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Firefighters donate truck to Paraguay PUMPER TRUCK AND CRATES OF EQUIPMENT HEADED TO CAAZAPÁ COURTESY OF LACOMBE FIREFIGHTERS

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Firefighters are used to answering the bell when people are in need.

That kind of spirit inspired Lacombe’s volunteer firefighters to help out comrades a continent away.

In a special ceremony at the Lacombe fire station on Monday, a pumper truck and three huge crates of gear and equipment were presented that will soon

be heading to Paraguay in South America.

“It’s a natural for us to take this project on,” said Lacombe volunteer firefighter Drayton Bussiere, the past-president of the firefighters association.

“We’re all very proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish.”

A decommissioned pumper from Clive is destined to become the first fire engine owned by the 24,000-strong community of Caazapá, which has a new fire station and 18-member fire department.

The fire truck will be transported on a flatbed to Vancouver and loaded on a ship that will leave port

on Thursday for the 68-day journey to South America.

The trip is happening months ahead of schedule thanks to fundraising efforts in Paraguay, where grateful citizens raised the bulk of the more than $20,000 shipping cost.

On the Alberta end, the project has been a joint effort of the Lacombe Firefighters Association, the department, Lacombe County and local charitable group A Better World.

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Red Deer to explore crime mapping

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Members of the Grandview Elementary School Choir sing their hearts out as they perform Goliath at the New Life Fellowship Church in Red Deer on Monday. Elementary schools from Red Deer, Spruceview, Lacombe, and Rocky Mountain House joined members of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra for performances of choral music and symphonic sounds in the 17th annual Choir Kids performance.

Darcy Mykytyshyn wins nomination by acclamation

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

RED DEER SOUTH

A few more faces have officially been added to the Central Alberta list of candidates for an election anticipated soon after the provincial government presents its budget later this month.

Two more Progressive Conservative provincial election candidates have been determined in Central Alberta.

Darcy Mykytyshyn, the candidate for the Red Deer South constituency, has been confirmed by acclamation. He was unopposed for the nomination.

Wade Bearchell, an Olds town councillor, beat fellow town Coun. Debbie Bennett and former Mountain View County councillor Ron Richardson to win the PC nomination for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills on Saturday.

In Red Deer, Serge Gingras will run for the Alberta Party in Red Deer South constituency. Gingras had stated earlier he was considering running. He also ran in the 2012 provincial election for the party in Red Deer South.

In Red Deer North, PC members will vote on Saturday to select a candidate. Red Deer city Coun.

Buck Buchanan, former city councillor Jeffrey Dawson and Red Deer County Coun. Christine Moore are in the running. Matt Chapin, who declared earlier that he would seek the nomination, is not on the bal-

lot.

Also on Saturday, the PCs will see a nomination vote for the Central Alberta constituency of Drumheller-Stettler. Jack Hayden, Drumheller Coun.

Greggory Jackson and former PC constituency president Ed Mah are after the nomination.

There are seven constituencies in Central Alberta — Red Deer North and South, DrumhellerStettler, Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, Lacombe-Ponoka.

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills and Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre.

So far, the PCs have officially nominated or have candidates running in all seven, Wildrose is in five, NDP in three, Alberta Party in two and the Liberals none, although in Red Deer North Michael Dawe has been endorsed by the Green Party and in a coendorsement proposal, he is also seeking endorsement from the Liberals. There is one independent running, Joe Anglin in Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre.

The Wildrose Party is in the process of choosing a new leader.

Brian Jean, Drew Barnes and Linda Osinchuk are in contention. The winner will be announced on March 28 right after the provincial budget is released, which is expected on March 26. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer’s criminal hot spots and trends will soon be revealed online.

Council voted 8-0 to explore “crime mapping” as tool in the city’s overall safety strategy on Monday.

The city will collaborate with the police and the newly created Community Safety ad hoc committee on the project.

Red Deer RCMP Supt. Scott Tod told council that the police currently use mapping in various ways to fight crime. He said the police have the ability to roll out a public map with its inhouse crime analyst and support from K Division.

“I am certainly not opposed to crime mapping,” he told council. “It could be as simple or as complex as you desire. Of course complex it becomes the more analytical it becomes and more it drains our resources to produce these maps.”

Tod said they want to stay away from creating something that asks more questions than answers and requires significant interpretation and clarification. In the coming months, there will be further discussion on the scope of the map including whether the city will be broken into zones or in half and the types of crimes mapped.

Tod said the benefits would be community awareness and engagement to address what he called “preventable crimes” such as like break and enters and theft. He said not every single crime would be mapped such as domestic violence.

“The data is there,” said Tod. “It’s a matter of the expectation.”

He said maps are investigative tools that should be updated regularly to be effective.

Coun. Buck Buchanan, who brought the motion to the floor, said he was pleased that a crime map will see the light of day in Red Deer. Buchanan said this is not new and it is not new to policing.

He said it is about awareness in the neighbourhood and community.

“It is information,” said Buchanan. “It is in our dialogue charter. It is in our safety charter. This is the right thing to do.”

Both Buchanan and Coun. Ken Johnston were disappointed that the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre was not named specifically in the motion.

Council heard that the centre is a major stakeholder and will likely be involved in the discussions as will other agencies throughout the process.

“The (Central Alberta) Crime Prevention Centre has worked extremely hard with community associations and resurrecting community around safety issues,” said Johnston, who sits on the Community Safety ad hoc committee. “I think it is a shame they are not directly involved in the work. It is time for the community associations in our community to understand that they have an influence on safety. And statistically this will give them influence on safety.”

Councillors said a crime map is one tool in a very complex tool box how community of how policing and safety in our community should be addressed.

There was some discussion on what to call the “crime’” map. Some councillors liked the idea of calling it something like ‘social mapping.’

The RCMP currently has one criminal analyst on the payroll and there are plans to hire two more. The analysts would ultimately work on the maps.

Tod said the RCMP would initially receive some assistance from the operations strategy branch out of K Division because they have the software.

“Part of council’s work plan in 2015 is local policing priorities and standards,” said Mayor Tara Veer, noting council had a workshop in February.

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Not enough cash to clear pardon backlog: Parole Board

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Parole Board of Canada says it can no longer dedicate its resources to clearing a backlog of old pardon applications, leaving thousands of former offenders in legal limbo.

The board maintains that almost 6,000 remaining pardon applications received before the rules were changed in 2012 will be processed as time and money permit.

“Over the past two years, the board has invested in the order of $3 million, found through internal efficiencies, towards reducing the pardons backlog,” spokeswoman Nadine Archambault-Chapleau said in an email.

“The board will not be able to dedicate the same level of resources to the backlog in 2015-16; however, it will continue to process the approximately 5,800 remaining applications as resources allow.”

However, some applicants have been told their files — and their $150 application fee — are effectively dead.

One man, charged with assault 13 years ago during his birthday celebrations just hours after turning 18, was told by a Parole Board official last week that the government has cut funding to deal with the indictable offence backlog and no applications would be processed “’for who knows how long,’ were her exact words.”

“She added that even if they receive funding now

to restart processing those backlog applications, ing to its web site. it would easily take more than two years for them The Conservative government overhauled the parto process them,” the applicant told The Canadian dons system to make it more expensive and rigorous Press. after The Canadian Press reported in 2010 that serial The man spoke on condition of anonymity out of a sex predator Graham James had been granted a parfear that future employers would discover his crimi- don three years earlier. nal record.

Pardons, now Some professionknown as record ‘WE FEELS THIS IS SIMPLY A MONEY GRAB suspensions, are al pardon applicaON THE PART OF THE PAROLE BOARD.’ tion services, which designed to seal a operate in a fashion criminal record and — AZMAIRNIN JADAVJI allow offenders who similar to tax prepaPAROLE SERVICES CANADA have fully paid their ration services, have begun advising clidebt to society and ents with old applications to give up, forfeit their lived crime-free for years to reintegrate, get better original application fee and re-apply under the new jobs and travel abroad. They also trigger certain hu$631 “record suspension” process. man rights protections under federal and provincial “We feel this is simply a money grab on the part laws. Advocates, including the Parole Board, argue of the Parole Board,” Azmairnin Jadavji of Pardon that pardons provide an incentive for offenders to Services Canada said in an email. remain clean, benefiting society as a whole — not “It’s like they don’t really give a choice — you ei- just the offender — as a result. ther wait indefinitely for your application to be proThe 2012 rule changes brought in a three-strikes cessed or you pay more money.” rule, meaning no one with more than three convicThe Parole Board of Canada’s overall budget, tions for indictable offences with two-year sentences which includes funding for parole hearings, clem- could ever be pardoned. Certain offences, such as ency pleas, pardons and other services, continues sex crimes against children, were also declared to shrink, according to the government’s main esti- ineligible. The crime-free grace period for pardon mates. applicants after a sentence was fully served was also The board “contributes to the protection of soci- increased to five years from three for lesser offencety by facilitating as appropriate, the timely reinte- es, and doubled to 10 years from five for indictable gration of offenders as law-abiding citizens,” accord- offences.

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TRUCK: Served the area for 22 years It came about when Clive’s pumper, which had served the area for 22 years, came up for retirement.

Lacombe’s firefighters got wind of the opportunity and the county gladly donated the truck.

Other fire departments, the province, area ambulance services and petrochemical industry fire services donated old gear to outfit their Paraguayan counterparts, who have little in the way of modern equipment.

“It’s going to make a difference to them,” Bussiere said.

Lacombe firefighter Uwe Kurth was raised in Paraguay and is familiar with the challenges facing firefighters in Caazapá.

A burgeoning motorcycle industry has seen serious accidents skyrocket. The rural area around the community is surrounded by sugar cane fields and grasslands for cattle, both of which are vulnerable to wild fires.

Caazapá Fire Department Capt. Alcides Aguilera Orrego sent his thanks in a letter.

“This is an important donation to our community, and we send our heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in getting the truck and equipment to our city. The fire engine, as well as the tools and equipment, will significantly change for the better how we respond to emergencies.”

A team of Lacombe firefighters will soon start planning a trip this summer to train their Caazapá comrades on the new equipment.

The success of the fire truck initiative has Lacombe’s firefighters already thinking about their next project.

A pumper that has served the City of Lacombe since 1986 is due to be retired and firefighters want to find another community in need, probably in Paraguay, where they hope to use the contacts they have made.

“We’ve already got a bunch of equipment collected for the next one,” said deputy chief Heith Johannson. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

COUNCIL: Bigger plan “Now crime mapping will form a part of that bigger plan which will likely come back to council depending on the pilot on Priority 3 calls will be spring or summer.”

In other council news: ●Three new members were added to the Community Safety Ad Hoc Committee filling the 11-person roster. Named were Steve Bontje, Archana Chaudhary and Kathy Liddell. Council also directed the

committee to use the Red Deer Alcohol and Drug Strategy as a tool in its workplan.

While the strategy was adopted in late November, a component related to the ad hoc committee was tabled until the role of the new committee was solidified. As part of its mandate, the committee will build a strategic plan for crime prevention and community safety. ● Council adopted a new fees and charges policy for all city services.

Mayor Tara Veer said council considers fees and charges every year during budget debate without a strong foundation and rationale for making decisions. She said the new policy will bring consistency, fairness, equity and competitiveness. The city will be reviewing all the fees and charges at the city in the coming years.

The policy has been two years in the making. ● Licensing processes at City Hall are about to be streamlined.

Council gave first reading to five licensing bylaw related amendments for escort services, limousine and sedan and taxi business. The amendments include changing the licence terms to a calendar year (Jan.1 to Dec.31) from an annual basis and introduc-

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Second and third readings are slated for the March 30th meeting. ● Council approved a 2.75 per cent salary increase for management and exempt staff.

The increase affects 140 exempt employees including directors, managers, superintendents, supervisors, professionals and specialists.

Kristy Svoboda, Human Resources director said the city reviews and adjusts its management salaries on an annual basis to ensure it remains competitive with other comparable municipalities and related organizations.

“Consideration is also given to how other city staff’s compensation has been adjusted,” said Svoboda.

“It is a balance, and an important investment in leadership that ensures we can continue to attract and retain qualified management staff to serve the public well.”

The 2.75 per cent adjustment is effective January 1, 2015.

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Drayton Brussiere (left) and Uwe Kruth of the Lacombe Fire Department pose before the retired pumper from Clive that will soon be making its way to Paraguay where it will provide a community with its first fire truck.

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Bridge girders mysteriously buckle

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — It’s become Edmonton’s bridge of sighs.

A $32-million project to replace a key bridge in the Alberta capital could be delayed up to one year after four 40-tonne steel girders mysteriously buckled.

The safety hazard posed by the twisted metal means a major commuter route underneath the 102 Avenue Bridge must remain closed until further notice, perhaps for a few weeks, in addition to part of the avenue which has been shut down since July.

“Under the city’s oversight, several engineering teams are investigating the situation to determine exactly what went wrong here,” Barry Belcourt, manager of Edmonton’s road design and construction branch, said Monday.

“Right now nothing is going to fall down because it is all bolted in place and cranes are still holding pieces in place.”

No one was injured.

Belcourt said investigators are reviewing the bridge design, materials used, the construction process and environmental conditions for clues.

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Crews work to repair several steel girders that buckled under it’s own weight during installation of a bridge along Groat Road in Edmonton, on Monday.

Construction teams have secured the construction site for worker and public safety and initiated an investigation.

Crews started installing the girders Friday night, bolting them in place after they were put in position with cranes, but work was temporarily suspended Saturday night due to what Belcourt called extreme winds.

Crews were working on the girders Monday morning when some of them buckled without warning, he said.

“All of a sudden four of them bent simultaneously.”

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A review of the act is to be completed by next year and more changes are in the works.

told a news conference.

“A single exam mark weighted at 50 per cent does not allow students who may have greater difficulty writing high-stakes exams, or who are undergoing unique stresses on the day of the exam, to fairly excel under the existing weighting regime.”

Opposition critics said the move is overdue. The Alberta School Boards Association passed a motion in 2014 asking for the change.

“This is something that we’ve been advocating for for some time,” said Deron Bilous of the NDP. “A 50 per cent weighting on one exam for a whole course is far too high.

“Teachers, parents, (and) school board trustees that I’ve spoken with around the province have been calling for something that’s more in line with the rest of the country, which is more of a 70-30 split.”

Liberal Leader David Swann called the announcement progress.

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Changes to Municipalities Act to boost transparency, accountability EDMONTON — Changes that Alberta is proposing to how municipalities operate include a provision that would require councillors to follow codes of conduct.

Councillors would also have to meet a higher standard when it came to holding meetings behind closed doors.

And they would have to adopt multiyear operating and capital plans and adhere to clear and timely rules regarding annexations.

The changes are contained in a bill which has been introduced in the legislature.

It’s the first move to update Alberta’s Municipal Government Act.

EDMONTON — Starting next fall, Grade 12 students in Alberta will get more credit for their course work and there will be less emphasis on diploma exams.

Education Minister Gordon Dirks announced Monday that a student’s final mark will be based on 30 per cent of the provincial exam — not the current 50 per cent.

The worth of course work will be bumped up to 70 per cent from 50 per cent.

Dirks says more emphasis on school work over the course of a year will be a better measure of what a student has learned and retained.

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ect back on track will depend on what is learned from the review into why the girders buckled, Belcourt said.

The city needs to determine if more cranes are needed, if the girders can be repaired on site or if crews have to take the bridge apart and start over.

“In the worst-case scenario, if the steel can’t be repaired, it could delay the overall project by a year.”

Belcourt said the delay is likely to add to the project’s cost.

It will also create more traffic headaches, admitted Mayor Don Iveson.

“I feel for the commuters ... who’ve already been dealing with the delays and that’s only going to get worse ... for the foreseeable future while the road remains closed,” he said.

But Iveson also said he isn’t worried about the safety of Edmonton’s bridges in general.

“Everything is very regularly inspected and bridges are the ... highest priority pieces of infrastructure we have for safety and maintenance, so I have no reason to be concerned about any other structures.

“I don’t know what went wrong here, but at least we caught it — whatever it is — at the construction stage. the ability of students to be reflected in the value of their training and their education over the year.”

The province has also announced 24 more dual-credit partnerships for high school students. The arrangements allow students to earn post-secondary credits or workplace certification while completing high school.

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Shaking up Alberta politics DECIDING TO REPRESENT THREE POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE NEXT ELECTION REFLECTS THE SORRY STATE OF DEMOCRACY IN ALBERTA

BY DOREEN BARRIE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE What Uber has done to the taxi industry, disrupting business-as-usual and causing an uproar, Laurie Blakeman and others are trying to do in the political marketplace. Her decision to wear three partisan hats in the upcoming Alberta election is just the sort of disruptive initiative in the political market that fits the model.

Blakeman’s novel idea is to represent three parties in the upcoming provincial election. (Michael Dawe has proposed that he do the same in Red Deer North). Opponents will label her a hydra-headed monster who will ruin the chances of meaningful change and destroy the Liberal party. They will point out that, under the Elections Act, such a move is not possible, ask which party will receive money donated to her, etc., etc. However, this is a creative, courageous and long-overdue move to shake up the establishment.

For decades the Progressive Conservatives (PCs) have straddled the political landscape like a colossus, dismissing their opponents as freespending socialists who lack the abil-

ity to manage money. But after Peter Lougheed stepped down, the combined vote of non-conservative parties began to grow, reaching a high of 51 per cent in 1993 and averaging 40 per cent since then. While the share of the popular vote does not have a bearing on the number of seats a party wins, it is a clear indicator of voter preferences.

Put another way, there is solid support for the values espoused by these parties although their representation in the legislature has often been negligible, averaging 18 per cent.

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is to blame for producing a result that is often a far cry from the expressed wishes of voters. Sadly, another artifact of the electoral system is that it strips political parties of any incentive to co-operate with their rivals even if they are like extended family.

Over the years, there have been moves to merge parties, and attempts to reach agreement at the constituency level to run or not run candidates in select ridings. These have come to naught for a number of perfectly understandable reasons: Parties have distinctive priorities, values and world views. They have “brands” and brandloyalty which, in some cases, spans

generations. The only way they can implement their ideas is to win office, and this produces a single-minded drive to achieve that goal. The adversarial nature of our parliamentary system sets them up to be hyper-competitive. All these factors contribute to a disinclination to entertain any thought of merging or even any cooperation short of a merger.

Having said that, however, there comes a time, and this moment is arguably one of them, when it is necessary to put aside these considerations for the greater public good. Alberta has been ruled by the same party for over four decades, most of that time with a commanding majority of seats. Having seen an effective opposition party in action, Albertans will be disappointed if the legislature is once again reduced to its customary impotence. Although many Albertans didn’t support the Wildrose Party, they were impressed at the success their MLAs had in holding the government to account.

With both the Liberals and the Wildrose leaderless, the way is clear for the PCs to sweep the province with very little effort. NDP Leader Rachel Notley’s position is the strongest among the opposition parties and it is

no doubt her hope that her party will be able to make gains at the expense of her rivals. But this is also an opportunity for her to rise above partisan thinking and consider working with the other parties in this unprecedented situation.

Politics can be a very grubby business and we have certainly seen evidence of this in the last year. However, it doesn’t have to be. The leader of the NDP can engage in politics-as-usual, trampling her rivals when they are at their weakest, thus helping the PCs to retain their grip on power. Conversely, she can demonstrate that politicians can behave in an honourable way by considering even a minimal degree of cooperation. Party members in all nonconservative parties must also demonstrate more flexibility.

Blakeman and others have tossed a stick of dynamite onto the political landscape in the hope they will disrupt it. Let us hope that it stirs up reaction and touches off a debate about the sorry state of democracy in Alberta.

Doreen Barrie is a political scientist at the University of Calgary. Her latest book is The Other Alberta: Decoding a Political Enigma. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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The resurrection of Vladimir Putin If he just had the flu, why didn’t they say that he just had the flu? We’d all have sent him get-well cards, and that would have been the end of it.

The lengthy and mysterious absence of Vladimir Putin ended on Monday, when the Russian president emerged in St. Petersburg to greet the visiting president of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev. The only explanation he offered for his 11-day disappearance from public view was that “It would be boring without gossip.”

The rumour mill certainly went into overdrive during his GWYNNE absence. He had suffered a DYER stroke. He was in Switzerland for the birth of his child with his alleged girlfriend, gymnast Alina Kabayeva. He’d had a face-lift, or maybe just another botox job. There had been a palace coup, perhaps connected in some way to the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov last month.

All mere speculation, whose only useful function was to hold the ads apart. The Kremlin remains, as it was in communist and Tsarist times, a place of perpetual intrigue, and Kremlinology is as imprecise a science as ever. There are clearly rival factions struggling to influence Putin’s decisions, but nobody can clearly say what they want or even who belongs to which one.

