March ’15 unchanged $139.00; May ’15 unchanged $139.00; July ’15 unchanged $139.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $139.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $139.00; March ’16 unchanged $139.00; May ’16 unchanged $139.00; July ’16 unchanged $139.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $139.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 217,680 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 217,680.

Record crops push farmers to develop marketing strategies

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DES MOINES, Iowa — Farmers will produce a record-breaking corn harvest this year, surpassing earlier expectations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which on Tuesday revised upward its estimate of this year’s corn crop to 14 billion bushels to exceed last year’s 13.9 billion bushel record.

A bigger crop was expected as adequate rain and cool temperatures made for favourable growing conditions in the 18 states that produce 91 per cent of the nation’s corn. The abundant harvest has driven prices lower, prompting farmers to take more control of their grain marketing by building more on-farm storage, holding onto the crop and timing the sale to maximize profit.

The USDA said the amount of corn produced from each acre will reach a new nationwide average of 167.4 bushels, up from the earlier spring estimate of 165.3 bushels. The record 164.7 bushels per acre average was set in 2009.

Iowa remains the nation’s top corn producer with an expected 2.44 billion bushels. Illinois is a close second with 2.22 billion bushels, followed by Nebraska with 1.51 billion and Minnesota with 1.34 billion.

Soybean production also will set a new record of 3.8 billion bushels, the USDA said, confirming its earlier prediction. The previous record was 3.4 billion bushels in 2009. Soybean production per acre also will break a record with a yield 45.4 bushels, beating the 2009 record of 44 bushels per acre.

Farmers have been forced to exercise more control over grain marketing by storing it until prices pushed lower by the large harvest improve.

“Either through permanent or temporary storage, you’re going to see huge quantities going into storage,” said Scott Irwin, a University of Illinois professor of agricultural and consumer economics. “Elevators will pile

it onto the ground. Farmers may put it in these long plastic tubes out of South America.”

The tubes are temporary plastic bag storage systems that have become increasingly popular in the past few years after successful use in Argentina and Canada. The bags when filled can be the length of a football field and 8 to 10 feet in diameter. They can store grain for several months.

The storage increase is driven by low prices, problems with availability of rail cars to ship grain in the Midwest, and trucking bottlenecks that occur at elevators during harvest, said Craig Fisher, a Richardton, North Dakota, farmer who sells bags and bagging equipment.

“It’s fundamentally changed farming for me,” he said.

“I can farm all I can handle now and not worry about bottlenecks. I can store it in the bags and worry about trucking it later.”

The construction of permanent grain bins also has increased. Farmers stored 11.78 billion bushels of grain on farms in 2012, according to the latest data available from the USDA. That was up 20 per cent from 2002.

On-farm grain storage has become one way farmers take more control of their own grain marketing.

“By being able to store it, if a farmer can keep the grain off of a glut of supply, he may be able to sell it in December at a much better deal,” said Chip Nellinger, a futures market specialist at Blue Reef Agri-Marketing Inc., a risk management and agricultural product marketing firm in Morton, Illinois.

Corn for December delivery fell 14 per cent during July. It was trading around $5 a bushel until it began a steep decline in early May. It traded at $3.65 a bushel as Tuesday’s report was released.

Soybeans for November delivery were trading at $10.58 a bushel. They had been above $12 as recently as June.

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Target execs take new approach to Canadian marketplace ing a new price-match policy designed to make it easier for shoppers to take advantage of cheaper prices at comTORONTO — After a fumbled petitors.

In addition to weekly flyers, Target launch last year, Target Canada executives are coming to terms with some of will now honour price matches with the company’s mistakes and are mak- several major online retailers like Aming changes they hope will undo the azon, and make it easier for people to claim lower prices at the cash register, damage.

Whether it was photos of empty rather than having to walk to the cusshelves posted by Canadians across tomer service counter.

A broader line of exclusive prodsocial media platforms or competiucts will stretch tive prices that from the apparel paled in compari‘IF I COULD BUILD A TIME section, with son with its U.S. stores, the compa- MACHINE AND GO BACK, WE agreements to carry more lines ny says it knows work needs to be WOULD’VE LIKED TO HAVE A of Roots’ Beaver Canoe clothing done to repair SLOWER APPROACH.’ and a wider seTarget’s reputa—TARGET CANADA PRESIDENT MARK SCHINDELE lection of matertion with Canadinity items. Target ans. will also begin to Newly appointed president for Canada, Mark Schin- stock plus-sized clothes for the first dele, said Tuesday that Target Corp. time in Canada.

While these are just some of the was too ambitious when it launched 124 stores and three distribution cen- changes, Target still needs to win over tres in Canada over a 12-month period shoppers who may feel burned by negative experiences over the past year. starting in March 2013.

“If I could build a time machine and Schindele said he’s confident that go back, we would’ve liked to have a more exclusives and better pricing will slower approach,” Schindele said in help shift sentiment in Target’s favour.

“It all starts with having the right an interview.

“It was too much in too short a win- content in the store, being priced right dow. Our biggest issue (was) that we and the right inventory levels,” he said. needed more time.”

“That’s what will change our story.”

Schindele joined Target Canada Analysts have been less forgiving, from the company’s U.S. operations where he held the position of senior with at least one suggesting the comvice-president of merchandising op- pany weigh an exit strategy to get out erations. He replaced Tony Fisher of Canada.

Credit Suisse analyst Michael Exwho was fired from the job earlier this stein said the new Target Corp. CEO year.

Now that Target executives have should prioritize a decision on whethbeen able to examine where Target fell er the retailer should take the money short, Schindele said he believes the spent in Canada and funnel it back company will be able to impress Cana- into new investments for the more dians with prices that beat its competi- successful U.S. business, which has tors and exclusive products that will recently faced its own trouble with a data breach involving consumer inforbring people back into its stores.

Trying to understand exactly where mation.

Target Canada has been a costly inTarget went wrong is more complicatvestment, causing its parent company ed.

When it comes to empty shelves, to post a US$1-billion loss in 2013 and Schindele said the company was mov- another $211-million loss in the first ing too quickly to push inventory into quarter.

The Minneapolis-based retailer its stores, which had “downstream implications” and left the company strug- has also pulled back it second-quarter gling to forecast when it needed to re- forecasts on rising expenses from promotional discounting at its U.S. stores. fill best-selling items.

As Target Canada works to manAnd prices for about 1,000 items were off the radar in comparison age its existing stores, the company is also opening three others later this checks with competitors like Walmart.

Target also didn’t have the experi- fall, which at first glance seems to run ence in Canada to determine which against its own suggestions that it took locations would sell out of popular on too many locations at launch.

But Schindele said Target can seasonal items like barbecues, though Schindele said over the past few quar- handle a few more stores, which will ters it has come to understand the bring its total store count to 130 spread across much of the country. needs of each store much better.

“These are great markets and these Over the coming months, many of Target’s plans will take shape, includ- are great locations,” he said.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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High Liner cites lower margins, exchange rates as Q2 net profit declines 47.5% LUNENBURG, N.S. — Stock in High Liner Foods Inc. (TSX:HLF) fell almost nine per cent Tuesday after the Nova Scotia-based value-added frozen seafood company reported a big decrease in second-quarter earnings despite a strong increase in sales revenue.

High Liner, which reports in U.S. currency, cited lower margins in Canada and an unfavourable change in the exchange rate among factors that saw net income fall 47.5 per cent to US$5.2 million or 17 cents per diluted share from US$9.9 million or 32 cents in the comparable 2013 quarter.

Adjusted income was US$7.5 million or 24 cents per share, down from US$9.2 million or 30 cents in the prioryear period.

Sales revenue increased 14.9 per cent to US$235.5 million from US$204.9 million.

“Second quarter earnings in 2014 decreased compared to last year largely as a result of lower margins on certain products in our Canadian business,” CEO Henry Demone said in a statement.

“Raw material costs in our Canadian business have increased in 2014, in part due to a weaker Canadian dollar, and have not been fully recovered through price increases to our customers.”

Investment analyst survey shows Ukraine fears weighing on German business confidence FRANKFURT, Germany — Germany’s ZEW indicator of confidence among professional investment analysts sagged to a 20-month low in August.

The ZEW institute said Tuesday its index fell to 8.6 from 27.1. Market observers had expected a fall to only 17.0.

Fears about a possible escalation of the crisis in Ukraine have weighed on Germany business confidence in recent weeks.

Analyst Christian Schulz at Berenberg bank said the slump confirms “near-term downside risk” from the Ukraine crisis “but does not change the fundamentally positive outlook” for Germany and the 18-country eurozone as a whole. Some analysts think that Germany’s economy, Europe’s biggest, was flat in the second quarter that ended June 30 but is picking up in the third quarter. Official second-quarter figures are out Thursday.

Loonie lower, geopolitical worries, falling German confidence boost greenback TORONTO — The Canadian dollar declined Tuesday morning as the U.S. dollar gained against other currencies amid geopolitical worries and falling German investor confidence.

The loonie was down 0.21 of a cent to 91.37 cents US. The tone on markets was cautious Tuesday as Ukraine said it would deny a Russian aid mission entry because it has not been certified by the Red Cross and could be a covert military operation.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had no information on what the 280 trucks were carrying or where they were going. There are concerns that Russia could use the initiative as a pretext for sending troops into separatist-held territory.

Also, Germany’s ZEW indicator of confidence among professional investment analysts sagged to a 20-month low in August. The ZEW institute’s index fell to 8.6 from 27.1. Market observers had expected a fall to only 17.0.

Fears about a possible escalation of the crisis in Ukraine have weighed on Germany’s business confidence in recent weeks. On the commodity markets, the September crude contract in New York declined 78 cents to US$97.30 a barrel after the International Energy Agency cut its forecast for global oil demand.

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Take the time to divide larger packages of meat or produce into smaller portions more appropriate for the family. Frozen meats will defrost more quickly, and it’s easy to grab just what you need to pull together a meal. mannered and know how to follow direction are better equipped to attract friends. Other kids and their parents who do not want the hassle of an unruly youngster coming over to play may shun children who misbehave. Respectful children who are honest, trustworthy and capable of sustaining eye contact and making small talk may find it easy to make friends.

Take the friendship lead As parents, you can improve your child’s chances of making friends by getting friendly with their classmates’ parents. You do not have to become bosom buddies with everyone, but making connections with fellow parents can reinforce the value of friendship to your children.

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Enlist some help More hands in the kitchen can make for faster work. When schedules overlap, have someone peel potatoes in the morning and set them into a bowl of water in the refrigerator to used that evening. Another person can arrive home from school or work and start seasoning meat or poultry while someone else can be in charge of the actual cooking when he or she arrives home. Working together cuts down on the amount of time any one person has to spend making meals.

Embrace the slow cooker.

Slow cookers are a boon to busy families.

Various ingredients can be placed inside of the crockpot and then set to cook slowly for several hours. The slow cooker uses a very low temperature to cook the foods for anywhere from 5 to 8 hours. The results are often flavorful, tender meals. After morning prep time, a family can return home in the evening and have a meal ready to go.

Use convenience foods correctly.

Make meals a combination of foods you cook from scratch and convenience items.

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Allow your family to splurge once in awhile.

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(ms) Such is the case at the dinner table, where nutrition is often sacrificed at the expense of convenience. But quick and easy meals need not be void of nutrition and flavor.

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SPORTS

B6 Rampage eye Founders Cup

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, 2014

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The celebrating is done and the Red Deer TBS Rampage are focused on their next title.

The junior B tier I club earned their first Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League and Alberta provincial crown on Aug. 3, and on Saturday they will be taking the redeye to Halifax for the Founders Cup, the Canadian Lacrosse Association junior B national championship.

Just getting over the provincial hump was a weight off their shoulders after coming up empty in the North Division final the previous three years.

“It’s been a grind,” said Rampage captain Pearce Just. “The last four years have been a lot of hard work and it just feels real good to come together with this group of boys and do it with the Red Deer guys.”

With eight core members of the Rampage graduating from the junior ranks, the tournament will hold a little extra meaning. Most of the group of Just, Spencer Lee, Reid Swier, Connor Hartley, Mitchell Vellner, Cole deGraaf, Dion Doust and Skyler Sargeant played all of their junior eligibility with the team. They had been through the ups and the down. For some this will be the last time they play lacrosse.

For others, it is just the end of a chapter.

“There’s a lot of leadership in that group, not just in the lacrosse world, but in the other pursuits that they do,” said head coach Ron Just. “When we had our team meeting last week, there was not a question on their part what their goals are and what their focus was for the next couple of weeks.”

They will be in tough once they get to Halifax. As always, the Ontario and Iroquois representatives — Six Nations Rebels and Seneca WarChiefs, respectively — are the overwhelming favourites. Six Nations has won the last three championships and finished this season with a 12-1 record, out scoring their opponents 177-78. Seneca, meanwhile rolled to their championship in Southern Ontario with a 15-1 record.

Despite the lack of championship experience on the roster, the Rampage made sure to add some in time for Halifax. They brought in two players from the Calgary Jr. Mountaineers, who had won the previous five RMLL championships — making the national podium each of those years — to help fill out their roster, captain Sean Tyrell and Austin Rockwell.

Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Red Deer TBS Rampage captain Pearce Just was busy with his teammates at practice at the Kinex Arena on Tuesday night getting ready for the Canadian Lacrosse Association Junior B championships, the Founders’ Cup, in Halifax next week.

Tyrell’s already taking a leadership role on the Rampage, addressing the club about playing a team like Six Nations. He pointed out they lost their first game against the Rebels 14-5 in 2013, but nearly beat them 16-14 in the final.

“It was good just to hear him say that,” said the head coach. “The first game might be a little tough because we’re not used to their style, but we will figure it out and we’ll be better in the second game against them, which hopefully will be the gold medal game.”

The Rampage, however, are not taking the rest of the teams lightly. They

know full well what the Saskatchewan SWAT and Winnipeg Blizzard bring, and are expecting a tough game from every other province.

“It’s the national championship, it’s the best of the best, we’ve got to come to play if we want to compete with them,” said Pearce Just.

The expectation for the Rampage is to live up to the standards set out by their provincial rival.

Their greatest strength will be numbers.

While every team will have a 25-man roster, the Rampage have their quality stretched from one end of the lineup to the other.

Canada beats North Korea 1-0, advances to U-20 quarter-finals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 1 North Korea 0 MONTREAL — The Canadian junior women’s soccer team is gaining momentum at the women’s under-20 World Cup. A 1-0 victory over North Korea on Tuesday night has put Canada into the quarter-finals feeling good about itself, even if their next opponent will be the powerhouse Germans.

“We were relentless,” said Janine Beckie, who was camped at the far post to put in Nichelle Prince’s pass in the 65th minute for the game’s only goal.

“It feels amazing. We’re moving on.”

Canada finished second in Group A and plays the Germans, who were first in Group B, on Saturday in Edmonton.

Despite the loss, North Korea finished first in their four-team group on goal differential and will play the United States on Saturday in Toronto.

The Canadians needed the win to stay ahead of Ghana, which beat Finland 2-1 in Moncton, N.B. to tie the host country’s 2-1 record. But the Africans were eliminated on goals for and against.

Canada, which opened with a 1-0 loss to Ghana, looked dead in the water when it fell behind 2-0 to Finland last Saturday, but Beckie scored to ignite a three-goal second half rally.

Then she scored the game-winner against the toughest opponent in the group.

