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PSAC DRILLING FORECAST

2015 projection cut in half

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Nobody was expecting good news to come out of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada’s midyear drilling forecast update, which took place on Thursday in Calgary.

But some might have been taken aback by just how bad the news was.

The national trade association, which represents more than 230 service, supply and manufacturing companies in the upstream petroleum sector, has cut by nearly half its prediction of the number of wells that will be drilled in 2015.

It’s now projecting 5,320 — 47 per cent fewer than the 10,100 wells it was anticipating just six months ago, and a 53 per cent drop from the 11,255 wells that were actually drilled in 2014.

“Oil prices dropped from an average of US$84.40 in October 2014 to an average of US$47.83 in March 2015,” said PSAC president and CEO Mark Salkeld.

“It’s no surprise that an almost 44 per cent drop in oil prices has led us to forecast a similar decline in drilling activity for the year, compared to our October 2014 forecast.”

Tumbling oil prices prompted PSAC to revise its 2015 forecast in January, when it adjusted the figure downward to what then seemed like a rock-bottom 7,650 wells.

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Elephant trainer Dwayne Brake gets two Asian elephants settled in their tent at Westerner Park Thursday. Brake and the elephants Marie, right, and Shelly are both about 40 years old and are a big attraction to the circus that has come to Red Deer this weekend. The Royal Canadian Circus Spectac 2015 will perform six shows over the weekend. The traditional Big Top Circus features the world famous Wallendas, the Flying Cortes Family, the Motor Cycle Globe of Fire, and the Zerbini Liberty Horses and Elephants, Aerial Artistry, comedy and of course clowns. On Friday May 1st the show goes at 7:30 p.m. Saturday there are shows at noon, 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Tickets are available on site or online at www.royalcanadiancircus.ca

Metalhead urges youth to vote April 30 - May 3

Election too close to call

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Take it from a metalhead: Young Albertans need to protect their own interests by voting in Tuesday’s provincial election.

Justin Shadows, the bellowing vocalist of Red Deer groove metal band Leave the Living, is tired of seeing rising tuition fees, cuts to education, and other costs borne by the young.

Government leaders are sticking it to younger people because they can, said the 35-year-old fatherof-three.

He noted politicians know those in their late teens and early 20s won’t get them into office because most don’t vote. The majority of seniors do — that’s why older Albertans get new perks at budget time, while young people end up paying more and more for things like university and college tuitions and now health care, he said.

According to Statistics Canada, only about 30 per cent of Albertans age 18 to 24 vote, compared to nearly 70 per cent of people age 65 to 74.

“I want people to make an informed choice,” and then cast a ballot, said Shadows (it is his legal last name).

Listeners who can make out the lyrics on Leave the Living’s new debut full-length album, Pacifist — despite Shadows’s low-register screaming — will find some pretty political themes.

The song Manifesto rails against “the one per cent,” who have a vastly disproportionate amount of wealth, compared to the rest of the population.

“I really believe there’s enough resources for everybody if we just stopped letting a few people hoard it all. ...

“For some reason, we continue to let them rule the world,” said Shadows.

LACOMBE-PONOKA

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Blackfalds mayor and self-confessed political junkie Melodie Stol has run a political election pool for years.

However, she’s having a tough time finding takers willing to hazard a guess on how many seats each party will win this time around. Only five have made their guesses so far compared to the usual 25 poolers.

At the local Lacombe-Ponoka riding level, the winner is no easier to call.

Stol admits to having “no clue at this point” which way it will go.

She suspects many are in the same boat, and tonight’s election forum at the Blackfalds Multiplex at 7 p.m. could be decisive night for a lot of voters.

As a municipality, Blackfalds needs a strong voice in the legislature who can line up the money for a much-needed regional sewer line and will lobby to ensure educational support doesn’t lag behind its fast-growing population, she says.

Two schools are in the works, but the community is adding 70 to 100 new students during every school year and operational funding needs to keep up.

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The title track skewers political complacency — people who spend their weekends drinking in front of the TV instead of seeing the big picture.

“I have always voted at every level of government, municipal provincial and national,” said the vocalist, who believes it’s the only way of trying to ensure his interests are taken into account.

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PSAC DRILLING FORECAST

2015 projection cut in half

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Nobody was expecting good news to come out of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada’s midyear drilling forecast update, which took place on Thursday in Calgary.

But some might have been taken aback by just how bad the news was.

The national trade association, which represents more than 230 service, supply and manufacturing companies in the upstream petroleum sector, has cut by nearly half its prediction of the number of wells that will be drilled in 2015.

It’s now projecting 5,320 — 47 per cent fewer than the 10,100 wells it was anticipating just six months ago, and a 53 per cent drop from the 11,255 wells that were actually drilled in 2014.

“Oil prices dropped from an average of US$84.40 in October 2014 to an average of US$47.83 in March 2015,” said PSAC president and CEO Mark Salkeld.

“It’s no surprise that an almost 44 per cent drop in oil prices has led us to forecast a similar decline in drilling activity for the year, compared to our October 2014 forecast.”

Tumbling oil prices prompted PSAC to revise its 2015 forecast in January, when it adjusted the figure downward to what then seemed like a rock-bottom 7,650 wells.

Please see PSAC on Page A2

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff-

Elephant trainer Dwayne Brake gets two Asian elephants settled in their tent at Westerner Park Thursday. Brake and the elephants Marie, right, and Shelly are both about 40 years old and are a big attraction to the circus that has come to Red Deer this weekend. The Royal Canadian Circus Spectac 2015 will perform six shows over the weekend. The traditional Big Top Circus features the world famous Wallendas, the Flying Cortes Family, the Motor Cycle Globe of Fire, and the Zerbini Liberty Horses and Elephants, Aerial Artistry, comedy and of course clowns. On Friday May 1st the show goes at 7:30 p.m. Saturday there are shows at noon, 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Tickets are available on site or online at www.royalcanadiancircus.ca

Metalhead urges youth to vote

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Take it from a metalhead: Young Albertans need to protect their own interests by voting in Tuesday’s provincial election.

Justin Shadows, the bellowing vocalist of Red Deer groove metal band Leave the Living, is tired of seeing rising tuition fees, cuts to education, and other costs borne by the young.

Government leaders are sticking it to younger people because they can, said the 35-year-old fatherof-three.

He noted politicians know those in their late teens and early 20s won’t get them into office because most don’t vote. The majority of seniors do — that’s why older Albertans get new perks at budget time, while young people end up paying more and more for things like university and college tuitions and now health care, he said.

According to Statistics Canada, only about 30 per cent of Albertans age 18 to 24 vote, compared to nearly 70 per cent of people age 65 to 74.

“I want people to make an informed choice,” and then cast a ballot, said Shadows (it is his legal last name).

Listeners who can make out the lyrics on Leave the Living’s new debut full-length album, Pacifist — despite Shadows’s low-register screaming — will find some pretty political themes.

The song Manifesto rails against “the one per cent,” who have a vastly disproportionate amount of wealth, compared to the rest of the population.

“I really believe there’s enough resources for everybody if we just stopped letting a few people hoard it all. ...

“For some reason, we continue to let them rule the world,” said Shadows.

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Election too close to call

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

The title track skewers political complacency — people who spend their weekends drinking in front of the TV instead of seeing the big picture.

“I have always voted at every level of government, municipal provincial and national,” said the vocalist, who believes it’s the only way of trying to ensure his interests are taken into account.

Poison Pen blasts listeners about the importance of exercising free speech, how this right should never be taken for granted.

Blackfalds mayor and self-confessed political junkie Melodie Stol has run a political election pool for years.

However, she’s having a tough time finding takers willing to hazard a guess on how many seats each party will win this time around. Only five have made their guesses so far compared to the usual 25 poolers.

At the local Lacombe-Ponoka riding level, the winner is no easier to call.

Stol admits to having “no clue at this point” which way it will go.

She suspects many are in the same boat, and tonight’s election forum at the Blackfalds Multiplex at 7 p.m. could be decisive night for a lot of voters.

As a municipality, Blackfalds needs a strong voice in the legislature who can line up the money for a much-needed regional sewer line and will lobby to ensure educational support doesn’t lag behind its fast-growing population, she says.

Two schools are in the works, but the community is adding 70 to 100 new students during every school year and operational funding needs to keep up.

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Teen pleads guilty to charges in eight robberies

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty to 17 charges, including eight robberies of businesses in Blackfalds and Red Deer last winter.

The youth, who can’t be named because of provisions in the Canada Youth Justice Act, entered the pleas on Thursday. Four other youths are accused in connection to the robberies that the 17-year-old pleaded guilty to.

Another 17-year-old Blackfalds boy charged entered not guilty pleas to armed robbery and being disguised with intent to commit a crime. He set a trial for this June.

Three other Blackfalds boys, two 17 and one 16, had their charges adjourned to later court dates.

The 17-year-old who pleaded guilty to eight robberies was released from custody on strict bail orders, including a mandatory 24-hour house arrest, excepting for being with a parent or probation officer or having a written note from a parent or probation officer. He is also barred from going to any of the stores he admitted to robbing.

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From the left in the front row, Tim Shearlaw, Tony Delcaro and Ivan Brandt work the phones as they solicit donations during the Optimists Clubs Cure For Kids fundraising Radio-A-Thon at Parkland Mall on Thursday. Optimist Clubs throughout Central Alberta joined forces to put on the event to raise money for several youth related charities. The clubs in Sylvan Lake, Blackfalds, Piper Creek, Red Deer and Penhold were involved.

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PSAC: Downgrade The latest figure includes an anticipated 2,976 wells in Alberta. That’s a 48 per cent downgrade from PSAC’s original forecast of 5,740, and a 54 per cent drop from the 2014 tally of 6,512.

In Saskatchewan, the projected count for 2015 has fallen to 1,507 from 3,365. Last year, 3,570 wells were drilled there.

The figure for Manitoba is now 270 wells, down from the original 430 and the 464 that were drilled in 2014.

British Columbia is the exception to the downward trend. PSAC now expects it to produce 560 wells in 2015, as compared with the earlier projection of 555. Last year, 697 wells were drilled in B.C. Although PSAC described the size of its latest adjustment as “astounding,” Salkeld pointed to a silver lining on the dark cloud over the oilpatch.

“The interesting outcome from this downturn will be the innovative actions taken by companies to lower costs and create efficiencies that will better position Canada in the world of energy services, extraction and production. When prices rebound, these companies will be more than ready — no doubt about it.”

PSAC’s latest forecast is based on an anticipated average price for West Texas intermediate crude of US$53 a barrel and for natural gas of C$2.50 per thousand cubic feet. The loonie is expected to be worth about 0.77 of a U.S. dollar.

METAL: Leans to the left Shadows leans to the left politically, favouring solar power over “ripping oil out of the earth and fracking.” He’s also critical of Prime Minister Stephen Harper for selling institutions to foreign interests.

While many fans of heavy metal music lean in the opposite political direction, Shadows doesn’t care which party people support as long as they vote.

He wrote the lyrics on the self-produced indie release Pacifist, while the rest of the band — guitarists Ben Bushido and Josiah Dyck, bassist Steve McGillivray and drummer Sean Higgins — worked out the music on the tracks.

Leave the Living was formed in 2010, when Shadows, then a Bower Place mall store manager, found out a co-worker’s boyfriend was in a heavy metal group that needed a vocalist.

Primed on karaoke, he passed the audition with a growling voice that plumbs the lower registers. Shadows, now manager of The Soundhouse in downtown Red Deer, describes it as “the opposite of falsetto.”

The musicians then lined up guitarist Dyck through Kijiji — and Leave the Living was born.

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After five years of playing together all across Alberta, the musicians, influenced by Pantera and Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, are still tight.

“Being in a band is like having four girlfriends you don’t get to sleep with. It’s a multi-faceted relationship,” said Shadows. “You spend so much time together, sometimes it’s like, man I’m tired of your face. ...” But the quintet regularly gets re-energized through its hardcore music.

For Shadows, the pull of heavy metal has always been its raw, blunt truthfulness. “There’s honest emotion in it, and it’s presented in a very powerful way. It’s made to get your blood pumping.”

Leave the Living performs at the Farmageddon open-air metal festival near Ryley on June 13.

The new Pacifist album is also available through The Soundhouse, bandcamp.com, or at leavetheliving.ca. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

CLOSE: Show a willingness to list to the concerns Regardless of their political stripe, the winning candidate needs to show a willingness to listen to the concerns raised and the leadership to take them to Edmonton.

“We need people who are smart, well read and will listen to all sides of an issue and move them forward appropriately,” she said, adding it is a diverse riding with three large urban populations in the middle of a large rural area.

Ponoka County chief administrative officer Charlie Cutforth has seen a few provincial elections in his day.

But he’s as curious as anyone to see what happens this time around — a race he can’t call with any conviction.

“I wouldn’t put one cent on anything. It’s really hard to say,” says Cutforth.

“I think ... everywhere it’s a crapshoot. I think the general consensus is there is certainly general dissatisfaction with government, period.

“I think most are struggling with what to do and who to vote for. I think this community is probably among the high percentage of undeclared or undecided voters at this point.”

Lacombe-Ponoka riding was part of the Wildrose wave that swept through Central Alberta last election, taking every riding outside of Red Deer from the Progressive Conservatives, who had considered them strongholds for decades.

Young political newbie Rod Fox won the seat for Wildrose. But when former leader Danielle Smith crossed the floor, he was one of eight MLAs to follow.

He paid for that unpopular move — losing the PC nomination to Peter DeWit, a Lacombe businessman.

Cutforth said Lacombe businessman DeWit and Wildrose candidate Ron Orr, a pastor from Clive, are unknown quantities in the Ponoka section of the

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riding so it’s tough to say who might have an edge on election day.

In Lacombe, city councillor and downtown business owner Reuben Konnik expects DeWit will win, but “I think it will be very, very close.”

“I get a sense it could be quite interesting here,” said Konnik, who runs The Culinary Gift Shoppe with his wife Darlene on Lacombe’s historic Main Street.

Fox’s floor crossing created animosity towards the Wildrose, but many conservative-leaning voters don’t have much more love for the PCs in light of the recent budget.

“I get a little bit of sense that people are a little annoyed with conservatives, perhaps.”

Following a recent forum, a number of people were impressed by Alberta Party candidate Tony Jeglum and NDP candidate Doug Hart, both of whom have run before in the riding. Hart has also been endorsed by Alberta Liberals, who chose not to run a candidate in the riding.

The NDP/Liberal challenge may surprise a lot of people on election night and Jeglum may also scoop up some support, he said.

Blaine Dushanek, a realtor and member of the Lacombe Taxpayers Association, also sees an interesting race shaping up. He predicts a Wildrose, NDP, PC finish, which would be a remarkable change in the NDP’s fortunes in the riding, where candidate Hart only picked up about 1.5 per cent of the vote last time.

The association hasn’t endorsed any candidate, but Dushanek said he believes Wildrose is the best choice and he hopes they pick up at least 15 to 20 seats provincewide to form a strong Opposition.

Overall, Dushanek hopes there is some change in the legislature.

“We need to clean house.”

Rod McDermand, a Lacombe County councillor who recently retired from farming near Alix, also believes a lot of minds are not as made up as they once were at this stage of an election.

“I think what I’m hearing is there are probably more people looking at various parties than probably there has been in the past,” he said.

McDermand believes many are confused about what the issues are in this campaign — and why it is happening at all.

“I can’t say there’s any real election fever out there. I don’t think there is,” he says.

“I’d be very surprised if it’s a big turnout — but I could be wrong.”

If he had to bet, he thinks the PCs may come out ahead in a vote for status quo in Lacombe-Ponoka.

“When the lights are really turned on you say, ‘Well, have they really hurt me that much?’ ” It may come down to voters picking they devil they know, he said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Prentice says NDP pipeline RDC defends cuts to policy will mirror Mulcair’s French, Spanish courses EDMONTON — Premier Jim Prentice is ratcheting up warnings of a NDP-governed Alberta, bringing federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair into the fray and saying the party has a “fundamental distrust of business.”

“Make no mistake about the NDP,” he told 1,500 party faithful at a Progressive Conservative fundraising dinner Thursday night.

“When you drill down into the policies that they are putting forward, you realize this not a new NDP. “Fundamentally, the NDP could undermine the heart of Alberta’s economy and we must not let that happen.”

Prentice and the other party leaders have just a few days left to win over the hearts and minds of Albertans, who go to the polls Tuesday.

The PCs had been expected to win handily, but polls throughout the campaign have suggested that Prentice is in a three-way tie with the Wildrose party and the NDP. In recent days, Prentice has criticized the NDP for promising to hike

the corporate tax rate to 12 per cent from 10 per cent and increase income taxes on high-end earners.

NDP Leader Rachel Notley has also promised to review royalty rates and initiate plans to get more refining done within the province.

She has also said her party would fight for pipeline approval, but would marshal limited government resources and fight only for projects that have a realistic chance of success.

Notley has said the proposed Northern Gateway line to the B.C. coast is so tied up in lawsuits and environmental concerns, it is a lost cause because it will not be built for decades, if ever.

Prentice said Notley’s position resembles that of her federal counterparts.

“We don’t need a pipeline policy in this province that feels like it was scripted by (federal NDP Leader) Thomas Mulcair. That is for sure,” said Prentice.

Mulcair has been a polarizing figure on pipelines in Alberta, saying he opposes lines that ship raw product for refining abroad rather than trying to build upgrader jobs in Canada.

‘I suspect the PCs will win’: Nenshi

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary’s mayor refuses to crown a winner when it comes to what Alberta’s political parties will do for cities, but he’s willing to venture a guess on what will happen in next Tuesday’s election.

“I suspect the PCs will win. I don’t know,” Naheed Nenshi said Thursday, later adding that he thinks a minority is possible.

Nenshi held one-on-one meetings with both NDP Leader Rachel Notley and Wildrose Leader Brian Jean earlier in the day.

He was quick to dispel criticisms that Notley is too extreme in her policies and Jean too wooden in his presentation.

“I met Rachel Notley for the first time. She did not terrify me at all,” Nenshi said. “I met Brian Jean for the first time. I didn’t try to cut him to see if he would bleed, but he was not in any way robotic.”

The Progressive Conservatives have attacked Notley over an NDP plan, if

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BRIEF Daughter of former premier Ralph Klein supports NDP A daughter of former Alberta premier Ralph Klein is supporting the NDP in Tuesday’s provincial election.

Angie Klein said Thursday that her famous father may have led the Progressive Conservatives for 14 years, but it’s time for a new government. The Tories have had their turn running the province, and they’re not doing a good job,

the party wins the election, to review royalty rates charged to oil companies.

The Tories say that would be bad for the economy.

Nenshi said he didn’t have any concerns with the NDP leader on that front.

“I suggest that regardless who gets elected, they’ll be able to work with industry,” he said. “No one is dumb enough, no one gets this far in politics, if they’re so dumb to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. But I do think there are different approaches.”

The mayor said none of the parties nailed a 12-question Cities Matter survey given to them about issues ranging from transit to infrastructure funding to flood mitigation.

“You know none of them are my platform,” Nenshi said. “None of them are precisely what I would have said.

“But that’s not really the point. The point is to tease out new ideas and creative innovative solutions. The good news is ... I think all of them would do a pretty decent job. I am actually feeling really good about the choices Albertans have in this election.” she said. Her father, who died in 2013, would have encouraged her to vote for the party of her choice, she said.

“He’d say, ’Go girl,’ I’m sure,” Klein said.

“He was a firm believer in follow your heart and, quite frankly, he was a Liberal when he ran for the PCs.” Klein admitted that she supported the NDP before and even voted for the New Democrats when her dad was in office, although she’s not sure if he ever knew. Klein also appeared in a video set to rock music and posted Thursday on YouTube. Wearing an orange shirt and holding a sign for Edmonton-Centre NDP candidate David Shepherd, she says that she is very proud of many things her father accomplished as premier.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer College is defending its decision to cut both French and Spanish language courses, citing declining enrolment and budgetary pressure.

But faculty are calling the cut shortsighted, saying second languages open doors in global markets.

On Wednesday, staff were notified of the decision to cut the courses. Torben Anderson, RDC interim VP academic, said these are the only programs being cut by the college. But he noted that budgeting would be done on an ongoing basis, meaning program changes could occur during the year.

In total, two full-time positions are being cut and a few part-time positions.

“It’s a combination of circumstances,” said Anderson. “We’re under significant budget pressure and the outlook is for those pressures to increase more and quite significantly over the next few years.

“Frankly, fewer students are choosing to take French or Spanish as electives.”

Ken Heather, faculty association of Red Deer College president, called the move disheartening.

“Administration can’t have it both ways,” said Heather. “For as long as we’ve heard it’s about having programs and meetings needs of the learners

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TEEN: Arrest in March He pleaded guilty to robberies of the Pony Express liquor store in Blackfalds, the 2A liquor store in Blackfalds, an IDA pharmacy, the Glendale Express 24 in Red Deer, Corral Foods in Red Deer, the Highland Green Express 24 in Red Deer and a Fas Gas in Blackfalds. These incidents occurred in January and February. He has been held in custody since his arrest in March.

On top of the eight guilty pleas for robbery, he also entered guilty pleas for three charges of using an imitation firearm in the commission of an offence and four charges of being disguised in the commission of an offence.

Defence counsel Walter Kubanek and Crown prosecutor Blair Brandon told Judge Bert Skinner that they had yet to reach agreement on the facts of the case. As a result, the facts of the eight individual robberies were not

of Central Alberta and then you turn around and say to students in programs that have second languages in them that they have to go to other places and take the language courses in the third and fourth year of their degrees.

“Second languages open doors in global markets.”

The Alberta budget proposed by the Progressive Conservative government before the election included a 1.4 per cent cut to the Campus Alberta operating grant in 2015-16 and a 2.7 per cent cut in 2016-17.

According to the 2013-14 RDC budget, the college received about $57 million in operating grants from the provincial government.

“The course we are eliminating are an important part of what the college has done for many years,” said Anderson. “But they are also courses we’ve seen decline in enrolment. That’s been going on for a few years.”

Anderson said the college will work with students who were enrolled in the courses for the coming semesters to find alternative classes.

“We really regret we’re no longer able to provide these courses any longer,” he said. “We had great curriculum, we had fantastic instructors. It’s not at all an issue of quality, it’s an issue of cost and the number of students choosing to take advantage of these opportunities.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com read into the record and were moved to the sentencing hearing.

Kubanek requested a pre-sentence report. The 17-year-old will next appear in Red Deer youth court on July 30 for sentencing.

The youth who electing to go to trial on armed robbery and disguise charges will do so on June 25 in Red Deer youth court, represented by Patty MacNaughton.

The other 17-year-old’s case, represented by Will Willms, was adjourned to May 21 in Red Deer Youth Court.

The 16-year-old’s case, represented

by Michael Scrase, will occur on May 28.

And the final 17-year-old, represented by student-at-law Jackie Fry, will be back in court on June 4.

Three other Blackfalds boys, aged 14, 16 and 16, made their first appearance in Red Deer youth court on Thursday. They are each charged with two counts of robbery with a weapon for a Feb. 22 incident in Blackfalds in which two men were assaulted and robbed.

All three reserved their pleas and the matter was adjourned to May 21 so the youths had time to obtain counsel. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com the whole child approach

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Conservatives on the run provincial government against Ottawa, the external foe. With all political energy channelled outside the province, opposition parties were in an invidious position: unable to deflect the political gaze to internal problems and issues yet unable to disagree with the government championing Alberta’s interest so valiantly.

This strategy worked well when the Liberals were in power federally, and there were hiccups during the Brian Mulroney era.

However, since 2006 when the Conservatives came to power, the external enemy discourse no longer worked.

Thus it is not surprising that Albertans began to be more aware of and take more interest in what was going on within the province.

What went hand-in-hand with Western alienation was the need to construct a narrative around Alberta’s exceptionalism. The image of the selfreliant, independent Albertan was carefully constructed. This mythical figure was invested with qualities like strong individualism and a fondness for free enterprise — in contrast to Central Canadians, who nuzzled up to the public trough.

The dominant narrative went unquestioned even when Peter Lougheed described his province as the last bas-

BY DOREEN BARRIE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Oh to be a fly on the wall in the Progressive Conservative war room! Although the 2012 election was a sort of dress rehearsal for this one, things are very different this time around.

So what has changed since 2012?

Simple: opposition has been legitimized in the province. Not only have Albertans become accustomed to effective opposition, but they have actually developed a taste for it. The political discourse in this province used to favour the party in power by dismissing opposition as unnecessary or irrelevant.

There’s a long history of non-partisanship in Alberta. Some scholars trace this back to when Alberta was part of the North West Territories. As a colony of the federal government, political autonomy was circumscribed.

The main job of the Territorial government was to petition Ottawa for schools, roads, etc., so there was no need for opposition parties.

For various reasons, the non-partisan sentiment survived and was cultivated for over a century.

In the modern era, it was fuelled by Western alienation which pitted the

tion of free enterprise in the West, while acquiring an airline, investing in Syncrude and unilaterally eliminating the 16.75 per cent ceiling on royalties established by the Social Credit government. It should be pointed out that Albertans were pleased that the Lougheed government “acted like an owner” and championed the public interest.

Internal opposition from the Liberals and New Democrats was neutralized by labelling them free-spending socialists, a position that the media bought into. It was only when the Wildrose Party appeared on the right of the political landscape and began to blast holes in the PC’s credibility that there was a paradigm shift.

Leading up to the 2012 election and in the legislature thereafter, Danielle Smith and her caucus made life very uncomfortable for the government.

Mounting an attack from the right, the dominant narrative ensured that the criticism was taken seriously.

A measure of how accurate this narrative is comes from the reaction of Albertans during the last election campaign.

Faced with the prospect of a government that would put into practice the sort of tough love, market-oriented measures deemed necessary, voters

fled into the arms of Alison Redford, who campaigned as a Red Tory.

No matter, Wildrose must be credited with legitimizing opposition in this province. Suddenly, dissent is legitimate and criticism of government is not treason; instead, it is a healthy part of democracy.

This is the most fundamental difference between 2012 and 2015: Albertans who have witnessed the benefits of effective opposition are no longer as easy to manipulate.

What might happen on Tuesday is impossible to predict because polling now is so unreliable. Will the PCs and Wildrose split the vote leaving an opening for the NDP? Or will the NDP prove a bridge too far for many, providing an opportunity for the beleaguered Liberals (who do have a core of support) or even the fledging Alberta Party?

I won’t hazard a guess as to the outcome. However, it is bound to be the most exciting and unpredictable election this province has had in living memory. This is why worry beads must be in great demand in the PC camp.

Doreen Barrie is a political scientist at the University of Calgary. She is the author of The Other Alberta: Decoding a Political Enigma. This column was supplied

by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Use the ABC voting principal: anybody but Conservative Why would anyone in their right mind want to vote for the Alberta Conservatives under Jim Prentice?

