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Looking to raise awareness for ALS, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Meagan Gabert, left, and Chloe Currie took to the streets of Red Deer Tuesday inviting strangers to dump buckets of ice water on their heads. Kirsten Hardie, with the yellow bucket and Emilee Froehlich were happy to oblige them in Veterans Park on Tuesday afternoon. The two girls along with another friend thought bringing the ice bucket challenge to the streets of Red Deer would be a better way to help raise awareness for ALS rather than just doing it in their backyards they said. The girls are also sharing their challenge on social media.

Lacombe resident hopes to launch satellite by 2016

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Paleontologists looking for another dino egg nest WARNER, Alta. — A deep ravine in southern Alberta known as Devil’s Coulee may be about to yield more of its secrets to paleontologists from the Royal Tyrrell Museum.

The area, surrounded by rolling golden grain fields about 10 kilometres west of Warner, has offered up a “motherlode” of dinosaur eggs and nests since it was first discovered by a local teenager in 1987. It’s been six years since the last nest was discovered, but that could change soon.

Francois Therrien, curator of dinosaur palaeoecology at the Royal Tyrrell, believes he has discovered the egg of a duck-billed dinosaur called a hypacrosaurus eroding out of a hill.

“I’ll stay positive. I will say probably 90 per cent — chances are we are dealing with a nest,” said Therrien. “There’s so much eggshell found here and it’s all one type of eggshell. I’m pretty confident.”

The Devil’s Coulee area was once part of an inland sea. It was the first dinosaur nesting ground discovered in Canada and the largest. Layers upon layers of nests have been found by researchers going through the area. It has been the source of four hypacrosaurus nests that have yielded several eggs containing embryonic material. It has changed many of the existing theories about duck-billed dinosaurs.

One of the eggs had a fully developed embryo about 40 centimetres long. It is on display at the Devil’s Coulee Dinosaur & Heritage Museum, about 70 kilometres south of Lethbridge.

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Dr. Francois Therrien, Curator of Dinosaur Palaeoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, holds a clump of clay with egg shell fragments from a Hypacrosaurus, a crested duckbilled dinosaur next to models of reconstructed eggs at Devil’s Coulee.

“There’s nowhere else in the country where you find so many nests, eggs and embryos. I’d say it is probably in the top three best places in North America,” said Therrien, who has been working at the site for years.

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TSB blames railway for safety issues Lack of oversight and a penny-pinching railway contributed to the deadly oil train disaster in Lac-Megantic

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Story on PAGE A5 We are coming ‘home to the ranch’!

For 20 years, Cattle Round Up has celebrated our ranching & farming heritage. The event has raised almost $2 million to purchase state of the art medical equipment for local health care facilities throughout Central Alberta.

Beef up health services for seniors and join us Friday, September 5th, 2014 at Heritage Ranch. This unique experience will feature a fabulous Alberta beef buffet, live & silent auctions and then kick up your heels with a boot skootin’ barn dance with singer/songwriter Denver Daines!

Proceeds from the 2014 Cattle Round Up will go towards seniors’ care. In the past Rimbey, Innisfail, Olds, Lacombe, Sundre and Red Deer have been just a few of the centres that have benefitted from equipment purchased as a result of this fabulous event.

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As the pile of money grows higher, so does a former Lacombe resident’s hopes of sending a satellite into space.

Charles Nokes, who graduated from Lacombe Composite High School in 2011, is one of the team members working feverishly towards getting Alberta’s first satellite into orbit in January 2016. The goal is to study the effects of solar flares on the Earth’s magnetic field.

The engineering physics student, entering his fourth year at the University of Alberta, is seeing the project get incrementally closer to fruition with the infusion of more and more funds.

Through government grants and a crowdfunding campaign, his group has raised $48,000 of the $60,000 needed to launch the satellite and about $70,000 of the $100,000 to $120,000 estimated cost of building it.

“We’re still looking at larger funding sources,” said Nokes.

But the hefty amounts raised so far have buoyed his hopes that province’s first satellite will be ready to go into orbit when a rocket is launched from Brazil, carrying 50 such small satellites some 350 km above the Earth.

He hopes to have it ready for testing in the Netherlands next year.

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Steady growth in Red Deer has spurred mid-year changes to the city’s 2014 budgets.

As a result, city council has approved roughly $9.4 million in capital and $58,000 in operating spending in 2014, and $184,000 in 2015 for projects and services. The decisions were part of the mid-year budget review on Tuesday.

Mayor Tara Veer said it is better for council and city administration to get ahead of the game now rather than wait six more months for the full-year next budget deliberations.

Dean Krejci, chief financial officer, said the city is on track financially and there have been no surprises this year.

One of the key decisions made on Tuesday was putting nearly $9 million more into the water and sewer projects to serve Red Deer’s northeast.

The city had already allocated $14.5 million for the two projects.

But the approval of a high school site, changes in school site orientation and poor soil conditions forced the city to move up its plans to build additional trunk lines and storm water ponds by one year.

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AHS investigates 112 cases of E. coli from an unknown source

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Health Services says 122 people across the province have been diagnosed with potentially dangerous E. coli germs over the past month.

The health agency says the type of bacteria found in these cases is E. coli 0157:h7, which can cause severe illness including cramping, bloody diarrhea and kidney failure.

Officials say since July 15 there have been 59 confirmed cases in Calgary, 48 cases in Edmonton, seven cases in the South, six cases in the North and two cases in the Central zone.

Alberta Health Services says it hasn’t found the source of the E. coli, which is usually found in the intestines of humans and animals, or whether the cases are linked.

Earlier this month some people were admitted to hospital in Edmonton with E. coli that was linked to reports of contaminated bean sprouts.

Health officials say people can prevent the spread of E. coli by cooking beef to at least 160 F, thoroughly washing fruits and vegetables and washing your hands with hot, soapy water after touching raw meat.

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BUDGETS: Connected to provincial decisions Council passed first readings of a borrowing bylaw to front the servicing costs.

The costs are expected to be recovered through offsite levies charged to developers.

Coun. Dianne Wyntjes said this shows how the city’s decisions are connected to the provincial decisions with the announcement of the schools. She said the city will face less impact in the 2015-2016 budget or something will take its place.

Relocation of two of the city’s fire halls moved ahead with council’s approval of $402,000 for the design phase. The projects were originally scheduled for 2017 in the 10-year capital budget.

But city manager Craig Curtis said it is necessary to move the projects up because of the need to accommodate housing development north of Timberlands.

The city plans to close Station 4 in Deer Park and move that platoon north to Timberlands, and move the platoon in the dispatch centre (Station 3) on 32nd Street to a still-to-be determined southern location.

Station 3 would remain the Emergency Services headquarters station.

Council will receive a detailed report with a recommended site in the next couple of months. The city is considering a site near 22nd Street and 30th Avenue and awaits the detailed response times of the proposed site.

Coun. Ken Johnston spoke from experience about when his house went up in flames in 2004. His family suffered a $250,000 loss.

“I can tell you what a service level means to a home owner,” said Johnston. “Trucks were on scene within two minutes. Fire doubles in size every 30 seconds and within five minutes we would have lost our home. Again when we think about capital spending ... we have to get it down to a service level and a citizen who deserves that particular service level.”

A confined space simulator for Emergency Services and two more dispatch consoles were also approved for a total of $80,000.

Bart Rowland, Emergency Services deputy fire chief of operations, welcomed the news. He said the new consoles will help train better firefighters and provide regional support to other places.

“When they bought the original fire hall in Deer Park, it was always considered a temporary hall because of the growth,” said Rowland. “Now we have

achieved that growth with that provincial standard on high intensity residential fire.”

While no discussion evolved on Tuesday, Curtis noted that one of the emerging issues that may affect the 2015 budget will be addressing the Red Deer Arena’s roof structure. Curtis told council that the roof has about a three-year lifespan remaining. It was built on a 1950s code while the today’s structures have a higher standard. He said they are looking at a potential $8-million upgrade, including safety measures, over the next three years, or a $15 to $20 million replacement of the arena. He noted the city does regular testing of the roof. The city is installing a truss monitoring system to ensure they know of any problems well in advance.

Other highlights: z A five-month community shuttle bus pilot will be on the road in Red Deer starting in September.

Council approved the $72,600 expenditure ($35,000 lease cost, $15,000 maintenance and $22,600 fuel) for the pilot to run until Jan. 31, 2014. A few councillors said they were waiting for this project for many years. The shuttle bus will service areas with low ridership numbers and areas that conventional buses cannot access due to road constraints.

Red Deer Transit manager George Penny said they want to look at ridership in the new areas of the city and in existing routes.

“We do get people who phone us saying why do we have a 40-foot bus driving around Red Deer with one or two people in it,” said Penny.

“Sometimes they don’t see as it moves through their area the bus fills up. We do know we have some data that says Route 6 is low ridership. For us to put a community shuttle in that area would be an ideal situation.”

The routes have not been determined.

Areas such as Kerry Wood Nature Centre and Michener Centre do not have bus service because of the constraints.

Penny said there are areas in the city where they have heard complaints.

Penny said they hope to try different areas in the city. The project will allow the city to gather information that will assist in analyzing the cost benefits of implementing shuttle buses in the regular fleet. z Council approved one-time funding of $169,500 to conduct a 2015 municipal census. This year’s census revealed Red Deer’s population has reached 98,585, a 1.5 per cent increase over 2013. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

SATELITTE: Beyond excited Nokes, who aims to work with the Canadian Space

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Therrien said the significance of the treasure trove of dinosaur eggs can be put into perspective by the fact that only a few egg fragments have been found in the badlands near Drumheller, perhaps Alberta’s most well-known dinosaur site.

“Here we can find 200 pieces of eggshell per square metre, so it’s truly amazing.”

The odds of finding a fully developed embryo are astronomical, said Therrien.

“With embryos the cartilage starts turning to bone quite late during development so you need eggs that are fossilized at or very near the time that the embryos have formed before they are buried. So the odds are against you. “

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Agency or even NASA one day, is beyond excited to be already working in the aerospace field.

The student is helping with design aspects of the satellite that will be equipped with cameras, as well as a probe to measure changes in charged particle densities, and a digital sensor to pick up fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field.

He will also be studying the data collected, along with other students and academic advisors. The wide-ranging project involves participation from the university’s science, business, arts and computer science departments.

Nokes said the small size of the planned satellite will enable it to stay in space longer before being dragged down by the Earth’s gravitational pull.

Most other ones are much larger, so are not able to stay in the lower-altitude orbit that’s needed for gathering data on the affects of solar flares. “There aren’t any satellites to gather that kind of information,” said Nokes.

And the information collected will be very useful, as solar storms occasionally wreak havoc on the Earth.

In 1859, a solar storm called the Carrington Event caused some telegraph lines to spark, shocking some operators. Studies indicate a solar storm of this magnitude would cause widespread problems for today’s civilization.

A smaller solar storm in 1989 knocked Hydro-Quebec’s electrical grid offline for nine hours.

Nokes said Alberta’s satellite is expected to have a lifespan of two to five months before burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere when it drops to 90 km from the planet’s surface. “It’s not going to be space junk.

It will work until everything is burned.”

Anyone interested in donating to the project can visit www.albertasat.ca/donate. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Joe Whitbread was busy Tuesday afternoon lending his creative talents to the 2019 Canada Winter Games bid by drawing a Canada Winter Games logo on the stage at Veterans park on Ross Street. This Friday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. there will be Red Deer is Ready Rally downtown on Ross Street. The committee hopes to show the visiting bid evaluation committee that Red Deer has the community support, pride, and enthusiasm to host the winter games. Residents are encouraged to take part in the event on Friday by wearing red and getting involved.

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Tories tighten rules on use of government planes

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Offering its first classes of its kind, The Breathing Room Yoga studio has taken their program onto the water. The four class sessions go for $60 if you have your own stand-up paddleboard or $100 if you need a rental. The sessions are taking place at the Three Mile Bend Recreation Area in Red Deer this week and next, and a September class may also be offered if there is enough interest.

Here instructor Bonnee Gregg, leads the first of four sessions on the boards the group rented from Mahalo Stand-up Paddleboard rentals in Red Deer.

Justin Trudeau blasts Stephen Harper for bungling pipelines

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cused on the fact that, for all Mr. Harper’s talk about the economy and natural resources, he’s been all hat and no cattle on pipelines.

“We are no closer to getting the two main pipelines that he’s been pushing — Keystone XL and Northern Gateway — passed than we were on the very first day he was in office. Indeed, we’re further (away).”

Keystone, which would pipe oilsands bitumen to the U.S. Gulf Coast, is stalled pending approval from President Barack Obama, who is under pressure from environmentalists to nix the project.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government is tightening rules for government aircraft following a harsh report that outlined inappropriate use of the planes by former premier Alison Redford.

Finance Minister Doug Horner said that guests or family members on the planes will have to be preapproved and commercial flight options considered.

A quarterly update with details of all flights and their costs is also to be done, he said Tuesday.

A ban on using the planes for out-of-province travel remains. Redford brought in the restriction after questions arose last spring about her travel habits, including a $45,000 trip to South Africa for Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Horner said it will be up to whomever is chosen Alberta premier next month in the Tory leadership race to make any further changes.

Earlier this month, auditor general Merwan Saher found that Redford and her office used government aircraft for personal and partisan use.

He said there was an “aura of power” surrounding Redford and her office, along with “a perception that the influence of the office should not be questioned.”

Dave Hancock, who took over from Redford when she resigned as premier in March, apologized for the misuse of the planes. But he also pointed out that Saher made clear that the blame falls squarely on the former premier and her office.

“He takes pains to say that his findings should not be extrapolated out to others across government,” Hancock said. “But, even so, there’s no question that Albertans feel let down by their government and that means all of us,” he said.

“Each of us knows the rules and it is up to each of us to make sure that we are adhering to those rules at all times — whether we’re taking planes, we’re talking travel expenses or anything.

“We know what is appropriate and we know what isn’t.”

Hancock also defended his finance minister, who has been criticized since the report was released for not keeping a closer eye on what was going on. There have also been calls from the opposition for Horner’s resignation.

“Ultimately, the oversight and management of the use of planes is the responsibility of the minister in charge of them,” Hancock acknowledged.

“In practice and in reality, the responsibility is that of members of cabinet who use the planes.

EDMONTON — Justin Trudeau moseyed into Harper country Tuesday and accused the prime minister of being “all hat and no cattle” when it comes to pipelines. The Liberal leader and his three dozen MPs were in the capital of Alberta, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s home province, to plot strategy for the coming pre-election year.

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In the dark about farming

BY WILL VERBOVEN SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE A recent study shows that consumers may have a rather quaint view of the modern agriculture industry.

The study by the consulting firm Strategic Counsel and commissioned by the federal Department of Agriculture noted that consumers had a “low level of awareness” and their ideas about agriculture were based on “a rather idyllic and outdated view of the sector.”

That public perception is known as the “Old MacDonald’s Farm Syndrome,” and refers to the children’s story about a farmer and his wife raising animals and crops on a small imaginary farm in the 1930s. Unfortunately for the perception of agriculture, those story book images seem to be the extent of most people’s farming awareness.

The report also notes that most people’s views on agriculture were “formed on the basis of their experience as consumers,” with many consumer perceptions “heavily influenced by alarmist documentaries and media reports.”

None of that comes as a surprise to

many involved in primary agricultural production in Canada, who spend a lot time anguishing over how misguided consumers are about commercial agriculture and how it provides the cheapest and most abundant food supply in the world.

The days of small mixed farms producing a variety of crops and livestock are long gone from a commercial perspective. The average commercial crop farm on the Prairies nowadays involves at least 5,000 acres and a cash flow of millions of dollars per year. This type of consolidation also means much of the food consumers buy is imported because it can be grown and processed somewhere else cheaper than in this country.

That’s also something that came out in the report: consumers were aware of the preponderance of food imports and were concerned with the future of agriculture in Canada. Although the high level of imported food is a reality, it is mainly due to the modern consumer wanting fresh fruit and vegetables available on a year around basis — climatic impossibility in this country.

Like elsewhere, commercial primary production now focuses on growing specific crops that can be successfully and profitable grown in different re-

gions of Canada. That means vast acreages of grains and oilseeds, huge irrigated potato fields and highly-efficient cattle feedlots.

The majority of the production from those enterprises is exported out of the country. Suffice to say that few consumers are aware of that export production, hence their concern that Canadian agriculture must be under pressure because of the large supply of imported food they see in their local grocery stores.

The study did note that consumers are also concerned about consolidation, urban encroachment on agricultural land, declining interest in agriculture and unsustainable farming practices. They also had concerns about genetically-modified organisms, but one suspects that many of those views would have been formed by the anti-GMO campaigns of green lobby groups.

Participants in the study expressed interest in learning more about agriculture, particularly when they learned about the impact and contribution of the industry to the economy.

Most citizens would be unaware that the agriculture and food sector contributes $100 billion to the economy and accounts for $44 billion in exports

and employs 2.1 million Canadians.

The mystery to the industry is how to get that economic contribution information to the consumer who, as the study has shown, continues to have a perception of the industry from a quaint by-gone era.

Study partakers suggested constructing a better more understandable “story” using social media. Crafting of the story was stated as being important so that consumers could learn about the benefits of agriculture, although consumers seem to draw a line between information and self-promotion. The challenge for agricultural groups involved in industry promotion is how to deal with that credibility concern. They have the additional challenge of having to deal with a skeptical urban media and vociferous green lobby groups who are masters at twisting food-related issues for their own purposes.

Observers of human nature like to note that the surest way for people to gain a new appreciation for agriculture and food production is to face a famine. That may be the extreme, but there must be a way for agriculture to “get some respect.”

Will Verboven covers rural issues for Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Harper deserves great credit Re: Garfield Marks letter to the editor of Aug. 15: I find Garfield Marks’ remarks offensive and unfounded.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has brought our country out of a recession and out of debt, making us the envy of the world.

But sadly there will always be those people who, instead of giving Mr. Harper praise for a job well done, will never stop complaining.

In all of these years Mr. Harper’s opponents have been unsuccessful in digging up dirt on him, except perhaps for someone he made the mistake of hiring.

I like to give credit where credit is due and not complain just for the sake of complaining, and arguing whether black is white.

Instead of condemning every move our government makes, there should be co-operation and not wasting billions of dollars bickering.

As in the past, I remember the Senate full of Liberals, spending all winter in Mexico and the U.S and attending perhaps two or three meetings per year.

Yet when the PCs tried some of the same tactics, that’s all we heard about for the next year.

The West was booming until Pierre Trudeau imposed the National Energy Program. Unforgivable!

Within three months, every one was bankrupt.

Our business took 13 years of struggling to survive.

All we need is another Trudeau and we can kiss our job’s goodbye!

This is a great time to take over our government.

Our country is out of recession and out of debt!

For the next four years, Justin Trudeau would have a ball ... then bring back the Conservatives to fix the mess!

Mr. Marks, your remark about Harper getting only two seats requires a wager.

I will give you 10 to one odds. I do not believe all of the people in Canada are fools.

William Welikoklad Red Deer

End of the line for Alberta Tories I am totally amazed at how the Conservatives in this province feel their entitlement to obscene salaries and severance packages prompts them to jump from one ridiculous squandering of taxpayers’ dollars to another.

Less than two years after they put a three-year freeze on wage hikes to senior management, they turn around and give them a seven per cent increase.

Were they hoping the taxpayers in Alberta wouldn’t notice?

This government has no respect or regard for Albertans or the taxes we’re forced to pay. Not even Tory leadership hopefuls Thomas Lukaszuk, Ric McIver or Jim Prentice are critical of this taxpayer ripoff.

But that’s OK. It’ll be just another nail in the Conservative coffin in the next election.

I hope you opposition MLAs are keeping a tally of all the indiscretions these Conservative scam artist are trying to pull off. Maybe they know the end of their reign is near so they’re filling pockets with all the loot they can weasel away before they have to get outta Dodge.

Dale Stuart Red Deer

More of the same from Prentice Is Jim Prentice walking around with a suitcase full of some sort of prepaid PC membership cards, or is it actual $10 bills that he’s been handing out to anyone he thinks will vote for him?

Not that it makes any difference.

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Just as he won’t, if he’s ever premier, due to being so precisely cut from the same cloth as she-whomust-not-be-named.

Roderick G. MacGregor Red Deer

Cyclists, invest in a bell “On your left!”

This call can sometimes be heard by pedestrians on any one of the many beautiful trails that thread the length and breadth of the City of Red Deer.

What does it mean?

Most pedestrians would have no idea of its meaning.

Some of the cycling community seem to have adopted this war cry to verbally warn of their approach. Pedestrians, even though they may be lucky to get any kind of warning at all, may find it rude and offensive to be yelled at in this way.

The aforementioned cyclists may not be aware that there is a legal obligation to use a warning instrument such as a horn or a bell when approaching pedestrians, and there could be a good reason for it. Pedestrians may be talking amongst themselves, they may be listening to music or conversation on their earphones, or there may be noisy motor traffic nearby. A verbal warning may not cut through this background noise.

The tinkle of a bell or the blast of a horn is much more likely to be heard from a comfortable distance and is much more polite.

Cyclists, especially those who ride machines worth hundreds of dollars, please invest $5 or less and equip your bike with what is a legal requirement.

I have found that pedestrians are so happy and grateful to be addressed with a pleasant tinkle that they are only too willing to stand aside with a smile, and let you pass.

Scott Williamson Pre-press supervisor

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TSB blames railway for safety issues AND OTTAWA FOR POOR OVERSIGHT LAC-MEGANTIC

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. — The combination of a lack of government oversight and a penny-pinching railway contributed to the deadly oil-train disaster that devastated Lac-Megantic, says a report tabled Tuesday by Canada’s Transportation Safety Board.

The federal agency’s report, the first comprehensive account of last summer’s crash to be released to the public, identified 18 key factors it says led to the Quebec catastrophe.

Among them, the TSB pointed to roles it says were played by the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway and Transport Canada in the tanker crash, an incident that came amid a growing pan-continental, oil-by-rail industry.

“Who was the guardian of public safety?” TSB chair Wendy Tadros said in Lac-Megantic, where the report was unveiled.

“That is the role of government. To provide checks and balances — oversight. And yet this booming industry, where unit trains were shipping more and more oil across Canada and across the border, ran largely unchecked.”

The agency launched its year-long investigation after the MMA train broke loose from its parking spot uphill of Lac-Megantic in July 2013 and crashed into the community, killing 47 people. Almost all of the 63 derailed tank cars, which were filled with volatile crude, ruptured in the derailment and set off huge explosions that were even spotted by satellites in space.

The report also produced two new recommendations that the TSB argues would help prevent future runaway trains and keep a closer eye on companies like the now-bankrupt MMA, which it criticized for having a “weak safety culture” and “poor training” efforts for its employees.

The TSB said one of the recommendations would seek to ensure that safety systems of railways are adequate.

Tadros said the role of the regulator has been to determine whether a company has a safety management system.

She believes Transport Canada should

now undertake audits to find out if the company is truly managing safety.

“We’re saying it’s not enough,” said Tadros of the current arrangement, adding that MMA did not have a functioning safety system.

The other new recommendation calls for requirements that rail operators use additional physical methods, such as wheel chocks or modernized braking technology, to improve train securement.

“There has to be a change in the Canadian rail industry,” Tadros said.

“We have to look beyond just strict adherence to rules, because while those rules have changed over the years, you cannot always rely on people to stick to those rules 100-per-cent of the time.

“So, you need a backup defence and you particularly need this in high-risk industries.”

In Ottawa, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said her department will review the report and develop “concrete actions” to address the TSB recommendations.

“Today’s report indeed does talk about higher expectations for Transport Canada,” said Raitt, who inherited the transport portfolio after the disaster.

“I share those expectations and I know the public shares those expectations, too.”

