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Rampage in Rocky THREE PIT BULLS ATTACK TWO DOGS ON POPULAR WALKING PATH

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Theresa Kokesch, 86, and her daughter’s injured golden lab, Shelly. Kokesch was out for her daily walk when she encountered two pit bulls, which started dragging Shelly into the bush. Two women — one an 86-year-old senior, the other a 27-year-old jogger — fought desperately with everything they had to save their dogs from separate vicious pit bull attacks along a walking path in Rocky Mountain House on Monday. “I was hollering like a mad banshee. ‘Get away! Go home! Stay away!’ and I kept swinging this big stick,” 86-year-old Theresa Kokesch told me on Tuesday. Likewise, “I started screaming as loud as I could cause I didn’t know what to do,” said MARY-ANN Jenna Ellefson, 27. If it weren’t for a number BARR of Good Samaritans coming to their rescue, the women believe the two attacks by loose, marauding dogs could have

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been worse. The owners of the injured dogs now face hundreds of dollars in veterinarian bills. The incidents began when Ellefson was out on for a jog with her dog Dakota on the Loop, a popular five-km trail in Rocky. Ellefson had Dakota, a five-year-old Belgian shepherd cross, on a leash. She heard other dogs viciously barking at another dog on other side of the fence. This isn’t good,” she decided, and turned around, but suddenly dogs that she describes as three pit bulls charged toward her and Dakota. “At this time, I’m terrified. I know what’s going to happen and they attacked my dog, and all this barking, growling and biting her, and she’s yelping and they’re like literally dragging her away from me. “I looked around and found a stick and was hitting one of the dogs that had Dakota around the neck. “The stick was like breaking on (the attacking dog’s) back. So I had no stick left so I start kicking them cause I’m thinking they’re going to kill her. There’s three of them.

‘I’m alive, I’m safe’ BEVERLY WILLIAMS MANAGES TO CONTACT PARTNER BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer woman caught in the earthquake in Nepal is safe. Beverly Williams was able to contact her longtime partner Michael Dawe early on Tuesday morning that she is OK. “We don’t have any details,” said Dawe on Tuesday morning. “All we did was got an email that said, ‘I’m alive, I’m safe.’ ” Dawe, who is running as a Liberal and Green candidate in Red Deer North, said he was driving to Tuesday morn- Beverly Williams ing’s election forum at the Golden Circle when he got a

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“I kicked so much that I could hardly even kick anymore because I was so exhausted. “They weren’t letting go. ... It was like I was a fly or something, so I’m just screaming as loud as I possible can.” Three high school students showed up, as did two men, one of whom saw what was happening as he drove by on the highway. He stopped his white van and ran to help. One of the students called 911. “Finally we got the dogs off. ... It took all those people kicking and hitting them.” But it wasn’t quite over. One of the attacking dogs came back. “We had to beat him off again. “At that point I just realized holy crap what just happened to me and I just burst into tears. ... “There’s kids and babies and strollers and families on (the Loop). Like you wouldn’t think that it wasn’t safe,” said Ellefson.

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phone call from the wife of Beverly’s business partner, who is in Kathmandu, confirming the news. “I’m not sure where she is, but she was not killed or badly injured in the earthquake — and that’s all I needed to know.” In a brief Facebook post, she wrote: “Hello everyone. Finally on line for one second. I was in the earthquake and it was horrible. Write later.” Dawe and other family and friends had been anxiously waiting word since the massive quake shook Nepal on Saturday, killing more than 5,000 and injuring at least 10,000. “I was watching CNN at one o’clock in the morning on Friday night and early Saturday morning and they said there was a big earthquake and I realized that’s exactly where she was.” But for days he had no word, hoping the silence was due to chaotic communications rather than bad news. “We hoped for the best,” he said.

Red Deerians feel less safe in the city than they did four years ago, according to the city’s 2015 Perceptions of Crime Survey. The city released details from the survey that polled 475 residents about their feelings on safety and policing this week. Respondents were polled on safety overall, neighbourhoods, downtown Red Deer and crime concerns. The poll was conducted by phone and online in January. The last safety perception survey was conducted in 2011. On the subject of violent crime in neighbourhoods, 66 per cent of respondents felt extremely safe or very safe, compared to 79 per cent in 2011.

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Multiplex price tag still climbing BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The cost of Sylvan Lake’s new multiplex has jumped almost 10 per cent to $33.5 million as council got the latest price estimates and approved some design changes. Town council voted on Monday to boost the project’s cost by $2.95 million rather than lose key upgrades, including the option of converting the fivesheet curling rink into an NHL-sized ice surface, which carries a price tag of $1.6 million. New additions to the project include upgrades to the Aquatic Centre’s aging air handling systems ($350,000), matching exterior cladding with existing and new parts of the facility ($970,000) and developing program space in the area set aside for future rink expansion ($275,000). Other recommendations that came out of a threeday workshop with engineers, cost estimators, design team members, town staff and architects include: heated entrance pads to melt snow, adding an Aquatic Centre sprinkler system, and improvements to lobby, kitchen and concession among other changes. The project task force, which includes councillors, community-at-large members, and representatives of local sports, community and seniors groups, considered but rejected the elimination of the additional rink expansion potential to save money.

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Country music recording artist Amy Metcalfe dropped in on the HMV Music store in Bower Place in Red Deer Tuesday to perform songs from her first album and meet with shoppers at Bower Place. The performer from rocky Mountain House is signed to Royalty Records and has launched her first album called ‘Inside Out’ at the store.

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RAMPAGE: ‘These dogs were out to kill’ Two of the dogs, one brown, one black, then carried on down the path. And at about 11:15 a.m., they encountered Theresa Kokesch, who was out for her daily walk with Shelly, her daughter Audrey Kokesch’s six-year-old golden Labrador, on a leash. When the dogs began to attack the lab, Theresa was unable to pull them off. She also tried to kick them. They started dragging Shelly into the bush. “They did leave once but they came right back again and I finally picked up this big honking branch and that’s what finally drove them away. “But they just stood apart until help came down the path. There were people that came finally and helped me.” One of the people who came to help was a woman who was pushing a handicapped girl in a wheelchair. She started beating the two dogs with a stick as well. She helped keep them at bay so that Theresa could grab Shelly. “Shelly ... kind of crawled to me and she was all bleeding with her leg hanging ... I was just almost hysterical.” She asked a man to call her daughter. The man and the high school students helped carry Shelly to Audrey’s car so she could be taken to the vet. Audrey said her mother is visually impaired. “She’s kind of like Mr. Magoo. Everybody knows her. ... Like she’s 90 pounds, 86, four-foot nothing.” “Right now I am sore and tired,” said Theresa. “You keep reliving the incident. What should I have done? What did I do or what didn’t I do that I should have, and I keep seeing those two dogs chewing away at Shelly and not being able to pull them off. I tried that. I tried kicking,” said Theresa. “I’m sorry to say that I don’t like (pit bulls) very much because of the way they behaved and treated Shelly and me. I have heard through the years ‘Oh that’s not true. They’re nice dogs.’ All of a sudden, you know, they were right on her. “They just went at her right away. Just so vicious. The throat area and her leg is just gone more or less. They pulled the muscle and skin right of the bone. No I don’t like them very much at all,” Theresa said, who was taken to the hospital to be checked out and has soft-tissue injuries. Police reports have been filed. Rocky Mountain House RCMP did not want to comment, referring me

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instead to Alberta Animal Services, which is contracted by the town. Alberta Animal Services did not return my phone call before deadline. However, Todd Becker, Town of Rocky chief administrative officer, said two of the pit bulls were captured and are now being assessed. The other is believed to have made it back to its owner in Rocky, where it may still be. “As a town, our primary responsibility is to ensure the citizens and visitors of Rocky Mountain House are safe. Obviously when people and animals are subject to an attack ... I certainly have a serious concern about that. “This is of course a priority of their’s (enforcement team) and they will be continuing on with the investigation and ... any actions based on that investigation needs to be moved forward expediently as possible. “In this case there are several witnesses who have come forward to provide statements.” Meanwhile, Ellefson’s vet bill was initially $663 and is expected to rise. Dakota has several puncture marks to her legs, ears, face and a tear under an armpit. “Dakota will survive, thank God. If I didn’t scream as loud as I screamed no one would have known what was happening and I have no doubt she would have been killed in front of me.” Audrey Kokesch’s vet bill was $1,200 and is also expected to increase with further treatment. A muscle was torn off Shelly’s right leg. The dog has so many stitches, Audrey can’t count them. “These dogs were out to kill,” she said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

SURVEY: Community safety a priority When it came property crime, 30 per cent of the respondents felt extremely safe or very safe compared to 50 per cent in 2011. Mayor Tara Veer said city council has made community safety a priority in response to community concerns. “While overall two-thirds of our citizens think Red Deer is a safe place to live, the downtown area is an identified concern for the public,” said Veer. “In response to this we are working to proactively to create a more inviting place downtown.” A total of 61 per cent of those polled said downtown Red Deer is safe during the day. But 69 per cent disagreed that downtown is safe at

night. Recent initiatives such as the Greater Downtown Action Plan, the Social Policy framework and the Community Alcohol and Drug Road Map will direct positive change, said Veer. The city also formed an ad hoc Community Safety Committee that will develop a strategic plan for crime prevention and community safety among its duties earlier this year. Veer said the perception survey is just as important as statistics because they influence choices by residents. The Red Deer RCMP also released its annual policing plan on Monday that sets out focus areas for the year. The survey also showed: ● Thirty per cent of those polled were either a victim of a violent crime (eight per cent of those who responded positively) or a property crime (94 per cent of those who responded positively) in the 12 months leading up to the survey. ● Eighty per cent of victims of a violent crime said they were not satisfied with police response. ● Sixty-three per cent of the victims of property crime said they were satisfied with police response. ● Fifty-seven per cent said the sale and the use of illegal drugs are the root causes of crime. ● Thirty-four per cent were most concerned about the use and dealing of drugs, drug houses and issues surrounding drugs. ● Sixty-two per cent of residents are most concerned about property crime. ● Thirty-two per cent of respondents would like an increase in visibility and police patrols to make them feel safe in their neighbourhoods. For more information on the survey, visit www. reddeer.ca. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

WILLIAMS: Trying to find ways to get her home Williams went to the area on a buying trip for her business Woollen Wonders and while there took a seven-day hiking trip in the Himalayan Foothills. That’s where she was when the 7.8 Richter Scale earthquake hit. Now, they are trying to find ways to get her home. The Kathmandu Airport is badly damaged. “My brother-in-law has business connections in New Delhi (India). So we’ll probably have to find some way to get her down to New Delhi so we can fly her out,” Dawe said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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ALBERTA Moore campaign sorry for polling station error BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Pamphlets from Christine Moore, Progressive Conservative candidate in Red Deer North, told some Riverside Meadows residents to vote at the wrong polling station. Moore’s campaign is apologizing for the mistake and are preparing letters correcting the information to affected residents, said Linda Yargeau, campaign co-manager. “This afternoon (Tuesday) we mistakenly delivered some voter cards to a few of the wrong houses,” said Yargeau. “We got onto the wrong side of the street. “Residents will receive a letter of correction with the correct information and an apology from our office.” Riverside Meadows is split into several polling stations, with some residents voting at Fairview School and others voting at Koinonia Christian School. Michael and Teresa Shea were told to vote at the Koinonia Christian School, at 6014 57th Ave., in a letter from Election Alberta that was left at their home. Brenda Williams, returning officer for Red Deer North, confirmed on Tuesday that the correct polling station for the couple was the Koinonia Christian School. However, a pamphlet from Moore’s campaign told the couple their polling station was at Fairview School, at 5901 55th St. The Sheas have voted at the Fairview School in the past, for the federal election in 2012 and the municipal election in 2013. Williams said she would be in communication with the Moore campaign regarding proper polling stations. “I have no problem with them sending stuff out,” said Williams. “Maybe they need to check with us should they be in doubt as to where to vote.” Voters are encouraged to verify the polling station they should attend on election day, May 5, by visiting www.elections.ab.ca or by calling 1-877-422-8683. Polls are open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day. Advanced voting for Red Deer North is available today, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Returning Officer Office, at Bay 3 4664 Riverside Dr. Candidates running in Red Deer North include Moore, Buck Buchanan for the Wildrose, Michael Dawe for the Liberal and Green parties, Krystal Kromm for the Alberta Party and Kim Schriener for the NDP. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Notley dismisses ‘fearmongering’ compounded the effects of falling demand and low prices during the 2008 economic downturn. Notley, who was also in Calgary, scoffed at Prentice’s criticism. “I think he’s definitely fearmongering, but I don’t think Albertans are buying it,” she said. “I don’t exactly know how a review would be devastating one way or another. I don’t know how talking to Albertans, with Albertans, in an independent, transparent accountable forum about a resource that belongs to Albertans is going to kill the industry.” Prentice called the election a year earlier than required to gain a mandate for his budget, which he calls a transformational blueprint for the next decade. The theory was Prentice would cruise to another majority with the opposition in disarray, but polls are suggesting there’s a tight, three-way race among the Tories, the Wildrose and the NDP. Notley, whose party has never held more than 16 seats in Alberta, is coming off a leader’s debate last week that most pundits say she won. The Progressive Conservatives have since been hammering away at the NDP on energy matters. Prentice chided Notley on Monday for her promise to take a hands-off approach on two pipeline projects to get Alberta oil to the coast.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says Premier Jim Prentice is fearmongering when he accuses her of turning her back on the oil industry and job creation. Notley has said that if she wins next Tuesday’s election, she will hold a review of the province’s royalty structure to ensure that Albertans are getting a fair return for their non-renewable resources. Prentice says that would hurt the industry and undermine public confidence in Alberta. Royalties are paid by energy companies to develop the province’s oil and gas resources. “Albertans know that the last thing that this province needs right now is a royalty review, because it will undermine business confidence at the very worst possible time,” the Tory leader said during a campaign stop in Calgary on Tuesday. “The last time we did this it cost us billions and billions of dollars of investment and thousands and thousands of jobs. It’s the last thing we should do.” The government of former premier Ed Stelmach increased royalty rates in 2007, but rolled them back after major criticism from the oil and natural gas industry and a serious loss of investment in the province. Producers suggested royalty increases

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Supply issue knocks out power to most of Red Deer About two-thirds of Red Deer lost power on Tuesday afternoon for a short period and early reports suggest it was a supply issue. Jim Jorgenson, Red Deer Electric Light and Power manager, said they were still investigating the cause and scope of the outage. “The substation on the north side of town and the one downtown by Taylor Drive were off power,” said Jorgenson. “That indicates the big supply issue and we’re trying to figure out what’s going on with it.”

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Sylvan Lake taxes going up 2% Sylvan homeowners will see their total tax bill jump two per cent this year. The increase, which combines both municipal and school taxes and transportation and recreation levies will mean an annual increase ranging from about $156 to $305 in three sample properties provided to council on Monday. Council earlier agreed to hold the line on nonresidential municipal taxes as an economic development incentive.

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Town communications officer Joanne Gaudet said given Sylvan’s continued growth, largely driven by incoming young families, council felt it best to keep its options open. “In the end, this allows us to expand to a third ice surface if required,” she said. Dave Brand, Sylvan Lake’s public works manager, said if the expansion was not included the town would face a much larger bill if it wanted to build a stand-alone arena in the future. “It’s about function. Certainly we could build a cheaper building, but then it would be less functional and in five, 10 or 15 years from now people might look back and say why didn’t they just spend the extra $2.95 million back then.” Council’s biggest debate in a special meeting on Monday to discuss the project revolved around whether to reduce program space to save money or stick to the original Also dismissed by the task force were proposals to switch the curling rink and hockey arenas to preengineered buildings at a possible cost savings of nearly $3 million. However, those changes would mean delaying opening by up to six months and could see cost increases in other portions of the budget, says the report. However, the task force did recommend construction changes that will save about $720,000. To cover the cost increases, council proposes boosting the amount of provincial Municipal Sustainability Initiative funding to $4.6 million from $2.6 million, while reducing costs on Lakeshore Drive and Centennial Street projects. Council also plans to raise the target for funding from fundraising, corporation donations and sponsorships to $3 million from $2 million. The amount the town plans to borrow would remain unchanged at $13 million. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Alberta’s changing tide IS THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE DYNASTY FINALLY FRAGILE UNDER PRENTICE? The barbarians are at the gate again — and this time the dynasty is having trouble with the drawbridge. As the Alberta election campaign enters its final full week, the Progressive Conservative dynasty — the country’s longest ever — is being entrusted to the increasingly shaky grip of leader Jim Prentice. TIM Of course, HARPER we’ve been here before. Three short years ago, the dynasty was about to unravel under Alison Redford before a late eruption of intolerance and bigotry sank Wildrose under Danielle Smith and kept the dynasty chugging along into years 42, 43, 44. Both women are now political footnotes and Prentice, the suave, experienced, former Stephen Harper cabinet minister, came charging in to protect one-party rule and calm everything down. Instead, he has done everything he can to lose. Whether Prentice has lost the fire,

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whether a hiatus from politics has left him rusty, whether he believed this election was a walk in the park and is rattled — or whether plunging oil prices have finally signalled a fin de régime — he is in trouble. He is running behind Brian Jean, the leader of Wildrose, a party that tried to euthanize itself but was lifted off its deathbed by supporters who refused to follow former leader Smith off the cliff in a historic defection. Jean, a former Conservative MP, has been on the job four whole weeks. And, most remarkably, Prentice is running behind the NDP — yes, the NDP in Alberta — under the smooth leadership of Rachel Notley. Jean and Notley did not exactly take juggernauts into this campaign. Nothing indicated either was anywhere but the wilderness, certainly not on the cusp of history. Jean had a caucus of five in the 87-seat legislature, only three of whom ran again. Notley had a caucus of four and a history of party futility in a province that dismissed any political pretender cloaked in orange. Prentice has done all he could to make this a race. Before he even went to the people, he told them to “look in the mirror” if they wanted to see who was responsible for the economic woes here. Then, faced with a $7-billion hole blown in government revenues, he un-

veiled a budget that featured 59 separate tax and fee hikes in a province that believes it is its divine right to avoid taxes felt elsewhere in the country. But Prentice left corporate taxes alone. There was immediate blowback. Prentice went to the polls anyway — a year before he had to under fixed date legislation. He has backtracked on the reduction of the tax credit for charitable donations. He came across sounding sexist when, taking a shot at Notley’s botched numbers in her economic platform, told her “I know that math is difficult.” On Saturday, he lost his justice minister, who resigned because he is tied up in litigation with his estranged wife. For those who like metaphors, his campaign bus was rammed from behind by his security detail. But the Alberta status quo has seven days to snap back. Notley’s ascension could be her ultimate downfall if this province awakens to a realization that it could elect an NDP government or a minority with the NDP holding the balance of power. “Alberta is not an NDP province,” Prentice declared on Saturday. And so the PC guns are trained on the 51-year-old NDP leader, the daughter of a one-time iconic NDP leader who died young in a plane crash.