Penetrating the tight North Korean defence had been struggle all night as the visitors, who needed only a draw to clinch first place, allowed little space anywhere near the 18-yard box.

Amandine Pierre-Louis, who got an ovation from her hometown crowd when she substituted in at the 60th minute for her first action of the tournament, started the play with a run down the right side.

She crossed in for Nichelle Prince, who slipped the ball behind the defence to an unguarded Beckie at the far post.

“It was going through my head: ’Don’t miss this,’ so I put it in and I was really excited,” said Beckie.

Canada is hoping to get on the kind of roll it experienced in 2002, when a team led by Christine Sinclair made it to the final and drew a massive crowd at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadi-

“It’s at both ends of the floor,” said Ron Just. “When we look at the teams we play, we know offensively if we shut down three or four players we’re in good shape, and we know defensively they rely on a few defenders.

For us, we’ve just got wave after wave of players coming out the defensive door and we play a very high intensity, high pressure defence that wears other teams down.

“Offensively, go ahead, take two or three players out of the lineup, we’ve got three or four others stepping forward to put the ball in the net.”

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IVAN HLINKA MEMORIAL CUP

Canada sweeps away Sweden for second straight win

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Teammates gather around Canada’s Janine Beckie to celebrate her goal against North Korea during second half FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup soccer action Tuesday in Montreal. Canada won 1-0. um at what was then the world U-19 championship.

Germany, which crushed Brazil 5-1 just ahead of the Canada-North Korea game, will be a formidable opponent.

The Germans scored 12 goals in their three group stage games.

“I don’t think we could be more ready,” said Beckie. “It’s just another team for us.

“It’s a great opponent. I’m excited to play them, personally, but I think where we’re at now will keep propelling us through.”

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

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Canada 5 Sweden 1 PIESTANY, Slovakia — Canada defeated Sweden 5-1 on Tuesday for its second straight victory at the under-18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup tournament.

Mitchell Stephens scored two goals in the third period to help put the game out of reach. Canada (2-0) moved into sole possession of first place in the Group B standings while Sweden (1-1) fell into second place.

“What I like is how well we’re playing defensively,” said head coach Jody Hull. “In this tournament, that’s the key. You’ve got to play strong in your zone and with the quality of forwards we have and our defencemen, they seem to be working in really good unison right now.”

Sweden could not capitalize on a pair of 5-on-3 advantages in the first.

Travis Konecny scored on a power play in the second period and Lawson Crouse made it a 2-0 game a few minutes later. After Stephens gave Canada a healthy lead, Jansen Harkins iced the win by scoring on a penalty shot late in the third.

“After the first period, we sort of found our legs,” Stephens said. “We didn’t buy into their system of getting caught into penalties and stuff like that.

“I think we got back to our system, got pucks deep and established the forecheck.”

Tyler Soy added two assists and goaltender Zachary Sawchenko made 27 saves. Philip Magnusson had the lone goal for Sweden and Felix Sandstrom made 36 saves in a losing effort.

Hull has been impressed by his team’s balanced scoring attack.

“I’m not relying on one or two guys every night to carry the load,” he said.

“I’m relying on 12 guys to do it. Again, we’re just playing that solid team game.”

Canada opened the tournament with a 5-1 victory over Switzerland and will close out the preliminary round Wednesday against host Slovakia at the Zimny Stadion.

Adam Musil of the Red Deer Rebels had an assist in the game.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports

Thursday

● Red Deer Senior Men’s Baseball League — Makeup game or exhibition ● Sunburst Baseball League Finals: Red Deer Riggers @ Fort Saskatchewan Athletics in Fort Saskatchewan. Game 4 of best-of-five series if needed.

Friday

● Sunburst Baseball League Finals: Fort Saskatchewan Athletics @ Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

Game 5 of best-of-five series if needed. ● Parkland Baseball League semifinal: Rocky Mountain House Red Dogs @ Red Deer Razorbacks at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park. Game 3 of best-of-three series if needed.

Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Tampa Bay OF Joshua Sale (Charlotte-FSL) 50 games after a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned LHP Edwin Escobar to Pawtucket (IL). Recalled RHP Anthony Ranaudo from Pawtucket.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated RHP Matt Lindstrom from the 15-day DL. Agreed to terms with OF C.J. Beatty on a minor league contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent OF Michael Bourn to Columbus (IL) for a rehab assignment.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned LHP Pat McCoy and RHP Justin Miller to Toledo (IL). Released LHP Casey Crosby. Recalled LHPs Blaine Hardy and Robbie Ray from Toledo. Selected the contract of RHP Kevin Whelan from Toledo. Agreed to terms with RHP Shawn Hill on a minor league contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Sent OF Alex Presley to Tri-City (NYP) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with LHP Danny Miranda on a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Traded OF Josh Willingham to Kansas City for RHP Jason Adam.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent 1B Edwin Encarnacion to Buffalo (IL) for a rehab assignment.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Designated OF Ryan LaMarre for assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent OF Michael Cuddyer to Tulsa (TL) for a rehab assignment.

Agreed to terms with RHP Josh Roenicke on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK METS — Placed RHP Jacob deGrom on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Friday. Recalled RHP Rafael Montero from Las Vegas (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned RHP Sean O’Sullivan outright to Lehigh Valley (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Casey Sadler to Indianapolis (IL). Recalled RHP Brandon Cumpton from Indianapolis.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Placed SS Everth Cabrera on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 10.

Recalled OF Jake Goebbert from El Paso (PCL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Phoenix F P.J. Tucker three games after pleading guilty to driving while under the extreme influence. Announced the resignation of vice-president of events Ski Austin, effective Oct. 3.

LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Announced the sale of the club to Steve Ballmer.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Dallas CB Orlando Scandrick four games for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Released QB Tyler Thigpen and TE Kyle Auffray. Signed QB Rex Grossman.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed RB Ben Malena on injured reserve. Released P Cody Mandell.

DETROIT LIONS — Released WR Quintin Payton. Claimed WR Conner Vernon off waivers from Cincinnati.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Released RBs Andre Brown, Tim Cornett and Dennis Johnson. Signed RBs Ronnie Brown and William Powell. Activated NT Louis Nix III from the PUP list.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released OT Eric Pike. Placed OB Daniel Adongo and Jeris Pendleton on injured reserve.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Placed LB Dezman Moses on injured reserve and DB Steve Gregory on the reserve-retired list. Signed DB Jonathon Amaya.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed QB Pat Devlin on the waived-injured list. Released QB Brock Jensen.

Signed QB Brady Quinn and RB Cameron Marshall.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed TE Richard Quinn on the reserve-retired list.

NEW YORK JETS — Released LB Tim Fugger.

Signed DB LeQuan Lewis.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed DB Jansen Watson on the exempt-left squad list PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released RB Jawan Jamison.

ST. LOUIS RAMS — Placed TE Mason Brodine on the waived-injured list. Signed TE Brad Smelley.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Placed LB Alvin Scioneaux on injured reserve.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed WR Chuck Jacobs on injured reserve. Activated NT Ian Williams from the PUP list.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed LB Mike Taylor on injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Released DB Mark Joyce.

HOCKEY National Hockey League EDMONTON OILERS — Signed F Leon Draisaitl to a three-year, entry-level contract.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Signed F Ryan Rashid to a one-year contract.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Agreed to terms with F Brett Robinson.

READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with F Cam Reid.

UTAH GRIZZLIES — Signed F Danick Paquette to a one-year contract.

IVAN HLINKA MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT Round Robin Group A WOTW L OTL GF GA PTS Czech Republic 2 0 0 0 8 5 6 Finland 1 0 1 0 8 6 3 U.S. 1 0 1 0 9 8 3 Russia 0 0 2 0 6 12 0

Canada Sweden Switzerland Slovakia

Group B WOTW L OTL GF GA 2 0 0 0 10 2 1 0 1 0 7 6 1 0 1 0 4 6 0 0 2 0 2 9

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

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 68 50 .576 63 58 .521 61 57 .517 58 60 .492 53 65 .449 Central Division W L Pct 64 54 .542 63 54 .538 59 59 .500 56 63 .471 53 65 .449 West Division W L Pct 73 46 .613 68 49 .581 64 55 .538 50 70 .417 46 72 .390

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Tuesday’s results at Piestany, Slovakia Canada 5 Sweden 1 U.S. 7 Russia 4 at Breclav, Czech Republic Switzerland 3 Slovakia 1 Czech Republic 4 Finland 3 Today’s games at Piestany, Slovakia Sweden vs. Switzerland, 6 a.m.

Slovakia vs. Canada, 9:30 a.m. at Breclav, Czech Republic U.S. vs. Finland, 7:30 a.m.

Czech Republic vs. Russia, 11 a.m.

Playoffs Friday, Aug. 15 Seventh Place game 4th place Group A vs. 4th place Group B, To be determined Fifth Place game 3rd place Group A vs. 3rd place Group B, To be determined Semifinals 2nd place Group A vs. 1st place Group B, To be determined 1st place Group A vs. 2nd place Group B, To be determined Saturday, Aug. 16 Final Semifinal winners, To be determined

GB — 6.5 7 10 15 GB — 1/2 5 8.5 11 GB — 4 9 23.5 26.5

Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 2 Arizona at Cleveland, ppd., rain N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, ppd., rain Boston 3, Cincinnati 2 Tampa Bay at Texas, 8:05 p.m.

Houston 10, Minnesota 4 Oakland 11, Kansas City 3 Philadelphia at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle 6, Toronto 3 Chicago White Sox at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Today’s Games Boston (Ranaudo 1-0) at Cincinnati (Leake 9-10), 10:35 a.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 10-9) at Houston (Oberholtzer 4-7), 12:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 6-8) at San Francisco (Peavy 0-3), 1:45 p.m.

Arizona (Chafin 0-0) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-7), 2:05 p.m., 1st game Arizona (Nuno 0-3) at Cleveland (Tomlin 5-8), 5:05 p.m., 2nd game N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 2-2) at Baltimore (Tillman 9-5), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Worley 5-1) at Detroit (Farmer 0-0), 5:08 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 7-6) at Texas (Mikolas 1-4), 6:05 p.m.

Oakland (Kazmir 13-4) at Kansas City (J.Vargas 8-5), 6:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (A.Burnett 6-12) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 12-7), 8:05 p.m.

Toronto (Dickey 9-11) at Seattle (Iwakuma 10-6), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Houston at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 64 53 .547 Atlanta 60 59 .504 Miami 59 60 .496 New York 57 63 .475 Philadelphia 53 66 .445 Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 66 54 .550 Pittsburgh 64 55 .538 St. Louis 62 56 .525 Cincinnati 60 59 .504 Chicago 51 67 .432 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 69 52 .570 San Francisco 62 56 .525 San Diego 55 62 .470 Arizona 51 67 .432 Colorado 46 72 .390

GB — 5 6 8.5 12 GB — 1.5 3 5.5 14 GB — 5.5 12 16.5 21.5

Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 2 Arizona at Cleveland, ppd., rain Boston 3, Cincinnati 2 L.A. Dodgers 4, Atlanta 2 Miami 3, St. Louis 0 Washington 7, N.Y. Mets 1 Chicago Cubs 3, Milwaukee 0 Philadelphia at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

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

Chicago White Sox at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Today’s Games Boston (Ranaudo 1-0) at Cincinnati (Leake 9-10), 10:35 a.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 6-8) at San Francisco (Peavy 0-3), 1:45 p.m.

Arizona (Chafin 0-0) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-7), 2:05 p.m., 1st game Colorado (Matzek 2-7) at San Diego (Kennedy 8-10), 4:40 p.m.

Arizona (Nuno 0-3) at Cleveland (Tomlin 5-8), 5:05 p.m., 2nd game Pittsburgh (Worley 5-1) at Detroit (Farmer 0-0), 5:08 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 13-5) at Atlanta (E.Santana 116), 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Masterson 1-1) at Miami (Eovaldi 6-6), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 7-5) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 11-9), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 11-6) at Chicago Cubs (Wada 1-1), 6:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (A.Burnett 6-12) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 12-7), 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 10:10 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Arizona at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

San Diego at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Cincinnati at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

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HRs—Minnesota, Arcia 2 (10), K.Vargas (2). Houston, Marisnick (1), Carter 2 (28).

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HRs—Seattle, Seager (18), K.Morales (2).

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CFL East Division W L T PF 3 4 0 179 1 5 0 129 1 5 0 98 1 5 0 111

PA 175 155 177 189

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Week 7 Tuesday’s results Toronto 38 Winnipeg 21 Week 8 Friday’s games Edmonton at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Calgary at Hamilton, 1 p.m.

Montreal at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

Sunday, August 17 B.C. at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Week 9 Friday, August 22 Montreal at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 23 Toronto at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Sunday, August 24 Calgary at Ottawa, 1 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C., 5 p.m.

13:39 Tor — TD Robinson 6 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 14:57 Third Quarter Wpg — TD Grigsby 8 run (Hajrullahu convert) 6:32 Fourth Quarter Tor — TD Steele 15 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 0:58 Tor — FG Waters 18 6:41 Tor — TD Watt 33 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 11:35 Winnipeg 7 7 7 0 — 21 Toronto 0 21 0 17 — 38 Attendance — 18,106 at Toronto.

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

Winnipeg Toronto 12 28 80 174 193 297 273 471 31-26 33-23 273 132 0-0 0-0 1-2 2-1 1 5 119-7 38-3 114-17 122-14 26:29 33:31

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

TUESDAY’S SUMMARIES Argonauts 38, Blue Bombers 21 First Quarter Wpg — TD Watson 9 pass from Willy (Hajrullahu convert) 6:06 Second Quarter Tor — TD Steele 19 run (Waters convert) 3:06 Wpg — TD Kohlert 21 pass from Willy (Hajrullahu convert) 10:45 Tor — TD Mann 15 pass from Ray (Waters convert)

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Winnipeg: Grigsby 7-66, Willy 2-13, Marve 1-3, Cotton 1--2. Toronto: Steele 10-92, Slaton 9-66, Gale 4-10, Woodson 2-6.

Receiving Winnipeg: Denmark 6-79, Bryant 5-45, Kohlert 2-28, Kelly 3-21, Watson 3-17, Cotton 2-5, Grigsby 2--2. Toronto: Watt 3-56, Bradwell 4-41, Slaton 4-40, Mann 3-36, Steele 2-27, Dupuis 1-17, Sinkfield 1-15, Adams 1-9, Robinson 1-6.

Passing Winnipeg: Willy 23-31-193-2-0. Toronto: Ray 2633-297-4-0.

CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE LEADERS Unofficial 2014 CFL scoring leaders following Saturday’s games (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S Pt Shaw, Edm 0 15 16 6 69 Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 15 16 2 65 0 13 17 0 64 McCallum, BC Waters, Tor 0 12 15 2 59 Milo, Sask 0 15 13 3 57 Paredes, Cgy 0 17 13 0 56 Whyte, Mtl 0 6 14 6 54 Medlock, Ham 0 12 13 2 53 Maher, Ott 0 10 13 2 51 Bowman, Edm 5 0 0 0 30 Ford, Sask 5 0 0 0 30 Grigsby, Wpg 5 0 0 0 30 Arceneaux, BC 4 0 0 0 24 Fuller, Cgy 4 0 0 0 24 Gable, Ham 4 0 0 0 24 Harris, BC 4 0 0 0 24 LeFevour, Ham 4 0 0 0 24 Walker, Ott 4 0 0 0 24 Allen, Sask 3 0 0 0 18 Marve, Wpg 3 0 0 0 18 McDaniel, Cgy 3 0 0 0 18 Banks, Ham 2 0 0 0 12 Barnes, Tor 2 0 0 0 12 Collins, Ott 2 0 0 0 12 Feoli-Gudino, Wpg 2 0 0 0 12 Kelly, Wpg 2 0 0 0 12 Owens, Tor 2 0 0 0 12 Parker, Cgy 2 0 0 0 12 Slaton, Tor 2 0 0 0 12 T.Smith, Sask 2 0 0 0 12 Steele, Tor 2 0 0 0 12 Swain, Sask 2 0 0 0 12 C.Taylor, BC 2 0 0 0 12 Washington, Wpg 2 0 0 0 12 Whitaker, Mtl 2 0 0 0 12 P.White, Edm 2 0 0 0 12 Adams, Tor 1 0 0 0 6 Arthur, Cgy 1 0 0 0 6 Bradwell, Tor 1 0 0 0 6 Carter, Ott 1 0 0 0 6 Chambers, Edm 1 0 0 0 6 Coehoorn, Edm 1 0 0 0 6

Cornish, Cgy Cox, Mtl Denmark, Wpg Dunn, Wpg Durant, Sask George, Sask Glenn, BC S.Green, Mtl Guyton, Edm Henry, Ott Jackson, BC T.Jackson, Sask C.Johnson, Mtl J.Johnson, Tor Kohlert, Wpg Lawrence, Edm Lumbala, Mtl MacDougal, Cgy Maze, Sask McCarty, Edm McDuffie, Ham Miles, Ott Mitchell, Cgy Molden, Tor Partridge, BC Player, BC Price, Cgy Randle, Wpg Raymond, Cgy Robinson, Tor Sinopoli, Cgy J.Smith, Ott Stafford, Mtl Stamps, Edm Tasker, Ham Tate, Cgy Watkins, Edm Watson, Wpg J.White, Edm Willis, Edm Willy, Wpg Yell, BC Maver, Cgy Schmitt, BC

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Soccer FIFA WOMEN’S 2014 UNDER-20 WORLD CUP PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W L T GF GA North Korea 3 2 1 0 5 2 Canada 3 2 1 0 4 3 Ghana 3 2 1 0 3 4 Finland 3 0 3 0 4 6

Pt 6 6 6 0

Wednesday’s games At Edmonton Nigeria vs. England, 4 p.m.

At Toronto South Korea vs. Mexico, 6 p.m.

Group D GP W L T GF GA France 2 2 0 0 9 1 New Zealand 2 1 1 0 2 4 Paraguay 2 1 1 0 2 3 Costa Rica 2 0 2 0 2 7

Friday’s results At Toronto Ghana 0 North Korea 3 Canada 3 Finland 2 At Montreal North Korea 0 Canada 1 At Moncton, N.B. Ghana 2 Finland 1.

Germany U.S. China Brazil

GP 3 3 3 3

Group B W L T GF GA 2 0 1 12 5 2 1 0 4 2 0 1 2 7 11 0 2 1 2 7

Pt 7 6 2 1

Friday’s results At Edmonton Germany 5 China 5 U.S. 1 Brazil 0 Tuesday’s results At Montreal Brazil 1 Germany 5 At Moncton, N.B. U.S. 3 China 0

Nigeria England Mexico South Korea

GP 2 2 2 2

Group C W L T GF GA 1 0 1 3 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 2 3

Saturday’s results At Moncton, N.B. England 1 Mexico 1 Nigeria 2 South Korea 1

Hockey

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, 2014

Baseball

Today

● Sunburst Baseball League Finals: Red Deer Riggers @ Fort Saskatchewan Athletics in Fort Saskatchewan. Game 3 of best-of-five series. ● Parkland Baseball League semifinal: Rocky Mountain House Red Dogs @ Red Deer Razorbacks at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park. Game 2 of best-of-three series.

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Pt 4 2 2 1

Pt 6 3 3 0

Saturday’s results At Montreal New Zealand 0 France 4 Paraguay 2 Costa Rica 1 Wednesday’s games At Edmonton Paraguay vs. France, 1 p.m.

At Toronto Costa Rica vs. New Zealand, 3 p.m.

End of Preliminary Round MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Kansas City 23 11 6 6 32 D.C. 22 11 7 4 32 Toronto 21 9 7 5 32 New York 23 6 7 10 35 Philadelphia 23 6 8 9 36 Columbus 23 6 8 9 28 New England 22 8 12 2 29 Chicago 22 4 5 13 29 Houston 22 6 12 4 23 Montreal 22 3 14 5 22

GA 22 24 30 34 37 31 35 34 42 41

Pt 39 37 32 28 27 27 26 25 22 14

Western Conference GP W L T GF 21 13 6 2 37 23 10 4 9 36 23 10 7 6 38 20 9 4 7 34 22 7 4 11 33 23 8 9 6 32 23 7 7 9 38 20 6 8 6 25 22 6 11 5 21

GA 28 27 32 19 29 31 38 22 36

Pt 41 39 36 34 32 30 30 24 23

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

Newcastle vs. Manchester City, 1500 GMT Monday, Aug. 18 Burnley F.C. vs. Chelsea, 1900 GMT

Friday’s games Philadelphia at Houston, 9 p.m.

Saturday, August 16 Seattle at Salt Lake, 2:30 p.m.

Chicago at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at New England, 7:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Chivas, 10:30 p.m.

Dallas at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 17 Colorado at D.C., 8 p.m.

ENGLISH FOOTBALL English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Arsenal 0 0 0 0 0 0 Aston Villa 0 0 0 0 0 0 Burnley F.C. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chelsea 0 0 0 0 0 0 Crystal Palace 0 0 0 0 0 0 Everton 0 0 0 0 0 0 Hull City 0 0 0 0 0 0 Leicester City 0 0 0 0 0 0 Liverpool 0 0 0 0 0 0 M. City 0 0 0 0 0 0 M. United 0 0 0 0 0 0 Newcastle 0 0 0 0 0 0 Q.P.R. 0 0 0 0 0 0 Southampton 0 0 0 0 0 0 Stoke 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sunderland 0 0 0 0 0 0 Swansea 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tottenham 0 0 0 0 0 0 West Brom 0 0 0 0 0 0 West Ham 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Saturday, Aug. 16 Manchester United vs. Swansea, 1145 GMT Leicester City vs. Everton, 1400 GMT Queens Park Rangers vs. Hull City, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Aston Villa, 1400 GMT West Brom vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT West Ham vs. Tottenham, 1400 GMT Arsenal vs. Crystal Palace, 1630 GMT Sunday, Aug. 17 Liverpool vs. Southampton, 1230 GMT

England FA Cup England League Cup FIRST ROUND Monday, Aug. 11 Carlisle United 0, Derby 2 Tuesday, Aug. 12 Barnsley 0, Crewe Alexandra 2 Birmingham 3, Cambridge United 1 Blackburn 0, Scunthorpe 1 Brighton & Hove Albion 2, Cheltenham Town 0 Bristol City 1, Oxford United 2 Burton Albion 2, Wigan 1 Charlton Athletic 4, Colchester United 0 Chesterfield 3, Huddersfield Town 5 Crawley Town 1, Ipswich 0 Dagenham & Redbridge 6(2), Brentford 6(4) Exeter City 0, Bournemouth 2 Leeds 2, Accrington Stanley 1 Luton Town 1, Swindon Town 2 MK Dons 3, AFC Wimbledon 1 Millwall 1, Wycombe Wanderers 0 Morecambe 0, Bradford City 1 Oldham Athletic 0, Middlesbrough 3 Plymouth Argyle 3(5), Leyton Orient 3(6) Port Vale 6, Hartlepool United 2 Portsmouth 1, Peterborough United 0 Rochdale 0, Preston 2 Rotherham United 1, Fleetwood Town 0 Sheffield Wednesday 3, Notts County 0 Shrewsbury Town 1, Blackpool 0 Southend United 1, Walsall 2 Stevenage 0, Watford 1 Tranmere Rovers 0, Nottingham Forest 1 Wolverhampton 2, Northampton Town 3 Yeovil Town 1, Gillingham 2 York City 0, Doncaster 1 Bolton 3, Bury 2 Reading 3, Newport County 1 Wednesday, Aug. 13 Conventry vs. Cardiff, 1845 GMT Sheffield United vs. Mansfield Town, 1845 GMT

Clippers sale to Steve Ballmer goes through

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday for a record $2 billion.

The team said the sale closed after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise to the former Microsoft CEO. Her estranged husband, Donald Sterling, had un- Steve Ballmer successfully fought the sale of the team he owned since 1981 in court.

The NBA Board of Governors had previously approved the sale.

“Really excited — in a pretty hardcore way — to continue the path to making the

Clippers a better and better basketball team, and a better and better citizen of the Los Angeles community,” Ballmer told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Adam Streisand, Ballmer’s attorney, said Tuesday that Superior Court Judge Michael Levanas signed the order authorizing the sale even if Donald Sterling’s attorneys filed an appeal.

“We were ready,” Streisand said.

“Within minutes, the deal was signed, sealed and delivered.”

He said even if Donald Sterling seeks an emergency order directing the judge to vacate his order, the attorney is confident an appellate court would agree that Levanas made the correct decision.

Donald Sterling’s attorneys weren’t immediately available to comment.

The sale ends some troubling concerns that had surrounded the team in recent months.

Doc Rivers would possibly have quit as coach if Sterling remained the owner, interim CEO Richard Parsons had testified.

All-Star point guard Chris Paul, who also is president of the Players Association,

might have sat out and convinced other players to join him. Sponsors who already started to flee after a recording of Donald Sterling making racist comments was released might have stayed away for good.

None of that appears to be a problem with Ballmer taking over what could be a powerhouse team next season. By agreeing to the record purchase price, he’s already proven he’s willing to spend in contrast to the famously frugal Sterling.

“The topic of conversation with Doc earlier was to focus in on what does it take and how can I help support him in achieving our mutual mission and in a pretty intense way continue to improve, be tenacious,” Ballmer said. “If we do all that, good things will come our way.”

Ballmer was nearly an NBA owner last year before owners chose to keep the Kings in Sacramento, rather than allow them to be sold to a group that included Ballmer and moved to Seattle.

Now he’s got his own team to share with his wife and three sons.

“We’re a family that likes basketball,” he told the AP.

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Ray leads Argos to victory

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto 38 Winnipeg 21 TORONTO — Ricky Ray and Curtis Steele proved to be too much for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Ray threw four TD passes while Steele ran for 92 yards and scored two touchdowns to power the Toronto Argonauts to a 38-21 home win over Winnipeg on Tuesday night.

Ray finished 26-of-33 passing for 297 yards to earn Toronto (3-4) its second straight victory for a four-point lead atop the East Division. Steele anchored a solid ground attack that recorded 174 yards against a Winnipeg defence playing its second game in five nights.

“It (rushing attack) was big,” Ray said. “They were coming off a short week . . . at the end of the game when it was still tight, for us to be able to run like we did and kind of wear them out really helped us.”

Steele ran 10 times and had a 19-yard touchdown and also added two catches for 27 yards, including a 15-yard TD grab. He platooned with former NFLer Steve Slaton, who added 66 yards rushing but also lost two fumbles.

“We went into the game thinking it was going to be a battle between the lines,” Argos head coach Scott Milanovich said. “It was great to be able to run the football like we did.

“We felt like we needed that to win the game.”

Steele, in his second season with Toronto, has been a solid runner with 318 yards on just 35 carries (9.0-yard average) with three TDs. But the Argos can’t move him into the backfield fulltime because he’s also a contributor on special teams.

“Man, that’s tough,” Steele said when asked if he’d like more carries.

“I’m a valuable player on the specialteams unit and I take pride in that . .

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Toronto Argonauts running back Curtis Steele runs at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defence during second half CFL football action in Toronto on Tuesday. . but yeah, I’d like more carries as a running back.

“But I’m OK, I know my role . . . we have a package deal going with me and Steve and I just really try to take advantage of my opportunity.”

However it was sweet redemption for Toronto, which dropped a seasonopening 45-21 loss in Winnipeg. And Ray engineered the impressive victory without regular receivers Andre Durie (clavicle), Chad Owens (foot), Jason

Barnes (knee), John Chiles (hamstring) and heralded rookie Anthony Coombs (shoulder).

Ray threw to 10 different receivers Tuesday night with newcomer Robert Gill having the most catches (six) and veteran Spencer Watt recording the most yards (56).

“The thing is we’ve been playing together for a few weeks now and it’s really starting to show,” Ray said. “I just feel like our execution has been

Mariners move into tie for wild card with win over Toronto

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seattle 6 Toronto 3 SEATTLE — Kyle Seager and Kendrys Morales hit solo home runs, Dustin Ackley added a key two-out two-run single, and the Seattle Mariners moved into a tie for the second wild card spot in the American League with a 6-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.

Seattle won for the seventh time in eight games to catch Detroit in the wild card race. Seattle got another solid performance from veteran Chris Young, who earned his 11th victory, and the Mariners also continued their recent offensive punch.

Seager’s 18th homer gave Seattle a 2-1 lead in the fourth. Ackley followed an inning later, going to the opposite field to drive in a pair. Morales capped the night with his first homer since being acquired by the Mariners in a trade with Minnesota in late July.

It was Morales’ first homer since June 24, snapping a career-high, 41-game drought without a long ball.

Young (11-6) pitched six strong innings, allowing just two hits. He yielded a first-inning run after walking Jose Reyes on four pitches and giving up Melky Cabrera’s RBI double to start the game. Young retired 14 straight after Cabrera’s double, the streak snapped when Juan Francisco doubled in the fifth.

Young struck out three and walked two, and won his third straight decision.

Charlie Furbush got four outs with ease but Brandon Maurer gave up three hits in the eighth, capped by Jose Bautista’s RBI double. Toronto added

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Seattle Mariners Kyle Seager, right, greets Kendrys Morales (21) at the plate behind Toronto Blue Jays catcher Dioner Navarro, center, after Morales hit a solo home run in the sixth inning of a baseball game on Tuesday in Seattle. another run on Nolan Reimold’s sacrifice fly, but Francisco Rodney pitched the ninth for his 33rd save.

Logan Morrison extended his hitting streak to 13 games, with a single in the third, and scored on Austin Jackson’s hit-and-run single that Colby Rasmus misplayed in centre field. Morrison doubled in the fifth, but was caught in a rundown between third and home on Jackson’s grounder. Morrison stayed in the rundown long enough for Chris Taylor and Jackson to get into scoring position, and Ackley plated both with a single to left field.

Toronto starter J.A. Happ (8-7) gave up seven hits and struck out only one in six innings after recording 12 strikeouts in his last start.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Adam Lind (foot) was activated off the 15-day disabled list and batted fourth. Lind went hitless in three at bats.

Mariners: LHP Roenis Elias was optioned to the minors recently in an effort to control his innings. Elias will throw a few innings later this week at Triple-A Tacoma and likely rejoin the Seattle rotation next week in Philadelphia.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: RHP R.A. Dickey (911) got a no decision in his last start against Detroit despite allowing just two earned runs. Dickey’s last win came on July 28 against Boston.

Kane eager to promote Canadian Women’s Open

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

GOLF

Lorie Kane has more than 20 appearances in the Canadian Women’s Open under her belt, and her heart is still in it.

