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Helping the hungry

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A couple more weeks with neither hail nor frost will ice the cake for local farmers and volunteers who are growing wheat for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank.

For nearly 20 years, supporters in Central Alberta have been growing crops to raise money for the Winnipegbased interdenominational group, now in its 31st year and dedicated to resolving hunger issues around the world.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank provides food for hungry people, and it helps them develop their own resources so they have a better chance of feeding themselves, say seasoned volunteers with Foodgrains projects in Lacombe and Ponoka.

Doug Maas and Larry Henderson, who both live in Lacombe, each have a long history of organizing and publicizing their respective crop projects.

The Lacombe group, now in its 17th year, has planted its biggest crop ever on a 175-acre field about eight kilometres southeast of the city. Ponoka, on the other hand, has been operating for most of its 19 years on the same field north of Morningside, along the east side of Hwy 2.

By coincidence, both fields were planted to wheat this year.

Maas said he is not allowed to reveal whether the Lacombe group’s field was rented or donated, nor can he state the name of the owner. The field was planted to spring wheat to meet the farmer’s crop rotation program.

The seed heads have filled out nice-

ly, but are still a bit green, so the crop needs a couple more weeks of heat and dry weather to mature, and then it looks like it could yield about 80 bushels to the acre, he said.

Lacombe’s best year on record was three years ago, when the canola crop grown that summer netted $105,000 after all the bills were paid.

Each year, a portion of seeding, fertilizer and other expenses are picked up by local agricultural businesses, said Maas. Additional money is welcome to help cover the balance of the costs, leaving cash from selling the crop to go to Winnipeg for distribution as needed.

The Lacombe and Ponoka projects each offer donors an opportunity to adopt an acre of cropland, which helps defray costs not covered by corporate donations.

The Ponoka crop is a little sparse at the tops of the hills because of heat damage, but good and even a bit heavy at lower levels, said Henderson. He is anticipating an average crop, barring an early frost or heavy snow.

Maas said the Lacombe group feels a pressing need to engage younger people in its program and is placing more emphasis on using social media to attract volunteers and donations.

Lacombe is actively recruiting for a high school student with good computer skills who would be interested in helping out.

The student would not be paid, but could be eligible to earn community service credits toward a high school diploma, said Maas.

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Doug Maas, a volunteer with the Lacombe project for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, checks progress in the 175-acre wheat crop his group will harvest in a few more weeks.

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Tanya Schur shows how skinning deer hides was done by the First Nations years ago as part of the Fort Normandeau Days festivities.

Fort Normandeau Days were held throughout the weekend and featured 1881-era military skirmishes, a Riel Rebellion re-enactment, as well as a First Nations village.

Dallas returns after ‘telling the Alberta story’ in the U.S.

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Capturing opportunities is the phrase Conservative MLA Cal Dallas, representing Red Deer South, repeats most often when discussing his recent visits with policy makers in the United States.

Alberta’s Minister of Intergovernmental and International Relations, Dallas recently returned to his Edmonton office after spending most of the previous two weeks attending conferences in Alaska and Idaho.

While the Council of State Governments National conference in Alaska involved discussion of broad issues with legislators from all 50 states, the Intermountain Energy Summit in Idaho Falls was more tightly focused on issues relevant to energy production and sustainability in the western states and provinces.

“I’m attending these missions to tell the Alberta story and to build relationships and to engage people about the opportunities that we have,” Dallas said from Edmonton.

One-third of Alberta’s gross domestic product comes from exports, with the bulk of that trade involving customers in the US. “Last year, our exports were a little bit over $103 billion. A huge component of that is exports to the United States. In fact, five individual states are larger trading partners with Alberta than the next largest country or the country with the next largest exports.”

The CSG National conference in Alaska provided an opportunity to discuss challenges arising in various regions of the U.S. and offer the means through which Alberta can help meet those challenges, said Dallas.

Every opportunity was taken to discuss the kinds of things Alberta is working on and how its assets feed into and perhaps address some of the challenges state legislators face in their own jurisdictions, he said.

“It’s much broader than energy, but part of that Alberta story is about energy.”

Dallas said discussions of electrical transmission played a large role in the Idaho summit.

Energy production is very expensive in Alberta compared to some of its neighbouring jurisdictions and the province continues to import far more electricity than it sells, he said. It doesn’t make sense to build transmission lines to export a product into jurisdictions that can produce electricity more cheaply on their own, he said.

While former premier Alison Redford has been sharply criticized and recently resigned her seat over lavish travel expenses, Dallas said his travel costs are much more tightly controlled.

He said he and any of his staff who travel with him fly in economy seats on commercial airlines.

Details of expenses for his most recent trips are now being tallied and will be posted on the Alberta government website within the next 90 days, he said. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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B.C. firefighters get a break as Ontario fire crews step in to help VANCOUVER — Firefighters in British Columbia will be getting a much-deserved break after crews from Ontario arrived in Prince George to help out in one of the busiest fire seasons in years.

The B.C. Wildfire Management Branch says 60 firefighters and 30 support workers will be relieving crews that have been working for two weeks.

Navi Saini (sah-nee) of the branch says this year 365 people from across Canada have come to B.C. to fight the blazes, and dozens from Australia and Alaska are also helping out.

Saini says cooler temperatures have helped lower fire-danger ratings across B.C., but some coastal areas still have campfire bans, and hot and dry conditions remain in the north.

The province has about 1,200 of its people battling 165 fires across B.C. Authorities have responded to more than 1,200 fires since April, and more than a third of them were caused by people.

Firefighters rescue woman in North Vancouver park who fell into creek NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. — North Vancouver firefighters have retrieved a 20-year-old woman who fell in Lynn Canyon Park.

Assistant fire chief Mike Cairns says the woman fell about three metres from a ledge and injured her ankle in Lynn Creek.

Cairns says the area is steep, so firefighters lowered a stretcher into the creek and lifted her out.

He says crews were considering placing her on a float and pushing her down the waterway to be retrieved downstream, but decided lifting her out was a slower, but safer method.

Cairns says the rescue took about 30 minutes and an ambulance is taking the woman to hospital.

He says hundreds were in the park today and the woman appears to have been going for a swim with friends.

Montreal photographer denies inadvertently aiding militants in Syrian abduction TORONTO — A Montreal photographer is speaking out after a U.S. news website accused him of inadvertently playing a role in the capture of American journalist Steven Sotloff in Syria last year.

Yves Choquette says he’s the freelance photographer anonymously referred to as “Alex” in a controversial report published Friday on The Daily Beast.

The report alleges the photographer identified his local Syrian guide, commonly called a fixer, to suspected militant Syrians on Facebook.

It says that may have compromised the safety of the American journalist, who worked with the same fixer days later. Choquette denies the allegations, which he says distort the events of August 2013 and unfairly suggest he’s to blame for the kidnapping.

He says he sought out advice from journalists on a private online group called The Vulture Club in an attempt to find a reliable fixer.

The online report says the photographer contacted up to 30 Syrians on Facebook, choosing those who were shown in pictures holding guns and opposition flags, in his search for a fixer to guide him across the Syrian border from Kilis, Turkey.

In an interview with The Canadian Press, Choquette called the report a personal attack “not based on any proof on any real fact” and accused its author, Ben Taub, of making up much of its contents.

“I’m not an adrenaline junkie, I’m 55. I’m not stupid, I prepared this for months and I want to be sure that I do it the safest way that I can,” he said Saturday.

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GRAINS: Unique aspects Henderson said one of the unique aspects of the Ponoka crop is that it is fertilized with manure donated by a number of local chicken farms.

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Judges (left to right) Ann Owens, and Marilyn McArthur inspect the bloom on one of the dahlias at the Dahlia and Gladiolus Show at Bower Mall Saturday morning. The event was hosted by the Alberta Dahlia and Gladiolus Society, a non-profit group that promotes the culture of development of both flowers.

Burger King in talks to buy Tim Hortons

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OAKVILLE, Ont. — Burger King is in talks to buy Tim Hortons Inc. (TSX: THI) and form a new publicly listed company that would be based in Canada.

They said in a statement Sunday night that Canada would be the largest market of the combined company.

The statement said 3G Capital, the majority owner of Burger King, would continue to own the majority of the shares of the new company on a pro forma basis, with the remainder held by existing shareholders of Tim Hortons and Burger King.

The companies said Oakville, Ont.-based Tim Hortons and Miami-based Burger King would operate as standalone brands.

“Tim Hortons and Burger King each have strong franchisee networks and iconic brands that are loved by their respective consumers,” the companies said in a statement.

“Any transaction will be structured to preserve these relationships and deepen the connections each brand has with its guests, franchisees, employees and communities.”

The statement adds that the new corporation would be the world’s third-largest quick service restaurant company, with approximately $22 billion in system sales and over 18,000 restaurants in 100 countries worldwide.

The companies said they will not comment further unless there is a deal.

When Tim Hortons chief executive Marc Caira, a former executive at the global operations of Swiss Much of the wheat produced on the field goes back to feed those same chickens, making it a recycling project that spins off cash to feed hungry people.

Timing of the harvest for both crops will depend on weather and on the availability of combines and trucks.

Henderson said the Ponoka group has generally had about 200 people show up to help out and to

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food and beverage company Nestle, took over the top job at the coffee chain last year he placed everything under review.

The company launched a wide ranging review of its priorities and ways that it could boost its reputation with both domestic and international coffee consumers.

Tim Hortons dominates the Canadian coffee market, but it has struggled to find success in the U.S. It has also faced competition here in Canada in recent years from Starbucks Corp. and McDonalds Corp., which has worked to improve its coffee.

The chain has been working to appeal to customers beyond coffee and doughnuts, with new menu items such as a crispy chicken sandwich and side dishes to boost breakfast and lunch sales.

Shares in Tim Hortons have been trading sharply higher in recent weeks after reporting better than expected financial results and raising its outlook for the year.

Tim Hortons said earlier this month that it now expects its earnings per share to be near the higher end — or slightly above — its target range of $3.17 to $3.27 for the year.

The company has a stock market capitalization of more than $9 billion.

Tim Hortons, which took its name from Toronto Maple Leafs player and founder Tim Horton, turned 50 earlier this year.

The now ubiquitous chain started in Hamilton, Ont., in 1964. It was acquired by burger chain Wendy’s International in 1995 and subsequently fully spun off as a separate company in 2006 after an initial public offering. watch the crop come in on harvest day.

Harvest days will be announced soon, subject to change if the weather gets nasty.

Henderson recalled one year, about a decade back, when the crop was very poor because of a dry summer, and then couldn’t harvested until December because of early snows. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Scientists study seismic line in foothills CARIBOU HABITAT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HINTON — Scientists studying the ravaged caribou habitat of Alberta’s northwestern foothills say they have found so much disturbance from decades of industrial use that restoration will have to be selective.

“There’s just so much disturbance, it’s important we prioritize,” said Laura Finnegan, a biologist with the Foothills Research Institute in Hinton, Alta.

The institute is one year into a three-year study on how animals and humans continue to use this ragged landscape in an effort to understand how to best restore it. Governments are counting on that work to help them live up to promises of sustainable development. This stretch of foothills still looks like pristine, trackless boreal forest when seen from the highway.

But back roads into the bush reveal a patchwork of clearcuts, well pads, access roads and seismic lines so extensive that gravel and green greet the eye almost equally.

It’s part of an area that recent satellite data suggests is being deforested at a rate that outpaces what’s going on in Brazil’s rain forests. There are more than 16,000 kilometres of seismic lines, cut by the energy industry through the

forest, within the study area’s 13,000 square kilometres.

About five per cent of range for the Little Smoky and a la Peche caribou herds remains undisturbed — a long way from the federal government’s 65 per cent target.

Finnegan and her colleagues are trying to figure out how to bridge that gap. Their first step is to understand how both animals and humans are using what’s on the ground.

That means understanding the impact of seismic lines, which are used to study geology underground.

Wolves normally prefer to prey on deer and moose, but seismic lines allow them to penetrate into the deep woods where caribou hide. Caribou also normally avoid coming within 500 metres of a seismic line, making every line, in effect, a kilometre wide.

It takes up to 70 years in this cold climate for nature to efface a seismic line. The passage of even a single quad can retard that restorative creep by crushing plants and compacting soil.

“You can just look at the vegetation on the line and you’ll see tracks,” Finnegan said.

Researchers have used sophisticated satellite-based radar to map average vegetation heights across the entire study area to within a few centimetres. They’ve erected motion-sensitive cameras on selected seismic lines to record what’s using them — caribou, wolves and snowmobilers alike.

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“Seismic lines with vegetation heights less than 1.4 metres facilitate movement by caribou predators,” says the institute’s report.

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EDMONTON — An Edmonton judge has sentenced a homeless 23-year-old man to two life sentences in jail after he pleaded guilty to two murders, interference with a dead body, attempted arson and robbery. Melvin Mitchell’s sentences for seconddegree murder are to be served consecutively, and it will be 25 years before he is eligible for parole.

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Economy before people When we elect people to office, we give them power to make and enact decisions on our behalf. They should have a vision that extends beyond the next election and the latest Dow Jones average — to our children and grandchildren.

We expect our leaders to have a clear picture of our world and the conditions necessary for human life and DAVID well-being. If SUZUKI they don’t, how can they make informed decisions? So let me outline some simple, scientifically validated truths about us and the world we live in — truths that should guide our political decisions.

We are, above all else, biological beings, with an absolute need for clean air from the moment of birth to the last death rattle. We take air deep into our lungs and filter whatever’s in it. Plants on land and in the ocean take in the

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greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and release oxygen during photosynthesis, creating the atmosphere we need.

We are about 60 per cent water by weight, so we need clean water to be healthy. When water falls to Earth, it’s filtered through tree and other plant roots, soil fungi and bacteria, cleansing it so it’s safe to drink.

All the energy in our bodies that we use to move, grow and reproduce is sunlight captured by plants in photosynthesis and converted to chemical energy, which we ingest. We eat plants and animals for our nourishment, so whatever they’re exposed to ends up in our bodies. We need clean soil to give us clean food. These are basic, biological facts and should be the prism through which any decision is made at individual, corporate or government levels. Protection of air, water, soil and the web of life should be the highest social, political and economic priority.

We’re also social animals. Scientists have shown that love during childhood is essential for healthy development.

Children who are deprived of love at critical points can develop a variety of physical and psychological deficits. To avoid those, we have to work for strong families and supportive communities, full employment, justice, greater in-

come and gender equity and freedom from terror, genocide and war.

Finally, we are spiritual creatures who require sacred places, a sense of belonging to the world and a recognition that we are not in charge of nature, but dependent on the biosphere for our health and well-being. We are not outside of nature; we are part of it.

To be fully healthy and human, our most elemental needs are biological, social and spiritual. Politicians ought to know this. Their role is to protect and enhance those necessities of life; otherwise there is no vision, direction or leadership.

That’s why it’s absurd for a politician or government representative to speak about any aspect of the economy without acknowledging the threat of human-induced climate change. Many oppose doing anything on ideological grounds, but the science is overwhelming and compelling, and the need for action is clear. What can you say about “leaders” who choose to ignore the best available evidence to the detriment of the people they are elected to represent?

Surely those who act only for shortterm economic gain, imposing destructive consequences on generations to come, must be held responsible. We

must also consider the consequences of rapid and excessive exploitation of fossil fuels on the world’s poorest people, who have done little to create climate change but are most affected by it.

Even though Canada ratified the legally binding Kyoto Protocol, which spelled out our obligations to reduce the risk of climate change, many of our “leaders” have wilfully ignored scientific evidence and urgent calls to meet the protocol’s targets, and Canada eventually abandoned the agreement.

What should we call that?

And what can we say about “leaders” who can see something is wrong and have the means to respond but choose not to? This is what Canada is doing — in the face of overwhelming evidence and pleading of other industrialized nations.

Our elected representatives deserve respect for their commitment. But the elevated status and power of politicians also carries responsibilities.

Many are abrogating those responsibilities for ideological reasons that have nothing to do with our well-being.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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Cyclists, motorists must learn to get along On Aug. 15, Lee Hankey wrote a letter complaining about cyclists. His observations are common among those who dislike bicycles.

He states that cyclists bother him when they ride past him on the bicycle paths without ringing a bell.

He is right. Cyclists should be warning walkers. It can be very disconcerting to have someone on a bicycle to buzz by without any warning.

He also complains that he has seen cyclists ride between vehicles to the front of the line at a red light and then cut off the vehicles when the light changes.

Cyclists like this are infuriating because they slow up traffic. Motorists have to be extra careful because they can’t trust the cyclist to act reasonably or predictably.

Certainly cyclists should be more courteous. As a group, they annoy a lot of people.

On the other side of the coin, pedestrians cause problems for the cyclists, but don’t see their actions as doing anything wrong. Pedestrians walk three or four abreast along the bike paths, or just stop to chat, blocking the path. They walk their dogs on long leashes and the cyclist has to wait for the dogs to be reined in before passing. At least half of the pedestrians who walk alone are plugged into their tunes and can’t hear the bell or voice anyway.

But it becomes much more serious with discourteous motorists. On the weekend, as I was crossing the intersection on my bicycle, a guy in a pickup wanting to make a turn changed his normal path of travel to drive right at me. He yelled that I was supposed to walk my bicycle across the intersection. “That’s what they teach kids in school,” he called condescendingly. The interaction was very frightening.

In a way, the motorist was correct. As a cyclist, you may either act as a pedestrian or motorist. If the cyclist is on the sidewalk, he is a acting as a pedestrian and the law says that he is supposed to get off the bike and walk across the crosswalk. (This law is ignored almost everywhere in North America, both by cyclists and the police, because it is obvious that cyclists are not going to get off their bicycles and walk at every intersection. That said, it is a good idea for young children.)

However, the motorist was completely wrong in my situation. I was not on the sidewalk. I was on the road and following the rules of the road the same as any motorist. I had stopped for the red light and had not proceeded until the light turned green. There was no requirement for me to get off my bike and walk.

I was left to consider the motivation of this driver.

I assume that he was feeling superior to me because he was in a truck and I was on my bike. He would not have behaved in the same way if I had been driving my car or my van. The fact that I was riding my bike through the intersection rather than walking meant that I would actually be out of his way much more quickly. I can only conclude that he is part of a small group of citizens who simply detest cyclists.

Most motorists are very courteous towards cyclists. But it only takes one aggressive motorist to make cycling on the road scary. The anger and selfrighteousness of these drivers is very frightening, and the tone of Lee Hankey’s letter is a good example of that attitude. He dislikes cyclists whether they’re on the road or the sidewalk, and every mistake they make drive him crazy. When you are riding your bicycle, you are desperately hoping there are no such motorists on the road. People should not be afraid to ride their bicycles down the road on their daily commute.

It is fine for pedestrians and motorists to demand more courtesy from cyclists. Cyclists should show respect for others. On the other hand, pedestrians and

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Natives showed us way to democracy, but we treated them with disrespect I wish to comment on Chris Salomons’ recent column on residential schools. I can identify so well with your letter and experience.

I spent some time in a convent in Williams Lake, B.C., where we went to school, and witnessed native children being brought into the convent from reserves out west of Williams Lake, and the challenges they faced to integrate into our social life. Some of them didn’t make it and ran away to live in the bush.

I think they were better off.

We, as Europeans have come to this country with our high-minded attitudes of religion and government that are foreign to native people, and imposed it upon this people who we considered “savages.”

Yet, the type of government they had in place 400 to 500 years prior to the arrival of Europeans here leaves us with much egg on our faces. They practised a democratic system and way of life far superior to the dreams and aspirations of the savants and kingdoms of Europe.

I will hone in on the Iroquois Confederacy. In 1990, Hugh Downs talked about We, the Iroquois in his 10-minute perspectives aired on the ABC Radio Network. Larry King, Janet Reno, and Joe Clarke, Canadian minister of Constitutional Affairs, have all focused on the Iroquois influence, as have an increasing number of educational institutions and political science curricula throughout the United States; on the tremendous influence the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy had on the formation of

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The inspiration for the founding fathers, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, by their comprehensive studies of the Iroquois Confederacy and the 1,000-year-old Great Law of Peace given by the peacemaker, Deganawidah, and put into motion by Hiawatha, provided them with the foundation stone for the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The early drafts of the American Constitution included some of the Iroquois language and wording, for the English words were too limiting.

When Iroquois council members rose to speak, everyone stayed quiet. After saying what needed to be said, the member sat down and was given five to 10 minutes to recollect and then rose to give final summary. This is much different than British council meetings where the Chamber Guard would be hoarse from yelling for order.

Some of the articles the Iroquois lived by: no government person was allowed to enter your home for any cause; total freedom of religion; freedom of speech; and right of recall of local representatives.

This rich native American democratic tradition was the real source for the Americans’ distinctive political ideal. Indeed, centuries before Columbus arrived in the New World, democracy was alive and well, just waiting for the founding fathers to discover it.

Unfortunately, the United States that the American Indians helped to bring into being used its strength to obliterate this beautiful people.

In Canada; the Iroquois long house was declared a hostile operation and contrary to Canadian law.

Anyone found meeting in the long house was thrown into jail.

So much for freedom and democracy in Canada.

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KITS HAVE LIMITATIONS, BUT CAN HELP PREVENT DEATHS: ADVOCATES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Drug-testing kits currently available in Canada have limitations, but they can be part of the solution to help prevent unnecessary deaths at live concerts such as Toronto’s Veld music festival, where two people died earlier this month after taking what’s believed to be party drugs, says a harmreduction group.

Toronto’s Trip Project says the testing kits, when combined with other strategies like drug education, could make drug use safer for people who will not abstain from risky behaviour.

“People die at music festivals. That’s not a thing that we should just accept,” said Lori Kufner, a co-ordinator with the city-funded organization.

Kufner said that testing kits for synthetic so-called “party” drugs may be a way of reducing risks, but they aren’t

widely used and some people who take drugs don’t even know they’re available.

“There’s a lot of other drugs that are being created and sold and passed off as other substances. Buying street drugs, you never really know what it is,” she said. “If you test it for something and it ends up being something that you didn’t think it was going to be, you can still make an informed decision of whether to toss it or do it anyway.”

Health Canada says all synthetic club drugs are considered equally harmful and are unsafe even in so-called “pure” forms.

Police are still trying to determine what drugs may have been consumed by a 20-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man who died, and 13 others who were sickened at the Veld Music Festival in Toronto’s Downsview Park. Police said all 15 people ingested what they believe was a party drug purchased at

the festival.

Adrienne Smith, a staff lawyer with the Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver, said that simply condemning the use of illegal drugs is not a solution.

“Currently illicit drug use is happening at parties. What we do about that is the important question,” she said.

“What the harm-reduction community has decided to do is to acknowledge that it’s happening and to address some of the harms so that people don’t die,” she said.

But drug-test kits remain “under the radar,” said Karim Rifaat, the owner of Test Kit Plus, a Montreal company that sells the kits online.

“A lot of people who like to use drugs recreationally don’t even know that it’s possible to test them,” he said.

He stressed that the kits are not 100 per cent accurate.

“It’s not as good as sending it to a lab,” he said, but they allow people to

get an overall idea of the constituents of a capsule, tablet, or powder drug sample.

