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Back to school THREE NEW SCHOOLS ARE CHANGING THE EDUCATION LANDSCAPE IN RED DEER

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer is starting the new school year next week with three shiny, new schools — a first for the city.

It’s not a coincidence. It’s the result of the province’s P3 (public-private partnership) approach to school construction that has since been scrapped.

The three schools were among 12 built across the province as part of a $288-million contract and the government’s $2-billion commitment to open 50 new schools and modernize a further 70.

“This is the first time (construction) has really been bundled. One contractor. One schedule. One completion date,” said Bruce Buruma, Red Deer Public Schools community relations director.

Next week, Red Deer Public will open Ecole Barrie Wilson Elementary School in Timberlands, a dual-track school for both English and French immersion students, from kindergarten to Grade 5.

Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division will welcome pre-kindergarten to Grade 5 students to Father Henri Voisin School in Clearview Ridge.

Ecole La Prairie has a new home. The kindergarten to Grade 12 school for the North Central Francophone Education Region was built next door to its old site west of Piper Creek on 34th Street.

Another one of Alberta’s 12 new schools, Penhold Crossing Secondary School, also opens for the 2014-15 school year for Chinook’s Edge School Division. The Grade 7-12 facility was built onto the existing Penhold Re-

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ABOVE: First-year teacher Adam Niemetz tries out some hand bells he will incorporate into his music program at the new Red Deer Public School Division’s new Ecole Barrie Wilson Elementary School located in the Timberlands subdivision.

LEFT: Father Henri Voisin School Grade 2 teachers Diane Stengler and Terry Bolen set about planning their school year at the new Red Deer Catholic School Division school in Clearview.

gional Multiplex.

Red Deer Catholic superintendent Paul Mason said opening three new schools is definitely unique for Red Deer.

“We’ve opened a number of schools in Red Deer. This is probably the first time all three will open up simultane-

ously,” Mason said.

“We’re finding with Red Deer’s population that additional space is quickly being utilized with new people moving into Red Deer and more students coming into Red Deer Catholic.”

Four portable classrooms are expected to arrive at Ecole Notre Dame High School in early September and Ecole Camille J. Lerouge School should be getting two portables in early October.

He said enrollment at Father Henri Voisin School is ahead of projection with about 230 students. The school has room for 300 students.

Red Deer Public trustee Bill Stuebing said if Ecole Barrie Wilson School had not been built, the division would have started looking at things like double shifting in about four years, basically running two schools out of one building.

“We were absolutely jammed,” Stuebing said.

“That’s been kind of our story, trying to play catch up on finding suitable of space in our schools. Certainly for about the last 15 years or so, we’ve been pressed. It’s not surprising when you look at the growth rates of Red Deer.”

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Slain RCMP officer’s dog to return to work soon

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by MURRAY CRAWFORD/Advocate Staff

RCMP Police Dog Services trainer Sgt. Eric Stebenne takes Danny for a walk at the RCMP Police Dog Services Training Centre south of Innisfail Wednesday.

Danny’s former partner, Const. Dave Ross, was killed in a police shooting in Moncton in June. Danny is being retrained, and the RCMP hope to have him return to service soon.

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The memory of Const. Dave Ross still looms large over the grounds at the RCMP Police Dog Services Training Centre south of Innisfail, especially this month as his former canine partner Danny has returned to retrain and bond with a new handler.

Ross was one of three RCMP officers gunned down in Moncton, N.B., in June.

“Every time I come here, through the summer I came here once a week, I always think of Dave Ross and Danny,” said Insp. Andrew Lemyre, officer in charge of the RCMP Police Dog Services.

“Dave was a person who was devoted and he was so happy to be here.”

Danny was briefly on the show grounds at the centre on Wednesday.

He is getting ready to return to service and Lemyre said the RCMP hope he will be in service for five more years.

“I know, I believe, that Dave would say ‘I want the dog to be with a new dog handler.’”

Lemyre would not disclose who

Danny’s new handler is or where they will be posted. He said it is important to not release the information so they can keep their attention focused on the work they are doing.

“He is one of our top dogs and this dog is a police dog first and foremost,” said Lemyre. “He can’t be considered a family pet, he has been trained and his focus is all about what he has learned.”

Danny’s retraining with his new partner has been going well, said Lemyre.

“We re-team dogs,” said Lemyre.

“When a member leaves the service, the dog is still a good police dog and often we will take the dog and re-team it with a new handler.”

Danny is trained in criminal apprehension, search, retrieve and tracking, as well as obedience and agility.

Ross and two other RCMP officers were killed by gunman Justin Bourque on June 4, and two more officers were wounded. Bourque pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder on Aug. 8. His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 27.

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Top military purchases official to leave post

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A seasoned public servant who helped reshape the Harper government’s tattered military procurement strategy has announced his retirement at Public Works.

An internal memo — circulated Monday — announced Tom Ring’s departure as of the end of the year, and the federal government posted his job Wednesday online.

It is just the latest in a series of backroom changes this summer among the ranks of the senior bureaucracy, the most high-profile being the departure of Wayne Wouters as clerk of the Privy Council and the naming of his replacement, Janice Charette.

Ring is leaving one of the most politically troublesome files just months before the Conservatives head back to the polls — in either the spring or the fall of 2015 — to defend their record.

As assistant deputy minister for acquisitions for

the last few years, Ring played a key role in the implementation of the government’s national shipbuilding strategy and was a principal architect of the recently announced defence procurement strategy.

Both policies won the government praise, but there is rising concern about the slow pace of the actual ship construction contracts.

Ring was also called upon to defend Public Works’ handling of the F-35 jetfighter purchase, which was put on hold by the Conservatives as they looked at alternatives.

Ring, who also spent years at National Defence, was not available for comment Wednesday, but word of his exit rippled through the defence industry, which is keen to see the Conservative government stick to its plans after years of confusion and cancelled projects.

Mike Greenley, who’s on the board of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, said Ring was instrumental in moving a number of files forward, including the style of procurement that’s seen the government consult more closely with

defence contractors before putting a project out for tender.

Greenley said he wants to see that continue and hopes the government takes its time to put the right person in place to fill the important leadership position.

“Decisiveness is important for our industry and making sure that the procurement files move forward,” Greenley said. “We need to maintain speed on these procurements.”

Phil Lagasse, a defence expert at the University of Ottawa, said military procurement, despite highprofile controversies, has been made more open and transparent under Ring’s watch.

“Transparency was one of things that plagued F-35 and the third-party reviews increase confidence in the process,” said Lagasse, who served on the independent panel that reviewed the air force’s plans to replace the CF-18s.

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SCHOOLS: Public enrolment estimated at 10,500 Red Deer Public enrolment is estimated at 10,500.

Elsewhere in the public district, Gateway Christian programs located at Pines School and the former Central Elementary School will be combined in September and taking over the former River Glen School (a Chinook’s Edge school until this er), to offer kindergarten to Grade 12.

The public’s Spanish bilingual program is taking over Pines School, offering kindergarten to Grade 2.

It will add a grade each year to become a kindergarten to Grade 5 school.

Buruma said the former Central Elementary School will not operate as a school for now. It’s the current location of Central Alberta Regional Consortium, a professional development organization for education and the district is exploring partnerships with more organizations for the building.

So far Barrie Wilson has 361 students enrolled, 37 per cent in French immersion, where Red Deer Library is opening a new branch that will be open to the public year-round.

Bev Manning, school board chair with Red Deer Public, said it’s important to join with the community when it comes to school construction.

“We believe these are public dollars and they should be used wisely on behalf of our community so we’re excited,” Manning said.

Catholic students at Father Henri Voisin will be venturing into their neighbourhood to visit Villa Marie seniors facility and seniors will go to the school so the two groups can spend time together through a new partnership.

“It’s just a wonderful opportunity to look for the school to become part of the community,” Mason said.

Ecole La Prairie is opening with 146 students, with 22 from Red Deer. The francophone school serves from Red Deer to Ponoka, Sylvan Lake and Innisfail. It will have capacity for 300 students.

Kurt Sacher, Chinook’s Edge superintendent, said in the last few days at least 23 new students have signed up for Penhold Crossing Secondary School.

Enrolment is expected to be about 200. The school is built to handle up to 500 students to handle growth at the elementary level.

He said Sylvan Lake is also seeing more students.

Four portable classrooms just arrived in Sylvan Lake for C.P. Blakely Elementary School.

“We look forward to getting those classrooms up and running and we’ve moving as quickly as possibly we can,” Sacher said.

Enrolment for the Chinook’s Edge is expected to be up slightly from 10,800.

By Christmas, Wolf Creek School Division will have completed the modernization of two schools in Ponoka because there was too much space for the number of students. Grades were reconfigured and Ponoka Elementary School will be eliminated.

The $13-million upgrade to Ponoka Secondary Campus, for Grades 7 to 12, means students will soon be able to hold theatre productions and access more CTS (career and technology studies) programs.

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Ecole La Prairie School staff lead by principal Jean Doyon, right, plan for the beginning of the school year.

Ecole La Prairie School has moved into a brand new facility in Red Deer on the same property as the former school.

The former Diamond Willow Middle School is being transformed into Ponoka Elementary Campus for kindergarten to Grade 6. The school was closed for the $6 to 8-million modernization and will reopen after Christmas. For the time being, students will remain at Ponoka Elementary School.

Superintendent Larry Jacobs said students won’t recognize the former middle school. Gone is the “egg crate” layout.

“Inside it’s very dramatically different. The structure has more flexibility for students moving around the building. There are more open areas,” Jacobs said.

Overall, enrolment in Wolf Creek schools is in the 7,200 to 7,400 range and is expected to be up slightly in September.

He said the Blackfalds and Lacombe area is where enrolment is climbing.

“That’s where we’re having an awful lot of new families move in. The whole corridor on Hwy 2 is growing. Outside of that area, we have some decline in numbers,” Jacobs said.

In Rocky Mountain House, Visions West Outreach School, run by Wild Rose School Division, has moved out of the basement of a local museum and into the former provincial building on 50th Street for September. Family wellness workers and Going the Distance School Completion Program have also relocated to the site.

“When the kids come, sometimes they need more support, but if it’s not in the same place they don’t access it. Now we’ll be able to help better serve the broad spectrum of needs that they bring to us,” said Wildrose superintendent Brian Celli.

He said the new site is well located for students and offered more space to combine the programs.

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DANNY: Bonding with new handler On June 10, Danny attended the memorial service for Ross, Const. Fabrice Gevaudan and Const. Douglas Larche. He was heard whimpering through the ceremony and sniffing Ross’s hat during the procession.

Danny was born on Sept. 7, 2011, at the training centre. At just eight weeks old, he was sent to Vancouver Island to start his training, by being imprinted — a period of rapid learning — with an aspiring RCMP PDS officer.

On Dec. 4, 2012, Danny met Ross in Moncton and on April 22, 2013, they came to the training centre to begin their formal training. Danny and Ross graduated from the training centre on Aug. 30, 2013, and were sent back to Moncton.

Danny has begun bonding with his new handler.

The training and bonding process at the centre for the new pair started earlier this month. Lemyre said they will return to active duty shortly.

“Danny has confidence and a very high drive, which makes him an excellent police service dog,” said Lemyre. “He is performing a service he loves.”

A typical police dog serves until they are eightyears-old and are then retired.

“A year ago Const. Dave Ross and Danny were running and training together in this field,” said Lemyre. “We will never forget our fallen members.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Alberta on track for higher surplus

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta government says rising energy prices and a stronger than expected economy means the province will have to borrow almost $3 billion less than it had planned this year to build roads, hospitals and schools.

The province’s first-quarter update says borrowing for capital projects is now forecast to be just over $2 billion in 2014-15 — down from $4.8 billion in the last budget.

The overall projected surplus for they year has grown by $300 million since the budget to almost $1.4 billion.

Finance Minister Doug Horner said revenue is up due to higher energy forecasts and stronger corporate income taxes.

“I can say with confidence that I believe we have turned the corner financially,” Horner said Wednesday. “When it comes to Alberta’s economic indica-

tors, everything is looking up.”

Total revenue is on track to be up by more than $900 million. Most of that increase is come from nonrenewable resources.

Operational expenses are also up by $328 million.

That is being attributed to increased funding for post-secondary institution, a reassessment of flood assistance spending and more money to combat mountain pine beetles.

NDP Leader Brian Mason said things will head south as soon as oil prices drop and it’s time the province stops depending on such an unstable revenue source for daily operations.

“While it is up now, it will be down tomorrow, and unless we can get off the royalty roller-coaster, we are going to continue the situation where, when the price of oil drops, we are laying off nurses and teachers,” Mason said.

Critics, such as the Opposition Wildrose party and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, have complained that the surpluses don’t paint a true picture

of the government’s financial standing because they are being underwritten by billions in debt to pay for capital projects.

The province is forecasting a total debt of $11 billion since it began borrowing to pay for infrastructure in 2013. That’s down $2.8 billion from what was forecast in the spring budget.

“We are at a time when we are getting record revenues and we have a government that is still not able to live within its means,” Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said.

“They have demonstrated they simply are not capable of managing our incredible wealth and our incredible resource wealth. There is absolutely no excuse for us to be running a shortfall.”

Horner dismissed that criticism.

“At the end of the day, no matter how you analyze the numbers, the strong surplus position does not change,” Horner said.

“Alberta is on strong financial ground and will continue to be going forward.”

Lacombe posting freedom of information requests, answers on website

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

GIBBONS — Councillors of a town north of Edmonton have taken away more privileges from their mayor.

Gibbons town council met Tuesday for the first time since it voted in July to make Doug Horner mayor in name only.

Councillors voted to cut Horner’s pay, took his town cellphone away, and removed him from regional boards.

They allege the mayor has been abusive and unprofessional and has even been involved in a bar fight.

Horner says those claims are lies and “hypocritical” and said he will fight back.

The province has given the town of Gibbons $40,000 to hire a mediator; that process will begin after Labour Day, but few on council feel it will help.

“I think it’s safe to say that we’re sort of at a stalemate right now,” said councillor Amber Harris.

In July, council voted to sanction Horner and stripped him of most of his authority for at least six months.

“I’m used to it,” Horner said. “I’ve got big shoulders. They have no facts to back up ... I have letters saying that a lot of what they repeat in the media is lies.”

City of Lacombe is making freedom of information requests and their answers available on its website.

In what is considered a “leading-edge practice,” the city plans to post information gleaned from the requests after council approved a new policy on Monday.

The policy includes a short waiting period to allow those who made the requests, and may have been charged for the staff time to get the answers, to review them before they are available widely.

Information passed on electronically will be subject to a 72-hour waiting period and paper documents a five-day period.

The policy makes it clear that paying a FOIP fee does not give the applicant any individual right to

Calgary Zoo sage grouse breeding program has had several fledglings die MEDICINE HAT — The Calgary Zoo’s captive breeding program for sage grouse appears to have hit a snag following the deaths of a number of the fledglings hatched earlier this year.

The zoo announced in June the successful hatching of 11 of 13 eggs harvested from nests in southeast-

the information. The fee “simply allows the City of Lacombe to recoup some of the costs of producing the records, and is not intended to form a contract between the municipality and the applicant for the exclusive use of the requested information.”

FOIP information will be archived for future research use.

The city says the new practice will help serve the public and “enhance accountability, openness and transparency” at city hall.

Blaine Dushanek, of the Lacombe Taxpayers Association, is skeptical that the city will prove as open as advertised. His group’s members have been frustrated by lengthy waits for responses to their FOIP requests, he said.

“It’s a positive move if they post it. But they never let the truth out,” he claimed. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com ern Alberta this spring.

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Celebrity oilsands bullies IT’S OK TO USE ENTERTAINERS TO RAISE AWARENESS OF ISSUES, AS LONG AS THE PUBLIC DOES ITS OWN DUE DILIGENCE TO LEARN THE COMPLETE STORY Alberta must be getting a sense of what it’s like to be the victim of the school yard bullies. Once one starts picking on you, all the others figure you’re fair game.

The latest big hitter to take a swipe at Alberta’s biggest industry is Leonardo DiCaprio. His tour to the Northern Alberta “tar sands” comes on the heels of visits by such DOUG high-profile FIRBY heavy hitters as Neil Young, James Cameron and even spiritual leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

In fairness, it’s hard to think of them as bullies, until they get on their high moral horses.

Tutu is the odd man out in this group, with a track record of courage and conviction from his leadership

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days on South Africa issues that puts the Hollywood gang to shame. Even if you don’t agree with his assessment that the oilsands development is “evil,” you still have to respect the man and listen to what he says because of everything that he’s done.

The rest are entertainers, who have made their fortunes through pop culture. Perhaps their celebrity alone gives them a mandate to speak out, but their fame should never be confused with having the credentials necessary to be recognized as authorities on the causes they choose.

They are not scientists who build their case on the foundation of evidence; nor are they reporters, who are expected to vet the facts they are given. Instead, each is a powerful communicator who employs their talent and fame to broadcast the messages on behalf of like-minded comrades in the cause.

So, while they intentions can be seen to be noble, the execution of the message can be found wanting. The misstatements range from simple exaggerations to melodrama to complete falsehoods.

Case in point: DiCaprio was quoted this week as saying the oil companies behind the oilsands make “trillions of dollars” — a clear exaggeration. One of DiCaprio’s sidekicks, Hollywood director Darren Aronofsky, tweeted “Woodland caribou doomed” — a deliberate overstatement on the state of a species that is indeed endangered but not fated to disappear.

I’ve previously written about Young and his unfortunate hyperbole comparing the oilsands near Fort McMurray to Hiroshima after the nuclear bomb. It should come as no surprise that families of those who perished in Japan took umbrage.

Critics have their place, but those who listen to them should seek out the rest of the story.

Are First Nations people being hosed? Not according to Dave Tuccaro, an entrepreneur and member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation in Fort Chipewyan. He estimates that native-owned and controlled corporations earned more than $1 billion in annual revenues from the oilsands in 2012. Companies run by the Fort McKay, Mikisew Cree and the Athabasca

Chipewyan bands bring in more than half a billion a year, he calculated, while Primco Dene Ltd., an oilpatch services company owned by the Cold Lake First Nation, employees hundreds of aboriginals.

Using celebrity to draw attention to important subjects such as energy development’s impact on communities, health and the environment is not a bad thing, so long as an engaged public then does its own due diligence to learn the complete story.

All resource industries are learning that they must engage with the communities in which they want to develop.

Hollow promises don’t wash; they have been clearly told that how they perform today will affect their ability to pursue similar projects in the future.

So it may matter less whether the celebrities have their facts right than that they are driving the conversations.

What is more important is how citizens respond to those assertions. If they are intrigued enough to learn more, then the outcome can be positive.

Doug Firby is editor-in-chief and national affairs columnist for Troy Media.

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Tim Hortons deal plays into Tory playbook Five years ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered a speech at a Tim Hortons instead of the United Nations General Assembly that pretty well sums up the ranking of both institutions in the prime minister’s hierarchy.

He’s rolled up the rim at a hockey game in Saskatoon and hoisted a Timmy’s at a British Columbia rink.

His former finance minister, the late Jim Flaherty, once hopped a Challenger to deliver a financial update at a Timmy’s in London, Ont. When she launched her bid for the Liberal leadership, Sheila Copps went to the original Tim Hortons in Hamilton, TIM a place I remember as a kid as HARPER a doughnut destination after dusty evenings on the baseball diamond.

There is likely no politician in this country whose road to electoral victory did not go through a Saturday morning of glad-handing at the local Tim Hortons. And Canadian politicians — particularly Conservatives, who proudly placed an outlet in Kandahar, Afghanistan — have been a key part of the patriotic marketing buzz that has grown the ubiquitous chain here.

Now the Conservatives have another reason to give Tim a hug.

It may not be as warm and fuzzy as a frigid ice rink on a winter’s dawn, but the US$11-billion takeover of Tim Hortons by Brazilian-owned Burger King is now a powerful symbol of Harper’s cuts to corporate taxes and his move to make Canada more business friendly.

“Canada is open for business,’’ Finance Minister Joe Oliver crowed on Tuesday.

Industry Minister James Moore’s office said the “extremely positive’’ deal will bring jobs and investment here.

It touted a KPMG study from June showing Canada to be the most competitive business tax environment in the world, far outscoring the U.S. on tax considerations.

Expect the Burger King deal to be part of Harper’s key economic message going forward, even if the tax savings for the burger chain may not be all they seemed at first glance.

Canada’s basic corporate tax rate is about 26 per cent, while it is about 35 per cent in the U.S., but both companies paid a rate in the range of 27 per cent at the time of the deal.

Burger King, facing a consumer backlash south of the border over “tax inversion,” said the deal was all about growth and the Canadian market and that was

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Jumping to fracking conclusions In reply to Will we learn fracking Lesson?, a letter to the editor from Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer on Aug. 21: Fracking in Japan just started in the Akita Prefec-

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why the newly merged company would be headquartered in Oakville.

The main message here is that Timmy’s will remain Timmy’s and our politicians will continue to pander to its patrons.

The symbiotic nature of the relationship between Tim Hortons and Canadian politicians was neatly captured by Susan Delacourt in her 2013 book Shopping for Votes: “Tim Hortons voters don’t like fancy, foreign synonyms for their morning coffee and they like their politics to be predictable, beige — just like the doughnuts and décor at their national treasure of a food retailer,” she wrote.

On that day in 2009, Harper was celebrating Tim’s “return home” after it had been bought by U.S.based Wendy’s in 1995.

Its iconic status did not suffer during that period.

It won’t now.

“The United States is a great place to visit, but let’s face it, there is no place like our home and native land,” said the prime minister.

Harper managed to evoke the former Toronto

Maple Leafs defenceman Horton, the great Toronto teams of the 1960s and the NHL original six. He even quoted Pierre Berton and spoke as a hockey parent who knows “that when it is -20C and everyone is up for a 6 a.m. practice, nothing motivates the team more than a box of Timbits, and nothing warms the parents in the stands better than a hot double-double.’’

It was, as Delacourt wrote, “an unsubtle way to persuade Canadians of Harper’s true patriot love and homespun authenticity.’’

But the real point of the speech was to tout his carving of corporate tax rates, a move that he said brought Tim Hortons back home.

It is again controlled by a foreign conglomerate, but this time the story is much cuddlier for the government because the Canadian company is staying home and Burger King is coming north.

Expect the Tories to double down on their favourite double-double.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs columnist. Contact him at tharper@thestar.ca.

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Vancouver Aquarium fights breeding ban VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Aquarium has launched a legal challenge over the city park board’s attempt to prohibit the breeding of whales, dolphins and porpoises at the popular tourist attraction.

The aquarium’s request for a judicial review, filed Wednesday, is the latest development in an ongoing and highly contentious debate in the city over the ethics of keeping cetaceans in captivity.

The board passed a motion last month that, among other things, would prohibit the breeding of cetaceans in Vancouver parks unless the animals are considered a threatened species. The board stopped short of banning captive cetaceans altogether, which some critics had hoped for.

The aquarium is located in Stanley Park, which is overseen by the board.

Aquarium president John Nightingale said the facility is asking the court to overturn the motion because, it argues in its legal challenge, the park board acted outside its jurisdiction.

“The aquarium is exercising its legal right to challenge the validity of those resolutions in court,” he said. “In short, we believe that caring for animals in the aquarium should be left to the experts.”

Nightingale also accused the park board of passing the motion for political reasons.

“Frankly, we resent being turned into a political football,” he said.

Last month’s vote followed a special meeting in which the park board heard the opinions of 133 people on whether the animals should stay in the aquarium.

Nightingale said the aquarium has never intentionally bred the cetaceans, but when possible, it keeps the animals in mixed-sex groups to simulate how they would live in nature.

He said forcing the creatures to avoid breeding could require the aquarium to segregate the creatures by sex, which would be harmful because cetaceans are highly social.

“That would be an inhumane thing to do,” said Nightingale.

He said sterilizing the animals would not be an option because the procedure could be dangerous for the creatures.

“There are lots of indications you cannot use contraceptives long-term,” Nightingale said.

If the park board resolution went into effect, none of the current cetacean displays would be immediately affected by the breeding ban.

The aquarium has two Pacific white-sided dolphins, two harbour porpoises and two beluga whales.

With the exception of the porpoises, all the animals are of the same sex, making it impossible for them to breed, the aquarium said. The porpoises are still juveniles and would not be able to mate for some time.

But once renovations are finished, the aquarium intends to bring back some of the five belugas it has loaned out to facilities in the United States, and it’s possible they could mate, Nightingale said.

Nightingale also said the aquarium may consider artificial insemination programs to save endangered species in the future.

Aaron Jasper, the chair of the park board, said the board intends to fight the challenge.

“Their court challenge is a challenge to a municipal government to be able to write, amend and change bylaws,” said Jasper. “We have been elected

by Vancouver residents to maintain and to govern our parks and we intend to continue with that mandate.”

He said the board’s motion balances the public’s desire to stop keeping cetaceans in captivity with the aquarium’s goals, he said The board does not feel its decision affects conservation, research or education, Jasper said.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has previously said he opposes keeping the animals in captivity. His office directed calls about the issue to the park board.

Currently, the aquarium cares for rescued animals that can’t care

for themselves in the ocean or those that were born in captivity.

The park board motion would also create an oversight committee that would act as a watchdog over the aquarium, and would direct park board staff to work with the aquarium to find alternatives to putting cetaceans on display.

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A polypterus senegalus, or ‘Walking Fish,’ walks by using its fins and body for support in this undated handout photo.

Science marches on. Sometimes, it does so on fins.

Research conducted at McGill University studied the effect of a lifetime of walking on a certain type of fish. Yes, fish.

The results, say their paper in the journal Nature, suggest much about the evolution of complex pieces of anatomy such as arms and legs.

“What we wanted to pin down was: if you change the environment of this fish, does it change its behaviour or does its anatomy change?” said Emily Standen, now at the University of Ottawa.

Her team started with a fish called Polypterus.

They have both lungs and gills and can live in water or on land.

They also have lobelike fins, positioned so they can pull themselves awkwardly forward as if with stunted arms.

“Some people might say they’re not as pretty as trout, but I think they’re amazing,” Standen said.

She and her colleagues took two groups of Polypterus, raising one in water and one on land.

They found that by the end of the experiment, the land-raised group had indeed become more efficient walkers than their aquatic counterparts.

But more interestingly, the landlubbers’ bodies had also changed.

Bones that their fins had grown beefier. And just a subtle hint of what might be glancingly referred to as a neck had also emerged.

Even more interestingly, the changes seen in the walking group looked a lot like the changes seen in the fossil record as fish slowly evolved for terrestrial life.

“All of these changes mirror what we see in the fossil record,” said Standen.

“You see these changes in the bones suddenly over evolutionary time, mirrored by what’s going on in this one individual.”

Environmental changes had produced physical changes — a key finding regarding what scientists call plasticity, the “wiggle room” allowed for in every organism’s DNA.

“What it’s telling us is the plasticity, or the variation that’s hidden within all of us, relates to the evolutionary process because what it allows animals to do is exist in novel environments,” Standen said.

“When you change an environment and (an organism) responds in this plastic way, adaptive selection and evolution has something upon which to act.”

The whole issue of plasticity is a hot one for evolutionary biologists, Standen said.

The amount of its influence over evolution or how traits that appear in individuals become “fixed” into an entire species is still mysterious.

But it could help explain why evolution can come up with solutions so quickly.

“If you’ve got this variation within you, you don’t have to wait for random advantageous mutation to occur to allow you to do something new,” Standen said.

“You can use your plasticity to do that new thing, evolution can then act on that existing building block, and that combination allows you to explain how really complex changes can occur in a really short time.”

Standen said she hopes to be able to keep using Polypterus to answer those questions.

“It is dream to be able to breed these, to be able to take it to the next step and do generation after generation and see how far does this go and how fast does this go. Can you get this to fix, somehow?

“It is fascinating.”

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Consensus grows for aboriginal forum ago.

Ghislain Picard, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said the progress made by the group was marred by the lack of federal participation.

He said it was ironic that 150 years after politicians from the Maritimes and Canadian provinces gathered in Charlottetown to discuss Confederation, the federal government wasn’t at the table when the First Nations came to town.

“I certainly view that as disrespectful in terms of the issues before us,” Picard told a news conference.

“The same question has been at the table for the past few years: Where is the federal government?

Where is the other partner? Every issue on the table calls for input from the government of Canada.”

Justice Minister Peter MacKay’s office issued a statement that didn’t directly address the call for a roundtable but reiterated the federal government’s position on the push for an inquiry.

“What is clear is that continued action and sustained effort and investment is required,” the statement said.

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

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CHARLOTTETOWN — Canada’s premiers and native leaders are inviting the prime minister to take part in a roundtable discussion on murdered and missing aboriginal women, with one native leader saying Stephen Harper’s decision to reject calls for a public inquiry shows disrespect.

The new if somewhat vague commitment came Wednesday at the conclusion of a meeting in Charlottetown between most of the premiers and five aboriginal leaders.

The group’s plan for a roundtable discussion did not come with any details of when it would happen or how it would work. It is also unclear if Ottawa is interested.

P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz, the host of the meeting, said while the proposal is in its preliminary stages, it is important to compromise and have some form of dialogue.

“If we know we’re not going to get somewhere, there’s no point in us putting our head in the sand and saying, ’OK, we’re done with it,’ ” Ghiz said.

