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BY C CRY RYST STAL AL R RHY HYNO NO ADVOCATE STAFF They met at a high school in Drayton Valley.

For Kris Maciborsky, it was pretty much love at first sight.

She said there was just something about Paige Herman and she knew they would spend the rest of their liives together.

“When you meet the person you’re supposed to be with, you just know,” she said.

A pair of shoelaces started the ball rolling in their relationship.

“One day after class we were standing by the door to leave the r o om and she said she liked my shoelaces,” said Maciborsky. “Then we started hanging out and that was (the beginning).”

Sixteen and a half years later, the couple are married and living in Red Deer.

Herman, 34, moved to Red Deer from Drayton Valley in 2000 to attend Red Deer College and Maciborksy, 34, followed a year later.

They tied the knot in April 2009 afte t r Maciborsky had pestered Herman in ma into to ssay ayin ing g “II d do” o ffor or a abo bout ut a

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Herman joked that she did not want to get married until it was legal to file for divorce if things didn’t

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They were married by former Sunnybrook United Church pastor Paul Mullen at a chapel in Calgary.

Herman was not as comfortable

would say or feel stopped her from sharing.

“I thought this isn’t going that well so I will drop it for now,” said Herman,, who is visually y impa p ired.

BUMPY ROAD TO INCLUSION A2 “There was a girl in high school who was out as long as I rememberr and everyone liked her and support-ed her. We weren’t sure we would d get the same reaction.”

Years later, her family found d out inadvertently through a family y friend who was not invited to Her-man and Maciborsky’s wedding. She e called Herman’s parents to com-plain that she was left off the guestt list.

“In a way it was somewhat of a relief that I don’t have to do it,” she e laughed. “At the same time, I didn’tt think it was appropriate.”

Herman said her father had the e most difficulty accepting her newss but mainly because others knew be-fore her parents.

It took her family four or five e months to come around and now w they couldn’t be any closer, said d Herman.

Maciborsky, a group home sup-port worker, came out to her family y and friends several years before herr partner. They were supportive and d understanding.

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Heat records broken across province

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Heat records fell all over Central Alberta on Thursday on a true summer scorcher.

Environment Canada reported new records in 25 Alberta communities, including Coronation, Lacombe and Rocky Mountain House in Central Alberta.

Red Deer topped out at 32.2C, just off the record of 33.3C set in 1920.

Outdoor pools and beaches were packed as sun seekers got their rays in before temperatures cooled and forecast weekend rains rolled in.

Coronation hit 35.4C, beating the 2001 mark of 32.8C; Lacombe’s 33.5C edged a 95-year-old record of 33.3C; and Rocky Mountain House’s 31.5C beat the 1973 record of 33.1C. Environment Canada meteorologist Michel Gelinas said the heat wave could be attributed to an upper low pressure area off California that funnelled warm air up to Southern Alberta.

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Hot days and smoke in the air from fires in the Alberta and B.C. have made for some spectacular sunsets in and around Central Alberta this week. Residents of Red Deer were treated to a colourful show from the sun Thursday evening.

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PRIDE: Celebrating diversity Herman and Maciborsky are looking forward to taking part in the planned activities for Central Alberta Pride Week, which began on Friday and wraps up on Thursday.

They say the week is about celebrating diversity of the LGBTQ community in region.

“I hope straight people who are allies come out, too,” said Maciborksy. “We are not looking for special treatment. We just want to be recognized and treated as equals.”

Last month marked the 10th anniversary of legalized same-sex marriage in Canada. Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court made it legal for same-sex couples to marry in all states.

Tony Jeglum, co-organizer of Central Alberta Pride, said it is important for citizens to see their government recognizing gay people as human beings.

“A lot of people ask why are we having pride in Red Deer,” said Jeglum. “Haven’t we accomplished everything we need to accomplish? I don’t think we have accomplished everything we need to accomplish. That’s why it’s very important to have things like the mayoral proclamation.”

He said when you humanize “the other” then it becomes a lot easier to accept the other. Strides have been made in the last 20 years for people between the ages of 18 and 65 in the gay and lesbian community, said Jeglum, 35.

But he said teenagers are still having a tough time coming out to their families and being welcomed by society.

Herman and Maciborsky are not sure what it would take to make the LGBTQ community more acceptable in today’s society.

“I think religion is always going to be in the way,” said Herman.

Jeglum said he had a positive experience coming out 10 years ago because people in his demographic were afforded every right and privilege by society that straight people have had. He said he is part of the generation where everyone older than him immediately left for Vancouver or Toronto, and many of those five years younger than him stayed in Central Alberta.

“It really delights and impresses me that the number of people in their early 20s who are staying here,” said Jeglum. “They are saying, yeah this is home. Why should I go and have to hide in some gay ghetto just because I am a homosexual?”

Maciborsky said it helps that there are many more celebrities and role models who are open about their sexuality, including Caitlyn Jenner.

“Fifteen years ago, you could name three,” said Maciborsky. “It was a career ender.”

But as Jeglum said, there are still hurdles to

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The road to acceptance and inclusion for the LGBTQ community in Central Alberta has been long and difficult.

1998 ● Red Deer Mayor Gail Surkan says she would likely turn down a request for a gay pride day and Coun. Jeffrey Dawson proposes a motion requiring council to openly debate any special day declarations, including Pride.

1999 ● Red Deer South MLA Victor Doerksen announces plans to introduce a private member’s bill banning gay marriages. He plans to use the constitutional “notwithstanding clause” to protect the traditional institution of marriage.

2000 ● Red Deer city council adopts a policy that instructs the mayor to deny a request to recognize a contentious or divisive issue, which Coun. Dawson said would include Pride. However, at the time no one had approached the city about a Pride Day. ● Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School becomes the first high school in Alberta to have gay-straight alliance when a subcommittee of the school’s Students and Teachers Opposing Prejudice organization is formed to discuss sexual orientation discrimination.

2001 ● Rev. Fred Phelps, a gay-bashing American religious leader and graduate of the Prairie Bible Institute, releases a letter attacking his former alma mater. Phelps said the school was “too lax on homosexuality.”

2002 ● A 17-year-old gay youth is punched in the

Rainbow Tea will be served at Red Deer’s Golden Circle Resource Centre on Tuesday as part of Central Alberta Pride Week.

It will be the first time the centre has participated in the activities.

Monica Morrison, executive director, said the Golden Circle is a people place and supports diversity.

“We want everyone to feel comfortable coming here,” cross, particularly for the transgender community.

“We have not seen the same amount of rights and privileges and acceptance to the trans community,” he said. “That’s where we need to keep fighting.”

The couple say it would be great to have a Central Alberta chapter of the PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), a national group that helps Canadians with issues of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. There are chapters in Calgary and Edmonton.

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face, crushing his cheekbone, on Canada Day in downtown Red Deer. His attacker threatened to kill him because of his sexuality. ● Rev. Stephen Boissoin openly criticized the “homosexual agenda” in many letters to the editor. Boissoin is the chairman of the Central Alberta chapter of the Concerned Christian Coalition.

2003 ● The gay-friendly Diversity Days are held.

They are billed as a day to celebrate diverse ethnic, religious and sexual orientations. They draw stiff opposition.

2003 ● Coun. Jeffrey Dawson wants residents to tell council how they feel about the possibility of the mayor proclaiming Diversity Day. In an email response on the topic to anti-gay pastor Boissoin, Dawson wrote, “The politically expedient way to deal with this is to just give in to the gay movement and not let council debate the issue. I will try my hardest to prevent that but to be successful I need you and everyone you know to contact all of council and encourage them to do everything in their power to prevent the degradation of our community values.

“By the way, don’t let any of them tell you that there is nothing they can do to stop it, tell them to get some backbone and stand up for family values.”

The comments are also included in a letter penned by Boissoin.

2005 ● Red Deer’s gay and lesbian community holds a Rainbow Community barbecue. The location of the event is not advertised for safety reasons.

2013 ● Mayor Morris Flewwelling signs and reads a proclamation for the first formal Central Alberta Pride celebration.

said Morrison. “By having this we want to let the community know that this is a safe place to come to.”

Tea and the centre’s signature pumpkin spice dessert will be served from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and there will be a drag show, The Laddies of La Cage.

Tickets are $5 in advance or at the door (4620 47A Ave.).

Monica Loewen is a contact for the group in Lacombe. There are no meetings. She answers questions and talks to people who may have just come out or are the parents of someone in the LQBTQ community.

For a full list of Pride Week events, visit www. caans.

Check out PFLAG at www.pflagcanada.ca and Loewen at 403-782-5513. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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PIONEER DAYS PREPARATION

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Jeremy Moore of Red Deer gets the front wheels of his 1960 930 Case tractor off the ground as he tests the tractor pull sled at the Sunnybrook Farm and Museum on Friday in preparation for the weekend’s events. Pioneer Days takes place at the Sunnybrook Farm and Museum, located at 4701-30 St. in Red Deer, Saturday and Sunday. The vintage tractor pull events feature 50-60 entries. They begin at noon and run to 5 p.m. daily, while the other events at the farm get underway at 8 a.m. A $5 pancake breakfast will be served from 8 a.m. to 10:30 daily, and a beefon-a-bun dinner will go at 5 p.m. on Saturday for $10. Other events over the weekend include a parade of power, saw mill, wood splitting, threshing, blacksmithing, and antique toy show, children’s games, homemade pie and ice cream and live entertainment. A cowboy church service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Access to legal help approaching ‘crisis point,’ says justice minister

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Legal experts, politicians and Canada’s top judge are saying it’s increasingly difficult for low- and middle-income Canadians to get access to the courts.

Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley, who was attending a Canadian Bar Association convention on Friday, told reporters there needs to be a review of the province’s legal aid since it appears to barely be getting the job done.

“We’re sort of rapidly moving toward a crisis point and we need to start considering what it is we can do to solve that,” Ganley said.

“It’s quite clear that the service being provided under the current scheme is inadequate, so in Alberta we’re just sort of barely covering people on AISH, which is the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped.”

Ganley said there are people who are above the threshold to qualify for legal aid who still can’t afford lawyers of their own.

“The middle class can’t afford legal services anymore. It’s a significant challenge,” she said.

“We can continue throwing money at the problem, but doesn’t seem to be a solution that has worked thus far.”

Alberta defence lawyers have been pushing for

more money since six regional legal-aid offices were closed and staff laid off in Calgary, Whitecourt and Lethbridge last summer.

Ganley said a review is to be done, but it’s still too early to say when it will be conducted and what the parameters will be.

Access to legal services was also raised by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Beverley McLachlin told convention delegates that the system is failing those in need.

“Legal-aid funding and coverage is not available for most people and problems, and the cost of legal services and length of proceedings is steadily increasing,” she said.

“Statistics show that people who get legal assistance in dealing with their legal problems are much more likely to achieve better results than those who do not.”

Michelle Hollins, outgoing president of the bar association, announced the group will be active in the federal election campaign in a non-partisan way.

“We need to put important issues such as ... equal justice issues and our views on legislation on the radar of the parties and of the public. We cannot sit on the sidelines,” Hollins said.

It’s important to give a voice to the “thousands of Canadians who are left out of the justice system,” she said.

CALGARY — An expert panel on climate change will weigh input from the Alberta public as it determines how the province can best tackle emissions.

The five-member panel, chaired by University of Alberta economist Andrew Leach, is embarking on consultations without any pre-set reduction targets in mind and aims to have the “architecture” of a broad policy ready for UN climate talks in Paris this December.

“Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing our province and our world,” said NDP Environment Minister Shannon Phillips. “We know we cannot afford to sit on the sidelines and wait for other jurisdictions to impose their approaches on us.”

Consultations are to take place through September. Public sessions will be held in Edmonton and Calgary and Albertans will be able to have their say online, too. The panel will also seek input from various industries, academia, municipalities and First Nations and Metis communities.

All views will be given equal weight, said Phillips.

“It’s not just about oilsands and the energy sector.

It’s also about how we power our homes, how we get to work in the morning and how we create a new and greener and more sustainable economy that creates those good, long-term, mortgage-paying jobs,” she said. “So all Albertans have a stake in that and that’s exactly why we want to hear from them.”

Phillips said the panel’s job will be “examining what a credible and realistic target actually is” for the province.

Under the previous Progressive Conservative governments there was a disconnect between targets and action, she said.

Leach added that targets, and the policies and technologies needed to meet them, can’t be looked at in isolation.

“We need to link those two conversations,” he said.

The four members joining Leach on the panel were also announced Friday.

They are: — Gord Lambert, with GRL Collaboration for Sustainability and formerly with oilsands giant Suncor Energy (TSX:SU).

— Linda Coady, chief sustainability officer at pipeline builder Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB).

— Stephanie Cairns, managing director of sustainable communities at Sustainable Prosperity, board member of the Pembina Institute environmental think-tank and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

— Angela Adams, Unifor’s director of education and a trustee with the Fort McMurray Public School District.

Greenpeace campaigner Mike Hudema said he has concerns with the panel’s mandate and makeup.

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Locked-out workers accept offer CALGARY — Unionized workers at a Calgary plant that makes paving asphalt and ready-mix concrete have voted to accept a contract offer from the company.

The workers had set up a picket line on Monday in front of Burnco in the city’s southeast after they received a lock-out notice.

The company had said contract negotiations were not moving along.

Members from the Teamsters Local 632 met on Thursday night and voted to accept a revised offer.

Burnco CEO Michael Powell says the company believes a fair agreement has been reached.

Union spokesman Bernie Haggarty says neither side got everything it wanted.

“The amended position that was negotiated since the work stoppage will guarantee respect in the workplace and the ability for both sides to move forward,” he said.

“In light of the difficult economic times facing many Calgary businesses, we want to thank the union for working with us to find the best solutions possible for everyone,” said Powell.

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Duffy’s lawyer takes aim at Nigel Wright’s image

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Mike Duffy’s defence lawyer ripped into Nigel Wright’s choir-boy image Friday as he used his cross-examination of Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff to slowly pick apart the bribery charge against his client.

Donald Bayne pulled no punches during his inquisition, trying to discredit Wright by suggesting he and others in the Prime Minister’s Office had strong-armed Duffy into a expense-repayment scheme the senator did not support.

Bayne suggested Wright was “pissed off” at Duffy’s resistance to go along with the plan.

“Why did you use the language, ’We had to force him Nigel Wright to do this,’ rather than saying, ’I was persistent?”’ Bayne asked, referencing statements Wright gave to police about the effort to get Duffy to repay his disallowed expense claims.

“Because I had to apply a lot of pressure,” Wright replied. “I had be persistent.”

“You said, ’We basically had to force him,”’ Bayne said.

“I’m telling you the connotation I was intending to convey with those words,” Wright replied.

To which Bayne said, “You know what, sir, you are a great champion — when it suits you — of commonsense rationale.”

Bayne also raised an email in which Wright, describing the need to contain the escalating Duffy scandal, called it “Chinese water torture,” and asked him what he meant.

“What I call Chinese water torture is the dribbling out of new facts,” Wright replied.

Sen. Duffy faces 31 charges including fraud, bribery and breach of trust, including three which relate to Wright’s famous $90,000 payment to Duffy to cover the cost of repaying his disallowed expenses.

Bribery is one of the most serious offences in the Criminal Code, as it carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. The Crown needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Duffy accepted the payment with corrupt intent.

Duffy, meanwhile, has long insisted he’s a victim of the scheme, not a co-conspirator; someone who was forced against his will to take part in a PMO ploy — the “monstrous scheme,” he once called it — to mitigate the political damage.

Email evidence introduced at trial indicates the scheme was known to a number of senior staff members inside the Prime Minister’s Office — a direct contradiction of what Stephen Harper told the House of Commons in June 2013.

“Those were his decisions,” Harper said of the Wright payment at the time. “They were not communicated to me or to members of my office.”

In fact, they were — including Ray Novak, who was working for Wright in February 2013 and replaced him when Wright left the PMO as the payment scheme began to be exposed later that year.

“These are the actions of Mr. Duffy and Mr. Wright,” Harper said Friday when asked about it during a campaign stop in Hay River, N.W.T. “You hold people responsible for their own actions; you certainly don’t hold subordinates responsible for the actions of their superiors. These are the two people who are responsible and they are being held accountable.”

Bayne is arguing his client was coerced by the most powerful political figures in the country to go along with the plan, which originally involved the subsidized Conservative party fund footing the bill when it was believed closer to $32,000.

“They’re just like a diamond ring,” said Hamilton.

“That’s what I told Marcia — that she’s going to get a $100 engagement ring and a $3,000 range.

“I think that is a commitment of cultural status.”

The couple don’t expect to completely redo the house in Simpsons style, but joke about turning the

basement into Moe’s Tavern, Homer’s favourite watering hole.

Hamilton said every time he goes into the kitchen it catches him by surprise.

“When you see it, it kind of brings a smile to your face. The colours are very vibrant.”

Mulcair burnishes NDP’s economic credentials on campaign trail

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budget officer and make them an independent officer of Parliament, like the auditor general,” Mulcair said.

“We’ll make transparency the law so that future governments can’t hide financial information from Canadians.”

Harper, who said a re-elected Conservative government would spend $14 million paving 68 kilometres of the way between Hay River and Fort Smith, N.W.T., also left the door open to Canada participating in a ballistic missile defence program at some point.

“Our position is that we keep evaluating our options,” Harper said.

“If we felt that at any point in time that we faced particular threats that required us to participate, that is something we would look at,” Harper said. At the present time we haven’t made that assessment.“

OTTAWA — Tom Mulcair took his fight against the Conservatives straight into Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s back yard Friday, hoping perhaps to add a bit of spit and polish to the NDP’s less-than-stellar credentials as guardians of the public purse.

Stephen Harper returned the favour, sort of, by travelling to the Northwest Territories — a seat the NDP has held since 2006 — armed with his reputed soft spot for the North and a promise to pave a key highway.

Mulcair said Andrew Thomson would carry the orange banner to challenge Oliver in the riding of Eglinton-Lawrence, saying he’d take Thomson’s record over that of Harper’s government any day.

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CALGARY — Marcia Andreychuk and Joel Hamilton are living in a Simpson-esque orange, blue and purple dream.

The two have been slowly transforming the kitchen in their home in southeast Calgary into a replica of the one inhabited by Marge and Homer Simpson, the popular cartoon family on The Simpsons, which has been on TV for 26 seasons.

“It’s not a renovation. It’s a retrovation,” said Andreychuk, 43, with a laugh. “I don’t like those gutted, new, modular, everybody-has-them kitchens. I like the colour. I love the style. It just delights us.”

So far the cupboards are a match — oversized, cartoonish cabinets and doorknobs. Andreychuk managed to find a perfect match for the corncob curtains above the kitchen sink.

“I was able to order the fabric off of a website that you can upload any graphic to and they will take it and print it on fabric.”

She used contact paper, which is similar to shelf liner, to provide the correct colour to countertops, cabinets, fridge and stove.

Renovations began on what has become a labour of love at the beginning of the year and the room remains a work in progress.

Andreychuk is still hoping for actual avocado green appliances, which are expensive, and an orange slimline telephone.

“When I suggested to Joel I kind of want to update the kitchen — let’s do it like the Simpsons — he bought in immediately,” Andreychuk said.

“He is a huge Simpsons fan. He’s been following the show since he was the age of Bart, when the show first started, and so there was no discussion, nothing but, yes, let’s do this.”

Hamilton, 34, said he was hooked on the show after watching the first episode.

“I was the one raised into it. I didn’t have a choice.

At the age I was at and the impressionable state I was at, I automatically was given into the Simpsons cult.”

The couple has been together for four years and intends to complete the kitchen as close to the original design as possible. The key to that is the appliances.

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DND silent about bombing

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OTTAWA — Expect to hear a lot about the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant during the federal election, just not from the Canadian military.

National Defence has slipped into silent mode for the duration of the campaign and says it will update its website, but won’t hold public briefings about the combat mission in Iraq and Syria, barring something extraordinary.

Canadian warplanes have conducted 29 air strikes against Islamic State positions and units, including one in Syria, since the last update on July 9.

The latest figures were compiled by The Canadian Press using a list on the department’s website.

The lone mission in Syria took place on July 30 in the town of Al Bukamal, across the border with Iraq, and aimed at a compound where Islamic State fighters gather.

Since the expansion of the Canadian bombing campaign last spring, CF-18 jets have conducted fewer than a dozen missions against ISIL on Syrian territory, even though it was a prominent argument

last spring for the Harper government’s continuation of the combat mission.

U.S.-led coalition allies, on the other hand, have conducted up to four strikes a day on the territory Washington says has been ceded to Islamic extremists by Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s regime. The Canadian bombing runs have been mostly concentrated in northern Iraq, supporting operations by Kurdish peshmerga fighters in the vicinity of Mosul, Sinjar and Tal Afar.

Interestingly, the pace of Canadian bombing appears to have slowed since the election was called Aug. 2 with only five strikes carried out.

National Defence would only say the U.S. coalition headquarters hands out the orders.

It’s unclear whether the government has placed any limits on sorties. What is clear is that the mute button has been hit on wide-ranging communication with the public.