This year the veteran LPGA professional is trying to build support for the tournament before taking her swings at the London Hunt and Country Club.

Kane is working as an ambassador for the Open’s title sponsor, Canadian Pacific, to try to sell tickets with proceeds

going to the Children’s Health Foundation in support of pediatric heart health.

Each $30 ticket carries a $100 donation from Canadian Pacific, and with some of the best players in the world on display, Kane figures it’s an easy sell for golf fans and those who want to get into the sport.

“The London community and that

part of Ontario is golf-crazy,” Kane said in a phone interview Tuesday morning. “The average fan can feel a part of something and know that by purchasing a ticket their money has gone to help not only run the tournament but also help with the funding of equipment and research and all kinds of things for kids with cardiac health.”

As of Tuesday, Kane said $470,000 had already been raised. She was optimistic that number was just the start with a few more days left in the “CP Ticket Rally for Heart.”

finally flashed once again. Despite a frustrating tournament, as he scored three goals and an assist to beat the Calgary Chill 11-3 and advance to the Founders Cup. “It was a huge relief, because I had been sitting out for the whole playoffs,” said Vellner, adding the shoulder is feeling better with some rest and rehab over the last week. “Just to find my shot again was a huge load off my mind going into nationals.”

One other area they added depth was in net, bringing in goalie John McMillan from the Edmonton Warriors, despite solid play from both Rhett Baldwin and Darrian Banack. With potentially seven games in six days, they will need every body they can get.

“We know everybody is going to have to take a seat at least once, you can’t ask somebody to play that many games of lacrosse in that period of

time,” said Ron Just.

Just to get to Halifax was a challenge. With a last minute qualification by the team, the push was on to raise money to get them there, despite some help from the CLA, the Alberta Lacrosse Association, the RMLL and Red Deer Lacrosse Association. Ron Just said the parents took care of it getting local businesses to step up to help foot the bill, this included the team’s main sponsor TBS stepping up with an extra donation and team jackets.

“A lot of the guys on our team are either in school or university or have already graduated and are not going to find the $2,600 to get out there,” said Ron Just. “Having the sponsors step up and bring some money to the table has been huge for us and made it affordable for everybody.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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RAMPAGE: Added depth in net Davis Reykdal led the team with 75 points in 14 games and Lee was second at 63 points in 20 games, but they had seven more players score between 28 and 49 points.

One of those so-called depth players is Vellner. He spent the season battling a shoulder injury, getting into just nine games this season and finishing with 28 points, ninth on the team, but last year he was second with 57 points and first with 35 goals.

In the provincial final, his old form

getting better in practice and guys are getting a little bit more comfortable with each other and we’re able to execute.”

Toronto doesn’t have much time to relish the victory, before an announced season-high Rogers Centre gathering of 18,106. The Argos return to action Sunday night hosting the B.C. Lions (43). Milanovich said it was important his team build off its 31-5 road win over Montreal on Aug. 1.

SPORTS

BRIEFS

Lions quarterback Kevin Glen named CFL’s weekly top offensive player TORONTO — B.C. quarterback Kevin Glenn is the CFL’s offensive player of the week for Week 7 after his aerial assault helped the Lions to a win over Hamilton.

Glenn threw for 407 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score as the Lions beat the Tiger-Cats 36-29 Friday.

Glenn is currently second in the league with 1,797 passing yards and has eight passing touchdowns this season.

He reached the 400-yard mark for the seventh time in his career.

In other awards, Saskatchewan defensive end John Chick won the defensive player of the week award while Roughriders teammate Jerome Messam was named top Canadian.

Ticats returner Brandon Banks took special teams honours.

Chick recorded a career-high three sacks in the Roughriders’ 23-17 road victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday.

This is Chick’s second player of the week award this season. He was also named defensive player of the month for July.

Messam took over running back duties in the second quarter of the game and rushed for 126 yards on 19 carries.

The Toronto native was heavily relied upon late in the fourth to run the clock for the Roughriders.

Banks returned a Ricky Schmitt punt 97 yards for a touchdown in the Ticats’ loss to B.C.

Oilers ink Draisaitl EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Leon Draisaitl, the third overall pick in the 2014 draft, to a three-year entry level contract.

Draisaitl had 105 points (38 goals, 67 assists) in 64 regular-season games for the Western Hockey League’s Prince Albert Raiders last season. He also had a goal and two assists on four playoff games.

The six-foot-one, 209-pound centre from Cologne, Germany, has represented his country several times, most recently at the 2014 World Hockey Championship, where he had four points (one goal, three assists) in seven games.

Browns sign free-agent quarterback Rex Grossman BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns have signed unrestricted freeagent quarterback Rex Grossman and waived quarterback Tyler Thigpen.

The 33-year-old Grossman is entering his 12th year in the NFL and joins a team where Brian Hoyer and Johnny Manziel are vying for the starting job.

He hasn’t played in the regular season since 2011, when he started 13 games for Washington.

Grossman, a former first-round pick, has played for the Bears (2003-08), Texans (2009) and Redskins (2010-13). In the 2006 season, he led Chicago to the Super Bowl in his first full season as the starter.

Grossman has gone 25-22 as a starting quarterback. He has completed 863 of 1,562 passes for 10,232 yards with 56 touchdowns and 60 interceptions.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, 2014 KICKING GOOD TIME

BRIEF Lacombe waiving taxes on homes destroyed by fire Lacombe city council is waiving the remaining taxes owed on a pair of properties destroyed by fire last month.

Three homes were gutted by the early morning fire on Henner’s Pointe that caused about $3 million in damage. Six adults and seven children escaped without injury but are homeless.

In the past, the city has waived the remaining taxes for people who have lost their homes in similar situations.

Council agreed to follow suit on Monday and waived a total of $2,605.95 in taxes. The home on the third property was newly completed and had not been assessed yet.

It is believed the fire started around 5 a.m. in an attached front garage, or close to it, of one of the homes. The fire is believed to have been accidental but an exact cause remains under investigation.

Lacombe city council mulling arena renovation options Lacombe city council is at loggerheads over how to renovate the local arena.

Barnett Arena and Kinsmen Aquatic Centre needs about $10 million worth of upgrades to bring it in line with the latest safety codes, such as the addition of a new sprinkler system.

Council has also been mulling a $14.2-million proposal to take the opportunity to upgrade other parts of the facility, including the lobby, dressing rooms and washrooms.

A lengthy discussion took place at council’s July 28 meeting that led to a request for more information from administration, including the cost of a new facility, which was pegged at $60 million to $70 million, not including land costs.

Bringing the facility up to code, without increasing the size of dressing rooms and other upgrades, will cost the city about $7.6 million in long-term borrowing and $2.3 million in short-term borrowing, says a report to council.

The pricier option would mean $11.8 million in long-term borrowing and $2.3 million in short-term.

Neither option included the prospect of offsetting the costs through fundraising or contributions from Lacombe County or other nearby communities.

After more debate on Monday evening, council voted to postpone a decision for three months while other funding options are investigated.

Woman pleads not guilty to aiding and abetting breaches of peace bonds A wife accused of aiding and abetting her husband, who had a few baths with a girl under the age of three, in violation of a peace bond, pleaded not guilty and will go to trial later this year.

Barbara Halliday, 61, of Red Deer entered the plea Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court. She faces charges of aiding and abetting breaches of peace bonds by her husband, Allen William Halliday, 61.

She will be tried in Red Deer provincial court.

Crown Prosecutor Ed Ring said he expected the Crown’s case to take about 90 minutes. The trial was adjourned to the Case Management Office to set a date.

Allen Halliday pleaded guilty to four counts of breaching conditions of a peace bond. Earlier this year, he was charged with sexual contact and sexual assault of a minor, but those charges were withdrawn when his defence counsel negotiated a two-year peace bond. The key condition of the peace bond was that Halliday was to not have contact with children.

However, he was arrested in May after it was discovered he had befriended a young couple with a small child and invited them into his home on at least four occasions.

The identity of the victim is protected by a courtordered publication ban.

Allen is awaiting sentence and is scheduled to have a bail hearing Wednesday in Red Deer provincial court.

Juno winner Lights to perform in Red Deer in November Juno Award-winning pop-multi-instrumentalist Lights will perform in Red Deer this fall.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. this Friday for the Saturday, Nov. 22, Lights concert at the Red Deer Memorial Centre.

The singer was initially named Valerie Anne Poxleitner by her missionary parents, who raised their children in various countries around the world.

Her nickname Lights came from her last name, although the singer later made the name change official.

The pop performer worked as a songwriter with Sony/ATV Music Publishing until being discovered in 2007 by Jian Gomeshi, who is still her manager.

Lights has since become known for the singles Drive My Soul, Ice, Second Go and Toes.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Faith Britton gets in her kicks as Atticus Graham looks on at a soccer camp in Red Deer on Tuesday. The two children joined others aged 4-12 for the Mighty Fortress Lutheran Church weeklong camp at Eastview Estates.

She won a 2009 Juno Award for New Artist of the Year.

Tickets to her Red Deer show will cost $29.50 and will be available at the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

Licence plates must not be dirty or obscured That dirty, covered or hidden licence plate could earn you a $115 ticket.

Red Deer RCMP are reminding drivers that it’s an offence to have an obscured or partially obscured licence plate on a vehicle, under the Traffic Safety Act. Common items that obscure plates include trailer hitches, plug covers for trailer connections and licence plate covers, which are illegal even if they are clear.

Mud and snow can also obscure plates, and plates that have become worn or damaged require drivers to attend a vehicle registry to get a new one. If you ask for a new plate when you register your vehicle there is no charge.

If you request a new plate at any other time there is a $22 charge.

RCMP say an obscured licence plate makes it difficult to identify a vehicle that’s been stolen. Some drivers deliberately obscure their plate to avoid being identified, and sometimes those people drive dangerously and are a hazard.

“From a safety perspective, having unidentifiable vehicles moving around in the community makes it more difficult for police to trace those who have criminal intentions. When RCMP see obscured licence plates, we’re going to pull you over,” said Cpl. Matt LaBelle, who is with Red Deer RCMP Traffic Services.

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

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Felix Michael Rogers was a Second World War fighter pilot (his plane marked the Nazis he shot down). An Army trunk that belonged to him was found in the basement of a Washington building. A photo of the trunk is below.

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WASHINGTON — How many Rosebuds are fed to the fire every day in Washington?

After all, we can be a peripatetic lot in this town. The military or some federal agency sends us here, and we cart our stuff with us. Then we’re posted somewhere else, and we pack up and move again.

Sometimes, things get left behind.

Things such as the green wooden trunk in the basement of the apartment building on Woodley Road NW. It was old and battered, the sort of thing you might easily overlook. And overlooked it had been, for something close to 60 years.

Jaime Steve found it. He lives in Alexandria, Va., but he used to live in the building known as 2800 Woodley Rd., down the street from the National Zoo. It was there that Jaime became good friends with Ace Rosner, one of the most interesting men I ever met.

Ace lost an arm at Anzio during World War II but went on to join the CIA and collect — and race — classic cars, dozens of which he kept in 2800 Woodley’s underground garage.

When Ace died at age 94 in 2011, Jaime helped clear out his apartment and disperse his cars. In February, Jaime heard that the apartment’s managers wanted some old junk cleared out, including a bunch of stuff everyone assumed was Ace’s. Stuff like the battered green footlocker.

“It was all covered in dust,” Jaime said. When he wiped the dust away, he saw a stenciled name: Maj. F.M. Rogers. And when Jaime opened the trunk, he met a remarkable man.

Felix Michael Rogers was a Massachusetts native who enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in 1942 and retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1978 as a four-star general. Google him and you’ll learn that during World War II, Rogers flew a P-51 Mustang called the Beantown Banshee from bases in England, Italy and France.

He was a bona fide flying ace, notching 12 confirmed kills. Rogers looked the part, too, with a killer moustache.

Among the trunk’s contents: Rogers’s dog tags, a four-leaf clover encased in plastic, a notebook from flight

school, a handwritten prayer, a small bottle of whiskey, a razor and strop, and three medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Jaime was able to find contact information for Rogers in Santa Barbara, Calif., but when Jaime phoned in April, the flying ace’s wife, Catherine, said he had passed away just a few weeks earlier at the age of 92 at Walter Reed. She put Jaime in touch with the general’s children, two of whom — Stephen Rogers and Ginna Rogers-Gould — live in the Washington area.

Ginna said her parents lived in 2800 Woodley in the early 1950s, then moved when her father was transferred to Madrid as the assistant U.S. air attache.

“They probably just couldn’t take everything they had with them to the overseas posting,” Ginna said. “What I’m guessing is they just asked Ace if they could store a locker there, and then it became forgotten.”

The family had no idea the trunk existed. The small miracle of its appearance just weeks after Rogers’s death provided some comfort in their grief.

“When I started to go through it, it just was like it was a gift from heaven,” Ginna said.

“It was almost like my dad’s hand reaching out to his family and saying: ‘Don’t forget some of the things I taught you. Don’t forget what it is to be an American.’ “ Ginna told Jaime that she was amazed a complete stranger took the trouble to track her family down.

Said Jaime: “My view was, why would anybody do anything different?”

General Rogers will be buried in October at Arlington Cemetery next to his first wife, Virginia. Ginna, of Arnold, Md., is working on a biography of her father.

So, a Rosebud rescued from the fire.

But there’s more: In the Woodley basement Jaime found a second Army-issue trunk.

“It belonged to a fellow who was in the 87th Infantry Division, and he was one of the guys who liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp,” said Jaime.

Inside were photographs of the camp and scrip issued by the SS. The trunk belonged to Lt. Daniel Grear of Riverside, Ill. Jaime is trying to find out what became of him.

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Concerned about friend with dementia can mimic dementia.)

If Marjorie has family, please notify them about her deteriorating mental state and suggest they accompany her to the doctor.

You also can contact the Alzheimer’s Association (alz.org) helpline at 1-800-272-3900.

Dear Annie: In your reply to “At a Loss for Words,” I was surprised you called a grandmother narcissistic because she didn’t want to attend her grandchildren’s college graduations, even though she spoils other grandchildren.

There could be a lot of reasons why Grandma made this choice.

She may think graduations are boring when she has to sit for hours waiting for a 10-second walk across the stage while people in the audience hoot and holler obnoxiously.

Maybe she would’ve had to travel to these events and didn’t want to.

And did these grandchildren write thank-you notes for the gifts Grandma gave them over the years?

Grandma’s love language might be gifts, while the daughter’s is quality time, and sitting through a graduation is not quality anything.

Chances are the daughter is more hurt than the graduates. She needs to

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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: You will amusingly establish your Today’s energy will be so pleasphilosophy on life. ant and lovely that it will create a VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): lethargic atmosphere.

Opening up to others will be You will want to indulge in all strongly emphasized today. you want at this stage.

You will feel the need to exI would say to try to create press yourself and all that has some structure in your life now, been stirring underneath the surbut really, if your chart is not one face now. for get up and go type energy, it Others will be generous to will be a lazy day for you. support, but do hold back a little.

Others will be generous and Some things should remain LARISA MAIRA it will be a pleasant day none the unsaid until later on. less.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): OZOLINS HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today Today you will be invited to a is your birthday, this year will party and you should go. not be the most active. Others It will not only be wonderful, it will definitely be drawn in by you will highlight a time when you are now. fully able to relax and enjoy all that surrounds Your power of attraction will be high and you without hesitation. others will visit you from far, or perhaps you Allow for greater abundance to enter your will have to more traveling for work. life now, and count your blessings.