“If you have no idea what’s in your tablet and you just take it, that’s probably one of the worst things you can do,” he said.

Testing a substance, Kufner said, requires mixing a single drop of chemical reagent with a sample of the party drug (usually a scraping of powder the size of the tip of a pen) on a glass or ceramic plate, and comparing the colour of the reaction to a chart.

Andrew Jolie, an electronic music enthusiast, said he has seen people use test kits in Miami, but not in Canada.

“Generally, they turn different colours for different substances. The ones I’ve seen, for (popular club drug) MDMA it would turn a dark blue and for speed or cocaine or some other kind of amphetamine, it would turn green or yellow,” he said.

Transgender rowers race against discrimination Two transgender athletes who competed in a boat race on Sunday say the event is a much-needed step forward for the inclusion of transgender people in sports.

Organizers say the 22-kilometre race along the Ottawa River marked the first time that openly transgender athletes competed in rowing in Canada.

Enza Anderson and Savannah Burton, who first took to the water only two months ago, are part of a five-person team dubbed Team TRANS-fusion.

They finished fourth out of five teams, with a timing of just over two hours, about 10 minutes behind the first-place rowers.

The team’s introduction to rowing was part of a pilot project at Toronto’s Hanlan Boat Club, which sought to attract transgender people to its Learnto-Row program.

Anderson, 50, said she stayed away from sports for most of her life, wary of the discrimination that transgender athletes can face.

“For me the experience has been very emotional,” she said. “You never know when you go into an environment like this if people will accept you.”

She said it’s a reality that all transgender people face on a regular basis.

“Going to gym has always been my worst nightmare, because I’ve heard horror stories about the change-room dilemma,” she said. “I want to do my workout and not get hassled by anybody.”

Rowing has become an outlet for Anderson, who said the boat club has provided her with technical know-how and a new hobby.

“I never thought I’d reach 50 because of all the struggles of transitioning, and trying to survive and trying to make a living and function like everybody else,” she said, crying.

“Finally participating in an activity that’s so welcoming,” she said. “I think I’m really lucky.

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“It’s the fact that they’re part of a team. There are three women and two men in the boat, it just so happened that two of the women are from the trans community.”

He added the program was made possible because of a well-defined policy of acceptance at the boat club, and a focus on inclusive recreational rowing for all skill levels.

“I would not have been able to do that in other clubs because their focus is very different,” he said, adding that the program has put the issue of transgender discrimination at the forefront.

“It’s making sports organizations now take a look at their own policies.”

Burton, 39, said her love of sports

took a back seat when she recently transitioned from male to female.

Before her transition, she had been a competitive dodgeball player, whitewater kayaker and baseball player.

“I was ready to go back to sports,” she said, adding that her hope is to create visibility around transgender athletes. “I know when I was a kid there weren’t any trans athletes out there at all.”

Burton said societal discrimination is a daily struggle for transgender people.

“Even just walking down the streets sometimes, people stare, people say things,” she said. “It’s really tough on some people.”

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Helen Kennedy, executive director of the human rights advocacy group Egale Canada, said the boat race is “pushing the boundaries for basic equality.”

“It’s a very courageous thing that they’re doing,” she said.

Despite the increasing awareness of transgender issues, Kennedy said, systemic homophobia and transphobia still plague the sports world.

“We need to have a broader conversation about this,” she said, adding that whether it’s Olympic-level competition or grade-school gym class, an individual’s participation in sports is often limited by societal gender roles.

The hope of Sunday’s boat race was to give young transgender individuals, and those currently transitioning, a chance to “see themselves in something significant,” she said.

Team captain Adrian Cornelissen spearheaded the pilot project at Hanlan Boat Club and said respect and acceptance are essential to creating a successful team.

“Not only do we have to row in synch, but there will be different moments when team members hit the wall,” he said, noting that the half-marathon took about two hours.

Cornelissen estimated 10 and 15 teams took to the water, including singles, doubles and team boats, launching from the Ottawa New Edinburgh Club.

His idea for a transgender-inclusive rowing team was sparked by a desire to see role models for transgender youth,

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Scheduling conflicts with VIPs force Tories to keep two Challengers airborne OTTAWA — The Harper government’s plan to decommission four of its six C-144 Challengers was sidelined and revisited last year because the executive jets were getting more VIP and military use than thought.

Former defence minister Peter MacKay, in early 2013, ordered that the majority of the aircraft, long cast as a symbol of Liberal excess by the Conservatives, be retired within the year as they reached the end of their service life.

But newly released memos, dated Nov. 18, 2013, show the plan was scaled back to the deactivation of just two planes — something the government waited until after Parliament recessed in late June to announce.

The Challengers are tasked with shuttling around the prime minister, the governor general and cabinet ministers, as well as being an air ambulance for members of the military.

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Man completes charity swim from New Brunswick to P.E.I. and back A Vancouver man said he was looking forward to a bath and some black forest cake after completing a swim from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island and back.

Jeremy Davidson, 32, arrived back in New Brunswick on Saturday night after spending 16 hours and 15 minutes in the water crossing the Northumberland Strait both ways.

Davidson left Cape Jourimain in New Brunswick on Saturday morning and turned around after reaching BordenCarleton, P.E.I. A member of his support team says he grabbed a sandwich and kissed his wife before turning around to start the return trip to New Brunswick.

The army corporal, based at CFB Gagetown, N.B. said the swim took longer than expected because he had to fight tides, wind and currents both ways.

Davidson made the swim to raise money and awareness for the Neil

toy.”

The project is a labour of love, but Mazur envisions Multiverse as a teaching instrument combining the addictive pleasure of motion-controlled video games with the sparkle and magic of computer-generated artistry.

He’s striving to make space education as accessible to youngsters as to university students, because he believes the future of humanity lies lightyears beyond our planet.

“Either we’re going to annihilate each other within the next 100 years, or, we figure something out ... and then space is going to have a very pivotal role,” he said.

It’s therefore critical people begin shifting their mindsets now towards accepting space as a viable reality, he

said.

“And from a children-perspective, (I hope the project) inspires them, so that they might grow up and seriously want to become engineers so they can build spaceships — like, for real, build spaceships.”

The United States government’s cuts to its NASA space program is “a theft from the future of the world,” Mazur said.

The Multiverse images were mainly obtained from the NASA Hubble space telescope and European Space Agency. Mazur is motivated to provide the vicarious exploration of the universe by the hope that a critical mass of such projects will spur society to adopt space as a plausible future home amid a galactic community.

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Squire Society, a nonprofit organization that empowers people with disabilities to return to the workforce. He said it was one of the hardest things he’s ever done.

“Everything you could think of got thrown at me,” he said. ”I can’t believe I finally got to shore.”

Davidson said he planned to get warmed up in front of a fire.

The charity swim was inspired by his father, who was diagnosed in 2010 with a severe form of arthritis.

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“I think anything that gets people going, ’Oh wow’ — that captures their imagination, that makes them look up at the stars, think about our place in the universe — is valuable,” said Jennifer Kirkey, a physics and astronomy instructor at Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C. The human species will benefit from reminders in our daily lives that we’re all aboard the “Big Blue Marble,” said Kirkey, who observed Mazur’s simulator last month at the opening party for MakerLabs, a Vancouver studio for technology-oriented artists.

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VANCOUVER — When a storm of magazines and major dailies published an astronaut’s photograph of the Earth cresting above the moon in January 1969, the image spurred a new era of global consciousness.

We were a small, united society sharing one large playground.

Today, a 41-year-old Vancouver man with a laptop, cache of space telescope images and 15-year passion for outer space is mapping our corner of the universe in a quest to do the same on a galactic scale.

Matt Mazur has built a universe simulator that projects a three-dimensional rendering of the Earth’s galactic neighbourhood onto two massive white screens, giving any user the power to scroll far beyond our own solar system with a hand-controlled motion sensor device.

“It’s hard to think about something until you can visualize it,” said Mazur, noting that people living thousands of years ago believed the Earth was just a big, flat area because they lacked the tools to view a sphere suspended in space.

“I think global consciousness is a stepping stone in consciousness. The next logical step is a type of galactic consciousness.

“Some people might say, ’That’s too science fiction.’ But you’ve got to start at some point. Galactic consciousness still might take a while before it actually kicks in, but it’s a process.”

By day, the ex-computer programmer with degrees in computer science and interactive multimedia animates ads for YouTube. But by night, he scans cyberspace for high-quality photographs of star systems.

Mazur has already digitally stitched together and enhanced 64 galaxies and is cataloguing 50 more, as he charts the brightest galaxies in the region labelled the Virgo Supercluster. He hopes to eventually render 250 galaxies, amounting to 1/38-millionth of the observable universe.

The project is dubbed “Multiverse.”

Mazur, who moonlights as a live visual artist under the moniker “VJ Elf-

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FRONT GOSPEL MUSIC WEEKEND IN BLACKFALDS Gospel music fans can attend the Country Gospel in the Park Music Weekend in Blackfalds from Sept. 5 to 7. The event, hosted by the Blackfalds United Church, will be at Blackfalds All Star Park.

The performances start on Sept. 5 at 5 p.m. and run through the weekend.

Performers include Visions Country Gospel, Ben Kellert, Potters Clay, RR 4, Freedom Seekers, The Tapleys, Gospel Troubadours and Joyful Melody. There will be a 9 a.m. church service on Sept. 7. Performances are in a heated tent.

Food is available on site.

Spectators should bring their lawn chairs. Weekend passes are $30. Day passes are also available. For details, contact John at 403-885-4857, Moe at 403-357-6678 or Jim at 403-391-1397 or online at blackfaldsunitedchurch. com.

FIRST THURSDAY FEATURES SANGSTER’S OCTECT The next edition of First Thursdays in the Snell brings Kent Sangster’s Obsessions Octet on Sept. 4. Just back from a European tour, the Edmonton-based group will offer samplings of classical, jazz and tango music during the lunch hour in the Snell Gallery, located on the lower level of the Red Deer Public Library’s downtown branch. First Thursdays concerts run from 12:15 to 1 p.m. and are free of charge. The library is locate at 4818 49th Ave.

VOLUNTEER VIRTUES TO BE DISCUSSED A volunteer co-ordinator will extol the virtues of volunteering when she speaks at the Golden Circle in Red Deer on Sept. 2.

Karen Oatway, community volunteer co-ordinator from Volunteer Central, will speak at 9 a.m. to the Central Alberta Council on Aging. The charge is $3.

For more information, call Shirley Thomas at 403343-0767 or Ron Rose at 403-346-8115. The Golden Circle is located at 4620 47A Ave.

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Keeping pace

ALBERTA DOWNS ATTRACTS SOME OF THE BEST HORSES, DRIVERS AND RIDERS BUT THE INDUSTRY IS STRUGGLING Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Nathan Sobey drives his horse Wrangler Hitech towards the finish during the third race at the Alberta Downs Racetrack Saturday afternoon. Wrangler Hitech came in first.

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF LACOMBE — Paper Trail skips out of the barn at Alberta Downs, tugging at the bit as her driver guides her toward the track for a pre-race warmup.

She’s trying to trot, but she’ll shift into a pace when it’s time to crank up the speed, says trainer Michelle Danroth. Originally from Chilliwack, B.C., Danroth is one of the dozens of people working full time at the Alberta Downs racetrack near Lacombe this summer, trying to make a living in an industry that needs a serious and longterm injection of cash.

As her horse heads goes out for the 3.2 kilometre jog that will warm her up for her race later on, Danroth talks about the promises, still to be fulfilled, that brought her to Alberta nine years ago. She’s been at Alberta Downs since it opened, five years ago, in response to the same promise. She’s still waiting.

Alberta Downs owner Bobby Allen explains: While horse racing across the continent is struggling as an industry, the problems in Alberta relate to a sharp drop in revenue that came with the introduction of video lottery gambling.

Pari-mutuel betting alone can no longer provide horse owners with the purses (winnings) they need to continued breeding and racing good horses, said Allen.

In a deal struck under former Premier Ralph Klein, shortfalls were to be made up by allowing race tracks to operate their own lottery terminals, with the revenue pooled and a portion of that money then used to build up the purses.

Nine years ago and within those parameters, there was a plan afoot to replace the aging track at Calgary with a brand new facility at Balzac, including a licence for 625 video lottery terminals.

That project became mired in permitting and money issues and, at about the same time, the province put a moratorium on VLTs. Therefore, while the 625 terminals that were supposed to support horse racing in Albert remained in limbo, other tracks were unable to beef up their own facilities and Alberta Downs was not granted the VLT licence that was supposed to form a portion of its revenue.

In that time, the purses have been getting smaller and owners are breeding fewer horses.

Allen and Danroth both said

they are hanging on to the hope that Century Casino’s recent purchase of the Balzac site will get the project back on track, with the resulting revenue from its “racino” coming online to help rebuild a crumbling industry.

Century Downs is slated to open in the spring of 2015. Danroth said she’ll believe it when the starting gates spring open for the first race.

While revenue has been a source of pain within the industry, there has been no loss of quality for people who come to watch the races, said Allen.

Certainly, his visitor facilities are not as grand as he had planned. However, he said the track itself is world class, with a one-mile, all-weather dirt track for the harness racers wrapped around a seven-eighths mile turf track for thoroughbreds.

That makes Alberta Downs the longest track in Western Canada and the Northwestern United States, including offtrack betting facilities so gamblers can bet on any other races being run in Canada and the US, said Allen.

It’s possible to go upstairs at Alberta Downs and place bets at Woodbine, said Allen. It’s equally possible to sit at any track in North America and place bets at Alberta Downs, with all bets are eligible for a major jackpot.

“You could bet $2 here and win $3 million,” said Allen.

The quality of horses, drivers and riders at Lacombe is as good as anywhere else, he said, pointing out two regular drivers at Alberta Downs who are among the eight invited to a national competition in Prince Edward Island later this week.

Coming to the races is the most fun you can have for two dollars, said race fan Grace Jasper of Bowden, who drove up for an afternoon at the track with her friend, Marilyn Knock of Innisfail.

A $2 bet can be a complete loss, or it can return a tidy profit.

The winner of the first race on Saturday paid back $14 for each $2 bet. Neither woman would offer any tips on the horses they were watching.

But people don’t need to bring a fat wallet to watch the races at Alberta Downs, said Allen.

There are snacks and beverages available, including beer and liquor. But there is no admission or parking fee and people are welcome to bring their own picnic baskets if they wish.

They can bring their dogs, too, he said. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate. com

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Above: Central Albertans enjoy the sunshine while taking in the horse races at the Alberta Downs Racetrack Saturday afternoon.

Below: Tyler Redwood helps lead another driver onto the track at the Alberta Downs Racetrack Saturday afternoon. Wrangler Hitech came in first.

Moratorium considered for flood-prone area

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The public will have their say on a Mountain View County plan to propose a temporary moratorium in a flood-prone area southwest of Sundre.

Council approved first reading of a bylaw that would prohibit development in the McDougal Flats area. It will now go to a public hearing on Oct. 9 before council considers second and third readings.

If passed, the bylaw would

MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY temporarily bar all future development in a 9,600-acre flood hazard area along a 13-km section of the river identified by consultants Golder Associates in a recent report. The moratorium will remain in place until lifted or modified by council.

That wouldn’t happen until county planning documents are updated for the low-lying area that has partly flooded several times in the last few years.

Council is taking a cautious approach because a recent study by consultants identified that a pair of rural subdivisions and a large swath of land south of the airport are in a potential floodway. New provincial legislation, enacted after last year’s devastating floods in Southern Alberta place strict limits on the types of development allowed in flood-prone areas.

The same legislation re-

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quires municipalities to update their plans to ensure they meet provincial regulations.

“Rather than move forward with any kind of development or application for development, we’re trying to protect people and trying to protect the county on future development by just putting a moratorium in place until we get a more defined floodway and a more defined map so we know exactly where the areas of risk are,” said Coun. Al Kemmere in a recent interview. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Nazdarovie : Soviet chic?

NEW RETRO-SOVIET RESTAURANT A NOD TO NOSTALGIA FOR TIES BETWEEN HAVANA AND MOSCOW

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA, Cuba — There’s no rice, beans or fried plantains at Havana’s newest private restaurant. You can order a minty mojito, but it’ll come mixed with vodka instead of the traditional white rum.

The waiters speak Russian, and patrons are expected to order in that language if they want to get served. But don’t worry, the menus at this retroSoviet restaurant come with translations and pronunciation guides for the non-initiated.

Nazdarovie, which is named for the popular Russian toast and opened Friday, is all about Slavic fare like bowls of blood-red borscht and stuffed Ukrainian varenyky dumplings, hand-rolled in the back by “babushkas” who were born in the former Soviet Union but have long called Cuba home.

It’s a nod to nostalgia for the island’s Soviet ties during the Cold War, a time when Moscow was Havana’s main source of trade and aid and hundreds of thousands of Cubans travelled to the Soviet bloc as diplomats, artists and students.

“For most of them it was the first time they ever left this island. They have nostalgia about their time there, about the flavours they experienced for the first time,” said Gregory Biniowsky, a 45-year-old Canadian of Ukrainian descent who dreamed up Nazdarovie and launched it with three Cuban partners.

“The idea with Nazdarovie is really to celebrate a unique social and cultural link that existed and to a certain degree still exists today between Cuba of 2014 and what was once the Soviet Union,” said Biniowsky, a lawyer and consultant who has lived in Havana for two decades.

The collapse of the Soviet bloc largely ended the Havana-Moscow connection and sent Cuba into an economic tailspin.

However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has talked recently of renewing the relationship. He made a state visit last month, Russian navy ships periodically dock in Havana’s harbour

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Cooked vegetables served as an appetizer are presented in a bowl during the opening of the new retro-Soviet restaurant Nazdarovie in Havana, Cuba, Friday.

Nazdarovie, which is named for the popular Russian toast and opened Friday, is a nod to nostalgia for the island’s Soviet ties during the Cold War, a time when Moscow was Havana’s main source of trade and aid and hundreds of thousands of Cubans traveled to the Soviet bloc as diplomats, artists and students. and Cuba has backed Russia in its dispute over Ukraine.

Occupying the third story of a historic building on the seafront Malecon boulevard, Nazdarovie is an homage to the old country.

Behind the bar, Russian nesting dolls and a bust of Lenin perch next to bottles of high-end vodka.

Reproductions of Soviet propaganda posters line one wall in an attempt to spark conversation among customers sitting at a long communal table.

About the only sign of the tropics is the million-dollar terrace view of Havana’s skyline and the Straits of Florida.

At a pre-launch dress rehearsal, smartly dressed young waiters set steaming bowls of solyanka, a meaty Russian soup, before about 20 invited guests.

The evening’s menu also included pelmeni, dumplings filled with meat, sour cream and dill; golubtsy, stuffed cabbage rolls slow-cooked in a tomato sauce; pork Stroganoff (beef is often scarce in Cuba); and for dessert, savory-sweet blintzes, called “blinchiki” in Russian.

Biniowsky said most of the ingredients can be found on the island, with some exceptions such as flour for black

bread, and caviar, for which they’ll rely on tins imported in the personal luggage of friends and family.

It will go for about $15 an ounce, with fancier and pricier varieties available for special occasions.

In the air-conditioned kitchen, Irina Butorina stirred gobs of mayonnaise with potatoes, eggs, ham and peas to create an olivier salad, a popular dish in former Soviet states that, according to legend, was invented by a Belgianor French-Russian chef named Lucien Olivier.

Butorina, 56, fell in love with a Cuban student she met at university in her native Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic, now Kyrgyzstan, and moved here in 1984.

She said the taste of her mother’s recipes faded as she adapted to Cuba.

“At first I used to cook a lot of Russian food here, but then a lot of things disappeared from the market — cabbage, for example. ... so then I make Cuban food,” she said. “But these people here have started this restaurant.

It was their dream ... and our dream as well.”

Experts say Butorina’s story is typical of the Soviet diaspora here: Of the estimated 3,000-4,000 islanders who were born in the Soviet Union or descended from them, most are cases of Soviet women who married Cuban university students and moved to the Caribbean nation.

Some were divorced or widowed but remain in Cuba decades later with little or no tie to their homelands.

“I think for many it was a truly traumatic experience because there are many of our women who have not travelled, who have not returned to visit their countries after the Soviet Union disintegrated,” said Dmitri PrietoSamsonov, an anthropologist who studies the Soviet diaspora in Cuba.

At Nazdarovie, one poster in particular stands out amid the current crisis between Moscow and Kyiv. Created under Nikita Khrushchev to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Russia and Ukraine, it shows two runners representing the Soviet republics simultaneously breaking the tape at a finish line. “

Tax credits help with home renos Canadians looking to renovate their residential real estate have access to a number of government programs that can make the costs a little less burdensome.

The residential renovation industry in Canada has been on a steady incline for almost two decades, doubling since the late 1990s.

A recent report by the Altus Group shows that Canadians’ total spending on home renovations rose to TALBOT $63.4 billion in BOGGS 2013 from $61.5 billion in 2011 and is forecast to hit $65.2 billion this year and $67.3 billion in 2015.

Vibrant residential renovation spending is being fuelled by a number of factors such as low interest and mortgage rates, government tax credits, rising home values and what Altus calls the Home and Garden TV (HGTV) effect, which came into being with the launch of HGTV in late 1997 and the beginning of the home improvement television programming craze.

There are a number of government incentives that apply to the renovation sector.

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Quebec is currently the only province in the country that has a broadbased renovation incentive through its LogiRenov tax credit.

The credit is intended for individuals who are owner-occupants and carry out renovation work on their principal place of residence between April 24, 2014 and December 31, 2015.

It will apply to renovation expenses exceeding $3,000 at the rate of 20%, for a maximum credit of $2,500.

The renovation work must be carried out by a recognized contractor under an agreement entered into after April 24, 2014 and before July 1, 2015.

Quebec’s EcoRenov program offers a credit of up to $10,000 for eco-friendly renovation work on an owner or coowners principal residence or cottage, provided the latter is suitable for yearround occupancy.

The work must have a positive environmental impact or improve the dwelling’s energy efficiency, and the materials and appliances involved must meet recognized environmental and energy standards Eligible work includes insulation of the roof, exterior walls, foundations and exposed floors, water-proof sealing of foundations and air sealing of the dwelling’s envelope or part of it, replacement or addition of doors, windows and skylights with ENERGY STAR qualified models, work relating to mechanical systems such as heating, cooling, hot water and ventilation, water conservation and quality, soil quality and construction of green roofs.

The amount of the credit is 20 per cent of eligible expenses that exceed $2,500 up to a maximum credit of $10,000 per eligible dwelling.

The credit is only for the 2013 and 2014 taxation years and work must be performed by a qualified contractor under a contract entered into after October 7, 2013 and before November 1, 2014.

If you are the co-owner of an eligible dwelling, you can split the amount of the tax credit with the other coowner(s). However, the total amount claimed in respect of the dwelling cannot exceed $10,000.

Senior citizens in Ontario and British Columbia have access to tax credits of $1,500 a year and $1,000 a year respectively to perform certain home renovations to improve accessibility and make it easier for them to be more functional and mobile at home.