Over the weekend, it was her comment that she would not push the Northern Gateway pipeline that would transport Alberta bitumen across British Columbia to a port at Kitimat, B.C. The PCs pounced, but Notley was surely stating the obvious. Even Harper Conservatives in Ottawa are silent about the diminished prospects of Northern Gateway. Prentice, himself, has talked about the difficulty of overcoming aboriginal opposition and the problems with the Kitimat terminus, but Saturday he was (wrongly) accusing Notley of being against all pipelines. The NDP leader does support the Kinder Morgan pipeline in British Columbia and Energy East. And who came riding to her defence? That would be Smith, once the rightwing barbarian at the gate, now watching the man she embraced from the sidelines, chastened and bruised, reminding voters that Notley does champion other pipelines. That may show us two things — the fear factor may have to be ramped up before the drawbridge can be closed and it is mighty difficult to tell the players without a program in a province where the status quo was once the only sure thing. Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer. He can be reached at tharper@thestar.ca.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Restaurant’s sick policy wastes money, intimidates staff My 15-year-old son began his first employment opportunity approximately six months ago for a restaurant here in Red Deer. I do not wish to have any legal repercussions. A couple months into his employment, he came down with a cold/flu bug and instead of possibly infecting his fellow staff as well as the public, he chose to be responsible and advise management of his illness. The management informed him that it was their policy that any absence due to illness must be followed up with a doctor’s note upon the employee’s return. I believed that a quick call to the restaurant by a parent would elevate the need for a doctor’s note since his ailment was simply the common cold and who would want to waist a professional’s time and the taxpayers dollars to appease their concerns? Well, it turns out that indeed a doctor’s note was necessary as the management went on to say that when he was hired, he signed an employee agreement that included this practice in their policy. I’m a logical individual and can only assume that the management incorporated this policy due to increased absentees. It’s easy to see that the majority of the employees working at this particular restaurant are students and I think we can all agree that teenagers are not always the most reliable demographic in the workforce. In my opinion this is nothing more than lazy management. Instead of taking the time to manage their employees and weed out the delinquent workers, they instead create a policy that not only intimidates their workforce to show up regardless of their personal health, but puts at risk the health of their coworkers and the public. So thanks for putting an unnecessary strain on our health-care system to babysit your employees. I’m no lawyer but I believe one must be of legal age to enter into a contract and hold the contents binding? Grant Damsgaard Red Deer

Time for government audits of boards and commissions “About 80 agencies, boards, and commissions will be eliminated to cut costs, said Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice,” said the front page of the Red Deer Advocate on April 16. The elimination of these entities if redundant and ineffective could save money but if they are effective and an obstacle to govern, then the cuts may actually cost money while making the government’s job easier. Recently, the media reported a provincial board recommended the hiring of four officers to increase the protection of children in the government’s care and increase funding for the auditor general, but the premier said no, and this so-called independent body retracted their recommendation. Perhaps a good candidate for their consideration of eliminating: to make governing easier and less risk of embarrassment. In Ottawa, we recently witnessed the House Public Safety Committee undertake an expensive and

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need to be eliminated. If a body offers real advice, understands the issues, is up to date on events, can create and offer a coherent piece of advice and is actually listened to, then it should not be cut even if it is a pain in the side of the politicians and the bureaucracy. If these groups are cut, then laws and legislation could be enacted that could be less than cost effective and contradicts its very intent. The prime minister, the premier and the mayor should all undertake an audit of all agencies, boards, commissions and committees and find their true values. Which ones are window dressings and which ones are the windows? Who controls and who is being controlled? How often have you listened to a group and should you have? With 20/20 hindsight, would you have listened when you ignored or would you have ignored instead of listening? Perhaps the merging of boards would be more valuable than as separate entities? Bodies that cannot allow for outside influences, issues and events could be much more effective if they were to allow? It is too easy to focus inward and on specifics, but they must adapt, explore and understand outside influences to be truly effective and perhaps be too valuable to be eliminated. I truly hope that Prentice can eliminate 80 agencies, boards and commissions without incurring costs, destroying efficiencies, and maintaining the least effective bodies. I also hope that our prime minister and our mayor gives this issue serious consideration because it does have merit. Garfield Marks Red Deer

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OTTAWA — The quality of health care in remote First Nations communities is sorely lacking, the federal auditor general reported Tuesday — a conclusion that aboriginal leaders call a further indictment of how they are being treated by Ottawa. Health Canada can’t be sure that eligible First Nations members in remote parts of Manitoba and Ontario can access sufficient clinical and client care services and medical transportation, Michael Ferguson’s spring report says. The audit concluded that only one out of 45 nurses had completed mandatory Health Canada training to allow them to perform advanced duties such as immunization, cardiac life support and handling controlled substances — a problem the federal department identified in 2010. It also documented the dismal state of nursing stations in the regions, noting that in one case, a nursing station residence had been unusable for more than two years because of a broken septic system. The report also found nurses had no support system in place when required to perform essential health services beyond their scope of practice. It also uncovered problems with the medical transportation system that allows patients to receive treatment that’s only available outside their communities. Some First Nations members were not properly registered for the transport benefit, and there was also a glaring lack of documentation to show that the health care was actually needed or delivered. Ferguson’s findings are not news to vulnerable people who have long struggled to obtain access to

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basic health care, said Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler. “The report is a strong indictment on Canada’s continued failure to provide a health care system that is equitable, that is accessible,” Fiddler said. He said a pair of four-year-olds — a boy and a girl — died needlessly last year from strep throat, which could have been prevented with simple antibiotics. Health Canada agreed with the auditor’s recommendations to fix those deficiencies, a development that the Liberal health critic, Dr. Carolyn Bennett, said could finally lead to progress. “They’re now on record as to what they do about it,” Bennett said. “It’s a very straightforward process now, and we need to see the plan from Health Canada.” Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief David Harper said he hoped Ferguson’s report would pave the way for gains in education and prevention to increase the long-term health of remote communities. “At the same time, we need to educate our youth to become nurses and doctors.” In separate audits included in Tuesday’s report, Ferguson also touched on some key planks of the government’s likely election platform — cutting taxes and protecting Canadians by getting tougher with criminals. The auditor found lacklustre efforts to rehabilitate prisoners and a dearth of oversight governing boutique tax credits, the Conservative government’s election bauble of choice. “We are concerned that the issues we are seeing today may be the symptoms of bigger problems in the future if they are not addressed quickly,” Ferguson

said. Ferguson found that lower-risk offenders are being released from prison later in their sentences and with less time supervised in the community because Correctional Service Canada recommends early release less often. Some 80 per cent of offenders were behind bars beyond their first parole eligibility date, while more offenders are being released directly from mediumand high-security penitentiaries. A separate audit of Correctional Services Canada appeared to dovetail with the Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda, but stressed the safety of the public is better served by a system than can offer rehabilitation before an inmate is set free. It found that CSC officials made fewer recommendations for early release to the Parole Board in 2013-14 than in 2011-12, including low-risk offenders, who as a result ended up spending less time being supervised in the community before their sentences ended. The audit said only one in five offenders had parole hearings when they were first eligible, while 54 per cent walked out of federal prisons at their statutory release date rather than being on parole earlier in their sentence. The supervised release of offenders “who have demonstrated responsibility to change contributes to public safety,” it found. But a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said in an email: “I am pleased that the auditor general found that our ’truth in sentencing’ measures have worked because more prisoners are staying behind bars for a greater portion of their sentence.”

Homeless man charged in three deaths BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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WINNIPEG — Police believe the killer of three men who lived on Winnipeg streets was homeless himself. John Paul Ostamas is accused of two counts of first-degree murder in the weekend deaths of Donald Collins, 65, and Stony Bushie, 48. He is also facing charges of second-degree murder in the killing of Myles Monias, 37, following an assault in a bus shelter earlier this month. Supt. Danny Smyth said Collins went into a laneway Saturday night with Ostamas where police

believe he was attacked and killed. “He was left for dead in the alley,” Smyth said at a news conference Tuesday. A few hours later, Smyth said Ostamas encountered Bushie and they went to a downtown parkade. “Ostamas attacked and murdered Bushie within the parkade and left him for dead,” Smyth alleged. Ostamas is originally from Thunder Bay, Ont., but was staying at a Winnipeg homeless shelter. Following the killings, police released security footage featuring a “person of interest,” who turned

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Multiple deaths in southern Alberta city spark big police investigation LETHBRIDGE — Police in a southern Alberta city are investigating what they call the suspicious deaths of two men and a woman. The bodies were discovered overnight in a unit of an older townhouse complex on the west side of Lethbridge. “We know that it’s a violent scene,” deputy police chief Colin Catonio said Tuesday. “We received a call around 2:30 this morning. It was a check on welfare of the occupants of the residence. Officers arrived and confirmed that there were three people inside who were deceased.” Catonio said investigators believe the three dead were targeted. Their names have not been released and there is no word on how they died. No one is in custody. A wide area around the scene was cordoned off while investigators in white jumpsuits checked for evidence.

BURNS LAKE, B.C. — Three counts of secondEDMONTON — The family of an aboriginal womdegree murder have now been laid against a 54-yearan missing for the last decade says they are heartold man from north-central British Columbia. broken but relieved that her remains have been RCMP Cpl. Dave Tyreman says in a news release found in Alberta. that police responded Monday morning to a call of Delores Dawn Brower, who went by the nickname foul play and found one woman and two men dead Spider, was a sex-trade worker last seen hitching a inside a residence in Burns Lake. He says police believe the incident is isolated and ride in Edmonton in 2004. The 33-year-old was reported missing by her family a year later. that the public is not at risk. RCMP said Tuesday that remains discovered last Tyreman says local resident Rueben Buhler will week in a wooded area near Leduc, south of Edappear in provincial court Wednesday on the chargmonton, have been linked to Brower through dental es. records. The names of the three dead have not yet been released by police. RCMP officers from four different units were helping Burns Lake Mounties in the investigation. EUROPEAN QUALITY PRODUCTS Burns Lake is located

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OTTAWA — The governor of the Bank of Canada says he didn’t mean to surprise markets in recent months with his stunning interest-rate cut, his startling real estate projection and the grim adjective he chose to describe the country’s economic performance. During testimony Tuesday before a parliamentary committee, Stephen Poloz was asked about his eyebrowraising use of “atrocious” to describe the oil slump’s effect on the economy over the first three months of 2015. Poloz also fielded questions about the central bank’s recent assessment that Canada’s real estate prices could be overvalued by as much as 30 per cent, even though it has stressed the country is not facing a housing bubble. James Rajotte, the chairman of the House of Commons finance committee, asked Poloz if he was trying to shock the markets on purpose, particularly since analysts dissect his every word. Rajotte even suggested Poloz’s style was less measured than his predeces-

sor, Mark Carney. “It’s certainly not our intent to surprise or to frighten people,” Poloz told parliamentarians. The hearing Tuesday was the first chance for committee members to grill Poloz since his appearance in early November — right before already-tumbling oil prices rolled off the cliff. Since then, the bank released an estimate in December that housing prices were overvalued between 10 and 30 per cent. In January, the bank lowered its trend-setting interest rate to 0.75 per cent from one per cent — a cut that enticed consumers to pile on more debt, including mortgage debt. On Tuesday, New Democrat MP Guy Caron noted to Poloz how foreign studies have suggested Canada is staring at a classic housing bubble. The governor dismissed the suggestion, reiterating the bank’s position there’s little evidence of bubble symptoms. For one, Poloz highlighted the lack

of highly speculative behaviour, such as people buying multiple houses with the purpose of selling them later on for profit. He also argued that home construction has been very much in line with demographic demand. “So, there’s no excess, if you like,” said Poloz, who added the country isn’t seeing “truly runaway pricing” either. Poloz said today’s overvalued housing market is a necessary by-product of the effort needed to guide the economy through the Great Recession. In fact, he noted it would have been unusual for Canada to emerge from the crisis without inflated house prices, since the increased borrowing amid the lower interest rates helped prop up the economy. Carolyn Wilkins, the Bank of Canada senior deputy governor who also appeared at Tuesday’s hearing, said the housing market is headed for a “soft landing” overall even with the decline of Alberta’s market, which was particularly sensitive to the collapse in crude prices. Poloz has defended his decision to cut the overnight rate as insurance against the speed and magnitude of

Auditor slams feds for poor tracking of tax credit impact BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The auditor general says the Finance Department is failing to properly manage a signature move of the Harper government, the targeted tax credit, which the federal watchdog describes as program spending by another name. Popular, and heavily promoted, tax expendi- Michael Ferguson tures such as the children’s fitness tax credit and the first-time home buyers’ tax credit don’t get the kind of routine evaluation and public oversight required “to determine if these tax measures are relevant and performing as intended.’ Moreover, auditor general Michael Ferguson found the Finance Department doesn’t provide future cost projections for the tax breaks, which MPs should take into account when they debate budgets and public spending. The report, released Tuesday, bluntly states that “overall we concluded that the department fell short on managing tax-based expenditures.” The Conservative government has made an art of using boutique tax measures — as opposed to broad-based tax cuts, direct subsidies or rebates — to curry favour with targeted groups of voters, all the while accusing its opponents of “tax and spend” policies. The Conservative approach was on display Tuesday in the House of Commons, where NDP Leader Tom Mulcair reproached the government for its lax oversight of tax giveaways.

BRIEF Income tax filing deadline extended to May 5 due to ‘human error’ OTTAWA — Canadians are getting more time to file and pay their taxes due to a mistake by the Canada Revenue Agency. The deadline for most Canadians was originally supposed to be the end of April. However, a spokesman for Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay said that, due to a human error, a notification was sent last week to tax preparers indicating the deadline was May 5. “Minister Findlay has made it clear that this incorrect information is unacceptable and therefore she has directed her officials to ensure no Canadians are penalized for the CRA’s error,” Carter Mann said in an email. Canadians now have until May 5 to file their income tax return and pay any amounts they owe for the 2014 ta

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper shot back that New Democrats believe “that somehow giving people more of their own money is taking something away from Canadians.” “This is people’s own money,” said Harper. “We want to make sure more of it stays in their pockets and creates jobs and economic growth.” The prime minister said the government will start providing cost projections for tax measures for an additional two years. Mulcair responded that 85 per cent of Canadians don’t benefit — an apparent reference to one specific tax measure, income splitting for families with children up to age 18. “Conservatives have introduced dozens of loopholes and boutique tax credits that help the wealthiest few,” Mulcair charged. “But they refuse to give even basic information about precisely who benefits and how much the benefits costs.” The latter point is essentially the auditor general’s critique. While MPs, at least in theory, get a chance every year to assess and vote on program spending through the budget process, as many as 140 tax measures largely escape scrutiny once they’re set in place. “Even though they are things that are being deducted from the revenue side of the ledger, many of them need to be thought of as similar to direct spending programs,” Ferguson said at a news conference. “And they need to have that same type of oversight.” The measures add up to “tens of billions of dollars annually,” according to the audit report. Finance does publish, separate from the budget, a tax expenditure and evaluation report, but Ferguson found it does not include valuable information that may be available in publications from other departments, such as the Canada Revenue Agency. year. The deadline for returns for the self-employed and their spouses or common-law partners remains June 15. Missing the tax filing deadline triggers penalties on any amounts owed to the CRA, as well as interest on the outstanding balance. The Quebec government announced later on Tuesday it too is extending its deadline to May 5. CRA extended the tax filing deadline for individuals to May 5 last year after the Heartbleed bug forced a five-day shutdown of its electronic services. The CRA’s affected services last year included EFILE, NETFILE, My Account, My Business Account and Represent a Client. The Heartbleed flaw allowed the contents of a computer server’s memory, including private data such as usernames, passwords and credit card numbers, to be revealed. Some 900 social insurance numbers were stolen over a six-hour period due to the vulnerability in the CRA system.

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A construction crew works at the south end of the at the Saputo Dairy Products plant at 5410 Gaetz Ave Tuesday. The company plans to make a number of changes to its facilities, including the addition of a new warehouse, three silos and several other buildings. It will also demolish a portion of an existing warehouse. The landmark brick Alpha smokestack, which dates back to 1936 and has been declared by the city to be of historical significance, will remain. NEW YORK — Twitter’s stock is falling sharply after the company’s earnings — due to be released after the stock market closes — came out ahead of time. Trading in its stock was halted Tuesday afternoon after word spread of the premature earnings release. When trading resumed, the stock fell more than 25 per cent. Some reports say the earnings leaked out. Bloomberg News cited research firm Selerity, which tweeted the results and said the report was “sourced” from Twitter’s website and was not the result of a “leak” or “hack.” The company later posted the results on its website and emailed it to reporters. Its adjusted earnings per share topped Wall Street estimates but revenue fell short of investors expectations.

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TransAlta looking at reviving carbon capture BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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CALGARY — TransAlta Corp. (TSX:TA) may take another run at adding carbon capture technology to one of its Alberta coal plants, its CEO said Tuesday. “It’s more than a glint in our eye,” Dawn Farrell told reporters following the power generator’s annual general meeting. But at this point, there are no solid plans ready to be approved, she said. Farrell said the company is contemplating capturing greenhouse gases from its Sundance plant 70 kilometres west of Edmonton — Western Canada’s largest coal-fired electrical generating facility — and selling the gas to oil producers in the province. Those producers would inject the gas into mature

fields in order to coax more oil out. About three years ago, TransAlta and its partners abandoned plans to build Project Pioneer, a $1.4-billion carbon capture project planned at TransAlta’s Keephills 3 plant. The provincial and federal governments were to take on some of the financial burden of Pioneer, touting carbon capture technology as a key way to combat climate change. But Farrell said any new carbon capture undertaking would have to be economically feasible without government money. “I think those days are behind us,” she said. “It would have to be an economic project to go forward.” The issue for Pioneer was that, at

the time, there wasn’t enough demand from oil companies to use the gas for that purpose when they were able to churn out so much crude by using fracking. “We just couldn’t find a producer that was willing to make the investment, but as people get through sort of their fracking dollars, they’re now starting to look at reservoirs that would work with CO2,” said Farrell. “They tend to be different. You don’t frack those reservoirs and so that’s why it’s starting to come back up as a possibility now.” Also on Tuesday, TransAlta said it had cut the workforce in its Canadian coal generating unit by 20 per cent in an effort to save money. It said 164 positions have already been eliminated as a result of the reorganization, but only 27 were full-time layoffs.

