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CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF IMPROVING LIVES NEXT WEEKEND IN LACOMBE. TO MARK THE OCCASION, ADVOCATE NEWS EDITOR CAMERON KENNEDY HAS WRITTEN A BOOK LOOKING AT THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE NOT-FORPROFIT ORGANIZATION, WHICH FINDS ITSELF AT A CROSSROADS

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Charity at a turning point

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF When Cameron Kennedy began writing about the unique humanitarian work done by A Better World — which gives 100 per cent of all donations to global causes — he had no idea he’d be marking a crossroads for the Lacombe charity.

Kennedy’s book, Journey of Hope, Celebrating 25 Years of A Better World Canada, reveals that Eric Rajah, the group’s founder, executive director and passionate promoter, had hoped to step down as of April 30 to take on a different philanthropic role in the organization. This leaves the non-profit’s steering committee with a big, and rather atypical, hole to fill.

Rajah is not only charismatic, influential and committed to humanitarian projects in Kenya and Afghanistan, he devotes hundreds of thousands of hours to the charity strictly as a volunteer. As the owner of a thriving IT business, Rajah is financially secure enough not to take a salary from A Better World, which does not pay for administrative expenses.

Kennedy’s book also poses a larger question than who will take over from Rajah.

A Better World was started in 1989 under the auspices of the College Heights Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lacombe. Although its mission was always to help others without ethnic, religious or political biases, there’s now a move afoot to make the charity a private not-for-profit development agency.

As Rajah states in the book: “My argument to the committee has been, ‘Look, we cannot have six people, all of us members of the College Heights Adventist Church, representing the majority of donors and constituents who are not.’ At some point in time that has to be reconciled.”

But the question remains: would A Better World’s existence be threatened if its relationship with the church was to change?

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Cameron Kennedy with his book Journey of Hope: Celebrating 25 years of A Better World Canada.

Please see BOOK on Page A3

AN EXCERPT FROM JOURNEY OF HOPE

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isfigured and disabled by a house fire that she survived as a toddler, Janet Auma is accustomed to overcoming challenges.

Auma was one of A Better World’s early success stories, and she became something of a poster child for the organization. With financial support from A Better World, the Kenyan girl underwent nine surgeries and six skin grafts to help her regain sight in her right eye, remove some scar tissue that had fused her head to her shoulder, and repair some of the damage done to her face, upper body and remaining hand.

Now a 26-year-old with a broad smile and a nervous laugh, Auma has been facing her greatest challenge yet: deciding what to do for a career as an independent adult.

“There is nothing which I can not do,” Auma said confidently at an outdoor restaurant in the city of Nakuru. “I can cook. I can wash my own clothes. There is nothing that people are doing for me.” . . . . Upon graduating from high school in 2010, Auma enrolled in a computer program in the Kenya In-

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H talEager to capitalRAJA ERIC g afize on her training y b ss hoto sine , ter graduating from u ed p t b u e b tri Con KITI in Decemberr 2012, g , a Lacomb N a in Auma approached A Betici P a t r iversity he poster World about the d n n a a n U sibility of starting her own A u m t Burma an. t e s. Auma textiles business.

J a n ctor a iness pl there at A Betsaid she hoped that s ru inst on a bu is nobody ter World would invest in k at home who can wor he wished it. Failing that, she help them,” said Auma, rld would that A Better World the youngest of seven children ney to build give her some money daughter “I’m the — and the only daughter. h rooms off a house. Renting the the house would provide her with a only girl, and all of my brothers have steady monthly income, which she already married, so it’s up to me (to would use to care for her elderly par- support them).” ents back home in Kendu Bay. “They are growing very old, and Continued on Page A3

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The public can help mark A Better W World’s 25th anniversary at several ev events this month.

An April 25 celebration will be held at the church of Burman University (forme merly Canadian University College) in La Lacombe.

At 9 a.m., five guest speakers from Ke Kenya — Janet Auma, Ken Hill, Berna nard Opiyo, Ted Proud and Charles Mu Muraguri — will speak about their experie riences and relationship with the charity ity. Then at 11 a.m., A Better World’s fou founder and outgoing executive director Er Eric Rajah will talk, “celebrating what’s rig right with the world.”

Everyone is welcome to hear these sp speakers. Admission is free.

That same day at 3 p.m., author C Cameron Kennedy will officially launch his book Journey of Hope, Celebrating 25 Years of A Better W World Canada at the Lacombe Memoria rial Centre. The publication costs $80, wit with proceeds going towards building a pre preschool for 90 students in Kenya.

On Saturday, April 30, sponsors Go Gord and Kathy Bontje will host a dinne ner at 6 p.m. at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club. There will be entertainment, and Rajah and the Kenyan guest speakers will again be featured. Tickets are $50, with proceeds going towards A Better World programs.

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BOOK: Proceeds go to build nursery school in Kenya In Journey of Hope, Kennedy states the prospect of continuing without Rajah was unthinkable five years ago, but volunteers are now “cautiously optimistic” that, with a steering committee and succession plan in place, A Better World will not only survive, but thrive.

“Regardless of what happens, A Better World will still be around,” he predicted. “Whether it will be the same organization, we don’t know. ...”

Kennedy, who is news editor at the Red Deer Advocate, was inspired by the charity’s unusual approach to providing humanitarian assistance during three trips he took with A Better World between 2007 and 2012 — two to Afya. ghanistan and one to Kenya. glish-language Having worked for English-language h and Vietnewspapers in Bangladesh me cynical nam, Kennedy had become e inafter observing ineffective ternational charitable efforts, in which a huge portion of donated funds were either siphoned off by corrupt officials or spent to cover excessive administrative costs.

Kenya has examples of empty medical clinics lt and schools that were built fit by other Western non-profit ned groups, and later abandoned because the projects did not om get enough local buy-in from their communities.

Journey of Hope details how A Better World operates differelopently than most other developding that ment agencies by demanding locals take ownership of new projects and bring something to the table — usually volunteerr labour. perates The Lacombe charity operates primarily through supportt from volunteers (Kennedy said its bookkeeper and part-time operations manager are paid by sponsors who specifically stepped up to provide these salaries).

The group partners with charitable schools and orphanages with established track records in Afghanistan and Kenya to help expand on their successes.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 18, 2015 A3 statement from a disabled citizen of a country that often hides people with . . . . Auma’s not the only one to ‘THE SCHOOL GAVE mental or physical abnormalities. wonder what she will do with the Kennedy wanted to write about (JANET) THE BASIC rest of her life. A Better World is A Better World because he was imalso concerned about where the TOOLS. NOW WE NEED pressed with Rajah, and the unique young woman will end up. Auma model for international assistance preTO TEACH HER HOW TO presents an interesting challenge sented by his charity. “It’s the fact that for the organization. A Better World APPLY THEM IN THE REAL 100 per cent of donations go to projhas supported her for more than 20 WORLD.’ ects,” he said, that piqued his interest. years, and yet she doesn’t fit neatly Interviews for the book, which is within its current community devel— ERIC RAJAH Kennedy’s first, were done during 2011 opment model.

CO-FOUNDER, A BETTER WORLD and during his 2013 trip to Kenya. Oth(Eric) Rajah said A Better World er information came from articles he could invest in her business befrom follow-up discussions about it wrote for the Advocate after his earlier cause the organization has had a during a subsequent trip to Kenya, Afghanistan trips. long-standing relationship with her, that Auma lacked a basic underThe text was compiled over the last and it would be similar to a microfistanding of how to start, much less two years in Central Alberta. (Kennedy nance project or an internship prooperate, her own business. wryly noted it was a long process since gram in the organization’s model.

“The wise thing we did was not he and his wife have full-time jobs and The key difference, however, is that to send the money to start the busiare also raising two young sons.)

A Better World already knows the ness,” said Rajah. “I was sold on the He aimed to paint a picture of A people who participate in its miidea, but not after talking to her.”

Better World’s past, present and fucrofinance projects or apply for an Rajah said Auma’s best immediture. Even in 2011, Kennedy recalled internship are capable of running a ate option was to keep working as discussions about whether the charbusiness. Not so with Auma. an apprentice for a seamstress in ity had reached its limit or whether it Rajah said it quickly became Nakuru and learn as much as she could broaden its scope, “get bigger clear from reading the original busi- could from that experience, and and try to do more. … That discussion ness proposal that Auma the organization could re-evaluate is still ongoing,” added the author, who submitted to A Bet Betthe proposa proposal after a year. A Better believes A Better World is now at an ter World, World also planned to hire Auma to important junction. and sew school uniforms for the 580 stu“Replacing Eric is not going to be dents at Nd Ndanai Small Home for the easy. ...”

Physically Challenged. That project Proceeds from Journey of Hope will, could provi provide a solid foundation for at Kennedy’s request, fund the Tulwap her busine business, he said.

Early Childhood Development Centre “The sch school gave her the basic near Kericho, Kenya. Two classrooms, tools,” said Rajah. “Now we need to office and storage space will be built teach her how to apply them in the to serve more than 90 students, aged worl real world.” three to six.

In 2013, he saw children about as old as his own sons, studying outdoors. hav helped to make them who have “It’s not conducive to learning,” said succes successful.

But he doesn’t sidestep Kennedy. “When it rains, they have contro controversy, such as an episode to go into something that looks like a Ke in Kenya in which a school adshipping container, made out of cormini ministrator was found to have rugated tin. They had no books or comemb embezzled money meant for puters, or any of the other things my con construction and upkeep projH kids have.”

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by E i At his children’s Red Deer elemeno t x o i ph Local people are introted to s ave tary school, student art decorates core tribu e n r h d duced who have benefitted o C ridor walls. not d th ffrom the charity, such as Jaage ya, do s t “These kids don’t even have four n n e e net Auma, who essentially stud lwap, K own. walls. I’d like all the money (from the 0 9 r became A Better World’s an f Tu all thei book) to go to that.” ty o e th poster child in Africa. c Journey of Hope, Celebrating 25 Years Mor ommuni oms to Auma w was horribly disfigured and c o of A Better World Canada will be offithe r classr Mon- disabled in a house fire. With finane cially released at the charity’s 25th aney is raised prop cial suppor support from A Better World, she niversary celebration on April 25. An for new water underwent nine surgeries and six skin $80 full-colour, 200-page coffee-table wells, classrooms and grafts. Alth Although she lost one hand afbook can be ordered from ckennedy@ health clinics. A Better World ter the fire fire, she regained sight in her reddeeradvocate.com or from A Betalso regularly mobilizes volunteer right eye, and had scar tissue removed ter World, at 403-782-0325. A $30 ebook North American medical practitioners that once fused her head to her shoulto offer free travelling health clinics in der. She now works as an apprentice to version is also available from printon-demand publisher Blurb.com from the developing world. a seamstress in Nakuru.

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Neighbours help take down robbery suspect Neighbours helped Red Deer RCMP nab a man who broke into a house in Anders subdivision on April 11.

The break-in was captured on video by neighbours, allowing them to recognize the man when he walked through the neighbourhood a few days later.

The 35-year-old man has been charged with breaking and entering.

He makes his next appearance in Red Deer provincial court April 22.

The break and enter occurred during the day when the homeowners were out. The suspect gained access by kicking in the garage door and then entering the house through the adjoining door. Once inside, the suspect stole cash, jewelry and passports. The passports were recovered on April 13.

On April 14, RCMP received a report that vigilant neighbours had spotted the suspect walking through the same neighbourhood and recognized him from their surveillance video.

Police attended immediately and took the suspect into custody without incident.

“This is a great example of how getting to know your neighbours improves neighbourhood safety. Police can’t be everywhere, and we rely on citizens to be the eyes and ears,” says Cpl. Leanne Molzahn of the Red Deer RCMP. “These neighbours knew their area and did a great job spotting a suspicious person and reporting it to the police, leading to an arrest and the laying of charges.”

For tips on creating safer neighbourhoods through getting to know your neighbours, visit Red Deer Neighbourhood Watch at www.nwatch.ca.

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Then wash your hands. ● Never vacuum or sweep droppings, nests or dead mice as it can create dust that can be inhaled. The dust may contain hantavirus.

Although rare, hantavirus can be fatal. Infected people typically show symptoms one or two weeks after exposure. Symptoms resemble severe flu including fever, body aches, chills, abdominal problems and severe breathing problems.

Anyone who develops severe flulike symptoms after being in an area contaminated by mice should see a doctor immediately.

Trial date set for suspect charged with Eckville Hotel robbery Trial dates have been set for a Red Deer woman charged for the alleged armed robbery of an Eckville hotel.

Krista Marie Rix, 31, remains in custody at the Edmonton Remand Centre, but appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday via close circuit camera.

She pled not guilty to 10 charges stemming from a Feb. 22 incident in which patrons of the Eckville Hotel

Bar were held at gunpoint during an afternoon robbery.

No one was injured and no shots were fired, but an undisclosed amount of money was taken.

Rix is charged with robbery with a firearm, forcible confinement, possession of stolen property, possession of break-in instruments, and failure to comply with recognizance conditions.

Her trial will be held in Red Deer from Dec. 21 to 23.

Prisoner missing from minimum security unit A 50-year-old male prisoner went missing from Bowden Institution’s minimum security unit on Thursday.

His absence was noticed at 10:30 p.m., when staff were accounting for prisoners and discovered Sylvain Martin wasn’t among them.

Innisfail RCMP were contacted and an arrest warrant has been issued for Martin.

He is described as being 1.67 metres (five-foot-five inches) tall, weighing 63 kg (140 pounds), with a fair complexion, blue eyes and auburn hair. He has scars on his back and around his eyes, and tattoos on his right forearm, upper and lower back.

He is supposed to be serving a nine year and 11 month sentence for fraud, obstructing police, possession of an illegal substance, forgery and other charges.

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The City of Red Deer is trying out a smaller transit bus on a new route for the next month.

The route will serve Ross Street, Michener Avenue and the Extendicare on Michener Hill.

The trial runs until May 23.

“We’re very excited to see how the smaller bus performs during this trial run,” said Steve Parkin, transit operations superintendent with the City of Red Deer.

“The smaller size is easier to manoeuvre in tight areas that the larger, 40-foot buses had trouble accessing due to the roadway design. We are now able to service an area that was otherwise restricted from regular transit buses.”

The new bus is smaller at 30-feet long and can seat 24 riders. It includes low-floor, step-free entry, a wide aisle and large windows to provide natural light.

The more fuel-efficient bus fits well into the city’s Green Fleet initiative.

Through this initiative, city staff is working with a consultant to determine the most effective and appropriate technologies to improve its fleet.

“There are so many positives about these new buses,” said Parkin. “By far the biggest plus is providing more people the ability to connect with the people and places in and around Red Deer that are important to them.”

For more information on Red Deer Transit, visit www.reddeer.ca/transit.

Photo radar locations announced Red Deer RCMP will aim photo radar cameras on motorists at the following locations until the end of April: School zones: 42A Street, Lancaster Drive, 55th Avenue, 40th Avenue.

Playground zones: Holmes Street, Oak Street, Addington Drive, Dempsey Street, Kerry Wood Drive, Vanier Drive and Carrington Drive.

Traffic corridors: 40th Avenue, 50th Avenue, 22nd Street, Taylor Drive and 77th Street.

RCMP reserve the option of changing site locations without notice.

Theft trial set for June A Red Deer man who is charged with stealing truck tires will go to trial in June.

Anthony Morgan Shilmar, 46, appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Friday to confirm his June 12 trial date.

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Hayden, Jack — Progressive Conservative Shannon, Emily — New Democrat Strankman, Rick — Wildrose*

Red Deer South Argent, Patti — Independent Berry, William — Independent Checkel, Deborah — Liberal Dubois, Ben — Green Gingras, Serge — Alberta Miller, Barbara — New Democrat Mykytyshyn, Darcy — Progressive Conservative Wiebe, Norman — Wildrose

Innisfail-Sylvan Lake Klooster, Danielle — Alberta MacIntyre, Donald — Wildrose Norman, Patricia — New Democrat Towle, Kerry — Progressive Conservative*

Lacombe-Ponoka DeWit, Peter — Progressive Conservative Hart, Doug — New Democrat Jeglum, Tony — Alberta

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills Adamchick, James — Alberta Bearchell, Wade — Progressive Conservative Cooper, Nathan — Wildrose Norman, Glenn — New Democrat

Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre Anglin, Joe — Independent* Cote, Tammy — Progressive Conservative Nixon, Jason — Wildrose Schlamp, Hannah — New Democrat * denotes incumbent

dent. In January, Anglin announced he would seek the PC nomination. Not long after, both the PCs and Anglin agreed Anglin would not be a good fit with the party.

In late November, Kerry Towle, the MLA for Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, crossed the floor to the PCs. In the weeks to come, nine other Wildrosers including Bruce Rowe, the MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, and Rod Fox, the MLA for LacombePonoka, crossed the floor in one mass

exodus. Rick Strankman, the Wildrose MLA for Drumheller-Stettler, was the only one in Central Alberta to stay put.

Rowe is not seeking another term and Fox lost the PC nomination to Peter DeWit. This time, the PC Party, the Wildrose and Alberta New Democrats have full slates of candidates in the region. The Liberal Party is running a candidate each in Red Deer South and Red Deer North. In 2012, the Liberals had a full slate.

The Green Party has one official candidate in Red Deer South. Liberal candidate Michael Dawe is endorsed by the Greens in Red Deer North.

The Alberta Party has five candidates, one more than in 2012.

Votes can hear what the Red Deer North and South candidates have to say at the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce forum at the Memorial Centre on April 27. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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now, we’d have enough food on hand to do us for about three months — that’s it. It’s always got to keep coming in.”

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Volunteers with the Mormon Helping Hands Community Food Drive will be picking up donations from homes on Red Deer’s south side today.

Fred Scaife, executive director with Red Deer Food Bank, said these food drives, which also run on the north side of the city in the fall, have become significant events to help stock the food bank’s shelves.

“We will literally fill a semi. It will be full. It’s always full,” Scaife said on Friday.

Yellow plastic bags for residents to fill have been distributed to south-side homes and lists examples of nonperishable items the food bank likes to distribute to clients.

Bags should be left on front steps by 10 a.m.

Volunteers will not be ringing door bells.

Scaife said more families than expected have

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Nomination day drew to a close on Friday with few surprises in the seven Central Alberta contests for seats in the provincial election.

Thirty-two local candidates will stand for election on May 5.

Patti Argent, who ran as for Alberta Alliance in the 2004 general election, will take another kick at politics as an independent candidate in Red Deer South.

Just a couple weeks ago, it looked like PC candidate Darcy Mykytyshyn would be the only name on the ballot.

Now the Red Deer South contest has eight contenders, the largest field in Central Alberta’s seven ridings. The race is wide open as Dal Callas, the current MLA, is not seeking another term.

In Red Deer North, MLA Mary Anne Jablonski is also done with politics.

While there are only five Red Deer North candidates, the race is already proving to be interesting as Buck Buchanan, who lost the PC nomination to Christine Moore, jumped ship to the Wildrose and alleged wrongdoing in the nomination process.

Three years ago, the Wildrose won all five rural ridings in Central Alberta. The PCs took both Red Deer ridings.

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Money kept by taxpayers no ‘loss’ IT IS ESSENTIAL IN A DEMOCRACY THAT THOSE IN CHARGE ALWAYS PROVE THEY ACTUALLY NEED OUR CASH

BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE With tax season at hand, here’s a useful tip for any tax-weary Canadian: When some people refer to income or other money not taxed as a “loss” to government, remember that they may merely be using technical language.

In contrast, others really do lament any reduction or “omission” in possible taxes that flow to governments.

Understanding the difference is critical, because some who decry the “loss” often believe citizens exist for the sake of government and not viceversa — a rather unhealthy approach in a democracy.

Consider some recent examples.

Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver recently hinted that the federal government may double the allowed annual contribution limit for Tax Free Savings Accounts to $11,000 (from $5,500).

In response, one newspaper warned of how future TFSA withdrawals will be “costing future governments quite a lot” because TFSA gains are not taxed.

Of course, that language assumes capital gains should be taxed at all.

But not all gains are taxed. When Canadians see their principle residence increase in value, no tax is applied to that gain.

So to exempt all gains from tax (a home) or some gains (stock market profits where only half of the capital appreciation is taxed) is not novel.

Another example of the “loss” language: In February, the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) analyzed the effect of doubling the TFSA contribution limit.

According to the PBO report, in 2016 the current TFSA system will “cost” the federal and provincial governments an estimated $1.6 billion — that’s the money governments would receive if Canadians were forced to pay capital gains tax on investment gains in the TFSA. The PBO report estimated the effect of an $11,000 TFSA contribution limit.

The 2016 “loss” (a.k.a. taxes not paid by taxpayers) would be worth almost $1.7 billion.

Some perspective: In 2013 (the most recent year for this statistic), Canada’s federal and provincial governments collected $646 billion in total revenue.

So $1.7 billion represents barely more than one-quarter of one per cent of what Ottawa and the provinces collect-

ed in 2013. If Canada’s governments cannot live with a minor nick to their finances, perhaps they should re-examine their spending.

The point here is not ideological but practical. If the underlying assumption really is that money belongs first to government, rather than the reverse — money first belongs to Canadians — then there is less pressure for governments to justify the taxes taken and how the money is spent.

One must, of course, be sensible. As a practical matter, beyond a basic tribal level of organization, governments are necessary and taxes are part of the bargain. But conceiving of untaxed income or gains as a “loss” (for other

than technical descriptions) is not a useful or healthy way to conceive of the deal between citizens and governments. For one thing, citizens deserve the presumption that their money is, in fact, their money.

Furthermore, governments (and politicians and civil servants) are made up of fallible human beings. So a check on the ability to tax and spend, including an orientation that assumes those in charge must always prove they need our cash, is essential. That’s because no one can perfectly plan how to spend other people’s money.

Or as Richard Cartwright, the first post-Confederation Liberal finance minister put it, “All taxation is a loss

per se; it is the sacred duty of the government to take only what is necessary for the proper discharge of the public service; and that taxation in any other mode, is simply, in one shape or another, legalized robbery.”

Cartwright assumed that taxes were useful but indeed a loss, not to government but to the citizens who pay the tax. Taxes are necessary, but we must be judicious about the money sent to politicians and civil servants.

That includes understanding the money first belongs to Canadians.

Mark Milke is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute. This column was supplied by Troy Media (troymedia.com).

How the month of April didn’t get its name Have you ever wondered how April got its name? How all the months got their names? Who named them, and why? I know I have.

Also, what’s the deal with rock stars and celebrities having only one name? Sting.

Bono. Slash.

Flea. Madonna.

Fergie. Moby.

Twiggy. Pink.

The Edge. OK, so that last one, the guitar player for U2, is technically two words. Like Mr. T. or Liber HARLEY Ache.

HAY But that’s not important right now, what is important is April.

Not the name of one of the best friends of my Rotten Kid (the daughter one). Her friend’s first name is April and she is important, but I’m referring, of course, to the month of April, which it currently is outside.

Come to think of it though, my Better Half has an aunt named June, and there is an actress named January (Jones), and also I know several ladies named May. One of the main characters on a popular comedy TV show called Tiny Plastic Men is called October, and although I’m pretty sure I have never met one, I bet you dollars to donuts there’s a person named August not that far away.

I’m not sure about the other months, but I don’t think it would be all that

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awesome to have a first name like December or July.

Although being named (albeit inadvertently) after an infamous motorcycle isn’t exactly normal. Which is why I like it.

But back to April. I just remembered that that popular, punky Canadian singer Avril Lavigne is named after a month. For those of you who, like me, barely remember your Grade 7 French, “Avril” is French for “November.”

Be that as it may, this rampant speculation is not getting us anywhere, monthly moniker-wise. That’s why it’s time once again to bring in a regular visitor to this column and one we haven’t (thank goodness) heard from in quite a while. I give you (and please take him) Dr. Reginald Smoot, Mail Order Sociology PhD from the University of Carrot River, Sask.: Hay’s Daze: Welcome, once again, Dr. Smoot. So glad we haven’t heard from you for so long.

Dr. Reginald Smoot: Thank you, it’s not really that much fun to be back.

Hay’s Daze: Excellent. Let’s get right to it, shall we? We’ve called upon your mail order expertise to find out just how the months of the year got their names.

Dr. Smoot: Yes, of course, thanks for asking. According to several text books I may or may not have read, and also a number of adult websites, I can tell you definitively that the months received their unique names when somebody wrote them down on something called a “calendar.”

Hay’s Daze: Yes, well, right, I believe it widely known that the ancient Romans gave us the month’s names.

Dr. Smoot: Really? I thought it was

Hallmark.

Hay’s Daze: (ignoringly) Um, what about April? What can you tell us about how our current month, the middle month of the spring season, actually got its name?

Dr. Smoot: I believe it had something to do with that famous Canadian girl singer. That Alanis Morissette girl who is always ranting away about something in angst-ridden rock songs.

As many people know, “Alanis” is Armenian for “April.”

Hay’s Daze: Not it’s not.

Dr. Smoot: Are you absolutely sure about that?

Hay’s Daze: Yes, I am. I just looked it up. I also looked up April on Wikipedia, which is what I should done in the first place instead of inviting you back, and found out that April comes from the Latin word “Aprilis” which means “to open” as in the buds and flowers opening in spring, and it was named for Aphrodite.

Dr. Smoot: Aphrodite was a popular rock singer? Don’t tell me she’s one of those celebrities with only one name.

Hay’s Daze: Of course not, you moron. Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, beauty and procreation.

Dr. Smoot: I don’t think so. I pretty sure the goddess of love, beauty and procreation is Shania Twain.

Hay’s Daze: Enough with the Canadian female vocalists, I don’t think Shania Twain has anything to do with …

Dr. Smoot: I saw her in Vegas and, trust me, I know a goddess when I see one.

HD: Can we just get back to …

Dr. Smoot: At least Shania has two names.

HD: Yes, well, thanks for the inter-

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Dr. Smoot: Don’t you want to know some important, imperative facts about the month of April?

HD: So now you’re an expert on the month of April?

Dr. Smoot: You’re not the only one with a laptop, Buster.

HD (sighing): If you insist.

Dr. Smoot: Did you know that April is the month man first landed on the moon, the month that the Titanic sank, and the month that Prince William married Kate? Not all in the same year, mind you.

HD: Um, OK, so …

Dr. Smoot: Also, April marks the birth of the inventor of the mailbox, it celebrates International Jugglers’ Day and, more importantly, April was the month that Daffy Duck debuted.

HD: Thank you for those truly fascinating and useless facts, but I’m seriously thinking that you should return your correspondence post graduate degree.

Dr. Smoot: Also, April is most significant due to the fact that it is exactly one month before the most important day of the year: April Fool’s Day. HD: I rest my case, Dr. Smoot.

Dr. Smoot: Don’t call me Dr. Smoot.

My celebrity name is now “Prince.”

HD: Yeah, I think that one might be taken. Don’t let the door hit your backside on the way out.

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IMF delivers strong message on slow growth Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s quirky proposal for balanced budget legislation is nothing more than a distraction from the real issues facing Canada. The need for economic growth, competitive high-value industries and good jobs are the issues, not worries about a future profligate government.

DAVID In its latest CRANE World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund has delivered a strong message of sub-par economic growth that applies. A smart finance minister would take its message to heart and make raising the growth rate of the economy the central point of his budget rather than extravagant claims of economic progress due to a balanced budget and a drive for smaller government.

What we won’t hear from Oliver are any boasts about increased business investment or business spending on

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research and development, or gains in productivity, the key to rising living standards since business investment, business spending on machinery and equipment and advances in what economists call total factor productivity have all been flat.

Yet gains in all these are key essentials for real economic growth.

What concerns the IMF is that the world has not only experienced a weak recovery from the financial crisis that hit its trough in 2009 but that the expectation for growth over what it calls the medium-term — 2015-2020 — is also for continued slow growth. The 20152020 period is coincidentally the expected normal lifespan of the government Canadians will elect in October of this year, so the IMF fears should be central to the Canadian economic debate in the April 21 budget and what follows.

The IMF focus is on what it calls the potential output growth rate — the level of output or economic growth that is consistent with stable inflation. This is often called the speed limit of the economy since it sets out how fast the economy can grow without triggering a surge in inflation that would force policymakers to slam on the brakes.

What the IMF warns is that the potential growth rate around the world has been slowing. For example, in the

advanced economies, such as Canada, the U.S. Europe and Japan, the potential growth rate slowed from 2.25 per cent a year in 2001-2007, to 1.3 per cent a year in 2008-14, and will recover only ever so slightly to 1.6 per cent in 20152020.

“Increasing potential output will need to be a policy priority in major advanced and emerging market economies,” the IMF says, if the world is to get in to a better growth track. This is where the April 21 budget should focus. In advanced countries like Canada “there is a need for continued demand support to boost investment and thus capital growth and for adoption of policies and reforms that can permanently boost the level of potential output, as well as the growth rate in the medium term.” As the IMF puts it, “policies and reforms that can increase the supply side should be adopted, such as product market reforms and higher spending on research and development, education, infrastructure, and policies to improve labour supply incentives.”