This will help you create that aura of SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Today is abundance, but do remember not to overdo one of those days to enjoy the spotlight. it now.

You will most likely be recognized for your Be your typical regal self, others will follow actions on a public level now. you!

Take every opportunity to create a pleasARIES (March 21-April 19): Today will be ant atmosphere for yourself, but that will not a day to go out and relax. be difficult to achieve now.

You will feel motivated to indulge in all that SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You life has to offer and will feel great now! will be in the mood to interact with new indiCreative projects will go over well when viduals and you will have every chance to do introduced to others, and more over it will so. simply be a great day.

How you express yourself today will allow Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere. for greater awareness of what being happy TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There will be truly means. a sense of urgency to the day.

Go out and overindulge a bit but take it You should host a dinner party, or simply easy today if you can! invite your friends over to have a good time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This There is a sense of you overindulging now could be one of those days where you introso be careful to not overspend on such activi- duce your significant other to your family. ties now.

It would be a great day to do that. Also, a Go out have a great time — Party it up! dinner party would be a great end to this day GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today will of- and much joy will be emphasized and cherfer you a great day to have pleasant conver- ished by you and others now. sations with friends and join in with groups in AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Converyour neighbourhood. sations with others, especially siblings and There is a sense that you can over prom- those within your local environment, will go ise now. extremely well for you today.

Try to relax more and allow for wonderful Others in your life will seem to be a bit leexchanges to occur now. thargic and this will, in turn, make you want to CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your financ- relax a bit more too. Why not do just that! es will take a huge turn for the better now. ‘] PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do not overYou will be feeling great and will welcome spend today. in any new advice to improve yourself and Allow for greater awareness of your work, health, and daily life to come to the forefront your resources now. now. It will be a pleasant day to socialize and Do not overspend on work items now.

This includes clothing as well — you do others will most likely warm up to your kind nature. not need the red pumps!

Relax and try not to overindulge now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your personality Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally will be larger than life today!

You will want to indulge in all that life syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate. throws at you now.

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Woman, 78, caught with $41,000 in cash in girdle, bra, bag at airport ROMULUS, Mich. — A 78-year-old Florida woman tried to fly on an international trip to the Philippines from Detroit Metropolitan Airport with almost $41,000 in cash hidden inside her girdle, bra and carry-on bag, federal authorities said.

A complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit said the Clearwater woman was trying to board a flight April 2 to the Philippines with her daughter. She initially said she had $200 in cash but submitted a form declaring she had $1,200, prompting questions.

During a search, Customs and Border Protection officers found $8,000

in wallets in her carryon bag, $4,000 sewn into a cloth pouch and nearly $1,000 in envelopes, according to the complaint.

She then told them she had $3,000 in her blouse and $2,000 sewn into the strap of her bra.

Officers continued

grow up and stop the woe-is-me attitude. — A Grandma Who Hates Graduations Dear Grandma: Grandparents don’t attend their grandkids’ events because they are exciting.

They go to show their support. If a graduation is “too boring” to be supportive, then Grandma is putting herself first. But we agree about the thankyou notes.

Dear Annie: “Salem, Oregon” asked how to get her family to stop giving her Christmas gifts.

For several years, I wanted that, too, but my family wouldn’t agree.

Last year, I sent everyone an email telling them I would accept only handmade gifts or a notice of a gift to charity (monetary or that they volunteered).

One planted a tree in my name, and I received a card from a charity when another helped with a special project.

I plan to do the same thing this year. — Feeling Great Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Ask The Dentist! by Dr. Michael Dolynchuk, DDS

Deferred Maintenance is Just That!

Dear Dr. D:

– I've been a self-employed mechanic for years. Recently I started working with a large company with a full benefits plan. When my 90 day waiting period was over my wife went to a dentist to test drive our dental plan. She hadn't been to a dentist for about 8 years, but nothing seemed to be wrong. This dentist, however, said she needed about $5,000 worth of work and only $1,000 would be covered, and that wasn't even a sure thing. Did this doc see her coming or not?

A:

What your wife has is a case of deferred maintenance. You work on vehicles – and no doubt see cars and trucks that have been maintained in pristine condition. Some owners are maniacal about oil changes, tune ups, wheel rotation, and getting it into the shop whenever they hear a 'ping' or a squeak. My neighbor is like that. His 11 year old car looks like it just got out of the showroom. On the other hand, some drivers pay no attention to break in periods, rarely change their oil, and drive a car until it stops. They are perennial optimists, who actually believe if it was making a loud knock and it ceased – that the car 'fixed itself'! These are the folks who complain that the factory warranty should cover everything stem to stern, and believe comprehensive maintenance means running it through the car wash every 6 months. One gentleman decided to run a friend to the airport despite all the idiot lights on the dash lighting up – and blew an engine over a failed $2 hose clamp on his radiator hose. Naturally he didn't think the steam coming from under the hood was anything serious. I ask you – whose car do you prefer to work on?

We see the same thinking around oral health. Correction – overall health, because your mouth and your body's health are completely intertwined. A patient hadn't seen a dentist in 7 years, but brushed and flossed his teeth religiously. During this time he had some life challenging illnesses, and was on a number of medications. His saliva glands dried up, and the plaque buildup on his teeth almost took a jack hammer to remove. His hygiene bill was over $700 and he believes he was robbed. This is a man who could write a cheque for 7 figures and his bank would cash it. Because he couldn't 'see' the plaque it didn't exist. For some reason any time his BMW hiccups he has it in the shop at $138 an hour, but he fails to see the parallel with his mouth.

Your wife's dentist is just trying to take care of her teeth. If she spent just $625 a year for the time she didn't see a dentist, the big bill would be likely avoided. Practice what you would tell your automobile customer – 'Pay me now or pay me later – it will never get any cheaper'! You didn't provide her age, but depending on that all kinds of dental issues arise once we pass 45.

The price for living longer is that teeth wear out. I recommend getting her to a base line with a healthy mouth, and then maintaining it with twice yearly checkups.

to search and said they found about $21,000 in her girdle. The woman told authorities that she had recently sold her home for $120,000, wired some money to the Philippines and had planned to carry a portion of the money with her.

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We have a friend whose wife has advanced dementia and is now confined to a care facility.

He believes Marjorie is exhibiting the same symptoms.

Marjorie seems completely unaware of how she has changed, and I am concerned that she needs help. It also alarms me that Marjorie is still driving and could injure herself or others. I am concerned that the workmen she hires to help around her house are taking advantage of her by charging excessive amounts for their services.

If her funds are drained, she will have to substantially reduce her standard of living.

Annie, I am one of Marjorie’s closest friends, and yet I’m reluctant to say anything to her about this.

I don’t want to hurt her. How do you tell someone she is losing her mind? — Concerned Friend Dear Concerned: You don’t. You tell her you are worried about her and ask whether she’s had a medical checkup recently.

Marjorie’s problem may not be dementia, but she won’t know until she checks. (Sometimes, something as treatable as a urinary tract infection

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Dear Annie: How do you get help for a friend who appears to be drifting into dementia?

“Marjorie” and I have known each other for more than 20 years, and we have lunch every two weeks.

When we first met, Marjorie was bright, energetic and involved in many activities. She is MITCHELL now in her mid60s. & SUGAR Two years ago, she suffered a couple of mini-strokes.

At first, there were no obvious changes, but as time goes on, it has become more and more difficult to converse with her.

She speaks in non sequiturs, has great difficulty finding the right word to express herself and often uses inappropriate phrases.

She frequently misunderstands what I am saying and responds oddly.

She now has considerable difficulty

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Japan architects make it big on world stage NOT WITH MONUMENTS BUT WITH A NATURAL SENSIBILITY next year for a housing complex he has designed with balconies sprouting precariously at all angles from a tower.

“This understanding of the connecTOKYO — A new generation of Japanese architects is scoring success by tion between nature and the man-made is Japanese. The Japanese garden utireinterpreting the past.

Unlike their predecessors, who lizes nature while also being finely modernized Japan with Western-style crafted. You go back and forth between edifices, they talk of fluidly defining those two points,” Fujimoto said.

In a telling sign of their rising statspace with screens, innovatively blending with nature, taking advantage of ure, four of the winners of the prestiearthy materials and incorporating gious Pritzker Architecture Prize in natural light, all trademarks of Japa- the last six years have been Japanese: Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Toyo nese design.

And their sensibility that speaks Ito and Shigeru Ban. In the past, the winners were few to a human-oriented yet innovative everyday life is proving a hit abroad, and far between. Kenzo Tange, known said Erez Golani Solomon, professor for his statuesque, curvaceous Tokyo of architecture at Waseda University Olympic stadium, won the Chicagobased Pritzker in 1987; Fumihiko Main Tokyo. ki, who infused “Food and archian Eastern sentecture,” said Solosibility into his ‘THE DESIRE FOR THE mon, stressing how the two are Japan’s HUMAN AND THE GENTLE floating forms of glass, metal and most potent brands.

IS A BACKLASH TO THE concrete, won in “They are powerful 1993; and the self— Japan’s strongest GLOBALIZATION THAT taught and idiocultural identity.”

BROUGHT ALL THESE syncratic Tadao Kengo Kuma, one of the star ar- MONSTER SKYSCRAPERS.’ A n d o w a s t h e third Japanese to chitects, finds he is in demand not only — KENGO KUMA, ARCHITECT win, nine years after Tange. in Japan and in the Sejima, who West but also in works with Nishizawa, is coveted for places such as China.

Among the major China projects for her trademark ethereally white deKuma are the recent Xinjin Zhi Muse- signs, often using glass, such as the Muum, whose sloping angles and repeat- see Louvre-Lens in France, the Chrised tile motifs are characteristically tian Dior building in Tokyo and the Kuma, and the still ongoing Yunnan Zollverein School in Germany.

Ban, this year’s Pritzker winner, Sales Center, a sprawling complex of shops, housing and a theatre, where carved out his career by using recycled a wooden lattice decorates the main paper tubes as construction material, and his housing ideas have been widestructure overlooking a pond.

He also designs private homes for ly praised for their use as temporary affluent Chinese who admire Zen phi- housing after disasters.

When people were crammed in a losophy and want to incorporate that stark esthetic into their daily lives, he gym after the 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan, his idea of hanging said.

Japanese architecture offers cloth as partitions on paper-tubing warmth and kindness as it is adept in frames delivered privacy and a sense the use of natural light and artisanal of mental peace.

Fuji Kindergarten in Tachikawa, craftsmanship, such as bamboo and paper. It is “working together like mu- outside Tokyo, by Takaharu and Yui sic,” to create a comfortable and luxu- Tezuka, also illustrates the characterrious spot even in a cramped space, istically Japanese idea of fusing the the basic principle of a Japanese tea outside with the inside.

The walls of the doughnut-shaped house, Kuma said.

“It’s part of our genetic makeup,” building are glass, and they open as Kuma told The Associated Press, sit- sliding doors into a courtyard. The ting in his Tokyo studio among elegant spherical roof works as a playground, chairs designed by himself and others for the children to run around and by by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and around.

The couple often uses the roof for pointing with disgust at the vaulting living space, and they swear sitting skyscrapers visible from his window.

“People all over the world are sick side by side on a sloped surface, like and tired of modern monuments,” he a riverbank, as opposed to facing each said. “The desire for the human and other across a table, is good for human the gentle is a backlash to the global- relations.

With Japanese architecture, a slight ization that brought all these monster change of approach transforms a roof skyscrapers.”

Sou Fujimoto, another rising Japa- into something more than just a roof, nese architect, is also working all over in the same way the artistry with which a chef cuts and presents raw fish transthe world.

His beachside cultural centre in forms it into sashimi, Takaharu Tezuka Serbia is a giant spiral, while a bun- said.

“Some European and American argalow in southern Japan is a cube of wooden blocks. His Serpentine Pavil- chitects say it’s important to have inion in London of metal lattice has been termediate space, between inside and compared to a floating cloud. In Mont- outside. But our approach is different. pellier, France, construction begins Everything is intermediate,” he said.

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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, speaks with an image of the inside of 2011 tsunami evacuation center he reconfigured in the background during a press conference in Tokyo.

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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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Police release new details about Williams’ death The condition of the body indicated Williams had been dead for at least several hours, Boyd said. Williams also had superficial cuts on his wrist, and a pocketknife was found nearby.

Williams had been seeking treatment for depression, Boyd said. He would not say whether the actor left a suicide note.

“We still have people we want to speak with so there is some information we’re going to withhold,” Boyd said. “We’re not discussing the note or a note at this point as the investigation is ongoing.”

It was no secret that the Oscar-winning actor had suffered for years from periodic bouts of substance abuse and depression — he made reference to it himself in his comedy routines. Just last month, Williams announced he was returning to a 12-step treatment program.

When he sought treatment in 2006 after a relapse that followed 20 years of sobriety, he joked about falling off the wagon: “I went to rehab in wine country to keep my options open.”

Likewise, when word spread about

his struggles with drugs in the early 1980s, Williams responded with a joke that for a time became a catchphrase for his generation’s recreational drug use: “Cocaine is God’s way of telling you you are making too much money.”

Word that he had killed himself left neighbours in Tiburon equally stunned and grief-stricken. Williams had lived in the quiet, waterfront neighbourhood for eight years, according to neighbours.

Noreen Nieder said Williams was a friendly neighbour who always said hello and engaged in small talk. Nieder said she wasn’t close to Williams and his family, but she still felt comfortable enough to approach him and ask him about his latest stint in drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

“He was very open about it,” Nieder said. “He told me he was doing well.”

Makeshift memorials of flowers and notes popped up around the country including on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, his Tiburon home and outside the house where the ’80s sitcom Mork &Mindy was set in Boulder, Colorado.

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TORONTO — David Brady of Toronto-based Cream Productions was on his way to work last month when he got a text from Wild Things host Dominic Monaghan.

“Do you think we’ll get us another season now that we’re nominated for an Emmy?” said Brady, recalling the message.

Brady texted back: “What?”

As executive producer of the OLN show, it was a “fantastic surprise” to get the message from Lost and Lord of the Rings actor Monaghan about their nomination for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, said Brady.

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TORONTO — John Travolta, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dustin Hoffman are among the stars with new films headed to the Toronto International Film Festival.

The festival unveiled dozens of movies Tuesday that are set to screen at the annual movie marathon, including seven new galas and 17 additional special presentations.

Travolta stars alongside Christopher Plummer in Philip Martin’s The Forger, a drama about a former art prodigy and thief who buys his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son.

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Williams was pronounced dead at his home in California on Monday. He was 63.

“Very sad to hear the news about Robin Williams. Big loss for not just the entertainment world but for the whole world,” stand-up star Russell Peters said on Twitter.

“Sad to hear about Robin Williams.

A very funny and lovely man,” tweeted TV-comic Colin Mochrie.

Brent Butt tweeted he was “stunned” at the news and remembered how Williams would show up at Vancouver comic clubs and got the crowd roaring with laughter.

“He used to drop in & do spots (at) UrbanWell & Punchlines in Vancouver. Big laugher, lots of fun.”

Comic and TV actor Shaun Majumder said in an email that Williams helped mould his comedic instincts from a young age.

