Red Deer Advocate, June 13, 2015

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I’m very honoured and excited to get started. I know what it can be for the community. I also know what it means for the citizens and the sport development for Central Alberta.

— Scott Robinson CEO, 2019 Canada Winter Games

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Former Hockey Alberta executive named CEO of the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer on Friday

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Scott Robinson fought back the tears as he talked about what the 2019 Canada Winter Games will mean to the city.

Looking down at his gold medal ring, Robinson said he intends to steward the Red Deer games team to the best of his abilities to a gold medal performance for the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer.

Robinson was named the CEO of the games at a press conference at Red Deer College on Friday.

“I’m very honoured and excited to get started,” said Robinson. “I know what it can be for the community. I also know what it means for the citizens and the sport development for Central Alberta.”

Robinson is no stranger to sports and to the Canada Winter Games. He had a 23-year career with Hockey Alberta, where he helped take two Alberta hockey teams to the national games. He wore various hats during his time with Hockey Alberta including

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co-ordinator and manager of high performance, senior manager of hockey development and executive director of the Hockey Alberta Foundation.

At the 1995 Canada Winter Games in Grande Prairie and the 1999 Winter Games in Corner Brook, Nfld., Robinson was the manager of hockey development for Team Alberta men’s and women’s hockey teams.

In 1999, the men’s hockey team won gold and the women’s team took bronze for Alberta.

Robinson said he wore his ring as a symbolic gesture during the announcement of his appointment on Friday at Red Deer College because he is counting on the city pulling off a gold-medal performance in 2019.

Lyn Radford, Red Deer 2019 Canada Winter Games Host Society board chair, said the board is confident that Robinson is the right person for the job.

Radford said he was an integral part of the bid and the transition team.

“He understands sport and that was an important part of it,” said Radford. “But most of all he understands community. I

think that is the biggest thing we have going in our favour here.”

The committee combed through 33 applications in its national search before making a short list of five applicants. Other Red Deerians applied for the position.

Robinson, who has worked in the nonprofit sector for most os his career, officially starts on Aug. 15.

His parents Dennis and Sheila, who live in Edmonton, and daughters and Keira, 14, and Megan, eight, were on hand for the announcement.

Ron and Cari MacLean were also named as honourary board chairs.

Cari MacLean said they are thrilled to be part of the games and to continue being advocates for the city.

“This is where our heart is,” said MacLean. “We are anchored here through our family and friends. The community and what it has done for us has never left us. We want to give back because this is a community that made us both who we are.”

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Arrest made in Lindhout kidnapping Almost seven years after the kidnapping of Amanda Lindhout, the RCMP have arrested and charged a Somalian man.

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Arrest made in Lindhout kidnapping MOUNTIES LAY CRIMINAL CHARGE AGAINST SOMALIAN MAN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Almost seven years after the overseas hostage-taking of former journalist Amanda Lindhout, the RCMP have arrested and charged a Somalian man with the crime.

Lindhout and photographer Nigel Brennan were seized by young gunmen near strife-torn Mogadishu, Somalia, in August 2008. Both were released on Nov. 25, 2009.

The Mounties say Ali Omar Ader, a Somalian national, faces a criminal charge of hostage-taking for his purported role as a negotiator.

He was arrested Thursday in Ottawa. The RCMP say Ader, 37, had been in town for Ali Omar Ader a few days but the national police force would not reveal how he arrived in Canada.

Successfully prosecuting such a case “depends on a certain level of discretion,” RCMP assistant commissioner James Malizia told a news conference Friday.

The RCMP’s Ottawa Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, supporting RCMP units and partner agencies have been working on the case ever since the abduction seven years ago, Malizia said.

Details of the lengthy investigation — which involved undercover operations, surveillance and wiretaps — would come out in court, he said.

“This investigation posed a number of significant challenges as it was carried out in an extremely high-risk environment in a country plagued with political instability.”

Malizia declined to say whether the Somalian gov-

ernment was aware of the probe.

Ader stood emotionless with his arms behind his back during a brief court appearance by video link Friday. The matter was adjourned until June 19.

“We have very little information we can effectively relay to you with confidence,” said his lawyer, Samir Adam. “Because it’s so early in the process, we’re not really able to comment.”

Lindhout, 34, has published a best-selling memoir of her traumatic experience, in which she reveals being sexually assaulted in captivity.

In 2009, the native of Red Deer established The Global Enrichment Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering leadership in Somalia through educational and community-based programs.

Malizia lauded Lindhout, Brennan and their families for their courage and for providing witness statements that assisted the police investigation.

“The RCMP fully understands that criminal investigations and the ensuing prosecutions are difficult.

Victims and witnesses must relive events that they should not have had to endure in the first place,” Malizia said.

“I have personally been in touch with Miss Lindhout to provide her with these latest developments, and I continue to admire her resilient spirit after having gone through such an ordeal.”

The Mounties noted the police force’s mandate extends beyond Canada’s borders, where the extraterritorial provisions of the Criminal Code come into effect.

The RCMP acknowledged the help of the Canada Border Services Agency, Foreign Affairs and the Australian Federal Police.

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney applauded the efforts. “Any criminal who harms a Canadian anywhere in the world can be assured that Canada will hunt them down and make sure that they face the full force of the law.”

Amanda Lindhout first made headlines as an unknown, aspiring journalist being held hostage in one of the world’s most dangerous countries. Today, she’s more likely to garner attention as a best-selling author and humanitarian activist.

The transformation from cause celebre to borderline celebrity hasn’t come easily to the Alberta-born woman.

The book that’s placed her name in Canada’s list of best-selling titles for 65 weeks running chronicles the 15 harrowing months she spent as a captive.

A House in the Sky offers a vivid account of physical and sexual violence, interspersed with deeply personal reflections and themes of hope.

The memoir has earned a non-fiction award in Canada and even attracted the attention of Hollywood screenwriters who are actively turning it into a movie set to star Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara.

But what proved fruitful fodder for a film script has also fuelled a personal transformation. According to Lindhout herself, the adventure-seeking former cocktail waitress and freelance journalist who travelled to Somalia in search of breaking news bore little resemblance to the emaciated hostage who emerged after being forced to convert to Islam and change her name to Amina.

More different still, she says, is the human rights crusader she is today.

“Being free is something I will never take for granted,” Lindhout wrote in her book. “I’m grateful for even the smallest pleasures — a piece of fruit, a walk in the woods, the chance to hug my mom. I wake up every day feeling thankful for all that people have given me.”

Lindhout spent the first several years back in Canada away from the public eye, declining requests to share her ordeal and focusing instead on finding a new direction for her life.

Her first effort came in May 2009 when she launched the Global Enrichment Foundation (GEF), a charity that promotes education for women and girls in Somalia.

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Ward said RDC is in talks with all the municipal governments in Central Alberta. The college will make its case at the county again before 2019.

Ward said RDC has a major commitment from the provincial government and the City of Red Deer, which brings the tally to about $50 million.

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RDC president Joel Ward expects the estimated price of $80 million to come in a little under as a result of the economy.

The college will launch an official fundraising campaign to raise about $25 million in the fall.

Red Deer County recently turned down the college’s request for $5 million for the project. Instead, the county agreed to contribute $500,000 to the project.

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2019 Canada Winter Games CEO Scott Robinson poses with his daughters Keira, 14, and Megan, 8, parents Sheila and Dennis at the host society’s press conference at Red Deer College on Friday.

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In the next six months to a year, the sub-committees and board will be in the thick of the planning processes. On Friday, the board began a two-day visioning session for the games to ensure the vision matches the bid.

Robinson said the group is building on the vision but they hope to make the games in Red Deer truly a regional, provincial and national event.

“Our vision is to make it something that is truly significant in terms of that emerging city and region that we are,” he said. “To ensure not only the athletes have the best possible experience but we elevate the games to a whole new level.”

Robinson said taking the games to that next level will involve a lot of hard work from the fantastic group of volunteers and community leaders.

“We going to roll up our sleeves and we are going to get busy on building all the pieces that we need to build to make it a fantastic games,” he said. “It’s going to be the biggest thing that the community has ever seen. It’s going to touch everyone.”

For two weeks in February 2019, some 25,000 visitors will come to Red Deer to watch 3,600 athletes compete in 19 sports.

The city has about $20 million to $30 million worth of capital work ahead to ready the facilities, such as the Collicutt Centre, Canyon Ski Hill and Great Chief Park, for the games over the next three years. The city allocated $26 million to improve and build two new facilities over the next three years.

The federal and provincial governments are expected to contribute at least $22.2 million for operating and capital costs towards the games. The city is in the detailed planning stages for the upgrades and new builds for the games.

If RDC does not proceed with its plans to build an Olympic-sized arena, the city will pay $11.4 million to build the arena and squash courts at the G.H. Dawe Community Centre.

The primary construction will likely begin in 2016.

Red Deer College’s planned Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport is one of the main facilities to will be used in the games. The college is also hosting

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Mitchell sworn in during ceremony

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Calgary businesswoman and philanthropist Lois Mitchell is officially Alberta’s new lieutenant-governor.

Mitchell was sworn in during a ceremony Friday at the legislature replete with red carpets, a brass band, a military guard of honour and a 15-gun military salute.

“In my wildest dreams I could not have imagined my life’s path leading to this moment,” Mitchell, sitting in the ornate, high-backed mahogany Speaker’s chair, told the assembled dignitaries in the legislature chamber.

“I am humbled by this rare opportunity to represent Her Majesty the Queen and to serve as a safeguard of everything that the Crown in Canada represents.”

Mitchell is the province’s 18th lieutenant-governor, and replaces Don Ethell.

The lieutenant-governor is the Queen’s representative in the province, and carries out ceremonial duties, including signing legislation. She will also play host to visiting dignitaries.

Past lieutenants-governor have, while in office, worked to raise awareness of issues or causes.

Mitchell told reporters she wants to raise the profile of the work of police officers, and also boost the Special Olympics.

“There is a great kind of need to help support the Special Olympics,” Mitchell told reporters after the ceremony. “(It’s my) hope that every single

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Regimental funeral to be held for Edmonton officer EDMONTON — When the oldest son of slain Const. Daniel Woodall looked out the car window during a drive this week through Edmonton, his mother pointed out blue ribbons tied to trees and posts.

“That’s because your dad was special,” she told him.

Police spokesman Sgt. Steve Sharpe shared the moment with reporters Friday, while announcing that a regimental funeral is to be held next Wednesday for Woodall.

The 35-year-old officer, recruited to Edmonton nine years ago from England, was killed on Monday while he

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Governor General David Johnston invests Lois Mitchell, from Calgary as a Member of the Order of Canada during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, on Friday May 3, 2013. sports team might consider having a Special Olympian with them. They do that at (University of Calgary) on the basketball team and it’s been very inspirational.”

Mitchell is the senior partner and the founder of an international marketing and consulting firm. She is the past president of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and former vice-chair of

was trying to serve an arrest warrant.

Police had been investigating Norman Raddatz, a 42-year-old refrigerator repairman, for anti-Semitic bullying of an Edmonton man and his family. When Woodall and other officers showed up at Raddatz’s home, bullets started flying through the front door.

A second officer was shot in the back but survived because of his bullet-proof vest.

Shortly after the shooting, Raddatz’s home started on fire. His burned body was eventually found in the basement.

An autopsy determined that he had shot himself.

A Facebook page linked to Raddatz has revealed his extremist views.

It contained rants against police and courts as well as slurs against minorities. Neighbours have described him as an unfriendly, divorced father who drank and was out of work. A bank had also foreclosed on his house.

Woodall worked in the police hatecrimes unit and will be remembered as a dedicated officer, said Sharpe.

“He didn’t do politics. He did police

work and he was always nose-to-thegrindstone. He was always doing the work and I think that is the legacy of

the Global Business Forum.

Sports is a key thread that runs through many of her philanthropic works, which include stints as a director for Hockey Canada Foundation and governor of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League.

She served as a board member for the inaugural World Women’s Under-18 Hockey Championships She recalled meeting and being inspired by Canadian national team player Hayley Wickenheiser.

“Especially when women get a chance to play on a team, they are excellent, excellent at everything they do,” said Mitchell. “When you’re lying there on the ice, you have to get up fast. Well life is about all those things that hit us and learning how to get up and keep going.”

Mitchell won the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 and became a member of the Order of Canada in 2012. Her husband is lawyer and former CFL commissioner Doug Mitchell.

Premier Rachel Notley paid tribute to Mitchell at the ceremony.

“She has been relentless about putting her time and her talents to work for worthy organizations,” said Notley. “She has opened doors for people who might otherwise have found them shut.”

The ceremony had one moment of concern when the guard flanking Mitchell fainted, crashing into a flag stand. He was later reported to be OK. On Monday, Mitchell will be back in the legislature chamber to read the throne speech outlining the government’s goals to begin a new session of the legislature.

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Crown will not challenge outings for mentally ill man who killed his 3 kids VANCOUVER — The Crown will not block a mentally ill British Columbia man who killed his three children from escorted outings into the community, but it has left the door open for obtaining an order that could lock him up indefinitely.

The province’s Criminal Justice Branch said Friday it would not appeal a decision by the B.C. Review Board granting Allan Schoenborn short supervised excursions.

Three senior lawyers concluded there was no sufficient legal basis for challenging the independent tribunal — a finding that infuriated the victims’ family and drew acceptance, but displeasure, from B.C.’s justice minister.

“None of us are terribly happy about this,” Suzanne Anton told reporters, though adding she does support the decision.

“The question on appeal is a different question — whether there’s a legal basis for an appeal — and the branch has concluded there is not.”

But a statement by the justice branch also highlighted the possibility it may still launch a bid in B.C. Supreme Court for a “high-risk accused” designation for Schoenborn, which if successful would give the review board several new powers.

For example, the label would mean the board could wait for three years between hearings reviewing his case, or even hold him at the psychiatric hospital with no plan for release.

CF-18s hit target in Syria near Assad forces; denies co-ordination OTTAWA — The commander of Canada’s bombing campaign in the Middle East says recent strikes in Syria were not co-ordinated with the government of Bashar Assad, even though its forces were operating in the area at the time.

Two CF-18 jets carried out airstrikes this week near the eastern city of Al Hasakah, a hotly contested region where units loyal to Assad recaptured some territory from extremists last weekend.

The independent Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said as many as 20 Syrian soldiers and pro-government militia were killed in the lead-up to the capture, which included airstrikes by government forces.

The Canadian mandate against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is clear, Brig.-Gen. Lise Bourgon, who took over recently as the detachment commander, told a telephone briefing Friday.

“We attack the ISIS targets that are given to us.

That is really our target and there has been no coordination with the government of Syria,” Bourgon said from Kuwait, where Canada’s warplanes, surveillance aircraft and refueller are based.

She also said there are no western forces on the ground spotting targets in Syria.

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Christopher Phillips, whose chemical stockpiles caused police to order evacuations in two cities, arrives for his bail hearing at provincial court in Dartmouth, N.S., on Tuesday, March 17, 2015. An alleged threat by a Halifax man to hurl a box containing a poisonous chemical at police was an absurd mix of contradictions that amounted to a joke, a defence lawyer argued Friday in closing arguments before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.

However, an activist group that works with detainees cited hospital staff and the family as saying the man died from a lack of effective medical care for his diabetic condition — although Brouwer did not confirm that.

The group, End Immigration Detention Network, accused Canada Border Services Agency of a lack of transparency and decried its use of prisons to hold foreigners not charged with any crime.

“CBSA is clearly unwilling to act on the death and misery caused by immigration detention,” the network’s Syed Hussan said in a statement. “It needs to end.”

In a brief news release late Thursday, the border agency announced the death of the man in hospital in Peterborough, Ont. “The Canada Border Services Agency was notified by the Peterborough General Hospital that an adult male detainee, who was receiving care, passed away in hospital,” the statement said.

The release, issued about 18 hours after the death, gave no further information about who he was, where he was from, or any other circumstances of his detention or death.

peak were sentenced to three days in jail and fined for obscene behaviour in a public place, their lawyer said Friday.

“They were remorseful and regretted their act, and had offered a public apology during mitigation,” said lawyer Ronny Cham.

The four were among 10 foreigners who stripped naked and took photos on Mount Kinabalu on May 30.

A local official has said their behaviour was disrespectful to the mountain, which is believed to be sacred, and caused an earthquake on June 5 that killed 18 climbers.

The two Canadians were Saskatchewan siblings Lindsey Petersen and Danielle Petersen. The other two westerners were Dutch citizen Dylan Snel and British student Eleanor Hawkins.

The four pleaded guilty in a court in Sabah state on Borneo island to a charge of public indecency, said Cham.

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CALGARY — The husband of a Calgary woman killed while trying to stop a driver who didn’t pay for gas thanked mourners for coming to her funeral, adding they are his family now.

Maryam Rashidi, who was 36, had been on the job for three days at Centex gas station when she was hit and run over by a stolen pickup truck whose driver tried to flee after not paying for $113 worth of gas.

Family and friends gathered Friday to remember Rashidi, who was born in Iran and attended university, earning a bachelor of chemical engineering degree.

She met her husband, Ahmed Mourani Shallo, while working in the oil and gas industry and the two were married in 2005 and their son was born in 2009.

The couple immigrated to Canada in 2014 and settled in Calgary in January.

Shallo said in Farsi — which was translated by a friend — that the couple overcame many obstacles to come to Canada and had many dreams about what they could achieve here.

“With the experience and expertise we brought to Canada, we were certain that we would achieve our dreams one after another. We shared a home full of motherly love, a father’s determination and a healthy son.

“We both believed that we must strive to keep our cultural values while looking for the new ways to succeed in the new society. Unfortunately this terrible accident cast a shadow on our happiness.”

Rashidi and Shallo both found jobs at a local oil and gas company but were laid off in March. She took a job as a gas station attendant to support her family.

Secrecy shrouds death of ‘agitated’ man in Canadian immigration custody TORONTO — The death of a man in Canadian immigration custody was shrouded in secrecy Friday with details sketchy and authorities refusing to say who he was or how he died.

Results of an autopsy were unknown and family of the man, who had yet to be buried, were requesting privacy over the weekend, his lawyer said late Friday.

“It’s obviously a big shock — he was a young man,” Andrew Brouwer told The Canadian Press. “There’s still a good deal of uncertainty about exactly what happened.”

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Blogger Raif Badawi spared flogging in Saudi Arabia MONTREAL — The Quebec government said it would accelerate immigration procedures for Raif Badawi,

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Criticism leads B.C. premier to ditch Yoga Day event VANCOUVER — A mass yoga session touted by British Columbia’s premier as a way to strengthen ties with India has collapsed under the weight of political opposition.

Christy Clark’s plan to close a major bridge in downtown Vancouver to celebrate International Yoga Day was met with opponents saying the event showcased the government’s misplaced priorities.

On Friday, a week after she made the announcement, Clark said the giant yoga class scheduled for June 21 will be cancelled. “Unfortunately, the focus of the proposed Burrard Street Bridge event has drifted towards politics, getting in the way of the spirit of community and inner reflection,� she said. “It was for that reason I decided not to participate.�

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promoted International Yoga Day when he visited B.C. in April, and Clark said last week that millions of people around the world celebrate the event, which is sanctioned by the United Nations.

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TORONTO — An American court decision in the case of an alleged alQaida recruiter Friday has cast further doubt on the war crimes convictions of Canada’s Omar Khadr.

In its split ruling, the appeals court set aside the military commission conviction of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a Guantanamo Bay detainee who did media relations for terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

In essence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the conspiracy case against al-Bahlul was legally flawed because conspiracy is not a war crime — similar to arguments Khadr has made. The commission only had jurisdiction to try internationally recognized war crimes, the court said.

Khadr’s Pentagon-appointed lawyer was not immediately available to comment, but one of his Canadian lawyers said the decision undermines Khadr’s conviction and his appeal should now be allowed. “By implication, (the ruling) pretty much seals the deal with respect to Omar’s appeal,� Nate Whitling said from Edmonton. “This case clearly confirms that all five of Khadr’s convictions are invalid and must inevitably be overturned.�

The Toronto-born Khadr was convicted of five war crimes in October 2010 after he pleaded guilty before a widely condemned military commission to offences he was accused of committing as a 15-year-old in Afghanistan in 2002.

He is appealing the conviction on the grounds that the commission had no jurisdiction to try him because the offences with which he was charged were not war crimes at the time. However, the commission appeals court has refused to hear the case pending the outcome of the al-Bahlul challenge.

Whitling said the Court of Military Commission Review should now get on with hearing Khadr’s challenge given that the al-Bahul case has been decided. “That abeyance has now expired,�

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the blogger in Saudi Arabia who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes but was spared Friday.

It was feared his punishment would resume after the Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia upheld the sentence imposed on the blogger, but the Amnesty International office in Paris said it had received confirmation the punishment was postponed.

Badawi, 31, is not a Canadian citizen, although his wife and children fled Saudi Arabia in 2012 and settled in Sherbrooke, Que., in 2013.

Ensaf Haidar, Badawi’s wife, took to Twitter on Friday to call again for an end to her husband’s punishment. “I repeat my appeal to his majesty King Salman to pardon my husband ... and stop his flogging,� she wrote.

Quebec Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil said the province will give Badawi an immigration selection certificate on humanitarian grounds.

Badawi would still need to apply for permanent residency federally, but the Quebec certificate would make the case a priority.

Weil was accompanied by members of all provincial parties in announcing the measure.

Badawi’s detention and sentence have stirred up worldwide condemnation and Quebec politicians unanimously adopted a motion in February calling for his immediate release.

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No real commitment WE NEED LEADERSHIP TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE

A few years ago, our household took advantage of a federal/provincial tax rebate program to upgrade the energy efficiency of our old house.

The money we got back as tax rebates didn’t come anywhere close to what we spent on a new highefficiency furnace, plus other less costly improvements, but the reductions in our monthly gas bill were immediately noticeable.

But only for a short time.

In successive winters, I was back to gasping at our utility bills. Only during an office gripe session about the rising cost of everything did I discover that workmates with far newer houses than mine were paying more than double our bills for winter heating.

GREG The lesson being that whatNEIMAN ever your situation, you get used to it. If I got my friend’s gas bill in one month, I’d hit the roof. If I got them for eight months, I’d probably see it as normal.

The program I participated in was ended by the Harper government a few weeks after I got in. It was an election goodie and there was no election forthcoming, so the goodie was withdrawn.

The program did create some short-term jobs and no doubt created a lot of sales of more-expensive gas furnaces. But without the promise of votes, being energy efficient has always been a non-starter for Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Really, it would seem he couldn’t care less about energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions or climate change, and he couldn’t care less if you, I or the whole world say so.

So you have to chuckle a bit watching Harper give the news conference committing Canada to total elimination of all fossil fuels by the end of this century. We have a new word: decarbonization.

He’s probably the only national leader in the world who can be pilloried for agreeing to that.

Chiefly because so few people believe Harper’s promises on climate change.

Back home, Liberal critic John McKay said Harper “has embarrassed Canada on the world stage,” with his agreement with the other leaders of G7 countries recently reached in Germany on the need for severe reductions in burning carbon for energy.

You could not get a more lukewarm endorsement of an earth-changing, economy changing goal, than that given by Harper after the G7. He probably won’t even refer to it again until forced to, at the next international conference on climate change to be held in Paris in December.

Nobody is going to shut down the Canadian energy industry and turn out the lights, said Harper.

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This is about “milestones over decades,” he said.

Milestones I’m guessing he has no intention of reaching for.

After committing Canada to becoming a “clean energy superpower” in 2008, there has been no significant federal initiative on climate change since.

Not one.

By dint of a deep economic recession, and technological improvements that were coming on the market anyway, Canada achieved a 4.8 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2005-2011.

Mark Jaccard is a sustainable energy professor at Simon Fraser University. He says if the feds showed leadership on pricing carbon, so that the process of producing less of it becomes feasible, the first steps to the milestones Harper spoke of would be taken.

Jaccard says if Canada were to reach the 70 per cent reduction goal Harper agreed to last time on the world stage, getting the rest could be done in a decade — 40 years ahead of the schedule he floated out there in this latest commitment.

“The more important thing, though, is that he hasn’t done anything to reach the 2050 target,” says Jaccard.

Canadian Press reported word from anonymous sources in the discussion rooms that Canada and

Japan both worked behind the scenes to water down the G-7 agreement on climate change.

As of January 2014, climate models by researchers in Australia showed a variety of outcomes for the world, given certain levels of greenhouse gas emissions globally by the end of this century.

The worst, most catastrophic of the possible outcomes were predicted to be the most likely. A rise in global temperatures by four degrees will be bad, but the more likely models predicted a rise up to eight degrees. That’s if no bold ventures are taken to reduce climate-altering emissions.

The scientists and bureaucrats say efforts toward even modest GHG reductions will require federal regulations and a national program of carbon pricing. The only voice our government heeds is that of the next poll of voting intentions.

If voters do not tell their MPs they want leadership on climate change, and convince them they are willing to pay an up-front cost to help save the planet, all our international commitments are just wind.

Either that, or Canadian voters must defeat this government.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate.blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@gmail.com.

Donder and Blitzen in June and July It’s called astraphobia, also known as astrapophobia, brontophobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia.

Which only proves that everything has a name. And in this case, all those $10 names mean one thing: Kaboom!

Fear of lightning.

And for anyone who owns a dog or similar pet, you know what I’m talking about. Some mutts are worse than others of course, but mine used to try to crawl under the wall-to-wall carpet whenever a thunder storm even began to clamber over the Rocky Mountains in our direction.