In fact, last September the IMF argued that “increased public infrastructure investment is one of the few remaining policy levers to support growth.” The federal government can now borrow money for 10 years at a 1.75 per cent interest rate, less than the projected rate of inflation, while

the IMF found that because modern infrastructure contributes to economic growth and productivity. “The boost to GDP a country gets from increasing public infrastructure investment offsets the rise in debt, so that the public debt-to-GDP ratio does not rise,” it concluded.

For advanced economies such as Canada, the slowdown in the potential growth rate can be attributed to a number of factors, including the impact of the financial crisis itself on the level of demand and hence investment and a significant slowdown in innovationled productivity. Demographics is also a factor with a slowdown in potential labour force growth and the impact of aging on the participation rate.

Six months ago, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, warned the world risked a “new mediocre” of low growth for a long time.

The challenge today — and for the April 21 budget — is to “prevent that new mediocre from becoming the ‘new reality’.” We need less attention to balanced budget legislation and much more attention on how to get the economy revved up for stronger growth, jobs and prosperity-enhancing productivity.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

The value of random acts of kindness With disheveled, dirty blonde hair, this blanket-wrapped, street-grimed young woman works her way into the kitchen. I’m standing at the kitchen door so I have an opportunity to speak with her.

“How’re ya doin’ girl?” I ask, (I don’t remember names well), to which she replies, “Oh, survivin’.”

Then with a brief smile and dirt-blackened hands, she takes the plate of food offered to her.

CHRIS You’ve probably seen her SALOMONS on the street and have given her a wide berth as you pass her on the sidewalk. Almost anyone would — she does not look like someone you would really want to get close to or approach. You never know what they will do.

Two weeks ago, I saw her with the same grubby blanket shuffling down the walk when an older gentleman stood in her path, stopping her. As she turned to go around him, he held out a $5 bill. I don’t know what he said to her but she looked up at him, took the offered fiver without saying anything and he walked away.

“Alice” stared hard at his back for a good two minutes, shook her head and tucking the bill into her pocket, shuffled on down the street with a step that was a little lighter than before. She’s more used to someone wanting sex or an abusive, controlling boyfriend with an evil temper who will take the money away from her than someone freely giving her something for no obvious reason.

“Ol’ Tom” is always at the corner of Gaetz and Ross panhandling, and often people will dig into their pockets and hand him some change, for which he always gives a “God bless you.” Many has been the attempt to remove him from the corner but he prevails.

With torn clothing that looks like it is ready to fall off; longish hair that is all matted and dirty, “Neil” walks along the sidewalk talking to himself and picking up cups and other garbage and throwing it into the curbside garbage cans. Four or five years ago, this alcoholic victim of paranoid schizophrenia was 100 per cent reclusive and

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unapproachable. Now, after long and patient care, and a room of his own, periodically we can converse with him for many minutes at a time.

These people are now a permanent part of our landscape in Red Deer.

Some folks are OK with it, but many others would sooner that they just disappear.

It is interesting to watch people and how they react to these individuals as they meet them on the street. In most cases, they are just plain ignored by folks who speed up just a little as they pass them by.

Some actually take an exaggerated step or two to the side, while others say a quick, stern-faced hello while purposefully walking past. Yet some

will actually stop to talk with them, possibly giving them words of encouragement or some change, or, in some cases, as with some volunteers we had a while ago, hand them all a $5 gift card to McDonald’s. I think they handed out 40 such cards; it was part of their “giving back.”

In most cases, the way the public reacts to folks on the street marks the character of people. Being in the position I am, and having the privilege of meeting many of these humanitarians, I have begun to realize that the generosity of people began when someone was generous to them, or they had very diligent parents who took the time to teach compassion, or their belief system urges them to these random acts of

kindness.

But this much is evident: any act of kindness, in whatever form, that is extended to those less fortunate never, ever goes to waste. It may seem so at the time, but I have had more than one person tell me that maybe many years before someone extended a hand of mercy, usually when they needed it most. That one little act may have been the straw that was needed to break the habit’s back. So if the spirit moves you to extend that hand, do so. You may not see the results, but results there will be.

Everyone in our society responds to kindness!

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

The future of warfare could be killer robots “Killer robots” is a dreadful name, don’t you think? It reminds you of the killing machines in the Terminator series and the “battle droids” of Star Wars. “Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems” is a much classier name, and the acronym is even better: LAWS. So the international conference that opened at the United Nations Geneva office on Monday is about LAWS. Don’t think “drones” here.

Drones loiter almost silently, GWYNNE high in the air DYER above your picnic, until the operator back in Las Vegas decides that you are plotting a terrorist attack and orders the drone to kill you and your family. But at least there is an operator, a human being in the decision-making loop.

With LAWS, there isn’t. The machine sorts through its algorithms and decides on its own whether to kill you.

So you’ll probably be glad to know that there are no operational machines of that sort — yet. But military researchers in various countries are working hard on them, and they probably will exist in 10 or 20 years.

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Unless we ban them. That’s what the conference in Geneva is about. It’s a meeting of diplomats, arms control experts, and ethics and human rights specialists who, if they agree that this is a real threat, will put it on the agenda of the next November’s annual meeting of the countries that have signed the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). So it’s early days yet, and there’s still a chance to nip this in the bud.

That’s an awkward name, but not nearly as clumsy as the full name: the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. But it actually has done some good already, and it may do some more.

Protocol 1 bans “The use of weapons the primary effect of which is to injure by fragments which are not detectable

by X-rays in the human body.”

Protocol II requires countries that use land mines to make them deactivate automatically after a certain period.

Protocol V, added in 1995, prohibits the use of blinding laser weapons.

The world would be a worse place if they did not exist.

They do exist, and by and large they are obeyed. But none of these weapons would make a decisive difference in actual battle, whereas they cause or would cause great human misery, so it was easy to ban them.

The problem with killer robots is that they could make a decisive difference in battle. They don’t get tired, they don’t get paralyzed with fear, and if you lose them, so what? It’s just a machine. There’s no person in there.

But that’s precisely the problem: there’s no person in there. Do you trust the machine to make decisions about killing people — who’s a soldier and a legitimate target, who’s an innocent civilian — all by itself?

Now, let’s be honest about this. Human soldiers on battlefields don’t always make wise, ethically correct decisions about whom to kill and whom to leave alive either. An example: There’s sniper fire coming from that house over there, and you know that there are civilians trapped in there, too. You have to get rid of those snipers or you’ll be stuck here all day.

You have two options: You can send a squad of your own soldiers in to clear the house.

They’ll kill the snipers, and most of the civilians will be spared. But you may lose one or two of your own soldiers doing it that way, and these are people you know, for whose lives you are directly responsible.

Or you can just call in artillery or an air strike and mash the whole house. If you don’t think that’s a hard choice to make, you don’t know much about human beings.

Whereas the killer robot will just go in there and kill the snipers. No hesitation. And if its software is properly

designed, it won’t kill the civilians.

Killer robots are a very bad idea, but let’s not get romantic about this.

Wars involve killing people, and whether you’re doing it with live soldiers or Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, it’s never going to be morally tidy.

The real worry is how much easier it would be for a technologically advanced country to decide on war if it didn’t have to see lots of its own soldiers get killed.

So by all means, let’s ban purposebuilt killer robots if we can: this is an initiative that deserves our support.

But bear in mind that there will almost certainly be autonomous machines eventually, and some of them will certainly be capable of killing. So it is also time to start working on international rules governing their behaviour.

Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics (written in 1942) would be a good point of departure.

One: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Two: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Three: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Mountie shot while trying to protect officer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WETASKIWIN â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An RCMP officer was trying to arrest a man in the living room of an Alberta farm house when the Mountie saw the muzzle of a gun pointing out of a doorway.

Const. Sheldon Shah jumped between the gun and his partner, who was a new father, and took numerous bullets along his left side.

The 37-year-old told a trial Friday that he still has aching wounds three years later. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just live with pain everyday, pretty much,â&#x20AC;? said Shah, who listed several surgeries he has had and 11 scars that mark his body from his neck to his knee. He also testified that he lost a testicle.

Shah and Const. Sidney Gaudette were shot and wounded while trying to execute a search warrant at the farm near Killam, southeast of Edmonton,

on Feb. 7, 2012.

Sawyer Robison, 30, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, assault causing bodily harm and several weapons-related charges.

Court previously heard that Robison was a photographer and had been hired earlier to take portraits of Gaudetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family.

Robisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name had come up during a recent domestic assault investigation, Shah said. A suspect had turned himself in and told police that a friend, Robison, had lent him an unlicensed handgun.

Shah was a rookie officer who had joined the force after serving in the military. His very first search warrant was the one for the home Robison shared with an uncle.

Shah said the assault suspect had also told him there were many guns in Robisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home, so Shah went there with three other officers. Two stayed outside while Shah and Gaudette went

in.

They found an unarmed Robison in the living room. He refused an order to get on the ground and backed into a door frame, said Shah.

The Mountie told court he grabbed Robisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrist but he got loose. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breaking free, there were legs running past and then I heard the racking of a gun.â&#x20AC;?

Shah said Robison had disappeared by the time Shah saw the gun barrel and was hit. As the officer fired back, he noticed the person holding the gun was a naked older man with grey hair.

The judge has yet to hear any evidence about whether Robison fired any shots himself.

Shah felt hot, excruciating pain, but made his way out of the house and was rushed to hospital. As he was bleeding in the back seat of a cruiser, he told the officer driving to hurry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to make it.â&#x20AC;?

Gaudette, who had been shot once

in the torso, also got out of the home and was taken to hospital for surgery.

Following a standoff, Bradford Clarke, 53, was found dead in the kitchen. Evidence photos show he had a head wound and two handguns were next to his body. Police believe he may have been having a bath before the shooting.

RCMP alleged at the time that Robison had fled the home in a pickup truck following the shooting. He was arrested three days later after his parents pleaded for him to turn himself in.

Robison was charged with seconddegree murder in the death of his uncle, but that charge was discontinued during a preliminary hearing.

Court has heard the home was stocked with guns, including a loaded sniper rifle, ammunition, a bulletproof vest and a binder labelled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Special Forces Sniper Training.â&#x20AC;?

Animal rights activists decry live horse exports to Japan CALGARY â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Animal rights activists say they have video showing horses being treated inhumanely at the Calgary airport prior to shipment to Japan.

The Canadian Horse Defence Coalition says the video shows animals placed in crates that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough standing room, and that some horses

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Notley says a public accounting of how building proposals are prioritized would end political interference.

She says the Progressive Conservatives have put projects that further their own political interests at the top of the list for years.

She points to new modular classrooms that were bumped up the list by Education Minister Gordon Dirks in a Calgary riding just before a byelection he was running in.

The ethics commissioner ruled Dirks used his office for â&#x20AC;&#x153;blatant political opportunism.â&#x20AC;?

Notley was campaigning for the May 5 election in Calgary and Lethbridge on Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to end the political games that too often decide when and where shovels hit the ground,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Wildrose leader promising to simplify disaster claims HIGH RIVER â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alberta Wildrose Leader Brian Jean is promising heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll speed up disaster claims if his party

have been subjected to de-icing fluid and jet engine blast while theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being loaded.

Activists raised their concerns Thursday at the annual meeting of the Calgary Airport Authority before demonstrators gathered outside.

The authority says the handling of the animals is a federal responsibility.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it checks all horse ship-

ments to ensure they have adequate food and water, and that it reviews all complaints.

The activists estimate about 90 horses a week are slaughtered in Japan and sell for about $25,000 per animal.

Maureen Hurly with Calgary Animal Rights Effort said the horses suffer during the long-haul flights and some have died en route. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are concerned about the entire

operation from start to finish. They are legally allowed to go up to 36 hours without food and water.â&#x20AC;?

Angie Birch, who took part in the demonstration, said the way the horses are shipped upsets her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Horses are sentient beings and they feel pain and fear.â&#x20AC;?

Garth Atkinson, CEO and president of the airport authority, said the shipments take place according to law.

wins the May 5 election.

Jean used a neighbourhood slated for demolition in flood-ravaged High River to make his announcement.

He said there are still 700 claims outstanding from floods that swept through southern Alberta almost two years ago.

High River was particularly hard hit and the entire town had to be evacuated.

Jean says a Wildrose government would deal with outstanding claims immediately.

The party would also commit to buy from local contractors and bring in audits to prevent profiteering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Have the people who have been directly affected by this been paid? Have their claims been resolved? No,â&#x20AC;? Jean said Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These people are wondering why they are being left to pick up their lives and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wondering where the government of Alberta is.â&#x20AC;?

actually have to generate a mountain of new debt, increase taxes or hope oil prices rebounded to at least $80 a barrel overnight.

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean says the numbers are clear, the plan is sound and he is happy to campaign on it for the May 5 vote.

Elections Alberta says the Wildrose party has candidates in 86 ridings.

Wildrose, the Official Opposition, says it will not have anyone carrying the party banner in Edmonton-Strathcona, the constituency where NDP leader Rachel Notley is the incumbent.

Notley says 46 of the NDPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s candidates are women.

The Alberta Liberals will run 56 candidates, mainly in the cities.

The Alberta Party will have 36 candidates, the Green Party 24, Social Credit six, the Communists two and there are 15 Independents.

The nomination deadline was 2 p.m.

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PCs, NDP, only parties to run full slate of candidates EDMONTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats are the only political parties that will have a full slate of 87 candidates in the May 5 Alberta provincial election.

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Finance Minister Robin Campbell was joined by five other members of the budget committee in Calgary to release what he called a detailed analysis of the Wildrose plan.

He said the numbers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add up and would leave a huge hole in the Alberta economy.

The Progressive Conservatives have been challenging the Wildrose to provide more details about a promise to cut spending, balance the budget and lay off senior government managers.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Four men have been charged with attempted murder and dozens of gun-related offences in a brazen shooting in northwest Toronto that sent five people to hospital and shocked many in the residential neighbourhood.

Police said several people were gathered outside a townhouse at 5:50 p.m. Thursday when another group approached and began firing.

Five of the people milling about were shot, they said. Three men were sent to hospital â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one with life-threatening wounds.

About 25 minutes later, officers investigating a car several kilometres away had an interaction with the occupants of the vehicle, during which police shot one man, the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s police watchdog said in a statement.

The man suffered non-life threatening injuries, the Special Investigations Unit said.

Glenn Howell, who lives near where that incident happened, was sitting at his dinner table with his family eating â&#x20AC;&#x153;awesome homemade hamburgers,â&#x20AC;? when he saw the commotion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m facing the window and we notice this car driving up my driveway at a fast speed,â&#x20AC;? Howell told The Canadian Press.

The black car hit Howellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car and drove it into his carport, he said.

Then he heard a huge bang and saw a bunch of people running around his front yard with guns.

He yelled at his wife, son, mother and sister â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all over for dinner â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to get down as he peered around a wall to watch the events unfold.

He finally saw a man with a vest with the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;policeâ&#x20AC;? on it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He looked at me and made a phone gesture with his hand and so I called 911,â&#x20AC;? Howell said.

He saw one officer pin and handcuff one man in his front yard and other officers bolt through his and his neighboursâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; backyard.

Three Toronto men â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Akeem Bailey, 25, Clifton Vassel Youria, 29, and Maurice Smith, 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and twenty-year-old Daniel Duarte-Alvarez, of Mississauga, face a total of 112 charges.

They are scheduled to appear in court Friday.

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HALIFAX â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Four members of the Royal Navy have been charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm at a Canadian Forces base in Halifax.

Crown attorney Scott Morrison said Friday outside court that the men are alleged to have participated in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;group sexual assaultâ&#x20AC;? in a barracks at CFB Shearwater on April 10.

The men were arrested Thursday morning and were in Nova Scotia participating in a hockey tournament with local Armed Forces personnel, he said.

A court document shows all four men who have been charged with sexually assaulting a woman are from the United Kingdom. It lists them as Craig Stoner, 24, of Stonehouse, Darren Smalley, 35, of Gosport, Joshua Finbow, 23, of Broughton Stockbridge, and Simon Radford, 31, of Lower Gosport.

Morrison said all of the men are British citizens.

A duty counsel lawyer is negotiating with the Crown on bail terms and the men are scheduled to return to court on Monday to continue those negotiations, Morrison said. The Crown has to determine whether they can be released and whether that would include allowing them to return to the U.K., he added.

The men are being held at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Halifax.

Morrison declined to release any details about the complainant in the case.

Asked about jurisdiction in the case, Morrison said the Crown has jurisdiction over all Criminal Code offences in the province. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There may be a mechanism where the British military could take jurisdiction over this, but my understanding is that the province of Nova Scotia has jurisdiction,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our position at this point is that they have to stay in Canada. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave the country.â&#x20AC;?

Maj. Yves Desbiens, a spokesman for the Canadian Forces Military Police Group, said the allegations are serious and the complainant is a civilian. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is more than undesired touching,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is taken very seriously. ... We will continue to work hard to bring this matter to a court.â&#x20AC;?

The commanding officer of the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service said British authorities have co-operated with its investigation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a disturbing accusation of sexual assault,â&#x20AC;?

Lt.-Col. Francis Bolduc said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pleased with the full co-operation provided by the British authorities to support the hard work and diligence of the CFNIS team in responding to this matter.â&#x20AC;?

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mike Duffy seemed a lot more interested in what the Internet thought of him than he was in the attitudes of the people he represented in the Senate, court heard Friday as the second week of the suspended senatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trial came to a close.

Long before 2009, when he was appointed by the Conservatives to represent Prince Edward Island, Duffy was concerned about what people were saying about him online, his friend and communications historian Mark Bourrie testified.

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Once he was appointed to the upper chamber, he grew more upset about his Internet critics â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some of whom were targeting his weight and his abilities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and asked Bourrie for advice on what to do.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — He was the last member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle still on the run, depicted with his distinctive red moustache as the “king of clubs” on the U.S. military’s deck of cards of most-wanted Iraqi regime fugitives.

Now, officials say they believe government forces killed Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri near Tikrit, where the former deputy to Saddam was working alongside Islamic State militants.

Reports of al-Douri’s death came Friday as Iraqi forces tried to push back Islamic State group fighters in Salahuddin province, where Tikrit is located. Government troops took back several towns near Iraq’s largest oil refinery at Beiji, officials said.

Farther north, a car bomb exploded next to the U.S. Consulate in the city of Irbil, a rare attack in the capital of the

Kurdish autonomous zone that killed three people and wounded five, police said. U.S. officials said no Americans were hurt and no casualties among consulate personnel or guards.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the blast went off outside a cafe next to the building in the Ankawa neighbourhood, setting several nearby cars on fire. Shortly afterward, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks militant websites.

The report of al-Douri’s death was not the first time Iraqi officials have claimed to have killed or captured the 72-year-old former aide to Saddam.

According to Raed al-Jabouri, the governor of Salahuddin province, alDouri was killed by Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen in an operation in the Talal Hamreen mountains east of Tikrit, Saddam’s hometown, which was retaken from the Islamic State group earlier this month.

Troops opened fire at a convoy carrying al-Douri and nine bodyguards, killing all of them, Gen. Haider al-Basri, a senior commander, told state TV. The government issues several photos showing a body purported to be al-Douri. The body had a bright red beard, perhaps dyed, and a ginger-colored moustache. Al-Douri was a fairskinned redhead with a ginger moustache, making him distinctive among the members of Saddam’s inner circle.

Karim al-Nouri, a spokesman for the Popular Mobilization Forces, said the body was brought Friday night to Baghdad for DNA tests, which should be completed within 48 hours.

Col. Pat Ryder, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said the U.S. had no information to corroborate the reported death of al-Douri.

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Saddam was the ace of spades, Odai was the ace of hearts, and Qusai was ace of clubs.

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When the Baathist regime collapsed as U.S. troops occupied Baghdad, alDouri disappeared.

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Italian ships have picked up 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period.

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Police identified the shooter as Driss Diaeddinn, 50, and the victims as Reda Diaeddinn, Dodi Fayed, Kenza Benzakour and Meriem Ben Yahia ranging in ages between 26 and 76 years old. The family had origins in Morocco, Sgt. Trent Crump said.

Diaeddinn’s wife fled the two-story Phoenix home with children ages 3 years and 10 months old when the gunfire broke out Thursday afternoon, Crump said. His sister, who was hiding inside, came out later while a SWAT team surrounded the home.

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LEFT: During the summer months, prices are dramatically reduced at Arizona resorts and many have additional familyfriendly programming and activities to accommodate families travelling with children on breaks from school.

The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess has a zipline and teen pool party nights.

BELOW: Surfing in Arizona is now possible with the flowrider. You’ll find one at the Westin Kierland Resort.

ABOVE AND RIGHT: Two Canadians own the first and largest paddleboard shop in the Phoenix Metro area. You can rent a paddleboard at their shop and take it to any number of lakes and rivers in the area. Trust teenagers to show you up. I was happy simply to not fall off my board.

On the other side of Red dleboards past the people on Mountain, the Salt River flows the beach and onto the cool to Saguaro Lake, a reservoir waters of the reservoir. Padthat was created by dleboarding has the construction of really exploded in the Stewart MounArizona and there tain Dam. Families are several other arrive early on hot groups already out summer days to on the lake when stake their claim to we arrive — though a prized spot on the not nearly as many shore of this resas are on its shore. ervoir near Mesa, When we rented Ariz. our paddleboards Though it is only from the No Snow April, the projectStand Up Paddleed high is lingering board Shop in MeDEBBIE somewhere around sa, we were told it OLSEN 35C and on this Sunmight be busy out day morning, the on the lake. shores are packed.

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“We are the first and largest paddleboard store in the Phoenix metro area and during the summer we have more than 100 boards in the shop —and our rentals are always fully booked.”

Fetter grew up in Medicine Hat and her husband is originally from Watson, Sask. He’s a civil engineer and she’s a corporate controller, but they both love paddleboarding.

“Our business is really a hobby that got out of control,” she said. “It’s a sport that anyone can do and being out on the water makes a hot Arizona day more bearable.”

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As we load up the paddleboards to take them back to the shop, I realize she’s right about something else — being on the water really does make a hot Arizona day bearable.

Summers can be incredibly hot in Arizona, but skyrocketing temperatures correspond with off-season discounts and family-friendly programming at many resorts.

Despite the hot temperatures, many families visit Arizona during the summer school break to show their kids the Grand Canyon and other sites. Here are some familyfriendly ways to beat the heat in sunny Arizona.

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Reservoir is stocked by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and there are good supplies of walleye, largemouth and yellow bass, rainbow and brown trout, bluegills, channel catfish and crappie in the lake.

There are several bass tournaments held annually and some of the fishermen have begun using paddleboards to give them an edge when it comes to getting into narrow coves.

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Making it easy A large office supply company pioneered the idea of an easy button — one push and all your challenges fade away. What if you could make your trip to Canada’s national parks easier?

Banff National Park staff has been trying to simplify your outdoor adventures.

Last year, Parks Canada launched equipped camping sites — a tent with sleeping pads is set up and waiting, removing the need to buy camping gear or stressing over how to assemble tent poles. At Two Jack Lakeside campground in 2013, Parks Canada constructed oTENTiks — sturdy tent/cabin hybrids to keep the rain out and your bones off the ground.

Both initiatives have been popular — the oTENTiks are fully booked most of the summer — and now the Red Chairs program is coming to Banff National Park. The idea for the chairs came from Gros Morne National Park, where pairs of red Adirondack-style chairs were installed hoping visitors would sit and ponder great views. The chairs were so popular, “there were lineups to sit in some the chairs,” recalled Greg Danchuk, visitor experience manager at Banff National Park.

Now visitors can relax in the red chairs at several locations in Banff National Park, such as the Hoodoos Interpretive Trail or at the Valleyview

picnic area. “We placed them in places that are very easy to get to,” said Danchuk. There are nine pairs of chairs in the park, with the possibility of adding more.

Although some people raised concerns initially that the chairs would encourage environmental overuse, Danchuk stresses, “They are not placed in the backcountry or hard-tofind areas. We would also never place them on rehabilitated ground. We will monitor them to see if there are any negative impacts but so far there has been no significant problems.”

The chairs I visited were placed near picnic tables but were much more comfortable for sitting. Parks Canada hopes the chairs will encourage people to pause for a few minutes and take in the natural beauty. “Parks Canada does a lot of work to make sure nature is there and this is a way to contemplate that nature,” said Danchuk.

Wanting to see the chairs for myself, I headed to the Cave and Basin. Finding the chairs near the First World War internment program exhibit, I settled in for some contemplation and to snap a few photos. It wasn’t long before someone stopped to ask if I wanted my picture taken in the chair, the maplered colour against the landscape being a visual draw for photographers.

From 2006 to 2011, attendance at national parks dropped. Concerned about the decrease, Parks Canada saw attracting new Canadians as a way to rebuild visitation. But with more Cana-

dians living in cities, outdoor skills can be rusty or non-existent.

Making it easier for people to experience the outdoors is a strategy being tried by park planners across North America and it seems to be attracting new customers to Banff National Park.

“We project a seven per cent increase in Banff park visitation for the year ending March 31, 2015 and we think some of that increase is from initiatives like oTENTiks, Equipped Campsites and the Red Chairs that make it easier to enjoy nature.”

Now, if Parks Canada could find a way to make navigating crowded summer highways smoother, travel really would be easy! In the meantime, I’m going to find another chair.

Carol Patterson inspires everyday explorers within organizations. When she isn’t travelling for work, Carol is travelling for fun. More of her adventures can be found at www.carolpatterson.ca.

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Banff National Park provides opportunities to appreciate nature.

Making it easier for people to experience the outdoors seems to be attracting new customers to Banff National Park.

Visitors using equipped campsites can enjoy outdoor adventure without worry about setting up a tent.

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TOP: Red chairs near the Hoodoos Interpretative trail.

BELOW: Parks Canada is looking to combat visitation declines.

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LEFT: A Lazy River can be really nice on a hot day and the one at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort is particularly nice. They also have a waterpark and lots of kids activities.

RIGHT: Choose your pool well if you’re travelling during the hot summer months. The Catalina Pool at the Arizona Biltmore was a favourite of Marilyn Monroe and it’s much the same today as it was in her time. It’s peaceful and quiet, and far from the main pool area with its waterslides.

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ARIZONA: Pick your pool carefully Stand-up paddleboarding It costs US$40 per day to rent a paddleboard from the No Snow Stand Up Paddleboard Shop in Mesa and they supply the equipment needed to carry the boards on your rental vehicle.

They can also suggest rivers, lakes and reservoirs where you can take the board.

There are sometimes even group events like moonlight paddles that visitors can join.

For more information or reservations, visit www.nosnowsup.com.

Kayaking on Lake Pleasant We joined a guided kayak tour with Terry Gerber, an interpretive ranger at Lake Pleasant Regional Park and if I could only use one word to describe

the experience, that word would be “pleasant.”

You can see wild burros, feel the breeze off the lake and get a good workout by joining one of Terry’s scheduled tours or by renting a kayak at the marina and paddling around on your own.

It’s a beautiful lake and paddling it makes for a lovely afternoon.

Wear your swimsuit and go for a swim afterwards.

Kayak rentals are available to the Pleasant Harbor Marina (http://www. gopaddleaz.com/) for $50 for a half day for a single or $75 for a half day for a double.

Terry’s tours are free after you pay the park entry fees, but they only run on certain days and you have to register. (www.maricopa.gov/parks/ lake_pleasant/).

Go with the flow There are things you expect to see in Arizona and things you don’t. You expect to see saguaro cacti; you don’t envisage surfers. But there we were, standing in front of the FlowRider at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, watching a 15-year-old boy from

Kelowna performing surf tricks on a giant wave. He made it look so easy.

The FlowRider looks a little like a miniature ski hill with water rushing up it at high speed to create a massive surfing wave ideal for boogie boarding or wakeboarding.

Surfing in the desert is a great way to beat the summer heat and it’s a feature of the Westin Kierland Resort’s adventure water park. The resort’s FlowRider creates a simulated wave and riding it uses a combination of the skills of surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding. (kierlandflowrider. com).

Find a pool Even the cheapest Arizona hotels have outdoor pools, but the best pools are absolutely amazing.

It’s easy to while away a hot summer day when you are relaxing in a great outdoor pool.

Some resorts have waterslides, lazy rivers, adults-only pools, waterfalls and movie nights where you can grab a tube and watch a free film right from the pool.

Be sure to choose your pool carefully — you’ll probably spend a lot of time there.

Here’s a link to a site listing top pool picks in Arizona: http://ariztravel. com/2008/04/nine-best-resort-swimming-pools-in-arizona/.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story that we might interview, please email: DOGO@ telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

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Canucks snuff Flames

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canucks 4 Flames 1 VANCOUVER — Daniel Sedin and Chris Higgins snapped long playoff goal droughts and Eddie Lack made 22 saves to pick up the first post-season victory of his career Friday as the Vancouver Canucks downed the Calgary Flames 4-1 to even their Western Conference quarter-final at a game apiece.