Why, for example, was Putin’s first action after his resurrection an order to put the Russian navy on full combat readiness in the Arctic, of all places?

That’s a long way from Ukraine, which is the focus of the current confrontation between Russia and the

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Western powers. Is Putin opening up a new front, or just demonstrating his resolve? And if so, who is the demonstration aimed at? NATO? Some faction in the Kremlin? Both?

The problem with an opaque regime like Putin’s is the difficulty in reading its motives and intentions.

Even democratic governments like that of the United States can be reckless and unpredictable — consider President George W. Bush’s decisions after 9/11 — but American policy is a miracle of transparency compared to the decision-making process in Moscow.

The difference is stark, and it has serious effects in the real world.

At the moment, for example, there is a major debate underway in Washington (and in other NATO capitals as well) about whether Putin must now be seen as an “expansionist” leader who has to be stopped before he goes any farther. The debate strongly resembles the one about Soviet intentions after the Second World War, which ended in a Western decision that the Soviet Union was an expansionist power that had to be “contained.”

The debate back then drew heavily on analogies with the rise of Hitler in the 1930s and the failure of the policy of “appeasement” — and the decision to surround the Soviet Union with alliances and military bases, right or wrong, led to an extremely dangerous 40-year Cold War. Hitler has been dead for 70 years and the world is now a very different place, but here comes the same old debate again. If you argue in Washington today that Putin’s actions in Ukraine are not the first step in his plan for world conquest, but just a clumsy over-reaction to the overthrow of pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych by the rebels in Kiev a year ago, you can be sure that various people will accuse you of being an appeaser.

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spending, for example, more than doubled in the five years between Hitler’s rise to power and the decision to go to war with Hitler. They knew they might have to fight him in the end, but they used the time before they were ready to fight to see if he could be appeased by giving him back some of the territory Germany had lost after the First World War. If it had worked, it would have been a lot cheaper than fighting a second world war. In the end it didn’t work, and so Britain and France went to war. But it is extremely unlikely that the NATO powers are in a similar situation now. For one thing, they never really disarmed after the end of the Cold War, so they don’t have to re-arm now even if Putin does turn out to have big plans.

If Putin really is planning on world conquest — or at least on recreating the old Soviet Union — then he has left it very late. Hitler started grabbing territory within a couple of years of coming to power.

Apart from a little war with Georgia (which Georgia started), Putin has waited fifteen years to make his first move. If he does have a plan, it’s a very slowmoving one.

Besides, his strategists will be warning him that Russia could not hold up its end of a new Cold War for very long. Russia has only half the population of the old Soviet Union, and it is now a largely deindustrialized petro-state with a GDP comparable to Italy’s. He is probably just blundering around, trying desperately to save face after his humiliation in last year’s Ukrainian revolution.

Unfortunately, what goes on inside the Kremlin is so obscure that nobody can be sure of his ultimate intentions. That leaves a nice large space for the hawks in the West to play in, and they are taking full advantage of it. But Putin probably just had a bad case of flu.

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Broad U.S.-Canada border deal would allow customs officers to work next door

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — A new deal that could lead to wide-ranging changes at the Canada-U.S. border would allow armed customs agents to screen travellers on the other country’s soil.

That’s one aspect of a broad agreement that could touch every mode of transport between Canada and the U.S. — including travel by car, train, bus and ship. It would take the pre-clearance customs system already in place at major Canadian airports and apply that to land and maritime vehicles, allowing travellers to clear customs before the border.

The goal is to clear border choke points and speed up travel.

The agreement was hailed as historic by both governments at a signing ceremony Monday with Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.

“This momentous occasion ... will advance the shared interest in perimeter security and economic competitiveness for our two countries,” Johnson said.

Travellers won’t see results immediately.

The deal must still be ratified in legislation in both countries — which is almost always a more complex process in the U.S. Congress than in Canada’s Parliament.

The logistical details also need to be worked out at bus stations, train stations, ports and highway checkpoints. For individual cars, Johnson said there could be a case-by-case approach, with different systems being adopted at different border points.

What Monday’s agreement does is set up a legal framework for those changes.

It allows customs agents to work in the country next door. It says agents would be allowed to carry arms. And it says they can’t make arrests on foreign soil.

There are existing examples of how the system

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Pilot projects have operated in different parts of the continent. Air travel pre-clearance has been used for decades, with U.S. checkpoints at eight Canadian airports allowing air travellers to clear customs in cities like Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal and to skip the queues when they land.

The countries had signalled their intention to expand the principle to land and sea travel as part of the 2011 Beyond the Border deal between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama.

But they missed a late-2012 deadline to reach a legal agreement that would let law-enforcement officials operate inside the neighbouring country.

A little more than two years later, they have reached that deal.

“This was years in the making,” Blaney said. “Of course, an agreement of this magnitude presents a number of challenging hurdles for our two countries.

But they were successfully overcome.”

He said the agreement respects the sovereignty and the laws of both countries.

The full text has yet to be released, and will be presented to Parliament in a few weeks. The Canadian government released some details, saying the deal would: —Allow agents to hold suspects in the other country, but not arrest them. An agent from the host country would have to be present for an arrest.

—Establish criminal liability for customs officers.

Criminal acts committed by an agent at work would be punished by the employer’s country, while criminal acts committed off-duty would be punished by the host country.

—Require foreign agents to respect the host country’s laws — including, on Canadian soil, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The business community celebrated.

“It’s dramatic, it’s historic, it’s a big day in Canada-U.S. relations,” said Maryscott Greenwood of the Canadian American Business Council.

Year-long commitment to ISIL campaign a possibility

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The federal cabinet is poised to decide on extending the combat mission against the Islamic State and should it be approved, several defence sources say it likely would involve a commitment of more than six months, possibly up to a year.

Defence Minister Jason Kenney wouldn’t indicate on Monday which way the debate is going, but said a verdict will come in the very near future and that “we’re considering various options.”

He said it is a matter of looking at what meaningful contribution Canada can make to degrading the capability of extremists to wage their bloody campaign.

Kenney and other senior Conservatives have dropped broad hints for weeks that the threat posed by extremists in Iraq and Syria is not something that should be left unchecked by Canada — or its allies.

The parliamentary mandate of the existing mission is to expire within the next few weeks.

The question of duration for an extended commitment is simply a political calculation, one source said.

An extension of six months would require another evaluation and renewal in October at time when the government is expected to be campaigning for reelection.

The Harper cabinet doesn’t need Parliament to

IRAQ AND SYRIA authorize a renewed commitment at any time, but the Conservatives have sought all-party support in the House of Commons for such missions, even if they have rarely received it.

Kenney dampened speculation last week that the government would authorize an increase in the number of special forces troops, who are providing Kurdish peshmerga fighters with training and assistance, including the guiding of air strikes.

It’s unclear whether cabinet would consider changing the scope of how the elite soldiers carry out their mission by authorizing offensive operations and commando-style raids into Islamic State territory. Kenney was circumspect when asked about it last week. The air force has six CF-18 jets bombing Islamic State targets along with two surveillance planes and an aerial tanker operating out of bases in Kuwait. The warplanes have been limited to targets in Iraq. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said his party would oppose any continuation of the mission that involved bombing raids into Syria, which he said would put Canada alongside Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

“Of course, you’re dealing with a very cruel dictatorship in that country and before putting our brave men and women in uniform at the beck and call of someone of that ilk, we’d really have to know what we’re doing.”

OTTAWA — The Department of Foreign Affairs says it’s believed 29 Canadian citizens are in areas of the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu that have been affected by cyclone Pam. The United Nations says that 24 people are confirmed dead and 3,300 have been displaced by the cyclone. The UN says radio and telephone communications with outer islands have not yet been established two days after what the country’s president called a “monster” storm.

Foreign Affairs says its office in Canberra, Australia and the Australian High Commission in Port Vila are providing assistance to Canadian citizens in Vanuatu affected by the storm.

Those bodies and the Emergency Watch and Response Centre in Ottawa have been attempting to reach Canadians known to be in the region, and Foreign Affairs says consular officials in Canberra will continue those efforts.

The UN says basic emergency rations are being provided to evacuees, sheltering in 37 evacuation centres on the main island of Efate and in the provinces of Torba and Penama.

The damaged airport in Port Vila has reopened, allowing some aid and relief flights to reach the country. Friends and relatives concerned about Canadian citizens they believe to be in the affected area should contact Foreign Affairs.

Strip-searched Quebec girl can’t return to high school where it happened: Court MONTREAL — The lawyer for a teen girl who was strip-searched at a Quebec City high school says she’s lost her bid to return to the institution.

The girl had sought an injunction, challenging the suspension and allowing her to return to the Neufchatel High School, which had suspended her in the wake of the search. Family lawyer Francois David Bernier says a Quebec Superior Court judge rejected the request Monday. Bernier says the girl and her family are disappointed, but will drop the injunction request and abide by the court ruling.

The lawyer says the girl will attend a school for students with learning problems to finish her year.

He says it’s not what the girl wanted and the family is keeping a close watch to ensure she doesn’t drop out. The incident last month sparked outrage right across the country after the girl told a local paper she felt violated by the search.

The school proceeded with the search after officials suspected her of selling drugs.

The local school board says officials followed government regulations when it conducted the search, but the family lawyer countered the school went too far. The Quebec government has ordered a independent investigation into the incident.

Eighteen Hells Angels and sympathizers plead guilty to murder conspiracy charges MONTREAL — Eighteen Hells Angels biker gang members and sympathizers arrested during a massive police sweep in 2009 pleaded guilty to reduced charges on Monday. The group pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and that resulted in the Crown staying premeditated murder charges against the accused during a hearing at the Gouin courthouse in Montreal. Another five accused are expected to plead guilty later this week. A spokesman for the Crown’s office said most of the accused have little time left to serve because of time spent in detention awaiting trial since their arrest during the SharQc operation in April 2009.

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Pouliot paces Oilers in win over Leafs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Oilers 4 Maple Leafs 1 EDMONTON — Not even a visit to Edmonton was able to help the Toronto Maple Leafs out of their dreadful road show.

Benoit Pouliot had a pair of goals and Jordan Eberle had a goal and two assists as the Edmonton Oilers came away with a 4-1 victory over the Maple Leafs on Monday in a game featuring a pair of struggling squads.

“The system that we are playing, we are creating a lot more opportunities and we are in games,” said Eberle, who has 11 points in his last five games. “The results haven’t always been what we want them to be, but we are definitely playing better.”

Anton Lander also scored for the Oilers (19-39-12), who snapped a seven-game losing skid.

Pouliot said it was nice to see the Oilers get out of the gate with four first-period goals, even if they couldn’t sustain that pace.

“It’s good to be on the other side of a game like that,” he said.

“The confidence of the guys was so high after we got off to the start we did. It was just a little unfortunate that we didn’t do the same things for the last 40 minutes.

“We knew Toronto was having struggles like we have had.

They beat us pretty bad in their building and we didn’t want the same thing to happen here.”

James van Riemsdyk replied for the Maple Leafs (2738-6), who have lost three in a row and six of their last seven.

Toronto has just one win in its

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Toronto Maple Leafs goalie James Reimer makes a save on Edmonton Oilers Ryan Nugent-Hopkins during first period NHL action in Edmonton, on Monday. The Oilers beat the Maple Leafs 4-1. last 21 road games.

“Obviously that was a brutal start and you’re not going to win any games in this league falling down 4-0,” said Leafs

forward Phil Kessel.

“It’s tough. We’re still working, we’re still trying, it’s just a tough time for us. We have good players in here, we still

have really good players, we’re just not getting it done.”

The Oilers started the scoring just 53 seconds into the first period on the game’s first

shot as a blast from Pouliot deflected off the stick of Eric Brewer and past Toronto starter Jonathan Bernier.

Edmonton made it 2-0 seven minutes into the first as Justin Schultz made a nice powerplay pass to Eberle in front, and he picked the top corner for his 19th of the season.

Pouliot struck again just 52 seconds later, putting home his second of the contest.

James Reimer came in to replace Bernier in the Leafs’ net after he allowed three goals on four shots.

The Oilers went up 4-0 with another power-play goal 11 minutes into the opening period as Eberle found Lander open at the side of the net and he lifted it past Reimer.

Van Riemsdyk deflected a Dion Phaneuf point shot past Edmonton goalie Ben Scrivens on the power play with 6:30 left to play in the first.

Despite the flurry of goals in the first period, there was no scoring for the remainder of the game.

The Oilers play the second game of a six-game homestand on Wednesday against Columbus.

The Leafs return home to face San Jose on Thursday.

Notes: Toronto came into the game with a six-game winning streak against the Oilersb& Since the All-Star break, the Oilers have had the top power play in the NHL. The Leafs have had the worstb& Edmonton was without Tyler Pitlick (lacerated spleen), Taylor Hall (leg), Nikita Nikitin (shoulder), Viktor Fasth (knee) and Iiro Pakarinen (knee), although Hall skated with the team on Monday. Toronto was missing Stephane Robidas (shoulder), Roman Polak (hernia) and Nathan Horton (concussion).

NHL GMs talk rules on first day of meetings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BOCA RATON, Fla. — Crease presence, goaltender interference and embellishment were some of the things discussed on Day One of the NHL general managers meeting.

Hardly the sexiest issues in hockey.

“These things seem anal until you get into Game 6 or 7 of the playoffs,” director of hockey operations Colin Campbell said. “They’re not anal anymore, they’re important. So it’s relevant that we take care of these things that might sound minor to you guys right now, but they’re major elements come the playoffs.”

The group will discuss the hottest topic of three-on-three overtime, plus expanded vid-

eo review on goalie interference and other plays, Tuesday. Monday was a day to talk about the little things that can make a big difference.

General managers broke up into three groups to discuss matters related to goaltender interference, diving and embellishment and emergency goaltender protocol. Goalie interference is the biggest of those issues because of how many goals are scored or disallowed after some contact in the crease.

“We could all sit here and watch the same video and I can guarantee you that it’s not going to be 100 per cent they’re all saying the same thing, and that’s after watching five replays in super-slow-mo and beating it up for 10 minutes,” Brad Treliving of the Calgary Flames said.

“It’s just trying to break down what it is we want to review and the whole purpose of the review is to make sure as best you can make sure you’re correct.”

Jim Rutherford of the Pittsburgh Penguins believes there’s an appetite among GMs to open goalie interference up to video review.

There are plenty more questions about that, and the group hopes to find some consensus Tuesday about how to make it happen.

Campbell said a coach’s challenge system and other replay items were also discussed.

On the diving front, GMs watched video clips and looked at the first season under the league’s new policy to fine and name players who embellish. Players are warned

for their first offence, fined US$2,000 for their second with increasing penalties for more.

“It’s one of the things we don’t like about our game,” Bryan Murray of the Ottawa Senators said.

“There are certain people that tend to do it more often than others. I think the hockey (operations) committee are very adamant about keeping track of the main offenders and trying to do something about it.”

Campbell said the league has informed officials of players’ tendency to embellish but now has a track record to show offenders and repeat offenders.

Diving is far more prevalent than the need for an emergency goaltender policy, but that was a natural topic after the Florida Panthers lost Roberto

Luongo and Al Montoya in the same game March 3. Chaos ensued and held up the game as goaltending coach Robb Tallas couldn’t get cleared to enter the game, which the Panthers lost to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“For the first time in 21,823 games, we ran out of goalies,” Campbell said in pointing out the rarity of the situation. “So what do we do now the next time it happens in 21,223 games? All seriousness, though, we’ve talked about this before, and we’ve beaten it up, and we’ve been close many times. But what happens again when it happens?”

The NHL could opt to have teams designate an emergency goaltender for each game. A resolution on that subject and three-on-three overtime could be coming as soon as Tuesday.

Lowry’s triple-double stems slide, leads Raptors over Pacers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 117 Pacers 98 INDIANAPOLIS — Kyle Lowry pulled out his headband just for fun Monday night.

His fashion statement changed Toronto’s perspective — and its fortunes.

The All-Star had 20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and three steals in his second triple-double of the season, leading the Raptors to a 117-98 blowout at Indiana.

“When things are not going so fun, you have got to find some things to make it fun again,” DeMar DeRozan said. “We can’t be too uptight or too down. We still have to have fun with it and I think Lou (Williams) and Kyle showed that tonight. Just something small like that carries over into the game.”

Both Williams and Lowry wore their cotton crowns, and DeRozan considered donning one, too, on what turned out to be a special night for the Atlantic Division-leading Raptors (40-27).

Toronto won for only the third time in 13 games, but finally earned its 40th in fewer than 70 games for the first time in franchise history. It also pulled off a season sweep of the Pacers, something last done in 2000-01.

And not surprisingly, Lowry and his new digs were right in the middle of it.

He went 7 of 13 from the field, matched his season high in rebounds and became the first Toronto player since Alvin Williams to post consecutive 100-steal seasons. Williams did it three times from 2000-03.

“The headband is done, don’t worry about it again,” Lowry said, drawing laughter.

Toronto’s supporting cast wasn’t bad, either. Four other players wound up in double figures.

Williams had 24 and DeRozan finished with 22. Jonas Valanciunas wound up with 14 points and 11 rebounds, while Amir Johnson added 11 points and nine rebounds.

Toronto shot 47.6 per cent from the field, made 12 of 23 3-pointers and finished with the highest point total all season on Indiana’s home floor — despite playing the second game of a back-to-back.

“This team is a great 3-point shooting team and they’re great at drawing fouls, great at initiating contact and if you don’t take their airspace enough, they drill you from the perimeter,” coach Frank Vogel said. “That’s what makes them very difficult to guard and it was just too much for us.”

Indiana (30-36) lost its second straight despite getting 23 points from George Hill and 20 from Rodney Stuckey. The loss dropped the Pacers into a four-way for the final two playoff spots in the East with one team, Charlotte, playing later at Utah.

But after the Raptors built a 37-24 lead midway through the second quarter, Indiana spent the rest night futilely chasing.

The Pacers got within four at halftime and made it a 58-56 game when C.J. Miles opened the second half by making two free throws.

Toronto’s Terrence Ross answered with two straight 3s to ignite a 16-5 run that made it 74-61 with 5:50 left in the third, and Indiana never got closer than seven again.

“That is the way we have to play,” coach Dwane Casey said. “That is something we have been imploring and we got it together. That was one of the best, close to, 48 minutes in a while.

We’ve got to continue to do that and keep that focus.”

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Toronto Raptors’ DeMar DeRozan (10) shoots against Indiana Pacers’ Ian Mahinmi during the first half of an NBA game Monday, in Indianapolis. gles were largely the result of poor defence, but they were solid Monday.

Toronto limited Indiana to 43.2 per cent shooting and they outrebounded Indiana 51-36.

Pacers: Hill scored 17 in the first half with a dribbling display that would have made the Globetrotters proud. But in the in the second half, he was just 1 of 4 from the field. Indiana finished 2 of 19 on 3s.

SILVER STAR NBA Commissioner Adam Silver took questions before the game and

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acknowledged that the NBA would like the All-Star Game to return to Indianapolis at some point in the future. “You guys host some of the biggest events -- the Final Four, the Super Bowl — and we’d love to come back here for an All-Star Game.” Indy last hosted the game since 1985. Silver also reiterated his desire to limit the NBA draft to players age 20 and older, that he’d like to see a 30-team D-League and said he was impressed with how the Pacers have rallied without Paul George.

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Anaheim Ducks’ luck running out

how the Ducks have managed to lead the league in points despite their below-average SAC, and why I think they can’t keep it up going into the playoffs.

There are a number of factors, but the main one is the Ducks’ record in one-goal games: 26 wins, one loss, seven OT losses, for a win percentage of 76.5 per cent, which is almost unheard of. Not only is it good for first overall, there are only five teams in the league with one-goal game win percentages over 60 per cent.

Now your traditional analysts will tell you that this is great news for the Ducks. It shows they have “heart” and “grit” and “know how to win.”

They’re. Just. Wrong.

One-goal games are a coin flip. Winning one-goal games is not a skill. It is not repeatable in the long run. Don’t believe me? Three of the last four Stanley Cup champs had losing records in one-goal games during the season in which they won the Cup. Now none of this is meant to suggest that there’s anything wrong with winning one-goal games. A team will happily take the two points every time. But contrary to what most analysts say, it’s not a signal that a team knows how to win. It’s a signal that the team is getting lucky and winning

BRIEFS Cougars win bronze at handball tournament in Sherwood Park The Notre Dame Cougars boys earned the bronze medal in the Sherwood Park Bev Facey handball tournament during the weekend.

