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But I’m not that person.

I’m not a drug dealer.

I’m not a criminal. I was a child and I made a mistake.

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SECOND CHANCES

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Red Deer boxer Cam O’Connell works with his trainer Roman Rzepkowski as he prepares for more than just a comeback, after serving nine months in Bowden Institution, he wants a shot at a world championship.

Cam O’Connell is not looking for sympathy, he just wants a second chance.

A second chance at life, a second chance to chase his dreams and a second chance to make Red Deer proud.

He’s had plenty of time over the last six years to dwell on the mistake he made as an immature 19-year-old, which resulted in a recently-completed nine-month stretch in Bowden Institution.

“I broke the law, but I feel like I am not a broken man,” said the now 26-year-old former boxing champion.

“I made a mistake and I want the world to know I made a mistake ... I’m guilty of what I did.

But I’m not that person, I’m not a drug dealer, I’m not a criminal. I was a child and I made a mistake.

I believe there are lots of kids that make mistakes and I hope they don’t have to go through the punishments that I went through.

I hope they can get out of it before they ever get punished the way I did.”

In 2009, he was looking for a big payday outside of the ring. He was hired to drive a pickup truck from Calgary to Vancouver and then return to Calgary. His cargo on the return trip was cocaine, hidden in the dashboard.

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O’CONNELL: Set free for good behaviour He had just completed the trip and was sitting on a couch in the Calgary home of Ryan Harper — the ring leader of the operation — when Calgary Police and RCMP special service teams raided the stash pad.

They collected nearly 11 kg of cocaine and crack cocaine between four locations — three in Calgary, one in Lethbridge — as well as other drugs and firearms.

Nine people were originally charged in the twoyear investigation, including O’Connell. He was charged with drug trafficking and possession with the intent to distribute. The possession charged was later dropped when it became clear that all O’Connell did was drive the truck.

“I never was a drug dealer ... I transported one load of drugs and I got paid for it,” he said. “I was a poor athlete who needed a little extra cash. I know the easy route isn’t the right route, but at that moment I was young, I was 19 years old, the money caught my eye and it caught me. I saw the sparkle of the lure and I bit like a fish.”

After a long, drawn-out legal process, O’Connell was sentenced to three and a half years in prison last summer for trafficking — although he adds the judge said he had never seen so many letters backing up someone’s character at sentencing, including one from the president of the World Boxing Commission.

The three and a half years was the mandatory minimum sentence.

In February, after serving nine months, he was set free due to good behaviour.

But the time was not easily served. It was the life he had changed and was waiting for him on the outside that he could not stop thinking about.

“Being away from my family and friends was tough on me, that was the toughest part ... being away from all of my support,” he said.

Inside Bowden, life was regimented.

The inmates wake up, eat breakfast and get sent back to their cells. They’re brought out for lunch, have time in the yard and then get sent back to their cells. They’re called out for supper and then have open time before being sent back to their cells.

O’Connell never lost sight of his boxing dreams, however. He spent his entire time behind bars training, and he even started working with some of the other inmates.

“I was trying to help them get over the jail part and I felt their spirits were lifted by boxing — a lot of people had nothing else going for them,” he said.

It didn’t hurt that on his third night in prison, SportsCentre showed his last fight — a first-round TKO of Reece Chapman. Pretty soon he was just known as “Champ.”

Stepping outside the prison walls for the first time on March 31 is a moment he will never forget.

“I wanted to hug everyone I saw,” he said.

“I appreciate every second, I look at the clouds and they’re pretty now, little things I never really thought of actually mean something. The things I did like in life, I don’t like anymore, like material goods, they mean nothing now. It’s a greater appreciation for everything.”

His time in prison changed him and his outlook on life, but that change really started the moment he was charged.

In the five years between his crime and sentencing, he took major steps to turn his life around and grow up, including talking to students at schools about making the right decisions in life.

“The day I was charged, I took a look at where my life was, what I wanted to be and where I was going and it really didn’t look right. At that moment — boom — I was changing my life,” he said.

★★★ O’Connell came from a lower middle class family with two parents who worked hard and always made sure he had what he needed.

But as a kid, he got into a lot of fights, until one time he caught a beat down from another family while sticking up for his younger brother Keelan O’Connell, when he was 10.

Red Deer boxer Arash Usmanee saw the end result and talked him into joining the Red Deer Boxing Club.

It was probably the best thing that could have happened to him at the time.

He finally had an outlet to channel his energy, where he could learn to defend himself and, most importantly, learn self discipline. It also gave him a reason to set real, tangible goals.

He excelled in and out of the ring. In high school,

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he earned honours and went to Mount Royal University.

In the ring, O’Connell quickly worked his way up the ranks. He developed a reputation for his intimidating punching power and aggressiveness in the ring.

As an amateur boxer, he compiled a 101-35 record while winning 12 provincial championships, two national championships, a bronze medal at the junior Olympics and the coveted 2007 Ringside World Championship.

In 2012, in the midst of his legal battles, he turned pro.

Over the next two years, he posted a 6-0-1 record with five of his wins by way of TKO, an impressive power mark for a lightweight.

The record had potential to be even more impressive but as word spread about his power, finding opponents became more difficult.

Some rankings had him as the No. 3 boxer in his division in Canada when he finally went to Bowden.

★★★ O’Connell is now focused on rebuilding his life in and out of the ring.

He understands and appreciates the skepticism some may have regarding his lot in life, and he knows he has a lot of work to do to rebuild that faith in him.

“I want to apologize to the whole of my community and everyone individually in it for my actions,” said O’Connell. “I am sorry for any harm I have caused and I hope you can forgive me for my misguided actions as a youth as I look to only be a productive member of this community helping any and everybody I can in it.”

He has already taken steps to make things right, although he understands the proof will be in his long-term actions. He wants to return to counselling young people in the schools about making good decisions in their lives, to help them learn from his mistakes. He also helps coach those who come into the

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O’Connell says he has already received a lot of support in the community, from sponsors coming back on board to help him chase his dreams in the ring to others who have rallied around him outside of the gym.

His coach Roman Rzepkowski says he sees the change in his pupil.

“I’ve seen a huge transition. I’ve always loved and respected him, but when he came out he was more of a humble man,” said Rzepkowski. “He has a better understanding of life and wants to ... make every second count. Every person he interacts with, his main goal is to make them smile and be happy with where they are, regardless of their situation.”

In the ring, Rzepkowski — who also coaches Usmanee — says there is the potential for greatness.

He does not buy into the claim that boxing is dead, surpassed for good by mixed martial arts.

It just needs a fighter in North America to rally around, like what Milos Raonic has done for tennis in Canada.

He thinks O’Connell can be that guy, although he still has to work his way up to that level.

A signature fight would help.

“What we’re training for is an Arturo Gatti/Micky Ward kind of fight,” said Rzepkowski. “He wants that, he really does. He wants to give the people something they will talk about for years to come.”

O’Connell is working hard to secure a fight on a June 12 card at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton for his return to the ring, although at press time nothing was confirmed.

He is driven not by money, but to bring glory to the city.

“It feels like I am fighting for more than just myself,” he said. “I want to be Red Deer’s hero, I want to be the Manny Pacquiao of Red Deer. I want people to be happy and excited I am fighting and that I represent Central Alberta.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘You, me, lucky, lucky, lucky’ BEVERLY WILLIAMS RECALLS SURVIVING NEPAL EARTHQUAKE

RCMP investing kidnapping attempt in Red Deer Red Deer RCMP are investigating a kidnapping attempt in a north-end parking lot early Friday morning.

Few details were released on Friday.

But police confirm one person is in custody and charges are expected to be laid.

Police received a call for a report of a kidnapping in a parking lot on the northeast corner 67th Street and Gaetz Avenue around 9 a.m.

A suspect was arrested and taken into police custody around 10:10 a.m.

The male victim and the suspect are known to one another. The victim was not injured.

“They said, ‘This man had just found his wife.’ That was very sad.”

The woman had died in the ruins of their small home a short distance down the hillside from the cafe.

Elsewhere, she came across an old woman, in her 80s at least, sitting beside the road. Wordlessly, she spread her arms then made a sweeping motion and began to cry.

The message was clear — she had lost everything.

As Williams and Har walked, they listened intently for any sounds of further landslides. They went on until they found a truck taking people into Kathmandu.

The damage there was stunning. A hotel, where she was supposed to have stayed, was reduced to a pile of bricks.

Historic buildings that had stood for centuries were razed. On others, the pagoda-like upper storeys were dislodged and left hanging at crazy angles.

Throughout her hellish journey back to Kathmandu, Har never left her side, even though his own home outside Kathmandu had been destroyed.

Fortunately, his family was safe.

In arriving in the capital, Williams was taken in by her tour agent, Saran Adhikiri, and his family.

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There she met a 72-year-old man from North Carolina, who had been on Mount Everest when the quake hit and faced the grim job of putting dead climbers into body bags so they could be brought down.

Williams said taking some time to recover from her experiences at the park before making the long journey home had been healing. The locals, whose income was dependent on the tourists who had mostly gone home, were grateful she was there.

On returning to Red Deer, she has pledged to help Har get a new home and to send aid to others in Nepal through the Rotary Club, which is supporting ShelterBox Canada. The charity provides help to those hit by natural disaster and has already sent about $1.7 million to Nepal.

Among ShelterBox’s contributions are tents that can be used to provide temporary housing. Donations can be made through local Rotary Clubs.

Williams is also hoping to raise $10,000 to $15,000 to build an earthquake-proof home for Har and his family. She will be collecting donations at Red Deer Public Market, where her Woolen Wonders stall is set up every Saturday. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Days after escaping unscathed from Nepal’s devastating earthquake, Beverly Williams was sharing a meal in Kathmandu with her guide, Harin, when he took her hand.

“You, me, lucky, lucky, lucky,” he said.

It was a moment between two friends she will never forget.

Williams was partway into a sevenday hiking trip in Nepal’s Langtang National Park when she pulled a muscle in her leg and had to turn back with the guide she fondly called “Har.” He later told her if they had continued as planned they probably would not have survived the journey, which she had tacked on to a purchasing trip to Nepal to buy stock for her business, Woolen Wonders.

Their route would have taken them close to the area hardest hit by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that wiped out whole villages in Nepal’s mountain valleys, leaving more than 7,800 dead and many thousands injured.

“We were both thankful that happened to my leg,” says Williams, who returned home to Red Deer on Thursday.

Williams said the earthquake happened when she and Har were on a bus returning to Kathmandu. Suddenly, the bus started pitching violently from side to side on the narrow mountain road. Passengers, many of them foreigners on hiking tours, scrambled out and were immediately stunned by what they could see — or what they

couldn’t.

“It was like a cloud. You could hardly see because there was so much dust.

“Everybody’s scared, and then we were all looking at the landslides. We saw landslides like you wouldn’t believe.”

The passengers decided the only option was to continue the rest of the way on foot. It was a frightening trek.

Truck-sized rocks and fallen trees blocked the road everywhere. In the valleys, homes had been levelled or badly damaged, whole walls or roofs missing.

Williams would soon find out that a bus just a few kilometres ahead had been cut in half by a giant falling boulder. Three people died.

The sight of the now-abandoned wreckage filled her with such emotion she turned away.

“I just couldn’t take a photo of that.”

Along the road back there were funeral pyres for many earthquake victims. In keeping with local custom, bodies were burned in special ceremonies.

“Coming back, I saw quite a few ceremonies happening. I saw the bodies burning. That was horrible.”

After many hours of walking, Williams and her guide found a place to sleep at a small cafe owned by a husband and wife with three children.

Terrifying aftershocks kept everybody awake and rushing outside for fears of the building collapsing.

Many images and sounds will be forever imprinted on her mind. While at the cafe, she heard a man’s anquished cries.

“I said to the girls, ‘Oh my gosh, what is that?’

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Prentice should foot bill for Calgary byelection he’s causing: taxpayers group CALGARY — The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says outgoing Alberta premier Jim Prentice should reach into his own pocket to cover the cost of a byelection in his riding.

The federation says it’s only right that Prentice should personally pay for another vote in Calgary Foothills, since he is the one who is making it necessary.

Prentice resigned as Progressive Conservative leader and legislature member after the Tories were toppled from power by the NDP on Tuesday night.

Prentice won the seat in a byelection in October and had been re-elected when he announced he was stepping down.

Federation spokeswoman Paige MacPherson says Elections Alberta estimates the byelection will cost $250,000.

She says there is precedent for a politician footing his own bill: Former Penticton, B.C., mayor Dan Ashton paid $32,000 for a byelection he prompted when he resigned to run provincially.

“Prentice’s decision to hand us another bill was a financial blindsiding,” MacPherson, the taxpayer group’s

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The break-in occurred at the Red Deer Antique Mall on Monday. Police issued a release on Friday including photographs of some of the missing items.

RCMP say at approximately 6 a.m. on Monday, a male suspect broke into the mall through a back door, broke the glass in two display cases and made off with the items.

The items include Nazi medals, badges and pins, a statue of an eagle and swastika, a Luftwaffe dress dagger, a Rad dagger and a parade bayonet.

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“No one other than Prentice asked to go to the polls this many times, and Albertans certainly didn’t expect to be paying for this upcoming byelection — and they shouldn’t have to.”

MacPherson suggests the Tories “may have some leftover cash in their war chest if Prentice cannot afford it.”

“Or perhaps he could fundraise.”

Union says government has put closure of Calgary young offender centre on hold CALGARY — The union representing correctional workers says the Alberta government is putting the closures of a young offender centre on hold, pending a review.

Erez Raz, vice-president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, says they received a letter Friday saying the Calgary Young Offender Centre and Calgary Maintenance Enforcement Program will stay open until an internal review is done.

Raz says the letter from Human Resources Department says the review is to be completed by May 31.

In March, then Justice Minister Jonathan Denis announced plans to move all young offenders housed at Calgary centre to Edmonton, saying both centres were “underused or significantly under capacity.”

The department also said it was closing the Calgary enforcement program office, which the union says would reduce the number of investigators tracking down delinquent

Rocky Mountain House seeks to have dogs involved in attack declared dangerous The Town of Rocky Mountain House is seeking to have three pit bulls declared dangerous dogs following two attacks within minutes of each other.

The three dogs were running at large on April 27 when they attacked and seriously injured two other dogs that were on leashes and being walked separately along a path.

The town, in a statement released on Friday, said a preliminary investigation resulted in a number of summons being issued to the owner under its Dog and Cat Bylaw. The owner may face fines ranging from $100 to $10,000 per dog.

Dangerous dog applications are also being filed with respect to each of the three dogs.

Under the provincial act, where a dog has bitten or attempted to bite a person, a justice can order the dog to be destroyed.

Also, if a dog “is dangerous and not kept under proper control and if it appears to the justice that the dog is dangerous, the justice may make an order in a summary way directing the dog to

ex-spouses and non-custodial parents across the province by one-third.

The union said closing both centres would result in the loss of 50 jobs.

“Both of these closures could do serious harm to southern Alberta families,” said Raz. “We hope the internal review will conclude that both facilities should remain open.”

Online petitions want MLA removed from office due to Facebook photos CALGARY — Three online petitions want a newly elected NDP MLA to be removed from office, saying some of her Facebook photos show that she is unfit for office.

Deborah Drever was elected Tuesday in the provincial riding of Calgary Bow. Three Facebook photos of Drever, a 27-year-old sociology student at Mount Royal University, are what the petitions are upset about.

One shows Drever in front of a T-shirt with a marijuana leaf on it, another is of a hand giving the middle finger in front of a Canadian flag, and the other is her in a one-piece bathing suit.

Drever said in a statement that she wouldn’t “let these partisan smears distract from my focus on the things that matter to people in Calgary Bow, including needed investments in education and health care.”

Incoming premier Rachel Notley says she doesn’t see Drever’s Facebook photos as a big problem for the NDP. “I think transition and the challengbe kept by the owner in a proper way or to be destroyed.”

“Two of the subject dogs remain impounded for public safety reasons and the third is currently residing with the owner. We are working with the owner to make sure this does not happen again,” the town said.

The incident began when three loose pit bulls attacked a 27-year-old woman’s dog as she was walking along the Loop, in the area of West Central High School and 61st Avenue. Several Good Samaritans helped the woman fend off the attack on her dog.

Then two of the pit bulls carried on down the path and attacked a dog being walked by an 86-year-old woman who tried to fend off the attacking dogs by kicking at them and hitting them with a branch. Again, people arrived and came to her assistance. After the attack, the visually impaired senior was taken to hospital to be treated for soft-tissue injuries.

“The town would like to acknowledge all the individuals who assisted in coming to the aid of those involved in the attacks. This was done at great risk to their own safety and potentially prevented further incidents from occurring. The public has been invaluable in the investigation by

es that come with transition are what happens when governments change, which is something that happens in normal, healthy democracies,” Notley said.

“I know that we have some very good people in the public service ... I’m going to work very closely with them to make sure that the government can do the job it needs to do, and we’re able to make that transition smoothly and respectfully of the many people that are committed simply to providing good public service to the people of Alberta.”

University of Calgary professor Rebecca Sullivan specializes in feminist, media and cultural studies. She said the petitions suggesting she’s unfit for office are a type of harassment seen in higher levels against female politicians.

Harper takes the high road on Alberta election OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is looking forward to working with incoming Alberta premier Rachel Notley.

Harper says he doesn’t want to comment on the outcome of this week’s election in his home province other than to say Alberta and Canada have shared priorities.

Notley and the NDP swept to power in Alberta on Tuesday and toppled a 44-year Progressive Conservative dynasty.

PC Leader Jim Prentice resigned as leader and stepped down from the seat he had just won. their willingness to come forward. We want the residents of Rocky Mountain House to be aware that public safety and responsible pet ownership are paramount as we move forward,” the town said.

The owners of the two dogs that were attacked had hundreds of dollars in veterinarian bills as a result of the attacks.

Shortly after the attacks, two of the pit bulls were apprehended by enforcement officers.

The town is not releasing the name of the owner of the three pit bulls, nor when the owner is scheduled to appear in court.

Jason Springham, senior peace officer for the town, said on Friday that legal documents for the dangerous dog applications were being drawn up by the town.

The status of the three dogs and where they are will not change unless they get a change in their designation, Springham said.

The investigation into the attacks was done primarily by the town’s municipal enforcement, with assistance of the RCMP. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CHILLIWACK, B.C. — Police say they are investigating multiple homicides linked to a house fire in a quiet British Columbia neighbourhood as well as a Facebook post in which a man appears to confess to the crime.

Investigators say they cannot confirm how many victims might be in the charred house near Chilliwack, east of Vancouver, or at a second crime scene in Langley, where at least one person was found dead.

They believe the dead are all from one family and the suspect is among them.

Vancouver media have published copies of a Facebook post from a man, identified as Randy Janzen, confessing to the murder of his daughter, wife and sister. The Vancouver Province posted the message in its entirety.

It begins by saying: “Over the last 10 days I have done some of the worst things I could have ever imagined a person doing.”

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ily, had suffered since elementary school from migraines that made her “very ill” and had pushed her into a severe depression.

“I took a gun and shot her in the head and now she is migraine-free and floating in the clouds on a sunny afternoon, her long beautiful brown hair flowing in the breeze, a true angel,” the post says.

The post says the man shot his wife “because a mother should never have to hear the news her baby has died” and, “a couple of days later,” killed his sister “because I did not want her to have to live with this shame I have caused all alone.”

“Now my family is pain free and in heaven,” he concludes. “I have great remorse for my actions and feel like the dirt that I am.”

He signs the post “Love Daddio.”

Police said they are aware of the Facebook message and it is part of their investigation.

The burned out house sits on a quiet suburban street of large family homes and beautiful lawns with mountains in the distance. All that remained Friday was a scorched shell with the roof mostly collapsed.

Neighbours said there was a standoff at the home Thursday night before a fire.

Rudy Trouwborst, who lives on the same block in Rosedale near Chilliwack, said police arrived and told her to stay indoors.

“They said, ‘Go inside. It’s very serious,”’ she said.

She said she then heard what sounded like four or five gunshots before the home caught fire.

Sgt. Stephanie Ashton said an emergency response team used distraction devices to try to make contact with someone believed to be in the house.

Amanda Blanchard, who has a view of the scene from her home five minutes away, said she noticed a commotion from her deck sometime after 6 p.m.

“It was a huge ball of smoke,” Blanchard said.

“We were like, ‘OK, this isn’t anything small. This is quite serious.”’

Neighbour Lucy Vandermeer said she thinks the home exploded.

“It was quite the bang. It looked like a gas fire to me,” she said.

The telephone listing for the address is R and L Janzen.

Trouwborst said a couple and a child lived in the house, but she didn’t know them. Vandermeer said “they stayed to themselves.”

a corporate event in Ottawa in September 2012, but organizers didn’t offer to cover his travel or accommodation.

what the Canadians endured in liberating her country.

“He went 60 times to Holland, and it was a lot, but he survived.... It was very emotional to see that he’s still alive and tries to do his best. It was nice to get him out and play for him.”

Veterans gather to commemorate 70th anniversary of VE Day OTTAWA — Dozens of Dutch students joined Canadian Second World War veterans Friday in Ottawa in solemn reflection on the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day. As several rows of veterans sat in the shadow of the National War Memorial and military personnel stood at attention nearby, a lone violinist and an 80-member youth orchestra from the Netherlands played the theme song from the film “Schindler’s List.”

One of the students, Isabel Messerschmidt, spoke only a few words of remembrance at the gathering.

But it was her meeting Thursday with a veteran that gave her a better understanding of what the Canadians went through to liberate her country.

“He was in the air force,” Messerschmidt said as she described the veteran who gave her a sense of

Harper decries permanent underclass, and predicts more Filipino immigrants

OTTAWA — Mike Duffy, the ad said, brings an “irOTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said reverent view on Canadian politics and stories about Friday he doesn’t want to create a permanent underall the things we thought we knew.” class in Canada because of problems with the tempoThe promo, shown in court Friday, was for a 2012 rary foreign worker program. speech Duffy gave at an event he billed taxpayers for Harper made the comment as he hosted Philipattending, an expense claim at the heart of two of the pines President Benigno Aquino, on the second day 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery the of his Canadian visit. suspended senator has been on trial for since April.

Harper touted the Philippines as a great source of But it could also be an apt tag line for the trial immigration to Canada and he expects those levels thus far, which rose Friday for a planned three-week to grow. “This is a pro-immigration government,” he break. said.

In testimony and thousands of pages of evidence, But Filipinos are among the many communities in what everyone thought they knew about the ConserCanada affected by changes to the temporary foreign vative senator — where he lived, where he travelled, worker program. how he paid for everything from makeup to picture frames and what the Prime Minister’s Office knew about it all — has SPECIAL come under scrutiny in a trial that’s spilled out of the courtroom into the House of Commons and may hit the 2015 election campaign trail as well.

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A6 Bad owners create bad dogs

There’s an old saying among those who train dogs: To get the job done right, you have to be smarter than the dog.

And if you’re not, the dog starts training you.

And if you don’t quickly identify and correct this reverse-training behaviour, you could end RICK up with a mutt ZEMANEK that refuses commands. The only thing it’s good for is eating up your dog-food bill.

In worst-case scenarios, if the dog is not properly handled and trained from the moment it steps into your home, it can develop violent, anti-social behaviours. Witness what happened last week in Rocky Mountain House.

A pleasant hike along a popular walking path known as The Loop turned into a nightmare for two dog walkers when their pets were attacked —without provocation — by three dogs identified as pit bull terriers. And there’s little doubt in both instances that the marauding trio was out to kill.

Thanks to a handful of Good Samaritans rushing to the rescue, these piranha-like attacks were thwarted.

Advocate reporter Mary Ann Barr wrote that the incidents began when Jenna Ellefson, 27, was out for a jog with her Belgian-shepherd cross Dakota. Suddenly, three dogs she described as pit bulls ripped into her pet and tried dragging Dakota away. Ellefson began screaming, picked up a stick and broke it over the back of one of the dogs that had a firm grip on her pet’s neck. She then began kicking them, with no success.

“They weren’t letting go. ... It was like I was a fly or something, so I just kept screaming.”

Three high school students and two men came to her assistance, delivering punishing kicks that eventually caused the attacking dogs to leave. Yet one returned for a continued attack and had to be beaten away again.

Shortly after, two of the dogs ripped into a Labrador retriever on a leash held by 86-year-old Theresa Kokesch.

Once again, the attacking dogs tried dragging her dog Shelly into the bush.

She tried kicking at them.

“They did leave once but they came right back again and I finally picked up this big honking branch and that’s what finally drove them away.” But not completely away.

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Two attack dogs stuck around until help arrived. It required more beatings with sticks to finally drive them away.

It was a nightmare for Theresa that she keeps reliving. “They just went at her (Shelly, who’s owned by her daughter Audrey) right away. Just so vicious.

The throat area and her leg is just gone. They pulled the muscle and skin right to the bone.”

“These dogs were out to kill,” said daughter Audrey.

Both dogs will survive.

But circumstances could have been much, much worse. “There’s kids and babies and strollers and families on (The Loop),” said Ellefson. “Like you wouldn’t think that it wasn’t safe.”

Eventually, Alberta Animal Services, contracted by the town, captured two of the dogs. The third is believed to have returned to its owner. An investigation is underway.

The Rocky incident will once again give rise to the seemingly endless de-

bate of who is ultimately responsible for such attacks. “It’s bad ownership — not bad dogs — that cause pit bulls to become aggressive,” says the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which is adamant that pit bulls make ideal pets under responsible ownership.

Unfortunately there are dog owners, no matter what breed they choose, whose elevators stop short of the top floor when choosing a dog.

What happened in Rocky is inexcusable. Allowing your dogs to run freely is a sure-fire indicator of a bad owner.

Dogs do escape the yards of even the most competent owners. But if they have killing on their minds, the dog has a problem — and that problem is usually the product of an equally challenged owner.

A dog is a product of its environment.

“Unfortunately, pit-bull type dogs that find themselves in these conditions may be at greater risk for devel-

oping aggressive behaviour (due to irresponsible owners),” says the ASPCA. If you decide a pit bull is your cup of tea, the ASPCA says: “Congratulations!

Pit bulls can make very sweet and loyal family dogs ... fun, and joyful.”

That may be the case. But when they fall into the hands of irresponsible owners, your must always consider that these dogs were bred for their bizarre gift of violence.

First, and foremost, when shopping for a pup you need to understand that a pet is a lifelong commitment.

Secondly, the key to raising any dog successfully is socialization, which results in a happy and confident dog.

In all fairness, any dog under certain circumstances can be prone to violence.

If an incompetent — or intentionally aggressive — owner is in charge, the violence will quickly rise to the surface of breeds like pit bulls.