And some people have varying intensities of astraphobia. My own Mom used to frantically run around trying to put pillows on the windows during a wicked storm and as soon as a bolt of lightning hit within 10 miles (40 km) she would immediately join the dog under the couch.

HARLEY I’m thinking about all this HAY on account of even though I don’t have a dog or Mom anymore, the lightning bolts and the thunderboomers started up again in this neck of the woods just this week.

And also this week, this very daily had an interesting and scary story about the fact that our beloved city happens to be right in smack in the middle of the top 10.

Oh, it’s in many top 10, such as best place to live, best walking trails and worst bicycle lanes, but this top 10 was about lightning strikes. We are number five in the province with nearly 5,000 lightning strikes last year alone. That’s enough to send any astraphobic to, say, Prince Rupert, B.C., which had less than 100 lightning flashes in the past decade. At least we don’t live in Venezuela. There’s a spot on the Catatumbo River that gets an astonishing 40,000 flashes per night. That’s forty thousand. Every night!

That’s like constant Mother Nature paparazzi!

And the residents of the Venezuelan Lake Maracaibo get lightning 300 nights every year and have to

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“shutter their blinds against the light.” Yikes. And we thought June and July was bad for Donder and Blitzen.

And yes, I do realize Santa’s reindeer don’t (usually) appear in June or July; it so happens that, as you probably know, the loudest reindeer and the flashiest reindeer are named from German/Dutch words for: Thunder (Donder) and Lightning (Blitzen).

I’m not sure why Donder got the name Thunder but I don’t think I’d want to be lined up directly behind him, if you get my drift.

Can you remember the worst lightning storm you ever experience? I have several painful remembrances of dodging forks (not the restaurant kind, har har), being assaulted by three digit decibel thunder claps (not the audience kind, har har) and being completely drenched by a deluging downpour.

Once, I was driving topless in my rattletrap 1957 Triumph TR3 sports car to see my girlfriend (the car was topless, not me) when the flash-boom suddenly came out of the sky like a giant evil beast from a Marvel comic book. I pulled over in the downpour on account of my windshield wipers were somewhat faulty in the sense that they didn’t work, and it was about then that the Sky Beast started throwing ice balls at my little car. Thing is, these British cars had thin leather soft tops for roofs, and mine was a bit faulty in the sense that it didn’t really fit and wasn’t really all there. Much like the driver.

When I finally got the top up and more or less fastened down, my little car and myself looked like drowned water rats, if a car can look like a drowned water rat, and I got safely back inside the two seater just in time for the hail to start ripping large holes in my car roof.

Another time, myself and my hacker (not the computer kind, the golf kind) buddies were on the golf course when an epic storm arrived like a plague of locusts. It was one of those tempests you don’t soon forget. We barely had time to seek shelter in the woods (where my ball had landed anyway) which isn’t always the best place to be during a lightning storm and when it hit we could feel that weird airborn electricity humming and twinging all around us and our hair standing on end and then we got sorely soaked in the space of three seconds.

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first time I heard the best golf-related lightning joke ever. One of the guys said later: “You know the best thing to do when you get caught in a lightning storm on a golf course? You stand in the middle of the fairway, take out your one iron and hold it high up in the air. You’ll be completely safe, because even God can’t hit a one iron.” (Har, har. …)

Be that as it may, during a lingering bout of astraphobia, it’s good if we can all remember that lightning is simply a case of the largest, darkest clouds running around shuffling their feet and touching each other’s index fingers to make a spark, and that thunder is simply the clouds bouncing off of each other very loudly. Either that or Thor and his buddies are up in the sky bowling and throwing lightning bolts at the Earth.

I’m sure that makes you feel a whole lot better — and you’re welcome.

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The uphill battle to change Every once in a while, someone enters the kitchen who is either high, angry or just plain cantankerous. Because of their disruptive behaviour, they will receive several warnings and if they do not settle down, they are removed from the premises.

Although we enjoy a relative calm at Potter’s Hands, about once a month incidents force us to ask some person to leave. And even though it is a last resort, in order to maintain the peaceful atmosphere we do our best to bring about, their disruptive behaviour makes it necessary. Most often the person being ejected leaves without too much fuss.

This past week we had just such a person. Quite often CHRIS lately, her drug-induced anSALOMONS ger and frustration manifests itself in ways that made me say to myself that my work is not to babysit. She would walk about the room turning off lights, adjusting thermostats and other stupid little things, all the while checking to see if I’m watching her. In some cases, she has even damaged some of our property.

I have known this young native woman for about six years. She is the first person who I have witnessed to actually physically change. In just about all kids who are solidly hooked on drugs, there is some physical change (weight, haggardness, expres-

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sions), but in the case of this young woman, it was much more.

When I first knew her, she was quite a bombshell; petite, curvaceous and facially very pretty. Even at that time, the one thing about her that still remains is a very bad temper. If she does not get her way and aggressiveness does not work, she will strike a physical blow. It has left her expelled from other establishments, but so far she has not done that within the walls of Potter’s Hands.

So, for the last six years, she has always used and abused drugs; her weight going from 115 down to 90 pounds, then back up to the point that now she is probably 145 pounds, shapeless and even angrier than before. But the biggest change is in her face. In the vernacular of a horror movie, her face has taken on the embodiment of evil in all its ugliness.

Her teeth now protrude and her face is set in a constant grimace, and her projected attitude is one of angry aggressiveness. But the one thing that has me totally baffled is her eyes. There is absolutely nothing there but anger.

With most people in the same situation, there is a vacant look in their eyes. The same applies to this girl, but her eyes show a vacancy along with anger. If you watch her for any length of time and she is aware of it, her return gaze is of an intensity that at times is scary.

About four or five years ago, when you could still talk to her, she gave the same story that so many other young girls tell: of childhood sexual abuse, beatings and rejection. This I found is not an excuse as they chose to use it; it is a fact that can be influential

in current behaviour, but I know of too many women who have overcome these past hurts and gone on to lead normal lives.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission now states that the source of current behaviours amongst our native population has its roots in the history of the residential school travesty.

In our society, we have an insatiable thirst to lay blame and execute punishment for even the smallest thing, instead of taking the time to acknowledge our reaction to whatever happened in the first place. Ofttimes, laying blame takes the onus off of ourselves.

We ignore the fact that we can make the choice to change whatever is not right in our lives, but it can be a great uphill battle. The easiest is to fall victim to the feelings of ‘poor me, look what was done to me,’ and let that govern our lives.

That is exactly what this young woman has done.

Although I have not experienced these travesties, I have seen enough in many, many people that these issues can be overcome. Not forgotten, just overcome.

How I wish that I could wave a magic wand to make all this hurt disappear but I can’t. All I can do is try to point these individuals to where they can find the help and the resolve they need to overcome and go on to a healthier lifestyle.

As it is, I feel that short-term expulsions for this particular young girl are no longer going to change things. It may have to be a more permanent ousting.

I dread that time!

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

Standing up to Russian aggression Just before he sat down to a traditional Bavarian meal of sausages and beer with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the start of the G7 summit on Sunday, U.S. President Barack Obama told the media that one of the meeting’s priorities would be discussing ways of “standing up to Russian aggression in Ukraine.”

Which begs the question: what kind of aggression are we talking about here?

There are unquestionably Russian troops in the rebel provinces of eastern Ukraine, and that is certainly an act of aggression under international law. (The Russian troops there are definitely not just volunteers lending the rebels a hand while they are on leave, as Moscow maintains.

How can we be sure? Because soldiers on leave do not take their tanks and artillery with GWYNNE them.)

DYER But is this a prelude to a Russian invasion that would take over all of Ukraine, as Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko recently alleged? If it is, it would require a whole different level of response, and the result could easily be a new Cold War. Is it also the first step in a Russian campaign to take back everything that used to be part of the Soviet Union, and before that of the Russian empire, as many in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia and other former “Soviet Republics” fear?

If so, “standing up to Russian aggression” would be an even bigger task, involving a major NATO troop build-up in Europe and probably a new nuclear arms race.

Might Russian President Vladimir Putin actually be the next would-be world conqueror, out of the same mould as Napoleon and Hitler? In that case, get ready for the Third World War, because it’s unlikely that anything less would stop him.

So exactly what kind of aggressor Putin is matters quite a lot.

Here’s a clue: Putin was first elected president of Russia in 1999, and for his first 15 years in power he didn’t attack anybody. (He responded very toughly to the cretinous Georgian attack on Russian peacekeeping troops in South Ossetia in 2008, but he didn’t start that war.) On the whole, would-be world conquerors don’t wait 15 years before making their first move. They get started as soon as possible, because it’s a big job.

After three months of non-violent demonstrations against Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, in the winter of 2013-14, and after a day of shooting on Independence Square (the Maidan) in Kiev that killed at least 50 protesters and three policemen, Putin agreed to a deal on Feb. 21 that promised new elections in Ukraine within a month.

It was always puzzling why the demonstrators went out onto the square and spent three bitterly cold months there demanding that Yanukovych quit right away, given that elections were due in Ukraine within a year. Why not stay warm at home and vote him out next year? He couldn’t do anything irrevo-

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cable in the meantime.

Never mind that. The representatives of the protesters definitely did agree to the deal hammered out by Russian and EU negotiators on the evening of Feb. 21.

Yanukovych was to resign and there would be new elections in one month. Yet only hours later the demonstrators attacked the presidential administration buildings and Yanukovych had to flee. Why couldn’t they wait even one month?

Maybe because they were afraid that they would lose the election.

Kiev is in western Ukraine, where most people are strongly pro-Western and would like to join the European Union, even NATO if possible. It certainly looked to people watching it on television as if all Ukrainians wanted Yanukovych out.

But Yanukovuch had won the 2010 election fair and square with a 52 per cent majority, thanks to the votes of eastern Ukrainians. Their ancestors had lived in the Russian empire for more than three centuries, unlike those of western Ukrainians. Most eastern Ukrainians speak Russian, share the Orthodox religion of Russians, are actually pro-Russian in general.

What’s more, eastern Ukraine is the home of almost all of the country’s heavy industry, and it was Russia that bought most of the coal, steel and industrial goods produced by eastern Ukrainians. It was their votes that elected Yanukovych in 2010, and there was no reason to believe that they would vote differently in 2014. There really was a coup in Kiev in 2014, and Putin was quite right to feel deceived and betrayed.

He was wrong to respond as he did, taking back the province of Crimea (which had an overwhelmingly Russian population but had been bundled into Ukraine in a Communist-era decision in 1954).

He was very wrong to back the rebellion in the eastern Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk. If he actually encouraged them to rebel (which is not clear) he is even more in the wrong. It is all being done in defiance of international law.

But he is not setting out down the path of world conquest. He is not even planning to take over Ukraine.

“Standing up to Putin” is an invigorating moral exercise, but it is not strictly speaking necessary.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Notley’s challenge is to take Alberta to next stage The election of an NDP government in Alberta, under Premier Rachel Notley, could mark an important turning point in the province’s economy and in the broader social and political environment, just as the election of a Progressive Conservative government led by Peter Lougheed did in 1971.

Lougheed brought fresh energy, vision and commitment, defeating a tired Social Credit government that had been in office since 1935.

DAVID But Lougheed’s six ConserCRANE vative successors following his retirement were an unimpressive crew and none came close to matching him in competence or vision after he retired in 1985.

Just as Lougheed had defeated a tired and listless Social Credit government, Notley has defeated a tired and listless Progressive Conservative government.

Notley inherits an Alberta far different than the one Lougheed inherited. It is much more urban, multicultural and cosmopolitan, and much more global in its outlook.

But it is also a province in trouble. As Lougheed feared, it has become too dependent on the oilsands.

This is Notley’s huge challenge — how to take Alberta to its next stage of development, including a more sustainable energy industry.

Two big factors are working against the oilsands, curbing future growth. One is economic, with the

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dramatic fall in oil prices making investment in new oilsands plants less attractive. The other is the urgent need to address climate change.

The British paper The Financial Times recently commissioned the consulting firm Rystad Energy to assess the impact of falling oil prices on major oil projects. It found that US$118 billion of projects had already been slowed, postponed or cancelled by oil companies. The biggest impact was in Canada, with US$34 billion on 10 projects impacted.

This might be just the beginning. Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment banking firm, is forecasting US$55 a barrel for oil in 2020.

Given that the upfront investment for an oilsands plant is huge and the payback time lengthy, companies planning new projects need a high level of confidence that future prices will be adequate to deliver a threshold level of return. But new technologies, including electric vehicles, more efficient gasoline engines, improved batteries, fuel cells and compressed natural gas could constrain future oil demand and prices.

Climate change is the other big cloud. According to the World Resources Institute, Canada is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter on a per capita basis and one of the world’s top 10 emitters overall. The oilsands are the fastest-growing source of emissions in Canada.

John Podesta, who recently moved from the White House to chair Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, recently told The Guardian newspaper that Canada had to do much more to deal with the growing greenhouse gas emissions from the oilsands.

Stephen Harper government’s climate change policies, he said, were falling short of what was needed.

In fact, the federal government’s recent but vague

promise on emissions reduction by 2030 exempted the oilsands from regulation.

In another interview, Ben Van Beurden, the chief executive of Shell, warned that without a massive investment by oil companies in carbon capture and storage, much of the world’s fossil fuels will have to be kept in the ground. Shell will eventually become a renewable energy company, he said.

A group of six European oil majors, including Shell and BP, have called for carbon pricing — a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system — in every country in the world.

“If governments act to price carbon, this discourages high-carbon options and encourages the most efficient ways of reducing emissions widely, including reduced demand for the most carbon-intensive fossil fuels, greater energy efficiency, the use of natural gas in place of coal, increased investment in carbon capture and storage, renewable energy, smart buildings and grids, off-grid access to energy, cleaner cars and new mobility business models and behaviours,” they said in a letter to the UN. Notley, then, faces a huge challenge in planning for a different kind of Alberta economy and a different kind of energy world. Energy will continue to be an important part of Alberta’s future, though a smaller part. But it will have to be lower carbon, more sustainable and deliver an adequate royalty return to Albertans for what is a non-renewable resource.

The bigger challenge for Notley, though, will be to use Alberta brainpower and entrepreneurship to create new or expanded economic opportunities, from agri-food and software to medical science and chemistry, building the next Alberta.

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

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AMAZON There are more kinds of life in once acre of Ecuadorian rainforest than exists in all of Canada

Photos by GERRY FEEHAN/Freelance

Tyson paddles a tired crew of tourists across the lagoon to Napo Lodge.

S

ergio Mamallacta is a short, powerfully built man.

He bears a strong resemblance to an ex heavyweight boxing champ, so his fellow guides nicknamed him Tyson.

He sports the permanent grin of someone who is pretty sure he can wop your butt.

But Tyson, like all the Kichwa people we met in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is a genGERRY tle person, keenly attuned to FEEHAN the subtle nuances of his surroundings — plants, animals, weather. After a hundred generations in this land, the Kichwa have become indelibly connected to their

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environment.

Ecuador is a small but diverse country. The wet west coast harbours shrimp ponds and vast plantations of bananas. Inland, high in the Andes the capital Quito straddles the equator, snuggled in a valley shadowed by active volcanoes. And just a short flight east of Quito is the low lush Amazon rainforest, where we spent a week at Napo Lodge in Yasuni National Park.

Tyson met us at the airport in the small, bustling town of Coca. From there we motored downstream two hours to the Kichwa village of Anangu, via the busy Napo River, a tributary of the mighty Amazon.

En route, we sipped lukewarm cervesas while Tyson commenced our Amazonian education, sharing tales of the forest and his people’s history.

The Kichwa are descendants of the mighty Inca.

They avoided subjugation by the Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century and still remain proudly independent. Their language survives as one of Ecuador’s official languages — nearly half the country’s

population speaks a Kichwa dialect.

In the last two decades, the people of Anangu Village have given up their traditional hunting lifestyle in favour of eco-tourism. In this win-win scenario, endangered animals are preserved and the people are productive and autonomous.

The Kichwa once used frog toxin and blowguns to kill monkeys. Today, tiny poison dart frogs hop around happily and the cute capuchin monkeys and golden-mantled tamarins are captured on film instead of on a skewer.

Unfortunately, the Ecuadorian government has not emulated the progressive, long-term approach of the indigenous population. The vast reserves of oil that lay under this pristine tropical paradise are unabashedly exploited. Signs of drilling are everywhere. As we drifted down the Rio Napo, barges loaded with tankers, pipe and equipment chugged incongruously beside us.

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Photo on right by KIM SCHUMACHER/Freelance

ABOVE: Simone Schumacher is adorned with a headband woven by Tyson. The claws are the flowers of a bird of paradise.

LEFT: Those are people, not ants, below the kapok tree.

RIGHT: Gerry and Tyson share a bowl of potent chicha.

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We decided to explore.

A f t e r checking local maps and making a few phone calls, we realized we would need a support vehicle.

We can walk 30-km in a day but not 64. There is limited hotel and B&B accommodation in the area, and the two provincial campgrounds are close together.

Fortunately, with a little help from the local Chamber of Commerce, we connected with Heike at the Pigeon Lake B&B. When she learned of our plans, Heike offered shuttle service and prepared lunches for us to pack.

Still, 64 km was a little daunting without a detailed map or directions as we could easily add many more kilometres backtracking to find our route.

A reconnaissance drive around the lake helped us to get our bearings. We found occasional Kiskayo and Trans Canada Trail signs along roadsides and quickly learned that most of the route would, indeed, be on secondary roads, sometimes a kilometre or two from the lake.

The next morning, grey and driz- Please see PIGEON on Page B3 zly for the first time in weeks, we set off as planned.

TRAVEL WITH As it turned out, there was a lot to see and some great places to explore. “because we care”

Top: The path and road run parallel along this portion of Mulhurst Bay. Right: Rundle’s Mission.

Left: Kiskayo Trail.

Inset left: A map of the route makes its Trans Canada Trail links clear.

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trails looping through Pigeon Lake Provincial Park, all wide and soft underfoot, often with a view of the lake through the aspen.

It would be easy to cross-country ski, snowshoe or bike in this wooded area as there is good signage at every intersection. In the winter, these trails are maintained by the Pigeon Lake Nordic Club.

All are part of the Trans Canada and Kiskayo trails.

The campground was full of RVs and tents and, to our surprise, quite a number of new yurts on raised wood decks. Park staff said the yurts were very popular and had been quickly booked for the season. ● The lakeside communities, such as Poplar Bay, Crystal Springs, Ma-MeO Beach and Mulhurst Bay, are charming. There are new modern beachside homes and small original cottages.

At one spot we found a little wellstocked free library on a gate post.

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AMAZON: Focus of stay on animal life Along the bank, red gouges of bare earth radiated into Yasuni National Park.

At Anangu, we left the power boat and scrambled into a dugout canoe.

Napo Lodge is located on a quiet lagoon an hour from the mayhem of the Rio Napo. Tyson paddled quietly, describing the flora and fauna — occasionally pausing to point out a creature silently camouflaged in the dark understory.

The focus of our stay was Amazon’s animal life but the lodge also emphasizes exposure to local tradition.

Chicha is to the Kichwa people what Guinness is to the Irish: a cultural beverage — and a meal replacement. The meat of the yuca plant is pounded to a pulp, then mixed with grated sweet potato and water. After three days of fermentation, the mush becomes a nutritious drink consumed by young and old alike. But after seven days, the broth becomes a potent intoxicant. Every family makes two batches of chicha a week: one for sustenance and one for party time.

Wildlife photography in the Amazon can be disappointing. Little of the blazing tropical sun penetrates the dense canopy. The rainforest floor lies in a perpetual shadow-world, a place of low light, flighty critters — and fuzzy photographs. Many animals wear natural camouflage, making them difficult to capture, even on film.

We had arrived from the Galapagos Islands where the animals are unafraid — almost tame. The Amazon, in stark contrast, is populated by wary, elusive and frightened — and frighten-

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The Kichwa people call these hoatzins ‘dirty turkeys.’ ing — creatures.

There are more kinds of life in one acre of Ecuadorian rainforest than exist in all of Canada. Yasuni is the most biologically diverse locale on Earth. A single kapok tree can harbour thousands of animals and plants: birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, amphibians — plus a myriad of flora: epiphytes, bromeliads and the choking strangler fig. All co-exist in one leafy domain.

Kapoks are the monsters of the Amazon, a paramount species. We climbed 35 metres above the mid-day dimness of the forest floor into the crown of a massive kapok. From our perch, we had an unobstructed view — an endless ocean of verdant green.

Blue parakeets, green parrots and scarlet macaws squawked and squabbled. Squirrel monkeys and white-

fronted capuchins swung cautiously in a nearby tree. A troop of howler monkeys did what they do best: howl. Even from a kilometre distant, the noise is frighteningly loud — a mix between gale-force wind and a departing jet airliner.

Perched on a house-sized kapok limb, I gazed about in amazement, content with the universe.

Tyson looked over and said casually: “Mr. Gerry you may want to sit still right now. That’s a bullet ant.”

I looked down. A three-cm-long monster with pincers the size of a Buick was crawling over my leg. I froze in fear, avoiding a primeval urge to slap and jump. When the ant had departed, I asked Tyson if it was dangerous.

“Somewhat,” he said. “We call it 48 hours of pain. Like being shot”

For the rest of the week, I examined my derriere’s intended destination carefully before taking a seat.

The Amazon creates its own climate. Afternoon showers are created by the release of water vapour from the vast forest. Clouds form, rain falls, roots tap into the wet ground, leaves transpire and the process repeats daily, perpetually.

Never have I endured a more humid climate. Although tropically warm, the Yasuni heat was not oppressive.

(We survived comfortably without airconditioning, sleeping under the purring of an overhead fan.) But humidity hangs in the air, ready to condense at sunset into a soppy mess. Everything turned soggy and inoperative: camera, computer, battery chargers. Rudely, even the portable nose-hair trimmer jammed in mid-shear.

Perhaps the best place to view Amazon wildlife is from the water. Stealthy paddling led us up a remote waterway to where we watched a family of giant river otters cavort and squeal. An anaconda hung on a branch above, eyeing us malevolently, waiting for something just a little smaller to eat.

We were a content but blissfully unobservant crew. On our final afternoon, after another long day of wonder, Tyson pointed toward something napping in a tree nook. For the seventh time in as many days, the conversation from one of us went something like this: “What is everybody looking at?

Where is it? Where? Oh … there it is.

Look everybody! I see it. It’s a … it’s a … what is that Tyson?”

“Three-toed sloth,” he answered patiently, then turned, grinned and dug his paddle into the soft water toward the lodge and the fading sun.

Gerry Feehan, QC, is a retired lawyer, avid traveller and photographer. He lives in Red Deer. For more of Gerry’s travel adventures, please visit www.gnfeehan. blogspot.com.

Photo by ANITA THOMAS and JANE GODDARD

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A free library along the trail.

PIGEON: Rundle's Mission now an historic site

warm fire after a rainy day, self-serve coffee, tea and snacks, and fabulous breakfasts including fruit salad, eggs Benedict and homemade German coffee cake. Our hosts, Heike and Dirk, were friendly and gracious. We could not have made the trip without Heike’s shuttle service. And her lunches were a huge bonus. The B&B is across the street from the lake in the quiet and peaceful neighbourhood of Poplar Bay. If you want to do the circle tour, expect to spend most of your time on the secondary roads.

Not surprisingly, locals told us that people occasionally bike around the lake but they had never known anyone to walk it.

We hope that someday there really will be a multiuse path circling the lake.

It is the perfect setting with lots of hidden gems along the way and, perhaps best of all, it is in our own Alberta backyard.

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Vasilevskiy in spotlight BISHOP’S STATUS IS THE BIGGEST INTRIGUE IN THE SERIES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BRANDON, Fla. — More confident in his goaltending than his English, Andrei Vasilevskiy had one request of reporters Friday.

“No cameras,” the young Russian said, wagging his finger to shoo away any stragglers.

Vasilevskiy is in hockey’s brightest spotlight at the Stanley Cup final but isn’t comfortable with his broken words being videotaped. Depending on the health of Tampa Bay Lightning teammate Ben Bishop, he may again be the centre of attention for Game 5 against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.

Bishop missed Game 4 on Wednesday with an undisclosed injury and didn’t practise Friday. His status is the biggest intrigue in the series with the Lightning and Blackhawks tied at two games apiece.

Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper called it part of the plan for Bishop to take the day off. What comes next is anyone’s guess.

“We’re going to play the guy that gives us the best chance to win the game, whoever that guy is,” Cooper said. “If Ben Bishop can play a game, he’s playing.”

Vasilevskiy said after practice Friday he didn’t know yet if he was starting. The Blackhawks will play the waiting game with everyone else.

“Tough to forecast that,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. “We’ll see what happens. I know that we expected him to play last game.”

Injuries often pile up this time of year. Lightning centre Tyler Johnson is battling something in his hand, arm or wrist — he hasn’t taken a faceoff since one in Game 2 — but insists he’s fine and has stayed in the lineup.

Bishop left Game 2 on June 6, started Game 3 Monday and missed Game.

Amid all the uncertainly, Vasilevskiy is not just calm but enjoying living out a childhood dream.

“I’m here in North America just to play hockey,” Vasilevskiy said Friday.

File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, left, keeps his eye on the puck along side teammate Jason Garrison, center, and Chicago Blackhawks’ Marcus Kruger, of Sweden, during the second period in Game 4 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final Wednesday, June 10, 2015, in Chicago.

“The last two days I have more fun than all season.”

Vasilevskiy stopped 17 of 19 shots in Game 4 and felt good about his first start since March 31.

“I was ready for big pressure on me,” he said.

