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MLA Kerry Towle rappelled down a 29-storey building in Edmonton Thursday as part of the ninth annual Edmonton Easter Seals Drop Zone.

Towle goes over the edge for charity

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF MLA Kerry Towle channelled her inner Batwoman and helped raise money for Easter Seals by rappelling down a 29-storey building in Edmonton on Thursday.

“I actually never drove by the building until this morning so I had no idea where it was or exactly what I’d be repelling off of because I didn’t want to know,” laughed Towle when she was safely back on the ground after her 1:15 p.m. plunge.

The Wildrose MLA for Innisfail and Sylvan Lake was among more than 60 brave souls who rappelled from the roof of The Sutton Place Hotel as part

of the ninth annual Edmonton Easter Seals Drop Zone.

Each participant had to raise a minimum of $1,500 for Easter Seals Alberta, which provides mobility and accessibility equipment for children and adults with disabilities and special needs.

Rappellers were encouraged to wear superhero costumes when they lowered themselves down the side of the building like modern-day mountaineers. All participants attended a mandatory three-hour training session at a climbing gym before the event.

Towle said as a former cadet, she’d done some rappelling — but never off a sky-high building.

“Taking that first step off the edge of a 30-storey building on the rooftop,

essentially looking down at everyone looking like ants, was pretty terrifying.

“You’re looking at it going, ‘Really, why am I here,’ ” she chuckled.

After her knees stopped shaking and she descended a few steps, it was actually fun, she said.

As the Wildrose critic for Human Services and Seniors, Towle said she meets people every day who are challenged by the resources available for persons with developmental disabilities.

“As a person whose brother died of Huntington’s, I know that access to these kinds of resources are very difficult. Easter Seals provides quality aids.”

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International Overdose Awareness Day is today and Central Alberta AIDS Network Society is working to break silence.

Over the last 12 months, CAANS gathered anecdotal data that showed 20 accidental overdoses — including nine deaths — among people known to the local charity.

Eight of the overdoses were women, including three fatalities.

“We’ve had three in the last two weeks, one that’s been fatal,” said Jennifer Vanderschaeghe, CAANS executive director, on Thursday.

The latest overdoses were linked to heroin, she said.

“The heroin in town right now is very pure. But it’s being sold at the same cost so people think it’s the same stuff that’s been here. They are using more than they need to and they’re not using testers.”

Last year in Alberta, 387 people died due to an accidental overdose from acute drug and/or drug and alcohol toxicity, according to preliminary data from the office of Alberta’s chief medical examiner.

Of those deaths, 45 per cent were Albertans living outside of Calgary and Edmonton.

Vanderschaeghe said data shows overdose deaths in Alberta have been climbing steadily over the years.

She said in Alberta, the number of deaths from overdoses is comparable to deaths from vehicle collisions.

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RCMP hiring second criminal intelligence analyst

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF One after another, robbery files began landing on Sandra Bibby’s desk late in September 2012.

They contained surveillance photos and suspect descriptions that began to paint a picture of a series of 10 robberies in Red Deer and one in Lacombe.

At first it was not clear whether the crimes were connected in any way.

But looking at the event frame, including the name of the business, time, date, suspect description and the files, investigators were able to identify and connect the lawbreakers.

“What we actually had was a partnership,” said Bibby, the city’s crimi-

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nal intelligence analyst. One suspect would stay in the car and one would go inside the target business.

Bibby said the robberies began to escalate over the year and raised concerns of spillover crime. Eventually, police were able to get a vehicle description and an unregistered licence plate.

Bibby said they kept tracking the suspects and managed to identify, arrest and charge one. Steven Lee Pinch of Red Deer is serving a five-year sentence in Edmonton. The other man, although suspected, was not charged.

Pinch confessed and stated the other man was just the driver and did not have any knowledge of the crimes.

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Police intelligence analyst Sandra Bibby shows a file to RCMP Staff Sgt. Andrew Shepherd (left) and RCMP Insp. Scott Tod at the Red Deer RCMP police station.

A second analyst is coming on board to help tackle the large volume of files that come into the detachment daily.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada is sending a charter plane to repatriate scientists who have been operating the country’s mobile Ebola laboratory in Sierra Leone.

The Public Health Agency of Canada says the three scientists remain in good health and appear to be at low risk of having contracted the often deadly virus.

The agency announced late Tuesday that it was pulling the team from a World Health Organization outpost at Kailahun, in eastern Sierra Leone, after learning three people at their hotel complex tested positive for Ebola.

The agency says the three will be assessed by a quarantine officer and officers from Canada Border Services when their plane arrives in the country.

Once they have been cleared for entry, they will travel to private residences where they will be in voluntary isolation for the remainder of the 21-day incubation period.

For privacy reasons the Public Health Agency is not releasing the names of the scientists and won’t say when they will return.

Voluntary isolation means that the scientists will avoid contact with their families and others until they have been cleared as disease free. During the period their health will be monitored.

The agency has said the scientists did not have contact with the infected people. So it’s not immediately clear when the 21-day incubation period clock would have begun.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has already repatriated two of its scientists from Kailahun in response to the same incident. One, an epidemiologist, had worked in close proximity to a Senegalese epidemiologist who has contracted Ebola.

The CDC described the exposure as low risk, saying the two worked together in an office-type space.

The CDC says its scientist was due to return to the U.S. anyway, so the agency decided to bring the individual home after the WHO temporarily shut down the operation to investigate how the Senegalese doctor became infected.

A second CDC staff person who had no contact with the infected man was nearing the end of his or her mission and was also flown back to the U.S. on the charter the American agency hired.

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An Indian man climbs a 60 feet idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha to decorate it in preparation for the upcoming Ganesha Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad, India, Thursday. The 10-day festival that celebrates the birth of Ganesha begins Aug. 29 and ends with the immersion of Ganesha idols in the Arabian Sea and other water bodies.

Winnipeg man charged after woman is run over, dies

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A man is facing charges after a woman was pushed out of a furniture-moving truck and died from her injuries.

Police say Jennie Graves, 35, was in an argument with the driver of the truck in the early hours Wednesday.

“The argument turned physical which resulted in the driver, while the vehicle was still in motion, pushing the victim out onto the road,” said Winnipeg police Const. Eric Hofley.

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OVERDOSE: Time to reduce the stigma CHARITY: Get involved “I continue to be shocked by the range and frequency of people who are overdosing. Even one death is too many.”

She said it’s important that nobody feels shame or disgrace over a drug overdose. It’s time to reduce the stigma of drug-related deaths and acknowledge the grief felt by families and friends.

About 50 per cent of overdose deaths occur when people start using again after a break because of being in hospital, jail, detox, or stopping for other reasons, she said.

“What happens is your body’s tolerance to the drug changes, it actually goes down, and people use the same amount as they were using before the break.”

Overdoses also happen when the drugs are not as pure, causing people to use more.

Vanderschaeghe said that people often don’t call 911 because they fear police will respond and they’ll be charged with drug possession.

“When we talk to people who use drugs, that’s a substantial issue.”

She said most overdoses are from opiates and a pilot program in Edmonton allows opiate drug users to access the anti-opiate naloxone that blocks receptors in the brain to bring people out of an overdose.

Naloxone doesn’t harm people who are not experiencing an overdose.

“That is a program that would be really exciting to have in Central Alberta.”

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Coincidently, Towle said after she put on her costume, she discovered she couldn’t use her phone because of the gloves and it reminded her of the frustration people with mobility problems experience all the time.

She challenges more Albertans to get involved in the Easter Seals Drop Zone fundraising campaign.

“If you don’t think you can, support someone who can because it’s a fantastic organization that is really helping a lot of Albertans.”

She said her Wildrose colleague Calgary-Shaw MLA Jeff Wilson challenged her to rappel in Edmonton. He was rappelling in Calgary campaign. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

ANALYST: A huge asset Pinch was linked to 11 robberies, 10 in Red Deer and one in Lacombe. He confessed to nine and his DNA was found at one scene. He was charged and convicted of the 10 crimes.

That’s just one example of the work that Bibby does as the city’s first criminal intelligence analyst.

Bibby was hired in September 2012 to work alongside police to help with investigations. She develops timelines, creates association charts and conducts general research.

A criminal intelligence analyst is rarely, if ever, at a crime scene. That job is left to the forensic analysts.

She was run over by the rear wheels of the truck and died later in hospital, he said. A witness saw Graves on the road and pursued the truck several blocks while a person in another vehicle stayed with the victim, Hofley said. The witness was able to speak to the driver, who left the truck a few blocks away and came back to the accident scene.

Keith Thompson, who Hofley said was in a common-law relationship with Graves, faces several charges that include impaired driving, failing to remain at the scene, dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and criminal negligence causing death.

This frees up the investigators’ time, allowing them to respond to calls and be the boots on the street.

It also increases the possibility of a suspect being charged on more than one file.

Now the city is hiring another analyst to help sort through the estimated 220 files that come into the station every 24 hours.

Red Deer RCMP Insp. Scott Tod said the position has brought great value to the police investigations, the detachment’s ability to connect incidents and to be strategic in its enforcement efforts.

“The addition of another (crime analyst) is going to be a huge asset to us,” said Tod. “That’s just become the way of doing business and police work.

You need to have criminal analysts because of the amount of intelligence and information. Police officers do not have all the time that they need to do those linkages and look for connections. That’s the value in criminal analysts and it’s just the way of doing business in the police world now.”

Larger cities like Edmonton and Calgary have more than one analyst who specialize in crimes such as robberies.

Tod has not ruled out hiring more analysts to specialize in specific crimes in the future.

One of the first big cases that Bibby worked on will be heard in the federal court sometime next year. Bibby couldn’t go into much detail but she said it involved telephone toll analysis. In order to check the data, officers must write a search warrant that is referred to as a production order to secure a person’s cellphone text messages and calls and locations. In any kind of analysis work, they are looking for relationships.

“I had not done that type of analysis before, especially to that extent,” said Bibby. “It was a great icebreaker file for the detachment.”

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Murder trial faces delay CALGARY — A psychiatric assessment for a man accused of stabbing five young people in Calgary’s worst mass murder is complete but its results won’t be known for another month.

Matthew de Grood, 23, has already been found fit to stand trial, but the Crown wanted a mental review to determine if he could be found criminally responsible if convicted.

Court heard Thursday that the report will be ready by de Grood’s next court appearance set for Sept. 26.

De Grood, who appeared via closedcircuit TV from Edmonton, said noth-

ing.

“We got word from Alberta Hospital from the forensic psychiatrist that she required more time to ... determine her opinion if there’s criminal responsibility or not criminally responsible,” said Crown prosecutor Neil Wiberg.

“As a result of that request, the matter will be next in court on Sept. 26.”

De Grood was charged in April with first-degree murder in the stabbings at a party near the University of Calgary to mark the end of the school year.

A preliminary hearing has already been scheduled to begin March 2. No matter what the psychiatrist’s report says, the hearing will go ahead unless the defence decides to waive its right

to it.

“To my knowledge, no matter what the finding will be, this matter will proceed to preliminary inquiry and trial,” said de Grood’s lawyer Allan Fay. “Ultimately we have to get a judge’s ruling as to whether he was criminally responsible at the time.”

De Grood, the son of a senior Calgary police officer, has been in psychiatric care since his arrest.

“When I last spoke to him he seems to be doing all right, as well as one can expect under the circumstances,” said Fay. “His parents are doing as well as one would imagine under the circum-

Lukaszuk defends $20K cellphone charges CABINET MINISTER IN DISTRESS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta Tory leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk says the reason he rang up more than $20,000 in international data roaming charges on one trip was because a cabinet minister called him in distress.

Lukaszuk says the cabinet minister called him while on a personal trip to Poland and Israel in October 2012.

He says the cabinet minister told him violence was involved and police were on the way, so he stayed on the line with the person until officers came.

Then, the next day, Lukaszuk — who was deputy premier at the time — contacted the premier’s office. After documents were transmitted and a video conference was held, it was determined it was a personal matter involv-

ing the cabinet minister’s sibling, and not work-related.

He says that was the end of it, and adds he was just doing his job.

He said that once the charges were discovered, his staff and executive council staff fought with the service provider to have them reduced.

“I was 15,000 kilometres away, if not more, and all I had was a frantic cabinet minister at the other end of the phone,” he said Wednesday night.

“I imagine most Albertans would have responded the same way. If you are on a vacation, as a senior employer because that is sort of the role you have in cabinet, and one of your cabinet members calls you in distress, that’s what you have to do, that’s what you do.

“There’s no protocol, there is no manual for that, but I think this is the human thing to do.”

Lukaszuk said he can’t say who the

cabinet minister is or what the personal matter was about because the matter is under a court-ordered publication ban.

He said this has only become an issue because of the leadership race.

“I’m being told by leaders of the Opposition parties that my cell bill was shopped around to them for months already, ever since I entered the leadership race...Look at how this was released. Police are investigating, police were in the legislature (Wednesday) with a court order seizing documents.”

The cellphone bill was leaked to the Edmonton Sun last week.

On Monday, Lukaszuk apologized for the phone charges, saying it was “an urgent government legal matter” that required his attention.

Tory members will vote for a new leader on Sept. 6.

The other contenders are Jim Prentice and Ric McIver.

Lawyers to represent ‘disadvantaged’ denied legal aid to try to pressure the government to provide an additional $8 million a year to fund legal aid.

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“We’re sick and tired of someone telling us what to do and thinking for us,” Rose Laboucan, chief of the Driftpile First Nation, said Thursday. “We can think for ourselves.”

Laboucan is one of 12 chiefs who hand-delivered their message to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Frank Oberle as he waited for them to show up at a meeting to discuss the Alberta Consultation Levy Act. The boycott means no Treaty 8 chief will meet with government representatives on the act. Nor will technical staff co-operate with government staff in the field.

The chiefs want the legislation rescinded. If it isn’t, they say they will file a lawsuit over it.

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Ian Savage, president of the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association in Calgary, says the government has raised the bar so high that people living on income support or with major disabilities can’t get a legal-aid lawyer.

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De Grood is to remain in Edmonton until Sept. 19 and then transferred to the southern Alberta psychiatric unit prior to his next court appearance.

Police have not said what they think motivated the attack, but say de Grood was invited to the party April 15 and mingled with guests before violence broke out.

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In fundraising trenches THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE IS GREAT BUT WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR US TOMORROW? There are people around the world who cannot even say Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, don’t really know what it means (and perhaps don’t even care that they don’t), who are posting online videos of themselves dumping buckets of ice water over their heads.

And then challenging others to do the same. Or pay a donation to the ALS Association in the United States.

A lot of these people are doing both — dumping the ice water and sending a doGREG nation. The Ice NEIMAN Bucket Challenge is the fundraising phenomenon of the year, an example showing the potential growth of an idea in our online world.

This is the kind of thing the prophets of social media said would happen when people use their online connectivity in an out-of-the-box way.

The box may have a short shelf life but like a virus, it’s extremely powerful.

As of this week, fundraising to the ALS Association topped $88.5 million.

In the past week, they had a $10-million day. Last year, before the Ice age, their total fundraising was about $2.2 million.

Since friends of former college baseball team captain Pete Frates apparently sparked the phenomenon this summer, “explosive” hardly describes its growth.

A-list celebrities got involved, supermarket stores sold out of ice, and spinoffs spun off. In Gaza, people douse themselves with buckets of rubble, to support victims of bomb attacks.

In India, ice is too precious, so people give a bucket of rice to a poor family instead. In Florida, an actor dumped a bucket of bullet casings over his head to protest senseless gun violence.

And the ALS Association has the makings of a permanent foundation to fund research into an incurable neurological disease that slowly strips people of their ability to make their muscles move.

All of which is fantastic.

Meanwhile, down inside the box, the grunt work of non-profit fundraising carries on.

I’m just winding down from completing another year as a committee member for an annual fundraiser for a couple of local non-profits. It’s been six years now for the fundraiser bike ride that has become the Berry Architecture Wellness Ride, thanks to a naming sponsorship from an enthusiastic local business.

Before that, we sold raffle tickets for a cruise, sold cash calendars, held silent auctions, organized a road rally treasure hunt. Anything we could think of.

Forget a phenomenon like the Ice Bucket Challenge. Here’s how a fundraiser works: Our event is in August. It’s a one-day event, but we begin the planning and organization in February. For some larger annual events, the planning and organization stage begins almost immediately after each event is completed.

You contact businesses and supporters for grants. Every agency that does this has a contact list and everyone’s list obviously overlaps.

You secure your venues, get your licences (for an organized bike ride, you

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need permission from Alberta Transportation to use the road). This can take months of calls and applications.

You line up a celebrity attraction, if you can.

You set up your registration system, shop for supplies and — most important — line up volunteers.

The goal is to give your participants the best possible experience. They’re the ones out there gathering their own sponsorships, from people and businesses that you don’t know.

And then you rally your volunteers to make the event day run smoothly.

And then you do it again.

This is life for people supporting hundreds of local non-profits, which make your city livable for tens of thousands of your neighbours who can’t make it on their own, or for whom there isn’t enough (or any) government support.

Thank goodness for volunteers, in a city of volunteers in a province that has the highest rate of volunteerism in the country.

Collectively, this work comprises Red Deer’s biggest industry. By far.

The Ice Bucket Challenge has been called “slacktivism.” You really don’t have to do anything. You really don’t have to care about anything. You join a flash mob, post a video, send a donation (maybe) and feel good about yourself.

That’s great. It really is. I hope the money finds a cure for ALS. But every day of the year, one committee or another in Red Deer is hold-

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Welcome Tour of Alberta to our community Albertans know our province is home to incredible landscapes and amazing skies.

This fall, people all over the world will once again have the opportunity to experience our province’s beauty, when we host the second Tour of Alberta.

From Sept. 2 to 7, this 700-km professional cycling race will thrill cycling fans while showcasing rural Alberta and profiling our province as a tourism des-

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A-list celebrities got involved, supermarket stores sold out of ice, and spinoffs spun off. And the ALS Association has the makings of a permanent foundation to fund research into an incurable neurological disease that slowly strips people of their ability to make their muscles move. All of which is fantastic.

Meanwhile, down inside the box, the grunt work of non-profit fundraising carries on. ing another meeting, reporting on progress of who did what job, or looking for the next big idea that will get people behind their cause.

Caring is a full-time job. And there are more people doing that job than you may imagine. Joining them takes more than being willing to dump ice

tination.

Starting in Calgary, the race will make its way to Lethbridge before running legs from Innisfail to Red Deer, Wetaskiwin to Edmonton, Edmonton to Strathcona County, then finishing in our capital city.

In true Alberta fashion, volunteers across the province will come together to host festivals at the start and finish of each leg of the race.

Albertans will also have the opportunity to get active through local activities like the Ride the Road Tour in Calgary, the ATB Financial Family Ride for CASA in Edmonton and the U-Walk Initiative right across the province.

To learn more about these and other activities, visit tourofalberta.ca.

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We’ll also make sure people know about any traffic interruptions associated with the race by sharing information via 511 Alberta.

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Moving Michener residents discards our most vulnerable My brother Larry has lived at Michener Centre for 50 years; he is fragile and unlikely to survive relocation. The reasons are multifaceted and include: When clients leave, continuity of care is completely lost.

Clients are non-verbal.

The level of funding/staffing at Michener, and consequently, care, cannot be replicated. Clients who move lose all they have ever known: staff who have worked with them for many years (they are their family, they are our family), decades-long friendships, the only home many have ever known.

These fragile, vulnerable souls are gifts to us, for those who wish to see that. And they are being discarded.

All are fragile.

Michener staff’s mission has been to provide the best quality of life possible, to advocate for their charges, to care for them as their own.

Now, however, when caregivers express concerns, they are told to longer speak for beloved clients, they are to follow orders and move ’em out. Imagine being in their shoes.

Elderly parents of residents continue to love, worry and advocate for their voiceless, choiceless, voteless middle-aged children.

Just when they thought their child would be safe and loved for the remainder of their days, parents in their 80s and 90s must begin again. The parenting of a disabled child never ends.

Larry is a 52-year-old infant.

Diane Esslinger Edmonton

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Larry, right, is at home at Michener Centre, where he has lived for 50 years. His family says he is fragile and would likely not survive relocation. to be doing very well thank you.

We might change it to read “There is something rotten in Canada.”

I am referring to the trip to Northern Canada by our prime minister.

Recently, when the public learned that our Alberta premier was using public money for personal and political purposes, the public howled and our resigned.

Now I look to Ottawa.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is travelling all over the north at public expense. Yes, each day he makes a pronouncement about something. One day it was about Syria and Iraq, another day about agriculture, and so the pronouncements go on. Each one could have been made a whole lot cheaper from his office in Ottawa.

So why the trip?

Is it so that he can meet with his political followers and make speeches in which he boasts about the activities of his government and in the same speech he runs down an opposition party and its leader?

He is not meeting with ‘the public,’ only with carefully chosen followers.

If this is not political campaigning at your and my expense, then I do not understand what is.

Why are we not howling for him to resign as we did for Alison Redford?

The whole thing troubles me.

Alice Williamson Red Deer

Re: Doug Williamson’s letter about the David Suzuki Foundation’s charitable status.

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Traffic court shuffle helps to ease pressure The Advocate’s article Traffic court move hits bumps, dated July 23 — in which I am quoted — did not convey the full extent of my comments about Red Deer traffic court.

Moving traffic court from the Red Deer Courthouse to the Red Deer Lodge has had positive results that were not mentioned in the story. Readers of the Red Deer Advocate deserve to know that hearing traffic matters at the Red Deer Lodge is working well, and we are upholding the level of service Albertans expect of their justice system.

Considerable court time and resources are required to address provincial ticket disputes. In Red Deer, for example, there were 36,637 traffic tickets commenced in 2013-14.

The primary reason for moving provincial offence matters from the Red Deer Courthouse was to free up court space and ensure that more serious criminal cases were dealt with in a timely manner.

Like other provincial courthouses across the province, the Red Deer Courthouse is facing increasing demands. We currently serve a population of 211,727.

The decision to move traffic matters

out of the courthouse was one that expedites the process and makes better use of existing court infrastructure to serve the people of Red Deer.

The upside of holding traffic court matters at the Red Deer Lodge is that it is a citizen-friendly location. The public does not have to go through airport-style security to attend to their provincial ticket and bylaw matters.

Like any change to a system that has been in place for many years, we have faced an adjustment period, and have been quick to address the minor bumps along the way.

Holding traffic court at the Red Deer Lodge is an interim solution that is working for citizens in Red Deer.

Traffic trials are running just as they did in the courthouse, and the public can be assured their matters will be heard in a timely manner, and in an easily accessible location.

Rob Gregory Provincial Prosecutor Alberta Justice and Solicitor General Edmonton

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Premiers agree more federal money needed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CHARLOTTETOWN — Canada’s premiers have agreed at their annual meeting that they need more money from Ottawa to pay for health-care and infrastructure — a familiar refrain at these gatherings — but there was no consensus Thursday on how much cash they want to deal with crumbling roads and an aging population.

Premier Robert Ghiz, host of Council of the Federation conference in Charlottetown, said those numbers would be released in January, when the premiers have scheduled another meeting.

Ghiz also said the premiers agreed to set up committees to advise them on infrastructure needs and an aging population.

“Those two areas were the ones we were unanimous on,” he told a news conference at the conclusion of the first full day of talks. The meeting wraps up Friday.

The premiers also agreed to call on the federal government to set up a so-called aging innovation fund to help pay for ballooning health-care costs.

However, there were few details on how large that fund should be or what it would be used for.

The federal government was quick to respond to the demands.

“No government in Canadian history has provided more funding to the provinces for health care, and it continues to grow,” Finance Minister Joe Oliver said in an email.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said the premiers welcomed the input of Quebec Premier

Philippe Couillard, whose federalist Liberal party defeated the separatist Parti Quebecois in April.

“I think it’s a huge boon to the discussion around the table that we have a premier in Quebec who wants to take part,” she said, adding that Quebec’s status on a health innovation working group had been changed from observer to permanent member.

Ghiz said the premiers also discussed the fiscal imbalance between Ottawa and the provinces. He cited a report issued Thursday by the Conference Board of Canada that confirms the provinces’ longheld position that the disparity between the two levels of government is getting worse. “(The federal government) is going to be coming into a balanced budget situation in the very near future and we want to make sure that our priorities ... are going to be front and centre,” the premier said.

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RCMP Sgt. Norm Flemming said 15 of the 56 passengers were seriously injured when the southbound bus crashed at about 3 p.m. Thursday on the Coquihalla Highway, about 30 kilometres south of Merritt.

Flemming said everyone aboard the bus was injured to some degree, suffering from bumps, bruises and cuts requiring stitches.

He said there were no known fatalities.

“The cause of the accident is right now under investigation,” Flemming said. “I just don’t have enough information to hazard a guess.”

The bus was headed to the Vancouver area from the Okanagan region in B.C.’s Interior and two interpreters were accompanying passengers.

Kelsie Carwithen of B.C. Emergency Health Services said six helicopters and 19 ambulances were dispatched to the scene.

RCMP are describing the crash as a single-vehicle accident, with only the bus involved.

First human study of Canadian-made Ebola vaccine to start soon TORONTO — The company that has licensed a Canadian-made Ebola vaccine says it hopes to start a Phase 1 trial on the serum within the next few weeks.

The safety data the trial produces could allow the World Health Organization to start using between 800 and 1,000 doses of the vaccine which Canada has donated for the Ebola outbreak response.

The vaccine was developed at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and the Public Health Agency owns the intellectual property.

It has been licensed to NewLink Genetics of Ames, Iowa.

The company’s vice-president of business development says NewLink is finalizing the details to start the trial, which will involve injecting the vaccine into between 25 and 60 healthy volunteers.

The work will start in the United States, but Brian Wiley did not rule out the possibility that some of the work might be done in other countries as well.

“We are looking at options across the board but have not made any comment as to where those sites would be, whether they would be exclusively in the U.S. or outside the U.S.,” Wiley said in an interview Thursday.

Telecoms reach paper bill fee exemption plan GATINEAU, Que. — Canada’s big telecom companies have agreed to exempt some, but not all, of their customers from fees they charge for producing and mailing invoices.

But regulators say the agreement doesn’t go far enough, and are calling for another round of public consultations on the so-called “pay-to-pay” policies.

Executives from nearly a dozen companies, including giants Bell, Rogers and Telus, met behind closed doors in Gatineau, Que., on Thursday at the invitation of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

The CRTC had urged participants prior to the meeting to make firm decisions about the fees they charge, with an eye toward eliminating them altogether. What the regulator got was a commitment from telecom company executives to exempt seniors, people with disabilities, military veterans and people with no Internet connections from paying the fees.

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101-year-old Florence Storch throws a javelin during the 2014 Canada 55 plus games in Sherwood Park, Alberta on Thursday. Storch won a silver medal in her 85 plus category, with a throw of 3.18 meters.

Flight turns back after booze-fuelled fracas

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A booze-fuelled fight between two women who were allegedly drinking and smoking in an airplane bathroom prompted Sunwing to turn a Cuba-bound flight back to Toronto, the airline said — along with a brief military jet escort.

The women also made a threat against the aircraft, but “it was considered non-credible given their condition,” Sunwing’s Janine Chapman said in a statement.

Nonetheless, two Toronto-area women are now facing charges of smoking on board an aircraft, endangering the safety of an aircraft, mischief endangering life, mischief over $5,000 and uttering threats.

Lilia Ratmanski, 25, of Whitby, and Milana Muzikante, 26, of Vaughan, were granted bail Thursday.

The flight left Toronto at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday en route to Varadero via Manzanillo, but was disrupted by “two unruly female passengers,” Sunwing said.

The women consumed a “significant quantity of their duty-free alcohol purchase in the lavatory and lit a cigarette, triggering the smoke detector alarm,” Chapman said. “The passengers proceeded to get into a physical altercation with each other and made a threat against the aircraft.”

The pilot decided to turn the plane around over South Carolina and “that’s when NORAD got involved,” said Major Julie Roberge, a spokeswoman for NORAD based in Colorado Springs, Colo.

NORAD scrambled two CF-18 fighter jets based out of Bagotville, Que., to escort Flight 656 back to Toronto. The jets met the aircraft at the Canadian border and did not venture into American airspace, Roberge said.

The CF-18 escort last-

ed just four minutes, she said.

The aircraft landed at Pearson International Airport at about 8:30 p.m. and Peel Regional Police Const. Thomas Ruttan said the entire plane “erupted in cheers” when the two women were removed from the aircraft.

The flight took off for a second time from Toronto around 11 p.m. Wednesday with a new flight crew, Chapman said.