Vancouver rookie Ronalds Kenins and Radim Vrbata, into an empty net, also scored and Alexandre Burrows added two assists for the Canucks, who snapped a seven-game losing streak at home in the playoffs dating back to the 2011 Stanley Cup final.

Kris Russell scored for the Flames, who got 26 saves from Jonas Hiller.

Calgary still earned a split after winning Wednesday’s opener and will host Game 3 on Sunday. Karri Ramo replaced Hiller late in the third and finished with three saves.

The game degenerated into a full line brawl late in the third with fights erupting all over the ice deep in the Vancouver zone after a whistle.

In what Daniel Sedin described as a “must-win game” earlier in the day, the Canucks came out flying and grabbed the lead just 2:56 into the first period in front of a raucous and towel-waving crowd at Rogers Arena.

Calgary’s Deryk Engelland blew a tire inside his own zone, allowing Henrik Sedin an opening to feed his twin brother, who roofed a shot on Hiller for his first playoff goal since Game 2 of the 2011 Stanley Cup final — a stretch of 13 contests.

The Canucks, who lost consecutive games in regulation just once after the all-star break, doubled the lead at 7:06 on the power play when Higgins snapped a playoff scoring slump of his own by banging home a loose puck from the slot. The goal was his first in the post-season since Game 2 of the 2011 Western Conference semifinal — a span of 20 games — and his first point in 16 playoff contests.

Apart from its terrible recent playoff home record, Vancouver had also lost six straight in the post-season and 11 of its last 12 prior to Friday.

Lack faced just three shots in the first, but had to defend himself in the second after making a save off a scramble in front. Brandon Bollig piled into the Vancouver goalie in a scrum only to see Lack respond with blocker

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Vancouver Canucks’ Brad Richardson fights with Calgary Flames’ Matt Stajan as Vancouver Canucks right wing Derek Dorsett fights with Calgary Flames defenceman Deryk Engelland during the third period of Game 2 of the NHL Western Conference first round playoff hockey series in Vancouver, B.C. Friday. punches in the melee as fans chanted “Eddie! Eddie!”

Yannick Weber came close to making it 3-0 for Vancouver with 5:45 left in the second when his shot from the point rang off the post behind Hiller.

Calgary came from behind to win when trailing after 40 minutes an impressive 10 times this season and ac-

complished the same feat in Game 1, but Kenins scored his the first playoff goal of his career 2:17 into the third before Russell buried his second of the series for Calgary at 16:26 on a power play to cut the lead to 3-1.

Vrbata scored into an empty net with 2:01 remaining before all 10 skaters dropped their gloves, including

Vancouver’s Brad Richardson taking on Calgary’s Matt Stajan and Engelland squaring off with the Canucks’ Derek Dorsett.

Notes: Game 4 goes Tuesday in Calgary. ... The Flames are without five regulars, including injured captain and No. 1 defenceman Mark Giordano.

Esso Cup great for girls’ game, say organizers

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

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City of Red Deer Recreation Parks and Culture employee Brad Mann eyes the next spot for a banner at the Arena on Friday. Preparations at the Arena are well underway as city workers and volunteers prepare to welcome the teams playing in the Esso Cup girls hockey tournament beginning Sunday.

Fourteen months of work is about show its face for Todd Thiessen.

The president of the Red Deer Minor Hockey Association has been busy preparing to host the Esso Cup, the midget AAA girls hockey national championship, which begins on Sunday afternoon.

What began as a three-man brigade, charged with developing the women’s game in Central Alberta, has grown to an army of about 100 volunteers.

The mission began two years ago when former national team head coach Melody Davidson called a meeting with Thiessen, Sutter Fund Chiefs head coach Tom Bast and RDMHA general manager Dallas Gaume.

“She pointed at me and said ‘Just on an aside, you guys should think about hosting the Esso Cup, it would be great for Central Alberta from a business standpoint ... but it would be great for female hockey development,’” said Thiessen. “We’re seeing if we can get

more girls into the game and more girls excited about the game.”

Thiessen has also worked closely with Hockey Alberta on the same mandate.

One of the big changes likely coming down the pike in the next couple of years will be the removal of regional boundaries for female players at the midget AAA level. While there is the chance this could be in play for next season, Tim Leer, senior manager for Hockey Alberta, says it will likely take until the 2016-17 season to implement, as they iron out all the details and concerns over the next year.

It is just one of the major changes Hockey Alberta is looking at to grow the game, including the introduction of a midget AA feeder league and strengthened regionalization at the grassroots level.

“It’s time to look at things, it’s been a certain way for many years and I think it’s an opportunity now to throw everything on the table,” said Leer.

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Bentley Generals advance to Allan Cup final

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Generals 5 Cataracts 4 (OT) CLARENVILLE, N.L. — The Bentley Generals had their sights set on today’s Allan Cup final and they weren’t going to be denied their berth in the national senior AAA hockey championship contest.

The Generals battled back from a 3-2 third-period deficit, gave up a tying goal with 36 seconds left, then got an overtime marker from former Yale University defenceman Colin Dueck to defeat the Grand Falls-Windsor, N.L., Cataracts 5-4 in a semifinal Friday.

Dueck connected from the left point a mere 20 seconds into overtime to lift the Generals into today’s 3 p.m.

(MDT) final against the Southeast Prairie Thunder of Manitoba, who defeated the host Clarenville Cougars 4-1 in Friday’s late semifinal.

“It was one of the most emotional games I’ve been a part of,” said Generals head coach Ryan Tobler, following his club’s semifinal conquest. “We found a way, that’s basically the best way to sum it up.

“We found a way. We battled, we never quit. We were resilient. Credit to the guys, they stuck with it. We had a great bench all night and it paid off.”

Teegan Moore gave the Alberta champions a 1-0 lead 6:22 into the game and Colin Cirelli drew the Cataracts even before the intermission.

From there, Generals first-year forward Torrie Dyck potted a power-play at 5:53 of the second period and the Cataracts’ Pat O’Keefe responded with one second remaining in the frame.

Cirelli notched a man-advantage marker at 8:05 of the third period to give Grand Falls-Windsor their first lead of the evening, but the Generals rallied with a pair of goals — off the sticks of Josh Smith at the 12-minute mark and Cam Maclise at 14:10 — to move back in front.

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With time winding down, Cirelli completed his hat trick with a powerplay tally at 19:24, setting the stage for Dueck’s extra-time heroics.

Dustin Butler made 29 saves as the winning netminder, while A.J. Whiffen turned aside 32 shots in the Cataracts net. Grand Falls-Windsor was two-for eight on the power play, with the Generals going one-for-eight.

“They’re a very good team,” Tobler said of the Cataracts. “They have a lot of skill and their power play is lethal.

We have a lot of respect for them, they have us a heck of a series.

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Red hot Braves upset Jays in the eighth FIVE HOME RUNS BY JAYS NOT ENOUGH

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Braves 8 Blue Jays 7 TORONTO — Pinch-hitter Jonny Gomes hit a tiebreaking solo shot in the eighth inning and Freddie Freeman added a two-run shot later in the frame as the Atlanta Braves held off the Toronto Blue Jays 8-7 on Friday night at Rogers Centre.

Toronto reliever Brett Cecil (0-1) gave up both homers as the Braves took the opener of the three-game interleague series. The Blue Jays scored twice in the bottom of the eighth but Jason Grilli worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his fifth save.

The Blue Jays (5-6) hit five home runs on the night but four of them were solo shots. Josh Donaldson and Toronto native Russell Martin hit two homers apiece and Devon Travis added the other.

Cody Martin (1-0) threw one inning of relief for the win.

With shortstop Jose Reyes skipping the series to rest a cracked rib and strained muscle on his left side, Travis led off by taking a 1-1 pitch from Julio Teheran over the wall in straightaway centre for his third homer of the year.

Eric Young Jr., tied the game in the second inning with a two-out RBI single off Toronto starter Drew Hutchison that scored Andrelton Simmons. In the bottom half, Martin broke out of his long slump by turning on an 0-1 pitch for his first homer and second hit of the season.

The Braves (7-3) pulled even in the third when Nick Markakis came across on A.J. Pierzynski’s RBI single. Pierzynski was caught in a rundown but managed to get to second base when no one covered the bag, leaving runners at second and third with one out.

Hutchison kept the game tied by getting Simmons to ground out and Jace Peterson on a strikeout.

Donaldson restored Toronto’s lead with his first home run of the season.

The opposite-field blast in the third inning also brought Travis home after he

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Atlanta Braves’ Chris Johnson scores past Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin on a hit by Andrelton Simmons Jr. during fifth inning MLB action against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto Friday. reached on a single.

Simmons drove in two runs in the fifth inning with a double to the gap in right-centre.

He took third on Jose Bautista’s throw home and that was it for Hutchison, who allowed seven hits and four earned runs.

Roberto Osuna came on and gave up a triple to Peterson that put Atlanta ahead 5-4. The young right-hander then struck out Cameron Maybin.

Donaldson tied it with a solo shot that gave him his fourth career multihomer game. Bautista walked and Ed-

in the evening.

Thiessen has seen this payoff in a big way as the Chiefs turned into one of the top teams in the province this year, making it all of the way to the provincial final before bowing out to perennial national contender Edmonton Thunder, who advanced to the Esso Cup out of the Pacific Region.

But his goals are more altruistic than just grooming athletes.

“We all do this because of what these kids turn out to be once they are done playing hockey, what they’re like when they’re employees, neighbours, spouses, parents, community leaders,” said Thiessen. “That’s what we’re developing here. We’re in the people development business, this isn’t just about hockey.”

The Esso Cup will also be a vehicle for the local hockey community to change the perception of the girls’ game.

Thiessen, in just doing the ground work for the championship, has already seen those perceptions evolve.

“It’s massive in the sense that the ability of the female athletes has improved exponentially over the last 10 years, they take their training more serious, they take their development more serious, they take their practice time more serious — these are athletes,” said Thiessen.

The tournament will cost about $170,000 to put on — Hockey Canada is covering travel, hotel and food for the visiting teams — but those costs have already been covered through grants like the Daryl K. Seaman Foundation, the Community Initiatives Program, Red Deer Hotels, and through many tournament sponsors like Birchcliff Energy and Stantec.

Though Thiessen is happy with pre-ticket sales, he is expecting large walk-up crowds, especially for the Chiefs home games — requesting everyone to wear red — all of which are at 7 p.m.

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CUP: Developing more competitive league “Let’s learn from the past but let’s not be handcuffed by the past either. Let’s look forward and how the world has changed and is the game keeping up to those changes that we’re seeing in society?”

The tearing down of the regional boundaries at the midget AAA level is what interests Thiessen the most, in terms of developing a more competitive Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League.

What this will do is allow a girl from Grande Prairie or Fort McMurray or other locations, to come play midget AAA hockey in Red Deer, or any other centre, while attending school here and being billeted. It will help keep major midget as a viable, more financially affordable, option to the private academies like Notre Dame in Wilcox, Sask., and the Warner hockey School.

“We will be able to do it for their $1,000 registration fee instead of their $35,000 to go to a private school,” said Thiessen. “If you equate female hockey to the male model, this is their junior hockey. To go any higher than this, you’re going to go CIS or NCAA and that’s the female version of professional hockey.”

Another big step taken by girls hockey in Red Deer this season is the move to an almost academystyle system, working with Erik Lodge at École Secondaire Notre Dame High School. During the school day the girls get to work on their on-ice skills and office training and then go to practice with their team

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Martin’s second homer came in the bottom of the eighth off Jim Johnson.

It was his ninth career multi-homer game.

Toronto had two runners in scoring position later in the frame. Travis hit a grounder to short that brought home Dalton Pompey of Mississauga, Ont., but Pillar was tagged in a rundown between second and third.

Donaldson grounded out to end the inning. The game took three hours and nine minutes to play.

Notes: Hutchison walked three batters and struck out six.

The tournament opens on Sunday at noon when the Sudbury Wolves take on the Saskatoon Stars, followed by the Central Plains Capitals and Edmonton Thunder at 3:30 p.m. The Chiefs open their tournament schedule in that evening’s prime time slot against the Moncton Rockets.

For Thiessen, there is only one appropriate ending to the tournament.

“We want a national title,” he said. “I’ve got two others under my belt as president with the Telus Cup, Id’ love nothing more than an Esso Cup.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

GENERALS: Prairie Thunder up next Next up, the Prairie Thunder. The Manitoba/ Saskatchewan champs disappointed an overflow pro-Caribous gathering of close to 3,000 to reach the final, which will be televised by TSN3, who will interview Tobler prior to the contest and Generals defenceman Giffen Nyren between periods.

“We’re going to catch the next (semifinal) right now and do some scouting and see what we’re up against,” said Tobler, prior to the Clarenville-Southeast Prairie Thunder game. “We’re looking forward to the final.” ● Steve Christie turned aside 43 shots and Del Cowan scored one goal and assisted on two others to lead the Prairie Thunder past the Caribous. Riley Dudar, Dustin Hughes and Nick Cowan also tallied for Southeast, while Chad Denny notched a firstperiod marker for the hosts.

Clarenville goaltender Jason Churchill made 21 saves. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Predators score four unanswered goals, tie series

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Ottawa Senatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Curtis Lazar fends off Montreal Canadiensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Alexei Emelin during first period of Game 2 NHL Stanley Cup first round playoff hockey action Friday in Montreal.

Galchenyuk scores OT winner SENS RETURN TO OTTAWA DOWN TWO GAMES TO ZERO

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadiens 3 Senators 2 (OT) MONTREAL â&#x20AC;&#x201D; P.K. Subban knew he had to do something to make up for being ejected from the opening game of the Montreal Canadiens first-round playoff series.

The Canadiens star defenceman, drawing inspiration from a vote of confidence from legend Jean Beliveauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife Elise, responded with a goal and a solid 29:06 of ice time as Montreal downed the Ottawa Senators 3-2 in Game 2. Alex Galchenyuk scored the winner 3:40 into overtime.

Montreal retained home-ice advantage by winning its first two home games of the best-of-seven series.

Ottawa will try to do the same in Game 3 on Sunday and Game 4 on Wednesday at the Canadian Tire Centre. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play the whole first game and I wanted to be better,â&#x20AC;? said Subban.â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I did a good enough job of setting an example (to his teammates) in the first game.â&#x20AC;?

Subban was tossed from the opener, a 4-3 Montreal win, in the second period with a slashing major and a game misconduct for a two-handed chop to the wrist of Senators scoring leader Mark Stone.

As he was standing around outside the dressing room after the ejection, Elise Beliveau passed by

and told him not to worry, that he would be better in Game 2.

After the win, he said Mrs. Beliveau, whose husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death in December was honoured with a state funeral, stood up in her seat behind the Canadiens bench and showed she was wearing a Subban No. 76 jersey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the cutest things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen,â&#x20AC;?said Subban. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to know I have that support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know what Jean Beliveau means to this organization â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what he means to Canada.â&#x20AC;?

Max Pacioretty returned after missing three games with a concussion to score Montrealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first goal.

Stone, diagnosed with a microfracture, responded by assisting on Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals by Clarke MacArthur and Patrick Wiercioch despite limited use of his right wrist.

Ottawa goalie Andrew Hammond, shaky in the opener, bounced back with a solid effort as Montreal outshot the Senators 42-31. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reality is weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re down two games and we have to find a way to win,â&#x20AC;? said Ottawa coach Dave Cameron, whose team crept into the playoffs by going 22-4-4 down the stretch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During our streak, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at how far we were back. We won. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the focus now. To find a way to win.â&#x20AC;?

He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blame the game-winner on Hammond, who was beaten when Ottawa failed to clear the puck and Galchenyuk jumped on it.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Craig Smith scored the first two playoff goals of his career and added an assist, and the Nashville Predators beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-2 Friday night to tie their Western Conference opening-round playoff series at a game apiece.

The Predators won for the first time since clinching a postseason berth on March 28. Pekka Rinne made 24 saves for the win and even had an assist.

Filip Forsberg had a goal and an assist, and Colin Wilson, Roman Josi and Mike Santorelli each scored a goal. Nashville lost captain Shea Weber to a lower-body injury nearly midway through the second period.

Patrick Sharp and Patrick Kane scored for Chicago, which is chasing its third Stanley Cup trophy in six years. Corey Crawford, yanked after one period in Game 1, gave up three goals in 2 minutes, 19 seconds in the third period as Nashville turned a tight game into a rout late. Game 3 is Sunday in Chicago.

With NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman in the stands, he got to see another packed arena in Nashville with Predators fans keeping the Chicago faithful way outnumbered. The Predators felt like they only needed to make a few tweaks to their game after outshooting and outhitting Chicago in Game 1. They jumped on the Blackhawks from the start, picking up their first man-advantage 61 seconds into the game. Wilson, who scored two goals Wednesday night, roofed a wrister over Crawfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoulder for the power-play goal.

Chicago managed only one shot midway through the first, but managed to tie it at 1 when Sharp lifted the puck over a sprawling Rinne at 16:13. But Josi scored on a wrister with 3.6 seconds left in the period for a 2-1 lead. On the ensuing faceoff, the teams scrapped, with roughing penalties handed out to Andrew Shaw and Bryan Bickell of Chicago and Paul Gaustad and Taylor Beck of Nashville.

Gaustad hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been out of the box long when he drew a double-minor for high-sticking Michal Rozsival, catching the Chicago defenseman with his stick after pushing him away. Gaustad is one of Nashvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big penalty killers, and he got help from Rinne getting just enough of Sharpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slap shot late to deflect it off the crossbar.

Replay showed six Blackhawks on the ice during a line change when Kane managed to get the puck alone and tie it with his wrister from the left circle slipping under Rinneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glove.

Rookie gets playoff win in second start of season

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Capitals 4 Islanders 3 WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom helped make a winner of a rookie replacement goalie making his second start all season for the Washington Capitals.

Reunited on Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top line, Backstrom delivered a goal and two assists, and Ovechkin scored once, leading the Capitals and fill-in goalie Philipp Grubauer to a 4-3 comeback victory over the New York Islanders on Friday night that evened the firstround playoff series at a game apiece.

After Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two stars â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ovechkin led the NHL in goals, Backstrom was No. 1 in assists â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both scored to erase a 3-1 deficit, Jason Chimera netted the go-ahead goal with 12 ½ minutes left.

Chimera, who was whistled for penalties at the 20-minute mark of the second and third periods in the Capitalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 4-1 Game 1 loss Wednesday, sent a wrister past Jaroslav Halak to give the hosts their first lead of the series. Chimeraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial shot was blocked, but the puck came right back to him, and he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss on the second chance.

The series shifts to New York for Game 3 on Sunday, and Game 4 on Tuesday. The Islanders are playing their last season at Nassau Coliseum, their home since 1972, and will move to Barclays Center in Brooklyn next season.

Grubauer was called up from the minors Friday to replace starting goalie Braden Holtby, who was ill. Grubauer, a 23-year-old from Germany, made 18 saves, settling down after giving up goals to Cal Clutterbuck, Ryan Strome and Kyle Okposo.

As they vowed, the Capitals came out far more active and aggressive Friday than in Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flat Game 1, maintaining possession for significant stretches. The problem? While Washington managed to take shot after shot after shot â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 31 times in all, they sent the puck in the general direction of the net in the first period â&#x20AC;&#x201D; very few were on-target.

A major part of that was the Islandersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; doing: They blocked 15 shots in the first period, when the Capitals were credited with zero.

Clutterbuck, meanwhile, breezed through the neutral zone, and sent a wrister past Grubauer less than 5 ½ minutes into the game on New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second shot. The Islanders went ahead 2-0 slightly under 3 ½ minutes into the second period, when captain John Tavares set up his buddy Strome for a wrister from the slot.

But the Capitalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; near-constant pressure finally paid off with 8 ½ minutes left in the second. Islanders left wing Matt Martin lost his stick, and the Capitals passed the puck around, looking as if they were on a power play. With the crowd roaring its approval as the possession continued, defenceman Mike Green slid the puck across the ice to Karl Alzner, who beat Halak on the glove side.

After New York restored a two-goal lead, Washington again took advantage of an Islanders playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s broken stick â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Okposo, this time. Backstrom passed to Matt Niskanen, whose shot went off Halakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pads

and to Ovechkin. The three-time NHL MVP poked the puck in from beside the crease.

Ovechkin did a high leg kick to celebrate his first point of these playoffs.

The Capitals led the league in power-play percentage each of the past three seasons, and on their

first opportunity of the game â&#x20AC;&#x201D; third of the series â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Backstrom converted, making it 3-all with a little more than 16 minutes remaining.

After Chimera put the Capitals in front, Grubauer made the lead stand up, hearing plenty of chants of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Groob!â&#x20AC;? from the fans.

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Spieth’s low score record short-lived MERRITT DOES ONE STROKE BETTER ONE DAY LATER

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Little-known Troy Merritt one-upped the Masters champion Jordan Spieth at the RBC Heritage.

Merritt shot a 10-under 61 on Friday to tie the course record at Harbour Town Golf Links only a few hours after Spieth wowed the gallery with a bounce-back 62 to match his lowest PGA Tour round.

Merritt tied David Frost’s tournament mark set in 1994 and topped the leaderboard at 12-under 130, a stroke off the 36-hole event record shared by Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson.

Merritt, who opened with a 69 on Thursday, saw Spieth’s score in the morning and knew the opportunity was there to go low.

“Anytime that you match shot for shot with the Masters champ, with the way he’s playing, it’s a pretty good feeling,” said Merritt, whose career best in four seasons on the PGA Tour is a tie for second last year at the St. Jude Classic.

Spieth looked like the headliner Friday, following a 74 on Thursday with the 62 — which tied his career low set at the Deutsche Bank Championship in 2013.

The 21-year-old Texan has been on a major role the past month, winning the Valspar Championship and finishing second in San Antonio and Houston before capturing his first major title at Augusta National last week.

Spieth birdied his final two holes at Harbour Town, electrifying the crowds already there to cheer him, to shoot the lowest tournament round in 10 years —

Stoll arrested in Las Vegas on cocaine possession charges LAS VEGAS — Los Angeles Kings centre Jarret Stoll was arrested Friday for suspected cocaine possession at the MGM Grand Hotel’s Wet Republic pool complex.

Las Vegas police Lt. Michael Mauntel said Stoll is being held at the Clark County Detention Center.

Stoll is the boyfriend of Erin Andrews, the “Dancing with the Stars” co-host and Fox Sports reporter. Stoll also was engaged to actress and model Rachel Hunter, singer Rod Stewart’s former wife.

The 32-year-old Stoll is an unrestricted free agent after struggling this season. He had six goals and 11 assists in 73 games, his seventh with Los Angeles after five with Edmonton.

The centre helped the Kings win Stanley Cup titles in 2012 and 2014.

Los Angeles missed the playoffs this season.

Cracked rib sidelines Reyes Toronto shortstop Jose Reyes will miss the Blue Jays’ series against Atlanta this weekend after suffering a cracked rib on a checked swing last week in Baltimore.

Reyes, who is also nursing a strained muscle in the same area on

until Merritt did him one better.

Merritt had nine birdies over his final 10 holes to surge on top and send Spieth six shots behind on a day of low, low scoring. Merritt ended his round with four straight birdies, including a 5-footer on the signature lighthouse hole, No. 18, to tie the course record.

Merritt was four shots ahead of Matt Kuchar and John Merrick. Kuchar had a 66, and Merrick shot 65.

Nick Taylor was the only Canadian to make the cut after 36 holes. The Abbotsford, B.C. native shot a 69 and is 1 under for the tournament.

Past RBC Heritage winners and U.S. Open champions Graeme McDowell and Jim Furyk were 7 under along with Kevin Kisner. Furyk had a 64, Kisner shot 67, and McDowell 69.

Spieth was a stroke back at 6 under, tied for seventh in a pack that included former British Open winner Louis Oosthuizen, who shot a 67.

Harbour Town’s rarely shown such little bite as low scores were everywhere. Brandt Snedeker, Bryce Molder and Russell Knox had 64s like Furyk.

Kevin Streelman, Blake Adams, Brian Harman and John Peterson joined Merrick with 65s.

In all, 62 players, including 11 who didn’t make the cut, shot sub-70 rounds.

The second-round scoring average of 69.641 was the second lowest ever in tournament history, only surpassed by the 2000 third round (69.162).

Spieth had the lowest round since Peter Lonard opened the 2005 event with a 62 on the way to capturing the title. It was a distinction that lasted just a few hours. Still, Spieth showed the energy and skill missing in Thursday’s struggles. his left side, had an MRI exam this week and will be re-evaluated Tuesday. He tried to play through the discomfort in this week’s four-game series against Tampa Bay but took himself out of the club’s 4-2 loss to the Rays on Thursday night.

“The doctor told me the crack in the rib is not going to get any worse,” Reyes said before Friday’s game against the Braves at Rogers Centre.

“What can get worse is the strain that I have in the muscle. It’s in the same area.”

Grubauer first German-born goalie to start NHL playoff game WASHINGTON - Rookie Philipp Grubauer became the first Germanborn goalie to start an NHL playoff game, filling in for an ill Braden Holtby and helping the Washington Capitals beat the New York Islanders 4-3 Friday night.

“Just like every other game,” Grubauer said after making 18 saves as Washington evened the Eastern Conference first-round series at 1-all. That sort of calm attitude impressed Capitals teammates and coach Barry Trotz.

“I just liked his demeanour,” Trotz said.

Three-time NHL MVP Alex Ovechkin, who scored a goal for Washington, said of Grubauer: “He was outstanding.”

Williams could be X-factor in playoff series

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

RAPTORS

TORONTO — Lou Williams’ back is a tapestry of ink that, according to the tattooed street sign stretched across his shoulder blades, depicts the corner of “Hustle” and “Hard Work.”

The Toronto Raptors are counting on both from their sharpshooting guard when they open the NBA playoffs Saturday afternoon against the Washington Wizards.

The Raptors acquired Williams in a trade last summer in one of the biggest bargains of the off-season. Now Williams is a favourite to win the NBA’s sixth man of the year award, and poised to potentially be Toronto’s X-factor in the playoffs.

“Lou’s the sixth man of the year for a reason,” Kyle Lowry said. There’s no question about it, if he doesn’t win sixth man of the year it would be a sham.“ The NBA will announce the sixth man winner sometime during the opening round of the playoffs, but the sixfoot-two, 175-pound guard isn’t exactly waiting with baited breath.

“Kyle’s opinion,” Williams said of Lowry’s compliment. “But that’s nice of him to say.

“I’ve probably played the most games out of all of the other candidates. I’ve been very consistent this year. So we’ll see what happens. It’s probably one of the best seasons of my career. So if I get it, I get it. If not, I’m sure somebody else is deserving.”

General manager Masai Ujiri said it was a risk acquiring Williams. Rehabilitating from a torn ACL, he was coming off his worst season in seven years. He’s rebounded as a Raptor in spectacular fashion, averaging a career-high 15.5 points a night.

“He’s a phenomenal player. We made a trade and we hoped we were getting a good player that could come back from a tough injury,” Ujiri said.

“It’s a risk you take when you do our jobs.

“For me, he’s done absolutely well. . . that’s what you hope for. Did we know

that it would be this big? He’s done really well. To me, he should be the sixth man of the year.”

Williams has given the Wizards, in particular, fits this season, averaging 19.7 points and shooting 48.8 per cent from the field — 38.9 per cent from three-point range — in Toronto’s three regular-season victories. The wily vet is also a master at drawing fouls.

“In the playoffs, I realize teams are probably going to blitz me and try to take the ball out of my hands, so it’s just a matter of going out there and making basketball plays, making smart reads,” said Williams, who has appeared in 37 playoff games. “Playoff basketball isn’t about who scores, stats or putting numbers up on the board.

It’s just about winning at the end of the day.

“When you play a game in a series, it becomes chess. It becomes who can outsmart the other team. So it’s not really about just going out there and getting your numbers.”

Williams takes some pressure off Toronto’s leading scorer DeMar DeRozan.

“Something we really didn’t have last year was a scoring threat off the bench like Lou,” DeRozan said. “For him to do the things he’s done this year, incredible.

“Having a guy who can run off 1314 points in eight minutes and get to the free-throw line, it definitely helps.

Definitely, hands down, no question (he’s my sixth man of the year). He’s a great guy, keeps everyone in a good mood, he’s never in a bad mood. He keeps everyone’s spirits up and makes you want to have fun.

The 28-year-old from Memphis is one of the more colourful Raptors.

He’s dabbled in rap, including his debut freestyle “Imma Boss.” He’s also referenced in Drake’s song “6 Man.” With Philadelphia, Williams was famous for averting a potential armed robbery three years ago.

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Jordan Spieth, right, talks with his caddie, Michael Greller, on the 17th tee during the second round of the RBC Heritage golf tournament in Hilton Head Island, S.C., Friday.

“That’s just better golf,” Spieth said.

“I told you guys yesterday, no excuses, I just played poorly.”

Spieth said he corrected his ball position and cured the slice that kept him off target Thursday.

“I went back to posture, ball position, hand position and tempo,” he explained. “And I struck that ball quite a bit better.”