But he said one thing is certain: federal participation is essential.

“We believe that any dialogue, any collaboration on this subject is extremely important,” Ghiz said, adding that the roundtable idea is a good first step before an inquiry is held.

The native leaders and premiers also renewed their demand for a federal inquiry, a request the group first made more than a year

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That was the looming question around a Parti Quebecois caucus meeting on Wednesday as several potential contenders for the party leadership acknowledged they are “reflecting” on running for the top job.

There are no declared candidates yet — the race is only expected to be triggered this fall — but several elected members are openly mulling possible bids, including former cabinet ministers Jean-Francois Lisee and Bernard Drainville.

While Wednesday’s two-day meeting is to plan for the resumption of work at the legislature on Sept. 16, it was the leadership question that remained the focus.

Media tycoon Pierre Karl Peladeau hasn’t openly discussed whether he plans to run. The former president and CEO of media giant Quebecor and rookie provincial politician brushed off repeated questions about his interest, only saying that it’s “premature” to say he’ll be a candidate.

Others were more forthcoming on how far along they are in the “reflection” process.

Lisee, a senior member of the former PQ government, told reporters his candidacy is being strongly encouraged and running for the leadership would be a logical next step in his sovereignty movement career.

ence, described the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women as a “black eye” for Canada.

Michele Audette, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, said she was pleased with the meeting, adding that it’s important for the federal government to realize that the group’s call for a national inquiry has not gone away.

“The support is still there — even more so,” said Audette, who plans to seek the Liberal nomination for the Quebec riding of Manicouagan before the federal election next year.

Prior to the meeting, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said he still supported the idea of a inquiry, but he also said a federal-provincial roundtable would be a good way to spur some action.

“I think what we can achieve as premiers and as a country, if the federal government would engage, is an event and an exchange of best practices that’s informed by action,” Wall said.

Wall said the provinces have already set up something similar for health-care innovation.

He said there have been 29 studies and reports on aboriginal issues since 1996 that have produced more than 500 recommendations and the forum could look at what action has been taken on those ideas.

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B.C. man fingers accomplices in killings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A young British Columbia man accused of killing three women and a 15-year-old girl says he was present when each of the victims died, but he told his trial that other people murdered the women and the girl killed herself.

Cody Legebokoff, 24, refused to name his alleged accomplices during his testimony on Tuesday, despite a warning that he could he held in contempt.

Legebokoff is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jill Stuchenko, 35; Cynthia Maas, 35; Natasha Montgomery, 23; and Loren Leslie, 15.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT FOLLOWS THAT MAY DISTURB SOME READERS He told the jury that a drug dealer and two other people murdered Stuchenko, Maas and Montgomery, while he said Leslie killed herself while the pair were alone together on a remote logging road.

Legebokoff referred to the alleged accomplices as X, Y and Z. When B.C. Supreme Court Judge Glen Parrett warned Legebokoff that he could he held in contempt of court if he did not

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Documents show the general division of the tribunal made decisions on 1,075 employment insurance appeals from April 1, 2013 — its first day of operation — until mid-March of this year.

Of those appeals, 866 of the original rulings to deny employment insurance benefits to claimants were upheld, including 71 “late appeals refused,� according to documents obtained under freedom-to-information legislation and provided to The Canadian Press.

Only 209 decisions were overturned, amounting to an appeal dismissal rate of just over 80 per cent. That’s just slightly higher than the rate under the old regime, according to government data.

The tribunal was created with the goal of providing a more efficient appeal process for EI, Canada Pension Plan and old-age security decisions.

The Conservatives said the new system, which replaced several boards comprised of hundreds of part-time employees, would save taxpayers $25 million annually.

provide the names, Legebokoff said he didn’t want to go to prison as a “rat.�

Legebokoff told the jury he knew his role in the killings was wrong and he knew he was destined for prison. “But for what I’ve done, not for what the Crown thinks I’ve done,� he said.

Legebokoff grew up in Fort St. James, B.C., and spent a year working in Alberta after high school. He told the court he moved into a house in Prince George in 2009 with some friends from his hometown.

He said he met Stuchenko in the fall of that year at a drug-fuelled party he hosted, where he and Stuchenko had sex.

Legebokoff said X, who he frequently bought drugs from, announced that Stuchenko would be killed because she owed money. Legebokoff said X beat Stuchenko with a pipe, and then X and Y disposed of the body.

Stuchenko’s body was found on Oct. 20, 2009, partially buried in a gravel pit in Prince George.

By early summer 2010, Legebokoff had moved to another apartment in Prince George, where he said X visited him “quite a few times.� He said X showed up one night with Y and a woman named Cindy, later identified as Maas, and the group smoked crack cocaine.

He said at one point Maas was in the dining when he heard a “loud cracking noise followed by a thud.� When he

looked to see what had happened, he said he saw tool or thin bar and Maas lying on her stomach.

Legebokoff said X left, and then and Y put Maas into the cab of Legebokoff’s pickup truck and drove to a forested park.

By that point, Legebokoff said Maas was still alive. He said he pulled a pickaroon from his truck and handed it to Y, who he said used it to strike Maas several times.

Police found Maas’ body on Oct. 9, 2010. “I didn’t feel very good about what was going on or how I got myself into this mess,� Legebokoff said.

A few days later, Legebokoff said X, Z, and Montgomery, who he had never met before, dropped by to smoke crack Legebokoff said Montgomery went into the washroom, at which point X told him “she was going to be dead.�

He said Z gave X a steel bar, which X used to hit Montgomery in the side of her face. Legebokoff said X then choked Montgomery, used a kitchen knife to cut her throat and then asked for a saw. Legebokoff said he handed over an axe. “I never seen what they did with that,� Legebokoff said. “I chose not to look.�

Legebokoff said X and Y carried Montgomery’s body away while he cleaned up. He said X later told him Montgomery was killed because she

owed a substantial amount of money.

Montgomery’s body has never been found.

Legebokoff was arrested in November 2010, when he was pulled over after speeding out of a remote logging road, where a conservation officer later found Leslie’s body.

The court has already heard that Legebokoff eventually told police that he and Leslie had consensual sex, after which she used a pipe wrench and a utility tool to hit herself and stab herself in the neck.

He repeated that story during his testimony, maintaining that Leslie went “flying off the handle� sometime after they had turned onto the logging road. He said she got out of the truck and injured herself before dropping to the ground.

Legebokoff, who had smoked crack earlier that day, said he got out of the truck and found Leslie lying on her stomach, still moving slightly. He said he picked up the wrench, which was on the ground nearby, and hit her in the head “a few times.� “It was out of anger, frustration, panic,� Legebokoff said. “I didn’t know what to do, but that’s generally why that happened.�

Legebokoff said he then decided the “best thing to do was to pull her off the road and get the hell out of there.�

But the new body has been straining under a growing backlog of 10,000 outstanding appeals.

surrounding the arrival of first-year students as Welcome Week.

It’s part of a redesigned orientation program that will see student leaders undergo a two-day training session and sign a charter outlining what is expected of them. The school is also developing online educational modules that deal with issues of consent, sexual assault, and alcohol and drug use.

respondents objected to being charged fees for paper copies of their bills and balances.

One in three said they were uncomfortable with making the switch to ebilling or online banking.

About 43 per cent said they could recall being notified by at least one company that they would have to pay to continue receiving bills or bank balances by mail, and just over half of those survey respondents said they accepted the charge.

While there are no official numbers disclosed by the banking and telecommunications industries stating how much money is being paid annually for paper bills and balances, PIAC estimates the total is “conservatively� between $495 million and $734 million, plus taxes.

As much as $102 million in fees are being paid by low-income Canadians and seniors who don’t have Internet access at home or don’t use computers, suggests the report, which was funded in part by Industry Canada.

Halifax university changes frosh week, a year after incident shone spotlight HALIFAX — Keeping frosh week activities fun and engaging for students while at the same time respectful and inclusive is a pressing challenge facing Canadian universities, says a leading expert who helped a university last year in the aftermath of a chant that glorified non-consensual sex with underage girls.

Prof. Wayne MacKay led a threemonth study into campus-based sexual violence at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax after a video surfaced showing student leaders singing a chant about underage, non-consensual sex to about 400 new students at an event during orientation week. “(Orientation) still has to be fun, but in a way that’s respectful, that’s safe and that’s appropriate,� said MacKay, a law professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax who has also served as executive director of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and headed a provincial task force on bullying and cyberbullying. “This is an issue on every campus and I think people are looking at the issue of frosh week and orientation in a different way, trying to make it more substantive.�

In response to a series of recommendations outlined in MacKay’s report, Saint Mary’s announced Wednesday that it is naming the events

Canadians pay more than $500M in fees a year for paper bills: report TORONTO — Canadians are probably paying more than half a billion dollars a year to receive printed bills and bank statements by mail, suggests a report released Wednesday by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre.

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THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 2014

NHL has no official plans for expansion DESPITE RECENT REPORTS OF ADDING TEAMS IN 2017

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Lindsay Thurber Raider offensive lineman River Jonasson runs through a drill at practice on Wednesday. The Raiders will open up their season with a game against the Hunting Hills Lightning Friday, Sept.

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Raiders poised to handle expectations this season

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The Lindsay Thurber Raiders learned a little something about expectations during the 2013 Central Alberta High School Football season.

They went into the campaign hoping to push the Hunting Hills Lightning for top spot, but struggled against rivals Notre Dame and Rocky Mountain House, ultimately losing in the first round of provincials to the Salisbury Sabres.

Their expectations this season may be even higher with a veteran team returning, but they have a much better idea of how to handle that self imposed pressure.

“We have to manage expectations and play every down,” said head coach Dave Smith.

They have all of the elements of a successful team — a dominant offensive line, a deep corps of receivers, an exciting prospect at quarterback, and a tough physical defence with one of the best secondaries in Central Alberta.

With a little more than a week to go before their season opens up on Sept. 5 against Hunting Hills, the trick is getting it all on the same page.

“If we keep the work ethic we have right now and keep the team speed up, there’s definitely a chance that we can go and win it all,” said Grade 12 free safety Owen Smith. “We all believe and the coaches all believe it, so that’s the goal.”

The secondary will be led by Smith, coming off a summer playing with Team Alberta’s U-18 team at the Red River Cup in Winnipeg.

The five-foot-11, 165-pound defensive back says that experience will be integral to his and the team’s success this year.

Smith says after playing with the best players in his age group, play has slowed down on the field for him, from a recognition stand point. He also hopes he picked up a few new traits of his own.

“Everybody there is big and physical and they want to let you know it, so I just want to bring that back and have a real physical game this fall,” he said.

The bulk of the defensive backs unit — also including Dawson McCrea, Sam Vesely — has been together since peewee football and are a cohesive unit.

“We didn’t graduate anybody in the secondary last year, so we’re all returning, we all know the system and we’re all really close,” said Smith, who is also the team’s kicker and returns punts.

But the head coach says there will be no passivity on defence. They are going to hit hard and force their opponents to make mistakes with a linebacking corps led by Bryce Maki and a defensive line led by Marty Maksymetz and Riley Ackerman.

Offensively, the team is loaded with potential.

There is heated battle for playing time during camp at the receiver position with a strong returning group — Gordie Walls, T.K. Kunaka and Colbi Street — being pushed by a number of young wideouts including Jonathan Goulet and David Dunbar.

But Walls says the group is not just about depth.

“We’ve got some that are a little younger with lots of potential, but we have a lot of older guys that have lots of experience and really high quality receivers for high school,” he said.

The biggest wildcard is a former receiver. Grade 10 standout Ben Pasiuk has been moved to quarterback to replace the graduated Braydon Moorman.

Pasiuk has played the position for much of his football life until last year, but he was regarded as one of the best young receivers in the province, also making the U-18 provincial team.

Walls says he has looked strong through the first week of training camp.

“Everything I’ve seen so far has been thrown good and he has a lot of potential to do some running from the quarterback position,” he said. “We’ve been passing a lot at practice, making sure all of plays are crisp and making sure the quarterback knows all of the reads on all of the plays.”

But Smith says the team will not live and die through the air.

Balance is going to be key this year with a running game led by Brad Pope and Vesely.

The foundation of that balanced offence will be their veteran line, anchored by Jared Ferguson, Matt Atchison and Tony Morelli.

“If everyone shows up and plays well, we have the ability to hurt you through the air and hurt teams on the ground,” said Smith.

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TORONTO — NHL expansion is likely coming in the near future, though the league hasn’t committed to any official plan just yet.

For more than a year, commissioner Gary Bettman has said the NHL is listening when approached by cities interested in acquiring a team even though there’s no formal expansion process underway. Amid reports this week indicating solid plans are in place, deputy commissioner Bill Daly said there’s “nothing new to report on this subject.”

“Nothing new has happened,” Daly said Wednesday in an email.

Status quo doesn’t necessarily mean the NHL won’t eventually expand to Las Vegas, as the Vancouver Province reported Tuesday was a “done deal.”

And it doesn’t necessarily discount the possibility of adding four teams by 2017, one each in Las Vegas, Seattle and Quebec City and a second in Toronto, as SportsBusinessNews.com reported via Twitter.

Getting to 32 teams sooner rather than later would make sense for a league that moved to unbalanced conferences with 16 teams in the East and 14 in the West beginning last season. Las Vegas and Seattle fit geographically. But the NHL has several hurdles to overcome before awarding franchises, including answering arena and ownership questions.

MGM and AEG are in the process of building a 20,000-seat facility in Las Vegas that could be ready by the spring of 2017, and either UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center or Orleans Arena could be short-term options. But it’s still unclear who would own a team in Las Vegas, let alone what could happen to sportsbooks if the NHL is the first major North American professional league to move in there.

Seattle, with its vocal and passionate fanbase, has a less-than-ideal arrangement in the short-term with Key Arena. Getting a new building would be crucial to the NHL going to the Pacific Northwest. Chris Hansen, who tried to buy the NBA’s Sacramento Kings to move them to Seattle, and Don Levin, owner of the AHL’s Chicago Wolves, could head up an ownership group there.

Communications giant Quebecor would love to resurrect the Quebec City Nordiques, and Quebecor Arena could be done by the fall of 2015. The Canadian dollar is much stronger than it was in the mid1990s when the Nordiques moved to Denver, and fans have long been clamouring for the return of the NHL. But Bettman said at the Stanley Cup final in June that he wasn’t sure how the NHL would deal with putting another team in the Eastern Conference. The Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets were just moved from the West to the East for the 2013-14 season.

Quebecor did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday.

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is also a key player in Quebec City’s efforts to get a team back.

His assistant said Wednesday he would not comment on the reports.

If the NHL did choose to cash in on what SportsBusinessNews.com reported would be roughly US$1.4 billion in expansion fees by expanding to 34 teams by the centennial season of 2017-18, a second team in Toronto could play in the Western Conference. The size of the Toronto market has long made it an interesting possibility, whether the expansion team shares Air Canada Centre with the Maple Leafs or has its own arena.

Outgoing MLSE president and CEO Tim Leiweke cast doubt on the report based on his interaction with Bettman on Wednesday morning.

“The commissioner and I had other business this morning, so we talked for a while and this came up, and I asked him, ’Did I miss a meeting?’ And he laughed and said, ’Nope,”’ Leiweke said on Sportsnet 590 The Fan. “This isn’t on the agenda right now.”

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First place on line in Stamps-Esks labour day clash The lack of offence in the CFL this year has not offence and win one for what is left of the vanishing been an asset for the games, but it is clear defence is hometown Alouette faithful. king in 2014.

I expected Ottawa to be competitive this year, The incredible overall team speed of CFL de- but they are clearly a good example of a bad expanfences has been too much to handle for the largely sion team at this point. They do not look particularCanadian O-linemen as they face a barly well-coached and take many bonehead rage of stunts and full-on blitz schemes penalties in games. Henry Burris has lost designed to exploit their large size and his game and has little receiver talent at comparative immobility. his disposal. It will be a long season for Teams have begun to use their fullRedBlack fans. backs in tight end protection schemes Sunday will feature a clash between the designed to keep besieged quarterbacks 6-2 Roughriders and 6-3 Blue Bombers in out of orthopedic wards, but with fewRegina. The Labour Day game is always er receiver options for the pivots. Even the biggest event of the year for both teams Ricky Ray has been off his game because and their close records add more frenzy to his 2014 theme song is ‘Staying Alive’ bethe chaos. This year, the game boils down hind a shaky O-line. to defence and whether the ’Riders’ D can We begin the back nine of the season continue to exert enormous pressure on with traditional rivalries, along with a rival quarterbacks.

JIM rekindled rivalry between old foes on My guess is Saskatchewan will indeed SUTHERLAND Friday night when 1-7 Ottawa visits 1-7 win this game with defence. There are still Montreal. These teams have a long hisbig questions about the Winnipeg O-line tory renewed by this year’s resurrection and they will face heat from all directions of CFL football in the capital. in the game. You can double-team John Both teams enjoy a tie for second and worst in the Chick, but that leaves three other linemen to pursue East with the equally inept 1-6 Ticats, so sole posses- Bomber quarterback Drew Willy. The x-factor will sion of second place is actually on the line for them. come from the secondary where safety Ty BrackOne would assume most Alouette fans will be led in enridge has more than enough speed and anger to at gunpoint to this game because the post-Anthony reach Willy in a blitz package.

Calvillo era has been that bad for Montreal. HowToronto, 3-6, renews hostilities with Hamilton in ever, the Als fans will leave happy because the Mon- their traditional Labour Day clash and there are treal defence will dominate the woeful RedBlack more questions than answers for these two teams.

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Even the stadium is a question mark, let alone the Hamilton quarterback situation after the seasonending injury to Dan LeFevour. Hamilton has an improved defence and the big question is whether the Tabby defence can win this game against the Argos.

The simple answer is no. The Argos still have Ricky Ray, and even a slumping Ray will more than match the Ticat offensive counter-punch. Sure, Ray will face pressure from the Cat defence and may not be vintage Ricky Ray right now, but he is enough to win the game.

How many people envisioned a Labour Day clash between the 7-1 Eskimos and 7-1 Stampeders this year? Certainly not me, but the Battle of Alberta is real this year because first place is on the line for these provincial rivals. Sadly, both teams now live in the permanent darkness of the NHL shadow in this province, but, for one shining moment, they will get the spotlight.

The real football fans will be shoulder to shoulder with hordes of shallow event junkies in McMahon, but the result will be a Stamp victory.

Calgary have superstar Jon Cornish back into the lineup and he is ready to play. The Stamps have not exactly shot out the lights on offence this year and Cornish will change that dynamic as a run threat.

Calgary is tough defensively and well-balanced in all three phases of the game. I question Edmonton’s record thus far, but I do not question Calgary’s.

Stamps in a romp to end the Labour Day weekend show.

Jim Sutherland is a Red Deer freelance writer

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Stroman helps Jays avoid sweep

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 5 Red Sox 2 TORONTO — After suffering through three straight extra-innings defeats, the Blue Jays won stylishly in regulation Wednesday thanks to a strong outing by rookie pitcher Marcus Stroman and a threerun homer by pinch-hitter Danny Valencia.

Jose Bautista also homered for the second day in a row as Toronto defeated the Boston Red Sox 5-2.

Toronto (67-66) scored four runs — including two unearned — in the seventh inning with Valencia recording his first homer as a Jay. That made a winner out of Stroman, who was on cruise control other than hitting a two-run bump in the sixth inning.

“He was terrific today,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said of the 23-year-old right-hander. “We’ve seen him like that a few times this year so it’s not like all of a sudden that came out of nowhere. But he had been in a little bit of a rut.

“But that’s what the kid’s capable of.”

The Jays, who had gone 1-3 during a run of four straight extra-inning games, can now look forward to an off-day before hosting Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees on Friday.

Stroman (8-5) left to an ovation from the Rogers Centre crowd of 30,285 with two outs in the eighth.

He gave up one unearned run on five hits, striking out six and walking one. Stroman threw 112 pitches, 73 for strikes.

“He was sticking that fastball,” said Gibbons. “It was down at the knees most of the night which is different (from) when he struggles. And he had that nice little breaking ball.”

Left-hander Brett Cecil retired David Ortiz to end the eighth inning and struck out the side in the ninth for his fifth save.

The win was just Toronto’s seventh in 23 games in August. The Jays had lost 10 of their last 13 games and 12 of 17.

Boston (58-75) came into the game having won two in a row since snapping an eight-game losing streak.

Stroman has struggled of late, losing his last three decisions. But he was razor-sharp Wednesday, retiring the first eight batters he faced before issuing a walk. He retired 10 of 11 before giving up a walk to Ortiz with one out in the fourth inning with the damage quickly erased by a double play.

He allowed just one hit and faced 16 batters in the first five innings, just one over the minimum.

Contrast that to his last outing, when he gave up 10 hits and six runs in five innings against Tampa Bay. prior to that he failed to survive the first inning against the White Sox, yielding five runs on five hits.

Like Gibbons, Stroman pointed to keeping his fastball down as a key for the turnaround.

“It’s just baseball,” he added. “Sometimes you just go through a rough stretch.”

Confidence is not an issue for Stroman, whose baseball cap — jauntily worn backwards during a post-game interview — read FAME on the front.

Stroman has won all three starts against Boston, posting an 0.83 earned-run average with five walks and 21 strikeouts.

Stroman’s strong showing was timely given that Toronto had used 10 pitchers and a position player

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marcus Stroman works against Boston Red Sox during first inning American League baseball action in Toronto on Wednesday. on the mound the last two games.

Things went slightly south in the sixth, however, with the Jays leading 1-0. Third baseman Juan Francisco’s throwing error put David Ross on with one out and Ortiz singled him home after back-to-back singles by Brock Holt and Dustin Pedroia loaded the bases. Holt then scored from third on a wild pitch to make it 2-1.

Stroman limited the damage, dispatching the next two batters to strand Red Sox runners on second and third.

Red Sox starter Joe Kelly was stingy in his first appearance against the Jays before leaving after facing one batter in the decisive seventh inning. Outside of a home run and single by Bautista, he allowed two walks and a hit batsman in the first six innings.

Kelly, who left his last start Friday with a “minor tweak” in his shoulder, exited in the seventh after giving up a double to Edwin Encarnacion. Ross then dropped a Dioner Navarro pop foul and the Toronto

catcher took advantage, hitting a single to put Jays on first and third.

Boston manager John Farrell pulled left-hander Tommy Layne (1-1) in favour of Junichi Tazawa and Valencia greeted the right hander with a three-run shot to left field.

“I missed my location,” Tazawa said through an interpreter.

It was the 20th career homer given up by Tazawa, eight of which have come against Toronto.

Tazawa and manager John Farrell suggested the pitcher may have been tipping his pitches against Toronto in the past.

“I think they picked up something that we felt like we corrected, probably two and a half months ago,” said Farrell. “Tonight was a matter of a ball that ran back to the inner third of the plate against Valencia, rather than staying down and away from him.”

Valencia celebrated the homer with a fist pump as he rounded the bases.

RedBlacks make contract offer to free agent Dressler

Tiger-Cats take Collaros off the six-game injured list

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Ottawa RedBlacks are making a play for coveted slotback Weston Dressler.

RedBlacks general manager Marcel Desjardins said Wednesday he has made a contract offer to the former Saskatchewan Roughriders star, who cleared NFL waivers Tuesday after being released by the Kansas City Chiefs. Desjardins added he hasn’t immediately heard back from Dressler’s camp and wasn’t sure when he would.

“We’ve made an offer and that’s pretty much where it’s at,” Desjardins said.

Ottawa isn’t the only team to have made a pitch to Dressler. A CFL source requesting anonymity said Saskatchewan has also offered him a deal.

Justin Seurer, Dressler’s agent, did not immediately return telephone messages.

Desjardins wouldn’t divulge contract details but there are reports the RedBlacks’ offer was worth $250,000 annually.

The Riders released Dressler, 29, in January — roughly two weeks before he was scheduled to become a CFL free agent — so he could explore his options south of the border. Shortly after working out for the Chiefs, Dressler signed with the NFL club and donned No. 13 in honour of Saskatchewan’s rabid football fans, affectionately dubbed the 13th Man. The five-foot-eight, 179-pound native of Bismarck, N.D., spent his entire six-year CFL career with Saskatchewan, registering 442 catches for 6,531 yards and 43 TDs. He surpassed the 1,000-yard receiving plateau five

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Dressler had five catches for a game-high 81 yards and a TD in Saskatchewan’s 45-23 Grey Cup victory over Hamilton last November at Regina’s Mosaic Stadium. A two-time all-star, Dressler was the CFL’s top rookie in 2008.

Dressler appeared in three exhibition games with Kansas City, recording a 19-yard kickoff return. Desjardins said Dressler would definitely improve the RedBlacks offence — which is ranked second-last in scoring (15.8 points per game) and yards (291.8 per game) — while also helping the franchise in the community.

“He brings ability on the field, ability off the field in terms of leadership skills and the type of person he is and the character he has,” Desjardins said.

“He’d be a tremendous asset to the RedBlacks.

“The football side of it, I think, is pretty self explanatory but he’d bring us a true weapon.”

And the more weapons the better for Ottawa (1-7), which enters weekend action just four points behind the first-place Toronto Argonauts (3-6) in the East Division.

As an unrestricted free agent, Dressler is free to join ay CFL team and there are reports as many as five are interested in the veteran receiver. And with the league’s salary cap increasing to $5 million this year, that could give clubs more money to try and entice Dressler.

And Desjardins doesn’t think Dressler will wait long to decide his CFL future.

“My sense of it, based on what I talked to him about the other day was towards the end of the week,” Desjardins said. “But that was more a sense than him actually saying it.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HAMILTON, Ont. — Zach Collaros was back practising Wednesday with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

The third-year quarterback joined his teammates for their first workout at Tim Hortons Field after the club pulled Collaros off the six-game injured list.

Collaros suffered a concussion in Hamilton’s 28-24 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos on July 4 and had been out since.

Ticats head coach/GM Kent Austin said while he’d ideally like Collaros to play Monday against the Toronto Argonauts, the six-foot-two, 216-pound quarterback will only do so if he’s cleared medically and can practise symptom-free.

“He’s at that point now where we need to practise him to see how he responds,” Austin said. “There really was no other choice.

“Without doing that (taking Collaros off six-game injured list), then we won’t know. It’s just something we had to do.”

Collaros was Hamilton’s major off-season acquisition, signing as a free agent shortly after being released by the Argos. After Collaros joined the Ticats, they released veteran starter Henry Burris, who later joined the expansion Ottawa Redblacks.

Collaros started Hamilton’s season opener, a 31-10 road loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on July 29 before being injured the following week against Edmonton. Austin said Collaros practised well and didn’t appear to suffer any setbacks.

“Of course, he’s not going to complain about anything,” Austin said. “He’s a very competitive guy, he wants to play. The most important thing is he needs to practise hard and practise a lot to determine that.

The good news is we had an extra day today so we’ll see how he responds . . . then we’ll make a plan going forward.”

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Sharapova avoids upset at U.S. Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Maria Sharapova’s serve and her groundstrokes were abandoning her. What she had was her conditioning.

The five-time major champion rallied from a set down to beat 95thranked Alexandra Dulgheru 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the second round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Sharapova overcame nine double-faults and 46 unforced errors to improve her record in three-set matches this year to 17-6.

Dulgheru had played just twice since mid-July, and she was dragging as the match approached two hours late in the second set.

On a hot, windy day, with the shadows shifting as late afternoon turned to evening, the fifth-seeded Sharapova avoided another upset on the women’s side. Fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska and 21st-seeded Sloane Stephens lost earlier. “As tricky as it is, you have to expect not to play your best tennis and find a way to win,� Sharapova said in an oncourt interview.

The Russian star won her second French Open title in June but hasn’t looked all that sharp since. Still, she hasn’t lost in the second round at the U.S. Open since her Flushing Meadows debut in 2003.

Dulgheru has never been past the third round at a Grand Slam tournament and fell to 3-14 against top-10 opponents. The Romanian was ranked as high as 26th in 2011, but later missed a year because of right knee surgery.

Stephens, once a sure bet to stick around for a while at Grand Slam tournaments, suddenly can’t even win there.

The 21-year-old American stumbled to her earliest loss at the U.S. Open, upset by 96th-ranked Johanna Larsson. “Everyone goes through times like this,� Stephens said. “I’m not the first person and won’t be the last.�

Down a set and a break, Larsson rallied to win 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 to match her best performance at a major tournament. The 26-year-old Swede had been 0-4 at Flushing Meadows before this year. “I shouted ’Come on’ a few times, not so much for myself but also to show her that I’m still here to win it,� Larsson said. “I know, myself, that when you have an opponent who is fighting to the last point, it is very difficult.�

When the match ended with her 63rd unforced error, Stephens was in such a hurry to leave Arthur Ashe Stadium that she briskly walked around the net to Larsson’s side of the court for the handshake.

Larsson has now reached the third round at a major tournament twice this year after breaking through at the French Open.

As Stephens had climbed the rankings, the knock on her was that she would shine in the big-time tournaments and slump in other events: Her Grand Slam record coming into Wimbledon this year was 32-12, while she’s 58-57 everywhere else.

Stephens reached at least the fourth round at six straight major tournaments starting with the 2013 Australian Open, when she stunned Serena Williams to make the semifinals. The longest active streak at the time, it ended

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Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, gets her hair caught in her racket as she tries to return a shot to Aliaksandra Sasnovich, of Belarus, during the second round of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Wednesday, in New York. with a first-round loss at Wimbledon this summer.