When there is an incident on board an aircraft the pilot reports the disturbance to their traffic control centre, said NORAD spokeswoman Army Capt. Ruth Castro.

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Canadian dating site for married people sues South Korea TORONTO — A dating website for married people seeking affairs is suing the government of South Korea after being blocked in that country over what it says are false allegations of illegal activity.

Ashley Madison’s Korean site was shut down this spring shortly after its launch, with authorities there alleging it incited immorality, according to media reports at the time. Adultery is illegal in South Korea.

In a statement of claim filed in federal court Wednesday, Ashley Madison denies the accusations, describing itself as “a social networking website facilitating communication between like-minded adults.”

The company accuses the South Korean government of engaging in “uncompetitive acts” by unfairly banning the website while allowing local businesses to operate similar ones.

It alleges the effects of that decision trickle down to Canada, limiting Ashley Madison’s success among Korean-Canadians and other Asian-Canadians and reducing overall competition in the social media market.

“There’s no adultery that happens on Ashley Madison, it’s just a publication,” the company’s CEO and founder, Noel Biderman, told The Canadian Press.

“We write very little, our users write everything.

So therefore Facebook would have to be shut down, any place where somebody wrote about, or any

phone call anybody made — holding all those devices, all those platforms responsible, that’s where you have to start that conversation.

“You can’t selectively pick us to try to make an example out of us,” he said.

The Toronto-based company is seeking an unspecified amount for loss of revenue and lost profits, as well as general damages for uncompetitive conduct.

It also wants the court to order South Korea to stop blocking the website.

Magnotta case: victim’s family wants exhibits kept from public eye MONTREAL — The family of the man allegedly murdered by Luka Rocco Magnotta is asking for certain exhibits it says are obscene to remain under wraps permanently.

Lawyers are in a Montreal courtroom today discussing a number of issues ahead of Magnotta’s firstdegree murder trial.

Magnotta has pleaded not guilty to a number of charges, including first-degree murder, in the May 2012 slaying of Chinese student Jun Lin. Benoit Lapointe is representing Lin’s father, Diran Lin, and wants the court to ensure some exhibits not be made public or be broadcast in any way.

Mark Bantey, a lawyer representing several media organizations, says his clients agree they would not broadcast or print some of the exhibits.

Justice Guy Cournoyer will rule on the motion later.

The court is hearing a number of pre-trial motions today and Friday in advance of the trial.

Jury selection is slated to begin Sept. 8 and evidence is expected to be heard beginning Sept.15.

Lawyers for Lac-Megantic accused want charges dropped MONTREAL — Criminal charges against two men accused in the Lac-Megantic tragedy should be dropped, their union and lawyers argued Thursday.

Train engineer Tom Harding, railway traffic controller Richard Labrie and Jean Demaitre, the manager of train operations, are each charged with 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death — one for each victim of the July 2013 train derailment.

A conviction carries a maximum life sentence.

Harding and Labrie are members of the United Steelworkers union, while Demaitre is not unionized.

Union spokesman Daniel Roy and lawyers for Harding and Labrie say the charges should be dropped in light of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada’s final report into the tragedy.

In last week’s report, the TSB criticized the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic railway for its “weak safety culture” and also targeted Transport Canada for its poor oversight of railways, particularly amid a booming oil-by-rail industry across the continent.

“It should now be obvious that the charges against each of these workers no longer have their place,” said lawyers Thomas Walsh and Marc-Antoine Cloutier.

“To continue along this path would not serve the public interest and would in no way help prevent such an incident from happening again.”

Walsh is representing Harding, while Cloutier works for a legal clinic that is defending Labrie.

Walsh also called for a public inquiry into the tragedy, going so far as to say it would be more important than the long-running Charbonneau Commission looking into corruption in the construction industry.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Cut and paste.

Red Deer Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter reduced his Western Hockey League club’s roster to 31 players Thursday by reassigning 16-yearold forwards Tyler Kirkup and Josh Logel, both of whom will rejoin their midget AAA teams.

Kirkup will suit up with the Southwest Cougars, based in Souris, Man., while Logel will be back with the Calgary Northstars.

“For these kids, whether they’re close or how they fit in, it’s about the long-term development of the player and where they’re going to get the most opportunity to play,” said Rebels assistant GM/director of player personnel Shaun Sutter.

“Both of these kids played midget triple A last year. That was quite an accomplishment for them to play at that level and this year we expect them to be dominant players at that level.

They’ll also have the opportunity to really grow not only on the ice, but off the ice, and that’s because they’ll have

that kind of responsibility — to be the best players on the ice every game.”

Kirkup, five-foot-11 and 164 pounds, produced 15 goals and 27 points in 43 regular-season game with the Cougars in 2013-14 and two goals in three playoff outings, while the six-footone, 198-pound Logel was one of three 15-year-olds with the Northstars last season. His statistics were not available.

Brent Sutter, with the help of NHLers Brandon Sutter, Kris Russell,

Matt Fraser, Paul Postma and Colin Fraser, has put his players — rookies and veterans — through the paces this week in preparation for Saturday and Sunday preseason games versus the Prince George Cougars and Swift Current Broncos at St. Albert. However, a large group of returning skaters will not play in either game.

“We’ve been going through a lot of things this week, including showing the kids video to emphasize how we want to play within our system both on the offensive and defensive sides of the puck,” said the Rebels boss.

“Having the pros out on the ice with us really helps too, because it has the kids playing at their pace.

“It’s been good for a lot of the guys and hopefully it’s been good for the pros, too. They’ve been great at helping us with drills.”

Sutter confirmed that at least six veterans — Haydn Fleury, Brooks Maxwell, Brett Cote, Conner Bleackley, Presten Kopeck and Kayle Doetzel — will not play this weekend. Three others — Devan Fafard, Kolton Dixon and/or Wyatt Johnson — may or may not see action.

Dawson Weatherill will start be-

tween the pipes Saturday and Taz Burman and Rylan Toth will split the goaltending duties Sunday.

Just notes: Fleury returned Wednesday from the NHL Showcase event in Toronto. “He’s a top-end guy and it’s nice to have him back practising with us,” said Sutter. “He makes everyone better by practising harder. He’s one of our leaders and it’s good to have him back in the mix.” . . . Fleury and Bleackley, selected by Carolina and Colorado in the first round of this year’s NHL entry draft, will leave for their respective NHL team camps the second week of September. Also slated to attend NHL camps are Johnson (Anaheim), Doetzel (Toronto) and Evan Polei (St. Louis) . . . Sutter will reduce the roster by at least two more players — reassigning 15-year-olds Weatherill and forward Jake Leschyshyn to the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs and Saskatoon Blazers — following this weekend.

He’ll also make decisions on 16-yearold forwards Reese Johnson and Zachary Gladu prior to the Rebels heading to Kennewick, Wash., for a pair of preseason games Sept. 5-6. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Through to the third round BOUCHARD, RAONIC WIN MATCHES TO ADVANCE AT U.S. OPEN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — Canadians Milos Raonic and Eugenie Bouchard reached the third round of the U.S. Open Thursday, earning tough night-time victories in swirling wind against dangerous opponents.

Fifth seed Raonic took revenge for a summer loss on grass in Halle, Germany as he defeated German qualifier Peter Gojowczyk 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Wimbledon women’s finalist Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., needed a lift in the third set to defeat Romanian Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-7 (4-7), 6-4.

Bouchard will face Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova in the third round.

The 20-year-old Bouchard won the first set and twice recovered from a break down in the second set as her fighting spirit at the big events came into evidence. But Cirstea, ranked 80th after standing 21st a year ago, took the match into a third set as midnight approached.

“I had to battle in the second set, her game was getting a lot more solid,” said

Bouchard.

“I believed in myself. I told myself to keep fighting. I started taking the ball early and it paid off.”

The seventh seed went up an early break in the final set but lost it, only to break the Romanian back for 4-3 on a double-fault.

Cirstea saved a match point in the ensuing game before Bouchard finally served out the winner after more than two hours a game later, firing off back-to-back service winners.

“It’s so special to play my first match on Ashe stadium at night.” said the winner. “I’m so excited to have a chance to play another match. I want to improve my tennis for that one.”

World No. 6 Raonic ended with 26 aces as he heads into an upcoming match against 34-year-old tournament debutant Victor Estrella Burgos after the player from the Domenican Republic defeated 17-year-old Croatian Borna Coric by a 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 scoreline.

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Eugenie Bouchard returns a shot to Sorana Cirstea, of Romania, during the second round of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament Thursday, in New York.

Stamps receiver Price wants to recapture Labour Day magic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The last Labour Day game was a banner one for Stampeders receiver Maurice Price with three touchdown catches totalling 165 yards.

A photo of him giving one of his touchdown balls to his girlfriend graced a Calgary newspaper front page the morning after the 37-34 win over the Edmonton Eskimos.

So Price is feeling a sense of occasion for the next edition of the Labour Day Classic, particularly because Monday’s game will be his first since breaking his hand in the season-opener June 28.

“I’m looking to try to repeat those efforts, but it’s just about making plays and being consistent and finally getting chance to contribute again (after) being out for so long,” Price said

Thursday after a wet practice at McMahon Stadium.

The recipient of that football last year is now his fiancee as Price and Nicole Romero are engaged.

“She told me yesterday ’I want to make that front page again,”’ Price said.

Price’s 102-yard touchdown catch against Montreal before breaking his hand in that first game was Calgary’s longest since Terry Vaughn’s for 104 yards in 1996.

The offence welcomes the return of Price’s speed, which is a challenge for the opposition’s backfield.

The fourth-year Stampeder from Orlando, Fla., started 13 games and had 57 catches for 788 yards and seven touchdowns in 2013.

His return was one of several developments this week in the lead-up to the Labour Day Classic, which already

had enough hype as a clash of the CFL’s 7-1 teams.

This Battle of Alberta will be for sole possession of first place in the CFL with the two sides meeting again in Edmonton on Sept. 6.

After beating the Esks 26-22 in Edmonton on July 24, Calgary can clinch the season series with a victory Monday.

“It’s no secret we’re the best two teams in the league record-wise, so this Labour Day game in particular is really going to be exciting for everybody, for both teams, all the fans,” Price said.

“All the games are big, but it’s the Battle of Alberta and who ever wins this wins the series for the season. That’s huge too.”

The Stampeders and Eskimos will also debut their third “signature” jerseys and helmets, although Calgary took the ta-da out of Monday’s un-

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veiling with the announcement the jerseys will go on sale Friday in their store.

The new helmet adorned with a mirrored galloping horse has been on the players’ heads at practice since last week.

Among Thursday’s moves, Calgary brought back veteran defensive back Quincy Butler and added him to the practice roster.

The team suspended the 30-year-old from San Antonio in May when he was charged with two counts of assault stemming from an incident outside a Calgary casino.

Butler pleaded guilty to one charge of assault and was sentenced to 18 months probation.

“Quincy is a man that made a serious mistake,” head coach and general manager John Hufnagel said. “I had a lengthy discussion with him. I know he’s genuinely remorse-

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ful for his actions, but I also believe he’s deserving of a second chance.

“I expect him to compete and try and get a roster spot.

Off the field, stay out of trouble. He’s on probation, so it’s all up to him now. I’m giving him the chance.”

Butler played 16 regularseason games for the Stampeders from 2011 to 2013. He’s had 42 tackles, two interceptions, a pair of fumble recoveries and a forced fumble. In three playoff games, Butler has 14 tackles and an interception.

“In life, you make mistakes and I was just happy the Stamps, the organization, Coach Huf gave me second chance to prove myself,” Butler said.

“I’m here to be better on the field and off the field as well.”

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RDC Queens have high hopes for new season

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Considering 2013 was supposed to be a challenging learning year for the Red Deer College Queens soccer team, hopes are pretty high for this year.

With 12 freshmen on the squad last year, they still finished 5-3-2 and in third place in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference South Division before losing 4-0 to the NAIT Ooks in the first round of the playoffs.

This year, all of that talent is one year older and that much better prepared for the rigours of a college soccer season.

Though there are only five returning players, they have 13 players who have either played major league or college level soccer.

“It’s not necessarily the games ... but it’s the ancillary stuff that preys on the mind,” said head coach David Colley. “When you have the veterans, they know how to deal with things and they can pass on lessons to the rookies.”

Colley seen how quickly they came together last year as rookies, and that gives him a lot of hope for this year, despite once again, a lot of new faces in the lineup.

“Qualifying for playoffs is a must ... but my aim is to make it through the first day, either by coming in first in the division or by winning our Friday game which we didn’t do last year,” he said.

The biggest challenge they may face on the field this year — outside of staying healthy — is replacing the eight goals scored last year by Kayla Blacquiere who has moved on to the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns and the Mountain West Conference.

Colley is hoping one of the few freshmen on the team is up to the task with Innisfail’s Sydney Daines taking over Blacquiere’s spot at striker.

Daines knows full well what is expected of her, despite this being her first year out of high school.

“Me and Kayla have actually played

a lot together so we kind of have a similar style,” she said. “There is pressure, but pressure is always a good thing.”

Daines is a three-sport star, also hoping to find a spot on the RDC Queens basketball team and is in the process of trying to qualify for the Canadian Finals Rodeo in barrel racing on her 10-year-old quarter horse Flame. She has three rodeos this weekend, in Okotoks on Friday, then Armstrong, B.C., on Saturday and Merritt, B.C., on Sunday.

But she is still focused on making a successful jump to the college soccer and basketball ranks. “(The biggest challenge) is the physicality and the practicing and committing to the team and representing Red Deer College,” said Daines, who is going after her education degree.

But not everything is falling on the 18-year-old striker offensively. They are returning several other players up front with a scorer’s touch, including Celine Jensen and Kaitlin D’Arcy.

Their strength is down the middle, however, starting in net with goalie Lauren Good and right through the back row of defenders that includes Abby Rogers, Alexandra Moyer, Chelsea Webster, Roxanne Unrau, Savannah Pratt and Allyssa MacPhaden, and into the midfield with Teala MacEwan, Moira Duley and Jessica Whyte.

“There’s a couple of positions where people will fight for positions, but there’s a lot of positions where we have a lot of experience,” said Colley.

Rogers is one player that right now is flying under the radar, after spending last year with Dodge City Community College in Kansas City.

“She came back to Canada for the education and she’s been a surprise to everyone,” said Colley. “Not me, I’ve seen her play, I’ve scouted her and saw her play, but she rarely plays a ball badly and she knows exactly how to position herself.”

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Red Deer College Queens transfer Alyssa MacPhaden, left works against Jessica Whyte, right, during practice on Thursday night at RDC. The Queens open up their season on Sept. 6, hosting the Medicine Hat Rattlers at 2 p.m. and then the Lethbridge College Kodiaks on Sept. 7 at noon. It will be a good early test for the Queens, especially against the Rattlers who host the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association championships this season.

“I’m excited, there’s nothing like playing games, you don’t know any-

thing until you play your first weekend,” said Colley. “(Medicine Hat) should be coming with a strong team and not looking to just rely on that automatic place into nationals finals, if I know (Rattlers head coach) Jim (Loughlin), they’ll be looking to win the division to show they deserve to be in nationals by right.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Parker Smyth bring wealth of hockey knowledge to Saskatoon

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BY KEVIN MITCHELL SASKATOON STARPHOENIX

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tony Stewart will return to Sprint Cup competition Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a three-race hiatus taken after he struck and killed a fellow driver during a dirt-track race.

The three-time NASCAR champion has not raced since his car hit Kevin Ward Jr. at an Aug. 9 sprint car event in upstate New York. Stewart pulled out of the NASCAR race at Watkins Glen the next morning, then skipped the races at Michigan and Bristol Motor Speedway.

Stewart, who was described by police as “visibly shaken” the night of Ward’s death, has been in seclusion ever since. Stewart-Haas Racing executive vice-president Brett Frood had said the team was putting no timetable on his return to the No. 14 Chevrolet and the emphasis was on giving Stewart time needed to get him “in a better place than he is.”

Stewart’s only comment since Ward’s death was a statement the day after the crash in which he said “there aren’t words to describe the sadness I feel about the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr.” It was not clear if the 43-year-old NASCAR superstar will be charged in Ward’s death. Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero has said investigators did not have any evidence to support criminal intent by Stewart.

Povero said this week he has no new updates on where the investigation stands.

WARMAN, Sask. — Parker Smyth comes from hardy hockey stock.

The Saskatoon Blades’ prospect is propped up by thick hockey bloodlines that includes 1,328 NHL games split between two brothers: Father Kevin Smyth played 58 NHL games with the Hartford Whalers, and uncle Ryan Smyth dressed in 1,270 NHL contests before retiring at the end of last season.

Both men, who cut their juniorhockey teeth with the Moose Jaw Warriors, have worked with the younger Smyth through the years and uncle Ryan has often served as a training partner and mentor.

“He teaches me about how hard it is to get there (to the professional level), and how to get there,” Parker, 16, said following a Tuesday-morning practice at the Legends Centre in Warman. “If I’m doing something wrong, he’ll point it out, give me pointers. Training with him is like pushing to the max. He knows what he’s doing. He’s done it a long time.”

That kind of ready access to gamehardened NHLers is a rare thing, and Smyth — whose uncle Jared Smyth also played in the WHL and the minor pros — says he doesn’t take it for granted.

The kid soaks up everything he’s told. He doesn’t mind being compared to his elders, but Blades’ coach and general manager Bob Woods says such analysis is better left on the shelf.

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round of cuts this past weekend, and is preparing for preseason games Saturday and Sunday in Medicine Hat and Edmonton. Those two contests will provide the Blades with their first look at the current crop of players against an outside opponent.

“He’s going to be one of those roleplayers,” assesses Woods, “hard-nosed, should be a hard guy to play against.

He’s going to finish his checks and he’s going to be tenacious on the puck.”

The day Smyth was drafted by the Blades, then-assistant GM Jarrod Brodsky called him “one of the hardestworking players in this year’s draft.”

Smyth says he’s fully aware of the importance of earning what he’s given — lessons learned both from first-hand experience, and from family members who know all about it.

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“I don’t think it’s fair to ever do that. He’s his own individual,” Woods said Tuesday. “But guys who have that hockey background are usually pretty intelligent players. They know the game well and they know how things are supposed to be done. He’s been around pro hockey, so he knows what’s expected and how to carry himself, and you can see that in him.”

Smyth, who hails from Red Deer, was picked by the Blades in the second round of the 2013 WHL bantam draft, 44th overall. The 6-foot-1, 165-pound forward played hockey last season in Kelowna, where he attended the hockey academy Pursuit of Excellence. Smyth collected 11 goals and 25 points in 56 games there, and he also appeared in one game for the Blades — that coming on Dec. 17, when the team was depleted by injuries. They lost 7-1 to the Kelowna Rockets, but he treasures the memory.

“It’s almost indescribable, how good it feels (to play a WHL game), especially as a 15-year-old,” Smyth said. “When you want to be a professional hockey player and you get an opportunity like that to get one step closer, it’s something special.”

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Williams powers through at U.S. Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Good as she is, even Serena Williams can find it tough to deal with swirling wind, so much so that she double-faulted three times in her first service game Thursday at the U.S. Open.

And, yes, even a 17-time major champion such as Williams can lose in the early going at the sport’s biggest tournaments, as she has repeatedly in 2014.

Quickly putting behind a poor-serving start, and showing absolutely no other signs of the type of upand-down play that has plagued her at Grand Slams this season, Williams dismissed 81st-ranked American Vania King 6-1, 6-0 in 56 minutes to reach the third round.

“She never let me in,” said King, who is 25.

“She’s played at such a high level for so long, and I used to watch when I was a kid, growing up. So it’s kind of surreal to see the person that you’ve been watching on TV in front of you and playing. It was difficult.”

While buzz around the tournament grounds built all day waiting for 15-year-old CiCi Bellis to play her second-round match at night — she wound up losing — Williams ran her U.S. Open winning streak to 16 matches as she tries to become the first woman to win three consecutive titles at Flushing Meadows since Chris Evert took four in a row from 1975-78.

For the moment, the 32-year-old Williams wants to stay focused on avoiding the sort of problems she had at the Australian Open (where she lost in the fourth round), French Open (second round) and Wimbledon (third round). Not since 2006 has she failed to reach at least one major final in a year — and she only entered two Slams that season.

So far this week, she’s left the trouble to others, and Williams could wind up being the beneficiary.

A pair of other past major champions, No. 8 Ana Ivanovic and No. 24 Sam Stosur, lost Thursday, as did No. 23 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and No. 27 Madison Keys, bringing the total to 11 seeded women gone after only two rounds.

That included No. 12 Dominika Cibulkova, the Australian Open runner-up who was surprisingly defeated Tuesday by Bellis, the youngest player to win a match at the U.S. Open since Anna Kournikova in 1996. Bellis, a Californian ranked 1,208th and playing in her first tour-level event, lost Thursday in three sets to 48th-ranked Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan.

In other action under the lights, 2012 U.S. Open champion Andy Murray won in straight sets, before

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OPEN: Getting through “It’s about finding a way and getting through.

That’s what I was able to do,” said Raonic. “I have one day now to get better and I know I’ll play better my next match.”

The Canadian still feels he has improvements to make in his game.

“I wasn’t focusing on the right things. I got a little bit caught up,” he said. “I didn’t focus on my stuff. I was getting a little too caught up in him rather than focusing on myself.”

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., improved his New York record to 8-3 as he plays for the fourth time in five years after missing 2011 after his hip surgery.

Conditions were difficult for both players in the wind, but Raonic said the weather “didn’t really matter.”

“You just have to deal with things as they come and find a way to win,” he said. “It could have been perfectly calm today and been a different story.”

The Canadian fifth seed took the 52-minute opening set in a tiebreaker as Gojowczyk landed a forehand long.

But the 124th-ranked German fought back to level by winning the second after losing a 3-1 lead but breaking in the final game. Raonic answered to take a two sets to one lead as he sent over his 16th ace on set point with the clocking running at almost 90 minutes on court.

Raonic needed to work to secure the win, finally going through after three hours with 46 winners and 47 unforced errors.

Wimbledon doubles champions Vasek Pospisil of Vancouver and Jack Sock of the United States both overcame injury to reach the second round with a 6-4, 6-4 defeat of Jarkko Nieminen and Henri Kontinen.

Pospisil had been bothered by a shoulder injury during a singles loss to Simone Bolelli this week while Sock had to quit in his first-round singles with a calf injury and cramping.

Pospisil didn’t even know his partner was hurt until after Sock’s singles loss.

“I didn’t know he had to retire,” he said. “I only ran into him after his match and he told me.”

As for his shoulder, Pospisil said it’s improving every day.

“The problem just came at a bad time,” he said.

“I’m serving OK but not great yet.”

The eighth seeds both played without apparent problems as they completed their efficient victory in 70 minutes. The winners broke twice from 11 chances and never faced a break point from the Finnish Davis Cup team.

Pospisil and Sock lost their previous match, the Western & Southern Open final in Cincinnati, to Bob and Mike Bryan. That ended an ATP-record run of 14 straight wins as a new team, beginning with their start together at Wimbledon in June.

The pair, which remain first and foremost dedicated to singles, are also working to reach the ATP year-end finals in London next November as a doubles team.

“We are both singles players, we’re fully focused on singles,” Pospisil said. “But having a chance to reach London changes things.

“We’re trying to keep relaxed on court, not stressing and enjoying it. We’re not putting pressure on ourselves.”

CFL: Negotiation list Also, a source told Dan Ralph of the The Canadian Press that Calgary added suspended NFL receiver Josh Gordon to their negotiation list, but Hufnagel would not confirm it.

“My neg list is confidential information,” was the coach’s response.

Gordon, 23, posted 1,649 receiving yards and nine touchdowns for the Cleveland Browns in 2013. The NFL suspended him for the season for testing positive for marijuana.

Under CFL rules, a player who is suspended by the NFL is not eligible to play in Canada. If the Browns released Gordon he would no longer be under contract in the NFL and would be able to sign with the Stampeders.

Hufnagel expects receiver Joe West to play Monday despite a family tragedy. West’s younger brother Brandon Hobdy was shot and killed in Arkansas just hours before West’s 129 yards on four catches in Sunday’s win over the Redblacks in Ottawa.

West was absent from Thursday’s practice.

Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard edged Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-4 in the day’s last match.

Williams could have faced Stosur — the woman who beat her in the 2011 U.S. Open final — in the fourth round, and 2008 French Open winner Ivanovic in the quarterfinals.

“You always hear about who is winning, who is losing. You hear about upsets. But for me, especially lately, I have to worry about my first round, my second round, and my third round. I can’t get too far ahead of myself,” Williams said.

“I was a casualty before, so ... I can’t make anything of it,” she said of the rash of seeded losers. “At this point, I’m trying to stay alive.”

After her singles victory, Williams went out and paired with older sister Venus for a first-round win in doubles. She last time Serena was seen competing in doubles at a major, last month at Wimbledon, she looked disoriented in warmups, then served four consecutive double-faults and quit after three games, saying she was ill.

Ivanovic had seven double-faults among her whopping 29 unforced errors in a 7-5, 6-4 loss to 42ndranked Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic, who occasionally plays doubles with her twin sister and never had been to the third round at a major.

Ivanovic, a former No. 1, wraps up 2014 with only one major quarterfinal to her credit, at the Australian Open.

“I had great lead-ups to every Grand Slam. I played a lot of matches and won lot of matches,” she said. “At the Grand Slams I just haven’t performed that well.”

Stosur, meanwhile, was edged 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8) by 50th-ranked Kaia Kanepi of Estonia.

There have been fewer surprises among the men so far, and only one seeded player was sent packing Thursday afternoon, when No. 28 Guillermo GarciaLopez of Spain was defeated by Sam Querrey of the United States 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

Querrey now faces an even tougher task: He takes on No. 1-ranked and No. 1-seeded Novak Djokovic.

Among the noteworthy results Thursday was the 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 win by Victor Estrella Burgos of the Dominican Republic against Borna Coric of Croatia. Playing in the U.S. Open for the first time at 34, Estrella Burgos eliminated a player half as old in the 17-year-old Coric — the biggest age difference in a U.S. Open match.

“I never thought that I have to beat him because he was younger than me,” Estrella Burgos said, “or that he will just fail by just being younger.”

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Serena Williams, of the United States, reacts to the crowd after defeating Vania King, of the United States, during the second round of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Thursday, in New York.

Jays turn to host Jeter’s farewell tour

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Jays closer Casey Janssen has had the better of Derek Jeter 16 times out of their 17 head-to-head encounters.

But ask Janssen about the New York Yankees captain and, after a string of compliments, he goes straight to the one time Jeter got the best of him.

“He hit a home run off me and I blew a save because of it,” Janssen recalled with a grimace.

Even when someone has his number, Jeter — who has hit .059 against Janssen — leaves an impression.

Toronto fans will get one last look at the 40-yearold shortstop when Jeter’s farewell tour rolls into the Rogers Centre on Friday.

“His career speaks for himself but he’s one of those guys who seemed to do everything right,” said Jays manager John Gibbons. “And he was a guy that always seemed to rise to the occasion when they needed something. He anchored their great teams.

He showed up to play every day.”

Like other clubs, the Jays will be showing their appreciation for the future Hall of Famer with a gift.

The Detroit Tigers presented him with two seats from the original Tiger Stadium and three framed paintings. Cleveland offered up a pinstriped Gibson Les Paul guitar and a framed piece of artwork of Jeter made out of LEGO bricks.

The Kansas City Royals donated US$10,000 to his Turn 2 Foundation. The Texas Rangers matched that charitable cheque and threw in a pair of cowboy boots. Minnesota wrote the same cheque and also presented him with the last second base ever used at the Metrodome. Oakland opted for a $10,000 cheque and personalized bottle of Napa Valley wine.

Some clubs worked around the number he wears.

The Cubs presented Jeter with a No. 2 from the famous Wrigley Field scoreboard. The Mets gave Jeter a plaque depicting his No. 2 made out of subway station tiles before their final Subway Series game as well as a charitable cheque for $22,222.22. The Angels went for a Yankees-themed paddle board adorned with No. 2 on it. Houston gave him pinstriped cowboy boots with his No. 2 on them, a cowboy hat and a set of golf clubs.

As of Wednesday, the Jays said they were finalizing their gift.