Most had understandably figured a highly fatigued Spieth wasn’t long for the RBC Heritage. Along with a grueling week of grinding for a green jacket, Spieth spent two frenetic days in New York on an interview and appearance tour.

He arrived Tuesday night and took

the course yesterday without playing a hole of practice. But Spieth said he was motivated to improve on his poor first-round showing.

“I don’t want to go home early,” he said.

He won’t have to. But he’s still got plenty of skilled players in front to become just the second player ever to follow a Masters victory with one at the RBC Heritage. Bernhard Langer accomplished that double in 1985.

Divots: Tom Watson birdied the 18th hole for a 70 to make the cut. Watson made the cut at the age of 65 years, 7 months, 13 days. Sam Snead is the oldest player to make a PGA Tour cut at 67 years, 2 months, 21 days.

Prairie Fire silenced by ground and pound

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Hilltoppers 17 Prairie Fire 10 LACOMBE — The Prairie Fire Football Club had their two-game winning streak come to an end in their Calgary and Area Midget Football Association home opener on Saturday.

Despite their 17-10 loss to the Calgary Hilltoppers the Prairie Fire (2-2) still find themselves in the thick of the playoff hunt with two games remaining.

“It’s always tough to lose, but that’s a great team, they’re a perennial powerhouse and have won this league before, and we were one score away, one play away — I’m proud of these kids,” said Prairie Fire head coach Chris Hall.

The Prairie Fire did well to keep league-leading rusher Ted Kubongo bottled up in the first half, but he wore down the host’s defence in the second half, racking up 246 yards, two touchdowns and one fumble on 39 carries.

The game was not a pretty one, dominated by the defences.

Prairie Fire quarterback David Mueller had the Central Alberta club’s

lone touchdown, on a three yard draw up the middle, with 46 seconds left in the first half to put the Prairie Fire up 7-2.

He finished 6-for-19 for 79 yards passing while also running seven times for 47 yards and the major.

The Hilltoppers finally broke through at 6:03 of the third quarter for their first offensive points of the game, as Kubongo scored on a three-yard run off tackle, one play after Hilltoppers receiver Brandon MacIsaac set them up on the doorstep with a 35-yard catch and run. They converted the two-yard attempt to go up 10-7.

Kubongo put Calgary up two scores with his second touchdown 3:31 into the fourth quarter, on a 15-yard run off tackle.

Prairie Fire kicker Eder Arias drilled a 41-yard field goal at 6:09 to cut the lead to 17-10.

Lindsay Thurber Raiders defensive back Dawson McRea gave the Prairie Fire a chance to tie the game after sniffing out a late fake field goal deep in the Prairie Fire end, but they were unable to march the field.

The Prairie Fire’s next game is April 25 in Lacombe at 1 p.m. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

CORRECTION In our Salute to Minor Hockey Section the wrong picture was run for the PEEWEE B WOODY’S RV. Below is the correct picture.

Our apologies to the coaches and team.

Front Row: #1 Clay Lorencz, #16 Kai Richer, #7 Austin Giant, #9 Ben Pullyblank, #3 Jesse Paquette, #14 Nathan Landry, #31 Jonothan Miller, Middle Row: #20 Trystin Hudkins, #10 Seth Elliot, #18 Lucas Ward, #11 Chase Newton, Back Row: #17 Ben Quayle, #15 Tyler Walker, #5 Ruben Rivera, #12 Jared Tieken-Wack, #4 Aidan O’Neill, Staff: AC Dylan Pullyblank, AC Bruce Elliot, Coach Mike Landry, AC Dwayne Wack, Manager Matt O’Neil

2014 - PEEWEE B WOODY’S RV - 2015 In our Salute to Minor Hockey Section the wrong names were run for the PEEWEE B LIONS CLUB. Below are the correct names.

Our apologies to the coaches and team.

Front Row: #1 Andrew Duiker, #6 Cam Saxton, #3 Cayd Neilly, #7 Tom Cundict, #16 Cooper Bell, #31 Brenden Hoffman, Middle Row: #11 Ryden Currie, #10 Callum Spink, #20 Tyler Wintringham, #18 Payton Conklin, #14 Alex Haley, Back Row: #9 Mikael Moounk, Kolby Winters, #19 Joel Demale, Missing#4 Dayton Simpson, #5 Gavin Walters Staff: Ass’t Coach Tanner MacArthur, Manager Jon Haley, Coach Jeff Conklin, Asst Coach Mac Patchett

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports Today

● Fencing: Provincial championships at Collicutt Centre, 9 a.m. start. ● High school rugby: Lacombe 7s Icebreaker tournament — First game at 9 a.m., finals at 2:30 p.m. ● Senior AAA hockey: Allan Cup at Clarenville, Nfld. — Final at 2 p.m. MDT.

Sunday

● Fencing: Provincial championships at Collicutt Centre, 9 a.m. start. ● Canadian major midget girls hockey: Esso Cup (Canadian championship) — Saskatchewan vs. Ontario, noon; Manitoba vs. Pacific, 3:30 p.m.; Atlantic vs. host (Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs), 7 p.m.; all games at Red Deer Arena.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent 3B Jimmy Paredes to Bowie (EL) for a rehab assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned OF Terrance Gore to Northwest Arkansas (TL). Recalled OF Reymond Fuentes from Omaha (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed LHP Brian Duensing on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Caleb Thielbar from Rochester (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Optioned RHP Anthony Ranaudo to Round Rock (PCL). Reinstated RHP Tanner Scheppers from the 15-day DL. Transferred RHP Kyuji Fujikawa from Frisco (TL) to Round Rock to continue his rehab assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Placed INF Mike Olt and RHP Neil Ramirez on the 15-day DL; Olt retroactive to Wednesday and Ramirez to Tuesday. Selected the contract of INF Kris Bryant from Iowa (PCL). Reinstated OF Chris Denorfia from the 15-day DL. CINCINNATI REDS — Optioned C Kyle Skipworth to Louisville (IL). Recalled C Tucker Barnhart from Louisville.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RHP Carlos Frias to Oklahoma City (PCL). Designated LHP Ryan Dennick for assignment. Claimed RHP Daniel Corcino off waivers from Cincinnati.

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned RHP Carter Capps to New Orleans (PCL). Reinstated RHP David Phelps from paternity leave.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed OF Carlos Gomez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday.

Recalled UT Jason Rogers from Colorado Springs (PCL). Sent RHP Jim Henderson to Brevard County (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK METS — Optioned RHP Rafael Montero to Las Vegas (PCL). Selected the contract of INF Danny Muno from Las Vegas.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent OF Domonic Brown to Lehigh Valley (IL) for a rehab assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned C Tony Sanchez to Indianapolis (IL). Reinstated C Chris Stewart from the 15-day DL. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent RHP Erik Cordier to San Jose (Cal) for a rehab assignment.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent OF Denard Span to Hagerstown (SAL) for a rehab assignment.

American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Signed RHP Nestor Molina and INF Tyler Siacca.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released LHP Kyle Gehrs.

LAREDO LEMURS — Signed RHP Matt Loosen and INF Tony Delmonico.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed RHP Matt Jackson.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed LHP Donnie Joseph and OF Justin Trapp. Traded INF Matt Padgett to Laredo (AA) for cash and a player to be named.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed LHP Ryan Bollinger.

FOOTBALL National Football League DETROIT LIONS — Named Allison Maki senior vice-president of administration and chief financial officer and Luis Perez senior vice-president of business development and strategy.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Agreed to terms with DL Mark Robinson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed F Christian Dvorak to a three-year, entry-level contract. Announced a multi-year affiliation agreement with Springfield (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Announced a five-year affiliation agreement with San Antonio (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Announced a multi-year affiliation agreement with Lake Erie (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — signed D John Klingberg to a seven-year contract extension.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Fired coach Craig Berube.

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled G Philipp Grubauer from Hershey (AHL). Signed F Riley Barber to a three-year, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Signed F Ross Johnston to an amateur tryout agreement.

PROVIDENCE BRUINS — Assigned D Frankie Simonelli to South Carolina (ECHL).

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF New York 5 3 0 2 9 D.C. 5 3 1 1 5 Orlando 6 2 2 2 6 New England 6 2 2 2 4 Chicago 5 2 3 0 5 New York City 6 1 2 3 5 Philadelphia 7 1 3 3 8 Columbus 5 1 2 2 5 Toronto 4 1 3 0 6 Montreal 4 0 2 2 2

GA Pt 4 11 4 10 5 8 6 8 7 6 5 6 11 6 5 5 8 3 6 2

Western Conference GP W L T GF Vancouver 7 4 2 1 9 Dallas 6 3 2 1 7 San Jose 7 3 4 0 7 Salt Lake 5 2 0 3 6 Kansas City 6 2 1 3 6 Houston 6 2 2 2 5 Los Angeles 6 2 2 2 6 Seattle 5 2 2 1 6 Colorado 5 1 1 3 4 Portland 6 1 2 3 6

GA Pt 7 13 8 10 9 9 4 9 6 9 3 8 6 8 4 7 2 6 7 6

Friday’s results New York 2 San Jose 0 Today’s games Houston at D.C., 7 p.m.

Orlando at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Seattle at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Vancouver at Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m.

Kansas City at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games New England at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Portland at New York City, 7 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts 31 22 7 2 64 26 73 32 20 6 6 63 32 66 32 19 8 5 59 30 65 32 18 7 7 65 34 61 32 17 6 9 47 36 57 32 17 5 10 44 22 56 32 16 6 10 50 46 54 32 13 8 11 38 40 47 32 11 10 11 42 40 43 32 12 7 13 36 40 43 32 11 9 12 42 43 42 32 9 11 12 40 43 38 32 9 8 15 33 51 35 32 8 9 15 30 46 33 33 8 8 17 24 45 32 32 5 14 13 25 48 29 32 6 10 16 29 45 28 33 7 5 21 38 59 26 32 5 11 16 26 50 26 31 6 7 18 32 51 25

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

Saturday, April 18 Arsenal vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT, Ppd. Crystal Palace vs. West Brom, 1400 GMT Everton vs. Burnley, 1400 GMT Hull City vs. Liverpool, 1400 GMT, Ppd. Leicester City vs. Swansea, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Southampton, 1400 GMT Chelsea vs. Manchester United, 1630 GMT Sunday, April 19 Manchester City vs. West Ham, 1230 GMT Newcastle vs. Tottenham, 1500 GMT Monday, April 20 Aston Villa vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1900 GMT,

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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015

Hockey WHL PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND Division Semifinals (Best-of-7)

Minnesota 4 St. Louis 2 Saturday, April 18 Minnesota at St. Louis, 3 p.m.

Monday, April 20 St. Louis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22 St. Louis at Minnesota, 9:30 p.m.

Friday, April 24 x-Minnesota at St. Louis, TBD Sunday, April 26 x-St. Louis at Minnesota, TBD Wednesday, April 29 x-Minnesota at St. Louis, TBD

EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal (1) vs. Ottawa (WC) (Montreal leads series 2-0) Wednesday, April 15 Montreal 4 Ottawa 3 Friday, April 17 Montreal 3 Ottawa 2 (OT) Sunday, April 19 Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22 Montreal at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Friday, April 24 x-Ottawa at Montreal, TBD Sunday, April 26 x-Montreal at Ottawa, TBD Tuesday, April 28 x-Ottawa at Montreal, TBD

Brandon (1) vs. Regina (2) (Brandon win series 4-1) Friday, Apr. 10 Brandon 5 Regina 1 Saturday, Apr. 11 Brandon 5 Regina 2 Tuesday, Apr. 14 Regina 3 Brandon 2 Wednesday, Apr. 15 Brandon 3 Regina 2 (OT) Friday, Apr. 17 Brandon 3 Regina 2 (OT) Sunday, Apr. 19 x-Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 21 x-Regina at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Predators 6, Blackhawks 2 First Period 1. Nashville, Wilson 3 (Smith, Ribeiro) 2:47 (pp).

2. Chicago, Sharp 2 (Hjalmarsson, Shaw) 16:13.

3. Nashville, Josi 1 (Weber) 19:56.

Second Period 4. Chicago, Kane 1 (Seabrook) 10:32.

5. Nashville, Smith 1 (Franson, Ribeiro) 14:54.

Third Period 6. Nashville, Forsberg 1 (unassisted) 12:41.

7. Nashville, Smith 2 (Forsberg, Rinne) 14:28.

8. Nashville, Santorelli 1 (Jarnkrok, Stalberg) 15:00.

Shots on goal by Chicago 6 14 6 — 26 Nashville 16 7 12 — 35 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (L, 0-1-0); Nashville: Rinne (W, 1-1-0).

Canucks 4, Flames 1 First Period 1. Vancouver, Sedin 1 (Sedin, Burrows) 2:56.

2. Vancouver, Higgins 1 (Burrows, Tanev) 7:06 (pp).

Second Period No Scoring.

Third Period 3. Vancouver, Kenins 1 (Horvat, Sbisa) 2:17.

4. Calgary, Russell 2 (Monahan, Gaudreau) 16:26 (pp).

5. Vancouver, Vrbata 1 (Bonino) 17:59 (en).

Shots on goal by Calgary 3 11 9 — 23 Vancouver 13 9 10 — 32

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Canadiens 3, Senators 2 (OT) First Period 1. Ottawa, MacArthur 1 (Stone, Ceci) 18:42.

Second Period 2. Montreal, Pacioretty 1 (Desharnais, Markov) 7:18 (pp).

WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Minnesota leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 16

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals

Goal — NY Islanders: Halak (L, 1-1-0); Washington: Grubauer (W, 1-0-0).

Vancouver (2) vs. Calgary (3) (Calgary leads series 1-0) Wednesday, April 15 Calgary 2 Vancouver 1 Friday, April 17 Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Sunday, April 19 Vancouver at Calgary, 10 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21 Vancouver at Calgary, 10 p.m.

Thursday, April 23 x-Calgary at Vancouver, TBD Saturday, April 25 x-Vancouver at Calgary, TBD Monday, April 27 x-Calgary at Vancouver, TBD x — if necessary.

Washington (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (3) (Series tied 1-1) Wednesday, April 15 NY Islanders 4 Washington 1 Friday, April 17 Washington 4 NY Islanders 3 Sunday, April 19 Washington at NY Islanders, 12 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21 Washington at NY Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 23 x-NY Islanders at Washington, TBD Saturday, April 25 x-Washington at NY Islanders, TBD Monday, April 27 x-NY Islanders at Washington, TBD

Everett (1) vs. Portland (2) (Portland leads series 3-1) Friday, Apr. 10 Everett 5 Portland 3 Saturday, Apr. 11 Portland 4 Everett 3 (OT) Thursday, Apr. 16 Portland 5 Everett 3 Friday, Apr. 17 Portland 2 Everett 1 (OT) Sunday, Apr. 19 Portland at Everett, 5:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 21 x-Everett at Portland, 8 p.m. x — if necessary.

Capitals 4, Islanders 3 First Period 1. NY Islanders, Clutterbuck 1 (Martin) 5:14.

Second Period 2. NY Islanders, Strome 2 (Tavares, Visnovsky) 3:24.

3. Washington, Alzner 1 (Green, Backstrom) 11:26.

4. NY Islanders, Okposo 1 (Bailey, De Haan) 14:09.

5. Washington, Ovechkin 1 (Niskanen, Backstrom) 16:09.

Third Period 6. Washington, Backstrom 1 (Carlson) 3:44 (pp).

7. Washington, Chimera 1 (Niskanen) 7:37.

Shots on goal by NY Islanders 7 7 7 — 21 Washington 5 18 12 — 35

Anaheim (1) vs. Winnipeg (WC) (Anaheim leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 16 Anaheim 4 Winnipeg 2 Saturday, April 18 Winnipeg at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.

Monday, April 20 Anaheim at Winnipeg, 9 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22 Anaheim at Winnipeg, 9:30 p.m.

Friday, April 24 x-Winnipeg at Anaheim, TBD Sunday, April 26 x-Anaheim at Winnipeg, TBD Tuesday, April 28 x-Winnipeg at Anaheim, TBD

N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Pittsburgh (WC) (NY Rangers leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 16 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1 Saturday, April 18 Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, 8 p.m.

Monday, April 20 NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22 NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Friday, April 24 x-Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, TBD Sunday, April 26 x-NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBD Tuesday, April 28 x-Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, TBD

Kelowna (1) vs. Victoria (2) (Kelowna wins series 4-1) Friday, Apr. 10 Kelowna 5 Victoria 0 Saturday, Apr. 11 Kelowna 4 Victoria 3 (OT) Tuesday, Apr. 14 Kelowna 4 Victoria 2 Wednesday, Apr. 15 Victoria 5 Kelowna 4 (OT) Friday, Apr. 17 Kelowna 7 Victoria 3 Sunday, Apr. 19 x-Kelowna at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 21 x-Victoria at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Goal — Ottawa: Hammond (LO, 0-2-0); Montreal: Price (W, 2-0-0).

Nashville (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Series tied 1-1) Wednesday, April 15 Chicago 4 Nashville 3, 2OT Friday, April 17 Nashville 6 Chicago 2 Sunday, April 19 Nashville at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21 Nashville at Chicago, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 23 x-Chicago at Nashville, TBD Saturday, April 25 x-Nashville at Chicago, TBD Monday, April 27 x-Chicago at Nashville, TBD

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Detroit leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 16 Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, April 18 Detroit at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 23 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 25 x-Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBD Monday, April 27 x-Tampa Bay at Detroit, TBD Wednesday, April 29 x-Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBD

Calgary (1) vs. Medicine Hat (2) (Calgary wins series 4-1) Friday, Apr. 10 Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 1 Sunday, Apr. 12 Medicine Hat 3 Calgary 2 (OT) Monday, Apr. 13 Calgary 5 Medicine Hat 4 Wednesday, Apr. 15 Calgary 2 Medicine Hat 1 (OT) Friday, Apr. 17 Calgary 4 Medicine Hat 3 (OT) Sunday, Apr. 19 x-Calgary at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 20 x-Medicine Hat at Calgary, 7 p.m.

3. Montreal, Subban 1 (Smith-Pelly, Desharnais) 16:30.

Third Period 4. Ottawa, Wiercioch 1 (Stone, Karlsson) 13:25 (pp).

Overtime 5. Montreal, Galchenyuk 1 (Gallagher, Plekanec) 3:40.

Shots on goal by Ottawa 14 3 11 3 — 31 Montreal 10 14 13 5 — 42

Goal — Calgary: Hiller (L, 1-1-0); Vancouver: Lack (W, 1-1-0).

Baseball Boston Tampa Bay Baltimore Toronto New York Detroit Kansas City Minnesota Chicago Cleveland Los Angeles Oakland Houston Texas Seattle

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 7 3 .700 6 5 .545 5 5 .500 5 6 .455 4 6 .400 Central Division W L Pct 9 1 .900 8 2 .800 4 6 .400 3 6 .333 3 6 .333 West Division W L Pct 5 5 .500 5 6 .455 4 6 .400 4 6 .400 3 6 .333

GB — 1.5 2 2.5 3 GB — 1 5 5.5 5.5 GB — 1/2 1 1 1.5

Friday’s Games Detroit 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Atlanta 8, Toronto 7 Boston 3, Baltimore 2 N.Y. Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 4 Minnesota 3, Cleveland 2, 11 innings L.A. Angels 6, Houston 3 Kansas City 6, Oakland 4 Texas at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Atlanta (A.Wood 1-0) at Toronto (Dickey 0-1), 11:07 a.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 1-0) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 1-1), 11:08 a.m.

Cleveland (Salazar 0-0) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 0-2), 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 1-1) at Boston (Buchholz 1-1), 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 1-1) at Houston (Keuchel 1-0), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-1) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 2-0), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Hahn 0-1) at Kansas City (Ventura 2-0), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (Lewis 1-0) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Oakland at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct New York 8 3 .727 Atlanta 7 3 .700 Washington 5 6 .455 Miami 3 8 .273 Philadelphia 3 8 .273 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 6 3 .667 Chicago 5 4 .556 Cincinnati 5 5 .500 Pittsburgh 4 6 .400 Milwaukee 2 8 .200 West Division W L Pct Colorado 7 2 .778 Los Angeles 6 3 .667 San Diego 7 4 .636 Arizona 5 5 .500 San Francisco 3 8 .273

GB — 1/2 3 5 5 GB — 1 1.5 2.5 4.5 GB — 1 1 2.5 5

Friday’s Games San Diego 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 3 Washington 7, Philadelphia 2 Atlanta 8, Toronto 7 N.Y. Mets 4, Miami 1 St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 1 Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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

Today’s Games Philadelphia (Harang 1-1) at Washington (Zimmermann 1-1), 11:05 a.m.

Atlanta (A.Wood 1-0) at Toronto (Dickey 0-1), 11:07 a.m.

Cincinnati (Bailey 0-0) at St. Louis (C.Martinez 0-0), 12:15 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-0), 12:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Lohse 0-2) at Pittsburgh (Locke 1-0), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Latos 0-2) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Arizona (De La Rosa 2-0) at San Francisco (Heston 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Colorado (Lyles 1-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Miami at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

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

Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 5:20 p.m.

San Diego at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

Sv—G.Holland (4). HRs—Oakland, I.Davis (1), Vogt 2 (3).

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago Detroit

010 000

000 100

000 001

— —

Atlanta Toronto 1 4 2 10

1 0

Samardzija, Duke (9) and Soto; Price, Soria (9) and Avila. W—Soria 1-0. L—Duke 1-1. HRs—Chicago, A.Garcia (1). Detroit, Cespedes (1).

New York 010 T. Bay 000

102 400

010 000

— —

5 4

5 8

0 0

Warren, E.Rogers (5), J.Wilson (7), Betances (7), A.Miller (8) and B.McCann; Karns, Frieri (6), Riefenhauser (7), Jepsen (8), Geltz (9) and B.Wilson.

W—Betances 2-0. L—Jepsen 0-1. Sv—A.Miller (3). HRs—New York, A.Rodriguez 2 (4), Drew (3).

Tampa Bay, Dykstra (1), Forsythe (2).

Baltimore 000 Boston 000

110 020

000 001

— —

2 3

5 4

0 1

U.Jimenez, Gausman (4), O’Day (6), Matusz (8), Tom.Hunter (9) and Joseph; J.Kelly, Mujica (6), Tazawa (8), Uehara (9) and Hanigan. W—Uehara 1-0. L—Matusz 0-1. HRs—Baltimore, Joseph (1).

Boston, Hanigan (1).

L.A. Houston

000 000

102 011

030 100

— —

6 3

6 8

1 0

Weaver, J.Alvarez (7), Pestano (7), C.Ramos (7), J.Smith (8), Street (9) and Iannetta; R.Hernandez, Harris (7), Qualls (8), Deduno (9) and J.Castro.

W—C.Ramos 1-0. L—Qualls 0-1. Sv—Street (4).

HRs—Los Angeles, Trout 2 (3). Houston, J.Castro (1).

Cleveland 000 011 Minnesota 000 002

000 000

00 — 01 —

2 8 2 3 6 0

(11 innings) Kluber, McAllister (9), Rzepczynski (10), Shaw (10) and R.Perez; Pelfrey, Stauffer (6), A.Thompson (7), Perkins (9), Thielbar (10), Boyer (10) and Herrmann.

W—Boyer 1-1. L—Shaw 0-1. HRs—Cleveland, Moss (1). Minnesota, Plouffe (2).

Oakland K. City

010 003

200 001

100 02x

— —

4 8 6 15

0 0

Gray, O’Flaherty (7), Otero (8) and Vogt; Guthrie, K.Herrera (7), W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez, Kratz. W—W.Davis 2-0. L—Otero 0-1.

011 112

INTERLEAGUE 030 030 — 010 020 —

8 12 7 11

0 1

Teheran, Avilan (6), Co.Martin (7), Ji.Johnson (8), Grilli (9) and Pierzynski; Hutchison, Osuna (5), Loup (7), Cecil (8), Hendriks (8), M.Castro (9) and Ru.Martin. W—Co.Martin 1-0. L—Cecil 0-1. Sv— Grilli (5). HRs—Atlanta, J.Gomes (2), Freeman (3).

Toronto, Travis (3), Ru.Martin 2 (2), Donaldson 2 (2).

NATIONAL LEAGUE San Diego 000 200 300 — Chicago 002 020 000 —

5 4

8 7

2 1

Shields, Thayer (7), Benoit (8), Kimbrel (9) and De.Norris; Hammel, Rosscup (7), Schlitter (7), Strop (8), H.Rondon (9) and Castillo, M.Montero.

W—Shields 2-0. L—Schlitter 0-1. Sv—Kimbrel (4).

HRs—San Diego, Middlebrooks (2), Myers (1).

Milwaukee 010 Pittsburgh 000

001 120

001 03x

— —

3 8 6 11

1 0

Nelson, Jeffress (6), Broxton (8), Blazek (8) and Lucroy; Worley, J.Hughes (7), Watson (8), Bastardo (9), Melancon (9) and Cervelli. W—Worley 1-1. L— Nelson 1-1. Sv—Melancon (1). HRs—Pittsburgh, Marte (2).

Phila.

Wash.

001 300

000 100

001 30x

— —

2 7 7 10

2 2

O’Sullivan, J.Gomez (6), Diekman (7), Giles (8) and Ruiz; Scherzer, Rivero (9) and W.Ramos. W— Scherzer 1-1. L—O’Sullivan 0-1. HRs—Washington, Harper (3), Espinosa (2).

Miami 100 New York 000

000 012

000 01x

— —

1 4

7 7

0 0

Phelps, Hand (5), S.Dyson (6), Morris (8) and Realmuto; B.Colon, Blevins (8), Familia (9) and Recker.

W—B.Colon 3-0. L—Hand 0-1. Sv—Familia (5).

HRs—Miami, Stanton (2).

Cincinnati 100 St. Louis 100

000 000

000 32x

— —

1 6

6 7

1 2

Cueto, Hoover (8) and Pena; Wacha, Siegrist (8) and Molina. W—Wacha 2-0. L—Cueto 0-2. Sv— Siegrist (1). HRs—Cincinnati, Votto (4).

Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta vs. Brooklyn Sunday, April 19: Brooklyn at Atlanta, 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22: Brooklyn at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 25: Atlanta at Brooklyn, 1 p.m.

Monday, April 27: Atlanta at Brooklyn, TBD Cleveland vs. Boston Sunday, April 19: Boston at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21: Boston at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 23: Cleveland at Boston, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 26 Cleveland at Boston, 11 a.m.

Chicago vs. Milwaukee Saturday, April 18: Milwaukee at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Monday, April 20: Milwaukee at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Thursday, April 23: Chicago at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Saturday. April 25: Chicago at Milwaukee, 3:30 p.m.

Toronto vs. Washington Saturday, April 18: Washington at Toronto, 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday, April 21: Washington at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 24: Toronto at Washington, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 26: Toronto at Washington, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State vs. New Orleans

Saturday, April 18: New Orleans at Golden State, 1:30 p.m.

Monday, April 20: New Orleans at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 23: Golden State at New Orleans, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 25: Golden State at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Houston vs. Dallas Saturday, April 18: Dallas at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 21: Dallas at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 24: Houston at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 26: Houston at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 19: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Friday, April 24: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 26: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 1:30 p.m.

Portland vs. Memphis Sunday, April 19: Portland at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, April 22: Portland at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 25: Memphis at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Monday, April 27: Memphis at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers vs. San Antonio

Golf RBC HERITAGE At Harbour Town Golf Links Hilton Head Island, S.C. Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,101; Par: 71 Second Round a-amateur Troy Merritt Matt Kuchar John Merrick Graeme McDowell Kevin Kisner Jim Furyk Morgan Hoffmann Matt Every Louis Oosthuizen Jordan Spieth Kevin Streelman Jerry Kelly Justin Thomas Bo Van Pelt Lucas Glover Stewart Cink Aaron Baddeley Sean O’Hair Blake Adams Branden Grace John Peterson Scott Langley Jim Renner Vijay Singh Bryce Molder Ben Martin Brice Garnett Brendon de Jonge Ben Crane James Hahn Russell Knox Chris Stroud Brendon Todd Ian Poulter Luke Donald George McNeill Hudson Swafford Freddie Jacobson Zac Blair Pat Perez Martin Flores

69-61 68-66 69-65 66-69 68-67 71-64 68-68 66-70 69-67 74-62 71-65 71-66 70-67 69-68 70-67 70-67 70-67 70-67 72-65 70-67 72-65 68-70 69-69 71-67 74-64 69-69 72-66 70-68 72-67 70-69 75-64 72-67 73-66 69-70 73-66 72-67 70-69 71-68 70-69 69-71 73-67

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Joost Luiten Daniel Summerhays a-Scott Vincent Daniel Berger Sangmoon Bae Brian Harman Carl Pettersson Ricky Barnes Jason Dufner Chris Kirk Boo Weekley Webb Simpson Nick Taylor Ryo Ishikawa Brian Stuard Jason Bohn Charlie Beljan Cameron Smith Scott Brown Charley Hoffman Alex Cejka Bill Haas Billy Horschel Brandt Snedeker William McGirt Robert Streb Charl Schwartzel Danny Lee Robert Allenby Anirban Lahiri Jason Kokrak Steven Bowditch Martin Laird Tom Watson Andres Gonzales

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EL BOSQUE MEXICO CHAMPIONSHIP At El Bosque Golf Club Leon, Mexico Purse: $5 million Yardage: 7,701; Par: 72 Second Round Peter Malnati Casey Wittenberg Kevin Tway Chase Wright Luke List Rob Oppenheim

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SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL At Genzon Golf Club Shenzhen, China Purse: $2.5 million Yardage: 7,145; Par: 72 Second Round Peter Uihlein, United States67-68 Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand67-69 Matt Ford, England 69-69 Gregory Havret, France 70-68 Emiliano Grillo, Argentina 71-67 Darren Fichardt, South Africa68-70 Marco Crespi, Italy 69-70 Lucas Bjerregaard, Denmark72-67 Tommy Fleetwood, England70-69 Matteo Manassero, Italy 69-70 Huang Wen-yi, China 66-74 Julien Quesne, France 71-69 Scott Hend, Australia 70-70 Anthony Wall, England 69-72 David Lipsky, United States73-68 Alexander Levy, France 71-70 David Howell, England 71-70 David Horsey, England 70-71 Trevor Fisher Jnr, South Africa71-70 Also

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Rockhold looking to launch into title contention

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

UFC

Luke Rockhold has chewed up and choked out his last three opponents with such force that there’s seemingly only one fighter left for him to get past to finally earn a shot at the middleweight championship.

