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Jim Prentice undecided on Michener Centre future

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Michener Centre supporters will have to wait to find out if Tory leadership candidate Jim Prentice would keep the Red Deer facility open.

Last spring the province announced that older buildings on Michener’s north and south sides would close forcing the relocation of 120 of Michener’s most severely developmentally disabled residents. The decision came as a shock to families who had long been promised that residents could live out their lives at Michener.

A judicial review of the decision to close Michener Centre happens in November, meanwhile the province continues its work to move residents out.

Prentice is the only candidate who has yet to weigh in on what should happen to Michener.

Last week, candidate Ric McIver said he would cancel the province’s closure plans and allow those who have

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moved out to return in keeping with the government’s promise.

In June, candidate Thomas Lukaszuk said he would definitely keep Michener open pending a review. Expansion could even be considered to help people with disabilities, mental health issues and others. If closure was required, people would be allowed to stay by way of attrition, up to a reasonable point.

On Wednesday afternoon, after speaking to about 150 people at the Black Knight Inn, Prentice said he still wants to talk to more family members of Michener residents.

“I will be making a visit to Michener Centre at a point in the near future and once I’ve done all of that, and spoken with the families, I’ll determine what I will do if I’m the premier,” Prentice said.

The former federal minister added his visit to Michener would be kept private. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

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When driving 100 year old cars on a long road trip maintenance is a vital component of a successful journey. Ray Fowler here working on his 1914 McLaughlin Buick, his wife Lynn Fowler, Pat McKenna and Jerry Huck are making the trip from Calgary to Edmonton this week driving this car and a 1915 Studebaker along a route they have identified as very close to the original roads described in map printed 100 years ago.

Tuesday the group arrived at Ft. Normandeau Just West of Red Deer along the Red Deer River where they camped the night. On Wednesday the drivers and vehicles visited the Sunnybrook Farm Museum, The Red Deer Museum and drove through downtown Red Deer before breaking camp and heading on their way north where they intended to spend the night in Leduc. On Thursday they are scheduled to arrive in downtown Edmonton. Flat tires, broken wheels and transmission issues have slowed the progress of the trip but that is probably typical of a trip of this nature even 100 years ago said Fowler.

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EDMONTON — Online polling to choose a new Alberta licence plate has closed and the most realistic of three designs has come out on top.

Kathleen Range of Service Alberta says the photo-like image of a field and mountains got almost 50 per cent approval.

Not far behind at more than 45 per cent was a blue-andyellow design with mountains and wheat.

A more stylized version finished a distant third at six per cent.

Range says 160,577 votes were cast.

She says there could still be changes to the design before the plates are released next spring.

The new plate options caused a ruckus when the government unveiled them

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Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc. intends to drill 10 more sweet gas wells in Red Deer County south of the city of Red Deer boundary.

Two of the wells will be located in the city’s future growth area, the closest one to the city located about three km southeast of the city’s waste management facility.

In January, Quicksilver notified the city of its plans to drill eight wells south of the city, including three in the same future growth area.

On Wednesday, the city’s municipal planning commission approved the plan for 10 wells.

Jim Benum, Red Deer’s oil and gas liaison, told the commission the intent is for the company to develop the gas resources before the city starts developing the area.

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Doug Griffiths said that wasn’t true.

Even the three candidates vying to become the next PC leader and premier found themselves in the great plate debate.

Former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice said it was clear the plates had “struck a nerve with Albertans” and he wanted to hear more about what people had to say.

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“That’s why you see so many wells proposed at one time,” Benum said on Wednesday.

“We try to encourage companies if they are going to develop close to the city to do it as quick as possible.”

Zoning for the future growth area, whether it’s residential, commercial or industrial, is not known at this time.

City development is not expected inCanada the area TM/MC Jeux du Gamesfor about 40 years.

The Quicksilver proposal was circulated to several city departments (Engineering, Parks, Electric Light and Power, Environmental Services and Planning) to consider the impact it may have on future urban development.

The expected lifespan of a well is about 20 years and there is no provincial requirement for companies to abandon wells, for example when city development begins.

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Red Deer is Ready RALLY GUIDE!

Red Deer is Ready Rally 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

August 22 – Ross Street, Downtown Red Deer

Don’t forget to lug your there will be water refill stations available.

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jug

Legend

We are

Red Deer.

We get winter here.

Horse Route

We love winter.

Water Station

We love sports, snowballs skating and hot chocolate.

Washrooms Bike Corral

We live winter.

Bouncy Castles

We don’t just prepare events.

Canada Winter Games

We make them great.

Information

And we are…

First Aid

Entertainment Line Up

Activities on Ross Street - available from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

City Hall Park will be transformed into a winter wonderland!

Autograph session with Honorary Chair Members,

Entertainment on

11 a.m.

3 live stages

Walking live snowballs Princesses in City Hall Park, including Red Deer’s own Miss Alberta, Gina Omilon

Jumbotron

19 interactive sports displays

Food Trucks

12 p.m.

It’s Time

1 p.m.

“As honorary chairs of Red Deer’s Canada Winter Games Bid Committee, we are thrilled to offer our support for Red Deer’s bid to host the 2019 Canada Winter Games. Without this community of supportive, dedicated people working every day to build a strong sense of sportsmanship and pride, people across the country – people like us – may never have reached the heights we have because of our experience with athletics in Red Deer.”

Parkland Mall

– northeast corner of the parking lot

Bower Mall

– regular bus stop on Barrett Drive With two convenient pick up points – one at Parkland Mall and one at Bower Mall, Red Deer Transit will bring Rally participants to Sorenson Station right outside the action. Service starts at 10:45 a.m. and will run every 15 minutes until the last departing bus back to the mall parking lots leaves at 4:30 p.m.

Salvadorean Folklore Dance

Porter

Usha Kala Niketan Indian Dance

1 p.m.

Country Pride Dancers

Porter

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Donna Durrand

2 p.m.

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Honorary Chair Members, Cari & Ron MacLean

Take the easy way down – use Park & Ride!

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Community Dance Country Pride Dancers

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Bonne “Journée de Rassemblement”, citoyens de Red Deer,

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Happy “Rally Day”, Red Deerians!

ODeer and the nearly 100,000 n behalf of The City of Red

local citizens and 350,000 regional citizens we serve, I am pleased to welcome the Canada Winter Games Bid Evaluation Committee to our wonderful city.

I hope all Red Deer residents are able to come down to Ross Street tomorrow to enjoy the Rally and join me in support of our community’s 2019 Canada Winter Games Bid. Red Deer is a growing city with prime geographic positioning in the heart of Alberta. We have a strong record of demonstrating hospitality, volunteerism, and community pride. These strong values are the reason people both nationally and internationally seek Red Deer for excellence in sports tourism.

As a municipal government that provides outstanding services and amenities to Red Deerians and visitors to our city, The City of Red Deer is excited to invite Canadians into our community and welcomes the

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he 2019 Canada Winter Games Bid Committee has been on an incredible journey through this bidding process.

We’ve taken a close look at the community we love, and time and time again, what we’ve seen has reinforced that Red Deer is Ready to host the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

We’ve built the infrastructure, amenities, and facilities to support a worldrenowned sporting event—and we’ve done so while keeping the small-town hospitality that will make it possible to host an unequalled Games event.

Perhaps more important than our capacity to host the Games is the incredible community support

opportunity to host the 2019 Games. We know that Red Deer can offer unprecedented support and ensure the 2019 Canada Winter Games are the most successful that Canadians have yet to experience. We need your help to demonstrate to the Bid Evaluation Committee that our community has the pride, enthusiasm and spirit to host the 2019 Games.

With the community’s strong track record at hosting premier events and our commitment to the values that make Red Deer an outstanding place to live, work, and play, I am confident that “Red Deer is Ready” to host the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

We hope to be entrusted with the opportunity to welcome Canada to Alberta’s emerging city and to support our Canada Winter Games athletes.

Please show your support by wearing red and your “Red Deer is Ready” button tomorrow.

I hope to see you there, and look forward to welcoming these important guests to our city.

created as we’ve shared our vision for the Games with our fellow Central Albertans. Through this process, we’ve engaged our community and learned what makes Red Deer shine. From our focus on sustainability to our vibrant culture, from our inspiring athletes to our generous donors, Red Deer is a community of great people doing great things and Ready to do more.

The legacy of the Canada Winter Games can be seen in the years leading up to the Games and in the years after the Games. Planning and hosting the 2019 Canada Winter Games will generate significant economic output by creating new business opportunities to our region. Central Alberta will enjoy a wide range of economic outcomes: new and improved sport facilities and infrastructure; new skills, standards and jobs; new contracts and trade; and innovations in new and existing programs and services.

By celebrating excellence in athletics, community, culture, and citizenship across the country—not just here in Red Deer—we will create a 2019 Canada Winter Games experience that will excite the entire nation.

We are confident we can do Canada proud and are ready to accept the challenge of putting together the best Canada Winter Games our country has seen.

u nom de la ville de Red Deer, les près de 100 000 citoyens locaux et les 350 000 citoyens régionaux que nous servons, je suis heureuse d’accueillir le comité d’évaluation des nominations des Jeux d’hiver du Canada à notre merveilleuse ville.

J’espère que tous les résidents de Red Deer sont capables de descendre à la rue Ross demain pour profiter du rassemblement et me joindre à l’appui de la candidature de notre communauté des Jeux d’hiver du Canada 2019.

Red Deer est une ville en plaine croissance avec un positionnement géographique privilégié au cœur de l’Alberta.

Nous avons un record fort démontrant l’hospitalité, bénévolat, et la fierté de la communauté. Ces valeurs fortes sont les raisons pourquoi les personnes national et international cherchent Red Deer pour l’excellence en tourisme sportif.

En tant que gouvernement municipal qui fournit des services et des équipements de qualité aux citoyens de Red Deer et les visiteurs de notre ville, la ville de Red Deer est heureuse d’inviter les Canadiens dans notre communauté et se félicite de l’occasion d’accueillir les Jeux 2019. Nous savons que Red Deer peut offrir un soutien sans précédent et assurer que les Jeux d’hiver du Canada 2019 sont les plus réussis que les Canadiens

n’ont pas encore expérimentés.

Nous avons besoin de votre aide pour démontrer au comité d’évaluation des candidatures que notre communauté a la fierté, l’enthousiasme et l’esprit pour accueillir les Jeux 2019.

Avec notre fort record démontrant l’hospitalité d’événements et notre engagement envers les valeurs qui font de Red Deer un milieu de vie, travail, et de divertissement exceptionnel, je suis convaincue que “Red Deer est Prêt” pour accueillir les Jeux d’hiver du Canada 2019.

Nous espérons d’être confier l’occasion d’accueillir Canada à la ville émergente de l’Alberta et d’appuyer nos athlètes des Jeux d’hiver du Canada. S’il vous plait montrer votre soutien demain en portant du rouge et votre macaron “Red Deer est Prêt”.

J’espère vous y voir, et nous réjouir d’accueillir ces visiteurs importants dans notre ville.

Sincerely, Mayor Tara Veer

Sincèrement, Mairesse Tara Veer

Red Deer est Prêt!

LJeux d’hiver du Canada 2019 e comité de candidature des

a été dans un voyage incroyable à travers cette candidature. Nous avons dû prendre un coup d’œil étroit à la communauté que nous aimons, et encore et encore, ce que nous avons vu a renforcé que Red Deer est Prêt à accueillir les Jeux d’hiver du Canada 2019.

Nous avons construit l’infrastructure, équipements, et installations pour soutenir un événement sportif de renommée mondiale— et nous l’avons fait tout en gardant l’hospitalité d’une petite ville qui va permettre d’accueillir un événement des Jeux inégalée.

Peut-être plus important que de notre capacité à accueillir les Jeux, est le soutien incroyable de la communauté crée alors que nous avons partagé notre vision pour les Jeux avec nos compatriotes de l’Alberta centrale. Grâce à ce processus, nous avons engagé notre communauté et j’ai appris ce qui rend Red Deer brillé. De notre accent sur la durabilité à notre culture vivante, de nos athlètes inspirants à nos généreux donneurs, Red Deer est une communauté de gens formidables qui font de grandes choses et prêt à faire plus.

L’héritage des Jeux d’hiver du Canada va pouvoir être vu

dans les années qui précède les Jeux et dans les années après la conclusion des Jeux. La planification et l’hébergement des Jeux d’hiver du Canada 2019 vont générer la production économique importante en créant de nouvelles opportunités d’affaires dans notre région. Le centre de l’Alberta bénéficiera d’une large gamme de résultats économiques a partir des Jeux: des installations et infrastructures sportives nouvelles et améliorer; de nouvelles compétences, normes et des emplois; de nouveaux contrats et commerce; et innovations dans les nouveaux programmes et services existants.

En célébrant l’excellence en athlétisme, communauté, culture, et la citoyenneté à travers le pays— non seulement ici à Red Deer— nous allons créer une expérience des Jeux d’hiver du Canada 2019 qui va exciter toute la nation. Nous sommes confiants que nous pouvons faire Canada fier et sommes prêts à relever le défi de mettre sur pied les meilleurs Jeux d’hiver du Canada que notre pays a vu.

Sincerely,

Lyn Radford, Chair of the Red Deer 2019 Canada Winter Games Bid Committee.

Sincèrement,

Lyn Radford, Présidente du comité de Candidature de Red Deer des Jeux d’ hiver du Canada 2019.

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Jim Prentice undecided on Michener Centre future

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Michener Centre supporters will have to wait to find out if Tory leadership candidate Jim Prentice would keep the Red Deer facility open.

Last spring the province announced that older buildings on Michener’s north and south sides would close forcing the relocation of 120 of Michener’s most severely developmentally disabled residents. The decision came as a shock to families who had long been promised that residents could live out their lives at Michener.

A judicial review of the decision to close Michener Centre happens in November, meanwhile the province continues its work to move residents out.

Prentice is the only candidate who has yet to weigh in on what should happen to Michener.

Last week, candidate Ric McIver said he would cancel the province’s closure plans and allow those who have

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moved out to return in keeping with the government’s promise.

In June, candidate Thomas Lukaszuk said he would definitely keep Michener open pending a review. Expansion could even be considered to help people with disabilities, mental health issues and others. If closure was required, people would be allowed to stay by way of attrition, up to a reasonable point.

On Wednesday afternoon, after speaking to about 150 people at the Black Knight Inn, Prentice said he still wants to talk to more family members of Michener residents.

“I will be making a visit to Michener Centre at a point in the near future and once I’ve done all of that, and spoken with the families, I’ll determine what I will do if I’m the premier,” Prentice said.

The former federal minister added his visit to Michener would be kept private. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff-

When driving 100 year old cars on a long road trip maintenance is a vital component of a successful journey. Ray Fowler here working on his 1914 McLaughlin Buick, his wife Lynn Fowler, Pat McKenna and Jerry Huck are making the trip from Calgary to Edmonton this week driving this car and a 1915 Studebaker along a route they have identified as very close to the original roads described in map printed 100 years ago.

Tuesday the group arrived at Ft. Normandeau Just West of Red Deer along the Red Deer River where they camped the night. On Wednesday the drivers and vehicles visited the Sunnybrook Farm Museum, The Red Deer Museum and drove through downtown Red Deer before breaking camp and heading on their way north where they intended to spend the night in Leduc. On Thursday they are scheduled to arrive in downtown Edmonton. Flat tires, broken wheels and transmission issues have slowed the progress of the trip but that is probably typical of a trip of this nature even 100 years ago said Fowler.

Photo-like image tops online MPC approves plan voting for new licence plate for 10 sweet gas wells

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in July. Critics, including local designers, were angry that they were all created by U.S. conglomerate 3M. And the Opposition Wildrose party pointed out that the province’s longtime slogan “Wild Rose Country” was replaced by the web address alberta.ca. The party said it was a politically motivated slight by the governing Progressive Conservatives.

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Doug Griffiths said that wasn’t true.

Even the three candidates vying to become the next PC leader and premier found themselves in the great plate debate.

Former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice said it was clear the plates had “struck a nerve with Albertans” and he wanted to hear more about what people had to say.

Quicksilver Resources Canada Inc. intends to drill 10 more sweet gas wells in Red Deer County south of the city of Red Deer boundary.

Two of the wells will be located in the city’s future growth area, the closest one to the city located about three km southeast of the city’s waste management facility.

In January, Quicksilver notified the city of its plans to drill eight wells south of the city, including three in the same future growth area.

On Wednesday, the city’s municipal planning commission approved the plan for 10 wells.

Jim Benum, Red Deer’s oil and gas liaison, told the commission the intent is for the company to develop the gas resources before the city starts developing the area.

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EDMONTON — Online polling to choose a new Alberta licence plate has closed and the most realistic of three designs has come out on top.

Kathleen Range of Service Alberta says the photo-like image of a field and mountains got almost 50 per cent approval.

Not far behind at more than 45 per cent was a blue-andyellow design with mountains and wheat.

A more stylized version finished a distant third at six per cent.

Range says 160,577 votes were cast.

She says there could still be changes to the design before the plates are released next spring.

The new plate options caused a ruckus when the government unveiled them

“That’s why you see so many wells proposed at one time,” Benum said on Wednesday.

“We try to encourage companies if they are going to develop close to the city to do it as quick as possible.”

Zoning for the future growth area, whether it’s residential, commercial or industrial, is not known at this time.

City development is not expected in the area for about 40 years.

The Quicksilver proposal was circulated to several city departments (Engineering, Parks, Electric Light and Power, Environmental Services and Planning) to consider the impact it may have on future urban development.

The expected lifespan of a well is about 20 years and there is no provincial requirement for companies to abandon wells, for example when city development begins.

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GAS: No objections Quicksilver will enter into a consultation and process agreement with the city that encourages ongoing communication and to address specific concerns

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Marie Conteh, 7, centre and Louisa Spicer, 8, listen as Camille J. Lerouge School librarian Louise Vezina-Ireland reads to them during a French book club meeting at the school on Wednesday.

Stephen Harper embarking on annual tour of the North WHITEHORSE — Stephen Harper will tour a local college and make an announcement about northern research in Whitehorse on Thursday as he begins his annual trek to the North, his ninth time doing so since becoming prime minister.

The Prime Minister’s Office says this year’s trip is meant to showcase the science, technology and research that are underway in the North.

Before he began his trip, Harper made a pit stop in British Columbia, first to meet business leaders in the Fraser Valley community of Chilliwack and later to speak at a $35-a-head, campaign-style summer barbecue for the Conservative riding association in Langley.

There, Harper reiterated his government’s infrastructure investments in B.C., like the spending a new rapid-transit line.

He also vowed to prevent bureaucrats from reintroducing the long-gun registry through the back door and promised to cut taxes.

He told supporters that immigrants are attracted to B.C. because of some common values: individual responsibility and hard work that’s rewarded with opportunity and low taxes, tough penalties for criminals and safe streets for families and a strong and free Canada.

“These are Conservative values, they are Canadian values and in the next election we are going to use them to paint this province Tory blue,” he said.

After his Thursday visit to Yukon College, where he’ll tour the Cold Climate Innovation Centre, Harper will make an appearance at another Conservative party event. The Whitehorse Daily Star reports the Yukon Conservative Association has sent out around

3,000 invitations to its members and others.

The Conservative party website says the Yukon event will be held Thursday evening at an undisclosed location. Buses will shuttle people from an old Shell gas station on the Alaska highway to the site.

Then he’s off to Fort Smith, N.W.T., to make announcements about developing agriculture in the North before heading to Nunavut, where he’ll visit Cambridge Bay, Pond Inlet, Iqaluit and York Sound.

He’ll also take part in the military’s Operation Nanook exercise aboard HMCS Radisson.

“During the prime minister’s ninth annual northern tour, the prime minister will build on our record in the North, showcasing the science, technology and research that is transforming the North, improving living standards and creating jobs as he travels to Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut,” Harper spokesman Jason MacDonald wrote in an email.

Harper’s trip comes as the federal government is being sued over funding for a land-use plan that would guide resource development in Nunavut.

The Nunavut Planning Commission has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court, accusing Ottawa of trying to interfere in the plan’s development and to block its final steps.

The Nunavut Planning Commission was created out of the 1993 Nunavut Land Claim Agreement.

The commission was charged with designing legally binding plans that would lay out which lands would be protected, which would be open for development and how they would be managed to encourage local control and economic progress.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt’s office says the government has provided $3 million a year to the commission for the last 18 years.

related to the development.

Benum said Red Deer County has no objections to Quicksilver’s newest plans.

Most of the wells will be located within the area designated as agriculture or open space.

The wells are shallow sweet gas wells, about 750 metres deep, and Quicksilver plans to drill them this winter. The wells will connect to an existing gas gathering system.

City Coun. Lawrence Lee was the lone MPC mem-

ber who did not support the newly proposed wells and pipelines.

He said there should be an agreement in place to better protect the growth of the city.

“I have seen in the past where we’ve had difficulty dealing with pipelines and companies that are now in the city,” Lee said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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When residents of Big Valley used to turn the tap, filling their sinks or glasses with water, what sputtered from the tap wasn’t always drinkable.

In fact, sometimes it was flammable.

Stories about teachers dousing burning napkins in water only to have them roar into towering flames, globs of black gooey oil coming from the tap, and having to let water stand so the fumes would dissipate were only some of the tales shared on Wednesday at the Shirley McClellan Regional Water Services Commission water transfer site in Stettler.

Dignitaries from the province, the County of Stettler, Town of Stettler, and villages of Big Valley and Donalda joined members of the commission for a ceremonial turning of the taps to mark the completion of the second and third stages of its water delivery master plan, which will see clean, potable water delivered to communities all through the county and parts of the neighbouring counties of Lacombe and Camrose.

Sixteen communities are members of the commission, which, five years ago, completed the first stage of the plan, building 142 km of water pipeline, moving water from Stettler all the way to Consort.

“Water is the key to life, especially in areas where agriculture is a primary industry,” said Wayne Drysdale, provincial minister of transportation, during the ceremony. “Coming from a rural area, I fully understand how critical water supply is to keeping our communities and agriculture and industry vibrant.”

The province has paid 90 per cent of the costs to date, with the project costing $64 million so far.

The first stage cost $50 million, and the second stage bringing water to Big Valley and Donalda came in at roughly $14 million.

To date, 91 Water for Life projects in Alberta have been completed, with another 62 underway. The 153 projects have cost about $820 million on the water infrastructure projects in the past seven years.

“We were known for having flammable water,” Big Valley Deputy Mayor Lois Miller said. “I don’t know what our firefighters did. We drilled wells, but in 2003, we ran out of water.”

Several years of drought conditions left the valley’s wells dry. And although they recovered, the village — which has been growing — has lived with the fear of dry wells ever since. “(It is) a great fear,” Miller said. “How can our village expand?”

“With (the pipeline) we have a chance of prosperity,” she said. “We have a chance to grow.”

The sentiment was shared by Donalda Mayor Bruce Gartside.

“This will increase opportunities in our community.”

With the completion of this phase of the master plan, all communities in the County of Stettler except Buffalo Lake’s south shore have been connected to the water line, and the infrastructure is there for individual farms to hook up. A reservoir and water transfer site are nearing completion just west of the town as well.

Stacey Lavallie is a Stettler Independent reporter.

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THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 2014

Trudeau seeks majority LIBERAL CAUCUS MEETING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Justin Trudeau confirms the Liberals have set their sights on winning a majority in next year’s federal election.

The Liberal leader suggests a minority wouldn’t do because Canadians want a strong, stable government with representation from every part of the country.

The Liberal party, which currently has just 37 MPs, would have to win at least 170 seats to hold a bare majority in the House of Commons, which will have 338 seats after the 2015 vote.

Trudeau acknowledges that Liberals have a lot of work to do to achieve that goal.

But he’s encouraged by the enthusiastic response Liberals are getting across the country.

And he’s convinced Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, which will be nearing the 10 year mark by the time of the next election, is close to its expiry date.

“The one thing we’ve heard across this country, everywhere we go from Canadians we meet, is that they’re tired of the approach, the tone, the lack of ambition of Mr. Harper’s government and they want a better government,” Trudeau said Wednesday at the conclusion of a three-day caucus retreat to plot strategy for the coming pre-election year.

Trudeau confirmed a Toronto Star report that his election readiness team has set 170 seats as their goal.

“Canadians want a stable, strong government that’s going to respond to their needs and build a better future.

You do the math,” he said coyly at one

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Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau waits on the elevator after giving his closing comments at the federal Liberal summer caucus meeting in Edmonton on Wednesday. point.

He later added that 170 seats would mean “we have connected with Canadians and that we’ve worked hard to earn the confidence and trust of Canadians, that we’re going to be able to provide a better government that will cover the entire country and leave no part of this country disregarded or disengaged.”

The Liberals held their caucus retreat in Alberta, a Conservative stronghold and Harper’s home turf.

Liberals currently hold no seats in the province but hope to win as many as six of 34 seats up for grabs in the next election.

Alberta has been a wasteland for the Liberals for decades, particularly in the wake of the reviled national en-

ergy program, introduced by Trudeau’s late father, Pierre, in 1980.

A rally with Trudeau in an Edmonton park Tuesday evening drew about half the 600 people the party had hoped would turn out. But Trudeau insisted he wasn’t disappointed.

“Quite frankly, I’m encouraged whenever anyone comes out to see Liberals in Alberta.”

Whitecap to pay RCMP injured, man for controlling Tasered, during interest in Nisku arrest at gas station sweet oil pool

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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CALGARY — Whitecap Resources Inc. (TSX:WCP) has announced a deal to acquire and consolidate a controlling interest in a conventional Nisku light sweet oil pool in Alberta for $266.7 million in cash.

The asset, located at Elnora, 80 kilometres east of Whitecap’s Garrington core area, will add 2,500 barrels of oil per day equivalent, of which 90 per cent is oil and natural gas liquids.