The rest were through attrition, retirements and reassignments. The move wasn’t made in response to market conditions — such as the downturn in oil prices that has had far-reaching impacts in Alberta — but rather to boost efficiency. The company says it expects to save $12 million annually. It incurred about $7 million in restructuring costs during the first three months of 2015. Farrell also said TransAlta is on the hunt for acquisitions — particularly renewable power generations throughout the United States. During the first quarter, TransAlta posted net earnings attributable to common shareholders of $26 million, down from $47 million a year earlier. Revenue was $593 million compared with $775 million in the same period in 2014.

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Barrick Gold revamping approach to executive pay TORONTO — Barrick Gold chairman John Thornton says the miner will revamp its approach to executive compensation after a majority of its shareholders voted thumbs down in a nonbinding say-on-pay resolution. “We have heard you loud and clear,” Thornton told shareholders Tuesday at the company’s annual meeting in Toronto, noting that Brett Harvey, head of the company’s executive compensation committee, has been in talks with major investors. “We will now take that feedback, we will go back and refine our system, particularly as it relates to me,” Thornton said. Roughly 75 per cent of the company’s shareholders voted against the executive compensation motion, according to preliminary results. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board said last week it would be voting against Barrick’s plan on executive pay and would withhold its vote for Harvey. The concerns, raised by other institutional investors, centre on Thornton’s paycheque, which grew to $12.9 million in 2014 from $9.5 million the previous year — all while Barrick’s financial performance weakened. Corporate governance expert Richard Leblanc says the vote on executive compensation, while non-binding, may act as a form of moral suasion. Last week, there was another notable say-on-pay vote at the annual general meeting of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Calgary (TSX:CM). Shareholders shot down the bank’s approach to executive compensation, with nearly 57 per cent of shares cast

against. It was the first time such a vote has gone that way at a major Canadian financial institution. At issue were rich payouts to the bank’s former chief executive officer and chief operating officer — $25 million between the two of them, on top of their existing pensions. Leblanc, an associate professor of law, governance and ethics at York University, said he’s happy to see big shareholders adopt “less of a Canadian, old-school, genteel mentality” and speak up. “I think what CIBC and Barrick say is that investors are becoming less accepting and less tolerant,” said Leblanc. “This is long overdue in Canada.” Meanwhile, Barrick said it’s looking to sell a stake in the Zaldivar copper mine in Chile — a “consistently strong performer in the world’s best jurisdiction for copper mining.” Potential buyers have “expressed strong interest” in taking a stake in the mine, it said. As well, the miner says it’s on track to achieve its target of $30 million in savings from reduced general, administrative and overhead costs in 2015, reaching $70 million in annualized savings in 2016. The gold miner also outlined a number of measures it is undertaking in an attempt to transform itself into a leaner, more profitable company. Thornton said the company has launched reviews of all of its mines to gauge their performance and determine which ones to put up for sale. Selling some of its non-core assets could free up the company’s cash flow and help it pay off its debt. Co-president Kelvin Dushnisky said Barrick hopes to return to its past as a nimble, entrepreneurial company with minimal bureaucracy by “unclogging the arteries.”

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market pushed ahead with a tiny gain on Tuesday as the gold sector emerged as one of the few shining examples in an otherwise dull session. The S&P/TSX composite index closed near its highs of the day, rising 1.99 points to 15,346.07. The loonie moved up 0.49 of a U.S. cent to 83.13 cents. Driving the market were gold stocks, which climbed as the June bullion contract rose $10.70 to US$1,213.90 an ounce. The TSX energy sector was the biggest decliner, falling 0.8 per cent, as benchmark crude oil gained seven cents to settle at US$57.06 a barrel. Traders have been pushing gold near its highest levels since early April, at least partly on the possibility that the U.S. Federal Reserve could delay hikes to its interest rate, said Colin Cieszynski, senior markets analyst at CMC Markets Canada. In New York, markets were mixed as the Fed began a twoday meeting on when it should start raising interest rates again. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 72.17 points at 18,110.14, the Nasdaq was down 4.83 points at 5,055.42 and the S&P 500 advanced 5.84 points to 2,114.76. Earlier this year it was widely predicted that U.S. interest rates would be bumped up in June, but the consensus expectation has shifted towards it happening later in the year after recent weak economic data. “It definitely has a lot of people thinking that maybe the U.S. economy isn’t as strong as people thought it was three months ago,” Cieszynski said in an interview. “The signs are starting to point to a wider slowdown. Not going off the rails like we’re see-

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ing in other parts of the world, but that perhaps the U.S. isn’t charging ahead quite as quickly as people thought.” On Tuesday, the latest figures showed U.S. consumer spending dropped to its lowest level in four months while weakness reflected in the latest tally on home prices added extra pressure to the markets. A mixed bag of U.S. financial results also came in with appliance maker Whirlpool slashing its annual forecast for 2015, Coach saying it was affected by the higher U.S. dollar and automaker Ford hurt by poor sales of key vehicles like the F-150 pickup. Coming in above expectations was technology giant Apple Inc., which posted a record quarterly profit of $13.6 billion, and drugmaker Merck & Co. which faced currency pressures and weaker sales in its consumer health business. Traders also reacted to the latest financial results from Twitter, which appeared to leak ahead of their scheduled release after stock markets closed. The company’s adjusted earnings per share came in above analyst expectations but its revenue fell short. Shares of Twitter dropped three per cent before its stock was halted. When trading resumed, the stock dropped by more than 25 per cent. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Tuesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,346.07, up 1.99 points Dow — 18,110.14, up 72.17 points S&P 500 — 2,114.76, up 5.84 points Nasdaq — 5,055.42, down 4.83 points

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — Hopes for a deal on Greece’s bailout rose on Tuesday after the prime minister said he expected an agreement could be reached within two weeks and the European Union reported a pick-up in the negotiations. Greek stocks rose and its sovereign borrowing rates dropped, a sign that international investors are less worried about the country defaulting on its debts in coming weeks. The European Union said Tuesday that Greece’s talks with its creditors were “being made more productive and efficient” as the country faces a growing cash crunch. EU Commission spokeswoman Annika Breidthardt said the pace of talks has “intensified” since a weekend meeting of eurozone finance ministers, where Greek minister Yanis Varoufakis came under intense pressure from his colleagues. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in a television interview that ran into early Tuesday that he expected a deal

Oil futures: US$57.06 per barrel, up seven cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,213.90 per oz., up $10.70 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.95 oz., up 11.8 cents $673.54 kg., up $3.79 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $1.40 higher $454.20; July ’15 $0.10 higher $449.90; Nov ’15 $0.90 lower $442.20; Jan. ’16 $1.20 lower $443.60; March ’16 $1.50 lower $443.70; May ’16 $1.50 lower $444.40; July ’16 $1.50 lower $444.90; Nov. ’16 $1.50 lower $439.50; Jan. ’17 $1.50 lower $439.50; March ’17 $1.50 lower $439.50; May ’17 $1.50 lower $439.50. Barley (Western): May ’15 $2.00 lower $205.00; July ’15 unchanged $207.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $192.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $192.00; March ’16 unchanged $192.00; May ’16 unchanged $192.00; July ’16 unchanged $192.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $192.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $192.00; March ’17 unchanged $192.00; May ’17 unchanged $192.00. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 312,080 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 312,080.

would be reached by May 9, in time for the next eurozone meeting. Greece has to repay the International Monetary Fund a total of almost 1 billion euros by May 12. It is expected to have enough money to make that, if it manages to raise as much as it hopes from a move to grab cash reserves from local entities like hospitals and schools. But it faces bigger repayments in June it will struggle to honour without more bailout cash. Breidthardt refused to elaborate on reports of the sidelining of Varoufakis as the prime contact in the bailout talks beyond saying ministers were happy to talk to any Greek representative, “as long as they have a mandate to negotiate.” Varoufakis has been blamed by several officials as the main cause for the lack of progress in the bailout talks. At a eurozone meeting last week in Riga, Latvia, he again failed to come up with a list of economic reforms creditors are demanding in exchange for the loans.

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Pair of Chiefs heading to Nats camp BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The hockey season is not quite over for two Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs. Fresh off earning silver as Esso Cup hosts on the weekend, the next stop for star defencemen Mairead Bast and Abagael Thiessen is the U18 national women’s summer strength and conditioning camp in Hamilton, Ont., from May 6-10. This is the first step in making the U18 roster for next season and their goals of one day playing for Team Canada. “I can only imagine, it would be breathtaking standing on the blue line in a Canadian jersey would really top off my dreams,” said Bast, 16. After this camp there will be a summer camp and then a three-game series against Team U.S.A and further scouting. For Thiessen, 16, this camp gives her a shot at some redemption. She was a late cut the last couple of years for Team Alberta, but she proved this season she was one of the elite defenders in Canada in her age group. The five-foot-nine blue-liner was second on the Chiefs in scoring this Alberta Major Midget Female Hockey League season with 21 points (14 goals, seven assists) in 28 games. But she was at her best when the team needed it most in the Esso Cup, in particular rallying the Chiefs with a goal and an assist in the final five minutes of their 3-2 shootout victory over the Central Plains Capitals to set up a semifinal date with the Saskatoon Stars. She learned a lot from those experiences of trying out for the provincial team. “Just to be mentally stronger and dealing with the heartache of getting cut,” said Thiessen. “I’ve never (been cut) in boys I usually made AA or A up until then, it was almost a shock the first year but it helps you deal with it in the future.” This has been a big year for her already, which also includes committing to NCAA hockey power University of North Dakota. “It’s been amazing, it’s really nice to have the college part done in my Grade 11 year so I can really focus on just playing and having a little more fun with next year and having this opportunity with Team Canada,” said Thiessen. The five-foot-seven Bast is entering the camp with an open mind but with big expectations. After spending the season playing

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Defenceman Abagael Thiessen (Pictured) of the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs and teammate Mairead Bast will be attending the U18 national women’s summer strength and conditioning camp in Hamilton, Ontario from May 6-10. against the top midget aged players in Alberta and the past week against some of the top players in the country, she has a good idea of what to expect in Hamilton. The camp will include some familiar names, having just played Sheridan Oswald of the Central Plains Capitals and Sophie Shirley of the Saskatoon Stars at the Esso Cup. “I’m feeling pretty good right now,” said Bast. “We don’t like to talk about ourselves like that but I think I did pretty well (at the Esso Cup) and I’m not too nervous about (the competition). “The Esso Cup was a big exposure, just to let us know what else is out there and all of the different types of

girls and their skill level. It’s going to be nice heading into that camp having that added experience.” However, the player Bast is most looking forward to seeing in Hamilton is Thiessen. “That comfort level of her being there, it’s going to be a lot better because you know you’re going to have someone to talk to at the end of the day,” she said. Bast was fourth on the Chiefs in scoring with 12 points (6-6-12) but in just 18 games, and is currently trying to decide on her college hockey future. She also had a big Esso Cup scoring the shootout winner in the Chiefs’ win over the Capitals and then in their 2-1 semifinal win over the Stars to put

them in the gold medal game, which they lost 2-1 to Sudbury. This camp will cap a big season for her and help put the pain of losing the Esso Cup gold medal behind her. “This year has been incredible, just knowing that we were hosting nationals it put a good vibe on life this year. It was fun getting prepared for it and being with the girls every day and going to school and seeing them again, just being with them was awesome,” said Bast. “It was a tough loss and hard to get over right now, but maybe when I get to Hamilton it will help get it off my mind.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Flames to rely again on reserves of top three defencemen BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary Flames head coach Bob Hartley believes in the recovery power of his big three on the blue-line. T.J. Brodie, Kris Russell and Dennis Wideman have been heavily worked not only in the playoffs, but ever since captain and top defenceman Mark Giordano tore his bicep Feb. 25. On Tuesday, the NHL released its second-round playoff schedules and Calgary will open its best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal Thursday in Anaheim. The Ducks will have had seven days off when second-round action begins, three more than the Flames after both teams won their respective first-round series. Hartley joked earlier this week that Brodie, Russell and Wideman were still in an ice bath two days after eliminating the Vancouver Canucks in six games. But given their puck-moving roles in an offence built on speed and pressure, Hartley said managing the trio’s energy was a priority even before the post-season. “We asked those guys to play lots of minutes,” he said Tuesday. “They’re very important in our game. We just don’t want them to defend. They’re basically our motor offensively. “Those guys have the power of recovering very well. They’re great athletes and they want those minutes, they love those responsibilities. They’re giving us unbelievable hockey.” Brodie, Russell and Wideman rank fifth to seventh respectively among NHL defencemen in post-season minutes at an average of 27 per game. They contributed a combined three goals and nine assists against Vancouver. Brodie and Wideman skated Tuesday at Scotiabank Saddledome for the first time since Calgary closed out the series Saturday. Russell, the NHL’s leading shot-blocker in the regular season, was among a handful who didn’t. “We’re in the gym and working hard regardless if we’re on the ice or not,” Russell said. “It’s different situations for every guy. “With the minutes we’ve played,

obviously we have to make sure we get the rest that’s required, especially when you do get a few days off.” The Flames and Ducks will have two days between Thursday’s opener and Game 2 on Sunday. A New Kids On The Block concert is booked for the Honda Centre on Saturday. The third game in Calgary will either be next Tuesday - the same day as the Alberta election - or May 6 if Detroit wins its first-round series Wednesday against Tampa Bay and advances. Game 4 is set for May 8. The schedule for the remaining three, if necessary, is May 10, 12 and 14. How much rest impacts a series is subjective, says Hartley. If a team wins, it was just enough and if one loses, it was either too much or too little, the coach said. Brodie says the adrenaline of the playoffs provides fuel for his hard minutes, which include defending against the opposing team’s top line. “Rest is always important but at the same time when you get into a routine of playing every other day, it makes it easy to stay in the games and always be ready,” Brodie said. “Sometimes too much rest, it takes you 10 minutes or a period to get into the game and sometimes that’s too long and it’s too late.” With the tireless drive of a lead sled dog, Brodie has filled the void created by Giordano’s absence as a bedrock player at both ends of the ice. “He’s a world-class skater,” Hartley said. “He can log ice time. You ask T.J. and he probably wants more. He probably wants another 10-15 minutes. He never sweats, he’s never out of breath. “He’s that guy that can log lots of minutes, can play solid defensive hockey. This year, I saw a big, big progression in his willingness to jump into offence.” Giordano, a Norris Trophy candidate when he was hurt, underwent surgery on his bicep March 4. He is skating apart from his teammates but Hartley gave the impression the odds are long on Giordano returning later in the playoffs. “My longest shot is training camp,” the coach said.

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Ottawa Senators’ Milan Michalek tries to play the puck past Montreal Canadiens’ Carey Price during an NHL Stanley Cup playoff game, April 26, 2015, in Ottawa. After the Canadiens held on to eliminate Ottawa in the sixth game of their firstround playoff series, coach Michel Therrien said more than once that “it’s a good thing we had Carey Price on our side.”

Canadiens confident in any series with league-leader Price in goal BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — After the Montreal Canadiens held on to eliminate Ottawa in the sixth game of their first-round playoff series, coach Michel Therrien said more than once that “it’s a good thing we had Carey Price on our side.” Therrien said the same often this season as the Canadiens, a low-scoring squad that leans heavily on its goaltender, saw Price produce a career campaign that will probably earn him the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goalie but may also bring him the Hart Trophy as most valuable player. Price saved his best for last against Ottawa, posting a 43-save shutout in a 2-0 victory on Sunday night. He rebounded from allowing five goals in Game 5, which had given the Senators momentum that was crushed by Brendan Gallagher’s first-period goal and Price’s dominance in the net. “I had no doubt about Carey Price,” added Therrien. “I knew he was going

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to be the best player.” The win put Montral into the second round against either Detroit or Tampa Bay. Either way, the series is to start Friday night at the Bell Centre. The 27-year-old Price has been doing it all season, going 44-16-8 in 66 starts and leading the NHL in goalsagainst average (1.96) and save percentage (.933). His NHL-best 44 wins in a season was a team record, two more than the mark set by legends Jacques Plante (1956 and 1962) and Ken Dryden (1976). His nine shutouts were second in the league to Pittsburgh’s Marc-Andre Fleury. The six-foot-three Price was equally impressive deeper into the statistics pool. According to hockey-reference. com, his goals saved above average (saves made compared to the league average for goalies) was 36.70, well ahead of the next best, Minnesota’s Devan Dubnyk at 23.70.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● High school boys soccer: Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, 4:15 p.m. ● High school girls rugby: Rocky Mountain House at Notre Dame, Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, 4:30 p.m., Titans Park 1 and 2; Wetaskiwin at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.; Rimbey at Olds, 4:30 p.m. ● High school boys rugby: Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, Wetaskiwin at Rocky Mountain House, 6 p.m., Titans Park 1 and 2.

Thursday

● High school girls soccer: Central Alberta Christian at Notre Dame, 4:15 p.m. ● High school boys soccer: Sylvan Lake at Innisfail, 4:15 p.m.; Hunting Hills at Central Alberta Christian, 4:15 p.m., Michener Park.

Friday

● High school girls soccer: Hunting

Hockey Hills at Sylvan Lake, 4:15 p.m.; Lindsay Thurber at Lacombe, 4:15 p.m., MEGlobal Athletic Park. ● High school girls rugby: Wetaskiwin at Lindsay Thurber, 5 p.m., Titans Park 1.

Saturday

● Women’s first division rugby: Calgary Canadian Irish Club at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park. ● Men’s third division rugby:’ Calgary Saracens at Red Deer Titans 1:45 p.m., Titans Pakr. ● Men’s second divison rugby: Calgary Saracens at Red Deer Titans, 3:30 p.m., Titans Park. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Okotoks Ice at Lacoka Locos, 6:30 p.m., Ponoka.

Sunday

● Senior women’s lacrosse: Calgary Cougars at Red Deer Rage, 2:30 p.m. Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Edmonton Warriors at Red Deer Rampage, 5 p.m., Kinex.