Rockhold knows if he can soundly defeat Lyoto Machida in the main event Saturday at UFC Fight Night in New Jersey, then he should be next in line for a pay-per-view title shot in the 185-pound division.

Rockhold lost his UFC debut in 2013, then rebounded with wins over Costas Philippou, Tim Boetsch, Michael Bisping and positioned himself to take on the winner of UFC 187 next month between Chris Weidman and Vitor Belfort.

“I’ve had my ups and downs in training camp but the challenges make me stronger and I’m happy to say that I’m over the camp and fight ready,” he said. “I had to work around a few injures but that’s behind me and I can’t wait to win on Saturday.”

The Rockhold-Machida bout headlines strong middleweight card at the Prudential Center. Jacare Souza fights Chris Camozzi in another middleweight bout.

Souza, who lost to Rockhold in the old Strikeforce days, hoped he could stake his claim as the No. 1 contender to Weidman’s title with a fight against Olympic silver medallist Yoel Romero. But when Romero was injured, Camozzi stepped in and will try and avenge a May 2013 loss to Souza.

“A win against Jacare puts me right up in the rankings and in title contention,” Camozzi said. “This will be my first rematch in my career and I’m excited.”

Souza is 4-0 in UFC and could stake his claim as the top contender with a dominant win and a Rockhold loss.

Machida (22-5-0) lost a unanimous decision to Weidman at 175 in July.

That puts Rockhold (13-2-0) in the driver’s seat for one of the next potential blockbuster bouts. He has yet to fight for a UFC championship.

“Game plan is take control and make him fear my weapons,” Rockhold said. “I’m more well-rounded. He’s one dimensional, but I can hurt him in several ways.”

Rockhold would love a date with a New York native like Weidman in the Big Apple. But Rockhold has little say in another looming takedown — the possibility that, finally, MMA would become legal in New York.

The UFC will again stage its latest big show off-Broadway, running another stout card in New Jersey while mixed martial arts remained banned in New York. New Jersey has a stronghold on the east, though PPVs and Fight Nights have been held in Philadelphia and Boston over the last five years. The Senate again approved a bill to legalize and regulate the combat sport that includes boxing, judo, wrestling and kickboxing. UFC remained hopeful that the assembly will finally approve the bill which would allow the promotion to stage a dream card at Madison Square Garden, perhaps in December.

“I think the fight being here is a great opportunity for the future of fighting in New York,” said the 36-yearold Machida, a former UFC light heavyweight champion.

New York is lone state that does not allow regulated MMA fights. And while UFC is the undisputed leader in MMA events, the bill would obviously let all promoters of the organized sport in, like Bellator and the World Series of Fighting. In other bouts on Saturday’s main network-television card, Cub Swanson also fights featherweight Max Holloway in a 145-pound bout.

Paige VanZant fights Felice Herrig in a 115-pound fight.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Monday, April 13, 2015, photo, mixed martial arts fighter Paige VanZant, right, works on take-down moves while sparring with Andrew Richardson at Ultimate Fitness in Sacramento, Calif. VanZant, 21, is scheduled to fight Felice Herrig in an Ultimate Fighting Championship strawweight match in New Jersey on Saturday.

Mayweather-Pacquiao tickets still not on sale not buying tickets at this point.”

At Stubhub there are no tickets for sale, spokeswoman Alison Salcedo said, because the ticket reseller is waiting for actual prices to be set and tickets to be printed.

“There’s still so much up in the air for this fight that we’re not allowing spec sales,” Salcedo said.

FIGHT IS IN TWO WEEKS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Don’t expect to snag a $1,500 nosebleed ticket — or any other ticket — at the box office for the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

Just two weeks before the bout, tickets for the most anticipated fight in recent times have yet to go on public sale, with the two camps and the MGM Grand locked in a standoff over allotments. When they are finally put on sale, only a few will be sold at the listed price.

The impasse has left fans in the dark, and ticket brokers perplexed.

“It’s bizarre, normally there’s a public sale 10 weeks before the fight,” said Connor Gregoire, an analyst for Seatgeek.com. “To our knowledge no one has a printed ticket in their hands right now.”

Mayweather’s promoter, Leonard Ellerbe, said Tuesday that tickets would go on sale this week for the May 2 fight, but MGM officials have been tightlipped about their availability. The hotel issued a statement Friday saying there would be a “limited number of tickets available for sale” and that it is working with promoters to finalize a date for their release.

The fight was always going to be a tough ticket, with announced prices of $1,500 to $7,500 in the 16,500-seat Grand Garden arena. But those prices have already tripled in the resale market even before tickets are available, and the two camps and the MGM have been dickering over how many seats — and at what price level — each party gets.

Pacquiao’s manager, Michael Koncz, blamed the Mayweather camp for holding up the ticket sales, saying they have refused to sign a term sheet negotiated months earlier that specified the allotments.

“It’s a real mess right now,” Koncz said. “I can only surmise the motivation is greed and an attempt to manipulate the tickets, otherwise why the holdup?

I’m more than a little upset they’re not for sale to the public.”

Millions of dollars are at stake in the dispute, because after the MGM takes its share each camp gets a certain percentage of tickets and is able to resell them with ticket brokers for higher prices. The estimated gate for the tickets if they are sold at retail prices is already a staggering $72 million, far surpassing the previous gate record of $20 million for Mayweather’s 2013 fight with Canelo Alvarez.

Promoter Bob Arum said he has heard of people cancelling their reservations to Las Vegas because they’re afraid they can’t get tickets.

“This is not acceptable,” said Arum, who promotes Pacquiao. “This is a worldwide event that the city of Las Vegas is involved in. It’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen.”

Gregoire said the fight is one of Seatgeek’s most searched events, but that only a few dozen tickets have been sold through the website. Those tickets are what the ticket industry calls “spec tickets” because the sellers don’t actually have them in hand, but expect to get them before the fight.

The cheapest seat on the site on Friday was $4,800, and Gregoire said the average sale so far is in the $8,000 range.

“People are hesitant to buy in the secondary market before there’s been an original sale,” he said.

“And you’ve also got the incredible prices being asked for tickets now. That means a lot of people are

“We’re not willing to take that risk now.”

Tickets have also not gone on sale for the closed circuit telecast of the fight at the various MGM properties in Las Vegas.

Thousands of those tickets are expected to be sold to fans that can’t get into the arena itself, but no price has been set for them.

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U.S. Midwest dogs facing canine flu outbreak come from Asia.

He said an older strain, H3N8, has also been detected in the region.

Both viruses can cause persistent cough, runny nose and fever in dogs.

Experts say a small percentage will develop more severe symptoms. The H3N2 infection has been associated with some deaths.

Poulsen said pet owners with sick dogs should call a veterinarian to schedule a test outside the veterinary clinic and should not bring dogs into areas where they could interact with other dogs.

“It’s really no different if you’re talking about dogs or toddlers, if you think they’re sick, don’t bring them to day care,” Poulsen said.

Veterinarians say neither canine strain is related to bird flu or is conta-

gious to humans, but the H3N2 strain could sicken cats.

Renee Brantner Shanesy, who owns the Ruffin’ It Resort in Madison, said the kennel required immunizations against H3N8 for all dogs boarded there late last week.

Shanesy said she’s now recommending, not requiring, the vaccination after veterinarians said it won’t protect against H3N2.

“The philosophy we’re taking is, just like the human flu, everyone has to take the precaution for himself,” she said.

Shanesy said she hasn’t seen panic among dog owners, but the kennel is increasing its sanitizing practices. She said she had her two dogs vaccinated and she has cut out trips to the dog park to reduce the risk of exposure.

“Like any other pet owner right now, I’m not 100 per cent comfortable,” Shanesy said. “Anything I can do to give them a better chance of immunity, I’m in.”

Sarah Duchemin, who works at The Dog Den in Madison, said the kennel has been monitoring its dogs for symptoms, and that if a dog shows up with a runny nose or is sneezing, the animal would be isolated and sent home. She said the kennel hasn’t had a dog show any flu symptoms yet, but it cleans its floors and cages every day to prevent the spread of disease.

Luanne Moede, owner of the First Class Pet Lodge in Wausau, told the Wausau Daily Herald that clients are being asked if dogs have travelled out of state. Moede also said she’s informing pet owners about the disease.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Has life in Leo Land has become too predictable? The New Moon’s activating your adventure zone, so Saturday, April 18 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: it’s time to introduce an international flavour, James Woods, 68; Eric Roberts, 59; Conan via travel or linking up with overseas connections.

O’Brien, 52 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Attached VirTHOUGHT OF THE DAY: The New Moon is a time of renewed energy and magical be- gos — with the New Moon stimulating your sensuality sector, it’s time to get up-closeginnings.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Happy birthday Ar- and-personal with your partner. Singles — ies! You like to fight for causes you believe look for a lover who is kind and compassionate. in. 2015 is the year to bring LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are change and transformation you doing all the giving, while your into your personal and profespartner is doing all the taking? Balsional life. ance is the key. Singles — take ARIES (March 21-April off your rose-coloured glasses and 19): The New Moon’s in gungstop looking for the “perfect” lover. ho Aries so it’s the best day SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): of the year to initiate projects, With the New Moon firing up your and turn dreams into positive wellbeing zone, it’s the ideal time action. But, with Uranus stirto improve your diet, plus find fun ring things up, expect the unways to boost your fitness levels. expected!

But resist the temptation to be TAURUS (April 20-May overly possessive.

JOANNE 20): Have you been bustling SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. MADELEINE around like a Bull on steroids?

21): You’re in the mood for fun and Slow down Taurus! The New MOORE’ entertainment. But forethought and Moon encourages you to planning are required so you can make room in your busy life capitalise on your energy surge, for some rest, relaxation and plus avoid making impulsive moves recuperation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Uranus and and messy mistakes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All work the New Moon urge you to rejuvenate your peer group. So it’s the perfect time to join a and no play make Goats grumpy and hard to club or organization; nurture your professional live with. The New Moon encourages you to adjust your home/work balance so that it is contacts; or polish up your networking skills.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The New more balanced — and more family friendly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Study Moon and Uranus shake up your career/reputation zone so get ready for a few surprises. and travel are favoured, as you soak up new Work will be unpredictable — or perhaps oth- ideas like a sponge. You’re also in the mood for speed, which makes you more accident-

prone than usual so pace yourself Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Money tends to run through Fish fingers like water. With the New Moon activating your cash zone, it’s the best time of the year to commit yourself to a responsible new financial plan.

keep. Your imagination and Cat creativity are firing, so put them to good use.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virtuous Virgo — don’t work yourself into a lather being practical and disciplined today. Attend to urgent business first, then enjoy some relaxing quality time with family and friends.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today’s stars boost your Libran creativity, as you tap into inspiration from your unconscious mind and nightly dreams. Make sure you share your insights and ideas with others.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When it comes to stalled projects and delayed dreams, you need to be patient and take a long-term view. Interacting with loved ones — in creative and fun ways — brings benefits today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With Venus visiting your love zone, romance is on your mind. Plus consider adding your versatile talents to a local group, club or organization. Your contribution will be much appreciated.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your creativity is running on high, as you look for practical solutions to everyday problems.

Communicating with others will be fun — and don’t dismiss creative input from children.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re keen to communicate, as you bounce ideas off others and enjoy stimulating conversations and company. You’ll favour deep personal connections over superficial chit-chat.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): With three planets in your communication zone you’ll feel like reading, studying or travelling today.

If you’ve been waiting to get something off your chest — now’s the time to talk.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. — A canine flu outbreak has sickened many dogs in the Midwest, and veterinarians are cautioning pet owners to keep their dogs from going nose-to-nose with other four-legged friends.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine says the virus has sickened at least 1,000 dogs in Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. Recent tests from the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have identified the strain as H3N2.

Clinical assistant professor Keith Poulsen says it’s not yet known how effective current vaccines are against this strain, which is believed to have

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Sunday, April 19 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Kate Hudson, 36; Ashley Judd, 47; Tim Curry, 69 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon’s in Taurus today so don’t rush — slow and steady wins the race.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: In 2015, aim to get the balance right between work and play. But resist the urge to turn every conversation into a debate. June is a magical month for love and romance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re great at starting projects with exuberant enthusiasm — but you’re not so flash at finishing them.

Today, aim to complete unfinished business before you commence anything new.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Intellect and intuition are a powerful combination today Taurus, as you balance rational thought with flashes of creative inspiration. Personal projects are also favoured.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Thought and action are a winning duo today Twins, as the stars encourage you to think and feel in perfect harmony. Just make sure the thinking comes first — followed by the doing!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Group activities and joint ventures are favoured Crabs, as you connect with like-minded friends. It’s also the perfect day to share your dreams for the future with someone special.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re full of enthusiasm and are keen to help others, but don’t make promises you know you won’t

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On Friday, March 20, a group of community leaders along with amazing group of sponsors, generous donors, fantastic volunteers, and countless friends gathered at the Sheraton Red Deer Hotel to honour Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre. It was a magical evening all for Aspire!

Many people in attendance learned of the incredible services and support this charity provides to children and their families.

Aspire provides hope to children with special needs, the families who love them and the communities that care for them. What an incredible gift to our community!

Eight celebrity dancers stepped

out of their comfort zone and onto the dance floor. Visit kiboodle.ca/reddeer to view videos of all eight performances. Judy Sutter, dancing a cha cha medley with Bryan Senn, was recognized for raising the most funds for Aspire.

Vivek Cheba, dancing Bollywood style with Natalie Brooks, won the technical award and was proclaimed the Sheraton Celebrity Dance Off 2015 Champion, receiving the coveted mirror ball trophy.

Congratulations and thank you to the amazing class of 2015!

The Sheraton Celebrity Dance Off 2015 brought the community together in a very unique way.

The work of Aspire Special Needs Resource Centre inspired our community to give most generously. Red Deer and area raised $300,000 for Aspire. The funds will

Vivek Cheba, dancing Bollywood style with Natalie Brooks, won the technical award and was proclaimed the Sheraton Celebrity Dance Off 2015 Champion, receiving the coveted mirror ball trophy. go towards upgrading its facilities, ensuring continued quality support for children with special

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RED DEER COUPLE CHARGED IN RELATION OF TREATMENT OF TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS AT GASOLINE ALLEY HOTEL A Red Deer couple have been charged with human trafficking offences involving eight temporary foreign workers employed at Econolodge Inn & Suites in Gasoline Alley.

Insp. Darcy Fleury, officer in charge of the Alberta RCMP Federal Serious and Organized Crime in Calgary, said the police became involved in the case after being contacted by Alberta Employment Standards in June 2014.

“They had some concerns,” said Fleury.

“They were receiving some information that there was a bunch of people being exploited in Red Deer at this Econolodge. We worked on this inves-

tigation and determined there was a situation and the charges that we laid resulted from that.”

After a 10-month investigation, Calgary Federal Serious Organized Crime officers charged the two suspects under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Police have not released any specifics in the case, including the countries where the temporary foreign workers came from.

Fleury said human traffickers exploit the most vulnerable people in society, such as migrant workers, and they prey on despair and desperation.

He said the collaboration with Al-

berta Employment Standards was instrumental in the investigation.

Fleury could not release any specifics on the case but he said exploitation is the main piece when talking about human trafficking.

“That’s withholding documents,” he said.

“Being forced to work in certain conditions. Things like that.”

Fleury said there are a few cases in the province under investigation but this may be the first alleged one in Red Deer area in the last five years.

Varinder Sidhu, 49, and Ravinder Sidhu, 46, both from Red Deer, are charged with organizing the coming

into Canada of one or more persons by means of abduction, fraud, deception or use or threat of force or coercion.

They are charged with employing a foreign national in a capacity in which the foreign national is not authorized under the act to be employed. They are charged with counsel, induce, aid or abet or attempts to counsel, aid or abet any person to directly or indirectly misrepresent or withhold material facts relating to a relevant matter that induces or could induce an error in the administration of this act.

Varinder and Ravinder Sidhu appear in Red Deer provincial court on May 26.

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LIBRARY BOOK SALE

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Members of the Friends of the Red Deer Public Library peruse the selection of used books for sale in the Snell Auditorium at the downtown branch. The two-day public sale started on Friday and continues today from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

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by French and English recorded menus.

Staff will continue to answer the RCMP non-urgent complaint line (403-3435575) and 911 calls.

RCMP municipal employee superintendent Dave Kingston said the recorded messages will make the service more seamless for French speakers in Red Deer. He said the move will improve access for callers, increase efficiency for staff and provide a more comprehensive bilingual service.

The administration line (403-4062300) is for calls such as when someone wants to reach an investigator, a specific department or staff member, or find the answers to frequently asked questions.

Every day, the police receive calls from people with questions about reporting collisions, criminal record checks and fingerprints, insurance claims and more. The new menu system will direct callers to the information they need, with less chance of being placed on hold. Answers to many frequently asked questions will now be accessible outside of office hours.

The city detachment is one of a number of detachments that have adopted this menu model for administrative phone calls.

Red Deer RCMP appreciate your feedback if you encounter glitches in the early days of the system. Call the administration line and press 0.

RCMP are mandated to serve the public in both official languages.

Kidnapping charges trial to be set in May A Red Deer man will learn his trial date next month on kidnapping charges.

Lyle Robert Vance, 22, waived his preliminary inquiry on April 1 and has chosen to go to trial on charges of kidnapping, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and uttering threats.

The charges were laid in relation to the kidnapping of two 19-year-old men. Red Deer RCMP said they were kidnapped at knifepoint and driven around the city before they were either released or escaped.

Vance will go to Red Deer Court of

Queen’s Bench arraignments on May 4 to set a Court of Queen’s Bench trial and to determine if he will be tried by a judge and jury or by a judge alone.

along Hwy 734 south of Nordegg.

For more information, or to check the status of the fire advisory, visit www.albertafirebans.ca.

Education issues on table at event for MLA candidates

Delburne celebrates history book Sunday

The Alberta Teachers’ Association is inviting residents to a drop-in “meet and greet” with MLA candidates for Red Deer’s two constituencies and Innisfail-Sylvan Lake on Monday.

Drop in between 6 and 9 p.m. to ask the candidates education-related questions at the Red Deer Lodge.

Enjoy light refreshments and casual conversation with the candidates seeking your vote in the upcoming Alberta Provincial Election.

Candidates from all parties have been invited from Red Deer North, Red Deer South, and Innisfail-Sylvan Lake constituencies.

For more information, contact Stephen Merredew at 403-597-0368.

The new Delburne history book will arrive with pomp and circumstance on Sunday.

Bagpiper Luke Andre will pipe in the first copy of the book carried by Pyper Wilson. RCMP officer Bart Warner will wear the RCMP’s ceremonial red serge for the occasion.

The official launch is at 1:30 p.m. at the Delburne Hall. Local auctioneer Nick Silbernagel will auction off the first and second books. Cake and beverages will be served. The reprinted first edition and the new book will both be available for sale.

Concussion specialist to discuss signs, symptoms A specialist in the field of sport related concussions will present an overview of her research at Red Deer College on May 5.

Dr. Elena Antoniadis will detail concussion effects, signs and symptoms. She will also reveal ways to help injured athletes heal and return to play.

The event is directed at athletes, parents, coaches, teachers, sport organizations or anyone in the medical field.

She speaks at 7 p.m. at the Margaret Parsons Theatre. For more information or to register, call Gwen at 403-3423231.

Fire advisory remains for Rocky forest region A fire advisory in the Rocky Wildfire Management Area remains in effect.

Due to the high fire hazard, all fire permits are suspended and no new fire permits are being issued.

Safe campfires are permitted in campgrounds and backcountry or random camping areas.

The Hummingbird prescribed fire has been postponed until more favourable weather conditions. The area is now open for public use.

Depending on weather conditions, hazard reduction burning may be carried out in the Medicine Lake, Jackfish Lake, Saunders, Batus Creek, Wildhorse Creek, Brazeau Dam, as well as along Hwy 752 west of Cow Lake and

City Hall roof project heads to tender The City of Red Deer is now taking bids to replace the City Hall roof.

The $250,000 roof replacement project was approved in the 2015 capital budget.

The work involves removing and replacing the existing roof, increasing insulation and improving efficiencies.

The deadline to submit tenders is April 29. No start date has been set but the project is expected to be completed by Sept. 30.

Tender documents can be obtained from Williams Engineer Canada Inc. at Bay 26, 7875 48th Ave., Red Deer, T4P 2K1. Call 403-755-4063 or email pkitteringham@williamsengineering.com.

Performing art festival runs all next week Music will emanate from Red Deer College next week.

The week-long Red Deer Festival of the Performing Art runs Monday to Friday.

The 52nd annual festival will feature more than 5,000 people, who will perform as individuals or in groups.

The festival includes piano, brass, musical theatre, voice, woodwinds, strings and speech. The final showcase of performers is May 7 at 7 p.m. at Sunnybrook United Church.

TD Bank Group is the key sponsor of the festival this year, with a donation of $10,000. Other sponsors include Kinsmen Club of Red Deer, Kiwanis Club of Red Deer and Twilight Homes Foundation.

For more information about the festival or for a list of sponsors, go to http://reddeerkiwanisfestival.org/

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

Clearwater County and its Caroline and Rocky Mountain House neighbours have renewed their commitment to revenue sharing.

The latest deal was approved by all three councils over the last few days.

It will see the county contribute $750,000 to Rocky Mountain House annually, a huge increase from the $178,000 contribution in a previous three-year agreement that ended in 2012.

Caroline will get $50,000 under the same agreement that runs until the end of 2019.

County chief administrative officer Ron Leaf said the boost reflects the increase in linear taxes that the county gets from pipelines and similar infrastructure.

The number also recognizes the significant “shadow population” in the county that uses services provide by the town and that village. That population includes the significant number of oil and gas workers in the area, as well as weekend outdoor-loving visitors who head to the West Country in the tens of thousands during the summer high season.

It is estimated that 30,000 to 50,000 people visit the county during favourable long weekends and 10,000 to 15,000 head to campsites, trails and fishing holes on a typical two-day weekend.

“There is kind of this recognition that there are expenses and costs that the town and the village are incurring that the county has some responsibility in sharing,” said Leaf.

The money is on top of other costsharing deals for services such as fire, library and policing.

Clearwater County benefits significantly from the oil and gas industry in particular, with $21.4 million coming in linear taxes from pipelines and similar infrastructure. Another $10.5 million comes from machinery and equipment taxes.

Rocky Mayor Fred Nash said the money will make a huge impact on the town and its efforts to maintain its infrastructure.

“We all have infrastructure deficits,” he said, noting the town just spent $10 million upgrading downtown water and sewer lines and its main street.

“In the past, the federal and provincial government were helping us out but they have been slowly cutting back and we’ve been left on our own.”

Smaller communities must provide a lot of services but have a limited tax base to draw upon, he said. For instance, towns over 5,000 have to pay their own policing costs, which eats up one-third of Rocky’s budget.

Nash praised the county for its longstanding willingness to share.

“Clearwater County is a leader among all municipalities for sharing.

They’ve always been good to the town and now it’s even better.”

Both county and town are watching closely to see if an Alberta Urban Municipalities Association resolution on linear taxation sharing finds a favourable ear with the provincial government. In 2013, AUMA members, which represents the province’s urban municipalities, proposed that the province combine all linear taxes into a single pool and dole them out to municipalities based on population.

Nash doesn’t favour that approach.

The latest revenue-sharing agreement with the county shows that communities can work together better on their own, he said.

For the county, the scheme would have a significant impact on its tax base as well, meaning a heavier burden for residents. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Bach never gets old RDSO TO PERFORM SIX OF BACH’S MOST BELOVED COMPOSITIONS

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF With antique and modern instruments, musicians of the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra will bring to vigorous life six of Bach’s most beloved compositions on Saturday, April 25.

The Brandenburg Project concert will see 23 RDSO musicians and guests trading off to form various chamber ensembles to perform the complete concertos, No. 1-6, at the Red Deer College Arts Centre.

These are some of the most brilliant compositions of the baroque era — described as “gems” by the RDSO music director Claude Lapalme — yet they languished in obscurity for more than a century.

The works that became known as the Brandenburg Concertos were written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 17081717.

Bach presented the manuscripts of these pieces to Christian Ludwig, a military officer of Brandenburg Prussia’s Hohenzollern dynasty, in 1721.

But due to a lack of musicians in Ludwig’s cash-strapped Berlin ensemble, the compositions were probably not performed before being sold for 24 groschen (about US$24) of silver in 1734.

Somehow Bach’s autographed manuscripts ended up in Brandenburg’s archives, where they collected dust for many decades. They were rediscovered in 1849, and have become staples of international orchestra and chamber ensemble repertoires ever since.

Lapalme said the RDSO has performed all six emotive and exuberant pieces separately over the years, but

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The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra will bring to vigorous life six of Bach’s most beloved compositions in the The Brandenburg Project concert on Saturday, April 25. has never before tackled them together in one concert. It will be quite the undertaking because of the extremely high demands of the material. “They are very challenging, very technical,” said Lapalme.

He noted solo violinist Naomi Dela field will be sorely taxed performing Concertos No. 1 and 4. Solo trumpeter Richard Scholz will, likewise, be put through an extraordinary musical

mill during the first movement of No. 2. (Notably, this composition’s ethereal third movement was included in a recording of the Earth’s common sounds, languages and music that were sent into outer space with the two Voyager probes.)

And harpsichordist Wendy Markosky will be tasked with a “ludicrously lengthy” cadenza to close the first movement of Concerto No. 5.

Amid all this virtuosity, Bach also included some fairly simple sections that have piqued curiosity and even instigated some forensic musical detective work over the years. For instance, Lapalme believes that Bach’s rationale for including two very simple viola de gamba parts in Concerto No. 6 was that his employer, Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen, played this cellolike instrument.

Since Bach’s employer would have enjoyed the chance to play with the orchestra, the canny composer wrote music that the amateur musician could keep up with.

Reproduction viola de gambas will be used during the RDSO concert, along with two differently tuned harpsichords, some recorders, a transverse wooden flute, and other baroque-style instruments.

Lapalme said the first three concertos will be played on modern instruments, while the Concertos No. 4-6 will be performed on period ones. Old and reproduction instruments will be used to help produce the lower, mellower baroque sound.

He predicts this concert will be a real crowd-pleaser because Bach never gets old.

“There’s a great deal of humanity that comes out in Bach ... he can grab your heart” with his gorgeous instrumentals, Lapalme added, but there’s also a great sense of fun in his compositions that often incorporate dances and jigs.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert are $59.35 ($54.85 seniors/ $43.35 students or the first four rows) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Shelley Henning, left, and Moses Storm appear in a scene from Unfriended.

Unfriended brings cyber-chilling fun UNFRIENDED IS A TEEN HORROR FILM FOR INTERNET AGE, FEATURING A GROUP OF TEENS MENACED FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE Unfriended Three stars (out of four) Rated: 14A

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BY BRUCE DEMARA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE With friends like these, who can blame a teenager cyberbullied into committing suicide for returning from the grave for revenge?

In fact, the late Laura Barns has decided to do a little supernatural cyberbullying of her own against a group of close friends one year after fatally shooting herself, an event caught on camera and cruelly posted on the web.

It is small wonder that the late Laura is so steamed.

A previous video of her lying sprawled on the ground in a drunken stupor is graphically unflattering in the extreme and includes a most unkind tag line: “kill urself.”

Teenagers in peril are as common in the horror genre as things that go bump in the night.

But in the digital age, Unfriended

tries something novel, putting all of the characters in the frame, so to speak, throughout the entire film. You only ever see them via the cameras embedded in their home computers.