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Baltimore New York Toronto Tampa Bay Boston

American League East Division W L Pct 76 56 .576 69 63 .523 67 66 .504 65 69 .485 58 75 .436

GB — 7 9 1/2 12 18 1/2

Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 74 59 .556 72 60 .545 68 64 .515 60 73 .451 59 74 .444

GB — 1 1/2 5 1/2 14 15

Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Houston Texas

West Division W L Pct 79 53 .598 78 54 .591 72 60 .545 57 78 .422 52 81 .391

GB — 1 7 23 1/2 27 1/2

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

Friday’s Games Minnesota (May 0-3) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 6-7), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Capuano 1-3) at Toronto (Buehrle 11-8), 5:07 p.m.

Boston (Ranaudo 2-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 8-6), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 4-6) at Kansas City (J.Vargas 10-6), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 11-11) at Chicago White Sox (Carroll 5-8), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (Undecided) at Houston (Oberholtzer 4-9), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Lester 13-8) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 14-7), 8:05 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 9-5) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 13-4), 8:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 11:10 a.m., 1st game Minnesota at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

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

Cleveland at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Texas at Houston, 5:10 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.

Washington at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

H 182 149 147 158 143 167 152 117 151 119

Houston, 33; Ortiz, Boston, 30; Trout, Los Angeles, 30; Encarnacion, Toronto, 27; Bautista, Toronto, 26; VMartinez, Detroit, 26.

Runs Batted In JAbreu, Chicago, 97; Ortiz, Boston, 94; Trout, Los Angeles, 94; MiCabrera, Detroit, 90; NCruz, Baltimore, 88; Cespedes, Boston, 87; Donaldson, Oakland, 87.

Pitching Scherzer, Detroit, 15-4; Porcello, Detroit, 15-8; Kazmir, Oakland, 14-6; Weaver, Los Angeles, 14-7; PHughes, Minnesota, 14-9; Shoemaker, Los Angeles, 13-4; FHernandez, Seattle, 13-4.

Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 75 57 .568 70 64 .522 65 67 .492 62 72 .463 61 72 .459

GB — 6 10 14 14 1/2

Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 73 60 .549 71 61 .538 69 64 .519 65 69 .485 59 74 .444

GB — 1 1/2 4 8 1/2 14

West Division W L Pct 76 58 .567 71 62 .534 62 70 .470 55 78 .414 53 80 .398

GB — 4 1/2 13 20 1/2 22 1/2

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

Thursday’s Games Detroit 3, N.Y. Yankees 2 Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 4 Cleveland 3, Chicago White Sox 2 Minnesota 11, Kansas City 5, 10 innings Houston 4, Texas 2 Oakland at L.A. Angels, late

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Altuve Hou 131 549 72 VMartinez Det 121 456 69 Beltre Tex 119 452 66 Cano Sea 127 486 69 JAbreu CWS 118 459 70 MeCabrera Tor 132 542 79 Brantley Cle 127 495 79 Eaton CWS 97 383 59 MiCabrera Det 130 496 82 Gillaspie CWS 107 391 48

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Pct. .332 .327 .325 .325 .312 .308 .307 .305 .304 .304

Home Runs NCruz, Baltimore, 34; JAbreu, Chicago, 33; Carter,

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 San Francisco 4, Colorado 2

Friday’s Games Cincinnati (Leake 10-11) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 11-7), 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 6-7) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 6-6), 5:10 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 9-9) at Atlanta (E.Santana 13-7), 5:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 5-1) at St. Louis (S.Miller 8-9), 6:15 p.m.

Colorado (Bergman 1-2) at Arizona (Collmenter 9-7), 7:40 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Haren 11-10) at San Diego (Cashner 2-6), 8:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 9-5) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 13-4), 8:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 15-8) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 7-9), 8:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m., 1st game Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 2:05 p.m.

Miami at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

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

Colorado at Arizona, 6:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m., 2nd game L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 6:40 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Francisco, 7:05 p.m.

Washington at Seattle, 7:10 p.m.

H 132 149

443 405 392 439 528 459 406 513

69 61 45 45 73 71 75 81

136 123 119 133 159 138 122 154

.307 .304 .304 .303 .301 .301 .300 .300

Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 33; Rizzo, Chicago, 30; Duda, New York, 26; JUpton, Atlanta, 25; Byrd, Philadelphia, 24; Frazier, Cincinnati, 22; Desmond, Washington, 21; CGomez, Milwaukee, 21; Reynolds, Milwaukee, 21; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 21.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 97; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 90; JUpton, Atlanta, 88; Howard, Philadelphia, 81; Desmond, Washington, 80; Byrd, Philadelphia, 77; Duda, New York, 76.

Pitching Kershaw, Los Angeles, 16-3; Cueto, Cincinnati, 15-8; WPeralta, Milwaukee, 15-8; Wainwright, St. Louis, 15-9; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 15-9; Lynn, St. Louis, 14-8; Ryu, Los Angeles, 13-6.

Thursday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 001 100 000 — 2 5 0 Detroit 010 010 001 — 3 6 1 Kuroda, Betances (8), Kelley (9) and McCann; Lobstein, B.Hardy (7), Chamberlain (8), Coke (9) and Avila. W—Coke 2-2. L—Kelley 2-5.

Tampa Bay 200 020 000 — 4 7 2 Baltimore 200 020 10x — 5 11 0 Hellickson, Beliveau (5), Yates (7), Jo.Peralta (7) and J.Molina; B.Norris, Brach (7), A.Miller (7), Z.Britton (9) and C.Joseph. W—A.Miller 4-5. L— Yates 0-2. Sv—Z.Britton (29). HRs—Tampa Bay, Longoria (17). Baltimore, Pearce (16).

Cleveland 100 001 100 — 3 9 2 Chicago 001 000 010 — 2 6 0 Carrasco, Rzepczynski (7), Shaw (8), Allen (8) and R.Perez; Joh.Danks, Belisario (7), D.Webb (7), Cleto (9) and Flowers. W—Carrasco 6-4. L—Joh. Danks 9-9. Sv—Allen (18).

Thursday’s Games Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 2 San Francisco 4, Colorado 1 Atlanta 6, N.Y. Mets 1

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Morneau Col 113 420 48 Revere Phi 122 480 59

AMcCutchen Pit 117 JHarrison Pit 117 ArRamirez Mil 106 MaAdams StL 117 DanMurphy NYM126 Puig LAD 122 Goldschmidt Ari 109 Span Was 123

Pct. .314 .310

Texas 101 000 000 — 2 8 0 Houston 000 040 00x — 4 7 0 Tepesch, Mendez (5), Klein (7), Sh.Tolleson (8) and Chirinos; McHugh, Fields (8), Sipp (9) and J.Castro.

W—McHugh 7-9. L—Mendez 0-1. Sv—Sipp (2).

HRs—Houston, J.Castro (13).

Minnesota 200 201 000 6 — 11 14 0 Kansas City 200 110 100 0 — 5 12 1 (10 innings) Milone, Pressly (6), Burton (7), Fien (8), Duensing (9), Swarzak (9), Perkins (10) and K.Suzuki; Guthrie, Bueno (7), Frasor (7), K.Herrera (8), G.Holland (9), B.Chen (10) and S.Perez. W—Swarzak 3-1.

L—B.Chen 2-4. HRs—Kansas City, A.Gordon (17).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 000 000 002 — 2 5 2 Cincinnati 030 301 00x — 7 11 0 Arrieta, W.Wright (5), Rosscup (7), Fujikawa (8) and Jo.Baker; Axelrod, Villarreal (6), Ondrusek (8), Ju.Diaz (9) and Mesoraco. W—Axelrod 1-0. L— Arrieta 7-5.

Colorado 001 000 000 — 1 4 0 San Fran. 020 001 01x — 4 8 0 Lyles, Belisle (7), Nicasio (8) and Ja.Williams; Y.Petit, Machi (7), Romo (8), Casilla (9) and Susac.

W—Y.Petit 4-3. L—Lyles 6-2. Sv—Casilla (12).

HRs—San Francisco, G.Blanco (3).

Atlanta 010 000 023 — 6 13 0 New York 000 000 010 — 1 4 1 Minor, D.Carpenter (8), Varvaro (9) and Laird; Niese, C.Torres (8), Matsuzaka (9), Eveland (9) and d’Arnaud. W—Minor 6-8. L—Niese 7-10. HRs— Atlanta, Doumit (4).

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Claimed INF Jayson Nix off waivers from Pittsburgh. Activated LHP Scott Downs from the the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Liam Hendriks. Recalled RHP Michael Mario from Omaha (PCL) and placed him on the 60-day DL. NEW YORK YANKEES — Acquired LHP Josh Outman from the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named or cash.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Claimed OF Nolan Reimould off waivers from Toronto.

CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled RHP Dylan Axelrod from Louisville (IL). Optioned RHP Daniel Corcino to Louisville.

NEW YORK METS — Placed 2B Daniel Murphy and RHP Vic Black on the 15-day DL. Activated

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

Today

● 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:

Soccer Chivas

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 25 13 8 4 40 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 30 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 24 12 5 7 45 25 12 7 6 45 25 11 5 9 39 24 7 5 12 33 25 7 8 10 41 25 8 11 6 37 23 6 10 7 28

GA 33 27 33 30 31 43 39 32

Pt 45 43 42 42 33 31 30 25

Seattle Los Angeles Dallas Salt Lake Vancouver Portland Colorado San Jose

Signed RB Phillip Tanner.

Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Activated DB Quincy Butler from the suspended list. Released RB Tory Harrison.

EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed DT Cedric McKinley to the practice roster.

HOCKEY ECHL IDAHO STEELHEADS — Agreed to terms with F Kyle Gibbons and D Colin Shea.

READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with F David Marshall.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Portland D Norberto Paparatto one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for serious foul play which endangered the safety of an opponent in an Aug. 24 match against Seattle.

U.S. tries to shake off player losses, repeat as world basketball champs “That’s why I said what I did.”

Other contenders are also short-handed.

Tony Parker is taking the summer off inBILBAO, Spain — The bad news just kept stead of playing for France, and Spurs teamcoming, the only difference whether the culprit mate Manu Ginobili can’t suit up for Argentina because of a lingering leg injury. Lithuania was injury or interest.

Some stars couldn’t play. Others wouldn’t. starting point guard Mantas Kalnietas was lost Then the losses really started piling up for the to a shoulder injury Tuesday in an exhibition game, weakening a potential semifinal oppoU.S. national basketball team.

Kevin Love pulled out while awaiting his nent for the Americans.

That could leave Spain as the team arriving recently completed trade to Cleveland. Paul George broke his right leg in a horrific colli- in the best shape, a skilled and veteran unit sion that shook up teammates and perhaps featuring Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol and Serge the future of international basketball. Finally, Ibaka up front and Jose Calderon, Ricky Rubio, Kevin Durant, the Americans’ best player and Rudy Fernandez and Juan Carlos Navarro in the NBA’s MVP, changed his mind about taking the backcourt. The 2006 world champions went 8-0 in exhibition play. part in the FIBA Basketball World Cup. “It’s a very special opportunity to try and The U.S. team that remains is good enough to win but vulnerable enough to lose — perhaps achieve something big, which is nothing other to the Spain squad that was so close against than to be world champions again,” Pau Gasol much more powerful Americans in the last two told FIBA.com recently. “It would be incredOlympics and could get a third shot on its home ible to achieve this at home but in order to do that, we need to follow a court. lot of steps, compete at the “We still have a goal ‘WHEN YOU HAVE highest level, give everyand that’s to win gold, and and enjoy every mowe can’t (say), ’Oh, Kevin EXPECTATIONS BASED ON thing ment.” dropped out, Paul got hurt, WHAT YOU THINK YOU The Americans were so this is going to be tough for us,”’ U.S. centre AnthoHAD, AND YOU GET DEALT beaten by Greece in the of the ’06 worlds ny Davis said. “We hear evTHOSE BLOWS AND YOU semifinals but haven’t lost since, runerybody saying that. We’re ning off 54 straight victotrying to prove that wrong.”

RECOVER AND YOU’RE ries. They are the only team The former world basketball championship be- ABLE TO STILL GET THE JOB deep enough to withstand the kind of player losses DONE, IT’S SWEET.’ gins Saturday at four sites they’ve faced and still be throughout Spain and the — JERRY COLANGELO considered by many the Canary Islands. The AmeriUSA BASKETBALL CHAIRMAN team to beat. cans start a fairly benign “They have a great team group here in Basque Country against Finland, with Spain facing the most and I think they are the favourite in this world powerful pool in Granada, joined by European championship,” Slovenia’s Edo Muric said after the Americans’ 101-71 exhibition victory in champion France, Brazil and Serbia.

Eight teams will advance to Barcelona and the Canary Islands on Tuesday.

But they are young, with an average age the other eight to Madrid for the knockout rounds. The gold-medal game is Sept. 14 in of just 24.08 years, about a half-year younger Madrid, the only time the U.S. and Spain could than the 2010 championship team that featured holdovers Curry, Rose, and Rudy Gay. That meet.

The Americans held off the Spanish in Olym- might seem old in the future if NBA owners, in pic thrillers in 2008 and 2012, fueled by LeBron the wake of George’s injury, push to re-examine James, Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul and Carmelo the policy of allowing veteran players to comAnthony. It would now be up to a much younger pete internationally.

For now, youth is another obstacle the U.S. squad — its youngest featuring professionals — led by Davis, Stephen Curry, Derrick Americans face as they try to repeat as world champions for the first time.

Rose, James Harden and Kyrie Irving.

“I feel old. I’m like the third-oldest guy on And if they win, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said it would be even sweeter the team compared to back then,” the 26-yearold Curry said. “We were all 21 and 22 year than the Olympic victories.

“When you have expectations based on what olds, couple of vets, so we’re all at different you think you had, and you get dealt those parts of our career right now. We definitely blows and you recover and you’re able to still have high expectations for what we’re trying to get the job done, it’s sweet,” Colangelo said. do.”

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Wednesday’s results Los Angeles 4 D.C. 1 Friday’s games Houston at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s games 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’s games 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.

Football 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

Week 10 Friday’s games Ottawa at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Monday, September 1 Toronto at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

Week 11 Friday, September 5 B.C. at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 6 Calgary at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Sunday, September 7 Hamilton at Montreal, 11 a.m.

Saskatchewan at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Scoring Leaders

RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka from the 15-day DL. Promoted INF Dilson Herrera from Binghamton (EL).

Renewed their player development contract with Las Vegas (PCL) for two years through the 2016 season.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Announced president and CEO David Montgomery is taking a medical leave of absence.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Announced the signing of a two-year player development contract extension with Auburn (NY-Penn) beginning in 2015.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Dallas S Jakar Hamilton for the first four regular-season games for violating the league’s policy on substance abuse. Fined Denver QB Peyton Manning $8,268 for taunting Houston S D.J. Swearinger in a preseason game last week.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived CB B.W. Webb.

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TD Waters, Tor 0 Shaw, Edm 0 McCallum, BC 0 Hajrullahu, Wpg 0 Milo, Sask 0 Paredes, Cgy 0 Whyte, Mtl 0 Medlock, Ham 0 Maher, Ott 0 Grigsby, Wpg 7 Arceneaux, BC 5 Bowman, Edm 5 Ford, Sask 5 Fuller, Cgy 5 A.Harris, BC 5 Gable, Ham 4 LeFevour, Ham 4 Steele, Tor 4 Walker, Ott 4 Allen, Sask 3 Barnes, Tor 3 Marve, Wpg 3 McDaniel, Cgy 3 Owens, Tor 3 Tate, Cgy 3 Banks, Ham 2 Collins, Ott 2 Cunningham, Cgy 2 Feoli-Gudino, Wpg 2 Guyton, Edm 2 Kelly, Wpg 2 Kohlert, Wpg 2 Lawrence, Edm 2 McCoil, Edm 2 Mitchell, Cgy 2 Parker, Cgy 2 Slaton, Tor 2 T.Smith, Sask 2 Swain, Sask 2 C.Taylor, BC 2

C 20 20 17 20 17 24 8 14 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FG 23 21 24 19 19 17 18 15 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

S 4 7 0 3 3 1 7 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Pt 93 90 89 80 77 76 69 61 60 42 30 30 30 30 30 24 24 24 24 18 18 18 18 18 18 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

Washington, Wpg Watson, Wpg Whitaker, Mtl P.White, Edm Yell, BC

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0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

12 12 12 12 12

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Miami 3 1 0 .750 69 63 New England 2 2 0 .500 91 81 N.Y. Jets 2 2 0 .500 69 99 Buffalo 1 4 0 .200 63 104 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 2 2 0 .500 63 96 Tennessee 2 2 0 .500 71 83 Jacksonville 1 3 0 .250 61 67 Indianapolis 0 4 0 .000 60 98 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 4 0 01.000 105 63 Cincinnati 2 2 0 .500 110 86 Pittsburgh 1 3 0 .250 56 77 Cleveland 1 3 0 .250 82 83 West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 3 1 0 .750 99 37 Oakland 1 2 0 .333 54 67 San Diego 1 2 0 .333 48 69 Kansas City 1 3 0 .250 83 131 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Giants 5 0 01.000 115 92 Washington 3 1 0 .750 88 62 Philadelphia 2 2 0 .500 131 104 Dallas 0 4 0 .000 60 116 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 3 1 0 .750 93 87 Atlanta 2 2 0 .500 64 80 Carolina 2 2 0 .500 63 66 Tampa Bay 1 3 0 .250 61 74 North W L T Pct PF PA Minnesota 4 0 01.000 89 49 Detroit 3 1 0 .750 75 51 Green Bay 3 1 0 .750 102 62 Chicago 2 2 0 .500 73 114 West W L T Pct PF PA Seattle 2 1 0 .667 91 41 San Francisco 2 2 0 .500 64 77 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 73 49 St. Louis 1 3 0 .250 77 75 Thursday’s Games Atlanta 24, Jacksonville 14 Green Bay 34, Kansas City 14 Detroit 23, Buffalo 0 Cincinnati 35, Indianapolis 7 Philadelphia 37, N.Y. Jets 7 Miami 14, St. Louis 13 N.Y. Giants 16, New England 13 Carolina 10, Pittsburgh 0 Washington 24, Tampa Bay 10 San Francisco 40, Houston 13 Baltimore 22, New Orleans 13 Denver 27, Dallas 3 Minnesota 19, Tennessee 3 Cleveland 33, Chicago 13 Arizona at San Diego, late Seattle at Oakland, late

Golf LPGA Tour-Portland Classic Thursday At Columbia Edgewater Country Club Portland, Ore. Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,476; Par 72 First Round I.K. Kim 33-32 Amelia Lewis 33-33 Jennifer Song 33-33 Laura Diaz 32-35 Julieta Granada 34-33 Mina Harigae 35-32 Emma Jandel 34-33 Anna Nordqvist 34-33 Paula Reto 35-32 Alison Walshe 34-33 Chella Choi 34-34 Jacqui Concolino 35-33 Karine Icher 36-32 Juli Inkster 33-35 Jennifer Kirby 35-33 Xi Yu Lin 35-33 Marina Alex 36-33 Austin Ernst 33-36 Louise Friberg 34-35 Sue Kim 34-35 Candie Kung 33-36 Pernilla Lindberg 34-35 Lizette Salas 34-35 Mariajo Uribe 34-35 Line Vedel 34-35 Katie M. Burnett 33-37 Na Yeon Choi 34-36 Carlota Ciganda 35-35 Brianna Do 34-36 Charley Hull 34-36 Mi Jung Hur 34-36 Jeong Jang 34-36 Paola Moreno 37-33 Jennifer Rosales 34-36 So Yeon Ryu 35-35 Angela Stanford 32-38 Kelly Tan 36-34 Yani Tseng 35-35 Amy Anderson 36-35 Dori Carter 35-36 Silvia Cavalleri 36-35 Veronica Felibert 35-36 Maria Hernandez 36-35 Eun-Hee Ji 36-35 Tiffany Joh 37-34 Ariya Jutanugarn 35-36 Cindy LaCrosse 36-35 Brittany Lang 34-37 Ilhee Lee 34-37 Meena Lee 36-35 Megan McChrystal 37-34 Sydnee Michaels 34-37 Ji Young Oh 36-35 Suzann Pettersen 35-36 Jane Rah 36-35 Ashleigh Simon 36-35 Karin Sjodin 36-35 a-Gigi Stoll 36-35 Sandra Changkija 35-37 Shanshan Feng 38-34 Jaye Marie Green 37-35 Nicole Jeray 35-37 Hannah Jun Medlock 38-34 Moriya Jutanugarn 35-37 Danielle Kang 38-34 Stacey Keating 35-37 Joanna Klatten 36-36 Caroline Masson 36-36 Kristy McPherson 36-36 Mika Miyazato 34-38 Belen Mozo 34-38

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Jenny Shin Sarah Jane Smith Marissa L Steen Thidapa Suwannapura Kim Williams Chie Arimura Ashli Bunch Moira Dunn Katy Harris Felicity Johnson Haeji Kang Hanna Kang Sarah Kemp Christina Kim Jee Young Lee Rebecca Lee-Bentham Ai Miyazato Giulia Molinaro Jane Park Morgan Pressel Beatriz Recari Alena Sharp Kris Tamulis Ayako Uehara Caroline Westrup Lindsey Wright

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Canadian Tour PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Leading scores Thursday from the Canadian Tour’s Wildfire Invitational: Purse — C$150,000 Par — 72 First Round Adam Cornelson 32-31 — 63 34-30 — 64 Evan Harmeling Peter Campbell 32-33 — 65 Andrew Georgiou 34-31 — 65 Jeff Dennis 31-35 — 66 Justin Shin 33-33 — 66 Randall Hutchison 33-33 — 66 Micah Burke 32-34 — 66 Joel Dahmen 34-32 — 66 Brock Mackenzie 33-33 — 66 Riley Fleming 32-34 — 66 Jack Newman 34-32 — 66 Chris Hemmerich 33-33 — 66 Tommy Cocha 33-34 — 67 Chris Williams 31-36 — 67 Julian Etulain 32-35 — 67 Ryan Brehm 34-33 — 67 Bruce Woodall 32-35 — 67 Garrett Sapp 35-32 — 67 Web.com Tour-Hotel Fitness Championship Thursday At Sycamore Hills Golf Club Fort Wayne, Ind. Purse: $1 million Yardage: 7,360; Par 72 First Round Ryan Blaum 32-32 — 64 Greg Chalmers 32-33 — 65 Tom Hoge 31-34 — 65 Derek Fathauer 32-34 — 66 Bud Cauley 34-32 — 66 Sam Saunders 35-31 — 66 Tony Finau 28-38 — 66 Dicky Pride 31-35 — 66 Carlos Sainz Jr 35-32 — 67 Jonathan Randolph 33-34 — 67 David Lingmerth 33-34 — 67 Alex Cejka 33-34 — 67 Roberto Castro 34-33 — 67 Greg Owen 35-32 — 67 Colt Knost 31-36 — 67 Vaughn Taylor 34-33 — 67 Roland Thatcher 32-35 — 67 Tyrone Van Aswegen 34-34 — 68

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 B5

Battle of the CFL basement dwellers NERVY TIME AS ALS FACE EXPANSION REDBLACKS IN BATTLE OF 1-7 TEAMS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — It’s early in the CFL season to talk of a “must win” game, but that’s how it may be for the Montreal Alouettes.

The Alouettes and the Ottawa RedBlacks are both 1-7 and are on extended losing streaks, but Ottawa is an expansion team that didn’t have high expectations.

A loss at home to the newcomers, their closest geographic rivals and a team they must beat to have any hope of taking a playoff spot in weak East Division, would be devastating for Montreal, although centre Luc Brodeur-Jourdain doesn’t see it that way.

“For me, every game is a must win,” said BrodeurJourdain. “I don’t see it as ’Ottawa is an expansion club so it’s a must-win.’

“We must win every game. We must be there and clinch first place in the East and go into the playoffs with momentum. We have to get out of this black hole we’re in right now.”

The Alouettes face the RedBlacks on Friday night at Percival Molson Stadium, where Ottawa beat them 26-10 in a pre-season game when Henry Burris went 17-for-22 and running back Chevon Walker scored three touchdowns.

Montreal has lost six in a row, while Ottawa’s losing run is at five.

The Alouettes return home after losses at Saskatchewan and Winnipeg in which the defence was mostly solid but the offence continued to struggle.

The ongoing search for a replacement for retired future Hall of Famer Anthony Calvillo took another

twist as former Edmonton Eskimo Jonathan Crompton showed some promise at quarterback when he replaced starter Alex Brink in the second quarter in Winnipeg.

Crompton, the fourth pivot to see action this season, is to get is first CFL start against the RedBlacks.

“The main difference is his level of communication during the game,” said Brodeur-Jourdain. “He’s communicating well, trying to be loud and clear.

“He shows a lot of confidence. But I honestly think the four quarterbacks we have are the same. We just need time to develop.”

Time is starting to run short. The game marks the end of the first half of the regular season for both teams.

Luckily for them, the division is so awful that both teams as well as Hamilton are only four points behind first-place Toronto. It is looking almost certain that there will be a crossover team from the West in the East playoffs, so finishing in the top two is essential.

It’s been a shock for Burris.

“I’ve been in this thing for 14 years and I’ve never seen this type of discrepancy between the East and the West,” he said. “I thought Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton would be duking it out and we’d be doing what we can to get better as the season went on.

“But we’ll take this. There are enough games left in the season to overcome what we’ve done in the past and try to get ourselves going and make a run at the playoffs.”

The Alouettes may have caught a break when receiver Weston Dressler, cut this week after an NFL tryout, turned down Ottawa’s offer and returned to

the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Like Burris, Dressler has been particularly productive against Montreal in his career.

The RedBlacks are coming off losses at home of 32-7 last week against Calgary and 10-8 against Edmonton on Aug. 15. Their win was over Toronto by 18-17 at home on July 18.

Now they have a shot at a first road victory against a struggling team.

“Both sides know this is a big game,” said Burris.

“It’s a great opportunity for each team to get momentum on their side.

“Both teams are looking for a positive spark. Of course, we feel we’re the team that deserves it, but it’s all about which team gets the job done. Montreal and us are in the same situation and are working our butts off to get up off this doormat.”

The Alouettes have not lost more than 10 games in a season since they returned to Montreal after a 10-year hiatus in 1996, but they will need a major turnaround to avoid that.

Fans are losing patience with the quarterbacks and first-year coach Tom Higgins, and the shouts for change will grow louder with another loss.

Technically, it may not be a must-win, but it certainly feels like it.

“I can say we played our best football the last two games,” said Higgins. “Yeah, they’re an expansion team, but they have a more experienced quarterback than we do.

“We’re at home. We have to win at home. We have to beat an eastern club and get on the winning side of some games. So we can call it whatever we want.

We’re going to line up and try to win a game.”

Veteran slotback Dressler returns to Roughriders

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders had one thing to offer Weston Dressler that no other CFL team could match.

History.

Dressler re-signed with the only CFL club he has played for Thursday after passing his physical. He was back in his usual No. 7 jersey for practice after quarterback Seth Doege made the change to No. 9.

“I’ll tell you right now, I couldn’t be more excited to be where I’m at, right now today. That’s what I’m focused on now is here, help this team win some football games and with the ultimate goal of winning the Grey Cup,” Dressler said in Regina.

Dressler was released by the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday and cleared NFL waivers the following day, making him an unrestricted CFL free agent.

The Ottawa RedBlacks also made a formal contract offer to Dressler and the Calgary Stampeders were reportedly in the mix for his services.

Dressler thanked the other teams for their interest in him.

But in the end, he said there was “too much history” to walk away from Saskatchewan.

“I can’t really put it down to one thing other than I didn’t want to play against (defensive end) John Chick,” joked Dressler.

“No, I mean there’s just a lot here.

Dressler’s return to Riders won’t make winning Sunday easier for Bombers

CFL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers haven’t managed to beat the Saskatchewan Roughriders on the Labour Day weekend in nine years, and the return of receiver Weston Dressler to the Saskatchewan lineup certainly isn’t improving their chances this Sunday.

“Him having option routes or whatever it may be, he knows how to get open, he knows how to make plays, he’s just a special player in that regard,” Bombers defensive back Chris Randle said after practice Thursday.

Dressler returned to Saskatchewan after he was released by the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs. The Roughriders released him in January so he could try again to crack the NFL. The native of Bismarck, N.D., has spent his entire six-year CFL career with Saskatchewan and has topped 1,000 yards in five of those seasons.

Veteran defensive back Johnny Sears says the Bombers very much want to end their Labour Day weekend losing streak but, more importantly, they’re also jockeying for a playoff spot as they return to the CFL West this year.

The Bombers (6-3) and the Roughriders (6-2) can’t afford to let up as they try to catch the division-leading Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos (both 7-1). And the B.C. Lions (5-4) aren’t that far behind. Most of Winnipeg’s six wins have come at the ex-

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There’s a lot I’ve gone through with this organization, with a lot of guys on this team, coaches and players, front office ... the fans. Everything here, it really does mean a lot to me.”