Basketball NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 2, Brooklyn 2 Sunday, April 19: Atlanta 99, Brooklyn 92 Wednesday, April 22: Atlanta 96, Brooklyn 91 Saturday, April 25: Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 83 Monday, April 27: Brooklyn 120, Atlanta 115, OT Wednesday, April 29: Brooklyn at Atlanta, 5 p.m. Friday, May 1: Atlanta at Brooklyn, 6 p.m. x-Sunday, May 3: Brooklyn at Atlanta, 11 a.m. Cleveland 4, Boston 0 Sunday, April 19: Cleveland 113, Boston 100 Tuesday, April 21: Cleveland 99, Boston 91 Thursday, April 23: Cleveland 103, Boston 95 Sunday, April 26: Cleveland 101, Boston 93 Chicago 3, Milwaukee 2 Saturday, April 18: Chicago 103, Milwaukee 91 Monday, April 20: Chicago 91, Milwaukee 82 Thursday, April 23: Chicago 113, Milwaukee 106, 2OT Saturday. April 25: Milwaukee 92, Chicago 90 Monday, April 27: Milwaukee 94, Chicago 88 Thursday, April 30: Chicago at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. x-Saturday, May 2: Milwaukee at Chicago, 4:30, 6 or 7 p.m. Washington 4, Toronto 0 Saturday, April 18: Washington 93, Toronto 86, OT Tuesday, April 21: Washington 117, Toronto 106 Friday, April 24: Washington 106, Toronto 99 Sunday, April 26: Washington 125, Toronto 94 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, New Orleans 0

Saturday, April 18: Golden State 106, New Orleans 99 Monday, April 20: Golden State 97, New Orleans 87 Thursday, April 23: Golden State 123, New Orleans 119, OT Saturday, April 25: Golden State 109, New Orleans 98 Houston 4, Dallas 1 Saturday, April 18: Houston 118, Dallas 108 Tuesday, April 21: Houston 111, Dallas 99 Friday, April 24: Houston 130, Dallas 128 Sunday, April 26: Dallas 121, Houston 109 Tuesday, April 28: Houston 103, Dallas 94 San Antonio 2, L.A. Clippers 2 Sunday, April 19: L.A. Clippers 107, San Antonio 92 Wednesday, April 22: San Antonio 111, L.A. Clippers 107, OT Friday, April 24: San Antonio 100, L.A. Clippers 73 Sunday, April 26: L.A. Clippers 114, San Antonio 105 Tuesday, April 28: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, late Thursday, April 30: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m. x-Saturday, May 2: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 6 or 7 p.m. Memphis 3, Portland 1 Sunday, April 19: Memphis 100, Portland 86 Wednesday, April 22: Memphis 97, Portland 82 Saturday, April 25: Memphis 115, Portland 109 Monday, April 27: Portland 99, Memphis 92 Wednesday, April 29: Portland at Memphis, 7:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 1: Memphis at Portland, 8 or 8:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 3: Portland at Memphis, 1:30 p.m.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled OF Jackie Bradley Jr. from Pawtucket (IL). Optioned RHP Steven Wright to Pawtucket. HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed SS Jed Lowrie on the 15-day DL. NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Masahiro Tanaka on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Chase Whitley from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned INF Gregorio Petit to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Recalled INF Jonathan Villar from Fresno (PCL). TAMPA BAY RAYS — Activated LHP Xavier Cedeno. Designated LHP Everett Teaford for assignment. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed OF Carl Crawford on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF/OF Kike Hernandez from Oklahoma City (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled RHP A.J. Cole from Syracuse (IL). Optioned RHP Rafael Martin to Syracuse. American Association LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed LHP Moises Melendez. SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed OF Matty Johnson. Can-Am League SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed RHP Jamie Walczak, RHP Jason Postill and 1B Kenny Bryant. TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed OF Jon Smith and OF Sasha LaGarde. FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Exercised their fifth-year option on CB Stephon Gilmore. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Exercised their fifth-year options on CB Dre Kirkpatrick and G Kevin Zeitler. DENVER BRONCOS — Waived LB Quanterus Smith. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed RB Maurice Jones-Drew to a one-day contract and announced his retirement. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Agreed to terms with

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president Mark Donovan on a contract extension. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Announced DE Dion Jordan was suspended for the 2015 season for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse. TENNESSEE TITANS — Exercised their fifth-year option on WR Kendall Wright. Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed QB James Franklin and DE R.J. Roberts. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed OL Corey Lewis. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Detroit D Niklas Kronwall one game for charging Tampa Bay F Nikita Kucherov during an April 27 game. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned G Philipp Grubauer to Hershey (AHL). American Hockey League AHL — Suspended Toronto D Viktor Loov two games for receiving a match penalty for an illegal check to the head of an opponent during an April 26 game. LACROSSE National Lacrosse League BUFFALO BANDITS — Activated G Davide Diruscio from injured reserve. Placed G Kurtis Wagar on the retired list. COLLEGE BUTLER — Named Ryan Pedon men’s assistant basketball coach. COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY — Named Matthew Goldsmith men’s basketball coach. ETSU — Named Brian Collins men’s assistant basketball coach. FLAGLER — Named Dana Wieller women’s assistant basketball coach. HOUSTON — Named Hunter Yurachek vice-president for intercollegiate athletics and athletic director. SETON HALL — Announced men’s senior basketball G Sterling Gibbs is leaving the team. VIRGINIA UNION — Named Jay Butler, Jr., men’s basketball coach.

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HABS: Best player every night Another stat tracks how many extra points a player earns his team in a season. Price led the league with 16.2, a couple ahead of New Jersey’s Corey Schneider and Washington’s Braden Holtby. The Canadiens had three of the top 20 in that category, with defenceman P.K. Subban eighth at 12.4

(Calgary wins series 4-2) Wednesday, April 15 Calgary 2 Vancouver 1 Friday, April 17 Vancouver 4 Calgary 1 Sunday, April 19 Calgary 4 Vancouver 2 Tuesday, April 21 Calgary 3 Vancouver 1 Thursday, April 23 Vancouver 2 Calgary 1 Saturday, April 25 Calgary 7 Vancouver 4

Washington 4 NY Islanders 3 Sunday, April 19 NY Islanders 2 Washington 1 (OT) Tuesday, April 21 Washington 2 NY Islanders 1 (OT) Thursday, April 23 Washington 5 NY Islanders 1 Saturday, April 25 NY Islanders 3 Washington 1 Monday, April 27 Washington 2 NY Islanders 1

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal (1) vs. Ottawa (WC) (Montreal wins series 4-2) Wednesday, April 15 Montreal 4 Ottawa 3 Friday, April 17 Montreal 3 Ottawa 2 (OT) Sunday, April 19 Montreal 2 Ottawa 1 (OT) Wednesday, April 22 Ottawa 1 Montreal 0 Friday, April 24 Ottawa 5 Montreal 1 Sunday, April 26 Montreal 2 Ottawa 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Minnesota wins series 4-2) Thursday, April 16 Minnesota 4 St. Louis 2 Saturday, April 18 St. Louis 4 Minnesota 1 Monday, April 20 Minnesota 3 St. Louis 0 Wednesday, April 22 St. Louis 6 Minnesota 1 Friday, April 24 Minnesota 4 St. Louis 1 Sunday, April 26 Minnesota 4 St. Louis 1

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Detroit leads series 3-2) Thursday, April 16 Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, April 18 Tampa Bay 5 Detroit 1 Tuesday, April 21 Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 0 Thursday, April 23 Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 2 (OT) Saturday, April 25 Detroit 4 Tampa Bay 0 Monday, April 27 Tampa Bay 5 Detroit 2 Wednesday, April 29 Detroit at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

WHL PLAYOFFS THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7) Brandon (E1) vs. Calgary (C1) (Brandon leads series 2-1) Friday, Apr. 24 Brandon 9 Calgary 4 Saturday, Apr. 25 Brandon 3 Calgary 2 (OT) Tuesday, Apr. 28 Calgary 2 Brandon 1 (OT) Wednesday, Apr. 29 Brandon at Calgary, 7 p.m. Friday, May. 1 Calgary at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May. 3 x-Brandon at Calgary, 4 p.m. Tuesday, May. 5 x-Calgary at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Nashville (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago wins series 4-2) Wednesday, April 15 Chicago 4 Nashville 3 (2OT) Friday, April 17 Nashville 6 Chicago 2 Sunday, April 19 Chicago 4 Nashville 2 Tuesday, April 21 Chicago 3 Nashville 2 (3OT) Thursday, April 23 Nashville 5 Chicago 2 Saturday, April 25 Chicago 4 Nashville 3

N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Pittsburgh (WC) (N.Y. Rangers wins series 4-1) Thursday, April 16 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1 Saturday, April 18 Pittsburgh 4 NY Rangers 3 Monday, April 20 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday, April 22 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1 (OT) Friday, April 24 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1 (OT)

Kelowna (BC1) vs. Portland (US2) (Series tied 1-1) Friday, Apr. 24 Kelowna 3 Portland 2 Saturday, Apr. 25 Portland 3 Kelowna 2 Tuesday, Apr. 28 Kelowna at Portland, late Wednesday, Apr. 29 Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m. Friday, May. 1 Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, May. 3 x-Kelowna at Portland, 6 p.m. Tuesday, May. 5 x-Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

Anaheim (1) vs. Winnipeg (WC) (Anaheim wins series 4-0) Thursday, April 16 Anaheim 4 Winnipeg 2 Saturday, April 18 Anaheim 2 Winnipeg 1 Monday, April 20 Anaheim 5 Winnipeg 4 (OT) Wednesday, April 22 Anaheim 5 Winnipeg 2

Washington (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (3) (Washington wins series 4-3) Wednesday, April 15 NY Islanders 4 Washington 1 Friday, April 17

Vancouver (2) vs. Calgary (3)

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 13 8 .619 Boston 11 10 .524 Tampa Bay 11 10 .524 Toronto 10 11 .476 Baltimore 9 10 .474

GB — 2 2 3 3

Kansas City Detroit Chicago Minnesota Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 14 6 .700 14 7 .667 8 9 .471 9 11 .450 6 13 .316

GB — 1/2 4 1/2 5 7 1/2

Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland Texas

West Division W L Pct 12 7 .632 9 11 .450 9 11 .450 9 12 .429 7 13 .350

GB — 3 1/2 3 1/2 4 5 1/2

Monday’s Games Kansas City 6, Cleveland 2 Boston 6, Toronto 5 N.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 1 Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, ppd., public safety Seattle 3, Texas 1 Detroit 5, Minnesota 4 Houston 9, San Diego 4 Tuesday’s Games Kansas City 11, Cleveland 5 Toronto 11, Boston 8 N.Y. Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 2 Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, ppd., public safety Seattle 2, Texas 1 Minnesota 3, Detroit 2 Oakland 6, L.A. Angels 2 Houston at San Diego, late Wednesday’s Games

Tampa Bay (Smyly 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 3-0), 11:05 a.m. Detroit (Greene 3-1) at Minnesota (P.Hughes 0-4), 11:10 a.m. Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 1-1) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 1-1), 12:05 p.m. Houston (Keuchel 2-0) at San Diego (Cashner 1-3), 1:40 p.m. Kansas City (Ventura 2-1) at Cleveland (Salazar 2-0), 4:10 p.m. Toronto (Dickey 0-2) at Boston (Porcello 1-2), 4:10 p.m. Seattle (F.Hernandez 3-0) at Texas (W.Rodriguez 0-0), 6:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-1) at Oakland (Hahn 1-1), 8:05 p.m. Thursday’s Games L.A. Angels at Oakland, 1:35 p.m. Toronto at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. Detroit at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. Seattle at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia Washington

National League East Division W L Pct 15 6 .714 10 10 .500 9 12 .429 8 13 .381 8 13 .381

GB — 4 1/2 6 7 7

St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 13 6 .684 12 7 .632 11 10 .524 10 10 .500 4 17 .190

GB — 1 3 3 1/2 10

Los Angeles Colorado San Diego

West Division W L Pct 12 7 .632 11 8 .579 11 10 .524

Arizona San Francisco

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11 12

.421 .400

4 4 1/2

Monday’s Games Cincinnati 9, Milwaukee 6 N.Y. Mets 3, Miami 1 Atlanta 8, Washington 4 Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 1 Colorado 5, Arizona 4 Houston 9, San Diego 4 L.A. Dodgers 8, San Francisco 3 Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati 4, Milwaukee 2 Miami 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Washington 13, Atlanta 12 Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 5 Colorado at Arizona, late Houston at San Diego, late San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, late Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee (Garza 1-3) at Cincinnati (Leake 0-1), 10:35 a.m. Houston (Keuchel 2-0) at San Diego (Cashner 1-3), 1:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 4-0) at Miami (Latos 0-3), 5:10 p.m. Washington (Zimmermann 1-2) at Atlanta (A.Wood 1-0), 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Cole 3-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-0), 6:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Harang 2-1) at St. Louis (C.Martinez 2-0), 6:15 p.m. Colorado (Lyles 2-1) at Arizona (Collmenter 1-3), 7:40 p.m. San Francisco (Vogelsong 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 3-0), 8:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games Philadelphia at St. Louis, 11:45 a.m. Cincinnati at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

GB — 1 2

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KIRK GIBSON

Forward Konnor Green of Springbrook will suit up with Team South Black in the inaugural Hockey Alberta ATP Peewee Prospects Cup May 7-10 at Olds. The first-year event is for male athletes born in 2002 and will feature a tournament format along with off-ice sessions focusing on the principles of long term player development. Eight teams — two selected from players attending each of four regional camps held April 17-19 — will compete in the tournament.

Kirk Gibson has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The 1988 National League MVP revealed the news Tuesday in a statement released by Fox Sports Detroit. “I have faced many different obstacles in my life, and have always maintained a strong belief that no matter the circumstances, I could overcome those obstacles,” Gibson said. “While this diagnosis poses a new kind of challenge for me, I intend to stay true to my beliefs. With the support of my family and friends, I will meet this challenge with the same determination and unwavering intensity that I have displayed in all of my endeavours in life. I look forward to being back at the ballpark as soon as possible.”

and left-winger Max Pacioretty 19th at 10.9. Some of it stems from playing behind a team with limited firepower up front, although he gets help from a squad that plays a strong defensive game. The Canadiens scored 221 goals in the regular season, tied with Pittsburgh for last among the 16 playoff teams. Their power play was 23rd in the league with a 16.5 per cent success rate, which got worse at 1-for-20 in six games against Ottawa. They were 22nd in the league in time of possession of the puck at 48.6 per cent.

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Despite the numbers, Montreal had a 50-22-10 season for 110 points, second overall to the New York Rangers. Much of that had to do with Price, who conceded two or fewer goals in 44 of his 66 games. The apex came in late January, when he posted consecutive 1-0 wins over the Rangers and Washington. “He’s the best player every night, he’s the best player on our team,” said Pacioretty. “It’s always the last worry on our minds, how Carey Price is going to play. “He’s the best competitor I’ve ever seen.” Ottawa scored 12 times on Price

in the series, including five on power plays. But the main story was the Senators’ goalies. Andrew Hammond, who led Ottawa into the playoffs with a dramatic run over the final two months of the season, was ordinary in losing the opening two games. Veteran Craig Anderson took over and was all-but unbeatable in stretching the series to six games. Then the Canadiens turned to a familiar formula, grinding out a lowscoring win in front of a spectacular performance from Price. The Canadiens got two days off after the series and resume practices on Wednesday.

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Blue Jays’ bats blow up on Red Sox BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista hits an RBI single in the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox Tuesday, in Boston.

Blue Jays 11 Red Sox 8 BOSTON — Brett Cecil got the promotion. Marco Estrada got the outs that mattered. Entering the game in the fifth inning with nobody out and the bases loaded, Estrada pitched three innings of hitless ball and helped the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 11-8 on Tuesday night. “I want to keep going out there,” Estrada said after helping the Blue Jays snap a four-game losing streak. “Whatever opportunities I can get.” Josh Donaldson had three hits, including a homer, and Kevin Pillar also had three of Toronto’s 17 hits. Jose Bautista had an RBI in the five-run third inning, another in a three-run fourth and then added a homer. Cecil pitched the ninth for his first save. A day after rookie Miguel Castro gave up a walkoff single, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons moved Cecil back into the closer’s role. But when the Red Sox threatened in the fifth, Estrada (1-0) shut them down. “He’s very valuable,” Gibbons said, adding that an ankle injury in spring training made it difficult to fit Estrada into a role. “We didn’t really know what we had.” Toronto starter Drew Hutchison gave up four runs in the second, then the Blue Jays took a 9-5 lead before he ran into trouble again in the fifth. Pablo Sandoval, who had four hits in the game, singled to lead off the inning, then Daniel Nava and Brock Holt walked to load the bases. Estrada struck out Xander Bogaerts and retired Ryan Hanigan on a line drive before walking in a run. Estrada then got Dustin Pedroia on a groundout to end the fifth, and allowed only

one walk over the next two innings. “We lost four in a row. We obviously needed something,” Estrada said. “Our offence came alive.” Boston starter Clay Buchholz (1-3) was given a 4-0 lead but gave it right back, allowing five in the top of the third. Buchholz got just eight outs while allowing five runs — four earned — on six hits and a walk while striking out four. “Whenever your team gives you a four-run lead you’re supposed to come out a lot better than that,” he said. “I’ve got to do a better job than that.” The Blue Jays led 10-6 when Aaron Loup struck out Mookie Betts and Pedroia to start the eighth. But David Ortiz doubled, and Hanley Ramirez hit his 200th career homer to make it 108, then Pablo Sandoval singled — his fourth hit of the game. Liam Hendriks got Allen Craig on a first-pitch one-hopper back to the mound to end the inning. Donaldson added a solo homer in the ninth to make it 11-8. TAKE YOUR BASE Red Sox reliever Edward Mujica committed two balks in the fourth inning. The Blue Jays also had three hits and two walks in the inning to score three times and make it 8-4. “It’s something you don’t see often. A rarity,” Red Sox manager John Farrell said “A guy who’s probably not done that in his career.” SPRING STRENGTH Ramirez’s homer was his fourth in five games, giving him nine for the season. He is the third player in Red Sox history to have nine homers before the month of May, joining David Ortiz (10 in 2006) and Manny Ramirez (nine in 2001). UP NEXT The teams complete their threegame series on Wednesday. RHP R.A. Dickey (0-2) will face RHP Rick Porcello (1-2).

