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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta premier-designate Jim Prentice began the job of righting the listing Progressive Conservative ship Sunday by announcing his transition team. Prentice, in an email, announced his five-member team to take him to the premier’s office.

It is headed by Tim Hearn, the former chairman and CEO of Imperial Oil. The team will also include government house leader Robin Campbell and former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel, who has said he may run for office under a Prentice government.

“This is a group of talented, principled, and well respected Albertans who will assist in the transition to a new Progressive Conservative government,” said Prentice in a news release. “Under my leadership we will restore the bond of trust between Albertans and their elected officials, and return to sound conservative fiscal principles.”

Also Sunday, Prentice learned the last obstacle to a smooth transition to the top job had been erased.

Defeated candidate Thomas Lukaszuk joined with Ric McIver in saying they won’t challenge the results of an electronic voting campaign won by Prentice but marred by computer and phone foulups.

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Red Deer Spartan Super racers leap over their final obstacle at Heritage Ranch Saturday. The race featured 21 different obstacles spread throughout the 12+ km course. While all racers started the race clean, many were barely recognizable by the time they reached the finish line. See story on page A7.

Let out your inner vampire

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

“As far as intricacy goes, it’s the most intricate piece we’ve done,” said Harman — and that’s saying something.

The foundry operator and sculptor, who relocated his Harman Sculpture Foundry Ltd. to the C&E Trail from the Vancouver area in 2008, has worked on many detailed, sizable and noteworthy sculptures over the years. These include Douglas Coupland’s multi-figured statue of Terry Fox, which is now installed in Vancouver.

Harman’s knowledge of native B.C. art and motifs made him a natural choice for the job, said Marston.

“He’s familiar with northwest coast stuff and has a huge understanding of First Nations art.”

Harman and his late father John Harman, who started up the foundry on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, have worked on bronze casting for Haida artists Bill Reid, Robert Davidson and Jim Hart.

Although Stephen Harman left B.C. to be closer to his wife’s Central Alberta family and for lifestyle reasons, he remembers that sharp, graphic lines are integral to coastal First Nations art.

Shane Stimson wants you to let out your inner vampire — no cape or fangs required.

Stimson and his friend Chris Anderson are starting a modern-dress theatrical game in Red Deer that requires at least 30 imaginative adults to pretend to be vampires for a few hours on the third Saturday of each month.

There’s no need to wear a costume, but players might want to hone their political and/or socialclimbing skills, so reading up on the history of the Medicis wouldn’t hurt.

“There’s a lot of social maneuvering” in the game, said Stimson, 39. But, unlike in some medieval role playing, there’s no stage fighting involved — in fact, no contact is a rule.

Stimson, a married father who works in the oilfield services industry, has been among 50 participants who have been involved in an on-going vampire game in Calgary for the past 18 years. He considers it to be a fun, social experience, like being part of a murder mystery night.

The premise is that somebody calls a gathering, a bunch of ambitious, greedy or vengeful vampires show up, “and if you have a conflict, it’s settled without physical contact.”

There’s always intrigue, he said, with the formation of alliances between different vampire “clans,” as well as shameless status seeking, betrayals and secret societies.

The game can be thought of as theatre sports (plastic fangs optional), where a plot line is roughly devised by the storyteller (Stimson), and all participants then improvise dialogue. If the plot gets hung up, Stimson will step in with a diversion.

He often goes to real-life newspaper articles for inspiration: for instance, one about a search for lost hikers might prompt an accusation in the game that a vampire has been less than careful in hunting human prey. Moral questions will be raised, said Stimson, and each participant must decide where his or her vampire character ranks on the humanity scale — from almost human to Nosferatu-like venal.

“This is played world-wide, so you can take your character and play in L.A.,” or Italy, Brazil or Russia, said Stimson.

The obvious question is why vampires? Stimson said you can’t link this to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.

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Ladysmith, B.C. artist Luke Marston works on the fine details of one of three human sculptures that will be part of an installation at Brockton Point in Stanley Park, Vancouver. This piece, Kwatiimaut (Lucy) is a sculpture of his great-great grandmother. On the left is Kultiinaut, Chief Capilano’s granddaughter.

Shore to Shore sculptures being cast in Central Alberta

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Portuguese Joe Silvey’s historic journey from the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to British Columbia’s West Coast has lately taken an inland segue to Central Alberta.

The Vancouver-area saloon keeper, whaler and pioneer fisherman from the 1860s is being memorialized in a five-metre bronze sculpture, along with both his Coastal Salish wives.

The intricately detailed Shore to Shore work is expected to be installed this fall in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. It was created by Portuguese Joe’s great-great-grandson, the artist Luke Marston, and therefore has personal meaning for the Vancouver Island sculptor.

But Marston was assisted in the creation process

by Central Alberta foundry operator Stephen Harman. The Red Deer County resident has been casting the large pieces of the sculpture for the past 1.5 years.

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PRENTICE: First-ballot victory Lukaszuk said he’s not happy, but won’t stand in the way.

“That ship has sailed,” said Lukaszuk in an interview.

“There was a system. An outcome was achieved, and I’ll let it be.”

Prentice, 58, defeated Lukaszuk and McIver handily in results announced Saturday.

The former Calgary MP and cabinet minister for Prime Minister Stephen Harper took 77 per cent of the 23,386 votes, well over the 50 per cent plus one needed for a first-ballot victory.

McIver finished with 12 per cent and Lukaszuk 11 per cent.

But it was not without controversy.

Over two days of voting, there were scores of complaints: voters not receiving the required PIN codes, jammed phone lines and frozen computer downloads.

Party executive director Kelley Charlebois has said while the system had problems, the result reflected the true sentiments of the party.

Lukaszuk said all is not well.

“I firmly disagree with the party. The electronic vote was not a success by any standard. But at the end of the day it was what it was,” he said.

Charlebois said he expects party members will discuss the electronic voting experiment at the annual general meeting in November.

McIver told reporters after the vote Saturday that he, too, is moving on.

“What matters is Albertans get to decide, and they decided,” said McIver.

“It wasn’t the decision that I asked for, but it was the decision they made.

“And I always said, ’You get the government you deserve when you elect me, and you get the government you deserve when you don’t elect me.”’

He said he plans to continue working for the caucus and will seek re-election in Calgary-Hays under the PC banner in 2016.

Lukaszuk also said he will work on whatever position Prentice appoints him to, and is eyeing a run for the PCs in the next election in 2016 in his EdmontonCastle Downs riding.

Prentice has promised substantive changes quickly to fulfil campaign promises to realign a caucus and government knocked off kilter under former premier Alison Redford.

Redford resigned in March amid revelations she had used tax dollars to spend lavishly on trips and office perks, including a pricey penthouse suite on top of a government building.

Prentice, based in Calgary, still needs to win a seat in the legislature.

He has promised to do so quickly, but has not said where he’ll run.

Redford’s seat in Calgary-Elbow is open.

PC backbencher Neil Brown has offered to step down to let Prentice run in Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill.

No date has been picked for Prentice to be sworn in as premier.

VAMPIRE: Living in a magical world The vampire game has been around for at least 30 years, he said, attracting a fairly even number of males and females of all ages. There’s even an international rule book that groups can opt to follow — or not.

It appeals because mysterious, immortal, romantic and conflicted characters living in a magical world make for more interesting escapism, for example, than pretending to be welders, he said, with a chuckle.

And, unlike computer games, role-playing allows introverted people a chance to come out of their shells and mix with others, since the group usually goes for coffee after a game night. “If you always wished you could be more outgoing, you can create a character who’s outgoing. You can take risks, not for yourself, but for your character.”

His group started attracting some interest at an information session Saturday at the Oriole Park Community Hall.

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SCULPTURES: Refining the details For this reason, he said many months were spent refining the details in Marston’s designs before the pieces were cast in bronze.

“It’s just like a language, like hieroglyphics,” said Harman, who spent a good part of his time, while working on the sculpture, also recovering from a broken leg caused by a mishap with a previous project.

Many exacting shapes decorate the three supports of Marston’s 4.25-metre teepee-like structure, which was designed to frame the three figures in the piece.

The Ladysmith, B.C.-based artist said this eagletopped frame actually symbolizes a fishing lure used to draw salmon closer to the water’s surface so the fish could be speared.

When fully assembled, the monumental work will pay homage to Marston’s ancestors, as well as the West Coast’s multi-ethnic history.

The sculpture will feature three 1.5-metre-tall stylized figures: Portuguese Joe will be shown holding a whaling spear; his first wife, Khaltinaht (who died young of tuberculosis) and his second wife (Marston’s great-great-grandmother) Kwatleemaat, will be depicted wearing woven blankets and traditional cedar bark and shell headdresses. The two women will also hold tools for weaving and repairing fishing nets.

Since the project has taken five years of Marston’s life to plan and execute, “it’ll be pretty amazing once it’s done,” said the 37-year-old artist, who can barely imagine finishing the work that’s kept him in Central Alberta for the past week. “It’ll be nice to complete the story,” he added, “but the journey’s been pretty good, too. ...”

Marston is pleased by the unexpectedly close relationships that have emerged with the Portuguese and First Nations communities, and other supporters of the project.

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The sculpture of Portuguese Joe started out as Marston’s mother’s idea, but eventually became a family affair. Marston noted his father and brother helped with the original cedar carvings, while his mom and sisters sit on a non-profit foundation formed to raise the $700,000 needed for the sculpture’s costs.

The artist contributed $100,000 of his own money, attained government grants, public donations and donations in kind, especially from the PortugueseCanadian and Azores communities. (The latter gave stone for the statue’s base, which was carved to resemble ocean waves.)

Marston said about $100,000 still needs to be raised. (Various fundraising options can be viewed at www.shoretoshore.ca.)

Silvey is known on the West Coast as a colourful historic character, a pioneering seine (dragnet) fisher, and ambassador who bridged two cultures.

While the whaler from the Azores Islands fathered 11 children with two Salish wives and left many descendants, his importance to B.C.’s history reaches far beyond his own family.

In The Remarkable Story of Portuguese Joe Silvey, a biography by Jean Barman, he’s recalled as a Renaissance man of his generation. His friends included saloon keeper Gassy Jack Deighton for whom Vancouver’s Gastown is named, and his prestigious grandfather-in-law Chief Kiapilano of the Capilano Nation.

A plaque explaining Silvey’s history will be attached to the Shore to Shore sculpture, which will be installed on Brockton Point in the northeast of Stanley Park, close to where Silvey and his family once lived.

But the project will not end there.

A feature-length documentary of the sculpture, as well as Portuguese Joe’s story, is being made by Gumboot Productions. Journalist Suzanne Fournier is also writing a book about Marston’s sculpture and the artist’s trip to his great-great-grandfather’s homeland of Pico Island in the Portuguese Azores. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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First World War analyzed in new slate of books for centennial

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Olivia Lundell, 8, soaks up some sunshine as she creates sidewalk art near the Centennial Plaza wading pool Saturday afternoon.

Rock snot interview request sets off PR flurry

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — It was a story about rock snot.

And if there’s a person you want to talk to about the pervasive algae also known by the less-offensive, more scientific name of Didymo, it’s Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientist Max Bothwell.

Bothwell is, other scientists will tell you, the rock snot man. He wrote the book. Or in this case, co-authored a published article in a renowned scientific journal.

But a request from The Canadian Press to speak to Bothwell when the article was published in May failed to produce an interview.

What it did produce was 110 pages of emails to and from 16 different federal government communications operatives, according to documents obtained using access to information legislation. Many hours after the request was made the morning of May 8, an email from Robin Browne, strategic communications advisor for the Communications Division of Environment Canada, contained a list of responses for the approval of David Boerner, director general for water science and technology in the ministry.

“CP asked to interview Max today but media relations is negotiating

that to buy us more time. Thanks!” he wrote. Not long before that Bothwell — described by the co-author of the article as “really the Yoda of knowledge about Didymo” — tried to hurry things along.

That unleashed a frenzy of emails trying to find the aforementioned “approved” responses. It appeared they were not located, and approval had to begin from scratch.

The emails refer to “agreed answers” for the scientist and “approved interview script” throughout.

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.

The Canadian Press story about Bothwell’s breakthrough on the origins of this pervasive algae appeared on news sites and in newspapers across the country without Max Bothwell, a research scientist at the Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, B.C. Why the fuss?

Calvin Sandborn, a lawyer with the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria, thinks he may have some idea.

Politically sensitive issues are redflagged for tight political control, said Sandborn, who helped author a comprehensive report by the law centre.

“In particular, if they’re talking about issues that are sensitive to the oil and gas industry — specific issues like climate change or oilsands or grizzly bears.”

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Boil water advisory lifted for Botterill crescent residents Those who live near Botterill Crescent in Red Deer will no longer need to boil their water before consuming it, as test samples sent to Alberta Health Services by the City of Red Deer showed no signs of contaminations.

Residents of the area were under a boil water advisory since Wednesday, following a water main leak.

Approximately 70 households were subject to the order, which was issued by AHS.

Two killed in collision south of Bowden Two people are dead after a car collided with a semi tractor trailer that was parked at a rest stop.

Olds RCMP were dispatched at 5:30 a.m. to a serious collision in the North bound lane just south of Bowden.

The North bound lanes were closed for about five hours while the RCMP investigated.

The investigation revealed that a 1995 Buick Riveira ran into the back of a semi that had been parked at the rest stop with its lights on.

The driver — a 23-year-old male — and a female passenger were deceased when police arrived.

The driver of the semi was not injured.

No charges will be laid in the accident and alcohol was not a factor in the crash.

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TORONTO — It’s been 100 years since the start of the First World War and there’s still a lot of inaccurate information about the conflict, says military historian Gwynne Dyer.

“A great deal of what people think they know about the First World War isn’t true, like the generals were all fools and it was all about an endless trench stalemate and it meant a great deal because we were fighting for freedom,” he said in a telephone interview.

The former member of the Canadian, British and American navies looks at the mythology surrounding Canada’s role in the Great War — as well as its military engagement in general — in the newly published Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 (Random House Canada).

“I’m quite cynically using the First World War as a hook on which to hang 100 years of Canadian military history, foreign policy,” he said. “But it’s quite legitimate, because that’s where our reflexes were formed.”

Dyer is among several writers with new books offering fresh looks at the Great War for the centennial.

Historian Margaret MacMillan’s The War That Ended Peace (Penguin Canada), now on shelves, looks at the factors and decisions that led Europe from a long period of peace and prosperity into a catastrophic conflict.

Novelist Michael Winter puts a personal spin on his look at the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and the Battle of the Somme with Into the Blizzard (Doubleday Canada).

Frances Itani’s newly published novel Tell (HarperCollins Canada) is set just months after the end of the Great War and follows a young soldier and his family on Ontario’s Bay of Quinte. And in Valour Road (Viking Canada, Sept. 23), journalist John Nadler looks at the true story of three Canadian soldiers who were awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery during the First World War. Coincidentally, all three also hailed from the same street on the outskirts of Winnipeg.

“I think this war will be analyzed and scrutinized, of course, for decades

has died and a baby was injured after a vehicle rolled on a residential street in Calgary.

The Chrysler 300 hit a parked van on Friday morning, flipped onto its roof and slid 16 metres, according to police.

A 20-year-old man was declared dead at the scene, while a two-month-old baby was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Police say the baby was strapped in a car seat, but the seat wasn’t properly secured.

Investigators believe the driver wasn’t paying attention to the road.

Acting Staff Sergeant Dean Vegso also says it appears the man wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

to come, centuries to come and historians will be constantly changing their minds about it and ideas will evolve,” said Nadler.

“From the point of view of this last century, it just seems like a calamity, just a catastrophe. It really shouldn’t have happened, but it did and it kind of changed everything and ruined so much. But there will be other perspectives and other interpretations.”

Dyer’s book examines why Canada engages in major conflicts and the price it pays for doing so, starting with the Boer War in South Africa in 1900 through to the decade-long mission in Afghanistan. The title comes about 25 years after he and Tina Viljoen published the book and produced the TV series The Defence of Canada. Back then, they intended on releasing a second volume, but the bulk of the material for it — which is in now in Canada in the Great Power Game — “was killed for political reasons” and “because it was a little bit less than reverent about the mythologies” surrounding the war, said Dyer.

Such mythologies give meaning to the war experience, he said.

“People really want meaning,” he added.

“In fact, I’d go further than that — they can’t do without it, particularly when you consider what an enormous loss it was. A quarter million casualties killed and wounded basically out of five million English Canadians, because the French Canadians weren’t going. So that’s the pool you were fishing in and one in 20 of them was killed or wounded — we’re talking about all the men, women and children.

“So that can’t be an experience that meant nothing or was a terrible mistake or would just as well have been missed and so it’s got to be about vital issues, momentous moral questions.

It’s got to be a crusade.”

Nadler’s Valour Road looks at Victoria Cross winners Leo Clarke, Robert Shankland and Frederick Hall, who were neighbours from what was originally known as Pine Street and is now called Valour Road.

“I know of no other incident throughout the entire British empire or former empire where this has happened,” said Nadler,

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Dire lessons in the sky Passenger pigeons were once a remarkable story of nature’s abundance.

Despite producing only one chick a year, they were the most numerous bird on Earth, sometimes darkening the sky for hours or even days when they flew overhead.

But then they told another tale — about the destructive power of humans. We killed them all. The last wild bird was believed to have been shot DAVID in Laurel, Ind., SUZUKI in 1902. The lone captive survivor was named Martha; she died at the Cincinnati Zoo 100 years ago, on Sept.

1, 1914.

In some ways, the passenger pigeons’ success led to their demise. According to an article on Yale Environment 360, their abundance made them “the least expensive terrestrial protein available.”

Although habitat loss from expanding logging and agriculture played a

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role, hunting ultimately wiped them out.

Birds have long been the “canaries in the coal mine” for our destructive ways. Extinction of the passenger pigeon sparked the first large environmental movement in the U.S., and led to restrictions on hunting, as well as federal and international regulations to protect migratory birds.

The next great environmental movement was also ignited out of concern for birds. For 20 years after Swiss chemist Paul Müller discovered DDT was extremely effective at killing insects, it was the most widely used insecticide worldwide. But in her 1962 book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson explained how the chemical was also killing birds, and accumulating in the environment and up the food chain, to humans.

Carson’s book inspired me and many others to heed the environmental consequences of our actions, and eventually led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Now, birds face a range of new problems, most caused by humans and many serving as further warnings about our bad habits. According to BirdLife International, one-eighth — more than 1,200 species — are threatened with extinction. Habitat destruction is a major cause. Birds can’t sur-

vive when the places they live, breed and feed are destroyed or altered, and when food supplies are diminished.

Chemicals such as PCBs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and pesticides are also killing birds and, like DDT, also often affect humans.

Our insatiable energy appetite also puts birds at risk. Reading some energy-related news and blogs, one might conclude wind power is the biggest bird killer. But that’s far from true.

Although poorly situated wind farms, especially ones using older turbine technology, do kill birds, it’s an issue that can be addressed to a large extent, as can problems around solar installations where birds have died. By far the largest energy-related bird killers are fossil fuels, especially coal. Heavy metals like mercury and lead from burning coal kill numerous birds — and even change their songs, which can affect their ability to mate and protect territory. And climate change is affecting many species’ breeding and migratory patterns.

U.S. News and World Report analyzed estimates of how many birds are killed every year by U.S. electricity sources. The numbers are telling: between 1,000 and 28,000 for solar; 140,000 and 328,000 for wind; about 330,000 for nuclear; 500,000 to one million for oil and gas; and a whopping 7.9 million for

coal. According to one recent study, between 12 and 64 million birds a year are also killed in the U.S. by transmission lines. The article notes that all those numbers pale in comparison to birds killed by domestic cats: from 1.4 to 3.7 billion a year!

Not only do birds fill us with awe and wonder, but they also provide food and feathers, and keep insects and rodents in check. Their ability to warn us of the drastic ways we’re changing the world’s ecosystems and climate and water cycles can’t be ignored. By working to ensure more species don’t go the way of the passenger pigeon, we’re also protecting ourselves from the effects of environmental destruction.

As individuals, we must conserve energy, shift to cleaner sources and demand that our industrial and political leaders address issues such as pollution and climate change. And we can work to protect wetlands and other bird habitat. We can also join the legions of citizen scientists who are contributing to avian knowledge by posting information to sites such as eBird.org.

It’s not really just for the birds; it’s for all of us.

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

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Truth about need for reconciliation OTTAWA — In many ways, this was a moment of quintessential Canadian déjà vu.

There we all were again, sitting in the National Press Theatre. Joe Clark, Paul Martin and former Assembly of First Nations Chief Ovide Mercredi, among others, decrying the misunderstanding, neglect and betrayal that has marked our country’s relationship with our First Nations.

“As you can see, I’m getting old,” said Mercredi, speaking for many.

The two former prime minTIM isters are hardly kids, either.

HARPER They’re not at the stage of life in which one usually contemplates starting over, but there they were, calling for a “new partnership” between Canada and our aboriginal population.

They call it Canadians for a New Partnership and my hyperactive inner cynic kept welling up, telling me I had heard it all before, had seen it all before and the last thing we needed was more dialogue and more process.

But I kept the cynicism at bay.

If Clark (75), Martin (76) and Mercredi (68), three Canadians who have earned the right to a retirement that would keep them far away from the old National Press Building, still cared, still felt they could give of themselves for this issue, they deserved an audience.

Clark and Martin, regardless of your politics, wear the tags of “right honourable” with distinction. Both should be better remembered for their senior cabi-

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net portfolios than their brief times at 24 Sussex Dr., but this duo is reminiscent of the unlikely alliance forged south of the border by George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

How they would get to this new partnership is fuzzy. They don’t have the budget to effect change.

They have no levers of government to pull. They are hardly grassroots. They want to bring others aboard for this dialogue, a concept that is both ephemeral and purely Canadian.

But you listen because they are among a company of elders.

Their members include their leader, Stephen Kakfwi, a residential school survivor and former premier of the Northwest Territories, Mary Simon, the former president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, former AFN national chief Phil Fontaine, former governor general Michaëlle Jean, former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci, former Ontario premier and interim Liberal leader Bob Rae, Justice Murray Sinclair, who oversaw the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, former Manitoba lieutenantgovernor Yvon Dumont and conductor and composer John Kim Bell.

They have a number of young “emerging leaders” in tow, but right now the gravitas is being provided by the pack of names with “former” attached to their titles.

They believe we may be at a tipping point in our relationship with First Nations. There are continued calls for an inquiry or a roundtable to probe missing and murdered aboriginal women, government efforts to improve aboriginal education are at an impasse, resource projects are ratcheting up tensions and there is a sense of foreboding that the public suffering aired at the Truth and Reconciliation commission may ultimately be ignored.

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They were careful not to brand it as such, but their appearance could be seen as both an indictment of the Harper government (although Kakfwi met with Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt) and the divided, largely dysfunctional Assembly of First Nations.

The Idle No More movement of young, impatient aboriginals that dominated the winter of 2012-13 gave rise to this effort and although they deny they are being political, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau missed that memo. He issued a statement endorsing the partnership and reminding voters of Martin’s work on the Kelowna Accord that was “promptly discarded” by the Conservative government.

“This is not pie in the sky,” said Martin.

“This is not just a lot of pretty words.”

Clark argued that this partnership is needed because we live in a country — and a world — that is increasingly disengaged from politics, and increasingly of the belief that the aboriginal relationship cannot be changed.

“This is a highly possible dream,” Clark said.

Martin came at the need differently — he says that over the past couple of years, in his many speaking engagements on the issue, Canadians have come to believe that the condition in which our aboriginal population lives is intolerable, a belief “that runs very deep in Canadian society.’’

Maybe it’s just more talk with familiar names.

But when some of our former leaders decide that this issue still deserves their efforts, only the most cynical would not listen. And if they can force this dialogue onto the agenda in a federal election year, we all benefit.

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B.C. denies provoking strike TEACHERS’ DISPUTE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A court ruling at the centre of British Columbia’s protracted teachers’ strike, which has delayed the school year for half a million students, robs the government of its ability to set education policy, the province argues in documents related to an upcoming appeal.

The provincial government also denies a judge’s conclusion that it provoked a strike during the previous round of bargaining — a finding that has only worsened the already caustic relationship between teachers and the province. A B.C. Supreme Court judge has twice ruled the province violated teachers’ charter rights when it passed legislation in 2002 that removed hundreds of clauses related to class size and class composition from their collective agreement and prohibited those issues from being bargained in the future. The rulings retroactively restored the deleted clauses.

The most recent court decision was issued this past January, and the province immediately announced an appeal. A hearing is set to begin Oct. 14.

The province says in its written arguments that it should be free to pass legislation on issues of public policy, such as how classes are structured.

“Government considers class-size limits, formulas and staffing ratios to

be an inefficient means of allocating funding, unresponsive to actual school need, and restrictive in terms of the ability of school districts to offer a range of school programming,” the government says in a factum filed with the B.C. Court of Appeal.

“The issue with the deleted clauses, accordingly, is not simply how much money should be spent on K-12 education but how it is to be spent and who should make such decisions.”

The court case has emerged as one of the main sticking points in the current strike, which closed schools two weeks before the end of the previous school year and has now delayed the start of classes.

The court first ruled the government had violated teachers’ rights in a 2011 decision, which restored the contact provisions that were deleted nine years earlier. The B.C. government passed legislation designed to respond to the court decision the following year, once again removing the contract clauses. The teachers’ union responded with another legal challenge, which resulted in a second decision in favour of the union in January.

Practically, the court case factors into the current dispute in two ways.

First, if the court ruling is upheld, teachers could file labour grievances alleging their contract was breached, which the government has said could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Second, the union argues the provisions that were deleted in 2002 should be considered the starting point for negotiating the next contract.