“There is no doubt that he was a huge influence on me in my early days as a comedian... in fact he was an impact on me well before I was a comedian or actor which made me the most annoying 7 year old on the planet.”

Bruce Hills, the chief operating officer of the Just for Laughs international comedy festival in Montreal, calls Williams’ death “so sad on so many fronts.”

“Most importantly he leaves a wife and three kids behind but also millions of fans worldwide that will miss this very special artist, comedian and genuinely good person.”

Stand-up comic Gerry Dee remembered Williams for his ability to start off as a touring comedian who then make it big as a Hollywood star.

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Shortly after that, Williams’ personal assistant came to the Tiburon home and became concerned when Williams failed to respond to knocks at a door.

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BONNELL Ellis Jack Bonnell passed away on August 5, 2014 at the age of 57. Ellis’s life was enriched by the loving presence of his devoted wife Sandra and children David and Susan, whom he leaves to mourn. He is also survived by his brothers, Myles and James (Dixie), sisters Carrie and Mona (Terry). Also mourning his loss are his extended family, father-in-law Fred Seefeldt, Nancy Seefeldt, Norma (Dan) Mickler, and Sharon (Tom) Thompson, and their children.

Ellis was predeceased by his parents Jack and Fern Lois Bonnell, his mother-in-law Elsie (Ma) Seefeldt, and his brother-inlaw and best friend John Seefeldt.

Ellis’s acreage home near Content Bridge was his sanctuary, his heaven on earth. He will rest looking down upon his beloved home from the hilltop of Great Bend Cemetery. A graveside service will be held at the Great Bend Cemetery on Wednesday August 13, 2014 at 2:00 p.m., followed by a Remembrance gathering in the basement of the Great Bend Church of Christ.

Everyone welcome. Memorial donations may be made to the Delburne and District Volunteer Fire Department, c/o the Village of Delburne, Box 341, Delburne AB, T0M 0V0.

McCOY 1948 - 2014 Tim McCoy of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at the age of 66 years. Tim was born in Red Deer to Morris and Mildred McCoy. He is survived by his loving wife, Bobbi McCoy; his children, Stacey (Joe) Reck of Marwayne, Donivan (Ellen) McCoy of Marwayne, Shauna (Terry) Meinema of Marwayne, Tara (Jeff) Moore of Red Deer, Kelsi (Ken) Thomsen of Red Deer; step children Bill (Sam) Scott of Vancouver, Tina (Shawn) Scott of Red Deer, Nick Hamata of Vancouver; 14 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Tim is also survived by his brother Robert (Gale) McCoy of Red Deer as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Tim was an involved and active member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 for many years. He worked at Canada Post where he retired and was able to dedicate his life to his wife, children and grandchildren.

Tim will be so dearly missed, but never forgotten. A Celebration of Tim’s life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion ( Branch 35), 2810 - Bremner Ave, Red Deer, AB on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Legion (Branch 35, 2810 - Bremner Ave., Red Deer AB T4R 1M9 or to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 - Arnot Ave., Red Deer AB T4R 3S6. Condolences to Tim’s family may be emailed t o meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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MELANSON Christopher 1976 - 2014 Mr. Christopher James ‘Chris’ Melanson of Blackfalds, Alberta passed away suddenly in Saskatchewan, on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at the age of 38 years. Chris was born on June 5, 1976 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. An avid car enthusiast, Chris enjoyed working on cars whether it be fixing, restoring, painting or cleaning them, it was his passion. He loved his life and it reflected in the way he took care of his family and friends, always sharing a good meal by the fire or just hanging out with a nice cold refreshment.

Laughter always echoed when in his presence and music and dance usually were in the midst. He will be truly missed by his loyal companion, co-pilot and buddy, Ricky. Chris will be lovingly remembered by his wife, best friend and confidant, Jennifer and three sons, Marcus, Dakota and Jesse, all of Nova Scotia, step-daughter, Jenna of Blackfalds and daughter, Paige of Lethbridge, Alberta.

He will also be sadly missed by his father, David (Kathy) Melanson, his mother, Shawna Martin, his brother, Chad; as well as all his relatives and close friends.

Chris was predeceased by his grandfather. A Celebration of Chris’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 2:00 p.m.

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In Memoriam KENT BOULDING August 13/2009 Many a day his name is spoken, And many an hour he is in our thoughts, A link in our family chain is broken, He has gone from our home But not from our hearts.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference Gone but not forgotten, Brenda and Family

MELLICK Ross It is with heartfelt sadness we announce the passing of Ross Edward Mellick of Mirror, AB on Friday, August 8, 2014 from cancer at the age of 78 years. Ross spent most of his working career in Seismic throughout Canada, USA and Africa. He was also an avid metal detector. Ross was predeceased by his infant sister, Ruth; father, Duncan Clyde Mellick; mother, Eva Marie; son, Michael Mellick; and wife, Leanna.

Ross leaves to mourn his sisters, Jackie (Don) Ball of Lacombe, Jean (Don) Hunter of Red Deer; brother, Ted (Fran) Mellick of Red Deer as well as numerous nieces and nephews. At the request of the deceased there will be a Private Family Interment in Tees, AB. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

CLASSIFICATIONS 50-70

Class Registrations

51

ASHLEY & FRIENDS PLAYSCHOOL Accepting Fall Registrations 3-5 yr. olds. Limited Space avail. 403-343-7420

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Coming Events

All Visits are Free.

No Obligation.

Compliments of Local Businesses.

Are you new to the neighbourhood?

Expecting a Baby?

Planning a Wedding?

Call or visit us online!

1-844-299-2466 welcomewagon.ca

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Lost MICHAEL ULMER Heavy are our hearts today, Memory brings you back once more To the time when you were with us, To the happy days of yore. ~Love All your Family

Marriages

Serving Red Deer and Central Alberta Since 1997 (403) 341-5181 & (888) 216 - 5111

LICENCE PLATE for trailer taken from Stall 19 South End Storage. Plate # W89754. If found please call 403-348-0866 LOST: SET OF KEYS including a Honda key, in the downtown area.

REWARD OFFERED. 403-597-9139 343-4914 MISSING SINCE JULY 24TH: SMALL CAT. 3 year old female short haired, black.

Lost in the Bower area.

She is an indoor cat, this is the first time she’s been out.

If found please call 403-352-9904

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Personals Celebrations

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

wegot

jobs BLOSS - LOVELY Andrew and Marcy Bloss along with Aileen Lovely are pleased to announce the upcoming marriage of their children JENNIFER BOSS and ZACH LOVELY Open dance for family and friends at Westerner Park Harvest Center at 9:00 p.m. on August 16, 2014!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICK!

CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

710

LIVE IN CAREGIVER / COMPANION for 50 yr old memory challenged female. Excellent living conditions. 403-346-3179 P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

403-505-7846

Clerical

720

EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

requires RECEPTIONIST Must have computer experience and be available from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. No Phone Calls Please Laser Derm & Wellness Centre is looking for a full time receptionist/aesthetician. We offer generous wages , commissions and signing bonus. Drop your resume off to Bay 500, #80 Donlevy Avenue, R.D. SHUNDA Const. req’s F/T Receptionist/AP Clerk.

Duties: All aspects of A/P & data entry & general office administration.

If you are highly organized have exc. communication & time management skills & are motivated.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

Dental

740

BOWER DENTAL REQ’S F/T ORTHODONTICS TRAINED ASSISTANT. Position to start immed.

Must be a member of the College of Alberta Dental Association. Great benefits and perks. Email resume to: marina@bowerdental.com or drop off resume.

FULL TIME POSITION FOR LEVEL 2 RDA required for a busy family dental office in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.

Ortho module would be an asset. Please fax your resumes to 403-845-7605 or e-mail: markochatenay @gmail.com

Legal

780

IMMEDIATE OPENING Sully Chapman Beattie LLP is looking for a well organized, fast working, legal assistant with experience in real estate conveyancing. Salary and benefits are negotiable and will be commensurate with experience. Please email your resume to kbeattie@ scblaw.ca Please Note: We will only reply to those candidates meeting our criteria.

720

Clerical

Southside Dodge is looking for a new full-time team member to join our great staff!

Southside Dodge is looking for an

Office Manager/Assistant Controller to join our great admin staff!

The right candidate is punctual, can work independently and is computer savvy.

You must be a quick learner and have a positive attitude. Experience with ADP and/or CTWIZARD is preferred but not required. Accounting experience and/or HR skills would be an asset. Our company offers competitive wages and excellent benefits. If you think you can be an asset to the Southside family then please contact us with your resume via:

pk@southsidereddeer.com.

437996H25

TO PLACE AN AD

birth of first child youngest son graduated from College

birth of first grandson 60th wedding anniversary

Celebrate these milestones with an Announcement in the Classified Section of the

403.309.3300

Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com wegotads.ca

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Eastview Estates 25 EXCELL ST. Aug. 14, 15 & 16 Thurs. & Fri. 2-9, Sat. 9-5 Multi Family - MOVING tools, small & large, furniture, kitchen, collectibles, antique table etc.....

Oriole Park 120 OAKWOOD CLOSE (off of Orr Drive) Aug. 14, 15 & 16, 10-6.

Downsizing. Various items too numerous to mention.

Rosedale 806-800 RAMAGE CLOSE Thurs. 14th 12-8 & Fri. 15th 9-4 Golf clubs, tulle, kids toys & clothing, camping equip. and lots more.

Sunnybrook 6 STIRLING CLOSE. back alley, follow arrows. Aug. 14, 11-6, Aug. 15, 11-5.

Ladies plus & reg. size clothing, like new, antique chair, household items, home decor and more.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

West Lake ESTATE/MOVING SALE 20 Cronquist Cl. Aug. 14th-16th Thurs. 11-8, Fri. 12-8 & Sat. 10-6. Lots of Furn. & household items.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014

780

Legal

800

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

LEGAL ASSISTANT, OILFIELD ROWANOAK LAW EQUIPMENT SALES OFFICE LLP in Sylvan POSITION Lake requires a smart, AVAILABLE professional, organized legal assistant who loves DRAGON ENERGY to be busy and takes initiaRed Deer division is tive. Working in the area of currently accepting Family Law, your responresumes for an oilfield sibilities will include, equipment sales position. managing emails, diaries Experience in water conand time posting for 1 busy tainment, Conical Trailer BARDEN Oilfield Hauling lawyer, dealing with phone and Frac Water heater is calls, clients, file manage- Ltd. is now hiring Bed Truck, an asset. Candidates Winch Tractor and Picker ment, preparation of must be self-motivated and Operators, as well as correspondence, billing willing to travel. Oilfield and court documents. The Swampers. Experience a must. back ground, Class 1a and Fax resumes to successful candidate will oilfield tickets and passport 403-341-3968 or email have excellent communiare an asset. Only cation skills and the ability bardentrucking@telus.net. selected individuals will be No phone calls please. to work with complete contacted for interviews. autonomy and work well Thank you.

CUSTOMER Sales Support under deadlines. ExperiPlease forward resume to Experience in customer ence in Word and Outlook service, shipping/receiving jeff.sahli@modernusa.com a must with a typing speed (forklift certification), of at least 65 wpm. KnowlSnubco Pressure inventory. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, edge of Childview, LRCY Control Ltd. On call rotation required. matters and ESILaw is an Now Hiring All Snubbing E-mail resume to: asset. 3 or more years Positions steed@coorstek.com. experience in Family Candidate must have a No phone calls. preferred. Must have own valid Class 1 or Class 3 transportation. Please LOCAL SERVICE CO. license (No GDL Please) e-mail your resume to in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. Valid H2S, Fall Arrest, and mtivadar@rowanoaklaw.

VACUUM TRUCK First Aid tickets com or fax to Michele OPERATOR must express a strong Tivadar @ 403-887-7380.

Must have Class 3 licence work ethic.

Salary to commensurate w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Positions are base out of with experience. All replies Fax resume w/drivers Nisku, AB held in confidence. Only abstract to 403-886-4475 Qualified applicants can those selected for an email their resumes to interview will be contacted. LOOKING FOR FULLTIME careers@snubco.com CREW TRUCK HELPER or fax to 780 955 3508 for oilfield maintenance attn. AJ Grant shop near Haynes/Joffre.

Medical Buying or Selling Must have current H2S & First Aid tickets and own your home?

BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE transportation to/from shop. Check out Homes for Sale Fax resumes to in Classifieds requires a 403-784-3813 or e-mail to: PRESCREENING TECH. Looking for a place bkkromm@telus.net.

Computer literacy is a must. to live?

Experience not necessary, Take a tour through the job training is provided but CLASSIFIEDS qualifications will be considered. Starting wages $14/hr. Please fax resume to 403-342-2024.

790

IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A CAREER & NOT A JOB...

If you have a vision to help others improve their health...

YOU are the person we are looking for!

Wellness Coach - Natural Pain Relief Centre requires energetic health conscious P/T Administrative & clinical assistant.

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.

OPTICIAN/OPTOMETRIC ASSISTANT WANTED Full or Part time in the Red Deer area. Experience preferred. Duties include: Frame/Lens consultingrepairing adjustment of eyewear- reception dutiescontact lens trainingassisting with patient care.

Applicants are expected to be professional reliable and team-minded. Computer skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment are needed.

Competitive wage based on previous experience.

Respond by email with attached resume to: optometryjob2014@gmail.com

Pharmacy Technician P/T position avail. Must have experience. Please fax resume to 403-343-2556 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

NOW HIRING

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com Now Hiring Experienced Oil and Gas Well Testing Day/Night Supervisors and Operators. Must have valid tickets and drivers license.

Email resume to welltestingrd@gmail.com

OIL & GAS OPERATOR

Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This position offers a challenging work environment, attractive benefits with competitive pay and significant room for promotion.

Please submit resumes Attn: Human Resources email:kwolokoff@ bearspawpet.com Fax 403-252-9719 Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

800

Oilfield

Professionals

810

Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is now hiring for: - Technologist (Party Chief) - Technician (Rodman) In the Red Deer and surrounding area Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program. We are a Construction/Land survey company based in Airdrie.

Please send resume to: FAX: (403) 948-4924 or email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

EAST SIDE MARIO’S HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS Full Time & Part Time.

Apply after 2 p.m. ask for the manager on duty.

HUBIES ‘”1955” DINER REQ’S. 2 P/T LINE COOKS No nights or Stat holidays.

Please apply to: kerco1@telus.net

req’s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com

830

Sales & Distributors

AUTO EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLY CO. IS LOOKING FOR A

F/T SALES REP

for an est. route sales position in the Central AB area.

Training, company vehicle and expenses supplied.

Please email resume to michelle@equipmentpro.ca or fax to 403-279-8214 WANTED: SALES PERSON Above average wage & benefits. Flexible hours.

Drop off resume to 5211 50 Ave.

850

Trades

Busy concrete company looking for labourers. Must be willing to work hard and have your own transportation. Experience an asset but not necessary. Please email resume to redcon@shaw.ca

CLASS 3 DRIVER/

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Helpers

Would you like to become an Optician?

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

Requirements • Grade 12, GED, or assessed equivalent • Must be a Canadian Citizen

Advocate Opportunities

Earn your Diploma in Optical Sciences at NAIT’s 2 year program

Earn While You Learn Full Time Employment 40hrs/wk Training & Practicum hours provided to successful candidate.