Keegan MacDonald netted nine goals and Chris Huddleston was solid in goal as the Cougars downed Old Scona of Edmonton 18-12 in the bronze-medal match. Notre Dame opened the tourney with a 21-16 loss to eventual gold-medal winners Eastglen. From there, the Cougars posted 19-9 and 27-16 wins over Archbishop Jordan and J. Percy Page and lost 22-14 to Bev Facey.

The Cougars girls lost three straight — to Eastglen, Blessed Sacrament and Old Scona — before closing out with a victory over Sedgewick.

The Cougar Handball Classic is slated for March 27-28 at Notre Dame and will feature teams from Mayerthorpe, Canmore, Lindsay Thurber and Drayton Valley.

Toshkov claims gold at Western Canadian championships Petar Toshkov of the Red Deer Fencing Club struck gold in the Western Canadian championships at Vancouver during the weekend.

Toshkov won the veteran men’s epee title and also picked up a bronze medal in the open men’s epee.

Other Red Deer fencers earning medals in the two-day event attended by 400 fencers from western Canada, the United States, Russia, Germany and Hong Kong, were Karen Lyver (silver in veteran women’s epee, bronze in open women’s epee) and Louise Zanussi (bronze in veteran women’s epee).

Kameron Lamont in the U17 women’s epee, Shawn Rowland (U15 men’s), Sean Seitz (U17 men’s) and Zac Zanussi (men’s and U20 men’s) reached the quarterfinals of their respective categories.

U16 Kings win bronze at home The Central Alberta U16 Kings earned bronze in a provincial Premier volleyball tournament at the Collicutt Centre during the weekend.

The Kings defeated the Barrhead Knights in the bronze-medal match after dropping a closely-contested semifinal to the eventual champion Edmonton FOG team. The Kings will compete in the third and final Premier event at Calgary in mid-April.

Canada beats Russia and China to move into first-place tie at worlds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SAPPORO, Japan — Canada’s Jennifer Jones earned two victories Monday to move into a firstplace tie at the women’s world curling championship.

The Winnipeg skip topped China’s Sijia Liu 7-1 in the morning draw and the held off Russia’s Anna Sidorova 7-5 at the Tsukisamu Gymnasium.

“I was happy with how we played — we finally had two games back to back where we played well and made some big shots and some big draws,” Jones said. “It was a big win so we’re happy.”

Jones and her team of third Kaitlyn Lawes, second Jill Officer and lead Dawn McEwen were tied with Russia, Japan and Switzerland at 4-1 after eight draws.

In the late game, Canada went ahead to stay in the seventh end when Lawes made an inturn draw behind cover that the Russians couldn’t remove. That allowed Jones to make an open hit for two for a 6-3 lead.

Russia would pull within one with a pair in the ninth. But two perfect ticks from McEwen started the 10th end and Jones finished it with a draw to the button for the victory.

“That was a fun day, it felt good,” said McEwen. “We picked it up after our loss to Sweden (on Sunday) and it feels like things are starting to fall into place. We made some shots and Jen made a pistol there for the win, so that felt great.”

In the early game against China, Jones scored a deuce in the third and added singles in four of the next five ends.

McEwen had a strong effort in both games. She threw at an 88 per cent clip against China and was at 87 per cent against Russia.

Her teammates had shooting

Soehn wins double-gold at nationals Kyle Soehn of the Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club was a two-time gold-medal winner in the Canadian trampoline championships that concluded Sunday at Kamloops, B.C. Soehn won gold in the national senior men’s trampoline event and teamed with his brother Keegan to take top honours in the senior synchronized trampoline competition.

Zachary Blakely earned a gold in the national level 6 men’s trampoline and placed fifth in the double mini trampoline (DMT), while Kalena Soehn was a silver medalist in the national junior women’s DMT and finished eighth in trampoline.

Blakely and Logan Chaput won silver in level 5 synchronized trampoline and Kalena Soehn and Alexandra Potter earned bronze in level 5 synchronized trampoline.

In other individual trampoline competition, Chaput was 11th in national level 6 men’s and Potter was 14th in the national level 6 women’s category.

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Canada skip Jennifer Jones, center, releases the rock as the team plays during the women’s World Curling Championships in Sapporo, northern Japan. percentages in the mid-70s for both games. However, they managed to get results when needed, especially against Russia.

“We had a great day today,” Jones said. “We made a ton of draws, a ton of big shots and I felt really good with the speed of the ice this game. I felt like we had a lot more control.

“In the other games, it felt like we were chasing a lot and having to make big shots to save ends instead of big shots for extra points.

That changed today and hopefully that change will stay for the rest of the week.”

China, Germany and Scotland were tied in fifth place at 3-2. Fin-

RINGETTE The provincial U14AA ringette champion Central Alberta Sting defeated the Calgary Crossfire 5-3 in an exhibition game during the weekend while preparing for the Western Canadian championships March 25-28 in Calgary.

Saxon Anderson led the Sting with two goals, while Kianna Doyle, Hanna Gill and Hannah Morrison each scored once. ● The U16AA Sting fell 7-5 to the Zone 5 Pack in another exhibition contest, getting goals from Brianna Abell, Mckenna Causey, Emily LeMasurier, Reese Pollitt and Kailyn Smalley.

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On Tuesday, Canada will play Aileen Sormunen of the U.S. (0-5) and Denmark’s Lene Nielsen (0-5).

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A Canadian team hasn’t won gold at this event since Jones did so in 2008. The five-time national champion made her world championship debut in 2005 and won a silver medal in 2010.

Canada leads all countries with 15 gold medals and 31 podium appearances at the world championship since 1979.

Sweden is next with eight gold and 23 total medals.

● The U19AA String split a pair of weekend exhibition outings, edging Calgary U19AA 6-5 and falling 6-5 to the Edmonton U19AA Elite. Grace Romansky and Baylee Schulhauser split the Sting goaltending duties.

Gillian Dreger fired four goals and added four assists in the two games, while Emma West scored three times, Kristin Demale contributed four helpers, Kelita Kanngiesser had a goal and two assists, Emily Renneberg picked up three helpers and Melissa Misutka , Kenzie Lindholm and Shae Baxter each netted a goal.

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more games than it will after the luck evens out. For the Ducks, it means that their point total probably doesn’t reflect the team’s true performance. It means their one-goal game record has masked their weak SAC. It means that the Ducks aren’t nearly as good as a lot of people think they are.

In fact, in games decided by more than one goal, which appears to be a much better measure of team’s ability, the Ducks have a losing record (16 wins, 19 losses).

None of this is true of the Ducks’ potential first-round opponents. The Wild and Jets are right around .500 in one-goal games, and both have solid winning percentages in games decided by more than one goal. None of these opponents is particularly appealing if you’re Bruce Boudreau.

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With his Anaheim Ducks in first place overall, coach Bruce Boudreau is in familiar territory. All too familiar, in fact.

In his last three seasons as coach of the Washington Capitals (2009-11), he won one President’s Trophy (first place overall in the regular season), and came second and fourth overall in the two others. But despite the tremendous regular season success, the Caps couldn’t manage to get past the second round of the playoffs.

Signs point to this year’s Ducks suffering the same unkind fate. Despite their dominance in the standings, advanced stats do not bode well for the Ducks’ playoff success.

As we’ve pointed out in previous columns, Score Adjusted Corsi (SAC) is a pretty solid predictor of long-term team success. Sometimes a team can outrun its SAC for a while - like the Avalanche did for all of last season and like the Flames have managed to do so far this year. But unless your goalie is Carey Price or you manage to have guys named Crosby and Malkin as your 1-2 down the middle, the inevitable gravitational pull of shot differential takes hold, and teams usually perform about where you’d guess based on their SAC. That’s bad news for the Ducks, which rank 17th overall in SAC. To make matters worse, if the Ducks hang on to the first seed in the West their likely first-round opponents would be the Wild, Jets or Kings, who rank 11th, 7th, and 2nd overall in SAC respectively. Despite finishing first overall, an argument could be made that the Ducks would actually be the underdog against any one of those teams, based on their SACs. At this point it’s reasonable to ask

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Bouchard reaches fourth round at Indian Wells

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Andy Murray outlasted Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 in a nearly two-hour baseline slugfest under a hot sun at the BNP Paribas Open on Monday.

Murray earned the only two breaks of the third set and closed out the win when Kohlschreiber’s forehand went wide, one of 35 unforced errors by the German. The temperature topped 90 degrees, unusually warm for this time of year.

Cool mornings, hot afternoons and warm evenings have made for changing court conditions and ball speed in the desert, and Murray was affected by them. “When you are playing in those matches during the heat of the day, you need to trust your shots. You need to go after them, because if you back off and try and sort of guide the ball in these conditions, it doesn’t work,� he said. “During the day it’s ridiculous how high the balls bounce and how quick they move through the air and jump off the court.�

Murray moved on to a fourth-round match against Adrian Mannarino, who beat 14th-seeded Ernests Gulbis, 6-4, 6-4.

Earlier in the day, Eugenie Bouchard of Westmount, Que., defeated CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-2 to reach the fourth round. The sixthseeded Canadian faced the only break point on her serve of the match in the last game, but Vandeweghe netted a forehand. Bouchard hit a forehand winner on her second match point.

Vandeweghe had 24 unforced errors in the third-round match, the farthest the American has gotten at Indian Wells in four tries. “I felt very solid,� Bouchard said. “That’s important against a player who can have big weapons. She had some great serves and some great forehands. I was going to try to neutralize that and take my chances when I had them.�

Bouchard had plenty of support in the crowd from the many Canadians who spend the winter in the desert. They waved red and white Maple Leaf flags in what seemed like a home match for Bouchard.

Back on the men’s side, fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori was stretched to three sets before overcoming Fernando Verdasco, 6-7 (8), 6-1, 6-4. Nishikori doublefaulted twice in the final game before advancing to the fourth round for the first time in his seventh appearance at Indian Wells. “Third set, it could go both ways, but I got first break,� Nishikori said. “I really served well. Until last game I didn’t face break points. It was still close the last game, so really happy to beat Fernando.�

John Isner beat 18th-seeded Kevin Anderson, 7-6 (8), 6-2, setting up a possible fourth-round match against topranked Novak Djokovic, who played Albert Ramos-Vinolas in a night match. Isner has lost just 12 points on his big serve in his first two matches. “Winning that, it’s pretty big for my confidence,� he said. “Serve came up

huge when I needed it in the first-set tiebreaker. 146 right on the line, and I just gutted it out and I played a good second set.�

On the women’s side, former Indian Wells winner and No. 4 seed Caroline Wozniacki was beaten 6-4, 6-4 by 31stseeded Belinda Bencic a week after the Dane won her 23rd career singles title at Kuala Lumpur.

Bencic earned her first win over a top-five player and at 18 became the youngest player to reach the fourth round this year. Last year in Istanbul, Bencic failed to win a game off Wozniacki. “In Istanbul I had maybe too much respect and I was afraid, nervous,� she said. “Today I really had a good game plan. I served well kind of, and had sometimes some easy points on my serve because of that.�

Jelena Jankovic, who won here in 2010 and spent 18 weeks at No. 1 in the world, outlasted Madison Keys, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 despite the Serb having just 13 winners and 42 unforced errors.

Jankovic is coming off a back injury and torn muscle in Doha, which hampered her practice schedule. “It’s very big, especially Madison is such a tough player, is in form, and has done very well in Australia. She is an up and coming player that is so tough to play against,� Jankovic said. “Very, very happy and pleased that I was able to stay strong and fight.�

Keys, a 20-year-old American coached by former top-ranked Lindsay Davenport, had her chances to take control, leading 3-1 in the final set.

She hit 39 winners, but came undone with a whopping 64 unforced errors.

CATALINA SWIM CLUB Three Red Deer Catalina Swim Club members each won six gold medals in the Dino Cup meet at Calgary during the weekend.

Dalton Powell (seven-year-old boys), Laina Powell (nine girls) and River Roos (10 boys) cleaned up in their respective age classes, while Cooper Waddle nailed down five gold in the nine boys division.

Laina Powell also achieved an ‘A’ time in the 50m butterfly, while Dalia Morales (100m and 200m individual medley), Amy Wandler (100m I.M.) and Alexis Heinzlemeir (100m and 200m I.M.) achieved qualifying times for the provincial age group trials during the summer.

Meanwhile, Catalina swimmers Kyla Leibel and Lainie Wareham won medals in the Alberta Open 2 meet at Lethbridge, with Leibel pulling down a bronze in the 50m freestyle and Wareham earning a silver in the 200m backstroke and a bronze in the 50m back. As well, Kristen Trepanier, Madalyn Smith and Daniel Stayer were recognized for posting top-10 youth recognition times.

Dino Cup Catalina medal winners: Gold — Dalton Powell, seven boys 25m, 100m and 200m free, 50m ‘fly, 100m I.M. and 100m back; Kaillen Sumang, eight boys 25m breaststroke; Cooper Waddle, nine boys 25m free, 25m breast, 25m back, 25m ‘fly, 200m I.M.; River Roos, 10 boys 25m, 50m and 100m ‘fly, 25m free, 200m I.M., 25m back; Marisa Klugkist, eight girls 25m free; Laina Powell, nine girls 100m free, 25m and 100m back, 50m ‘fly, 100m I.M., 50m breast; Alexis Heinzlmeir, 10 girls 25m breast.

Silver — Reef Roos, eight boys 25m breast; Waddle, 100m free, 50m f’ly, 50m back; Kalen Sabasch, 10 boys 25m back; Annika Erickson, eight girls 25m, 50m and 100m free; Klugkist, 25m and 50m ‘fly, 25m back; Allison Xu, eight girls 25m breast; Amy Wandler, 50m breast.

Bronze — Myles Grant, eight boys 25m breast; Klugkist, 50m free, 100m I.M.; Wandler, 25m breast, 25m ‘fly; Stephanie Schaerer, 10 girls 25m free.

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MINOR HOCKEY PROVINCIALS Rian Van der Westhuizen led all Moose scorers with 12 goals and 18 points in four games. Also hitting double figures were Cooper Jones (4-10-14) and Quinton Adam (4-6-10).

For Kneehill, Bryce Gray had seven points (5-2), Zachary Hall had six (1-5) and Christopher Hamm contributed five (3-2).

Bantam D The Eckville Eagles were winless in the provincials at Mayerthorpe, where Oyen blanked Manning 7-0 in the final.

Eckville lost 3-2 to Thorhild, 7-0 to Oyen and 8-1 to Mayerthorpe. Evan Sparrow led the Eagles with two goals.

Atom AA major The Red Deer Sports World Chiefs came up empty at the provincials in Calgary, finishing with a 0-4 record.

The Chiefs, who got a team-high six points, including three goals, from Nate Danielson, fell 8-4 to Strathcona, 6-2 to Bow River, 7-2 to Lethbridge and 14-3 to St. Albert. Aiden Knutson had three goals and four points for Sports World, which got three (1-2)

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Strathcona beat St. Albert 9-5 to take the Alberta title.

Atom A The Stettler Storm Elks were 1-1-1 at the provincial tournament at Edson, tying Riviere Qui Barre 5-5, downing Peace River 6-2 and losing 8-1 to the Foothills Flyers.

Riley Turre had a team-high five goals and six points for Stettler. Bret Hymers (3-2) and Carter Zuke (0-5) chipped in with five points apiece.

The St. Paul Canadians captured the provincial crown with a 5-4 win over Strathmore.

Atom D Host Caroline was 0-3 in the provincial tournament, while Coronation managed a 1-2 record.

Caroline fell 6-2 to Coronation in the opening game for boths teams, then lost 9-5 to Mallaig and 14-2 to Mayerthorpe, which went on to maul Picture Butte 10-4 in the championship final.

Coronation lost 10-0 to Mayerthorpe and 7-4 to Mallaig. Coronation’s top scorer was Evan Golby with three goals and seven points.

For Caroline, Jolie Nafziger (2-2) had a team-high four points and Cashton McNutt (2-1) and Garret Odgers (1-2) each had three.

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The Renegades were led offensively by Keagan Landry, who collected 20 points â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including 18 goals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in five games through the tournament. Tyler Gyori was next in line with eight points (5g,3a) and Gavin Scott contributed seven (2-5).

Rimbey was 3-0 in preliminary play with 15-0, 3-2 and 7-2 victories over the host Thunderstars, Wabamun and Kitscoty, then defeated Beaverlodge 7-2 in a semifinal.

Olds downed Kitscoty 4-2 in the other semifinal after recording 8-3, 12-6 and 14-1 wins over Beaverlodge, Coaldale and Provost. Austin Corsiatto led the silver medalists with 13 goals and 17 points and was followed by Kelvin Kearns (8-3-11) and Wyatt Fleming (5-5-10).

Peewee A girls The Olds Grizzlys settled for silver in the provincial championship at Calgary, losing 3-1 to St. Albert in the final.

Olds was 2-1 in pool play, beating the Calgary Storm 10-1 and Lloydminster 6-0 before falling 4-0 to St. Albert. The Grizzlys beat the Edmonton Raiders 2-1 in the semifinals.

Emma Dixon led all Grizzlys scorers with seven goals and nine points, while Dylan Norrie potted five goals and added an assist and Kallie Clouston (1-4) and Jolin Bischke (2-3) each had five points.

Bantam AA major The Sylvan Lake Lakers qualified for the semifinals of the provincials at Sherwood Park Sunday, then fell 6-1 to the Calgary Blackhawks.

The Lakers posted a 3-1 record in pool play, recording wins of 2-1, 6-3 and 3-2 over Fort Saskatchewan, the host Maple Leafs and the Edmonton Canadians, and dropping a 4-1 decision to the St. Albert Bears.

Adam Sylvester (2-1), Braydon McLaughlin (2-1), Khale Skinner (2-1) and Walker Stevenson (1-2) paced the Lakers with three points apiece over five games.

The Blackhawks were 3-1 winners over St. Albert in the final.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● Curling: Canadian college championships at Olds. ● Gymnastics: Zones/trials to Westerns at Exelta Gymnastics Club, Collicutt Centre. ● WHL: Red Deer at Edmonton, 7 p.m., Rexall Place (The Drive). ● Heritage junior B hockey: Coaldale at Blackfalds, third game of best-of-five final, 7:30 p.m.

● Men’s basketball: Playoff games at 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Wednesday ● Curling: Canadian college championships at Olds. ● WHL: Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m., Saddledome (The Drive).

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● Gymnastics: Zones/trials to Westerns at Exelta Gymnastics Club, Collicutt Centre. ● Curling: Canadian college championships at Olds. ● WHL: Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, third game of best-of-seven provincial/Chinook league final, 7:30 p.m.

● Curling: Canadian college championships at Olds. ● Minor hockey provincials: Major midget AA at Red Deer Arena and Kinex, first game at 3:15 p.m.; Peewee AA major at Olds; Midget B at Ponoka; Midget C at Trochu and Three Hills; Peewee D at Big Valley. ● Men’s basketball: Playoff games at 7:15 and 8:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber.

Friday ● Minor hockey provincials: Major midget AA at Red Deer Arena, Kinex and Collicutt Centre, first game at 8:30 a.m.; Peewee AA major at Olds; Midget B at Ponoka; Midget C at Trochu and Three Hills; Peewee D at Big Valley.

Sunday

● Gymnastics: Zones/trials to Westerns at Exelta Gymnastics Club, Collicutt Centre. ● Senior AAA hockey: Bentley at Innisfail, fourth game of best-of-seven provincial/Chinook league final, 5 p.m.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF y-Brandon 69 51 11 4 3 321 x-Regina 69 37 22 5 5 257 Swift Current 69 32 32 1 4 208 Moose Jaw 69 30 34 4 1 206 Prince Albert 69 29 36 2 2 203 Saskatoon 70 19 47 2 2 192

GA 209 224 234 249 246 299

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CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF x-Calgary 69 42 22 1 4 281 x-Medicine Hat69 42 23 2 2 253 x-Red Deer 69 37 22 4 6 230 x-Kootenay 69 36 29 1 3 236 x-Edmonton 70 33 30 4 3 212 Lethbridge 69 20 41 5 3 194

GA 198 208 219 240 196 287

Pt 89 88 84 76 73 48

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF y-Kelowna 69 51 13 4 1 294 x-Victoria 70 38 28 3 1 237 Prince George 69 29 35 2 3 213 Kamloops 69 27 35 4 3 206 Vancouver 70 27 40 1 2 184

GA 175 212 287 249 242

Pt 107 80 63 61 57

U.S. DIVISION W L OTLSOL GF 41 20 3 5 230 41 21 2 4 270 34 25 4 5 195 34 30 3 1 208 29 36 0 3 178

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Sunday’s Games Oklahoma City 109, Chicago 100 Houston 100, L.A. Clippers 98 Denver 118, New Orleans 111,2OT Cleveland 123, Orlando 108 San Antonio 123, Minnesota 97 Portland 113, Toronto 97 Phoenix 102, New York 89 Atlanta 91, L.A. Lakers 86

Sunday’s results Vancouver 4 Victoria 1 Calgary 4 Lethbridge 1 Prince Albert 4 Medicine Hat 3 (OT) Portland 8 Spokane 6

Monday’s Games Washington 105, Portland 97 Toronto 117, Indiana 98 Boston 108, Philadelphia 89 Memphis 92, Denver 81 Brooklyn 122, Minnesota 106 Miami 106, Cleveland 92 Dallas 119, Oklahoma City 115 Utah 94, Charlotte 66 Atlanta 110, Sacramento 103 L.A. Lakers at Golden State, late

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 47 20 .701 — Houston 44 22 .667 2 1/2 Dallas 43 25 .632 4 1/2 San Antonio 41 24 .631 5 New Orleans 36 30 .545 10 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 44 21 .677 — Oklahoma City 37 30 .552 8 Utah 30 36 .455 14 1/2 Denver 26 42 .382 19 1/2 Minnesota 14 52 .212 30 1/2 Pacific Division W L Pct GB x-Golden State 52 13 .800 — L.A. Clippers 42 25 .627 11 Phoenix 35 33 .515 18 1/2 Sacramento 22 44 .333 30 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Memphis at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Houston, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Detroit at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Boston at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Dallas, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Atlanta at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Washington at Utah, 8:30 p.m.