Eligible renovations would include wheelchair ramps, stair lifts, elevators, raised toilet seats, motion-activated lighting, non-slip flooring, shower grab bars, hands-free taps, automatic garage door openers and additional light fixtures inside and outside the home.

“Renovators reported an increase in the past year in requests for renovations designed to increase the energy-efficiency of a home, which may in part be due to incentives related to this type of work,” the report noted.

“No increase was reported, however, for renovations related to accessibility for seniors.”

While renovating your home may

improve your lifestyle and add value to what for most people is their largest single asset, the majority of Canadians may not be aware of the insurance implications of giving their living space a facelift.

Upgrades requiring extensive work such as adding an extension on your home may require you to change your entire policy to a building under construction.

If you’re not living in your home during renovations it becomes an easier target for thieves and undetected water damage and your insurer may require you to secure a vacancy permit if you move out for more than a month.

Although contractors are professionals, accidents do happen.

If a contractor or their employees are injured on your property you could be liable for their medical bills, lost wages or damages for pain and suffering – all out of your own pocket.

You may want to ask to see a public liability insurance certificate before choosing a builder.

The amount of insurance coverage they have will depend on the type of renovation, the number of employees and cost of the renovation.

The higher the limits of coverage the more protection you have.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

Sriracha plant offers first open house SECRETIVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOT-SAUCE PLANT WAS ONCE LABELED A NUISANCE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IRWINDALE, Calif. — A Southern California hot sauce plant that came under fire for its spicy odours is throwing open its doors to the public, offering a whiff of excitement and perhaps a breath of fresh air in its relations with its neighbours. As many as 3,000 people are expected to visit the factory that makes Sriracha hot sauce over the weekend in this eastern Los Angeles suburb. The factory is holding its first open houses to kick off the chili harvest season. During a 20-minute walk through the 650,000-square-foot facility, visitors can watch chili grinding; sample Sriracha-flavoured ice cream, popcorn and chocolate caramels; visit

the new gift shop; and take photos with a cardboard cutout of David Tran, CEO of plant owner Huy Fong Foods.

Tran gave an explanation for opening the factory doors when he previously had been secretive about its trade secrets and customized machinery.

“To prove we make hot sauce, we don’t make tear gas,” Tran told the Pasadena Star-News Irwindale, the Los Angeles suburb of about 1,500 people, had sued the company and declared the plant a public nuisance after some nearby residents complained of an eye-watering, throat-closing odour during grinding season. Tran began offering small tours to visitors from all over the U.S. and Canada, and several politicians

said they wouldn’t mind if he moved his $60 million company to their areas.

But in May, an agreement was forged between the city and Tran with the help of representatives from Gov. Jerry Brown’s Business and Economic Development Office. The city dropped its nuisance declaration and lawsuit.

Tran, an immigrant from Vietnam whose company produces several chili sauces based on the flavours of his native country, said he installed stronger ventilation filters he was confident would block the smell. Tran told the Star-News that he has received only two complaints since truckloads of chilies began arriving at the factory at the end of July and that inspectors didn’t detect any odours.

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plaints, City Manager John Davidson said.

The factory offered tours Friday and intends to continue them every Saturday, except the Labor Day weekend, until the harvest season ends in November. The plant gets 45 truckloads of chili peppers daily from farms in Kern and Ventura counties, with a harvest season goal of 58,000 tons. The peppers are ground and mixed with vinegar and salt, releasing a spicy scent that made some visitors sneeze or cough.

But Irwindale residents Monica Lopez and Monica Romero weren’t bothered.

“The smell doesn’t even bother us, and I live three blocks away,” said Lopez, 53. “I haven’t even coughed once since I’ve been in here.”

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Stocks set to advance ON FED REASSURANCES, TRADERS LOOK TO SOLID RUN OF BANK EARNINGS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Stock markets look set to gain ground this week after traders got some reassurance from the Federal Reserve last week on interest rates.

The Toronto market could find some lift from the financial sector after Royal Bank (TSX:RY) on Friday kicked off the quarterly earnings season for the big banks with a record profit of $2.38 billion that beat expectations and then hiked its dividend.

There was strong across most sectors, led by its capital markets and wealth management divisions.

Analysts are looking for a solid quarterly performance from the rest of the big banks this week.

“I think you’re going to see a lot of the same themes,” said Robert Gorman, chief portfolio strategist at TD Waterhouse.

“By and large, this sort of relative performance of the Royal will not be hugely different than the others. The variable will be capital markets as

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Switzerland’s Roche to buy InterMune, US-based developer of lung disease drugs, in $8.3B deal BERLIN — Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche says it will buy a California-based developer of treatments for lung diseases, InterMune Inc., in a deal worth $8.3 billion.

Roche said Sunday the companies have reached an agreement under which Roche will acquire InterMune in an all-cash transaction, paying $74.00 per InterMune share. That’s a premium of 38 per cent over InterMune’s closing price on Friday.

The Swiss firm says the acquisition the biotechnology company, based in Brisbane, California, “will allow Roche to broaden and strengthen its respiratory portfolio globally.”

Albany hotel dating to 1920s demolished to make way for $66 million convention centre ALBANY, N.Y. — An 11-story hotel dating to the 1920s was demolished Saturday to make way for a new $66 million convention centre in New York’s capital.

Fireworks exploded and crowds cheered as the Wellington Hotel Annex disappeared into a cloud of beige dust.

Some people positioned cameras on tripods to capture the demise of the annex, which had stood near the state capitol for nine decades but was vacant in recent years.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan was among the spectators posing for pictures with the building — from a safe distance — before it was reduced to rubble.

“That was really an amazing thing to see,” Sheehan told the Albany Times Union. “To see so many people come out and witness history in the making and history in the coming, it’s really a wonderful thing.”

The implosion was postponed from Thursday to limit traffic disruptions.

Streets near the demolition site were closed for several hours. Street sweepers lined up along a nearby street to clear away dust and debris.

The 80,000-square-foot convention centre, dubbed the Albany Capital Center, has been in the planning stages for two decades. Developers say it will be connected by a pedestrian walkway to two other hotspots: the Empire State

some of the banks are bigger in that than others. That’s the variable in the equation.”

Whether further strong earnings reports will translate into hikes in share prices is another story.

Royal’s share price failed to benefit Friday from the earnings report but the stock briefly hit an all-time high of just over $82 and the issue is up about 13 per cent year to date. The financial sector as a whole has charged ahead 12 per cent so far in 2014.

The U.S. Federal Reserve had a sizable role in determining sentiment last week as the discussion continued over the timing of Fed short-term interest rate hikes.

Markets have come around to the view that the Fed could very well move mid-2015 from near zero, where rates have been since the financial crisis.

But the discussion has centred on whether improving economic conditions, particularly in the labour market, would persuade the Fed to move earlier.

Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen indiPlaza and the Times Union Center, a popular sports and concert venue.

“This is a new chapter in Albany’s economic future, and the implosion was impeccably timed,” state Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy told the newspaper.

Tesla building supercharger station at Truckee, Calif.; along I-80 between Sacramento and Reno TRUCKEE, Calif. — Tesla Motors is building a supercharger station in the Sierra north of Lake Tahoe where drivers of their electric cars can recharge along U.S. Interstate 80 between Sacramento and Reno, Nevada.

Tesla officials announced plans earlier to build a station near Truckee about 30 miles southwest of Reno, but haven’t confirmed an exact location or opening date.

The Sierra Sun reported (http://tinyurl.com/o6rxxhx) this week that six charging bays with “Tesla” labels have been delivered to a taped off site in Truckee with construction equipment behind the Safeway on Donner Pass Road.

Assistant Truckee town manager Alex Terrazas confirmed Tesla pulled the required permits and paid the appropriate fees.

Thousands join human chain across the German-Polish border to protest brown coal mining BERLIN — Several thousand people have formed a human chain across the German-Polish border to protest the expansion of open-cast mining for brown coal in the region.

Organizers said more than 7,500 people linked up in an 8-kilometre ( 5-mile) chain between Kerkwitz, Germany, and Grabice, Poland — two villages that activists fear will be evacuated to make way for further brown coal mines, also known as lignite.

Some of Saturday’s demonstrators waded into the Neisse river, which divides the two countries, as part of the chain. The leaders of Germany’s opposition Green party were among those attending the protest.

Both coal and lignite, which is decried as a dirty fuel by environmentalists, play a significant part in the energy mix of both Germany and Poland.

cated in a speech to the central bank’s annual economic symposium on Friday that she hasn’t altered her view that the economy still needs support from ultra-low interest rates.

And she said that the Great Recession complicated the Fed’s ability to assess the U.S. job market and made it harder to determine when to adjust interest rates. She noted that while the unemployment rate has steadily declined, other gauges of the job market are harder to assess and may reflect continued weakness.

“They have leaned toward caution throughout and I think that will continue to be the case,” Gorman said.

He said the Fed will want to be absolutely certain of a recovery in the labour market before it tightens monetary policy.

Traders will also digest some important economic data this week, including the latest reading on Canadian economic growth for June and the second quarter. Economists expect that Statistics Canada will report Friday that GDP grew by 0.2 per cent in June,

which would translate into annualized growth of 2.6 per cent.

Economists point out that GDP revived from a slack start to the year as weather improved.

“Buoyant auto sales should see consumer spending rise by three per cent, contributing to the economy’s pickup,” said CIBC World Markets senior economist Peter Buchanan in a commentary.

“Net exports should also add to growth.”

In the U.S., the durable goods report for July is out Tuesday and economists looked for a gain of seven per cent, reflecting a strong pickup in aircraft orders. Excluding transportation, durable goods orders were expected to rise by 0.4 per cent.

North American markets finished higher last week with the TSX ahead 1.51 per cent and the Dow industrials up 2.03 per cent. Sentiment was helped in part by strong housing and manufacturing data in the U.S. and also reassurance from the Fed that it is in no hurry to raise interest rates.

Allergan reviewing special meeting requests as Valeant ratchets up $53B hostile takeover bid

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON, N.J. — Botox maker Allergan Inc. is reviewing shareholder requests for a special meeting to consider replacing most of its board, a change fellow drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. is seeking as part of the hostile takeover attempt it’s been waging since April.

Allergan has repeatedly rejected Valeant’s offers to buy the company, the latest for about $53 billion in cash and stock, saying Valeant is substantially undervaluing the company and that an independent Allergan can generate more value for shareholders.

Valeant and its partner — investment fund manager Pershing Square Capital Management LP — said late Friday they had submitted to Allergan written requests for a special shareholders meeting from holders of 31 per cent of Allergan’s stock. That exceeds the level Allergan’s bylaws require, Pershing Square said.

Allergan, based in Irvine, California, said Friday evening that it will announce details on a possible meeting once it finishes reviewing the requests. Valeant, one of Canada’s largest pharmaceutical companies, said Friday that under Allergan’s bylaws, it believes Allergan must hold that meeting by Dec. 20.

Allergan, which sells heavily advertised dry-eye drug Restasis, has taken multiple steps to block a takeover, including adopting a “poison pill” measure right after Valeant’s first bid.

The pill, also known as a shareholder rights measure, would give Allergan stockholders one “right” per share owned to buy Allergan shares at a discount if anyone acquires 10 per cent of the company’s stock. Pershing Square is Allergan’s biggest stockholder with

about 9.7 per cent of shares.

A month ago, as Allergan reported its second-quarter earnings jumped 16 per cent, it announced a restructuring plan. The company plans to cut about 13 per cent of its workforce — around 1,500 employees and 250 vacant positions — to boost efficiency and produce pretax savings of about $475 million in 2015.

Three weeks ago, Allergan sued Valeant, Pershing and Pershing’s founder and principal, activist investor William Ackman, accusing them of securities irregularities, claims the Botox maker, fund manager and Ackman call “baseless.”

The lawsuit alleges debt-laden Valeant got Pershing Square to finance the deal because it couldn’t on its own, and that between February and April, Pershing Square quietly bought $3.2 billion in Allergan shares. The suit states Pershing Square then reaped a windfall after Valeant publicly proposed buying Allergan in late April, as those shares rose about $1.2 billion in value.

Valeant has been urging Allergan shareholders to tender their shares, recently extending its deadline to Dec. 31, and has proposed a slate of six “independent” people for Allergan’s nine-member board who would support Valeant’s deal.

If Allergan shareholders replace six current board members, a court could then decide to appoint Valeant’s slate as new Allergan directors. Valeant and Pershing Square would then gain control of Allergan.

Pershing Square said Friday that it expects to deliver more requests for a special meeting from other Allergan shareholders. Valeant, headquartered in Laval, Quebec, has grown rapidly by buying up more than 100 smaller drug companies since 2008.

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1919 — E.L. Richardson and Guy Weadick open the Calgary Victory Stampede, sponsored by Pat Burns, A.E. Cross, George Lane and A.J. McLean, who financed the first Stampede in 1912.

1917 — Calgary court gives the death sentence to Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, two Inuit found guilty of the 1913 murder of an Ob-

late missionary, in the first trial of Inuit in a Canadian court. Hired by two Oblates to act as guides in the Coppermine district of the Northwest Territories, the two Inuit killed the priests and stole some of their goods during a dispute, when one of the priests struck Sinnisiak. The men were arrested in 1916 and brought to Calgary. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment and they were released two years later.

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PASSES TRANSFORMERS FOR SUMMER’S TOP FILM

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Guardians of the Galaxy became the summer’s top-grossing movie at the North American box office with a $17.6 million weekend that narrowly bested the young adult melodrama If I Stay, while the longdelayed Sin City sequel, A Dame to Kill For flopped.

With an estimated $17.6 million in its fourth weekend of release, the Marvel space adventure passed Transformers: Age of Extinction to become the summer’s biggest domestic hit with a cumulative total of $252 million. The film, released by Disney, was an unlikely August sensation (late summer is usually an afterthought in Hollywood’s lucrative summer season) that helped the box office rebound somewhat after big-budget sequels like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and How To Train Your Dragon 2 failed to ignite the multiplexes.

“This movie just couldn’t have come at a better time,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for boxoffice tracker Rentrak. “When we were really down and out in the summer box office — at one point down 20 per cent from last year — Guardians came along and injected life. What is surprising is that it was a film launched in August.”

The Warner Bros. tearjerker If I Stay failed to top the box office with a weekend haul of $16.4 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. In the film, a co-production between MGM and New Line Cinema, Chloe Grace Moretz stars as a teen in a coma after a car accident. It came in third place behind the reptile reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which made $16.8 million

in its third weekend.

Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros. said the studio was pleased with the performance of If I Stay considering its $11 million production budget. Advance tracking on the film had forecast a box officetopping result, but tracking had also expected Sin City: A Dame to Kill For to open in the mid-teens. It made just $6.5 million.

“This is a complete miss,” said Erik Lomis, the Weinstein Co.’s distribution chief. “Obviously, we’re very, very disappointed in the numbers. We definitely did not see it coming in like this.”

The hurt was particularly acute, Lomis said, because it happened with a longtime Weinstein Co. collaborator, director Robert Rodriguez. He helmed the first Sin City film, which opened with $29.1 million in 2005 and made $159 million globally. But nine years is a long time to wait for a sequel, and clearly the novelty of the film’s digital adaptation of Frank Miller’s blackand-white graphic novel wore off with both moviegoers and critics.

The faith-based high school football film When the Game Stands Tall opened with $9.1 million for Sony.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy, $17.6 million.

2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, $16.8 million.

3. If I Stay, $16.4 million.

4. Let’s Be Cops, $11 million.

5. When the Game Stands Tall, $9.1

Two local ceramicists nominated for provincial awards

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owns the Gammel House Gallery and Pottery Studio in Dickson, and has also pursued more experience and education through Red Deer College, Series and the Australian residency program.

Rasmussen’s functional stoneware pieces are all about form and colour.

She fires her pottery using a gas kiln and enjoys working with reduction glazes. Her biggest decorating influences come from the environment.

Rasmussen is nominated in her category along with Edmonton ceramicist JoAnna Lange.

The awards ceremony will be held on Saturday, Sept. 20, in Calgary.

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7. The Expendables 3, $6.6 million.

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My daughter is also bummed, but she I am now 50 years old. Twenty years is afraid to rock the boat with a new ago, my father, a respected community roommate. I contacted the university member, was accused of being a pedoto see what their policy is. Even though phile, but the case was not prosecuted. it is an all-girl dorm, there is no Our whole family policy against men staying in the went to therapy. My farooms. ther admitted he had We very much want our molested the poor boy daughter to have a good roomand also that he had mate experience. However, we molested several other do not want her to have to put boys in prior years. up with a boyfriend in her room At that time, I told throughout the year. Do you have him that if I ever susany suggestions? — Mom pected him of molestDear Mom: These are the ing another child, I kinds of problems that crop would turn him in to up in college dorms, and your the police. I did so 10 daughter needs to work them out years later. It turned MITCHELL herself. out he had a string & SUGAR She can talk to her new roomof male victims going mate, asking how often the back nearly 50 years. I boyfriend will be around and only wish I had turned whether they can go to his place him in earlier. While it instead. She can get a privacy is sad that my 80-yearscreen so this activity is not in her face. old father is in prison and will no lonBut we also recommend she ask to be ger communicate with me, it was the placed with a different roommate, if right thing to do. I am thankful that I not for this semester, then for the next was able to end his abuse of innocent one. human beings.

Regardless of the university’s polMy father was never observed kissicy, they do not want the students (or ing or touching boys. We just knew he their parents) to be unhappy with their had an unnatural attraction for them. living arrangements.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. This might not be the year where 21): The New Moon in Virgo they are all achieved, but it is cerwill allow you to receive abuntainly the year when you can set dance within your career and long range goals and start to work how others see you on a prohard to achieve them one by one. fessional and public level. You ARIES (March 21-April 19): are personally taking action The New Moon in Virgo will highthat will create new energy for light a new start for you with intiyou and this will in turn allow mate relationships in your life and for your absolute wishes to creative projects. You’ll understand transpire.

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Black and white, and full of fight

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Team White 5 Team Black 1 For an intrasquad game, there was nothing black and white about Sunday’s Red Deer Rebels Black and White game at the Enmax Centrium.

The contest had a little of everything, with strong goaltending, a spirited scrap and a third-period bushel of goals. All in all, the participants provided the roughly 1,500 fans with a decent late afternoon/early evening dose of entertainment.

“It kind of opened up in the third period and I don’t think I’ve seen a fight in the Black and White,” said Rebels captain and Colorado Avalanche first-round NHL draft pick Conner Bleackley, whose Team Black fell 5-1 to Team White.

“For a lot of these guys, this was their first time playing in a rink like this in front of that many people. It was good for them.”

Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter was entertained and encouraged at the same time.

“There was a lot of encouraging signs out there, no question,” he said.

“It was good to see the young kids go out and battle and compete against the veteran guys, and at the same time it was good to see all of the veterans play hard.”

Most, if not all of the 15- and 16-yearolds looked right at home, including the likes of ‘98-born goalie Colby Entz, 16-year-old forwards Bronson Littlechilds, Reese Johnson, fight combatants Zachary Gladu and Josh Logel, ‘98-born rearguard Luke Mahura and 15-year-old forwards Jake Leschyshyn and Austin Pratt.

The likes of returning forwards Adam Musil and Grayson Pawlenchuk were in the same boat a year ago and this year will be expected to play bigger roles.

“You put your 16-year-olds from last year into veterans status now and they’re key players on our team,” said Sutter. “But the key part here is we’re a team and that’s the way we want to play. The kids have been great with that since they’ve come back and there’s been a lot of emotion and intensity in our practices.

Riggers come home with little to show

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Riggers are coming home from nationals with out a medal, and they’re not happy about it.

The Riggers were bounced from the Baseball Canada 2014 Senior Men’s National Championship in St. John’s, N.L., after a 7-1 loss to the Mississauga Twins in Saturday’s quarter-final.

It was their second loss of the day, after falling 4-3 to the host St. John’s Winmar Capitals, putting them third in their pool and into the must-win game.

“You expect to win, you expect to play good baseball — not that we didn’t play good baseball — we fell short of our expectations,” said Riggers head coach Curtis Bailey.

Jaret Chatwood led the Riggers in their loss against the Capitals with a two-run home run in the second inning, that momentarily gave Red Deer a 2-1 lead, but they gave up three runs in the bottom half of the inning and never fully recovered. Craig Thomas started the game for Red Deer, throwing 2 2/3 innings and was charged all four runs, three of them earned on four hits and three walks with one strike out.

In the game against Mississauga, the Twins scored two runs in the second inning and another three in the fifth to build a 5-0 lead. Red Deer scored one in the top of the sixth, but the Twins put it away with another two runs in their half of the inning.

James Fischer started the game for Red Deer and lasted 4 2/3 innings giving up five earned runs on three hits and five walks with seven strikeouts.

Red Deer managed just two hits off Mississauga starter Jordan Petruska, who pitched a complete game, giving up no earned runs and striking out three.

“We probably put a little pressure on ourselves ... and I think at times we really pressed too hard and were over aggressive for what we really should have been doing,” said Bailey.

On the brightside, the Riggers will return almost their entire roster next year to nationals in Chatham, N.B., after winning the Sunburst Baseball League and provincial titles again this year.

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Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Red Deer Rebels White forward Preston Kopeck fights to the front of the Black net for a shot on goalie Dawson Weatherill at the Rebels Black and White game on Sunday. White won 5-1.

“I like what I see with our prospects and our current team. We’re bigger with more speed and our defence moves the puck. That’s what you want to see.”

Veteran forward Presten Kopeck swept in alone and slipped the puck past netminder Rylan Toth late in the first period to give Team White a 1-0 lead that held up until Team Black defenceman and fourth-year player Kayle Doetzel beat Entz on a penalty shot 24 seconds in the third period.

From there, Team White pulled away. Meyer Nell beat Dawson Weatherill with a rising bullet at 5:02, 20-year rearguard Brett Cote connected with a similar shot 86 seconds later, secondyear forward Cole Chorney went upstairs at 9:21 and defenceman Austin Strand, a rookie hopeful, scored from the top of the faceoff circle with less than three minutes remaining.

“I switched curves over the summer, I used to use a really flat stick,” said Chorney of his top-shelf marker.

“That (switch) seemed to make a big impact.”

Taz Burman started in the Team Black goal and pitched a shutout before being replaced by Entz near the half way point of the contest.

Rookie import defencemen Mario Grman of Slovakia and Hugo Jansons of Latvia were both impressive Sunday and have all but sealed berths on the Red Deer blueline.

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West stays strong in Stamps’ victory over RedBlacks RECEIVER PLAYS BIG PART IN WIN JUST HOURS AFTER NEWS OF BROTHER’S MURDER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stampeders 32 RedBlacks 7 OTTAWA — Joe West, speaking with tear-filled eyes and slumped shoulders, found the strength to talk about a horrific loss.

Just hours before the Stampeders were to take on the Ottawa RedBlacks, Calgary’s wide receiver received the devastating news that his younger brother had been murdered.

Brandon Hobdy, 24, was a senior wide receiver for the SAU Muleriders football team.

As news of the tragedy spread amongst the Stampeders their only thought was their teammate’s wellbeing.

“I think the coaches told him not to play,” said Calgary quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell. “We met him up in his room and told him, ’Man you do not need to play and if you want to fly home right now we’ll do whatever it takes to get you home. Dude you do not need to play,’ but he said he wanted to play for Brandon and hats off to Joe for wanting to do something like that.”