“All (public affairs) products and activities are to be curtailed during the election period,” says an in-

ternal department directive. “All DND and (Armed Forces) public affairs staff and commanders are requested to follow a ’no surprises’ approach in order to ensure that all departmental communications are respectful of our democratic values and obligations.”

Taking a step back during an election campaign is standard for departments including National Defence, but doing so while combat operations are underway presents a series of accountability challenges.

It limits what the public sees and hears to the often-overheated rhetoric of politicians on both sides of the aisles.

Steve Saideman, an international affairs professor at Carleton University, said he believes Canadian society is mature enough to be able to get detailed updates on the war without them becoming a do-or-die election issue.

What’s happening is political message control, he said.

“If there are Canadians in harm’s way, I do believe there should be information flowing to Canada about this ongoing mission,” said Saideman, who added that Canadian elections rarely turn on foreign policy.

B.C. wildfire forces evacuations ROCK CREEK, B.C. — When Jackie Neugebaur saw towering flames leap from the hills onto a highway next to her campground in British Columbia’s Boundary region, she knew she had to run.

“We just grabbed some of our pictures and we just got out of the house,” she recalled. “There wasn’t any time to think. It just happened that fast.”

The owner of Rock Creek Riverside Campground was among hundreds of people who escaped an outof-control wildfire that broke out Thursday near the junction of highways 3 and 33.

About 200 campers in Kettle River Provincial Park were rushed out without time to grab their belongings, while nearly 300 homes in the surrounding area were also evacuated.

The aggressive blaze, about 50 kilometres east of Osoyoos, has grown to 25 square kilometres. Officials said Friday that some buildings had been destroyed, but many residents were still waiting to learn whether their homes were lost.

Neugebaur spent a fitful night in her mother-inlaw’s house before an RCMP officer escorted her back to her property Friday morning. All that remained was a scorched heap of rubble and ash.

“It was complete devastation,” she said. “The kids have nothing. We have nothing. We have basically the clothes on our back and some pictures and our computers.”

She said her goats, chickens and cat are all safe, but some kittens have gone missing. But her campground was only partially burned and she expects to

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Drake breaks silence on nightclub shooting TORONTO — Canadian rapper Drake has broken his silence on a deadly shooting at an official after-party for his music festival OVO Fest 10 days ago.

In a statement posted to his website he says he has been in a “moral bind” because his advisers and lawyers worried that anything he said could be misinterpreted, but he is “choosing to follow (his) heart.”

Two people were killed and three others were injured after shots were fired Aug. 4 at the crowded Muzik nightclub in downtown Toronto.

Drake writes that his “deepest condolences” go out to the families of Ariela Navarro-Fenoy, 26, and Duvel Hibbert, 23, who were killed in the shooting.

He laments the “violence that continues to escalate” in his hometown of Toronto and says it is Torontonians’ “public responsibility to ensure the safety and well-being of one another.”

The Toronto police chief has called for witnesses to come forward.

Federal court dismisses imprisoned Buddhist’s human rights complaint VANCOUVER — Federal court has dismissed an application for judicial review by a Buddhist man serving life in prison for murder who alleges discrimination because he’s not being provided a special chaplain.

The man, Kien Tan, was convicted of second-degree murder in February 2011 and incarcerated at Kent Institution in British Columbia.

He complained in December 2012 that Corrections Services Canada was discriminating against him on the basis of religion, because the government has failed to renew contracts with minorityfaith chaplains.

re-open it.

“I’m feeling more optimistic. I’m just glad everybody’s safe,” she said. “I just hope not too many other people lost their houses.”

Forests Minister Steve Thomson said officials haven’t confirmed the type or number of structures that have been lost because smoke continues to billow.

“It goes back to public safety. There is a very active fire and in terms of getting in and doing the full assessment, they have to keep that in mind as well,” he said.

Rob and Melanie Hardy were chased from their home in Westbridge, north of Rock Creek, when the flames began to encroach.

“Literally, the tree tops were bursting like bombs and falling down on the top of our house,” Rob told media outside a Kelowna church that has been turned into an evacuation centre.

“The wind was just carrying (the embers) for miles and miles ... I’ve never seen anything like it.”

The Hardys made the difficult decision to let their horses run wild with the hope of saving them.

Rob said he opened a gate and let the animals go down the Trans Canada trail.

“Oddly enough, they actually went towards the fire at first, (but) I think they were just very confused.

Once we got them turned around, they just took off for the river. That’s the last I saw of them.”

There are about 168 fires burning across the province, including the Rock Creek fire, which is about five kilometres from the Canada-United States border, said provincial fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission refused to deal with Tan’s complaint, saying in August 2013 it didn’t have jurisdiction in the matter.

The Commission stated that Tan, who is a Malaysian citizen, is considered not “lawfully present” in Canada because he’s not a citizen, visitor, permanent resident and doesn’t possess a minister’s permit.

The federal court agreed on July 24, after finding a higher court had previously rejected the argument that a non-citizen who’s legally imprisoned in Canada has any status under the Human Rights Act.

Public health warning issued over shellfish bacteria

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — The number of illnesses connected to eating raw shellfish from British Columbia has climbed to 67 cases in that province and in Alberta.

The Public Health Agency of Canada said 48 cases have been recorded in B.C., and 19 people have become ill in the neighbouring province since June 1.

The agency issued a public health notice Friday, saying it is collaborating with provincial and federal health officials, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to investigate the outbreak.

The naturally occurring bacteria that’s been linked to raw oysters from B.C. can be present during increased water temperatures.

Alberta Health Services issued a warning Friday encouraging Albertans to cook their shellfish to reduce the risk of getting sick.

The Vancouver Coastal Health authority issued an order earlier this week that restaurants must cook all oysters harvested in the province before serving them.

Elderly people, infants, pregnant women and those with underlying health conditions are most at risk for the illness with symptoms including diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever and headaches.

To reduce that risk, Alberta Health Services advises that people eat only properly cooked shellfish, that they discard any shellfish that doesn’t open when cook and avoid eating seafood when taking antacids, because reduced stomach acid may allow the bacteria to survive and grow in the intestinal tract.

Illness symptoms typically last for three days to a week and usually don’t require any treatment.

The public health notice said one person was hospitalized because of the illness.

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Driven by fear of change WHY ADDICTS CAN’T ESCAPE FROM THE SUBSTANCES THAT CONTROL THEM Supper is in full swing, the music is playing loudly, conversations are lively and animated as a couple of us stand back to observe the busyness in the room.

In some cases, what we see brings us a feeling of joy, but that is soon sadly contrasted by a middle aged woman who’s jerky with seemingly uncontrolled movements (the results of crystal meth overuse).

CHRIS This reminds us SALOMONS again of why we are even there.

There are a few others who demonstrate the same behaviours, and earlier I had spoken with someone who also works with addicted folks and I was informed that there was a big push on crystal meth on the street. Also, there were sightings of a new group or gang trying to muscle into the market.

Our faith teaches that hate is wrong and therefore we should avoid it at all costs — but when we see the results of drug peddling, it makes us want to bring out a shotgun or two. Barring that, a solid baseball bat would suffice.

Unwanted hatred boils up like throat burning bile against those who would destroy another human being without regard or remorse.

Learning to set aside those kinds of feelings is paramount in dealing not only with the consumers, but also the despised vendors.

This problem is not new or just in Red Deer; it has been the same for thousands of years, and has travelled to every country and nation in the world.

The sad part is that we are really no closer to a solution than they were thousands of years ago.

I’m sure that I am not the first person to ponder the whys and wherefores, but it leads to a question that intrigues me more than anything else.

Why are people so reluctant to change even when they see that the change would be good and they would be happier for it?

About seven or eight years ago there was a young woman who used every means possible and affordable to stay inebriated. At one point after she had

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gone to detox to clean up for a spell, I asked her why not stay sober. It took her about 20 seconds to think of an answer, but eventually she looked me straight in the eyes and stated that she was too scared to stay sober.

“It feels good when I am sober,” she stated pensively; the pain in her eyes evident, “but when I think about it, I just get totally scared and it drives me to go back.”

And go back she did. Her final year was spent being pushed around in a wheelchair. The fellow pushing her around also bought the Listerine that finally rotted out her guts and killed her. It was the only affordable high.

Because of its alcohol content, I think Listerine and other mouthwashes should only be sold in liquor stores!

So it begs the question: fear of what?

Life?

In the case of the crystal meth woman, her life without drugs is no great

shakes. But then the further and longer we are from a visible and desirable point in our life, the more ponderous the journey back seems, so perhaps this is the cause of the fear or anxiety to return to normalcy. Or maybe there never was a period of normalcy.

In all my studies of behaviours, I have indeed come to one conclusion: people are afraid to be still. We are easily bored with being quiet, so we find things to do. In a lot of cases, we are scared of our own thoughts. This includes virtually every one of us.

Very rare is the person who is content to lead a quiet life that is not crammed full of activities and that consumes almost every minute of the day.

What’s more, that is also what we teach our children. Quiet time then is usually time spent in front of the TV or a Gameboy.

So when extreme boredom comes our way (as it will), the search is on for

a time filler. Without a standard to live by, it doesn’t matter what it is. Then in order to fit in, or to combat our fear of failure, we turn to alcohol, soft drugs or more.

When we have developed a pattern of time filler usage, whatever it is, we are reluctant to change even though we know the change would be better for us. It’s easier to stay with what is familiar.

One study not really done or publicized is a tally of the alcoholic business executives. We now have a couple of those at the kitchen; once losing their position due to alcohol, were afraid or reluctant to change!

Therefore, in my mind, reluctance or procrastination to make life-giving change can be described in two words: fear and refusal!

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

More trouble dead than alive THE STRANGE SAGA OF MULLAH OMAR’S LIFE AND DEATH Islamist fanatics, as you would expect, are very earnest about their beliefs. They accept that secrecy and deceit are necessary to mislead the enemy, but they do not expect their leaders to be lying to them.

When they find out that they have been lied to, consistently and over a long period of time, they get very cross — and this has repercussions in the real world.

From the GWYNNE time that the DYER Taliban conquered Kabul and took over most of Afghanistan in 1996, Mullah Muhammad Omar Mansoor was the man who ran the show and was effectively the head of state.

He was the man who allowed Osama bin Laden to set up camp in Afghanistan. And although the Taliban lost power after the U.S. invasion in 2001, Mullah Omar remained in control of the organization until his death in 2013.

The trouble is that nobody told his faithful followers that he died more than two years ago in Pakistan. Until last week, the Taliban was still issuing

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statements in his name — most recently, on July 15, a message endorsing the Taliban’s recent peace talks with the current Afghan government.

Now all Mullah Omar’s statements since April 2013 are in question, and so are the men who made them in his name.

This matters a lot, because Mullah Omar was not just the leader of the Taliban. He was also the most important figure in the broader alliance of Islamist groups known as al Qaida. Indeed, he had as much right to claim to be its founder as the man who actually gets the credit, Osama bin Laden.

With his long record as a real fighter, Mullah Omar was much more respected than the man who formally inherited al Qaida’s leadership after Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011, the reclusive Egyptian theorist Ayman al Zawahiri.

Indeed, Zawahiri felt compelled to renew his pledge of allegiance (“baya”) to Mullah Omar when the rival jihadi group, Islamic State, declared its leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, to be the “caliph of all the Muslims” in 2014.

This is not just internal politics in a local jihadi group. Al Qaida and Islamic State are in a frequently violent competition for the loyalty of all the scattered Islamist groups in the Muslim countries.

It was therefore very important for al Qaida that Mullah Omar rejected Baghdadi’s claim to be the caliph — and it is very important to the rest of

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the world that the two jihadi organizations remain divided and hostile to each other.

Al Qaida has been losing ground in this competition for some years now.

Indeed, Islamic State recently set up its own rival franchises in the two countries where al Qaida still dominates the struggle against the local regime, Afghanistan and Yemen. The two groups are currently at war with each other in both countries, but that could change fast if al Qaida’s leadership is discredited by the lies it has been telling.

If Mullah Omar actually died in 2013, he could not have denounced Baghdadi’s claim to be the legitimate caliph in 2014. Similarly, Zawahiri’s pledge of allegiance to him in 2014 was either a deliberate lie, or a demonstration that he is hopelessly out of touch with what is actually happening beyond his hide-out, presumably somewhere in Pakistan. Either way, al Qaida loses credibility.

So do the Taliban, of course. When the self-declared new leader of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Akhtar Mansoor, acknowledged that Mullah Omar is dead at the beginning of this month, he carefully omitted any reference to when Omar died. But the Taliban fighting groups are in chaos, because Akhtar Mansoor, then officially Omar’s deputy, issued statements in Omar’s name condemning Islamic State as recently as last month.

Many Taliban groups are now ques-

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There would be no reason to mourn the decline of al Qaida except that the main beneficiary will be Islamic State.

There is no strong reason to prefer one organization to the other, either — except that the last thing the world needs is for Islamic State to take over all of al Qaida’s franchises and create a single, much more powerful and attractive Islamist fighting front.

The current state of division of the extreme Islamist movement is deplored by almost everybody in both organizations. There is little ideological difference between them, although Islamic State is more apocalyptic in its vision. If al Qaida’s claim to leadership is seriously undermined by its lies about Mullah Omar, the unification of most or all the Islamist groups under Baghdadi’s authority is a real possibility.

The first victim of that would be the Assad regime in Syria, which is already tottering, and an Islamist takeover of the whole country. But much more might follow, and none of it would be good news.

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Going under ... ground, that is Have you heard of “iceberg houses”? Apparently it’s the latest trend for the uber-rich in high-falutin snobby neighborhoods in cosmopolitan cities such as London (England, not Ontario).

What on earth is an “iceberg house,” I can hear you wondering out loud, to which I would say: it’s not so much about being “on” the earth as “in” it.

According to a magazine I was reading HARLEY (it might have HAY been Maclean’s or maybe Mad Magazine) in some office where I was waiting (it might have been a dentist’s or perhaps a muffler repair shop) the super-rich who own Victorian mansions — those classic ancient palatial homes all attached to each other like three- and four-storey rows of soldiers standing at attention — the poor old wealthy folks have nowhere to go but down. As in underground. As in developing underneath their ancient mansions into “sprawling subterranean spaces.”

Now, we’re not talking about digging out a wee bit of storage space underneath the garden. We’re talking about the ridiculously well-to-do excavating three-storey basements under their houses and yards and installing fullsized indoor swimming pools, cinemas and gymnasiums, etc., underground.

In fact, in many cases the basements double or triple the size of the houses — like icebergs where most of the business end of the berg is hidden down below the bits you can see. Like a humongous submerged surprise.

One such development in famous Notting Hill has added three or four layers of underground lavishness, plus an underground six-car garage whereby cars are lowered underneath the side garden with a custom-built automobile elevator. That particular iceberg house is on the market, but you’d better be able to dig mighty deep into your cavernous pockets. The asking price? A cool $91 million.

I don’t blame the poor rich people really. They aren’t allowed to build on top of those row-house mansions and they can’t build out either, and doesn’t

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everyone want a nice basement to hang out in?

Like our old digs in Parkvale, where I attempted to grow up but never really succeeded, when it comes to metaphorical maturity. We had, like, an awesome basement! Down the wooden steps where the mitt box was, into a bare-lightbulb glowing world of rough cement walls and smooth cement floors. Underneath the stairs, a hoary cast iron furnace and beastly-looking boiler thingy with pipes and valves and vessels steaming and belching away like some H.G. Wells time machine from 1895.

There was a space partitioned off down there that Dad called his “office” and a cold room with a wooden door where Mom kept food that she called “the root cellar.” Although I don’t recall seeing any roots in there.

The old washing machine was along one wall and there was a place to hang up things to dry, like my hockey sweater and socks, and over beside the beastly-looking boiler thingy was a work bench with a bunch of miscellaneous tools and piles of unfinished projects. All of them looked like they’d been painted with three layers of custom-made basement grease and grime.

I spent many happy hours down

there in the old basement. It was perfect for hide and seek, for example.

The best place was in the root cellar, if you could stand the cold, and the worst place was behind the furnace even if you could stand the heat because sometimes you would get stuck back there.

I loved building stuff in the basement, too — like a skateboard made out of a piece of plywood and my sister’s roller skates. (I learned you should always ask permission before you take apart somebody’s roller skates. Also, roller skates are very difficult to put back together.)

We had a dart board down there, which I remember very clearly on account of I bounced a dart off of it one day, and it flew back and embedded itself into my friend Brent’s leg. (He only limped for a few weeks.)

And once, the darkness was a true childhood highlight when my sister Hedy and her friends created a “Haunted House” down in our basement. They had made scary rooms with hanging blankets and it was pitch dark and me and my crazy cousins stumbled blindly around down there, spooky Monster Mash music floating from the scratchy suitcase record player, sticking our hands in “brains” (cooked spa-

ghetti) and “eyeballs” (peeled grapes) and being scared spitless by a zombie who, even in the dark looked a lot like Hedy’s best friend Faye. …

And the smells in the basement!

Most of them good, believe it or not. In fact, if I close my eyes and look back into the glowing bare lightbulb basement of my memory I can still catch a wonderfully willful whiff of the wet hockey sweater, belching furnace, root cellar subterranean cement world of the past, and it makes me a little bit happier than I was before I closed my eyes.

You don’t find basements like that anymore, especially in the iceberg houses of the rich folks in London. Oh, I don’t blame them. I mean, who wants a down and dirty hide and seek, skateboard-making, dart-sticking, haunted house basement when you can have a gazillion dollar underground spa and parking garage?

But maybe that a question for a much larger discussion. You might say it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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

Does anyone have a real economic platform?

The first Election 2015 leaders’ TV debate must have been a huge disappointment to Canadians who hoped it would shed fresh light on how each of the political parties would revive and recharge Canada’s faltering economy.

The Conservative position is best known — the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has, after all, produced a budget. The problem is that it’s not doing much to foster growth and create good jobs, as the latDAVID est employment CRANE numbers show.

Harper is sticking firmly to his belief that a balanced budget and low taxes will deliver a strong economy. We just have to stay the course.

But for how long?

It is the opposition parties, though, that really disappoint. They are failing to credibly show how they would do better.

Bizarrely, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair attacked Harper for running eight consecutive deficits, implicitly accepting the Conservative position that a balanced budget is paramount.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau followed suit, also attacking Harper for his past deficits.

Yet both parties pushed for big deficits during the 2008-09 financial crisis and attacked Harper for too quickly slashing infrastructure and other spending following the crisis.

To be fair, part of the opposition argument is that the Harper government is making the wrong policy choices within this self-imposed fiscal straitjacket through costly measures favouring better-off Canadians, such as raising the contribution level for tax-free savings accounts and income-splitting for families to lower their overall taxes.

Both the NDP and Liberals would undo these measures, with the funds used for other purposes, claiming they could still adhere to a balanced budget.

But the reality is that they would still be in a fiscal straitjacket, with little room to stimulate the economy through infrastructure and other spending. What they are proposing is budget-neutral, not fresh stimulus.

We need to see the actual NDP and

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Liberal platforms to see where they are headed. Some details have been released already, such as Mulcair’s plan to cut small business taxes and raise big business taxes. The Liberals have a middle class tax cut which they claim will give a huge boost to the economy.

The NDP has set out some plans for spending on infrastructure, including an extra $1.5 billion a year for municipalities through a boost in the gas tax transfer and $1.3 billion annually in its Better Transit Plan, along with a commitment for 10,000 new affordable rental units over a decade.

More broadly, Mulcair has also portrayed himself as someone who would be a “champion for manufacturing” and pursue measures for a more diversified economy. This, he says, “starts by taking steps to kick-start advanced manufacturing and innovation,” though he hasn’t said how he would do this.

“Canada must position itself as an innovative, energy-efficient, high-tech-

nology economy that is a magnet for both global and domestic investment,” Mulcair says, but how would he do it?

Mulcair has promised a modest tax credit for companies investing in new equipment for research and development, but that is not going to transform manufacturing. Mulcair has also promised to restore the tax credit for investment in labour-sponsored venture capital funds, though their past record has been disappointing. The Liberals have also promised to do this.

Liberal plans for a stronger economy are also vague. Scott Brison, the Liberal finance critic, has said, “that with historically low bond yields, negative real interest rates, a flat-lined economy and a stagnant jobs market, this is the best time in our generation to fix Canada’s crumbling infrastructure.”

That’s true. But the Liberals also say they will balance the budget so that would seem to rule out deficit financing, despite low interest rates, to build

infrastructure on a large scale now.

Brison has also promised that a Liberal government would “make the critical investments in innovation, science, and data to create the jobs of tomorrow.” But without an explanation of how, such statements are empty words.

Trudeau has been equally vague.

“To create more jobs and investment overall, we’ll enhance tax measures that will help all companies innovate, grow and create jobs.” But what are these tax measures?

So after the first televised leaders’ debate Canadians still cannot see whether the NDP or the Liberals could deliver a more innovative economy with good jobs for the middle class and ladders of opportunity for those who aspire to join the middle class. They cannot win just by attacking Harper.