The 20-year-old Vasilevskiy has been in pressure situations in the

world junior championship and KHL playoffs. None of that quite prepared him for facing the likes of Jonathan Toews and Brandon Saad, who scored on him in Game 4, or Blackhawks star Patrick Kane, who doesn’t yet have a goal in the series but could break out at any time.

Vasilevskiy’s best preparation has

come from his interactions with Bishop. Called up in January to replace the ineffective Evgeni Nabokov as the full-time backup, he leaned on Bishop to learn how to prepare like a professional.

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Martin’s three-run triple lifts Jays over Red Sox

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Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Toronto Blue Jays’ Justin Smoak reacts after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston, Friday.

BOSTON — The highest scoring team in baseball put up its highest scoring inning of the season.

The Toronto Blue Jays scored nine runs in the seventh — all before making an out — and beat the Boston Red Sox 13-10 by overcoming an 8-1 deficit Friday night.

“Incredible,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said of the outburst.

“Relentless” is how Russell Martin described the offence after his basesloaded triple snapped an 8-8 tie.

“Long” was Boston manager John Farrell’s analysis of his team’s worst inning in a year in which it is in last place in the AL East and a seasonworst eight games under .500 (27-35).

Justin Smoak drove in three runs, two scoring on his homer that made it 13-8 on the first pitch after Martin’s triple.

“It was awesome,” Smoak said. “It can happen any time with this lineup.”

Trailing 13-9, the Red Sox had a chance to tie it in the eighth when they loaded the bases after Xander Bogaerts singled in a run. But with two outs, Mike Napoli took a called third

strike.

“My mindset was to go up there and do some damage,” Napoli said. “It’s a tough one to swallow.”

Brett Cecil gave up an RBI double in the ninth to Rusney Castillo but got his third save.

Steve Delabar (2-0) pitched a perfect sixth. Junichi Tazawa (0-2) took the loss.

Boston took a 5-0 lead in the first against Drew Hutchison when Pablo Sandoval, a two-run shot, and Mookie Betts hit back-to-back homers and David Ortiz had a two-run single. Smoak’s RBI-triple made it 5-1 in the second before Dustin Pedroia’s three-run homer put Boston on top 8-1 in the fifth.

Toronto scored three runs in the fifth off Joe Kelly, who left after the sixth with an 8-4 lead.

Then came the seventh when Toronto’s first nine batters reached base — three against Matt Barnes, five against Tazawa and one against Tommy Layne — with all of them scoring.

“We have a ton of power and when we have that there’s always a chance to come back,” Gibbons said. “I don’t put anything past these guys.”

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CFL cuts ties with CCES over drug policy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The CFL has cut ties with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport in a dispute over the league’s drug policy.

A CFL spokesman confirmed the move in an email to The Canadian Press on Friday, which came after the head of the only laboratory in Canada sanctioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency slammed the league earlier this week. The CCES also confirmed the decision in a release on Friday evening.

Christiane Ayotte said that her lab would not test CFL samples moving

forward because of the league’s refusal to suspend first-time offenders or uphold drug bans handed down in university.

The CFL spokesman said Friday that the league is “actively pursuing new partners to do our testing” and that “we remain committed to the health and safety of our players and the integrity of our game,” before adding: “We remain open to evolving our policy in a way that works for the CFL in partnership with the CFLPA.” After this week’s developments, however, it won’t involve testing overseen by the CCES. In response to Ayotte’s criticism, WADA said in a statement Wednesday

that the CFL’s drug policy has “room for improvement” and that it would welcome an “open dialogue with the league.” The league said at the time no meetings are planned.

CFL president and chief operating officer Michael Copeland said Wednesday the league is proud of its drug policy, pointing to its focus on education, rather than suspension, following an initial positive test.

“Everybody gravitates to thinking there’s only one solution,” he said in a phone interview. “I think we’re really forward-thinking in the development of our policy and we’re really happy with the results.”

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time are handed a three-game suspension under the current system, while a third positive test would result in a year-long ban. Copeland said to date no player has had a second positive test since the program started back in 2010.

But Ayotte said Wednesday the policy does not go far enough to rid the league of performance-enhancing drugs.

“I’ve been here for 30 years. I know what we’ve achieved,” she said.

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● High School Soccer: League final tournament at Edgar Athletic Park. ● Alberta Football League: Calgary Gators at Central Alberta Bucs at 7 p.m. at ME Global Field Lacombe. ● Women’s Major Soccer League: Red Deer Rampage at Calgary CFSC Major at noon ● Midget AAA baseball: Edmonton Cardinals at Red Deer Carstar Braves at noon and 3 p.m. at Great Chief. ● Bantam AAA baseball: St. Albert Cardinals at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at 1 and 4 p.m. at Great Chief. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Sherwood Park Athletics at Red Deer Braves at noon, 3 and 6 p.m. at Great Chief Park Men’s Division 2 rugby: Red Deer Titans at Calgary Canucks at 1:45 p.m. ● Men’s Division 3 rugby: Red Deer Titans at Calgary Canucks at noon. ● Women’s Rugby: Red Deer Titans at Calgary Irish Athletic Club at noon. ● Junior B tier I lacrosse: Red Deer TBS Rampage at Sherwood Park Titans at 3:30 p.m. ● Martial Arts: Super Fights 23 at Westerner Prairie Pavilion. ● Rodeo: Innisfail Pro Rodeo, Daines Ranch, 1 and 7 p.m.

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● Midget AAA baseball: Red Deer Carstar Braves at Edmonton Cardinals at noon and 3 p.m. ● Bantam AAA baseball: St. Albert Cardinals at Red Deer Servus Credit Union Braves at 11 a.m. at Great Chief. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Sherwood Park Athletics at Red Deer Braves at noon at Great Chief Park ● Junior B tier II lacrosse: Red Deer Renegades at Okotoks Ice at 4 p.m.; Lacoka Locos at Strathmore Venom at 2 p.m. ● Junior B lacrosse tier III: Olds Stingers at Lethbridge Cudas at 1:30 p.m. ● Women’s lacrosse: Red Deer Rage at Calgary Saints at 4 p.m. ● Rodeo: Innisfail Pro Rodeo, Daines Ranch, 1 p.m.

Hockey NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FINAL Tampa Bay (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Series tied 2-2) Wednesday, June 3 Chicago 2 Tampa Bay 1 Saturday, June 6 Tampa Bay 4 Chicago 3 Monday, June 8 Tampa Bay 3 Chicago 2 Wednesday, June 10 Chicago 2 Tampa Bay 1 Saturday, June 13 Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.

Monday, June 15 Tampa Bay at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17 x-Chicago at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. x — if necessary.

NHL Playoff Scoring Leaders GP G A Tyler Johnson, TB 24 13 10 Nikita Kucherov, TB 24 10 12 Patrick Kane, Chi 21 10 11 Jonathan Toews, Chi 21 10 10 Ryan Getzlaf, Anh 16 2 18 Duncan Keith, Chi 21 2 18 Corey Perry, Anh 16 10 8 Alex Killorn, TB 24 9 9 Steven Stamkos, TB 24 7 11 Jakob Silfverberg, Anh 16 4 14 Marian Hossa, Chi 21 4 13 Derick Brassard, NYR 19 9 7 Ondrej Palat, TB 24 8 8

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

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 33 27 .550 33 29 .532 32 30 .516 30 30 .500 27 35 .435 Central Division W L Pct 34 24 .586 33 27 .550 32 29 .525 28 31 .475 28 32 .467 West Division W L Pct 35 27 .565 32 29 .525 30 30 .500 27 34 .443 25 37 .403

GB — 1 2 3 7 GB — 2 3.5 6.5 7 GB — 2.5 4 7.5 10

Friday’s Games Baltimore 11, N.Y. Yankees 3 Detroit 4, Cleveland 0 Tampa Bay 7, Chicago White Sox 5 Toronto 13, Boston 10 Texas 6, Minnesota 2 Houston 10, Seattle 0 St. Louis 4, Kansas City 0 Oakland at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Today’s Games Toronto (Dickey 2-6) at Boston (Buchholz 3-6), 11:35 a.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-2) at Texas (Lewis 5-3), 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Carrasco 7-5) at Detroit (Verlander 0-0), 2:08 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 4-4) at Tampa Bay (Archer 7-4), 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 4-3) at St. Louis (Lyons 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Seattle (Montgomery 0-1) at Houston (McHugh 6-2), 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 3-7) at Baltimore (B.Norris 2-4), 5:15 p.m.

Oakland (Graveman 3-2) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 3-5), 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts D.C. United 8 4 4 28 New England 5 4 6 21 Toronto FC 6 5 1 19 Orlando City 4 5 5 17 New York 4 4 5 17 Columbus 4 6 4 16 Philadelphia 4 9 3 15 Montreal 4 4 2 14 Chicago 4 7 2 14 New York City FC 2 7 5 11

GF 20 20 19 19 17 20 18 13 17 12

GA 15 20 16 19 17 21 25 15 20 18

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Seattle 8 4 2 26 20 11 Vancouver 8 6 2 26 18 15 Sporting KC 6 2 6 24 22 15 Portland 6 5 4 22 15 14 FC Dallas 6 4 4 22 18 19 Los Angeles 5 5 6 21 15 18 Houston 5 5 5 20 21 19 San Jose 5 5 4 19 14 15 Real Salt Lake 4 5 6 18 13 18 Colorado 2 4 8 14 11 12 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Sunday, June 14 D.C. United at Orlando City, 5 p.m.

Basketball NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, Atlanta 0 Wednesday, May 20: Cleveland 97, Atlanta 89 Friday, May 22: Cleveland 94, Atlanta 82 Sunday, May 24: Cleveland 114, Atlanta 111, OT Tuesday, May 26: Cleveland 118, Atlanta 88 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, Houston 1 Tuesday, May 19: Golden State 110, Houston 106 Thursday, May 21: Golden State 99, Houston 98 Saturday, May 23: Golden State 115, Houston 80 Monday, May 25: Houston 128, Golden State 115 Wednesday, May 27: Golden State 104, Houston 90 FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Cleveland 2, Golden State 2 Thursday, June 4: Golden State 108, Cleveland 100, OT Sunday, June 7: Cleveland 95, Golden State 93, OT Tuesday, June 9: Cleveland 96, Golden State 91 Thursday, June 11: Golden State 103, Cleveland 82 Sunday, June 14: Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 16: Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m. x-Friday, June 19: Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct New York 33 29 .532 Washington 31 30 .508 Atlanta 29 32 .475 Miami 26 36 .419 Philadelphia 22 39 .361 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 40 21 .656 Chicago 32 27 .542 Pittsburgh 32 27 .542 Cincinnati 28 32 .467 Milwaukee 24 38 .387 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 35 25 .583 San Francisco 34 27 .557 San Diego 31 31 .500 Arizona 27 32 .458 Colorado 27 33 .450

GB — 1.5 3.5 7 10.5 GB — 7 7 11.5 16.5 GB — 1.5 5 7.5 8

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES New York 001 200 000 — 3 9 Baltimore 104 104 10x — 11 16

Friday’s Games Cincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 4, 10 innings Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets 5, Atlanta 3 Miami 5, Colorado 1 Milwaukee 8, Washington 4 St. Louis 4, Kansas City 0 L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

2 0

Pineda, Lindgren (5), E.Rogers (6), Capuano (8) and B.McCann, J.Murphy; U.Jimenez, McFarland (6), Tom.Hunter (7), O’Day (8), Brach (9) and Joseph. W—U.Jimenez 4-3. L—Pineda 7-3. HRs— New York, M.Williams (1). Baltimore, C.Davis (13), Joseph (5).

Cleveland 000 Detroit 000

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0 4

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Salazar, C.C.Lee (8), Hagadone (8) and Y.Gomes; Price and J.McCann. W—Price 6-2. L—Salazar 6-2.

HRs—Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (13).

Chicago 000 Tampa Bay 002

020 013

300 10x

— —

5 9 7 14

1 1

Danks, D.Webb (6), Ju.Guerra (7) and Flowers; Andriese, Cedeno (6), B.Gomes (7), Geltz (8), McGee (9) and Rivera. W—Andriese 1-1. L—Danks 3-6.

Sv—McGee (2). HRs—Chicago, Abreu (12).

Toronto Boston

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900 011

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0 1

Hutchison, Schultz (3), Delabar (6), Loup (7), Osuna (8), Cecil (8) and Ru.Martin; J.Kelly, M.Barnes (7), Tazawa (7), Layne (7), Hembree (8) and Swihart.

W—Delabar 2-0. L—Tazawa 0-2. Sv—Cecil (3).

HRs—Toronto, Smoak (5). Boston, Sandoval (6), Betts (6), Pedroia (9).

Minnesota 100 Texas 000

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010 24x

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5 5

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Milone, A.Thompson (8), Pressly (8), Duensing (8), Tonkin (8) and K.Suzuki; W.Rodriguez, Kela (7), Scheppers (8), Sh.Tolleson (9) and Corporan.

W—Scheppers 3-0. L—A.Thompson 1-2. HRs— Minnesota, Dozier (12). Texas, Andrus (3).

Seattle Houston

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1 1

F.Hernandez, Beimel (1), Wilhelmsen (3), Furbush (5), Lowe (6), Sucre (8) and Zunino; Oberholtzer, Thatcher (9) and J.Castro. W—Oberholtzer 1-1.

L—F.Hernandez 9-3. HRs—Houston, Valbuena (13), J.Castro (7), Correa (2), Carter (11).

Kansas City000 St. Louis 020

INTERLEAGUE 000 000 — 000 02x —

0 4

5 8

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Ventura, Blanton (4), F.Morales (6), Madson (7), Hochevar (8) and S.Perez; Jai.Garcia, Siegrist (9) and Molina. W—Jai.Garcia 2-3. L—Ventura 3-6.

Soccer

Saturday, June 13 Montreal at New York City FC, 5 p.m.

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

Los Angeles at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at Seattle, 8 p.m.

PTS 23 22 21 20 20 20 18 18 18 18 17 16 16

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

Today’s Games Philadelphia (O’Sullivan 1-4) at Pittsburgh (G.Cole 9-2), 2:05 p.m.

Atlanta (S.Miller 5-2) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 7-4), 2:10 p.m.

Colorado (Hale 2-0) at Miami (Latos 1-4), 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Guthrie 4-3) at St. Louis (Lyons 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Washington (J.Ross 0-1) at Milwaukee (Nelson 3-6), 2:10 p.m.

Arizona (Collmenter 3-6) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 4-4), 5:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 3-4) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 2-2), 5:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 5-1) at San Diego (Kennedy 3-5), 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Colorado at Miami, 11:10 a.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Washington at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

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

L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 2:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 6:08 p.m.

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Atlanta at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

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

Washington at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Colorado at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

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

Toronto at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Seattle at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Minnesota at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

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

Monday’s Games Chicago White Sox at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at Detroit, 5:08 p.m.

Atlanta at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

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

Washington at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Colorado at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

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

2015 FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W L T GF GA Pt Canada 2 1 0 1 1 0 4 China 2 1 1 0 1 1 3 Netherlands 2 1 1 0 1 1 3 New Zealand 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 Thursday’s results At Edmonton Canada 0 New Zealand 0 China 1 Netherlands 0 Saturday’s results At Edmonton Canada 1 China 0 Netherlands 1 New Zealand 0 Monday, June 15 At Montreal Canada vs. Netherlands, 5:30 p.m.

At Winnipeg China vs. New Zealand, 5:30 p.m.

——— Group B GP W L T GF GA Germany 2 1 0 1 11 1 Norway 2 1 0 1 5 1 Thailand 2 1 1 0 3 6 Ivory Coast 2 0 2 0 2 13 Thursday’s results At Ottawa Germany 1 Norway 1 Thailand 3 Ivory Coast 2 Sunday’s results At Ottawa Norway 4 Thailand 0 Germany 10 Ivory Coast 0 Monday, June 15 At Winnipeg Thailand vs. Germany, 4 p.m.

At Moncton, N.B. Ivory Coast vs. Norway, 4 p.m.

——— Group C GP W L T GF GA Cameroon 1 1 0 0 6 0 Japan 1 1 0 0 1 0 Switzerland 2 1 1 0 10 2 Ecuador 2 0 2 0 1 16 Friday’s results At Vancouver Switzerland 10 Ecuador 1 Japan vs. Cameroon Monday’s results At Vancouver Cameroon 6 Ecuador 0 Japan 1 Switzerland 0 Tuesday, June 16 At Winnipeg Ecuador vs. Japan, 3 p.m.

At Edmonton Switzerland vs. Cameroon, 3 p.m.

——— Group D GP W L T GF GA U.S. 1 1 0 0 3 1 Australia 2 1 1 0 3 3 Sweden 1 0 0 1 3 3 Nigeria 2 0 1 1 3 5

Pt 4 4 3 0

Pt 3 3 3 0

At Winnipeg Sweden 3 Nigeria 3 U.S. 3 Australia 1 Tuesday, June 16 At Vancouver Nigeria vs. U.S., 6 p.m.

At Edmonton Australia vs. Sweden, 6 p.m.

——— Group E GP W L T GF GA Brazil 1 1 0 0 2 0 Costa Rica 1 0 0 1 1 1 Spain 1 0 0 1 1 1 South Korea 1 0 1 0 0 2

Pt 3 1 1 0

Tuesday’s results At Montreal Brazil 2 South Korea 0 Spain 1 Costa Rica 1 Saturday, June 13 At Montreal Brazil vs. Spain, 2 p.m.

South Korea vs. Costa Rica, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17 At Moncton, N.B. Costa Rica vs. Brazil, 5 p.m.

At Ottawa South Korea vs. Spain, 5 p.m.

——— Group F GP W L T GF GA France 1 1 0 0 1 0 Colombia 1 0 0 1 1 1 Mexico 1 0 0 1 1 1 England 1 0 1 0 0 1

Pt 3 1 1 0

Tuesday’s results At Moncton, N.B. Colombia 1 Mexico 1 France 1 England 0 Saturday, June 13 At Moncton, N.B. France vs. Colombia, 11 a.m.

England vs. Mexico, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17 At Ottawa Mexico vs. France, 2 p.m.

At Montreal England vs. Colombia, 2 p.m.

End of Preliminary Round ——— SECOND ROUND Saturday, June 20 At Ottawa Group B winner vs. Group A, C or D third place, 2 p.m.

Pt 3 3 1 1

Friday’s results At Winnipeg Australia 2 Nigeria 0 U.S. vs. Sweden Monday’s results

At Edmonton Group A second place vs. Group C second place, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 21 At Moncton, N.B. Group E winner vs. Group D second place, 11 a.m.

At Montreal Group F winner vs. Group E second place, 2 p.m.

At Vancouver Group A winner vs. Group C, D or E third place, 5:30 p.m.

Monday, June 22 At Ottawa Group B second place vs. Group F second place, 3 p.m.

At Edmonton Group D winner vs. Group B, E or F third place, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 23 At Vancouver Group C winner vs. Group A, B or F third place, 8 p.m.

——— QUARTER-FINALS Friday, June 26 At Montreal Ottawa June 20 winner vs. Montreal winner, 2 p.m.

At Ottawa Edmonton June 20 winner vs. Edmonton June 22 winner, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 27 At Edmonton Moncton winner vs. Vancouver June 23 winner, 2 p.m.

At Vancouver Ottawa June 22 winner vs. Vancouver June 21 winner, 5:30 p.m.

——— SEMIFINALS Tuesday, June 30 At Montreal Ottawa winner vs. Montreal winner, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, July 1 At Edmonton Edmonton winner vs. Vancouver winner, 5 p.m.

——— THIRD PLACE Saturday, July 4 At Edmonton Semifinal losers, 2 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP Sunday, July 5 At Vancouver Semifinal winners, 5 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended free agent LHP Daniel Moskos 50 games for a second positive for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

Suspended Minnesota OF Torii Hunter two games and fine him an undisclosed amount for his actions during Wednesday’s game.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent RHP Kevin Gausman to Bowie (EL) for a rehab assignment.

BOSTON RED SOX — Sent LHP Edwin Escobar to Pawtucket (IL) for a rehab assignment.

Placed LHP Craig Breslow on paternity leave. Recalled RHP Heath Hembree from Pawtucket.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Shane Greene to Toledo (IL). Recalled LHP Ian Krol from Toledo.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with OF Blake Gailen on a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled RHP Michael Tonkin from Rochester (IL). Reinstated OF Eddie Rosario from paternity leave.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated INF Gregorio Petit from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Assigned INF Tony Renda to Trenton (EL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Sent RHP A.J. Griffin to Nashville (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned OF Preston Guilmet to Durham (IL). Placed RHP Andrew Bellatti on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Wednesday. Designated C Bobby Wilson for assignment. Recalled RHP Matt Andriese and LHPs C.J. Riefenhauser and Enny Romero from Durham.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Scott Copeland to Buffalo (IL). Traded INF Ronald Torreyes to the L.A. Doedgers for cash considerations.

Selected the contract of LHP Phil Coke from Buffalo. Sent 2B Steve Tolleson to Dunedin (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

National League

ATLANTA BRAVES — Assigned OF Eric Young Jr. outright to Gwinnett (IL).

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Assigned INF Jordan Pacheco outright to Reno (PCL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned OF/1B Kyle Parker and RHP Christian Bergman to Albuquerque (PCL). Reinstated OF Corey Dickerson and RHP LaTroy Hawkins from the 15-day DL. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent RHP Joel Peralta to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) for a rehab assignment.

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Jarred Cosart to New Orleans (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Placed RHP Lance Lynn on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Recalled LHP Tyler Lyons from Memphis (PCL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned LHP Sammy Solis to Harrisburg (EL). Placed RHP Aaron Barrett on the 15-day DL. American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Signed RHP/ INF Freddy Flores. Claimed RHP Chris Bodishbaugh off waivers from Sioux City.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Released OF Zach Zdanowicz.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS — Signed OF Willie Cabrera.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released OF CJ Henry.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Traded OF Anthony Vega to Southern Maryland for future considerations.

SUGAR LAND SKEETERS — Signed LHP Hunter Cervenka.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Released RHP Jaspreet Shergill.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Traded C Jaime Del Valle to Gary SouthShore (AA) for a player to be named.

FLORENCE FREEDOM — Released RHP David Duncan.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed INF Brandon Overstreet.

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Signed RHP Zach Morton. Released LHP Peter Gehle.

FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed CB Byron Jones.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed QB Matt Flynn.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed OT Charles Brown.

ST. LOUIS RAMS — Signed RB Todd Gurley, QB Sean Mannion, LB Bryce Hager, DB Martin Ifedi and OL Rob Havenstein, Jamon Brown, Andrew Donnal and Cody Wichmann.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Claimed OT Sean Hooey off waivers from the N.Y. Jets.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Claimed TE Tim Wright off waivers from New England. Waived TE Taylor Sloat.

Canadian Football League MONTREAL ALOUETTES — Announced DE Michael Sam has left training camp.

WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Released RB

Bradley Randle, FB Carl Fitzgerald and LBs Denicos Allen, Curtis Taylor and Rodney Lamar.

SOCCER MLS — Fined Orlando City SC coach Adrian Heath an undisclosed amount for violating the leagues tampering policy.

COLLEGE INTERCOLLEGIATE TENNIS ASSOCIATION — Announced the resignation of associate director and chief operating officer Angel Prinos so she can take a senior associate athletic director position at Pennsylvania.

ATLANTIC SUN CONFERENCE — Added NJIT for all men’s and women’s sports, effective this coming academic year.

BAYLOR — Named Steve Rodriguez baseball coach.

EASTERN MICHIGAN — Named Dr. Talea Drummer associate athletic director for studentathlete support services.

HOBART — Named Kory David defensive coordinator.

MEMPHIS — Promoted men’s assistant soccer coach Tony McManus to full-time assistant coach.

Named Matt Williams men’s assistant soccer coach.

SPRING HILL — Named Chad LeBlanc assistant athletic director for internal affairs and compliance.

WENTWORTH — Announced the resignation of women’s softball coach Caitlin Luquet.

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Velasquez to make long-awaited return MEXICO CITY — Nearly two years after his last fight, Cain Velasquez will make his long-awaited return to the octagon Saturday night in a fight against Fabricio Werdum for the heavyweight title at UFC 188.

Velasquez (13-1), who has not fought since an impressive victory over Junior Dos Santos at UFC 166 in October 2013, was scheduled to go against Werdum last November. But a right knee injury forced the Mexican-American to cancel.

At UFC 180, instead of Velasquez, Werdum fought Mark Hunt and got the win in the second round to earn the interim belt. Now, Velasquez claims to be in the best shape of his career and ready to show his loyal fans in Mexico that he still has what it takes.

“I’m anxious to return, it’s been a

while, but I’m focused and ready to prove that I’m still the best,” Velasquez told The Associated Press. “I’m ready for him, the conditioning has been great, there are no excuses. I just want to fight and not talk too much.”

The 32-year old Velasquez has been plagued by injuries throughout his career, but when healthy hes known to be a relentless fighter who dominates in the cage.

“I understand that people can have doubts, but I don’t. Even though I have not had a fight at the professional level, I have done a lot of sparring since 2013. I’m confident,” added Velasquez, who suffered a shoulder and a knee injury since his last fight.

Werdum (19-5-1) will put Velasquez’s claims to the test. He currently is on a five-fight winning streak, including his TKO over Hunt last November.

“I have a belt and I want another one. I been waiting so long for this

UFC 188 fight,” Werdum said. “I want to be world champion to prove it to everyone, but most of all for me.”

A Brazilian jiujitsu specialist, Werdum has worked hard since he started training under coach Rafael Cordeiro to become a more complete fighter.