Rick Zemanek is a former Advocate editor.

Democracy stalling in Burma There was supposed to be a referendum in Burma this month. It would have addressed all the cynical clauses that the military regime wrote into the 2008 constitution to safeguard its own hold on power.

But that isn’t going to happen: not now, and probably not before the national election that is due in October or November of this year.

GWYNNE There are DYER even people in Burma who wonder whether the election itself will be held on time.

“I would just like to remind you,” said Aung San Suu Kyi, for almost 30 years the leader of the pro-democracy movement in Burma, “that I have been saying since 2012 that a bit of healthy skepticism (about the army’s real intentions) would be very, very good.”

Speaking to The Guardian newspaper last month, she warned that “too many of our Western friends are too optimistic about the democratization process.”

She certainly got that right. Since Suu Kyi was released from house ar-

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rest in 2010, her supporters abroad (who include most leaders of democratic countries) have assumed that democratic reforms were well underway. So they ended the sanctions against the military regime, and their citizens swarmed into Burma to invest in an almost completely undeveloped economy.

China and other non-democratic countries piled in too, of course, and an enormous economic boom is transforming Burma. Foreign investors have profited mightily, and ex-generals and other people with close ties to the military have benefited even more. There is even a more or less free press. But democracy? Not so much.

Former general Thein Sein is still president, and a parliament controlled by military officers and regime supporters remains in place. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) will doubtless win most of the seats if the election is actually held next autumn, but the constitution written by the military bars her from the presidency on the ludicrous ground that her two sons are foreign citizens. (Her late husband was British.)

That is one of the reasons why changing the constitution has become a key issue. Another is the provision that gives unelected military officers one-quarter of the seats in parliament, which gives them a veto on any changes to the constitution. The regime did not really decide to hand power over to the civilians; it made just enough

cosmetic changes to convince foreigners that it was now acceptable to invest in Burma. A large majority of ordinary Burmese revere Aung San Suu Kyi (she is the daughter of independence hero Aung San), and five million of them signed a petition asking for an end to the constitutional ban on her being chosen as president. The regime simply ignored it, and it looks like it is getting away with it. The foreign investment just keeps coming.

The referendum on constitutional changes is in the hands of the current parliament, which is packed with regime supporters who were elected in a vote boycotted by the NLD. It was originally promised for this month, but no date has yet been announced. Neither has anybody revealed exactly which of the 201 sections of the constitution where changes were proposed will actually be put to a vote.

Which of the eight versions of a new clause about Suu Kyi’s eligibility for the presidency will be in the referendum, if it actually happens? Nobody knows, and it is basically the regime that will choose. Maybe none of them will. And it is now practically certain that the autumn election will be held under the old constitution.

It is possible that Thein Sein, the current president, is really trying to get his more recalcitrant military colleagues to accept democratic reforms and is just meeting a lot of resistance.

The military have had absolute control of Burma for the past 53 years, after

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all, and a lot of them have got very rich out of it. But Thein Sein actually doesn’t sound like he’s very eager for full democracy himself.

In an interview with the BBC in March, he insisted that the army must remain active in politics — “Serving the interests of the people means being involved in national politics” — and that the role of the military would only change gradually “as the political parties mature in their political norms and practice.” In other words, the army itself will decide if and when to stop running the whole show.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that the military will cling to power for as long as possible, but it is remarkable how the foreign supporters of democracy in Burma have gone along with the pretense. U.S. President Barack Obama, for example, has visited Burma twice since 2012, but the harshest thing he had to say was that “I don’t understand a provision that would bar somebody from running for president because of who their children are.”

It’s probably too late to reinstate sanctions now, so the Burmese are effectively on their own. The only recourse that might work is massive nonviolent protests of the sort that happened in 1988 and several times since.

The trouble with that is that the Burmese army has never been reluctant to shoot its own fellow citizens.

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We reap what we sow Every morning he puts on his suit and tie to begin his day’s work; the worries of the day to come taking precedence over the welfare of his family. Not that he does not care about them, but he feels compelled to concern himself with living and working in a highly competitive workforce and society.

CHRIS With a last SALOMONS look at her hair and her clothes to make sure everything is just right, she starts toward the door to go to work when her daughter approaches her.

“Mom, can I ask you something?”

“Not right now dear, I’m almost late for work, we can talk later.”

And she heads out the door, leaving the young girl with a dejected look on her face; the slump of her shoulders saying more than words ever could.

The chat room on her computer is a place where she is listened to; many

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responses are available to her questions about life. She is too young to realize that so much of the information she is gathering is not much more to her mind and heart than a poison is to her physical being.

As she continues to gather all the ideas that are rapidly shaping her life, she unknowingly falls victim to a pedophile who, along with others like him, are lurking in the shadows just waiting for that moment of vulnerability.

Being totally convinced that she is conversing with a young person who she believes really cares for and about her, she begins to reveal more and more about herself, including pictures of herself. Through subtle encouragements, he convinces her that she is beautiful beyond description and begins to initiate a more illicit behaviour.

Then one day she realizes that she has gone too far; she has allowed him into the most intimate part of her life.

The guilt, shame and fear set her off onto a course of action and thinking that starts to drive her into a downward spiral.

In her mind, she feels that now she has no one to talk to. Shame prevents her from approaching her parents; fear stops the chat room connection cold, and guilt stops her from even mention-

ing her actions to her friends.

Many of us have at one time or other in our lives felt trapped with no seeming way out of our dilemmas.

But being older, with more life experience, we often know that in spite of the shame and fear, what we are dealing with is temporary and we can reach out to receive help to conquer the problem and carry on with life.

Not so a 14-to-17-year-old. Along with the rejections she has faced from those she needed most, she has placed herself in a position of not being able to trust anyone, so reaching out for help does not even enter her mind.

Everybody was too busy to teach her what to do in these cases, so she is left to deal with the situation in her own mind.

Recall, if you will, that she learned all ways of dealing with problems in a chat room.

So desperate does this young girl become that she either turns to drugs to ease the pain or she considers suicide; a totally useless death that devastates those left behind.

You may think that I have oversimplified the situation, but the news in the last while has proven that this happens all too often.

Note that I have used a young girl in this article instead of a young man.

All of the news reports deal primarily with girls as opposed to boys, possibly because they are more vulnerable. In these matters, the male population for the most part is ignored even more than the female portion.

This is only one example of what can drive a young person to overdose or suicide.

The reasons are endless, as are the desperations that drive them to these fatal acts. So often, kids will come into the kitchen for a meal and it takes no longer than 15 seconds to realize that many of them are totally without direction.

There are the rebellious ones, of course, but so many have absolutely no idea where life is taking them.

What is so distressing in all of these situations is that in most of them, the parents are off working and chasing the financial dreams that the pundits tell us we “need.”

Ask someone whose child just died for any of the above reasons if working for that $30,000 camper and the two $10,000 quads was really worth the life of that child.

In many cases, what we sow, we reap!

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

Monkeying around at the playground Once upon a time, there was a very large and important playground. It was a place that children came to from other playgrounds from many miles and kilometres away, because this playground had many advantages and the children didn’t have to pay tax on their colourful vinyl string craft supplies and other playground necessities, and there was HARLEY always a genHAY erous supply of much-loved lemonade.

In fact, it seemed like the lemonade just came right out of the ground, and it made this particular very important playground very popular and prosperous.

A lot of the children worked in the lemonade business and therefore could afford very large black trucks and quads and other toys for the sandbox.

And also, the band-aids at the playground were free and there were no lineups whenever the children needed the band-aids.

The playground supervisor was much loved by the children for many, many days — 44 days that summer, to be exact. Her name was Penelope Craftmeyer. She was very powerful and quite tall and during her long time in charge of the playground, Penelope Craftmeyer built up quite an impressive place to play, a place that was much envied by other playgrounds far and wide, because of its many advantages and it’s lemonade and the very large and expensive playground shacks that Penelope Craftmeyer built from which to supervise and many band-aid buildings she created. Also, Penelope Craftmeyer and her helpers put up some nice learning centers for the many children.

But it wasn’t always wild roses at the playground, sometimes there were dandelions. Over the long 44 days, sometimes there would be too much or not enough lemonade and the whole playground would be unhappy and children wouldn’t have as many toys or games to play and there would be hardly any playground supplies.

Even the colourful nylon string that the children used to make keys chains and necklaces would become expensive and the children would start to

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grumble.

Sometimes, when the rest of the world didn’t want the playground’s lemonade, Penelope Craftmeyer had to close down some learning centres, and the lineups at the band-aid buildings were so bad that many children weren’t even getting their scrapes and scratches fixed when they needed them to be fixed. And sometimes, when the lemonade situation was very bad, some of Penelope Craftmeyer’s fancy playground shacks from which she and her helpers supervised were made a little less fancy.

And so it was that toward the end of the long 44 days of Penelope Craftmeyer, the lemonade business was very, very bad and many children started to grumble right out loud and they started to look at Penelope Craftmeyer out of the corner of their suspicious eyes, and they started to wonder what would happen if their beloved playground had a different supervisor, perhaps one with different colored hair, and perhaps a little shorter.

And then one day, a new playground supervisor was chosen by the children. Her name was Nancy Dawn Puffinstuff, and she brought along many helpers, most of whom had never been

helpers before. And many, many children who had always liked Penelope Craftmeyer and really disliked change, were afraid — very afraid. Many afraid children looked at nearby important large playgrounds that were supervised by very similar supervisors and didn’t like what they saw. And the children who were much richer than the other children and the children who owned big companies and the children who worked in the lemonade business were not pleased when they realized that Nancy Dawn Puffinstuff and her helpers said they were going to make them share.

In fact, Penelope Craftmeyer supporters told each other that they should get into the u-haul business on account of many, many children will soon be leaving this playground for other playgrounds far away. And many others are stumbling around in shock, trying to figure out ways to hide their money from Nancy Dawn Puffinstuff and worrying that all the children will eventually have to live in communes like hippies from the 1960s.

But some children are happy now. Happier than before. They say, “There’s an old saying that says: ‘Change always comes bearing gifts.’

” And they say, give Nancy Dawn Puffinstuff and her helpers some days to see if the playground can become better and the children happier, and if that doesn’t happen, we will boot them out and see if Penelope Craftmeyer or Winifred Rumpleton are still around and still interested in supervising the playground.

And besides, said one of the children who has a badly scraped knee and has been waiting in the band-aid lineup for many, many days, that’s the way this thing we have that we call a democracy works. All the children get to choose and when they get grumpy, they get to choose change if they choose to. Sometime they choose the right to be wrong, and sometimes they choose wrong in order to be right.

But now all the children in the playground have no choice but to wait and see what happens. And in the meantime, there’s still time to climb around on the monkey bars.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Harper misses the mark on regulating GHGs One doesn’t usually expect to find a joke in a budget speech. But Finance Minister Joe Oliver, perhaps unknowingly, delivered one when he declared that “we are the only government in our nation’s history to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.”

Perhaps no one laughed because no one else saw it as a DAVID joke.

CRANE It’s true that emissions have declined, albeit ever so little.

But the credit goes to three provinces — Ontario, which slashed emissions by halting the use of coal to produce electricity, British Columbia, which had the political guts to introduce a carbon tax, and Quebec, which launched a cap-and-trade emissions reduction system.

This is not an accomplishment of the federal government, no matter how often it tries to claim credit. In fact, the budget is remarkable for its avoidance of any measures to deal with climate

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change — or even use the words “climate change.”

The real news, and this is not a joke, is that Canada is far short of the pledge that Prime Minister Stephen Harper made at a global climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009 to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions by 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020. He didn’t even try to meet its target and the Pembina Institute, which closely monitors Canada’s performance, estimates that without new measures, by 2020 Canada will have cut emissions only by 1.5 per cent.

Canada has missed another deadline. Under plans for a global agreement on climate change action after 2020, with a global summit planned for Paris in December, countries were to have submitted their proposed action plans by March 31. The U.S. and Mexico both did but Canada didn’t.

Harper has announced that Canada will spell out its intentions this month, in advance of the June G7 leaders’ summit in Germany next month where both Germany and the U.S. will highlight the need to act on climate change.

Harper has already warned we shouldn’t expect much from him. “It’s unlikely our targets will be exactly the same as the United States, but they will be similar levels of ambition to other major industrialized countries,”

he said recently. The U.S., which is expected to fully meet its Copenhagen promise for 2020, lowering emissions by 17 per cent by 2020, has now committed to lower emissions by 26-28 per cent from 2005 levels by 2025.

Moreover, Harper has set two conditions for his planned announcement, which will rely on new regulations rather than carbon pricing: First, the plan must improve prospects for jobs — not “kill jobs,” and, second, “we are not going to bring in carbon taxes.”

On the first point, an action plan on climate change, moving Canada to a low-carbon economy, would change the composition of jobs.

But the shift to a low-carbon economy would create a wide array of new jobs in renewable energies and energy efficiency, creating many new opportunities for innovation and new businesses. But there could be fewer jobs in coal and oil.

As it is, oilsands production is the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada so that Alberta emissions from large emitters are greater than the combined emissions from Ontario and Quebec, and with planned oilsands expansion, Canada faces much greater growth in emissions.

According to a recent report on emissions from large-scale emitters,

in 2013, facilities in Alberta accounted for 51 per cent of the total, followed

by Ontario, with 18 per cent, Saskatchewan with 9 per cent and Quebec with eight per cent.

Harper is also off course with regulations. Almost every economist will agree that carbon pricing is a much better approach than regulation, and that a carbon tax is the best of all since it is transparent, sends a clear market signal, and requires no middlemen.

A regulatory approach would be complicated and create much work — and costs — for companies for compliance and for taxpayer-funded regulators.

Harper also opposes carbon-pricing because it will “stick taxpayers with the bill.”

But does he really believe that if regulation leads to higher costs for oil companies that they won’t pass this higher cost on to consumers?

The reality is that Canada has to act.

We are missing out on the industries of the future and the next energy revolution — what experts believe will be the next industrial revolution — because the federal government is betting so heavily on a future oil economy that is unlikely to emerge.

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

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, May 9, 2015

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Library offers great variety, and a lesson in geography Re: the Red Deer Public Library Having a hankering for a smooth Eastwood western film with some ageless culture and underdog humour, I enquired about the DVD availability of The Outlaw Josey Wales. I was told it will be inter-library-loaned and delivered quite shortly. When the DVD arrived I noticed it was from Hays, Alta.

Now here’s the thing: where is Hays?

Growing up a seasoned Albertan for almost 5O years, really western and really rode around, this question stumped me and most of my friends.

(I didn’t ask them all!) It tickles me that a profound and somewhat jocular western had to be shipped from my unknown Hays Public Library Box 36!

It’s great to know the knowledgeable tentacles of library learning can slip around and dip into unfamiliar places and fish out DVDs or books. (I once got some Gestalt shipped up from the University of Lethbridge!)

Greater access to our book and film universe!

Thank you RDPL. A friendly main floor entrance with an amazing kids hall on your right there, which is great to explore and learn if you’re a kid.

Next step up is the Mezz for blooming adolescence and the next step up for kids.

Then up to the newspaper/computer/study room for the final floor of the library learning experience.

A citizen and patron of the RDPL since the time of the original fire hall, this oasis of wisdom acquisition has facilitated a great use in our times and place. Thank you again!

I’ll leave you with a quote from a great Canadian fellow — well, he’s more than a fellow, he is Chief Dan George (from B.C.) who starred in this Hays-shipped flick, and I remember his advice: “Endeavour to persevere.”

Robb Holbrook Red Deer P.S. Extensive research and communication helped me discover Hays is located northeast of Taber and Vauxhall.

with God being at the core of our beliefs. If I am not mistaken, this fact is manifested at the entrance to the House of Commons where in stone it is written; God Shall Have Dominion From Sea To Sea. And I can’t help thinking of that grand old hymn that reads, “0 God our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be Thou our God while life shall last and our eternal home.”

Now it would appear that nine (last count I could find) members of the Supreme Court have decided that the name of God cannot be mentioned, nor prayer in council meetings, first in a Quebec town where someone is an atheist and is upset by it. Now Ottawa has abided by this ruling and now Calgary is considering it. Wow! I would suggest that the majority of Canadians believe in God, no matter who they are, or their religious beliefs.

Our veterans of the First and Second Wars and other wars did so to serve king and country and to uphold our God-given rights of the democracy we enjoy.

There are very few veterans, for example from the Second World War still with us but I am sure they like those

gone on before them would be truly offended with this ruling of the Supreme Court. I had four brother-in-laws in the Second World War, a father-in-law and an uncle (killed in action) who served in the First World War; all of them are gone now, but from what I heard from them and other vets, they knew God in a very close way.

And may I suggest to all that their sacrifice was for this very thing that the Supreme Court has put down: the right to pray and honour God in any situation we as a society are involved in. I have to say that as I pondered this decision of the court just because of the actions of one person, I have to wonder about the faith and beliefs of those who serve on this court.

As I pondered further on this ruling (I’m in my 80s) and looking back over the years, it would seem that this is just part of the slippery slope our country has been experiencing: First it was the removal of Bible and prayer from our schools, not to mention other offensive decisions this court has made in favour of denying what we grew up with; what is morally correct in the sight of God and looking to God for direction and help.

Some of us would agree with me that we are rapidly becoming a Godless society. I wonder what’s coming next in the light of how far we have fallen now?

I close in saying: God help us.

Richard Duffin Red Deer

Show pride in our city, clean up Festival Hall garbage We went to the Festival Hall to vote on Tuesday and we were very disappointed to see the garbage and debris all around the hall. One would think that someone would have taken it upon themselves to have that area cleaned up.

We live in the downtown area and we make a point of keeping the alley and garbage cleaned up in our neighbourhood.

It sure was not a very good thing for all of the people who used the parking lot behind the hall and hopefully someone will look after this and show a little pride in our beautiful city.

Wm. (Bill) Farquhar Red Deer

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Can someone remind me what era we are in?

Isn’t it time we collectively said no more to this sort of ‘entertainment?’

Lorna WatkinsonZimmer Red Deer

Supreme Court is wrong; honouring God is essential I am writing this letter regarding the recent Supreme Court Ruling as to meetings (council or public meetings) and stating that God and prayer be eliminated in those circumstances.

I have read about this ruling in various publications, though not in detail until I read a Globe and Mail editorial titled The end of prayer in the councils of the nation, April 17.

Needless to say, I was very disappointed to hear of this ruling in the name of human rights, and could not help but remark: what about the rights of the majority of Canadians?

Most of us in Canada are aware of the fact that our great country was founded on the JudeoChristian ideals (ethic)

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After witnessing Omar Khadr’s friendly demeanour and his straightforward answers before the TV cameras, I am drawn to the inescapable conclusion that either he is the greatest actor since Olivier, or that Stephen Harper, in his full-throated condemnation of the man, is even worse that I thought he might be; to wit, nothing more or less than an unprincipled political thug without a speck of humanity.

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Mother’s Day Escapes

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MOTHER’S DAY EXTRA SPECIAL THIS YEAR, CONSIDER A MOTHERDAUGHTER OR MOTHERSON GETAWAY

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he Kootenai Brown bike trail in Waterton Lakes National Park winds its way along 6.9 km of some of the most scenic landscapes in the Canadian Rockies, hugging the edge of hillsides between the road and the park’s crystal blue lakes.

As my oldest son and I cycled along, we came to an abrupt stop when several deer walked directly across the path in front of us. It was a chance for me to catch my breath and for him to get a selfie with a deer in the background.

When we finished our ride, we headed straight to the Prince of Wales Hotel for high tea. Kolby DEBBIE had seemed a little reOLSEN luctant when I first suggested we go for high tea. I think he assumed the event would be unmanly. But as soon as he tried scones with jam and clotted cream, he was hooked. At one point, he even attempted to raise his pinky while sipping the tea.

Over the course of a weekend, my son and I hiked, cycled and dined our way around Waterton, creating memories we will always cherish.

The time we spent together was a special gift and the truth is, some of the best gifts just can’t be wrapped.

Here are a few suggestions for Alberta getaways you can plan for the special mom in your life. Each mom has different interests, so you need to think about what your mom really enjoys when planning a getaway for her. If you want to make the experience extra special, consider a mother-daughter or a mother-son getaway.

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CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: A stay in a backcountry lodge lets an active mom experience a little comfort while hiking through the backcountry; They really mean it when they say you should watch for wildlife in Waterton; The 240acre University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden is an award-winning visitor attraction and a research site. Gardeners will enjoy exploring the different subgardens at this site; June is wildflower season in Waterton and it’s also the time for the annual Waterton Wildflower Festival.

Stretching over nine days, the event celebrates wildflowers, nature and art.

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LEFT: Aurum Lodge makes a great escape any time, but the spring photography weekends will be extra special for moms who want to hone their skills.

RIGHT: High tea at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton is a nice indulgence — no matter who you are travelling with.

MOM: Each one has different interests For the gardener You don’t have to travel far to find a great garden escape. Some of Alberta’s best public gardens are in Central Alberta.

Spend a morning or an afternoon exploring the naturescape gardens at Ellis Bird Farm (www.ellisbirdfarm.ca) near Lacombe and then have lunch or afternoon tea at the onsite tea house. The farm is dedicated to the conservation of blue birds, tree swallows and other native cavity-nesting birds and it has a brand new visitor’s centre where you can learn more about the birds in your own backyard.

Serious gardeners will also want to visit the 240-acre University of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden (www.devonian.ualberta.ca), located near Devon. The garden is an award-winning visitor attraction, a research site, and home to year-round adult and children’s education programming.

One of Alberta’s hidden gems is the Danish Canadian National Museum and Gardens (www.danishcanadians.com) near Dickson. The site has a pioneer garden, a children’s garden, flower gardens and a teahouse.

For those who love wildflowers The 12th annual Waterton Wildflower Festival (www.watertonwildflowers.com) will take place from June 19 to 27 this year.

Arguably the wildflower capital of Canada, Waterton Lakes National Park is home to more than half of all the wildflower species in Alberta, including 175 rare species and 20 species that are only found there.

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For the active mom In Alberta, there are plenty of options for active travellers, but a backcountry lodge is a great way to hike or mountain bike into the heart of Rocky Mountain wilderness and still experience life’s little comforts.

Moms who enjoy hiking might appreciate a stay at Brewster’s Shadow Lake Lodge (www.shadowlakelodge.com) in Banff or Skoki Lodge (www.skoki.com) in Lake Louise.

Those who enjoy horseback adventures would enjoy a stay at the Outpost at Warden Rock (www. outpostatwardenrock.com) west of Sundre.

For the foodie Mom can enjoy a feast for the senses with a Culinary Adventure at Paintbox Lodge (paintboxlodge. com) in Canmore.

The demonstrationstyle group cooking classes feature top chefs in the onsite kitchen, which is a fun and casual setting. A cooking class will cost $75 per person, but you get 25 per cent off when you combine the class with an overnight stay at the lodge.

Classes are offered throughout the year with different area chefs and different menus.

Cuisine et Chateau Inc. (www.cuisineandchateau.com) in Calgary also offers cooking classes

year-round featuring a variety of cuisines, chefs and styles of cooking. Located in the Kensington area of Calgary, this interactive culinary centre features a state-of-the-art facility, educational events, tastings and even culinary tours. The chefs mostly hail from France and this year’s culinary tour is to the Perigord region of France.

For the mom who really needs a break Spa packages are really popular gifts for mom and you can find plenty of discounts and specials around Mother’s Day. Check out the packages offered at local day spas like Totally Refreshed Steam and Spa (totallyrefreshedsteamandspa.com), Safari Spa and Salon (www.safarispa.com) and Milestones (www.milestonesspa.com).

If you want to go over-the-top with a luxury spa escape, you should check out the Willow Stream Spa Escape Package at the Fairmont Banff Springs (www. fairmont.com). Rates start from $529 per night and include an overnight stay, one select spa treatment per adult, gratuities, parking and a gourmet breakfast.

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

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Aurum Lodge (www. aurumlodge.com) has been hosting photography courses for more than a decade and is featuring several spring photography weekends in 2015.

Located in Bighorn Country outside Banff National Park, this ecolodge and wilderness retreat provides cozy wilderness accommodations and delicious meals.

Photography sessions are with Leslie and Mark Degner (www.markandlesliedegner.com), who operate Wilderness Light Photography in Sherwood Park. Small group classes start at $1,099 based on a three-night stay with meals and classes.

Moms who enjoy creating art in all its different forms will also appreciate the Fairmont Banff Springs Artist in Residence Packages (www.

fairmont.com/banff-springs/promotions/artist-in-residence). The packages highlight different artists and art forms throughout the year and are available the third week of every month. The packages include a two-night stay, a welcome reception and an artist-led seminar and varies in price depending on the dates of travel.

Locally, Red Deer College (www.rdc.ab.ca/series) offers an excellent Summer Arts School with weeklong classes in many different art forms from painting and drawing to jewelry making, stained glass and woodworking.

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On a quest for a certain Irish castle

BY ROY HARRIS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Touring western Ireland was a dream my wife and I shared when we married 14 years ago. Seasoned travelers, now in our 60s, we finally started planning last summer for a four-day jaunt to be tacked onto a business trip ending in Dublin.

That’s when we discovered that — like many vacationing couples — we had different agendas. We both wanted to see the countryside and wander through villages, but Eileen was also eager to visit newfound Irish relatives, while I had castles on my mind. And not just any castles: I envisioned tracking down the mysterious ruins pictured in “Irish Castle,” a serigraph by contemporary American artist Thomas McKnight that’s been a fixture on our living room wall since 1982.

How to satisfy both of our cravings? The answer turned out to be a private guide, one skilled in finding both castles and cousins.

Having your own chauffeur take you around may sound like a luxury. The person we lined up through Toursbylocals.com cost us about twice what we would have spent for bus tours taking us through the same towns and sites that we had wanted to include on our trip. (We rejected the idea of renting a car as too onerous.) But for us, the personalized approach added a huge amount of value to the trip.

Indeed, we would happily recommend it as well worth the extra money.

Our preparation started six months before our planned departure with a search of a half-dozen Internet sites that link customers with local tour guides. Toursbylocals.com, based in Vancouver, B.C., appealed to us — especially after we found a profile of an Irish guide that made us smile. The guide, James Ryan, expressed interest in “genealogy detective work,” and he noted that the current U.S. president had come to Ireland in 2011 “to find the apostrophe in O’Bama.”)

In our email exchanges, James said he also was intrigued by our quest for the mysterious castle. We signed

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Eileen McIntyre and Roy Harris at Kylemore Abbey in a photo taken by guide James Ryan up with him in August and sent in a deposit, based on his $420-a-day rate. He agreed to plan a route that included towns that interested us — Galway, Killarney and Limerick — along with exploration of the Connemara region and the Dingle Peninsula.