West not only played Sunday, he was a significant factor in the Stampeders’ 32-7 victory over the RedBlacks with four catches for 129 yards. After the game West said he considered not playing but knew his brother would have wanted him on the field — Hobdy loved watching him play.

“I just couldn’t do it without my teammates,” said West. “It was hard, but it was a challenge and every challenge brings change so I just accepted it. I knew I had brothers on my side on the field and we pulled out the win. We got it.”

There was no denying the Stampeders were determined to get the win for

West, but it was clear today’s performance was more about honouring a loved one for West.

“It’s not what it means to me, it’s what it means to the team, the organization,” said West. “I just came out and tried to contribute and do the best I could and that’s it.”

Teammates were moved

by West’s determination.

“For somebody to have the most selfless act I’ve ever seen is unbelievable,” said Mitchell. “For Joe to come out and play like that and not only that, to play the way he did, if it was myself I don’t know what I would have done. I have three brothers and I just don’t know how he did it. It just attributes how great of an athlete he is and person he is, but he knows we’re a family here and we’re always going to stay a family.”

Mitchell finished the game 16 for 29 passing for 266 yards. The Stampeders win improved Calgary’s record to 7-1.

Sunday’s game also marked the return of star running back Jon Cornish, who had missed the past six games due to a concussion.

Cornish finished the game 16 for 74 on the ground and 2 for 10 through the air.

“It was nice (to get back in there),” said Cornish. “I felt like I was playing a little bit faster than the game off the bat. Not necessarily jittery, but not patient like I normally am, but then I settled in so it was good.”

The RedBlacks (1-7) meanwhile suffered their fifth straight loss.

The Stampeders held an 8-7 halftime lead, but it was back-to-back touchdowns in the fourth quarter that put the game out of reach.

“It got away from us,” said Ottawa coach Rick Campbell. “I thought our defence and special teams were doing a ton of good things on

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Calgary Stampeders’ Sederrik Cunningham, right, celebrates a touchdown with teammate Shawn Lemon during second half CFL action against the Ottawa RedBlacks in Ottawa on Sunday. the field and I don’t think the score is reflective of the way our defence played and I give Calgary credit. They’re a good football team.”

Sederrik Cunningham ran in a 20-yard touchdown to make it 18-7 with 6:02 remaining in the fourth quarter. Less than two minutes later Cunningham had a 66-yard punt return to give Calgary a 25-7 lead.

Hugh Charles also ran in a 15-yard touchdown late in the fourth to make it 32-7.

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ter in seven-of-eight games this season.

Burris did not have his best game, going 12 for 23 for 113 yards, and it’s clear frustration is setting in.

“I’m tired of getting together after games and talking about the same things as far as us not doing little things here and there and then biting ourselves with mistakes and stuff like that and it’s stuff that’s got to stop at some point because as an offence we’re killing ourselves in every different way,” said Burris.

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Fraser more than a one goal wonder FORMER REBEL HOPING BIG NHL PLAYOFF GOAL HELPS GET HIM FULL-TIME DUTY WITH BRUINS

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Rebels reassign 12 after Black and White game

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter reassigned 12 players following Sunday’s Black and White game, with the list including promising 16-year-old goaltender Colby Entz and 18-year-old defenceman Alex Pernitsky.

Entz will be the No. 1 stopper for the midget AAA Moose Jaw Generals in 2014-15, while Pernitsky, from Unity, Sask., will likely play in the SJHL with the Battlefords North Stars.

Pernitsky was invited to camp after getting positive reviews from members of the Rebels coaching and scouting staffs who watched the former Battlefords Stars midget AAA rearguard in action last winter.

Also reassigned were ‘98 born defencemen Max Salpeter of St. Albert, Carter Brown and Cale Chalifoux of Edmonton, and ‘99-born blueliners Carson Sass of Melville, Sask., and Ethan Sakowich of Athabasca, neither of whom are eligible to play in the WHL this year.

The reassigned forwards are ‘98-born Bronson Littlechilds and Shane Sherban of Lanigan, Sask., and 15-yearolds Brayden Labant of St. Paul, Austin Pratt of Lakeville, Minn., and Chase Stevenson of West Kelowna, B.C. The moves leaves Red Deer with a 33-man roster.

The players will practise this week in preparation for the club’s first two preseason games — Saturday and Sunday in St. Albert versus the Prince George Cougars and Swift Current Broncos.

The Rebels will participate in the Tri-City Americans tournament Sept. 5 and 6 — taking on the host Americans and the Portland Winterhawks — and will close out their exhibition slate with Sept. 12 and 13 meetings with the Edmonton Oil Kings at the Centrium and Medicine Hat Tigers at Stettler.

Red Deer’s regularseason opener is Sept. 19 against the visiting Kootenay Ice. The Rebels will take on the host Calgary Hitmen 24 hours later. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Former Red Deer Rebel Matt Fraser now with the Boston Bruins skated in the Red Deer Rebel Alumni Skate at the Centrium in Red Deer on Thursday. Fraser is hoping to build off of his postseason glory with the Boston Bruins and crack the NHL squad’s line up on a full-time basis.

With the two teams tied in overtime in Game 4, Fraser found a loose puck at the side of the net and jammed it past Montreal goalie Carey Price at 1:19 of the extra frame. The next few minutes was a blur for Fraser.

“I remember a lot more of it now when you can sit back and think about it. At the time it was such a rush of emotion that you don’t really comprehend it until a couple of weeks later,” he said.

Fraser became a momentary hero in Boston and roundly hated by Canadian hockey fans who were desperate for anything to get behind as he wrote a new chapter into one of the League’s most fierce rivalries.

Adding another layer to the lore, he did it all on a broken foot after blocking a shot in the AHL playoffs with Providence.

The goal is not something he is resting on. Instead he is

using it as motivation. The goal was a taste for what he hopes is future glory, or at least a full-time NHL pay cheque.

One thing is for sure, he looked at home on a line with Carl Soderberg and Eriksson with his physical, all-round game.

“It’s nice to talk about, but in the end it’s in the past and it’s last year,” said Fraser.

“You take the confidence from that and build off of that and bring it into camp. But again

Ryu holds on to win CP Women’s Open

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON, Ont. — It took until the 70th hole of the week for So Yeon Ryu to finally feel some nerves.

Ryu set the course record in her first round, held a four-stroke advantage going into Sunday and led by six going into the back nine. A bogey on No. 15 and Na Yeon Choi’s birdie shrunk the lead to one.

“I thought, ’Everybody’s nervous and Na Yeon’s nervous, definitely,’ so I just accepted my nervousness so I just tried to enjoy it,” Ryu said. “And I hit a great shot.”

Ryu’s birdie on the 16th hole Sunday restored her lead to two as she wrapped up her first victory in more than two years by capturing the US$2.25-million Canadian Pacific Women’s Open with a 23-under 265.

The 24-year-old South Korean shattered the tournament record of 18 under but couldn’t break Annika Sorenstam’s

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REBELS: Young “They’re young, but they fit in great with that ‘97 (born) age group,” said Sutter. “Both guys have been fine. There’s going to be an adjustment time for them too, not just on the ice but off the ice with the language barrier and stuff like that. But they’re settling in and the returning guys have done an outstanding job of helping them through it.”

Grman and Jansons are both mobile, promising puck-movers, as are Mahura and Cote, who was acquired from the Victoria Royals during the off-season.

“With the guys we brought in like Cote and the two Europeans, we look better defensively,” said Bleackley. “For the Europeans, getting as much experience as possible is going to be huge for us.

“You can see they have some hockey sense and hopefully they can be good players for us this year. That’s something Brent looked at in the off-season, improving our defence, and I think he’s done that.”

All in all, Bleackley sees plenty of rea-

LPGA Tour record of 27 under.

“I’m a bit disappointed I couldn’t reach Annika’s record, but it still feels good,” Ryu said minutes after getting soaked in champagne by friends Inbee Park and I.K. Kim. “I’ve been waiting so much (for) the champagne. I was ready to get champagne. I smell like champagne right now, but I’m still so happy.”

Ryu’s last win came at the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic in 2012. Since then, she put up 27 top-10 finishes and conceded blowing more than a few chances.

“One of my friends asked me, ’So Yeon, do you want to finish top 10 every tournament or you just want to win one tournament and miss the cut every tournament?”’ Ryu said. “I said it’s a really hard question, but at this stage I really need to win.”

In earning the winner’s share — $337,500 — of the purse at London Hunt and Country Club, Ryu became the tournament’s first wire-to-wire champion since Michelle Wie in 2010. Ryu set a

course record with a 9-under 63 Thursday and never fell from the top of the leaderboard. Along the way, Ryu was remarkably consistent, finishing with 26 birdies and just three bogeys. Two of them, though, almost ruined her week.

With a six-stroke lead after nine holes, Ryu felt confident she could win, but a bogey on No. 10 and a birdie by Choi on 11 got her thinking. Another two-stroke swing on No. 15 gave Choi hope.

“When she misses that putt, I thought, ’Maybe I could have a chance, too,”’ Choi said.

Choi, who shot a bogey-free 67 to get to a career-best 21 under, went into the bunker on No. 16. Ryu watched with relief as her friend missed a putt before she sank a birdie and went on to win by two strokes.

Park, like Ryu and Choi part of South Korea’s International Crown team, finished third at 18 under after winning last week’s LPGA Championship. Spain’s Azahara Munoz, who tied Ryu’s course record Saturday, was fourth at 17 under.

son for optimism with the start of the Western Hockey League regular season less than a month away.

“Coming off a disappointing season everybody kind of went into the summer with bad tastes in their mouths,” said the 18-year-old centre, who leaves for Denver Sept. 13 for the Avalanche rookie and main camps.

“We were a young team last year and I think the benefits of that is coming into this season with a lot of returning guys and a lot of young guys looking to step up. Guys like Muse (Musil) and Pawly (Pawlenchuk) are going into their draft year and you can see already that they’ve made huge strides this summer and are going to be huge players for us this season.”

Just notes: Kopeck left the game after crashing into the end boards in the third period, and didn’t return. His suspected hand/arm injury turned out to be a groin injury that doesn’t appear to be serious . . . All four goaltenders made excellent saves, with Burman making a sliding stop on Musil and robbing Brayden Burke, Weatherill stopping Kopek (twice) and defenceman Alex Pernitsky on penalty

shots, Entz getting a blocker on a drive by veteran Brooks Maxwell, and Toth taking a goal away from Kirk Bear. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

RIGGERS: Competing stronger The Riggers went through the Sunburst regular season with an 18-0 record and beat the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics 3-1 in the final. The biggest lesson they learned is, none of that mattered in St. John’s.

“You have to forget what you’ve done all year,” said Bailey. “You have to take each game as new competition and you have to play your game. I think that will have us competing stronger than what we were.” ● The Langley Blazers beat the Tecumseh Thunder 3-0 in the gold medal game.

The Twins beat the Chatham Ironmen out of New Brunswick 11-0 to win bronze. jalsrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Matt Fraser is preparing for arguably the most important training camp of his life.

After three years of being a top American Hockey League player, the Red Deer native is hoping to build off of his postseason glory with the Boston Bruins and crack the NHL squad’s line up on a full-time basis.

“I’ve been a bubble player between the AHL and the NHL and my goal is to go in there this year and make sure that I am prepared not only to play but be an impact player,” said the six-foot-two, 205-pound, 24-year-old.

Fraser has starred at every level he has played, but late bloomer status led to going undrafted at the NHL level.

He signed a free agent deal with the Dallas Stars after he wrapped up his final prolific season with the Kootenay Ice in the WHL and scored 101 points (70 goals, 31 assists) in 135 games with their farm team the Texas Stars.

He was traded last summer to the Bruins in the deal that sent Tyler Seguin to the Stars and Loui Eriksson to Boston, but he was sent down to the Providence Bruins of the AHL. There he continued to produce, tallying 30 points (20-10-30) in 40 games and got the call up to the big team.

But he played sporadically and scored just two goals in 14 games.

However, due to injuries on the Bruins, he was on their roster for their first round match up with the Montreal Canadiens, and scored the biggest goal of his life.

it was last year and the slate is wiped clean.”

This summer has been all about preparing for the Bruins training camp. First he let his foot heal, but he has been working out and getting back into shape since, while living in Red Deer, still his home.

This week he has been on the ice at the Red Deer Rebels training camp, the team where his WHL career began after lighting it up with the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs in the Alberta Major Midget Hockey League. But it did not work out with his hometown club and he was dealt to the Ice, who he helped to a WHL championship in 2011 while leading the playoffs in goals with 17, finishing with 27 points in 19 games.

However, because it took until his third year in the WHL to start putting up stats (32-23-55 in 65 games with 117 penalty minutes), he went undrafted. His fourth year with the Ice was even better, scoring 74 points (36-38-74) in 66 games, earning his free agent contract with Dallas.

Now he needs to prove he can also produce at the NHL level.

“It’s definitely a fine line,” said Fraser. “It’s not the big things that separates them, it’s the little things and the little things they do so well. That’s why it’s so good skating out here with the guys like Kris Russell and (Paul) Postma and (Colton) Sceviour and Brandon Sutter. Those guys have played games in the NHL and we try to learn off each other and we’re hard on each other because we expect a lot out of ourselves.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

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West Division W L Pct 77 52 .597 76 53 .589 71 58 .550 55 76 .420 50 79 .388

GB — 1 6 23 27

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Altuve Hou 127 533 68 VMartinez Det 118 445 66 Beltre Tex 115 437 65 Cano Sea 124 475 67 MeCabrera Tor 129 528 77 Brantley Cle 124 483 78 MiCabrera Det 127 483 81 JAbreu CWS 115 448 68 Eaton CWS 94 372 55 Gillaspie CWS 104 379 48

H 178 146 143 155 164 150 149 138 113 115

Pct. .334 .328 .327 .326 .311 .311 .308 .308 .304 .303

Home Runs NCruz, Baltimore, 34; JAbreu, Chicago, 33; Carter, Houston, 30; Ortiz, Boston, 30; Trout, Los Angeles, 29; Encarnacion, Toronto, 27; Donaldson, Oakland, 25; VMartinez, Detroit, 25.

Runs Batted In JAbreu, Chicago, 94; Ortiz, Boston, 93; Trout, Los Angeles, 91; MiCabrera, Detroit, 89; NCruz, Baltimore, 87; Cespedes, Boston, 85; Donaldson, Oakland, 84; VMartinez, Detroit, 84.

Pitching Scherzer, Detroit, 15-4; Kazmir, Oakland, 14-6; Weaver, Los Angeles, 14-7; Porcello, Detroit, 14-8; PHughes, Minnesota, 14-8; WChen, Baltimore, 134; Richards, Los Angeles, 13-4.

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Boston (Buchholz 5-8) at Toronto (Happ 8-8), 7:07 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 2-2) at Kansas City (Shields 12-6), 7:10 p.m.

Oakland (Samardzija 3-3) at Houston (Feldman 7-9), 8:10 p.m.

Miami (Cosart 1-1) at L.A. Angels (LeBlanc 0-0), 10:05 p.m.

Texas (Mikolas 1-5) at Seattle (Elias 9-10), 10:10 p.m.

Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 75 54 .581 68 63 .519 64 65 .496 61 70 .466 58 72 .446

GB — 8 11 15 17

Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 72 58 .554 70 59 .543 67 63 .515 63 68 .481 58 72 .446

GB — 1 5 9 14

West Division W L Pct 74 58 .561 68 61 .527 60 69 .465 55 76 .420 52 77 .403

GB — 4 12 18 20

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

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Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs 7, Baltimore 2 Washington 6, San Francisco 2 St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 5, 12 innings

Cincinnati 1, Atlanta 0 Pittsburgh 10, Milwaukee 2 Colorado 5, Miami 4, 13 innings Arizona 5, San Diego 2 L.A. Dodgers 7, N.Y. Mets 4

● Junior golf: McLennan Ross Sun Tour championship, 11 a.m., shotgun start, Wolf Creek.

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati 5, Atlanta 3 Washington 14, San Francisco 6 Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 1 Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 3 Chicago Cubs 2, Baltimore 1 Colorado 7, Miami 4 N.Y. Mets 11, L.A. Dodgers 3 San Diego 7, Arizona 4

Sunday’s summaries

GP 9 7 8 8

CFL East Division W L T 3 6 0 1 6 0 1 7 0 1 7 0

PF 223 149 125 126

PA 249 185 217 231

Pt 6 2 2 2

GP Calgary 8 Edmonton 8 Saskatchewan 8 Winnipeg 9 B.C. 9

West Division W L T 7 1 0 7 1 0 6 2 0 6 3 0 5 4 0

PF 223 214 193 230 212

PA 121 142 151 217 182

Pt 14 14 12 12 10

Week 9 Friday’s results Winnipeg 24 Montreal 16 Saturday’s results Edmonton 41 Toronto 27 Sunday’s results Calgary 32 Ottawa 7 Saskatchewan 20 B.C. 16 Week 10 Friday, August 29 Ottawa at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 31 Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 4 p.m.

Monday, September 1 Toronto at Hamilton, 1 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Eskimos 41, Argonauts 27 First Quarter Tor — TD Barnes 17 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 11:46 Edm — TD Lawrence 61 run (Shaw convert) 13:30 Second Quarter Edm — TD Guyton 48 pass from Nichols (Shaw convert) 3:12 Edm — FG Shaw 49 7:11 Edm — TD McCoil 28 interception return Shaw convert 8:21 Edm — TD White 5 run (Shaw convert) 13:39 Tor — FG Waters 36 14:59 Third Quarter Tor — FG Waters 22 3:35 Tor — FG Waters 42 7:27 Tor — TD Owens 11 pass from Ray (Waters convert) 11:25 Fourth Quarter Tor — Single Waters 80 2:38 Edm — FG Shaw 26 5:29 Tor — FG Waters 45 13:10 Edm — TD McCoil 21 interception return Shaw convert 14:40 Toronto 7 3 13 4 — 27 Edmonton 7 24 0 10 — 41 Attendance — 33,767 at Edmonton.

TEAM STATISTICS Tor Edm First downs 22 19 Yards rushing 86 152 Yards passing 286 190 Total offence 372 342 Passes made-tried 44-16 30-26 Returns yards 156 108 Interceptions-yards by 2-67 3-16 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-3 Sacks by 4 5 Punts-average 37-7 38-7 Penalties-Yards 94-6 45-12 Time of Possession 32:17 27:43 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Toronto: Steele 12-47, Ray 5-31, Johnson 2-6, Gale 1-2. Edmonton: Lawrence 6-91, White 4-23, Thomas 5-20, Nichols 3-11, Guyton 2-7.

Receiving Toronto: Owens 7-92, Steele 8-89, Barnes 5-47, Bradwell 2-26, Adams 2-17, Watt 1-9, Johnson 1-6.

Edmonton: Bowman 8-87, Guyton 2-55, Lawrence 1-15, McCarty 2-12, Chambers 1-12, Bailey 1-7, Coehoorn 1-2.

Passing Toronto: Ray 25-43-277-2-3, Harris 1-1-9-0-0.

Edmonton: Nichols 15-28-178-1-2, Chambers 1-114-0-0, Reilly 1-1-12-0-0.

Stampeders 32, Redblacks 7 First Quarter Ottawa — TD Williams 35 interception return Maher convert 1:34 Cgy — TD Tate 7 run (Paredes convert) 11:55 Second Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 44 1:42 Third Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 32 11:27 Fourth Quarter Cgy — TD Cunningham 20 run (Paredes convert) 8:35 Cgy — Cunningham 80 punt return (Paredes convert) 10:26 Cgy — TD Charles 15 run (Paredes convert) 12:50 Calgary 7 1 3 21 — 32 Ottawa 7 0 0 0 — 7 Attendance — 24,327 at Ottawa.

TEAM STATISTICS Clgy Ott First downs 27 13 Yards rushing 181 65 Yards passing 277 132 Total offence 458 197 Passes made-tried 30-15 31-17 Returns yards 141 169 Interceptions-yards by 1-35 1-11 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-2 Sacks by 3 1 Punts-average 102-5 40-9 Penalties-Yards 78-11 92-8 Time of Possession 34:08 25:52 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Calgary: Cornish 16-74, Cunningham 2-39, Mitchell 3-30, Charles 4-29, Tate 3-9. Ottawa: Walker 1143, Burris 3-21, Demarco 1-1.

Receiving Calgary: West 4-129, McDaniel 4-62, Lewis 4-34, Charbonneau-Campeau 1-18, Cunningham 1-13, Charles 1-11, Cornish 2-10. Ottawa: Collins 5-44, Miles 3-35, Henry 3-27, Paden 2-18, Smith 1-5, Delahunt 1-3.

Passing Calgary: Mitchell 16-29-266-0-1, Bell 1-1-11-0-0, Tate 1-1-11-0-0. Ottawa: Burris 12-23-113-0-1, Demarco 3-7-19-0-0.

Roughriders 20, Lions 16 First Quarter B.C. — FG McCallum 38 2:27 B.C. — TD Brown 83 punt return (McCallum convert) 4:15 Second Quarter Sask — FG Milo 42 0:14 B.C. — FG McCallum 16 9:25 Sask — FG Milo 12 12:29 Sask — FG Milo 46 15:00 Third Quarter B.C. — FG McCallum 21 2:44 Sask — FG Milo 48 5:44 Sask — TD Clark 1 pass from Sunseri (Milo convert) 15:00 Fourth Quarter Sask — Single Bartel 64 13:00 Saskatchewan 0 9 10 1 — 20 B.C. 10 3 3 0 — 16 Attendance — 33,196 at Vancouver.

TEAM STATISTICS Sask B.C. First downs 23 12 Yards rushing 228 56 Yards passing 190 173 Total offence 418 229 Team losses 20 15 Net offence 398 214 Passes made-tried 17-28 19-29 Returns yards 122 342 Interceptions-yards by 0-0 0-0 Fumbles-lost 1-0 0-0 Sacks by 3 3 Punts-average 10-46.2 10-41.4 Penalties-yards 12-90 12-104 Time of possession 34:26 25:34 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Sask: Ford 10-108, Allen 17-83, Durant 3-25, Sunseri 1-12. B.C.: Gore 2-29, Arceneaux 1-12, Harris 8-11, Glenn 1-3, Logan 1-1.

Receiving Sask: Getzlaf 5-78, Bagg 2-55, Allen 4-22, R. Smith 2-20, T. Smith 3-14, Clark 1-1. B.C.: Taylor 4-56,

Saturday

H 128 147 131 132 138 142 119 115 151 159

Pct. .314 .314 .305 .305 .305 .304 .304 .303 .301 .301

Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 32; Rizzo, Chicago, 29; Duda, New York, 26; JUpton, Atlanta, 25; Byrd, Philadelphia, 23; Frazier, Cincinnati, 22; Desmond, Washington, 21; CGomez, Milwaukee, 21; Reynolds, Milwaukee, 21; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 21.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 94; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 89; JUpton, Atlanta, 86; Howard, Philadelphia, 80; Desmond, Washington, 79; Duda, New York, 76; Byrd, Philadelphia, 75.