Scandal after scandal after scandal and they still think they deserve the right to manage our provincial affairs.

Now Thomas Lukaszuk and Jonathan Denis are embroiled in two more, adding to the long list of Conservative indiscretions.

This election is completely unwarranted and is costing taxpayers $30 million. An election that was already slated for 2016.

Who’s paying for all the TV and radio ads, the big signs, and the full-page newspaper ads anyway? I’m betting it’s the taxpayers.

This election was called only to get a leg up on the opposition parties before they could mount any effective campaigns.

That is dirty politics at its lowest but it’s also a drain on taxpayers dollars that the Conservatives seem to have little regard for. But it’s gonna backfire on them.

What’s more infuriating is that this $30 million could have gone toward improving our ailing healthcare delivery. Probably just a drop in the bucket to them but every dollar helps.

Prentice says 50 per cent of our provincial budget goes to health care in Alberta. But what percentage of that goes toward duplicate administration jobs?

I’m thinking a very large percentage of the healthcare budget goes to those who have nothing to do with actual health-care delivery.

They’re paper pushers who build empires around themselves to protect their cushy jobs. And that is something that won’t change under the PCs. They’ll just maintain the status quo if they are put back in power. Don’t let that happen. Vote for anyone else.

The Conservatives have broken the majority of their campaign promises for 43 years and have squandered the wealth of this province.

Are we going to continue to let them abuse us and our tax dollars? Geez I hope we have more sense than that.

So I’m urging you to vote Liberal, NDP, Wildrose or Alberta Party. Use the ABC principal (anyone but Conservative).

They need to be sent a message and we need a change in government.

Dale Stuart Red Deer

Why aren’t candidates showing up at forums?

Last night I attended an election forum in Bentley.

I was informed that all candidates were informed well in advance of the date and time.

A crowd in excess of 75 people from the surrounding district were present, yet only one candidate, the independent running for re-election as MLA, Joe Anglin was present to field question from the audience.

I was informed by friends that a forum in Eckville two days previous was treated the same way by both the PC and the Wildrose candidates I wonder if the no shows consider that the electors of the aforementioned communities do not count, or are they afraid to sit in question at the same forum as Anglin?

I wonder if the same is going to happen at the Sundre Forum. I wonder if any questions related to ethics and integrity will be allowed to be asked. A wise man once said “the public generally gets the kind of government that they deserve not necessarily the

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one they want or need,” because we as electors do not demand ethics or integrity from those we elect.

Earl D. Giebelhaus Rimbey

Tories have had long enough; we can’t afford any more blunders For 40 years, the PC Party has directed Alberta and yes, Premier Jim Prentice, we need to take responsibility for that. How many more years should the citizens of Alberta wait until they get it right?

When Prentice arrived it was like a breath of fresh air. Under him the party would put on a new face. Alas, the face is starting to look old again. The government continues to be one that is reactive instead of proactive.

The province is stuck between a rock and a hard place and his grand plan is to nickel and dime us to death with increased fees on everything.

Yes, you would normally expect any government short of funds to increase taxes. But I’m sure I can speak for most Albertans, we expect much more than that from our government. A proactive approach would not increase any fees or taxes. Just as Jim said, there would be no sense in increasing corporate taxes the same rule and principle would apply to working Albertans.

Currently Albertans are taking wage rollbacks or worse yet, getting laid off. Why would you want to add insult to injury by increasing the cost of the goods and services we depend on?

I believe most Albertan’s would agree that it would make more sense to make modest increase in taxes and fees to both personal and corporations when Alberta’s fortunes improve. In the mean time, lean and clean your machine and don’t spend any money on stuff you don’t need. This is what most families do when times get tough. Governments should behave the same, particularly if they are conservative.

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Set aside a fixed percentage of all royalties and subsidize years of low commodity returns. This means that every year a fixed percentage of all royalties are set aside in the fund. During low commodity values, the fund will continue to receive its fixed percentage but will subsidize the budget deficit.

Over the long term, the fund will grow and provide stability versus the roller coaster we continue to ride.

Forever the province has talked about diversifying our economy. The record is broken. For years there hasn’t been a lot of value for natural gas. We’re experts at drilling for gas. But right now, it’s not profitable enough to drill for. But there is value in LNG. LNG facilities are popping up all over the world. We should be at the forefront of this industry but are being left behind in the dust. We can’t get a pipeline built. If Alberta was shipping LNG to Asia, the province wouldn’t be in the bind it is.

Our government has made some long-term projections. We know how successful those have been in the past. There is no reason to believe that it will be any different this time. This is why Prentice is calling an election one year before its four-year mandate.

He says he needs a new mandate from the people to implement his 10-year plan. What he is actually seeking is job security. He is betting that things will only get worse before they get better. One year from now his odds at getting re-elected will be less.

I believe the province is at a critical crossroad and we can’t afford to make any blunders. The people of Alberta have given the PC Party a 40-plus-year mandate. Over those years, it has been shown that time and time again they can’t get it right. Albertans, let’s send a clear message to all politicians that this is not appropriate conduct of our representatives.

We must send all former Wildrose MLAs back to the private sector. Truly all Albertans expect a minimum of respect and that kind of selfish behaviour is not acceptable for our representatives.

Jerry Van Hemert Red Deer

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CANADA Military, judge agree on sexual misconduct problem BUT NOT ON HOW TO SOLVE IT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Being called an ice princess. A slut.

That they only joined the army to find a man.

Those are just some modest examples of the misogynistic, highly sexualized culture that pervades the Canadian military and confronts its female members every day, a long-awaited sexual misconduct review said Thursday.

Eradicating that culture will take time and a concerted effort from military leadership, former Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps said in her report — a conclusion agreed to by top Forces brass.

They part ways, however, on the question of whether the problem can be resolved within the military itself or whether it demands outside help.

A perceived failure on the part of the Forces to adequately understand the extent of the problem in its ranks is what led to Deschamps being called in last year in order to plumb its precise depths.

Her study, given to the military last month but made public Thursday, documented a sexualized culture that new soldiers encounter the minute they join — one so pervasive they eventually become desensitized to it.

The result is an environment where women are afraid to report allegations of sexual harassment or assault because they fear career repercussions or not being believed by their chain of command, the report found.

Deschamps said she was able to document the extent of the problem — far worse than the military had ever previously been willing to acknowledge — mainly because she’s not a soldier.

“The members at present do not have the sufficient confidence to report the incidents and one of the reasons they came to me is that they were confident they were speaking in total anonymity, they were confident they could speak to me,” she said.

“And when I looked outside at other organizations who appeared to have made improvements, they all were independent.”

One of Deschamps’ key recommendations is to take the existing complaint and support process outside the military bureaucracy and create an independent agency, similar to those in the U.S. and Australia.

Gen. Tom Lawson, chief of the defence staff, called the idea “unique,” and “interesting” but one requiring further study.

He refused to commit to establishing such an agency.

“I think what we need to do is look at what provides the proper outcome for our members,” Lawson said.

“There is no discussion on the fact that we un-

derstand the point of Madame Deschamps’ recommendation — that is to provide a different system, a different route, for our members that have found themselves victimized to report.”

Lawson suggested the existing military justice system, as an example, functions independently and is able to handle the complaints that come its way; Deschamps’ study was not given the mandate to look at that system or how it handles allegations of sexual crimes.

In the end, the military only outright accepted two of the report’s 10 recommendations — that they acknowledge there is a problem and that a broad culture shift is required to fix it.

The remainder, which stemmed from the creation of the independent centre as the place to further overhaul existing policies and systems, were only accepted on principle.

The Forces said they are conducting several reviews to determine best practices and are promising public updates on their progress by fall.

The report — which Lawson called disturbing — involved over 700 interviews.

It detailed rape jokes, innuendo and crude, casual references to female genitalia as some of the incidents faced by soldiers. It also provided an insight into the perpetrators.

“For example, a commonly held attitude is that, rather than be a soldier, a sailor or an aviator, a woman will be labelled an ’ice princess,’ a ’bitch’ or a ’slut,”’ the report said.

One male participant told her: “Girls that come to the Army know what to expect.”

Maj-Gen. Christine Whitecross, who is leading the team organized by the military to respond to the report, recalled that when she joined the military, she too encountered such attitudes.

Things have improved over time, but there is a long way to go, she said, echoing her colleagues’ description of their work as a “no-fail mission.”

“Every young woman and young man who dreams of being a part of the Canadian Armed Forces depends on it,” she said.

“We will not let any of them down.”

Committing only to more study isn’t going to change a culture, said NDP defence critic Jack Harris.

“If it’s such a serious, systemic problem throughout the military, from the bottom to the top, then how many more women have to be victims of sexual assault or abuse before this military is able to change its culture?” Harris said.

“That’s not something that’s going to happen overnight. They’re clearly failing to treat this as a major crisis, a major crisis of human rights and women’s rights.”

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Shoal Lake 40 was cut off from the mainland a century ago to build an aqueduct which supplies the city of Winnipeg with fresh water.

The reserve, which straddles the Ontario-Manitoba border, has no all-weather road and has been under a boil-water advisory for 17 years.

Without the ferry, people on the man-made island have no way to get groceries or bottled water.

Chief Erwin Redsky says normal life on the reserve is virtually impossible.

He says the community’s survival is at stake and the federal government needs to step in immediately with a permanent solution.

Chretien meets Putin in Moscow, in face of Harper isolation: report OTTAWA — The Harper government wants to know what former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien said in his meeting Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

And Defence Minister Jason Kenney said he hopes Chretien used the opportunity to deliver the same message the Conservatives always send these days to the Russian leader — get out of Ukraine.

The reports by Russia’s news agency that Chretien met Putin in one of his palaces near Moscow on Thursday appeared to catch the Conservatives offguard.

The meeting was a slap to the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which has moved to politically isolate the Russian leader, blaming him for the unrest in Ukraine and Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year.

“I haven’t been briefed on what happened. I’m not sure if Mr. Chretien has chosen to brief our mission in Moscow. We would be curious to know what was discussed,” Kenney said during a symposium in Ottawa on Canada’s security relations with the European Union.

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“We would hope that Mr. Chretien would have taken — availed himself — of the opportunity to convey the same message.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Ducks 6 Flames 1 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jonas Hiller was pulled after allowing three goals in the first 22:13 as the Calgary Flames dropped the opening game of their second-round series against the Anaheim Ducks 6-1 on Thursday night.

Corey Perry had two goals and two assists and Ryan Getzlaf scored once and set up three more for the Ducks, who showed no signs of rust after an eight-day layoff following their sweep of the Winnipeg Jets. Emerson Etem, Matt Beleskey and Patrick Maroon also scored.

Perry has an NHL-best 11 points this post-season.

Sam Bennett had the Flames’ lone goal at 9:16 in the third period, the rookie’s third of the postseason.

Hiller, the Ducks’ goaltender from 2007 to 2014 before signing with the Flames as a free agent this

Anaheim Ducks’ Ryan Getzlaf, left, shoots to score against Calgary Flames goalie Karri Ramo, right, during the third period of Game 1 in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, Thursday, in Anaheim, Calif.

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Hiller made 11 saves, and Ramo stopped 18 shots.

Frederik Andersen made 23 saves for the Ducks.

Game 2 is Sunday night at Honda Center.

Micheal Ferland absorbed several big hits in the first period and did not return to the game, while Jiri Hudler left in the second.

The Flames’ best chance to stave off the rout came on their first shot, a Josh Jooris breakaway just 2:05 into the game.

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Beleskey put the Ducks on top 1-0 at the 10:17 mark of the first period, capitalizing on a gaping net thanks to a pass from Kyle Palmieri. Maroon doubled the lead 2:54 later with a backhand goal.

That dominance, including a 12-8 advantage in shots, might have been even more pronounced if not for two minor penalties to Perry. The Flames managed only one shot with the man advantage in the first, and have scored on only 1-of-9 power plays away from home this post-season.

Etem converted a Francois Beauchemin miss into the Ducks’ fourth goal midway through the second period, Perry added his second of the game 44 seconds into the third period on the power play, and Getzlaf piled on 2:48 later with another power-play goal.

Henderson’s faith helps him in cancer battle

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Paul Henderson has not let his cancer slow him down.

The 72-year-old hockey legend has been battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia since 2009, but thanks to a risky experimental drug trial the cancer is being held at bay.

What’s important though, is that with his faith he did not let the diagnosis change who he is.

“We have learned to be thankful for the day and enjoy today, because nobody knows the future,” he said. “I’m really fortunate, I have a great wife and family and we’ve decided that cancer is not going to define us.”

On Thursday night he was at the Black Knight Inn speaking at the Red Deer Regional Catholic Education Foundation’s sixth annual fundraiser sponsorship event.

Henderson is best known for his improbable winning goal against the Russians in Game 8 of the Summit Series. The moment is etched in the minds of hockey fans across the country and being introduced to new ones on a daily basis.

But his fight now is an almost more improbable

one.

Three years ago, against his oncologists advice, he flew to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD., to take part in a clinical drug trial. While he is not cured, he is as healthy as he has been since the diagnosis, even putting back on 25 pounds.

“The only option I had here was chemotherapy, but I knew my body would never handle that well,” he said. “It was a bit of a gamble. There’s 56 of us in this trial, but nobody gets a placebo and I’m really doing well.

“I still have cancer, it is not a cure, but it’s what we call sleeping with the bear. If we can keep the bear in hibernation ... it’s a one day at a time type deal.”

Henderson has been a regular on the public speaking circuit for years speaking at everything from fundraisers, like Thursday, to school assemblies. Despite the cancer, he is as busy as ever.

There are two distinctly different reactions he gets, depending on the demographics of the audience.

For the older generations, he’s able to transport them back to 1972, the names, the events, the games, the stakes instantly recognizable.

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Hockey legend Paul Henderson attended the Red Deer Regional Catholic Education Foundation Gala dinner at the Black Knight Inn on Thursday.

Brandon goes home with chokehold on series with Hitmen Once the first domino fell, the rest, apparently, on, or after we score a goal, we have to get back to were sure to follow. our game and re-set.”

Brandon Wheat Kings winger Braylon Shmyr set For now, though, the Hitmen have to focus on off a landslide of second-period goals merely staying alive.

Wednesday night at the Saddledome, his “They’re a good team in their building,” marker at 10:38 of the middle frame beHitmen star forward Adam Tambellini told ing the first of four tallies by the visitors Fisher. “They proved that all year. But we within a span of 5:50. need to go there and steal a game.”

The outburst turned an otherwise And that’s just to get the series back to competitive game into a rout as the visitCalgary. The Hitmen will have to win twice ing Wheat Kings rolled to an 8-3 win over at Brandon if they are to battle all the way the Calgary Hitmen and grabbed a 3-1 back. chokehold on the Eastern Conference ● Rocky Mountain House native and final series. former Red Deer midget AAA Optimist Game 5 goes tonight in Brandon.

Chiefs forward Layne Bensmiller opened The Hitmen were basically clueless the scoring 13:46 into Wednesday’s contest as to why the game got away from them with his first goal of the playoffs. The goal GREG in the second period. provided the Hitmen with their first lead of MEACHEM “I don’t know if you can narrow it the series. down to one thing,” Calgary captain Ken● Elsewhere Wednesday, the visiting ton Helgesen told Scott Fisher of the Kelowna Rockets held off a late and furiCalgary Sun. “They got one on us and we ous push by the Portland Winterhawks and weren’t able to follow it up with a good shift. held on for a 3-2 win to even their Western Confer“We have to learn from that. After we get scored ence final set at two games apiece.

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The ‘Hawks came hard in the final minute with Rockets defenceman Madison Bowey serving a delay of game penalty after shooting the puck over the glass.

And yet, the Rockets captain insisted he wasn’t worried while watching the hosts go to work on a sixon-four power play over the final 56 seconds.

“It bounced kinda weird and as I was shooting it, it flipped up,” Bowey told Doyle Potenteau of the Kelowna Daily Courier, in regards to his penalty.

“It happens. It’s hockey. But to be honest, I really wasn’t nervous in the box. I knew we had the right guys out there and it felt like we couldn’t lose. They got the job done and killed that last minute off.”

The series resumes tonight in Kelowna. ● Nic Petan scored once for Portland in Wednesday’s setback, extending his playoff point streak to 15 games. He also appeared in his 86th career playoff game, leaving him just one off the WHL record held by former Red Deer Rebels forward Shay Stephenson, who suited up for 87 post-season contests from 2000 to 2004.

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HENDERSON: A trip to be part of history When he’s in a school gym, however, it’s quite a bit different.

He’ll pole the crowd to see who’s actually heard of him before that day, and he’s noticed a shrinking minority know who he is. Those that do, it’s because their dad told them or they’ve watched the games on DVD or the Internet.

However, he still gets calls weekly from kids doing research projects on influential Canadians or moments in Canadian history.

Backing up his place in the story of this country is the numerous awards and honours he’s received, including Queen’s Jubilee award, the Diamond Jubilee award, the Order of Canada, the Canada Walk of Fame and is part of both the International Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canada Sports Hall of Fame.

“It is satisfying, it is a trip to be a part of history,” said Henderson. “I think I’ve done a lot with my life that’s very satisfying since I’ve quit hockey.”

But the game today is about as recognizable to him as his name is to the younger kids.

Everything has changed, the players are bigger, faster, stronger and paid far more money, while the game has evolved strategically and tactically.

He’s not even 100 per cent sure he could play at today’s top level, despite a pro career that spanned 19 years, split mostly between the NHL and the World Hockey Association. Between the two leagues, he combined for 1,067 games, 367 goals and 384 assists.

“In your mind you always think you could play, but you have to be a totally different hockey player today than I was in my hey day,” said Henderson. “I think I came a long at just the right time.”

He does still watch hockey, though when it’s the NHL rarely for more than a period at a time. His attention is more on minor hockey.

He and his wife Eleanor live minutes away from two of their five grandchildren in Oakville, Ont., and can often be found at hockey rinks throughout the Toronto area.

“I haven’t been to a Leafs game in four years but I’ve seen 100 of my grandsons’, my wife and I love going,” said Henderson.

His grandchildren, however, fully understand who their grandfather is and what his goal meant for Canada and the game.

“The 14-year-old (Alton) always wore 19 and he has a younger brother (Logan) who’s 10, and we thought he’d want to wear 19 too, like his big brother, and on his own, he said ‘No I want 72,’” said Henderson, who also wore 19 during his playing career.

He has a picture of the two in their jerseys with their backs turned, spelling out 1972 in their numbers that has a prominent place in his den, his “Soul Space.”

His home life is a busy one.

For the past 31 years he has been running a ministry called Leader Impact that helps people find their spiritual roots — a group that has spread from three people in Toronto to 45 cities in three different countries. Meanwhile he and his wife also regularly speak at marriage seminars, something he proclaims to be an expert in only because of the mistakes he has made over the last 52 years, “so I can tell people what not to do,” he said with a laugh.

The doctors have not given Henderson a prognosis for how long he has left, and his legacy is secured in Canadian history books. But he is still focused on getting the most out of what time he has left.

“I want to finish well,” he said. “There’s so many people that start off and do a great job but then they screw up down the road, and there’s nothing worse, it’s tragic.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

INSIDER: Silvertips hope to reel in big fish ● If the Everett Silvertips can reel in the big fish in their sights during the off-season, their advertising slogan for the 2015-16 WHL campaign will be clear — Coming soon to a rink near you: Auston Matthews.

The ‘Tips selected the 17-year-old from Phoenix in the third round of the 2012 bantam draft, his stock teetering at that point because of his indecision regarding which path he will follow.

Matthews, considered one of the premier hockey prospects in the world, is still undecided as to whether he will play for Everett next season or take his talents to the NCAA. Although he has yet to visit any of the schools, he’s reportedly narrowed his choices to Boston College, Boston University, Denver, Michigan and North Dakota.

Currently with the U.S. national team development program’s under-18 team, Matthews visited Everett last summer and has stated publicly that he’s 50-50 on coming to the WHL or playing at a U.S. college.

So great are the youngster’s talents that ‘Tips general manager Garry Davidson told Nick Patterson of the Everett Herald that Matthews would make an instant impact with the team if he chooses to head to the Pacific Northwest.

“I think he would be what we call a ‘seven’ in our business: a franchise player,” said Davidson. “I think the Matthews decision can make a big difference in a lot of ways. It could have an impact on us getting Euros, it could have an impact on anyone on our (protected) list. They could see it being a real plus to be here next year if (Matthews) is here.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The tough part about making history is always the encore.

The Lindsay Thurber Raiders senior girls rugby team became the first tier I team in the region to medal at provincials, finishing with a bronze in 2014.

As always at the high school level, there has been turnover on the roster, but they started out their march back to the Alberta championships in style with a 48-5 win over the Hunting Hills Lightning on Wednesday.

“Our girls are still learning, but we do have six really good Grade 12s that played last year on the provincial team, so we expect them to do well,” said Raiders head coach Bill Bowd.

Though there are a number of new faces on the roster, they are stocked with nine Grade 12 players overall, including Sarah Thomas, MacKenzie Tiltstra, Reece McGuire, Molly Romhor, Michaela Harvey, Emily Rittammer, Shaelyn Moltzahn, Bretton Bowd and Cassey Greenwood. It is a talented foundation for them to build off of this year.

Stepping up in their win over Hunting Hills was Romhor with tries while Thomas and McGuire both had two tries.

At this level, that depth is going to be extremely important.

“We have a really strong forward pack, they move the ball well, they carry the ball well,” said Bowd.

However, they are not where they want to be just yet, and have a full season to develop ahead of them.

They have a number of girls on the roster that have taken up rugby for the first time, but there Bowd says there is a lot of potential among their young players.

“For a lot of them this is only their second game, and they’ve al-

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Captials 2 Rangers 1 NEW YORK — Joel Ward wanted Alex Ovechkin to hear him over the din at Madison Square Garden.

So, the depth forward screamed at his superstar teammate.

Maybe he should do it more often.

Ward got Ovechkin’s attention and drove the Russian’s feed past Henrik Lundqvist with 1.3 seconds left to give the Washington Capitals a 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday night in Game 1 of their second-round series.

“I took a hard whack at it and it went in,” Ward said.

After the goal was confirmed by replay, Ovechkin kissed Ward on the cheek.

“I heard (Ward) screaming so loud,” Ovechkin said. “I just wanted to throw the puck (to him). As soon as I went to the bench and I saw the replay, it was a clear goal.

We’ll take it.”

Following a mostly ceremonial faceoff, the teams skirmished at centre ice, sparked by New York’s displeasure that Nicklas Backstrom wasn’t penalized for hitting

the regular season.”

In the first period, with New York centre Dominic Moore in the penalty box for holding, Ovechkin carried the puck into the offensive zone and whipped a shot past Lundqvist from the top of the left circle for his third goal of the playoffs.

In 27 career playoff games against the Rangers, Ovechkin has 11 goals and 10 assists. He led the NHL during the regular season with 53 goals, 25 power-play goals and 11 game-winning goals.

Ovechkin’s goal was Washington’s first playoff score against Lundqvist in 138:13 dating to Game 6 of the 2013 Eastern Conference quarterfinals.

“He’s a rare talent in this league,” Trotz said about Ovechkin. “He’s very similar to Mark Messier. Those rare talents that can play a very heavy game (and) intimidate you with speed. He can intimidate you with his skill and his physicality.”

Holtby was aided by some misfires from New York’s shooters.

In the second, Carl Hagelin pushed Fast’s cross-ice feed wide of the net. Later in the period, Derick Brassard couldn’t jam a loose puck in the crease past Holtby.

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Dan Boyle from behind on the play that led to Ward’s goal. To a man, the Rangers acknowledged that they let up, expecting referees Chris Rooney and Kelly Sutherland to blow the play dead.

“I saw (Boyle) get hit (and) go down,” defenceman Ryan McDonagh said. “I kind of hesitated.”

Ovechkin opened the scoring with a power play goal with 1:47 remaining in the first period. Jesper Fast tied it with 4:39 left in the third, tipping Kevin Hayes’ point shot past goalie Braden Holtby.

Holtby made 31 saves, and Lundqvist stopped 27 shots.

Game 2 is Saturday in New York.

“I don’t care,” New York coach Alain Vigneault said, when asked if the 12:30 p.m. start for Game 2 could benefit his team. “We’ll play whatever time the game is.”

The Capitals ended a two-game losing streak against New York in the playoffs. Washington also lost three of the four regular-season meetings with the Rangers.

“They’re a very talented team,” Capitals coach Barry Trotz said about the Rangers, who finished the regular season with the most wins in franchise history. “There’s a reason that they finished No. 1 in

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“That was our goal last year, we had a real strong veteran team and we wanted to finish in the top three,” said Bowd. “If we’re improving along the way we could end up in provincials and once you get to provincials it’s a whole new ball game.”

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ready picked up what we want to do as a team and they are running the way we want them to run,” he said.

One of the big areas Bowd says they need to improve is ball control, especially among their backs while their tackling also needs to get better.

“If we get against a team that has a good forward pack and can keep it with that forward pack and they get into our backs, we could get into a little bit of trouble there,” he said.

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Wild look to breakthrough against Blackhawks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Five games in 2013, a small speed bump in Chicago’s run to the Stanley Cup title. Six games in 2014, a more difficult challenge for the Blackhawks.

Now the Minnesota Wild are in the second round for the second straight post-season, and standing in the way is their usual playoff roadblock. And even they are interested to see how they respond, beginning with Game 1 on Friday night in Chicago.

“We think we’re in a better place, but we won’t know until after,” coach Mike Yeo said. “All we have is an opportunity to keep pushing and prove that we are better and that we’re up to the task of knocking off a great hockey team.”

Minnesota was in a bad spot during a six-game slide in January that dropped the Wild to 18-19-5. But a trade for goaltender Devan Dubnyk fueled a resurgence that continued with a six-game victory over St. Louis in the first round of the playoffs.

With a deep group of forwards and Dubnyk on the best run of his career, the Wild are looking forward to measuring their progress against one of the league’s traditional powers.

“They’ve been the team to beat, them and L.A., in the Western Confer-

6-foot-5-plus goalie who can see over — you name it,” Bickell said. “We need to get traffic and hopefully we get opportunities that way.”

HOME SWEET HOME: The Blackhawks are 22-4 in their last 26 home playoff games, outscoring their opponents 88-54 in that stretch. The Wild are winless in six post-season games at Chicago, managing just eight goals in those losses.

Minnesota, which won at St. Louis in Game 2 of the first round, will need at least one road win to move on. The good news for the Wild is they were successful on their last trip to the Windy City, with Dubnyk making 32 saves in a 2-1 victory on April 7.

“It’s not a secret, we haven’t had any success there in the playoffs the last couple of years,” Parise said. “It is a hard building. But like we’ve said the last little while and the last round, we’ve been playing well on the road.

That’s a good sign for us.”