The Riders released the 29-yearold Dressler 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. Dressler appeared in three exhibition games with Kansas City, recording a 19-yard kickoff return.

The five-foot-eight, 179-pound native of Bismarck, N.D., had 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 times, including the last four years.

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. He was a two-time all-star and the CFL’s top rookie in 2008.

Roughriders general manager Brendan Taman said he spoke with Dressler a few times before the slotback re-signed with Saskatchewan.

“He really wanted to be here obviously, so it made my job a little bit easier that’s for sure. You know, there were some nervous times for a while,

pense of opponents from the East. B.C. is the only western team on the list.

Dressler adds to the passing threat this Sunday but the Bombers also have had special trouble dealing with the running game this season.

The Roughriders put 186 rushing yards on the board in their 23-17 Aug. 7 win and held Winnipeg running back Nic Grigsby, the leading rusher in the league right now, to just seven.

“We’ll have a heavy does of that coming up this week, (Jerome) Messam had a good little game against us last time,” says Sears.

Messam had 126 of those 186 yards and Sears says they have work to do as they try to close things up.

Meanwhile, it looked for a few minutes Thursday as though Winnipeg coach Mike O’Shea might have some of the same concerns his Regina counterpart Corey Chamblin has had this week. Like the Roughriders Darian Durant, Bombers’ quarterback Drew Willy hurt his throwing hand. But while Durant, injured last Sunday, has been cautious to commit to this Sunday’s game, O’Shea says Willy reported being fine and will practice Friday and play Sunday.

He hurt his hand near the end of a long practice that stretched more than two hours but O’Shea says he has no regrets about working the team hard.

“We needed those last six plays, we did, and they were going very well up until that point and then (backup) Brian (Brohm) stepped in did well, Brian stepped in and I don’t think he missed a beat,” said O’Shea.

“You’ve got to keep going. Everybody needs the reps.”

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Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Corey Chamblin (left) chats with receiver Weston Dressler (right) while waiting for their turn to speak to reporters after a Roughriders practice held at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan on Thursday. but he’s a pretty loyal individual that’s for sure,” said Taman.

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Hadwin going to make most of opportunity ‘SIMPLE KID’ HOPES PGA TOUR MEMBERSHIP DOES NOT CHANGE HIM

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Adam Hadwin poses with the trophy after winning the Chile Classic in March. The Canadian secured his PGA Tour card by finishing in a tie for second place at the Portland Open last weekend. The showing in Oregon left him fourth on the Web. com Tour money list, from which the top 25 advanced to the PGA Tour. as Hadwin wondered what might have been and finished a ``terrible’’ 74th on the Web.com money list. This season, he adopted a different approach, lowering his expectations.

“Let’s say I tried to be too perfect,’’ he said. “I’ve taken on a much more realistic goal. Coming into this year, I just tried to have a little bit more fun with it and enjoy myself on the golf course. The one thing I really wanted to do was to play more (by making the cut at each tournament.) I was trying to do a little bit too much on Thursday and Friday last year. This year, I just wanted to go out to get to the weekend — and play on the weekend.’’

The attitude adjustment helped him earn his first Web.com Tour victory, in Santiago, Chile in March. The win is among his six top-10 finishes and a trio of top-three results this season. However, he hopes the chance to earn millions on the PGA Tour will not change him.

“I’m very happy with the way things have been going here,’’ he said. “I’m a pretty simple kid. Honestly. I was born on the Prairies (in Moose Jaw, Sask.,)

and I didn’t grow up with much. My parents did the best they could. They gave us everything that we ever wanted, but I don’t really need much, and I’m not looking for much.

“Obviously, my life’s going to get a little bit crazier playing on the PGA Tour. The more you play, the more people want to talk to you, and the more people want to see you and stuff like that. But I just want to worry about going on the course and taking care of my business.’’

The golf business has been part of Hadwin’s life since the day he was born. His father Gerry Hadwin, a longtime CPGA professional, has had considerable input in his son’s career.

“I’ve always hit balls and I’ve always been around the game,’’ said Hadwin.

“So it’s great to have (my father) as a support system and somebody to help my game and talk with.’’

Meanwhile, two other key support crew members, B.C.-based coach Brett Saunders and caddie Joe Cruz, are moving to the PGA with him.

“I’ve worked with (Saunders) for 11 or 12 years now,’’ said Hadwin. “He’s

Ogilvy happy to be in Boston, hopes a week can change his season

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NORTON, Mass. — Stuart Appleby knows how one week can change everything during the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Geoff Ogilvy can only hope he’s next.

Ogilvy was the 100th and final player to get into the Deutsche Bank Championship, the second of four playoff events. He’s a long shot to get to the next tournament, and the odds are even longer for him to reach the Tour Championship in Atlanta for a shot at the $10 million. But at least he’s playing.

“I can still win the FedEx Cup sitting here right now,” Ogilvy said Thursday. “I’m sure I’m the longest shot there is in the field — statistically — but everyone still can. You’ve just got get to that last one. So I’m still in it.”

Appleby had not come close to winning all year. He had two top 10s, but never started the final round closer than five shots at any tournament. He was No. 98 when the FedEx Cup playoffs began last week at The Barclays.

He opened with a 73 and was outside the cut line, one round away from the end of his season.

He strung together three good rounds, closed with a 65 to tie for second and look him at now.

Because the points are worth five times the value as the regular season, Appleby vaulted 79 spots to No. 19. If he can stay in the top 30 the next two weeks — and the odds are in his favour — he will be at East Lake for the Tour Championship and get into all four majors for the first time in five years.

“If I could play well whenever I wanted, last week would have been good timing,” Appleby said. “And last week, that’s how it panned out.

It’s certainly given me a large spike in ranking, and it’s given me much more of a dream to get back to Atlanta to play the Tour Championship, which enables a lot more golf events to select from.

And that’s been a plan of mine — to get back into the cool crowd.

“I still have a bit of work to do yet.”

That’s what these playoffs are all about. Golf typically has only one winner each week. The FedEx Cup can make the losers feel like winners.

The Deutsche Bank Championship begins Friday and ends on Labor

Day, with the top 70 advancing to the third playoff event next week in Denver.

This the shortest field ever with only 93 players. Four players are taking the week off for various reasons, two are injured (Jason Dufner and Tim Clark) and Dustin Johnson is on “voluntary leave.”

Except for having his name called for random drug testing on Thursday, Ogilvy was simply happy to be at the TPC Boston.

He started the playoffs at No. 90 and missed the cut at The Barclays. Ogilvy figured his season was over when he flew home to Arizona, except that when he woke up Saturday morning, he saw his name bouncing from No. 98 to No. 103 in the projected standings.

And then, everything fell his way.

Troy Merritt missed a 10-foot par putt on the final hole Sunday to fall into a tie for 47th at 2-under 282. Jerry Kelly looked like he might finish at 282 (that would have given Merritt a few more points), except that he got up-and-down for par on the last hole. Brendon Todd was at 2 under and headed for a bogey that would have helped Merritt, only to make a 15-foot par putt.

All that allowed activity allowed Ogilvy to end the week at No. 100, and he was still in the game.

“You can’t get to Atlanta without getting here,” he said. “If I can have a really good week, and move the right direction in the points, you never know what might happen.”

Hunter Mahan is coming off a win at The Barclays that moved him from No. 62 to No. 1 in the standings, and might have made it impossible for Tom Watson to ignore him when he selects his three picks for the Ryder Cup on Tuesday.

Rory McIlroy, who won two majors and a World Golf Championship in the last two months, is No. 1 in the world and No. 2 in the FedEx Cup. He’s used to that. Two years ago, McIlroy won a major and two FedEx Cup playoff events and still didn’t win the $10 million prize.

That can be the maddening part of the FedEx Cup playoffs. But that was the whole idea.

This is a free-for-all at the end of the year, weighted toward the best and offering hope to those hanging on a thread — Appleby last week, Ogilvy now.

CANADIAN SENIOR MEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP WEST VANCOUVER — Doug Roxburgh of Vancouver fired a 1-under 70 Thursday to take a four-shot lead into today’s final round of the Canadian senior men’s championship at Capilano Golf and Country Club.

The four-time Canadian amateur and 13-time B.C. amateur champion sat at 5-under 208 after three rounds.

Brady Exber of Las Vegas carded a 4-under 67 Thursday — the low round of the tournament — and sits alone in second at 1-under 212.

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Tom Skinner of Red Deer sat in 39th place heading into today’s final 18 holes with a 17-over sum of 230 that included rounds of 74-76-80. Len Powell of Red Deer, Jim Hargreaves of Lacombe and Tom Alford of Calgary, formerly of Red Deer, missed the 36-hole cut.

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VANCOUVER _ After spending years to complete his primary mission in life, Adam Hadwin is embarking on a new one.

Having secured his PGA Tour card for the first time in his career, the 26-year-old Abbotsford, B.C., golfer aims to keep it for as long as possible. “(Earning the card) has been a goal of mine for a long time, ever since I really picked up the game seriously and started playing junior and other events,’’ he said. “My whole goal going to school (at University of Louisville) was not necessarily to further my education or to get a good job. It was to play competitive golf against the best players in college and go to a good golf program and then turn pro.

“Since I’ve been a professional for the last five years, I’ve wanted to be at the top level, and I think everybody dreams of the PGA Tour and wants their PGA Tour card, because that’s where the best players play week in and week out. To think that I’ve got my opportunity starting next (season) to play against the best players in the world week in and week out and hopefully go up and play well and be a mainstay on Tour for years to come, it’s a really exciting feeling.’’

Hadwin’s new quest began Thursday at the Hotel Fitness Championship in Fort Wayne, Ind., the first of four Web.com Tour playoff tournaments. He hopes a strong Web.com playoff showing will kick-start his effort to play in as many PGA events as possible under a complicated reshuffle system that determines entry eligibility, based on money winnings.

He secured his PGA Tour card Sunday by finishing in a tie for second place at the Portland Open with a 13-under-par 271 total. The showing in Oregon left him fourth on the Web.com Tour money list, from which the top 25 advanced to the PGA Tour.

As for PGA-related goals, Hadwin said he has yet to make them. He wants to finish well in the Web.com playoffs first and then set targets.

Hadwin’s expectations got ``out of control’’ in 2013, when he struggled on the Web.com Tour and never came close to earning his long-coveted PGA Tour card.

In 2012, he missed out on a regular PGA Tour berth by one stroke as he placed outside of the Web.com Tour’s top 25. But instead of providing more motivation, the near-miss led to misery

the only (coach) I’ve worked with. He’s gotten me to the next level of every step. Every time that I ever need to improve, we sit down and we figure out what we need to do, and we get it done.

He’s the only one that I’ve trusted with my game thus far.’’

Hadwin is also expected to continue working with Vancouver-based golf strength and conditioning specialist Jason Glass, whom he credits for improving his balance, stability and mobility under a training program that has seen him add about 20 pounds of muscle.

Off the course, Hadwin, who still lives in Abbotsford when he is not away competing or training, does not plan to change his way of life drastically, either. Although several Canadian pro golfers have adopted year-round U.S. bases, he plans to continue living in the Vancouver area in summer and Phoenix in winter.

“I’ve always loved (Vancouver),’’ he said. “I find it really hard to leave every time I come back. It’s always one of my favourite cities just to be in. The weather over the summer is perfect. It doesn’t get as hot as it does down south. It’s usually perfect golfing weather, and there’s lots of great golf courses.’’

He will make his debut as a fullfledged PGA Tour member at the Silverado Resort in Napa, Calif., site of the upcoming season opener, the Frys. com tournament, in early October.

Hadwin finished tied for seventh in the 2011 Frys.com event, but said success at this year’s tourney will be more difficult, because he is beginning the battle to retain his PGA Tour card.

Scott Simmons, Golf Canada’s CEO, is also excited about Hadwin’s new status.

Simmons believes that Hadwin and 27-year-old Merritt, B.C., native Roger Sloan, who also earned full-fledged PGA Tour membership for the first time in his career Sunday in Portland by placing 24th on the Web.com Tour money list, can have a “huge’’ impact on young Canadian golfers.

Golf Canada strives to to ensure that young players do not fall through the development “cracks.’’ But, Simmons added, when homegrown “heroes’’ like Hadwin and Sloan excel on golf’s top stage, they can spark the same kind of participation boom that young Canadian stars like Milos Raonic, Vasek Pospisil and Eugenie Bouchard have in tennis.

“It means a lot for Canadian golf over and above our program,’’ said Simmons.

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Hartford Whalers legacy still stands FORMER NHL TEAM STILL HAS RAMPANT FOLLOWING DESPITE RECENT RETIREMENT OF LAST PLAYER TO WEAR JERSEY Hockey Hall of Famers to make their way through Hartford, and Pronger could be in within the next few years.

But the Whalers’ lasting legacy has to do more with the likes of Joel Quenneville, Dave Tippett, Kevin Dineen and Ulf Samuelsson.

“If you look back at it now, it was a lot of really good players that came through there that became good coaches and management,” said Burke, who’s now goaltending coach of the Arizona Coyotes. “The list goes on and on of guys who played there that are still having an impact on the NHL as coaches and management.”

Francis, the franchise’s all-time leader in games, goals, assists and points, replaced Rutherford as general manager of the Hurricanes this past spring. Shanahan just took over as president of the Toronto Maple Leafs, while Marc Bergevin is about to enter his third season as Montreal Canadiens GM and Don Maloney his eighth in charge of the Coyotes.

Tippett, a Whalers alternate captain and defensive stopper, is considered one of the best coaches in the NHL after 11 seasons split between the Dallas Stars and Coyotes. Samuelsson is a New York Rangers assistant under Alain Vigneault and was a head-coaching candidate for a few vacancies this off-season.

Dineen, the final Whalers captain before the team moved to Raleigh, N.C., to become the Hurricanes in 1997, coached the Florida Panthers and Canada’s women’s Olympic and men’s under-18 world championship teams before joining Quenneville’s staff in Chicago.

“They were good leaders then and it translates into coaching,” Giguere said. “I played with Kevin Dineen and Sean Burke, and those guys were good with the young guys, at talking to them and making them feel welcome, teaching them the ropes of the game and stuff like that. Those are the guys I remember from when I played there.

I think that’s a quality you need to be a coach.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS They played in a rink at a shopping mall, celebrated goals with music that sounded like a 1970s television theme song and have been gone from pro hockey for 17 years. Yet the iconic blue and green of the Hartford Whalers is as popular and visible as ever.

“I think the people that grew up with the Whalers will never, ever forget them, and they’ll always have an attachment to them,” former general manager Jim Rutherford said.

With the recent retirement of goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere, there are no more former Whalers playing in the NHL (Chris Pronger is still on an active roster despite career-ending injuries, and Craig Adams of the Pittsburgh Penguins was one of Hartford’s final draft picks but never suited up for them).

“I would’ve never thought that, yeah, he was the last Whaler in the league,” said Sean Burke, who played five seasons in Hartford, including part of one with Giguere. “It’s another end to the Hartford Whalers story in another way, but in some ways it just keeps the story alive.”

Most of the Whalers’ story now is nostalgia: fans, many of whom weren’t alive for the team’s only Adams Division title in 1987 and never saw a game at Hartford Civic Center proudly sporting the “HW” logo with the water spout or listening to “Brass Bonanza.”

The Whalers maintain a loyal following that longtime broadcaster Chuck Kaiton attributes to the creative logo, players like Ron Francis and even Gordie Howe at the end of his career and the team’s role as the “ultimate underdog.”

“They were always like that little engine that couldn’t, that people thought couldn’t compete with the big boys,” said Kation, who has never missed a game in the 35-year history of the Whalers and Carolina Hurricanes.

Francis, Howe and son Mark and Brendan Shanahan were among the

Ulf Samuelsson In 463 games in a Whalers uniform, Samuelsson was a rock. He had 176 points in that time and was a fringe Norris Trophy candidate in 1986-87.

Centre Ron Francis The Whalers’ all-time leader in games played (714), goals (264), assists (557) and points (821) is in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

After winning two Stanley Cups with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Francis returned after the franchise became the Hurricanes and led the 2003 team to the final.

Left-winger Dave Tippett Tippett played the vast majority of his NHL career for the Whalers and was a defensive star. Like many other former teammates, Tippett went on to success as a coach. Gordie Howe would be a sentimental pick in this spot, but he didn’t have the longevity of Tippett.

Right-winger Kevin Dineen The last captain of the Whalers played eight seasons in Hartford and trails only Francis in every major statistical category. When the Whalers went the deepest into the playoffs in their history in 1985-86, Dineen had six goals and seven assists in 10 games.

All-Whalers second team: Goaltender Sean Burke, defencemen Chris Pronger and Joel Quenneville, forwards Gordie Howe, Pat Verbeek and Ray Ferraro

Pronger, Giguere among last Whalers, but Francis, Dineen among best all-time When veteran goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere retired last week, it marked the end of an era. Giguere was the last active NHL player to have suited up for the Hartford Whalers (Chris Pronger is technically still on an NHL roster but won’t play another game because of career-ending injuries.) In looking back at the Whalers’ impact on hockey, here’s their all-time team as chosen by longtime broadcaster Chuck Kaiton, who has never missed a game in the 35-year history of the Hartford/Carolina Hurricanes franchise: Goaltender Mike Liut Liut was the Whalers’ best player in the franchise’s best regular season in the NHL. In 1986-87 when the Whalers won the Adams Division, Liut finished second in Vezina Trophy voting and third in the running for the Hart Trophy as league MVP. Defencemen Mark Howe Howe came over with the Whalers from the WHA and was more than a point-agame player in his first NHL season. That was also the third year he played with father Gordie and, for a short time, brother Marty.

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Dave Tippett is seen in this undated handout photo. The Hartford Whalers franchise is still making an impact on hockey and its fans some 17 years after the franchise moved to North Carolina.

Quenneville credited the “soft and quiet leadership” of Whalers coach Jack Evans for producing so many future coaches and front-office personnel but didn’t discount the strong bond between teammates in Hartford.

After coming over in the World Hockey Association merger in 1979 along with the Winnipeg Jets, Edmonton Oilers and Quebec Nordiques, the Whalers made the playoffs just once in their first six seasons before a run of seven straight trips. Those were the only eight playoff appearances in the Whalers’ 18 seasons.

Kaiton, hired before the Whalers’ inaugural NHL season, wondered if winning would have prevented Hartford from losing the team.

“Had that market been more of a winner consistently, I think it would’ve defied a lot of the odds, especially today, with market size because we had a very zealous fan base,” Kaiton said.

That zealous fan base packed Hartford Civic Center and bought plenty of merchandise from what Kaiton said was the first in-arena gift shop in the NHL. They created the kind of in-arena atmosphere that made Rutherford forget all about the location steps from a cigar shop, record store and hotel.

“It’s not really, to me, what’s around rinks,” Rutherford said. “It’s more about what happens on the rink, and the people, what they get out of the games, the atmosphere of the games.

And the atmosphere of the games were terrific in Hartford (Civic Center). I really never paid much attention to the fact that there were some stores build around it.”

Just as there was nothing else like that arena, there are few hockey songs like “Brass Bonanza,” the campy

Whalers anthem that still conjures up memories of the team. Asked what he thought the Whalers would be remembered for, Giguere first brought up that “classic” song.

It was so popular among fans that they protested when it was removed from the rotation. Kaiton remembers how much it annoyed visiting teams, especially one night when the Whalers beat the Flyers 9-3 when Mike Emrick was Philadelphia’s play-by-play man.

“He said, ’Can we not have that song play?”’ Kaiton recalled. “That song played, he counted, like 13 times or 14 times because when they came out for warm-up, when they came out for the start of each period and any time a goal was scored, that song would be played.”

Synonymous with the Whalers since their WHA days, “Brass Bonanza” was silenced at least at the NHL level in 1997 when owner Peter Karmanos, unable to work out a new arena deal with the state of Connecticut, moved the team. The outdated arena and crumbling corporate support doomed the Whalers more so than a lack of support.

“It was clear to everyone that if the Whalers needed to stay, you needed a new building,” Giguere said. “At the time, I think the economy of the city probably didn’t permit it. There was money that needed to be spent elsewhere instead of building a building, and I think you can understand that now.”

Rutherford said there was “nothing wrong” with Whalers fans that made the team leave.

“I think it was just an economic problem that couldn’t be overcome,” he said.

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Qualifying customers must be approved to lease or finance through Nissan Canada Finance. 2First four (4) semi-monthly lease payments and first four (4) bi-weekly finance payments of a new 2014 Versa Note/Sentra/Altima/Rogue/Pathfinder/Titan (including all taxes) will be waived, up to a maximum of $750/$750/$900/$900/$1,200/$1,200 for the 2 months or 4 semi-monthly/bi-weekly payments. Consumer is responsible for any and all amounts in excess of $750/$750/$900/$900/$1,200/$1,200 (inclusive of taxes). After four (4) semi-monthly/bi-weekly payments, consumer will be required to make all remaining regularly scheduled payments over the remaining term of the contract. This offer is applicable to NCF contracts only. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. 3No charge extended warranty is valid for up to 60 months or 100,000 km (whichever occurs first) from the warranty start date and zero (0) kilometers. Some conditions/limitations apply. The no charge extended warranty is the Nissan Added Security Plan (“ASP”) and is administered by Nissan Canada Extended Services Inc. (“NCESI”). In all provinces NCESI is the obligor. NCESI offers a Gold and Platinum level of coverage. This offer includes the Gold level of coverage, be sure to see your local Dealer to identify the difference in coverage from a Gold to the Platinum level. Retail value of added security plan based on MSRP. $1,440/$1,380/$1,380 for a new 2014 Nissan Sentra/2014 Versa Note/2015 Micra®. Dealers are free to set individual prices. ††CASH DISCOUNT: Get $2,750/$2,100 cash discount on the cash purchase of any new 2014 Sentra models (except Sentra 1.8 S MT, C4LG54 AA00)/2014 Versa Note models (except 1.6 S MT, B5RG54 AA00). The cash discount is based on non-stackable trading dollars when registered and delivered between Aug.1-Sept.2, 2014. The cash discount is only available on the cash purchase, will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance rates. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Conditions apply. ≠XRepresentative semi-monthly lease offer based on new 2014 Sentra 1.8 S MT (C4LG54 AA00), M6 transmission. 0% lease APR for a 39 month term equals 78 semi-monthly payments of $59 with $0 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First semi-monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Prices and payments include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/km. Total lease obligation is $4,627. $2,100 NCF Lease Cash, $300 in dealer contribution and $750 Bonus Cash from the My Nissan My Choice program included in advertised lease offer, applicable only on 2014 Sentra 1.8 S MT (C4LG54 AA00), M6 transmission through subvented lease through Nissan Canada Finance. 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VModels shown $25,899/$20,719/$17,282 Selling Price for a new 2014 Sentra 1.8 SL (C4TG14 AA00), CVT transmission/Versa Note 1.6 SL Tech (B5TG14 NA00), Xtronic CVT® transmission/2015 Micra® 1.6 SR (S5SG55 AA00), Manual Transmission. X±≠VFreight and PDE charges ($1,567/$1,630/$1,400), air-conditioning levy ($100) where applicable, applicable fees (all which may vary by region), manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable are included. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Lease offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Canada Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Retailers are free to set individual prices. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Vehicles and accessories are for illustration purposes only. Offers, prices and features subject to change without notice. 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FRONT PENHOLD FESTIVAL Penhold will host a fall festival Sept. 12 to 14.

The festival will include rides, music, a battle of the bands and fireworks.

The Shane Chisholm concert will be staged at the Penhold Multiplex on Sept. 12 from 8:45 to 11 p.m. The cost for the concert is $15. The parade starts on Sept. 13 at 11 a.m. at Robinson South.

A pancake breakfast, an outdoor fair with rides and games; and a vendors market will all be part of the fun. For details, check www.townof penhold.ca.

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HEALTH CAFE ON SEPT. 10 People who want to learn about Red Deer Primary Care Network programs can attend a health cafe on Sept. 10. Health Cafe — Real People Real Successes will be shown at Carnival Cinemas Theatre from 4:45 to 6 p.m. The cost is $5 at the door. To RSVP, call 403-343-9100 or email events@rdpcn. com. Carnival Cinemas is located at 5402 47th St. For more details about Primary Care Network, check www.reddeerpcn. com.

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Top: One of the many varieties of sandpiper that call Alberta home in the summer looks out from a broken branch sticking out of the water on the south end of Gaetz Lakes. An oasis of wilderness in the heart of the City of Red Deer, the Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary offers a nature break from the surrounding city.

At left: Elevated above the march on the north end of the lake, the blind offers a great view of the area.

Along the four km of walking trails at the centre, there are many other vantage points where excellent wildlife viewing is possible.

Lake area sewage plan stalls RESIDENTS BALK AT COST OF REPLACING SEPTIC WITH REGIONAL LINE

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Lacombe County is rethinking a proposed regional sewage project for four Sylvan Lake communities after residents rejected the cost.

Residents in Blissful Beach, Palm Bay, Yuill and Kuusamo Krest were approached to see if they were in favour of ditching their septic systems to tie into regional sewer lines at an estimated cost of nearly $45,000 per property.

A majority of those who responded to a survey and turned out for an Aug. 14 open house were against that price tag, although many liked the idea of a regional sewer system.

The bill was even less palatable to the many residents who only use their lake-area homes as summer getaways.

About $10,000 per property was the number many suggested, county commissioner Terry Hager told Lacombe County council on Thursday.

The lack of support puts the future of a $1.3-million Build Canada grant in jeopardy. It would cover almost one-third of the project’s $4.3-million cost.

“I sure don’t want to lose the money,” said Coun. Keith Stephenson.

He suggested that part of the project could be done using the money to keep property owner costs down.

If Blissful Beach — the closest community to the existing regional sewer line — was tied in, 60 lots would be taken off septic systems.

Complicating the smallerscale approach is the reluctance of the federal grant program managers to change the scope of the project. While

initially adamantly opposed to altering the four-community proposal, there have been signs some compromise may be possible, said Hager.

Council could impose a local improvement tax to force residents to pay their share of a sewage upgrade. However, that could be overturned if twothirds of residents representing half the assessment petitioned against the tax — a likely prospect.

Another option is to cover charge property owners $10,000 each and cover the remaining unfunded $2.4 million through county taxes.

Coun. Barb Shepherd was concerned whether ratepayers would support tax dollars going towards subsidizing sewage treatment for property owners, many of whom are part-time residents with another home elsewhere.

Yet another alternative would see the regional sewer system built up to each property line, with owners tying in over a period of years. That compromise would also require federal approval.

Coun. Brenda Knight supported that option. “It shows our stewardship.”

Not all councillors felt the cost was too high. Coun. Rod McDermand pointed out that with more education, residents might better see the value of the project.

“It’s an enhancement and I think it contributes to the value of the land.”

In the end, council directed administration to see if Build Canada was willing to change the scope of the project and to return with an estimated cost of a scaled-down project. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Wider bridge proposal rejected Cost-conscious Lacombe County council opted not to spring for a wider bridge to replace one damaged by farm equipment in May. Given the ever-increasing size of modern swathers and combines, county staff had proposed that council consider a 10.2-metre-wide bridge to replace the damaged one.

The original bridge was a standard 8.94 metres.

The wider bridge would have cost another $141,000, bringing

LACOMBE COUNTY COUNCIL the bridge replacement bill up to about $2.6 million, said Phil Lodermeier, the county’s manager of operations.

An undisclosed amount of that will be covered by insurance.

The so-called Pink Bridge, named for its faded red paint, has been closed near Bentley since the mishap.

Coun. Rod McDermand ques-

tioned whether a wider bridge was necessary.

He was also concerned it would set a precedent.

If all of the county’s applicable bridges were replaced at the wider standard, it would add $7.2 million to the county’s $131 million bridge replacement program, which includes a replacement timetable for the municipality’s 161 bridges and

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culverts, including 11 major bridges.

After getting details of the bridge’s design, McDermand, who farms near Alix, was satisfied that existing combines could negotiate the smaller width safely.

Coun. Ken Wigmore backed a wider bridge, pointing out it will last for many decades and farm equipment is bound to get bigger.

Council voted 4-3 against the motion for a larger bridge.

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Free the Fuzz brought in more than $21,000 for the Special Olympics at Parkland Mall last weekend. Alberta Sheriff Ryan Crawford and Red Deer RCMP Const. Ray Leonhardt spent the weekend scaffolding attached to the roof of the north end’s Walmart.