Now her stay at her home Grand Slam event is over quickly after she had advanced to at least the third round in three previous trips to the U.S. Open. On the verge of breaking into the top 10 last fall, Stephens has slid to No. 24 in the rankings.

Second-seeded Simona Halep had no such trouble, routing Jana Cepelova 6-2, 6-1.

Peng Shuai, ranked 39th, beat Radwanska 6-3, 6-4, giving China a big win in the U.S. Open with third-ranked Li Na out with a knee injury.

The U.S. Open is the only Grand Slam tournament in which Radwanska, the 2012 Wimbledon runner-up, has failed to reach the quarterfinals.

In 2010, it was Peng who also knocked her out in the second round, the Chinese veteran’s only win in four previous meetings. “I really want to know the answer,�

Radwanska said. “Then maybe I will find a way to play better here and just try another way to be in the second week.�

Peng had been 3-22 against top-five opponents, the last victory in 2011.

But she was coming off a fourth-round showing at Wimbledon, matching her longest run at a major tournament.

On Wednesday, she won a 27-point rally with a sizzling backhand winner down the line to set up her third match point, then clinched victory with another backhand winner deep into the corner.

On the men’s side, sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych swept 2001 U.S. Open champ Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

Seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov beat American Ryan Harrison 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-2. to play as well after a game like that as we did before it we were pretty happy with ourselves and we have to learn how to keep going.� jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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BALL: New format The league also moved to a new format this year with the top two tiers playing each other and the bottom two tiers playing each other. This means Lindsay Thurber, Hunting Hills, Notre Dame and Lacombe will play each other twice each, setting up a potentially higher level of competition among the four schools.

The high point of 2013 for the Raiders last season was beating the Thunder in the third week, but they were not able to capitalize on that momentum.

Playing Hunting Hills in the first week will let them know right away just where they stand. “We’re certainly shooting for a league championship and a strong showing at provincials,� said Smith. “(Hunting Hills) is a very good team but that was a big game for us last year ... we know they’re beatable as well. We have to learn how

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NHL: Expansion Officially, expansion is not on the agenda. But that doesn’t stop the speculation. “We listen when people say, ’We’d like to come visit you and tell you why we’re interested and where we’re interested,�’ Bettman said in June.

Plenty of cities are interested, including Portland, Hamilton and Kansas City.

But even with a new, lucrative Canadian TV deal and growing revenues, the NHL doesn’t have to rush into anything.

Expansion is tempting because fees don’t count toward hockey-related revenue, which gets split between owners and players. Any expansion fee, which could run in the neighbourhood of $300 million or more, depending on the market, would be money the own-

Frank Dancevic ousted from U.S. Open by Sousa in five sets NEW YORK — Canada’s Frank Dancevic fought for more than three and a half hours before losing a marathon to Joao Sousa 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2) to exit in his opening match at the U.S. Open on Wednesday.

It was the first five-set match for the Niagara Falls, Ont. native since 2011 Wimbledon. “It was a heartbreaker, it’s tough losing matches like that,� said Dancevic, who played with a new racquet model for the first time during the match, “It could have gone either way. It was one of those that came down to a few points.�

Portugal’s Sousa, ranked 38th, finally moved into the second round in the final-set tiebreaker, as he smashed back a weak Dancevic defensive lob to secure the win.

An exhausted Dancevic, ranked 135th, finished the battle with 50 winners and 51 unforced errors, pounding down 17 aces and converting on four of 14 break chances. “When I was down 5-2 in the fifth set it looked like he was getting tight when he served for it at 5-3. I got back into the match but not quite enough. “We played really good tennis. It’s unfortunate that I lost, but I feel really good about my game. ... I feel good physically. If I keep this level up I can do some damage the rest of the

year.�

The Dancevic defeat leaves fifth seed Milos Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., as the last Canadian left in the men’s competition. Wimbledon finalist and seventh seed Eugenie Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., is into the second round in the women’s draw.

Dancevic had chances to seize the early lead at the end of the opening set, when he found himself with five set points. But Sousa chipped away at the deficit to eventually win it.

The 29-year-old stepped up his game to claim the second set, but then lost the third to trail two sets to one.

In the fourth, Dancevic regained the momentum — losing a break for 4-4 but getting it back a game later to lead 5-4. He squared the match at two sets each with a backhand pass.

The fifth set provided the most dramatics as Dancevic fought back from down 2-5, forcing another tiebreaker. But luck ran out for the Canadian as Sousa found a finishing burst to advance.

Dancevic said that he had to modify his strategy during the match as he had only two frames of the new racquet at his disposal. “I made the chance a few days ago, I think I played exceptionally well considering it was a new racquet and completely new strings. For me it’s a whole new approach to the game. “I’ve trained well with it but I was unsure in some key moments. I like it though and will stick with it until the end of the year.�

ers don’t have to share.

Getting to 32 teams — 16 in the East and 16 in the West — makes for better playoff math and easier scheduling and would also tie the NHL with the NFL as the leagues with the most teams. Going to 34 would surpass North America’s most popular professional sports league.

Any kind of expansion requires approval from the board of governors. The NHL hasn’t expanded since 2000, when the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild joined the league.

With the state of business being pretty good, the league could look to change that in the coming years. “I think if, in fact, we get to a point where there’s enough interest in enough places that it warrants consideration, then the board of governors may well invoke a formal expansion process and we’ll look at everything,� Bettman said in June.

STADIUM DRONE CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police in North Carolina briefly detained and questioned a man who flew a drone with a camera mounted on it over a stadium during an NFL preseason game.

Area news media outlets report that the drone was spotted during the Aug. 17 game between the Carolina Panthers and the Kansas City Chiefs at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

The Federal Aviation Administration limits aircraft use near major sporting events, and prohibits unmanned aircraft at sites designated as “Class B� venues, which includes Bank of America Stadium.

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SCOREBOARD Baseball Baltimore New York Toronto Tampa Bay Boston

Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 74 58 .561 71 60 .542 67 64 .511 60 72 .455 58 74 .439

Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Houston Texas

West Division W L Pct 79 53 .598 78 54 .591 72 60 .545 56 78 .418 52 80 .394

New York Philadelphia GB — 6 9 11 18

Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

GB — 2 6 14 16

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Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

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71 .466 72 .459

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Central Division W L Pct 73 60 .549 71 61 .538 69 64 .519 64 69 .481 59 73 .447

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West Division W L Pct 76 58 .567 69 62 .527 62 70 .470 55 78 .414 53 78 .405

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Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 9-8) at Detroit (Lobstein 0-0), 11:08 a.m.

Tampa Bay (Hellickson 1-2) at Baltimore (B.Norris 11-8), 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 5-4) at Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 9-8), 6:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Milone 6-4) at Kansas City (Guthrie 1010), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Tepesch 4-8) at Houston (McHugh 6-9), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 13-7) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 10-8), 8:05 p.m.

GB — 6 10

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Cleveland 001 000 100 — 2 7 0 Chicago 002 000 10x — 3 10 0 Kluber, Rzepczynski (7), C.Lee (7), Crockett (8) and R.Perez; Noesi, Guerra (8), Putnam (9) and Flowers. W—Noesi 8-9. L—Kluber 13-8. Sv—Putnam (4). HRs—Cleveland, Chisenhall (12).

Minnesota 000 000 100 — 1 5 1 Kan. City 000 000 06x — 6 9 0 P.Hughes, Duensing (8), Fien (8) and K.Suzuki; Hendriks, W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez.

W—W.Davis 8-2. L—P.Hughes 14-9.

Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 7-4) at Cincinnati (Axelrod 0-0), 10:35 a.m.

Colorado (Lyles 6-1) at San Francisco (Y.Petit 3-3), 1:45 p.m.

Atlanta (Minor 5-8) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 7-9), 5:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

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

Miami at Atlanta, 5:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

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

Washington at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 001 000 000 — 1 7 1 Pittsburgh 021 000 00x — 3 10 1 Wainwright, C.Martinez (7) and T.Cruz; Locke, Watson (8), Melancon (9) and R.Martin. W—Locke 6-3.

L—Wainwright 15-9. Sv—Melancon (24). HRs—St. Louis, Holliday (13). Pittsburgh, I.Davis (10).

Wash.

201 010 000 — 4 9 1 Phila.

200 003 21x — 8 15 0 Fister, Thornton (6), Detwiler (7), Stammen (8) and W.Ramos; K.Kendrick, Bastardo (7), Diekman (8), Giles (9) and Nieves. W—K.Kendrick 7-11. L—Fister 12-5. HRs—Washington, Span (2). Philadelphia, Rollins (17), G.Sizemore (2), Byrd (24).

Chicago 020 000 030 — 5 11 3 Cincinnati 020 400 01x — 7 12 0 Ja.Turner, Villanueva (4), Fujikawa (7), Rosscup (8), Grimm (8) and Castillo; Latos, Broxton (8), A.Chapman (9) and Mesoraco. W—Latos 5-3. L— Ja.Turner 4-8. Sv—A.Chapman (28). HRs—Chicago, Valbuena (13), Soler (1). Cincinnati, Heisey (5).

Wednesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 044 202 000 — 12 11 0 Seattle 010 002 001 — 4 7 1 Lewis and Telis; E.Ramirez, Leone (4), Beimel (6), Maurer (7), Wilhelmsen (8), Medina (9) and Zunino.

W—Lewis 9-11. L—E.Ramirez 1-6. HRs—Texas, Odor (6), L.Martin (6). Seattle, Zunino (19), Seager (20).

Friday’s Games Minnesota at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Boston at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

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

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

Texas at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Washington at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

New York 008 000 000 — 8 14 1 Detroit 000 101 011 — 4 8 0 Greene, Warren (8), Betances (9) and Cervelli; Price, B.Hardy (3), Coke (4), McCoy (6), Ji.Johnson (8), Alburquerque (9) and Avila. W—Greene 4-1.

L—Price 12-10. HRs—Detroit, V.Martinez (26).

Oakland 000 001 103 — 5 10 1 Houston 000 001 201 — 4 9 0 Pomeranz, Cook (6), Abad (7), Otero (7), O’Flaherty (9) and D.Norris; Peacock, K.Chapman (6), Veras (7), Qualls (9), Foltynewicz (9) and Corporan. W— Otero 8-1. L—Qualls 1-4. Sv—O’Flaherty (1). HRs— Oakland, Crisp (9), Fuld (3). Houston, Carter (33).

Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 8, Washington 4 Atlanta 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 5 San Diego 3, Milwaukee 2, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 3, Arizona 1 L.A. Angels 6, Miami 1 Colorado at San Francisco, late

Wednesday’s Games Texas 12, Seattle 4 Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 1 Toronto 5, Boston 2 N.Y. Yankees 8, Detroit 4 Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland 2 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 1 Oakland 5, Houston 4 L.A. Angels 6, Miami 1

Boston 000 002 000 — 2 5 1 Toronto 100 000 40x — 5 6 1 J.Kelly, Layne (7), Tazawa (7), Edw.Escobar (8) and D.Ross; Stroman, Cecil (8) and D.Navarro. W— Stroman 8-5. L—Layne 1-1. Sv—Cecil (5). HRs— Toronto, Bautista (26), Valencia (3).

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Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 2 Philadelphia 4, Washington 3 N.Y. Mets 3, Atlanta 2 Chicago Cubs 3, Cincinnati 0 L.A. Dodgers 9, Arizona 5 L.A. Angels 8, Miami 2 San Diego 4, Milwaukee 1 San Francisco 3, Colorado 0

Tuesday’s Games Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 2 Boston 11, Toronto 7, 11 innings Detroit 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Cleveland 8, Chicago White Sox 6, 10 innings Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1 Houston 4, Oakland 2 L.A. Angels 8, Miami 2 Seattle 5, Texas 0

Washington Atlanta Miami

Atlanta 102 000 000 — 3 5 0 New York 010 000 010 — 2 6 1 Teheran, D.Carpenter (7), J.Walden (8), Kimbrel (9) and Gattis, Laird; Za.Wheeler, Carlyle (8), C.Torres (9) and d’Arnaud. W—Teheran 13-9. L—Za.Wheeler 9-9. Sv—Kimbrel (39). HRs—Atlanta, Heyward (11).

New York, Flores (2).

Tampa Bay 210 000 000 — 3 9 1 Baltimore 010 000 000 — 1 2 2 Smyly, Boxberger (8), McGee (9) and Hanigan; Gausman, McFarland (5), Tom.Hunter (8), O’Day (9) and C.Joseph. W—Smyly 9-10. L—Gausman 7-6. Sv—McGee (15). HRs—Baltimore, C.Davis (23).

Los Ang. 003 000 000 — 3 8 1 Arizona 000 100 000 — 1 6 0 Kershaw, Jansen (9) and A.Ellis; Miley, O.Perez (7), E.Marshall (7), Ziegler (8) and Gosewisch. W— Kershaw 16-3. L—Miley 7-10. Sv—Jansen (38).

HRs—Los Angeles, Van Slyke (10).

N.Y. Jets Buffalo

Carolina Tampa Bay

1 1

Football

RDC Queens vs. Red Deer Renegades, noon, RDC main pitch.

Friday ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs goaltender sessions at 7:45 and 8:30 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Sunday

● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer Optimist Chiefs camp, one-hour sessions at 2:30, 3:45 and 5 p.m., Red Deer Arena. ● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels vs.

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

Saturday ● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels vs.

Prince George Cougars, 11:30 a.m, St. Albert Servus Credit Union Place. ● College women’s preseason soccer:

Hockey Portland at Tri-City, 12:30 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 3 p.m.

Prince Albert at Calgary, 3 p.m.

Victoria at Seattle, 4 p.m.

Lethbridge at Regina, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Spokane at Everett, 8 p.m.

Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

WHL exhibition Tuesday’s results Swift Current 4 Moose Jaw 3 (OT) Thursday’s games Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Seattle at Tri-City, 12:30 p.m.

Lethbridge at Prince Albert, 3 p.m.

Spokane at Portland, 4 p.m.

Calgary at Regina, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Everett, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games Red Deer at Prince George, 11:30 a.m. at St. Albert

Sunday, August 31 Prince George at Medicine Hat, 11:30 a.m.

Victoria at Tri-City, 12:30 p.m.

Swift Current at Red Deer, 3 p.m. at St. Albert Spokane at Seattle, 4 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Saskatoon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Portland at Everett, 8 p.m.

Soccer 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 24 14 7 3 43 25 12 7 6 45 25 11 5 9 39 23 11 5 7 41 24 7 5 12 33 25 7 8 10 41 25 8 11 6 37 23 6 10 7 28 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

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

Sunday’s results Portland 2 Seattle 4 Philadelphia 4 San Jose 2 Wednesday’s games D.C. at Los Angeles, late 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.

Wednesday, September 3 Toronto at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Seattle at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions

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

Toronto Hamilton Montreal Ottawa

THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 2014

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American League East Division W L Pct 75 56 .573 69 62 .527 67 66 .504 65 68 .489 58 75 .436

National League East Division W L Pct 75 57 .568 69 64 .519 65 67 .492

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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.

National Football League Preseaason AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Miami 2 1 0 .667 55 New England 2 1 0 .667 78

PA 50 65

2 1

Houston Tennessee Jacksonville Indianapolis

W 2 2 1 0

Baltimore Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 3 1 1 0

Denver Kansas City Oakland San Diego

W 2 1 1 1

1 3 South L 1 1 2 3 North L 0 2 2 3 West L 1 2 2 2

0 .667 0 .250

62 63

62 81

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .333 .000

PF 50 68 47 53

PA 56 64 43 63

Minnesota Chicago Detroit Green Bay

W 3 2 2 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .333 .333 .000

PF 83 75 56 49

PA 50 79 67 70

Seattle Arizona San Francisco St. Louis

W 2 1 1 1

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .333 .333 .333

PF 72 69 54 48

PA 34 97 67 69

PF 99 64 94 57

PA 79 52 97 89

PF 80 40

PA 65 66

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

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

0 .333 0 .333

53 51

66 50

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .667 .667 .667

PF 70 60 52 68

PA 46 81 51 48

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .333 .333 .333

PF 91 73 24 64

PA 41 49 64 61

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.

Alouettes hunt for Calvillo’s successor may end at shaggy-haired Crompton

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes hope they have finally found their starting quarterback in shaggy-haired Jonathan Crompton.

But as promising as the 26-year-old looked in his first game last week in a 24-16 loss in Winnipeg, it is too early to think of Crompton as the one who might save what has been a disastrous 2014 CFL season for Montreal after a 1-7 start.

“Not even close,” Crompton said Wednesday.

“I’ve only played three quarters of football.

“I haven’t even played a full game yet, so I just have to do my job, do what the coaches tell me to do, and things will take care of themselves. I really think we have a good team around us.”

That will be put to the test on Friday night when the Alouettes, trying to end a six-game losing streak, face the expansion Ottawa Redblacks at Percival Molson Stadium.

After taking most of the first-team snaps in practice this week, Crompton is expected to get his first CFL start, even if coach Tom Higgins would not confirm it.

In a 24-16 loss last week in Winnipeg, Crompton replaced starter Alex Brink in the second quarter and went 18-for-29 for 266 yards.

Although he threw three interceptions, the Asheville, N.C., native looked more poised and effective than the three other pivots to see action so far this season: the now-injured Troy Smith, Brink and Tanner Marsh.

It looks like Higgins is ready to give Compton his chance to seize the job.

“He understands what we’re doing,” said Higgins. “The players seem to rally around him.

“He’s a take-control type of young man. Adversity doesn’t seem to affect him.

He just goes back out and keeps flinging the football. They’re all really good signs. We just hope that he can pick up where he left off last week.”

The search for a replacement for retired alltime passing leader Anthony Calvillo has been a trial, but two things were apparent in Winnipeg: Crompton looked like he knows what he’s doing on the field, and he has really long hair.

It turns out that he is growing his hair to donate to the Locks For Love program, which provides hairpieces to kids under 21 who have lost theirs due to illness, notably cancer. It will be cut when it reaches 10 inches long, which should be soon.

The poise in the pocket comes partly from the experience he picked up as a rookie last season in Edmonton, where, with neatly trimmed hair and beard, he got into eight games as backup to Mike Reilly.

“Being my first year up here and getting ac-

Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled C Steve Clevenger from Norfolk (IL). Optioned LHP Wei-Yin Chen to the Orioles (GCL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled LHP Edwin Escobar from Pawtucket (IL). Optioned RHP Heath Hembree to Pawtucket.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned RHP Aaron Crow to Northwest Arkansas (Texas). Recalled RHP Liam Hendriks from Omaha (PCL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with OF Chris Young on a minor league contract.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled LHP Drew Pomeranz from Sacramento (PCL). Optioned 1B Nate Freiman to Beloit (MWL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled RHP Erasmo Ramirez from Tacoma (PCL). Optioned LHP James Paxton to Tacoma.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled RHP Chad Jenkins from Buffalo (IL). Designated RHP Sergio Santos for assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled OF Jorge Soler and INF Logan Watkins from Iowa (PCL). Placed OFs Justin Ruggiano, retroactive to Aug. 23, and Ryan Sweeney on the 15-day DL. COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed LHP Boone Logan, retroactive to Aug. 25, and C Wilin Rosario, retroactive to Aug. 23, on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Christian Friedrich and C Jackson Williams from Colorado Springs (PCL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association HOUSTON ROCKETS — Signed F Tarik Black.

LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Signed coach Doc Rivers to a five-year contract extension.

MIAMI HEAT — Signed G Shannon Brown.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Cleveland WR Josh Gordon for entire 2014 season for violating the substanceabuse policy.

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed DL Tommy Kelly to a one-year contract. Released DL Ryan McBean.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed LB Vontaze Burfict to a contract extension through the 2017 season.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed G Mike McGlynn. Waived OL Ben Gottschalk.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released LB Marcus Dowtin and G Greg Van Roten. Signed RB Demitrius Bronson. Claimed C Patrick Lewis off waivers from Jacksonville.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS— Released CB Danny Gorrer from injured reserve with an injury settlement.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with DL Jurrell Casey on a multiyear contract extension.

Canadian Football League CFL — Fined BC LB Adam Bighill for a dangerous and illegal hit during last Sunday night’s game against Saskatchewan; Montreal WR Duron Carter, BC DB Ryan Phillips and Saskatchewan WR Rob Bagg for tweeting comments that were critical of CFL officiating; and, Toronto DL Aston Whiteside for making avoidable physical contact with an on-field official during last Saturday’s game against Edmonton. The amounts of the fines were not disclosed.

Arena Football League IOWA BARNSTORMERS — Announced they will move to the Indoor Football League for the 2015 season.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Agreed to an affiliation agreement with the Providence Bruins (AHL).

Named Don Sweeney general manager and Jay Pandolfo development coach for Providence.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Traded D Nick Bruneteau to Indy for future considerations.

Southern Professional Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMAN — Signed C Jordan Sims.

Western Hockey League VICTORIA ROYALS — Signed F Ryan Peckford.

Tennis

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Montreal Alouettes’ quarterback Jonathan Crompton (18) gets sacked by Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Bryant Turner (92) during the first half of CFL action in Winnipeg August 22, 2014. climated to a new game was fun,” said Crompton, who completed 30 of 58 passes for 451 yards, five touchdowns and five interceptions for the Eskimos. “I enjoy it up here and I enjoy being in Montreal.

“It’s more fun because I have relatives from here. I just have to learn to speak a little French. It’s harder than it looks.”

Crompton’s grandmother’s sister and her family are the Montreal wing of a clan that has outposts in Canada, the United States, Morocco and Israel.

“This is a place I’ve always wanted to play because of that,” he said. “Now it’s another incentive for my grandma to come up and visit me and them at the same time. I’m blessed to be here and I’m looking forward to the opportunity.”

Last season, Crompton looked to have settled in as Reilly’s backup, but he was cut during training camp this season as the Eskimos opted to go with Pat White and Matt Nichols.

He signed a three-year contract with Montreal on July 15 and started the season fourth on the depth chart.

Now, he should get a shot at being Number One.

U.S. Open Results Wednesday At The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center New York Purse: $38.3 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Men First Round Marin Cilic (14), Croatia, def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, 6-3, 3-1 (0-15), retired.

Feliciano Lopez (19), Spain, def. Ivan Dodig, Croatia, 1-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, 1-1 (15-0), retired.

Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, def. Santiago Giraldo (27), Colombia, 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3.

Kevin Anderson (18), South Africa, def. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (1).

Illya Marchenko, Ukraine, def. Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 7-6 (13), 7-6 (4).

Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, def. Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, 6-3, 7-5, 5-7, 7-5.

Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, def. Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3.

Martin Klizan, Slovakia, def. Steve Darcis, Belgium, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5, 6-4.

Alexander Kudryavtsev, Russia, def. Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, 2-6, 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

David Goffin, Belgium, def. Niels Desein, Belgium, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3.

Tatsuma Ito, Japan, def. Steve Johnson, United States, 6-2, 3-6, 5-7, 4-1, retired.

Dominic Thiem, Austria, def. Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2.

Grigor Dimitrov (7), Bulgaria, def. Ryan Harrison, United States, 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Joao Sousa (32), Portugal, def. Frank Dancevic, Canada, 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2).

Ernests Gulbis (11), Latvia, def. Kenny de Schepper, France, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2.

Dudi Sela, Israel, def. Carlos Berlocq, Argentina, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5.

Second Round Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia, def. Jeremy Chardy (30), France, 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-3.

Stan Wawrinka (3), Switzerland, def. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1).

Women Second Round Alize Cornet (22), France, def. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-3.

Peng Shuai, China, def. Agnieszka Radwanska (4), Poland, 6-3, 6-4.

Roberta Vinci (28), Italy, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1.

Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, def. Kurumi Nara (31), Japan, 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.

Johanna Larsson, Sweden, def. Sloane Stephens (21), United States, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.

Angelique Kerber (6), Germany, def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, 6-2, 6-4.

Simona Halep (2), Romania, def. Jana Cepelova, Slovakia, 6-2, 6-1.

Jelena Jankovic (9), Serbia, def. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, 7-5, 6-4.

Lucie Safarova (14), Czech Republic, def. Zheng Saisai, China, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Andrea Petkovic (18), Germany, def. Monica Puig, Puerto Rico, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Caroline Wozniacki (10), Denmark, def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6-3, 6-4.

Maria Sharapova (5), Russia, def. Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Croatia, def Peer, Israel, 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-2.

Sabine Lisicki (26), Germany, def. Madison Brengle, United States, 6-4, 6-1.

Sara Errani (13), Italy, def. Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

Venus Williams (19), United States, def. Timea Bacsinszky, Switzerland, 6-1, 6-4.

Doubles

Men First Round Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, Poland, def. Andre Begemann, Germany, and Julian Knowle, Austria, 6-3, 6-4.

Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, and Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia, and Ivo Karlovic, Croatia, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4.

Leander Paes, India, and Radek Stepanek (6), Czech Republic, def. Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini, Italy, 7-6 (5), 6-2.

Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah (16), Colombia, def. Pablo Andujar and Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 7-6 (9), 6-3.

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, and Philipp Oswald, Austria, defvs. Julien Benneteau and Edouard Roger-Vasselin (5), France, 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (6).

Robin Haase and Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, def.

Mikhail Elgin, Russia, and Philipp Marx, Germany, 6-1, 6-3.

Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez (11), Spain, def.

Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic, Australia, 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-4.

Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def.

Max Mirnyi, Belarus, and Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 6-2, 6-3.

Michael Mmoh and Francis Tiafoe, United States, def. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, and Teymuraz Gabashvili, Russia, 6-3, 6-4.

Martin Emmrich, Germany, and Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and Oliver Marach, Austria, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-6 (4).

Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Jurgen Melzer, Austria, def. Federico Delbonis, Argentina, and Alejandro Falla, Colombia, 6-3, 6-4.

Sam Groth and Chris Guccione, Australia, def.

Jonathan Marray, Britain, and Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5).

Women First Round Cara Black, Zimbabwe, and Sania Mirza (3), India, def. Karolina and Kristyna Pliskova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-0.

Oksana Kalashnikova, Georgia, and Olga Savchuk, Ukraine, def. Romina Oprandi, Switzerland, and Shelby Rogers, United States, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0.

Sorana Cirstea, Romania, and Pauline Parmentier, France, def. Tornado Alicia Black and Bernarda Pera, United States, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, def. Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua (10), Australia, 6-2, 6-3.

Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, and Arantxa Parra Santonja, Spain, def. Louisa Chirico and Katerina Stewart, United States, 6-4, 6-3.

Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic, and Katarina Srebotnik (5), Slovenia, def. Sharon Fichman, Canada, and Chanelle Scheepers, South Africa, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (4), Russia, def. Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, and Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 6-2, 6-4.

Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, and Xu Yi-Fan, China, def. Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears (6), United States, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.

Christina McHale, United States, and Anna Schmiedlova, Slovakia, def. Alison Van Uytvanck and Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, 6-3, 6-1.

Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro (12), Spain, def. Alize Cornet, France, and Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, 7-5, 6-4.

Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, and Katarzyna Piter, Poland, def. Grace Min and Melanie Oudin, United States, 6-3, 6-3.

Misaki Doi, Japan, and Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, def.

Mona Barthel, Germany, and Alexandra Panova, Russia, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (4).

Jarmila Gajdosova and Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, def. Kristina Barrois and Annika Beck, Germany, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.

Vania King and Lisa Raymond, United States, def.

Julia Goerges and Anna-Lena Groenefeld (16), Germany, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (2).

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2014 NFL SEASON PREVIEW

NFC West to be deepest division once again

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — Forget about the NFC Worst. Last year proved the NFC West is the deepest division in the NFL. Whether it was San Francisco and Seattle, the league’s best rivalry, meeting in the NFC championship game, or the Seahawks posting the most lopsided Super Bowl victory in two decades by routing Denver, the profile of the NFC West is drastically different from a few years ago.

NFC West depth goes beyond just the Seahawks. The four teams combined to go 42-22 a year ago, the best of any division, and could be that good again.

There are concerns for each team entering 2014. St. Louis must discover if Sam Bradford can stay healthy. Arizona must replace linebackers Daryl Washington and Karlos Dansby, and defensive tackle Darnell Dockett. San Francisco will play at least half the season without All-Pro linebacker NaVorro Bowman.

And Seattle must deal with the attention and scrutiny that comes with being the defending champ.

“They’re good, they’re the defending champs. They’re in our division, there’s a lot of motivation there,” San Francisco’s Justin Smith said.

Here are some things to watch in the NFC West: CROWN OF THORNS: Seattle has never been a champion. But Pete Carroll has.

His blueprint for keeping the Seahawks elite involved locking up AllPros cornerback Richard Sherman and safety Earl Thomas, plus receiver Doug Baldwin to contract extensions, re-signing DE Michael Bennett, and never resting on what happened last season. The Seahawks also avoided a contract dispute with RB Marshawn

Lynch and have seen glimpses of the punch a healthy WR Percy Harvin could add to their offence.

Their defence might not match the suffocating numbers posted a year ago, but if quarterback Russell Wilson and the offence continues to evolve the Seahawks might not need the best defence to remain atop the division.

“If you’re going to have a good team you’re going to have to deal with these guys and these good teams, so that’s what we’re faced with,” Carroll said.

“Whoever comes out on top of the division is really going to be ready to play anybody.”