MISSING VANEK: Thomas Vanek helped Montreal make it to the Eastern Conference finals a year ago, finishing with five goals and five assists in 17 playoff games. The winger then signed a $19.5 million, three-year deal with Minnesota, but managed just two assists in the first round against the Blues. Getting the veteran scorer untracked against the Blackhawks would provide a big lift for the Wild.

NHL PLAYOFFS ence, they’ve been the teams to beat the last couple of years,” winger Zach Parise said. “When you get a chance, yeah, you see where you’re at. If you want to get out of the West, you have to beat them.”

Chicago is going for its third Stanley Cup championship since 2010. It made it all the way to the conference finals a year ago, but its title defence ended with an epic seven-game loss to the eventual champion Kings.

Fast forward to this season, and the Blackhawks stumbled into the playoffs on a four-game losing streak. But they got Patrick Kane back from a broken collarbone in time for the series opener against Nashville, and their best players rose to the occasion once again in a six-game victory over the Predators.

Jonathan Toews is tied for the NHL lead with eight points in the playoffs, and defencemen Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook each made a couple of big plays in the first round. Mix in more brilliance from Marian Hossa and Kane’s offensive presence, and the Blackhawks had enough to overcome a small goaltender controversy that concluded with starter Corey Crawford back in the net.

“In the Nashville series, I think we

snuck out some games there, but for the most part we improved in a lot of areas and I think that’s good news for us, but we’re excited for the challenge,” Toews said.

Here are a few more things to watch when the Wild and Blackhawks meet: THOSE SPECIAL, SPECIAL TEAMS: Minnesota leads the NHL in powerplay percentage through the first round of the post-season, converting four of its 12 tries against St. Louis. Chicago allowed a league-worst six power-play goals against Nashville. Special teams, always a crucial part of the playoffs, could take on added importance in this series between familiar foes.

STOPPING BRYAN BICKELL: For all the talk about Toews, Kane and the rest of Chicago’s biggest stars, Bryan Bickell has really hurt the Wild over the years. The rugged winger had four goals and two assists in last year’s playoff series against Minnesota, and then collected four goals and an assist in five games versus the Wild this season.

When Bickell is playing well, he gives Chicago a physical presence in front of the net. If Dubnyk has any difficulty with rebound control, Bickell could present a problem for Minnesota.

“With Dubnyk in the net, he’s a

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McLellan, Richardson among candidates in Sabres coaching search

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — Former San Jose Sharks coach Todd McLellan and minor-league coach Luke Richardson are among the initial candidates being considered by the Buffalo Sabres, two people familiar with the coaching search tell The Associated Press.

And the list is expected to grow in what is anticipated to be a lengthy coaching search process, said the people who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Sabres are not commenting on their search to replace Ted Nolan, who was fired a day after the season ended on April 12.

No interviews have taken place yet.

And the search, being led by general manager Tim Murray, isn’t expected to speed up until at least next week, when Sabres owner Terry Pegula can turn his attention away from the NFL draft, one of the people said. Pegula and his wife Kim purchased the Buffalo Bills in October.

Red Wings coach Mike Babcock could become a candidate if he does not re-sign with Detroit. The Red Wings’ season ended Wednesday after losing to Tampa Bay in Game 7 of their first-round series. Babcock has completed the final year of his contract.

In previously refusing to discuss his status, Babcock said he intends to

provide an update during his end-ofseason news conference.

McLellan and the Sharks mutually parted ways on April 20, after San Jose missed the playoffs for the first time since 2003. McLellan had a 311-163-66 record in seven seasons in San Jose.

Richardson is a former NHL defenceman, who has spent the past three seasons coaching the Ottawa Senators AHL affiliate in Binghamton. He has ties to Murray. The Sabres GM was working as the Senators assistant general manager when he hired Richardson to take over in Binghamton.

The Sabres are rebuilding from scratch and coming off their second consecutive last-place finish.

In firing Nolan, Murray said he had difficulty establishing a good working relationship with the former coach over the past year. Murray called it a priority to have a comfort level when it comes to hiring his next coach.

Richardson certainly fits that category, while Babcock and Murray have ties that go back to Anaheim in 2002.

Babcock coached the Ducks from 200204, when Murray served as the team’s player personnel director.

Babcock would become a highly sought after coaching candidate should he become a free agent. He coached the Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup in 2008, and has a 458-223-105 regular season record.

Ovechkin, Price, Tavares finalists for Hart

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Washington forward Alex Ovechkin, Montreal goalie Carey Price and New York Islanders forward John Tavares are the finalists for the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s player most valuable player.

Members of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association submitted ballots at the end of the regular season, with the top three designated finalists and announced Wednesday. The winner will be announced June 24 at the league’s awards ceremony in Las Vegas.

Ovechkin won the award in 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2012-13. The Russian star scored 53 goals to top the NHL for the third straight season and fifth time overall. He finished with 81 points — his most since 2010-11 — to lead the Capitals to their seventh playoff berth in the past eight seasons.

Price led the NHL in wins (44), goals-against average (1.96) and save percentage (.933), becoming the first to top all three categories since Ed

Belfour in 1990-91. Tavares had career highs in goals (38) and points (86).

Goalies Devan Dubnyk of Minnesota and Andrew Hammond of Ottawa and defenceman Kris Letang of Pittsburgh are finalists for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy as NHL player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.

The local chapters of the Professional Hockey Writers Association submitted nominations at the end of the regular season and the top three vote-getters were announced Thursday as finalists. The winner will be announced June 24 during the NHL awards ceremony in Las Vegas.

Dubnyk led Minnesota to the playoffs following a trade with Arizona. He set a franchise record with 38 straight starts, going 27-9-2 with a 1.78 goalsagainst average, .936 save percentage and five shutouts with Minnesota. Dubnyk also is a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as the top goalie.

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With Red Wings out of playoffs, Babcock sweepstakes could heat up General managers, prepare your pitches and owners, open your chequebooks. The Mike Babcock sweepstakes could begin any time now.

The Detroit Red Wings were eliminated from the playoffs with a 2-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 on Wednesday night. Immediately the attention turned to Babcock, the hottest coaching free agent on the market.

In his post-game news conference, Babcock declined to directly address his future but left clues he may not be long for Detroit. Babcock wondered aloud who’s going to replace 37-yearold star Pavel Datsyuk down the road, and that same question can be asked for 35-year-old captain Henrik Zetterberg and 34-year-old defenceman Niklas Kronwall.

“Any way you look at it, we’re a team that’s changed a ton of players, we’re a team that’s added a lot of youth to our lineup, and right now on the outside they don’t pick us as a Stanley Cup contender,” Babcock told reporters at Amalie Arena.

Babcock won a Cup with Detroit in 2008 and reached the final in 2009. Before that he got to within one victory of the title in 2003 with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

Throw in two Olympic gold medals with Canada and even though he has never won the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year, Babcock is at the top of just about every list for teams with vacancies. Babcock is considered the best in the business.

“Something I’ve recognized is just his Xs and Os, he understands the game very well,” Detroit defenceman Brendan Smith said Monday at Joe Louis Arena. “He’s got great practices, he gets you prepared in that sense. For the most part he can analyze the game very well.”

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Sabres and San Jose Sharks. Other jobs could also come open like if Dave Tippett and the Arizona Coyotes part ways, the Boston Bruins fire Claude Julien or the Edmonton Oilers decide to move on from interim coach Todd Nelson.

If Babcock is looking to join a Cup contender sooner rather than later, he wouldn’t be a fit in all of those spots.

The Leafs could back up a dump truck full of money to his Saskatoon house, but a rebuilding effort may take the lustre off coaching in Toronto.

Buffalo is starting from the bottom with Jack Eichel and Edmonton with Connor McDavid. Those stars make the Sabres more attractive, and owner Terry Pegula can shell out enough to make Babcock the highest-paid coach, but it still could be some time before they contend.

After firing first-time head coach Craig Berube, the Flyers could be in the market for Babcock.

“You’re looking for the coach that fits your team, obviously (who) thinks the same way to some degree,” Flyers GM Ron Hextall said on a recent conference call. “In the end we’re looking for the guy who can take this group to another level not only short term, but long term.”

Philadelphia missing the playoffs two of the past three seasons and a blue-line makeover could scare Babcock off. But owner Ed Snider would certainly pony up if he thinks Babcock can make the difference.

His ability to be a difference-maker outside the salary cap is what makes Babcock the top candidate in so many places. A big-budget team like Toronto or Boston could spend more than perhaps Detroit is willing to on Babcock’s next contract.

Wherever he goes, Babcock should become the highest-paid coach, surpassing Joel Quenneville of the Chicago Blackhawks (US$2.75 million).

Depending how high Babcock sets the bar, former Sharks coach Todd McLellan may even be a $3 million coach as everyone’s second choice.

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Saracens at Red Deer Titans 1:45 p.m., Titans Park. ● 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.

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Saturday ● Women’s first division rugby: Calgary Canadian Irish Club at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park. ● Men’s third division rugby:’ Calgary

● 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 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 111, L.A. Clippers 107 Thursday, April 30: L.A. Clippers 102, San Antonio 96 Saturday, May 2: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 6 p.m.

NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 3, 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: Atlanta 107, Brooklyn 97 Friday, May 1: Atlanta at Brooklyn, 6 p.m. x-Sunday, May 3: Brooklyn at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Memphis 4, 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: Memphis 99, Portland 93

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

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Chicago 4, 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 119, Milwaukee 66

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland vs. Chicago Monday, May 4: Chicago at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, May 6: Chicago at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Friday, May 8: Cleveland at Chicago, TBD Sunday, May 10: Cleveland at Chicago, 1:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 12: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD x-Thursday, May 14: Cleveland at Chicago, TBD

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 Houston vs. L.A. Clippers-San Antonio winner Monday, May 4: L.A. L.A. Clippers-San Antonio winner at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 6: L.A. Clippers-San Antonio winner at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 8: Houston at L.A. Clippers-San Antonio winner, TBD Sunday, May 10: Houston at L.A. Clippers-San Antonio winner, TBD x-Tuesday, May 12: L.A. Clippers-San Antonio winner at Houston, TBD x-Thursday, May 14: Houston at L.A. Clippers-San Antonio winner, TBD

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 3, L.A. Clippers 3 Sunday, April 19: L.A. Clippers 107, San Antonio 92 Wednesday, April 22: San Antonio 111, L.A. Clippers 107, OT

Golden State vs. Memphis Sunday, May 3: Memphis at Golden State, 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 5: Memphis at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 9: Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 11: Golden State at Memphis, 7:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 13: Memphis at Golden State, TBD x-Friday, May 15: Golden State at Memphis, TBD

Golf Match Play Championship At Harding Park Golf Course San Francisco Yardage: 7,127; Par: 71 First Round Thursday (Seedings in parentheses) Thongchai Jaidee (44) def. Jim Furyk (5), 3 and 1.

George Coetzee (59) def. Martin Kaymer (17), 19 holes.

J.B. Holmes (12) def. Russell Henley (45), 19 holes.

Brooks Koepka (19), def. Marc Warren (51), 20 holes.

Bubba Watson (4) def. Keegan Bradley (33), 4 and 2.

Louis Oosthuizen (29) def. Miguel Angel Jimenez (63), 2 up.

Rickie Fowler (13) def. Shane Lowry (47), 1 up.

Harris English (55) def. Graeme McDowell (32), 2 and 1.

Charl Schwartzel (37) def. Dustin Johnson (8), 20 holes.

Matt Jones (58) def. Victor Dubuisson (21), 2 up.

Paul Casey (36) def. Adam Scott (9), 1 up.

Chris Kirk (25) def. Francesco Molinari (64), 2 and 1.

Rory McIlroy (1) def. Brandt Snedeker (35), 2 up.

Billy Horschel (18) def. Jason Dufner (53), 3 and 2.

Hideki Matsuyama (16) def. Joost Luiten (43), 2 up.

Kevin Na (20) def. Alexander Levy (52), 3 and 1.

Justin Rose (6) def. Anirban Lahiri (34), 19 holes.

Marc Leishman (56) def. Ryan Palmer (22), 4 and 3.

Jimmy Walker (11) def. Webb Simpson (46).

Gary Woodland (50) def. Ian Poulter (27), 3 and 2.

Henrik Stenson (3) def. Brendon Todd (42), 3 and 2.

John Senden (60) def. Bill Haas (23), 4 and 3.

Matt Kuchar (14) def. Stephen Gallacher (41), 3 and 2.

Hunter Mahan (31) def. Ben Martin (61), 5 and 3.

Branden Grace (38) def. Jason Day (7), 4 and 3.

Charley Hoffman (49) def. Zach Johnson (24), 2

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Bernd Wiesberger (39) def. Sergio Garcia (10), 2 and 1.

Tommy Fleetwood (54) def. Jamie Donaldson (30), 21 holes.

Jordan Spieth (2) def. Matt Every (40), 4 and 3.

Lee Westwood (26) def. Mikko Ilonen (62), 1 up.

Danny Willett (48) def. Patrick Reed (15), 2 and 1.

Andy Sullivan (57) def. Ryan Moore (28), 3 and 2.

LPGA Tour-North Texas Shootout Thursday At Las Colinas Country Club Irving, Texas Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,462; Par 71 (36-35) First Round a-denotes amateur Juli Inkster 33-33 Cristie Kerr 32-34 Sydnee Michaels 33-33 Sandra Gal 36-31 Natalie Gulbis 33-34 Maria Hernandez 34-33 Wei-Ling Hsu 35-32 Karine Icher 33-34 Ryann O’Toole 33-34 Gerina Piller 34-33 Alena Sharp 33-34 Angela Stanford 34-33 Lexi Thompson 34-33 Simin Feng 34-34 Ha Na Jang 33-35 Christina Kim 33-35 Jee Young Lee 33-35 Mirim Lee 32-36 Jane Park 34-34 Paula Reto 33-35 Michelle Wie 34-34 Amy Yang 34-34 Perrine Delacour 34-35

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Football 2015 NFL Draft Selections At Chicago First Round 1. Tampa Bay, Jameis Winston, qb, Florida State.

2. Tennessee, Marcus Mariota, qb, Oregon.

3. Jacksonville, Dante Fowler Jr., lb, Florida.

4. Oakland, Amari Cooper, wr, Alabama.

5. Washington, Brandon Scherff, ot, Iowa.

6. New York Jets, Leonard Williams, de, Southern Cal. 7. Chicago, Kevin White, wr, West Virginia.

8. Atlanta, Vic Beasley, de, Clemson.

9. New York Giants, Ereck Flowers, ot, Miami.

10. St. Louis, Todd Gurley, rb, Georgia.

11. Minnesota, Trae Waynes, db, Michigan State.

12. Cleveland, Danny Shelton, nt, Washington.

13. New Orleans, Andrus Peat, ot, Stanford.

14. Miami, Devante Parker, wr, Louisville.

15. San Diego (from San Francisco), Melvin Gordon, rb, Wisconsin.

16. Houston, Kevin Johnson, db, Wake Forest.

17. San Francisco (from San Diego), Arik Armstead, de, Oregon.

18. Kansas City, Marcus Peters, db, Washington.

19. Cleveland (from Buffalo), Cameron Erving, g, Florida State.

20. Philadelphia, Nelson Agholor, wr, Southern Cal. 21. Cincinnati, Cedric Ogbuehi, ot, Texas A&M. 22. Pittsburgh, Bud Dupree, lb, Kentucky.

23. Denver (from Detroit), Shane Ray, de, Missouri.

24. Arizona, D.J. Humphries, ot, Florida.

25. Carolina, Shaq Thompson, lb, Washington.

26. Baltimore, Breshad Perriman, wr, UCF. 27. Dallas, Byron Jones, db, UConn.

28. Detroit (from Denver), Laken Tomlinson, g, Duke.

29. Indianapolis, Phillip Dorsett, wr, Miami.

30. Green Bay, Damarious Randall. db, Arizona State.

31. New Orleans (from Seattle), Stephone Anthony, lb, Clemson.

32. New England, Malcom Brown, dt, Texas.

Soccer Wednesday, May 6 Los Angeles at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

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

GF 10 8 11 12 6 6 10 5 10 2

GA 7 6 6 6 7 10 11 7 17 6

Pt 14 14 13 11 9 8 6 6 6 2

Western Conference GP W L T 9 5 3 1 8 4 2 2 7 4 2 1 8 3 2 3 8 2 2 4 8 2 2 4 7 3 4 0 8 2 3 3 7 2 2 3 8 1 2 5

GF 11 11 10 9 10 11 7 7 6 7

GA 9 11 5 8 8 12 9 8 9 7

Pt 16 14 13 12 10 10 9 9 9 8

Wednesday’s results New York 1 Colorado 1 Friday’s games Dallas at Houston, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

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English Premier League GP W D L GF Chelsea 34 24 8 2 68 Man. City 34 20 7 7 70 Arsenal 33 20 7 6 63 Man. United 34 19 8 7 59 Liverpool 34 17 7 10 47 Tottenham 34 17 7 10 55 Southampton 34 17 6 11 47 Swansea 34 14 8 12 41 Stoke 34 13 8 13 39 Everton 34 11 11 12 44 West Ham 34 11 11 12 42 Crystal Palace 34 11 9 14 42 West Brom 34 9 10 15 32 Newcastle 34 9 8 17 36 Hull City 34 8 10 16 32 Aston Villa 34 8 8 18 26 Leicester City 34 8 7 19 36 Sunderland 33 5 15 13 26 QPR 34 7 6 21 38 Burnley 34 5 11 18 26

GA Pts 27 80 36 67 32 67 34 65 37 58 49 58 26 57 44 50 42 47 43 44 42 44 47 42 46 37 57 35 45 34 48 32 54 31 49 30 59 27 52 26

Tuesday, April 28 Hull City 1, Liverpool 0 Wednesday, April 29 Leicester City 1, Chelsea 3

Saturday’s games Toronto at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

Columbus at D.C., 5 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

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

Saturday, May 2 Leicester City vs. Newcastle, 1145 GMT Aston Villa vs. Everton, 1400 GMT Liverpool vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1400 GMT Sunderland vs. Southampton, 1400 GMT Swansea vs. Stoke, 1400 GMT West Ham vs. Burnley, 1400 GMT Manchester United vs. West Brom, 1630 GMT

Sunday’s games Chicago at Kansas City, 3 p.m.

Seattle at New York City, 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 3 Chelsea vs. Crystal Palace, 1230 GMT Tottenham vs. Manchester City, 1500 GMT

Tuesday, May 5 San Jose at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, May 4 Hull City vs. Arsenal, 1900 GMT

Brandon (E1) vs. Calgary (C1) (Brandon leads series 3-1) 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 8 Calgary 3 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.

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

Kelowna (BC1) vs. Portland (US2) (Series tied 2-2) Friday, Apr. 24 Kelowna 3 Portland 2 Saturday, Apr. 25 Portland 3 Kelowna 2 Tuesday, Apr. 28 Portland 7 Kelowna 3 Wednesday, Apr. 29 Kelowna 3 Portland 2 Friday, May. 1 Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, May. 3 Kelowna at Portland, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May. 5 x-Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

WHL Playoffs Scoring Leaders G Tambellini, Cal 12 Petan, Por 9 Bjorkstrand, Por 13 Draisaitl, Kel 6 Sanheim, Cal 5 J.Quenneville, Bra 8 Merkley, Kel 2 Baillie, Kel 7 P.Quenneville, Bra 7 McGauley, Bra 5 De Leo, Por 5 Magee, Vic 9 Rankin, Cal 9 Hawryluk, Bra 8 Bowey, Kel 5

Anaheim (1) vs. Calgary (3) (Anaheim leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 30 Anaheim 6 Calgary 1 Sunday, May 3 Calgary at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 5 Anaheim at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 8 Anaheim at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 10 x-Calgary at Anaheim, TBD x — if necessary.

Friday, April 17 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

WHL PLAYOFFS THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7)

A 13 16 11 13 13 9 15 9 9 11 11 6 5 6 9

Pts 25 25 24 19 18 17 17 16 16 16 16 15 14 14 14

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

Thursday’s summaries Ducks 6, Flames 1 First Period 1. Anaheim, Beleskey 1 (Palmieri, Lindholm) 10:17.

2. Anaheim, Maroon 2 (Getzlaf, Perry) 13:11.

Penalties — Perry Ana (cross-checking) 4:22, Bennett Cgy (cross-checking) 6:17, Perry Ana (highsticking) 7:18.

Second Period 3. Anaheim, Perry 4 (Despres, Getzlaf) 2:13.

4. Anaheim, Etem 2 (Beauchemin, Lindholm) 10:11.

Penalties — Thompson Ana (cross-checking) 2:50, Shore Cgy (goaltender interference) 18:50.

Third Period 5. Anaheim, Perry 5 (Getzlaf, Fowler) :44 (pp).

6. Anaheim, Getzlaf 2 (Vatanen, Perry) 2:32 (pp).

7. Calgary, Bennett 3 (Engelland) 9:16.

Penalties — Bollig Cgy (roughing) 1:20, Bollig Cgy (misconduct) 3:03, Jackman Ana (misconduct) 3:03, Bollig Cgy (cross-checking) 3:03, Jackman Ana (cross-checking) 3:03, Jones Cgy (slashing) 13:09.

Shots on goal Calgary 8 8 8 — 24 Anaheim 12 11 12 — 35 Goal — Calgary: Hiller (L, 3-3-0); Anaheim: Andersen (W, 5-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Calgary: 0-3; Anaheim: 2-4.

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

Capitals 2, Rangers 1 First Period 1. Washington, Ovechkin 3 (Carlson, Holtby) 18:13 (pp).

Penalties — Orpik Wash (holding) 13:30, Moore NYR (holding) 17:26, Kreider NYR (high-sticking) 19:39.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Carlson Wash (interference) 0:54.

Third Period 2. NY Rangers, Fast 1 (Hayes, Hagelin) 15:21.

3. Washington, Ward 2 (Ovechkin, Backstrom) 19:58.

Penalties — Wilson Wash (roughing) 20:00, Glass NYR (roughing) 20:00.

Shots on goal Washington 7 10 12 — 29 NY Rangers 12 9 11 — 32 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 4-3-0); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 4-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Washington: 1-2; NY Rangers: 0-2.

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 Vancouver (2) vs. Calgary (3) (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

NHL Scoring Leaders Jonathan Toews, Chi Kevin Shattenkirk, StL Tyler Johnson, TB Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Zach Parise, Minn Corey Perry, Ana Patrick Kane, Chi Duncan Keith, Chi Filip Forsberg, Nash Jiri Hudler, Cgy Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Jakob Silfverberg, Ana John Tavares, NYI Colin Wilson, Nash James Neal, Nash Patrick Sharp, Chi Ryan Kesler, Ana Pavel Datsyuk, Det Jason Pominville, Minn Sean Monahan, Cgy Sami Vatanen, Ana David Jones, Cgy Alex Ovechkin, Wash Craig Smith, Nash Josh Bailey, NYI Mikael Granlund, Minn Mike Ribeiro, Nash Marian Hossa, Chi Nick Leddy, NYI Nino Niederreiter, Minn Evgeny Kuznetsov, Wash Derick Brassard, NYR Tomas Tatar, Det Alex Killorn, TB Brent Seabrook, Chi Michael Ferland, Cgy Kris Russell, Cgy Jason Chimera, Wash Patrik Berglund, StL Sidney Crosby, Pgh Radim Vrbata, Vcr

SECOND ROUND Division Finals EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2) Friday, May 1 Tampa Bay at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Sunday, May 3 Tampa Bay at Montreal, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, May 6 Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Thursday, May 7 Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 9 x-Tampa Bay at Montreal, TBD

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Tampa Bay wins series 4-3) 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 Tampa Bay 2 Detroit 0

N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Washington (2) (Washington leads series 1-0) Thursday, April 30 Washington 2 NY Rangers 1 Saturday, May 2 Washington at NY Rangers, 10:30 a.m.

Monday, May 4 NY Rangers at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 6 NY Rangers at Washington, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, May 8 x-Washington at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Pittsburgh (WC) (NY 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

WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago (3) vs. Minnesota (WC) Friday, May 1 Minnesota at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 3 Minnesota at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 5 Chicago at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 7 Chicago at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 9 x-Minnesota at Chicago, TBD

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

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Pts 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 13 9 .591 Boston 12 10 .545 Tampa Bay 12 10 .545 Baltimore 10 10 .500 Toronto 11 12 .478

GB — 1 1 2 2 1/2

Kansas City Detroit Minnesota Chicago Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 15 7 .682 15 8 .652 10 12 .455 8 11 .421 7 14 .333

GB — 1/2 5 5 1/2 7 1/2

Houston Los Angeles Seattle Oakland Texas

West Division W L Pct 15 7 .682 11 11 .500 10 12 .455 9 14 .391 7 14 .333

GB — 4 5 6 1/2 7 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Yankees 2, 13 innings Detroit 10, Minnesota 7 Baltimore 8, Chicago White Sox 2 Houston 7, San Diego 2 Cleveland 7, Kansas City 5 Boston 4, Toronto 1 Seattle 5, Texas 2 L.A. Angels 6, Oakland 3 Thursday’s Games L.A. Angels 6, Oakland 5 Toronto 5, Cleveland 1 Minnesota 12, Chicago White Sox 2 Kansas City 8, Detroit 1 Houston 3, Seattle 2, 10 innings Friday’s Games Tampa Bay (Colome 0-0) vs. Baltimore (Tillman 2-2) at St. Petersburg, FL, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-4) at Boston (Masterson 2-0), 5:10 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 3-1) at Cleveland (Carrasco 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Kazmir 2-0) at Texas (Lewis 1-2), 6:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Quintana 1-1) at Minnesota (Gibson 1-2), 6:10 p.m.

Detroit (Lobstein 2-1) at Kansas City (C.Young 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Elias 0-0) at Houston (Deduno 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 1-2) at San Francisco (Heston 2-2), 8:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 2:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore at St. Petersburg, FL, 5:05 p.m.

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

Seattle at Houston, 5:10 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Toronto at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore at St. Petersburg, FL, 11:35 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

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

Seattle at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Oakland at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 6:05 p.m.

New York Atlanta Miami Washington Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 15 8 .652 10 12 .455 10 12 .455 10 13 .435 8 15 .348

GB — 4 1/2 4 1/2 5 7

St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 15 6 .714 12 8 .600 12 10 .545 11 11 .500 5 17 .227

GB — 2 1/2 3 1/2 4 1/2 10 1/2

West Division W L Pct 13 8 .619 11 10 .524 11 12 .478 10 11 .476 9 13 .409

GB — 2 3 3 4 1/2

Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona San Francisco

Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 3 Houston 7, San Diego 2 Miami 7, N.Y. Mets 3 Washington 13, Atlanta 4 Pittsburgh 8, Chicago Cubs 1 St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 2 Arizona 9, Colorado 1 L.A. Dodgers 7, San Francisco 3 Thursday’s Games St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 3 Cincinnati 5, Atlanta 1 Washington 8, N.Y. Mets 2 Friday’s Games Milwaukee (W.Peralta 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 0-2), 12:20 p.m.