It also includes strategic facilities consisting of two oil batteries, water disposal infrastructure and pipelines “which will be important for future low-cost production growth,” Whitecap said in announcing the deal after markets closed Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Whitecap also said it has entered into an unrelated letter of intent with a private oil and gas company to dispose of approximately 600

boe/d of non-core production for proceeds of $57 million.

The acquisition will be funded with a concurrent $125-million bought deal equity financing, proceeds from the disposition and bank debt.

The financing will involved the sale of 7.55 million subscription receipts at $16.55 apiece for gross proceeds of about $125 million. Each receipt receipt will be exchangeable for on Whitecap share.

Meanwhile, Whitecap said its board has approved a 12 per cent increase in its monthly dividend to seven cents per share from 6.25 cents , It is expected to take effect with the January 2015 dividend payable in February.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Whitecap stock closed up 37 cents or 2.2 per cent at $17.21 on Wednesday.

GRANDE PRAIRIE, — A Taser electronic stun gun was used by the RCMP in northwestern Alberta to subdue a man who had rammed a police vehicle and threatened to kill a Mountie.

Police in Grande Prairie say they tried Tuesday evening to stop a person who was driving erratically, but learned at the same time that the driver had allegedly made a threat to

shoot an officer.

They say an attempt was made to arrest the suspect at a gas station, but he rammed a police vehicle and tried to assault an officer.

The man was Tasered when other Mounties arrived at the scene.

He was taken to hospital as a precaution, while two officers were treated for minor injuries.

Charges are pending against a 28-year-old resident of Smith, Alta.

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THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 2014

A futile and endless war “They began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over,” as Lewis Carrol put it in Alice in Wonderland.

He was describing the Caucus Race, but it sounds quite a lot like the Gaza War, doesn’t it?

What’s different is that at the end of the Caucus Race, the GWYNNE Dodo Bird deDYER clared: “Everybody has won, so all must have prizes.”

After nine days of more-or-less cease-fire, they’re at it again. In the first 24 hours, 60 Palestinian rockets had been launched at Israel (no casualties), and 60 Israeli air strikes had hit Gaza (11 dead). That’s pretty small beer in a war that has already killed more than 2,000 people, but they literally don’t know how to stop, and the Dodo Bird is no help at all. The fact is that nobody has won, so nobody can have prizes.

That’s what the negotiations in Cairo were actually about: prizes. Hamas’s leaders in Gaza were demanding an end to the Israeli blockade of the territory and the opening of air and sea

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ports in the Gaza Strip. They also wanted over 200 Hamas members in the West Bank who had been arrested just before the start of this war to be released. They might as well have asked for the moon.

Hamas has fired almost 6,000 of its homemade rockets at Israel since the start of the war, but it has killed only two Israeli civilians (plus one Thai guest-worker). It doesn’t represent even a serious danger to Israel, let alone an existential threat. So why would any sane Palestinian negotiator think that Israel would feel compelled to make major concessions to Hamas in order to make the pain stop?

The Israeli negotiators were equally deluded. They understandably dismissed all of Hamas’s demands, but then they made equally ludicrous demands of their own. They wanted Hamas and all other militant Palestinian organizations in the Gaza Strip to be completely disarmed. That would not only end any possibility that the Palestinians could exert military pressure on Israel; it would also quite soon end Hamas’s rule in the Gaza Strip.

Why would Hamas agree with that?

Over 2,000 people have been killed and more than 8,000 injured by Israel’s strikes on the Gaza Strip, but that’s less than one per cent of the population.

Moreover, when the Israeli army actually invaded Gaza on the ground (to destroy the famous “terror tunnels”), Hamas fighters managed to kill 64 Israeli soldiers.

That was a particularly futile waste of Israeli lives, since it is hard to believe that 64 of Israel’s troops would ever have been killed by random Hamas fighters coming out of undiscovered tunnels from time to time. Ordinary Israelis, with nightmare visions of terrorists popping up in their gardens, have bought the official line that the sacrifice was worthwhile, but none of the tunnels actually extended more than a couple of kilometres beyond Gaza’s border.

The Palestinians doubtless think that killing more Israeli soldiers than in the previous two wars combined was some sort of success, even if they lost many more fighters themselves, but in the real world it does not give them any military advantage. So no concessions from either side of any kind.

This was quite foreseeable from the first day of the war, because that’s the way the last two wars ended too. They have all been fought mainly to serve the domestic political interests of the two governments, rather than to force real concessions out of the other.

Hamas’s strategic situation is peculiar: it is very weak and cannot hurt Israel, but it is virtually indestructible.

Israel can hammer the population of the Gaza Strip as much as it likes, but that will only strengthen their support for Hamas.

Whereas Israel is enormously powerful, but cannot defeat Hamas unless it is willing to re-occupy the Gaza Strip — which would lead to a steady and ul-

timately intolerable drain of casualties among the occupying Israeli troops.

The moves in this relationship are as stately and predictable as a minuet.

When Hamas is under political pressure at home and needs a distraction, it launches a few rockets at Israel or provides some other provocation that the Israeli government cannot ignore.

Then the Israeli government, under irresistible domestic pressure to “do something,” launches some air-strikes, and the dance of death recommences.

Stopping is more difficult, because there’s no music to give you the signal by coming to an end.

In terms of domestic politics, both sides have already accomplished what they came for — but since neither can acknowledge publicly that that’s all the war was really about, they end up raising wholly unrealistic demands at the cease-fire talks. That’s why the negotiations in Cairo ended in failure: nobody has won, so nobody can have prizes.

Now that the shooting has started up again, there may be a few more hundred deaths — but probably not another thousand, because the fighting really is going to end soon. It just won’t end with a political deal, and perhaps not even with a formal ceasefire. More likely it will just sort of peter out, like these things sometimes do. Until next time.

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Anglin light on AltaLink facts Re: Joe Anglin about proposed sale of AltaLink to Berkshire Hathaway Energy Wildrose MLA Joe Anglin recently wrote a letter to the editor about the pending sale of AltaLink to Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE). Mr. Anglin’s piece is strong on opinion but light on facts.

We want to be very clear. The sale to BHE will not increase the transmission charge on electricity bills for Albertans.

In fact, that’s one of the critical tests of the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) process currently underway.

It is the mandate of the AUC to ensure that no harm comes to ratepayers, whether by increased cost or impacts to reliability, as a result of this sale.

Under BHE ownership, there will be no loss of control over AltaLink’s transmission system. We will continue to be regulated by the AUC and the Alberta Electric System Operator will continue to operate the grid and identify new transmission projects to support our province.

The AUC isn’t the only formal review of this transaction.

On July 25, Industry Canada announced its approval of the Berkshire Hathaway Energy application to purchase AltaLink. Its test was to ensure an overall economic benefit to Canada resulting from the sale. Some of the conditions of Industry Canada’s approval included maintaining Alberta jobs at AltaLink and confirming BHE’s commitment to reinvest 100 per cent of AltaLink’s earnings back into the business, in Alberta or elsewhere in Canada. And BHE, like SNC-Lavalin does today, will pay Canadian income tax on its earnings in AltaLink.

Mr. Anglin also misunderstands the difference between being a publicly owned company and a publicly regulated company. Transmission, distribution and gas pipeline utilities have always been privately owned in Alberta — always — while being publicly regulated. Opponents to this deal suggest a single company can effectively build and maintain our provincial electricity network, but creating monopolies has never been in step with Alberta’s entrepreneurial spirit. Alberta needs to maintain multiple transmission facility owners to encourage competition and drive down costs for consumers. It’s a formula that has served Albertans well for more than 100 years.

Mr. Anglin seems to be advocating for the conversion of Alberta’s utilities to Crown corporations so that ratepayers can share in the proceeds of the sale. However, if the value of AltaLink’s business had gone down, I’m confident he wouldn’t be asking ratepayers to pick up the difference. That’s happening in Ontario where ratepayers have paid billions of dollars during the last 15 years to pay down the debt from its Crown utilities. That’s not what Albertans want and it’s not what our province was built on. While billions of dollars of investment have been required in AltaLink to keep pace with Alberta’s exceptional growth, none of this investment has added any debt to the government of Alberta’s balance sheet.

We’re Albertans, too. And as a utility charged with supporting Alberta’s growing economy, we will ensure the transmission system is reliable, affordable and under Albertan control. These are the facts.

Leigh Clarke Senior Vice President External Engagement AltaLink

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Albertans just won’t learn Let’s see: In spite of the earthquake in Rocky and what’s going on in Iraq, last I noticed, the price of a barrel of oil was still under a hundred bucks. And yet, in the middle of the weekend the price of gas is hiked eight cents per litre. To my way of thinking, this kind of makes Alison Redford look like a shoplifter at a dollar store.

I find it amusing that we expect our politicians to be candidates for Pope while we remain blind to our own shortcomings. Could it be that our former premier’s greatest shortcomings came in the form of not living up to our expectations? Our hope that with her being intelligent (I’m not saying smart here) and educated, we might see some significant changes from her government. She even had the endorsement of Peter Lougheed. Unfortunately, she lacked Ralph Klein’s charisma and Lougheed’s savvy, which makes it rather hard to forgive her faux-pas.

Redford, as they say, is history. Where the Progressive Conservative governments have failed the people of Alberta all these years is in protecting us from corporate victimization. We live in one of the most resource-rich places on this earth, and yet so many of the services necessary to the public are substandard. Think for a moment how many millions of dollars are being picked from our pockets with an eight-cents-per-litre increase in pump prices. The oil companies are so arrogant that they don’t even try to lie about why we are being fleeced. We take this because we know that our government won’t do a damned thing about it.

Face it: Albertans will only elect a small ‘c’ conservative government. Those vying for our votes always seem to promise change that amounts to

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attempting to re-invent the wheel. The key to good government and prosperity lies in looking to the past for examples of success. Since Alberta has been governed by dynasties, we need to examine these eras at their peaks. Lougheed’s Conservative government is perhaps the most relevant. We could all be victims of the biblical principle of reaping what you sow.

Never mind the Old Testament condemnation.

Think of the practical principal of sowing sparingly and reaping sparingly. Farmers are well aware of the concept. All of these years of cutbacks have done nothing but bite us in the rear. We needed visionary management, but got sucked into the model of corporate slash and burn. By erasing the deficit, we only created a deficit of a different form.

This time around, the federal government is not our enemy. What’s good for Alberta is good for Canada. We need protection from corporations who have entrenched themselves so deeply into our lives that our economic well-being is dependant upon share holder dividends. We have the resources — the need for them isn’t going to change any time soon. These same corporations still do business with states and countries who have retaken the ownership and management of their resources to the benefit of the people. If our government will not do this, they deserve the same fate as our former premier.

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THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 2014

West is best in battle of CFL divisions

KICK-START TO THE SEASON

Musil to see bigger role with Rebels

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Adam Musil is hoping that his continued growth will be similar to how he and the Canadian under-18 team improved on a game-to-game basis en route to winning gold in the recent Memorial of Ivan Hlinka tournament.

“We tried to get better every day.

That’s what we did and I thought our last game was our best game,” the Red Deer Rebels forward said Wednesday, in reference to the Canadian squad’s 6-2 win over the host Czech Republic in the gold-medal contest.

“It was awesome. Playing against the best players in my age group was something unbelievable and winning the gold medal was something special.

It was an honour wearing the Canadian jersey.”

Musil scored once, added two assists and recorded eight minutes in penalties in five games for the undefeated Canadians.

The six-foot-three, 200-pound Vancouver product was also stellar defensively.

“I had a different role on that team, being more of a defensive guy,” he said. “I wasn’t one of the most skilled guys on the team, but I took my role and tried to make the best out of it.”

The 17-year-old enjoyed a productive Western Hockey League rookie season in 2013-14, sniping 11 goals and collecting 29 points in 60 games. He was also a plus-5 in the plus/minus department.

Adam Musil Eligible for the NHL entry draft in 2015, he’s now on the verge on entering perhaps the most important season of his young career.

“Every year is big but this season is that much more special because of the NHL draft (next June),” he said, after registering for the Rebels training camp starting this morning at the Enmax Centrium. “But the draft is still almost a year away so I still have time to improve.

“I just have to work hard and get better every day and things will work out fine.”

Musil has every intention of improving on his rookie numbers and helping the Rebels excel and qualify for the playoffs, which they narrowly missed last season. The team should put up better offensive numbers overall, he added.

“We have some good and older forwards. The forwards have more experience than last year and we’ll for sure score more goals,” he said.

Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter expects Musil to play a major role on the team this season. For starters, he’ll move back to his natural position of centre after skating on the wing as a freshman.

“No question, we have big plans for Adam. He’s certainly started off the right way with the U18 team and the way he played there,” said Sutter.

“From all reports I’ve been getting, he played very, very well.

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The CFL has put forth a proposal to rename the two divisions so they will better reflect the talent gap between the East and West Divisions.

The West Division will be known as the Harlem GlobeJIM trotter Division SUTHERLAND while the East will be called the Washington General Division in honour of the famous doormat Globetrotter opponent.

This season has had more inequality than my attempts to master algebra formulas in high school and I think I enjoyed math more than most of the East-West games thus far in 2014. I believe the East will win more in the back nine of the season because they will play each other more in the fall.

First up this week is Friday night’s match up between Winnipeg and Montreal. The Blue Bombers have more rest and a home game on their side, so I have placed them in the pilot’s chair for this game. Montreal looked better against the Saskatchewan Roughriders in their last game, but they are clearly a team in transition. Montreal head coach Tom Higgins called his new starting quarterback Alex Brink a journeyman and was criticized for his candor. Higgins was right; and maybe a little flattering with his assessment.

The Bombers have begun to lose altitude this season, but this game against the Als should provide a little lift for them. The Montreal defence will put pressure on Bomber quarterback Drew Willy, but his strength is his quick release, confidence and accuracy. My guess is he will exploit the pressure with a short game and hand another loss to an East team.

Saturday afternoon features a game between Toronto and Edmonton. My dilemma: Do I award another free spot on the bingo card to the Eskimos or do I entertain the idea of an Argo victory?

I watched Edmonton eke out a victory against the lowly RedBlacks last weekend and the concept of an Argo win in Edmonton does not seem as crazy to me.

Argo quarterback Ricky Ray rarely puts together two bad games in a row and I doubt he will be unmotivated in a game where he can win against a team that inexplicably traded him away in his prime. The Argo defence has greatly improved since the start of the season and the Eskimo O-line still has protection issues for their quarterback Mike Reilly.

Look for an Argo victory in this game because Ricky may have an ultra-calm demeanor, but he is a fierce competitor with a will to win football games. He will factor heavily in this win.

Calgary plays a Sunday afternoon game in Ottawa against the RedBlacks and I believe the expansion team will be generous hosts in this game. The RedBlacks played tough against the Eskimos, but they were plagued by one of the trademarks of this new team: paper thin talent at receiver.

Untimely miscues cost them the game and things will not get easier against the Stamps.

Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell has dialed up his game and he will play a role in the Calgary victory, along with a pressure Calgary defence.

I really had to think about the final game of the weekend with B.C. playing host to the Saskatchewan Roughriders late Sunday afternoon.

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Lindsay Thurber High School Grade 12 student Owen Smith gets in some pre-season practice kicking balls between the uprights outside the school on Wednesday. The Thurber Raiders football teams hit the playing fields this Friday as they prepare for the football season. The Raiders will open up their season on the field with a game against the Hunting Hills Lightning Friday, Sept. 5th under the lights at Great Chief Park.

Red Deer fastballer makes history at nationals

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Taylor Stymiest has made history at the U18 Women’s Fast Pitch Canadian Championships in Saskatoon earlier this month.

The Red Deer product was named the all-star third baseman for the second year in a row at the highest level of nationals while playing for the River City Hornets out of Edmonton.

Her head coach, Dale Monaghan, is just waiting for confirmation of the feat by Softball Canada, but is confident it is a first, especially for an Alberta player.

“The competition is incredible and for an Albertan to accomplish this is miraculous,” said Monaghan, adding they will be getting back to him in September.

“For a Canadian (Championship) perspective, for an Alberta player to get back-to-back all-stars is unheard of.”

The humble 18-year-old Notre Dame grad hit .615 through four round robin games and .400 in the Hornets’ three playoff games, also hitting two home runs in the process with six runs batted in.

“It means a lot, but I wouldn’t be able to get there without my parents being there with me and all of my coaches and teammates,” said the fivefoot-11 right-hander. “It means I’ve actually done something with fastball and I can actually go somewhere with it.”

Being named an all-star once was an accomplishment in and of itself, but

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Red Deer product Taylor Stymiest has made history by being named an allstar for the second year in a row at the U18 Women’s Fast Pitch Canadian Championships. twice is extremely rare, especially considering her Red Deer roots. Alberta is far from the hub of the sport, with B.C. and Southern Ontario set up with yearround facilities and training programs.

Stymiest played three seasons with the Hornets, making the trip to Edmonton multiple times a week to play for one of the top programs in the province. This year they also went to tournaments in Florida, B.C. and Oklahoma.

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Rebels lose another veteran as Aspen Sterzer packs it in 20 YEAR-OLD GOING BACK TO SCHOOL AFTER LOSING PASSION TO PLAY IN MAJOR JUNIOR

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rampage bounce back to stay in contention at Founders Cup LACROSSE

He played an aggressive, hard-hitting style during his first three years in the Western Hockey League, but Aspen Sterzer has apparently lost the passion to play at the major junior level.

The 20-year-old forward failed to register for the Red Deer Rebels training camp Wednesday and has told general manager/head coach Brent Sutter that he’s decided to fulfill a promise to his parents and pursue an education.

“He hasn’t reported,” said Sutter, who isn’t closing the book on the energetic, five-foot-11, 187-pound product of Canal Flats, B.C., just yet. “We’ll stay patient with it and see what happens, but during my conversation with him he said he just didn’t feel he has the passion to play any more.

“He made that commitment to his family, to his mom and dad, that if he wasn’t at the pro level after his 19-yearold year that he would go to school.”

Sterzer enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2013-14, scoring 17 goals and collecting 32 points in 40 games with the Kamloops Blazers, and then contributing 12 goals and 21 points in 30 games with the Rebels after being acquired in a Jan. 10 trade that saw Sutter ship 19-year-old forward Matt Bellerive and a third-round bantam draft pick to Kamloops.

All along, Sutter had no reason to believe Sterzer wouldn’t be back in Red Deer as an overage WHL player.

“For us, it was disappointing. It caught us off guard,” said Sutter. “We didn’t expect it after our year-end exit meetings. He kept in contact with our coaches through the summer and was

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REBELS: Big part of the team “We’d like to get him back to his normal position, at centre ice. Obviously it’s difficult for young kids to play centre at 16 in this league, but he’s a 200-pound guy now and the experience he went through last year is going to make him a better player. He’s obviously going to be a big part of our team this season and into the future,” added Sutter.

Training camp opened today with the rookie goalies hitting the ice at 9:15 a.m. for a 30-minute session.

Camp itinerary Today — 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

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doing the conditioning stuff that was required of him.

“Then all of a sudden he changed his mind.”

The Rebels boss, however, won’t be losing any sleep over Sterzer’s absence from training camp this week.

He lumps Sterzer in with any number of proven players who have decided to step away from the major junior game.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what they say, what the reasons are,” he said.

“The bottom line is they just don’t want to put in the time and effort and the commitment you truly have to make to play at this level.

“If the interest and passion isn’t there, then they shouldn’t do it. You’re wasting time doing something you really don’t want to be doing.”

Sterzer was unavailable for comment. His absence leaves the Rebels with three 20-year-olds in forward Brooks Maxwell and defencemen Brett Cote and Devan Fafard. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com 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,

Rampage 10, S.W.A.T 7 Rampage 8, WarChiefs 8 The Red Deer TBS Rampage bounced back on Wednesday at the Founders Cup to stay in contention for the Canadian Lacrosse Association junior B Tier I championship in Halifax, N.S. The Rampage opened the second day of the national championship with a 10-7 win over the Saskatchewan S.W.A.T and followed with an 8-8 tie with the Seneca WarChiefs, one of the pre-tournament favourites. This followed a tough 10-9 loss to the hosts on Tuesday afternoon to open the tournament.

Only the top two teams from the round robin move on to play for gold, there is no playoff.

As much as anything, these games proved they could play with anyone in the country.

“We been telling the guys that we can compete with anybody at the tournament and I think tonight’s effort was important because I think it proves to everyone in the room that we can,” said Rampage head coach Ron Just.

“We have a tough path to the gold medal game now and we may need some help from the other teams, but we feel pretty confident going into the remaining games.”

Against the S.W.A.T., Red Deer jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the first ‘99, St. Albert; Mason Issel, ‘99, Prince Albert, Sask.; Drayson Skulmoski, ‘98, Moosomin, Sask. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

BALL: Strong all-around player The Hornets finished 11th in Saskatoon and ninth the year before in Prince Edward Island.

Last year they won provincials and entered nationals as the top seed out of Alberta, and this year they finished runner up at provincials and went in with as the No. 2 seed.

Monaghan saw Stymiest develop from a strong all-round player when she arrived in Edmonton as a 15-yearold, but watched as she developed into one of the top players in the country at any position.

Though her calling card may be her bat, she is also terrific defensively.

“She’s got a cannon of an arm to get the ball across the infield for the outs at first and she does not fear hits down the third baseline that in fastball area lot closer than in baseball,” said Monaghan.

Stymiest also played ringette for years, but says she might have played her last game in that sport, as she concentrates on fastball.

She is already receiving interest from colleges and universities from the U.S. but is not sure what the next step is she will be taking. When she does figure out where she is going, she will likely be going after a kinesiology or nursing degree.

“I did get a call from a Minnesota school, I’m not sure if I’m ready to go there yet, it’s a little too far away, but I am thinking of going to college sometime soon, in the next year,” said Stymiest, who has been playing softball and fastball since she was five years old.

Monaghan is certain his third base-

period and never looked back, getting three goals from Dawson Reykdal, two goals and four assists from Sean Tyrell, and two goals and two assists from Ryan Beatson.

Lee Spencer added two goals and an assist and Jordy Potter had the other Rampage goal. Rhett Baldwin was solid in net for the win.

The Rampage had a chance to knock off the War Chiefs, carrying an 8-6 lead into the final three minutes, but Seneca goals at 17:16 and 17:41 of the third period levelled the score and it ended as a tie.

Tyrell had another six points for the Rampage, scoring two goals and four assists, while Beatson and Davis Reykdal both added two goals. Reid Swier chipped in with a goal and two assists while Spencer had the Rampage’s other goal.

Jon McMillan played well in net for Red Deer.

The three-point day has created a bit of log jam in the standings. The three-time defending national champion Six Nations are tied with the Manitoba Blizzard at 2-0, the Rampage and War Chiefs are tied at 1-1-1, Nova Scotia is at 1-1-0 with a late game on Wednesday night against the S.W.A.T. who were tied with Quebec at 0-2-0.

“All of those teams look fairly equal in their ability and we’re hoping that they maybe take each other out a little bit so that if we win our remaining games it puts us in a good spot,” said Just.

Red Deer plays Six Nations today at 2 p.m. The games are being streamed live online at www.founderscup2014. ca. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com man will be able to make the jump to the college level and potentially the national team as well.

The Hornets did not perform as a well as a team as the head coach was hoping for, finishing 3-4 and losing a key game to B.C. that kept them out of their goal of a top seven finish.

But he says Monaghan’s play is something the team can rally around.

“You walk away from nationals not quite getting quite to where you want to be, yet your endeared third baseman is the best in the country ... that’s what memories are made of,” said Monaghan.

“You’ll forget in 20 years that we were 11th ... but the entire team will never forget the big kid from Red Deer was the best in the country, not just once, but back-to-back. We’ll never forget that. It’s the legacy from nationals that will last far longer than the position that we ended up in.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

CFL: Front four B.C. thumped Saskatchewan 26-13 in a Week 2 matchup and the Riders have serious issues with offence this year, if you discount the run game.

The ’Riders also have the toughest front four in the league and lead the CFL in quarterback annihilation. The Saskatchewan defence has balanced the lack of offence thus far, but more is expected from inconsistent ’Rider quarterback Darian Durant after last year’s playoff run.

Durant may be in way over his head in this game if the Lions turn it into a shootout and I expect they will in front of the home crowd with the mysterious “loud crowd” noise at B.C. home games, where people appear to be largely sitting on their hands. Lions win at home.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer

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Jays’ bats come alive against Brewers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 9 Brewers 5 MILWAUKEE — The Toronto Blue Jays are heading home with a sense of relief.

Outslugging one of the best teams in the National League can ease the sting of a 2-6 road trip.

Jose Bautista’s three-run homer capped a five-run sixth inning and Toronto snapped the Milwaukee Brewers’ five-game winning streak with a 9-5 victory Wednesday.

It’s time to start chipping away again in the AL East after falling a season-high nine games out of first entering the day.

“This has not been a good road trip for us, anybody will tell you that,” starter R.A. Dickey said. “The home run by Jose was the difference and you could kind of hear a collective sigh on the bench.”

Bautista hit a 1-2 pitch from reliever Brandon Kintzler into the Brewers’ bullpen in right field, scattering pitchers from their seats. The two-out homer made a winner of Dickey (10-12), who gave up five runs in 5 2-3 choppy innings.

“In reality, that’s baseball. You go through these stretches,” manager John Gibbons. “It doesn’t take much just to miss a ball.”

Dickey left after Carlos Gomez’s two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth made it 7-5. The bullpen held on from there, and Toronto got some extra cushion after Colby Rasmus hit a tworun homer, his 16th of the year, in the ninth.

The Blue Jays outhit the NL Central leaders 15-10.

Brewers manager Ron Roenicke pointed back to the sixth as a turning point.

“So tough inning, you know we come back and Gomey gets the two points and we get a little closer, and we give up another homer. So we just didn’t pitch that well today,” he said. “Offensively I thought it was really good day.”