In January, the TSB called on Ottawa to take urgent action to enhance tank car safety standards, to reassess all potential routes used to transport dangerous goods and to implement emergency response plans whenever large volumes of these materials are shipped.

Tadros said the first three recommendations prompted swift reaction from the industry and the federal government. For example, Ottawa pledged in April to remove all old, ruptureprone tank cars, known as DOT-111s, off Canada’s rails in the next few years.

The latest recommendations seek to address some of the 18 contributing factors the TSB outlined in its report.

Three people are already facing trial for their alleged roles in the crash.

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Wendy Tadros, TSB chair, leaves a news conference following the release of the Transportation Safety Board report on the deadly train derailment Tuesday, in Lac-Megantic, Que. The MMA and three of its employees, including engineer Tom Harding, have each been charged with 47 counts of criminal negligence.

The report said Harding applied an insufficient number of hand brakes on the train — seven — and conducted an inadequate test before he left the convoy unattended and retired to a local inn for the night.

Before he left, the TSB says Harding called MMA’s rail-traffic controller to report mechanical problems on the locomotive and thick smoke belching from its exhaust. They agreed he could leave the engine for the night.

Later that night, a fire broke out on the locomotive. Firefighters called to the scene shut down the locomotive, which gradually disengaged the engine’s air brakes.

An MMA track foreman with no background in locomotives met the firefighters at the scene and, after con-

sulting the rail-traffic controller, they left without restarting the locomotive.

Eventually, the train started rolling toward Lac-Megantic. Tadros, however, said the underlying causes of the accident go well beyond the number of hand brakes applied and the engineer’s actions that night.

The factors listed in the TSB report include: ● A poor repair — using an epoxylike material — to fix an engine failure on the lead locomotive, which led to the fire. ● Failure by MMA to provide proper training or supervision to ensure its staff could secure a train adequately. ● The train was parked unattended on a main line, with a steep grade and was led by a locomotive that was not in proper operating condition. ● Transport Canada failed to ensure that recurring safety problems at MMA had been corrected.

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Death of aboriginal girl renews calls for inquiry rebuffed all calls for such a probe.

“They don’t view it as a priority,” Robinson said. “I don’t know what their policy advisers are telling them.”

Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay said in a statement that “our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Ms. Fontaine at this very difficult time.”

But MacKay again rejected an inquiry.

“Now is the time to take action, not to continue to study the issue,” he said.

The government is addressing the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women in other ways such as through aboriginal justice programs and a national DNA missing person’s index, MacKay added.

Still, calls for a national inquiry have been growing louder with every aboriginal woman who disappears or is discovered dead.

In May, the RCMP issued a detailed statistical breakdown of 1,181 cases since 1980. The report said aboriginal women make up 4.3 per cent of the Canadian population, but account for 16 per cent of female homicides and 11.3 per cent of missing women.

Tina was last seen in downtown Winnipeg Aug. 8 and was reported missing the next day. Investigators want anyone who saw her since then or who knows what happened to her to

contact police.

Police say she had run away several times in the last year but had always been located safely. They aren’t releasing how she died or whether she was sexually assaulted. Since Fontaine was under the care of Child and Family Services, her death is automatically being reviewed by Manitoba’s Office of the Children’s Advocate.

The discovery of her body has touched a nerve in Manitoba, where almost half the women who have been murdered since 1980 were aboriginal.

On Tuesday night, more than 1,000 people gathered at the dock where Tina’s body was pulled from the river.

The sound of drumming and people weeping filled the air. Leaders from Manitoba’s aboriginal community attended, drum circles were held and many who lost loved ones held signs pleading for answers.

People then marched to The Forks, a plaza where the Red and Assiniboine rivers meet, to a newly erected memorial honouring missing and murdered aboriginal women, and held a candlelight vigil.

Claudette Dumont-Smith, executive director of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, called the girl’s murder shocking. She said it shows that no one is taking the safety of aboriginal women seriously. Harper and other

people in positions of power need to come out and state this has to stop, she said.

“We’re not hearing that,” DumontSmith said. “We’re not seeing any change, any improvement in the situation. We are calling for a national public inquiry and we will continue to call for that.

“This just can’t go on.”

If there were nearly 1,200 women of any other ethnic origin who were missing or murdered, the reaction would be different, she said.

“There would be an outcry. There would be protests in the streets,” she said.

“This is not an aboriginal issue. It’s a Canadian issue. It’s really a blemish on Canada that innocent lives are being taken now just about every month.

What can a 15-year-old do to deserve that?”

Niigaan Sinclair, assistant native studies professor at the University of Manitoba, felt moved to help organize the vigil in honour of Tina and Faron Hall, an aboriginal man whose body was also pulled from the Red River on Sunday.

Police say foul play is not suspected in the death of Hall, who was known as the “homeless hero” for saving two people from drowning in that same river in 2009.

Half of Canada’s badly wounded soldiers not getting disability cheque: watchdog

Manitoba inmate escapes, drives off in government truck; caught in Saskatchewan

and jumped to the ground.

The inmate then used a set of keys which had been stolen earlier from a maintenance office to start a Manitoba government pickup truck from the parking lot.

He was arrested more than 200 kilometres west of Brandon by Oxbow RCMP after a citizen made a complaint, but police didn’t give any details.

Yanick said that RCMP called the Brandon jail around 8 a.m. on Monday to ask if they were missing an inmate and supplied the name of the man.

“The jail quickly found out that the person... in custody was indeed an inmate from their facility,” Yanick said.

“Through their own investigation, they found that he had escaped sometime during the night...without being noticed.”

The inmate had significant injuries to his feet and back and was taken to hospital in Regina.

WINNIPEG — The death of a 15-year-old aboriginal girl found wrapped in a bag and dumped in the Red River is prompting renewed calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.

Tina Fontaine had been in Winnipeg less than a month when she ran away from foster care. Her petite body was discovered Sunday in the river and police are treating her death as a homicide.

Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson said his first thought when he heard about Tina’s death was “not another one.” For two decades, Robinson said, he’s been working with aboriginal families who have lost daughters, sisters, aunts and mothers.

“It just gets tiring after a while to see the suffering, the human suffering, and no answers coming to the families about what happened to their loved ones,” Robinson said Tuesday. “It’s just saddening to see the families continue to suffer.”

A national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women is the only way many families will get the answers they deserve, Robinson suggested. So far, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A new report by Canada’s veterans watchdog says nearly half of the country’s most severely disabled ex-soldiers are not receiving a government allowance intended to compensate them for their physical and mental wounds.

Veterans ombudsman Guy Parent also concluded that those who are receiving the permanent impairment allowance, along with a recently introduced supplement, are only awarded the lowest grade of the benefit.

The criteria used by federal bureaucrats to evaluate disability do not match the intent of the allowance, and the guidelines are too restrictive, the report said.

It doesn’t make sense to set aside cash to deal with a problem and then not spend it, Parent said. “You can flood programs with money, but of you don’t broaden the access, then you haven’t accomplished anything.”

It’s a pattern with the current government, he said, noting how the Conservatives poured funding into the burial program for impoverished exsoldiers in 2013, but took a year to ease the eligibility criteria so people could actually qualify.

“The evidence presented in the report clearly demonstrates that many severely impaired veterans are either not receiving these benefits or may be receiving them at a grade level that is too low,” the ombudsman said. “This is unfair and needs to be corrected.”

Investigators could find no evidence that Veterans Affairs adjudicators consider the effect of an enduring injury on an individual’s long-term employment and career prospects, he added.

In a statement, Veteran Affairs Minister Julian Fantino said the findings of the ombudsman’s latest report will be considered as the government prepares its response to a Commons committee review, which has recommended a series of improvements to the legislation governing veterans benefits.

“I have asked officials at Veterans Affairs to ensure that they consider the recommendations found in the veterans ombudsman’s PIA report as well as consult his office in the development of solutions to improve the New Veterans Charter,” Fantino said.

In defending itself against criticism that veterans are being shortchanged, the Harper government has been quick to point to the allowance

and the supplement as a sign of its generosity. Fantino told a House of Commons committee last spring that some permanently disabled soldiers receive more than $10,000 per month, but figures from his own department show that only four individuals in the entire country receive that much.

The department went a step further and released a chart at the end of July that shows the maximum benefits soldiers of different ranks could qualify for under existing legislation — a “misleading” display that could raise “false expectations” among veterans, Parent said.

The latest report also noted that when a veteran dies, the spouse automatically loses the allowance, creating financial hardship for the family.

Under the old Pension Act system, the widow or widower continued to receive support.

The permanent impairment allowance is a taxable benefit awarded to disabled soldiers in three grade levels as compensation for lost future earnings. The Harper government introduced a supplement to the allowance in 2011. In some respects, that supplement contributed to a dramatic increase in the number of applications.

According to figures released by Veterans Affairs in June, some 521 exsoldiers are deemed to be the most critically injured, but the vast majority of them — 92 per cent — receive the lowest grade of allowance support.

The ombudsman’s report estimates Canada has a total of 1,911 severely wounded soldiers, 924 of whom receive no allowance at all.

Ron Cundell, of the web site VeteranVoice.info, said the latest review doesn’t tell ex-soldiers anything they don’t know already.

“It’s a shame,” Cundell said. “The (office of the veterans ombudsman) reports are proving what the veteran community has known for a long time.”

WINNIPEG — An inmate escaped from a Manitoba jail and was gone for about five hours before staff even knew he was gone.

Police say staff at the Brandon Correctional Centre found out the inmate escaped when Mounties in Saskatchewan called them about his arrest.

Brandon police Staff Sergeant Larry Yanick says the 27-year-old inmate was being held in the gym and escaped through a door that had been propped open for ventilation around 3 a.m.

Monday.

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Gaza cease-fire collapses amid heavy fighting

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GAZA, Gaza Strip — Egyptian attempts to broker an end to a monthlong war between Israel and Hamas collapsed in heavy fighting Tuesday, with Palestinian militants firing dozens of rockets and Israel responding with airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.

At least three Palestinians were killed.

The burst of violence, which erupted in the hours before a temporary truce was set to expire, left the Egyptian mediation efforts in tatters and raised the likelihood of a new round of fighting in a war that has already claimed more than 2,000 lives, most of them Palestinians.

The fighting broke out when Gaza militants fired several rockets into Israel Tuesday afternoon. Israel quickly withdrew its delegation from the Cairo cease-fire talks and resumed its campaign of airstrikes, and fighting continued into the night.

Three people — two women and a 2-year-old girl — were killed in an airstrike on a house in Gaza City, Palestinian medical official Ashraf al-Kidra said. The target of the airstrike wasn’t immediately known.

However, in Cairo, Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas leader, said the dead included the wife and a child of Mohammed Deif, the Islamic militant group’s elusive military chief, who has escaped numerous Israeli assassination attempts in the past. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas

leaders in Gaza.

Twenty-one people were wounded in a separate airstrike that hit a building that houses offices of Hamas’ Al Aqsa TV station, al-Kidra said. The fatalities were the first since a temporary truce was reached last Wednesday.

Israeli officials reported at least 50 rockets were fired late Tuesday, setting off air raid sirens throughout southern Israel and as far away as the cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. There were no reports of injuries, though a piece of a rocket that was intercepted near Tel Aviv fell on a busy road.

Israel’s civil defence authority, the Home Front Command, ordered authorities to reopen public bomb shelters within 50 miles (80 kilometres) of Gaza.

In Cairo, Palestinian negotiators declared the cease-fire talks over, and said they would leave Egypt on Wednesday.

Azzam al-Ahmad, leader of the delegation, blamed Israel for the failure, but held out hope that the talks could be resumed.

“We told the Egyptians we are ready to return to the talks once they find the proper atmosphere,” he said, adding that the Palestinians had submitted a final cease-fire proposal.

“It’s clear the Israelis are not interested in the cease-fire. We did not hear from them. We were willing to, but we did not hear from them,” he said.

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the blame lay with Hamas.

“When Hamas broke the cease-fire and fired rockets into Israel, they also violated the premise of the talks, which were based on an unconditional and total cease-fire,” he said.

He would not say whether Israel would resume cease-fire talks.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon “condemns in the strongest terms” the break in the cease-fire and reminded both sides of their responsibility to not let the situation worsen, spokesman Stefane Dejarric said in a statement.

Egyptian security officials said Egypt was still pressing the two sides to agree on a cease-fire.

The breakdown marked a bitter ending to nearly a week of Egyptianled diplomacy meant to end the heaviest fighting between Israel and Hamas since the Islamic militant group seized control of Gaza in 2007.

More than 2,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed, according to Palestinian and U.N. officials, and tens of thousands of people are homeless.

Israel has claimed the number of militants killed was much higher, and it blames Hamas for causing civilian casualties by staging attacks from residential areas. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers, two Israeli civilians and a guest worker have also been killed. Hamas is seeking an end to a seven-year Israeli-Egyptian blockade that has ravaged Gaza’s economy, while Israel wants guarantees that Hamas will disarm.

In nearly a week of indirect talks,

Egypt appears to have made little headway in resolving the differences.

Late Monday, it secured a 24-hour extension to a temporary truce to allow more time for a last-ditch attempt to reach a longer-term deal.

An Egyptian compromise proposal calls for easing the blockade, but not lifting it altogether and opening the territory’s air and seaports as Hamas has demanded.

While the plan does not require Hamas to give up its weapons, it would give Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas, whose forces were ousted by Hamas in 2007, a foothold back in Gaza running border crossings and overseeing internationally-backed reconstruction. Abbas’ presence would minimize friction with Israel and allow large amounts of international aid to flow into Gaza for reconstruction.

In Cairo, members of the Palestinian delegation, which is comprised of various factions, said no progress had been made in Tuesday’s talks. Yet some held out hope that the Egyptians would still succeed.

“Israel insisted during the talks on disarming the factions in Gaza, and that created huge difficulties during the talks,” said Kais Abdelkarim, a Palestinian negotiator.

Hamas finds itself pressured by both Egypt and the Palestinian Authority to accept a less than perfect deal with Israel, but needs to show the people of Gaza that the enormous sacrifices they endured in the fighting were not in vain.

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Liberia’s president declares curfew, quarantine of large slum amid mounting death toll THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s president declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people late Tuesday as the West African country battled to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital.

The measures came as authorities said that three health workers in the country who received an experimental drug for the disease are showing signs of recovery, though medical experts caution it is not certain if the drug is effective.

At least 1,229 people have died of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the current outbreak, and more than 2,240 have been sickened, according to the World Health Organization. The fastest rising number of cases has been reported in Liberia, with at least 466 dead.

Authorities here have struggled to treat and isolate the sick, in part because of widespread fear that treatment cen-

tres are places where people go to die. Many sick people have hidden in their homes, relatives have sometimes taken their loved ones away from health centres, and mobs have occasionally attacked health workers.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced late Tuesday that a curfew is going into place from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Security forces also will be ensuring no one goes in or out of West Point, a slum in the capital where angry residents attacked an Ebola observation centre over the weekend.

Saturday’s attack on the observation centre in West Point was triggered by fears that people with the disease were being brought there from all over the country, the Information Ministry said Tuesday. Dozens of people waiting to be screened for Ebola fled the centre during the chaos.

eral vehicle collisions, but no deaths or major injuries have been reported, said Bart Graves, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

Meanwhile, residents of a small trailer park in Black Canyon City along a river about 40 miles north of Phoenix were evacuated late Tuesday morning, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office. There was minimal flooding damage to the park, but authorities wanted to get residents to a safe location because water had damaged roads in the vicinity, sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn said.

Firefighters from Phoenix and the Daisy Mountain Fire District on Phoenix’s northern outskirts rescued at least six motorists in separate incidents.

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PHOENIX — Heavy monsoon season rains that swept across Arizona on Tuesday led to dramatic rescues, road closures and flight delays as a series of fast-moving storms pummeled the state.

A helicopter crew rescued two women and three dogs from a home surrounded by swift-moving waters in a town about 30 miles north of Phoenix, while elsewhere a small trailer park was evacuated, a school was flooded and first-responders pulled motorists from partially-submerged vehicles.

The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for much of the metro area and north of the city where up to 8 inches of rain fell by midday in some of the mountainous regions along Interstate-17, the main north-south freeway in Arizona.

Dramatic aerial television footage showed a river of muddy water rushing down I-17 about 25 miles north of Phoenix as motorists changed lanes to avoid the deluge. Other footage showed authorities pulling an elderly woman from a van stuck in rushing floodwaters, scenes repeated across the region throughout the day as motorists became trapped while driving through typically dry desert washes.

Gov. Jan Brewer said her office was monitoring the effects of the storm and will take additional action if needed.

She said she had been glued to the TV all day watching the rescues.

“It looked absolutely devastating,” Brewer said. “For the last 10, 15 years,

we’ve never seen anything the likes of this.”

Officials said nearly 5 inches of rain fell around the town of New River, where a helicopter dropped a rescuer onto the roof of a home to pull the women and dogs to safety after one had been waving a white piece of fabric from a window to draw attention.

That’s more rain than that area saw during all of last summer’s monsoon season, said meteorologist Gary Woodall of the National Weather Service.

A roughly 15-mile stretch of northbound I-17 was reopened later Tuesday after authorities were forced to reroute vehicles for several hours into the southbound lanes sending them back to Phoenix because of floodwaters.

“It looks like the heavy rain is pulling out to the east and northeast out of that area,” Woodall said. “But with all the rain that fell this morning, we’re going to see continued flooding, continued runoff probably into the early evening.”

Kathy Mascaro said her typical 15-minute commute from home to work in the Phoenix area more than doubled because of the traffic nightmares caused by the flooding.

“It’s crazy. You’d think, how could the desert flood, but it really does,” Mascaro said. “I’ve never seen it this bad. I’ve been here over 20 years and it has never flooded this bad.”

The desert around Phoenix sees very little rain most of the year, so when storms roll through with such intensity as they did Tuesday, the water has nowhere to go.

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July home sales set record

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF July home sales in Central Alberta were as hot as the weather, with a record-breaking number of houses sold.

It was the best July ever and the fifth best month of all time.

There were 582 houses sold last month through the Multiple Listing Service, a 12 per cent jump over July 2013, when 517 changed hands, according to statistics released on Tuesday by the Central Alberta Realtors Association.

Home sales in all of Alberta paled in comparison, rising only five per cent over the same month last year ago.

It is shaping up to be an excellent year for local

realtors. In the first seven months of the year, home sales are up 13 per cent — that is only 1.3 per cent shy of 2007’s record year.

Association president Dawn Parent said there are a few positive factors that are giving home markets a boost.

“No. 1, our unemployment rate for all of Alberta is really, really strong,” said Parent. Statistics Canada listed Alberta’s unemployment rate at 4.7 per cent last month, one of the lowest in the country and well below the seven per cent national average.

Economically, the province and region are also doing well. A recent Alberta Treasury Branch report showed Alberta manufacturing exports were at an all time high. Most of that is driven by the oilpatch and that bodes well for communities such as Red Deer, which is a significant oilfield services centre.

Those kinds of economic good news stories have

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not been lost on job seekers, who are moving to the area and need housing.

“The majority of the people who I have found who are moving to Central Alberta are in some sort of oilfield-related work,” said Parent, a realtor based out of Lacombe with 11 years of experience.

“There are lots of new-built houses to keep up with what the demand is. The number of active listings remain stable.”

Also, despite occasional rumblings that interest rates are due to increase, it hasn’t happened. Fears that banks would tighten mortgage requirements enough to keep people out of the housing market also hasn’t materialized.

“It’s been fairly steady,” she said, adding few clients have been turned down for home loans.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The National Energy Board has sided with Kinder Morgan in a dispute with the City of Burnaby over access to Burnaby Mountain.

The company can proceed with necessary studies of its preferred pipeline route through the mountain without the city’s consent.

In a decision released Tuesday, the National Energy Board confirmed that under federal legislation the company doesn’t need permission to access the land that is home to Simon Fraser University and a vast nature preserve.

“It would not be logical that the Board be required to recommend approval or denial of a project without all necessary information before it,” the board said in a decision posted online.

“This would not be in the public interest.”

Kinder Morgan would prefer to bore its pipeline through the mountain, rather than follow the current pipeline route through ‘IT WOULD NOT BE residential and LOGICAL THAT THE business areas.

The federal BOARD BE REQUIRED National EnTO RECOMMEND ergy Board Act APPROVAL OR DENIAL stipulates that a company may OF A PROJECT WITHOUT enter into the ALL NECESSARY land of any person that lies on INFORMATION BEFORE the intended IT.’ route to survey or otherwise as— NATIONAL ENERGY BOARD certain whether the land is suitable, the board found.

The company does not require an order from the national regulator for temporary access, it said.

“There is no requirement ... for companies to reach agreement with landowners, the Crown, or otherwise, before exercising the right to access land,” the board said.

It does note that the company could have made a formal request to the city sooner than it did.

“Throughout its submissions ... Burnaby mischaracterizes the nature of Trans Mountains’ request,” the board found.

The dispute has already caused a seven-month delay in the regulatory process.

The board panel will not have its final report to cabinet until Jan. 25, 2016.

Under the original schedule, the report was due July 2, 2015.

The $5.4-billion expansion project would almost triple the current capacity, from 300,000 barrels of oil a day to almost 900,000.

The City of Burnaby opposes the expansion.

In documents filed to the board, the city said “the ’engagement’ that Trans Mountain is requesting appears in some cases to constitute support or preapproval by Burnaby.”

In other cases it’s akin to city staff helping the company to meet its obligations to the National Energy Board, it said.

Project leader Carey Johannesson said the company tried for more than a year to come to some agreement with the Metro Vancouver city.

Initial studies can begin within days, he said.

“For us, it gives us the ability to be able to do the survey work — the engineering, environmental and archeological survey work — that we need to be able to do to satisfy the NEB,” said Johannesson.

“The first thing we need to do is see whether that’s technically feasible.”

Johannesson was circumspect about the dispute.

“We respect that they’ve got a perspective and an position,” he said.

“We’re still going to be reaching out and trying to work with them.”

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Calgary oil explorer Bellatrix target of activist investor Orange Partners

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Oil and gas developer Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. (TSX:BXE) has become the target of a U.S. activist investor.

In a regulatory filing Tuesday, New York-based Orange Capital LLC disclosed it has bought a 5.3 per cent stake in Bellatrix, which has land throughout Western Canada but is mainly focused on west-central Alberta.

The hedge fund said it plans to talk to the management of Calgary-based Bellatrix about ways to “maximize shareholder value.”

That could include hiring an outside adviser to make recommendations on “strategic alternatives, capital allocation and improved investor communications” as well as shaking up the energy company’s board of directors.

Orange also wants Bellatrix to take steps to bring its valuation “in line with its intrinsic value,” adding the company currently lags its Canadian peers.

In addition, it wants Bellatrix to stop raising financing in ways that hurt its stock price and to better explain to investors how it intends to use any future capital.

And Bellatrix is being pressed to explore a potential joint-venture, spinout or sale of midstream assets — essentially those used to transport and process natural gas.

Shares in Bellatrix closed up more than 10 per cent at $8.73 on the Toronto Stock Exchange .

AltaCorp Capital analyst Jeremy McCrea said he was a bit surprised to see an activist investor take an interest in Bellatrix, which he says has performed well over the past three years.

“The management team’s done an exceptional job of growing production and cash flow,” he said.

However, Bellatrix has “stumbled a bit” on the communication front, said McCrea.

For instance, he agrees the company could have done a better job outlining how it would use proceeds from an equity issue earlier this year.

Some investors are also having a hard time understanding what Bellatrix’s midstream infrastructure is worth, said McCrea.

“You can see the long-term plan in doing this and there’s some short-term pain while it’s being developed and I think that’s the issue,” he said.

“It’s hard to put a value on the strategic nature of these assets sometimes.”

Loonie tumbles almost half a cent THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian dollar fell almost half a U.S. cent Tuesday as the greenback appreciated in the wake of data showing weak inflation in the United States and other reports pointing to a rebound in the American housing sector.