Special Olympics athletes and law enforcement representatives from various agencies collected donations on the ground below. “Red Deer is so supportive of the Special Olympics, and we had a good time making it fun for people to donate,” said Red Deer RCMP Const. Jeff Hewitt. Free the Fuzz is organized by the Law Enforcement Torch Run every year. All donations go straight to the Special Olympics. Free the Fuzz was sponsored

by Walmart, E & D Scaffolding, The Keg, Cora Restaurant, Maple Leaf Foods and Starbucks.

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BRIEFS School zone speed limits in effect starting Tuesday Red Deer RCMP are reminding students, parents and motorists to mind their back-to-school travel habits.

School zones are in effect next week as most city schools reopen to students on Tuesday. The speed limit in schools zones is 30 km/h between 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.;11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and again from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Motorists who drive 50 km/h through a school zone can be fined $177. The fine increases with the speed.

Alternating flashing yellow lights on a school bus mean the driver is slowing down, and motorists following must do the same. Alternating red flashing lights on a school bus mean motorists must stop. The fine for passing a school bus with flashing red lights is $345.

In playground zones, motorists must drive 30 km/h between 8:30 a.m. to one hour after sunset every day. Fines of $50 or more can be applied for going one km over the speed limit, and fines of more than $350 for going 50 km over the speed limit.

Students who are making their way to school are asked to be alert at intersections and always look for danger when crossing the street. If you can’t see the driver, they can’t see you.

Those who bike, skateboard or rollerblade should wear safety gear.

Youth under 18 must wear a helmet when riding a bike. Young cyclists not wearing a helmet can be fined more than $60.

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Indoor soccer fields added at Westerner Park The Red Deer City Soccer Association is adding two new artificial turf fields for its indoor soccer season.

The two fields will be located at Westerner Park AgriCentre.

The new season starts in October.

The fields are the biggest nonboarded fields in Alberta, said soccer association business manager Brian Desjardins.

The association purchased a hightech synthetic grass with foam backing surface. The second indoor field is made of roll-out carpet with padding underneath.

The association intends to still use the boarded indoor fields at the Collicutt Centre.

Desjardins said the fields will be open for booking for other uses, including ultimate frisbee, football, community training and dryland training for other sports. In addition, there is a 1,500 square feet of unallocated space for large meeting or other uses.

For more information or to register for soccer online, go to www.rdcsa. com.

Campus Alberta Central has new executive director After four years at the helm of

Gigi Zhen of Calgary joined friends and family for a trip to Sylvan Lake on Thursday but it turned out not to be such a great day at the lake. Periods of rain and cool temperatures kept them out of the water and under the umbrella.

Highs in the 20C range with a mix of sun and cloud are forecast through the weekend. the joint venture between Olds and Red Deer Colleges, Jean Madill has stepped aside, making way for new leadership.

On Thursday, Bonnie Ireland was announced as Campus Alberta Central executive director. Ireland has worked for more than 10 years as a college instructor and has a masters degree in public administration as well as bachelors degrees in education and psychology.

Ireland’s last post was as the program manager and senior administrator with Stettler Adult Learning Centre, where she was the site contact for Campus Alberta Central and managed contacts with the Alberta Department of Innovation and Advanced Education.

She has also been a member of the Campus Alberta Central management committee, the Community Learning Network board of directors and is a past director of Literacy Alberta.

“I believe continuous learning is an essential part of achieving career and personal goals,” said Ireland in a release. “Campus Alberta Central and partner organizations throughout the region make post-secondary opportunities possible for individuals, wherever they live.

“I feel privileged to be part of this valuable organization that clearly contributes to the creation of vibrant communities throughout Alberta.”

Madill is retiring after working 30 years in post-secondary education, four of those as the executive director.

Campus Alberta Central is a joint venture between RDC and Olds College. The two institutions share the responsibility of stewarding post-secondary learning in Central Alberta.

Unique gold ring found; Red Deer RCMP seek owner Missing a gold ring?

A unique ring was found in the parking lot of the A&W Restaurant at 6320 50th Ave. in Red Deer and turned into RCMP on Aug. 25.

Police say the ring looks as if it may have been custom made.

If you have lost a ring, call the exhibits staff at Red Deer RCMP at 403-406-2574 from Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

You will be asked to provide proof of ownership in order to claim it. That may be a photo or appraisal certificate, or a detailed description alongside other proof of ownership.

Highway safety crackdown launched for long weekend Alberta’s integrated traffic units want to remind drivers to be safe on the roads this last long weekend of the summer.

Drivers on Alberta highways can

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Machete assault sentence awaits Gladue report Sentencing will be delayed further for a man convicted in April of charges laid after a knife attack in a Red Deer apartment.

John Casey Wenger, 28, was charged after using a machete during a fight in his Red Deer apartment on Jan. 15, 2011.

Represented by Red Deer defence counsel Will Willms, Wenger stated that he was defending himself when he brought the machete down on the man’s head after a night of drinking and using salvia, a drug that can produce hallucinations.

Pronounced guilty by Judge Jim Mitchell in Red Deer provincial court on April 30, Wenger asked for a delay in sentencing to give time for preparation of a Gladue pre-sentence report.

Gladue reports may be ordered for people of aboriginal background and may offer alternative sentencing recommendations, recognizing cultural and historical factors affecting First Nations and Métis people.

Wenger was due for sentencing on Sept. 5. However, Mitchell heard on Thursday that the Gladue report is not yet complete and is not likely to be finished before Oct. 6.

Sentencing has been adjourned until after that date to give the Crown, defence and the court time to review its recommendations.

Homeless count seeks volunteers in Red Deer Volunteers are needed to help with Red Deer’s second homeless count on Oct. 16.

The point-in-time count will be conducted from 10 p.m. until midnight.

The first count in October 2012 revealed that 279 people were homeless on that night.

Janell Bunbury, a housing program co-ordinator in the city’s Social Planning Department, said conducting a point in time count allows the city to identify trends and key issues related to homelessness in Red Deer.

About 200 volunteers are needed and they must be over 18 years of age.

They will be trained and grouped to conduct the count throughout Red Deer.

Training for registered volunteers will occur the night of the count. Volunteers will be notified with details of the command centre and training room location closer to the date.

Sign up at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VolunteerPIT or call 403342-8100.

Second-degree murder puts Maskwacis man in jail A Maskwacis man arrested for second-degree murder after a knife fight near Pigeon Lake has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

Maskwacis RCMP were called to assist on Aug. 30, 2012, when police received reports that a man had been stabbed. Ma-Me-O Beach resident Perry Johnson, 17, died of wounds suffered during a fight in the summer village where he lived.

Chris Norbert, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on May 19 in Wetaskiwin provincial court, but sentencing was adjourned at the time.

He was sentenced in Wetaskiwin on Tuesday.

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expect to see an enhanced traffic presence, aimed at promoting safe driving behaviour, throughout the Labour Day weekend.

During their major highway presence this weekend, the traffic unit has several enforcement priorities.

They will target: ● impaired driving (about 20 per cent of fatal collisions involve a driver who had been drinking); ● proper seatbelt usage (across Canada, about 40 per cent of vehicle occupants fatally injured in crashes were not wearing seatbelts); ● speed and aggressive driving (according to police, the faster one drives, the longer the distance required to make a complete stop); ● distracted driving, which can be a contributing factor in collisions (police will look for drivers with cellphones, tablets and DVD players).

Police would like to remind drivers that fatal and injury collisions on holiday long weekends are more frequent because of increased traffic volume, variety of vehicles, drivers travelling on unfamiliar highways, fatigue, distraction and impaired driving.

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There were two busts at the Alberta border last weekend, and this time it wasn’t drugs or rats.

It was zebra mussels.

Two boats contaminated by zebra mussels were stopped at weigh stations at Dunmore and Vermilion over the weekend.

According to a release from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, one of the boat owners admitted he was very thankful for the inspection station, as he wouldn’t want to be responsible for bringing zebra mussels into an Alberta lake.

The boats originated from New York and Ontario.

About 2,500 inspections have been completed since June 9 and while these two were found to have zebra mussels, 99 more boats were deemed high risk.

“Our success really depends on boaters taking advantage of inspection sites and cleaning, draining and drying their boats,” said Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Minister Robin Campbell.

“With only about half of boaters stopping to have their watercraft inspected this summer, stricter measures may be necessary to protect our waterways.”

Zebra mussels are very difficult to eradicate once they are introduced to a waterbody. The Alberta government estimates a zebra mussel infestation could have an annual cost of $75 million.

To report zebra mussels, call Alberta’s invasive species hotline at 1-855-336-2628.

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TORONTO — CIBC sees a long-term reward in wooing new Canadians with small-balance credit cards, saying it hopes to win their business in future as investment and mortgage clients.

David Williamson, CIBC’s head of retail and business banking, says new Canadians are an obvious growth area for the country’s fifth-largest lender.

“A lot of folks coming in are of solid credit standard. They’re coming in to work here or to invest here, so we’re looking to more than just participate in that space,” Williamson told analysts on a call Thursday following the bank’s latest earnings release.

One of the difficulties new Canadians face in obtaining credit at major banks is their lack of Canadian credit history, a factor in assessing whether they can repay debt.

CIBC said it reduces this risk by approving credit cards with initially with small, unsecured balances.

“It’s a very small balance but allows new Canadians to build a credit history,” he said. “Obviously, the experience is a winning proposition, that’s why you see us and others doing it.”

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CIBC is not the only bank to offer special deals to Canadian immigrants.

Royal Bank (TSX:RY) approves new Canadians for credit cards, car loans and even mortgages even if they have no Canadian credit history, while TD Bank offers new Canadians a no-fee checking account, a credit card and fee-less money transfers.

Meanwhile, CIBC (TSX:CM) reported that it had a five per cent jump in profit in its third quarter boosted, like its competitors, by solid earnings from its wealth management division.

CIBC said Thursday it earned $921 million, or $2.26 per diluted share, in the three-month period ended July 31.

That compared with $878 million, or $2.13 per share, in the same quarter last year.

After adjusting for one-time items, net earnings were $908 million or $2.23 per share, down 2.5 per cent from the same period a year ago but beating analysts expectations of $2.21 per share.

The drop was largely due to the sale of 50 per cent of its Aeroplan portfolio.

Loyalty rewards company Aimia Inc., which owns and operates the Aeroplan rewards program in Canada, is now working with competitor TD Bank (TSX:TD) as its main partner as the is-

suer of Aeroplan credit cards.

Quarterly revenue was $3.36 billion, up from $3.25 billion in the same period a year ago.

Barclays analyst John Aiken said none of the bank’s divisions really stood out in terms of growth, but overall, showed that CIBC is setting the stage for the future.

“While we agree that the quarter’s performance does not merit much outperformance against the group, we are becoming increasingly convinced that the growth outlook for CIBC is improving over the longer term, but investors should not expect outsized return of capital as a payment for waiting,” he wrote in a research note.

Shares in CIBC fell more than two per cent, or $2.46 to $103.05 in afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Like the other banks that reported earnings this week, CIBC had strong results from its wealth management services. The division benefited from strong stock markets, higher commissions and sales of long-term mutual funds. The division earned a net income of $121 million for the third quarter, up $19 million or 19 per cent from the third quarter a year ago.

The bank has been working to expand its wealth management services by eyeing growth in the U.S. Ultimately, it wants the division to generate about 15 per cent of its total profit.

This quarter, wealth management accounted for 13 per cent of the bank’s total profit.

CIBC’s retail and business banking arm, which includes business from the branches, had net income of $589 million, down $23 million from a year ago, due to lower revenue and its sale of its Aeroplan credit card portfolio.

Provision for credit losses was down $125 million, or 39 per cent from the same quarter last year.

The bank says it will renew its share buyback program for another year.

“We are on track in executing our growth strategy to be the leading bank for our clients and we are well positioned for future growth,” said Gerry McCaughey, CIBC president and CEO. McCaughey will be leaving the bank on Sept. 15 to be succeeded by Victor Dodig, who is currently head of CIBC’s wealth management division.

The move was a surprise because McCaughey had previously announced that he would stay in the top job until April 2016 when he turns 60.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The owner of the Edmonton Oilers says the booming, oilsands-driven economy of northern Alberta is behind the early success of the city’s downtown makeover featuring a new arena for his team.

“I don’t think there’s a better market anywhere to do what we’re doing,” Katz said Thursday as he unveiled a new website on the billions of dollars on construction planned for the Alberta capital’s core.

“From an investment point of view, this is as much a play on Alberta and where Alberta’s going — and particularly northern Alberta — as anything.”

Katz pointed to $284 billion in investment planned for the oilsands by 2035. Six million people are expected call the province home by then, twothirds of them in northern Alberta.

“That’s our market.”

Katz’s plans include office towers, condos, retail, a public square, and a community ice rink — all linked by walkways and designed to be used winter and summer.

He said a new arena for his NHL team and flush times in his hometown have combined for a “once in a generation” chance to revitalize a downtown that has often been called dowdy, or worse.

“This was the vision from the beginning,” he said.

“We planned this before we bought the team. It’s very satisfying to see it come out of the ground.”

Those plans haven’t been without controversy.

It took years for city council to come to a funding agreement with Katz, who owns the Rexall pharmacy chain.

Councillors wrestled with the issue of putting up hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for an arena to house a hockey team owned by a billionaire.

The total tab for 18,559-seat facility is $480 million.

Edmonton taxpayers are to pay $219 million, Katz’s share is $143 million.

Another $125 million will come from a ticket tax.

Work on the arena is now underway.

And More than $2.5 billion in construction has already started or is expected to start in the area in the next six months.

More than 9,000 square metres of retail space has already been spoken for.

Earlier this week, engineering firm Stantec signed a lease on space in a 62-storey office tower to be built in the arena district.

Katz said there may not be a development anywhere in the continent that can match the scale of what’s happening in downtown Edmonton.

Construction is expected to extend into the next decade.

“This isn’t just an Edmonton story.

This is a Canadian story.”

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Well under way the construction of the Waters Edge Marina Development at Sylvan Lake is taking shape.

The first lake front condominiums in the re-developed Sylvan Lake Marina location face out onto Lakeshore Drive with rear views of the marina which now boasts 174 slips with some still available for sale. For more information on the development go to watersedgesylvan.com

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BRIEF Nova Scotia energy minister hopes to make decision on fracking within month HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s energy minister says he hopes to make a final decision on the future of hydraulic fracturing before the provincial legislature convenes Sept. 25.

Andrew Younger received the final report from a panel headed by Cape Breton University president David Wheeler, which recommends the practice should not proceed at the present time.

The 387-page report, which comes after a six-month study, says fracking shouldn’t be allowed until more research is done on health, environmental and economic impacts.

It also says fracking shouldn’t proceed until a process to establish community permission is designed.

A two-year moratorium on fracking was implemented in 2012.

Younger says he will respond in detail to the recommendations once he has read the report.

Shell files revised Arctic offshore drilling plan, says no decision has been made for 2015 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Shell is preserving its options to drill for oil in Arctic waters next year by filing a revised exploration plan with federal officials.

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Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith says in an email that the plan calls for two drilling vessels to operate in the Chukchi Sea. Smith says the filing of the plan is not a final decision to drill in 2015 but it lets Shell keep its options open.

The last time Shell drilled in Arctic waters was in 2012.

Smith says drilling would require a successful resolution to federal supplemental environmental work. That’s required after an appeals court concluded that an environmental review preceding the 2008 Chukchi lease sale was flawed.

Apple expected to unveil iPhone with bigger screen, possible smartwatch at Sept. 9 event SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s latest product launch will be in a setting that holds a special place in its history, signalling how big this event is for the company.

The Sept. 9 launch, which is expected to feature a larger iPhone and possibly a computerized watch, will be in the same Silicon Valley venue where Apple’s late co-founder, Steve Jobs, took the wraps off the original Mac computer 30 years ago. That machine was hailed as a major breakthrough that helped bring personal computing to the masses.

These events have become an annual rite since the 2007 release of the iPhone, but this year’s may be the most highly anticipated since the iPad came out in 2010.

A “smartwatch” or other wearable technology would mark the company’s first foray into a new product category

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True to its secretive nature, Apple Inc. isn’t giving any clues about what’s on the Sept. 9 agenda. “Wish we could say more,” Apple said in a succinct white invitation mailed Thursday to reporters and others.

The company scheduled the event at an auditorium about 3 miles from its Cupertino, California, headquarters. It seats about 2,300 people, a far larger capacity than the places that Apple usually uses to show off its new products.

Apple watchers expect an iPhone with a larger screen than the 4-inch display on the previous two generations of the device. The iPhone 6 is expected to feature a 4.7-inch screen to make it more competitive with larger smartphones made by Samsung Electronics and other rivals relying on Google Inc.’s free Android software.

There also has been speculation that Apple may release another iPhone model with a 5.5-inch screen.

A bigger-screen iPhone could unleash a surge of sales among Apple fans who own iPhones with smaller displays. Some analysts think Apple could sell at least 70 million units of the iPhone 6 within the first few months after the device hits the market.

Although the iPhone is Apple’s biggest moneymaker, much of the intrigue around this year’s event surrounds the possibility that the company may release a long-awaited smartwatch that could help monitor people’s health and serve as control centre for Internet-connected appliances and electronics in the home. Apple CEO Tim Cook has indicated that he is intrigued with wearable technology devices, but hasn’t provided any concrete clues about what the company is working on.

Cook has only said he is excited about what Apple’s latest inventions, a sentiment echoed by one of his top lieutenants, Eddy Cue, who earlier this year hailed the company’s product pipeline as its best in 25 years.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 102.89 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.12 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.87 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.11 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.78 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.59 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.64 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 217.31 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.23 Capital Power Corp . . . . 28.33 Cervus Equipment Corp 20.35 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.64 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 54.48 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 33.35 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.76 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.68 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.52 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.71 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 56.30 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 74.05 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.58 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.68 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 58.41 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 112.71 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.71 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.05 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 54.15 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Thursday amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine and in the face of Canadian bank earnings that beat expectations.

The S&P/TSX composite index lost 44.48 points to 15,558.17.

CIBC (TSX:CM) posted a quarterly net income of $921 million or $2.26 per share, compared with $878 million, or $2.13 per share, in the same quarter last year.

Adjusted earnings were $2.23 a share, two cents ahead of estimates.

However, there was some disappointment with results from its domestic retail business and its shares fell $2.28 to $103.23.

TD Bank (TSX:TD) says its third-quarter net profit was $2.1 billion, or $1.11 per share, compared with $1.52 billion, or 79 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.

Adjusted net income was $2.16 billion, or $1.15 per share, beating estimates of $1.09. Total revenue was $7.5 billion compared with $7.1 billion year over year. TD shares dipped 44 cents to $57.38.

Both banks had been very close to 52-week highs before the results came out and the financials sector is still up 11 per cent year to date.

“What we’ve grown to recognize with the Canadian banks is that they are excellent operators of their model,” said Brian Belski, chief investment strategist, BMO Capital Markets.

“We can nitpick on a cent here or there, I just don’t think that’s the right way to be thinking about this.

“You have a company that is generating cash and continuing on with their dividends, being prudent in terms of their operations — that’s a company I want to own in my portfolio.”

The Canadian dollar was up 0.07 of a cent to 92.19 cents US. U.S. indexes were also lower, despite data showing the American economy turned in a better than expected performance in the second quarter.

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 20.05 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.18 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 87.10 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.90 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 29.15 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.75 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.99 First Quantum Minerals . 24.19 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.12 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.02 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.24 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.96 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.25 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.13 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.67 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 31.28 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.80 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 69.21 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.63 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 65.00 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 46.72 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.39 Canyon Services Group. 16.43 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 34.05 CWC Well Services . . . 0.9300 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 24.83 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.69 The latest revision shows gross domestic product grew by 4.2 per cent, versus the original reading of four per cent.

Economists had generally expected a dip to 3.8 per cent.

The showing was a huge improvement from the first quarter, when GDP contracted 2.1 per cent, largely because of severe winter weather.

But it also raised another round of speculation that such strong data could force the Federal Reserve to move up its timetable on raising interest rates.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 42.44 points to 17,079.57, the Nasdaq lost 11.92 points to 4,557.7 and the S&P 500 index was down 3.38 points to 1,996.74.

Caution was the watchword on markets after a top Ukrainian official said that two columns of tanks and military vehicles rolled into southeastern Ukraine from Russia on Thursday after Grad missiles were fired at a border post and Ukraine’s overmatched border guards fled.

And a senior NATO official said at least 1,000 Russian troops have poured into the country with sophisticated equipment, leaving no doubt that the Russian military had invaded southeastern Ukraine.

Investors looking for safe havens sent gold prices higher with the December contract up $7 to US$1,290.40 an ounce, pushing the gold sector up about 0.8 per cent.

Financials led decliners, down 0.8 per cent.

There was also weakness in the other resource sectors as the base metals group declined 2.2 per cent, while December copper was five cents lower at US$3.15 a pound.

The energy sector gave back 0.11 per cent with October crude 65 cents higher at US$94.53 a barrel.

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

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Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 99.57 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 67.38 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.31 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.92 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 57.41 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.82 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.41 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.095 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.61 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 44.21 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 10.91 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.62 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 9.99 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 70.16 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 83.01 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.66 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.23 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 41.00 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.26 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 32.05 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.67 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 74.39 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.91 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 51.99 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.90 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.55 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.37 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.38 — 15,558.17, down 44.48 points Dow — 17,079.57, down 42.44 points S&P 500 — 1,996.74, down 3.38 points Nasdaq — 4,557.70, down 11.92 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.19 cents US, up 0.07 of a cent Pound — C$1.7994, up 0.03 of a cent Euro — C$1.4301, down 0.22 of a cent Euro — US$1.3184, down 0.11 of a cent

First-time university students shouldn’t rush to pick a career

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Students who worry too much about picking the “perfect” major as they enter university aren’t necessarily setting themselves up for success, say experts who caution that school should be seen as time to learn, network and explore different career paths.

“Sometimes university is about more than getting it perfectly, it’s often about the journey,” said Eileen Chadnick, a career coach with Big Cheese Coaching in Toronto.

“You may start in a career and you may, through trial and error, change it, so don’t worry about having all the answers before the first semester of university. Go in with an open, curious mind.”

Students today have access to an unprecedented amount of information over the Internet, so focusing on something they are passionate about and using their time at university to learn how to think and to meet people is as important than any particular content expertise they may gain, said Sharon Irwin-Foulon, executive director of Career Management and Corporate Recruiting at the Ivey Business School at Western University.

“Often you want to stay in your dorm room and study and get 90s, but I’m not sure that that’s actually going to impact your career and the satisfaction

you get out of your career,” said IrwinFoulon.

“Being able to interact with different personalities, getting a network of like-minded people who have had this shared experience, I would argue is just as important as the degree content itself.”

The way the job market is evolving is another reason why getting set on one track too early can be a mistake.

“You’ve got jobs that are being created that didn’t exist five years ago,” Irwin-Foulon. said. “Being too rigid is the tricky part, or doing a degree because you think it will get you a job.”

Abdallah Al-Hakim, 36, has a PhD in science but works for a Californiabased technology company, and says he would encourage students to look at their options early and often.

“Educationally, I was definitely in one track; I was following the path you would follow to become a professor at a university,” said Al-Hakim, from Hamilton, Ont., who earned a PhD in science and did a post-doctorate focusing on biochemistry before deciding a life in science wasn’t for him.

“The issue with science is that there are a lot of PhDs that are graduating every year and there just aren’t enough faculty positions.”

Al-Hakim set out to explore alternatives and spent a year of his postdoctoral talking to as many people as he could, including those who had left a career in science.

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Oil futures: US$94.55 per barrel, up 67 cents (October contract) Gold futures: US$1,290.40 per oz., up $7.00 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.049 oz., up 5.1 cents $708.88 kg., up $1.64 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $3.30 higher $425.20; Jan ’15 $3.50 higher $431.00; March ’15 $3.70 higher $436.10; May ’15 $4.10 higher $438.00; July ’15 $4.20 higher $438.30; Nov ’15 $2.60 higher $435.30; Jan. ’16 $2.60 higher $441.20; March ’16 $2.60 higher $445.00; May ’16 $2.60 higher $445.00; July ’16 $2.60 higher $445.00; Nov. ’16 $2.60 higher $445.00.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 $10.00 lower 125.00; Dec. ’14 $10.00 lower $127.00; March ’15 $10.00 lower $128.00; May ’15 $10.00 lower $128.00; July ’15 $10.00 lower $128.00; Oct. ’15 $10.00 lower $128.00; Dec. ’15 $10.00 lower $128.00; March ’16 $10.00 lower $128.00; May ’16 $10.00 lower $128.00; July ’16 $10.00 lower $128.00; Oct. ’16 $10.00 lower $128.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 305,380 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 305,380.

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A model poses next to the Lada Xray 2 concept car during the Moscow International Automobile Salon in Moscow, Russia, Thursday. The Moscow International Automobile Salon opens in the Russian capital.

Loonie up slightly amid positive trade data TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed slightly higher Thursday as Canada’s current account deficit improved slightly in the second quarter.

The loonie gained 0.07 of a cent to 92.19 cents US as Statistics Canada reported that the current account deficit edged down $200 million to $11.9 billion.

The decline reflected a slight increase in the deficit on trade in goods and services, which was more than offset by a lower deficit in investment income.

Meanwhile, other data showed the U.S. economy grew more than expected in the second quarter. The latest revision shows gross domestic product grew by 4.2 per cent, versus the original reading of four per cent. Economists had generally expected a dip to 3.8 per cent.

The showing was a huge improvement from the first quarter, when GDP in the U.S. contracted 2.1 per cent, largely because of severe winter weather.

Statistics Canada is expected to release the June reading on gross domestic product on Friday. Economists expect that Canadian GDP grew by 0.2 per cent in June, which would translate into annualized growth of 2.6 per

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And next Wednesday, the Bank of Canada releases its next decision on interest rates.

The dollar surged eight-tenths of a cent on Wednesday following the announcement that Burger King would buy Tim Hortons for $12.5 billion. The cash and stock deal will see Burger King majority shareholder 3G Capital own 51 per cent of a new company, which will be the world’s third-largest fast food 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 needs Canadian dollars to close the deal, boosting demand for the loonie on financial markets.

Caution was the watchword on markets after a top Ukrainian official said that two columns of tanks and military vehicles rolled into southeastern Ukraine from Russia on Thursday after Grad missiles were fired at a border post and Ukraine’s overmatched border guards fled. And a senior NATO official said at least 1,000 Russian troops have poured into Ukraine with sophisticated equipment, leaving no doubt that the Russian military had invaded southeastern Ukraine.

Investors looking for safety pushed December bullion up $7 to US$1,290.40 an ounce.

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A warm tribute Desire Lines to local author’s a hidden gem that grandparents should be read Desire Lines

By Christina Baker Kline HarperCollins

Thief of Glory

By Sigmund Brouwer $17.99 Waterbrook Press Here is an engaging story written as a warm tribute to the author’s grandparents. It is a story within a story inspired by the life of Willem and Gerda Brouwer.

The year is 1942 and the family of Jeremiah Prins, aged 10, live in the village of Kampong on the island of Java.

The first few pages of this story establish Jeremiah as a brave and fearless boy, PEGGY respected by FREEMAN his friends as a scrapper who never begins a fight and never loses one. He will need all his skills for what lies ahead.

Jeremiah’s father is a school master and the family includes three half brothers older than Jeremiah, two sisters and a little brother. They live a comfortable life with a nice home and enjoy the luxury of servants.

This all comes to an end on March 9, 1942, when the Dutch government reluctantly surrenders the country to the Japanese forces. The indigenous Indonesians see the Japanese as liberators, though the Japanese soon show themselves to be conquerors.

Jeremiah’s father has always been a tough task master, urging his children to be strong. He saw his duty as a parent “not to prepare the path for the children, but to prepare the children for the path.”

Now he and the older boys are taken by the Japanese to work camps.

Jeremiah and their mother and the little children will be put into “family camps.”

His father told Jeremiah to be strong and look after the others. He said of their mother’s “illness,” that “she cannot help the way she is.” Jeremiah, 10 years old, had only observed depression and lethargy.

The “Jappenkamps” are tiny cramped ghettos, surrounded by barbed wire. The family is lucky to live

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in one room. They have only what they have brought in their suitcases.

Jeremiah’s father has packed a large case and told him not to open it until they are in the camp. It proves very helpful.

His mother’s case seems to be full of frivolous things, but no one knows what lies ahead.

The life in the camp is a story full of hardship. There are too many people, primitive latrines and food is sparse.