Philadelphia (Williams 2-1) at Miami (Koehler 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 1-2) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 4-0), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (DeSclafani 2-1) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 0-0), 5:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Burnett 0-1) at St. Louis (Lynn 1-2), 6:15 p.m.

Arizona (R.De La Rosa 2-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Frias 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Colorado (E.Butler 2-1) at San Diego (Kennedy 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 1-2) at San Francisco (Heston 2-2), 8:15 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 2:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

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

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

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Philadelphia at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

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

Cincinnati at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

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

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

Thursday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Los Ang. 001 031 100 — 6 12 1 Oakland 000 000 203 — 5 9 1 Richards, Morin (7), J.Smith (8), Pestano (9), Street (9) and Butera; Chavez, O’Flaherty (6), Otero (6), Cook (7), Clippard (9) and Phegley. W—Richards 2-1. L—Chavez 0-2. Sv—Street (9). HRs—Oakland, Canha (2).

Toronto 000 500 000 — 5 7 0 Cleveland 000 010 000 — 1 11 0 Da.Norris, Francis (4), Osuna (6), Loup (8), Cecil (9) and Ru.Martin; House, R.Webb (4), Shaw (7), Hagadone (9) and R.Perez. W—Francis 1-0. L— House 0-4.

Chicago 002 000 000 — 2 12 2 Minnesota 117 000 03x — 12 13 0 Sale, Carroll (4), Da.Jennings (7), Petricka (8) and Flowers; May, Thielbar (6), Tonkin (8), Graham (9) and K.Suzuki. W—May 2-1. L—Sale 2-1. HRs— Minnesota, Dozier (2).

Seattle 200 000 000 0 — 211 0 Houston 100 001 000 1 — 3 7 0 (10 innings) Paxton, C.Smith (8), Leone (9) and Zunino; Feldman, Qualls (8), Sipp (8), Neshek (9), Gregerson (10) and J.Castro. W—Gregerson 2-0. L—Leone 0-2.

Detroit 000 000 010 — 1 7 0 Kan. City 003 050 00x — 8 14 0 Simon, A.Wilson (5), Alburquerque (7), Nesbitt (8) and J.McCann; D.Duffy, Frasor (8), Finnegan (9) and S.Perez. W—D.Duffy 2-0. L—Simon 4-1. HRs— Kansas City, Hosmer (3).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Phila.

012 000 000 — 3 8 0 St. Louis 302 020 02x — 9 12 0 Buchanan, Diekman (5), De Fratus (6), L.Garcia (8) and Rupp; Cooney, Villanueva (3), Belisle (7), Choate (8), Maness (8), Siegrist (9) and Molina. W—Villanueva 2-1. L—Buchanan 0-5. HRs—Philadelphia, Ruf (2). St. Louis, M.Adams (3).

Cincinnati 000 001 211 — 5 9 0 Atlanta 000 000 001 — 1 4 0 Leake, Cingrani (9) and Barnhart; S.Miller, Veal (8), Thomas (9) and Bethancourt. W—Leake 1-1. L—S. Miller 3-1. HRs—Cincinnati, Barnhart (2), Leake (1), Frazier (7), B.Hamilton (2).

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000 302 003 — 8 12 0 New York 020 000 000 — 2 7 1 Strasburg, Barrett (6), Solis (7), Storen (9) and W.Ramos; deGrom, Goeddel (6), Gilmartin (7), Carlyle (8), Leathersich (9) and Plawecki. W—Strasburg 2-2. L—deGrom 2-3.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Announced RHP Yordano Ventura has dropped the appeal of his seven-game suspension for an on-field incident in a game on April 23.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Casey Fien on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Michael Tonkin from Rochester (IL).

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Claimed LHP Eury De La Rosa off waivers from Oakland. Moved RHP Brandon McCarthy to the 60-day DL. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Selected the contract of

LHP Tim Cooney from Memphis (PCL). Optioned C Cody Stanley to Memphis. Transferred RHP Adam Wainwright from the 15- to the 60-day DL. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Named Billy Donovan coach.

ORLANDO MAGIC — Signed general manager Rob Hennigan to a two-year contract extension through the 2017-18 season.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with S Malcolm Bronson on a two-year contract.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Exercised their option on the contract of QB Ryan Tannehill for the 2016 season.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed DT Torrey Davis, QB Justin Goltz and LB Korey Jones.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed DB Ryan Steed. Released WRs Derrick Hector, Lavon Downs and Kashif Montgomery, LBs C.J. Wilson and Shamari Benton, OL Jarrid Bryant, DBs Keon Lyn, Sam Miller, David Van Dyke and Justin Oxendine.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Announced the contract of Jeff Daniels, Charlotte (AHL) coach, will not be renewed.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with D Erik Gustafsson on a two-year contract.

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Fowler the first to secure spot in round of 16 MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Masters champion Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler were making putts from everywhere Thursday in the Match Play Championship.

Fowler survived a tough match and already secured his spot for the weekend.

Spieth rolled to another easy victory and still faces the prospect of going home on Friday.

Even with a round-robin format, this World Golf Championship added another layer of quirkiness.

Spieth, top-seeded Rory McIlroy, Gary Woodland and Bubba Watson are all 2-0 and face elimination matches. Fowler and John Senden have won their groups and next play what amounts to a practice round in the middle of a tournament.

And there will be eight matches — including Jimmy Walker against Ian Poulter — that are meaningless.

Fowler was all square in his match with Shane Lowry of Ireland when he made putts of 15, 18 and 30 feet — all to halve the hole — before making a birdie on the 18th to win his second match and lock up the best record in his group to advance.

“Definitely a stress reliever right there,” Fowler said.

“Must be nice,” Spieth said under his breath with a smile when told that Fowler was already in the round of 16.

The 21-year-old Texan had little room to talk.

He is looking as dominant as his week at Augusta National, finishing off a 4-and-3 victory over hardluck Matt Every with 10 straight one-putt greens that totalled about 120 feet. Four of those putts were to halve the hole, including a 20-footer at No. 8 and an 18-footer at No. 14 that swirled around the cup.

“After the one on No. 8 (20 feet), which was to tie the hole, he said, ’When are you going to stop doing that?”’ Spieth said. “And then after I made the par putt on 14 (18 feet for a halve), I could see he was upset. And if I were in his position, I would have been very upset. Because that was bogus.”

Lee Westwood escaped with a 1-up victory when Mikko Ilonen missed a 4-foot putt. Westwood also is 2-0 and will play Spieth on Friday to determine who advances.

“It’s going to be hard to keep making this many putts and this many birdies,” Spieth said. “And I feel like I’m truly going to need that to beat him.”

McIlroy went the distance to beat Brandt Snedeker, while Billy Horschel had no trouble dispatching Jason Dufner. McIlroy and Horschel are both 2-0 and play Friday to determine who advances to the weekend.

“It’s win or go home,” McIlroy said. “So it’s back to the usual format.”

Senden joined Fowler as the only two players to

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Rickie Fowler putts on the fourth green of TPC Harding Park during round-robin play against Shane Lowry at the Match Play Championship golf tournament Thursday in San Francisco. lock up spots in the round of 16, when the Match Play returns to single elimination. He easily handled Bill Haas, and won his group when Henrik Stenson beat Brendon Todd. Senden already has beaten Stenson and Haas, who each have a 1-1 record.

Otherwise, the second day at TPC Harding Park brought out a strange element for match play — scoreboard watching.

J.B. Holmes went 19 holes to beat Russell Henley and then stayed on the course to watch the match behind him. He knew Brooks Koepka had to win or else Holmes would be eliminated. Koepka won the last three holes and wound up beating Marc Warren of Scotland.

In other matches: — Bubba Watson and Louis Oosthuizen each won their matches to set up a win-or-go home match Friday in their group. Watson beat Keegan Bradley, now how has lost his last seven singles matches in Match Play, the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. — Gary Woodland put away Ian Poulter, the Ryder Cup wizard who now has lost his last three matches in this tournament. That means Woodland and Webb Simpson, who beat Jimmy Walker, will play Friday for the right to advance.

— Thongchai Jaidee defeated Jim Furyk, and George Coetzee rallied to beat Martin Kaymer. Ev-

eryone in that group is 1-1, so a head-to-head tiebreaker will be used for winners to see who advances. That’s also the case in the group with Sergio Garcia, Bernd Wiesberger, Tommy Fleetwood and Jamie Donaldson.

Fowler knew he would win his group provided Harris English beat Graeme McDowell, because Fowler had already defeated English. McDowell had a 3-up lead until English rallied to win five out of six holes for a 2-and-1 victory.

“Obviously, I still want to go out and play a good match and win the match,” Fowler said. “In a way, it will give me time to work on stuff and ... see if we can tighten the game up a little bit.”

McIlroy and Horschel have some history, though it’s ancient at that. They faced each other in the 2007 Walker Cup, and McIlroy was a little irritated by what he perceived to be excessive emotions from Horschel. They split the two matches they played.

Both have talked and laughed about those days, and there are no ill feelings. Then again, they haven’t played each other in match play since then.

“Back then, we were a little bit younger and a little more emotional,” McIlroy said. “So it was pretty heated. I don’t think tomorrow will be quite so much like that. But still, you need to win or go home. So it’s an important game.”

Quarterbacks taken first and second at NFL draft

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Even with significant off-field baggage, Jameis Winston was the first pick in the NFL draft Thursday night.

With no such issues, Marcus Mariota went second.

You don’t pass up a potential franchise quarterback in today’s pass-happy NFL. So Florida State’s Winston is headed to Tampa Bay and Oregon’s Mariota goes to Tennessee at No. 2. They’ll take their Heisman Trophies (Winston in 2013, Mariota last year) and try to turn two downtrodden franchises into contenders, maybe even champions.

“The challenge is just being an NFL player, period. I’m not worried about any off-the-field situations or even on-the-field situations,” Winston said. “I’m just worried about living this new lifestyle and just developing into a great man for the Tampa Bay community for my teammates, because it’s all for them and it’s all for the success of this franchise.”

While Mariota has been a model citizen, some questioned his having barely taken any snaps behind centre in Oregon’s quick-tempo attack. But Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt, who has done big things with such veteran quarterbacks as Ben Roethlisberger, Kurt Warner and Philip Rivers, clearly isn’t concerned.

“He’s a talented young man who has a very good feel for the position and how to process those things,” Whisenhunt said, “and we’re excited to get a chance to work with him.”

Naturally, Mariota isn’t worried about the doubters, either.

“I believe in my abilities and the hard work that I’ve put in,” he said. “And that’s one thing is that I can’t control other people’s opinions. I’ve just got to do what I can do and that’s putting in the hard work and getting ready for the next chapter. People are always going to have their opinions and say what they want to say.”

Tampa has the receivers to help Winston in Vincent Jackson and Mike Evans, both of whom went over 1,000 yards last year despite shoddy quarterbacking. Tennessee can’t make the same claim.

Each of those teams went 2-14 in 2014, but coaches Smith and Whisenhunt, in their first seasons in charge, survived the awful record. Now, they presumably have the main building tool.

Winston and Mariota, who each had a year of eligibility remaining, will meet in the season opener in Tampa Bay. Neither quarterback was in Chicago, choosing to watch — and celebrate — at home with their families. It was the sixth time since 1967 that quarterbacks went 1-2, and this was no surprise.

It wasn’t a surprise to see Washington CB Marcus Peters or Missouri DE Shane Ray go in the opening round, although both bring questions about personal behaviour to the NFL. Peters went 18th to Kansas City, Ray 23rd to Denver, which traded up five slots to get him.

Peters was kicked off the Huskies after several arguments with coaches.

“He’s got to keep his emotions in check and I think he’ll do that,” coach Andy Reid said. “He’s not a troublemaker off the field, that’s not what he is. He’s not a problem in the locker room, that’s not what he is. Just those competitive juices, you have to know how to control those.”

Ray was cited for marijuana use on Monday, and said he “will learn from my mistake.”

Coincidentally, marijuana has been legalized in Colorado.

Following the quarterbacks were two more underclassmen: linebacker Dante Fowler Jr. of Florida

headed upstate a bit to Jacksonville, then Oakland grabbed Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper.

The first senior taken was Iowa tackle Brandon Scherff by Washington in the fifth spot, a bit of a surprise.

After Scherff, the Jets, normally heavily cheered when the draft was held in New York — it’s in Chicago for the first time in 51 years — were loudly booed when they went on the clock. And when they went for Southern Cal DT Leonard Williams, rated by some as the best overall player in this crop, the jeers increased exponentially.

Why? Because the Bears were next up and need a

dynamic player at the position.

Still, the local team was cheered as if Jay Cutler had just thrown for a TD when it grabbed West Virginia’s game-breaking receiver, Kevin White. After trading top wideout Brandon Marshall to the Jets, the Bears had a big void there.

Dan Quinn, the Falcons’ new coach after he helped build Seattle’s dynamic defence, got a nice tool in Clemson linebacker Vic Beasley. The Giants selected Miami offensive tackle Ereck Flowers and St. Louis finished off the top 10, in which there were no trades, by taking Georgia running back Todd Gurley, who comes off a major knee injury.

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Blue Jays roll past Indians

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Josh Donaldson throws out Cleveland Indians’ Michael Bourn at first base in the sixth inning of a baseball game, Thursday, in Cleveland.

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Blue Jays 5 Indians 1 CLEVELAND — The highest-scoring team in the American League flexed its muscles very briefly Thursday night.

The display was more than enough.

After failing to get a hit in the first three innings, Toronto burst out for a five-run fourth and defeated the Cleveland Indians 5-1.

The Blue Jays broke open a scoreless game in the space of five batters after being held hitless by TJ House. “Top to bottom we’re a tough lineup,� said catcher Russell Martin, who had an RBI double in the inning. “We showed that tonight. When you start getting a couple of hits in a row, guys can kind of just piggy-back off one another.�

Kevin Pillar’s two-run double was the key hit and Toronto’s bullpen worked the final six innings. Blue Jays starter Daniel Norris lasted only three innings, but Jeff Francis, Roberto Ozuna, Aaron Loup and Brett Cecil finished it off. Francis (1-0) allowed one run in 2 1-3 innings.

The Indians, predicted to contend for a playoff spot, end April with a 7-14 record, the worst in the AL. Cleveland is 1-9 when scoring three runs or fewer and has lost nine of 13. “It’s frustrating when you’re in a funk, but you know you’re going to come out of it,� said right fielder Brandon Moss. “We aren’t getting hits when we need them. I understand that’s baseball, but it’s very frustrating.� “It was a big win,� Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “Danny really struggled throwing strikes, but he survived it without giving up any runs.

The second time through the lineup we made a nice adjustment off House.�

House (0-4) didn’t retire a batter in the fourth when the first five hitters reached base and scored.

Danny Valencia’s RBI single and Martin’s double gave Toronto the lead before Pillar doubled in two more runs, ending the night for House. Jonathan Diaz’s squeeze bunt scored the fifth run.

Pillar added a spectacular catch when he ran down Moss’ drive to centre field in the fifth. Pillar hung on to the ball despite hitting his head against the wall and crashing to the ground. “That’s his game,� Gibbons said. “He plays to win and plays like that help you win. There’s times in this game you have to play with reckless abandon.�

Slow starts in April are nothing new to the Indians. Cleveland went 11-13 in 2013, but qualified for the playoffs as a wild-card team. The Indians were 11-17 last April and missed the playoffs by three games.

Norris, a rookie left-hander, dodged trouble through three innings, but didn’t come out of the fourth after throwing 78 pitches. Francis gave up Michael Brantley’s RBI single in the fifth.

NEED TO IMPROVE The Blue Jays finished April with a 11-12 record. “That’s not terrible, but still that’s not good enough for us,�

Gibbons said. “We’ve let a few games slip away that could have made a big difference.�

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Gibbons said Bautista, who is dealing with a sore right shoulder, might play catch this weekend.

Bautista hasn’t played right field since April 21 and was the DH for the fourth straight game Thursday. Bautista ends the month with five homers and 13 RBIs, but is batting .164.

Indians: OF Nick Swisher (double knee surgery) will play at Triple-A Columbus on Friday and Saturday as he continues his rehab assignment. He could rejoin the Indians next week.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: LHP Mark Buehrle, who was roughed up for five runs and 13 hits in 5 1-3 innings against Tampa Bay on Sunday, will make his 49th career start against the Indians on Friday.

Indians: RHP Carlos Carrasco, who allowed five runs and a season-high nine hits Sunday against Detroit, will make his first appearance at Progressive Field since being hit in the face by Melky Cabrera’s line drive on April 14.

Griffin leads Clippers over Spurs to set up Game 7

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Clippers 102 Spurs 96 SAN ANTONIO — Blake Griffin had 26 points and 12 rebounds and Chris Paul had 19 points and 15 assists as the Los Angeles Clippers held on for a 10296 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night, forcing a Game 7 in their first-round series.

Marco Belinelli hit two 3-pointers in the final 80 seconds, including one with 14 seconds remaining, to cut the Clippers lead to 98-96. But Jamal Crawford hit two free throws to preserve the win.

The Clippers, who won for the second time in San Antonio, forced a Game 7 on Saturday in Los Angeles. No other first-round series has gone the distance.

J.J. Redick added 19 points and DeAndre Jordan had 15 points and 14 rebounds for Los Angeles.

Belinelli led San Antonio with 23 points, including going 7 for 11 from 3-point range. Boris Diaw had 17 points, Tim Duncan added 12 points and 13 rebounds and Kawhi Leonard had 12 points for the defending champions.

The Spurs’ bench outscored the Clippers’ 48-15, but Los Angeles’ starting five had an 87-48 advantage.

Paul was 7 for 21 from the field, but he helped steady the Clippers when they needed it.

He hit a fadeaway jumper and a 3-pointer to give Los Angeles an 85-78 lead with 7 minutes left, snapping a 3-minute drought by both teams at the start of the fourth quarter.

The Clippers would hold the Spurs without a field goal for just over 4 minutes.

Los Angeles opened the second half on an 11-2 run, with San Antonio failing to score in the first 2 ½ minutes.

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Dunleavy scored 20 points and the Bulls came close to an NBA playoff record, finally putting away the Bucks with a 120-66 victory in Game 6 to clinch their first-round series Thursday night.

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WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS PREVIEW

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Unlike previous editions, this year’s hockey world championship is bringing out the best.

While the Olympic tournaments have been drawing the top players on the planet, the worlds do not usually see an abundance of stars because many of them are still busy in the NHL playoffs.

This year, however, Sidney Crosby wants to lead Canada while Pittsburgh Penguins teammate Evgeni Malkin hopes to retain the title with Russia.

And they are not alone.

Here are some things to know about the world hockey championships as the tournament returns to the Czech Republic for the first time since 2004:

DEFENDING CHAMPION

Following a disappointing early elimination at the Sochi Olympics, Russia cruised to its second title in three years last year in Minsk.

The Russians won all 10 of their games, including the 5-2 final victory over Finland.

Alex Ovechkin, who scored 53 goals in the regular season is not available after his Washington Capitals beat the New York Islanders to advance to the second round of the NHL playoffs, but Russia still has plenty of attacking talents to be considered a major gold contender again.

Malkin, who scored a goal in the 2014 final and tied Crosby for the Penguins goal-scoring lead during the regular season with 28, will team up with St. Louis Blues winger Vladimir Tarasenko, who had 37 goals and 36 assists in the regular season and added six goals and an assist in the playoffs.

Also, head coach Oleg Znarok remains in charge of the team captained by former New Jersey Devils forward Ilya Kovalchuk, while Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets will again be the goaltender to beat.

Dominated by Bolts in regular season, Canadiens say playoffs a different story

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BROSSARD, Que. — The Montreal Canadiens got together for dinner to watch the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 2-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings in the seventh game of their first round playoff series.

The team meal ahead of a playoff series is a tradition for head coach Michel Therrien, although this time, what he saw on the screen may not have gone down well.

Instead of facing the Red Wings, who the Canadiens owned in the regular season, they will be up against the Lightning, who won all five meetings with Montreal, outscoring them 21-8.

So, of course, the message Thursday was what happens in the regular season doesn’t really count come playoff time.

“Playoff matchups are way different,” said forward Max Pacioretty.

“Every game is different.

“Everyone’s talking how we play such good defence and they play such good offence, but we’re trying to score and they’re trying to play tight defence as well. Every game writes its own story. The only thing we can control is how hard we play; and being ready to face a team with that much skill.”

Pacioretty pointed to last season, when Montreal lost three of four games against Tampa Bay but then swept them in the first round. Of course, Lightning goalie Ben Bishop missed that series with an injury and his backup, Anders Lindback, gave up 14 goals in four games.

Bishop got his first playoff experience in the first round and, while he was shaky early on, ended the series with a shutout.

The six-foot-seven goalie has dominated Montreal in his career, posting a 10-1-2 record with a 1.53 goals-against average.

If that isn’t enough challenge for a low-scoring team like Montreal, the Bolts offence also gives them fits. Superstar Steven Stamkos had five goals and seven points against the Canadiens, and the Triplets

THE STAR

Crosby is the one to make a difference for starstudded Canada. The forward who helped Canada win two Olympic golds joined the team after the Penguins were eliminated by the New York Rangers in the first round of the playoffs. He led the Penguins with 84 points in 77 games in the regular season and added two goals and two assists in the playoffs.

In his 10 NHL seasons, the forward has scored 302 goals and 551 assists in 627 games. He won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player in 2007 and 2014 and led the Penguins to the 2009 Stanley Cup title.

It will be Crosby’s second worlds after 2006.

“Any time you can represent Canada, it’s an honour,” Crosby said. “I looked at the roster Hockey Canada has put together and I’m excited about the opportunity we have to win gold.”

Canada is looking for 25th title but last won in 2007 and has been waiting for a medal since taking home silver in 2009.

OTHER STARS

Age is no limit for Jaromir Jagr.

The 43-year-old Czech Republic forward has won the Stanley Cup, an Olympic gold medal and the world title. But still eager to get more trophies, he is coming out of international retirement.

The veteran has 722 goals and 1,080 assists in his NHL career, which was rejuvenated after he joined the Florida Panthers from the New Jersey Devils in February. He had six goals and 12 assists in 20 games for the Panthers and signed a one-year, $3.5 million contract in April to stay with Florida for a 22nd NHL season.

THE TOURNAMENT

The tournament will have 16 nations playing in two groups of eight, with the top four in each group advancing.

Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, Sweden and Switzerland are in Group A with matches to be played at O2 Arena in Prague.

Belarus, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the United States are in Group B and will play in CEZ Arena in the city of Ostrava.

In Friday’s opening games, Canada will play Latvia while Finland will face the United States. The final is scheduled for May 17.

line of Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat combined for another five goals.

Pacioretty said a key to stopping them will be spending more time playing in the Lightning’s end.

His fellow alternate captain Tomas Plekanec, who tends to play against the opponent’s top centres, said the Canadiens can’t get caught up choosing one poison over another.

“I don’t think we’ll focus on Johnson or Stamkos,” said Plekanec. “We’ll focus on ourselves and playing our game.

“If we do that, we’ll make it hard on those guys, or whoever’s on the ice, to score. You (media) talk about individual players but for us, it’s all about team effort, team system, team game.”

The Canadiens counter with Carey Price, a Hart Trophy candidate for his spectacular play in goal, and a team that excels at grinding out wins.

Therrien smiled when asked about the Lightning’s dominance this season.

“We may be the only team with home ice advantage that is the underdog,” he said. “We’re up against an offensive power. It’s a big challenge but, from experience, we know the playoffs is a different season.”

Therrien said his team has been considered an underdog from the first day of training camp but managed to win 50 games and finish first in the Atlantic Division, two points ahead of Tampa Bay. “Our team took a lot of criticism this year, but it’s a group that always responds, that perseveres,” he said.

“Inside our group, it’s a good source of motivation.”

One area he hopes to improve is the power play, which went 1 for 20 in six first-round games against Ottawa.

There were experiments in practice with Jeff Petry playing the point alongside P.K. Subban while Andrei Markov moved to the second unit with Tom Gilbert. Lars Eller took turns with Alex Galchenyuk on left wing on the second forward unit.

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Wiggins takes home NBA rookie of the year FIRST CANADIAN TO WIN AWARD; WANTS TO BREAK CURSE IN MINNESOTA

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Minnesota Timberwolves’ Andrew Wiggins holds his trophy at a news conference after he was named NBA Rookie of the Year, Thursday, in Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS — Andrew Wiggins sat down on a black leather couch, his navy blue tuxedo jacket and bow tie bunching up at the neck as his 6-foot-8 frame plopped down for a break.

The first Canadian rookie of the year and the first in Minnesota Timberwolves history was sitting in a nofrills room in the back alleys of Target Center with cinder block walls and empty lockers that house the WNBA’s Lynx in the summer. There is nothing fancy about the 25-year-old building that is home to an NBA franchise that has gotten so many things wrong over the last decade.

In Wiggins, the hope is that the Timberwolves finally got something right in a big way. And as difficult as his first season was for the team on the court, as hopeless as it has seemed at times for the team’s fans during an 11-year playoff drought, Wiggins said he feels like he got it right by landing here as well.

“I hope I’m here forever,” Wiggins told The Associated Press on Thursday after collecting his rookie of the year award. “I hope. It would be nice.”

That’s a startling revelation for a 20-year-old from Vaughan, Ont., who showed signs of being one of the league’s next big stars during a superb rookie season. The Timberwolves haven’t been to the playoffs since 2004.

They’ve botched draft picks, free-agent signings, trades, hires and firings over the years and suffered an array of season-derailing injuries that led some to joke that franchise was cursed.

But that was all before Wiggins arrived. The cerebral kid who has been in the basketball spotlight since he was a 14-year-old prodigy playing in the Toronto area looks around and sees a roster stocked with young talent, a coaching staff he can relate to, a front office that understands the needs that must be filled and a community that has embraced him as a potential saviour.

“I don’t believe there’s any curse or nothing like that,” Wiggins said. “We just needed the right pieces. I feel like now we’ve got them. We’ve got a nice young core.”

Wiggins is the headliner, a dynamic talent who quickly laid to rest any concerns about his competitive spirit after coming to the Timberwolves last summer in the trade that sent disgruntled

star Kevin Love to Cleveland. He averaged 16.9 points and 4.6 rebounds while playing all 82 games and got better as the season went on.

He received 110 of 130 first-place votes and had 604 points. Chicago’s Nikola Mirotic finished second with 14 first-place votes and 335 points and Philadelphia’s Nerlens Noel was third.

“When I first came here a couple years ago, I met with (owner Glen Taylor) and said the No. 1 thing we had to do to build a franchise and develop that culture was to get a game-changing type player,” coach and team president Flip Saunders said.