Curling 2015 World Women’s Curling Championship SAPPORO, Japan — Standings and results from the 2015 women’s world curling championship, from March 14-22: ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) W L Canada (Jones) 4 1 Japan (Ogasawara) 4 1 Russia (Sidorova) 4 1 Switzerland (Paetz) 4 1 China (S.Liu) 3 2 Germany (Driendl) 3 2 Scotland (Muirhead) 3 2 Finland (Puustinen) 2 3 Sweden (Prytz) 2 3 Denmark (L.Neilsen) 1 4 Norway (Skaslien) 0 5 U.S. (Sormunen) 0 5 Sunday’s results Fourth Draw Canada 9 Scotland 4 Switzerland 7 Germany 3 Finland 9 Denmark 7 China 8 U.S. 4 Fifth Draw Sweden 8 Canada 6 Russia 7 Denmark 0 Finland 10 Norway 2 Japan 9 Scotland 7 Sixth Draw Canada 7 China 1 Scotland 9 U.S. 2 Denmark 8 Switzerland 7 Germany 7 Finland 6

Monday’s results Seventh Draw Switzerland 7 China 3 Russia 9 Sweden 3 Germany 6 U.S. 5 Japan 6 Norway 5 Eighth Draw Sweden 7 Denmark 5 Scotland 8 Norway 7 Japan 8 Finland 5 Canada 7 Russia 5 Ninth Draw Germany vs. Norway; U.S. vs. Japan; Russia vs.

Switzerland; China vs. Sweden.

Tuesday’s games Draw 10, 10 p.m., Monday Canada vs. U.S.; Switzerland vs. Finland; China vs.

Scotland; Germany vs. Denmark.

Draw 11, 3 a.m.

Russia vs. Japan; Canada vs. Denmark; Sweden vs. Norway; Scotland vs. Finland.

Draw 12, 5 p.m.

Sweden vs. Finland; Scotland vs. Russia; Denmark vs. Japan; Canada vs. Norway.

Wednesday, March 18 Draw 13, 10 p.m., Monday Norway vs. Switzerland; Japan vs. China; Germany vs. Russia; Sweden vs. U.S. Draw 14, 3 a.m.

Scotland vs. Germany; Finland vs. U.S.; Switzerland vs. Canada; Denmark vs. China.

Draw 15, 5 p.m.

U.S. vs. Denmark; Germany vs. Canada; Finland vs. China; Switzerland vs. Scotland.

Lacrosse

West Division W L Pct 5 4 .556 5 5 .500 4 5 .444 2 8 .200

GA 127 104 151 103 137

GB — 2 4 5 6

GF GA GB 121 89 — 130 129 1/2 121 140 1 118 140 3 1/2

WEEK 11

Sunday’s results Colorado 12 Minnesota 8 Saturday’s results Toronto 11 Buffalo 10 (OT) New England 10 Minnesota 9 Edmonton 19 Vancouver 7 Rochester 13 Calgary 7 Friday’s results Buffalo 15 Toronto 12 WEEK 12 Friday, March 20 New England at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 21 Edmonton at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Bowling Heritage Lanes High scores March 9-14 Monday club 55+: Don Knowler 340 high single; Knowler 959 high triple.

Monday mixed: Marcel Serre 270; Serre 629.

Tuesday mixed: Kevin Armstrong 329; Harvey Von Hollen 789.

Wednesday 55+: Curtiss Lund 280; Lund 748.

Wednesday mixed: Jill Clark 324; Clark 744.

Thursday morning ladies: Bev Mundle 231; Mundle 629.

Thursday afternoon Special Olympics mixed:

Anthony Kubasek 248; Kubasek 468.

Thursday mixed: Sharon Warring 301; Evan Hessler 741.

Monday scratch: Gary Baird 378; Baird 1116.

Sunday fun: Shawn Farghar 267; Ray Clark 675.

Youth Bowling of Canada Bowlasaurus: Conor Rowdeng 104.

Peewees: Sylis Gray 152; Gray 301 (two games).

Bantams: Keaton Chrest 204; Chrest 519 (three games).

Juniors: Alyssa Durette 245; Bailey Burge 618.

Seniors: Jaymin Wudkevich 351; Wudkevich 723.

NFL

49ers linebacker Chris Borland tells team he’s retiring because of head trauma concerns SAN FRANCISCO — Another star member of San Francisco’s vaunted defence is calling it a career. The 49ers announced late Monday that linebacker Chris Borland is retiring after one season, without offering specifics. Borland told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” earlier Monday that he is retiring following his standout rookie season because of concerns about head trauma.

The 24-year-old Borland had a team-leading 108 tackles in his stellar rookie season, emerging as a punishing defender. He also had a sack and two interceptions.

He told “Outside the Lines” on Monday he wants to do “what’s best for my health.”

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

Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Kootenay at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.

Kamloops at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Red Deer Rebels Scoring Sheen Gay Maxwell W.Johnson Bleackley Cote Kopeck Feser Musil Fleury Pawlenchuk Polei Nogier Doetzel Nell Bobyk Strand de Wit Adamson Mahura Toth Grman R.Johnson Burman Goaltenders Toth Burman Martin

GP 68 68 68 69 50 69 60 69 63 60 69 50 67 69 69 27 54 62 53 48 54 34 10 20

G 21 22 26 24 27 9 20 16 14 6 9 16 2 1 8 4 4 3 5 2 0 0 2 0

A 46 37 27 29 22 39 27 24 23 20 16 6 16 17 9 10 9 10 5 5 4 3 0 1

MP 3175 953 1068

GA 150 50 73

SO 1 0 0

Pts 67 59 53 53 49 48 47 40 37 26 25 22 18 18 17 14 13 13 10 7 4 3 2 1

PIM 55 12 49 48 47 32 29 58 71 61 17 74 80 65 22 51 44 28 17 20 4 43 4 0

+/-8 20 6 21 13 17 5 -4 -10 5 -10 -10 -29 12 -28 2 -2 -1 -15 -13 — -3 0 —

GAA Svs Sv% 2.83 1409 .904 3.15 389 .886 4.10 576 .888

WHL Scoring Leaders G 57 27 42 49 33 20 13 46 40 35

Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Trevor Cox, MH Tim McGauley, Bra Cole Sanford, MH Cole Ully, Kam Nick Merkley, Kel Nicolas Petan, Por Adam Tambellini, CAL Adam Helewka, Spo Brayden Point, MJ

A 51 78 61 42 56 68 72 38 42 47

Jack Rodewald, MJ Luke Philp, Koo Rourke Chartier, Kel Nikita Scherbak, Eve Jansen Harkins, PG Chase De Leo, Por Jaedon Descheneau, Koo Connor Rankin, CAL Austin Carroll, Vic Jake Debrusk, SC Peter Quenneville, Bra Matt Needham, Kam Tyson Baillie, Kel Rihards Bukarts, Bra Colby Cave, SC Paul Bittner, Por Carson Stadnyk, Eve Chase Witala, PG Travis Sanheim, CAL Joe Hicketts, Vic

Pts 108 105 103 91 89 88 85 84 82 82

33 30 47 27 20 37 32 31 37 38 26 24 36 31 33 33 27 37 13 11

49 50 32 52 59 41 46 46 39 35 47 49 36 40 37 35 41 30 49 51

82 80 79 79 79 78 78 77 76 73 73 73 72 71 70 68 68 67 62 62

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 70 43 20 7 93 Tampa Bay 71 43 21 7 93 Detroit 68 38 19 11 87 Boston 69 36 23 10 82 Ottawa 68 33 24 11 77 Florida 69 31 24 14 76 Toronto 71 27 38 6 60 Buffalo 69 19 43 7 45

GF 184 230 200 184 194 170 188 132

GA 157 184 183 175 180 192 226 234

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts 68 44 17 7 95 71 43 24 4 90 69 39 20 10 88 71 38 23 10 86 71 29 27 15 73 69 29 29 11 69 69 30 35 4 64 68 26 34 8 60

GF 207 221 196 209 186 158 180 161

GA 158 199 173 175 202 179 218 187

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts St. Louis 69 44 20 5 93 Nashville 71 43 21 7 93 Chicago 68 41 21 6 88 Minnesota 69 38 24 7 83 Winnipeg 69 34 23 12 80 Colorado 69 32 26 11 75 Dallas 70 32 28 10 74

GF 214 203 198 196 191 184 218

GA 170 173 157 173 186 193 229

N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh Washington Philadelphia New Jersey Columbus Carolina

Tuesday’s games Swift Current at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m.

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

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 40 27 .597 — Boston 30 36 .455 9 1/2 Brooklyn 27 38 .415 12 Philadelphia 15 52 .224 25 New York 13 53 .197 26 1/2 Southeast Division W L Pct GB x-Atlanta 53 14 .791 — Washington 39 28 .582 14 Miami 30 36 .455 22 1/2 Charlotte 29 36 .446 23 Orlando 21 47 .309 32 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB Cleveland 43 26 .623 — Chicago 40 28 .588 2 1/2 Milwaukee 34 32 .515 7 1/2 Indiana 30 36 .455 11 1/2 Detroit 23 43 .348 18 1/2

GP 9 10 9 10

GP 69 68 68 68 68

z-league title; y-conference title;d-division leader; x-clinched playoff berth.

Basketball

Edmonton Colorado Vancouver Calgary

TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015

Hockey

Today

National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF Toronto 12 10 2 .833 163 Rochester 10 7 3 .700 118 Buffalo 12 6 6 .500 144 New England 8 3 5 .375 95 Minnesota 10 3 7 .300 110

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Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 71 44 20 7 95 208 195 Vancouver 68 39 25 4 82 193 184 Calgary 69 38 26 5 81 205 181 Los Angeles 69 34 22 13 81 186 172 San Jose 69 34 27 8 76 193 193 Arizona 70 21 41 8 50 145 231 Edmonton 70 19 39 12 50 164 239 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s Games Ottawa 2, Philadelphia 1, SO Detroit 5, Pittsburgh 1 N.Y. Rangers 2, Florida 1 Carolina 3, Columbus 2 St. Louis 3, Dallas 0 Washington 2, Boston 0 Anaheim 4, Nashville 2 Monday’s Games Washington 4, Buffalo 3, SO Tampa Bay 4, Montreal 2 Edmonton 4, Toronto 1 Arizona 0, Los Angeles 1 Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Montreal at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Nashville, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

:53.

2. Edmonton, Eberle 19 (Schultz, Nugent-Hopkins) 7:16 (pp).

3. Edmonton, Pouliot 16 (Yakupov, Aulie) 8:08.

4. Edmonton, Lander 6 (Purcell, Eberle) 10:59 (pp).

5. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 24 (Phaneuf, Kessel) 13:27 (pp).

Penalties — Hendricks Edm (interference) 1:49, Phaneuf Tor (tripping) 6:37, Brewer Tor (roughing) 9:46, Lander Edm (unsportsmanlike conduct) 12:37.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Edm Bench (too many men) 7:11, Aulie Edm (cross-checking) 13:43.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Kadri Tor (Illegal Check to Head Minor) 10:58, Yakupov Edm (tripping) 13:03, Bozak Tor (tripping) 16:11, Bozak Tor (unsportsmanlike conduct) 16:11, Bozak Tor (misconduct) 16:11, Bozak Tor (game misconduct) 16:11, Brewer Tor (tripping) 18:07.

Shots on goal Toronto 8 13 8 — 29 Edmonton 14 8 10 — 32 Goal — Toronto: Bernier (L, 20-23-6); Edmonton: Scrivens (W, 13-22-9).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Toronto: 1-5; Edmonton: 2-6.

Lightning 4, Canadiens 2 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Filppula 12 (Hedman, Stamkos) 10:07 (pp).

2. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 38 (unassisted) 15:58.

Penalties — Morrow TB (high-sticking) 2:21, Pateryn Mtl (high-sticking) 9:29, Prust Mtl (fighting) 12:09, Angelidis TB (fighting) 12:09, Galchenyuk Mtl (high-sticking) 15:04, Hedman TB (roughing) 15:04.

Second Period 3. Tampa Bay, Hedman 10 (Killorn, Callahan) 2:45.

4. Montreal, Plekanec 21 (Subban, Markov) 11:10 (pp).

Penalties — Prust Mtl (goaltender interference) 6:39, Gallagher Mtl (fighting) 9:40, Namestnikov TB (fighting) 9:40, Brown TB (roughing) 10:31, De La Rose Mtl (hooking) 13:51.

Third Period 5. Montreal, Parenteau 7 (Plekanec) :34.

6. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 39 (Namestnikov, Garrison) 18:55 (en-pp).

Penalties — Prust Mtl (fighting) 3:08, Angelidis TB (fighting) 3:08, Callahan TB (hooking) 12:58, Eller Mtl (holding) 17:38.

Shots on goal Montreal 12 12 10 — 34 Tampa Bay 14 11 9 — 34 Goal — Montreal: Price (L, 38-15-4); Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 34-11-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Montreal: 1-4; Tampa Bay: 2-4.

Capitals 4, Sabres 3 (SO) First Period 1. Buffalo, Ennis 18 (Ristolainen, Gionta) 5:02 (pp).

2. Washington, Glencross 13 (Ward, Niskanen) 9:23 (pp).

3. Buffalo, Hodgson 5 (Schaller) 10:08.

Penalties — Weber Buf (roughing) 3:28, Ovechkin Wash (roughing) 3:28, D’Amigo Buf (hooking) 7:36.

Second Period 4. Washington, Green 6 (Johansson, Laich) 6:09.

Penalties — Fehr Wash (holding) 1:50.

Third Period 5. Washington, Kuznetsov 8 (Niskanen) 5:55 (pp).

6. Buffalo, Larsson 4 (Ruhwedel, Moulson) 13:50.

Penalties — Zadorov Buf (delay of game) 4:10, Brouwer Wash (tripping) 9:49.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Washington wins 1-0 Washington : Kuznetsov goal, Backstrom miss.

Buffalo : Ennis miss, Moulson miss, Varone miss.

Shots on goal Washington 11 15 5 7 — 38 Buffalo 15 8 7 3 — 33 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 34-18-9); Buffalo: Lindback (LO, 2-11-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Washington: 2-2; Buffalo: 1-3.

NHL Scoring Leaders

Wednesday’s Games Chicago at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

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

Monday’s summaries Oilers 4, Maple Leafs 1 First Period 1. Edmonton, Pouliot 15 (Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins)

G 33 45 23 18 21 28 34 25 27 23

John Tavares, NYI Alex Ovechkin, Wash Sidney Crosby, Pgh Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Jakub Voracek, Pha Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Tyler Johnson, TB Patrick Kane, Chi Jamie Benn, Dal

A 39 26 48 53 48 40 33 40 37 41

Pts 72 71 71 71 69 68 67 65 64 64

Baseball Atlanta 4 9 .308 San Francisco 4 11 .267 Milwaukee 3 9 .250 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Major League Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City Minnesota New York Boston Houston Oakland Texas Toronto Los Angeles Seattle Tampa Bay Cleveland Chicago Detroit Baltimore

W 11 6 9 8 6 9 7 7 6 6 5 6 5 6 4

L 3 3 5 5 4 6 6 7 7 7 6 8 7 10 11

Pct .786 .667 .643 .615 .600 .600 .538 .500 .462 .462 .455 .429 .417 .375 .267

W 8 8 7 8 8 6 6 7 6 6 5 5

L 2 3 4 6 6 5 5 6 7 8 7 9

Pct .800 .727 .636 .571 .571 .545 .545 .538 .462 .429 .417 .357

Sunday’s Games Toronto 10, Atlanta 5 Houston 3, Washington 2 Minnesota 6, St. Louis 6, tie Miami 4, Detroit 2 Pittsburgh 4, Baltimore 2 N.Y. Yankees 3, Philadelphia (ss) 2 Philadelphia (ss) 11, Boston 4 Tampa Bay 8, N.Y. Mets 4 Chicago White Sox 5, L.A. Angels 3 Chicago Cubs 2, Cincinnati 1 Oakland 5, Milwaukee (ss) 2 Texas 12, Milwaukee (ss) 5 Cleveland 4, San Diego 2 L.A. Dodgers 5, Seattle 2 Colorado 6, Kansas City 2 San Francisco 5, Arizona 0

NATIONAL LEAGUE Los Angeles Miami Colorado Arizona Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis San Diego Cincinnati New York Washington Chicago

L.A. Angels 5, Texas 3 Arizona 6, Chicago White Sox 2 Tuesday’s Games St. Louis vs. Miami (ss), 11:05 a.m.

Atlanta vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.

Washington vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

Houston vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m.

Minnesota vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m.

Miami (ss) vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

San Diego (ss) vs. Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. San Diego (ss), 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

Toronto vs. N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Baltimore vs. Minnesota (ss) , 11:05 a.m.

Minnesota (ss) vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m.

Washington vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Milwaukee vs. Kansas City, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.

Oakland vs. Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Atlanta, 4:05 p.m.

Detroit vs. Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m.

Arizona vs. Colorado, 8:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Boston 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Houston (ss) 2, Atlanta 2, tie Washington 2, Houston (ss) 1 St. Louis 1, Detroit 0 Baltimore 16, Philadelphia 4 San Diego 7, Chicago Cubs 0 Cincinnati 10, San Francisco 4 Kansas City 6, Cleveland 5 L.A. Dodgers 10, Oakland 5

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF New York City 2 1 0 1 3 Orlando 2 1 0 1 2 Columbus 2 1 1 0 2 D.C. 1 1 0 0 1 Toronto 2 1 1 0 3 Philadelphia 2 0 0 2 3 New York 1 0 0 1 1 Montreal 1 0 1 0 0 Chicago 2 0 2 0 0 New England 2 0 2 0 0

GA 1 1 1 0 3 3 1 1 3 5

Pt 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 0 0 0

Western Conference GP W L T GF 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 0 1 4 2 1 1 0 5 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 2

GA 1 2 3 3 1 3 3 2 0 4

Pt 6 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1

Dallas Los Angeles Seattle San Jose Houston Vancouver Salt Lake Portland Colorado Kansas City

Sunday’s results New York City 2 New England 0 Portland 2 Los Angeles 2 Friday, March 20 Dallas at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

QP Rangers 29 Leicester City 28

Saturday, March 21 Montreal at New England, 1 p.m.

New York City at Colorado, 2 p.m.

Vancouver at Orlando, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

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

English Premier League GP 28 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29

W 19 17 17 16 16 15 15 12 11 10 9 8 8 7 6 7 4 5

D 7 7 6 8 6 5 5 6 7 9 8 9 9 10 10 7 14 10

L 2 5 6 5 7 9 9 11 11 10 12 12 12 12 13 15 11 14

4 7

19 17

30 24

52 44

22 19

Saturday, March 14 Crystal Palace 3, Queens Park Rangers 1 Arsenal 3, West Ham 0 Leicester City 0, Hull City 0 Sunderland 0, Aston Villa 4 West Brom 1, Stoke 0 Burnley 1, Manchester City 0

Sunday, March 22 D.C. at New York, 3 p.m.

Chicago at San Jose, 5 p.m.