The Dutch women support each other, with determination and wisdom.

There are two doctors in the camp, but few medical supplies; many people die from disease or mishap.

Jeremiah is resourceful and daring.

He uses both his skill as a marble player and his imagination to make life better for those who depend on him.

He has an enemy in camp and a friend outside the fence.

There is a wonderful romance woven into this story. A romance that begins in childhood and does not die. The characters receive support and grace from their deep belief in God. The history is true, the love story is tender.

This book is of the Christian fiction genre. Brouwer is a Red Deer author with many novels and children’s books to his credit.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

her ‘group’ were all torn to shreds the night of their graduation. Most of the high school grads were down by the river having a bonfire, drinking and Novels as good as this should be re- celebrating the future. Jennifer, claimpublished to grab people’s attention! ing she was tired, told her friends that When walking through most book- she was going to walk home. stores, I look at their new releases and “I’ll be fine” Jennifer told them as best-selling/spotlight shelves only to she walked into the woods. But Jensee the same categories; same new re- nifer wasn’t fine — she simply disapleases that have been on the self for peared. Vanished. No one knew where over a month, republished or focusing she was, what happened and even if on other famous novels that she is alive. The disappearwere turned into movies, ance goes unsolved for 10 books about zombies … etc. long years.

What bothers me is that It takes a lot of pushing you have hidden gems like from her mother and grandChristina Baker Kline’s mother to get out of the novel, Desire Lines (which house and reconnect with has finally been published old friends, but Kathryn as a paperback) that takes soon gives in. on topics that people deal Her mother runs into a with in reality — from defriend from her old high pression, isolation and the school group, Jack, who bonds between friendships works for the daily paper — but seems to get no recand suggests seeing him KIRSTEN ognition. about potential work writing LOWE Kathryn Campbell is in articles. Instead of just reher late 20s/early 30s and viewing simple town events, life has not been what Jack purposes Kathryn with she expected it to be. She an impossible article: revisdropped out of the University of Vir- it Jennifer’s case and attempt to find ginia claiming that she was sick of new information. “putting up the bull----” and tired of Why she accepts is not clear at first, being a broke and anxious university and this article becomes not only an student. attempt to find Jennifer, but also to She married a man who, in reality, bring closure and comfort to Kathryn, she never truly loved and had almost who realizes that ever since her best nothing uncommon with; that led to a friend disappeared she has put her divorce. Now Kathryn has nothing left life on hold — without the enthusiasm to do but to return to her hometown of to move forward.

Bangor, Maine, to stay with her mother The more she investigates, the more until she figures out what to do next Kathryn realizes that everyone who with her life. was close to Jennifer is hiding a dark Long story short: Kathryn is far from secret or withholding information figuring out what to do with her life, let about the case. alone having the push to discover what Not long after she begins asking that might be. questions, Kathryn starts receiving Things only appear to get worse strange letters, phone calls and caswhen Kathryn realizes her 10-year sette tapes with young Jennifer’s voice high school reunion is just around the on them. corner and they very thought of going What happened to Jennifer? Is she brings on high anxiety, for one main alive or did someone in the town of reason.

Bangor murder her? And is Kathryn’s Kathryn was not always bitter, lazy life in danger because she took on this and full of self-pity. In fact, she en- article? joyed her years in high school; she had Full of mystery, suspense and the a tight group of friends and one best underlying message about teenage defriend who has been more like a sister pression, Desire Lines is a novel that to her since childhood, Jennifer Pel- will leave readers wanting to hug and letier. hold onto their best friends.

But the dreams of always being best Kirsten Lowe is a Red Deer College stufriends and staying connected with dent and freelance book reviewer.

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So many memoirs making their way out this fall NEW YORK — So many memoirs are coming out this fall, written in so many ways.

Neil Patrick Harris, for instance, decided that his early 40s was too young for a “life” story, even for a Tony- and Emmy-winning actor. So he has completed Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography, in which Harris steps back into the second person to allow you to imagine yourself onstage, on television, or, in November 2006, on edge as you prepare to tell the world you’re gay.

“I couldn’t wrap my mind around a structure that made sense to me — to pass on words of wisdom or to write some salacious tell-all. My life hasn’t been like that,” Harris said during a recent interview. “So I came upon this conceit of ’choose your own adventure,’ to allow readers to choose which autobiography they were interested in. You can have poignancy; you can have funny remembrances, or whatever path you want to follow.”

Lena Dunham of Girls fame has written Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s ‘Learned’, a nonadvice advice book in which she hopes that readers will know when and when not to emulate “a girl with a keen interest in having it all.” Amy Poehler’s Yes Please promises a “big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice.”

Keith Richards, having taken care of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll in his million-selling Life, turns sentimental with the picture book Gus and Me, a tribute to his grandfather, musician Gus Dupree.

Neil Young honours a favourite hobby in Special Deluxe: cars. Jimmy Page is a “photographic autobiography” by the Led Zeppelin guitarist. Jerry Lee TELUS Lewis: His Own Story is not OPTIK TV entirely in his own words, alternating between firstperson memories and third-person accounts by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author-journalist Rick Bragg.

Former President George W. Bush already

Hannah. Robert B. Parker’s Blind Spot offers a new case to solve for baseball star-turned police chief Jesse Stone, the sleuth of nine novels by Parker, who died in 2010. The author this time is Reed Farrel Coleman.

Sidney Sheldon lives on, at least in name, through British author Tilly Bagshawe. Her latest is Sidney Sheldon’s Chasing Tomorrow, a novel written “in his inimitable Sheldon style,” Bagshawe promises. Dick Francis died in 2010, but a new thriller is called Dick Francis’s Damage in U.S. editions.

The author’s son, Felix Francis, wrote the novel and prefers the British title: Damage, with FELIX FRANCIS printed above the title and A Dick Francis Novel at the bottom.

“It’s a Dick Francis novel in that it’s got horses and was written in the first person and the main character is both courageous and loyal,” Felix Francis said. “I like the idea that I am giving my father immortality, or perhaps I am keeping his name alive. I just hope that if it goes on it becomes a little bit smaller and mine a little bit bigger.”

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has written a memoir, Decision Points, so for his new book (currently untitled) he tells the story of his father, George H.W. Bush. Steve Jobs author Walter Isaacson returns to the virtual world with The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.

Fiction readers can look forward to books from Stephen King, Janet Evanovich, John Grisham and David Baldacci, among others. Anne Rice brings back the undead for Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles and Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin shares some of the back story in The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire).

Some of the top literary writers also have books out. David Mitchell of Cloud Atlas fame has written The Bone Clocks and fellow British novelist Ian McEwan’s latest is The Children Act. Hilary Mantel, a two-time Man Booker Prize winner for her novels about the court of King Henry VIII, names in the 20th century with the story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

For some books this fall, the boldfaced name isn’t the author.

The Monogram Murders is a new mystery featuring Agatha Christie detective Hercule Poirot. Christie gets star billing on the cover, but the writer, approved by the Christie estate, is Sophie

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Having the puberty talk with your kids

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS It’s a moment many parents dread and postpone for as long as possible: having The Talk with their son or daughter about puberty and all the bodily changes that come with that hormone-fuelled stage of life — from breast buds and periods to pubic hair and wet dreams.

But experts say casually introducing the topic before those pubescent changes begin occurring can help ease discomfort and awkward moments for both parents and kids. Meg Hickling, a retired nurse and sex educator in Vancouver, believes it’s never too early to start teaching kids about the human body and all its functions.

“When you start talking about sexual health, as we call it — that’s naming the body parts and talking about how they work — the children are so much more at ease as they go through elementary school age,” she says. “And when it comes to talking about puberty, it’s no problem at all because they’re so used to talking about bodies and so forth.”

Dr. Megan Harrison, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario who specializes in adolescent health, says a key reason for tackling the subject earlier than later is so girls and boys will know what to expect when they begin the transition from childhood to adulthood. “The age we usually suggest to start short conversations about the body changes that occur in puberty is by the age of seven or eight. For most kids that’s before changes start.

“If they’ve heard about some of the stages and then the stages happen, they’re reassured that they’re normal, and ’Yes, Mom and Dad told me this is going to happen.”’

Putting off the puberty/sex conversation can mean curious kids might seek information elsewhere — from their peers or on the Internet — but that can mean getting incorrect information, Harrison says.

“Kids actually want to hear this stuff from their parents, but there’s so many more opportunities now with media for them to get it elsewhere. So it’s even more important for parents to open that first window of the discussion.”

For younger children, bedtime is a great time to broach the subject of the birds and bees, “because they’ll do anything to stop you leaving the room and turning off the light,” says Hickling, author of The New Speaking of Sex: What Your Children Need to Know and When They Need to Know It. Parents who aren’t quite sure how to introduce what they see as a thorny topic could pick up one of several books on puberty and sex aimed at kids and read it with their child, she says. “Sometimes having a book is the easiest way to do it.”

“The other one that is good is in the car,” says Hickling, especially for older kids who may feel embarrassed about discussing the facts of life with their parents and dodge such conversations.

“The car is wonderful because they’re captive.

They can’t go anywhere. They may stare out the side window. They may say, ’Oh, do we have to talk about this?”’ The answer is “Yes, we do,” she insists, adding that Mom or Dad should persevere and let their son or daughter know that the information being imparted is meant to prepare them for adulthood and keep them safe.

For a child who squirms at the mere idea of having The Talk, Harrison suggests giving them a book on the subject, perhaps leaving it in the bathroom where they can absorb the contents in privacy and at their own pace, and offering to answer any questions. “And then just keep checking in with them. I think when most parents do have the conversation, they’re kind of relieved at how well things go.”

So what do kids need to know as their bodies move toward puberty? For girls, Harrison says the signs of puberty can begin anywhere between age eight and 13, starting with breast development, the appearance of fine pubic hair and body odour. Females also usually have a growth spurt around this time.

Between nine and 15, the breasts will enlarge and the pubic hair will increase in volume and grow coarser and curlier. During the final stage of puberty, a girl will get her first menstrual period, on average at age 12, she says.

Preparing a daughter for her first period by explaining what to expect and how to deal with it will ease her anxiety if that watershed event occurs while she’s away from home, for instance, at school or at the mall or movies with friends.

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55 STREET IMPROVEMENT PROJECT Work on 55 Street is about upgrading utility services that are approximately 60 years old and at capacity to facilitate growth in northeast Red Deer. The roadway is being replaced, new sidewalks are being built, as well as a new multi-use pathway. The 55 Street Improvement Project was delayed due to unforeseen construction needs and weather delays. Despite adding two additional construction teams, extending construction hours to 10 p.m. each night and working weekends, the initial deadline of September 1 cannot be met. 55 Street will reopen in the following stages:

And it isn’t just Mom a daughter should be able to turn to for advice, says Harrison. “I think it’s comforting for a girl to know her dad knows about a period, knows what that is and knows how to help her if Mom’s out of the house.”

For boys, the manifestations of puberty begin slightly later, between age nine and 15. The testes begin enlarging and boys start emitting body odour.

Between 11 and 16, the penis enlarges, pubic hair begins sprouting and a boy will experience wet dreams, or nighttime ejaculation. “What tips off puberty is a cascade of a number of hormones that start to mature, and for boys wet dreams are often the body actually getting the hormones working normally and that’s the result of it,” says Harrison, noting that these dreams aren’t necessarily sexual in nature.

From 11 to 17, a boy’s genitals continue enlarging, pubic hair increases and coarsens, the voice changes, and facial hair starts growing. It’s at this point that males typically go through a major growth spurt.

And like girls, pubescent males get breast buds — a development that Hickling says can really throw a young boy who’s unaware that that can happen (and

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Sanitary Off-Site Levy Borrowing Bylaw Amendment 3509/A-2014 Red Deer City Council is considering amending the Borrowing Bylaw 3509/2013 for an additional $2,350,000 for a total of $4,471,000 funded by Sanitary Offsite Long Term Debt to construct two sanitary offsite projects, East Hill Central – Timberlands Diversion – South Quarter Line to 67 Street (50-52) and North Highway Connector (East Hill North) – 30 Avenue Sanitary Trunk – Northland Drive to South Quarter Line (50-49). The projects identified are required to provide sanitary trunk service to new development and re-development areas in various parts of the city.

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours.

The electors may submit a petition calling for a vote of the electors to determine whether the proposed bylaw should be passed. The petition must meet the formal requirements of Sections 221-226 of the Municipal Government Act and be filed with the Manager, Legislative Services within 15 days after the last date the proposed bylaw is advertised. The last date of advertisement for this bylaw is Friday, September 5, 2014. Any petition will be public information. The bylaw will be considered by Red Deer City Council at the Monday, September 29, 2014 Council Meeting. If you have any questions regarding the petition process or the use of the petition please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/P-2014 Timber Ridge Neighbourhood City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw by rezoning 3 PS (Public Service) parcels to R1N Residential (Narrow Lot), a total of 0.12 hectares of land, in the Timber Ridge Neighbourhood.

The rezoning is required to facilitate residential development of the land.

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Red Deer City Council is considering amending the Borrowing Bylaw 3510/2013 for an additional $6,543,000 for a total of $10,113,000 funded by Storm Offsite Long Term Debt to construct the North Highway Connector (East Hill North) 30 Avenue Storm Trunk from Northland Drive to South Quarter Line (81-84). This is required to provide storm trunk services to new development and re-development areas in various parts of the city, including the Northeast High School Site.

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The electors may submit a petition calling for a vote of the electors to determine whether the proposed bylaw should be passed. The petition must meet the formal requirements of Sections 221-226 of the Municipal Government Act and be filed with the Manager, Legislative Services within 15 days after the last date the proposed bylaw is advertised. The last date of advertisement for this bylaw is Friday, September 5, 2014. Any petition will be public information. The bylaw will be considered by Red Deer City Council at the Monday, September 29, 2014 Council Meeting. If you have any questions regarding the petition process or the use of the petition please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Development Officer Approvals On August 26, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Queens 1. KevRan Developments Inc. – 1774.45m2 industrial shop & office for a welding business, to be located at 22 Queensland Crescent.

Sunnybrook South 2. Platinum Homes & Development Corp. - a 4.2m2 relaxation to the maximum floor area of a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 32 Sawyer Close.

Timberstone 3. Laebon Developments Ltd. – a 6.17m2 relaxation to the maximum floor area and a 0.13 metre relaxation to the maximum height of a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 58 Tyson Crescent.

Discretionary Use Clearview Ridge 4. Red Deer Child Care – approval for a day care to be located at 60 Clearview Drive.

Edgar Industrial 5. SMS Equipment Inc. – a temporary lunch room trailer, to be located at 8038 Edgar Industrial Crescent.

6. True-Line Contracting Ltd. - a 2 bedroom secondary suite, with a separate entrance at the rear, within a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 146 Lalor Drive.

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Work on the 2014 phase of this project is about extending city utility services in Red Deer’s northeast. Please note that a section of Range Road 272 north of 67 Street will close midSeptember. Detour options will be in place.

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one that usually disappears within six months to two years). “A lot of them think they’re dying of breast cancer, so it’s really important to talk to boys as well as girls about breast budding,” she says, recalling that when she told kids during sex education classes that everyone gets breast buds and sore, tender nipples, “it would be the boy’s shoulders that would sag with relief most notably.”

Parents may also notice their previously eventempered child begins exhibiting mood swings, which Hickling calls the “sads, glads and mads,” in part because of the surge of estrogen, testosterone and other hormones.

The physical and psychological changes of impending adulthood, when they do come, can leave some parents reeling, she says. “I’ve had countless parents say, ‘I can’t believe my baby’s growing up.’

And they’re so shocked, and yet it’s perfectly normal to have kids going into puberty any time after the age of seven. So I think that both parents and kids need to learn how to celebrate the changes in life, even if it does mean that your child is getting older and so are you.”

7. Pinpoint Marketing – 2 temporary wayfinding signs for Timberstone Mews, to be located at 301055 Street.

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City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, August 29, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Vanier Woods 8. R. Pyper – a home based nutritional consulting business, to be located at 15 Vath Place.

9. Deer Run Homes Ltd. – a show home, to be located at 14 Vernon Close.

10. Red Deer Catholic Regional Division #39 – a 112.85m2 modular building for child care, to be located at 3911-57A Avenue.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on September 12, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

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Road Closure Announcement Tour of Alberta September 3rd & 4th The following roads will be closed Wednesday, September 3rd and Thursday, September 4th to accommodate the staging of the Tour of Alberta.

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Ross Street from 47 Avenue to 49 Avenue beginning at 5:00pm. The intersection of 48 Avenue and 50 Street will remain open until 10:30am on Thursday, September 4th. The entire 2 blocks will then remain closed until approximately 9:30pm on Thursday, September 4th.

Thursday, September 4th - 51 Street and 52 Street between 48 Avenue and 49 Avenue will be closed from 11:00am until approximately 5:00pm.

- 2 hour closure from 2:00-4:00pm of: • 48 Avenue from Ross Street to 53 Street • 53 Street from 48 Avenue to 44 Avenue • 44 Avenue from 53 Street to 55 Street • 55 Street from 45 Avenue to 40 Avenue • 40 Avenue 55 Street to Ross Street • Ross Street from 40 Avenue to 47 Avenue

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, September 15, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, September 12, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

- Closure at approximately 3:00pm for an estimated 20 minutes: • 55 Street from RR 271 to 30 Avenue • 30 Avenue from 55 Street to Ross Street • Ross Street from 30 Avenue to 40 Avenue

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East Hill Major Area Structure Plan Amendment 3499/A-2014 To Incorporate the Proposed Section 26 MultiNeighbourhood Plan Red Deer City Council is considering amending the East Hill Major Area Structure Plan (MASP) to incorporate the proposed Section 26 MultiNeighbourhood Plan. A multi-neighbourhood plan is a high level conceptual planning concept that guides future development for multiple quarter sections of land (i.e +259 hectare / + 640 acre). The multineighbourhood plan provides details on how the Neighbourhood Planning Principles can be achieved, and outlines the arterial and collector road pattern, and broad land uses, including environmental and open space areas.

Section 26 MultiNeighbourhood Plan Area

The course route is outlined on the map below.

Please watch for detour signs and use alternate routes as indicated. For further information please contact Public Works at 403-342-8238.

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City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, September 15, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, September 12, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On August 20, 2014, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decisions for development permit applications: Permitted Use Approval: Normandeau Clem Lau Architect Designers Inc. – site development for two commercial buildings to be used as restaurants, to be located at 6880 – 50 Avenue.

Discretionary Use Approval: Johnstone Crossing Dennis Bowness - development of a new secondary suite with two bedrooms, to be located within an existing single family dwelling at 153 Jennings Crescent.

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on September 12, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

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Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/L-2014 Site Exception for Red Deer College Dynamic Sign at 4922 49 Street Red Deer City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw through a site exception to allow for the placement of two dynamic signs, which would also display the new facility name, to be placed on an existing canopy sign at the Red Deer College City Center Stage building located at 4922 49 Street.

The site is zoned as a C1 Commercial (City Center) District. Canopy signs are a permitted use within this district; however a dynamic sign is not permitted on a canopy sign within the C1district. A site exception is therefore being considered to allow for the placement of two dynamic signs on the existing canopy sign.

Proposed Northeast High Schools and Play Fields Area Structure Plan Bylaw 3217/B-2014 Red Deer City Council is considering adopting the Northeast High Schools and Play Fields Area Structure Plan. This plan provides policy framework for how the high school sites and play fields will be developed. The proposed Northeast High Schools and Play Fields Area Structure Plan encompasses an area approximately 22.58 ha (55.79 acres) in size that is located adjacent to the 67th Street and 30th Avenue intersection. The site is envisioned as the location for three high schools (Catholic, Public and Francophone) and competitive sports facilities.

The high school facilities will be clustered on the East side of the site and will develop using a ‘campus style’ model where some facilities will be shared between school authorities. The West side of the site will contain a series of competitive sports fields.

The sports fields will serve the high schools and act as a competitive sports facility where Provincial level sporting events may be hosted. There is no residential development proposed for the plan area.

City of Red Deer administration offices will be closed on: Monday, September 1st

RED DEER TRANSIT Monday, September 1st - Transit Service will operate on the Sunday / Holiday schedule. First bus from the City Centre Terminal is 8:45 AM. Last bus from the City Centre Terminal is 6:45 PM. Transit Administration Offices and Customer Service are closed.

There is NO SERVICE on the following routes: Route 6 Clearview Ridge / Vanier East, Route 12 / 12A Gasoline Alley / Springbrook and Route 100 / 101 Blackfalds / Lacombe (BOLT).

Transit schedule information can be found on-line at www.reddeer.ca/transit Red Deer Transit Action Bus: Limited Action Bus service will be provided. No County Action Bus service. Action Bus phone lines are closed.

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City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, August 29, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

Collicutt Centre Monday, September 1– OPEN 11:00 am to 5:00 pm GH Dawe Community Centre Monday, September 1– OPEN 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Michener Aquatic Centre Monday, September 1– CLOSED Recreation Centre Monday, September 1– OPEN11:00 am to 5:00 pm Riverbend Golf and Recreation Area Monday, September 1– OPEN Dawn to Dusk

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, September 15, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services by Friday, September 12, 2014. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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Global warming already dangerous: UN HEATING TREND RISKS BEING IRREVERSIBLE, SAYS NEW REPORT

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but would require dramatic and immediate cuts in carbon dioxide pollution.

The report says if the world continues to spew greenhouse gases at its accelerating rate, it’s likely that by midcentury temperatures will increase by about another 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) compared to temperatures from 1986 to 2005. And by the end of the century, that scenario will bring temperatures that are about 6.7 degrees warmer (3.7 degrees Celsius).

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WASHINGTON — Global warming is here, human-caused and probably already dangerous — and it’s increasingly likely that the heating trend could be irreversible, a draft of a new international science report says.

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday sent governments a final draft of its synthesis report, which combines three earlier, gigantic documents by the Nobel Prize-winning group. There is little in the report that wasn’t in the other more-detailed versions, but the language is more stark and the report attempts to connect the different scientific disciplines studying problems caused by the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas.

The 127-page draft, obtained by The Associated Press, paints a harsh warning of what’s causing global warming and what it will do to humans and the environment. It also describes what can be done about it.

“Continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and long-lasting changes in all components of the climate system, increasing the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems,” the report says. The final report will be issued after governments and scientists go over the draft line by line in an October conference in Copenhagen.

Depending on circumstances and values, “currently observed impacts might already be considered dangerous,” the report says. It mentions extreme weather and rising sea levels, such as heat waves, flooding and droughts. It even raises, as an earlier report did, the idea that climate change will worsen violent conflicts and refugee problems and could hinder efforts to grow more food. And ocean acidification, which comes from the added carbon absorbed by oceans, will harm marine life, it says.

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John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, is in the tiny minority of scientists who are skeptical of mainstream science’s claim that global warming is a major problem.

He says people will do OK: “Humans are clever. We shall adapt to whatever happens.”

While projections show that the world will warm and climate will change, there’s still a level of uncertainty about how much, and that makes the problem all about how much risk we accept, said MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is protecting 20 types of colorful coral by putting them on the list of threatened species, partly because of climate change.

As with the polar bear, much of the threat to the coral species is because of future expected problems due to global warming, said David Bernhart, an endangered-species official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These coral species are already being hurt by climate change “but not to the point that they are endangered yet,” he said.

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Isabella Rose Taylor, 13, poses with her art work and clothing designs at her home, in Austin, Texas. At the age of nine, Taylor, a painter since she was three, took a sewing class with an eye toward incorporating textiles into her artwork. Now her fashion line is debuting at Nordstrom stores and she’s set to hold her first show at New York Fashion Week. ent early on that her daughter had an aptitude for art. “When she was really young we really noticed how she played with colours and it was just very unusual,” she said.

“We knew that something was happening so we just kept buying her more colours.”

“She’s tried a lot of different things and some things stuck and something things didn’t, but art and fashion have been consistent,” she said, adding that her daughter’s fashion career “just kind of snowballed.”

Jennifer LaTorre-Daly, a 20-year veteran of the fashion industry, joined Taylor’s team last fall as the New Yorkbased strategic planning director, focusing on getting Taylor’s clothes in major retail outlets.

“It’s a great concept: She’s designing for her peers,” LaTorre-Daly said.

Taylor said that even though her schedule can be hectic, she enjoys it and feels like she has a good balance of school, art, fashion and just hanging out with friends.

And she points out that she has friends who are just as busy with interests like acting or dance.

“The way I see it is I get to follow my dream and be a teenager at the same time. I think I’m pretty lucky in that respect,” she said.

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AUSTIN, Texas — At the age of nine, Isabella Rose Taylor — a painter since she was three — took a weeklong sewing class with an eye toward incorporating textiles into her artwork.

She quickly discovered a love for fashion design as well, taking the class twice more that summer. Now, at 13, her line is debuting at Nordstrom stores this fall and she’s set to hold her first show at New York Fashion Week.

“It just started out as a really fun hobby and it grew into a business over the years,” Taylor said at her Austin, Texas, home, where she’s converted one room into a studio and another into an office.

She added, “I just really fell in love with it the way I fell in love with art, and I realized that I just had so much fun connecting the two.”

With inspiration from an abstract mixed media painting she did when she was younger that includes reds, greys, blues, mustard yellow and neutral earthy tones, Taylor created a fall line with a “street grunge vibe” and “modern hippie” inspiration. “It all started with the colours of the painting for me,” Taylor said.

Jennifer Jackson Brown, a corporate merchandise manager for Nordstrom, said Taylor’s line was a good fit for their juniors section. She said that at the same time she was contacted by Taylor’s camp, her team had been trying to track Taylor down after seeing her on a television appearance.

“What we really liked about her is that she is actually the age of customer so there’s that relatability factor that she has,” Jackson Brown said. “And on top of it, she’s quite aspirational for them at the same time.”

Jackson Brown said they were not only impressed with her “keen sense of creating,” but also with her ability to explain how each piece works with the others and how the collection came together. “She’s actually quite a visionary at the age of 13,” Jackson Brown said.

“I think sometimes what a designer misses is that people want to understand how to dress head-to-toe and she was able to do that,” Jackson Brown said.

Taylor’s fall collection includes “shorties,” high-waisted shorts made of a soft knit that can be paired with leggings and boots.

There’s also a flannel jacket featuring one of the details she likes to include: a tiny American flag button on the pocket.

A jersey baby doll dress and a henley tunic dress feature the painting that inspired the collection.

Taylor said that after taking the sewing classes, she gradually got more serious about fashion, making clothes for friends, designing a collection and eventually getting a handful of items produced and selling them online and at trunk shows. Her line is now produced in Los Angeles.

Taylor went to school on an accelerated schedule, graduating from high school at 11 and now attending community college.

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NOVEMBER WATCH OUT! HERE COMES BLAND, JAMES BLAND The November Man 1.5 stars (out of four) Rated: 14A Ex-007 actor Pierce Brosnan always thought he had at least one more James Bond movie in him. On paper, the spy thriller The November Man looks like it might be at least a reasonable facsimile.

It’s not by a long shot, although it’s not for want of trying. In fact, this looks to be a case of trying too hard.

With former Bond girl Olga PETER Kurylenko by his side and a HOWELL script that plays like a Google Translate synthesis of every 007 trope, Brosnan charges once more unto the secret agent breach as if Daniel Craig never happened.

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But it ain’t the same, mainly because the script’s inane. We never know from one minute to the next what Brosnan’s ex-CIA guy Peter Devereaux is up to, or what’s motivating him. Is it duty, love, vengeance, sadism, masochism or all of the above?

This info vacuum builds tedium rather than suspense, a deficit no amount of car chases or explosives can compensate for. Veteran director Roger Donaldson directs with urgency but not flair, working a screenplay by Michael Finch and Karl Gajdusek that adapts There Are No Spies, a book in Bill Granger’s espionage series about the Devereaux character.

It might as well have been from multiple books; it certainly feels that way.

When we first meet Devereaux in 2008 in Montenegro, he’s trying to stop a political assassination while acting as mentor to skilled but sloppy rookie agent David Mason (Luke Bracey). Devereaux calls the kid “a blunt instrument” — and where have we heard that line before?

One bungled gig later, the clock jumps to current time and we see Devereaux enjoying retirement in Switzerland, no longer concerned about being shak-

en or stirred.

That is until he’s pulled back into the CIA fold and sent to Commieland for the proverbial one last job, aimed at extracting a double agent from the clutches of a Russian war criminal turned presidential aspirant (Lazar Ristovski), who also seems awfully darn familiar in a front-page kinda way.

