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Cadets bid farewell to Penhold CAMP CLOSES AFTER 48 YEARS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF The doors closed on Penhold Air Cadet Summer Training Centre on Friday after 48 years.

About 1,250 air, army and sea cadets, age 12 and up, came this summer from across the Prairies for classes in survival, physical fitness, air rifle marksmanship, music, drills and ceremonies, and gliding.

Some cadets also worked on getting their private pilot licences.

As many as 600 cadets at any given time bunked at the camp since classes started on July 6.

Sea cadet Robert Human, 15, of Selkirk, Man., was at Penhold for the second year in a row for its popular music program.

“It’s all music and band all day,” said Human, a trumpet player who wants to be a doctor in the navy.

He comes from a long line of cadets who attended the Penhold camp, including his dad, grandfather, uncles and aunts.

“It’s sort of weird being the last person in my family to be able to enjoy this experience,” Human said.

The Department of National Defence announced in 2012 that it would end its annual three-month lease at the former Royal Air Force base due to infrastructure costs.

Next year, training for cadets from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories will be spread out between six other camps in Rocky Mountain House and Cold Lake; Gimli, Man.; Whitehorse, Yukon; Vernon and Quadra B.C. Human said Penhold instructors were great and he met “tons of new people.”

And the camp had an added bonus — the tastiest chow, he said.

“It’s a big thing in cadets. It’s funny. What camp has the best food? Penhold is my favourite by far.”

The former Penhold base opened in 1940 as Manning Depot for the Royal Air Force to train Commonwealth pilots as part of Canada’s contribution to the Second World War. In 1994, the base was decommissioned.

The residential portion of the base was renamed Springbrook in 1995 when private developers purchased the land and homes.

The military portion of the base was sold to Harvard Park Business Centre Ltd. in 1996.

Kristian Westgate, 26, of Sylvan Lake, said snapping photos was rampant during the camp’s final summer.

“Everybody is trying to get their last memories,” said Westgate, who spent one summer as a cadet at the Penhold camp and three years on staff.

When he was a cadet in 2005, Penhold attracted cadets from far and wide.

“Meeting people from all over the country, that was the best part.”

Westgate, who now oversees staff cadets teaching leadership skills, said cadets learn by example and by taking hold of the reins through opportunities to lead fellow cadets at camp.

He said anyone can learn to be a leader. Teamwork is “first and foremost” the skill needed to develop leadership to help cadets in their daily lives,

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ABOVE: General training cadets, Arrow Flight group works through a parade competition this week.

LEFT: Royal Canadian Cadets stand at easy on the parade grounds during the final parade and inspection of the Penhold Air Cadet Summer Training Centre.

FROM PAGE A1 Lieutenant-General Yvan Blondin, Commander Royal Canadian Air Force, centre is escorted as he inspects the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.

Cadet staff member Richard Wisla of Hinton plays the trombone.

Royal Canadian Cadets march past the reviewing stand.

and in turn help the country and maybe even make a global impact.

Marc Halas, 32, of Calgary, officer in charge of the drill and ceremonial instructor course for a third year, was a cadet at Penhold for two years and agreed that the camp had a way of bringing people together.

As a cadet, he recalled walking across a room and chatting with a cadet from Toronto and finding out how much they had in common.

“I remember a lot of the good friendships I made,”

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There’s a lot that cadets take away from the program no matter how long they stay with it. Some may think being a cadet is about following strict rules, but maybe they should give it a try, he said.

“It’s like any youth organization, there’s going to be a certain format to it and it’s all about whether that format appeals to you and whether it’s something you’re interested in that counts.”

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CADETS: Something for everyone He said cadets attract youth for different reasons.

“Quite a few of them look to it as an avenue to get to gliding and flying.

But there’s something for everybody. There’s the survival scene.

There’s fitness. If you’re a little more militaryminded, there’s the drill aspect,” Halas said.

Human said conforming to cadet standards is part of the camp.

Uniforms have to look good at all times. Living quarters must be kept in order. But that’s the way it is for everyone at camp, and it can be sort of be fun working as a team to complete tasks efficiently.

He said some people his age don’t want someone telling them what to do. They don’t understand that in a few years, once they have a job, they can’t avoid following orders, and cadets encourages discipline and respect.

Human’s white sea cadet cap has led to some teasing back home. But those who make fun of cadets don’t realize all the opportunities and benefits that go along with the program.

Lt.-Col. Allan Dengis, commander of the Penhold Air Cadet Summer Training Centre, said a push is on to proactively showcase the cadet program, also know as “the best kept secret in the country.”

He said more people are coming to understand that cadets is a youth activity program that gives young people the values and principles to move ahead in society.

“Even though it is sponsored by the Department of National Defence, it really has nothing whatsoever to do with being a recruiting tool in any shape or form for the military. It’s simply sponsored by them because they recognize the value and benefits of developing good citizens for the country,” Dengis said.

Saying goodbye to Penhold, although it’s a link to Canada’s aviation history, they are simply buildings of mortar and bricks, he said.

“The real spirit is the people. It’s the spirit, the drive, the ambition, the enthusiasm they bring into these facilities that bring it alive.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Judge warns he will stay charges in 3 cases unless legal aid steps up EDMONTON — Alberta’s largest public-sector union is calling on the justice minister for more legal-aid funding following a provincial court judge’s warning.

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says the government isn’t doing enough to address a legal-aid crisis.

Assistant Chief Judge Larry Anderson has said he will stay charges in three criminal assault cases unless legal aid provides lawyers to the defendants.

Anderson points out the three are on social assistance and living below the poverty line, but their income is still too high for legal help.

The province raised eligibility thresholds by about 30 per cent in 2010.

A spokesman for Justice Minister Jonathan Denis says the ministry respects the judge’s decision and will work with Legal Aid Alberta to ensure representation is provided.

The union says everyone but the justice minister can see that the legal-aid crisis has gone too far.

Wildlife centre rescues gulls caught in hail “We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

— German philosopher Immanuel Kant

County in his work, first noticed two gulls in the ditch, alive but with broken wings. He thought he would try to save them, get them to the Medicine It was a sight Carol River Wildlife Centre.

Kelly had never seen in “I always do stuff like her three decades of sav- that if I see it.” He has ing wildlife — and never taken other injured wildwants to again. life to Kelly.

In the eyes As he enof the executered the tive director muddy field, of the Medithe situation cine River began to reWildlife Cenveal itself. tre, every one T h e r e of nature’s were spots creatures is where there worth saving were 50 or 60 from somedead gulls in times a cruel a pile. “It was and prolonged crazy. There death. was hundreds MARY-ANN So on Aug. of them that BARR 8 at 7:30 p.m., were dead. despite an“I had nevother long er seen anyday of work at thing like that the animal rehab facil- before, and I’m working ity, when Mike Murray outside all the time. called on her for help, “I covered quite an there was no hesitation. area that night and that M u r r a y h a d c o m e was the only place I saw across a dramatic scene birds.”

— hundreds of dead gulls The ravens were busy lay in a chilly field along cleaning up. the Cottonwood Road, “The Bible ... talks between Range Roads a b o u t A r m a g e d d o n 21 and 22, southwest of and the bodies will be Red Deer. In among this cleaned up by the birds veritable gull graveyard, of heaven. That’s exactly some were still alive. what I thought of.

They were the victims “(The ravens) had of the large hail storm hundreds devoured, like that hit the evening be- they cleaned it up so fore. fast.”

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Cargo planes to ship arms

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Two of Canada’s military cargo planes will soon be ferrying weapons to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq — and the Harper government sounds prepared to do even more to counter the “barbarous attacks” of hard-line Islamic militants.

A CC-177 Globemaster and a CC-130J Hercules transport will begin shuttling arms provided by allies to the Iraqi city of Irbil over the next few days, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement.

And a least one defence analyst says Canada should be prepared to follow Britain’s lead and dispatch CH-147F Chinook helicopters to further help allied nations deliver relief supplies or facilitate humanitarian evacuations.

The cargo flights, which include some 30 air force personnel from Canadian Forces Base Trenton, east of Toronto, will continue as long as there is equipment and supplies to move.

Harper convened an ad-hoc meeting of the federal cabinet committee that oversees national security on Friday and ministers got behind the plan, describing the march of hardline Islamists through northern Iraq as “a serious threat to stability in the region, as well as to global security.”

The U.S. and France are already sending weapons, while Britain has indicated it is also prepared to help arm

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A CC-130J Hercules aircraft sits on the tarmac at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton on June 4, 2010. Canada is committing two cargo planes to move military supplies into northern Iraq as part of the international effort to bolster Kurdish forces in the embattled region. the Kurdish forces fighting militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. Germany is also preparing to send military aid.

“This support, which will be provided in close co-ordination with our allies, will enable Kurdish forces to provide effective protection to Iraqis faced with the barbarous attacks of ISIL,” Harper said.

“Canada will not stand idly by while ISIL continues its murder of innocent civilians and religious minorities. We continue to monitor the situation in Iraq and are prepared to provide further assistance.”

The al-Qaida splinter group’s hardline militants have already seized large parts of northern Iraq, sending 400,000 people fleeing for their lives.

Many of those trying to escape are Yaz-

idis, Christians and other minorities.

It’s high time the debate about what to do in Iraq moved beyond the old arguments about the U.S. invasion and occupation in 2003, which many blame for the current instability, said retired colonel George Petrolekas.

“I don’t buy the argument that it’s not our problem: ’We didn’t break it, so we shouldn’t have to fix it,”’ said Petrolekas, who sits on the board of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute.

“We have a moral responsibility to try.”

After arming Kurdish forces, Petrolekas said, western nations will face a prolonged humanitarian crisis and a protracted battle — albeit through proxies — to extricate ISIL from northern Iraq and possibly even Syria.

Dispatching Chinooks to stand by for evacuation or aid missions just seems like sensible contingency planning, he added.

“It’s a low-risk mission, if we had to pull people out.”

The help announced Friday is in addition to $5 million in humanitarian aid committed last weekend by the Conservative government.

Western nations need to agree on a coherent strategy to defeat ISIL, and to consider the knock-on effects of arming the Kurds, who have fought for independence in their region from both Iraq and Turkey, Petrolekas said.

Two men charged with triple-murder of family

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS STETTLER — Two men are facing murder charges in the deaths of one of their families in central Alberta.

A spokeswoman with Alberta Justice confirms that 32-year-old Joshua Frank and 41-year-old Jason Klaus have each been charged with three

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GULLS: Suffered broken bones, bruising Martin grabbed a gunnysack from his truck, phoned Kelly and began gathering up the birds that were still alive.

The theory is that the two types of gulls involved — ring-billed and Franklin’s — had either been gathered in the field but were unable to get away when the hail hit, or were in the air and knocked out of the skies as they frantically tried to seek shelter.

Murray noted there was a nearby cornfield where all the plants had been completely stripped by the hail.

A woman, whose identity is unknown, stopped to help Murray. They began to put the injured birds into the covered back of her truck. As the birds warmed up, they started to move around more.

Soon, Kelly and another well-known animal rescuer, Judy Boyd from Red Deer, arrived.

counts of first-degree murder.

The remains of Klaus’s father and sister, Gordon and Monica Klaus, were found in the rubble of a burned-out farmhouse in Castor last December.

His mother, Sandra Klaus, wasn’t found but RCMP have said that they believe she also died in the fire.

Emergency responders found the family’s dog shot dead outside the

home when they arrived at the scene.

Three days after the fire, police found the family’s white GMC Sierra truck abandoned about 30 kilometres away.

Jason Klaus lived in a home across from his parents but was unharmed.

He told media that his sister had been visiting.

Both accused men are also charged

with arson and Frank faces a further charge of causing cruelty to animals.

RCMP haven’t said much about the arrests but was to release more on the case Saturday.

Witnesses have said that at least one man was arrested Friday morning after an explosion was heard at a home in Stettler that belonged to Monica Klaus.

By the time Kelly got the poor creatures home, she had 35 of them.

With help from international students working at the rehab centre, they worked for hours wrapping and treating the birds.

Nine had to be euthanized because they were so terribly injured and a couple have died since.

The birds suffered injuries such as eye damage, broken bones and severe bruising.

Before these birds arrived, she was already treating about 20 gulls that had come from Eckville and Red Deer, injured from the same storm system. In Eckville, they counted 88 dead gulls.

“At one point we had 45 live ones in treatment,” said Kelly.

In 30 years, I’ve never seen (hail) do that kind of damage.”

“After severe hail around here, we might get two or three birds with minor fractures or minor bruising. Never, never saw this before.”

Of course, it had to happen when the Medicine River Wildlife Centre has its old hospital torn apart. They are in the middle of building a “state of the art” animal hospital and need to raise another $500,000 to finish the project.

She now has 32 gulls up and about, in their pond, and six or seven more in intensive care.

The birds are healing. Some will be well in a few weeks, others before it’s time to fly south, which can be as late as November if the weather holds.

They’ve gone through a lot of smelts.

More are on order.

So is it better sometimes to let nature take its course, I ask her.

“In this case, it kind of is nature but on the other hand we do so much damage to the environment.

And these guys are there and need

help. We’re going to help.

“And the people who find them absolutely want us to help.

“If I didn’t rehab everything that someone said they don’t like, I wouldn’t be rehabbing anything.

“Do we need to put a judgment on it and say this animal is worthy and this is not? Everything is worthy in our eyes, and we try with everything we get in here.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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As many as 6,000 still haven’t been heard, tand there are generally about 3,000 new appeals every year. Among the documents is a memorandum from the head of the tribunal, Murielle Brazeau, alerting Kenney that the tribunal is struggling to manage the caseload.

Under federal regulations, the tribunal must make a decision on the cases or schedule an appeal after 365 days.

March, despite a backlog of thousands of cases and the Conservative government’s assurances earlier this year that the jobs would soon be filled.

The government, meantime, says only two of the 12 vacancies that were still open as of July 18 remain to be filled. New employees were hired this summer, said a spokesman for Employment Minister Jason Kenney.

The Social Security Tribunal was created in 2013 with the aim of providing a more efficient and streamlined appeal process for employment insurance, Canada Pension Plan and old age security decisions. It replaced a board of hundreds of part-time referees who heard appeals. The government said the new tribunal would save Canadian taxpayers $25

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MONTREAL — Animal welfare advocates say foxes and minks housed in inhumane conditions at a fur farm near Montreal for months should be removed immediately, but the Quebec government is confident the situation is under control.

An official with the Montreal branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said Friday that she’s visited the unidentified fur farm near St-Hyacinthe, Que., twice since May and that the animals are in poor health and living in horrific conditions that appear to have worsened with time.

Alanna Devine, the director of animal advocacy at the Montreal SPCA, said the animals were subject to severe neglect and in a desperate state during visits in early August. Government officials were also present during the visit.

The animals were dehydrated, living in cramped quarters and malnourished. Devine believes things had gotten worse since her first visit in May, days after receiving a complaint.

Several animals were seized during previous visits and some had to be put down. Roughly 80 red foxes and several thousand minks remain on the farm.

“I couldn’t believe the condition the animals were in,” Devine said.

“Being on site that day, my assumption had been ... the next step was to remove the animals.”

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Canadian soldier grilled by defence at court martial QUEBEC — A Canadian soldier was accused on Friday of using a female subordinate as an “open bar” for his sexual gratification.

Warrant officer Andre Gagnon was grilled by the defence at his court martial on a sexual assault charge.

Lawyer Marylene Trudel argued that Gagnon used his superior rank to coerce the young woman into sex acts.

Gagnon faces one count under Sec. 130 of the National Defence Act as well as the Criminal Code section corresponding to sexual assault.

Stephanie Raymond, who served as a corporal under Gagnon, says he made advances, engaged in sexual touching and attempted to get oral sex after a holiday party in December 2011.

The alleged victim has said she initially went along with his actions because she feared later reprisals.

Raymond, who has insisted her name not be protected under a publication ban, filed a complaint against Gagnon and was subsequently discharged by the army.

Gagnon testified Thursday that Raymond was the initiator and straddled him when they were alone in a room at the Regiment de la Chaudiere armoury in Levis, Que., after the party where there had been considerable drinking.

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A spotlight on depression In the spotlight, Robin Williams was a runaway train of genius — hyper hilarious on the funny side; gentle and soul-searching on the serious side. He brought tears of laughter in his comedic roles, and tears of sadness in his dramatic roles — witness to his remarkable ability in playing both sides of the fence.

Out of the spotlight, Williams was a prisoner in the dark, shackled by depression while battling an on-again offagain alcohol and cocaine addiction.

Depression is an illness that plays no favours. Hopefully Williams’ death can help humanize this potentially deadly disease. He was hilarious and charming on the outside, but a clown who wept RICK behind that smile from the inZEMANEK side.

One Internet commenter said: “Depression doesn’t discriminate between age, gender, race or religion. Rich or poor, old or young, comedian or CEO — all of us have the propensity to fall into that deep pit of despair that you feel you’ll never climb out of.”

The commenter continued: “... sufferers should confide in their loved ones, the first step in treating a ravenous, consuming and sometimes aggressive illness . ... ” In his thought-provoking movie Dead Poets Society, Williams played an off-beat English teacher, encouraging his students to tear up their text books and “carpe diem.”

“Carpe diem” is Latin for “seize the day,” penned

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Williams seized that ‘day’ throughout his career and captured a world-wide audience with his supercharged talents. He was bizarre and zany enough to have talk show host David Letterman in stitches with laughter, yet touchingly dramatic and philosophical in his more serious roles.

His movie Good Morning Vietnam was a classic example of his off-the-wall humour as a rogue military DJ who defied all the rules of command. On his compassionate side in the flick, he revealed to moviegoers the pain and suffering the pointless Vietnam conflict inflicted upon its innocent victims.

Williams first became best known playing a coleading roll in the weirdly funny TV sitcom Mork and Mindy in the late 1970s and early ’80s, during which “nanu, nanu” became a bizarre household saying.

It was a form of a greeting from another planet the space cadet Mork originated from in the sitcom.

Despite depression being a formidable opponent in Williams career, he showed there is joy in life. “ . . . there is always joy to life. This is what Robin Williams was good at and that will forever be his legacy,” wrote another commenter.

It’s no secret Williams battled addictions, and made attempts at rehabilitation. But it was depression that eventually took charge of his destiny.

After 20 years of sobriety, he checked himself into rehab in 2006 for drug abuse. He later told the New York Times that he hadn’t confronted the underlying issues at the root of his addictions — depression.

“There was still in the background this voice, like, ‘Psst.’ So when I relapsed, I went back hard,” he told the Times. “The one thing I hadn’t dealt with was how honest do you want to live?”

In an interview with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, Williams described the haunting “voices” of depression that led to his relapses in dealing with addictions. “It’s the same voice-thought that ... you’re standing at a precipice and you look down, there’s a voice, and it’s a little quiet voice that goes,

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‘Jump’,” he told Sawyer. “The same voice that goes, ‘Just one’ (drink won’t hurt) ... and the idea of just one for someone who has no tolerance for it, that’s not the possibility.”

Williams used cocaine to rein in his genius, possessed by an ultra-busy mind of epic proportions.

“Cocaine for me was a place to hide,” he told People Magazine in 1988. “Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down.”

He quit coke and booze cold turkey after attending the party where John Belushi from The Blues Brothers and Saturday Nigh Live fame went on an all-night cocaine and heroin binge that led to a fatal overdose.

“The Belushi tragedy was frightening,” he told People. “His death scared a whole group of showbusiness people and caused a big exodus from drugs.” Williams said he didn’t want to live that life.

But depression can be relentless and unforgiving.

Despite efforts to educate the public on the disease, it’s still widely misunderstood. “Cheer up” is still used as a throwaway comment, as if depression is something that can be snapped out of,” said one Internet commenter. “As we deal with the aftershock of losing one of the world’s greatest comedians and bright lights of the world, there can still be hope this

utter tragedy can help humanize a pervasive and devastating disease.”

Here’s hoping.

Out of the thousands of tributes paid to Robin Williams over the Internet, one stands out the most, and speaks volumes for most of his fans: “This news has punched me deep in the gut. ...

How terribly sad this ending to a brilliant, enigmatic person with the ability to touch nearly all the sentiments within range of human experiences — fun, laughter, absurdity, sarcasm, sadness, empathy — all those many, many roles. The talent and intellect were and shall remain simply astounding. Perhaps his intelligence eventually became his undoing; none of us can or should say. His best and lasting legacy will always be the sounds of laughter emanating from an audience, whether in person, on an album or a movie theatre. I sure enjoyed you, Robin Williams.

Know that if nothing else.”

Well said. And for those Advocate readers shackled by depression, but have tried to tuck it away in the closet, there is help available through Central Alberta’s medical community and various area organizations that will lend a compassionate ear.

“Carpe diem.”

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Poll suggests Tories have leadership issues Summer is often a sunnier season than most for a ruling federal party.

With Parliament shut down, the opposition has to scramble to find alternative venues to rain on the government’s parade.

That has been truer than usual this year. The 2014 federal summer to date has featured an overabundance CHANTAL of international HEBERT turbulences and a relative INSIGHT drought of major domestic controversies.

Since the lights went off in the House of Commons in June, voters have seen and heard a lot of Stephen Harper but almost always in relation to some major international development.

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But if Conservative strategists were counting on a Harper summer spent in the foreign policy limelight to restore their party’s shine in voting intentions, they have to be dismayed by the midsummer polls.

The Liberals remain in the lead and the latest polls suggest the gap in their favour has been widening.

The most recent poll to be released, done by EKOS last month, pegs the Conservatives in the mid-20s, in a statistical tie with the NDP and 13 points behind the Liberals.

Like its competitors, this pollster put the Conservatives well behind the Liberals in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, distant also-rans in Quebec and leading only in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Some 2,620 respondents were polled.

Buried in the EKOS analysis — possibly because it is a provocative notion at this juncture — is the tentative proposition that, at this rate, the Conservatives could have a fight on their hands just to hang on to official Opposition in the next election.

With a year to go until the campaign, a more topical question is what ails the Conservatives to the point that more

and more voters are starting to take their 2015 demise for granted?

The fine print of the EKOS poll offers a few clues, especially coming as it does at a time when the prime minister has so consistently been in the news on his own terms.

It suggests that Conservative analysts are not wrong to think some of their troubles are leadership-related.

But it looks like they are pointing the finger at the wrong leader.

If one is to believe government spindoctors, the ongoing Liberal recovery is a passing fad, based on the political equivalent of fool’s gold, i.e., Justin Trudeau’s status as a celebrity and its purported fatal attraction on the media. Some NDP strategists subscribe to the same theory.

But the fact is that NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair routinely scores as high or higher in the best prime minister category. In the EKOS poll, he beat Trudeau 54 per cent to 49 per cent.

Harper, by comparison, scores poorly outside the cohort of core Conservative supporters. Even as he more than holds his own against Trudeau in the leadership category, Mulcair is so far failing to translate the positive impression he makes on many nonNDP voters into support. And that may

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014 A7

The day the music got mugged I just had to wade into the fray, as it were. I couldn’t be mum anymore, not only because I’m not a member of the female species, but because I often have a hard time keeping quiet about such things. This latest ridiculous music-related news emanating out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, of all places, just got my dander up, and not the kind where I’ve got to reach for the medicated shampoo.

OK, so, as usual I’m making very little HARLEY sense, but neiHAY ther is 90.3 AMP. This radio station in Cowtown has, as of Aug. 1, changed formats to something they call “Quick-Hitz.” I wish somebody would lay a few Quick-Hitz on the tone-deaf, money-hungry moron who thought this one up. Other than that I’m kind of wishy washy on the subject. Sure, and Lady Gaga is a Trappist Monk.

I mean what is wrong with these people? The idea, which completely ignores ethics, common sense, and artistic integrity and which seems based solely on greed, money and mathematics (as in counting more money), was recently inflicted upon us by some disgrace called CKMP. CKMP are the call letters of 90.3 AMP and their so-called strategy goes something like this: “Let’s take popular songs by famous artists and chop them up so that they are about half as long as they are supposed to be. Make them 1.5 to two minutes in length, and then we can double the total amount of music played per hour on our hip and modern radio station! Then we could have the slogan: “Twice the Music!”

Twice the stupidity, I say.

Yeah, let’s lose Jimmy Page’s guitar solo in Stairway to Heaven, it’s much too long. I’m sure Bob Dylan wouldn’t mind us cutting the lyrics “The times they are a changing” — he repeats that too many times anyway. We could ditch the choruses of (insert your favourite song title here), that should get it down to a nice tight one minute and a half.

And while we’re at it, how about making all the paintings in the Louvre smaller by half so that we can make room for more masterpieces? Mona Lisa might be missing part of a shoulder, but she’d still have her smile, right?

And those Star Wars movies are much too long. Modern audiences just don’t have the attention span anymore.

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I know, we could get rid of Yoda — nobody would really miss a little green muppet anyway.

You get where I’m coming from, of course, and I’m not alone. Many people have similar reactions. Jann Arden, the popular singer/songwriter artist with many hit songs and 13 albums and three books to her credit, has been Tweeting mercilessly, calling AMP “dorks” and forbidding them from playing her songs. She publicly wonders about hockey with one period and reading half a book. And there’s a lot of $%^&@# in her comments, only she doesn’t use the symbols. And I don’t blame her.

Sensible people (definition: those other than AMP radio) will immediately realize the concept seems to defy logic — more songs equals less commercials — nine minutes per hour instead of twice that much, which is typical in radioland. And it’s the commercials that bring in the moola, right?

But I personally heard one of the bosses of AMP interviewed on a decent radio station called CBC and he said they would “make up the revenue by sellin those nine advertising minutes at a premium because the new format

will be so popular advertisers will be willing to pay more.” Can anyone say “boycott?” And Mr. Boss forgot to mention that AMP saves coin by dropping much of its on-air talent. Who needs those pricey announcers anyway? They talk too much.

So at great sacrifice and in the interests of being fair and unbiased (good luck with that Harley) I dialed up 90.3 AMP radio and listened to over an hour of “twice the music” while I “worked.” I do admit that I didn’t hear any blatant cuts in the songs. But then again I didn’t recognize any of the songs. Not kidding. Not a single song.