Chelsea Man. City Arsenal Man. United Liverpool Southampton Tottenham Stoke Swansea West Ham Newcastle Crystal Palace West Brom Everton Hull City Aston Villa Sunderland Burnley

6 4

GF 58 59 56 50 43 40 46 33 33 39 32 34 27 36 26 19 23 26

GA Pts 23 64 28 58 30 57 26 56 30 54 21 50 42 50 35 42 38 40 37 39 46 35 40 33 36 33 41 31 37 28 38 28 43 26 47 25

Sunday, March 15 Chelsea 1, Southampton 1 Everton 3, Newcastle 0 Manchester United 3, Tottenham 0 Monday, March 16 Swansea 0, Liverpool 1 Saturday, March 21 Manchester City vs. West Brom, 1245 GMT Aston Villa vs. Swansea, 1500 GMT Newcastle vs. Arsenal, 1500 GMT Southampton vs. Burnley, 1500 GMT Stoke vs. Crystal Palace, 1500 GMT Tottenham vs. Leicester City, 1500 GMT West Ham vs. Sunderland, 1730 GMT Sunday, March 22 Liverpool vs. Manchester United, 1330 GMT Hull City vs. Chelsea, 1600 GMT Queens Park Rangers vs. Everton, 1600 GMT

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled D Chad Ruhwedel from Rochester (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Recalled LW Ryan Craig from Springfield (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Reassigned D Jamie Oleksiak to Texas (AHL).

VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Recalled G Jacob Markstrom from the Utica (AHL). Reassigned G Joacim Eriksson to Utica.

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Returned RW Alexandre Carrier to Orlando (ECHL).

MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Reassigned F Maxim Kitsyn to Ontario (ECHL).

SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Released F James Livingston from his professional tryout contract.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Announced Fs Allan McPherson and Kevin Sundher were reassigned to the team by Rochester (AHL). Signed F Trevor Gerling to an amateur tryout agreement.

GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Claimed F Brock Higgs off waivers from Fort Wayne. Announced newly acquired F Robert Czarnik failed his physical and returned him to Ontario for another future consideration. Signed D Zach Sarig.

FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed Kurt Coleman to a two-year contract.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed G Vladimir Ducasse to a one-year contract.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DB Tramon Williams. Agreed to terms with DL Randy Starks.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed LBs Jasper Brinkley and Andrew Gachkar.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed NT Vince Wilfork.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Signed DB Ron Parker.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Named Andrew Janocko quality control-offence coach and Robert Rodriguez assistant defensive line coach.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed TE Scott Chandler.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Re-signed G John Jerry and CB Chykie Brown.

OAKLAND RAIDERS —Released QB Matt Schaub.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — LB Chris Borland announced his retirement.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with CB Perrish Cox. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed S Jeron Johnson.

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned INF Christian Walker to Norfolk (IL) and RHP Dylan Bundy to Bowie (EL). Reassigned RHP Hunter Harvey to their minor league camp. Released LHP Mark Hendrickson.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Michael Feliz, INF Ronald Torreyes and RHP Vincent Velasquez to their minor league camp. Reassigned RHP Jordan Jankowski, INF Joe Sclafani and RHP Brady Rodgers to their minor league camp.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Reassigned RHP Trevor Gott, C Stephen McGee, LHP Sean Newcomb, LHP Atahualpa Severino, LHP Nate Smith, SS Eric Stamets and C Jackson Williams to their minor league camp.

BUSINESS

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TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015

Target considered windup in September

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Nearly five months before Target Corp. decided to leave Canada, the retailer’s executive team had already considered winding up operations as one of a list of options for its failing Canadian business.

New documents filed by Target Canada on Monday offered a closer glimpse at how the company says the final months played out before its board of directors chose to file for court protection from creditors in January.

The details of Target’s exit from Canada were disclosed in response to more than 60 questions filed by suppliers in an effort to get more clarity around the weeks that led up to the company’s filing.

The group is trying to determine how Target Canada went about ordering inventory around the time it made the decision to shutter its operations.

Starting last September, leaders at the company began to weigh a limited number of options for its Canadian business, some which involved minor

changes while others took a more sweeping approach to its flagging results.

The list included: the possibility of closing a small number of underperforming stores and one distribution centre; closing about half of Target Canada’s stores and two distribution centres; or moving ahead with a “micro-strategy” that kept a small number of stores operating in urban markets.

Other alternatives considered were operating the stores as they were or making a swift exit from Canada.

“At such time, no decisions had been made with respect to a preferred course of action and, in fact, the primary focus continued to be on identifying ways to improve operations and to chart a path to profitability,” the documents said.

A final decision wasn’t made until the U.S. company’s board of directors met on Jan. 14, the day before the announcement was made public, the company said.

“The prospect of an orderly wind down of (Target Canada’s) operations under the protection of the CCAA, or under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act

for that matter, was not explored or considered in any meaningful way ... until late October 2014 and even then, only as one of several available alternatives,” the retailer said in court documents.

Target Corp. announced in January that it would close all 133 Canadian stores, most which opened in 2013 in phases beginning in Ontario, saying it would take years to turn a profit.

The retailer has been in court to iron out the details of its departure, with a variety of creditors that include landlords, suppliers and others impacted by the closures.

Liquidation companies have been overseeing the sale of Target’s inventory for about a month.

However, Target declined to some questions about the process, and declined to supply minutes from the company’s board meetings between September 2014 and January 2015.

The company said the requests for written communication was “overbroad” and “disproportionate” to the proceedings.

FREE CONE DAY

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BRIEF Food safety watchdog suspends Costco Canada’s fish import licence EDMONTON — Canada’s food safety watchdog has suspended Costco Canada’s fish import licence.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the retail giant is not following food safety controls on a consistent basis.

The agency says Costco is in violation of federal fish inspection regulations and the suspension of its licence went into effect on Feb. 26.

It says there is no product recall associated with the licence suspension.

“The CFIA has determined that adequate controls for food safety are not being reliably implemented by the company on a consistent basis, which is in violation of the Fish Inspection Regulations,” the agency says on its website.

The CFIA says Costco can’t import fish products into Canada until is takes corrective action and the agency is satisfied that the chain can effectively manage food safety risks.

Costco Canada said the import licence was used to import a limited number of loads of canned tuna products.

The company said the suspension does not affect any other fish sold in Costco Canada warehouses.

“As part of its corrective action plan, Costco is currently updating and strengthening its standard operating procedures to ensure full compliance with CFIA’s fish inspection regulations and reinstatement of its fish import licence,” the company said in an email Monday.

“This issue did not present any risk to Costco’s members nor was there any recall associated with this licence suspension.”

Costco said its licence was suspended for not following three administrative issues in the last two years.

Twice the store failed to properly notify the CFIA about a load of canned tuna being imported. On another occasion canned tuna was transported directly to Costco’s depot for distribution rather than to a warehouse for CFIA inspection.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

With wide eyes Hannah Tiff, 3, gobbles up a spoonful of soft serve ice cream at the Dairy Queen at the Co-op shopping centre in Deer Park in Red Deer on Monday. Hannah’s mother Tiff helps her brother Norm, 2, get his share of the treat. While the treats were free at Dairy Queen on Monday during a Free Cone Day to celebrate Dairy Queen Canada’s 75th Anniversary customers were encouraged to make a donation to the Children’s Miracle Network, which raises funds to help save and improve the lives of children treated at 170 children’s hospitals across the U.S. and Canada.

Rogers agrees to refund premium text fees charged by 2 third-party providers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rogers Communications Inc. has reached an agreement with the Competition Bureau that will have the company issue $5.42 million in refunds and credits to mobile phone customers who paid for premium text services they didn’t want to buy.

The bureau said its investigation found that Rogers either made, or allowed, “false or misleading representations to customers in advertisements” that appeared in pop-up ads, apps and on social media.

The refunds covers services provided by two companies — MMS, between Jan. 1, 2011 and Sept. 30, 2012 and Jesta Digital between Jan. 1, 2011 and Aug. 31, 2013. Rogers acted as billing agent for both operators, which charged fees for various gaming services such as Mind Quiz, Joke a Day and ringtones.

The Competition Bureau said Rogers charged fees to its customers from third parties for services that “they did not intend to purchase and for which they had not agreed to pay.”

Refunds will be automatically issued to current Rogers wireless subscribers, while former customers

will be contacted by Rogers with details about the refund process..

The agreement is part of a broader investigation launched by the Competition Bureau in 2012 that involves BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE), Telus (TSX:T) and industry group the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. A representative for the Competition Bureau said Monday that only Rogers has reached an agreement and that all other cases are still before the courts. Rogers (TSX:RCI.B) said it began making changes in 2011 in response to customer concerns and has since ended all premium text services, starting with MMS in 2012 and Jesta in 2014.

It has also worked with the Competition Bureau in determining how to compensate customers who paid for services from MMS and Jesta.

“We heard from customers in the past that they had concerns with these third-party premium text services and between 2011 and 2013 we took action to protect our customers,” said Raj Doshi, Rogers executive vice-president of wireless services.

“Last summer we stopped the program all together and today we’re going even further. Though we’ve issued many refunds already to our customers, now all affected customers will get their money back.”

CRTC says Rogers can offer GamePlus exclusively

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The CRTC ruled Monday that Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) can give its own subscribers exclusive access to its GamePlus service, which delivers bonus content from NHL games.

The federal regulator dismissed a complaint filed against Rogers last fall by the parent of rival Bell TV, which said GamePlus should be available for free to all subscribers of NHL GameCentre Live, regardless of whether they’re a Rogers customer or not.

While GameCentre Live viewers — whether they pay through Rogers or another provider — can access streaming video of live games, the GamePlus app provides a number of extra features, including interactive stats about the hockey players, playbacks of highlights through multiple camera angles and post-game interviews with the players.

The federal regulator concluded Rogers complied

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CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said Canadians have an abundance of content available on multiple platforms.

“In order to stand out, creators, producers and distributors have to be creative and find innovative ways to create and deliver content to Canadians through digital media,” Blais said.

“Rogers’ GamePlus service is a complementary service available online to enhance the viewer’s experience. I encourage other companies holding broadcasting rights to be innovative online to in order to provide Canadian and international audiences with content that they want to see.”

Last fall, Bell (TSX:BCE) told the CRTC that it believes GamePlus violates certain regulatory rules that require content created for broadcasters to be made available to all competitors.

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Government needs to lobby for railway costing review in wake of report: NDP REGINA — Saskatchewan’s Opposition says it wants the government to lobby for a railway costing review in light of a report that says grain producers are being overcharged for freight shipping.

NDP agriculture critic Cathy Sproule raised the issue in question period Monday, citing a report released by a farm coalition last week.

The report says in 2013-14, Canadian National (TSX:CNR) and Canadian Pacific railways (TSX:CP) earned $322 million more than the 20 per cent return on investment “deemed fair” by the Canadian Transportation Agency.

Norm Hall, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, says the earnings for that year amounted to a 61 per cent return for railways.

He adds that from 2008 to 2014, this amounts to $2 billion in excess earnings.

Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart says the government is prioritizing better railway service before looking at the revenue cap.

Hall says railways have become more efficient, burning less fuel and running longer trains, but farmers aren’t benefiting from the changes.

Sproule says she isn’t satisfied that the government is doing enough for agriculture producers.

Alimentation Couche-Tard acquires 21 stores in Texas through Circle K Stores LAVAL, Que. — Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says it plans to acquire 21 stores and five development properties in Texas for an undisclosed amount.

The company also plans to acquire 151 dealer supply agreements in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD.B) will make the acquisitions through its subsidiary Circle K Stores Inc. The convenience stores Couche-Tard plans to acquire operate under the brands The Tote and Tiger Tote.

Following the acquisition, the stores will operate under the Circle K brand.

The deal is expected to close by the end of the company’s first quarter, which ends July 19, subject to regulatory approvals.

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed sharply higher Monday as the market started to claw back two weeks of losses ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting on interest rates this week.

The S&P/TSX composite index gained 131.26 points to 14,862.76, while the Canadian dollar gained 0.06 of a U.S. cent to 78.25 cents US. The health care component of the Toronto market was up 1.65 per cent as Valeant Pharmaceuticals International appeared poised to win its takeover bid for Salix Pharmaceuticals with an improved offer of about US$11.1 billion.

The increased offer Monday prompted specialty drugmaker Endo International PLC to withdraw its rival bid for Salix.

Valeant’s shares gained $6.13 or 2.4 per cent to $258.42.

U.S. indexes charged ahead after three weeks of losses with the Dow Jones Industrials ahead 228.11 points to 17,977.42, the Nasdaq was ahead 57.75 points to 4,929.51 while the S&P 500 index rose 27.79 points to 2,081.19.

The Fed meeting takes place Tuesday and Wednesday as traders speculate when the U.S. central bank may move rates up from near zero. A raft of positive economic news has persuaded many that the Fed will drop key language in its announcement that has said it would be “patient” in deciding when to hike rates.

At the earliest, markets generally don’t expect the Fed to move before June.

The April gold contract was up 80 cents to US$1,153.20 an ounce and the gold sector was

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.47 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.36 First Quantum Minerals . 24.16 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 9.68 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.68 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.99 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.05 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 42.55 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.09 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 17.32 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.19 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.20 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 59.94 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 36.14 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 37.12 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 8.87 Canyon Services Group. . 5.79 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 21.31 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.01 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.03 flat. The TSX energy sector was negative as oil prices hit six-year lows in the wake of comments last week by the International Energy Agency that the recent stability in prices around the $50 mark was likely premature and that it might be overly optimistic to expect the rebalancing triggered by the collapse in prices to proceed smoothly.

The price of crude has plunged about 55 per cent since the highs of last summer amid a glut of global supply. Also rattling oil markets are concerns that crude inventories are at multiyear highs while storage space is running out.

On Monday, the April crude oil contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange lost 96 cents to US$43.88 and the energy group slipped 0.2 per cent.

Ensign Energy Services Inc. (TSX:ESI) posted a quarterly net loss of $31 million or 20 cents a share as it recognized $89.5 million in non-cash charges for decommissioning and writing down assets — primarily oil and gas drilling rigs. Its shares declined 16 cents to $9.16.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Monday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,862.76, up 131.26 points Dow — 17,977.42, up 228.11 points S&P 500 — 2,081.19, up 27.79 points Nasdaq — 4,929.51, up 57.75 points Currencies: Cdn — 78.25 cents US, up

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.76 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.52 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.60 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.10 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 46.88 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.32 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 1.77 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.005 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 7.02 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.22 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.85 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.64 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 3.95 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 53.53

SNC-Lavalin chairman Ian Bourne steps down, Lawrence Stevenson named chairman MONTREAL — SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) says Ian Bourne, who has helped lead the company through a period of reform following a recent bribery scandal, has stepped down as

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.84 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 63.75 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.65 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.68 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.23 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 44.62 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 94.21 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.85 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 46.31 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.47 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 76.30 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.54 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.95

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Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 21.70 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.76 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.29 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 29.63

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chairman and a member of the board of directors. The company did not provide a reason for his departure SNC said the board appointed Lawrence Stevenson, a board member since 1999, as chairman.

Bourne joined SNC as a director in 2009 and had served as chairman since May 2013. He also served as interim chief executive from March 2012 to October 2012, replacing the CEO who was in place during the alleged incidents.

Last month, the RCMP alleged that between 2001 and 2011 SNC-Lavalin paid nearly $47.7 million to public officials in Libya to influence government decisions.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When Barbara Lawlor first joined Baker Real Estate, a Toronto firm that markets and sells new condo developments, over two decades ago, selling a condo unit without an accompanying parking spot was a Herculean feat.

Today, only about a quarter of Baker’s clients are looking to buy parking spots.

“It’s an enormous shift in the buyer’s attitude,” says Lawlor, who is now Baker’s president. “People don’t want parking as much as they used to.”

Parking spots are falling out of favour with many condo buyers, thanks to the proliferation of car-sharing services and a greater emphasis on transit and walkability by city dwellers.

“If you’re on a really good transit route, you would certainly think twice about whether you need to buy a parking space,” Lawlor says, noting that a parking spot in a downtown Toronto development can cost around $50,000.

Louie Santaguida, president and chief executive of Stanton Renaissance, had planned to build up to four levels of underground parking at his On The GO Mimico project, a condo development under construction in the west part of Toronto.

However, Santaguida says most buyers snatching up the units pre-construction aren’t keen to shell out for parking, given that one of the building’s selling points is that it’s situated right next to a GO Train station that can transport residents downtown in minutes.

Santaguida is planning to apply to the city to have the building’s parking requirement reduced.

“We’re hearing more and more about developments that are coming up along good transit nodes that are actually asking for leniency around no parking, or minimal parking,” he said.

“The trend is moving away from vehicle ownership, especially in urban centres like downtown Hamilton, downtown Montreal, downtown Toronto and downtown Vancouver. Because there’s adequate infrastructure to get you where you need to go on a timely basis and quite frankly, in most cases, sooner than you can using a vehicle.”

Vancouver developer Jon Stovell, president of Reliance Properties, says the city of Vancouver has been encouraging developers to reduce the amount of parking that they build, in order to reduce traffic congestion and encourage other forms of transportation including walking, biking and public transit.

“The parking ratios have been going down steadily for a long time, and they’re getting to some really low levels now,” Stovell said, nothing that developers used to build up to two parking spots per unit.

Now, many are only building one parking stall for every two condo units.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Rocky Mountain House set a record on Saturday when it reached 15C, while Alberta was basking in warmer weather last week.

It surpassed the town’s 13.9C record set 68 years ago.

Bill McMurtry, meteorologist with Environment Canada, said Rocky was one of 11 communities to break temperature records on Saturday.

He said similarly on Friday, seven records were broken, eight communities tied previous records, and a number came really close. Red Deer hit a high of 13.5C to almost reach its 13.9C record set in 1935.

McMurtry said a spike in temperature isn’t unusual in Alberta in March and April.

“Usually we get them for about a two-or-three-day period, then it’s followed by some cold, unsettled conditions. What was unusual last week was the fact that it lasted for an entire

week, and in some locations even longer across the extreme southern portion of the province.”

Red Deer reached a high of 7.7C on March 8, followed by highs of 8.7C, 8.0C, 6.4C, 13.7C, 13.5C and 14.9C over the next six days.

McMurtry said during the next seven to 10 days, the temperature will likely swing up and down about five degrees from the normal high of 3C and normal low of -9C. “We’re sort of into a typical March pattern where we get a couple days of

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cooling, a little bit of unsettled conditions, a couple days of warming, and then back into cooling.”

Temperatures in the low teens aren’t the average high until the end of April or beginning of May, he said.

McMurtry said so far March has also had a lot less snow. It’s usually the snowiest month for many Alberta communities, including Red Deer, which sees an average of 20.4 cm. So far, the city has only had one cm. “But it can turn quite quickly this time of year.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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A new look at Easter story on stage

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A sure sign of spring, this lamb was one of several staying close to the adult sheep in a farmers field along highway 2A south of Red Deer Monday.

A new locally-written play that takes a fresh look at the Easter story is being presented as a fundraiser for the Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre.

Red Deer playwright Andrew Kooman’s musical drama That Towering Cross will be staged at 7 p.m. from March 26 to 28 at the Memorial Centre (a 2:30 p.m. matinee will also be held on March 28).

Kooman said he wanted to retell the Easter story, which means a great deal to him, from a different perspective.

He created a character, Anne, who’s unimpressed by the Easter show she sees at her mother’s church, so takes up the challenge to stage the production in a more meaningful way to reach others who are cynical.

Sixty choir members from various Red Deer-area churches will lend their voices to the play, singing hymns and contemporary selections.

The familiar Biblical story of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection “to me, is so powerful,” said Kooman, who hopes his one-hour play helps adults and children (ages seven and up) to see it with new eyes.

That Towering Cross, with music compiled by Kimberly Messer and directed

by Annette Bradley and Laura Geelen, is being staged to benefit a new Red Deer housing project for single pregnant women.

While admission to the play is free, donations will be accepted for the Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre project.

Seating is limited in the Memorial Centre, so rush tickets must be obtained in advance.

Free tickets (with a suggested value of $15 each) can be picked up at 53rd Street Music, Scott’s Parable Christian Store, or by calling 403-343-1611.

Missing woman may suffer dementia ROZE BURK TRAVELLING IN GREY FORD ESCAPE, WITH SHAGGY WHITE-HAIRED TERRIER DOG

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Surveillance photo of Roze Burk.

The 68-year-old woman police are trying to find may be suffering from dementia-related symptoms.

Blackfalds RCMP issued the alert on Monday.

RCMP have been trying to locate Roze Burk and her dog after they went missing on Thursday evening from the Deer Park Co-op in Red Deer.

Police said Burk has not been diagnosed by medical professionals with dementia.

New photos released on Monday

show Burk entering the store at about 7:44 p.m. and then leaving at about 7:55 p.m.

She was wearing jeans, a pink shirt and long-sleeved grey jacket.

She is described as Caucasian, 1.67 metres (five feet six inches) tall, 54 kg (119 pounds), with blue eyes and white hair.