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

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A boy walks through the Arabian Sea coast after tidal waves receded filling the shore with garbage in Mumbai, India.

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NEW DELHI — For years along the Cornish coast of Britain, Atlantic Ocean currents have carried thousands of Lego pieces onto the beaches. In Kenya, cheap flip-flop sandals are churned relentlessly in the Indian Ocean surf, until finally being spit out onto the sand. In Bangladesh, fishermen are haunted by floating corpses that the Bay of Bengal sometimes puts in their path.

And now, perhaps, the oceans have revealed something else: parts of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the jetliner that vanished 17 months ago with 239 people on board.

Experts believe it crashed into the vast emptiness of the Indian Ocean, somewhere between Africa and Australia. While some wreckage presumably sank, some is also thought to have joined the millions of tons of oceanic debris — from Legos accidentally spilled from cargo ships to abandoned fishing nets to industrial trash — that can spend years being carried by the Earth’s currents, sometimes turning up thousands of miles away from where they entered the water.

So there was little surprise among oceanographers when part of a jet’s wing, suspected wreckage from the vanished Boeing 777, was found two weeks ago along the shores of Reunion, a French island off the African coast.

“The ocean is not a bathtub. It’s in constant motion,” said Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer with the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London who has spent years studying how currents carry debris. “At the surface it’s this giant, churning machine that moves things from A to B,” he said. “And it’s connecting all the areas of the globe.”

Often, that giant churning machine also moves in fairly predictable ways, with currents and winds moving in predictable directions and speeds.

Malaysian investigators were also dispatched this week to the Maldives, a South Asian archipelago nation, to examine debris that had recently washed ashore there. But on Friday the country expressed pessimism that it was related to the plane.

Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said most of the Maldives items examined “are not related to MH370 and they are not plane material.” He did not say whether every piece of debris had been ruled out.

Charitha Pattiaratchi, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia, used computer modeling last year to predict that debris from Flight 370 might end up somewhere near Reunion, or nearby Madagascar, about now. But he said that if the wing part found on Reunion turns out to be from Flight 370 — French investigators are still examining it, though Malaysian officials have said it definitively came from the disappeared jet — then he doubts the debris found in the Maldives is also from the jetliner.

Because the Maldives lie north of the equator and Reunion Island is to the south, finding wreckage in both spots is highly unlikely, he said. Ocean currents and winds make it extremely difficult for flotsam to cross the equator.

Plus, Pattiaratchi adds, it would be exceedingly difficult for any Flight 370 debris to have ended up in the Maldives at all by now. To reach there, the wreckage would have had to float west from the current search area off Australia and toward Africa, then turn north and travel along the African coast past Somalia and into the Arabian Sea, before turning south and east toward the Maldives. That would be a massive journey to make in just 17 months; debris found on Reunion, in contrast, could have travelled in a relatively simple counterclockwise arc.

“If it is from MH370, then that’s a very hard thing to explain. Not entirely impossible, because we’re talking about nature,” he said.

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HARTFORD, Conn. — A sweeping decision this week by the Connecticut Supreme Court that found the death penalty no longer meets society’s evolving standards of decency could be influential across a nation that is increasingly questioning the practice, legal experts said.

Thursday’s ruling found capital punishment violates the Connecticut constitution, but the justices backed their decision by citing what abolitionists say are universal problems with the death penalty, including economic disparities in its use, the costs involved with appeals, the inherent cruelty involved in lengthy waits for execution, and the risk of executing innocent people.

“It reads as a missive to the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Kevin Barry, a Quinnipiac University law professor and expert on death penalty law. “It is a blueprint for our nation’s high court to strike down the death penalty nationally.”

Thirty-one states still have capital punishment, but seven states have eliminated it in the past decade, including Nebraska in May and Maryland in 2013, which both passed legislation outlawing the death penalty.

Connecticut’s abolishment is different because it comes in the form of a court ruling, one that found the 2012 state law that banned executions for future crimes did not go far enough, experts said.

The ruling could also influence courts in states such as Maryland and New Mexico, which, like Connecticut, eliminated the death penalty only for future crimes, said Robert Blecker, a professor at New York Law School and a proponent of the limited use of capital punishment. States including Delaware, Colorado, Kansas, New Hampshire and Washington are also considering repealing the death penalty only for future crimes, he said.

The death penalty was widely used in the United States for decades until the 1960s, when questions about its fairness reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which eventually ruled capital punishment unconstitutional in 1972. After states reworked their laws, the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1976.

In recent years, the number of death sentences and executions in the U.S. has plummeted as juries take advantage of new laws offering life with no chance of parole and as prosecutors hesitate to bring capital charges because of the cost, especially at the appeals stage. In the past five years, executions have slowed again while the supply of lethal drugs has dried up as manufacturers, responding to activist pressure, have put them off limits for capital punishment.

The number of death sentences imposed last year marked a 40-year low in the country, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the non-profit Death Penalty Information Center.

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ALONG THE NORTH FORK THE NORTH FORK OF THE FLATHEAD RIVER WEAVES ITS WAY ALONG THE CROWN OF THE CONTINENT AS ONE OF THE WILDEST AND PUREST RIVERS IN NORTH AMERICA. THE CUTTHROAT TROUT THAT ARE NATIVE TO THE RIVER TEND TO BE ON THE SMALLER SIDE BUT ANGLERS COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO FISH HERE

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sign in the tiny Montana hamlet of Polebridge says: “The North Fork area is more than just a place to stop, it’s a state of mind” and as my kids and I sat on the front porch of The Mercantile eating blueberry bear claws, I was liking the state of mind I was in.

The Mercantile general store has been at the heart of the small frontier town and the surrounding homesteads since 1914 and it’s listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It’s one of those backwoods places that time seems to have passed by.

While my kids and I were relaxing in the wooden chairs outside “the Merc,” my husband was being uncharacteristically chatty inside. It turns out he’d found a local landowner who has been fly fishing the North Fork of the Flathead River for more than half a century and when two fishermen get talking it’s hard to make them stop.

By the time they finished he even knew some of his new friend DEBBIE Steve’s family history. Steve’s grandfather owned a homestead OLSEN in what is now Glacier National Park.

When the land was declared national park in 1910, many of the boug out, old homesteads were bought but Steve’s grandparents he held onto their land and passed it down to their children and gran grandchildren.

Steve recommended fo four different of flies for catchin catching the native cutthroat trout inside insi the national park and when h he was asked where the best spot to fis fish was, he suggested we follow him and h his wife Nancy back to their cabin that back backs onto the river — a spot where he said he’ he’d once caught more than 100 fis fish in a single afternoon. It was an offer too tempting to pass up.

“I really hope th they’re not axe murde murderers,” said our teenage daugh daughter as we drove d deeper into the park. “They don’t look like axe murderers.”

When we arrived at their homestead cabin, they gave us a quick tour of the original cabin before leading us along the paths behind their house to the North Fork, where we spent an afternoon catch-and release-f release-fishing for cutthroat.

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FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: The Polebridge Mercantile store has been in operation since 1914 and is on the American National Register of Historic Places. The entrance sign to Polebridge.

Guided fly fishing excursions are a popular activity along the North Fork of the Flathead River; I caught a few of these, but the big one got away ... really.

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ABOVE: The baked goods at The Merc are amazing — especially the blueberry bear claws.

BOTTOM LEFT: Our kids practised fly fishing on the North Fork.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Fishing is a big deal on the North Fork.

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NORTH FORK: Electricity-free community Steve and Nancy were napping when we left but we waved goodbye anyway. To me, their hospitality epitomized the whole idea that the North Fork area is really a state of mind.

Pulling away was like leaving a kinder, gentler world behind — and we could all use a little more of that.

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Originating in British Columbia, the North Fork of the Flathead River weaves its way along the Crown of the Continent as one of the wildest and purest rivers in North America.

The cutthroat trout that are native to the river tend to be on the smaller side, because of the cold waters and the low nutrient levels in the river, but anglers come from all over the world to fish here. Perhaps it’s the rugged remoteness of the river or the challenge of trying to fly fish in waters that are so crystal clear you have to present your fly with finesse to land a fish on your barbless fly hook.

“People worry too much about the type of fly to use,” said our fishing

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Idaho home where Ernest Hemingway killed himself put on National Register of Historic Places BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho house where Ernest Hemingway wrote his last works before killing himself in the main entryway in 1961 has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Nature Conservancy owns the two-story, 2,500-square-foot house in the central Idaho resort town of Ketchum and announced the listing Tuesday.

“We’re looking at ways to honour and also build on the literary legacy that Hemingway brought,” said Lou Lunte, the group’s deputy state director.

Hemingway experts say the famed author worked on A Moveable Feast and

the fish when they took the hook.

The next step was learning how to set the hook when I saw a fish bite.

This turned out to be even more challenging for me than properly presenting my fly. With Colin’s good training, I managed to land three small cutthroat trout and broke the line on another really big one when I got a little too enthusiastic about getting the fish to the boat. Countless others took my hook, but got away while I struggled to properly set it. While all the drama was going on at the front of the boat, my husband fished quietly off the back.

I discovered a couple of truths about fly fishing that afternoon — for some people, finesse doesn’t come naturally and regardless of your abilities, it’s the ones that get away that keep you coming back.

● Glacier Guides provides profes-

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

The Dangerous Summer at the house he owned from April 1959 until his suicide in July 1961 at age 61 when, biographers say, he feared he had lost the ability to write to his standards.

The National Park Service, which manages the National Register, said the Ernest and Mary Hemingway House was listed because of its ability to provide insights about Hemingway.

The Nobel Prize winner was drawn to the region for its hunting and fishing, said Paul Lusignan, a historian with the National Register.

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Earlier this year Sun Valley, Idaho, joined the alliance, as did Thredbo in Australia, its first international member.

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sionally guided fly fishing trips around Glacier National Park, Mont., from July through the end of September on the Middle Fork and the North Fork of the Flathead River. They use drift boats, dories and rafts, and guests can fly fish for native cutthroat, rainbow and brook trout. You can bring your own equipment or use their equipment.

They also offer custom overnight trips. ● A guided half-day fly fishing trip will cost US$375 for one or two people. ● You’ll need to purchase a Montana fishing licence. ● For more information, phone 406387-5555 or visit www.glacierguides. com.

guide Colin Nolin, of Glacier Guides, during a half-day fishing trip on the North Fork of the Flathead River.

“With water this clear you need to properly present the fly. When the fly is floating in a natural way on the water’s surface, the fish will strike.”

We had a decent-sized boat for a shallow river and the guide sat in the middle and rowed while I fished off the front of the boat and my husband fished off the back. Since I was a beginner to fly fishing, Colin spent most of his time trying to teach me some basic finesse — a job that proved to be particularly challenging.

I focused on my casting and learning techniques to properly present the fly. With water so clear, it is important to have the line behind the hook and not in front of it. I discovered that I needed to carefully watch my fly, but I struggled with that until Colin loaned me a pair of polarized fishing sunglasses. Those glasses made such a difference and before long I started seeing

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● The electricity-free community of Polebridge is a mile from the northwest entrance to Glacier National Park. Getting there involves driving over 13 miles (21 km) of gravel road. ● If you visit Polebridge, you’ll want to stop at The Mercantile, the general store since 1914. Its famous for blueberry bear claws, cinnamon buns and homemade cookies. In the evening, you’ll find dinner at the Northern Lights Saloon. The Merc and the saloon are both powered by generators. ● If you want to stay overnight, there are a number of campgrounds and the odd privately-owned cabin for rent.

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Kentucky’s bourbon, white fences and horses

BY DUANE MCCARTNEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE What do bourbon whiskey, white fences and thoroughbred horses have in common? They are all found in Kentucky.

Lexington, Ky., founded in June 1775 in the bluegrass region of central Kentucky, is known around the world for producing champion thoroughbred race horses. It’s the horse capital of the world.

Take a short drive from Lexington and you are immediately in horse country, all white fences and fancy white barns. These farms specialize in breeding and training very expensive race horses. The countryside is beautiful, peaceful and filled with quaint, historical, scenic, pastoral places.

You can visit many of these horse farms or go on a guided tour of the region. The highlight for us was a visit to Kentucky Horse Park, the world-renowned International Museum of the Horse, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and the American Saddlebred Museum.

In 1777, the governor of Virginia granted 9,000 acres of land in the Kentucky Territory to his brother-in-law, as a reward for his service in the French and Indian War. Later, part of this land became the Kentucky Horse Park. In 1978, the Kentucky Horse Park, the world’s only park dedicated to man and the horse, opened. The park is a major tourist attraction and one of the world’s best equine competition facilities.

Churchill Downs, the world’s most legendary racetrack, in Louisville, has conducted America’s greatest thoroughbred race, the Kentucky Derby, continuously since 1875.

The Kentucky Derby takes place on the first Saturday in May every year, and typically draws a crowd of over 150,000 people. It is one of the most prestigious horse races in the world and is nicknamed “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports.� This is the approximate length of time it takes the

winner to run from the starting gate to the finish line.

The Kentucky Derby is the first race within the Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing, and is followed by the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes race. The Kentucky Derby winning purse is $2 million.

Kentucky is also the world capital for bourbon whiskey, otherwise known as “America’s Native Spirit.� As the old saying goes, “The Scots have their Scotch, the Italian’s their wine, the Russians their vodka but the Americans have their bourbon, a corn-based whiskey.� The people in Kentucky have been distilling bourbon for over 300 years.

We followed the legendary Bourbon Trail at Bardstown about an hour south of Louisville. Bardstown is the Bourbon Capital of the World, and home to eight distilleries, including the Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark and Woodford Reserve.

Since 1776, the people of Bardstown have been making bourbon. They host the annual six-day Kentucky Bourbon Festival in mid-September.

We decided to skip the big industrial type distilleries and wound our way through the Kentucky hills to the quaint Maker’s Mark distillery near Loretto. Situated in a small valley beside a meandering stream, it was truly a postcard picture. There were old, weathered wooden buildings with red shutters on the windows. Many of contain hundreds of oak casks of whiskey being aged.

The original distillery was built on this site in 1805 and it is the first distillery to be designated a National Historic Landmark. Maker’s Mark is the only handmade bourbon whiskey never mass produced. Each batch is made to produce about 19 barrels using the old-style sour-mash method. They start the fermentation process by using a little mash from the previous batch to keep consistency. They even put their famous Maker’s Mark red wax seal on each bottle by hand.

It truly is a storybook setting and a delightful adventure for anyone visiting the area!

Photos by DUANE MCCARTNEY/freelance

TOP: Horses graze in the afternoon sun in the bluegrass region of central Kentucky. It is known around the world for producing champion thoroughbred race horses and being the horse capital of the world.

ABOVE: A barn sits atop a hill in Kentucky.

BOTTOM: A horse peeks over the fence at one of the many farms that specialize in breeding and training very expensive race horses in Lexington.

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Streak snapped BELTRAN’S CLUTCH HOME RUN PUTS YANKS BACK IN FIRST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS New York 4 Toronto 3 TORONTO — A three-run home run from Carlos Beltran silenced a sellout crowd at Rogers Centre and made the Toronto Blue Jays’ winning streak and brief stay in first place come to an abrupt end.

David Price got into trouble in the eighth inning, and reliever Aaron Sanchez gave up the pinch-hit blast as the Blue Jays lost to the Yankees 4-3 Friday night, snapping their streak at 11.

“We knew those guys were going to be ready to play tonight,” Price said.

“They snuck it in late. That’s part of it. A loss like this can definitely bring your team closer whenever it happens like that.”

The Blue Jays fell a half-game back in the American League East after leading the division since Wednesday night.

Price allowed at least one base runner in each of his first seven innings of work and needed 100 pitches to get through it. But manager John Gibbons opted to let the ace lefty start the eighth inning.

That decision proved to be ill-advised when Price allowed singles to Mark Teixeira and Brian McCann and then an RBI double to Chase Headley.

When his night ended at 112 pitches, Sanchez served up a dead-meat fastball to Beltran, who drilled the ball over the fence in right-centre to erase the deficit.

“It backfired,” Gibbons said. “When those don’t work, you analyze them, that’s for sure. And tonight it didn’t work.”

Sanchez blew two high fastballs past Beltran earlier in the at-bat and tried to do the same on the pitch that turned into the home run. The 23-year-old conceded he was too “amped up” by the raucous sellout crowd of 46,689.

“I just got a little excited,” Sanchez said. “The moral of the story is I didn’t get my job done, and it cost us a win.”

It was Toronto’s first loss since Aug. 1, two days before Price made his de-

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Troy Tulowitzki reacts after striking out during ninth inning AL baseball action against the New York Yankees in Toronto on Friday. The Yankees defeated the Blue Jays 4-3. but.

Price, who shut out New York on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, wasn’t at his sharpest in allowing 11 hits. Even in what Gibbons called a “gruelling” night, Price struck out six and kept the Yankees off the board until the eighth.

In the process, the Blue Jays passed the 1934 Tigers in becoming the first major-league team to shut out the Yankees for more than 31 consecutive

innings. That streak got to 33 full innings before Price and Sanchez gave up runs.

“I felt good with the exception of the double to Headley,” Price said. “I felt like that inning I really made good pitches. But that’s baseball, that’s part of it, and if you don’t like it, pitch better.”

It looked like Toronto had enough offence to get by, given the way

its pitching had dominated not just against the Yankees but all month long.

After going without a hit for the first two innings against New York starter Ivan Nova, the Blue Jays scored three runs in a hurry on an RBI groundout

by Troy Tulowitzki, a double by Jose Bautista and a sacrifice fly by Edwin Encarnacion.

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Riggers fall short against Athletics

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Athletics 15 Riggers 8 The Red Deer Riggers didn’t get the pitching they needed as they dropped a 15-8 decision to the Sherwood Park Athletics in the fifth game of the bestof-five Sunburst Baseball League and provincial senior AAA championship before 300 fans at Great Chief Park Friday.

But in the end one call that went against them may have changed the game completely in favour of the Athletics.

The call came with two away in the eighth inning and the A’s holding an 8-7 lead.

Jason Sutherland doubled to right centre and Greg Wallace attempted to score all the way from first base. The throw came to catcher Curtis Mazurkewich just before Wallace slammed into him knocking the ball loose.

In Baseball Canada rules the base runner has to slide or make an attempt to miss the catcher. Wallace did neither. But the umpire failed to make the call, which would have been the third out. Also on the play pitcher Joel Peterman picked the ball up and threw it wild to third in an effort to get Sutherland, who then also scored.

“It’s a Baseball Canada rule,” said Riggers manager Curtis Bailey. “Unfortunately when the home plate umpire talked to the other two umpires they appeared not to be watching. You look back at that play and it would have

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Red Deer Rigger Denver Wik looks on after having just scored as teammate Kevin Curran slides into home while Sherwood Park Athletics Jeremy Harasymchuk tries but fails to make the tag during second inning action at Great Chief Park Friday. been 8-7. Instead they end up scoring seven runs that inning and it’s over.”

Still the Riggers never got the key out when needed.

The Riggers led 7-3 behind starter Davin Gulbransen, heading into the sixth inning. Gulbransen was tiring a bit and gave up a run and had two men on, and two away when the Riggers went to the bullpen for Peterman. The first pitch Lance Romanchuk saw he slammed over the right field wall to tie

the game.

“That changed the momentum and even the crowd noise,” said Bailey.

“But usually we’re good at come back, but ...”

Peterman then got two our in the seventh inning before a double by Jeremy Harasymchuk and a single by Mark Kuzyk put the A’s ahead. Then came the disastrous eighth inning as Peterman, then Dustin Northcott, who had pitched Wednesday, had problems

getting the third out.

“It was tough, the guys just ran out of juice,” said Bailey. “Davin battled and gave us all we could ask of him.

After that we just didn’t have it in the tank.”

The Riggers did manage a run in the eighth, but that was all they could get off A’s reliever Adam Paulencu, who had pitched a complete game on Wednesday. Paulencu came on the start the sixth inning for James Fischer, who allowed seven runs on 10 hits.

“We did a good job of getting our hits off James, but Paulencu threw well,” said Bailey.

Paulencu, who had been picked twice in the Major League draft, allowed just one hit while fanning five.

Jaret Chatwood threw a scoreless ninth for the Riggers, who could have used left-hander Wyle Cunningham, who left the team earlier in the season.

“We needed that extra arm,” said Bailey. “Some of our guys have sore arms, so we couldn’t use them as planned in this series. But we still battled and lost to a good team. The disappointment is that we don’t go to the nationals next year.”

The Riggers do leave Tuesday for the Canadian championships in Chatham, N.B. They play games Thursday and Friday and two on Saturday in their pool.

Jason Louis had three hits, including a two-run home run in the first inning and two-run single in the second.

He also walked.

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Argos come from behind to beat Bombers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Argonauts 27 Blue Bombers 20 WINNIPEG — Ricky Foley has a nickname for the Toronto Argonauts after they pulled off their fifth comefrom-behind win this season.

“Cardiac Kids, right?” the veteran defensive end said after his team’s 27-20 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday.

“It’s crazy. It’s almost like we need to get down a little bit b& You can look at it as a negative, or you can sit here and say we’re never going to quit, we’re never going to die.