LEARNING ON THE JOB Rookie Jimmy Nelson (2-4) took the loss after allowing the first two runners to reach in the sixth. Facing a former Cy Young Award winner for the fourth straight start, Nelson gave up four runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings.

Roenicke said he thought Nelson threw the ball well, and credited the table-setters in Toronto’s order, Jose Reyes and Melky Cabrera, with hitting good pitches to get Nelson in trouble. Once again, the sinkerballer was doomed by one problematic inning.

“These are good hitters, and if you can’t put the ball where you want to — and we know he has good stuff — you still have to command the ball, and he’s going to continue to do better at that,” Roenicke said.

TURNING POINT Milwaukee had the potential goahead run up with one out in the eighth and NL doubles leader Jonathan Lucroy at the plate. The .304 hitter hit a hard bouncer to reliever Dustin McGowan for an easy 1-6-3 double play.

KNUCKLING DOWN Dickey, who won the Cy Young in 2012 while with the Mets, wasn’t much better after allowing eight hits. Gerardo Parra had a double and triple off Dickey, making him a career 6 of 9 off the knuckleballer.

“I expect more out of myself. Especially there in the sixth, I was one out away from it being a tolerable outing,” Dickey said.

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Brewers: Roenicke said he hasn’t started discussions about what to do with Mike Fiers once RHP Matt Garza returns from the disabled list with a rib cage muscle injury. Garza will go back into the rotation when ready, likely in early next month. Fiers is 3-0 with an 0.86 ERA in three starts since being called up Aug. 9 from Triple-A.

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BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Pirates 10, Razorbacks 0 (3 ings) The Red Deer Razorbacks Cinderella run ended on Tuesday night in Acme, as they lost 10-0 to the Pirates in three innings.

This gave Acme a 2-0 series sweep over the Razorbacks and the 2014 Parkland Baseball League championship.

The game was called in the third inning on a count of darkness, but with Red Deer already trailing by 10 runs, they conceded victory to the Pirates.

“Not taking away anything from Acme, they’re a solid club, solid defensively and pitching, but they’re not a team that’s unbeatable,” said Razorbacks head coach Darcy Warawa. “But something Acme was far better than we were this season was being consistent. That was the big thing that hurt us.”

Everything that could go wrong, went wrong for Red Deer., and it all started with their first hitter, who lined a shot back off the pitcher’s glove — the ball deflected right to the short stop who threw him out at first base.

The next two Razorbacks hit the ball hard, but right at Pirates to end the inning.

On the back of five errors, Red Deer gave up six runs in the bottom of the first inning to trail 6-0.

The Razorbacks managed to load the bases in the top of the third inning, but Clinton Armitage — one of their best hitters — grounded out to third base to end the threat.

Acme tacked on four more runs before the game was called with two outs in the bottom of the third inning.

Travis Bachynski started the game for Red Deer and took the loss, despite getting no help from his defence.

“They were putting balls in play and we were just kicking them everywhere, to the point where one guy had a swinging bunt and by the end of the play ended up at third,” said Warawa. “You end up getting deflated a bit ... The guys didn’t’ quit, but it’s tough getting that high energy, that high intensity going when you’re already down 6-0.”

But the Razorbacks are happy with their overall performance this year, which was supposed to be a rebuilding season, as players like Bachynski, Armitage, Teagan Colonna, Diego Colorado and Chris Grudeski emerged as part of a new core of players to a solid returning veteran group.

Hopes are next year, they should all be better for it.

“We got new guys, but we got baseball guys, then it was a matter of meshing together on the field,” said Warawa. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy can’t handle the throw as Toronto Blue Jays’ Munenori Kawasaki slides safely home during the sixth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, in Milwaukee.

NEW YORK — Forget about tanking in the NHL. Bottoming out in the standings might not get you to the top of the draft.

The weighted lottery will change a bit next year and even more in 2016, the NHL said Wednesday, in order to “more appropriately reflect the current state of competitive balance.”

The 14 teams who fail to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs will be in the mix for the No. 1 draft pick.

Next year, the team that finishes with the fewest points will have a 20 per cent chance — down from 25 — the secondfewest will have a 13.5 per cent chance — down from 18.8 — the third-fewest will drop to 11.5 per cent from 14.2, and the fourthlowest will go to 9.5 per cent from 10.7.

The following year, the lottery will include the first three picks of the draft instead of just the top choice, meaning the team with the fewest points could end up as low as the fourth selection.

Bouchard, Wozniacki both upset in second round in Connecticut NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Thirdseeded Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., and four-time champion Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark both suffered straightset upsets Wednesday in the second round of the Connecticut Open.

Bouchard, who played with her left thigh wrapped, lost 6-2, 6-2 to Australian Samantha Stosur.

Wozniacki, the fourth seed, was beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Camila

ON DECK Blue Jays: After an off-day, Toronto returns home to face the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday. RHP Marcus Stroman (7-4) will try to rebound from a rough outing, after he failed to get out of the first and allowed five runs on Aug. 15 to the White Sox. Brewers: Milwaukee gets its second off-day in four days Thursday. RHP Yovani Gallardo (8-6) has a chance to put the struggling Pirates in deeper trouble in the NL Central when Pittsburgh begins a three-game series Friday.

Giorgi of Italy.

Giorgi will play Garbine Muguruza of Spain in the quarterfinals. Muguruza, ranked 26th in the world, needed three sets to dispatch qualifier Peng Shuai of China, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

Stosur faces Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium on Thursday. Flipkins came from behind to upset Andrea Petkovic of Germany 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (6) in a match that lasted 3 hours, 11 minutes.

Second-seeded Petra Kvitova, who won Tuesday, is only remaining seeded player in the tournament.

cent since the last rankings, and the New York Giants ($2.1 billion) are fourth.

For the 2013 season, the average NFL team generated record revenue of $299 million and operating income of $53 million.

Each franchise received a record $170 million of national revenue, mainly from league broadcasting and licensing fees.

At the bottom are Buffalo, worth $935 million and currently for sale after owner Ralph Wilson’s death, and St. Louis at $930 million. But every team increased in worth, the lowest rise being Arizona at 4 per cent.

Cowboys first U.S. team to top $3 billion in value, Tony Stewart skipping Bristol, 3rd consecutive according to Forbes race he’ll miss since NEW YORK — The Dallas death of Kevin Ward Jr. Cowboys are the first U.S. sports franchise to top $3 billion in value.

For the eighth straight year, the Cowboys are worth the most of all 32 NFL franchises, according to Forbes. They’re valued at $3.2 billion; only Real Madrid at $3.4 billion is worth more among global franchises.

Dallas posted the NFL’s highest revenue, $560 million, and operating income, $246 million.

That was far ahead of secondplace New England, worth $2.6 billion and with $428 million in revenues, $147 million in operating income.

But the Patriots had the biggest increase since last year, up 44 per cent in value. Dallas was up 39 per cent.

The average NFL franchise value for 2014 is $1.43 billion, the highest in the 17 years the business magazine has tracked professional football.

That shows a 23 per cent increase, the largest in one year since 1999.

Forbes determines team values using equity plus net debt figures, and accounts for each team’s current stadium situation, with adjustments for pending new stadiums and renovations to existing ones.

Washington ($2.4 billion) is third in value, increasing 41 per

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tony Stewart will not race Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway, the third Sprint Cup race he’s skipped since his car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. during a sprint car race.

Stewart’s decision was announced Wednesday and Jeff Burton will once again replace him in the No. 14 Chevrolet. Burton also drove Stewart’s car at Michigan last weekend.

Stewart-Haas Racing is allowing Stewart to take the time he needs away from the track, and the team statement indicated the three-time NASCAR champion is taking it week-by-week. Stewart will not have to decide on another race until the Aug. 31 event at Atlanta. Stewart has been in seclusion since the Aug. 9 incident at an upstate New York dirt track.

Stewart also pulled out of the race at Watkins Glen, which began about 12 hours after his car hit Ward at event in Canandaigua, New York. Ward’s car had spun into a wall as he and Stewart raced for position, and the 20-year-old climbed out to confront Stewart.

Ward died of blunt force trauma, and authorities are still investigating the incident.

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Tuesday’s Games Washington 8, Arizona 1 Atlanta 11, Pittsburgh 3 Seattle 5, Philadelphia 2 Miami 4, Texas 3, 10 innings Chicago Cubs 2, San Francisco 0, 5 innings, susp., unplayable field conditions Milwaukee 6, Toronto 1 St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4 Kansas City 7, Colorado 4 Oakland 6, N.Y. Mets 2 L.A. Dodgers 8, San Diego 6 Wednesday’s Games Texas 5, Miami 4 Philadelphia 4, Seattle 3 Toronto 9, Milwaukee 5 N.Y. Mets 8, Oakland 5 Washington 3, Arizona 2 Pittsburgh 3, Atlanta 2 St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 3 San Francisco 8, Chicago Cubs 3 Colorado 5, Kansas City 2 San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, late

Wednesday’s Games Texas 5, Miami 4 Philadelphia 4, Seattle 3 Toronto 9, Milwaukee 5 N.Y. Mets 8, Oakland 5 Houston 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Detroit 6, Tampa Bay 0 L.A. Angels 8, Boston 3 Baltimore 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Cleveland 5, Minnesota 0 Colorado 5, Kansas City 2 Thursday’s Games Houston (Keuchel 10-8) at N.Y. Yankees (McCarthy 4-2), 11:05 a.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 13-6) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 13-8), 11:10 a.m.

Detroit (Price 12-8) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 8-6), 11:10 a.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 11-4) at Boston (R.De La Rosa 4-4), 5:10 p.m.

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National League East Division W L Pct 72 53 .576 66 61 .520 63 63 .500 60 68 .469 56 71 .441 Central Division W L Pct 71 56 .559

Wednesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston 000 100 400 — 5 9 0 New York 000 110 000 — 2 10 0 Feldman, K.Chapman (7), Fields (8), Veras (9) and J.Castro; Pineda, Huff (7), Rogers (7), Whitley (9) and McCann. W—Feldman 7-9. L—Huff 2-1. Sv— Veras (1). HRs—New York, Drew (5).

GB — 7 9 1/2 13 1/2 17

LAA 000 150 101 — 8 11 2 Boston 111 000 000 — 3 11 0 Richards, Cor.Rasmus (2), Morin (5), Salas (6), Jepsen (7), J.Smith (8), Street (9) and Iannetta; Buchholz, Badenhop (7), Mujica (8), Breslow (9) and D.Ross. W—Cor.Rasmus 3-1. L—Buchholz 5-8.

HRs—Boston, D.Ortiz (30).

GB —

Detroit 100 Tampa Bay 000

500 000

Cleveland 010 200 101 — 5 11 1 Minnesota 000 000 000 — 0 6 0 House, C.Lee (6), Atchison (7), Hagadone (8), Shaw (8) and R.Perez; Nolasco, Thielbar (7), Swarzak (8), Deduno (9) and Fryer. W—House 2-3. L—Nolasco 5-9. HRs—Cleveland, Walters (3), Aviles (5).

Baltimore 000 301 000 — 4 8 0 Chicago 200 001 000 — 3 6 0 W.Chen, O’Day (8), Z.Britton (9) and Hundley; Noesi, Putnam (8), Petricka (9) and Nieto. W—W. Chen 13-4. L—Noesi 7-9. Sv—Z.Britton (27). HRs— Baltimore, Pearce (13), N.Cruz (33), A.Jones (24).

Chicago, A.Garcia (3).

INTERLEAGUE Texas 320 000 000 — 5 10 0 Miami 000 200 002 — 4 9 2 N.Martinez, Edwards (7), Mendez (8), Feliz (9) and G.Soto; Eovaldi, Hand (6), Hatcher (7), A.Ramos (8), M.Dunn (9) and Mathis. W—N.Martinez 3-9.

L—Eovaldi 6-8. Sv—Feliz (5). HRs—Miami, Ozuna (18), Saltalamacchia (11).

Seattle 010 200 000 — 3 12 1 Phila.

001 300 00x — 4 10 1 Paxton, Wilhelmsen (5), Beimel (6), Maurer (7), Farquhar (8) and Sucre, Zunino; Hamels, Diekman (6), Giles (8), Papelbon (9) and Nieves. W—Hamels 7-6. L—Paxton 3-1. Sv—Papelbon (30). HRs— Seattle, K.Morales (4).

Thursday’s Games Arizona (Miley 7-9) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 6-9), 2:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs 2, San Francisco 0, 5 innings, comp. of susp. game, 3:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 11-9) at Cincinnati (Holmberg 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 13-9) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 7-10), 6:05 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 11-11) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 14-3), 8:10 p.m.

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Porcello and Avila; Odorizzi, Yates (7), C.Ramos (8) and Casali. W—Porcello 14-8. L—Odorizzi 9-10.

HRs—Detroit, V.Martinez (24).

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6 0

7 3

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Toronto 000 025 002 — 9 15 2 Milwaukee 010 112 000 — 5 10 0 Dickey, Aa.Sanchez (6), Cecil (8), McGowan (8), Janssen (9) and Thole, D.Navarro; J.Nelson, Duke (6), Kintzler (6), Gorzelanny (7), Jeffress (8), W.Smith (9) and Lucroy. W—Dickey 10-12. L—J. Nelson 2-4. HRs—Toronto, Bautista (24), Col.Rasmus (16). Milwaukee, C.Gomez (21).

New York 005 210 000 — 8 10 3 Oakland 002 200 010 — 5 6 1 Za.Wheeler, Edgin (6), Black (7), Familia (8) and d’Arnaud; Samardzija, J.Chavez (4), Abad (6), Otero (8) and Jaso, D.Norris. W—Za.Wheeler 9-8. L— Samardzija 3-3. Sv—Familia (4). HRs—New York, Campbell (3), Duda (23).

Kan. City 010 100 000 — 2 5 1 Colorado 000 104 00x — 5 6 0 D.Duffy, Frasor (8) and Kratz; J.De La Rosa, Hawkins (9) and Rosario. W—J.De La Rosa 13-8. L—D. Duffy 8-11. Sv—Hawkins (19). HRs—Kansas City, A.Gordon (14). Colorado, McBride (1).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona 000 000 020 — 2 7 0 Wash.

010 001 001 — 3 9 0 Cahill, O.Perez (7), Ziegler (8), E.Marshall (9) and M.Montero; Roark, Clippard (8), Storen (8), R.Soriano (9) and W.Ramos. W—R.Soriano 3-1.

L—E.Marshall 4-3. HRs—Arizona, Inciarte (3).

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

West Division GP W L T Calgary 7 6 1 0 Edmonton 7 6 1 0 Winnipeg 8 5 3 0 B.C. 8 5 3 0 Saskatchewan 7 5 2 0

THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 2014

Local Sports

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 Oakland 6, N.Y. Mets 2

Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia

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PF 196 149 109 119 PF 191 173 206 196 173

PA 208 185 193 199 PA 114 115 201 162 135

Pt 6 2 2 2 Pt 12 12 10 10 10

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.

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

PF 38 30 48 49

PA 27 30 58 54

Houston Jacksonville Tennessee Indianapolis

W 1 1 1 0

Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland Cincinnati

W 2 1 0 0

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

W 2 1 1 1

L T 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 North L T 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 West L T 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0

Pct .500 .500 .500 .000

PF 32 35 44 36

PA 39 30 47 40

Pct 1.000 .500 .000 .000

PF 60 35 34 56

PA 33 36 37 66

Pct 1.000 .500 .500 .500

PF 55 57 33 41

PA 16 67 36 48

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 Green Bay

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W Arizona 1 Seattle 1 San Francisco 0 St. Louis 0

1 0 1 0 West L T 1 0 1 0 2 0 2 0

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39 27

Pct .500 .500 .000 .000

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.

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.

PF 64 47 37 63

PA 55 29 64 76

PF 57 23 46 24

PA 48 42 36 36

Saturday, Aug. 23 Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 2:30 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 5 p.m.

Tennessee at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Indianapolis, 6 p.m.

St. Louis at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 7 p.m.

PF 54 40

PA 47 34

Sunday, Aug. 24 San Diego at San Francisco, 2 p.m.

Cincinnati at Arizona, 6 p.m.

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Upheld the San Francisco protest of Tuesday’s game against Chicago at Wrigley Field, making it a suspended game to be completed Thursday.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Activated C David Ross from the 15-day DL. Recalled OF-1B Alex Hassan from Pawtucket. Optioned C Daniel Butler and RHP Steven Wright to Pawtucket (IL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Activated OF Wil Myers from the 60-day DL. Optioned INF Vince Belnome to Durham (IL). Transferred OF Jerry Sands from the 15- to the 60-day DL. National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Reinstated RHP Gerrit Cole from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Brent Morel to Indianapolis (IL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Reinstated OF Cameron Maybin from the restricted list. Optioned INF Jace Peterson to El Paso (PCL). Designated LHP Bobby LaFromboise for assignment.

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Signed INF Frank Salerno.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS — Released INF Jimmy Mojica and OF Kenny Held.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Traded LHP Alex Hinshaw and a player to be named to Grand Prairie for INF Abel Nieves.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Sold the contract of RHP Leondy Perez to Atlanta (NL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS — Announced Charles Lee and Ben Sullivan have been added to the coaching staff.

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed DT Darnell Dockett on injured reserve. Signed DL Isaac Sopoaga and DL Ryan McBean to one-year contracts.

BUFFALO BILLS — Placed LB Stevenson Sylvester on the injured reserve list.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Traded K Cody Parkey to Philadelphia for RB David Fluellen.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed FB Eric Kettani. Waived/injured TE Fendi Onobun.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed CB Dexter McDougle on injured reserve.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-signed K Kevin Goessling. Waived/injured S Jeremy Deering.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Released WR Lavelle Hawkins. Claimed OT Edawn Coughman off waivers from Buffalo.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Claimed P Tress Way off waivers from Chicago. Waived P Blake Clingan.

Canadian Football League CFL — Announced commissioner Mark Cohon will not seek a renewal of his contract, which expires in the spring of 2015.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Named Kevin Devine player personnel director, Randy Cunneyworth player development coach, Jerry Forton NCAA scout, Jason Long co-ordinator of player develop-

ment, Corey Smith video coach, Jim Kovachik pro scout, and Seamus Kotyk and Victor Nybladh amateur scouts.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Announced an affiliation agreement with Kalamazoo (ECHL) for the 2014-15 season.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Signed F Wade Megan and F Tony Turgeon to one-year AHL contracts.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with F Kevin Hayes.

American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Named Dave Noel-Bernier assistant coach.

ECHL BAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Agreed to terms with D George Hughes, D Joe Marciano and D Colin Joe on one-year contracts.

FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Agreed to terms with F Evan Bloodoff and D Tyson Gimblett on oneyear contracts.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Agreed to terms with D Charlie Dodero.

READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with D Dan Ford.

Southern Professional Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN — Signed G Eric Levine.

Agreed to terms with D Ben Oskroba and F Dan Cecka.

LACROSSE Major League Lacrosse OHIO MACHINE — Announced coach Bear Davis has added title of vice-president.

National Lacrosse League MINNESOTA SWARM — Acquired T Ethan O’Connor and a 2017 first-round draft pick from Toronto for T Brock Sorensen.

Marlins make club history at provincial championships ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Marlins made club history at the Alberta Summer Swimming Association Provincial Championships in Edmonton over the weekend, winning the Large Team title with 525 points.

Edmonton Huma was in second place with 468 points, while the Camrose Sea Serpents were third with 362 points.

With this single meet performance, the Marlins also finished first in the season aggregate, ahead of Huma and the Sea Serpents while the Lethbridge Orcas and the Edmonton Derrick Devil Rays rounded out the top 5.

Two Marlins swimmers also set three provincial records as Liam Stalwick, 14, set a new mark in the boys’ 13-14 50-metre short fly and the 100-metre long fly. Cale Kooyman, 13, meanwhile set a new record in the boys’ 13-14 50-metre short butterfly.

SWIMMING In all Red Deer swimmers came back with 52 medals (20 gold, 23 silver, nine bronze).

Medal winners: Girls 13-14 400M Free: Claire Halford 1st Boys 13-14 50M Short Fly: Liam Stalwick 1st Boys 15-17 50M Short Fly: Ryan Mah 2nd Boys 7-8 50M Long Back: Sean Raivio 1st, Noah Thomas 2nd Girls 9-10 50M Long Back: Chloe Becher 3rd Boys 9-10 50M Long Back: Adam Hucal 2nd Girls 11-12 100M Long Back: Lauren Bettenson 1st Boys 13-14 100M Long Back: Cale Kooyman 2nd Boys 15-17 100M Long Back: Aiden Kooyman 3rd Boys 9-10 25M Short Breast: Owen Halford 2nd Girls 13-14 50M Short Breast: Jane Gosling 2nd Boys 13-14 50M Short Breast: Cale Kooyman 1st Boys 15-17 50M Short Breast: Ryan Mah 2nd Boys 7-8 50M Long Free: Sean Raivio 1st, Noah Thomas 2nd Boys 13-14 100M Long Free: Liam Stalwick 1st Girls 11-12 100M IM: Lauren Bettenson 2nd Girls 13-14 200M IM: Claire Halford 1st Boys 13-14 200M IM: Cale Kooyman 1st, Liam Stalwick 2nd Boys 15-17 200M IM: Aiden Kooyman 2nd Boys 10&U 100M Medley Relay: 3rd: Mason Leroux, Kieran Monaghan, Owen Halford, Payden Vanmaarion Girls12&U 200M Medley Relay: 2nd Lauren Bettenson, Hannah Morrison, Emma Wrench, Erika Driesen Girls 14&U 200M Medley Relay: 3rd: Claire Halford, Jane Gosling, Julia Richards, Julie Gosling Boys 14&U 200M Medley Relay

1st: Erik Sveinson, Cale Kooyman, Liam Stalwick, Matthew Purdy Boys 17&U 200M Medley Relay 2nd: Aiden Kooyman, Ryan Mah, Tyler Driesen, Aidan Johns Boys 9-10 200M Distance Free: Owen Halford 3rd Girls 13-14 200M Distance Free: Claire Halford 2nd Boys 13-14 100M Long Fly: Liam Stalwick 1st Boys 7-8 25M Short Back: Sean Raivio 1st Boys 9-10 25M Short Back: Adam Hucal 3rd Girls 11-12 50M Short Back: Lauren Bettenson 2nd Boys 15-17 50M Short Back: Aiden Kooyman 2nd, Aidan Johns 3rd Girls 13-14 100M Long Breast: Jane Gosling 2nd Boys 13-14 100m Long Breast: Cale Kooyman 1st Boys 15-17 100M Long Breast: Ryan Mah 1st, Aidan Johns 2nd Boys 7-8 25M Shirt Free: Noah Thomas 1st Girls 11-12 50M Short Free: Lauren Bettenson 1st Girls 14&U 800M Distance Free: Claire Halford 1st Girls 15-17 800M Distance Free: Paige Olmstead 1st Girls 8&U 100M Freestyle Relay 3rd: Hanna Mateika, Darby Duncan, Makenna Vanmaarion, Saryn Jacques Boys 8&U 100M Freestyle Relay: 2nd: Noah Thomas, Brady Leroux, Rhett Becher, Sean Raivio Girls 12&U 200M Freestyle Relay: 3rd: Erika Driesen, Emma Wrench, Hannah Morrison, Lauren Bettenson Boys 14&U 200M Freestyle Relay: 1st: Cale Kooyman, Erik Sveinson, Matthew Purdy, Liam Stalwick Boys 17&U 200M Freestyle Relay: 2nd: Aidan Johns, Ryan Mah, Tyler Driesen, Aiden Kooyman

Today

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp, sessions at 9:15 and 10 a.m., noon, 2 and 4 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● Senior men’s AAA baseball: Baseball Canada Championship at St. John’s, N.L., Red Deer Riggers vs New Brunswick, noon (MDT). ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Canadian Championship at Halifax, Red Deer TBS Rampage vs. Ontario, 2 p.m. (MDT). Go to http://founderscup2014.ca/ for online streaming information. ● College women’s soccer exhibition: RDC Queens at Camrose Augustana Vikings.

Friday

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp: Sessions at 9, 9 and 10:45 a.m., noon, 3 and 5 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Canadian Championship at Halifax, Red Deer TBS Rampage vs. Manitoba at 7 a.m. Go to http://founderscup2014.ca/ for online streaming information. ● Senior men’s AAA baseball: Baseball Canada Championship at St. John’sN.L., Red Deer Riggers vs Ontario, 7 a.m. (MDT); Red Deer Riggers vs.

Saskatchewan, 1 p.m. (MDT). ● Senior men’s baseball: Doug Bradford Memorial Classic, games at 6, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● AJHL: Olds Grizzlys training camp, sessions at 7 and 8:30 p.m., Sports Complex.

Saturday

● 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. ● AJHL: Olds Grizzlys training camp, sessions at 9 and 10:30 a.m., 4 and 5:30 p.m., Sports Complex. ● Senior men’s baseball: Doug Bradford Memorial Classic, games at 9:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m., noon, 1:30, 2, 3:30, 4, 5:30, 6 and 8 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Men’s third division rugby: Bow Valley at Red Deer, 1 p.m., Titans Park. ● Senior men’s AAA 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: Doug Bradford Memorial Classic, games at 9, 9:30, 11 and 11:30 a.m., 1, 3 and 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Senior men’s AAA 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. ● AJHL: Olds Grizzlys training camp, sessions at 9 and 10:30 a.m., 4 and 5:30 p.m., Sports Complex. ● 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 Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Sporting KC 12 6 6 42 36 23 D.C. 12 7 4 40 36 26 Toronto FC 9 8 5 32 33 34 Columbus 7 8 9 30 32 32 New York 6 7 10 28 35 34 New England 8 12 3 27 30 36 Philadelphia 6 9 9 27 36 39 Houston 7 12 4 25 25 42 Chicago 4 6 13 25 29 35 Montreal 4 14 5 17 23 41 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Real Salt Lake 11 4 9 42 38 28 Seattle 13 7 2 41 38 30 FC Dallas 11 7 6 39 43 32 Los Angeles 10 5 7 37 39 26 Vancouver 7 4 12 33 33 29 Portland 7 7 10 31 39 39 Colorado 8 11 6 30 37 39 San Jose 6 9 6 24 25 27 Chivas USA 6 11 6 24 21 36 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday’s Games Los Angeles 4, Colorado 3 San Jose at Seattle FC, late Friday’s Games Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas, 7 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Chicago at Toronto FC, 5 p.m.