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Chairs are seen on top of desks in a physics lab at McGee Secondary school in Vancouver, B.C. Friday.

But the case also carries significant symbolic weight for teachers, who have had a troubled relationship with successive B.C. governments, both under the governing Liberals and, in the 1990s, the New Democrats.

The judge in the case examined hundreds of pages of confidential cabinet documents and concluded the government devised a strategy during negotiations in 2012 to provoke a strike.

The judge said the goal was to give the government political cover to pass legislation ordering teachers back to work while also maintaining the con-

tract changes imposed in 2002.

Teachers did, in fact, walk out for three days in 2012 and the government subsequently used legislation to end the dispute, but the province insists it bargained in good faith.

“The trial judge’s reference to (government negotiator Paul) Straszak’s ’strategy of increasing the pressure on the union so as to provoke a strike’ is a mischaracterization of the evidence,” say the government’s written arguments, parts of which have been redacted to protect cabinet confidentiality.

Police lock down hotel after Ebola scare

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Jitters over the Ebola outbreak in West Africa were felt in Canada again on Sunday as officials locked down a hotel in New Brunswick’s largest city for several hours because a woman was found ill.

Saint John Regional Police Staff Sgt. Mike King said the woman did not have Ebola, but had recently travelled to Africa, and that initially set off alarm bells.

“In the context of the world environment right now, we needed to ensure that we didn’t have that type of environment here,” said King on Sunday. “We found that it was in the best interest of the folks in the hotel and the folks that might come in the hotel, to lock down until we had a chance to reach out to public health.”

King said officers were called to the Hilton around 11:15 a.m. because the

NEW BRUNSWICK woman needed medical attention. The lock down was lifted around 5 p.m.

A medical health officer for the region, Dr. Scott Giffin, said although the woman had travelled to Africa, she did not travel to an area affected by Ebola.

“The definition of the area in which you acquire Ebola was not on this person’s itinerary,” said Giffin, mentioning she had travelled to Cameroon.

“There’s four countries in Africa that have established an outbreak, this person did not go into those countries.”

Giffin said the initial fear is that the woman had contracted Ebola.

“You see so much coverage over the Internet with international press, of course it’s going to be the first thing that pops into your mind,” said Giffin.

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Rob Ford publicly addresses decision to enter rehab, says only he made decision TORONTO — Rob Ford says the decision to enter rehab this year was his and his alone.

Ford brought up his decision to enter an Ontario rehab facility during a speech to at a business conference in Toronto on Saturday.

In the speech to the National Franchise and Business Opportunities Show, Ford said he wished he did it years ago.

He likened his struggles with addiction to a battle with “the man in the mirror” and that he finally said “enough is enough” before deciding to seek treatment.

Ford says that he was the only person who could make the decision to seek treatment and he did so alone.

Ford entered the Greenestone residential addiction treatment centre near Bracebridge, Ont. in late May after months of revelations about drug and alcohol use and eyebrow raising public gaffes.

Ford was in the rehab facility for two months and says he has since dealt with his substance abuse issues. He said the decision to enter rehab “just hit home” and that he looked at himself and said “that’s it,” before entering the facility.

“Every time he kept beating me,” Ford said of his reflection in the mirror.

“I said ’you know what?

“Enough’s enough. I’ve got to put everything aside or else one day I’m not going to be able to see that guy anymore.”

Ford, who is in the midst of a reelection campaign, has admitted to using crack cocaine and being in a “drunken stupor.”

New Tory leader in Newfoundland and Labrador faces tough fight ahead

Mulcair to unveil key NDP platform planks one year ahead of election

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Tom Mulcair intends to start this fall nailing down some key planks in the NDP’s election platform — a full year before the next scheduled federal vote.

The NDP leader says he’ll be unveiling “some very concrete” proposals on child care, infrastructure investment, health care funding and re-instituting a federal minimum wage, among other issues. Ordinarily, political parties keep their platforms under tight wraps until a campaign begins, to avoid giving rival parties a target or an opportunity to steal their best ideas.

But New Democrats are willing to take that risk as they fight to reassert themselves as the real alternative to Stephen Harper’s ruling Conservatives, a role usurped by the third-place Liberals since Justin Trudeau took the helm 18 months ago.

They’re gambling that the benefits of early disclosure — demonstrating how an NDP government would be different than the Harper regime and contrasting their substance with Trudeau’s refusal to be nailed down on important policy questions — will outweigh the disadvantages.

“Canadians want to know where we stand and they’re going to have a very clear idea,” Mulcair told The Canadian Press as he prepared for an NDP caucus retreat in Edmonton next week to plot strategy for the fall sitting of Parliament.

“And they want more from us than, frankly, talking points, platitudes or partisan attacks.”

Early disclosure of the platform is more respectful of voters, Mulcair argued.

“One of the things that often frustrates me as a voter is when you find out right in the middle of a campaign that they’ve got this, that and the other idea. You don’t really have time to think about it, to measure it or to look at how it could help improve people’s lives.”

The former Quebec cabinet minister said the province’s Liberals revealed their platform months before the 2003 Quebec election and it paid off.

“People appreciated it and it’s something that I retained from my past experience is that, you know what, respect people’s ability to make decisions and to evaluate your suggestions So we’re going to be rolling out some very concrete pieces this fall and people will be able to see what Canada would look like, what would be different.”

Mulcair noted that the NDP has already laid down some planks: rolling back the retirement age to 65 from 67; launching a public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women within 100 days of taking office; using any budget surpluses to reverse the Harper government’s plan to slow the rate of increases in federal health care transfers, which could amount to $36 billion less for provincial coffers over the next 10 years.

“These are key themes that are historic for the NDP,” Mulcair said.

“I mean, health care was based on the Saskatchewan model of (former premier and first federal NDP leader) Tommy Douglas ... We don’t want to go

back to where how much you earn determines whether or not you get health care. And that’s what we’re heading towards if we leave the Conservatives in power.”

Mulcair’s 97 MPs will begin polishing the soon-to-be-unveiled platform planks during the Edmonton caucus retreat, which begins Tuesday and runs through Thursday.

They’ll be hearing from some experts on some of the issues the party intends to address: Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson and, tentatively, Calgary’s superstar mayor, Naheed Nenshi, on municipalities’ dire need for infrastructure funding; Bill Gallagher, a former federal energy regulator and author of Resource Rulers, a book that concludes no natural resource projects will get off the ground in Canada without the permission of and partnership with First Nations.

The choice of Edmonton for the retreat is deliberate. New Democrats are hopeful the party can make some gains in Alberta, particularly in the capital, in the next election.

The NDP has been entirely shut out of Alberta, a rock solid Conservative fortress, in every federal election but three since the province joined Confederation in 1905.

It has never held more than one seat in the province at a time. Edmonton-Strathcona MP Linda Duncan holds the party’s sole Alberta seat at the moment.

But with redistribution creating six new, primarily urban ridings, both the NDP and Liberals smell an opportunity to finally break the Tory stranglehold on the province.

Nine-year-old boy steals Saskatoon city bus

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — A nine-year-old boy has a lot of explaining to do after taking a city bus for a joyride in Saskatoon.

Police say the boy hopped into the empty bus while it was parked with the engine running outside the transit yard on Saturday morning.

He hit the gas and got two blocks before hitting a curb and getting stuck, but during that time smashed another city bus and a parked vehicle.

No one was injured and police say that due to the boy’s age there won’t be any charges.

He has since been taken home by police.

Eyewitness Michael Pritchard says the bus was left running with the door open, and he had seen the boy ride past on a bicycle just moments before.

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A string of lost byelections, grim poll numbers and quitting cabinet ministers.

It’s tough to put a shine on the job facing the next leader of the governing Progressive Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador.

A once formidable juggernaut under former premier Danny Williams, the party has faltered since he suddenly resigned with no succession plan in 2010 to focus on business interests.

The winner of one of the most challenging posts in Canadian politics will be chosen at a delegated convention in St. John’s on Saturday.

All three candidates — Paul Davis, Steve Kent and John Ottenheimer — are political veterans who say they can correct course in time for the next election.

It must be called under provincial law within a year of the new leader’s swearing-in as premier.

But even the most vocal Tory supporters have doubts this ship can turn.

“The Titanic has a better chance of not hitting an iceberg,” is how Conservative commentator Tim Powers, a Newfoundlander, sums up the party’s odds of a comeTELUS back.

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“In British Columbia and Alberta the incumbents had been written off. A lot can change in a year.”

Pritchard was sitting in his truck in an alley waiting for his son at the time. But as his son approached, he noticed something that caused him to do a double-take.

“I looked in my mirror and I saw a little head in the driver’s seat of the bus,” said Pritchard in an interview.

The bus rolled out of view and the two men heard a crash as the vehicle hit another bus.

They raced out to the street and saw the bus continuing on so they jumped into the truck and took off after it.

Pritchard said they tried not to make it look like they were following.

The bus hit a parked car but kept going towards Idylwyld Drive, a busy thoroughfare. As it attempted to turn onto Idylwyld, it clipped stop sign and became lodged against the curb.

Pritchard jumped out of his truck and ran up to the bus.

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That’s when the transit guy came.”

Pritchard said the boy wouldn’t answer any questions.

“He just kept saying, ’No. No.”’ Staff Sgt. Ryan Smith said the boy was alone and hadn’t been with any other children at the time.

Jeff Jorgenson, Saskatoon’s transportation and utilities manager, said the bus was started so maintenance workers could access another bus. It was left idling for 20 minutes, he said.

Jorgenson said the bus doors were closed but not locked. Still, he said policies were broken.

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‘I am Spartan!’

3,000 TAKE ON 14 KM SPARTAN RACE IN RED DEER

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About 3,000 mud-splattered hardbodies from across Western Canada climbed ropes, hauled cement weights and clambered over haystacks to finish the gruelling 14-km Spartan Race in Red Deer on Saturday.

And nearly half of them were determined women, such as Kim Pastachak of Estevan, Sask, After chanting “I am Spartan!” and tearing off into the woods at Heritage Ranch for the Super Spartan Challenge, Pastachuk swam in a river inlet, swung from monkey bars, and crawled through mud. She didn’t get tearful until asked why she put herself through the exhausting race with 21 obstacles.

“I’m doing this for my daughters,” said the 43-year-old oilfield administrator, who wanted to show her 14and 17-year-old girls “they can do anything!”

Carrie Hill and Michelle Kemp, two nurses from Regina, also felt they had something to prove.

“I want to be physically fit and strong, but I’m not allowed to do contact sports anymore,” said Hill, an 25-year-old LPN, who lost a kidney in 2011 and had to give up ringette and hockey.

The Super Spartan course was so difficult it literally left Hill speechless.

“There were parts of the race where I thought, I’m going to die, I am not going to make this,” but she did finish, and was left feeling “unbelievable.”

Her teammate, Kemp, an RN, was told after splintering her wrist four years ago that she might not even be able to work again, never mind do sports. But the 48-year-old started working out with a female boot camp at Readiness Fitness in Regina and can now do pushups, as well as completing Saturday’s obstacle race.

“I am incredibly proud of her, you have no idea,” said Kemp’s beaming husband, Curtis Kemp. who came to cheer with their daughter.

Mary Brooks, of Red Deer, competed in her first Spartan Race with team-

mates and plans to make a habit of it.

“I wanted to prove I can do anything men can do!” said Brooks, 29, who described it as being “right up my alley . . . The whole time I was saying ‘I just love this!’”

Western regional Spartan Race director Dean Stanton has seen female interest in the Spartan Race explode over the past four years. But then, overall participation was expected to be 3,500 people for both Red Deer Spartan Races, including Sunday’s five-km, 15-obstacle Spartan Sprint. This is a significant jump from 2,200 people last year, said Stanton.

He believes more women and men are getting bored with running and want a more interesting physical challenge that works upper body muscles too.

There’s also the mud aspect. “Everybody gets muddy and they get to act like kids. We live in such a sterile world where people aren’t allowed to go out and play and go crazy. This becomes an outlet for people,” added Stanton, who helps run the races in five locations around Western Canada.

The Red Deer event, which went off with the help of about 100 volunteers, got high marks from Michael Morris of Calgary, who liked climbing the 15-foot haystack pyramid on Saturday. “I think it’s one of the top two,” said the 32-year-old, who has run at all Spartan sites.

Red Deer mechanic Riley Hoganson, 42, is not a regular gym user or runner, but managed to finish the Super Spartan in just under two hours.

“I did it out of peer pressure from my friends, but it was a lot of fun,” said Hoganson, who “liked the camaraderie and the laughter.”

Colleen Bradley, 48, and Nadine Ryan, 39, of Kamloops, B.C., were in Red Deer to achieve their trifecta medal, which requires running three different distances. “We do it for the challenge and the thrill of it,” said Bradley. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Racers make their way through a mud pit and underneath barbed wire during the Red Deer Spartan Super race at Heritage Ranch Saturday. The race featured 21 different obstacles spread throughout the course. While all racers started the race clean, many were barely recognizable by the time they reached the finish line.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

After crawling underneath barbed wire through a pit of mud, Red Deer Spartan Super racers had to find a way to pull themselves up the Slipper Wall obstacle while covered in mud.

Inset: With clean clothes and smiles on their faces, Red Deer Spartan Super racers make their way out of the starting gate

Traffic patterns improving: watchdog

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF June saw the fewest injury vehicle collisions in all of 2014 in Red Deer — but it also saw the second fatal collision of the year and a significant jump in the number of collisions causing damage to vehicles.

The Red Deer Road Users Challenge, a monthly tracking of collisions in the city, recently released its June statistics recently.

Run by Doug Taylor, a retired engineer, the challenge offers a cash reward to local groups, including high school students, college students, Red Deer Safety City and seniors.

In June, there was one fatal colli-

sion, three injury collisions and 216 property damage collisions. In the previous month, there was one fatal collision, 14 injury collisions and 169 property damage collisions.

Taylor is offering his own money, up to $12,000 a year, provided the injury collisions are below a certain number in any given six-month period.

The number of injury collisions has fallen by 25 in the first six months of this year in Red Deer, compared to the first six months of 2013.

From January to June 2014, there were two fatal collisions, 51 injury collisions and 1,239 reported property damage collisions.

In the same time frame in 2013, there was one fatal collision,76 injury collisions and 1,740 property damage

collisions.

As part of the challenge, there are safer driving achievement awards when the six-month total for casualty collisions, the total number of fatal and injury collisions reach less than a certain amount.

If casualty collisions are less than 70, $2,000 will be awarded; at less than 50, $4,000 is awarded; and if there are less than 30, $6,000 is awarded.

The award is split between high school students, college students, Red Deer Safety City and Red Deer seniors organizations.

Money is given out twice a year, with the most recent distribution taking place in April.

At that time, $2,000 was distributed to the local high schools, Red Deer Col-

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lege, Red Deer Safety City, the Golden Circle and the Senior Citizen’s Downtown House.

In a press release, Taylor said the city was less than 10 per cent above the 50 casualty collision level, meaning the city is close to earning a total of $4,000 distributed in quarters to each of the four groups.

The same release indicated the most common causes of casualty collisions in Red Deer are following too closely, at about 40 per cent; disobeying a traffic signal, at about 20 per cent; and left turn across the path of a vehicle, at about 15 per cent.

For more information on the Red Deer Road Users Challenge, visit www. leadrs.ca. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Energy East benefits, risks weighed THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — For the mayor of North Bay, Ont., it’s all about protecting the city’s sole source of drinking water from a pipeline spill.

When TransCanada Corp. files a regulatory application later this month for its $12-billion Energy East pipeline, Al McDonald says he’ll be looking for assurances that Trout Lake, and the creeks that feed into it, won’t be harmed by an oil spill.

“I have to look my community in the eye and say that I’ve done everything I can to protect our only source of drinking water,” said McDonald, who plans to apply for intervenor status at National Energy Board hearings “the minute” the application drops.

“Just about all the issues that are out there in municipal governments ... I would say this one has hit a nerve in our community,” Energy East would be one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Canadian history, crossing six provinces and traversing 4,600 kilometres.

Roughly two thirds of it would make use of underused natural gas pipe that’s already in the ground, with new pipe being built through Quebec and New Brunswick. The idea is to connect oilsands crude to eastern refineries and to export some of the oil by tanker. Warren Mabee, an energy policy expert at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., says he’s not expecting Energy East to get an easy ride.

“This is really the biggest thing that we’ve ever seen, in terms of the number of governments, the number of First Nations that are going to be involved in these discussions, the number of independent reviews and provincial level assessments that have to take place. We’re talking about six provincial governments,” Mabee said.

“This is going to be a big, long involved discussion because it’s such a big project. It’s the biggest one I think that we’ve ever had in Canada.”

Other high-profile pipeline proposals out of Alberta remain in limbo. For instance, TransCanada’s U.S.-bound Keystone XL proposal has been mired in the U.S. regulatory and legal process for six years.

Enbridge Inc.’s (TSX:ENB) Northern Gateway project to the West Coast has a government permit to proceed, but hopes of a 2018 start-up are slipping away as the company endeavours to get First Nations groups on-side. The upcoming regulatory application will be a “really big milestone” for Energy East, said TransCanada spokesman Davis Sheremata.

So far, the company has held more than 80 open houses about Energy East across the country and “hundreds and hundreds” of one-on-one discussions.

It’s met with 155 First Nations groups, 60 of which have signed “letters of agreement.” The feedback will be incorporated into the NEB application, Sheremata said.

Meanwhile, the Ontario Energy Board has been conducting a review of its own and has held wellattended meetings throughout the province.

The OEB will help the provincial government form a position on the pipeline, but it’s questionable how much weight that will carry. Ontario’s position will be considered by the NEB, but it doesn’t have final authority. In the village of Stittsville, an Ottawa suburb, Energy East has drawn its share of controversy. The pipeline would cross just outside the community. Phil Sweetnam, a land developer who heads up Stittsville Village Association, wants to see it go ahead, saying it’s important Canadian refineries have access to Canadian oil, rather than import it from the Middle East.

He said he can’t be “1,000 per cent sure” there won’t be a spill, but he’s “relatively comfortable” with how the risks stack up against the benefits.

But his colleague at the association, Ayah Stretch, doesn’t trust TransCanada.

“To me, my concern comes down to the safety of my family and the community. So if there is a leak,

what happens to us?” said Stretch, who runs a home daycare in addition to her volunteer role as the association’s planner.

“They say they’ll be here from Day 1 right to the end, but I don’t know how comfortable I am with that, based on previous leaks.”

At the other end of the province, in Kenora, Ont., there have been concerns over Energy East, too. Like North Bay, they mainly have to do with water.

“There’s more water than land and it’s all fresh water and actually in a very good, healthy state,” said Mayor Dave Canfield.

He said TransCanada has done an “excellent job” reassuring him that the right safeguards will be in place.

“They’ve been open to the demands that we’ve put on them, as far as water crossings, shut off valves, the integrity of the pipe,” he said.

“They seem to be genuinely interested in making sure that all these checks and balances are put in place and are all part of the process.”

In a part of the province that has been hit by a slump in the forestry sector, pipeline construction jobs are welcome, Canfield said.

“For me, I’m a realist. I take a look at ’is oil going to stop flowing?’ I don’t think so. And if it’s going to flow, what’s the safest way to have it flow? And that’s pipeline. To me, it’s a no-brainer,” said Canfield.

“But not everybody would agree with me with that one.”

Environmental Defence is “ramped up fully” to fight Energy East, said Adam Scott, who heads up the group’s climate and energy program.

“The risk of this thing is huge. It’s the largest oil pipeline proposal in North America.

“And in Canada, people have been fixated on these sort of far away pipelines ... are just starting to turn their attention to the fact that this is right on their doorstep and it’s going to affect millions of Canadians,” he said.

A Cadillac that drives itself?

GENERAL MOTORS TO OFFER CAR IN TWO YEARS THAT IS SEMI-AUTONOMOUS ON FREEWAYS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Cars that can talk to each other and almost drive themselves at freeway speeds are just two years away from the showroom, according to General Motors executives.

The company announced Sunday that the semi-autonomous system for freeways will be an option on an unidentified new 2017 Cadillac that goes on sale in the summer of 2016. In addition, another 2017 Cadillac, the CTS, will be equipped with radio transmitters and receivers that will let it communicate with other cars, sharing data such as location, speed and whether the driver is applying the brakes.

The announcements were made Sunday at the opening of the Intelligent Transportation Society World Congress being held in Detroit this week. They are part of a barrage of similar declarations that are expected from other companies throughout the week as the industry shows off progress toward self-driving and safer cars.

The freeway system, dubbed “Super Cruise,” uses cameras and radar to keep the car in the centre of a lane and also stay a safe distance behind cars in front of it. The system will bring the car to a complete stop if traffic halts without driver action, and it can keep the car going in stop-and-go traffic.

Other automakers, such as Mercedes-Benz, now offer similar systems that work at low speeds, but GM says it’s the first to announce a system that operates at highway speeds. Others could have freeway systems in two years, though.

“If the mood strikes you on the highspeed road from Barstow, California, to Las Vegas, you can take a break from the wheel and pedals and let the car do the work,” CEO Mary Barra said in remarks prepared for the conference’s keynote address on Sunday.

But GM said the car still won’t drive itself, and the company is working on a system to monitor drivers to make sure

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A Cadillac 2014 CTS is shown at IAA Internationale Automobilausstellung. The 2017 CTS will come equipped radio transmitters and receivers that will let it communicate with other cars. Another yet unnamed 2017 Cadillac will have an autopilot style system for freeways. they’re still paying attention. Details of that system weren’t released.

“Sensing technology is not yet to the point where the driver can check out,” said John Capp, GM’s director of global safety strategy. “This is a level of automation that can be done, that is feasible.”

The new Cadillac that will get Super Cruise hasn’t been officially announced yet. But executives have hinted that GM will build a big rear-drive Caddy to lead its lineup in the coming years.

Also Sunday, the Michigan Depart-

ment of Transportation announced that it will partner with GM, Ford Motor Co. and the University of Michigan to build a pilot project connecting cars and roads on 120 miles of Detroit-area freeways.

They gave no time frame for the project to start working, but said it would give southeast Michigan the lead in development of autonomous vehicles and those that talk to each other.

Sensors and transmitters along freeways would pick up information from cars and transmit it to other vehicles,

telling them of stopped or slowed traffic ahead, or even that another car has slammed on its brakes.

Initially the system would only issue warnings to drivers of cars equipped with the receivers, but eventually the cars could actually control themselves.

It would be on stretches of Interstates 94, 75 and 696 as well as parts of U.S. 23.

The freeway and vehicle-to-vehicle technology can’t go into place until the U.S. government develops standards, including radio frequencies and security from hackers.

Strategies of high-net-worth Canadians How things can change. have a mortgage indicated they have A generation or two ago, people fo- the cash available to pay for their cused on trying to pay off home in full. their mortgages as quickly “When you have mortas possible. Now, however, gage rates at three per cent with historically low inor below, people can invest terest rates and a greater that money, even in conserawareness of the need for vative investments like bank and benefits of financial stocks, and still get better planning, many high-netreturns,” said Veselinovich. worth Canadians actually “In today’s market you can are using mortgages as part make money by borrowing of their strategic financial money.” tool kit and are taking mortPrivate wealth in Canagages into their retirement da, and around the world, is years. growing.

TALBOT “The notion that a mortA recent study by BosBOGGS gage is used only when ton Consulting Group found funds aren’t available to pay that private wealth in North cash for your home doesn’t America rose by 15.6 per ring true for many wealthy cent in 2013, driven by the Canadians,” said Peter Veselinovich, strong growth of wealth held in eqvice-president of banking and mort- uities and growth of gross domestic gage operations at Investors Group. A product of 3.5 per cent. Wealth grew recent survey of high-net-worth Cana- by 16.3 per cent in the United States dians (those with investable assets of but growth was slower in Canada at 8.4 $500,000 or more) by Investors Group per cent, due to weaker stock market revealed that having a mortgage may returns and a lower share of directlybe a deliberate investment strategy. held equities. With a projected comSixty-seven per cent of those who pound annual growth rate of 3.3 per

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cent, private wealth in North America is estimated to reach $59.1 trillion by the end of 2018, with the majority of growth coming from existing assets rather than new wealth.

Globally, private financial wealth grew by 14.6 per cent in 2013 to a total of $152 trillion, compared to 8.7 per cent in 2012, due primarily to the performance of equity markets and the creation of new wealth in rapidly developing economies such as Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia.

The Investors Group survey found that property ownership is a part of the financial planning strategies of highnet-worth Canadians. Seventy per cent said they would not think of purchasing property without reviewing it as part of their overall financial plan and almost half said they wouldn’t make changes to their mortgage without reviewing it as part of their overall plan.

Thirty-two per cent of this group own additional commercial properties.

One in three own three or more properties, 51 per cent have additional properties for recreational use, 42 per cent have investment rental properties and 11 per cent have purchased prop-

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erty for their parents or children to live in. While most Canadians plan to pay off their mortgages before retirement, more than one quarter of wealthy Canadians with mortgages don’t have plans to become mortgage-free before retirement. Cashing in investments to pay off your mortgage could trigger capital gains, which would increase taxes and reduce the amount of money they have to invest.

“Retirees in this financial demographic who are not concerned about meeting their mortgage payments see a tax advantage to maintaining a lowinterest mortgage on their homes,” Veselinovich said. “The real change today is that people have a greater comfort level with debt and know better how to manage it,” Veselinovich added. “They are more aware of financial planning, are starting to plan earlier and are managing debt more prudently.”

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

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Fabien Morel collects lavender from a field in Sederon, near Carpentras, southern France. The sweet smell of lavender is tinged with bitterness this year in the south of France, as farmers who harvest the flower protest European regulations linking the plant to chemical toxins.

French lavender farmers furious over EU regulations

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — The sweet smell of lavender is tinged with bitterness this year in the south of France, as farmers who harvest the flower protest European regulations linking the plant to chemical toxins.