For example, their playlist (as posted on the interweb) featured Black Widow by Iggy Azalea, Boom Clap by Charli XCX, and Chandelier by Sia. Clearly, we’re not talking classic rock here, and I am obviously displaying a large amount of old-fogeyness when I say that, ironically, the problem with AMP radio isn’t that they cut the songs in half, it’s that they didn’t cut nearly enough. About 30 seconds total would be about right for each of the songs that I heard, I said to myself — clearly being a total old fogey who has taken to talking to himself. But I still say it’s

wrong. If an artist creates three minutes and 30 seconds of a really bad song, then nobody (except perhaps the artist’s contractual wife or husband) has the right to change it to a much shorter really bad song, without, as they always say, the “express written consent” of said artist or the artist’s spousal unit with a signed prenuptial agreement.

I for one won’t be tuning into that station (which instead of AMP should call be called SAS (Short Attention Span) radio) any time soon. As in never.

Instead, I think I’ll put on Don McLean’s classic American Pie, aka The Day the Music Died, which, by the way, was originally so long (over eight minutes!) that radio stations refused to play it. And so I’m going to listen to every note of its artist-approved four minutes and 33 seconds. A song that no one will ever hear on Quick-Hitz radio.

And that’s a crying shame.

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

The true meaning of grace In order to get my facts right, I used are wronged in the slightest way, we my computer’s dictionary to get the seek retribution and/or compensation; correct definition of the word grace. the courts are weighed down by cases Five minutes later, it still where people are seeking hasn’t given me results, so I some sort of justice or comturned to my trusty 40 year pensation. old Funk & Wagnalls, and How a few thousand dolhere is what I learned. lars compensates for a past Grace: 1. Beauty of moemotional wrong is still tion or manner. 2. Any atbeyond my limited undertractive quality. 3. A title of standing, but that’s the way address. 4. The act of showour society works. ing favour. 5. Clemency or In some cases, a display mercy. of justice is demanded, ie: The list goes on and on, an apology for an act of unand while I write this, my kindness or humiliation computer is still looking. such as the incarceration of CHRIS But I have a different dea people because they are SALOMONS scription. of a country we happen to From Christian vernacube at war with. lar or, as I call it, ChristiaOne of the biggest scenarnese, the definition I wish ios lately has been the use to use is: an unmerited favour or gift. of residential schools that harmed a And the reason I want to use that def- lot of people of aboriginal heritage. inition is because I saw it in action But it did not harm all of them; for while I was doing the interview for the some, they feel they are alive because article I wrote about ‘The ’60s Scoop.’ of them.

We live in a society where if we Where they were taken from, death

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was a certainty for many because of the impoverished conditions that existed at that time.

What we hear in the media is the wrong that was inflicted on many who were part of that government inspired fiasco.

They wish to right a wrong that the present government had nothing to do with, not realizing that history cannot be undone; a little bit of cash will not erase whatever memories they may have.

It is to the point where the rest of the country is almost getting tired of the complaints and the stories of wronged individuals; no matter how tragic and true they might be.

Sometimes the coverage is too much. It’s almost as if the media is manipulating a trial by public opinion, something that in the past has proven to go against them.

Now consider this; as I was interviewing ‘Rose’ about all the aspects of The ’60s Scoop, part of the conversation was about her own mother, who was a student in a residential school.

In her words, she stated that her mother swears she would not be alive if it was not for the residential school.

Her mother experienced no wrong doing at the school, and so has nothing negative to say about them.

In our interview, Rose talked about the fact that she would not ever see, much less know, the two children that were wrongfully taken from her under false pretences.

The pain of it still brought tears as she talked about them.

With tears coursing down her cheeks, she made a statement that absolutely floored me.

“I know that one day I will see them again, and no one will ever again be able to take them away, so I choose to forgive the wrongs that were done to me and the people who did them.”

Talk about unmerited favor. ....

That, my friends, is the true meaning of the word we often misuse and my computer dictionary still has not defined; that word is ‘grace.’

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

Risk-sharing for a successful economy Ontario accounts for almost 40 per cent of Canada’s population and about 37 per cent of Canada’s economy. So when Ontario’s economy is hard hit, the country is in trouble.

The combination of a prolonged U.S. recession (the U.S. takes about 80 per cent of Ontario’s exports) and a sharp rise in the Canadian petrodollar exchange rate delivered a double hammer blow to the Ontario economy. Many comDAVID panies have CRANE closed and between 2004 and 2012 Ontario lost about 195,000 manufacturing jobs while in 2012 manufacturing revenues were $40 billion lower than in 2004.

So what is to be done?

Ontario has to build a new economic base linked to new knowledge and new or restructured industries. Fortunately, that process is underway, though the full payoff will be some years in the future.

This transformation is being funded in part by a little-known federal agency, the Federal Economic Develop-

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ment Agency of Southern Ontario or FedDev, which was established by the Harper government in 2009 to address the economic crisis in southern Ontario. It has its own cabinet minister, Gary Goodyear.

What FedDev has been doing is to help fund a series of university-industry applied research institutes geared towards the next economy. Here are some examples: ● $11.5 million for the McMaster University’s $26.4-million Automotive Research Centre, which is a collaboration with private industry to conduct research and develop new technologies for hybrid and electric powertrains, vehicle batteries and lightweight materials. ● $11 million, in collaboration with the Ontario Brain Institute, to establish NeuroTech Ontario, with another $11 million coming from the private sector. It is building partnerships to accelerate the commercialization of neurotechnologies, such as enhanced imaging technologies and software to improve cognitive abilities, and development of a neurotechnologies cluster. ● $20 million to support the $210-million Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform, a project led by IBM Canada (it contributed $175 million), with seven participating Ontario universities. It includes an IBM Blue Gene/Q computer at University of Toronto, the most powerful computer in Canada and is working with academic researchers and small and

midsize companies on applications and new businesses for energy, health, water, cities and agile computing. ● $19.5 million to support the Southern Ontario Water Consortium, a collaboration of eight Ontario universities, IBM Canada, FedDev, the Ontario government and other private sector partners. It has six research nodes including drinking water, wastewater treatment, watershed management, sensors and data integration. Its goal is to help build a water technology industry in Ontario. ● $20 million to help establish the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Clinical Trials Network, based at the University of Waterloo, in alliance with McMaster University, to accelerate with the private sector the testing of new technologies and treatments for people living with Type-1 diabetes. ● $13.7 million to support Western University’s $30-million-plus Fraunhofer Project Centre to develop products and processes utilizing lightweight materials, including composites, for the automotive, aviation, construction, renewable energy, defence and medical devices industries and establish a centre for the commercialization of new technologies by small and midsize companies. ● $2.3 million to support the Institute of Food Processing Technology at Conestoga College in Kitchener, a project led by the Alliance of Ontario Food Processors. It is training the future food processing workforce for an

increasingly high-tech industry.

These centres are all important for several reasons. All of them will help develop highly-skilled workers and researchers to bring new skills to the economy. This in itself is important.

Some of the graduates of these institutes will go on to form their own companies or take new knowledge to help existing companies move on to new or better products and processes.

These centres are also important because they depend on industryuniversity/college collaboration. This is applied research, which takes new theoretical knowledge and moves it into the world of applications in jobcreating industry. By ensuring that all of these centres have private-sector collaboration, there will be a connection to the innovation problems that industry is trying solve.

These centres alone will not by themselves build a new economy.

There has to be a receptor capacity in industry to utilize new knowledge and hire highly qualified workers and researchers. For small and midsize companies, there has to be financing available to scale up smaller companies for ongoing success.

But they are an important part of the solution. We need more public-private collaboration and risk-sharing for a successful economy with good jobs.

Just cutting taxes won’t do it.

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

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014

Ukrainian troops destroy Russian military vehicles KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russia — Russian military vehicles crossed into Ukraine during the night, NATO and Ukraine said Friday, and the Ukrainian president said most of them were quickly destroyed by his troops.

The reported Russian incursion, which Moscow denied, came amid a week of drama over a Russian humanitarian aid mission for people in eastern Ukraine caught in the crossfire of fighting between government troops and pro-Russian separatists.

A statement on President Petro Poroshenko’s website said he and British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke Friday by telephone about the reports from Western journalists that Russian APCs were seen crossing into Ukraine near the point where over 200 vehicles in the Russian aid convoy were parked.

“The president said that the given

information was trustworthy and confirmed because the majority of the vehicles were destroyed by Ukrainian artillery at night,” the presidential statement said.

Poroshenko gave no proof for his comments.

Russia said Russian forces were patrolling the border but denied that any military vehicles had crossed into Ukraine. NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, however, confirmed that the alliance had observed a Russian “incursion” into Ukraine.

“What we have seen last night is the continuation of what we have seen for some time,” he said.

Britain said it summoned Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko in to clarify the reports of the Russian incursion.

Markets sold off heavily Friday, spooked by thought of Ukrainian troops engaging with Russia forces inside Ukraine. Germany’s DAX, which had been trading over 1 per cent high-

er, ended the day 1.4 per cent lower.

The benchmark price of oil was up over $1 to $96.70 per barrel.

“Traders will be anxiously scanning their newsfeeds for any sign of a Russian response over the coming hours,” said Chris Beauchamp, market analyst at IG. Breaking an earlier deal, Russia this week sent the convoy of roughly 200 aid trucks toward a border crossing under the control of pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine, raising the prospect that it could enter without being inspected by Ukraine or the Red Cross. Kyiv had agreed to admit the trucks, but only through a region untouched by separatist unrest.

After days of controversy, Russia nominally consented to let Ukrainian officials inspect the convoy while it was still on Russian soil and agreed that the Red Cross would distribute the goods in Ukraine’s region of Luhansk.

The twin moves apparently aimed

to dispel Ukrainian fears that the operation was a ruse to get military help to the pro-Russian separatists.

Laurent Corbaz, the International Committee of the Red Cross’ director of operations in Europe, described a tentative plan in which the trucks would enter Ukraine with a single Russian driver each — as opposed to the current crew of several people in each truck — accompanied by a Red Cross worker. In line with Red Cross policy, there would be no military escort, he said.

However, some Russian military vehicles were seen near the aid convoy Friday carrying a Russian acronym standing for “peacekeeping forces” — a signal that Moscow was considering a possible military escort.

The fighting in eastern Ukraine has claimed nearly 2,100 lives, half of those in the last few weeks. It began in April, a month after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.

Police identify officer who killed unarmed Missouri teen

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. — Police on Friday identified the officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb and released documents alleging the young man had been suspected of stealing a $48.99 box of cigars from a convenience store in a “strong-arm” robbery shortly before he was killed.

Police Chief Thomas Jackson said the officer did not know the teen was a robbery suspect at the time of the shooting and stopped Michael Brown and a companion “because they were walking down the middle of the street blocking traffic.”

Darren Wilson, 28, has been an officer in suburban St. Louis for six years and had no complaints filed against him, Jackson said.

Brown’s death ignited four days of clashes with furious protesters. The tension eased Thursday after the governor turned oversight of the protests over to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Within hours, the mood on the street lightened, with state troopers walking side-by-side with peaceful protesters and no hint of violence. Gone were the police in riot gear and armoured vehicles, pointing assault rifles at protesters and firing tear gas into crowds.

Brown’s relatives immediately questioned whether the officer really believed Brown was a suspect and said no robbery would justify shooting the

teen after he put his hands up.

The family’s attorney, Benjamin Crump, said Brown’s parents were blindsided by the allegations.

“It’s bad enough they assassinated him, and now they’re trying to assassinate his character,” Crump said.

An attorney for the teen who was with Brown on the day of the shooting said his client has acknowledged to investigators that Brown took cigars from the store.

Wilson has been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting.

Jackson described Wilson as “a gentle, quiet man” who had been “an excellent officer.” He’s been on the Ferguson force for four years. Prior to that, he patrolled in the neighbouring community of Jennings, Jackson said.

At 11:51 a.m. on the day of the shooting, police records show, authorities received a call reporting a robbery at the Ferguson Market. An unidentified officer was dispatched to the store, arriving within three minutes. The officer interviewed an employee and customer, who gave a description of a man who stole the cigars and walked off with another man toward another store.

Descriptions of the suspect were broadcast over the police radio. The officer did not find the suspects either on the street or at the other store, the reports said.

The robber took a box of Swisher Sweets Cigars valued at $48.99, according to the reports.

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FAR LEFT: In Raleigh, N.C., Fayetteville Street is the site of many special events, including the Downtown Raleigh Food Truck Rodeo.

LEFT: An oak sculpture in Moore Square Park honours North Carolina’s abundance of oak trees and its nickname, City of Oaks.

‘This is a bumpin’ town’ RALEIGH DRAWING CROWDS BACK TO DOWNTOWN

BY ANDREA SACHS ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES During the Beer and Hymns sing-along at Tir Na Nog, the line couldn’t come fast enough.

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Musicians gather at Tir Na Nog, in Raleigh, N.C., for Sunday’s Irish-style jam session. The Irish bar also hosts the Beer and Hymns sing-along.

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I was in Raleigh singing Raleigh from Old Crow Medicine Show’s song Wagon Wheel. And I wasn’t going to whisper the most anthemic line for this time and this place. Because, as Ernest Dollar, director of the City of Raleigh Museum and the Pope House Museum, put it: “This is a bumpin’ town.”

The museum’s tagline is “Then.

Now. Next,” but the North Carolina capital’s “then” was more of a dirge than a hallelujah. For years, folks fled downtown for the suburbs and to other points of the Research Triangle: Durham and Chapel Hill.

Government workers and educators converged on the City of Oaks by day, but bolted after their shifts.

Reasons to stick around were few.

But “now,” its fan base is growing with the whoosh of new restaurants, attractions, galleries, boutiques, people.

“Raleigh has gone from nothing five years ago to so much going on,” said Johnny Mack, an artist and yoga instructor who leads a donationsonly class at an art gallery. “Before, no one had a reason to come downtown.”

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Troy Mezze Lounge and Bar 315 Blake St. 919-834-8133 www.troymezze.com Turkish restaurant in the historic City Market. Specialities include Turkish pizza, claypot entrees and kebabs. Main dishes from $9.

WHAT TO DO North Carolina Museum of History 5 E. Edenton St. 919-807-7900 ncmuseumofhistory.org Open Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Free.

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences 11 W. Jones St. 919-707-9800 naturalsciences.org Open Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m; and until 9 p.m. on First Friday. The Nature Research Center keeps the same hours except it closes at 9 p.m. on Thursday. Free.

City of Raleigh Museum 220 Fayetteville St. 919-996-2220 www.cityofraleighmuseum.org Open Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. $5.

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BY JOHN BRILEY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES There are ways to add excitement to a camping trip with kids. I choose three: go to a campground I haven’t visited in 20 years in the blind hope that it hasn’t changed; don’t make reservations; and leave the house seven hours before sunset for a 6 ½-hour road trip, declaring to anyone who’s still listening that I want the tent set up by dark.

One hour into the drive, I concede defeat on that last one. We’re cemented in traffic north of Woodbridge, Va., and our destination — Frisco, North Carolina, near the southern tip of Hatteras Island — lies an unflinching 480 km away. My kids, Kai (5) and Christina (2), are already asking how much longer we’ll be car-bound, and my wife (43), wants to find a restroom.

But even with a looping Frozen soundtrack, I am calm and confident that we’ll drift to sleep beneath a dazzling night sky, within earshot of the Atlantic Ocean.

It’s well after sunset when we pull into the Frisco Campground. My buddy Peter and I came here regularly in the 1980s to chase surf, and I recall one particularly stormy morning when I peered out of my tent to see his own whipping in the wind, saved from flying off only by Peter himself, balled up on the tent floor, waiting out the maelstrom.

The memory, laced with tonight’s chirping bugs and salt air, releases a wave of nostalgia for all the years washed out with the tides. But a slow drive around the campground, even in the dark, suggests that it is indeed unchanged.

The 127 tent and RV sites sit in a pocket of dunes about 100 yards from the beach, which is accessible via two weathered wooden walkways that traverse a pan of coastal vegetation. The sites largely conform to the natural environment, with sand paths snaking

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A tent in the high dunes at the secluded Frisco Campground is shown. It is one of four campgrounds along Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina. through myrtle, yaupon and maritime pine trees to tent-size clearings.

As we spill from the car, my sole mission — to set up our tent — is amended, first to “find the tent among the spring-loaded knot of junk in the

back of the car” and finally to “forget it, chill out and open a beer.”

Kai has hopped out and is crouched on our parking slab, staring into the night for the frogs he knows are there; Christina is crashed in her car seat.

The night breeze carries sounds of kids playing, adults partying and the concussive report of waves hitting sand.

day that needs no explanation. I didn’t put the two together until I was holding a Tecate beer and studying maps from the past two centuries.

The museum is compact but dense with information, much like the city itself. The first room featured art by Mexican artists, a nod to the city’s strong immigrant population. There was also a section dedicated to the Rev. M.L. Latta, the former slave who founded Latta University, a school and orphanage for the offspring of former slaves. In a separate room, a timeline follows the civil rights movement. Feb. 10, 1960: Activists hold sit-ins at the Fayetteville Street lunch counter. Feb. 12-14, 1960: Police arrest 43 students for trespassing at Woolworth’s. May 1963: Woolworth’s removes its counter seats. 1973: Raleigh elects its first African American mayor.

“I remember sitting at the Woolworth’s counter with my grandfather when a black couple came in,” a woman told me the next day, during a visit to the North Carolina Museum of History. “They told them they had to leave. I asked my grandfather why. He said that was just the way it is.”

The Raleigh-area native is now a grandmother herself, though she had misplaced her grandson somewhere between the Civil War and the Wright brothers. We stood side by side, staring at the lunch counter — a memory for her, a history lesson for me, a poignant moment for both of us.

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is part of the city’s museum complex, a mini-Mall that helps support its title as the “Smithsonian of the South.” (Another similarity: Most of the major cultural venues are free.)

In 2012, the science museum opened the Nature Research Center and unveiled a massive three-story globe that could, in a pinch, be used as a decoy in an alien invasion.

The new wing is a vital lab for university and government researchers.

Guests can watch them work and read about their ongoing studies, such as one involving detritus in bellybuttons.

(Seriously: It’s to test deodorant’s effect on microbes.) But the museum also aims to “inspire kids to be scientists,” said a front desk employee. And to get Lil’ Einsteins hyped up about science, you need to do what? Let them touch stuff! Exactly.

At the hands-on Natural World Investigate Lab, a microbiologist named Linda showed me around the tables, pointing out the various experiments.

For example, I could test my cool-hand moves with pipettes, funnels, beakers and flasks. Or inspect an array of items (tarantula, sand dollar, snakeskin molt) under a super-powerful microscope. I followed her to an aquarium thick with Madagascar hissing cockroaches. She lifted one up and placed it in the palm of her hand.

“They’re really sweet,” she said, as though she were holding a kitten, not one of the world’s largest species of roaches.

She encouraged me to pet it. (My, my, what a smooth carapace you have.

What is your secret?) Then she returned it to its home, accidentally flipping it on its back. Not surprisingly, it hissed.

“Oh, I’m sorry, sweetie,” she said apologetically.

I decided on an experiment that didn’t make my skin crawl but instead caused my nose to crinkle. For the Science of Scent, all I had to do was sniff and guess the smell. With only 5 million scent receptors, I was no dog (they have 120 to 300 million). But I could still differentiate among cookies, breakfast, old shoes, new car and wet canine. I finished up my short career as a scientist at the fingerprinting station. Nearly 60 to 70 percent of people have loop-patterned prints; 25 to 35 percent have whorls; and only 5 percent feature arches. I pressed my finger onto an ink pad and blotted it on a white card.

I studied the black furrows, trying to discern between the swirls and the swoops. I wanted to be an arch, but I feared the worse.

“We can’t all be special,” said another volunteer, confirming my commonness.

To cheer up my digits, I considered taking them out on the town. I could smudge them on a martini glass at Capital Club 16; snap them at C Grace, a live jazz venue; or raise them high at Kings, a live music spot. But no matter what we did that evening, I would keep both thumbs up for Raleigh.

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On a May weekend, I could hardly find a reason to leave downtown. The gridded square of neighborhoods is stitched together like a kaleidoscopic quilt, with no unattractive brown patches attached to any of the seams.

For example, I slept in the Capital District (Holiday Inn), ate a vegan dinner and practiced yoga in the Warehouse District (Fiction Kitchen, Rebus Works), visited working artists’ studios and a giant steel-and-copper nut in Moore Square (Artspace, Big Acorn) and soaked up the city’s utter Raleighness on Fayetteville Street (City Plaza).

I traveled by foot, never needing to flag down a rickshaw. Though I did eye the free R-Line bus, because I think it was following me.

The hybrid electric bus swings through five districts, dropping off passengers at key downtown points, such as the North Carolina Museum of History, City Market and the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. With nowhere to go but around, I boarded the circulator by the convention center (No. 13) and settled in to watch the next 19 stops flicker by the large window.

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HATTERAS: Glorified sandbar in the middle of the ocean Frisco Campground is one of four in Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and the spartan facilities — a couple of bathrooms and cold-water shower stalls — are deliberate: as the Park Service designed this facility 70-odd years ago, officials opted against big Western-style lodges for fear that they would take business away from the locals. Even in the 1940s, North Carolinians questioned why the feds were meddling in state affairs by creating the park in the first place, says Cyndy Holda, a Cape Hatteras National Seashore spokeswoman.

By East Coast standards, Frisco is remote, three hours from the nearest notable airport (Norfolk) and car-accessible only by the two-lane Highway 12.

Sand and water frequently wash over the road, and on at least two occasions in the past eight years, it has required major surgery after hurricanes punched new inlets through the island.

At its tip, Hatteras Island claims a remarkable distance of 42 km from the mainland, lending it the feel of a glorified sandbar in the middle of the ocean.

All those characteristics feed my love of the place, and my affection for Frisco in particular has deepened since the kids arrived, because the gently sloping beaches allow gradual progression into deeper water. Beaches farther north on the island, by and large, drop abruptly into sink-or-swim territory, with an often kid-unfriendly shore break.

Friday, 6:15 a.m.: The sky’s awake, so we’re awake (sorry, Frozen haters, but family newspapers present their own hazards). As any hard-core outdoorsperson will tell you, camping with children requires regimented meal and bed times, and a steady beat of distractions from the realization that your entire family is vacationing in an 8-by-8 nylon room.

First up: breakfast!

I’m ready, having packed like a doomsday prepper — pancake mix, eggs, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, nuts, coffee and the French press, and the coup de grace, a new two-burner camp stove. As I lay out this spread, I see that I also brought a fuel canister that fits my old 1980s stove, the one tucked safely in the basement at home . . . but not the new one.

Before anyone notices, I suggest a walk on the beach before breakfast.

“Beach!” the kids yell, and bolt down the walkway, Kai wearing a sun shirt and hat and nothing else, his more fully clothed sister in pursuit.

By the time Cathleen and I catch up, our spawn have been absorbed into a pack of children, and the lot of them look like they were born to the sand, without a care in the world.

To our left, a shoreline devoid of all development arcs eight km to the tip of the island, beyond which the southern Gulf and northern Labrador currents collide. Faintly visible near the point, above a dense coastal forest called Buxton Woods, is the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the island’s 70-metre-tall icon. To our right, miles more of wide sand. We stand on a dune watching youth at play until I notice that Kai is no longer among them. He soon appears atop another dune, a half-naked wild man brandishing a T.rex roar and hurling fistfuls of sand into the wind.

“I think,” Cathleen offers, “that he might be getting hungry.”

Among the many charms of the rustic Frisco campground is its close proximity to the not-so-rustic Captain Beaner bakery and cafe, which has earned a rep as the best breakfast in town. Lattes and omelets for the big people and a split order of blueberry pancakes for the yutes. Anton, the owner and chef, waves off that request and serves up two heaping plates because, the waitress tell us, “He just loves kids.”

After wolfing those down, the children dart outside to play. We pay up, refill our coffee and emerge to find three patrons dutifully walking the plank, which K. and C. have set up on Beaner’s deck using a frayed 2-by-4. Cute, until I envision a customer’s torn ACL and the ensuing insurance dispute. So we round up our charges and head back to the beach.

In the 1990s, I regularly drove a four-wheel drive on the National Seashore beaches, using the dozen or so access ramps that hump over the dunes from Highway 12. Now many ramps are closed, to protect nesting sites of threatened shore birds, and the Park Service charges $49 for a one-week (or $120 for one year) off-road vehicle permit, a privilege that used to come free.

All this has kicked a local pastime — grousing about oppressive regulation — into high gear. Profane bumper stickers accuse the Audubon Society of valuing birds over people, and you’d need earplugs to avoid overhearing indictments of the government for extorting its citizenry.

But among the few open ramps is one directly adjacent to the Frisco Campground, a nice opportunity

Atlantic City Alliance buys ad highlighting other attractions ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Atlantic City’s marketing arm is responding to a wave of casino closings with a new ad highlighting the many other things there are to do in the seaside resort.

The Atlantic City Alliance will run full-page ads starting Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, the Star-Ledger of Newark and the Philadelphia Inquirer touting the many things Atlantic City offers that don’t involve gambling.

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The Showboat will close on Aug. 31, and Trump Plaza will follow on Sept. 16. The Atlantic Club closed in January.

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With giant stickers in French, English and Spanish on the Pont de l’Archeveche, behind Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris began its lovewithoutlocks campaign on Wednesday, saying the city’s famed bridges “can’t resist your love” — the padlocks clinging to every available surface.

The lovers’ locks craze dates back only a decade or so. But the weight is pulling bridge railings down.

Attacking a lock is a “symbol of togetherness,” said Lawrence Phillips of Wales, at the bridge with his Australian girlfriend.

Dutch tourist Bob Te Booy agreed. “I think (a selfie) isn’t a good replacement.”

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The app allows users to watch the vehicle’s progress toward them on a map in a style similar to ridesharing apps Uber and Lyft, although the drivers are professionals regulated through the taxi authority and not people using their own cars.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Edmonton 10 Ottawa 8 OTTAWA — The Edmonton Eskimos spent the past seven days in Ottawa and waited until the last possible moments to leave as ungracious guests.

A 27-yard field goal by Grant Shaw with 20 seconds remaining in the game gave the Eskimos a 10-8 win over the Ottawa Redblacks Friday night.

After a 33-23 win over the Alouettes in Montreal last Friday, the Eskimos moved onto Ottawa where they stayed in preparation and anticipation of their game against the Redblacks.