Montreal at New York, 5 p.m.

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

Houston at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

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

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

Sunday’s Games Seattle FC at Portland, 3 p.m.

San Jose at Philadelphia, 6 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 Germany 2 Canada 0 Wednesday, Aug. 20 Semifinals At Moncton, N.B. North Korea 2, Nigeria 6 At Montreal Germany 2, France1 Sunday, Aug. 24 At Montreal Third Place North Korea vs. France, 2 p.m.

Championship Germany vs. Nigeria, 5 p.m.

CFL commissioner Mark Cohon says he will step down in 2015

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS One of the CFL’s longest-serving commissioners is leaving the post.

Mark Cohon will not return for a third term when his current contract expires in April, 2015. Now in his eighth season as CFL commissioner, only Jake Gaudaur (1968-1984) and Sydney Halter (1958-1966) have held the position as long.

Cohon, 48, says he made the announcement now to give the CFL’s board of governors time to recruit his replacement.

A lucrative television deal, the return of Ottawa to the CFL, labour peace until 2018, a more stringent drug-testing policy and new stadium projects in Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Hamilton and Ottawa will be among Cohon’s legacies.

“Those were all things that were major projects to move this league along,” Cohon told reporters Wednesday on a conference call.

“The thing I can be proud of is we built this great foundation for the next individual to build upon and for the board of governors to build upon.”

The weak position of the Argonauts in Toronto’s sports landscape and expansion into Atlantic Canada are unfinished business for Cohon, and a concussion lawsuit against the CFL was filed last month.

Cohon says he will continue to work on improving the Argos’ situation before he departs.

“What’s next for me is looking tape on Monday, doing discipline on Monday, closing sponsorship deals and getting ready for the Grey Cup, making an announcement on who the halftime act is at the Grey Cup and focusing on the business at hand,” he said.

“I haven’t even thought what’s next for me. I’m confident in my abilities in terms of thinking about what I can do. That will be another chapter, another story and another interview for another time.”

He took over as commissioner in 2007 from Tom Wright and signed a contract extension in February, 2012.

During the 100th anniversary of the Grey Cup in Toronto that year, he told reporters “I’m happy where I am, I’m challenged and I hope to be around for a while.”

But Cohon says he’s checked off the important items on a checklist he compiled in 2007.

“I looked at that list and said ’you know what? It’s probably the right time for me,”’ he said. “I’ve loved this job and I love this job. But I think there is a point in anyone’s career that you look at it and say ’OK, I’m 48 years old. I’m going to be 49 at the end of my term.’

“Building that infrastructure around our stadiums was critical. I think our TV deal was another critical moment for us in building that financial stability.

“Probably because it’s so new and exciting, less than a month ago when I stood on the field and saw that sea of red and black in Ottawa and the team back in Ottawa, that is something I think I’ll always remember.”

The five-year television deal with TSN and RDS worth a reported $40 million per year gives the CFL unprecedented financial stability. The labour unrest the deal created was resolved in June with a new five-year collective bargaining agreement.

Cohon is working with Argonauts owner David Braley to get the team out of the Rogers Centre and into the more fan-friendly environment at BMO Field.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 B5

Majors are over and Winter-ravaged course refurbished for Canadian Pacific Women’s Open McIlroy hopes he is just getting started

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Raonic gets fifth seed, Bouchard seventh for U.S. Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic is seeded No. 1 for the U.S. Open, and fivetime champion Roger Federer is No. 2, meaning they could meet only in the final.

Djokovic beat Federer for the title at Wimbledon last month. Federer reached the final after defeating Canada’s Milos Raonic in the semifinal.

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., is seeded fifth.

The U.S. Tennis Association followed this week’s ATP rankings in announcing the seedings Tuesday.

Federer moved up one spot from his No. 3 ranking because 2013 champion Rafael Nadal withdrew from the year’s last Grand Slam tournament with an injured right wrist. The 33-year-old Federer is seeded at the U.S. Open for the 14th consecutive year, tied with Ivan Lendl for the longest streak, trailing only Jimmy Connors’ record of 18.

Federer won the hardcourt tournament every year from 2004-08, part of his record 17 Grand Slam titles.

Djokovic has played in the last four finals at Flushing Meadows, winning the title in 2011. He lost to Nadal in 2010 and last year, and to Andy Murray in 2012.

Murray is seeded eighth this year. Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka is No. 3, followed by David Ferrer, Raonic, Tomas Berdych and Grigor Dimitrov.

Top-ranked Serena Williams is seeded No. 1 as she seeks her third straight U.S. Open title.

The U.S. Tennis Association followed this week’s WTA rankings in announc-

ing the seedings Wednesday.

French Open runner-up Simona Halep is seeded second after reaching a careerbest ranking this month. She has never advanced past the fourth round at the U.S. Open.

Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is seeded No. 3 with third-ranked Li Na out because of a knee injury. Agnieszka Radwanska moves up to No. 4.

Five-time major champ Maria Sharapova is seeded fifth, meaning there’s a chance she could face Williams in the quarter-finals. Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., goes in as the seventh seed.

The runner-up the last two years, Victoria Azarenka, is seeded 16th after an injuryplagued season.

Venus Williams is seeded 19th.

The draw is Thursday, and the tournament starts Monday.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian amateur Brooke Henderson watches her putt on practice green at the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open golf tournament in London, Ont., on Wednesday. them beginning June 27.

“We keep calling it the fifth season: patience,” Griffiths said “We know that foot traffic on new seedlings, it just would not work. We would not be where we had if we had traffic.”

By the time players saw the course this week, it was tournament-calibre again. That’s essential with a field that features Lewis, LPGA Championship winner Inbee Park, two-time defending champion Lydia Ko and Suzann Pettersen, the top four players in the world.

Tournament director Brent McLaughlin of Golf Canada said the field is “second to none,” as usual.

“We obviously want the best,” he said on a conference call last week. “We are so lucky to have a long laundry list of such great players.”

Among the top-10 women’s golfers, only 2010 champion Michelle Wie is not here. Wie withdrew last week because of a hand injury.

Wie’s absence makes it a bit easier of a tournament on the other top players, but Ko — who won this event the past two years, in Edmonton and Vancouver — would like to beat the best.

“We would never say that, ’Oh it’s good that she’s out,”’ Ko said on a conference call.

“It’s really unfortunate that she has a fracture. She’s such an awesome player, and it would’ve been great to have

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Eight former champions will tee off Thursday: Ko, LPGA Championship runner-up Brittany Lincicome, Pettersen, Katherine Hull-Kirk, Cristie Kerr, Meena Lee, Karrie Webb and Laura Davies. Kerr won this tournament in 2006, the last time it was at London Hunt and Country Club.

How the course plays out the rest of the week, Griffiths said, will depend on how much it rains. Storms moved through the area Wednesday, and there were more in the forecast for Friday.

Ko, a 17-year-old from New Zealand who seems to bring her best golf to Canada, said no matter the weather it’s important to play the course’s giant greens as if they’re in sections.

“If the pin is on the left side you kind of want to think that the green is only that left half,” she said Wednesday. “But it’s going to be tough especially when you miss a couple shots, because even around the greens it’s not like there is fairway and then rough. It’s just rough straight on.”

It’s a difficult course because of that, but Canadian Jennifer Kirby expects a lowscoring tournament.

“The rough is thick, but it’s not too, too bad,” Kirby said.

“I think that the scores will be pretty low, but the greens are massive, so I guess it all depends on where they put the pins.”

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“That’s not going to happen,” said Rory McIlroy, with a smile.

He’s correct, based on simple math.

Padraig Harrington won the British Open and PGA Championship in 2008, and just his bad luck, the FedEx Cup was restructured that year in an attempt to create more volatility in the playoff events. It rewarded mediocrity instead.

Harrington began the playoffs by missing two straight cuts and soon was eliminated.

The system in place the last five years doesn’t allow for that.

McIlroy is the No. 1 seed when the playoffs get started Thursday at The Barclays, and he is assured of reaching the Tour Championship. But his hopes of cashing in on the $10 million prize are based more on form than a calculator.

The 25-year-old from Northern Ireland is coming off three straight victories, and they were big ones — the British Open, a World Golf Championship and the PGA Championship. He is No. 1 in the world

and starting to separate himself from the rest of golf.

And he’s not interested in getting off this amazing run.

“I could just say, ’Look, I’ve had a great year, it’s been an awesome summer. I’m going to just see what happens for the next few weeks and not really work hard,”’ McIlroy said Wednesday. “But I want to finish the season well. I want to be up there in contention week in and week out. I feel like the season I had deserves a finish like that. So I’m going to just grind it out every week that I can until I get a bit of a break after the Ryder Cup.” Now that the majors are done for the year, the FedEx Cup presents the best fourweek stretch in golf — four tournaments with the best players from the world’s strongest tour competing for a shot at the richest bonus in golf.

The Barclays has one of the strongest fields of the year, even though a few players are noticeable by their absence.

Tiger Woods was in town this week, but only for corporate work with McIlroy. Woods missed three months of the season recovering from back surgery and hurt his back again in only his third tournament back. He didn’t come close to finishing among the top 125 who qualified for the playoffs.

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LONDON, Ont. — Winter was not kind to the London Hunt and Country Club, and Stacey Lewis heard stories about the poor condition the course was in.

But when the No. 1-ranked golfer on the LPGA Tour arrived for this week’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open, she didn’t notice the effects of the snow and cold weather.

“The fairways are probably some of the best fairways we’ve had to hit off all year,” Lewis said. “You really can’t tell.”

Sixteen of 18 greens were unplayable, and course superintendent Jayson Griffiths said four or five were “over 90 per cent injured,” including the 18th hole. Of the four acres of greens, three of them were gone.

Players who walked the course in recent weeks could tell there had been damage, and they raved about the improvement.

“Coming into this week I was pleasantly surprised of how well (the greens) were rolling,” Canadian amateur Brooke Henderson said Wednesday. “I can’t imagine the amount of work they must have put in to get this course in such immaculate condition.”

Griffiths said it took “countless hours.” Those were spent preparing, seeding, watering, maintaining and waiting.

The result was something he is proud of going into this tournament, which features nine of the top 10 players in the world.

“It’s just a humbling experience, it really is, and it’s just a lot of hard work,” Griffiths said Tuesday.

“I don’t think there was a weekend where both Brent McDougall and Deb (Dale), my assistant, left this golf course.

We were watering from morning till night if need be. It was 24/7, 14 weeks to get here. It was just a lot of extraordinary efforts.”

Griffiths began to realize in November how bad a winter this could be, and over time he saw the “worst-case scenario” develop. With the ground frozen “well below four feet” and no irrigation system as a result, he and his staff had a three-day window in April to get the greens back up to par.

A crew of about 18 people seeded, germinated, watered the greens through 10,000-square-foot covers and waited. For a while, the course had just two greens to play on and 16 temporary ones, and members only got to play all of

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NDP MP quits party over Mulcair stance COMPLAINS THAT MULCAIR IS TOO PRO-ISRAEL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A New Democrat MP has quit the caucus over what she felt was an excessively pro-Israel stance on the current conflict in Gaza and demeaning party demands to keep quiet and toe the line.

Sana Hassainia, who represents the Montreal-area riding of Vercheres-Les Patriotes, was specifically critical of NDP Leader Tom Mulcair in a blog post that appeared online Wednesday.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Hassainia said her unhappiness with the leader and party began after the 2012 leadership race. She says she was removed from a Commons committee and relegated to the backbench because she had supported Mulcair’s rival Brian Topp.

But “the straw that broke the camel’s back” Hassainia says was Mulcair’s distinctly pro-Israel stance, despite the heavy civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip this summer. She said she could no longer remain silent in the name of loyalty to the leader and electoral strategy.

“I said to myself, my God, we’re a social democratic party, and we’re saying that Israel has the right to defend themselves against a people that are completely powerless,” said Hassainia, suggesting she was not alone in that viewpoint.

“When there’s such a huge difference of opinion between MPs and their leader, are they supposed to support that position or are they going to evolve with the situation?”

Hassainia, a Tunisian-born Muslim, underlines that she recognizes Hamas

is a terrorist organization, but feels it is civilians and not Hamas that are bearing the brunt of the conflict.

NDP sources fired back saying Hassainia has never before voiced concern over Mulcair’s position on Israel and accused her of simply looking for an excuse to cover the fact that she rarely shows up for work.

Mulcair, speaking at a news conference in Toronto, said the party has never made a secret of its position on the Middle East.

“The NDP has a long-standing position in favour of the two state solution in the Middle East — a safe, secure state within negotiated borders for Israelis and a safe, secure state within negotiated borders for Palestinians,” he said. “Sana in her note made it clear she doesn’t agree with that. That’s been our position for many years, it was Jack’s position, it’s mine, and so she’s decided that she doesn’t want to sit with us. That’s her choice.”

So far this year, Hassainia has the worst voting record of all MPs, showing up for only 8.7 per cent of votes in the House of Commons.

Since winning election in 2011 as part of the so-called “orange wave” that swept Quebec, the 39-year-old has given birth to two children.

A source close to Mulcair said the party bent over backwards trying to accommodate Hassainia’s need to be with her young children, even letting her use the leader’s office to breastfeed. But still the party’s whip, Nycole Turmel, was frustrated in her efforts to get Hassainia to show up for votes and perform other parliamentary duties.

Hassainia acknowledges she refused to attend evening votes in the Commons after her second child was born in June 2013, feeling she was no longer ready to sacrifice her family life. She accuses the party of doing next to nothing to help her balance the demands of Parliament and the two toddlers at home.

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NDP MP Sana Hassainia walks out of the House of Commons with her baby Skander-Jack as she makes her way to meet with reporters on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa on February 8, 2012. A New Democrat MP has quit the party over what she deems leader Tom Mulcair’s excessively pro-Israel stance on the current conflict in Gaza. Sana Hassainia, who represents the Montreal-area riding of Vercheres-Les Patriotes, has told Montreal’s La Presse she can’t accept Mulcair’s position and will now sit as an independent.

Baird’s Twitter activity prompts scrutiny from language commissioner OTTAWA — When a minister tweets, is it ever really a personal account, or should he or she be required to abide by federal laws and responsibilities?

Those blurred lines around government information have raised questions since social media came on the scene, and are now getting a closer look from an unexpected corner.

Canada’s commissioner of official languages has launched an investigation into John Baird’s Twitter account to determine if the foreign affairs minister is running afoul of federal laws around bilingual communication.

Graham Fraser had received a complaint that Baird’s tweets were often only in English, and decided the situation was worthy of further scrutiny.

The case is being used by the watchdog’s office to examine the larger issue of ministerial social media accounts and whether they fall under the Official Languages Act. In a similar case, New Brunswick’s official languages commissioner recommended in 2011 that officials should post messages in both official languages when they are communicating as a representative of the government.

“If you look at the minister’s account, a lot of it is

related to his role as minister. There’s enough in there that warranted accepting looking at it,” said Nelson Kalil, a spokesman for Fraser.

“All ministries have responsibilities with regard to communicating with the public and using their social media, so it’s a nice template for us to have look

at that responsibility.”

Baird’s department has responded by saying that the Twitter account in question — @HonJohnBaird — is his personal account, and does not fall within the ambit of the Official Languages Act. Baird’s Twitter profile describes

him as “Canada’s foreign minister and MP for Nepean-Carleton.” A majority of his posts are on foreign affairs issues; some are repeated in French, others are not. Some tweets appear only in English on his personal account, and then are posted in French on the department’s Twitter account.

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Orphaned grizzly released back into wild VANCOUVER — An orphaned grizzly cub named Littlefoot has been released back into the wild in southeastern British Columbia, part of a pilot project aimed at saving bears who have come out on the losing end of interactions with humans.

Conservation officers from the Ministry of Environment found the yearling severely undernourished this spring in an area where a bear was shot dead last year, leading authorities to believe it was his mother that was killed.

Littlefoot hibernated alone through last winter, emerging emaciated this spring.

In June, weighing just 22 kilograms, he was sent to the Northern Lights Wildlife Society, near Smithers, B.C. Three months and more than 40 kilograms later — almost triple what he weighed when he arrived — he was released in a remote area near Fernie on Tuesday.

“We had no problems with him. He settled in really well and showed no different behaviour than the other bears that we had in our care,” said

Angelika Langen, the co-founder and manager of the project.

“He was good with the caretaker and quite confident.”

Like all grizzly graduates of the rehabilitation program, Littlefoot will wear a satellite collar for 18 months so his progress can be tracked.

Since it began in 2007, 13 grizzly cubs have been rehabilitated and released back into the wild. The chances for an orphaned cub without some help are not good.

“They either get shot or left out in the wild to fend for themselves, which means they either starve to death or they become prey for a predator,” Langen said.

Ministry of Environment statistics show in B.C., 127 grizzlies have been killed by humans over the past three and a half years, not including sport hunting kills.

The B.C. Natural Resources Ministry said grizzly bears have been designated a species of special concern nationally by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, though they are not endangered in the province.

Government biologists estimate about 15,000 grizzlies live in the west-

Woman accused of plotting parents’ murder says she was planning her own death

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEWMARKET, Ont. — A woman accused of plotting to have her parents killed in a staged home invasion told a Toronto-area court Wednesday it was her own murder she was trying to orchestrate after plunging into a deep depression over her strained family life.

Jennifer Pan, 27, testified she fell out with her family in the summer of 2010 after they discovered she’d been lying to them for years about her studies, her work and her relationship with a man they disapproved of — her on again, off again boyfriend and co-accused, Daniel Wong.

Feeling isolated and distraught, she at first tried to take her own life, then arranged to have someone else carry out the killing for $10,000, she told a Newmarket, Ont., court in her second day on the stand.

Suicide would have brought shame on her family, and her insurance policy, which listed her younger brother as a beneficiary, would be nullified if she died at her own hands, Pan said.

But she said she changed her mind that fall after enrolling at a Toronto college, a move that seemed to restore her parents’ trust and pave the way for reconciliation, she said.

“My life started to look different in my eyes,” she said.

She previously told the court she had abandoned any plans to have her father killed after an earlier attempt

failed because the man she hired took off with her money. She has also said she didn’t know the break-in was planned and never intended for her mother to die.

Pan, Wong and three others were charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder following the attack at the family home in Markham, Ont., on November 8, 2010.

Her mother, Bieh Ha Pan, 53, was shot dead. Her father, Hann Pan, 60, was shot in the face but survived.

The Crown alleges Pan hatched a plan to have her parents murdered so that she could be with Wong, who they had forbidden her from seeing. As the date grew closer, however, she began to doubt his affection and was desperate to lure him back, prosecutors have said.

Pan testified she hired someone she knew only as Homeboy to kill her but made him swear to tell Wong the target was her father. Prosecutors have said Homeboy is the nickname for another of the accused, Lenford Crawford.

In the weeks leading up to the killing, Pan repeatedly told Homeboy she was calling off the deal, even negotiating to pay $8,500 in cancellation fees, she said.

Phone records presented in court showed a flurry of calls and texts between Pan and Homeboy on Oct. 31, 2010, which she said were about the plan.

“I was trying to convey to him that I wanted to call it off... I wanted to live,” she said.

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Grizzly bears are also listed as threatened under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act. The bears in Langen’s program became orphaned after their parents were killed either in vehicle accidents or by humans who shot the animals in self defence.

Though the project has been running for years, it is still in pilot stage because it’s unclear whether grizzlies raised by humans fare well in the wild.

So far, Langen said the results are encouraging.

Radio-collar tracking has shown only three of the 13 bruins released in the past seven years have died. They’re tracked for 18 months, at which point the collars are designed to fall off to prevent the bear from choking as it grows.

Tests of dung samples also bode well, she said.

“The bears we have raised in human care have no problems finding the natural food that they need,” Langen said. “Within a couple of days they have it all figured out.”

Littlefoot almost immediately started looking for food, she said.

But the ultimate test of whether bears raised by humans succeed is whether they go on to have a family of their own.

“From a scientific point of view, that would be the ultimate proof that a bear that has been raised in human care can adapt well enough to survive in the wild and then even reproduce.”

Unfortunately, the wildlife society has not been able to document any offspring. They’ve only had two females and lost contact with both in the wild, one because of technical difficulties and the other because of inaccessible terrain, Langen said.

One major challenge for the program is ensuring cubs do not become dependent on humans.

To that end, each is assigned a caregiver and only that person interacts with the bruin. Any other interaction with humans, such as a veterinarian visit, is designed to ensure the bears remain afraid of humans.

“They get chased, they get poked — it’s not something pleasant,” Langen said.

On average, each bear costs between $3,000 and $4,000 to rehabilitate.

Lucien Bouchard says there’s no way to repair friendship with Mulroney

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Although they were once close friends, Lucien Bouchard says there’s no way to repair his ruptured relationship with Brian Mulroney.

“We run into each other occasionally in Montreal or elsewhere and I think we have an agreement to not embarrass each other,” Bouchard said Wednesday.

“We’ll shake hands, but to sit down and have a coffee — no. I don’t think that’s possible. It’s not a matter of honour. There are wounds.”

Bouchard made the comments after the screening of a new documentary on his political career which will be broadcast Monday evening on the public Tele-Quebec network.

Mulroney, who became prime minister in 1984, named Bouchard as Canada’s ambassador to Paris in 1985 and then brought him into his cabinet as environment minister in 1988.

They had known each other since law school.

But they fell out in 1990 when Mulroney was trying to salvage the floundering Meech Lake constitutional accord. It was during that time that Bouchard sent a telegram of support to the Parti Quebecois and declared he was a sovereigntist. An outraged Mulroney fired him from cabinet and the two men have never spoken again.

“Friends should not be in politics together when they disagree over principles,” Bouchard said Wednesday.

Bouchard went on to found the Bloc Quebecois with a handful of disgruntled Conservative and Liberal Quebec MPs in 1991. He would become leader of the Official Opposition when the Bloc took 54 seats in the 1993 election.

Bouchard said Wednesday he never saw the Bloc as anything more than something to prepare the ground for the 1995 election, seeing it as a “oneshot” deal.

While the Bloc remained a strong political presence for most of its existence, it was crushed in the 2011 federal election by a surging New Democratic Party and now has only three members in Parliament.

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The Free the Fuzz event is hosted by the Law Enforcement Torch Run and will get underway at 9 a.m. on Friday and runs until 4 p.m. on Sunday. Special Olympics athletes, dignitaries and volunteers will be on the ground collecting donations and answering questions about the Law Enforcement Torch Run. Shoppers will also have an opportunity to purchase merchandise, enjoy a barbecue and support their local Special Olympics athletes.

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CASH, BANK ACCOUNTS, DRUGS ALL PART OF RED DEER BUST Two people will appear in Red Deer provincial court today to face charges in relation to the seizure of 2.2 kg of marijuana and $127,190 in cash.

The nine-month investigation also led RCMP to seize bank accounts containing about $103,000.

Shane Clifford White, 29, and Alyssa Marilyn Landry, 23, both of Red Deer, were charged with drug and Criminal Code offences on Aug. 1.

The seizure of drugs and cash was made in June when investigators of the RCMP Federal Policing Serious and Organized Crime Team executed search warrants at a Red Deer residence. A total of 2.2 kg of marijuana and $127,190.00 cash was found and seized.

Police say further investigation has led to the restraint of bank accounts valued at approximately $103,000.

White has been charged with trafficking a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, laundering the proceeds of crime, and possession of the proceeds of crime.

Landry has been charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, and possession of the proceeds of crime.

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A case containing $72,000 is part of the seizure of $127,190 in cash and about $103,000 in bank accounts related to a drug investigation, police say. due to the hard work and determination of many RCMP officers working in a coordinated fashion over many months”, says Supt. Frank Smart, RCMP federal policing officer. “We have disrupted this drug trafficking operation by seizing their drugs and their money.”

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A chance to rub elbows with royalty including Miss Alberta Gina Omilon will be part of the Red Deer is Ready rally on Friday.

Omilon will be available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (with a special guest at 2 p.m.) in downtown Red Deer on Ross Street.

Other princesses will be in City Hall Park to take pictures with children of all ages. The pep rally will feature live entertainment, interactive sports, autograph opportunities with Olympic athletes and Cari and Ron MacLean, 25 bouncy houses and a winter wonderland. To find out more about the rally, visit Red Deer is Ready on Facebook or RedDeer2019 on Twitter.

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With thousands of new titles to organize and shelves to build and stock, the librarians at the Timberlands branch of the Red Deer Public Library will have their work cut out for them over the next two weeks. Here Rachelle McComb, Greer McIvor and Candice Putnam work in the new space in the Ecole Barrie Wilson Elementary School in Red Deer. The official opening of the library is scheduled to coincide with the beginning of the school year.

The school will welcome its first students in September.

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World-class Australian triathletes are using Red Deer as home base before the 2014 TransCanada Corp. World Triathlon Grand Final in Edmonton next week.

About 37 coaches and athletes began trickling into the city on Monday.

Greg Cox, manager of the Australian Triathlon team, said the city is a wonderful spot to ward off the jet lag and to get in those last training swims, runs and rides before the competition next week.