She usually wears eye glasses.

Burk, a resident of Red Deer County, was last seen by a friend at the Deer Park Co-op.

Police seek suspect in BMO holdup Red Deer RCMP are looking for a man who used a handgun to rob a bank in north Red Deer on Saturday.

About 9:40 a.m., the suspect entered the BMO branch at 6130 67th St. He displayed a handgun, and demanded cash from one of the tellers. He left on foot, heading westbound, with an undisclosed amount of Canadian and American cash.

RCMP swept the area but could not find the suspect.

The man is described as a middle-aged Caucasian male of slim build, medium height. He had tanned skin and grey facial stubble. He was wearing a white hard hat, a dark coat with green reflective vest, dark pants, a balaclava, sunglasses and yellow/green fluorescent gloves.

Anyone with information that may assist police is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit. com.

She is believed to be driving a 2008 grey Ford Escape SUV, bearing Alberta licence plate GCA091.

Burk is believed to be with her West Highland terrier dog, which has shaggy white hair.

Blackfalds RCMP are asking anyone with any information that might help to find Burk to call their at 403-8853333 or your local police.

Information can also be submitted online to www.tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477.

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Surveillance photo of man wanted in connection with bank holdup at the BMO in north Red Deer on Saturday.

Police are seeking three male suspects who robbed the Lacombe Motor Inn on Sunday with a sawed-off shotgun.

Three men and wearing bandanas and wielding the gun entered the motor inn on Hwy 2A. They stole computer equipment and cash.

An employee working at the front desk locked himself into an office and was not harmed.

The Caucasian suspects are described as follows: The first is six-foot tall, of average build, wearing a black hooded jacket, blue jeans, dark skater-style shoes with white soles and a multicoloured bandana.

The second suspect is about five-foot-eight, of average build, wearing a distinctive white hoodie with pattered blue sleeves and writing in the left side of the chest, baggy blues jeans and a tan-coloured skater-style shoes.

The third suspect is about five-foot-seven, of slender build, wearing a distinctive white hoodie with shiny black sleeves and three horizontal stripes on the left chest, baggy blue jeans, and dark skater-style runners. This suspect was armed with the sawed-off shotgun.

Anyone with information is asked to call Lacombe Police Service at 403-782-3279. Information can also be submitted online to www.tipsubmit.com or call Crime Stoppers, 1-800-222-8477.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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Traffic will be reduced to narrower lanes and slower speed for bridge work on Hwy 2 north of Ponoka until mid-October.

Crews were to start work this week on the $5.7-million bridge replacement over Wolf Creek. The bridge is located between Hwy 53 and Hwy 604 on Hwy 2.

The project involves replacing the bridge structures that carry both northbound and southbound traffic.

Until Oct. 15, speed limits will be reduced to 80km/h, and lane width across two lanes will be reduced to 7.8 metres. Barriers will be in place to designate the modified lane width.

Drivers are reminded to obey all flag persons, signs and signals. Fines for speeding are doubled in construction zones.

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Mayors Prayer Breakfast on March 24 at Westerner A spokesman from a Canadian Christian charity that does work overseas will be the keynote speaker at the 12th annual Mayors Prayer Breakfast next week.

Sean Campbell, senior director of strategic initiatives for Samaritan’s Purse Canada, will speak at the breakfast on March 24 at the Parkland Pavilion at Westerner Park.

The breakfast runs from 6:45 to 8:45 a.m. It is hosted annually by Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer and Red Deer County Mayor Jim Wood.

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Genealogy workshops for free on Saturday People who want to delve into their family history can get free help in Red Deer on Saturday.

The Red Deer RootsTech Family History Fair will offer a full day of free

genealogy workshops and instructions at the Family History Centre at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 3002 47th Ave. The sessions run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event is for people who want to learn more about their family history but do not know where to start.

Local family history educators and pre-recorded speakers will be featured at the event. Volunteers will help people trace their family history.

For more information and a complete schedule of the day’s events, visit rdroots.wordpress.com or email RedDeerFHF@gmail.com.

Citizen of the Year nominations now open The search is on for people who have had an enduring impact on the community.

Nominations are being accepted for Red Deer Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year awards.

The awards are given out each spring at the Rotary Spring Gala, held this year at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer on May 7.

Nominations are to be submitted in writing to Jim Slipp at No. 106, 4320 50th Ave, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3A6, no later then April 11.

For more information about the event and submission forms, visit www. rotaryclubofreddeer.ca.

Their goal is to create a community hub.

It would include a performing arts venue, studio spaces, day care, as well as providing space for a range of programs and services for all age groups.

B.C.-based Schick Shiner and Associates has been hired to develop a building design and business plan, both of which will be ready this fall.

Fibre-optic connections for Lacombe police station The City of Lacombe will fork out nearly $118,000 to ensure its new police station has the most up-to-date fibre-optic connections.

City council approved spending $117,969 to hook up the yet-unbuilt station to the SuperNet fibre optic network that links public institutions across Alberta with secure high-speed Internet service.

Lacombe Police Service is connected to the SuperNet now and uses it to link with the RCMP and government departments to share information, process criminal complaints and create court documents.

New fibre optic cable with connect to the new station at 3906 53rd Avenue, about 450 metres from the existing downtown police station.

Lacombe plans to build the $8-million police station this year.

Author reads from book at arts council meeting

Lacombe culture centre extension OK’d by council Lacombe city council has bought some more time for a proposed community cultural centre.

Council passed a six-month extension on an agreement to hold land for the Cranna Community Cultural Centre Initiative, known locally as C4. The land agreement between the city and Wolf Creek School Division was to expire this spring.

C4 is a two-year-old partnership comprised of the Lacombe Performing Arts Centre Foundation, Lacombe Day Care Centre Society, Lacombe and District Family and Community Support Services, and the Parent Link Centre.

A local author will read from her new book following the annual general meeting of the Red Deer Arts Council.

The meeting will be on March 27 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium at the Red Deer Public Library downtown.

During the social that follows, author Miji Campbell will read from her book Separation Anxiety: A Coming of Middle Age Story.

The general public is invited to attend. Arts council memberships will be sold at the door. The address is 4818 49th St. For more information, contact Red Deer Arts Council at info@reddeerartscouncil.ca or 403-348-2787.

Naturalists gather to view birds on weekend Red Deer River Naturalists will host two bird related events at Kerry Wood Nature Centre this weekend.

On Saturday, birdwatchers can join a driving trip to look for great horned owl nests south of Red Deer. To participate, meet at nature centre at noon.

On Sunday at 1 p.m., the nature centre will host a slide show presentation of Judy and Larry Boyd’s trip to Florida.

Call Judy at 403-342-4150 to confirm attendance for either of the events.

The nature centre is at 6300 45th Ave. in Red Deer.

Olympic gold medalist to speak at sports hall A woman who won two gold medals in Olympic hockey will be guest speaker in Red Deer next week.

Carla MacLeod will speak at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum on Tuesday, March 24, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

MacLeod, who has retired from Olympic hockey, is a 2015 inductee into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.

She was member of the Canadian national women’s hockey teams that won gold in Turin in 2006 and in Vancouver in 2010. MacLeod’s presentation will focus on her journey to an Olympic gold medal.

Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for youth. Children under three get in free. Hockey teams that pre-register cost $25. For more information, visit http://ashfm.ca/events.

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Ponoka RCMP responded to crash on Saturday on Hwy 53 at Range Road 262. An eastbound pickup truck had driven into the rear of a flatdeck truck that had stopped on the highway to turn left onto the range road.

Ponoka fire and rescue workers helped remove the teenage driver from the crashed pickup truck. He was rushed to Ponoka hospital, then sent

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The young male died of his injuries at the hospital.

The driver of the flatbed truck was not uninjured.

Alcohol and road conditions were not believed to be factors in the collision. Police are not releasing the name of the deceased, and are still investigating the crash.

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A miniature green and yellow triceratops greets me when I open my eyes. He is plopped on top of my chaotic bedside table and for some reason, upon waking, my eyes move automatically to him.

“Well good morning small play thing,” I say, but not loud enough to give my husband a reason to commit me.

Dino tells me he is there to remind me of the shambles in which my house resides.

“No, surely you are mistaken dinosaur,” I say calmly — coolly, even.

He informs me that I am the one who is mistaken.

Even though I did stay up until the wee hours of 10 p.m. tidying up the crumbs from the counters, the dishes in the sink and the toys from the floor — little dinosaur speaks of a different kind of cleaning LINDSAY this early morning.

BROWN Spring cleaning.

I groan deeply (and not the ME PLUS THREE good kind of groan) in my bed and I think about the dreadfulness that is spring cleaning. I think about the undersides of the living room couch cushions and shudder. I think about the cutlery drawer and all of the crumbs and junk that manages to find its way in there and a wave of nausea overcomes me. I think about the awful amounts of dust that would perhaps asphyxiate my pink coloured blinds if they had breathing capabilities and a single tear rolls down my cheek.

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Each year, this moment of realization comes, usually in some surprising and creative way, and each year I’ve learned to fight it vigorously. Spring cleaning can only lead to heartache and woe.

Let me tell you about it. …

A few years back, when spring cleaning didn’t have the same sickening ring to it as it does now, I decided to clean my closet.

This was a time when Lars was beginning to potty train. It was a time before I became neurotic about my loathing for all things potty training.

I am clearing away the shoes and purses that are stuffed in the back of my closet when I begin to smell something familiar.

What could it be? What could that darn smell be that makes me want to stuff tampons up my nostrils?

I grab for one of my purses and feel the pleather (I’m classy like that) is sodden and stinky.

I immediately become conscious of the smell — later in my potty training quest, I will undoubtedly be able to distinguish it from miles away. Urine — hello, old friend.

At the time I had thought, due to the dry pull-ups, that small Lars had been proficient in his toilet training endeavours.

But instead, he had simply been using my closet as his own personal pee place.

In later years of spring cleaning, I would come to discover more unbearable surprises, each year the grossness gauge rising.

One time, it was poo-streaked Thomas the Tank Engine undies stashed discreetly under the bathroom sink.

The next year, it was curdled milk bottles hidden away in secret corners for later consumption.

Apple cores in heat registers.

Bread crusts in the Tupperware drawer.

My children are obviously terrified that one day I will stop feeding them and they have come to realize they must keep reserves.

And please don’t even get me started on the basement conditions!

So instead of getting out of bed, I lay there stockstill and silent. Maybe, just maybe, if I try hard I can forget that the prophesized time of spring cleaning is closing in.

I had hit the snooze button when the dinosaur began his talk with me this morning, and now once again my time has ran out and the bleep, bleep, bleep of the device is scratching at my ears.

I roll over to push snooze once more when the dinosaur catches my eye again. He stands on the bedside table with a half drunk water bottle, a bottle of hand lotion, a used string of floss, and a decorative box that holds all sorts of knick-knacks in it. To be truthful, I’m not even sure what the contents in that box are.

Again, the prehistoric plaything reminds me about my cleaning quest. I tell him to shut it because it’s my house and it really isn’t as bad as he is making it out to be.

The dinosaur begrudgingly agrees and I feel accomplished for winning a battle of wits with a small inanimate object.

But then the Barbie reminds me, as I step on her head while moving towards the bathroom, that spring cleaning probably wouldn’t seem so terrible if I was an overall better housekeeper in the first place.

Shut it Barbie — what do you know anyways?

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

Building a better ego “The ego is the false-self born out of fear and defensiveness.”

— John O’Donohue, Irish poet, author, priest and Hegelian philosopher

ramblings. recognition.

I’ve thought about those comments for some time We all reach an emotional transition point at now and, though I appreciate the point of view, I about the age of 12 years — a coming of age, if you feel the need to draw a distinction. I think what the will. It is a time when we transcend from a heliocennameless letter writer is describing is not self-es- tric or “self”-centred view of life to one where we “Hey, we’ve got mail!” teem building but ego-building, and the consequenc- acknowledge that we are but one participant in the That may seem like an odd statement but not es of such are vastly different. great symphony of life. We bring awareness to the when you consider the demise of door-toYes, if we are constantly telling our impact our words and actions have upon ourselves door mail delivery. Since moving to our children they’re great, amazing and ca- and others. We begin to accept responsibility for new house, I’d picked up our mail at the pable of changing the world without our lives and the choices we make. Research sugcommunity mailbox down the block. I bethe benefits of anything tangible to link gests that praise with-out accountability can leave gan to wonder why we bothered having a these comments to — skills, hard work, children stuck at this critical stage and unable to mailbox next to the door. passion, talent or goals — we are most transcend it.

“Who’s it from?” asked my wife, comcertainly setting them up for disapNow you might say that a big ego is necessary ing up the sidewalk with grocery bags in pointment. Praise for the sake of praise to succeed in business, athletics or entertainment. hand. (empty praise) can create unrealistic ex- There is, however, a fine line between being confi“I don’t know,” I replied. “There’s no pectations and a distorted view of self. dent and self-assured and becoming the victim of a return address and — there’s no stamp.”

If children are constantly told they are fat head. In his best seller, Ego Check: Why ExecuI helped my wife carry the grocerthe prince or princess, they may indeed tive Hubris is Wrecking Companies and Careers and ies inside, then sat down at the table to adopt an unfounded sense of entitlement How to Avoid the Trap, author and corporate strateopen the letter. My name and address was and the belief that they are superior to gist Mathew Hayward provides some advice to help handwritten in an awkward scrawl across others. They may also come to think that bolster self-esteem and keep the ego in check. Says the front of the envelope. I should explain rules and regulations apply to average Hayward, “Overconfidence badly distorts decisionMURRAY that occasionally people write to me with folk and not to them. making.” He suggests that we stay close to our pascomments about my columns, work-shops Self-esteem building, on the other sion, remain true to who we are and never lose track FUHRER and talks. Mostly, they send me emails hand, tends to be a grounded, reality- of what makes us tick. He also suggests building and with positive remarks, like “Point well based approach to building self-efficacy sustaining a network of people whom we can depend made,” “Loved the story,” or “Made me founded upon strengths, talents, abili- upon to remain open and honest about our progress think.” Sometimes they offer suggestions ties and, above all, awareness. Children relative to others in the field. such as “Read this book,” “Visit this webraised to have healthy self-esteem are “Our ego is our silent partner,” wrote American site” or “Check out this blog.” Occasionally, someone cognizant of their natural skills and uniqueness, quotation and quip writer, Cullen Hightower, “too will take the time to write me an actual letter and interact well with others and move through life with often with a controlling interest.” share his or her life story or experience, and that’s a confident expectation of good things. They also When you work to build your self-esteem (as opalways appreciated. This letter was a little discon- tend to be more courageous, resilient and flexible in posed to your ego) you will soon discover that you certing as it had been hand-delivered to my door. changing circumstances. grow in awareness and possess a sustained confiThe letter shared the author’s view of the self-esteem Confusion arises from the misconception that dence that becomes all-encompassing — a grounded movement and its perceived damage to our youth. confidence equals good self-esteem. Truth be known, confidence that acknowledges all of your strengths After informing me that I had no idea what I was you can have tremendous confidence in a specific and opportunities. talking about, the letter went on to say, area of your life yet overall still harbour a poor selfMurray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator.

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BRIEF Disney’s live action, 3D Beauty and the Beast waltzes to theatres in 2017 LOS ANGELES — Following Cinderella’s blockbuster weekend, Walt Disney Studios announced Monday that its next foray into live action fairy tale adaptations, Beauty and the Beast, will hit theatres March 17, 2017, in 3D. Harry Potter alum Emma Watson will star as the heroine Belle with Downton Abbey vet Dan Stevens taking on the part of the Beast in the Bill Condondirected film. The cast also includes Luke Evans as the villainous Gaston, Kevin Kline as Belle’s father Maurice, and Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts.

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Ethan Hawke finds new groove with help from classical pianist Seymour Bernstein was that?

Hawke: I think it was about four years ago. I’m 44 and I remember meeting when I had just turned 40.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ethan Hawke is busy, and loving it.

Reached from the New York set of the romantic comedy Maggie’s Plan, the Boyhood and Before Midnight star says he’s been working more than ever these days — in film, theatre, and for the first time ever, as a documentary director.

His first non-fiction project is Seymour: An Introduction, a portrait of 87-year-old classical pianist Seymour Bernstein. The two met at a dinner party, where they bonded over their mutual struggles with stage fright. It opens Friday in Toronto and Vancouver before heading to other cities.

Hawke chatted with The Canadian Press about overcoming the trials of your 20s, finding meaning in one’s work, and being inspired by a charismatic octogenarian.

The Canadian Press: I was looking at your IMDB page and it seems stacked with projects — it looks like you’ve got The Magnificent Seven in pre-production, Maggie’s Plan and The Phenom are filming, and In a Valley of Violence, Regression and Born to be Blue are in post-production. Are all these things really happening at once?

Hawke: This year was probably the most I’ve ever worked in my life. It’s really one of the most exciting professional years of my life. The life of an actor, it’s like a roller-coaster ride. Things get easy and things get hard and they get easy again and there’s just been a lot of interesting material come my way and I was at a place where I was really excited about acting again.

CP: After seeing this documentary I wondered if spending time with Seymour in some way ignited all this activity.

Hawke: It’s hard to separate the elements of your life. A few years ago was a much darker time for me.... You know, I’ve been professionally acting since I was 12 so my relationship to it is constantly evolving and needs to change. And it’s a combination of having a new attitude towards it and new opportunities. One of the most frustrating things about acting is that you’re only ever as good as your opportunities.

CP: I can see why you were so fascinated by Seymour when you met at the dinner party. What year

CP: Was that part of your anxiety, the age?

Hawke: Definitely. You know, I’d always been the youngest at everything I’d ever done. Dead Poets Society came out, I was 18 years old and my whole identity was that of a young person. And now all of a sudden I’m the father of four, I’m expected to know everything and it was kind of the first time in my life I really started feeling anxiety....

The older you get, the humbler you get, the more life kind of rips you open and the more responsible you feel — both to your art and to the audience’s time and wanting to do a good job.... Sometimes the harder you try to hit a baseball, the more you miss and the same metaphor applies to all of life. And that’s really what Seymour espouses, that a lot of that anxiety is created by pretending you don’t have anxiety. Just kind of living in the truth of it all helps everything flow.

CP: It must have been gratifying to see Boyhood be embraced by critics and audiences. Are things changing?

Hawke: Things are changing in that you can find things on VOD now, that’s the way the world is changing ... how people can make smaller artistic films and make a living.

You started this asking me why I’m working so much or why there are so many (of my films now) — a lot of it has to do with most of these movies don’t pay me any salary, you know. I used to be able to do one or two movies a year and make a good living and now you don’t get paid to make Boyhood. You don’t get paid to make Before Midnight. You have to do another job to get paid. So there are some kind of brass tacks involved in it, because art house movies — movies without distribution — it’s too dangerous an investment, but soon people are going to realize that there are ways to make money off these movies and it’ll even itself out.

CP: Sounds like Seymour changed your life.

Hawke: You know what he would say: I’ve changed his. We kind of ran into each other like a couple of molecules. He likes to say, ’I’m a movie star at 88!’

Cast members of 1985’s The Breakfast Club headline 30th anniversary screening in Austin AUSTIN, Texas — Actresses Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy have reminisced about making The Breakfast Club at a screening of the fully-restored iconic 1985 film. A table stacked high with glazed doughnuts greeted attendees to Monday’s screening at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

Ringwald and Sheedy conducted a question-and-answer session. The re-mastered film’s release comes 30 years after the original production. It hits theatres March 26. The film chronicles five high school students in Saturday detention. Played by Ringwald, Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson, they aren’t all initially friends, but become close by day’s end.

It also features the Simple Minds hit “Don’t You (Forget About Me).”

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Hawke made a documentary about Bernstein called Seymour: An Introduction, which has won raves on the festival circuit.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Husband and wife X Factor judges Natalia Kills and Willy Moon were removed from the New Zealand version of the show Monday after their comments on a contestant’s appearance were seen as bullying.

Kills said she was “disgusted” at how much singer Joe Irvine had copied her husband in the cleancut style of his hair and dark suit. She called him a “laughing stock” and said she was embarrassed to sit in his presence.

Moon joined in the tirade, saying it felt cheap and absurd and “like Norman Bates dressing up in his mother’s clothing.”

The audience mostly booed the judges’ commentary, which Irvine handled well, saying he thought “he looked good.”