The loonie closed down 0.48 of a cent at 91.38 cents US as U.S. consumer prices rose in July at the slowest pace in five months, held back by a drop in gasoline prices.

The U.S. Labor Department says consumer prices edged up a seasonally adjusted 0.1 per cent last month, which met expectations.

Over the past 12 months, consumer inflation has gone up two per cent, meeting a target set by the Federal Reserve, while inflation excluding food and energy is up 1.9 per cent.

The latest read on inflation came ahead of the release Wednesday of the minutes from the latest Fed interest rate meeting.

Then, on Friday, Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen delivers the keynote address at the central bank’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Yellen is expected to again signal to the market that the central bank is in no rush to hike rates and when it does, the pace will be gradual.

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Meanwhile, there was also further indication of a rebound in the U.S. housing sector as home construction jumped 15.7 per cent in July to an annualized rate of 1.09 million, the fastest pace in eight months.

That came on the heels of a strong builders sentiment survey released on Monday.

And home improvement retailer Home Depot also reported a strong recent quarter with earnings up 14 per cent.

A calmer geopolitical backdrop seemed to also support markets Tuesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said issues related to sending a humanitarian convoy to Ukraine were resolved following weekend talks in Berlin with his counterparts from Ukraine, Germany and France. Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier reported progress on “some issues,” though Lavrov said there was no decision on establishing a ceasefire between the government and pro-Russian rebels.

Prices were lower on the commodity marets where September crude on the Nymex declined $1.93 to a seven-month low of US$94.48 a barrel.

Prices have plunged 10 per cent in the past month as it has become less likely that Islamic State insurgents would seriously impede Iraqi oil production.

September copper was down two cents at US$3.09 a pound and December bullion fell $2.60 to US$1,296.70 and ounce.

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The Economist Intelligence Unit’s most and least livable cities list TORONTO — A quick list of the most and least livable cities according to a survey of 140 cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit: Top 10 Most Liveable Cities 1. Melbourne, Australia 2. Vienna, Austria 3. Vancouver, Canada 4. Toronto, Canada 5. Adelaide, Australia 5. Calgary, Canada 7. Sydney, Australia 8. Helsinki, Finland 9. Perth, Australia 10. Auckland, New Zealand The Bottom 10 131. Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire 132. Tripoli, Libya 133. Douala, Cameroon 134. Harare, Zimbabwe 135. Algiers, Algeria 136. Karachi, Pakistan 137. Lagos, Nigeria 138. Port Moresby, P. New Guinea 139. Dhaka, Bangladesh 140. Damascus, Syria

Farmers hit by flooding, rail delays given more time to repay cash advances OTTAWA — Western farmers unable to market last fall’s crop due to rail delays and other transportation issues due to flooding have been granted more time to repay their 2013 cash advances.

The federal government’s Advance Payments Program fronts money to farmers based on the value of their agricultural products so as to improve their cash flow throughout the year.

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says grain and oilseeds producers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia are being given an extra six months to repay.

The six-month grace period also extends to producers who received an advance through the Manitoba Corn Growers Association.

The original repayment deadline of Sept. 30 has been moved to March 31 of next year.

Last year’s harvest was 76 million tonnes — 50 per cent higher than average — and put significant pressure on grain handling and transportation.

Flooding across Saskatchewan and Manitoba further hampered crop movement due to limited access to roads and highways.

A repayment extension for producers who received cash from the Canadian Canola Growers Association was announced last month.

Couche-Tard unlikely bidder for Sinopec Sales minority stake, analyst

McDonald’s to sell packaged coffee in push to highlight coffee in U.S. restaurants NEW YORK — McDonald’s plans to start selling its packaged coffee at supermarkets nationally by early next year, a move intended to help raise the profile of the coffee sold at its U.S. restaurants.

The world’s biggest hamburger chain has made a deal with Kraft Foods to manufacture and distribute the bags of McCafe ground and whole bean coffee, as well as single-cup pods that can be used in at-home coffee machines. Other chains, such as Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, already sell branded packaged coffee at retailers.

McDonald’s, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, has highlighted coffee as a key growth opportunity, with CEO Don Thompson saying it can be a way to get customers into its more than 14,000 U.S. restaurants. The chain has redesigned its coffee cups to have a more appealing look that people would want to carry around. And it’s trying to make a bigger push into more profitable coffee drinks, such as flavoured lattes, rather than just drip coffee.

Last year, for instance, it introduced a pumpkin spice latte. A similar drink at Starbucks has a loyal following.

At an investor conference late last year, a McDonald’s executive noted the chain’s coffee sales have surged 70 per cent since the introduction of McCafe specialty coffees in 2009.

McDonald’s Corp. and Kraft Foods had said last year they were testing the packaged coffee in select markets.

Before Kraft split with Mondelez in late 2012, the packaged food maker had distributed Starbucks packaged coffee. But Starbucks broke off the relationship in 2010, saying Kraft failed to live up to its contract. Kraft challenged the early termination of the deal, and an arbitrator last year ruled that Starbucks had to pay $4.76 billion to settle the dispute. That award goes to Mondelez International.

Maple Armor to manufacture fire alarm system at new Quebec plant, create 70 jobs SAINT-BRUNO-DE-MONTARVILLE, Que. — Maple Armor Canada Inc. will build a new plant to manufacture fire alarm systems in Quebec, a move that will create 70 jobs once the plant is operational.

Solutions D’alarme Incendie Maple Armor, one of the first Chinese companies to invest in manufacturing in that province, says it will invest $30 million in the plant. It’s expected to begin production by the end of 2015.

The company says it chose to set up operations in North America because of its highly qualified labour force and because it provided easy access to new markets. Maple Armor Canada is part of Beida Jade Bird Universal Fire Alarm Devices Ltd., a subsidiary of the Chinese company Beida Jade Bird Group.

Never too early to start saving for your child’s education “Derek, we were recently blessed by the arrival of our first child. How could we begin saving for her future education?”First of all, congratulations on this addition to your family.

Children are a great joy and I know my two boys keep me young, or at least young at heart. While it’s hard to imagine this new bundle of joy attending university, it’s DEREK never too early FUCHS to start saving.

Recent studies show that universities in Canada can average from $10,000 to $20,000 per year for full-time study.

With this number in hand, it’s important to consider your choices and to plan ahead. One common choice is to consider saving using a registered education savings plan (RESP), which can be easily opened with most financial institutions, banks or credit unions.

The RESP is a Government of Canada sponsored program that can provide grants based on your deposits and in some cases the level of income of the family.

Perhaps the most valuable feature of the RESP is the ability to receive grants from the Government of Canada and various provinces.

For example, if you contribute up to $2,500 in any given year, you may be able to receive a grant up to $500 from the Government of Canada — who doesn’t like a built-in 20 per cent return? Beyond this, depending on your family’s level of net income, you may even be able to qualify for an additional grant. Also, as an Alberta resident, your child may qualify for the Alberta centennial education savings plan grant (ACES).

This includes a $500 grant if they were born in 2005 or later, as well as subsequent grants once they reach various ages. Simply put, even a small savings can grow into a notable sum once you factor in the available grants.

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anteed investment certificates (GICs), bonds and even stocks.

As with any investment, it’s important to consider your time horizon and risk tolerance prior to making a decision on how to invest.

I also find that it’s good practice to open up a “family RESP” instead of an “individual RESP.” A family RESP allows you to have multiple beneficiaries under one plan whereby the funds can be shared for future education purposes.

The benefit here of course is if little Suzie decides to be a doctor while her younger brother Johnny decides to take over the family business.

Chances are Suzie will need access to even more savings and the family plan allows you to take advantage of that easily. A family plan can even be set up for just one child with other children added to the plan down the road. You should also be aware that the RESPs don’t have to be used to attend a high-end university.

In fact, the definitions of post-secondary education are quite broad, so don’t worry if your little munchkin would rather swing a hammer than reach for a stethoscope — it’s likely your RESP could be used for education in either case. It’s also important to understand what happens if your child decides not to pursue higher education, particularly after you’ve saved diligently and earned grants along the way. In short, you can always get access to the money you put in, but you may have to pay penalties to withdraw any interest, and you may lose the grants altogether. That said, there are various strategies that you may be able to take advantage of, including the ability to move some funds to your RRSP or transfer the funds to another child. For specifics here, it’s best to contact a qualified financial adviser or even discuss it with your accountant.

My final thought is that the cost of education is notable and not expected to slow down anytime soon. While it’s easy to focus on the best diapers, the healthiest baby foods and the trendiest strollers, a little foresight can go a long way. Starting a savings plan now, even a few dollars a month, may be able to give your child a great start in their adult life.

Derek Fuchs is a wealth adviser with ScotiaMcLeod in Red Deer, and a certified financial planner, financial management adviser and a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. He can be contacted at derek.fuchs@scotiamcleod.com.

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HOMES: Confidence is returning House prices have mostly recovered from the economic downturn, with the exception of the highest end homes.

“It shows that the confidence is returning, or has returned basically, especially Central Alberta but I think all of Alberta.”

Parent said August has already been a solid month, although it has cooled slightly, which is typical because so many people are on holiday.

The fall push will indicate how

close the year comes to the annual record.

“I think it will be close,” she said.

The number of listings is also up, with 932 available in July, up five per cent from a year ago and another record.

Average price of houses sold in the region is $304,270, a light 1.2 per cent drop from last year at this time.

Specific Red Deer statistics are no longer available through the realtors association.

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MONTREAL — It is unlikely that Alimentation Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD.B) will buy a minority stake in China’s Sinopec Sales, the world’s largest fuel retail network, an analyst said Tuesday after a report the Quebec-based retailer made the short list of potential bidders.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Irene Nattel said it doesn’t make sense for Couche-Tard to purchase a stake in Sinopec Sales because it would not give it much, if any, control over the Chinese company.

“ATD (Couche-Tard) remains active on the acquisition hunt and as a key global player in the consolidating cstore (convenience store) industry, we would expect management to take a close look at potential transactions of all shapes and sizes,” she wrote in a note to clients.

“But given the capital commitment and lack of control, we believe Sinopec Sales is an unlikely candidate for ATD.” State-run Sinopec, formerly known as China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., is planning on selling a 30 per

cent interest in Sinopec Sales by the end of the year. The stake is estimated to be valued at US$16 billion.

Citing unidentified sources, the Reuters news agency said Couche-Tard has been approved to join the bidding process for a stake in Sinopec Sales, along with China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd., China Life Insurance Co Ltd., ENN Energy Holdings Ltd., Fosun Group, Hopu Investment Management and Affinity Equity Partners.

It’s unclear how many companies will be make up the short list. Bids are due at the end of August, the news agency reported.

Nattel noted the potential deal exceeds the amount she believes CoucheTard has set aside for acquisitions.

“The capital required for this transaction far exceeds our estimate of ATD’s stand-alone balance sheet capacity around $2 billion and we believe a capital commitment of that magnitude for a minority stake in the subsidiary of a state-run Chinese company could be an unlikely proposition for ATD,” she wrote.

“A transaction of this magnitude would also likely delay any credit rating upgrade, which the company has been hoping for and working towards.”

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 111.39 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.09 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.96 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 53.96 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.78 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed sharply higher Tuesday as a solid earnings report from the biggest U.S. home improvement retailer and a surge in housing starts reinforced sentiment that the American housing sector is rebounding.

The S&P/TSX composite index ran ahead 138.7 points to 15,477.17.

The Canadian dollar lost 0.48 of a cent to 91.38 cents US as the greenback strengthened following data that showed American housing starts surged 15.7 per cent in July to an annualized rate of 1.1 million units, the highest level in eight months. That came on the heels of a strong builders sentiment survey released Monday.

The Dow Jones industrials was ahead 80.85 points to 16,919.59, the Nasdaq was up 19.2 points to 4,527.51 and the S&P 500 index rose 9.86 points to 1,981.6.

“The construction data is very important because of jobs,” said Paul Taylor, chief investment officer, asset allocation, BMO Asset Management.

“The housing-related jobs have not really contributed over the last couple of years (to overall employment growth) and the fact that we’re at 1.1 million housing starts is a strong number. So housing is certainly no longer a headwind, it’s a strong tailwind and that’s an important factor.”

However, he added that it’s unlikely to persuade the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates earlier than generally expected, around mid-2015.

There was further positive news from the housing sector as Home Depot Inc. (NYSE:HD) reported its quarterly profit increased by 14 per cent to US$2.05 billion, or $1.52 per share, beating estimates by eight cents. The home-improvement retailer said revenue rose nearly six per cent to $23.81 billion, better than forecasts of $23.57 billion and its shares rose $4.64

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Canadian rival Rona (TSX:RON) advanced 21 cents or 1.6 per cent to C$13.24 on the TSX. Meanwhile, traders awaited possible guidance on the pace of interest rate increases by the U.S. Federal Reserve in 2015 when chairwoman Janet Yellen delivers the keynote address at the central bank’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyo. She is expected to again signal to the market that the central bank is in no rush to hike rates and when it does, the pace will be gradual.

Most TSX sectors were positive, led by a 1.85 per cent rise in the energy sector even as September crude dropped $1.93 to a seven-month low of US$94.48.

Prices have plunged 10 per cent in the past month as it has become less likely that Islamic State insurgents would seriously impede Iraqi oil production.

The consumer staples sector was up 0.37 per cent with shares in Alimentation Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD.B) ahead 44 cents to C$31.33 after Reuters reported the Quebec-based retailer is among those shortlisted to buy a minority stake in China’s Sinopec Sales, the world’s largest fuel retail network. State-run Sinopec Sales is planning on selling a 30 per cent stake by the end of the year. The minority stake has an estimated value of US$16 billion.

The gold sector was down about 0.35 per cent as December bullion faded $2.60 to US$1,296.70 an ounce.

September copper was two cents lower at US$3.09 a pound and the base metals sector lost 0.32 per cent.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,477.17, up 138.70 points Dow — 16,919.59, up 80.85 points S&P 500 — 1,981.60, up 9.86 points

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Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 $1.00 unchanged 135.00; Dec. ’14 $1.00 unchanged $137.00; March ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; May ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; July ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; Oct. ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; Dec. ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; March ’16 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; May ’16 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; July ’16 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; Oct. ’16 $1.00 unchanged $138.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 277,980 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 277,980.

PetSmart to consider selling itself after pressure from investors, announces cost cuts PetSmart says it is considering putting itself up for sale after receiving pressure from investors.

The pet supply chain said Tuesday that it will weigh “strategic alternatives” after a board review that included conversations with shareholders.

Investment firm Longview Asset Management and hedge fund Jana Partners have both pushed PetSmart to think about a sale.

The company also says it plans to

cut costs and is focusing on pet food, exclusive brands and services, online shoppers and a loyalty program.

The Phoenix-based company in May cut its earnings outlook for the year, citing a challenging consumer environment and competition.

PetSmart said Tuesday that its second-quarter earnings rose 5.1 per cent to $98.1 million, or 98 cents per share, while revenue rose 1.4 per cent to $1.73 billion. It left its guidance unchanged.

B.C. mine breach leads nuclear safety commission to seek safety checks

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A toxic spill from a British Columbia mine has prompted the country’s nuclear watchdog to request a series of checks at uranium facilities.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will discuss the failure of the tailings pond at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine during a meeting Wednesday.

In the interim, the commission has asked the uranium mining and milling operations it oversees to ensure that all necessary inspections and monitoring are in compliance with licence conditions.

“The recent tailings dam breach that occurred at the Mount Polley mine in British Columbia on Aug. 4, 2014, has raised awareness of issues associated with tailings impoundments,” said a letter sent to Areva Resources, Cameco Corp. (TSX:CCO), Rio Algom, Willet Green Miller, P.J. Brugger and Associates, EWL Management Ltd. and Denison Mines Inc. (TSX:DML).

“This is a reminder that vigilance must be maintained by ensuring that tailings dams continue to be properly designed, constructed, operated, maintained and monitored to prevent such occurrences.”

The companies were asked to confirm that mitigation measures are in place in the event of a tailings breach.

They’re also asked to confirm the safety of tailings facilities and report any identified gaps to the commission

by Sept. 15.

Canada — once the world’s largest producer of uranium — has four active uranium mine sites, all in Saskatchewan. There are also several closed or decommissioned uranium mines in Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories and Ontario.

Gord Struthers, spokesman for Cameco, said all active uranium operations store tailings in mined-out pits. They’re

below ground level and do not require dams to contain the slurry.

There are decommissioned operations that did use above-ground tailings storage, but those tailings are dry so there is no volume of water that could leak, he said.

“There’s not possibility of that type of accident. None whatsoever,” Struthers said. “That’s not to say we’re complacent about it.”

Cameco will have no difficulty meeting the requests of the federal regulator, he said, adding that uranium mining has justifiably rigorous oversight.

On Monday, the B.C. mines minister ordered all mining companies in the province to inspect their own tailings ponds.

Bill Bennett also ordered an independent investigation into the failure of the earthen dam forming the tailings pond at the mine owned by Imperial Metals (TSX:III).

The breach sent 10 million cubic metres of waste water and 4.5 million cubic metres of silt into a network of salmon-bearing lakes and rivers near Likely, 600 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.

The reason for the failure at Mount Polley is not yet known.

Jessica Draker, spokeswoman for the Mining Association of Canada, reiterated Tuesday that the incident is a concern for the entire industry.

“Like everyone else, we’ll be paying close attention to the outcome of the investigations in B.C.,” she said.

As part of the next round of inspections at uranium sites, nuclear commission staff will conduct “walk-down” inspections of above-ground tailings management facilities to verify safety control measures, the agency said in the letter.

“As the investigations into the Mount Polley event are completed, CNSC staff may request further measures to address any identified issues or concerns that may be applicable...,” it said.

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SPORTS

B4 Let the position battles begin

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 2014

REBELS CAMP TO OPEN WITH OPPORTUNITY FOR PLAYERS TO CRACK LINEUP

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The Red Deer Rebels open training camp Thursday as a team that doesn’t appear to have many openings up front but could feature a new-look back end for the 2014-15 Western Hockey League season.

With the departure of graduating forwards Rhyse Dieno and Lucas Sutter and the offseason retirement of Vukie Mpofu, as few as three forward berths are up for grabs. Mason McCarty and Brayden Burke, both 17, are at the front of the employment line, along with 16-year-old Jeff de Wit. “There’s a couple, maybe three to four spots available,” Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter said Tuesday. “We brought in a lot of 16-year-olds last year (seven, including part-timers McCarty and Burke). As it stands, this year our only 16s will be Jeff and (defenceman Josh) Mahura and it will be interesting to see who else might be close.”

The Rebels’ 2014-15 roster will be top heavy with 17- and 18-year-olds as Sutter continues to build towards what he hopes will be a successful bid to host the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament.

“We’ll have probably 12 players who are still eligible to play at the midget level,” said the Rebels boss, “so we’re still going to be a young team.

The difference now is that a lot of these guys have experience in our league. We went

young last year knowing that it could affect us, but that was a decision we made when we were looking ahead to bidding for the Memorial Cup.” Carolina Hurricanes firstround NHL entry draft pick Haydn Fleury will anchor the Rebels’ defence this winter, along with fellow veterans Kayle Doetzel and Brett Cote, acquired from the Victoria Royals in May. Mahura is a virtual pick for another blueline berth and imports Hugo Jansons and Mario Grman will both get every chance to crack the lineup.

Also in the mix are returnees Nick Charif, Kirk Bear, Devan Faford and Kolton Dixon, rookie hopefuls Austin Shmoorkoff and Austin Strand, both 17, and new face Alex Pernitsky, 18. Bear and Dixon are 19 and Fafard is 20, and with all three slotted in as forwards for main camp, they might have to find employment at that position.

Jansons, a native of Latvia and Red Deer’s first-round pick in this year’s CHL import draft, and second-round pick Grman arrived in Red Deer Monday. Sutter hasn’t seen either player skate but is impressed with their physical dimensions.

“They’re good-sized kids.

Both are in the six-foot-one, 190-pound range,” said Sutter.

Pernitsky is a listed, unsigned player, but Sutter and his coaching staff gave the sixfoot, 190-pound defender the thumbs up on the few occasions they watched him play

last season. The Unity, Sask., native accumulated seven goals, 25 points and 30 penalty minutes in 35 regular-season games for the midget AAA Battlefords Stars, and another 12 points (3-9) in 10 playoff outings.

“We’re hoping he can push to make our team,” said Sutter.

“Last year he was very dominant at the midget AAA level as a 17-year-old. He’s a big, solid kid who’s a pretty good skater and can really shoot the puck. We saw him play last year and liked him, but is he ready for this level? That’s what we have to see through

training camp and practices.”

The club currently has four 20-year-olds in Fafard, Cote, Brooks Maxwell and Aspen Sterzer, meaning one will have to be traded or released by mid-October.

Maxwell, Sterzer and Colorado Avalanche first-round pick Conner Bleackley will be expected to put up 20-plus goals this season. Other potential 20-goal scorers include Adam Musil, Scott Feser, Grayson Pawlenchuk, Wyatt Johnson, Presten Kopeck and possibly Evan Polei, who was one of the club’s bright spots down the 2013-14 stretch and has been

invited to attend the St. Louis Blues camp next month.

Of course, the Rebels’ offence will only improve if the defencemen move the puck to the forwards with authority.

Of the potential blueline newcomers, Mahura is a talented puck mover and the two imports are advertised as such.

“The forwards are all a year older and you always want to see improvement from them,” said Sutter, who is well aware of the fact that a mobile defence will make a larger difference in terms of creating more team offence.

“If we’ve been told the right things about the European players, they’re going to add more ability on the back end and be guys who can go back and get pucks and move pucks.

But there’s going to be an adjustment time for them.”

Just two goaltenders — returnee Taz Burman, 17, and 18-year-old Rylan Toth — are on the Rebels’ main camp roster. Clearly, they’ll be expected to carry the load in 2014-15.

“Hopefully they can give us some quality games. We’ll have to use them both which should make us that much better next year,” said Sutter.

With the heavy influx of new players this year and last, Sutter is hoping that the club has the proper building blocks to become a serious contender in the not-too-distant future, that he doesn’t have to wheel and deal to find the proper pieces.

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Ten years later a settlement is reached in Bertuzzi-Moore lawsuit earlier this year, he told The Canadian Press he still suffers from headaches and low TORONTO — A settle- energy.

Moore said in the March ment has been reached in Steve Moore’s lawsuit against interview, just a day before NHL forward Todd Bertuzzi, the 10th anniversary of the inmore than 10 years after the cident, that the lawsuit was infamous on-ice attack ended not so much about the money as being compensated for the Moore’s career.

Geoff Adair, a lawyer for loss of his dreams.

“I lost my entire career in Bertuzzi, confirmed the case has been “settled in its total- my rookie year,” he said. “I ity” but said the terms are con- think any player put in that situation would do the same fidential.

The multimillion-dollar thing. I can’t recover anything lawsuit had been scheduled to else. I can’t recover my career, the experience of living out go to trial Sept. 8.

“We are pleased that the my dream from the time I was resolution of this matter al- two and half years old of playlows the parties to turn the ing in the NHL.” It all started on Feb. 16, page and look to the future,” NHL deputy commissioner 2004, when Moore flattened Naslund with an open ice hit Bill Daly said in an email.

Messages seeking comment that put Vancouver’s scoring star out with from Moore’s a concuslawyer, Ber‘WE ARE PLEASED sion but was tuzzi’s agent and the Ca- THAT THE RESOLUTION deemed legal by the NHL. nucks were OF THIS MATTER Major renot immediately returned ALLOWS THE PARTIES taliation was expected.

Tuesday.

TO TURN THE PAGE Vancouver’s The noAND LOOK TO THE Brad May was torious hit quoted as sayhappened on FUTURE.’ ing there was March 8, 2004.

Bertuzzi, then —BILL DALY a “bounty” on playing for NHL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Moore’s head.