LAST EXIT: Just off Highway 101, the 49ers move into their new palatial home this season — Levi’s Stadium — replacing the outdated Candlestick Park, and trying to regain their perch atop the division.

QB Colin Kaepernick is locked up long-term and he will have tight end Vernon Davis, WRs Michael Crabtree, Anquan Boldin and Stevie Johnson as targets all season. Frank Gore and rookie Carlos Hyde will be the featured backs of an offence that again will rely heavily on the run.

Defensively there are more concerns. The secondary has been completely remodeled since the Niners’ Super Bowl appearance two seasons ago. Bowman likely won’t be back until at least midseason after a gruesome knee injury in the NFC championship game and there is no clarity on any discipline LB Aldon Smith may face for off-field troubles.

“For us, we have been close. We did go one year. That’s not good enough, we want to bring it home,” linebacker Patrick Willis said.

MAN OF THE HOUR: The defence Jeff Fisher has built in St. Louis is impressive. Whether the Rams can jump into contention will fall onto the arm of Bradford. (note: Bradford has since

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Seattle Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch scores as quarterback Russell Wilson (3) reacts behind and Chicago Bears’ Danny McCray hits the turf in the first half of an preseason NFL football game, Aug. 22, 2014, in Seattle. went down with a season ending injury) His status as the franchise quarterback for St. Louis continues to be debated as Bradford enters the final year of his rookie contract.

He flourished early last season, completing 61 per cent of his passes and 14 touchdown throws before a

knee injury ended his year after seven games. The Rams added Kenny Britt as another target for Bradford, and the addition of rookie Greg Robinson should solidify the left side of the offensive line.

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Talent still big as NFC Panthers looking to rewrite history in NFC South North teams rebound from injury-plagued season Green Bay’s grab of the NFC North for the third straight season, giving the Packers seven of the 12 titles since the division formed, was predictable.

That unremarkable 8-7-1 record they won it with was the real surprise.

Chicago took a step back, too, and Minnesota plummeted badly. Detroit was the only team with more victories than the previous year, but still had a losing mark and fired its coach. Such mediocrity, though, should not mask the abundance of elite talent that still exists in this quartet.

From stars Aaron Rodgers, Adrian Peterson and Calvin Johnson to upand-comers Cordarrelle Patterson, Alshon Jeffrey and Eddie Lacy, with standouts like Reggie Bush, Brandon Marshall and Randall Cobb somewhere in between, the NFC North

could probably field a Pro Bowl offence all by itself.

The Packers, Lions and Bears all ranked in the top eight in the league in total yards, and even the Vikings with their persistent quarterback problems finished 13th, higher than five playoff teams.

For this division to again produce a true championship-calibre team, keeping those key players healthy all year is the first prerequisite. Then the defences must get better. If not, and this season looks a lot like the last, well, the games are bound to be entertaining with all those big-play guys throwing, running and catching the ball.

Here are some things to know about the NFC North this year:

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Foles and the Eagles look to own the NFC East again PHILADELPHIA — Eli Manning has two Super Bowl rings. Tony Romo makes the most money. RG3 is arguably the most talented.

Nick Foles? Well, he just might be the best quarterback in the NFC East.

“I’m not trying to be someone else, I’m just taking it in stride,” Foles said. “This year is a little different, and there’s going to be a little more on my plate, but it’s just been a gradual growth through the last couple years to get to this point. And then I just have to continue to grow each and every day and have fun doing it.”

Foles had one of the best statistical seasons in NFL history as he led the Philadelphia Eagles to a division title in his sophomore season and Chip Kelly’s first as coach. Foles replaced Michael Vick in October, went 8-2 as the starter and finished with 29 touchdown passes and two interceptions in 11 starts, including a playoff loss to

New Orleans. He set an NFL record for best TD/interception ratio and his passer rating of 119.2 was the third highest in NFL history.

Manning is coming off his worst season for the Giants, who went 7-9. He threw a league-high 27 interceptions and had a dismal 69.4 passer rating.

Romo is coming back from surgery for a herniated disk that sidelined him for the Cowboys’ winner-take-all season finale against the Eagles. Robert Griffin III struggled in his return from an ACL injury after a fantastic rookie season and the Redskins went 3-13, costing coach Mike Shanahan his job.

This division may only have one team finish with a winning record, and 9-7 might get the crown. So whichever quarterback has the best regular season among the four could make the difference.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam Newton Falcons coach Mike Smith said. and the Carolina Panthers will need to Smith points to Drew Brees in New rewrite history if they hope to repeat Orleans, Newton in Carolina and Ryan as NFC South champions this season. in Atlanta as three big reasons why.

It won’t be easy.

“We have a division that has three No team has won back-to-back NFC outstanding quarterbacks, and this is South division titles since the league a quarterback-driven league,” Smith realigned in 2002. The Panthers are said. “They’ve all been to the Pro Bowl in a division stacked with formidable in the last three or four years.” foes — not to mention tremendously The NFC South has been remarktalented quarterbacks — in Atlanta ably balanced since 2002, with each and New Orleans. And Tampa Bay is team winning three division titles. considered a dark horse under new “We want to take the lead,” Davis coach Lovie Smith. said.

The Saints and Falcons have Some things to watch in the NFC grabbed headlines with their off-sea- South: son upgrades, while the salary capSUSPECT SECONDARY: The Saints strapped Panthers have released star spent money upgrading their secondwide receiver Steve Smith, saw vet- ary, though it’s unclear how those eran left tackle Jordan moves will pan out.

Gross retire, and lost New Orleans brought a handful of key free in three-time Pro Bowl ‘WE DO OUR BEST agents.

Jairus Byrd and WORK WHEN WE’RE safety Panthers lineback12-time Pro Bowl corer Thomas Davis views NOT EXPECTED TO DO nerback Champ Bailey. the past as a plus.

Byrd had off-season ANYTHING. WE’RE “A lot of people are back surgery and has NOT GOING TO DO been limited during ruling us out right now based on the history camp, while A BUNCH OF TRASH training of the division — and the 36-year-old BaiTALK, WE’RE JUST that’s OK with us,” ley went down with an said Davis, entering unspecified leg injury GOING TO GO OUT his 10th season with early in camp and reAND SHOW IT.’ the Panthers. “We do mains limited. Cornerour best work when back Patrick Robinson, —THOMAS DAVIS we’re not expected to a 2012 first-round pick CAROLINA PANTHERS LINEBACKER do anything. We’re not whose comeback from going to do a bunch of knee surgery showed trash talk, we’re just going to go out promise early in camp, has been batand show it.” tling an undisclosed leg injury.

Carolina boasts the league’s No. 2 PROTECTING RYAN: The offensive defence led by middle linebacker and line was a concern even before left Defensive Player of the Year Luke tackle Sam Baker was lost for the seaKuechly. However, questions remain son with a torn patellar tendon in his about an offence that lost four linemen right knee. First-round pick Jake Matto retirement, and its top four receiv- thews moved from right to left tackle ers. and Lamar Holmes, who made 15 starts But the Panthers aren’t the only as a rookie in 2013, will battle with team with concerns.

Gabe Carimi at right tackle. The line The Saints are worried about a already had a new look with both Matleaky, injury-plagued secondary. The thews and free-agent addition right Falcons have concerns about protect- Jon Asamoah moving in as new starting quarterback Matt Ryan and replac- ers. Ryan was sacked a career-high 44 ing his favourite red zone target, Tony times and was pressured 203 times, Gonzalez. And the Bucs are banking on most in the NFL in 2013. The Falcons 35-year-old journeyman quarterback ranked last in rushing.

Josh McCown to boost their offence.

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LAST CALL FOR THE OUTDOOR POOL

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For those of you who have not taken the opportunity to enjoy the outdoor pool at the Recreation Centre in Red Deer this summer, and for those who have but would like to dive in one more time, there are just a few more days to take the plunge in the sunshine. Jerrica Thompson, left, and her sister, Natalie, were doing just that this week. The last day of operation for the outdoor pool in Red Deer this season will be Monday. The pool will be open until 5 p.m.

The pool is scheduled to reopen June 1, 2015.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Danish Canadian National Museum and Gardens hours of operation are Monday to Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Come visit the museum, see the unique displays and gardens, dormitory coffee house, and gift shop located 30 km west of Innisfail and four kilometres south of Spruce View (800 metres south of the four-way stop in Dickson). Phone 403-728-0019. See www.danishcanadians. com ● Cronquist House Tea House at Bower Ponds hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday. Come and enjoy a great lunch or afternoon tea until Sept. 26. Contact 403346-00055, or email to rdchs@telus.net. ● Bowden Museum will be open during the months of June, July and Aug. on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. until Aug. 29. Admission is $2.

Tours may be arranged by calling 403-2242122, or 403-224-3104. See www.bowdenpioneermuseum.com, or email 2201@shawbiz.ca.

Saturday ● The Lung Association, Alberta and Northwest Territories Red Deer office offers free lung testing at Red Deer Market. ● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The Aug. 30 session is called Signed, Sealed, Delivered. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Central Alberta Singles dance will be held Aug. 30 at Royal Canadian Legion Innisfail Hall. Music by Sierra Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Music starts at 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. For information, call Jim at 403638-6563, or Murray at 403-357-8022. ● Bentley Farmers’ Market goes from 1:30 to 4 p.m. until Labour Day weekend with Aug. 30 as the final date, indoors and out at Bentley Curling Rink, rain or shine. Get bedding plants, gardening whatnots, woodcrafts, jewelry, clothing, munchies, and much more.

For information or to book at table, contact Krista at 403-748-4809. ● Bentley United Church Thrift Shop is open Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. from May long weekend to Sept. long weekend.

Contact Gail at 403-748-2935. Aug. 30 is the final day. ● Penhold Market is held year round at Penhold Multiplex. From May to Sept. long weekend, the market takes place on Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m., and for the remainder of the year the market takes place on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be a special market on Sept. 13. Vendors are welcome. Phone 403-885-2566.

Monday ● Ellis Bird Farm closing day hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 1. See www.ellisbirdfarm.ca or contact info@ellisbirdfarm.ca, 403-885-4477.

Tuesday ● The Tony Connelly Singers choral group invites singers to join them on Tuesdays, 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Senior Citizens Downtown House. The group shares the gift of music and friendship at various seniors’ functions from Sept. to June. Call Shirley at 403-342-5904, or Betty at 403-346-7316 for more information. The first day of the fall session will be Sept. 2. ● Fulfil your love of singing by joining the Red Deer Chamber Singers. Their repertoire consists of a diverse selection of choral arrangements, including classical, folk, and pop. This adult mixed choir will begin preparation for the Renaissance Feast in Nov. Practices are held on Tuesdays, 7 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church. First practice is Sept. 2. For more information contact Sadie at 403-347-5166. ● Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held Sept. 2 and 16. Phone 403-7424273. ● Red Deer Pottery Club meets on Tuesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Contour Studio in the Recreation Centre, downstairs starting Sept. 2. New members always welcome. For more information call Sharon at 403-3478061, or Karen at 403-347-0600.

Wednesday ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Black Velvet is on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m.

Phone 403-342-0035. ● Travel Memories at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be held Sept. 3 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room. Listen to a traveller share pictures and tales of his adventures in the United Kingdom, share your own travel adventures, and enjoy a coffee or tea. Contact Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100. ● Yoga Alliance of Red Deer (YARD) Annual Karma Week will be held Sept. 3 to 7. Join up and bring a non-perishable food item for the food bank. YARD — Red Deer’s only not-for-profit studio — is holding registration for the fall session which runs Sept.

8 to Dec. 21. A variety of classes and styles and levels will be offered including Hatha, power, Yin, Kundalini, pre-natal, restorative and Yoga for backs. Visit www.reddeeryoga.

ca, phone 403-350-5830 or email info@reddeeryoga.ca. ● Sylvan Lake Legion potluck and jam session is held the first Wednesday of each month from noon to 4 p.m. Come to play, sing, dance or listen. Admission is $2, including coffee and lunch at 2:30 p.m. Potluck begins at noon followed by the jam session at 1 p.m. Contact Margie at 403-746-3153. ● Central Alberta Council on Aging meets Sept. 2, 9 a.m. at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Karen Oatway of Volunteer Central will speak on the benefits of volunteering. Cost is $3. Contact Shirley at 403343-0767 or Ron at 403-346-8115.

Thursday ● First Thursdays in the Snell are free chamber music concerts from 12:15 to 1 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on the first Thursday of each month. Café Noir will sponsor the series and provide free coffee and tea. Bring lunch, or purchase at the café. The Sept. 4 event features Edmonton’s Kent Sangster’s Obsessions Octet as musical guests. Phone

403-342-9122. Free will donation at the door. ● Red Deer Area Hikers meet on Sept.

4 at the Golden Circle west side parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. for an eight km hike at Lloyd Creek. Hike will be cancelled if weather unsuitable. Bring lunch. Phone Mavis at 403-343-0091, or Sharon at 403-340-2497. ● Melcor and Freshaircinema presents Summer Cinema Series free outdoor movies on Thursdays in Aug. and Sept. at Centennial Park in Sylvan Lake. Movies start at dusk. Please bring a blanket or lawn chair.

On Sept. 4, The Lego Movie starts at 8:15 p.m. See www.freshaircinema.ca. or contact info@freshaircinema.ca. ● Move and Groove 50+ at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre is on Thursday mornings from 10 to 11 a.m. Drop-in fee is $2. Phone 403-343-6074. ● Red Deer TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets Thursday nights at the Elks Lodge, 6315 Horn Street. Weekly weigh in from 6:15 to 6:55 p.m. with program to follow at 7 p.m. Low membership and weekly fees.

Drop in for a free session or email Cheryl at mamaandpapa@shaw.ca or call 403-3421484.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Parkinson Alberta Flexxaire Step ‘N Stride Walk will take place on Sept. 6 at Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre. Registration is at 9 a.m., and the walk is at 10:30 a.m. There will be a free family picnic, prizes, silent auction and more. Register online at parkinsonalberta.ca. Call 403-346-4463, or tkozak@parkinsonalberta.ca for information. ● Taoist Tai Chi Open House will be held on Sept. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the new location at Port ‘O Call Centre. Refreshments will be served. Learn about the practice of Taoism, and the benefits and suitability for all fitness levels and ages. Call 403-346-6772. ● Dickson Store Museum Harvest Festival is set to go on Sept. 7 from noon to 4:30 p.m. This family event features Danish and traditional food, continuous entertainment, children’s games, ice cream, door prizes, 50/50 draws, cream can rides and local artists and vendors. Call 403-7283355. ● Our Lady of Peace Fall Turkey Supper will take place on Sept. 17 at Royal Canadian Legion Hall in Innisfail from 5 to 7 p.m.

Costs are $14 for diners aged 13 years and up, $6 for children ages six to 12 years, and free for children under six years. Take-out meals available for pick up or delivery. Call 403-865-1985. See www.oloppinnisfail.com ● Boomtown Music Festival is slated for Sept. 5 and 6 at Ol’Macdonald’s Resort. Music starts at 1 p.m. both days. Entertainment includes Ridley Bent, Tim Hus, and many more artists. Beer gardens and food vendors on site. Event supports the Kids Help Line.

Weekend passes start at $70, day passes start at $35 and discounted camping is available. For more information visit www.boom-

townmusic.ca/ or call 403-742-6603. ● Alzheimer Society National Coffee Break Campaign is gearing up for September and October Coffee Break events. The society invites everyone in Central Alberta to host or take part in a Coffee Break event to raise awareness and funds for education and support programs. Coffee will be supplied by the Alzheimer Society for individuals or groups who wish to host a coffee break event such as bake sale, game night, high tea or a small coffee klatch. Visit alzheimercoffeebreak.ca or call 403-342-0448. ● Red Deer Danish Canadian Club Golf Tournament will be held on Sept. 7 at Top O’ The Hill par three golf course at Sylvan Lake with the tournament to start at 3 p.m. Golfers are welcome to come early for socializing.

Costs are $35 per person for members, and $45 per person for non-members. Shot gun start. Supper to follow. Call 403-302-9056. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House has several upcoming events, regular card games and tournaments and special tournaments: Cribbage every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Sept. 11; Whist every Friday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Sept. 19; 500 every Monday and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on Sept. 30; Monday Cribbage Night at 7 p.m.; Fun Contract Bridge every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Games cost $3.

Tournaments cost $6. Potluck Friday will be held on Sept. 5 at 5:30 p.m. for $5. Please bring a meat dish, salad, or dessert. A Jam Session will be held on Sept. 13 at 1:30 p.m. for $2.50. A Roast Beef Supper will be held on Sept. 19 at 5:30 p.m. for $15. Tickets now on sale. Phone 403-346-4043.

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whose 119 career sacks are the third most among active players, is making the transition from the traditional 4-3 defensive end to the 3-4 scheme at age 34. He could, though, provide a valuable boost to a defence that sagged down the stretch last year.

“I’m looking forward to not only proving to myself that I can do it, but proving to the outsiders who don’t think I can do it,” Peppers said.

MORE DEFENCE SPENDING: One spot ahead of Peppers on the active player sacks list is Jared Allen, who also switched NFC North rivals by leaving the Vikings for the Bears. Like Peppers, Allen at 32 is past his prime at a speed-based position. But the fivetime Pro Bowl pick, too, will be eager to prove he’s not done as a dominant pass rusher. The Bears were tied for last in the league in sacks last year and gave up the second-most points, fewer than only the Vikings.

“Everybody sees the ability and what we have on paper. But that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.

You’ve got to go out and ... make it happen,” Allen said.

BRIDGE TO BRIDGEWATER: The Vikings have a new coach in Mike Zimmer and a new quarterback in Teddy Bridgewater, though the first-round draft pick from Louisville has been behind veteran Matt Cassel on the depth chart since he arrived. Cassel played well enough last season after Christian Ponder lost the job to give the Vikings confidence in him until Bridgewater is ready to take over — whether that’s this September, next September or somewhere in between.

“I think Teddy’s going to be a great player,” Zimmer said.

ROAR RESTORATION: Jim Schwartz was replaced by Jim Caldwell as coach of the Lions. Detroit went 10-6 and made the playoffs in 2011, then slumped to 4-12 in 2012 and squandered a 6-3 start with control of the division, only to finish 7-9 in 2013. Addressing any particular weaknesses on the roster was not as important over the winter and spring as rebuilding confidence and optimism within a group that still boasts plenty of star-calibre players.

“I believe we’re on the threshold of some great things,” Caldwell said.

“I think the organization is ready, the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 B7 after an 0-6 start. Their defence made a turnaround after Jon Beason was acquired from Carolina at midseason.

But the middle linebacker has been sidelined by a foot injury. On offence, the rushing attack suffered a blow when David Wilson had to retire because of a neck injury. The Giants will need a lot of Manning to Victor Cruz this season.

DOOMED DEFENCE: Remember the Doomsday Defences that led Dallas to a pair of Super Bowl titles in the 1960s and 70s? These Cowboys are far from it. The league’s most porous decity of Detroit is ready, our fan base fence in 2013 lost its best player for the is ready, and I think our players are season when linebacker Sean Lee had knee surgery in the off-season. DeMarready as well.”

Predicted order of finish: Packers; cus Ware, the franchise’s career sacks leader, was released in March. Last Bears; Vikings; Lions. year’s sacks leader Jason Hatcher left for Washington. There are issues in the secondary because of injuries, and cornerback Orlando Scandrick is out for the first four games for a drug susSome things to know about the NFC pension. A revamped defensive line is East: currently missing the two biggest offREPLACING D-JAX: Kelly made season acquisitions: free agent tackle the boldest move of his short tenure Henry Melton and rookie defensive when he released three-time Pro Bowl end DeMarcus Lawrence, a secondwide receiver DeSean Jackson after round pick. They have a lot of work to the best season of his career. The do when they’re healthy after giving up Eagles couldn’t even get a low-round 415.3 yards per game last year. draft pick for Jackson, so they cut him.

Predicted order of finish: Eagles; Kelly never explained the move, but Redskins; Giants; Cowboys.

Jackson’s hefty contract and me-first attitude are probably why.

They’re counting on Jeremy Maclin to return to form after knee surgery cost him all of last season. They’re RECEIVERS NEEDED: The Panhoping Riley Cooper builds on his breakout year. They need rookie Jor- thers lost their top four wide receivdan Matthews to contribute right away. ers from last year including Smith, the Second-year tight end Zach Ertz has franchise’s all-time leader in recepbig potential, and the versatile Darren tions and touchdowns. They couldn’t Sproles, acquired from New Orleans, afford to keep free agents Brandon Lacould end up replacing some of Jack- Fell, Ted Ginn Jr. and Domenik Hixon.

NFL Coach of the Year Ron Rivera son’s touches.

EIGHT IS ENOUGH: Jay Gruden is expects first-round draft pick Kelvin the eighth head coach employed by Benjamin, who has earned a starting owner Dan Snyder in 16 years in Wash- spot, to emerge as the No. 1 receiver ington. A former Arena League quar- and work alongside veterans Jerricho terback who ran Cincinnati’s offence Cotchery and Jason Avant.

PASS HAPPY: At 35, Brees recently for three seasons, Gruden brings a West Coast style along with a reputa- gave ulcers to opposing NFC South tion for being a players’ coach. Getting coaches saying he feels healthy enough along with RG3 is one thing. Figuring to play another 10 years. He’s thrown for more 5,000 yards and no fewer than out how to win games is a tougher task.

The Redskins have plenty of play- 39 touchdowns in three straight seamakers on offence with Jackson join- sons. He’ll be aiming to reach such ing Alfred Morris (2,888 yards rushing numbers again with the help of star in 2012-13), Pierre Garcon (NFL-high tight end Jimmy Graham, Saints all113 catches in 2013) and Jordan Reed time leading receiver Marques Col(45 catches in nine games). Defence ston, and first-round draft choice Branis another story. The Redskins need din Cooks.

MCCOWN FACTOR: The Bucs were productive seasons from some of their 30th in scoring and last in passing in 30-something veterans on D. NEW-LOOK GIANTS: The Giants 2013. Smith is banking on career backwere big players in free agency for a up QB McCown being a big part of the change. They signed 19 veteran free solution. The 35-year-old is coming off agents, including 10 on offence. Run- his best season, throwing for 13 touchning back Rashad Jennings moves into downs and one interception while goa starting role, and cornerbacks Domi- ing 3-2 as a starter as a fill-in for an nique Rodgers-Cromartie and Walter injured Jay Cutler in Chicago.

Predicted order of finish: Saints; FalThurmond bolstered the secondary.

The Giants finished strong, going 7-3 cons; Panthers; Buccaneers.

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WEST: Dominant St. Louis has a dominant front four on defence with Chris Long, Robert Quinn, Michael Brockers and the addition of rookie Aaron Donald. But the secondary must improve.

BIG WAVE: Arizona was one of the hottest teams at the end of last season after finally clicking under coach Bruce Arians, winning seven of its final nine. The Cardinals also hold the distinction of being the only team to win in Seattle since 2011 after knocking off the Seahawks in Week 16.

Quarterback Carson Palmer has another year in Arians’ system and Larry Fitzgerald remains an elite pass catcher. Andre Ellington established himself as Arizona’s leading rusher with 652 yards and three touchdowns his rookie season.

But the Cardinals are struggling to replace Dansby and Washington, and Dockett tearing his ACL is another significant loss.

The secondary could be second best in the NFC behind Seattle thanks to incumbent CB Patrick Peterson and the additions of Antonio Cromartie and rookie Deone Bucannon.

Predicted order of finish: Seahawks; 49ers; Rams; Cardinals.

NORTH: Injury IN CASE OF INJURY, CALL ... When the previously infallible Rodgers went down with a broken collarbone, the dynamic of the division changed. The Packers were just barely good enough to survive his absence and beat the Bears in the final week, which served as a play-in game for the NFC playoffs.

That was quite the feat considering they lost Cobb, outside linebacker Clay Matthews, left tackle Bryan Bulaga and several other starters for multiple games.

The injuries transcended all three Wisconsin borders.

Josh McCown helped the Bears withstand quarterback Jay Cutler’s torn groin, but the defence lost Henry Melton, D.J. Williams, Lance Briggs and Charles Tillman for a total of 38 games. Johnson wasn’t the same Megatron for the Lions, missing two games and fighting knee and finger trouble that prompted off-season procedures.

Peterson had a similar letdown with the Vikings, spraining his foot in December and needing surgery on his groin in January.

PICKED THE PACK, DID PEPPERS: The Packers made a rare splash in free agency by signing eight-time Pro Bowl pick Julius Peppers, who played the last four years with the Bears. Peppers,

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Boss insists on eating with employees Dear Annie: My boss insists that all If so, that is the person to whom you of her employees eat lunch with her in need to direct your complaint. the cafeteria every day. She really gets You also could approach your boss out of whack if we decide as a group, perhaps sendto use our “unpaid” time to ing her a letter signed by do what we want. She says everyone, explaining that we aren’t team players if we lunch together is nice, but don’t eat together. And for you also need a break durthe most part, lunch is all ing the day to handle perabout her. She controls the sonal things that come up conversation, which is all while you’re at work, and about her life. Today, she you don’t want to do it on shared that she scolded a company time. family member for bringing You can ask whether she their cell phone to the famwould be willing to set aside ily dinner table. A few of us half of the lunch hour for at the table had cell phones personal time and let her MITCHELL with us at the time. know how much all of you & SUGAR I don’t know how to hanwould appreciate it. dle this. We’re a small opBut only you can assess eration and can’t avoid one how much you value this job another. I think I should be and what you risk by pursuable to text my kids during my lunch ing this. hour. She can’t stand to be argued with Dear Annie: Last year, my siblings and never apologizes. We all need our loaned my father a decent sum of monjobs. What can we do? – Cornered in ey, and Dad has yet to pay them back.

N.Y. I was not in a position to help then, Dear N.Y.: It is unfortunate that your but since that time, knowing my father boss is so clueless and narcissistic. has had financial issues (notably as Does she have a supervisor? a result of his poor decisions), I have

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Family and those CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jack you consider family will be very supBlack, 44; Shania Twain, 48; Jason portive of you. Do take the time to Priestley, 44 hang out with them and form closer THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Be bonds. careful of compulsive behaviour; Watch out for compulsive actions your emotions will reach a peak and towards your future. If you want anyyou will want to spend more time thing to be long lasting, you have to with those you are familiar with as make sure you share the same viyou will need some support. On the sion. plus side, you will know what you want from a certain situation in your GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Conversations with friends will prove to life. Just be honest about how you be just what you need today. You will feel today, but don’t go off the edge be able to share any fears you are with having to express everything all having and this will help you better at once. understand the direction forward.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is They will help you by providing your birthday, this year will prove to LARISA MAIRA you with more positive and practical be rewarding for you. Your accounts OZOLINS ideas. will become balanced and you will CANCER (June 21-July 22): be feeling more at peace within yourself. Be careful with compulsive Conversations with family members today or perhaps those within your spending with entertainment, only do home environment will help you feel that which you truly want to engage more in tune with yourself. in or else it will simply deplete your resources.

Later on in the day there could be a need to Be honest about how you are feeling this year try and balance relationships you have. Simply be as you’ll feel empowered.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is an op- honest about your feelings today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do socialize with portunity for you to meet someone or hang out with someone who you can truly have a special bond friends from your past today. You’ll be in need of extra morale and confidence now. Yes, there are with now. Through this interaction you will be able changes going on within your daily routine, try your to know what you truly want within a close relation-

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helped in smaller ways, mostly by buying food for him.

Recently, Dad started dating a woman and has talked about various vacations they have taken and trips they are planning.

My siblings don’t live around here and are not as close to Dad, so they have no idea where the money is going.

Although I don’t want to get in the middle, I think they have a right to know that Dad could be paying them back in some small measure rather than using the money for vacations with his girlfriend. I sure would want to know. —F. Dear F.: Are you sure Dad is paying for these excursions?

It’s quite possible the new girlfriend is paying for these trips. You can ask him why, if he has money to spare, he’s not giving it to your siblings, and yes, you can mention to your siblings that Dad went on a trip or two.

But we don’t recommend you chastise Dad or rile up your siblings. They may be delighted that he’s getting out and enjoying his life, and the money might not be that important to them. Or they may have loaned him the money

without expecting repayment.

Any argument about those loans should be between your siblings and their father.

No good will come of you putting yourself in the middle.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Just Saying,” the diabetic woman who wants to bring her own food into a restaurant.

She should understand that the owners are not being rude by not allowing it. It is a health violation.

There is nearly always an item on the menu that someone with diabetes could eat or ask to have prepared in a way that wouldn’t violate their diet.

Those items might not be the person’s first choice, but they are adequate compensation for the ability to share a table with her friends, and next time, they can go to a place of her choosing. —Common Sense Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

best to express exactly how you are feeling with friends within your daily life, don’t act compulsively now!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do hang out with old friends in private today.

Express how you are feeling about your children or with your romantic life. Do stay away from those who are not going to be caring to your needs.

State how you feel and be prepared to hear some practical advice that will help you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Friends will be extremely supportive of you.

Do make the time to see them when you can today. Avoid compulsive behaviour within your home environment. Simply be honest and, through doing just that, you’ll be able to reach an understanding that you previously didn’t know.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is an opportunity for you to understand what you are truly passionate about on a professional level. Perhaps it is simply you are figuring out more information about politicians and you are communicating this with friends.

Be careful to not overstate your case.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Get in touch with friends at a distance today.