Aussie Emma Snowsill, who retired earlier this year, trained in Red Deer over the years during her career. The 2008 Olympic gold medalist and multiple gold medalist in the Commonwealth Games and the World Championships recommended the location to the team.

“To stay in Edmonton is not a real option for us,” said Cox. “The training in town is very difficult.

Whereas here it is a bit easier for us.”

Athletes will be training at the Recreation Centre Pool, Sylvan Lake and Red Deer’s trails all week.

Cox said the team has received fantastic support from Tri-umph, the local triathlon club, before they arrived and during their stay.

“They have been fantastic in making suggestions about where we ride and run and helping to facilitate us with the pool,” said Cox. “It’s been great.”

Bill Chaffey, the current world champion in para triathlon, arrives in Red Deer on Friday.

Elite competitor Emma Jackson, who was to arrive on Wednesday evening, will also be looking to bring home some hardware on the weekend.

Athletes will leave Red Deer next Tuesday and Wednesday.

Edmonton last hosted the world event in 2001. crhyno@reddeeradocate.com

Flashing handgun draws judge’s fire A Sylvan Lake man who flashed a gun in a hip holster to impress a waitress will pay more than $3,000 for his folly.

Christopher Glen Miller, 32, pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday to a pair of charges related to possession of a restricted weapon in an unauthorized place and a third count of refusing to provide a breath sample to police.

Crown prosecutor Murray McPherson said police were called on March 1 when alarmed patrons at a popular Sylvan Lake bar and restaurant saw the man showing off the weapon, which proved to be a loaded .45-calibre handgun.

The weapon was in a holster partially

concealed under a hoodie.

It was also alleged that the man had been telling people in the bar he was an undercover police officer.

Miller left the bar in a minivan and police pulled him over at the nearby Hazzard County Bar around 12:45 a.m.

He admitted to police he had the gun but refused to provide a breath sample and was arrested.

Miller had a licence for the weapon, but that did not allow him to take it to unauthorized places such as bars.

Defence lawyer Kevin Sproule said Miller had recently purchased the holster and was “breaking it in.”

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That was followed by a series of bad decisions leading to his arrest.

In a joint submission to the judge, Sproule and the Crown suggested a $1,000 fine on each of the three counts.

Judge Darrell Riemer agreed and further prohibited Miller from owning weapons, ammunition or explosives for five years. He is also prohibited from driving for one year.

“This, in some measure, was juvenile and foolish behaviour,” Riemer told Miller, a father of three, who splits his time between Alberta and B.C. “It is also criminal.”

Miller must forfeit the gun to the Crown.

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BRIEFS Red Deer man killed in northern vehicle crash A 26-year-old man from Red Deer is dead following a collision 150 km north of Lac La Biche on Sunday.

Wood Buffalo RCMP say the crash occurred on Hwy 881 at about 9:30 p.m.

The vehicle was northbound when it went off the road and rolled into the ditch. Speed and alcohol are not believed to be factors.

The victim, one of four men in the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other three men were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. All three have now been released from hospital. The men were from various communities in Alberta.

Police say that no additional information will be released on the deceased or the injured out of respect for the families.

Arby’s, second restaurant approved by MPC The city’s north end will be getting two new restaurants.

On Wednesday, Red Deer’s municipal planning commission unanimously approved the construction of two restaurants — an Arby’s restaurant and another 100-seat restaurant, currently unnamed, both to be located at 6880 Gaetz Ave. Directly north of the site is Pizza Hut. An auto parts store and Mike’s Mattress are located to the south.

KFC and Taco Bell are located across Gaetz, to the east.

The existing commercial building on the site, most recently occupied by a paintball business, will be demolished.

Arby’s will be built on the north side of the site and the 66-seat restaurant will have a drive-thru.

A patio will be attached to the other restaurant to be built on the south side of the site.

Plans for the restaurants include 58 parking spaces, which exceeds the city’s requirement of 42.

MPC member and city Coun. Ken Johnston said he was excited about the commercial investment being made in Red Deer.

“Here’s an opportunity for growth in our city, employment in our city, economic activity in our city,” Johnston said.

City seeks volunteers for various committees The City of Red Deer needs a few good volunteers to serve on one of many council committees.

Volunteers are needed for 15 committees including the Environmental

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Alberta Health Services tried to improve image, but report was scrapped: NDP EDMONTON — The New Democrats have released an internal Alberta Health Services report which they say shows the health superboard was using a consulting company to try to improve its image.

NDP health critic David Eggen says the paper discussed the need for the agency to distance itself from the governing Progressive Conservatives to avoid political scandal.

Eggen says the report, which was ac-

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This little ground squirrel got his claws and teeth into a meal outside the Kerry Wood Nature Centre this week. The always entertaining rodents have made a home for themselves in the green space between two parking areas.

Advisory Committee, the Municipal Planning Commission, Red Deer and District Family and Community Support Services Board and the Library Board.

Some of the general skill sets required include being willing to actively contribute, being open minded, the ability to interpret legislation, sense of logic, fairness, and good communication and listening skills.

Applications and further details on the committees are available from Legislative Services, second floor City Hall, or online at www.reddeer.ca/ councilcommittees.

Anyone interested in applying for a volunteer position is invited to submit a completed application form by Sept.

29 to Legislative Services by fax to 403346-6195 or email legislativeservices@ reddeer.ca.

Scott Kia helps United Way A local car dealership will stage a quired under freedom-of information legislation, was ordered by the board of AHS and partially completed at a cost of $25,000.

But it was scrapped last summer when Health Minister Fred Horne fired the board over bonuses that were paid to executives.

Eggen and Wildrose health critic Heather Forsyth call the report a waste of money and say the best way to improve the government’s reputation would be to improve health care.

Alberta Health officials were not immediately available for comment.

Eggen said the report shows that AHS is nothing more than a smokescreen for the government and its health-care decisions.

“This report shows that AHS only exists to shield the government from the problems that Alberta families have all the time in the health-care system,” he said Wednesday.

“Albertans deserve answers about this waste of our money and the gov-

fundraising barbecue for the United Way of Central Alberta today.

The Scott Kia BBQ runs from 1 to 5 p.m. at 6863 Gaetz Ave. The event is free but donations are encouraged to the United Way. For every vehicle sold from July 21 to Aug. 21, the dealership is also donating $100 to the United Way. For more, details check http:// caunitedway.ca/locations/scott-kia.

Blackfalds rallies for games Blackfalds is ready, too.

Town residents are invited to wear their best red in support of Red Deer’s bid for the 2019 Canada Winter Games at the Abbey Centre between 11 a.m. and noon on Friday.

The centre is the potential site for badminton. Red Deer is hosting its rally on Ross Street to showcase community spirit between 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. ernment’s continued unwillingness to take responsibility for health care in this province.”

Court fines food giant Cargill $80,000 for environmental law breach EDMONTON — An Alberta court has fined the company that owns the largest beef processing plant in Canada $80,000 for breaking an environmental law.

A provincial court judge has ruled that Cargill Limited failed to imme-

Trial set over theft charges A trial is set for more than year from now for a man accused of going on a New Year’s Eve and Day crime spree in 2013.

Derek Weninger, 21, of Red Deer will go to trial from Sept. 2 to 11 next year in Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s Bench.

Weninger was charged after police reported a truck in Ponoka and two snowmobiles from Daysland and Bawlf areas were stolen, and a car was stolen and driven to Fort Saskatchewan.

In January 2013, Weninger’s coaccused Cody Friesen, 19, of Sylvan Lake was convicted of three counts of theft of a motor vehicle and sentenced to two months in jail.

Friesen was given credit for 23 days behind bars and had 37 days left to serve.

Weninger is facing numerous theft charges as well as a charge of failing to stop for police. diately report intentionally diluted wastewater samples in 2012 from the company’s High River plant.

According to the agreed statements of facts, an employee tampered with three treatment wastewater samples containing phosphorus before they were sent to an external lab for analysis.

The tampering made the phosphorus content of the samples too low.

Phosphorus can cause harm to aquatic life, but Alberta Environment says there is no evidence that happened in this case.

The employee was confronted by Cargill and has since resigned from the company.

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“Yes. That’s what I have been trying Post pictures that inspire you. Post some to tell you.” new goals that you can start working to“You have got to be kidding me. This wards. Be patient. With good intention the is amazing.” shifts can start to happen. Oh, and enjoy And so it begins. Another one sold. some dairy free vanilla cream cakes … that But even with all the inspiration, knowledge and always helps. Recipe below. tasting, there are of course the millions still grabbing hamburgers for lunch or the cheesy lasagnas from down the street. Cold ice creamy treats for their evening strolls and “gasp” — hot dogs while out 1/4 cup almonds camping.

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Pour filling into pressed crust and refrigerate until solid (a couple of hours). I keep mine in the freezer for a cool ice creamy treat. Top with raspberries.

Kristin Fraser, BSc, is a holistic nutritionist and local freelance writer. Her column appears every second Thursday. She can be reached at kristin@somethingtochewon.ca.

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Long lines of physicians queued up to share their opinions on how end-of-life conditions for ailing Canadians must change as the population ages.

Their input followed an often heart-rending video from a series of town halls the CMA conducted across the country earlier this year that featured elderly and ailing Canadians pleading for better palliative care — or the right to die at a time of their choosing.

Some doctors suggested Canadians wouldn’t clamour for euthanasia or assisted suicide if the quality and availability of palliative care vastly improved in Canada.

“The driver for this discussion is a desperate lack of palliative-care services,” John Haggie, a Newfoundland physician, told the conference.

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Classy as can be or is that C? Seattle, WA – Mount Rainier in Washington State stands 4,392 metres high.

Its majestic presence topped off with an icy garnish, as well as wispy tufts of clouds that surround its peak. It leaves onlookers in awe.

The crystal white hue of Mercedes-Benz C400 seems to have a similar effect on people. They can’t help but stare. Some take photos. Some admire from up close, some from afar.

The C-Class is a staple product in the MercedesBenz lineup and is their most popular-selling vehicle in the family. It’s also one that plays a vital role in the Canadian market, one that usually involves snow!

While the all-new C-Class isn’t covered in snow (just yet), it can certainly handle it with minimal effort. All C-Class sedans come standard with Mercedes’ 4MATIC all-wheel drive system.

Though it’s summertime and that feature isn’t being put to use, there are plenty of other new fun things to play with in this five-person sedan.

First off, five people will fit more comfortably inside. It’s larger in every dimension compared to outgoing C-Class.

Then you’ll be able to bring out that smile more often when it comes to accelerating.

There are two all-new 4- and 6-cylinder turbocharged engines from which to choose.

The C300 features a turbocharged 2.0L, 4-cylinder that produces 241 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque. (Note, this isn’t the same engine currently found in the CLA or GLA.) Then there’s the C400. With 329 horsepower and 354 lb-ft of torque, this new V6 has more torque and better fuel economy in comparison with the outgoing 2014. Both engines are paired with a 7G-TRONIC transmission.

Whether using the steering wheel paddle shifters or just letting the car change the gears on its own, you also have the ability to change your

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My weapon of choice, even for everyday driving, was the Sport mode. It gives the vehicle enough edge to make it fun and exciting, but without the harshness and abrupt gear changes that would be better suited for the track.

In Sport mode, the modified shifts and throttle response was sensitive enough to add immediate power but not overwhelming, especially in an urban setting. Then there was the steering response, whose curve is adjusted to give you a better grasp for the road, but without the

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Regardless, whether I was in the 300 or 400, I was a happy driver. And I had a happy passenger because we both sat in comfort for the hundreds of kilometres we put on this next generation sedan.

Along with its new interior and exterior look, the C Classes are equipped with the next generation of infotainment systems. That comes complete with Touchpad, integrated Media Interface and MB Apps.

The touchpad and I still need more bonding time.

I found it confusing to use at first and I ended up pressing buttons I shouldn’t have! But if that’s the harshest criticism of the vehicle I have, it’s not doing too badly.

Okay, the B pillars are quite wide and intrude on my blind spot visibility, but again, properly

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When it comes to driving, it checks off all the boxes necessary to make it a luxury sedan.

The 2015 It’s quiet. Road Mercedes-Benz and engine noises are kept at bay. Its C-Class, should interior materials continue to impress, are soft touch and remain the toppleasing to the eyes.

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A forest firefighters’ truck of choice Forest fire conditions in British Columbia are at an all-time high and the wood is very dry.

The men and women that fight these fires every year rely on their vehicles to take them to the battlefield. Remote back roads and sometimes the forest floor are the roads on which they must travel.

There is a variety of vehicles in the firefighter fleet but lately they have been using the Ford Super-Duty as the prime support vehicle. The new 2015 version is powerful enough to haul heavy trailers and large enough to double as a mobile office.

The 6.7L Power Stroke Turbo Diesel V8, with higher power ratings for 2015, coupled with a 6R140 heavy duty Torqshift six-speed automatic transmission delivers improved torque, horsepower and fuel economy. The engine pumps out a whopping 860 ft.lb of torque at 1,600 rpm and 440 horsepower at 2,800 rpm.

It has lots of get up and go. Ease your way into the throttle and before you know it, you are at highway speeds. Power and acceleration are smooth and effortless. When properly equipped the Super Duty has a maximum tow rating of 14,152 kg (31,200 lbs) and a total payload of up

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The interior is very functional. The available LCD productivity screen keeps you up to date with vital information, for example fuel economy numbers, towing, off-road information and voice command navigation. A rapid heat supplemental cab heater is available for those cold days that you need interior heat quickly.

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I really liked the There is a variety layout of the gauges and controls of vehicles in the in this vehicle; all firefighter fleet but are easily read and lately they have been accessible. There are 12-volt outlets using the Ford Supereverywhere, two in Duty as the prime the dash, one in the support vehicle. centre console, one in the back of that Ian Harwood console, right beside the newly added 110V/150W power inverter and there’s a supply located in the rear under seat storage bin on the driver’s side.

The front seats I found very comfortable and perfect for a long day at work. The rear seating positions were also very comfortable with lots of legroom.

Noise levels in the cab, or lack thereof was amazing. This is must be the quietest diesel on the planet. It runs as quietly as a gasoline vehicle.

You can easily hold conversations in the cab at any speed with no interference from outside sources. It was also a treat to be able to order from a drive thru window without having to shut the truck off!

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Target regrets rushed openings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — If Target Corp. could re-do its launch into Canada, it would start with just a handful of stores, instead of the more than 100 it opened last year despite their lukewarm reception, the retailer said Wednesday.

However, Target chief financial officer John Mulligan said the retailer is not changing its plan to have 133 stores in Canada by the end of this year and 150 stores by 2017.

“We bit off way too much, too early,” Mulligan said during a conference call with Canadian reporters.

“In retrospect, (we would) probably open five to 10 stores last year — refine the operations, refine the supply chain, the technology, get our store teams trained. But again, that’s all hindsight, we are where are right now and we’re focused on moving forward to fix this for our guests.”

The retailer has been trying this

past year to win back customers following a massive data breach in the U.S. and its botched foray into Canada.

From the start, customers complained about higher prices in Canadian stores compared with U.S. locations, empty shelves and a lack of assortment of products.

Mulligan said the company underestimated the competition already in place in Canada.

“As we’ve said for a long time, even prior to going in there. There are a lot of really good retailers in the Canadian marketplace and they operate extremely well. There’s less per capita than in the U.S. but the operators there are very strong,” he said.

Target said it’s listening to customers about its pitfalls, and has put in place a plan to improve its operations.

“There’s no question about it. We need to put our best foot forward, get our supply chain operating at a high level, ensure we’re priced right everyday in every store and then we bring

the Canadian guest, the assortment they’ve been looking for,” said Mulligan.

One of the biggest problems the retailer continues to have in Canada is with “lumpy inventory,” with some items being overstocked in some stores while others are regularly out of stock.

It has struggled with filling store shelves from its distribution centres in Milton and Cornwall, Ont., as well as Calgary.

The company is also reviewing more than 1,000 items it offers to ensure that prices are comparable with other retailers — something it did not do from the outset.

Target said it’ll also be expanding its product offering in Canada. Of the 70,000 items it carries in its Canadian stores, almost half of them will be new going into the holiday season. It’ll also add more home decor items and men’s and women’s sleepwear and slippers as part of its collaboration with the Roots brand, Beaver Canoe.

Former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel resigned in early May in the wake of the data breach that compromised the credit card and personal information of millions of customers and exposed big security flaws.

Target chief executive Brian Cornell, who took over the job earlier this month, recently returned from visiting Target’s Canadian stores.

“We have to have a sense of urgency here and a sense of pace. And while I want to study the business and certainly listen and learn from our team, no one is happy with our current performance,” he told analysts during a conference call Wednesday.

“And our focus right now is to make sure we’ve got plans in place in the short term to improve traffic.”

The retailer will look for the leadership from Target Canada’s new CEO, Mark Schindele, who took over the Canadian operations in May. Schindele replaced Tony Fisher who was fired from the job.

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BRIEF Fitch affirms Canada’s AAA credit rating, but points to economic headwinds NEW YORK — Fitch Ratings has affirmed Canada’s triple-A credit rating and says the outlook is stable.

The New York-based global ratings agency, in a report issued Tuesday, said its assessment was based, among other factors, on Canada’s political stability and track record of prudent fiscal management.

Meanwhile, it says the country’s gross and net general government debt of 88.9 per cent and 84.4 per cent respectively of GDP for 2013 remains “well above the AAA median.”

Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver, commenting on the report Wednesday, said the rating shows that Canada is “an island of stability in an uncertain global economy.”

“I am pleased that Fitch Ratings confirmed our government’s triple-A credit rating, with a stable outlook,” Oliver said, adding the country’s prudent fiscal management is “underpinned by our commitment to return to balanced budgets next year.”

Fitch said that while Canada’s public debt is forecast to decline and will stay within the tolerance of an ’AAA’ rating under Fitch’s baseline projections, “the high debt burden highlights its more limited fiscal space compared with rating peers.”

However, it adds that “Canada’s track-record of debt reduction in the past and ample domestic financing flexibility are important mitigating factors.”

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Work is well underway with the destruction of the city owned buildings in the former civic yards area of Red Deer. The area now has the name of the Riverlands and will be a mix of commercial, residential and public spaces.

Busy Central Alberta summer winds down As the field outside my window Vancouver Island to western Ontario turns a golden shade, it reminds me that will come. That would be huge for summer’s warm days are the dairy goat industry.” numbered and harvest is on Andersen has found an the horizon. It’s great to see entry into agriculture outthe crop here still standing, side the traditional realm. considering the number of But she’s pumped about hailstorms that have swirled the opportunities she sees about. in goats and is eagerly proMy heart always goes out moting the business. to those central Alberta neighbors who’ve seen their ★ ★ ★ year’s hopes flattened by the ‘big white combine’.

Lacombe singer Gord Because summer is filled Bamford has been in the with such a variety of activispotlight this month with DIANNE ties, I’m going to squeeze in the tremendous success FINSTAD a few this month. of his Charity Golf ClasIt’s always encouraging sic, which raised a record to meet enthusiastic, young $503,000 for his charitable farmers. At Westerner Days, foundation in this, the sevI had the chance to visit enth year, for the event. with Robyn Andersen, a goat Community is as imporproducer from Rimbey. She’s a ‘jump tant to Bamford as family, and that’s in with both feet’ kind of gal, and has why sharing his success has been a prigone from her one rescued goat (thus ority for the country talent, right from her clever name Kid-napped Farms) to the start. raising dairy breeding goats, becoming While his ‘community’ now is all of secretary of the Alberta Goat Breed- Canada, and expanding rapidly into ers, and being part of the Westerner the U.S., he remains very connected to Goat committee. Red Deer’s fair has his roots. the only major goat show in the provNot only does his foundation assist ince now. several charities in Lacombe, Bamford Claiming the ‘personality plus’ fac- himself is a regular at many local rotor of goats got her hooked on the live- deos, fairs and sporting events. stock, she points out both goat milk “Central Alberta always has a soft and goat cheese production are grow- spot in my heart. I grew up here. It’s a ing in the province. That was one of farming community, my Grandpa was the reasons the dairy goat show at the in rodeo, so there was a lot of that inWesterner showed significant growth. fluence,” said Bamford.

“In 2013, we had four farms here, He enjoys living here, and that gives and this year we had eleven, so we him a valuable view which spawns doubled our entries, with three com- songs such as his current release, ing from Saskatchewan,” explained ‘Where a Farm Used To Be’, which laAndersen. ments the problem of urban encroachThat has encouraged the Westerner ment on agricultural land. committee to try and bid for the West “It’s sure happening. From LaNational Goat Show for next year. combe, all the way to Red Deer, in the “Then we would have goats from next ten or fifteen years, it may just

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be lots of houses and industrial areas.

That’s just what happens, but it’s definitely why the song was written.”

Anthems like ‘Farm Girl Strong’ celebrate the rural lifestyle that Bamford sees all around him, and strikes a chord with his growing fan base.

He’s been known to call for neighbor’s combines or visit local work sites for shooting his music videos. He has plenty of help come running, from close to home and around the music industry, when he puts on his charity event.

Using his accomplishments to make a difference in other people’s lives is just one more reason to be proud of Central Alberta’s Gord Bamford. ★

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When you’ve had the privilege of growing up on a farm, it’s hard to imagine life any other way. But that’s an experience very few folks know these days. As the gap has widened between those making a living on the land, and those eating their work from the grocery store, there’s a lot more room for misunderstandings and mistaken assumptions.

Farmers in the province are trying to build bridges by opening up their doors to visitors, through the second Alberta Open Farm Days, happening this weekend August 23-24.

It’s not easy to get an everyday working farm in tip top shape for company, so kudos to those who have signed on to take part in hosting visitors. There are more than twenty farms to choose from right here in central Alberta. It’s a great chance for even producers to visit a different kind of operation. But it’s a first class educational opportunity for non-farm families to get a one-day feel for all farm life has to offer. Maps and farm descriptions are on the website www.albertafarm-

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The Agriculture and Food Council of Alberta is evolving from being a third party funder to becoming a real catalyst for growth in the agri-food industry. A chance to see this role in action comes at the brand new Summit Up! event in Olds next month.

Executive Director Bryanna Kumpula says while the twenty years of the Council’s past will be noted, this event is more about helping participants with real world challenges meet people who can help them advance their businesses. Rather than just hearing stories about how others have dealt with hurdles, Kumpula says the sessions are more hands-on workshops.

They’re also featuring some of the organizations they’ve helped fund in the past. Because Summit Up! is being held in Olds, there will be working tours of entities like the Meat Research Centre, the Centre for Innovation and the new brewery at the Olds College.

As well, one Learning Lab includes an on-farm tour of Innisfail Growers.

Sustainability is a major theme, and Kumpula points to another stream that will work with Ag Societies and other non-profits to see how they can go from being just a facility for rent, to explore other opportunities, so they can operate more like a business.

As a learning institute, the Council wants to provide a valuable session to a broad rural audience, to encourage profitability and economic growth.

Summit Up! runs September 24th and 25th at the Pomeroy Inn & Suites in Olds.

Dianne Finstad is a veteran broadcaster and reporter who has covered agricultural news in Central Alberta for more than 30 years. From the Field appears monthly in the Advocate.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 102.27 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.36 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.61 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.15 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.79 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.60 Cdn. National Railway . . 76.24 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 219.84 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.43 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.78 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.20 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.30 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 55.25 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 32.99 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.59 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.53 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.23 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.74 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 56.15 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 71.49 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.68 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.87 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 57.00 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 111.83 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.96 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.90 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.75 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Wednesday as traders got some reassurance about interest rates from the minutes of the latest meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

The S&P/TSX composite index rose 84.78 points to 15,561.95. The Canadian dollar was down 0.23 a cent at 91.15 cents US as the greenback strengthened after the release of the minutes.

Most U.S. markets finished higher as the minutes indicated that the U.S. central bank is in no rush to hike rates. However, they also showed greater dissension among Fed members on how fast the labour market is improving, a key element in determining when it will raise rates from near zero, where they’ve been since the financial crisis.

The Dow Jones industrials gained 59.54 points to 16,979.13, the Nasdaq declined 1.03 points to 4,526.48 and the S&P 500 index climbed 4.91 points at 1,986.51.

The Fed has emphasized that economic data, not the calendar, will determine when it hikes rates, generally expected around the middle of 2015.

Slack in the labour market has been a particular concern, a topic that Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen is expected to address in her speech to the central bank’s economic symposium at the end of the week.

“We’re looking to confirm the Fed’s accommodative stance and give us a bit of insight on how they think about the slack in the labour market,” said Patrick Blais, managing director and portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.

While U.S. job growth has been coming in at around 200,000 monthly, the participation rate has drifted down to a percentage in the lows 60s.

“And, in the back of their mind, they want to play safe and make sure the U.S. is on a real sustainable footing before giving any indication that they’re going to retreat from their easy monetary policy stance,” Blais said.

Traders also digested a mixed bag of data from the retail sector.

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.70 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.10 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 66.99 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.96 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 29.47 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.54 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.55 First Quantum Minerals . 25.02 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 31.14 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.36 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.45 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.50 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.81 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.14 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.50 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 31.49 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.04 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 69.26 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.44 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 63.99 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 46.16 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 22.95 Canyon Services Group. 15.70 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.80 CWC Well Services . . . 0.9200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 23.99 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.67 Sears Canada Inc. (TSX:SCC) reported a quarterly net loss of $21.3 million, or 21 cents per share, compared with a profit of $152.8 million, or $1.50, a year ago. Same-store sales dropped 6.8 per cent, which the company attributed partly to an unseasonably cool spring. Its shares shed 12 cents to $15.95.

U.S. retailer Target, which is in the midst of a costly expansion into Canada, posted adjusted earnings of 78 cents a share, a penny less than expected. Revenue came in at US$17.41 billion, higher than the US$17.38 billion that analysts expected. Its shares erased early losses to advance $1.09 to US$60.34 as Target also cut its 2014 earnings forecast to between US$3.10 and US$3.30 a share, versus the previous forecast of US$3.49.