But when the the Vancouteams next ver Canucks, hit Moore from behind, send- met on March 3, with NHL ing the hapless Colorado Ava- commissioner Gary Bettman lanche rookie crashing face- in the house, there were no first to the ice and leaving him incidents.

The fireworks came in their with a concussion and fracMarch 8 game, a 9-2 Colorado tured vertebrae.

Moore alleges the Canucks win.

Moore squared off against had put a bounty on his head following his check that left Matt Cooke in the first period, their captain Markus Naslund a fight that was considered a injured. Bertuzzi pleaded draw. It appeared that was the guilty to criminal assault caus- end of it. But things got nasty ing bodily harm for the hit and in the third frame. Moore was was sentenced in December challenged again. He turned 2004 to one year probation and away. Bertuzzi skated up be80 hours of community service. hind him, tugging on his jerThere has been years of le- sey, then punching him from gal wrangling since then. The behind and falling on top of civil case was filed in Ontario him as other players piled on.

Moore lay motionless on court in 2006 but was marred the ice in a pool of blood beby several delays.

Moore, now 35, never fully fore being stretchered off and recovered from his injuries taken to hospital. and was unable to continue his career. In an interview Please see SUIT on Page B5

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Milwaukee Brewers’ Jonathan Lucroy slides safely past Toronto Blue Jays catcher Dioner Navarro, center, during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, in Milwaukee.

Blue Jays get blasted by Brewers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Brewers 6 Blue Jays 1 MILWAUKEE — Fresh off another stellar outing, Mike Fiers first wanted to talk about a rough patch early in the game and offer credit to his defence.

“I think early on I was a little erratic around the strike zone and then I pulled it together later on,” said Fiers, who won his third consecutive start since being recalled from Triple-A Nashville on Aug. 9 as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 6-1 Tuesday.

“My defence came through.

There were a lot of great plays.”

Fiers (3-1) was plenty spectacular himself, holding the Blue Jays to two hits and one run over seven innings. He retired the final 18 batters he faced in a 106-pitch outing.

After throwing 44 pitches through two innings, Fiers took control of the game.

“I wanted to be aggressive

in the strike zone and make them swing the bat,” he said.

Fiers, who struck out six and walked one, left the field to a standing ovation, waving briefly to the sellout crowd.

“I feel like I can pitch this way and compete well at this level,” he said.

Jonathan Lucroy and Aramis Ramirez each had a pair of doubles for Milwaukee, which won its fifth consecutive game.

“I didn’t expect anything less the way he’s been pitching,” Lucroy said of Fiers’ performance. “He’s throwing strikes, working ahead, executing.”

Fiers has given up two runs over his three starts.

The Brewers jumped on Toronto starter J.A. Happ (88) immediately, belting three doubles to take a 2-0 lead in the first inning.

The Blue Jays, who have lost six of seven, got on the board in the second on Munenori Kawasaki’s RBI ground out.

The Brewers added two doubles in the third to extend

their lead to 4-1. Milwaukee hitters connected for another pair of doubles in the fifth and added two more runs.

Happ lasted just 3 1-3 innings, giving up six hits and four runs. It marked his shortest start since going just 2 1-3 innings against the Los Angeles Angels on May 10.

DOUBLE TROUBLE: The Brewers set a season high with seven doubles. The team single-game record is nine, accomplished four times. Lucroy’s two doubles brought his season total to 42.

“I got a couple mistakes up in the zone and I was able to take advantage,” Lucroy said.

No primary catcher has ever led his league in doubles for a season.

Lucroy, who played first base in Tuesday’s game, has 35 doubles as a catcher, six as a first baseman and one as a designated hitter.

“Luc always has good atbats,” Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said.

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REBELS: Building “This is a year we’re hoping we can do a lot of building from within,” he said.

“We don’t want to have to make a bunch of trades. There have been too many quick fixes made in recent years because of elements that just unfolded.

We can’t be that way.

“We can’t be making a pile of trades, and that starts with having the right players come into your program from the get-go. I’m feeling more comfortable that way than I have the last couple of years.” ● Just notes: Fleury, who recently signed a three-year entry-level deal with Carolina, is currently in New York at an NHL licensing/skills event and won’t attend the Rebels camp.

He’ll be back in Red Deer next week . . . De Wit will also miss camp after suffering an injury at the recent Hockey Canada under-16 development camp in Calgary . . . All players — rookies and veterans — will register for camp today and the first ice time is set for 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. Thursday (rookie goalies) . . . The camp will conclude with the Black and White intrasquad game at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Centrium.

Camp itinerary Thursday — Rookie goalies, 9:15-9:45 a.m.; rookie scrimmage, 10-11:30 a.m.; alumni pro skate, 12-1:30 p.m.; main practice, 2-3:30 p.m.; rookie scrimmage, 4-5:30 p.m.

Friday — Main practice Group A, 8-8:45 a.m.; rookie scrimmage, 9-10:30 a.m.; main practice Group B, 10:45-11:30 a.m.; alumni pro skate, 12-1:30 p.m.; rookie scrimmage, 3-4:30 p.m.; main game, 5-6:30 p.m.

Saturday — Main practice Group B, 8-8:45 a.m.; rookie scrimmage, 9-10:30 a.m.; main practice Group A, 10:4511:30 a.m.; alumni pro skate, 12-1:30 p.m.; main game, 4:30-6 p.m.

Sunday — Pre-game skate Team Black, 8:30-9:15 a.m.; pre-game skate Team White, 9:30-10:15 a.m.; Black and White game, 5 p.m.

Main camp roster (includes year of birth and hometown) (x-returnee) Goal — x-Taz Burman, 1997, Vancouver; Rylan Toth, ‘96, Saskatoon.

Defence — Alex Pernitsky, 1996, Unity, Sask; x-Kayle Doetzel, ‘96, Rosetown, Sask.; Brett Cote, ‘94, Oak Bank, Man.; Hugo Jansons, ‘97, Riga, Latvia; x-Nick Charif, ‘95, Edmonton; Mario Grman, ‘97, Topolcany, Slovakia; Austin Shmoorkoff, ‘97, Edmonton; Austin Strand, ‘97, Calgary.

Forwards — x-Evan Polei, 1996, Edmonton; x-Conner Bleackley, ‘96, High River; x-Brooks Maxwell, ‘94, Raymond; x-Meyer Nell, ‘97, Boissevain, Man.; x-Presten Kopeck, ‘95, Medicine Hat; x-Wyatt Johnson, ‘95, Saskatoon; x-Grayson Pawlenchuk, ‘97, Ardrossan; x-Adam Musil, ‘97, Delta, B.C.; Mason McCarty, ‘97, Blackie; x-Devan Fafard, ‘94, Carlyle, Sask.; x-Scott Feser, ‘95, Red Deer; x-Cole Chorney, ‘96, Beaumont; x-Kirk Bear, ‘95, Whitewood, Sask.; Brayden Burke, ‘97, Edmonton; x-Kolton Dixon, ‘95, Red Deer.

Rookie camp (includes year of birth and hometown) Team Grey Goal — Colby Entz, 1998, Churchbridge, Sask.; Linden Boulet, ‘99, Clairmont.

Defence — Carson Sass, 1999, Melville, Sask.; Cale Chalifoux, ‘98, Edmonton; Kyle Sargent, ‘98, Carlyle, Sask.; Tylor Ludwar, ‘99, Regina; Matthew Kasowski, ‘99, St. Albert; Austin Wagner, ‘99, Medicine Hat. Forwards — Josh Logel, 1998, Calgary; Jake Lechyshyn, ‘99, Grasswood, Sask.; Austin Pratt, ‘99, Lakeville,

Minn.; Chase Stevenson, ‘99, West Kelowna; Quinton McAndrews, ‘98, Edmonton; Brayden Labant, ‘99, St. Paul; Bronson Littlechilds, ‘98, Edmonton; Tanner Sidaway, ‘99, Victoria; Zachary Gladu, ‘98, Medicine Hat; Cruz Cote, ‘99, Falher; Luke Farrell, ‘99, Bruderheim.

Team Burgundy Goal — Dawson Weatherill, ‘99, Red Deer; Alex Geddes, ‘99, Yorkton, Sask.

Defence — Josh Mahura, ‘98, St. Albert; Boo Grist, ‘99, North Saanich, B.C.; Ethan Sakowich, ‘99, Athabasca; Max Salpeter, 1998, St. Albert; Wyatt Arndt, ‘99, Weyburn, Sask.; Carter Brown, ‘98, Edmonton; Malcolm Thakurdeen, ‘99, Saskatoon.

Forwards — Chance Adrian, ‘99, Dalmeny, Sask.; Shane Sherban, ‘98, Lanigan, Sask.; Reese Johnson, ‘98, Saskatoon; Akash Bains, ‘99, Delta, B.C.; Tyler Kirkup, ‘98, Virden, Man.; Caleb Riess, ‘98, Rocanville, Sask.; Seth Benson, ‘99, Moorhead, Minn.; Austin LeDuc, ‘98, Okotoks; Jake Langenhahn, ‘99, St. Albert; Mason Issel, ‘99, Prince Albert, Sask.; Drayson Skulmoski, ‘98, Moosomin, Sask. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

JAYS: Record The major league record for doubles by a catcher in a season is 45 by the Rangers’ Ivan Rodriguez in 1996.

TRAINER’S ROOM: Brewers: RHP Jim Henderson, on the disabled list

Chronological look at Steve Moore-Todd Bertuzzi case Feb. 16, 2004: Colorado Avalanche rookie Steve Moore levels Vancouver Canucks captain Markus Naslund with an open-ice hit. The league rules the hit is legal despite the fact that Naslund suffers a concussion. Canucks players were later quoted as saying there was a bounty on Moore’s head following the attack.

March 3, 2004: The Canucks and Avalanche face off amid fears of retaliation, but with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman at the game, there are no incidents.

March 8, 2004: The expected retaliation comes in a rematch between the two teams. Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi punches Moore from behind and falls on top of him, allowing other players to pile on. Moore is removed from the ice on a stretcher and ultimately suffers a concussion and three fractured vertebrae. The injuries ultimately end his NHL career.

March 10, 2004: Bertuzzi makes a tearful apology to Moore.

March 11, 2004: The NHL suspends Bertuzzi for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs and fines the Canucks $250,000. Bertuzzi wouldn’t return to the ice for 17 months as a result of the suspension and the lockout that cancelled the 2004-’05 hockey season.

June 24, 2004: Bertuzzi is charged with assault after an investigation into the hit.

Dec. 17, 2004: The International Ice Hockey Federation suspends Bertuzzi, barring him from playing for overseas teams during the 2004-’05 lockout or representing Canada in international competition.

Dec. 22, 2004: Bertuzzi pleads guilty to criminal assault causing bodily harm for the hit and is sentenced to one year probation and 80 hours of community service.

February 2005: Moore attempts to file a lawsuit against Bertuzzi in Denver. Months later, the presiding judge would throw the case out, ruling it would be better handled in Canada.

Aug. 8, 2005: Bertuzzi is reinstated

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 B5 since May, had right shoulder surgery on Tuesday, ending his season. .RHP Matt Garza, on the 15-day DL with an oblique strain, could return to the rotation in early September, and RHP Kyle Lohse, who is nursing a sore ankle, won’t pitch during the five-game home stand, manager Ron Roenicke said.

Blue Jays: Edwin Encarnacion, who was activated on Friday after missing more than a month with a quad injury, started at first base. He started the The Red Deer TBS Rampage had a previous three games at DH, not an op- tough start at the Founders Cup, losing tion in the National League ballpark. 10-9 to host Nova Scotia in Halifax on “We need him,” manager John GibTuesday. bons said.

Reid Swier led the Rampage with ON DECK: Brewers: Rookie Jimmy seven points (four goals, three assists), Nelson (2-3. 3.86 ERA) has five consecutive quality starts and has been while Sean Tyrell had six points (4-2-6). counted on heavily with injuries to Connor Hartley scored Red Deer’s other goal and Austin Rockwell and DawGarza and Lohse. The Brewers are 4-3 in Nel- son Reykdal had three assists each.

The Rampage have a busy day today, son’s seven starts.

Blue Jays: R.A. Dickey (9-12. 3.95) playing the Saskatchewan S.W.A.T. at 8 will pitch the finale in the two-game a.m. and the Seneca WarChiefs out of series. Dickey’s nine losses on the road Ontario’s Iroquois Lacrosse Association at 2 p.m. are tied for the most in the majors.

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SUIT: Reinstated Bertuzzi was suspended for the rest of the regular season and the playoffs, which cost him about $502,000, and he didn’t play during the 2004-05 lockout season. But he was reinstated for the 2005-06 campaign and has since continued his career, most recently with Detroit. to the NHL. Dec. 21, 2005: Bertuzzi once again finds himself at the centre of controversy when he is named to the Canadian Olympic team for the Turin Winter Games.

February 2006: Moore and his family succeed in filing a multimilliondollar lawsuit against Bertuzzi, the Canucks and then-parent company Orca Bay. The suit, filed through the Ontario Superior Court, seeks to have Moore compensated for lost wages and other damages.

June 23, 2006: Bertuzzi is traded from the Canucks to the Florida Panthers.

Feb. 27, 2007: The Panthers trade Bertuzzi to the Detroit Red Wings.

July 2, 2007: Bertuzzi signs a twoyear deal with the Anaheim Ducks.

March 2008: Moore expands his lawsuit to name former Canucks head coach Marc Crawford. Bertuzzi sought to have Crawford included based on the claim that his NHL contract compelled him to take orders from his coach.

July 2008: Crawford claims Bertuzzi disobeyed direct orders to get off the ice when he attacked Moore.

July 7, 2008: Bertuzzi signs oneyear deal with the Calgary Flames.

Dec. 16, 2008: Bertuzzi and Moore meet face-to-face in a court-ordered mediation session intended to help resolve the lawsuit. The case ultimately proceeds.

Aug. 18, 2009: Bertuzzi returns to the Detroit Red Wings as a free agent.

September 2011: Moore’s lawyer, Tim Danson, discovers that Bertuzzi, Crawford and then-Canucks owner Orca Bay reached a settlement on how to share the liability should Moore win the lawsuit. Knowledge of the deal surfaced after Bertuzzi had dropped the third-party claim against Crawford. Danson ultimately won an appeal to have the terms of the settlement disclosed.

Feb. 23, 2012: The Red Wings resign Bertuzzi to a two-year deal worth more than $4 million.

Aug. 19, 2014: Bertuzzi’s lawyer says a settlement has been reached in the lawsuit but that terms are confidential.

Ottawa Senators sign forward Clarke MacArthur to a five-year contract extension

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Clarke MacArthur to a US$23.25-million, five-year contact extension.

The deal runs through the end of the 2019-’20 season and has an average annual value of $4.65 million, the team said in a release. MacArthur, a 29-year-old native of Lloydminster, Alta., scored a career-high 24 goals and had 31 assists in 79 games last season.

He also set career highs with a plus-12 rating and 78 penalty minutes.

“Obviously our happiness with his performance last year was a big reason to give him the term that we did,” general manager Bryan Murray said Tuesday on a conference call.

In 482 career regular-season NHL games with Buffalo, Atlanta, Toronto and Ottawa, MacArthur has 268 points (117-151) and 307 penalty minutes.

Murray described MacArthur as a “character guy,” who was a good fit with forward Kyle Turris last season.

“Obviously we’re quite happy with what he did,” Murray said. “He’s in that 20-to-25 goal range on a somewhat consistent basis and he’s a real complement to the young players who will

end up playing at some point with him.

Kyle Turris and him seemed to fit like a glove.

“Whoever plays on the right side I think will really benefit from playing with Clarke and Kyle. To me, it really solidifies a good pair that ... will make our team be a consistent contender.”

MacArthur was Buffalo’s thirdround pick (74th overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.

Canada goes home without win after losing to Nashville in consolation at LLWS SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Sam Slaughter homered twice and drove in six runs to help Nashville, Tennessee, beat Canada 12-9 in a consolation game Tuesday at the Little League World Series.

The catcher hit three-run homers in the first and fifth innings, while third baseman Blake Money hit a solo shot in the fifth.

Canada scored five runs in the sixth inning, but the Vancouver team’s comeback attempt came up short.

Both teams Little League World Series’ runs came to an end, as they were eliminated from contention last Saturday.

Jordan Sigalet named new goaltending coach for the Calgary Flames CALGARY — Jordan Sigalet is the new goaltending coach for the Calgary Flames.

The 33-year-old from New Westminster, B.C., spent the last two seasons coaching Calgary’s goaltending prospects with the Abbotsford Heat.

Sigalet replaces Clint Malarchuk, who parted ways with the Flames in March after three seasons.

Sigalet was the goaltending coach for the Western Hockey League’s Everett Silvertips prior to joining the Flames organization.

He was a seventh-round draft pick of the Boston Bruins in 2001. He was a conference all-star twice during his three seasons at Bowling Green University.

Sigalet played three seasons in the AHL with the Providence Bruins and retired in 2009 after one season in Vienna, Austria.

He joins head coach Bob Hartley, associate coach Jacques Cloutier, assistant coach Martin Gelinas, skills coach Domenic Pittis and video coach Jamie Pringle on staff for the 2014-’15 season.

Accident during rodeo mountain horse race kills 44-year-old B.C. man PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A horse race down a steep mountain slope in the B.C. Interior has claimed the life of a 44-year-old man.

The accident occurred Sunday afternoon at the Redstone Rodeo near the community of Alexis Creek, about 660 kilometres north of Vancouver.

Coroner Barb McLintock says some of the horses in the “high-risk sport” got too close to each other and three riders tumbled off their horses at a high rate of speed.

Jason Coutlee, of Merritt, B.C., was rushed to a medical clinic in Alexis Creek but died en route to Kelowna General Hospital.

Rodeo president Gerald William says eight riders were competing for a top prize of about $1,100, and the death was the first in the event’s 16-year history.

The coroners service is investigating.

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SCOREBOARD Baseball Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 70 55 .560 67 56 .545 63 61 .508 59 67 .468 55 69 .444

GB — 2 6 1/2 11 1/2 14 1/2

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Houston Texas

West Division W L Pct 74 50 .597 73 51 .589 68 57 .544 53 73 .421 48 77 .384

GB — 1 6 1/2 22 26 1/2

Monday’s Games Philadelphia 4, Seattle 1 L.A. Angels 4, Boston 2 Baltimore 8, Chicago White Sox 2 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 4 Tuesday’s Games Houston 7, N.Y. Yankees 4 Seattle 5, Philadelphia 2 Detroit 8, Tampa Bay 6, 11 innings L.A. Angels 4, Boston 3 Miami 4, Texas 3, 10 innings Baltimore 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Cleveland 7, Minnesota 5 Milwaukee 6, Toronto 1 Kansas City 7, Colorado 4 N.Y. Mets at Oakland, late Wednesday’s Games Texas (N.Martinez 2-9) at Miami (Eovaldi 6-7), 10:40 a.m.

Seattle (Paxton 3-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 6-6), 11:05 a.m.

Toronto (Dickey 9-12) at Milwaukee (J.Nelson 2-3), 12:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Za.Wheeler 8-8) at Oakland (Samardzija 3-2), 1:35 p.m.

Houston (Feldman 6-9) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 13-8) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 9-9), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 13-4) at Boston (Buchholz 5-7), 5:10 p.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 12-4) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 7-8), 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland (House 1-3) at Minnesota (Nolasco 5-8), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (D.Duffy 8-10) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 12-8), 6:40 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m.

Detroit at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

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

National League East Division W L Pct 71 53 .573 66 60 .524 63 62 .504 59 67 .468 55 71 .437

GB — 6 8 1/2 13 17

Central Division W L Pct 71 55 .563 68 57 .544 64 62 .508 61 65 .484 54 70 .435

GB — 2 1/2 7 10 16

West Division W L Pct 70 56 .556 65 58 .528 58 65 .472 53 73 .421 49 76 .392

GB — 3 1/2 10 1/2 17 20 1/2

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 4, N.Y. Mets 1 Washington 5, Arizona 4, 11 innings Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 3 Philadelphia 4, Seattle 1 St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5, 10 innings

Detroit 000 031 010 03 — 8 10 0 Tampa Bay 310 000 010 01 — 6 8 1 (11 innings) Scherzer, Chamberlain (8), Alburquerque (9), B.Hardy (9), Ji.Johnson (10), Nathan (11) and Avila, Holaday; Archer, Yates (6), Boxberger (7), Jo.Peralta (8), McGee (9), Balfour (11), Beliveau (11) and Casali, J.Molina. W—Ji.Johnson 5-2.

L—Balfour 1-5. Sv—Nathan (26). HRs—Detroit, J.Martinez (17). Tampa Bay, Loney (7).

Baltimore 100 003 100 — 5 9 1 Chicago 100 000 000 — 1 3 0 Tillman, Tom.Hunter (9) and Hundley; Quintana, D.Webb (7), Petricka (9) and Flowers. W—Tillman 10-5. L—Quintana 6-10. HRs—Baltimore, Hundley (3). Chicago, J.Abreu (32).

Cleveland 010 213 000 — 7 11 0 Minnesota 500 000 000 — 5 8 1 Bauer, Crockett (5), Atchison (6), Rzepczynski (7), C.Lee (7), Hagadone (7), Shaw (8), Allen (9) and Y.Gomes; Gibson, Duensing (6), Burton (7), Fien (8), Perkins (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Crockett 3-0.

L—Duensing 3-3. Sv—Allen (16). HRs—Cleveland, Y.Gomes (17). Minnesota, Arcia (13).

Tuesday’s Games Washington 8, Arizona 1 Atlanta 11, Pittsburgh 3 Seattle 5, Philadelphia 2 Miami 4, Texas 3, 10 innings San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Milwaukee 6, Toronto 1 St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4 Kansas City 7, Colorado 4 N.Y. Mets at Oakland, late San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, late

INTERLEAGUE Seattle 200 001 020 — 5 7 0 Phila.

000 000 002 — 2 6 0 Iwakuma, Furbush (9), Medina (9), Rodney (9) and Zunino; A.Burnett, Hollands (8), C.Jimenez (9) and Ruiz. W—Iwakuma 12-6. L—A.Burnett 6-14. Sv— Rodney (36). HRs—Seattle, Seager (19).

Wednesday’s Games Texas (N.Martinez 2-9) at Miami (Eovaldi 6-7), 10:40 a.m.

Seattle (Paxton 3-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 6-6), 11:05 a.m.

Toronto (Dickey 9-12) at Milwaukee (J.Nelson 2-3), 12:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Za.Wheeler 8-8) at Oakland (Samardzija 3-2), 1:35 p.m.

Arizona (Cahill 3-8) at Washington (Roark 12-7), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (A.Wood 9-9) at Pittsburgh (Cole 7-4), 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 15-6) at St. Louis (Lynn 13-8), 5:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Peavy 1-3) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 6-13), 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City (D.Duffy 8-10) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 12-8), 6:40 p.m.

San Diego (Stults 5-13) at L.A. Dodgers (R.Hernandez 7-8), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Arizona at Washington, 2:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston 000 013 003 — 7 13 1 New York 000 202 000 — 4 9 1 Oberholtzer, Sipp (6), Fields (8), Qualls (9) and J.Castro; Capuano, Warren (6), Kelley (7), Betances (8), Dav.Robertson (9), R.Hill (9) and McCann.

W—Fields 3-6. L—Dav.Robertson 1-4. Sv—Qualls (14). HRs—Houston, Carter (30). New York, McCann (14).

LAA 003 000 001 — 4 9 0 Boston 100 011 000 — 3 8 0 Weaver, Grilli (6), Salas (7), J.Smith (8), Street (9) and Iannetta; Webster, A.Wilson (7), Uehara (9) and Vazquez. W—J.Smith 5-1. L—Uehara 5-3. Sv— Street (10). HRs—Boston, D.Ortiz (29).