They will help you sort out what is going on with

you on a personal level.

At the end of the conversation, you’ll be able to know what direction you need to go in to fulfil the wishes and aspirations you have.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be careful not act out too compulsively today.

You will be seen as someone who will reach a peak emotionally, and I don’t mean in a positive way. Hang out with those you have a special bond with and all will be fine. They will even help you feel more empowered!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Those at a distance will have some wise words for you today.

Trust their judgement now and please be as honest as you want to be with them. There could be some stresses happening for you on an internal level that need to be released today. Find a close friend and vent!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today is a good day to hang out with your spouse or business partner and do normal day to day activities. This is the best way to get out how you are feeling in a casual way and it will do a world of good for you now. It will motivate you to know exactly what you aspire to do.

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TAI CHI OPEN HOUSE ON SEPT. 6 Taoist Tai Chi will host a public open house on Sept. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. to mark its first anniversary at its Port-O-Call location.

Those who attend can learn about the practice of Taoism and the benefits of tai chi. Tai chi is safe for all ages and fitness levels.

The centre is located at 4419 50th Ave. in Red Deer.

NEW LENDING CUPBOARD WEBSITE Central Albertans who want to borrow free medical equipment have a new online source of information. The Lending Cupboard of Red Deer has launched a new website and logo. People can learn about the range of equipment on loan, as well as stories of clients and volunteers. “At The Lending Cupboard, our goal is to provide fast, free access to medical equipment people need, and the website makes that process even more simple and efficient,” says Wendy Madden, executive director. The Lending Cupboard is a registered not-for-profit organization that provides medical equipment at no cost to people for as long as they need it. The inventory includes more than 7,000 items that can be borrowed by people recovering from illness, injury, or those in need of end-of-life care. See www. lendingcupboard.ca for more information.

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Construction projects on schedule

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s major summer work projects are mostly on time, despite a few bumps on the construction road.

Frank Colosimo, manger of the city’s Engineering Services Department, said the two-year project to improve Taylor Drive and its intersection at 49th Street is right on schedule.

“We seem to be on track with the timelines,” he said. “We had some great summer weather.

We’re still on target to get this roadway open for vehicle traffic in all directions for end of September.”

The second year of the twoyear, $20-million project will focus on realigning 48th Street (Alexander Way) to create an intersection with a pedestrian

Wild horse statues close to being finished

crossing connecting the downtown to the Riverlands.

The $36-million project designed to extend 30th Avenue by two km and 67th Street by one km, and the construction of a roundabout at the intersection of the two roads, took a slight budgetary hit.

The phased project received an additional $9-million infusion for the water and sewer part of the two-year project during the mid-year budget review.

Colosimo said they ran into some issues with pipe depth and poor soil. Designed to facilitate growth and development in the northeast, the project was divided into above ground and below surface work. The underground work involving installing sewer and water lines has been awarded to a contractor and will be built this fall.

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at 67th Street and 30th Avenue will happen next year.

The entire project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2015. It is funded in part by provincial and federal grants.

Tom Marstaller, environmental planning superintendent, said the 55th Street improvement project, which involves replacing the 60-year-old servicing and upgrading the sidewalks, creating new pathways and slight lane widening, is a couple of weeks behind schedule.

While 49th Avenue has opened to traffic, other parts of the project will take more time.

The stretch of 47A Avenue to 49th Avenue is scheduled to reopen on Sept. 8 and the stretch from 49th Avenue to 50th Avenue will open on Sept.

18. Marstaller said there were some weather delays and some unforeseen construction needs

that put them back a few weeks.

The city had hoped to have all the connecting roads open by Sept. 1.

“But obviously with some of the rain storms that we had and when you’re digging in the streets, you sometimes find things that you do not expect,” he said. “For example, sometimes a concrete duct bank is thicker than what you’re expecting or a pipe is not exactly where you thought it would be.”

Marstaller said the contractor has added extra crews and worked weekends to try to meet the deadline.

More work further east on 55th Street will happen on the $9.4 million project next year.

More information on the city’s construction projects is available at www.reddeer.ca/constructionseason. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Wild horses could not drag this exhibit away. Concrete is now setting on a pair of statues commemorating the herds of free-roaming horses that run west of Sundre and the community’s connection with them.

Plans are in place to put another horse on the site where the first two originally were to have been placed, said Jack Nichol, president of the Sundre & District Historical Society.

The committee looking after the project decided to change its location because the original site proved to be too windy, said Nichol.

The horses are on the site of the Sundre & District Pioneer Museum, located on the southern edge of the downtown business district.

The site is partially fenced and a number of murals are being placed on the fence behind the statues.

Created by Calgary artist Julian Lee, the statues came with a price tag of about $15,000.

Those costs increased with the decision to change locations and the historical society is still working on covering a shortfall, he said.

Donations brought in about $7,000, but have dried up lately and more money is need fulfil obligations.

Nichol said some people have been impressed by the Lee’s statues, his first attempt at horses.

However, others have been more critical, pointing to the types of horses depicted, and there have been some complaints that their manes are too sparse, he said.

Vice-president of the Wild Horses of Alberta Society, Nichol said he feels the statues are a fair depiction of the free-roaming horses running in the foothills west of Sundre.

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A bee flies in for a landing on a sunflower in the community gardens at Springbrook this week.

Red Deer hit a high temperature of 25C on Tuesday and 26 on Wednesday, which may turn out to be the most summerlike days this week. Today’s high is forecast to reach a high of 16C with rain.

Veteran memorial to be erected near Sylvan

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF An unusual new crop will spring from fence posts along a roadside near Sylvan Lake this fall — and people are being invited to provide seed money.

Veterans Voices of Canada, a Sylvan Lake-based non-profit organization formed eight years ago to preserve the stories of Canada’s war veterans, has been given permission to place a temporary memorial on the fenceline belonging to Blue Grass Sod Farms alongside Hwy 11, two km east of the Hwy 20 intersection.

In the last few weeks before Remembrance Day, Veterans Voices of Canada volunteers will place 115 Canadian flags on the fenceposts, with each flag to represent 1,000 of the Canadians killed in battle during the First World War. “It’s going to be really impressive,” said Veterans Voices

Canada founder Al Cameron, who hopes to find sponsors for all 115 of the flags for his Flags of Remembrance Tribute project, which was launched earlier this week.

Each of the flags will measure just under two metres wide and will include a small plaque, with the plaque and flag to be returned to the people who sponsored them after Nov. 11.

Sponsors will be asked to dedicate their flags to a veteran or fallen soldier of their choice, with that person’s name to be engraved on the plaque.

A large banner will inform passersby of the nature of the tribute.

Cameron said he has already received sponsorship for seven flags, being offered for a minimum donation of $200 apiece.

The money is being used as a fundraiser for his organization, which is dedicated to collecting and preserving the stories of Canada’s war veterans. Edited videos of Cameron’s interviews

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with Canadian veterans are provided to the former soldiers and their families, and are also made available to schools and historians.

Cameron said he has heard recently that too much money is being spent on preservation and commemoration, but he feels that his organization’s work provides a vital link in keeping the promises made to remember those whose lives were sacrificed.

Volunteers working with him will start erecting flags and plaques as donations come in, starting on Oct. 25.

Cameron said he hopes to find sponsors for all 115 flags. If they are not sold out, he will ensure that the full contingent is on display in time for Remembrance Day. The Flags of Remembrance Tribute will be limited to one location this year, said Cameron.

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BRIEFS Hockeyville ticket draws set; first goes on Saturday in Sylvan The first of three draws for tickets to the Kraft Hockeyville Arizona Coyotes and Calgary Flames pre-season game in Sylvan Lake on Sept. 24 takes place on Saturday.

Other draws are set for Sept. 6 and Sept. 7 at the Sylvan Lake Multiplex, where the big game will be played.

Sylvan Lake won the rights to the National Hockey League game and $100,000, which is going towards a new multiplex, when it came out on top in last hockey season’s Kraft Hockeyville contest.

Four days of celebrations are planned, beginning with a Kraft Hockeyville Fun Fair on Sept. 21, followed by sports days, community barbecues and other community events.

More details on these free non-ticketed events will be released in coming days.

Draws are open to residents of Sylvan Lake as determined with a T4S postal code who have reached the age of majority by Sept. 15.

Also eligible are people who live outside Sylvan Lake yet have one or more children registered in a Sylvan school or Sylvan-based sports program and have reached the age of majority.

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TRIBUTE: Spread across the country He hopes to see it spread across the country, starting in 2015, with at least one project in each province.

Cameron said he is especially grateful to the operators of Blue Grass Sod Farm for making their fenceposts available for the project.

Anyone who would like to get involved is invited to call Cameron at 403-358-6313 or volunteer Darryn Blondheim at 403-505-9281. Computer users can visit www.vetvoicecan.org for details. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Spray park, outdoor pool close for season Blue Grass Sod Farms Central Spray and Play and the Recreation Centre’s outdoor pool are preparing to close.

The last full day of operations for both outdoor facilities is on Sept. 1.

Every year, the outdoor facilities close following the September long weekend.

More information about fall programs and indoor swimming lessons can be found in the Fall 2014 Activity Guide or by visiting www.reddeer.ca/looknbook.

For more information about the Recreation Centre and schedule times, visit www.reddeer.ca/reccentre.

new facility. Architects will be paid a percentage fee of 7.9 per cent on an estimated budget of $7.2 million.

The next step is to finalize an agreement and begin the design process. A concept plan is expected to be approved next month, followed by harder numbers on construction costs.

If all goes to schedule, construction is expected to begin next summer with the building ready for use in September 2016.

Lacombe’s 15-member police force and five support staff have been looking for more space for some time. Its current station was built in 1960 and undergone two additions and a renovation.

The force has outgrown the building, which has only 6,600 square feet of office and storage space.

The proposed station will be around 15,500 square feet and will be located on the east side of Hwy 2A. It is to include a much-improved cell block with six cells, six bays for vehicles, better evidence storage and office space and an indoor gun range.

What’s Remarkable About Red Deer?

Lacombe police station on track Lacombe Police Service’s new station project is right on track.

City council approved on Monday hiring Edmonton’s Stephens Kozak ACI Architects and Planners Inc. to serve as project and design architect on the few foals born this year, said Nichol.

He says the Pioneer Museum is still seeking donations to help cover costs of the statue project and the murals and fences that go with it. Museum staff will also accept donations for WHOAS. That organization has been meeting with people from the provincial government to discuss the fate of free-roaming horses in the foothills and front ranges.

An agreement is being developed to ensure the preservation of those herds, said Nichol. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Each eligible entrant can submit one ballot in the box marked for residents or supporters, not both.

There are 600 tickets available.

Ballots can be dropped off on Aug. 30 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Sept. 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sept. 7 noon to 4 p.m.

The official draw will take place at the Multiplex from 5 to 7 p.m. on Sept. 10.

For the official draw rules, visit the Sylvan Lake Hockeyville Facebook page.

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Welcome to the driver’s seat

Cruze is cruising up the best seller charts Our neighbours to the south may still be suspicious of smaller vehicles but they are more than welcome on driveways north of the border.

In the top 20 best sellers, 15 are compact or subcompacts and the remaining five are by no means gas-guzzlers.

The Honda Civic is the perennial top seller, and according to the latest figures available, the Hyundai Elantra and the Toyota Corolla follow it. The Chevrolet Cruze, currently with a starting sticker price of a few bucks more than $15,200, sits in a solid fourth place and it’s a ray of light

Big new bike weighs in light AUSTIN, TX. – I can’t think of a better time to learn how to ride or a harder time to ride.

These juxtaposing thoughts can be explained thusly. There are so many great choices for new riders when it comes to machinery it’s hard to make a decision on what to add to your garage.

But the variety also means there are bikes to suit all.

Those wanting to get on sportbikes don’t need to start on a 250 or 300 cc, let alone a 600 cc variant. You can get a 125 cc. Or when it comes to cruisers, you don’t have to start on a machine that might be a little on the heavy side. You can get a competent road partner, which looks cool

and doesn’t weigh south of 250 kilos.

Enter the 2015 Harley-Davidson Street 750. 222 kilos, soaking wet.

Hitting streets later this year, it’s the first new bike the American motorcycle maker has concocted from scratch in the last 11 years. The last all-new bike was the V-Rod. And with a blank canvas, Harley could start from the ground up, listen to the voices of the customer and translate that into a cruiser that is tailored to urban riding.

On the streets of Austin, Texas, a group of international media had the opportunity to take the new machinery for a test drive. While the

for General Motors.

It recorded a five percent year-over-year sales increase in the first quarter reports. Its 2014 March sales were a fraction under 50 percent better than last year. In fact, it’s the brand’s bestseller with worldwide sales in excess of two million since its launch.

Much has been written about the Ford revival and its excellent world car products – most of which fall into the small car category. GM does have competing products in what’s become a crowded market. The sub-compact Sonic is in the top 20 but nothing has caught fire in the way the Cruze has.

It first surfaced here in late 2010 as a globally developed and designed compact four-door sedan and five-door hatchback, replacing the outgoing Cobalt. When I drove one of the early editions, I was impressed with its design and performance, which matched any rival. It’s a car for a small family starting out or singles with a daily commute on their hands. However, I feared the Cruze would suffer from the apparent prejudice against domestically produced small cars but its sales prove me to be a pessimist!

It may be a young’un but it’s already undergone some significant changes and engine improvements. Perhaps most significant among them was the introduction of a clean diesel version (pictured here) with a sticker price of majority of the route takes us on long, sweeping stretches of country roads, the Street 750 really shines in slow speed environments.

Why does it thrive in an urban setting? – For many reasons, the first being that Harley wanted to create a bike for the city rider. A bike that has a low-revving yet silky smooth engine and transmission, a low seat height, a favourable suspension – for all the potholes and road imperfections one might encounter –and is a bike on which variety of riders can feel comfortable.

Let’s start with its all-new engine. The Street 750 is matched with a liquid-cooled – yes, liquid! - 749 cc, 60-degree, which gives ample acceleration when you need it, particularly when you’re accelerating from a standstill.

Not only that, it doesn’t spew unwanted heat towards the rider when they’re idling. And if you’re like me, and wear full gear even on hot, summer days, you’re incredibly grateful for that.

Furthermore, it’s paired to a 6-speed transmission. Normally, stop-go traffic on a Harley would be a pain. However, it wasn’t with the 750. It’s the easiest and lightest clutch I’ve worked with on any of the American motorcycle

around $26,000.

It’s not inexpensive but Canadians like the 4.2 L/100 km highway fuel consumption offered by the 2-litre, turbocharged diesel powerplant.

I feared the Cruze The base Cruze would suffer from the LS is also easy on apparent prejudice your gas budget.

Its standard against domestically 6-speed manual produced small cars transmission, but its sales prove me coupled with a 1.4-litre powerplant, to be a pessimist. promises a highway Keith Morgan fuel consumption rating of 5.4 L/100 km – the auto tranny makes that 5.6 L/100 km. The Cruze Eco’s 1.4L turbocharged ECOTEC engine, generates 138 horses and sips 4.6 L/100 km on the highway.

It looks good today but in 2015, the Cruze gets a significant visual refresh with an updated grille and body shape that will give it more than a passing resemblance to its larger sibling Malibu.

We’re told it will get significant tech changes, including an infotainment system with a driver alert text system that can be read through smart phones and over Bluetooth, plus additional USB ports, and a 4G LTE connection enabling it to function as a WiFi hot spot. The Chevrolet AppShop will allow owners to download all available apps directly to the vehicle, offering access to vehicle data, music, news, weather and travel information. No prices yet.

Worth a serious look by import car fans.

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manufacturer’s bikes.

Speaking of low seat height, it measures in at 709mm (27.9-inches.)

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The Harley 750 doesn’t carry some of the bulk people might associate with the brand. It’s like losing all the weight you put on during the Christmas holiday!

The Harley 750 doesn’t carry some of the bulk people might associate with the brand.

It’s like losing all the weight you put on during the Alexandra Straub Christmas holiday!

It just feels good.

When it comes to the 750’s suspension, it’s not jarring and pleasantly soft. Not so soft, that it puts you to sleep, but a good balance of urban comfort mixed with open road riding pleasure.

Up front, the 37mm telescopic forks and rear twin tubular externally mounted shocks absorb the bumps in the road and leave the rider feeling fine. However, after a day of logging over 200 kilometres, the rear end does feel a little sleepy!

General ergonomics are good, though I would have brought the handlebars a little closer to my body. They’re not a stretch for me, but something that would have made the ride more comfortable.

I also would have liked a little more “grab” in the front and rear brakes. It seemed like I really had to bite hard into the front brake to get it to slow down. The logic behind that is that new riders are less likely to get in trouble in an event where they are nervous and get a little jumpy.

Lastly, fit and finish of the bike could have been neater. Wires were exposed, and it took away from the overall aesthetic. That said the bike does have character to it.

The 2015 Street 750 from Harley-Davidson has many good things going for it. And with it tipping the scale at just 222 kg (489 lbs.) – in running order – looks like Christmas comes early.

Pricing will be announced closer to the release date.

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Nearly New: Ford Escape has full package “

The Escape’s reliability is generally rated average to better than average and repair costs are generally lower-thanaverage.

2012 model was the final year of this generation Ford Escape.

The Escape’s reliability is generally rated average to better than average and repair costs are generally lower-thanaverage, according to Consumer Reports.

The Hybrid edition typically rates a little better. Resale prices are reasonable and there’s typically a good supply of used Ford Escape models out there. You can expect to pay an additional $2,000 to $4,000 for a Hybrid model.

A complete mechanical check should always be performed by a reliable auto technician prior to purchase.

Safety Recalls: 2008 to 2012 Ford Escape: 2008/2009/2010/2011/2012: A fault in the Electric Power Steering (EPS) system could result in a sudden loss of power steering assist, without warning to the driver. This would significantly increase the effort required by a driver to steer at lower vehicle speeds. Dealers will affect repairs as necessary and reprogram the EPS controller with updated software.

2010: The automatic transmission’s park rod guide retention pin may not have been properly installed. This may prevent the transmission park pawl from engaging when shifted into “PARK” and allow vehicle movement. Dealers will inspect and, if necessary, install the missing park rod guide retention pin.

Price Check: 2008 - 2012 Ford Escape (June 2014) Year Edition Expect to Pay Today 2008 XLT 4X4 $10,000 to $13,000 2009 XLT 4X4 $12,000 to $15,000 Bob McHugh 2010 XLT 4X4 $14,000 to $17,000 The Ford Escape is a founder 2011 XLT 4X4 $16,000 to $19,000 member and a top-seller in the 2012 XLT 4X4 $19,000 to $23,000 hot-selling compact utility club.

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Minimum wage rise won’t have big impact STRONG LABOUR MARKET IN RED DEER MEANS NOT MANY ARE OFFERED MINIMUM WAGE

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s strong labour market means the impending increase to the minimum wage will have limited impact, according to the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce.

But unionized workers are on average ahead of non-unionized workers in Red Deer, earning $6-plus more an hour ,according to research done by the Canadian Labour Congress.

Reg Warkentin, Red Deer Chamber policy co-ordinator, said Red Deer has a strong labour market, meaning not many employers offer minimum wage

because they need to attract workers.

The increase in the minimum wage is “not going to have too big of an impact because so many businesses here are facing such a competitive environment for finding workers there aren’t many paying minimum wage,” said Warkentin. “It will have an impact to some businesses’ bottom line, but not a very large impact.”

Employees working at minimum wage can expect a slight increase to their wages. The Alberta minimum wage will rise by 35 cents and will no longer be the lowest in the country.

As of Sept. 1, the minimum wage will be $10.20 an hour. Alberta’s minimum wage was the last in Canada to be

less than $10 an hour.

Liquor servers will also see an increase of 15 cents to $9.20 an hour as their new minimum wage.

A survey done by the Canadian Labour Congress indicates that being in a union has benefits for workers.

According to research by the CLC, the average unionized worker in Red Deer makes $6.04 an hour more than non-union workers.

CLC president Hassan Yussuff said the extra money a unionized Red Deer worker makes “translates to an extra $2.4 million every week paid into the local community.”

The survey done by the CLC looked at wages in 76 Canadian metropolitan

and other census areas. Across Alberta, unionized workers earn an average of $4.75 an hour more than non-unionized workers.

The study also indicated that unionized female workers earn $7.80 an hour more than non-unionized women and people between the ages of 15 and 29 earn $5.35 more an hour if they belong to a union.

July’s employment numbers from Statistics Canada show that Red Deer’s unemployment rate is 2.8 per cent, well below the 4.4 per cent average across the province and significantly lower than the national unemployment rate of seven per cent. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS New restaurant set to open in October A lengthy process to get a new restaurant near the Comfort Inn and Suites in north Red Deer is coming close to being completed.

Brad’s pit smokehouse and sports bar is tentatively scheduled to open in October of this year, according to the businesses Facebook page.

The application for the restaurant at 6852 66th St. dates back to 2008, when developer Bradley Gabrielson originally submitted his application.

Twice the application was tabled by the Municipal Planning Committee, according to the MPC was because of traffic concerns and a lack of detailed drawings.

However, last February the application to build the sports bar was approved.

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Canada Post vehicles sit idle outside a sorting depot in the borough of Ville St. Laurent in Montreal.

Canada Post earns profit in Q2

MPC approves two hotels for Oriole Park A Red Deer-first design of two hotel options at the same location is coming to Oriole Park.

The Municipal Planning Commission approved Zainul & Shazma Holdings Ltd.’s development permit application to build a five-storey Holiday Inn Express and a Staybridge Suites side by side at 6329 and 6433 Orr Drive.

The two hotels will share a reception area, swimming pool, fitness centre and guest laundry.

The Holiday Inn Express will offer 79 suites while the Staybridge Suites will have 77 suites.

The site is undeveloped and close to other hotels and restaurants.

The neighbourhood also consists of industrial development to the east and residential development to the south.

The development features an outdoor terrace at the rear, including a fire pit and a basketball court.

Both hotels are brands of the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG).

GETS BOOST FROM PARCELS AND LOWER PENSION COSTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canada Post Group of Companies reported Wednesday a net profit of $67 million in the second quarter, boosted by growth in its parcel delivery business and lower pension costs.

The result was up from a loss of $50 million in the same period a year ago.

Revenue for the group, which includes the postal service, the Purolator courier service and other businesses, totalled $2.007 billion for the 13 weeks ended June 28, up from $1.862 billion a year ago.

The results came as the Canada Post division, the group’s largest division, earned $42 million in the second quarter, compared with a loss of $71 million in the same period a year earlier.

The traditional post office segment saw its revenue from operations climb 10 per cent to $1.56 billion, up from $1.35 billion in the comparable period of 2013, helped by higher stamp prices,

provincial elections in Ontario and Quebec and increased parcel shipments.

Transactional mail revenue was $823 million, up from $732 million a year ago, even as the volume of mail slipped 2.3 per cent.

Parcel revenue increased by 11.3 per cent to $353 million in the second quarter compared with $322 million a year ago.

Direct marketing revenue slipped to $308 million from $310 million, while other revenue totalled $75 million, up from $71 million in the same quarter last year.

Also helping boost the results was a $58-million reduction in employee benefit costs due to strong pension fund investment returns and an increase in interest rates used to calculate pension costs.

However, the company warned that future employee benefit costs, including pensions, continue to be “high volatile and unpredictable.”

Meanwhile, Purolator earned $20 million for the quarter on revenue

from operations of $427 million, up from a profit of $18 million on $412 million in revenue in the same quarter last year.

Canada Post’s logistics business, which includes SCI Group, earned $3 million on $52 million in revenue from operations, up from $2 million on $43 million in revenue a year ago.

The Crown corporation announced a plan late last year to phase out home delivery within five years and raise stamp prices.

It also said it would look to eliminate 6,000 to 8,000 positions over the same time period, mainly through attrition.

Canada Post said it continues to stay on course with its plan to cut down operating costs.

In February, it installed community mailboxes for 100,000 addresses in 11 communities across Canada.

A total of 1.17 million conversions will be completed by 2015.

It also raised prices for letter mail to better reflect inflation and operating costs.

GM moving new Cadillac SUV production to U.S.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPRING HILL, Tenn. — General Motors announced Wednesday that it is moving production of its next-generation Cadillac SRX crossover SUV from Mexico to its plant in Tennessee, leading United Auto Workers leaders to chide Tennessee Republicans for their opposition to the union increasing its influence in the state.

The UAW has represented workers at the former Saturn plant since it opened on the outskirts of Nashville in 1990, but state Republicans including Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker have fought the union’s efforts to gain representation of workers at Volkswagen’s plant about 100 miles to the east in Chattanooga.

Haslam and Corker have argued that the UAW getting foothold with its first foreign automaker in the South would hurt the region’s ability to attract new investment from automotive manufacturers and suppliers, and decrease competitiveness because of higher wages and a confrontational working environment.

UAW President Dennis Williams said in an email to supporters that Wednesday’s announcement of the new model and production of small gasoline engines in Spring Hill flies in the face of what he called “union-busting politicians” who claim collective bargaining hurts productivity.

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hard to make sure GM brings jobs back from Mexico and continues expanding here at home,” Williams said.

UAW officials at the Spring Hill announcement repeatedly cited an atmosphere of “collaboration” with management and collective bargaining agreements in gaining the new production at the plant that was idled as recently as 2011.

“It’s time for that pitting-us-againstthem mentality to go away,” said union Vice-President Cindy Estrada.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Haslam were diplomatic about the UAW’s role at the plant on Wednesday.

Corker did not attend Wednesday’s event after being heartily booed by plant workers during a visit in 2011.

“We have a history of working with companies that are unionized as well as those that aren’t,” Haslam said after the event.

Workers at the Volkswagen plant narrowly rejected the union in an election earlier this year, but the UAW has said it expects VW to recognize the union without another vote once it gets enough workers to sign membership cards.

The General Motors additions will bring more jobs to Spring Hill, but a GM spokesman wouldn’t give specifics on how many would be added to the sprawling former Saturn facility.

All the company would say was that the SRX and a yet-to-be identified second midsize vehicle would “create or retain” about 1,800 jobs, while a $185 million investment in the Spring Hill engine factory would retain 390 jobs.

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A 2014 Cadillac SRX crossover SUV. The complex now employs just over 2,300 workers, including hourly and salaried employees and those who work for parts supply companies.

Last year GM announced plans to invest $350 million in the Tennessee assembly plant to build two future midsize vehicles. The plant already builds several small gasoline engines plus the Chevrolet Equinox midsize SUV. GM also announced Wednesday that it would invest just under $50 million at its Bedford, Indiana, engine block casting plant, keeping 45 jobs.

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The new GMC likely would be produced on the same underpinnings as the Cadillac SUV, which likely will be redesigned for the 2016 model year.

It’s possible that Chevy Equinox production at Spring Hill could go away in favour of the two new vehicles.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market chalked up a minor loss Wednesday as traders continued to digest earnings reports from the Canadian banking sector, in this case a solid report from National Bank (TSX:NA).

The S&P/TSX composite index gave back 16.56 points to 15,602.65.

The Canadian dollar surged 0.81 of a cent to 92.12 cents US as the currency benefited from a major deal that will see American fast food giant Burger King buy Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons for $12.5 billion.

Traders also anticipated a strong economic growth update Friday when Statistics Canada releases the June reading on gross domestic product.

U.S. indexes were mixed amid a glum economic outlook.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office says the American economy will grow by just 1.5 per cent this year, hurt by a poor first-quarter performance.

But the CBO also says the U.S. economy should grow by 3.4 per cent over 2015 and 2016, and predicts that the unemployment rate in that country will remain below six per cent into the future.

The Dow Jones industrials was up 15.31 points to 17,122.01, the Nasdaq edged 1.02 points lower to 4,569.62 and the S&P 500 index added 0.1 of a point to 2,000.12.

National Bank posted net earnings of $441 million, up 10 per cent from a year ago. Adjusted earnings came in at $1.20 a share, nine cents ahead of estimates.

Total revenues for the country’s sixth largest-lender rose 10 per cent to $1.42 billion and its shares gained $1.51 or 3.06 per cent to $50.91, six cents short of the all time high it hit during the session.

National Bank’s earnings followed reports from Royal Bank

IN BRIEF

Shell Canada using ‘warehouse’ approach to drive down oilsands costs CALGARY — Shell Canada Ltd., in an effort to cut costs and boost efficiency at its oilsands operations, has found inspiration in an unlikely place: online retailer Amazon.

The company recently adopted a “warehousing” approach to how it manages its tools and equipment, president Lorraine Mitchelmore told reporters Wednesday.

That way, workers don’t waste their time hunting down a piece of pipe and trucks don’t sit idle while mechanics wait on a certain part.

Right now, Shell has the ability to track down 76 per cent of its inventory and hopes to increase that to 96 per cent over the next few years.

“That’s equivalent to Amazon,” said Mitchelmore.

“It’s nothing to do with oil and gas. It’s to do with inventory management. So that’s the kind of thinking we’re bringing to the organization to really try to drive efficiencies and productivity.”

Earlier this year, Shell leased warehouse space in Edmonton, which Mitchelmore says is rapidly becoming a “centre of excellence” for the industry. Shell also has a module yard in Edmonton where it builds components of its oilsands plants.