Mon-Fri 10-7, Sat 9-6 Medical/Dental Benefits To arrange for an interview

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:

CERTIFIED QUALITY CONTROL/QUALITY ASSURANCE

860

Truckers/ Drivers

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca

Professional Truck Driver

Fluid Experts Ltd. Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Position Available www.ads-pipe.com

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

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products are expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years B-train trailer experience.

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 ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company skills • Strong communication equipment and provide a high level of customer skills and able to work service, delivering our within deadlines products within Alberta.

• Capable of using Microsoft Office, such as Excel, ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and mainWord and Outlook. tain legal transportation paperwork and driving HUMAN RESOURCES practices. This position RECRUITER requires a valid Class 1 • Experience with MS License, with previous off road forklift experience a Excel, Outlook, Word definite asset. We offer • Efficient & Organized quarterly cash safety • Able to multi-task, can bonuses as well as a work with our without comprehensive supervision medical plan.

• Extreme attention to detail • Ability to work with BENEFITS INCLUDE: deadlines • SAP experience an asset • Signing Bonus paid upon completion of • Position will require some a 60 day/120 day overtime retention period • Company provided JOURNEYMAN / Group Canadian Benefits APPRENTICE • Voluntary dental • Life insurance PIPEFITTERS BOILDERMAKERS • Short-term and longterm disability • Retirement Savings Email: resumes Plan (RSP) and Deferred @newcartcontracting.com Profi t Sharing Plan Fax: 1-403-729-2396 (DPSP) Email all • Paid Vacation safety and trade tickets • Safety Bonus

Please call (403) 347-7889 EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS 4924-59 Street, Red Deer, Alberta

Truckers/ Drivers

860

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

Misc.

Help

880

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START •

Community Support Worker Program

•

GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

Advocate Opportunities NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave.

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

437929H23

429747H8-16

Just Graduated from High School?

This job could be for you! If you enjoy working in the out of doors, are enthusiastic about learning new skills and would like to work toward a career in the recognized profession of Land Surveying then please visit our website at: www.questinc.ca

850

JJAM Management (1987) EQUIPMENT OPERATOR Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Gov’t of Alberta Funding / LABOURER Requires to work at these may be available. req’d immed. Local work, Red Deer, AB locations: Required Immediately TR3 Energy is at the need drivers abstract.

5111 22 St. All applicants are subject forefront of reclamation 403-340-1930 Fax resume to 403-986-8142 37444 HWY 2 S to a pre-employment Parts Delivery and remediation in the oil 37543 HWY 2N www.academicexpress.ca physical and MVR check.

CRYSTAL GLASS & gas industry Driver / Warehouse 700 3020 22 St. needs EXP’ D GLASS COMPANY req’s live in Must possess clean FOOD ATTENDANT Interested Applicants may WORKER. Drop off reretired maintenance We are currently drivers abstract, know Req’d permanent shift submit a resume, along sume at: 4706-51 Avenue person for our apartment recruiting for: city well. The individual weekend day and evening with a current drivers or fax 346-5390 or email: operations. Journeyman must be able to work both full and part time.

Heavy Equipment abstract to: branch208@crystalglass.ca plumbing exp. an asset. unsupervised in a fast Operators & Laborer 15 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + F/T COMMERCIAL paced Call Mike for environment. Some benefits. Start ASAP. ADVANCED DRAINAGE details 403-342-4923 heavy lifting is required.

Job description GLAZIER SYSTEMS CANADA INC. Requirements: www.timhortons.com DISPATCHER REQ’D. Journeyman & apprentices 4316 Gerdts Ave. Valid Driver’s License Education and experience Knowledge of Red Deer Parts Person We offer competitive Blindman Ind. Park H2S Alive not req’d. and area is essential.

Parts person required for wages. Full benefits after Red Deer County, AB. Standard First Aid Apply in person or fax Verbal and written rapidly expanding HD 90 days. Must have valid T4S-2A8 WHIMIS and/or resume to: 403-314-1303 drivers licence. Email resume communication skills are Parts Supply Store.

CSTS or PST req’d. Send resume by fax Must be able to work to: d.generationglass Fax: (403) 346-5806 JJAM Management (1987) Pre-Access A&D Testing to 403-346-0295 unsupervised in a fast @platinum.ca E-mail Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Ground Disturbance Level 11 paced environment. or Fax: 403-886-5224 ken.mccutcheon@ Integra Tire Innisfail, Requires to work at these Have experience in the or Call 403-886-5221 ads-pipe.com requires a Tire Tech with Red Deer, AB locations: Please e-mail or fax your heavy truck/trailer industry.

Lube Bay and Service 5111 22 St. resume to: GOODMEN Must possess strong Position closing date: Truck experience. Valid 37444 HWY 2 S hr@tr3energy.com ROOFING LTD. customer service skills.

August 20, 2014 class 5 license and driver 37543 HWY 2N Fax: (403) 294-9323 Requires abstract required. Send 700 3020 22 St. www.tr3energy.com Above average wages, resume to innisfail@ Manager/Food Services BI WEST TRANSLINES, SLOPED ROOFERS benefits package.

TREELINE integratire.com or fax to Permanent F/T shift. $18/hr.

CAMROSE LABOURERS Apply with resume @ 403.227.6689 40 hrs/week, + benefits , 1 has a opening for full time WELL SERVICES & FLAT ROOFERS Artic Truck, Email: Vacancy, 2-3yrs. exp., Has Opening for all MOTOR COACH MOBIL 1 Lube Express ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com criminal record check req’d, positions! Immediately.

Gasoline Alley req’s an Exp. Valid Driver’s Licence Fax: 403-348-5198 OPERATOR. Apply in person or fax All applicants must have Tech. Fax 403-314-9207 preferred. Fax or email Must have Class I resume to: 403-314-1303 current H2S, Class 5 with info@goodmenroofing.ca or Class II with air.

Shipper/Receiver PIANO INSTRUCTOR Q Endorsement, and First or (403)341-6722 Start your career!

Send resume to A local company requires Join our dynamic team and Aid. We offer competitive NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! gwen@biwest.com See Help Wanted an energetic person for share your passion for wages & excellent benefits. or fax to 780-672-9567. shipper/receiver.

Maintenance Worker music with students of all Please include 2 work THE RUSTY PELICAN View our web page at Email resume to ages and abilities. Now reference names and is now accepting resumes Wanted Immediately! Edon www.biwest.com mark@aesreddeer.com Management is looking for Hiring part time for Fall numbers. for experienced a Maintenance Worker for 2014.

Submit resume and Please fax resume to: F/T SERVERS CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d TJ PAVING is looking for our Red Deer sites.

This cover letter to: office@ 403-264-6725 Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. for moving equipment. employees with paving position assists with reddeerdancemagic.com Or email to: Apply within: 2079-50 experience. Comp wages, Resumes to be dropped off building operations and tannis@treelinewell.com Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. RESIDENTIAL APT great working atmosphere. at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. concerns.

Interested No phone calls please.

Fax 403-347-1161 Phone MANAGER Cres. Red Deer.

Come join our team. Email applicants please send www.treelinewell.com calls WILL NOT be accepted.

23 suite apt. complex. resume to tjpaving@ your resume by e-mail to Tired of Standing?

Live-in role. Responsibilities hotmail.com or fax careers@edonmgmt.com Find something to sit on incl. cleaning, maintenance, 403-346-8404. or via fax to yard care, administration. in Classifieds Professionals (403) 341-0626.

Fax to 403-346-5786

Become An Optician

(Red Deer & Lacombe)

Trades

RAMADA INN & SUITES

810

Surveyor Assistants

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

EASTVIEW AREA

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

$605/mo.

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS

For More Information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

Contractors

1100

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

FANTASY MASSAGE

Now Open

1370

1130

1070

SINCERE HOUSEKEEPING. Weekly, bi weekly housekeeping services. move in/outs also available. Very thorough, reliable and trustworthy.

Contact Debbie at 1-403-702-0503

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

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

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

of the town.

Seniors’ www.viimassage.com Services

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca UNWANTED House & Garage Items, tree branches - Will haul to land fill. 587-877-4666

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

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive area

3 days per week, no weekends

also

ROUTES IN:

Chism Close, Cunningham Cres area $115/mo.

ANDERS AREA

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

We do it all! 403-302-8550 Free Est. 403-872-8888 ARCTIC BOOKKEEPING is certified in QuickBooks CONCRETE??? and Sage Simply Accounting.

International ladies Central Alberta’s Largest We’ll do it all...Free est.

Servicing small Car Lot in Classifieds Call E.J. Construction to medium business Jim 403-358-8197 or and individual consultants.

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Reasonable Rates.

DALE’S Home Reno’s Private back entry. 403-341-4445 Contact Cori at Free estimates for all your Classifieds...costs so little 403-597-5131 or Roofing reno needs. 403-506-4301 Arcticbookkeeping@ Saves you so much! outlook.com PRECISE ROOFING LTD. VII MASSAGE INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. Eavestroughing #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. 403-896-4869 with oilfield service Pampering at its companies, other small EVESTROUGH / WINDOW RE-ROOFING Specialist BEST! businesses and individuals CLEANING. 403-506-4822 Quality work at an 403-986-6686 RW Smith, 346-9351 affordable price. 10 yrs.

GUTTERS, soffit, fascia Come in and see exp. 403-350-7602 403-391-2169 why we are the talk

Cleaning

Duval Cres, Doncaster Place area $332/mo.

1000-1430

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 Accounting

DEERPARK AREA

Alexander Cres.

Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Allan Street Ahlstrom Close Archibald Cres.

Andrews Close Archer Drive/Austin Dr. Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atkins Close Allison Cres MORRISROE AREA

GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 to 4400 blocks of 40A Ave., 2 blocks of 41 Ave, and 1 block of 39, 46 & 47 St. $71/mo. also 41 & 42 Ave. between 40 St. and 44 St. area and 43 Ave. between 39 Ave. and 43 St. $77/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA

Metcalf Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. LANCASTER AREA Lawrence Cres/Lees Street Logan Close

3400 black of 44A Ave and 35 St. Cres. $48/mo also 3200 & 3300 blocks of 44A Ave & 33 St. & 33A St. $52/mo.

Lord Close VANIER AREA Vanier East Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014 D3

the n o d e t is l e l ic h e v r u Get yo

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

2008 KUSTOM KOACH 24.5’ exc. cond, 1 owner, 110 Watt solar panel, 1 slide, $19,900 403-986-3834

“SNOWBIRDS “ 2011 Alpine 39’, pristine cond., 4 slides, dish, 7500 w gen., fireplace, king bed, $44,900. obo, 1/2 price of new 403 358-4031 357-9541

2007 Dutchman Express 26’ Class C 12,800 Miles

2009 AEROLITE Dutchmen rear slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C, couch, table, awning. $16,900 obo.

403-347-5947

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 DODGE DAKOTA 4x4 Good shape. $5700.

403-598-4131

2007 LINCOLN MKX, fully loaded, under 105,000 kms., $16,900. obo. ** SOLD **

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 F150 XLT Supercab, Exc. cond.

403-347-5078

2004 TITANIUM

ULTIMATE TRUCK CAMPER 2007 Okanagan 117 DBL - 2 Slides, Sleeps 6, Full bath & kitchen. Queen. Huge. Mint $24,250 obo 403-620-8106

2009 KEYSTONE Passport Ultralite 29 ft Reduced, 1 slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C. See Kijiji Ad ID 548133556 $19,000. 403-343-1043

2012 CAMARO 2SS Coupe 5500 km. Loaded. $41,900.

403-350-6434

2009 RANGER XLT

$12,900. trades cons.

2012 CHEV, 4x4, loaded, $23,300. **SOLD**

2007 SUZUKI Boulevard 1400 cc, 11,383 km. Well maint.

Black & lots of chrome, white wall tires & saddle bags, bike cover & bike jack incl. $5000. **SOLD**

2009 SMART FORTWO 11,970 KM’s. Silver, c/w a hitch plate & wired to be towed behind a Motorhome.

Very good shape. $10,500.

403-347-6817 or 357-0919

2012 FORD FOCUS titanium hatchback, no GST, private sale $14,250 obo 403-227-5123

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 VW CITY GOLF. Blue, heated seats, winter tires, 205,000 km. $5500 403-782-5617

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2013 GMC 2500 HD 4x4, 36,000 kms., Duramax Diesel $42,300.

587-679-1000

2006 KAWASAKI, ZZ-R250 black, 2468 kms., never dropped, lady driven. $3500. obo 403-340-1936

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400.

403-391-9662

2010 Ford Explorer

2014 GMC, S/B, Loaded, z71, $34,300.

587-679-1000

2006 VW Jetta TDI

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised $15,500. Runs good.

Would like at least $9500 403-391-3456

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1985 BUICK Riviera.

Original paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner.

Immaculate interior. 158,000 km. $3750 obo.

403-347-3950

2000 JAYCO EAGLE Great cond. Clean, 6400 lbs. $9500.

403-346-0242

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, exc. cond. low kms. $6900, obo **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580

1989 GMC SIERRA Auto 350, s/b, no rust.

Glass exc. 144,000km $4900.

403-340-8950

2001 SILVERADO 4x4, 8500 winch, snow tires, topper, $6500 obo. ***SOLD***

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

PRISTINE 2007 Special Edition Mazda Miata MX5. 97,000 km, $15,000 firm 343-3208, 506-3047 cell

1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’.

Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo.

Call 403-442-3837

2001 VOLVO S60.

Loaded, very good cond.

182,000 km. $6500 obo 403-343-2058

2006 CHARGER Daytona RT, limited addition, #3 of only 250 made, loaded w/leather, low kms., top banana color. $16,995. **SOLD**

1994 CHEV Z71 e/c, fuel tank c/w 12V pump, tool box, runs good.

361,000 km. $4000 obo 403-343-2058

2002 FORD Dynamax

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500.

587-679-1000

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1998 CHRYSLER AWD

2003 HONDA 450, 4x4 $3800. obo **SOLD**

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137,000 kms, fully loaded, sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,500 403-346-1392 340-9068

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Slide, Generator, air, V10, $40,000 403 782 4207

4x4, 70,000 kms., exc. shape, 403-598-0682

Limited, 4.6L, V8, 112,000 kms., fully loaded, leather, DVD, every option, $20,500.

403-318-5505

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

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Town N` Country, 7 pass., 199,000 kms., command start, hitch, special mag whls. $1500 **SOLD**

(B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi.

A1 cond., E450, V10, loaded, rear 3 pc bath, power bed slide-out. $31,500.

587-876-2308

2003 WINDSTAR LX, fully loaded, very good cond. $3500.

403-755-2867

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Judge orders medical evaluation for Guantanamo prisoner on hunger strike MIAMI — A federal judge ordered the military Tuesday to allow an independent medical evaluation for a hunger-striking Guantanamo prisoner who his lawyers say is in sharply declining health as a result of his protest at the U.S. base in Cuba.

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler directed the government to allow Syrian prisoner Abu Wa’el Dhiab to be examined by experts chosen by his lawyers as soon as possible.

Dhiab has been approved for resettlement in Uruguay and could be out of Guantanamo Bay before the Sept. 15 deadline set by the judge for the expert reports.

The 43-year-old prisoner has been held without charge at Guantanamo since August 2002. He has been on a long-term hunger strike to protest his confinement and the delay in getting final approval from the U.S. government for his resettlement in Uruguay.

The government of the South American country has agreed to give refugee to him and five other prisoners.

Lawyers for Dhiab warned the judge on Aug. 5 that his health had deteriorated sharply and they urgently requested an independent medical exam.