Billboards proclaiming “Lavender is not a chemical” dot fields that yield what in Provence is known as blue gold — lavender oil, worth over 100 euros a kilogram ($60 a pound). The plant is cultivated by around 1,500 producers, representing 30,000 full-time jobs that include catering to the millions of tourists in the south of France who come for the panoramic views of purple fields.

For many, Provence is synonymous with lavender, both fine lavender — used for perfumes, cosmetics and aromatherapy — and hybrid lavender, called lavandin. Lavandin is cheapest and used to scent soaps, detergents and air fresheners.

And they fear European Union rules adopted last year and due to come in force by 2018 will threaten that. According to regulators, lavender oil’s potential to produce allergies places it firmly within regulations on chemical toxins. That means lavender products will have to bear labels involving bold black and red warning labels with messages such as “CAN BE FATAL IF SWALLOWED OR INHALED.” Producers say the rules are too extreme — they note that lavender oil allergies usually produce only rashes — and too expensive for small farmers.

Lavender producers are now fighting “to survive,” said Francis Vidal, honorary president of APAL, an organization of lavender essential oil producers. In addition to the billboards, the group has organized an online petition, signed by over 15,000 people.

“The consequence of this ruling, in the very short term, would be the ruin of our plantations and the disappearance of lavender from our Provencal countryside,” APAL wrote in a letter sent to President Francois Hollande

and other politicians.

Advocates point out that lavender oil was used as an antiseptic until the beginning of the 20th century, and even today is prized for its healing and calming properties.

“Lavender has been used for thousands of years,” Vidal said. “We never heard of any serious problems. Instead, we know that lavender oil helped save tens of thousands human lives.”

Even the European Commission acknowledges that any substance whose contents depend on the amount of sun it receives and the kind of soil it springs from is difficult to classify as a chemical product.

“Natural substances whose composition is variable require more effort and expertise in order to be registered compared to ’classical’ industrial chemicals. Other products subject to natural variations, like wine for example, aren’t covered by the chemicals directive but are governed by the relevant food safety and sanitary rules,” the commission said in a document provided to the AP. EU authorities met with lavender producers in April and are now working on ways to help producers to conform to the law. Proposals are to be made this autumn, according to the commission document.

But producers claim lavender oil should simply be reclassified under agricultural products.

French producers don’t oppose mentioning a potential allergy risk on their product, Vidal said, but they are adamantly against the kinds of dire labels that can be found on chemicals used in industrial processes, such as hydrochloric acid or cleaning products.

“There is a risk being linked to a chemical, and can lead to confusion for consumers,” said Emilie Zamora, in charge of communication for the PPAM, the union of producers of perfume, aromatic and medicinal plants.

In addition, producers would themselves be responsible for carrying out the chemical analysis. Many are small farmers who couldn’t afford the expensive procedure, Vidal said.

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Dubai property firm linked to ruler plans to open 1st stage CRTC set to hold hearing of theme park complex by into broad proposals for 2016 changing TV delivery system OTTAWA — Canada’s broadcast regulator is set to begin a two-week public hearing into sweeping proposals that could, if adopted, dramatically change how Canadians receive and pay for their television.

The proposals, issued last month by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, include requiring cable and satellite providers to offer a basic service made up primarily of local Canadian channels.

The CRTC is also proposing a pickand-pay structure that would let Canadians choose individual channels, on top of a basic service.

And the regulator suggests the price of that basic service could be capped at between $20 and $30 per month.

The proposals, which have evolved through consultations with the public and industry over the past year, will likely result in a major departure from the current TV content delivery model.

Industry Minister James Moore first indicated last October that he’d like to see more choice for Canadian television consumers.

The Conservative government then laid out its plans to overhaul the country’s TV distribution system in its speech from the throne, which included a proposed “pick-and-pay” service structure.

The public hearing starts Monday in Gatineau, Que., and continues until Sept. 19.

Honda recalls 126,000 motorcycles a 2nd time for brake malfunctions that can cause fires Honda Motor Co. is recalling 126,000 motorcycles for a second time because their brakes can malfunction.

The recall covers Honda’s GL-1800 motorcycles for model years 2001-2010 and 2012. A problem with the secondary brake master cylinder can cause the rear brake to drag, potentially leading to a crash or fire.

Honda had received 533 complaints through July 24, including reports of eight small fires. There have been no reports of crashes or injuries as a result of the problem.

Honda originally recalled the motorcycles in December 2011 but continued to receive complaints. It says in documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that the “root cause has not been determined” and it is continuing to investigate.

Honda will send a letter to each motorcycle owner explaining how to look for the problem. Motorcycles with the defect can be taken to the dealer for

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A property development company controlled by Dubai’s ruler outlined plans Sunday for the first phase of an entertainment and resort complex in the city that promises the Middle East’s first Legoland theme park.

The project is part of a broader push by the Arab world’s commercial hub to ramp up its hotel and tourism offerings as it prepares to host the World Expo in 2020.

Meraas Holding said initial work began in February on the $2.7 billion Dubai Parks and Resorts project, and that the first phase should be done by 2016. The company is backed by Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

In addition to the Legoland park, that initial phase will include a Bollywood-themed park celebrating the Indian film industry and another known as Motiongate Dubai promising to bring Hollywood characters to life.

Plans also call for a central retail and dining plaza and family-friendly hotel at the complex, located in Dubai’s Jebel Ali area, which is best known for hosting the region’s largest seaport and the second of the emirate’s palm-shaped islands.

The Expo will be held nearby, alongside a new airport that officials envision will one day become the world’s busiest.

Tourism plays a growing role in Dubai’s trade and transportation-dependent economy. Dubai aims to host 20 million visitors annually by 2020, up from 10 million in 2012.

Dubai developers previously laid out plans for Legoland and Universal Studios parks as part of a broader complex known as Dubailand in a different part of the emirate.

Those plans, along with scores of other projects, were shelved or scrapped altogether in the wake of the global financial crisis.

The financial downturn hit heavily indebted Dubai particularly hard, sending property prices tumbling and forcing the emirate to accept multibillion-dollar emergency aid packages from its oil-rich neighbour, Abu Dhabi.

The local economy has recovered considerably since the crisis came to a head in 2009, though the emirate and its state-linked companies still shoulder tens of billions of dollars in debt.

The International Monetary Fund has warned that a sharp rebound in real estate prices could lead to another property bubble.

Officials in Dubai last year announced plans for a $1.6 billion island development that would include the world’s biggest Ferris wheel and a $7.3 million park dedicated to the Qur’an, Islam’s holy book.

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The U.S. Federal Reserve has been watching for Statistics Canada reported that a total of 11,000 continued signs of job gains for clues on when it can jobs were lost in August, leaving the unemployment begin to raise short-term interest rates. Once a timerate unchanged at seven per cent. These figures line becomes clearer, markets will look to Fed chair were a far cry from econoJanet Yellen for hints on when mists’ expectations that 10,000 a possible hike might occur.

‘WHILE U.S GROWTH WAS jobs were added last month.

“Yellen is good with preThe number of Canadian DISAPPOINTING AND scribing what is going to happrivate-sector employees fell pen,” said Sadiq Adatia, chief CANADA’S WAS DISMAL by 112,000 in August — the investment officer at Sun Life worst drop on record, even IN AUGUST, THIS DOESN’T Global Investments. during the last recession.

“She’s not going to be like DETRACT FROM THE BIGGER “Supposedly, businesses her predecessor who was more were engaged in massive job PICTURE THAT THE NORTH evasive. She will give markets cutting despite the recent more lead time before she AMERICAN ECONOMY LOOKS surge in exports, an uptrend does something. It shouldn’t in housing starts, and impresTO BE ROUNDING INTO be a good shock... that should sive buying of discretionary be good for the market.”

BETTER SHAPE OVERALL.’ items like plane tickets and Other events investors will vehicles,” said Avery Shen— DOUG PORTER be watching out for this week feld, chief economist at CIBC BMO CAPITAL MARKETS CHIEF ECONOMIST will be the latest Canadian World Markets, in a note. building permit numbers and “If income growth is as housing starts data. weak as the jobs trend suggests, we’re going to need Economists expect housing starts to come in a new act soon, and export growth, with the accom- around 195,000 in August, down slightly from 198,000 panying hiring, will be key,” he added. in July — still showing signs that Canadian housing The U.S. churned out a similarly disappointing market is faring better than expected. jobs report. The Labor Department says American In the U.S., investors will await the latest wholeemployers added just 142,000 jobs in August, end- sale trade inventories, weekly jobless claims and ing a six-month streak of adding more than 200,000 retail sales figures. jobs per month and posting the smallest gain in eight On the corporate front, it’ll be a big week for Camonths. Economists had forecast that the American nadian retail earnings. Empire Co. (TSX:EMP.A), economy created about 220,000 jobs last month. the parent company of Sobeys; dollar store operator Yet despite the soft readings on the jobs front, Dollarama (TSX:DOL), retailer Hudson’s Bay ComBMO Capital Markets chief economist Doug Porter pany (TSX:HBC) and yogawear maker Lululemon said markets are not too worried yet that this is the (NASDAQ:LULU) were all scheduled to release their beginning of a long-term trend. latest results this week.

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1971 — NHL star Gordie Howe retires for the first time. In 1973, he decides to play with his sons for Houston of the WHA. He retires

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1966 — Montreal-born actor William Shatner as Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise start their mission as the crew of Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi space epic Star Trek on NBC TV. 1964 — The Beatles give two concerts at the Montreal Forum.

1931 — Estevan, Sask., coal miners start strike for union recognition. Three strikers are killed in a Sept. 29 clash with RCMP. 1907 — The start of two days of antiOriental riots in Vancouver.

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Palestinian president threatens to dissolve unity government IF HAMAS DOESN’T GIVE UP GAZA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMALLAH, West Bank — The new Palestinian unity government faced a new crisis on Sunday after President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to dissolve his alliance with Hamas if the Islamic militant group does not give up power in the Gaza Strip.

The dispute erupted just over two weeks after Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza ended in a cease-fire. Abbas is looking to regain a foothold in Gaza, which suffered heavy losses during the fighting, and expects to play a leading role in internationally backed reconstruction efforts. His comments, which also included harsh criticism of Hamas’ conduct in the war, appeared to be part of a brewing power struggle over who will control post-war Gaza.

Hamas has controlled Gaza since overrunning Abbas’ forces in 2007. Facing international isolation and a deep financial crisis, the Islamic militant group agreed to the formation of a new unity government with Abbas’ Fatah movement in June, in which it would restore governing power to Abbas in the territory. But it has yet to yield power — even after the devastating war against Israel, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and caused billions of dollars of damage.

“We will not accept having a partnership if their status in Gaza remains this way,” Abbas said late Saturday in Cairo in comments carried by Egypt’s state news agency MENA. “Unity has terms. This situation does not represent any kind of unity,” Abbas said. “If Hamas does not want one authority, one law, one weapon, we will not accept a partnership with it.” Abbas said that as long as Hamas remains in control of Gaza, he added, “the government of national unity can do nothing on the ground.”

The comments set the stage for what are expected to be difficult negotiations with Hamas in the coming days.

With his criticism, Abbas appears to be putting pressure on Hamas to make concessions in the talks.

Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader, denounced Abbas’ comments, saying they “contradict the spirit of the new partnership and play down the victory of the resistance.”

Under the unity agreement, Abbas formed a Cabinet of apolitical technocrats. Hamas, which is shunned by the international community as a terrorist group, has no formal role, but it has offered its backing from the outside.

Israel has boycotted the government, saying Hamas’ involvement is clear, while Western countries are giving the government a chance to prove itself.

The government, however, has failed to get off the ground.

Shortly after it was formed, three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank

were kidnapped and killed by Hamas members, setting off a chain of events that led to the Gaza war. Hamas, meanwhile, remains in firm control of Gaza, with a depleted, but still significant, arsenal of rockets and thousands of armed fighters.

Abbas heaped fierce criticism of the group’s handling of the war, accusing it of making unrealistic demands for a full lifting of Israel’s blockade of Gaza and dragging out cease-fire talks.

“With every passing day, more blood was shed,” he said, criticizing the heavy death toll and damage. “Is this the victory they talk about? Regrettably, I can only say the results are tragic,” he said.

In the coming weeks, Israel and Hamas are expected to start a new round of indirect, Egyptian-mediated talks for an extended cease-fire.

Hamas is demanding a full lifting of an Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza, including the reopening of a sea and airport.

Israel has said the blockade will remain in effect as long as Hamas controls Gaza.

The international community has made clear that all funding and reconstruction efforts be handled through Abbas’ government.

Israel, and the West, want guarantees that none of the aid will be diverted for military use by Hamas. A conference of donor nations is expected to take place in October.

Hamas has expressed willingness to turn over control of border crossings with Israel and Egypt to Abbas’ forces.

But over the weekend, Ismail Haniyeh, a top Hamas leader in Gaza, rejected Israel’s demand that the group be disarmed as a condition for ending the blockade.

In the internal Palestinian negotiations, aides to Abbas say the president will drive a hard bargain against the weakened Hamas, and is seeking full control of Gaza.

Separately Sunday, the father of a Palestinian teenager wounded during a demonstration in Jerusalem last week said his son had died of his wounds.

Abdelmajed Sunokrot says that his 16-year old son Mohammed was shot in the head with a rubber bullet fired

by Israeli soldiers and died Sunday in an Israeli hospital. He says his son had been merely passing the demonstration in east Jerusalem when he was injured.

Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld disputed the account, saying that Sunokrot was hit in the leg with a paint-ball type projectile while throwing stones. He said the teen was arrested and taken a hospital to treat his injury.

A spokeswoman at Hadassah Medical Center declined to give a cause of death.

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Pro-Russian rebels sit in their car with a heavy machine gun in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday.

Cease-fire appears shaky

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SPARTAK, Ukraine — Shelling and other clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists threw the cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine into deepening peril Sunday, two days after it took hold.

At least two houses hit by artillery fire blazed in the rural village of Spartak, which lies just north of the main rebel-held city of Donetsk and adjacent to the airport.

A man whose house was struck by a shell said rebels had fired from a spot nearby, and that apparently provoked a retaliatory attack from Ukrainian government troops.

A group of rebel fighters in the village danced and drank Sunday morning in celebration after what they said was a successful assault on a Ukrainian military encampment in the area.

One said the group had captured eight government troops, though no captives could be seen.

The fighter, who gave only the nom de guerre Khokhol, said the truce was not being respected by either side.

“There was mortar shelling around 20 minutes ago here in Spartak,” he said. “There is no cease-fire for anyone.”

The truce — signed on Friday by Ukraine, Russia and the Kremlinbacked rebels after five months of

fighting that killed at least 2,600 civilians and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes — was shattered late Saturday by shelling on the outskirts of the coastal town of Mariupol.

The city council said Sunday that one civilian was killed and a serviceman wounded.

The rebels recently opened a new front on the coast in what many Ukrainians fear is an attempt to secure a land corridor between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in March.

Amnesty International on Sunday condemned all sides in the grinding conflict, saying they have “shown disregard for civilian lives and are blatantly violating their international obligations.”

Blasts powerful enough to be heard in downtown Donetsk appeared to be coming from the direction of the airport early Sunday morning.

The government-held terminal, which has been reduced to little more than a burned-out shell, has been under unremitting attack from separatist forces for months.

A rebel statement said Ukrainian forces fired on their positions in six locations on Saturday, including near the airport, and several rebels were killed.

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A fitting finale for Hoffman A Most Wanted Man Three stars (out of four) Rated: 14A

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Gord Bamford stops for fans as he makes his way down the green carpet during the Canadian Country Music Association awards in Edmonton on Sunday,

Bamford takes top honours

the community dove he’s made out to be.

Joining the swirl around Karpov is Rachel McAdams’ immigration lawyer Annabel Richter, whose interest in the Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a fugitive as a human rights case may be drug overdose in February, mere days complicated by personal feelings towards him. after the Sundance preThe story penned by miere of Anton Corbijn’s Aussie screenwriter AnA Most Wanted Man, a spy drew Bovell (Lantana) pivthriller based on a John le ots around Bachmann, who Carré novel. has only a limited amount Hoffman leaves us with a of time to pursue his theory quality film that showcases that there’s much more haphis tremendous depth and pening here than just the enrange as an actor. circling of one lone terror He’s convincing in suspect. both voice and bearing as More an espionage proGünther Bachmann, chief cedural than standard-issue of a German anti-terrorist spy thriller, A Most Wanted squad in Hamburg, the port PETER Man excels at bringing us city where the 9/11 attacks HOWELL into the back rooms where were hatched. He’s deterdirty deeds are both tracked mined to prevent another and executed, all in the such disaster from happenname of “making the world ing, but his preferred method is to track suspects to smoke out a safer place,” as characters ruefully their terror ties rather than swooping remark more than once.

But is it really safer? Even a man of down on them. Bachmann doesn’t atBachmann’s brusque confidence stops tempt the 007 style of deportment.

His clothes are a stranger to the iron, to reflect on this. He observes how inhe inhales more tobacco than oxygen tractable terrorism is and how fighting and he slurps coffee and Scotch as if it on its own terms can compromise democratic values that the good guys pumping gas into a car.

He barely seems to notice that his are supposedly trying to uphold.

Corbijn and cinematographer Benoit dedicated assistant (Nina Hoss) has an eye for him. He barely registers the Delhomme give us a Hamburg of perpetual gloom and forbidding architecpassing of day for night.

“I’m a cave dweller,” he tells Rob- ture, all dark corners and sharp edges. in Wright’s Martha Sullivan, a local The air of distrust and paranoia is of CIA operative, when she asks him why the post-9/11 moment but also reministhey’re meeting yet again in a dingy cent of Cold War politics, with Herbert Gronemeyer’s score redolent of spy saloon.

All Bachmann cares about is his job, films of the 1960s and 1970s.

The film doesn’t always make the which has suddenly become more complicated. A cadaverous man with haunt- best use of its impressive cast. It’s great ed eyes named Issa Karpov (Grigoriy that there are three strong female roles, Dobrygin), a young Muslim from Chech- but they’re all playing second fiddle nya, has arrived in Hamburg illegal- to men. The women at least fare better ly and caught the attention of not just than Daniel Brühl, a fine actor whose Bachmann’s sleuths but also impatient portrayal of another of Bachmann’s asGerman authorities, whose methods sociates seems to have ended up on are snatch-and-jail rather than wait- the digital cutting-room floor. It would and-see. Karpov is in a hurry, too. He be impossible, though, for any actor to has a letter from his late father that exceed the impact that Hoffman could entitles him to millions of euros in an make simply by walking into a room.

As sad as it is to think that Hoffman account held at a private bank run by the discreet but shifty Thomas Brue is no longer with us, A Most Wanted Man (Willem Dafoe). Faithful to his religion, makes a fitting epitaph to a man and Karpov is also eager to make ties with actor who always sought to expand the prominent Hamburg Muslim leader Dr. boundaries of his prodigious talent.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Faisal Abdullah (Homayoun Ershadi), whom Bachmann suspects may not be Star movie critic.

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CCMA AWARDS

EDMONTON — Alberta’s Gord Bamford has been crowned king of Canadian country music once again.

The veteran vocalist took home two top awards Sunday at the Canadian Country Music Association Awards show in Edmonton.

Bamford won Male Artist of the Year and Single of the Year with the slow-moving track “When Your Lips Are So Close.”

The tune hit Number 1 on the country charts in just eight weeks, making Bamford the seventh Canadian artist to accomplish the feat that fast.

Bamford cleaned up at the CCMA awards last year winning five awards, including best album and single.

“This is great ... I didn’t expect this,” the 38-year-old said after receiving the first award of the night for his hit single.

While he was born in Australia, the Bamford told the crowd he was glad to be back home in Alberta, especially in the capital city, since he grew up “just down the road” in Lacombe.

Fellow Albertan Brett Kissell was poised to win big, having received the most award nominations with eight.

The 24-year-old was shut out in the top categories, but ended up claiming Video of the Year for the edgy “3-2-1.”

Jess Moskaluke, 24, grabbed her first CCMA trophy for Female Artist of the Year. The pop-country lass from Langenburg, Sask., recently saw her single “Cheap Wine and Cigarettes” go gold, making her the first Canadian country artist to have a gold-selling

song since Shania Twain.

“I’m loving every minute of this crazy ride,” said Moskaluke. She later joked about duct-taping the glass trophy to her body so she can carry it around with her wherever she goes.

She credited her win to country music spreading its wings and allowing new and different types of sounds into the genre.

“It’s such a great time for country music right now ... I am here because I do such rock-pop-country music. And, had it not been for that spreading out and some of the bro-country that’s really been happening, I wouldn’t have had the gap that I had to let myself break through a little bit.”

Nova Scotia-based Dean Brody was given Album of the Year for Crop Circles, the same album that snagged a Juno back in March for country album of the year. He accepted the award wearing his father’s dusty cowboy hat.

Brody later told reporters that being back in Edmonton, where he once attended college and worked parttime at an area Walmart, reminded him of how differently his life could have turned out if he had never taken a chance and sent some of his first songs off to record labels in Nashville.

Country stalwart Johnny Reid claimed the Fans’ Choice award for the fifth time in the last six years.

Sibling-duo Small Town Pistols, Amanda and Tyler Wilkinson, who sang when they were younger with their father in The Wilkinsons, were honoured with Group of the Year.

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B1 Rebels playing the ‘right way’

MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 2014

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Rebels 4 Winterhawks 2 Obviously the Red Deer Rebels are not yet in mid-season form.

But if the 2014-15 Western Hockey League regular season started tomorrow, GM/head coach Brent Sutter would feel comfortable with taking the current crew into battle.

“The kids played hard during the weekend. I’m really liking what I’m seeing so far . . . they’re playing the right way,” Sutter said Sunday, less than 24 hours following his team’s 4-2 win over the Portland Winterhawks in the Tri-City Americans preseason tournament at Kennewick, Wash.

“Young and old alike, they’re playing as a team. Age is irrelevant,” Sutter continued. “Specialty teams is something we have to continue to work on, but five-on-five I have no complaints.”

One night after posting a 4-2 victory over the host Americans, the Rebels never trailed in their match with the defending Western Conference champion Winterhawks. Cole Chorney opened the scoring with a power-play tally 8:04 into the contest and Presten Kopeck made it 2-0 with a goal

10 minutes later.

Paul Bittner, expected to go high in next year’s NHL entry draft, got the ‘Hawks on the board at 6:54 of the middle frame, but Adam Musil — with his second goal and team-leading fifth point in four exhibition outings — responded for Red Deer at 9:21, and Wyatt Johnson, with his third of the preseason, increased the mar-

gin to 4-1 just under five minutes later.

Portland rookie Skyler McKenzie, who appeared in five WHL games last season, notched the lone goal of the third period, beating Rebels netminder Taz Burman at the 17-minute mark.

The Rebels were minus the services of their top forward and best defenceman in Con-

ner Bleackley and Haydn Fleury, as well as veteran Kayle Doetzel, another top-four rearguard. None of the three have appeared in preseason play this fall.

The Winterhawks, meanwhile, were without dynamic forwards Nic Petan and Oliver Bjorkstrand.

“It was similar to Saturday’s game,” said Sutter, in regards to the number of veterans in the respective Red Deer/TriCity lineups.

The Rebels boss was pleased with the play and continued development of defenceman Josh Mahura and forward Jeff de Wit, the two 16-year-olds all but pencilled into the Rebels lineup for the upcoming campaign. Mahura was a plus-2 Saturday and de Wit a plus-1 before leaving the game with an injury.

“Jeff got banged up and missed the second half of the game, but he’ll be all right,” said Sutter. “It’s going to take time with these young players, including the younger guys we had last season. But if you’re patient you see the results we’re seeing now.

“The younger guys have been really responsible in how they’re playing and we’re seeing good leadership from our older players. It’s fun when your team is playing like that .

. . it’s fun for everybody.”

After outplaying and outshooting the Americans 37-19 Friday, the Rebels were outshot 27-24 by Portland. Burman made 25 saves while going the distance in the Red Deer net, while Adin Hill stopped eight of 11 shots and Michael Bullion blocked 12 of 13 for the ‘Hawks.

“Both of our goalies played well,” said Sutter, who played Rylan Toth against Tri-City.

“Both guys looked comfortable.”

Saturday’s outing featured a scrap between Rebels second-year winger Evan Polei and Portland’s Adam De Champlain. The tilt was backand-forth until Polei handed a heavy punch that dropped the Winterhawks’ overage forward.

“Evan doesn’t know his own strength,” said Sutter. “He’s strong like a man and he’s very effective when he keeps his emotion and intensity up. He’s been a force with his body his fall and how he plays a power forward game, and he’s going to be a real good player for us.”

The Rebels evened their preseason record at 2-2 following a pair of narrow losses the previous weekend.

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Mitchell leads Stampeders over Eskimos “I thought he was outstanding,’’ he said. “It wasn’t all smooth sailing, but a trademark of Bo is that he is going Stampeders 41 Eskimos 34 EDMONTON _ The Cal- to go out there the next segary Stampeders likely wish ries and do the best he can. I that they still had a few more thought he saw the field very games left against the Edmon- well and took great care of the football.’’ ton Eskimos this season.

It was the second straight Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell rushed for two touchdowns loss for the Eskimos, who fell and passed for two more as to 7-3 on the season. All three the Stampeders continued of their losses this season have their dominance over their come to Calgary.

“We don’t care about the provincial rival, winning their fifth game in a row with a 41- last couple seasons, we care 34 victory in the Labour Day about this season and we feel like we’ve done some things rematch on Saturday.

It was the 11th consecutive to hand these games over to win over the Eskimos dating them,’’ said Eskimos quarterback to 2011 for the Stamped- back Matt Nichols. “Obviously, ers, who improved to 9-1 and they’re a great football team, padded their lead atop the we give them a ton of credit, but whether it’s a bad snap West Division.