Quarterly net income at home improvement retailer Lowe’s increased 10 per cent to US$1.04 billion, or $1.04 per share, bolstered by improving weather.

The performance beat analysts’ expectations, but the company lowered its full-year revenue outlook slightly. Its shares were up 80 cents at US$52.32.

The metals and mining sector led advancers, up two per cent as September copper shot up nine cents to US$3.18 a pound.

Some analysts attributed the jump to signs of a rebound in the U.S. housing sector, including strong data on housing starts and solid improvement in a prominent builders’ confidence survey.

The energy gained 0.7 per cent with the September crude contract — which expires Wednesday — surging $1.59 to US$96.07 a barrel.

The October contract climbed 59 cents to US$93.45. Prices shot up as data showed a drop in U.S. supplies of about 4.5 million barrels last week, about three times the amount that had been expected.

The gold sector edged up about 0.15 per cent as December bullion dipped $1.50 to US$1,295.20 an ounce.

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

Stocks:

RBC forecasts Canadian housing market will cool in 2015 if interest rates rise TORONTO — RBC Economics says higher interest rates will put a strain on the Canadian housing market in 2015 and “substantially” moderate prices increases.

In its latest Canadian housing forecast, the bank (TSX:RY) says Canada’s current historically low interest rates are not “sustainable” and it forecasts longer-term interest rates will rise by

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 99.70 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 68.78 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.41 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.91 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 56.21 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.74 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.09 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.100 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.20 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 43.66 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.47 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.47 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.63 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 70.47 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 81.53 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 73.49 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.15 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 42.45 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.38 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.89 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.17 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 74.47 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.93 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 49.50 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 81.60 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.86 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.55 S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,561.95, up 84.78 points Dow — 16,979.13, up 59.54 points S&P 500 — 1,986.51, up 4.91 points Nasdaq — 4,526.48, down 1.03 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.15 cents US, down 0.23 of a cent Pound — C$1.8203, up 0.17 of a cent Euro — C$1.4548, down 0.30 of a cent Euro — US$1.3260, down 0.62 of a cent Oil futures: US$96.07 per barrel, up $1.59 (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,295.20 per oz., down $1.50 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.189 oz., up 18.6 cents $713.38 kg., up $5.98 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $2.70 lower $424.20; Jan ’15 $2.10 lower $429.30; March ’15 $0.40 lower $433.90; May ’15 $0.70 higher $433.20; July ’15 $2.50 higher $431.80; Nov ’15 $4.40 higher $431.00; Jan. ’16 $4.40 higher $436.90; March ’16 $4.40 higher $440.70; May ’16 $4.40 higher $440.70; July ’16 $4.40 higher $440.70; Nov. ’16 $4.40 higher $440.70.

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.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 178,960 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 178,960.

the end of the year in anticipation of a return to tightening mode by the Bank of Canada in 2015. RBC says if current rates rise, it anticipates home resales to fall by 0.9 per cent to 463,100 units next year following an increase of 2.1 per cent to 467,200 units in 2014, while it sees home prices increasing just 1.1 per cent in 2015, compared with a jump of 4.3 per cent this year.

RBC describes those developments as a cooling not a crash in the housing market, which is supported by a variety of other factors, including steady immigration rates and good employment outlook.

McCain Foods sells North American frozen pizza business to Dr. Oetker McCain will keep its pizza pockets business in Canada as well as its pizza businesses outside of North America.

The deal gives Dr. Oetker a signifiTORONTO — McCain Foods said Wednesday it has signed a deal to sell cant boost in North America.

“The McCain busiits North American ness is a perfect fit for frozen pizza business ‘WE BELIEVE THE us and furthers our strato Dr. Oetker GmbH. tegic goal of establishFinancial terms of TRANSACTION ing ourselves as leader the deal were not imIS GOOD FOR in the Canadian frozen mediately available.

OUR EMPLOYEES, pizza market and thereThe deal covers the with strengthening our Ellio’s brand in the GOOD FOR OUR position in this marU.S. and a two-year CUSTOMERS ket as well as expandlicence for the use of ing our position in the the McCain brand in AND GOOD FOR northeast of the U.S.,” Canada.

MCCAIN.’ said Richard Oetker, The company said chairman of the execupizza represents a — DIRK VAN DE PUT tive board of Dr. Oetker. small portion of its MCCAIN FOODS CEO “Adding two new North American busiproduction locations ness and the move will to the pizza factory that was opened allow it to focus on other areas.

The sale includes its operations in in London, Ont., in May 2014, means Grand Falls, N.B., and Lodi, N.J. The we are ideally positioned to meet the company said McCain employees at growing demand for Dr. Oetker pizzas both locations will be offered employ- in Canada and the United States.”

The deal is subject to regulatory apment with Dr. Oetker.

“McCain is committed to its employ- proval in Canada Earlier this month, McCain Foods ees, and Dr. Oetker’s commitment to their continued employment was an announced it would close a French fry important factor in the decision,” Mc- plant on Prince Edward Island at the Cain Foods president and chief ex- end of October, a move that will cost ecutive Dirk Van de Put said in a state- 121 jobs. The company said at the time that there has been a shift in demand ment.

“We believe the transaction is good for its French fries from North Amerfor our employees, good for our cus- ica to other parts of the world, which was a factor in its decision. tomers and good for McCain.”

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Loonie lower, greenback strengthens

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed lower Wednesday as the release of the minutes of the latest meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve showed a sharpening debate within the central bank about when to hike rates.

The loonie was down 0.23 of a cent at 91.15 cents US as the Fed also continued to indicate that the central bank is in no rush to raise rates from close to zero, where they have been since the financial crisis.

The minutes showed that some officials thought the Fed would need to call for “a relatively prompt move” to reduce the stimulus it has supplied since the financial crisis erupted in 2008. Otherwise, these officials felt the Fed risked overshooting its targets for unemployment and inflation.

Those who think the Fed should withdraw its support only slowly cited persistent drags on the job market despite solid hiring and a steady drop in the unemployment rate.

The Fed has emphasized that economic data, not the calendar, will determine when it hikes rates, generally expected around the middle of 2015.

Slack in the labour market has been a particular concern, a topic that Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen is expected to address in her speech to the central bank’s economic symposium at the end of the week.

While U.S. job growth has been coming in at around 200,000 monthly, the participation rate has drifted down to a percentage in the lows 60s.

The loonie had traded higher in the morning after Statistics Canada reported that wholesale sales rose 0.6 per cent to $53 billion in June, a third consecutive increase.

The agency said that sales in the vehicle sector declined 2.4 per cent to $9.1 billion. But this was offset by gains in five subsectors, led by a 3.1 per cent rise in the miscellaneous subsector, which includes agricultural supplies, wholesalers of logs and wood chips, minerals, ores and precious metals, and second-hand goods Prices were mixed on commodity markets with the September crude contract — which expires Wednesday — was up $1.59 to US$96.07 a barrel.

The October contract climbed 59 cents to US$93.45. Prices rose as data showed a drop in U.S. supplies of about 4.5 million barrels last week, about three times the amount that had been expected.

September copper shot up nine cents to US$3.18 a pound. Some analysts attributed the jump to strong signs of a rebound in the U.S. housing sector, including strong data on housing starts and a jump in a prominent builders confidence survey.

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Lessons learned from summer garden tours Gardens are all as unique as their creators.

There isn’t a correct type of garden or way to garden.

What works for one garden or gardener might not work for another. This is very evident when one tours a number of gardens on the same day.

Gardens may contain the same plants but they will still be different. Placement of plants, the size of the yard, the materials used to construct the yard, the amount of direct sunlight, soil and mainteLINDA nance are all components that TOMLINSON make up the complete yard.

When walking through a yard, keep an open mind and learn. Take into account why was the yard created, knowing that a garden is rarely created for only one purpose.

Some gardens are created for the sake of gardening. These people enjoy gardening. They like the physical exercise as well as the creative outlet. The garden is their masterpiece, which will never be complete.

In yards where the main focus is consumption, fruit, vegetables and herbs are front and centre. Decorative plants are secondary. This doesn’t mean that the garden is without charm. Fruit and vegetables, depending on their arrangement, can be very appealing.

People who like to share their garden with others will most likely have a number of sitting areas: places to sit and relax that invite people to enjoy them and the yard at their best.

Other gardens are developed to leave a very small environmental footprint. In these gardens, nature is welcomed. Introduced plants are intermingled with the native ones. Animals, birds and insects are

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STRESS: Relaxation Step No. 3: Practice profound relaxation. Find a quiet place to meditate at least once a day.

Just 25 minutes of easy mindfulness is all it takes to tame tension, says a new report from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. Sit comfortably or lie down; close your eyes and gently breathe in and out.

Focus on your inhalations and exhalations. When your mind wanders (it does for everyone), refocus on your breath. Start by practicing this technique for three days in a row.

In the study, that was enough to keep levels of cortisol lower even when you encounter stressors later.

Step No. 4: Go for a stress- and waist-reducing diet.

Instead of reaching for a food felon (any sugary, fatty food) when you feel tense, pull out fresh veggies — just like Dr. Mike does. Chop them into medium-size, equal pieces, toss with a little olive oil mixed with seasonings (we recommend garlic, oregano and rosemary, but any spices you love would work). Spread on a lightly oiled cookie sheet or in a roasting pan; then roast in a 275-degree oven for 45 minutes. Flip the veggies over halfway through cooking. Dr. Mike’s favourite: Fresh asparagus. Great idea: Exercise, meditate or both while your favorite veggies are cooking.

Step No. 5: Tackle your NUTs — that’s Nagging Unfinished Tasks! Don’t underestimate how NUTS they can make you. A month’s worth of unfiled paperwork; the lawn that’s gone to weeds; the thankyou notes unwritten — as they pile up, chronic stress rises and rises.

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enjoyed when they wonder through the garden. The damage they do is usually minimal as they are used to munching on the native plants that are in large supply.

Making observations, talking with gardeners, asking questions and comparing different methods add to everyone’s knowledge.

Lessons learned from gardens toured this season: ● Vector petunias have a smaller flower than some of the other varieties of petunias but they grow with little care, produce more flowers while creating a mass of color. ● Homesteader (Lincoln) peas are sweeter than the variety Green Arrow. On the down side Homesteader peas become starchy when they are still relatively small. Green Arrow peas will grow to a large size and only taste starchy when the pod begins to shrivel and wrinkle. ● Purple carrots add colour to the table but they do not grow as fast as the orange or yellow varieties.

Nante carrots continue to be one of the best varieties that are grown in Central Alberta. ● To most people, red raspberries are the norm but they are available in yellow and black. If yellow raspberries are picked when they have an orange tinge, they are sweeter than the red. Unfortunately they are not as appealing to eat frozen or as jelly. ● It is possible to have too large of a garden, vegetable or decorative. If a gardener continually produces more food than they can eat in a year, give to friends, family and neighbours, or sell, it is time to plant less. ● Given the correct conditions, Scottish moss will thrive in Central Alberta. It is a low perennial, not a moss, and needs an area that receives some direct sunlight as well as well drained soil.

Gardening is always a learning experience.

If you wish to share what is learned, please email me.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at www.igardencanada.com or your_garden@hotmail.com.

CARE: Palliative care Haggie responded with an “unequivocal no” to a question posed by the CMA to its members on whether their patients have access to adequate palliative care. Another urged family physicians to start taking on palliative care, saying it shouldn’t be handed off to specialists as their longtime patients age and face frightening, life-threatening illnesses.

“Palliative care has become a specialized service in most areas of the country and we must, as family physicians, take palliative care back into our practices,” Suzanne Strasberg, a Toronto family doctor, said to applause.

“It’s time to start talking about palliative care as part of the regular job as a family doctor ... our job is to relieve pain and to relieve suffering.”

But another doctor pointed out that as many as 20 per cent of Canadians don’t have family doctors, and so palliative specialists are often necessary.

Still another suggested family pets and farm animals that are dying are often treated in a more humane and dignified manner than their human owners at the end of life.

The first-hand experiences of physicians from coast to coast vividly illuminated a paucity of available palliative care, a simmering health-care crisis in Canada as the baby boomer generation enters old age. The association’s members had come together on Tuesday to debate whether to revise the current CMA policy on euthanasia and assisted death.

Vertical garden just the ticket when space is minimal

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — With area in large Canadian cities at a premium, urban dwellers are using vertical space to increase the size of their gardens.

A large vegetable garden may seem impossible for anyone living in a condo, but practitioners of vertical gardening, like Judy Kenzie, see endless possibilities, even with a tiny balcony, deck or yard.

“I started looking into vertical gardening because I needed more space. I live in the city, and I started looking at my backyard, and it is about (6.7 metres) by (7.6 metres),” says Kenzie, owner of Strathcona 1890 Urban Seed Collections.

“It is fully planted with all sorts of beautiful trees and other plants, and then I have a deck that was barren. I thought, if I am going to grow edibles, I need to be growing on my deck because my beds were already full.”

Kenzie began by creating 17 different kinds of hanging baskets with edibles, and used her deck as a place to experiment with various issues that have the potential to impact city dwellers.

Kenzie has now created other vertical garden applications that include structures that look like shelving for plants, and she also regularly uses trellises to maximize vertical space.

While there are products that help people create vertical gardens, Jake Harding, co-founder of Skyline Farms in Toronto, and his business partner Gustavo Macias often repurpose materials destined for landfill for use in vertical gardening.

“Vertical gardening is ideal for people who live in condos,” says Harding.

“They have even less space than your average person. It just is really the only thing that makes sense for condos and apartments.”

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Beautiful barn swallows Although one of the most familiar and rough beams, provide ideal sites and widespread bird species on the for the birds to raise their one or two planet (absent only from Antarctica), broods a year. barn swallows face an uncertain fuWe are also pleased to see them ture. These graceful and acrobatic nesting on the Wetland Centre as well swallows, like all aerial inas under the verandah of sectivores, are declining in the new Visitor Centre. At number. In 2011, COSEWIC this time of year, we have (Committee on the Status webcams trained on barn of Endangered Wildlife in swallow nests because they Canada) declared them to are still busy raising young be a threatened species. well after most other birds Barn swallows have a have fledged and/or departlong, interesting and complied on migration (www.elliscated history with humans. birdfarm.ca).

Prior to European settleAlthough barn swalment, they were restricted to lows have a habit of choosnesting in caves and on cliff ing inconvenient places to faces and other natural nestnest, I hope that landowning sites. Settlers’ houses, ers will learn to welcome barns and bridges offered their presence. They can be MYRNA new nesting opportunities encouraged to nest in acPEARMAN while extensive land clearceptable locations simply ing created additional habiby placing a couple of nails tat for foraging. So successor a small wooden triangle ful was their transition from a few centimetres under an natural to artificial nesting sites that eave or other overhang. If they nest in their numbers and range increased a location where their mess is an issue, significantly. Today, they are seldom a piece of thin plywood or cardboard seen nesting far from human habita- placed under the nest will intercept tion; even remote outposts and cabins all droppings. often support at least one or two nestThese bug hunters provide signifiing pairs. cant ecosystem services, far outweighScientists first noticed population ing any inconvenience they might declines in the mid-1980s. Although cause. If our great grandchildren are there’s been a reduction in some ar- to be awed by the grace and beauty tificial nesting structures (e.g., open of these winged acrobats, we need to barns) and mono-crop agriculture has put out the welcome mat (triangle) for decreased the acreage of foraging hab- them! itat, their dwindling numbers are puzNote: Ellis Bird Farm closes for the zling. What scientists agree on is that season on Monday, Sept. 1. We have enthe magnitude and geographic extent joyed a record-breaking season. If you of declines are cause for conservation didn’t make it out this season, be sure concern. to plan a visit next summer.

We are happy to host a healthy Myrna Pearman is the biologist/site population of barn swallows at Ellis services manager at Ellis Bird Farm. She Bird Farm. The old grain elevator and can be reached at mpearman@ellisbirdcalving barn, with their open windows farm.ca.

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C10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014

Elk becoming a problem As usual, the 2014 Alberta Guide to Hunting Regulations has appeared just as we are finally getting settled into fishing and other summery diversions.

But, had you thought about it at all, you could have predicted that the 2014 guide would be all about elk, even without the cover picture of a great bugling bull.

Early this year, a Brooks Bulletin story headlined War on elk just starting, say officials, producers described the farming/ ranching crisis BOB caused by CaSCAMMELL nadian Forces Base Suffield in southeastern Alberta, having introduced 220 surplus elk from Elk Island National Park in 1997.

In little more than 15 years, on prime prairie grassland, with virtually no predators, those 220 elk have multiplied to more than 5,000 head that are increasing by 20 per cent annually, and are now escaping to the surrounding country and causing major damage to the sanity, fences, grass, crops and bale yards of area ranchers.

Limited hunting seasons, mainly for cow elk, have not alleviated the problem, resulting in considerable federalprovincial dithering over what to do about a totally out-of-control herd of far too many elk, flying around counting evermore elk while military and Alberta Environment-Sustainable Resource people belatedly plotted a plan.

The decision obviously was that the province would open the area for much more elk hunting than in the recent past, so, for the coming season, as the guide states in its “Important Changes for 2014� section: “Additional Antlerless Elk Special Licence hunting seasons in Wildlife Management Unit 732(CFB Suffield) have been created;� “Additional Antlerless and Antlered Elk Special Licence hunting seasons have been created for WMUs 124, 144, 148 and 150� (the whole area surrounding WMU 732).

Many of these seasons run from Sept. 1 to the end of January 2015. Obviously, wildlife managers are hoping that hunters, by filling their freezers, will achieve a substantial herd reduction, thus making more radical measures, like helicopter culls, unnecessary.

Several years ago, I predicted we would soon be seeing true trophy bull

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Gilham took the bull the way he takes all of his superb big game trophies: by being a tenacious, patient, even stubborn, quadriplegic hunter. I may have to reconsider my decision to quit hunting, now that I have a scooter to give me some of my former shank’s mare range back.

Before I became a handicapped person and was able to walk the woods following my Brittanys from can see to can’t, I’d start hunting season on Sept.

1, chasing ruffed grouse for six weeks until the pheasant season opened, generally around mid-October.

Our last Brittany, Beau, has been gone a year now, and hunting birds without him wouldn’t be the same, but an article in the 2014 guide, “Grouse Logic 101� by old friend Neil Waugh, inspires thoughts of how I might go grouse hunting by quietly cruising boreal aspen parkland trails on my scooter, looking for ruffed grouse gorging on clover.

In this country, you never know what kind of a grouse season it’ll be, bonanza or bust, until you get into the woods.

But in recent years it seems to me that the highs and lows of ruffed grouse cycles have not been as severe as they traditionally have been in western North America.

The ruffed grouse is probably our most studied upland game bird. Various aspects of its appearance and behaviour have always fascinated me, starting with the tail. You can tell the sex of a ruffed grouse from the black band on the rim of the tail: if it is continuous, the bird is a male; a female if the band is interrupted by two centre feathers. In these latitudes, we have grey and red phase ruffed grouse, most noticeable in the tails.

I have always marched to the drumming of ruffed grouse in the spring, but totally failed to photograph the procedure because of low light when it generally takes place. Some ruffed grouse will also drum in the fall when the light intensity and photo period mimic the spring and fools the male’s vital organs into thinking it is breeding season again.

I shot my last ruffed grouse with a camera around mid-September years ago when I was hunting them with a shotgun and fall mushrooms with a big paper bag. Suddenly, for the first time ever, I was attacked by a greyphase male ruffed grouse in full spring

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ABOVE: Frank Gilham in wheelchair with trophy elk.

BELOW: Grey phase ruffed grouse mating display in the early fall.

mating display. We went along in lockstep, with him occasionally feinting to charge me.

When I ran out of film, I left him to it. Delicious as they are, it would have been churlish to shoot him with

a shotgun after such a performance; besides, I doubt he was in any mood to be flushed.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

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PROFLO PRODUCTION SEPARATORS is currently seeking an individual for a SEMI F/T SHOP FOREMAN. He must have a valid driver’s licence & be able to drive a standard in a 1 ton truck. He must be mechanically inclined & have oilfield exp. Duties would include washing & maintaining separators, flare stacks, office trailers, shop & yard. Candidate must have first aid &, H2S. Hours are flexible but 9 - 4 would be the standard.

Please drop off your resume at 8006 Edgar Industrial Ave. with current drivers’ licence abstract & a copy of safety tickets.

Snubco Pressure Control Ltd. 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

Please fax or email your resume to: Fax # 403 887-4750 JJudson@1strateenergy.ca TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive wages and benefits. admin@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

TREELINE WELL SERVICES Has Opening for all BARDEN Oilfield Hauling positions! Immediately.

Ltd. is now hiring Bed Truck, All applicants must have Winch Tractor and Picker current H2S, Class 5 with Operators, as well as Swampers. Experience a must. Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive Fax resumes to wages & excellent benefits.

403-341-3968 or email Please include 2 work bardentrucking@telus.net. reference names and No phone calls please. numbers.

CUSTOMER Sales Support Please fax resume to: Experience in customer 403-264-6725 service, shipping/receiving Or email to: (forklift certification), tannis@treelinewell.com inventory. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, No phone calls please.

On call rotation required. www.treelinewell.com E-mail resume to: Tired of Standing? steed@coorstek.com.

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Deer Park

119 DAVISON DR. Aug. 23, 8:30 - 1 SATURDAY ONLY Lots of DVD’s, books, electronics, Coke memorabilia.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Fairview - Upper

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS

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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DAY & NIGHT SUPERVISORS 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:

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BASKIER Ken Ken Baskier, much loved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and brother, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at the age of 81 years. He leaves behind his wife of 55 years, Betty; his sons, Terry (Donna) and Greg (Tammy); his daughter Wendy (Jeff); six much loved grandchildren, Jason and Michelle Baskier, Rachel, Nicole and Brian Baskier, and Jodie (Ryan) Genest; also great-grandsons, Randall and Carter Genest; his brother Don (Illona) and their family; as well as many extended family and close friends. Ken lived life to the fullest working in farming, road construction, and for over 45 years in the Oil & Gas Industry in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

In later years, he enjoyed small engine repair and working in his yard. Words can’t express how greatly he will be missed and how much he was loved but we are thankful he is now at peace.

A Memorial Service will be held at Sunnybrook United Church, 12 Stanton Street, Red Deer, on Monday, August 25, 2014 at 11 a.m.

Memorial donations in Ken’s honour may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society, 200, 325 Manning Road NE, Calgary, AB, T2E 2P5 or to Epilepsy Canada, 2255B Queen St. E, Suite 336, Toronto, ON, M4E 1G3.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by v i s i t i n g www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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28 FERN ROAD Alley Entrance ONLY -Dog Aug. 21, 22, 23 Thurs. & Fri. 1-7, Sat. 9-4 Gigantic Sale, Xbox 360 games, wedding supplies, tools, many asst’d pieces.

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62 FLAGSTAFF CLOSE AUG. 21 & AUG. 22, 2-7 Multi family

Highland Green

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8 HILL CRES - Aug 21 & 16 McKEE CLOSE 22 -2 - 8 pm, Aug 23 - 9 - 3 ESTATE SALE pm. Housewares, home Aug. 22 & 23 decor, tables, book case.

Fri. 12-6 & Sat. 10-4 cabinet, blinds, books, Household items & large clothing, duvet, shower asst. of tools. curtains, furniture cover- See Kijiji Ad # 1012744659 ings, afghans and more.

Normandeau Lancaster Meadows 38 LORD CLOSE Aug. 21, 22 & 23 Thurs. 5 - 8 Fri. 11-8, Sat. 10-5 X-mas decor, baby & childs items, furniture, generator, misc.....

Michener Hill

72 NOBLE AVE. Aug. 22-24 Fri. 6-8, Sat. & Sun. 9-7 MULTI-FAMILY Garage/ Yard sale. Furn., antiques, collectible’s, misc.

83 NYMAN CRES AUG. 21, 22, 23, 24 Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun. 10 - 6.

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4118 50A ST. (Back Alley) Aug. 21, 22 & 23 Thurs. 3-7, Fri. & Sat. 9:30 - 3 Multi Family Office chairs, new canopy, antique oval mirror, microwave stand, dishes, books, toys, garden gate fence.

Pines

MULTI FAMILY SALE in Michener Villas right next to Extendicare Bldg. on Michener Blvd.

Saturday, Aug. 23, 9 to 5.

Tools, furniture and household items galore.

Rosedale

15 PEARSON CRES. (back alley) 9 am - 3 pm Sat. Aug. 23rd.

Children’s clothing, household items, books, electronic items, furniture

50 RUTHERFORD DRIVE Thurs 21st 4-7, Fri 22nd, 4-8, & Sat. 23rd 3-7. Crib, Hide-A-Bed, girls clothing, misc. household items, etc.

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

NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR

Experienced Swampers with tickets. May consider qualified apprentice or suitable candidate.

For Red Deer area.

Fax resume & abstract to 403-885-0473 email: info@trysonenergy.com No phone calls please.

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

Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is now hiring for: - Technologist (Party Chief) - Technician (Rodman) In the Red Deer and surrounding area Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program. We are a Construction/Land survey company based in Airdrie.

Please send resume to: FAX: (403) 948-4924 or email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca SENIOR ACCOUNTANT Established CGA firm in Stettler has a great opportunity for an accountant with public practice experience to join our firm. Please email resume to TandP_cga@ telus.net or fax 403 742-2599.

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014

JJAM Management (1987) BOULEVARD Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Restaurant & Lounge Requires to work at these Gasoline Alley, 37471 Hwy 2S,

Red Deer County is seeking

Cook ~ $14.00/hr.

To prepare & cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen & maintain hygiene, follow recipes, assist in receiving & storing

Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr.

To clean kitchen following safety & hygiene standards.

Clean utensils, cutlery, crockery & glassware items, floors, assist in prep.