“A player that was a two-way type player that could play offence, could play defence. Last year, Aug. 23, when we traded for Andrew Wiggins we got that type of player. And we were ready and set to go.”

Wiggins also impressed fellow Canadian Steve Nash, who retired earlier this year after an illustrious NBA career.

“Andrew had a remarkable rookie season in the NBA,” Nash, the general manager of Canada’s national team, said in a release.

“It is exciting for Canada to have a player like Andrew with such high potential and bright talent. With his skill and determination we look forward to seeing him continue to develop as an NBA star and key contributor to Team Canada.”

Mayweather and Pacquiao ready for richest fight ever

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — His middle name is Money, or at least it used to be before Floyd Mayweather Jr. stopped flashing $100,000 wads of cash every time he saw a camera.

That doesn’t mean money is ever very far from his mind. Certainly not now, when he’s the richest man in the richest fight ever.

Mayweather has spent as much time this week talking about the mansion in Las Vegas, the home in Miami and the private jet that seats 14 than he has about Manny Pacquiao. He even figured out the math when it comes to dividing it up among his kids.

“Let’s say I make $200 million,” Mayweather said. “That means my kids for this fight will get $50 million apiece. I think I made a smart move.”

Indeed, Mayweather proved a smart businessman in signing for a fight that will likely earn him $180 million or more. But the smartest thing he may have done was delay the fight five years so it would be must-see TV, even at a record price of $99.95.

“Five years ago this was a $50 mil-

lion fight for me,” Mayweather said, “and a $20 million fight for him.”

The frenzy for the boxing’s biggest event of the century continued to build Wednesday, even if the two fighters themselves were very subdued. They appeared at a final prefight press conference with nothing bad to say about each other, and couldn’t even bring themselves to scowl for pictures.

If the past five years were personal, with the two camps trading barbs, the fight itself is not. Pacquiao will be fighting for his legacy and a country desperate for him to win, while Mayweather will be fighting to add to his already substantial bank accounts.

That was apparent when Mayweather was asked if being undefeated was the biggest motivation for him.

“At the end of the day my daughter can’t eat no zero,” Mayweather said of his unbeaten mark. “She can’t spend a boxing ring.”

Money shouldn’t be a problem for the Mayweather family after this fight.

Not with total revenue of some $300 million — and possibly more if the payper-view is the hit that network executives privately think it will be.

Mayweather won’t be the only one

getting rich. Pacquiao will also share in the $120 million or so his side will pocket for the fight, beginning with a $25 million check from promoter Bob Arum the night of the fight.

“I don’t like to write checks of an amount I don’t have in the bank,” Arum said. “I can cover 25 so that’s the amount he will get fight night.”

Pacquiao said he couldn’t even conceive of the kind of money he makes now to fight.

“I used to sleep in the street starving and hungry,” the Filipino congressman said. “I can’t imagine the boy who slept in the streets was raised to this level where I am today.”

Both fighters finished their major preparation earlier in the week, with both facing challenges unlike they have seen before.

In Mayweather’s case it’s a southpaw who fights in spurts and comes from different angles, a style he will have to figure out early in the fight.

For Pacquiao, it’s a defensive wizard who has fought 47 fighters and beaten every one of them.

“I think we can outpoint this guy,” trainer Freddie Roach said. “If a knockout comes it will be a bonus.”

Mayweather has been rather quiet about his strategy, preferring instead to talk about how he became the highest paid athlete in the world or promoting his websites. But he said his father, Floyd Sr., has crafted a game plan that will help him remain unbeaten after 19 years in the sport.

He said critics of the way he fights don’t really understand boxing, and that he doesn’t need to be great defensively to beat Pacquiao.

“I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a very exciting fight,” Mayweather said.

“But sometimes I shut guys out and they call it a split decision or majority decision. My hands are always tied behind my back. The standards are always set higher for me.”

The two fighters did disagree on which man was the one to actually get the fight to happen five years after it should have happened.

Mayweather said he kept calling his adviser, Al Haymon, telling him to make the fight because he wanted it so much.

But Pacquiao said it was the pressure he put on since beating Chris Algieri in Macau last November that finally forced Mayweather’s hand.

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Budget process questioned TWO CITY COUNCILLORS WANT MORE PUBLIC INPUT

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer city Councillors Frank Wong and Paul Harris want more community input before the final budget votes are tallied.

At Monday’s meeting, council passed several operating and capital budget guideline resolutions kicking off administration’s 2016 budget planning cycle.

It was only the second time that council directed administration with

specific guidelines on how to craft the budgets.

But the two councillors say the process is missing one key element.

Wong said residents should have the option to review the line items before the budgets are sealed for the year.

“In other municipalities as soon as the presentation is over they have a cooling off period where the public could tell the officials their views,” said Wong.

The capital budget is usually passed in one day in November, after council has had the administration-recom-

mended budget for a couple of weeks.

The operating budget is released to council over Christmas and it is typically debated over two weeks in January.

It becomes a public document when the media receives the budget the day before the staff presentations and debate.

“There is no point in the process where the public actually gets to see the final document and give their feedback to their councillors,” Harris explained.

Harris would also like to see the

capital plan released before the debate so residents would be able to see what administration is suggesting and comment. “They could compare to the amenities research that we did,” he said.

“Council would get excellent feedback.”

Harris successfully argued to have the city look into “quick wins” for the 2016 process that may allow the public to see the budget before council begins debating.

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Keeping dry and cozy under their blanket and umbrellas, from left, Korbie Aasman, Jayda Aasman and Chloe Hoppus watch the Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School boys soccer team take on the Lacombe Rams in Red Deer on Wednesday during a light rainshower. A high of 15C is expected today, with sunshine in the morning and early afternoon, then a mix of sun and cloud with 30 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon. There is a risk of a thunderstorm in the afternoon. On Saturday, look for a mix of sun and cloud with a 60 per cent chance of showers and a high of 10. On Sunday, the forecast calls for sunny conditions and a high of 12C.

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Berry stands firm for democracy

Dubois urges all to play their role

Little guy a focus for NDP’s Miller

Bill Berry, a man who continues to feel wronged by a courthouse incident four years ago, is running as an independent candidate in Red Deer South during the Alberta’s 29th general election.

Berry, who is mute, mistakenly entered the Red Deer Courthouse through the wrong doors in 2011.

He was pushed, grabbed and placed in a bear hug while sheriffs attempted to drag him from the courthouse.

An investigation concluded that a now former sheriff used excessive and unjustified force in the incident.

The RCMP did not recommend charges. Berry is involved in a lawsuit over the matter.

Berry said he is running because after the courthouse incident, he and his family have decided democracy “is not a game of hide the ball and it’s something I will defend at all cost as my forefathers did.”

He said by email that the courthouse matter has yet to be dealt with.

“It’s with been more of a long cake-dropping waltz than a matter of justice.”

Berry, 55, was born and raised in Red Deer, and is retired.

He worked in the oilfield transportation sector through a company that his father started in the 1950s in Red Deer.

He was also operations manager in Calgary for a major energy sector transport company.

He is married and has four children.

There are eight candidates running in Red Deer South. The others are: Patti Argent, (Ind), Deborah Checkel (Lib), Ben Dubois (Green); Serge Gingras (Alberta Party), Barb Miller (NDP), Darcy Mykytyshyn (PC) and Norman Wiebe (WR).

Green party candidate Ben Dubois may have a slight advantage over his seven opponents in the crowded Red Deer South race for MLA. Dubois, 22, spent the last six years serving in the mock Tuxis Youth Parliament of Alberta.

Born and raised in Red Deer, Dubois has held positions as minister of finance, alternate leader and leader of the opposition in the mock parliament.

Dubois said he has focused on spreading the message of participatory democracy at the doorsteps in Red Deer and through his online presence.

“No matter who gets elected, you can still participate in democracy,” said Dubois.

Dubois said he has heard that people do not want to vote, which basically means they are giving up their rights. He wants to encourage residents to vote and to participate in society. Dubois said he wanted to represent the Green Party in Red Deer South because the spot was vacant. He said the Green Party values were missing in the race.

“I want to represent the people of a democracy,” said Dubois. “I’ve been saying it’s not a democracy when you’re not talking to your constituents. It’s not a democracy when you’re not voting the way your constituents want. And the Green Party has a free vote, which is super important to me, even on budgets. People can vote for me if they want a real representation and to get their positions on issues.”

Dubois will graduate from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science in June.

There are eight candidates running in Red Deer South. The others are: Patti Argent, (Ind), Bill Berry (Ind), Deborah Checkel (Lib), Serge Gingras (Alberta Party), Barb Miller (NDP), Darcy Mykytyshyn (PC) and Norman Wiebe (WR).

“I’m running because I am tired of the little guy getting the short end of the stick,” says Barb Miller, provincial election NDP candidate for the Red Deer South constituency.

“It always seems to be the underemployed, the people who are barely making ends meet, the seniors, young families, they’re always getting hit with this tax, that tax, this cut, that cut, whereas the people who make generous salaries and corporations aren’t getting hit with these taxes in the same way.

“So they could be getting hit with a 10 per cent tax but when you’re making $125,000, it’s a lot different then when you’re making $25,000, and barely making it from paycheque to paycheque.”

Miller, 56, is a cashier at Safeway. She has not run for public office before and has been a resident of Red Deer since 2002. Her husband was from Calgary and she was from Edmonton, so they decided to split the difference and live in Red Deer.

She was a stay-at-home mom until her children were out of school. She has three children and two grandchildren.

Miller has been president of the Red Deer and District Labour Council since 2012 and is also a shop steward at her work.

“I’m just a normal person who doesn’t like how people in Alberta are being looking down on, told to look in the mirror because it’s your fault. And it’s not their fault.”

There are eight candidates running in Red Deer South. The others include Patti Argent (Ind), William Berry (Ind), Deborah Checkel (Lib), Ben Dubois (Green), Serge Gingras (Alberta Party), Darcy Mykytyshyn (PC), and Norman Wiebe (WR).

The general election takes place on Tuesday.

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

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Red Deerians can drop off their yard waste for free at the Waste Management Facility (at 1709 40th Ave. off Delburne Road) starting on Monday and running to May 9.

Fees are waived for the week and another week in the fall in an effort to encourage yard waste diversion from the landfill.

The yard waste collected is turned into compost, which is sold each year to residents. Yard waste includes grass clippings, leaves, tree branches and garden plants. All plastic bags must be removed from the yard waste, and no garbage is permitted. Free dropoff is available to Red Deer residents only, and no commercial haulers are accepted.

“To reduce waste that ends up in the landfill, we hold a free yard waste dropoff week twice a year,” said Keran Braich, a city waste diversion specialist. “If residents have quite a bit of yard waste and don’t want to wait for home collection, this is their chance to bring these materials to the Waste Management Facility for free.”

Diversion of yard waste helps increase the longevity of the city’s landfill, improve air quality by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and conserve water in the community by producing and promoting the use of compost.

Home pickup of yard waste began in early April and continues to Nov. 13.

The Waste Management Facility is open for yard waste dropoff Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and on Saturday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The facility gets busy on Saturday afternoons and residents may prefer to visit in the morning or be prepared to wait in the afternoon.

For more information about the yard waste or recycling programs, visit www.reddeer.ca/waste or call 403-340-BLUE (2583).

Woman faces charges related to three robberies A Red Deer woman has been charged in connection with three robberies, including one where a clerk was threatened with a screwdriver.

Jennifer Maychak, 34, has been charge with robbery with a weapon for the robbery at the Mac’s convenience story on Ross Street in Red Deer on Tuesday. A woman brandished a screwdriver and demanded money and cigarettes before fleeing to a waiting vehicle driven by a male.

Raymond McKnight , 30, has also been charged in connection with that robbery.

Maychak is also charge in connection with two other robberies, including a candy story robbery where a clerk was threatened with a spray can.

A woman robbed the Candy Bag Sweet Shop at 6791 50th Ave. on April 18 just before 4:30 p.m.

No one was reported injured in the robberies.

Maychak has been remanded in custody and was to appear in Red Deer provincial court today. McKnight is due in court on June 3.

Man faces several charges after incident with officer A man accused of being drunk behind the wheel and lashing out with

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Hunting Hills High School Grade 12 student Meghan Dyck reaches out from the stage to elementary school students at the Memorial Centre on Wednesday as she performs with the Triple HS rock band. Dyck performed a Meagan Trainor duet with classmate Connor Lee, left. The Triple HS rock band at the school is a five-credit course. Students work in a program that emphasizes rock ‘n‘ roll music and performance. The band played two shows on Wednesday afternoon and evening. From May 27 to 29, Triple HS will take their show on the road, performing in Olds, Calgary, Strathmore and Airdire. his fists an arresting police officer is facing a number of charges.

Shortly before 10 p.m. on Tuesday, police responded to a report of an alleged impaired driver parked at the Village Mall.

RCMP found the suspect asleep in a pickup truck that was running. When officers woke the man up, he assaulted one officer with his fists. He resisted arrest and was taken into custody.

Police say the truck was stolen from Ponoka.

Martin Victor Talbot, 23, of Red Deer, has been charged with assaulting a police officer, possession of stolen property over $5,000, impaired care and control of a vehicle; and two counts each of failing to comply with a recognizance and failure to comply with an undertaking.

Talbot was to make his first appearance in Red Deer provincial court this morning.

Library service plan examined in survey The Red Deer Public Library wants community feedback to help shape its future.

Starting on Saturday, the Environics Research Group will conduct short telephone interviews over the next week.

A random selection of Red Deer residents will be asked what they like about living in Red Deer and what the library can do to improve the quality of life.

The results of the survey will help the library shape its service plan.

Winter warming centre to close today for season A temporary winter warming centre for the homeless will close today.

The City of Red Deer and community agencies set up the temporary warming place for the homeless population following the closure of the Be-

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Penhold gets $3.36 million for flood-related upgrades Penhold will get some long-awaited flood relief.

The province approved a $3.36-million grant to cover 90 per cent of the cost of road and drainage work on the east side of the town, which has been vulnerable to flooding from Waskasoo Creek.

“What we’ll be doing is rebuilding an entire road and raising it by approximately a metre,” said Mayor Dennis Cooper.

“Basically, we’re building a dike to hold the water back from Waskasoo Creek.”

In wet years, homes in the Lincoln Street and Dundee Crescent areas of the town have been affected by high stream flows.

“That corner of town has been a challenge for many, many years,” he said.

To hold the water back, more than a kilometre of the road running just west of the Penhold Multiplex will be raised to protect nearby houses and Penhold Estates manufactured home park.

Cooper said almost every spring water flows over the road. Even a heavy rainfall can cause problems.

“The creek can’t handle it. It will flow over and get in there also.”

As part of the project, land will be

‘here’s how it looks like in the budget,’ ” said Harris.

“Is this right? The only chance they have to say is it right is after we pass it. Then we get the calls ... that’s not what I wanted.”

Veer said the public has opportunity to respond to the budget during the two-week period when it is

reshaped around the multiplex to protect it from overland flooding.

Cooper said most of the work will be done this construction season. The land will be given a chance to settle before final paving is done next year.

The town’s portion — roughly $360,000 — will come from its annual Municipal Sustainability Initiative funding from the province. Penhold was one of 21 projects in 16 municipalities receiving $68.6 million under the Alberta Community Resilience Program.

Gunpoint theft of car, phone jails man for three years An Innisfail man was trying to show a Red Deer man the way to the highway when he was robbed at gunpoint last November.

Jason Kyle Ensign, 28, pleaded guilty to three charges in relation to the robbery of a man’s vehicle and cellphone, in Red Deer provincial court on Thursday. He was sentenced to three years jail.

Crown prosecutor Ed Ring told the court that Ensign asked a man near Innisfail for directions to the highway and followed him for a short time in a separate vehicle on Nov. 5, 2014. Ensign then got into the man’s truck and put a handgun on the dashboard, demanding the cellphone and vehicle.

Police tracked the vehicle to Calgary and Ensign was arrested. Police found a Glock handgun near the scene.

Ring and defence counsel Andrew Phypers filed a joint on sentence to Judge James Glass. They suggested three years, less 263 days of pre-trial custody credit. This gives Ensign a little less than 28 months to serve.

Addressing the court, Ensign — who sports devil horn tattoos above each eyebrow — apologized, saying he was trying to turn his life around. He said he has a one-year-old daughter and a fiancée and wants to have a second chapter in his life.

Glass also ordered a 10-year weapons prohibition and that Ensign provide a sample of his DNA.

debated in January.

The city will review its entire budgeting process in 2017.

The 2016 budget open house is slated for May 11 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Festival Hall, at 4214 58th St. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Both Harris and Wong suggested releasing the budget to the public a day after it lands in council’s hands.

Mayor Tara Veer said the budgets are built with community input through the May budget open house and at other city events throughout the year.

“Different cities have different strategies for gathering public input,” said Veer. “We endeavour to get input early so that we can translate public input into action before tabling a document that has the potential to be out of step with the community’s interest.”

But Harris argued there is no check back with the community to ensure what the city has interpreted is correct.

He said the input at the beginning is valuable but there needs to be some input at the end before council votes on it.

“There’s no ‘here’s what you said’ and

rachah Place last year. It was run out of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in downtown Red Deer and operated by the Safe Harbour Society.

Kath Hoffman, executive director of the Safe Harbour Society, said the centre provided great data that will help inform its work within the city and community to ensure an appropriate response that aligns the plan to end homelessness. Support services are still available Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Safe Harbour main office (5246 53rd Ave.).

The centre accommodated upwards of 60 people a day over the winter.

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Alberta business most pessimistic

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

CFIB MEMBERS SURVEY

Alberta businessmen have strengthened their claim to the title of Canada’s most pessimistic entrepreneurs.

The results of the latest member survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business indicate that confidence among small businesses in this province slipped to 47.0 on a 100-point scale last month. That was down a percentage point from March,

and well below the national average of 60.5.

The survey found that 21 per cent of respondents expected to hire new staff over the next three months, while 17 per cent expected their payrolls to shrink.

Ironically, 35 per cent of business owners still believe they are being hurt by a skilled labour shortage in Alberta.

But this figure was down three percentage points from a month earlier.

When it came to the health of their businesses, only 35 per cent of owners felt their operations were in good shape.

That was down eight points from March and a 20-point decline since the middle of last year.

Survey respondents from British Co-

lumbia posted the highest confidence level in the CFIB survey, at 71.9. Prince Edward Island was next at 69.2, followed by Nova Scotia (63.3), Ontario (62.5), New Brunswick (60.7), Manitoba (60.2), Newfoundland and Labrador (59), Quebec (57.3) and Saskatchewan (50).

The CFIB has said that a confidence index between 65 and 75 means the economy is growing at its potential.

The April 2015 findings were based on 1,008 responses.

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BRIEF Olds students honoured for business plan A pair of Olds College students have fermented their enthusiasm for beer into an award-winning business plan.

Tyler Rose, of Lacombe, and Peter Schill, of Airdrie, are co-owners of Alberta Craft Malting and have just taken the top prize in the TEC VenturePrize Student Business Plan Competition in Edmonton.

The brewing entrepreneurs beat out eight other teams to take home the $20,000 prize, along with in-kind contributions and mentoring from other Alberta businesses.

They reached the final by winning Central Alberta’s RED Challenge student entrepreneurship challenge.

Rose and Schill have one year left in the college’s Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management Diploma program.

On graduation, they plan to further develop Alberta Craft Malting, which they see as filling a niche by providing specialty malts to brewers allowing them to create distinct profiles in beer using Alberta-grown barley.

Supreme Court to hear case over well said to be contaminated by fracking

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Under the supervision of Red Deer College trades and technology instructor Bruce Macleod, Roman Rieland of Clive tries his hand at the virtual welding as others watch his progress on a video monitor at Red Deer College on Thursday. Hundreds of students took in the annual Career Expo that introduced students to a wide variety of careers.

Focus on costs as Suncor, Imperial report earnings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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CALGARY — Top oilsands executives say they’re looking past swings in crude prices and focusing instead on what’s within their control.

“The truth is no one knows” where prices are heading, Rich Kruger, CEO of Imperial Oil Ltd. (TSX:IMO), said Thursday at the company’s annual meeting.

“At Imperial, we are approaching our business as if we may be in for a sustained period of lower prices,” he said. And if the market improves, “all the better.”

During the first quarter, U.S. benchmark crude hovered around US$50 a barrel — about half of what it was a year earlier. In recent weeks, the price has been edging up closer to US$60, though few in the oilpatch are jumping for joy at this point.

Buckling down for a prolonged slump is “more of a management approach than it is a forecast or prediction about what the future may be,” said Kruger.

Unlike many of its peers, Imperial has not resorted to layoffs.

But Kruger said Imperial is being more choosy about where it’s spending

its capital, scrutinizing expenses and leaning on suppliers and contractors to improve costs and productivity.

Imperial, majority owned by U.S. heavyweight ExxonMobil Corp., posted first-quarter profits that were down 55 per cent from a year ago, at $421 million.

Meanwhile, Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) CEO Steve Williams said he’s not “overly concerned” with crude prices in the short term.

“Suncor has no impact on global pricing and I’d rather concentrate my efforts on the things which we can control.”

Canada’s largest oilsands producer has cut 1,200 jobs this year, or 200 more than announced in January, when it slashed $1 billion from its 2015 budget.

It’s focused on further driving down costs and avoiding operational upsets that can take an oilsands project offline for weeks.

Suncor says it’s doing well on both counts — oilsands cash operating expenses are down 20 per cent and Williams says oilsands operations ran “almost flawlessly” in the first quarter.

Suncor posted a $341-million net

loss for the first three months of 2015.

In the same period a year earlier, it turned a net profit of about $1.49 billion.

Both Suncor and Imperial have interests in the massive Syncrude Canada oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta., which has seen a litany of unplanned outages in recent years.

Both Williams and Kruger stressed the importance of improving performance at Syncrude, but neither would say whether there’s any interest in taking on a bigger stake in the project.

There has been speculation that with its depressed share price, Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. (TSX:COS), whose only major asset is its 37 per cent Syncrude interest, might be ripe for a takeover.

Canadian Oil Sands CEO Ryan Kubik also declined to comment on the takeover speculation, but said he doesn’t see the company needing to reduce its Syncrude stake to bolster finances.

Canadian Oil Sands posted a firstquarter net loss of $186 million, reversing its net profit of $172 million in the same year-earlier period.

During the quarter, output at Syncrude was 293,700 barrels per day compared with 292,500 barrels in the first quarter of 2014.

NDP seeks to Ottawa ban on pay-to-pay fees

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The NDP has called on Ottawa to ban so-called “pay-to-pay” fees charged by Canada’s big banks.

NDP MP Andrew Cash said Thursday that he wants an expanded code of conduct for the banks that is not voluntary.

“Offering the banks a voluntary code of conduct is like telling a cat to regulate its consumption of cat nip,” the NDP critic for consumer protection said.

Ottawa moved to block telecommunication and cable companies from charging fees for paper bills last year.

However, Cash said the banks were excluded from the legislation.

“You shouldn’t have to pay money to pay your bill; you shouldn’t have to pay money to pay your mortgage; you

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shouldn’t have to pay money to pay your student loan,” he said.

Finance Minister Joe Oliver said the government has taken action to improve access to low-cost and no-cost banking options.

“Our government believes with better information Canadian consumers can make informed choices which will be in their interest,” Oliver said in response to a question by Cash in the House of Commons.

In the federal budget this year, the government proposed a new financial consumer protection framework for banks. The changes include a requirement for clear and accurate advertising as well as a cooling-off period for financial products. Canada’s large banks have all moved to raise some of the fees they charge customers in recent months.However, the Royal Bank has attracted the most attention with

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its changes set to take affect June 1, including a new charge for pre-authorized and non-scheduled credit card, loan and mortgage payments under certain circumstances. The new fee applies to several different account types when customers exceed their allotted number of free debit transactions.

Royal Bank noted that 80 per cent of its customers either pay no monthly fee or receive a rebate on their monthly fee.

“On an annual basis, we review our products and services and sometimes adjust the pricing for some of them to reflect the cost of doing business,” the bank said in a statement.

Penelope Graham, editor of RateSupermarket.ca which allows users to compare bank fees and mortgage rates, said the big banks are raising fees to make up for the slim margins they are earning on mortgages.

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OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether an Alberta woman can sue the province’s energy regulator over her claim that hydraulic fracturing has so badly contaminated her well that the water can be set on fire.

Jessica Ernst began legal action against the regulator and Calgarybased energy company Encana (TSX:ECA) in 2007 and amended her statement of claim in 2011 to include Alberta Environment.

The Alberta courts turned down a provincial attempt to get out of the case, but exempted the regulator, citing immunity provisions in Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Act. Ernst asked the Supreme Court to revisit the latter decision and the justices have agreed to hear her appeal.

She alleges that fracking on her land northeast of Calgary released hazardous amounts of chemicals such as methane into her well and that her concerns were not properly investigated.

As usual in leaves to appeal, the justices gave no reasons for deciding to hear the case.

Regina, Winnipeg housing markets at ’high risk’ of correction: CMHC report TORONTO — Regina and Winnipeg are at high risk of a housing correction due to overvalued home prices and a glut of supply, according to a new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

“In some of these markets we’re seeing improvements,” CMHC chief economist Bob Dugan told reporters Thursday.

However, Dugan said the agency will keep monitoring the two markets closely.

“We don’t want to take our eye off the ball just yet, because we don’t want to run the risk of missing something,” he said.

The study says the majority of other housing estate markets across the country are relatively stable.

Toronto is identified as facing a moderate risk, as the number of condo units under construction is near historical highs and price growth is outpacing growth in personal disposable income.

A risk of a correction is moderate in Montreal as well, as demand from first-time buyers is waning while the number of condo units currently under construction is near an all-time high.

Meanwhile Vancouver, one of the country’s hottest real estate markets, is rated as low risk. Despite the fact that house prices in Vancouver are growing rapidly, demand is supported by the city’s growing population and increases in personal disposable income.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Thursday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 125.00 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.73 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.19 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 12.25 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.44 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.97 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.90 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 230.03 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.20 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.85 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.59 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.00 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 63.06 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 24.72 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.27 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.06 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 26.34 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.90 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 43.50 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.59 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.73 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.00 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 56.00 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 127.79 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.39 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.42 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 61.33

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American markets closed solidly in the red amid weak earnings reports on both sides of the border.

The S&P/TSX composite was down 122.82 points at 15,224.52, while the loonie was down 0.28 of a U.S. cent at 82.89 cents.

The gold sector was the leading decliner on the TSX, down 2.19 per cent as the price of bullion fell sharply in the face of a stronger U.S. dollar and Goldcorp (TSX:G) reported lower earnings.

The world’s largest gold miner by market capitalization saw its shares decline more than six per cent to $22.71 on the TSX after posting a US$87million loss in its latest quarter.

That’s down sharply from a year ago, when Goldcorp reported a profit of $98 million.