Having a personal guide online brings early benefits to travelers: inspiring curiosity about what you’ll be seeing and where you’ll be staying, for starters.

James knew of several hotels at our “midrange” price target of $100 a night, and our preferred location near the center of town; when we mentioned bed-and-breakfasts, he warned us that many of the best ones are closed for the season in late November. For our part, the online process of researching and reserving rooms got us busy familiarizing ourselves with the trip ahead.

That familiarity paid off on Day 1 of our tour. Arriving at the Galway rail station from Dublin, we had only a short walk with our bags to the Park

House Hotel, which also was a mere two blocks from the town’s Eyre Square. It turned out to be the day Galway’s Christmas festival was opening in the square.

We made connections for dinner that evening with two cousins Eileen had contacted in advance: Kitty Costelloe, a dairy farmer, and her daughter Amanda, a local teacher.

Over pub food, they helped us choose a special seafood restaurant where the two of us would celebrate our anniversary the next night. They also arranged a meeting with another of Kitty’s children: policeman Paddy Costelloe, who lived closer to Shannon Airport, where our travels would end a few days later.

James, driving the 30 miles from his home town of Ennis early the next morning, had a full itinerary in Connemara ready for us. We started with a look at the area’s offering of distinctive green marble and then drove to the magnificent Kylemore Abbey, a relatively new castle (built in 1867) that also has seen duty as a Bene-

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We passed several other castles, too, but none had the look — or the lakeside setting — of the one hanging in our living room back home in New England. Not to worry, our guide advised as he studied a photographic likeness of the McKnight “Irish Castle.”

James had in mind a ruin that was just outside Killarney that might qualify on the third day of our tour.

The morning after our anniversary, James drove us south from the green expanses of County Galway into the starkly lunar landscape of the Burren, a stretch of exposed limestone where it has been said that “there is not water enough to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury them.” Then it was on to the Cliffs of Moher, where our guide gave us ample time to explore this most spectacular conjoining of Irish shore and sea.

The next day, passing through the town of Tralee, we wound our way around Din-

gle’s charming coast and were treated to a mix of breathtaking ocean and pastoral panoramas. The off-and-on rain showers that greeted us proved fortunate when they brought vivid rainbows — and a set of remarkable photos.

After our third night, in Killarney, James took us first thing to Ross Castle, a 15thcentury ruin on Lough Leane — a lake we had seen from a distance, among rolling hills that strikingly resembled the landscape in our “Irish Castle” serigraph. James smiled, seeing the look of recognition that he’d hoped Ross Castle would spark.

Mission accomplished, Eileen and I thought.

Then it was off toward the lovely thatched-roof houses of Adare, where James introduced us to a heraldry shop where we ordered some family-crest plaques to be shipped back home. In nearby Limerick we toured the enormous King John’s Castle, which for all its wonders bore no resemblance to “our castle.” Our final night was spent in Ennis, where we made our last family connection, with Paddy Costelloe. With Ennis being James’s town, we took seriously his recommendation of a pub with Irish music. The evening was a hit. And when it came time the next day for James to take us on the short ride to Shannon Airport, we flew home feeling we’d learned much about Ireland, its castles, our cousins — and our guide.

All three of us were amused, then, when I later was able to connect with artist Thomas McKnight and get the true backstory of our “Irish Castle” serigraph. In an email response from his home in Connecticut, McKnight wrote that he had never been to Ireland, and “the image of the castle must have come from a book, although I don’t remember which one.” He added, “To me the position of the castle in a lake epitomized that Celtic land of myth and mystery. Perhaps it’s in my genes; I am part Irish, hence my surname.”

Eileen and I assured him that he had captured the landscape perfectly, and suggested he make the trip to Killarney some day.

We may just know a tour guide to show him around.

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Flames on the brink

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Anaheim 4 Calgary 2 CALGARY — The Anaheim Ducks tightened their grip on their playoff series against the Calgary Flames with a 4-2 win on Friday.

The Ducks lead the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal three games to one. Game 5 is Sunday in Anaheim, where the Ducks will look to close out the series.

“We know our situation,” Calgary coach Bob Hartley said. “Obviously we need to win. We’ll be a desperate group, as always. I know that everyone that’s going to get on the plane tomorrow believes that we can get a Game 5 (win) and force a Game 6 over here.

That’s the identity of this organization and we’re not going to change it.

“It’s a tough loss tonight, we’re going to swallow it and tomorrow we’ll be back at work.”

Matt Beleskey’s power-play goal early in the third period stood up as the winner and Patrick Maroon added an empty-net goal to secure the victory.

Jacob Silfverberg had a goal and an assist and Andrew Cogliano also scored for the visitors. Anaheim goaltender Frederik Andersen made 25 saves for the win.

Sean Monahan and Michael Ferland replied for the Flames, who suffered their first loss at home this postseason. Calgary’s Karri Ramo stopped 25-of-28 shots in the loss.

The Honda Center has historically been a tough building for Calgary. The Flames have just one win there — a single playoff victory in 2006 — in the last 11 years.

“It makes sense that if we go home 3-1, we’re in a better position than they are,” Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau said prior to the game. “Twotwo, they’ve got momentum coming into our building, so we’d much prefer the 3-1.”

The Ducks opened the third period with a four-minute man advantage.

Calgary’s Joe Colborne was slapped with a double minor for high-sticking Francois Beauchemin at the secondperiod buzzer.

Beleskey batted in a rebound at 1:11 for a go-ahead goal and Anaheim’s second power-play goal of the game. Calgary had almost a minute’s worth of 5-on-3 midway through the period, but didn’t counter.

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Anaheim Ducks’ Simon Despres, right, and Calgary Flames’ Joe Colborne scuffle during second period NHL second round game four playoff hockey action in Calgary, Friday.

With Ramo pulled for an extra attacker, Maroon sealed the win with an empty-net goal at 19:23.

Anaheim drew even late in the second on a turnover in Calgary’s end.

Seconds after the Flames killed off a minor for too many men, centre Kyle Palmieri stripped Johnny Gaudreau of the puck and dished to Cogliano, who beat Ramo between the pads at 16:42.

“I felt that we had good momentum, good pressure ...” Hartley said. “But

here’s a team with lots of depth and they capitalized on some chances. That was the difference.”

Anaheim scored first, but the Flames led 2-1 after a stronger opening period. Calgary’s relentless forecheck hamstrung the Ducks defencemen breaking out of their own end.

The Flames outshot Anaheim 9-2 before the Ducks began generating scoring chances late in the period.

Ferland lugged the puck along the

boards and bulldozed his way into Anaheim’s zone, where he beat Andersen with a slapshot from just inside the blue-line at 5:44.

Monahan’s first of the series tied the game at 4:37. He mopped up on a rebound after Gaudreau slipped through Ducks coverage with fancy stickwork and got a shot away.

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Rangers win in OT to stay alive

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York 2 Washington 1 (OT) NEW YORK — Ryan McDonagh scored 9:37 into overtime and the New York Rangers kept their Stanley Cup hopes alive with a 2-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Friday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinal.

Chris Kreider breathed life into the Presidents’ Trophy winners by scoring with 1:41 left in regulation to force the overtime.

The Capitals lead the series 3-2.

Game 6 is Sunday night in Washington.

Henrik Lundqvist made 28 saves for the Rangers, who have won each of their past nine playoff games when facing elimination at Madison Square Garden — dating to Game 4 of the 2008 Eastern Conference semifinal round against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Braden Holtby made 41 saves for Washington, which was less than 2 minutes away from its first conference final since 1998 before New York rallied. Curtis Glencross scored for the Capitals.

On the winner, Jesper Fast kept the puck in the Washington end sent a pass to Derek Stepan in the left circle. Instead of shooting, Stepan hesitated and found McDonagh coming late down the middle. His shot flew into the net and set off a second loud celebration at Madison Square Garden.

The Rangers were 1:41 from seeing their season end when Kreider tied it from the top of the left faceoff circle after taking a pass from Stepan and fir-

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New York Rangers right wing Jesper Fast, top left, and left wing Chris Kreider celebrate with New York Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh (27) who scored the game winning goal in overtime against the Washington Capitals during Game 5 in the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey playoffs, Friday, in New York. The Rangers won 2-1. ing a shot to the far corner past Holtby.

As Kreider swiped the air with a roundhouse, it set off a wild celebration that had the Garden shaking.

The goal came seconds after Lundqvist left his net for a sixth skater.

Until the goal, it seemed that the Capitals were going to win on Holtby’s second shutout of the series and another winning goal by one of Washington’s unknowns.

Joel Ward had the winner in the

opener. Jay Beagle and Andre Burakovsky had the winners in Washington and Glencross seemed destined in Game 5. He broke through with 9:06 left in regulation, scoring on a breakaway after being sent in all alone by defenceman Matt Niskanen.

Lundqvist actually stopped the breakaway attempt, but Glencross chipped the rebound over the prone netminder.

The goaltenders have been the stars of this series and Holtby and Lundqvist put on another show in Game 5.

Holtby set the tone early stopped 14 shots in an opening 10 minute onslaught by the Rangers. He was at his best against Martin St. Louis, making three outstanding saves, including a post-to-post pad save early when Rick Nash set up the one-time league scoring champion for a slam dunk in the crease.

Holtby also had an outstanding glove save early in the second period and a stop on a redirection later in the period.

Lundqvist was just as good although he needed a little help from the officials late in the second period to keep the game scoreless.

Niskanen, who earlier cleared a loose rebound of Stepan’s shot off his own goal line, fluttered a shot into the net from the right point. Referee Kevin Pollock immediately waved off the goal, ruling that Ward bumped Lundqvist and was guilty of interference.

The Capitals objected but the call stood after the officials talked it over.

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Babcock cleared to talk to other teams

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT — Mike Babcock can start testing the open market.

The Detroit Red Wings have granted a request from the highly respected coach for permission to speak with other teams. Babcock’s contract is expiring this off-season, and his status is the main question facing the Red Wings as they try to figure out their plans for the future.

“He would like to explore the market,” general manager Ken Holland said. “I feel that this is the way to

treat Mike with the respect that he’s earned.”

After the Red Wings were eliminated from the playoffs, Holland said although the team had exclusive negotiating rights with Babcock until the end of June, it wasn’t in anyone’s best interest for the process to linger that long. He echoed that sentiment Friday.

“I’d like to know in the next couple of weeks,” Holland said.

Now Babcock can get a better sense of what his options are.

Babcock has coached Detroit for 10 seasons, guiding the Red Wings to a Stanley Cup in 2008 and another finals appearance the following year. But

this season was Detroit’s third firstround exit in the last four years.

Toronto, Philadelphia, Buffalo and San Jose are all without coaches at the moment. Edmonton, which owns the No. 1 pick in the next draft, could also be an option if the Oilers decide to move on from interim coach Todd Nelson.

A person familiar with the Sabres’ coaching search told The Associated Press that the team is interested in talking to Babcock now that he is being made available for interviews. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Sabres are not commenting during their search to re-

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place Ted Nolan, who was fired last month.

The person didn’t have a timeline on when the Sabres might make a formal request to the Red Wings, but noted that a meeting could occur at the world hockey championships currently taking place in the Czech Republic.

Babcock has ties to Sabres general manager Tim Murray going back to Anaheim in 2002. Babcock coached the Ducks from 2002-04, when Murray served as the team’s player personnel director.

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Confident Lightning look to close out Habs SERIES RETURNS TO MONTREAL WITH THE CANADIENS ON THE BRINK OF ELIMINATION “Both teams know each other well, we just have to execute. We are a confident group. We have proven we can rebound from disappointing games.”

The Canadiens won their first three games of the playoffs against Ottawa, and then dropped their next two before eliminating the Senators with a 2-0 victory in Game 6 on April 26.

“It’s always a comfortable lead when you’re up by three, but on the other hand you’ve got to understand momentum can change quick,” Montreal coach Michel Therrien said. “Momentum in hockey changes quick and breaks change quick.”

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Rose scores three-pointer at buzzer to put Bulls over Cavaliers Bulls 99 Cavaliers 96 CHICAGO — Derrick Rose banked in a 3-pointer at the buzzer and scored 30 points Friday night to give the Chicago Bulls a 99-96 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers and a 2-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Cleveland had just tied it on a 3-pointer by J.R. Smith with 10.8 seconds left when Rose came through with the winner.

He took the inbounds pass from Mike Dunleavy Jr. on the sideline after Chicago called time with 3 seconds remaining. Rose then dribbled past the top of the key before burying a wild shot over Tristan Thompson, drawing a mob from his teammates and a deafening roar from the crowd for the hometown star who returned from his most recent knee surgery late in the season.

LeBron James scored 27 points for Cleveland and passed Tony Parker, Steve Nash and Larry Bird for fourth on the career playoff assists list. He had 14 in the game, giving him 1,073.

Chicago never won more than one game in three previous playoff series against teams led by James.

But the Bulls have a chance to take a commanding lead with Game 4 at home on Sunday.

Smith, back from a two-game suspension, scored 14 points. Kyrie Irving shot 3 of 13 and finished with 11 points and no assists.

Jimmy Butler scored 20 points for Chicago. Dunleavy added 16 points, and Nikola Mirotic scored 12.

One concern for Chicago was Pau Gasol straining his left hamstring. The Bulls announced late in the game that he would not return.

In a game that was tense and tight the whole way, Rose gave Chicago a 92-91 lead with a free throw with 2:09 remaining. But he also missed on a drive with James guarding him. He had another layup blocked by Thompson before Butler missed a 3, resulting in a shot-clock violation with 52 seconds remaining.

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CALGARY: Series returns to Anaheim Anaheim opened the scoring with Silfverberg’s power-play goal at 3:58. Ryan Kesler gained the zone and dished laterally to the Swede, whose wrist shot ticked off the stick of Flames defenceman T.J. Brodie and beat Ramo high glove side.

Calgary beefed up Friday with rugged wingers Lance Bouma and Ferland returning to the lineup from injury. Anaheim forward Tomas Fleischmann drew in for the first time in the series for Emerson Etem.

Notes: Francois Beauchemin’s 34th and 35th career playoff assists moved him into fourth all-time for the Ducks ahead of Scott Niedermayer . . Josh Jooris and Markus Granlund were scratched from Calgary’s lineup for Ferland and Bouma . . . Anaheim goaltender John Gibson made his first appearance of the post-season backing up Andersen. The Ducks said he was out with the flu.

RANGERS: Crowd chants for injured Zuccarello There were 29 shots, two goalposts and no goals in a fast-paced opening period. The Rangers came out flying and took 14 of the first 18 shots. Martin St. Louis hit a post and also was stopped by Holtby and his pad on a point-blank slam-dunk attempt. Nicklas Backstrom hit iron for Washington, which came on late and finished with 13 shots.

NOTES: There was a moment of silence before the game for slain NYC police officer Brian Moore, who was buried earlier in the day. ... The crowd chanted “Zucc! Zucc!” when injured Rangers forward Mats Zuccarello was shown on the overhead. He has not played in the series after being hit in the head by a shot in the final game against Pittsburgh. ... The crowd had its celebrities — Donald Trump, John McEnroe and Michael J. Fox.

BABCOCK: Wings could get draft pick back under compensation clause Other Sabres candidates include former Sharks coach Todd McLellan and former NHL defenceman Luke Richardson, who has spent the past three years coaching the Binghamton affiliate in the Ottawa Senators’ system.

Holland said teams can talk to Babcock now, but a compensation clause would net the Red Wings a third-round draft pick at some point over the next three seasons if the coach is hired by someone else.

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The Tampa Bay Lightning are 5 for 5 this year in Montreal. Now they need one more road win against the Canadiens.

The Lightning had a chance to sweep the Canadiens on Thursday night, but goaltender Ben Bishop was pulled in the second period of Montreal’s 6-2 victory. Now the second-round series is headed back to Canada for Game 5 on Saturday night (NBCSN, 7 p.m.

EDT).

Tampa Bay has won each of its five games in Montreal in 2015, outscoring the Canadiens 18-8 in Bell Centre. It scored eight of the 11 goals in the first two games of the series at Montreal.

“We’ve had some success in their building and we played well there in the regular season, too,” Lightning forward Ryan Callahan said Friday. “I think we’re comfortable going in there.”

Montreal had six different goal scorers in its first win in nine games this season against Tampa Bay. It had struggled to score against the 6-foot-7 Bishop, who stopped 100 of 104 shots through the first three games of the series.

“We get as much pressure as we can on him and go to the net, score some goals, shoot a lot of pucks at him and it will pay off eventually,” centre Tomas Plekanec said.

Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper lifted Bishop after David Desharnais’ shot skipped off the goaltender’s glove and into the net for the 5-7 forward’s first goal of the playoffs. Bishop finished with 11 saves.

The Lightning still have a commanding 3-1 lead in

the series, but a couple of the games could have gone either way. They won 2-1 in double-overtime in Game 1, and grabbed another 2-1 victory on Tyler Johnson’s goal with 1.1 seconds remaining Wednesday night.

“We have to get back to our speed game, our transition game,” Callahan said. “I think we’re at our best when we move the puck up the ice and attack the other team. There hasn’t been enough of that the last couple games.”

Cooper said he is confident his team will bounce back from the Game 4 loss.

“We have to put our best foot forward,” he said.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports

Sunday

● Midget AAA baseball: Fort McMurray Oil Giants at Red Deer Braves, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Lethbridge Barracudas at Red Deer Renegades, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Calgary Axemen at Lacoka Locos, 3:30 p.m., Ponoka.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Cincinnati 1B Joey Votto one game suspension and fined him an undisclosed amount for making contact with umpire Chris Conroy during a May 6 game at Pittsburgh. Suspended Cincinnati minor league RHPs David Ayala and Adolfi Telleria (DSL Reds) 25 games each following their violations of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Suspended minor league free agent RHP Dawson Brown 50 games following a second positive test for a drug of abuse in violation of the Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated INF Ryan Flaherty from the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP T.J. McFarland from Norfolk (IL). Placed RHP Kevin Gausman on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 7.

Optioned INF Rey Navarro to Norfolk.

BOSTON RED SOX — Designated RHP Edward Mujica for assignment. Recalled INF Travis Shaw from Pawtucket (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed INF Mike Aviles on the family medical emergency list. Recalled INF/OF Zach Walters from Columbus (IL).

Signed RHP Carlos Marmol to a minor league contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Reinstated SS Alcides Escobar from the 7-day DL. Placed 3B Mike Moustakas on the bereavement/family emergency list and LHP Jason Vargas on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 6. Activated C Drew Butera. Optioned C Francisco Pena to Omaha (PCL). Recalled RHP Yohan Pino from Omaha.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned INF Efren Navarro to Salt Lake (PCL). Selected the contract of RHP Ryan Mattheus from Salt Lake.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Selected RHP Angel Castro from Nashville (PCL). Optioned RHP R.J. Alvarez to Nashville. Designated OF Alex Hassan for assignment.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Activated RHP Tom Wilhelmsen from 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Dominic Leone to Tacoma (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Chad Jenkins to Buffalo (IL). Recalled RHP Ryan Tepera from Buffalo.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Recalled C-INF Wilin Rosario from Albuquerque (PCL). Optioned LHP Tyler Matzek to Albuquerque.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Reinstated RHP Shawn Kelley from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Nick Vincent to El Paso (PCL).

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM — Signed SS Kameron Stewart. Released 2B Josh Band and LHP Chris Chigas.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed INF Jorge Chavarria and LHP Michael O’Neal.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Released RHP Bob Cook and OF R.J. Fuhr.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Released OF Jordan Coffey and LHP Ryan Rogers.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Released 1B Brian McConkey, 2B Aaron Payne and C Tyler Qualls.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Los Angeles Clippers F Matt Barnes $50,000 for directing inappropriate language at a fan during a May 6 game at Houston. Fined Chicago C Joakim Noah $25,000 for pushing a fan during halftime of a May 6 game at Cleveland.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — LB Darius Allen, OT Darryl Baldwin, LB Brennen Beyer, WR Deandre Carter, OT Blaine Clausell, LB Trey Depriest, OT Nick Easton, G Kaleb Johnson, QB Jerry Lovelocke, RB Terrence Magee, P Justin Manton, S Nick Perry, OT De’Ondre Wesley, CB Julian Wilson and WR Cam Worthy.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed C Hroniss Grasu to a four-year contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed CB Troy Hill, C-G Chris Jasperse, WR Jake Kumerow, TE Matt Lengel, K Tom Obarski, S Floyd Raven, LB Trevor Roach, C Jake Smith, HB Terrell Watson, FB Mark Weisman and DT DeShawn Williams.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed OL Tyler Loos, OL Darrian Miller, De’Ante Saunders and DL Dylan Wynn.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived LB Troy Davis and OT Donald Hawkins. Released LB Dekoda Watson. Announced the retirement of DT Josh Brent. Signed LB Mark Nzeocha, DE Ryan Russell, RB Synjyn Days, WR George Farmer, WR Antwan Goodley, WR Deontay Greenberry, TE Ray Hamilton, WR Nick Harwell, C Shane McDermott, G Daniel Quave, CB Joel Ross, S Tim Scott, QB Jameill Shower, S Ray Vinopal, WR Lucky Whitehead and CB Jason Wilson.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed TE Kennard Backman, QB Brett Hundley, DT Christian Ringo, FB Aaron Ripkowski and LB Jake Ryan, CB Bernard Blake, WR Javess Blue, WR Ricky Collins, WR Adrian Coxson, RB John Crockett, LB Tavarus Dantzler, OT Fabbians Ebbele, CB LaDarius Gunter, RB Alonzo Harris, TE Mitchell Henry, DT Lavon Hooks, WR Jimmie Hunt, WR Larry Pinkard, LB Jermauria Rasco, G Marcus Reed, G Matt Rotheram and LB James Vaughters.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed TE AJ Derby, DL Xzavier Dickson, DL Trey Flowers, OL Tre’ Jackson, OL Shaq Mason, DB Jordan Richards, DB Darryl Roberts, LB Matthew Wells, C David Andrews, WR Devin Gardner, WR Chris Harper, DB Jimmy Jean, DB Brandon King, DB Eric Patterson and DL Vince Taylor.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed DE Owamagbe Odighizuwa to a four-year contract.

NEW YORK JETS — Released TE Chris Pantale, LB Mario Harvey and LB Chris Young. Announced the retirement of OL Corey Hilliard. Signed DE Deion Barnes, DE Jordan Williams, S Durell Eskridge, S Demarkus Perkins, LB Julian Howsare, LB Taiwan Jones, TE Wes Saxton, DL Davon Walls and CB Greg Henderson.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — CB Rob Daniel, OT-G Quinterrius Eatmon, QB Cody Fajardo, LB Jacoby Hale, S Jimmy Hall, WR Josh Harper, TE Gabe Holmes, RB Gus Johnson, S Tevin McDonald, LB Braylon Mitchell, DT Leon Orr, S Terrell Pinson, LB Josh Shirley and WR Milton Williams.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed DE L.T. Walton.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed G Mark Glowinski, DE Obum Gwacham, S Ryan Murphy, OT Terry Poole, DB Tye Smith, G Kristjan Sokoli, LS Nate Boyer, OT Jesse Davis, DB Keenan Lambert, DB Ronald Martin, LB Quayshawn Nealy, RB Thomas Rawls, LB Alex Singleton, DE Tory Slater, RB Rod Smith and DB Triston Wade. Signed CB Trovon Reed on a workout waiver.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived-injured TE Brett Brackett.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed OL Takoby Cofield. Waived OT Xavier Nixon.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF y-Toronto 18 14 4 .778 230 x-Rochester 18 12 6 .667 205 x-Buffalo 18 11 7 .611 236 Minnesota 18 6 12 .333 185 New England 18 4 14 .222 186

WHL PLAYOFFS FINAL ROUND WHL Championship (Best-of-7)

Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Montreal (1) vs. Ottawa (WC) (Montreal wins series 4-2)

Brandon (E1) vs. Kelowna (BC1) Brandon 1, Kelowna 0 Friday, May. 8 Brandon 4, Kelowna 3.

Saturday, May. 9 Kelowna at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, May. 11 Brandon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, May. 13 Brandon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Friday, May. 15 x-Brandon at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

Ducks 4, Flames 2 First Period 1. Anaheim, Silfverberg 3 (Kesler, Beauchemin) 3:58 (pp).

2. Calgary, Monahan 3 (Gaudreau, Russell) 4:37.

3. Calgary, Ferland 3 (unassisted) 5:44.

Penalties — Bouma Cgy (high-sticking) 2:50.

Second Period 4. Anaheim, Cogliano 2 (Palmieri) 16:42.

Penalties — Engelland Cgy (roughing) 11:36, Thompson Ana (roughing) 11:36, Bench Cgy (too many men) 14:26, Colborne Cgy (high-sticking) 20:00.

Third Period 5. Anaheim, Beleskey 4 (Silfverberg, Beauchemin) 1:11 (pp).

6. Anaheim, Maroon 4 (unassisted) 19:23 (en).

Penalties — Palmieri Ana (hooking) 6:53, Cogliano Ana (holding) 7:57.

Shots on goal by Anaheim 9 9 11 — 29 Calgary 11 8 9 — 28

N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Pittsburgh (WC) (NY Rangers wins series 4-1) Washington (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (3) (Washington wins series 4-3)

G 10 13 13 6 9 2 10 7 10 5 6 7 7

Petan, Por Tambellini, Cal Bjorkstrand, Por Draisaitl, Kel Baillie, Kel Merkley, Kel J.Quenneville, Bra De Leo, Por Hawryluk, Bra Sanheim, Cal McGauley, Bra P.Quenneville, Bra Bowey, Kel

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES

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

Scoring Leaders A 18 13 12 15 11 18 9 12 8 13 11 9 9

Pts 28 26 25 21 20 20 19 19 18 18 17 16 16

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Rockets 4, Wheat Kings 3 First Period 1. Brandon, Bukarts 3 (Patrick, Roy) 4:58 (pp).

2. Kelowna, Baillie 10 (Quinney, Morrissey) 17:41 (pp).

Penalties — Bowey Kel (cross-checking) 3:41, Gow Bra (tripping) 17:11, Pilon Bra (roughing) 18:31.

Second Period 3. Kelowna, Kirkland 3 (Baillie, Morrissey) :52.