The Eskimos drove from their own nine-yard line in the dying minutes after recovering a fumble as the Redblacks were looking to get some insurance points late in the fourth quarter.

“I was just doing my job and all the credit goes to the offence at the end and they put together a drive that put us in short field goal range and those should be automatic,” Shaw said.

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That drive though, that stared on their own 12, ended on the Eskimos nine-yard line with the Matt Carter fumble.

The Eskimos then drove the field for the winning score.

“The win last week against Montreal we played great in the first half and then we didn’t play well in the second half,” Eskimos coach Chris Jones said.

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Razorbacks to face Pirates in final

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Red Deer Razorbacks first baseman Evan Emerson picks the ball to beat a Rocky Mountain House Red Dogs batter during Game 3 of the Parkland Baseball League semifinal. Red Deer won 5-2 to advance to the final against the Acme Pirates.

Razorbacks 5, Red Dogs 2 The Red Deer Razorbacks are heading back to the Parkland Baseball League final for the first time since 2011.

The Razorbacks beat the Rocky Mountain House Red Dogs 5-2 in Game 3 of the league semifinal on Friday to win the series 2-1.

They will now play the first place Acme Pirates who beat the Innisfail Indians in the other semifinal.

The Razorbacks will be playing with no pressure, they’re just happy to be this far in the playoffs.

“Our goal at the start of the year was just to make the playoffs,” said head coach and centre fielder Darcy Warawa.

“We have a group of guys where half of them have played together before and the other half are brand new this year, so when that takes place, you’re not sure how it’s going to roll out ...

Things for us just kept building and building and building for us all season long, so now for the opportunity to go to the final is basically a bonus.”

The Razorbacks were in rebuild mode this season. With Warawa and Colin Stefanik taking over the team, their goal was just to develop a strong

PARKLAND BASEBALL LEAGUE foundation of players and a consistent roster to pull from.

They welcomed any and all willing players at least the opportunity for a try out at the AA level.

This mentality yielded several new mainstays, including newly minted staff ace Travis Bachynski who joined the team mid-way through the season.

The 22-year-old left-hander just moved to Red Deer with his parents from Hamilton, Ont., in June and found a home with the Razorbacks after being turned away from the Riggers who had a full roster.

He was on the mound for both wins in the semifinals, including throwing all seven innings on Friday night.

“I love the pressure. The way I dealt in this game, it was probably the best game of my career,” said the six-foottwo southpaw.

Bachynski is not completely new to Alberta, he did pitch for the Prairie Baseball Academy.

Warawa says he formed a fast connection with his catcher Chad Huseby.

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Riggers heading to nationals as provincial champions

BY JOSH ADLRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Riggers 6, Athletics 1 The Red Deer Riggers will be heading to the Baseball Canada Senior AAA Championships as reining provincial champions.

The Riggers wrapped up their second straight Alberta and Sunburst Baseball League title on Thursday in St. Albert, beating the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics 6-1 in Game 4 of the best-of-five series.

The Riggers have been untouchable all year with their first loss of the Sunburst season coming in Game 2 of the final to the A’s. The bounced back with

a 10-1 win on Wednesday in Edmonton before putting it away on Thursday.

“It’s always tougher to repeat and go back-to-back,” said head coach Curtis Bailey. “We had a pretty strong team all year that stayed focused, and that made it a little easier to keep our eyes on our goals.”

Red Deer jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning, chasing Fort Saskatchewan starter Connor Whitely from the game after a couple of innings. James Fischer came in and shut down the Riggers until the seventh inning, but Red Deer starter Davin Gulbransen was just as good.

The wiley veteran went the distance for Red Deer, keeping the A’s off the scoreboard until the seventh inning.

It was a game he refused to leave.

“After the fifth inning he said, ‘My arm’s throbbing,’ and I asked him, ‘Do you want to go one more,’ and he said ‘sure, why not?’” said Bailey. “They went three-up-three-down and he came back in and gave me a thumbs up, so I knew he was probably going to finish it. He did real well.”

Gulbransen did pitch in the Riggers 10-9 loss on Monday, coming in for 2 1/3 innings of relief work. He took a comebacker off the thigh, but finished out the inning. The leg did not appear to bother him on Thursday as, but it was the kind of effort the Riggers have come to expect from the right-hander.

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hitters, and that’s what he did,” said Bailey.

“He was pretty bruised up, but he could bend and he could move. He’s had a lot of success against Fort Saskatchewan, so he seemed like the right choice to go with.”

The Riggers qualified for nationals in St. John’s, Nfld., from Aug. 21-25, by winning the league and provincial title last year. Repeating this year means they will be going to next year’s national championship as well. But it also means they will be going as a dominant team this year, not just as a dominant team in 2013.

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WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP At Sedgefield Country Club Greensboro, N.C. Purse: $5.3 million Yardage: 7,127; Par 70 Second Round Heath Slocum Scott Langley Brian Stuard Nick Watney Martin Laird Andrew Svoboda Bo Van Pelt D.A. Points Camilo Villegas Carl Pettersson Jhonattan Vegas William McGirt Freddie Jacobson Ryo Ishikawa Brad Fritsch Webb Simpson Brandt Snedeker Andrew Loupe Johnson Wagner Kevin Kisner Paul Casey Shawn Stefani Scott Piercy Bill Haas Tim Clark Brian Davis Will Wilcox Steve Marino Ben Curtis Justin Bolli Billy Horschel Robert Streb Ricky Barnes Michael Putnam Jason Allred Michael Thompson Steven Bowditch Charlie Wi Francesco Molinari J.J. Henry David Toms Joe Durant Josh Teater Robert Garrigus Brooks Koepka Andres Romero Ernie Els Derek Ernst Y.E. Yang Jeff Overton Doug LaBelle II Richard Sterne David Lingmerth Roberto Castro Stuart Appleby Sang-Moon Bae John Merrick Kevin Foley Peter Malnati Bobby Wyatt Luke Guthrie Joe Ogilvie Tim Herron John Huh Retief Goosen Patrick Reed Tommy Gainey Troy Merritt James Hahn Brice Garnett Lee Janzen Nicholas Thompson Mark Wilson Alex Cejka

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Hockey Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament Round Robin Group A W OTW L OTL GF GA x-Czech Rep. 3 0 0 0 19 7 x-U.S. 2 0 1 0 18 12 Finland 1 0 2 0 12 15 Russia 0 0 3 0 8 23 Group B W OTW L OTL x-Canada 3 0 0 0 x-Sweden 2 0 1 0 Switzerland 1 0 2 0 Slovakia 0 0 3 0 x — clinched semifinal berth.

GF 15 14 6 3

GA 3 8 13 14

Pt 9 6 3 0 Pt 9 6 3 0

Wednesday’s results At Piestany, Slovakia Canada 5 Slovakia 1 Sweden 7 Switzerland 2 At Breclav, Czech Republic U.S. 9 Finland 4 Czech Republic 11 Russia 2 End of round robin Playoffs Friday’s results Seventh-Place game At Piestany, Slovakia Russia 5 Slovakia 2 Fifth-Place game At Breclav, Czech Republic Finland 9 Switzerland 3 Semifinals At Piestany, Slovakia Canada 11 U.S. 5 At Breclav, Czech Republic Czech Republic def. Sweden (score unavailable) Saturday’s games Bronze Medal Game At Piestany, Slovakia U.S. vs. Sweden, 7 a.m.

Gold Medal Game At Breclav, Czech Republic Canada vs. Czech Republic, 9 a.m.

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 69 51 .575 63 60 .512 61 59 .508 61 61 .500 55 66 .455 Central Division W L Pct 67 54 .554 65 55 .542 61 60 .504 58 64 .475 54 66 .450 West Division W L Pct 73 49 .598 71 49 .592 66 55 .545 51 72 .415 47 75 .385

GB — 7.5 8 9 14.5 GB — 1.5 6 9.5 12.5 GB — 1 6.5 22.5 26

Friday’s Games Cleveland 2, Baltimore 1, 11 innings Seattle 7, Detroit 2 Houston 5, Boston 3, 10 innings Tampa Bay 5, N.Y. Yankees 0 Atlanta 7, Oakland 2 L.A. Angels 5, Texas 4 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 5 Chicago White Sox 11, Toronto 5 Today’s Games N.Y. Yankees (Greene 3-1) at Tampa Bay (Smyly 7-10), 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore (U.Jimenez 4-8) at Cleveland (Carrasco 4-4), 5:05 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 13-3) at Detroit (Price 11-8), 5:08 p.m.

Houston (Peacock 3-8) at Boston (R.De La Rosa 4-4), 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 9-8) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 12-8), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 12-6) at Atlanta (Teheran 10-9), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 11-8) at Chicago White Sox (Joh. Danks 9-8), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 10-4) at Texas (Lewis 8-9), 6:05 p.m.

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

Seattle at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Houston at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 11:40 a.m.

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

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

L.A. Angels at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Oakland at Atlanta, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Seattle at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

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

Kansas City at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Washington Atlanta Miami

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 67 53 .558 62 60 .508 60 62 .492

GB — 6 8

New York Philadelphia Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

58 65 .472 53 68 .438 Central Division W L Pct 67 55 .549 65 56 .537 64 58 .525 61 61 .500 52 69 .430 West Division W L Pct 70 53 .569 63 57 .525 57 64 .471 53 69 .434 47 75 .385

10.5 14.5 GB — 1.5 3 6 14.5 GB — 5.5 12 16.5 22.5

Friday’s Games Washington 5, Pittsburgh 4 Arizona 3, Miami 2 N.Y. Mets 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Atlanta 7, Oakland 2 St. Louis 4, San Diego 2 Cincinnati 3, Colorado 2 Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 5-11) at San Francisco (Hudson 8-9), 2:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 4-3) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 6-9), 5:05 p.m.

Arizona (Miley 7-8) at Miami (H.Alvarez 8-5), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Straily 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 6-8), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 12-6) at Atlanta (Teheran 10-9), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Hahn 7-3) at St. Louis (S.Miller 8-9), 5:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Axelrod 0-0) at Colorado (Lyles 6-1), 6:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 7-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 14-2), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Arizona at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

San Diego at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Philadelphia at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

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

Pittsburgh at Washington, 3:05 p.m.

Oakland at Atlanta, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, 10:10 a.m.

Arizona at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Seattle at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

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Stroman, Jenkins (1), Redmond (4), McGowan (5), Aa.Sanchez (6), Loup (7), Janssen (8) and D.Navarro; Noesi, Guerra (6), Cleto (8), D.Webb (9) and Flowers. W—Noesi 7-8. L—Stroman 7-4.

HRs—Toronto, Me.Cabrera (15).

Football Toronto Hamilton Montreal Ottawa

CFL All Times Eastern East Division GP W L T PF 7 3 4 0 179 6 1 5 0 129 6 1 5 0 98 7 1 6 0 119

GP Edmonton 7 Calgary 6 Winnipeg 8 B.C. 7 Saskatchewan 6

West Division W L T PF 6 1 0 173 5 1 0 161 5 3 0 206 4 3 0 163 4 2 0 157

PA 175 155 177 199 PA 115 94 201 145 124

Pt 6 2 2 2 Pt 12 10 10 8 8

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

FRIDAY’S SUMMARY Eskimos 10, Redblacks 8 First Quarter Ottawa — FG Maher 51 3:49 Ottawa — FG Maher 17 13:11 Second Quarter

Week 8 Friday’s results Edmonton 10 Ottawa 8 Saturday’s results Calgary at Hamilton, 1 p.m.

Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

Edm — Single Shaw 52 0:42 Ottawa — FG Maher 20 2:31 Edm — FG Shaw 39 6:00 Ottawa — Single Maher 60 8:04 Third Quarter Edm — FG Shaw 28 11:25 Fourth Quarter Edm — FG Shaw 27 14:40 Edmonton 0 4 3 3 Ottawa 4 4 0 0

Saturday’s results Montreal at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s games 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.

Week 10 Friday, August 29 Ottawa at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

133-8 33:22

80-14 26:38

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

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Edmonton 26 181 271 452 35-18 86 0-17 2-2 1 56-2

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Edmonton: Reilly 8-78, Lawrence 11-56, White 4-20, Thomas 3-14, Guyton 1-13. Ottawa: Walker 14-58, Miles 1--7.

Receiving Edmonton: Bowman 6-92, Lawrence 5-45, Coehoorn 5-41, Bailey 3-27, McCarty 2-23, Chambers 2-22, Guyton 3-21. Ottawa: Carter 5-97, Miles 1-55, Henry 3-38, Walker 2-27, Mitchell 5-24, Jones 2-14.

Passing Edmonton: Reilly 26-35-271-0-1. Ottawa: Burris 18-28-255-0-0.

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Ottawa 14 51 255 306 28-26 70 1-0 1-2 3 10-6

Soccer 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 24 6 9 9 36 Columbus 23 6 8 9 28 New England 22 8 12 2 29 Houston 23 7 12 4 25 Chicago 22 4 5 13 29 Montreal 22 3 14 5 22

GA 22 24 30 34 39 31 35 42 34 41

Pt 39 37 32 28 27 27 26 25 25 14

Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 21 13 6 2 37 Salt Lake 23 10 4 9 36 Dallas 23 10 7 6 38 Los Angeles 20 9 4 7 34 Vancouver 22 7 4 11 33 Colorado 23 8 9 6 32 Portland 23 7 7 9 38 San Jose 20 6 8 6 25 Chivas 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

Friday’s results Houston 2 Philadelphia 0

Saturday’s games Seattle at Salt Lake, 12:30 p.m.

Chicago at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.

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

Los Angeles at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

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

GP x-Nigeria 3 x-South Korea 3 England 3 Mexico 3

FIFA Women’s 2014 Under-20 World Cup PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W L T GF GA x-North Korea 3 2 1 0 5 2 x-Canada 3 2 1 0 4 3 Ghana 3 2 1 0 3 4 Finland 3 0 3 0 4 6 x — advanced to quarter-finals

x-Germany x-U.S. China Brazil

GP 3 3 3 3

T 1 0 2 1

T 1 1 2 2

GF 4 4 3 3

GA 3 4 4 4

Pt 7 4 2 2

Wednesday’s results At Edmonton Nigeria 2 England 1 At Toronto South Korea 2 Mexico 1

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

Group B W L 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 2

Group C W L 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 1

GF 12 4 7 2

GA 5 2 11 7

Pt 6 6 6 0

GP x-France 3 x-New Zealand 3 Paraguay 3 Costa Rica 3

Group D W L 3 0 2 1 1 2 0 3

T 0 0 0 0

GF 12 5 2 2

GA 1 4 6 10

Pt 9 6 3 0

Semifinals Wednesday, Aug. 20 At Moncton, N.B. North Korea-U.S. winner vs. Nigeria-New Zealand winner, 2 p.m.

At Montreal Germany-Canada winner vs. France-South Korea winner, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 24 At Montreal Third Place Semifinal Losers, 2 p.m.

Championship Semifinal Winners, 5 p.m.

Wednesday’s results At Edmonton France 3 Paraguay 0 At Toronto New Zealand 3 Costa Rica 0 End of Preliminary Round

Pt 7 6 2 1

Saturday’s games At Toronto North Korea vs. U.S., 3 p.m.

At Edmonton Germany vs. Canada, 4 p.m.

Sunday’s games At Moncton, N.B. Nigeria vs. New Zealand, 3 p.m.

At Montreal France vs. South Korea, 5 p.m.

PLAYOFFS Quarter-finals

Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended free agent RHP Francisco Almonte 72 games for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, effective if he signs with a major league organization.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms with LHP Luis Colmenares, 3B Elwin Tejeda and RHPs Christopher Acosta, Nicolo Clemente, Jhosmar Cortez, Anderson Espinoza, Junior Espinoza and Roniel Raudes on minor league contracts.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Reinstated OF Michael Bourn from the 15-day DL. HOUSTON ASTROS — Sent 1B Jesus Guzman to Oklahoma City (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Sent RHP Mike Morin to Inland Empire (Cal) for a rehab assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHP Yohan Pino to Rochester (IL). Reinstated RHP Ricky Nolasco from the 15-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned LHP Robbie Ross Jr. to Round Rock (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Jon Edwards from Round Rock.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Assigned LHP Brad Mills outright to Buffalo (IL). Optioned OF Anthony

Gose to Buffalo. Reinstated 1B Edwin Encarnacion from the 15-day DL. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Sent RHP Logan Ondrusek and 2B Brandon Phillips to Louisville (IL) for rehab assignments.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Jon Huizinga on a minor league contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Designated 1B Matt Hague for assignment. Sent SS Clint Barmes to Altoona (EL) for a rehab assignment.

American Association SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed C Adrian Martinez.

Can-Am League TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Traded LHP Ryan Bollinger to Winnipeg (AA) for two players to be named.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed LHP Cody Boutte.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed OF Chris Hueth. Released RHP Conner Porter.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS — Acquired RHP Anthony Montefusco from Camden (Atlantic) for a player to be named.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association SACRAMENTO KINGS — Signed C Sim Bhullar.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Kansas City WR Dwayne Bowe one game for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.

CHICAGO BEARS — Placed TE Zach Miller on injured reserve. Signed WR Kofi Hughes to a oneyear contract.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Traded DB Justin Green to Dallas for DT Ben Bass, and an undisclosed draft pick to Green Bay for DE Jerel Worthy.

Placed TE Terrence Miller on injured reserve.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Re-signed F Jakob Silfverberg to a one-year contract.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Promoted Jared Abbott to assistant general manager of hockey operations.

FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Agreed to terms with F Jeff Silengo on a one-year contract.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Agreed to terms with F Cody Sylvester.

COLLEGE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE — Promoted John Gibson to director of championships and Tayloe Locke to assistant director of compliance.

ALABAMA — Named Jon Howell men’s assistant golf coach.

DELAWARE — Named Jason Cichowicz assistant athletic director for ticketing operations.

ERSKINE — Named Cole Tallman men’s volleyball coach.

HOBART — Named Mark Linebaugh men’s assistant basketball coach.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE — Named Jordan Smith men’s assistant tennis coach.

OLD DOMINION — Named Elaine Deppe assistant strength and conditioning coach and Danielle Vaughan assistant athletic trainer.

ROWAN — Announced athletic director/men’s soccer coach Dan Gilmore is stepping down as coach. Promoted men’s assistant soccer coach Scott Baker to head coach.

SHENANDOAH — Announced the resignation of men’s assistant basketball coach Allen Corbin.

SUSQUEHANNA — Named Cat Clifford assistant softball coach.

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McDowell wins provincials

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada’s Nichelle Prince acknowledges the crowd after her country’s 3-2 win over Finland in 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup action in Toronto. dan.

“They’ve very strong athletically and they have a lot of technical skills.

But they are also very fast so we have to be ready for all kinds of attacks.”

However, the Canadians are quick to point out the Germans have given up six goals in three games, although five of those came in a surprising 5-5 tie with China.

“If you’re going to look at the goals for, you should look at the goals against also,” said Davis. “They’re a good team and definitely clinical if you look at their goals for but we’ve done a lot of work too and score some pretty nice goals.

“So hopefully the gates have opened and the flood is coming.”

An offensive shootout is not expected. Other than those five goals by China, Germany surrendered one goal

in its two other victories while Canada has given up three goals in its three games. The Canadians are confident they have the game plan to deal with the German offence.

“We have our tactics and our staff does a real good job of providing us tools from the game footage,” said Davis.

“And we put a lot of work in reviewing that and putting it on the field so we’re just going to go with the plan.”

Davis and Sheridan both said one of the keys for Canada is the team’s transition game. They hope to keep it fast and effective to make the German attackers hesitate just enough to work to Canada’s advantage.

“It will be very, very important,” Davis said. “We’re going to have be very focused and in the right places at the right time.”

Canada whips U.S. to reach final

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

IVAN HLINKA MEMORIAL CUP

Canada 11 United States 5 PIESTANY, Slovakia — Dylan Strome scored a hat trick as Canada defeated the United States 11-5 on Friday to advance to the final of the under-18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup. Travis Konecny added a pair of goals while Jansen Harkins, Mathew Barzal, Lawson Crouse, Adam Musil of the Red Deer Rebels, Mitchell Stephens and Tyler Soy added singles for Canada, which reached double digits in goals in a summer under-18 game for the first time since 2000.

“I thought our guys played hard and

we were ready to go off the hop,” said head coach Jody Hull.

Canada will play the co-host Czech Republic in Saturday’s final at Breclav.

The Czechs defeated Sweden 4-3 in the late semifinal.

“We’ve got to go out and play our game,” Hull said. “If we can go out and play our game for 60 minutes, that’s going to be the key. You’ve got to be ready for anything.

“So we’re just going to enjoy this tonight and be focused and ready to go tomorrow.”

All but two of Canada’s 18 skaters

recorded at least a point in the blowout victory and Zach Sawchenko made 24 saves.

Thomas Novak scored twice for the Americans. Brock Boeser, Tanner Laczynski and Ryan Moore had the other goals.

Canada finished first in Group B in preliminary round play with a 3-0 record while the Czechs led Group A at 3-0. Sweden and the United States will play for the bronze medal on Saturday.

Canada has won this tournament six years in a row, and 18 of the past 23 times since it began in 1991.

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thing we’ve worked on since the halfway mark, and it’s built and built and built to the point tonight was probably the most intense we’ve been all season long.”

Game 1 goes Monday at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park with Games 2 and 3 of the best-of-three series in Acme. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Dunsmore from the Parkland White Sox. ● The Sunburst Baseball League announced their all-star team on Thursday as well, and five Riggers were named to the team. Jason Chattwood was the league’s top shortstop, while his brother Jaret Chatwood

CFL: Sloppy play “Tonight we struggled with some of the same things that hurt us earlier in the year, meaning penalties, fumbling the football, throwing interceptions, so we’ve got something we really have to clean up.”

The win would have been sweet redemption for the RedBlacks, who fell 27-11 to the Eskimos back in Week 3.

BASEBALL: Intensity

RIGGERS: Three players unable to make the trip “It’s good to get that momentum of having that high of winning provincials to bring that into nationals,” said Bailey.

Three Riggers will not be able to make the trip to St. John’s as pitchers Reign Letkeman, Matt Davis and Wyle Cunningham are staying home. In their place will be pitcher James Fischer from the A’s and Craig Tomas from the St. Albert Tigers and outfielder Aaron

was named the all-star catcher, Jason Louis was tabbed at first base, while Mike Ronnie got the call in left field.

Bailey was also named head coach for the team. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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“Tonight Trav came out and he pitched and he did a great job,” said Warawa. “Cody Huseby did a great job behind the plate, he calls a phenomenal game, the kids a wall back there, he has been for years.”

Red Deer took a 4-0 lead through three innings, giving Bachynski all the cushion he needed. His one hiccup came in the fifth inning when he started to waiver and gave up one run.

The Razorbacks came back with a run of their own as Diego Colorado — another player they took a flyer on — scored from third base on a single by Evan Emerson to stretch the lead back out to four runs.

The Red Dogs did get one more in the sixth inning, but could not get any closer.

Maybe most impressive about the Razorbacks, is the way they bounced back after a dreadful Game 2 where they were beat 9-2.

They have come a long way in the last month, going from battling to stay around the .500 mark and in playoff contention, to nailing down the second seed in the playoffs to punching their ticket for the final.

“The biggest change for us has been intensity,” said Warawa. “We have a group of guys that tend to be a bit quieter and more laid back. They’re more than capable of playing the game but we missed that intensity. That’s some-

Chandler McDowell saved his best for last this summer.

The Red Deer Golf and Country Club member avenged a playoff loss to Landon Stellingwerff in the 2013 Albert Golf Bantam Championship to win it all this year at the Wintergreen Golf and Country Club in Bragg Creek on Thursday.

McDowell, 14, shot a second round of 1-under-71 to finish at 1-under-143 and a three-shot victory over Max Murchison of Calgary and Kai Iguchi of Banff.

“It’s the last year I can play in it, so it was pretty special to win the bantam championships,” he said.

McDowell was tied for fourth after shooting an even-par 72 in the first round on Wednesday, but kept cool heading into the final 18 holes.

“I didn’t change too much,” he said.

“Just keep the ball in play, try to get it on the green and two-putt for my par.

Just keep it simple golf.”

This was the third tournament win for McDowell this year, also winning the Alberta Junior Masters at Wolf Creek in Ponoka on May 30, and the Canadian Junior Golf Association event at Coyote Creek on June 22.

He is preparing to head back for his second year at the International Junior Golf Academy at Hilton Head Island, S.C. There he is receiving not only a scholastic education but also one in golf that will help prepare him for college and he hopes one day the pros.

He has already seen a huge improvement in his ball striking ability.

“I go to classes from 7:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. and then from about 1:30-5:30 p.m., we golf,” said McDowell adding his head instructor is Stephanie Shaw.

“They’re very encouraging, but they want us to work hard though.”

Red Deer’s Carter Graf (15-over-159) finished ninth at the bantam championships, Sylvan Lake’s Jordan Cooke (31-over-175) finished 26th, and Lacombe’s Chase Broderson was 29th (35-over-179). jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Canada’s team at the women’s under-20 World Cup channelled those words last week after a rough start at the tournament. The hosts opened with a loss and were on the verge of elimination after giving up two goals in the first half of their next game against Finland.

The “little thing” that helped them was the vocal support of the team’s substitute players. It became a motivator that sparked the squad to a 3-2 comeback victory and then a 1-0 win over North Korea that moved Canada into Saturday’s quarter-final against Germany at Commonwealth Stadium.

Canadian goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan said she’s never been on a team that’s been so supportive, adding it was a big help at halftime of the France game.

“Each individual player was like, ‘You have had a strong game. You may not feel like it but you still have 45 minutes, the opportunity, go out there and prove it,”’ she said. “So we got that message and went out there and capitalized on opportunities.”

Now the Canadians have an opportunity to advance to the semifinal. To get there they’ll have to contain a surprisingly offensive German team that has scored 12 goals in its three wins.

“We know we’re facing a tough team, one of the best in the world so it’s going to be a real challenging game,” said defender Kylie Davis. “They have had a lot of goals. They’ve always been known to put away their chances and they’ve been doing a good job of that.

But we put in the work to be ready for it.”

The favoured German team is clinical and creative, talented and technical, fast and functional.