Texas 000 100 200 0 — 310 3 Miami 000 102 000 1 — 411 3 (10 innings) Mikolas, Mendez (6), Klein (7), Sh.Tolleson (8), Cotts (9), Feliz (10) and Chirinos; Cosart, A.Ramos (7), M.Dunn (7), Morris (8), Cishek (9), S.Dyson (10) and Saltalamacchia. W—S.Dyson 2-0. L—Cotts 2-7.

HRs—Miami, Ozuna (17).

Toronto 010 000 000 — 1 2 1 Milwaukee 202 020 00x — 6 10 0 Happ, McGowan (4), Redmond (5), Drabek (7) and D.Navarro; Fiers, Duke (8), Kintzler (9) and Maldonado. W—Fiers 3-1. L—Happ 8-8.

Kan. City 000 100 330 — 7 11 1 Colorado 100 010 002 — 4 11 0 Shields, K.Herrera (7), W.Davis (8), Bueno (9), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez; Matzek, Ottavino (7), Brothers (8), Masset (8), B.Brown (9) and McKenry.

W—Shields 12-6. L—Matzek 2-9. Sv—G.Holland (39). HRs—Colorado, Arenado (13), Stubbs (13).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona 100 000 000 — 1 3 0 Wash.

006 002 00x — 8 12 0 C.Anderson, E.De La Rosa (3), Harris (7), A.Reed (8) and M.Montero, Gosewisch; Strasburg, Blevins (9) and Lobaton. W—Strasburg 10-10. L—C.Anderson 7-5. HRs—Arizona, D.Peralta (7).

Atlanta 013 150 001 — 11 14 1 Pittsburgh 000 110 001 — 3 9 1 Harang, Hale (9) and Gattis; F.Liriano, Cumpton (5) and R.Martin. W—Harang 10-7. L—F.Liriano 3-10.

HRs—Atlanta, J.Upton (24), Gattis (19).

Cincinnati 000 202 000 — 4 7 0 St. Louis 001 002 011 — 5 14 3 Simon, LeCure (6), M.Parra (7), Ju.Diaz (8), Hoover (8) and Mesoraco; Lackey, Choate (7), Maness (8), Neshek (9) and T.Cruz, Pierzynski. W—Neshek 6-0.

L—Hoover 1-10. HRs—Cincinnati, Frazier (21). St. Louis, Jh.Peralta (17).

Football Toronto Hamilton Montreal Ottawa

GP 8 7 7 7

CFL East Division W L T 3 5 0 1 6 0 1 6 0 1 6 0

PF 196 149 109 119

PA 208 185 193 199

Pt 6 2 2 2

Calgary Edmonton Winnipeg B.C. Saskatchewan

GP 7 7 8 8 7

West Division W L T 6 1 0 6 1 0 5 3 0 5 3 0 5 2 0

PF 191 173 206 196 173

PA 114 115 201 162 135

Pt 12 12 10 10 10

Week 8 Sunday’s results B.C. 33 Toronto 17 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.

Statistics Through Week Eight SCORING Touchdowns (Ru-running; Rc-receiving; Rt-kickoff/punt/missed/ blocked FG/punt return; D-defensive return) Name Team TD Ru Rc Rt D NGrigsby Wpg 6 5 1 0 0 EArceneaux BC 5 0 5 0 0 ABowman Edm 5 0 5 0 0 WFord Sask 5 5 0 0 0 JFuller Cgy 5 0 5 0 0 AHarris BC 5 2 3 0 0 CGable Ham 4 2 2 0 0 DLeFevour Ham 4 4 0 0 0 CSteele Tor 4 3 1 0 0 CWalker Ott 4 3 1 0 0 AAllen Sask 3 1 2 0 0 RMarve Wpg 3 3 0 0 0 MMcDaniel Cgy 3 0 3 0 0 BBanks Ham 2 0 1 1 0 JBarnes Tor 2 0 2 0 0 DCollins Ott 2 0 1 1 0 JFeoli-Gudino Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 AKelly Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 RKohlert Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 BMitchell Cgy 2 2 0 0 0 COwens Tor 2 0 1 1 0 AParker Cgy 2 0 2 0 0 SSlaton Tor 2 0 2 0 0 TSmith Sask 2 0 2 0 0 BSwain Sask 2 0 2 0 0 DTate Cgy 2 2 0 0 0 CTaylor BC 2 0 2 0 0 DWashington Wpg 2 0 0 1 1 CWatson Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 BWhitaker Mtl 2 1 1 0 0 RYell BC 2 0 0 0 2 DAdams Tor 1 0 1 0 0 JArthur Cgy 1 0 1 0 0 RBagg Sask 1 0 1 0 0 MBradwell Tor 1 0 1 0 0 DCarter Mtl 1 0 0 1 0 MCarter Ott 1 0 1 0 0 SChambers Edm 1 0 1 0 0 NCoehoorn Edm 1 0 1 0 0 JCornish Cgy 1 1 0 0 0

C 16 15 18 20

FG 21 19 19 16

S 0 7 3 0

Pts 79 79 78 68

LHajrullahu CMilo JMedlock BMaher SWhyte JBartel RMaver RSchmitt

Wpg Sask Ham Ott Mtl Sask Cgy BC

FIELD GOALS Name Team PMcCallum BC SWaters Tor GShaw Edm LHajrullahu Wpg RParedes Cgy JMedlock Ham SWhyte Mtl CMilo Sask BMaher Ott

18 16 14 10 7 0 0 0

16 15 15 15 15 0 0 0

Att 22 22 23 17 19 17 19 21 22

2 3 2 4 7 3 3 1 Md 21 19 19 16 16 15 15 15 15

68 64 61 59 59 3 3 1 Long 47 51 43 51 40 52 49 43 48

RUSHING Name NGrigsby AHarris BWhitaker CWalker SLogan JWhite MReilly DLeFevour CSteele WFord AAllen JMessam HCharles MWalter CGable

Team Wpg BC Mtl Ott BC Edm Edm Ham Tor Sask Sask Sask Cgy Cgy Ham

Att Yds 97 416 77 410 87 406 79 378 70 376 51 334 40 320 50 314 45 285 52 257 41 241 32 194 27 188 29 139 30 138

Avg 4.3 5.3 4.7 4.8 5.4 6.5 8.0 6.3 6.3 4.9 5.9 6.1 7.0 4.8 4.6

TD 5 2 1 3 1 1 0 4 3 5 1 0 0 0 2

RECEIVING Name ABowman CDenmark EArceneaux CTaylor MHenry MMcDaniel AHarris JFuller RBagg COwens NMoore AKelly NGrigsby EJackson

Team Edm Wpg BC BC Ott Cgy BC Cgy Sask Tor Wpg Wpg Wpg BC

Att Yds Avg 41 532 13.0 33 514 15.6 27 472 17.5 37 405 10.9 30 387 12.9 29 375 12.9 25 371 14.8 28 366 13.1 25 359 14.4 28 339 12.1 22 320 14.5 20 305 15.3 32 282 8.8 22 281 12.8

TD 5 1 5 2 1 3 3 5 1 1 0 2 1 1

PASSING Name Team Comp RRay Tor 196 DWilly Wpg 173 KGlenn BC 146 BMitchellCgy 132 HBurris Ott 129 MReilly Edm 151 DDurantSask 107 DLeFevourHam101 TSmith Mtl 83 JMasoli Ham 21 ABrink Mtl 28 ZCollarosHam 23 THarris Tor 14 TDeMarcoOtt 8 JBeck BC 7

Att 288 264 235 207 219 229 178 149 174 45 54 41 19 11 14

TEAM OFFENCE (totals include losses) Team Pass Toronto 2316 B.C. 2115 Edmonton 1622 Calgary 1716 Hamilton 1781 Winnipeg 2177

Pct 68.1 65.5 62.1 63.8 58.9 65.9 60.1 67.8 47.7 46.7 51.9 56.1 73.7 72.7 50.0

Yds 2165 2158 2005 1692 1634 1619 1407 1276 989 293 247 212 151 117 110

TD Int Rting 13 6 96.5 10 7 92.4 9 11 82.7 12 3 102.6 5 5 80.4 11 6 91.6 7 5 86.5 4 4 92.0 4 4 63.6 1 3 47.7 0 2 48.9 1 2 58.2 0 0 96.6 1 1 99.4 3 0 147.9

Saskatchewan Ottawa Montreal

1443 1776 1253

923 526 680

TEAM DEFENCE (totals include losses) Team Pass Edmonton 1449 B.C. 1628 Toronto 1820 Calgary 1820 Winnipeg 1868 Saskatchewan 1828 Montreal 1742 Hamilton 1944 Ottawa 2100

Rush 573 832 887 568 929 663 804 710 847

2366 2302 1933

338.0 328.9 276.1

Total Avg/Gm 2022 288.9 2460 307.5 2707 338.4 2388 341.1 2797 349.6 2491 355.9 2546 363.7 2654 379.1 2947 421.0

National Football League Preseason AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Jets 2 0 0 1.000 Miami 1 1 0 .500 New England 1 1 0 .500 Buffalo 1 2 0 .333 South W L T Pct Houston 1 1 0 .500 Jacksonville 1 1 0 .500 Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 North W L T Pct Baltimore 2 0 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 .500 Cleveland 0 2 0 .000 Cincinnati 0 2 0 .000 West W L T Pct Denver 2 0 0 1.000 Kansas City 1 1 0 .500 Oakland 1 1 0 .500 San Diego 1 1 0 .500 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 3 0 0 1.000 Washington 2 0 0 1.000 Dallas 0 2 0 .000 Philadelphia 0 2 0 .000 South W L T Pct New Orleans 2 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 1 1 0 .500 Carolina 1 1 0 .500 Tampa Bay 0 2 0 .000 North W L T Pct Chicago 2 0 0 1.000 Minnesota 2 0 0 1.000 Detroit 1 1 0 .500 Green Bay 1 1 0 .500 West W L T Pct Arizona 1 1 0 .500 Seattle 1 1 0 .500 San Francisco 0 2 0 .000 St. Louis 0 2 0 .000

PF 38 30 48 49

PA 27 30 58 54

PF 32 35 44 36

PA 39 30 47 40

PF 60 35 34 56

PA 33 36 37 66

PF 55 57 33 41

PA 16 67 36 48

PF 64 47 37 63

PA 55 29 64 76

PF 57 23 46 24

PA 48 42 36 36

PF 54 40 39 37

PA 47 34 39 27

PF 60 57 3 31

PA 30 35 57 47

Monday’s Game Cleveland 23, Washington 24 Thursday, Aug. 21 Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Rush 770 936 944 806 668 560

Total Avg/Gm 3086 385.8 3051 381.4 2566 366.6 2522 360.3 2449 349.9 2737 342.1

Friday, Aug. 22 Carolina at New England, 5:30 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, 5:30 p.m.

Jacksonville at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Oakland at Green Bay, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Signed RHP Scott Atchison to a one-year contract extension through 2015.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Reinstated 1B-OF Jesus Guzman from the 15-day DL. Placed LHP Darin Downs on the 15day DL, retroactive to Aug. 15.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Selected the contract of INF-OF Matt McBride from Colorado Springs (PCL). Optioned LHP Yohan Flande to Colorado Springs.

Transferred SS Troy Tulowitzki to the 60-day DL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Reinstated OF Andrew McCutchen from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF-OF Michael Martinez to Indianapolis (IL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated S Tyrann Mathieu and NT Alameda Ta’Amu from the PUP list.

BUFFALO BILLS — Released OT Edawn Coughman and WR Kevin Elliott.

DETROIT LIONS — Released CB Drayton Florence.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed WR Shaquelle Evans on injured reserve.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Released LB Jason Phillips.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed DL Glenn Dorsey to a two-year contract extension through the 2016 season.

HOCKEY National Hockey League

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Announced the sale of a minority interest of the team to Jon Ledecky and Scott Malkin.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Signed F Clarke MacArthur to a five-year contact extension through the 2019-20 season.

Today

● Founders Cup: Canadian Lacrosse Association Junior B Tier I Championship in Halifax. Red Deer TBS Rampage vs. Saskatchewan at 2 p.m. Go to http://founderscup2014.ca/ for online streaming information.

founderscup2014.ca/ for online streaming information. ● Baseball Canada Senior Men’s National Championships: Red Deer Riggers vs Ontario at 7 a.m.; Red Deer Riggers vs. Saskatchewan at 1 p.m.. St. John’s, N.L.

Saturday

Thursday

● Red Deer Rebels training camp: rookie goalies @ 9:15-9:45; rookie scrimmage @ 10-11:30 a.m.; alumni pro skate @ noon to 1:30 p.m.; main practice 2-3:30 p.m.; rookie scrimmage 4-5:30 p.m. at Enmax Centrium. ● Baseball Canada Senior Men’s National Championships: Red Deer Riggers vs New Brunswick at noon. St. John’s, N.L. ● Founders Cup: Canadian Lacrosse Association Junior B Tier I Championship in Halifax. Red Deer TBS Rampage vs. Ontario at 2 p.m. Go to http:// founderscup2014.ca/ for online streaming information. ● Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference women’s soccer: Red Deer College Queens @ Augustana Vikings in Camrose, exhibition game.

Friday

● Red Deer Rebels training camp: Main practice — Group A @ 8-:8:45 a.m.; rookie scrimmage 9-10:30 a.m., main practice Group B @ 10:45-11:30 a.m.; alumni pro skate noon-1:30 p.m.; rookie scrimmage 3-4:30 p.m.; main game @ 5-:6:30 p.m. at Enmax Centrium. ● Founders Cup: Canadian Lacrosse Association Junior B Tier I Championship in Halifax. Red Deer TBS Rampage vs. Manitoba at 7 a.m. Go to http://

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp, sessions at 8, 9 and 10:45 a.m., noon and 4:30 p.m. (main camp game). Enmax Centrium. ● Men’s third division rugby: Bow Valley at Red Deer, 1 p.m., Titans Park. ● Senior men’s baseball: Baseball Canada Championship at St. John, N.L., Red Deer Riggers vs. St. John’s, 8:30 a.m.

(MDT), Riggers vs. Saskatchewan, 12:30 p.m. (MDT). ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Canadian championship at Halifax, Red Deer TBS Rampage vs. Quebec, 11 a.m. (MDT); Go to http://founderscup2014.ca/ for online streaming information.

Sunday

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp, pre-game skates at 8:30 and 9:30 a.m., Black and White game at 5 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● Senior men’s baseball: Red Deer Riggers at Baseball Canada Championship at St. John’s, N.L., semifinals at 6:30 and 9:30 a.m. (MDT), bronze-medal game at 1 p.m., gold medal game at 4 p.m. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Red Deer TBS Rampage at Canadian championship at Halifax, playoff games; Go to http://founderscup2014.ca/ for online streaming information.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Kansas City 24 12 6 6 36 D.C. 23 12 7 4 36 Toronto 22 9 8 5 33 Columbus 24 7 8 9 32 New York 23 6 7 10 35 New England 23 8 12 3 30 Philadelphia 24 6 9 9 36 Houston 23 7 12 4 25 Chicago 23 4 6 13 29 Montreal 23 4 14 5 23 Western Conference GP W L T GF Salt Lake 24 11 4 9 38 Seattle 22 13 7 2 38 Dallas 24 11 7 6 43 Los Angeles 21 9 5 7 35 Vancouver 23 7 4 12 33 Portland 24 7 7 10 39 Colorado 24 8 10 6 34 San Jose 21 6 9 6 25 Chivas 23 6 11 6 21

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Sunday’s results D.C. 4 Colorado 2 Wednesday’s games Los Angeles at Colorado, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Friday, August 22 Salt Lake at Dallas, 7 p.m.

Saturday, August 23 Montreal at New York, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Toronto, 5 p.m.

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

Houston at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

D.C. at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

FIFA Women’s 2014 Under-20 World Cup PLAYOFFS Quarter-finals Sunday’s results At Moncton, N.B. Nigeria 4 New Zealand 1 At Montreal France 0 South Korea 0 (France won 4-3 on penalty kicks) Saturday’s results At Toronto North Korea 1 U.S. 1 (North Korea won 3-1 on penalty kicks) At Edmonton

Wednesday, Aug. 20 Semifinals At Moncton, N.B. North Korea vs. Nigeria, 2 p.m.

At Montreal Germany vs. France, 5 p.m.

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

Championship Semifinal Winners, 5 p.m.

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GA Pts 1 3 0 3 1 3 1 3 1 3 0 3 0 3 0 3 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 2 0

Monday, Aug. 18 Burnley F.C. 1, Chelsea 3 Saturday, Aug. 23 Aston Villa vs. Newcastle, 1145 GMT Chelsea vs. Leicester City, 1400 GMT Crystal Palace vs. West Ham, 1400 GMT Southampton vs. West Brom, 1400 GMT Swansea vs. Burnley F.C., 1400 GMT Everton vs. Arsenal, 1630 GMT Sunday, Aug. 24 Hull City vs. Stoke, 1230 GMT Tottenham vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1230 GMT Sunderland vs. Manchester United, 1500 GMT Monday, Aug. 25 Manchester City vs. Liverpool, 1900 GMT

Tiger-Cats quarterback LeFevour to miss rest of season with torn knee ligament

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HAMILTON, Ont. — Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Dan LeFevour will miss the rest of the CFL season after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

LeFevour suffered the injury in the fourth quarter of a 30-20 loss to the Calgary Stampeders on Saturday.

“I’m disappointed for Dan, who was playing at a very high level for us this year,” Ticats head coach Kent Austin said Tuesday in a statement. “He is a man of great character and a tremendous competitor with a tireless work ethic, so we know he’ll return stronger than ever after finishing his rehabilitation.”

LeFevour threw for 1,670 yards and four touchdowns this season. He also rushed for 314 yards and four touchdowns.

He will undergo knee surgery in the coming weeks, the team said.

The 27-year-old native of Downers Grove, Ill., started the season as a backup before replacing Zach Collaros, who was added to the six-game injured list with head and back injuries after the second game of the year.

In LeFevour’s first career start, he led the Tiger-Cats to a 3323 win over Ottawa and was named CFL offensive player of the week for his effort.

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Mahan enters golf’s stretch drive knowing there’s more he can do ON THE FRINGE

BY DOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARAMUS, N.J. — The swing was efficient as ever, and the ball soared toward the far end of the range with a tight draw as Hunter Mahan held his pose.

And then he twirled his club. Did you see that?“ swing coach Sean Foley said Tuesday, admiring the twirl as much as the shot. ”He’s not a twirler.“ Foley usually sees that from one of his other pupils — Tiger Woods.

Mahan goes about his golf with less fanfare.

But there was an ease with how Mahan went about his work at what would seem to be a most critical time, perhaps because he feels as if he has nothing to lose.

Mahan is the only player who has never missed a FedEx Cup playoff event since this lucrative series began in 2007. He has played so consistently well that he has never come seriously close to missing a playoff event.

“That’s a lot of good golf for a lot of years, and I’m pretty proud of that,” Mahan said. “It means a lot. It means I’ve been consistent. I haven’t had too many bad days or many bad weeks. It’s a different challenge this year.”

Mahan goes into The Barclays at No. 62, which means he is assured of at least playing the next two weeks.

He will have to do something right at Ridgewood or next week at the TPC Boston to advance to the third playoff event in Denver, and keep any hope of getting back to East Lake.

He hasn’t won a tournament since the Shell Houston Open in 2012, one week before the Masters. His last good chance to win was at the Canadian Open just over a year ago, when Mahan had the 36-hole lead and withdrew so he could be with his wife for the birth

of their daughter, Zoe. Mahan is not the only player going through an ordinary year.

Mickelson did not have a top 10 on the PGA Tour until his runner-up finish two weeks at the PGA Championship, which at least secured his spot on a 10th straight Ryder Cup team and moved him up to No. 55 in the FedEx Cup, making his road to East Lake a little more manageable. Brandt Snedeker, the FedEx Cup champion two years ago, recently changed coaches and is at No. 55. Luke Donald, a former world No. 1, has gone nearly two years without winning and is at No. 66.

Mahan can’t put a finger on what has gone wrong — or what hasn’t gone right.

“I don’t feel like it’s been bad — some of it has been bad,” he said. “I just haven’t played my best.”

Mahan, whose five PGA Tour wins include a pair of World Golf Championships, got used to performing consistently well for a long time. He was on every Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup team for five straight years. He played in the final group in back-to-back majors last year.

Somewhere along the way, he wonders if he forgot what got him there.

“This has been a chance for me to look at myself,” he said. “Am I doing it efficiently? Am I getting the most out of it every day? Am I getting the most out of Sean Foley, out of (caddie) John Wood, out of Ping? Or am I just skating by?”

Mahan believes he has been guilty of the latter.

“You get in a routine, the play pretty good,” he said. “It’s great to make the Presidents Cup teams and the Ryder Cup teams. Sometimes you get complacent and a little lazy. I think there’s a lot more I can do.”

Time is not running out on Mahan.

He is only 32. But time is running out

Bids for Bills sale to be submitted in two weeks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSFORD, N.Y. — The sale of the Buffalo Bills is entering its final stage with prospective buyers asked to submit their formal bids in about two weeks, a person familiar with the sale said.

The timetable was pushed back about a week because Morgan Stanley, the banking firm overseeing the sale on behalf of late owner Ralph Wilson’s estate, extended a deadline last month in an attempt to increase the number of prospective bidders.

A new owner is still expected to be identified by October, but it’s not certain whether it will be in time to be approved by NFL owners at league meetings in early October. And that approval would come only after the prospective candidate’s background and finances are vetted and approved by the league’s finance committee.

The Bills are for sale after Wilson died in March.

Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula are considered the frontrunners among a small group of candidates who have already met with

members of Wilson’s estate over the past two weeks.

Pegula was last valued by Forbes to have a net worth of $3.3 billion, and that was before he sold 75,000 acres worth of drilling rights for $1.75 billion two weeks ago.

New York City real estate developer Donald Trump is also a contender, and met with Wilson’s estate two weeks ago. Questions remain regarding the status of several other prospective ownership groups.

The meeting is regarded as important for prospective buyers to begin formulating their bids. The daylong meeting includes a lengthy presentation and access to hundreds of pages of documents outlining the Bills’ financial information.

A Toronto-based group led by rocker Jon Bon Jovi has met with Wilson’s estate, but has encountered several setbacks over questions regarding its intentions of keeping the Bills in Buffalo.

People familiar with discussions confirmed that a group headed by Bills Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly turned down Bon Jovi’s request to join forces last week.

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Hunter Mahan replaces his ball on the fifteenth green during first round of play at the Canadian Open golf championship, July 24, 2014 in Montreal. Mahan is the only player who has never missed a FedEx Cup playoff event since it’s inception in 2007. on his season.

It’s a far different challenge from the one two years ago. He started pressing toward the end of the summer and missed the cut at the PGA Championship to finish one spot out of making the Ryder Cup team. He missed the cut in one playoff event, was middle of the pack in the next one and was left off the team.

This time, he wasn’t even close.

Mahan had a 65-67 weekend at Valhalla to tie for seventh in the PGA Championship — his first top 10 since Doral — and finished No. 25 in the Ryder Cup standings. These next two weeks will go a long way toward impressing Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson and getting one of the three picks.

That means going back to the small details that he feels he has overlooked.

It’s paying attention to his posture, his setup and his position at the top of the swing — on the range Tuesday, in the pro-am Wednesday, in the tournament Thursday.

“It’s today. Do a good job today,” he said. “Take every shot like it’s a very important shot.”

And then he can only hope he gets to keep playing — all four weeks of the FedEx Cup, maybe even a trip to Scotland for the Ryder Cup. Another swing produced another majestic shot. He didn’t twirl his club this time.

“I can’t waste all my twirls,” Mahan said with a smile. “It’s only Tuesday.”