That could help him against a fighter who could be rusty in the cage.

“He has not fought in two years, that’s going to affect him,” said Werdum. “You got to have rhythm to have a good fight and I’m not sure he has it.”

What Velasquez has in his favour is that local fans see him as one of their own even though they know he was born in the United States.

Werdum put some fire into the bout when he said that Velasquez “is an American trying to be Mexican.”

“My parents are from Mexico, I have

Mexican blood and I’m very proud of it,” said Velasquez, who refused to shake hands with Werdum after that.

“He was trying to shake my hand, but you cannot badmouth me one day and then try to be all friendly on the next.

Thats stupid. I’m not his friend and I will kick his butt.”

Werdum, who speaks fluent Spanish and has trained in Mexico for long periods, has downplayed the incident.

“He does not want to shake my hand because he claims I’m two-faced. Maybe he’s just looking for extra motivation because I only told the truth. I didn’t insult him, he was born in the USA. I did not disrespect him,” Werdum added. “He does not scare me, only my mother does.”

The undercard features rising Mexican-American welterweight Kelvin Gastelum against Nate Marquardt, along with bantamweights Chico Camus against Henry Cejudo.

Stamps open pre-season with win REGULAR SEASON STARTS ON JUNE 26 FOR CALGARY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stampeders 20 Lions 6 CALGARY — A Greg Wilson touchdown in the fourth quarter helped the Calgary Stampeders to a 20-6 pre-season win over the visiting B.C. Lions on Friday.

Stampeders quarterback Dominique Davis connected with Wilson on a 24-yard pass at 3:50 and followed up with a three-yard throw to running back Charlie Power for a two-point convert.

Rene Paredes kicked field goals from 32 and 28 in the first half, with Tyler Crapigna good from 41 and 28 yards in the second for the defending Grey Cup champions.

Lions kickers Richie Leone and Anthony Fera scored field goals from 12 and 39 yards respectively in the first half.

Stampeders coach John Hufnagel gave both veterans and rookies time on the field, while Lions counterpart Jeff Tedford favoured his young players and rookies.

Calgary No. 1 Bo Levi Mitchell, internationals Davis and Bryant Moniz and Canadian quarterback Andrew Buckley all saw action, although Mitchell came out early after throwing three passes for 24 yards on Calgary’s first series of the game.

Buckley, a Hec Crighton Trophy winner last year for the University of Calgary, started the second half and engi-

neered field goals on two drives before Davis rotated back into the game.

Buckley returned in the fourth quarter and the 21-year-old Calgarian finished 8-for-10 in passing for 72 yards.

Davis went 9-for-10 for 75 yards and his touchdown throw.

Moniz was 5-for-11 for 53 yards. CFL rushing star Jon Cornish started the game, but came out after 20 yards on four carries on the Stampeders’ opening drive.

Tedford gave Jonathan Jennings the nod to quarterback the first half. The 22-year-old out of Saginaw Valley State completed five of 11 passes for 116 yards before he was relieved by Travis Partridge in the second half.

Partridge had a rough outing as Calgary’s DeQuinn Evans intercepted Partridge’s second pass attempt and sacked the Lions pivot later in the third quarter.

After going 2-for-4 for three yards, Partridge was replaced by Greg McGhee in the third quarter’s final minute.

McGhee made three of five pass attempts for 10 yards and was sacked once.

Crapigna, who set a Canadian university football record for all-time career field goals with McMaster last season, gave the Stampeders a 12-6 lead with third quarter-field goals.

He made a 41-yarder late in the fourth quarter, but Calgary was called for a time count violation.

Crapigna missed the 51-yard attempt

STORIES FROM B4

DOPING: Agency wants to see better enforcement “I know what kind of relationship we’ve got with Major League Baseball and the players’ association, with the NHL, Major League Soccer and the NBA. “The CFL, by comparison, is really doing nothing.

They have a program, but the program is not at all to the (acceptable) level. This is our Canadian league and I cannot accept that.”

Ayotte was especially bothered by the CFL declining to uphold drug suspensions given to players in university, meaning that they are free to join the league after leaving school. Three of the five players who tested positive at the CFL combine were selected in last month’s draft.

“For me that is the core of the problem,” said Ayotte. “The CFL’s behaviour has direct repercussions on our sons and daughters ... training in our universities and colleges and using steroids.”

Copeland said Wednesday the league was disappointed with the positive tests of the university players in question and is reconsidering that aspect of its policy. He added it’s difficult to suspend players for indiscretions in other leagues, but did say the positive tests at the combine will count as a first offence.

JAYS: League’s best offence comes up big Toronto entered the night with 325 runs, 50 more than the New York Yankees, who had the secondmost in the majors.

Kevin Pillar led off the seventh with a single and scored on a double by Ryan Goins. Jose Reyes then singled in a run, Josh Donaldson singled and Jose Bautista followed with another RBI single.

Edwin Encarnacion then singled, loading the bases, and Toronto tied it at 8 on an error by third baseman Sandoval, who dived to catch Chris Colabello’s hard shot down the line then dropped the ball.

Martin cleared the bases with his triple over the head of centre fielder Castillo, chasing Tazawa. But Smoak drove the first pitch from Layne into the seats in left for his fifth homer and a 13-8 lead. Layne then settled down, retiring the next three batters.

Red Sox relievers retired the last nine Blue Jays.

THE LAST TIME Toronto’s last nine-run inning also came at Fenway Park. It happened in the sixth inning last July 28 in a 14-1 win. Only three players in that lineup — Reyes, Bautista and Goins — played Friday night.

CLEARING THE AIR Boston LHP Wade Miley said before the game “I handled it terribly” when he yelled at Farrell in the dugout Thursday night after being taken out after four innings of a 6-5 loss at Baltimore. Farrell said Miley’s behaviour was “unacceptable.”

TRAINERS ROOM Red Sox: LF Hanley Ramirez missed the game with soreness in his left knee and left hamstring. ...

CF Betts left the game in the top of the third with a low back sprain when he ran into the low fence trying to catch a triple by Smoak.

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on the re-kick.

Pre-game hail and thunder subsided by kickoff and the sky started to clear for the second quarter.

The two sides traded field goals in the first and second quarters for a 6-6 stalemate at halftime.

Calgary linebacker Deron Mayo sacked Jennings and knocked the football loose for Brendan Boudreau to recover on the 54-yard line late in the first quarter.

The hosts took a 6-3 lead on a Paredes field goal and a 6-3 lead.

Jennings connected with Terrance Jeffer-Harris for a 62-yard gain on a B.C. drive in the opening quarter.

But Stampeders defensive tackle Quinn Smith stopped Lions ball carrier Brendan Bigelow on a first-andgoal to prevent a Lions major and the visitors settled for the field goal.

The Stampeders meet the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Lions are at home to the Edmonton Eskimos on June 19 in their second and final preseason games.

Calgary’s season-opener is against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on June 26 in a Grey Cup rematch at McMahon.

The Lions start the regular season with a bye week before opening on the road in Ottawa on July 4.

Notes: B.C.’s Josh Johnson and Cordelius Parks and Calgary’s Mayo, Evans, Brandon Boudreau Lin-J Shell and Freddie Bishop III collected sacks . . .

CFL teams will pare their rosters to 65 players by Sunday.

his past two starts after giving up 22 in his previous four.

Red Sox: RHP Clay Buchholz (3-6, 4.07) tries to bounce back from his third-shortest stint of the season. He allowed four runs and 10 hits in 4 2-3 innings Sunday in a 7-4 win against Oakland. In his previous start, he allowed three hits in eight innings in a 1-0 victory over Minnesota.

NHL: Puck-handling comes into play Asked if he had any goaltending heroes, Vasilevskiy smiled and joked: “No, nobody. I liked how Bish played.” His sense of humour and knowledge of English curse words came through even if he hesitated at times.

“I still speak not really good for cameras,” Vasilevskiy said. “But for writers, yeah. For you, you can change words.”

On the ice, Vasilevskiy is quieter than Bishop, defenceman Matt Carle said, and in the grand scheme

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BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF EDMONTON — Cam O’Connell made a triumphant return to the ring on Friday night in Edmonton.

The 26-year-old Red Deer native won by unanimous decision over Mario Perez to improve to 7-0-1 and remain undefeated.

Most importantly he went the full eight rounds to prove he his a complete boxer — dominating Perez from the outset — and not just a knockout specialist.

The fight was O’Connell’s first since March 1, 2014 when he knocked out Reece Chapman in the first round.

Not long after that fight he was found guilty of a drug trafficking charge from 2009 and spent nine months in the Bowden Institute. He was released on April 1 and is focused on turning his life around and being a positive influence in the life of area youths.

of things, the major difference between him and Bishop is he can’t handle the puck quite as well.

That’s the biggest real adjustment for the Lightning during goaltender roulette.

“Vasy is getting better at handling the puck, but not at the level of Bish,” Carle said Thursday. “From the standpoint of them stopping the puck, we don’t change the way we play.”

Blackhawks forward Andrew Desjardins said flipping opposing goalies with varying puck-handling skills doesn’t affect the forecheck at all.

“The tactic doesn’t change too much,” Desjardins said. “The prep’s there. You’re ready for anything.”

Johnson’s injury is another lingering problem for the Lightning. After not taking any faceoffs in Games 3 and 4 and skipping that exercise in practice, Tampa Bay’s leading scorer didn’t want to explain why.

“I think everyone’s banged up,” Johnson said.

“When you play this long, I think it’s 104 games already, when you’re doing that, you’re going to be bumped up a little bit but it doesn’t matter right now.

“It’s the Stanley Cup. There’s a maximum three games left and then you’ve got all summer to rest.”

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Arizona Coyotes fans Chris Webb, second from right, and Andrew Hill show their support for their team as the Glendale Council votes to back out of an arena lease agreement with the NHL team during a special council meeting in Glendale, Ariz.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — A judge granted a temporary restraining order Friday requested by the Arizona Coyotes to prevent the city of Glendale from dissolving its arena lease agreement with the team.

The order does not address whether the city must make the next payment due to IceArizona, the Coyotes’ owner, for operating the arena.

Jim Condo, an attorney for the Coyotes, said the order during the last-minute hearing was just one step in what would be a long process.

“We’re certainly fortunate the judge heard us this afternoon. We’re certainly fortunate the judge has agreed to continue the case. I think we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us,” Condo said.

Coyotes officials say the restraining order was needed to stop the city’s “improper attempt” to void a 15-year agreement to play at the Gila River Arena.

The Glendale City Council voted Wednesday to void the agreement, angering the team and fans and creating uncertainty about the team’s future.

The agreement signed in 2013 calls for the city to pay $15 million a year to IceArizona to manage the arena. But Glendale council members raised concerns last week about where that money was going.

Coyotes co-owners Anthony LeBlanc and Andrew

Barroway said the vote caught them completely by surprise.

Glendale city officials will meet Tuesday in a closed-door executive session. Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers expressed optimism about a possible compromise in a statement Friday.

“An opportunity for the two of us to discuss the issues has presented itself, and I am optimistic that with continued dialogue we can come to an agreement that satisfies both parties,” Weiers said.

LeBlanc said the only way to move forward would be for the city to “go back into session and revoke what they enacted two days ago and move forward as the partnership that was negotiated in good faith less than two years ago.”

The ordeal has intensified relocation speculation for the team with a long list of potential suitors waiting in the wings, including Seattle, Portland, Oregon, and Las Vegas. One overture has already come from across town.

If the Coyotes eventually lose their bid to stay in Glendale, the city of Phoenix is already laying the groundwork for the team to move back to the downtown arena where the NBA’s Phoenix Suns play. The Coyotes played there after moving to Arizona in 1996.

The Glendale arena opened in 2003.

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton said Friday that’s he’s spoken with Suns owner Robert Sarver.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Brooks Koepka is tuning up quite nicely for the U.S. Open at the event he added at the deadline.

Koepka, who had a share of the lead after the first round, shot a 3-under 67 Friday to lead the St. Jude Classic by a stroke after 36 holes. He turned in a four birdie-one bogey round for a 9-under 131.

“Playing solid golf, no mistakes, being very patient, waiting for my opportunities to come,” Koepka said. “And when they have come, I’ve kind of taken advantage of them, but I still feel like I could be about 5, 6 under par ... Really haven’t been firing on all cylinders, but good enough to be at the top.”

Austin Cook (64) was at 132. The Arkansas native is playing his tour event after getting a sponsor’s exemption.

“There’s a lot of people here, and I’m sure lot more buying tickets right now to come tomorrow,” Cook said after matching the best round.

TPC Southwind played firmer with temperatures in the 90s drying out the course, and that has greens playing faster along with some tricky pin placements Friday.

Koepka hit 14 of 18 greens for a second straight round and needed 28 putts Friday. The Floridian who won his first career title in February in Phoenix likes his chances going into the weekend as he tries to join Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Jimmy Walker as multiple winners on tour this season.

“I haven’t blitzed the golf course yet,” Koepka said. “You can shoot 8, 9 under in a round out here.

I feel like the greens are so good, you put the ball in the fairway you really take it 8, 9 under. Being in the lead is nice, but would have liked to have been a few more under par.”

Steve Alker briefly had the lead at 10 under with two holes to play only to finish bogey-double bogey.

He had a 68-133 total and needed only 23 putts Friday as he got to 10 under with his sixth birdie of the round.

Alker said he picked the wrong club on the par-3 No. 8 where his tee shot landed short of the green leading to his second bogey of the round. Then he put his first three shots on No. 9 — his 18th hole — in the rough leading to double bogey.

The New Zealand native who now lives in Arizona said he wasn’t aware he was the first to 10 under at TPC Southwind.

“It’s a good thing it’s not Sunday and finish two behind that would be bad,” Alker said. “You have to look at the positives and say, ’I’ve got two days left.’

I’ve been swinging it pretty good and still learning the putter, so there’s a lot of good things going on.”

Chris Smith (67), Russell Knox (64) and Greg Owen (70) were among seven tied at 134. Ryan Palmer (71) shared the first-round lead with Koepka and Owen and was tied with three others at 135.

22-year-old takes aim and lead at Women’s PGA Championship HARRISON, N.Y. — Sei Young Kim of South Korea has already won twice in her rookie season on the LPGA Tour.

Now the 22-year-old is taking aim at a major title, making an eagle on the 15th hole for a 5-under 68 Friday and a one-shot lead after the second round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.

Kim overtook Hall-of-Famer Karrie Webb, who birdied the 18th for a 71. Kim, who turned pro in 2010 and played on the LPGA of Korea Tour, shot bogeyfree golf to finish at 8-under 138 at the Westchester Country Club.

“My goal for this year is to become top five,” Kim said through an interpreter, “and if I win a major, I could be one step closer.”

Two-time defending champion Inbee Park (68) joined Webb a stroke back.

Suzann Pettersen rallied with seven birdies for the best round of the day at 66 and tied Canadian teenager Brooke Henderson (73) at 6 under. Overnight leader Jenny Shin (75) and third-ranked Stacy Lewis (71) were three shots behind the leader.

Pettersen improved her score from the opening round by eight shots, making seven birdies from No. 5 to No. 15. Coached by Butch Harmon, Pettersen was coming off a win in Canada.

“I felt my speed of the greens was a little bit off yesterday. But stuck to the game plan,” she said. “I didn’t practice much after. I’m right where I want to be.”

Top-ranked Lydia Ko (76) missed the cut, which was 2 over, ending her streak of 53 consecutive made cuts. She had a double bogey on No. 2 to start her day and finished with four bogeys and three birdies.

“I just made a double and just couldn’t get anything turned around,” said the 18-year-old from New Zealand. “I missed a lot of 9-footers. I made two good putts the last two holes; it was already kind of too late.”

Kim won LPGA Tour events in the Bahamas and Hawaii this year. She said she likes the West Course, and watched a talented male pro play on the longtime home of the PGA Tour event now called The Barclays.

“I was inspired by Tiger Woods, how he was able to make shots and shot-making,” Kim said.

The 40-year-old Webb had three birdies and a bogey on the par-3 16th on another steamy day with temperatures in the 80s, which helped dry the greens. She hit her pitch shot within 5 feet on the par-5, 525-yard final hole.

“Nice to finish with a birdie on the last,” Webb said.

“It was a little bit more difficult today. I think the greens really dried out a little bit. It was still quite challenging to get the ball close to the hole.”

The 17-year-old Henderson had five birdies and five bogeys in an up-and-down round with her father Dave as caddie. After three-putting on her final hole Thursday to finish a shot behind Shin, she bogeyed two of the first five holes on Friday.

She hit her approach shot at No. 17 within 8 feet for a possible birdie putt and a tie for the lead, but it ran past on the right.

“I didn’t have my A game,” said Henderson, playing in her fourth major. “I hit a lot of shots just really close to being really good but would just roll off the back because the greens. Just one of those days you have to learn from and move on.”

Henderson, who turned pro in December, is playing on a sponsor exemption because she is below the LPGA Tour’s age requirement of 18.

“It’s really exciting seeing my name up there with Stacy Lewis and Karrie Webb and all the big names,” she said. “It’s awesome. I think I just have to stay patient, stay consistent and keep working on my game and I think good things will happen.”

After shooting a bogey-free, 7-under 66 Thursday for a one-stroke lead after the opening round, Shin needed nine more shots on Friday. The 22-year-old Shin, who is seeking her first major, started on No. 10 and eagled the par-5, 525 yard 18th hole. But she had bogeys on Nos. 2, 4, 6 and 8, with a birdie on No. 7, to finish the front nine at 39.

“I wanted to shoot under par and try to get away from everybody as much as possible and do the Jordan Spieth and win by like 10 shots,” Shin said. “But I was so frustrated, and I think that’s one of the reasons why I made so many bogeys.”

Lewis recovered from a double bogey on No. 2

with consecutive birdies on the sixth and seventh holes and capped her round with a tap-in birdie at the 18th.

“I think the officials didn’t quite like the 7 under they saw yesterday, so the golf course was set up a lot tougher,” said Lewis, a two-time major winner. “It played more like a major, which I like.”

Lexi Thompson, Cristie Kerr, and British teenager Charley Hull were in a group at 4 under. Hull, tied for the lead at 8 under at the 12th, bogeyed four of the last six holes to finish at 74.

Michelle Wie, bothered by ankle and hip injuries, birdied the 18th for a 72 to make the cut.

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Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, left, and teammate forward Harrison Barnes go for a rebound over Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James during the first half of Game 4 of basketball’s NBA Finals in Cleveland, Thursday, June 11, 2015.

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Rookie Sam leaves Als training camp for personal reasons MONTREAL — Michael Sam has left the Montreal Alouettes training camp for personal reasons.

The Alouettes released a statement on Friday saying the rookie defensive end has been given special permission to return home to Texas after several media outlets noted his absence practice.

“With all due respect for Michael Sam, the nature of this decision will remain confidential,” said the statement. “The Montreal Alouettes fully respect Michael Sam’s decision and rally around him to offer him all time and support needed.

“The team has left the door open and Michael is welcome to come back whenever he feels ready.”

The club added that they they will have no further comment on Sam at this time.

Sam’s departure comes three weeks after he became the first openly gay player to sign in the CFL. Montreal plays its first pre-season game Saturday night in Quebec City.

The 25-year-old Sam was selected in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL draft by the St. Louis Rams, becoming the first openly gay player chosen by an NFL team. He was later cut by the Rams and from the Dallas Cowboys’ practice roster.

He is part of a tiny group of professional athletes who have chosen to go public about their sexual orientation. Retired NBA player Jason Collins came out in April 2013 while Los Angeles Galaxy soccer star Robbie Rogers is the lone out player in Major League Soccer. There are no openly gay players in Major League Baseball or the NHL.

Swiss rout Ecuador 10 -1 VANCOUVER — Fabienne Humm and Ramona Bachmann both had second-half hat tricks to lead Switzerland to a 10-1 rout of Ecuador on Friday at the Women’s World Cup. Humm scored her first goal in the 47th minute off a powerful strike from outside the penalty box. All three of her goals would come within six minutes early in the second.

Bachmann finished off Switzerland’s scoring in the 81st minute with its 10th goal.

Eseosa Aigbogun and Martina Moser also found the back of the net for the Swiss, who got their first win of the tournament.

Angie Ponce scored for Ecuador — its first World Cup goal — on a penalty kick in the 64th.

Switzerland currently leads the Group C standings with a 1-0-1 record and three points. The loss drops Ecuador to 0-0-2.

Earlier, Kyah Simon had a pair of goals as Australia blanked Nigeria 2-0 in Winnipeg.

Simon received a feed from Lisa De Vanna in the 29th minute and beat Nigeria goalkeeper Precious Dede. She scored again in the 68th after being left unguarded in front of the net.

Australia improves to 1-0-1 with three points in Group D with the win. Nigeria is in last place in the group at 0-1-1.

The United States remain atop the Group D standings after a 0-0 draw against Sweden.

The U.S. is ranked No. 2 in the world and were playing against former coach Pia Sundhage.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Gary Liss still has the ticket from Game 2 of the 1975 NBA Finals in his wallet. The seat cost just $10, but watching the Golden State Warriors win the title remains a priceless memory.

“World champions? That’s a hard thing to do,” said Liss, who has been a season-ticket holder since the Warriors moved from Philadelphia in 1962.

For many loyal fans like Liss, it has been a long and grueling wait to experience that moment again.

The Warriors will play their biggest game in a generation when they host LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday night in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The best-of-seven series is tied at two games apiece, and the anticipation is equally exciting and exhausting in Oakland.

It has been 40 years — the longest span between finals appearances in league history — since the franchise’s long-suffering fans could feel such a rush. After decades of bad drafts, terrible trades and lots of losses, the most hardened Warriors supporters are soaking in every second of this run.

“It’s just magical. There’s never going to be another season like it,” said Leslie Sosnick, a 61-year-old fan from Oakland. “All I’ve ever wanted is to have a good product on the court.”

Sosnick first saw a good product when her father, Peter, took her to a Warriors game in San Francisco to celebrate her 9th birthday. She watched Wilt Chamberlain from the upper deck and thought the Big Dipper looked slow and small.

She eventually found her way behind the basket when the team warmed up before the second half and got an up-close look at the size and speed of NBA players. Sosnick has been hooked ever since.

Her father died in 1978 and her mother passed away about 15 years ago, but she has held on to a cherished family heirloom for more than 50 years: Warriors season-tickets.

“I just feel that I have each of my parents on my shoulders and we’re going through this together and celebrating it with them. It’s extremely emotional for me,” she said, her voice cracking. “But in the very best way.”

For Mark and Jan Wilson, the Warriors are a personal love affair.

One of their first dates was at a game on Valentine’s Day in 2007. They sat in section 214 — a buy-one-get-one special on Feb. 14 — and watched the Warriors beat the New York Knicks.

The “We Believe” Warriors, as they became known, went on to upset the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs. The couple bought season-tickets the following year and continued to commute from their home in Santa Cruz, about a 90-minute drive without traffic.

“This is like our vacations coming out here,” said Mark Wilson, now 65.

Liss, 72, went to his first game during the team’s inaugural season in the Bay Area. He sat courtside and became friends with players and management over the years, and he sits in the first row behind the Warriors’ bench now.

Every game he attended brought new memories, and that was enough to keep him coming back — even when the team was terrible.

“Each time that I went, the games always started zero-zero. They always had a chance,” Liss said, chuckling.

While it’s easy to root for the Warriors now, they have tested the faith and fortitude of fans.

The Warriors missed the playoffs nine straight years after the 1976-77 season. Chris Mullin led the franchise to the post-season five times between 1987 and 1994, including the brief but exciting Run TMC teams.

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BY DONNA TROTTIER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE On Sunday May 3, Red Deer hosted the fifth annual, five-km walk: Steps for Life — Walking for Families of Workplace Tragedy.

Participants in the walk included family and friends affected by workplace injury, illness, and death along with injury prevention champions who believe workplace tragedies are not an acceptable ‘cost of business.’ Red Deer participated in the walk along with 35 other communities across Canada.

Threads of Life Family spokesperson Donna Van Bruggen spoke at the walk about the loss of her son, “The Red Deer Steps for Life walk was an opportunity for me to honour my son David, who was killed at work, and to support other families who have had their lives torn apart by workplace tragedy. The ripple effect of each workplace tragedy extends from the worker affected to their family, friends, co-workers and the surrounding community. Each step we take in solidarity brings us closer to the day when no other family will ever have to suffer the agony of a workplace tragedy.”

Memory Lane is a key component of the Steps for Life walk, featuring signs with the faces, names and stories of those who have been personally affected by a work-related tragedy. As a celebration of life, and occupational health and safety, the walk also included team challenges, a raffle table, face painting, mascots, music, a pre-walk stretch, safety displays and a barbecue.

The 2015 Steps for Life walk in Red Deer raised over $30,000 through individual participation, donations, team fundraising, sponsorship and the corporate challenge.

All proceeds from the Steps for Life event support families of workplace tragedy with Threads of Life family support programs and services.

The Steps for Life walk committee would like to thank the community of Red Deer for supporting the walk and for promoting health and safety in the workplace.

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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Red Deer Steps for Life volunteers celebrating the funds raised at the walk. Stepping forward for safety. Yellow ribbons on the Tree of Mourning, representing lives lost in workplace tragedies. St. John Ambulance’s Careful Curtis joined the walk. Steps for Life walkers step forward in support of workplace safety. Bruin, the Bear that Cares, joins the pre-walk stretching workout. Donna VanBruggen cuts the ribbon to launch the Red Deer Steps for Life walk.

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer has announced a series of lane closures as the 55th Street improvement project enters its second phase.