Ujiri not going rush decisions on Raptors BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The wounds are still fresh, the disappointment still burns. Just two days after the Toronto Raptors were “punched in the face” by the Washington Wizards, GM Masai Ujiri said he’ll take some time determining the direction of the squad — including the fate of coach Dwane Casey — rather than make changes when emotions are high. “Everybody is going to be held accountable, everybody is going to be evaluated,” Ujiri said Tuesday. “There’s no doomsday here, honestly. This is not as dramatic as we are making it. “It’s just that we want to win here, we want to keep building. I think the process is you sometimes get kicked in the face and we got kicked in the face and now we have to go back to the drawing board.” Toronto was humiliated in a fourgame opening-round sweep by Washington, culminating in Sunday night’s 125-94 rout. It was a “disappointing” ending to a season that had several

positives, said Ujiri, who proceeded to list them off: A second straight Atlantic Division title, a franchise-record 49 wins, an NBA Sixth Man of the Year in Lou Williams, an all-star in Kyle Lowry and a great fan base. “Coach Casey has created or helped create a good culture here. . .,” Ujiri said. “The base is very good for us and he’s a big part of our base.” Of one thing Ujiri is certain, he won’t be cursing in public anytime soon. The GM was fined by the NBA for the second straight playoffs after he swore in reference to Paul Pierce when addressing fans in Maple Leaf Square. Ujiri was fined US$35,000 and the Raptors an additional US$25,000. “I’m a competitor and I’m not going to back down. . . it was my way of supporting our team, supporting our organization, our fan base, which is something I’ll always do,” Ujiri said. “Was it stupid that I went out there and said that? I apologize for cursing. I got scolded by the (NBA) commissioner, I got scolded by my wife, I got scolded by (Hall of Famer) Wayne Embry, and I tell you what, I’m not going to do it again.

Jon Jones stripped of UFC title, indefinitely suspended BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

2012 after crashing his Bentley into a telephone pole in Binghamton, New York. He had his driver’s license suspended after being charged with DWI, but did no jail time. Last August, Jones and Cormier were involved in a brawl in the lobby of the MGM Grand casino while appearing at a promotional event. Jones was fined $50,000 and ordered to do community service by the Nevada Athletic Commission. In early December, Jones tested positive for metabolites of cocaine while training. Jones was allowed to compete because the test was conducted out of competition, and he beat Cormier at UFC 182. When the failed drug test became public, Jones publicly apologized for a “mistake,” but spent just one day in a drug rehabilitation centre before checking himself out. Jones has defended his belt eight times since becoming the youngest champion in UFC history in March 2011.

Jon Jones has been stripped of his UFC light heavyweight title and suspended indefinitely following his arrest in New Mexico on a hit-and-run that police say left a pregnant woman with a broken arm. The UFC announced the penalties Tuesday night for violations of its athlete code of conduct policy. Jones was scheduled to face No. 1 contender Anthony Johnson at UFC 187 in Las Vegas on May 23. Instead, No. 3 contender Daniel Cormier will face Johnson for the title. Earlier Tuesday in Albuquerque, Jones made his first court appearance. The 27-year-old fighter appeared with his lawyer and left without speaking to reporters. He’s facing a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving death or personal injuries. Jones was released Monday on a $2,500 bond. A judge did not impose travel restrictions on Jones. According to police, witnesses said that Jones ran from a crash Sunday that hospitalized the pregnant woman but quickly came back to grab “a large handful of cash” from the car. Authorities say the accident occurred in southeastern Albuquerque when the driver of a rented SUV ran a red light. Officers found a pipe with marijuana in the SUV as well as MMA and • Bluetooth Handsfree • Mobile Video rental car documents in • GPS Navigation Systems • Remote Starters Jones’ name, according to the police report. • CERTIFIED INSTALLERS Widely considered the world’s best poundfor-pound mixed martial artist, Jones (21-1) has endured legal problems and questionable behaviour as champion. Jones was arrested in

“I think I’ve learned my lesson, and our focus is not me honestly. That’s the part I regret.” Ujiri was prompted by Pierce’s preplayoff comment that the Raptors don’t have “it.” The GM praised Pierce for his passion. “I knew who Paul Pierce is, he’s a killer, he’s one of those that you want on your team,” Ujiri said. “He’s oldschool, I believe in those old-school guys, those guys, they are phenomenal. They want to cut your head off.” Ujiri has to wish he had more of that mentality on his team down the stretch. Lowry went from being the team’s heart and soul to a shell of himself down the stretch. Ujiri believes having to carry the squad through DeMar DeRozan’s groin injury was costly. “I think when DeMar got hurt, Kyle used so much energy in carrying this team in those three months,” he said. “You run out of gas.” Ujiri remains in full support of his point guard. “I have no doubt in my mind 100 per cent he’s going to come back to being Kyle Lowry being the fierce com-

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Henderson qualifies for Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout golf event BY THE CANADIAN PRESS IRVING, Texas — Canadian Brooke Henderson played her way into the field for the US$1.3-million Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout golf tournament Tuesday. The native of Smiths Falls, Ont., secured a spot in the LPGA Tour event with a birdie on the second playoff hole of the qualifier. Henderson, 17, carded a 1-under 70 despite having to come back Tuesday to finish her last five holes. Heather Bowie Young won the qualifier by shooting a 68. Henderson finished tied for second with Nicole Jeray, Erica Popson and Portland Rosen, resulting in a playoff to decide the second qualifying spot. Henderson said she was surprised her score was enough to make the playoff. “I thought I was out, so I was happy

petitive player playing at the level he played not only at the first half of this season, but he did it all last year,” he said. “(I am) even more confident because we know the give and take, what we have and what we don’t have, what we need to work on. We know who Kyle is. “We know what the goods and the bads are.” Ujiri said he’s excited about what both this off-season and next off-season hold. “I couldn’t tell you what’s going to come our way this year. July is going to be very telling,” he said. “We have continued to study the free agent class in 2016, studying the money in 2016, our flexibility. It’s a good time for us — that’s the best way to put it. I think we’re putting ourselves in a good position. “It’s very important that our franchise and our team becomes relevant. We want to build a good culture that will attract players to come play here.” Landry Fields, Amir Johnson, Greg Stiemsma, Tyler Hansbrough, Chuck Hayes and Lou Williams are Toronto’s unrestricted free agents. when I found out I had the chance.,” she said. The Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout begins Thursday at Las Colinas Country Club. Henderson, in her first full season on the LPGA Tour, finished third Sunday in the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic to earn $132,721. It marked Henderson’s second ’15 event after she finished tied for 33rd in the Pure SilkBahamas LPGA Classic on Feb. 8. But playing in the Swinging Skirts event resulted in a whirlwind for the Canadian, whose flight to the qualifier from San Francisco was delayed until early Monday morning. And when Henderson finally landed in Texas, she went immediately to the course. “I mean, it’s cool, and it’s all part of it, where I am this year, not really playing the Tour consistently, like a full schedule,” she said. “I’m sort of all over and doing different things. Just the whole part of the experience, and I’m glad I was able to do both things.” Henderson opened the Swinging Skirts event impressively, with round of 70, 65 and 72 over the par72, 6,507-yard Lake Merced Golf Club course. Her two-round 135 total was a tournament record but Henderson carded a final-round 2-over 74 on Sunday to settle for third.

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RED DEER PLOTS ITS GROWTH STRATEGY TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF To avoid a land shortage and set the stage for future budgets, Red Deer city council has earmarked two areas for concurrent land development. On Monday, council directed administration to develop a policy based on integrated decision-making principles for a future growth strategy. The principles include maintaining a balanced land supply, prioritizing and sequencing, monitoring and analysis, financing and funding, service delivery and budgeting. The doors for development were also opened to the north and northeast of Hwy 11A, and east of the future 20th Avenue. Mayor Tara Veer said the principles are basically looking at growth through the important pillars. She said this

approach makes for a more sustainable Red Deer on a number of fronts. She said the shift to concurrent development from subsequent development is financially and environmentally viable. “That allows us to build in competitiveness in our market and also consumer choices,” said Veer. Currently, the city has a five-year land supply and it takes about two years to service the land for development. In order to begin servicing the growth area, administration will ask council for direction in the 2016 and 2017 budgets to ensure land is ready for development in 2019. City manager Craig Curtis said the city has done a traffic impact assessment and detailed costing on the area north of Hwy 11A. Curtis said developers have proposed the large portion of the area

will be residential as opposed to commercial. “We will grow to the east, northeast and to the north simultaneously, depending on development agreements,” he said. “That will allow maximum flexibility and essentially it will be the demand that determines at what speed growth in the north and east will happen.” The city monitors its land supply on an annual basis to assess the impacts and to avoid a land shortage. Coun. Dianne Wyntjes raised the point that the city did not reach its land sale budgets in 2014. But Curtis said the city will probably exceed the budget in 2015, when the areas comes on sale. “We believe by growing to the north and the northeast, it will increase the ability of developers to compete with each other,” said Curtis. “We think that’s a plus because it

will bring other players into the market.” The city found itself in a tough situation when it ran out of industrial land in 2007. “Although there were projections that we would need that land, they were thwarted at the time by competition with (Red Deer County) and the inability to annex in a timely way,” said Curtis. “Fortunately with the partnership with the county today and the Intermunicipal Development Plan, we have been able to annex sufficient land in a compatible way with the county.” Elaine Vincent, director of Development Services, said the city has a responsibility to ensure there’s enough land supply in the different areas to meet the growth, and to prioritize and sequence growth, including external land and redevelopment. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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As a female forages under the surface of Gaetz Lakes, a male mallard duck has a look around. There are several areas in the Gaetz Lake Sanctuary at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre in Red Deer where it is easy to get a close look at waterfowl, muskrat and beaver. Deer and moose can also be spotted on a regular basis.

Man forced down chute during hotel incident; guest arrested A rowdy hotel guest who whacked a Black Knight Inn employee with a metal pipe and forced another to jump down the laundry chute on Tuesday will have his day in court. The suspect’s name, final charges and court appearance date are expected to be released on Wednesday, once the charges against him have been sworn before the courts. Just before 9 a.m., Red Deer RCMP responded to call of a potential forcible confinement situation at the hotel on 2929 50th Ave. in Red Deer. About eight police cars responded, including dog services. Police say a 30-year-old Edmonton man was extremely intoxicated and became aggressive with two male staff. The suspect allegedly hit one man with a metal pipe and forced another to jump down the laundry chute from the second floor. Both victims were treated for minor injuries at the hospital and have been released. The suspect was arrested on the second floor. He is being held in custody. He faces charges of aggravated assault, unlawful confinement and mischief over $5,000. The suspect was staying at the hotel with several other people who were not involved with the incident.

‘Stupid’ carjacking attempt puts man in jail for 105 days BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A “stupid and immature” attempted carjacking that a Crown prosecutor called feeble has landed a Red Deer man in jail for the next three months. An apologetic Jacob Victor Dennis, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of robbery in Red Deer provincial court before Judge Jim Hunter. With his head in his hands, Dennis listened on Tuesday to the facts read into the record by Crown prosecutor Carolyn Ayre. On April 20, Dennis was in the parking lot of the Best Buy in Southpointe Common, at 5001 19th St. in Red Deer, and approached a man standing beside his car. Dennis demanded the keys to the car and when the man refused, Dennis produced a knife and threatened the man. The keys were immediately

handed over to Dennis. Then the man began waving and yelling to draw attention to nearby witnesses, catching the attention of two Best Buy employees. As this was occurring, a Red Deer RCMP member entered the parking lot on a different call. The Best Buy employees and the victim tried to get the attention of the police officer to let him know about the attempted car jacking. The officer chased after Dennis, telling him to stop and identifying himself as a police officer. While running, the officer saw the knife that Dennis threatened the victim with. During the chase, Dennis threw the knife away. The officer picked it up and continued pursuit. Dennis also threw away the keys he had taken. The officer ultimately arrested Dennis at gunpoint. While walking Dennis to his police vehicle, the officer picked up the keys, which were identified as

belonging to the victim. Ayre sought a four-to-six-month sentence. Amna Qureshi, counsel for Dennis, said drugs and mental health issues played a role in the incident. He told the court that Dennis was remorseful. Dennis apologized to Hunter for the incident. “What I did was stupid and immature,” he said. “I’ve shamed my entire family.” Qureshi suggested a sentence of three months, citing the early guilty plea — within nine days of his arrest. Hunter settled on a sentence of 105 days, less two weeks credit for time served in custody. That leaves Dennis with 91 days to serve. Hunter also banned Dennis from Southpointe Common for 12 months and he was told not to have contact with the witnesses or victim, ordered to provide a DNA sample and given a five-year weapons prohibition. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Woman admits to defrauding Blue Cross BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF For more than three years, a Red Deer massage therapist played a significant role in a fraud operation, bilking Alberta Blue Cross of more than $17,000. Donna Nast, 41, of Red Deer pleaded guilty to one count of fraud over $5,000 for her part in an insurance fraud scam on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court before Judge Jim Hunter. Court was told that she and another accused woman, employed at Olymel,

used fraudulent forms to claim money for massages that never happened. The fraud claims were submitted between Jan. 1, 2007, and Jan. 30, 2010. Employees at Olymel in Red Deer receive a benefit package that includes $500 per year for massages. Crown prosecutor Carolyn Ayre said a woman employed by Olymel recruited a number of employees and would help them complete Alberta Blue Cross claim forms for massages they did not receive. Nast would create false receipts under the name of real massage therapists and those would be submitted to the second accused before being

submitted to Alberta Blue Cross for reimbursement. When an employee received the cheque, reimbursing them for the massage they never received, the employee kept 40 per cent of the proceeds while Nast and the second accused split the remaining 60 per cent, court heard. Ayre said an internal audit by Alberta Blue Cross said 139 employees made false claims through this scheme. However, RCMP only interviewed 44 employees. As a result, Crown prosecutors are only able to prove the allegation for a smaller number of employees. Represented by defence counsel

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Patty MacNaughton, Nast admitted to 35 claims totalling $17,500 stolen in the scheme. MacNaughton requested a pre-sentence report before Nast’s sentence is handed down. Sentencing was adjourned to July 17 in Red Deer provincial court. Noralyn Zadrozny, 42, of Red Deer is charged with fraud over $5,000 and using a forged document. Her next court date is June 3 in Red Deer provincial court. The maximum penalty under the Criminal Code for fraud over $5,000 is 14 years in custody. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Red Deer River basin subject of new review A meeting to take a look at how a river program developed in the Netherlands is being applied to the Red Deer River basin will take place at an upcoming in Red Deer. The working session will see the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance and Red Deer Municipal Users Group working with Alberta WaterSMART on their Room for the River program. The Room for the River work in the Red Deer River basin adapts the Dutch program to the Alberta context and builds on a pilot in the Bow River basin to identify and consider potential flood mitigation options. It looks at reducing the vulnerability of people and infrastructure while improving the overall environmental quality of the river. The outcome is intended to offer advice to the Alberta government and suggestions for a potential broader program. The rivers that are included in the current scope of work include the Red Deer River from the headwaters to just downstream of Drumheller, Little Red Deer River, James River, Medicine River, Raven River, Bearberry Creek and Fallentimber Creek. For more information on Room for the River, go to www.ruimtevoorderivier.nl/english and on the Bow River report go to albertawater.com/albertawater-blog/2572-public-feedback-roomfor-the-river-pilot-in-the-bow-riverbasin. The Red Deer meeting is May 8, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the Radisson Hotel at 6500 67th St. To register, go to eventbrite.com/ event/16540287445.

Family dance on May 8 at Red Deer’s Festival Hall Families can kick up their heels at a family dance at Festival Hall on May 8. The event will feature live music from JukeBox Rock, two dance lessons, games and fun for the whole family. The dance starts at 7 p.m. at 4214 58th St. in Red Deer. This is the second family dance night sponsored by Country Pride Dance Club, Red Deer Arts Council, Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society, the City of Red Deer and Peavey Mart. Hot dogs, pie and ice cream will be available for purchase. Tickets are available at the door or online at www.countrypridedanceclub. ca. Tickets are $10 for adults, $20 for a family, $5 for a youth. Service charges

will be added. For more details, call 403-342-5111 or email info@countrypridedanceclub. ca.

Decadent desserts offered as part of Aspire fundraiser Sweet treats are on the menu at the Evening of Decadent Desserts on May 8. The fundraiser for Aspire Special Needs Resource is at 5:30 p.m. at Parkland Pavilion. The event includes a champagne reception, dinner, silent auction and live auction for decadent cakes and travel packages and experiences. Tickets are $100 each or $750 for a table of eight. For more information, visit www. aspirespecialneeds.ca or call 403-3402606

Bower tree planting set for May 9 The Bower Community Association invites people to help plant evergreen seedlings in the community on May 9. The Fun Tree Planting Bee is to keep Bower green and to promote community spirit. The even runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. along the Bower Creek pathways. Meet at the Bower Community Hall at 9:15 a.m. Volunteers are asked to bring gloves and personal water bottle for their use. All other materials and seedlings will be provided. For more information, call Larry Barabonoff at 403-347-6994.

Only Women’s Fitness fun run set for May 9 Daughters, moms, and grandmothers are encouraged to run in the Only Women’s Fitness Fun Run on May 9. The all-female run features 10-km, five-km, three-km and one-km distances. There will also be a 500-metre little ladies race and a 100-metre diaper dash for toddlers. Race fees range from $10 to $45 depending on the age and race. Participants can also collect pledges for the Women’s Outreach. All donations over $10 are tax deductible. For more details on the event and costs, go to www.onlywomensrd.ca/funrun. The event will start at 9 a.m. at River Bend Golf Course. There will be $10,000 in prizes. The day includes a women’s expo, children’s activities, and music.

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Machete, bear spray used in holdup; two charged An 18-year-old man faces forcible confinement and weapons-related charges after a machete and bear spray were used in a robbery early Monday morning in Eastview. A staff member was assaulted during the robbery at 4:37 a.m. at Express 24 Foodmart on Erickson Drive. Red Deer RCMP arrived on scene, catching two suspects taking cash from the till after assaulting a staff member. A 17-year-old youth also faces charges in the incident. The second staff member in the store was able to call police when he saw two men enter the store wearing bandanas over their faces and carrying machetes. The first staff member was sprayed with bear spray and was treated by EMS for minor physical injuries. The second staff member was not injured. The two male suspects were taken into custody by police without further incident. Aaron Bull, 18, of Red Deer is charged with two counts of forcible confinement, robbery with a weapon, possession of weapon for dangerous purpose, possession of a prohibited weapon, two counts of assault with a weapon and wearing a disguise with intent to commit a crime. Bull appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday. Escorted into the courthouse by a Red Deer RCMP member in white coveralls, Bull was held in custody by the officer before being turned over to Alberta Sheriffs and taken to the Red Deer Remand Centre. The Crown elected to proceed by indictment, which upon conviction carries greater penalties. Bull reserved his plea to seek counsel. He will next appear in Red Deer provincial court on May 6. The second male, a 17-year-old who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been charged with nine similar charges. The youth appears on Thursday in youth court in Red Deer.