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Crosby ready for new regime in Pittsburgh as aching wrist heals ESTERO, Fla. — Pittsburgh Penguins star centre Sidney Crosby’s right wrist appears to be on the road to recovery.

The reigning NHL MVP said Friday he’s pleased with the way his wrist has responded to treatment over the summer and is anxious for training camp to begin as the Penguins try to recover from their second-round collapse in the playoffs.

“It’s good,” Crosby said. “You want to see how things progress throughout the summer once you start skating and get back to that regular routine. You want to see how it reacts so I’m happy with the way it’s gone.”

Crosby led the NHL with 108 points on his way to a second Hart Trophy as the league’s top player, but scored just one goal in 13 playoff games as Pittsburgh fell to the New York Rangers in seven games after blowing a 3-1 lead.

He insisted in the aftermath he was healthy only to reveal he’d been dealing with the wrist for the latter part of the season. The 27-year-old considered surgery before opting to wait and see if further treatment would produce the desired results. He looked just fine skating alongside fellow NHLers Nathan MacKinnon and Matt Duchene of the Colorado Avalanche, Jonathan Tavares and Kyle Okposo of the New York Islanders and the Toronto Maple Leafs’ David Clarkson under the direction of trainer Matt Belfry.

Crosby likened the workouts to “hockey school” because it allows players to focus on fundamentals and individual skill work, an opportunity the long slog through the regular season doesn’t often provide.

“It’s just refreshing things, relearning things as you can,” Crosby said.

When Crosby returns to Pittsburgh before camp begins next month, he’ll find the landscape far different than

the one he left in May. The team fired general manager Ray Shero and coach Dan Bylsma as part of a massive front office restructuring after the franchise failed for the fifth straight season to reach the Stanley Cup final.

The Penguins tabbed former Carolina GM Jim Rutherford to replace Shero. Rutherford went through a lengthy coaching search before settling on Mike Johnston, whose first job running the show in the NHL will be in a crucible where any spring that doesn’t end with a championship is a disappointment.

“We’re going to have some new faces in the dressing room trying to get that momentum and get a fresh start,” Crosby said. “We’re not happy with the way things ended last year.”

Crosby doesn’t believe the expectations need to change even though defencemen Brooks Orpik and Matt Niskanen and All-Star forward James Neal left in the off-season.

“The organization is committed to winning,” Crosby said. “We have opportunities as players to be successful every year. As far as the team is concerned, I think we’re in a great position to win every year. We’ll do our best to do our part.”

The camp also gave Crosby a chance to hang out with rookie of the year and good friend Nathan MacKinnon. Both former No. 1 overall picks hail from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Crosby is well versed in what it takes to cope with being deemed a franchise saviour, not that MacKinnon needs much help after scoring 63 points and helping the Avalanche back to the post-season for the first time in four years.

“I can relate to a lot of things he’s going through,” Crosby said. “He’s handled it pretty well. You see the way he’s playing the first year with the Calder Trophy. He’s just going to get better. It’s a matter of being there for him.”

Raonic dumps Fognini to reach semifinals WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OPEN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CINCINNATI, Ohio — After crushing Italian Fabio Fognini 6-1, 6-0 to move into the semifinals of the Western and Southern Open, Milos Ranoic headed straight to the practice court to get some more work in.

The fifth-seeded Canadian cruised through the quarter-final after scraping out a victory a day earlier. It will be his fourth semifinal of the season after Rome, Wimbledon and Washington, where he won his sixth career title.

“I felt good after yesterday, where I struggled for two-and-a-half sets with return,” said Raonic. “I did better today, it felt good. Even last week at the Rogers Cup I returned poorly. It’s good to get better now as the event goes along.”

The 23-year-old Canadian remains the only player this season to reach at least six quarter-finals at the Masters 1000 level. The only one he missed out on was in Madrid, where he lost in the third round to Kei Nishikori.

Raonic will play either five-time champion Roger Federer of Switzerland or two-time champion Andy Murray of Britain on Saturday.

In doubles play, Wimbledon champions Vasek Vasek Pospisil of Vancou-

ver and American Jack Sock reached the semifinals with a 6-2, 5-7, 10-7 win over Alexander Peya of Austria and Bruno Soares of Brazil. Peya and Soares won the doubles title last week at the Rogers Cup in Toronto.

Pospisil and Sock have now won a record 13 straight matches since first playing together at Wimbledon. They topped the previous mark of 12 set by Paul Annacone and Christo van Rensburg in 1984-’85.

Raonic was completely untroubled by the 15th-seeded Fognini, breaking him six times and saving all seven break points against his own serve. The Canadian had seven aces and took the victory when Fognini hit two straight double-faults.

“I had to do a lot of things well today, he’s very unpredictable,” Raonic said of the quirky Italian. “I tried top take advantage of his little slumps.

“You have to focus on yourself and make sure you do your things,” he added. “You can’t make predictions with him. I broke handily most of time but I was scraping out a lot of service games.”

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., remains solidly in the chase for a place in the eight-man season final in London. He currently stands a provisional seventh in the points race.

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Chicago White Sox’s Dayan Viciedo (24), slides into home plate safely as Toronto Blue Jays’ catcher Dioner Navarro tries to apply the tag during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Friday.

Abreu has 3 RBIs as White Sox take down Jays outing since joining the Blue Jays’ rotation on May 31.

Blue Jays slugger Edwin Encarnacion was hitless as the DH after being activated from the 15-day disabled list before the game. Ten of the first 15 White Sox hitters reached base as Chicago scored five runs in the first inning and added one in the second. Viciedo singled twice in the span and drove in two runs.

The Blue Jays scored a run in the first and three in the second against Noesi, including Cabrera’s two-run shot, to make it 6-4 after two innings.

The White Sox added five runs the fifth to put it away. They opened the inning with six straight singles — a season high for consecutive hits — a walk and wild pitch against Todd Redmond, Toronto’s second reliever.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Jose Abreu had three singles and three RBIs to increase his major league-leading total to 89, and the Chicago White Sox had 17 hits in an 11-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.

Adam Dunn, who also had three hits, and Dayan Viciedo each drove in two runs. Seven White Sox starters had at least two hits and only one, Tyler Flowers, went hitless as Chicago had 14 singles and three doubles.

Melky Cabrera hit a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, who have lost four straight and 10 of 13 to drop four games behind Seattle in the AL wild-card race.

Hector Noesi (7-8) settled down after allowing four runs in the first two innings and pitched five-plus innings for his fourth win in five decisions.

Javy Guerra, Maikel Cleto and Daniel Webb allowed one hit over the final four innings.

Marcus Stroman (7-4) gave up five runs, five hits and hit a batter while getting only two outs in his shortest

UP NEXT Toronto LHP Mark Buehrle (11-8, 3.31) will face Chicago LHP John Danks (9-8, 4.96) on Saturday. Buehrle will take the mound at U.S. Cellular Field for the first time since leaving the White Sox three years ago. also effective at the plate, going 2-for-4 with two hits, two runs batted in and one run scored.

Clive’s Heather Northcott played third base and 1-for-4 at the plate with one run and one RBI, while Heidi Northcott played left field and got a single and a walk in her two plat appearances, scoring once and collecting an RBI. Alberta opened with a 14-2 win over British Columbia 2 on Thursday and will face Quebec today at 11 a.m. in their final round robin game of the tournament. A win will secure first place in Pool B and give them a bye to Sunday’s semifinal with the gold and bronze medal games later that day. If they do not finish first in the pool, they will play in today’s quarter-final at 5 p.m.

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Bike Tour Cyclists geared up at Festival Hall on June 7 and 8 for Red Deer’s Johnson MS Bike Tour.

The event is one of five MS Bike Tours that take place in Alberta.

Affectionately known as “the best little bike tour in Alberta,” the Red Deer tour has seen over 2,500 cyclists take part and raised over $1.5 million over the past 20 years.

Monies raised go towards finding a cure for multiple sclerosis and enabling people affected by MS to enhance their quality of life.

So far, over $132,000 has been raised by the 105 registered participants in the Red Deer event. Pledge money continues to be collected.

Opening ceremonies for the Johnson

MS Bike Tour included words from Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen, Judy Gordon, former mayor of Lacombe and former MLA, and Ashley Lawrence of Johnson Inc. Inspirational champion and author William Boulton shared his journey with MS and spoke words of encouragement.

Cyclists were led out by a procession of 19 members of the Gasoline Alley HarleyDavidson HOG Chapter, while Darcy Stingel of Sunny 94fm, Bryson Bond of Bond Nutrition Inc and Sarah Dasilva of World Gym, along with staff, kept the enthusiasm flowing at the start/finish line by tirelessly peddling on spin bikes.

Over 70 volunteers and staff rallied early to set up the two-day event site. Mother Nature co-operated with perfect conditions for this outdoor, family-friendly event.

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Red Deer is growing and getting younger at the same time.

The city’s population is 98,585, with an average age of 31, according to the recently released 2014 Municipal Census Report.

A total of 1,476 new residents called Red Deer home in 2014, a 1.5 per cent increase over 2013.

Of the respondents who indicated their gender, 48.3 per cent (47,650) were female and 48.7 per cent (47,966) were male. The average age was 31.

The numbers changed slightly from 2013 when the average age was 32. Females then made up 49.4 per cent of the population and

males 50.1 per cent, with the remainder not answering this question.

As for growth areas in neighbourhoods, Vanier Woods with 603 new residents and Timberlands with 441 new residents continue to come out on top. In Vanier Woods, there are 2,622 residents and in Timberlands there are 1,305.

There were slight declines in population in older areas, such as Mountview, Morrisroe and Oriole Park, which may indicate children in those areas have grown up and left the family home, or residents have relocated to other areas in the city and their old residence is still vacant.

Paul Goranson, director of Red Deer’s Corporate Services Division, said the growth actually slowed down a little over the last year.

He said the overall the average growth rate in Red Deer is hovering around the three per cent mark.

“It’s a healthy number,” he said. “It does indicate the community continues to grow, which is a positive thing.”

One of the reasons the city conducts an annual census is to access more government grant funding. The city receives roughly $184 per person in grant funding.

“Even though the growth wasn’t huge this year, it more than covered the cost of actually doing the census,” said Goranson.

For the last two years, the city collected census data online. The response rate for the online portion was 31 per cent in 2013 and 40 per cent this year.

A basic census will be conducted in 2015. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Think you have the tallest sunflower in your neighbourhood? If you live in the Waskasoo subdivision, you can find out. The Waskasoo Community Association has launched its second annual Tallest Sunflower Competition. Residents of the neighbourhood can measure the height of their sunflowers from the ground to the tip of the flower, and submit the figure by email to sunflower@waskasoo.info or by phone to 403-3485030. To ensure a level growing field, sunflower seeds of the same variety were delivered to homes in Waskasoo. Last year’s winning entry reached an impressive 3.9 metres (12 feet nine inches) in height, earning its owner a $50 gift certificate to the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. This year’s prize, which is valued at more than $50, will be awarded at the association’s AGM in November.

ARTIST VISITS BOWER PLACE An artist whose work is on display at more than 20 galleries internationally will visit Red Deer later this month. Fabio Napoleoni is scheduled to be at Editions Gallery in Bower Place Shopping Centre on Aug. 28 from 4 to 8 p.m. The resident of Maine, who is known for the symbolism in his pieces, lists Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and Jackson Pollock as his inspirations. Napoleoni’s Red Deer stop is part of an Alberta tour.

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Red Deer clarinetist and band leader Eric Allison of the H.O.T. Dixieland Jazz Band plays a solo as his bandmates look on. The Calgary-based band performed at the Sylvan Lake Seniors Centre on Friday to open their weekend at the 12th annual Jazz at the Lake in Sylvan Lake. Tickets and a schedule of events for the festival are available online at www.JazzAtTheLake.com or at the Sylvan Lake Aquatic Centre at 4804-48 St., or by calling 403-887-2199.

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BRIEF Blackfalds road work set; closures start next week The summer driving challenge created by construction will affect Blackfalds next week.

Starting on Wednesday, residential development in the northwest area of the town requires the closure of the gravel portion of Broadway Avenue, north of Aspen Lakes Boulevard, to allow construction crews to haul materials across the roadway.

This section of Broadway Avenue will be closed to vehicle traffic from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The work will be completed by Sept.

3, weather permitting.

Further temporary road closures at this location are also anticipated later in September — the town’s website will have information on future closures. Residents will need to use alternate routes during the closures.

Also, the intersection of Hwy 2A and Cottonwood Drive is being upgraded to add a pedestrian crossing, trail system, and additional turning lanes to meet increased traffic and pedestrian flow.

Crews have started working along the shoulders of Hwy 2A and Cottonwood Drive and work will continue work along the highway corridor until the end of October.

Road closures are not anticipated, but pedestrians and drivers are encouraged to follow signage and use other routes when possible to reduce traffic in the area during construction.

Prentice here Wednesday Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jim Prentice will be in Red Deer on Wednesday for a meet and greet. He will be at the Black Knight Inn from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Prentice, along with Thomas Lukaszuk and Ric McIver, are the three candidates seeking the leadership.

The winner will also become the premier of Alberta since the PCs form the government with the majority of seats in the legislature.

The PC leadership election was called after Alison Redford stepped down as party leader and premier in March. Since then, Dave Hancock has been serving as interim leader and premier.

All PC members are eligible to vote in the leadership election, which will be held on Sept. 6. If no candidate wins a majority, a second vote with the top two candidates on the ballot will take place on Sept. 20.

Motorcyclist injured A 19-year-old motorcyclist suffered non-life-threatening injuries when he collided with a vehicle in Red Deer on Thursday night.

Red Deer Emergency Services were called about 9:35 p.m. to Chapell Drive and arrived with a fire truck and ambulance.

Police had few details on Friday but said the 19-year-old motorcyclist was “up and about.”

The street was closed off to traffic for some time while police investigated.

A high-performance motorcycle was parked at the scene with obvious front end damage. A parked SUV also had damage to the front end.

Card skim scam probed; three men being sought Police are searching for three suspects in connection with a card skimming scam at a local restaurant.

RCMP were alerted recently when a man using the debit machine at the Edo Restaurant at 69th Street and Taylor Drive noticed his card was not sliding smoothly into the machine. On closer examination, he noticed the machine had a magnetic strip not found in the business’s other machines.

The business owner was alerted and police called.

Police took the debit machine to be inspected by crime technicians. Remaining machines at the store had not been tampered with. A review of store video surveillance revealed suspicious activity by three men. They first came into the restaurant on July 29, making small purchases while looking around the front counter area before leaving.

The same three were back a day later. As one acted as lookout, another distracted staff, and a third placed a backpack on the counter and switched out machines as he made an order. He paid in cash and then all three left.

Police warn business owners not to let their debit and credit machines out of their sight. It only takes seconds for crooks to insert a magnetic strip into machines or switch out machines. Merchants should check their machines regularly, looking for wires, loose pieces or other evidence of tampering.

The suspects are described as: ● Dark-skinned male, between five-foot-five and five-foot-seven (1.65 to 1.7 metres), weighing about 190 pounds (86 kg). He has short dark hair and full black beard. ● Black male, between five-foot-nine and fivefoot-11 (1.75 to 1.8 metres), weighing about 200 pounds (91 kg). He has short black hair, is in his mid-20s and clean shaven. ● Dark-skinned male, about six-feet (1.83 metres) and about 170 pounds (77 kg). He has short black hair and was clean shaven.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 403-343-5575 or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report online to tipsubmit.com.

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

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erty-stricken country or terrorists slamming planes into American buildings. If God is good, then God ought to take care and make sure that everybody is safe and clean and warm and fed.

And if God is all powerful, then God ought to reach his or her hand from heaven and push bad things out of the way.

How many times have I looked into the teary eyes of a parent who has lost a child in a car crash or to cancer and heard the question, “Why didn’t God DO something?”

So, we had to wrestle through that night’s questions. And then, the next morning, I got the news that one of my church members had committed suicide.

Back to wrestling. OK, God, why didn’t you DO something? Why didn’t you make the gun jam or something? Human questions to a divine entity.

Then it occurred to me that God isn’t the problem. It is the way we have been taught about God. We have grown up thinking we can and should be able to control God, and when we can’t, we are thrown. We were taught God in a way that makes it seem that God is a magician, put in our space to OUR bidding. We somehow walked away thinking that if we believe in God, bad things ought not happen to us or to those we love.

God never said that would be the case.

What we have been taught has skewed our theology, too. We forget that God’s ways are not our ways, that God used the Babylonians against his own people to ultimately protect and preserve the Israelites.

The Israelites moaned in Psalm 137 when they said, “By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion . . . How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” The Israelites could not believe that their God had let

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BY SUSAN K. SMITH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE More than two weeks have passed since the horrible earthquake struck and demolished impoverished Haiti. But my mind has been on another tragedy closer to home: A vibrant, intelligent, beautiful 24-year-old graduate student who was a member of my congregation committed suicide.

As a pastor, I struggled with the “why” questions concerning the earthquake.

But as I allowed my Bible study students to pommel me with questions about the goodness and presence of God in Haiti, little did I know that one of my Bible study students lie dead in a hospital morgue, waiting for her parents to come and identify her and take her home.

Darn it that we cannot figure God out.

We cannot resolve reality with the theology that says God is all good, all powerful and always present. If God is good, and the earthquake came to the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, then is God not all powerful? God couldn’t have reached down and quieted the earth, or pushed the restlessness somewhere else, where the people had not already suffered? Or is it that God is not so good?

We struggled as a Bible study, and I weakly lifted up scriptural references, like the one that says our ways are not God’s ways. As far as the east is from the west, so are our ways not like God’s ways, the Bible says.

We were taught from the time we were children that God was perfect and good.

So, in our limited way, we drew a portrait of God, complete with human expectations and requirements. If God is good, then God ought to keep bad things from happening, like an earthquake in a pov-

them down, allowed their enemies to triumph over them. Who is this God? The writers of the holy texts were right.

We cannot understand God, but in an attempt to do so, we have wrought misery upon ourselves which we heap upon the misery of circumstances.

In the case of suicide, we have been taught that to do so is an affront to God, thereby condemning a person straight to hell. What if their hell was their life on earth, and their suicide cast them into the arms of Jesus?

This young woman was a fighter. She took her meds. She went to counseling.

But maybe her depression was too far gone, like a Stage 4 ovarian cancer. Maybe her suicide was a complication of depression and the bullet that ended her life ended her time in hell.

Maybe God sent death for her so that she could finally experience heaven.

I don’t know. What I do know is that things that happen are not easily understood by us, and when we try to box God into a nice, compact “definition,” we set ourselves up for pain that will not go away.

I weep as I write this. I weep for the people in Haiti who have died, the ones who will live lives as amputees, the ones who have been buried alive… the ones who will be forgotten.

And I weep for my member, who had so much life, but so much pain.

And finally, I weep because I do not and cannot understand God. Death be not proud, as John Donne admonished.

In spite of death, there is still God. And God is still good and powerful, even if he or she is beyond comprehension. It is those beliefs which keep me afloat in this very deep sea of grief in which I and so many others find ourselves.

Sunday

Tuesday

Lacombe Seventh Day Adventist Food Bank and Thrift Store welcomes gently used items at 5025 53 St. in Lacombe. Hours of operation are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m., Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. Contact Millie at 403-782-6777.

Thursday

Sky Family Celtic Revival will be featured on Aug. 21 at First Church of the Nazarene at 7 p.m. Enjoy world class dance, lively fiddle music, songs rich in harmony, humourous stories and inspirational testimonies presented by the Sky Family of Prince Edward Island.

Suggested donation of $10 for adults, and $5 for children. See www.theskys.org, or phone the church at 403-347-1191.

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Schedule of Services 11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service

Rev. Valentine Owen www.cslreddeer.org #3 - 6315 Horn Street

Helping people encounter the goodness of God Corner of 55th St & 46th Ave 10:30 am Contemporary Worship

streamschurch.com 403.342.7441

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UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA GAETZ MEMORIAL

Corner of Ross Street and 48th Avenue — Phone 403-347-2244

10:30 a.m.

“The Evolution of Faith” www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Sunnybrook United Church Caring - Dynamic - Proactive - Inclusive 12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073

10:30 a.m. Worship Service “A Pilgrims Journey” - Glynis Wilson Boultbee

Babyfold, Toddler Room,Room Sunday Club Clubwww.sunnybrookunited.org Babyfold, Toddler Sunday www.sunnybrookunited.org

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

Sunday, August 17

GOOD SHEPHERD 40 Holmes St. 403-340-1022

Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry

Worship Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Everyone Welcome

Saved by grace - called to serve

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#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk SUNDAY DIVINE SERVICE 10:00 a.m.

DIVINE SERVICE 7:00 p.m.

Kings Kids Playschool www.mclcrd.org

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

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Family Ministry

Balmoral Bible Chapel 403-347-5450

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Joffre Road (East of 30 Ave. on 55 St.) 10:30 am Worship Service Speaker: Terry Wiebe “Lesson on Waiting for Kingdom” Mark 4:21-34 Children’s Church Ages 2 1/2-Grade 3

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4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560 Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

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The Anglican Church of Canada

“Walking in Freedom” 10:30 am Worship Service

West Park Presbyterian 3628-57 Ave.

Sunday, August 17

403-346-6036

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL

SUNDAY WORSHIP 11:00 am WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN

“A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

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Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

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Holy Communion 10:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist

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Rev. Reg Graves with Special Guests a Rwandan Family Everyone Welcome

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BLACKFALDS ROCK BAND THE FRANK STAY CLOSE TO ITS ROOTS

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF There’s no place like home for making music, according to The Frank.

The Blackfalds rock group that started out as a high school band in 1997 has become something of a local institution with its live shows at Red Deer’s The Vat regularly drawing a loyal horde of followers.

Many of the group’s Central Alberta fans will undoubtedly congregate at Alberta’s Own Independent Music Festival, from Aug. 29 to 31 at the Tail Creek Raceways in Nevis. The festival will feature performances by The Frank, along with Monster Truck, Throne of Vengeance and other bands.

It’s this listener devotion — as well as the overriding love of music — that’s kept the group going over the last 15 years, through many personnel changes and a short-term switch in locale.

“We do this for ourselves and the people who want to hear us,” said lead singer/guitarist Denver Swainson, The Frank’s only remaining original member.

While the band was started by three high school friends, it gradually expanded to a quartet as various musicians left and were replaced. The group now also consists of bassist Joe Miller, guitarist/backing vocalist Sara Page (who became Swainson’s wife, following a quickie Las Vegas chapel wedding a couple of years ago), and drummer John Page, Sara’s brother.

Swainson recalled he and the rest of The Frank headed out to Los Angeles for a six-month stretch a while back, only to return with a heightened appreciation of opportunities in Central Alberta.

Compared to L.A.’s “oversaturated” music scene, which leaves a lot of very talented bands competing for limited live performance venues, Central Alberta is “wonderful,” said Swainson.

He noted tons of local venues now book live music, and these businesses and other bands in the music community are very supportive.

Outside this nurturing bubble, however, things are tough for bands aiming for big-time success.

“The music industry is so difficult to break into right now,” with so many

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The Frank on stage: after a six-month stretch in Los Angeles, the band returned to Central Alberta, glad to return to what they say is a vibrant live music scene and a supportive community. people downloading music, leaving record companies feeling the pinch, said Swainson.

While in L.A., he witnessed even seasoned performers who’d played in prominent bands struggling to launch solo projects.

“The answer isn’t necessarily a change in geography,” he said. The solution for The Frank has been not worrying too much about chasing major success, but focusing on personal growth and development as a band.

“It would be nice to make a living as a full-time musician,” said Swainson, who is influenced by Neil Young and Jimi Hendrix and works as an electrician in his other life.

But he and other group members are satisfied to balance their day jobs with weekend music gigs in Red Deer, and occasionally Calgary and Edmonton.

“I’m happy with whatever comes our way,” he said.

The next project will be recording a new long-awaited full-length album to follow Blackfalds Revisited from 2005 (several EPs were recorded in the interim). No decisions have been made on producers or recording studios yet, so fans might have to wait a while longer for a finished recording.

In the interim, they can still rock out to old favourites like Slick Your Hair Back, or the title track from Blackfalds

Revisited, which recounts a night when the band was just starting out playing at the Blackfalds Motor Inn. Unsurprisingly, Swainson’s group has stayed dedicated to that very first venue, continuing to perform at its annual Halloween parties. “We’ve been really lucky to have such a loyal following. They’re a really good bunch of people,” said the singer.

For more information about the 13th annual Alberta’s Own Independent Music Festival at Nevis, visit www.albertasown.ca.

The Frank next plays at The Vat on Sept. 19. For more information about that show, call 403-346-5636. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

The Giver taketh away At the

BY BRUCE DEMARA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

The Giver 2 stars (out of four) Rated: PG Peace, social cohesion, equality for all and none left wanting. The world of The Giver, on a high plateau surrounded by snowy clouds, seems idyllic.

All you have to do is take your daily injection, obey the nightly curfew, never lie, wear the clothes they give you, take the job for life they assign you and rear the children they decide you should raise.

No bright colours, no music and — oh yes — no visible minorities.

It takes about two milliseconds to realize the utopia created by The Elders following “the Ruin” would appeal to only most dull-witted white supremacist.

So once you’ve gotten the lesson at the heart of the film, the rest of The Giver seems almost redundant. It’s

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Brenton Thwaites, left, and Odeya Rush in a scene from The Giver. rather a problem.

Still, the audience must endure as we meet Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), who at 18, is assigned to become the next Receiver of all those nasty memories left behind, safely stored in the cranium of The Giver (Jeff Bridges) and ready to be shared via a sort of Vulcan mind meld.

It doesn’t take long for Jonas to realize how repressive his society truly is as he begins to feel love (also banned) for Fiona (Odeya Rush).

If only he can get past the “bound-

ary” to Elsewhere with his new younger brother, Gabriel (no relation), all those bad memories (war, sickness, income tax, etc.) and some good ones will magically come flooding back. It’s unclear why this is a desirable outcome.

Veteran director Phillip Noyce makes wonderful use of neutral tones — black, grey and sepia — to denote the world as seen through everyone’s eyes while gradually and strategically introducing flashes of vivid colours — apple red, blue eyes, golden sunsets, etc. — to portray old memories and

Jonas’s growing knowledge and understanding.

The sets and costumes are well conceived and executed and there’s no shortage of talent in the casting department.