All positions are permanent Full-time/Part-time, shift work & weekends.

Education: Above Secondary Work Experience not essential, training provided.

Fax resume to 780-702-5051

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER 2803-50 Avenue,

Red Deer is seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK ~ $14.00/hr.

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Answer phone calls, take reservations.

Check in/out guests.

Balance cash out & attend to guest needs

HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT ~14.00/hr.

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Clean & vacuum rooms, public areas, pool etc.

Replenish amenities, linens & towels.

• Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards.

All positions are permanent Full-time/Part-time, shift work & weekends.

Education: Above Secondary Work Experience not essential, training provided.

Fax resume to 780-702-5051 •

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Experienced Dozer & Hoe Operators.

Send resumes by Fax: 403-347-6296 or email: aron@bricar.ca

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1693338 Alberta LTD o/a ACADEMIC Express Predire. Hiring ADULT EDUCATION Salespersons at Parkland AND TRAINING has an immediate opening Red Deer, AB locations: Mall, 4747-67th St, Red for an individual with strong 5111 22 St. Deer, AB T4N6H3 parts & estimating skills.

FALL START 37444 HWY 2 S F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Duties will include estimates, 37543 HWY 2N Weekends. Salary - $14.00 labor times, and inventory CRYSTAL GLASS 700 3020 22 St. Support control as well as working hourly. Skills requirements: • Community needs EXP’ D GLASS Manager/Food Services good English, customer Worker Program with technicians.

Strong WORKER. Drop off rePermanent P/T, F/T shift. service oriented. sume at: 4706-51 Avenue computer knowledge & the Education: Some high school • GED Preparation Wknd, day, night & eves. or fax 346-5390 or email: ability to work with Automotive Start date ASAP. $18/hr. 40 No experience requirebranch208@crystalglass.ca software is a huge asset. hrs/week, + benefits , ment, training will be Would you like to take the Please email resume to 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., provided by employer.

GED in your community? jeff@wrenchmasters.ca DUE TO A LARGE criminal record check req’d.

Main duties: INCREASE IN BUSINESS, Classifieds...costs so little 1.Greet every customer in our store. • Red Deer Req’d education some secPIKE WHEATON ondary. Apply in person or 2. Explain to customers how • Rocky Mtn. House Saves you so much! to use and care of our products. • Rimbey fax resume to: CHEVROLET 3. Operation of the cash 403-314-1303 For full job • Caroline is currently seeking Truckers/ register, accepting paydescription visit www.

• Castor SERVICE ADVISORS. ment in cash, cheque, timhortons.com • Sylvan Lake Drivers We offer competitive credit card and debit.

• Innisfail wages, a great working RAMADA INN & 4.

Opening up the store in • Stettler environment, and a great CATTLE HAULERS SUITES the morning time and • Ponoka benefit package.

Wanted for local Alberta req’s Permanent closing it at night.

• Lacombe Please email resume to position. Full Time.

ROOM ATTENDANTS 5. Keep sales reports for Joey Huckabone Must have clean Class 1 Attendants. Exp. not nec. inventory control.

Gov’t of Alberta Funding joey@pikewheatonchev.ca and live close to Lacombe. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 6. Respect the laws and may be available.

Cattle exp. required. hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 regulations of Parkland Mall.

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS Call 403-782-4804 or fax $14/hr. Duties incl’d but - Good hours, home every resume to: 403-782-4814. Company’s business address: 403-340-1930 not limited to: vacuuming, 17195 75 Ave NW, night, $4000-$6000/mo. www.academicexpress.ca dusting, washing floors, Edmonton AB T5T2R3 Contractor must have truck CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d making beds, empty trash, E-mail: Reachiesales or van. Tools, supplies & for moving equipment.

Counter Salesperson disinfecting & cleaning @gmail.com ladders required. Training Resumes to be dropped off A local company requires bathrooms. Performance provided, no experience at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. DAIRY equipment supplier an enthusiastic person for based bonus program. needed. Apply to: Cres. Red Deer. counter sales. looking for Must be fluent with verbal satjobs@shaw.ca Email resume to CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d GENERAL LABORERS l& written English, be mark@aesreddeer.com for moving equipment.

For pour parts & service dept. physically fit. Applicants GOODMEN Resumes to be dropped off Competitive wages and may apply in person at ROOFING LTD. Start your career! at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. benefits package. E-mail 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Requires See Help Wanted Cres. Red Deer. resume: info@prolineinc.ca T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: CLASS 3 DRIVERS SLOPED ROOFERS info@ramadareddeer.com w/airbrake endorsement LABOURERS Advocate needed immed. for waste & Opportunities & FLAT ROOFERS SAROS recycling.

Email resume Req’s Exp. P/T waitress with a min. of 2 references Valid Driver’s Licence for days & evenings. to: canpak@xplornet.ca preferred. Fax or email Must have Pro Serve info@goodmenroofi ng.ca ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED Please apply in person: DRIVERS for furniture or (403)341-6722 w/resume to 4914-52 St. For morning delivery of the NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & ADVOCATE THE RUSTY PELICAN is long distance. Competitive now accepting resumes for Shipper/Receiver Delivery by 6:30 a.m. wages.

Apply in person.

F/T DISHWASHER A local company requires 6 days/week in: 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Apply within: 2079-50 an energetic person for Red Deer. 403-347-8841 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. shipper/receiver.

Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Email resume to Fluid Experts Ltd. GLENDALE calls WILL NOT be accepted. mark@aesreddeer.com Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

WRENCHMASTERS AUTOPRO

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In Sylvan Lake, AB is seeking qualified

HOLIDAY INN Red Deer South,

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for an EXPERIENCED LINE COOK Red Deer County MUST HAVE is seeking REFERENCES. FRONT DESK CLERK Apply within: 2079-50 ~ $14.00/hr.

Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. • Answer phone calls, Fax 403-347-1161 Phone take reservations. calls WILL NOT be accepted.

• Check in/out guests.

• Balance cash out & Sales & attend to guest needs.

Gasoline Alley, 37471 Hwy 2S,

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HOUSEKEEPING Distributors ROOM ATTENDANT Marlin Travel Rocky ~ $14.00/hr.

Clean & Vacuum rooms, Mountain House requires a part time Junior to public areas, pool, etc.

Intermediate Travel • Replenish amenities, Consultant.

Minimum 1 linens & towels.

• Adhere to Holiday Inn year experience. Please email resume to: bonnie. safety standards All positions are permanent yeoman@marlintravel.ca. or fax to 403 844-2742.

Full-time/Part-time, shift work & weekends.

Education: Above Secondary Teachers/ Work Experience not essential, training provided. Tutors Fax resume to 780-702-5051 PRESCHOOL TEACHING POSITION! Kids in JJAM Management (1987) Harmony Red Deer is Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s interviewing a Certified Requires to work at these ECE (level 1,2 or 3). 17.5 Red Deer, AB locations: hours a week.

5111 22 St. KIHpreschool@gmail.com.

37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Trades Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

BJT PLUMBING, 16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + a well established Sylvan benefits. Start ASAP. Lake company has an Job description immediate opening for a www.timhortons.com 4th Yr Apprentice Plumber Education and experience or Journeyperson Plumber. not req’d.

Fax resume to Apply in person or fax 403-887-3180 or call resume to: 403-314-1303 403-887-3287 for more details.

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR/WRITER For complete job descriptions, please refer to our website at www.sparteksystems.com Applicants please forward resume to: keri.lee@ sparteksystems.com or fax to 403-887-4050 Please state which position you are applying for in your cover letter.

TJ PAVING is looking for employees with paving experience. Comp wages, great working atmosphere.

Come join our team. Email resume to tjpaving@ hotmail.com or fax 403-346-8404.

WE’RE HIRING! BUNCH PROJECTS is immediately filling the following positions: Crane Operators, Welders, Pipefitters, Apprentices, Skilled Labourers, Heavy Equipment Operators, and Heavy Duty Technicians.

Check us out at www. bunch.ca. Qualified candidates should send their information to resume@bunch.ca.

Class 1 Operators to join our team of drivers hauling clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry.

Home most evenings, scheduled days off, company benefits with exceptional pay structure that includes guarantied salary + hourly when hauling. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Sylvan Lake. SWAMPERS REQ’D. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume: tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax: 403-887-4892

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COMPANY req’s live in retired maintenance person for our apartment operations. Journeyman plumbing exp. an asset.

Call Mike for details 403-342-4923

Would you like to become an Optician?

Earn your Diploma in Optical Sciences at NAIT’s 2 year program

Earn While You Learn Full Time Employment 40hrs/wk Training & Practicum hours provided to successful candidate.

Mon-Fri 10-7, Sat 9-6 Medical/Dental Benefits To arrange for an interview 4924-59 Street, Red Deer, Alberta

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Please call (403) 347-7889 EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301 NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Please email your cover letter and resume to info@tcdi.ca

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

EASTVIEW AREA

$605/mo.

DEERPARK AREA Duval Cres, Doncaster Place area $332/mo.

Douglas St. Dowler St. area. $423/mo.

MICHENER AVE

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

Contractors

1100

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Eavestroughing

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EVESTROUGH CLEANING. Now taking bookings for fall. 403-506-4822 GUTTERS, soffit, 403-391-2169

Escorts

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FANTASY MASSAGE

Roofing

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PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869

International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

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5* JUNK REMOVAL

Seniors’ Services

1372

Property clean up 340-8666

HELPING HANDS

CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

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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

RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

We’ll do it all...Free est.

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* Call E.J. Construction INDEPENDENT w/own car GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Jim 403-358-8197 or Save 50%. 403-358-1614 Window DALE’S Home Reno’s Cleaning Free estimates for all your Massage Painters/ reno needs. 403-506-4301 Therapy Decorators DOORS, windows, siding, ROBUST Cleaning Services soffit, fascia and custom MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WINDOW CLEANING cladding. Call Dean @ WALK-INS WELCOME JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. outside/inside. Free quotes.

403-302-9210.

4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 Free Est. 403-872-8888 403-506-4822

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FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

ANDERS AREA

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Massage Therapy

CARRIERS NEEDED ROUTES IN:

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Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Employment Training

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SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS Is looking for a P/T

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

PROGRAM ASSISTANT to help with daily operations of the program. Great for mom with school age children looking for part time work.

This position is 3 mornings/wk (12 hrs/wk) responsibilities incl. organizing delivery routes, counting, stocking warmers, taking client phone calls, supporting the program coordinator with daily operations and delivering meals to clients when needed.

Successful applicant will be organized, detail orientated, and a strong communicator.

Must enjoy working with seniors, have a valid drivers licence and vehicle.

Please forward resume along with 2 references to: Red Deer Meals on Wheels Attention Cheryl Day, Program Coordinator 4725 43 Street, Red Deer T4N 6Z3. Email: rdmealsonwheels@shaw.ca Fax: 403-346-2599

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

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

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

$712/mo.

For More Information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

wegotservices

Looking to hire experienced sign shop person.

Clean Class 5 required.

Wage dependent upon experience. Email resume to office@questsigns.ca Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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

To deliver the

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.

Tricon offers a competitive salary and benefit package with a positive work environment.

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: framing, building forms, door and window installation, and various tasks that arise daily.

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

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

ASSISTANT SITE SUPERINTENDENT

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.

Requirements • Grade 12, GED, or assessed equivalent • Must be a Canadian Citizen

RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.

Fax to 403-346-5786

CARRIERS REQUIRED

We are currently seeking a full time

Become An Optician

DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

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CLEARVIEW AREA Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive area also Chism Close, Cunningham Cres area $115/mo.

GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 to 4400 blocks of 40A Ave., 2 blocks of 41 Ave, and 1 block of 39, 46 & 47 St. $71/mo. also 41 & 42 Ave. between 40 St. and 44 St. area and 43 Ave. between 39 Ave. and 43 St. $77/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA

Metcalf Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. LANCASTER AREA Lawrence Cres/Lees Street Logan Close

3400 black of 44A Ave and 35 St. Cres. $48/mo also 3200 & 3300 blocks of 44A Ave & 33 St. & 33A St. $52/mo.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 D3

AG understands why people mistrust police FERGUSON, MISSOURI

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS — Attorney General Eric Holder sought Wednesday to reassure the people of Ferguson about the investigation into the shooting death of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer and said he understands why many black Americans do not trust police, recalling how he was repeatedly stopped by officers who seemed to target him because of his race.

Holder made the remarks during a visit to the St. Louis suburb that has been wracked by more than a week of unrest since the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown.

The attorney general remembered how he was stopped twice on a New Jersey highway and accused of speeding. Police searched his car, going through the trunk and looking under the seats.

“I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me,” Holder said during a private meeting with about 50 community leaders at the Florissant campus of St. Louis Community College.

Holder also met with federal officials investigating Brown’s death and with Brown’s parents.

While living in the Georgetown neighbourhood of Washington, Holder was once running to catch a movie with his cousin when a squad car rolled up and flashed its lights at the pair. The officer yelled, “Where are you going?

Hold it!” Holder recalled.

His cousin “started mouthing off,”

and Holder urged him to be quiet.

“We negotiate the whole thing, and we walk to our movie. At the time that he stopped me, I was a federal prosecutor. I wasn’t a kid,” he said.

Holder also met briefly with Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, who has been in charge of security in the community for nearly a week since relieving Ferguson police. The National Guard has also been called in to help keep the peace.

Asked whether he had confidence in the local investigation of the police officer, Johnson said Holder’s presence “is a guarantee on that.”

In nearby Clayton, a grand jury began hearing evidence to determine whether the officer, Darren Wilson, should be charged in Brown’s death.

A spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch said there was no timeline for the process, but it could take weeks.

At the college, Holder told his audience that the most experienced agents and prosecutors would be assigned to the Ferguson investigation.

Outside the St. Louis County Justice Center in Clayton, where the grand jury convened, two dozen protesters gathered in a circle for a prayer, chanted and held signs urging McCulloch to step aside.

McCulloch’s deep family connections to police have been cited by some black leaders who question his ability to be impartial in the case. McCulloch’s father, mother, brother, uncle and cousin all worked for the St. Louis Police Department, and his fa-

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Local resident, 9-year-old Ciara Hampton places roses along West Florissant Street as residents called for peaceful demonstrations in Ferguson, Mo. on Tuesday. On Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year old, in the St. Louis suburb. ther was killed while responding to a call involving a black suspect.

The prosecutor, who is white, has insisted his background will have no bearing on the handling of the Brown case, which has touched off days of nighttime protests during which authorities used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear the streets.

The protests were more subdued Tuesday night, with smaller crowds, fewer confrontations and no tear gas.

Police said they still made 47 arrests,

mainly of people who defied orders to disperse. Tensions rose briefly when someone hurled a bottle at officers, but there were no reports of gunfire or the type of clashes that had marked previous nights.

On Wednesday, police said an officer had been suspended for pointing a semi-automatic assault rifle at demonstrators, then cursing and threatening to kill one of them. A protester captured the exchange on video Tuesday and posted it to YouTube.

Military sent to Syria to rescue U.S. hostages this summer INCLUDING JOURNALIST JAMES FOLEY BUT DIDN’T FIND ANY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent special operations troops to Syria this summer on a secret mission to rescue American hostages, including journalist James Foley, held

by Islamic State group extremists, but they did not find them, the Obama administration said Wednesday.

Officials said the rescue mission was authorized after intelligence agencies believed they had identified the location inside Syria where the hostages were being held. But the several dozen special operations forces dropped by aircraft into Syria did not find them at that location and engaged in a firefight with Islamic State militants before departing.

“The U.S. government had what we believed was sufficient intelligence, and when the opportunity presented itself, the president authorized the Department of Defence to move aggres-

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sively to recover our citizens,” said Lisa Monaco, Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, in a statement. “Unfortunately, that mission was ultimately not successful because the hostages were not present.”

Officials disclosed the rescue operation a day after the militants released a video showing the beheading of Foley and threatened to kill a second hostage, Steven Sotloff, if U.S. airstrikes against the militants in Iraq continued.

Despite the militants’ threats, the U.S. launched a new barrage of airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Wednesday. The Obama administration did not rule out the prospect of a military operation in Syria to bring those responsible for Foley’s death to justice.

The disclosure of the rescue mission marks the first time the U.S. has revealed that American military personnel have been on the ground in Syria since a bloody civil war there broke out more than three years ago. Obama has resisted calls to insert the U.S.

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military in the middle of Syria’s war, a cautious approach his critics say has allowed the Islamic State to strengthen there and make gains across the border in Iraq.

A number of militants, but no Americans, were killed in the firefight in Syria. One American sustained a minor injury when an aircraft was hit, officials said.

“As we have said repeatedly, the United States government is committed to the safety and well-being of its citizens, particularly those suffering in captivity. In this case, we put the best of the United States military in harm’s way to try and bring our citizens home,” Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement Wednesday night.

“The United States government uses the full breadth of our military, intelligence and diplomatic capabilities to bring people home whenever we can.

The United States will not tolerate the abduction of our people, and will work tirelessly to secure the safety of our citizens and to hold their captors accountable.”

It’s unclear how many Americans the special forces attempted to rescue in Syria. While the officials who de-

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scribed the mission would not provide an exact number, other U.S. officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, have said Foley was one of at least four Americans held in Syria.

Like Foley, two others are believed to have been kidnapped by the Islamic State group. The fourth, freelance journalist Austin Tice, disappeared in Syria in August 2012 and is believed to be in the custody of government forces in Syria.

Administration officials would not say specifically when or where the operation took place, citing the need to protect operational details in order to preserve the ability to carry out future rescue missions. They did say that nearly every branch of the military was involved and that the special forces on the ground were supported from the air by fixed wing, rotary and surveillance aircraft.

Obama has authorized previous military missions to rescue hostages.

In 2009, Navy SEAL snipers carried out a daring sea operation to rescue an American ship captain held by Somali pirates in a lifeboat. And in 2012, special operations forces successfully rescued an American and Dutch aid worked held in Somalia.

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THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 2014

Fax 403-341-6560 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

DAHLIA, GLADIOLUS SHOW

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The Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Show will take place in Red Deer on Saturday and Sunday. The show takes place this year at the Bower Place Shopping Centre during regular business hours. Judging of exhibits will begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The annual dahlia and gladiolus show is put on by a non-profit society promoting the culture and development of dahlias and gladiolus.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday, Aug. 22 ● Red Deer is Ready Rally takes place on Aug. 22, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown Red Deer on Ross St. in support of Red Deer’s bid to host 2019 Canada Winter Games. Follow facebook.com/reddeerisready and Twitter@ reddeer2019 for details. Volunteer forms can be found at www.reddeer.ca/reddeerisready ● Spruce View and District Lions Club Fundraiser Golf Tournament tees off on Aug. 22, 1 p.m. at Gleniffer Lake Resort and Country Club. Registration starts at 11 a.m. Cost is $75 including supper. Proceeds will support improvements to local sports facilities. For information and to register, contact Henry at 403-728-3530 or 403-877-4252.

Saturday, Aug. 23 ● The Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society will host their annual show on Aug. 23 and 24 at Bower Place Shopping Centre. Judging will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. The show is open to the public during regular shopping mall hours. For more information contact Larry at 403-346-8401, larryquintilio@ gmail.com. Visit www.albertadahliaandgladsociety.com for show booklet and staging times. ● Fort Normandeau Days go on Aug. 23 from noon to 8 p.m. and Aug. 24 from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $3 per person, $10 for a family of four or $15 for a carload of six people. Event includes a reenactment of the Riel Rebellion, children’s activities, a Tipi Village, live entertainment and a fall fair. For more information call Josh at 403-347-7550. ● Eckville ’50s and ’60s Dance Jamboree runs the weekend of Aug. 23 and 24 at the Eckville Community Centre. This event will feature a weekendlong dance, food on site, free camping and more. Tickets $20. For more information or tickets call Jerry at 403-7292290 or April at 403-348-1238. ● Springbrook Shakedown, hosted

by Cruzin’ 2 Cure Cancer, will be held at the Springbrook Multiplex on Aug. 23 starting at 1 p.m. Event features vintage vehicles (pre 1972) such as rods, customs, muscles, along with food, vendors, live music, camping on site and a drive-in

movie. For more information email comfortcollision@telus.net ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Aug. 23 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Wise Choice.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. For information, call Jim at 403-638-6563, or Murray at 403-357-8022. ● Barbecue Fundraiser for Generations Church in Jamaica, will be held at Sobey’s South on Aug. 23 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Event is sponsored by friends and supporters. Call Dwayne at 403-5983021 for more information. ● Popcorn for Parkinsons, will be held at Kernel Bliss, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Red Deer Farmers Market. Look for the little trailer on 43 St. between the tennis dome and the arena parking lot.

All proceeds will be donated to Parkinson Alberta. For more information email tkozak@parkinsonalbera or call 403-3464463. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer.

The Aug. 23 session is called Crazy Clay Creatures. All materials supplied.

Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405.

Free with admission. ● Open Farm Days will be celebrated at Ellis Bird Farm on Aug. 23, 11 a.m. and Aug. 24, to 5 p.m. Enjoy a country pig roast lunch at the Tea House.

Other special activities will be offered at the site throughout the weekend. Lunch reservations can be made by calling 403586-4547.

Sunday, Aug. 24 ● CIBC Run for the Cure participants are welcome to sign up for a Jazzercise class on Aug. 24, 1 to 4 p.m. at 7-7667-50 Ave. Donations welcome.

Surprise gift for first 100 registrations.

Call Emily at 403-598-2440. ● Magdalene House Society and Scarlet Cord Fundraising Concert will be offered on Aug. 24, 7 p.m. at Streams Christian Church. Freewill offering accepted. Learn how women and children who have been trafficked and sexually exploited are being provided a way of escape. For complete details visit jolanda. ca

● Living Faith Lutheran Church guest speaker on Aug. 24, 10 a.m. will be Cuban missionary, Pastor Don Elliot.

Elliot served in Cuba since 1951. For more information contact Ralph at 403347-9852. ● Norwegian Laft Hus paper quilling afternoon will be offered free on Aug. 24 from 1 to 5 p.m. Contact norwegianlafthus@gmail.com or Julie at 403-3472055.

Monday, Aug. 25 ● Innisfail and District Garden Club meets the fourth Monday of each month, next Aug. 25, in St. Mark’s Anglican Church Hall. Please use the back door.

Meetings feature speakers, tours, films, contests, plant exchanges and more.

Call Davina at 403-598-9481. ● Habitat for Humanity ReStore welcomes reusable building materials, furniture, appliances and much more an is open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 4732 78A St., Red Deer. Phone 403-309-6080. ● Bargain Treasures Thrift Store welcomes gently used items, except furniture, computers and monitors, infant car seats or cribs. Please bring items inside the back door at 5217 Gaetz Ave. during business hours from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The store is run by volunteers and all proceeds stay in the community. Phone 403-347-9711. ● Epilepsy Association offers used books and videos for sale at The Hub on Ross. All items are $2.00 a piece. For more information call 403-358-3358.

Wednesday, Aug. 27 ● Downtown Market will be held every Wednesday from 4 to 7 p.m. until Oct. 8 on Little Gaetz Ave. between Alexander Way and Ross St. New this season is a community corner for nonprofit groups and a learning stage for those who wish to give talks related to the “make, it, bake it or grow it” principles of the market. Phone 403-340-8696 for more information. ● Tea, luncheon and tour will be hosted by the ladies of Sunnybrook

Farm Museum on Aug. 27 from noon to 3 p.m. Relax in the 1889 log house and enjoy a lunch, home-made pie and musical entertainment. Then take a seat on the guided tour wagon and learn about the history of the farm museum. Cost is $10. Large groups please call ahead. For more information call 403-340-3511. ● Red Deer Legion Old Time Dance with The Allsorts is on Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● Downtown Business Association presents Calgary blues singer Erin Ross, Aug. 27 on Ross Street Patio from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 28 ● The Ross Street Patio features Thursday Night Jam Nights from 5:30 to 8 p.m., great for up and coming musicians or old pros to showcase their music. See events@downtownreddeer.com, or contact Levi at 403-340-8692. ● Editions Gallery welcomes back international artist Fabio Napoleoni on Aug. 28, 4 to 8 p.m. For more information call 403-342-2366 or go online to www. editionsgallery.com ● Marketplace On Main goes weekly on Thursday nights in Rocky Mountain House from June 26 until Aug. 28.

Two blocks on Main Street will be closed from 6 to 9 p.m. for a variety of vendors to take to the street. Vendor applications are being accepted for single or multiple nights. Visit www.rockymtnhouse.com for information. ● Melcor and Freshaircinema present Summer Cinema Series free outdoor movies on Thursdays in Aug. and Sept. at Centennial Park in Sylvan Lake. Movies start at dusk. Please bring a blanket or lawn chair. Movies and dates are as follows: Aug. 28, 8:30 p.m.

— Back to the Future; Sept. 4, 8:15 p.m.

— How to Train Your Dragon 2. See www.freshaircinema.ca. or contact info@ freshaircinema.ca. ● Red Deer Area Hikers meet on Aug. 28 at the Golden Circle west side parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. for a 7 km hike at McKenzie Trail/ Garden Heights. Hike will be cancelled if weather unsuitable. Bring lunch. Phone Mavis at 403-343-0091, or Sharon at 403-340-2497.

Listings open to cultural/non-profit groups. Fax: 341-6560; phone: 314-4325; e-mail: editorial@reddeeradvocate.com by noon Thursday for insertion following Thursday.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 D5

Neanderthals had ‘ample time’ to mix with humans NEW CARBON DATING SUGGESTS THE TWO MAY HAVE COEXISTED FOR 5,000 YEARS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — Humans and Neanderthals may have coexisted in Europe for more than 5,000 years, providing ample time for the two species to meet and mix, according to new research.