South of the border, a slew of economic releases and weak earnings reports pushed markets lower.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 195.01 points to 17,840.52, the Nasdaq plunged 82.22 points to 4,941.42 and the S&P 500 declined 21.34 points to 2,085.51.

“In April U.S. markets hit alltime record highs,” said Colum McKinley, vice-president of Canadian Equities at CIBC Asset Management.

“The Nasdaq passed highs they haven’t seen since 15 years ago, during the tech bubble, so I think some of the volatility we’re seeing today is just a pause in that story.”

McKinley said a number of companies reporting their earnings over the past few weeks have faced currency-related challenges.

“The big swings we’ve seen in the U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar have been affecting the operating results of businesses, and so we continue to monitor that on an ongoing basis,” McKinley said.

For some companies, the effects have been positive. For example, Canadian companies that sell their products in U.S.

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.15 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.88 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.05 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.33 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 15.68 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.22 First Quantum Minerals . 18.48 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 22.71 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.93 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.93 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.40 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.40 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.29 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 24.69 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 29.94 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 68.46 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.31 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 38.57 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 40.09 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 13.11 Canyon Services Group. . 8.22 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 22.73 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3250 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17.13 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.13

dollars but pay their costs in Canadian dollars have benefited from the weaker Canadian currency, McKinley said.

“It is one of the things that has been a slight positive offset for Canadian energy companies, as an example,” McKinley said. “If they sell oil in U.S. dollars but their costs are in Canadian dollars, the weakness in the Canadian dollar has actually been a positive.”

In commodities, the June gold bullion contract dropped $27.60 to US$1,182.40 an ounce, while the June crude oil contract was up $1.05 at US$59.63 a barrel.

Oil prices have rallied recently as the number of U.S. rigs actively drilling for oil has fallen and tensions in the Middle East have raised concerns about supply.

“We have seen oil move higher in the near term because we have all of the ingredients that will help over the longer term resolve the supply and demand imbalance that exists in oil today,” McKinley said.

Imperial Oil saw its firstquarter income shrink by 55 per cent from a year ago to $421 million, while Suncor reported on Wednesday night a first-quarter net loss of $341 million, down sharply from a year ago where it turned a net profit of about $1.49 billion.

Shares of BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) were down 98 cents to $53.19 as the company’s first-quarter profit suffered from a $137-million legal expense.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,224.52, down 122.82 points Dow — 17,840.52, down 195.01 points S&P 500 — 2,085.51, down 21.34 points Nasdaq — 4,941.42, down 82.22 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.37 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 48.95 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.11 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 26.98 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 53.18 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 4.05 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 3.00 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.78 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.29 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.63 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.10 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 5.07 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 58.08 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.3500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 78.82 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 66.53 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.88 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 31.37 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 37.01 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.63 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 92.93 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.96 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.75 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.77 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 80.11 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.61 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.70

Currencies: Cdn — 82.89 cents US, down 0.28 of a cent Pound — C$1.8523, down 0.26 of a cent Euro — C$1.3547, up 1.87 cents Euro — US$1.1229, up 1.17 cents Oil futures: US$59.63 per barrel, up $1.05 (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,182.40 per oz., down $27.60 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.172 oz., down 70.7 cents $648.53 kg., down $22.73 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $4.30 higher $460.50; July ’15 $0.50 lower $446.50; Nov ’15 $0.50 lower $438.50; Jan. ’16 $0.30 lower $439.70; March ’16 $0.10 lower $440.10; May ’16 $0.10 lower $440.60; July ’16 $0.30 higher $441.50; Nov. ’16 $0.50 higher $436.30; Jan. ’17 $1.20 higher $437.00; March ’17 $1.20 higher $437.00; May ’17 $1.20 higher $437.00.

Barley (Western): May ’15 unchanged $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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 350,060 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 350,060.

GM Canada to cut Oshawa assembly workforce by 1,000 jobs this year

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OSHAWA, Ont. — General Motors says it will cut about 1,000 positions from its Oshawa, Ont., manufacturing operations this year as the company plans to spend billions of dollars to boost its U.S. operations.

By December, GM Canada’s main assembly operation is expected to have 2,600 hourly employees — down from 3,600.

GM Canada says it’s working with the Unifor union, formerly known as the Canadian Auto Workers, to offer retirement incentives to eligible workers.

The downsizing is being timed to the end of production of the Chevrolet Camaro sports car, now officially scheduled for Nov. 20.

The company says it remains committed to Canada, and will continue to produce five other vehicles in Oshawa.

Unifor has been bracing for a significant downturn since GM announced in late 2012 that it would end production of the Camaro.

“We knew the announcement was coming but it still doesn’t make it any better,” said Jerry Dias, national president of Unifor, adding the union was working to mitigate job losses with a voluntary early retirement program.

He also raised questions about the federal government’s recent sale of GM shares to Goldman Sachs for $3.3 billion.

“The selling of the shares, both by the province and the feds, certainly took away bargaining power,” Dias said.

“Shareholders have rights, shareholders have power, and they just gave it away, which to me was completely foolish. Before they sold any of their shares, they should have solidified General Motors’ footprint in Canada.

But they were all about balancing the budget.”

A decision on another product for Oshawa won’t be made until after the next labour contract with Unifor, GM says.

That contract will be negotiated next year.

In addition to the Oshawa manufacturing operation, GM Canada owns the CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ont., which recently received an $800-million investment commitment from the company.

In Oshawa, where General Motors has its Canadian headquarters and a research operation as well as the vehicle assembly operations, the company will continue to operate two plants.

The so-called flex plant will drop to two shifts from three after Camaro production ends, while the other plant will continue to have one shift.

The vice-president of GM Canada said recent announcements show the company remains “very very bullish on Ontario and Canada as places to invest.”

‘THE SELLING OF THE SHARES, BOTH BY THE PROVINCE AND THE FEDS CERTAINLY TOOK AWAY BARGAINING POWER.’ —JERRY DIAS UNIFOR NATIONAL PRESIDENT

“The whole industry is clearly looking at some very radical changes as cars get integrated into mobile networks and we’re building on some of that experience that we have in Ontario,” David Paterson said.

“There’s an awful lot going for Ontario and we intend to be here for the long term. We’re just going through a process and we’re going through it in the time frame that we’re going through.”

Brad Duguid, Ontario’s minister of economic development, said he remains “disappointed” by GM’s decision to cease production of the Camaro.

“As always, my immediate concerns are with the impacted employees and their families,” he said in a statement.

“It remains my top priority to work closely with GM, Unifor, and the federal government to secure a future mandate for GM’s Oshawa facility beyond 2016.”

General Motors announced Thursday that it plans to spend US$5.4 billion to improve its U.S. factories during the next three years, creating about 650 new jobs.

In December, the company said it planned to invest US$5 billion to modernize and expand its four factories in Mexico.

Dias says Canada should take notice.

“That is just a prime example of why we so desperately need an auto strategy here in Canada because the government clearly has lost touch with the industry,” he said.

Tony Faria, co-director of the Office of Automotive Research at the University of Windsor, said Canada needs to become more competitive in trying to attract automotive investment.

“The federal and Ontario governments have got to decide to what degree they want to maintain an automotive industry in Canada,” he said.

“Certainly Canada cannot compete with Mexico on wages....but Canada has to at least be competitive wage cost wise with the U.S.” In addition to labour costs being lower for automotive companies in the U.S., Canada also has higher energy costs and strict business regulations, Faria said.

“Ultimately, if we don’t hang on to our automotive assembly, we’re probably going to loose automotive technical investment as well,” he said.

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Land Use Bylaw Amendment 3357/G-2015 Bremner Avenue Red Deer City Council is considering amending the Land Use Bylaw to include a Commercial Service Facility as a use in Direct Control District No. 1 – DC(1).

A Commercial Service Facility allows uses such as: • Services related to the care and appearance of the body, • Cleaning and repair of personal effects, • Care of small animals, or • Financial or insurance services outlet, real estate agency, travel agency, commercial school or day care.

The proposed bylaw may be inspected at Legislative Services, 2nd Floor City Hall during regular office hours or for more details, contact City of Red Deer Planning Services at 403-406-8700.

City Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaw at the Public Hearing on Monday, May 25, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, 2nd Floor of City Hall. If you want your letter included in the Council agenda you must submit it to the Manager, Legislative Services

by Friday, May 15, 2015. You may also submit your letter at the Public Hearing, or you can simply tell Council your views at the Public Hearing. Council’s Procedure Bylaw indicates that each presentation is limited to 10 minutes. Any submission will be public information. If you have any questions regarding the use of this information please contact the Manager, Legislative Services at 403-342-8132.

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On April 28, 2015, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Gaetz Avenue South 1. Phoenix Construction Inc. – a 929m2 bay addition to the existing Southside Plymouth Chrysler building, located at 2804-50 Avenue.

Glendale 2. JMAA Architecture Ltd. – a 424m2 modular addition to the existing St. Teresa of Avila Elementary School, located at 190 Glendale Boulevard.

Mountview 3. Snell & Oslund Surveys Ltd. – a 0.18 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane to an existing detached garage, located at 4444-34 Street.

West Park 4. Snell & Oslund Surveys Ltd. – relaxations of 0.69 metres and 1.82 metres respectively, to the minimum front yard setback to existing decks, located at 41 & 43 Wells Street.

Discretionary Use Gaetz Avenue North 5. Clearview Windshield Repair – a temporary windshield repair business, until August 31, 2015, to be located at 7730-50 Avenue.

Gaetz Avenue South 6. Clearview Windshield Repair – a temporary windshield repair business, until August 31, 2015, to be located at 5111-22 Street.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on May 15, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8190.

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2014 ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT Copies of the 2014 Annual Financial Report for The City of Red Deer are now available at the Information Desk, Main Floor, City Hall.

The Annual Report can also be accessed on The City of Red Deer’s web site at: http://www.reddeer.ca Dean Krejci, CA Chief Financial Officer

INVITATION TO TENDER Sealed Tenders clearly marked Taylor Drive Improvements – Phase II, Closing May 21, 2015, delivered or mailed to the Purchasing Section, Sixth Floor at: The City of Red Deer Professional Building Suite 600 4808 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X5 Attention: Financial Services Reception Desk and received before 2:00:59 p.m. local time on Thursday, May 21, 2015 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

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using laser-scribed graphene manganese dioxide (LSG/MnO2) electrodes, which can store as much charge as a conventional (lead acid) battery, recharge in seconds, and has 10,000 cycles of usable life; all in a thin film that can be attached to the back of a solar panel.

On the electric car front, the Finns have designed, built and developed a one MW (one megawatt is 1,341 horsepower) with the intention of competing in the Le Mans endurance race famous for its 24-hour, 4,800-km-plus test of vehicular fitness. These are just three recent examples of ingenuity working for the betterment of civilization, so I think optimism is feasible.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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Subcontractors may view the Tender Documents at the Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer Construction Association offices.

Inquiries regarding this Project may be directed to: Andrew Phillips, C.E.T. The City of Red Deer Engineering Services Department 4914-48 Avenue Red Deer, AB T4N 3T3 Andrew.phillips@reddeer.ca Derek Beattie, P.Eng. Stantec Consulting Ltd. Executive Place #1100, 4900 – 50 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X7 derek.beattie@stantec.com

INVITATION TO TENDER Sealed Tenders clearly marked Highway 11A / Quinton Drive Intersection Improvements May 21, 2015 delivered or mailed to the Purchasing Section, Sixth Floor at: The City of Red Deer Professional Building Suite 600 4808 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1X5 Attention: Financial Services Reception Desk and received before 2:00:59 p.m. local time on May 21, 2015 will be opened in public immediately thereafter. Tenders received and not conforming to the foregoing will be returned to the Bidder(s) without consideration. Faxed Tender Documents or Tender Amendments will not be accepted.

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Surviving through hope and determination The Mountain Story

By Lori Lansens Knopf Canada

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Years earlier, on his 18th birthday, Wolf boarded a tramcar filled with other In a letter to his son Danhikers and tourists up to the ny, Wilfred “Wolf” Truly fimountain that towers over nally tells the story of his the city of Palm Springs. time on the mountain.

Wolf is despondent over Since Danny was a child, the death of his mother, imhe has wanted to learn what prisonment of his distant fahappened to his father and ther and a feeling of blame the three other hikers who for the horrid accident that became lost and strandhappened to his best friend, ed on a mountain for four Byrd. Wolf decides that he KIRSTEN nights and five days. will climb the mountain LOWE After years of avoiding and jump off. the question from his only On the way up, Wolf son, Wolf knows it is time to meets the three women who tell his story. It will allow will ultimately change the him to confront his past and the moun- course of his future: Nola, Bridget and tain, which still holds Wolf in a state of Vonn.

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Nola was in her 60s and she is the matriarch of the group. She’s motherly, kind, calm and caring.

Upon getting lost, Nola is the first one to receive a severe injury due to a fall down a rocky hill, snapping her wrist.

Bridget is Nola’s daughter. She is always caught up in her own drama while exaggerating everything. She takes shots at Wolf, ultimately blaming him for getting them lost and referring to him as the “mountain man” in a bitter and sarcastic tone.

Vonn, who is Wolf’s age, is Bridget’s daughter and Nola’s granddaughter.

She stays to herself and is silent at the beginning, trying to avoid butting heads with her mother — as always.

Vonn too suffers an injury, as the result of a run-in with a snake.

The four must overcome their differences, and put down their guard in order to learn to trust each other and work together.

Not only do they battle snakes, vultures and coyotes, but they also must contend with environmental factors such as frostbite and hyperthermia, and combat starvation and dehydration.

But the most important fight of all is the one to keep the hope and hold on to the determination to survive.

Lansens has written a high-anxiety novel about survival, with vivid descriptions of the unforgiveable mountain and teamwork while each character must confront the skeletons in their closet.

Kirsten Lowe is a Red Deer College student and freelance book reviewer.

Lots to like from one of the best books from 2014 Euphoria

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in New Guinea.

They first learn the language of the people, study their lives in detail and reEuphoria, published in port back.

2014, was nominated one of Nell progresses like a the 10 best books of the year disciplined student, minby The New York Times Book gling with the children, Review. keeping notes, visiting the The setting is New Guinwomen and documenting ea in the 1930s, where the all she learns. culture of the natives is beFen learns the language ing investigated by three anquickly and befriends the thropologists. men, but has no use for the Nell Stone is a young subjects of agriculture, govAmerican anthropologist ernment or technology. He PEGGY and celebrated author of The keeps few notes.

FREEMAN Children of the Kirakira. Her When they meet Bankson, husband, Fen, works in the they have just left the Mumsame field of science but sufbanyo people, who beat a fers jealousy at his wife’s success. The death gong for them as they paddled third character of this triangle, also an away. They left seven months before anthropologist, is Andrew Bankson, schedule and Nell is bruised and limpa Brit who works out of the village of ing, her glasses are broken.

Nengai, on the Sepik, the longest river Andrew Bankson was one of three

boys in his family. He studied science because his brutish father insisted that all his sons do science.

His brothers and father are now dead, but his mother’s continued attempts at control keep him in New Guinea. After 24 months in Nengai, and as the only white man, suicide is on his mind.

Each of these scientists is harbouring a secret. When Bankson comes down with a fever and is ill for days, Fenn cares for him. Though Bankson is delirious much of the time, Fenn talks to him about the unhappiness in his youth, and his great need to best Nell in the anthropology game. He has a plan and he wants Bankson’s help.

Nell would like to have a child but a child would not have been safe with the Mumbanyo, who threw unwanted babies into the ocean.

Her biggest secret involves a romantic liaison of many years, before she met Fenn. She longs for a more sym-

pathetic partner. Bankson and Nell share many interests and he is a good listener.

The people, the tribal customs and rituals are all interesting.

There is the story of the Dobu man who felt sure his “invisibility charm” worked perfectly, but sneaking into women’s houses brought him a smack with a stick.

Or the detailed scarification of the body of a 12-year-old boy, a ritual that left him weeping and half conscious, then sent into seclusion to heal.

This story is loosely based on the work of Margaret Mead.

The conversation between these characters is intelligent and insightful.

The euphoria of the title comes to these researchers in exploration and discovery.

This book has steamy romance, exotic locale and a fascinating study.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance Red Deer books reviewer.

Kobo says the book will reveal details and background about Ghomeshi and explore how he came to be fired as host of CBC Radio’s “Q.” Ghomeshi is charged with seven counts of sexual assault and one of overcoming resistance by choking, but his lawyer has said he will plead not guilty to all charges.

Kobo and ECW Press say Donovan, who has covered the story for the Star, has interviewed a number of women and former colleagues from Ghomeshi’s past. Kobo will offer the book digitally while ECW Press will put out the print version to the North American marketplace.

Kobo vice president Pieter Swinkels says the book is “a thought-provoking story that forces us to look again at social, cultural and gender roles.”

New Dr. Ben Carson book, A More Perfect Union, scheduled for October

dom House, announced Wednesday that it will be releasing A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our constitutional Liberties on Oct. 6. Last year, Carson’s One Nation was a bestseller on numerous lists, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Carson’s new book will discuss the “basic principles” of the Constitution and how “they relate to our everyday lives.”

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1975 — Canada to control its own air space for the first time since NORAD agreement signed in 1958.

1975 — Canada to bring 3,000 South Vietnamese refugees to Canada.

1948 — The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) is proclaimed.

1931 — The Empire State Building in New York is dedicated and opened. At 102 storeys tall, it is the tallest building in the world at the time.

1921 — The Quebec government takes control of the sale of liquor in the province; with near universal prohibition of alcoholic beverages in North America, Quebec is the only ‘wet’ jurisdiction on the continent for a time.

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Let son handle disclosure problem Dear Annie: My youngest son is engaged to “Carol,” a lovely young lady.

My oldest son, “Mitch,” lives out of state with his partner, “James.” Both are in the wedding party.

Carol has known Mitch for years, is well aware that he’s gay and has no problem with it.

However, I’m relatively sure her parents don’t know, and I’m of the opinMITCHELL ion that they & SUGAR need to be told before the big event.

I’ve tried to casually bring it up with Carol several times, and she always smiles and says, “Don’t worry about Mom and Dad,” and then changes the subject.

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The truth of the matter is, I don’t worry about them.

They are charming people and pillars of the community.

But I don’t want them to be shocked at the wedding when meeting the gay brother and his same-sex spouse.

Mitch and James are not into public displays of affection, but they’re obviously not going to ignore each other.

Considering the idiotic things people can say, I think Carol’s parents need to be prepared.

At my daughter’s wedding years ago, an uncle of her new husband cornered her at the reception and strongly suggested she consider adoption “just in case it’s hereditary.”

I’m considering inviting Carol’s mother to lunch and laying the cards on the table, but my other kids insist I need to stay out of it.

Even James, who basically agrees with me, says it has to be Carol’s decision. Is he right?

Carol’s parents are going all out for this wedding, and I wouldn’t want a

surprise like this to upset them.

What to do? — Mother of the Groom Dear Mother: Your heart is in the right place, but you are talking to the wrong people.

Your soon-to-be-married son is the person who should talk to Carol if he thinks her parents need this information in advance. And while surprises should be kept to a minimum at weddings, we don’t really see a problem here. Mitch and James won’t be doing anything disruptive, and there’s nothing you can do about ignorant people like your daughter’s uncle-in-law. You are over-thinking this.

Relax. Trust your son and his bride to handle the details, whatever they are.

Dear Annie: I have a quick tip for your readers: My wife and I receive a lot of junk mail.

I take all of the junk envelopes, whether they have been opened or not, put a rubber band loosely around one end, stick a pencil or pen under the rubber band, and leave them where my

wife and I write notes or grocery lists.

This works great.

We haven’t bought note pads in a year. — The Villages, Fla. Dear Villages: For folks on a budget, this is a great way to have spare notepaper handy while recycling.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Dear Annie: “Cringing in Exercise Class” pointed out the annoyance of chewing gum while exercising.

Gum chewing is dangerous during all sports activity.

I am particularly concerned when I witness children and others doing so in the swimming area.

As a water safety instructor, I have had to deal with some scary, lifethreatening episodes. — No Gum In the Pool, Please 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.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Resist the urge to procrastinate and be lethargic. The coming year promises good fortune but you must grab lucky opportunities when they come along or they will pass you by.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Travel and communication are favoured, as long as JOANNE you don’t rush.

MADELEINE So hop in a MOORE car, bus, train or plane, plus talk, text or tweet up a storm.

You’ve got plenty of news to share with others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Self-indulgence and impulse buys are a danger at the moment as Mercury and Venus stimulate your spending gene.

Think things through Taurus — and leave your credit card at home.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): With Mercury and Venus visiting your sign, it’s your time to shine!

Your verbal and written talents are peaking, plus your Gemini charm and geniality bring others around to your point of view.

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Don’t limit yourself. With so many planets activating your aspirations zones, make But it said lifetime bans may be jusyour plans for the future as big and beautiful tified if a donor presents a high risk of and creative as possible. acquiring severe infectious diseases LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lions — when it and there is no other method to protect comes to paid or volunteer work, make the blood recipients. most of any lucky breaks that come your way today.

It’s time to get moving, communicating, PARIS — The European Court of networking and circulating in style!

Justice has ruled that EU governments VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Communimay ban gay men from ever donating cation and creativity are the buzz words at blood, but only under strict conditions. work, as you strive to be more positive and Wednesday’s ruling was closely proactive.

A burnt bowl of macaroni and watched by activists and by governMake sure you present yourself as proWASHINGTON — Doctors have fessionally — and attractively — as pos- cheese forced a brief evacuation at ments that have lifetime bans on hothe Iowa Capitol. Iowa Department of mosexual male blood donors because used 3-D printers to create tiny devices sible. that saved the lives of three boys by LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may feel Administrative Services spokesman they are more likely than other groups holding open defective airways so they unusually restless today, as the planets Caleb Hunter says somebody’s lunch to have HIV, the virus that causes burned in a microwave Monday be- AIDS. could breathe — even expanding as stimulate your latent Libran gypsy gene.

Frenchman Geoffrey Leger had pro- the tots grew. The research reported So get out the travel brochures and start hind the Senate Chambers on the secWednesday is a striking example of the planning an exciting trip for some time soon. ond floor of the Capitol. He says the tested France’s ban. The court found SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When it smoke prompted a short evacuation of that France’s law is “liable to discrimi- promise of 3D printing for customizing nate against male homosexuals on the medical care. The boys were born with comes to work projects and business trans- the entire building during the mornbasis of sexual orientation,” which is ing.

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Ultron can’t tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it.

Where do you think he gets that?

— Scarlet Witch Avengers: Age of Ultron

Noisy, confusing fun BLOCKBUSTER SUPERHERO SEQUEL SERVES UP AN ENTERTAINING PACKAGE OF CHARACTERS AND IDEAS Avengers: Age of Ultron Two-and-a-half stars (out of four) Rated: PG

bewilderment. “He” is more of an “it,” an artificial intelligence designed for good but corroded into badness, kind of like the Gardiner Expressway. Ultron was hatched Evil geniuses who seek to blow in the lab by brainiac smartass up the world are a dime Tony Stark (Robert a dozen, but Avengers: Downey Jr.), who seems Age of Ultron gives us to be suffering from his the novelty of a super own identity issues. baddie who doesn’t Ominously quoting really know what he wartime dupe Neville wants to do.

Chamberlain (“Peace Writer/director Joss in our time!”), Stark has Whedon seems equally evidently grown tired perplexed in this seof donning his Iron quel to The Avengers, Man suit to save the his 2012 mega-blockplanet, alongside his buster. He serves up an fellow Avengers: CapPETER entertaining package tain America (Chris EvHOWELL of characters and ideas ans), Hulk (Mark Rufthat manages to be a MOVIES falo), Thor (Chris Hemwhole lot more than the sworth), Black Widow first film while also be(Scarlett Johansson) ing a little bit less. and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner).

Title villain Ultron has built-in Stark created a surrogate to do

the job instead. But Ultron, donning killer robot guise and voiced

by James Spader with a Birdman sneer, wobbles between messiah complex (“Upon this rock I will build my church!”) and mwah ha ha.

Should he/it force humanity to smarten up and evolve, or just smash stuff for the heck of it? Discuss.

“Ultron can’t tell the difference between saving the world and destroying it,” a character says.

Truer words were never spoken, especially in this movie, where confusion reigns, along with a lot of noisy fun.

If it sometimes feels a bit less fun than the first film, which had the novelty of teaming Marvel superheroes after years of separate adventures, it certainly is no less noisy.

After a start that ties back to Loki’s mystical rottenness of 2012,

Age of Ultron sets out to give us not just the second chapter of The Avengers franchise, but also the third and fourth ones, apparently.

We get two other new villains, evil twins Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), of whom Cobie Smulders’ S.H.I.E.L.D. operative Maria Hill briskly observes: “He’s fast and she’s weird.”

While Quicksilver zips about, Scarlet Witch sets out to divide and conquer the Avengers using telekinesis to harness their personal nightmares.

As if the Avengers don’t already have enough to think about: Between battling Ultron and his/ its clanking stooges, in CGI-laden action scenes where you can barely tell the people from the pixels, our heroes have major life issues to sort out.

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Psychological thriller looks at prisoners of conscience

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Three Romanians, united by religious beliefs, are separated in different isolation cells in Andrew Kooman’s new play, We Are the Body.

The year is 1955 and the Soviet Union has drawn an Iron Curtain across Eastern Europe. Formerly Christian countries, such as Romania, are being forced to embrace a stateimposed atheism.

As a playwright and a Christian, Kooman was intrigued by this historic time and place — and by the question of which ideas are people willing to suffer or even die for?

“To me (the play) is a psychological thriller ... it asks the question: what beliefs do we hold on to so strongly we won’t let go of them?” the Red Deer resident added.

Although three Christians are central characters in his new play — which runs from May 5 to 9 at the Scott Block in Red Deer, he believes the themes explored in We Are the Body are universally relatable, since many people are continuing to suffer for their beliefs around the world.

Christians were recently murdered

by Islamist extremists in Ethiopia.

Falun Gong members are imprisoned and reportedly tortured and killed in China. Human rights advocates decry that Muslim prisoners are detained for years without trial in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military prison.

Political prisoners of all stripes languish in global jails. Even the Canadian government has been accused of seeming to condone the torture of

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Red Deer playwright Andrew Kooman asks question which ideas people are willing to suffer or even die for in his new play, ‘We Are the Body.’ citizens such as Maher Arar by other countries.

As an Amnesty International member, Stephen Waldschmidt of Calgary’s Burnt Thicket Theatre is aware of these various faces of persecution — which is one of the reasons he decided to direct We Are the Body. He was hooked on the story since first reading an early draft of the script while directing Kooman’s play She Has a Name, about sex trafficking, in 2012.

While both dramas revolve around

human rights abuses and allow audience members to get inside a situation that’s happening to somebody else, Waldschmidt believes the similarities end there.