Calgary running back Jon or a penalty here or there, they’re just the Cornish said difference in the he has no spe‘IT’S game.’’ cific answer as DISAPPOINTING. Added Edto why his team monton coach has owned the THE ONE GOOD Chris Jones: Eskimos in reTHING IS WE “It’s disappointcent years.

“We just get DIDN’T EVER QUIT, i n g . T h e o n e good thing is we fired up for IT DIDN’T LOOK didn’t ever quit, these games it didn’t look against them,’’ LIKE WE EVER like we ever Cornish said.

“I wouldn’t say STOPPED PLAYING. stopped playt h a t w e h a v e WE TOOK IT TO THE ing. We took it the wire and, some innate WIRE AND, AGAIN, to again, just came advantage over up a little short.

JUST CAME UP them. We just We’ve certainly get fired up and A LITTLE SHORT. got a lot of things we understand WE’VE CERTAINLY to work on in all how much these three phases.’’ games mean to GOT A LOT OF Calgary took a the inhabitants THINGS TO WORK 3-0 lead just past of Alberta, espemid mark of cially in Calgary.

ON IN ALL THREE the the first quarIt means a lot to PHASES.’ ter on a 41-yard win this series.

Rene Paredes “Edmonton —CHRIS JONES field goal that is going to be a EDMONTON ESKIMOS good team and HEAD COACH c a m e o n t h e heels of a high we are going snap on a thirdto have a lot of struggles with them. It means and-three gamble at midfield a lot to have these three wins by the Eskimos.

Edmonton’s offence finally and put some space between woke up from a tepid start to us and them.’’

With the win, Mitchell be- put the Eskimos in front 7-3 came the first quarterback to with eight minutes remainhave a 12-1 start to his CFL ca- ing in the second quarter as reer, leaping past former Eski- long passes to A.J. Guyton mo Jackie Parker (1954-55) and and Adarius Bowman set up a the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ 26-yard touchdown pass from Jim Van Pelt (1958-59), who backup quarterback Nichols both lost their 13th games to to Guyton.

Calgary responded just a go 11-2.

“We’re 9-1 and in first few minutes later as a faceplace, that’s all I care about,’’ masking penalty put the Stampeders in range for a 30-yard Mitchell said.

“I’ve been blessed to have TD pass from Mitchell to Sia good team around me. Obvi- mon Charbonneau.

The Stamps took a 17-7 lead ously I am glad about the record, although I don’t think it with two-and-a-half minutes is something people are going left in the opening half as a to be talking about in a couple 38-yard passing play to Marquay McDaniel set up a oneof years.’’

Calgary coach John Huf- yard quarterback keeper into nagel said Mitchell deserved the end zone by Mitchell. his fair share of praise for the win.

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Olds Grizzlys goalie Jordan Piccolino pokechecks Okotoks Oilers forward Mitch Collett (15) in AJHL action in Olds on Saturday. Okotoks won 3-2 in overtime.

Grizzlys expecting to claw their way to top of standings HEAD COACH FEELS WORK ETHIC AND TALENT WILL LAND THEM A TOP-FOUR SPOT IN DIVISION

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

AJHL

Oilers 3, Grizzlys 2 (OT) OLDS — The Olds Grizzlys believe they are ready to join the elite of the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s South Division.

To do so will take a giant leap from where they have spent the last three years, averaging less than 22 wins a season, including 21 in 201314.

Their ascension into the loftier parts of the division did not get off to a great start on the weekend at the Olds Sportsplex, losing 3-2 in overtime to the Okotoks Oilers on Saturday to fall to 0-1-1 through two games.

“We expect to be one of the top four teams in the south this year, that’s a realistic goal for us, that’s something that we’re striving for,” said head coach and director of player operations Brett Hopfe, now in his fourth year with the club.

“It will take some time to get our feet under us, but we’re a team that works hard and competes hard every night. With the skill we have here, that’s going to be something that puts us in the top four in the standings.”

The Grizz built a 2-0 lead through 20 minutes on gaols

by Christopher Gerrie and Landon Kletke — but the Oilers tied it in the second period with markers from Justin Meier and Carson Beers, before Beers scored the winner with 30 seconds left in overtime.

The game underlined the

Grizzlys’ biggest weakness early in the season, their defence, which still has not replaced the loss of Nikolas Koberstein who was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the fifth round and moved on to the Sioux Falls Stampede of the USHL. They are breaking in four rookies on their blue-line, and one of the two returning players — Jack Goranson — was a forward last year.

Their only two regulars back from a year ago are Chayden Lauber and Lukas Pollock.

“It’s difficult but it is something we did look to address,” said Hopfe.

“We’ve got a couple of guys in there that are 19 but are first year players in league (Alex Brewer and Kodi Schwarz).

Just that age and added maturity helps out on the back end. They still have a lot of learning to do — the first game I think it was pretty quick for both of them — but tonight I think they both played extremely well and did what we asked.”

With an eye to their prospect list with the likes of James Miller, Kodi Schwarz, Alex Brew and Nicholas Sutter making the full-time jump to junior A, they traded two of their defencemen Jordan Lajimodiere and Marc Eremenko to the Dauphin Kings for goalie Jordan Piccolino.

Piccolino should give the Grizzlys a punchers chance on most nights and help cover up

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their defensive lapses early in the season.

The Montreal native helped is on his third team in one calendar year after getting dealt from the Cornwall Colts of the Central Canada Hockey League to Dauphin, Man., where he shone for the Western Canada Cup hosts.

He also was selected to the Canada East U19 team for the World Junior A Championships.

“It’s playing in big games and knowing how to handle it and taking check of your emotions, it’s a good experience for this year,” said the six-foot, 157-pound Piccolino, 19.

He will also be expected to help groom 17-year-old rookie Billy Gorn.

“His first two games here have been huge for us, he kept us in both,” said Hopfe of Piccolino. “It’s nice to have that calming factor back there when things get kind of scrambly he’s there to stop the puck.”

They should also be set up front.

The Grizzlys return six of their top seven scorers from last year, with their biggest loss being the graduation of leading scorer Spencer Dorowicz.

However, they do return reigning Canadian Junior Hockey League rookie of the year Christopher Gerrie who scored 54 points (18 goals, 36 assists) in his first 60 games with Olds last season. He’s off to a solid start this season scoring in both of the Grizzlys games.

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Run out of Luck BRONCOS HOLD OFF LATE CHARGE FROM COLTS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Broncos 31 Colts 24 DENVER — Peyton Manning sure didn’t need Wes Welker in this heartpounding opener. He threw three touchdown passes to tight end Julius Thomas in the first half and the Denver Broncos held on to beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-24 on Sunday night.

In his second try, Manning beat his old team and joined Brett Favre as the only quarterbacks to beat each of the current 32 NFL franchises.

The Broncos raced out to a 24-0 lead thanks to Thomas, then turned to their revamped defence to fend off a furious comeback attempt by Andrew Luck, who was working wonders behind a patchwork offensive line.

Luck brought the Colts within a touchdown when he found Hakeem Nicks for a 9-yard scoring strike with 3:26 remaining. But Indy’s last drive stalled at midfield when rookie Bradley Roby broke up a fourth-and-6 pass to Reggie Wayne.

Welker is serving a four-game suspension for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs.

But if there’s an offence that can weather the loss of the NFL’s premier slot receiver, it’s the Broncos.

Thomas hauled in a 3-yard touchdown toss with Jerrell Freeman draped on him. Then, he weaved his way for a 35-yard score with D’Quell Jackson in pursuit. Finally, he beat finally beat LaRon Landry on the line for a 5-yarder.

MORE NFL COVERAGE ON B11 Early in the fourth quarter, the Colts had three defenders focused on Thomas when running back Montee Ball bulled his way in from 3 yards out to make it 31-10.

Luck found Dwayne Allen down the Broncos sideline for a 41-yard scoring completion that made it a two-TD game and the Colts recovered the onside kick before safety Rahim Moore’s second interception of the night.

Still, the Colts forced a punt and Indy needed five plays and 49 seconds to cover 45 yards and made it a onescore game.

Thomas’ trio of touchdown grabs tied a franchise record for most in a game. Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe did it three times.

The Broncos came out of tunnel for the second half looking they were the ones playing catch-up from a 24-7 deficit, not the Colts. Their first drive included two flags and two dropped passes and resulted in great field position for the Colts, who got the ball at Denver’s 46.

Denver’s revamped defence came up with two big stops deep in their territory during a third quarter dominated by Indy. On fourth down at the 1, linebacker Brandon Marshall, making his first career start, stuffed Luck’s run up the middle.

Ahmad Bradshaw ripped the ball from his quarterback’s hands and scampered around the right side to celebrate a touchdown that wasn’t — Luck’s forward progress had been

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Denver Broncos running back C.J. Anderson (22) is hit by Indianapolis Colts outside linebacker Erik Walden (93) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, in Denver. deemed stopped.

Later, when the Colts had a first down inside the 5, the Broncos held them to Adam Vinatieri’s 25-yard field goal following DeMarcus Ware’s third-

down sack.

Last year, Manning let both his emotions and the Colts get the best of him in a 39-33 loss at Lucas Oil Stadium, the house he helped build.

Saskatchewan beats Winnipeg, but lose Durant in the process

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Roughriders 30 Blue Bombers 24 WINNIPEG _ Weston Dressler was feeling pretty pumped after scoring a 75-yard touchdown on a second-quarter punt return in the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ 30-24 win over the Blue Bombers on Sunday.

It didn’t last long.

The veteran receiver, who just resigned with the club last month and was playing his second game, held his breath when he saw quarterback Darian Durant writhing in pain after taking a hit 5:38 in the third quarter.

“Your heart just sinks,’’ said Dressler, who re-signed after being cut by the NFL Kansas City Chiefs.

“You never want to see a guy go down on the field, especially a guy like him. He’s our leader. He’s our guy. He’s our man that we follow.

“He’s the guy that I followed for the last six years so it’s tough to see, but you know what type of guy he is, what type of fighter he is and he’ll get back on the field.’’

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REBELS: Enjoyable “When you’re playing responsibly and caring about each other it makes it a lot more enjoyable even when you don’t have success,” said Sutter. “The guys have been playing as a team and that’s certainly encouraging.”

The Rebels close out their preseason schedule Friday and Saturday, taking on the Edmonton Oil Kings at the Enmax Centrium and the Medicine Hat Tigers in Stettler.

• Five Red Deer players — Bleackley (Colorado), Fleury (Carolina), Johnson (Anaheim), Polei (St. Louis) and Doetzel (Toronto) — leave for NHL camps this week . . . Three veterans trail Musil by a single point in Rebels preseason scoring, as Johnson has three goals and one assist in two outings, defenceman Nick Charif has picked up four assists in four games and forward Brooks Maxwell has four helpers in two games . . . The Rebels open their regular-season schedule Sept. 19 at home against the Kootenay Ice. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Durant left the game holding his right throwing arm after being knocked to the turf by Bombers defensive end Bryant Turner on a play that had been whistled down in front of a sold-out crowd of 33,234 fans at Investors Group Field.

Early reports said it’s an elbow injury, which isn’t good news for the defending Grey Cup champions, who moved into second place in the CFL West Division with their seventh straight victory and 8-2 record.

Saskatchewan head coach Corey Chamblin said he heard the official’s whistle, but it was part of the positive and negatives that happen in a game.

He didn’t know the extent of Durant’s injury, but said it motivated the players to hang on to the lead with backup Tino Sunseri at the helm.

“The guys knew that our leader was down and we have faith in Tino. We’ve seen him before, but guys took it as a slight, they got a little pissed, but we finished the game,’’ Chamblin said.

Winnipeg (6-5), which has lost four of its last five games, had led 7-1 after the first quarter before the Riders ex-

ploded, outscoring the Bombers 26-1 in the second, including 17 points in a four-minute span.

Defensive back Rod Williams started the second quarter with a 60-yard fumble return for a TD 15 seconds in after Bomber Lirim Hajrullahu’s 41-yard field-goal attempt was blocked

by Weldon Brown.

Running back Anthony Allen scored on a 13-yard run at 13:27 and Dressler missed some tackles and ran down the sidelines for his TD with 38 seconds left in the second quarter.

Sunseri went in for Durant and led the Riders on a drive that ended with Chris Milo’s 35-yard field goal to make it 30-15.

“Whenever you’re up by that many points, you want to establish the line of scrimmage, you want to run the football, understand the clock’s in your favour and you don’t want to turn the ball over,’’ Sunseri said. “I felt like our offensive line and running backs did a great job of getting on their man and making sure they were opening holes, able to get first downs and making sure that we put enough points on the board

to win the game at the end.’’

Sunseri completed two of five pass attempts for 30 yards. Durant was 8-of9 for 77 yards before his injury.

Winnipeg quarterback Drew Willy attempted his fifth late-game comeback of the season, hitting Aaron Kelly with a 29-yard TD pass with 2:27 left in the game to make it 30-24.

Riders fullback Jerome Messam then carried the ball and fumbled, with Bombers defensive back Maurice Leggett picking it up and breathing new life into the Bombers at Saskatchewan’s 45-yard line with 1:36 left.

The joy was brief as Willy’s next throw was intercepted by Williams with 1:26 remaining.

Willy said he wished he had that throw back, but there was some positive in the team battling to the whistle.

“The low obviously is the loss. Any time you lose a game, it stings, but we just need to look at the corrections, get better,’’ Willy said. “We have a big game this week against B.C. (6-4).’’

Willy completed 26 of 38 pass attempts for 360 yards with two interceptions and two TDs.

GRIZZ: Comfortable

on their potential in the playoffs after giving the Oilers all they could handle last year in the post-season.

“You look at last year and a lot of guys would have done anything to win that series in Okotoks,” said Gerrie.

“We always look back at that and tell the guys what other guys were doing to block shots and what it shows for leadership, and I think we’ve got to take that into next week.”

The Grizzlys are in Okotoks (1-0-0) on Friday for a rematch on Friday at 7 p.m. and then are in Canmore to play the Eagles (0-0-0) on Saturday at 7 p.m. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

to try and get back into the contest to start the fourth quarter as Guyton took a handoff before then completing a 32-yard pass to Fred Stamps. However, the Eskimos then took a procedure call on a third-and-one gamble on the Calgary eight and were forced to accept an O’Neill field goal.

The Stampeders responded with a 35-yard Paredes field goal with seven minutes left in the game.

The Eskimos finally found their way back into the end zone with just under five minutes to play as Nichols hit Bowman for a 21-yard strike.

The play seemed to give them some new life as they came right back with a 38-yard pass to Stamps, leading straight to a two-yard TD run by Nichols to make it 34-27 with 2:34 left on the clock.

Calgary quickly put thoughts of a comeback out the picture, though, as Mitchell found McDaniel on a 43-yard passing play, eventually setting the stage for a 10-yard Cornish touchdown run.

Edmonton closed to within a touchdown again with 21 seconds left to play as Nichols hit Nate Coehoorn for a 24-yard major. A short kick attempt was recovered by the Stampeders, allowing them to run out the clock.

The Eskimos remain at home to face the Montreal Alouettes next Friday, while the Stampeders return to Calgary to host Toronto next Saturday.

“It’s tough (losing Dorowicz) he was a big leader for me and I knew I would have to step up,” said Gerri, 18, who is already committed to the Michigan Tech University. “Coming into camp I was keeping my eye on a few players, I think I just have to feel comfortable with everyone and play my game and I think everything will come together.”

Also returning on offence is Kyle Star (19-26-45), Austin Kernahan (14-1933), B.J. Duffin ( 23-20-32), Dustin Gorgi (13-16-29) and Landon Kletke (11-16-27).

However, Hopfe is also looking in unusual places to help replace Dorowicz’s 75 points (40-35-75), this includes elevating fourth line grinder Kyle Moore (1-2-3) who had 123 penalty minutes in 38 games last season to the top six.

It paid off in their first game against the Camrose Kodiaks, as the six-footfour, 205-pound winger scored three points (1-2-3) in the game.

“He’s a big guy that competes extremely hard,” said Hopfe. “He gets his points standing in front of the net and going to the hard areas, and that isn’t easy and not a lot of players want to do that. He had tremendous success in the playoffs doing that.”

If they fall short of their top four in the South goal, they want to make good

CFL: Came up big The Eskimos countered with a 25-yard Hugh O’Neill field goal as time expired to make it 17-10 at the half.

Calgary’s defence came up big to start the third quarter as it knocked the ball out of Nichols’ hands four minutes in. Corey Mace recovered on the Edmonton 10, setting up a TD pass to McDaniel on the next play.

McDaniel factored in on another touchdown with five minutes left in the third as his 32-yard catch led immediately to a 20-yard TD run by Mitchell, who danced across the goal-line to put the Stampeders ahead 31-10.

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WHL Preseason EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Regina 5 4 1 0 0 30 17 8 Red Deer 4 2 1 0 1 14 13 5 Swift Current 5 3 2 0 0 16 16 6 Saskatoon 4 2 1 1 0 12 11 5 Medicine Hat 3 2 1 0 0 12 11 4 Edmonton 4 2 2 0 0 13 15 4 Calgary 4 2 2 0 0 24 16 4 Moose Jaw 4 1 2 1 0 10 18 3 Prince Albert 4 1 2 0 1 10 20 3 Brandon 2 1 1 0 0 9 10 2 Lethbridge 3 1 2 0 0 7 11 2 Kootenay 3 0 3 0 0 9 18 0

Kamloops 4 3 1 0 0 13 12 6 Everett 5 3 2 0 0 16 10 6 Seattle 5 3 2 0 0 14 11 6 Tri-City 6 3 3 0 0 17 19 6 Spokane 5 2 2 1 0 11 16 5 Kelowna 4 2 2 0 0 10 11 4 Victoria 5 1 2 2 0 11 13 4 Vancouver 4 1 2 0 1 12 14 3 z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; xclinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 5 4 1 0 0 23 16 8 Prince George 4 3 0 1 0 20 15 7

Saturday’s results Everett 8 Kootenay 2 Red Deer 4 Portland 2 Kamloops 3 Victoria 2 (OT)

Moose Jaw at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Swift Current at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m.

Prince George at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Medicine Hat 4 Calgary 2 Moose Jaw 5 Swift Current 2 Regina 4 Brandon 1 Saskatoon 4 Prince Albert 0 Prince George 4 Edmonton 2 Kelowna 3 Vancouver 1 Tri-City 5 Spokane 1 Sunday’s results Victoria 4 Kelowna 1 Kamloops 5 Vancouver 1

Wednesday ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Red Deer Vipers at Three Hills Thrashers, 8 p.m., Trochu; Mountainview Colts at Stettler Lightning, 8 p.m.

Saturday, September 13 Calgary at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Prince Albert at Regina, 7 p.m.

Thursday, September 11 Vancouver at Victoria, 6:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Spokane, 8 p.m.

Thursday ● High school football: Sylvan Lake Lakers at Rocky Mountain House Rebels, 4:30 p.m.; Ponoka Broncs at Wetaskiwin Sabres, 6:30 p.m.; Hunting Hills Lightning at Lacombe Rams, 7 p.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● Preseason men’s college hockey: SAIT Trojans at RDC Kings, 7 p.m., Penhold Regional Multiplex.

Sunday, September 14 Kootenay at Calgary, 2 p.m.

Brandon at Moose Jaw, 4 p.m.

Friday, September 12

Football

Friday

GP 10 10 9 10

CFL East Division W L T 3 7 0 3 7 0 2 7 0 1 9 0

PF 235 183 193 141

PA 262 258 235 258

Pt 6 6 4 2

GP Calgary 10 Saskatchewan 10 Edmonton 10 Winnipeg 11 B.C. 10

West Division W L T 9 1 0 8 2 0 7 3 0 6 5 0 6 4 0

PF 292 258 261 284 219

PA 168 205 211 282 187

Pt 18 16 14 12 12

Toronto Montreal Hamilton Ottawa

Week 11 Friday’s results B.C. 7 Ottawa 5 Saturday’s results Calgary 41 Edmonton 34 Sunday’s results Montreal 38 Hamilton 31 Saskatchewan 30 Winnipeg 24

Interceptions-yards by 0-0 0-0 Fumbles-Lost 0-2 1-0 Sacks by 2 2 Punts-average 53-7 75-6 Penalties-Yards 15-9 95-2 Time of Possession 31:56 28:04 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Calgary: Cornish 17-109, Mitchell 3-23, Parker 2-21, Lewis 1-15, Price 1-8, Tate 1-1. Edmonton: White 4-42, Lawrence 3-14, Thomas 1-11, McCarty 2-10, Nichols 3-8, Guyton 1-4.

Receiving Calgary: McDaniel 4-124, Charbonneau-Campeau 3-53, Cunningham 1-8, Lewis 1-8, Cornish 2-7, Sanders 1-6, Parker 1-6, Price 1-4. Edmonton: Bowman 8-124, Guyton 6-111, Stamps 4-73, Coehoorn 3-38, Chambers 3-25, Capers 1-4, Lawrence 2-1.

Passing Calgary: Mitchell 14-24-216-2-0. Edmonton: Nichols 25-43-333-3-0, White 1-2-11-0-0, Guyton 1-1-32-0-0.

Sunday’s summaries

Week 12 Friday, September 12 Montreal at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Saturday, September 13 Toronto at Calgary, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at B.C., 8 p.m.

Sunday, September 14 Saskatchewan at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Week 13 Friday, September 19 Toronto at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday, September 20 Edmonton at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Sunday, September 21 Calgary at Montreal, 11 a.m.

Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Stampeders 41, Eskimos 34 First Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 41 8:40 Second Quarter Edm — TD Guyton 26 pass from Nichols (O’Neill convert) 6:48 Cgy — TD Charbonneau-Campeau 30 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 9:23 Cgy — TD Mitchell 1 run (Paredes convert) 12:30 Edm — FG O’Neill 25 15:00 Third Quarter Cgy — TD McDaniel 11 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 4:16 Cgy — TD Mitchell 20 run (Paredes convert) 10:05 Fourth Quarter Edm — FG O’Neill 20 1:33 Cgy — FG Paredes 35 8:00 Edm — TD Bowman 21 pass from Nichols (O’Neill convert) 10:13 Edm — TD Nichols 2 run (O’Neill convert) 12:26 Cgy — TD Cornish 10 run (Paredes convert) 13:27 Edm — TD Coehoorn 24 pass from Nichols (O’Neill convert) 14:39 Calgary 3 14 14 10 — 41 Edmonton 0 10 0 24 — 34 Attendance — 40,852 at Edmonton.

TEAM STATISTICS First downs Yards rushing Yards passing Total offence Passes made-tried Returns yards

Clgy 19 162 216 378 24-27 120

Edm 24 89 376 465 46-14 292

Alouettes 38, Tiger-Cats 31 First Quarter Mtl — Venable 58 fumble return (Whyte convert) 2:02 Ham — FG Medlock 47 7:40 Ham — TD Murray 40 interception return Medlock convert 8:15 Ham — TD Fantuz 3 pass from Collaros (Medlock convert) 15:00 Second Quarter Ham — FG Medlock 12 12:57 Ham — Single Medlock 53 14:58 Third Quarter Mtl — FG Whyte 35 2:03 Ham — FG Medlock 23 6:48 Mtl — TD Marsh 1 run (Whyte convert) 10:35 Mtl — TD Carter 10 pass from Crompton (Whyte convert) 15:00 Fourth Quarter Mtl — Rodgers 78 punt return (Whyte convert) 1:31 Mtl — TD Marsh 1 run (Whyte convert) 12:05 Ham — TD Fantuz 2 pass from Collaros (Medlock convert) 14:48 Hamilton 17 4 3 7 — 31 Montreal 7 0 17 14 — 38 Attendance — 20,551 at Montreal.

TEAM STATISTICS Ham Mon First downs 22 15 Yards rushing 79 44 Yards passing 338 206 Total offence 417 250 Passes made-tried 43-18 28-30 Returns yards 173 205 Interceptions-yards by 1-45 1-40 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-2 Sacks by 1 5 Punts-average 57-4 100-7 Penalties-Yards 80-12 113-13 Time of Possession 33:49 26:11 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Hamilton: Madu 9-48, Collaros 9-36, Masoli 2-1, Koch 1--6. Montreal: Whitaker 8-28, Sutton 3-7, Marsh 4-4, Crompton 1-3, Rodgers 1-2.

Receiving Hamilton: Ellingson 5-94, Madu 6-88, Tasker 4-47, Fantuz 6-44, Grant 5-32, Giguere 3-28, Prime 1-5.

Montreal: Johnson 3-73, Carter 4-56, London 1-25, Green 3-20, Whitaker 4-15, Sutton 2-12, Deslauriers 1-5.

Passing Hamilton: Collaros 30-43-338-2-1. Montreal:

Crompton 18-27-206-1-1.

Baltimore

Roughriders 30, Blue Bombers 24 First Quarter Sask. — Single Milo 47 8:58 Wpg — TD Grigsby 12 run (Hajrullahu convert) 13:03 Second Quarter Sask. — TD Williams 60 block field goal return (Milo convert) 0:15 Wpg — Single Hajrullahu 48 4:01 Sask. — Safety 6:49 Sask. — FG Milo 35 10:23 Sask. — TD Allen 13 run (Milo convert) 13:27 Sask. — TD Dressler 85 punt return (Milo convert) 14:22 Third Quarter Wpg — TD Kohlert 14 pass from Willy (Hajrullahu convert) 2:53 Sask. — FG Milo 35 8:58 Wpg — Single Hajrullahu 83 12:43 Fourth Quarter Wpg — Single Hajrullahu 49 5:11 Wpg — TD Kelly 29 pass from Willy (Hajrullahu convert) 12:33 Saskatchewan 1 26 3 0 — 30 Winnipeg 7 1 8 8 — 24 Attendance — 33,234 at Winnipeg.