Long dull story short, nothing goes as planned, just as before. But now Devereaux finds himself being hunted by former protégé Mason, sharper than before but still working out major surrogate daddyo issues, and he’s not the only one seeking Devereaux’s leathery hide. Seems the makers of this film saw all of the Jason Bourne series, too.

Even Kurylenko is confused by what Brosnan’s character is up to.

“Do all your friends try to kill you?” she says.

“Eventually,” Brosnan replies.

At least we find out why he’s called “The November Man,” way into the picture. It’s not worth the wait.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Ol’ Boots & The Hoots embrace crooners of old

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF From their embellished jackets and pompadoured hair to their heartfelt music, Mark “Boots” Graham loves everything about singers Hank Williams, Conway Twitty and Buck Owens.

Compared to today’s styled-to-the-max countrypop stars, Graham, the frontman for the Red Deer band Ol’ Boots & The Hoots, by far prefers the oldtime country artists you still see featured on latenight infomercials.

They were the real thing, said the singer, who performs with his band next week at the Boomtown Music Festival near Stettler. The outdoor event also features Ridley Bent, Tim Hus and a lineup of other bands, and runs Friday and Saturday, Sept. 5 and 6, at Ol’ MacDonalds Resort.

Graham feels there’s an honesty and a timelessness to old country tunes.

“Anybody growing up in Central Alberta would’ve had parents or grandparents who listened to it.”

He’s part of a local trio of musicians in Ol’ Boots & The Hoots, who are mostly under age 30 but have styled themselves after singers such as Williams, Merle Haggard or Roger Miller. Right off the top, this has meant adopting a certain showmanship.

“You’ve got to dress as fancy as you can, so people will believe in you,” said Graham, who was once told by an old-timer, “It’s called show business, so you’ve got to show them what you’ve got!”

He and his Hoots cohorts, stand-up bassist Sean VandenBrink and banjo-player/guitarist Tyler Allen, comply with this dictum by sporting matching suit jackets on stage. The only reason the outfits aren’t embellished is “I can’t afford it,” admitted Graham,

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Ol’ Boots & The Hoots will perform at the Boomtown Music Festival near Stettler next week. The festival runs Friday and Saturday, Sept. 5 and 6, at Ol’ MacDonalds Resort. Other acts on the bill include Ridley Bent and Tim Hus. who’d “love to have one of those fancy rhinestone suits.”

But the singer compensates for his lack of overthe-top adornment by yodelling like a pro on songs like Pinecone Cowboy and Cleo the Cat. (How does one learn to yodel? “You go as far away from people who don’t want to hear yodelling as you can,” cracked VandenBrink.)

Like the hurtin’ country crooners who’ve gone before him, Graham can also soak some hankies with tear-jerkers such as No Good Woman and Big City Waltz. And he can make listeners crack some smiles with what a music critic has called his “wittily crafted, down-tempo western melodies.”

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Brad Paisley, shown performing in Atlanta on Aug. 14, says his latest album, Moonshine in the Trunk, is full of optimism. “I have two little boys. I want to say, ‘Here are the possibilities,’ ” the country singer says.

Paisley’s country still expanding

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COUNTRY: Debut album got rave review The group’s 2013 debut album, Pinecone Cowboy, got a rave review from EXCLAIM! Magazine, which called it “a cactus in the ass of modern, power-ballad country crooners that forgot the music of their grandfathers.”

Graham, Allen and VandenBrink have certainly not forgotten their forefathers. In fact, their band has entertained some of them — as well as an audience of other seniors, middle-aged folks, teens and children — at the Shady Grove Bluegrass Festival in Nanton earlier this month.

“Tyler’s grandparents were at the festival and his (guitarist) grandpa ended up jamming with us until midnight,” recalled VandenBrink, who enjoys the multi-generational appeal of “old-school” country music.

“I like everything about it. It brings me back to being a kid, as that’s what my grandparents listened to. ... It’s honest music, real music.”

Oddly enough, VandenBrink and Graham started out playing in various punk bands.

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He gave up punk after realizing “I had nothing to rebel against” and moved back to Central Alberta, where he met Allen, who’s from Olds, and VandenBrink, who’s from Bentley, on the local music scene.

The three, who gelled over their love of old-time country, have only been playing together for 1½ years, but are already planning to record a second album this fall. It should be released in January.

“It’s going to be a lot more rockabilly and honkytonk,” promised VandenBrink, who noted Allen will FROM THE STARS OF play electric guitar to achieve more of a Sun Records vibe.

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Country music is supposed to be about real life, and in real life, Brad Paisley is sipping Perrier.

Will we ever get to hear a Paisley lyric about French bubbles in little green bottles? This is a man who hung his star over Nashville singing about the perils of ticks, tanning beds and online dating. So, yeah, maybe we will.

Nashville loves to agonize over what country music should and shouldn’t be, and that’s the tangled yarn ball Paisley’s been spinning on his finger for more than a decade. Of any country superstar working today, he’s the guy with the songs most intimately connected to the contemporary American experience — the blood, the sweat, the tears, the beers and everything else in the grocery bag. He populates his lyric sheet with people who don’t normally appear in country songs, gilding their unfamiliar dramas in deeply familiar melodies. Sometimes, there’s a political message. More often, there’s a punch line.

“I defuse everything I can with it,” Paisley says.

“Humour is such a great shield. You’re going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it’s still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.”

That’s exactly where Paisley took it in April of last year when critics locked their ears on Accidental Racist, an earnest duet with rapper LL Cool J about racial healing that went wrong, then went viral. “I’m just a white man coming to you from the southland,”

Paisley sings on the refrain, “trying to understand what it’s like not to be.”

The song was ridiculed by bloggers, blasted by critics, eviscerated by Stephen Colbert and parodied on Saturday Night Live. Then the great digital outrage machine did what it always does. It moved on to something else.

Paisley didn’t. “I’m still on a journey to learn this stuff,” the 41-year-old says, relaxing on his tour bus before a recent concert in Atlanta. “I want to hear what the professors and the pundits have to say. I had great conversations with a couple of people who were vocally upset, and I’m trying to learn what I can do better.”

As a songwriter, one of Paisley’s central themes has always been “taking pride in progress” — in America’s and, perhaps subconsciously, his own.

Accordingly, his eleventh album, Moonshine in the Trunk, finds him bouncing back from controversy while racing through the busiest summer of his life.

He’s been on tour, giving the late country legend Roger Miller a run for his money as a guitarist and a cutup. He’s been on television, serving as a judge on ABC’s latest singing game show, Rising Star. He’s been at home on his farm outside Nashville, soaking up time with his young sons, Huck and Jasper, and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams. And he’s been online, executing his own rogue publicity campaign, leaking songs from Moonshine in the Trunk on Twitter, one by one.

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The only thing to do after the prime-time Emmys are over (quick, before everyone conveniently forgets who won what) is to gripe about the shut-outs and snubs.

Exasperated True Detective fans are unsatisfied with Monday’s night’s Breaking Bad sweep — even if we can all agree that Breaking Bad remains the best TV show in a decade and deserves this last, long victory lap. The McConaughey fans can take a number behind the Game of Thrones folks. The House of Cards fans can stew in their own weird juices. My fellow Americans fans and the Tatiana Maslany crowd have been standing here in the complaints queue for months — and not quietly, either.

Such grousing usually comes with a cry for some sort of Emmy reform. I usually zone out of that conversation (because why bother?), but something about all the wisecracks Emmy host Seth Meyers made in his opening monologue about networks and cable and streaming (and genres and platforms and delivery systems and ratings and all of that skittish laughter that accompanies doomsday talk about television’s future) convinced me that the time for some change to the Emmy categories has arrived.

It doesn’t feel like we’ll ever get on with fully enjoying good television so long as we’re hung up on mutual worries about the business of distributing television. Somehow, even though most of us are not network executives, this has become everybody’s problem. I expect people who work in the industry to obsess on those issues, but their obsession has become viewers’ obsession too — and more than just about the size of our monthly cable and satellite bills. We’re consumers. We just want to watch the stuff. Some of us — quite a few of us, in fact — are willing to pay for it, too.

This renaissance of format and platform has now merged with the renaissance in content. We need a new kind of awards show for the (so-called) TV we’re watching now. I would be more interested in the results of the Primetime Emmy Awards if . . . ● The top two scripted-show categories were no longer split by comedy or drama and instead split by “new” and “continuing.” How about Outstanding New Series and Outstanding Continuing Series? Up to six (seven? Eight? Ten?) nominees in each category.

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Jolie, Pitt marry in private ceremony at a French chateau NEW YORK — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were married Saturday in the French hamlet of Correns, a spokesman for the couple says.

Jolie and Pitt wed in a small chapel in a private ceremony attended by family and friends at Provence’s Chateau Miraval.

In advance of the nondenominational civil ceremony, Pitt and Jolie obtained a marriage license from a local California judge.

The judge also conducted the ceremony in France.

The couple’s children took part in the wedding.

Jolie walked the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox and Pax. Zahara and Vivienne threw flower petals.

Shiloh and Knox served as ring bearers, the spokesman says.

Jolie and Pitt’s wedding caps years of rampant speculation on when the couple would officially tie the knot.

Pitt once said that he didn’t want to marry until gay marriage was legal, but in recent years, both said they intended to. They were engaged in early 2012 after some seven years together.

“It’s an exciting prospect, even though for us, we’ve gone further than that,” Pitt told The Associated Press in an interview in November 2012. “But to concretize it in that way, it actually means more

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PAISLEY: Closest country music has come to Norman Rockwell He calls the album “a Mason jar half-full” — which means lots of drinking songs and lots of optimism.

And while the album’s excessive sunshine might seem a little tone-deaf to anyone who’s been following the news this summer, Paisley is far from oblivious. His music doesn’t just chronicle the America we live in. It envisions the America he wants to live in.

“Thinking, ‘Boy, are we blowing it, now’ — I don’t want to do that,” Paisley says. “I have two little boys.

I want to say, ‘Here are the possibilities.’ This is the best time to be alive in the history of our country.

And hopefully, this isn’t as good as it gets.”

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to me than I thought it would. It means a lot to our kids.”

They have six children together, including three they adopted: 13-year-old Maddox, from Cambodia; 10-year-old Pax, from Vietnam; and 9-year-old Zahara, from Ethiopia. The couple’s three biological children are 8-year-old Shiloh, and Knox and Vivienne, 6-year-old twins.

This is the second marriage for Pitt, who wed Jennifer Aniston in 2000. They divorced in 2005.

Jolie was previously married to British actor Jonny Lee Miller for three years in the late ’90s and to Billy Bob Thornton for three years before divorcing in 2003.

Both Jolie and Pitt are prepping movies. Jolie’s second directorial effort, the Second World War odyssey Unbroken, will be released in December.

Pitt stars in the upcoming Second World War drama Fury, due out Oct. 17.

Joan Rivers taken to NYC hospital from doctor’s office; condition unknown NEW YORK — Two police officials say Joan Rivers has been rushed in cardiac arrest from a doctor’s office to a New York City hospital.

The comedian’s condition wasn’t immediately known.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly name the person transported to Mount Sinai Hospital just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday.

Fire and police officials say they responded to a call of an 81-year-old woman having a heart attack at an upper East Side doctor’s office.

A hospital spokesman declined to comment.

Rivers’ representatives didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. ics stepped out into a minefield — “It ain’t like I can walk a mile in someone else’s skin” — while LL’s clunky response rhymes created dubious equivalencies. “If you don’t judge my gold chains,” he raps, “I’ll forget the iron chains.”

Paisley says the uproar that followed made him smarter. “And contrary to popular belief, I wasn’t that dumb before,” he says. “But discussion is all you can ask for. That’s my biggest regret about that song: It became an argument and not a discussion.”

To many critics, the song’s broad strokes made the absurd suggestion that centuries of racial strife could be solved over a caramel macchiato. But Paisley was just doing what scores of country songwriters have been trying to do since Hank Williams roamed the Earth: cram life’s complexities into tidy, legible, memorable, melodic three-minute packages.

“We were having a very personal discussion (within the song), and everyone said, ‘How dare you speak for us?’ “ Paisley says. “But I think two people sitting at Starbucks can reach a conclusion together. As a country, we can’t. But with that song, we were trying to say, ‘Hey, you can talk about these things.’ “ And while the controversy over Accidental Racist raged almost completely outside of the country music world, it’s worth remembering that Paisley was sending that message to country fans, a bloc that’s overwhelmingly white and completely unaccustomed to being confronted with songs about race.

“I found incredible consolation in their reaction,” Paisley says, “which was, ‘Huh, I never thought about that.’”

The great art critic — and Music Row songwriting veteran — Dave Hickey had a terrific understanding of what Rockwell was really about.

“This is what (Rockwell) celebrates and insists upon: that ‘normal’ life, in this country, is not normal at all,” Hickey wrote in 1995, “that we all exist in a general state of social and physical equanimity that is unparalleled in the history of humans.” On Rockwell’s fundamental message, Hickey spelled it out: “Hey! People are different. Get used to it.”

Paisley, who embarked on his songwriting career immediately after graduating from Belmont University in Nashville in 1995, loves Rockwell, too — and he’s quick to volunteer a favourite image. He saw it hanging at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch: two “But comedies would never win!” you say, citing janitors taking a break from mopping a theater to leaf through the playbill. “Love that one,” he says, Oscar’s aversion to comedy films as proof. True, but I think the bigger letdown is that the Emmys tend to blinking hard so he can see it on his eyelids.

It’s easy to imagine Paisley in a songwriting ses- nominate and award the same shows over and over. sion, conjuring similar characters with his eyes That’s the problem the clamped. He has a knack for singing from other per- Oscar’s never have to deal spectives, sometimes playing an opinionated narra- with (nor do the Grammys, the Pulitzers or anything tor on the brink of a big realization.

On the new album, there’s Gone Green — a song else). Only TV deals in penned by Paisley’s bassist, Kenny Lewis — in which ongoing works of art that #5 a “redneck” reluctantly embraces environmentalism premiere and evolve from season to season and, by in a world that’s “done gone green.” On 2013’s GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER Those Crazy Christians, 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357 Paisley sings from the position of a grouchy atheist SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY AUGUST 29, 2014 willing to admit that, “If I TO THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2014 ever really needed help, well, you know who I’d call GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) (NOT REC. FOR PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED CHILDREN,VIOLENCE,COARSE LANGUAGE) FRI-MON 1:10 is those crazy Christians.” YOUNG CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-MON 1:20 I STAY (PG) (MATURE SUBJECT MATTER) CLOSED And all those ditties about GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) IFCAPTIONED FRI-MON 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25; TUEthe ups and downs and (VIOLENCE,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,COARSE THURS 6:40, 9:15 upside-downs of alcohol? LANGUAGE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-MON 4:20, IF I STAY (PG) (MATURE SUBJECT MATTER) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30 They’re inspired by the 7:20, 10:20; TUE-THURS 7:00, 10:00 MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) LET’S BE COPS (14A) (SUBSTANCE ABUSE,COARSE vivadeli.kj sloshiness Paisley sees at TEENAGE (VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-MON 2:20 his concerts. He doesn’t TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) LANGUAGE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-MON 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:45; TUE-THURS 6:50, 9:35 really drink.

(VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-MON 5:00, AS ABOVE/SO BELOW (14A) 7:40, 10:15; TUE-THURS 7:15, 9:55 This tactic usually (VIOLENCE,FRIGHTENING SCENES) NO PASSES works pretty well, but FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FRI-MON 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40; TUE-THURS 6:55, 9:25 FOR 3D (18A) (GORY BRUTAL VIOLENCE) CLOSED something went awry with CAPTIONED FRI-MON 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25; TUE- THE F WORD (14A) FRI-MON 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25; TUE-THURS 7:40, 10:10 Accidental Racist. In the THURS 7:20, 9:50 song, a guy in a Lynyrd WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL (PG) CLOSED SWEARNET: THE MOVIE (18A) (CRUDE COARSE LANGUAGE) FRI-MON 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; TUE-THURS Skynyrd T-shirt (Paisley) CAPTIONED FRI,SUN-MON 1:00, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30; 7:35, 10:15 3:55, 6:40, 9:30; TUE-THURS 6:35, 9:20 walks into a Starbucks SAT WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL (PG) STAR & THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) (SEXUAL CONTENT,NOT and places his order with STROLLERS SCREENING RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN,BRUTAL VIOLENCE) WED 1:30 FRI-MON 2:10, a black barista (LL Cool THE EXPENDABLES 3 (PG) (NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CLOSED CAPTIONED J), realizing the Confed- CHILDREN,COARSE LANGUAGE,VIOLENCE) CLOSED 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; TUE-THURS 7:10, 10:05 erate flag on his chest is CAPTIONED FRI-MON 3:30, 6:30, 9:35; TUE-THURS THE CROODS (G) SAT 11:00 DOCTOR WHO: DEEP BREATH () SAT 12:55 6:30, 9:30 problematic. Paisley’s lyr-

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Springsteen picture book, based on his ballad Outlaw Pete, out in November NEW YORK — The Boss is getting into the picture book business.

Outlaw Pete, based on a ballad from Bruce Springsteen’s Working on a Dream album, will be published

by Simon & Schuster on Nov. 4. The publisher said Thursday that the book will feature Springsteen’s lyrics and illustrations by Frank Caruso. Springsteen’s song was inspired by the children’s book Brave Cowboy Bill, which came out in 1950. Springsteen has said that his mother used to tell him bedtime stories about Cowboy Bill.

Another rock ’n roll superstar, Keith Richards, has a picture book out this fall. Gus & Me, scheduled for release Sept. 9, is a tribute to Richards’ grandfather, musician Gus Dupree.

Firearms company cuts ties with Sons of Guns reality TV star after arrest BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana firearms company at the centre of the reality TV show Sons of Guns distanced itself from the program’s star this week after he was arrested on charges of repeatedly raping a child.

Will Hayden was arrested Tuesday. As of Thursday, Red Jacket Firearms said that “with heavy hearts,” it had legally cut ties with him but would continue to operate.

“We are the heart and soul of Red Jacket and will remain steadfast in our commitment to quality and our customers, for years to come,” a statement on its website said. their very excellence, create gridlock for the everincreasing amount of new content we refer to as “television.” ● Someone solves the miniseries/not-a-miniseries debate. Is it or isn’t it? Shouldn’t someone besides the network that made the show decide? HBO says True Detective is a drama because they’re bringing it back for another season (but, in the same year, decided to enter the final, shortened season of Treme as a miniseries). FX’s Fargo won outstanding miniseries Monday night, but will be back for a second season in 2015, which makes it more like the network’s successful American Horror Story anthology which is on its fourth season and sure looks like a series to me, even if the settings and storylines change each year.

My suggestion says “whatever” to all that: In your first season, whether you make a few episodes or a full 22 and whether they’re funny or dreary, you are eligible for Outstanding New Series. If you bring it back, you’re a Continuing Series. ● Someone steps in and writes new definitions of “comedy” and “drama.” Keep the acting categories separate for comedy and drama, but only if we can arrive at something that makes sense.

For example, Nurse Jackie’s Jackie, as played by Edie Falco: I love you and I hope you get your act together after this last relapse and meltdown, but darling, what you are going through is not funny. (What Selina Meyer, the veep of Veep, goes through isn’t always funny either, but there is never a doubt that we are watching satire; that it’s nearly always going for laughs.)

The only reason Falco and Nurse Jackie are defined as “comedy” now is because that show is a half-hour long and features some dead-pans with its bed-pans. That’s an old way of looking at TV. Same goes for Girls’s Hannah Horvath and Louie’s Louie.

There’s a hurt and a struggle and a darkness in the humor that cannot be ignored.

The longer the Emmys pretend that the definitions of comedy and drama haven’t changed, or that a show that premiered in 2009 is still the most relevant and interesting thing on, the weirder it will seem as content keeps heading in a thousand different directions. It’s like pretending that nothing’s changed about the devices and delivery systems that bring these shows to us, wherever and however we want.

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Obituaries CHARLTON (nee Petersen) Shirley Elaine Dec. 30, 1943 - Mar. 24, 2014 Shirley was born in Innisfail to parents Viggo and Elaine Petersen.

She attended school in Torrington and Wimborne. After obtaining her teacher’s certificate, Shirley returned to teach in Innisfail and did so until her retirement.

Shirley loved teaching elementary school, especially the art classes.

After retirement, Shirley volunteered for the Innisfail Christmas Bureau, delivered Meals-On-Wheels and worked at the Innisfail Historical Village.

Following in her father’s footsteps, she was a faithful curler. Shirley will be greatly missed by her cousins, Norma Schmidt, June Miller, Dale (Bobbie) Beckman, Bill (Glady) Miller, Pat (Peter) Wyllie, Judy Satterlund, Carol Kosman, Grant (Brenda) Nolan, Carmen (Ernie) Ewasiuk, Michael (Rita) Miller, Elaine Vale, Kerry (Lanell) Nolan and Dan Nolan. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September 6, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. in St. Mark’s Anglican Church Hall, 49 Avenue and 52 Street, Innisfail, Alberta.

Burial of Shirley’s urn will take place at a private family gathering. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Shirley’s honour may be made directly to the Innisfail & District Historical Village, Meals-On-Wheels or a charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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WESSLEN Doris Ardine Dec. 26, 1919 - Aug. 24, 2014 Doris Ardine Wesslen of Lacombe passed away on August 24, 2014 at the age of 94 years. She is survived by her children; Shirley Wesslen of Lacombe and Larry (Lorraine) Wesslen of Calgary, her grandchildren; Kim (Bill) Rose, Dean Morison, Anne Chehade (Manuel Macias), Craig Wesslen and Connie Wesslen, 5 great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Doris was predeceased by her husband Edward Wesslen in 1989. Funeral Services will be held from Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe, AB on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. Interment will take place in the Aspelund Cemetery. If friends desire memorial contributions may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Expressions of sympathy may be forwarded to www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca.

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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CREASEY (Jackson) Glenna Jean May 26 1928 - Aug. 25 2014 Glenna Jean Creasey passed away peacefully at the Lacombe Hospital at the age of 86 years after a courageous battle with cancer. A loving and devoted mother, she is survived by her children; Gerald Creasey and Dominique Cayouette and Grant and Wendy Creasey, all of Lacombe.

Barry Creasey from Hinton and Judy Gillis of Red Deer. Her grandson Mathew and Stephanie Gillis of Lacombe and their sons Reid, Lane, and Evan. Her granddaughter Jenni and Warren Jones and their son’s Levi and Torrin.

Glenna was the youngest of three children and was predeceased by her sister Beulah Grant in 1995 and brother Gerald Jackson in 2010. The entire family thanks Dr. Ken Smit and the Lacombe Hospital Nursing Staff for the comforting care received. Their professional and compassionate care during a difficult time is a shining example of excellence in healthcare. Thank You! A memorial of Glenna’s life will be held at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe, AB on Tuesday September 2, at 1:00 p.m.

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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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CURRIE 1939 - 2014 John “Jack” Currie passed peacefully away on Sunday, August 24, 2014, at the age of 75, after a lengthy illness.

Jack was born and lived in Talara, Peru until age eleven when he and his family moved back to Winnipeg, Manitoba where his father continued working for Imperial Oil. Jack joined the Canadian Navy as a teenager for five years in Victoria, doing his basic training in Halifax.

Following his love for the sea, he continued to work in the ship yards of Vancouver as a Boiler Maker. It was at this time he bought the first of five English Cocker Spaniels (dogs) that he always had as a constant companion throughout his adult life. In 1972, Jack married the love of his life, Diana Bennett, from St. John’s Newfoundland; and later went on to raise two beautiful daughters, whom he cherished. In 1975, Jack graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), and thus started a new career and life in Employee Relations.

Following a brief stint with the Alberta ConstructionLabour Relations Association, Jack became the Employee Relations Officer on the future Scotford refinery in Fort Saskatchewan. After the completion of this mega project, Jack and his family moved to Red Deer in 1985.

At Michener Centre, Jack worked as an Employee Relations Consultant until his premature retirement in 2003 at the age of 63. Jack loved music, travel, sailing, camping, and had a passion for adventure; which is why he secretly took a week of motorcycle lessons and arrived home one day with his first ‘bike’. And so began a wonderful love of “Gold Wings”. But of Jack’s many passions, above all, he loved his wife and daughters. Left behind to mourn his loss are his wife Diana; daughters Jennifer Dennis (Derek), Gillian Currie (Peter Berridge); grandsons, Ryder Dennis and Lukas Berridge; his mother-in-law Peg Bennett and many nephews, nieces and close friends. He was pre-deceased by his mother and father, John and Francis Currie, and his sister Carol Bellingham.

A private graveside service has taken place.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Canadian Diabetes Association, 6, 5015 - 48 Ave, Red Deer AB T4N 1S9 or to the Alberta Cancer Foundation, 710, 10123 - 99 St, Edmonton AB T5J 3H1. Condolences to Jack’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

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MCDONALD Pauline Ida 1914 - 2014 Pauline Ida McDonald of Alix, AB passed away peacefully and surrounded by love at The West Park Lodge on August 27, 2014 at the age of 100 years. Pauline is survived by her sons Evan (Skip), Roy (Irene), a special nephew Warren (Robin) Scott; 8 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren, 8 great great grandchildren; 2 sisters Violet and Betty as well as numerous family members and friends. Pauline was predeceased by her husband Ewen, daughter Margaret, granddaughter Cassandra, 4 brothers and 5 sisters. A celebration of Pauline’s life will be held at Alix Community Hall on Saturday, August 30, at 2 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to STARS 1441 Aviation Park NE, Box 570, Calgary, AB or charity of donors choice.

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Services Inc. is looking for energetic and hardworking Operators and Swampers.

If you are interested in joining our team fax a copy of your resume to 403-746-5152 or email to: OIL & GAS OPERATOR Bearspaw currently has a caps@harewaves.net 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 EXP’D CLASS 1 mechanic and possess DRIVER REQ’D. strong mechanical skills, Class 1 is a must and be quick learners, motivated picker exp. would be an and hard working and live asset. Oilfield exp. preor be willing to relocate ferred. Will require H2S within a 20 minute commute and First Aid Certificate. to workplace location. This This position is F/T days position offers a challenging only in the Stettler area. work environment, attractive Salary to commensurate benefits with competitive with experience. Please pay and significant room send resumes to: for promotion. lornemurfitt@telus.net.

Please submit resumes TOO MUCH STUFF? Attn: Human Resources Let Classifieds email:payroll@ help you sell it. bearspawpet.com GROWING local oilfield Fax 403-252-9719 water management com- Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 pany requires crews - no Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 experience necessary, long hours, remote locations. Competitive wages and health benefits. Must have PPE & first aid, H2S. Contact 403-346-0009 or SERVICE RIG email welltesting365@ Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd gmail.com is seeking LEASEHAND LOCAL SERVICE CO. Locally based, home every in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. night! Qualified applicants VACUUM TRUCK must have all necessary OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence valid tickets for the position being applied for. w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Bearspaw offers a Fax resume w/drivers very competitive salary abstract to 403-886-4475 and benefits package LOCAL Testing company along with a steady seeking experienced work schedule.

Well Testers.

Please submit resumes: Positions available Attn: Human Resources immediately.

Email: Day/Night Supervisors & payroll@bearspawpet.com Assistants.

Fax: (403) 252-9719 or MUST HAVE valid H2S Mail to: Suite 5309, and First Aid. 333-96 Ave. NE Competitive wages and Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com

NOW HIRING

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

800

Surveyor Assistants

440464I4

(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

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

- 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 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

SOUTHPOINTE COMMON and BOWER PLACE Mall Locations.

Positions for SUPERVISORS. Looking for motivated and hard working individuals. Having your own transportation is a plus. On the job training, but experience in fast food is an asset, and must be avail. to work all store location hours.

Starting wage $13.50/hour with restaurant exp.

Please specify which store you are applying for.

No open LMO’s to hire foreign nationals at this time.

Email resume to awbsp@xplornet.ca or phone 403-391-0555 and ask for Lynn.

Trades

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Apprentices

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Trades

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

850

CHEVROLET

JJAM Management (1987) is currently seeking Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s SERVICE ADVISORS. Requires to work at these We offer competitive Red Deer, AB locations: wages, a great working 5111 22 St. environment, and a great 37444 HWY 2 S benefit package.

37543 HWY 2N Please email resume to 700 3020 22 St. Joey Huckabone FOOD ATTENDANT joey@pikewheatonchev.ca Req’d permanent shift HIRING IMMEDIATELY weekend day and evening Steel Stud Framers & both full and part time.