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In this Feb. 28, photo, teammates struggle to lift a bull off the trapped leg of a charro, during the bull riding event at a charreada in Mexico City. National Charros Association President Manuel Basurto Rojas said: “We in charreria are taking things into our own hands. We have codes, we have rules, for how to treat the animals. On the other hand, there is a lot of danger involved for the men doing these tricks.” Charreada is a competitive event similar to rodeo and was developed from animal husbandry practices used on the haciendas of old Mexico. likely you’ll find a satisfactory solution.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today’s complicated stars are intense and unpredictable, so tread carefully. Resist the urge to be too regimented. Things are in a state of flux and you’ll Tuesday, March 17 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Kurt Russell 64; have to be a flexible and versatile Virgo.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Relations with your nearest and Gary Sinise 60; Rob Lowe 51 dearest will be unpredictable today, as Uranus and Pluto stir THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Prepare for a disruptive day — up sensitive emotions and hidden grievances. Do personally and globally — as Uranus squares your best to be fair to everyone involved.

Pluto.

JOANNE SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Uranus is sendHAPPY BIRTHDAY: Happy birthday Pisces!

MADELEINE ing disruptions in your direction — and, at the You love to venture into unexplored territory. In MOORE’ same time, Pluto demands that you let go of old 2015, strive to finish uncompleted projects begrudges and start afresh. So the only certainty at fore you launch exciting new ones. the moment is change!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Uranus and SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): DisrupPluto demand that you are bold and brave, as you bring big changes into your personal or professional life. tions are likely today involving children, teenagers or friends.

Aim to approach the future with an open mind and an adven- If there is a problem that’s worrying you, then strive to voice your concerns in a tactful and diplomatic way. turous Aries spirit.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Avoid the temptation to TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you’re facing an on-going fly off the handle today Capricorn. If you try to control or maproblem, then ask yourself “Am I being determined, or just plain stubborn?” The secret to success is knowing when to nipulate others, then you’re in for an intense and tumultuous time. Cool compromise is the key. hold on, and when to let go.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Uranus/Pluto square GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Problems you had back in December could surface again. If you avoid looking for solutions, is happening again. So it’s time to examine your life in forensic then you’ll just prolong the situation — and others will end up detail; keep what’s working, and change what isn’t. The trick is knowing which is which! making decisions for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): With unpredictable Uranus CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you stuck in a rut; afraid to jump out of your Crab comfort zone and move forward? It’s shaking up your finance zone, you’ve got an urge to splurge. time to initiate career and relationship changes — before Ura- But don’t let a persuasive friend talk you into buying something that you really can’t afford. nus and Pluto do it for you!

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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — A Florida church that hosted naked paint parties and slumber-party Sundays featuring the “sexiest ladies on the beach” has lost its tax-exempt status.

The News Herald of Panama City reports The Life Center: A Spiritual Community has been operating a seven-day-a-week party called Amnesia: The Taber-

nacle since Feb. 28.

A sign on the door says events are alcohol and drug free, but Sheriff Frank McKeithen calls the party atmosphere a “blatant slap in the face” to taxpayers.

He says church officials are “trying to get around the laws.”

Patrons are charged a “donation” of $20 at the door. On the walls inside are T-shirts emblazoned with obscene gestures and signs that say “I hate being sober.”

This led Property Appraiser Dan Sowell to change the tax exempt status.

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Dear Annie: For four years, I have been trying to leave an abusive marriage. I’ve been working with various agencies that are budget strapped and overwhelmed with clients.

I finally found a friend who offered to let me stay with her, but she lives four hours away, and I cannot afford a rental car.

Then my husband tells his boss that he needs time off because I have a disability. That part is true, but I know now that he is using it as an excuse to be home and control the situation.

Worse, my husband brought home a dog, knowing I would MITCHELL never leave the poor thing & SUGAR with him. Taking the dog makes things more difficult.

Our local abuse shelter is crowded right now. In a perfect world, I would grab what I could and leave, taking the dog. I tried once, and he caught up with me.

Any suggestions? — Gloria Dear Gloria: You need a better plan.

First, please don’t tell your husband you are leaving. He will use whatever means necessary to stop you.

Would your friend offer to pick you up? Is there a bus or train you can afford?

Please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) at 1-800-799-SAFE and ask them to help you find a safe way out.

Dear Annie: A year ago, I fell ill with diabetes.

Due to financial problems, I have had lots of complications in treating it. I also have a troubled past, but I turned it around a few years ago, and I’m proud of myself.

I was so ill that I had to quit my job. Now I have problems affording the medication, and it depresses me. My parents seem to believe that I am simply back to my old habits and say I should be working.

But I have documentation saying I cannot work due to diabetes complications.

I have asked both of my parents to go with me to see the doctor, but they refuse. I am so lost right now, I don’t know what to do. Please help. — Confused in Northwest Illinois Dear Confused: You may be eligible for reducedcost medical care, including medications, which would help you get back on your feet. Right now, your health is the most important thing, and you’ll feel better if you can be proactive about your care.

Please contact the American Diabetes Association (diabetes.org) at 1-800-DIABETES. Dear Annie: I am responding to “Growing Up Way Too Fast,” whose young son likes to play with the neighbor boy who plays adult video games and is allowed to watch frightening, sexually suggestive adult TV shows.

Our three kids sometimes had friends from homes with questionable parenting skills. Our kids were allowed to play only at our house with those friends.

If they acted inappropriately, I explained that their behavior was rude and unkind and not permitted in our house, and the consequence was that they would be sent home. If it happened again, they were sent home and not allowed to return for several days. Of course, I phoned the parents to let them know their child would be coming home. — Mean Mother Award Winner 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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HENDERSON Larry Keith June 17, 1942 - Mar. 5, 2015 Larry Keith Henderson, 72, of Lacombe, AB passed away on March 5, 2015 in Kona, Hawaii surrounded by his loving family. Larry is survived by his wife Linda, his son David, his daughter Lori (Jeff) Forsyth, two grandchildren, Kolby and Dylin Forsyth, his brother Harold (Connie) Henderson, nephews James Henderson and Tim (Trish) Henderson and family, niece Catherine Henderson, sisterin-law Kay (Toshiya) Uchida and family, brother-in-law Sam (Sue) Koyanagi and family. He was preceded in death by his father Ted (1981) and his mother Winnie (1997). Larry was born on June 17, 1942 and raised on a farm where his love and keen interest in agriculture began.

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Grandchildren added to his happiness with Kolby in 2008 and Dylin in 2010. Curling, baseball and travel were his passion along with his vegetable garden. He proudly shared the bounty of the garden with family and friends. In retirement, Larry volunteered with the Ponoka Foodgrains Project and had the eye-opening opportunity to visit projects supported by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank in Nicaragua and Honduras. He was very involved with the Missions Committee of Trinity Lutheran Church. Larry will be laid to rest at Fairview Cemetery in Lacombe, AB. A memorial service for Larry will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church in Ponoka, AB on Thursday March 19, 2015 at 2 pm.

Donations in Larry’s memory can be made to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Box 767, Winnipeg, MB R3C 2L4, Trinity Lutheran Church, 5501 54 Avenue, Ponoka, AB T4J1L8 or Prostate Cancer Canada, 2 Lombard St 3rd Floor, Toronto, ON M5C 1M1. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

FROGGATT Ken Ken Froggatt passed away in Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 due to complications from cancer.

He fought so hard; he was not ready to go. Ken was ageless, young at heart, and loved life. Ken was born in Birmingham, England, immigrated to Canada on the “Empress of France” at the age of 5 with his family and grew up in Laval-Ouest, Quebec. He moved to Edmonton, then Red Deer, AB working his 35 year dream job with Fish and Wildlife which encompassed work such as re-introducing peregrine falcons to the wild, and the surveying of goats in the mountains and antelope on the prairies. He is survived by his loving wife of almost 29 years, Laura; by the absolute light of his life, his three sons, Ben, Dustin and Ryen; and by his treasured brother Dave (Elizabeth).

He will also be lovingly remembered by his extended Kinsella and Froggatt families, and numerous friends. He was predeceased by his parents, William and Ellen, and his brothers, Geoff and Terry.

Ken will be remembered for his sense of humour, his gentle spirit, and for the great joy he took in the camaraderie of his crosscountry skiing, golfing, hiking and canoeing groups. He was also an avid reader, pen and ink artist, racquetball player, fisherman and cook, well remembered for his Lancashire Hotpot and Sunday dinners. Ken’s love of the outdoors will be honoured with his request to have his ashes scattered in nature at a small family gathering.

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RITCHIE Ruth 1940 - 2015 Mrs. Ruth Rose Ritchie, beloved wife of Mr. Robert Ritchie of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer on Saturday, March 14, 2015 at the age of 74 years. Ruth will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Robert, four daughters; Donna (David) Noble and Bev Thayer, both of Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Barb Kiemele of Innisfail, Alberta and Karen Ritchie of Edmonton, Alberta, ten grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. She will also be sadly missed by three brothers and one sister, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and dear friends.

Ruth was predeceased by a son, Raymond Ritchie. A Memorial Service will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Ruth’s honor may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

SAUNDERS Neil Alexander Oct 24,1941-2015 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Neil Saunders on March 13, 2015. Neil passed away at the Red Deer Hospice surrounded by his family at the age of 73. He was born and raised in Innisfail, Alberta.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Dorothy, daughters Tania and Shannon Saunders and Andrea McLean (Gary), Grandchildren Taylor, Levi Amundson and Alex and Faith McLean. Brother Allen Saunders (Eleanor), sisters Pat Marshall, Bonnie Cummins (Brian) and numerous nieces and nephews, special friends Shawn and Peggy Leonard.

He was predeceased by his parents, Lester and Christine Saunders and brother-in law, Greg Marshall. He was a handy man who enjoyed woodworking and fixing small machinery. We will miss his witty humor and smile. Family and friends are welcomed to an open house at 117 Lampard Crescent, Red Deer from 1:00 to 5:00 pm on March 18. Please come at your convenience during those hours in casual wear.

A sincere thank you to the staff of the Red Deer Hospice.

They were of great comfort to both Neil and family during his final days. Also, thanks to the staff at unit 32 at RDRH, Dr. Peter Bouch, Dr Jacqueline Baker and staff at Sunset manor in Innisfail. In Lieu of flowers, donations to the Red Deer Hospice, 99 Arnot Drive, Red Deer, T4R 3S6 would be greatly appreciated.

Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca

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Found BRENT Richard Neville Oct. 5, 1984 - Mar. 17, 2006 Nine long years have passed since losing our precious son, brother, Brent, a part of us died with Brent on that dark Friday morning, our hearts will forever bleed. The memory will never fade and we will carry Brent with us everywhere we go. On March 17th, 2006 (his Mom’s birthday) Brent was killed by an impaired driver in Calgary.

Brent was 21. Brent’s death has put us into a spiral of grief that countless other victims’ families can relate to.

It is a loss no one can heal and gratefully, a love no one can steal. For all the families suffering the loss of someone you love, you don’t get over it; you just get through it. You don’t get by it, because you can’t get around it. It doesn’t “get better”; it just gets different. Everyday grief puts on a new face. We pray in time the pain gets softer, we learn to be gentle with ourselves and take one day at a time. In time we become good actors and smile for the great memories we have and cry when the lights go out at night for what we cannot change. We believe that we will one day meet again and always keep the faith! The Neville family has created a registered charity for Brent to keep his memory alive and to make sure his short life is not in vain. Every Families worst fear is the community forgets your loved one. To honour Brent - Nev Foundation has a “NEV SUITE” at the Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta, Brent’s charity supports MADD Canada programs and Educational Scholarships. www.nevfoundation.com.

Mom, Dad, Shelley, Ryan, extended family and friends

In Memoriam

BLACK LAB, young unaltered, found on the North end of Red Deer on Thursday, March 12.

Please call 403-506-9256 to claim.

OTIS KEY CHAIN found near the Safety City walking path. Was dropped of at Deer Park Co-op Customer Service to claim.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

Dental

309-3300

790

F/T & P/T Pharmacist positions req’d. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer P/T Professional Medical Secretary needed in Red Deer. Fax: 403-314-0499

In loving memory of our parents GEORGE HOUSEMAN Mar. 17, 2009 MARGUERITE HOUSEMAN Mar. 22, 2014

A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know he’s arrived...

740

BOWER DENTAL CENTER req’s a full time Registered Dental Assistant who is a motivated, committed and passionate individual. We run a high paced practice where experience is an asset, but new grads are welcome. Must be avail. on evenings and one Sat. per month. Very rewarding position. Please send resume to: ebakleh@yahoo.com or apply within office.

Medical

Wonderful Things Packages

710

FULL-TIME in-home caregiver for two children, aged 4 months and 3 years, $10.20/hr., 44 hrs./wk., room and board provided, must have at least one year exp. Duties: bathe, dress, feed, meal prep., and light housekeeping duties. e-mail resume to: xyrilq@yahoo.com P/T F. caregiver wanted for F. quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

403-505-7846

Oilfield

Come in Small

60

Personals

There is a gift in life we cannot buy--It’s the gift of a wonderful Mom and Dad Like the one we had in you.

Forever missed, Doug, Lynda and Wayne

Say Thank You...

A Classified Announcement in our

“Card of Thanks”

Can deliver your message.

309-3300 Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

In Memoriam JUDY BENNETT A silent thought, a secret tear, there’s not a day Mom, that we do not think of you.

Still in memory, you are with us, as you always were before.

Love from Murray, Join and Grant

800

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

Newcart Contracting (1993) Ltd. is looking for a

Certified Safety Trainer Must have valid H2S, First Aid/CPR, Confined Space Entry /Monitor, WHIMIS, and Fall Protection certification. Safety Contractors will also be considered for this position.

Fax, Resume, tickets and current drivers abstract to (403) 729-2396 or E-mail to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com No phone inquiries please

Professionals

810

Celebrations DR. KINASH RETIRING After over 32 years practicing medicine in Lacombe, Alberta; Dr. Barbara Kinash will be retiring, June 15, 2015.

A new physician has been recruited to take over care of her patients and records.

EXP’D. SERVICE ADVISOR for busy dealership req’d.

Send resume to Box 1104, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, March 17, 2015

810

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Truckers/ Drivers

860

stuff

HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $10.88/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible.

No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. Fax: 403-782-9685 or Call 403-848-2356

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full Time Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

TAP HOUSE NORTH (formerly Sam’s Cafe) is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK, Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

Electronics CONTRACT DRIVERS

Misc.

Help

880

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

SPRING START • GED Preparation • THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for • 4 F/T Exp’d LINE COOKS at all stations. MUST HAVE: 2 yrs. relevant exp., completion of High School, be reliable, self motivated, work well under limited supervision in fast paced environment.

Salary is $14 - $18./hr. 40 hr. wk. dependant on exp.

733644 Ab Ltd. O/A The Rusty Pelican Location of employment: 4105 2079 - 50 Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1Z4 email: bennett2014.bkkp@ gmail.com or Call 403-347-1414 or Fax to: 403-347-1161 Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N Trades 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift ACADEMIC Express weekend day and evening ADULT EDUCATION both full and part time.

AND TRAINING 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. SPRING START Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience • GED Preparation not req’d.

Apply in person or fax • Women in the Trades resume to: 403-314-1303 Program

850

JJAM Management (1987) • Math and Science for Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s the Trades Program Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: Gov’t of Alberta Funding 5111 22 St. may be available.

37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 403-340-1930 700 3020 22 St. www.academicexpress.ca FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift FULL TIME Golf Course weekend day and evening Mechanic. Send resume to both full and part time.

Turf@golfsylvanlake.com 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. SHOP HELP AND/OR Job description APPRENTICE MECHANIC www.timhortons.com REQ’D IMMED. Education and experience Truck exp. preferred. not req’d.

8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of BlackApply in person or fax falds. Fax: 403-784-2330 resume to: 403-314-1303 Phone: 403-784-3811

Restaurant/ Hotel

WANTED

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PS3 with 7 games $140; 403-782-3847

STEREO with radio, cassette & LP, one unit, with clear lid & quality speakers, $30.

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

Women in the Trades Program

1660

AFFORDABLE

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Math and Science for Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. the Trades Program avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.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

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

10’ of bottom cabinets, 6’ of top cabinets, good for garage/shed, $125 403-886-2542 INGLIS FRIDGE, almond runs perfect, EXC.cond, great for garage or cottage $100 403-886-2542 LAMPS, (2) electric, 25 yrs. $20. for both; over 100 LP records, all for $100.; Misc. collection of matches, $5.

403-885-5020

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Opportunities 30 peacock feathers for home decorations or for fly fish hooks $1/ea. large fruit bowl, grape design, $5.

403-346-2231 ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed

For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

VACUUM, wet/dry Stinger, new in box, 2.5 gal. $25; (2) new plastic saw horses, $20. pr.; 2 new swivel padded, moving dollies, 30”x18”, $35; dble. stainless steel sink, $15; pr. of (NEW in box) Steel toed, lined work boots, sz.

11/12, $30.; 1 pr. new winter, side zip, boots, sz.

11/12, $20; 403-358-5568

FILING CABINET, 2 drawer metal $10.

403-885-5020

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Cats

FREE to good home. 2 affectionate litter trained, 6 mo. old, 1 white, 1 grey, short haired, prefer to give away together 403-848-0044

With 38 papers, approximately: $199.00/mo.

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301 NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

PINES Pearson & Pennington Cres., Pamley Ave. & Piper Dr. JOHNSTONE PARK

1900

Travel Packages

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

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Condos/ Townhouses

LARGE scooter wanted FOUND

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www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1395 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. & Apr. 1 References required.

CLASSIFICATIONS

3050

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 4 Plexes/ WANTED • 3250-3390 6 Plexes

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

3030

SEIBEL PROPERTY

1930

Wanted To Buy

1800

Office Supplies

ORIOLE PARK 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage. Avail.

April 1st. 403-304-5337

4 BDRM. 2 1/2 bath, 5 appls, garage $1695 mo.

SHINY Black F. Kitten, 403-782-7156 or 357-7465 6 mos., very cuddly & Suites FOR LEASE, Executive affectionate, completely style 1/2 duplex in litter trained. Desperately Lacombe on large lot.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. needs loving home. FREE 4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. apartments, avail. immed, 403-782-3130 garage, no pets, N/S. rent $875 403-596-6000 403-588-2740 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. HALF DUPLEX, front/back Dogs split, 2 bdrm. 2 car garage, SUITES. 25+, adults only gas incl. $1150/mo., n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 CHINESE pug 7 yrs old to 403-886-5342 357-7817 give away to good home.

You can sell your guitar Call 403-304-6283 for a song...

1 & 2 bdrm. Adult bldg. or put it in CLASSIFIEDS only, N/S No pets Sporting and we’ll sell it for you!

403-596-2444 Goods INNISFAIL older 3 bdrm. house, lrg. lot. $975/mo. NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 5’ Mistral Rivet 58 Snow- 403-886-5342 or 357-7817 2 bedroom suites available board with size 9 boots in central location. Heat & and bindings $125.00 WEST PARK water included. Cat friendcall 403-728-3485 Just completely reno’d. 3 ly. 86 Bell Street, Red bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., leasing@rentmidHEADACHE rack for 1/2 large fenced yard, $1400 Deer west.com 1(888) 679-8031 ton $140 403-343-1576 mo. $1000. d.d.

Classifieds...costs so little Avail. now or Apr. 1.

403-304-5337 Saves you so much!

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MORRISROE MANOR

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Advocate Opportunities

Condos/ Townhouses

For ANDERS Area ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW AREA Cole St., Cardinal Ave, and Cosgrove Cl. $105.12/mo. also Carpenter St. area and Cunningham Cres. $75.22/mo.

EASTVIEW AREA

3030

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

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

Eastman Cres. and Edge Close appox. $60.00/mo.

Edis Cl. and 2 blks. of Ellenwood Dr. $55.28/mo.

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

MOUNTVIEW AREA

Springfield Crossing

43A Ave. West to 46 Ave. Between 35 & 37 St. $63.00/mo.

KENTWOOD

CARRIERS REQUIRED

MICHENER AREA

Kingston Dr. & Kendall Cres.

60 & 61 Ave. ALSO 60A & 61 St. WESTPARK

Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

Webster Dr., Weddel Cres., Welch & Williams Close AlSO Woodsworth, Wallace & Waghorn Close

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres., Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres. Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.

517807C4-19

BOWER AREA

830

Red Deers Busiest RV Store

Boyce St. / Byer Close Barrett Drive

1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

SALES POSITION

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

Isaacson Cres. / Irwin Ave. Iverson Close

COUNTERTOPS & kitchen renovations.

Wes 403-302-1648

MORRISROE AREA

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

LANCASTER AREA

Uncle Ben’s is now hiring for a full time Sales Position. Experience is preferred but not required. Bene½ts & bonus program offered.

Accounting

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres.

Savoy Close / Sydney Close

Lord Close SOUTHBROOK AREA Sorrensen/Sisson Ave. VANIER AREA

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

CLASSIFICATIONS

INGLEWOOD AREA

McCullough Cres.