NY Islanders sell minority stake of team to pair of investors NHL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UNIONDALE, N.Y. _ The New York Islanders are selling a minority stake of the team, with a former Washington Capitals co-owner and a London-based investor to become full owners in two years.

The hockey team said Tuesday a group led by former Capitals co-owner Jon Ledecky and investor Scott Malkin agreed to buy a ``substantial’’ minority interest. Terms were not immediately disclosed.

Under the agreement, current owner Charles Wang will continue as majority stockholder for two years, the team said in a statement. At that point, ownership will transfer to the LedeckyMalkin group.

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to become partners in the New York Islanders with Charles, and to pursue our shared dream of winning a fifth Stanley Cup for the greatest fans in the NHL,” Ledecky said in a statement.

Wang, a billionaire founder of the

software computer company Computer Associates, now known as CA, had tried for nearly a decade to build a new arena for the Long Island hockey team. When several efforts failed, including a referendum in 2011 defeated by voters that would have financed a $400 million coliseum, Wang announced plans to move the team to the recently opened Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The team will play its final season on Long Island this year before moving to Brooklyn for the 2015-16 season.

“I’m thrilled that Jon and Scott have agreed to join me as we start the Islanders’ final year at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum,” Wang said. “I look forward to a long and successful partnership.”

Last week a hedge-fund manager who was interested in buying the Islanders sued Wang, contending breach of contract. Andrew Barroway’s NY ICE said Wang demanded $548 million months after agreeing to sell the team for $420 million.

The lawsuit alleges Wang had “seller’s remorse” and demanded more money from Philadelphia-based Barroway after the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers sold for $2 billion.

Despite big win, several Lions in danger of losing starting jobs CFL

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played only his second game of the season after spending most of the campaign on the practice roster.

Benevides said he has struggled to keep Brown on the active roster, but it’s too difficult to sacrifice an import elsewhere on offence or defence to keep him in the mix.

The coach says he hopes Harris, sidelined in a victory over Hamilton on Aug. 8, will return after showing signs of progress in his recovery early last week before taking time off to mend.

“With running backs, you never want to risk (a premature return), because (the ankle) is so important to what they do,” said Benevides.

Veteran running back Stefan Logan,

SURREY, B.C. _ B.C. Lions coach Mike Benevides had plenty to smile about Monday after his team returned from a big win in Toronto. But some of his players won’t share his mood next weekend.

Even after strong performances against the Argonauts, some Lions are in danger of losing their starting or roster spots when B.C. (5-3) hosts the Saskatchewan Roughriders at home on Sunday.

Kick returner/running back Tim Brown appears to be a likely casualty after he racked up 169 punt return yards and 80 kick return yards as the Lions posted their third straight win. With starting tailback Andrew Harris expected to return from an ankle injury, Benevides said Brown only has a “50-50” chance of staying in the lineup due to the balancing act required under the CFL’s Canadian and import player ratio.

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Brown, a 26-year-old Stockton, Calif., native who is in his fourth CFL season, returned one punt for 70 yards and another for 69, setting up a touchdown and a field goal, against the Argos. He

who rushed for 145 yards on 19 carries and gained another 49 on receptions against Toronto, will also be affected by the return of Harris. Logan appears headed back to a back-up role behind Harris, who leads the league in combined yards with 781 and ranks second in rushing (410).

Changes also loom on the B.C. defence as cornerback Dante Marsh gets ready to return to the starting lineup after missing the game in Toronto due to a hamstring injury.

“It’s pretty good,” said Marsh. “I feel like I should be able to play this week.”

Marsh, a 33-year-old who is in his 11th season with the Lions, missed his

first game in four years. The one-time CFL all-star and four-time West Division all-star said he wanted to be smart and give his body a chance to rest.

Rookie Ronnie Yell returned an interception for a touchdown in Marsh’s place in the short-side cornerback spot. If Marsh returns, Yell is likely to move back to his wide-side cornerback spot. Rookie T.J. Lee, who played his first CFL game in Yell’s usual wideside spot, faces a return to the practice roster.

Marsh said the play of the rookies against Toronto speak well of B.C.’s roster depth, but their development is more about the future than the present.

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Browns not ready to name starting QB HOYER OR MANZIEL DID LITTLE TO CONVINCE HEAD COACH THEY DESERVE JOB

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — This summer saga, packed with drama, celebrity and clumsiness, isn’t quite over for the Browns.

Hoyer vs. Manziel marches on.

Cleveland first-year coach Mike Pettine still hasn’t chosen his Week 1 starting quarterback, and that’s not his fault. Brian Hoyer and Johnny Manziel haven’t convinced him — or anyone, really — that they deserve the job.

Pettine had been expected to announce during a teleconference on Tuesday whether Hoyer, the inexperienced veteran and hometown hero coming back from knee surgery, or Manziel, the hyped rookie and former Heisman Trophy winner, would start the Sept. 7 opener at Pittsburgh.

But the decision has been delayed and it could carry through Cleveland’s third preseason game on Saturday.

Pettine said Cleveland’s coaching staff will meet Wednesday night and could then choose a starter. Maybe.

“We’re not in position to make it at this point in time,” Pettine said of an announcement many Browns fans have been anxiously awaiting for months.

“We’ll decide later if we’re ready to name a starter. We could have one named, and I’m not ruling that out.

That’s something we’re going to discuss. And if we do have to wait until after the next game, so be it.

“We’re going to weigh everybody’s opinion. I’m very clearly on record: I would like to make a decision, and that’s still very much a possibility.”

Pettine reiterated that “all options are on the table,” meaning he could name Hoyer or Manziel or push a decision back until after the Browns host the St. Louis Rams in their third exhi-

bition.

Pettine’s choice grew much tougher after Hoyer and Manziel both played poorly in a 24-23 exhibition loss at Washington on Monday night.

Hoyer started and missed wide-open receivers and appeared to be buckling under the pressure of not being able to put an end to his competition with Manziel.

Hoyer finished 2 of 6 for 16 yards, hardly the numbers he needed to solidify starting.

“It was embarrassing,” Hoyer said.

Manziel’s most memorable moment may have been when he made an obscene gesture toward the Redskins’ sideline, an act Pettine called “extremely disappointing” and will likely result in a fine from the NFL. When he was only using his right hand to throw, Manziel completed 7 of 16 passes for 65 yards one touchdown, which came against Washington’s backups.

Pettine said the quarterbacks weren’t the only ones who had unsatisfactory games.

“There were a lot of guys that had some plays they’d want to take back,” he said. “I just think it was overall inconsistency on the offence. It’s hard for a quarterback to look good when the guys around them aren’t playing well.”

As for Manziel getting caught on national TV flashing his middle finger at the Redskins, Pettine said that behaviour — as well as the 21-year-old’s other off-season conduct — will be factored into the decision on a starter.

“We’ll take into account all things quarterbacks A to Z,” Pettine said. “So it’s body of work, it’s everything from the time they set foot in the building back in the spring up until today.”

Manziel said he was taunted by

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Washington Redskins inside linebacker Will Compton pursues Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel during the second half of an NFL preseason football game Monday, in Landover, Md. Redskins players and he responded not realizing the world was watching.

Following the game, Manziel acknowledged “I should’ve been smarter.”

Pettine has preached to his players about staying poised and Manziel didn’t show any in responding to the trash talk he was hearing from Washington’s defenders and bench.

“We talk about ’Play like a Brown,”’ Pettine said.

“We want our guys to act like a Brown and we want this to be a firstclass organization. We have hundreds, thousands of kids come to our training camp practices and look up to our players and that type of behaviour is unacceptable.

“It’s something that’s part of football that you have to maintain your poise and your composure, especially at that position and he should know better than anyone that all eyes are on him. I know it’s something that will be addressed by the league and will be addressed internally.”

Pettine, maybe more than anyone, wants the QB competition — and ceaseless discussion — to end. But he won’t stop it until he’s certain he’s chosen the right quarterback to lead the Browns into Heinz Field in a few weeks.

He knows the longer it goes, the harder it will be for Cleveland’s struggling offence to build momentum.

10-man Arsenal holds, Leverkusen wins away

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLAYOFF ROUND

LONDON — Arsenal held on with 10 men to draw 0-0 at Besiktas in the Champions League playoff round Tuesday, while Bayer Leverkusen is better placed to reach the group stage after winning 3-2 at FC Copenhagen.

Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey was sent off with 10 minutes left in the first leg match in Istanbul after being shown a second yellow card for tugging Oguzhan Ozyakup’s shirt.

“For me it’s unbelievable to get the second yellow card when you see the kind of fouls they have made today. It’s not serious,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on Britain’s ITV television.

The London club, which has played in every group stage since the 1998-99 season, still nearly grabbed a late winner when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s shot was turned onto the post.

The highest-scoring match of the night was in Denmark with Leverkusen holding the away goals advantage going into next Wednesday’s home leg.

The other matches saw Athletic Bilbao draw 1-1 at Napoli, Red Bull Salzburg beat Malmo 2-1 and Steaua Bucharest edge Ludogorets Razgrad 1-0.

At the Ataturk Olympic Stadium, a familiar face nearly embarrassed Arsenal from the kickoff. Former Chelsea striker Demba Ba lobbed the ball from the halfway line and it was looping

into the top corner until goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny pushed it onto the crossbar.

With striker Olivier Giroud lacking cutting edge in front of goal and new signing Alexis Sanchez denied by Tolga Zengin’s save before halftime, Arsenal rarely looked like repeating its 3-0 victory across Istanbul against Fenerbahce in last year’s playoff round.

Besiktas came closest in the second half when Olcay Sahan curled a shot wide after breaking into the box.

And, after Ramsey’s red card, Besiktas coach Slaven Bilic also saw red in a heated conclusion on the touchline.

“It’s one of the most physical games we have played in the Champions League,” Wenger said. “We had the chance to win the game, but unfortunately we couldn’t do it.”

Next week at the Emirates, although Ramsey will be suspended, Wenger is set to deploy German World Cup-winning trio Mesut Ozil, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski again after their break.

“They will be without Ramsey who for me is the top man in the team,” Bilic said. “We are still alive and we go to the Emirates with even more confidence ... we have a plan we have a dream.”

In Copenhagen, Stefan Kiessling took just five minutes to put Leverkus-

en in front, but the hosts hit back with Mathias Jorgensen nodding in an equalizer from a corner and Daniel Amartey heading them in front in the 13th minute.

Parity was restored in the 31st when Karim Bellarabi knocked the ball into the net and Son Heung-min secured Leverkusen’s valuable away win just before half time after meeting Hakan Calhanoglu’s throughball.

In Austria, goals from Franz Schiemer and Jonatan Soriano looked to have given Salzburg a clear cushion going into the second leg until Emil Forsberg pulled one back for Malmo in the 90th minute. Iker Muniain’s away goal could also prove decisive for Bilbao even though Gonzalo Higuain ensured Napoli drew 1-1 at home.

The only goal of the night in Romania took until the 88th minute to come, with Alexandru Chipciu, who had already missed a penalty, striking into the net this time for Steaua against Ludogorets of Bulgaria.

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Sylvan Lake was treated to the sultry, swinging sounds of jazz for the 12th consecutive year last weekend.

The Jazz at the Lake Festival featured Juno-nominated blues guitar virtuoso Jack Semple, international jazz legends Tuck and Patti, and local favourites Johnny Summers, The Alberta Playboys and Caravana, and others.

Held annually on the third weekend of August, the festival draws close to 100 local, regional, national and international jazz artists — and thousands more fans who enjoy the wide variety of jazz music offered.

Clockwise from top left: Jack Semple plays energetic blues during Saturday’s concert. Swing dancers from across Alberta took in the retro sounds of the Johnny Summers Little Big Band at the festival’s kickoff event. Festival manager Kathy Bradshaw rested whenever she could. Jazz duo Tuck and Patti perform. The Red Deer College music performance at Lion’s Legacy Park on Saturday drew patrons of all ages. Red Deer Jazz Explosion performs as a lineup snakes its way to see the Stanley Cup in the background at Lion’s Legacy on Park Sunday.

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BRIEFS Hit and run suspect facing more charges A Red Deer woman charged in the hit and run death of a Penhold skateboarder will be in court on Wednesday on new charges.

Jessica Lynn Masyk, 25, has been identified as part of a duo charged after a police cruiser was rammed on Sunday in a Highland Green parking lot.

Police were called to the north Red Deer neighbourhood after a report that people driving a truck were attempting to get into parked vehicles.

When police arrived and boxed in the vehicle, the male driver repeatedly rammed the police car and also hit several other vehicles as the duo tried to escape. The truck bearing a stolen licence plate eventually hit a tree in a residential neighbourhood and its occupants fled on foot. Police tracked them down.

Masyk has been charged with assault on a police officer with a weapon; flight from police and two counts of possession of stolen property.

A 35-year-old Red Deer man has been charged with assault on a police officer with a weapon; flight from police; two counts of possession of stolen property; dangerous operation of a motor vehicle; four counts of breach of an undertaking; and failing to remain at the scene. He was to appear in court on Monday.

Masyk was previously charged in a hit and run that claimed the life of Trystan Sorensen of Penhold on May 20 about five km west of Penhold on Hwy 592. A day later, the vehicle believed to be involved in the collision was reported stolen and later found burned in a farmer’s field east of Innisfail. Masyk was charged with failing to remain at the scene of a collision, public mischief and driving while unauthorized.

In June, Masyk was charged with harbouring a fugitive, and drug and property offences following a separate incident in Red Deer.

Sex assault suspect in court A Three Hills man will appear in Drumheller provincial court on Friday charged with six counts of sexual assault at a Bible college residence.

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Work continues on the 55th Street construction project that has been underway for much of the summer in downtown Red Deer. Here a truck dumps a load of gravel fill into the roadway under construction just east of the southbound lanes of Gaetz Avenue. tion with the Sunday morning incident at Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills.

Three Hills RCMP say a man turned himself into police on Monday after police distributed a video surveillance image of a suspect taken at the college.

Police alleged that a man broke into student dormitories where he sexually assaulted students in their dorm rooms before leaving on a bicycle.

Children in cars at risk Red Deer RCMP are reminding motorists not to leave children in vehicles after numerous reports of children left at risk this summer.

Children can suffer medical distress, exit the vehicle and go missing, or fall victim to abduction or vehicle theft.

A locked car in the summer heat can act as an oven, heating to dangerous levels in a short time. A child subjected to high temperatures can suffer man who killed a college student has told a sentencing hearing that she — quote — “did not suffer much.”

But details on how 23-year-old Amy Lewis died and where her body may be hidden were not released.

Lewis was a nursing student at Medicine Hat College when she was last seen in June 2012 and, despite several searches, her body has never been found.

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heatstroke, brain damage and even death.

RCMP say if you see a child in a vehicle without a caregiver in close range, call the RCMP complaint line at 403-343-5575.

Police will need the location, licence plate number and type of vehicle. Follow the instructions of the call taker and remain with the child and vehicle until police arrive.

RCMP caution callers not to break vehicle windows.

Unattended children in vehicles can result in criminal charges and investigations by Child and Family Services.

A Bowden Institution inmate had another five months tacked on his sentence after being caught sharpening a homemade knife.

Bobby Lee Nippard was sentenced in Red Deer provincial court on Mon-

day after pleading guilty to possession of a dangerous weapon.

Nippard, 30, was charged after prison guards caught him sharpening a “shank” on the concrete floor in his cell.

Duty counsel Murray Shack told Judge Gordon Deck that he was creating the weapon for his personal protection. There are many gang members in the prison and many have armed themselves, he said.

Threats had been made against Nippard by other inmates.

Shack suggested a sentence of 60 to 75 days.

The Crown prosecutor was seeking five to six months in prison.

Nippard told the judge he did not intend to use the shank on anyone.

“I had no dangerous intent. It was for my own protection,” he said.

Nippard was sentenced on March 10 to five years in jail for robbery. His additional five-month sentence will be served consecutively.

charged with second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Monday.

Common themes in eight victim impact statements from family members included deep sorrow for their loss and sadness that Lewis will never meet her many nieces and nephews.

The Crown is seeking eight years in prison, while the defence is looking for no more than six years when the judge returns with a sentence on Thursday.

Stopanski apologized to the Lewis family and said he will walk around with her death in his heart for the rest of his life.

Lewis is the grand-niece of former Alberta Social Credit premier Harry Strom. An agreed statement of facts presented in court said Stopanski and Lewis met through an online personal ad. The statement said Lewis agreed to perform a sexual act on Stopanski in exchange for money.

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Living happier and healthier with friends LEARNING HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS CRITICAL FOR LIFELONG HAPPINESS, HEALTH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It’s an undisputed fact: People with friends live happier, healthier and richer lives.

Studies have shown good friendships convey a range of health benefits, with positive effects on mental and physical health and longevity. So learning how to make friends is a critical skill.

But it’s not one that comes easily to everyone. Some lucky people seem to find forging new friendships is as easy as falling off a log. Many others, though, find themselves watching from the sidelines trying to puzzle out how to ease their way into this friend-making activity that appears to be going on all around them.

Most people aged four to 21 or so are about to hit the annual reset button — the clean slate offered by starting or going back to kindergarten, school or university. What better time to be thinking about how to help kids learn how to make friends?

Here are some pointers from Tracy Vaillancourt, a professor of education and psychology at the University of Ottawa, and Barry Schneider, a child psychologist and professor at Boston College:

The first ’R’ of education Vaillancourt believes more focus should be put on helping children learn how to forge friendships and interact in a positive way with others.

“I think it’s the most important lesson in life. I don’t think there’s anything more important,” she insists. “Social skills get people so far in life. And so having good social skills is attached to having friends.”

While the onus falls on parents to help children learn these skills, schools can and should play a major role, Vaillancourt says.

“Teachers are very focused on reading, writing and arithmetic when they should really be focused on relationships. That should be the first ’R’ of education.”

She advises parents of children who are having trouble making friends to enlist the assistance of their schools.

Teachers can help children make connections by pairing shy kids together for a work assignment and keeping an eye on quiet or disruptive children to make sure they aren’t getting left out. Where shy kids often don’t draw people to them, aggressive kids tend to push them away with their behaviour.

“I think that teachers need to help facilitate that social landscape of their classroom,” Vaillancourt says. “The teacher is a powerful ally and can create social alliances and destroy them quite readily.”

Find the middle ground Schneider advises that parents avoid a couple of approaches he calls the marionette model and the Charles Darwin model of interpersonal skills development for children.

The marionette approach involves parents being over-controlling, essentially trying to teach children how to be sociable by rote. Parents who take the Charles Darwin approach are under-involved, he suggests, assuming that kids will be kids and things will evolve naturally.

He doesn’t use the term, but the approach Schneider advocates might be called the Goldilocks solution, an approach that nestles somewhere be-

tween trying to control every aspect of a child’s social life and taking a handsoff approach.

With younger children early in the friend-making stages, Schneider says parents need to make opportunities for children to meet and interact with others.

Set up play dates and enrol kids in desirable activities — something they will enjoy that involves other children.

Maybe that’s ballet lessons or soccer.

Whatever it is, it should be something the child enjoys and an activity that isn’t too competitive, he says.

Schneider also suggests parents should show children what friendships are like by talking about their own so that kids understand that it’s important to have connections with a wider circle than simply one’s family. Children learn by watching the adults in their lives, so if parents value friendships, children probably will too.

Having conversations about aspects of friendship is also helpful, he says.

For example, a parent could ask how a playmate might feel if the child won’t share toys or demands to make all decisions about what games will be played.

Practice makes perfect Vaillancourt says parents should understand that learning how to make and maintain friendships is a skill that can be acquired, but it might take some work.

Some parents may feel the impulse to shield children who are shy or are having trouble fitting in by picking them up at school so they don’t have to endure a dreaded bus ride, for instance. That actually can further isolate children from their peers, Vaillancourt says, suggesting that making friends is like any other skill — the more you do it, the better at it you become.

Birds of a feather Sometimes kids who have been socially isolated in elementary school have more success when they start high school, Vaillancourt says.

High schools generally have larger student populations, increasing the chances that a kid who doesn’t like sports but is passionate about chess will find a kindred spirit. The clubs and sports activities that form in high schools are often not available in elementary schools.

This birds-of-a-feather phenomenon can really help children who’ve had trouble making friends, she says.

“Solid friendships tend to be based on similar interests and ideologies. So finding people that are like you, you’re probably going to be more successful.

If you’re painfully shy and your best friend is just out there (extroverted), I think that could be a bit of a challenge over time.”

Vaillancourt says studies have shown that children who are shy form strong friendship bonds with others like them, and they report high satisfaction from those ties.

“Their friendship groups tend to be stable. Because they’re not these outrageous kids looking for the next interesting thing, right? They’re true and loyal,” she says.

Not working? Get help Learning how to make friends is easier if you start early, Vaillancourt says. “If you don’t make friends early,

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Studies have shown good friendships convey a range of health benefits, with positive effects on mental and physical health and longevity. So learning how to make friends is a critical skill. you don’t learn the scripts. And the social scripts change all the time. It’s a developmental trajectory. How you make friends in kindergarten is so different from how you make friends when you’re 10 or when you’re 15,” she explains.

“If you can’t figure out the fundamentals at five, you’re going to have a really hard time to figure out the fundamentals at 15, because they’re more nuanced and more complex.”

Schneider says transition periods are hard, so give a child some time to get settled. But if by November of a

school year it’s apparent things aren’t working well, it may be time to get some help.

That doesn’t have to be a psychologist right off the bat, he says. School guidance counsellors, family doctors or a skilled member of the clergy, if a family has religious ties, can sometimes help.

Whatever approach a family takes, it’s important not to let the problem fester, Vaillancourt says. “We can’t ignore this. And kids report that. What they want more than anything is to belong.”

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TORONTO — A class of drugs sometimes used to control symptoms of dementia appears to increase the risk of acute kidney injury in people who take it, a new study suggests.

The work looks at what are called atypical antipsychotic drugs, which are not recommended for dementia but which nonetheless are often prescribed for people suffering from it.

A number of studies have questioned use of the drugs in this population of patients, for a variety of concerns. Health Canada, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Britain’s drug regulatory body have all recommended that the drug not be used to control symptoms of dementia.

Despite that, the drugs — Seroquel (quetiapine), Risperdal (risperidone) and others — are prescribed to control symptoms such as aggression and agitation that are sometimes seen in dementia patients.

But there have been case reports of kidney ailments in older adults who start taking the drugs.

So researchers from Lawson Health Sciences Centre in London, Ont., and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto set out to see if there was a link between use of the drugs in this population and kidney problems.

They studied the health records of nearly 100,000 adults 65 years of age and older from Ontario who were newly prescribed one of these drugs during the period from June 2003 to De-

cember 2011.

They then compared those records to nearly 100,000 people of similar ages and health status who did not take one of those medications.

The rate of acute kidney injury was essentially doubled in the group taking the drugs, said Dr. Amit Garg, a kidney specialist at Lawson Health Sciences Centre who is also a scientist at ICES. When the researchers looked at how many people died in the first three months of taking the drug, they found 6,666 people taking the drugs died compared to 2,985 in the control group.

Garg said it is important to note these findings only pertain to older adults taking the drug for dementia.

The researchers did not study their use in people who are prescribed the drugs for mental health conditions.

“They generally would be less at risk of side-effects anyway and they shouldn’t be alarmed by these data,” he said.

Garg said the findings suggest doctors should be cautious about using these drugs in this patient population, turning to them as a drug of last resort.

“If there are other options that are available, really explore those.”

If using one of these drugs appears to be the best option for a dementia patient, the doctor should monitor the patient for signs of kidney problems.

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The new labelling drops reference to use of the drugs for moderate pain, stressing that they are meant to be prescribed for pain severe enough to require daily and continuous opioid treatment.