Pitching Kershaw, Los Angeles, 15-3; Cueto, Cincinnati, 15-7; Wainwright, St. Louis, 15-8; WPeralta, Milwaukee, 15-8; Lynn, St. Louis, 14-8; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 14-9; Ryu, Los Angeles, 13-6.

Iannuzzi 3-28, Jackson 2-17, Harris 2-17, Brown 2-16, Logan 3-16, Gore 1-14, Arceneaux 2-9.

Passing Sask: Durant 9-15-104-0-0, Sunseri 8-13-86-1-0.

B.C.: Glenn 15-21-146-0-0, Lulay 4-8-27-0-0.

National Football League Preseason AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Miami 2 1 0 .667 New England 2 1 0 .667 N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 Buffalo 1 3 0 .250 South W L T Pct Houston 2 1 0 .667 Tennessee 2 1 0 .667 Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 Indianapolis 0 3 0 .000 North W L T Pct Baltimore 3 0 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 Cincinnati 1 2 0 .333 Cleveland 0 3 0 .000 West W L T Pct Denver 2 1 0 .667 San Diego 1 2 0 .333 Kansas City 1 2 0 .333 Oakland 1 2 0 .333 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 4 0 0 1.000 Washington 2 1 0 .667 Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 Dallas 0 3 0 .000 South W L T Pct New Orleans 3 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 Carolina 1 2 0 .333 Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 North W L T Pct Minnesota 3 0 0 1.000 Chicago 2 1 0 .667 Detroit 2 1 0 .667 Green Bay 2 1 0 .667 West W L T Pct Seattle 2 1 0 .667 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 St. Louis 1 2 0 .333 San Francisco 1 2 0 .333

PF 55 78 62 63

PA 50 65 62 81

PF 50 68 47 53

PA 56 64 43 63

PF 83 56 75 49

PA 50 67 79 70

PF 72 48 69 54

PA 34 69 97 67

PF 99 64 94 57

PA 79 52 97 89

PF 80 40 53 51

PA 65 66 66 50

PF 70 60 52 68

PA 46 81 51 48

PF 91 73 64 24

PA 41 49 61 64

Saturday’s Games Tampa Bay 27, Buffalo 14 Miami 25, Dallas 20 Tennessee 24, Atlanta 17 Baltimore 23, Washington 17 Minnesota 30, Kansas City 12 New Orleans 23, Indianapolis 17 St. Louis 33, Cleveland 14 Houston 18, Denver 17 Sunday’s Games San Francisco 21, San Diego 7 Cincinnati 19, Arizona 13 Thursday, Aug. 28 Atlanta at Jacksonville, 4 p.m.

Kansas City at Green Bay, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Miami, 5 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Giants, 5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

San Francisco at Houston, 6 p.m.

Baltimore at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Tennessee, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 8 p.m.

Riders edge Lions for fifth win in a row

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Roughriders 20 Lions 16 VANCOUVER _ Two unheralded Saskatchewan players spoiled the B.C. Lions’ guaranteed win night Sunday.

Backup quarterback Tino Sunseri’s first CFL career touchdown pass to reserve offensive lineman-turned-tight-end Dan Clark sparked the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a comeback 20-16 victory over the Lions.

“For me to get the first one, it was really special,’’ said Sunseri. “And, you have to give a lot of credit to the offensive line and Dan Clark for getting open on the certain play and blocking and all that. It was pretty exciting.’’

As a result, the 33,196 fans who attended Sunday’s game will receive a free ticket to a future game courtesty of B.C. president Dennis Skulsky, who promised a Lions victory to the biggest crowd of the season at B.C. Place Stadium, which included many Riders’ supporters.

The Riders (6-2) posted their fifth straight win and are now tied for second place with Winnipeg in the ultra-competitive West Division. The Lions (5-4) fell to third place.

The Riders triumphed after they were forced to play the second half with rarely used backup Sunseri, a 25-year-old Pittsburgh native who is in his second season with the Riders, at the helm. After playing the entire first half, starter Darian Durant was sidelined with a hand injury that, he said afterwards, will be further evaluated upon the team’s return to Regina.

Sunday ● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels vs.

Swift Current Broncos, 3 p.m., St. Albert Servus Credit Union Place.

● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels vs.

Monday’s Games St. Louis (Lackey 1-1) at Pittsburgh (F.Liriano 3-10), 7:05 p.m.

Washington (Roark 12-7) at Philadelphia (A.Burnett 6-14), 7:05 p.m.

Miami (Cosart 1-1) at L.A. Angels (LeBlanc 0-0), 10:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 11-7) at San Diego (Stults 6-13), 10:10 p.m.

Colorado (Matzek 2-9) at San Francisco (Peavy 2-3), 10:15 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Morneau Col 109 407 47 Revere Phi 119 468 58 MaAdams StL 114 429 44 AMcCutchen Pit 114 433 68 Puig LAD 120 453 70 Lucroy Mil 121 467 63 JHarrison Pit 114 392 60 ArRamirez Mil 103 379 43 Span Was 120 501 78 DanMurphy NYM126 528 73

Prince George Cougars, 11:30 a.m, St. Albert Servus Credit Union Place.

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“I never want (Durant) to get hurt, but we can all go in under a certain circumstance,’’ said Sunseri, a University of Pittsburgh product who had never been to Canada before signing with the Riders on short notice a few days before training camp in 2013. “Everyone was coming up to me on the sidelines and saying that they had my back and everything like that.

So I knew, with the work that we put in during the week, that we were ready for it.’’

The game was decided on the final play of the third quarter. With the Riders scrimmaging from the B.C. one-yard line, Clark lined up as an eligible receiver at tight end and got his hands on a high Sunseri pass in the end zone and held on, while falling backward.

It was the second CFL touchdown for Clark, a 26-year-old Regina native who scored one on a similar play in his rookie 2013 season.

“The play was called and I knew I just had to make the play and catch the ball,’’ said Clark, who is usually a backup offensive guard.

The TD and Chris Milo’s convert gave the Roughriders their first lead of the game and put them ahead to stay before Josh Bartel’s punt single in the fourth quarter rounded out the scoring.

The Roughriders prevailed after both teams lost their starting quarterbacks to injuries. Durant completed 9 of 15 passes for 104 yards, but watched the rest of the game in uniform from the sidelines while sporting a brace on his right throwing hand.

Golf PGA-Barclays Sunday At Ridgewood Country Club Paramus, N.J. Purse: $8 million Yardage: 7,319; Par: 71 Final Hunter Mahan, $1,440,000 Stuart Appleby, $597,333 Jason Day, $597,333 Cameron Tringale, $597,333 Ernie Els, $292,000 Matt Kuchar, $292,000 William McGirt, $292,000 Jim Furyk, $248,000 Rickie Fowler, $208,000 Morgan Hoffmann, $208,000 Kevin Na, $208,000 Patrick Reed, $208,000 Bo Van Pelt, $160,000 Gary Woodland, $160,000 Stewart Cink, $132,000 G. Fdez-Castano, $132,000 Bill Haas, $132,000 Adam Scott, $132,000 Erik Compton, $104,000 Ryo Ishikawa, $104,000 Chris Stroud, $104,000 Steven Bowditch, $70,200 Angel Cabrera, $70,200 Paul Casey, $70,200 Charles Howell III, $70,200 Zach Johnson, $70,200 Rory McIlroy, $70,200 John Senden, $70,200 Jordan Spieth, $70,200 Kevin Chappell, $46,500 Charley Hoffman, $46,500 Scott Langley, $46,500 Hideki Matsuyama, $46,500 Justin Rose, $46,500 Charl Schwartzel, $46,500 Shawn Stefani, $46,500 Bubba Watson, $46,500 David Hearn, $32,000 John Huh, $32,000 Jerry Kelly, $32,000 Russell Knox, $32,000 Danny Lee, $32,000 Graeme McDowell, $32,000 Andres Romero, $32,000 Henrik Stenson, $32,000

66-71-68-65 73-66-68-65 72-64-68-68 66-68-72-66 68-68-71-66 68-70-68-67 68-71-68-66 66-69-69-70 68-73-67-67 70-70-66-69 70-66-70-69 71-66-73-65 65-71-70-70 73-66-69-68 69-72-68-68 70-69-68-70 70-70-70-67 69-65-75-68 68-69-70-71 67-73-68-70 69-70-69-70 68-72-70-69 71-69-69-70 66-71-71-71 66-75-68-70 68-70-72-69 74-65-70-70 68-71-74-66 70-70-72-67 68-67-71-74 73-69-69-69 70-68-76-66 68-70-72-70 68-70-70-72 69-70-71-70 71-70-71-68 68-70-71-71 69-72-69-71 69-69-74-69 74-68-68-71 67-69-74-71 67-71-70-73 70-68-71-72 72-70-68-71 72-64-77-68

Canadian Pacific Women’s Open Sunday At London Hunt and Country Club London, Ontario Purse: $2.25 million Yardage: 6,667; Par: 72 Final So Yeon Ryu, $337,500 63-66-67-69 Na Yeon Choi, $202,28 64-70-66-67 Inbee Park, $146,74 66-71-65-68 Azahara Munoz $113,515 66-71-63-71 Kim Kaufman, $83,061 69-70-68-66 Danielle Kang, $83,061 66-68-70-69 Suzann Pettersen, $52,882 69-68-70-68 Cristie Kerr, $52,882 67-68-70-70 Brittany Lincicome, $52,882 71-65-68-71 Anna Nordqvist, $52,882 65-69-69-72 Caroline Masson, $40,145 67-70-72-67 Pornanong Phatlum, $40,145 70-69-68-69 Pernilla Lindberg, $34,183 68-70-71-69 Mariajo Uribe, $34,183 69-69-71-69 Karrie Webb, $34,183 69-72-67-70 Karine Icher, $28,868 71-71-68-69

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Line Vedel, $28,868 Mi Hyang Lee, $28,868 Kristy McPherson, $25,029 Felicity Johnson, $25,029 Ilhee Lee, $25,029 Haru Nomura, $25,029 Jenny Shin, $20,784 Morgan Pressel, $20,784 Jacqui Concolino, $20,784 Stacy Lewis, $20,784 Lizette Salas, $20,784 Brittany Lang, $20,784

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Web.Com Portland Open Scores Sunday At Witch Hollow at Pumpkin Ridge North Plains, Ore. Purse: $800,000 Yadage: 7,109; Par: 71 Final Carlos Ortiz, $144,000 66-63-70-71 Jason Gore, $70,400 67-68-70-66 Adam Hadwin, $70,400 73-65-63-70 Colt Knost, $38,400 69-71-63-70 Steven Alker, $28,100 69-70-65-70 Blayne Barber, $28,100 67-69-70-68 James Nitties, $28,100 66-67-70-71 Scott Pinckney, $28,100 67-68-68-71 Travis Bertoni, $20,000 70-69-68-68 Nicholas Lindheim, $20,000 66-64-76-69 Gregor Main, $20,000 66-70-69-70 Aaron Watkins, $20,000 69-71-67-68 Chris Wilson, $20,000 72-65-68-70 Alex Cejka, $12,800 70-71-68-67 Fabian Gomez, $12,800 70-70-65-71 Matt Hendrix, $12,800 68-67-71-70 Mark Hubbard, $12,800 67-65-70-74 Jonathan Randolph, $12,800 68-72-64-72 Darron Stiles, $12,800 69-72-64-71 Roland Thatcher, $12,800 69-68-70-69

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Champions-Boeing Classic Sunday At TPC Snoqualmie Ridge Snoqualmie, Wash.

Purse: $2 million Yardage: 7,172; Par: 72 (36-36) Final (x-won on first playoff hole) x-Scott Dunlap, $300,000 Mark Brooks, $176,000 Gene Sauers, $144,000 Tom Pernice Jr., $119,000 Marco Dawson, $82,333 Woody Austin, $82,333 Doug Garwood, $82,333 Tommy Armour III, $60,000 Joe Durant, $60,000 Olin Browne, $48,000 Fred Funk, $48,000 Rocco Mediate, $48,000 Michael Allen, $39,000 Kevin Sutherland, $39,000 Russ Cochran, $34,000 Fred Couples, $34,000 Bernhard Langer, $34,000 Bart Bryant, $27,200 Mike Goodes, $27,200 Steve Lowery, $27,200 Mark O’Meara, $27,200 Chip Beck, $21,040 Bill Glasson, $21,040 Paul Goydos, $21,040 Blaine McCallister, $21,040 Mark McNulty, $21,040

Soccer Los Angeles 2 Vancouver 0

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 24 13 7 4 39 Kansas City 25 12 7 6 36 Toronto 23 9 8 6 35 Columbus 25 8 8 9 35 New York 24 7 7 10 39 New England 24 9 12 3 31 Philadelphia 25 7 9 9 40 Chicago 24 4 6 14 31 Houston 24 7 13 4 25 Montreal 24 4 15 5 25

GA 26 26 36 32 36 36 41 37 45 45

Pt 43 42 33 33 31 30 30 26 25 17

Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 24 14 7 3 43 Dallas 25 12 7 6 45 Salt Lake 25 11 5 9 39 Los Angeles 23 11 5 7 41 Vancouver 24 7 5 12 33 Portland 25 7 8 10 41 Colorado 25 8 11 6 37 San Jose 23 6 10 7 28 Chivas 24 6 12 6 21

GA 33 33 30 26 31 43 39 32 37

Pt 45 42 42 40 33 31 30 25 24

Saturday’s results New York 4 Montreal 2 Toronto 2 Chicago 2 New England 1 Chivas 0 Columbus 3 Houston 0 Kansas City 0 D.C. 3

Sunday’s results Portland 2 Seattle 4 Philadelphia 4 San Jose 2 Wednesday’s games D.C. at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Friday, August 29 Houston at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

Saturday, August 30 Colorado at Seattle, 2 p.m.

New England at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Columbus at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Salt Lake at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 31 New York at D.C., 12:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Chivas, 6 p.m.

FIFA Women’s 2014 Under-20 World Cup PLAYOFFS Sunday’s results At Montreal Third Place France 3 North Korea 2 Championship Germany 1 Nigeria 0 (extra time)

Hunter Mahan pulls away to win Barclays, becomes strong choice for Ryder Cup PARAMUS, N.J. — About the only thing that went wrong for Hunter Mahan at The Barclays was when the trophy broke. All he had to show for perhaps the biggest win of his career was a large wreath of roses.

“Am I supposed to put this on, Kentucky Derby style?” he said.

That would have been fitting. The closing stretch was exactly what he needed Sunday. Mahan pulled away with three straight birdies, sealing the victory with a 20-foot putt down the slope on the par-5 17th. That allowed him a bogey from the trees on the final hole for a 6-under 65 and a two-shot victory in the opening FedEx Cup playoff event. He already has two World Golf Championships. Considering the timing, The Barclays felt bigger.

Mahan had gone 48 tournaments and nearly 30 months since his last victory. The only player to never miss a FedEx Cup playoff event, he wanted to keep alive his streak of reaching the Tour Championship every year since this series began in 2007. And he wanted to state his case for a captain’s pick for the Ryder Cup team. This performance will be hard for U.S. captain Tom Watson to ignore.

“To get a win in an event like this, and the timing that it was, it feels unbelievable,” Mahan said.

On a day when six players had at least a share of the lead, Mahan found a way to make it look like a comfortable win at Ridgewood. He rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt to take the outright lead on the par-3 15th, hit wedge to 3 feet for a birdie on the 16th and then rolled in a 20-foot birdie on the par-5 17th. That stretched his lead to three shots going to the final hole when Cameron Tringale bogeyed the 18th.

Mahan finished at 14-under 270 and earned $1.44 million. He moved to No. 1 in the FedEx Cup standings, assured of being among the top five players at East Lake with the best shot at capturing the $10 million bonus.

U16 GIRLS BASEBALL NATIONALS SAGUENAY, Que. — Hayley Lalor of Red Deer scored three times and drove in a run Sunday as Alberta whipped Quebec 14-0 in the fifth/sixth place game of the Canadian under-16 girls baseball championship.

Torrie Craig of Clive had one hit and scored two runs for the winners.

Alberta fell 11-9 to Manito-

ba Saturday. Lalor, who batted 2.94 through the tournament, contributed a two-run single, as did Craig, while Meagan Cameron of Rimbey had two hits and knocked in a run.

Craig batted .273 during the tournament. Cameron’s average was .538.

Dwayne Lalor of Red Deer served as an assistant coach with the Alberta squad.

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Aug. 25, 2014

Glencross event a perfect partnership Calgary Flames forward Curtis “I didn’t mind that when I was 20 Glencross is a familiar face around the years old, but as the announcer said chutes at central Alberta rodeos and tonight, I’m not 27 anymore. I’ve got to chuckwagon races. Although he makes add another 10 years to that. a living on the ice, his rural roots mean “This Glencross charity deal is an he’s not afraid to get his boots dirty. So awesome event and it’s only getting when he and his wife Tanya decided to better every year. Obviously when do some charitable work, centering it there’s that big of a prize at the end, around a rodeo event wasn’t surpris- every time they told me I had another ing. re-ride, it’s tough to say no. At a reguCowboy friends were eager to lend lar rodeo, I probably would’ve quit a hand, and Friday’s third edition of after the second one. Here, you’ve got the Glencross Invitational such a great prize at the end Charity Roughstock Event of the deal, you just keep goshowed what a successful ing and hope it works out.” partnership it has become.

Although both Bowers Glencross’s desire to and American Trip are seamake it a first-class show soned contenders, it’s only means he goes looking for the second time they’ve met top stock, and some of Canat a rodeo, and both times ada’s best competitors in have been victories. There bareback, saddle bronc and was no time to relish the bull riding. win, though, because Bowers This year, thanks to jumped back into his rig and sponsor MountainView was making a quick dash to Dodge in Olds, the riders Kennewick, Wash., for a regDIANNE were also shooting for a ular rodeo the next day.

FINSTAD one year lease on a Dodge Marshall, meantime, did truck. That was a big draw pick up some cash for finishfor invitees to take a detour ing second in the bareback to the Daines Ranch during riding finals. He’s still exthe busy late rodeo season run. cited about earning his third required The 12 riders are whittled down to placing in the tie-down roping last the four best, who then choose the ani- weekend to now qualify for the Canadimal they want from the Short Go pen, an all-around race. He managed to do based on their placing. that in Pincher Creek, and then added Bareback rider Ky Marshall came in a bonus one at Cranbrook. With the in first in the opening action for the success he’s had in the bareback ridthird straight year. He chose Outlaw ing, he showed up in first place for the Bucker’s famous Ross River, and came all-around standings. up with an 84.5 point mark. But then The Bowden cowboy was relieved to three-time Canadian champion Kyle get his homework done.

Bowers got on board another Outlaw “I was getting kind of nervous,” adhorse called American Trip. His high- mitted Marshall. flying spur ride under the lights was “We were running out of rodeos. given 87 points by the judges, so he Every time you back in the box, every claimed the Glencross title for the first rodeo puts more and more (pressure) time, and the keys to the black truck. on you. Once you get that third one out “They definitely made me work for of your way, then you’re just laughit,” chuckled Bowers, who now calls ing from there. It’s going to be a good Calgary home. race.”

He’d been given a re-ride on his first It was a first-class saddle bronc horse, had the flank fall off the second, riding finals at the Glencross Roughand had to get on a third in order to stock event. Sam Kelts led the charge qualify for the final round — and a after marking 83 for a classy ride on fourth horse — in just over two hours.

Lady Hawk in the opening round. In

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the short round, his rodeo travelling partner Dustin Flundra made an outstanding 86-point ride on Devil Who, then Canadian champion Rylan Geiger bettered that by half a point on Quittin’ Time. Finally Kelts got his shot, nodding for his pick from the pen, Wild Cherry.

He made an aggressive ride and the horse gave him plenty to work with, and the result was 88 points, and a year with a new Dodge. The normally low-key cowboy was so excited he tried to fan the horse after the whistle blew. While that didn’t work out, he did pump the air with his fist, and give a whoop when he got back on the ground.

“From a bronc riders point of view, he was good to ride,” Kelts said about the horse, more calmly, a little later.

“He took a bunch of rein and was really snappy. That’s why I picked him.

I’ve seen him a couple of times. He’s just a really young horse, but he’s been outstanding. So I took my chances on the colt over the old proven horses, and it worked out.”

Kelts was still pumped about the new wheels for a year.

“It lets us park our vehicles at home, and it’s that much less expense we have going down the road.”

Like Bowers, Kelts and Flundra were loading up and heading out to a rodeo in Lethbridge the next day, before going south of the line in their bid to make the NFR, as well as the CFR. “We’re still going down there pretty hard. Dustin’s in there and he needs to keep going. He’s real close to having it tied up, but he needs to win a little bit more. I’ve got an outside shot still. I’ve got to get to really winning, but things have been feeling good here lately.”

The crowds at the Daines ranch Friday had plenty to cheer about in the bull riding as well, with nine of the dozen riders scoring 80 points or higher. But in the finals, only Scott Schiffner was able to make eight seconds, and his 89.5 on Wrangler Extreme ensured he got the Dodge truck keys.

Although it seems like the Strathmore cowboy, who won the $100,000 at the Calgary Stampede, is on a roll this

summer, Schiffner feels his season is actually a little cold.

“I haven’t been capitalizing at the rodeos,” stated Schiffner. “I’ve got some winning to do to make the CFR. Things like this are great, and I love this charity, and the truck is awesome, but I need to make the Canadian Finals. I’m in there right now, but I’m not safe.”

Schiffner’s a two-time Canadian bull riding champion, but he holds the record in his event for the most CFR appearances. He’d extend that to 14 if he could make Edmonton this November.

Yet not only did Schiffner ride at the Glencross occasion, he also lent a hand recruiting bull riders and stock for it.

“I’m a true believer, especially having my three little girls, in the charities they help here.”

With the Roughstock Event, a sponsor’s poker tournament the night before, a silent auction and concert after the rodeo, Curtis and Tanya Glencross hope to better last year’s $280,000 donation to Hockey Alberta and the Ronald McDonald house. They’re still doing the calculations for this year’s total, to be presented before Christmas.

But now Glencross will have to put his boots away and sharpen his skates, in preparation for the season ahead with the Calgary Flames.

“After we get the numbers stuff, and everything cleaned up here, I’ll be right back at the gym,” pledged Glencross.

“It’s a lot of work, but I’m excited to get back, and get that focus back on, and get skating and ready for camp. I’ll be on the ice five days a week now.”

At this weekend’s pro rodeo in Lethbridge, Ponoka’s Jake Vold split first in the bareback riding, for $1,726, while another Ponoka cowboy, Luke Butterfield, split first in the saddle bronc riding for $2,016. Butterfield also got a share of first in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, to win $1,472.

Todd Gallais of Olds and his partner Grady Branden won the team roping in Lethbridge for $1,432 each.

Dianne Finstad is a Red Deer freelance rodeo writer

Renegades run out of gas, finish sixth at nationals

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF S.W.A.T. 14, Rampage 11 There was no fairy-tale ending for the Red Deer TBS Rampage at the 2014 Founders Cup in Halifax, N.S. After crushing Quebec in their final round robin game on Saturday to stay alive in the Canadian Lacrosse Association Junior B National Championships, they were eliminated from medal contention after the Manitoba Blizzard clipped the Saskatchewan S.W.A.T. 11-10.