TEAM STATISTICS Sask Wpg First downs 14 23 Yards rushing 196 94 Yards passing 107 360 Total offence 303 454 Team losses 15 66 Net offence 288 388 Passes made-tried 10-14 26-38 Return yards 223 167 Interceptions-yards by 2-22 0-0 Fumbles-lost 2-2 2-1 Sacks by 5 3 Punts-average 6-46.5 8-49.9 Penalties-yards 6-70 13-158 Time of possession 29:22 30:38 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Sask: Allen 18-115, Messam 5-32, Ford 5-29, Durant 1-11, Sunseri 2-9. Wpg: Grigsby 8-66, Willy 4-31, Denmark 1-minus-3.

Receiving Sask: Dressler 4-40, Messam 2-28, Allen 2-21, Smith 2-18. Wpg: Kelly 7-96, Bryant 3-60, Kohlert 4-58, Denmark 5-49, Watson 3-37, Grigsby 3-32, Pontbriand 1-28.

Passing Sask: Durant 8-9, 77 yards, 0 TDs, 0 ints, Sunseri 2-5-30-0-0. Wpg: Willy 26-38-360-2-2.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Miami 1 0 0 1.000 N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 Buffalo 1 0 0 1.000 New England 0 1 0 .000

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Pct 1.000 .000 .000 .000

PF 31 0 14 10

PA 24 0 19 26

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 34 N.Y. Giants 0 0 0 .000 0 Washington 0 1 0 .000 6 Dallas 0 1 0 .000 17

PA 17 0 17 28

Denver San Diego Oakland Kansas City

0 W 1 0 0 0

1 West L 0 0 1 1

PA 20 14 20 33

Tennessee Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville

W 1 1 0 0

South L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .000 .000

PF 26 17 24 17

PA 10 6 31 34

Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 1 1 0

North L T 0 0 0 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .000

PF 23 30 27

PA 16 27 30

Carolina Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay

W 1 1 0 0

South L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 1.000 .000 .000

PF 20 37 34 14

PA 14 34 37 20

Minnesota Detroit Chicago Green Bay

W 1 0 0 0

North L T 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

Pct 1.000 .000 .000 .000

PF 34 0 20 16

PA 6 0 23 36

Seattle San Francisco Arizona St. Louis

W 1 1 0 0

West L 0 0 0 1

Pct 1.000 1.000 .000 .000

PF 36 28 0 6

PA 16 17 0 34

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Sunday’s Games Minnesota 34, St. Louis 6 Buffalo 23, Chicago 20, OT Houston 17, Washington 6 Tennessee 26, Kansas City 10 Atlanta 37, New Orleans 34, OT Pittsburgh 30, Cleveland 27 Philadelphia 34, Jacksonville 17 N.Y. Jets 19, Oakland 14 Cincinnati 23, Baltimore 16 Miami 33, New England 20 San Francisco 28, Dallas 17 Carolina 20, Tampa Bay 14 Denver 31, Indianapolis 24

Baltimore New York Toronto Tampa Bay Boston

GB — 9 10 15 20

Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 79 62 .560 77 65 .542 74 67 .525 63 79 .444 61 82 .427

GB — 2 5 16 19

Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Houston Texas

West Division W L Pct 87 55 .613 80 62 .563 78 64 .549 63 80 .441 54 89 .378

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

Chicago Cubs (Ja.Turner 5-8) at Toronto (Stroman 9-5), 5:07 p.m.

Baltimore (M.Gonzalez 8-7) at Boston (J.Kelly 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Gray 13-8) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 8-9), 6:10 p.m.

Houston (Peacock 4-8) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-5), 8:10 p.m.

Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia

W 80 74 69 68 66

L 61 69 72 75 76

St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati Chicago

Tuesday’s Games Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

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

Houston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Altuve Hou 139 583 78 VMartinez Det 131 492 78 Beltre Tex 129 480 69 Cano Sea 137 524 73 JAbreu CWS 126 487 71 Brantley Cle 137 537 85 MiCabrera Det 139 534 88 Eaton CWS 106 419 64 MeCabrera Tor 139 568 81 Gillaspie CWS 115 415 48

H 198 165 155 168 156 170 165 127 171 122

Pct. .340 .335 .323 .321 .320 .317 .309 .303 .301 .294

Home Runs NCruz, Baltimore, 39; Carter, Houston, 36; JAbreu, Chicago, 33; Ortiz, Boston, 32; Trout, Los Angeles, 32; Bautista, Toronto, 31; Encarnacion, Toronto, 30; VMartinez, Detroit, 30.

Runs Batted In Trout, Los Angeles, 102; NCruz, Baltimore, 101; JAbreu, Chicago, 99; Ortiz, Boston, 98; MiCabrera, Detroit, 97; Cespedes, Boston, 94; VMartinez, Detroit, 94.

Pitching Scherzer, Detroit, 15-5; Weaver, Los Angeles, 15-8; PHughes, Minnesota, 15-9; Porcello, Detroit, 15-10; WChen, Baltimore, 14-4; Shoemaker, Los Angeles, 14-4; FHernandez, Seattle, 14-5.

Sunday’s Games Cleveland 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Kansas City 2, N.Y. Yankees 0 Toronto 3, Boston 1 Baltimore 7, Tampa Bay 5, 11 innings L.A. Angels 14, Minnesota 4 Texas 1, Seattle 0 Houston 4, Oakland 3 San Francisco at Detroit, 8:07 p.m.

Monday’s Games L.A. Angels (Weaver 15-8) at Cleveland (Salazar 6-6), 11:05 a.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 10-10) at Detroit (Verlander 12-12), 2:08 p.m.

National League East Division

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

Pct .567 .517 .489 .476 .465

GB — 7 11 13 14

Central Division W L Pct 79 64 .552 74 68 .521 74 69 .517 67 76 .469 64 79 .448

GB — 4 5 12 15

West Division W L Pct 81 62 .566 78 64 .549 66 76 .465 59 84 .413 59 84 .413

GB — 2 14 22 22

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Monday’s Games N.Y. Giants at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Sep. 14 Dallas at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

New England at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Washington, 11 a.m.

Arizona at N.Y. Giants, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Seattle at San Diego, 2:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 2:05 p.m.

Houston at Oakland, 2:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 2:25 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Green Bay, 2:25 p.m.

Chicago at San Francisco, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Sep. 15 Philadelphia at Indianapolis, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Ja.Turner 5-8) at Toronto (Stroman 9-5), 5:07 p.m.

Colorado (Lyles 6-2) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 8-10), 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis (S.Miller 8-9) at Cincinnati (Axelrod 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Miami (Penny 1-1) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 8-8), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Despaigne 3-5) at L.A. Dodgers (R.Hernandez 8-10), 8:10 p.m.

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Saturday’s Games San Francisco 5, Detroit 4 Pittsburgh 5, Chicago Cubs 3, 11 innings, comp. of susp. game Philadelphia 3, Washington 1 Pittsburgh 5, Chicago Cubs 0 Cincinnati 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Atlanta 4, Miami 3, 10 innings St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 3 Colorado 7, San Diego 6, 12 innings L.A. Dodgers 5, Arizona 2 Sunday’s Games Miami 4, Atlanta 0 N.Y. Mets 4, Cincinnati 3 Washington 3, Philadelphia 2 St. Louis 9, Milwaukee 1 Pittsburgh 10, Chicago Cubs 4 L.A. Dodgers 7, Arizona 2 Colorado 6, San Diego 0 San Francisco at Detroit, 8:07 p.m.

Monday’s Games Atlanta (Minor 6-9) at Washington (Fister 12-6), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 6-4) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 8-11), 5:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

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

St. Louis at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

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

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Morneau Col 121 455 50 Revere Phi 131 517 64 JHarrison Pit 124 435 66 Posey SF 129 484 67 AMcCutchen Pit 126 481 75 DanMurphy NYM126 528 73 Span Was 131 548 87 Goldschmidt Ari 109 406 75 Lucroy Mil 134 515 68 ArRamirez Mil 116 428 45

H 144 163 137 150 148 159 165 122 154 127

Pct. .316 .315 .315 .310 .308 .301 .301 .300 .299 .297

Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 36; Rizzo, Chicago, 30; Duda, New York, 27; JUpton, Atlanta, 26; Byrd, Philadelphia, 25; Frazier, Cincinnati, 25; LaRoche, Washington, 23.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 104; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 100; Howard, Philadelphia, 91; JUpton, Atlanta, 91; Desmond, Washington, 81; Holliday, St. Louis, 81; Duda, New York, 80; LaRoche, Washington, 80.

Pitching Kershaw, Los Angeles, 17-3; Cueto, Cincinnati, 17-8; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 17-9; Wainwright, St. Louis, 17-9; Lynn, St. Louis, 15-8; WPeralta, Milwaukee, 15-10; Ryu, Los Angeles, 14-6.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 27 14 8 5 42 Kansas City 28 12 10 6 39 New England 27 12 12 3 39 Columbus 27 9 9 9 38 Philadelphia 27 9 9 9 43 New York 26 8 8 10 41 Toronto 26 9 11 6 35 Houston 26 9 13 4 31 Chicago 26 5 7 14 33 Montreal 26 5 16 5 29

GA 30 34 38 34 41 39 42 48 39 48

Pt 47 42 39 36 36 34 33 31 29 20

Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 26 16 7 3 48 Los Angeles 26 14 5 7 54

GA 35 27

Pt 51 49

Salt Lake Dallas Portland Vancouver Colorado San Jose Chivas

27 27 27 26 27 25 27

12 12 8 7 8 6 6

5 9 8 6 13 10 15

10 6 11 13 6 9 6

42 46 47 33 37 32 23

32 36 46 34 46 36 47

46 42 35 34 30 27 24

Saturday’s results Toronto 0 Philadelphia 2 New York 2 Kansas City 1 Houston 3 Montreal 2 Vancouver 0 D.C. 0 Salt Lake 2 Dallas 1 Sunday’s results Columbus 3 Chivas 0 Portland 3 San Jose 3

Friday, September 12 Kansas City at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

Salt Lake at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 13 New York at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

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

Columbus at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday, September 14 Los Angeles at San Jose, 1 p.m.

Friday, September 19 Colorado at Salt Lake, 9 p.m.

Saturday, September 20 Vancouver at Portland, 3 p.m.

Houston at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Seattle at New York, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

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

D.C. at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

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

Sunday, September 21 Chivas at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Derek Jeter answers reporter’s cellphone during postgame news conference

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled C Austin Romine from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Selected the contract of OF Roger Bernadina from Albuquerque (PCL). Transferred RHP Josh Beckett to the 60day DL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled OF Michael A. Taylor and RHP Ryan Mattheus from Syracuse (IL).

FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Released LB Desmond Bishop.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed G Brandon

New England 2 Chicago 1 Wednesday’s games Los Angeles at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

D.C. at New York, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Fusco to a contract extension.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL Kelcy Quarles to the practice squad. Released TE Allen Reisner from the practice squad.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS0 — Agreed to terms with CB Cortez Allen on a five-year contract.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League TEXAS RANGERS — Purchased the contract of INF Guilder Rodriguez from Frisco (Texas).

Transferred RHP Yu Darvish from the 15- to the 60-day DL. National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Activated C Wilin Rosario from the 15-day DL.

Sunday

Golf

Baseball American League East Division W L Pct 83 59 .585 73 68 .518 73 69 .514 69 75 .479 63 80 .441

Saturday ● Major midget girls hockey: Calgary Fire at Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs, 5 p.m., Collicutt Centre. ● WHL preseason: Medicine Hat Tigers at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Stettler. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Wetaskiwin Icemen at Ponoka Stampeders, 3:30 p.m.; Stettler Lightning at Red Deer Vipers, 7:30 p.m., Arena; Strathmore Wheatland Kings at Three Hills Thrashers, 8 p.m., Trochu.

Thursday, Sep. 11 Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 6:25 p.m.

PF 33 19 23 20

● High school football: Camrose Trojans at Stettler Wildcats, 4:30 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber Raiders at Notre Dame Cougars, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● WHL preseason: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Heritage junior B preseason hockey: Red Deer Vipers at Stettler Lightning, 7:30 p.m.

NEW YORK — In the middle of his postgame news conference on Derek Jeter Day, the New York Yankees captain took a moment to answer a reporter’s cellphone. A phone being used to record the news conference was on the desk in front of Jeter on Sunday, and it started to buzz about four minutes in.

“Someone’s phone is ringing,” Jeter said. “Sorry,” said Tara Sullivan, a reporter for The Record, a New Jersey newspaper.

As she spoke, Jeter picked up the phone and read the caller ID out loud: “Walt Rheinheimer.” That is Sullivan’s husband.

“Walt, she’s got to call you back, buddy,” Jeter said into the phone, causing many of the assembled reporters to laugh.

BMW Championship Sunday At Cherry Hills Country Club Cherry Hills Village, Colo.

Purse: $8 million Yardage: 7,352; Par 70 Final Billy Horschel, $1,440,000 68-66-63-69 Bubba Watson, $864,000 70-66-66-66 Morgan Hoffmann, $544,000 72-72-62-63 Rickie Fowler, $319,000 71-66-66-68 Jim Furyk, $319,000 70-68-67-66 Sergio Garcia, $319,000 68-64-72-67 Ryan Palmer, $319,000 69-64-67-71 Rory McIlroy, $232,000 67-67-72-66 Adam Scott, $232,000 71-66-69-66 Jordan Spieth, $232,000 67-70-68-67 Graham DeLaet, $200,000 68-68-69-68 Angel Cabrera, $162,000 71-72-66-65 Chesson Hadley, $162,000 68-70-68-68 J.B. Holmes, $162,000 71-68-67-68 Charl Schwartzel, $162,000 72-66-70-66 Kevin Chappell, $124,000 68-72-70-65 Ernie Els, $124,000 70-69-69-67 Bill Haas, $124,000 72-68-67-68 Martin Kaymer, $124,000 68-70-64-73 Camilo Villegas, $96,533 70-71-68-67 Hideki Matsuyama, $96,533 69-67-71-69 Jimmy Walker, $96,533 72-67-69-68 Ben Crane, $69,200 70-70-68-69 Russell Knox, $69,200 74-69-72-62 Seung-Yul Noh, $69,200 70-71-67-69 John Senden, $69,200 73-66-70-68 Henrik Stenson, $69,200 68-69-72-68 Gary Woodland, $69,200 67-73-68-69 Jerry Kelly, $55,600 71-73-66-68 Daniel Summerhays, $55,600 75-68-71-64 Harris English, $48,500 71-71-67-70 George McNeill, $48,500 71-69-69-70 Carl Pettersson, $48,500 73-70-68-68 Cameron Tringale, $48,500 70-73-68-68 Justin Rose, $43,200 69-71-70-70 Tim Clark, $36,057 71-69-70-71 Geoff Ogilvy, $36,057 73-69-69-70 Charles Howell III, $36,057 69-72-71-69 Chris Kirk, $36,057 71-70-71-69 Graeme McDowell, $36,057 73-72-69-67 Brian Stuard, $36,057 71-69-71-70 Brendon Todd, $36,057 73-67-72-69

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Champions-Quebec Championship Sunday At La Tempete Golf Club Quebec City Purse: $1.6 million Yardage: 7,065; Par: 72 (36-36) Final Wes Short, Jr., $240,000 69-68-64 Scott Dunlap, $140,800 72-66-64 Brad Faxon, $105,200 67-67-71 Esteban Toledo, $105,200 68-66-71 Jim Carter, $70,000 70-68-68 Kirk Triplett, $70,000 70-68-68 David Frost, $51,200 70-69-68 Jay Haas, $51,200 68-69-70 Loren Roberts, $51,200 67-69-71 Michael Allen, $31,467 70-70-68 Jay Delsing, $31,467 69-70-69 Bill Glasson, $31,467 70-70-68 Mark Mouland, $31,467 69-70-69 Jim Rutledge, $31,467 71-69-68 Jeff Sluman, $31,467 69-70-69 P.H. Horgan III, $31,467 67-71-70 Scott Simpson, $31,467 69-68-71 Duffy Waldorf, $31,467 66-71-71 Olin Browne, $20,400 69-69-71 Fred Funk, $20,400 68-71-70 Corey Pavin, $20,400 69-69-71 Rod Spittle, $20,400 75-68-66 Keith Clearwater, $15,680 69-70-71 Rick Fehr, $15,680 72-72-66 Doug Garwood, $15,680 71-68-71 Gary Hallberg, $15,680 68-74-68 Lee Janzen, $15,680 71-67-72 Chien Soon Lu, $15,680 73-71-66 Tommy Armour III, $12,640 69-72-70 Tom Byrum, $12,640 70-73-68 James Mason, $12,640 71-68-72 Billy Andrade, $10,560 70-70-72 Ronnie Black, $10,560 73-71-68 Roger Chapman, $10,560 72-71-69 Anders Forsbrand, $10,560 70-71-71 Jeff Freeman, $10,560 70-72-70 Mark Brooks, $8,640 74-70-69 Bart Bryant, $8,640 71-71-71 Bobby Clampett, $8,640 70-73-70 Dick Mast, $8,640 73-68-72

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Web.com Tour-Chiquita Classic Scores Sunday At River Run Country Club Davidson, N.C. Purse: $1 million Yardage: 7,317; Par 72 Final Adam Hadwin, $180,000 63-72-67-68 John Peterson, $108,000 65-70-68-69 Tom Hoge, $68,000 73-63-69-68 Oscar Fraustro, $39,375 67-71-71-66 Jim Herman, $39,375 72-67-69-67 Scott Pinckney, $39,375 66-68-70-71 Kyle Reifers, $39,375 67-68-70-70 Greg Chalmers, $30,000 69-65-67-75 Colt Knost, $30,000 67-70-69-70 Roberto Castro, $26,000 72-67-67-71 Hudson Swafford, $26,000 66-73-68-70 Eric Axley, $20,250 69-74-68-67 Spencer Levin, $20,250 72-65-69-72 Carlos Sainz Jr, $20,250 70-72-64-72 Will Wilcox, $20,250 71-70-67-70

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PGA of Canada Tour BEON EOIN, N.S. (CP) — Scores Sunday from the PGA of Canada’s Cape Breton Celtic Classic (x— won on first playoff hole): Purse — C$150,000 Par — 72 Final Round x-Mark Silvers, $27,000 70-65-72-66—273 Matt Harmon 66-69-69-69—273 Beon Yeong Lee 72-70-68-65—275 Seann Harlingten 67-71-67-70—275 Daniel McCarthy 67-66-69-73—275 Chris Williams 67-67-72-70—276 Michael Gligic 70-66-66-74—276 Adam Long 67-74-71-65—277 John Catlin 72-69-71-65—277 Russell Surber 68-71-70-68—277 Paul Ferrier 68-68-71-71—278 Philip Francis 72-67-70-70—279 Matt Hill 72-68-69-70—279 Derek Gillespie 71-70-67-71—279 Ryan Brehm 69-68-75-68—280 Mackenzie Hughes 72-67-72-69—280

B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Sept. 8, 2014

Knowing when a restricted South African free agent is worth a draft pick Daryl Impey OFFERING PLAYER A CONTRACT CAN takes final ALSO LEAD TO RETALIATION stage to win Tour of Alberta that signing another team’s RFAs is dirty pool, but if you’re willing to spend the money and give up the draft picks, it seems like a nobrainer.

As Calgary showed when it signed Ryan O’Reilly to an offer sheet two years ago, pursuing an RFA can be a win-win situation.

If the other team doesn’t match, you get the player at a price you can live with. If the other team does match, you don’t get the player, but you can still make a mess of a rival’s salary cap structure.

What’s trickier is managing the fallout in the future. If you do violate the unwritten agreement on RFAs, unless the other team is low on cap space there’s a chance they can come after your RFAs next year, thereby pressuring you in the same way, especially if you already gave up precious cap space to sign their guy.

The Ducks have more than $10 million in cap space, which suggests they should have a high appetite to match an offer sheet and would still have room to burn you back next year. And while SmithPelly has proved himself to be more valuable than an average second rounder, if you believe the Ducks are going to match any offer below $3,364,391, that means the only way you get the player is if you pay more and give up a first- and third-round pick as compensation. It’s a lot harder to justify that price.

Signing an RFA is a complicated dance which some NHL teams have some willingness to pursue aggressively, but have more often been very cautious despite an individual player’s value. My guess is the carrot of first-line ice time with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry will entice Smith-Pelly to sign before training camp starts. But if I were a team that had significant cap space and few RFAs to resign in the near term (such as the Buffalo Sabres), I might put that theory to the test with an offer sheet.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista hits a three-run home run off a pitch by Boston Red Sox’s Rubby De La Rosa in the fifth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, in Boston.

Bautista’s bat, Dickey’s knuckleball lift Blue Jays past Red Sox

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 3 Red Sox 1 BOSTON — R.A. Dickey’s knuckleball is proving to be quite elusive these days.

Dickey pitched into the eighth inning and Jose Bautista hit a three-run homer, carrying the Toronto Blue Jays to a much-needed 3-1 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.

“We’ve said before that it’s kind of a ’hit and miss pitch,”’ Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “Some pitches flatten out and some hang more than others.

A lot of it is the luck of the draw, too.”

Dickey (12-12) allowed one run and six hits. The knuckleballer was pulled after Mookie Betts’ leadoff double in the eighth.

Dickey improved 2-0 with a 1.80 ERA in his last three starts and 4-0 with a 2.23 ERA against Boston this season.

With his pitch dancing in a light breeze, he had a number of Boston’s hitters taking big swings that led to many misses, weak grounders or popups.

“As far as a mechanical adjustment, it’s nothing that’s outstanding,” Dickey said of his recent run.

“You’re always working on your trade.”

Adam Lind added three hits for the Blue Jays, who dropped the first two games of the series after five consecutive wins. The Blue Jays were six games behind Seattle for the AL’s second wild card coming into the day.

Xander Bogaerts had an RBI single for the defending World Series champion Red Sox, who were eliminated from the AL East race by Baltimore’s 7-5 win at Tampa Bay. Boston’s Rubby De La Rosa (4-6) gave up three runs and seven hits in four-plus innings. The righthander is 0-2 with a 6.20 ERA in his last five starts.

“I thought prior to the fifth inning he used all his pitches well,” Boston manager John Farrell said.

“He pitched out of a couple of jams, continued to show very good poise. The 2-0 slider to Bautista, unfortunately, nicks him for three runs.”

Brett Cecil worked a hitless eighth and Casey Janssen tossed a perfect ninth for his 22nd save.

Bautista chased De La Rosa with his 31st homer,

a drive over the Green Monster seats and completely out of Fenway Park.

“Yeah, I missed that pitch, tried to throw that pitch like away to him so it’s not in the middle,” De La Rosa said.

Boston’s hitters had little luck with Dickey early on, collecting just three singles in the first five innings. Jackie Bradley Jr. had the hardest hit ball, a deep drive to the wall in centre that was caught with two runners on in the second.

VERY CONSISTENT Dickey made his 30th start of the season. It’s his fourth straight with 30 or more.

“He’s very durable and gave us what we needed today,” Gibbons said.

LOVES FENWAY Bautista has 20 career homers at Fenway, secondmost of any active opponent. He went 3 for 4 while extending his hitting streak to 11 games.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: 1B Edwin Encarnacion was the designated hitter after being lifted for a pinch runner late in Saturday’s loss. He has been bothered by a right quad injury.

Red Sox: Boston 1B Mike Napoli and INF/OF Brock Holt both were out of the lineup after feeling ill the past couple of days. Holt left Friday’s game early and Napoli departed on Saturday. Farrell said both were feeling “much better.” DH David Ortiz had a planned day off, but Farrell said they also were “managing that right foot he fouled a couple of balls off recently.” Two weeks ago, Ortiz went down hard and left the game after fouling a ball off his foot. He was out of the lineup for two games.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: RHP Marcus Stroman (9-5, 3.83 ERA) is slated to go against RHP Jacob Turner (5-8, 5.54 ERA) on Monday when Toronto opens a three-game series at home against the Cubs.

THREE KNUCKLEBALLERS IN THE PARK Dickey and Boston reliever Steven Wright both mostly throw knuckleballs and pitched in the game.

Former Red Sox RHP Tim Wakefield watched from the press box.

Wright pitched five shutout innings, allowing two hits.

THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON _ South African Daryl Impey used a stunningly strong sprint in the last 100 metres to win the final stage of the Tour of Alberta Sunday, a victory that earned him a 10-second time bonus that gave him the overall championship.

It was a shocking finish to the six-day Tour that had seen Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands wear the leader’s yellow jersey from Day 1. And he was headed for the overall title until Impey’s surge in the final metres of the 734-kilometre Tour.

“We had nothing to lose today,’’ said Impey, a lastminute replacement on the Orica-Greenedge team.

“We took the initiative and tried to get every second we could. Today was a bit gamble for us. When you gamble like we did, sometimes things pay off. I’m not known as the world’s best sprinter but the team did such a great lead-up, put me in such a good position I was able to win.’’

When Dumoulin faded in the final 500 metres, Impey was able to grab the championship by one second. Impey finished in two hours 46 minutes 22 seconds and won $12,312.11. Dumoulin, who finished with the same time as Impey, takes home $6,209.58.

German Ruben Zepuntke, winner of Stage 1, finished third.

“To lose by one second on the last day is incredible, I can’t believe it happened again,’’ Dumoulin said. “If you’re in for a good laugh, check my results this year and last, a lot of second places..’’

Ryan Anderson of Spruce Grove, finished second in Sunday’s final stage with Ramunas Navardauskas of Lithuania third. Officials briefly had a look at the final sprint to see if Impey had impeded Anderson but let it go.