“The scary thing is, once we put to-

gether a full game, who’s going to beat us?”

The 11-year veteran helped out in the win, which improved Toronto’s record to 5-2 while the Bombers fell to 3-5.

The Argos were down 17-14 heading into the fourth quarter when Toronto defensive back A.J. Jefferson took Lirim Hajrullahu’s punt and ran 70 yards for the touchdown at 3:44 to give them their first lead.

On the following series, Bombers quarterback Robert Marve — making his first pro start — completed a pass to Rory Kohlert, but he was hit and fumbled. The ball was recovered by Foley.

Toronto then put together a nineplay, 43-yard drive, including a thirdand-one gamble, that ended with Tori Gurley holding onto a five-yard pass from Trevor Harris in the end zone at 10:26.

Argos kicker Ronnie Pfeffer hit the post on his convert attempt and the score stayed at 27-20.

Winnipeg tried to regain the lead, but Marve couldn’t pull off any magic and turned the ball over on downs with 24 seconds left.

Toronto’s scoring also came off Pfeffer field goals from 31 and 44 yards and a single off a missed 41-yard attempt.

He was good on his other convert after a Diante Spencer five-yard TD recep-

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tion in the first quarter.

Harris completed 18-of-24 pass attempts for 168 yards with no interceptions and two touchdowns.

Marve, who was replacing Drew Willy (knee) and had got the start ahead of usual backup Brian Brohm, was 18-of29 for 203 yards with one interception and one TD. He also ran seven times for 37 yards.

His dad, Eugene Marve, a former NFL linebacker, was in the crowd of 27,246 at Investors Group Field celebrating his birthday by watching his son.

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Isner upset by Chardy Williams in the final four

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ROGER’S CUP

Gulbis, ranked 87th in the world, took the initiative with an energetic baseline game, won the first set and forced a tiebreak in the second, where Djokovic fought off a pair of match points to turn it around.

It was the first time Djokoic survived match points against him since 2012 in Shanghai against Andy Murray.

Gulbis missed a chance for a second career win over a world No. 1 after his victory against Roger Federer in 2010 in Rome.

Chardy staved off seven match points against Isner.

“It was a crazy match,” Chardy said.

“We both had a chance. We were serving both really well.”

The Frenchman, ranked 49th, advanced for the first time to the semifinals of a Master 1000 tournament, one level below the grand slams.

The match began nearly two hours later due to rain.

The six-foot-10 Isner, who won a tournament two weeks ago in Atlanta and reached the final last week in Washington, D.C., had won 11 of his previous 12 matches.

TORONTO - It’s hard not to be staggered when taking a glance at the player biography of Serena Williams.

She has won 68 career WTA singles titles, 22 doubles crowns and earned almost US$73 million in prize money.

She’s also showing no signs of slowing down.

Williams has won the first three Grand Slams of the season and will be a good bet to make it a sweep at the U.S. Open if her play at this week’s Rogers Cup is any indication. She continued her run of strong form Friday night with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Roberta Vinci.

“Just another step in the right direction,” Williams said. “I don’t feel like I’m at my best or anywhere near it. But I feel like I’m going in the right direction and I want to keep that up.”

If Williams feels she has improvements to make, the rest of the players on the WTA Tour should be even more concerned.

Few athletes have the commanding presence that Williams possesses on the court. She strikes when she needs to and it’s done with incredible force.

If an opponent can manage to get

a racket on her imposing serve, good luck with the rally. Williams is the rare competitor who seems to be able to find another gear when needed and simply overpower the competition.

Vinci was no pushover on a humid, overcast evening on Centre Court at Aviva Centre. The veteran Italian tried to slow the pace by working in regular backhand cut shots that forced Williams off the baseline.

The 33-year-old American was usually up to the challenge, eventually wrapping things up in a tidy 78 minutes. Williams will next face the winner of the late quarter-final between rising Swiss star Belinda Bencic and fifth-seeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia.

Earlier in the day, second-seeded Simona Halep recovered from a slow start for a 0-6, 6-3, 6-1 win over sixthseeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. Halep will face 15th-seeded Sara Errani of Italy, who held off Ukrainian qualifier Lesia Tsurenko 6-4, 6-4.

“I started the match and I was hitting the balls very strong, and it was not a good idea playing against Radwanska,” Haelp said.

with a 63.

Dustin Johnson was losing ground in the rough and in the bunkers, falling out of the lead with three bogeys in a four-hole stretch. John Daly lost his cool and then lost a 6-iron when he heaved it in Lake Michigan.

And that was before a wicked storm that packed gusts up to 48 mph and suspended the second round.

Jason Day ran off three straight birdies and was tied for the lead with Matt Jones at 9-under par when players were taken off the course. The storm was severe enough to topple the main scoreboard at the entrance and rip flags off the poles atop some of the

grandstands.

The round was to resume at 7 a.m.

Justin Rose pulled within one shot of the lead with back-to-back birdies.

He headed to the 18th tee, feeling good about being able to finish.

“I opened my big mouth to the boys playing with us,” Rose said. “I said, ’The end is in sight.’ And 30 seconds later, they blew the horn. So my name is mud all over here.”

Tiger Woods, for all his struggles in the majors this year, can at least say he made it to the weekend in three of them. He made the cut at the Masters.

He missed the cut on Saturday at the wind-delayed British Open. There was

still hope at the PGA Championship, though he was 4 over with five holes to play, two shots away from the projected cut.

The leaderboard was as clouded as the sky over Whistling Straits.

Seven players had at least a share of the lead at some point Friday, when a strong breeze in the morning gave way to steamy sunshine and virtually no wind until the storms moved in.

When players were evacuated from the course, 11 players were separated by three shots. David Lingmerth of Sweden made only four pars in his wild round of 70 and was the clubhouse leader at 7-under 137.

CFL: Playing well in tight situations

from 25 and 46 yards and a pair from 53 yards. He also missed a convert attempt after running back Cameron Marshall’s 56-yard, catch-and-run TD. “Special teams plays a huge role in giving momentum and taking it back, and we just gave at the wrong time,” Hajrullahu said.

Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich said when the game “is at its most desperate, our guys seem to play their best.”

“That’s something that every team doesn’t have,” he said.

“You keep playing like this, you’re

going to end up, it’s going to bite you in the ass. So we’ve got to find a way to obviously play a little better earlier in the game.”

The Bombers, who are entering a bye week, led 9-7 after the first quarter and 15-13 at the break.

“I feel like it came down to about two or three big plays,” said Bombers defensive tackle Bryant Turner.

“I know one of them was the special team return on the punt. That was pretty much the dagger into the whole thing, which we didn’t feel that way until the clock hit zero.”

RAIN DRENCHES MONTREAL COURTS MONTREAL — Top-seeded Novak Djokovic survived two match points in a comeback 5-7, 7-6 (7), 6-1 victory over unseeded Ernests Gulbis in the quarter-finals of the US$4.1 million men’s Rogers Cup on Friday night.

In another quarter-final, unseeded Jeremy Chardy upset 16th seeded John Isner 6-7 (9), 7-6 (13), 7-6 (4).

Djokovic will face Chardy in the semifinals on Saturday. Djokovic is 9-0 in his career against the Frenchman.

“It will be a tough match,” said Chardy. “I still never won a set (against Djokovic).

“But I’m confident, and it will be a new match. For sure, I would prefer Ernests, but if I play against Novak, I have nothing to lose. I will go on court and try something new. Anyway, in the worst case I will lose.”

Rainy, muggy weather upset the Rogers Cup schedule. Djokovic and Gulbis were scheduled to play in the afternoon, but didn’t start until the evening.

Day, Jones tied for lead, storm suspends second round SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The second round of the PGA Championship offered a little bit of everything Friday.

Except a conclusion.

On one side of the golf course, Jordan Spieth was piling up enough birdies to momentarily tie for the lead at Whistling Straits. On the other side with far less attention, Hiroshi Iwata ran off five birdies and an eagle and tied the major championship record

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JAYS: Gibbons not worried about morale

“It felt good,” Marve said of his start. “I came here for the win, though.

We lost. It’s kind of a bummer.

“We came out hot, but we gotta be able to keep the momentum. We gotta stop kicking field goals and score more touchdowns.”

He said he had a “little stomach virus” and threw up during the game.

“I’m not a big one to get into excuses,” he added.

“That’s kind of the way I was cramping up, but that’s part of the game. You gotta play with it. You gotta score more points.”

He appeared to hurt a finger on his non-throwing hand, but said it was OK. Hajrullahu booted four field goals

“It was a good battle,” Gibbons said after the Blue Jays’ fourth game against the Yankees in just over a week. “That one just came down to the big at-bat by Beltran. We hit some home runs in New York to win the games, Beltran hit it tonight to win it.”

The building was rocking again in the ninth as the Blue Jays got two runners on and the winning run in scoring position. After Ben Revere struck out, Tulowitzki worked what Gibbons called a “classic” 12-pitch at-bat against Andrew Miller with six foul balls before striking out to end it.

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With Price already convinced this gutwrenching loss could have a positive impact on the Blue Jays, his manager wasn’t worried about it hurting the morale in the clubhouse.

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Kevin Curran and Jason Chatwood had two hits each while Chatwood walked.

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The Riggers added Romanchuk, Fischer and Tom Muhlethaler from the A’s for the nationals along with pitcher Ben Runyon of the Confederation Park Cubs and Jake Hansen from the Lethbridge Bulls.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports

SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 2015

Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 63 51 .553 64 53 .547 58 56 .509 58 57 .504 51 64 .443 Central Division W L Pct 69 46 .600 57 58 .496 55 60 .478 54 59 .478 54 60 .474 West Division W L Pct 63 53 .543 60 55 .522 57 57 .500 54 62 .466 51 66 .436

Today

● Alberta Football League: Central Alberta Buccaneers at Airdrie Irish, 3 p.m. ● Cricket: Red Deer Cup Cricket tournament, hosted by the Central Alberta Cricket Association, also featuring teams from Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray. Opening ceremonies start at 9:30 a.m. at G.H. Dawe Community Centre.

Sunday

● Cricket: Red Deer Cup Cricket tournament, hosted by the Central Alberta Cricket Association, also featuring teams from Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray at G.H. Dawe Community Centre.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF BASEBALL — Suspended Cleveland minor league OF Luigi Rodriguez (Lynchburg-Carolina) and free agent minor league RHP Jose Valverde, 80 games each following positive tests for a metabolite of Stanozolol, a violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Designated OF David Lough for assignment. Recalled C Steve Clevenger from Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Announced manager John Farrell will take a medical leave. Named Torey Lovullo interim manager.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated INF Emilio Bonifacio from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Leury Garcia to Charlotte (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Activated 1B Miguel Cabrera from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Kyle Ryan to Toledo (IL).

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

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned RHP Eddie Butler to Albuquerque (PCL). Placed LHP Boone Logan on the 15-day DL. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed RHP Michael Blazek on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Aug. 13.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Reinstated INF Cory Spangenberg from the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Frank Garces to El Paso (PCL).

American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released RHP Steven Sarcone.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Signed INF Kori Melo.

Released RHP Nestor Molina.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Released C Nick Lecompte.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed RHP Brandon Shimo. Released LHP Jordan Remer.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed LHP Andrew Taylor.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Acquired OF Chris Elder from Laredo (AA) for a player to be named.

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Signed OF John Menken.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed RHP Alan Oaks to a contract extension.

WASHINGTON WILD THINGS — Traded 3B Carter Bell to Joliet Slammers for a player to be named. Traded RHP Matt Sergey to Laredo (AA) for two players to be named.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Waived/injured WR Caleb Holley.

DENVER BRONCOS — Were awarded P Spencer Lanning off waivers from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Waived/injured WR Gavin Lutman. Signed DT Greg Hickman.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL Casey Walker.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released WR Deshon Foxx. Signed LB Alex Singleton.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed DB Derrick Wells.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Waived/injured LB Trevardo Williams. Signed LB Sage Harold.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Signed F Carl Hagelin to a four-year contract.

American Hockey League CHICAGO WOLVES — Signed D Scooter Vaughan to a one-year contract.

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Signed G David Jacobson to a tryout agreement.

COLLEGE ILLINOIS — Announced men’s graduate basketball G Khalid Lewis has transferred from La Salle.

IPFW — Named Matt Zedrick women’s golf coach.

MASSACHUSETTS-DARTMOUTH — Promoted Jack Holleran to associate director of athletics.

Named Linee Mello-Frost field hockey coach.

MINNESOTA — Agreed to terms with football coach Jerry Kill on a one-year contract extension, through the 2019 season.

RADFORD — Named Hope Creasy assistant softball coach.

UNLV — Named J.J. Wozniak women’s assistant soccer coach.

WELLS — Named Melissa Jaworski women’s lacrosse coach.

YESHIVA — Named Dennis Mente men’s volleyball coach.

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

Chicago White Sox at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

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Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-6) at Boston (Miley 8-9), 11:35 a.m.

Oakland (Bassitt 1-4) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 9-8), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 13-6) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 6-9), 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Tomlin 0-0) at Minnesota (Duffey 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Detroit (Verlander 1-5) at Houston (McHugh 13-6), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 5-8) at Kansas City (Cueto 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 10-8) at Texas (Lewis 12-5), 6:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Oakland at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Seattle at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

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

Cleveland at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Detroit at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Monday’s Games Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Oakland at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct New York 63 53 .543 Washington 58 56 .509 Atlanta 52 63 .452 Miami 46 69 .400 Philadelphia 46 70 .397 Central Division W L Pct St. Louis 74 41 .643 Pittsburgh 67 46 .593 Chicago 66 48 .579 Cincinnati 51 63 .447 Milwaukee 49 68 .419 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 65 51 .560 San Francisco 61 53 .535 Arizona 56 58 .491 San Diego 55 61 .474 Colorado 47 67 .412

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

Weaver 4-9. Sv—G.Holland (26). HRs—Kansas City, Hosmer (14).

FRIDAY’S LINESCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE GB — 4 10.5 16.5 17 GB — 6 7.5 22.5 26 GB — 3 8 10 17

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 6, Chicago White Sox 5 Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Mets 2, 10 innings Atlanta 3, Arizona 2 Milwaukee 3, Philadelphia 1 St. Louis 3, Miami 1 San Diego 9, Colorado 5 L.A. Dodgers 5, Cincinnati 3 Washington at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Today’s Games Arizona (Corbin 2-3) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 4-3), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 13-6) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 6-9), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (J.Williams 4-8) at Milwaukee (Nelson 9-9), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 7-4) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 7-9), 5:10 p.m.

Miami (B.Hand 2-2) at St. Louis (Lackey 9-7), 7:15 p.m.

San Diego (Cashner 4-12) at Colorado (J.Gray 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Holmberg 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 6-7), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 9-4) at San Francisco (Peavy 2-5), 8:05 p.m.

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

Arizona at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

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

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Miami at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

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HRs—Seattle, Seager (17). Boston, R.Castillo (3), T.Shaw 2 (4).

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(10 innings) Happ, J.Hughes (6), Bastardo (8), Caminero (9), Melancon (10) and Stewart, Cervelli; B.Colon, Clippard (8), Familia (9), Parnell (10), C.Torres (10) and Recker. W—Caminero 3-1. L—Parnell 1-2. Sv— Melancon (36). HRs—Pittsburgh, N.Walker (12).

New York, Cespedes (2).

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Morgan, Araujo (7), Neris (8) and Rupp; W.Peralta, W.Smith (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy. W—W. Peralta 3-7. L—Morgan 3-4. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (27).

HRs—Milwaukee, K.Davis (12).

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T.Ross, B.Norris (6), Rzepczynski (7), Kelley (7), Benoit (8), Kimbrel (9) and Hedges, De.Norris; Flande, Roberts (7), Betancourt (7), Germen (8), J.Miller (9) and Hundley. W—B.Norris 1-0. L—Roberts 0-1.

HRs—San Diego, Kemp (13), De.Norris (13), Gyorko (8). Colorado, Arenado (29).

Football GP 7 6 6 7

CFL East Division W L T PF 5 2 0 193 4 2 0 191 4 2 0 131 2 5 0 142

PA 183 114 150 135

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GP Edmonton 7 Calgary 6 B.C. 6 Winnipeg 8 Saskatchewan 7

West Division W L T PF 5 2 0 180 4 2 0 137 3 3 0 144 3 5 0 160 0 7 0 174

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WEEK EIGHT Bye: Saskatchewan Friday’s result Toronto 27 Winnipeg 20 Thursday’s result Edmonton 15 Montreal 12 Saturday’s games B.C. at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Calgary, 8 p.m.

WEEK NINE Bye: Winnipeg Thursday, Aug. 20 Montreal at B.C., 8 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 21 Hamilton at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 22

Calgary at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 23 Ottawa at Toronto, 2 p.m.

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Argonauts 27, Blue Bombers 20 First Quarter Wpg - FG Hajrullahu 25 4:49 Wpg - TD Marshall 56 pass from Marve (convert failed) 8:16 Tor - TD Spencer 5 pass from Harris (Pfeffer convert) 15:00 Second Quarter Tor - FG Pfeffer 31 9:12 Wpg - FG Hajrullahu 46 12:16 Wpg - FG Hajrullahu 53 14:13 Tor - FG Pfeffer 44 14:58 Third Quarter Tor - Single Pfeffer 54 5:14 Wpg - Safety Josey tackled in end zone 8:27 Fourth Quarter Wpg - FG Hajrullahu 53 0:26 Tor - TD Jefferson 70 punt return (Pfeffer convert) 5:16 Tor - TD Gurley 5 pass from Harris (convert failed) 10:26 Toronto 7 6 1 13 — 27 Winnipeg 9 6 2 3 — 20 Attendance — N.A. at Winnipeg.

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AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 24 Miami 0 1 0 .000 10 New England 0 1 0 .000 11 N.Y. Jets 0 1 0 .000 3 South W L T Pct PF Jacksonville 1 0 0 1.000 23 Houston 0 0 0 .000 0 Indianapolis 0 0 0 .000 0 Tennessee 0 1 0 .000 24 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 30 Cincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 23 Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 17 Pittsburgh 0 2 0 .000 24 West W L T Pct PF San Diego 1 0 0 1.000 17 Oakland 1 0 0 1.000 18 Denver 0 0 0 .000 0 Kansas City 0 0 0 .000 0 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Washington 1 0 0 1.000 20 Philadelphia 0 0 0 .000 0 N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 10 Dallas 0 1 0 .000 7

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Friday’s Games Carolina 25, Buffalo 24 Atlanta 31, Tennessee 24 Jacksonville 23, Pittsburgh 21 Cincinnati 23, N.Y. Giants 10 Oakland 18, St. Louis 3 Denver at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Today’s Games Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

San Francisco at Houston, 6 p.m.

Kansas City at Arizona, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Game Indianapolis at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Golf PGA CHAMPIONSHIP At Whistling Straits, Straits Course Sheboygan, Wis. Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,501; Par 72 Partial Second Round David Lingmerth Jordan Spieth Scott Piercy Brendan Steele George Coetzee Hiroshi Iwata Billy Horschel Marcel Siem Hideki Matsuyama Charles Howell III Matt Kuchar Kevin Chappell Y.E. Yang Justin Thomas Webb Simpson Cameron Smith Luke Donald Henrik Stenson Brooks Koepka Rory McIlroy

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Charl Schwartzel Emiliano Grillo Sean O’Hair Brendon de Jonge Steve Stricker Sangmoon Bae Kiradech Aphibarnrat Patrick Reed Kevin Streelman Troy Merritt Danny Willett Brian Gaffney Chesson Hadley Thomas Bjorn Phil Mickelson Jason Bohn Boo Weekley Koumei Oda Nick Watney Jason Dufner Nick Taylor Victor Dubuisson Shaun Micheel Bernd Wiesberger Shane Lowry Zach Johnson Padraig Harrington

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John Senden Marc Leishman Kevin Kisner David Hearn Rory Sabbatini George McNeill Jimmy Walker Rafa Cabrera-Bello Daniel Berger Russell Knox Tim Clark Kevin Na Richie Ramsay Ryan Helminen

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PRICE CUTTER CHAMPIONSHIP At Highland Springs Country Club Springfield, Mo. Purse: $675,000 Yardage: 7,115; Par 72 Second Round Dawie vander Walt Wes Roach Martin Piller Billy Mayfair Kyle Thompson

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Julian Etulain Peter Malnati Chase Wright Smylie Kaufman Kelly Kraft Cody Gribble Trey Mullinax D.H. Lee Patton Kizzire Curtis Thompson Brett Drewitt Brad Elder Michael Kim Hao Tong Li Tag Ridings Ryan Spears Cameron Wilson Rod Pampling Edward Loar Bud Cauley Jin Park Tyler Weworski Adam Svensson Sebastian Vazquez Corey Conners Glen Day Alistair Presnell

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Tennis ROGERS CUP TORONTO (AP) — Results Friday from the Rogers Cup at Rexall Centre (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles Quarterfinals Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, 5-7, 7-6 (7), 6-1.