In the fifth place game on Sunday, the S.W.A.T. rallied to beat the Rampage 14-11, scoring nine goals in the third period as Red Deer ran out of gas.

“The boys put in a ton of effort right to the end, but I think we just ran out of physical and mental energy in the third period,” said Rampage head coach Ron Just, noting they had a 9-5 lead after two periods. “Once the momentum started to shift, there was too much tiredness to fight through it.”

Conner Hartley scored three goals

and two assists for Red Deer in the loss to Saskatoon while Spencer Lee had three goals and one assist. Ryan Beatson had two goals and an assist, Dawson Reykdal one goal and four assists and Mitch Vellner and Reid Swier a goal and two assists each.

They could not, however, stop Saskatchewan’s top three players as Baden Boyenko had three goals and eight assists, Steven Toporowski had one goal and nine assists and Rhett Handley four goals and two assists.

In the end it was their first game, a 10-9 loss to host Nova Scotia, that killed them.

The two teams wound up tied for fourth at the end of the round robin with six points each, but because Nova Scotia won their head-to-head game, they moved on to the bronze medal match up.

“Once you lose a game in this tournament, you’re really scrambling to get those points back,” said Just. “You have to expend a lot more energy in every game after that and it puts a lot more pressure on you.

“It all started there and we weren’t able to burry the ball at the biggest

times.”

Despite not coming back to Red Deer with a medal, and finishing behind the other two Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League teams in the tournament, Just is proud of the way his team played. They tied the silver medal winning Seneca Chiefs 8-8, who routed every other team they played, and never quit against the four-time-champion Six Nations Rebels, despite losing 12-5.

They were one of the few teams to really frustrate the Rebels, to the point where their coach was thrown out of the game.

“I’m just so proud of our boys for showing up and not really knowing what a Founders was about and responding to the challenge and competing every minute,” said Just. “The guys learned so much, it’s something they’re going to be able to take back when they help coach young kids in Central Alberta and it’s something the returning players will be able to bring back next year. I would like a different result, obviously, but it was an important week for Red Deer lacrosse.”

Just says he likely will not be back next season as coach and there is

the chance that assistant coach Scott Gresham moves on to a junior A team, but he says it is important that there is some continuity on the bench as the franchise attempts to build on what the history they made this year.

“When we started down this path four years ago, it wasn’t to have a flash in the pan opportunity to go to a national championship, it was because a few of us truly believed that the quality of lacrosse player in Central Alberta is worthy of competing at the national level, and we all still believe that and we’re all going to be working to make that happen,” said Just. “It’s time now some of the players who have graduated from our program the last four years to step up and start getting involved.” ● The Six Nations Rebels beat the Seneca War Chiefs 14-7 to win their fourth straight Founders Cup. Nova Scotia beat the Manitoba Blizzard 11-4 for the bronze medal ... Calgary Junior Mountaineers pick Sean Tyrrell was the Rampage’s lone tournament allstar after scoring 30 points (nine goals, 21 assists) in five games. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

McCoil and Eskimos defence put the freeze on Argonauts

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Eskimos 41 Argonauts 27 EDMONTON — Their quarterback went down, but the defence was there to pick the Edmonton Eskimos back up on Saturday afternoon.

Linebacker Dexter McCoil scored a pair of touchdowns and backup quarterback Matt Nichols was solid when called upon as the Eskimos held on to win their third game in a row, defeating the Toronto Argos 41-27.

The Eskimos improved to 7-1 on the

season, something they last accomplished in 1989. That was the same year Edmonton started 9-1 and finished with a CFL record 16 victories (16-2).

The win looked to have come with a high cost. Quarterback Mike Reilly suffered a hand injury early in the game and was unable to return, putting the ball in Nichols’ hands for the majority of the contest. However, post-game reports indicated it is not expected to be a long-term absence.

Nichols said he was relieved to be able to help the team capture the win, despite having a bit of rust to deal

with.

“Aside from the pre-season, where you get a lot of basic looks, this was my first game action since 2012 where the defence was changing things on the fly and bringing different blitzes,” he said.

“I felt like, overall, I handled it pretty well and executed our game plan.

“We were able to get first downs when we needed to, the defence obviously kept us in it, but that last drive, we went out there and got three first downs and really sealed the game for us.”

Eskimos head coach Chris Jones

wasn’t thrilled that his team had to come up big at the end of the game to seal the victory, especially after holding a commanding 31-10 lead at the half.

“The second half, we didn’t play as good,” he said.

“We were, quite honestly, a little bit flat in the third quarter, had some turnovers and things like that. But still, you’ve got to come out and shut the door on people.”

The Argos lost their second straight game to drop to 3-6, but remain in first place in the struggling East Division.

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49ers finally get some offence SCORE FIRST TWO TDS OF PRESEASON IN HOME WIN OVER CHARGERS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 49ers 21 Chargers 7 SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Colin Kaepernick went down once, then again and another time.

Pressured from every direction by San Diego’s defence, the quarterback had limited good looks before turning the game over to backup Blaine Gabbert.

The 49ers’ offence still looks shaky two weeks from the regular season, and it did just enough for the team’s first preseason victory in a 21-7 win against the Chargers on Sunday. The offensive line showed vulnerabilities all day.

“We’ve got to work on that.

We’ve got to be good in that area,” coach Jim Harbaugh said.

“I thought our precision was better offensively, defensively and on special teams — productive plays, execution.”

There were tens of thousands of empty seats hours after an overnight 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the Northern California wine country near Napa. The quake affected some public transportation options to the new $1.2 billion stadium, which was sold out last Sunday.

The patchy field is still hardly ideal, with visible lines where new sod was placed Friday after the initial turf failed to hold.

Phil Dawson kicked a 39-yard field goal at the 9:27 mark of the second quarter, ending an eight-quarter scoreless drought for the 49ers as they doubled their preseason total. Dawson added another from 28 yards a week after missing twice.

Dawson didn’t get on the field until Sunday morning.

“I’m just amazed that was playable,” Dawson said. “It was an improvement, so hats

off to those guys who worked so hard to get it in. Fortunately I missed two last week so my focus was solely on trying to make a field goal, so I didn’t have enough room in my brain to worry about the field.”

Gabbert threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Vance McDonald late in the first half for the 49ers’ first TD of the preseason. That capped a drive in which Gabbert went 5 for 6.

Philip Rivers completed his first five passes and finished 9 of 10 for 85 yards and a touchdown. Kaepernick was 6 of 12 for 59 yards.

With Rivers’ outing and Peyton Manning’s 12-of-14 performance in a 34-0 rout last Sunday, the new-look 49ers secondary allowed the past two starting quarterbacks to complete 21 of 24 passes for 187 yards and passer ratings of 120 or better.

“We all haven’t really come together yet,” cornerback Tramaine Brock said. “There’s still a lot to learn.”

San Francisco’s offensive line had major problems protecting Kaepernick, who was hit hard four times in three first-quarter series.

Right guard Alex Boone has held out all off-season in hopes of a new contract with two years remaining on his previous deal, and he might now have some increased leverage.

Kaepernick lost a fumble when he got stripped and pounded by Corey Liuget, who beat left guard Mike Iupati.

But the Chargers failed to score when Ryan Mathews was stuffed on fourth-and-1 from the 5 by Michael Wilhoite.

Kaepernick was hit again on his next pass attempt, then a fourth time during his third series.

An illegal block nullified Rivers’ 25-yard touchdown pass to Mathews in the final

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San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis runs against San Diego Chargers strong safety Marcus Gilchrist during the second quarter of an NFL preseason football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday. minute of the first quarter. But Rivers connected on a 10-yard TD pass to Antonio Gates on the next play.

The Chargers outgained San Francisco 121-17 in the first quarter — but not without a cost.

Defensive tackle Kwame Geathers went down with a knee injury at the 7:09 mark in the first quarter, while centre Nick Hardwick suffered a first-half neck injury.

49ers fullback Will Tukuafu sustained a concussion, while rookie third-round draft pick centre Marcus Martin was

Joint practices changing the way NFL teams play preseason games

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — The sight of J.J. Watt donning a baseball cap even before the Houston Texans’ first defensive series was over said it all: teams are changing the way they treat the preseason.

Starters have traditionally played into the second half of the third exhibition game, a final tuneup for the regular season.

Yet, even Peyton Manning had no need for his helmet when the Denver Broncos returned to the field after halftime against the Texans on Saturday night.

Houston coach Bill O’Brien and Denver coach John Fox figured they’d given their starters plenty of work during three days of intense joint practices during the week.

So, some stars made cameo appearances — if that — and nearly every starter was a sideline spectator by the second-half kickoff.

“Any team will tell you that once you get your full squad together, that’s really what you’re looking for,” Watt said.

“But it’s the preseason and the main thing is getting to the regular season healthy.”

Dialing things back in the third preseason game might just be a blueprint for handling the preseason in the future. And joint practices are the perfect substitute for those snaps the starters are missing.

Joint practices have been a staple of the NFL for years, but they’ve become more popular since the 2011 collective bargaining agreement put an end to the old two-a-days in full gear and limited practice time and the amount of hitting that’s allowed.

Training almost year-round with nutritional programs and cutting edge technologies and techniques means players no longer have to use the preseason to build up strength and stamina.

Instead, veterans can get situational snaps at practice and then watch players on the bubble play on game day because now it’s all about getting through August without a trip to the trainer’s room or doctor’s office.

Nearly half of the league’s 32 teams practiced against another team this summer.

Some, like the Patriots and Texans, practiced against multiple opponents. The Har-

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Houston Texans quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning shake hands following a joint practice between the Denver Broncos and the Houston Texans on Aug. 20, 2014, in Englewood, Colo. baugh brothers got the 49ers and Ravens together following their preseason game.

Washington coach Jay Gruden said joint practices are a good way to get the veterans necessary work because with “every team in the NFL, the No. 1 unit is limited” in the preseason as it is.

Ratcheting up the intensity during the dog days of August is a good way to break the monotony of training camp, indoctrinate the rookies and get a better gauge on players.

“When you’re seeing the same guys day in and day out, sometimes you get jaded.

When you go against another team, I think it gives you a fresh perspective on where you are,” said Titans first-year coach Ken Whisenhunt, who took his team to Georgia for a quick workout against the Falcons.

Joint practices have inherent drawbacks, though.

“There are going to be fights,” Denver left tackle Ryan Clady said. “It’s kind of the nature of the game.”

When the Cowboys and Raiders got together for a spirited joint session this month, Dallas coach Jason Garrett called it “as electric an atmosphere as I have been on, on a practice field, really in my life.” Oakland coach Dennis Allen said he almost had to quiet down the crowd at times “just so we could get some plays off.”

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones didn’t mind the two brawls that broke out, either.

“Seriously, that passion,

that’s mostly what I’d hoped what we would get out of getting these teams together,” Jones said.

The Texans and Broncos had several skirmishes during their six hours of officiated practices.

“It’s football, there’s testosterone out here and people get excited,” Watt said. “Practicing with each other for three days, we’re professional athletes, guys get excited, get a little antsy so that’s fine.”

The bad blood boiled over into the game when Manning was whistled for the first taunting foul of his career.

After throwing a touchdown pass to Emmanuel Sanders just before halftime, he rushed up to safety D.J. Swearinger, who was at the centre of several scrums last week and whose hard hit one play earlier left Wes Welker with a concussion.

“The week had something to do with it,” Swearinger said.

“The hit right before that had something to do with it, so it’s all football, bro.”

Joint practices will probably become even more popular if the NFL adopts an 18-game regular season and chops the four-game preseason in half.

What made the TexansBroncos workouts unusual was the timing.

Teams usually get together early in camp, not this late.

The Broncos figure to be hosting opponents for joint practices in the future now that their $35 million indoor practice facility is nearing completion. It has hot tubs, locker rooms, classrooms.

carted off with 11:18 remaining with a knee injury.

San Francisco’s Glenn Winston ran for a 27-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter against a Chargers defence that allowed five TDs rushing in a 41-14 loss to the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks.

“We had something to prove after last week. We really put a focus on stopping the run, and I thought we did a good job,” linebacker Donald Butler said. “It’s good that when you put a focus on something, that you’re able to go out there

and do it.”

Kaepernick and Anquan Boldin spent extensive time testing their footing, working on routes and communicating during warmups on the new grass, which still featured divots and holes and isn’t a permanent solution.

The 49ers have won the past five preseason meetings between the teams, who have faced off in the exhibition schedule every year since 1987.

Neither showed much given they play here again in Week 16 on Dec. 20.

Newman’s interception return helps Bengals beat Cardinals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bengals 19 Cardinals 13 GLENDALE, Ariz. — Cincinnati’s Terence Newman returned an interception 54 yards for the only touchdown by either team’s starters and the Bengals went on to a 1913 preseason victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday night.

Mike Nugent added field goals of 48 and 36 yards for Cincinnati (1-2).

Jay Feely, competing with rookie Chandler Catanzaro for the Cardinals’ kicking job, made a 24-yarder but missed from 48 yards. Catanzaro made a 23-yard attempt.

The Cardinals (1-2) got their lone touchdown on a 30-yard pass from backup Drew Stanton to rookie John Brown with 1:29 left in the third quarter, tying it at 13-13.

Cincinnati backup Quinn Sharp kicked field goals of 34 and 51 yards after that for the deciding margin.

The Bengals’ Andy Dalton completed 13 of 21 passes for 183 yards. Palmer was 7 of 19 for 92 yards. Larry Fitzgerald caught five of Palmer’s throws

for 71 yards.

Both teams played their starters the entire first half.

Palmer was facing the team he quarterbacked for the first eight years of his NFL career before an acrimonious split sent him to Oakland. Dalton replaced Palmer as a rookie in 2011.

Cornerback Leon Hall said “it means something to me, for emotional reasons I guess” to hold Palmer, his former teammate, without a touchdown.

“But really,” Hall said, “I’d feel almost the same way regardless who we were playing. This was what they call a rehearsal game. ... This builds some momentum for (the opener against) Baltimore.”

Bengals owner Mike Brown was taken to a Phoenix hospital before the game for what was termed a “minor” health problem.

The team said he was to return to Cincinnati and did not attend the game.

Cincinnati inside linebacker Vontaze Burfict left the game in the first quarter with a hamstring injury.

The matchup featured two of the top defences from last season.

Cleveland Browns preparing for life without Josh Gordon

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — While Josh Gordon waits to hear from the NFL, the Cleveland Browns think they have an idea about what is going to happen.

Coach Mike Pettine said Sunday that Gordon did not play in the Browns’ previous exhibition game because the team is preparing to be without the All-Pro wide receiver for at least part of the season.

Gordon is waiting to hear from the NFL regarding his appeal of a possible yearlong suspension for again violating the league’s substance-abuse program. He has been practicing and playing for weeks amid uncertainty about his career.

“Knowing that the decision is looming — that we’re fairly certain that were not going to have him for a minimum of some part of the year — we wanted to make sure that we were getting repetitions with the guys that are going to be out there early,” Pettine said.

The 23-year-old Gordon set the club’s single-season fran-

chise record with an NFL-best 1,646 yards receiving last year despite being suspended for the first two games. The breakout performance included one dazzling four-game stretch where had 36 receptions for 774 yards and five touchdowns.

But he has struggled in his preparations for this year, dropping passes during practices and preseason games. He hasn’t spoken to reporters for months, and Pettine said his uncertain future is weighing on him.

An unspecified injury also contributed to Gordon being held out for Saturday night’s 33-14 loss to St. Louis, Pettine said.

“As the game went on and there was the opportunity for him to get in there, with just the minor injury that he had, he wasn’t loose,” Pettine said.

“I consulted with (wide receivers) coach (Mike) McDaniel and at that point we just didn’t feel comfortable putting him in. It wasn’t anything from a punishment standpoint or anything like that. It was just common sense.”

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Blue Jays bow to Rays in extra innings

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South Korea downs Chicago to win Little League World Series

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — In the giddy moments after South Korea won the Little League World Series, outfielder Don Wan Sin realized how he wanted to celebrate.

“I want to go to the Blue House — the White House of Korea — and meet the President,” Sin said, breaking up his teammates.

Just maybe Sin, who scored twice and hit a solo homer, will indeed get his wish to meet Park Geun-hye.

He’s famous back in his homeland — along with all of his teammates.

Jae Yeong Hwang drove in two runs and combined with Hae Chan Choi, who weathered a late Chicago rally, to lead the Asia-Pacific Region champions to an 8-4 win in Sunday’s LLWS championship game.

Hwang, who was removed because he wasn’t feeling well, gave up one hit in two-plus innings while striking out four. He also drove in his team’s first two runs as they built an 8-1 lead before Jackie Robinson West made it close.

“I’m very joyful. It’s a wonderful feeling,” Hwang said. “I don’t know why I’m even here; I didn’t play very good today.”

Choi, who had a homer and scored twice, pitched the last four innings for South Korea, which won its third title after back-to-back championships in 1984 and ’85.

But even he got a little nervous at the end after Chicago collected four of its six hits and scored three times.

“I knew I could allow some runs,” he said. “After I got the second out, I thought I could do it. But after I gave up the three runs I was (worried).”

International teams have won the last three and four of the last five titles. Brandon Green went 5 2-3 innings for Chicago, which had survived four straight knockout games before the final.

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Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, centre, talks to home plate umpire Bill Welke after ejecting Jose Bautista, left, during sixth inning baseball action against the Tampa Bay Rays in Toronto on Sunday.

(4-1) threw two scoreless innings of relief for the win and starting pitcher Chris Archer racked up six strikeouts through seven innings with six hits, one walk and one run.

Drew Hutchison threw six strong innings for Toronto (64-64), giving up one run in the first inning before settling down. He struck out seven, walked two and gave up six hits in the no-decision.

Aaron Loup, Dustin McGowan, Casey

Dixon surges late for dramatic IndyCar win at Sonoma

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SONOMA, Calif. — Will Power thought the world was ending when an earthquake shook him out of bed.

A few hours later at Sonoma Raceway, the sleep-deprived driver plummeted from the pole to 20th place before fighting back for a finish that actually increased his IndyCar points lead.

Scott Dixon barely noticed the quake, and he calmly racked up another milestone victory while Power frantically stayed in position to take Dixon’s place as series champion next weekend.

Dixon surged ahead with three laps left at Sonoma on Sunday, while Power recovered from a mid-race spin to finish 10th heading to the season finale.

Dixon is out of the race to defend his 2013 title after a poor start to the season, but he has won two of IndyCar’s last three races. Unlike most of his competitors, he wasn’t bothered by the 6.0 earthquake that caused extensive damage in the cities around the raceway, including Napa.

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place finish at Sonoma, and Simon Pagenaud is 81 points back in third after a third-place showing on a wild day in wine country.

Power crossed the finish line ninth after a ferocious last-lap push past Justin Wilson, culminating in a thrilling three-wide sprint with Sebastien Bourdais.

But IndyCar recorded Wilson in ninth and Power in 10th because of a local yellow flag for the slowing car of Conway, who crawled across the line.

The finish capped a tumultuous day for Power, who started on the pole in his attempt to win at Sonoma for the fourth time in five years.

“That was a good recovery there,” Power said. “We had such a fast car, but that’s the way IndyCar racing goes.

We maintained the points lead, and we’re going to Fontana. We’ll see what we can do, man.”

Sonoma Raceway was unaffected by the earthquake that hit about 10 hours before the race began. The quake left several drivers alarmed, but unharmed — although Team Penske’s hotel was evacuated, and James Hinchcliffe slept a few hours in his car.

SPRINTING

ZURICH, Switzerland — Usain Bolt has decided to end his injury-plagued season early, having competed in just three races in 2014.

Organizers for Thursday’s Diamond League meeting in Zurich said Sunday that Bolt had withdrawn from the event’s 100-meter race and will not compete again this season. The decision comes a day after the Olympic champion and world record-holder won a 100 race in Warsaw, Poland, clocking 9.98 seconds.

The statement said Bolt’s coach Glen Mills “feels it is now time to shut it down while he is healthy and injury free with a view on his preparations

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the Bird’s Nest stadium where he won three Olympic golds in 2008 and set as many world records.

His absence will be a major blow to European meet organizers, though, as the Jamaican remains the sport’s biggest draw. However, Zurich meet director Patrick Magyar said he understood Bolt’s decision.

“Usain’s body has delivered tremendous performances over the last years.

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Bolt’s preparations for the season were disrupted by a foot injury and his only other appearances in 2014 were in the 4x100 relay for Jamaica at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and a 100 exhibition race in Rio de Janeiro.

He won all three events but without displaying the type of speed that has made him the sport’s biggest star. Saturday was the first time this year he ran a 100 race in under 10 seconds.

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or 10 seconds,” Dixon said. “People were screaming, but I just went back to bed.”

Dixon grabbed his second Sonoma victory and his 35th win overall after leader Graham Rahal was forced to pit for gas with four laps left. Dixon slid inside Mike Conway for the lead and held on for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, moving him into a fifth-place tie with Bobby Unser for career victories on the circuit.

Rahal and Conway both tried to push to the finish on low fuel, but neither made it. Ryan Hunter-Reay finished second, and Takuma Sato was fourth.

“We know our team finishes strong, but if we could have started the season on the map, we could have done a lot better,” Dixon said.

“For me, it’s been one of the worst seasons I’ve had.”

Although Dixon won, Power was under the IndyCar spotlight. The Australian boosted his lead over teammate Helio Castroneves to 51 points heading to the double-points finale at Fontana on Saturday.

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Janssen and Brett Cecil combined on three scoreless frames, though Janssen gave up back-to-back singles and a sacrifice bunt to start the ninth.

Dioner Navarro had two hits for Toronto (66-64) while Juan Francisco picked up an RBI on a sacrifice fly.

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So when Jose Bautista was ejected from Sunday’s 2-1 extra innings loss to the Tampa Bay Rays for arguing a strikeout with home plate umpire Bill Welke, Gibbons didn’t mince words when asked about the situation.

“Bottom line we need him in the game. Say your peace, and get the hell out of there,” the Blue Jays manager said. “We’re trying to get in the playoffs, we need you on the field.

“He (Bautista) is a marked man in this game. Bill Welke, I thought he had a pretty good zone today. He was steady, I thought he was looking to call strikes. But we need you in the game.”

Bautista’s absence brought Nolan Reimold into the contest at right field.

The move proved costly as Reimold misplayed a ball hit by Logan Forsythe in the top of the 10th inning, allowing Ben Zobrist to move from first to third base. Zobrist scored the winning run when the next batter, Evan Longoria, hit a single to left field off reliever Sergio Santos, freshly recalled from triple-A Buffalo on Saturday.

After the game, Reimold took full responsibility for the error.

“I saw (Zobrist) take off ... I was thinking about throwing him out before I caught the ball and it was completely my fault,” he said. “That play’s got to be made.”

Longoria drove in both runs for the Rays (64-66), who played to 10 innings for the second time in as many days at Rogers Centre after losing 5-4 on Saturday afternoon.

Brad Boxberger pitched the bottom of the 10th for the save, Jake McGee

details about his conversation with Welke.