Laborers. Light/heavy 16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + gauge steel framing. Great benefits. Start ASAP. work experience, long term Job description work and on going projects www.timhortons.com in Red Deer and Education and experience surrounding areas. F: 403. not req’d.

668.1142 E:info@lwbsi.

Apply in person or fax com www.lwbsi.com resume to: 403-314-1303 JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

Wknd, day, night & eves.

Start date ASAP. $18/hr. 40 hrs/week, + benefits , 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d.

Req’d education some secondary. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job description visit www. timhortons.com

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

850

JOURNEYMAN Mechanic, Red Deer Shop & Field Mechanic will service and maintain winch trucks, generators, centrifuges and all other equipment.

Desirable candidate will possess: * Journeyman Heavy Duty ticket and min 5 years experience * Ability to perform CVIPs on heavy trucks * Self motivation and ability to train an apprentice * Excellent interpersonal skills To apply: e-mail resume to hr@apexoil.ca by September 5, 2014.

Visit our website at www.apexoil.ca

F/T dishwasher, Mon. - Fri. 8:30 - 4, in Burnt Lake DUE TO A LARGE Park, Red Deer.

INCREASE IN BUSINESS, 403-340-3302 email PIKE WHEATON resume: scottnshaw@telus.net

RAMADA INN & SUITES

req’s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, TREELINE making beds, empty trash, WELL SERVICES disinfecting & cleaning Has Opening for all bathrooms. Performance positions! Immediately. based bonus program.

All applicants must have Must be fluent with verbal current H2S, Class 5 with l& written English, be Q Endorsement,and First physically fit. Applicants Aid. We offer competitive may apply in person at wages & excellent benefits.

6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Please include 2 work T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 reference names and or email: numbers. info@ramadareddeer.com Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Buying or Selling Or email to: your home? tannis@treelinewell.com Check out Homes for Sale No phone calls please. in Classifieds www.treelinewell.com

ZUBAR Production Services

is currently taking resumes for experienced Production Testing Personnel Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net or fax to (403)346-9420.

439504H30

800

810

WELDING APPRENTICE, RED DEER Seeking a 2nd or 3rd year registered apprentice to assist with the fabrication, design and construction of our metal equipment in a shop environment.

Requirements are: • Registered 2nd or 3rd year welding apprentice • Experience interpreting drawings, welding processes and materials • Desire to learn and work well in a team and independently To apply: e-mail resume to hr@apexoil.ca by September 5, 2014.

Visit our website at www.apexoil.ca

Requires Full Time

Equipment Operator/Truck Driver

Truckers/ Drivers

Q Endorsement preferred.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

Trades

860

CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113

850

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Vehicle Admin/Customer Service Representative

Oilfield

Professionals

Boundary Technical Group Inc. Is now hiring for:

Experienced Swampers and Class 1 Drivers

Southside Dodge is looking for an

Southside Dodge is looking for a new fulltime team member to join our great sta!

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 oers competitive wages and excellent beneďŹ ts. If you think you can be an asset to the Southside family then please contact us with your resume via: jsparks@southsidereddeer.com.

800

Oilfield

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Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Operator 2 position.

The position includes Plant Operations and Sanitation duties.

Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 diploma and must be available for shift work.

Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

Application Closing Date: Sept 12, 2014.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to: RAHR MALTING CANADA LTD. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta, T0C 0B0 FAX: (403) 747-2660 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

860

WANTED...

CLASS 1A DRIVERS with Winch Experience and... SWAMPERS Rig moving experience a definite asset.

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

FULL TIME POSITIONS – 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.

CALL:

309-3300 To Place Your Ad In The Red Deer Advocate Now!

Please fax resumÊ to: Good To Go Trucking – 306-463-2814 PS NBJM UP 1 0 #PY t ,JOEFSTMFZ 4, 4 - 4 0GüDF QIPOF t "TL GPS $ISJT "SUIVST

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Truckers/ Drivers

OPERATOR 2 POSITION

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810 Central Alberta Residence Society

Manager of Professional Development Special Projects We are seeking an individual to join our team in this ‘New Exciting’ position. This position will report directly to the Executive Director and be responsible for a variety of functions that contribute to the vision, mission and strategic direction of the agency. One of the main duties will be the development & implementation of values based training and mentorship to support individuals to develop socially valued roles.

Minimum qualifications: Post-secondary education in Community Disability Studies, Social Services or other relevant field of study. A minimum of 5 years experience in the Human Service field with at least 3 years in a supervisory capacity. A driver’s license and vehicle as travel will be necessary.

The following skills, attributes will be key in the successful candidate meeting the requirements of the position; Strong communication, organizational, interpersonal, leadership, problem solving skills, initiative and the ability to work independently. Computer skills; Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Knowledge of the community and a commitment to promote positive community relationships.

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

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, Aug. 29, 2014

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

880

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ACADEMIC Express

START YOUR OWN COMMERCIAL CLEANING BUSINESS

402881E23,24

Revenue between $24,000 - $120,000 Initial cash required as low as $6,000 In Business for over 20 years *Guaranteed Cleaning Contracts Incl. *Training Incl. *Ongoing Office Support

Ph: 780-468-3232 or 403-290-0866

880

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Community Support Worker Program

Counter Salesperson A local company requires an enthusiastic person for counter sales.

Email resume to mark@aesreddeer.com

DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 GULL Valley Greenhouses Blackfalds AB has 2 positions for Greenhouse Supervisors.

Must have 2-3 yrs. exp. working in a tomato vegetable greenhouse. Job involves training & supervising workers, also performing same jobs as workers. Terms of employment incl. a 40 hr week, Sunday’s off & $20.00/hr.

Jobs starting Aug 19th 2014.

Reply with info to: phil@gullvalley.ca

DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS For our parts & service dept.

Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca

Integra Tire Innisfail, req’s a Tire Tech with Lube Bay and Service Truck exp.

Valid class 5 license and driverabstract req’d. Send resume to innisfail@ integratire.com or fax to 403.227.6689

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Labourers, Flag Persons & Operators Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND flag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Opportunity for permanent P/T admin position for Full Service Financial Planning business. Min 20 hours per wk.

Must be highly organized, professional, excellent communication skills including grammar and penmanship. Computer skills a must (Outlook, Word, Explorer, Contact Management Software).

Able to work well in a team environment.

Email resume with cover letter by September 2, 2014 to FullServicePlanning @gmail.com.

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.

900

SAFETY

RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.

Fax to 403-346-5786 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift.

11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

TURPLE BROS. LTD.

Is taking resumes for: PARTS PERSON. F/T position avail. Wages dependent on experience, benefits avail. Please email resume to HR Department brenda@turplebros.ca Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

RED DEER ADVOCATE

S

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

RV TECHNICIAN/ RV TECH APPRENTICE Duties include:

Phone 403-314-4301

Attributes:

• All aspects of RV Service work • Seasonal extended hours • Customer interaction

• • • •

Previous experience Organized & Reliable Physically fit Mechanically inclined

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

Will consider:

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres.

Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Allan Street Addinel Close Allsop Close Anquetel/Atlee Close

439937H29

• Journeyman RV Technician status or equivalent related trade experience • Salary based on experience and ability • Company benefits • Top industrial wage for right person

E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

Employment Training

900

Metcalf Ave Muldrew Close/Martin Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA

Classes Starting Soon!

Springfield Ave. LANCASTER AREA Lamb Close Lawrence Cres/Lees Street

On-site work experience Unit Clerk Specialty curriculum Under one-year full Diploma program Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Nationally recognized Medical Assisting First Aid / CPR Training Professional Certificate Hospital Scrubs included Train with Industry experts Perfect graduate job placement rate reported last year

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Farmers' Market

1650

NIXON HONEY FARM FINAL WEEK!!

FRESH LIQUID UNPASTURIZED RAW HONEY - $3.00/LB. Bring your own containers.

403-227-2719 or 227-0092 INNISFAIL To book your appointment.

Tours also avail.

Look for us at Red Deer Farmers Market Wed & Sat & Innisfail Market Thurs!

Also look in local grocer.

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Advocate Opportunities

KENTWOOD Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

440522H29-I26

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive, Chism Close & 1 block of Cornett Dr. $98/mo

1000-1430

Depalme St. & part of Dunning Cres. & 3 blocks of Douglass Ave. $78./mo also Dixon Cres. $103/mo.

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or DALE’S Home Reno’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 Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE International ladies

Now Open

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 BEST! Roofing 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. of the town.

403-896-4869 www.viimassage.com

1370

Misc.

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 Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. items, branches, will haul Private back entry. 403-341-4445 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

RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

FRIDGE, Kenmore 21 cu ft. 8 yrs. old, black, $200 o.b.o. 403-343-2754

Household Furnishings

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

Sporting Goods

1860

ANTIQUE GOLF CLUBS, $25 obo.

GOLF BALLS, $7.50/dozen.

403-346-3086 FITNESS Chair, an instride cycle. Brand New. $150.

403-342-1656

HEARTLAND GUN SHOW AT STETTLER AGRIPLEX

SAT. & SUN. SEPT. 6 & 7 Sat. 10-5, Sun. 10-3 Admission $5.

403-741-7377 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.

COUCH, olive colored, 2 matching chair, $200. obo.

587-377-5275 ROUND WHITE RESIN & GLASS TOP PICNIC TABLE, chairs & umbrella, $100.

403-343-2730 STENO CHAIRS, 1 @ $5, 1 @ $15.

403-346-3086

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

BBQ, triple burner CharBroil, side combination burner/griddle, propane. (bottle not included).

Insulated cover. Clean, works well. Downsizing! $20. SOLD CARPETS, wool, various sizes & colors. From $50. & up. 403-342-1656

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

MICROWAVE, white $20; 32”RCA tv $25; 12” RCA tv 2 + 1 BDRM home, with lrg $20 403-346-4116 garage. $1600/mo + d.d., avail. Oct. 1, ROUND WHITE RESIN & 403-347-1563 GLASS TOP PICNIC TABLE, GULL LAKE: completely chairs & umbrella, $100. reno’d upper 3 bdrm., dble 403-343-2730 garage, 2 full baths, fireplace. $1400/mo. Avail Musical immed. Credit checks.

1-403-282-9701 Instruments OLDER 1 bdrm. smaller BEGINNERS GUITAR house, large lot, Penhold.

AMP - Rocker RX100. $850/mo. negotiable 7 Watt, $30.

403-886-5342, 403-357-7817 403-227-2976 SYLVAN LAKE 4 fully furnished rentals, including dishes, bedding, Music utilities. Avail.

Lessons Sept. 1, 2014 - June 15, 2015 Price range $1200 to $1600 PIANO Lessons, beginner/ per month. 403-880-0210. advanced, exam prep., rudiments/theory. Adult Condos/ beginners welcome.

403-506-9778 Townhouses

1770 1780

3030

Pets & Supplies

1810

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.

INGLEWOOD POINT 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo. $1450 inclds all util.

403-350-3722 780-479-1522

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

1372

GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 to 4400 blocks of 40A Ave., 2 blocks of 41 Ave, and 1 block of 39, 46 & 47 St. $71/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA 3400 black of 44A Ave and 35 St. Cres.

3200 & 3300 blocks of 44A Ave & 33 St. & 33A St. $100./mo.

WOODLEA AREA

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

CLEARVIEW AREA

DEER PARK AREA

CLASSIFICATIONS

Accounting

1710

2 BALINESE KITTENS & 2 BERMAN KITTENS $50/ea. 403-887-3649

1 day a week in:

Vold Close

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

Household Appliances

1830

Cats

JOHNSTONE PARK

Lord Close

Viscount Drive

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

WHEEL CHAIR, electric, like new! Asking $3500.

587-272-2530

FISH TANK, cherry wood, hexagon, $200. obo.

587-377-5275

Vicker Close

Call Today (403) 347-6676

1700

Health & Beauty

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave.

Jarvis Ave, Jackson Cl. & Jewel St.

Vanier Drive

GRASS TRIMMER (Electric), $20.

LAWN EDGER, (Electric) $15.

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

Logan Close

VANIER AREA

1680

Garden Supplies

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

ORIOLE PARK Otterbury Ave

Lancaster Drive

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

ED Hardy hoodie, childs M, very good cond, $15; boys runners Spiderman size 3, very good cond., $10 403-314-9603

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

MORRISROE AREA

ENROLL TODAY!

OILFIELD TICKETS

1580

GLENDALE

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

BEN’

TRAINING CENTRE

Children's Items

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS

UNC

LE

880

to help with daily operations Warehouse of the program. Great for mom Shipper/ Receiver with school age children Competitive starting wages looking for part time work. plus regular increases.

This position is 3 mornings/wk (12 hrs/wk) responsibilities Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Excellent benefits incl. organizing delivery routes, package. Opportunities counting, stocking warmers, to advance. Must be taking client phone calls, dependable, hardworking supporting the program and seeking a long-term coordinator with daily career. Apply in person, operations and delivering or email to: meals to clients when needed. hartleytj@eecol.com Successful applicant will be 4747 - 61st Street organized, detail orientated, and a strong communicator.

Must enjoy working with Central Alberta’s Largest seniors, have a valid drivers Car Lot in Classifieds licence and vehicle.

Please forward resume along with 2 references to: Red Deer Meals on Wheels Attention Cheryl Day, Employment Program Coordinator 4725 43 Street, Red Deer Training T4N 6Z3. Email: rdmealsonwheels@shaw.ca Fax: 403-346-2599

Advocate Opportunities

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PROGRAM ASSISTANT

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• GED Preparation DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 Would you like to take the required (5 tons), local & GED in your community? long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

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Europe seeks role in postwar Gaza

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — European nations are offering to help enforce the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, a scenario that could provide key international backing for maintaining the peace and step up the pressure on Hamas militants to relinquish power.

The European plan remains vague, and it is unclear whether Israel or the Palestinians will agree.

But a European presence in Gaza could go a long way toward meeting two key demands: the Palestinians’ insistence on freer movement in and out of the territory, and the Israeli requirement that Hamas be kept in check.

French President Francois Hollande laid out the case for European involvement on Thursday, telling international diplomats that Europe could help oversee the destruction of tunnels used by Hamas militants and monitor the territory’s border crossings with Israel and Egypt.

“It is necessary to move toward an end to the blockade and a demilitarization of the territory,” he said, indicating that international supervision could help pave the way for a return of Hamas’ rival, the Palestinian Authority, to Gaza.

President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the authority, is eager to regain a foothold in Gaza, seven years after Hamas violently overran the territory. With the international community shunning Hamas as a terrorist group, Abbas would be likely to operate Gaza’s borders and oversee internationally funded reconstruction efforts.

The French proposal, Hollande said, would “finally give the Palestinian Authority the means to respond to the humanitarian crisis and to begin reconstruction.”

Earlier this month, while the fighting was still raging, the European Union expressed its readiness to contribute to a “sustainable solution” for Gaza, offering help in postwar reconstruction and monitoring efforts.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Palestinian masked Hamas gunmen holds his rifle as he guards during a rally in Gaza City, Wednesday.

Among other things, it mentioned the possible revival of an operation that helped operate Gaza’s volatile border crossing with Egypt.

Israel and Hamas militants battled for 50 days this summer before reaching a truce on Tuesday. More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, including hundreds of civilians. Seventy people on the Israeli side, including six civilians, died. An estimated 100,000 Gazans have been left homeless, and reconstruction is expected to take years.

The cease-fire brought an immediate end to the warfare — the third round of heavy fighting between the two sides since Hamas came to power in 2007 — but left key matters unresolved.

While Israel agreed to loosen a longstanding blockade to allow humanitarian aid and reconstruction materials into Gaza, many of the border restrictions will remain in place. Hamas, meanwhile, rejected Israel’s demands that it disarm.

Islamic State group kills dozens of captured Syrian soldiers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — The Islamic State group killed more than 160 Syrian government troops seized in recent fighting, posting pictures Thursday of terrified young conscripts stripped down to their underwear before meeting their deaths in the arid Syrian countryside.

The slayings were the latest massacre attributed to the extremist group, which has terrorized rivals and civilians alike with widely publicized brutality in Syria and Iraq as it seeks to expand a proto-state it has carved out on both sides of the border.

In southern Syria, meanwhile, gunmen detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers during fighting on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, the United Nations said. It added that another 81 peacekeepers were trapped in the area by heavy clashes between rebels and Syrian troops.

The mass killing of Syrian soldiers is part of a stepped up campaign by Islamic State militants targeting President Bashar Assad’s forces.

Until recently, the group had been focused on eliminating rivals among the rebels fighting to topple him, systematically routing Westernbacked opposition fighters and other Islamic factions from towns and villages in northern and eastern Syria as it expands.

More recently, the jihadists have turned their attention to Assad’s forces, seizing a series of military bases in northeastern Raqqa province.

In the process, they have killed hundreds of pro-government forces, beheading some and later displaying their severed heads on poles and fences and posting the pictures online.

Most of the dozens killed over the past 24 hours were rounded up Wednesday near the Tabqa airfield three days after Islamic State fighters seized the base. The government troops were among a large group of soldiers from the base who were stuck behind front lines after it fell to the jihadi fighters.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for

Human Rights said around 120 captive government troops from Tabqa were killed near the base. Islamic State fighters also killed at least another 40 soldiers, most of whom were taken prisoner in recent fighting at other bases in the Hamrat region near Raqqa city, the group’s stronghold.

A statement posted online and circulated on Twitter claimed the extremists killed about 200 government prisoners captured near Tabqa. It also showed photographs of what it said were the prisoners: young men stripped down to their underwear marching in the desert, some with their hands behind their heads. The photos could not immediately be verified, but correspond to other AP reporting.

The group also posted a video showing Islamic State fighters forcing the barefoot men to march through the desert. Another video later showed dozens of bodies piled in the desert, alongside others lying motionless — apparently dead — in a row in the sand.

While the videos could not be independently confirmed by the AP, they appeared to illustrate the claims made online by the Islamic State group and Syrian opposition activists about the mass killing.

There was no immediate comment from the Syrian government, which has been tight-lipped on the massive death toll incurred by its soldiers at the hands of Islamic State fighters in the past two months.

In its rise to prominence over the past year, the extremist group has frequently published graphic photos and videos of everything from bombings and beheadings to mass killings and images of jihadis taunting and humiliating terrified troops or other opponents.

In Iraq, the group killed nearly 200 men — most of them Iraqi soldiers — in late June near the northern city of Tikrit, human rights groups and Iraqi officials say. It published photos online showing dozens of men dressed in civilian clothing lying face down as militants aimed rifles at their backs.

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1917 — Robert Borden’s Union government passes the Military Service Act. All male British subjects up to 45 years of age are liable, with certain exceptions.

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Russia invades Ukraine LEADER URGES UKRAINIANS TO RESIST PANIC

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A girl waves with an Ukrainian flag during an antiwar meeting in the town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Thursday. Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of the nation’s security council and canceled a foreign trip Thursday, declaring that “Russian forces have entered Ukraine,” as concerns grew about the opening of a new front in the conflict. and control elements, and it is extremely unlikely that this sort of equipment is used by volunteers,” Tak said.

Moscow has described the Russian citizens fighting with the separatists as volunteers.

Tak said the satellite images were only “the tip of the iceberg” in terms of the overall scope of Russian troop and weapons movements.

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NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine — Two columns of tanks and military vehicles rolled into southeastern Ukraine from Russia on Thursday after Grad missiles were fired at a border post and Ukraine’s overmatched border guards fled, a top Ukrainian official said.

Echoing the comments by Ukrainian Col. Andriy Lysenko, a senior NATO official said at least 1,000 Russian troops have poured into Ukraine with sophisticated equipment, leaving no doubt that the Russian military had invaded southeastern Ukraine.

“The hand from behind is becoming more and more overt now,” Brig. Gen. Nico Tak said at NATO’s military headquarters, adding that Russia’s ultimate aim was to stave off defeat for the separatists and turn eastern Ukraine into a “frozen conflict” that would destabilize the country indefinitely.

“An invasion is an invasion is an invasion,” tweeted the Lithuanian ambassador to the UN, Raimonda Murmokaite.

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday afternoon.

“Russian forces have entered Ukraine,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said, cancelling a foreign trip and calling an emergency meeting of the country’s security council. “Today the president’s place is in Kyiv.”

Poroshenko urged his citizens to resist giving into panic.

“Destabilization of the situation and panic, this is as much of a weapon of the enemy as tanks,” Poroshenko told the security council.

As Poroshenko spoke, the strategic southeastern town of Novoazovsk appeared firmly under the control of separatists and their Russian backers, a new, third front in the war in eastern Ukraine between the separatists and Poroshenko’s government in Kyiv.

Russia’s ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, told the BBC that “NATO has never produced a single piece of evidence” of Russian troops operating in Ukraine. He said the only Russian soldiers in Ukraine were the 10 captured this week, who Moscow insists had mistakenly wandered across the border.

The Russian Defence Ministry didn’t directly deny its troops were in Ukraine, but said the list of Russian military units said to be operating in Ukraine had no relation to reality.

Lysenko said the missiles from Russia were fired at Ukrainian positions in the southeast about 11 a.m. and an hour and a half later, two columns, including tanks and other fighting vehicles, began an attack.

They entered Ukraine from Veselo-Voznesenka and Maximovo in the Rostov region of Russia.

Russian stock markets dived as Switzerland joined the European Union in imposing restrictions on Russian state banks and fears grew that the U.S. and EU could impose further sanctions on Russian businesses and individuals in response to the military escalation. Russia’s MICEX index dropped nearly 2 per cent on Thursday, and major Russian state banks VTB and Sberbank dropped more than 4 per cent.

“Over the past two weeks we have noted a significant escalation in both the level and sophistication of Russia’s military interference in Ukraine,” Tak said in Casteau, Belgium. “Russia is reinforcing and resupplying separatist forces in a blatant attempt to change the momentum of the fighting, which is currently favouring the Ukrainian military.”

He said the 1,000 Russian troops was a conservative estimate and said another 20,000 Russian troops were right over the border.

NATO also produced satellite images to provide what it called additional evidence that Russian combat soldiers, equipped with sophisticated heavy weaponry, are operating inside Ukraine’s sovereign territory.

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Travel partner becoming uncomfortable Dear Annie: My second cousin “Susan” and I are in our 60s and have been friends since childhood. I was widowed six years ago. Susan never married.

Four years ago, Susan and I started traveling together.

It’s much cheaper to travel as part of a couple than solo, and we get along well.

Now, however, there are a couple of problems.

MITCHELL Susan has & SUGAR put on so much weight that she encroaches on my airplane seat and tour bus bench.

Airplane seats are not that comfortable to begin with, and Susan takes up a good third of mine. This makes long flights very uncomfortable. I think Susan should pay for a first-class seat or two coach seats.

The other problem is that Susan has taken in several stray dogs and cats,

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and her clothes reek of cat urine. I no longer want to share a hotel closet when we travel, because my clothes begin to smell like hers.

Susan is already talking about another trip, and I don’t know how to respond.

I enjoy traveling, but I cannot deal with these things anymore. Any suggestions? — Struggling Cousin Dear Cousin: You have to tell Susan about the cat odor.

She is undoubtedly so accustomed to it that she can no longer smell it.

Say, “Susan, I’m sure you probably don’t notice it, but your clothes are starting to smell like your cats.

Perhaps it would help to change the type of litter you use or put your clothes in a different closet.”

The weight issue, however, is more sensitive.

If you are willing to address it directly, gently let Susan know that her size makes travel uncomfortable for you.

Consider buying your own firstclass, business class or premium economy ticket, and Susan can follow suit or sit elsewhere.

Or perhaps you each could share the cost of a third seat so you have extra room.

You also could suggest sitting separately on tour buses so that you can meet new friends along the way.

Dear Annie: My dad is in his mid90s.

There is a woman in her early 60s who has worked for him and been a companion of his for about six months.

Dad would like to ask this lady to move in with him.

This isn’t particularly romantic in nature.

The only thing Dad knows about the woman is that she seems to be nice and likes him.

She would continue to be his employee and, in addition, would care for him in his own home.

Dad wants us all to get together and discuss this matter. We are concerned about his financial situation and his health.

What should we do? — Concerned Dear Concerned: Is Dad mentally competent?

Have you met this woman?

There are lawyers who specialize in elder law and can draw up papers to protect Dad’s assets, regardless of the circumstances.

But if the woman is essentially a live-in paid companion and caregiver, it is simply a matter of checking on

Dad regularly to see that he is properly cared for.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “At a Loss for Words,” whose mother shows little interest in her daughter’s children.

She says her mom “is extremely self-centered.”

She wants her mother in her life, but the hurt is getting to be too much.

I agree with most of your advice, but I think she should continue to invite the mother, regardless of whether she attends or not. Narcissistic people crave attention, even negative attention.

Not inviting Mom allows her to think of herself as a victim of an ungrateful daughter.

An invitation hurts no one, especially if the grandchildren are taught that Grandma probably won’t attend, and it prevents giving Grandma a way to show her disapproval, cause hurt and be the center of attention. — N in N.C. 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.

RENEGADES WIN

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Red Deer Renegades U16 Girls Tier 2 won Alberta provincial championships in Sherwood Park earlier this month. In the front row, from left to right: Hayley Cartwright, Katya Brezovan, Emily Downey, Erin Gill, Lexie Davis, Kristy Buckle and Bronwyn Pfiefle. In the back row: Randy Pfiefle (assistant coach), Mackenzie Peturson, Natalie Frenette, Jaden Humphry, Reesa Garez, Maddy Kendall, Taylor Amundson, Heidi Giles, Kate Bertagnolli, Esad Elkaz (head coach), Hanne Giles (team manager). Missing: Chelsea Antonio

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Whatever happens will create harmony.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There will be a surprising interaction with friends, but please don’t jump to conclusions now.

You will still feel as confused as ever when it comes to yourself and work. There will be an invisible energy, but it will be felt. Trust that energy, it will lead you towards love.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There will be some surprising event happening to you on a professional level today. This will alter your current path forward. Don’t jump to conclusions and focus on the tangibles. Trust that today is simply shaking things up to fall in their proper spots.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your per-

Friday, Aug. 29 going on. Properly sort through your thoughts CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: and then let friends in on the new view!

Lea Michele, 27; Chris Hadfield, 54; Robin LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your perspective Leach, 72 on your current financial situation will surprise THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today you will you today. Simply focus on what is actube motivated to keep the peace. Yet there ally tangible and within your reach now. You will be strange moods going on with others in might have a personal vision on what your your life, and some of their reactions will be home should be like. Work at those goals, surprising. and do take those necessary Don’t jump to conclusions steps forward! today and do focus on what is VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): tangible and right in front of you.

It’s not a good day to receive There is a good time to be had, emotional advice. Yes, we all once everyone understands that want to discuss certain proswe are all feeling a bit off with pects that we meet, but today today’S strange energy. you will feel almost abandoned HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today by whomever you converse with is your birthday, this year will have and you will be left confused as many surprises for you especially to what to do next. Focus on the in regards to your finances and tangibles in your life today! your personal value in this world.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): There will be a lot of individuToday you will want to be with LARISA MAIRA als stepping out from behind the friends and group socials, but OZOLINS woodwork to help you when you there will be a change of plans. least expect it, but don’t rely on it, You will encounter some very just feel blessed by it. Still others confusing behaviour from othwill baffle you the entire year, and ers on your daily routine and leave you more confused than ever. this will only be topped off with surprising beARIES (March 21-April 19): A surprising haviour from your significant relationships. event will happen on your daily routine that SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There will will leave you feeling slightly confused or be some surprising interactions in your day deeply in awe of your intuition. By the way, and within work that might have you jumpdo trust that from now on! You will want to be ing to conclusions. Try not to do that today. with friends today to share this news, so go Focus on the tangible and this will pull you out and socialize with them now! towards your wishes and current aspirations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Be careful not to jump to any conclusions today, especially when it comes to your emotional life. Whatever surprises you have in store today will allow for greater harmony to enter your life. Friends might feel a bit out of sorts today, so do give them a break will you!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today will almost feel like the entire work force is hiding a secret from you. Well I am not sure if they are, but it will sure feel like it. There is greater harmony coming in for • Bluetooth Handsfree • Mobile Video • iPod Integration you within your romantic life.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): There is going to be some surprise announced today with work or with the government or something.

Whatever that is revealed today will rattle your current perspective on what is truly

spective and direction is about due for a little shake up and today is that day. Perhaps it will come through the news, or the words of a mentor. Trust the flow of events right now; they are leading to greater harmony for you.

Focus on what is tangible with others.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I am not going to fib; you are going to confuse others today. You’ll want to be around those you typically see, but something will pull you away from that routine. You are focused on creating more balance and harmony; you will achieve that with work, health and daily life.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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