Jeremy Chardy, France, def. John Isner (16), United States, 6-7 (9), 7-6 (13), 7-6 (4).

Men’s Doubles Alexander Peya, Austria, and Bruno Soares (6), Brazil, def. Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (3), Romania, 6-2, 6-4.

Daniel Nestor, Canada, and Edouard RogerVasselin, France, def. Marcin Matkowski, Poland, and Nenad Zimonjic (5), Serbia, 6-4, 6-2.

Women’s Singles Quarterfinals Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Roberta Vinci, Italy, 6-4, 6-3.

Simona Halep (2), Romania, def. Agnieszka Radwanska (6), Poland, 0-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, def. Ana Ivanovic (5), Serbia, 6-4, 6-2.

Sara Errani (15), Italy, def. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-4.

Women’s Doubles Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Yung-Jan Chan, Taiwan, 6-4, 6-2.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova (3), Czech Republic, def. Sara Errani, Italy, and Flavia Pennetta (6), Italy, 6-0, 7-6 (6).

Caroline Garcia, France, and Katarina Srebotnik (4), Slovenia, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, and Raluca Olaru, Romania, 6-3, 6-2.

Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, def. Sharon Fichman, Canada, and Carol Zhao, Canada, 6-2, 6-2.

2015 PARAPAN AM MEDAL STANDINGS TORONTO — Medal standings at the 2015 Parapan Am Games (ranked by total gold medals won): Nation G S B Total Brazil 107 74 74 255 Canada 50 62 54 166 U.S. 39 50 44 133 Mexico 38 36 39 113 Colombia 24 36 30 90 Cuba 19 15 13 47 Argentina 18 24 23 65 Venezuela 8 14 24 46 Chile 4 2 6 12 Jamaica 2 2 1 5 Trinidad & Tobago 2 0 0 2 Ecuador 1 0 4 5 Bermuda 1 0 0 1 Uruguay 1 0 0 1 Nicaragua 0 0 4 4 Costa Rica 0 0 2 2 Puerto Rico 0 0 2 2 Dominican Rep. 0 0 1 1 WHAT CANADA DID FRIDAY TORONTO — What Canada Did on Friday at the Parapan American Games (distances in metres unless specified): ATHLETICS Men’s 1,500 (T54) — Alexandre Dupont, Clarenceville, Que., won the gold medal (3:07.61). Josh Cassidy, Port Elgin, Ont., won the silver (3:07.98).

Tristan Smyth, Maple Ridge, B.C., finished ninth (3:17.20).

Men’s 1,500 (T11) — Jason Dunkerley and guide Josh Karanja, both Ottawa, won the silver medal (4:12.65).

Men’s 400 (T53) — Brent Lakatos, Dorval, Que., won the gold medal in a Parapan Am record 48.91 seconds; Jean-Philippe Maranda, Ste-Aurelie, Que. finished in fourth place (52.21); Wes Vick, Seaforth, Ont., sixth (53.22).

Men’s Javelin (F44) — Alister McQueen, Calgary, was fourth in the final (47.34).

Women’s Javelin (F53-54) — Pamela LeJean, Cape Breton, N.S., won the bronze medal with a throw of 10.44 metres.

Women’s Javelin (F11-12) — Vanessa Murby, Salt Spring Island, B.C., won the bronze medal with a throw of 23.29 metres.

Women’s 400 (T38) — Leah Robinson, Kitchener, Ont., won the silver medal (1:10.75).

Women’s 400 (T53) — Jessica Frotten, Whitehorse, won the bronze medal (1:01.13 — a personal best); Ilana Dupont, Saskatoon, was fourth (1:01.61).

GOALBALL Women — Canada was edged 7-6 in the semifinal round by the U.S., and played Guatemala for the bronze medal later Friday.

JUDO Men’s 90kg — Tony Walby, Ottawa, lost the bronze-medal match to D.Crockett, U.S., by ippon at 5:00.

SITTING VOLLEYBALL Men — Canada (4-3) won the bronze with a 3-0 (2826, 25-17, 25-18) decision over Colombia.

Women — Canada (2-3) won the bronze with a 3-0 (25-8, 25-7, 25-7) decision over Cuba.

SWIMMING Women’s 100 Freestyle (S10) — Aurelie Rivard, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., won the gold medal in world-record time (59.17) - she ended the games with seven gold and a silver; Samantha Ryan, Saskatoon, finished sixth (1:08.43).

Women’s 100 Backstroke (S7) — Tess Routliffe, Caledon, Ont., won the gold medal — her fourth title at these games — in a Parapan Am record (1:31.19); Sarah Mehain, Vernon, B.C., earned the silver (1:32.25).

Women’s 200 Individual Medley (SM14) — Justine Morrier, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., won the gold medal (2:44.12). Kirstie Kasko, Okotoks, Alta., won the bronze (2:45.00).

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Women’s 200 Freestyle (S1-4) — Tammy Cunnington, Red Deer, Alta., won the silver medal (4:14.59).

Women’s 100 Freestyle (S9) — Katarina Roxon, Kippens, N.L., won bronze (1:07.08).

Women’s 200 Freestyle (S5) — Valerie Drapeau, Longueuil, Que., placed fifth in the final (4:50.32).

Men’s 100 Butterfly (S11-13) — Nicolas Turbide, Quebec City, won the gold medal (1:02.65). Tyler Mrak, Aldergrove, B.C., finished sixth (1:13.24).

Men’s 100 Backstroke (S6) — Adam Purdy, London, Ont., won the silver medal (1:18.96); Christian Daniel, Calgary, placed fourth (1:42.48).

Men’s 200 Individual Medley (SM14) — Gordie Michie, St Thomas, Ont., won the silver medal (2:20.00); Adam Rahier, Powell River, B.C., won the bronze (2:25.39); Maxime Rousselle of St-Jean-surRichelieu, Que., was disqualified in qualifying.

Men’s 100 Freestyle (S10) — Nathan Stein, Maple Ridge, B.C., won the bronze medal (53.18). Isaac Bouckley, Oshawa, Ont., finished fourth (55.91). Alexander Elliot, Waterloo, Ont., finished fifth (56.79).

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2015 IVAN HLINKA CHAMPIONSHIP At Bratislava, Slovakia and Breclav, Czech Republic PLAYOFFS Friday’s results Seventh Place At Bratislava, Slovakia Switzerland 6 Slovakia 5 (OT) Fifth Place At Breclav, Czech Republic U.S. 4 Czech Republic 3 Semifinals At Breclav, Czech Republic Canada 2 Russia 1 (SO) At Bratislava, Slovakia Sweden 2 Finland 1 Saturday’s games Bronze Medal At Bratislava, Slovakia Finland vs. Russia, 9 a.m.

Gold Medal At Breclav, Czech Republic Sweden vs. Canada, 11 a.m.

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Men’s 100 Backstroke (S7) — Jean-Michel Lavalliere, Quebec City, finished fifth in the final (1:24.40).

Nathan Clement, West Vancouver, B.C., finished eighth (1:33.11).

Men’s 200 Freestyle (S1-5) — Daniel Murphy, Bedford, N.S., finished fourth in the final (3:01.99).

Andrew Cooke, Penticton, B.C., finished eighth (3:47.48).

Men’s 4x100 Medley Relay (34 pts) — Canada (Isaac Bouckley, Oshawa, Ont.; Benoit Huot, Longueuil, Que.; James Leroux, Montreal; Zack McAllister, Lethbridge, Alta.; Adam Purdy, London, Ont.) won the silver medal (4:30.14) WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL Men — David Eng, Montreal, had a game-high 28 points to lead Canada (5-0) to a 70-54 semifinal win over Brazil. They will play the U.S., in Saturday’s championship.

WHEELCHAIR RUGBY Mixed — Canada (6-1) won the gold medal 57-54 over the U.S.

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Gidgett Oliver of Sylvan Lake gets some help from her daughter, Lilli, as they fire some plastic balls from an air cannon on the top level of a play structure in north Red Deer. Treehouse Indoor Playground is open at 7710 50th Ave. next to Peak Fitness. The indoor play centre caters to children aged 13 and under and their families. An arcade, party room, ball pits, slides, riding toys and other activities are featured.

Pump price surge and Pension plan contributions low crude pains offset small

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Western Canada is being hit with the twin pains of the lowest prices for heavy crude in years alongside a significant spike in gasoline prices following a shutdown at a major U.S. refinery.

Much of Canada west of Ontario saw gasoline prices jump 15 cents a litre this week for one of the biggest increases on record, says Dan McTeague, a senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com.

“The price jump was historical,” said McTeague.

“The last time we saw a jump of that magnitude was 12 cents around September 2008.”

The spike in prices is being caused by the shutdown of a distilling unit at BP’s refinery in Whiting, Ind. The shutdown has taken out 240,000 barrels a day of production of the refinery’s total capacity of more than 410,000 barrels.

Higher-than-usual demand for gas in the U.S. is also contributing, while the lower Canadian dollar is playing a part in high prices at the pump across Canada, says McTeague, because gasoline is traded in U.S. dollars.

He adds Canadian motorists are losing an average of 11 cents a litre from the lower loonie.

That drop in dollar has been caused in part by Western Canada’s other migraine — lower crude oil prices.

The price of crude oil hit its lowest level in more than six years on Friday amid concerns about China’s sputtering economy and strong global production.

The price of Canada’s heavy crude output closed

at US$22.83 a barrel Thursday after the discount to the main U.S. WTI oil price widened this week.

McTeague says the BP refinery shutdown is also partially to blame for the drop in Canada’s heavy crude prices because it’s a major processor of the product.

“The BP plant was the darling of Canadian heavy oil,” says McTeague.

BP says it shut down the unit at the Whiting Refinery a week ago for unscheduled repair work. The company has not said when the refinery will be back up and running.

Until then, says Roger McKnight, chief petroleum analyst at En-Pro International, producers and consumers are struggling.

“Not only are the consumers being hit pretty hard at the pump, but producers are starting to scratch their heads too because the price of crude they’re trying to get out of the ground is getting near the bottom of the barrel financially.”

McKnight said the BP refinery also processes crude from the key storage point of Cushing, Okla.

“The problem that we have now is that with crude supply outstripping demand, you’re going to run out of storage space for the crude,” said McKnight.

At current rates, Cushing could fill by November.

“Then the price of crude is going to go even further into the toilet, and good luck in Alberta and Saskatchewan.”

McKnight said a decrease in the number of refineries in recent years has made gas prices more volatile. He said that with 143 refineries running today, the U.S. has lost close to half of its refineries in the past decade.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The CPP Fund had a small investment loss in its most recent quarter but the retirement fund’s assets increased by $4 billion overall because of contributions from the Canada Pension Plan.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board — which manages funds that aren’t currently required to fund pension benefits —says the CPP Fund had $268.6 billion of net assets as of June 30, up from $264.6 billion a year earlier.

It received $4.2 billion in contributions from employees and employers covered by the Canada Pension Plan but that was offset by $200 million in net investment losses after costs.

It says the portfolio’s gross investment return was flat for the quarter and negative 0.1 per cent on a net basis.

That contrasted with the fund’s return for the 2014-15 financial year ended March 31, which was a record 18.3 per cent.

But CPPIB chief executive Mark Wiseman says the fund’s diverse portfolio showed resiliency at a time when benchmark stock indexes in Canada, the United States and Germany were down further.

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What information can be divulged in a reference check Dear Working Wise: What information can employers divulge about past employees if they get a call for a reference? I’ve heard different things about liability that have made me shy away from giving anything more than the most basic information. — Signed, Nervous Dear Nervous: There are two separate issues regarding employee references: one concerns the privacy of the employee and the other is fear of litigation.

In Alberta, the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) protects privacy in the private sector, including the collection, use and disclosure of personal information.

An organization may collect, use and disclose personal employee information for purposes related to managing or recruiting staff, including releasing reference information to another employer. The key is to ensure the information is strictly limited to the work relationship.

In one case, a clinic employee disclosed to a prospective employer that the former employee “did a lot of complaining about her co-workers” and “because of her cancer, she couldn’t handle the work.”

It was determined that the first comment did not breach PIPA because it is reasonable performancerelated information. The second comment breached legislation because it was personal employee information.

Employees have successfully sued their former

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employers for providing bad references. In response, some employers have instructed their staff to only provide basic information to confirm employment like, “Bob Smith worked for us from May 2007 until August 2013 as a marketing representative.”

This is likely the safest answer, but it’s not likely to help Bob get that next job.

So, in the spirit of trying not to get sued, I am providing CHARLES the following tips for general STRACHEY information only — consult your lawyer for legal advice.

WORKING Tip 1 — Check if your organization has a job-reference WISE policy. If so, follow the policy.

If not, you might want to create one that specifies what information should be provided, whether you need verbal or written permission from the employee, and who is authorized to provide references.

Tip 2 — Talk to the employee and get their consent before you provide the reference. Be honest with the employee about the kind of reference you will provide. They may decide not to use you if you plan to give a mixed reference.

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Tip 3 — Be honest, accurate and specific when you give the reference and stick to work-related information only. Try to give specific examples to back up your statements. Avoid characterizing the employee’s personality or sharing your opinions on their personal life. Don’t speculate, share suspicions or provide information “off the record”.

Tip 4 — Don’t divulge personal information that could be used to discriminate against a job applicant such as race, religious beliefs, disability, age or sexual orientation. The Alberta Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination on these grounds. For more information, visit www.albertahumanrights.ab.ca.

For more tips on giving references, check out the How to Give a Reference tip sheet on the Alberta Learning Information Service (ALIS) website at www.alis.alberta.ca.

For more information about PIPA, visit www.pipa. gov.ab.ca and check out information sheet #5 on Personal Employee Information.

Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca. Charles Strachey is a manager with Alberta Human Services. This column is provided for general information.

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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dollar has depreciated as much as it has,” Greenberg said, adding that it might take a few more months before the beneficial effects of a lower loonie begin to “seep through.”

However, Greenberg also noted that the Canadian economy isn’t as balanced as it once was and that after many years of living with a strong loonie, “a lot of that manufacturing that would now be benefiting from that weaker Canadian dollar has already closed their doors and moved shop.”

“So even if that part of the economy (manufacturing) is benefiting or will soon benefit from that weaker Canadian dollar, it’s just not as big a driver as it used to be for the economy, so that is a bit of a worry.”

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close on Friday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,277.88, up 39.48 points Dow — 17,477.40, up 69.15 points S&P 500 — 2,091.54, up 8.15 points Nasdaq — 5,048.24, up 14.68 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.38 cents US, down 0.17 of a cent Pound — C$2.0489, up 0.90 of a cent Euro — C$1.4543, down 0.27 of a cent Euro — US$1.1108, down 0.45 of a cent Oil futures: US$42.50 per barrel, up 27 cents (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,112.70 per oz., down $2.90 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.723 oz., down 27.1 cents $666.24 kg., down $8.72 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ’15 $5.40 lower $486.50; Jan. ’16 $5.60 lower $485.20; March ’16 $5.70 lower

Home sales slip, but still at high levels

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Canadian Real Estate Association says there were fewer housing resales nationally in July for the second consecutive month, but the number of transactions remained near the highest levels in years and prices continued to climb.

Overall, CREA says most of the strength in sales in July was focused on Vancouver, Toronto and their surrounding markets.

Last month’s decline was largely because of a slight downturn in the Hamilton-Burlington and Durham region areas of southern Ontario after they hit record levels in June, the association said Friday.

Sales in Calgary were down from July 2014, but remained in line with long-term averages, it said.

The national average price for homes of all types sold in July was $437,699 — up 8.9 per cent from the same month last year — although CREA pointed out that the numbers were skewed by Vancouver, Toronto and surrounding areas, particularly B.C.’s Lower Mainland.

“These remain the only places in Canada where home prices are growing strongly,” CREA economist Gregory Klump said.

Excluding Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto, the country’s two most expensive real estate markets, the average home price would be $341.438 and the year-over-year gain 4.1 per cent.

The association’s price index was up 5.9 per cent from July 2014, accelerating from a 5.4 per cent increase in June.

Among the markets that saw below-average gains in average prices were Greater Montreal, up 1.7 per cent from July 2104 to $304,900 and Calgary, up 0.14 per cent to $451,400.

Two markets showed a lower average price: Greater Moncton down 1.41 per cent to $149,800 and Regina, down 3.29 per cent to $281,600.

$484.10; May ’16 $5.40 lower $480.90; July ’16 $5.40 lower $476.40; Nov. ’16 $2.60 lower $451.30; Jan. ’17 $2.60 lower $452.50; March ’17 $2.60 lower $454.20; May ’17 $2.60 lower $454.20; July ’17 $2.60 lower $454.20; Nov. ’17 $2.60 lower $454.20.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’15 unchanged $205.10; Dec. ’15 unchanged $205.10; March ’16 unchanged $207.10; May ’16 unchanged $208.10; July ’16 unchanged $208.10; Oct. ’16 unchanged $208.10; Dec. ’16 unchanged $208.10; March ’17 unchanged $208.10; May ’17 unchanged $208.10; July ’17 unchanged $208.10; Oct. ’17 unchanged $208.10.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 376,580 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 376,580.

“That portfolio should continue to perform well in choppy market conditions as we move forward,” Wiseman said Friday. “We have scale, we have certainty Powered by of assets and we obviously have a very long time Central Alberta’s horizon.” career site He said the three of choice. months from April to June was a busy quarter for CPPIB which did more than 25 investments, including several Mac James Motors is looking for a that were worth more than a billion of dollars.

“From my perspecfor our Red Deer location. tive, it has been a reMac James Motors is a well-established provider of automotive subally, really good quarter. prime lending, in house financing, & specializes in credit rebuilding and We’ve been incredibly after sales client care. busy . . . and we expect Our Sales teams at our three locations, Edmonton North, Edmonton that to continue.”

South and Red Deer, have helped thousands of satisfied clients rebuild, Among the biggest repair and establish credit over the company’s successful history. deals during the quarter was the acquisition of We are looking for the candidate who brings strong sales experience, the Antares Capital lendan ability to provide excellent customer service, after sales care, and ing operation from the leadership to our team and our clients. Auto sales experience is not necessary. financial arm of General Electric, for $12-billion.

Please email your resume to Antares Capital’s reddeer@macjames.ca management and about We thank all applicants for your interest. If you are 300 employees will opselected as a potential candidate you will be contacted. erate the business as a 7115986H15 stand-alone, independent lender to privateequity sponsors, subject AIRCRAFT PAINTER – Edmonton Area to regulatory approval.

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CPPIB announced in May that it would invest We are looking for a Full-Time experienced Aircraft or more than $1 billion in a Automotive Painter to assist in overseeing the operations of German real estate joint our exciting high-tech heli-paint facility located at Villeneuve

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Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 19.14 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.35 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 57.33 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.28 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 21.21 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 30.50 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 6.58 Canyon Services Group. . 4.66 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 17.74 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.200 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 8.97 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.820

Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 72.93 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 61.49 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.05 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 24.45 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.73 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 37.96 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 93.40 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.56 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.34 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.75 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.97 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 44.28 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.88

CPP: Big deals made this quarter

Opportunities to get active with RDPCN: Outdoor gyms: Call the RDPCN @ 403.343.9100 to book a Health Basics coach to assist you in maximizing your workout. (minimum # of 5 for each Outdoor Gym Coach assisted experience)

Employment Opportunities The City of Lacombe is currently recruiting for: Utilities Operator 2 - Solid Waste/NRDRWSC 24, 2015 2015 Application Deadline is August 31, For full job descriptions and other employment opportunities please visit the City of Lacombe website at www.lacombe.ca/employment Please Apply To: Human Resources City of Lacombe - 5432, 56th Ave, Lacombe AB, T4L 1E9

humanresources@lacombe.ca

Position Available Family Services Worker Assist with Food Bank & Family Services Programs: Backpacks, Seniors, Client Intake and Christmas Assistance Full-time (35 hr.) Contract position with a start date of September 21through to December 31, 2015 (Potential to extend contract) Monday through Friday: 8:30am. - 4:00pm.

Some flex hours may be required Qualifications: • Completion of High School or an acceptable combination of education and experience • Ability to work with people in a compassionate manner • Able to work well within a team as well as independently with minimum supervision • Excellent communication (proficient in the English language) and interpersonal skills • Ability to represent The Salvation Army in a positive and pleasant manner in person and on the telephone • Ability to lift up to 20lbs/10kilos • Valid Alberta Driver’s License • Willing to complete a current Criminal Record Check Please email or fax resume & cover letter to: Attn: Deanna 4837 - 54 Street Red Deer, AB T4N 2G5 Fax: 342-5892 OR deanna_scott@can.salvationarmy.org Deadline: August 28, 2015 Please No Phone Calls

Disc Golf: A sport for all ages & abilities, and It’s FREE! Try the 9 hole disc golf courses at Victoria Park Disc Golf in Anders (along Allan Street) or at the Kentwood

IT & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER Parkland Community Living and Supports Society is a not for profit and registered charity whose mission is to improve the quality of life of children and adults with developmental disabilities. We employ over 600 employees in Central AB and the NWT. The IT and Communication Manager’s role will be to ensure the operation of the IT Department is in alignment with the business objectives of the organization. This individual will plan, coordinate, direct, and design the IT-related activities of the organization. Working closely with decision makers in other departments to understand business processes, the Manager will identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization. This person will also define and implement related policies, procedures, best practices, and manage related budgets, expenditures, and assets.