“I was getting pinched into the barrier at the end,’’ said Anderson, who had to swing back inside Impey. Anderson finished the top Canadian, in fifth place overall, winning $1,264.21 Dumoulin had ridden patiently for nearly 100 kilometres Sunday and then got aggressive to spark the peloton to reel in riders ahead of them and put himself back in control of the championship heading into the last of the 11-kilometre laps around Edmonton streets.

Steven Kruijswijk of the Netherlands took command of the race in the eighth of the 11 laps when he broke away on a solo run. At one point he was far enough ahead of the peloton that included Dumoulin he was a threat to the overall title. Kruijswijk was 47 seconds behind to begin the day.

In the ninth lap the peloton gobbled up the fading group that was a mixture of various team riders who weren’t working together and then reeled in Kruijswijk midway through the 10th lap.

Then it appeared to be only a race for the stage victory with Dumoulin apparently once again having a firm grasp on the overall title, still holding a ninesecond lead. He made a strong surge to the front of a pack of 43 riders heading up the final steep climb up a 300-metre hill averaging 20 per cent gradient. That, however, appeared to sap the energy out of the leader and he was unable to join the sprint to the finish with Impey and his Orica-Greenedge teammates.

Dumoulin had held the yellow jersey as overall leader since day one when he won the prologue in Calgary. He had a 14-second lead that he basically maintained through the 734 kilometres of the Tour, never letting anyone closer than eight seconds until Sunday’s final metres.

Navardauskas won the Tour sprint championship, Simon Yates of Britain was King of the Mountain winner. Dumoulin was named best young rider of the Tour. Garmin-Sharp was the top team.

The final stage wound through the streets and river valley of Edmonton, featured three steep climbs and at 124.1 kilometres was the shortest of the five stages. After two days of warm, sunny weather Sunday was cool with intermittent rain that left the streets wet and slippery. There were a number of crashes as riders lost control on corners.

Next year’s third edition of the Tour will likely be more mountainous with the prologue and first stage being hosted by Grande Prairie.

Canadian men’s volleyball squad wins fourth straight at world championships

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GDANSK, Poland — Gordin Perrin of Creston, B.C., had 18 points as Canada defeated China in three sets (26-24, 27-25, 25-17) on Sunday to earn a fourth straight win at the world men’s volleyball championship.

“That had five-setter written all over it,” said Perrin. “It was a really good battle for us, and I’m very happy to get the three-zero win.”

Dallas Soonias of Red Deer, registered 15 points for Canada while Nic Hoag of Sherbrooke, Que., added 10 points. Despite the sweep, head coach Glenn Hoag said the contest was a close one.

“First, we expected a very difficult match with China,” he said. “I think we were a little nervous, obviously our guys knew the points were important.

“We struggled a bit with our receive; not so much the setting off it, but trying to rotate the big servers.

Also in the beginning, we lacked a bit of patience.

For the rest of the game, I think our serving was better — Nic Hoag, Perrin and Soonias — all three of them brought a lot from the serving line and that helped us quite a bit.”

Canada will play undefeated Russia in secondround play. The Russians defeated the Canadians in three sets in a first-round match last week.

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Devante Smith-Pelly turned 22 in June and is coming off a season in which he led his AHL team with 27 goals, got a lateseason call-up to the Anaheim Ducks, and capped it off by leading the team with five goals in 12 playoff games.

So why is Smith-Pelly still sitting at home without a contract for the 2014-15 season?

As a restricted free agent, any team can sign Smith-Pelly to an offer sheet, but the Ducks have the right to match that offer. If the Ducks let Smith-Pelly go, they’re entitled to a draft pick (or multiple picks) in compensation from his new team.

What they get depends on what he signs for.

So, for example, if Smith-Pelly signed for between $1,682,194 and $3,364,391, the Ducks would be entitled to a second-round draft pick. If he signed for between $3,364,391 and $5,046,585, they would get a first-round pick and a third.

Let’s assume for a moment that Smith-Pelly could be signed in the $1.682 million to $3.364 million range. Should someone make that offer? Assuming the money isn’t scaring anyone away, the answer then depends on whether Smith-Pelly, who went in the second round (No. 42 overall) in 2010, is still worth a second-round pick. To figure that out, we looked at every player drafted between No. 31 and No. 60 between 2001 and 2010. We then subtracted the 26 goalies in that group, which left us with 274 skaters.

On average, a second-round pick has only a 12.41 per cent chance of playing more than 75 games in his first four seasons, meaning Smith-Pelly, who already has 75 games under his belt, is well ahead of the pack.

Next we looked at points among forwards, which left us with 88 players. Among that group, SmithPelly also looked solid, ranking 25th in total points (23) and 34th in points per game (0.31).

In other words, not only has Smith-Pelly been better than the average second rounder, he’s also been significantly more productive than the average forward who does get into games.

Clearly that second-round pick isn’t a deterrent, so what’s keeping the other 29 teams from sending out an offer sheet?

There’s a bit of an unwritten rule in NHL circles

LOCAL SPORTS

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MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 2014

Mixed results for Titans

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Banff 58 Titans III 10 Titans II 37 Foothills RFC 36 In a physically exhausting sport like competitive rugby, roster depth is of the utmost importance.

The Red Deer Titans Second and Third Division squads were short of secondary manpower while experiencing mixed results at Titans Park Saturday, with the No. 2 squad jumping out to a big lead before hanging on for a 37-36 win over the Foothills Lions and the Third Division crew falling 58-10 to Banff in the final regular-season match for both local teams.

“It was a little tight. We came out flying in the first half but our (lack of) numbers kind of showed in the second half,” said Titans Second Division co-coach Mike Berry. “We went flat a bit but held on for the win, which was nice.”

With the positive result, the Titans improved to 7-5-1 and moved into second place in the Calgary Rugby Union and earned a first-round playoff bye.

“We have a couple of rookies this year and other guys who have been here 15 years.

We’re gelling as a big family which is nice to see,” said Berry, who moved to Red Deer from Ontario three years ago and was a Titans player until this season.

“We pulled out a win today and it’s nice to be going into playoffs in second place. This is a good league. Every team has beaten every team.”

Berry is confident his squad can move along with authority once post-season play starts.

“Our scrum has been dominant all year,” said the coach.

“We have some younger guys on the outside who are pretty quick in all defensive schemes. We’re one of the better teams in the league and have beaten every team so far, so things are looking good.”

Berry and Grady Bowd share coaching duties with both the Second and Third Division Titans.

The Titans III dropped to 7-5-0 with Saturday’s result and will play their first postseason game this weekend.

“We didn’t have any subs today, we were a little short,” said Bowd.

“We don’t like our seconds playing thirds if they have to play a full 80 minutes. When you have guys playing two games in one day, that’s a full 160 minutes which is quite a bit.

“We had some guys who couldn’t commit today and others who have gone back to school. That kind of set us back a bit.”

The Titans broke in a handful of players this year and also have a solid veteran presence.

“It’s a bit of both. We have five or six new guys this year . . . guys who are coming onto the scene for the first time, which is good,” said Bowd. “We had three to four players return to the team following the high school season and a few vets back from last year, guys with good leadership abilities.

“We started off a bit tough this season but once we started to work together and get some team chemistry we got stronger. We’ve declined a bit lately due to the commitment level of our players.”

Bowd, a Red Deer native

Rutz going in new direction in second season with Queens

BY DANNY RODE Bob Rutz is taking a new direction as he steps into his second season as head coach of the RDC Queens hockey team.

“Last year we had a lot of pressure from the outside, saying we had to win after just losing the previous year,” he explained. “ This year we’re not thinking about what happened last year, we’re focusing on the process and looking to get better every day. The past is not a big deal, our job is to continue to improve every day.

We have six weeks (to prepare for the start of the regular season) and the players have that time to show they deserve to step into the lineup.”

The Queens have a veteran lineup with only eight rookies on the 25-player roster.

Two of the new faces are in goal with Summer Roberts of Regina joining veteran Moriah Andrews as starters and Alexander Frisk as a potential red shirt.

“I’m not worried about our goaltending at all,” said Rutz.

“They’re both big and cover a lot of the net. Summer moves well and Moriah came back in great shape. We’ll split time between them and whatever happens happens and we’ll roll with it.”

Both goalies played Saturday as the Queens opened their exhibition season with a 3-1 win over the Warner Hockey Academy Warriors at the Arena. Veterans Jessica Anderson, Jayne Kitchen and Skye Fahlman, who connected into an empty net, scored for the Queens, who were outshot 34-22, thanks mainly to a string of penalties.

The Queens led 1-0 after two periods with the Warriors tying it early in the third period on the power play against Roberts. Kitchen scored the winner at 16:08 on the power play when her point shot hit the post, deflected off the goalie and in.

Rutz has three new faces to go with 11 veterans up front and five veterans on the blueline, including Nikki Connor, who played two years ago.

Connor was an all-star calibre player and didn’t decide to return to school until late August.

“She gave me a call and asked if there was an opening and everyone I talked to, the former players and coaches,

said she would be a great addition to the team,” said Rutz, who also has Casey Nicolson, Megan Jones, Rikki Leonard and Taylor Hall back on defence.

The newcomers are Kailey Butz of Lloydminster, Ashton Peterson of Grande Prairie and Keinyn Nordell of Battleford.

“I’m excited about the team and especially the defence,” said Rutz. “We have a solid group returning and the new players have stepped right in.”

The number of veterans makes Rutz’s job easier.

“They all provide good leadership,” he said. “They’ve only been together three or four days and the veteran players are already taking the new players under their wings and showing them the ropes in school and on the ice. The fact the players know what to expect from me makes my job easier. And they don’t have to have a letter to be leaders.”

The leader of the group is captain Rachael Hoppins, who has looked better than ever in camp.

“She continues to get better all the time . . . there’s a lot of things to like about her game,” added Rutz.

The other veterans up front are Jena Holden, Kaylea Renz, Ashley Graf, Cassidy Holt, Suze Vanderlinde, Micaela Smith and Hailey Smyl.

Newcomers are Kelly Shawara, who played with the Pacific Steelers in B.C. two years ago, Kaley McMurtry out of Fraser Valley and Brenna Thomson of Swift Current.

“All the new players come from good programs and they want to compete and win,” said Rutz, who has nine more exhibition games on tap. They travel to Saskatoon this weekend to face the U of S Huskies in a pair of games. They also will play Warner on the road, Mount Royal University on Sept. 18 at the Arena, Banff Hockey Academy in a homeand-home series and the Edge Hockey Academy of Calgary twice at the Arena.

“We needed as much competition, and good competition, as we could get prior to the opening of the season,” said Rutz, who has four assistant coaches including former player Laura Salmons. Wes Makofka returns with Colin Stebner coming in as goalie coach and former Red Deer Rebel Chris Neiszner also coming on board.

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Justin Pilgrim of the Red Deer Titans is taken down by his Foothills Lions opponents during a Saturday game at the Titans Rugby field. who as a player competed in Australia three years ago and also played club rugby and for the Canadian Under-20 team while stationed in Vancouver and Victoria, is looking for-

ward to moving on to the Calgary Rugby Union playoffs.

“We didn’t fare well today against a very good team and we’ll be playing for our lives next weekend,” he said.

Jent Hoekstra scored the Titans’ lone try Saturday, with Jock Bottfield adding a pair of penalty kicks. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Kings open season with solid effort on the pitch

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Kings 3, Kodiaks 2 Kings 2, Rattlers 2 It was far from perfect, but Red Deer College Kings head coach Steve Fullarton is happy with four out of six points they pulled out of the opening weekend of Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference men’s soccer.

On Saturday they rallied late to tie the Medicine Hat Rattlers 2-2 and on Sunday they held on to beat the Lethbridge Kodiaks 3-2 in a pair of home games.

“It was a big improvement from (Saturday), but still no where close to good enough,” said Fullarton, noting the team looked much sharper in the second game. “It was just important to get the three points, it wasn’t pretty but we’ll take it.”

Alim Hirji scored in the final two minutes on Saturday to force the 2-2 tie while Mark Ibbotson also tallied for RDC while Luke Owen was solid in goal. Bernardo Reinosa Ramirez and Austion Desharnais replied for Medicine Hat College.

On Sunday, Kirk Moody got RDC on the board in the eighth minute and Andrew Jevne in the 33rd minute and Hirji in the 38th minute gave Red Deer a 3-0 lead heading into the break.

But the Kings lost their intensity in the second half and the Kodiaks capitalized.

In the 65th minute, Koffi Akpaloo-Nyavor stole a poorly played ball by the Kings defender and walked in alone and buried the ball past Owen in net.

Then in the second minute of injury time, Braydon Jetten scored on a penalty kick after a controversial foul called in the RDC box. The Kodiaks had other opportunity to score, like a missed penalty kick by Brent Wileman early in the second half, that could have led to a much different final score.

“We made it difficult for ourselves,” said Fullarton.

“We can’t be sloppy like that.”

But there are some positives for Fullarton to pull on, like the emergence of Benjamin Schultz and Alex Ingraham on the back line and the return of Andrew Jevne, solidifying a defence that lost some big pieces after last year.

Still, there is a need for continued improvement in that department as well.

“We really need them to be

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Sydney Daines of the Red Deer College Queens fends off Diandra Magee of the Medicine Hat Rattlers during ACAC soccer action on Saturday at the RDC soccer pitch. a bit more focused back there, at times we ball watched instead of taking our shape at the back, but that comes with games and experience as well,” said Fullarton.

Up next for the Kings is a single game road trip to Lloydminster to play the Lakeland College Rustlers on Saturday.

Kodiaks 2, Queens 1 Rattlers 4, Queens 3 The Red Deer College Queens dug themselves a big hole on the opening weekend of ACAC women’s soccer, dropping both of their home games.

On Saturday, they were unable to rally past the Medicine Hat Rattlers, losing 4-3, then on Sunday, they dropped a frustrating 2-1 match to the Lethbridge Kodiaks.

In a short 10-game schedule, there is not a lot of room for error.

“We went into the season, with the players we had, of going to the playoffs, we still have those expectations, but now it’s really tough,” said Queens head coach David Colley.

Moira Duley scored twice in RDC’s loss on Saturday while Celine Jensen got the other and Lauren Good took the loss in net. Kaylie Klaiber had two goals to lead MHC and Linnea Henke and Meagan Clarke

each score once.

On Sunday, Jess Whyte score the Queens’ lone goal while Good once again was in net for the defeat. The Kodiaks resoponded with goals from Lyndee Saler and Sarah Orban while Emily Goodfrey got the win.

By the end of the second game, the Queens were already starting to see the injuries mount, likely losing Savannah Pratt for the season with an knee injury while others suffered a series of minor bumps and bruises and others still succumbed to the heat of the early afternoon, blowing a 1-0 lead at half time.

Still the Queens had their opportunities to tie the game, including a late penalty kick

by Daines that was stopped by Goodfrey.

“By the end of the game, I didn’t have a single substitute that wasn’t injured, but it was still kind of disappointing to see everyone panic and go from the team shape and the team performance to everybody playing as individuals and wanting to be the player that made the difference,” said Colley.

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Williams wins U.S. Open for 18th Grand Slam

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A couple of months before Serena Williams capped her dominant run to a third consecutive U.S. Open championship and 18th major singles title Sunday night, she sat down with coach Patrick Mouratoglou to decipher why the season had been such a struggle by her standards.

At the time, Williams was coming off a third-round loss at Wimbledon, which followed a second-round loss at the French Open, which followed a fourth-round loss at the Australian Open — and, when Grand Slam success defines a legacy, that simply wouldn’t do. The quest to match Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova at 18 was weighing on her.

“It was definitely on my shoulders,” Williams could acknowledge after that burden was gone. “It was definitely like, ’Oh, get there. Get there. Get there.”’

She knew, of course, there was one more big event left in 2014, and a finite amount of time to turn things around before heading to Flushing Meadows.

In some ways starting from scratch, Williams regrouped and stopped her mini-slump, never dropping more than three games in any set, including a 6-3, 6-3 victory over close friend Caroline Wozniacki in Sunday’s final.

“When Serena is on her game,” said the 10th-seeded Wozniacki, who admitted she was nervous in her second Grand Slam title match, “there’s not much we can do.”

Williams matched Evert’s total of six U.S. Opens and became the first woman to win three in a row since Evert’s four-title run from 1975-78.

Add in Williams’ five titles apiece at Wimbledon and the Australian Open, plus two at the French Open, and only three players have more Slams: Margaret Court with 24, Steffi Graf with 22, and Helen Wills Moody with 19.

Ranked and seeded No. 1, Williams let Wozniacki keep things competitive for about five games but wound up compiling a hard-to-believe 29-4

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Serena Williams holds up the championship trophy after defeating Caroline Wozniacki during the championship match of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, in New York. edge in winners. Until a cross-court backhand in the final game, the only winners registered by Wozniacki came on aces.

When it was over, Williams dropped to her back behind the baseline, covering her hands with her face. Her first major trophy also came in New York, in 1999, when she was 17.

This time, Williams earned $4 million, a record in tennis — $3 million

for the title, plus a $1 million bonus for having had the best results during the North American summer hard-court circuit.

A few weeks shy of her 33rd birthday, making the American the oldest major champion since Navratilova was 33 at Wimbledon in 1990, Williams powered this way and that in her black-and-pink hightops. Wozniacki is the one training for the New York City

Marathon, but she was tuckered out by the end.

Wozniacki may as well have been an extra in this Williams highlight reel.

Points were directed by Williams, via serves that reached 120 mph (194 kph), forceful returns that backed Wozniacki into a corner when not producing outright winners, unreachable groundstrokes or the occasional volley.

“From a different planet,” said Wozniacki’s father, Piotr, who also coaches her. “Come on, there’s no chance.”

Yes, this was all about Williams. At times, it felt as if Wozniacki were there because, well, someone needed to be on the opposite side of the net.

They’ve been pals for years, and they hung out together in Miami — heading to the beach, watching an NBA playoff game — after both lost early at the French Open in May. Wozniacki says Williams helped her get over the end of her engagement to golf star Rory McIlroy. Williams said she planned to invite Wozniacki along for Sunday night’s championship celebration.

“We’re both going to do anything possible to win the match,” said Wozniacki, a 24-year-old from Denmark who reached No. 1 in the rankings in 2010, a year after losing to Kim Clijsters in the U.S. Open final.

“After the match, we’re friends again.”

Mouratoglou noted the obvious: It didn’t matter one bit to Williams who she was facing.

“Yeah, they’re friends,” the coach said, “but on the other side, believe me, Serena has zero friends.”

The last time she was at a major, Williams followed her early Wimbledon singles exit with an odd episode in doubles, appearing disoriented and quitting after three games because of what she called a “bug.”

“After Wimbledon, I was just so disappointed,” Williams said.

“I also realized I just needed to relax a little more. I put a lot of pressure on myself. I don’t have to put pressure on myself.”

Crompton overcomes personal Serbia, Lithuania get wins to loss to lead Alouettes over Ti-Cats earn berths into quarterfinals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Alouettes 38 Tiger-Cats 31 MONTREAL _ Alouettes quarterback Jonathan Crompton overcame the loss of a loved one to lead his team to victory.

After an abysmal first half, Crompton helped Montreal to a come-frombehind 38-31 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Percival Molson Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Crompton divulged Saturday that his former fiancee, who had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer earlier this season, died Friday. Crompton was planning to head home to Tennessee after the game to be with her family.

“This was not the best week for myself personally,’’ said the Als quarterback, who had been growing his hair for the Locks for Love charity. ``That’s the reason this is a team game. The guys came out and said, ‘We got you. Go out there and be yourself. Emotionally, just let it out.’ They had my back.’’

Crompton finished 18-of-27 passing for 205 yards with a TD and interception in his second straight start for Montreal, which scored four unanswered touchdowns and outscored Hamilton 31-10 in the second half to secure the victory.

“A lot of adversity was thrown young Jonathan Crompton’s way, and he dealt with it,’’ said Als coach Tom Higgins.

“Sometimes, what people don’t know is that (athletes) have lives, and other things happen within their life, and it was a tragic thing that he had to deal with. We truly feel that he always has the temperament to turn it around, no matter how bad he’s playing. That’s a sign of a good quarterback, one that has a short memory.’’

Montreal trailed 24-10 when Billy Parker intercepted a pass from Hamilton’s Zach Collaros and returned it 45 yards to the Ticats’ four-yard line at 9:10 of the third quarter. Four plays and a pass interference penalty later, backup quarterback Tanner Marsh scored on a one-yard run.

That seemed to energize the Alouettes as three minutes later, Crompton put together his best drive of the game to make it 24-24. He had a 33-yard completion to Duron Carter and 42-yard toss to Chad Johnson, then finished the five-play, 98-yard drive with a 10-yard scoring strike to Carter.

James Rodgers’ 82-yard punt return for a touchdown broke the deadlock in the fourth quarter before Marsh added his second rushing TD of the game with three minutes remaining.

“The turning point was going in at halftime and regrouping,’’ said Higgins. “We knew that we needed to help our offence, and we did. The defence came up. Our special teams helped out too. We played a pretty good football game.

“It was really a quiet locker room.

We knew we had to come out and do these things in order to give ourselves a chance to win. The athletes have responded. There’s never any yelling or any screaming.’’

The Alouettes (3-7) earned their second straight win to move into a tie with idle Toronto atop the East Division.

Hamilton (2-7), meanwhile, fell to third in the East, two points ahead of Ottawa.

The Ticats were sitting pretty at the interval, up 14 points and en route to their second consecutive victory. But four second-half turnovers, including two lost fumbles and an interception, cost Hamilton the victory.

Montreal scored a total 24 points off turnovers, including seven in the first quarter.

“We gave too many points on turnovers,’’ said Ticats head coach Kent Austin. “They killed us. You can’t do it. You can’t lose a turnover battle on the road and expect to win football games. You just can’t do it. We gave them points, and we gave them momentum in the second half. I told the team that until we learn to be a disciplined football team for four quarters with respect to turnovers in particular — turnovers are killers — it’s tough to win football games.”

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BASKETBALL WORLD CUP

BARCELONA, Spain — Guard Bogdan Bogdanovic made four 3-pointers and scored 21 points to help Serbia rout Greece 90-72 and advance to the quarterfinals of the Basketball World Cup on Sunday.

Serbia will meet the winner of the other round-of-16 game between South American powers Argentina and Brazil to be played later in Madrid.

In Barcelona, Jonas Valanciunas scored eight of his 22 points in the fourth quarter as Lithuania held on to beat New Zealand 76-71 and move on to meet either Turkey or Australia, which also play later at Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi.

Greece needed a wild card invitation to compete in Spain, but it had appeared to re-establish its credentials as a perennial medal contender by winning all five games to claim first place in its group.

But Serbia led throughout except when Greece managed a 1-point led late in the second quarter, and the Greeks imploded in the fourth period, falling behind by as much as 20 points.

Centre Miroslav Raduljica added 16 points for the Serbs, while Milos Teodosic scored 13 more.

Guard Nick Calathes paced Greece with 14 points.

The first half between the two traditional European powers did not disappoint.

Both moved the ball with precision and shot high percentages of almost 60 per cent from 2-point range in a beau-

tiful 20 minutes of basketball.

After drawing level several times, Nikos Zsis hit a 3-pointer to put Greece ahead for the first and only time with 1:02 left in the second period.

Serbia reclaimed the initiative immediately when Raduljica scored inside and Nikola Kalinic drove baseline to slam the ball and pick up a foul, letting him convert the 3-point play for a 46-42 lead at halftime.

Serbia then dominated the second, turning what had been an evenly matched contest into a blowout.

In Barcelona, Lithuania lined up to observe the Tall Blacks’ ceremonial “haka,” and then went to work overpowering New Zealand with its taller inside players.

But guard Corey Webster, who finished with 26 points, spurred New Zealand’s rally from 15 points down to take a one-point lead when Lithuania went scoreless for the first four minutes of the fourth quarter.

Valanciunas answered by making four free throws and two inside baskets for the reigning bronze medallists . The Toronto Raptors centre also pulled in 13 rebounds and blocked three shots, while guard Martynas Pocius chipped in with 11 points.

“Jonas played really well and that’s what we expected,” said Lithuania coach Jonas Kazlauskas. “He has gotten stronger and has more experience.

Now he respects his opponents even more and knows the price of every game.”

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Keselowski storms to win at Richmond GRABS TOP SEED IN NASCAR’S CHASE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. — Brad Keselowski routed the field Saturday night for his fourth win of the season, a victory that gives him the top seed in NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Keselowski led all but 17 of the 400 laps at Richmond International Raceway, where the last race of the regular season never shaped up to be the thriller NASCAR hoped. A new winand-in format this year could have created a dramatic final push for a driver to make the Chase, but nobody had anything for Keselowski.

“What a night. I pulled into Victory lane and I pinched myself once to make sure I wasn’t dreaming,” said Keselowski, the 2012 champion. “These are nights you don’t forget as a driver and you live for.”

Keselowski came to Richmond a year ago needing a strong finish to make the Chase field, but failed and was not eligible to defend his title.

Now he’ll try to give Team Penske a season sweep — Will Power gave the organization the IndyCar championship a week ago.

“I think last year was a bit of a kick in the butt,” Keselowski said. “It was enough to really push us all and find another level. We did a great job in 2012, but in the sports world you’ve got to keep progressing. Everyone else progressed and we didn’t.”

There were two spots up for grab in the 16-driver Chase field, but Ryan Newman and Greg Biffle pretty much entered the race in control of their own fate. Newman never left anything to chance with a strong ninth-place finish, and Biffle slid into the final spot with a 19-place finish.

“When you are that far off, it is the hardest thing in the world to drive,” Biffle said. “This is the toughest thing I’ve ever done in my life, drive and try to stay in the top 20.”

Jeff Gordon, the points leader for much of the regular season, finished second.