Pedicabs could be coming to Sylvan Lake soon. The three-wheeled, human-powered taxis are popular in many resort communities and Sylvan town council has been considering them for some time. Last summer, staff were asked to provide background on why pedicabs and rickshaws had been rejected in the past. In March, further information was requested on how to go about regulating pedicabs, with and without advertising on them. Rickshaws were not supported. RCMP and the town’s municipal enforcement officers are against pedicabs because of safety and traffic issues. However, some councillors have mused they could be a popular addition to the lakeshore area. If pedicabs are to be allowed, the business licensing bylaw must be changed to accommodate them. Regulations would have to be designed to address areas of operation, qualifications and screening of operators, parking, solicitation, fares, advertising, liability and other operational issues. Staff suggested that four-wheeled bicycles, which are already allowed, be included in a revamped bylaw, expected to come back to council on June 8.

Airshed management zone meeting set for Big Valley Parkland Airshed Management Zone takes its public meeting to Big Valley on May 13. Anyone who wishes to comment on air quality issues can attend the meeting that runs from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the Jubilee Hall Annex located at 36 Main St. Suggestions and expressions of concern will determine the locations where PAMZ will conduct air quality monitoring in 2016. For more information about PAMZ, go to www.pamz.org or call Kevin Warren at 403-862-7046. PAMZ is a multi-stakeholder nonprofit group that consists of industry, government, environmental organizations and the general public. It was formed in 1997 to monitor and manage air quality within the Parkland Region, which extends from Three Hills to the B.C. border and from Crossfield in the south to Ponoka in the north.

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By Glen Trefanenko of Trefko Safety Services Regardless if we call events causing injuries and/or property damages “incidents or accidents”, companies expect their personnel to report them all. Regardless, incidents and accidents are not always being reported but far fewer near misses are being reported compared to the amount that are being experienced. A near miss is an unplanned event that did not result in injury or damage, but had the potential to do so. Only a fortunate break in the chain of events prevented damage or an injury. Incident pyramid theories, which started in the 1930’s and illustrate that for every fatality or major damage as a result of an event, which is represented on the top, there would be several near misses which are represented at the bottom of the pyramid. Regardless what the near miss total number is they are occurring and in many cases without any thought of reporting them. Some people may say that nothing was damaged or no one was hurt so why report. The way to look at it is that if you can prevent an occurrence from happening that would cause damage or injury, why wouldn’t you. When investigating events that cause damage and/or injuries, you are looking to determine the causes so that corrections to prevent recurrence may be established and put into place. If the root (basic) cause of an event causing serious injury and/or damage was determined to be “the non-reporting or improper investigation of a near miss”, I am sure that the persons involved in the near miss would be second guessing their decision to not report the near miss in the first place. If you are involved in a near miss, report it because you may be saving a life. If we are using the same piece of equipment or completing the same tasks day after day, we may get complacent in understanding the current and potential hazards and the risks that they present. Since we may have learnt that there is a certain way to operate a piece of equipment because it has not been operating properly for some time, we may sometimes not think twice about reporting this as a near miss or having the equipment repaired. Because of this, if someone is new to your work area or has not used the piece of equipment that you may operate every day, you may be putting them in harms way without even knowing it. So even if you are familiar with a piece of equipment that is not working properly, have it repaired for your safety and the next person that may use it before an event occurs. As the result of a work place near miss, the involved worker is given the opportunity to prevent a similar event that may injure a person or cause property damage. This opportunity is created by properly reporting and documenting the near miss. It does not end there as the company has to follow-up by properly investigating the near miss, determining the causes then developing and putting into place, corrective actions to prevent recurrence. Everyone has to ensure that a near miss is used as a tool to prevent events that cause injury and/or property damage by reporting and investigating such events then by establishing, communicating and following corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

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Workers spend roughly eight hours at their workplaces each day, and many workers must be careful to avoid injury over the course of a typical workday.

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Overexertion

Overexertion can lead to various musculoskeletal injuries, including sprains, muscle pulls and tears. Heavy lifting and lowering of items affects the back, which is the part of the body most often injured on the job. Workers should not push their bodies to extremes. Braces and other supports can protect the back, shoulders and other vulnerable body parts from injury. Lifting should always be done with the legs and not the back. Falling on wet and slippery floors or tripping over something on a floor is another common workplace injury. While many falls occur on level surfaces, falls from elevated areas, such as ladders and stairways, also can occur. Spills should be mopped up promptly and caution signage should be used on slippery surfaces. Workers should wear the right footwear for the job and environment.

Reaction injuries

These involve trauma to the body from slipping and tripping without actually falling. It can be difficult to prevent these types of injuries, but always being aware of your surroundings can reduce your risk for reaction injuries.

Falling object injuries

Workers can be injured by falling objects. These injuries are most common in warehouses or construction sites. Proper protective gear, such as helmets and hard hats, can keep employees safe, as can maintaining a hazard-free environment.

Vehicular accidents

Automotive accidents can lead to injuries for workers who must drive as part of their job. Employers

can ask that all employees who drive routinely enroll in safe driving courses and can monitor any health conditions that can lead to impaired driving.

Machine entanglement

Injuries can occur when employees get caught in or compressed by large and dangerous equipment, which is common in factories. All employees should be trained in machinery operation to avoid these types of accidents.

Repetitive motion injuries

Repetitive motions, such as typing, pushing buttons, pulling levers, or bending and squatting can strain muscles and tendons. Although these conditions are not as obvious as others at the onset, over time they can be harmful and painful. Vision problems from staring at a computer and carpal tunnel syndrome are some common repetitive motion injuries. Take frequent breaks and use ergonomic equipment to alleviate these conditions. Many companies have workers’ compensation programs in place to help employees stay afloat after suffering workplace injuries. Should an injury occur at work, employees are advised to follow the proper protocol for reporting the injury and getting treatment. (MS)

NAOSH Week – North American Occupational Safety and Health Week - was first launched in June 1997, marked by an agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico. The Canadian Society of Safety Engineering’s (CSSE) Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Week (COHS) had been observed for ten years previously (1986-1996). During the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks between the governments of Mexico, United States, and Canada, workplace safety within the boundaries of all three nations was discussed by government labour department representatives. Canada’s representative at these talks was familiar with Canada’s COHS Week and suggested to his Mexican and American counterparts that their countries may wish to become involved in a similar endeavor. Subsequently, CSSE was approached for permission and support to expand the COHS Week format and experience to Mexico and the United States. After many meetings between Labour Canada and the CSSE COHS Committee in 1995, the proposal to expand the COHS format into the North American arena was formalized with the CSSE Board of Directors at their spring 1996 meeting. It was agreed that CSSE would adopt the North American concept and implement it in place of the Canadian Week. Labour Canada agreed to ensure that CSSE was the officially recognized safety organization responsible for NAOSH Week. Labour Canada

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would also play the lead political role for North America for three years, after which there would be a review. CSSE was responsible for all management, marketing, policy, and administration related to NAOSH Week, and was deemed the proprietor and governing body. In September 1996, the agreement was taken to the NAFTA meeting and all parties agreed to the proposal. NAOSH Week was established. NAOSH Week was implemented under this agreement between 1997 and 2000. Since 2000, the responsibility and management of NAOSH Week has continued under CSSE’s leadership. Partnering with the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety (CCOHS), and the Labour Program of Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), and Threads of Life, CSSE works hard to promote and encourage the goals of NAOSH. Along with the efforts of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), NAOSH Week continues to be a truly continent-wide event. In September 2007, the Board of Directors of the CSSE approved the creation of an “Occupational Safety and Health Professional (OSHP) Day” that would be celebrated every year on the Wednesday of NAOSH Week. Occupational Safety and Health Professional Day has been set aside as a day in which to recognize the ongoing efforts of occupational safety, health and environmental professionals to protect our people, our organizations and our way of life.

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According to a recent FindLaw survey, workplace injuries are common, with one in five American adults saying they have suffered an injury while on the job. Statistics Canada notes that an estimated 4.27 million Canadians aged 12 or older suffered an injury severe enough to limit their usual activities in 2009 and 2010. Although many of these injuries were attributed to adolescents and seniors, working-age adults see their share of injuries as well. The employees most susceptible to injury are those working in dangerous areas, such as construction sites and factories, but just about any worker can suffer an injury on the job. Knowing the most common injuries can help individuals take preemptive steps to limit behaviors that may lead to injuries on the job. The following are some of the most common and disabling workplace injuries, according to the Workplace Safety Index.

Slips and falls

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CELEBRATING SAFETY AND HEALTH WEEK

NAOSH EVENTS HAPPENING IN RED DEER EVENT NAME

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Steps for Life Walk

May 3rd, 2015 Registration: 11:30 Speeches: 12:00 Walk begins at 12:30

Band Shell Stage Bower Ponds Park Red Deer, AB

Donna Trottier 403-348-9321

Walking for the victims of workplace tragedy to raise funds to provide support for the families of those who have died or been seriously injured at work.

Open to the public

FALL PROTECTION –

May 6th & 7th 2015 8:00 – 5:00 (each day)

Mission Safety Services #3 83A Burnt park Drive Red Deer, AB

Red Deer Construction Association 403-346-4846

An opportunity to receive OSSA Certified Fall Protection Training at a special NAOSH rate.

Open to the public.

May 4, 2015 11:00 am

St. Martin de Porres School, Red Deer, AB

Gary Gies (Red Deer Construction Association) 403-346-4846

An event open to the public which demonstrates an emergency scenario, with the support of emergency responders, to show the ripple effects of an accident to children who witnessed the event.

Open to the public

OSSA CERTIFIED TRAINING

Mock Accident Demonstration for Elementary Aged Children

AltaLink welcomed the province’s tallest bucket truck to help it maintain its expanding set of assets.

AltaLink soars to new heights to keep the electricity transmission system safe and reliable Supplied by Altalink In May, you might see something familiar rising higher in the sky than ever before – a bucket. To be precise, it’s the bucket of a new, 200-foot bucket truck. This new piece of equipment is going to help AltaLink’s field crews maintain the transmission system more efficiently, keeping your lights on safely and reliably.

Alberta’s growth requires new equipment

AltaLink is Alberta’s largest owner and operator of electricity transmission assets –highvoltage, long distance power lines ranging from 69,000 to 500,000 volts. As Alberta’s population and demand for power has grown in the last 10 years, so has the equipment AltaLink uses to keep the lights on. “Later on this year, AltaLink’s Western Alberta Transmission Line will be put in service, connecting the area west of Edmonton to the area east of Calgary with a 500,000 volt High Voltage Direct Current line,” said Rodger Pierce, AltaLink’s director of field operations. “This line will reinforce the backbone of the transmission system, and the new bucket truck will be used to maintain this line, among many others.”

A leader in Canada

The new bucket truck makes Alberta home to one of the largest insulated aerial devices in Canada. Rising to 200 feet high, it will allow AltaLink’s crews to access its new, taller structures, do live line work (perform maintenance activities on lines while the power is still flowing through them), and more easily do work on facilities in hard-to-access areas. “In a nutshell, it will help our crews safely and efficiently maintain the new assets in our transmission system,” said Pierce. “Safety is always the first thing we think about. When you work on something like the high-voltage electric system, you can’t afford not to.”

Focused on safety

The North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) week helps individuals and organizations across North American increase awareness of the importance of safety. The value we place on safety as a province, country and continent drives AltaLink to maintain and improve its safety performance, which is in the top

AltaLink’s new bucket truck one of the tallest in Canada decile for utilities across Canada. “Last year we were proud to accept the Canadian Electricity Association’s Vice President’s Award of Excellence for Employee Safety,” said Rod Kause, vice president of safety, health and environment at AltaLink. “This award recognizes AltaLink’s culture of safety. That culture is built by people, with the right tools and the right mindset of safety first.” The new bucket truck is one of those tools that will allow AltaLink to continue to work safely, around the clock, to keep the lights on for Albertans. “Power is one of those things you don’t usually think about – it’s just there when you come home and turn on your lights,” said Pierce. “In Alberta, we work hard to have one of the most reliable systems in the world. There are hundreds of people working behind the scenes, 24/7 to keep the system running, so our customers have the power they rely on everyday.” AltaLink’s new bucket truck will be in use throughout the year, so watch for it reaching to the skies across Alberta.

Things to do

In Central Alberta

Your guide to what’s going on and what to see in Central Alberta In the Saturday, May 9th edition of the

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Songbird lands in Kelowna BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s operatic songbird Olivia Smith is now stretching her wings in the Okanagan. Smith, who grabbed national attention as a contestant on Canada’s Got Talent, will be the youngest cast member singing for the two-year-old company, Opera Kelowna. In August, the 16-year-old will appear as Barbarina, a peasant girl who contributes to the comic mayhem in Mozart’s opera Marriage of Figaro. While she misses her friends and relatives in Red Deer, Smith feels she’s been making the most of new opportunities since relocating to British Columbia last fall. Besides rehearsing Barbarina’s aria for Figaro, she’s taking private voice lessons with Opera Kelowna’s artistic director Alexandra Babbel, a professional opera singer who’s toured internationally. Babbel also invited Smith to be one of 12 girls in her classical vocal ensemble Candesca, The group has performed in Europe and will do several concerts in New York City this summer, including an engagement with the Brooklyn Children’s Choir. The teenager admitted all of this singing, which is worked around her Grade 10 classes, “has been a lot of hard work. ... But I’m getting better, because with so many great people out here, it pushes me to do my best and try harder. It’s been really fun. ...” Her most exciting opportunity still lies ahead. While in New York in July, Smith will get one-onone instruction from globally respected opera coach Joan Dornemann. As the Metropolitan Opera’s assistant conductor, Dornemann has worked with Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa, Montserrat Caballe, and many others. Caballe is one of the opera singers Smith most looks up to, so she’s beyond thrilled to be able to learn from Caballe’s vocal coach. Babbel also studied with Dornemann when she was a young singer, and is pleased that her former instructor — who received an Emmy Award for her contributions to the first Live From the Met telecast of La Bohème — has agreed to tutor Smith. Babbel calls the student “the next generation of talent.” She knew from Smith’s audition that she had something special. As well her “beautiful voice,” she believes Smith has excellent vocal technique. “She’s been extremely well trained, with excellent coach-

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Olivia Smith, a Red Deer singer who grabbed national attention as a contestant on Canada’s Got Talent, will be the youngest cast member singing for Opera Kelowna, a two-year-old company based in the Okanagan. ing,” by Red Deer’s Cheryl Valentine, added Babbel, who feels a very promising opera career lies ahead for the teen. It will begin this summer with Smith’s role in Marriage of Figaro. She will be in a professional cast for this co-production between Opera Kelowna and the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. To help meet the costs of the expensive show that runs on Aug. 14 and 15, the non-profit opera company is seeking sponsorships. Smith could also use some personal financial help in paying for travel and other costs. While growing up in Red Deer from the ages of

two to 15, Smith never hesitated to sing for a good cause, said her mother, Julianne Smith. She sang for Central Alberta Theatre, The Hub, Central Alberta Refugee Effort, Earth Dance, Amanda Lindhout’s Global Enrichment Foundation and many other groups. Julianne hopes some of her daughter’s Red Deer connections will now come through to help Smith fulfil her operatic dreams. For more information about sponsorship opportunities for Smith, care of Opera Kelowna, visit www. operakelowna.com. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

try’s highest honour for Christian novels. The Arthur Ellis Awards, named after Canada’s last hangman, will announce winners at a gala dinner on May 30 in Toronto. The 2015 Christy Awards will be presented at a dinner on June 29 in Orlando, Fla.

share personal experiences in genuinely felt songs that will leave listener tapping their toes — even dancing — along to the music. The all-ages concert goes from 9 p.m. For more information, call 403-348-5309.

RDC film students to screen latest works at festival

Winnipeg folk-pop trio plays The Hideout this week

Watch the latest films created by Red Deer College students at a screening festival that runs from May 1 to 4 in Red Deer. The creative output from third-year Motion Picture Arts students will be shown from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Welikoklad Event Centre in downtown Red Deer (former City Centre Stage). The class projects and completed films are described as “always unpredictable and always fun.” Everyone is welcome. Admission is by donation.

The signature harmonies of Winnipeg folk-pop trio Sweet Alibi can be heard this week at The Hideout, south of Red Deer. The group that gels country and soul “without a hint of shame” performs on Saturday at the club in Gasoline Alley. Sweet Alibi are Jess Rae Ayre, Amber Nielsen and Michelle Anderson. The three singer/musicians

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Central Alberta children’s author Sigmund Brouwer is thrilled to be an finalist for two book awards. One of his young adult novels, Dead Man’s Switch, is a finalist for an award with the Crime Writers of Canada — the best Young Adult mystery in Canada. Also, his novel Thief of Glory was announced as a finalist for the Christy Awards in the United States. This is the evangelical publishing indus-

A trio of Edmonton musicians are featured at the next First Thursdays at the Snell in Red Deer. On May 7, pianists Kevin Lin and Kevin Wang and Brenda Lam from the Strathearn Music Studio in Edmonton will perform works from Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Scriabin downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library downtown branch. There’s no admission charge for the 12:15 to 1 p.m. concert. Donations will be accepted at the door. Coffee and tea will be provided by Cafe Noir.

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FIPKE (nee Walker) Gayle Belle Gayle Belle Fipke passed away April 23, 2015 at the age of 82. She is survived by five children, 14 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Service will be held at the LMC in Lacombe May 4 at 11:00 am. Refreshments then interment to follow. Donations to the Lacombe Hospital Long Term Care Unit in lieu of flowers please. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

HAWLEY Ruth Emma Jan. 18, 1924 - Apr. 20, 2015 Ruth was born and raised in the Cumberland district near Delburne, AB. Ruth passed away at Grey Nun Hospital in Edmonton, AB at the age of 91 years. Ruth was predeceased by her daughter Carolyn and grandson Michael. She is survived by her children, Greg, Daryl (Bonnie), Clayton, Carla (Jerry) and Anna. Also twelve grandchildren, five greatgrandchildren and numerous relatives. She will be sadly missed by all.