4. Kelowna, Braid 4 (Chartier, Bowey) 1:19.

5. Brandon, Quenneville 8 (Pilon) 15:58 (pp).

6. Brandon, Bukarts 4 (unassisted) 17:55.

7. Kelowna, Draisaitl 7 (Kirkland) 18:50.

Penalties — Campbell Bra (checking to the head) 6:10, Bowey Kel (cross-checking) 10:27, Hawryluk Bra (inter. on goaltender) 12:27, Morrissey Kel (holding) 15:53.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Kelowna 14 13 13 — 40 Brandon 8 10 10 — 28 Goal — Kelowna: Whistle (W, 9-2-1); Brandon: Papirny (L, 12-3-1).

WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Minnesota wins series 4-2) Nashville (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago wins series 4-2) Anaheim (1) vs. Winnipeg (WC) (Anaheim wins series 4-0) Vancouver (2) vs. Calgary (3) (Calgary wins series 4-2) SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Washington 3, N.Y. Rangers 2 Thursday, April 30: Washington 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 Saturday, May 2: N.Y. Rangers 3, Washington 2 Monday, May 4: Washington 1, N.Y. Rangers 0 Wednesday, May 6: Washington 2, N.Y. Rangers 1 Friday, May 8: Rangers 2 Washington 1 (OT) x-Sunday, May 10: N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 5 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 13: Washington at N.Y. Rangers, TBD Tampa Bay 3, Montreal 1 Friday, May 1: Tampa Bay 2, Montreal 1, 2OT Sunday, May 3: Tampa Bay 6, Montreal 2 Wednesday, May 6: Tampa Bay 2, Montreal 1 Thursday, May 7: Montreal 6, Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, May 9: Tampa Bay at Montreal, 5 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 12: Montreal at Tampa Bay, TBD x-Thursday, May 14: Tampa Bay at Montreal, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 4, Minnesota 0 Friday, May 1: Chicago 4, Minnesota 3 Sunday, May 3: Chicago 4, Minnesota 1 Tuesday, May 5: Chicago 1, Minnesota 0 Thursday, May 7: Chicago 4, Minnesota 3

RANGERS 2, Capitals 1 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Green Wash (interference) 6:29, St. Louis NYR (holding) 12:56, Yandle NYR (slashing) 16:42.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Kuznetsov Wash (tripping) 11:38.

Third Period 1. Washington, Glencross 1 (Niskanen, Wilson) 10:54.

2. NY Rangers, Kreider 3 (Stepan, Yandle) 18:19.

Penalties — None.

Overtime 3. NY Rangers, McDonagh 2 (Stepan, Fast) 9:37.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal by Washington 13 5 9 2 — 29 NY Rangers 16 12 9 6 — 43 Goal — Washington: Holtby (LO, 6-5-0); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 6-4-0).

2015 IIHF World Men’s Hockey Championship PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP WOTWOTL L GF GA Pt Canada 4 4 0 0 0 28 8 12 Sweden 5 3 1 0 1 28 16 11 Czech Rep. 5 3 0 1 1 21 15 10

Anaheim 3, Calgary 1 Thursday, April 30: Anaheim 6, Calgary 1

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AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 19 11 .633 16 14 .533 15 15 .500 13 16 .448 12 15 .444

New York Tampa Bay Toronto Boston Baltimore

GB — 3 4 5.5 5.5

Central Division W L Pct 19 11 .633 18 11 .621 17 13 .567 10 15 .400 10 18 .357

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West Division W L 19 11 14 16 12 17 12 18 11 17

Houston Los Angeles Texas Oakland Seattle

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Pct .633 .467 .414 .400 .393

GB — 5 6.5 7 7

Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 4 Toronto 7, Boston 0 Detroit 6, Kansas City 5 Minnesota 9, Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay 8, Texas 2 Cincinnati at Chicago, ppd., rain L.A. Angels 2, Houston 0 Oakland at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s Games Baltimore (Chen 0-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 1-0), 11:05 a.m.

Boston (J.Kelly 1-1) at Toronto (Hutchison 2-0), 11:07 a.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 1-2) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 2-3), 11:08 a.m.

Cincinnati (Marquis 3-1) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 0-0), 2:10 p.m., 1st game Minnesota (P.Hughes 1-4) at Cleveland (B.Chen 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Texas (Detwiler 0-3) at Tampa Bay (Andriese 0-1), 4:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 2-3) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-3), 5:40 p.m., 2nd game Houston (Keuchel 3-0) at L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-2), 7:05 p.m.

Oakland (Hahn 1-2) at Seattle (Happ 2-1), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Boston at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m.

Texas at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

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

Houston at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.

Oakland at Seattle, 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Detroit, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee, 5:20 p.m.

Kansas City at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Boston at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

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HRs—Toronto, Donaldson (7), Colabello (1).

GB — 4 4.5 4.5 6

Ventura, Frasor (7), Madson (7), W.Davis (8), Pino (9) and S.Perez; Price, A.Wilson (7), Nesbitt (8), Soria (9) and J.McCann. W—Soria 2-0. L—Pino 0-1.

HRs—Kansas City, S.Perez (4).

Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Arizona Colorado

19

West Division W L 18 10 15 15 14 15 13 14 11 15

Pct .643 .500 .483 .481 .423

Friday’s Games Washington 9, Atlanta 2 Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Mets 1 St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 5 Chicago Cubs 7, Milwaukee 6 Cincinnati at Chicago, ppd., rain L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

San Diego at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

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

Today’s Games Atlanta (Teheran 3-1) at Washington (Fister 2-1), 2:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Marquis 3-1) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 0-0), 2:10 p.m., 1st game N.Y. Mets (Niese 2-2) at Philadelphia (Harang 3-2), 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis (C.Martinez 3-0) at Pittsburgh (Worley 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 2-1) at Milwaukee (Lohse 1-4), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 2-3) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-3), 5:40 p.m., 2nd game L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 1-2) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 0-2), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (T.Ross 1-3) at Arizona (C.Anderson 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Miami (Phelps 1-0) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 3-1), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

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

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

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

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

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee, 5:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 000 New York 302

022 000

000 00x

— —

4 10 5 8

0 0

Mi.Gonzalez, McFarland (5), O’Day (8), Britton (8) and Joseph; Warren, J.Wilson (5), Ch.Martin (6), Betances (7), A.Miller (9) and B.McCann. W—Betances 4-0. L—Mi.Gonzalez 3-2. Sv—A.Miller (13).

HRs—New York, B.McCann (3).

K. City Detroit

000 040

Texas 000 Tampa Bay 010

400 000

000 004

100 101

020 03x

— —

— —

5 14 6 11

2 8

6 9

3 1

2 0

Gallardo, Claudio (6), Bass (6), Pimentel (7) and Corporan; Karns, Cedeno (8), Jepsen (8), Geltz (9) and Rivera. W—Karns 2-1. L—Gallardo 2-5.

HRs—Texas, Rosales (2). Tampa Bay, DeJesus (2), Guyer (2).

Minnesota 110 Cleveland 002

114 000

001 010

— —

9 13 3 7

0 1

Pelfrey, Tonkin (8), Graham (9) and K.Suzuki; Bauer, Hagadone (6), McAllister (6), Swarzak (7), R.Webb (9) and Hayes. W—Pelfrey 3-0. L—Bauer 2-1. HRs—Minnesota, Tor.Hunter (4). Cleveland, Brantley (3).

Houston L.A.

000 000

000 020

000 00x

— —

0 2

6 6

2 1

R.Hernandez, Fields (8) and J.Castro; Weaver and C.Perez. W—Weaver 1-4. L—R.Hernandez 1-3.

NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 000 100 000 — Philadelphia100 110 00x —

1 3

5 7

0 0

Harvey, Robles (7), Gilmartin (8), Goeddel (8) and Plawecki; Hamels, Giles (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz.

W—Hamels 2-3. L—Harvey 5-1. Sv—Papelbon (6).

HRs—Philadelphia, Howard (6).

St. Louis 013 Pittsburgh 101

000 001

400 110

— —

8 11 5 12

1 1

Wacha, Belisle (7), Maness (8), Rosenthal (9) and Molina; Liriano, Caminero (7), Liz (8), Bastardo (9) and Cervelli. W—Wacha 5-0. L—Liriano 1-2.

Sv—Rosenthal (11). HRs—St. Louis, Jh.Peralta (4), Holliday (2), Wong (3).

Atlanta Wash.

101 000

000 102

000 15x

— —

2 6 9 11

0 0

Stults, Cunniff (7), W.Perez (8), Cahill (8) and Pierzynski; G.Gonzalez, Grace (8), Treinen (9) and W.Ramos. W—G.Gonzalez 3-2. L—Stults 1-3.

HRs—Washington, Werth (1), Harper 2 (10), Espinosa 2 (4).

Chicago 100 Milwaukee 100

300 001

012 013

— —

7 10 6 10

0 2

Hammel, Rosscup (8), Strop (8), H.Rondon (9) and M.Montero; Nelson, W.Smith (8), Kintzler (9) and Maldonado. W—Hammel 3-1. L—Nelson 1-3.

HRs—Chicago, Fowler (2), Rizzo (6), Soler (3), S.Castro (3). Milwaukee, K.Davis (2), Braun (6).

U.S. Belarus Finland Russia Slovakia Norway Denmark Slovenia

4 5 4 4 5 GP 5 4 4 4 4 5 5 5

2 2 1 0 0

0 0 0 1 1

2 0 0 0 0

0 3 3 3 4

8 7 5 5 7

7 17 10 15 21

8 6 3 2 2

Group B WOTWOTL 4 0 0 3 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

L 1 0 1 1 1 3 4 5

GF 14 15 13 18 11 9 6 7

GA 9 7 5 11 8 16 18 19

Pt 12 10 9 9 7 6 1 0

Note: Three points for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Friday’s results At Prague Czech Republic 4 Austria 0 Germany 2 Latvia 1 At Ostrava Norway 3 Slovenia 1 U.S. 1 Denmark 0 Saturday’s games At Prague Canada vs. France, 4:15 a.m.

Latvia vs. Austria, 8:15 a.m.

Switzerland vs. Sweden, 12:15 p.m.

At Ostrava Russia vs. Belarus, 4:15 a.m.

Slovakia vs. Finland, 8:15 a.m.

Norway vs. Denmark, 12:15 p.m.

——— Sunday’s games At Prague Czech Republic vs. Germany, 8:15 a.m.

Canada vs. Switzerland, 12:15 p.m.

At Ostrava U.S. vs. Slovenia, 8:15 a.m.

Russia vs. Slovakia, 12:15 p.m.

——— Monday, May 11 At Prague Austria vs. Germany, 8:15 a.m.

France vs. Sweden, 12:15 p.m.

At Ostrava Belarus vs. Finland, 8:15 a.m.

Denmark vs. Slovakia, 12:15 p.m.

——— Tuesday, May 12 At Prague Austria vs. Canada, 4:15 a.m.

France vs. Latvia, 8:15 a.m.

Switzerland vs. Czech Republic, 2:15 p.m.

At Ostrava Belarus vs. Norway, 4:15 a.m.

U.S. vs. Slovakia, 8:15 a.m.

Russia vs. Finland, 12:15 p.m.

End of Preliminary Round

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Draisaitl, Rockets beat Wheat Kings 4-3 BRANDON, Man. — Kelowna may have bested the Brandon Wheat Kings in Game 1 of the Western Hockey League final, but Rockets defenceman Josh Morrissey knows it’s going to be a long series.

The Western Conference champions opened the WHL final on Friday with a 4-3 victory over host Brandon to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.

“There’s a reason why it’s a seven-game series,” said the Winnipeg Jets prospect. “We are going to take it one game at a time, we are happy with our effort but there’s a lot of work yet to be done.”

Both teams were nearly identical statistically during the regular season. They finished 1-2 in the standings, 1-2 on the power play and both owned 12-3 records heading into the series.

It’s no surprise that both teams took some time to feel each other out.

“It’s certainly what happened in the first 10 minutes or so,” said Rockets head coach Dan Lambert. “Once the guys realized that it was just another hockey game, then we started playing.”

Tyson Baillie, Justin Kirkland and Chance Braid scored for the Rockets before Leon Draisaitl recorded the game winner in the dying moments of the second period.

Basketball p.m. x-Sunday, May 17: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD

NBA PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 2, Cleveland 1 Monday, May 4: Chicago 99, Cleveland 92 Wednesday, May 6: Cleveland 106, Chicago 91 Friday, May 8: Chicago 99, Cleveland 96 Sunday, May 10: Cleveland at Chicago, 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 12: Chicago at Cleveland, 5 p.m. x-Thursday, May 14: Cleveland at Chicago, 6

Washington 1, Atlanta 1 Sunday, May 3: Washington 104, Atlanta 98 Tuesday, May 5: Atlanta 106, Washington 90 Saturday, May 9: Atlanta at Washington, 3 p.m.

Monday, May 11: Atlanta at Washington, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, May 13: Washington at Atlanta, 6 p.m. x-Friday, May 15: Atlanta at Washington, 5 or 6 p.m. x-Monday, May 18: Washington at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE L.A. Clippers 1, Houston 1 Monday, May 4: L.A. Clippers 117, Houston 101 Wednesday, May 6: Houston 115, L.A. Clippers 109 Friday, May 8: Houston at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 10: Houston at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 12: L.A. Clippers at Houston, 7:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 14: Houston at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 or 8:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 17: L.A. Clippers at Houston,

TBD Golden State 1, Memphis 1 Sunday, May 3: Golden State 101, Memphis 86 Tuesday, May 5: Memphis 97, Golden State 90 Saturday, May 9: Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Monday, May 11: Golden State at Memphis, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 13: Memphis at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 15: Golden State at Memphis, 6 or 7:30 p.m. x-Sunday, May 17: Memphis at Golden State, TBD

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF New England 10 5 2 3 14 D.C. 8 5 1 2 10 New York 8 3 1 4 12 Columbus 8 3 3 2 12 Toronto 7 3 4 0 11 Chicago 7 3 4 0 6 Orlando 9 2 4 3 8

GA 10 6 8 8 11 8 12

Pt 18 17 13 11 9 9 9

New York City 9 Philadelphia 10 Montreal 4

Dallas Vancouver Seattle San Jose

1 1 0

5 6 2

3 6 10 3 10 18 2 2 6

6 6 2

Western Conference GP W L T GF GA 9 5 2 2 15 12 10 5 3 2 11 9 8 5 2 1 13 6 10 4 4 2 10 11

Pt 17 17 16 14

Los Angeles Kansas City Salt Lake Portland Houston Colorado

10 9 9 9 10 10

3 3 2 2 2 1

2 2 2 3 4 2

5 10 9 4 12 12 5 7 10 4 7 8 4 11 13 7 9 9

14 13 11 10 10 10

Friday’s results Orlando 2 New England 2 Colorado 1 San Jose 1

Saturday’s games Salt Lake at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Portland at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Philadelphia at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at D.C., 5 p.m.

Seattle at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Houston at Toronto, 3 p.m.

New York City at New York, 5 p.m.

Golf GA GB 185 — 173 2 208 3 226 8 249 10

West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB y-Edmonton 18 13 5 .722 241 177 — x-Colorado 18 9 9 .500 212 218 4 x-Calgary 18 7 11 .389 212 217 6 Vancouver 18 5 13 .278 211 265 8 x — clinched playoff berth; y — clinched division.

PLAYOFFS Division Semifinals East Division Friday’s game Rochester 14 Buffalo 11 West Division Saturday’s game Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015

Hockey

Today

● High school rugby: Notre Dame Cougar Classic tournament at Notre Dame and Collicutt West; girls and boys games starting at 9 a.m., bronze- and goal-medal games at 10:45 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. ● Midget AAA baseball: Fort McMurray Oil Giants at Red Deer Braves, doubleheader at 3 and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park.

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ASIAN-SUNSHINE TOURS-MAURITIUS OPEN At Heritage Golf Club Domaine de Bel Ombre, Mauritius Purse: $1.11 million Yardage: 7,036; Par: 71 First Round, Leading Scores Thorbjorn Olesen Pelle Edberg Matthew Fitzpatrick Thomas Aiken Dean Burmester Terry Pilkadaris John Parry Oliver Bekker Carlos Pigem Wang Jeung-hun George Coetzee Rahil Gangjee Masahiro Kawamura Also

35-68 68-66 68-67 69-66 67-68 66-71 67-70 66-71 65-72 65-72 70-67 67-70 68-69

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133 134 135 135 135 137 137 137 137 137 137 137 137

Paul Peterson Richard T. Lee Daniel Woltman John Hahn Jason Knutzon Berry Henson

69-70 72-68 67-74 70-72 71-74 72-76

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139 140 141 142 145 148

PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP At TPC Sawgrass, The Players Stadium Course Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,215; Par: 72 Second Round Kevin Na Jerry Kelly Branden Grace David Hearn Chris Kirk Rickie Fowler Chris Stroud Bill Haas Zach Johnson Troy Merritt Ben Martin Scott Brown Kevin Kisner Sangmoon Bae Russell Henley Brendon Todd Charles Howell III Jim Furyk Brian Harman Derek Fathauer Cameron Tringale

67-69 71-65 71-67 67-71 70-68 69-69 70-69 72-67 71-68 68-71 68-71 72-67 73-67 72-68 70-70 68-72 68-72 70-70 71-69 68-72 69-71

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136 136 138 138 138 138 139 139 139 139 139 139 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140 140

Marc Leishman Billy Horschel Rory McIlroy Ian Poulter Ryo Ishikawa Pat Perez Charley Hoffman J.B. Holmes Henrik Stenson Sergio Garcia Martin Kaymer Adam Scott Rory Sabbatini Hideki Matsuyama Bubba Watson Joost Luiten Jamie Donaldson Alex Cejka Robert Allenby Stephen Gallacher Nick Taylor Patrick Reed Russell Knox Bo Van Pelt George McNeill Luke Guthrie Louis Oosthuizen Robert Streb

69-71 68-72 69-71 71-69 71-69 71-70 67-74 70-71 72-69 69-72 69-72 72-69 70-71 67-74 71-70 71-70 70-72 69-73 70-72 72-70 72-70 72-70 72-70 70-72 73-70 74-69 70-73 70-73

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140 140 140 140 140 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 141 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 142 143 143 143 143

Charl Schwartzel Vijay Singh Bryce Molder Justin Thomas Graeme McDowell Scott Stallings Webb Simpson Ernie Els Chesson Hadley John Senden James Hahn Scott Langley Brendon de Jonge Geoff Ogilvy Dustin Johnson Matt Every K.J. Choi Tiger Woods Graham DeLaet Erik Compton Martin Flores Jhonattan Vegas Freddie Jacobson Padraig Harrington Steve Stricker David Toms

71-72 71-72 72-71 73-70 73-70 71-72 69-74 73-70 71-72 73-70 70-73 72-72 73-71 72-72 72-72 74-70 70-74 73-71 75-69 74-70 73-71 75-69 70-74 71-73 69-75 73-71

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143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 143 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144 144

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U.S. edges Denmark CZECHS SHUTOUT AUSTRIA

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista, left, slides safely into third base after hitting a triple as Boston Red Sox’s Pablo Sandoval applies a late tag during eighth inning MLB baseball action in Toronto on Friday.

Jays blank Red Sox SANCHEZ TOSSES SEVEN-PLUS SCORELESS INNINGS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 7 Red Sox 0 TORONTO — Aaron Sanchez pitched seven-plus shutout innings as the Toronto Blue Jays blanked the Boston Red Sox 7-0 on Friday night at Rogers Centre.

Sanchez (3-2), who hadn’t pitched into the seventh in any of his previous six starts this season, allowed just two hits while striking out three and walking five.

His only trouble came in the fourth inning when the 22-year-old issued back-to-back walks before hitting Allen Craig with a pitch. However, Sanchez managed to get Blake Swihart swinging before Xander Bogaerts grounded into an inning-ending double play.

Aaron Loup and Steve Delabar each pitched a scoreless inning in relief.

The Blue Jays (15-15) improved to .500 (2-2) against the Red Sox (13-16) this season. The loss drops Boston to 7-3 in series openers.

Josh Donaldson and Chris Colabello had solo

home runs to give the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead after two.

Donaldson got the Jays on the board in the bottom of the first, taking Wade Miley’s 1-2 pitch deep to left field for his seventh home run of the season.

Colabello gave Toronto a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second with a solo shot to right field. Colabello is now 7-for-12 with four runs scored and three RBI in three games with Toronto.

Toronto got to Miley again in the sixth.

After Edwin Encarnacion walked and Russell Martin reached on a bloop single, Danny Valencia singled to centre to score Encarnacion from second.

Kevin Pillar’s sac fly to right scored Martin from third, giving the Blue Jays a 4-0 lead.

Friday was Valencia’s first game back after missing two games with a sprained ankle. He was replaced by Ezequiel Carrera to start the seventh after he slid awkwardly into second trying to advance on Pillar’s sac fly.

Miley (1-4) went six innings, allowing four earned runs on eight hits while striking out eight.

Jose Bautista led off the eighth inning with a triple off the top of the wall in centre field.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The United States rebounded from a loss to Belarus with a 1-0 victory over Denmark at the ice hockey world championship on Friday to stay on course for a spot in the quarterfinals.

Also, the Czech Republic blanked Austria 4-0 Friday for the host’s third victory at the ice hockey world championship, Norway earned its second win by beating Slovenia 3-1, and Germany rallied to edge Latvia 2-1 for its second victory.

Brock Nelson skated around the net to break the scoreless deadlock 7:54 into the second period with an unassisted goal, the fourth at the tournament for the New York Islanders forward.

The U.S. outshot Denmark 18-6 in the middle period. U.S. goaltender Connor Hellebuyck stopped 21 shots for the shutout.

“They played hard, came after us and forced us into turnovers,” U.S. coach Todd Richards said. “We didn’t manage the puck the way we need to. We were fortunate to get out with a 1-0 win.”

The Americans took the lead in Group B with 12 points from five games in the eastern city of Ostrava, two points ahead of Belarus and three ahead of Russia and Finland. Slovakia is fifth with seven.

The top four teams in each of the two groups of eight will make the quarterfinals, while the bottom teams will be relegated.

The Czechs wasted a two-man advantage before they struck with middle-period goals from Ondrej Nemec, Martin Zatovic and Vladimir Sobotka, who all scored 7:59 apart. Captain Jakub Voracek added the fourth seven seconds into the final period.

“We try to play nice hockey,” said Voracek, the Philadelphia Flyers forward. “We created chances and skated well. That’s’ how we have to play.”

Winnipeg Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec made 12 saves for his shutout.

The Czech Republic moved to third place in Group A with 10 points. Canada leads with 12 points followed by Sweden with 11. Germany has six while both, Latvia and Austria have two each.

Germany tied the game on a power-play goal by Michael Wolf 6:46 into the final period and Matthias Plachta scored the winner with 2:25 to go. Plachta’s shot hit the crossbar and a video review confirmed it dropped down behind the line.

Lauris Darzins gave Latvia the lead in the first period.

In Ostrava, Patrick Thoresen, Anders Bastiansen and Jonas Holos each scored a power-play goal and Mathis Olimb had two assists for Norway.

Na, Kelly share lead at Players championship WOODS BARELY MAKES THE CUT PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jerry Kelly and Kevin Na headed into the weekend at The Players Championship with another chance at winning the PGA Tour’s biggest and richest event.

Thanks to a clutch putt by Tiger Woods rarely seen of late, he made the cut on the number and gets to keep playing.

Na, the 54-hole leader three years ago until he faded under intense scrutiny of serious swing issues, settled down after a wild start for a 3-under 69. He shared the lead with Kelly, a 48-year-old from Wisconsin who has even stronger memories of the TPC Sawgrass.

Kelly had a two-shot lead over Woods in 2001 going into a final round that took two days to complete because of storms. Woods went on to win, and two weeks later he completed his grand sweep of the majors at Augusta National.

Fourteen years later, Kelly and Woods are in different roles.

“I figured I would have another chance at this golf course,” Kelly said. “I didn’t think it would be that long, but it’s just strange. This whole career has gone by in the blink of an eye.”

Kelly and Na were at 8-under 136, two shots clear of Rickie Fowler (69), Chris Kirk (68), Brantford, Ont., native David Hearn (71) and Branden Grace (67).

Not much is left from all that star power on both ends of the draw at the start of the week.

Rory McIlroy held up his end. He had a 71 and was only four shots back going into the weekend.

The other two guys in his group, Masters champion Jordan Spieth and Jason Day of Australia, won’t be around for the last 36 holes.

Spieth spent too much time trying to save par and finished with a meaningless bogey for a 72 to miss by three shots. Day started the second round tied with McIlroy and had two 7s on his card within four holes.

He closed with a double bogey for an 81.

Phil Mickelson, who played in the group ahead of Woods, had two 6s and a 7 on his way to a 76 to miss the cut for the third straight year.

“I was thinking to myself as I was walking around, ’I can’t believe I’ve actually won here,’ you know?”

Mickelson said.

Woods, in his first start since he showed a remarkable short-game recovery at the Masters, hovered around the cut line most of the day until he got to the par-5 ninth for his last hole. He choked up for a soft pitching wedge to 10 feet, made the birdie and showed the kind of emotion he once reserved for big shots and big moments.

That gave him a 71 for even-par 144, making the cut on the number.

Given the nature of the Stadium Course, and the quality of the field, making the cut on the number means he was only eight shots out of the lead.

“I feel like I’m playing well enough to get myself up there,” Woods said. “I just need one good round and narrow up that gap between myself and the lead, and I feel like I can do that.”

Na was a different player in 2012. He was vilified for his slow play, which he attributed to having the yips with his swing.

He simply couldn’t take the club back, and there times that when he did, he would purposely swing over the ball so he could start over. It was difficult to watch. It was even harder on Na. But he has battled through it and came into The Players at No. 22 in the world ranking.

“I think I’m mentally tougher because I had gone through that, and I’m a lot more happier,” Na said.

Such is the nature of the TPC Sawgrass that no one ever felt safe.

Defending champion Martin Kaymer made two quick birdies and was one shot out of the lead. When he finished the back nine, he was in danger of missing the cut after a tee shot into the water on the 18th

and a double bogey. Kaymer slowed his swing, hit the majors last year. some fairways and recovered with three birdies for “If there’s a time where I need something to kind a 72. of give me a kick in the butt, then I can think of that Fowler was poised to close in on the lead until his and it will put me in the right frame of mind to go out approach on the par-5 16th drifted too far right and there and take care of business,” Fowler said. went into the water for a bogey. Fowler bounced POWDER COATING back with a birdie on the island green at the AND MEDIA BLASTING par-3 17th, and he had a Truck Decks, Welding Skids, 3-foot birdie attempt that Headache Rack & Rocket Launchers fooled him on the 18th. and lots more.

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Wild defeated by old nemesis THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR MINNESOTA TEAM LOSES TO CHICAGO IN THE PLAYOFFS

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Stewart before the trade deadline and the return from injury of Jason Zucker, this was the deepest team the Wild put together.