“This is a different play than She Has a Name,” said the director, who feels the previous play was a “call to action” to motivate the public to help try to stop sex trafficking, while We Are the Body is more of a slice of life. “It shows what it’s like to be a prisoner of conscience in a repressive regime.”

While the story of Kooman’s female sex slave character in She Has a Name was largely filtered through Jason, a Western man who tries to help her, nothing stands between viewers and the three prisoners in Kooman’s new play. “They talk right to the audience, saying, ‘Do you hear my voice?’ and ‘Would you listen to me for the next hour and a half?’ ” said Waldschmidt.

Elsie is a woman in her late 20s who lost a fiancé in the war and turned to religion to help her deal with her loss. Richard (based on real-life Richard Wurmbrand, a middle-aged Jewish Christian convert), is imprisoned for his beliefs — as is Micah, who belongs to an underground church.

The young man spends much of the play wondering whether his communist brother turned him in, said Waldschmidt. “Micah’s journey is, in some ways, the most complex. He’s losing his faith in the reality of a just God whereas Richard is trying to keep his faith.”

The play tells of the daily beatings and tortures inflicted on these prisoners. But Waldschmidt said the violence will be mostly implied instead of shown on stage since “we want people to engage in the story rather than look away.”

He believes We Are the Body actually has more light-hearted and comic moments than She Has a Name because the characters — Elsie in particular — look back at better times to help them deal with their oppressive reality.

The pre-war story of Elsie and her fiancé, Ionel, is “a beautiful romance” that stands in stark contrast to her later imprisonment, said Waldschmidt.

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Good for what ails the troubled heart COLIN JAMES RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM, HEARTS ON FIRE

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF “Music is like a medicine,” says sixtime Juno Award-winning singer Colin James, who performs on Wednesday at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

If so, then his torchy Hearts on Fire album could prove a soothing elixir for what ails the troubled heart.

Words like “love,” “heart” and “heartbreak” turn up with frequency on his soulful new release — so much so that James admitted he has to watch his set list at concerts, lest fans start wondering about his personal life.

(For the record, he been married for 23 years to the same woman. “We’ve known each other for 25,” said the Vancouver-based performer, with a chuckle. “I just happen to like lonely, sad sounding music. ...)

Although he also enjoys “stuff that rocks,” James is closely drawn to “yearning, plaintive” melodies — like those that infuse many bluesy tunes on Hearts on Fire, his 16th album. Some critics are hailing it as one of the finest in his 27-year career, and the Regina native finds that a very nice thing to hear.

“I’m glad that people are enjoying it,” said James, because the recording is long overdue.

He had wanted to make a “softer,” more relaxed sounding CD when he got signed to EMI Records just before the label merged with Universal Music three years ago. “Because I was known as a rocker and this was a new label, they wanted me to put out another rock and blues record” — which is what he did with his 2012 release. Fifteen was the third blues-rock album James put out in a row, and he was itching to do something different this time.

“You have to follow your instincts,” he said, so Hearts on Fire became the reflective album he’d been wanting to make in 2012. He believes the long

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AVENGERS: ‘None of this makes sense’ Two of them are trying to decide if Pat Benatar was being literal when she sang, Love Is A Battlefield. Another is revealed to have a family, whose worried spouse says, “You know I totally support your Avenging.” (Imagine a big “but …” on the end of that.)

They all have to deal with the pompous utterings of yet another strange super entity — let’s call him the Player To Be Named Later — who would never make it as a logician: “Humans are odd. They think that order and chaos are somehow opposites.”

Yet all these interludes from the main action are where Age of Ultron works best, and where the abundant

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Colin James performs on Wednesday at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre to promote his soulful new release, Hearts on Fire. delay and the extra planning time paid off with a strong lineup of songs.

With his friend and producer Colin Linden, James created a sonically cohesive CD that fans can listen to from start to finish, without the mood shifting drastically in the middle. “I didn’t want anyone to have to run across the room when the three rock songs came on. I wanted to be able to put (the album) on and leave it on.”

Hearts on Fire was recorded in Nashville, so has a sparse, country vibe.

There’s also something subterranean about the sound that brings New Orleans to mind. James believes it’s the influence of some musicians who perform on the album, including drummer Willie Weeks, who hails from the Big Easy and has played with Eric Clapton, Chaka Khan and Bob Dylan.

“It has a lot of economy, space,” said James of the CD, crediting Linden with its spontaneous, understated feel. Linden (of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings) “likes to leave a lot of stuff like it is,”

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BERLIN — A portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach considered one of the most important paintings in the classical music world is being returned to his home city after a 250-year odyssey that took it as far as the United

States, the Bach Archive in Leipzig said Wednesday.

The painting is a bequest from late American philanthropist William H. Scheide, a lifelong collector of the Baroque composer’s music.

It was previously owned for more than a century by the Jewish family Jenke from what is now the Polish city of Wroclaw, who fled Nazi persecution to England in the 1930s. There it was entrusted for some years to the family of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

talents of the actors — as fine a team of thespians ever to dress up in leather, Spandex, body armour and war paint — are showcased to best advantage.

A scene in which the Avengers each take turns trying to lift Thor’s divine hammer is hilarious just to contemplate, especially for those of you who are Jung and easily Freudianed.

Whedon also gets in some funny riffs on his own myth-spinning.

Every so often, someone pipes up with a mot juste about the absurdity of the situation, as when non-super Hawkeye acidly observes, “We’re fighting an army of robots, and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.”

That’s OK, Hawkeye. We’re right there with you in thinking that.

One of the most challenging aspects of directing this script was figuring out how to present the Morse Code tapping on water pipes and walls the prisoners use to communicate with each other.

“It starts very slow at the beginning and then goes faster,” as the users become more adept at tapping the code.

It connects them and becomes a lifeline, “a way for them to hold onto their sanity,” said Waldschmidt, who hopes audience members will leave the play more open minded about differences in culture or beliefs. “I hope there will be more of a willingness to listen to people who are different, who hold different points of view.”

Kooman, who penned We Are the Body through the now-defunct Scripts

at Work program that offered upand-coming playwrights professional mentorship, hopes the experience of seeing it will lead to post-play discussion. “I hope it opens a door for people to enter a conversation,” which is what he believes good theatre should do.

“It’s a great reason to come together and explore something together.”

Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. shows (2 p.m. matinee on Saturday, May 9,) are $25 in advance or $30 at the door. Available from burntthicket.com.

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added the 50-year-old singer/guitarist.

This is particularly felt on the title track, which was recorded exactly as it was played in the studio.

But even James’s cover of Rihanna’s torch song Stay is so spare and unorchestrated that the familiar tune is hard to place at first. He said he recorded Stay because “people didn’t expect it of me.” He began doing his own acoustic version of the song at concerts because he loved the beautiful lyrics and gorgeous, subtle chord changes.

That tune will lend itself to James’s acoustic concert in Red Deer. He will perform here as a duo with his friend and fellow guitarist Chris Caddell.

The stripped-down experience will give James’s fans another vantage point from which to appreciate his music. Although some electric guitars will be used, Linden admitted the listeners’ attention will be more focused on song lyrics. As a result, even some of his hits — Five Long Years, Voodoo Thing, Why’d You Lie, Just Came Back and Breakin’ Up the House — will sound different and fresher.

“There will be more chance for me to talk about the songs and banter with the audience. It’ll be much more intimate,” said James.

“I love it. I really enjoy these shows.”

Since opening for the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughan in the late 1980s, James has performed around the continent, sharing stages with Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Luther Allison, Keith Richards, Lenny Kravitz, ZZ Top, Mavis Staples, John Hammond Jr., the Chieftains, Carlos Santana, Little Feat, Buddy Guy and many others.

He was inducted in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Besides his Junos, he has won 17 Maple Blues Awards over the years.

Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. concert are $53.42 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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The futility of change THE QUEASY SIDE OF AMY SCHUMER’S VIRAL RAPE SKETCH

BY ALYSSA ROSENBERG ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES “Watch amy schumer’s powerful inspiring speech about john oliver destroying sexism in one west wing parody,” BuzzFeed’s Matt Zeitlin tweeted Wednesday. “77 million shares.”

He was referring to the reaction to a sketch on Inside Amy Schumer, in which the titular comedian teamed up with actor Josh Charles to put on a clever parody of Friday Night Lights, but also to a tendency in Web publishing to treat comedians’ clips as if they’re finishing moves, insights so powerful that they settle the debate in question for good.

Of course, comedy can have a real-world impact: Hannibal Buress’s denunciation of Bill Cosby during a stand-up routine finally broke the dam that had minimized sexual assault allegations against the legendary comedian. Football Town Nights has been greeted like a rhetorical and political triumph, which maybe it is. But to me, it felt a bit more like a sketch that served another, darker comedic and political purpose: to point out how futile our efforts to change the world can actually be.

In the sketch, Charles plays the new coach in town who’s trying to turn his players into better men, and Schumer is his wife, figuring out what she can do from the sidelines. Schumer’s comedy — such as a brilliant sketch in which a group of women commit collective suicide when one of their number simply accepts a compliment rather than tearing herself down — often excels by turning subtext into text. In Football Town Nights, that means watching the team’s players run through all the scenarios in which they think it might be all right to override a woman’s consent, and watching the town insist that the players’ ability to rape whoever they want is critical to their success.

“Schumer’s team, on the other hand, understood that rape isn’t really about sex, but that sex is just a weapon being used to assert power and establish a social hierarchy that puts victims at the bottom,” Amanda Marcotte wrote in a paean to the sketch at Talking Points Memo, comparing it with another bit on Saturday Night Live. “Schumer’s sketch, doing what good humor should do, questions this belief, showing how ridiculous you sound when you actually try to argue that men are incapable of understanding context or meaningful consent.”

But the sketch itself sort of ends up making this argument. After multiple scenes of Coach Thompson intercepting every scenario his players throw at him for when it might be all right to take a no as a yes, he sent them back onto the field at the end of halftime with the exhortation that “(Football is) about violently dominating anyone that stands between you and what you want! You gotta get yourself into

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Amy Schumer’s comedy often excels at turning subtext into text. In the sketch Football Town Nights, that means watching the team’s players run through all the scenarios in which they think it might be all right to override a woman’s consent, and watching the town insist that the players’ ability to rape whoever they want is critical to their success.

COMMENT the mindset that you are gods, and you are entitled to this!” Even the man who’s giving his players clear and blunt anti-rape education turns out to be feeding the mind-set that turned his players into predators in the first place.

ThinkProgress culture editor Jessica Goldstein did a smart interview with Inside Amy Schumer writers Christine Nangle and Jessi Klein about the sketch, in which Nangle confirmed that some of this fatalism is intentional. “Obviously, it wasn’t lost on me that these guys are trained to knock each other over while half-dressed girls jump up and down on the sidelines,” Nangle told Goldstein. “The history of it is all there, and it just says something.”

If we really think elite athletes can’t be taught that different behaviors are permissible in different circumstances, and if we really think that sports themselves — rather than a culture that venerates players and exempts them from the codes of conduct

that apply to the rest of us — are a cause of rape, then maybe it really is time to despair.

Sports are an enormous part of American collective life. Serious scandals like the prevalence of steroids in Major League Baseball and the National Football League’s denial about concussion rates haven’t turned us away from our national games.

And humor may comfort those standing on the sidelines who find fanatical sports fandom risible, but there’s a difference between providing a campfire in a cold world and actually burning an entire toxic culture to the ground.

No wonder that as Coach Thompson’s wife, Schumer not only makes the decidedly un-Tami Taylor suggestion that he might lay off the anti-rape crusade, and that her wine glasses get larger every time she appears on screen. She knows that his campaign is futile and that he’s part of the problem, despite his good intentions.

By the last scene, the goblet’s big enough that her attempts to drown her sorrows no longer seem metaphorical — and Football Town Nights has become dark enough that we might be tempted to join her.

Goodfellas: inspiring copycats for 25 years If you’ve watched the trailer for the much-hyped Black Mass, you may find yourself asking two questions: first, what is that accent Johnny Depp is working? And second, why does this feel so familiar?

Depp, as real-life mob boss Whitey Bulger, banters light-heartedly with an associate about a “secret family recipe” — until he suddenly lashes out: “You spill a secret family recipe today, maybe you spill a little something about me tomorrow, hmm?” Whitey says ominously. Is he joking? Or is he really going to shoot the guy?

Well, of course you know, because you’ve seen this before — just with Joe Pesci playing the heavy instead. The movie was Goodfellas, and in the scene that probably won him the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, Pesci, as the murderous Tommy DeVito, is cracking up Ray Liotta’s Henry Hill and their wiseguy buddies with one hilarious story after another.

Everything about Black Mass seems like a blatant rip-off of Goodfellas — but maybe that’s OK, because Martin Scorsese’s mobster masterpiece is possibly the most ripped-off movie of our time.

Here’s a look at just a few of the descendants of Goodfellas.

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino’s earliest movies bear more than a passing resemblance to GoodFellas, with their mix of humor, violence and offbeat banter among career criminals.

Tarantino may be best known for his gruesome depictions of death, but his dialogue makes almost as much of an impression. It’s within little snippets of conversation, when people make funny observations about mundane things, that we really get to know Tarantino’s characters — whether it’s Jules and Vincent’s debate over foot massages or Mr. Pink’s diatribe on tipping.

But we saw it first in Goodfellas (which in fairness owes a little something to Diner in this regard).

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Paul Thomas Anderson has said that Scorsese and Robert Altman are his professional idols. It’s obvious from the first scene of Anderson’s dramedy about the porn world. The plot structure of Boogie Nights is also a blatant GoodFellas imitation, tracing the career of an aspiring kingpin over several years.

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Home & Garden 2015

The Red Deer Advocate is publishing a

SPRING HOME AND GARDEN

Special in the Friday, May 8 edition - just in time for Mother’s Day and the May long weekend.

Spring activities such as planting, backyard cleaning and home renovating are soon upon us, and this feature offers insight into the latest trends, tips and suggestions to help our readers.

To book space in this special section, please contact your Advocate sales representative.

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announcements Obituaries DOCKSTADER Ruth (nee: Windeatt) Ruth Dockstader passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Hospice on Monday, April 27, 2015 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Beloved mother of two daughters, Debbie Crawford and Bobbie (Tracy Reberger) Bowman; Grandma to Chris (Melissa) Crawford, Cheryl (Chad) Nicholls, Kaylie (Alex) Dodman, Starr Bowman, James Bowman; GreatGrandma to Adalynn Crawford; Declan, Ryan and Evan Nicholls; Teagean, Colby and Russell Dodman; Keianna and JJ Aubin; and a special adopted family Karen and Allan Kotanko and family. Ruth is also survived by her sister Billie (Les) Irwin; brother Bob (Marlene) Windeatt; special niece and nephew Sherry and Bryan Taylor and their son Scott (Courtney); numerous other nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Russell; parents Nel and Bill Windeatt; sisters Joan Janzen and Mary-Ellen Kelly. As per Ruth’s request, no funeral service will be held after the cremation.

Memorial tributes in Ruth’s honour may be made directly to the charity of the donor’s choice. We are grateful to family, friends and Consort Home Care for the support and expressions of kindness and sympathy shown during Mom’s lengthy illness. A special thank you to Dr. Hopfner, the nurses at the Red Deer Regional Hospital and the Red Deer Hospice for the loving care, attention and compassion shown to Mom and family during this difficult time. Many thanks to the Eventide Funeral Home for their understanding and guidance. Bless all who have had a positive touch in Mom’s life. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

SJARE A memorial service for BECKY SJARE will be held in her home town of Sylvan Lake on Sunday May 3rd at 1pm. The service will be held at H.J Cody School 4520 50 Street, Sylvan Lake Alberta.

YEE, Sue (nee Cheung) June 17, 1935 Suriname, New Guinea April 28, 2015 Red Deer, Alberta Sue passed away on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at the age of 79 years. She went to be with Jesus, her Lord and Savior. Sue is survived by her children; R. Compton, Leona (Chris), Brenda (Bill), Sean, and grandchildren; Vanessa, Aaron and Crystal.

She is predeceased by her husband, Larry. She will also be deeply missed by her four brothers and two sisters, a sister-in-law, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. The family wishes to express their profound gratitude to the staff of Red Deer Regional Hospital for their kind and loving care for Sue in her final days. A celebration of Sue’s life will be held at the Deer Park Alliance Church - 2960 39 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow at the Alto Reste Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Sue’s memory to the Deer Park Alliance Church.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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EARING, GOLD HORSESHOE style, with diamonds. Lost Sat. April 25 at Imaging Centre or Tony Romas, or State & Main Restaurant.

CENTIMENTAL VALUE. If found please call 403-342-0444

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FOUND on walking trail in Barrett Park gold earring.

Call 403-352-7972 to identify.

Acoustic Friday’s Various Artists

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Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

LIVE JAM Sunday’s 5-9 p.m.

FIRST Aid Course EFA/SFA MAY 2 or 9 403-307-7444 saudm01@hotmail.com

KOOP Peter Oct. 30, 1934 ~ Apr. 29, 2015 It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Peter Koop in Camrose at the age of 80 years.

Graveside Services will be held at Mountain View Memorial Gardens (1605 100 Street SE, Calgary) on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

MOLLEKEN Robert 1960 - 2015 Mr. Robert “Bob” Russell Molleken passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Saturday, April 25, 2015 at the age of 54 years. Bob was born on August 22, 1960 in Regina Sask. to Bette and Bernie Molleken.

They moved to Alberta when he was five days old and he lived in the Eckville and Sylvan Lake areas his entire life. Bob was a fearless, outgoing character and no matter the extent of his injuries he sustained he never let them slow him down or stop him from doing the adrenaline rushing and sometimes dangerous activities he loved doing. Bob was well known for his love of the outdoors, he had a crack shot with a bow and arrow, guns, and a pool cue, he loved to hunt, fish, quad skidoo ski and more. Bob will be lovingly remembered by his two beautiful daughters Tasha and Kari-Ann, his son Silas. Grandchildren Harlem and Carter. He will also be sadly missed by his parents Bette and Bernie Molleken, his brother Randi and sister Carolyn, his nephews Bradley and Christopher Molleken and niece Stace Molleken.

Bob was predeceased by his sister Cindy Devereux.

Honoring Bob’s request no formal funeral service or memorial will be held. If desired, memorial donations in Bob’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society @ www.reddeerhospice.com Condolences may be sent or viewed at parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM.

WHITECOTTON 1936 - 2015 Dorothy Joyce Whitecotton (nee Gummow) of Lacombe passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre following a brief battle with cancer on Thursday, April 9, 2015 at the age of 78 years. Joyce is survived by her sons Doug (Ruby) Graham, Dale (Sharon) Graham, Don (Janice) Graham, Brian (Karen) Graham and Kevin (Cindy) Graham; step children Louise (Elmer) Langlois, Larry Whitecotton, Sue (David) Ferguson, Myrna (Bill) Bruns, Cathy (Bob) Bolin, Marty (Laurie) Whitecotton, Julie (David Piotrowski) Brown and Laurie (Albert) Stol and step daughter-in-law Susan Whitecotton. Also to cherish Joyce’s memory are 32 grandchildren; 29 great grandchildren; 1 great great grandchild as well as numerous nieces, nephews, family members and friends.

Family and friends are invited to drop in for a time of fellowship and the sharing of memories at the Valley Centre Hall, Red Deer County, located east of Red Deer on Range Road 260, north of highway 595 (19 Street from Red Deer) on Friday, May 8, 2015 between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m..

Casual attire is suggested. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 - Arnot Avenue, Red Deer AB T4R 3S6.

Condolences to Joyce’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

MEANINGFUL MEMORIALS Funeral Service Red Deer 587-876-4944

In Memoriam In Memory of our Beloved Parents Edward Burton DAY 1922 - 1984 Ruby Alberta DAY 1920 - 2014 Forever Loved and Missed

Funeral Directors & Services Anniversaries

GOOD MUSIC ALL NIGHT, OPEN JAM & DJ MUSIC. TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS @

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The Red Deer Chamber Singers presents its annual

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BACKPACK Missing from Oriole Park, by Victory Church. Black in color.

Contents have Church documents and personal items. If found please call 587-679-4009

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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

Saturday May 9, 2015 Red Deer Legion Veterans pick up your complimentary ticket.

403-342-0035

RED DEER LEGION 2810Bremner Ave.

Phone 403-342-0035

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Anders on the Lake

Oriole Park

151 ADAMS CLOSE Apr. 30 & 31, May 1 Thurs. & Fri. 4:30 - 8, Sat. 9-12 - 1 queen, 1 dbl. boxspring & frame, misc. bdrm. furniture, household

56 OAKFIELD CLOSE Apr. 30 & May 1, Thurs. & Fri. 12 - 7 King foam topper, computer desks, microwave, PS Rock Band Set, misc.

Clearview

Riverside Meadows

LOVESEATS, Bowflex, dressers, lawn mower and much more. 26 Clark Cres.

Sat. May 2, 9-4 weather permitting.

Deer Park

132 ERICKSON DR. Apr. 30, May 1, 3 & 3 Thurs. 2 - 7, Fri. 9 - 7, Sat. 10-6, Sun. 10-3 Toys, tools, collectibles, household, new items daily

Fairview - Upper 23 FIR ST. May 1 & 2. 9-5. Antique, tools, bottles, 1040’s Eatons floor radio. No clothes

A Birth Announcement lets all your friends know she’s arrived...

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

“VETERANS DINNER”

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7 DIXON CRES. (back alley access) May 1, 2 & 3 Fri. & Sat. 10-4, Sun. 10-2 Antiques, lawn mower, tools, furniture, collectibles, & household misc.

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on May 29, 2015, 7 pm., Sunnybrook United Church. The concert, “When I Sing”, features a variety of contemporary popular and stage music as well as some ear pleasing classics.

Tickets available at the door. $10.00.

232 DEMPSEY ST. MAY 1, 2, & 3 Fri. 5-9, Sat. 10-3, Sun. 12-5 LADIES SALE, clothes, shoes, jewelry, sewing ...

MITCHELL HAPPY 50TH ANNIVERSARY Bob and Marj and many more.

SET of keys found at bus stop across the street from Caps on Kerry Wood Drive. To identify, call 403-347-6938.

SPRING CONCERT

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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HENRY CARMAN ‘DALE’ Apr. 5th, 1940 - Apr. 28th, 2015 It is with heavy hearts we announce that Dale passed away suddenly but peacefully, surrounded by his loving family and the caring staff at The Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury in Ponoka at the age of 75. Dale was born at Lampman, Saskatchewan, the youngest child of Adam and Christina Henry. He went to Crystal, Browning and Lampman Schools before heading to the University of Saskatchewan where he earned an Honours degree in physics. Then he headed to Montreal where he achieved his Masters degree in Meteorology from McGill University. He was employed as a Meteorologist at Environment Canada for 31 years, retired at age 53 and spent winters in Arizona and travelling around the world.

Dale was predeceased by his parents Adam and Christina Henry; his wife Peggy and his brothers Gordon and Ronald. He is survived by his devoted wife Blanche; his children: Deborah Shul (Clarence), Randy Henry (Terina) and Sue Henry (Gordon); his stepchildren: Diane Anderson, Wayne Derwantz (Lynn), Larry Derwantz (Susan) and Scott Derwantz (Debbie); his grandchildren: Kellen, Brenna, Sarah, Adam, Christian, Kyla, Aron, Scott, Rick, Stephanie, Lisa, Erica, Hilary, Ashley, Rebecca and Victoria and his greatgrandchildren: Logan, Jaslynn, Keaton and Kendall and his sister Marjorie Jacober as well as extended family and many friends. Dale was a man of many talents: he loved dancing and music, enjoyed baseball, curling and golf and was an excellent handyman - carpenter, plumber, electrician, dry-waller and step-builder! He made sure his projects were completed to perfection. If friends so desire, contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Society or the Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury or a charity of the donor’s choice. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com A memorial service will be held at the Heartland Chapel of Stettler Funeral Home 4707-70 St., Stettler, Alberta at 2:00 pm on Saturday, May 2, 2015 and internment will be in Winnipeg at a later date.

STETTLER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 403-742-3422 entrusted with the care and funeral arrangement

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Households, clothes, books, crafts, kids, adults, kitchen, electronics, sports, golf, Seamstress Dollie, and school supplies, Lots for everyone. Cleaning house out!

Normandeau 35 NASH STREET May 2 & 3, Fri. & Sat. 9-5 Fundraiser for Honn- Red Deer & Area 100% of sales will go to shipping food to Clyde River, NU Food Bank; Many, many items

5826 - 57A AVE. Back Alley

May 1 & May 2 Fri. 2 - 8 & Sat. 9 - 2 Too many items to list!!

Vanier Woods 16 VISCOUNT DR. Fri. May 1, 2-7 HUGE SALE. Furniture, home decor, shelving, clothes, kids stuff, etc.

176 VINCENT CLOSE Fri. May 1, 1-7.

Furniture, clothes, puzzles, hardware, kids stuff, household, etc.

Victoria Park 179 ALLAN STREET Fri. May 1, 3-7, Sat. May 2, 8-5.

RV accessories and household items.

Out of Town MOOSE LODGE ANNUAL GARAGE SALE Thurs. Apr. 30, 5-8, Fri. & Sat. May 1-2, 8-8, Sun. May 3, 8-3. On corner of Willow St. & Petrolia Dr. 4 blocks S. of Westerner Grounds. 403-347-1505 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Sylvan Lake 60 ROZIER CLOSE Ryders Ridge. Fri., May 1, 3 - 8, Sat. May 2, 9 - 4, Sun. May 3, 9 - 2 Fishing huts/tools, camping, luggage, tents, etc.

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 1, 2015 Restaurant/ Hotel

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PROVINCIAL Sleep Group EAST 40TH PUB in Red Deer is an allied REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK health clinic and has an Apply in person with resume immediate opening for a .5 3811 40th Ave. FTE admin/receptionist.

Email resume to Karen Gain at kareng@psgi.ca Posting closes 5/8/2015.

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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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Household Furnishings

CHOPPED POPLAR - free, you pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385.

END Tables, (2) matching, $14. ea. or both for $25.

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May 2, 10 am - 5 pm, May 3, 10 am - 3 pm.

UFA Agri Centre West Info: 403-347-3767 HOME Gym, $50.

403-340-1347 PROSET Hockey Card, one box (NEW) 1991 - 1992, $30.

GOLF bag, black, traveling style. $45.

403-885-5020 REMINGTON Classic 700, 338 Win Mag. 6x24, custom muzzle break, $1200. obo. 403-348-9606

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QUALIFICATIONS

Closing Date: 2:00 pm -May 20, 2015

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

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

The Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission 35566 RR 10, Red Deer County, AB., T4G OH5 EMAIL: johnvand@telusplanet.net

Sporting Goods

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

FINANCIAL MANAGER

John Van Doesburg, Manager

LOVING M. Cat, needs a good home, acreage or farm preferred. TO GIVE AWAY. 403-886-8688

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Qualified candidates may submit a letter and resume to:

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Cats

For LANCASTER Area

Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission

Salary shall be based on a 20 hour work week including benefits and pension.