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Stars bound for TIFF MURRAY, PACINO, CARELL AND WITHERSPOON AMONG OTHERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Bill Murray, Kate Winslet, Denzel Washington, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Carell, Reese Witherspoon and Al Pacino are among the A-listers headed to next month’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Also gracing the guest list are Tina Fey, Dustin Hoffman, Jennifer Aniston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Julianne Moore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Octavia Spencer, Ben Stiller, Channing Tatum, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Travolta and Adam Sandler.

The festival revealed its highly anticipated roster Tuesday as it announced the final slate of films bound for the movie marathon, bringing the total to 285 features and 108 shorts.

New films include St. Vincent, directed by Theodore Melfi and starring Murray as a retired curmudgeon with a taste for booze and gambling who befriends the 12-year-old son of his nextdoor neighbour (Melissa McCarthy).

James Franco’s The Sound and the Fury, based on the classic William Faulkner novel, will have its North American premiere in Toronto. Franco, who directed and stars in the film, will also attend the fest.

“It’s a really strong line-up. We’re thrilled with it,” said artistic director Cameron Bailey, who touted the festival’s international selections as well as its North American films.

“It looks to me like there is as much interest as ever in showing your film in front of a Toronto audience first.

The enthusiasm with which we’re approached to try to get a slot in Toronto is really remarkable. I hope Torontonians understand just what power they have simply as a film audience in the world.”

Some notable names missing from the list are Martin Scorsese, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Hardy, who all have buzzy movies screening at the fest. Bailey said Scorsese has not yet confirmed but he is still hopeful the Academy Award-winning director will attend for his collaboration with David Tedeschi, The 50 Year Argument, a documentary tribute to The New York Review of Books.

He added that up-and-coming Quebecois director Xavier Dolan is expected to be at the fest to screen his film Mommy, despite being left off the guest list revealed on Tuesday.

In addition to Franco, several other actors will appear at the fest to promote films they’ve directed: Alan Rickman for A Little Chaos, the closing night film; Chris Rock for Top Five; Melanie Laurent for Breathe; and Ethan Hawke for his documentary about pianist Seymour Bernstein, Seymour: An Introduction.

Director Antoine Fuqua, meanwhile, will appear with Washington for a public conversation about The Equalizer their first collaboration since the Academy Award-winning Training Day. Also participating in onstage discussions as part of the festival’s Mavericks program are Witherspoon, Juliette Binoche, Richard Gere, Robert Duvall and The Daily Show”host Jon Stewart for his feature-length drama Rosewater.

Rounding out the new films announced Tuesday are Cannes Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep, Marjane Satrapi’s The Voices, starring Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick, and Roger Waters the Wall, a documentary filmed during Waters’s recent The Wall Live tour.

Of the 285 feature films screening at TIFF, 143 are world premieres, nearly on par with last year’s 146. Bailey said that a new policy of only screening Prior to that, he was editor of Toronto Life from 1992 to 2007.

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In a statement, he says he’s enjoyed being at the magazine but he feels it’s time “for a new kind of editor.”

He adds it’s something he’s been thinking about “for a while” and he feels the timing is right for both him and the organization.

Macfarlane joined the magazine, which is published by the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation, in July 2008.

Calgary radio station hits stop button on format featuring shorter songs CALGARY — A Calgary radio station has given up a format featuring shorter versions of songs which it said gave listeners twice the music.

The station, 90.3 Amp (CKMP), changed to the style called QuickHitz nearly three weeks ago.

Owner Newcap Radio said it was a first for a radio station in Canada and perhaps the world to take up the format.

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Organizers also announced new details of their plans to close King Street West between Peter Street and University Avenue to transform the stretch into “festival Street.”

The stretch will become a “pedestrian promenade” that will feature art, food trucks, a “board game concierge” from Toronto bar Snakes & Lattes, musical performances from Rich Aucoin, Jason Collett and Adrian X, a public piano and even a festival therapist.

back to its original format today.

He says there were threats of lawsuits on behalf of a number of unnamed musical artists and the company decided it wasn’t worth it to continue.

Jones says he is convinced that the format is a good one and could be rejigged and brought back in the future.

adaption but has yet to decide between superhero Shazam and his arch-nemesis Black Adam.

He may not have a hard time making a decision.

He tells The Associated Press he has always been a fan of anti-heroes and says his two favourites are Green Lantern and Black Adam.

The 42-year-old actor made the comments Monday in Mexico City, where he is promoting Hercules.

He says he will make sure comic fans are not disappointed.

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“I never was in any doubt that we would have lots of sparkle for people this September,” he said. “For us I think this was a question of clarity that we wanted to bring to the selection process and just the scheduling of the films. We’ve done that and I think the lineup is as strong as ever.”

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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.

403.340.4040.

HOPKINS Norene May 19, 1929 - Aug. 9, 2014 Norene Hopkins passed away peacefully at the Royal Oak Manor in Lacombe, Alberta, on August 9, 2014 at the age of 85. She was born in High River, Alberta, to Gordon and Beatrice Cameron, on May 19, 1929. She grew up on a farm in Cayley, surrounded by a large extended family, whom she adored. Norene attended Teacher’s College in Calgary, after which she taught in several places in southern Alberta, including Blackie and Black Diamond. She was teaching in Lacombe when she met Trevor Hopkins through their shared love of music. They married in 1952 and raised four children.

Norene taught elementary school both full-time and as a substitute teacher in Lacombe while her children were small. She later completed her Royal Conservatory of Music training, and taught music at the Lacombe Elementary School for several years. She also taught piano students in her home, until approximately 10 years ago.

Many of Mom’s students went on to have successful musical careers. Norene was very involved in musical endeavors in Lacombe, including accompanying church and community choirs, and singing in musical productions. Children’s choirs and piano students were entered into the Lacombe Kiwanis music competitions.

She also volunteered in numerous local organizations.

Norene was predeceased by Trevor, her husband of 57 years, her parents, and her brother, Grant Cameron.

She leaves to celebrate her life, her 4 children, Debra De Clercq of St. Albert, Gord (Cathy) of Rocky Mountain House, Rhondda (Tony) Jones of Cowichan Bay, B.C. and Pam (Bill) Orchin of Red Deer. Norene and Trevor were blessed with 8 grandchildren and 5 great granddaughters. A celebration of Norene’s life will be held at the United Church, 5526 51st Avenue, Lacombe, Alberta, on Friday, August 22nd, 2014 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Lacombe Hospital Auxiliary, 5430 47th Avenue, Lacombe, Alberta, T4L 1G8.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

LANDIN Dorothy May (nee Oswell) May 12, 1931 - August 13, 2014 Dorothy (Dot) Landin passed away peacefully at the Foothills Hospital on Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 at the age of 83 years. Born in Lloydminster, SK, Dot traveled the world and worked as a Registered Nurse across the United States and Western Canada.

A lover of family and adventure, art and music, gardening and entertaining, she faced life with curiosity, humour, boundless compassion, quiet strength and determination.

She is survived by her son Winston (Vancouver) and her daughter Aurora (Calgary) along with ‘other sons’ John and Jason Clark (Missouri).

She is also survived by siblings and in-laws Lil and Des Beynon, Russ Neil, Maureen and Ron Harland, Gwen Cupples, Jean and Eugene Hilsendager, Guy and Cathy Oswell, Judith and Aurora Landin, Teresa Tellez, and fifty-one nieces and nephews, their spouses, children and grandchildren, along with so many loving friends. She is predeceased by her sister Liz Neil, brothers Walt and John Oswell, in-laws Marg and Charlotte Oswell, Wes Cupples, Antonio Landin, Armando Tellez and her ex-husband Salvador Landin.

A Memorial Service will be held at Knox Presbyterian Church, 4718 - 50 St. (Ross Street), Red Deer, AB, on Friday, August 22nd, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. If friends so desire, donations may be made in Dot’s name to the Cystic Fibrosis Canada, 2221 Yonge St., Suite 601, Toronto, ON, M4S 2B4 or your local Women’s Shelter. The family would also like to express our gratitude to the wonderful staff of the Maple Unit of Cedars Villa Extendicare in Calgary for all their loving care these past five years.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS requires RECEPTIONIST Must have computer experience and be available from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. No Phone Calls Please Laser Derm & Wellness Centre is looking for a full time receptionist/aesthetician. We offer generous wages , commissions and signing bonus. Drop your resume off to Bay 500, #80 Donlevy Avenue, R.D. Looking for a place to live?

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BOWER DENTAL REQ’S F/T ORTHODONTICS TRAINED ASSISTANT. Position to start immed.

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Ortho module would be an asset. Please fax your resumes to 403-845-7605 or e-mail: markochatenay @gmail.com

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Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

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403-722-2182 or email: wayneleorasmith@gmail.com P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

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TEMPORARY F/T HYGIENIST to start immed. to fill position until Feb. 27th, 2015.

Email resume to: marina@bowerdental.com or drop off resume.

Farm Work

755

FULL/PART TIME experienced harvest help req’d.

Red Deer area.

403-357-4408 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Southside Dodge is looking for a new full-time team member to join our great staff!

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You must be a quick learner and have a positive attitude. Experience with ADP and/or CTWIZARD is preferred but not required. Accounting experience and/or HR skills would be an asset. Our company offers competitive wages and excellent benefits. If you think you can be an asset to the Southside family then please contact us with your resume via:

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Clearview Back alley sale. BOY CLOTHING (0-1 year) $1 per item, Bouncy chair, Swing & More. 44 Connell Close, Clearview. Thur. & Friday Aug. 21 & 22, 9noon + 3-7 pm. Rain or shine.

Highland Green 8 HILL CRES - Aug 21 & 22 -2 - 8 pm, Aug 23 - 9 - 3 pm. Housewares, home decor, tables, book case. cabinet, blinds, books, clothing, duvet, shower curtains, furniture coverings, afghans and more.

West Park RDC GARAGE SALE Red Deer College is holding a special Garage Sale event, Wed. Aug. 27, 1-5 pm. A variety of items will be up for sale. Watch for further details in the Aug. 23 and 25 editions of the Red Deer Advocate!

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Janitorial

ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work during shut down, days and nights, $14/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s and specify days or nights to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

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Legal

Johnston Ming Manning LLP has an opportunity for a full time Senior Conveyancer. This position requires someone who displays a team player outlook, effective communication skills, the ability to multi-task, and the ability to work in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working in a law firm, and a minimum of 2 years experience working as a Legal Assistant in residential real estate. We offer a great benefit package and the opportunity for personal and professional growth. Please respond in confidence with a cover letter and resume to: Human Resources Johnston Ming Manning LLP 3rd Floor, 4943 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y1 Fax: (403) 342-9173 Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

LEGAL ASSISTANT, ROWANOAK LAW OFFICE LLP in Sylvan Lake requires a smart, professional, organized legal assistant who loves to be busy and takes initiative. Working in the area of Family Law, your responsibilities will include, managing emails, diaries and time posting for 1 busy lawyer, dealing with phone calls, clients, file management, preparation of correspondence, billing and court documents. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work with complete autonomy and work well under deadlines. Experience in Word and Outlook a must with a typing speed of at least 65 wpm.

Knowledge of Childview, LRCY matters and ESILaw is an asset. 3 or more years experience in Family preferred. Must have own transportation. Please e-mail your resume to mtivadar@rowanoaklaw. com or fax to Michele Tivadar @ 403-887-7380.

Salary to commensurate with experience. All replies held in confidence. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a local well production company, is currently seeking experienced

TESTING ASSISTANTS

STONEWALL ENERGY CORP., a fast-paced growing oilfield rental company in Red Deer is hiring for

Must have current H2S and First-Aid tickets.

We offer competitive wages and benefits

Currently Stonewall supplies fracheads in Alberta, BC, and Sask.

DAY & NIGHT SUPERVISORS as well as

Field Technicians.

Please fax or email your resume to: Fax # 403 887-4750 JJudson@1strateenergy.ca • CUSTOMER Sales Support • Experience in customer service, shipping/receiving (forklift certification), inventory. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, • On call rotation required.

E-mail resume to: steed@coorstek.com.

• No phone calls.

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LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 Buying or Selling your home?

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NOW HIRING Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com Now Hiring Experienced Oil and Gas Well Testing Day/Night Supervisors and Operators. Must have valid tickets and drivers license.

Email resume to welltestingrd@gmail.com

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The Field Technician position will require: Install and teardown of rental equipment Shop work with equipment preparation, returns and general maintenance Valid safety tickets including H2S and First Aid Clean Class 1 Driver License and Air Brake Endorsement Able to work independently, communicate effectively, and be a team player.

Flexibility for out of town work in remote locations.

Driving experience is an asset. Field experience is not necessary, willing to train. Looking for the right person who is wanting to build a career in the oilfield.

Stonewall offers a salary, job bonus, benefits program and an opportunity to utilize your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to resumes@ stonewallenergy.ca or fax to 403.356.1881.

Please send proof and payment application.

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Oilfield

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Trades

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Become An Optician

800

• Grade 12, GED, or assessed equivalent • Must be a Canadian Citizen

Earn While You Learn Full Time Employment 40hrs/wk Training & Practicum hours provided to successful candidate.

Mon-Fri 10-7, Sat 9-6 Medical/Dental Benefits To arrange for an interview

850

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For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

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We are currently seeking a full time

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In this position you will work closely with a Site Manager; providing support, ensuring all day to day tasks are met and assist labour and Trades on site.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

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.

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: framing, building forms, door and window installation, and various tasks that arise daily.

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Truckers/ Drivers

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CLEARVIEW AREA Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive area

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS WANTED

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS EVESTROUGH CLEANING. Now taking bookings Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. for fall. 403-506-4822 with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 GUTTERS, soffit, fascia 403-391-2169

Contractors

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

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We’ll do it all...Free est.

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RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Escorts

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KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Massage Therapy

1280

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VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.com

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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666

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PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869

RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

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

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

Window Cleaning

1420

ROBUST Cleaning Services MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WINDOW CLEANING JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. outside/inside. Free quotes.

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Flexible Spending Account Group RSP Savings Plan Comprehensive Health and Dental Plan Career Advancement Opportunities

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We offer a work rotation of 15 days on & 6 days off.

Preference will be given to applicants with off-road experience.

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 Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

3900 to 4400 blocks of 40A Ave., 2 blocks of 41 Ave, and 1 block of 39, 46 & 47 St. $71/mo.

3400 black of 44A Ave and 35 St. Cres. $48/mo

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CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

FANTASY

Roofing

GRANDVIEW AREA

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Chism Close, Cunningham Cres area $115/mo.

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Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry.

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

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BARDEN Oilfield Hauling Ltd. is now hiring Bed Truck, Winch Tractor and Picker Operators, as well as Swampers. Experience a must.

Fax resumes to 403-341-3968 or email bardentrucking@telus.net.

No phone calls please.

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Now Hiring All Snubbing Positions Candidate must have a valid Class 1 or Class 3 license (No GDL Please) Valid H2S, Fall Arrest, and First Aid tickets must express a strong work ethic.

Positions are base out of Nisku, AB Qualified applicants can email their resumes to careers@snubco.com or fax to 780 955 3508 attn. AJ Grant

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JJAM Management (1987) CRYSTAL GLASS CATTLE HAULERS ACADEMIC Express Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s needs EXP’ D GLASS Wanted for local Alberta ADULT EDUCATION Requires to work at these WORKER. Drop off reposition. Full Time.

AND TRAINING Red Deer, AB locations: sume at: 4706-51 Avenue Must have clean Class 1 5111 22 St. or fax 346-5390 or email: and live close to Lacombe.

FALL START 37444 HWY 2 S branch208@crystalglass.ca Cattle exp. required.

37543 HWY 2N Call 403-782-4804 or fax DUE TO A LARGE 700 3020 22 St. resume to: 403-782-4814. • Community Support TR3 Energy is at the INCREASE IN BUSINESS, Manager/Food Services Worker Program forefront of reclamation CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

PIKE WHEATON and remediation in the oil for moving equipment.

Wknd, day, night & eves.

• GED Preparation CHEVROLET & gas industry Resumes to be dropped off Start date ASAP. $18/hr. 40 is currently seeking at Key Towing.

4083-78 St. hrs/week, + benefi ts , Would you like to take the SERVICE ADVISORS. We are currently Cres. Red Deer.

1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., GED in your community?

We offer competitive recruiting for: criminal record check req’d. wages, a great working Heavy Equipment CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d Req’d education some sec• Red Deer and a great for moving equipment.

Operators & Laborer ondary. Apply in person or environment, • Rocky Mtn. House benefit package.

Resumes to be dropped off • Rimbey fax resume to: Please email resume to at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. • Caroline 403-314-1303 For full job Requirements: Joey Huckabone Cres. Red Deer. description visit www.

Valid Driver’s License • Castor joey@pikewheatonchev.ca timhortons.com H2S Alive • Sylvan Lake CLASS 3 DRIVERS F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS Standard First Aid w/airbrake endorsement • Innisfail RAMADA INN & - Good hours, home every needed immed. for waste & • Stettler WHIMIS and/or night, $4000-$6000/mo.

SUITES CSTS or PST • Ponoka recycling. Email resume Contractor must have truck with a min. of 2 references • Lacombe req’s Permanent Pre-Access A&D Testing or van. Tools, supplies & Ground Disturbance Level 11 ROOM ATTENDANTS to: canpak@xplornet.ca ladders required. Training Attendants. Exp. not nec.

Gov’t of Alberta Funding provided, no experience Please e-mail or fax your will train. Approx. 35 - 40 may be available.

DRIVERS for furniture needed. Apply to: resume to: hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 moving company, class 5 satjobs@shaw.ca hr@tr3energy.com $14/hr. Duties incl’d but 403-340-1930 required (5 tons), local & Fax: (403) 294-9323 not limited to: vacuuming, long distance. Competitive www.academicexpress.ca GOODMEN www.tr3energy.com dusting, washing floors, wages. Apply in person.

COMPANY req’s live in making beds, empty trash, ROOFING LTD. 6630 71 St. Bay 7 retired maintenance disinfecting & cleaning Requires Red Deer. 403-347-8841 person for our apartment bathrooms. Performance Professionals operations. Journeyman based bonus program.

Fluid Experts Ltd. SLOPED ROOFERS plumbing exp. an asset.

Must be fluent with verbal Of Red Deer is seeking LABOURERS Call Mike for l& written English, be experienced & FLAT ROOFERS details 403-342-4923 physically fit. Applicants Class 1 Operators may apply in person at Valid Driver’s Licence to join our team of drivers Counter Salesperson 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer preferred. Fax or email hauling clean fluids for the A local company requires T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 info@goodmenroofing.ca Oil & Gas Industry. an enthusiastic person for or email: or (403)341-6722 Home most evenings, counter sales. info@ramadareddeer.com NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Boundary scheduled days off, Email resume to Technical Group Inc. company benefits with mark@aesreddeer.com Maintenance Worker Is now hiring for: exceptional pay structure Sales & Wanted Immediately! Edon that includes guarantied DAIRY equipment supplier Management is looking for Distributors - Technologist (Party salary + hourly when looking for a Maintenance Worker for Chief) hauling. Must be able to GENERAL LABORERS our Red Deer sites. This Marlin Travel Rocky - Technician (Rodman) work on their own with For pour parts & service dept. position assists with Mountain House requires a minimal supervision.

Competitive wages and building operations and part time Junior to In the Red Deer and Fax resume w/all tickets benefits package. E-mail concerns.

Interested Intermediate Travel surrounding area and current drivers resume: info@prolineinc.ca applicants please send Consultant. Minimum 1 abstract to: your resume by e-mail to DISPATCHER REQ’D. year experience. Please Boundary offers a 403-346-3112 or email to: careers@edonmgmt.com Knowledge of Red Deer email resume to: bonnie. competitive salary and roger@fluidexperts.com or via fax to and area is essential. yeoman@marlintravel.ca. benefits package (403) 341-0626.

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Tired of Standing? req’d. Send resume by fax Construction/Land Check out Classifieds to Find something to sit on to 403-346-0295 survey company based in find the purrfect pet. in Classifieds Airdrie.

Integra Tire Innisfail, requires a Tire Tech with Shipper/Receiver Please send resume to: IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Lube Bay and Service Teachers/ A local company requires FAX: (403) 948-4924 or Sylvan Lake. SWAMPERS Truck experience. Valid an energetic person for email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca Tutors REQ’D. Safety bonus class 5 license and driver shipper/receiver. program, top wages and abstract required. Send Email resume to SENIOR ACCOUNTANT PRESCHOOL TEACHING benefi ts.

Email resume: resume to innisfail@ mark@aesreddeer.com Established CGA firm in POSITION! Kids in tom@roncooilfield.ca integratire.com or fax to Stettler has a great Harmony Red Deer is or fax: 403-887-4892 403.227.6689 Classifieds...costs so little opportunity for an interviewing a Certified Saves you so much! accountant with public ECE (level 1,2 or 3). 17.5 Advocate practice experience to join hours a week.

TJ PAVING is looking for our firm. Please email Opportunities KIHpreschool@gmail.com. employees with paving resume to TandP_cga@ experience. Comp wages, telus.net or fax great working atmosphere.

403 742-2599.

Come join our team. Email Trades NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED resume to tjpaving@ hotmail.com or fax For Afternoon Delivery Restaurant/ 403-346-8404.

BJT PLUMBING, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday a well established Sylvan Hotel WE’RE HIRING! BUNCH Lake company has an PROJECTS is immediately immediate opening for a BOWER AREA JJAM Management (1987) filling the following 4th Yr Apprentice Plumber Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these or Journeyperson Plumber. positions: Crane Operators, Welders, Pipefitters, Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Fax resume to Red Deer, AB locations: Apprentices, Skilled 403-887-3180 or call 5111 22 St. Boyce Street Byer Close Labourers, Heavy 403-887-3287 for more details.

37444 HWY 2 S Barrett Drive Bell Street Equipment Operators, and 37543 HWY 2N BRICAR CONTRACTING Heavy Duty Technicians.

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Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

FOOD ATTENDANT Dozer & Hoe Operators. bunch.ca. Qualified Req’d permanent shift Send resumes by candidates should send weekend day and evening Fax: 403-347-6296 For more information or to apply, their information to both full and part time. or email: aron@bricar.ca resume@bunch.ca. please call Ashley 16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. at the Red Deer Advocate Job description 403-314-4316 www.timhortons.com Trades Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED resume to: 403-314-1303

Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field TANKMASTER RENTALS operations for an intermediate req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid oil and gas operator. Applicants Haulers for Central must have experience as a Alberta. Oilfield tickets heavy duty mechanic or req’d. Competitive wages journeyman instrument and benefits. mechanic and possess admin@tankmaster.ca or strong mechanical skills, fax 403-340-8818 be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live TREELINE or be willing to relocate WELL SERVICES within a 20 minute commute Has Opening for all to workplace location. This positions! Immediately. position offers a challenging All applicants must have work environment, attractive current H2S, Class 5 with benefits with competitive Q Endorsement,and First pay and significant room Aid. We offer competitive for promotion. wages & excellent benefits.

Please submit resumes Please include 2 work reference names and Attn: Human Resources numbers. email:kwolokoff@ Please fax resume to: bearspawpet.com 403-264-6725 Fax 403-252-9719 Or email to: Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 tannis@treelinewell.com Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 No phone calls please.

SAROS www.treelinewell.com Req’s Exp. P/T waitress PROFLO PRODUCTION Medical for days & evenings.

SEPARATORS is currently Celebrate your life Must have Pro Serve seeking an individual for a P/T EXP’D MEDICAL with a Classified Please apply in person: SEMI F/T office Receptionist req’d.

ANNOUNCEMENT w/resume to 4914-52 St. SHOP FOREMAN. Reference required He must have a valid Fax 403-346-4207 driver’s licence & be able to drive a standard in a 1 P/T Professional Medical Professionals ton truck. He must be Secretary needed in Red mechanically inclined & Deer. Fax: 403-314-0499 have oilfield exp. Duties would include washing & REG Nurse RN req’d for maintaining separators, casual position 1-2 days/ flare stacks, office trailers, mo in private surgical shop & yard. Candidate facility. Please send resume to RDSSweet@Gmail.com must have first aid &, H2S. Would you like to become an Optician?