Using new carbon dating techniques and mathematical models, researchers examined about 200 samples found at 40 sites from Spain to Russia, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. They concluded with a high probability that pockets of Neanderthal culture survived until between 41,030 and 39,260 years ago. Although this puts the disappearance of Neanderthals earlier than some scientists previously thought, the findings sup-

port the idea that they lived alongside humans, who arrived in Europe about 45,000-43,000 years ago.

“We believe we now have the first robust timeline that sheds new light on some of the key questions around the possible interactions between Neanderthals and modern humans,” said Thomas Higham, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford who led the study. While it’s known that Neanderthal genes have survived in the DNA of many modern humans to this day, suggesting that at least some interbreeding took place, scientists are still unclear about the extent of their contact and the reasons why Neanderthals vanished.

“These new results confirm a longsuspected chronological overlap between the last Neanderthals and the

first modern humans in Europe,” said Jean-Jacques Hublin, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who wasn’t involved in the study. Apart from narrowing the length of time that the two species existed alongside each other to between 2,600 and 5,400 years, Higham and his colleagues also believe they have shown that Neanderthals and humans largely kept to themselves.

“What we don’t see is that there is spatial overlap (in where they settled),” said Higham.

This is puzzling, because there is evidence that late-stage Neanderthals were culturally influenced by humans.

Samples taken from some Neanderthal sites include artifacts similar to those introduced to Europe by humans.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS’

A replica of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal museum in Germany.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS 403-347-5166. ● Red Deer and District SPCA Raise the Woof with three HBO and Comedy Central stand-up comedians, buffet dinner, drinks, prizes, and more will be held on Sept. 13 at Pidherney Curling Centre. Tickets $80.00 each or $560 for table of eight. To order a corporate table, or for more information on tickets and sponsorships, please contact Lisa at development@reddeerspca.com or 403-342-7722 ext 207. See www.reddeerspca.com for more details. ● Tallest Sunflower Competition is open to the all residents of the community of Waskasoo. The gardener who grows the tallest sunflower will win a prize valued over $50. To enter, measure the sunflower from ground level to the tip of flower and send measurements to sunflower@waskasoo.info or call 403348-5030 by the closing date of Oct. 13.

Alzheimer Society National Coffee Break Campaign is gearing up for September and October Coffee Break events. The society invites everyone in Central Alberta to host or take part in a Coffee Break event to raise awareness and funds for education and support programs. Coffee will be supplied by the Alzheimer Society for individuals or groups who wish to host a coffee break event such as bake sale, game night, high tea or a small coffee klatch. Visit alzheimercoffeebreak.ca or call 403-342-0448. ● Alberta Youth Pheasant program will start another year of firearm safety, target shooting, and pheasant hunting for kids. Supplies included; bring your own lunch. For cost and more information call Doug at 403-347-7968 or Kevin at 403346-4641. ● Red Deer College housing directory can be found at www.sardc.ab.ca/ housing-directory/ This website is operated by the Students’ Association to aid students in their search for housing during the school year. Individuals interested in listing their rental accommodation, can fill out and online form and submit it electronically. Listings range from $15 to $25. For more information call 403-3423200. ● Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is in need of participants to pick up refuse in waterways and shorelines. Meet at Kerry Wood Nature Centre, Sept. 7,

12:30 to 4:30 p.m. No need to preregister. Barbecue and prizes following event.

Wear visible clothing, appropriate footwear and bring gloves. For more information visit www.reddeer.ca/greendeer or email suzanne/jobb@reddeer.ca ● Red Deer’s Jail-N-Bail will be held Oct. 23 at Parkland Mall from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Celebrity judges will be setting bail amounts for felons, families, friends, and employees who have been arrested for crimes such as drinking too much coffee, snoring, wearing the wrong shirt, or for any other reasons. Bail goes to for cancer research. To arrange an “arrest” call 403-347-1815 or go to www. cancer.ca/ab/jailnbail ● Sidewalk Art Completion will be held Sept. 27 in downtown Red Deer.

Profession and amateur artists are invited to apply by submitting their concepts for a six by six foot sidewalk drawing.

Twelve artists will be selected from all entries and two of these will be allotted a preferred location and larger space.

Chalk will be supplied, however artists may bring special colours and props to suit their techniques. For more information and artists’ submission requirements, visit the Alberta Culture Days page on www.reddeer.ca before the deadline of Aug. 29 ● Dickson Store Museum Harvest Festival is set to go on Sept. 7 from noon to 4:30 p.m. This family event features Danish and traditional food, continuous entertainment, children’s games, ice cream, door prizes, 50/50 draws, cream can rides and local artists and vendors. For more information or to book a table, call 403-728-3355. ● Sylvan Lake Legion will hold Newfie Nights on Sept. 5 with a cod fry for $35, and Sept. 6 features steak and lobster for $45. Entertainment both nights by Atlantic Storm. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 followed by entertainment at 8 p.m. Advanced tickets only at the branch. Call 403-887-2601 for more information. ● Red Deer Chamber of Commerce

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Tickets, $85 are available online at www. reddeerchamber.com or at the Chamber office. Early bird discount, $10 off, in effect until Sept. 12. For more information call Shelley at 403-347-4491. ● Scandinavian Folk Dance lessons and dance parties will be offered on Monday’s, 7 p.m. at Festival Hall starting Sept. 15. Beginners and singles welcome. Cost is $40 per person or $60 for two. Lessons for kids from age five and up will also take place on Mondays, 6 to 6:45 p.m. Cost is $40 per child or $60 for family. For information or to register email fanatullen@gmail.com or call 403-347-5303 or 403-341-4672. ● Central Alberta Historical Society general meeting and harvest supper will be held on Sept. 17 at the Pioneer Lodge starting at 5:30. Guest speaker, Kathleen Rains will present on the woman’s role in harvesting. Tickets, $25 or $27 for non-members, are available at the Red Deer Museum, before the cut off date of Sept. 10. For more information, contact Shirley at 403-346-5218. ● Yoga Alliance of Red Deer (YARD) — Red Deer’s only not-for-profit studio — is holding registration for the fall session which runs Sept. 8 to Dec. 21. A variety of classes and styles and levels will be offered including Hatha, power, Yin, Kundalini, pre-natal, restorative and Yoga for backs. Visit www.reddeeryoga. ca, phone 403-350-5830 or email info@ reddeeryoga.ca. ● Hearts of Harmony — a chapter of Sweet Adelines International — is an a cappella chorus for women of all ages who love to sing and harmonize.

Prospective members are welcome to drop in to regular practice on Monday nights from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Davenport Church of Christ on Donlevy Ave. During Sept. For further information contact Nancy at 403-357-8240, or the director, Sheryl at 403-742-4218, or see www. heartsofharmony.ca

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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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● Dance for the health of it by signing for Mondays and Wednesdays, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Clearview Community Hall starting on Sept. 15. Families, couples, singles and teens can all benefit from the fun way to work in 6000 to 7000 steps an evening. Cost for 24 session is $120. For more information or to register, email teamdance123@gmail.com or contact Connie at 403-396-1523. ● Whisker Rescue Petsmart Charities Red Deer County Rural Cat Roundup offers free spay and neuter for Red Deer County Divisions #2, #3, and #6.

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20 and is a fundraiser for Greenwood Neighbourhood Place and Sundre Call to Action. Runners, volunteers and sponsors are sought to participate in team challenges, family participation, don costumes, and more. Sign up as an individual or in a team of four. Cost is $30 for adults or $20 for youth ages 18 years and under, and includes event T-shirt if registered by Aug. 10, water bottle and medallion. Snake Hill Mini Slam Obstacle Race for kids will be offered free of charge. See http://www.mygnp.org/ sundre-snake-hill-slam-2014, contact 403-638-1011, kim@mygnp.org. ● A trail run in the late Bill Nielsen’s name takes off in Lacombe on Oct. 4. Nielsen ran more than 100 marathons, many after diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Register for a two, five or ten km run or a family fun run/walk. Runners start at the Lacombe Composite School High School. Entry fee is $25 for 10 km and $20 for other races before Sept.

28; price increases by $5 after Sept. 28.

Register online through www.runningroom.com before Oct. 1 or on race day at 8 a.m. ● Fulfil your love of singing by joining the Red Deer Chamber Singers. Their repertoire consists of a diverse selection of choral arrangements, including classical, folk, and pop. This adult mixed choir will begin preparation for the Renaissance Feast in Nov. Practices are held on Tuesdays, 7 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church. First practice is Sept. 2.

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Airstrike kills Hamas leaders’ wife and child

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GAZA, Gaza Strip — Hamas’ shadowy military chief escaped an apparent Israeli assassination attempt that killed his wife and infant son, the militant group said Wednesday as Israel’s prime minister warned that the bombardment of Gaza will continue until rocket fire out of the Palestinian territory stops.

The airstrike on a home where Mohammed Deif’s family members were staying — and the tough talk from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — came after the collapse of cease-fire talks in Cairo on Tuesday.

In a nationally televised address, Netanyahu showed little willingness to return to the negotiating table after six weeks of war with Hamas.

“We are determined to continue the campaign with all means and as is needed,” he said, his defence minister by his side. “We will not stop until we guarantee full security and quiet for the residents of the south and all citizens of Israel.”

More than 2,000 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting, most of them civilians, according to U.N. and Palestinian medical officials. Sixtyseven people have died on the Israeli side, all but three of them soldiers.

A six-day temporary truce collapsed into heavy fighting after Egyptian-mediated talks broke down without an agreement on an extended cease-fire.

Hamas has demanded an end to an Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza. Israel has demanded that Hamas disarm.

Palestinian militants launched dozens of rockets into Israel, while Israel carried out numerous airstrikes across Gaza. One airstrike on a Gaza City house killed Deif’s 7-month-old son and one of his wives.

After remaining quiet for most of the day Wednesday, Hamas officials announced that Deif was not in the targeted home at the time and was still alive. Deif has survived multiple assassination attempts, lives in hiding and is believed to be paralyzed from previous attempts on his life.

Abu Obeida, the spokesman for Hamas’ military wing, said Israel was “unable to get to our commander Deif,” adding that he will “lead the army that will enter to liberate the holy al-Aqsa mosque” in Jerusalem.

Asked whether Deif had been targeted, Netanyahu said: “The leaders of terror organizations are legitimate targets. No one is immune.”

The house belonged to a family of known Hamas supporters. In footage taken after the strike, rescue workers were seen searching for survivors in the rubble where the building once

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Mourners chant angry slogans during the funeral of Widad Mustafa Deif, 27, who was killed along with her 8-month-old son Ali Mohammed Deif in Israeli strikes in Gaza City late Tuesday, during their funeral in Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday. Widad was the wife of Mohammed Deif, the leader of the Hamas military wing. stood.

Thousands of people attended the funeral for Deif’s family, with a relative carrying the body of his son, shrouded in a white burial cloth.

Mourners chanted “revenge” during the procession.

In a televised statement, Abu Obeida also warned international airlines against flying into Israel starting Thursday. Earlier in the conflict, airlines suspended flights into Israel after a rocket landed in a town near Israel’s main international airport.

Since the truce collapsed, at least 22 Palestinians have been killed and more than 120 wounded, Gaza Health Ministry official Ashraf al-Kidra said.

The Israeli military said that it carried out nearly 100 airstrikes on Gaza targets, and that Palestinians had fired more than 140 rockets at Israel since the truce fell apart. About 2,000 reserve soldiers who had been sent home two weeks ago were called up for duty again Wednesday, the military said.

Air raid sirens wailed in southern Israeli cities Wednesday morning, warning of incoming rockets from Gaza. There were no reports of injuries, though a piece of a rocket that was intercepted near Tel Aviv fell on a busy road on Tuesday night. Israel ordered the reopening of public bomb shelters within 50 miles (80 kilometres) of Gaza.

In the talks, Hamas sought an end to a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed when it seized power in Gaza in 2007, while Israel wanted guarantees that the Islamic militant group

would disarm.

On Wednesday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed “deep regret” over the breaking of the cease-fire.

It said in a statement that it “continues bilateral contacts” with both sides aimed at restoring calm and securing a lasting truce that “serves the interest of the Palestinian people, especially in relation to the opening of the crossings and reconstruction.”

An Egyptian compromise proposal calls for easing the blockade but not lifting it altogether or 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 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose forces were ousted by Hamas, a foothold back in Gaza running border crossings and overseeing internationally backed reconstruction.

The Gaza blockade has greatly limited the movement of Palestinians in and out of the territory of 1.8 million people, restricted the flow of goods into Gaza and blocked virtually all exports.

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West Africa’s caseload tops all previous outbreaks combined MONROVIA, Liberia — Riot police and soldiers acting on their president’s orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,350 people and counting across West Africa. Hundreds of slum residents clashed with the gunmen, furious at being blamed and isolated by a government that has failed to quickly collect dead bodies from the streets.

One 15-year-old boy was injured trying to cross the barbed wire as security forces fired into the air to disperse the crowd.

The World Health Organization said the death toll is rising most quickly in Liberia, which now accounts for at least 576 of the fatalities. At least 2,473 people have been sickened across West Africa, which is now more than the caseloads of all the previous two-dozen Ebola outbreaks combined.

The UN health agency also warned of shortages of food, water and other essential supplies in West Africa’s population centres.

And if it’s bad in these capitals, it’s much worse inside West Point, a densely populated slum surrounded by floating sewage that occupies a kilometre long peninsula in Liberia’s seaside capital. West Point suffers from government neglect even in the best of times, and mistrust of authorities is rampant.

Open defecation is a major problem. Drinking water is carted in on wheelbarrows, and people depend on a local market for their food.

Now many of the market’s traders are stuck inside, prices have doubled and “the community is in disarray,” slum resident Richard Kieh said.

“Why are you ill-treating people like this? How can we take this kind of government to be peaceful?

It is not fair — We are human,” complained another resident, Mohamed Fahnbulleh.

Ebola is only spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of sick people experiencing symptoms. Those at greatest risk are doctors and nurses and people who handle the dead. Still, victims often suffer gruesome deaths, bleeding from the eyes, mouth and ears, and the fatality rate of about 50 per cent has provoked widespread panic.

West Point has been a flash point. Days earlier, residents ransacked a screening centre where people in contact with Ebola victims were being monitored.

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LUANN Aug. 21 1993 — NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. The fate of the spacecraft was unknown. The mission cost $980 million.

1984 — Victoria Roche, a reserve outfielder, becomes the first girl to ever compete in a Little League World Series game.

1968 — Canada Post announces closing of century-old Post Office Savings Bank.

1959 — Hawaii becomes the 50th state. U.S. President Eisenhower also issues the order for the 50-star flag.

1862 — Billy Barker discovers gold in creeks running into the Quesnel River. Town of Barkerville, B.C., grows up around mine as find sparks a massive gold rush into the Cariboo.

1853 — Edward Inglefield, captain of the Royal Navy barque Phoenix rescues all 21 crew of its sister ship Breadalbane, which sank in 15 minutes after her wooden hull was pierced by an ice slab near Beechey Island, N.W.T. Wreck discovered on Aug. 13, 1980.

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Mad Men creator’s film shares DNA with hit TV show

brief TIFF names Sept. 5 Bill Murray Day with free screenings of Ghostbusters, Stripes TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival has declared Sept.

5 Bill Murray Day. Festival organizers announced Wednesday that they were dedicating one day of their 2014 movie marathon to the wise-cracking star.

The day will include free public screenings of his comedy classics Stripes, Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters, beginning at 10 a.m. at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Murray will attend the fest to promote his latest feature St. Vincent, in which he plays a curmudgeonly retiree who befriends his next-door neighbour’s 12-year-old son.

Diehard fans who attend all three of the free screenings can enter a contest to win a ticket to the world premiere screening of the new film.

Tickets to enter the free screenings will be available Sept. 5 at 8 a.m. ET at the Lightbox.

The Toronto International Film Festival runs Sept. 4 to 14 and the full film

MTV Video Music Awards to open with a Bang; Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj will kick off show NEW YORK — The MTV Video Music Awards will open with a “Bang.”

Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj and Jessie J will kick off Sunday’s awards show with their new song, Bang Bang.

It will be the first time the trio performs the Top 10 hit.

Grande and Minaj will also perform separately during the VMAs, to air live from the Forum in Inglewood, California.

Beyonce is the top nominee and will compete for eight awards, including video of the year for “Drunk in Love.”

She will also receive the Michael Jackson video vanguard award.

Beyonce will take the stage Sunday night, where other performers include Usher, 5 Seconds of Summer, Maroon 5, Taylor Swift, Sam Smith and Iggy Azalea, who has seven nominations.

Eminem is also nominated for seven moonmen.

ry about a character who needs to get off drugs (the perpetually faded Steve) and a character who needs to get on them (manic Ben).

And the film’s Maryland setting does betray the fact that this is a personal story for the 49-year-old Weiner.

“I had been married for about ... seven or eight years maybe, and I noticed that my friends were gone,” said Weiner, who grew up in Baltimore and married in 1991.

“There was another point in my life where my friends disappeared — when I became successful, but this had not happened yet.

“And I was just trying to figure out if my wife had replaced them, (since) she was obviously my best friend, or if I had outgrown them. ... But then I started thinking about, what holds

people together?”

Weiner has rapturous praise for his cast.

He was long a fan of Wilson’s knack for “guileless likable characters” and praises his “light comic touch,” but wanted to challenge the glib character type Wilson usually portrays.

He was “blown away” by Poehler, and Galifianakis brought a “huge ego” and “imperiousness” to his character that are, of course, completely absent in his real personality.

Still, it was important for his three very funny leads to still be funny onscreen, said Weiner.

“Personally as a moviegoer, I don’t want to see somebody’s serious movie,” he said.

“If I go see Zach Galifianakis and he is not funny, I’m going to be irritated.”

finds herself with two — platinum-selling musician with a new album on the way and emerging kitchen mogul.

“I kind of feel like Rocky in the first movie,” Yearwood said.

An apt description: Yearwood announced Tuesday she’s releasing a new album titled PrizeFighter, the title taken from a new track she found inspiring as she contemplated relaunching her music career at 49. It coincides with the looming comeback tour with her husband, Garth Brooks. She’s also launching cookware and cutlery lines, begins a new season of Trisha’s Southern Kitchen next week and has her third cookbook out next spring.

“I kind of feel like the odds are not in my favour, so the song is really motivating in that way because it’s just kind of like you’ve got to fight, you’ve got to fight for what you want,” Year-

wood said. She and Brooks begin their tour Sept. 4 in Chicago, where they’ll play 11 concerts — “We call it the freak show right now” — and she’ll be taping new episodes of her show’s fifth season between sets while on the road. As the tour approached, she spent time in the studio tweaking her new album, which includes a hits package and six new songs. The music, she said, has been her priority amid all the other projects.

“I told the Food Network people, I love them, ’You guys are awesome, but I’ve got to finish my record. I’ve got to make some music,”’ Yearwood said.

Brooks and Yearwood chose to mostly shutter their careers after they married in 2005 and moved to Oklahoma, where they raised Brooks’ three daughters. Since then, Yearwood has sold 12 million albums but released very little music.

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The nine-time Emmy Award winner essentially ported over practically the entire crew from his beloved moody period piece, working with Mad Men’s cinematographer, editor, casting team, production designer, composer and hair and makeup departments.

Getting the band back together helped turn “what could have been a scary experience” into an “adventure,” said Weiner.

But even with a similar team behind the camera, Weiner was hesitant to guess whether the exacting fans of his decorated TV drama would find something to love in his earnest debut film.

“It’s hard for me to know,” said Weiner during last September’s Toronto International Film Festival. “Obviously I cherish the fact that I have a devoted audience on the show and that there is an expectation of anything from me — and the fans are quite protective and opinionated about the show.

“I do think that people who enjoy

’Mad Men’ for the fact that it’s layered and for the fact that it doesn’t judge the characters and that there’s some depth to it and some honesty about how people behave — they will find something in the movie that’s very similar.

“It stands up to multiple viewings.

And I think it just doesn’t have a lot of judgment. (The characters) are four very flawed people and they’re doing the best that they can, and you kind of realize that by the end of the movie, which is tragedy and it’s poignant and it’s beautiful.

“And that’s really what I’m shooting for on the show.”

Still, the shared creative DNA between the two projects doesn’t translate into many surface-level similarities.

For one thing, Are You Here — opening in Canada both theatrically and on video-on-demand this Friday — is firmly contemporary, a buddy-dramedy centring on self-centred weatherman Steve Dallas (Owen Wilson) and his bipolar stoner best bud Ben Baker (Zach Galifianakis).

When Ben’s father dies, the odd couple venture home to his family ranch to spar over the inheritance with Ben’s pragmatic sister, played by Amy Poehler.

Ultimately, Weiner terms this a sto-

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Drinking at kids’ sports games inappropriate Dear Annie: I have a question for parents.

Why, when the kids’ soccer, football or baseball games are over, do the parents open up the trunks of their cars and get out the beer?

Tailgate parties with alcohol do not belong at children’s MITCHELL events.

When my & SUGAR children played sports, we went out for ice cream.

Alcohol was not permitted before or after.

What kind of behaviour is this teaching our children?

Where are the police?

They have to know this is happening. Their children play sports, too.

Not to mention, these same parents put their children in the car and drive home after drinking in the parking lot.

Please explain this to me. — Concerned Grandparent Dear Concerned: There is no rational explanation.

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These parents are irresponsible and idiotic.

The organizations or schools that sponsor the sports should issue rules about parental behaviour before, during and immediately after the games, and you (or the parents of your grandchildren) should request that it be done.

Dear Annie: My niece recently married her live-in boyfriend.

They chose to marry in another country, but didn’t send any announcements or invitations.

That’s fine, because it was expensive.

When one aunt who could afford the plane fare and hotel asked whether she could attend, she was told “no.”

The only guests were the parents.

The aunt was deeply hurt.

I felt bad for her and angry with the bridal couple for being so rude. When they returned home, another family member asked whether there would be a reception and was told there wouldn’t be.

Now they are hinting for presents.

My sister-in-law asked me to go in with her to purchase a rather expensive gift, and I refused because of the way they treated the aunt.

My family is angry with me. Frankly, I never want to hear from that niece again.

Am I wrong? —Ex-Auntie Dear Ex: Yes. The bridal couple can invite whomever they wish, and if they choose a small, immediate-family-only wedding with no reception once at home, that is up to them.

The aunt was wrong to ask for an invitation simply because she could afford it.

If they wanted extended family to be there, they would have invited everyone.

For most folks, if you are not invited to a wedding, you are not obligated to give a gift.

But this is family, and yours is trying to be gracious and happy for the newlyweds by giving a gift.

If you don’t wish to contribute, that’s up to you.

But please don’t cut off your niece because you didn’t approve of her guest list.

At least send a card with your best wishes.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from California Dreamin’, whose husband is overweight.

My husband and I have been married for 49 years, and he, too, has gained a considerable amount of weight.

I try to cook healthy meals, but my efforts are sabotaged when he adds butter and salt.

He has been counselled by his physician many times, to no avail.

Twelve years ago, he had a massive hemorrhagic stroke that left him with severe deficits.

Yet he continues to refuse to do what is needed to be as healthy and mobile as he can be.

He is comfortable sitting in his chair watching TV. This has put an incredible amount of strain on me.

I can’t tell you how much time, effort and money has been spent helping him to be more mobile with less physical stress on my fibromyalgic body.

But I love this man with my whole heart.

I take our marriage vows seriously, and I cannot imagine my life without him.

I will continue to care for him until death do us part. I am not writing for sympathy.

I accept my life as a gift from God, and I accept caregiving as my gift to others. — Still in Love 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 Thursday, Aug. 21 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Loretta Devine, 64; Kim Catrall, 57; Carrie Anne Moss, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will offer you a meeting that truly only comes around every so often.

You will be meeting someone today, who has had a profound effect on LARISA MAIRA you, or will meet OZOLINS someone who will. The intensity SUN SIGNS will be not be realized in full when this interaction occurs but it will still create changes in your life that you have been trying to sort through for some time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will be a pivotal year for you. Any aspect of your life has the potential to improve drastically, it simply is a matter of you taking the advice from others.

They will not be those in authority that will offer this sage wisdom, it will simply be those you see on a daily basis that will open you up to viewing your life in an entirely different way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A shift with imbalanced relationships will occur today.

This will relate to any ongoing changes with your work, health, and your daily life.

Someone you meet while doing your daily routine will offer you great insight that will be something you treasure for a lifetime.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There is such a great potential for you to meet a romantic interest today.

It is the time to get out there and socialize, accept any invitations from friends now.

You will have profound experiences today that will have you truly amazed and taken aback.

A healing will occur now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There will be truth revealed today that will trigger greater awareness of your family and your heritage.

You will not see how this can help you create greater harmony towards your dreams now, but soon you will be flabbergasted. Share anything and everything on your mind now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Friends and groups you are part of will offer you great insight into the changes that need to transpire for you now.

Take the time to understand this sage wisdom you are receiving, it will help you develop yourself at the core of your being.

Try allowing changes to occur.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Someone you will meet while out and about

will trigger a deep understanding of your personal value and worth.

This will be something from the past that reappears, perhaps in a different form that will instigate a huge change with you on a professional level.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There will be news shared today that will help you develop yourself further.

You will feel like a deep revelation has occurred that will encourage you to feel empowered.

Further truth will come through interactions with foreigners, teachers, and what you read today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Someone you have a deep intimate connection with, past or present, will offer you greater insight into your own psyche.

You will be so intrigued by their presence that you might store that wisdom away in the subconscious. Be as aware as possible today, truth is coming out!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Friends and groups you are associated with will have a profound effect on you today.

They will offer you great wisdom into making your dreams come true. Perhaps you will not actualize this vision today.

Soon, it will start to appear like a phoenix rising from the ashes!

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Someone you randomly meet will offer you greater insight into yourself than you thought possible.

A balance will be restored.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You will finally be able to put the past where it belongs.

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