They also sought testimony from U.S. military officials as part of a broader challenge to the treatment of him and other hunger striking prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba.

The U.S. holds 149 prisoners at Guantanamo.

Police in Haiti say they have captured the kidnapper said to be behind mass prison breakout PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Police recaptured an alleged kidnapper who escaped custody during a mass breakout that authorities believe was staged for him at a prison outside the Haitian capital, officials said Tuesday.

Clifford Brandt was taken into custody in the Haitian town of Cornillon, near the border with the Dominican Republic, Communications Minister Rudy Heriveaux said.

Brandt, the son of a prominent Haitian business-

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PRECISION CYCLE KAWASAKI

We are accepting applications for a SERVICE DEPARTMENT WORKER. Duties to include new unit set up and minor service on units we sell. Mechanical experience an asset.

Drop off resume to John Ferguson Precision Cycle Works Gasoline Alley, East.

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Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

Clothing

LADIES HARLEY DAVIDSON BOOTS. Like new, size 7.5.

Asking $125.

LADIES GREY COWBOY BOOTS, size 6.5. Like new.

Asking $75.

403-342-5056

Computers

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Children's Items

1580

FISHER PRICE TOYS, 2 houses, 2 schools, 1 garage, 1 school bus, 1 stove top. All for $175.

403-343-1503 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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PHOTO copier, Canon K920, exc. cond. Ideal for home or sm. business $50; COMPUTER laptop desk, black, 48Wx23Dx30H, like new, was $250.

Asking $95. 403-352-8811

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofÀce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

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AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Garden Supplies

1680

GARDEN HOSES on Wheeled Reels (2). $25.

Each. 403-343-1503

Garden Supplies

man, was in a vehicle with several other prisoners involved in the breakout, said Ed Lozama, a spokesman Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe.

“They tried to escape but were quickly apprehended,” Lozama said.

On Sunday, gunmen stormed a prison in Croixdes-Bouquets on the outskirts of the capital and wounded two guards in an attack that authorities believe was intended to free Brandt. In the ensuing chaos, police said 329 prisoners escaped.

Police have fanned out across the country in search of the escaped prisoners and appealed for help from the neighbouring Dominican Republic as well as nearby Jamaica, fearing some may have fled abroad.

“The government will not rest until every single one is in custody,” the prime minister said.

ers and how that has affected U.S.-backed Kurdish forces opposing them in northern Iraq.

President Barack Obama has said repeatedly he will not send ground combat forces back into Iraq.

Reporter in southern Mexico shot to death at home by gunman VERACRUZ, Mexico — A Mexican newspaper says a gunman killed its police beat reporter outside his home in southern Oaxaca state.

The newspaper Buen Tono published a story Tuesday on its website saying reporter Octavio Rojas was shot to death in the town of Cosolapa, where he lived.

Relatives told the newspaper Rojas was shot by a man who entered his home asking to see a car the 35-year-old reporter was selling.

The newspaper is based in the city of Cordoba in Veracruz state. It says Rojas covered police stories and the area along the Veracruz-Oaxaca state line.

Rojas was also the spokesman for Cosolapa’s city council.

The press freedom group Article 19 says the newspaper has been threatened several times since 2011, including having its offices set on fire by gunmen.

Pentagon sends 130 more troops to northern Iraq WASHINGTON — Another 130 U.S. troops arrived in Iraq on Tuesday on what the Pentagon described as a temporary mission to assess the scope of the humanitarian crisis facing thousands of displaced Iraqi civilians trapped on Sinjar Mountain.

Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the deployment in remarks to Marines at Camp Pendleton, California.

“This is not a combat boots on the ground kind of operation,” Hagel said. “We’re not going back into Iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in in Iraq,” he added, referring to the eight-year war that cost more than 4,400 U.S. lives and soured the American public on military involvement in Iraq.

Another defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity to provide additional details on the sensitive mission, said the extra troops are Marines and special operations forces whose mission is to assess the situation in the Sinjar area and to develop additional humanitarian assistance options beyond current U.S. efforts there. Still another official said the mission for the 130 troops could last less than one week.

Hagel referred to the 130 as “assessors.”

The additional troops arrived Tuesday in the city of Irbil, well east of Sinjar. They are to work with representatives of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development to coordinate plans with international partners and nongovernment organizations to help the trapped Yazidi civilians on Sinjar Mountain.

The move shows the Obama administration is weighing the impact and implications of several days of targeted airstrikes on the Islamic State fight-

1680

LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $190. 403-314-0804

Misc. for Sale

1760

Office Supplies

1800

Investigators say ground crew member warned teen pilot’s father of winds INDIANAPOLIS — A member of the ground crew at an airport in American Samoa warned the father of a teenage pilot that winds had been gusty and strong all day and evening before their plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, U.S. federal investigators say.

Haris Suleman, a 17-year-old from Indiana, was killed July 22 when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport in Pago Pago as it headed for Honolulu, Hawaii. Suleman was trying to set the record for the fastest circumnavigation around the world in a single-engine airplane with the youngest pilot in command. His father, 58-year-old Babar Suleman, was the co-pilot.

Their journey was a fundraiser to help build schools in Babar Suleman’s native Pakistan.

A preliminary report issued Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board said Babar Suleman told the unidentified ground crewman during preflight checks the weather seemed fine. That’s when the crewman told him about the winds.

Haris Suleman’s body was recovered shortly after the crash. The father remains missing.

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PRINTER, HP Photosmart GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. BOWDEN 2108 Westview Cr. C4780 “All-In-One” printer. apartments, avail. immed, 1961 built, 3 bdrm, 1 bath Det. single garage. New siding Can print, scan, and copy.† rent $875 403-596-6000 & shingles within 5 yrs. Garden Includes AC adapter.

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. Shed. Original hardwood Like new/has never been Household SUITES. 25+, adults only Áooring. Oak Cabinetry used. $100 obo. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 throughout. Mid EfÀciency Appliances Call (403) 342-7908.

Central Alberta’s Largest Furnace. Wood burning ÀreCar Lot in Classifieds place in bsmt. A great starter PERMA WASHING Pets & home/rental property w/a nice MACHINE (Sears).

BLACK leather jacket, Supplies Good cond. $175 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. view of the park off back deck. small, $50; Coolatron coolContact seller for inquiries 403-877-3323 Adult bldg. N/S No pets er $15 403-347-0325 or to view: 780-678-6286.

PETSAFE DOG RUN 403-596-2444 from Petsmart 5x10x6h DANBY DE-HUMIDIFIER, Household CUSTOM BUILT NEWLY RENOVATED with top & door. $150.

NEW HOMES bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom Furnishings Small dog or cats.

403-782-7439

by Mason Martin Homes suites available New $299, asking $125.

FLOOR LAMP, exc. cond.

Kyle, 403-588-2550 in central location.

BED, dble. $100.

403-755-2760 $10; Bread Maker, $30.; leasing@rentmidwest.com Queen bed, $100.

MUST SELL Vegetable Juicer, $20.

1(888) 679-8031 403-347-6754, 347-6509 1217 sq.ft. duplex.

403-358-3798 Something for Everyone CLOTH couch, must sell 4 bdrm., $191,900.

Cats LADIES HARLEY Everyday in Classifieds moving $100. Computer 403-588-2550 DAVIDSON BOOTS. Chair w/adjustments, good SUNNYBROOK 2 BALINESE KITTENS & Like new, size 7.5.

MUST SELL cond. $40. 403-314-9433 2 bdrm. Water & heat 2 BERMAN KITTENS Asking $125.

New Home. 1335 sq.ft.

COFFE Table, 3 pce. incld, clean and quiet, $50/ea. 403-887-3649 LADIES GREY bi-level, 24x23 att. garage. wood and glass, $150. great location, no pets.

COWBOY BOOTS, 403-588-2550 403-347-6754 403-346-6686 size 6.5. Like new.

Sporting Asking $75.

COUCH w/reclining ends Condos/ 403-342-5056 Goods $100; maple kitchen table w/4 chairs Townhouses LAST one!

Blackfoot $75 403-346-5488 GOLF BAG WITH Medicine Man’s shield 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, MISC. CLUBS. $100.

NEW CONDO GRAND FATHER CLOCK, 18 x 36” $75.

N/S. No pets.

For more info call 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. battery operated. $50.

403-347-7405 403-596-2444 403-314-0804 $192,000. 403-588-2550 403-358-3798 MANTLES GRAND TREADMILL, Vitamaster L SHAPE COMPUTER CASUAL BLUESTONE: Rooms Fitness, 1 HP. Cushioned DESK. Tan in colour.

Farms/ 1 teapot, 1 cream & sugar deck walking service, speed For Rent One year old. Asking $50. set, 1 salt & pepper set, Land Call 403-986-2849 2 platters, 1 dutch oven $80. controil, heart rate monitor, ROOM TO RENT calorie count, speed time & WHITEFRENCH CORELL LIFT CHAIR, PRYDE $400. 403-350-4712 dastance. Made in the US. large casserole dish $10. $600. 1 mo. old. $200. 403-352-8811 Call 403-358-3073.

403-392-8604 Pick up only.

LOVESEATS (2) black, Offices MICROWAVE, Kenmore, Travel $75. ea. coffee tables set. white, 900 Watts, $30; Packages (3), $50.

ELECTRIC FIREPLACE 2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 403-347-6754, 347-6509 4836 51 Street.

TRAVEL ALBERTA TAN futon, exc. shape, with adjustable Áame, black,

BY OWNER 25”h x 19”w x 13”d Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

Alberta offers $200 403-347-0325 457 Acres Prime Farmland 1500 Watt, 120 Volt, $75.

403-343-9300 SOMETHING $2,285,000.

CARPETS, 2 wool accent, WANTED for everyone.

Surface Lease Rev. $37,535. matching, 5x7, 1 matching Antiques, furniture and Make your travel Warehouse 12 miles E. of Ponoka oval. clean. $45. for all 3. estates. 342-2514 plans now. on Hwy. #53. Email: Will sell separately.

Space c_mcleod@telus.net 403-352-8811 Stereos Call: 780 910-9467 SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft.

PATIO TABLE, glass top TV's, VCRs $1000 Phil 403-350-0479 You can sell your guitar Asking $40; Vinyl Lounge for a song...

Chair, $15. 403-347-3814 PS2 w/10 games, $40. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS Misc.

DS LITE w/19 games, $140.

PLAIN Indian Teepee and we’ll sell it for you!

For Rent 403-782-3847 4’ diameter fur rug AGRICULTURAL (composed of 100’s of fur PSP w/5 games, $80. pieces) $200.

Commercial CLASSIFICATIONS GAMEBOY ADVANCED 403-347-7405 w/1 game, $60 Property 2000-2290 403-782-3847 PRINTER, HP Photosmart C4780 “All-In-One” printer.

STETTLER Can print, scan, and copy.† SHOPPING CENTER: Misc. for Horses Includes AC adapter. tenants incl. The Brick, Sale Like new/has never been Dollorama and ATB. MOBILE ofÀce trailer 240 used. $100 obo.

Priced at $3,500,000. rent by day/month, c/w toilet, WANTED: all types of 4X8 DYNAMO COIN OP Call (403) 342-7908.

DODSON PLAZA satellite dish, TV, Stereo, horses. Processing locally POOL TABLE & Various fridge. Call B & L Enterprise (Drayton Valley): tenants incl. in Lacombe weekly.

VITAMIX BLENDER, $200.

Arcade & Pop Machines.

Sobey’s, Rexall, Dollorama.

403-346-6106 403-651-5912 403-782-7439 Call 403-314-0594 Priced at $10,250,000.

Please contact 9000 BTU AIR CONDIHousesitting Howard McCann, Broker TIONER. 12.25”x19” $75. Musical (780) 917-8336, 403-782-7439 Wanted Instruments Howard.McCann@cwedm.com BABY swing, blue, like or David Cooney, Associate ATTN. SNOWBIRDS DRUM SET, 400. OBO new, $60; patio table w/4 (780) 917-8327, Retired, N/S, no pets 403-347-6754, 872-6754 chairs $30. 403-342-1934 couple will give your home David.Cooney@cwedm.com at Cushman & WakeÀeld CLASSIFICATIONS loving care & company Edmonton for more info.

Advocate while you escape winter.

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Opportunities Call 403-728-3768

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CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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MORRISROE MANOR

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE 6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301

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2012 CAMARO 2SS Coupe 5500 km. Loaded. $41,900.

403-350-6434

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2006 VW Jetta TDI 137,000 kms, fully loaded,sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,500 403-346-1392 340-9068 2003 DODGE Neon loaded safetied 403-352-6995 2001 BUICK LeSabre drk. red exc. cond. 403-352-6995 1999 PONTIAC SunÀre 4 dr. auto, v. clean 403-318-3040

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1998 CHRYSLER AWD Town N` Country, 7 pass., 199,000 kms., command start, hitch, special mag whls. $1500 **SOLD**

Fifth Wheels

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2000 JAYCO EAGLE Great cond. Clean, 6400 lbs. $9500. 403-346-0242

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CARRIERS REQUIRED

Cars

AIR GUN. Crossman 357 Shooters kit w/ 4” & 8” barrels, .177 cal. copperhead pellets.

Asking $50. 403-755-2760

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in: GLENDALE KENTWOOD Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

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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

Condos/ Townhouses

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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.

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Realtors & Services

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SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. $1000/mo. 403-343-6609

Suites

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2 BDRM. N/S, no parties, no pets. $850 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889

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Automotive Services

5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Antique & Classic Autos

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Houses For Sale

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“SNOWBIRDS “ 2011 Alpine 39’, pristine cond., 4 slides, dish, 7500 w gen., Àreplace, king bed, $44,900. obo, 1/2 price of new 403 358-4031 357-9541

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

HITCH - Àts Chevy. New. $100. 403-314-0804

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014

MASSIVE SUMMER BLOWOUT Final 5 Days August 13-17 CASUAL APPAREL 25-70

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ALL MEN’S AND WOMEN’S CLEARANCE†

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ALL WOMEN’S CLEARANCE BASIC TANKS

4

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ALL WOMEN’S CLEARANCE CASUAL PANTS, CAPRIS AND JEANS

29

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ALL MEN’S CLEARANCE SHORT SLEEVE WOVEN SHIRTS

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7

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ALL MEN’S CLEARANCE VINTAGE JEANS

88

50

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29

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ALL WOMEN’S CLEARANCE BASIC TEES

7

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99

BUY ONE GET ONE*

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ALL WOMEN’S CLEARANCE WOVEN BLOUSES

50

ALL WOMEN’S CLEARANCE DRESSES †

60

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ALL MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BUY ONE

CLEARANCE CASUAL FOOTWEAR SALE

59

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Our Reg. $89.99

GET 2ND

FREE

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MEN’S PILLAR TECH WORKBOOTS (5ANCDK3-2109/2110) SALE

99

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* Second item must be of equal or lesser value. **Our original price. †Applies to yellow ticket items, not all price points or items available at all locations. Prices in effect August 12 – August 17, 2014, or while quantities last.

Franchisees may sell for less. Product availability, pricing and selection may vary by store. Regular prices shown are those at which the items have been sold by Mark’s Work Wearhouse Ltd. Typographical, illustrative or pricing errors may occur.

We reserve the right to correct any errors. To find the Mark’s nearest you, call 1-866-807-1903 or visit marks.com. Lifestyle images presented in this advertisement may not be available.

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