The agency is currently restructuring its IT and Communication roles. The person who fills this role is expected to have a wide range of experience and knowledge, and to play a leadership role in the immediate development of the IT and Communications team.

Qualifications include: Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, experience with project management, process and systems analysis, data administration, network design, management of software licensing agreements, budget management and supervisory activities. Please list current certifications in your resume.

Hours of work may include some on-call responsibilities, and occasional evening and weekend hours as needed.

This position may appeal to an experienced IT professional who is looking for a position with flexible or reduced hours. There is an opportunity to negotiate the terms of the position to reflect a shorter work week or flexible work periods.

Salary: $66,000 (this salary is based on a 40 hour work week) We offer an RRSP Plan, a Group Benefit plan, a Health & Wellness Plan and an Employee Assistance Plan after 3 months of employment.

We look forward to hearing from you; please forward your resume by August 21, 2015 quoting competition # 5313IT to:

Parkland CLASS, Human Resources, 6010-45th Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 3M4

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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock exchange turned positive Friday, capping a wild week sparked by the surprise devaluation of the Chinese yuan and its impact on commodities and other currencies.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 39.48 points to 14,277.88 after three days volatility that saw Canada’s main index shed a net 227 points.

The yuan was stable on Friday after the sharp drop earlier in the week as traders took comfort from remarks the previous day

by Zhang Xiaohu, a deputy governor at People’s Bank of China, who said there was “no basis for persistent and substantial devaluation.”

Michael Greenberg, portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Solutions Group, said it was possible that there could be “a bit more devaluation in the yuan and that could maybe continue with a bit of volatility in the market.”

“But our current view is that, medium to long term (a more free-floating yuan) is probably a good thing for Asia,” he said, noting it could promote improved trade and growth for many of the region’s economies, which would translate into rising demand for many of the commodities upon which Canada’s economy depends.

New York markers also advanced, with the Dow Jones industrial average up a solid 69.15 points to 17,477.40, while the Nasdaq added 14.68 points to 5,048.24 and the S&P 500 rose 8.15 points to 2,091.54.

On commodity markets, the September oil contract rose 27 cents to US$42.50 a barrel after hitting its lowest level in more than six years, while September natural gas advanced over a penny to US$2.80 per thousand cubic feet. December gold was lower for a second day, down $2.90 at US$1,112.70 an ounce.

The Canadian dollar was also weaker, edging down 0.17 of a U.S. cent to 76.38 cents US. In economic news, Statistics Canada reported manufacturing sales increased 1.2 per cent in June, well below the market consensus that called for a 2.7 per cent gain.

“The positive number, that was good, but a bit of a disappointment given that Canadian

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 10.07 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.69 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.90 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 18.68 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.13 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.58 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.79 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 34.07 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.05 Teck Resources . . . . . . . . 9.15

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 78.36 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.99 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.75 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 23.69 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 48.08 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 1.63 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 1.17 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.12 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.26 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.32 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.83 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 46.09 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.230

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 125.03 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.04 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.32 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 74.06

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.10 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.23 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.38 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.69

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 137.07 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.21 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.67 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.03 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.35 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.19 Cdn. National Railway . . 80.95 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 208.34 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.41 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.68 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.95 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 44.90 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 55.89 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.63 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.70 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.49 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.50 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.13 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 39.99 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 33.48 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 44.49 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 7.09 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 47.22

venture. That included $542 million for a 46.1 per cent interest in shopping centre operator mfi AG, and an additional $503 million to support mfi’s needs.

In April, CPPIB joined with private equity firm Permira to buy Informatica Corp. for about US$5.3 billion. The California-based company has about 5,500 employees who serve organizations with large-scale information assets.

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Friday’s stock prices supplied by RBC Dominion Securities of Red Deer. For information call 341-8883.

Fax: 403-986-2404 or email: hr@pclass.org We thank all applicants but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Competition will remain open until all positions are filled.

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Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015

LENDING CUPBOARD “

The Lending Cupboard has served more than 3,300 clients in the last year and the needs continue to grow. They collaborate closely with AHS with respect to knee and hip replacements for the post-operative period. gaged board of directors and between 70 to 80 of the most energetic seniors, who contribute more that 8,200 volunteer hours per year.

The organization does receive a small annual grant from AHS but is very dependent on grant writing, the generous donations of people and corporations, as well as a few small fundraisers held throughout the year.

Things have been abuzz with activ-

ity this spring and summer.

On May 21, the Lending Cupboard held its sixth annual luncheon fundraiser. Hosted at the Black Knight Inn, guests were treated to a lovely luncheon with table arrangements provided by Growers Direct.

Guests heard some of the incredible stories of support and impact that the Lending Cupboard makes in people’s lives. The Lending Cupboard

would like to thank participants and supporters for making this year another success.

In June, the Lending Cupboard welcomed a new executive director.

Dawna Morey is no stranger to the non-profit community and is excited to be working with a great team, helping to see this organization continue to grow and support people in their time of need.

On July 11, the organization brought together a team of volunteers to have a well-needed warehouse cleanup.

The Lending Cupboard is very appreciative of the support of Big Steel Box during our warehouse cleanup.

Their generous donation of a storage container will enable us to make space in our warehouse and store our excess stock while we explore ways to share equipment with our rural and neighbouring communities in Alberta or with Third World countries in need.

Check out the website for more stories and information.

Join the volunteer team or help keep the Cupboard open with a donation!

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The Lending Cupboard Society of Alberta is a non-profit organization that lends out medical equipment to residents of all ages throughout Central Alberta and beyond.

This incredible organization has its roots dating back to 2006 and was started by the vision of one woman who saw a need.

From its meagre beginnings of a few donated pieces of equipment, their inventory has grown to in excess of 7,500 pieces, ranging from wheelchairs, crutches, rollators, walkers, bath transfers, and more.

The Lending Cupboard has served more than 3,300 clients in the last year and the need continues to grow.

They collaborate closely with AHS with respect to knee and hip replacements for the post-operative period.

Clients are served whether their surgery is done in Red Deer or their regional hospital.

The organization also provides supports to residents for a variety of other needs, be it surgery, mobility or assisting families with their loved ones at end of life by lending a hospital bed so family members can spend the last days of their life at home.

The Lending Cupboard is supported by a part-time staff team: an en-

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Warming centre hearing set CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ALSO INCLUDES SPEED LIMIT CHANGES, PAYDAY LOAN RESTRICTIONS

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF City council will consider reducing the speed limit on some streets and tightening the reins on payday loans businesses on Monday.

A public hearing on a proposed temporary warming centre at 4934 54th Ave. in Railyards is also on the agenda. The hearing gets underway around 6 p.m.

Last year, Berachah Place closed and a temporary warming centre was set up at the Seventh-day Adventist Church in downtown Red Deer.

City staff looked at other sites and determined the location in Railyards

would be the best fit.

Following a review of the Traffic Bylaw, the Engineering Department is recommending that speed limits for roadways recently annexed from Red Deer County be included in the bylaw.

As well, the department wants the city to update roadway speed limits due to design speed changes from recent projects such as the Taylor Drive improvement and the 19th Street widening.

On July 20, Councillors Paul Harris and Ken Johnston read a notice of motion that aims to improve municipal oversight of payday loan businesses.

The councillors believe that payday loan businesses can have a negative impact on the poor, creating social is-

sues including a cycle of debt and poverty.

Council will also consider a request for water treatment and transmission service from the Sylvan Lake Regional Water Commission. It would involve adding 20,000 new customers to Red Deer’s system.

On Tuesday, council will be back in chambers at 9 a.m. for the annual midyear budget review.

Chief financial officer Dean Krejci will provide an update on the city’s finances.

Council will hear a one-time request of $12,000 in 2015, and $20,000 every year after for an additional RCMP storage facility.

There’s also a request for a full-time

security position within the city’s corporate security program. It requires $40,000 in one-time funding in 2015 and $100,000 in ongoing funding starting in 2016.

Administration is requesting $50,000 in order to further analyze technology that may be suitable for the city related to a renewable energy source. It is coming forward now as a number of service providers have demonstrated new technology that may be of value to the city.

Council will also hear reports on the legal services budget, the police fine revenue shortfall and the enterprise business plan. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

ANNIE L. GAETZ

School reborn for $5.8 million

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF It’s a bit over budget and it came with a few unexpected surprises, but the modernization of Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School will be completed on time for the new school year.

The Red Deer kindergarten to Grade 5 school, located on Mitchell Avenue, will see its 400 students and 18 teachers return in September to what is essentially an entirely new school.

The school, which is 50-years-old this year, is expected to last another 50 years.

It has the most modern interior in terms of lighting and mechanical systems of any of the Red Deer Public School District schools.

Architect George Berry said there were a lot of challenges, the biggest one being that the building code has changed so much, in the last couple of years even, and certainly from when it was first built.

The modernization cost $5.8 million and was about $200,000 over budget because of unforeseen structural issues.

“We had a lot of structural upgrades ... and to get those going in place and to try to keep as much of the existing school was quite a challenge, and the contractor (Shunda Consulting) had to do some amazing work to slide beams in places we didn’t think they could,” Berry said.

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BRIEF Bamford charity event raises record $508,000 The eighth annual Gord Bamford Charity Golf Classic set a record by raising $508,350 this week.

The country music star, who is from Lacombe, attributed the success of the event to strong community supporters, the music community, and the sponsors and volunteers.

The golf was played at the Lacombe Golf Club, where individuals paid up to $10,000 for the opportunity to have a celebrity join their golf team. Hockey players like Theo Fleury, Marty McSorley, Curtis Glencross and Shannon Szabados played, as did rodeo champions Rod and Denny Hay, and Davey Shields Jr. A soldout gala for 800 people was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer, where a live auction for a vacation to Tuscany, Italy, went for $45,000.

Some of the entertainment included artists Beverley Mahood, Jess Moskaluke and Bamford himself. Bamford surprised guests by introducing the legendary Grand Ole Opry member Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives.

Funds raised are for the Gord Bamford Charitable Foundation and are delivered to a variety of youthcentered charities from children’s hospitals in Canada, to KidSport Alberta and Ronald McDonald Charities Central Alberta, to this year’s featured charity, MusiCounts.

Maskwacis RCMP seek attempted murder suspect Maskwacis RCMP are investigating an attempted murder.

At about 12:40 a.m. on Aug. 8, Maskwacis RCMP and EMS attended the Samson Rodeo Grounds for a complaint that a man had been shot.

The 20-year-old man was taken by

es has been in terms of snow load on roofs. The school wasn’t sized to handle current standards and so new structural work was done.

They needed to dig under the entire school three or four metres to put in new footings.

The school did not have any asbestos in it.

The lighting has all been changed to LED, which has made the school much more energy-efficient; it will use only one-third of the energy that previous lighting did.

An entirely new mechanical system has been put in place.

The school has new windows, and a new library with a circular stairway that leads to a bright second level. It’s located where the school’s old courtyard used to be.

A new courtyard, designed by former students, is being built. It will have plants and furniture, and glass and brick walls.

Trades were busy on Friday laying bricks, painting, working on the electrical system, on flooring and landscaping.

“It’s going to be one exciting year,” new principal Kevin Robertson said.

The next large project for the school district is a new kindergarten to Grade 5 school at 99 Irving Cres. in Inglewood.

Plans are almost done and the project is expected to go to tender as early as September. barr@reddeeradvocate.com ambulance to an Edmonton-area hospital in serious condition. His condition has now been updated to stable.

As a result of the investigation, RCMP have obtained a Canadawide warrant for the arrest of Mitchell Tyler Potts, 29, of Maskwacis.

Potts faces Suspect Mitchell charges of attemptTyler Potts, 29. ed murder using a firearm, aggravated assault, numerous firearms and weapons offences, and breaching of a firearms prohibition.

Maskwacis RCMP are asking for the public’s help in identifying any further witnesses to this incident. They are also seeking information on the whereabouts of Potts.

Potts is considered armed and dangerous. Members of the public are advised not to approach him and to call their local police agency with the information.

If you have information, call the Maskwacis RCMP at 780-585-4600 or, if you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Small business tuition credit offered at RDC Central Alberta small businesses have until Sept. 18 to apply for a Red Deer College $5,000 tuition credit.

The credit, presented by Red Deer Bottling, will go to a business that employs 25 people or less, and has not previously received it.

It can be used for credit or noncredit training through the college’s Donald School of Business. It can be done at the applicant’s workplace, at the downtown campus or online.

The award is self-nominating and is based on a 500-word narrative that describes how the nominated business stands out in pursuit of innovation, excellence and entrepreneurship.

To learn more and apply for the award, go online to rdc.ab.ca/dsb or

Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo by MARY-ANN BARR/Advocate staff

Joshua Butcher works the mortar he is using to install glass blocks in the wall of the new courtyard at Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School in Red Deer on Friday.

Students helped design the new courtyard space. call the Student Funding and Awards office at 403-314-2443 or the Donald School of Business at 403-342-3555.

Safe Harbour AGM set for Sept. 17 The Central Alberta Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing will hold its annual general meeting on Sept. 17.

The meeting is at 4:30 p.m. and will take place at Fort Normandeau, which is located five km west of Hwy 2 from Red Deer, via 32nd Street.

For more information about Safe Harbour, go to www.safeharboursociety.org.

RSVP to 403-347-0181 if you will be attending.

Red Deer group shares $100,000 Extra lottery win A group of people from Red Deer are sharing in a $100,000 Extra lottery win.

Curtis Pontius and 21 of his co-workers and friends are sharing in the win, which amounts to about $4,545 each.

Pontiues said they hadn’t been playing together for very long when the winning ticket was purchased for the June 5 Lotto Max and Extra draws at Run ‘N on Empty at 120 100 Kent St. in Red Deer.

The winners plan to use the money to pay off some bills and for household needs.

The other lucky people include Shawn Purdy, Troy Mireau, Shaun Schwab, Johan van de Velch, Jeff Clark, Scott White, Kermit Purves, Aryn Lesher, Barbara Sinclair, Colin Smith, Robert Ledinghave, Henry Alkhoury, Daniel Skelton, Mark Holmes, James Mulek, Will Mitchell, Chinedu Okoli, Kayode Adebayo, Krista Kosonen, Christopher Nwosu, and Brenda Lowles.

New lieutenant governor to visit Lacombe on Aug. 21 New Alberta Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell will make her first official visit to Lacombe on Aug. 21.

Mitchell and her husband Doug Mitchell will attend the sod-turning ceremony celebrating the first Habitat for Humanity project in Lacombe.

The event takes place at 2:30 p.m. at 2 Ranchers Close in Lacombe, in the MacKenzie Ranch subdivision.

Stettler harvest supper features old-time fun A harvest supper in Stettler on Aug. 29 will include more than a good roast pork dinner.

The P&H Elevator Preservation Society will host the event, which runs from 2 to 6 p.m. The dinner is by donation. There will be an old-time threshing demonstration, rope making and a rope maker display as well.

An RSVP is appreciated to help the caterer, Sarah, know how many plan to attend. Call 403-740-3555, 403-742-4703 or 403-742-5847.

Raft trip marks anniversary of watershed alliance The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a raft trip down the river on Sept. 27.

The trip, which will be led by Alberta RiverWatch, leaves McKenzie Trail boat launch at 9:30 a.m. A special lunch is planned at the River Bend boat launch around 1 p.m., and ending at about 2:15 p.m.

The cost per person is $10. The lunch is free.

RiverWatch is a nationally recognized science on the water education program.

The raft trip is an opportunity for RDRWA members, family and friends, and up to 100 people can participate.

Rafters will travel in large inflatable 15-passenger rafts, professionally guided by certified RiverWatch staff.

If people want to bring children ages seven to 12, they need to contact Jeff Hanger at the watershed alliance office to ensure they have an appropriate life-jacket for them.

Spaces are limited so register in advance by contacting the RDRWA office at 403-340-7379, email info@rdrwa.ca or online at rdrwa.ca.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 2015

Can you be a Christian without believing in Christ?

SECULARISM DOESN’T FILL THE LONGING OF THE HUMAN HEART, BUT NEITHER WILL ‘CULTURAL CHRISTIANITY’

BY TREVIN WAX SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The rise of the “nones” — North Americans who no longer check a religious affiliation on demographic surveys — has stirred up interesting conversations among church leaders.

A generation ago, many Americans would have been considered “nominal” in their devotion.

Today, many have stopped claiming a religious identity altogether.

But what happens when the “nones” find themselves longing for the religious world they once knew?

Is it possible to reclaim your religious affiliation if you no longer believe in the doctrines of the faith?

This is the situation of Alana Massey, who calls herself a “cultural Christian” — an atheist who finds she can neither fully embrace a secular identity nor abandon her Episcopal heritage.

In an article in The Washington Post, How to Take Christ out of Christianity, Massey claims a “profound connection to Christianity” even without “theistic belief.”

In her experience, secularism isn’t good enough; it doesn’t create a lasting community bond for celebration during the good times and comfort during the bad.

What’s more, the “selfhelp” advice from the nonreligious world is a poor substitute for the robust vision of Christianity, where the moral and ethical stakes in the Bible are so high.

So, if younger American Jews can base their identity on “ancestral, ethnic and cultural connections rather than religious ones,” why can’t Christians celebrate their religion’s moral benefits and societal aspirations, even if they don’t believe in God? Massey believes we should broaden the meaning of Christianity so that nonbelieving people can be part of the same family seeking peace in the world.

Should we accept a “cultural Christianity” that relishes religious ritual while rejecting religious belief?

I offer both a firm “no” and an unreserved “yes.”

No to cultural Christianity

Yes to ‘cultural Christians’

come her.” His 7-year-old sister piped up from the back seat: “Yes! If she’s close to the church and reads her Bible, she might meet Jesus.”

Neither of my kids thought it possible to be a “true Christian” without believing in Jesus. Nevertheless, they both thought individuals like Massey should be welcomed into churches with open arms — not as brothers and sisters who are part of the same family of faith (for true spiritual kinship is only possible when we have bowed the knee to King Jesus), but as people who bear the image of God and who we pray will one day be remade into the image of Christ.

Massey is right about one thing: secularism doesn’t fill the longing of the human heart. But neither will “cultural Christianity.” Only the ancient gospel story has that kind of power. And it’s that gospel story that may lead to the day when the “nones” aren’t checking that box anymore.

Trevin Wax is managing editor of The Gospel Project and author of multiple books, including Clear Winter Nights: A Journey Into Truth, Doubt and What Comes After.

Massey’s “cultural ChrisFollowing quickly behind tianity” is not Christianity my firm “no” to the idea of at all. Only in a world where cultural Christianity, comes the individual is the sole my unreserved “yes” to peodeterminer of one’s identity ple like Massey who recogdoes it make sense to say, nize the real results of the “I want Christianity without gospel in the church, even Christ.” Imagine a teetotaler though they don’t follow the who wants to join a wine- footprints back to God. tasting club (“I just love the We shouldn’t be surprised fellowship!”) or a vegetarian when nonbelievers admit who frequents a barbecue there is a void in our secular restaurant (“Vegans can’t society. compete with the smell of Canadian philosopher pork!”).

Charles Taylor has deYou can’t love the “epic scribed our secular age as a moral narrative” of the Bible “disenchanted” world that but reject the major turning leaves people longing for points of that storyline — transcendence, something like the resurrection of Je- more than the “this-world-issus, without which the Apos- all-there-is” dogma of unbetle Paul said Christianity is lief. As atheist Julian Barnes futile, pitiable, and built on opens his memoir on death: a massive lie.

“I don’t believe in God, but I Furthermore, we must miss him.” distinguish between the gosOn our way to church pel and morality. Massey as- this week, I explained to my sumes that the purpose of kids Massey’s idea of “wantall religion is to help people ing to be a Christian withbecome moral and good. Mo- out believing in God” and rality is the center of Chris- asked what they thought the tianity; therefore, the exis- church’s response should be. tence of God and the reality My 11-year-old son answered of miracles are not essential without hesitation: “Welto Christian identity.

But what if that assumption is wrong?

What if morality isn’t the heart of Christianity but a byproduct of the Christian gospel? The gospel is not about good people getting better but about bad people being made right with God. It’s not about humans making the world a better place but the Son of God making the world his home and then dying and rising to save us.

Once you make Christianity a means to something else, whether it’s the 1960s hippie vision of free Sunday, August 16 love or the social activism of today’s milUncharted - part 3 lennials, you trade 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:30pm God’s agenda for your own and create a JeCrossRoads Kids (for infant to grade 6) sus who looks an aw32 Street & Hwy 2, Red Deer County www.CrossRoadsChurch.ca ful lot like yourself.

403-347-6425 AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA Massey commends a cultural Christianity because it’s helpful; the apostles commended Christianity because it’s true.