MALO Toni Sandra Dec. 1, 1943 - Apr. 26, 2015 On Sunday, April 26, 2015, Toni Malo, beloved wife of Gerald Malo, Wolseley, SK died at the age of 71 years. The funeral service will be held in the Chapel of Tubman Funeral Home, Wolseley, SK on Friday, May 1, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Mary Young officiating. Cremation with Interment in Wolseley Cemetery. Toni was predeceased by her parents Wyn and Bill Hilton and one brother Lee Hilton. She is survived by her husband Gerald; their family Shannon Malo (Terry Fisher) and her family Ashley and Andrew; Shaun (Gina) Malo and their family Joseph and Faustina; Stacey Carmichael and her family Meghan (Anthony) Wuhlar and their family Norah and Odin; and Justin, Nathan, Kolton and Jake and numerous nieces and nephews. If friends so desire contributions may be made to the Parkinsons Society of Saskatchewan, 610 Duchess St., Saskatoon, SK S7K 0R1 or to the Wolseley Memorial Hospital, Trust Account A c/o Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region, 2180 - 23rd. Avenue, Regina, SK S4S 0A5 as tokens of remembrance. Online condolences may be made at www.tubmanfh.com Arrangements in care of TUBMAN CREMATION AND FUNERAL SERVICES (1-800-667-8962)

HEPPERLE (nee Gideon) Barbara Anne Aug. 8, 1933 - Apr. 22, 2015 It is with sadness and some relief that we announce the peaceful passing of Barbara on April 22, 2015 after a lengthy struggle with Alzheimer’s. She leaves behind her daughter, Barb of Edmonton, her two sisters: Patricia Cameron from Red Deer, and Betty Bobeau from Calgary, as well as many relatives in her extended family. She was predeceased by her brother Allen Gideon and her husband Jack (Jacob) Hepperle. In keeping with the family’s wishes, there will be no formal service; however in the coming weeks, we will host a celebration of life gathering at a timed place to be announced. HAINSTOCK’S FUNERAL HOME entrusted with arrangements.

SHUDRA Victor June 20, 1942 - Apr.23, 2014 It is with heavy hearts we announce that Victor passed away suddenly, but peacefully, surrounded by his loving family and the caring staff of the Red Deer Hospital intensive care unit in Red Deer at the age of 72 years. He is at peace with his son, David, who left us in 1983; parents, Alex and Lucy; siblings, Pete, Nancy, and Helen; brother-in-laws, Frank and Ken; and sister-inlaw, Annette. Victor leaves behind the love of his life, Rosemary; children, Robert (Christine), Debbie and Shane; and by his precious grandchildren, Alexa and William. He will be remembered by his siblings, Mary, Anne (Harvy) and Walter; sister-in-law, Cec; brother-in-law, Joe; as well as numerous nephews, nieces and extended family and close friends. Victor was a kind-hearted, jovial and remarkable soul who touched many lives. He shared his wisdom, courage, strength and happiness with all. He will be deeply missed, forever loved and remembered always. The family wishes to extend their gratitude for the overwhelming support offered by family and friends. The family would like to invite all who loved Victor to join them in celebrating his life on Friday, May 1, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Firefighters Children’s Charity, P.O. Box 535, Red Deer, AB T4N 5G1. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-3319

HUEBNER Kurt With deep love and great sorrow our family announces Kurt Huebner’s sudden death on Sunday, April 19, 2015 at the age of 38. Kurt was born in Red Deer, AB to Gwen and Jergen on January 6, 1977. He was a very loving and devoted husband to his wife Dianah, supportive brother to his siblings, Bry and Helga, a caring father to all who needed one, a hardworking and considerate person to his co-workers. Kurt’s funny and joyful memory will forever be cherished by his loving parents. Kurt never failed to put a smile on everyone one he met and that’s the way we want him to be remembered. Kurt was predeceased by one brother, Shannon and one sister, Sandra. The family invites all who loved Kurt to join us in celebrating his life and honoring his memory on April 30, 2015, Thursday at 1:00 in the afternoon at Ridgewood Community Hall (37160 Range Road 10) . In lieu of flowers, donations would be greatly appreciated.

ROOME 1939 - 2015 Jack Roome passed away peacefully on April 19, 2015, at the Red Deer Hospice with his family by his side. He is survived by his wife Margaret and daughters; Lynlee (Alan), Bev (Jim), Trudy (Tony) and his two grandsons. Jack had a passion for learning and as a result he had various diplomas and a master’s degree in clinical psychology. Jack was heavily involved in community-minded organizations. Jack spent his retirement years studying visual arts at Red Deer College and he was known for his mountain landscapes. A Memorial Service will be held at St. Leonard’s on The Hill Anglican Church, 4241 - 44 St., Red Deer on Friday, May 1st at 1:00 pm. Memorial donations may be directed to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 - Arnot Ave., Red Deer AB T4R 3S6 or the Canadian Diabetes Association, 6, 5015 - 48 Ave, Red Deer AB T4N 1S9. Condolences to Jack’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

PSIKLA Joseph Edward Mar. 19, 1921- Apr. 25, 2015 Joseph Edward Psikla of Red Deer, Alberta, born on March 19, 1921 in Coleman Alberta, passed away peacefully, at the Red Deer General Hospital on April 25, 2015 at the age of 94. Joseph is survived by his loving wife of 65 years, Jennie and his children, Ronald (Val) of Red Deer, Gerald (Linda) of Eckville, Joan (Jack Carroll) of Valleyview, Robert (Darlene) of Eckville, Loretta (Lorne Bilinski) of Red Deer, one surviving sister Virginia (John Safronovich) of Eckville, brother in law, Edward (Lillian) Trautman and sister’s in law, Josie Liska, Marion Trautman, Carol Albers, Fern Psikla, along with thirteen grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Joseph was predeceased by his parents Mary and Louis Sr. and sisters Mary and Helen and one brother Louis Jr., brother in laws Frank and Carl Trautman, Peter Liska and sister in law Delores Trautman. In 1930 Joseph at the age of nine moved up from Coleman to the Eckville area to farm with his parents. Joseph met his soul mate Jennie and they were married in 1949. They remained on the family farm until they retired in Red Deer in 1993. Joseph was a long standing well respected member in the Eckville community with many accomplishments. Joseph was very involved in the community serving on many boards, and belonging to several groups, where he dedicated his services. Joseph was also well known in the community for the family band with his wife, brother, sister in law and brother in law. They entertained generations of people in the community playing old time music for many wedding dances and social functions for over 50 years. Funeral service will be held at the Sacred Heart Church at 5508-48A Ave. Red Deer, Alberta, Friday May 1st, 11 AM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made of Donor’s choice or Red Deer Hospice Society 99 Arnot Ave. Red Deer, AB R4R 3S6. Eventide Funeral Homes in charge of arrangements.

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $12/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible. No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. or Call 403-848-2356

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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 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

EAST SIDE MARIO’S HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS Full Time & Part Time. Apply after 2 p.m. Ask for the manager on duty. 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

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. Medical FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening Provincial Sleep Group in both full and part time. Red Deer has an immedi16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + ate opening for a Full Time benefits. Start ASAP. Respiratory Therapist or Job description Registered Nurse. Please www.timhortons.com email/fax resume to Karen Gain via kareng@psgi.ca Education and experience not req’d. or 403.346.0427. Posting Apply in person or fax closes May 1, 2015 resume to: 403-314-1303

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SHOP HELP AND/OR APPRENTICE MECHANIC REQ’D IMMED. Truck exp. preferred. 8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of Blackfalds. Fax: 403-784-2330 Phone: 403-784-3811

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STEWART Christina Jean 1974 - 2014 Christina Jean Stewart passed away on November 30, 2014 after a battle with diabetes for years. Christina touched many people with her thoughtfulness and her kindness, but most of all she loved her three children more than life itself. Christina is predeceased by her mother Judy Stewart, and she is survived by her three beautiful children, Casha, Steven and Raymond; her father Raymond; and her brother Jason. Christina will be missed greatly by her family and friends.

MULTI FAMILY SALE 32 Welsh Close. Tools, toys, tons of children gear and clothing. Starting May 1st at 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm and continuing all day Saturday from 8:00 am to Vanier Woods 3:30pm. Kids stand selling pop and chips for only a 112 Valentine Crescent. loonie. Fri. May 1, 3pm-8pm, Saturday 8am-5pm. ClothesYou can sell your guitar Men’s, Women’s, Kids, for a song... (Lululemon, Name Brand or put it in CLASSIFIEDS items), Household items, and we’ll sell it for you! RV items, Trifold Truck Ramps, Kids Bike’s, Outdoor items, Portable RV stairs, Lots and Lots More! Out of Town

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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

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Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also Lil Mule Logging black glass tv stand, 403-318-4346 bought at Sims $125 403-352-8811

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LIZ ARDEN NY, NEW, 1 red croc., make-up bag, w/12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. This would make a great Mother’s Day gift, $195. value, Asking $50. 403-227-2976

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LAWNMOWER, Craftsman 3 BIG LIVINGROOM Push, scissor cut action, quiet! Used once. $25. CHAIRS, floral $30/ea. 403-343-1503 403-342-1934 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BLUE COUCH and chair 40 Year Collection. some wood on front $110 $200. obo can deliver 403-342-1934 403-346-2503 COUCH and chair floral ROYAL Dux Bohemian $125 can deliver Cat, porcelain, mint cond. 403-342-1934 $35. END Tables, (2) matching, Merrill Ortholight shoe, sz. 6.5, air cushion, women’s, $14. ea. or both for $25. like new. $40. 403-782-7439 Maui Jim Sunglasses, Makaha, with brown sport HIDE-A-BED, dble. good case, brand new. condition. $50. $95 403-352-8811 403-340-1347

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3 BDRM. 2 bath, bi-level, 5 appls., n/s, no pets, $1495. Avail. June 1. 403-505-1740 3 BDRM. duplex in Anders possibly pet friendly, fenced, new reno, $1500/mo + DD + utils, N/S. 403-347-2526 FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot. 4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740

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With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

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LACOMBE 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, 5 appls., garage $1595/mo. 782-7156 357-7465

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, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955

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1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444

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ROOM $550./mo. $150 403-352-7417

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3 bdrm. townhouse, across from park, 1.5 bath, fenced yard, 5 appls., rent $1350, SD. $800. Avail. June 1 Call 403-304-5337

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For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

NICE Upper Level 2 bdrm. condo, avail. now or May 1. Very large master bdrm. w/walkin closet, good location in Sunnyside. Prefer no pets. $1350. & d.d. 250-859-6689

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Realtors

SEIBEL PROPERTY & Services

FLYER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

CARRIERS REQUIRED

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www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

4010

~ Westpark

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1395 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs. N/S, no utils. incl. Avail. immed. & Apr. 1 References required.

1 day a week in:

JOHNSTONE PARK

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

For VANIER Area

55 & 56 Ave. also 39 St. also 41 & 42 St.

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

WANTED rubber curb ramps. 403-347-3741

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44 & 45 AVE.

3030

SYLVAN LAKE 1 bdrm. Avail Immed: 1 fully furn home, ref’s req’d. May 1, bdrm for rent - $250 dd $900 rent, $900 d.d. + $500/mth. 403-396-2468 utils. No calls after 8 pm. COZY Furnished room, 403-887-5374 n/s, $575. 403-466-7979

To deliver the

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HOME Gym, $50. 403-340-1347

CLEAN TOWNHOUSE 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, 5 appls, fenced back yard, storage shed, n/s. $1195 + DD June 1st. 403-343-0761

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

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Jackson & Jarvis Close

1000-1430

WWwWWES********************* For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area DEER PARK AREA Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr. MICHENER AREA 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.

VANIER AREA

Timberstone Way, Thompson Cres., Thomas Place, Talson Place, Talisman Close, Trump Close, etc...

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1760

Misc. for Sale

Condos/ Townhouses

GUN SHOW

May 2, 10 am - 5 pm, May 3, 10 am - 3 pm. UFA Agri Centre West Info: 403-347-3767

For More Information Call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

TIMBERSTONE AREA

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

EARINGS, pierced, Stirling Silver, Made in Israel, never worn, w/case, 1 1/2” drop, appraised $135. Asking $100. 403-227-2976

1860

Sporting Goods

ORIOLE PARK

Sutherland Cres. Shaw Close

Viscount Drive/Voisin Close Vincent Close

1750

Jewellery

WINE Making equipment, numerous equipment to get started. 403-348-0122

2 BDRM. Sylvan Lake across from beach, n/s, no pets, $1075/mo. & elect. 403-350-4230

ROUTES IN:

Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres. Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

VHS movies, (100). $75. 403-885-5020

1760

Misc. for Sale

For more info call Jamie at 403-314-4306

3 days per week, no weekends ANDERS AREA

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

LOGS

WESTPARK

Advocate Opportunities

1720

AFFORDABLE

For LANCASTER Area

BE CAREER READY IN 10 TO 12 MONTHS

2965 Bremner Avenue

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

For ROSEDALE Area $391.00/mo.

NEW PROGRAMS

Call (403) 347-6676

1630

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE by 6:30 am. Mon. - Sat. Reliable vehicle needed.

900

Employment Training

EquipmentHeavy

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available. 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

1590

Advocate Opportunities

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Apply in person or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

GED Preparation

OLDS Gymnastics club is currently looking for both Competitive level 1 NCCP or higher and Recreational coaches for Sept/2015. Please send resumes to info@oldsgymnastics.com

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks

1580

BOOTS, leather, Italian ladies chocolate, soft glove fit over knee length, zippered back, 2 3/4” heel, $200. 403-227-2976

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Household Furnishings

Homestead Firewood

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OSH KOSH, Please Mum, etc. clothing. 403-342-4543 CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

1660

Firewood

TWO 6’ mahogany 5 shelf wall units, like new $50/ea., beige glider rockRed Deer’s most modern 5 Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. ing chair, like new $45, 2 avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 pin bowling center req’s beige highback bar stools, permanent F/T & P/T front B.C. Birch, Aspen, $20/ea, 2 black bar stools counter staff for all shifts Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. $10/ea, dbl. stainless steel (days, eves. and wknds). PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 sink $5, white ceiling fan Please send resume to: w/ 4 lights htglanes@ CHOPPED POPLAR - free, $15 403-358-5568 telus.net or apply in person you pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385. WANTED Antiques, furniture and FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, estates. 342-2514 Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LEAPSTER L-MAX w/game and tv cables $20 $20; baby doll w/sleep eyes and rooted hair, some clothes, $10 403-314-9603

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

850

Trades

$207.20/mo. ALSO Timothy Dr. Towers Close, Turner Cres. and Tobin Gate $107.36/mo. ********************** For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

Call Classiﬁeds 403-309-3300 classiﬁeds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds Start your career! See Help Wanted

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

Handyman Services

1200

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects. Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking. Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777 NOW is the time to get your yard in shape. Aerations & power rakes 403-318-7625

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Window Cleaning

1420

RESIDENTIAL Window & Eavestrough Cleaning. Free Est.. 403-506-4822

Yard Care

1430

Aeration Special, free Scotts fertilizer. Detatching also avail. LITTLE R&R YARD CARE 403-341-3780

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. SECOND 2 NONE Aerate, Free Est. 403-872-8888 CONCRETE??? de thatch, eaves,cut grass, VII MASSAGE Classifieds...costs so little We’ll do it all...Free est. clean up, 403-302-7778 #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Saves you so much! Call E.J. Construction Spring clean ups with Pampering at its Jim 403-358-8197 aeration and edging $130 BEST! DALE’S Home Reno’s and up, weekly mowing, 403-986-6686 Roofing Free estimates for all your acreages, family-owned reno needs. 403-506-4301 and operated, over 15 Come in and see why we are the talk PRECISE ROOFING LTD. years experience, careful Central Alberta’s Largest operators; Irish Green 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. of the town. Yard Care 403 341 6620 Car Lot in Classifieds 403-896-4869 SPRING cleaning, weekly QUALITY work at an RMD RENOVATIONS mows, anything yards we affordable price. Joe’s Misc. Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. do. familyyards.com or call Roofing. Re-roofing Call Roger 403-348-1060 Services 587-876-8969 specialist. Fully insured. THE ROTOTILLER GUY Insurance claims welcome. SIDING, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean GARAGE DOOR SERVICES 10 yr. warranty on all work. Garden Rototilling & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957 403-350-7602 403-358-1614 @ 403-302-9210. BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

1370

1290

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Houses For Sale

MOVE IN TODAY

1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

5050

Trucks

2000 FORD Ranger, 4X4, 210,000 km, V6, auto., a/c, cruise, hitch front & rear, $2,500 obo. 403-506-2568

Motorcycles

5080

2 BDRM. 1 bath, 1 blk. to 2008 KAWASAKI Nomad Bower Mall 54 Bell St. 15,000 kms, 403-784-3606 $179,000 obo 403-346-7072 OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

4090

Manufactured Homes

1998 880 Sportster, 23,000 kms by instructor, $5500 obo. 780-265-6655

TO BE MOVED 16 x 80 3 bdrm. 2 bath, 2 walkin closets, vaulted ceilings, carpet/lino, inclds. appLs. Holiday and window coverings, n/s Trailers pet free home, $72,000 obo 403-350-0251 2010 OUTBACK Keystone Superlite 28’, 31’ w/hitch, 2 slideouts, good cond., Lots For $23,000 403-844-7970

5120

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

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wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars

5030

Boats & Marine

5160

WatersEdge Marina

Full Title Boat Slips Starting at $58,000 Located in Brand New Marina, Downtown Sylvan Lake, AB www.watersedgeslyvan.com

Get your vehicle ad more mileage with one of Classifieds’ great packages. Rural and city - we’ve got you covered. Call 1-877-223-3311 or local 403-309-3300

2006 HONDA turbo watercraft (2) with trailer and covers, 30 hr. on each, $15,000. 403-506-2568

2013 NISSAN Altima 14’ FT LUND boat with 9.9 403-309-3382 HP motor and acc. and tilt 2006 VOLVO V50, leather trailer, $1,600 obo; 4.4 HP int., cruise, air, rarely used motor with gas tank, $400 obo; and 2 HP motor $300 in winter, 127,000 km, obo. 403-341-3334 or $8,000. 403-506-2568 1-250-863-8524

Auto Wreckers 1957 FORD SKYLINER Retractable Hardtop $42,500. 403-742-9417

5190 www.classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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Retractable Hardtop $42,500. 403-742-9417

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2002 GMC Envoy XL, great running shape. $6000. obo 403-340-2042

1989 29’ F350, very clean, sleeps 6, n/s shower & bathroom, everything works, c/w everything. 61187 kms. $14500, 403-358-7782