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.66 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.14 First Quantum Minerals . 24.98 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 29.87 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.21 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.26 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.95 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.26 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.25 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.08 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 31.35 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 30.05 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 69.45 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.50 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 64.59 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 46.76 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.15 Canyon Services Group. 16.66 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 34.08 CWC Well Services . . . 0.9400 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 24.86 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.71 (TSX:RY), which on Friday posted a record quarterly profit that beat expectations and a dividend increase. Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) and Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) reported mixed results Tuesday with expectations elevated for a sector that is up 12 per cent year to date.

The TSX financial sector was ahead 0.36 per cent ahead of earnings coming out Thursday from CIBC (TSX:CM) and TD Bank (TSX:TD).

Elsewhere on the TSX, the gold sector was down about one per cent while December bullion declined $1.80 to US$1,283.40 an ounce.

The base metals sector was down 0.8 per cent as December copper was down one cent at US$3.20 a pound.

The energy sector shed 0.21 per cent while October crude in New York inched up two cents at US$93.88 a barrel.

In other corporate news, uranium miner Cameco (TSX:CCO) said Wednesday it’s preparing to stop work at its McArthur River mine and Key Lake mill operations in northern Saskatchewan due to a labour dispute. It said the company and the roughly 535 unionized workers represented by the United Steelworkers are set to begin a strike-lockout at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 30.

Cameco said a labour disruption is not expected to affect its 2014 uranium delivery commitments. Its shares fell 77 cents to $21.14.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,602.65, down 16.56 points Dow — 17,122.01, up 15.31 points S&P 500 — 2,000.12, up 0.10 of a point Nasdaq — 4,569.62, down 1.02 points

National Bank works on attracting wealthy clients

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ings per share were $1.20 for the quarter, easily beating analyst expectations of $1.11, according to estimates comMONTREAL — National Bank, the piled by Thomson Reuters.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Nacountry’s sixth-largest lender, sees an opportunity to grow by attracting more tional Bank (TSX:NA) shares gained wealthy Canadians to its credit card $1.51 or 3.06 per cent to $50.91, six cents short of the all-time high it hit earlier business.

“Our focus has not been on small- in the session.

Total revenues were $1.42 billion, er, less wealthy holders of cards that up from $1.29 billion will increase their credit the same period card balance,” president ‘OUR FOCUS HAS in last year. The bank’s and CEO Louis Vachon wealth management said Wednesday during a NOT BEEN ON segment had net inconference all with anaSMALLER, LESS come totalling $64 millysts.

“All our focus, most WEALTHY HOLDERS lion in the quarter, a 31 per cent increase of our focus, has been OF CARDS THAT from $49 million in the on premium, platinum same quarter of 2013.

WILL INCREASE and World Elite cards so Net income for the we’re very happy to see THEIR CREDIT CARD bank’s financial marthat paying off.”

BALANCE.’ kets segment was $187 Credit card revenues million, up 21 per cent increased by $17 mil— LOUIS VACHON from $155 million yearlion, or six per cent, in CEO NATIONAL BANK over-year. the bank’s latest quarter, Barclays analyst helped by growing profits John Aiken called the from interest income, foreign exchange revenues, interchange results a “standout quarter” for National Bank, which saw trading up 25 revenues and annual fees revenue.

Vachon credits the boost to a num- per cent and advisory fees climb by 36 ber of marketing campaigns National per cent compared with a year ago.

“Once again, National reported a Bank has been running as part of an effort to lure non-clients and those very strong quarter, coming in meanfrom its wealth management division. ingfully ahead of expectations,” he Among the lures is an exclusive lounge wrote. “While the market does not typat Montreal’ Dorval airport open to ically give NA credit for its consistent those who hold National Bank Master- outperformance in trading revenues or advisory fees, this quarter also feacard Elite cards.

“We’ve not invested a lot in upscale tured strong earnings within its retail marketing for platinum and world elite banking operations, evidenced by relatypes,” he said. “So I’m very happy to tively strong sequential loan and revsee increased income because we saw enue growth and impressive operating the increased expense for that lounge leverage.”

Return on equity for the quarter for the last 12 months.”

The Montreal-based bank reported was 19.4 per cent compared with 20.1 Wednesday that its net profits grew per cent year-over-year. by 10 per cent in the third quarter, helped by growth in its wealth management and financial markets services.

National Bank said it had net income of $441 million, up from $402 million in the same period a year earlier. The earnings amounted to $1.24 “Your Total Home Comfort Specialists” per diluted share versus $1.16 year-over-year.

Excluding specific items, National Bank had an adjusted net income of $427 million, up 14 per cent from $374 million in the third quarter of 2013.

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Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.12 cents US, up 0.81 of a cent Pound — C$1.7991, down 1.30 cents Euro — C$1.4323, down 1.01 cents Euro — US$1.3195, up 0.25 of a cent Oil futures: US$93.88 per barrel, up two cents (October contract) Gold futures: US$1,283.40 per oz., down $1.80 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.998 oz., down 17.9 cents $707.24 kg., down $5.75 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $1.50 lower $421.90; Jan ’15 $1,40 lower $427.50; March ’15 $1.30 lower $432.40; May ’15 $1.30 lower $433.90; July ’15 $0.70 lower $434.10; Nov ’15 $0.70 higher $432.70; Jan. ’16 $0.70 higher $438.60; March ’16 $0.70 higher $442.40; May ’16 $0.70 higher $442.40; July ’16 $0.70 higher $442.40; Nov. ’16 $0.70 higher $442.40.

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

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Canadian Western Bank posts record quarterly earnings of $56.6M EDMONTON — Canadian Western Bank (TSX:CWB) has reported record quarterly earnings in the third quarter amid an 11 per cent increase in total revenue.

Canadian Western, which offers a full range of business and personal banking services in Canada’s four western provinces, reported after markets closed Wednesday that net income available to common shareholders was $56.6 million or 70 cents per diluted share, from up from $47.5 million or 60 cents per share in the comparable prior-year period.

Adjusted cash earnings increased 16 per cent to 71 cents per share from 61 cents. Total revenue on a tax equivalent basis was $159.8 million, up from $144 million, reflecting the positive impact of strong 12 per cent loan growth and a 22 per cent increase in non-interest income, which more than offset a 12 basis point decline in net interest margin to 2.58 per cent.

“Record earnings this quarter were driven by solid results across our banking, trust, insurance and wealth management businesses, as well as the impact of last quarter’s preferred share transactions,” Chris Fowler, CWB group president and chief executive said in a statement accompanying the earnings.

Canadian dollar up, currency benefits from Burger King’s Tim Hortons acquisition TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed sharply higher Wednesday, benefiting from a major deal that will see American fast food giant Burger King buy Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons for $12.5 billion.

The loonie rose 0.81 of a cent to 91.12 cents US. The cash and stock deal will see the parent of the U.S. firm, 3G Capital, own 51 per cent of a new company which will be the world’s third-largest quick service restaurant company.

The loonie has been pushed higher in the past by big corporate deals.

That’s because a foreign buyer acquiring a Canadian company will need Canadian currency to close the deal, boosting demand for the loonie on financial markets. Traders also anticipated a strong economic growth update Friday when Statistics Canada releases the June reading on gross domestic product. Economists expect

that GDP grew by 0.2 per cent in June, which would translate into annualized growth of 2.6 per cent.

And next Wednesday, the Bank of Canada releases its next decision on interest rates. On the commodity markets, October crude in New York inched up two cents to US$93.88 a barrel. December copper was down one cent to US$3.20 a pound, while December gold bullion faded $1.80 to US$1,283.40 an ounce.

Cameco set for work stoppage at McArthur River mine and Key Lake mill SASKATOON — Cameco (TSX:CCO) said Wednesday it’s preparing to stop work at its McArthur River mine and Key Lake mill operations in northern Saskatchewan due to a labour dispute.

The uranium miner said the company and the roughly 535 unionized workers represented by the United Steelworkers are set to begin a strikelockout at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 30.

Cameco said it is continuing to meet with the union ahead of the deadline.

The workers at the operations have been without a contract since Dec. 31, 2013.The company and union jointly applied for conciliation under the Canada Labour Code in July. Cameco said a labour disruption is not expected to affect its 2014 uranium delivery commitments.

Scotiabank’s Commodity Index heads down in July partly due to oil prices TORONTO — Scotiabank’s commodity price index edged down by 0.3 per cent on a month-over-month basis in July due to lower oil prices as supply concerns about Libya and Iraq eased.

The oil and gas sub-index was down 3.9 per cent month-over-month in July.

However, Scotiabank commodity market specialist Patricia Mohr says while traders have bid down near-term oil prices, current geopolitical developments will reduce supply over the long term.

Mohr noted that the December 2019 oil futures contract is up US$12.53 per barrel since early January when it was about US$85. Meanwhile, Scotiabank said its metal and mineral sub index rallied 3.5 per cent in July as base metal prices jumped higher, helped by better than expected economic results in China. Zinc prices climbed to almost US$1.05 per pound from 96 cents in June.

“Commodity funds and investors have bid up zinc prices, anticipating tightening supplies over the next three, four years — with mine supplies not keeping pace with demand growth.

In our view, zinc prices will climb to US$1.25 in 2015 and a very lucrative US$1.60-1.70 in 2016,” Mohr wrote.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

U.S. economy hurt by poor Q1

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday forecast that the U.S. economy will grow by just 1.5 per cent in 2014, undermined by a poor performance during the first three months of the year.

The new assessment was considerably more pessimistic than the Obama administration’s, which predicted last month that the economy would expand by 2.6 per cent this year even though it contracted by an annual rate of 2.1 per cent in the first quarter.

The economy did grow by 0.9 per cent during the first half of 2014.

Looking ahead, the CBO said it expected the economy to grow by 3.4 per cent over 2015 and 2016, and predicted that the unemployment rate would remain below 6 per cent into the future.

The economy went into reverse at the beginning of this year, reeling from an unusually harsh winter that disrupted consumer spending, factory production and other business activity.

Growth in the gross domestic product, the economy’s total output of goods and services, recovered in the second quarter, advancing at an annual rate of 4 per cent, according to the government’s first estimate.

That forecast will be revised on Thursday.

Even with the rebound, economists have lowered their outlook for the entire year, given the weak start.

Economists at JPMorgan Chase are forecasting that the economy will grow by 1.9 per cent this year, when measured from the fourth quarter, down from 3.1 per cent in 2013.

The CBO also projected that the government would run a deficit of $506 billion for the budget year that ends Sept. 30.

That would be the lowest level of Barack Obama’s presidency.

When the deficit is measured against the size of the economy, the comparison used most by analysts, it is within historic levels at 2.9 per cent of GDP. Last year’s deficit was $680 billion.

The deficit spiked at $1.4 trillion in Obama’s first year in office and remained above $1 trillion for his entire first term.

The CBO foresees a slight increase from its earlier $492 billion projection of this year’s deficit in part because of a decline in expected corporate tax receipts.

But it see modest improvement over the coming decade compared with earlier forecasts, in large part because it predicts lower-than-expected interest payments on the national debt.

Obama inherited a recession and a trillion-dollar-plus deficit picture when he took office in the aftermath of the 2008 fiscal crisis.

The economy has recovered more slowly than hoped; some of the recent drop in the jobless rate is due to frustrated job-seekers leaving the labour market.

“There is no question we have made progress — businesses have added 9.9 million jobs over 53 straight months of job growth,” said Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

“But there is more we need to do.”

The report confirms a trend of short-term improvement in the deficit but an unsustainable long-term fiscal path if Washington doesn’t cut spending or raise additional revenue.

Over the long term, the CBO said “the large and increasing amount of federal debt would have serious negative consequences” including the risk of a crisis that could raise interest rates.

All told, the CBO predicted that the government would add $7.2 trillion to the national debt over the coming decade, bringing the total debt to $26.6 trillion by 2024.

The latest numbers come as the GOP-controlled House and Obama are taking a break from the budget, debt and tax battles that have flared up several times since Republicans won back the House in 2010.

One of the biggest unresolved issue facing lawmakers when they return to Washington next month is the fate of dozens of popular expired tax breaks for businesses and individuals.

Those breaks, if renewed, could add almost $140 billion to next year’s deficit.

Obama did not see attacking the deficit as a priority during his first term. Republicans forced him to the negotiating table in 2011 and extracted more than $2 trillion in spending cuts over the following decade Though little of that savings came from big benefit programs such as Medicare.

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Time for studies is over SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THREATENED STATUS OF NATIVE FISH For several days, the old hunter in me was smelling gunpowder in the air, then the first frost warning of the fall for Aug. 23 verified that it all wasn’t just self-delusion.

Face it — summer’s gone.

It took forever to get here and was intense for a while, but it’s vamoosing in a hurry.

Outdoors people are starting to move into their fall-winter modes that are a little angriBOB er than usual.

SCAMMELL Opposition is mounting to a proposed gravel pit operation at the headwaters of the North Raven River, Alberta’s top trout stream, and some opponents are suggesting there may be too close a connection between the proponents and their supposedly independent consultants.

The Draft Fish Stocking Policy for Alberta and lack of progress on shortening and simplifying the regulations have really struck a nerve. Anger and frustration oozes from the measured tones of Dr. Darryl Smith, Fish Committee chairman of the Alberta Fish and Game Association in his report to the executive at their Aug. 15 meeting at Narrow Lake: “… Drafts, discussions and presentations at this stage continue to reflect a narrow internal ideology that is not reflective of stakeholders’ concerns.” “ … Water withdrawals for fracking on the east slopes is essentially a free for all. …”

There is widespread sense from anglers and conservationists that they have had all they are going to take in terms of blame and constant calls for more studies on what to do about the threatened status in Alberta of the bull trout, our provincial fish, and the west slope cutthroat trout, both native fish.

Neither the government nor the resource extraction industries want to accept that it has long been established that the perilous plight of both species is caused by the environmental destruction our government allows the big oil and gas, mining and forestry to get away with.

What they want is more time to destroy more, so they call for more studies.

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But now the AFGA and other angler conservationists are saying flatly that the time for studies is over and the time for remedial action is on. Maybe the feds will have to step in here to get something done to save these fish species, just as they have with our all-butextinct sage grouse.

Readers have been weighing in on the last effective Alberta fish stocking efforts. The Ram Rivers, which were stocked with west slope cutthroats in the late 1950s, have been fishing so well that every angler in Alberta seems to be there, including too many tearing up the terrain down in the canyons where formerly only hiking and climbing anglers went.

Friend Ken Short reports that a little bit of me was out on the Rams this summer when spouse Denise hooked a cutt large and heavy enough to escape by straightening the hook on one of my LeTort Hoppers with the red rubber “kickers.”

Then, from 350 km away, I participated in daughter-in-law, Darlene, taking her first trout, a rainbow (stocked in the 1930s) in Pincher Creek on one of my Short Black Boogers.

A few days earlier, son John hooked and lost a descendent of “Mulroney,” a huge, hook- jawed brown trout that hangs out in a big backwater in Prairie Creek. (I named the fish when I caught him twice in one day during a brown drake hatch years ago.) “He took my last Short Black Booger,” John moaned.

So I astonished myself by tying my first fly in five years, a Short Black Booger, as a demo for John. My hands and fingers are still strong enough, but bad vision in one eye makes it “interesting.” Then John tied a nice one while I watched. Now he has my tools, materials and instructions to tie my patterns that money can’t buy.

In May 1969, with my former brother-in-law, the late Morgan Johnson, I fished Cottonwood Creek where it flowed through the Hawk’s Nest ranch property of author Andy Russell. We were after the brown trout fish and wildlife was dribbing and drabbing into the tiny, brush-choked creek, leftovers from the thousands planted below Lundbreck Falls on the Crowsnest to make up for loss of native trout and planted rainbows to pollution and habitat destruction. Ironically, we caught nothing in Cottonwood but a small, gorgeous, west slope cutthroat each.

Cottonwood Creek empties into the Waterton River and, over the ensuing years have come stories of increasing numbers of very large brown trout

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Above: Denise Short in a Ram canyon with a fine cutthroat that didn’t get away.

Below: Alberta Environment-Sustainable Resource Development Minister Robin Campbell with a hook-jawed “Mulroney” from Obed Lake.

in the Waterton, which was formerly rainbows only, including the Alberta record 21-pound-14-ounce brown taken in 2010. This short summer there has been a great picture whirling around in cyberspace of a golden, chunky Waterton brown said to be only 28 inches long, but estimated to weigh 12 pounds.

We need more such fish stocking

and habitat initiative, imagination, action out there on the ground and in the water and fewer hours spent inside, interminably debating policies that never seem to amount to anything but calls for more research.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Naturescaping to attract creatures Naturescaping is about creating a garden or ecosystem that resembles the local wild areas. It is a garden that encourages wild creatures as opposed to eliminating them. The landscape can be any size: a park, playground or a backyard.

When making a list of creatures to attract, keep the neighbours in mind. Most neighbours are happy to have native birds, butterflies LINDA and moths fly TOMLINSON through their yard. Squirrels and bees may or may not be welcome. Moose and deer can be delightful to watch, but they can be very destructive in urban and rural areas. They tend to walk wherever and eat what is familiar. This

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could be the plants that people have been tending for months or, in the case of trees and shrubs, years.

Once the creature list has been established, do some research to find specifics for those creatures’ necessities of life: space, shelter, food and water. Manipulating these necessities can make a difference as to what creatures inhabit the yard.

Large areas will hold a larger variety of plants and larger plants without overwhelming the space. This in turn will encourage more wildlife to become part of the ecosystem.

Smaller areas are just as viable but they will usually contain a less diverse population of creatures and plants.

Creatures might visit the smaller area on a regular basis but not make it their permanent home. Wild creatures do not understand property lines.

A garden that provides shelter will have more visitors than one with open expanses. Shelter for wildlife ranges from man-made houses to trees, shrubs, grasses or piles of old wood.

Often the type of shelter is species specific, which allows the gardener to tai-

lor their yard towards their favourite wild creatures.

Like shelter, food is often species specific. This can be addressed by feeding stations or by plantings.

Remember that nature works on a food chain. Plantings might attract insects, which in turn attract birds. Insects such as butterflies and bees will gravitate to an area where there is a multitude of their favourite blooms available side by side. Bees will fly between flowers but butterflies, if given the chance, will walk across one bloom to the next.

Water is a necessity. Like everything else, the size and availability will influence the eco-community. Birds are drawn towards shallow water where they can drink and bathe. Honey bees are often seen gathering moisture on the edge of a pond.

Morning dew will provide enough moisture for small creatures but not large ones.

Moose, deer, coyotes and water fowl are attracted to larger bodies of water like ponds and streams.

Not all creatures need to be wel-

comed into the yard. Removing shelter, food and comfortable areas will help discourage them. Large open spaces are good for playing games and for seeing if enemies are in the vicinity.

A well-placed tree or shrub will make some animals less comfortable.

Picking excess fruit, impenetrable garbage cans and keeping feeders out of reach are some simple steps to remove the food supply, which in turn will make the yard less attractive.

Spraying plant material with a mixture that makes it in edible will discourage browsing. It can be manufactured or home made. The following mixture has been used with some success: two egg yolks, two tablespoons baking soda, two dashes of Sriracha sauce and enough water to create a spray.

Living with wild creatures will become more of a norm as urban sprawl continues and wild creatures have less wild areas to roam.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com.

Energy booms often outpace infrastructure “Once the Bakken and Eagle Ford oilfields peak and decline, the United States has no other ‘energy rabbit’ in its hat.”

— Steve St. Angelo

So this energy revolution will be a flash in the pan. It might last a decade or two, and it will only serve to divert attention from the need to conserve energy and look Bakken and Eagle Ford, for alternative sources. And of course, refer to the huge we can only hope that there shale oil fields in North will be no lasting damage to Dakota and Texas, which the aquifers in the region. use fracking technology to What does this mean for get oil and gas out of the Alberta? And Canada? ground. The quote is someIt certainly means that what flippant, but it merely the price of a barrel of oil echoes what the U.S. Enwill rise. So if you’re an oilergy Information Agency is sands investor, that’s a good saying. The EIA is the govthing. And if you’re a politiernment’s main cheerleadcian with a short time horier for the shale oil revoluzon, that’s a great thing. You tion, but even it admits that will do everything in your EVAN production will peak in power to see that bitumen BEDFORD 2021 and then go downhill production doubles over the from there. next decade or two, and the And we already know higher price of a barrel of that first-year production oil will help to enable that. for individual wells in the But when the average Bakken peaked back in 2010 — a clear person looks at the overheated econosign that the best spots for drilling had my in Alberta and the infrastructure, already been picked over. which is creaking at the seams, ques-

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tions start to arise.

Just look at Hwy 2. When it was built in the early 1960s, the traffic volume just south of the Hwy 11A junction was about 2,500 vehicles per day. Today, it is about 40,000 vehicles per day. No matter, I hear some say. Just make six lanes. Except that there will always be the four-lane constriction over the Red Deer River, due to limited right-of-way space. And besides, experts have already stated that we’ll soon need eight lanes between Calgary and Edmonton.

Then there’s Hwy 63. When I was firefighting out of Wandering River in the late 1980s, the traffic volume was about 1,000 vehicles per day. Now it’s almost 5,000 vehicles per day. That’s an increase of 500 per cent over 25 years (compared to a rise of about 250 per cent on Hwy 2 during the same period).

Do you think that our leaders gave much thought to the supporting infrastructure when the whole world wanted to come to Alberta and invest in bitumen mining? Peter Lougheed did (as I’ve noted in previous columns), but the rest of them only seemed to take

notice when grieving families buried the remains of Hwy 63 casualties.

And now we’re supposed to believe calm assurances that oilsands production can double again in little more than 15 years? Have we all gone completely mad? Do we really think that we are wiser than Lougheed when he advised us to back away from the bitumen feeding frenzy? Or are we too much in love with our McMansions and our Hummers and all of our other shiny toys to give a second thought to the matter?

I’ve been watching an old silent movie called The Trail of ’98. It’s all about the Klondike Gold Rush, and the greed and stupidity that it fostered.

And I’m thinking that some time in the distant future, a movie will be made about the Bakken and the oilsands.

Perhaps it will be called The Trail of ’18.

Evan Bedford is a local environmentalist. Direct comments, questions and suggestions to wyddfa23@telus.net. Visit the Energy and Ecology website at www. evanbedford.com.

ENTERTAINMENT Amazing Race bids adieu to mischievous twins

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A malevolent move doomed mischievous twins in the City of Love, as Pierre and Michel Forget were surprisingly ousted from The Amazing Race Canada during a sojourn to Paris in which the air was filled with romance and rancour in equal measure.

The scrappy siblings fell in a flurry of Mentos candy after going back on their word by vindictively utilizing the U-Turn, one of two teams to make use of the spiteful tactic and inject some welcome animosity into a race that has been otherwise genteel thus far.

The target of the twins’ failed powerplay, Montreal couple Alain Chanoine and Audrey Tousignant-Maurice, not only survived the leg, they ended it on bended knee — with Chanoine cementing their two-year relationship with an impromptu Pit Stop wedding proposal that had his now-fiancee spilling tears of joy.

If it seemed like this was an episode in which everything was changing, clockwork-consistent Olympian duo Meaghan Mikkelson and Natalie Spooner were there to provide a dose of steely-eyed stasis. Once again, the no-nonsense teammates coasted to a first-place finish.

“Is that the fifth time?” Natalie queried in a post-victory interview.

“Sixth,” corrected Meaghan.

“Sixth time!” squealed Natalie.

“We’re in first place for the sixth time!”

“We’re not counting, though,” Meaghan concluded sternly.

Other than the continued dominance of the gold medallist hockey players, however, little in Tuesday’s winding instalment felt predictable.

Much of that was due to the season’s first U-Turn opportunity. For those uninitiated, the competitive device allows teams to force one pair behind them to complete both Detour challenges rather than the customary one.

As the teams gathered a train station in Normandy, France to await their rail trip to Paris — apparently the first-ever train ride for the blondlocked Mickey Henry — the potential pitfall was already top-of-mind for some teams.

“We want to talk to Pierre and Michel,” said Alain. “We’re thinking we’re from Quebec, they’re from Quebec — we should stick together.”

And initially, the twins seemed receptive.

“We are not the U-turning type of people,” one of the brothers told Alain and Audrey in French. “If we kick out some Quebec team, we’re all gonna look stupid. So we have to stick together.”

In actuality, the devious duo secretly planned a U-Turn on their U-Turn stance.

“U-Turning is part of this game,” Pierre reasoned. “We love Quebec but we came here to win.”

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Pierre and Michel Forget were surprisingly ousted from ‘The Amazing Race Canada’ during a sojourn to Paris in which the air was filled with romance and rancour in equal measure.

First, teams had to complete the Detour, of course. One of this week’s options forced a fevered sprint through the historic Marais district in search of three marked cafe chalkboards. Teams had to order each of the trio of menu items then jog them all back to waiting diners, who then needed to hear the selections read back verbatim.

The other option (which almost no one opted to complete by choice) injected a little Project Runway into the race, requiring teams to visit the prestigious fashion school Ecoles de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and pin pieces of fabric to a mannequin (apparently known as a “Judy”) to mimic a new runway look.

After Mickey and best pal Pete Henry took an impromptu whisk through the French countryside care of a clueless taxi driver, the teams got down to work, mostly finding the tasks fairly straightforward. Helpfully, the cafes were located within a tight cluster and the phrases — including “fromage charcuterie” — were simple even for French neophytes.

Though it didn’t stop Sukhi Atwal from brainstorming a mnemonic device to the mild irritation of brother Jinder.

“Like ‘char’ is our neighbour, put a Q in it, and put a tree in it,” she relayed breathlessly. “Can you listen to me for a minute?”

“I need my own method!” he snapped back.

Sukhi again displayed her flair for French as they found their second of three menu items.

“One more. Uno,” she announced.

Once they successfully served the grateful diners, she replied — again

with a randomly placed French flourish — “No problemo.”

Before Sukhi and Jinder reached that point, though, they instigated the episode’s other major element of drama by lying openly to Vancouver bartenders Ryan Steele and Rob Goddard about their progress.

After this understandable lapse in manners, both teams for whatever reason were suddenly resolved to U-Turning the other. As it happened, the Terrace, B.C., siblings reached the board first.

“We don’t know what’s coming forward so we have to U-Turn them just so we cover our bases,” reasoned Jinder.

“I hate them,” replied Ryan in a talking-head later.

So Alain and Audrey and Ryan and Rob were thus relegated to completing both halves of the Detour, a chore they mutually accomplished seemingly buoyed by a wave of resentment.

“As we’re pinning the dress on this Judy,” said Ryan, needle in hand, “I wish I was actually pinning it onto Sukhi’s skin.”

VENICE, Italy — Well before the turn of the millennium, Michael Keaton was the first 21st-century superhero.

Keaton’s role as Batman in two Tim Burton-directed blockbusters a quarter of a century ago made him a global star, and helped spawn a Hollywood obsession with comic-book franchises that has put a generation of leading men into spandex.

Whether that was good for the movies, or the stars, is at the heart of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), which opened the 71st Venice Film Festival on Wednesday.

The soul-searching supernatural comedy-drama stars Keaton as Riggan Thomson, an over-the-hill actor, once famous as avian superhero Birdman, struggling to regain his self-worth by mounting a heavyweight Broadway play.

So how much Michael Keaton is there in Thomson?

“That’s the giant elephant in the room,” the actor conceded in a Venice press conference. But, he added, he’d recently been to Africa and was very fond of elephants.

Keaton, 62, insisted he’s happy with his place in movie history, but said the credit for reshaping superhero movies should go to Burton.

“It’s been copied, sliced up, what Tim did — more than cocaine from a cartel,” Keaton said. “He changed a lot and I was part of that, and proudly so.”

The movie gets much of its verve from the major parallels between the careers of Keaton and his character.

Thomson worries that he is stuck in the 90s — “I’m an answer to a Trivial Pursuit question,” he laments — and has had to watch younger actors such as Robert Downey Jr. and Michael Fassbender take his place.

Inarritu, whose earlier films include Babel and 21 Grams, said he cast Keaton in part because he was one of the “few people in the world (who) has authority to talk about that” experience.

Birdman is one of 20 films competing for the Golden Lion top prize at the festival, which runs to Sept. 6. Whether or not it wins, many critics predicted it would be a hit — and re-energize Keaton’s career.

tured in Guitar Player Magazine at the age of 19, infuses his songwriting with the same passion he puts behind his guitar playing.

Weber, of Victoria, will perform on Friday and Saturday night at Fionn Maccool’s Irish-style pub. He will play tunes from his debut album, Shadows in the Road, which convey “a powerful entanglement of emotion that encompasses the setbacks and uncertainties of life’s journey.”

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HOLLMAN 1928 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts the family of Dora Esther Hollman of Red Deer announce her passing at Extendicare Michener Hill on Monday, August 25, 2014 at the age of 85 years. Dora is survived by two sons, four daughters and their spouses; 18 grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren. Also to cherish Dora’s memory are numerous family members and friends. Dora was predeceased by her husband Leo; one son and one great great grandchild. A Celebration of Dora’s life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 35), 2810 - Bremner Ave, Red Deer, AB on Saturday, August 30, 2014 at 12:00 noon. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer & District S.P.C.A., 4505 - 77 Street, Red Deer AB T4P 2J1 or to the Penhold District Library, (Children’s Collection), Town of Penhold Regional Multi Plex, Box 10, Penhold AB T0M 1R0. Condolences to Dora’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument KROMM TRANSPORT mechanic and possess LTD. LOOKING FOR FULLTIME CREW TRUCK strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated HELPER and hard working and live for oilfield maintenance shop near Haynes/Joffre. or be willing to relocate Must have current H2S & within a 20 minute commute First Aid tickets and own to workplace location. This transportation to/from shop. position offers a challenging work environment, attractive Fax resumes to 403-784-3813 or e-mail to: benefits with competitive pay and significant room bkkromm@telus.net. for promotion.