Cardboard cutouts of Pope Francis pop up across Philadelphia ahead of his visit

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LOCAL EVENTS

Sunday

Seniors Church meets at 11 a.m. on Sundays at Bower Kin Place for hymns and gospel preaching. Phone 403-347-6706.

Living Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to Sunday Worship at Bethany CollegeSide at 10 a.m.

Contact Ralph at 403-347-9852.

Coffee and fellowship follow service. Living Faith is a North American Lutheran Church Congregation.

See www.livingfaithlcrd.org, contact Ralph at 403-347-9852 or John at 403-341-4022.

Tuesday

CrossRoads Church hot dog roast at McKenzie Trail Picnic Shelter goes Aug. 18, 5:30 to 8 p.m.

Bring roasting sticks, hot dogs, and a pot-luck salad, side dish, or treat to share. Drinks provided. Phone 403-347-6425.

Lacombe Seventh Day Adventist Food Bank and Thrift Store welcomes gently used items at 5025 53 St. in Lacombe. Hours of operation are Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m., Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m. Contact Millie at 403-782-6777.

Wednesday

Bentley United Church holds summer services on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Coffee and fellowship are offered at 6:30 p.m. Call Rev. Brenda Kersell at 403-885-4780, or Gail at 403-748-2935.

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“Sharing Faith, Serving Community” PHILADELPHIA — Pope Francis isn’t scheduled to touch down in the U.S. until September, but he’s already popped up at a Philadelphia Phillies game and at the Battleship New Jersey.

Cardboard cutouts of the pontiff have been appearing all over the Philadelphia region, generating buzz around his upcoming trip.

Kathy McDade posed with the faux Francis near Independence Hall so she could brag to her family about spotting the famous figure.

“I thought let me take a picture and post it on my Facebook page, and show them all that I met the pope in person,” McDade said, laughing.

Pope Francis plans to visit Philadelphia Sept. 2627 for the World Meeting of Families, a Catholic conference designed to bring families closer together.

Nancy Caramanico, digital content manager for the World Meeting of Families, said bringing the cutout to various sites on “Philly Francis Fridays” has proved popular with both Catholics and nonCatholics.

“Pope Francis is described as the people’s pope.

So we have him in places where many people can see him,” Caramanico said. “People are just really excited to be around him and are anticipating his visit to Philadelphia.”

The staff encourages people to post their pictures on social media using the hashtags PopeinPhilly or WMF2015.

Jennifer D’Angelo, who struck a pose with the paper pontiff near Independence Hall, will be at college in Pittsburgh when the pope visits.

“It seems like he’s trying to bring the Catholic Church together,” D’Angelo, 19, said. “I think he’s doing a great job. I’m just kind of sad that I’m not going to be in the city when he comes.”

In Wilmington, Delaware, friends Paul Tanner and Christa Scalies manned a cutout of a smiling, waving Pope Francis at Sacred Heart Oratory.

“We get a lot of smiles and waves,” said Tanner, who teaches religion at a local Catholic school.

“Some people just ignore us completely, while others are just drawn to the image itself, and they have to come over and touch it.”

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WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN 26016-HWY 595 (Delburne Road)

Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Rev. Reg Graves

Living Faith Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

Pastor: Jonathan Aicken Bethany Collegeside, RDC www.livingfaithlcrd.org

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

Sundays at 9:30 am and 11:15 am

SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M. 2nd Wed. each month - Testimonial Meetings noon Christian Science Reading Room: Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Thurs., 12 Noon-3:00 p.m.

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Double vision

JANE DURHAM BRINGS HER DOUBLE EXPOSED LANDSCAPE PHOTOS TO HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY ‘IT’S SORT OF SCULPTURE MEETS FUNCTIONAL WORK, MEETS PHOTOGRAPHY’ — JANE DURHAM

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Sculpture and landscape photography are enmeshed in a new art exhibit at the Harris-Warke Gallery in Red Deer.

Jane Durham, a Red Deer artist now living in Calgary, presents landscape photographs that are double exposed to also reveal images of her abstract ceramic sculptures.

The exhibit, A Collection, shows exactly where Durham’s artistic inspiration springs from — the organic shapes and colours of rural Alberta.

Viewers can see the same ochre yellows, greens and browns that Durham uses in her sculptures and functional ceramics (which are also displayed in the gallery), as are in the landscapes in her province.

“It’s sort of sculpture meets functional work, meets photography,” said Durham.

The artist completed Red Deer College’s visual arts program before continuing her education at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Although she started making art at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, Durham admitted she wasn’t immediately drawn to three-dimensional creations.

Even when starting out at RDC, “I didn’t like ceramics. I thought it was a horrible medium,” she said with a laugh.

But once Durham got past the frustrating stage “where everything was cracking and breaking,” and got more successful results, she began enjoying “the tactility of the clay and being able to use my hands constantly.”

Her sculptures appear free form, but there are some painstaking parts to the process.

The artist “draws” carved lines on the ceramics that look like different layers of sediment.

The indented lines created by a tool similar to a box cutter are filled with a different coloured slip inlay.

The sculpture is stained while still wet with a colour pigment. And after a first firing, it’s glazed.

Durham’s organic sculptured shapes resemble rocks, stones and layers of earth exposed by erosion.

There’s the same repetition of colour and line as appear in photos of actual sun-baked Alberta landscapes.

By juxtaposing images of real landscapes and the sculptures they inspired, Durham said she is pointing viewers back to the beginnings of her creation process.

Durham sells mostly functional ceramics decorated with her distinctive lines and colours, at the artisan Market Collective in Calgary.

The roving public market is often held at the Chinese Cultural Centre or the East Village/ Riverwalk area.

Her exhibit, A Collection, runs at the HarrisWarke Gallery, upstairs in Sunworks on Ross Street, until Sept. 10. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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ABOVE: Springback Road Series 7 by Jane Durham BELOW: Springback Road Series 5

At the Gangster rap’s dawn, music’s changing of the guard

BY LINDA BARNARD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Straight Outta Compton Three stars (out of four) Rated: 18A Opening with the crash of a police battering ram into a drug house door, N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton makes that same thudding power echo in the thrill of a fresh track and the first rhymes from five young men who changed the music landscape nearly 30 years ago.

The swagger that made them call themselves N.W.A. — N----z With Attitude — and their fury and frustration about issues of race and police brutality in the late 1980s, still echoing in headlines today (and the cops don’t come off at all well in Compton) — fuels every incendiary moment of the onscreen rise, breakups, betrayals and infighting among these founders of gangster rap.

Like protest singers and punk, N.W.A. was a musical expression of the artists’ world, a chance to speak their truth. Forged in the gang and drug-damaged L.A. neighbourhood

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Table set for 2015-16 playbill

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Aldis Hodge, from left, as MC Ren, Neil Brown Jr. as DJ Yella, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Ice Cube and Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, in the film, Straight Outta Compton. The movie features strong performances and an equally stellar soundtrack. of Compton, N.W.A. was formed by dealer-turned-rapper Eazy-E (a fascinating, multi-layered performance from Jason Mitchell) with DJ-turnedproducer Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.), teen poetcum-lyricst Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr., real-life son of Cube making his screen debut in convincing fashion) and MC Ren (Aldis Hodge).

Even as they spit misogynistic, violent rhymes about guns and drugs, it seems these guys had softer sides that the filmmakers and producers Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E’s widow Tomica Woods-Wright are anxious to showcase.

Outwardly chill, in reality forming label Ruthless Records and recording a first track wasn’t a smooth process. Eazy-E’s first attempt with Ice Cube’s “Boyz-n-the-Hood” rhymes was a disaster, not the last time screenwriters Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff lighten the mood with sharp dialogue and humour that not only coveys their closeness but helps make them seem more relatable.

The disc is a hit and the band’s white manager, Jerry Heller (a very good Paul Giamatti in a horrible white wig and velour track suit) arrives promising legitimacy to the performers.

He seems to have their backs when cops humiliate the five outside a recording session (an incident that

inspired Ice Cube’s controversial “F--- tha Police). But Heller’s allegiance was more to his own bottom line and his alliance with Eazy-E inserts permanent wedges.

Director F. Gary Gray alternates between gritty documentary-style close-ups and dreamy California sunsets, infusing scenes with pastel orange glow and a smoky haze.

Meanwhile, cinematographer Matthew Libatique swoops around a sex-and-guns fuelled hotel suite party and a poolside Bacchanal (women here are either annoying or naked) with the same edge-of-your-seat intensity given to the electric onstage performances.

The furious onscreen energy of the group’s rise can’t be sustained and too-long Compton, clocking in at nearly 2.5 hours, flags midway before finding its feet again in poignant fashion with Eazy-E’s diagnosis with HIV (he died in 1995 at age 31) and opportunities to heal past rifts.

The movie’s hits-jammed soundtrack will please fans; in fact everything about Straight Outta Compton is for them, including the final overthe-credits roll of vintage clips and a reminder that Dr. Dre, the guy who started out sleeping on his mom’s couch, has done very well for himself indeed.

Linda Barnard is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

Western saloon girls, a beautiful amnesiac, a disoriented traveller and the Angel of Death.

This disparate set of characters will inhabit the four plays that make up Central Alberta Theatre’s 2015-16 dinner theatre season.

Tickets are on sale now for Wild Dust, 37 Postcards, Gladys in Wonderland, and Evelyn Strange. All four plays will run at the Quality Inn, North Hill. ● Wild Dust, which runs from Oct. 16 to Nov. 7, mixes melodrama and menace in the Wild West. With all the cowboys out of town, the women hunker down for a pending dust storm in this comic thriller by Samuel French. Tensions run high between the cooped up society ladies and raucous saloon girls — resulting in murder. In saunters a male drifter, who may or may not be a federal marshall. ● 37 Postcards, by Michael McKeever, is about accepting family, warts and all. The comedy that runs from Nov. 13 to Dec. 4 concerns Avery Sutton, who’s returning home after spending years abroad to find nothing as he left it — including his grandma, who was presumed dead, but is apparently still kicking. ● Gladys in Wonderland, which runs from Jan. 15 to Feb. 6, is about what happens when death comes a-knocking at the door of a stubborn 87-year-old. Determined not to expire, Gladys sends the Grim Reaper packing in this comedy by Rosemary Frisino Toohey. ● Evelyn Strange, by Edmonton playwright Stewart Lemoine, is “a story of operatic proportions, rife with intrigue, deceit, betrayal and murder.” Set in 1955, the thriller that runs from Feb. 26 to March 19 concerns a beautiful amnesiac who wanders into a theatre box and mystifies and intrigues the opera goers.

The dinner theatre evenings start with the meal at 6 p.m. and show at 7:30 p.m. at the Quality Inn, North Hill. Sunday brunches start at noon, with the show at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $65 a person from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

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The evolution of Pauly Shore FROM STANDUP TO THE WEASEL TO ENCINO MAN TO FLOP, THEN BACK TO STANDUP, SHORE APPEARS IN RED DEER NEXT WEEK

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Standup comic Pauly Shore, who rapidly rose to fame in comedy clubs as The Weasel, then divebombed in Hollywood following a string of critically panned movies, appears in Red Deer this week.

The comedian who starred in Encino Man and the far less successful Son In Law, In the Army Now, Jury Duty and Bio-Dome, will perform for a soldout crowd on Friday night at Bo’s Bar and Grill.

He got his taste of super stardom in the 1990s. And thinking back to those heady days when he was part of the pop-cultural lexicon, Shore recently mused to the L.A. Times, “Heavens, I was a rock star. ...”

His show Totally Pauly became an MTV hit, running for six years and leading to more television and film work — including the successful 1993 one-hour HBO television special, Pauly Does Dallas.

Shore was also hot-out-of-the-gates in Hollywood with Encino Man. He then seemingly ran out aground as a film actor, holding the dubious distinction of making five movies with a below 10 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film offers dried up following this string of duds and he went back to doing what first got him noticed — standup comedy.

But Shore has some seriously impressive comedy chops to fall back on.

The son of two comedians (his mom founded the Comedy Store and his dad was Sammy Shore), Shore junior became a massive pop-culture phenom with his far-out surfer-dude persona, The Weasel, in the late 1980s.

Shore’s first recording, The Future of America, was named Best Comedy Album by the college music journalists in 1991, while the National Association of Record Merchandisers nominated his second album, Scraps from the Future, for a Best Sellers Award.

Over the last decade or so, Shore has made several appearances on Howard Stern’s late-night show

LOCAL

BRIEFS Rye and Fairy Tales at The Olive on Thursday The bromance behind Rye and Fairy Tales will play out Thursday night at The Olive in Red Deer.

Jarred Albright and Ben Plotnick grew up playing music together in a Calgary youth fiddle group that toured the world.

Realizing they wanted to keep up their musical partnership, but that “only fiddles didn’t make much of a band,” the two went on to learn guitar, mandolin and vocals.

Albright and Plotnick formed Rye and Fairy Tales and released a self-titled CD in 2012. The now Toronto-based musicians continue to write tunes that make audiences laugh and cry, drawing from bluegrass, pop, folk and country genres.

For more information about the show, call 403340-8288.

Dear Rouge returns to city for performance on Oct. 14 Dear Rouge is making a return trip to Central Alberta this fall to perform at the International Beer Haus in Red Deer.

The alt-rock/electronica group named for this city is made up of Red Deer native Danielle McTaggart on vocals and her guitarist husband Drew McTaggart, from Vancouver.

They played earlier this summer at an outdoor music festival at Sylvan Lake.

The duo is heading out on its Black to Gold Tour, featuring special guest Rah Rah, an indie rock band from Regina.

Tickets for the 7 p.m., Oct. 14 show in Red Deer are $15 and are available from the venue or Ticketfly.

For more information, call 403-986-5008.

Spanish Legacy music, dance at the Memorial Centre Juno Award-winner Oscar Lopez will lead a colourful lineup of world-renowned Hispanic artists in Spanish Legacy.

This showcase of Hispanic music and dance will be performed at Friday at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

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Pauly Shore performs at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, Calif. After a checkered career, the comedian has returned to his standup roots. He brings his show to Bo’s Bar and Grill in Red Deer on Friday for a soldout show. and David Letterman’s talk show. He also produced, wrote, directed and starred in Pauly Shore Is Dead, a semi-autobiographical 2003 mockumentary, and in 2005, he starred in the reality television series Minding the Store.

His company, Landing Patch Productions, has crafted multiple films and specials. And last year he made Pauly Shore Stands Alone, a true-life road docu-

mentary that follows him as he performs in obscure towns throughout Wisconsin while dealing with personal issues back home.

Shore seems to take life’s ups and downs in stride.

He recently told the L.A. Times, “I don’t make Chris Rock money... (but) I found something I enjoy that I get paid to do, so I think I am pretty lucky.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Other entertainers are: The Fiona Malena Flamenco Company, the Aucamapu Chilean Folk Ensemble, the Cuban Movement, Latigoes Santiguenos, Edgar Muenala, Asi es Colombia, Sol Azteca Mariachi, Tango de Oro, and Estampida Gaitera.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show start at $29 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

For more information, visit ExpoLatino.com.

a.m. to 6 p.m. in a country market setting. A portion of proceeds from hotdog and hamburger sales will benefit the Delburne safe house.

There will be live music by Elvin Berthiaume, Kevin Lesmister and others, readings by Loriann, door prizes, a children’s art corner and more.

Go 40 km east of Red Deer on Hwy 595 (Delburne Road) to the Stettler-Bashaw turn off at Hwy 21 North. Continue east past the stop sign, going 800 metres on gravel as the road turns into Township Road 380.

The market is at 23031 Township 380, on the south side and will be signed.

For more information, call 403-342-6344.

Free outdoor movies in Sylvan Lake park Free outdoor movies will continue to be shown Friday nights in Sylvan lake until the Labour Day weekend.

A big screen will be set up in Centennial Park by the lake shore for: ● Cinderella at 8:45 p.m. on Aug. 21. ● Jurassic World at 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 28. ● Tomorrowland at 8:15 p.m. on Sept. 4.

Viewers can bring a blanket or a lawn chair and enjoy the show.

For more information, visit www.freshaircinema. ca.

Mountain scenery art at Lacombe’s Gallery on Main Alberta’s beautiful mountain scenery is featured in a new art display at Gallery on Main in Lacombe.

Calgary artist Margery McBride Elliott’s exhibit, Pathways, chronicles the artist’s travels through her beloved mountains on skiing, hiking, camping and canoeing trips.

“I have gained a great deal of respect and appreciation for the outdoors, but have realized there is so much more to learn, which is why I have chosen the path of art. It is a never ending learning experience,” said McBride Elliott.

The exhibit continues to Sept. 11, with an opening reception on Friday, Aug. 21, from 5 to 9 p.m.

Music, arts and crafts at Delburne market on Aug. 22

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SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY AUG. 14, 2015 TO THURSDAY AUG. 20, 2015 MINIONS (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 4:15, 9:05; MON-THURS 4:20, 9:20 MINIONS 3D (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRISUN 1:40, 6:40; MON,WED-THURS 1:50, 6:40; TUE 1:50, 6:35 FANTASTIC FOUR () CLOSED CAPTIONED, NO PASSES FRI-SUN 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:25; MONTHURS 1:50, 4:20, 7:25, 9:55 JURASSIC WORLD 3D (PG) (PERIL INVOLVING CHILDREN,GENRE VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 9:15; MON,WED 9:10; TUE 9:05 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE ROGUE NATION (PG) (VIOLENCE,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25; MON-THURS 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 TRAINWRECK (14A) (NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN,SEXUAL CONTENT,SUBSTANCE ABUSE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 10:10; MON-WED 10:00 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. () ULTRAAVX, NO PASSES FRI-SUN 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; MON-THURS 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 PIXELS (PG) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-THURS 3:55 PIXELS 3D (PG) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI,SUN-MON,WED 1:10, 6:30; SAT 6:30; TUE 1:05, 6:25; THURS 1:10 RICKI AND THE FLASH (PG) (MATURE SUBJECT MATTER) FRI-SUN 1:30, 4:00, 6:30,

9:00; MON-TUE,THURS 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20; WED 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 RICKI AND THE FLASH (PG) (MATURE SUBJECT MATTER) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30 VACATION (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE,CRUDE CONTENT) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25; MON-THURS 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (14A) (NUDITY,COARSE LANGUAGE) CLOSED CAPTIONED, NO PASSES FRI-SUN 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30; MON-THURS 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 THE GIFT () FRI,SUN 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25; SAT 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25; MON-THURS 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SUN 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50; MON-TUE,THURS 3:10, 5:30, 7:40; WED 2:40, 4:50 BEYOND THE MASK (PG) (GENRE VIOLENCE) FRI-SUN 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15; MON-THURS 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 THE SEVENTH DWARF () SAT 11:00 SLUGTERRA: EASTERN CAVERNS () SAT 12:30; SUN 11:30 APOLLO 13 () WED 7:00 HITMAN: AGENT 47 () NO PASSES THURS 9:50 SINISTER 2 () THURS 7:50, 10:20

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AFTERNOON 12:00 KREM WWJ 2015 PGA Championship Third Round. (Live) TSN 2015 PGA Championship Third Round, Part 2. (Live) 1:00 CBXT CBRT ATP Tennis Rogers Cup, First Semifinal. (Live) KHQ Auto Racing Global RallyCross Series. (Live) 2:00 FS1 Golf U.S. Women’s Amateur, Semifinals. (Live) 4:00 SN360 English Premier League Soccer Tottenham Hotspur FC vs Stoke City FC. (Same-day Tape) 4:30 CBXT CBRT WTA Tennis Rogers Cup, Second Semifinal.

(Live) SRC Tennis ATP Coupe Rogers, 2e demi-finale. (En direct) 5:00 TSN CFL Football BC Lions at Hamilton Tiger-Cats. (Live) SNW MLB Baseball Oakland Athletics at Baltimore Orioles.

(Live) FS1 MLB Baseball Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Kansas City Royals. (Live) WPIX MLB Baseball Pittsburgh Pirates at New York Mets. (Live)

EVENING 6:00 CBXT CBRT ATP Tennis Rogers Cup, Second Semifinal.

(Live) SN360 English Premier League Soccer West Ham United FC vs Leicester City FC. (Same-day Tape) WDIV Gymnastics P&G Championships: Women’s Competition.

(Live) CITY 2015 Parapan American Games Closing Cermony. (Live)

SUNDAY SPORTS MORNING 9:00 TSN 2015 PGA Championship Final Round, Part 1. (Live) 10:30 CBXT CBRT WTA Tennis Rogers Cup, Final. (Live) 11:00 SRC Tennis ATP Coupe Rogers, finale. (En direct) KHQ WDIV Swimming U.S. National Championships. (Taped) KREM WWJ Bull Riding PBR Express Employment Professionals Classic. (Taped) SNW MLB Baseball New York Yankees at Toronto Blue Jays.