Hours are flexible but 9 - 4 would be the standard.

Earn your Diploma in Optical Sciences at Please drop off your Oilfield resume at 8006 Edgar NAIT’s 2 year program Industrial Ave. with current drivers’ licence abstract & Requirements a copy of safety tickets.

Snubco Pressure Control Ltd.

Truckers/ Drivers

3200 & 3300 blocks of 44A Ave & 33 St. & 33A St. $52/mo.

WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 D3

the n o d e t is l e l ic h e v r u Get yo

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 HONDA Ridgeline EXL, mint, well maint. new timing belt, Michelin tires, alignment, new brakes. $18.900. obo.

1-403-343-2400

“SNOWBIRDS “ 2011 Alpine 39’, pristine cond., 4 slides, dish, 7500 w gen., fireplace, king bed, $44,900. obo, 1/2 price of new 403 358-4031 357-9541

2007 Dutchman Express 26’ Class C 12,800 Miles

Slide, Generator, air, V10, $40,000 403 782 4207

2008 KUSTOM KOACH 24.5’ exc. cond, 1 owner, 110 Watt solar panel, 1 slide, $19,900 403-986-3834

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 DODGE DAKOTA 4x4 Good shape. $5700.

403-598-4131

2007 LINCOLN MKX, fully loaded, under 105,000 kms., $16,900. obo. ** SOLD **

2009 AEROLITE Dutchmen rear slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C, couch, table, awning. $16,900 obo.

403-347-5947

2011 F150 XLT Supercab, Exc. cond.

403-347-5078

2004 TITANIUM

ULTIMATE TRUCK CAMPER 2007 Okanagan 117 DBL - 2 Slides, Sleeps 6, Full bath & kitchen. Queen. Huge. Mint $24,250 obo 403-620-8106

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2012 CAMARO 2SS Coupe 5500 km. Loaded. $41,900.

403-350-6434

PRISTINE 2007 Special Edition Mazda Miata MX5. 97,000 km, $15,000 firm 343-3208, 506-3047 cell

2009 KEYSTONE Passport Ultralite 29 ft Reduced, 1 slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C. See Kijiji Ad ID 548133556 $19,000. 403-343-1043

2012 CHEV, 4x4, loaded, $23,300. **SOLD**

2006 CHARGER Daytona RT, limited addition, #3 of only 250 made, loaded w/leather, low kms., top banana color. $16,995. **SOLD**

2007 SUZUKI Boulevard 1400 cc, 11,383 km. Well maint.

Black & lots of chrome, white wall tires & saddle bags, bike cover & bike jack incl. $5000. **SOLD**

2009 SMART FORTWO 11,970 KM’s. Silver, c/w a hitch plate & wired to be towed behind a Motorhome.

Very good shape. $10,500.

403-347-6817 or 357-0919

2012 FORD FOCUS titanium hatchback, no GST, private sale $14,250 obo 403-227-5123

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 VW CITY GOLF. Blue, heated seats, winter tires, 205,000 km. $5500 403-782-5617

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2013 GMC 2500 HD 4x4, 36,000 kms., Duramax Diesel $42,300.

587-679-1000

2006 KAWASAKI, ZZ-R250 black, 2468 kms., never dropped, lady driven. $3500. obo 403-340-1936

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400.

403-391-9662

2010 Ford Explorer

2014 GMC, S/B, Loaded, z71, $34,300.

587-679-1000

2006 VW Jetta TDI

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised $15,500. Runs good.

Would like at least $9500 403-391-3456

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1985 BUICK Riviera.

Original paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner.

Immaculate interior. 158,000 km. $3750 obo.

403-347-3950

2000 JAYCO EAGLE Great cond. Clean, 6400 lbs. $9500. - $8500.

403-346-0242

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, exc. cond. low kms. $6900, obo **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580

1989 GMC SIERRA Auto 350, s/b, no rust.

Glass exc. 144,000km $4900.

403-340-8950

2001 SILVERADO 4x4, 8500 winch, snow tires, topper, $6500 obo. ***SOLD***

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’.

Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo.

Call 403-442-3837

2001 VOLVO S60.

Loaded, very good cond.

182,000 km. $6500 obo 403-343-2058

1994 CHEV Z71 e/c, fuel tank c/w 12V pump, tool box, runs good.

361,000 km. $4000 obo 403-343-2058

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi.

A1 cond., E450, V10, loaded, rear 3 pc bath, power bed slide-out. $31,500.

587-876-2308

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500.

587-679-1000

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1998 CHRYSLER AWD

2003 HONDA 450, 4x4 $3800. obo **SOLD**

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2 FREE SALE SIGNS AND TIP SHEET

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

137,000 kms, fully loaded, sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,500 403-346-1392 340-9068

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Limited, 4.6L, V8, 112,000 kms., fully loaded, leather, DVD, every option, $20,500.

403-318-5505

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

7th Annual Fall Finale Collector Car Auction Sept. 19-20 Westerner Park, R.D. Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event. Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGauctions.com

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635421

Town N` Country, 7 pass., 199,000 kms., command start, hitch, special mag whls. $1500 **SOLD**

2003 WINDSTAR LX, fully loaded, very good cond. $3500.

403-755-2867

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014

Holder brings personal history to Missouri crisis

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Eric Holder talks about the nation’s civil rights struggles in a way no previous U.S. attorney general could — by telling his own family story. It’s a legacy he’ll likely draw on when he travels Wednesday to Ferguson, Missouri, to supervise the federal investigation of the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

As Holder increasingly pushes his Justice Department to protect voting rights and end unfair prison sentences and police brutality, he has drawn on personal history to make the case that the nation has much work to do to achieve justice for all.

Holder tells how his father, an immigrant from Barbados proudly wearing his World War II uniform, was ejected from a whites-only train car. How his future sister-in-law, escorted by U.S. marshals, integrated the University of Alabama in spite of a governor who stood in the schoolhouse door to block her. How as a college student, he was twice pulled over, his car searched, even though he wasn’t speeding.

And Holder recalls that the slaying of black teen Trayvon Martin in 2012 prompted him to sit down with his own 15-year-old son for a talk about the way a young black male must act and speak if confronted by police — the same talk his father had given him decades earlier.

“I had to do this to protect my boy,” the nation’s first black attorney general said at a civil rights group’s convention last year.

President Barack Obama is sending Holder to Ferguson to bring the full weight of the federal government into the investigation of the death of anoth-

Misc.

Help

880

GULL Valley Greenhouses Blackfalds AB has 2 positions for Greenhouse Supervisors.

Must have 2-3 yrs. exp. working in a tomato vegetable greenhouse. Job involves training & supervising workers, also performing same jobs as workers. Terms of employment incl. a 40 hr week, Sunday’s off & $20.00/hr.

Jobs starting Aug 19th 2014.

Reply with info to: phil@gullvalley.ca Looking to hire experienced sign shop person.

Clean Class 5 required.

Wage dependent upon experience. Email resume to ofÀce@questsigns.ca Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

MOBIL 1 Lube Express Gasoline Alley req’s an Exp. Tech. Fax 403-314-9207 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofÀce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Farmers' Market

1650

ZUCHINNI and spaghetti squash $3-$10 403-782-3031

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

RESIDENTIAL APT Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner MANAGER BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / 23 suite apt. complex.

Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration. Garden Fax to 403-346-5786 Supplies SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift.

11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

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LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $190. 403-314-0804

Household Appliances

1710

DEEP FREEZE, 5 cubic foot. Used 2 years, good cond. $125. 403-358-3865 After 5 p.m.

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1680

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Protesters march Tuesday, for Michael Brown, who was killed by police Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson’s leaders urged residents Tuesday to stay home after dark to “allow peace to settle in” and pledged several actions to reconnect with the predominantly black community in the St. Louis suburb where the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown has sparked nightly clashes between protesters and police. er young black man, Michael Brown, who was unarmed when a white police officer shot him multiple times Aug. 9.

Daily and nightly protests, sometimes marred by rioting and looting and met with tear gas and rubber-coated bullets from police, have rocked the suburban St. Louis community since.

Holder has led an unusually fast and aggressive Justice Department response to the local case, sending teams of prosecutors and dozens of FBI agents to investigate and arranging a federal autopsy on top of one by local authorities.

Household Appliances

1710

PERMA WASHING MACHINE (Sears).

Good cond. $175 403-877-3323

Household Furnishings

1720

FUTON bed converts from sofa to bed $50.

403-347-3849 TWIN bed with frame, box spring and mattress $25 SOLD

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

TOSHIBA 21” Áat back TV, with manual, remote & wireless ear phones. $75.

403-986-6321

Misc. for Sale

1760

12 5PC SETTING of dinner wear with all completer pieces, white with blue & silver trim, $125.

403-886-2542

Misc. for Sale

1760

4X8 DYNAMO COIN OP POOL TABLE & Various Arcade & Pop Machines.

Call 403-314-0594 INGLIS FRIDGE - almond colour - runs perfect, $125.

VINYL TAN colour rocking chair & ottoman, $60.

OAK END TABLE, $20.

403-886-2542

Cats

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

Travel Packages

1900

2 WINDOW AIR CONDITIONERS: 1- 5200 BTU, $75, 1- 8000 BTU $100.

403-886-2542

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

HUNTERS - Camp cot for tent, Must See! Only $85.

403-342-7460

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Advocate Opportunities

Advocate Opportunities

Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS REQUIRED

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave. ORIOLE PARK Otterbury Ave KENTWOOD Kerr Close & Kingston Dr. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres.

Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Allan Street Ahlstrom Close Archibald Cres.

Andrews Close Archer Drive/Austin Dr. Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atkins Close Allison Cres MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA SpringÀeld Ave. LANCASTER AREA

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

EASTVIEW AREA

$605/mo.

DEERPARK AREA

Lord Close VANIER AREA Vanier East Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Duval Cres, Doncaster Place area $332/mo.

Douglas St. Dowler St. area. $423/mo.

MICHENER AVE $712/mo.

For More Information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

3060

Suites AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Poultry

2130

4 ISA BROWN LAYING HENS FOR SALE $15/ea.

403-346-7825

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

5 BDRM. house in Red Deer extra large det. shop, no pets, n/s, $1900/mo. + DD avail. Sept.

1 587-679-5789 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

3030

SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

3110

Offices

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

403-343-9300

3140

Warehouse Space

SEIBEL PROPERTY

~ Westpark

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

References required.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

3040

2 BDRM trailer in Alix. 4 appls, $900/mo. inclds. water, immed. 403-348-6594

MOBILE ofÀce trailer 240 rent by day/month, c/w toilet, satellite dish, TV, Stereo, fridge. Call B & L Enterprise 403-346-6106

Housesitting Wanted

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homes 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

3060

4040

NEW CONDO 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

4020

CUSTOM BUILT

NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550

Cars

5030

2006 VW Jetta TDI 137,000 kms, fully loaded,sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,500 403-346-1392 340-9068 1991 HONDA Acura Legend 4 dr., V6 auto. Full load, 120,000 km. Right hand drive. Exc. cond. $4300 obo. 403-877-0825

Trucks

5050

2008 HONDA Ridgeline EXL, mint shape, well maintained by dealership, timing belt replaced, alignment, Michelin tires, new brakes. $18.900. obo.

1-403-343-2400 2003 CHEV 2500 e/c, 6L, loaded, except leather, box liner, Michelin tires, trailer brakes, exc. cond., $11,500 403-782-7140

Motorhomes

5100

1987 GLENDALE Cutaway 24’ $6000 obo 403-302-2992

Fifth Wheels

5110

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Automotive Services

5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

2000 JAYCO EAGLE Great cond. Clean, 6400 lbs. $9500. $8500. 346-0242 1993 SEIRRA 26’ $4000 403-227-3650

“SNOWBIRDS “ 2011 Alpine 39’, pristine cond., 4 slides, dish, 7500 w gen., Àreplace, king bed, $44,900. obo, 1/2 price of new 403 358-4031 357-9541

Holiday Trailers 7th Annual Fall Finale

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

Cars

5030

2012 FORD Fusion SE 10,000 kms, $16,900 obo must sell 403-340-0558

2001 BUICK LeSabre drk. red exc. cond. 403-352-6995

1 & 2 BDRM apt. for over Houses 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs. For Sale Free laundry, heat, water, private parking at 5910-55 1/2 DUPLEX in prime West Ave. in Riverside Meadows. Park location. #5524 †35 St. See kijiji ad for details, Rent/Sec. $850 then $1100 or call (403) 342-7908. respectively for the 2 bdrm.

Avail. Sept. 1st. 403-341-4627 2 BDRM. N/S, no parties, no pets. $850 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

Condos/ Townhouses

2009 TOYOTA Corolla SRX red, auto, loaded, 59,000 kms, $12,400 403-341-0603

CLEARVIEW

Suites

MUST SELL New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

CLASSIFICATIONS

3050

2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls.

Rent $11125. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. Oct. 1.

403-304-5337

MUST SELL 1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

3300

ATTN. SNOWBIRDS Retired, N/S, no pets couple will give your home loving care & company while you escape winter.

Call 403-728-3768

MOBILE LOT, Mustang Acres #715, $500/mo. will Àt 16’ x 70’. 403-347-7731

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

4020

MORRISROE MANOR

3200

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

Houses For Sale

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 3 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, INNISFAIL deluxe 2 bdrm. new roof/Áooring, bsmt. newer 4 plex $860 inclds. has subÁoor/laminate, gas water, Sept 1, 403-348-6594 Àreplace, large bricked RV parking, close to Collicutt LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. 403-346-1633 SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 BOWDEN 2108 Westview Cr. 1961 built, 3 bdrm, 1 bath Det. single garage. New siding & shingles within 5 yrs. Garden Shed. Original hardwood 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. Áooring. Oak Cabinetry Adult bldg. N/S No pets throughout.

Mid EfÀciency 403-596-2444 Furnace. Wood burning ÀreNEW 1 bdrm. bsmt. suite, place in bsmt. A great starter separate entrance & home/rental property w/a nice laundry, $850 inclds. utils., view of the park off back deck.

Johnstone Park., immed.

Contact seller for inquiries 587-876-2335 403-341-5390 or to view: 780-678-6286.

NEWLY RENOVATED FREE Weekly list of bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom properties for sale w/details, suites available prices, address, owner’s in central location. phone #, etc. 342-7355 leasing@rentmidwest.com Help-U-Sell of Red Deer 1(888) 679-8031 www.homesreddeer.com

3 BDRM, 1.5 bath townhouse for over 40 yr old employed SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft. tenants. 6appls, private yard $1000 Phil 403-350-0479 & parking, 1 small pet with additional Sec. Dep. of $500. Misc.

Quiet people, no drugs, no partiers, no police etc. For Rent At #9, 15 Stanton Street, Sunnybrook. Rent & S.D. $1400/mo. 403-341-4627.

Manufactured Homes

Lawrence Cres/Lees Street Logan Close

Still, protesters in the streets say they aren’t convinced justice will be done. Holder’s record on civil rights and personal commitment may help reassure the community when he visits.

“It’s a powerful message,” said William Yeomans, a law school fellow at American University who worked in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for more than two decades.

“He’s the embodiment of law enforcement, and the positive contribution he can make here is to assure the community that the federal government is taking very seriously the quest for justice

in this incident.”

Holder reinvigorated a civil rights force at Justice, Yeomans said, that had been scaled back and demoralized during President George W. Bush’s administration.

Holder’s department has been especially strong in going after police misconduct, both through criminal civil rights cases and lawsuits against police departments, Yeomans said.

His civil rights push got off to a difficult start, however. Shortly after taking office in February 2009, Holder called the United States “a nation of cowards” when it comes to talking about race in a Black History Month speech.

Conservative backlash was swift. Holder quickly toned down his rhetoric while quietly rebuilding the division.

For much of Holder’s early tenure, his public profile was shaped by battles over how to prosecute terror cases, the use of armed drones to kill terror suspects overseas and his handling of various Obama administration controversies. A 2012 vote in the Republican-controlled House made Holder the first sitting Cabinet member ever held in contempt of Congress over his refusal to hand over without preconditions documents involving the a gun-running gun investigation.

More than a dozen Republican lawmakers have called for his impeachment for not prosecuting anyone in the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service for targeting conservative groups and for his department’s probes of journalists linked to news leaks.

But over the last three years, civil rights has moved to the forefront, starting with Holder’s opposition to state voter ID laws that make it harder for the poor to cast ballots. He compared Texas’ voter ID law to a poll tax, the now-illegal fees imposed across the South for decades.

5120

2010 KEYSTONE passport 25BH loaded. power hitch, jacks, awning, tv/dvd Sleeps 7. $17,500.00. Exc condition. Don’t miss out!

403-598-0956. hartrk@telus.net

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1977 — Voyager 2 is launched by the United

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1973 — Saskatchewan Roughrider running back George Reed sets an all-time world pro football rushing record, beating the 12,312 yards held by the NFL’s Jimmy Brown.

1883 — First session of the N.W.T. Legislative Council meets in Regina.

1858 — Colony of British Columbia is established. Hudson’s Bay Company required to give up control of Vancouver Island.

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D6 Confused by daughter’s hatred

Dear Annie: Eight months ago, our highly educated 43-year-old daughter informed my wife that she hates her.

She put on a humiliating performance in front of her two children, a stepchild, her husband and us.

We don’t understand this at all, but she now wants nothing to do with us.

We do not deserve such treatment. We have been good, helpful parents and grandparents. In March, MITCHELL I phoned my & SUGAR daughter and asked why she hates her mother. She refused to discuss it.

Three months later, I wrote her a letter and asked again.

She has not responded.

Our daughter’s first marriage was not good, and we helped her emotionally and financially.

Is a therapist giving her bad advice?

ANNIE ANNIE

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 2014

Does she have a split personality?

Might she be in a cult? Is her husband pushing her to do this?

Please help us find a reason for this shabby, disrespectful treatment. — Bewildered Dad in Illinois Dear Dad: Your concerns are all interesting possibilities, but extreme.

More likely, your daughter blames her mother for things that have gone wrong in her life.

You may see it differently, but this is your daughter’s version, and to her, it is the truth.

Please don’t argue with her.

Instead, ask whether all of you can go for counselling together to work through whatever issues are troubling her, so you can be a family again.

We hope she will agree.

Dear Annie: My neighbour’s tree hangs five metres over my property line and shades my crabapple tree.

When I asked “Ralph” to trim his tree so that mine could get some sunlight, he went ballistic and refused.

Whenever Ralph and his wife go on vacation, I water their dozens of plants and take in their mail.

I no longer want to do either of these things, because they obviously don’t appreciate it.

I once asked them to watch my dog when I needed to go to the emergency room, and they wouldn’t do it.

Ralph got into a fistfight with the neighbour on the other side when the man wanted to install a fence on his property.

He once physically pushed the cable installers when they tried to lay down cable for another neighbour.

All I want is for Ralph to trim his tree so that mine can survive.

Do you think I should water their plants and take in their mail in the future? —Unhappy Neighbour Dear Neighbour: Ralph sounds like a loose cannon.

It’s your decision whether or not to take care of his mail and plants.

You are not obligated to do so and he certainly does not reciprocate.

But about the tree: In most cases, it is legal for you to trim the branches that hang over your property line, provided you do not harm the tree.

However, we don’t recommend you confront Ralph directly with this because he is so volatile.

Do you have a neighbourhood association that can help mediate the issue? Would his wife intercede?

As a last resort, you can take Ralph

to court.

And if he is causing your crabapple tree to die, you can sue for damages.

Dear Annie: I felt compelled to respond to “Miss Lonely,” whose ex left her with two kids and she’s looking for love.

I was in her situation, divorced with two children. I started working part time, which built up my self-esteem.

My friends and family encouraged me to return to school, which I did. I also got counselling for my children and myself, which helped.

Tell her to get involved with group activities. Surround herself with good friends and family.

I am involved with my local church and belong to two knitting groups.

Check your newspaper or meetup. com for local information, and step out of your comfort area.

You never know who you will meet and the friends you could make. — Florida 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.

HOROSCOPES Wednesday, Aug. 20 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Demi Lovato, 21; Amy Adams, 39; Al Roker, 59 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There will be a sensitivity to the day that will be palpable.

Truly, stay away from those who are negative, they will simply exhaust you.

You will be able to easily abLARISA MAIRA sorb others’ energy now, so be OZOLINS mindful of what SUN SIGNS you are truly expressing.

By the end of the day, settle down with those who truly make you feel at home and rested. It will benefit you greatly.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you will be able to create more balance for yourself with savings and smooth over any difficulties within your close relationships, either business or romantic.

They will be looking to you for advice now and you will be more than happy to offer it. This year is truly about team work to create the lifestyle you want to have, cocreate this with your spouse!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will be able to read others very well today.

Do stay away from those who drain your energy, you will notice who they are as

they will emphasize a negative perspective of life. Trust your instincts now and focus on expressing your positive, upbeat self with others today.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will be able to create a greater sense of financial security for yourself.

This will happen through negative remarks that will lead to a new way of thinking.

Friends will play a big role in your perspective going forward.

By the end of the day, relaxation is promised.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will have a very keen insight into your co-workers’ minds today.

Try to make sure to be compassionate.

More than likely, you will share any issues you are having with them at home which might exhaust your family or spouse.

Be mindful it could be you who is negative!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will have great insight into almost everything and anything today.

So be compassionate and direct that energy towards the greater good for all, and not just those you know.

Sudden breakthroughs will leave you feeling quite inspired and ready to take action forward.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will be quite receptive to those close individuals in your life.

You will have to be the one who offers them more options to improve your current situation.

You will feel the restrictions of your

home environment more today.

Make yourself feel more comfortable today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There will be greater attraction for you on a public level today, as you will be quite receptive to others and you will provide them with exactly what they are looking for.

Be mindful to discern who is helping or hurting your progression forward and remove those unworthy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will be actively figuring out which direction you would like to move towards today.

You definitely don’t want to be around individuals who are more on the negative side. You will be aware of who does this and who is helpful towards your progression forward now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will be in touch with others today.

Even out having a great time, your intuition will be highlighted and will be used to your advantage.

Stay away from those who drain your energy levels going forward.

You’ll want to express your dreams and will not need negativity now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will be in touch with what others are thinking.

Your perspective might start to change throughout the day, do not let it, especially towards the negative.

Only surround yourself with those who uplift your spirits and encourage positivity in your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Those at work might rub you the wrong way as they will be trying to get very close to you and your ideas.

Try to create proper boundaries between you and them right at the start of the day.

If you take on a more compassionate view, by the end of the day you will be relaxed.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Going out and having fun today will only drain your finances.

So be sure to allocate a specific amount towards enjoyment and you will do just fine.

You will even feel better about your health, and this will reflect within your work and daily life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Communication with those at home will either inspire or drain you today.

Be mindful to socialize with those who uplift you and do not create more hassle for you going forward.

In order for you to feel more nurtured, you will want to celebrate life and engage in all it has to offer.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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

The Camrose driver’s overall time of six minutes, 32.43 seconds was 3.06 6 seconds se eco conds o onds nds fa fast faster than tha Neil eil il Sal Salmon S Sa Salm 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.

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The Red Deer Advocate is accepting applications for an experienced Display Advertising Consultant for our Central Alberta Life publication.

Preference will be given to those with strong credentials in newspaper and new media advertising: however if you have a proven history in sales of any genre, we encourage you to apply.

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.

The successful candidate will be responsible for servicing existing accounts with an emphasis on developing and growing new accounts.

This is a union position with usual company benefits.

Forward resumes stating Display Advertising Consultant by Sunday, August 24/14 to: rwsmalley@reddeeradvocate.com Drop off or mail to: Richard Smalley Advertising Director Red Deer Advocate 2950 Bremner Avenue Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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