The film’s main protagonists are Blaire (Shelley Hennig) and Mitch (Moses Jacob Storm) who engage in a little cyber-romancing with a promise of prom night nookie before friends Kennington, Adam and Jess show up.

When Val joins in and soon becomes the first one to exit in a fatal fashion, it gives the remaining five friends their first warning that something very strange and scary is afoot.

None of the usual tricks they try to

get rid of the mysterious, faceless blue icon named billie227 has any effect and going to the website, unexplainedforum.net, is of no help whatever. By the time they read “do not answer msgs from the dead,” it’s far too late to take heed.

From there, it’s a game of cat and mouse between the teens and billie227, whom it soon becomes clear isn’t your typical internet troll.

The rules as dictated by billie227 dictate that signing off means checking out for good in a grisly fashion.

It also seems that each player has at least one “dirty little secret,” which billie227 knows and uses to set them against each other.

Not surprisingly, tensions and panic rise as the group session progresses, more or less in real time.

Director Levan Gabriadze is rather hamstrung by the concept, which has five or six faces bobbing on the big screen throughout. But he makes good use of the computer screen format, using the blurring and freezing that often happens with digital cams to add a creepy subtext to the story.

The concept also doesn’t give the actors much to work with and, with the

earliest victims particularly, much of a chance to create a character or back story.

Everyone looks outraged at first that someone is impersonating poor dead Laura before eventually surrendering to panic and terror.

Still, Shelley Hennig manages to create a believably sympathetic character in Blaire, alongside her soon-tobe-ex boyfriend Mitch (Moses Jacob Storm).

The script by Nelson Greaves is clever but it doesn’t entirely navigate successfully throughout, with an ending that is a tad unsatisfactory. One also doesn’t want to ponder too deeply about how a malevolent spirit manages to seize control of the internet and to induce her victims to dispatch themselves.

Still, younger audiences in particular are likely to enjoy this entertaining and fast-paced chiller. And who knows?

They may even absorb the film’s underlying message, that what you put online “will live forever,” even if its characters don’t.

Bruce DeMara is a movie reviewer for the Toronto Star

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Acclaimed band with local connection to play Fratters on Thursday

now taking his blend of driving rock, dream pop and roots influences on a first national tour into eight provinces.

For more information, call 403-3092200.

An acclaimed blues/jazz/swing band with Central Alberta connections returns to play in the city next week.

Blue Moon Marquee has been gathering steam across the country, and will perform on Thursday at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

The group is actually a duo, made up of Rocky Mountain House-area resident A.W. Cardinal on lead vocals and guitar and Jasmine Collette of Red Deer on upright bass, drums and vocals.

Blue Moon Marquee’s sound, heard at the Vancouver Jazz Festival and Victoria Jazz, is influenced by delta blues, stomp jazz, gypsy swing and ragtime.

But while the duo looks up to the early music of Skip James, Lonnie Johnson and Django Reinhardt, its music has a modern energy and approach.

For more information about the show, call 403-356-0033.

Indie folk band Towers and Trees coming to Red Deer

Weber to perform at Bo’s Bar and Grill Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Max Irons and Tatiana Maslany star in Woman in Gold.

Mirren’s talents sparkle in real-life drama Woman in Gold 2 stars (out of 4) Rated: PG

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B.C. singer Sam Weber will perform some of his latest emotional, mercurial songs in Red Deer next week.

The young artist behind the LP release Shadows in the Road will play on Monday night at Bo’s Bar and Grill.

Shadows in the Road is described as “an album of intense contrasts, emotional entanglement (and) enthralling arrangements. It plants Sam’s evident affection for freedom, fleeting love, Rocky Mountain desert valleys, and Bruce Springsteen into sonic prose.”

Weber put out a sentimental music video for his tune August and is gearing up to release another.

This time the scenic shots will centre around his feel-good, upbeat track, Right Hearted.

At age 19, Weber was one of the youngest people to ever be featured in Guitar Player magazine in 2012. He’s

The soaring melodies and bootstomping rhythms of indie band Towers and Trees will be heard Thursday in Red Deer.

When the Victoria-based group takes the stage at Bo’s Bar and Grill, the indie-folk collective will sing joyfully, with infectious energy, haunting harmonies and earnest songwriting.

Songwriter Adrian Chalifour teamed up with his friend, producer Ben Lubberts, to record out of Ben’s apartment, and one-by-one, they invited their favourite local musicians to contribute in a collaborative setting.

Towers and Trees has become best known for the upbeat tune Montreal and the dreamy West Coast. Core members now include Andrea Lubberts (keyboards, vocals), Donovan Rush (bass), Dave Zellinsky (lead guitar) and Jesse Boland (percussion).

The band performs in Red Deer with Alberta native Mike Edel. For more information, call 403-309-2200.

Duck Dynasty family debuts Broadway-style musical in Las Vegas LAS VEGAS — There is no shortage of beards, camo, hunting and God alongside a bit of recent real-life scandal in Duck Commander Musical.

The Las Vegas show premiered Wednesday and tells the story thus far of a family duck-call business that led to reality show juggernaut Duck Dynasty.

The 90-minute show with Broadway backers alternates between something akin to a live-action commercial celebrating the family business to a mostly cheery singing and dancing scrapbook of the family’s tight-knit journey.

Linda Bqrnard is a movie reviewer for the Toronto Star

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Enter Daniel Bruhl, the Viennese reporter who introduces himself as “investigative journalist Hubertus Czernin,” and then never writes a word about the battle to help return the painting known as the “Austrian Mona Lisa” to its rightful owner.

Altmann’s backstory is told using flashbacks, with Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany handling herself admirably (and in German) as the young Maria Bloch-Bauer, who lived in an artistic and scholarly home before her Jewish family was targeted by Nazis.

Austrian sympathizers, seen furiously filling Vienna’s streets to target Jews, further spur the newlywed Maria and her husband Fritz Altmann (Max Irons) to craft a dramatic and risky escape.

Mirren compellingly conveys Altmann’s struggles to suppress what she endured in fleeing Vienna, steeling herself to return to Austria decades later to deal with a government that will fight with everything it has to keep the signature artwork and national treasure in the country.

These are the most genuine moments in Woman in Gold, standing out amid others that can’t get past artificiality. That goes double for Katie Holmes, who shows up occasionally as Schoenberg’s wife, getting little more than a cartoonish scene playing the calm pregnant woman going into labour while her husband panics.

As for Mirren, she is never less than perfect, her accent as crisp as her demeanour, emotions held in check until the last, including touching flashback scenes that bring Altmann’s ordeal into sharp focus, reminding her what was left behind and why she was so determined to have an adored piece of her past back.

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Based on a true story about a fight for justice wrapped in passion, memory and determination, and told using the considerable talents of Helen Mirren, Woman in Gold should be a much better movie.

Who wouldn’t get caught up in this real-life drama, especially with Mirren’s deliberately crafted portrayal of Jewish Austrian Holocaust refugee Maria Altmann and her lengthy and often emotionally shattering court battle to reclaim paintings looted from her family home by the Nazis?

One painting in particular: Gustav Klimt’s gilded art nouveau portrait of Altmann’s beloved and beautiful aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer (played in flashback scenes by Antje Traue).

Instead, screenwriter Alexi Kaye Campbell appears determined to just get to each key point in the story and move on, while director Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn) hews to his more familiar TV background as Women in Gold moves one deliberate step at a time to its conclusion, while an attempt to insert some true emotion turns awkwardly overwrought.

Mirren plays the widowed Altmann as emotionally cautious and strongwilled, yet with a dry wit that, because it emerges occasionally, is worth waiting to hear.

She tends the garden outside her tidy California bungalow in a neatly ironed shirt, living with repressed memories of having barely escaped Austria during the Nazi occupation with a vow she would never go back.

With the death of her sister, Altmann discovers evidence that she still has a claim on looted paintings, deemed a pre-war bequest by her aunt to Vienna’s Belvedere Gallery.

Among the treasures was Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, then renamed Woman in Gold to obscure the heritage of its Jewish subject.

Altmann presses struggling young lawyer Randy Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds, not quite convincing) to help her fight back. He’s reluctant -—and not just about taking the case in an area of law where he has no experience.

Unfortunately, Mirren and Reynolds don’t really click, never engaging in dialogue as much as explaining to us how they’re moving the picture along.

That’s especially true when it comes to legal complexities, challenging to con-

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PEACOCK Lucile Odessa (nee Tory) Peacock passed away March 27, 2015 at her Wexford Creek residence, Nanaimo, British Columbia. She was 89 years old and just weeks from her 90th birthday.

Surrounded by her family she passed away in love and peace. Lucile is survived by her sons Brent (Ju), and John (Rhonda), ten grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren as well as numerous “adopted” children and grandchildren and her brothers Elmer and Cecil Tory.

Lucile is predeceased by her parents Lewis and Queena; her sister Marjorie, brother Alan, her first husband Jack Peacock, her son Brian and her second husband Steve Senkiw. Lucile was born in Vermillion, April 13, 1925, and was raised in Wainwright, Alberta. She married her first love, Jack Peacock, August 16, 1945. They moved to Red Deer, AB in 1957. In 1987 after she retired she moved to, as she liked to call it, “Sunny” Nanoose Bay, BC. Lucile was a life time member of Royal Purple, Red Deer Hospital Auxiliary, active with the Golden Agers and the Old Time Fiddlers. Lucile was always noted for her exceptional organization abilities in her home, at her work and all she volunteered for. Lucile’s enjoyment of music and dancing led to the meeting of her second husband, Steve.

She had a great love of reading and could always be found with a book close by, including her extensive cookbook collection. She loved to cook and bake for her friends, children and grandchildren who always knew her to have full “buckets” of their favorite cookies. Lucile will be fondly remembered by those who knew her for being a quintessential homemaker, a smart dresser, of sharp mind, quick wit, dedication and immense love of her family. We will forever keep her memory in our hearts the way she kept the memories of so many others with her descriptive story telling.

Thanks to all the staff at Wexford Creek and Nanaimo Seniors Village for their wonderful care. A celebration of Lucile’s life will be held at the Pioneer Lodge in Red Deer, Alberta on the 29th of August from 2-5 pm.

BRANDVOLD Merle Ethel 1938 - 2015 Merle Brandvold (nee Murphy) gave in to her fight for life and passed away peacefully at the age of 76, on Monday April 6, 2015. Our Mom never gave up and never complained through all the health issues thrown at her until the very end. Her smile embraced all who had the opportunity to share in that moment, and there were many moments.

Her love of sun, fun, travel, golfing, and volunteering is only a small portion of the incredible life she lived. But nothing would get in her way of time with her grandsons. Family and friends were Merle’s passion and delight. We could have been camping, playing games, enjoying one of her incredible meals, delving into a debate or just sitting and soaking up the sun on her front step, but always with love and laughter around us. Merle was a very active member in the community and served on many boards including Habitat for Humanity, Red Deer and the Red Deer Golden Circle. She walked and fundraised for the Cancer Society and would help on any board that asked.

Travel was another love; she and her family travelled to many places and after she lost her husband, her children enjoyed taking her with them on many other trips. Merle was born in Mossbank, Saskatchewan and is predeceased by her beloved husband, Stan, and her parents Melville (Buster) and Nancy Murphy. When she was young, she moved from Saskatchewan to their family farm near Blackfalds, then to Calgary and Regina before her final home in Red Deer.

Survivors include her two loving children - Richard (Bonnie) of Regina and two grandsons Benjamin and Timothy; Nancy (Francois Savard) of Red Deer and his daughter, Samantha McCully(Carter);her sisters June Nolan (Bert), Marj Schell (Curly Walz), Claire (Joey) Shayler (Pete) and Shauna Harrison (Dennis) and her brothers Sheldon Murphy (Helen) and Keith (Skip) Murphy (Darlene). She also has many nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews. The family is deeply grateful for the outpouring of love, prayers, and support in many heart-felt forms from too many people to name individually. Merle’s Celebration of Life will be held on April 24, 2015 at 1:00pm by Pastor Ken Lehman at the Crossroads Church, Corner of 32nd Street and Hwy 2, in Red Deer, AB. Merle’s love of flowers allows us to accept your gift of flowers and we ask them to be sent on the day we all say our last goodbyes to Crossroads Church.If you wish to make a donation in honor of Merle, we ask that you send it to an amazing organization in Red Deer that assists seniors with physical challenges - Red Deer Lending Cupboard, 5406C 43 Street, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1C9, or the Canadian Liver Foundation, 2235 Sheppard Avenue E. Ste #1500, Toronto, Ontario M2J 5B5. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Sonya Henderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403 340 404

DAVIDSON Lorraine Adele On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, while sitting and enjoying the warmth of the sun on the porch where she lived, a welcome visitor arrived. Her late husband and eternal soul mate, Gord, had come to escort her to their new Heavenly home.

A celebration of Lorraine’s full and wonderful life will be held and announced at a later date.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

FRETWELL Francis James Francis James Fretwell passed away April 14, 2015, at the Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury in Ponoka, Alberta.

Frank was born on June 15, 1941, in Lacombe, Alberta.

Frank was predeceased by his parents Geoffrey and Ivy Fretwell. Frank was raised on the farm at Clive, Alberta. He attended 6 years of school at Eclipse school, adjacent to the farm. He moved on to Clive and Lacombe schools for junior and senior high school. Frank enjoyed working with his father’s purebred Shorthorn cattle. He helped to show the cattle at Red Deer Fair, and was active in the 4-H beef club. He also enjoyed the Youth Group in his church, and played the guitar in a worship band.

Frank went on to study Agriculture at the University of Alberta for two years.

Frank is survived by his brother, David (Janet) Fretwell, and sister Edith (Arnold) Enns; also neices and nephews Terra Fretwell, (Malcolm McNamara), Shannon (Jussi) Saramaa, daughters Mila and Haley; Laurene (Jeff) Vanden Elzen, Trevor Enns, daughter Elizabeth, and Sandra (Thom) Buhr. Frank will be deeply missed by staff, family and friends who knew him. Frank received excellent care at the Centennial Centre especially in his geriatric years. A Funeral Service will be held at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe, on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 10:00 am with interment to follow at the Lacombe Fairview Cemetery.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM in charge of arrangements.

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Personals SCHATSCHNEIDER Herb 1930 - 2015 Mr. Herb Schatschneider of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Thursday, April 16, 2015 at the age of 85 years. Herb was born on April 7, 1930 at Brightview, Alberta and raised on the family farm where he stayed until the age of 22 years. He spent the next eighteen years working on the rigs, nine years in the packing plant and finally working as a caretaker at Mustang Acres for eighteen years before his retirement.

Herb and Arletta moved eighteen times in their first twelve years of marriage before making Red Deer their forever home in 1966.

He loved being outdoors, camping, fishing, hunting and gardening.

Herb enjoyed playing baseball, curling, tugof-war, watching hockey, and could often be found keeping busy in his workshop. He will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his wife of 60 years, Arletta; his children, Gerry (Kelly) Coulter, Randy (Raelene), Darcy (Carolyn) and Cordel (Jodi); his twelve grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Alfred (Gertie); sisters, Elsie Walters, Freda Jess, Leona (Alton) Rix; sister-in-law, Freda Schatschneider; as well as extended family and many dear friends. Herb was predeceased by his parents, Rudolph and Martha; grandson, Chad Coulter; daughter-inlaw Brenda Schatschneider; and siblings, Paul, Ed, Edith, Heattie and Albert. Those wishing to pay their respects may do so at the Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street, Red Deer on Monday, April 20, 2015 between 7:00 9:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will be held at the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 18 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. with visitation at 10:00 a.m.

Interment will follow at the Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations in Herb’s honour may be made directly to the Heart & Stoke Foundation of Alberta at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca., or to the Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

THOMPSON Marna (nee Corkish) 1939 - 2015 Marna Verbena Thompson (nee Corkish) of Red Deer passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2015 at the age of 75 years.

She was born in Cereal, Alberta. Marna will be loving remembered by her husband of 52 years, Larry of Red Deer; son Gordon (Yvonne) Thompson and their daughter Kayla of Strathmore and daughter Shannon (Erick Raymond) Thompson of Three Hills.

Also to cherish Marna’s memory are her brothers Andrew and Dale Corkish both of Calgary as well as numerous other family members.

Relatives and friends are invited to a Celebration of Marna’s life to be held in the Community Hall (2nd floor) of Bethany Collegeside , 99 - College Circle, Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 2:00 p.m.

Memorial donations may be directed to Bethany Care Foundation, (Collegeside) , 99 - College Circle, Red Deer, AB T4R 0M3.Condolences to Marna’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS FUNERAL SERVICE RED DEER 587-876-4944

In Memoriam McDOUGALL, Dianna Apr. 7, 1946 - Apr. 19, 2014 It’s hard to believe You are no longer here We think of you, You feel so near.

In some small way, every single day.

Memories of you come our way.

Deeply missed by Kelly, Kim, Chantelle and Kiara

Funeral Directors & Services

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Caregivers/ Aides

710

F/T live in caregiver needed for 3 kids, ages, 8 6, & 12 yr. old. Must love kids and do light housekeeping. $2000 wage less room and board, tax, CPP and EI. Call Brian 403-314-0895 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

FT caregiver needed 40 hrs/wk, Red Deer, $10.20/hr. to aid special needs adult, male, permanent position, light housekeeping, 12 mo. exp., high school diploma, must speak english. Contact eurocan5@telus.net

Dental

740

Full-time, experienced dental assistant (RDA II) required at House Dental Centre. Looking for a friendly, motivated, professional candidate to join our team. Please email resume to catherine.touche@ housedental.ca

ON-THE-JOB Training for DENTAL RECEPTIONIST. Experience preferred but not necessary.

Please drop off resume in person at Bower Dental Centre, Bower Mall TWO F/T POSITIONS required by a busy dental office with a friendly atmosphere. Desirable hours and no weekends.

F/T Level II Registered Dental Assistant - Looking for a professional, flexible, hardworking team-player.

Competitive wages based on exp. and skill level.

Sterilization Assistant Candidate must be organized, detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to work independently. Pls. bring resume to Associates Dental or e-mail to associatesdental@ hotmail.com

Farm Work

755

FEEDLOT in Central Alberta seeking F/T employee for feed truck operator and machinery maintenance. Send resume to fax: 403 638-3908 or e-mail to: dthengs@hotmail.com

Card Of Thanks

Just had a baby girl?

Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

MAYHEW The family of Christina Mayhew would like to thank our neighbors and friends for their kindness after Mom’s passing. We would also like to thank Pastor Stu Krogman and Crossroads for the lovely service. We are so grateful to the staff at Bethany Collegeside for their care and compassion. Sincerely, The Mayhew Family.

Announcements

Daily

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309-3300 Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Companions

Classified Memorials: helping to remember

Say Thank You...

Obituaries

309-3300

Classifieds 309-3300

Medical

790

F/T & P/T Pharmacist positions req’d. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer

Oilfield

800

Instrument/Electronic Technician needed in Lacombe, AB at Decoking Descaling Technology, Inc. Position will include working locally in our shop facility as well as field work. Please apply to calvin@decoking.com Thank you for your interest 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 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 18, 2015 C7

EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided.

Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. 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

880

SPRING START GED Preparation Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

820

Professionals

CASH CASINO is hiring a 3 am - 11 am shift.

Need to be physically fit.

Must have reliable transportation.

Please send resume attn: Greg Tisdale greg@cashcasino.ca or fax 403-346-3101 or drop off at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St. Start your career!

See Help Wanted

GLENN’S GIFT SHOP (next to Glenn’s Restaurant) needs full and part time staff. Good wages in pleasant surroundings. Open 9 am 7 pm. 7 days/week. Phone 403-318-0687 or apply in person Hwy. 2 south Gasoline Alley. Ask for Glenn or Carlee

810

Adanac Insurance Services Ltd.

Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! NOW HIRING 2 - Tile Setters $25/hr 5 - Floor Covering Installers $25/hr Min 3 years exp./ 40hrs/wk 3 - Construction Labourers $20/hr. No exp required.

Full time perm position with Valid Driver’s Licence Email Resume to: cat1employment@ gmail.com or drop off resume at Central Alberta Tile One 7619 50 Ave #9 Red Deer

Truckers/ Drivers

860

BUSY rig moving company looking for exp. bed truck operators, winch tractor hands, and picker operators.

Oilfield ticket an asset.

Must be able to pass a drug test. Pls call 1-306-463-6674.

CSR

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off.

403-586-4558

880

Misc.

Help

LAWN MOWER person approx. 4 days/wk, equal opportunity employer, suitable for semi-retired person. Fax 403-342-7611

Oilfield

For ROSEDALE Area $391.00/mo.

For more info call Jamie at 403-314-4306 CARRIERS REQUIRED

Salary is commensurate with experience.

Please forward your resume:

#115, 5114 - 58 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 2L8

Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

LUBE TECH wanted for busy dealership, possible chance for advancement into apprenticeship.

Must have drivers license.

Fax resume to 341-5066

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

820

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE For VANIER Area

Now Hiring FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

Misc.

Help

890

WORLD VISION Canada needs volunteers to assist with some amazing events that are coming to your community soon! Are YOU ... Passionate about making a difference in the lives of others? Interested in: advocating for change worldwide, meeting new people, and learning more about the work of World Vision Canada! If so, email me today at susanne_milner@ worldvision.ca. The next event in Red Deer is Tues., April 21!

Employment Training

900

SAFETY

1630

EquipmentHeavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres.

Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Aikman Cres.

Atlee / Ansett Cres.

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.

BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive INGLEWOOD AREA Isbister Close

800

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sunnyside Cres.

Sutton Close LANCASTER AREA

Full Time Class 1 Drivers for Bulk Nitrogen, Gravel and Frac Sand

Lord Close SOUTHBROOK AREA Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close

Now Hiring these positions in Red Deer and Whitecourt, Alberta

Viscount Drive/Voisin Close

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE? Daily, the Red Deer Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

3020

3 BDRM. main level house, Johnstone Park. $1300 + d.d., 70% utils., avail. now, no pets.

403-667-5527 587-877-2839 LACOMBE 3 bdrm. 1100 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 full baths, reno’d, det. garage, n/s, no pets, $1600 + utils, May 15, 403-373-7247 SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. now from $1100. to $1300. 403-880-0210.

WEST PARK Just completely reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1400 mo. $1000. d.d.

Avail. now or May 1.

403-304-5337

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Penhold

Rosedale 55 REIGHLEY CLOSE Apr. 17, Fri. 3 - 7 Apr. 18, Sat. 9 - 4 Downsizing, antiques, furniture, so much more!!

28 DUNDEE CRES. (Back Alley) Sat. Apr. 18, 10-4.

Tools, misc. items, 1962 Honda DREAM motorcycle (restored)

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1010

Accounting

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

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

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its CONCRETE???

BEST! We’ll do it all...Free est.

403-986-6686 Call E.J. Construction Come in and see Jim 403-358-8197 why we are the talk DALE’S Home Reno’s of the town.

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 REMOVAL of old concrete, Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285

Misc.

Services

SIDING, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Property clean up 505-4777

Eavestroughing

1130

EAVES CLEANED Residential/Commercial Free quotes. 403-506-4822

1165

KAYLA 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

517717C2-12

Beswick, horses, porcelain, with Welsh Cob (rearing), made in England. $175.

DCSHOES Cap, sz. 7 3/8, like new. $18.

403-352-8811

Houses/ Duplexes

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

Escorts

We work all over Alberta, B.C. and Saskatchewan, drivers are not home every night and could be away from home their whole shift, please keep this in mind when applying.

1760

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

services

VANIER AREA

• Competitive Salary and Bonuses • Scheduled days on and off • Benefits • Off-road experience is an asset • TDG Experience is an asset • Oilfield Tickets are an asset (H2S, 1st Aid, PST, GODI, etc.)

• Clean Drivers Abstract Required • Willing to train the right person

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rentals

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ROUTES IN:

Post:

Email Resumes to logan@venomeneregy.ca Fax to 780 778-6024 Or Call 780 779-6702

MEN’S coveralls size 44, $10, gown,rust/green floral size 8 $10 403-347-5316

50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $229.00/mo.

ANDERS AREA

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

1590

Clothing

CARRIERS NEEDED

Resumes will be accepted until noon May 8, 2015.

VHS movies, (100). $75.

403-885-5020

GAS BBQ $150 obo 403-346-4263

3 days per week, no weekends

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1730

CLASSIFICATIONS

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

Please contact the Elnora Village Office for the detailed position description and position requirements.

Stereos TV's, VCRs

ALUMINUM storm door 32” x 80”, $40. elec. pressure washer $100 403-887-2079

1500-1990

Travel Packages

WANTED

8 PC. setting of dishes, cream w/gold trim, Wood & Son England $30 403-347-3849

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

1860

PROSET Hockey Card, one box (NEW) 1991 - 1992, $30.

GOLF bag, black, traveling style. $45.

403-885-5020

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

$100,

GUN SHOW

SOFA $40; double bed $80 can deliver 403-346-0674

4,000 ft. of 7” used pipe.

403-347-4064 or 350-8431

403.341.4544

1800

May 2, 10 am - 5 pm, May 3, 10 am - 3 pm.

UFA Agri Centre West Info: 403-347-3767

OAK pedestal table w/4 chairs and 2 leafs, good cond. $150 firm 403-746-5123 318-5420

“Low Cost” Quality Training

MICHENER AREA

This is a 30 hour per week position, beginning June 8th and ending August 28th. $15 per hour.

Preference to post-secondary students. First aid training and a valid driver’s license are definite assets.

Village of Elnora Box 629, Elnora, AB T0M 0Y0 Phone: 403-773-3922 Fax: 403-773-3173 Email: elnoravl@platinum.ca

Industries #1 Choice!

1720

COFFEE Table, glass, silver 28.5’x57”, with 2 end table 24” round, bought at Sims. $195. 403-352-8811

Misc. for Sale

TRAINING CENTRE

Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr.

SUMMER RECREATION DIRECTOR

Household Furnishings

stuff

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

Sporting Goods

1710

For LANCASTER Area With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

Office

Busy road construction company looking for safety person. Work is throughout Household the province. Experience is Appliances an asset but willing to train the right person. Must have a valid Class 5 driv- FRIGIDAIRE fridge good er’s license. Fax resume working cond, white $200 obo 403-346-4263 403-309-0489

Volunteers Wanted

1760

ROYAL Dux Bohemian Cat, porcelain, mint cond. $35.

Merrill Ortholight shoe, sz.

6.5, air cushion, women’s, like new. $40.

Maui Jim Sunglasses, Makaha, with brown sport case, brand new. $95 403-352-8811

KENMORE lawn mower $50 obo 403-346-7384

SAFETY PERSON

DEER PARK AREA

WANTED:

1680

COFFEE table, glass top 20 x 26 $30; sleeping bag $8, queen size quilt $10 403-347-5316

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

880

LOGS

Misc. for Sale

Semi loads of pine, spruce, Supplies tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location. OFFICE desk Lil Mule Logging 403-346-7384 403-318-4346

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Garden Supplies

OILFIELD TICKETS

Restaurant/ Hotel

1660

Firewood

Homestead Firewood

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Email: info@adanacinsurance.com

528607D11,18

CONTRACT DRIVERS

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE by 6:30 am.

Mon. - Sat. Reliable vehicle needed.

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

Level 2 Licensed Agent required Commercial Experience preferred

OUR SUMMER FUN PROGRAM NEEDS A LEADER! CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

For More Information Call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

Full Time

537906D23

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

ORIOLE PARK

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

GASOLINE ALLEY 850 LOCATION

Trades

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED Morning Delivery 6 days/week by 6:30 am

F/T CLEANERS

TAP HOUSE BAR & GRILL NORTH is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK and Dishwasher.

Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

880

AFFORDABLE

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

ACTIVE self-storage business requires permanent employee for customer service.

Minimum of 3-4 days/week. To start immediately. Must be able to work independently and have good computer and communication skills.

Restaurant/ Attached 2-bedroom apt at discounted rent available.

Hotel Please send your résumé to Lisa at iss@innstor.ca or EAST 40TH PUB drop it off at Innisfail SelfREQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK Storage & RV Parking at Apply in person with resume 4320 42nd Ave Innisfail, AB. 3811 40th Ave.

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

Advocate Opportunities

ACADEMIC Express

REGISTERED 2200 HOUR MASSAGE THERAPIST REQ’D Start immediately, please forward resume to: drjeff joneschiro@ gmail.com or drop off to: 3, 1959 GAETZ AVE. Jones Family Chiropractic

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift.

Wknd, day, night & eves.

Start date ASAP $19.23/hr.

40 hrs/week, + benefits , 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d.

Req’d education some secondary. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job description visit www. timhortons.com

880

Misc.

Help

278950A5

810

Misc.

Help

539053D15-18

Professionals

Misc.

Help

1200

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL GARAGE DOOR SERVICES 403-358-1614 NOW is the time to get your yard in shape.

Aerations & power rakes 403-318-7625 Property clean ups and all junk removal. 403-550-2502

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Roofing

1370

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Window Cleaning

1420

RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL Free quotes.