Today, lane closures will begin on a section of 55th Street: the westbound lanes will close from 48th Avenue to 46th Avenue, with single lane traffic open in each direction.

Later next week, the eastbound lanes will close and single lane traffic will switch to the other side of the road.

Beginning on June 27, both eastbound and westbound lanes on 55th Street from 48th Avenue to 46th Avenue will completely close (including sidewalks).

And beginning on July 1, 55th Street from 46th Avenue to the top of Michener Hill will close.

These closures will last until early September.

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Trails on either side of 55th Street directly east

and west of the creek will also close on June 27.

“We know navigating detours is not always easy so we want to thank Red Deerians in advance for their patience as we upgrade the aging utilities along 55th Street to allow for future development in Riverlands, Railyards and the northeast,” said Tom Marstaller, Environmental Planning superintendent, in a city news release.

Contractors are upgrading underground utility services, including water and sanitary sewer, which are at capacity and approximately 60 years old.

They will also be repairing 55th Street, which was identified for maintenance and repairs in the City’s Roads in Need program. New sidewalks and a new multi-use pathway will also be added along this stretch of roadway.

For more information about the project and to sign up to receive project email alerts, visit www. reddeer.ca/construction. Updates are also available by calling the construction season hotline at 403-4068796.

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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Menacing black clouds that tracked north of Red Deer did not produce any tornados late Thursday afternoon as far as Environment Canada was aware.

“For those who were close to the system it looked very ominous. It was a very dark cloud. The clouds were very close to the ground when the system was developing,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Bill McMurty on Friday.

Two rotating storm cells, one northwest and one south of Gull Lake, moved eastward across Hwy 2.

At about 5 p.m., a tornado warning was issued for the Ponoka area and people were advised to seek shelter if necessary. The Red Deer area was under a tornado watch.

“We do not have confirmation of a tornado yet.

When we were monitoring the situation, the radar indicated there were certain signatures related to that storm and it could produce a tornado. A radar cannot definitively say yes there was or wasn’t.”

Anyone with photos of damage or a possible tornado is asked to send them to Environment Canada.

“The hail was pretty big. We had golf-ball-sized hail just south of Ponoka, and in Ponoka lots of marble-sized hail. Morningside had some quarter-sized hail.”

Lacombe also saw a lot of hail.

Wind speed was guesstimated at gusts of 70 to 80 km/h. Heavy local downpours were reported but rain was not widespread.

McMurty said June and July are peak months for tornados in Alberta.

“So far this season we’ve had a quiet convective weather season. This is the first major outbreak we’ve seen in Alberta. It’s been a bit of a slow start this year. But the systems last night were fairly significant.”

And the Red Deer-Ponoka-Stetter-Innisfail region does have a severe summer weather reputation compared to other parts of the province.

“That’s sort of the zone for serious thunderstorms and tornados.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Man pleaded guilty to $23K tire theft A Red Deer man pleaded guilty on Friday to possessing stolen semi truck wheels worth $23,000.

Anthony Morgan Shilmar, 47, also pleaded guilty to failing to make a December court appearance.

Two charges of breaking and entering were dropped.

Shilmar requested a pre-sentence report and will return to Red Deer provincial court on Sept. 28 for sentencing.

Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard said 20 truck wheels were stolen from trailers at Red Deer’s Greatwest Kenworth semi-trailer dealership, at 6739 67th Ave., in the early hours of March 24, 2014.

Police said at the time that surveillance cameras picked up a man driving a cube van into the yard before the thefts. The truck had been stolen from Bruin’s Plumbing and Heating and was later recovered.

Police tracked the wheels to a garage in Lacombe County that Shilmar rented. He had planned to resell the stolen tires. The owners of the garage had no idea that it was being used to store stolen property.

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BRIEF Benalto teen who overtook police cruiser at high speed fined A Benalto teen who overtook a police cruiser at 150 km/h outside Sylvan Lake will have to park his truck for the next three months.

Red Deer provincial court Judge Gordon Yake fined Arden Nielsen $750 and prohibited him from driving for three months for his ill-advised pass on Hwy 11A just west of Sylvan Lake.

Nielsen, 19, pleaded guilty in court on Friday to speeding 51 km/h over the posted speed limit of 100 km/h. A charge of dangerous driving was dropped.

Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard said a police cruiser was on Hwy 11A when a blue pickup pulled up behind it and then overtook it at high speed. No

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Red Deer North MLA Kim Schreiner marked National Blood Donor Week on Friday by donating blood, and recognizing Ron Regehr, left, who has been giving blood since he was 17 years old.

National Blood Donor Week runs June 8-14, and celebrates 420,000 Canadians who help patients in need, and encourage other to donate. Approximately one in two Canadians will either need blood or know someone who will in their lifetime.

RCMP hunting suspect who defrauded seniors

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer RCMP are looking for public assistance to identify a man who defrauded two Red Deer senior citizens of thousands of dollars in the same week.

The man defrauded two women, one 84 and one 90, by impersonating a bank securities officer who claimed he needed the women to help him catch a thief.

Earlier this week, Red Deer RCMP reported that on June 3, an 84-year-old woman received a phone call from a man claiming to represent the TD Bank located at the Village Mall. He told the victim that her account was being Fraud suspect tampered with and instructed her to withdraw money and meet him in the parking lot at the Village Mall the same day.

In this scam, the suspect typically leads the victim to believe they are helping to catch a thief, and swears the victim to secrecy.

In the first case, the victim was defrauded of over $3,000.

Red Deer RCMP have since received a second complaint. A 90-year-old woman was defrauded of almost $6,000 in a similar scam on Tuesday. In this case, the scammer asked the victim to meet him in the parking lot of the Chapters store in south Red Deer.

radar gun reading was taken but officers estimated the speed at 150 km/h to 160 km/h.

The lead-footed driver was soon pulled over and arrested.

Both Collard and the judge remarked on how “unusual” it was to see someone in court who chose to overtake a clearly marked police car at a high rate of speed.

“What were you thinking, is the question that pops to my mind,” said Yake.

“That’s a speed that’s just plain dangerous.”

Defence lawyer Pat Penny said his client thought the vehicle ahead was a taxi when he passed. Nielsen is an apprentice electrician with no prior criminal record.

Former Alberta Wildrose MLA who crossed floor wins $1M in Lotto Max ST. ALBERT — A former Wildrose member of the legislature who joined the Conservatives has won $1 million in the Lotto Max. Bruce Rowe and his wife Carol of Beiseker matched all seven numbers on one of the 38 sets of

In both incidents, the suspect went by the first name Thomas. Based on similarities between the incidents, RCMP believe both scams were perpetuated by the same person.

The suspect is described as: Caucasian; approximately 1.82 metres (six feet) tall, with thinning hair and a slim build. He was wearing a light-coloured shirt and khaki pants.

RCMP urge everyone to educate themselves and the vulnerable people in their lives about common telephone frauds.

If you suspect that someone you know is being targeted, don’t criticize them for being naïve. Instead, educate them about scams and assure them that it is not rude to hang up on suspicious calls. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre reports that criminal telemarketers can be relentless in hounding people — sometimes calling five or more times a day to wear down their victims’ resistance.

RCMP further urge people to treat their personal information with care — never give out personal information over the phone, and shred old bills and statements. If someone is asking you for money, ask a lot of questions, ask to see identification, and do your own research to confirm that the person, business or charity is legitimate.

For more information on protecting yourself from fraud, visit the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre: www. antifraudcentre.ca.

RCMP ask anyone with information that will help identify this suspect to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403.343.5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1.800.222.8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

MaxMillions in the May 22 draw with a quick pick ticket bought in Calgary.

Rowe, who is 72, was first elected to the legislature in 2012 in the riding of Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills.

He and eight other Wildrose members, including then-leader Danielle Smith, crossed the floor to join the PCs in December 2014.

Rowe did not run in the provincial election on May 5, and the other floor crossers, including Smith, lost in the election, as did the PCs, who only won 10 seats.

Bruce Rowe says the money will be used to buy an 1965 Corvette and help with their grandchildren’s education.

“I think I went straight into shock,” Carol said Friday when she and her husband picked up the cheque at the lottery corporation’s headquarters in St. Albert.

“I just kept on saying, ‘Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh!

That’s all I could think of to say. Then I called my husband — he couldn’t believe it either.”

Bruce said the couple used to have a ’65 Corvette, but “we sold it a while ago.

“We’re going to buy another one.”

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

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Classic script, great acting RED DEER PLAYERS PRODUCTION OF TWELVE ANGRY MEN DESERVES A WIDE AUDIENCE Well-made things stand the test of time — including the acclaimed 1954 play Twelve Angry Men. With a script so good it won both the Drama Desk Award and Edgar Award, the jury-room drama by Reginald Rose has attracted actors the stature of Henry Fonda, George C. Scott and Jack LemLANA mon for various MICHELIN film and stage versions.

Audiences have also been enjoying it for more than 60 years. And they did so again on Thursday night at the Scott Block, when Rose’s fascinating study of human perceptions, principles and prejudices enthralled a small, opening night crowd.

The Red Deer Players production deserves a much wider audience. It’s loaded with exceptional performances, rising tensions and great pacing, established by director Lori Lane.

The themes are about the danger of making assumptions and the importance of overcoming personal biases to ensure the proper carriage of justice.

But let’s put aside thoughts of Twelve Angry Men being a dry, behind-thescenes drama.

It’s more like a courtroom version of Lord of the Flies.

Locked in a room without air conditioning, these jurors get in each other’s faces. They posture, bully, inflame and intimidate. They even come close to slugging it out during their protracted deliberations.

At stake is the life of a poor, 19-yearold Hispanic kid who’s accused of stabbing his father. While his fate is being heatedly debated, jury members are also jockeying for position in that pressure-cooker environment, in which even the (open or shut) status of a window incites anger.

On one side is high-minded dissenter Juror No. 8, played by Robert van der Linden (taking on the role popularized by Fonda in the Oscar-nominated 1957 film). He believes the prosecution’s case is far from air tight and

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Juror No. 7 (played by Derrek Seelinger) and Juror No. 11 (played by Gertjan Zwiggelaar) in a heated debate, while Juror No. 5 (Tom Brushett) looks on. there’s a reasonable doubt that the youth is not guilty.

On the other side is Juror No. 3, a businessman, portrayed by Nigel Lane, who is seething with an irrational rage.

He’s convinced the accused is a killer and deserves the death penalty.

Between the protagonist and antagonist stand many other believable characters who may remind us of people we know.

There’s bigoted Juror No. 10 (Albert Azzara) who hates Hispanics, Juror No. 7 (Derrek Seelinger), who’s mostly interested in making it home to watch sports.

There’s rational, analytical Juror

No. 4 (Jason Lee), soul-searching Juror No. 9 (Lionel Lustgarten) and glib Juror No. 12 (David Weiss).

There’s also Juror No. 11 (Gertjan Zwiggelaar), who emigrated to the U.S. from Germany, and reminds us that free speech is a right that must be extended to those with differing opinions.

Rose, who wrote the play after serving on a real-life jury, created naturalistic dialogue and true-to-life conflicts.

There are funny moments in his drama, as well as some uncomfortable ones that expose human frailty, vanity and insecurity.

Lori Lane must be applauded for

rustling up a dozen male community actors in the first place, and then for helping them realize dimensional characters.

Although some actors could have jumped in quicker with their lines, the entire cast — including Owen Clark, Keith Edwards, Tom Brushett, John DeGuara, and Vicki Dykes — have earned praise for a job well done.

Theatregoers will find anger entertaining in Twelve Angry Men, which continues to June 20. The last play of the season is also one of the year’s best. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Ex-Canadian Idol stars in Space saga Dark Matter

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ten years after Melissa O’Neil won Canadian Idol, the onetime wannabe crooner finds herself back on TV, this time starring on the new Space series Dark Matter.

It’s uncharted territory, admits the Calgary-bred singer, who landed on Broadway with Les Miserables after topping the CTV reality singing competition.

“It is 10 years. It’s weird when I think about it that way,” O’Neil said of the decade-long journey that brought her to a lead role in the sci-fi drama.

“I thought I was going to be a teacher and who knows, I may end up there again one day.... I’ve learned so much and I feel so fulfilled creatively. I’m really savouring every bit of it.”

O’Neil’s Toronto-shot series centres on the crew of a derelict spaceship who awaken with no memories of who they are or how they got there.

She plays Two, who emerges as the tough and determined leader of the group.

Then there’s Three, played by Anthony Lemke, who is a mercenary who only looks out for himself.

The series was created by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, also behind the Dark Matter graphic novel and the Stargate franchise.

Before the show’s premiere Friday, The Canadian Press chatted with O’Neil and Lemke about set secrets, spaceships and sing-a-long sci-fi.

The Canadian Press: There’s a lot of mystery in this show. How much did you know as filming unfolded? Were you as in-the-dark as the characters are?

Lemke: When we started shooting, absolutely we were. We had read a number of episodes ahead as actors but one of the things that Joe and Paul did very, very well was keep secrets.

Boy did they ever.

Right up until the last episode of the show, the big cliffhanger. We literally had no idea how that was going to go until it was shot, on the last day of shooting.

CP: How about you Melissa? Did not having a backstory make it hard to dig into your character?

O’Neil: I had this hunch about my character and I felt very strongly that if this was correct, I needed to know it.

And Joe, Paul and I went out for dinner one night and I posed the question to them and I was quite adamant and forthcoming about how I felt that this was crucial information for me to know — if it did end up in fact being true — and they held their cards really close.

They were like, ’No, no, no. You’re OK. You don’t need to know.’ And I kind of sat there thinking, ’Are you sure?’

CP: And were you right?

O’Neil: My hunch was correct. But that’s all I can say.

CP: Did that change the way you approached the character?

O’Neil: Occasionally yes.... The same thing was happening with the character Two — as she moves along in the season she definitely experiences this sense about herself. And I won’t say too much more about that.

CP: Anthony, what did you latch onto in playing Three?

Lemke: In a way he’s a very simple guy on the surface. He’s the guy who literally says exactly what he thinks all the time and damn the consequences....

He’s an ends-justifies-the-means kind of guy ... the thing that gets us to survive until tomorrow is the right thing.

And he enjoys the discovery that he makes at the end of the pilot, which is a bit of a startling discovery. And everyone reacts to it differently on board and my character in the end revels in that discovery. So in a way, that’s what I had to latch onto.

You know, we’ve seen that type of character before in sci-fi ... Han Solo is an easy reference, for sure, and that looking-out-for-number-one kind of dude is who Three is set up to be. And as with all the other characters, who he’s set up to be is not his entire story.

CP: Is the whole series confined to the ship?

O’Neil: We do get off the ship sometimes, we land on planets. But it is a ship-based show and what’s exciting about that is we don’t have that on television right now — a ship-based drama that’s filled with a lot of humour as well. I think audiences are going to be excited to return to that kind of a format. And our ship is incredible. It’s absolutely fantastic when you look at it on screen.

CP: Nice to see yet another strong female lead on a sci-fi show.

O’Neil: I think so too, I’m honoured to be playing one.

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Melissa O’Neil, from Calgary, performs after winning the Canadian Idol contest in Toronto in 2005. Ten years after O’Neil won Canadian Idol, the one-time wannabe crooner finds herself back on TV, this time starring on the new Space series Dark Matter.

CP: I don’t suppose there’s going to be any singing?

Lemke: We tried hard! Honestly, we were campaigning with Joe to get a musical episode in there.

I think we’re going to have to wait until season 3.

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BRIEFS Scenes of a Sunday drive on display The beauty of a Sunday drive in the country is captured in a new art exhibit at the Gallery on Main in Lacombe.

The work of Central Alberta artist Norma Barsness will be featured in a spring show of 80 artists that has an opening reception on Friday.

Barsness will be in attendance from 5 to 9 p.m.

The painter’s show is called Sunday Afternoon Drive because she has captured scenes along Alberta highways in her paintings.

“There is something delightful about jumping in the truck on a Sunday afternoon with camera, picnic and back-road maps,” said Barsness, who likes seeing different vistas and enjoying new adventures.

For more information about the gallery, upstairs at 4910-50th Ave, call 403-782-3402.

Fall City Fall to rock Slumland Hardcore noisemakers Fall City Fall are stopping in Red Deer next week on their No Parents, No Rules tour.

The Calgary five-piece band will playing on Thursday at the Slumland Theatre.

Fall City Fall is crossing the country to Quebec in support of the 2013 album Victus, as well as newer material from a upcoming record to be released later this year.

The dynamic group is described as “providing the remedy for today’s monotonous hardcore scene ... with conviction in their hearts and balled-up fists, they’ve dedicated their purpose to changing the music scene forever.”

Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. For more information about the 8 p.m. all-ages show, call 403-307-3528.

Upbeat acoustic show Saturday at The Olive A colourful tapestry of folk, pop and alt-rock music will be spun on Saturday, June 20, in Red Deer.

Nova Scotia-born, Red Deer-based singer/ songwriter Trevor Howlett will be performing some of his memorable, acoustic tunes for the first time in Red Deer at The Olive.

The upbeat show will include new songs from Howlett’s upcoming first full-length album, a few tracks from his 2010 EP Lost Causes, as well as some covers from Bob Dylan, Nirvana and others.

There’s no cover charge for the 8:30 p.m. performance.

For more information, call 403-340-8288.

Fictional stripper improv show Saturday at Memorial Centre They’re all oiled up and ready to make you laugh.

The cast of The Comic Strippers contains real-life improvisational comedians playing members of a fictional male stripper troupe.

The show on Saturday, June 20, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre is billed as “semi-dressed and completely unscripted,” and promises to introduce “a whole new genre of comedy.”

The guys “with comedy bodies” try to be sexy, but “it just comes out funny,” states the release about the “sexylarious” touring comedy show for both sexes.

“They will make you look good by comparison.”

The stage show doesn’t contain nudity, “just extreme hilarity.”

The parody strippers are: Roman Danylo from CTV’s Comedy Inc., Ken Lawson from the Canadian sitcom Health Nutz, David Milchard a YouTube star from his Convos With My 2 Year Old videos, Chris Casillan, of Vancouver Theatre Sports and his award-winning sketch comedy group, Canadian Content, and Pearce Visser of Vancouver TheatreSport League, an occasional performer with Cirque du Soleil.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $42 (or $37 per ticket for groups of six) from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

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Rock legend John Fogerty poses for a portrait in New York. Fogerty has a tour called 1969 and a memoir, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, expected in October. He will be in Red Deer on July 28.

With upcoming memoir, former Creedence frontman John Fogerty feels like a Fortunate Son

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — After nibbling on a few finger sandwiches at teatime, John Fogerty now feels energized to talk about his upcoming memoir and summer concert tour.

Aptly called 1969, the 41-city tour represents that prolific year for Creedence Clearwater Revival: They released three albums — and Fogerty wrote one of the most profound protests songs of all time.

(The tour hits Red Deer on July 28. Tickets to his 7:30 p.m. Centrium concert will be $20, $49.50 and $79.50 plus service charges from Ticketmaster.)

Fortunate Son took a harsh look at America’s inequities during the military draft for the Vietnam War. “It just seemed like the young male sons of rich people were managing to escape being drafted or at least being sent to places that weren’t dangerous,” Fogerty recently told the Associated Press.

Instead, the poor and middle class were shipped overseas to fight in the war. “I really took a harsh look at that,” the Army veteran said.

Ironically, Fogerty decided to name his memoir after the song. Published by Little Brown, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music comes out in October.

While the 70-year-old Fogerty feels a little funny about it, he finds the title is appropriate is a different way. “The words still mean what they mean and yet to call my own book Fortunate Son is certainly some sort of a leap,” he said.

“As I a kid I wanted to make music and dreamed about being like my musical heroes and eventually it came true. I have become very fortunate, so that’s my take on the use of the phrase now.”

Until then, Fogerty is on tour, playing a very Creedence-heavy set, but it wasn’t always like that.

Legal troubles with his band and record label soured him on playing songs from his old band.

In the 1980s, he was sued by record label, Fantasy Records for copying his own song.

They claimed his 1985 hit The Old Man Down the Road ripped off Run Through the Jungle.

Both were written by Fogerty, but the label owned the copyright. A jury sided with Fogerty.

There was also bad blood with his former band mates, including his brother Tom, who passed away in 1990, over control of the band and a variety of issues. They were also in court over royalties owed to Fogerty by performing his songs.

The problems were so intense that when the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, Fogerty refused to perform with them.

Now with those dark day behind him, Fogerty feels the book will come out at the right time.

“It’s no longer about having an axe to grind. If you asked me 15 years ago it might have been quite different. A lot of stuff happened to me in show business and my personal life and there were certainly periods where I was pretty angry and pretty bitter,” Fogerty said.

Now that his life is at peace —he’s now happily married and plays music with his sons Shane and Tyler — Fogerty has no plans to reunite with remaining members of the band.

“Through the years I have left that question open.

I think it’s safe to say the longer time you spend on the earth the more you realize you don’t know everything that’s gonna happen, but the other fellas recently made it difficult for me to do it,” Fogerty said.

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Bend Sinister set to play The Vat on Monday Prog-rock band Bend Sinister will be letting out the Animals on Monday night in Red Deer.

The Vancouver band known for morphing between genres will perform songs from its critically acclaimed album, Animals, at The Vat. Bend Sinister’s fourth studio album was recorded last year with Grammy-nominated producer Joe Marlett (Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age) in San Diego.

The band has toured with Bad Religion, Metric, Hollerado, Awolnation and many others. Bend Sinister was also nominated as Best Emerging Artist by the Sirius XM Awards and Best Rock Recording by the Western Canadian Music Awards.

For more information about the show, call 403346-5636.

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Mom wants the truth about frat life Dear Harlan: My sophomore son wants to join people in his corner should he get uncomfortable.

Sigma Phi Epsilon at the University of Illinois in He has you, the university, the national chapter Urbana. and me.

He is an honors student who is social, but not Dear Harlan: I need some advice for a close into binge drinking or any drugs. He was accepted at friend. two fraternities last year, but declined because one A friend of mine just went through a breakup and forced drinking and the other had a hisshe’s planning to drink her pain away. I tory of hazing during the pledge process. need some help on what to do. How can I As a parent, I want to make sure I do help? — Drunk Friend the research because of all the negative Dear Drunk Friend: Drunk close friends things that occur during the hazing proneed lots of sober smart friends. They need cess. them to drive.

Sigma Phi Epsilon does not have a They need them to help them avoid repledging process; you simply are acceptbound sex. They need them to avoid stranged. You need a high grade point average ers with bad intentions. They need them to to get in. I just want to make sure this hold their hair when they throw up. They is an above-board fraternity (no probneed them help find alcohol-treatment relems) and that my son is not getting into sources if this continues. something negative. My son truly does If your friend is drinking all the time, not want to put himself in a negative situmissing work (or school), making dangeration. ous decisions and not getting better, turn I remember when I saw you speak at to the pros. You aren’t a pro. You are a lovHARLAN a high school, you said that parents can ing friend.

COHEN email you questions. Thank you. — Alias Check out Al-Anon (www.al-anon.org) Dear Alias: I’m not worried. If your and find support. Reach out to her famson rejected two fraternities, he’s capaily. If her family is missing-in-action, find ble of saying “no” if someone tries to force him to do other people who can be in her corner. While you something he doesn’t feel comfortable with. want to fix it, you can’t. She needs time, love and an The students who get into trouble don’t know how addiction specialist, should this continue. to say “no.” They don’t set boundaries. But if you’re Dear Harlan: I’m attractive, single and searching. concerned, get answers from the experts.

I’ m starting to implant the idea of the Universal Most campuses have Greek advisers. They are in Rejection Truth into my head. I’ve never had a girlcharge of communicating, supporting and working friend, nor have I had my first kiss ... yet. I’m 19 years with the Greek chapters. Here’s a link to the Greek old. I’ve been close to some girls, but most don’t feel advisers at UI: www.odos.illinois.edu/greek/contact/ the same way as I do. staff.asp.

One treated me badly, so I cut that negative enIdeally, your son should do the talking, but you ergy from my life, thanks to your advice. I’m starting can reach out, too. If you want to remain anonymous, college this fall, and am preparing my mind-set to just tell them you’re a concerned parent. Ask them think more positively when I start to meet people. some key questions. For example: Is the chapter Though, one problem still lurks inside me, I ala recognized organization? Is the chapter in good ways think of ‘what if.’ What if this or that seems to standing? Has it ever been on probation? Where happen? What if I don’t make friends? What if I don’t does it rank academically? find ‘the one’ in college? Am I screwed? Questions You also can go to the national site (www.sigep. upon questions. org) and read about the chapter. If you have quesWhen I’m talking to someone, I’m often missing tions, reach out to their executive team. out on the conversation because I’m constantly evalAgain, in a perfect world your son should do the uating everything in my mind, whether it’s the girl talking, but if you need information to get a better I’m talking to or the other girls around me. Thoughts handle on the health and well-being of the chapter, like these don’t happen all the time; usually it’s reach out. when I meet new people, and this part of my life is Of course, not every organization, inside and out- full of them. side of the Greek system, follows the rules. What matWhat can I tell myself, or what can I do to cut ters most is that your son sets boundaries and has these questions or thoughts from my head? — Austin

HELP

Dear Austin: I know that voice. I used to love beating myself up.

When I’m overweight, overtired, scared and lonely, that voice gets louder. It’s hard for me to hear anyone else when it’s talking. It happens a lot less now. Here are some things I tell myself that you can tell yourself. I hope this helps: When I feel insecure: We are all painfully insecure. Some people are just better at hiding it.