Meryl Streep literally beams in much of her performance as the Chief Elder, with a hairstyle severe enough to match her censorious air.

Handsome, tall and lean, Aussie actor Thwaites is perfectly adequate in the central role of Jonas, though the role requires little use of his skills as he goes from blissful ignorance to consternation.

Bridges, employing the same cottonballs-in-the-cheeks voice technique he used portraying Rooster Cogburn in the gritty and wonderful remake of True Grit in 2010, is always watchable but brings nothing new to his role as the Giver.

Tom Cruise ex Katie Holmes, a former Scientology fembot, is perhaps ironically cast as Jonas’s un-maternal mother and there’s a brief and forgettable appearance by country music star Taylor Swift as the Giver’s longdeceased daughter.

There are a few moments that stir the heart — including footage of a bull elephant being felled by trophy hunters — but the storyline is as bland and predictable as the perfect world it portrays. The film is based on Lois Lowry’s Newbery Award-winning novel for children’s literature (in which the Jonas character is actually 11, not 18).

But for discerning adults, The Giver is neither illuminating, challenging nor compelling.

Bruce DeMara is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Actors and musicians unite for Prime Stock fundraiser

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A veritable who’s-who of local thespians and musicians will join forces to stage a fundraising three-night cabaret for Prime Stock Theatre later this month.

The professional theatre troupe turns 20 years old this year and will celebrate by putting on a show in downtown Red Deer: the Prime Stock Cabaret — The Suite Life Musical Revue.

This collection of song and dance numbers from musical theatre and popular music will be performed

Thursday to Saturday, Aug. 21 to 23, at the Scott Block Theatre.

It’s billed as “a setting where people can relax and enjoy a drink with friends and an unapologetically fun evening in the theatre.”

Songs in the revue, directed by Lynda Adams, will be strung together along the loose theme of urban living.

Musical direction is by Morgan McKee, choreography by Elisa Nixon and design by Patrick Beagan.

The cast includes local actors Chantel Hutchison, Andres Moreno, Dan Vasquez, Nevada Banks, Jennifer Engler and special guests.

The “garage band” is comprised of

McKee, Curtis Phagoo and Rob Goodwin.

Prime Stock Theatre has been working for two decades to provide professional, live theatrical experiences for local audiences, as well as to give Central Alberta actors from high school and Red Deer College drama programs chances to work in this city and not have to move to larger centres to pursue their dreams.

The group, led by artistic director Thomas Usher, has collaborated with local education and cultural institutions to stage quality productions.

The latest Prime Stock output has been Bard on Bower’s Shakespeare-in-

the-park productions at Bower Ponds, which include the just wrapped Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Tickets for the three-night benefit revue will be $25, cash at the door.

Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 21, 7:30 and 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 22, and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23.

There will be a cash bar and mature content in the show.

As well, a dress rehearsal/preview night can be seen at the Scott Block at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20, with tickets at the door for $20.

For more information, visit www. primestocktheatre.com.

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Talent agent casts against type

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alaska authorities rescue three hikers on pilgrimage to remote bus famed for Into the Wild movie FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Authorities rescued three men making a pilgrimage to an abandoned bus in the Alaska wilderness made famous by the book and film Into the Wild.

Three hikers, two from Wisconsin and third with no known address, needed help last week after one of them tripped and hurt himself with an axe, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported (http://is.gd/zqsxG0 ).

They ran into trouble Aug. 6 on the Stampede Trail just north of the entrance to Denali National Park and Preserve, about 180 miles north of Anchorage. The Tri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department responded and gave the three hikers a ride on all-terrain vehicles, the Alaska State Troopers announced Wednesday on their website.

Matthew Peot, 29, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Thomas Young, 45, of Horicon, Wisconsin; and Kenneth Young, whose age and hometown wasn’t listed, were trying to get to the dilapidated bus, but the Teklanika River was too high, troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said in an email to The Associated Press.

They camped for a few days, waiting to see if the river would get low enough to cross, but the axe injury ended the quest, Peters wrote. Thomas Young suffered minor injuries in the accident.

Authorities often are called to help people heading to the dilapidated bus made famous by the book and movie “Into the Wild,” which chronicle the life and death of Chris McCandless.

He hiked into the Alaska wilderness in April 1992 with little food and equipment and spent the summer living in the bus. McCandless was found dead in the bus almost four months later after starving to death.

Four years ago, a Swiss woman drowned in the river on the trail to the bus, but it was unclear whether she was hiking to the vehicle or just hiking in the area.

Chuck Todd to host Meet the Press, replacing moderator David Gregory, who will exit NBC NEW YORK — Embattled Meet the Press moderator David Gregory is leaving NBC News and Chuck Todd will replace him on the venerable Sunday morning public affairs program, NBC said Thursday. Todd begins his new role on Sept. 7. He remains as NBC News’ political director, but will relinquish his duties as Chief White House

Kids from the even rougher streets of South Los Angeles would, however, especially after Levin got seven of them roles in director John Singleton’s breakthrough movie Boyz n the Hood in 1991. They had been sent to him by a Compton acting coach named Anthony Bean who was trying to get them away from street gangs.

“Don’t ask me why and how I found Sid. I don’t even recall,” laughs Bean, who has since returned to his native New Orleans to run an acting school for inner-city youth. But in a business that can be cut-throat, Bean said he just got a feeling the fast-talking agent wouldn’t rip off naive street kids.

The next break came when a tough looking Latino actor from one of LA’s roughest barrios came through the door. When Danny Trejo started to work regularly, Levin recalls, he volunteered at prisoner workshops and began sending his students to him.

“Ex-cons that were bank robbers and what have you started showing up,

and that was kind of dicey,” he recalls, chuckling.

Still, he might have kept representing ex-cons, gang members and their associates if tragedy hadn’t struck.

Dedrik Gobert, one of the South LA kids he’d gotten into Boys n the Hood, seemed headed for stardom. He was making money and spending it restoring old cars.

Unfortunately, he raced one day against a gang member, they argued afterward and he was shot to death.

“I still think about him a lot,” Levin says softly. “It was just so senseless.”

As most of the kids from LA’s mean streets drifted away from acting, and some like Trejo who became big stars moved on to other, more prominent representation, Levin began to focus more on military and law enforcement people.

He figured they have as much right to dream of being movie and TV stars as anybody else. “Talented is talented,” he says.

correspondent and anchor of MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown. He has been a frequent guest on Meet the Press as a political analyst.

The 42-year-old Todd came to NBC in 2007 after working for National Journal’s The Hotline, where he was editor-in-chief.

He becomes only the 11th permanent host of Meet the Press, which premiered in 1947 and bills itself as “the world’s longest-running television program.”

Gregory had been moderator since 2008. Before that, he was NBC’s Chief White House Correspondent for the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency. He had been with NBC News since 1995.

The announcement by NBC News president Deborah Turness ended months of speculation that Gregory’s time was running out on the program, which during his tenure has fallen from first to third place, ranking behind CBS’ Face the Nation and ABC’s This Week.

Its ratings erosion felt even more pronounced since Gregory had followed the late Tim Russert, a popular, larger-than-life figure who became almost as much an institution as the program over which he presided for 16 FRIDAYS 5 PM • SATURDAYS 4 PM years.

He was its longest-serving moderator until his sudden death in June 2008.

Under Russert, the show was by far the dominant program in its category.

5 PM BUFFET - 7 PM DANCE “I’m not Tim,” Gregory told viewers MEMBERS & NON MEMBERS WELCOME when his Meet the Press appointment was declared.

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But one published report in recent months stated that Gregory would be replaced after the midterm elections.

And a story published in April by The Washington Post said that NBC commissioned a “psychological consultant” to interview Gregory’s wife and friends.

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to send him after. Dalager’s been a cop, a soldier and a member of the crew of The Enterprise in Star Trek: Into Darkness. Not that he always plays the good guy. He was also a Taliban militiaman in Eagle Eye. “It’s definitely a what-you-looklike industry,” laughs Dalager, adding Levin seems to know that better than anyone.

Levin, 56, himself looks like he could have walked out of a movie about an old-time agent in the mould of “Broadway Danny Rose.” He’s short, paunchy and, on this day, dressed in slacks and a pull-over blue shirt with a gold medallion hanging around his neck.

Thirty years ago, the former standup comic and singing-telegram salesman put up a shingle in a tiny office at the fabled but then-faded intersection of Hollywood and Vine. “People told me I had to move because nobody would go there after dark,” he recalled of Hollywood’s rougher days.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — You couldn’t miss Hollywood talent agent Sid Levin’s office in the old days: It wasn’t much bigger than a closet and it was sometimes filled with burglars, bank robbers and gang members, all trying to break into the movies.

These days you’ll find everyone from Gulf War veterans to a 15-time world arm-wrestling champion there, and Levin didn’t bring them in for protection. They’re looking to be movie stars, too.

In a town where seemingly everyone wants to be a star, but few look like James Franco or Scarlett Johansson, Levin is the talent agent who represents the people who look like the rest of us. Some play tough guys because they once were. Or hard-core military types because they were that.

“I am kind of the strange guy here in Hollywood,” says Levin from behind the desk of his office, which is actually just down the road in adjacent Beverly Hills. “I rep a lot of talented people, but people who are kind of the underdog. But that’s OK. I’m the underdog, too.”

One of his breakout underdogs is the arm-wrestling champion and former juvenile hall guard Dot-Marie Jones. She’s been nominated for three consecutive Emmys since landing the role of Coach Beiste on Glee. Although she missed out on a nomination at this month’s awards show, he says, he’s confident she’ll get one eventually — because she’s that good.

On his desk, meanwhile, is an oldfashioned Rolodex with a list of more than 100 names, many of people you’ve likely never heard of but realize you sort of recognize from somewhere.

There’s Abdoulaye N’gom, for example. The Senegalese-born actor who came to LA 35 years ago with the unlikely dream of becoming a movie star, although he spoke little English and what he did came out in a thick accent reflecting the years he’d spent in Senegal and France.

“But Sid said, ’There’s just something about you. I know you’re going to work,”’ recalled the actor who after years of small parts in films like George of the Jungle recently played the kindly hotel manager in the Drew BarrymoreAdam Sandler comedy Blended.

Likewise, when Levin saw the square-jawed, no-nonsense-looking Coast Guard Petty Officer Mike Dalager, he says, he knew just what roles

C6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014

Love is possible for a 38-year-old virgin Dear Harlan; Not to go into too much about being a virgin. detail, but throughout most of my life, Dear Harlan; I am 18 and going into my mother brought not-so-desirable my freshman year at a private univermen into my home, starting with my sity with about 3,000 students. father.

I graduated with less than 100 stuSo now I feel like I am just not dents in my class, and I was not open meant to have good men in my life. I about being gay. Going into college I feel like they do not exist, am concerned with making even though I see them with friends, but I don’t want to HARLAN other female friends in haphide who I am.

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Study hints that dogs can get jealous

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — When Shetland sheepdog Maggie comes home from the groomer, her owners praise and pet her shiny coat, much to the chagrin of pit bull Stormy, who will head-butt her until their family cuts out the compliments.

“Stormy’s jealous,” said owner Amy Putnam, who lives 70 kilometres east of Los Angeles. “You know how you’re supposed to treat your kids the same?

Well, that goes for dogs, too. They get along great and go with the flow until one thinks she is being slighted.”

After hearing stories like Putnam’s, a psychology professor decided to study for the first time whether the human emotion of jealousy really happens in dogs.

The nine-month study published in July in the science journal PLOS ONE hints that it could be possible, but other experts aren’t so sure behaviour like Stormy’s can be called jealousy.

“While I will not say that dogs do not experience jealousy, this article does not prove that they actually do,” said Dr. Bonnie Beaver, executive director of the American College of Veterinary Behaviourists and a professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

Beaver also insists dogs lack shame. Despite what people think, the guilty look — head cowered, ears back, eyes droopy — is a reaction to people throwing tantrums over chewed-up shoes and accidents on the carpet, she said.

But Christine Harris, a professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego, says her dog study supports the theory that there’s a more basic form of jealousy.

She and a former student worked with 36 dogs, videotaping owners ignoring their pets while petting and talking sweetly to stuffed, animated dogs or jack-o-lantern pails. A pair of independent workers watched the videos for behaviour like aggression or attention-seeking.

When people interacted with the stuffed animals, their dogs pushed or touched them 78 per cent of the time; tried to get between the owner and toy 30 per cent of the time; and snapped at the fake dog 25 per cent of the time, Harris said.

There was much less of that behaviour when it came to the toy pails. Forty-two per cent of the dogs tried to push or touch them; 15 per cent tried to get between them; and 1 per cent snapped.

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This photo provided by the University of California-San Diego shows three border collies, from left, Samwise, Arwen and Frodo. The dogs inspired emotion researcher Christine Harris, a professor of psychology at the university, to do a study on pet jealousy.

Harris believes the dogs saw the stuffed animals as rivals.

“When they see a loved one show affection toward another what appears to be a real being, they engage in real behaviours to try and draw the affection back to them,” Harris said. “That’s what you see in humans, too.”

Beaver said the study “opens up thoughts about what an animal might be experiencing.” But she’s concerned about calling it jealousy. A dog might be more interested because another “social being” is interacting with the owner, Beaver said.

Harris said she is not claiming a dog’s “internal experience” mirrors that of humans, because it’s impossible to know.

“Some say that’s not jealous behaviour, that dogs don’t have emotions like this,” she said. “Others have said I am being too cautious, and if they have emotions like us, they will have behaviour like us.”

Whether dogs get jealous or not, there’s certainly much competition for affection in the Putnam house with the arrival of a grandson.

Stormy the pit bull wants to be the only dog-sitter for the six-week-old boy.

“If Maggie gives him any attention, Stormy gets mad and ushers her out,” Amy Putnam said, adding she didn’t previously think about how the dogs got along.

“But when you talk about it like this, you realize there is a whole lot of jealously going on,” she said.

New study explains meerkat aggression

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — One of the most captivating sights of African wildlife is that of dark-eyed meerkats standing side-by-side on their hind legs, as though posing for a group photograph.

They look cuddly and endearing. But a new study says they have a dark side.

The dominant female meerkat in a group banishes the other females when they give birth, killing and even eating their offspring to ensure a plentiful food supply for the alpha couple’s own pups and a labour pool of meerkat babysitters who don’t have their own young to rear.

In the mass media, meerkats have a gentler image, inspiring advertisers, a character in the animated movie “The Lion King” and a TV documentary series that told the story of a meerkat family in southern Africa. That television show, “Meerkat Manor,” explored the meerkats’ often harsh existence but also gave names to the animal “stars,” helping to get viewers emotionally involved.

“Flower” was one of those meerkats. In light of the new study, “Cannibal” could be an apt name for a dominant female meerkat.

The recent study by a group of British and South African universities, as well as the Kalahari Meerkat Project in South Africa, builds on observations that dominant meerkats use violence to regulate breeding in their own group and to survive in tough, desert environments.

“Since meerkats are cute and fluffy, and have been saccharine, anthropomorphized poster children for happy family life, it comes across as more shocking,” the study’s leader, Dr. Matthew Bell of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Biological Sciences, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.

Contrary to the public perception, he wrote, meerkat lives are “nasty, brutish and short!”

The study, published in July in Nature Communications, an online journal, analyzed the effect of giving contraceptive jabs to adult female helpers in 12 groups of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to ensure they could not reproduce for six months. During that period, dominant females were less aggressive toward the subordinates, foraged more, gained more weight and had bigger pups.

The female helpers, in turn, provided more care and food for the dominant female’s offspring, accord-

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Meerkat Manor in an enclosure at the Pretoria Zoo, South Africa. ing to the research.

“We’ve done the first clear experiment that measures the value that dominants gain from suppressing their subordinates,” Bell wrote. “Such benefits have always been assumed, but never clearly confirmed.”

Conflict occurs in many species, but meerkat societies in particular provide researchers with good opportunities to measure the costs of that conflict, said Dr. Andrew Young, an evolutionary biologist at Britain’s University of Exeter who was not involved in Bell’s study.

“That’s sort of the niche in which meerkats fit, as a nice model because there’s very strong hierarchy but subordinates do still try to breed,” Young said.

In contrast, he said, only dominant female mole rats breed and the subordinate mole rats don’t even try

to reproduce.

Meerkats are also competitive in captivity, said Agnes Maluleke of the Johannesburg zoo, which has nearly 20 meerkats. The zoo has had to split a group when a young meerkat challenged a dominant but weakening one in a vicious scrap that Maluleke described as: “I’m fighting for life or death because I want to take over.”

Meerkats, who are a member of the mongoose family and can have several litters a year, generally live fewer than 10 years in the wild but survive longer in the more secure environment of a zoo, Maluleke said.

FreeMe, a South African rehabilitation centre for indigenous creatures, annually receives dozens of meerkats, many of which were part of the illegal pet trade and had started biting their owners.

Woman in critical condition after drinking lye-laced tea

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY — A woman drank sweet tea containing a toxic cleaning chemical, severely burning her mouth and throat, at a Utah restaurant after an employee mistook the substance for sugar and mixed it into a dispenser, the woman’s attorney said Thursday.

Jan Harding, 67, is in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital’s burn unit, unable to talk and fighting for her life, lawyer Paxton Guymon said.

The restaurant manager and investigators have told the woman’s family that the worker accidentally put large quantities of a product containing lye into the iced-tea dispenser at Dickey’s Barbecue Pit in South Jordan, he said. The chemical is common at restaurants and used to degrease deep fryers.

Harding and her husband had just arrived at the restaurant after church Sunday when she took a sip of the tea and exclaimed to her husband: “I think I just drank acid.”

Jim Harding rushed his wife to a nearby hospital.

She was then flown to the University of Utah hospital, where she remained Thursday, Guymon said.

Harding’s husband and their three adult children were by her side, praying for her recovery.

The family declined to comment through Guymon, who spoke on their behalf.

“It’s disturbing that this kind of toxic, poisonous material would be in the food prep area and somehow find its way into the iced tea vat,” Guymon said.

“I don’t know how something like that can happen.”

South Jordan Police are still investigating how the chemical ended up in the jug of sweet tea, but they think it was accidental, South Jordan Police Cpl. Sam Winkler said. Investigators are reviewing video

footage from inside the restaurant and interviewing staff who worked that day and in the days leading up to the incident.

They have determined Harding is the only victim, Winkler said. It appears she was the first to drink the tea that day, and restaurant employees dumped it out after she was burned, he said.

The chemical comes in both liquid and powder form. The one the worker added was a powder, Guymon said.

He added he will wait for the police investigation to finish before determining what legal action to take.

John Thomson, owner of the Dickey’s Barbecue franchise in South Jordan, said in a statement Thursday that he’s praying for Jan Harding and co-operating with investigators. He refrained from commenting on the specifics out of respect for the Hardings.

His restaurant is one of 400 Dickey’s around the country in the Dallas-based chain.

South Jordan is a suburb of 60,000 about 15 miles south of Salt Lake City.

The restaurant has remained open, said Jeff Oaks, Food Protection Bureau Manager at the Salt Lake County Health Department. His office inspected the establishment Monday and found all chemicals properly labeled and separated from food items.

The health department is awaiting results of the criminal investigation to determine if it needs to issue any violations. It’s unlikely the restaurant would be fined or shut down, Oaks said. The department focuses on education and prevention over punitive measures, he said.

Health officials aren’t aware of anything like this every happening in Salt Lake County before this incident. Oaks said restaurant-goers don’t need to be worried.

“I believe this to be an isolated incident,” he said.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Parents should prepare for a little deja vu in fall fashion offerings for tweens and teens.

The fashion world’s renewed love affair with athleticwear — a mainstay of ’80s fashion — is translating to the casual yet refined modern looks students will be sporting come September.

Gap Inc. spokeswoman Heather Hopkins said youngsters can mix and match activewear items like track pants with rolled-up cuffs in darker hues paired with tailored separates like a pale blue chambray shirt.

“It really is that laidback take on effortless cool and street style that’s quite fun,” said Hopkins.

Track pant styles can also be elevated when teamed with an oxford shirt, high tops or a distressed jean jacket with a popped collar, she noted.

Winners fashion expert Sarah Smithers said leggings continue to endure as a style staple for tween girls, with the latest incarnation featuring lettering and bold prints — not unlike the graphic tees that remain popular fashion options for both genders.

“They’re the perfect layering piece to pair with really fun and whimsical skirts,” said Smithers.

Smithers said the sneaker trend remains huge heading into fall, with classic kicks in luxurious finishes, from leather runners to fun, flatform high-tops in ultra-bright hues.

While outdoor music festival season may soon be wind-

ing down, the free-flowing, folk-inspired styles which surfaced during the summer will continue to strike a chord in the months ahead.

Smithers said teen girls will be taking their September style to the next frontier with fringe details and aztec prints, as well as garments like ponchos and knit vests reflective of the trend popularized by red-carpet regulars like current Vogue cover girl Blake Lively and reality stars Kylie and Kendall Jenner.

“Accessories are always a really easy way to enter into any trend. For frontier, it’s as easy as layering in an oversized bag with some fringe detail,” said Smithers.

Girls can also consider a pair of western-inspired kicks like booties with buckle details, she noted.

Hopkins described “collegial folk” as a fun trend for fall, one which fuses elements of country and classic campus styles and also showcases pretty floral pieces and prints — much like the ensembles favoured by country-pop hitmaker Taylor Swift.

“You have those big grungy plaids, you have the stripes, even the branded fleece or heavier sweatshirts and cableknit sweaters. There’s a lot of chenille and cable knit felting as well,” she said.

“In many ways, it’s a mix of fabrics, and allowing the fabrics to mix well together as well.”

Dresses in a variety of styles can also be layered with a cute cardigan, denim jacket and teamed with biker boots or sneakers for a more grungeinspired look, she noted.

Keeping in line with some of the fall’s edgier offerings, Smithers said wearing soft pants in a plaid print along with combat style-boots is another key trend. “Those two paired together instantly gives you that punk look.”

Smithers said accessories with edgy embellishments are also making the grade, with backpacks adorned with studs and oversized hardware give the schooltime essential a “fashion-forward finish.”

With the resurgence of grunge styles in recent years, plaid remains a favourite — particularly for teen boys. But for those on the hunt for a new graphic pattern, look to the stars.

Smithers said space motifs featuring galactic prints, spaceships and the like are ready for launch.

“This is a trend that we saw on the runways, but it’s really going to be catching on in the schoolyards this September for teen boys as well.”

Even as schooltime style trends continue to evolve, count on denim to remain a perennial style fixture. Expect to see dark denim in black, grey and camo prints for boys for fall which can team well with varsity-style, moto or denim jackets, said Hopkins.

For older girls, Hopkins suggested the option of a slimmer-style jean which can be worn with a long cable knit sweater or cardigan.

“It just seems like this generation is pairing those simple classics like the plaid and the graphic tees and the skinny denim with the sneakers in a really stylish, effortlessly cool way.”

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Fashion remembers Lauren Bacall as the icon who wore the clothes — not other way around han for Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, Yves Saint Laurent and Ungaro. Bacall gave FIT roughly 700 garments, Steele said.

Designer Isaac Mizrahi said intellect is what helped Bacall put her mark on fashion. He explained it this way in the April 2001 issue of InStyle, looking back on her appearance at the Oscars in 1979: “Wearing a 50-yearold Fortuny dress proved how smart Lauren Bacall was,” he said. “A smart Jewish girl from the Bronx who knew Norell as well as Loehmann’s.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Lauren Bacall had one condition when the Fashion Institute of Technology wrote recently to ask if it could turn hundreds of personal garments she donated into an exhibition about her style.

“She said, ’Yes, it’s fine, as long as it’s highquality — Diana Vreeland style,”’ recalled Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT. Throughout her years, Bacall hadn’t forgotten the fashion editor who plucked her from a Seventh Avenue showroom floor and delivered her to Hollywood’s door via the pages of Harper’s Bazaar at age 19.

And next spring, Steele’s museum — with the help of FIT graduate students learning how to curate — will fulfil its promise in a show focused on five designers who helped define Bacall’s subtle seductiveness, her sophisticated mix of classic femininity and raw masculine authority in fashion.

Bacall, who died Tuesday at 89, was a fashion darling of a unique sort.

A model at 16, later a pal of Yves Saint Laurent and a frequent wearer of designs by Norman Norell, she wore the clothes — not the other way around.

“She really epitomized this idea of effortlessness. It’s like she never was trying too hard and I think that sometimes is the most difficult thing to achieve,” said designer Peter Som. “That gaze, the voice, the hair. It was just that confidence. That was something that I think men and women alike could relate to,” he said.

Among Som’s favourite Bacall fashion moments is a casual one from 1946. She’s leaning in a photo on a bent knee propped on a stool near a fireplace in a wool trouser and loose turtleneck suit designed

by Leah Rhodes. The pleats are sharp and the sleeves billowy. The on-

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This magazine cover image released by Hearst shows actress-model Lauren Bacall on the cover of the March 1943 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. ly skin bared: her feet, slipped into low-wedge slides, but her piercing signature sideward glance and wave of long blond hair took the look in a new direction.

“She was the opposite of Marilyn Monroe’s overt sexuality, yet she still oozed sensuality out of every pore,” he said.

“The clothes are so simple and so chic, and they still feel today so relevant. They feel like clothes you kind of want to wear.”

In fashion, on-screen and off, Bacall was the grown-up, even as a teen, said Som and others.

Eric Wilson, fashion news director for InStyle magazine, fondly notes her role turning the tables on the industry when she played a designer in the 1957 film “Designing Woman.”

“There’s this dress, what appears to be a pale grey sleeveless dress with a loosely draped halter top, and it turns out to be her wedding dress,” he explains.

After a hurried wedding, she goes into an

airplane bathroom and changes, emerging in a stretchy navy day look, a mink stole wrapped around her shoulders with a hat and leather gloves.

“That transformation, it’s amazing. It kind of demonstrates her simple, exquisite glamour,” he said.

It’s the kind of transformation that led Steele to include in the upcoming exhibit a Norell dress done up entirely in hand-sewn gold sequins with a matching camel-colour cashmere coat that’s plain on the outside but lined with matching sequins on the inside.

“Once you take the coat off, it’s va-va-va voom,” she said, “but covered up with the coat and you can wear it on the subway as just a simple little thing.”