403-506-4822 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Yard Care

1430

SPRING clean up, loads to dump. 587-377-5034 BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Buying or Selling Reno’s, flooring, painting, JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. your home? small concrete/rock work, Free Est. 403-872-8888 Check out Homes for Sale landscaping, small tree LAUREL TRUDGEON in Classifieds cutting, fencing & decking.

Residential Painting and Call James 403-341-0617 Spring clean ups with Colour Consultations. aeration and edging $130 403-342-7801. and up, weekly mowing, family-owned and operatLandscaping ed, over 15 years Roofing experience, careful operaGROUND Up Bobcat & tors; Irish Green Yard Care Landscaping Ltd. For free PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 403 341-6620 quote call 403-848-0153 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

SPRING cleaning, weekly 403-896-4869 TOO MUCH STUFF? mows, anything yards we Let Classifieds Something for Everyone do. familyyards.com or call help you sell it.

587-876-8969 Everyday in Classifieds

1240

1370

C8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 18, 2015

3030

3060

Suites

2 BDRM. Lacombe Condo Ground Ár, 45+ bldg, N/S no/pets. $1200/mo w/utils.

Avail. May 1. 780-484-0236

Houses For Sale

4020

3080

3090

~ 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.

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 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

Suites

$450 MO/D.D. incl. everything. 403-342-1834 or 587-877-1883 after 2:30

ROOM, all utils. and cable incld, $450/mo. Call or text 403-598-6386

CITY VIEW APTS.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

MORRISROE MANOR

3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, Adult bldg. only, N/S No pets 403-596-2444

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

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OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

Motorhomes

5100

4090

Manufactured Homes

TO BE MOVED 16 x 80 3 bdrm. 2 bath, 2 walkin closets, vaulted ceilings, 1989 29’ F350, very clean, carpet/lino, inclds. appLs. sleeps 6, 61187 kms. and window coverings, n/s $14500, 403-358-7782 pet free home, $72,000 obo 403-350-0251

4110

Lots For Sale

4160

Residential Building Lots in a Gated, Maintenance Free Golf & Lake Bedroom community, 25 minutes from Red Deer. Lots starting from 99K Contact Mike at 1-403-588-0218

Fifth Wheels

wheels “COMING SOON” BY

2004 CORSAIR 26.5’, 1 large slide, well maint., ready for trip. $16,900.

403-227-6794

5160

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

SERGE’S HOMES Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050

Cars

5030

WatersEdge Marina

FREE…LIST OF HOMES with owners phone numbers, addresses and prices. Call Help-U-Sell of Red Deer at 403-342-7355

Full Title Boat Slips Starting at $58,000 Located in Brand New Marina, Downtown Sylvan Lake, AB www.watersedgeslyvan.com

GARDEN HEIGHTS88 Garrison Circle walkout bungalow w/dbl. garage. $629,900 403-343-8327

Tires, Parts Acces.

MOVE IN TODAY 1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

2008 HONDA CIVIC LX, 139,400 km., exc. con., carproof, $7,900 obo 1-403-396-9369

SUV's

5040

2007 NISSAN Extera 115,800 kms, $10,900 403-877-6020

5180

ELECTRIC trailer dolly $200 obo 403-346-7384

MUST SELL! 1977 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL 2 door, Condition - As New Mileage - 7,000 orig. miles Price - Greatly Reduced.

403-350-5346 or 403-887-6413

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Misc.

Automotive

5240

1985 GMC Wrangler 1/2 ton, AND a 1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.

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GUATEMALA CITY — The daughter of Efrain Rios Montt, the former dictator facing charges of genocide for massacres committed during his 1982-83 regime, is running for president of Guatemala.

Zury Rios Sosa, a three-time member of congress, announced Thursday that she would accept the nomination of the Christian conservative Vision with Values party to compete in general elections later this year.

“Before God and all of you, I take the responsibility and the decision to return to the political arena, to public politics, to the office of a public servant, to submit myself to the judgment of the people,” she said.

Rios Sosa married Jerry Weller, who at the time was a Republican U.S. congressman from Illinois, in 2004.

She was 14 years old when her father, an army general, seized power in a coup. The regime he led suspended the constitution and launched a brutal campaign against political dissidents.

In 2013, he was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity for the killings of 1,771 Mayan Indians by soldiers under his command. A court later overturned the ruling, and a retrial that was supposed to begin in January has been delayed.

Rios Sosa, 47, declined to comment on whether her father’s legal case could affect her race. She said women who run for office often face questions from those who say that “she’s running because she’s

someone’s daughter or wife.”

“I respect, love and support my father, just as I respect and will support the Guatemalan people,” Rios Sosa said.

It is unclear if the Guatemalan people — over 200,000 of whom died in the country’s 1960-1996 civil war — will support her.

“Her candidacy affects us, because she denies there was any genocide, and she does that so people won’t know and make a mistake” by supporting her, said Benjamin Geronimo, a former representative for victims at Rios Montt’s trial.

Human rights activist Jorge Santos said Sosa shouldn’t necessarily be held responsible for her father’s mistakes. But, he added, “if she wants to be a public servant, and approves of the serious acts her father committed, that could influence her performance in office. That means repeating the authoritarianism, violence and corruption.”

Before announcing her candidacy, Rios Sosa spent several months inviting Guatemalans to send her messages suggesting political changes they wish to see.

Rios Montt’s military regime was one of the bloodiest periods of Guatemala’s civil war. According to the United Nations, about 245,000 people were killed or disappeared during the 1960-96 conflict, with the vast majority of killings blamed on the army and paramilitary groups.

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Another of Gao’s lawyers, Shang Baojun, said Gao did not speak during the verdict and sentencing, but told her brother, Gao Wei, that she could not accept the result. “We will definitely appeal,” Shang said.

Speaking to The Associated Press, Gao Wei said his sister appeared thinner and frailer than before her detention a year ago. The court seemed to disregard the defence and heard only the prosecution, Gao Wei said, a common complaint in such cases where the outcome is usually determined before the court meets.

“I’m very angry and concerned for my sister,” he said.

Police patrolled the perimeter of Beijing’s No. 3 Intermediate Court, where the verdict was delivered.

Journalists and foreign diplomats gathered at the court, but were denied entry to the hearing.

“We’re obviously disappointed with the verdict,” said U.S. Embassy First Secretary Dan Biers.

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The sentence against Gao Yu, 71, comes amid a widening clampdown on free speech that highlights the gap between China’s vision of rule of law and Western notions of civil liberties and judicial fairness. The verdict appears to confirm the authenticity of the leaked document, deemed a state secret, which had been reported since June 2013, but never was discussed openly by the leadership.

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Single guy can’t compete with muscle men Dear Harlan: Body image isn’t some- walked on. I used to have a big footthing that only affects girls — it affects print on my forehead. guys, too.

Here’s what I’ve learned — be nice, If you’re not a guy who’s tall with a but take care of yourself first. This six-pack and eight-inch biceps, girls means setting boundaries even if it aren’t into you. I’ve tried to change my upsets people. People who guilt you, body to fit this image but I just can’t shame you, resent you and retaliate get it, and it seems like without it no when you set boundaries are people to girl will want me. avoid.

How do I accept that People who respect standard when I don’t and appreciate your have any of that? — Soft boundaries are the right Dear Soft: I’m not a types of people to have in Disney character, either. your life.

Trust me — let the laOne more suggestion: dies date the muscle men When you do things, don’t with the six-packs and do it to be appreciated the eight-inch arms. They and affirmed. Perform need to get it out of their acts of kindness expectsystems. ing nothing in return.

When they are done When you take care of with them, they will come yourself first, you can do knocking. A lot of these this. guys can’t compete with We live in a world us short, funny, smart and where kindness will alsofter guys. Muscles get ways win. There will alold. ways be people who take Women like to laugh. advantage of you (and Smiling wins. They like me), but most of the peoHARLAN men who can listen, reple will appreciate us.

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Take care of yourself and I know. I’m five-foot-six, never let the bad ones ruhave ears that protrude in it for the good ones. and I have always had a Hi Harlan: I usually one-pack (but it’s getting love your responses, but firmer). I’ve met a lot of women who the response to the man whose wife never wanted to date me because I was cheated made me cringe. too short, too soft and had ears that As a man who had a very wonderstuck out. But that was their loss. ful 23-year marriage that ended overFor some reason, I always knew night, with my wife having an affair it. In fact, history proves it. There’s and quickly marrying the co-worker evidence that while the alpha males with whom she had the affair — and afwere out hunting, the other men (less- terward finding hundreds of men and muscular) would canoodle with the women in the same spot — I think you women. missed this one.

There are billions of women on the 1) Men and women in their 40s and planet. Browse any dating site and 50s often turn to affairs to break deyou’ll see that. pression, or just the hum-drum hole Personally, I’ve always preferred they have dug for themselves with their the mature women who know my value. career, children and the big house, etc.

And stop beating yourself up. Once It doesn’t necessarily have anything you believe you’re good enough, these to do with the spouse. women will see it. Find the mature My spouse and I travelled, ran racones who see your best qualities. es and played racquetball together; Be patient and continue to work I played in a few rock bands, we led to be your best. This means chang- worship in church, and we had a cool, ing what you don’t love and tolerating large home. She always told me how what you can’t change. great we were, how much she loved Don’t let rejection discourage you. me, and we had lots of intimacy. She I promise you — women love men who just plain hit the wall, with peri-menomake them laugh, love them and love pause, the death of a grandparent and to listen. We’re hot. turning 45.

Dear Harlan: I’m a very nice and carWas I perfect? No — and the husing person by nature, and I get taken band in the column wasn’t either — but advantage of often. neither are the wives. Mine certainly I want to believe that people will re- wasn’t. spect me enough to not take advantage I did most of the heavy lifting in our of me, but it doesn’t happen. romantic relationship, but that was no This seems to happen on a regular problem. That was one of my roles. basis. I don’t want to change who I am, 2) Cheating is never OK. but I don’t want to be a doormat. What Was she looking for something? Redo I do? — Walked On member Dorothy? It was in her own Dear Walked On: You’re a pleaser. backyard the entire time. If she really I’m one too. wanted to be with the neighbour, she Here’s the problem — when you’re could have left her husband, filed for more focused on other people’s hap- divorce and sowed her wild oats after piness than your own, it’s easy to get the relationship was officially over.

The cheating is just devastating. I know. I lived it.

It would be interesting to see what happens with the wife in the letter in a few years, when family and friends know what she did, her children have to accept the end of the family, she’s in and out of relationships or marriages after the divorce, and living on one income.

Doesn’t sound like Disney World, does it? It wasn’t the neighbour she wanted — it was anyone with male genitalia who paid her a compliment.

3) Your response really makes it sound like the spurned spouse is at fault.

That has not been my experience, at least in the sense that no spouse can be perfect and meet all needs.

She was in crisis, and the excitement of a new relationship and the inevitable great sex (new sex is always great — I’ll vouch for that now that I’ve spent seven years a bachelor) probably saved her life.

But her husband didn’t “make” her have sex with the loser down the street. She made a choice.

4) And what kind of man has sex with another man’s wife? Quite a catch

that guy must be, eh?

That makes her decision look even more like one made in crisis, that she was that desperate for the “thrill” of a new relationship/sex.

Anyway, I normally love your responses, but I felt that this one was so far off that I had to let you know. — SSS Dear SSS: You’ve been there. I haven’t.

My point was that he can’t control his ex. He can only control how he feels and how he moves forward.

Clearly his cheating wife is wrong.

She should have come to him or ended it before running to the neighbour.

The best advice for him — find a support group with a guy like you to set him straight.

Harlan is author of Getting Naked: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed and Totally Sober). Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

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Distance kept woman from attending funeral NOW HER DAUGHTER IS UPSET WITH HER Dear Annie: My children’s grandmother passed away a few weeks ago after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.

Her children decided to have a service in the northeast where her husband is buried and where they all grew up.

None of them lives anywhere near that arMITCHELL ea. I live 1,200 & SUGAR miles away.

I was very close to that family for 13 years before my husband and I divorced.

I stayed in contact with his sister for a while by phone and visited and kept in touch with his mother even after I remarried.

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I hadn’t talked to her in the last two years because they removed her phone.

My younger daughter is upset with me because I didn’t attend the services.

We haven’t spoken in two weeks.

She feels I should have been there.

Believe me, Annie, had I been in driving distance, I surely would have gone.

I actually checked into plane tickets, hotel and car rental, and the total for four days would have cost me more than I can afford right now.

I didn’t want to tell my daughter how tight my finances are. I also couldn’t take two days off of work.

My children all went to the services, along with their father, and they stayed with an uncle.

I was heartbroken when my exmother-in-law died.

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— Heartbroken

Dear Heartbroken: No. Your children had their father and other relatives to comfort them.

We think your daughter is grieving and taking it out on you. Call her and apologize for not being able to attend the service, and tell her why.

If she still refuses to talk to you, please enlist the help of your other children and, if possible, your ex-husband to intercede on your behalf.

And if she seems mired in grief, suggest she look into grief counseling services, often available through her doctor or the local hospital or hospice.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “The Oldest Sibling,” whose brother inherited Dad’s military medals and won’t hand them down.

My father-in-law served during the Second World War, and all of his military awards have been lost over the years. We recently came across his discharge papers, which list all of his awards and decorations.

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Lexington Village owner Bonnie Harris says she’s grateful the sculpture has been found in one piece, but it was missing an eye and his beard was gone.

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It was the noise that led to downfall of a Florida stripper school TAMPA, Fla. — If not for the loud parties, the owner of a $2 million mansion on Florida’s Gulf Coast might have continued operating a training school for strippers next door to an exclusive gated community.

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You’d never know this swanky, fresh bedroom was at one time a dull laundry room. We put in a new window, created a headboard from a piece of an old dock, and made clever use of the limited space we had available. You see some of the window installation below as well as what the laundry room looked like originally.

It’s true. We can fix anything. In terms of reno, construction and design, certainly.

We depend on our teams, sure (without them, we are so much less) but come on: you know by now we enjoy little more than ‘correcting’ dodgy ‘style’ — and problematic function — in challenged spaces everywhere.

And the more problematic the better: we love a challenge.

Take this laundry, for example.

The cabin’s previous owner clearly didn’t need the ground floor space as a bedroom (hence its incarnation as a laundry) but we certainly did. We have people over all COLIN & the time and bedroom count JUSTIN is therefore crucial.

Being that we’d already literally raised the house to kick off a basement excavation of almost biblical proportions, we took the opportunity to relocate services downstairs.

Creating a whole new basement meant we were able to construct a new electrical room (hoorah: bye bye power board as seen on the wall in our before shot) and a fully equipped laundry kitted out with new appliances and more storage than you could shake a stick at.

All things considered, the time was right to transform the upstairs former laundry (a space that measured just eight feet by eight feet) into a fully trickled out guest bedroom.

But first we’d need to steal a little space from the connecting closet.

To this end, we borrowed 14 inches, our logic being that, where tight rooms are concerned, if space can be enlarged by even a fraction, it’ll seem wildly more commodious.

Room robbery tackled, the previously difficult space has been significantly bettered.

Now at least a double bed can be squeezed in and, what’s more, painted white — and with the pine hauled off the walls — it’s visually bigger, too.

Still chasing the holy grail of maxing up, we removed the tiny window and replaced it with a huge glazed fixed panel and a door that affords access to the wrap-around balcony. Working with Euro Vinyl Windows and Doors (evw.ca — they installed the exciting glazing within our lake facing elevation) the results, we hope, speak for themselves.

A cute wee table and chairs, positioned in front of the window, tricks the mind into seeing extra-perceived space because of the additional function. It’s all the little things that conspire to make the biggest difference, right?

Next up, we embarked upon a host of less expensive changes.

The wooden headboard, for example, being the perfect observation of what can be achieved with a little imagination.

And no cost whatsoever!

Having dragged the old dock from the lake — before installing a new pontoon — we removed a portion of its cedar boards and cleaned and sanded them back to life.

Fitted wall to (with the addition of a shelf made from further discarded deck) and dressed above with all manner of mirrors from Marshalls and Winners (and ceramics from the local thrift store) it makes a commanding statement in the rebirthed guest space.

Our next port of call was the big blue and yellow shed (Ikea), where we found a double bed with four drawers neatly contained in the base: ideal for storage and assorted guest paraphernalia in a compact space.

Attired with an assortment of HomeSense throws and toss pillows, the zesty tangerine and brown accented vignette is thoroughly atmospheric, its colour scheme redolent of cottages from days gone by.

Hanging space? A $15 second-hand oar studded with coat and towel hooks.

Problem solving and a little whimsy into the bargain? That’s how we like to roll.

As you can probably discern, space (whilst enlarged) is still compromised and, to this end, there wasn’t enough room for regular bedside tables.

We fixed this issue with $12 storage crates from Marshalls (upside down, no less!) bracketed securely to the wall. Hey presto — an easy to achieve (and easy on the pocket) nightstand solution.

Finally, we removed the regular door (as it was it clattered onto the bed when pushed open) and replaced it with a barn board portal on wheels that slides effortlessly along a slick iron rail. We’ve worked with Rebarn for many years (on various projects both on and off screen) and they always do a stunning job.

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While Toronto based, the hard working company will deliver — and install — nationwide, working, of course, to your precise specifications.

To say we’re happy with this little conversion is an understatement.

Surveying the completed space, we’re nothing short of thrilled.

And as the first interior conversion during Cabin Pressure Season 2, it’s been a bonding experience for our team to enjoy.

Next up?

Our four-bunk bedded guest annex — which we’ll reveal in just seven short days. Until then, keep the faith.

There is so much more correction to come.

Colin and Justin’s Cabin Pressure airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on Cottage Life.

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Build your own garden hoop house How would you like to relocate your garden hundreds of kilometres south without moving it an inch?

That’s what a homemade hoop house can do for you.

Like a little greenhouse that you build yourself from simple materials, a hoop house gathers the feeble warmth of the springtime Canadian sun and focuses it on a small patch of earth.

Protection from winds and frost, plus higher concentrations of carbon dioxide inside the house boosts tender, heatloving fruits and vegetables like melons, peppers and fullsize tomatoes.

STEVE They’ll thrive inside a MAXWELL hoop house where they’d normally get stunted or snuffed out altogether without help.

The nice thing about hoop houses is that you can build them large or small, depending on your do-ityourself ambitions. If you’ve never gardened under protection before, start small and learn your lessons simply.

Every hoop house begins with a wooden frame set onto the ground. Standard PVC pipes extend into the soil and are supported by the wooden frame as they bend and form a semi-circular shape.

Clear plastic pulled over the structure catches the sun and holds heat.

Many hoop houses are made to have the plastic lifted up along the sides in the summer, to keep things from getting too hot inside. That’s the hoop house deal in a nutshell, but there are details you need to know about for success.

It goes without saying that a flat, well-drained spot is what you want for a DIY hoop house.

Photo by CANSTOCK PHOTO What’s not so clear is how to deal with the soil if you won’t be planting right into it. Cedar mulch is an A DIY hoop house offers an economical way to boost the short Canadian growing season using simple excellent material for paving the floor of your hoop materials. house.

It’s both highly effective at keeping mud off your winter, I’ve yet to meet any that haven’t had enough for a floor frame and time spent with your sleeves boots, yet it doesn’t permanently harm the ground. of the snowy joy by the time April rolls around. rolled up.

Just rake it up and use it somewhere else if you And for those of us who love to garden, winter With a hoop house on your side, your plants will ever move your hoop house. seems to drag on much longer than it should. wonder why you didn’t move them south sooner.

In some ways, a hoop house is even better than a But you can make things better with a little bit of Steve Maxwell gardens in the cool conditions of Manigreenhouse because it’s less permanent. If grass and clear plastic, some flexible pipe, standard lumber toulin Island. Visit him online at SteveMaxwell.ca weeds get out of control in the soil inside your hoop house, it’s not the end of the world. Just take the structure down and move it to a freshly tilled spot.

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A quick transformation: the desk is easily raised and a comfy Murphy-style bed pulls down.

Dear Debbie: We don’t have many away your desk top, simply lift it up visitors but would like to be and pull down the bed. able to accommodate travA modular storage cabielling friends and grandnet and shelving system fit kids a few times a year. seamlessly beside the desk/ Our second bedroom is my bed unit. home office.

Your work papers and Could it also be a guest files can be stored in the room? closed cabinet, and the book It’s not large, eight feet shelves stocked with a muby eight feet. sic system, reading mateThanks for any ideas. — rial, reading light, and vase Arthur of fresh cut flowers for your Dear Arthur: When you guest to enjoy. are planning a space that Decorate the room with a has a dual purpose, your cheerful motif: fuchsia and best option is to find furnigolden yellow make wonderture that also can be transful accent colours that you DEBBIE formed depending on the could pick up in a striped TRAVIS requirements of the day. wallpaper.

Resource Furniture For more comfort and has a product line that is colour underfoot, place a uniquely suited to your small carpet in front of the challenge. desk.

Their multi-function There are larger units if furniture line is designed to be what you require a double or queen-size you need when you need it, and then bed, but for a small room, the twin tucked away. works well, taking up about 41 inches The Cabrio IN shown here is a desk from the wall when open. as well as a bed.

They have lots of ideas for the other With this unique design, made in rooms in your home: dining tables and Italy by Clei, there’s no need to clear chairs that collapse and can be stored

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Dear Debbie: I have a typical threebedroom bungalow where the three bedrooms and bathroom are all off a relatively short hallway.

There is also a linen closet in this hallway.

Hall lighting is a fixture flush to the ceiling.

Suggestions to brighten the space?

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Organize and never miss another birthday

Managing milestones

Enter dates into your electronic calendar or use an app that tracks birthdays and important dates. This may seem like a no-brainer, but it’s also one of those things that often remains on a to-do list for a long time simply because it’s not considered an urgent task.

The key for those important dates is to set a reminder so you’re alerted seven days in advance. Yes, you can always wish someone a happy birthday on Facebook or via e-mail, but it’s so nice to send a card or gift, especially to someone close to you, and it’s even better when it arrives on time! Similarly, set a reminder to check in after a certain period of time with a friend who has a new baby or has lost a loved one.

It’s easy to let time slip by; a reminder will make it harder to procrastinate.

Birthday Board is an app (compatible with Apple products) that lets you import birthdays from your contacts or from Facebook, and you can also enter dates manually. Because birthday notifications already appear on Facebook — and you probably don’t need to take special note of the birthday of a random high school classmate or work acquaintance — Birthday Board might be most useful for setting reminders for your closest family and friends. Those are the important dates that you want to prepare for by organizing a party, sending a gift, card or flowers.

If you prefer using paper, keep an updated calendar or list, organized by month, on a centrally located bulletin board. One advantage of a paper calendar is that it’s accessible to the whole family — and having one master calendar can help you avoid scheduling conflicts. On the first day of each month, take a look to see what important dates are ahead.

Card-sending basics

If you’re going to the store to buy a birthday card, take a few minutes to look at your calendar or check your app so you can buy cards for the whole month in one trip. Many of us rush into the store to buy just what we need im-

Keeping calendar current

Keeping electronic and/or written calendars up to date is essential for remembering important events and milestones. If you RSVP to a party, make sure to put the event on your calendar at the same time. If you’ve planned a dinner out, make sure to note the time and location on your calendar so you don’t have to search through emails later. If you would like to bring a present or a dessert, note that on your calendar, too — or add it to your shopping list at the same time you RSVP. Try not to get too caught up in how you keep your calendar — just choose what works for you and be consistent.

Dear Linda: Why not replace your existing fixture with one of the new thin track lights?

You can then position three or four small spotlights along the track angled toward the rooms and the closet.

The light will spill down the walls and brighten up the entire hallway.

You can find these tracks at your lighting store or check www.flos.com for an online source.

Dear Debbie: We have ceiling tiles in our basement and some of the tiles have brown circles and stains from water damage.

We tried paint but the stains bled through. What would you suggest we do? — Margaret Dear Margaret: You can seal in

the stains with a good high-adhesion primer. But my guess is that the tiles have slightly raised markings where the stains are, and paint can’t hide those uneven patches.

Also the weight of a few coats of paint may actually pull down the tiles.

Ceiling tiles are usually replaceable.

Is this an option?

You could switch up your ceiling with a new design that would refresh the entire room.

Tiles are available in many forms.

Decide on the installation you prefer, either glue on, nail on, or drop in tiles. Choose your favourite style and get started.

Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter atwww.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

Updating addresses

There are many ways to keep your contacts updated. Some people keep an address spreadsheet that provides a quick glance of all those people to whom they frequently send greeting cards or other snail mail. Saving the document on your desktop or in the cloud makes it easy to update it when change-of-address cards or notifications of a move arrive. Take a few minutes after the holidays to sort through cards and note any address changes or kids’ names or ages that you might have forgotten. This also helps with printing labels at the holidays or for other large mailings.

Apps can also help you organize your contacts. CircleBack is a company with a new app that manages your contacts and eliminates duplicates. Rory Channer, the company’s chief business officer, said the app also will automatically make updates, sync between all devices and store contacts in the cloud.

The app connects to popular social media platforms to bring your various sets of contacts together in one place.

Keeping key addresses up to date on your phone enables you to send cards on the fly.

And if you receive an important business card, try to enter the information into your phone or computer the same day you receive it.

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With so many demands and distractions in everyday life, it takes a conscious effort to keep up with your friends’ and family’s lives, too. A few organizing tips can help you manage milestones, calendars and contact information, making it easy to remember birthdays, send cards and just check in with people at important times.

mediately, but taking an extra few minutes to stock up will save you time later. And always keep stamps on hand.

Keep a box or two of blank cards on hand to use for any occasion and always keep a couple boxes of thank-you cards at the ready. However, it is very easy to accumulate many more notecards than you’ll ever need, so keep your supply in check. If there are cards you don’t think you’ll ever use, recycle them or check with a local school, art studio or nursing home to see whether they can use them.

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Milan furniture fair contemplates design’s future

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MILAN — The Memphis Group, a postmodern design movement that launched at the Milan Furniture Fair in 1981, was back to permeate this year’s fair, not just with its acid colours and fanciful squiggles but with its pervasive search for clarity between the artistic and commercial.

The movement’s debut back then took the design world by surprise; its colorful optimism was expressed in fabrics, objects and furniture that represented a loud counterpoint to the commercial activity inside the fairgrounds.

“There was a dominant idea, an anti-fair activity.

It was the freshest idea I had seen at a time when one idea could take over the whole city,” said Knoll CEO Andrew Cogan, who attended the fair that year as a student in his 20s.

“It was one contrasting idea, and it broke the rules about what good design and tastes were.”

The furniture fair has long since spread out of the sprawling convention centre on the edge of Milan into clearly defined design quarters throughout the city, its very form reflecting the conflict between commercial and artistic pursuits that the Memphis Group, founded by Ettore Sottsass, instantly epitomized.

The annual April gathering is no longer just about furniture, but about design as an exploration of how people live and work. Specific trends get lost in a flurry of openings, cocktails and showroom presentations, which add an avant-garde feel to a once purely commercial event. New players arrive every year, often using new technologies — from Internet apps to 3-D printers — that expand the definition of designer.

Whether the focus is on furniture or pure design is immaterial to architect and designer Mario Bellini, a furniture-fair star for decades.

“To design is to put forward projects,” said Bellini. “Humankind, since appearing on the planet, has always designed what it needed to survive. And they have modified the landscape, built their houses, designed their objects, their tools, whatever they needed to eat and to live.“That is design.”

With the expanding Italian furniture industry providing the anchor, the anything-goes fair and its side events, which closes Sunday, drew some 400,000 visitors this year. It gave the city an infusion of energy ahead of the Milan Expo 2015 world’s fair, which opens May 1 and lasts six months.

Many try but few succeed at designing a chair that can be called a masterpiece.

French designer Philippe Starcke, who has designed more chairs than he cares to count, called it an “equation of harmony.”

Knoll marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italian-born designer Harry Bertoia with an anniversary edition of the classic Side Chair and an exhibit of Bertoia’s work.

Bellini, who recently turned 80, has marked the half-million sales mark of his leather-saddle Cab chair for Cassina with the launch of a Cab lounge (there’s also a Cab bed).

The Cab lounge uses the same design language as its predecessor, launched in 1977: a sort of doubleleather jacket that zips over a slight, interior-steel frame.

The lounge is on a swivel base, and fitted with foam- and feather-padded cushions upholstered in leather.

“Very few nice chairs in existence are really masterpieces. I am proud to have done at least one,” Bellini said, sitting back in his lounge at the Cassina fairgrounds stand. “Time will say if it is another masterpiece. It is for sure comfortable.”

Kartel’s Memphis revival

This year, Kartell paid tribute to Memphis with a series of chairs clad in the movement’s bright textiles. The brand also launched a series of objects designed for Kartell by Sottsass in 2004 but never before produced.

The designer died in 2007.

Kartell CEO Claudio Luti says new technology has allowed his company to realize the modulating shapes of the post-futuristic vases and stools in a way that wouldn’t have been possible a decade ago. Luti’s team is still working out which of the prototypes will go into production, but they fit Kartell’s push into the lifestyle-brand space.