The fourth line changed often as Yeo used the luxury of extra capable forwards to try to maximize the matchups. In the end, though, they were still missing that piece or two to the Stanley Cup title puzzle.

The majority of the Wild’s core players have been previously signed to multi-year contracts, so other than locking up Dubnyk for the long term there aren’t any major issues on the Wild’s summer to-do list. “Obviously when you’re swept, you feel like you need to change something, but with the teams I’ve been around, I really thought we had something special going,�

Vanek said. “We have a lot of character in here and had a great run.

Obviously that’s not the way we wanted to end it.�

SPORTS

ejected.

Votto charged umpire Chris Conroy and the two bumped chests before Reds manager Bryan Price intervened.

Votto is batting .311 with seven homers and 18 RBIs in 28 games.

Swim club well represented at Western Canada Summer Games

Reyes resumes baseball activity

BRIEFS

Six competitors and one coach from the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club have been named to Team Alberta for the Western Canada Summer Games Aug. 7-16 at Fort McMurray.

Swimmers Kyla Leibel, Daniel Stayer, Kristen Trepanier, Josh Young, Elliott Moskowy and Hidde Geurts as well as coach Zoe Miles have been selected to the provincial squad.

TORONTO — Jose Reyes resumed baseball activity on Friday ahead of the Blue Jays series opener with the Boston Red Sox. An MRI on Thursday revealed the 31-year-old’s cracked rib and oblique strain are progressing well. “It’s healing up so he’s going to start baseball activity today,� said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. “He’ll go out there with the team, stretch, take some ground balls and he’s going to hit a little bit off the tee. Good news yesterday.�

Reyes, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list on April 27, isn’t eligible to return to the active lineup until early next week. As a result, the shortstop could be headed for a rehab assignment.

Gibbons said he had not had a conversation with Alex Anthopoulos, but that he would expect a rehab assignment for Reyes.

Reyes was hitting .250 with three doubles and seven RBI in 16 games prior to being placed on the disabled list.

Earlier Friday, Toronto optioned reliever Chad Jenkins to triple- A Buffalo and recalled right-handed pitcher Ryan Tepera to take his place.

The 27-year-old Tepera has made eight relief appearances for Buffalo this season posting a 1-1 record and a 0.57 earned-run average.

Jenkins had a 4.50 ERA in just two innings pitched for Toronto, striking out two.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — For the third straight year, the Minnesota Wild were forced out of the playoffs by the Chicago Blackhawks.

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Dance like no is watching “Dance like no one is watching” could be the motto for the Town and Country Dance Club.

On April 11, the club hosted a dance at the Valley Centre Hall with live music from the band JukeBox Rock.

Music from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s had the dance floor full the entire night. Non-alcoholic refreshments were available and a delicious lunch was served.

The club was founded in August 2007, when some dancers saw the need for a new dance group focusing on instruction and having fun.

Membership is $5 and includes a newsletter, but anybody can take lessons. It’s never too late to learn — or to come back, as club president Willie Wilkie proved, dancing again after a 10-year hiatus.

Doris Norman defines the style of dance they teach as “old time with an emphasis on pattern dancing.” She says the basic dances such as the fox trot, waltz, jive and swing are easily learned and can make attending a dance less intimidating.

Dancing is a joyful experience, Doris says.

“You rarely see a couple dancing that aren’t smiling.” She adds that she is “not much on going to a gym, but she has no problem dancing!” In fact she and husband Doug Norman created one of the dances they teach. Their Hot Foot Two Step has become a favourite with many participants.

The Normans keep their dancing shoes shined for workshops across Western Canada. The couple also manages a farm near Spruce View where Doris creates Danish celebration cakes and Doug, an experienced drummer, plays with the fiddle band The Reflections and Juke Box Rock.

The club’s next event is the eighth annual Festival of Music and Dance on June 6th 2015.

Contact Doug or Doris at 403-728-3333 or email townandcountrydance@ airenet.com about lessons or tickets to the festival

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SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015 EMERGENCY TRAINING

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Car crashes into house in Red Deer. Well not really. The City of Red Deer Emergency Services Department is using two homes along 51st Avenue at 34th Street south of the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for training purposes. In one scenario, a vehicle crashes into the back of a home and plunges into the basement, creating structural damage to the building that needs to be addressed as emergency crews work on the scene. Adam Erickson, left, and Kevin Rudolph work to shore up the basement ceiling.

Province delays flood meeting OFFICIALS TELL SUNDRE MORE TIME IS NEEDED BECAUSE OF TRANSITION IN GOVERNMENT

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A public meeting with government officials on flood risks in the Sundre area has been postponed unexpectedly.

The meeting had been set for next Monday in Sundre. However, government staffers told Mountain View County on Monday of this week that they needed more time to prepare for the gathering, which was expected to draw a big crowd.

“I guess they didn’t feel they were ready to face the public and answer the questions we were proposing,” said county Reeve Bruce Beattie.

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The project along 30th Avenue from Carrington Drive to north of the new Catholic school site is necessary to accommodate growth in the northeast.

In 2014, when the detailed designs of the 30th Avenue were completed, the developer was expected to foot the entire bill for the installation of a 300mm water main from Carrington Drive to the Evergreen neighbourhood.

However, after talks with the developer and the Urban Development Institution, the city concluded that installing a water line provides a benefit to the larger area.

The 2015 capital budget allocates $780,000 for the original scope of the work, with the developer footing 100 per cent of the installation.

Administration is recommending paying for the project using the Municipal Sustainability Initiative grant (MSI) if the Building Community Fund application is turned down.

Wildlife centre has firewood after cleaning up from storm Need some firewood?

The Medicine River Wildlife Centre is offering wood for donations.

Carol Kelly, the centre’s executive director, said last fall the centre was caught in a microburst storm that uprooted hundreds of trees.

“We have cleaned out as much as we can for the moment,” said Kelly.

“Most of these are logs that have been pulled out of the damage.”

The trees have been cleared, sorted and stacked. There’s plenty of black poplar and spruce available.

You must be able to cut and load yourself. Call 403-728-3467 to make arrange-

The meeting was billed as an opportunity to speak with government officials about proposed new development regulations and what areas along the Red Deer River will be designated as floodways.

Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development spokesman Jason Penner said in an email that since “we are now in a transition period, the new government will need to be briefed on current issues and will need to confirm policy direction and intent.

“We need some time to work through the transition and will reschedule the meeting for late June.”

The county has declared a moratorium on new development in a flood-

prone area southwest of Sundre called McDougal Flats. County officials are waiting for the province to complete flood hazard mapping in the Sundre area — which will outline the most vulnerable areas — before lifting the development ban.

“We’ve been trying to get a finalized copy of the draft map since about December without very much success,” said Beattie, who said he doesn’t know what the holdup is.

The future of proposed flood regulations, which were promised in response to 2013 disastrous floods in southern Alberta, is a little uncertain given the change in government.

“I understand the (regulations) are more political,” said Beattie. “They

impact municipalities across the province.”

Beattie said there is some urgency to moving ahead on the legislation.

“The longer they wait with those (regulations), the more potential there is for development in flood hazard areas and the more potential there is for damage should there be another serious flood.”

County officials are also waiting for the province to provide the necessary approvals for flood protection measures, such as a lengthy berm to keep back spring flood waters.

The province has also been asked about a formula to compensate or buy out residents affected by flooding. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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The Medicine River Wildlife Centre is located on Township Road 360 in Spruce View.

For more information on the centre, visit www.medicineriverwildlifecentre.ca.

tional speakers and activities.

For more details about the conference and its schedule, check www. oldshigh.ca.

In Alberta, one in five new drivers is involved in a collision within their first two years of driving. Motor vehicle collisions are the leading cause of death and injury among Alberta youth.

“Distracted driving reduces your awareness of what’s happening on the road and limits your ability to make split-second decisions that will avoid collisions,” said Cpl. Matt LaBelle of Red Deer RCMP. “It only takes a second for a collision to occur, and any collision with a vulnerable road user has the potential to be deadly,” LaBelle said.

Distracted driving includes any of the following activities while behind the wheel: personal grooming, using hand-held electronic devices including cellphones, texting, writing or sketching, reading printed materials, entering information on GPS devices.

Distracted driving also includes letting a person or animal or thing impede their safe operation of a motor vehicle.

It can also include having large items hanging from rear view mirrors.

As of May 1, the fine for distracted driving is $287.

Trial ordered for woman in shoplift, HIV threat case

Anti-fluoride speaker at RDC on Thursday

A woman accused of shoplifting at the former Parkland Mall Safeway and then threatening a store manager with a needle she said was filled with HIV will stand trial.

A preliminary hearing held on Wednesday in Red Deer provincial court led to Karla Lynn Pittman, 30, of Red Deer being ordered to stand trial.

She is charged with robbery, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and possession of a controlled substance.

She will appear in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on June 1 for arraignments, in the hopes of setting a trial date. The charges were laid after a woman attempted to walk out of the Safeway with a cart full of groceries on March 9, 2014.

When confronted by a manager, the woman allegedly resisted and was wrestled to the ground.

Later, while being walked back to the store, police allege she pulled out a syringe and threatened store employees, saying it was infected with HIV.

Fluoride Free Red Deer is bringing Dr. James Beck to the city to present the case against fluoride.

Beck will discuss “how hazardous waste ended up in our drinking water” at Red Deer College in Margaret Parsons Theatre starting at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

Beck, professor emeritus for medical biophysics at the University of Calgary and co-author of The Case Against Fluoride, is a vocal advocate for removing fluoride from the water system.

Admission is free.

Red Deer city council delved into the contentious fluoride debate in 2011 when it consulted with the public and hosted guest speakers on the subject.

The city adds fluoride in a concentration of less than 0.8 mg per litres, in keeping with the latest Health Canada recommendations.

Council voted to keep adding fluoride to the regional water supply in October 2012.

Anti-fluoride campaigners vowed not to give up the fight at the time.

The city supplies water to more than 145,000 customers in Red Deer, Ponoka, Blackfalds and Lacombe.

Student leadership event set for Olds High School

Distracted young drivers a focus for city police

Olds High School will host a provincial student leadership conference starting on Sunday.

A total of 940 delegates from all across Alberta and as far away as Nunavut will be at the three-day event.

This is the annual conference for the Alberta Association of Students’ Councils and Advisors. The organization is focused on developing leaders among junior and high school students.

Olds High School is showcasing its status as a UNESCO recognized school by offering a Fair Trade event full of inspirational, educational and motiva-

Red Deer RCMP and community peace officers are zeroing in on distracted driving this month with a special focus on young drivers.

Distracted driving is becoming the leading cause of collisions in Canada.

The campaign is part of a provincewide initiative that focuses on different traffic safety issue every month.

Police have a reason for zeroing in on young drivers. Despite being a small percentage of the province’s licensed drivers, young drivers have the highest distracted driving rate and highest injury collision rates.

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

Crossfit athletes in town for event today Watch some of the best athletes in Alberta throw down at Riot on the River in Red Deer today.

Pure Fitness Crossfit will host close to 100 athletes at its first crossfit competition at the facility at 5230 53rd Ave. Co-owner Kelly MacDonald said everyone is welcome to watch the event and to see what crossfit is all about.

There is no cost.

“It’s going to be fun,” said MacDonald. “This is the first time we have hosted our own competition where we have athletes coming from out of town.

We are really excited.” Mixed teams of two will compete in four workouts that feature Olympic weightlifting, rowing, gymnastic skills and other movements.

There are Rx (prescribed) and scaled divisions.

The event gets underway at 9 a.m. and wraps up about 4:30 p.m.

Food trucks such as Peppermint Andy’s, the Stache and other vendors will be on site.

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Pride still going strong COUNTRY SINGER CHARLEY PRIDE DOESN’T PLAN ON RETIRING

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF After a chart-topping 50-year music career that’s taken him to the Grand Ole Opry and Country Music Hall of Fame, Charley Pride doesn’t want to think about bowing out.

“I won’t retire ... I don’t want anything to do with that,” said the legendary country artist, who performs on Saturday, May 23, at Red Deer’s Centrium.

As long as fans keep turning out to hear him, Pride added he’s happy to keep smoothly singing his nostalgic hits.

The performer, who’s actually 81 although his biography states 77, said, “People tell me I’m singing better now than I’ve ever sang. ... To me, there’s no work to it. It’s so stimulating and enjoyable.”

His crowd-pleasing tunes include Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’, Is Anyone Goin’ to San Antone, Just Between You and Me, the Oscar-nominated All His Children tune from the 1970 Paul Newman film Sometimes a Great Notion, and many others.

Although his country-pop success was greatest in the mid-’70s, audiences still are packing concert halls to hear him perform, from Nashville to Newfoundland, Birmingham to Belfast.

Pride is particularly popular in Ireland due to his rendition of Crystal Chandelier. He was told “that song is like a national anthem over there.”

And his spring tour of 14 cities in the U.K. takes this into consideration, featuring no fewer than nine stops in Ireland. Pride is planning to tackle Canada in small sections upon his return — Alberta and Saskatchewan first, then the East Coast and Ontario. “It’s the first time in my career that I’m doing two international tours in the same year.”

The Mississippi native retains a soft spot for Canada, recalling the reception he once got in Newfoundland (“you notice I didn’t say NewFOUNDland,” he states, obviously pleased with his correct pronunciation). When he took the stage in Stevenville, “there was applause, applause. ... It was like a revival,” recalled the singer, with audience members passing gifts up to him on stage.

As devoted as his fans have been to Pride, he’s sent love right back at them.

One time he was preparing for a concert in Nottingham, England, when

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Charley Pride performs at the Centrium in Red Deer on Saturday, May 23 a letter from a local woman arrived, requesting a song that he doesn’t normally sing.

Something about the message touched Pride. He asked his staff to track down the song’s lyrics and a recording he could listen to. He surprised the woman in the audience by singing her request. “I told (the crowd), ‘I got a letter from a lady, is she here tonight?’ She screamed ‘Yay!’ I said, ‘I don’t usually do this kind of thing. If I did it all the time I’d never get the tour

done. ... But there was something about this letter that stood out for me. ...’ ” Pride began playing music professionally after his baseball career in the Negro American League was aborted by a two-year stint in the army.

His age discrepancy goes back to his days as a professional athlete. Pride, one of 11 children born to sharecropper parents, revealed he exchanged birth years with a brother who was four years younger and already dying of an illness.

Pride said he told this brother, “‘When it comes to baseball and singing, you want to stay as young as you can,’ and (his brother) responded, ‘I have no problem with it. Chop as much as you can!’”

After leaving the army, it became clear Pride’s pitching arm wasn’t going to get him into the big leagues, so he began pursuing singing in 1958.

In 1965 he was signed by star-making record producer Chet Atkins to the RCA Victor label.

Since country music was an almost solely white industry, no pictures of Pride were distributed for a couple of years. But when his third single, Just Between You and Me, went to No. 9 on the charts, leading to a 1967 Grammy nomination, Pride became the first black performer to appear at the Grand Ole Opry since harmonica player DeFord Bailey played there in 1941.

The singer has stated that race stopped being an issue once the hits started coming.

And between 1969 and 1971, he produced eight singles that reach No. 1 on the U.S. Country Hit Parade: All I Have to Offer You (Is Me), (I’m So) Afraid of Losing You Again, I Can’t Believe That You’ve Stopped Loving Me, I’d Rather Love You, Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone, Wonder Could I live There Anymore? I’m Just Me and Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’.

The latter was a million-selling, pop-country crossover hit that became Pride’s signature tune and helped him land three Country Music Association awards.

He continued producing hits right through the 1970s and early ’80s. But he found even longer-lasting success in his 58-year marriage to his wife Rozene.

They have three children, and Pride’s concerts are often family affairs.

His lead guitar-playing son, Dion, accompanied him on his last tour of Canada. This time, he brings the youngest of his eight brothers, Stephen, who will sing backup.

“He sings so good ... and I’m not saying that because he’s my brother, but because it’s a fact.” If Stephen had gotten into singing at a younger age, who knows what might have happened, questions Pride.

He’s heard people say, “he might have been as famous as you.”

Tickets for the 2 p.m. show are $70 to $80 from Ticketmaster. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Shaffer readies to disband the CBS Orchestra

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Hidden in the attention being paid to David Letterman leading to his May 20 retirement is the knowledge that it will also mean the end of a regular television role for America’s bandleader, Paul Shaffer.

The gravel-voiced sidekick, who’s 65, isn’t ready to leave show business even with the gig of a lifetime coming to a close after 33 years.

“Of course, I had the old mixed feelings, sadness, etcetera,” Shaffer said during an interview in his office behind the Ed Sullivan Theater. “Now I have come around to just being absolutely thankful for such a wonderful run, such a long run, working for a guy who has been nothing but encouraging to me.”

Shaffer is a walking trivia answer of show biz credits: bandleader for the original Saturday Night Live troupe, same role for the Blues Brothers, part composer of the 1980s hit It’s Raining Men and the Late Show theme, cringeworthy record executive Artie Fufkin in This is Spinal Tap and music director for the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions. If he hadn’t neglected to return Jerry Seinfeld’s call, you may have known him as George Costanza, too.

He’ll always be linked in public consciousness with Letterman, however, like Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson, or Andy Richter and Conan O’Brien.

Until Shaffer interviewed for the bandleader job that began in 1982, he had never met Letterman. Shaffer was asked what he saw for Letterman’s post-midnight Late Night on NBC, keeping in mind they could only afford a few musicians. He envisioned something like the lounge bands he saw at the beginning of his career in Toronto, a lead keyboard player and a couple of other instruments, interpreting Stax and Motown hits.

Letterman said that sounded great, that he’d always thought of himself as the Wayne Cochran of comedy. Shaffer cracked up at the reference to an obscure 1960s soul singer who looked a little like Jay Leno with an oversized, platinum blond pompadour.

The time slot after Carson “sounded like the hippest opportunity, like in Las Vegas when a performer would do a late late show for the other performers or cab drivers on the strip. That’s how I related to it. It was all perfect for me.”

Starting at a time when his five years at one job, on Saturday Night Live, seemed like an eternity, Shafer

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Late Night with David Letterman bandleader Paul Shaffer has been the gravel-voiced sidekick of Letterman since 1982.

Letterman is retiring on May 20. said he never felt tempted to leave Letterman. He’s had the freedom to do other things while the “Late Show” let him lead a band — perform in front of an audience, do sketch comedy and match wits with TV’s hottest host.

That’s not to say it was always easy.

“I spent time preparing funny, offthe-wall lines, something Jerry Lewis had said, for example,” he said. “I was doing quite well with it, I thought.

(Letterman) said, ’I would rather we just have a conversation and try to talk.’ Well, that was daunting to me, but I did. That’s when I began to see what he really needed from me.”

Through the years, Shaffer has become like a security blanket to Letterman. As anyone who’s been in his frigid studio knows, he’s a host who likes things Just So. Shaffer will interject quick remarks — “Instagram that

right away,” he said after his boss took a selfie Tuesday night — or lead the band into a snippet of Tequila for a Top Ten list about Cinco de Mayo parties.

Sometimes it’s as simple as breaking the silence, an “ahh” or slight cackle.

Letterman has a habit of calling a pre-show meeting just when there’s too little time to seriously discuss things.

And after his heart bypass surgery a decade ago, Letterman stopped rehearsing regularly.

“The show got way more fun at that point, way more spontaneous,” Shaffer said.

The bandleader worked with plenty of heroes; James Brown asked to come on after he heard Shaffer’s band playing some of his music on the show.

This added another, delicate task to his duties: it was Shaffer’s job to sometimes tell performers they’d have

to cut a portion of their song because of television time constraints.

“I’ve gotten better at what I do over the years, if I may humbly say,” he said.

“When I started I may not have been able to work with artists as well as I do now. If you work with people, you get to understand what they need, when they need it, what you should or shouldn’t say.”

In two weeks’ time the CBS Orchestra, expanded beyond the bare-bones band Shaffer had in the NBC days, disbands. Shaffer has his options; he plays a little jazz and wants to keep in comedy.

Maybe a TV drama will offer a story arc.

The biggest adjustment will be the loss of the routine, knowing where he had to be on weekday afternoons.

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Proceeds from auction of set of The Colbert Report help raise $800,000 for schools NEW YORK — Money from the auction of the desk and set of The Colbert Report will help thousands of school kids in comedian Stephen Colbert’s native South Carolina.

Colbert announced on Thursday that, along with donations from Share Fair Nation and ScanSource, $800,000 has been raised to fund every classroom project South Carolina teachers listed on the DonorsChoose.org site.

DonorsChoose.org is a crowdfunding non-profit where teachers list projects and donors can support them.

The money will help pay for nearly 1,000 projects from more than 800 teachers at more than 375 South Carolina schools.

Colbert, a native of Charleston, is a member of the DonorsChoose.org Board of Directors. The set and his desk were auctioned after The Colbert Report ended last December.

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Billy Corgan is in the mood to write some more hits.

Only this time, think flying elbows to the chest, steel chairs to the back and wicked clotheslines rather than alt rock chart toppers.

Corgan, the longtime Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman, is set to make his debut as the behind-thescenes brainchild for TNA Wrestling.

He’s not the first musician to trade the stage for the squared circle.

Cyndi Lauper was a featured act at the first WrestleMania. Alice Cooper accompanied Jake Roberts to the ring. Toby Keith suplexed Jeff Jarrett.

Corgan is trying his hand at scripting the action.

He’ll mix rock-and-wrestling this summer as his band heads out on another tour all while pitching storylines for the promotion that has a basic cable home on Friday nights.

“I’m not here as celebrity,” Corgan said. “I’m here as a skilled person that brings a lot of experience to the table.”

Corgan is a die-hard fan, spotted ringside at some of wrestling’s biggest cards. He also recently worked on the independent scene with Resistance Pro Wrestling.

He was hired last week as TNA’s senior producer, creative and talent development, and has already offered input into Friday’s show.

Yes, this is for real — and a fitting job for a musician who wrote the lyric, “But can you fake it, for just one more show?”

Corgan will attend TV tapings and said this is a year-round job, fully committed even as the Smashing Pumpkins’ tour kicks off June 16 in Munhall, Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh, with Marilyn Manson sharing the bill.

“This won’t be a side job,” TNA President Dixie Carter said.

“I talk to him more and we correspond more than most of my employees here.”

Corgan said he has no plans to become an onscreen character.

“I don’t need fame. I

have plenty of fame,” he said. “It’s really about the talent.”

TNA Wrestling — short for, Total Nonstop Action — is the de facto No. 2 promotion in the United States, yet has never positioned itself as a true threat to WWE and its sizable grip on the sports-entertainment industry.

Corgan’s arrival signalled the latest reboot for a promotion that has failed to find a true identity.

“We need stars that are wholly identified with TNA only,” Corgan said, “and maybe telling the types of stories that maybe have a different edge to them so that people will identify them as TNA-type stories.”

That means scrapping the idea of becoming a WWE-lite and filling the roster with stars from back in the day like Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair and Kevin Nash, who all failed to move the ratings needle anywhere close toward the 4 million viewers of WWE’s Raw. While Raw is live each week for all but a few overseas dates each year, TNA films several weeks of Impact episodes in 2-3 day bursts every couple of months, then airs them on tape-delay.

“What will make TNA different is a great level of creativity,” Corgan said.

Corgan is used to telling stories 5 minutes at a time — Tonight, Tonight, 1979, Cherub Rock — much different from the demand of writing enough material for a 2-hour show each week.

TNA has settled into a storyline groove of late, hindered now by a ratings-killing 9 p.m. Friday slot on little-known network Destination America.

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LAS VEGAS — A dispute over B.B. King’s health and wealth was tossed out of court on Thursday by a judge in Las Vegas who said two investigations found no evidence the blues legend is being abused.

King’s doctor said the 89-year-old musician was in home hospice care.

The ruling keeps King’s longtime business manager, Laverne Toney, in legal control of King’s affairs.

Three of King’s 11 surviving children said they suspect Toney is stealing money and neglecting King’s medical care.

But Clark County Family Court Hearing Master Jon Norheim said police and social services investigations in October and April uncovered no reason to take power-of-attorney from Toney.

Williams said in an April 29 petition that more than $5 million in assets was at stake.

Williams and legal adviser Frederick Waid allege Toney has blocked friends — including musicians Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton — from visiting King. They also say Toney put her family members on the King payroll, and that large sums of money have disappeared from King’s bank accounts “The family has been unable to account for what is reported to be in excess of $1 million,” the court document says.

King was hospitalized a week ago after police were called to his home in a dispute about his condition between Toney and another of King’s daughters, Patty King. No arrests were made.

King returned home Friday.

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Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins performs at the 25th annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. Corgan is in the mood to write some more hits. Only this time, think flying elbows to the chest, steel chairs to the back and wicked clotheslines rather than alt rock chart toppers. Corgan, the longtime Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman, is set to make his debut as the behind-the-scenes brainchild for TNA Wrestling.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — In his new film 88, Christopher Lloyd plays a menacing character who is the polar opposite of good-natured Doc Brown from Back to the Future.

Yet he found himself thinking of the time-machine inventor when he signed on to the stylish suspense thriller.

That’s because the number in the film’s title is the same speed in miles per hour that the Back to the Future time machine had to hit.

“I said, 88, what kind of a coincidence is this?”’ recalled Lloyd, referring to a chat with director April Mullen of Niagara Falls, Ont., and writer Tim Doiron of Fredericton.

“I didn’t say anything about what they might do about it, but it’s just a curiosity that the audience is going to have to come to terms with.

“I was fearful that it would detract, that someone would say, 88, Chris Lloyd, he was Doc Brown, Back to the Future. But they stuck with it and that’s fine.

“I don’t feel it was in any way intentional. I think 88 was the title before I became involved.”

In fact, 88 refers to several parts of the film, including its runtime and the number of a motel room used by lead character Gwen (Katharine Isabelle).

The film flips back and forth between two timelines: One in which Gwen is a homicidal siren; and another in which she’s in a fugue state with no recollection of her deadly actions and a goal to find out who killed her boyfriend (played by Kyle Schmid).

Lloyd, 76, plays a crime boss who is losing his wits and searching for Gwen.

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I hadn’t been offered, so I jumped on it,” said the three-time Primetime Emmy nominee, whose other roles include Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Lloyd also worked with Mullen and Doiron in 2012’s Dead Before Dawn 3D. He praised Mullen’s discipline, vision, confidence and drive as a director.

“She’s just doing it and it’s really great to see,” said Lloyd. “She’s not allowing herself to be pushed by money people and the studios and anything like that.

“She’s carving her own path and I love it. She’s great to work with. She knows how to direct, she knows how to make what she wants to see happen happen, and not everybody can do that. I wish her great success, which I’m sure she’ll attain.”