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

With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

$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

810

SALARY

ROYAL Dux Bohemian Cat, porcelain, mint cond. $35.

Merrill Ortholight shoe, sz.

6.5, air cushion, women’s, like new. $40.

Maui Jim Sunglasses, Makaha, with brown sport case, brand new. $95 403-352-8811

MICHENER AREA

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

• Appropriate financial training • Minimum of five (5) years’ experience with book keeping and supervision • Computer skills- Microsoft windows /excel!

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 40 Year Collection. $200. obo 403-346-2503

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr.

Viscount Drive/Voisin Close Vincent Close

Individuals applying for this position shall have:

LAWNMOWER, Craftsman Push, scissor cut action, quiet! Used once. $25. ***SOLD***

Advocate Opportunities

DEER PARK AREA

50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area.

This position will also be responsible for accounting services, accounts payable, accounts receivable, billings and collections, financial reports and reporting, payroll and benefits.

1760

WANTED apartment size DEEP freeze 7 .5 cu. ft. freezer, approx.

20@, $100 obo, antique rocking 21”deep 403-346-5360 chair $100 obo 403-347-3079 or WANTED rubber curb 403-872-0329 ramps. 403-347-3741

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

Under the direction of the Manager the Finance Director shall undertake the management of the financial and general administration services of the Commission.

Misc. for Sale

For VANIER Area

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Professionals

Beswick, horses, porcelain, with Welsh Cob (rearing), made in England. $175.

DCSHOES Cap, sz. 7 3/8, like new. $18.

403-352-8811

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive

CALL NOW

1760

32” x 82” STEEL door, $50 obo. 403-341-3334

1 day a week in:

Now Hiring

Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

1750

Jewellery

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

INGLEWOOD AREA

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

VHS movies, (100). $75.

403-885-5020

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive

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

SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125 403-352-8811

Misc. for Sale

CARRIERS REQUIRED

BOWER AREA

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

EARRINGS, pierced, Sterling Silver, Made in Israel, never worn, w/case, BEAUMARK microwave, 1 1/2” drop, appraised reg. size w/turntable $30 $135. Asking $100.

403-346-5360 403-227-2976

For more info call Jamie at 403-314-4306

Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres.

Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

Requires Full Time

1720

LOGS OAK pedestal table w/4 Semi loads of pine, spruce, chairs and 1 leaf, good tamarack, poplar. cond. $150 firm Price depends on location. 403-746-5123 318-5420 Lil Mule Logging WANTED 403-318-4346 Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

CARRIERS NEEDED

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

DRYER, Inglis HD, white ext. large capacity, Electric. $100.

403-341-9990 341-9990

Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

For ROSEDALE Area $391.00/mo.

3 days per week, no weekends

DEEP FRYER, Sears, used once. $25.

403-343-1503

Homestead Firewood

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE by 6:30 am.

Mon. - Sat. Reliable vehicle needed.

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

1710

Household Appliances

KENMORE fridge, white, 18 c.f., Roper stove, white, self-clean, $150 for both or will sell separate.

403-746-5123

AFFORDABLE

Advocate Opportunities

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

Excellent rate of pay based on the oil and gas Plant sectors. Benefit package, transportation provided. Please fax resume to (403) 342-1549 or email to apply@pmcl1964.ca

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

1580

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake

Ticketed & Non-Ticketed Carpenters and Superintendents & Foreman

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

Red Deer’s most modern 5 1500-1990 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds). Children's Items Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person OSH KOSH, Please Mum, etc. clothing. 403-342-4543 OLDS Gymnastics club is currently looking for both Competitive level 1 NCCP or higher and Recreational Clothing coaches for Sept/2015.

Please send resumes to BOOTS, leather, Italian info@oldsgymnastics.com ladies chocolate, soft glove fit over knee length, Start your career! zippered back, 2 3/4” heel, See Help Wanted $200. 403-227-2976 Looking for a place Classifieds to live?

Your place to SELL Take a tour through the Your place to BUY CLASSIFIEDS

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

403.341.4544

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

1630 1660

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Concrete Finishers, Carpenters, Bobcat Operators

Pasquale Mancuso Construction (51 YEARS OF SERVICE) Seeks individuals for civil concrete work in the construction of oil and gas facilities

EquipmentHeavy

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

TRAINING CENTRE

800

Restaurant/ Hotel

900

Industries #1 Choice!

SEEKS

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) SHOP HELP AND/OR Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these APPRENTICE MECHANIC REQ’D IMMED. Red Deer, AB locations: Truck exp. preferred.

5111 22 St. Oilfield 8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of Black37444 HWY 2 S falds. Fax: 403-784-2330 37543 HWY 2N Phone: 403-784-3811 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT SHUNDA Req’d permanent shift CONSTRUCTION weekend day and evening Requires Full Time both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + Carpenters benefits. Start ASAP. Competitive Wages Job description & Benefits. www.timhortons.com Fax resumes & ref’s to: EXPERIENCED Education and experience 403-343-1248 or email to: LABOURERS and not req’d. admin@shunda.ca HEAVY EQUIPMENT Apply in person or fax OPERATORS REQ’D. for resume to: 403-314-1303 pipeline construction.

Truckers/ Must have all safety tickets. Something for Everyone Drivers Everyday in Classifieds and valid drivers license.

Competitive wages.

BUSY rig moving company Call 403-502-1091 looking for exp. bed truck Trades LOCAL SERVICE CO. operators, winch tractor in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. hands, and picker operators.

VACUUM TRUCK Oilfield ticket an asset.

NOW HIRING OPERATOR Must be able to pass a 2 - Tile Setters $25/hr Must have Class 3 licence drug test. Pls call 5 - Floor Covering w/air & all oilfield tickets.

1-306-463-6674.

Installers $25/hr Fax resume w/drivers Min 3 years exp./ 40hrs/wk CLASS 1 Driver in Central abstract to 403-886-4475 3 - Construction Labourers AB. Min 3yrs off road $20/hr. No exp required.

BJ/Pup experience. Oilfield Full time perm position tickets required. Email: with Valid Driver’s Licence Professionals haulingcrude@live.ca Email Resume to: Classifieds...costs so little cat1employment@ Saves you so much!

EYEWEAR gmail.com or drop off resume at LIQUIDATORS Central Alberta Tile One requires Advocate 7619 50 Ave #9 Red Deer OPTICAL ASSISTANT Opportunities Training provided.

Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. CARRIERS Red Deer, AB. HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com

Employment Training

SAFETY

For residential & commercial concrete work in the Red Deer area.

-Excellent rate of pay -Benefit packages Send Resume to: apply@pmcl1964.ca or Fax Resume to 403-342-1549

P/T MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST/ Office Assistant. Friendly, energetic, and ability to work independently. Fax resume to 403-340-3349

860

Truckers/ Drivers

278950A5

720

Clerical

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

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 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Elite Retreat, Finest Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 in VIP Treatment.

DALE’S Home Reno’s 10 - 2am Private back entry 403-341-4445 Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL RMD RENOVATIONS WALK-INS WELCOME Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 Call Roger 403-348-1060 Looking for a new pet?

SIDING, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet. @ 403-302-9210.

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Window Cleaning

1420

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. RESIDENTIAL Window & VII MASSAGE Eavestrough Cleaning. #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Free Est. 403-872-8888 Free Est.. 403-506-4822 Pampering at its Celebrate your life Tired of Standing?

BEST! with a Classified Find something to sit on ANNOUNCEMENT 403-986-6686 in Classifieds Come in and see why we are the talk Yard of the town.

Roofing

1370

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777 GARAGE DOOR SERVICES 403-358-1614 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

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Care

1430

SECOND 2 NONE Aerate, de thatch, eaves,cut grass, clean up, 403-302-7778 Spring clean ups with aeration and edging $130 and up, weekly mowing, acreages, family-owned and operated, over 15 years experience, careful operators; Irish Green Yard Care 403 341 6620 SPRING cleaning, weekly mows, anything yards we do. familyyards.com or call 587-876-8969 THE ROTOTILLER GUY Garden Rototilling & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, May 1, 2015 D7

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

3060

Suites

Houses For Sale

4020

1 BDRM. suite across from hospital. Own washer & dryer, N/S. No pets. Avail immed.

403-392-8197 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889

RISER HOMES,

Spring into summer SpeGLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. cial. Beautiful 2 story with apartments, avail. immed, amazing master ensuite, 3 1/2 DUPLEX, 1 bdrm. + rent $875 403-596-6000 bdrms. 2 1/2 baths, hardden, c/w stove/fridge, no wood/tile, Many upgrades: LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. pets, n/s, 40+, $900 rent, legal fees, GST, sod, tree SUITES. 25+, adults only $900 s.d., 403-348-0241 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 and appls. All for the price of $389,000. A must see!

1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main Call LLOYD FIDDLER Áoor of house, w/dble. att.

403-391-9294 heated garage, Lacombe, June 1st, n/s, $1350/mo.

3 bdrm.

1 1/2 bath, 403-782-2007 Condos/ Adult bldg. only, N/S No 3 BDRM. 2 bath, bi-level, pets 403-596-2444 Townhouses 5 appls., n/s, no pets, $1495. Avail. June 1.

2 BDRM. 1 bath, 1 blk. to 403-505-1740 Bower Mall 54 Bell St. $179,000 obo 403-346-7072 3 BDRM. duplex in Anders possibly pet friendly, OPEN HOUSE NOW RENTING fenced, new reno, SAT. & SUN. 1-5 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. $1500/mo + DD + utils, 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer N/S. 403-347-2526 403-588-2550 Newer bldg. secure entry FOR LEASE, Executive w/onsite manager, style 1/2 duplex in Manufactured 3 appls., incl. heat & hot Lacombe on large lot. water, washer/dryer Homes 4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., garage, no pets, N/S. car plug ins & balconies. TO BE MOVED 16 x 80 3 403-588-2740 Call 403-343-7955 bdrm. 2 bath, 2 walkin SYLVAN LAKE 1 bdrm. closets, vaulted ceilings, home, ref’s req’d. May 1, carpet/lino, inclds. appLs. $900 rent, $900 d.d. + and window coverings, n/s utils. No calls after 8 pm.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, pet free home, $72,000 403-887-5374 obo 403-350-0251 N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

MORRISROE MANOR

4040

4090

THE NORDIC

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

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

403-350-4230

WEST PARK

May 1, 2 bdrm bsmt. suite, 4 appls, close to college, private entry, n/s, n/p, rent $750 + utils. $750 DD 403-845-2926

3090

BEAUTIFUL townhouse, in Rooms Sylvan avail. May 15, 4 For Rent bdrm., 4 bath, main Áoor open concept, single front Avail Immed: 1 fully furn att. garage/2 stalls at rear, bdrm for rent - $250 dd lrg. deck, all appl., play$500/mth. 403-396-2468 ground closeby, n/s, n/p.

COZY Furnished room, $1,600 mo. incl. town util. n/s, $575. 403-466-7979 1-403-295-8909.

CLEAN TOWNHOUSE 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath, 5 appls, fenced back yard, storage shed, n/s. $1195 + DD June 1st. 403-343-0761 LACOMBE 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, 5 appls., garage $1595/mo.

782-7156 357-7465 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

SEIBEL PROPERTY

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

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homes

3050

CLEARVIEW

SOUTH HILL

Upscale 2 bdrm., 1 1/2 bath, 5 appl., no pets, n/s, $1000/mo., avail. May 5 (403) 350-7722

Commercial Property

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Altima

2006 VOLVO V50, leather int., cruise, air, rarely used in winter, 127,000 km, $8,000. 403-506-2568

4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

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

Trucks

5050

2004 SILVERADO, diesel, exc. con.

403-342-0813

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

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

Motorcycles

5080

4020

Houses For Sale

MOVE IN TODAY

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

bi-level 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 baths, $1125 avail. June 1 N/S, no pets.

Call 403-391-1780 LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly.

86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031

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CLASSIFICATIONS

~ 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.

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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

5030

~ Westpark

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

4160

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Cars Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820 2013 NISSAN 403-309-3382

MORRISROE

3 bdrm. townhouse, across from park, 1.5 bath, fenced yard, 5 appls., rent $1350, SD. $800. Avail.

June 1 Call 403-304-5337

3190

Mobile Lot

Lots For Sale

RISER HOMES

SPRING INTO SUMMER SPECIAL 1390 sq. ft. bilevel 3 bdrm. 2 bath, att. garage, walkout, backs onto walk/trail system w/alley access, many upgrades. A must see! $430,000 inclds. Legal fees, GST, sod, tree, appls.

Call LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

4110

2008 SUZUKI Boulevard C109RT, loaded with saddle bags, windshield, cruise (manual), running lights, back rest, 44,500 kms.

Excellent Condition! $8200. o.b.o.

403-318-4653

Holiday Trailers

5120

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

ATV's

5150

EXPAND YOUR BUSINESS & YOUR VIEW 2012 CANAM Outlander 800 R XT, power steering, winch, 2 quad boxes. 900 kms. $9000. 403-347-6344

• Riverside Executive Commercial Space Available Immediately; Aggressively Priced.

• Negotiable Turnkey Packages, For Sale or Lease • Steel Structure, Granite Exterior and Modern Aluminum, Rain Screen Panels, Provide Upscale Style, Highest Quality and Security • Natural-Reflective-Low E large Curtain Wall Windows

403-352-8769

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Open House

Boats & Marine

5160

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4310

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Full Title Boat Slips Starting at $58,000 Located in Brand New Marina, Downtown Sylvan Lake, AB www.watersedgeslyvan.com 2006 HONDA turbo watercraft (2) with trailer and covers, 30 hr. on each, $15,000. 403-506-2568

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pemba Tamang is carried on a stretcher after being rescued by Nepalese policemen and U.S. rescue workers from a building that collapsed five days ago in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday. Crowds cheered Thursday as a Tamang was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal.

Moments of joy emerge from earthquake ravaged Nepal TWO RESCUED FROM WRECKAGE IN NEPAL’S CAPITAL 5 DAYS AFTER QUAKE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KATHMANDU, Nepal — The 15-year-old boy had been buried alive under the rubble of this quake-stricken capital for five days, listening to bulldozers clearing mountains of debris, fearful the incessant aftershocks might finally collapse the darkened crevice he was trapped in.

And then, “all of the sudden I saw light,” Pempa Tamang said, recounting the moment Thursday he was pulled from a hole at the bottom of what was once a seven-story building in Kathmandu.

Tamang did not know whether he was alive or dead. “I thought I was hallucinating,” he said.

The improbable rescue was an uplifting moment in Nepal, which has been overwhelmed by death and destruction since the 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Saturday. By late Thursday, the government said the toll from the tremor, the most powerful recorded here since 1934, had risen to 6,130 dead and 13,827 injured.

After night fell, police reported another dramatic rescue: A woman in her 20s, Krishna Devi Khadka, was pulled from a building in the same neighbourhood as Tamang near Kathmandu’s main bus terminal, according to an officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to the media.

“Life has become a struggle to survive. It gives us hope,” said Hans Raj Joshi, who watched Tamang’s rescue. “We thought they were only bringing out the dead. It’s hard to believe people are still alive.”

When Tamang was finally extricated, rescue workers inserted an IV in his arm, propped him onto a yellow plastic stretcher — the same kind that has helped convey countless dead — and carried him through the ruins on their shoulders as if he was a newly crowned king.

Lines of police stood on both sides, keeping back mobs of bystanders and journalists. A dazed Tamang, wearing a dark shirt with the New York Yankees logo and the words “New York Authentic,” blinked at the bright sky.

When the procession turned a corner and entered the main road outside, there was a sound Kathmandu hadn’t heard in days: the jubilant cheers of thousands of ecstatic onlookers.

Nepal, however, is far from normal. More than 70 aftershocks have been recorded in the Himalayan region by Indian scientists in the past five days, according to J.L. Gautam, the director of seismology at the Indian Meteorological Department in New Delhi.

Shortages of food and water and worry over the fate of relatives have triggered an exodus from the capital, prompting thousands to board buses provided by the government to their rural hometowns.

“I have to get home. It has already been so many days,” said Shanti Kumari, with her 7-yearold daughter, who was desperate to see family in her home village in eastern Nepal. “I want to get at least a night of peace.”

Although small shops have begun reopening, and the once ubiquitous tent cities have begun thinning out, an air of desperation remains.

“We’re still feeling aftershocks. It still doesn’t feel safe,” said Prabhu Dutta, a 27-year-old banker from Kathmandu.

Some residents have begun returning to work, including at Dutta’s bank, but he said it was impossible to concentrate. “We roam around the office. We only have one topic of conversation: the earthquake.”

Tamang’s dark hair was disheveled, and he looked weak and tired but otherwise fine as he recounted his story in an Israeli field hospital.

When Saturday’s quake began at 11:56 a.m., Tamang said he was having lunch with a friend in the hotel where he worked. As he ran downstairs, they shook. He saw walls cracking, ceilings caving in.

He was in the basement when “suddenly the building fell down. I thought I was about to die,” he told reporters. Tamang fainted, and when he regained consciousness, he could see little but darkness.

He was buried face down in a tiny crevice deep in the rubble. He was terrified.

For days, Tamang survived on two cans of ghee, or clarified butter. He rested his head on chunks of concrete and broken piece of corrugated aluminum roof.

One Nepalese team had begun combing the rubble in Tamang’s neighbourhood, a place they had found another survivor Monday. They cried out and knocked on broken concrete slabs, and then listened closely for any response.

Mostly there was silence. But when an officer named L. Bahadu Basnet, shouted “Is anyone there?” he was shocked to get a reply.

“Who is there? Brother, I am here!” Tamang shouted weakly back from a hole in the ground.

The team used a jack to help support the rectangular entrance, and Basnet took off his helmet, put on a headlamp, and crawled on his arms 10 feet (3 metres) inside, pushed in by his colleagues.

He could see Tamang wedged lying down in a crevice behind a motorcycle, and was shocked how responsive he was. “He thanked me when I first approached him,” Basnet said. “He told me his name, his address, and I gave him some water. I assured him we were near.”

It took nearly hours to carefully clear the way for Tamang to be lifted out. Members of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Disaster Assistance Response Team brought in equipment to help and lowered a pole-mounted rotatable camera into the hole, said one of the team’s members, Andrew Olvera.

Looking at a pair of huge, ripped concrete floors hanging precariously like curtains on the side of the destroyed building, just above the rescue site, Olvera said the operation was dangerous. But, “it’s risk versus gain. To save a human life, we’ll risk almost anything.”

At the Israeli field hospital, doctors X-rayed Tamang and injected him with glucose. Lt. Libby Weiss of the Israeli Defence Forces said he was dehydrated but lucid and “in remarkably good shape,” with no other injuries except scratches.

“It’s a miracle,” Weiss said. “I think it’s an amazing thing to see in the midst of all this calamity.”

Chile’s Calbuco volcano shoots out new eruption

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTIAGO, Chile — The Calbuco volcano erupted again on Thursday, sending dark bursts of ash and hot rock billowing 2.5 miles (4 kilometres) into the air and prompting Chilean officials to order a new evacuation of nearby residents.

Thick clouds boiled out of 6,500-foot (2,000-meter) cone, bringing the threat of new, heavy ash fall over villagers struggling to clean up from two huge blasts last week. The surrounding area was evacuated after the volcano first erupted last Wednesday afternoon, but many people had begun to return to their ash-drowned homes.

“We were working, cleaning the ash and sand from our homes when this third eruption took place. I feel so much anger and impotence it just breaks me apart,” Horacio Camano, 43, said sobbing after evacuating the town of Ensenada with his family. “There are no words for having to live this over again — having our families worried about us, all phones collapsed. I just want this to calm down so we can return home.”

The eruptions at the Calbuco are the first in more than four decades. More than 4,500 people have been evacuated since the Calbuco roared back to life on April 22, sending ash about 11 miles (18 kilometres) into the sky. Hours later, it produced a second, spectacular outburst that turned the nighttime sky reddish orange and caused huge lightning bolts to crackle through its ash plume.

The ash from those eruptions spread across the southern part of the continent, disrupting flights all the way in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, and causing widespread economic damage by turning cattle pastures barren and choking fish in one of the world’s top salmon-producing countries.

“This latest eruption is much smaller than the other two,” Deputy Interior Minister Mahmud Aleuy said in a press conference, adding that while the situation is not dangerous so far, some 2,500 people will be evacuated.

“We’re talking about a plume that is about 4 kilometres and that is directed toward the southern part of the volcano, so we shouldn’t have major problems except for those who live in the south of the volcano and who will be hit by ash.”

The director of the National Mining and Geology service said that new eruptions greater than those last week are not expected. But he warned that rains, which are expected to fall beginning on Friday, could lead to devastating volcanic mud, known as lahars, which are capable of levelling anything in their path once in motion.

“Lahars are possible if we get heavy rains, so it’s still a concern,” said Rodrigo Alvarez, the head of the service. “This emission should begin to weaken in the coming hours and we’ll have new forecasts. For now we remain on high alert.”

Last week, LATAM and other airline companies cancelled several flights as a precaution since because ash can severely damage jet engines.

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Police hand report on Gray death to prosecutor BALTIMORE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Police completed their investigation into the death of Freddie Gray a day earlier than planned Thursday and delivered it to the chief prosecutor in Baltimore, who pleaded for patience and peace while she decides whether to bring charges.

The deputy commissioner also revealed a new detail that raises still more questions about what the officers involved have told investigators: He said the van carrying Gray to the police station made a previously undisclosed stop that was captured on video by a “privately owned camera.”

A grocery store owner told The Associated Press later Thursday that it was his closed-circuit security camera that provided the recording. Speaking in Korean, Jung Hyun Hwang said officers came in last week to make a copy, and that the only other copy was stolen, along with his video equipment, when looters destroyed his store Monday night.

He told the AP that he didn’t see what the recording showed of the police van on April 12.

State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby must review the evidence, consider charges and decide how to move forward in the death of Gray, who suffered severe spinal injuries at some point after he tried to run from police on April 12, and died a week later.

Police Commissioner Anthony Batts took no questions and provided no details about the report, which he said represents the work of more than 30 investigators. Questions about the case must now go to Mosby, he said.

“I understand the frustration; I understand the sense of urgency,” Batts said. “That is why we have finished it a day ahead of time.”

Batts said his officers would keep probing at the direction of the state’s attorney, while Mosby stressed that her office is doing its own investigation.

“We are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified. We ask for the public to remain patient and peaceful and to trust the process of the justice system,” her statement said.

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Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Anthony Batts announces that the department’s investigation into the death of Freddie Gray was turned over to the State’s Attorney’s office a day early at a news conference, Thursday, in Baltimore.

Standing at right is Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis. Batts did not give details of the report or take questions. He said the department dedicated more than 30 detectives to working on the case and report.

Batts left it to Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis to release yet another official timeline of what happened to Gray after his arrest nearly three weeks ago.

In all, the previously undisclosed stop now makes four stops between the time officers arrested Gray and his arrival at a police station, where he was found unresponsive. He was hospitalized in critical condition and died a week later.

Batts and Davis said nothing more about when or how investigators obtained the previously undisclosed video or learned about the additional stop. However, five of the six officers gave statements to investigators the day Gray was injured, and as recently as a week ago, the stop was not part of

the official timeline, suggesting investigators learned of it later.

Grey was arrested after he made eye contact with an officer and ran. Officers chased him down and handcuffed him behind his back.

Bystander videos recorded police loading him, dragging his legs, into one of two metal compartments in the back of the van.

Police earlier said the van stopped once so that officers could put Gray in “leg irons” because he had become “irate;” stopped again because the driver asked for an additional unit to check on Gray’s condition, and then again to put an additional prisoner in the van’s other compartment before arriving at the station.

Now police are saying an additional stop was made before the driver asked officers to check on his condition.

They said nothing about this stop other than its location — a desolate intersection where the grocery store is surrounded by vacant lots.

Last week, Batts had said the second prisoner told investigators the driver did not speed, make sudden stops or “drive erratically” during the trip, and that Gray was “was still moving around, that he was kicking and making noises” up until the van arrived at the police station.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake sought to dispel any notion that the police report would bring a swift and public conclusion to the case.

More women and children rescued from extremists

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

dier and a woman, during shootouts in nine separate extremist camps in the forest.

He said eight women sustained gunshot wounds and four soldiers were seriously injured. It was not clear who shot the women. All the women and children were being evacuated to a safety zone for further processing, Usman said.

It remains unclear if some of the women had willingly joined Boko Haram, or are family members of fighters.

Also killed were several Boko Haram field commanders and foot soldiers. Combat tanks and munitions of high calibre used by Boko Haram were also recovered while others were destroyed, the army spokesman said.

The military was flying in medical and intelligence teams to evaluate the former captives, many of whom were severely traumatized, Usman said earlier.

It remained unclear if any of the schoolgirls kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok a year ago were among those rescued.

The plight of the schoolgirls, who have become known as “the Chibok girls,” aroused international outrage and a campaign for their release under the hashtag BringBackOurGirls. Their

kidnapping brought Boko Haram, whose nickname means “Western education is forbidden” in the local Hausa language, to the world’s attention. Of the Chibok girls, 219 remain missing.

Nigerian military and counter-insurgency spokesmen have said they have information indicating at least some of the Chibok girls still are being held in the Sambisa Forest.

Some captives have reportedly become indoctrinated into believing the group’s Islamic extremist ideology, while others established strong emotional attachments to militants they had been forced to marry.

The failure of Nigeria’s government

and military to quickly rescue the Chibok girls brought international condemnation.

The military initially appeared incapable of curbing Boko Haram as the insurgents took control of a large swath of northeast Nigeria last year and declared it an Islamic caliphate.

That changed when the military received much-needed helicopter gunships and heavy arms and a multinational force launched an offensive at the end of January.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday only the Sambisa Forest remains a refuge for the militants.

Jonathan pledged to “hand over a Nigeria completely free of terrorist strongholds,” at a regional meeting of customs officials Thursday.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote Sambisa Forest, Nigeria’s military said amid reports that some of the women fought their rescuers fiercely.

A community leader from the area of northeast Nigeria said Thursday that a senior army officer who was at the scene described the women opening fire on shocked troops in the village of Nbita a week ago, with Boko Haram Islamic insurgents using the women to shield their main fighting force.

He said he was told that 12 women fighters and seven soldiers died in a fierce firefight.

The community leader spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue and personal security risks.

The Nigerian military first reported rescuing almost 300 women and children in the Sambisa Forest on Tuesday after deploying ground troops into the forest more than a week ago. The army spokesman, Col. Sani Usman, told The Associated Press on Thursday that more than 100 additional girls and over 50 more women have also been rescued.

He said in a statement that several lives were lost, including that of a sol-

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