The brand famed for transparent seats and tables presented a new line of fragrances for the home, and round wall hangers that look like decorative plates and are almost too pretty to cover with a coat.

The Memphis Group has been in the Milan air recently, with a retrospective last year and design references in Iceberg’s fashion collection for next fall.

Customization

Tog has seen the future, and it is customization.

Starck, one of the founding designers of the enterprise launched at the fair last year, said the era of democratic design — accessible goods for the masses — is over. Now, it’s all about the unique and personalized.

His latest creation for Tog is a rough-cut wooden armchair called “Maria Maria” with a customizable plastic backrest. Buyers can insert a photograph or design that they print themselves at home, a process that Starck said “takes 12 seconds.”

Realizing his design was another matter.

“The ’Maria Maria’ looks so simple. It is the most difficult chair I have ever designed,” he said.

He described the difficulty of connecting the plastic back with wood and finding artisans to create the wooden base.

Tog, backed by a Brazilian investor, is still in the launch phase.

There are plans to open a flagship store in Brazil this year; products can be ordered in some retail locations in Europe and on-line in some countries.

Talks are under way for a U.S. distributor.

Hospitality

Airbnb took the furniture fair by storm.

The mobile application that hooks travellers up with people renting out property for overnight stays has seen a surge in usage, with nearly twice as many guests booking their Milan stay with Airbnb as last year.

It celebrated with an interactive art installation at the 18th-century, privately owned Crespi Palace, which rarely opens to the public.

Nineteen artists from around the world presented interactive installations exploring national notions of hospitality. Giorgia Zanellato of Venice, for example, created frames for mirrors out of paper pastry trays that she lined with colorful Venetian paper.

Evolving light

Advancing technology of the LED bulb is allowing designers new freedom. German lighting designer Ingo Maurer presented a lamp that consists of a bare halogen bulb with angel wings, dubbed “Lucellino,” and also in an LED version that uses less energy but mimics the yellowish fade of a traditional light bulb (without the heat). Maurer’s creations are about 30

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Designer Nao Tamura walks past her installations at the Milan Furniture Fair, in Milan, Italy. A Memphis Group revival permeated this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, and it wasn’t just the appearance of acid colours and fanciful squiggles that helped characterize the 1980s post-futuristic design movement launched here, but a pervasive search for clarity. per cent LED, but the trend is toward 100 per cent as technology improves the light quality.

Over at Wonderglass, Japanese designer Nao Tamura had Venetian glass blowers create the shape of a drop of water as it is about to fall, at the moment, she says, that “it is full of light.”

Style vs. design

Milan’s fashion designers continued moving into

home decor. Brazilian brothers and designers Fernando and Humberto Campana invitingly covered a one-off sling chair with 100 bug-eyed expensive fur charms that Fendi typically hangs from its exclusive bags.

Missoni clad mirror frames in their zigzag knits, and Donatella Versace designed leather-covered seats in the same bold shades of red, white, black and turquoise that she favours on the runway.

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D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 18, 2015

Parents may be able to help their children buy a home, but it pays to weigh options Rising prices and a dearth of homes for sale in many markets have made it harder for many looking to buy their first home.

One of the biggest obstacles many are facing is saving up for a down payment, particularly in hotter markets where competition for the more affordable homes can quickly drive up prices and put pressure on buyers to bring more cash up front.

That trend is prompting many parents to step in, some opening their wallets, others welcoming their adult children to live with them again temporarily while they save money or pay down debt.

Some 13 per cent of parents with children between the ages of 20 to 38 helped their child buy a home in the last five years, according to a survey conducted by GfK Custom Research North America for lender loanDepot.

Of those, 65 per cent contributed the down payment and 24 per cent assisted with closing costs.

The survey, which was conducted in February, included responses from 1,000 parents and has a margin of error of three per cent.

Whether it’s a cash gift or another form of aid, it pays for parents to consider how to best aid their children without placing their own financial well-being at risk.

Here are some factors parents should weigh when helping their children buy a home:

Assess your finances Parents may be tempted to pitch in financially to help get their children into their first home, but they shouldn’t do so before going over their own finances and ensuring they can they can afford to live without the funds.

This is particularly important if the parents are close to retirement, when they will have to live on their assets, savings and investments.

“Do not in any case put your retirement security at risk just to get your child into a home,” said Elizabeth Grahsl, a private banker at Prosperity Bank in Dallas.

“He or she will have plenty of chances to own real estate, but you probably don’t have time to catch up if your retirement is derailed.”

An accountant or financial adviser can help figure out whether you can afford to make a sizeable contribution to your children’s homeownership fund.

Another option is to use an online

Go with cash If you decide to kick in some money toward your child’s down payment or other costs, it’s best to go with discretionary cash, say from a savings account.

That’s because it’s likely not earning much in the way of interest, so you’re not losing much in potential gains on the money.

Avoid withdrawing funds from individual retirement accounts, or retirement savings accounts.

The retirement accounts will tack on a tax for anyone who withdraws funds.

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Cleaning up your space can help you feel more energetic and less stressed.

The springy weather we’re having can do the same, so why not double down on your spring cortisol boost and clean up a bit? In the latest installment of the American Chemical Society’s “Reactions” series, you can learn about the chemistry behind some of the best DIY cleaning hacks. If this is your first cleaning chemistry rodeo, here’s a spoiler: It’s all about vinegar and booze.

If you’ve got white vinegar and vodka, you can conquer just about any mess.

ACS’ big recommendations are for window cleaning and carpet spills: Combining vinegar and rubbing alcohol makes a great Windex alternative.

The acetic acid in vinegar breaks up

the minerals that coat the glass while the alcohol breaks up grease.

The same chemistry applies to basically any hard surface you want to clean. Good old soap wins the award for the swiftest grease-gutting power on stoves and counters, but avoid antimicrobial dish liquid: Unless you’re scrubbing an operating room, you don’t actually need to worry about how many microbes you’re killing, and the active ingredient triclosan might be contributing to antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Rubbing alcohol isn’t the only alcohol that can help with cleaning: When you spill red wine, throw good booze after bad by soaking the stain in a highproof, clear alcohol like vodka or white rum.

Spraying vodka into your shoes and onto clothes can also help break up odors, leaving them smelling clean — which is especially useful for dry clean only items.

Make it a gift Some parents may decide they can’t afford to give their children a large sum of money, instead preferring to do it as a loan.

But that can have an impact on the borrower’s ability to qualify for a mortgage.

Mortgage lenders generally allow borrowers to use funds received as a gift from a relative to cover their down payment, closing costs or to add to their savings.

But if the money is being borrowed, the homebuyer is required to disclose that loan to the bank, which could alter their evaluation of the borrower’s debt-to-income ratio.

That’s a calculus banks use to help determine the borrower’s ability to pay back a mortgage.

If the funds are given as a gift, they don’t count as debts that have to be repaid.

Consider alternatives Parents can help give their children a financial leg up on their home purchase, but there are other ways to do so beyond just giving them cash.

Local charities sometimes offer first-time buyers incentives to save by offering matching contributions.

That’s also a good approach for parents to take, say, by offering to match their children’s savings toward a down payment.

Another option is to make sure their children are exploring down-payment assistance programs run by local housing authorities.

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RELIGION

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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015

Vatican unexpectedly ends crackdown of U.S, nun group in major shift in tone under Francis

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pope Francis, second right, talks with a delegation of The Leadership Conference of Women Religious during an audience in the pontiff’s studio at the Vatican, Thursday. The Vatican has announced the unexpected conclusion of a controversial overhaul of the main umbrella group of US nuns in a major shift in tone and treatment of American nuns under the social justiceminded Pope Francis. a separate but parallel review of all women’s religious orders, prompted an outpouring of support from the public for the sisters, who oversee the lion’s share of social service programs for the church.

LOCAL EVENTS Sunday

Seniors Church meets at 11 a.m. on Sundays at Bower Kin Place for hymns and gospel preaching. Phone 403-347-6706.

Wednesday

CrossRoads Church Seniors Luncheon is offered on April 22 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Guest singers are Steve and June Potter. All seniors invited. The cost is $8 at the door. Phone 403-3477311.

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UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA Gaetz Memorial United Church “Sharing Faith, Serving Community” 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244 www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER WELCOME YOU

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ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

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Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

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THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA Sunday, April 18

KNOX 4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560 Established 1898

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

“The Power of the Resurrection” 10:30 am Worship Service www.knoxreddeer.ca

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Sunday 10:00 a.m.

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has unexpectedly ended its controversial overhaul of the main umbrella group of U.S. nuns, cementing a shift in tone and treatment of the U.S. sisters under the social justice-minded Pope Francis.

The Vatican said Thursday it had accepted a final report on its investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and declared the “implementation of the mandate has been accomplished” nearly two years ahead of schedule. The umbrella group for women’s religious orders had been accused of straying from church teaching.

The brief report stated the organization would have to ensure its publications have a “sound doctrinal foundation,” and said steps were being taken for “safeguarding the theological integrity” of programs. But no major changes were announced and the direct Vatican oversight that the sisters considered a threat to their mission was over.

“I think there are still some questions about how this is going to play out, but that it concluded early was an overwhelming affirmation of what the sisters do,” said Natalia ImperatoriLee, a religious studies professor at Manhattan College.

The report’s tone stood in stark contrast to the 2012 Vatican reform mandate, which said the nuns’ group

was in a “grave” doctrinal crisis. Vatican officials said the Leadership Conference had over-emphasized social justice issues when they should have also been fighting abortion, had undermined church teaching on homosexuality and the priesthood, and had promoted “radical feminist” themes in their publications and choice of speakers.

The nuns’ group called the allegations “flawed.” But Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle was appointed to conduct a top to bottom overhaul of the conference.

Just last year, the head of the Vatican’s doctrine office, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, sharply rebuked the nuns’ group for its “regrettable” attitude and behaviour during the process. He accused the LCWR of being in “open provocation” with the Holy See and U.S. bishops because they planned to honour a theologian, Sister Elizabeth Johnson, whose work had drawn sharp criticism from the U.S. bishops.

But on Thursday, leaders of the umbrella organization and the Vatican officials in charge of the overhaul released statements of mutual respect, and the sisters met in Rome for nearly an hour with Pope Francis. The Vatican released a photo of the nuns sitting across a table from a warmly smiling Francis.

The turnabout suggested possible papal intervention to end the standoff on amicable grounds before Francis’ high-profile trip to the United States in September. The investigation, and

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D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 18, 2015 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

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LUANN April 18 1999 — Wayne Gretzky plays his final game in the NHL with the New York Rangers. He retires as the NHL’s all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records.

1990 — The Constitution Act, 1982, comes into effect as Canada’s Constitution; proclaimed earlier in the week by Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony on Parliament Hill.

1975 — Ottawa ends tax breaks for Canadi-

ans advertising on U.S. border TV stations and in foreign-owned Canadian magazines.

1949 — The Republic of Ireland is established.

1946 —The League of Nations dissolves.

1938 — Superman makes his debut when he appears in the first issue of Action Comics.

1921 — Ontario votes for prohibition of the manufacture, importation and sale of liquor 1877 — Charles Cros writes a paper that described the process of recording and reproducing sound. In France, Cros is regarded as the inventor of the phonograph.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015

U.S. Congress opens up free-trade debate CANADA PAYING CLOSE ATTENTION TO 12-COUNTRY DEAL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — The U.S. Congress has opened a critical chapter in negotiations toward a massive, 12-country free-trade deal and the Canadian government is closely following developments.

The government says it’s watching the debate over a so-called fast track bill that would allow negotiations to move forward toward a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.

“We are currently analyzing the contents of the bill and are following the process closely,” Max Moncaster, a spokesman for International Trade Minister Ed Fast, said Friday.

“Canada would welcome a U.S. political outcome that allows TPP negotiations to move towards a balanced agreement that will benefit all member states.”

The Canadian government has repeatedly suggested that it won’t make final concessions on the most contentious issues without a fast-track bill passing Congress.

Since the U.S. Constitution gives lawmakers authority over foreign treaties, individual members could pick apart a deal and fill it with amendments unless they vote to give the president negotiating

power.

The Canadians’ reluctance to complete negotiations has prompted some U.S. lawmakers and members of the administration to muse about dumping Canada from the deal.

When asked last fall about U.S. frustrations with the Canadian side playing hardball, Ottawa’s ambassador to Washington was less than apologetic: “Good.

I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I consider that a compliment,” Gary Doer said in an interview.

“We’re not going to be in a situation where you negotiate an agreement and everyone on (Capitol) Hill can amend it.”

He said a top Canadian priority was getting a procurement agreement at the sub-national level, so that states would have less power to insist on Buy America provisions in infrastructure projects.

The Americans, meanwhile, want Canada to reduce protectionism over dairy and poultry imports, while increasing protections for intellectual property — notably for pharmaceuticals.

The fast-track bill introduced in Congress refers to both those U.S. priorities. If it passes, it would open the door to a single up-or-down vote in Congress on any future deal. Lawmakers, however, could vote to overturn fast track if they deem that the president strayed from the negotiating positions spelled

out in the bill.

The legislation says any deal should insist on intellectual-property rules similar to those found in U.S. law. On agriculture, it urges the administration to consider whether countries are maintaining export subsidies or other programs that distort the market.

The bill will prompt a fierce battle on Capitol Hill.

It’ll be a strange one.

In this case, President Barack Obama will be aligned with his Republican foes against the more left-leaning members of his own Democratic party — because progressives fear that the agreement will just bleed more middle-class jobs to Asia, and drive down the wages of American workers.

Even the business-friendly Democrat touted as the party’s future leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, has suggested he’ll probably vote against it because it hurts middle-class economics.

Obama called those fears understandable — but wrong.

He said Friday that the deal will enshrine better labour, trade and environmental standards in existing commercial relationships.

Please see TRADE on Page D10

A DRINK FOR THOSE LEFT BEHIND

LOCAL BRIEFS

House sales take a tumble Residential sales activity in Central Alberta has dropped sharply from 2014 levels, based on the latest Multiple Listing Service stats issued by the Central Alberta Realtors Association.

During the first quarter of 2015, sales of 840 homes in this region were processed through MLS. That’s nearly 17 per cent fewer than for the same period last year, and a 12.5 per cent drop-off from the first three months of 2013. However, the January-to-March sales figure this year was still 21.4 per cent higher than was the case five years ago, in the midst of the last economic downturn.

The average home price in Central Alberta to the end of March was $312,427 — up nearly one per cent from a year ago and 8.5 per cent higher than in 2013.

For March alone, the association processed 375 sales this year, which marked a 16.7 per cent slide from the same month in 2014, and a 6.7 per cent decrease from 2013. The average selling price was $318,838, which was five per cent higher than for last March, and 8.2 per cent more than in March 2013.

There were 941 new residential listings last month, which brought the number of active listings to 2,522. This increased the inventory of houses on the market to a 6.7-month supply — based on current sales rates — up from 5.1 months worth a year earlier.

Servus posts lower Q1 numbers Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Barman Chris Gooding pours some cocktails at To The Lost Cocktail Lounge in Red Deer on Friday.

The lounge opened this week at 105 4916 50 Street beside the new Red Boar Smokery on Ross Street. To The Lost is open seven days a week from 4 p.m.

Low gas prices hold back inflation CONSUMER PRICE INDEX UP MARGINALLY FROM LAST YEAR

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Higher prices for everything from food to electricity last month were offset in part by cheaper gasoline as the inflation rate ticked higher in March.

Nonetheless, TD Bank economist Leslie Preston said the increase in inflation was unlikely to spur a change in course by Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz amid concerns about the strength of the economy.

“We have this heating up that we’ve seen over the past year in a lot of core inflation categories, but it is not expected to continue going forward,” said Preston, who added that TD expects the Bank of Canada to keep its key rate on hold this year.

Statistics Canada said Friday the consumer price index for March was up 1.2 per cent from a year ago.

That compared with a year-over-year gain of 1.0 per cent in February.

Economists had estimated the inflation rate would remain at 1.0 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters.

Excluding gasoline, the consumer price index was up 2.2 per cent compared with a year ago, matching the increase in February, while the Bank of Canada’s core index, which excludes the most volatile components, was up 2.4 per cent.

Economists had expected an increase of 2.1 per cent in the core rate.

The central bank aims to keep the core rate close to 2.0 per cent.

Preston pointed out that the inflation report looks at what prices have done over the past 12 months, while Poloz needs to be looking ahead.

“We may have seen a pickup in core (inflation), but the economic reality that the Bank of Canada’s dealing with is that Canada’s economy likely slowed to around one per cent growth in the first half of this year” she said.

“That’s quite slow growth, so we’re likely to see a lot of price pressures in the Canadian economy cool over the coming months.”

The Bank of Canada maintained its key interest rate at 0.75 per cent this week as it lowered its growth economic forecast in its latest monetary policy report.

The central bank now expects real GDP to grow by 1.9 per cent this year, a downgrade from its 2.1 per

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cent projection in January. The report also called for core inflation for the first quarter to come in at 2.1 per cent.

“Core inflation could ease slightly as slack opens up in the economy this year, but not enough to give a clarion call for another rate cut,” CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld wrote in a report.

“Today’s data reinforce our forecast that the Bank of Canada will be on hold in 2015.”

On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the Canadian consumer price index was up 0.4 per cent in March, following a 0.2 per cent increase in February.

The seasonally adjusted core index was up 0.4 per cent on a monthly basis for March, following a gain of 0.1 per cent in February.

Prices were up in seven of the eight components tracked, led by higher prices for food.

Shoppers paid 3.8 per cent more for food in March compared with a year ago, boosted by a 4.2 per cent price increase in food sold in stores and a 2.8 per cent increase in restaurant meals.

Shelter costs rose 1.4 per cent, boosted by homeowner’s home and mortgage index, which was up 9.1 per cent.

Rent, property taxes and electricity costs were all also higher.

The transportation group, however, which includes gasoline, dropped 3.9 per cent.

Gasoline prices for March were down 19.2 per cent compared with a year ago, however the drop was smaller than the 21.8 per cent year-over-year drop in February.

Prices were higher in eight provinces, as Ontario posted the biggest increase of 1.6 per cent. Prices were lower in Prince Edward Island and Alberta as they slid back 0.8 per cent and 0.1 per cent respectively.

Meanwhile, Statistics Canada also reported Friday that retail sales posted a gain of 1.7 per cent in February to total $42.2 billion following two consecutive monthly declines.

Economists had expected a gain of 0.5 per cent for the month, according to Thomson Reuters.

Retail sales posted gains in all 11 subsectors, led by general merchandise stores which climbed 5.6 per cent for the month.

Retail sales were up in seven provinces, led by British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia slipped lower.

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Harley Richards, Business Editor, 403-314-4337 E-mail hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Servus Credit Union saw its year-over-year quarterly income dip $1.9 million to start its 2015 fiscal year.

The member-owned financial institution reported on Friday that its income, before patronage payments and income taxes, was $17.9 million for the three months ended Jan. 31. That compared with a figure of $19.8 million for the same period in 2014.

Deposits as of Jan. 31, 2015 were $12.6 billion, up $8.0 million from Oct. 31, 2014; while total loans reached $12.4 billion, down $38.6 million from Oct. 31, 2014 but up $533.5 million from Jan. 31, 2014.

Servus’s total assets grew by 4.9 per cent to $14.1 billion between Jan. 31, 2014 and Jan. 31, 2015; and its total equity climbed 8.0 per cent to $1.2 billion during this same period.

“We’re pleased to be starting the year in a solid position,” said Garth Warner, president and CEO of Servus. “We are encouraged by the numbers we’re seeing in key areas like the volume of our loans, despite the impact the rate environment is starting to have on our industry.”

Because Servus operates only in Alberta, it plans for energy price fluctuations like the one being experienced now, said Warner.

Ottawa on track to balance books says budget watchdog

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - The federal budget watchdog is projecting the government will post a $3.4-billion surplus in 2014-15 - which would balance the books a year ahead of schedule.

The parliamentary budget office’s assessment contrasts with the government’s projection in its November fiscal update, which predicted a $2.9-billion shortfall in 2014-15.

The analysis comes as the government prepares to release its election year fiscal plan next Tuesday.

The budget office also says Ottawa is on track to post surpluses this year and next year, but predicts it then will start running small deficits.

It says the shortfalls will be a result of lower employment insurance premium rates starting in 2017.

The budget office points out that the predicted deficits are relatively small, and would have negligible effects on public debt and the wider economy.

It also says the government could erase those shortfalls through minor tax tweaks or spending restraint.

The predictions are based on a “status quo forecast.”

It shows the government’s fiscal footing before factoring in the impact of any fresh announcements that could be included in Tuesday’s budget.

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MARKETS

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Friday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 130.06 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.48 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.97 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.10 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.67 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.15 Cdn. National Railway . . 81.20 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 232.13 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.00 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.51 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.83 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.66 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 64.82 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.70 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.27 General Motors Co. . . . . 36.64 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 26.56 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.05 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.73 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.92 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.07 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.15 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 56.42 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 132.02 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.66 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.46 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.09 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — U.S. stock markets closed sharply lower Friday, with the Dow plunging nearly 300 points, while north of the border stronger gold prices helped the Toronto stock market keep losses in check.

The S&P/TSX composite closed down 26.22 points at 15,360.55, adding to a 64-point decline Thursday. The loonie also pulled back after a six-day run-up, down 0.32 of a U.S. cent at 81.78 cents.

South of the border, anxieties over possible Greek insolvency and regulatory changes in China pushed markets lower.

“Then you’ve got all these negative headlines about ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Russia, Iran,” said Craig Jerusalim, portfolio manager at CIBC Asset Management.

“It’s all spooking the market a little bit.”

The Dow was down 279.47 points at 17,826.30, the Nasdaq fell 75.98 points to 4,931.81 and the S&P 500 lost 23.81 points to 2,081.18.

“With the U.S. market being down so much, I think it just highlights the importance of gold to the Canadian markets,” Jerusalim said.

Trading was also disrupted Friday by an outage of Bloomberg’s financial terminals, which traders rely on in order to analyze securities.

Meanwhile, despite dipping slightly Friday, the price of oil has experienced a bit of a bounce recently, from a range in the low US$40-a-barrel range to the mid50s.

“Short term, what you’re seeing is the refinery turnaround season or shoulder season is coming to an end as we enter into the stronger demand driving season in North America,” Jerusalim said.

“That’s helped the oil commodity price, along with all the major capex cuts we’ve seen

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.87 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.15 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.88 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.10 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.62 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.70 First Quantum Minerals . 15.55 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.21 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.54 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . 11.79 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.80 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.99 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.12 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 16.50 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 25.00 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.10 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 66.98 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.00 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 39.40 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.25 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 12.96 Canyon Services Group. . 8.83 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 23.07 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3500 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 15.95 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.15 from the producers as well as the rig count dropping. Finally what we’re starting to see is some month-over-month supply drops, or production drops, in North America, which I think is supporting the oil price partially.”

Quarterly earnings from CN Rail (TSX:CNR), which come out on Monday, could provide some clues into the strength of the North American economy, Jerusalim said.

“Its competitive advantage is a network that criss-crosses Canada from east to west and the U.S. from north to south, and no one has that strong a rail network in North America. So it’ll be a real bellwether to see how strong this economy really is.”

Rogers is also set to report earnings on Monday. Results from the two companies combined are likely to have an impact on the TSX, Jerusalim said.

“We’ve seen revenue expectations come down, but earnings have been holding in due to costcutting. I’m going to be looking for signs of weakness, both top line and bottom line, for indications of which way the stock market is going to move.”

On the commodity markets, the May crude contract lost 97 cents to US$55.74 a barrel, while June gold advanced $5.10 to US$1,203.10 an ounce. Copper was unchanged at $2.77.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,360.55, down 26.22 points Dow — 17,826.30, down 279.47 points S&P 500 — 2,081.18, down 23.81 points Nasdaq — 4,931.81, down 75.98 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 86.93 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 46.89 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.91 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.54 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.54 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.21 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.97 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . 0.5000 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.59 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 40.12 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.61 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.01 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.34 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 58.73 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 79.33 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.88 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.99 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 30.67 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.90 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.05 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 93.75 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.00 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.87 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.75 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.76 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.16 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.75 Cdn — 81.78 cents US, down 0.32 of a cent Pound — C$1.8297, up 0.98 of a cent Euro — C$1.3228, up 1.09 cents Euro — US$1.0818, up 0.48 of a cent Oil futures: US$55.74 per barrel, down 97 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,203.10 per oz., up $5.10 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.528 oz., down 22.2 cents $659.98 kg., down $7.13 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $6.40 higher $447.50; July ’15 $6.90 higher $451.20; Nov ’15 $6.90 higher $443.30; Jan. ’16 $6.30 higher $444.50; March ’16 $6.30 higher $443.50; May ’16 $6.30 higher $444.20; July ’16 $6.30 higher $444.70; Nov. ’16 $6.30 higher $439.30; Jan. ’17 $6.30 higher $439.30; March ’17 $6.30 higher $439.30; May ’17 $6.30 higher $439.30.

Barley (Western): May ’15 unchanged $205.00; July ’15 unchanged $205.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $190.00; March ’16 unchanged $190.00; May ’16 unchanged $190.00; July ’16 unchanged $190.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $190.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $190.00; March ’17 unchanged $190.00; May ’17 unchanged $190.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 742,860 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 742,860.

Currencies:

Apple talking with Canadian banks TORONTO — The Wall Street Journal says Apple Inc. is taking steps towards launching its mobile payments service in Canada this fall.

The paper’s unidentified sources said Apple is looking at November for a potential Canadian launch of Apple Pay. The paper said fees and security issues are sticking points but the banks are open to making a deal.

Apple Pay allows consumers to pay for items by holding up some models of its iPhone smartphone to a reader.

Finance leaders welcome modest improvements SIDE-STEPPING FEARS OF GREEK DEFAULT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Financial officials from the world’s major economies on Friday welcomed modest improvements in the global economy while side-stepping fears rattling global financial markets that Greece will default on its bailout loans.

The officials from the Group of 20 issued a joint communique that pledged greater efforts to boost confidence and reduce economic vulnerabilities. The meetings’ chairman, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, said the problems confronting Greece did not come up during the two days of official discussions.

While Greece wasn’t on the official G-20 agenda, it was a hot topic on the sidelines of the finance meetings, which were to conclude Saturday after discussions among the policy panels of the 188-nation International Monetary Fund and its sister lending group, the World Bank.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said he stressed in a series of one-onone meetings, including discussions with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, that it was urgent that the debt negotiations be resolved quickly.

“I reiterated throughout these talks that failure to reach an agreement would lead to immediate hardship in Greece and increased uncertainties for Europe and the global economy,” Lew told reporters at a news conference late Friday.

Greek officials said they planned to meet representatives of the country’s creditors Saturday in a search for “common ground.” The country, which has relied on loans from the international community since 2010, is fast running out of cash with concerns mounting that it could miss two debt

payments due in May to the IMF. Fears that Greece could default on its debt and abandon the euro currency group sent shockwaves through global markets Friday. After being down nearly 360 points, the Dow Jones industrial average recovered a bit to finish down 279.47, a drop of 1.5 per cent.

Some finance officials expressed their frustration with Greece’s new left-wing government, elected in January. Luis de Guindos, Spain’s economy minister, said the Greek government had sent “contradictory” signals regarding the negotiations.

“We have wasted very precious time over the last three or four weeks,” de Guindos said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“The communication of the Greek government has not been great. They have not made a lot of friends,” he said, while adding, “I expect and I hope that the communication will improve.”

The United States also came in for heavy criticism during the meetings from other nations unhappy that Congress has still not approved the legislation needed to put into effect IMF reforms that have been stalled for the past five years. The reforms would boost the IMF’s resources to deal with countries facing financial troubles and increase the voting power of fastemerging economies such as China, Brazil and India.

Lew said he had assured his fellow finance ministers that the Obama administration still believed it would soon overcome objections from Republican lawmakers and win approval in Congress for the IMF reforms.

The United States is the IMF’s largest shareholder and congressional approval is the last hurdle to putting the reforms into effect.

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TRADE: Opening up BUDGET: Deficits new markets still in the forecast He used the example of Japan — which is involved in the negotiations.

“The last time I checked, if you drive around Washington, there are a whole bunch of Japanese cars. You go to Tokyo and count how many Chryslers and GM and Ford cars there are,” Obama said.

“So the current situation is not working for us. And I don’t know why it is that folks would be opposed to us opening up the Japanese market more for U.S. autos or U.S. beef. It doesn’t make any sense.”

The budget office says the government will run $1.3-billion surpluses in 2015-16 and in 2016-17 before posting a $2.1-billion deficit in 2017-18. The outlook also projects budgetary deficits of $2.9 billion in 2018-19 and $900 million in 2019-20.

Last month, the government’s fiscal monitor showed Ottawa posted a $1.3-billion surplus over the first 10 months of the 2014-15 fiscal year, suggesting it could balance the books earlier than expected.

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