Shooting took place in Niagara Falls, Ont.

“I don’t tend to get out too much but I got down to see the falls,” said Lloyd.

“I wanted to take the ... (Maid of the Mist), but didn’t get to do that. But it was good.”

This July marks the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future and Lloyd said he plans to attend an anniversary parade in Las Vegas on May 15.

Don’t count on him being in the Back to the Future musical that’s in the works, though.

“I don’t quite see myself doing that,” he said with a chuckle.

“I think Doc has to be a little younger, he has to dance and I think they expect him to sing and I’m not sure I fill the bill.

“So I’m not holding my breath, but I wish the project great success.”

88 is set to screen across Canada on this week as part of the Indie Canadian Film Series. It opens in Canadian cities through May 15.

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Scientology documentary Going Clear hits Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney didn’t have to wait for anyone to actually see his new documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief before Scientologists were already denouncing it.

The Church of Scientology officially dismissed the eye-opening doc as a “one-sided false diatribe,” built on the testimony of “bitter, vengeful apostates.”

The church has also claimed that Gibney and HBO “stonewalled 14 requests by the church to offer relevant information, with more than 25 individuals with first-hand information eager to speak.”

Prominent church member John Travolta, meanwhile, told the Tampa Bay Times he wouldn’t even bother watching something “so decidedly negative.”

“Most of the criticism has been from people who have heard about (the movie) but refuse to see it, which I find much more interesting and much more in line with the prison of belief,” Gibney said this week in Toronto.

“John Travolta came out and denounced the film but said at the same time that he hadn’t seen it and had no intention of seeing it.

“To me, that’s very much like somebody who doesn’t want to leave the confines of his cell even though the door is open.”

While Going Clear aired in the U.S. on HBO in March, it’s only finding a Canadian release in select theatres, on VOD and iTunes.

The film was based on a detailed tome by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lawrence Wright, which was never available for sale in Canada over lawsuit concerns.

Certainly, the film caused a stir south of the border.

HBO reported that 6.8 million people watched Going Clear, making it the network’s second-most watched documentary of all time.

CP: How has the church changed since David Miscavige took over after L. Ron Hubbard’s death in 1986?

Gibney: A lot of people think it’s changed for the worse, and that David Miscavige became more ruthless than L. Ron Hubbard. I’m not sure that’s really true.

A lot of members of the church speak fondly of Hubbard in a way that they never spoke fondly of David Miscavige — he’s not a very likable character.

But all the ideas that are most destructive, that Miscavige has followed so ruthlessly, were Hubbard’s ideas: the idea of disconnection, the idea of (critics being) “fair game.”

It was Hubbard who was throwing people overboard (on church ships), sometimes their hands and feet bound, to punish them.

Baked into the theology of his religion was the idea of cruelty.

And Miscavige just rationalized that.

CP: The film documents intimidation tactics the church uses against dissenters.

Were you worried?

Gibney: You’d have to be crazy not to be.

Since the film has come out, I have been on the receiving end of a lot of verbal abuse, and some documentaries that they made about me.

But it’s the people who are in the film who have really been subject to the more aggressive stuff: threats upon their physical person; a number of them, particularly the women, are being followed by private investigators who are intimidating them; threats of property being taken away, lives destroyed.

They took out full page ads in the New York Times and the L.A. Times with my picture in the ad.

They’ve made bold statements critical of me in language that is so full of vitriol and hate.

I often wonder what kind of religion is so prone to that kind of hate?

CP: The abuse you allege took place in the church — would big celebrity followers like Tom Cruise know about that happening?

Gibney: He knows about it.

Cruise claims to have read (Wright)’s book and says he found it “boring.”

But we know he knows because Cruise’s lawyer received a very detailed breakdown of the abuses inside the church, and Cruise’s lawyer has an obligation to pass that onto him.

CP: You’ve spoken out against the church’s taxexempt status in the United States.

Can you realistically expect change?

Gibney: There’s a possibility.

But somebody in the IRS would have to grow some balls, because it’ll be a fight.

The church will take them on hammer and tong.

And it’ll be expensive.

But it seems wrong for them not to take it. I’m told that a lot of people inside the IRS were deeply embarrassed by what was revealed in the film.

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Vatican saint-makers approve Junipero Serra sainthood, Pope gives final OK The Vatican’s saint-making office has officially given its thumbs up for the Rev. Junipero Serra to be declared a saint — four months after Pope Francis announced he would canonize the controversial 18th-century missionary during his upcoming visit to the United States.

Serra is hailed by the Catholic Church as a great evangelizer who established 21 missions across California.

Many Native Americans, though, accuse him of forced conversions, enslaving converts and helping wipe out indigenous populations as part of the European colonization machine in the Americas.

The unusual process that Serra’s sainthood case has taken indicates that Francis personally willed the canonization and that the normal vetting process by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, which ended with the Vatican announcement was something of a formality.

In fact, the congregation didn’t even approve a second miracle attributed to Serra’s intervention — the normal way someone is canonized. Rather, Serra joins several new saints simply declared such by Francis in an equivalent process.

Last month, a congregation official acknowledged that it would have been difficult for the members to have done otherwise given the canonization ceremony was already scheduled. In another indication of Francis’ personal involvement in the case, he celebrated a Mass last weekend in Serra’s honour at the main U.S. seminary in Rome — highly unusual given that he will also celebrate the canonization Mass on Sept. 23, his first day in Washington.

Chinese province to ban rooftop join us this crosses

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING — A Chinese province where authorities have forcibly removed hundreds of rooftop crosses from Protestant and Catholic churches has proposed a ban on any further placement of the religious symbol atop sanctuaries.

The draft, if approved, would give authorities in the eastern province of Zhejiang solid legal grounds to remove rooftop crosses.

Since early 2014, Zhejiang officials have toppled crosses from more than 400 churches, sometimes resulting in violent clashes with congregation members. They have said the crosses violate building codes, but critics say the rapid growth of Christian groups have made the ruling Communist Party nervous.

“The authorities have attached great importance to this religious symbol,” said Zheng Leguo, a pastor from the province who now lives in the United States. “This means no more prominent manifestation of Christianity in the public sphere.”

A draft of rules on religious structures released by government agencies this week says the crosses should be wholly affixed to a building facade and be no more than one-tenth of the facade’s height.

The symbol also must fit with the facade and the surroundings, the proposal says. The draft does not provide the rationale for the proposal.

Fang Shenglan, an engineer at Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Architectural Design and Research who was involved with the research for the draft rules, confirmed that rooftop crosses would not be allowed under the proposed rules, but declined to explain why over the phone and did not immediately respond to a written request.

Zhu Libin, president of a semi-official Christian association in Wenzhou, in southeastern Zhejiang, declined to comment. Calls to the provincial Christian association were unanswered Thursday.

“This new draft law is just another attempt by the government to legitimize its existing illegal violent campaign of destruction and removal of the cross,” said Bob Fu of U.S.-based China Aid, which has documented that 448 churches have had crosses removed or buildings destroyed.

“To continue to forcefully remove and ban the cross on the rooftop of the church buildings demonstrates the Chinese regime’s determination to contain the rapid growth of Christianity in China,” he said in an email.

Christianity has been expanding in China since the 1980s, when Beijing loosened its controls on religion.

Estimates for the number of Christians in China range from the conservative official figure of 23 million to as many as 100 million by independent scholars, raising the possibility that Christians may rival in size the 85 million members of the ruling Communist Party. The religion’s tight-knit parishes, proclivity for civil society, and loyalty to God have made the ruling party edgy about its own rule.

Last August, Beijing authorities called Christian pastors and religious scholars into meetings to deliver an edict that the Christian faith must be free of foreign influence but “adapt to China,” a euphemism for obeying the Communist Party.

The Zhejiang city of Wenzhou is known as China’s Jerusalem because it has half of the province’s 4,000 churches. Rooftop crosses used to dominate the city’s skylines, and local churches — often funded by well-off businesspeople — raced to build the largest church and the tallest cross as an ostensible display of their blessings.

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Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.

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WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road) COWBOY CHURCH Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Glen Pretz Inspirational Hymns with Steve & June Potter Lynda & Rob Purdie Everyone Welcome

Children’s Programs weekly

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LUANN May 9 1994 — Nelson Mandela is chosen to be South Africa’s first black president.

1974 — Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s minority Liberal government is defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 137-123, forcing a federal election on July 8.

1962— A laser beam is successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.

1937 — Canadian Coronation contingent are

the first Dominion troops to stand sentry duty at St. James and Buckingham palaces.

1926 — Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett become the first men to fly an airplane over the North Pole.

1868 —Patrick James Whelan is arrested and charged with the murder of politician Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Irish immigrant and Fenian sympathizer, in Ottawa.

1793 — Alexander Mackenzie leaves Fort York; eventually reaches the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European to cross North America using a route north of Mexico.

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SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2015

Canada drops nearly 20,000 jobs ECONOMISTS SAY BETTER TIMES STILL AHEAD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian job market mustered a disappointing headline number last month, but experts say the broader batches of economic data are still pointing to the economy’s bounce back in the coming months.

The labour market itself, however, has swung back and forth in recent months to produce only a modest result over the longer term.

That month-to-month volatility continued Friday when Statistics Canada released its latest job numbers, which showed the economy lost 19,700 net positions in April. Last month’s decline followed an unexpected increase of 28,700 jobs in March.

“At the end of the day, kind of an ugly top line, but the details I think were a bit firmer,” RBC assistant chief economist Dawn Desjardins said of the April figures.

Desjardins said the positives include the national unemployment rate holding steady in April - for the third straight month - at 6.8 per cent. The survey, she added, also showed an acceleration in wage growth and a jump in full-time employment after a March tumble.

Between March and April, the country added 46,900 net full-time positions and shed 66,500 parttime jobs, Statistics Canada said. The economy also registered a net gain of the more-desirable 24,200

private-sector positions compared to a net loss of 19,900 jobs in the public sector.

The fresh basket of data for April — the first month of the second quarter — represents the start of a crucial flow of economic numbers for a country still smarting from the oil slump.

Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz has said his fingers are crossed that the economy will rebound in the second quarter. The central bank has predicted zero growth for the first three months of 2015 — a stretch Poloz has warned will yield “atrocious” economic data.

Desjardins noted that several earlier data releases for April have shown promise, including increases in vehicle and housing sales.

Back on the labour front, Desjardins says the numbers show more than 40,000 jobs were created over the first four months of the year. Another encouraging sign, she noted.

“Not a tremendous performance, not blowing out the lights, but certainly not terrible,” she said.

“The bones for a bounce in economic growth in the second quarter are definitely there, so we are looking for a pretty solid rebound.”

The slide in April data, which produced a headline number lower than economists’ expectations, was blamed in part on the layoffs that followed the demise of retailer Target Canada.

Statistics Canada’s trade category, which includes retail and wholesale trade, lost 20,500 positions last month. The construction industry, meanwhile, shed

28,400 jobs in April.

“Outside of that, things held up relatively well,” said BMO chief economist Douglas Porter.

Job growth, Porter added, has been quite modest over the past year at less than one per cent, which explains why the unemployment rate has hovered just underneath seven per cent.

Compared to April 2014, Statistics Canada found employment up by 139,100 jobs thanks to a boost from 165,800 net new full-time positions over the same period.

The slight increase in employment has been just enough to offset the growing population, Porter said.

Aside from the increasingly predictable see-saw in the monthly headline numbers, April’s regional data also contained a few surprises - starting with Alberta’s performance.

The energy-rich province, which was expected to take a hit from lower oil prices, added 12,500 net jobs last month - even though the province’s natural resources sector lost 3,500 positions.

The April jobs numbers, however, were a letdown for British Columbia. The province lost 28,700 net jobs last month and saw its unemployment rate rise to 6.3 per cent, up from 5.8 per cent the month before.

The country’s youth unemployment rate climbed to 13.6 per cent last month, up from 13 per cent in March. The data showed there were 13,200 fewer jobs last month for young workers, aged 15 to 24, than the month before.

Shell pushes back oilsands project

READY TO GROW

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Shell Canada says its Carmon Creek oilsands project will start up a couple of years later than planned as the company looks to drive down costs.

With low crude prices curbing construction activity in northern Alberta, contractors and service providers have been under pressure to sharpen their pencils.

Shell is altering the schedule for the first two phases of Carmon Creek so that it can improve its design and retender some contracts, said spokesman Cameron Yost.

“We are still early enough in the schedule to make adjustments to ensure the long-term competitiveness of a project that will ultimately have a lifespan of more than 30 years,” he said in an emailed statement.

First oil from the steam-driven project now is expected in 2019.

“Carmon Creek remains a priority for Shell and we’re continuing to advance the project,” said Yost.

Shell doesn’t make decisions based on short-term swings in commodity prices, since its projects typically have to make economic sense over a 30- to 50-year time horizon.

“The current market downturn does, however, create an opportunity to find some cost reductions,” said Yost.

Shell announced the decision to go ahead with Carmon Creek in October 2013. The project, near Peace River, Alta., targets production of 80,000 barrels a day.

In February, Shell pulled its regulatory application for the proposed Pierre River oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alta., which had aimed to produce 200,000 barrels a day.

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Getting set to grow Parkland Nurseries employees Carmen Boake and Laurie Forbes unload a shipment of Clematis plants that just arrived from B.C. On Sunday any mothers who come in to Parkland Nurseries will receive a carnation said owner Gloria Beck. “We are all excited, we are all pumped,” said Beck who is looking forward to a great season of growing.

Hiring rebounds in U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN TO SEVEN-YEAR LOW

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Rebounding from a dismal start to the year, the U.S. economy added 223,000 jobs in April, a solid gain that suggested that employers are helping fuel a durable if still subpar recovery.

The job growth helped lower the unemployment rate to 5.4 per cent from 5.5 per cent in March, the Labor Department said Friday. That is the lowest rate since May 2008, six months into the Great Recession.

The figures provided some reassurance that the economy is recovering from a harsh winter and other temporary headwinds that likely caused it to shrink in the first three months of the year. Yet the bounce back appears to be falling short of hopes that growth would finally accelerate in 2015 and top 3 per cent for the first time in a decade.

Most analysts foresee the economy growing about 2.5 per cent this year, similar to the modest expansion typical of much of the 6-year-old recovery.

In its report Friday, the government revised sharply down its estimate of March’s job gain to 85,000 from 126,000. In the past three months, employers have added 191,000 positions, a decent total but well below last year’s average of 260,000.

“Job growth is going from great to good,” said Michael Feroli, an economist at JPMorgan Chase.

One reason the economy hasn’t accelerated faster is that overseas economic turmoil is still restraining growth. A stronger dollar, which makes U.S. goods more expensive overseas, has cut into factory production. Manufacturers barely added jobs for a second straight month. And last year’s plunge in

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oil prices has led drilling companies to lay off thousands of workers.

Investors breathed a sigh of relief Friday because the figures suggested an economic rebound from the January-March quarter — but one not so explosive as to likely cause the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates from record lows anytime soon. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 267 points to close up 1.5 per cent.

The unemployment rate is nearing the level the Fed considers healthy. Yet many other signs suggest that the job market isn’t fully recovered.

The number of full-time workers, for example, fell in April while the number of part-timers jumped more than 400,000 to 27.7 million— a half-million more than a year ago.

The increase came from Americans who said they preferred part-time work, the report said. The number of part-timers who want full-time jobs declined 100,000 to 6.6 million. That’s still above pre-recession levels. The nation’s job growth still isn’t raising worker pay much. Average hourly wages rose just 3 cents in April to $24.87. Wages have risen only 2.2 per cent over the past 12 months, roughly the same sluggish pace of the past six years.

“We’re definitely back to that same discussion we were having before March and earlier this year,” said Tara Sinclair, a professor at George Washington University and chief economist at the job listings service Indeed, said: “Things are looking pretty good and going in the right direction, but where is the wage growth?”

Corey Bowman, U.S. president of Pita Pit, a 240-store sandwich chain, says his company hasn’t had to raise pay even though it’s expanding and hir-

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ing. Pita Pit plans to add 45 restaurants this year, with each location creating about 15 full- and parttime jobs.

“I haven’t noticed any change in terms of what you have to pay to get people,” Bowman said.

The Fed has been monitoring the job market for convincing evidence of a healthier economy. The chronically sluggish pay growth and the downward revision to March’s job gain may dissuade the Fed from raising rates in June or even by fall.

Other measures of pay that include bonuses are starting to show healthier increases. That trend could reflect pay gains in skilled industries.

Paul McDonald, a director of job placement firm Robert Half, says companies are offering pay 8 to 10 per cent higher than a year ago to attract workers in such areas as web development, computer networking and accounting.

“It really is the age of specialization,” McDonald said. “But specialists are hard to find, the demand is so high.”

Still, some higher-paying industries, especially those affected by lower energy prices or the higher dollar, are reporting losses. Mining, which includes oil and gas, cut 15,000 jobs in April. The industry has eliminated 49,000 jobs this year, more than offsetting the 41,000 it added in 2014.

Manufacturers added only 1,000 jobs last month after a flat reading in March. That’s down from the industry’s average monthly job gain of 18,000 last year.

Over the past three months, mining and manufacturing have been subtracting an average of 12,333 jobs a month, said Jay Feldman, U.S. economics director at the bank Credit Suisse.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 127.60 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.37 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.16 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 63.70 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO - The Toronto stock market ended solidly higher Friday after a broad advance powered by commodity prices and a solid jobs report south of the border.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed ahead 81.20 points at 15,170.02, but slipped about one per cent on the week, after several sessions of volatile trading. The TSX has endured a slide in energy stocks as traders weighed the potential impacts of the NDP’s majority win in the Alberta election.

However, it was energy stocks that led Friday’s advance, rising 1.4 per cent as oil prices resumed their upward trek.

Benchmark crude rose 45 cents to US$59.39 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Gold prices for the June contract rose $6.70 to US$1,188.90 an ounce, driving the gold sector higher.

The telecom sector was the biggest decliner, falling 1.9 per cent. Shares of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (TSX:MBT) dropped 3.7 per cent after the company announced late Thursday that it’s cutting 400 people from the workforce at its Allstream national division, which reduces the staff by a quarter.

The loonie added 0.20 of a U.S. cent to 82.71 cents.

On Wall Street, stock markets logged their biggest gain in two months after the latest U.S. Labor Department report which showed the American economy added 223,000 jobs in April after a dismal March that saw only 85,000 net jobs created.

The Dow Jones industrial average soared 267.05 points to 18,191.11, rising 0.9 per cent on the week .

The tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 58.01 points to 5,003.55, while the S&P 500 gained 28.10 points to 2,116.10 - marking its biggest single-day increase since March 16.

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“I don’t believe those sell-offs were appropriate,” he said.

“It was overblown to the downside, so it would make a sense that a big run today would be overblown to the upside.”

Employment numbers in Canada were less rosy, with Statistics Canada reporting the economy lost 19,700 net jobs last month.

However, some observers saw a silver lining in the numbers, noting the addition of 46,900 higher-quality, full-time positions in April while shedding 66,500 part-time positions. The economy also registered a net gain of 24,200 private-sector positions compared to a net loss of 19,900 jobs in the public sector.

In corporate news, McDonald’s reported that a key sales metric declined in April as the hamburger chain struggles to make headway in its turnaround plan. The company said global sales at established locations open at least 13 months fell 0.6 per cent for the month, though the same metric dropped a steeper 2.3 per cent in the United States on fewer consumers and stronger competition.

Next week, U.S. traders will be closely watching retail sales for signs of improvement, while manufacturing shipments will be in focus for Canada.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,170.02, up 81.20 points Dow — 18,191.11, up 267.05 points S&P 500 — 2,116.10, up 28.10 points Nasdaq — 5,003.55, up 58.01 points

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Currencies: Cdn — 82.71 cents US, up 0.20 of a cent Pound — C$1.8688, up 1.90 cents Euro — C$1.3550, down 1.09 cents Euro — US$1.1208, down 0.62 of a cent Oil futures: US$59.39 per barrel, up 45 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,188.90 per oz., up $6.70 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.76 oz., up 20.5 cents $667.43 kg., up $6.59 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $0.30 higher $466.10; July ’15 $1.40 higher $458.10; Nov ’15 $2.10 higher $450.00; Jan. ’16 $2.90 higher $451.50; March ’16 $2.50 higher $451.00; May ’16 $2.50 higher $451.60; July ’16 $2.50 higher $451.60; Nov. ’16 $2.50 higher $446.40; Jan. ’17 $2.50 higher $447.10; March ’17 $2.50 higher $447.10; May ’17 $2.50 higher $447.10.

Barley (Western): May ’15 $5.00 lower $195.00; July ’15 $5.00 lower $197.00; Oct. ’15 $7.00 lower $180.00; Dec. ’15 $7.00 lower $185.00; March ’16 $7.00 lower $185.00; May ’16 $7.00 lower $185.00; July ’16 $7.00 lower $185.00; Oct. ’16 $7.00 lower $185.00; Dec. ’16 $7.00 lower $185.00; March ’17 $7.00 lower $185.00; May ’17 $7.00 lower $185.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 193,320 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 193,320.

IN BRIEF

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart, already Canada’s biggest retailer, wasted little time in cementing that title after its rival, Target, retreated back to the U.S. with some haste.

The company is buying 13 former Target stores and one distribution

centre and said it will hire 3,400 new employees. It is spending $290 million to buy and renovate the stores and said that will created 1,500 construction jobs.

Target closed the last of its 133 Canadian stores in April after a rough two-year venture into the country and laid off more than17,000 people.

A number of retailers have struggled in Canada. Big Lots Inc. and Best Buy Co. have both closed stores in Canada.

Sony Corp. is closing all of its 14 stores.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELIZE CITY, Belize — Belize is considering new offshore drilling regulations that could open nearly the entire coast to exploration and exploitation, environmental groups have warned, calling it a threat to vital reefs, fisheries and tourism concerns.

The proposal recently made public by the Ministry of Energy would even allow drilling in the vicinity of the Great Blue Hole, a world-famous diving destination that can be seen from space and looks just like what its name suggests, the U.S.-based activist group Oceana said.

“They’ve declared open-season on almost 99 per cent of Belize’s marine area,” Janelle Chanona, Oceana’s vicepresident for the Central American nation, said by phone from the capital, Belmopan. “That includes seven World Heritage sites, that includes marine protected areas ... and it is unacceptable.”

The proposal is still in the draft stage. Government officials did not respond to requests for comment Thursday, but have said previously that they are considering possible modifications including feedback from groups like Oceana. Belize currently has a moratorium on offshore drilling.

Environmental experts say even a small oil spill could jeopardize the powdery-white-sand cays and turquoise waters that make tourism the Central American country’s leading source of foreign income, responsible for up to 25 per cent of its GDP. Activists say oil development also poses environmental concerns for Belize’s reefs, which in addition to being popular diving and snorkeling reserves are home to myriad marine species and help shelter the country from hurricanes and rising seas.

Chanona estimated the annual value of reef protection at $750 million.

Cineplex sees concession sales sore to record heights TORONTO - Moviegoers chowed down on more popcorn and burgers at Cineplex theatres over the winter, helping concession sales climb to record heights as audiences took in Hollywood hits like “American Sniper” and “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

Canada’s largest movie theatre company said Friday that average concession spending jumped 2.6 per cent to $5.18 per patron as customers responded to a broader selection of food options.

Some theatres recently started cooking a new selection of burgers and wraps alongside traditional favourites like popcorn and chocolate, while Cineplex has opened more VIP theatres, which let audiences order from a menu of appetizers and alcoholic beverages.

“We are offering more choices and

Past oil exploration efforts have not resulted in productive wells, and there is no proof that viable reserves lie beneath the Caribbean sea floor off Belize. The big drop in oil prices over the last year has also dampened enthusiasm for exploration of unproven or unconventional fields around Latin America.

But even development that falls short of extracting crude has an impact, experts say. Drilling exploratory wells can introduce mud into ecosystems, for example, and seismic testing can interfere with dolphins’ ability to use sonar to identify food and predators, Chanona said.

Lawrence Epstein, who directs Belize operations for the Environmental Defence Fund, said 15,000 people, or about 5 per cent of Belize’s population, depend on fisheries for their livelihoods, and those, too, could be at risk.

“By any measure, both the exploration and any sort of accident that might happen could damage the fishing industry as well as the tourism industry,” Epstein said.

Chanona said Oceana sent the government a report documenting its concerns and that officials promised to take it into account during a review in the coming months before a final policy is formalized, something that could happen by the end of the year.

But activists are sounding the alarm now, saying Belize has a spotty record on preservation. As one recent example, they point to a road-builder’s unauthorized 2013 bulldozing of one of Belize’s biggest Mayan pyramids to scavenge rock.

“The (oil) proposal doesn’t have any legal backing in place right now, but that it has been presented as a draft ... becomes a very poor starting point for meaningful, honest conversation,” Chanona said. “How do you even begin to talk about having the Great Blue Hole up for consideration as part of your zonation plan?” making them in meal sizes people can consume in the theatre,” chief executive Ellis Jacob said in an interview.

“With the addition of VIP, we’ve got a couple of new locations, and that will continue to build the revenue per person.”

Jacob said concession sales rose even further last weekend, above $6 per patron, as audiences lined up for the opening of “Avengers: Age of Ultron” across the country.

During the first quarter, Cineplex (TSX:CGX) profits more than doubled to $10.5 million, or 17 cents per share, as several hit titles eclipsed the underperforming slate from the same period last year.

Overall box office revenue declined slightly to an average of $8.90 per patron. Even though “American Sniper” connected with Canadian audiences, it still managed to fall short of its astonishing performance in the U.S., where it shattered box-office records for the winter months.

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The usual issue is how to create a seating arrangement around a fireplace, but this room offers an opportunity to centre the fireplace within the arrangement.

Arranging with a fireplace Editor’s note: Longtime Homes section contributors Colin and Justin have decided to end their column. In their place, we introduce David Ferguson, writer of the nationally syndicated weekly question answer column, Creative Space. Ferguson has been creating perfect living spaces for newspaper readers since 1980.

His column encompasses all aspects of interior design: colour, light, orientation, texture, materials and style.

Question: We are working on renovations in the combination living and dining room of our home, but we have come up against a problem DAVID that has us stumped.

FERGUSON We would really like a gas fireplace but can’t figure out a workable furniture arrangement that incorporates a fireplace.

At least a part of the problem seems to be the upholstered furniture that we have just purchased, all of which now seems too big for the room.

The new pieces are covered in a beautiful soft grey fabric, and include a large sofa, a “chair and a half” and an ottoman. The fireplace may be located on either exterior wall, and will project into the room between 30 to 40 cm (12 to 16 inches).