Clint Bowyer, who needed to win to guarantee his Chase berth, was a dis-

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Brad Keselowski (2) and Jeff Gordon (24) lead the field to the green flag to start the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday, in Richmond, Va. appointing third.

“I knew coming in here, it was a long shot at best,” Bowyer said. “We put it all out there. I raced as hard as we could. At our very best, we were a third-place race car tonight at my very best race track.”

Bowyer was caught in the middle of a scandal at this race a year ago when his late-race spin set in motion a chain of events that helped then-teammate Martin Truex Jr. make the Chase at the expense of Newman. NASCAR eventually threw Truex out of the Chase, put Newman in and added Gordon as an additional driver.

He was dejected Saturday night after coming up short, but said his Michael Waltrip Racing team wasn’t championship-level, anyway.

“If you make the Chase, you want to compete for a championship,” he said.

“Truth be told, we’re not there right now.”

Defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson finished eighth but was apparently suffering from dehydration when he exited the car. He first laid down next to his car, then had to be helped to a cart by his Hendrick Motorsports crew. He was taken to the infield care centre.

Johnson was scheduled to compete Sunday in a sprint triathlon for his foundation.

“I know there was a couple times throughout the race where I felt like I was cramping, as well,” said Gordon.

“It’s hot out there. It’s hard to keep your fluids.”

Tony Stewart, in his second race back since he sat out three after his sprint car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. at a New York dirt track, finished 15th.

He would have been eligible to compete in the Chase if he won Saturday night’s race based on a waiver NASCAR gave him upon his return last week. The three-time champion had cracked the top 10 but his crew missed a lug nut on a late pit stop that took him out of contention.

NASCAR was forced to call a caution with 71 laps remaining because a fan had climbed to the top of the catchfence that separates the track and grandstands. Most of the field used the break to pit and Keselowski remained in control.

Head coach Benito Floro Germany edges Scotland in opening Euro 2016 qualifier, sees light at end of Portugal and Greece lose Canadian soccer tunnel SOCCER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ALLISTON, Ont. — Perched on scaffolding overlooking a practice field, Benito Floro surveys the Canadian men’s soccer team alongside video coordinator Claudio Castro.

Sunglasses and a baseball cap worn at a jaunty angle protect him from the bright sunshine. And perhaps from the breeze created by hands whirling over what’s happening on the pitch below.

The 62-year-old Spanish coach, who has been at the Canadian helm for a little more than a year, is passionate about his soccer.

“You can see how he treats football. It’s like art,” said veteran Canadian midfielder Julian De Guzman, who played in Spain for Deportivo La Coruna. “That’s something I’ve experienced with a lot of La Liga coaches and the culture in Spain. It’s great to see that here in Canada. I wish I had this type of training from (a) young (age).

And it’s good to see the new generation being a part of this.”

De Guzman can earn his 72nd cap Tuesday as Canada entertains Jamaica in an international friendly at BMO Field. It marks Floro’s first game as coach on Canadian soil.

Floro’s resume is impressive. He managed Real Madrid from 1992 to 1994 and served as director of football at the Spanish powerhouse in 2006.

He has managed club sides in Spain, Ecuador, Japan, Mexico and Morocco, served as a TV analyst and was a member of FIFA’s technical group at the 2012 Club World Cup. Progress with Canada is slow, however. Floro inherited a battered and bruised program with some players still scarred from the humiliating 8-1 defeat in Honduras in 2012, the Canadians’ last World Cup qualifying campaign.

Canada entered the hostile confines of a soldout Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula knowing that a tie or win would be enough to move on to the final round of qualify-

ing in the CONCACAF region, which covers North and Central America and the Caribbean. The Hondurans needed a win. And got it in spectacular style at the expense of the Canadians.

Asked if he still thought of the Honduras debacle, midfielder Atiba Hutchinson grimaced.

“I think about it maybe a little too much,” the 67-cap veteran said with a laugh. “It’s something that I think will always be in probably the back of everybody’s head ... No matter how you try to not think about it, it’s obviously something that will be there.”

The challenges are immense for Floro. He took over a team ranked 88th in the world and 10th in CONCACAF. Today Canada is No. 122 and ninth in CONCACAF. Canada is mired in a 16-game winless streak that dates back to October 2012 and searching for its first win in seven games under Floro’s leadership.

His two outings were 1-1 ties with Moldova and Bulgaria. Canada’s last win was a 3-0 decision over Cuba towards the end of its failed World Cup qualifying campaign almost two years ago.

Floro says his team always plays to win, but adds he has spent the last year shaping and teaching his squad.

“When my team doesn’t win the game, I am upset,” he said. “Not with the players, because my players always fight a lot. (With) the result.”

Under Floro, Canada has lost to Mauritania, Australia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia and tied Mauritania, Bulgaria and Moldova. The team has been outscored 9-2 with Hutchinson’s goal from the penalty spot against Bulgaria in May ending a 10-game 959-minute scoring drought.

Floro believes Jamaica, ranked 85th in the world, will be a good test although his task has been made more difficult by some knocks that have kept some players off the practice field.

All eyes are on next summer’s Gold Cup, the CONCACAF championship, with the goal of improving Canada’s world ranking and so escaping extra rounds of World Cup qualifying.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Two months after winning the World Cup, Germany opened its 2016 European Championship campaign with a 2-1 victory over Scotland on Sunday, while Portugal and Greece both slumped to defeats in their qualifying matches.

Thomas Mueller scored both Germany’s goals — a difficult backward header in the 18th minute and a closerange effort in the 70th — just four minutes after Ikechi Anya had grabbed a deserved equalizer for Scotland.

“I’m satisfied with the three points.

It was important to start with a win,” said Germany coach Joachim Loew, whose side is unbeaten in 33 European Championship or World Cup qualifiers.

Elsewhere, a Portugal side without injured Cristiano Ronaldo lost 1-0 at home to Albania, 10-man Romania beat Greece 1-0 and Serbia drew 1-1 with Euro 2016 host France in a friendly.

Germany laboured for long periods in the Group D match, particularly in the second half when the Scots were at their most dangerous, but still the home side might have scored more goals.

“They’re very well organized. We missed one or two chances to make it more convincing. Then it got a bit close toward the end,” Mueller said.

Mueller missed two good opportunities before making the most of his third, when he beat two defenders to Sebastian Rudy’s cross and looped the ball over the goalkeeper.

Anya equalized when he raced onto Steven Fletcher’s through ball and beat Neuer with a cool finish inside the far post. But Mueller soon restored the home side’s lead after a goalmouth scramble, rifling the ball to the roof of the net after Scotland failed to clear.

Scotland ended the game with 10 men after Charlie Mulgrew earned two yellow cards in injury time.

In the other Group D matches, Poland routed Gibraltar 7-0 in Portugal on the “home” side’s competitive UEFA debut, and Ireland beat Georgia 2-1 in Tbilisi. Bekim Bajal’s spectacular second-half volley embarrassed the Portuguese who couldn’t translate their dominance into goals, although Nani came close several times in his 75th appearance and newcomer Ricardo Horta hit the woodwork.

The surprise result compounded Portugal’s problems after its disappointing first-round exit at the World Cup in Brazil. Portugal commonly struggles in qualifying campaigns and had to go through the playoffs to reach the 2010 World Cup, Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup. Also in Group I, Denmark came from behind to beat Armenia 2-1. Pierre Emile Hojbjerg levelled and substitute Thomas Kahlenberg netted the late winner for Denmark which fell behind to an early goal from Armenia’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

Aleksander Kolarov’s 80th-minute equalizer earned Serbia a 1-1 draw against France, which qualifies automatically as host country. Paul Pogba scored for the French.

It was visitors’ day in Group F with 10-man Romania beating Greece, Northern Ireland finding late goals to defeat Hungary 2-1 and Finland beating the Faroe Islands 3-1.

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Attn: Human Resources empowering our employees will train. Approx. 35 - 40 email:payroll@ it gives them a positive hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 bearspawpet.com attitude, beliefs, percep$14/hr. Duties incl’d but Fax 403-252-9719 tions and values. Our not limited to: vacuuming, Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 employees care about the dusting, washing floors, Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 success of our company making beds, empty trash, and each other. disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance Please put in the subject based bonus program. line if you are applying for Must be fluent with verbal Red Deer or Grande Prail& written English, be rie. Email your resume to physically fit. Applicants jobs@wiseisi.com or fax may apply in person at PRODUCTION TESTING (403) 340-1046.

6853 - 66 St. Red Deer EXPERIENCED 403-342-4433 ZUBAR Production T4P 3T5 ororfax SUPERVISORS and email: Services TESTERS info@ramadareddeer.com is currently taking resumes Day & Night CELEBRATIONS for experienced Must have tickets.

Production Testing Top paid wages.

HAPPEN EVERY DAY Personnel Based out of Devon, AB. IN CLASSIFIEDS Email resume to: Email resume to: rdzubaroffice@telus.net kathy@dragonsbreathpt.ca Looking for a place or fax to (403)346-9420. to live?

RED DEER based hot shot Take a tour through the company looking for exp’d CLASSIFIEDS driver, 15/6 rotation, Professionals company benefits, SERVER -CUSTOMER performance bonus.

COUNTER - F/T Fax resume & Duties: Take customer current abstract orders, portion raw food, to 403-342-2152 package take-out orders, handle cleaning & store cleaning products, stock fridge, & collect money MANUFACTURERS’ from costumer. $11.89/hr.

5 days/wk. Must be avail.

Health & Safety on weekends & holidays.

SERVICE RIG Association Paula @ 403-347-8001 Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking SAFETY ADVISOR LEASEHAND Full Time - Red Deer Locally based, home every Competition closes Oct night! Qualified applicants 1/14 Please see our must have all necessary website under Jobs for the valid tickets for the position position profile. Email being applied for.

Resume to Bearspaw offers a lorne@mhsa.ab.ca Please very competitive salary note this position is for our SOUTHPOINTE and benefits package Red Deer location COMMON and BOWER along with a steady http://www.mhsa.ab.ca/jobs PLACE Mall Locations. work schedule.

Positions for Please submit resumes: SUPERVISORS. Looking Restaurant/ Attn: Human Resources for motivated and hard Email: Hotel working individuals. Having payroll@bearspawpet.com your own transportation is Fax: (403) 252-9719 or JJAM Management (1987) a plus. On the job Mail to: Suite 5309, Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s training, but experience in 333-96 Ave. NE Requires to work at these fast food is an asset, and Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 Red Deer, AB locations: must be avail. to work all 5111 22 St. store location hours.

37444 HWY 2 S Starting wage $13.50/hour 37543 HWY 2N with restaurant exp.

700 3020 22 St. Please specify which store FOOD ATTENDANT you are applying for.

Req’d permanent shift No open LMO’s to hire weekend day and evening foreign nationals at this time. both full and part time.

Email resume to SWAMPERS 16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + awbsp@xplornet.ca for busy oilfield trucking benefits. Start ASAP. or phone 403-391-0555 company. Top wages Job description and ask for Lynn.

Fax resume to: www.timhortons.com 403-346-6128, Attn: Pierre Education and experience Buying or Selling No phone calls please! not req’d. your home?

Apply in person or fax Check out Homes for Sale resume to: 403-314-1303 in Classifieds

EXP’D CLASS 1 DRIVER REQ’D.

Class 1 is a must and picker exp. would be an asset. Oilfield exp. preferred. Will require H2S and First Aid Certificate.

This position is F/T days only in the Stettler area.

Salary to commensurate with experience. Please send resumes to: lornemurfitt@telus.net.

GROWING local oilfield water management company requires crews - no experience necessary, long hours, remote locations. Competitive wages and health benefits. Must have PPE & first aid, H2S. Contact 403-346-0009 or email welltesting365@ gmail.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers.

Positions available immediately.

Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com

820

Trades

NOW HIRING

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

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

800

VALVE TECHNICIAN/SHOP ASSISTANTS

OPERATOR 2 POSITION

RAHR MALTING CANADA LTD. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta, T0C 0B0 FAX: (403) 747-2660 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

Truckers/ Drivers

Sales & Distributors

830

STORESMART Self-Storage

is now hiring for the following position!

Assistant Manager (Full Time 40 hrs/week)

For job descriptions and how to apply, go to www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs.

No phone calls please.

Trades

850

Branch Manager, Protective Services, Red Deer, AB

GardaWorld is seeking a Branch Manager for our Protective Services Branch Based in Red Deer, Alberta.

GardaWorld Protective Services protects people and assets in over 140 cities in Canada, a progressive company with over 20,000 employees in Canada. Exciting growth opportunities await the right applicant.

GardaWorld provides competitive salaries a full benefit plan and bonus /incentive structure. We offer flexible work hours, on the job training, state of the art tools for you to get the job done and a network of support staff. You are not alone when you join the GardaWorld team!

The Branch Manager will be responsible for the acquisition, development and application of resources necessary to fulfill service delivery commitments to the region including recruitment, scheduling, mobile division, office management and customer relations.

A priority to this position is the development of new business.

Acceptable candidates have 3-5 years of security management/supervision, managing experience in a Customer Service business line. Preference shall be given to those with previous experience in the Security business.

You have superior communications skills, can work independently & have strong leadership ability. Some travel will be required.

Interested candidates should submit their resume to Roger Maslen at roger.maslen@garda.com.

No phone calls please.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Trades

Trades

850

CRIBBER & LABORERS wanted. Contact Kristian @ 403-588-1581 EXP’D Roofers required.

403-588-6268 after 6 p.m.

Exterior renovation Crew Supervisor/Renovation crews wanted to install windows,doors,siding, roofing patio covers and sunrooms. Top wages & benefits for qualified applicants fax your information to 403-346-1129 or call 403-346-4483 Mon to Fri 9 am to 4 pm PART TIME available for Millwright on contract basis. No fear of heights, service & repair equipment. Fee will be negotiable. Email resume to custbulk@xplornet.com or fax 403-340-2250

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Apprentices

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Equipment Operator/Truck Driver

Q Endorsement preferred.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca SMALL RURAL MEAT SHOP in central AB looking for F/T meat cutter. 8-5, no weekends.

Knowledge of cutting hanging carcasses needed. Rental house avail. within walking distance of meat shop at a very reasonable rate with paid utils. 403-843-4383 jkcmeats@hotmail.ca STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

Truckers/ Drivers

860

F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

Red Deer.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

850

We are currently seeking a well-organized and reliable individual to join our Fleet department out of Red Deer Alberta.

Heavy Equipment Mechanic (3rd or 4th Year) Credentials: Heavy Duty Equipment Mechanic Trade Certification, 3rd period apprentice, 4th period apprentice, Heavy Duty Equipment Red Seal Endorsement, Commercial Vehicle Inspection Certificate an asset, must have a valid Class 1 or 3 Driver’s License.

JOB OVERVIEW • Diagnose/troubleshoot & complete repairs on all company equipment which includes, diesel/gas powered automobiles, Heavy Trucks, Oilfield Well Servicing Equipment, Cranes, loaders, forklift and trailers.

• Adjust equipment and repair or replace defective parts.

• Test repaired equipment for proper performance, clean, lubricate and perform other maintenance work, verify and repair emission control systems.

• Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times and streamline work processes.

• Use of computer to input information on the units and for the company maintenance program regarding work/purchase orders.

• Order material/parts that are required to complete the repairs • Be able to work under pressure in certain situations that require a quick turnaround process.

• Must be able to read, write, spell and verbally communicate clearly in English.

Benefits: • Excellent hourly wage • Lucrative Quarterly Safety Bonus and Christmas Bonus • Excellent benefit plan • Retirement plan Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to: Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239 Clearview Drive Clearview Industrial Park Red Deer County Must be 18 years of age or older to apply, and able to pass a pre-employment test.

441115I12

860

Professional Drivers Class 1 or Class 3

Benefits: • Excellent hourly wage • Lucrative Safety Bonus and Christmas bonus • Excellent benefit plan • Retirement plan Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to: Fax: (403) 347-3406 #239 Clearview Drive Clearview Industrial Park Red Deer County

850

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:

Duties include but not limited to the following: • Assembling and repairing control valves/frac heads • Calibration, testing and troubleshooting of valves as well as measurement and valve related instruments • Disassembly, cleanup and evaluation of parts • Signing and documenting date compliance sheets • Pressure testing processes with experience, will train • Forklift experience/loader experience, will train • Must be 18 years of age or older to apply • Must supply driver’s abstract

Southside Dodge is looking for an

Oilfield

OIL & GAS OPERATOR Wise Intervention Services

Isolation Equipment Services Inc. an expanding Oil Service Company is willing to train the right candidates as valve technicians and/or shop assistants in its fast and mechanical environment.

Southside Dodge is looking for a new full-time team member to join our great staff!

Southside Dodge is looking for a new fulltime team member to join our great staff!

The right candidate is punctual, can work independently and is computer savvy. You must be a quick learner. Experience with websites and customer service would be an asset. Our company offers competitive wages and excellent benefits. If you think you can be an asset to the Southside family then please contact us with your resume via: jsparks@southsidereddeer.com.

800

810

Oilfield RECEPTIONIST for Hygiene Department req’d.

P/T evenings, 20 - 25 hrs. /wk. Good opportunity for students. Please drop off resumes to Associate Dental, Attn. Corinne or fax 403-347-2133 or email healthysmiles79 @hotmail.com

Oilfield

440508I12

403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Monday, Sept. 8, 2014

Red Deer Advocate

441109I12

TO PLACE AN AD

Our Equipment: • Pressure Trucks • Water/Chemical Trucks • Acid/Synthetic Tank Truck/Pups • Tractor Trailer Unit • Shower Units Some of your duties could be: • Loading & delivering acid or environmentally friendly acid to leases • Loading & delivering methanol or fresh water for pipeline pressure testing We offer: • On-site Mechanic to maintain equipment • Competitive wages based on hourly pay • Subsistence pay & hotel rooms for drivers • Extensive health & dental plan

Please send your resume and drivers abstract to pat@haulinacid.com or fax 403-314-9724

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, Sept. 8, 2014 B9

860

Truckers/ Drivers

880

Misc.

Help

880

Misc.

Help

880

Misc.

Help

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TURPLE BROS. LTD. TRAILERS for sale or rent

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

CASH CASINO is hiring a

F/T CLEANERS

3am - 11am shift.

Need to be physically fit.

Must have reliable CENTRAL AB based trucktransportation. ing company requires Please send resume attn: Greg Tisdale Owner Operators gtisdale@ & Contract Drivers cashcasino.ca or fax in AB. Home the odd night.

403-346-3101 or drop off Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558 at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St.

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

Misc.

Help

1693338 Alberta LTD o/a Predire. Hiring Salespersons at Parkland Mall, 4747-67th St, Red Deer, AB T4N6H3 F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends. Salary - $14.00 hourly. Skills requirements: good English, customer service oriented.

Education: Some high school No experience requirement, training will be provided by employer.

Main duties: 1.Greet every customer in our store.

2. Explain to customers how to use and care of our products.

3. Operation of the cash register, accepting payment in cash, cheque, credit card and debit.

4. Opening up the store in the morning time and closing it at night.

5. Keep sales reports for inventory control.

6. Respect the laws and regulations of Parkland Mall.

Company’s business address: 17195 75 Ave NW, Edmonton AB T5T2R3 E-mail: Reachiesales @gmail.com

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

COMMUNITY Support Worker Program October Start

Accepting registrations for 6 mo. Community Support Worker Program.

Funding may be avail.

403-340-1930

Academic Express

Adult Education & Training www.academicexpress.ca DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS For our parts & service dept.

Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

FIELD Tec Trainee

Individual req’d to take simple measurements of equipment for insulation covers. Knowledge of petrochemical equipment would be an asset.

Suitable 4x4 req’d. (compensation paid). Will train in all aspects of the operation. $23/hr. while training, $25/hr. when complete. Reply to cover@telus.net with resume or info request.

GAETZ SOUTH F/T P/T MEAT CUTTER. Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

FALL START

• • • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca F/T INSTALLER/REPAIR TECH. needed in Calgary.

Travel involved, expenses covered. Valid Class 5 license, weekends off.

Mechanical ability an asset. Please email resume to michelle@equipmentpro .ca or fax 403-279-8214

FT/PT Morning Receiver Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer

PT Bakery Evening Staff Apply within 5111 22nd St. Red Deer PIANO INSTRUCTOR Join our dynamic team and share your passion for music with students of all ages and abilities. Now Hiring part time for Fall 2014. Submit resume and cover letter to: office@ reddeerdancemagic.com ROD’S WELDING is looking for F/T Laboure /Welders Fax resume to 403-746-5909 or call 403-746-5455

880

Misc.

Help

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.

RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.

Fax to 403-346-5786 SIDE STREET FASHION & ACCESSORIES is looking for a mature, outgoing, fashion-minded individual, on a part-time basis. Retail experience is preferred, but not necessary. Please submit resume to 3310 50 Ave (located in the Sheraton Hotel) or to sidestreet@ sidestreetfashion.com 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

Employment Training

1680

Garden Supplies

FLOWER POTS, 3 large white, fibreglass, All for $70. 403-348-6449

1710

CLASSIFICATIONS

Household Furnishings

1500-1990

1580

Children's Items

BABY swing, blue, like new, $60; 2 small homemade wooden tables $20/both 403-357-3247

900

1720

DARK maple table, 6 chairs, 2 leafs, $200 403-347-3849 RECLINER, good cond. , tan suede, TO GIVE AWAY. 403-986-1720

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Misc. for Sale

1760

A fantastic African native necklace, you can only believe once you see it and handle it. Truly a museum piece (still in its master display case), it is 3.5” x 10.5”x24”, $200. 403-347-7405

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

TREADMILL Vita Master SEIBEL PROPERTY Fitness, cushion deck www.seibelprperty.com walking surface w/speed Ph: 403-304-7576 control, display heartrate or 403-347-7545 monitor, calorie count, 6 locations in Red Deer speed, time, distance, ~ Halman Heights ramp adjust, good cond., ~ Riverfront Estates CANNING JARS, 12 jam $200 403-352-8811 ~ Westpark jar size, 24-1 quart, 7-1.5 ~ Kitson Close quart $15/all 403-302-4422 Travel ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.

ELECTRIC fireplace w/ad~ Holmes St. justable flame, 19”w, 13” Packages S.D. $1000 deep, 25”h, 1500 watts, Rent $1245 to $1445 TRAVEL ALBERTA 120V, like new, was $150, 3 bdrm. townhouses, Alberta offers asking $70; computer 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, SOMETHING desk, black, 48”w, 23”d, lrg. balconies, no dogs. for everyone.

30”h, like new was $250 N/S, no utils. incl. avail.

Make your travel asking $95 403-352-8811 Sept. 15 & Oct. 1 plans now.

References required.

FIRST Nations Medicine Man shields, approx.

20”x30”, $85.

4 Plexes/ 403-347-7405

1900

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

GRAGE Door opener, List Master, 1/2 hp motor, with remote included. $120.

Like New! 403-348-6449 KENMORE dehumidifier Model 30 $65; Canon K920 copier $45; 3 accent matching carpets, two 2’ x 7’, one octagon $45/all or will sell individually 403-352-8811

stuff

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

Music Lessons

1780

PIANO Lessons, beginner/ advanced, exam prep., rudiments/theory. Adult beginners welcome.

403-506-9778

Cats

1830

2 BALINESE KITTENS & 2 BERMAN KITTENS $50/ea. 403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

1860

LADIES curling shoes ASHAM Ultra Lite size 8 w/gripper and slider, used 1 season $340 new, $200 firm 403-505-5254

Advocate Opportunities

6 Plexes

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

wegot

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3050

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $1075/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. Oct. 1st.

403-304-5337 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

Suites

3060

2 BDRM apt. for over 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs.

Free laundry, heat, water, private parking at 5910-55 Ave. in Riverside Meadows. $1100 . Avail.Immed.

403-341-4627 2 BDRM. lrg. main level suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail Oct. 1. $1050/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $850 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

3030

2 ROOMS avail. in furnished executive suite in Lacombe. 403-396-3616

2 BDRM. 1 1/2 bath condo townhouse unit in Sylvan, avail. now 403-341-9974

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889

Condos/ Townhouses

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.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

BLACKFALDS suite 1 bdrm. suite, all included, furn., $900 403-358-1614 GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-596-2444

Advocate Opportunities

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

Advocate Opportunities

GLENDALE Grimson Street, Goodall Ave. ALSO Gillespie Cres.

ALSO Gunn St.

Attributes: Previous experience Organized & Reliable Physically fit Mechanically inclined

KENTWOOD Keen Cres. & Kendrew Dr. RIVERSIDE MEADOWS

Will consider:

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

RED DEER ADVOCATE

INGLEWOOD & MORRISROE

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE EASTVIEW AREA

$605/mo.

For More Information, please call For More informaiton, please call Jamie 403-314-4306 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

59th & 61 Ave.

448923I5-11

• Journeyman RV Technician status or equivalent related trade experience • Salary based on experience and ability • Company benefits • Top industrial wage for right person

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

1860

Sporting Goods

A TIGER HEAD PILLOW, approx. 55 yrs. old (still in great cond. - must see to believe) 16” square x 6” thick. $150.

403-347-7405

wegot

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

RV TECHNICIAN/ RV TECH APPRENTICE • •

Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD, 1/2 ton load $35.00 Call 403-728-3485

1760

FRIDGE, Kenmore 21 cu ft. 8 yrs. old, black, LADDER, Little Giant, $150 o.b.o. 403-343-2754 c/w tray. NEW! $175.

403-343-2058 FRIGIDAIRE, one piece Academic Express stacking washer and dryer. PEACOCK feathers, some Gently used in one person Adult Education & Training in white, approx. 150. $1. household. Must pick up www.academicexpress.ca ea.; 10 quart Reverware, soon. $150. obo stock pot, new cond. $18.