McDougall Cres.

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

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FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

1 day a week in:

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

CARRIERS NEEDED 3 days per week, no weekends

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $209.00/mo.

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Electrical

1150

1165

Escorts

KAYLA 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Electrical

1150

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Free Est. 403-872-8888 Pampering at its BEST! Roofing 403-986-6686 Come in and see ROOFING LTD. why we are the talk PRECISE 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. of the town.

403-896-4869

1370

Misc.

Services

1372

Seniors’ Services

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

HELPING HANDS

1290

Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

1420

Property clean up 505-4777

Window Cleaning

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree removal.

403-358-1614

Robust Window Cleaning outside/inside or both. Free quotes. 403-506-4822

SNOW shoveling/dump runs/ odd jobs 403-885-5333

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Electrical

1150

1150

Electrical

Can’t Find What You’re Looking For?

TRY US! • Mechanical Seals • Circulating Pumps

GREAT SELECTION AND SERVICE! • Exhaust Fans • HVAC Motors

• Motor Capacitors • Pump Impellers

Victor Close Viscount Drive

526104C12-18

If you are a career minded person who wants to thrive in an exciting industry, then please leave your resume to the attention of Sales Manager at Reception Desk or: E-mail: bcummerford@unclebensrv.com Fax: 403-346-1055

1760

Misc. for Sale

1760

Misc. for Sale

To deliver the

820

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

1730

TV's, VCRs

INTELEVISION with games $140; 403-782-3847

RIVERSIDE MEADOWS

Sales & Distributors

SOFA STYLE hide-a-bed, Like New. $125.; 2 table lamp sets, colored glass stems and metal base, $10. set; 403-346-2192 Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

FULL and PART TIME • Kitchen Staff Send resume to: FandB@golfsylvanlake.com

FULL and part-time F/T dishwasher, cooks and bus persons needed for varying shifts, including weekends. Exc. wages and benefits.

Call 403-346-5448 for appointment.

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Household Furnishings

7018 Johnstone Drive, Red Deer

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

www.pumpsandpressure.com

403-347-9770 EDMONTON 780-430-9359

CALGARY 403-263-7207

LEDUC 780-980-9294

GRANDE PRAIRIE 780-539-9939

1-888-430-9359

SASKATOON 306-242-6622

BRANDON 204-728-9303

517802D2

Professionals

BURNABY 604-434-2188

WORLD

D3

TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2015

Suicide bombers strike outside churches PAKISTAN Witnesses said the bombers targeted a crowded gate when a large group of worshippers was waiting to enter one of the churches.

Life in Pakistan is increasingly dangerous for religious minorities, especially Christians. They have been targeted by extremist Sunni Muslim militants and are also discriminated against in the wider society, where they are often limited to menial jobs like garbage collection.

U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Monday spoke up for the rights of Pakistani minorities.

“The United States stands in solidarity with the people and government of Pakistan in confronting this type of extremist violence,” she said. “We support the right of every person to practice religion without fear of intimidation, death, coercion or any form of reprisal. This is a basic human right both in Pakistan and throughout the world.”

Much of the country is already on edge after years of militant violence including an attack on a Peshawar school in December that killed 150 people — mostly students.

The angry crowd attacked two people they thought were connected to the attack, and burned them to death while others attacked buses in the city, said deputy inspector general of police Haider Ashraf. Two police officers who were protecting the churches were also killed in the explosions, which Ashraf confirmed were caused by suicide bombers.

A spokesman for the Punjab provincial government, Zaeem Qadri, also said it was unfortunate that the mob had killed the two suspects rather than turning them over to police. He said

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAHORE, Pakistan — A pair of suicide bombers attacked two churches in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday as worshippers prayed inside — killing 15 people in the latest assault against religious minorities in this increasingly fractured country, officials said.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Ahsanullah Ahsan, claimed responsibility for the assault in a statement emailed to reporters, and warned, “There will be more of such attacks.”

Afterward, an angry Christian mob blocked a major highway, ransacked a bus terminal and burned two people to death who they suspected of being involved in the attacks. Christian demonstrators blocked roads in other major Pakistani cities as well.

The explosions occurred in quick succession in the Christian neighbourhood of Youhanabad at two churches while parishioners worshipped at Sunday morning services. The churches are about 600 metres (650 yards) apart.

At least 70 people were wounded, said Zahid Pervez, the provincial director general of health, who gave the death toll.

Area hospitals filled with casualties and scenes of mourning. Shaheen Bibi’s 10-year-old son Abhishak was among those killed.

“My son had gone to the church to pray for a good result in his examinations,” Bibi said as she cried and struck her head against the chest of a relative. “He wanted me to sew him some new clothes if he passed his examinations.”

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MOVE IN TODAY 1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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394,700 or consider offer 403 346 2174

SUV's

Trucks

5050

Automotive Services

5010

5160

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Tires, Parts Acces.

authorities are reinforcing security at the 481 remaining churches across the city.

Militants attacks targeting minorities have intensified recently, including attacks on a string of mosques belonging Shiite Muslims, a minority in Pakistan. In 2013, twin blasts at a church in Peshawar killed 85 people.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has his power base in Lahore and his party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, also runs the Punjab government, where his brother is chief minister. The provincial government has been accused in the past of not doing enough to protect religious minorities and fight extremist groups based in the province.

Nigerian troops oust Boko Haram from town

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian troops have ousted Boko Haram from a northeastern town while Cameroon soldiers killed several of the extremists in an attack on a Nigerian village, military officials reported Monday of the latest successes in a multinational bid to curb the Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria.

“FLASH: Nigerian troops have this afternoon routed terrorists from Bama ... Mopping up operation is ongoing,” the Nigerian Defence Headquarters announced on Twitter.

An earlier tweet Monday said they had “completed clearing terrorists out of Goniri” in neighbouring Yobe state.

By last week, the regional offensive that began at the end of January had liberated 36 towns, Mike Omeri, the Nigerian government spokesman on the insurgency, said Wednesday.

Cameroon Col. Jacob Kodji said

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The Cameroonians acted after Ndaba residents reported that Boko Haram militants were massing in the hills around the village, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the border with Cameroon, Kodji said.

The militants were believed to have been fleeing from Nigerian air raids on Bama, he said.

Boko Haram seized Bama in December and published a video showing gunmen mowing down civilians lying face down in what looks like a school dorm there. A leader says they are being killed because they are “infidels” or non-believers.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IRBIL, Iraq — Kurdish forces in Iraq are investigating two other possible chemical weapons attacks by the Islamic State group, a top official said Monday, as authorities put an Iraqi offensive to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown on hold.

The two purported chemical weapon assaults resemble one claimed Saturday by Kurdish officials who say an independent laboratory concluded the militants used chlorine gas against its peshmerga forces in a Jan. 23 truck suicide attack. However, their claims were not immediately verified by international authorities.

Iraqi officials and Kurds fighting in Syria have made similar allegations about the militants using the low-grade chemical weapons against them. The Islamic State group, which controls a third of Syria and Iraq in its self-declared caliphate, has not commented on the claims.

Gen. Aziz Wesi, in charge of a Kurdish special forces brigade, told journalists Monday that authorities declined to immediately discuss the two newly announced attacks when they happened on Dec. 26 and Jan. 18 out of fears of causing a panic.

Kurdish officials have offered footage of the aftermath of the Dec. 26 attack, which shows fighters coughing and pouring water over their heads after another suicide truck bombing that authorities say wounded some 60 men.

“I put a wet scarf on my face because when I saw the gas, I felt it,” said Capt. Mohammad Sewdin, who leads the Kurdish special forces unit targeted in the December attack. “I was afraid it might be something like (chemical weapons). So I told my men to do the same.”

Sewdin told The Associated Press he was temporarily blinded for six hours after the attack and coughed up blood. He and others were hospitalized.

On Saturday, the Kurdistan Region Security Council offered video and lab results it said proved the Islamic State group used chlorine in the Jan. 23 suicide truck bomb.

There has been no independent confirmation of any of the Kurds’ claims.

Peter Sawczak, a spokesman for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has monitored Syria dismantling its chemical weapons stockpile, said Monday that no member state had requested an investigation into the Kurdish claims.

“We’re concerned about any allegation of chemical weapons use,” Sawczak said. “We’re in touch daily with Iraq about the security situation.”

Chlorine, an industrial chemical, was first introduced as a chemical weapon at Ypres in World War I with disastrous effects as gas masks were not widely available at the time. While chlorine has many industrial and public uses, as a weapon it chokes victims to death.

Most nations banned its use in war in the Geneva Protocol of 1925.

There have been several allegations that the Islamic State group has used chlorine previously. In October, Iraqi officials claimed Islamic State militants may have used chlorine-filled cylinders during clashes in late September in the towns of Balad and Duluiya. Their disclosures came as reports from the Syrian border town of Kobani indicated that the extremist group added chlorine to an arsenal that already includes heavy weapons and tanks looted from captured military bases.

Insurgents have used chlorine gas in Iraq before. In May 2007, suicide bombers driving chlorine tankers struck three cities in Anbar province, killing two police officers and forcing about 350 Iraqi civilians and six U.S. troops to seek treatment for gas exposure. Those bombers belonged to alQaida in Iraq, which later became the Islamic State group.

The Kurdish claims also come on the 27th anniversary Monday of the 1988 Halabja massacre, which saw Saddam use chemical weapons on the Kurdish village, killing an estimated 5,000 people.

Peshmerga fighters also recaptured three villages Monday from the Islamic State group west of Kirkuk with the help of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Sheikh Jaafar Barzanchi said.

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Kurdish soldiers investigate the inside of a vehicle abandoned by Islamic State group militants in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers north of Kirkuk, Iraq. Monday. Kurdish forces in Iraq are investigating three possible chemical weapons attacks by the Islamic State group, a top official said Monday, as authorities put an Iraqi offensive to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown on hold.

Meanwhile Monday, Iraqi Interior Minister Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban said the offensive to retake the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit will be on hold until civilians in Saddam Hussein’s hometown can flee and roadside bombs can be cleared.

Speaking to reporters from the nearby city of Samarra, he said Islamic State militants booby-trapped roads and buildings leading into Tikrit, slowing the Iraqi forces, aided by Iranian advisers.

“The militants are squeezed into a small part of the city centre,” al-Ghabban said.

He offered no timeframe for the advance to resume, saying that is being “left to the field commanders.” So far,

Putin resurfaces after 10-day absence from public eye

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin resurfaced Monday, smiling and looking his normal self after a 10-day absence from public view that fueled a wave of rumours about his health.

Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev, who met with Putin in St. Petersburg’s ornate Konstantin Palace on Monday, referred to the swirling speculation about Putin by noting that the Russian leader was in good shape.

He said Putin drove him around the palace’s park before the talks, adding that “the president of Russia not only walks, but speeds around.”

“It would be dull without gossip,” Putin retorted with a smile.

The 62-year-old Russian leader was last seen in public on March 5, when he hosted Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

The Kremlin insisted that he continued holding official meetings after that, and released photos and video of Putin at meetings on national television, but Russian media suggested the images had actually been shot much earlier.

Putin’s decision to abruptly postpone a trip to Kazakhstan planned for last week fueled speculation that he was unwell or isolated by a palace coup. A Swiss newspaper claimed that Putin had travelled to Switzerland, where it said his reported girlfriend — former Olympic gold-winning gymnast Alina Kabayeva — had given birth to their baby.

The Kremlin has denied

all those allegations.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov greeted reporters Monday with sarcastic remarks: “So, have you seen the president paralyzed and seized by the generals? He has just come back from Switzerland, where he attended the delivery.”

Asked if Putin’s condition required treatment by an osteopath, the spokesman retorted: “Yes, the osteopath was with the generals.”

The sarcastic comments appeared to reflect the Kremlin’s dismay with the rumours and its inability to stop them. On a more serious note, Peskov added that the Kremlin has grown tired of refuting speculation about Putin’s condition.

“The more we talk about it, the more intense (the speculation) becomes,” he

the campaign is not being aided by U.S.-led airstrikes, which continue in elsewhere in Iraq and Syria.

Tikrit, the capital of Salahuddin province, lies about 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of Baghdad. It is one of the largest cities held by Islamic State militants and lies on the road connecting Baghdad to Mosul. Retaking it will help Iraqi forces have a major supply link for any future operation to retake Mosul.

U.S. military officials have that said a co-ordinated military mission to retake Mosul likely will begin in April or May and involve up to 25,000 Iraqi troops. But the Americans have cautioned that if the Iraqis are not ready, the offensive could be delayed.

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Putin’s sudden disappearance from the public eye coincided with a moment of high tension in Russia’s domestic politics. Many Putin foes held him responsible for the Feb. 27 killing of top opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, even as the Russian leader described Nemtsov’s slaying on a bridge in Moscow as a “disgrace” and a “provocation.”

Some observers speculated the arrest of five ethnic Chechens, including a senior police officer, suspected of involvement in Nemtsov’s killing signalled a fierce turf battle between Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, and top Russian officials from federal law-enforcement agencies who resent the feisty strongman.

Los Angeles prosecutors have filed a murder charge against real estate heir Robert Durst that could carry the death penalty.

Prosecutors said Durst was charged Monday with first-degree murder in the killing of his friend, Susan Berman.

Durst was arrested in New Orleans over the weekend on a murder warrant and waived extradition to return to Los Angeles to face the charges.

Berman had acted as Durst’s spokeswoman after his wife disappeared in 1982.

She was shot in the back of the head in her Los Angeles home in December 2000 just before New York authorities planned to interview her about Kathleen Durst’s disappearance.

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Recipes for really fun gatherings CANDY SUSHI FOR KIDS, CINNAMON BUNS FOR ADULTS THE CANADIAN PRESS Whether it’s a sleepover or birthday party, it’s fun to get children involved in planning and helping to make food to entertain their friends, says Julie Van Rosendaal, coauthor with Jan Scott of the cookbook Gatherings: Bringing People Together With Food (Whitecap Books).

“Having great sleepover parties is one of the pleasures of childhood,” says Van Rosendaal.

“I think there’s a swing back to home birthday parties. I think kids birthday parties may have been getting a little out of control in terms of going out to different locations and spending a lot of money, so I think there’s a new trend to home birthday parties where you have games and food and cake.”

When it comes time to plan a party for adults and kids, it’s often easier to gather for a weekend brunch than a Saturday evening. Brunch can be less expensive because people’s appetites aren’t usually as large at midday and they tend not to drink as much.

You could get away with a couple bottles of Prosecco or other sparkling wine.

“I always like to make cinnamon buns because they make people so happy,” says Van Rosendaal. “I like the idea of having something cooking when people arrive so the house smells good.”

To save time, prep the cinnamon buns the night before and bake in the morning to serve with coffee and fruit.

These recipes are from Gatherings.

CANDY SUSHI PLATTER Creating sushi look-alikes with candy is a cinch, and this colourful confection is certain to be popular with partygoers, whether it’s a birthday or a casual sleepover. This recipe makes two types of sushi, maki rolls and nigiri-style pieces with faux fish on top, but you can omit the instructions for one or the other and make all of your sushi identical, if desired.

Rice crisp cereal squares (recipe follows) Assorted candies (gummy fish, gummy worms, jelly beans, brightly coloured taffy, fruit leather, etc.)

Chopsticks To make nigiri-style sushi: Slice regular-sized crisp rice squares into thin rectangles.

Place a gummy fish or gummy worm on top, then wrap a thin piece of fruit leather around base of candy and over fish, securing it in place by pressing edges of fruit leather together.

To make maki-style sushi: Flatten a rice square using a rolling pin. Lay it on top of a piece of fruit leather. Cut long, thin slices of red, orange and green taffy and lay lengthwise across rice square. Roll candy up into a cylinder and slice into pieces.

To make pickled ginger: Cut a piece of orange taffy into thin slices and roll it out with a rolling pin. Starting with one end, wind candy into a spiral, leaving a little space between each layer.

To make wasabi: Slice green jelly beans in half and pile together.

Serve with chopsticks.

Makes as many as needed.

BROWN RICE CRISP TREATS This healthier alternative to

traditional rice crisp treats is fairly forgiving, so feel free to experiment with other nut butters if you like.

15 ml (1 tbsp) canola oil 150 ml (2/3 cup) natural peanut or almond butter 150 ml (2/3 cup) brown rice syrup or honey 5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla 1.5 l (6 cups) brown rice cereal Grease inside of a 20-cm (8-inch) square baking pan with oil and set aside.

In a medium saucepan set over medium heat, combine peanut butter, brown rice syrup and vanilla and heat until thick and syrupy, about 2 minutes.

In a large bowl, place cereal and pour syrup mixture over it, mixing thoroughly. Press cereal into prepared pan with back of a rubber spatula or spoon.

Transfer to fridge and refrigerate for 1 hour. Cut into squares or rectangles with a sharp knife.

Store in fridge for up to 2 days.

Makes 9 large or 16 small treats.

TOP; The cookbook Gatherings is shown in a handout photo. What’s important about food is that it brings people together. To miss out on that experience because you’re intimidated by cooking for others is a shame, says Julie Van Rosendaal, who with co-author Jan Scott

offers plenty of tips on how to host social occasions with food.

BELOW; Creating sushi lookalikes with candy is a cinch,

and this colourful birthday party confection is certain to be popular with partygoers.

BOTTOM; Cinnamon buns are shown in a handout photo Photos by THE CANADIAN PRESS

ULTIMATE GOOEY CINNAMON BUNS Whether you’re celebrating Easter or Christmas or just want to make an ordinary weekend morning extra special, this recipe will do the trick. If you anticipate a busy morning (or just don’t have the gumption to bake immediately after waking up), prepare these buns the night before, then cover and refrigerate — this will slow the rise, and in the morning you need only set them on the counter for half an hour to take the chill off before sliding them into the oven to bake.

Dough 125 ml (1/2 cup) warm water 15 ml (1 tbsp) active dry yeast 125 ml (1/2 cup) sugar, divided 250 ml (1 cup) milk, warmed 2 large eggs 1.25 l (5 cups) all-purpose flour, divided 125 ml (1/2 cup) butter, room temperature 5 ml (1 tsp) salt Goo 125 ml (1/2 cup) butter 250 ml (1 cup) packed brown sugar 75 ml (1/3 cup) Rogers’ or Lyle’s golden syrup, corn syrup or honey 50 ml (1/4 cup) water 250 ml (1 cup) pecan halves (optional) Filling 50 ml (1/4 cup) butter, melted 250 ml (1 cup) packed dark brown sugar 10 ml (2 tsp) cinnamon (approx) Dough: In a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, place warm water and sprinkle it with yeast and a pinch of the sugar.

Let stand for 5 minutes or until foamy. (If it doesn’t foam, toss it and buy fresh yeast.)

In a small bowl, mix warm milk and eggs together with a fork. Add to yeast mixture along with 750 ml (3 cups) of the flour and remaining sugar; mix until well blended and sticky.

Add butter, salt and remaining flour and stir or beat with dough hook attachment of stand mixer until you have a soft, sticky dough. Knead for about 8 minutes, until smooth and elastic. It will still be slightly tacky.

Return dough to bowl, cover with a tea towel and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled in bulk.

Meanwhile, make goo: In a small saucepan, combine but-

ter, brown sugar, syrup and water and bring to a simmer, stirring until butter is melted. Divide between 2 buttered pie plates, two 23-cm (9-inch) cake pans or two 20-cm (8-inch) square pans, pouring it over bottom.

If you like, scatter with pecan halves.

Buns: Divide dough in half and, on a lightly floured surface, roll each half into a rectangle that’s about 25 by 38 (10 by 15 inches), or even slightly bigger, even and about 1 cm (1/2 inch) thick. Brush each piece with half the melted butter and scatter with brown sugar; evenly

distribute sugar with your hand.

Sprinkle with cinnamon.

Starting on a long side, roll dough up into a log and, using a serrated knife, cut it crosswise into thirds. Cut each of those 3 log-shaped pieces into thirds again (you should end up with 9 even pieces).

Place 9 pieces into each pan, cut side facing up, with one bun in middle and rest around it, or in the case of a square pan, in 3 rows of 3. Cover with a tea towel and let rise for another hour, until doubled in bulk. (If you’re making them the night before, cover and place in the

fridge for a slow rise; remove from fridge and leave on counter for 30 minutes or so before baking.)

When ready to bake, preheat oven to 180 C (350 F). Put a baking sheet on the rack underneath (to catch any drips) and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until they turn a deep golden.

Let cool for 5 to 10 minutes, but invert onto a plate while still warm. (If you wait too long and they get stuck in the pan, slide back into a hot oven to rewarm goo, then try again.) Eat warm.

Makes 1 1/2 dozen cinnamon buns.

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