The exhibit on FIT’s Manhattan campus will focus mostly on Bacall’s looks from the 1950s and ’60s. Some of her clothes

by Norell will be joined by other designs Bacall donated from Marc Bo-

She’s our reference for what smart looks like.

Look up ’smart’ in the dictionary — you’ll find her picture.”

Style and beauty expert Mary Alice Stephenson said Bacall helped redefine beauty and femininity in fashion.

“Bacall made it sexy for all women to wear casual clothes. She would wear them in such a glamorous way,” she said. “She played up her makeup, hair and jewelry, all while wearing pants, button-down shirts, knits and flats.”

There were few who so successfully managed

such a sexy masculine edge while also being capable of full-on glam, Steele said.

“She wore the dress or the pants. They didn’t wear her,” she said.

“Some of what she wore didn’t look prim but it might have on others.

Sometimes it was conservative-looking, but she wore it with such panache. It was a combination of Hollywood feminine glamour and masculine, androgynous insouciance and power.

The only other person I can think of who could do that was (Marlene) Dietrich.”

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42,000 jobs created in July STATSCAN ORIGINALLY REPORTED JUST 200 JOBS CREATED

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The once-unimpeachable reputation of the country’s national number-cruncher suffered a body blow Friday when Statistics Canada was forced to issue a major correction to its flagship employment survey.

Just a week after reporting that the economy gained a paltry 200 jobs in July, the national statistical agency issued a revised report that said Canada had, in fact, managed to create a whopping 42,000 jobs last month.

Both numbers came as a shock: the first because economists expected gains closer to 20,000 jobs, and the second because, well, Statistics Canada has never before gotten it so utterly wrong.

“This is an organization with a long history of integrity and competence,” said Finance Minister Joe Oliver, who called the error “regrettable.”

“We’re comfortable that they have got to the bottom of it and that this type of error won’t happen again.”

The agency blamed the botched numbers on an overhaul of its marketmoving Labour Force Survey, an exer-

cise it undertakes every 10 years.

One of the programs wasn’t updated during the redesign — a mistake the agency chalks up to human error — resulting in the number of full-time job losses being overstated.

The corrected figures show there were in fact 18,000 full-time jobs lost in July, a far cry from the 60,000 losses reported last week. Statistics Canada says the error resulted from not counting some people as part of the labour force.

Mistakes happen, the agency conceded Friday.

“I am fully confident in the integrity of the Labour Force Survey program,” said a statement from Wayne Smith, the agency’s chief statistician.

“This was an isolated incident. Statistics Canada does and will continue to publish high-quality and relevant statistical information on all aspects of the Canadian economy and society.”

Statistics Canada said it has launched an internal review to find out what went wrong and why no one noticed the mistake.

The number of part-time gains remains unchanged at about 60,000.

The mistake did not change Cana-

da’s unemployment rate, which stayed at seven per cent in July, down a tenth of a point from the previous month.

“They got to it relatively quickly and they’ve corrected it and I think we can safely rely on the numbers,” Oliver said.

Philip Cross, former chief economic analyst for Statistics Canada, said it would be wrong to make the erroneous July jobs report out to be part of some widespread problem within the agency.

The Conservative government’s decision to scrap the mandatory longform census and replace it with the voluntary National Household Survey — which led to the resignation in protest of chief statistician Munir Sheikh — had nothing to do with the flubbed job numbers, Cross said.

That’s because they’re based on population estimates from the shortform census, which remains mandatory.

Nor is it likely the latest wave of budget cuts had anything to do with the mix-up, Cross said — most recent job cuts were through attrition. Even so, the latest error surely won’t help the agency’s ailing reputation, he added.

“What’s changed is not the reality at Statcan, where, actually, the reality is data quality has been improving.

What’s changed is perception,” Cross said.

“People are examining every little mistake and going, ’Is that a sign that the place is falling apart?”’

That said, economists didn’t come down too hard on Statistics Canada for the error.

“It’s obviously an embarrassment to have an error of this scale in such an important series,” said CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld, “but better to have admitted the mistake and fixed it and put processes in place to make sure it doesn’t happen again than to try to have buried it under a rug somewhere.”

The bungled July jobs report had real consequences for people making new employment insurance claims. Ottawa put a hold on all new claims until the error could be fixed.

That’s because the monthly jobs report is used to determine regional unemployment rates, which directly impact the number of weeks an unemployed person needs to have worked in order to qualify for EI benefits.

Oilsands, deepwater among riskiest energy plays

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CARBON TRACKER STUDY

CALGARY — Some of the world’s costliest energy projects are in Alberta’s oilsands and some could be cancelled without higher oil prices, according to a new report by a financial think-tank that focuses on climate risk.

The study by the Carbon Tracker Initiative highlighted 20 of the biggest projects around the world that need a minimum oil price of US$95 a barrel to be economically viable.

Most on the list require prices well north of US$110 a barrel and a few in the oilsands even need prices higher than US$150, said the report.

Crude for September deliver was trading at around US$97 a barrel in New York on Friday.

In total, the 20 projects represent close to $91 billion in capital spending over the next decade.

The report’s authors question whether those funds should be invested in risky projects.

“This analysis demonstrates the worsening cost environment in the oil industry and the extent to which producers are chasing volume over value at the expense of returns,” said CTI analyst Andrew Grant.

“Investors will ask whether it is pru-

dent for oil companies to bet on ever higher oil prices when they could be returning cash to shareholders.”

High on the list were Houston-based ConocoPhillips’ oilsands operations, which include joint ventures with Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) at Foster Creek and Christina Lake and with Total E&P Canada at Surmont.

A spokeswoman for Cenovus, which operates Foster Creek and Christina Lake, questioned how CTI came up with its figures, as its steam-driven projects have supply costs between just US$35 and US$65 a barrel.

CTI also flagged Shell’s Carmon Creek project and ExxonMobil’s Aspen and Kearl projects.

Other pricey projects highlighted in the report were in deepwater or ultra deepwater off West Africa and Brazil, as well as in the Arctic.

In May, Total and partner Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) decided to indefinitely defer their $11-billion Joslyn North mine in Alberta because the economics just weren’t good enough.

And in June, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers predicted oilsands production would grow at a slower pace than previously expected

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The Suncor Refinery in Edmonton is seen on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. because of rising costs and capital constraints. It sees output hitting 4.8 million barrels a day by 2030, about two and a half times higher than last year’s output of 1.9 million barrels.

But the figure is 7.7 per cent lower than the 5.2 million barrels of daily oil-

sands output CAPP predicted for the same time frame last year.

The CTI, funded by a range of European and American foundations, describes itself as a not-for-profit organization “set-up to produce new thinking on climate risk.”

Ontario will stick with $220 million Cisco deal, despite global layoffs

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Cisco System Inc.’s plans to lay off about 6,000 workers globally as it restructures to cope with increasing competition will have little to no impact in Ontario, the governing Liberals said Friday.

It also won’t affect the deal they struck with the company’s Canadian division to provide $220 million over a decade to expand its operations in the province and create 1,700 jobs, said Economic Development and Employment Minister Brad Duguid.

“It’s important to know that on all of these partnerships, we have strict performance measures in place that hold companies to account for the number of jobs and the timetable for the creation of those jobs,” he said.

“In this case, there’s nothing at risk.”

But the government isn’t coming clean with the specific terms of their contract with Cisco Canada, such as the number of jobs that need to be created annually to receive taxpayer dollars, said the New Democrats.

They obtained a copy of the contract through freedom of information laws, but those key details were redacted, said economic development critic Wayne Gates. “(Cisco is) getting people of Ontario money to go into their company, and I believe that the taxpayer should know exactly where their money is going and exactly what the guarantees are,” he said.

“We’ve seen with other companies in the province of Ontario receive money, whether it be from the Liberal government, and they’ve got up and they’ve left.”

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Progressive Conservative finance critic Vic Fedeli agreed.

“Whenever you’re dealing with public dollars, there should be full disclosure,” he said.

Duguid said no money has gone to Cisco yet, but it will be forwarded over time as performance measures are met.

“The good news is they’ve indicated that our partnership is fully continuing and those 1,700 new jobs are going forward.”

Cisco said it has about 1,600 employees in Canada. While the company can’t provide specifics about the location of the cuts, not all business units or entities within the high-tech giant will be affected, said a company spokeswoman.

“I will also note that there is no hiring freeze, and we will continue to invest in the talent that will drive our future,” Karin Scott said in an email.

“Our job development agreement with the province of Ontario remains unchanged.”

A government source said the bulk of the money for Cisco — up to $190 million — will be available within the first six years, which will help them invest in training, as well as labs and testing facilities.

It includes a performance payment once they meet their targets and an audit is done.

There will be clawbacks if Cisco doesn’t meet their targets, the source said. The project could also be halted.

But specific target figures were not disclosed.

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key industries to bolster Ontario’s economy.

Both Kellogg and Novartis, which received government help, announced plans last year to shutter factories in the province, resulting in the loss of more than 800 jobs.

But the government is sticking to its plan to give $120 million to Canada’s largest software company, Open Text Corp. (TSX:OTC), and disburse $2.5 billion over 10 years to lure and keep businesses in the province.

Critics complain that writing cheques to big corporations is a bad idea and the government should clean up their own balance sheet — including eliminating a $12.5-billion deficit — to attract business.

Cisco’s U.S. parent company — which makes network equipment — rakes in billions of dollars each year, while Waterloo-based Open Text’s annual revenues have reached over a billion dollars.

“Cisco is paid taxpayer money to create jobs, we see that they’re laying people off,” Fedeli said.

“The money was supposed to create jobs, not pink slips, so we’re looking forward to full disclosure from the government as to what they’re getting for the $220 million.”

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Sales rose in about 60 per cent of all local housing markets in July, led by gains in Victoria, Winnipeg, London and St. Thomas, Ont., and Ottawa, together with broadly based increases in Quebec and New Brunswick.

The national average sale price for a home was up five per cent in July to $401,585 year-over-year.

Investor group seeks Chiquita shareholder vote against proposed merger NEW YORK — An investor group representing rival bidders is asking shareholders of Chiquita Brands to vote against the banana company’s proposed combination with Irish produce distributor Fyffes. Cavendish Global said Friday it has filed preliminary documents to solicit Chiquita shareholder votes against a Chiquita-Fyffe merger and in favour of adjourning a special meeting of shareholders on Sept. 17. Cavendish was formed by investment firm Safra Group and Brazilian agribusiness and juice company Cutrale Group.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 100.26 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.91 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.29 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.44 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.82 Cdn. National Railway . . 74.17 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 212.87 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.02 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.46 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.09 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.02 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.81 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 32.83 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.55 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.84 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.19 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.62 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 55.73 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 70.20 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.48 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.72 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.59 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 110.26 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.78 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.08 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.76 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.58 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — A worsening in the Ukraine-Russia crisis put pressure on North American stock markets Friday, although Toronto managed to finish with a minor gain.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 13.06 points to 15,304.24.

Markets initially went deep in the red after NATO said that Russian military vehicles crossed into Ukraine during the night and the Ukrainian president said most of the force had been quickly destroyed by his troops. Russia denied any incursion.

The report persuaded traders to seek safety but the Canadian dollar was higher as jobs data for July blew past expectations.

The loonie rose 0.12 of a cent to 91.84 cents US as Statistics Canada issued a revised report saying the economy added 42,000 positions last month, more than double the 20,000 that had been generally expected by economists. The federal agency disclosed earlier this week that it had discovered an error in its jobs data originally released Aug. 8 showing the economy added a meagre 200 jobs. The rise in the Canadian currency came as traders looking for a safe haven bought into the U.S. dollar.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasurys fell to 2.338 per cent, down from 2.375 per cent earlier in the morning.

Most U.S. indexes gave up early gains with the Dow Jones industrials finishing down 50.67 points at 16,662.91, the Nasdaq gaining 11.93 points to 4,464.93 and the S&P 500 index slipping 0.12 of a point to 1,955.06.

“Definitely a big impact,” said John Stephenson, president and CEO at Stephenson & Company Capital Management “This clearly casts a bit of a pall over the markets on a Friday and will likely make a negative impact, depending on how things

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.97 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 67.74 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.90 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 28.87 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.64 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.40 First Quantum Minerals . 24.05 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 31.14 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.94 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.39 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.83 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.13 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.06 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.04 Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.76 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 28.74 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 67.66 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.90 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 62.91 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 45.46 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.05 Canyon Services Group. 15.47 Cenovus Energy Inc. . . . 33.38 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.93 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 23.47 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.64 evolve for the beginning of the trading week.”

Meanwhile, it wasn’t clear if that armed convoy was part of another convoy of almost 300 vehicles containing humanitarian aid that the Russian government dispatched to eastern Ukraine earlier this week. The area has been the scene of heavy fighting as Ukrainian forces fight to retain control of territory from pro-Russian militias. Russia had earlier agreed to let Ukrainian officials inspect the aid convoy on Friday and agreed to let the Red Cross distribute the aid around the rebel-held city of Luhansk.

Markets had been further reassured after Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to tone down his rhetoric on Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels are waging an insurgency in the eastern part of that country. He said Moscow’s goal was “to stop bloodshed in Ukraine as soon as possible.”

The gold sector was off early lows, down about one per cent as December bullion halved earlier losses. However, gold still lost $9.50 to US$1,306.20 an ounce. Financials were a weight, down 0.35 per cent.

The energy sector led advancers, up one per cent with September crude in New York ahead $1.77 to US$97.35 a barrel. The metals and mining group rose 0.63 per cent, while September copper was a cent higher at US$3.10 a pound.

The TSX gained 0.71 per cent while the Dow industrials advanced 0.66 per cent.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,304.24, up 13.06 points Dow — 16,662.91, down 50.67 points S&P 500 — 1,955.06, down

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Leon’s Furniture boosts Q2 profit on slightly lower sales TORONTO — Furniture and appliance retailer Leon’s Furniture Ltd. (TSX:LNF) has reported higher net income in the second quarter but lower overall sales.

The company said net income in the latest period was $16.5 million or 23 cents per share, compared with $14.4

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 99.03 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . . 68.2 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.42 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.65 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.46 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.70 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 7.78 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . 0.09 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.12 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 42.95 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.32 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.74 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.65 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 69.47 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 80.22 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 72.40 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.32 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 41.13 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.46 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.90 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 50.64 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 73.79 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.51 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.84 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.10 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.85 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.46 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.65 0.12 of a point Nasdaq — 4,464.93, up 11.93 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.84 cents US, up 0.12 of a cent Pound — C$1.8180, down 0.16 of a cent Euro — C$1.4587, up 0.10 of a cent Euro — US$1.3396, up 0.26 of a cent Oil futures: US$97.35 per barrel, up $1.77 (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,306.20 per oz., down $9.50 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.254 oz., down 23.7 cents $715.47 kg., down $7.62 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $2.90 lower $429.50; Jan ’15 $3.40 lower $434.10; March ’15 $3.60 lower $436.10; May ’15 $3.60 lower $433.50; July ’15 $3.70 lower $430.30; Nov ’15 $3.60 lower $426.80; Jan. ’16 $3.60 lower $432.80; March ’16 $3.60 lower $436.60; May ’16 $3.60 lower $436.60; July ’16 $3.60 lower $436.60; Nov. ’16 $3.60 lower $436.60.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 $1.00 lower 135.00; Dec. ’14 $1.00 lower $137.00; March ’15 $1.00 lower $138.00; May ’15 $1.00 lower $138.00; July ’15 $1.00 lower $138.00; Oct. ’15 $1.00 lower $138.00; Dec. ’15 $1.00 lower $138.00; March ’16 $1.00 lower $138.00; May ’16 $1.00 lower $138.00; July ’16 $1.00 lower $138.00; Oct. ’16 $1.00 lower $138.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 416,680 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 416,680.

million or 20 cents per share in the same quarter last year.

Total system-wide sales, which include corporate and franchise sales, were $561.4 million, down from $573.3 million year-over-year. Overall samestore sales, which refers to stores that have been open for at least a year, were down 1.3 per cent from the same quarter of 2013. The company said the integration of e-commerce systems between The Brick and Leon’s divisions is progressing and it’s making strides on a new computer system that will be put in place over the next 18 months to improve efficiencies in the operations of both divisions.

OmniTrax backs away from Hudson Bay oil shipping plan

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CHURCHILL, MAN.

WINNIPEG — A rail company is putting the brakes on a controversial plan to haul millions of litres of crude oil across its northern rail line to the port of Churchill on Hudson Bay. Omnitrax Canada president Merv Tweed said the company, which operates the port in Manitoba, is expecting another record shipping season from grain and other commodities. That has shifted the company’s focus away from shipping crude oil, he said.

“We’ve got a glut of grain on the market,” Tweed said Friday. “It looks like another great crop. We increased our volume last year. Our targets are higher this year and they’ll be higher again next year. I think it’s important that we focus on the grain side of it.

That’s the direction that we’ve chosen.”

Omnitrax had argued the plan to transport oil across hundreds of kilometres of remote rail line built on permafrost was safe and would help create much-needed jobs in the North.

But the proposal was vehemently opposed by aboriginal groups, environmentalists and the government of Manitoba.

Community consultations were “important factors” in the company’s decision to back away from the plan, Tweed said.

“We listened to them. I share some of their concerns,” he said. “I’m not saying we can’t do it. I’m just saying right now, as the president of a company that’s looking to grow, we need to focus on the grain market.”

The northern rail line has been plagued by derailments that have intermittently forced the suspension of

both freight and passenger services.

That bolstered the argument among detractors that shipping oil along the rail line was too risky to the environment and the safety of those who live in the region.

The most recent figures from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada show there were 63 accidents on the Hudson Bay rail line between 2003 and 2012. All but 10 were derailments.

Eric Reder with the Manitoba Wilderness Committee said Omnitrax has made the right decision. The rail line is bent and crooked because of the challenging terrain it covers, he said.

“Trying to keep this train track straight is an incredible undertaking,” Reder said. “It’s hard to imagine that there could be a worse track to ship crude oil on.”

The plan meant those living near the rail line would assume a huge risk with little benefit, he said. Cleaning up a derailed grain car is one thing but cleaning up a crude oil spill is quite another, Reder suggested.

“When there is a grain spill, the grain is on the ground, but it doesn’t leave a mess and it doesn’t stay there for generations.”

While Tweed said Omnitrax will look at other ways to diversify its shipments by possibly including potash and wood pellets, Reder said legislation banning the shipment of oil through northern Manitoba is the only way to guarantee the plan doesn’t get resurrected.

Transportation Minister Steve Ashton had said Manitoba couldn’t support the plan in light of the deadly derailment in Lac Megantic last year.

Job gains push loonie higher

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed higher Friday as revised jobs data for July beat expectations by a wide margin.

The loonie was up 0.12 of a cent to 91.84 cents US. Statistics Canada reported that the economy added 42,000 positions last month. Economists had generally expected that about 20,000 jobs were created in July.

The federal agency said earlier this week that it had discovered an error in its jobs data, originally released Aug. 8, showing the economy had added a meagre 200 jobs last month.

The agency says the error resulted from a major redesign of its marketmoving Labour Force Survey that occurs every 10 years when one program was not updated, which it calls a human error. The mistake resulted in Statistics Canada overestimating fulltime job losses.

The loonie’s rise came as traders generally sought safe havens amid a worsening in the standoff between Ukraine and Russia.

NATO said that Russian military vehicles crossed into Ukraine during the night and the Ukrainian president said most of the force was quickly destroyed by his troops. Russia denied any incursion.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury fell to 2.343 per cent late in the afternoon, down from 2.375 per cent earlier in the day. December bullion halved earlier losses. However, gold was still down $9.50 to US$1,306.20 an ounce.

The mood on financial markets had been positive earlier as traders believed there had been a further easing of tensions in Ukraine.

Russia let Ukrainian officials inspect an aid convoy on Friday and agreed to let the Red Cross distribute the aid around the rebel-held city of Luhansk. Ukraine had said it was worried that the aid operation might be a ruse to get military help to separatist rebels.

Markets had been further reassured after Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to tone down his rhetoric on Ukraine on Thursday, saying that Moscow’s goal was “to stop bloodshed in Ukraine as soon as possible.”

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The masculine converted garage uses black paint on textured graphite toned paper, some ergonomic comfy chairs and playing card art prints. The room before is below.

Is your man zone in order?

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Divide and conquer First up, we carved the giant outhouse in two — we had loads of square footage.

And, even after the split, the remaining car space — and the resulting games room — were both commodious.

Walls Charged to create a moody atmosphere, we conspired a plan that borrowed from Amy Winehouse’s biggest hit. And so it came to pass that Back to Black became our modus operandi.

All existing brick walls were recoloured using matte latex and our new enclosing wall was decorated with lightly textured graphite toned paper

to add textural relief.

And, being that it was applied in only one area, we used only one roll of paper — hey: style and economy.

Floor The existing concrete floor was in sound, smooth order.

To reinvent it as a relevant part of our scheme, we used hardwearing oilbased floor paint.

Tip: Don’t scrimp on workload — one gloopy coat will wear unevenly.

Ensure surfaces are sanded smooth before applying two or three lighter coats, abrading with medium grade sandpaper between each layer.

Rug To soften proceedings and provide extra comfort, we installed a large natural-toned sisal rug.

It’s all very well to chase that moody aesthetic, but if you don’t balance everything with lighter colour notes, finished results run the risk of being overbearing.

Table and chairs Our table, believe it or not, started life as the ubiquitous white Docksta from Ikea, recoloured, by us, using water-based eggshell.

Tip: Don’t use a brush for a job like this; opt instead for a small foam roller. Apply paint in smooth even motions to ensure you don’t leave ‘cut’ lines across surfaces. And again, light coats are better than one overzealous treatment.

We teamed our finished result with classic Eiffel chairs from Pink and Brown which, although designed in 1950, remain refreshingly current.

Lighting A trio of globes along the centre of the ceiling flood the predominantly black space with lashings of light.

For chair level task lighting, we opted for shiny angle poise lamps that proffer bling and directional illumination in equal measure.

Comfy chairs Designed by Corbusier for inclusion at the 1929 Salon d’Automne (a highbrow exhibition of painting, sculpture, architecture and design), these are reproductions (again from Pink and Brown) with leather switched from black to purest white.

Ergonomically sound and beautiful, they transcend time and look wonderful in any application.

We actually have two in our London apartment that have travelled through several Capital abodes.

Artwork Running with our games room-inspired design, we used playing card motif art prints (from Posterjack) and positioned them in soft grey mounts framed in shiny steel.

A tongue-in-cheek addition, sure, but one that adds a touch of design levity.

Bar area What self-respecting man zone would be complete without a bar?

To keep everything simple, we specified Ikea trestle legs topped with custom toughened glass.

Loaded with ice buckets and bar top gizmos — and partnered with a silverfronted fridge — the hospitality zone provides the lads, we imagine, with all the ancillary benefits required to shoot craps into the wee small hours.

All things considered, Wes now has the best man zone in his street and its reversion was a pleasure.

We hope the transformation inspires to transform your unruly garage into the perfect ‘guyrage.’

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Blimey, our client was well endowed. Yup, Wes’s garage was so ample we chopped it in half — literally — to create car parking and the ultimate games room. Our chap, you see, loves nothing better than giving his wife space and communing with his dudes in a state of poker-induced frenzy.

Wandering Wes’s gambling outpost, however, we couldn’t help feel sorry for our card-shuffling pal. In its initial incarnation, the garage looked more like the lair of a serial killer than it did an organized and useful space.

Had we chucked in a white poodle, a cloud of butterflies and some dismembered body parts, it would have been the perfect hideout for Silence of the Lambs’ Buffalo Bill.

Our client’s main proviso was this: he hoped for a masculine domain — and aspired to atmosphere by the bucket load. The room’s aesthetic should borrow from the shady days of ‘liquor in the front, poker in the back’ rather than legitimate gambling dens like Casino Rama.

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Eastern meets Western We are fortunate today to have so imaginary pictures. Owners showed off many inspirational designs, styles and their wealth by using the best artists all their essential elements literally at and materials. our fingertips.

And those with little money cleverly We have unlimited access to archi- copied the designs with faux finishes. tecture and decoration from around Asian style is more introspective the world through the Internet, maga- and controlled. Smaller spaces are dezines and books. signed simply, they are natural and But there is nothing like physically practical. Simple furnishings and acbeing in another country cessories are built with and culture, soaking up the rush grass, rattan, bamboo, ambiance and the history Thai silk bed covers, bath first hand. towels, and lacquered boxes However, while travelcontribute rich details with ing the world is not always patterns such as cherry blosan option, reading and som, koi fish and bamboo viewing photographs is leaf that reflect peace and available for everyone. beauty. (Go to www.orientalHistorically, travel has furniture.com for an excelopened up the world of lent variety of products and decoration. People bring designs.) back new ideas and prodOne method of mixing ucts that they love and these somewhat opposing elvalue, and integrate them ements is to allow each its into their homes. The mix own space. In Aman’s Madof styles becomes a new delena suite shown here, DEBBIE style as we move forward this historic room features TRAVIS to embrace the beauty of silk wall coverings framed different cultures and their with strips of gold. The daesthetics. does are painted with fresEast meets West has had coes that imitate expensive a profound effect on decomarble, and the upper wall rating over the centuries. has deep mouldings to break Who would have thought that the intri- the height. The high ceiling is also deccate and intense decorations so popu- orated with mouldings and frescoes. lar in the Renaissance could mix with Busy detail continues on the floor with the clean lines and minimal aspects of an inlaid puzzle of multi-coloured Asian or modern Italian furnishings? wood. The clean lines of the modern But it works gloriously, as I wit- furniture from B&B Italy has the Asian nessed in the Aman Canal Grande ho- esthetic that allows the eye to rest. tel in Venice (www.amanresorts.com).

The setting is rich with contrasting Built in the 1500s, this Palazzo was textures, yet peaceful and welcoming. private home to many wealthy trad- Bedding and upholstery are tone on ers and art collectors; renowned ar- tone crisp whites and silky silver, the chitects and artists over the centuries overall palette reads sophisticated have contributed to a breathtaking comfort.