403-307-2000 403-346-2231 GE FRIDGE almond, runs TELEPHONES, V TECH great $100 403-309-1838 cordless 2 handsets, new LG WHITE 1.72 Cu.ft. over Nov. 13. Asking $15. set. the range microwave. $100 403-309-7787 403-341-6866

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

• •

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Accepting registrations for 6 mo. Community Support Worker Program.

Funding may be avail.

403-340-1930

Call Today (403) 347-6676

S

• All aspects of RV Service work • Seasonal extended hours • Customer interaction

1660

Firewood

Household Appliances

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

BEN’

Duties include:

COMMUNITY Support Worker Program October Start

Medical Office Assistant / Unit Clerk

UNC

LE

900

Employment Training

ENROLL TODAY!

GAETZ SOUTH

GAETZ SOUTH

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

Party and Wedding Equipment Stock Person

WAREHOUSE COORDINATOR: Shipping/Receiving experience required, 12 volt wiring or automotive a/v knowledge a plus.

Looking for self-motivated individual with reliable transportation. Duties include inventory and accurate order fulfillment.

Please email resume to: zdcdn@ zonedefensetruck.com or fax to: 403-340-0900

Classes Starting Soon!

GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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!

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

440522H29-I26

CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113

Labourers, Flag Persons & Operators

Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Misc. for Sale

CLEARVIEW AREA

wegotservices

Chappell Drive, Chism Close & 1 block of Cornett Dr. ALSO Carpenter St. $91/mo

CLASSIFICATIONS

DEER PARK AREA

1000-1430

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301 NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Depalme St. & part of Dunning Cres. & 3 blocks of Douglas Ave. $78./mo

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

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Horschel rebounds to win BMW Championship

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE, Colo.

— The bad swing a week ago is a distant memory. The blown lead Sunday — that wasn’t enough to derail Billy Horschel, either.

Horschel let a three-shot lead drop to nothing early in the final round of the BMW Championship before rebounding for a two-stroke victory over Bubba Watson. Horschel shot a 1-under 69 and finished at 14-under 266 to put himself in prime position for the FedEx Cup title and its $10 million bonus at the Tour Championship next week.

“If I were a betting man, I’d put some money on me,” said Horschel, who made $1.44 million for his second career PGA Tour victory.

Weyburn, Saskatchewan’s Graham DeLaet shots a 2-under 68 and finished in 11th spot.

Horschel heads into the final week of the playoff chase in second place in the points standings thanks to the victory and his tie for second a week ago — when he chunked a 6-iron well short on the final hole at TPC Boston, squandering a chance to win or force extra holes with playoff leader Chris Kirk.

This time, nursing a two-shot lead, the 27-year-old from Grant, Florida, smoothed a 9-iron into the middle of the 18th green and the only drama was whether he’d have time for a quick pit stop before he had to putt. Horschel sprinted up the fairway, ducked under the ropes and was back in plenty of time to two-putt and close out the victory.

“Obviously, after last week, a lot of people on Twitter were calling me a choker,” Horschel said. “I didn’t choke.

I made one bad swing at a bad time. To start with a three-shot lead today and hold on means a lot.”

About an hour earlier, it was another chunked shot that drastically altered the course of the tournament.

Ryan Palmer erased his opening three-shot deficit to Horschel and was tied after six holes, then again after 11.

Palmer was one behind as the final threesome walked down the 13th fairway, with Horschel buried in the right rough and Palmer buried in the left.

Horschel hit his second shot safely on the green. Palmer shanked his into a small creek that runs in front of the

green. He made double bogey to fall three behind.

“A shank? (Doesn’t happen) very often,” Palmer said. “But I’m doing with the downhill, down in the rough, I’m blaming it on that. But it happens. It’s a fickle game.”

That left Sergio Garcia, who cut a seven-shot deficit to two, as the last true threat, but his chance imploded on the par-5 17th — when he laid up, cooked his third shot over the green, then chipped into the water. He made a triple-bogey 8 — sullying a round of 67. He finished at 9 under, tied for fourth with Palmer (71), Rickie Fowler (68) and Jim Furyk (66).

“It’s what happens when you’re not mentally sharp,” Garcia said about the decision not to go for the green in two.

“Then, just a mistake after another mistake.”

Horschel said losing the lead early didn’t bother him much.

“That’s why you have a three-shot lead. To have a little wiggle room,” he said.

Unlike Palmer and Garcia, Watson, who shot 66, never truly threatened to take the lead, but he didn’t blow up, either. He missed a 25-foot birdie putt on 18 that would’ve drawn him within one of Horschel, who was behind him in the fairway.

But Watson didn’t make much all week. He finished 42nd in putting over four rounds. Still, he’ll go to Atlanta third in the standings, joining Kirk, Horschel, Rory McIlroy and Hunter Mahan among the top five, all of whom control their destiny — meaning a win will give them the playoff title, as well.

“Maybe that’s when I make my putts,” Watson said.

Palmer’s fourth-place finish moved him from 37th to 23rd in the standings.

But outside of Horschel, Sunday’s biggest winner was third-place finisher Morgan Hoffman, who turned the old-school, mile-high layout at Cherry Hills into his personal pitch and putt over the weekend. He shot 7-under 63 on Sunday to go with his course-record 62 on Saturday and vaulted from 68th to 21st in the standings. He started the playoffs 124th, matching the worst starting ranking to make the 30-player Tour Championship in the eight-year history of the playoffs.

“That’s the perfect way of putting it — ’nothing to lose,”’ Hoffman said.

“Carefree and just go out and fire at

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Billy Horschel jokes with members of his threesome while waiting to tee off on the third hole in the final round of the BMW Championship golf tournament in Cherry Hills Village, Colo., on Sunday. pins.”

McIlroy finished tied for eighth after a 66 that included a replay of the worst kind — a four-putt on the 12th green for the second straight day. Still, he’s comfortably in the mix for next week.

Not so for Stuart Appleby, who missed an 18-foot birdie try on his last hole to end up in 31st. And Keegan Bradley’s decision to withdraw Saturday because of a question over a drop he took in the opening round left him in 33rd, a five-spot drop.

Hadwin wins Web.com Tour Finals Wes Short Jr. eagles final hole to win Champions Tour’s Quebec Championship event to jump up money list

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAVIDSON, N.C. — Adam Hadwin won the Chiquita Classic on Sunday to jump from fourth to second on the Web.com Tour money list after the second of four events in the Web.com Tour Finals.

The 26-year-old Canadian, the Chile Classic winner in March, closed with a 4-under 68 for a two-stroke victory over John Peterson. Hadwin finished at 18-under 270 at River Run. “I was nervous the whole day,” Hadwin said. “I just trusted my golf swing, trusted the shots that I saw and stayed aggressive.”

The former Louisville player earned $180,000 to push his season total to $473,667. He wrapped a PGA Tour card with his fourth-place finish on the regular-season money list and is competing with the other top-25 players for PGA Tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals and the final leader getting a spot in The Players Championship.

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Carlos Ortiz leads the money list with $515,403, and is already fully exempt on the PGA Tour after winning three times during the regular season.

He took the week off after missing the cut in the Finals opener.

Nos. 126-200 in the FedEx Cup standings and Nos. 26-75 from the Web.com Tour’s regular-season money list are playing for 25 PGA Tour cards based on their earnings in the four tournaments.

In the event a player from the top 25 on the Web.com regular-season list leads the Finals but not the combined Web.com list, he would be able to improve his position and get the benefits of the No. 1 Finals position.

Peterson shot a 68. He earned $108,000 and has made $127,600 in the first two Web.com Tour Finals events, more than enough to regain his PGA Tour card after finishing 179th in the FedEx Cup standings.

“Everyone was counting me out,” Peterson said.

“I’m just glad to be back out there next year.”

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Short holed a 20-foot birdie putt at No. 17 to pull within one. Short set up the winning putt with a hybrid from 251 yards on the par-5 closing hole.

“I didn’t really look at the leaderboard until the 18th hole,” Short said.

“I looked over and actually I kind of thought I was going to be in the lead or tied with Scott going to the last hole.

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Brad Faxon and Esteban Toledo, the winner last year at La Vallee du Richelieu in the then-Montreal Championship, shot 71 to tie for third at 11 under.

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The 51-year-old Short played the final 10 holes in 8 under for an 8-under 64 and a one-stroke victory over Scott Dunlap in the first PGA Tour-sanctioned event in the area since 1956.

“It was slow in coming, that’s for sure,” Short said. “The first eight holes I parred, and I get to No. 9 and I hit a hybrid in the sand trap and then hit it out to about 6 feet and I felt like that was a very important putt to make. I made it. Then it seemed to open the floodgates.”

Dunlap, the Boeing Classic winner two weeks ago, also eagled the par-5 18th for a 64.

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Getting back to business OPENING WEEK IN NFL FEATURES PLENTY OF SURPRISES NFL ROUNDUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FALCONS 37 SAINTS 34 OT ATLANTA — Matt Bryant kicked a 51-yard field goal on the final play of regulation, then booted a 52-yarder in overtime to give the Atlanta Falcons a 37-34 victory over the New Orleans Saints.

In another thriller between the NFC South rivals Sunday, Matt Ryan threw for a franchise-record 448 yards, leading the Falcons to just their fourth victory over the Saints in the last 17 meetings. This one was particularly sweet for Atlanta (1-0) coming off a miserable 4-12 season, its first losing campaign since 2007.

The teams combined for 17 points in the final 2:50 of the fourth quarter to force overtime. The Saints (0-1) got the ball first, but Marques Colston fumbled after catching a pass over the middle. The Falcons recovered at the Saints 38; after three plays gained only 4 yards, Bryant booted through another long field goal.

BILLS 23 BEARS 20 OT CHICAGO (AP) — Fred Jackson set up Dan Carpenter’s field goal in overtime with a 38-yard run to the 1, and the Bills stunned the Bears.

The Bears (0-1) had just punted to open the extra period and Buffalo took over on its 22. The Bills (1-0) got to the Chicago 39 when Jackson turned toward the left side and broke off his big run, pushing safety Chris Conte out of the way twice inside the 10 before being knocked out of bounds at the 1.

Carpenter won it with a 27-yarder.

STEELERS 30 BROWNS 27 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Shaun Suisham drilled a 41-yard field goal as time expired.

The Steelers blew a 24-point halftime lead as the Browns rallied behind quarterback Brian Hoyer, but escaped thanks to some great plays from Ben Roethlisberger and wide receiver Markus Wheaton.

Roethlisberger hit Wheaton twice on the winning drive, including a 20-yarder that put Suisham in range to send the Browns to their 10th straight season-opening loss.

Roethlisberger passed for 365 yards and a touchdown.

Hoyer threw for 230 yards and a score and played brilliantly at times in the second half in a performance that should strengthen his grip on the starting job over rookie Johnny Manziel.

BENGALS 23 RAVENS 16 BALTIMORE (AP) — A.J. Green caught a 77-yard touchdown pass from Andy Dalton, and the Bengals blew a 15-point lead before bouncing back.

Green got behind cornerback Chykie Brown, who was pressed into a starting role for the injured Lardarius Webb.

The ball popped from Green’s grasp before he gathered it in.

That TD, along with the 2-pont conversion, came 48 seconds after Baltimore newcomer Steve Smith caught an 80-yard touchdown pass from Joe Flacco.

Following Green’s score, Flacco took the Ravens to the Cincinnati 16 before he was sacked on fourth down.

Mike Nugent kicked five field goals for a 15-0 halftime lead and the Bengals ended a four-game losing streak in Baltimore.

DOLPHINS 33 PATRIOTS 20 MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Knowshon Moreno rushed for 134 yards and a touchdown, Ryan Tannehill threw for two scores and the Dolphins overpowered New England after halftime.

The Dolphins (1-0) outscored New England 23-0 in the second half.

Tannehill had touchdown throws to Lamar Miller and Mike Wallace as Miami debuted a faster-paced offence. The Dolphins’ defence made four sacks, all in the second half, and

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Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kendall Wright scores a touchdown in front of Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Sean Smith in the second half of an NFL game in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday. recovered two fumbles.

Tom Brady threw a scoring pass to Rob Gronkowski, and Shane Vereen had a TD rushing for New England.

It was New England’s first loss in an opener since 2003, and marks the first time the Patriots (0-1) will not be at least tied for the AFC East lead since Week 3 of 2012.

EAGLES 34 JAGUARS 17 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Foles threw a 68-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Maclin in the fourth quarter and the Eagles rallied from a 17-0 secondhalf deficit.

Chad Henne threw two touchdown passes to rookie Allen Hurns in the first quarter and the Jaguars (0-1) dominated the defending NFC East champion Eagles (1-0) in the first two quarters.

But whatever Chip Kelly said to his players at halftime worked.

The Eagles scored TDs on their first two possessions in the third quarter.

Cody Parkey hit a 51-yard field goal on his first career attempt in the fourth quarter to tie it 17-17.

Then Foles made a perfect deep throw to a wide-open Maclin for the longest pass of his career to put the Eagles ahead 24-17.

TEXANS 17 REDSKINS 6 HOUSTON (AP) — Rookie Alfred Blue blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown and J.J. Watt lived up to his massive new contract to help Texans snap a 14-game losing streak.

The Texans led 7-6 after a 76-yard touchdown reception by DeAndre Hopkins in the second quarter. Blue blocked Washington’s punt on the next drive, scooped it up and returned it 5 yards for a touchdown to push the lead to 14-6 in Bill O’Brien’s first game as an NFL head coach.

Watt had a sack, blocked an extra point, recovered a fumble and swatted down a pass in his first game since signing a six-year, $100 million contract Monday. First overall pick Jadeveon Clowney had a tackle for a loss in the first half before leaving with a knee injury.

Robert Griffin III threw for 267 yards, but Washington was done in

by two second-half fumbles in Jay Gruden’s debut as an NFL head coach.

VIKINGS 34 RAMS 6 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson ran for 102 yards on three carries with a 67-yard scoring run off a simple pitchout and the Vikings opened impressively under new coach Mike Zimmer.

The Rams handled Adrian Peterson, limiting the star runner to 75 yards on 21 carries. They had zero luck with Patterson, who had three touchdowns rushing as a rookie.

Rams quarterback Shaun Hill lasted one half as the stand-in starter for Sam Bradford, missing the rest of the game with a thigh injury and leaving untested Austin Davis in charge. Hill’s last pass was intercepted by Josh Robinson with 1:09 to go in the half, setting up Matt Cassel’s 8-yard pass to Greg Jennings for a 13-0 lead.

TITANS 26 CHIEFS 10 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jake Locker threw for 266 yards and two touchdowns, while Alex Smith was intercepted three times.

Locker picked apart a defence that lost linebacker Derrick Johnson and defensive tackle Mike DeVito to Achilles tendon injuries. Locker was 22 of 33 and found eight targets, including former Chiefs wide receiver Dexter McCluster.

Kendall Wright and Delanie Walker had TD catches for the Titans, and Ryan Succop was perfect on four fieldgoal attempts against the team that released him last weekend.

Smith was 19 of 35 for 202 yards and a touchdown for a Chiefs offence missing suspended wide receiver Dwayne Bowe and right tackle Donald Stephenson.

JETS 19 RAIDERS 14 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Chris Ivory burst through a few tackle attempts for a 71-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter, and the Jets’ defence clamped down on Oakland rookie quarterback Derek Carr.

With still a one-score game, Ivory rushed up the middle and appeared

Chiefs lose LB Derrick Johnson with torn Achilles tendon TEXANS ROOKIE CLOWNEY ALSO LEAVES WITH KNEE INJURY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It was a rough opening game for the Kansas City Chiefs, who lost Pro Bowl linebacker Derrick Johnson to a torn Achilles tendon.

Johnson went down late in the first half Sunday with nobody around and needed to be carted off the field. Kansas City lost another defensive starter, Mike DeVito, in the second half to the same injury in a loss to Tennessee.

“We’ve got some guys that need to step up and get ready to play,” Chiefs linebacker Justin Houston said. “Guys go down all the time and you need to step up.”

Houston had a scare when Jadeveon Clowney, the top overall pick in this year’s draft, injured his knee and didn’t return in a win over the Redskins.

Coach Bill O’Brien didn’t provide much more information on Clowney’s health after the game.

“They think it’s a good prognosis, so it looks like it’s going to be OK,”

INJURIES O’Brien said.

“He may miss some time, he may not. Who knows? So we’ll know better as the week goes on.”

It wasn’t clear how Clowney was injured, but it happened late in the second quarter. He looked to be arguing with the team doctor as the pair walked off the field to the locker room a couple of minutes before halftime.

The Rams already lost one quarterback for the season when Sam Bradford injured his knee in the third preseason game. Shaun Hill left St. Louis’ loss against Minnesota with a left quadriceps injury. St. Louis also lost defensive end Chris Long to a left ankle injury.

Carolina was without starting quarterback Cam Newton, who fractured his ribs in a preseason game last month. He was declared inactive before the Panthers played Tampa Bay. Cleveland tight end Jordan Cameron aggravated a shoulder injury af-

ter catching two passes for 47 yards against Pittsburgh. The Browns also lost running back Ben Tate to a knee injury. Washington tight end Jordan Reed strained his hamstring at Houston.

Other injuries included Steelers’ rookie running back Dri Archer, who left the win over the Browns with left knee and ankle injuries.

Chiefs right tackle Jeff Allen left with a strained biceps. Titans linebacker Zach Brown injured his shoulder.

Bills linebacker Keith Rivers injured his groin in a win at Chicago.

Jacksonville lost safety Johnathan Cyprien and linebacker J.T. Thomas to head injuries at Philadelphia. Miami lost starting linebackers Danell Ellerbee (hip) and Koa Misi (ankle) in the first half in a victory over Miami.

Tampa Bay lost newly acquired guard Logan Mankins to a knee injury in the second quarter.

stopped, but slipped a few would-be tacklers on his way to the end zone. A 2-point conversion failed, but the Jets held on to win their season opener.

Geno Smith threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Chris Johnson as the Jets sent the Raiders to their 14th straight loss in the Eastern time zone.

Carr held his own in the first half, but the Jets pressured him throughout the final two quarters. He finished 20 of 32 for 151 yards and touchdown throws to Rod Streater and James Jones.

PANTHERS 20 BUCCANEERS 14 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Derek Anderson filled in nicely for injured Cam Newton, throwing for 230 yards and two touchdowns.

Despite rallying with two late TDs, it was an ugly debut for the Bucs (0-1) under coach Lovie Smith. The defence applied little pressure on Anderson, and an offence that was among the worst in the NFL in 2013 showed few signs of improvement until midway through the fourth quarter.

With Newton cheering from the sideline after being held out because of a rib injury suffered in preseason, Anderson completed 24 of 34 passes with no interceptions and one sack.

The 10th-year pro tossed threw for TDs of 5 yards to Greg Olsen and 26 yards to rookie Kelvin Benjamin for defending NFC South champion Carolina (1-0).

49ERS 28 COWBOYS 17 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Colin Kaepernick threw two touchdown passes to Vernon Davis, one right after the first of three interceptions of Tony Romo.

The 49ers (1-0) also got a 35-yard fumble return on the second play of the game when Chris Culliver picked up a loose ball stripped from DeMarco Murray. They led 21-3 after the first quarter despite running just four offensive plays.

Coming off a spotty preseason for his offence, Kaepernick was efficient if not prolific, going 16 of 23 for 201 yards without an interception.

Romo was playing his first meaningful game for the Cowboys (0-1) since back surgery in December.

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Aggies cruise to 2-0 start, but Sumlin still looking for improvement from No. 7 Texas A&M COLLEGE STATION, Texas — No. 7 Texas A&M has won its first two games by a combined 125-31. That isn’t good enough for coach Kevin Sumlin.

Ever the perfectionist, Sumlin noted things his team could do better again and again after a 73-3 trouncing of Lamar on Saturday night.

He says: “I told them after the game: ’That wasn’t our best football.’ We could play better.”

Sumlin was unhappy with the turnovers, penalties and other errors his team made against the Cardinals and believes the Aggies will have to be better to keep pace once they return to Southeastern Conference play on Sept.

27 against Arkansas.

Kenny Hill had another strong performance in his second game since taking over for Johnny Manziel, throwing for four touchdowns in less than three quarters.

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Daughter’s recurrent depression worrying Dear Annie: My daughter, “Nina,” suffers very hard to take “adult responsibility” from depression. Recently, I went to Se- for their behavior. By encouraging Nina to attle to help Nina and her husband move to disregard what is in her best interests, he Texas. It was our family’s hope that I could is putting her life at risk. Unfortunately, get her to come back east with me to get her without Nina’s cooperation, there is little mental health issues straightened out. you can do.

Nina was diagnosed with depression It’s also possible that your son-in-law when she was in high school. When she is truly believes the move was the main conon adequate amounts of an antributing factor to Nina’s detidepressant, she is a vibrant, pression, and he may change his intelligent, caring “normal” pertune if the depression doesn’t son. lift.

Lately, it has become obvious Don’t let your son-in-law dicto us and also to her friends that tate how often you stay in touch she is depressed again. But our with Nina. Your calls and visson-in-law insists that her deits are important. Meanwhile, pression is situational and will please contact NAMI (nami. clear up on its own. He says she org) at 1-800-950-NAMI and ask is running away from her adult about their Family-to-Family responsibilities by taking antiprogram. depressants.

Dear Annie: I have recently We worry that Nina’s depresattended a number of excession is not being treated and besively long weddings. They beMITCHELL lieve this is emotional abuse. gin with the ceremony, followed & SUGAR Her husband has threatened by an extended cocktail hour that if she stays with us, he will while the bridal party takes picdivorce her. We are trying to tures, followed by dinner and keep in contact, but Nina’s husthen dancing. Even if we leave band won’t allow her to travel right after dinner is served, by herself, and he certainly has we’ve spent at least six hours at no interest in spending family holidays these events. with us after that last visit. What can we While I am excited to celebrate with do? My son thinks we may never see Nina the bride and groom, this is a lot to ask of again. – Concerned Mom a guest. I try to be patient, but by the end Dear Mom: Your son-in-law has it exactly of the evening, I’m usually frustrated by backward. Those who commit to an effec- what feels like indifference to the guests’ tive program of antidepressants are trying enjoyment. Are there rules that wedding

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Monday, Sept. 8 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Pink, 34; Wiz Khalifa, 26; Brooke Burke, 42 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Full Moon in Pisces will highlight a view of the larger perspective and the steps we are willing to take to actualize our dreams and visions. It will be a pleasant day, but your sensitivity will increase, so do socialize with those who are cheerful and uplifting. You will want to be around those you trust and have a deep connection with, as you discuss and reveal your higher dreams!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will have you in full focus! Try to focus on the reality of the situation you find yourself in this year.

Others will seem to take on the martyr role if you let them, so be prepared to properly understand their view, but to analytically accept a new view. There will be great transformations with how you express yourself this year. Children are also on the agenda!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Full Moon will emphasize your dream life and what’s beneath the surface. You will intuitively bring that to the attention of others, I would say without knowing so. This will highlight the full realization of the truth at work, daily

life, and your health.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Full Moon will highlight a need to understand your dreams or perhaps your friends more.

Group environments will be showcased and LARISA MAIRA your role will OZOLINS be to house these individuals. An allaround pleasant day, with greater truth of your future direction in life!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Full Moon will allow you to see greater possibilities of your goals in relation to your career and public persona. Make sure to understand that your spouse or business partner does not see the entire truth. They might share wisdom, but delve deeper beneath the surface!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Full Moon will encourage you to be keenly aware of your aims. There will be a need to examine the knowledge you have obtained from your mentor now.

Be sensitive to their perspective as it will help you embrace passion in your

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life, but might not be the entire truth.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Full Moon will highlight your financial situation and your values, especially those shared with the significant relationships in your life. There is a deeper empathy for them with this energy, but that doesn’t mean you have to lose yourself to please them.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Full Moon will highlight others in your life, either colleagues or your spouse. You will be fully aware of their presence in your life today, as there will be much awareness of their sensitivities and dreams. Focus on what’s tangible for you now!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Full Moon will highlight your subconscious mind in a very unusual way. Write down dreams and thoughts, as they are leading you towards greater awareness of your personal truth. Your dreams will help you bring clarity to the situations involving family and home.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Full Moon will highlight your personal aspirations. Perhaps there is a creative project, or maybe you have certain goals you want to achieve. At this point in time, you will have a clear vision of what your want to achieve. Trust your instincts and be empathetic to others!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Full Moon will highlight a greater

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need to be open to family and those within your household. There is an opportunity to truly empower yourself with today’s energy. You can do this by trusting your instincts and focusing on what’s tangible for you now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A new perspective will be highlighted for you with this Full Moon energy. There is such a great opportunity for you to step up as a person of authority and state your case for many to see now. Just be simple and clear, and focus only on what’s tangible when communicating.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Try to focus only on what’s tangible for you with your financial situation today.

It’s not a problem, but more your wishing for something that will take longer than you desire. It’s not always about fixing something and then it arrives, it’s just about patience.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There will be greater awareness of others today. They will be right in line with showing you the details that you could possibly be missing. When presenting anything, simply make sure to only focus on what is tangible for you, the truth will always come out, so be patient!

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The bottom line is, the couple may want the festivities to last through the night, but you are not obligated to stay any longer than you are comfortable doing. If that means you leave before dinner is served, so be it.

Dear Annie: I have yet one more perspective on why someone might let oneself be fat. I have long realized that not only did I not want to be ogled by men, but I was also trying to increase my substance in the world. Always feeling small and insignificant, I felt I needed to “have some weight to throw around.”

I was never abused, but I always felt shy, passed over and unimportant. I wanted to feel “bigger.” I couldn’t get taller, so I increased my body size. I felt better as I got bigger. I liked it. But I do realize that I should go to therapy to find another way to achieve those feelings. – Big Girl 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.

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