LOCAL Testing company Please submit resumes seeking experienced Well Testers.

Attn: Human Resources Positions available email:payroll@ immediately. bearspawpet.com Day/Night Supervisors & Fax 403-252-9719 Assistants.

Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 MUST HAVE valid H2S Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com SERVICE RIG Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking LEASEHAND NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR

Experienced Swampers and Class 1 Drivers with tickets AND rig move and winch experience.

HEALTH & SAFETY OFFICER with NCSO and oilfield transportation experience.

For Red Deer area.

Fax resume & abstract to 403-885-0473 email: info@trysonenergy.com No phone calls please.

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants

must have all necessary valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady work schedule.

Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources Email: payroll@bearspawpet.com Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

NOW HIRING Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

TREELINE WELL SERVICES Has Opening for all positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work reference names and numbers.

Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com

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TANKMASTER RENTALS req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid Haulers for Central Alberta. Oilfield tickets req’d. Competitive wages and benefits. admin@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

ZUBAR Production Services is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Personnel Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

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Southside Dodge is looking for a new full-time team member to join our great staff!

Southside Dodge is looking for an

Vehicle Admin/Customer Service Representative Southside Dodge is looking for a new fulltime team member to join our great staff!

The right candidate is punctual, can work independently and is computer savvy. You must be a quick learner. Experience with websites and customer service would be an asset. Our company offers competitive wages and excellent benefits. If you think you can be an asset to the Southside family then please contact us with your resume via: jsparks@southsidereddeer.com.

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63 AYERS AVE Aug. 28 & 29 Thurs. & Fri. 4 - 8 Professional floor photocopier, desks, rototiller, misc. household. etc....

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LINKLATER James Robert (Bob) Sept. 23, 1935 - Aug. 23, 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bob Linklater at the Palliative Care Unit of Red Deer Regional Hospital. Bob is lovingly remembered by his wife of 39 years, Ruby. He was born in Haynes, Alberta to Jim and Williamina Linklater. Bob was predeceased by his brothers; David (Lorraine), Chubb, and Jim and his sisters; Marjorie (Stewart Dobinson) and Kathleen (Bill Hunt). Bob is survived by his brother Ben (Marg) and his sisters Irene Crawford and Betty (Edward McRobbie) his sisters-in-law Jenny Linklater and Nancy (Len Schmode). Also left to cherish his memory are many nieces, nephews and friends. Bob chose to donate his body to the University of Alberta, Edmonton for research. A memorial service to celebrate his life will be announced at a later date.

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AUG. 29, 3-8, AUG. 30, 9-NOON. Household items, toys, kids sports gear, etc 6 Asmundsen Close

Clearview 82 CARD CRES. Aug. 29 & 30 Fri. 12 - 6 & Sat. 9 - 5 MUTLI FAMILY *************

BARDEN Oilfield Hauling is looking for Experienced Picker Operators & Swampers for camp work. Shifts are 15 on & 6 scheduled days off. Fax resumes to 403 341 3968 or email bardentrucking@telus.net No phone calls please.

Oilfield

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Parkvale 4307-46A Ave. (back alley) Christmas, camping, kitchen appls, etc.

Aug. 29, 10-4, Aug. 30, 10-4.

GARAGE & MOVING SALE Dining room suite and china cabinet, sofa & loveseat, tables, bdrm. suite, lawn furniture, large car garage floor pad, misc.

Aug. 29, 5-8, Aug. 30, 9-3 #47 4240-46 A Ave. Cres. (across from Parkvale Lodge) Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

EXP’D CLASS 1 DRIVER REQ’D. Class 1 is a must and picker exp. would be an asset. Oilfield exp. preferred. Will require H2S and First Aid Certificate.

This position is F/T days only in the Stettler area.

Salary to commensurate with experience. Please send resumes to: lornemurfitt@telus.net.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

Surveyor Assistants (Red Deer & Lacombe) Just Graduated from High School?

This job could be for you! If you enjoy working in the out of doors, are enthusiastic about learning new skills and would like to work toward a career in the recognized profession of Land Surveying then please visit our website at: www.questinc.ca

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Restaurant/ Hotel

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JJAM Management (1987) BOULEVARD Ltd., o/a Tim Hortonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant & Lounge Requires to work at these Gasoline Alley, 37471 Hwy 2S,

Red Deer County Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is now hiring for: - Technologist (Party Chief) - Technician (Rodman) In the Red Deer and surrounding area Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program. We are a Construction/Land survey company based in Airdrie.

Please send resume to: FAX: (403) 948-4924 or email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca

is seeking

Cook ~ $14.00/hr.

To prepare & cook all food up to standard, clean kitchen & maintain hygiene, follow recipes, assist in receiving & storing

Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr.

To clean kitchen following safety & hygiene standards.

Clean utensils, cutlery, crockery & glassware items, floors, assist in prep.

All positions are permanent Full-time/Part-time, shift work & weekends.

Education: Above Secondary Work Experience not essential, training provided.

Fax resume to 780-702-5051

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS RED DEER 2803-50 Avenue,

Red Deer is seeking

FRONT DESK CLERK ~ $14.00/hr. â&#x20AC;˘

Central Alberta Residence Society Manager of Professional Development Special Projects

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Answer phone calls, take reservations.

Check in/out guests.

Balance cash out & attend to guest needs

HOUSEKEEPING ROOM ATTENDANT ~14.00/hr. â&#x20AC;˘

Clean & vacuum rooms, public areas, pool etc.

Replenish amenities, linens & towels.

We are seeking an individual to join our team â&#x20AC;˘ Adhere to Holiday Inn safety standards. in this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;New Excitingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; position. This position will All positions are permanent Full-time/Part-time, shift report directly to the work & weekends.

Executive Director and be Education: Above Secondary responsible for a variety Work Experience not of functions that contribute essential, training provided. to the vision, mission Fax resume to 780-702-5051 and strategic direction of the agency. One of the Celebrate your life main duties will be the with a Classified development & ANNOUNCEMENT implementation of values based training and Tired of Standing? mentorship to support Find something to sit on individuals to develop in Classifieds socially valued roles. â&#x20AC;˘

HOLIDAY INN Minimum qualifications: Red Deer South, Post-secondary education Gasoline Alley, in Community Disability 37471 Hwy 2S, Studies, Social Services or other relevant field of Red Deer County study. A minimum of 5 is seeking years experience in the FRONT DESK CLERK Human Service field with ~ $14.00/hr. at least 3 years in a â&#x20AC;˘ Answer phone calls, supervisory capacity. A take reservations. driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license and vehicle as travel will be necessary. â&#x20AC;˘ Check in/out guests. â&#x20AC;˘ Balance cash out & attend to guest needs.

The following skills, HOUSEKEEPING attributes will be key in the successful candidate ROOM ATTENDANT meeting the requirements ~ $14.00/hr. of the position; Strong â&#x20AC;˘ Clean & Vacuum rooms, communication, public areas, pool, etc. organizational, interperâ&#x20AC;˘ Replenish amenities, sonal, leadership, problem linens & towels. solving skills, initiative and â&#x20AC;˘ Adhere to Holiday Inn the ability to work indepensafety standards dently. Computer skills; All positions are permanent Microsoft Office (Word, Full-time/Part-time, shift Excel, PowerPoint). work & weekends.

Knowledge of the Education: Above Secondary community and a commitWork Experience not ment to promote positive essential, training provided. community relationships.

Fax resume to 780-702-5051 Hours of Work: 30 - 35 Hours per Week, to be negotiated Flex Schedule Rate of Pay: 24.54 - 26.59 per hour Please respond stating position title to: Mark Winter Central Alberta Residence Society #101 - 5589 47 St. Red Deer, AB T4N 1S1 Ph: 403-342-4550 Fax: 403-346-8015 e-mail: markw@carsrd.org

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Truckers/ Drivers

Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

Restaurant/ Hotel

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Oilfield

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Truckers/ Drivers

DUE TO A LARGE INCREASE IN BUSINESS,

RAMADA INN & SUITES reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties inclâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113

PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET is currently seeking SERVICE ADVISORS. We offer competitive wages, a great working environment, and a great benefit package.

Please email resume to Joey Huckabone joey@pikewheatonchev.ca

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Counter Salesperson

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

A local company requires an enthusiastic person for counter sales.

Email resume to mark@aesreddeer.com

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Party and Wedding Equipment Stock Person Customer service. Pick and pack customer orders for pickup and delivery.

Receive, count, sort and store incoming inventory.

Stock and clean showroom. Assist customers for event planning. Operate computer and cash register for transactions.

Warehouse environment. $13/hour plus benefits.

Full-time days. Apply 5929 - 48 Ave or e-mail sales@ parklandrentals.com.

DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS For our parts & service dept.

Competitive wages and CLASS 1 or 3 drivers reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d benefits package. E-mail for moving equipment. resume: info@prolineinc.ca Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. DISPATCHER REQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;D. GOODMEN Cres. Red Deer.

Knowledge of Red Deer ROOFING LTD. and area is essential.

Requires CLASS 5 Driver, non GDL Verbal and written mainly Red Deer area. communication skills are SLOPED ROOFERS Vehicle reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Working hrs. reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Send resume by fax LABOURERS 4 - 9 pm. 403-392-1764 to 403-346-0295 RED DEER & FLAT ROOFERS DRIVERS for furniture Central Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Largest MEALS ON WHEELS GULL Valley Greenhouses moving company, class 5 Blackfalds AB has 2 positions Is looking for a P/T Valid Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Licence Car Lot in Classifieds required (5 tons), local & preferred. Fax or email for Greenhouse Supervisors. PROGRAM ASSISTANT long distance.

Competitive info@goodmenroofing.ca Must have 2-3 yrs. exp. to help with daily operations TOO MUCH STUFF? wages. Apply in person. or (403)341-6722 working in a tomato vegetable of the program. Great for mom Let Classifieds 6630 71 St. Bay 7 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! greenhouse.

Job involves with school age children help you sell it.

Red Deer. 403-347-8841 training & supervising workers, looking for part time work.

Classifieds...costs so little also performing same jobs This position is 3 mornings/wk Saves you so much!

JJAM Management (1987) THE RUSTY PELICAN as workers. Terms of em(12 hrs/wk) responsibilities Ltd., o/a Tim Hortonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is now accepting resumes ployment incl. a 40 hr week, incl. organizing delivery routes, HIRING IMMEDIATELY Requires to work at these for an EXPERIENCED Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s off & $20.00/hr. counting, stocking warmers, Steel Stud Framers & Red Deer, AB locations: LINE COOK Jobs starting Aug 19th 2014. taking client phone calls, Laborers.

Light/heavy 5111 22 St. MUST HAVE Reply with info to: supporting the program gauge steel framing.

Great 37444 HWY 2 S REFERENCES. phil@gullvalley.ca coordinator with daily work experience, long term 37543 HWY 2N Apply within: 2079-50 IMMEDIATE OPENINGS operations and delivering work and on going projects Integra Tire Innisfail, reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 700 3020 22 St. Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Sylvan Lake.

SWAMPERS in Red Deer and a Tire Tech with Lube Bay meals to clients when needed.

Manager/Food Services Fax 403-347-1161 Phone REQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;D. Safety bonus Successful applicant will be and Service Truck exp.

Permanent P/T, F/T shift. calls WILL NOT be accepted. surrounding areas. F: 403. program, top wages and organized, detail orientated, 668.1142 E:info@lwbsi.

Valid class 5 license and Wknd, day, night & eves. benefi ts.

Email resume: com www.lwbsi.com driverabstract reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Send and a strong communicator.

Start date ASAP. $18/hr. 40 tom@roncooilfield.ca Must enjoy working with resume to innisfail@ hrs/week, + benefits , or fax: 403-887-4892 seniors, have a valid drivers Trades integratire.com or fax to 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., licence and vehicle.

403.227.6689 criminal record check reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d.

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Reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d education some sec- RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL along with 2 references to: ondary. Apply in person or Help OVERHEAD DOOR Red Deer Meals on Wheels fax resume to: INSTALLERS & SERVICE Attention Cheryl Day, 403-314-1303 For full job TECHNICIANS REQUIRED 1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Program Coordinator description visit www.

Predire. Hiring We offer top wages for 4725 43 Street, Red Deer KCB CABINETS timhortons.com Salespersons at Parkland experienced technicians.

T4N 6Z3. Email: & RENOVATIONS Mall, 4747-67th St, Red Excellent benefit package.

Something for Everyone rdmealsonwheels@shaw.ca is looking for a Deer, AB T4N6H3 Room for growth within Fax: 403-346-2599 Everyday in Classifieds CARPENTER/ F/Time, Perm, Shifts, the company.

Weekends. Salary - $14.00 HANDYMAN RESIDENTIAL APT CELEBRATIONS Labourers, Flag Please submit resume to: to work on our renovation hourly. Skills requirements: MANAGER HAPPEN EVERY DAY jfrost Persons & Operators good English, customer jobs.

Individual needs to 23 suite apt. complex.

IN CLASSIFIEDS @globaloverheaddoors.com Busy road construction service oriented. have a solid background in Live-in role. Responsibilities company looking for construction and own his Education: Some high school incl. cleaning, maintenance, Labourers AND fl ag perNo experience requireown tools and vehicle. yard care, administration. sons. Work is throughout ment, training will be Experience in all aspects Fax to 403-346-5786 Trades Alberta. Must have a Class provided by employer. of renovations will be 5 license. Fax resume to Main duties: TURPLE BROS. LTD. considered an asset.

403-309-0489 1.Greet every customer in our store.

Is taking resumes for: Must be bondable and PARTS PERSON. willing to work as part of a 2. Explain to customers how SOURCE ADULT VIDEO to use and care of our products. requires mature P/T help F/T position avail. Wages team. If interested, 3. Operation of the cash please email resume or call Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift. dependent on experience, register, accepting payRick at 403-347-3334 11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: benefits avail. Please email ment in cash, cheque, kcbkitch@telus.net 403-346-9099 or drop off to: resume to HR Department credit card and debit. brenda@turplebros.ca 2, 4646 Riverside Drive, 3301-Gaetz Avenue 4.

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5. Keep sales reports for Help CONSTRUCTION inventory control.

Requires Full Time 6.

Respect the laws and Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading Carpenters regulations of Parkland Mall. manufacturer of Brewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Malt, & Apprentices Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business address: is now accepting applications for a full time Competitive Wages 17195 75 Ave NW, & Benefits.

Operator 2 position.

Edmonton AB T5T2R3 Fax resumes & refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to: E-mail: Reachiesales The position includes Plant Operations and 403-343-1248 or email to: @gmail.com Sanitation duties. admin@shunda.ca Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 ACADEMIC Express Start your career! diploma and must be available for shift work.

ADULT EDUCATION See Help Wanted AND TRAINING Experience in manufacturing or factory

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CLASS 1A DRIVERS with Winch Experience and... SWAMPERS Rig moving experience a definite asset.

FULL TIME POSITIONS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Primarily in the Kindersley, Saskatchewan area. We offer competitive wages, benefit plan and a safe work environment. Applicants need to state experience and wage expected and a minimum of two references. Training certificates to be supplied.

We will also provide training in-house.

RV TECHNICIAN/ RV TECH APPRENTICE

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

environment is preferred.

Application Closing Date: Sept 12, 2014.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

F/T dishwasher, Mon. - Fri. 8:30 - 4, in Burnt Lake Park, Red Deer.

403-340-3302 email resume: scottnshaw@telus.net Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

850

Trades

Equipment Operator/Truck Driver

Duties include:

FALL START

Requires Full Time â&#x20AC;˘

Community Support Worker Program

Q Endorsement preferred. â&#x20AC;˘ GED Preparation Competitive Wages Would you like to take the & Benefits.

GED in your community?

Fax resumes & refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: â&#x20AC;˘ Red Deer admin@shunda.ca â&#x20AC;˘ Rocky Mtn. House WRENCHMASTERS â&#x20AC;˘ Rimbey â&#x20AC;˘ Caroline AUTOPRO has an immediate opening â&#x20AC;˘ Castor for an individual with strong â&#x20AC;˘ Sylvan Lake parts & estimating skills. â&#x20AC;˘ Innisfail Duties will include estimates, â&#x20AC;˘ Stettler labor times, and inventory â&#x20AC;˘ Ponoka control as well as working â&#x20AC;˘ Lacombe with technicians. Strong Govâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t of Alberta Funding computer knowledge & the may be available. ability to work with Automotive software is a huge asset.

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E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

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EASTVIEW AREA

- Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow

$605/mo.

DEERPARK AREA

Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

â&#x20AC;˘ This is a career position. â&#x20AC;˘ Salary based on experience and ability. â&#x20AC;˘ Profit sharing and company benefits.

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

Duval Cres, Doncaster Place area $332/mo.

Douglas St. Dowler St. area. $423/mo.

MICHENER AVE $712/mo.

For More Information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

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Call ClassiďŹ eds 403-309-3300 classiďŹ eds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or DALEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Home Renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Contractors

1100

ELECTRICIAN QUALITY WORK, REASONABLE RATES lektrix7@gmail.com 403-358-1278 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Escorts

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KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE

International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Free Est. 403-872-8888 Pampering at its You can sell your guitar for a song...

BEST! or put it in CLASSIFIEDS 403-986-6686 and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll sell it for you!

Come in and see why we are the talk of the town. www.viimassage.com Roofing

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. 403-358-1614 UNWANTED House & yard items, branches, will haul to land fill. 403-896-2798

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME WE do dump runs/odd jobs 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 403-550-2502/403-885-5333

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Refâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avail.

403-896-4869 RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

Seniorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Services

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

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Firewood

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Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner ROUND WHITE RESIN & BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / GLASS TOP PICNIC TABLE, Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 chairs & umbrella, $100.

403-343-2730

Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver Competitive starting wages plus regular increases.

Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Excellent benefits package. Opportunities to advance. Must be dependable, hardworking and seeking a long-term career. Apply in person, or email to: hartleytj@eecol.com 4747 - 61st Street

900

Employment Training

SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1580

Children's Items

1680

GRASS TRIMMER (Electric), $20.

LAWN EDGER, (Electric) $15.

403-346-3086

Health & Beauty

1700

WHEEL CHAIR, electric, like new! Asking $3500.

587-272-2530

Household Appliances

1710

FRIDGE, Kenmore 21 cu ft. 8 yrs. old, black, $200 o.b.o. 403-343-2754 PERMA WASHING MACHINE, Maytag.

Good cond. $175 SOLD

Household Furnishings 278950A5

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

Garden Supplies

1720

40” WIDE round wooden table w/2leafs, $25; wooden round pedestal table w/2 leafs and 4 chairs $50; twin metal bed $50 obo 403-342-2537 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 DINING Room table with 2 leafs & 6 chairs. $200.

403-309-5028

ROUND WHITE RESIN & ED Hardy hoodie, childs GLASS TOP PICNIC TABLE, M, very good cond, $15; chairs & umbrella, $100. boys runners Spiderman 403-343-2730 size 3, very good cond., $10 403-314-9603 STENO CHAIRS, 1 @ $5, 1 @ $15.

403-346-3086

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Musical Instruments

1770

BEGINNERS GUITAR AMP - Rocker RX100.

7 Watt, $30.

403-227-2976

1780

Music Lessons

PIANO Lessons, beginner/ advanced, exam prep., rudiments/theory. Adult beginners welcome.

403-506-9778 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Pets & Supplies

1810

1830

Cats

2 BALINESE KITTENS & 2 BERMAN KITTENS $50/ea. 403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

1860

STABILITY BALL - Thera-Band, red. 55 cm in diamtre, asking $35.

403-227-2976

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in: GLENDALE KENTWOOD

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

BBQ, triple burner CharBroil, side combination burner/griddle, propane. (bottle not included).

Insulated cover. Clean, works well. Downsizing! $20. 403-309-3475

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

CARPETS, wool, various sizes & colors. From $50. & up. 403-342-1656

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location. MICROWAVE, white $20; Lil Mule Logging 32”RCA tv $25; 12” RCA tv 403-318-4346 $20 403-346-4116

Advocate Opportunities

1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

CARRIERS REQUIRED

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Phone 403-314-4301

BOWER AREA

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave. ORIOLE PARK Otterbury Ave JOHNSTONE PARK Jarvis Ave, Jackson Cl. & Jewel St. For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive, Chism Close & 1 block of Cornett Dr. $98/mo

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres.

Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Allan Street Addinel Close Allsop Close Anquetel/Atlee Close MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave Muldrew Close/Martin Ave

DEER PARK AREA Depalme St. & part of Dunning Cres. & 3 blocks of Douglass Ave. $78./mo also Dixon Cres. $103/mo.

GRANDVIEW AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. LANCASTER AREA

3900 to 4400 blocks of 40A Ave., 2 blocks of 41 Ave, and 1 block of 39, 46 & 47 St. $71/mo.

Lancaster Drive Lamb Close

MOUNTVIEW AREA

Lawrence Cres/Lees Street Logan Close Lord Close VANIER AREA Vanier Drive Vicker Close Viscount Drive Vold Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

2190

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

403-343-9300

3140

Warehouse Space

3180

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FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

2 + 1 BDRM home, with lrg garage. $1600/mo + d.d., avail. Oct. 1, 403-347-1563

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1760

Grain, Feed Hay

3110

Offices

SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft.

LACOMBE COUNTRY $1000 Phil 403-350-0479 FEED STORE, Come see us at: 4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab ALL THE FEED YOUR Pasture ANIMALS NEED! FITNESS Chair, an instride 403-782-3333 cycle. Brand New. $150.

PASTURE available for ten Dealer of Masterfeeds 403-342-1656 cow/calves. 403-896-1672

WANTED

Misc. for Sale

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

ANTIQUE GOLF CLUBS, $25 obo.

GOLF BALLS, $7.50/dozen.

403-346-3086

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

Advocate Opportunities

Horses

3400 black of 44A Ave and 35 St. Cres.

3200 & 3300 blocks of 44A Ave & 33 St. & 33A St. $100./mo.

WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

COZY COTTAGE - 2 bdrm 1 bath, in gated community at Pine Lake. Partially furnished, hot tub, 2 decks. $1000/mo.

No Pets. 587-229-3823 GULL LAKE: completely reno’d upper 3 bdrm., dble garage, 2 full baths, fireplace. $1400/mo. Avail immed. Credit checks.

1-403-282-9701

Housesitting Wanted

3300

ATTN. SNOWBIRDS Retired, N/S, no pets couple will give your home loving care & company while you escape winter.

Call 403-728-3768

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Realtors & Services

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

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

Manufactured Homes

3040

2 BDRM in Alix. 4 appls, $900/mo. inclds. water, immed., no pets 403-348-6594

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

2 BDRM., 4 appls, fenced yard, water, sewer, garbage pick up incl. No pets, $900.

Normandeau. 403-391-2795 3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. $1000/mo. 403-343-6609

CLEARVIEW 2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls.

Rent $1125. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. Sept. 1 or Oct. 1. 403-304-5337

Suites

3060

1 & 2 BDRM apt. for over 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs.

Free laundry, heat, water, private parking at 5910-55 Ave. in Riverside Meadows.

Rent/Sec. $850 then $1100 respectively for the 2 bdrm.

Avail. Sept. 1st. 403-341-4627 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

4140

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Automotive Services

5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

Sept. 19 - 20, 2014 Westerner Park, Red Deer Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGauctions.com TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

SRX red, auto, loaded, 59,000 kms, $12,400 403-341-0603

NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550

2005 SATURN ION 2 dr, stnd, black, 170,000 kms, FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, keyless entry c/w winter prices, address, owner’s tires $4000 403-598-6124 phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer 2005 DIESEL Smart Car, www.homesreddeer.com extra tires $5500 obo; 403-886-4663

MUST SELL

New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

SUV's

5040

2010 RAV4 50,000 kms. $18,000 obo 403-358-1614

2007 Lincoln MKX AWD, PENHOLD duplex 2 + 2 Pewter Grey, fully loaded bdrm.. 2 baths, extensively with Panoramic roof, topnotch sound system, reno’d, close to elementary school & park, fenced Navigation, leather heated/ cooled seats, electric rear yard, large porch, gate, new-near Michelin $199,000. 403-350-0046 tires, trailer hitch, 172400 km. of primarily highway Condos/ miles. Call 403.887.1070.

Townhouses

4040

NEW CONDO 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

2005 TOYOTA Rav 4, black leather int., loaded, 141,000 kms., 1 owner, new tires & windshield. $9000. 403-340-6857

Tour These Fine Homes

4280

SCAMPER, 14’ 12V/120V Coole, LED new lights, rear mounted storage box, new spare tire, chemical toilet. 403-343-7364

5150

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

BOOT TOP for 2001 Mustang convertible. $200.

403-309-5028

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

6010

ESTATE OF MARY PATRICIA JEAN NESS ALSO KNOWN AS MARY PATRICIA NESS WHO DIED ON JUNE 20, 2014

Directory

OPEN HOUSE Sunday August 31-1-5 pm.

34A - 32 Daines Ave. Condo for sale by owner in Red Deer - Devonshire Estates. Lovely 3+1bdrm/ 3 bath bungalow with walkout basement on a park - 1349 sq feet on each level. Updated kitchen, flooring and paint.

Asking $319,900. Email sbwithage@gmail.com for further info or see ad on Kijiji with photos.

5120

Holiday Trailers

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

Open House SE Red Deer

CAR dolly by Knight, total rebuild, powder coated, stores easily, inclds. magnetic vehicle taillights, 2 brand new trailer rated tires $1475 403-350-1777

NISSAN Quest rubber floor mats for all 3 rows, value over $200, asking $100 403-314-9603

CUSTOM BUILT

MUST SELL

5100

1993 CADILLAC STS like ATV's new 200,000 kms, $4500 obo 403-358-1614 2005 HONDA 4 Trax 350 elec. shift w/winch $4000 obo 403-886-4663

5030

1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

5080

2006 Honda Goldwing Trike w/Lehman Monarch 2 trike kit.

This unit is loaded with all options plus lots of extra chrome. 49,500 kms bike was triked in 2011.

Also have 2012 Lea-sure lite cargo/camper trailer w/many options.

Will sell together or separate.

Asking $33,000. for Trike and $4500 for trailer.

Call (403)318-4653

Motorhomes

1 only! Move in now!

RISER HOMES Cars BLACKFALDS BUNGALOW 2009 TOYOTA Corolla

2 Bdrm., 2 Bath. main Floor laundry, hardwood, tile, and much more. $337, 250. Prices include legal fees, GST, appliance package, front sod & tree.

For private viewing call Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

Motorcycles

5000-5300

Collector Car Auction

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

1997 GMC S/B, stnd. cab, 4 wd, box roll cover, great shape, 1 owner, 190,000 kms, $6200 403-350-1777

CLASSIFICATIONS

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5050

Trucks

FLARING business, domestic and international connections. kplace06@telus.net

4010

OLDER 1 bdrm. smaller house, large lot, Penhold. $850/mo. negotiable 403-886-5342, 403-357-7817 SYLVAN LAKE 4 fully furnished rentals, including dishes, bedding, utilities. Avail.

Sept. 1, 2014 - June 15, 2015 Price range $1200 to $1600 per month. 403-880-0210.

Businesses For Sale

THE

BUSINESS IS BUILT ON INFORMATION Everything you need to know to keep your business humming . . . every day in the Business Section of the Red Deer Advocate.

Call For Home Delivery

314-4300

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by September 12, 2014 and provide details of your claim with BRIAN A. ADAIR, Barrister and Solicitor, at #207, 4909 - 48 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1S8.

If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 GULL LAKE: bsmt. suite, completely reno’d, 1 bdrm., 1 1/2 baths, bight & cheery sep. furnace. $1000./mo.

Credit checks.

1-403-282-9701 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

Daily The Red Deer Advocate Daily The publishes Red Deer SUNNYBROOK Advocate advertisements from companies and corporations THE NORDIC and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for Rooms For Rent 3090 long term placements.

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Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-596-2444

NEWLY RENOVATED bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031 2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

FURNISHED room, executive style home incld’s cable, internet, utilities & kitchen. Avail. now. $600./mo. 403-346-2859 ROOM FOR RENT $500./mo. 403-352-7417

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Ebola fears scuttle mission CANADA PULLING THREE-MEMBER LAB TEAM BACK FROM SIERRA LEONE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada is bringing three scientists home from Kailahun, Sierra Leone, a post which the World Health Organization has temporarily closed to investigate the infection of an international medical responder working there.

The WHO has temporarily removed its staff at Kailahun, sending them to Freetown for rest and observation.

But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control flew two people it had working at Kailahun back to the United States after one was confirmed to have had what is considered low-risk contact with a person who contracted Ebola.

The CDC did not identify the responder who had become infected at Kailahun. But the WHO said last week a Senegalese epidemiologist working at the Kailahun outpost contracted the disease. He was working for the WHO through its Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network — known as GOARN. On Wednesday, the man was medevaced to Hamburg, Germany, for care.