The problem seems to be the room’s width, which

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is only 3.2 metres (10-feet, six inches).

Most of our wood furniture is antique in a dark wood finish and we have had the floors refinished to a medium brown tone.

We have painted the walls in a light, creamy yellow in an effort to brighten the space.

Answer: One of the main goals in decorating is creating an atmosphere of warmth.

A fireplace not only helps to literally provide warmth, depending on how you decorate it, it will contribute to a sense of style.

The fireplace is often the starting point when decorating a room since it is often the focal point.

Unlike many people who are faced with creating an arrangement around that focal point, you are in the fortunate position of centering the focal point within the arrangement.

When planning a seating arrangement in a long, narrow room like yours, it is important to take advantage of the room’s length and minimizing the impact on its width.

To do that, I have shown the sofa placed along the shorter wall, snugly sitting under the large window.

The large “chair-and-a-half” is shown opposite it and on a slight angle from the wall, creating a good arrangement for conversation.

With this done, there should be ample additional space for a smaller chair, which will provide you with comfortable seating for four.

With this arrangement in mind, the fireplace could then be installed on the long wall, approximately 1.6 metres (five-feet, six-inches) into the room.

As a focal point, a fireplace must have a high visual impact upon entering the room.

Because most of your furniture is antique, you will likely want to create a traditional look to the fireplace, which would include a classic mantel and hearth.

Look through magazines for design inspiration, or buy a ready-made “mantel kit”, but keep in mind that you don’t want the finished fireplace to project too much further into the room.

A mantel shelf, for example, need only be between 15 and 22 cm (six and nine inches) deep.

Look to historical sources to choose appropriate paint colours and accessories for period fireplaces.

With the living room area now taking up about two-thirds of the overall space, the remaining area would become the dining space.

As this is the area with the most traffic routes (open to the kitchen and with a door to the bathroom), it should be left fairly open and unobstructed.

A drop-leaf table would be an ideal type because it can stay small when one or two are dining and easily open for larger gatherings.

Because most of the room will feature deep, darker tones of wood, be sure to bring in jolts of colour through accessories.

A selection of bold patterns in a variety of blue tones will flatter the wood tones and give the room a classic punch.

David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio and a longtime columnist. Write to David at david. ferguson@hotmail.ca.

How show homes prevent theft

BY ROXANNE ROBERTS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE WASHINGTON — The silver-plated Christofle knife rests glitter on the dining room table at the 2015 DC Design House.

Originally created in the 1920s by sculptor Édouard-Marcel Sandoz for the lavish first-class dining room of the S.S. Normandie ocean liner, the set of eight antique Art Deco animals can be yours for $2,000.

The knife rests (yes, that used to be a thing) are part of the $55,000 dining room that designers Jeff Akseizer and Jamie Brown put together for the show house, a month-long showcase for top local interior decorators and designers.

Their room includes a 1930s silver coffee set from Spain, hand-painted plates by Anna Weatherley (the same designer who did White House china for Laura Bush), antique napkin rings and an oversized Annie Leibovitz photography book.

Most visitors come to the show house for inspiration and acquisition — the majority of the items can be purchased, with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Children’s National Health System.

But a handful of folks attend show houses, private home tours or real estate open houses for the fivefinger discount: to steal something, usually items small enough to slip into a purse or a pocket.

Like, say, a rare antique knife rest. Which would be a mistake, because Akseizer and Brown are prepared for would-be thieves.

The coffee set is stuck to the tray with museum

putty, as are the tiny bread knives. The display cabinets are locked. And that camera in the corner? It runs 24/7 on a 30-day loop.

“It has software attached to it that can identify hot zones in the room,” Akseizer says. “So every time someone touches a specific zone, we can get a text image of the touch area to our phones and actually identify if there’s a problem when it occurs.”

When someone started pawing the $2,250 Leibovitz book earlier this month, he immediately got a text. Crisis averted.

Like many designers, the duo own most of the items in the room. At their first show house, an expensive book disappeared. Since then, they’ve used a surveillance camera.

“Really good designers curate items into their spaces that we’re passionate about,” Akseizer says.

“We want to bring them to the public to show what they can do. When you look at these spaces, they’re fantasies for many people.”

It’s natural to want to touch and examine beautiful objects, he says, although bad things can happen when people carelessly handle a $500 dinner plate.

“They begin to lose consciousness, I think, of the fact that these are not their things.”

Museum putty or a gentle warning from one of the docents “brings them back to reality.”

But a few can’t resist, and they decide to take.

In January, Sally Spaisman of Potomac, Maryland, was sentenced to one year in jail for stealing $82,000 worth of jewelry from a dozen houses for sale in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac. The 58-year-old wife and mother of two posed as a potential home buyer at high-end open houses.

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Her crime spree came to an abrupt end after a woman touring a $2.2 million home in Chevy Chase saw Spaisman in the master bedroom going through a jewelry box and tossing pieces into her purse.

The woman notified a real estate agent on site, who watched Spaisman make a beeline for the front door and speed away — but not before the agent got Spaisman’s license-plate number.

Police found $15,000 in stolen jewelry in the car, including a David Yurman silver bracelet and a black sapphire and diamond bracelet, WJLA reported.

Open houses are still an important selling tool, says Margot Wilson of Washington Fine Properties.

But “we do advise clients to take precautions: Remove prescription drugs, jewelry, small electronics, and put away personal papers.”

The good news? Thefts at open houses are very rare.

The most common target, by far, are prescription drugs, followed by cash, jewelry and credit cards.

But anything that can be slipped into a pocket or a bag — iPhones, wallets, silverware — is vulnerable.

Some brazen thieves walk out of open houses wearing designer clothes, shoes, scarves and purses. (One owner lost two $1,500 designer handbags.) Another problem: personal information that can be used for identity theft. Deeds, tax returns and bank statements should be under lock and key.

“I tell my sellers, ‘Don’t keep $1,000 in your closet drawer,’ “ says Mark McFadden, who routinely sells multimillion dollar homes.

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LED lighting – a bright investment One of the most important elements when considering interior décor is lighting.

A proper lighting plan will insure that your home works safely and looks its best.

When devising a room plan, it helps to consider the different types of lighting that are available and the roles they play. Combining these light sources will ensure that DEBBIE you and your TRAVIS family and guests are comfortable, and will enjoy your home’s ambiance.

Start with ambient light, which can be thought of as light that comes from all directions.

The daylight that fills a room is ambient. In the evening, ambient light is created with ceiling fixtures, wall sconces and lamps. The ambience can be controlled by using all or some of the lights and dimmers to produce the right mood.

Accent lighting does just that — it highlights a specific detail such as architectural features, art work, or plants. Spotlights on the ceiling, shelf lights and up-lighting on the floor draw attention to interesting parts of the room, and also produce shadows that build on the room’s atmosphere.

Task lighting is used for up-close jobs and pastimes that require good light in a specific area. In the kitchen, under-counter light illuminates work stations. Elsewhere, task light is important for reading and hobbies.

Your next consideration is the light sources and here we are getting into new territory. The original light bulb that we are all familiar with was a wonderful discovery, but it burns out quickly and uses far more energy than is necessary to do the job. LEDs, light emitting diodes, use an entirely different design, they are environmentally friendly, the light does not emit heat, and they use a fraction of the energy of a light bulb.

I spoke with Tom Herstad, owner of Regal Lighting Designs (www.regallightingdesigns.com). Tom is passionate about LEDs, and the changes in the lighting industry that they represent. He explained that LEDs offer far higher lumens per watt, which means much lower wattage provides the same light. As an example of how much can

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Three switches control this modern kitchen’s lighting needs; ceiling spots, under-counter lights and pendants are all LEDs. be saved in energy, think about a chandelier that has six little lamps. Each traditional light bulb will be 30 watts, making 180 watts in all.

To get the same amount of light, the LEDs need only be three watts each, so 18 watts in all. That’s a 90 per cent saving in energy.

While LEDs are more expensive than light bulbs, good quality LEDs last 50 times longer. “Think of switching to LEDs throughout your home as a sound investment,” says Tom. “The start-up costs will be returned quickly by lower power bills and rarely having to replace the lights.”

While the light emitted from LEDs

THEFT: Everybody knows “Ninety percent of homeowners keep valuables such as jewelry, cash and credit cards in their master bedroom closet.” Another dumb place? Freezers.

It used to be a clever, unexpected place to hide money and jewels, he says, but “now everybody knows.”

McFadden has only once been hit by a group of thieves targeting open houses; they took jewelry and prescription drugs. Now he tries to have at least two agents on duty and keeps a close eye on people with oversized handbags or backpacks going through the rooms. “I make sure we’re all around them,” he says. “It’s their privilege, not their right, to come into someone’s personal residence.” A couple more pro tips: Would-be thieves often travel in pairs — one engages the agent while the other wanders through the house. And don’t leave spare keys or garage door openers by the entrance: Bad guys grab them and come back when the house is empty.

Sarah Wessel is one of two dozen designers at this year’s show house, an 8,869-square-foot farmhouse in McLean, Virginia, on the market for $4.9 million.

During the month-long run, which ends May 10, more than 7,000 people will walk through the rooms.

Wessel designed the breakfast room, a charming corner she filled with a 19th-century wooden farm table and chairs, art, and a display of charming tiny porcelain farm animals tied together with almost invisible fishing line.

“I’ve had something taken from every show house I’ve done,” she says. “The first show house I did, I was naive. I had a lot of little small stuff and it all walked.” She decorated a dressing room with antique perfume bottles and other knickknacks, all of which were taken during the course of the show.

None of the items were that valuable — less than $100 apiece — but Wessel was surprised and hurt.

“Some of the stuff was my grandmother’s, so it was priceless,” she says. “It was really upsetting.” None of her colleagues had warned her.

By her second show, she had learned her lesson and protected most of her things in the library by using fishing line to chain them together. “Someone could easily cut it, but the idea is to make it a little more difficult,” she says. Still, a letter opener and a pen were stolen. At her third show, everything in the sunroom was tied down except for an antique book, “Spring in the Capitol.” That disappeared, along with other volumes from other rooms the same day.

“It was a book thief.”

So perhaps you thought the three antique books artfully tied together on the lower hallway desk were part of the rustic design? Not entirely, says David Benton, who borrowed the books from a friend’s personal collection.

“To keep them here, we tied them up with some twine so they don’t get in someone’s purse,” he says.

It’s one of many decorative touches and tricks; the shoulder-high shelves above the desk are another.

“We try to keep things higher so thieves have to reach.” Anything at waist level is easier to slide into a purse or pocket.

Sometimes visitors think some items are there for the taking: On preview day, someone walked off with a magazine that Benton had carefully selected for the space. “I don’t think it was intentional,” he says.

“I think they thought it was a freebie, but it was all part of the staging.” Most of the items in the space are on loan to the designers or part of their personal collections. “We ask a lot of friends,” says Michael Hampton, who sprinkled the library with antique books to make it look as though a well-traveled family had spent years collecting them.

LEDs, and under-counter is illuminated with true white.

There is an LED for ambient, accent and mood lighting. It’s not difficult to convert from bulbs to LEDs. In fact, the wiring required is much thinner, like stereo wiring. Talk to a lighting expert, insist on high quality guarantees, and get ahead of the game. It’s the bright thing to do.

Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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was originally quite harsh or overbright, this is no longer the case. There are now three colours from which to choose: true white, which is closest to sunlight, warm white for mood lighting, and natural white, which is between those two. “Natural white has a higher colour rendering index, which, for example, allows all the colours in a painting to occur like they just came off the brush,” says Tom. In the kitchen shown here, the striking markings in the centre island counter and the floor are enhanced by the natural white ceiling spots. The pendants over the island (not turned on in the picture) have the warm white

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Canadian-made slate roof substitute A few years ago, I was walking down a busy street in Toronto on a sunny summer afternoon and I happened to look up at the roof of a cathedral.

More than a hundred feet above the sidewalk, was a man wearing a harness and rope, climbing on the steep roof to repair the slates.

Slate is a natural, layered stone and it’s been used to make some of the longest lasting and among the most environmentally sound shingling materials for hundreds of years.

Besides the distinct feeling that everyone on the sidewalk STEVE that day should have looked MAXWELL up and given this guy a standing ovation for the guts and skill it took to be up there making things right, watching him also made me smile for another reason.

Just as few of us on the ground could scale the heights that brave worker had reached, slate roofs are also out of reach of most of us on a financial level.

They simply cost too much, no matter how long they last or how little environmental impact is involved in making slates.

All this is why the promise of lower cost, long life and the surprisingly authentic slate substitute caught my eye.

It also happens to be 100 per cent Canadian.

Normally I’m not a fan of look-alike building materials, but when the look-alike is indistinguishable from the original, and when that look-alike offers a 50 per cent cost savings, I can’t resist at least taking a look.

That’s the case with something called Enviroslate.

Made by a Chatham, Ont., company, their simulated slate roofing is made with the same material as their original Enviroshake roofing.

And that matters to me because of the long-term experience I’ve had with Enviroshake.

Back in 2002, a friend of mine decided to install an Enviroshake roof, and it’s performed flawlessly ever since.

Except for a slight lightening of the surface over time, the material has certainly proven itself absolutely reliable as far as keeping water out.

It also looks exactly like real cedar shakes when viewed from the ground.

Both the field-proven Enviroshake and the new Enviroslate are made from the same composite material.

In this case ‘composite’ means a blend of recycled plastic and wood fibres — similar to my favourite type of non-wood decking materials.

The only difference between Enviroslate and Enviroshake is the shape the material is molded into.

And shape is the really surprising thing about this product.

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A potpourri SLATE: Indistinguishable of planter from real stone ideas for your deck, patio, yard

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Home decorating budgets are often quickly spent on the interior, with nary a penny left for decks, patios and back yards.

“People sometimes neglect the outdoors,” says Dahlia Mahmood, a Virginia- and California-based interior designer.

“But the outdoors is just as important and essential.”

One often-overlooked piece worth investing in is a pot or planter.

Debra Prinzing, a garden expert based in Seattle and author of the book Slow Flowers, says that when shopping for planters, think big.

“When the sky is your ceiling, you can go really big,” she says.

“It’s not like an indoor container, like a vase.”

She recommends finding planters with mouths no smaller than 30 inches in diameter, because “the larger scale is so dramatic.”

(But a word to the wise: Large pots can be expensive to ship, so if that’s turning out to be an obstacle, check out a local nursery, home-improvement store or even pottery studio.)

The one decision to be more conservative with is colour.

“If you want pops of color, do that in your plantings and the flowers that you choose,” Mahmood says.

“Keep your planters timeless.”

Once the pot is obtained, Prinzing has a few more practical pointers: ● If the pot doesn’t have enough drainage holes, drill a few more. The kind of drill bit you need will depend on the material of the pot (for instance, a masonry bit for a ceramic pot). ● Invest in organic potting soil. ● Make sure to check about proper care; pots made of certain materials might need to be taken inside during the winter. Got all that? Now check out some of our favourite planters: ● “Window-box planters are more popular on the West Coast,” Mahmood says. “On the East Coast, I see more hanging planters.” ● Prinzing recommends checking with the seller about ideal weather

conditions for planters before buying.

A ceramic planter, for example, should be taken indoors during winter to prevent freezing and cracking. Terra cotta also should be brought inside before the first frost. ● A pot’s style should complement the house and garden. Mahmood says that concrete and cast stone are good for traditional styles, terra cotta for a more earthy feel. ● The Dolga Hover Dish is sold by Vancouver company Pot Inc., one of Prinzing’s favourite sources for great containers ($95, www.potinc.ca). One of her other favourite retailers: Restoration Hardware. ● Invest in high-quality pots and you’ll have containers that will last season after season. If that means you can afford to buy only one pot at a time, Prinzing recommends choosing a neutral colour. “Plants look fabulous against that neutral,” she says. ● If you have room for only one planter, use it as an opportunity for an architectural statement, Mahmood says. “Keep it simple, elegant and timeless,” she says. “You will not go wrong.” ● The zinc-plated galvanized steel Malmesbury Planter, in three sizes, is reminiscent of English country gardens, making it a ripe location for herbs or even a small boxwood, which Mahmood likes to use in all of her projects. “Whether they’re in an urn, metal planter or resin wicker, they always looks classic,” she says. ● Look up from the ground when you’re thinking of locations for placing greenery, especially if you’re tight on space. There is now an abundance of planters for overhead surfaces and walls: vertical plant stands, hanging plants, single wall pots and wall planters. ● Make sure the mouth of the planter is larger than the base, if possible, Prinzing says. ● To narrow down the planter search, Mahmood suggests homeowners ask themselves: Is it aesthetically pleasing? Will I still love it five years from now? Is it made of quality material?

Roberts is a freelance writer. She can be found at www.lindsey mroberts.com.

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I’ve worked a little with real slate in the past.

And looking at a piece of Enviroslate on my desk as I write this, it’s indistinguishable from the real stone at a distance of about a metre.

I doubt even an experienced slate installer could tell the difference at ground level.

Slate is a flaky stone as it’s quarried from the ground, and the layered edges they’ve created on the look-alike are a big reason the product looks so convincing.

I’m not sure how these edges will resist weathering over time, and that’s the only concern I have about the longterm look of the product.

On a technical level, Enviroslate carries a UL 2218 Class 4 impact rating, which denotes the highest resistance to damage from hail you can get in any roofing product.

Enviroslate is also lighter than authentic slate, which means you can install it on a regular roof frame with no need for reinforcements.

The product is also a consistent thickness, so any cut edges show no ribbing or hollow spaces.

While true slate roofs may be out of reach for all but the most wealthy people, there’s now at least one option that brings the choice of a convincing slate alternative a lot closer to the ground than it used to be.

And even a stickler for authenticity like me has to be impressed.

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Dreamer needs help keeping hope alive Dear Harlan: I’m a 15-year-old, and old, so you need to be reminded. my life goals are set.

I meet women from all backgrounds I want to graduate from high school, and culture who have shattered others’ go to a college where I can pursue ar- expectations. chitecture, then come back to Texas There are two more things you must and start my own firm. However, peo- do: The first is to get help immediately. ple tend to say that a woman of my cul- There’s no time to waste. Be loud and tural background can’t achieve those proud, and say, “I need help!” Talk to things. your teachers, counsellors I have mixed feelings and adults who believe in with just about everything. you. Ask them for help.

Lately, I’ve given up. My Once you find answers, grades are falling, and I’m find strong female mentors losing focus. who live, breathe and know What’s the best thing to your journey. Find women do in order to regain my who will inspire, encourage confidence and dreams? — and help you get wherever Losing the Dream you want to go. Ask your caDear Losing the Dream: reer counsellor for ideas, Cover your walls with picask teachers to connect you, tures of these women talk to a spiritual leader, (search online and print and search for women in arthem out): Maya Angelou chitectural magazines and (author, poet, actress, websites. Find their contact HARLAN singer), Eleanor Roosevelt info via Google and LinkeCOHEN (politician, activist and dIn. Reach out to them. former first lady), Amelia Yes. Actually reach out.

Earhart (American aviation Interview them for a class pioneer), Hillary Clinton (presiden- assignment (ask your teacher for extial candidate and former secretary of tra credit). Ask them questions that state), Marie Curie (the first woman to will help you find answers. Ask each win a Nobel Prize), Margaret Thatcher woman: Who are the five people who (first female prime minister in Brit- helped you the most? Ask them what ain), Toni Morrison (novelist, editor, three places helped them learn the professor), Rosa Parks (civil-rights most. Ask what advice they’d give to a activist), Malala Yousafzai (Pakistani 15-year-old who is told that she can’t activist for female education), Oprah do it.

Winfrey (media mogul), Helen Keller When you finish writing, ask if you (writer and lecturer), Dr. Hawa Ab- can stay in touch. Continue the reladi (human-rights activist, Nobel Prize tionships. nominee), Mother Teresa (religious sisAlong your journey, remember: Peoter and missionary), and the 16 wom- ple who tell you it can’t be done are en in this article by Arch Daly in The talking about themselves. Something Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost. happened that made them stop believcom/2014/0½1/woman-architect-of-the- ing. Find out what happened. Use their year_n_4576298.html). experiences to teach you how to overAlso, include the most important come obstacles and reach your own person’s picture — you. goals.

Sleep, wake up and live among People who achieve their dreams these women. This is your sisterhood. don’t spend their time discouraging It belongs to you. others from dreaming. Dreamers inThere is no limit to what you can spire and encourage others to dream accomplish. It’s hard to see at 15 years big. I know, because I’m one of them.

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and let your boyfriend know how to meet your needs.

The alternative would be resenting, accusing and feeling hurt without him knowing what he did wrong.

Understand your love language and figure out if he’s still in love with you.

Dear Harlan: My son is going to college in the fall. He has just committed to a school and is starting to get nervous about next year.

What advice do you have for introverted students who are used to a lot of quiet time alone?

He is anxious about the idea of people being around him all the time in his dorm room. — Not a Helicopter Parent Dear Not a Helicopter Parent: Your son wants to hide before he has even set foot on campus.

Between you and me, the best thing for him would be living with someone who forces him to get out of his room.

Be on his uncomfortable team, but instead of suggesting ways to insulate him, suggest that he do things that are safe outside his room.

“Safe” means doing things that will not result in being judged or rejected.

“Safe” can be a spiritual organization, a job on campus, a living and learning community, a major that includes an experiential element, or an interest he loves that can put him in rooms with other people (if he’s a gamer, he can game around other people).

Encourage him to find three places he likes outside of his room.

Also, direct him to the people on campus who are like him. Shy, introverted people have lots of interests.

The right school will attract similar people. Finally, make sure he has a therapist on campus or in the community. You can help find this person and can reach out if he needs support.

Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. All letters submitted become property of the author. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

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Readers: I’d love to hear your stories and words of wisdom for this 15-yearold. What has been your journey?

Who are the people who helped you?

What other women should she model?

Where are the places you found support? What other advice would you offer this 15-year-old leader?

Dear Harlan: I’m in love with my boyfriend, but I don’t know if he is still in love with me. What should I do? — Still In Love Dear Still in Love: Get the book The Five Love Languages (by Gary Chapman). Don’t get it for him; get it for you.

Before you can figure out if he’s still in love with you, you need to know how you process love.

There are five love languages in this book: gifts, affirmation, acts of service, quality time, and physical touch.

We all have a primary love language. We give love the same way we like to receive love.

For example, if you feel loved when you share quality time, you will show your love by sharing quality time. If you feel loved when you receive gifts, you’ll share your love by giving gifts.

When it comes to feeling loved, there can be confusion. Your boyfriend might be giving you love the way he receives love, but if the love he’s offering isn’t in your primary love language, you will feel unloved; he will feel frustrated; and you’ll grow apart.

That’s why you need to get this book.

You need to understand how you need to be loved. Then, you can communicate what you need and express it in a loving way.

It works. I realized that my wife’s primary love language is acts of service. Mine is affirmation. I would tell my wife how great she is, but that didn’t make her feel loved. She needed me to be a better partner and help her get things done. Realizing this has made me a better and more connected partner. She also understands what I need.

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Prairie Pavilion Westerner Park POPE Colin Dean Oct. 19, 1974 - May 2, 2015 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the sudden passing of our beloved son, Colin Dean Pope, at his Pine Lake home on Saturday, May 2, 2015 at the age of 40 years. A man who loved his family more than life itself, Colin is survived by his loving parents, David and Marcy Pope, as well as his shining light and beautiful sister, Corrie Chalifoux, wife of Joël.

Colin’s spirit lives on through his niece, Malia Chalifoux, who reminded him every day of his sister, as well as his nephew, Kai Chalifoux, whose gentle kindness warmed his uncle’s heart.

Colin also leaves behind his daughter, Laree Poole, whom he truly loved and treasured with all his heart.

Also left to mourn is his devoted grandmother, Charmaine Carritt, who was a constant support in his life, and he will be fondly remembered by his loving girlfriend, Shannon Garlinski, who stood patiently by his side. He will be sadly missed by his wide circle of friends and the many people whose lives he touched.

You were a man of big dreams, passion and a true love for your family.

We will remember you always for your warm smile, protective nature, and aspirations to keep moving in the right direction.

You can rest now, my son; your fight is finally over.

A Celebration of Colin’s Life will take place at the Harvest Center Marquis Room at Westerner Park, Red Deer, Alberta, on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. There will be no parking charges for those attending. If desired, Memorial Donations in Colin’s honor may be made directly to a Trust Account for his daughter, Laree, at the TD Canada Trust, 63 Clearview Market Way, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 0N1, 403-340-7410. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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CELEBRATING 36 YEARS A great selection of plants!

We look forward to seeing everyone out again this year. 2 miles east on 39th Street from 30th Ave. R.D.

Gold Dr. David C. McCue Silver Body Aware Wellness Clinic MGM Ford Lincoln ACL Manufacturing Red Deer Orthodontics Arnett and Burgess Oilfield Construction Bronze Dr. Dean Willoughby Central AB CO-OP Breakaway Hotshot Ocu-Dent Dental Clinic

Engagements

NOW OPEN Mond. - Fri. 9 am - 8 pm Sat. & Sun 9 am -6 pm 1-403-309-7700 Hwy. 11 A 1/4 kms W. of Hwy. 2

The Red Deer Chamber Singers presents its annual

SPRING CONCERT May 29, 2015, 7:30 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.

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April 23 near Burnt Lake Trail, small black and tan female dog, about 15 lbs., named “Molly”. Pls. call 403-309-6903

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Personals

810

EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS requires OPTICAL ASSISTANT Training provided.

Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

Training provided. Flexible hours. Help-U-Sell of Red Deer. Call Dave at 403-350-1271 or email resumes to Dave @homesreddeer.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK

Providing animal care and welfare, shelter operation, education and community services for Central Alberta •Protection •Education •Dignity 4505 77th Street Red Deer, AB • 342-7722

www.reddeerspca.com

THE OPEN RANGE SALOON in Sylvan Lake req’s Front Line Cook. Full or Part time with Food Safety. Competitive wages. Please apply in person or email resume to: tnpjep@shaw.ca 403-887-3033 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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CLASSIFICATIONS

Office & Phones CLOSED MONDAY MAY 18, 2015

Caregivers/ Aides

Clerical ABBY LANDON Ron and Nora Landon are proud to announce the graduation of their daughter, Abby, from Ambrose University. She received a Bachelor of Arts Behavioural Science Degree (minor in Development Studies) summa cum laude and was inducted into the Phi Delta Lambda Honour Society.

This fall, Abby will be teaching English in Spain.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

jobs

In Memoriam

Forever in Our Hearts Love Doreen and family

Professionals

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full & Part Time Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

CLASSIFIEDS VICTORIA DAY Hours & Deadlines

710

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

God looked around His garden And found an empty place He the looked down upon this Earth And saw your tired face.