“Doesn’t matter what I think,” Bautista said when asked about the location of the strikeout pitch. “The only thing that matters is what (Welke) thinks and he made the call.”

Bautista did admit that not arguing the call would have served the team better, however, especially in a onerun game.

“At any point in the game it would have been wiser (to leave the call alone),” Bautista said. “What I’m sure I said, I don’t feel was warranting that (ejection) happening. But if you want to get the details you can go ask him (Welke).”

With the strikeout, Bautista failed to reach base for the third straight game.

The last time he was held off base for that long was a three-game span in April 2012.

Asked how much of his recent slump had to do with him arguing with the umpire, Bautista replied, “Zero.”

The Blue Jays threatened to tie the game in the bottom of the 10th as Francisco led off the inning with a single, advanced to second on an error to James Loney and moved to third on a bunt base hit from Munenori Kawasaki. But Jose Reyes fouled out, Melky Cabrera popped out and Reimold struck out to end the game.

“It’s kind of easy to just give up in that situation and say ’they’re going to at least score one run, we’ll play for the tie,”’ Longoria said of the runners on second and third with nobody out in the bottom of the 10th. “Boxberger did a great job making his pitches right there. It’s good to come out on top of that one.”

Santos — who was pitching in his first major league game since July 12 — was saddled with the loss after walking Zobrist ahead of Reimold’s error.

The run he allowed was unearned.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISTOL, Tenn. — Joey Logano is looking more and more like a Sprint Cup title contender.

Logano surged past Matt Kenseth with 44 laps to go and won for the first time in his career at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday night, foiling the 2003 series champion’s gambling attempt to secure a spot in NASCAR’s playoffs.

Logano, just 24, became the fifth driver this season to win three times, joining the Hendrick Motorsports trio of Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Penske Racing teammate Brad Keselowski, who finished second.

Is there a message in that heading into the Chase for the championship in two weeks?

“That we can win the thing,” Logano said.

Logano had never won more than one race in a season before this year, and has doubled his career victory total. He also added a cherished notch by winning at Bristol, which bills itself as the world’s fastest half-mile.

“I feel like the Bristol night race is maybe the third or fourth biggest race of the year,” he said.

“Just the atmosphere before the race, if it doesn’t pump you up, nothing does. It’s just the baddest mamma jamma race track ever built.”

He gained the top spot when Kenseth elected to stay on the track when most of the field pitted after a caution flag with 67 laps to go, picking track position and fresh air over new tires. It seemed like a strategy that could work, especially if he could stay in the high groove that gave drivers decidedly more speed off the corners all weekend on the 0.533-mile oval.

But the Penske Racing teammates quickly proved it faulty.

“I just knew that clean air was going to be worth more than new tires,” Kenseth said of his decision after finishing third. He said he also felt his car wasn’t as strong as he liked on fresh tires, and first Logano and then Keselowski foiled his plan.

“They cleared everybody way too fast,” Kenseth

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Panthers QB Cam Newton has fracture in ribs, will miss final preseason game Panthers coach Ron Rivera says quarterback Cam Newton has a hairline fracture in his ribs and will miss the team’s final preseason game. Rivera says he’s expects Newton to be ready for the team’s Sept.

7 regular season opener against Tampa Bay. Newton was hit after scrambling from the pocket in Carolina’s preseason game Friday night against New England. He continued to play. Rivera says “he’s pretty sore and he’s hurting right now. It is of concern.”

Newton has never missed a regular season start in his three seasons with the Panthers.

Rams QB Sam Bradford tears left ACL again, out for season St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford has a torn ACL in his left knee for the second straight year and is out for the season, according to multiple reports. Bradford was injured in the first quarter of Saturday night’s 33-14 preseason victory at Cleveland. He landed hard on the knee when hit by Browns defensive end Amonty Bryant after throwing a pass.

Bradford, the first overall pick of the 2010 draft, missed the last nine games last season after getting injured at Carolina. Veteran Shaun Hill has been the backup and the Rams also have rookie Garrett Gilbert and Austin Davis on the roster. Bradford had 14 touchdown passes and four interceptions last season and the supporting cast was the best the Rams have provided. They upgraded the offensive line by drafting guard-tackle Greg Robinson No. 2 overall.

Broncos kicker Prater faced yearlong ban before NFL agreed to 4 games Matt Prater’s lawyer said the NFL initially threatened a yearlong suspension before agreeing to ban the Denver Broncos kicker four games for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. Harvey Steinberg said Prater’s suspension was alcohol-related.

He said Prater consumed a couple of beers while on vacation in between the end of the team’s off-season workout program in June and the start of training camp in late July. Prater has been in the league’s substance abuse program since he was charged with DUI on Aug. 12, 2011.

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Matt Kenseth (20) and Joey Logano (22) battle for the lead as Brad Keselowski trails during a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday, in Bristol, Tenn. said.

He still remains in great position to make the playoffs, standing fifth in the points race and first among non-winners. His lead is now 90 points over 17th place Kasey Kahne, who has only two races left to overtake him before the field is set.

Keselowski never made a serious bid to overtake Logano, though he did pull up to his bumper on the last lap.

“When I’d get right behind him, I’d get in the dirty air and it just pushed too much be able to do anything,” he said. “The last lap I just dive-bombed it in there on a prayer and kind of hoping it would stick or he would slip of something would happen for me, and made it look cool. But it really wasn’t that close.”

It did, however, give Penske a sweep of the weekend, its first since 2006. Ryan Blaney won the Nationwide race on Friday night, and along with the 1-2 finish, Will Power won the pole in Sonoma in IndyCar on Saturday.

Keselowski also won the truck race Thursday, giving Ford its first sweep of NASCAR’s top three series since 2006.

Jimmie Johnson, slowed early by two pit road speeding penalties, rallied to finish fourth, his best result since mid-June at Michigan, and Kurt Busch was fifth, rallying on a call by crew chief Daniel Knost with 130 to go after almost being lapped.

Gordon remained the points leader despite a 16thplace run. He’s 27 clear of Earnhardt and 42 ahead of Keselowski.

Man U still winless after draw with Sunderland, Spurs thrash QPR EUROPEAN SOCCER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The World Cup memories are fading fast for Louis van Gaal as the size of the Manchester United rebuilding task hits home.

A week after losing the season opener, United was held to a 1-1 draw at Sunderland on Sunday, leaving the former Netherlands coach still searching for his first win in the Premier League. Juan Mata gave United the lead in northeast England but former Manchester City midfielder Jack Rodwell headed Sunderland level on the half-hour.

“Football is played for creating chances and making goals,” said Van Gaal, who led the Dutch to third place in Brazil. “We haven’t created so many chances today. We probably had more ball possession and were more dominant than the last match but you have to win your game at that moment and we couldn’t, so that’s a pity.”

Before the approach from United to replace David Moyes, Van Gaal was close to taking charge at Tottenham. Instead, Mauricio Pochettino’s reign at White Hart Lane has begun with successive league wins as his team overwhelmed Queens Park Rangers with a stylish 4-0 rout on Sunday.

Whether Tottenham is a top-four contender might only become clearer when the north London club hosts Liverpool next Sunday. Before then Liverpool plays champion Manchester City today in a meeting of last season’s top-two.

United, which collected a 20th English title in 2013 before Alex Ferguson retired, seems some way away from rejoining the elite, based on the Swansea loss and Sunderland draw.

By pursuing Argentina forward Angel Di Maria, who would likely cost more than $100 million to leave Real Madrid, the United owners are showing there is money to spend, having already splashed out around $125 million in recent months. And the first goal came Sunday from the club’s most expensive player, Mata, who joined in January for 37.1 million pounds (then $61 million). The Spain midfielder met Antonio Valencia’s low cross from close range in the 17th minute after evading Sebastian Larsson.

Tottenham already has a maximum six points like

Chelsea and Swansea, and produced the type of expressive attacking display expected when Pochettino was brought in from Southampton in May to replace Tim Sherwood.

Nacer Chadli scored the first of two goals in the 12th after bringing down Emmanuel Adebayor’s cross with his chest. Erik Lamela, the $40-million record-signing derided in his first season at Tottenham has been revitalized by Pochettino, setting up Eric Dier’s header from a corner and providing the cross that Chadli nodded in before half time.

Tottenham’s fourth came from a rapid counterattack in the 65th minute, with Danny Rose galloping down the left flank before squaring for Adebayor to side foot into the net.

In the day’s other game, Hull had to play with a man disadvantage against Stoke from the 14th minute when James Chester’s outstretched leg denied Glenn Whelan a goal-scoring opportunity. But Nikica Jelavic still managed to put Hull in front in the 42nd from a tight angle. It took until the 84th for Stoke captain Ryan Shawcross to bundle in a goal to salvage a 1-1 draw.

In other action from around Europe, Lionel Messi and Barcelona are already up and running at full speed in the Spanish league. Messi helped 10-man Barcelona start the Spanish league with a 3-0 win over Elche in the debut of coach Luis Enrique, with the Argentina star looking eager to put last season’s disappointments behind him.

Messi used a burst of speed to dribble free of a pack of opponents before slotting in Barcelona’s first goal in the 41st. Barcelona then lost Javier Mascherano to a direct red card when he fouled Elche’s Garry Rodrigues with only goalkeeper Claudio Bravo to beat. But 18-year-old Munir El Haddadi, starting for the injured Neymar, scored seconds after halftime before Messi got his second goal in the 63rd after again sidestepping a group of defenders.

Radamel Falcao scored in his first start of the season to give Monaco a 1-0 win over Nantes in the French league. It was the team’s first victory of the season under new coach Leonardo Jardim. Monaco overcame a lacklustre performance, with Falcao heading home a cross from Layvin Kurzawa on the stroke of halftime.

Mainz earned a 2-2 draw at promoted Paderborn with an injury-time penalty, denying the home side a victory in its first Bundesliga game.

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POPEL Russell Aug. 20, 1929 - Aug. 20, 2014 Russell Popel of Lacombe passed away on August 20, 2014 at the age of 88. He will be lovingly remembered by his son Russell (Beth), daughter Donna (Dennis); grandchildren: Wade, Crystal, Channing (Kimberly), Alexandria (Fraser); step grandchildren: Christine (Kyle), Michelle and Kyle of Martinsville, SK; great grandchildren Lauren, Bryce and Caleb; sisters Joanne (Joe) and Roseanne (Rudy).

Russell was predeceased by his loving wife of 63 years, Jean. Russell spent his working career in northern Alberta working for Northland Utilities, Alberta Power and ATCO Electric. His 35 years in the power industry was very rewarding to him. Russell was active in the many communities he lived in and belonged to many different groups and organizations.

The railroad and aviation were both passions for Russell.

Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church, 5226-51 Ave, Lacombe, AB. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, 101-6751 52 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 4K8 or to Heartland Manor, Box 85 Site 5 RR4, Lacombe, AB T4L 2N2.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T DISHWASHER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

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JJAM Management (1987) SPARTEK Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s SYSTEMS INC Requires to work at these In Sylvan Lake, AB Red Deer, AB locations: is seeking qualified 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S ELECTRICAL 37543 HWY 2N ENGINEERS 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT TECHNICAL Req’d permanent shift ILLUSTRATOR/WRITER weekend day and evening both full and part time.

For complete job descriptions, 16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + please refer to our website at benefits. Start ASAP. www.sparteksystems.com Job description Applicants please forward www.timhortons.com resume to: keri.lee@ Education and experience sparteksystems.com not req’d. or fax to 403-887-4050 Apply in person or fax Please state which position resume to: 403-314-1303 you are applying for in your cover letter.

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Truckers/ Red Deer, AB locations: Drivers 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S CLASS 1 DRIVER 37543 HWY 2N with super B and grain 700 3020 22 St. hauling experience for Manager/Food Services Central AB. Call Wayne Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

403-341-9113 Wknd, day, night & eves.

Start date ASAP. $18/hr. 40 CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d hrs/week, + benefits , for moving equipment.

1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., Resumes to be dropped off criminal record check req’d. at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Req’d education some secCres. Red Deer. ondary. Apply in person or CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d fax resume to: for moving equipment.

403-314-1303 For full job Resumes to be dropped off description visit www. at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. timhortons.com Cres. Red Deer.

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RAMADA INN & SUITES

req’s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com

DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

850

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

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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1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Predire. Hiring BRICAR CONTRACTING Salespersons at Parkland now hiring Experienced Mall, 4747-67th St, Red Dozer & Hoe Operators.

Deer, AB T4N6H3 Send resumes by F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Fax: 403-347-6296 Weekends. Salary - $14.00 or email: aron@bricar.ca hourly. Skills requirements: good English, customer Buying or Selling service oriented. your home?

Education: Some high school Check out Homes for Sale No experience requirein Classifieds ment, training will be DUE TO A LARGE provided by employer.

INCREASE IN BUSINESS, Main duties: 1.Greet every customer in our store.

PIKE WHEATON 2. Explain to customers how CHEVROLET to use and care of our products. is currently seeking 3. Operation of the cash SERVICE ADVISORS. register, accepting payWe offer competitive ment in cash, cheque, wages, a great working credit card and debit. environment, and a great 4. Opening up the store in benefit package. the morning time and Please email resume to closing it at night.

Joey Huckabone 5.

Keep sales reports for joey@pikewheatonchev.ca inventory control.

RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL 6. Respect the laws and OVERHEAD DOOR regulations of Parkland Mall.

INSTALLERS & SERVICE Company’s business address: TECHNICIANS REQUIRED 17195 75 Ave NW, Edmonton AB T5T2R3 We offer top wages for E-mail: Reachiesales experienced technicians. @gmail.com Excellent benefit package.

Room for growth within ACADEMIC Express the company.

ADULT EDUCATION Please submit resume to: AND TRAINING jfrost @globaloverheaddoors.com

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SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Helpers Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

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WRENCHMASTERS • • AUTOPRO has an immediate opening for an individual with strong parts & estimating skills.

Duties will include estimates, labor times, and inventory control as well as working with technicians. Strong computer knowledge & the ability to work with Automotive software is a huge asset.

Please email resume to jeff@wrenchmasters.ca

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Counter Salesperson

stuff

A local company requires an enthusiastic person for counter sales.

Email resume to mark@aesreddeer.com DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS For pour parts & service dept.

Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca 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 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 Integra Tire Innisfail, req’s a Tire Tech with Lube Bay and Service Truck exp.

Valid class 5 license and driverabstract req’d. Send resume to innisfail@ integratire.com or fax to 403.227.6689

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

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AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Garden Supplies

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GRASS TRIMMER (Electric), $20.

LAWN EDGER, (Electric) $15.

403-346-3086

Household Appliances Labourers, Flag Persons & Operators Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND flag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489 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.

RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.

Fax to 403-346-5786 SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift.

11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

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DEEP FREEZE, 5 cubic foot. Used 2 years, good cond. $125. 403-358-3865 After 5 p.m.

FRIDGE, Kenmore 21 cu ft. 8 yrs. old, black, $200 o.b.o. 403-343-2754 PERMA WASHING MACHINE, Maytag.

Good cond. $175 403-877-3323

Household Furnishings

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DINING Room table with 2 leafs & 6 chairs. $200.

403-309-5028 ROUND WHITE RESIN & GLASS TOP PICNIC TABLE, chairs & umbrella, $100.

403-343-2730

PROJECT MANAGER

- Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

ANTIQUE GOLF CLUBS, $25 obo.

GOLF BALLS, $7.50/dozen.

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4 ISA BROWN LAYING HENS FOR SALE $15/ea.

403-346-7825

Horses

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WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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BEGINNERS GUITAR AMP - Rocker RX100.

7 Watt, $30.

403-227-2976

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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Advocate Opportunities ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

3 BDRM, 1.5 bath townhouse for over 40 yr old employed tenants. 6appls, private yard & parking, 1 small pet with additional Sec. Dep. of $500.

Quiet people, no drugs, no partiers, no police etc.

At #9, 15 Stanton Street, Sunnybrook. Rent & S.D. $1400/mo. 403-341-4627.

SEIBEL PROPERTY www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1245 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

References required.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390 Manufactured Homes Houses/ 2 BDRM trailer in Alix. 4 appls, $900/mo. inclds. waDuplexes

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2 + 1 BDRM home, with lrg garage. $1600/mo + d.d., avail. Oct. 1, 403-347-1563

MOBILE LOT, Mustang Acres #715, $500/mo. will fit 16’ x 70’. 403-347-7731

5 BDRM. house in Red Deer extra large det. shop, no pets, n/s, $1900/mo. + DD avail. Sept.

1 587-679-5789

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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2 BDRM., 4 appls, fenced yard, water, sewer, garbage COZY COTTAGE - 2 bdrm pick up incl. No pets, $900.

1 bath, in gated community at Normandeau. 403-391-2795 Pine Lake. Partially furnished, hot tub, 2 decks. $1000/mo.

Advocate No Pets. 587-229-3823

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CARRIERS REQUIRED 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

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

$605/mo.

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

DEERPARK AREA

Phone 403-314-4301

Duval Cres, Doncaster Place area $332/mo.

Douglas St. Dowler St. area. $423/mo.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

MICHENER AVE

CLEARVIEW AREA

For More Information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED

Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive, Chism Close & 1 block of Cornett Dr. $98/mo

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends

DEER PARK AREA

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres.

Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Allan Street Ahlstrom Close Archibald Cres.

Andrews Close Archer Drive/Austin Dr. Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atkins Close Allison Cres

900

Depalme St. & part of Dunning Cres. & 3 blocks of Douglass Ave. $78./mo also Dixon Cres. $103/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.

MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave

MOUNTVIEW AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. LANCASTER AREA

Academy of Learning HCA program offers:

Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Job Search and Resume Writing Course First Aid / WHMIS

Poultry

3030

$712/mo.

Previous experience Organized & Reliable Physically fit Mechanically inclined

Will consider:

Employment Training

2000-2290

STABILITY BALL - Thera-Band, red. 55 cm in diamtre, asking $35.

403-227-2976

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CLASSIFICATIONS

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

Condos/ Townhouses

GOLF BAG WITH MISC. CLUBS. $100.

For more info call 403-314-0804 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

RED DEER ADVOCATE

HEALTH CARE AIDE

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in commercial construction as a Project Manager • Must have a thorough understanding of project management processes, and systems.

• Excellent benefit package, wage negotiated based on experience. All resumes kept in confidence.

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Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Classes Starting Soon!

Project Manager is the primary point of contact for owners, architects and engineers and is responsible for the successful execution of assigned projects from inception to completion.

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ENROLL TODAY!

Premier Building Solutions is a vibrant, growing, commercial, construction company, focusing on multi-level residential and hotel construction.

We are currently searching for a committed, conscientious individual to join our team as the Construction Project Manager in Red Deer.

Musical Instruments

2 BALINESE KITTENS & 2 BERMAN KITTENS $50/ea. 403-887-3649

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

Commercial Construction

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

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ORIOLE PARK Otterbury Ave

Duties include:

• Journeyman RV Technician status or equivalent related trade experience • Salary based on experience and ability • Company benefits • Top industrial wage for right person

850

INGLIS FRIDGE - almond colour - runs perfect, $125.

VINYL TAN colour rocking chair & ottoman, $60.

OAK END TABLE, $20.

403-886-2542

Cats

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave.

SERVICE BEN ’S WRITER

Duties include:

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

2 WINDOW AIR CONDITIONERS: 1- 5200 BTU, $75, 1- 8000 BTU $100.

403-886-2542

37 TABS, 225 mg, exp.

05/2015 FOR PROPER LIVER FUNCTION DOGS/CATS ONLY. Made with milk thistle.

Vet price $85, asking $50.

403-227-2976

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

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12 5PC SETTING of dinner wear with all completer pieces, white with blue & silver trim, $125.

403-886-2542

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STENO CHAIRS, 1 @ $5, 1 @ $15.

403-346-3086

309-3300

UNC

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Pets & Supplies

GLENDALE

CHINA CABINET 12x60, 2 end cupboards w/2 shelves, dark wood, $75.

CHEST OF DRAWERS, oak 17x32 w/3 drawers, $50.

BED FRAME & HEADBOARD. Frame: adjustable queen/double, headboard: green w/dark brown trim, queen size. $50 for both.

403-343-2730

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Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner ROUND WHITE RESIN & BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / GLASS TOP PICNIC TABLE, chairs & umbrella, $100.

Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 403-343-2730

RV TECHNICIAN/ RV TECH APPRENTICE

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

Lawrence Cres/Lees Street

3 On-Site Clinical Practicums No Waiting List Scrubs are provided

Logan Close

3400 black of 44A Ave and 35 St. Cres.

3200 & 3300 blocks of 44A Ave & 33 St. & 33A St. $100./mo.

Lord Close VANIER AREA Vanier East

Call Today (403) 347-6676 439995H23,25

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TOSHIBA 21” flat back TV, with manual, remote & wireless ear phones. $75.

403-986-6321

LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $190. 403-314-0804

Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

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Req’s Exp. P/T waitress for days & evenings.

Must have Pro Serve Please apply in person: w/resume to 4914-52 St.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for an EXPERIENCED LINE COOK MUST HAVE REFERENCES. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

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439937H29

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2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

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Restaurant/ Hotel

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

B10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Aug. 25, 2014

DAILY FANTASY SPORTS EXPLOSION

Some fantasy players find Fantasy football daily game it’s worth giving up day explosion spawns multimilliondollar online industry jobs to play in daily games

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cory Albertson was cruising at 30,000 feet and, like others on the plane to Detroit, taking care of some business on his laptop.

His spreadsheets contained names familiar to anyone who follows baseball. Pitchers, catchers, maybe a centre fielder Albertson thought might be due for a home run or two.

Albertson’s business on this day was trying to outsmart a few guys in one game, maybe a few thousand in another. Crunching numbers to enter some 500 fantasy sports contests before the first pitch of the day, he was hoping for a score before the night was out.

“I didn’t look exactly, but I think I had about $22,000 invested for the day,” he said.

It was just another day in baseball for Albertson and his partner, Ray Coburn. Football will be another story, with more than $100,000 of their bankroll in play on any given Sunday this fall.

Million dollar paydays. Big wins.

Vegas junkets. Those are just some of the prizes offered online, where a hybrid of the traditional season-long fantasy leagues played by an estimated 41 million Americans has morphed into something quite different.

It’s daily fantasy sports and it’s legal in most states, thanks to an exemption the major sports leagues carved out under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The same legislation that outlawed online poker as a game of chance allows fantasy players to do what regular sports bettors outside of Nevada only dream about — wager money online.

It may resemble sports betting, but those who run it — and those who play it — say it’s not. They cite the gambling law that labels fantasy sports as a game of skill, where picking players to fill a team depends a lot less on sheer luck than picking a team to win a game against the Vegas spread.

Daily or weekly cash games are just a fraction of the fantasy sports universe. The Fantasy Sports Trade Association says Americans spent $11 billion playing fantasy football alone in 2013. But the short-term cash games are exploding in popularity, and anyone over 18 with a credit card, a Paypal account and online access can play. Team headquarters on any given day can be in an airplane, an office, or even your basement.

There are also tens of thousands of losers, of course. The numbers dictate that more than half the players have to lose if the others are to win.