The WHO’s director of communications, Christy Feig, said the organization is investigating how the epidemiologist became infected. The unit where he, the Canadians and the Americans were working did not treat patients; it was a support unit for a nearby treatment centre operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).

“It could have been a straightforward thing; he was exposed in an accident with an infected patient, it could have been that simple,” Feig said Wednesday in an interview from Liberia.

“But it also is a little unusual so we want to give it a close look so we can make sure there’s not something about the setup there that’s putting more people at risk.”

The Public Health Agency of Canada said late Tuesday it was pulling the Canadian team after three people at their hotel complex tested positive for Ebola. The agency did not identify whether the people were other international staff or hotel employees. It did say the Canadian scientists were

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) puts on a mask as she visits the Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun, Sierra Leone in this recent handout photo. not showing signs of illness and had no contact with the infected individuals.

By mid-afternoon Wednesday the agency had issued no further word about the evolving situation.

The WHO’s Feig said she did not know who the Public Health Agency was referring to when it said three people at the hotel complex were infected.

A spokesperson for the CDC said one of its people was at the end of a mission and due to come home, and the other was approaching the end of his or her time in the country and neither is showing signs of being sick at present.

The person due to leave had worked in an office setting with the GOARN worker who became ill, Tom Skinner said.

“The person had a low-risk exposure. In other words they were near

this person, within three feet” — roughly a metre — “at times for a prolonged period,” he said, adding this interaction happened when the infected person was already feeling unwell.

People with Ebola are believed to be contagious only when they are sick and not during the time when the virus in incubating.

The time from exposure to evident infection can range from two to 21 days. The virus is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids.

The WHO declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Aug. 8. When it did, it issued a number of recommendations including one which stipulates that people who are contacts of known cases should not fly on commercial flights during the 21 days in which they might be incubating the virus. The recommendation is aimed at preventing

further spread of the virus.

Skinner said because of that recommendation, which the CDC supports, the agency chartered a plane to transport the two staff members home.

He noted the CDC remains committed to the fight against Ebola in West Africa. The agency currently has 29 staff members in Sierra Leone, with nine more preparing to be deployed to the country.

The Public Health Agency of Canada did not say whether the lab team had been in contact with the Senegalese epidemiologist. It has also not made clear when the scientists will leave Sierra Leone or how they will travel. All three are in voluntary isolation and will remain so for the full 21day period.

“The risk that any of the three individuals is infected is very low,” the statement said.

New counterterrorism units operating at Australian airports

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

flew to the Middle East using a brother’s passport.

A 19-year-old Sydney man slipped out of the country, but was detained on arrival in the United Arab Emirates and deported. Sharrouf, whose passport had been cancelled, left Sydney in a similar security breach.

The government this month proposed tough new counterterrorism laws as well as 630 million Australian dollars ($590 million) in additional resources over four years to help intelligence and law enforcement agencies cope with the scores of Australians who return home after committing terrorist acts overseas.

Some Islamic leaders argue Muslims, a minority of 500,000 in Australia’s population of 23 million, are being unfairly targeted.

David Irvine, director general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, said that 60 Australians were fighting in Iraq and Syria for the alQaida offshoots Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nursa, also known as the Nusra Front. He said another 15 Australian fighters had been killed, including two young suicide bombers.

Irvine said another 100 Australians were actively supporting extremist groups from within Australia, recruiting fighters and grooming suicide bomber

CANBERRA, Australia — New counterterrorism units have been working at Australia’s two largest airports since last week and had already prevented two suspected jihadists from leaving the country, officials said.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday that the units operating at Sydney and Melbourne airports would soon be introduced at all Australian international airports to monitor the movements of travellers on security watch lists. Biometric screening of passengers will also be introduced at the airports.

“I’m advised that these new units have already intercepted at least one person of interest,” Abbott told Parliament. “This government will do — I’m sure this Parliament will do — everything that is reasonably necessary to keep our country safe.”

The move is focused on passengers arriving and leaving the country.

Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday that two men had been prevented this week from leaving Sydney and Melbourne for the Middle East on suspicion that they intended to fight.

Neither man had been on any security watch list and neither had been charged, he said.

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“In the past two years, the situation in Syria and Iraq has radically complicated the (terrorist) threat, adding energy and allure to the extremist Islamic narrative,” Irvine said.

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LUANN Aug. 28 1996 — A divorce decree is issued for Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana. It is the official end to the 15-year marriage.

1963 — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gives his “I Have a Dream” speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, D.C. More than 200,000 people attended.

1941 — Dominion Observatory time becomes Canada’s official time at 1 p.m. on this day.

1939 — The first successful flight of a jet-propelled airplane takes place. The plane was a German Heinkel He 178.

1860 — Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, attends a lacrosse match played in his honour in Montreal.

1846 — British Possessions Act lets Canada and Maritime provinces enact tariffs and cut or repeal duties. It marks a new stage in Canadian independence.

1833 — British Parliament outlaws slavery in the British Empire; 700,000 persons are liberated.

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Protecting the mind from dementia You don’t have to be a genius to understand that as your brain goes, so go your health and happiness.

If you can keep your cognitive powers humming through middle and later years, chances are you’ll also improve everything from your cardiovascular system to your social life.

That’s why, today, we want you to start thinking — and discover just how to help protect your mind and body from dementia, whether it’s caused by atherosclerosis, mini strokes or Alzheimer’s disease.

A ground-breaking study recently revealed the simple steps that should be the cornerstones of your personal dementia-prevention plan. The FINGER Study (Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study) followed 1,260 folks ages 60 to 77 with modifiable risk factors for dementia (diabetes, obesity, poor nutrition, etc.).

Researchers found that a lifestyle makeover — adding more physical activity, better nutrition, increased social support, brain-stimulating activities and fun to your life, plus taking care of any heart-health issues you may have

— delivers big brain benefits.

After just two years, people on this “demolish dementia” regimen scored significantly higher on tests of memory, thinking skills and mental processing speed than MIKE ROIZEN a control group who got only good advice.

This study will have a seven-year followup to track participants’ development of dementia and to look for biomarkers using MRIs and PET scans.

And around the world, there’s plenty of other ongoing medical research that we’re rooting for: Some will improve diagnosis (they’re experimenting with smell, eye and blood tests that can detect super-early signs of brain changes), and others are focusing on

medications that might stall or prevent dementia’s onset.

There’s even research on brain-tissue transplants (no Dr. Frankenstein involved!) that may be able to reverse the ravages of & MEHMET OZ this progressive disease.

But we think the FINGER Study’s recent results show that you don’t have to wait for a revolutionary medical treatment to help protect your brain from cognitive decline.

So, here’s how to lower your risk of dementia, even if you’re one of the 25 per cent of North American adults with a gene mutation called APOE4 that increases your risk for Alzheimer’s disease. ● Manage stress. This is key. Learn

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Tips on crafting tasty healing teas Part of a herbalist’s job is creating Let’s begin with taste. In my pracindividualized formulations for her tice, it is essential that the teas I ofclients. fer taste good. If a tea does Formulation is as much not please the palate, I can as science as an art. Crafting hardly expect anyone to sit formulas with several herbs down and enjoy their mediis one of the more challengcine. ing and rewarding aspects The base of a good herbof being a herbalist. al tea is the quality of the Being a great lover of plant material used. Dried the herbal tea, I personally medicinal plants have a love designing healing and strong scent, vibrant colour satisfying teas. Recently I and are not ground to dust. have been asked about how The next step is to I create herbal teas that choose a foundation herb taste great while address that gives the tea body. specific health concerns. So I generally choose plants I thought I would jot down that are high in minerals ABRAH a few tips on creating your for this role. My preferred own healing tea. plants are nettles (urticaria ARNESON When blending a herbal dioica) or alfalfa (medica tea there are two primary HERBS FOR LIFE sativa). Both these plants considerations to make: feed the body vitamins, ● The therapeutic effect of the minerals and chlorophyll. Their high plants used. nutritive value brings energy to the ● The taste of plants. tea drinker while building bones and

blood, making strong nails and shiny hair and balancing blood sugars.

The third step in building a good medicinal tea is adding a plant high in flavonoids. Plants make flavonoids to protect themselves from the sun’s radiation. People take flavonoids to protect themselves from free radicals. Yet this is not always my reasoning when including plants with flavonoids in a tea. Flavonoids support the absorption of the nutrients and the medicinal that the other plants in the tea carry.

If I am formulating a tea for energy, I will include flavonoid rich gingko (gingko biloba). If the tea is being designed to address anxiety, I may choose hawthorn leaf and flower (crataegus spp.) for its calming properties and flavonoid content. A tea designed to boost the immune system may include either rose hips (rosa acicularis) or elder berries (sambucus nigra). These plants both have a variety of healing properties and are high in flavonoids.

Too many flavonoids create a sour

tasting tea. So to balance the sourness of the tea, I add a couple of plants containing volatile oils to the blend.

Plants containing volatile oil have strong scents and flavours.

They are generally plants that calm the nervous system, ease digestion and have anti-microbial properties. They also mask the taste of other plants and bring higher notes to the tea. Peppermint is one such plant.

Again I choose the herb with volatile oil to enhance the tea’s medicinal effect.

Rosemary (rosmarinus off.) brings a warming sweet flavour to a tea designed for energy and memory. Damiana (turnera diffusa) is a spicy Mexican herb that calms tummies turned upside down by anxiety. Ginger (zingiber officinale) lifts the mind while easing spasms of all types. Lemon balm (melissa off.) cools down burning stomachs and hot heads.

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DIY blood pressure care may surpass office-based treatment for some: study

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — “Do-it-yourself” blood pressure measurements and medicine changes work better than usual doctor-office care in some patients, a study of older adults in England found.

Those who did their own readings at home and adjusted their medicine as needed had healthier blood pressure levels after a year than those who got standard doctors’ care.

Self-care patients weren’t completely on their own — any changes they made were part of a treatment plan previously OK’d by their doctors. But the patients didn’t need to consult their doctors every time they increased the dose if it was part of the original treatment plan.

Why self-management worked best is uncertain, but patients who participated were taking more medication than the others and were perhaps more vigilant than doctors treating the usual-care group, the study suggests.

It’s possible usual-care doctors had “clinical inertia” — a phenomenon described in other research showing that physicians often fail to increase blood pressure medication doses even when office measurements show patients’ levels are too high, said study author Richard McManus, a professor

and researcher at the University of Oxford.

The study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults have high blood pressure — measuring 140 over 90 or higher — but only about half of them have it adequately controlled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. High blood pressure rates are similar in England, health surveys there have found.

The study involved 450 patients with previous heart trouble, strokes, diabetes or kidney disease, aged 70 on average, who were followed for a year. About half got usual care; the others did self-care.

Average blood pressure measurements at the study’s start were about 143 over 80. At the end, that dropped to about 128 over 74 in the self-care patients and 138 over 76 in the usualcare group.

That difference would be expected to result in a drop in heart problems or other complications, although more research is needed to evaluate long-term benefits, according to a JAMA editorial.

The researchers estimate that if the self-care group’s lower levels could be sustained, they’d likely see a 30 per cent reduction in stroke risk compared with the other group.

Self-monitoring blood pressure

is common in some countries and in the United Kingdom, and the study notes that blood pressure monitors are widely available there, costing as little as $25 (15 pounds, 18 euros).

Similarly priced home blood-pressure monitors are sold in the United States.

Some U.S. centres have tried selfmanagement approaches although more research is needed before a program like the one studied could be widely recommended, said Dr. Laura Svetkey, a hypertension specialist at Duke University.

“I think we’re moving in that direction,” Svetkey said.

“There’s tremendous motivation to control health care costs and a parallel trend toward giving patients a bigger role in their decision-making and management.”

Most patients studied were white and worked at white-collar or skilled manual labour jobs; whether similar results could be achieved with less skilled or less educated patients isn’t known.

For self-care programs to work, patients need to be carefully selected, said Dr. Mary Ann Bauman, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. “You have to have compliant, knowledgeable patients,” said Bauman, medical director for women’s health and community relations at Integris Health, Inc. in Oklahoma City.

House calls for the frail save system money, study says

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Ten or 12 times a year, Beatrice Adams’ daughter would race her frail mother to the emergency room for high blood pressure or pain from a list of chronic illnesses.

Then Adams found a doctor who makes house calls, and the 89-yearold hasn’t needed ER care in the nearly two years since.

“I’m not a wimpy female,” Adams said as Dr. Eric De Jonge wheeled his medical bag into her dining room and sat down to examine her. “I have only 11 years to make 100, and I’m going to make it.”

The old-fashioned house call is starting to make a comeback as part

of an effort to improve care for some of Medicare’s most frail and expensive patients.

While it may sound like a luxury, bringing team-based primary care into the homes of patients like Adams, according to a new study, actually could save Medicare money by keeping them from needing pricier specialty or hospital care.

“They have a lifeline,” explained De Jonge, a co-founder of the medical house call program at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, who led the study.

Such elder care is rare, but is growing.

Medicare paid for 2.8 million house calls in 2012, the latest data available, compared with 1.5 million about a decade ago.

There are different kinds of house call programs. De Jonge’s aims to provide comprehensive care. Teams of doctors and nurse-practitioners make regular visits to frail or homebound patients whose needs are too complex for a 20-minute office visit even if simply getting there wasn’t a huge hurdle.

They can use portable X-rays and do EKGs or echocardiograms right in the living room. They line up social workers for supportive care, spot preventable problems such as tripping hazards, arrange home delivery of medications, and offer round-theclock phone consultations and sameday urgent visits.

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DEMENTIA: Daily supplement Bump up your intake of brain-pampering omega-3 fatty acids by taking a daily supplement containing 900 mg of DHA, too. ● Control known brain-damagers. Stop smoking (everything) and avoid secondand third-hand smoke or fumes from tobacco, marijuana and vaping! Take high blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol and diabetes very seriously: All three damage blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to your brain. Ignoring these conditions could boost your risk for vascular dementia (caused by clogged vessels or mini strokes) by as much as 46 per cent! ● Challenge your brain in new ways.

Dust off your guitar, break out the Scrabble board or learn a complicated new card game. Doing brain-stimulating activities just three days a week in midlife and beyond can fend off dementia by three to eight years or longer. The key: New thought patterns encourage your brain to grow new neural connections. Hint: If you’re already a crossword puzzle ace, try a math game like Sudoku.

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TEAS: Enhancing Finally, I add a herb with a mildly bitter flavour. The bitter flavour prepares the digestive tract to receive nutrients while preparing the mind to receive life.

Dandelion (taraxacum off. folia) leaf, high in minerals and a gentle liver cleanser, brings a mild bitter flavour to the tea, giving it depth while enhancing its medicine.

Mugwort (artemisia vulgaris) is another plant I often choose for its bitter taste and warming effect on the body.

Once in a while, if a person has had too much bitterness in their life, I add sweet tasting herbs. Liquorice (glycyrrhiza glabra) is the sweetest medicinal herb I know.

It calms fired up adrenal glands while supporting many of the body functions that are dramatically affected by longterm stress. My other favoured sweet herb is oat seed (avena sativa). Oat seed is a soothing nerve tonic that knits together frayed nerves.

People often think herbal medicine needs to taste bad. But I find, again and again, a supportive nourishing herbal tea that tastes great is sometimes the best medicine for many of life’s ups and downs.

Herbs for Life is written by Abrah Arneson, a local clinical herbalist. It is intended for information purposes only. Readers with a specific medical problem should consult a doctor. For more information, visit www.abraherbalist.ca. Arneson can be reached www.abraherbs.com.

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Few cardiac patients take part in clinical trials RESULTS OF TRIALS CAN BE SKEWED ‘TRIAL PARTICIPANTS WERE YOUNGER, WITH LESS PREVIOUS CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, LOWER PREDICTED RISK OF MORTALITY, SHORTER HOSPITAL STAYS AND MORE FREQUENT TREATMENT WITH EVIDENCE-BASED THERAPY THAN NON-PARTICIPANTS’

TORONTO — A new study points out a serious problem that plagues research into treatments for heart disease.

It shows that only a tiny fraction of people who have had a heart attack take part in clinical trials looking at cardiac therapies.

And those who do are generally the patients who are the youngest, the healthiest and those who are at lowest risk of dying from heart disease.

The scientists say that as a consequence, the findings of trials can be skewed. Results in this elite pool of patients can create the expectation that therapies will have more benefit than is actually seen when they are used in the broader community of heart disease patients.

The research was done by a number of Canadian and American scientists and is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The first author of the paper is Dr. Jacob Udell, a cardiologist at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital.

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CALLS: Multiple chronic conditions Adams has multiple chronic conditions ranging from hard-to-control blood pressure to congestive heart failure and post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from an assault.

On a recent house call, De Jonge listened for about 10 minutes as Adams got some fears off her chest. “I just shake even thinking about it,” she said of the attack that still triggers nightmares. A social worker was helping, she said.

Then came the physical exam. De Jonge already had cut in half the 17 medications other doctors had prescribed.

He said Adams’ grogginess immediately disappeared.

“One of my favourite things as a geriatrician is eliminating unnecessary medications. You see people blossom,” he said.

This visit, De Jonge opened every remaining pill bottle to make sure Adams was taking them properly. Her blood pressure and oxygen levels were fine. Severe swelling in her legs wasn’t a sign of any heart trouble, he reassured Adams, just vein damage. She

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Udell explains that he and his colleagues used the U.S. National Cardiovascular Data Registry to explore the question. They looked at data on patients in the registry to see which people would have been eligible for three clinical trials of clot-busting drugs that were conducted between July 1, 2008, and March 31, 2011. More than 140,000 people had a heart attack during that period and could have been considered for one of the three studies.

He and his colleagues found that about two-thirds of the patients in the registry — 68 per cent — met the eligibility criteria for the studies. But only 2.8 per cent of the people were in one of the trials. And while the idea behind clinical trials is to test a drug

in people who are like those who will eventually use the medication, the 2.8 per cent was not entirely representative of the heart attack patients.

“Trial participants were younger, with less previous cardiovascular disease, lower predicted risk of mortality, shorter hospital stays and more frequent treatment with evidence-based therapy than non-participants,” Udell and his co-authors wrote.

The last point, about evidence-based medicine, suggests these patients got a higher level of care than others in the registry.

Dr. Douglas Lee says the paper is an elegant way to illustrate a real problem.

“A drug may have worked in the ide-

should put her feet up for a while each day.

Does all that effort pay off?

De Jonge and colleagues compared the cost and survival of 722 patients enrolled in their house call practice in recent years with Medicare claims records of 2,161 similarly ill patients who never received home medical care.

Death rates between these two groups were similar. But over a twoyear period, total Medicare costs were 17 per cent lower for the house-call patients, or an average savings of about $4,200 per person per year, the group reported last month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. They used more primary care but used less hospital, specialty and nursing home care. That could add up fast, De Jonge said. Five per cent of Medicare patients account for about half of the government insurance program’s spending, the kind of frail older people he typically sees.

But house-call providers can be hard to find, and reimbursement is one reason. A doctor can see — and be paid for — about three times as many patients in a day in an office than they can while making house calls because of the travel time, said Constance Row, executive director of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine.

Indeed, De Jonge said reimbursement doesn’t completely cover his program’s costs; it breaks even thanks to grants and some hospital funding.

al setting of a clinical trial, but does it also work in the real world?” asks Lee, who is a senior scientist at the Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences and a cardiologist at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at Toronto’s University Health Network.

“There’s a threat that they” — the findings from these trials — “may be less relevant for everyone else who’s not enrolled in the trial.”

Udell says there are a variety of reasons more people don’t take part in clinical trials.

They may not be asked; the trial leaders may attempt to cherry pick patients to get the best results. Patients may worry taking part in a study might harm their health. And for others, cost — going back and forth to a clinic, taking time off work — might be an issue if trial subjects are not reimbursed for costs.

Udell suggests big patient registries could be harnessed to more quickly and economically find potential clinical trial subjects who are more representative of the general heart attack population than has been the case up until now.

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War ends in stalemate

BY DAN PERRY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEL AVIV, Israel — The third Gaza War in six years appears to have ended in another sort of tie, with both Israel and Hamas claiming the upper hand.

Their questionable achievements have come at a big price, especially to longsuffering Palestinians in Gaza.

In a sense, Israel got what it wanted: Hamas stopped firing rockets in exchange for mostly vague promises and future talks. But the cost to Israel was huge: Beyond the 70 people killed — all but six of them soldiers — the economy has been set back, the tourism season destroyed, its people rattled for 50 days and its global standing pummeled by images of devastation in Gaza.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces bristling from people who sense that Hamas controlled events and could not have its grip loosened on the Gaza Strip, which it seized by force from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. Around the corner lie international investigations into war crimes allegations.

Hamas is celebrating its success after surviving Israel’s far superior firepower. The Islamic militant group’s rocket fire emptied a string of Israeli border communities and disrupted Tel Aviv’s international airport. Weak a few months ago, it may emerge as more of a player in Palestinian politics, and the plight of Gazans is again atop the world’s concerns.

It also paid dearly: 2,143 Palestinians were killed, including nearly 500 children and hundreds of militants.

The UN estimates the war destroyed or severely damaged 17,200 homes and left 100,000 Palestinians homeless, with considerable swaths of Gaza in rubble. Hamas’ rocket arsenal is much depleted and many — if not all — of its attack tunnels against Israel have been destroyed.

For the moment, Israel has promised to open border crossings with Gaza to a degree, something it does intermittently anyway, and to increase access for Gaza fishermen. Hamas’ other demands are to be later discussed: an airport and seaport, prisoner releases, salaries for its thousands of civil servants and the opening of the Rafah crossing to Egypt. Israel will ask for

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Palestinian masked militants of Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of Hamas, hold their weapons during a celebration of the victory rally at the debris of destroyed houses in Shijaiyah, neighborhood of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday. An open-ended cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip was holding Wednesday.

ANALYSIS demilitarizing Gaza. Little is likely to be resolved anytime soon.

The region is unpredictable. But as it seems this cease-fire may stick, here are some preliminary lessons:

FORCE MAY HAVE WORKED For 50 days, Hamas stuck to its rockets. Israel started with carefully targeted destruction of sites, but steadily escalated its strikes. It razed neighbourhoods and killed top militants.

This week, Israel destroyed whole apartment towers. Hamas’ fight was at first genuinely supported by Gazans desperate for an end to the embargo

of the strip by Israel and Egypt — a policy largely meant to squeeze out Hamas. But in the end, probably sensing the population couldn’t take more, Hamas accepted a deal that does not differ much from the first Egyptian cease-fire proposal offered in mid-July and accepted then by Israel. The moral side of Israel’s use of devastating force will be debated and its legality may end up being examined at The Hague, but the outcome suggests it achieved its aims. Netanyahu said as much Wednesday, telling a news conference that Hamas was surprised by the intensity of Israel’s attacks in the last week of the war. Especially interesting was the minimal protest in the Arab world, where Hamas suffers from association with the Islamist groups increasingly marginalized and feared around much of the region.

THE PALESTINIANS SHOWED MORE RESILIENCE Gazans are hardly free to oppose Hamas’ rule, but it was still striking how much more pressure there was on Netanyahu to find a way to end the war. Also striking was the differing view of combatant deaths: At Hamas funerals in Gaza, the mood bordered on celebratory; in Israel, the soldiers’ deaths brought national bereavement.

This limited Netanyahu’s options: Removing Hamas meant invading the heart of Gaza City and potentially losing many hundreds of troops in urban warfare.

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Crimes against humanity spreading in Syria: UN panel

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in the northern province of Aleppo and in the northeastern region of Raqqa, a stronghold of the group. The findings mean UN officials now believe Islamic State has committed crimes against humanity in Syria and Iraq, the two countries in which the group has carved out a self-styled caliphate.

“This is a continuation — and a geographic expansion — of the widespread and systematic attack on the civilian population (by IS),” the fourmember commission chaired by Brazilian diplomat Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said in the study.

The group’s gruesome beheading of American journalist James Foley and its declaration of a state governed by a harsh interpretation of Islamic law across Iraq and Syria have inserted a new dynamic into the international standoff over Syria’s civil war.

Pinheiro told reporters one of the most disturbing findings was the large training camps where children, mostly boys 14 and older, are recruited and trained to fight alongside adult Islamic State fighters.

“In Syria, it’s total impunity,” said commission member Carla del Ponte, a Swiss former war crimes prosecutor.

“Crimes are committed each day, from all parties, and nobody’s dealing with the criminal responsibility for those crimes.”

The report, based on 480 interviews and documentary material, cited dozens of documented public executions in Aleppo and Raqqa during the bloody and complex Syrian civil war that the UN says has killed more than 190,000 people since 2011.

Crowds of people including children have reportedly watched as the group’s fighters pronounce mostly adult men guilty of violating religious laws and then behead them or shoot them in the head at close range. The purpose, according to the commission, is “to instil terror among the population, ensuring submission to its authority.”

Photos posted online Wednesday showed the aftermath of the Islamic State group’s takeover of the Tabqa air base in Raqqa province. In one photo, masked gunmen can be seen shooting seven men kneeling in front of them.

The photos correspond to other reporting by The Associated Press of the airfield’s fall to the extremist militants.

But the commission also emphasized that Assad’s government forces continue to perpetrate crimes against humanity through massacres and systematic murder, torture, rape and disappearances. And it said other factions fighting Assad’s government are also committing massacres and war crimes.

On Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Islamic State fighters reportedly killed up to 670 prisoners in the Iraqi city of Mosul and committed other horrific abuses that amount to crimes against humanity.

Pillay said the Islamic State group and fighters allied with it are daily committing “grave, horrific human rights violations” in Iraq such as targeted killings, abductions, trafficking, slavery and sexual abuse as they push to gain a firm grip on Iraq’s northern and eastern provinces.

PHOENIX — The death of a firingrange instructor at the hands of a 9-year-old girl bracing an Uzi submachine gun has set off a powerful debate over youngsters and guns, with many people wondering what sort of parents would let a child handle an Uzi. As the girl opened fire at a blacksilhouette target, the recoil wrenched the fully automatic weapon upward, and the instructor was shot in the head and killed.

Instructor Charles Vacca, 39, was standing next to the girl Monday at the Last Stop outdoor shooting range in Arizona, south of Las Vegas, when she squeezed the trigger.

The instructor’s death generated angry social-media comments about why a child was allowed to use an automatic weapon. Many readers expressed sympathy for the girl while questioning whether the adults at the gun range were to blame.

Sam Scarmardo, a former Lake Havasu City Council member who operates the shooting range, said Wednesday that the girl’s parents had signed waivers saying they understood the rules of the range and were standing nearby, video-recording their daughter, when the accident happened.

“I have regret we let this child shoot, and I have regret that Charlie was killed in the incident,” Scarmardo said.

This isn’t the first accidental shooting by a child using an Uzi. An 8-yearold boy died after shooting himself in the head at a gun expo near Springfield, Massachusetts, in 2008.

while making efforts to diminish civilian casualties by issuing warnings. Yet there were alternatives. Israel could have accepted some of Hamas’ demands despite reservations about doing so under fire. In May, Israel could have cautiously accepted the establishment of a technocratic Palestinian “unity government” that was backed by both Hamas and the moderate Fatah group, which runs the Palestinian Authority and its autonomous enclaves in the West Bank. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that government backed continued peace efforts even though Hamas itself may not, yet Netanyahu launched a diplomatic campaign against Abbas for aligning himself with terrorists. What followed was the killing by Hamas activists of three Jewish teens in the West Bank, an Israeli crackdown on Hamas in the territory, and the start of the violence.

Now Israel seems less upset about the unity government. It would probably

be grateful to have the Palestinian Authority back in Gaza, running at least the borders, handling the reconstruction aid projects — and in general, keeping Hamas in check.

force Israel to accept the Palestinians’ terms — a follow-up to the U.N. General Assembly’s recognition in 2012 of a “state of Palestine” in all of Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

The Palestinians tend to describe such efforts, as well as the recent U.S.-led negotiating effort that fizzled, as “last chances” to save the “two-state solution.” When that’s off the table, their vision does not lean toward accepting a future as an occupied people. More likely is another uprising, or a push by the Palestinians for a single state over all the territory of the Holy Land, in which Arabs and Jews would be equal citizens. Israel fears the first and ferociously opposes the second, because it would bury the Zionist dream of a national home for the Jews.

Dan Perry has covered the Middle East since the 1990s and currently leads AP’s text coverage in the region.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — The Syrian government has likely used chlorine gas to attack civilians while the Islamic State group fighting them has committed crimes against humanity with attacks on civilians in two provinces, an independent UN commission said Wednesday.

The report from the commission, which is investigating potential war crimes in Syria, marks the first time the UN has assigned blame for the use of the chemical agent. The commission said it now believes government forces loyal to President Bashar Assad unleashed a chemical agent, likely chlorine, on civilians in northern Syrian villages eight times in April.

According to the report, victims and medical workers described symptoms caused by exposure to chemicals and witnesses told of a chlorine-like smell immediately after government helicopters bombed civilian areas in Idlib and Hama provinces eight times between the 11th and 29th of April.

“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the chlorine has been dropped, particularly in barrel bombs from helicopters belonging to the government authorities. So the finger points there,” said commission member Vitit Muntarbhorn, a Thai professor who has investigated human rights in North Korea.

The commission also noted the widespread and systematic killings of civilians by Islamic State, which now controls a swath of north and eastern Syria. It said attacks have taken place

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