Palazzo/hotel that is now open for the When decorating your home, do not public to enjoy. Frescoes painted by think that you must stick rigidly to one Tiepolo in the 1700s still decorate the style or look. Pieces from different rooms today. eras and cultures can be integrated The artistry that was unleashed with some consideration to the overall in Renaissance castles and villas is colour palette. Enjoy the excitement over-the-top and breathtaking. High and magic of the mix. walls and soaring ceilings offered Debbie Travis’s House to Home column huge canvases upon which layers of is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara paint, carved mouldings, gold leaf, and Dingle. Please email your questions to plaster relief were employed to build house2home@debbietravis.com. Visit Debup glorious scenes depicting real and bie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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Neat caulking application Question: How can I neatly apply caulking to the joint where my wooden garage door frame meets surrounding brick?

I know you’ve written about applying masking tape on each side of the joint, but isn’t brick too rough for that?

Answer: I’ve used tape to make caulking joints tidy in many applications, and it even works on fairly rough masonry.

You just apply tape on each side of the joint about onequarter-inch away from the centre line, apply a bead of caulking, smooth it with your finger, then peel off the tape.

Since caulking is viscous, it really doesn’t flow underneath the tape that much, STEVE even if a small gap is present.

Spend some time working MAXWELL the tape as deeply into the masonry texture as possible using your thumb, apply the caulking, then pull the tape straight off and drop it into a garbage bag.

By putting the tape on in overlapped 18-to-24inch-long pieces, you’ll find it easier to control the smaller pieces as you peel them off, without getting wet caulking on everything.

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Doubling deck board life Question: How should I space wooden boards on a new deck?

Builders in my area don’t space boards at all during construction, relying on natural shrinkage of the wet lumber to create the right amount of gap to allow water drainage. Is this correct?

Answer: Yes, sometimes deck lumber is wet enough to shrink considerably after installation, but not always.

This makes it tricky to guess how wide to space deck boards along their side edges.

That’s why my preferred approach is to use a moisture meter to assess the deck wood beforehand.

If it’s more than 20 per cent moisture, then I leave little or no gap. If it’s 14 to 16 per cent, I use a nail as a spacer.

Wood in most parts of Canada never gets any drier than 12 to 14 per cent.

For people who can’t get their hands on a moisture meter, the only other option is to let deck lumber sit for a while and dry.

Shade is the best place for this to happen since it reduces warping. It’s also necessary to have layers of wood separated in the pile by strips to allow air movement and drying.

A much bigger question has to do with spacing deck boards on their ends.

This isn’t usually done, but it increases deck life enormously.

You do need to install double-joists every so often to allow deck boards to be installed with spaced ends, but the increase in deck board life is huge. See my quick video tutorial at stevemaxwell.ca/doublelife-deck-plans/ to learn how.

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ABOVE: Tape being pulled off a masonry surface surrounding a wooden window. This method creates crisp caulking results, despite the round masonry surface.

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BELOW: This staircase was finished with Deftoil in the black walnut colour.

Applying a repairable wood finish Question: What’s the best type of oil to use for finishing indoor stairs? I don’t want to use stain and urethane since it’s difficult to repair wear when it sets in. I’m also looking for something that imparts an amber tone to the wood.

Answer: You’re right that oil is a great option for finishing interior wood because it’s so repairable.

When wear shows, just wipe on more oil.

There are different kinds of oil you can use to finish stairs, but my favourite is called Deftoil. I’ve used it for years and it works really well. It comes clear or in various shades of brown.

You wipe it on, let it sit for 15 to 30 minutes, then wipe it all off.

The oil that has soaked into the wood remains to protect and colour the surface.

The darker the oil you choose, the more important it is that the wood be smooth and free of scratches or mill marks.

Darker colours cause flaws to show up more prominently, so you need to take care if you want good results.

Steve Maxwell has offered free home improvement advice to people since the Internet was invented. Sign up for his free newsletters at www.stevemaxwell.ca and www.realrurallife.com.

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VICTORIA — Renovations can be stressful for a homeowner, especially when dealing with an older home where asbestos may be hiding under old flooring or around heating ducts.

Before Madeleine Bragg and her husband bought their 1940s home in Fernie, B.C., they had it inspected for asbestos, which was commonly mined and used for its high tolerance to heat. Roof tiles and insulation were tested and the conclusion was their new home was free of asbestos. Unfortunately it wasn’t until they began renovating and were ripping up the old linoleum flooring in the kitchen that they discovered their home did, in fact, have asbestos.

Pulling up the flooring revealed a second layer of linoleum that had a paper lining containing asbestos.

“I was six months pregnant. I was flipping out,” says Bragg. “I thought it was so awful and if I had known asbestos was in the house we wouldn’t have bought it, or would have paid significantly less for it.”

The couple looked into removing the asbestos themselves, but when they realized the costs of the disposal bags and having to ship it out of town to be properly discarded, they opted to have professionals do the job for them. Mid-construction the Braggs had to leave their home to be bagged and correctly treated before work could resume. Summer Green, owner of RemovAll Remediation Services in Victoria, says it is possible for homeowners to do a smaller job themselves if they follow proper guidelines, such as those from WorkSafeBC. “If it was my daughter, and her husband wanted to deal with asbestos on his own, I would say wet it down, follow the approved guidelines, and they would probably be OK,” says Green.

Many of the guidelines in place for abatement and removal are meant to protect construction workers and contractors who may come into contact with asbestos on a regular basis, but homeowners should be cautious and informed when removing asbestos.

According to Green, any home built before the 1990s could contain asbestos in the insulation and drywall and around boilers and pipes.

“Older houses are often heated by boilers and hot water registers,” she says.

“Those pipes were covered in asbestos, often 80 to 90 per cent asbestos. With forced air heating they used duct tape, but at that time it was asbestos tape.

Any white tape you see on your ducts contains asbestos, and they don’t even bother testing it.”

Many homeowners are unaware they have asbestos in their house until they become involved in a home renovation project where testing is required for work permits. Green says it is possible for people to have lived in a house containing asbestos for many years without any health problems because issues arise only when asbestos fibres are released into the air.

“You can go up in an attic and breathe in fibreglass insulation and it can get in your lungs, and it can cause problems, but with fibreglass insulation the fibres are straight fibres,” says Green. “But with an asbestos fibre no matter how small you make it or break it down they are constantly splitting and have a barb on them.”

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BALLANTYNE Roger Guy Roger Ballantyne passed away on Thursday, August 13, 2014 at the age of 39 years. Roger is lovingly remembered by his family; wife, Nicole and six children. Funeral Announcements to follow.

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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.

BROEMELING Osborne John It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Osborne Broemeling of Edmonton, AB on August 14, 2014, at the age of 91 years.

Osborne will be forever remembered and dearly missed by his children, Michael (Becky), Donna (Allen), Julianne, Paul (Patricia); nineteen grandchilden; seven greatgrandchildren and brother Orville; along with numerous nieces, nephew and dear friends. Predeceased by his loving wife of 68 years, Elechia.

“Our dad was a true life force - he took care of everyone and everything around him.”

A Mass of Christian burial will take place at St. Theresa’s Roman Catholic Parish, 7508- 29 Avenue on Thursday August 21, 2014 at 10:30am, with Reverend Jim Corrigan as the Celebrant. Interment will follow at Holy Cross Cemetery, 14611 Mark Messier Trail, Edmonton. In lieu of floral tributes, donations may be made in his name to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, 10983- 124 Street NW, Edmonton, AB T5M 0H9.

Expressions of sympathy may be forwarded to the family via the website www.hainstockedmonton.com.

BURREN Marie Bridget (nee Sullivan) Marie Bridget Burren passed away at St. Mary’s Health Center in Trochu, AB on Thursday, August 14, 2014 at the age of 79 years. Marie was born in Calgary on July 20, 1935 to parents William and Esther Sullivan. She is survived by her husband Kent of Delburne; her children, Doug (Chris) of Delburne, Margaret (Sandy) Pfaff of Delburne, Rick of Sicamous, BC, Janet (Allan) Gongaware of Delburne, Don (Colleen) of Delburne, Dave (Lesa) of Delburne, and Loretta (Warren) Greenwood of Delburne; twenty-one grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren; two sisters, Sheila (Bill) Clapham of Calgary, and Eileen (Bob) Smyth of Craigmyle; also several nieces and nephews.

Marie was predeceased by her parents, sisters, Josephine and Loretta, and brother, Mike. The family moved to Delburne in 1970. Marie enjoyed reading, gardening, visiting with others and most of all her family.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the Delburne Community Hall on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Memorial donations in Marie’s honor may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society, 105, 4419-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3Z5.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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HAZANOFF Anne-Marie 1927 - 2014 Mrs. Anne-Marie Hazanoff (nee Schjelle) of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at the Bethany Care Centre, Sylvan Lake, Alberta on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at the age of 87 years.

Anne-Marie was born on March 30, 1927 at Oslo, Norway.

She came to Canada on vacation, where she met and married Victor Hazanoff in Montreal. The couple lived and raised their family in Montreal until moving to Red Deer fifteen years ago. Sadly, Anne-Marie lost her beloved daughter, Lisa six years ago and then lost her soul mate, Victor five months ago.

Anne-Marie will be lovingly remembered by her son, Michael (Diane) Hazanoff of Red Deer. A Celebration of Anne-Marie’s Life will be held at the Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, August 22, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Anne-Marie’s honor may be made directly to the Alzheimer Society of Alberta at www.alzheimer.ab.ca.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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HEFT Brenda Heft passed away peacefully at the Innisfail Hospital on July 31, 2014 at the age of 58. Brenda was born and raised in Edmonton, AB. She moved to Red Deer, AB and was an employee of the TD Bank for the last 35 years where she made many good friends. Brenda was a very caring and kind wife, mother, and grandmother.

Brenda is survived by her loving husband Ron, daughter Melissa Dudley, brothers Gerry Harward, Randy Harward, step-daughters Jennifer Heft-McCormack, and Melissa Heft-Price and 6 precious grandchildren. Brenda took great pleasure in hosting her family at their summer home at Gull Lake. She enjoyed many hobbies including ceramics and scrapbooking.

A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held September, 20, 2014.

NEWTON Kory Donald Kory Donald Newton passed away suddenly on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at the age of 24 years. Kory was predeceased by his grandfather Keith Deiter, leaving behind his mother Denise Newton, father Rory Newton, sister Karla Deiter, brother Kyle Newton, sister Michelle Newton, family friend Brandon Baker, love of his life Kim Walters, nephew Levi Deiter, niece Jewel Deiter, nephew Chase Newton, and many grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Kory loved the outdoors including fishing, skateboarding, snowboarding and hockey. A Celebration of Life will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, August 21, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in Kory’s honor may be made directly to the Grace House Home, 175 3 St W, Drumheller, AB, T0J 0Y0.

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GILLARD James Mark May 31, 1959 - Edmonton, AB July 30, 2014 - Red Deer, AB It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our brother, James Mark Gillard at the age of 55 years. A long time resident of Red Deer, Alberta, Jim had recently left his job and was looking forward to a long and happy retirement.

Jim is survived by his two sisters Kathy (Bruce) and Patricia and his brother Darren (Susan), three nephews, Ryan, Chris and Brian, and a niece Michelle. He was predeceased by his parents Jim and Elsie. At the request of the family there will be no service.

Forward condolences through www.albertaburialandcremation.com ALBERTA BURIAL & CREMATION SERVICES Telephone: (403) 299-0123 MALMGREN Roger Keith 1942 - 2014 Roger Keith Malmgren passed away on his 72nd birthday, Monday, August 11, 2014 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Roger was a wonderful dancer and was light on his feet. June and Roger travelled to many communities to attend dances.

Roger was a carpenter foreman building petro chemical plants for over 40 years. He is survived by his wife June Malmgren, two daughters, two brothers and one sister as well as his four legged companion “Dad’s baby” Kar-lee Anne. Roger was predeceased by his son Dean Malmgren.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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HAZELTON Dr. Rosemary Carveth Hall Aug.13th,1937-Aug.10th, 2014 Rosemary died of ovarian cancer at the Sunnybrook palliative care unit where she had been living since late March. She remained beautiful, elegant and enigmatic to the end. She gave up life reluctantly and during the four years of her illness continued to enjoy the visual and performing arts, movies, books, music and yoga. She had the assistance of her carefully chosen and devoted advocates, friend, Dr. Thérèse Zarb, and niece, Gillian Lawrence.

Rosemary was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Calgary and Red Deer and was educated at the University of Alberta, the University of Toronto, and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts where she was awarded a Doctorate in child psychotherapy in 1994. She had a long career as a social worker and a psychotherapist in pursuit of mental wellness for everyone. She is survived by her sister and brother-inlaw, Stephanie and Patrick Lawrence of Red Deer, Alberta and by her three nieces, Gillian Lawrence (Keith McCandlish) of Calgary, Jennifer Lawrence (Michael Shannon d. 2013) of Hong Kong and Pamela Lawrence (Daniel Agapi) of Calgary. There will be no formal service. Donations may be made to Ovarian Cancer Canada, 145 Front Street East, Suite 205, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 1E3 or directly online at: https://secure.ovariancanada. org/regstrant/startup. aspx?eventid=153790

MATEJKA George George Matejka of Sylvan Lake passed away July 31, 2014 at the age of 84 years.

George was born on the Matejka homestead in Ponoka, Ab on August 24, 1929.

George and his brothers worked on the family farm together for many years.

George married Yvonne Martin in 1959. They farmed in Ponoka until 1973 when they moved to Sylvan Lake.

They continued the purebred SPADY hog business until 2013. In Craig and Kristen are thrilled Dad’s younger years he to announce the arrival of enjoyed curling in the winter and travelling the swine show their son Mason Victor Spady at 12:06 a.m. on July 20, 2014. circuit in the summer. Mom Weighing 6 lbs, 4 oz. and 19 3/4 in. and Dad enjoyed travelling Proud grandparents are for a number of years with Gail and Doug Parcels family and friends. In later and Bonnie and Keith Spady. years he mostly enjoyed Proud great-grandparents working on the farm and are: Charles and Helen considered that his hobby.

Houston of Red Deer; He is lovingly remembered Isabelle Parcels of Innisfail by his wife Yvonne of 54 and Lily Spady of Castor AB. years; his sons, Steven (Terisa) and their boys, Adam, Ryan (Jalene) and Brett; Tony (Joe Anne) and their girls Christine, Tiffany and Victoria; his daughters; Marriages Louise (Todd Schultz) and their children Tonielle, Spencer and Larissa; Nancy (Steve Jeffery) all from Sylvan Lake; his brother, Bill (Betty) of Ponoka; his sister-in-law, Barb (Dale Johnston) of Ponoka and his brother-inlaw Randie (Elsie) of Devon, Ab. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his sister Anges in 2002, his brother Charlie in 2004 and sister-in-law Sylvia in 2014.

George passed away at the RDRHC with his whole family by his side. He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him. A private graveside CURRY / HARVEY service was held Aug. 9 at Bruce and Diahann Harvey Burnt Lake Cemetery. are pleased to announce the Donations my be directed marriage of their daughter toward STARS or the Diabetes Kristen Elise Harvey to Aaron Association if so desired.

Justice Curry, son of Maralyn McLean of Rocky Mountain House and the late Dale Curry of Blackfalds. The Over 2,000,000 ceremony took place on June 8, 2014 at the hours Sunnyside Christian Retreat Centre in Sylvan Lake, AB.

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Heavy Equipment Operators & Laborer Requirements: Valid Driver’s License H2S Alive Standard First Aid WHIMIS and/or CSTS or PST Pre-Access A&D Testing Ground Disturbance Level 11 Please e-mail or fax your resume to: hr@tr3energy.com Fax: (403) 294-9323 www.tr3energy.com

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WHERE IT ALL COMES TOGETHER Join our Calfrac Red Deer Team

Canyon Technical Services is a leader in the oilfield service industry, providing customized fracturing and pressure pumping solutions to oil and gas producers across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. At Canyon, our employees are ‘Champions’, dedicated to fulfilling our Vision of “improving the industry one job at a time” - our ‘Champions’ have made Canyon one of the most sought-after providers in our industry. If you are looking for a career within a leading organization that promotes Integrity, Relationships, Innovation and Success, then Canyon is looking for you! Canyon is preparing for an extremely busy 2014/2015 and are looking for qualified employees.

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s has an opening for a full-time Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: Administrative 5111 22 St. Support 37444 HWY 2 S position (1yr. Term).

37543 HWY 2N Hours for this position will 700 3020 22 St. be Monday - Friday 8.30 FOOD ATTENDANT am - 4.30 pm and Req’d permanent shift occasional Thursday weekend day and evening evenings. A self-motivated, both full and part time. individual with exceptional 15 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + organizational skills, combenefits. Start ASAP. puter expertise, and skills Job description in dealing with the public www.timhortons.com are a must. Preference Education and experience will be given to individuals not req’d. with a two year Business Apply in person or fax Administration or Office resume to: 403-314-1303 Administration diploma and related experience.

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RAMADA INN & SUITES 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

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LINDE CANADA Linde Canada is the premier supplier of gases, welding equipment and safety products with 69 stores, a fleet of trucks and drivers, and dedicated customer service and sales teams.

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The successful candidate must be a journeyman carpenter or equivalent, be computer literate and able to read and interpret blue prints, drawings and specifications. You will be required to perform a wide variety of tasks and be a team player. Strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills will be an asset. A valid driver’s licence is required.

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BJT PLUMBING, a well established Sylvan Lake company has an immediate opening for a 4th Yr Apprentice Plumber or Journeyperson Plumber.

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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/ EQUIPMENT OPERATOR / LABOURER req’d immed. Local work, need drivers abstract.

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GROW WITH US TECHNICIAN APPRENTICESHIP Become a sought-after professional in the art and science of carpet & upholstery and all-surface cleaning! Work Monday to Friday during the day, with some evenings and Saturdays. We’re looking for someone with • A commitment to excellence • Good physical fitness • Good hand/eye coordination • Good communication skills • Mechanical aptitude Salary commensurate with experience and skill set.

Learn under the personal direction of one of North America’s experts in cleaning and restoration!

Drop off or mail resume + driver’s abstract to Mancuso Cleaning @ #8-7428-49 Ave Red Deer, T4P 1M2

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Ferus requires experienced Professional Class 1 drivers with three years or more experience to operate a variety of late model liquid carbon dioxide and liquid nitrogen equipment out of our Blackfalds & Grande Prairie bases.

We offer: • Industry competitive wages based on an hourly pay schedule • Automatic pay increases • Daily per diem allowance • Recognition and incentive programs • Mechanic-maintained equipment • Travel Compensation PLUS: • • • •

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Flexible Spending Account Group RSP Savings Plan Comprehensive Health and Dental Plan Career Advancement Opportunities

We offer a work rotation of 15 days on & 6 days off.

Preference will be given to applicants with off-road experience.

Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

Position Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products are expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years B-train trailer experience.

ADS Drivers are required to safely operate company equipment and provide a high level of customer service, delivering our products within Alberta.

ADS Drivers are required to be drug free and maintain legal transportation paperwork and driving practices. This position requires a valid Class 1 License, with previous off road forklift experience a definite asset. We offer quarterly cash safety bonuses as well as a comprehensive medical plan.

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Parts Delivery Driver / Warehouse Must possess clean drivers abstract, know city well. The individual must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Some heavy lifting is required.

Parts Person

Position closing date: August 20, 2014

Business Opportunities

Parts person required for rapidly expanding HD Parts Supply Store.

Must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment.

Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry.

Must possess strong customer service skills.

Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support

Shipper/Receiver

TJ PAVING is looking for employees with paving experience. Comp wages, great working atmosphere.

Come join our team. Email resume to tjpaving@ hotmail.com or fax 403-346-8404.

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Above average wages, benefits package.

Apply with resume @ Artic Truck, Email: ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com Fax: 403-348-5198 A local company requires an energetic person for shipper/receiver.

Email resume to mark@aesreddeer.com

BENEFITS INCLUDE: Signing Bonus paid upon completion of a 60 day/120 day retention period Company provided Group Canadian Benefits Voluntary dental Life insurance Short-term and longterm disability Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) Paid Vacation Safety Bonus All applicants are subject to a pre-employment physical and MVR check.

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CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

COMPANY req’s live in retired maintenance person for our apartment operations. Journeyman plumbing exp. an asset.

Call Mike for details 403-342-4923

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca

DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS For pour parts & service dept.

Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

Fluid Experts Ltd.

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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

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment please send your resume & driver abstract to humanresources@ferus.com or by fax to 1-888-879-6125 Please Reference: Driver #0514

Professional Truck Driver

Maintenance Worker Wanted Immediately! Edon Management is looking for a Maintenance Worker for our Red Deer sites. This position assists with building operations and concerns. Interested applicants please send your resume by e-mail to careers@edonmgmt.com or via fax to (403) 341-0626.

Wanted for local Alberta position. Full Time.

Must have clean Class 1 and live close to Lacombe.

Cattle exp. required.

Call 403-782-4804 or fax resume to: 403-782-4814.

Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry.

437451H8-21

or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

CATTLE HAULERS

www.eaglebuilders.ca

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources

Trades

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

(JOB ID: 910046) and a

850

We are currently seeking a full time

850

Trades

CRYSTAL GLASS needs EXP’ D GLASS WORKER. Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca

830

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

-

Sales & Distributors

As an Inside Sales Rep. you will play a key role in delivering on our commitCompetition closes when ments to our customers on CELEBRATIONS position is filled. Thank a day-to-day basis and in HAPPEN EVERY DAY you in advance for all meeting the highest standards IN CLASSIFIEDS applications; only those of Linde customer service. being interviewed will be Minimum Qualifications: TOO MUCH STUFF? contacted.

• Minimum 1 Year inside Let Classifieds sales / administrative Start your career! help you sell it. experience preferably in See Help Wanted an industrial environment Looking for a place • Grade 12 completed or to live?

Restaurant/ equivalent Take a tour through the • Class 3 or DZ license Hotel CLASSIFIEDS is a definite asset • Welding certification / Classifieds JJAM Management (1987) background an asset Your place to SELL Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s • Customer service THE RUSTY PELICAN Your place to BUY Requires to work at these experience is now accepting resumes Red Deer, AB locations: • Demonstrated strong for experienced You can sell your guitar 5111 22 St. interpersonal and comF/T SERVERS for a song...

37444 HWY 2 S munication skills (both Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS 37543 HWY 2N written and verbal) and Apply within: 2079-50 and we’ll sell it for you!

700 3020 22 St. organizational skills and Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Manager/Food Services Classifieds...costs so little Permanent F/T shift. $18/hr. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone able to work effectively with internal and external Saves you so much!

40 hrs/week, + benefits , 1 calls WILL NOT be accepted. customers Vacancy, 2-3yrs. exp., Looking for a new pet?

• Organizational skills Check out Classifieds to criminal record check req’d, • Knowledge of basic Apply in person or fax find the purrfect pet. accounting procedures resume to: 403-314-1303 Sales & and computer proficient Distributors Central Alberta’s Largest Looking for a new pet?

• Sales skills Car Lot in Classifieds Check out Classifieds to AUTO EQUIPMENT As a Route Sales Driver find the purrfect pet.

AND SUPPLY CO. for Linde, you will play a IS LOOKING FOR A key role in delivering on F/T SALES REP our commitments to our Trades for an est. route sales position customers on a day-to-day in the Central AB area. basis and in meeting the Training, company vehicle highest standards of Linde and expenses supplied. customer service.

Please email resume to Minimum Qualifications: michelle@equipmentpro.ca • Valid Class 3 or DZ or fax to 403-279-8214 license with air brakes • Minimum of 3 years driving experience • A clean driving abstract • Minimum Grade 12 Celebrate your life education or equivalent with a Classified experience ANNOUNCEMENT • Certification in WHMIS and TDG are assets • Ability to handle cylinders and lift goods up to 50 lbs Marlin Travel Rocky Palliser Chevrolet has an immediate • Knowledge of the gas Mountain House requires a and welding industry is opening for a full time part time Junior to an asset Intermediate Travel • Customer service is our Licensed Automotive Technician.

Consultant. Minimum 1 focus, strong interpersonal year experience. Please and communication skills email resume to: bonnie.

• Competitive wages and benefits available. are required. yeoman@marlintravel.ca. or fax to 403 844-2742.

Linde is committed to • Above average hourly pay for the right diversity in the workplace candidate. and the principles of Employment Equity.

Join a World Leading GM experience and training is an asset Team Today!

- For IMMEDIATE but not a necessity. consideration, APPLY NOW! http://www.bocjobs.com/ Email resume to: canada/JobSearch/ Classified. It’s the easy-to-access, JobSearchList.asp?View=Jobs

820

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

Restaurant/ Hotel

Parkland Youth Homes Society

CLASSIFIED AD DEADLINE

★

Trades

Professionals

402881E23,24

810

438446H28

Professionals

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Sylvan Lake. SWAMPERS REQ’D. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume: tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax: 403-887-4892

is looking to hire for a FT

Maintenance Assistants Position.

Duties include but not limited to: check all equip. is operational, perform preventive maintenance, check AC units, follow up on guest requests, paint, silicone etc.

Applicants may apply in person at 2803 50 Avenue or fax resumes to 403-340-8540 Integra Tire Innisfail, requires a Tire Tech with Lube Bay and Service Truck experience. Valid class 5 license and driver abstract required. Send resume to innisfail@ integratire.com or fax to 403.227.6689 LADY who is blind req’s driver for occasional medical appts. in Edmonton.

Please call 403-309-4554 LADY who is blind req’s personal assistant 1 or 2 afternoons per week.

403-309-4554

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014 D7

Opportunity for permanent P/T admin position for Full Service Financial Planning business. Min 20 hours per wk.

Must be highly organized, professional, excellent communication skills including grammar and penmanship. Computer skills a must (Outlook, Word, Explorer, Contact Management Software).

Able to work well in a team environment.

Email resume with cover letter by September 2, 2014 to FullServicePlanning @gmail.com.

PART-TIME INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA CENTER SUPPORT Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73

invites applications for a 0.8 FTE temporary Media Center Support position at the Instructional Media Center in Bowden effective September 2, 2014. The successful candidate, will fill orders, ship materials, take inventory, process new materials and complete other clerical duties as required. Preference will be given to individuals with secretarial training, shipping and receiving experience,strong technology skills, including Word, Excel, and database experience. The successful candidate will also be self-motivated,andpossess RESIDENTIAL APT outstanding organizational, MANAGER telephone and communication 23 suite apt. complex. skills.

Previous experience Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, with Alberta Education yard care, administration. Curriculum and an automated distribution software Fax to 403-346-5786 package would be assets.

SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Sat. & Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

THE

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

wegot CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1590

LADIES HARLEY DAVIDSON BOOTS. Cover letter and resume, Like new, size 7.5. complete with the names Asking $125. and telephone numbers of LADIES GREY three current work related COWBOY BOOTS, references are accepted size 6.5. Like new. by email only and should Asking $75. be forwarded to: Shawn 403-342-5056 Russell, Associate Superintendent People Services Chinook’s Edge School Division No. 73 Computers Email: careers@ chinooksedge.ab.ca PHOTO copier, Canon For information on Chinook’s Edge School K920, exc. cond. Ideal for home or sm. business $50; Division No. 73, please check our website COMPUTER laptop desk, black, 48Wx23Dx30H, (www.chinookedge.ab.ca). like new, was $250.

Applications will be accepted until 3:00 pm, Asking $95. 403-352-8811 Friday, August 22 2014.

The successful applicant Equipmentwill be required to provide a Criminal Record check Heavy and Child Intervention (Welfare) check. While we TRAILERS for sale or rent thank all applicants for Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or their interest, only those individuals selected for wheeled. Call 347-7721. interviews will be contacted.

Resumes of individuals not granted an Farmers' interview will not be kept Market

1600

A BESTSELLER with something for everyone & for all the news worth printing.

314-4300

1650

ZUCHINNI and spaghetti squash $3-$10 403-782-3031

Advocate Opportunities

1660

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

1680

Garden Supplies

LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $190. 403-314-0804

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

1710

Household Appliances

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave.

PERMA WASHING MACHINE (Sears).

Good cond. $175 403-877-3323

ORIOLE PARK Otterbury Ave

Household Furnishings

KENTWOOD Kerr Close & Kingston Dr.

1720

BED, dble. $100.

Queen bed, $100.

403-347-6754, 872-6754

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

COFFEE Table, 3 pce. wood and glass, $150. books, dishes and tools, 25 cents and up 403-347-6754 / 872-6754

L SHAPE COMPUTER DESK. Tan in colour.

One year old. Asking $50.

Call 403-986-2849

Travel Packages

LOVESEATS (2) black, $75. ea. coffee tables set.

(3), $50.

403-347-6754, 872-6754

WANTED

Misc. for Sale

1760

4X8 DYNAMO COIN OP POOL TABLE & Various Arcade & Pop Machines.

Call 403-314-0594 AIR GUN. Crossman 357 Shooters kit w/ 4” & 8” barrels, .177 cal. copperhead pellets.

Asking $50. 403-755-2760 BABY swing, blue, like new, $60; patio table w/4 chairs $30. 403-342-1934

DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Eavestroughing

1130

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822 with oilfield service companies, other small GUTTERS, soffit, fascia businesses and individuals 403-391-2169 RW Smith, 346-9351

1070

HONEST dependable lady will do house cleaning, laundry, ironing. In town or country. Call 403-309-4640 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 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Escorts

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

MICROWAVE, Kenmore, white, 900 Watts, $30; ELECTRIC FIREPLACE with adjustable flame, black, 25”h x 19”w x 13”d 1500 Watt, 120 Volt, $75.

CARPETS, 2 wool accent, matching, 5x7, 1 matching oval. clean. $45. for all 3.

Will sell separately.

403-352-8811

1770

DRUM SET, 400. OBO 403-347-6754, 872-6754

Pets & Supplies

1810

1830

2 BALINESE KITTENS & 2 BERMAN KITTENS $50/ea. 403-887-3649 BEAUTIFUL kitten, pink/blonde M, 4 mo. old, needs loving home.

403-782-3130

Sporting Goods

1860

GOLF BAG WITH MISC. CLUBS. $100.

For more info call 403-314-0804

Roofing

Rooms For Rent

3090

1 BDRM, bsmt. suite. $575/mo. 403-343-0974

Offices

3110

CLASSIFICATIONS

3020

Warehouse Space

3160

Indoor RV storage. Small RV 20’ or less $70/month.

Medium RV 21’-30’ $80/month. Large RV 31’ & Up $90/month. Located East of Ponoka.

780-372-2183 beryljarrett@gmail.com

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Misc.

For Rent

BOWDEN 2108 Westview Cr. 1961 built, 3 bdrm, 1 bath Det. single garage. New siding & shingles within 5 yrs. Garden Shed. Original hardwood flooring. Oak Cabinetry throughout. Mid Efficiency Furnace. Wood burning fireplace in bsmt. A great starter home/rental property w/a nice view of the park off back deck.

Contact seller for inquiries or to view: 780-678-6286.

MUST SELL 1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

MUST SELL New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

SYLVAN LAKE 4 fully furnished rentals, including dishes, bedding, utilities. Avail.

Sept. 1, 2014 - June 15, 2015 Price range $1200 to $1600 per month. 403-880-0210.

Condos/ Townhouses

3200

3030

MOBILE office trailer 240 rent by day/month, c/w toilet, satellite dish, TV, Stereo, fridge. Call B & L Enterprise 403-346-6106

3270

Suites

3 BDRM, 1.5 bath townhouse COMING home. Quiet senfor over 40 yr old employed ior male wants 1 bdrm. apt. tenants. 6appls, private yard for Sept. 1, 705-470-5064 & parking, 1 small pet with additional Sec. Dep. of $500. Housesitting Quiet people, no drugs, no partiers, no police etc. Wanted At #9, 15 Stanton Street, ATTN. SNOWBIRDS Sunnybrook. Rent & S.D. Retired, N/S, no pets $1400/mo. 403-341-4627. couple will give your home SOUTHWOOD PARK loving care & company 3110-47TH Avenue, while you escape winter.

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, Call 403-728-3768 generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

3300

Suites

3060

1 & 2 BDRM apt. for over 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs.

Free laundry, heat, water, private parking at 5910-55 Ave. in Riverside Meadows.

Rent/Sec. $850 then $1100 respectively for the 2 bdrm.

Avail. Sept. 1st. 403-341-4627

You can save thousands!

Helping sellers sell for a low set fee. No advance fee.

Money back guarantee.

Fully developed Lancaster bungalow! 5 bdrm., 3 bath.

Dbl. garage. $387,900

Older home on 48x200 lot in Woodlea. 26x26 garage.

Lots of options. $297,500

Private yard. Off street parking. Needs some polishing. Shingles are being replaced. $233,500.

Looking for an investment with profit potential?

Come take a look. $254,500.

HELP-U-SELL OF RED DEER 403-342-7355

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

144 ELY CL. Eastview Estates. Front garage, 2 bdrms, 1 1/2 baths, nearly new appls, sunroom, covered patio, RV parking, 403-340-2826

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

MORRISROE MANOR

1300

4010

3 Bdrm. condo on south hill.

Great investment or starter. $158,900.

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

1 only! Move in now!

RISER HOMES Acreages BLACKFALDS BUNGALOW

4050

2 Bdrm., 2 Bath. main Floor laundry, hardwood, tile, and much more. $337, 250. Prices include legal fees, GST, appliance package, front sod & tree.

For private viewing call Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

Collector Car Auction Sept. 19 - 20, 2014 Westerner Park, Red Deer Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGauctions.com

5030

Cars

2009 TOYOTA Corolla SRX red, auto, loaded, 59,000 kms, $12,400 403-341-0603

2006 VW Jetta TDI 137,000 kms, fully loaded,sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,500 403-346-1392 340-9068 2003 JETTA diesel, loaded $5,000. Certified.

403-314-0804 2003 DODGE Neon loaded safetied 403-352-6995 2001 BUICK LeSabre drk. red exc. cond. 403-352-6995 2000 CORVETTE convertible, 6 spd. stnd, black on black, mint cond, new tires, orig. 58,000 kms, $21,500 no gst.

403-347-4887 1999 PONTIAC Sunfire 4 dr. auto, v. clean 403-318-3040

5050

Trucks

5100 5110

Fifth Wheels

2000 JAYCO EAGLE Great cond. Clean, 6400 lbs. $9500. $8500. 346-0242

“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

5180

HITCH - fits 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

CUSTOM BUILT NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550

PUBLIC NOTICES

Open House

Quiet peaceful 18.31 acres only 10 mins. to Alix. 14 yr old home. $550,000.

403-304-9772

HELP-U-SELL RED DEER 403-342-7355

Farms/ Land

Tour These Fine Homes

4070

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of Eugene Brian Joseph Niedzielski, also know as Gene Niedzielski, who died on July 6, 2014 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by September 22, 2014 with Chapman Riebeek LLP at

BY OWNER

FANTASY MASSAGE

Now Open

7th Annual Fall Finale

Tires, Parts Acces.

NEW 1 bdrm. bsmt. suite, separate entrance & laundry, $850 inclds. utils., 1/2 DUPLEX in prime West Park location. #5524 †35 St. Johnstone Park., immed.

See kijiji ad for details, 587-876-2335 403-341-5390 or call (403) 342-7908.

NEWLY RENOVATED FREE Weekly list of bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom properties for sale w/details, Beautiful views overlooking suites available scenic river valley. Only 6 miles prices, address, owner’s in central location. leasing@rentmidwest.com phone #, etc. 342-7355 from Red Deer on pavement.

Starting at $254,000 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer 1(888) 679-8031 www.homesreddeer.com

1280

International ladies

5020

HELP-U-SELL RED DEER 403-342-7355 NEW CONDO

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Massage Therapy

Antique & Classic Autos

1987 GLENDALE Cutaway 24’ $6000 obo 403-302-2992

2 bdrm 18+ top floor condo at Cosgrove place. Wood fireplace. $147,900.

403-350-1779

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Directory

1165

5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Motorhomes

4000-4190

SUNNYBROOK

SIMPLE!

Automotive Services

2003 CHEV 2500 e/c, 6L, loaded, except leather, box liner, Michelin tires, trailer brakes, exc. cond., $11,500 403-782-7140

CLASSIFICATIONS

2 BDRM bsmt. avail immed. $800 + 1/3 utils. Call Bob Singh 403-872-3400

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

5000-5300

1 BDRM. loft, utils incl.. $725 /mo. + d.d., close to Red Deer college, n/s, no pets.

Avail Sept.

1 403-341-0156, 885-2287

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

1370

CLASSIFICATIONS

2012 FORD Fusion SE 10,000 kms, $16,900 obo must sell 403-340-0558

homes

Realtors & Services

wegot

wheels

3140

SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft. $1000 Phil 403-350-0479

Storage Space

4020

wegot

PETSAFE DOG RUN from Petsmart 5x10x6h with top & door.

Small dog or cats.

New $299, asking $125.

403-755-2760

Cats

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Houses For Sale

2 BDRM. main flr. Close to RDC & Hospital. $1100/mo. utils. incl. N/S, no pets.

Avail. Aug. 20. 403-341-0156

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca It’s simple to run a Garage Sale Ad in the Red Deer Advocate and make quick GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. cash. Phone Classifieds Save 50%. 403-358-1614 309-3300.

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Seniors’ Services

1372

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

HELPING HANDS Free Est. 403-872-8888 Home Supports for Seniors.

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, WALK-INS WELCOME companionship. At home 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 LAUREL TRUDGEON or facility. Call 403-346-7777 Residential Painting and for information.

VII MASSAGE Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801. #7,7464 Gaetz Ave.

Pampering at its BEST! We’ll do it all...Free est.

403-986-6686 Call E.J. Construction Roofing Come in and see Jim 403-358-8197 or why we are the talk DALE’S Home Reno’s PRECISE ROOFING LTD. of the town.

Free estimates for all your 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. www.viimassage.com reno needs. 403-506-4301 403-896-4869 CONCRETE???

rentals

2 BDRM Main flr, avail.

Sept. 1. $1175 + 2/3 utils.

No pets. Bob @ 403-872-3400

MANTLES Grand Casual Bluestone: 1 teapot, 1 cream and sugar set, 1 salt and pepper set, 2 platters, 1 dutch oven $65 for complete set. French White Corell large cassrole dish $5.

Call 403 358 3073.

Pick up only.

Musical Instruments

THE NORDIC

401174E9

Cleaning

wegot

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-596-2444

Property clean up 340-8666

Moving & Storage

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Houses/ Duplexes

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

ARCTIC BOOKKEEPING is certified in QuickBooks and Sage Simply Accounting.

Servicing small to medium business and individual consultants.

Reasonable Rates.

Contact Cori at 403-597-5131 or Arcticbookkeeping@ outlook.com

2140

HUNTERS - Camp cot for tent, Must See! Only $85.

403-342-7460

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 Misc.

Services

Horses

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

1100

2000-2290

FLOOR LAMP, exc. cond. $10; Bread Maker, $30.; Vegetable Juicer, $20.

403-358-3798

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

3060

Suites

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

403-343-9300

CLASSIFICATIONS

1000-1430

Contractors

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

CLASSIFICATIONS

1010

1900

TWIN bed with frame, box spring and mattress $25 SOLD

wegotservices

Accounting

1860

GRAND FATHER CLOCK, battery operated. $50.

403-358-3798

1630

Call For Home Delivery

Sporting Goods

TREADMILL, Vitamaster Fitness, 1 HP. Cushioned deck walking service, speed controil, heart rate monitor, calorie count, speed time & dastance. Made in the US. $200. 403-352-8811

LIFT CHAIR, PRYDE $600 OBO 1 mo. old.

403-392-8604

stuff

Clothing

1720

FUTON bed converts from sofa to bed $50.

403-347-3849

TRAINING CENTRE

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

Household Furnishings

1370

Window Cleaning

1420

ROBUST Cleaning Services WINDOW CLEANING outside/inside. Free quotes.

403-506-4822

401183E9

MOBIL 1 Lube Express Gasoline Alley req’s an Exp. Tech. Fax 403-314-9207

880

Misc.

Help

278950A5

880

Misc.

Help

OPEN HOUSE 1-4 p.m. Sun. Aug. 17th. #8, Range Rd 251, Rosewood subdivision, Pine Lake. Hwy 2 South, East on Hwy 42 to 816, turn left on Twn Rd 362, to Rosewood Country Estates, 2nd last house on left.

Follow signs. Gorgeous 1687 sq.ft. fully dev. hillside bungalow on 1.00 acres. $539,911. MLS # CA0035739.

Century 21 Advantage, Jon & Denise Nichols, 403-302-0800

OPEN HOUSE Sunday 17th, 1-4 P.M. Super Custom Built Falcon Home. Over 1800 sq.ft. incl. sun room, huge garage w/shop, 4 bdrms. +, 3 bath. In the glorious community of Fox Run. 25 FULMAR CLOSE SYLVAN LAKE Dennis Oelhaupl Discover Real Estate LTD 403-829-8291

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1954 — Sports Illustrated is published for the

first time. It was claimed that 250,000 subscriptions had been sold before the first issue came off of the presses.

1945 — War Measures Act cancelled.

1930 — The first British Empire Games are held at Hamilton. The event is now called the Commonwealth Games.

1896 — George Washington Cormack and his wife Kate, acting on a tip from Canadian prospector Robert Henderson, discover placer gold in Rabbit Creek tributary of Klondike River, later called Bonanza Creek, Yukon.

1858 — Bank of Canada is chartered.

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Santa Claus and Rockettes stop traffic to promote Radio City Music Hall show NEW YORK — The calendar says August, but that didn’t stop Santa Claus from visiting midtown Manhattan and snarling a section of Sixth Avenue, much to the bafflement of tourists and the frustration of drivers forced to idle their vehicles. Father Christmas, along with 15 Rockettes costumed as rag dolls, stood on a Radio City Music Hall porch on Thursday as 12 Rockettes dressed as toy soldiers marched on the street below to perform the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. It was a 6-minute promotional event for The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which starts Nov. 7.

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The City of Red Deer is always on the hunt for talented and success driven people who are creative and skilled individuals with the ability and desire to lead in our dynamic workplace.

We are currently seeking the right person to fill the position of GH Dawe Community Centre Coordinator for our Recreation, Parks & Culture Department. This position is responsible for the physical operation and maintenance; planning, coordination and marketing of programs and events; and customer service/administrative functions for the GH Dawe Community Centre. The Coordinator provides leadership to facility operations, programming, and customer service staff, community groups and businesses.

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July 17 at the Westerner’s race track.

A long time coming for Adamson

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

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

The Camrose driver’s overall time of six minutes, 32.43 seconds was 3.06 6 se seconds eco conds onds nds fa fast faster tha than Neil eil il Salm Sal Salmo S Sa Salmon Salmond mond d of Weekes, Sask. in the Uncle Ben’s RV outfit, utf who did win the final race and $4,500 cheque with a time of 1:16.91.

“It’s always special to win a big show like this,” said Adamson who ho w was drivi driving ng the A-1 Rentals ntals tals rig. ri “The b best est of the best est are here in Red Red Deer and an you ou always want to show well we in n a show how like this this.” .” ” Adamson amson n held a lead l of 3.36 sseconds af after four fou heats, eats, an almost insurmounta insurmountab insurmountable le lead lea ea as long as he ran a clean a final race but the compet compe competitor mp itorr iin n him did not want to pla play y safe.

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Cole Adamson, 18, was driving his grandfather’s — Ray Adamson — Pidherny’s wagon in Red Deer, the third event this year he’s had the e chance to do so. o.

After a couple of tough penalties knocked him out of contention the first couple of days, he was one of the fastest drivers over the last three heats.

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As a successful candidate, you will be an integral part of a dynamic sales team. You will be resourceful, effective and capable of partnering with new clients in the development and growth of their business.

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Do remember everyone is a student of some aspect of life as well as a teacher.

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Allow for your awareness to encompass that philosophy.

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Take heed to allow others to offer advice and it will prove to be fruitful for you.

You will be challenged this year to stand up for your family rights and for your country.

Your career ambitions might fall to the side but you will attract all that you need now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Those close bonded relationships that you have will likely create some tension for you today.

Stand your ground; do not allow any belittling of your personal worth and values today.

A philosophical view of the government and world events will have you feeling intense.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Significant relationships, either business or your spouse, will have you a bit tense today. You will have to stand your ground when it comes to their righteous stance.

You know what is true for you and your family, make sure they understand that now before it escalates.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You should be feeling at home today and even at peace within your soul.

You will most encounter someone on your daily routine that will try to uproot you, do not allow that to happen.

Do something good for yourself today, and relax in your own truth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your romantic interest will want to create some disruptions for you today.

Allow them to explain their point of view, but do stand your ground and share yours as well.

Feelings will be intense today, but it will help clear the air and will encourage greater value onto you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today is one of those days when everything goes to plan.

The only issues I see are slight arguments with those on the home front.

This is nothing big; it is simply that you might feel left out.

Address that issue and all will go well for you.

Stand your ground with females at work.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.

22): After some time of you hiding away and searching for your truth, you will be able to express yourself now.

You have searched deep and are more able than ever to achieve those desired aims.

No more “actions speak louder than words” .

You will on the mark intellectually.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will now be able to move forward.

The memory of visitors will slowly go into the back of your memory and you will be able to move forward towards the future.

You will reminisce about your mom’s words now. It will create some intensity for you on a profound level.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): With great certainty I can say that you are more able to create the life that you desire now and even help articulate the issues that are affecting humanity.

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it will get messy for you.

The more you speak your truth, the more opposition you will receive.

Today, allow others — friends, groups you are part of- to express where they stand on world issues.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18): You are more in tune with yourself today on a profound level. You will know exactly what you are thinking about most subjects.

Now I will say there will be opposition for you in relation to global affairs.

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Play your part with helping release any wrong doings by the government.

Stand your ground with others now!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Emotionally, you should be feeling good today.

Your perspective and what you are sharing with others is in line with your personal philosophy on curing the current global mess.

The only thing that will hold you back from feeling great is yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Yes, I will tell you to stand your ground today, but

to reach you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today will offer you the ability to voice your opinion on global events with almost everyone you meet.

Perhaps there is something going on globally that will create a need for you to stand by your word, or vice versa. Show the truth, even if you stand alone today.

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Irked by mom’s comments MOTHER’S LACK OF FILTER IN CONVERSATION CAUSING A NUISANCE Dear Annie: My mom is in her 70s.

She always has had trouble controlling what comes out of her mouth, but it seems to be getting worse.

Mom often insults others by making offensive comments or asking rude questions.

When they MITCHELL attempt to re& SUGAR spond, she laughs in their face.

I have heard Dad rebuke her on occasion for this behavior, but it doesn’t seem to make any difference.

She goes on to offend or tease the next person.

Mom monopolizes every conversation.

She answers every question, even those not directed at her.

She chatters nonstop and will not allow for any silence in a conversation.

ANNIE ANNIE

Simply being around her is exhausting.

I worry that Mom is severely limiting her options in terms of who would be willing to care for her in the future.

She is so abrasive that no one wants to be around her.

She doesn’t seem to realize that the more words she carelessly speaks the greater the likelihood that something regrettable will come out.

Is there anything I can do or say to her that might make a difference?

—Can’t Think Before Speaking Dear Can’t: Has your mother had a complete checkup lately?

Sometimes these problems are the result of small strokes or other physical or neurological problems.

On occasion, troublesome behavior that has been annoying but tolerable becomes less filtered and less controllable over time, especially if there is underlying depression or anxiety.

Suggest your mother see her doctor, and offer to go with her so you can discuss this directly.

You also can leave a message at the doctor’s office with your concerns.

Dear Annie: This is for the many caring children who are forced by circumstances to place their elderly par-

ents in a nursing home to be cared for by others.

When visiting, these children are so heartbroken to hear the parent say over and over, “I want to go home.”

Please tell them this “home” is most likely the safe, warm feeling of their childhood, or the place where they were in control of their lives.

My husband and I were fortunate enough to be able to care for his mother in a nice apartment annexed to our main living area.

It had sliding doors to the deck and overlooked a quiet tranquil yard.

We took our meals with her, and she had plenty of interaction with our family and as much personal care as possible.

Yet, the more senility crept in the more she wanted to “go home.”

That feeling of “home” was the one thing we were not able to give her, no matter how hard we tried — No Regrets in Watertown, Conn.

Dear No Regrets: We suspect the need to “go home” reflects the fact that the place in which they are living, whether a care facility, a child’s home or any other residence, is foreign and frightening in its unfamiliarity.

As dementia proceeds, what is considered familiar can go back a long way, and certainly those places include the warm feeling of childhood or a place where they were in control.

What you cannot reproduce is the recognition of where they are and why.

It sounds as though you did everything possible for your mother-in-law.

We’re glad you have no regrets.

No one should feel guilty for doing the best they can.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Concerned Friend” with interest.

I started biting my nails in the first grade and never could stop despite wanting to.

Fifty years later, I was given medication for depression that also contained an anti-anxiety medication.

To my amazement, the nail biting stopped, and I’ve had beautiful nails ever since. — Prescott, Ariz.

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.

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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Conflicts with your earned income through Take a moment to review their perspecRobert De Niro, 70; Sean Penn, 53; David your career and perhaps your own company tive.

Conrad, 46 will be challenged, but will be cleared by the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Those THOUGHT OF THE DAY: day’s end. significant relationships, business or romanToday will emphasize learning LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Per- tic, will challenge you to see life in a different more about the ins and outs of sonally, you will feel challenged way now. daily life within your home enat work. Maybe even your mothThere is a reason for you to express your vironment. Tensions will be er has asked you to make some autonomy with them, but do make sure to brought to the surface and you adjustments with how you pres- see their views on health, with work, as they will be forced to pay attention to ent yourself. share the popular opinion. the imbalances going on for you Either way, you will feel that CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today BOSTON — The Massachusetts Denow. you will have to value yourself you will be forced to understand the women partment of Transportation on ThursIt will be a challenging day — more and represent that to oth- in your life a little more than usual. you might not want to hear the ers so that your true self can There will be some tension between you day announced the winners of a conother person out. shine through. and them, but this is only for you to under- test to come up with humorous yet important driver safety messages for Later in the day is best to VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): stand where they are coming from. communicate any issues out into The dialogue you have with Their values will help you in the romance electronic highway message boards.

LARISA MAIRA The contest was inspired by a mesthe open. yourself will be the most impor- department now.

OZOLINS HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today tant tool at your disposal today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fam- sage posted on highways in May that is your birthday, this year will What direction do you want ily members are only trying to instill some of encouraged drivers to “Use Yah Blinkprove to quite a favourable one. to go in? Aim for what you abso- their values onto you today, they just want to ah” — or turn signal — when changing lanes.

There will be some tension lutely value now. be helpful.

The winners were “Make yah Ma for you on a professional level at the start, but There will be tension between what you Try to see that they are helping you shine this should instigate a change in how others know and what you are finding out about brighter, accept financial advice from them proud, wear yah seatbelt,” to encourage belt use, submitted by The Parvalue you. yourself now. now.

You truly have luck on your side this year, LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will feel at Being of service to others will be high- ent’s Supervised Driving Program team of Safe Roads Alliance; “Keep Calm pay no attention to the negativity with others. odds with the money you will have to spend lighted, help others now.

Your mind is sharp but others might drag in order to make your wishes come true.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Siblings and Drive On,” to prevent road rage, you down with too many ideas, trust your Perhaps there is some event you want to might be discussing their views and values submitted by Patrick Casey of Boston; instincts. attend, but those who are attending this event with regards to children or simply creative and “Put down the phone! Your LOLs and OMGs can wait,” to fight distracted ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will have with you are not exactly people you want to pursuits. some challenges today. socialize with.

Perhaps they believe that by doing this, it driving, submitted by Justin Lovell of On the one hand, you will want to express Make a compromise. will trigger greater awareness of you and your Whitman. The winners get gift cards yourself just as you please and go out and SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Others in efforts. from gas stations and restaurants. have fun. your life will challenge you today.

Shine bright today as it will mark the start More than 500 entries were received.

Yet you will feel conflicted, you will not feel There will be tension for you with how you of prosperous times!

“We received some very creative, that your needs are being met by those you want to celebrate your accomplishments and Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally thoughtful and funny message suggeshang out with, and this includes your romantic what others are willing to accept as sufficient syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her col- tions,” Transportation Secretary Richinterest. cause is not exactly along the same lines as umn appears daily in the Advocate. ard Davey said.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will feel that those within your home environment and within your family do not meet you half way.

The conflict will stem from a subconscious level for some time, or simply, you have not revealed that you’ve been annoyed. You will be forced to deal with it now.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Conflicts with friends will lead you to become uncertain about your path.

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