One company — the leading site FanDuel — has some $6 million a week up for grabs now and expects to triple its base to some 500,000 customers this NFL season. Dozens of other companies have sprouted up offering everything from daily play to help — for a fee — on selecting the right mix of players.

The profits are so easy — daily fantasy sites take about 10 per cent off the top of every contest as their fee — that Comcast Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of giant Comcast Corporation,

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CLEARVIEW 2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls.

Rent $1125. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. Oct. 1.

403-304-5337

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1 & 2 BDRM apt. for over 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs.

Free laundry, heat, water, private parking at 5910-55 Ave. in Riverside Meadows.

Rent/Sec. $850 then $1100 respectively for the 2 bdrm.

Avail. Sept. 1st. 403-341-4627

Suites

3060

2 BDRM. N/S, no parties, no pets. $850 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS invested $11 million in FanDuel last year to get a piece of the action. Even mainstream media landmark Sports IlWhen lawmakers carved out an exlustrated is offering daily fantasy cash emption for fantasy sports in a 2006 games of its own. law targeting online poker, no one pre“Two years ago investors would dicted that it would spawn an online have been very skeptical, even ner- gambling operation that may someday vous, about daily fantasy sports,” said rival the millions wagered daily in Las Nigel Eccles, the co-founder and CEO Vegas sports books. of FanDuel. “Today they see this as But huge money changes hands evvery good for sports. Our players con- ery day in daily fantasy sports games sume 40 per cent more sports than reg- and, unlike a bet on your favourite ular fantasy sports players. They spend team to win a game, it’s legal in all but an average of 24 hours a week watch- five states. The exploding popularity ing, searching and doing research on of the games has attracted investments sports.” from traditional media heavyweights Albertson is so good at it that he Sports Illustrated and USA Today, has hedge funds and option trading both of which recently started their desks talking to him about wanting to own pay-to-play sites. invest in his system. The former proThe key has been the development fessional poker player was looking for of weekly and daily fantasy games with something to keep his interest after paid entry fees and cash payouts. Traonline poker was effectively banned ditional fantasy sports competitions by the 2006 act. He found it just in time — those that the 2006 exemption was for the NFL season in 2011, investing trying to protect — involve season-long $500 to start and adding a few hundred competitions. The online competitions here and there as the losses started to that have been around for more than a mount. decade sometimes offered cash prizes But he came up with some basic to a handful of victors in a large field, rules, such as don’t draft a quarterback almost like a sweepstakes. and a field goal kicker from the same Those kinds of competitions aren’t team because they’re competing for attractive for gamblers trying to make the same scores. Later, he and Coburn fast money. But, for some gamblers, the developed an algorithm to maximize daily and weekly games are even more their chances while playing numerous attractive than betting on who will win games. the game.

Albertson The gamblers ‘TWO YEARS AGO spends several can play from anyINVESTORS WOULD HAVE where — unlike hours a day studying players. During sports gambling, BEEN VERY SKEPTICAL, the NFL season, which is legal only EVEN NERVOUS, ABOUT he and Coburn will in Nevada and Delwork from SaturDAILY FANTASY SPORTS..... aware. The legal day afternoon unto play online TODAY THEY SEE THIS AS age til kickoff the next fantasy games is 18, day on lineups for VERY GOOD FOR SPORTS. unlike 21 for gamsome 1,000 differAnd, most OUR PLAYERS CONSUME bling. ent contests. important, the win“I knew it was a 40 PER CENT MORE SPORTS ners in fantasy matter of time beTHAN REGULAR FANTASY games don’t have fore I had a breakto beat the casino. through week and SPORTS PLAYERS. THEY They simply have was on the right to beat most other SPEND AN AVERAGE OF 24 side of the luck players. factor,” Albertson HOURS A WEEK WATCHING, If online experts said. “I stayed with have a system or SEARCHING AND DOING it that season and statistical analysis RESEARCH ON SPORTS.’ ended up with like that most players $8,000 or somedon’t, that’s enough —NIGEL ECCLES thing. I felt the of an advantage to CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF FANDUEL model had sort of lead to consistent proven itself and wins. most likely I was demonstrating I had But while daily fantasy play on a skill edge in these games.” sports is the hot new thing, some comPart of the lure of the games is that panies think the exemption in the 2006 the rules are simple, and mostly al- law may lead to even wilder legal bets. ready understood by the millions who Like Hillary Clinton’s chances of get in traditional season-long fantasy becoming president in 2016? There’s a leagues with their buddies. Most of chance you may be able to legally put those leagues simply offer bragging money on that by the time the election rights, or small cash rewards. The rules comes around. are the same for short-term games: AsThink you know the favourites for semble a team under a salary cap and the Academy Awards next year? Get the stats of those players determine out your credit card, because there your score. Unlike the season-long soon may be a way to cash in on that games, the weekly competitions offer knowledge. instant winners and quick cash.

“It’s not so far out of the realm of You can play against one other play- possibility that you can have some er or thousands. Albertson enters 500 fun contest with unusual events,” said games a week.

John Ford, CEO of BetAmerica. “I It’s legal — except in Arizona, Iowa, think we’ve only begun to explore what Louisiana, Montana and Washington — is possible under the exemption.” where state laws are more strict.

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MORRISROE MANOR

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“The bar to entry is low,” said Thomas Dwyer, a co-founder of the daily site, Ballr. “These are mostly marketing ventures, which mostly means staying in contact with users and giving them the experience and games they want.”

The one thing all the new sites have in common is that they go to great lengths to try and distance themselves from sports betting. Money put in is called an entry fee, not a bet, though just like in sports betting there are winners and losers.

Now almost every site offers games in all four major sports leagues (MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA) while some have ventured into soccer and tournament golf.

With a rake of about 10 per cent on every bet and low expenses, it’s easy to see why daily fantasy play is drawing interest from investors like Comcast Ventures, which last year put $11 million into FanDuel, the leading daily fantasy site.

On USA Today Sports Media Group site FantasyScore.com, there was an opening this month for a game played against only one other contestant with a $5,200 entry fee and a $10,000 cash prize.

The FanNation site that Sports Illustrated runs was, on a recent day, offering a contest where players could wager up to $500 on three players they thought might be in for a hot night on the baseball diamond.

“If you are a betting individual, you can choose to lay a little money on the line and come away from your Throwdown with a tidy profit,” the website promises.

Unlike Nevada, where sports betting is tightly controlled, there’s no regulation of the games and no requirements that companies keep enough money to pay winners. There are no rules other than those that each site plays by, though industry leader FanDuel has made it a point to try and be transparent with statistics on how many players it has and how much money is in play every day.

“We want to show we are open and transparent and we’re there to ensure players have a good experience and that we’re kind of a mature company,” said FanDuel co-founder and CEO Nigel Eccles.

FanDuel is on track to make $400 million in payouts this year.

Running second is the DraftKings site, which this summer acquired the business of DraftStreet in a merger.

Figures compiled by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association estimate 41 million people in the United States and Canada play some kind of fantasy sports.

Daily fantasy play is still a small fraction of that, but growing fast, with FanDuel expecting up to 500,000 players for the upcoming NFL season.

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Earthquake rattles Northern California MAGNITUDE-6.0 QUAKE CAUSES INJURIES, DAMAGING FIRES, POWER OUTAGES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAPA, Calif. — The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years sent scores of people to hospitals, ignited fires, damaged multiple historic buildings and knocked out power to tens of thousands in California’s wine country on Sunday.

The magnitude-6.0 earthquake that struck at 3:20 a.m. about 6 miles from the city of Napa ruptured water mains and gas lines, left two adults and a child critically injured, upended bottles and casks at some of Napa Valley’s famed wineries and sent residents running out of their homes in the darkness.

Dazed residents too fearful of aftershocks to go back to bed wandered at dawn through Napa’s historic downtown, where the quake had shorn a 10-foot chunk of bricks and concrete from the corner of an old county courthouse.

Bolder-sized pieces of rubble littered the lawn and street in front of the building and the hole left behind allowed a view of the offices inside.

College student Eduardo Rivera, 20, said the home he shares with six relatives shook so violently that he kept getting knocked back into his bed as he tried to flee.

“When I woke up, my mom was screaming, and the sound from the earthquake was greater than my mom’s screams,” Rivera said.

While inspecting the shattered glass at her husband’s storefront office in downtown Napa, Chris Malloy, 45, described calling for her two children in the dark as the quake rumbled under the family’s home, throwing heavy pieces of furniture 3 or 4 feet and breaking them.

“It was shaking and I was crawling on my hands and knees in the dark, looking for them,” she said, wearing flip flops on feet left bloodied from crawling through broken

glass.

President Barack Obama was briefed on the earthquake, the White House said.

Federal officials also have been in touch with state and local emergency responders.

Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for southern Napa County, directing state agencies to respond with equipment and personnel.

Napa Fire Department Operations Chief John Callanan said the city has exhausted its own resources trying to extinguish six fires, some in places with broken water mains; transporting injured residents; searching homes for anyone who might be trapped; and answering calls about gas leaks and downed power lines.

Two of the fires happened at mobile home parks, including one where four homes were destroyed and two others damaged, Callanan said.

The earthquake sent 120 people to Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, where officials set up a triage tent to handle the influx. Most had cuts, bumps and bruises received either in the quake, when they tried to flee their homes or while cleaning up, hospital CEO Walt Mickens said. Three people were admitted with broken bones and two for heart attacks.

The child in critical condition was struck by part of a fireplace and had to be airlifted to a specialty hospital for a neurological evaluation, Callanan said.

The earthquake is the largest to shake the Bay Area since the magnitude-6.9 Loma Prieta quake in 1989, the USGS said. That temblor struck the area on Oct. 17, 1989, during a World Series game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, collapsing part of the Bay Bridge roadway and killing more than 60 people, most when an Oakland freeway fell.

Sunday’s quake was felt widely throughout the region.

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A boy examines cars trapped beneath a collapsed carport at Charter Oaks apartments in Napa, Calif., following an earthquake Sunday. More than fifteen vehicles were trapped or crushed as multiple carports collapsed at the complex during a large earthquake. more than 200 miles south of Napa and as far east as the Nevada border. Amtrak suspended its train service through the Bay Area so tracks could be inspected.

Napa City Manager Mike Parness said at an afternoon news conference that 15 to 16 buildings were no longer inhabitable, and there was only limited access to numerous other structures, mostly ones with broken windows. Officials say they are still assessing buildings in the area.

In Napa, at least three historic buildings were damaged, including the county courthouse, and at least two downtown commercial buildings have been severely damaged.

A Red Cross evacuation centre was set up at a high school, and crews were assessing damage to homes, bridges and roadways.

“There’s collapses, fires,” said Napa Fire Capt. Doug Bridewell, standing in front of large pieces of masonry

that broke loose from a turn of the century office building where a fire had just been extinguished. “That’s the worst shaking I’ve ever been in.”

Bridewell said he had to climb over fallen furniture in his own home to check on his family before reporting to duty.

The shaking emptied cabinets in homes and store shelves, set off car alarms and had residents of neighbouring Sonoma County running out of their houses and talking about damage inside their homes.

Pacific Gas and Electric spokesman J.D. Guidi said close to 30,000 lost power right after the quake hit, but the number was down just under 19,000, most of them in Napa.

He says crews are working to make repairs, but it’s unclear when electricity would be restored. The depth of the earthquake was just less than 7 miles, and numerous small aftershocks have occurred, the USGS said.

U.S. Geological survey reports large magnitude 7 earthquake in central Peru LIMA, Peru — A large 7-magnitude earthquake has struck a sparsely populated area of central Peru, the U.S. Geological Survey said Sunday.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

The seismological service said in a preliminary report that the quake occurred Sunday and was centred about 42 kilometres (26 miles) east-northeast of an area called Tambo, and about 471 kilometres (292 miles) southeast of the capital of Lima. It had a depth of 58 kilometres (36 miles).

Gaza police say Israeli Rebels parade captured Ukrainian airstrikes collapse 7-story soldiers on streets of Donetsk as office building, damage citizens shout & hurl eggs commercial centre

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GAZA, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes levelled a sevenfloor office building and severely damaged a two-story shopping centre in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, signalling a new escalation in seven weeks of fighting with Hamas.

The strikes in the southern town of Rafah came just hours after Israel bombed a residential tower in Gaza City, collapsing the 12-story building with 44 apartments.

A total of eight people were killed in Sunday’s airstrikes.

Israel said one of the dead was a Hamas official involved in handling the group’s finances.

The targeting of large buildings appears to be part of a new tactic by Israel. Over the weekend, the army began warning Gaza residents in automated phone calls that it would target buildings harbouring “terrorist infrastructure” and that they should stay away.

A senior military official confirmed that Israel has a policy of striking at buildings containing Hamas operational centres or those from which military activities are launched. The official said each strike required prior approval from military lawyers and is carried out only after the local population is warned.

However, he said, there was now a widening of locations that the military can target.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to discuss the matter with reporters.

Speaking ahead of Israel’s weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Gaza residents to keep their distance from Hamas militants.

“I call on the people of Gaza to immediately evacuate any structure that Hamas is using to commit acts of terror,” he said.

“Every one of these structures is a target for us.”

In the 12-story apartment tower, the target was a fourth-

floor apartment where Hamas ran an operations centre, according to Israeli media. In the past, Israel has carried out pinpoint strikes, targeting apartments in high-rises with missiles, while leaving the buildings standing.

The military declined immediate comment when asked why it collapsed the entire building instead of striking a specific apartment.

Meanwhile, Gaza militants continued to fire rockets and mortar shells at Israel, including at least 10 on Sunday, one of which wounded three people on the Israeli side of the main Gaza crossing, the military said.

Israel’s Defence Ministry said the three wounded were civilian drivers waiting to transport wounded Gazans who had been brought into Israel for treatment in hospitals.

The Erez crossing is used by journalists, aid workers and Palestinians with Israeli permits to enter or leave Gaza.

In southern Israel, hundreds of people attended the funeral of 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman, who was killed Friday in a mortar attack. The mourners included Israel’s President, Reuven Rivlin.

Elsewhere, five rockets were fired from Syria and fell in open areas in northern Israel. It was not immediately clear whether they were fired by pro-government forces or rebel groups.

Amid persistent violence, Egypt has urged Israel and the Palestinians to resume indirect talks in Cairo on a durable cease-fire, but stopped short of issuing invitations.

Several rounds of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas have collapsed, along with temporary cease-fires that accompanied them. The gaps between Israel and the Islamic militant group on a new border deal for blockaded Gaza remain vast, and there’s no sign either is willing to budge.

The Israeli military said it had carried out some 20 strikes on Gaza since midnight Saturday.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DONETSK, Ukraine — ProRussian insurgents on Sunday paraded captured Ukrainian soldiers through the streets of the rebel stronghold Donetsk as bystanders shouted abusive slurs and tossed eggs, bottles, and tomatoes at them.

The display came as President Petro Poroshenko vowed to raise defence spending to defeat the rebels during an ostentatious procession of tanks and weaponry through downtown Kyiv, meant to mark Ukraine’s 23rd anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union.

The developments underscore the increasing divisions in Ukraine as it gears up for what could be many more months of conflict. While support and mobilization for Kyiv’s campaign against the separatists has only grown in many parts of the country, resentments fester in much of the east, where civilian casualties and shelling have become a part of daily life.

Several thousand onlookers had gathered in the main square of Donetsk and shouted obscenities at the dozens of captives, some in Ukrainian military garb and some in tattered civilian clothing, that were forced to march past them. They were flanked by

armed rebels bearing bayoneted rifles.

One visibly agitated man yelled atrocities as he held an infant in one arm. A woman shouted “Hang the fascists from a tree!” Other women rushed at the prisoners, trying to kick and slap them, and were restrained by rebel fighters.

Two water trucks followed the prisoners and hosed down the road, an image meant to evoke historical parallels with an event in Moscow in 1944, when Red Army soldiers paraded tens of thousands of German prisoners of war through the streets.

“Kyiv said that on the 24th, on the Independence Day of Ukraine, they would have a parade. Indeed, they did march in Donetsk, although it wasn’t a parade,” top rebel commander Alexander Zakharchenko said.

“Soldiers of the armed forces of Kyiv walked along the main streets of Donetsk. What Poroshenko planned has taken place.”

The rebels also placed several fire-blackened, shrapnelshredded Ukrainian military vehicles in Donetsk’s main square. Russian nationalist songs blasted from speakers as supporters posed for photos in front of a destroyed tank.

The crowd appeared on edge, as dozens of fighters gathered

in formation but quickly dispersed when artillery fire sounded in the distance.

“Today is the so-called independence day of what was Ukraine. And look what has happened to their equipment.

This is what has become of Ukraine!” said a pro-Russian rebel fighter who identified herself by her battle name, Nursa, pointing at the remains of a Ukrainian troop transport.

One onlooker grabbed a Ukrainian flag from the wreckage of one tank and threw it to the ground. Several others trampled on it, wiping their feet and spitting.

Alexander, a 40-year-old businessman from Donetsk who declined to give his surname, said the Ukrainian flag had no place in the city.

“I feel this is no place for this flag. The great achievement here is that people can see it in the state that it deserves to be in,” he said.

Resentment has grown in the east as residential areas have increasingly come under fire in recent weeks, with the civilian death toll rising to at least 2,000 since April, according to a United Nations report. In Donetsk, an estimated 300,000 of the city’s population of 1 million have fled the fighting, and many of those who remain have gone weeks without electricity or running water.

Iceland lowers aviation alert to orange; no signs of imminent eruption from Bardarbunga

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland lowered its aviation alert level to orange from red Sunday, saying there was no sign of an imminent eruption at the Bardarbunga volcano.

And scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office said their announcement Saturday that the volcano had experienced a subglacial eruption was wrong.

But the office cautioned in

a statement that seismic activity at the volcano, which has been hit by thousands of earthquakes over the past week, was not slowing, and an eruption remained a possibility in coming days.

Two earthquakes measuring over 5 in magnitude — the biggest yet — shook the volcano beneath Iceland’s vast Vatnajokull glacier early Sunday. The Met Office recorded earthquakes of 5.3 and 5.1 in the early hours.

Iceland had raised the alert

for aviation Saturday to red, the highest level on a fivepoint scale, warning that an ash-emitting eruption could be imminent.

An orange alert indicates “heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption.”

After the alert was lowered, aviation authorities lifted a no-fly zone that had been imposed for 100 nautical miles by 140 nautical miles (185 kilometres by 260 kilometres) around the volcano.

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A COMMON DISORDER THAT CAN BE RESOLVED WITH DIET AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES

BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS It can wake a person up in the middle of the night and make the day a misery, with frequent episodes of belch-ridden indigestion, a burning sensation in the esophagus and throat and, for some people, radiating chest pain so severe they wonder if they’re having a heart attack.

This all-too-common condition is known as GERD, for gastroesophageal reflux disease, often referred to more simply as acid reflux — or really, really bad heartburn.

GERD arises as a result of stomach contents backing up, or refluxing, into the esophagus, the tube that connects the throat to the stomach. These backwashed caustic stomach contents — acid, bile, pancreatic secretions and semi-digested food — irritate the lining of the esophagus.

Besides heartburn, symptoms may include difficulty swallowing, dry cough, a hoarse voice, regurgitation of food or a sour-tasting liquid, and feeling as if there’s a lump in the throat.

While many people with GERD complain about feeling a searing or burning pain, some will experience deep, radiating pain caused by spasm of the esophagus that can be “excruciating,” says Dr. Lawrence Cohen, a gastroenterologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto “People fear they’re having a heart attack, and it can be quite debilitating,” he says. “I think there’s more disruption than we think in terms of quality of life and productivity related to reflux.”

GERD is also common, affecting at least half the population at some point in their lifetime. Prevalence studies suggest about 20 per cent of North Americans experience heartburn or acid regurgitation once a week and about 40 per cent at least once

a month. Cohen estimates that 10 to 15 per cent of people struggle with symptoms daily.

The culprit at the root of GERD is a dysfunctional lower esophageal sphincter, a ring-like muscle that acts as a gate, opening to allow food and liquids to enter the stomach, then closing to keep them there.

But if that valve-like structure becomes weak or relaxes too frequently, allowing stomach contents to repeatedly back up into the esophagus, the result can be GERD, says Cohen.

In most cases, GERD is a product of lifestyle.

“The majority, I dare say, is directed by our habits, by our weight, our eating patterns, the content of our diet, and certain vices like smoking,” says Cohen. “Those are the things that contribute to excessive reflux.”

Being overweight — especially around the waistline — can promote the development of GERD because increased intra-abdominal pressure can send acid and other stomach contents shooting up into the esophagus.

Other habits, such as eating large, high-fat meals late at night and then lying down, can also play havoc with the esophageal sphincter, which becomes subject to the laws of physics.

“So gravity — you’re lying down with a full tummy, especially after drinking some alcohol, having a nice restaurant meal with a lot of fat because fat is flavour,” says Cohen, sketching out a common scenario that can start the GERD ball rolling. “Your stomach doesn’t empty and it goes back up into the esophagus.”

In fact, a whole range of foods can aggravate acid reflux, from citrus and tomato-based products to chocolate and caffeine in coffee, tea and colas.

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item most likely to make his GERD symptoms flare is tomato sauce. When his wife makes pasta, for instance, he knows to limit his portion size or face the consequences.

“I know if I eat too much, it’s going to be a tough night ahead. I’m getting burning during the night; I’m getting burping. I can’t lie down; I have to sit up,” says the 78-year-old retired accountant, explaining that the fiery acidic backwash from his stomach can cause him to choke.

He was given medication and his ulcers have since healed. But Birnbaum knows if he overindulges by eating too much or eating too late in the evening, “I pay for it.”

Cohen says there are a number of treatments for GERD that can resolve the condition, depending on its under-

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● Maintain a healthy weight. Excess pounds put pressure on the abdomen, pushing up the stomach and causing acid to back up into the esophagus. ● Avoid tight-fitting clothing. Clothes that fit tightly around the waist put pressure on the abdomen and the lower esophageal sphincter. ● Avoid foods and drinks that cause heartburn. Common triggers include fatty or fried foods, tomato sauce, alcohol, chocolate, mint, garlic, onion and caffeine. ● Eat smaller meals and avoid eating late in the evening. ● Wait at least three hours after eating before lying down or going to bed. ● Elevate the head.

If heartburn often occurs at night or while trying to sleep, use wooden blocks under the bed’s feet to raise the head of the bed 15 to 25 centimetres. Or insert a wedge between the mattress and box spring to elevate the body from the waist up. Wedges are available at drugstores and medical supply stores. Don’t raise your head with extra pillows — that can make acid reflux worse. ● Avoid tobacco.

Smoking decreases the lower esophageal sphincter’s ability to function properly.

Source: Mayo Clinic.

lying causes and severity.

“We always step back to the motherhood issues of diet, lifestyle and weight, and once we address those we look at the spectrum of treatment,” he says, pointing to antacids as the first step in trying to quell reflux and its resulting heartburn.

Recommended medications can range from one of the myriad brands of over-the-counter antacids like Tums, Gaviscon and Mylanta to prescription drugs known as proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, among them Losec, Nexium and Prevacid, and their generic equivalents.

Still, Cohen goes back to altering one’s habits as the first line of defence for treating GERD and preventing its return.