When I feel nervous meeting new people: Think, ‘Are you as interesting as you are attractive?’ I know I’m interesting.

When I feel less than: I’m worth loving. I have value (repeat 10 times).

When I feel tired: Sleep is medicine. Get more ASAP. When a big change is coming: Yes. Change is scary.

Who are my five people I can lean on? Where are my three places? How long will this take?

When I’m meeting new people: Talk less. Listen more. Be interested, and you will be interesting.

When I’m feeling rejected: Thousands will want me. Millions will not. I give the world permission to want me or not want me.

When I think the worst: Practicing the bad stuff just means having to go through something I may never need to experience twice. Be grateful for the moment.

When I get nervous about the future: Tell the story of how everything worked out as if it’s already happened. And it will work out.

When I’m not feeling smart: Find a teacher. Find a book. Download an audiobook. The Success Principles,

by Jack Canfield, is my latest favorite.

When I’m feeling negative: Surround myself with positive, loving people, and life will be brighter.

When I need someone to talk to: I need someone who will listen, not judge and congratulate me for sharing. Find a therapist.

When I’m feeling undesirable: It’s not about being wanted, it’s about what I want. What do I want?

When I’m depressed: Get moving, get sweating and get talking.

When I’m impatient: Seasons change. Darkness turns to light. Everything is temporary. Tomorrow is a better today (repeat three times). I’m grateful for (list five things).

When I beat myself up: The world can be cruel.

Kindness starts with me. Be kind. Love myself.

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Fallon’s new children’s book to give dad bragging rights FATHER’S DAY

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Jimmy Fallon spends his evenings as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show, having fits of laughter with Bradley Cooper, pretending to be a teenage girl whose favourite word is “Ew!” and coming up with hashtags, but the favourite part of his day is when he’s at home, reading to his almost two-yearold daughter, Winnie Rose. (His second daughter, Frances Cole, is a baby.)

“It’s a really good bonding moment. I know I’m going to miss those days,” Fallon said in a recent interview.

He happily listed the titles from his inventory of children’s books like “Moo, Baa, La La La!” by Sandra Boynton. “Oh my gosh, it’s a great book,” he gushed.

Now he’s adding his own book to that inventory — Your Baby’s First Word Will Be Dada (Feiwel & Friends), available in hardcover or as a board book.

“It’s a secret mission that no one really discusses when you have a baby. What’s baby’s first word gonna be? These days the baby’s first word is normally iPad,” he joked.

Fallon said he was blatantly obvious trying to get Winnie to say “dada.”

“I tried to trick my daughter into saying ’dada’ because I wanted it to be her first word. I would call everything ‘dada.’

I’d point to her bottle and go ’dada,’ and I’d point to her food and say ’dada.’ I really didn’t care if she was smart or anything. I just wanted her to say that for the history books,” he said.

His efforts didn’t work. Fallon said her first word was mama. (His wife is producer Nancy Juvonen.)

Fallon, 40, said he also picked up on what young ones like about story time.

“When they’re so little they don’t really care about a plot. They’re gonna want to point out a balloon or point at the bunny. They want to hear sounds and they look at you and they react to animal sounds. So I was like, ‘I want to make a picture book with animals but also an agenda.”’

It’s a simple plan and that’s the point.

“There is no moral to this story. There’s no like, ’Hey, don’t be a bully.’ The only thing is the secret agenda for the baby to say ’dada.’ It’s a little sad but it’s what dads want,” he said.

Fallon joked that he did all the work on the 40-page book himself (except for the illustrations).

“There’s no ghost writer on this one,” he laughed.

“It’s maybe 35 words total. I wrote the words ’moo’ and ’dada.’ That was all me. I’ll take full credit.”

As his second Father’s Day approaches, Fallon said last year’s celebration was “kind of sappy because my wife went all out. This year will be special, too, because I have a brand-new baby. I think probably year No. 3, no one will care about me anymore.

I’m gonna get an e-card from my wife that says, ‘I saw on Facebook that it was Father’s Day.’ I’ll get a Starbucks gift card. The first year you actually celebrate and that’s the one that matters so I’m lucky to have two firsts.”

Fallon said his favourite quality about his own father is his sense of humour.

“There’s a joke in every conversation. I have that to look forward to. I don’t know what it’s gonna be, but I call him up and we talk and then all of a sudden it’s funny.”

He said he likes to watch his dad hold his daughters because he imagines it’s “kind of how he held me when I was a baby.”

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Church discipline gone wrong

BY AUTUMN MILES SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The recent church discipline case gone wrong at The Village Church has taken the Christian world by storm. While church leaders issued a public apology, the situation that led to the apology is much more common than many realize. There is an epidemic of mishandled church discipline cases — I was a victim of one 13 years ago.

A few weeks ago, I received an email that caught me off guard, titled “A letter of apology.” Although the name of the sender was familiar, I couldn’t quite place it. What I began reading stopped me in my tracks. I was looking at a letter that I had begged God for 13 years ago. It was a letter of apology from one of the deacons of the small church I grew up in that brought me to church discipline for divorcing my abusive husband.

As I read, I relived the horror of that time in my life. I remember the phone call so vividly from the chairman of the deacons. He told me that, even though he believed abuse was involved in my marriage, because I filed for divorce the deacons had decided to bring me before the church to discipline me. I remembered the countless hours of meeting with the deacons to explain my situation and seek help to escape the abuse. When the phone call came that I was going to be disciplined, even though they understood the danger of my situation, I was devastated and abruptly pulled my membership from the only church I had ever known. My ex-husband wasn’t going to be disciplined — just me. We must be balanced, using church discipline when needed and approach every situation with grace.

Church discipline, according to Matthew 18, is a three-step process that outlines what to do in order to bring reconciliation for a Christian who has strayed from following the Lord and is living in sin: “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother” (Matt. 18:15). Confront him in an effort for him to change.

“But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed” (Matt. 18:16).

If step one doesn’t work, bring some people with you to confront him in order for him to be reconciled.

“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or tax collector” (Matt.

18:17). If bringing him before the church doesn’t bring repentance, do not welcome him at church any longer.

This may seem harsh, but it can be a very beautiful thing if it is done with the love and grace of Jesus Christ. The point is not to condemn anyone; restoration must be the mindset. Some churches don’t factor the grace of God into these decisions at all, while some go to the other extreme, choosing never to use church discipline because of fear of negative perception. We must be balanced, using church discipline when needed (severe cases in which a person is com-

Top imam says ‘clash of ideas’ led to split from large U.S. mosque

pletely unrepentant) and approach every situation with grace. Were it not for the grace of God, we could be in the same situation.

Unfortunately, Satan can get into this process easily, and if it is not done carefully, those who desperately need the support of the church can become victims of a process gone wrong. This is far more prevalent than you may think in our churches, but rarely discussed.

Church leaders, I beseech you to study all sides of the situation carefully and prayerfully before you make a judgment on your church member that may alter his or her view of God or spiritual life forever.

You have been placed in such a position to be the agent of change, to bring restoration to the individual. I applaud the admission that when the church doesn’t get it right, an apology is in order.

As someone who has felt the sting of this, I ask you consider these questions: Are we equally investigating BOTH parties? Are we taking the totality of the word of God into examination on this issue? What is the Holy Spirit telling us to do? Does Satan have a foothold of pride or control in my heart?

When I read about the situation of The Village Church, I mourned for Karen Hinkley, who was mistreated by her husband through his addiction to child pornography and disciplined by her church when she needed her church the most. But to my surprise, as soon as the news broke about the case, so did the news of the apology from the pastor, Matt Chandler.

I respect the transparency and clear authenticity of his apology; I applaud the admission that when the church doesn’t get it right, an apology is in order.

Thank you, Matt Chandler. How I longed for an apology 13 years ago when I found myself in a similar situation. I got an apology from just one of the deacons over a decade later — and this note was precious to me. Church leaders, may you take into consideration that there may be times your church has failed in this process and if that is the case, it is time for an apology. Don’t make a person who has been wronged wait 13 years to receive the apology that may be vital to that person’s healing.

Autumn Miles is author of “Appointed,” her story of escaping an abusive marriage. She is also the founder and CEO of The Blush Network, a women’s ministry dedicated to spiritually challenging the way women think

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Perogy Supper at St. Vladimir Ukrainian Catholic Church will be hosted by Knights of Columbus Council 9559 on June 18 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Adults cost $11, children ages 10 years and under cost $6, at the door. Contact David at 403-782-5828 or Eugene at 403-347-2335.

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Retirement Celebration at Gaetz Memorial United Church for Rev. Liz Richards and office manager Linda Masters will be held on June 28 following the worship service at 10:30 a.m. There will special music by the Sanctuary Choir and Golden Gaetz Ringers Handbells during the service.

A potluck lunch ad short program will follow in Pioneer Hall downstairs. Contact Leanne at 403-347-2834.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Pope creates tribunal to hear cases of bishops who fail to protect kids from pedophile priests VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has created a new Vatican tribunal section to hear cases of bishops accused of failing to protect children from sexually abusive priests, the biggest step the Holy See has taken yet to hold bishops accountable.

For years, the Vatican has been criticized by victims, advocacy groups and others for having failed to ever punish or forcibly remove a bishop who covered up for clergy who raped or molested children.

In April, Francis accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop who had been convicted of failing to report a suspected child abuser, but that wasn’t a forced removal. The Vatican said Wednesday that Francis had approved proposals made by his sexual abuse advisory board. They create a mechanism by which the Vatican can receive and examine complaints of abuse of office by bishops and adjudicate them.

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DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — One of the nation’s top Shiite Muslim leaders says a “clash of ideas” caused his departure from one of North America’s largest mosques, and he’s forging ahead with a new congregation and plans for a mosque, media channels and other projects to reach those inside and outside of his faith.

Imam Hassan al-Qazwini, who spoke Monday to The Associated Press after months of public silence, said by year’s end he hopes to have a permanent home for his new congregation. Many come from his former mosque, the Islamic Center of America in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, which has one of the largest and oldest Arab-Muslim communities outside the Middle East.

“The issue with the board was mostly ... a clash of ideas and mindset,” al-Qazwini said. “I have a bigger image for my mission and the centre I serve than the board has. They feel that their mission mostly pertains to the local community, in Dearborn. I believe that the name, Islamic Center of America, implies much more.”

Qazwini, 50, spoke in a small office in Dearborn Heights, a couple of miles west of the large, ornamental edifice he helped open in 2005. He served for 18 years as the imam, or prayer leader, of the Islamic Center before resigning last month.

The departure capped months of acrimony, including anonymous letters accusing al-Qazwini of mishandling money and using donations from congregants for projects run by his father in Iraq, such as an orphanage and planned hospital for the poor.

Leaders of his former mosque wanted to use the funds to cover mosque debt and local work.

Al-Qazwini, who comes from a family of prominent American Shiite scholars and is of Iraqi descent, said some people misunderstood the mission and his motives.

“Everything was legal,” he said. “Some members of the congregation donated to the orphanage. ...

Some board members had an issue with that.”

Al-Qazwini, a husband and father of six children ranging in age from 8 to 30, leads Friday prayers in Detroit at the Az-Zahra Center, the former home of the Islamic Center. Al-Qazwini says the services typically draw between 400 and 500 “mostly young, American-born, American-educated” Muslims.

Ron Amen, an Islamic Center board member and chairman during al-Qazwini’s final months, said some people followed the former imam but “they’ve been replaced by a much larger group.” A recent fundraising dinner drew a large crowd and some congregants have posted on social media using the hashtags dearbornfirst and BacktoBasics.

Amen said al-Qazwini’s family projects are worthwhile but the emphasis should be paying a mosque loan of about $1 million. He also wants to focus on needy congregants, adding that he signed “thousands of dollars a month in charitable donations” to them.

Al-Qazwini, gently running prayer beads through his hands, said he seeks to balance local and global aims as his new congregation looks for a home. He’s created a youth association and plans a media division to produce videos and Internet- and satellitebased programming aimed “disseminating the message of Islam.”

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LUANN June 13 1993 — Kim Campbell, native of Port Alberni, B.C., is chosen to succeed Brian Mulroney as PC party leader. She becomes the first woman prime minister of Canada on June 25.

1983 — The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system.

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1916 — Emily Murphy of Edmonton is appointed the first woman police magistrate In the British Empire.

1908 — Canadian Tommy Burns knocks out Bill Squires in the eighth round to win the world heavyweight boxing championship.

1898 — The Yukon Territory is organized.

Yukon separates from Northwest Territories and is given separate territorial status, two years after the Klondike gold discovery.

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Oil workers wrestle with career change WITH DOWNTURN CONTINUING SOME FINDING CHANGE ISN’T EASY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Eight months into his search for a new job in the oil and gas industry, Rashad Bayramov says he’s open to switching industries.

But it’s not so simple.

“There are some perceptions from employers,” said Bayramov, who previously worked in cost control. “They prefer people with experience in the specific field. It’s not easy to change, even if you wish so.”

Bayramov was one of close to 2,000 people who showed up at the Global Energy Career Expo in Calgary that ran this week. But with only about a quarter of the number of companies looking to hire compared to last year, job offerings were slim.

“The oil and gas market is so down,” said Tarang Jain, a 25-year-old finishing up his master’s degree in petroleum engineering at the University of Alberta.

“It’s really tough to get the job right now.”

Since September, an estimated 25,000 have been

laid off in the oil and gas industry, according to BMO Capital Markets analyst Robert Kavcic.

While that may leave many of them considering switching careers, recruiters say jumping from one industry to another isn’t easy.

Brenda Cullum-Shergold, a recruiter with the Bowen recruitment agency, says many employers worry about how committed people are to such a change.

“If you’re an employer in a transportation company for example, and you’ve got someone in oil and gas that comes to you looking for a job, the first thing that you’re going to think is, ’How long before they jump back to oil and gas?”’

But with the oil price downturn in 2008 still fresh in some people’s minds, some are interested in getting out, she said.

“I had a candidate say to me, ’I’ve had enough.

I’ve had enough of the roller-coaster ride,”’ CullumShergold said.

The mining industry is one potential sector where many oil and gas skills are useful. But Jim Fearon, vice-president for Central Canada at recruitment firm Hays, says there are other factors to consider.

He says while many oil and gas positions are flyin, fly-out jobs — where people board flights from their homes in Calgary, Edmonton or even the East Coast to work in the oilpatch — the mining industry is generally based on living full-time in relatively remote locations.

“They’re not really prepared to take the conditions that go with the work,” Fearon said. “Their expectations are not in line with the requirements of the job.”

Fearon said companies are looking to hire people who have been out of work longer, as they may be more willing to relocate and commit to something more long term.

For those with specialized oil and gas skills, starting from scratch in a new industry means giving up on an expertise and the pay that comes with it.

Jain, who will finish his petroleum engineering degree in a couple of months, hopes the oil and gas markets pick up.

“Maybe not now, but after six months the market will recover and hopefully we’ll have some more jobs.”

Household debt ratio edges lower

SCOOPING UP SOME ICE CREAM

STATISTICS CANADA REPORT SAYS INCOMES RISING

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Quintin Munday, right, receives a bubble gum ice cream cone from Eric Doktor at the Little Ice Cream and Soda Shoppe during the brief period of sunshine on Friday afternoon. The locallyowned ice cream shop is a favourite with Red Deerians, and is in its 25th season of operation.

However, residential permits for May were down in volume (to 99 from 129 in May 2014) and value ($3.036 million from $7.1 million a year ago). Year over year, the first six months fell from $46 million in 2014 to $39.4 million in 2015, in residential permits.

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Commercial developments increase over last year Commercial construction in Red Deer was up in May over last year by an estimated $2.1 million, according to a city news release.

In all categories, building permits in May were requested for $8.085 million in projects, down from $8.37 million in the same month a year ago.

Building permits in Red Deer for the first five months of 2015 total $109 million for 570 projects, up from 549 projects worth $62 million for the same period a year ago.

Contributing to the commercial increase in May was a permit issued to Datum Contracting and Millwork for a new Arby’s restaurant located at 100 6880 50th Ave. with a construction cost of $1.8 million, and a permit issued to Dan Waters Construction Ltd. for renovations to the CARE offices, at 200 5000 50th Ave., valued at $380,000.

Industrial construction also showed an increase of more than $1.8 million from this time last year. Included was a permit issued to Phoenix Construction Inc. for a new Cap and Flash shop, to be located at 7675 45th Ave. Close, valued at $1.1 million.

CALGARY — An energy industry expert says a tentative decision to go ahead with a multibilliondollar LNG project in British Columbia sets the stage for other players to follow suit.

Jackie Forrest, vice-president at ARC Financial in Calgary, says Pacific Northwest LNG’s announcement is good for the industry as a whole.

She says that with Pacific Northwest LNG demonstrating the economics of the project work, it reduces risk for other companies looking to export natural gas from the West Coast. Pacific Northwest LNG, led by Malaysia’s Petronas, says the business case for going ahead with the project is there, but it can’t proceed until B.C. legislation passes and federal environmental approval is obtained.

Rich Coleman, the province’s natural gas development minister, says he’s not worried First Nations opposition will sytmie the project, and that good progress has been made on that front in recent weeks.

Coleman also says it’s his understanding that the environmental review should be able to continue during a federal election campaign, but the timing of a cabinet decision on the project could be affected.

OTTAWA — The ratio of how much Canadians owe compared with how much they earn improved in the first quarter for the first time since steadily worsening through most of last year.

But economists said the improvement was tiny and would do little to change the Bank of Canada’s view that high household debt continues to be a key risk to the economy.

“Growth in personal disposable income can be quite volatile on a quarter-to-quarter basis, and the very slight decline in the ratio really looks more like a plateau than the beginning of a trend decline,” TD Bank economist Leslie Preston wrote in a note.

“Moreover, lower interest rates have led to Canada’s housing market heating up this spring, which will likely lead to an acceleration in debt growth in the second quarter.”

Statistics Canada said Friday that ratio of household debt to disposable income edged down 163.3 per cent for the first three months of the year from 163.6 per cent at the end of last year.

That means households owed about $1.63 in consumer credit, mortgage and non-mortgage loans for every dollar of disposable income.

The slight improvement came as disposable income growth outpaced borrowing by rising 0.9 per cent compared with 0.7 per cent for household credit market debt.

BMO senior economist Benjamin Reitzes said the size of the improvement in the ratio was a bit of a disappointment.

“The ratio fell in first quarter for the sixth consecutive year, but the average drop in the prior five years was 0.9 percentage points,” Reitzes said.

Low interest rates have made it easier for Canadians to borrow, contributing to the rise in debt in recent years. However, many have raised concerns about what will happen when interest rates and the cost of borrowing start to rise again. The Bank of Canada listed household debt and the persistently overvalued real estate market as key vulnerabilities in its financial system review earlier this week.

Total household credit market debt reached $1.841 trillion at the end of the first quarter, up 0.7 per cent from the previous quarter. Consumer credit debt was $519.5 billion, while mortgage debt stood at $1.197 trillion.

However, even with the increase, data looking at the ability of Canadians to handle the debt improved with both the debt-to-asset and debt-to-net worth ratios lower.

Statistics Canada said household net worth rose 3.4 per cent in the first quarter, boosted by gains in real estate and financial assets such as mutual funds and pension assets.

Plans for children and other offside interview questions Dear Working Wise: During a recent job interview I was asked if I was planning on having kids. I said no, but the question made me feel uncomfortable.

Are employers allowed to ask such personal questions? — Signed Concerned Dear Concerned: No, employers are not allowed to ask you about your plans for a family. Private information like that is protected under the Alberta Human Rights Act for businesses under provincial jurisdiction.

For more information on the Alberta Human Rights Act, visit www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca or call the Northern Regional Office (780-427-7661) or the Southern Regional Office (403-297-6571).

Some interviewers might be unaware and may unknowingly ask inappropriate questions. You should be prepared for this so you are not caught off guard in an interview.

Generally, any information that could be used to discriminate against you cannot be asked. Employers should only be asking you for information that is relevant to your ability to do the job.

Employers cannot ask about: ● Gender, marital status, family status, next of kin, marriage plans or child-care arrangements; ● Source of income, unless it concerns your former employment; ● Maiden name or name origin; ● Age or date of birth, but they can ask if you meet

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the minimum age requirement for the job; ● Previous address, unless it meets a business purpose acceptable under the Act; ● Birthplace or ancestry; ● Height or weight ● Sexual orientation; ● Membership in organizations unrelated to your work; ● Hobbies or interests that relate to race, religious beliefs, etc. ● Current or past health CHARLES problems, Workers’ CompenSTRACHEY sation Board claims, or any absence due to stress or menWORKING tal illness; ● Citizenship or languages WISE not required for the job; ● Religious beliefs, customs and holidays that you observe; or ● Military service outside Canada, unless there is an acceptable business-related purpose.

Employers cannot request a photo, which could reveal factors such as race and gender, except in certain circumstances such as a modeling or entertainment position, where this may be acceptable.

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If an employer requires a photograph for businessrelated purposes, they can ask for it after an offer of employment has been made.

Employers can ask: ● If you can fulfill work-related requirements, such as working night shifts or lifting heavy items; ● For any previous names you have had if the information is needed to complete reference checks or verify your past employment or education; and ● If you are legally permitted to work in Alberta.

Three ways to handle inappropriate questions: 1. Write “not applicable” on the application form or politely let the employer know that the question is inappropriate; 2. Answer the question and then discuss the underlying concern that has prompted the question.

“Do you plan to have kids?” might be the interviewer’s way of asking if you will be able to work late when needed; 3. Answer only the underlying concern.

However you choose to answer, be professional, diplomatic and honest.

After you are offered the job and accept it, the employer can ask you for information required for benefit coverage and for employment records.

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index closed down 89.73 points at 14,741.15, with energy and financial issues among the leading decliners as benchmark oil once again fell below US$60 a barrel.

The loonie, meanwhile, was off 0.22 of a U.S. cent at 81.25 cents as the American greenback strengthened.

The July crude contract shed 81 cents to US$59.96 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while August gold lost early gains and was down $1.20 at US$1,179.20 an ounce.

In New York, markets gave back a big chunk of their advance over the previous two sessions, with the Dow Jones industrial average suffering a tripledigit loss, down 140.53 points at 17,898.84. The Nasdaq index fell 31.41 points to 5,051.10, while the S&P 500 finished 14.75 points lower at 2,094.11.

The decline, which followed similar setbacks on most European bourses, came after an unexpected decision late Thursday by the International Monetary Fund to walk out of the debt negotiations with Greece.

The announcement by the IMF, which cited lack of progress in the talks, heightened concerns that Athens may default on its debts when its 240-billion-euro bailout expires June 30. That in turn could force it out of the euro.

Greece said Friday that it would present new proposals over the weekend in an attempt to breathe life into stalled talks, but confirmation didn’t come until after the close of markets in Europe.

The main index in Athens suffered the most, down 5.9 per cent, but other indexes were also sharply lower, with Germany’s

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Ninh Chung, head of investment strategy at SVB Asset Management, said such sharp turns on the markets are likely to continue until Greece and its creditors reach a deal. “There had been optimism over Greece (over the past week) and now it seems like we’ve had a complete 180,� Chung told The Associated Press.

In economic news, the U.S. Labor Department said that prices at the wholesale level rose 0.05 per cent in May, the most in almost three years. But outside of increases in volatile food and energy costs, core inflation remained moderate at 0.1 per cent.

Next week, in addition to the Greek debt talks, traders will have a number important economic data to consider, beginning Monday with Statistics Canada’s monthly survey of manufacturing for April and U.S. industrial production for May. On Tuesday, investors will also be looking to the start of a two-day meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve for clues as to the direction of interest rates. In Canada the major focus will be on Friday’s release of retail sales figures for April and the consumer price index for May. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,741.15, down 89.73 points Dow — 17,898.84, down 140.53 points S&P 500 — 2,094.11, down 14.75 points Nasdaq — 5,051.10 , down 31.41 points Currencies: Cdn — 81.23 cents US, down 0.24 of a cent Pound — C$1.9157, up 0.93 of a cent

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Euro — C$1.3855, up 0.20 of a cent Euro — US$1.1254, down 0.17 of a cent Oil futures: US$59.96 per barrel, down 81 cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,179.20 per oz., down $1.20 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.432 oz., down 1.9 cents $656.89 kg., down 61 cents ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $3.40 lower $485.20; Nov ’15 $4.20 lower $483.20; Jan. ’16 $4.00 lower $480.20; March ’16 $4.00 lower $477.30; May ’16 $4.40 lower $473.90; July ’16 $4.80 lower $470.10; Nov. ’16 $5.90 lower $456.10; Jan. ’17 $5.90 lower $456.10; March ’17 $5.90 lower $456.10; May ’17 $5.90 lower $456.10; July ’17 $5.90 lower $456.10.

Barley (Western): July ’15 unchanged $205.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $200.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $205.00; March ’16 unchanged $205.00; May ’16 unchanged $205.00; July ’16 unchanged $205.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $205.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $205.00; March ’17 unchanged $205.00; May ’17 unchanged $205.00; July ’17 unchanged $205.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 595,720 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 595,720.

Food processors want foreign workers who can become Canadian citizens

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Backlash against the temporary foreign worker program has made Ottawa leery of finding a new way for the food-processing sector to get the people it needs to fill vacant jobs, officials say.

Mark Chambers is with an industry group that has presented a plan to the federal government on how it should deal with a labour shortage that he says is hobbling exports.

It calls for a new program to make it easier to hire foreign workers who would become permanent residents of Canada and ultimately citizens, he said. “We have laid it out in black and white, but I think the challenge is it is a political hot potato,� said Chambers, who is a manager at Sunterra Farms, a hog operation near Acme, Alta.