He put His arms around you And lifted you to rest God’s garden must be beautiful He always takes the best.

LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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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

DONALD A. CRUICKSHANK Apr. 14, 1931 - May 9, 2012

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Events

700-920

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Administrative Assistant Jordans Floor Covering - Red Deer, AB. This is a retail, restoration and commercial flooring environment working with a small sales staff and support people. Job duties: entering sales orders, purchase orders, costing and invoicing jobs, applying payments to sales orders, reconciliation of accounts, and daily administrative duties. The ideal candidate will be organized, work well under pressure, possess strong clerical skills; and be fluent in English.

Minimum of 2 yrs. accounting exp, and exc. working knowledge of Excel, MSWord. and specifically NAV 2009, would be a definite advantage. Please submit your resume with salary expectations either by email to lhamonic@ jordans.ca attention Louis Hamonic or they can be dropped off at #1 - 6013 48 Ave, Red Deer, AB.

820

755

ALCOHOLICS Apply in person with resume ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 3811 40th Ave. COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298 Coming

BROWN - ABERLE Rick and Audrey Brown of Lacombe, Alberta are pleased to announce the engagement of their son Jon (Jonathan) to Kelci, daughter of Stan and Helen Aberle of Medicine Hat, Alberta. The wedding is planned for July 25, 2015 in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Restaurant/ Hotel

SMALL, but quickly growCALKINS CONSULTING ing office in need of o/a Tim Hortons experienced OFFICE 15 vacancies at each ADMINISTRATOR/ location for FOOD BOOKKEEPER. COUNTER ATTENDANTS - Proficient in MS Office, for 3 locations $12/hr. + Excel, Word and Simply benefits. F/T & P/T Accounting - A/R, A/P, positions. Permanent shift data entry, Invoicing, work, weekends, days, general ledger, payroll. nights, evenings. Start Taking sales orders for date as soon as possible. product and entering No experience or information. - Provide education req’d. Job administrative support to description avail. at management. (book www.timhortons.com meetings, document Apply in person to 6620 preparation and editing, Orr Drive. Red Deer, etc.) - Data Entry, filing, 6017 Parkwood Road, etc. - Proficient in Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. computer knowledge. Lacombe. or Highly organized, have Call 403-848-2356 good work ethic and Start your career! professionalism. SelfSee Help Wanted starter. - Minimum 2 years’ experience. - Exhibits team leadership abilities and strong communication skills. - Must have a RCMP background check completed before employment can start. Applicant must have the ability to take EAST SIDE MARIO’S initiative, multi task and be highly motivated willing to HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS Full Time & Part Time. give her/his recommendaApply after 2 p.m. Ask for tion and option with new the manager on duty. ideas and thoughts. Needs to be a team player.

JJAM Management (1987) Please send resume with Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s salary expectation to: Requires to work at these hmorelli@xplornet.com Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N Farm Work 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT EXP. preferred to work on Req’d permanent shift ranch/farm. Duties include weekend day and evening working with livestock, both full and part time. machinery and other farm 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + related jobs. Wages benefits. Start ASAP. according to experience.

Job description 403-350-4089 www.timhortons.com Education and experience CELEBRATIONS not req’d.

HAPPEN EVERY DAY Apply in person or fax IN CLASSIFIEDS resume to: 403-314-1303

Oilfield

Lost

Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

309-3300

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Coming Events

Graduations

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

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Clerical

A celebration of Life for THELMA JEAN GALISKY Saturday, May 23, 2015, 11:00 am at Cornerstone Gospel Chapel 5911 63 St. Red Deer, AB Placing of ashes at Rimbey, Mount Auburn Cemetery at 3 pm

KONESKY Anne It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our loving mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother, Anne Konesky.

She made her way into the loving arms of our Lord and Savior on the morning of Thursday, May 7th, 2015 with her family by her side.

Anne emigrated from the Ukraine to Red Deer in 1948, where she chose to settle with her late husband, Bill, and raise their family. She will be remembered for her gardening, great cooking, and love of animals. She leaves behind to mourn her loss her children; Michael (Linda) Konesky of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Shirley (Tony) Taylor of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Teri (Don) MacDermott of Calgary, Alberta, and Brenda (Mike) Reaman of Red Deer, Alberta, as well as seven grandchildren; Andrew (Erika), Andrea, Kimberley (Adam), Shawn (Monika), Bryce, Michael, Stephen (Whitney), and her greatgrandsons; Lucas, Joseph, Marcus, Emma and Maya. A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, on Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

Interment to follow at AltoReste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, memorial tributes in Anne’s memory may be made directly to the Red Deer & District SPCA, 4505 77 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 2J1. 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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announcements Obituaries

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Red Deer Advocate Publication Dates: SATURDAY MAY 16 TUESDAY MAY 19 Deadline is: FRIDAY MAY 15 @ 5 p.m.

Central Alberta Life Publication Date: THURSDAY MAY 21 Deadline is: THURSDAY MAY 14@ 5 P.M. CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Caregivers/ Aides

710 UNLIMITED POTENTIAL Community Services

HOUSE MANAGER - Full Time A vacancy exists for a strong, experienced House Manager at our Youth Assessment Centre in Red Deer.

Qualifications: Degree/Diploma in Child & Youth Care Work or in Human Services field, minimum two years as a supervisor in a group home setting, knowledge of child development theories, good communication and problem solving skills.

Other Requirements: A current, clear Criminal Record Check, Child Welfare Check, a valid driver’s license and vehicle, and willing to work shifts, including weekends and evenings.

Salary depends on education and experience ($55,379 – $75,327 annually) plus employer paid medical, dental, vision, life insurance benefits and RRSP. Send application to hr@upcs.org by May 15, 2015.

We thank all applicants; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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830

Trades

850

LOOKING for well exp’d or Floor Covering / journeyman glassworker Area Rug Salesperson capable of doing shower Jordans Floor doors, commercial storeCovering - Red Deer, AB. fronts & residential glass

COSMETOLOGY TEACHER/INSTRUCTOR For more information visit our website

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

551104E9-12

Invites applications for the position of:

JORDANS is seeking a full time Salesperson. An eye for design and colour is a definite asset. Exp. in the retail sales floor covering industry is plus; but we will train the right candidate.

The successful applicant will be a motivated, career minded individual with exc. people skills.

Commission based, potential for bonuses.

Full benefit package.

Please submit your resume with salary expectations either by email to lhamonic@jordans.ca attention Louis Hamonic or they can be drop off at #1 - 6013 48 Ave, Red Deer, AB.

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

840

Teachers/ Tutors

WOLF Creek Public Schools invites applications for the following positions: •

FULL TIME and PART TIME SHIFTS AVAILABLE

•

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

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

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Teachers (2 positions available), Bentley School Teachers (2 French Immersion positions available), École Lacombe Junior High School Teacher, École Secondaire Lacombe Composite High School

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Teacher, Ferrybank Colony School

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Teacher, Leedale Colony School

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD.

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! HEAVY duty truck mechanic needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

Requires Full Time

Carpenters Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

Truckers/ Drivers

860

/MAVERICK Required for Rimbey Oilfield Supply Store

Duties to include: Customer Service Inventory Control Clerical Duties Forklift Operations

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CLASS 1 Driver in Central AB. Min 3yrs off road BJ/Pup experience. Oilfield tickets required. Email: haulingcrude@live.ca

Misc.

Help

880

CRYSTAL GLASS needs a GLASS INSTALLER. Some exp. preferred, but training is provided. Benefits and company uniforms after 3 months. Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca

SHERWIN WILLIAMS PAINTS

Heavy Lifting Involved Deliveries (with trailer) Shipping & Receiving

Fax: (403) 843 - 3775

In Person: 5618 – 44th St, Rimbey (Behind the A&W)

550605E9,16

Please Send Resume to: Email: rick.davies@meridianvalve.ca

F/T Customer Service employee req’d.

Tasks: Keyholder Early evening and weekend shifts avail. Must be reliable and trustworthy.

Send resumes to: sw8903@sherwin.com or in person at 3301 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer.

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

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

Accounting

1010

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

1200

Handyman Services

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 SIDING, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

1290

BEAT THE RUSH! Book 5* JUNK REMOVAL now for your home projects. Property clean up 505-4777 Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, DUMP RUNS, clean ups and more. 403-550-2502 landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

CELEBRATIONS Call James 403-341-0617 HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Landscaping Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Misc.

Services

1240

GROUND Up Bobcat & Landscaping Ltd. For free quote call 403-848-0153

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

GARAGE DOOR SERVICES 403-358-1614 NOW is the time to get your yard in shape.

Aerations & power rakes 403-318-7625

Moving & Storage

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Elite Retreat, Finest Painters/ Decorators in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its BEST! 403-986-6686 Come in and see why we are the talk of the town.

1300 1310

Roofing

1370

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

Seniors’ Services

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

May 9 & 10

OVER 50 years old, Tiger Claw necklace in beautiful casing $200 403-347-7405

Clothing

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

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

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Firewood

1520

1590

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split.

A MUST for collectors. T. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Eaton 1901 catalogue 114 yrs. old in 100% top shape B.C. Birch, Aspen, $200 403-347-7405 Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 A must see to believe.

Actual size tiger head a FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, beautiful pillow $150 Can deliver 403-347-7405 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Yard Care

Household Furnishings

1720

RECLINER chair, pink LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, $25; Swivel chair, pink, $25. 403-342-1934 tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

TWO 6’ mahogany 5 shelf Lil Mule Logging wall units, like new 403-318-4346 $50/ea., 2 beige highback bar stools, $20/ea, 2 black Garden bar stools $10/ea, dbl. stainless steel sink $5, 2 Supplies new swivel padded moving dollies 30” x 18”, $35 for LAWN mower, rear bagger, tuned up, ready to go, $80. both, 2 new plastic folding saw horses $12/ea, size 403-347-5873 10 mens steel toed work 403-350-1077 boots, $30 403-358-5568

1680 1700

Health & Beauty

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

403-227-2976

1710

Household Appliances

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

2 NEEDLES for an LP stereo player, older model Zenith, 5/8 long, 3/8 wide $8 403-346-2192 GAME Cube w/2games $80, Wii Dance mat w/game $50 403-782-3847

DRYER, LARGE capacity, gas, bought new electric dryer. $150. obo.

NINTENDO w/3 games 403-748-2750, 358-1529 $140 403-782-3847

Household Furnishings

1720

COUCH & chair with flower pattern, $125.; 3 large living room chairs with flower pattern, $25. each.

403-342-1934

SEGA Genesis w/13 games $140 403-782-3847 SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125 403-352-8811

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

Advocate Opportunities

WOODLEA 44 & 45 AVE.

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

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

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

JOHNSTONE PARK

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

Jackson & Jarvis Close

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

WWwWWES********************* For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

3 days per week, no weekends

DEER PARK AREA

Alford Ave. Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres.

Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

Dobson Cl. and Duffield Ave also Douglas Ave $71.20/mo.

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

BOWER AREA

********************** For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

INGLEWOOD AREA Ibbotson Close Imbeau Close INGLEWOOD AREA

GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

Munro Cres./MacKenzie Cres.

McCullough Cres.

McDougall Cres.

DEER PARK AREA Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr.

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive

MICHENER AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA

50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area.

Sherwood Cres.

$229.00/mo.

SOUTHBROOK AREA

TIMBERSTONE AREA

Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close

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

VANIER AREA

$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

Viscount Drive/Voisin Close Vincent Close

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

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

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1430

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Anders Park 168 ANDREWS CLOSE May 8, 9 & 10 Fri. 4 - 8, Sat. & Sun. 9 -5 Everything from Cutlery to Golf Clubs

GARDENS ROTOTILLED 304-7250

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

OILFIELD TICKETS

“Low Cost” Quality Training

Antiques & Art

Antique Show & Sale

1660

Firewood

For LANCASTER Area

LAWN CARE Req’d in Markerville A person for lawn maintenance on acreage.

403-346-5885

Warehouse Representative

TRAINING CENTRE

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

CARSWELL’S 26th Annual Red Deer Mother’s Day

Sat. 10-5:30 & Sun. 10-4:30 Westerner Park Over 300 Tables.

Carswell’s 343-1614

Industries #1 Choice!

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.

1520

With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds).

Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

Supply

SAFETY

Antiques & Art

For VANIER Area

HERITAGE LANES BOWLING

880

Misc.

Help

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

in AB. Home the odd night.

Weekends off.

403-586-4558

SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

Ticketed & Non-Ticketed Carpenters and Superintendents & Foreman

CONTRACT DRIVERS

Requires

Daily, the Red Deer Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

Pasquale Mancuso Construction (51 YEARS OF SERVICE) Seeks individuals for civil concrete work in the construction of oil and gas facilities

BUSY rig moving company looking for exp. bed truck operators, winch tractor hands, and picker operators.

Oilfield ticket an asset.

Must be able to pass a drug test. Pls call 1-306-463-6674.

850

900

Employment Training

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

For further specifics on the above position, please visit Wolf Creek Public Schools’ website at www.wolfcreek.ab.ca, or contact the Division Office at 403-783-3473.

Trades

Weed Sprayer required.

No experience necessary.

Must have valid Class 5 Drivers License. Fax Resume to 403-227-5099, email to cdsprung@ telus.net

403.341.4544

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

Now Hiring GASOLINE ALLEY LOCATION

with no supervision. We are a small, rapidly expanding, full service glass shop in Sylvan Lake, offering top wages, benefits & possibility of SHARES & or PROFIT SHARING for the right person!

Call Roy @ 403 350-4901, email: glassman14@outlook.com or fax 403 887-0194

880

Misc.

Help

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Professionals

Sales & Distributors

THE ROTOTILLER GUY Garden Rototilling & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

MOVING SALE 23 ALTENA CLOSE, May 8/9, Fri., 2-7, Sat., 9-4 Craft Supplies, Piano Collectibles, Household items, (403)352-2257

SIMPLE! It’s simple to run a Garage

Anders on the Lake

Sale Ad in the Red Deer Advocate and make quick cash. Phone Classifieds 309-3300.

SAVE $$$$ prepay your Classified ad. 309-3300.

73 AINSWORTH CRES. May 8 & 9 Fri. 1 - 7 & Sat. 9 - noon Skates, bikes, golf clubs, designer clothes, computer monitors, household misc.

Deer Park

Rosedale

2 ROCKER recliners, queen size air bag, wine making equipt, ladies & mens clothing, fishing equipt. and more. Fri. May 8, 4-8, Sat. 9-2. 32 Drever Cl.

Oriole Park #1 ORILLIA PARK ROAD Access from back Alley May 9 & 10 Sat. & Sun. 10 - 4 DOWNSIZING to condo.

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

8 OYEN CRESCENT May 8 & 9 Fri. 4 - 8, Sat. 9 - 2 MULTI FAMILY Something For Everyone!!!

Innisfail ESTATE SALE, furniture, housewares, home decor, collectibles, Xmas stuff, misc., Sat. and Sun., May 9 and 10, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 4705 - 48 Ave., Innisfail

347 Ramage Close May 8, Friday, 4 - 8 May 9, Saturday, 10 - 4 Various items including camping goods, costume jewelry, brass headboard & rails.

West Park 455 WISHART STREET May 9, Sat. 9 - 4 Household items, fishing equipment, misc.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Lacombe DECK/YARD sale.

9-5 Sat. May 9. Items too many to mention.

147 Parkland Acres in Lacombe.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, May 9, 2015

1750

Travel Packages

EARRINGS, pierced, Sterling Silver, Made in Israel, never worn, w/case, 1 1/2” drop, appraised $135. Asking $100.

403-227-2976

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Misc. for Sale

1760

AVON collection (12 pieces) $40.

403-885-5020 BROIL KING GAS BBQ, hardly used $130 obo SOLD FREE standing metal ironing board $25, 5L electric crock pot $15, London Fog dress coat size 12, slate blue, dry cleaned $50, antique magazine rack, dark wood $20, two 14” hanging wire baskets w/new coco liners, ea. $8 or 2/$12 403-227-2653 OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020

1900

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main Áoor of house, w/dble. att. heated garage, Lacombe, June 1st, n/s, $1350/mo.

403-782-2007 FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot.

4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740

SPIDER Plants (4), $4. ea.

2 mature spider plants, $8. WESTPARK Main Áoor, 4 bdrm., 1 1/2 bath, 3 appls, ea. 403-342-7460 shared laundry, heated Looking for a place dbl. garage, no pets, n/s, to live? rent & DD $1750 + power Take a tour through the & gas. 403-391-2292 CLASSIFIEDS VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horses, brown shetland colt, foal and pony, 3 1/2” high $40; Royal Dux Bohemian cat, porcelain, mint cond, $35; DC SHOES cap size 7 3/8, like new $18; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $40 403-352-8811

Sporting Goods

1860

Condos/ Townhouses

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MEGlobal Canada Inc. Prentiss location is seeking 1 talented Production Engineer to work in our glycol plant. Successful candidates will work 8 hours per day Monday to Friday to support the safe, environmentally sound, and effi cient operation of our Ethylene Oxide/ Ethylene Glycol (EO/EG), Energy Systems, and Environmental Operations facility.

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Signs say sister turning into hoarder Dear Annie: I have seen my sister gradually dren removed from the home? change from a simple packrat into a full-on hoarder.

Are there other relatives who can intercede?

When I mention my concerns to her, she Check to see whether there is a Hoarding gets defensive and tells me it’s OK, that is Task Force in your city, and also contact just how they live now. the International OCD Foundation (iocdf.

I am especially worried about her chilorg) for information and referrals. dren growing up in such clutter and filth.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from To further complicate issues, my sister re“Feeling Unloved,” who was considering cently acquired a puppy and allows him to cutting his teenage children out of his life do his business all over the house. because they don’t seem to want to spend I feel sorry for her. She suffers from time with him. depression and is on medication, but it’s As a high school coach, I have seen nunot enough. merous teenagers navigate the divorce of What can I do to help her when she their parents. Divorced parents, you must seems to be in denial? — Worried Sis realize that your teenagers are moving Dear Worried: Your sister’s medication away from you at this time in their lives.

MITCHELL may not be handling her issues sufficientIt isn’t because they don’t respect or & SUGAR ly, and you could first suggest she talk to love you. It is the natural way of growing her doctor. up. Your teenagers don’t want to spend Is a husband or the father of these chila Saturday afternoon in your living room dren around? Could you talk to him about playing games. They want to be with their this? Would your sister be amenable to an offer to friends at the movies. But they still want you to noclean her house — either by you, a group of friends tice what they do, accomplish and need. or a professional service?

Parents who want to stay connected to their teenIs the house so dangerous that you would report agers should attend their sports, fundraising and her to the local board of health and have the chil- performance events.

ANNIE ANNIE

HOROSCOPES Saturday, May 9 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Candice Bergen, 69; Albert Finney, 79; Wendy Crewson, 59 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Keep your feet on the ground and don’t believe everything you hear.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a strong moral compass but need to learn to forgive and forget. November and December are the best months for leisure, love and romance.

JOANNE ARIES (March 21-April 19): MADELEINE With Venus now visiting your doMOORE mestic zone, it’s time to spend quality time with loved ones as you share mutual interests and enjoy domestic duties like cooking, crafting and gardening.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Try processing information thoroughly — especially involving money matters. Otherwise things will quickly become confusing. Friends and finances are a messy mix at the moment.

SUN SIGNS

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s not a good day to analyze, do research or solve tricky problems as you’re likely to feel confused and disorganised. Plus resist the temptation to be somewhat elastic with the truth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Things are hectic and you may feel pulled in many opposing directions. Close relationships will also be intense and unpredictable, so pace yourself and keep your cool Crabs.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What’s the hurry? Avoid making important decisions today Lions, as you’re inclined to confused thinking and daydreaming. Life will look a lot calmer and clearer tomorrow.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Attached Virgos — your love life looks somewhat problematic, as what you want and what the relationship needs are at odds. Singles — be careful you’re not sending out the wrong message.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Librans are master diplomats, with the ability to calm those around them. You’ll be working overtime today, as you soothe a worried family member or console a frazzled friend.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t accept things at face value today Scorpio. Do your homework and check the facts before you believe what others are telling you. If still in doubt,

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Be an enthusiastic observer! Take pictures of your children with their friends and send them copies. If the team goes out for a meal after the competition, sit with the other parents and let your kids sit with their friends.

Finally, parents, don’t act put-upon and sad. Your teenagers don’t want to feel sorry for you. They need you to be strong and encouraging. They want to be proud of you. Let go of your ego. As soon as you recognize that it’s about your child and not about your pitiful situation, you will enjoy being a parent again.

Your children are not responsible for your divorce or your recovery, and they should not be expected to do anything to help you through this. Find other adults to help you. — Coach in Lodi, Calif.

Dear Coach: Thank you for pointing out that all teenagers, regardless of their parents’ marital status, go through a period when they’d rather be with friends than family.

But it doesn’t mean they don’t still need their parents’ guidance and encouragement.

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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D10 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, May 9, 2015

HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU

HOROSCOPES FROM D9

SIGNS: Sagittarius SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarians naturally possess a superficial grasp of a wide range of subjects. But today you need to zero in on important details, as you examine issues with greater focus and depth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re keen to roll up your sleeves and work hard today. However, don’t put too much pressure on yourself — and others. Just remember perfection is a goal, not a destination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some Aquarians will be preoccupied with work problems today. Others may encounter some confusion regarding a friend or a financial matter. Be patient with a stressed loved one.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Make sure you surround yourself with positive people today Pisces, as you will soak up their thoughts and feelings like a sponge. Plus do your best to separate fact from fiction.

Sunday, May 10 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Polly Walker, 49; Bono, 55; Linda Evangelista, 50 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Jump out of a rut and do something different today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Intuitive and daring, you have a fabulously fertile imagination and a strong creative streak. The next 12 months is the time to show the world what you are really capable of.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re keen to maintain your personal space and autonomy, and won’t take kindly to others telling you what to do. By all means be independent, but try not to offend others in the process.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your home life should improve, as Jupiter jumps through your domestic zone. Don’t assume you know what house mates are thinking though. Take the time to really talk things through.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Communication is the buzz word, as you link up with like-minded souls and discuss life, love and current affairs. You’re in the mood for exciting experiences and stimulating conversations.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Work challenges will improve if you look at the situation from a fresh angle. If you are worried about money matters, get talking with a professional.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Calling all Lions! Avoid being a right royal bossy-boots. Clear, considered communication will get you a lot further than temper tantrums and prima donna behaviour.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t worry about mistakes you have made in the past. It’s the perfect day to combine intellect, intuition and imagination, as you approach a stubborn problem from a fresh new angle.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A loved one or friend may come up with a surprising suggestion that temporarily throws you. Don’t make any hasty decisions. Sleep on it and let a fresh perspective emerge.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you feeling bored? It’s time to shake yourself out of a Sunday rut and do something you’ve never done before. Make sure you take an adventurous loved one along for the ride!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you must assert your independence, do so in a calm and clear manner and then move on. Those around you aren’t mind readers. The only way they’ll know how you feel is if you tell them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With Venus visiting your relationship zone — until June 5 — Capricorns long for peaceful partnerships at the moment. Compromise and cooperation will lead to love and laughter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The focus is on freedom within a partnership. You’re keen to spend quality time with someone special — but you’ll also need plenty of solo time, where you can re-charge your batteries.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t assume you know what is best for those around you. If you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, you’ll see things in a different light. Give a family member room to move.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

U.S. bank robbery suspect posts video, robbery note to Instagram

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A man accused of robbing a Virginia Beach bank posted two videos and a photo of the incident to his Instagram account.

Police tell WAVY-TV 23-year-old Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca walked into a TowneBank on Monday and handed the teller a note asking for $150,000 in bonds. Before he left, he recorded the incident on his cellphone and posted the videos and photo of the note online.

The videos show the teller putting stacks of cash in a bag.

Officers picked up Alfonseca 20 minutes after he left the bank carrying a gym bag full of money.

In a jailhouse interview, Alfonseca told the station Wednesday that asking for money isn’t a crime. Alfonseca believes he’ll be found innocent in court.

It is unclear if he has a lawyer.

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A great horned owl fledgling checks everything out near Kerry Wood Nature Centre. This powerful predator can take down birds and mammals even larger than itself, but mostly dines on daintier fare such as mice and frogs. It’s one of the most common owls in North America and lives in almost any semi-open habitat between the Arctic and the tropics.

Study of golden retrievers aims to uncover why health woes plague breed, shorten lives

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — If a golden retriever gives birth, gets stung by a bee or sprayed by a skunk, veterinarians want to know.

Scientists are studying the popular breed to find out why their lifespans have gotten shorter over the years and why cancer is so prevalent.

The Colorado-based Morris Animal Foundation recently got the first lifetime study of 3,000 purebred golden retrievers up and running after signing up the first dogs in 2012. The non-profit says the review of health conditions and environmental factors facing goldens across the U.S. can help other breeds and even people, because humans carry 95 per cent of the same DNA. “Canine cancer has become a dog owner’s greatest fear,” said Dr. David Haworth, president and CEO of the foundation, which invested $25 million in the study. “You don’t see dogs running loose that much anymore, we don’t see a lot of infectious diseases, and the vaccines we have today are very good, so our concerns are warranted.”

The vets haven’t learned enough yet to improve or prolong the retrievers’ lives, but key factors could lie anywhere, said Dr. Michael Lappin, who has 19 patients from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, in the study. When he graduated from veterinary school in 1972, golden retrievers lived 16 or 17 years. Today, it’s nine or 10 years.

Golden retrievers die of bone cancer, lymphoma and a cancer of the blood vessels more than any other breed in the country.

Lappin plans to get his families together in a few months to see if they have found ways to make life easier for their dogs, especially because the most helpful data about cancer, obesity, diabetes and other chronic conditions won’t emerge for six or seven years, researchers say.

Early exams showed 33 per cent of the dogs, which are 1 to 5 years old, had skin disease or ear infections; 17 per cent had gastrointestinal illnesses; and 11 per cent had urinary disease.

The dogs get medication to treat the conditions, but vets can’t treat them differently because it would skew the results, Lappin said.

Marla Yetka of Denver says her nearly 2-year-old golden retriever, Snickers, joined the study and has been suffering from skin problems. Yetka uses oatmeal shampoo on her pet, but she’s looking forward to talking with other participants about their remedies.

“I have too many friends who have lost goldens,” she said. “Is it what we are feeding them, their environments, their breeding?”

Pet owners keep tabs on everything, from a move across country or across town, a change in climate or time zone, new children at home, different food or behavioural changes. Most keep journals so they don’t constantly call the vets when their dog gets a thorn in its foot, eats a spider or devours a bunch of bologna if it tears into the groceries.

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