2001 Dodge Caravan, 189,000 km, no rust. 403-442-4223 or 403-373-6279

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1998 880 Sportster, 23,000 kms by instructor, $5500 obo. 780-265-6655

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2001 VOLVO S60. Loaded, very good cond. 182,000 km. $4500 obo. 403-343-2058

2001 Z71 L/B, 4wd, exc. cond., 251,000 kms, $4400 403-340-9248

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2005 MERCEDES C230

2010 OUTBACK Keystone Superlite 28’, 31’ w/hitch, 2 slideouts, good cond., $23,000 403-844-7970

2006 JEEP Commander 4x4, exc. cond. $14,500. o.b.o. 403-347-5947

2007 DUTCHMAN, 28RK, front queen bed, rear kitchen, sleeps 6, slide living rm., n/s, clean. $17,750. 403-784-2482

2006 JEEP Liberty 4x4. Awesome for winter & summer. $6000. obo 403-340-8447

2008 HONDA CIVIC LX, 139,400 km., exc. con., carproof, $7,900 obo 1-403-396-9369

2010 SANTA FE, V6, silver 87,000 kms., remote 4 summer, 4 winter tires & whls., A1 $16,750. 403-347-6889

136,000 kms. exc. cond. loaded. $8900. 403-886-5696

V6, one owner, 115,000 km. 403-347-5919

2006 PONTIAC Montana,

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2009 TOYOTA Corolla, 124,000 km, 403-348-9778

2012 DODGE AVENGER, $10,500. 403-896-9942

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Baltimore is a city on edge NATIONAL GUARDS PATROL AGAINST UNREST FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1968 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Baltimore was a city on edge Tuesday as hundreds of National Guardsmen patrolled the streets against unrest for the first time since 1968, hoping to prevent another outbreak of rioting. Maryland’s governor said 2,000 Guardsmen and 1,000 law officers would be in place overnight to try to head off a repeat of the racially charged violence that erupted Monday in some of the city’s poorest neighbourhoods and sent a shudder through all of Baltimore. “This combined force will not tolerate violence or looting,” Gov. Larry Hogan warned. In a measure of how tense things were, the city was under a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. emergency curfew. All public schools were closed. And the Baltimore Orioles cancelled Tuesday night’s game at Camden Yards and — in what may be a first in baseball’s 145-year history — announced that Wednesday’s game will be closed to the public. The streets were largely calm all day and into the evening, with only a few scattered arrests. The real test was expected after dark, when the curfew was set to take effect. The looting, arson and rock- and bottle-throwing by mostly black rioters broke out just hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody. It was the worst such violence in the U.S. since the unrest that erupted last year over the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Political leaders and residents called the violence a tragedy for the city and lamented the damage done by the rioters to their own neighbourhoods. “The same community they say they care about, they’re destroying. You can’t have it both ways,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said. Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said: “I had officers come up to me and say, ’I was born and raised in this city. This makes me cry.”’ But the rioting also brought out a

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A woman walks by police Tuesday, in Baltimore. Maryland’s governor vowed there would be no repeat of the looting, arson and vandalism that erupted Monday in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. sense of civic pride and responsibility in many Baltimore residents, with hundreds of volunteers turning out to sweep the streets of glass and other debris with brooms and trash bags donated by hardware stores. Blanca Tapahuasco brought her three sons, ages 2 to 8, from another part of the city to help clean up the brick-and-pavement courtyard outside a looted CVS pharmacy in the hard-hit neighbourhood where Gray was arrested. “We’re helping the neighbourhood build back up,” she said. “This is an encouragement to them to know the rest of the city is not just looking on and wondering what to do.” CVS store manager Haywood McMorris said the destruction didn’t make sense: “We work here, man. This is where we stand, and this is where people actually make a living.” All day, police fielded rumours of would-be rioters gathering at various places in and around Baltimore.

As evening fell, police with riot shields lined up shoulder to shoulder across West North Avenue and kept close watch on a chanting crowd of about 1,000 people at the corner where some of the worst violence took place the night before. The gathering resembled a street festival, with musicians playing in the intersection. Separately, several hundred demonstrators marched through the streets toward downtown Baltimore as the curfew drew near. The crisis marks the first time the National Guard has been called out to deal with unrest in Baltimore since 1968, when some of the same neighbourhoods that rose up this week burned for days after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. At least six people died then, and some neighbourhoods still bear the scars. Jascy Jones of Baltimore said the sight of National Guardsmen on the street gave her a “very eerie feeling.” “It brought a tear to my eye. Seeing

it doesn’t feel like the city that I love,” she said. “I am glad they’re here, but it’s hard to watch.” At the White House, President Barack Obama called the deaths of several black men around the country at the hands of police “a slow-rolling crisis.” But he added that there was “no excuse” for the violence in Baltimore, and said the rioters should be treated as criminals. “They aren’t protesting. They aren’t making a statement. They’re stealing,” Obama said. The rioting started in West Baltimore on Monday afternoon and by midnight had spread to East Baltimore and neighbourhoods close to downtown and near the baseball stadium. At least 20 officers were hurt, one person was critically injured in a fire, more than 200 adults and 34 juveniles were arrested, and nearly 150 cars were burned, police said. The governor had no immediate estimate of the damage.

Survivors tell gruesome details Indonesia executes 8 for drug smuggling, but Filipino of Colorado theatre shooting woman given a reprieve BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Katie Medley, nine months pregnant and crouching between the seats of a movie theatre filling with tear gas, gunfire and screams, looked at her husband Caleb’s bloody face and told a friend, “He’s dead, he’s dead.” Prodeo Et Patria was 14 that night, and sitting with his parents somewhere in the middle of the 421 people watching a midnight Batman premiere. He thought the gunfire was a joke until his father ordered him to the floor, where someone kicked off his glasses in the chaos. His father told him to run and refused to leave his mother, whose arm and foot were shattered by bullets. Hoisting his wife onto his back, they made for an exit together. “That’s when I first felt a gunshot hit me,” Patria said. They were the among the first of many prosecution witnesses in the death penalty trial of James Holmes, and their gripping testimony made clear the state’s determination to make sure jurors know the carnage Holmes caused inside the suburban Denver theatre on July 20, 2012. Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. warned jurors as the trial opened not to let sympathy and emotion influence their judgment. The defence team has conceded that Holmes was the killer, hoping to focus not on the crime itself or its lingering damage, but on what it sees as the only question jurors must resolve: whether Holmes was legally insane at the time. But on this first long day of testimony, the judge repeatedly turned away

defence objections to particularly gruesome and tragic details. Defence attorneys did not question any of the witnesses from the theatre. Defence attorney Katherine Spengler argued that grisly photos, an emergency services call recording of shrieks and screams, and the words “bloody victim” that a witness wrote on a diagram of the theatre served only to inflame the jury. The judge dismissed her motions, reasoning that the evidence is relevant and fairly depicts a horrific crime. Prosecutors say they will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was sane, therefore guilty, and should be executed. Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity; his defence hopes the jury will have him indefinitely committed to a mental institution. Tuesday was Day One of testimony in a trial expected to last four months or more. If the prosecution keeps this up into August, the cumulative weight of the victims’ suffering could make the defence job even more difficult. In opening statements, the defence sought to focus instead on what was going on inside Holmes’ mind, which they say was so addled by schizophrenia and psychosis that his sense of right and wrong was distorted, and he lost any control over his actions. They won’t call their own witnesses or begin making the case for insanity until after the prosecution rests, many weeks from now. Defence lawyers said Holmes was a “good kid” who sensed something wrong with his mind, even at a young age. Studying neuroscience at the University of Colorado was his attempt to fix his thoughts; Instead, “psycho-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CILICAP, Indonesia — Indonesia brushed aside last-minute appeals and executed eight people convicted of drug smuggling, according to foreign governments and local media reports Wednesday, although a Filipino woman was granted a stay of execution. The Indonesian government has not confirmed the executions, but local media reported that the eight had been executed, citing official though unidentified sources. Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo said Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso had been granted a stay of execution while the Philippines investigates her case, but he would not comment on whether the executions of two Australians, four Nigerians, a Brazilian and an Indonesian man had been carried out as scheduled shortly after midnight. But gunshots were heard about 12:30 a.m. local time (17:30 GMT) from Nusakambangan island where executions take place, and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that Australia will withdraw its ambassador from Jakarta in response to the executions of two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31. “These executions are both cruel and unnecessary,” Abbott told reporters. “Cruel because both Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran spent some decade in jail before being executed and unnecessary because both of these young Australians were fully rehabilitated while in prison,” he said.

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff said in a statement the execution of a second Brazilian citizen in Indonesia this year “marks a serious event in the relations between the two countries.” Brazil had asked for a stay of execution for Rodrigo Gularte, 42, on humanitarian grounds because he was schizophrenic. Brazilian Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira was one of six drug convicts including foreigners that Jakarta executed in January, brushing aside lastminute appeals from Brazil and the Netherlands. Brazil and the Netherlands withdrew their ambassadors from Jakarta in protest at those executions. Indonesian President Joko Widodo has vowed to show no mercy to drug criminals. Veloso, 30, was arrested in 2010 at the airport in the central Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, where officials discovered about 2.5 kilograms (5.5 pounds) of heroin hidden in her luggage. Prasetyo said Veloso was granted a stay of execution because her alleged boss has been arrested in the Philippines, and the authorities there requested Indonesian assistance in pursuing the case. “This delay did not cancel the execution. We just want to give a chance in relation with the legal process in the Philippines,” Prasetyo said. Mary Jane Veloso’s mother, Celia, told Manila radio station DZBB from Indonesia that what happened was “a miracle.”

Iran fires warning shots across bridge of cargo vessel BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian forces fired warning shots across the bridge of a Marshall Islandsflagged cargo vessel as it was traversing the Strait of Hormuz, boarded the ship and directed it toward the Iranian mainland, a Pentagon official said Tuesday. The incident with the MV Maersk Tigris, which prompted the U.S. Navy to dispatch a destroyer and a plane in response, comes at a critical time in Iran’s relations with its neighbours and the United States. The U.S., other world powers and Iran are trying to hammer out a final deal over Iran’s nuclear program. Last week, the U.S. Navy dispatched an air-

craft carrier and guided missile cruiser to the Arabian Sea amid worries that a convoy of Iranian cargo ships was headed to Yemen to deliver arms to the Shiite rebels fighting to take over Yemen. And U.S. Navy officials said Tuesday that several Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy vessels had surrounded a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, the Maersk Kensington, last Friday as it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz. No shots were fired, the Iranian vessels broke off contact, and the cargo ship proceeded without further incident. In Tuesday’s incident, the intercepted ship was travelling through the narrow Strait, which is technically Iranian and Omani territorial waters, but under international agreement is open to

foreign ships making an innocent passage, said Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman. It wasn’t clear whether the ship had strayed off course into coastal waters not protected by that agreement. The master of the cargo ship MV Maersk Tigris had initially refused an Iranian order to move further into Iranian waters, but after the warning shots were fired the vessel complied, Warren said. The cargo ship was directed to waters near Larak Island, he said. The island sits off the major Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and is one of several in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state television reported that only 24 crew were onboard the vessel, and hailed from Britain, Bulgaria, Romania and Myanmar. It said

the ship was seized based on a court order due to unspecified violations. Iranian officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Bandar Abbas is the main port for Iran’s Navy and separate naval forces operated by the elite Revolutionary Guard, as well as the country’s primary commercial port. It overlooks the Strait of Hormuz, the highly strategic waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. The strait is the route for about a fifth of the world’s oil and is only about 33 kilometres (21 miles) wide at its narrowest point. Ships traversing the chokepoint have even less room to manoeuvr. The shipping lane in either direction is only two miles wide, with a two-mile buffer zone between them.

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LUANN April 29 1990 — The destruction of the Berlin Wall begins. 1986 — Queen’s University offensive tackle Mike Schad is chosen by Los Angeles Rams, and is the first Canadian football player ever selected in the first round of the NFL draft. 1964 — Ontario government brings in $1-anhour provincial minimum wage. 1945 — Canadians start air dropping food

supplies to the starving Dutch. 1945 — The Nazi death camp, Dachau, is liberated. 1903 — A 90-million-tonne wedge of limestone slides off Turtle Mountain onto the coal mining village of Frank, Alta., at 4:10 a.m., burying the mine entrance and killing at least 70 people in 100 seconds. 1880 — Melville Bell, Alexander Graham Bell’s brother, incorporates the Bell Telephone Company of Canada on this day as Royal Assent is given to the act chartering the firm.

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Chileans brace for volcano impact LIVESTOCK, AGRICULTURE AND FISHING INDUSTRIES COULD SEE MOST DAMAGE SANTIAGO, Chile — The eruption of Chile’s Calbuco volcano threatens to cause widespread, lasting economic damage, turning cattle pastures barren and choking fish with volcanic ash in one of the world’s top salmon-producing countries. Thousands of cattle and sheep in danger of dying have been evacuated in Los Lagos. The region produced about 950 million litres of milk last year worth about $346 million, said Ema Budinich of the National Agriculture Society. “About 50 per cent of Chile’s milk production is located in Los Lagos, so this is affecting the whole industry,” Budinich said on Tuesday. Emir Jadue of the Chamber of Commerce in the nearby city of Puerto Varas estimated the costs at about $600 million and a 50 per cent drop in the region’s hotel industry. Official damage estimates are not available yet, but Eduardo Aguilera of the National Fishing Service says about 20 million fish have died. Calbuco roared back to life Wednesday after lying dormant since 1972. It billowed ash about 11 miles (18 kilometres) high in the initial blast, then several hours later produced a sec-

ond, spectacular outburst that turned the nighttime sky reddish orange and caused huge lightning bolts to crackle through its ash plume. Some 4,500 people have been evacuated. But the Los Lagos agricultural service says more than 45,000 animals remain at risk from eating plants and drinking water contaminated by volcanic ashes. Experts say the soil in the area may not recover for over a year. The animals “are practically without food because the pasture ceased to exist. They’re roaming on volcanic rock,” said Rodrigo Lavin, head of a farming group in Llanquihue, a province of Los Lagos. The mighty blasts left Ensenada, just about 10 miles (16 kilometres) from Calbuco’s peak, a ghost town, abandoned most of by its 1,500 residents. At the foot of the volcano, military officials and some returned residents have been clearing the thick soot that covers the town. “Our three horses, which had been missing since the eruption, finally came back yesterday gaunt and thirsty,” said Daniel Patricio Gonzalez who left town with his wife and children. “But many other people have had to sacrifice their sheep because packs of hungry wild dogs have been eating them,” Gonzales said. “The losses from this eruption are huge, but the animals are the ones who are suffering the most.”

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Plumes of smoke and ash billow from the Calbuco volcano, seen from Puerto Varas, Chile, April 24, 2015. The volcano, which had been dormant for more than four decades, had two huge eruptions this week. The head of the National Mining and Geology Service said the volcano’s eruptive process could last weeks and even months and warned that a third eruption was possible. Now offering extended hours

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Not OK to ask guests to pay for wedding Dear Annie: My brother is 42 and getting married for the first time. His bride-tobe has been married before. My mom and I would like to give her a bridal shower, but it seems they have most of what they need. However, they don’t own their own home. How do we send out invites and ask guests to give money toward either the cost of the wedding or larger purchases like new furniture or a down payment on a home without MITCHELL being rude? & SUGAR Is there a proper way, or is it not OK to ask for this? — Stumped in Wisconsin Dear Stumped: It is not OK to expect guests to pay for the wedding. The bridal couple should have the wedding they can afford. Showers, however, are about gifts, so there is some leeway when it comes to registries. There are now registries for honeymoons, vaca-

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tions and, yes, houses, including furniture and appliances. If the couple has such registries, the websites can be listed on a separate sheet of paper with the shower invitation. You also can pass along such preferences by word of mouth. But part of a shower is unwrapping gifts so everyone can “oooh” and “aaah.” It might be wise for the bride to register at more traditional places where unwanted gifts can be returned or exchanged for something more to her liking (after she writes her thank-you notes, of course). Dear Annie: With your ability to reach many people, how about a plea to have hooks put in all public restrooms? I’m sure other women also hate to put their purses on the bathroom floor in these public places. — Germs, Yuck Dear Germs: We suspect most women would rather put their purse on their head than drop it on the floor of a public restroom. If there is no hook, try resting the purse strap over the door latch. If that doesn’t work, there may be space on the toilet paper dispenser.

HOROSCOPES Wednesday, April 29 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Uma Thurman, 45; Daniel Day-Lewis, 58; Michelle Pfeiffer, 57 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Virgo Moon favours being practical and organized. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are very self-possessed. Just make sure you don’t get so wrapped up in personal projects that you neglect the needs of loved ones. October and December are fabulous months for love. ARIES (March 21-April 19): JOANNE Has a problem been worrying you MADELEINE and causing sleepless nights? MOORE Today a friend or colleague offers some welcome — and sensible — advice. Just make sure you’re smart enough to take it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With the Sun, Mercury and Mars all moving through your sign, the more creative, articulate and proactive you are, the more successful you’ll be. Show others what you are really capable of. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are you making the most of Venus visiting your sign?

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You also could place your purse on your lap (awkward, but doable), or get a purse with a shoulder strap and don’t take it off at all. And you might look into purchasing a little plastic hook that will slip over a door and hold a purse, often available at drugstores or hardware stores. (But do be careful if you hang this over the door, as someone can lift it from the outside.) As always, if there is a manager with whom to register a complaint, do so. Dear Annie: I’d like to help those who feel the same as “Also Lonely in Chesapeake, Va.,” the 29-year-old virgin who hasn’t found Mr. Right. I know it may sound strange in this day and age, but 15 years ago, my husband was a virgin. Due to low self-esteem and a lack of self-confidence, he was afraid to ask a woman out. We were 43 when we met, and I am so glad. We’ve had 15 very happy years, and I hope there are many more to come. — Donna Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. voured, as long as you are prepared to compromise. But don’t believe everything a child, teenager, friend or acquaintance tells you. You may not be hearing the full story. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re centre stage today Sagittarius, as others look to you for leadership, fresh ideas or general guidance. If you have a job interview, make sure you have prepared meticulously. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The stars favour getting involved in charitable work with a global reach, or helping someone closer to home. But don’t accept things at face value today Capricorn — look a lot deeper. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A confusing money matter starts to gain more clarity. If you don’t like what you see, then make changes that allow for more discipline and transparency in your financial management. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you viewing a current situation through decidedly rose-coloured glasses? Today’s Virgo Moon will help you be more discriminating, so you start to see things as they really are. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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