Chambers said the federal government wants the industry to hire Canadians to fill vacant jobs in slaughter and processing plants in rural areas.

So does the industry, he said, but Canadians who live in urban areas with high unemployment rates just don’t want the available jobs.

The meat industry estimates it is currently short about 1,000 workers.

That will be exacerbated July 1 when the federal government is to cap the number of new foreign workers that companies can hire at 20 per cent.

Chambers said Ottawa has been aware of the labour shortage for more than a year, but there is no indication it will back off its plans. Next year the cap is to be cut to 10 per cent.

The Canadian Meat Council said the shortage is jeopardizing the industry at a time when government is working to bolster agriculture.

Home prices up across Canada, except Calgary CALGARY — Home prices were up across Canada in May except for in Calgary, which suffered its biggest one-month drop in at least a decade and a half according to the Teranet— National Bank National Composite House Price Index. The index, which tracks home prices in 11 Canadian cities, showed Calgary home prices were down 3.3 per cent from April, the larg-

The new Canada-Europe Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement calls for duty-free access to the European Union for 50,000 tonnes of beef products and up to 81,000 tonnes of pork.

Ron Davidson, a council spokesman, said that will be tough to fill without enough workers.

Davidson said the government got lots of positive media coverage last year when it announced changes to the temporary foreign worker program because of problems in the mining and banking sectors.

But that controversy should not get in the way of a new program for agriculture, he suggested. “We don’t want temporary foreign workers,� he said. “We want permanent workers. And if there aren’t Canadians who are willing to do the job, then we wish to be able to bring in people who want to immigrate to Canada and be Canadian citizens.�

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz has said the government is working on the problem, but he hasn’t indicated what is planned or when.

The industry group hopes to meet with federal officials this summer.

Chambers said Ottawa’s approach is frustrating. He noted there are already 20 vacant jobs at Sunterra Farms, which has a small meat- processing plant. “We now have some new markets in Asia, but if we can’t get enough people cutting the meat, we won’t be able to capture those opportunities. It makes no sense.�

Canadian companies may have to export more live animals to the United States for processing, which would mean lost jobs and economic growth, he said. est monthly drop since the index was created in 1999. “It’s a big change month over month,� said Marc Sykes, strategic product manager at Teranet Inc. Sykes said normally he would expect the market to balance itself out after sudden drops, but with oil prices remaining low, Calgary might not bounce back so quickly. “Because we know that there is likely an economic driver to this I’d be a little concerned, but not panicking yet.�

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Couillard says he’d hoped big retailers would have voluntarily complied and added descriptive words to their names to let customers know where they were shopping. In April, Quebec’s Court of Appeal ruled the province’s language watchdog could not force companies such as Best Buy, Old Navy and Costco to add a French component to their name.

As soon as that ruling was issued, Couillard had said he wouldn’t exclude taking a legislative route and amend Bill 101 — the province’s language law — to force major retailers to comply. The government has until June 26 to decide whether it will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to hear a challenge of the appeal court decision.

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Lovely welcome notes Dear Debbie: We have purchased some coir welcome mats and would like to personalize them.

What paint do you recommend and what’s the best technique?

Thanks — Brianna Dear Brianna: Decorated welcome mats add lots of character to an entryway, and there are some great online sites that show an amazingly diverse collection.

Anything goes, from short messages of welcome (or warnings) and welcome motifs to house numbers, geometric patterns and bright florals. Allmodern.

DEBBIE com and birchlane.com TRAVIS are two sites that will inspire you so much that you will never lay out a plain mat again.

For those that would like to make their own, this is an easy DIY project.

Here are a few tips that will help.

Coir comes from coconuts; it’s the fibrous lining between the outer shell and the coconut meat.

Because it is very strong and withstands moisture, coir is an excellent material for rope, hanging baskets and doormats.

The mats are readily available at home and hardware stores.

Because the fibres stick up rather than weave together, you will find that the paint won’t bleed, but to get clean lines you do need to use tape to outline the design you are applying, or secure a stencil with adhesive or pins.

To make edge trim, measure and tape off thin or thick lines, pressing down on the tape firmly.

Cover up the parts of the mat you don’t want painted with newspaper.

To apply all-weather spray paint, hold the can a few inches from the mat, and spray in a circular motion.

Spray at a perpendicular angle so the paint won’t seep under the tape.

Build up the paint in thin layers until you have solid coverage.

If you are using exterior latex paint from a can, apply with a bristle brush working the paint into the coir.

It will take a few coats to get solid coverage.

Look for appropriate stencils at your arts and crafts stores or online.

Some favourite choices are dogs, cats, birds, florals, ivy, and the pineapple, which is the emblem of hospitality.

Or make your own on card stock or thick paper.

Use straight pins to attach the stencil to the mat; press the pin through the stencil and into the mat.

Dear Debbie: We have a busy set of five-year-old twin boys and their bedroom is always a wreck.

Have you any ideas for helping to organize all their ‘stuff.’

We are trying to teach them how to share, which adds to the mess as one says that the other left the train or blocks out so his brother could play with it.

Very sneaky. — Leah Dear Leah: It is a heroic task keeping boys of any age tidy, but it pays off big dividends in the future.

Look for cool ways to store their stuff.

Divide up with storage containers in different colours, There are stackable boxes, storage towers and even a two section locker at allmodern.com.

Tidying up turns into a game as you match the toys to the box.

Stick coloured pictures on the outside of each box to make it easy to find the right box.

Look for a toy trunk for the large items, and always make sure that the containers aren’t too heavy.

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Eliminating garage moisture Question: What can I do this summer to prevent recurring wintertime moisture problems in my garage? We never had trouble until I replaced our uninsulated garage door with an insulated one.

In cold weather, we’re now seeing extremely high humidity in the garage and a thick layer of frost on windows. Would venting the garage attic help?

Answer: Adding ventilation is the key, but probably not in the way you STEVE envision. Your MAXWELL new door almost certainly seals better than the old one, so it’s now stopping incidental ventilation that used to carry moisture away harmlessly. The insulated door might also be allowing the garage to stay warmer, transforming what used to be ice on vehicles into liquid water.

Rather than do anything permanent now, I suggest you wait until winter and experiment with possible solutions.

Do you have windows in your garage? Try opening them a hand span or less during cold weather to see if it reduces moisture. If it does, then you can make more permanent venting options.

A louvred and adjustable vent in the wall might work, but a variable speed exhaust fan is a great option, too. You can run the fan when moisture is a problem, then shut it off or slow it down when it’s not. The best fans are very quiet and include their own internal variable speed control.

You won’t even know it’s running.

Unfortunately there’s no practical way to reduce wintertime garage humidity without lowering garage temperatures. The constant addition of moisture coming into the garage as slush on cars needs to leave somehow.

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Avoiding deck insanity Question: How can I stop my 15-yearold deck from driving me crazy? I started with a translucent film-forming finish and it eventually peeled, so I sanded back to bare wood and applied a one-coat deck stain. This peeled after a couple of years, too, even though I followed application instructions exactly.

Last year, I stripped and sanded back to bare wood, then applied a deck stain that came highly rated by employees at a big box store and by a

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Steve applying a one-time wood-darkening treatment to a new deck. Within a few days, the wood will turn an even grey colour. consumer testing group. This past winter has ruined this finish and I don’t know what to do. I insist on seeing woodgrain.

Answer: I’m sorry to hear about your troubles. If it’s any consolation, they’re pretty typical. The root of the problem is that decks are just plain hard on finishes. Water, abrasion and especially sunlight take their toll.

Most deck finishes on the market fail after a year or two, and one popular finish in particular has a long track record of very quick failures with my readers. I’ve been testing new deck finishes for more than 20 years and one under testing promises seven years of good looks with a warranty to back it up. That’s unheard of and it’s too early to tell if it works as claimed.

For now, you’ll need to strip and sand back to bare wood to get rid of the failing finish you’ve got, then it’s time to make a decision.

What kind of appearance do you want for your deck? According to everything I’ve discovered, opaque finishes last the longest. Unfortunately, they also hide the wood grain just like paint, which I know is a deal breaker for you. By contrast, transparent,

tinted, film-forming finishes make the wood grain of your deck look like fine furniture, but they generally don’t last more than two or three years before stripping, sanding and refinishing is needed.

You could treat your bare deck with a one-time, waterbased darkening treatment, too. This makes the wood

uniformly grey, then natural weathering happens afterwards. This gives a casual look, but there’s never any refinishing required. Just apply it with a pump-up weed sprayer and you’re done.

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Fixing a problem room Question: We hope you can help us resolve some issues we are facing in our problem room.

This much-used family room has very little in the way of wall space and is relatively small to boot.

We have love seats that are dark green leather and the carpet is a pale green. As these are fairly new, we do not want to replace them.

Would you be able to offer suggestions on how the furniture could be placed to allow better viewing of the television?

Presently only two people can watch it comfortably.

While the fireplace is a dominant structure in the room, it is rarely used and we don’t consider it a focal point.

We would love to have some ideas on how to minimize this feature’s heavy look.

DAVID Answer: Admittedly, findFERGUSON ing a practical and attractive furniture arrangement in this room proved to be a major challenge.

Never one to give up on a delinquent room, I believe I have worked out a solution you can live with.

A room like this one requires problem-solving ideas, along with a pleasing colour palette and a carefully-planned furniture arrangement.

Your family room has several appealing elements including lovely dark oak trim, a stunning brick fireplace and plenty of natural light.

Unfortunately, it is also a small space that has a myriad of openings from one space to the next, and each of these has to be considered in the arrangement.

A focal point is generally the “biggest” feature in a room and in your case, that’s the fireplace.

A focal point should be something interesting to look at.

It is often something colourful, or texturally and visually appealing.

Any way you cut it, your fireplace will be the focal point in the room, so it will be important to make it feel like a part of the décor, rather than ignoring it.

Good furniture arrangement begins with analyzing your space and the contents of your room and when planning a room, I always think about how many people use the room, how traffic flows, and how the room is used.

For an able-bodied individual, an interior traffic path needs a minimum clearance of 60 cm (24-inches).

Furthermore, major traffic paths should not interrupt the central furniture grouping in the room.

For television viewing, the distance between the television and the seating should be three times the size of the screen.

To comfortably watch TV on a 42-inch screen, one should ideally sit 3.2 metres (10-feet, six-inches) away from it (remember: these are guidelines and may not

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The boxwood is valued for its evergreen steadfastness, but we are at that one lovely moment in the year when the monarch of shrubs transforms itself with new growth. This is produced between late April and mid-June and gives a bush a shaggier look and, moreover, a brighter appearance that radiates vitality.

The new light green growth spends the next month hardening off and reverting to its darker state, so enjoy this phenomenon now.

I do like boxwood. Yes, it has an odor some people disdain, and yes, it calls to mind an old formality that can be stultifying, but boxwood shrubs used as accents, to announce a threshold or frame a path can give a soothing strength to any garden.

Boxwood is happiest in the shade garden, from places of light shade to gloomier landscapes. It dislikes baking hot spots in summer but detests more than that an exposed and sunny location in winter, which causes discoloration and dieback. The shade garden is a better fit aesthetically as well as physically, because this is the environment where you rely more on leaf ornament. Boxwood’s forte — other than its lack of appeal to deer — is that it provides a steadfast foil of fine texture against coarser-leafed shade plants such as azaleas, hydrangeas, hostas and Japanese maples. A simple line of boxwood, or just one large specimen, is all you need to bestow a sense of structure to an area of the garden. There’s no need to re-create a Colonial garden, unless you want to.

I’ve touched on this before, but it is worth repeating: In recent years, the development of new boxwood varieties has revived a shrub that for all its rich history in the American garden was falling quickly from grace. The classic English boxwood was beset with a series of ills, from soil nematodes to boxwood decline disease. The latest, and in some ways most serious, malady is the boxwood blight, a fungus that targets many boxwood types but especially English box.

The spores of the disease are spread by bringing in infected plants or tools, so you can keep it at bay if you are careful. If you had an old estate stuffed with antebellum boxwood — admittedly not a problem for most of us — you would do well to keep a set of garden tools for the visiting maintenance crew to use. That’s the advice that Robert Saunders gives to property owners and institutions with such gardens.

His family’s nursery in Piney River, Va. — Saunders Brothers — is widely known for its boxwood and grows varieties for garden centers and public gardens from Richmond to Boston.

I was recently in a boxwood garden in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood with some other boxwood gurus — Andrea Filippone and Eric Fleisher, whose company, F2 Environmental Design, specializes in restoring boxwood gardens that have become old, tired and diseased. They do this with a two-pronged approach: by using organic practices that revitalize the soil and by planting new varieties.

In the old days, the world of boxwood worked this way: If you wanted tall hedges, you used something called American box; otherwise you inherited ancient English box as big blobs that rose five or six feet and almost as much across. If you were wellheeled, you could buy expensive boxwood that had been salvaged from old estates and hauled to your garden. (Even old box moves well, in the right hands.)

For small edging box you used younger English box and kept it clipped, or you planted miniature varieties that might grow a foot high after 30 years.

be possible to achieve in some rooms).

It was clear to me as soon as I had drawn the space shell that two love seats just simply was not going to work here.

The problem was not that the furniture wasn’t all in front of the fireplace.

In fact, it never would have worked in that space because the fireplace is so close to the back of the room and everything would have been tightly compressed into one corner.

I strongly recommend relocating one of the sofas and replacing it with two comfortable chairs that can more easily be arranged for watching television.

When arranging seating, remember to make room for appropriate light, whether that’s a floor lamp or an end table with a lamp.

Balanced rooms are more pleasing to the eye and

make more effective use of the available space.

To keep your rooms from looking unbalanced, make sure all the tall or heavy pieces don’t end up in the same area of the room.

To counterbalance the fireplace, I have shown the television on its opposite wall.

This may be placed in a tall armoire or on a cabinet to give it some focal presence.

Mix bigger and smaller pieces throughout the room, but keep in mind the scale of the items you put beside each other.

For example, a large chair is best coupled with a similarly proportioned end table.

Balance doesn’t only apply to the size and scale of the furniture, but also to colour and pattern.

David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio. Write to David at: david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 13 - OUT OF TOWN 25 Leung Pace 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Anjali Evanoff RE/MAX 848-0883 $224,000 3707 - 50 Avenue 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Maragaret Comeau RE/MAX 391-3399 $434,900 #1 Aztec 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Lori Loney ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK 350-9700 42 27264 Twp Rd 392 2:00 - 4:00 p..m. Asha Chimiuk CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE 597-0795 Directions: Take Taylor Dr. north, go across Hwy 11A & continue north for about 4km. Turn right onto 392, follow the signs.

45 27264 Twp Rd 392 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Kim Fox CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE 506-7552 #13, 4516 48 Avenue 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Chris Forsyth MAXWELL, ON TRACK SOLUTIONS 391-8141 $79,900 33 Leung Place 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Bonnie Meaney SUTTON, LANDMARK 885-4936 $224,897 38378 RR 285 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Wayne Sommers SUTTON, LANDMARK 318-9114 $639,000 11 Brookstone Drive 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Jennifer LAEBON HOMES 392-6841 199 Robinson Avenue 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 14 - OUT OF TOWN 25 Leung Pace 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Anjali Evanoff RE/MAX 848-0883 $224,000 4228 Westbrooke Road 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Mitzi Billard RE/MAX 396-4005 $415,900 5 Canyon Heights 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Carol Clark COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK 350-4919 $669,900 6 Edina Close 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Lisa Suarez ROYAL LEPAGE, LIFESTYLES 782-3171 $499,000 119 Morris Court 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Kevin Glover ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK 396-2706 $499,900 140 Crimson Court 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Lori Cartwright ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK 302-9076 $249,900 12 Radcliff Way 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Keri Jensen ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK 304-2707 $367,500 15 RR 24 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Bob Gummow ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK 598-7913 Directions: 2 miles south of Rimbey from the 4-way light.

39 North Lane Estates 2:00 - 4:00 p..m. Garry Raabis ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK 340-6789 Directions: North of Red Deer on 2A 4 km to Twp Rd 392. East to RR 271. North to North Lane Estates. Follow the signs.

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A sensible furniture arrangement may be a challenge here, but once the traffic paths and architectural features are identified and considered, a practical and comfortable arrangement can be achieved.

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Tiny houses still have room for what matters For most people, the choice to live in a small space is all about location, the chance to live on a busy city block in the center of the action. But for others, it’s about the freedom of living light.

Nobody understands the ethos of small-space living better than proponents of the tiny-house movement, who opt to live in homes that average around 200 square feet.

Their choices, much like those who live in a studio apartment, are often framed as sacrifices.

But Vina Lustado, an interior designer in Ojai, Calif., who lives in a 140-square-foot home that she designed two years ago, says that thinking is all wrong.

“There’s a whole emotional side to ‘stuff,’ ” she says. “But living with less is not about what you lose.

It’s about what you gain.”

Lustado adapted her philosophy about smallspace living from Marie Kondo, a Japanese organization expert who has written four books about doing more with less. But what makes Kondo’s approach different from the scores of other decluttering coaches is its positive framing. Lustado explains, “Rather than saying, ‘throw this out, throw that out,’ she teaches you to find joy in what you own. If it doesn’t bring you joy, maybe you don’t need it.”

The obvious perk is her low cost of living. Lustado’s home cost $40,000 to build, including solar panels and interior furnishings, and the acre of land it sits on is an additional $400 a month (the average home in Ojai costs about $550,000). But she doesn’t find it stifling.

She entertains frequently and said that, for a designer, decorating the space was the most fun she’s ever had.

“This movement, ultimately, is all about smart design: light, materials, strategic layouts,” she says.

“It’s the exact same principles, and it’s way more challenging to do it sustainably, affordably and beautifully.”

Of course, there are hurdles. Paring down her wardrobe took months and she’s become a very resourceful cook. And, more than a year into living in her home, she still returns a lot of things she buys.

It’s worth it, she says, because of the peace of mind

she has found.

After speaking with Lustado, I looked around my tiny apartment and wondered whether there were items I was hanging on to for no reason: candles I’ll never light, old laptops that don’t turn on, leaky rainboots that certainly don’t bring me joy and take up precious closet space. Kondo’s voice crept into my mind, urging me to weigh quality over quantity.

Inspired, I did a gentle sweep and set aside two full bags for donation and lugged them to a nearby drop-off center.

It’s nothing compared with Lustado’s Ojai minimalism, but after a few days, I realized I didn’t miss any of the items I parted with. In fact, I was glad to have cut the cord. “Maybe she’s onto something,” I thought. This Lustado already knows.

“I’m building a tiny office as we speak,” she says.

It’s 16 square feet, solar and on wheels, and will be the new headquarters of her firm, Sol Haus Design.

“I’m not looking back.”

If downsizing is on your agenda, here are a few of our favorite multifunctional furniture pieces from our past articles on small-space living that offer a lot of bang for their buck. A room divider that doubles as a bookcase? That brings us joy.

Garden seats

“They’re the opposite of frivolous,” says Jonathan Yaraghi, the creative director of Safavieh, a furniture store headquartered in New York.

The retailer’s most popular garden stool is shaped like a gold, glazed elephant ($195, www.safaviehhome.com).

“They can be used almost anywhere as a table or extra seat, and they’re a high-impact design piece.

They’re a little piece that packs a lot of style.”

Sectionals

The biggest misconception about sectionals? That they’re big. “Whatever your hesitations are, get over them,” says Liz Levin, a designer based in Bethesda, Md. “Especially if you’re in a small space, it’s probably exactly the solution you’re looking for.” Levin recommends an eight- or nine-foot sofa with a 60- to 72-inch chaise, which should allow you room for a practical coffee table. CB2’s Lotus sectional ($499-

$799 per piece, www.cb2.com) is sleek but still comfortable.

Room dividers

Rental contracts don’t often permit custom woodwork to add privacy to a space, so invest in a room screen or tall shelving unit instead.

Most pieces measure between five and six feet tall, allowing some space between the top of the unit and the ceiling, which lets light through.

Your safest bet is a modular-style bookcase that looks like open square boxes stacked on top of one another, such as Ikea’s Kallax Shelving Unit ($139, www.ikea.com), which comes in white, black and birch finishes and has 16 cubes.

Accent chairs

“If a room were an outfit, the accent chairs would be the jewelry,” said Alexandria. Va., designer Betsy Stires. “It’s the spark. It pops from the rest of the palette but also ties it all together.”

Look for chairs that fall between 25 to 32 inches wide and have a seat depth of 20 to 22 inches.

Room and Board’s Celeste Swivel Chair ($749, www. roomandboard.com) measures 31 inches wide and is low to the ground, so it can visually open or close a seating area depending on which direction it faces.

Ikea’s ($69-$149, www.ikea.com) is affordable, comfortable and lightweight.

Mirrors

“Decorating small spaces is 75 percent visual manipulation,” designer Coleman Riddell says, “and mirrors are hands-down the best way to trick the eye. They can make it seem like you’ve got way more square feet, height and light than you paid for.”

A pro tip: Go big. “The smaller the space, the bigger the mirror,” says Rockville, Md., designer Kristin Peake.

“With mirrors, you can never, ever, go too big.”

Pottery Barn’s 3-by-6.5-foot Berke Oversized Leaning Floor Mirror ($799, www.potterybarn.com) would be an elegant addition to any room.

Buerger is a freelance writer.

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LAPALME Andre A memorial service will be held to the memory of André Lapalme, engineer, former Vice-President of Union Carbide Canada and former President of Pétromont, who left this world quietly this 14th of May, in Magog Quebec following a long illness. A loyal man who displayed great integrity, he leaves behind his wife of 54 years Louise (Beauchamp), his son Claude (Janet Kuschak), his two grandchildren Daniel and Stefan, his brothers Michel (Francine Delisle), Guy (Louise Martel), Pierre, and Roger (Cécile Beauchemin), as well as his sisters Mireille and Odette.

His son René preceded him in 2007. André Lapalme was a caring husband, father and grandfather who had a great thirst for knowledge as well as broad interests and passions including music and travels. His tireless work on the board of the Espace Go theatre in Montreal, culminating with the building of their theatre, was an accomplishment of which he was particularly proud. André had many friends in Red Deer, a City of which he was fond and where his son Claude lived for the past 25 years. The service will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church in Red Deer on Wednesday June 17th at 7pm.

NEITZ Doreen Phyllis 1936 - 2015 It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Doreen Phyllis Neitz on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at the Red Deer Hospice at the age of 79 years. Doreen is survived by Janet Stuber (Stan), Barry Neitz (Kathy), Calvin Neitz, Sharlene Krein (Kim), Shannon Neitz (Jennifer), Perry Neitz (Jon), Sheana Neitz (George) as well as numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her son Farley Neitz, mother Esther Meier and granddaughter Stacey Krein. Her wonderful meals and welcoming kitchen will be missed by many. A Celebration of Doreen’s Life will be held in Peace River, Alberta on Saturday, August 1, 2015.

For more information regarding the service, please contact Doreen’s family. If desired, Memorial Donations may be made directly to Calgary Health Trust in support of Cochlear Implant Program, 800 - 11012 Macleod Trail SE, Calgary, AB, T2J 6A5 or 403.943.0615. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Sonya Henderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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RUE Raymond Norman Feb 21 1931- June 09 2015 (84 years of age) It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear loved one, as we will miss him dearly but are rejoicing in the fact he has joined his Lord and Savior in heaven. He leaves to mourn his wife Betty of 64 years, his five sons, Doug (Wanda), Gordon (Chris), Deryl (Karen), Terry (Deany), Ron (Tina) along with many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral service to be held at Wilsons Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A Lacombe, AB, Tuesday June 16/15 at 11:00 am, with lunch to follow. Donations may be made to Stars Air Ambulance, 1441 Aviation Park N.E., Calgary, AB. T2E 8M7 or Bible for Missions, 4721 50 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 4A2 in Memory of Raymond Rue. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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Funeral Directors & Services PATTERSON Carol 1942 - 2015 Carol Adeline Patterson of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at her home in Red Deer, on Friday, June 12, 2015 at the age of 73 years. Carol worked for many years at Casper Labs and she touched many lives over her lifetime. Carol will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Brenda (Kim) of Markerville; and her son, Shane (Cathy) of Lee Creek, BC; her grandchildren, Bobbi Hogan (Jessie Pietesche), Amanda (Carlos) Lopez, Ashley (Kevin) LaRoy, Kody Hogan and Adam (Nemo) Seidlitz; and her four great grandchildren, Tayor Pietesche, Dominic and Javier Lopez, Cassidy LaRoy and a great grandbaby to be born any day. She will also be sadly missed by her sisters; Donna of Parksville, BC and Wanda of Blackfalds; her brothers, Edward (Shirley) of Rocky Mountain House, Robert (Marlene) of Drayton valley and Garry of Red Deer; as well as numerous nieces, nephews and her special friends, Gail Westegard, Kay Osbaldeston and Donna Sidwell. Carol was predeceased by her husband, Jack, a daughter, Jaclynn, a granddaughter, Mary Beth, her parents, Albert and Mabel, a sister, Verda and an infant sister, Beverly.

Honoring Carol’s wishes no Funeral Service will be held.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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RIGGINS Donald Eldwin With great sadness we announce the passing of Donald Eldwin Riggins at the age of 83 on June 11, 2015; husband of 61 years to Lorraine; father to Brain (Linda), Grant (Sharon), Judy (Bruce), Kim (Tammy) and numerous grandchildren and great grand children; two brothers and seven sisters.

As requested by Donald there will be no funeral. A lunch will be served Tuesday June 16th between 1-4 at the Delburne Hall.

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CHINELL Gurty Chinell passed away May 31, 2015. She is survived by her husband Charles and son Donald (Carmen), and wished to convey special thanks to her good friends Jane, Bess, Diane and Jean. At her request there was no service.

THOMPSON GAIL LOUISE Gail passed away at the Chinook House of the Centennial Centre in Ponoka on June 9,th 2015 at the age of 56 years. Her daughter Bobbie Lynn, Brian McLaren, her loving partner of 12 years and many other members of her family were there to love and comfort Gail as she passed. Gail was born on April 10th, 1959 in Cranbrook, British Columbia.

She is survived by her large family and many friends that loved and supported her during the many years she fought a courageous battle against her illness. Surviving Gail is her loving partner of 12 years Brian McLaren and his family. Daughter Bobbie Lynn (Cody) and their children Dexter, Adison and Keely; Allan Hill, Gail’s Ex Husband and lifelong friend. Sister Faye (Steve), their sons Blair (Sher), Blain (Marcel) and their grandsons Brant and Colby; Sister Hazel (Brian), their sons Cody, Casey (Kristina) and their grandchildren Cassidy, Madison and Cole; Brother Wesley (Margaret), their children Tyler(Kayla), Tanessa (Scott), Tanya and Austin; Brother Bart (Corry), their children Jamie(Lee) and grandson Nash; Jesse and Brent. Gail was predeceased by her Mother Phyllis Earl Thompson and her Dad Grant Thompson, her eldest brother Brent, nephew Brant, and sister-in-law Michelle.

Gail’s family and many friends would like to sincerely thank all the staff at the Chinook House for the wonderful care and compassion they so generously gave to Gail and her family. If friends desire memorial contributions may be made to the David Thompson Health Foundation Trust, Centennial Centre, Chinook House, Box 1000, Ponoka, AB. T4J 1R8 Funeral Services will be held from the Lacombe Memorial Center, 5214-50 Ave. Lacombe, AB. On Wednesday, June 17th at 1 P.M. Funeral Services will be held from the Lacombe Memorial Center, 5214-50 Ave. Lacombe, AB. on Wednesday, June 17th at 1 P.M. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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We are a fast paced oral surgeon’s office looking for a registered dental assistant to work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with the potential to work into more days.

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LOST BOWER AREA male Bichon Frise, small white curly fur, Please call 403-307-7824 Brendan.

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Fax resume to 403-342-5995 John@ albertaspringsgolf.com F/T front desk agent req’d.

Must be avail. to work evening shift and night audit.

Please apply in person at Super 8 City Centre, 4217 50 Ave. R.D. JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Education and experience not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time COOKS AND DISHWASHERS. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue between 2-5 pm.

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SWISS Chalet -Red Deer HIRING FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISORS: $13.75 $ 14.50 and 40 hours per week. Supervise and coordinate staff activities and customer service. Establish work schedule and train associates Interested parties can email swiss1702@cara.com, fax 1 866 928 5481 or deliver resume to unit #8, 5111 22nd St. Red Deer, T4R 2K1.

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PRIME Fasteners is seeking an individual for order desk/customer service.

Some experience with tools and fasteners used in the home building industry is a plus, training is provided. Monday to Friday 7:30 to 4:30 No weekends Please respond with resume attention Gary to Prime Fasteners, fax 403-343-3253 or email garyd@primefasteners.ab.ca YOGADIVE Company Inc. is now hiring energetic, punctual, hard working enthusiasts for a Sales Associate Position.

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GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

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is hiring for the upcoming season JOURNEYMAN/ APPRENTICE: PIPEFITTERS WELDERS BOILERMAKERS RIGGERS SCAFFOLDERS INSULATORS ALSO: QUALITY CONTROL TOWERS SKILLED MECHANICAL LABOURERS WELDER HELPERS Email resumes, trade tickets & safety tickets to: resumes@ newcartcontracting.com OR FAX (403) 729-2396

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SOBEYS VILLAGE MALL Operators Busy road construction company looking for operators. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license.

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HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

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NEWSPAPER CARRIERS Needed for Early Morning in LANCASTER area:

Shop Foreman/Yard Man for our warehouse.

Qualifications required are the following: • Class 5 Driver License (air endorsement and/or Class 3 Drivers License would be an asset) • Clean Drivers Abstract must be provided upon hiring • Mechanical Experience would be an asset • Basic Construction Knowledge (Carpentry - Forming Experience) • Organizational Skills • Tracking Equipment and Material • Must be in good physical health • Involves Lifting and Hoisting • Will be responsible for Shipping and Receiving • Forklift experience would be an asset • Must be able to maintain a clean, efficient and safe work environment Full time position (8am-5pm) with flexibility for additional hours including weekends We Offer Competitive Wages and Benefits Immediate Position Available Please Submit you resume by: Fax: (403) 314-1183 E-mail: apply@pmcl1964.ca

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

Advocate Opportunities

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in:

For more information, please call PRODIE @ (403) 314-4301

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

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

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in

GLENDALE

DEER PARK AREA

Mustang Acres Trailer Park ALSO Gunn St. & and Goodacre Cl. ALSO 59 Ave. & Gray Dr.

ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE

KENTWOOD

With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.

Davenport Place (Corner of Ross St. & Donlevy Ave.) $123.04./mo

For VANIER Area

For LANCASTER Area

Kilburn & Krause Cres. also Kirkland & Kidd Close

Dixon Cres, Ave, Close and Dunlop St. $111.52/mo 552201E23-I26

CHANGE?

Daily, the Red Deer Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

We are currently seeking a

F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

ALSO

With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo

Fcall Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

ALSO 1 Blk. of Davison Dr., Dietz Cl. and Durie Cl.

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

********************** For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

740

Dental

880 CONSIDERING A CAREER

Misc.

Help

F/T Cashier/Postal Clerk.

Apply in person w/resume: Highland Green Value Drug Mart.

Earn approximately: $464.00 per month Reliable vehicle required

Fluid Experts Ltd.

70

Happy Ads

880

Misc.

Help

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

ANDERS AREA Appleway Dental Clinic in Stettler is seeking a Registered Dental Hygienist and a Registered Dental Assistant (to cover a maternity leave with the possibly of long term employment) to join our team.

Clearview

Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres.

Barrett Drive Bannerman Close

564258F13

Above all we are looking for a team player with a great attitude.

In addition to an above average wage, we offer a flexible health benefits program and a uniform allowance.

To apply, please forward a cover letter with a resume by email to corriec@applewaydental.ca Only successful candidates will be contacted.

Sylvan Lake

162 KIDD CLOSE June 12, 5-8, June 13, 11-4 Something for everyone.

76 KENSINGTON CL. Fri. June 12, 4-8 Sat. June 13, 9-3. Bandsaw, 5 pc. kitchen set, 7 piece dining set, garden items, glider exerciser, household items.

Sylvan Lake

MORRISROE AREA

790

Oriole Park 48 & 52 OLYMPIC GREEN Back alley Downsizing 2 homes.

Men’s/ladies items. June 12, noon-8, June 13, 10-6

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Mountview

Munro Cres./MacKenzie Cres.

Metcalf Ave. LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres.

4244 - 34 ST. CL. Back Alley - June 13 & 14 Sat. & Sun. 10 - 4 HUGE DOWNSIZING Furniture & some antiques HUGE! Garage bursting, tons of items. Patio set, antiques, scrap booking, decor, CHEAP! June 12, 1-7, June 13, 10-5, June 14, 10-2. 3523-45 Ave.

Rosedale June 12, 13, & 14.

1:30 - ?

Downsizing.

Something for everyone.

51 ROTH CRSC.

SOUTHBROOK AREA

www.rdpsd.ab.ca

VANIER AREA

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

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

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Accounting

880

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

GROW WITH US Excellent Salary with Benefits CARPET CLEANING TECHNICIAN

Cleaning

Become a sought-after professional in the art and science of carpet & upholstery and all-surface cleaning! Work Monday to Friday during the day, with some evenings and Saturdays.

We’re looking for someone with: • A commitment to excellence • Good communication skills • Good physical fitness • Mechanical aptitude • Good hand/eye coordination

1070

CLEAN FREAK FOR HIRE Avail. to start cleaning houses on July 2. Call: Sharla at 403-357-7801 leave msg

Salary and Benefits based on skill set and experience

1240

Massage Therapy

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

403-341-4445

Misc.

Services

1290

DALE’S Home Reno’s 5* JUNK REMOVAL Free estimates for all your Property clean up 505-4777 reno needs. 403-506-4301 DUMP RUNS, metal, battery p/u. 403-550-2502 Handyman

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617

552462F2-26

Drop off or mail resume + driver’s abstract to MancusoCleaning #8-7428-49 Ave Red Deer, T4P 1M2 www.mancusocleaning.com

1300

FANTASY SPA

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

1200

Moving & Storage

1280

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

Services

1300

SAWYER Trucking, Skid Steer and Track Hoe service.

PH. 403 391-6430

10 - 2am Private back entry

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

Moving & Storage

GROUND Up Bobcat & Landscaping Ltd. For free quote call 403-848-0153

1100

Contractors

Learn under the personal direction of one of North America’s experts in restorative cleaning!

Landscaping

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563917F12,13

HEALTH CARE AIDE

Sorensen Close/Sisson Ave. Sutherland Cres.

Shaw Close

Viscount Ave. Voisin Close

Invites applications for the position of:

Misc.

Help

Kentwood Estates

1 DUMAS CRES June 12 & 13 Fri. 4 - 8 & Sat. 9 - 6 Household misc. & other good stuff

552196E23-I26

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years experience, be highly self-motivated and ready to work in a fast paced environment.

Deer Park

129 CRAWFORD ST. June 12 & 13 Fri. 5 - 8 & Sat. 9 - 3 MOVING A little bit of everything!!

BOWER AREA

The position is a full time position ( 4 day work week)

Medical

Alford Ave. Archer Dr./Austin Dr. Allsop Ave. Allison Cres.

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

1310

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

HOME Handyman Services Insurance claims welcome.

Reno’s, decks, fencing & JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. 10 yr. warranty on all work. painting. 403-872-6002 Free Est. 403-872-8888 403-350-7602

Painters/ Decorators

TO FIND OUT MORE YOU can sell it fast with a person-to-person want ad in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds. Phone 309-3300

Window Cleaning

1420

RESIDENTIAL Window & Eavestrough Cleaning.

Free Est.. 403-506-4822 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

D8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, June 13, 2015 y, , Employment Training

900

Garden Supplies

JACKET, Real Leather, black biker style, sz, small; $40; 403-347-0325

SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

LAWN Mower, $25. works well.

403-347-0325

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Low Costâ&#x20AC;? Quality Training

403.341.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

278950A5

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

June 14, 2015 Sylvan Lake, AB Time: 1:00 p.m.

Selling Approx 10 Containers Plus a Holiday Trailer & Boat - As Seen on TV For More Info: Allen B. Olson Auction Service Ltd. (403) 843-2747

1580

HOODIE, Ed Hardy size medium. $10.

403-314-9603 TOYS, books, puzzles, games. 2 boxes $20.

403-314-9603

Clothing

1590

MOTORCYCLE Jacket, Open Road, size 2XL, worn once. $75.

403-304-0554

Event Tickets

1610

TAILCREEK Mud & Music Festival, June 25, 8 pm.

2 tickets, 3 day pass. $275. both 403-348-1809

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofĂ&#x20AC;ce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools

1640

1/4

7 â&#x20AC;? B & D circular saw, $25. 403-885-5020 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Firewood

Household Furnishings

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Pets & Supplies

1720

1810

ARTIFICIAL pet turf, 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;5â&#x20AC;? x 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122; retail $143, asking $70 403-309-7787

1830

Cats

BLACK 5 drawer dresser $40, Sunbeam white microwave $20, twin mattress $20 403-346-0674

1 BALINESE kitten, 1 Siamese $60/ea; 403-887-3649

1840

Dogs

BOAT MOTORS, Shakespeare, small size. $50. & $75. 403-887-5891

FUTON, tan; $150; End tables, (2), 1 coffee table, brass & glass, $25. takes all. 403-347-0325 HIDE-A-BED, dble. good condition. $50.

403-340-1347

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

SONY Trinitron tv 26â&#x20AC;? w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125.

403-352-8811

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75.

403-885-5020 2 beige highback bar stools, $20/ea, 2 new swivel padded moving dollies 30â&#x20AC;? x 18â&#x20AC;?, $35 for both, 2 new plastic folding saw horses $12/ea, new small portable briquette BBQ $15, oxc-acet Victor small regulator set $40, new 5000 btu apt. size Diplomat air conditioner $55, new 30 pc. plastic wall mounted storage bins, new in box $35, 2 tin garbage cans w/lids, enclosed in metal stand on new wheels $20, 2 Washburn guitars and stands $75/ea., Stinger wet/dry vac $15 403-358-5568 2 MATCHING 26â&#x20AC;? table lamps w/shades $25, Fuji DL190 zoom camera w/case $25, all like new 403-346-6303 5 SHELF leaning wall stand 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x26â&#x20AC;? $45; plush childs rocking horse $30; small glass top computer desk $25; dogs playing cards wall tapestry $40 403-986-2108 ART supplies, high quality paints, brushes, easels, frames and much more. $150 for all will sell individually 403-886-2776 CAMPING provisions, eg: pots, pans, dishes, Ă ashlights and much more. $125 for all, or will sell individually 403-886-2776 OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020 PICTURES, pettipoint, dutch boy & girl, professionally framed, 2 for $50.

403-314-9603 Start your career!

See Help Wanted

BASSETT HOUND, F. multi-color, P.B., 11 mos., unaltered, Loves kids.

Shots up to date. $300. obo. 403-986-1541

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1930

Wanted To Buy

WANTED: Satellite dish.

FOUND

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Opposite Hospital 2 bdrms, balcony, no pets $875 403-346-5885

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

2 SHARE 2 bdrm.

Timberstone, $675. inclusive. 403-348-1809

CLASSIFICATIONS

Mobile FOR RENT â&#x20AC;˘ 3000-3200 Lot WANTED â&#x20AC;˘ 3250-3390 Houses/ Duplexes

3020

1178 SQ.FT 3 bdrm. main Ă oor of house, c/w 5 appls, dble. att. heated garage, Lacombe, July 1st, n/s, $1350/mo. inclds. all utils. RENTED

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 bdrm. townhouse w/garage in Parkvale 4603-44 St. no pets, must be 50+, avail. July 15. eves. 403-309-7707 days 403-506-0265 3 BDRM. 2 full baths, 4 appls., avail. July 1.

SD $800. Rent $1075.

403-304-5337 3 BDRM. townhouse, 1 1/2 bath, full bsmt, 2 parking stalls, fenced back yard 403-887-4670 PARKVALE, 55+ condo, 2 bdrm., 2 bath, garage, no maintenance lawn, $1450. + utils. Avail. Aug. 1. ***RENTED***

3080 3190

4310

Rooms

3280

SWM 63, HONEST, quiet, tidy, N/S, seeks R & B or Room to Rent. Coming to Alberta to promote my new book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surviving My Family, Thriving in Yoursâ&#x20AC;?. Please phone Norm 778-414-1449 (4 pm - 10 pm)

SERGES HOMES Open House 22 Coachill St. Blackfalds June 11, 12, & 13 Hours: 1 - 5

3050

3 BDRM., no pets, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 baths, $1100 avail. July 1 N/S, no pets. 403-391-1780 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717

309-3300

TO ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY HERE!

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

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

Houses For Sale

4020

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2008 LINCOLN Navigator 4x4 exc. shape, tan leather, 403-871-2441 or cell 928-503-5344 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

2008 DODGE Nitro, 4x4 V6, auto., very clean, $7500. obo. 403-318-3040

Motorcycles

5080

ICON Air Frame motorcycle helmet, claymore black, size L, worn once $200 403-304-0554

2008 SUZUKI Boulevard C109RT, LOADED Saddle bags, windshield, cruise (manual), running lights, back rest, 44,500 kms.

MINT CONDITION! $7990. o.b.o.

403-318-4653 Red Deer

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll sell it for you!

5100

1997 37â&#x20AC;&#x2122; BOUNDER 1 slideout Tag axle, any reasonable offer considered 403-479-7993

1995 34â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Winnebago diesel pusher $19,900 obo 403-872-3010 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Fifth Wheels

CANOE, Coleman, orange, 15â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 6â&#x20AC;?, 36â&#x20AC;? wide in middle, seats 3, $500 obo.

403-347-2374. Ask for Tip.

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the REVERSE is also true

5110

CALL 2004 CORSAIR 26.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, 1 large slide, well maint., ready to go 403-227-6794

1995 TRAVELAIRE, 25.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, very good, clean cond., sleeps 6, new awning, full size fridge, 3 burner stove/ oven, microwave, queen bed, x-long couch, makes into bed, N/S, no pets. $7000. obo. 403-347-1997

309-3300 CLASSIFIEDS to find out more...

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DANNEMORA, N.Y. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A worker at an upstate New York maximumsecurity prison has been arrested on charges she helped two convicted killers escape, state police said Friday.

Fifty-one-year-old Joyce Mitchell was arrested and will be arraigned on charges of first-degree promoting prison contraband and fourth-degree criminal facilitation, state police said.

Mitchell is accused of befriending inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora and giving them contraband.

District Attorney Andrew Wylie said earlier the contraband didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t include power tools used by the men as they cut holes in their cell walls and a steam pipe to escape through a manhole last weekend.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officers continued to search for the escapees, concentrating Friday in a rural area near the prison. The hunt for the inmates was focused on an area where residents reported seeing two men jumping a stone wall outside the far northern New York town of Dannemora.

About 300 searchers were added, bringing the total number of state, federal and local law enforcement officers involved in the manhunt to more than 800.

Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family has said she wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have helped the convicts break out.

An instructor in the tailor shop where the men worked, Mitchell is also suspected of agreeing to be a getaway driver but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show up, leaving the men on foot early Saturday morning.

Mitchell has a $56,000-a-year job overseeing inmates who sew clothes and learn to repair sewing machines at the prison.

Within the past year, officials looked into whether Mitchell had improper ties to the 34-year-old Sweat, who was serving a life sentence for killing a sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy, Wylie said.

He gave no details on the nature of the suspected relationship.

The investigation didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn up anything solid enough to warrant disciplinary charges against her, the district attorney said.

Matt was serving 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of Mattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 76-year-old former boss, whose body was found in pieces in a river.

The state corrections department would not comment on the investigation into how the two inmates escaped or what Mitchell might have provided them.

Prison contraband can include such things as cellphones, weapons, drugs, tools and unauthorized clothing.

On Thursday, a person close to the investigation said that Mitchell had befriended the two men and agreed to be the getaway driver but never showed up. The person was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.

A former slipper-factory employee who won three terms as tax collector in her town near Dannemora, Mitchell has worked at the prison for at least five years, according to a neighbour, Sharon Currier. Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband, Lyle, also works in industrial training there.

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Davenport, 50+, modular, $179,900 403-392-7076

Blackfalds. Beautiful Bungalow 1 only. 1320 sq. ft. 2 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. bdrm. 2 bath, main Ă oor $790 rent/d.d. laundry.Granite, hardwood, 403-346-1458 tile, Chigaco brick Ă&#x20AC;re3 BDRM. bsmt. suite, avail. place. Lots of extras.

Immed., $925 + 1/3 utils.

Backs onto green space Call Bob 403-872-3400 walking trail.Legal fees, GLENDALE renoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d 2 bdrm. GST, sod, tree and appls. incld. $454,000 LLOYD apartments, avail. immed, FIDDLER 403-391-9294 rent $875 403-596-6000

2012 ZINGER trailer, Thor built, 27â&#x20AC;&#x2122; , hard wall, large slide, air, elec. awning, oven, hide a bed, good cond., $17,900 obo 403-896-8860

2002 CHEV Cavalier, 2 dr., 96,000 kms. 403-318-3040

Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050

FREEâ&#x20AC;ŚLIST OF HOMES with owners phone numbers, addresses and prices. Call Help-U-Sell of Red Deer at 403-342-7355

5120

5030

Cars

SERGEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HOMES

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Motorhomes

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CLASSIFICATIONS

1997 BMW R850R, hard bags, Remus exhaust, exc. cond. $4200 403-746-5862

SEIBEL PROPERTY

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

CALL CLASSIFIEDS

wheels

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Directory

Out Of Red Deer

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403-358-4117

Roommates Wanted

Holiday Trailers

Residential Building Lots in a Gated, Maintenance Free Golf & Lake Bedroom community, 25 minutes from Red Deer. Lots starting from 99K Contact Mike at 1-403-588-0218

1860

Open House Tour These Fine Homes

4160

Lots For Sale

SUV's

NOW RENTING Sporting 1 & 2 BDRM. APTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Goods Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, AIR HOCKEY by Sports3 appls., incl. heat & hot craft was $900 new, exc. water, washer/dryer cond, $200 403-352-8811 hookup, inĂ oor heating, a/c., HOME Gym, $50. car plug ins & balconies.

403-340-1347 Call 403-343-7955

www.seibelproperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 STORAGE shed, tent or 403-347-7545 style, 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;, full front B.C. Birch, Aspen, Starting at $1195 Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. door roll-up, spare roof and 2 Weeks Free Rent wall cover, set up to view.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 $85. o.b.o. NEW was 6 locations in Red Deer $149. 403-346-2192 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, ~ Halman Heights Can deliver ~ Riverfront Estates 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 VINTAGE Royal Doulton ~ Westpark Beswick horse, brown LOGS shetland Pony, 3 1/2â&#x20AC;? high ~ Kitson Close Semi loads of pine, spruce, $50; Merrell Ortholite ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. tamarack, poplar. shoes, air cushioned, size ~ Holmes St. Price depends on location. 6 1/2, like new $35. Lazy S.D. $1000 Lil Mule Logging Boy, recliner, tall style, 3 bdrm. townhouses, 403-318-4346 beige, $95. 403-352-8811 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

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Maid of honour feels dishonoured Dear Annie: A good friend of mine was recently Dear Annie: Can you handle another pet peeve? married, and I was her maid of honour and happy to Mine is people who blow their noses into a napkin do it. at a restaurant.

The bride had only one other woman Don’t they realize that a server must in her bridal party, a high school classthen pick up that used napkin with their mate who now lives halfway across the bare hands? country. That meant all of the bridal They then serve my plate after having party duties became my responsibility. touched your used napkin. It is extremely I thoughtfully planned, budgeted for unsanitary and unappealing. and hosted both the bridal shower and I recently witnessed a friend do this the bachelorette party. with a cloth napkin in a more upscale resI slaved over my wedding reception taurant. I don’t even want to go out to eat speech and mustered up my courage to with these people anymore. — Kay from deliver it.

Pennsylvania I wanted everything to be memorable Dear Kay: People who need to wipe their and joyous, and I especially wanted the noses at dinner should know enough to bride to know that this was her time to carry a handkerchief or bring a small conMITCHELL shine. tainer of tissues, which are easy enough to & SUGAR So you can imagine my dismay when find in any drugstore or grocery and will fit the bride and groom neglected to meninside the tiniest purse or back pocket. tion any member of the bridal party You might bring an extra one and offer when thanking special people in their it to the next person who grabs a napkin for speech. this purpose.

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Saturday, June 13 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Chris Evans, 20; Malcolm McDowell, 72; Stellan SkarsgÂrd, 64 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The stars favour being creative in practical ways.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a somewhat reckless streak that can get you into trouble. 2015 is the year to look for exciting adventures to be had within your local JOANNE community.

MADELEINE ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s MOORE a great day to tackle household chores, or sort out paperwork that you’ve been putting off. When the mundane practical tasks are out of the way, then you can have fun.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With the Moon visiting your sign, a little bit of Taurean charm goes a long way today.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gordie Howeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Mark says his father is doing well after receiving a second experimental stem cell transplant this week.

The 87-year-old hockey legend was treated Monday at the same Mexican clinic where he underwent an initial injection of stem cells in his spine in December, following a debilitating stroke last October.

Mark says his brother Murray, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a doctor, took Howe to the Tijuana clinic, where their dad got â&#x20AC;&#x153;a little boostâ&#x20AC;? from the therapy. Mark says they are flying today to Toledo, Ohio, where Howe will stay with Murray and his wife after having lived with his daughter Cathy Purnell in Lubbock, Texas.

After the first treatment, the family called Howeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s improvement â&#x20AC;&#x153;miraculous.â&#x20AC;? He was able to walk again and his ability to speak improved. The October stroke â&#x20AC;&#x201D; his second â&#x20AC;&#x201D; had left the former NHL great without the use of his right arm and leg and had caused his speech to slur. Howe also had difficulty swallowing and shed 35 pounds. He had been admitted to hospital and was unresponsive when the family decided to pursue the unproven stem cell therapy, which is not approved in Canada or the U.S. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The way we approach it as a family is every day that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had Dad, ever since his first treatment, has basically just been a bonus,â&#x20AC;? Mark said from New Jersey, where he lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just trying to enjoy the moments.â&#x20AC;?

Howe also has a form of dementia, and Mark says that like anybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who is aging, his father has â&#x20AC;&#x153;some good days and some not so good days.â&#x20AC;?

Living with Murray will make it easier for Howeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family members and friends from his years as a Detroit Red Wing to visit, which should help his father adjust to his new home, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With his dementia, sometimes he gets a little disoriented. So the more familiar faces he has around, the easier the transition is.â&#x20AC;?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Make it a priority to nurture yourself today, via some physical pampering or just the luxury of spending quality time with a very special person you. Solitude is soul food for you ATM. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Moonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Taurus, which increases your stubborn streak.

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