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(Live) TSN 2015 PGA Championship Final Round, Part 2. (Live) FS1 Women’s Soccer International Friendly — United States vs Costa Rica. (Live) 1:00 CBXT CBRT ATP Tennis Rogers Cup, Final. (Live) KHQ WDIV Gymnastics P&G Championships: Men’s Competition. (Live) 2:00 SNW MLB Baseball Washington Nationals at San Francisco Giants. (Live) FS1 Golf U.S. Women’s Amateur, Final. (Live) 2:30 KHQ WDIV Beach Volleyball AVP Tour. (Live) TSN Horse Racing The Breeders’ Stakes. (Live) 3:30 TSN Women’s Basketball FIBA Americas Championship, Bronze Medal Game: Teams TBA. (Live) 5:00 FS1 MLS Soccer Chicago Fire at Philadelphia Union. (Live) 5:55 TSN Women’s Basketball FIBA Americas Championship, Gold Medal Game: Teams TBA. (Live)

EVENING 6:00 SNW Bundesliga Soccer VfL Wolfsburg vs Eintracht Frankfurt. (Same-day Tape)

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Fresh Beat (14) TREE Trucktown Max & Shred Stanley Dyn. Game On } ›› Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (’12) Å Laughs: Gags Haunting (15) YTV Assembly Bee Gees: One Night Only Å Pledge Programming TBA Underground Spy Å (16) KSPS 60s & 70s Slow Songs (My Music) Å Jeopardy!

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Hannibal (N) (18) KHQ News Paid Program White Collar Å NCIS: Los Angeles Criminal Minds “Boxed In” 48 Hours Å (19) KREM News The Insider Entertainment Tonight (N) Funniest Home Videos Beyond the Tank Å Boston EMS (N) Å (20) KXLY 4 News at 6 Simpsons } › Scary Movie 5 (’13) Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex. Å Simpsons Simpsons Simpsons Simpsons (21) MUCH Simpsons CFL Football Ottawa RedBlacks at Calgary Stampeders. (N) (Live) SportsCentre (N) (Live) Å (22) TSN CFL Football Sportsnet Central (N) Å Blue Jays MLB’s Best European Poker Tour Å Sportsnet Central (N) Å (23) SNW MLB Baseball Medium Last-Standing Last-Standing Reba Å Reba Å Yukon Medium Last-Standing Last-Standing (24) CMT Yukon Income Prop.

Leave-Bryan Leave-Bryan Decks Decks Beach Flip Å Leave-Bryan Leave-Bryan (25) HGTV Income Prop.

Medical Mistakes Forensic File Forensic File Forensic File Forensic File (27) CNN } ››› Blackfish (’13) Tilikum, John Hargrove.

Flipping Vegas Å 9:02 Flipping Vegas Å 10:01 Flipping Vegas Å 11:01 Flipping Vegas Å (28) A&E Flipping Vegas Å Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes to the Dress Å Say Yes Say Yes (29) TLC Say Yes } › I Don’t Know How She Does It (’11) Å (30) W 5:00 Footloose } ››› Hairspray (’07) John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky. Å } ›› Tower Heist (’11) Ben Stiller. Å NCIS “The Inside Man” Å (31) SHOW } ›› Tower Heist (’11) Ben Stiller. Å MythBusters Å How/Made How/Made Deadliest Catch Å MythBusters Å (32) DISC Deadliest Catch Å } ›› The Vow (’12) Rachel McAdams. Å Valentine Day (33) SLICE } ›› Valentine’s Day (’10) Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates. Å } ›› Murder by Numbers (’02) Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling. Å Out of Time (34) BRAVO } Wedding Planner Mystery (’14) Erica Durance. Å } ››› Brazil (’85) Jonathan Pryce. Premiere.

11:15 2001: A Space Odyssey (36) EA2 7:15 } ›› The Reluctant Astronaut (’67) Don Knotts. Å Jail Å Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å Cops Å Vegas Jail Å Cops Å I Am Legend (37) SPIKE Vegas } ›› Happy Feet Two (’11) Voices of Elijah Wood. Å 9:45 Johnny Test Awesomes Fugget Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (38) TOON Total Drama Next Step The X Factor Å Hank Zipzer } ›› The Cheetah Girls: One World (’08) } ››› Motocrossed (’01) (39) FAM Life Derek Family Guy Paid Program Seinfeld Å Seinfeld Å King King (40) PEACH } ›› War (’07) Jet Li, Jason Statham, John Lone.

Just for Laughs: All Access Big Bang Big Bang Just for Laughs Å (DVS) Just for Laughs: All Access (41) COM Just for Laughs Å } ›› Flight Commander (’30) Richard Barthelmess.

(42) TCM 6:00 The Prisoner of Zenda (’37) } ›› The Corsican Brothers (’41) Ruth Warrick Å Guy’s Grocery Games Å Chopped Å Chopped Canada Å Guy’s Grocery Games Å (43) FOOD Chopped Canada Å Liquidator Liquidator Liquidator Mantracker Å Dog and Beth: On the Hunt Conspiracy Theory-Ventura (44) OLN Storage Can Snake Monster: Titanoboa! Å (DVS) } ›› The Wolfman (’10) Benicio Del Toro. Å (45) HIST Ice Road Truckers Å } ››› Black Sheep (’06) Nathan Meister. Å Dinocroc vs. Supergator (46) SPACE } › Primeval (’07) Dominic Purcell. Å Hell on Wheels Å } › Wild Hogs (’07) Tim Allen, John Travolta.

Hell on Wheels Å (47) AMC Hell on Wheels (N) Å MLB Baseball Washington Nationals at San Francisco Giants. (N) (Live) Å FOX Sports Live (N) Å (48) FS1 MLB Baseball The Dead Files Å Ghost Adventures Å Ghost Adventures Å The Dead Files Å (49) DTOUR Ghost Adventures Å } ››› Into the Woods (’14) Meryl Streep. Premiere.

11:05 } ›› Bad Words (’13) (55) MC1 6:55 } ›› The Hundred-Foot Journey (’14) Helen Mirren. } ›› The Equalizer (’14) Denzel Washington. Å (DVS) (56) MC2 7:15 } ››› Fury (’14) Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf. Å (DVS) Seinfeld Å Seinfeld Å How I Met How I Met Raising Hope Raising Hope Paid Program Paid Program (59) WSBK 6:00 } ›› Hostage (’05) News at 6:30 Two Men Two Men Masters of Whose Line Penn & Teller: Fool Us KTLA 5 News at 10 (N) Å (60) KTLA KTLA News } ››› Casino Royale (’06) Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen. Å } ›› Step Up (’06) Å (61) WGN-A Blue Bloods “Friendly Fire” News at Ten Sports Desk Raymond Raymond The Pinkertons Å Alien File Alien File (62) WPIX MLB Baseball } ›››› Kramer vs. Kramer (’79) (63) EA1 5:45 Fried Green Tomatoes (’91) } ›› Midnight’s Children (’12) Satya Bhabha, Rajat Kapoor. Å (DVS) Aikam Taur Punj.

Lashkara Waqt 4 U Success (70) VIS Des-Pardes 2015 Parapan American Games Closing Cermony. (N) (Live) Å Love Child (N) Å CBC News Al (71) CBRT ATP Tennis The Amazing Race Canada Orphan Black Å (DVS) Bitten “Nine Circles” News-Rinaldo News (72) CFCN W5 Å (DVS) 60s & 70s Slow Songs (My Music) Å Il Volo: Live From Pompeii Italian favorites.

(81) WTVS My Music: Country Pop Legends Country and pop charts.

WHAM News Paid Program Animation Scream Ring of Honor Wrestling Anger Paid Program (82) WUHF Home Free Å (DVS) Hannibal (N) News 9:29 Saturday Night Live Å News New P90!

(83) WDIV Gymnastics Boston EMS (N) Å News Funniest Home Videos Castle “Cuffed” Å Paid Program (84) WXYZ Beyond the Tank Å 48 Hours Å The Good Wife Å The Good Wife Å Leverage Å (85) WWJ Criminal Minds “Boxed In” Final 24 “Keith Moon” Å Mediums Encounters Unfaithful: Stories Unfaithful: Stories (101) OWN Cracking the Case Medical Medical } ››› Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (’05) Johnny Depp.

Blackstone (115) APTN Longmire “Wanted Man” Degrassi Å Degrassi Å The L.A. Complex Å Awkward.

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(116) MTV One Bad Choice Å Canada Sings Å Canada Sings Å True Crime Scene News Hour SNL (118) GBL 16x9 “The Respirator” Å Evening News at 11 (N) Å Game Time (N) Å The Watchlist E! 6:00 } ›› Two Weeks Notice 48 Hours Å _ Package Deal CityNews Weekend (N) Å The Beat Glenn Martin CityLine Å 6 CITY 2015 Parapan American Games 16x9 “The Respirator” Å Canada Sings Å Canada Sings Å True Crime Scene > GBLBC 6:59 News Hour (N) Å

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(46) SPACE The Last Ship (N) Å Humans Å } ›› The Day the Earth Stood Still (’08) Keanu Reeves. Å Humans Å (47) AMC Humans (Season Finale) (N) UFC Insider UFC Unleashed (N) Å FOX Sports Live (N) Å NASCAR V.L. FOX Sports Live Å FOX Sports (48) FS1 MLS Soccer Bikinis Bikinis Museum Secrets Å Big Crazy Family Adventure Bikinis Bikinis (49) DTOUR Big Crazy Family Adventure 7:20 } ›› Hercules (’14) Dwayne Johnson.

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LUANN Aug. 15 2001 — Astronomers announce the discovery of the first solar system outside our own.

They discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.

1972 — Harold Ballard, president of Maple Leaf Gardens, is convicted of 47 charges of fraud, tax evasion and theft of $205,000 from the Gardens to pay for personal expenses 1971 — Start of First Banff Festival of the

Arts; it is six days long the first year.

1947 — Catholic Church abolishes meatless Tuesdays and Fridays.

1944 — Parliament passes Agricultural Prices Support Act, sets up board with $200 million.

1944 — U.S. and Canadian First Special Service Force joins Allied invasion of southern France. Canadian landing ships used on several beaches between Nice and Marseilles.

1914 — The Panama Canal is officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sails from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

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Mother not self-centred, just getting older Dear Annie: My mom is 83 years old. She wants to speak to me daily, but only to hear herself talk.

She lists ingredients for the stew she is making, items on the menu at the restaurant she was at, the play-by-play about a TV show, or minute details about the neighbor’s daughter’s ex-husband’s mother.

If I have some kind of urgent message, I have to say MITCHELL her name loudly several & SUGAR times to get her to pause long enough for me to insert why I am calling.

Mom’s hearing has faltered in recent months, but I guarantee you that the problem is more about her self-centeredness than her ears.

When Mom was younger, she would be mortified to display such obnoxious behavior, but whenever my father, siblings or I gently try to suggest alternatives, she gets super defensive and says we are just being hurtful.

We know this incessant talking about herself is why her few remaining friends rarely call. When we ask whether she calls them, she claims she is too busy.

I feel bad about avoiding her calls. But, Annie, I work from home, care for my large family and have other responsibilities. How do I bring this up so she will listen?

I’d also encourage anyone reading this to ask themselves whether they do all the talking and if so, to pay more attention to the person on the other end.

— Stressed on the Line Dear Stressed: Let’s start with the presumption that your mother is a bit self-centered. Then let’s add that she also is hard of hearing, losing her friends and possibly developing some age-related functioning issues.

All of these factors can increase her fear of getting older, her stubbornness in accepting her limitations, and her overreliance on the rest of you to provide companionship, conversation and comfort, as well as tolerance for her shortcomings.

It also means she may be unwilling to accept anything you say about it.

Ask whether you can accompany Mom to her next doctor’s appointment. Mention these things to the physician and request a referral to a geriatrician.

Tell Mom you love her and it’s time she saw someone trained to help her live a longer and healthier life.

For the rest, please be as patient as you can manage.

Dear Annie: I’d like to second the recommendation from “Papillion, Neb.,” about getting the shingles vaccine. I contacted shingles four years ago on one side of my face and up into my hair. The nerves on my face are totally damaged, I have pain and itch every day.

Anyone who has not had the shingles shot, please get it, even if your insurance doesn’t cover the cost. I hesitated, thinking it would not happen to me. I was wrong.

I have since gotten the shot because my doctor says if I get shingles again (it can happen), it won’t be as bad. It is the most horrible pain I ever experienced. — Greensburg, Penn.

Dear Greensburg: Thanks for the backup. According to the CDC, anyone older than 60 should speak to their doctor about the shingles vaccine, which is effective for six years.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Most deaths from Legionnaires’ disease are tied to hospital and nursing home showers, not outdoor cooling towers, new government figures released Thursday show.

Cooling towers are the focus of an investigation into a Legionnaires’ outbreak in New York City this summer that is one of the largest in U.S. history.

Twelve people have died.

But the new report shows people can also be exposed to the legionella bacteria through the water that comes out of faucets and bathroom showerheads. The germ spreads into the lungs through water vapour or mist.

“What you hear about is the cooling towers,” said Karlyn Beer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But the data show there’s also risk with water from showers, said Beer, the lead author of the new report.

Legionnaires’ is a deadly pneumonia that most often strikes the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. An estimated 8,000 to 18,000 people are hospitalized with the disease each year in the U.S. and nearly 100 die from Legionnaires’.

The new statistics are for the years 2011 and 2012.

During that time, 14 people died in Legionnaires’ outbreaks linked to potable water — showers, most likely.

Most occurred in hospitals or nursing homes.

Over the same period, five people died in outbreaks tied to cooling towers and fountains, and another five couldn’t be traced to a specific source.

Overall, illnesses from Legionnaires’ are still more commonly linked to outdoor cooling towers and decorative fountains that can spread water vapour over wider areas.

clude people from faraway places.

Plus it’s time to plan a heavenly holiday for some time soon.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Planning financial deals or Saturday, Aug. 15 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jennifer Law- professional projects looks positive today, as you combine business acumen with the gift of the gab. Your powers of perrence, 24; Ne Affleck, 42; Debra Messing, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s a delightful day to combine suasion are high so use them wisely.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When it comes to friendships family activities with plenty of fun. or business partnerships, it’s up to you to take the initiative.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: The next 12 months is the time to boost your cash flow and secure your financial future. But An unpredictable work matter is worrying you but don’t stress; you’ll bounce back in no time. don’t try to make decisions that loved ones LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Sun, Mars and should make for themselves. retro Venus are all in Leo, so you’re hard to ignore.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Impulsive asYour motto for the moment is from birthday great pects boost your ‘devil-may-care’ attitude, but Madonna — stand for freedom of expression and make sure any risks you take are calculated going after your dreams ones Rams.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll be given the Too much hot-headed hastiness could lead opportunity to communicate with someone on a to an argument or accident. deeper and more satisfying level today Virgo. PutTAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s a terrific ting others first leaves you with a satisfying warm day to spend some quality time with a special inner glow. child or teenager in your life. But a close friendLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If someone divulges ship or financial matter may head off in a sura scintillating secret today, make sure you hold prising new direction.

JOANNE your tongue!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today’s positive MADELEINE The stars are encouraging you to be a super aspects highlight study, travel, family functions, MOORE duper discreet Libran, especially about family matcommunity connections and stimulating converters. sation. So it’s the perfect time to talk, text and SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your obsessive tweet up a storm.

Scorpio side swings into gear but that doesn’t CANCER (June 21-July 22): When it comes have to be a problem. Use it to your advantage as to a close relationship with a friend, relative or neighbour, it’s time to get deep and meaningful as you discuss the real rea- you research a project or tackle tasks that need to be completed ASAP. sons why something isn’t working out.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Moon’s in your LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t be slap-dash Lions! When it reputation zone, so you’ll be the talk of the town. If you focus comes to contracts, business matters and financial deals, take the time to do all the research thoroughly before you sign on on important details and plan the week ahead, then you’ll have a productive day. Go Archers! the dotted line next week.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Conscientious CapriVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): With the Moon, Mercury and Jupiter in your sign, it’s time to shine. Public speaking and corn — positive aspects help you focus on what’s important, performing are favoured, as you display your leadership skills without obsessing too much. It’s also time to get up-close-and personal with a friend from faraway. and versatile Virgo talents for all to see.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today’s stars rev up your LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your positive attitude makes restless nature, as you shake things up in relationships and you popular ATM Libra. So a good day to socialize, network, entertain or look after young children. If you can, leave oner- show the world your contrary side. If you must be a rebel, try to be one with a worthy cause. ous tasks for another time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today’s positive aspects are SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Professional partnerships, business transactions and money matters are all favoured fabulous for all forms of homework, study, research and reviScorpio as long as you are patient. It’s also a suitable Satur- sion.

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Vintage Style We are seeing and hearing much about Retro Style today, where we revisit a popular era and embrace its furniture shapes and colour palettes.

Industrial Style is also a big news item.

Here’s where it’s bold to be bare; naked light bulbs, rugged brick walls, worn wood floors and utilitarian furniture create an edgy mix.

Fusion Style is here to help us blend together more than one decorative look, which is appropriate given that most homes DEBBIE are decoratTRAVIS ed over time, and our tastes and interests change.

There is a look that continues to survive decades of change, a style that glories in the past. It is pretty, romantic, and comfortable. This is Vintage Style, with its accent on a splendid array of florals and well-worn furnishings.

Faded shades of pink, blue and green produce a relaxed, joyful mood particularly inviting in a bedroom or living room. Like a well-tended garden, the elements of Vintage Style can begin on a small scale, and spread out and up as you cultivate collections and furnishings.

In the bedroom, start with a floral bedcover and lacey linens. In the living room, floral cushion and a distressed coffee table will make a brilliant start at creating the atmosphere.

In the new book Annie Sloan’s Room Recipes for Style and Color, by Annie Sloan and Felix Sloan, she talks about the endearing elements of Vintage Floral Style. “Florabunda is the defining element, with floral designs — predominantly roses — displayed on fabrics, bedcovers, upholstered chairs, cushion covers, wallpapers, and delicately designed china.”

Sloan reminds us that to keep a proper balance; with all this pattern you need lots of white, warm white that offers a soft glow to the textures and colours. Other key ingredients are distressed furniture, cut glass and heirloom bedlinens.

No room would be complete without a show of real flowers. A single glorious bloom, or an abundant arrangement of fresh cut flowers from the garden are fresh and evocative.

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ABOVE: Annie Sloan’s take on Vintage Floral Style features the rose pattern in both faded and brilliant colours.

RIGHT: A bed of roses is the centerpiece for this classic romantic bedroom.

From Sloan’s book, in the inviting living room shown here, the creamy white walls and sofa are soothing and allow the bright floral colours to stand out. Three striking patterns layered on the chair are united by a glorious shade of rose red. The lamp is “pure nostalgia” topped with its floral shade.

Roses are everywhere in the classic vintage bedroom, on bedlinens, in prints and vases. A distressed paint finish adorns the cabinet and mirror, blending quietly into the antique white walls. The aquamarine window top is a happy surprise, a taste of retro.

Sloan has an artist’s eye. Her knowledgeable advice and colour recipes highlight nine styles from Modern Retro and Warehouse to Swedish and French in this book. Her own Chalk Paint range is included to help you visualize how colours co-ordinate, and understand the fundamentals of a neutral palette. Glorious rooms and Sloan’s design tips are illustrated by splendid photography by Christopher Drake.

Scavenging season is coming up, time to visit city and country flea markets and antique sales. Time to find an old table or cabinet or picture frame and bring it back to life. Sloan’s book will spur you on.

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Balance wants and needs in home reno decisions This is the second in an occasional series of articles by builder and TV host Bryan Baeumler. Baeumler is the host of HGTV’s Disaster DIY, Leave it to Bryan, and House of Bryan.

Life is full of decisions. When it comes to our homes, those decisions are often expensive — so you want to make sure you make the right choice for you.

Should you renovate the kitchen or bathroom? Perhaps the basement paneling should finally go. Do you update the insulation, plumbing or electrical?

Should you build a man (or woman) cave, or perhaps head outside and add a deck? New siding or shingles? Maybe your house is too small for a growing family and you’re considering moving, adding an addition, or even tearing down your home and building a new one. And that’s only the beginning — once you’ve decided exactly what it is you’re going to do, there are a thousand more decisions on the plan, design and materials you’ll be using.

Then there’s furniture, art, accessories ... you get the picture.

As a whole, the process is exhausting — even for someone who does it every day. So, break it down.

Ask yourself why you’re not happy with your home the way it is. Location is about the only thing you can’t change — so if you love where you are, either consider buying a new home in the same neighbourhood, or proceed to the next step. If your home is too small, a major renovation to change the layout could maximize the use of space, or you might consider building an addition at a much higher cost to actually add square footage.

When deciding whether to renovate, add on or rebuild, it’s a good idea to first consult with a local real estate professional — unless you’re planning to live there forever, you typically don’t want to overspend for your area.

It’s generally agreed that kitchens and bathrooms yield the highest return when it comes to renovations, as they

are usually the biggest ticket items in your home. However, that’s not always the wisest decision. I’ve pulled up in front of homes with peeling shingles, single-pane windows and decrepit siding, only to be asked to quote on installing a home theatre or another luxury item.

At the end of the day, it’s your home, but you have to balance your wants versus your needs. You may want a home theatre, but you may need a new roof and windows. Movies in the rain are only fun at the drive-in, not in your basement.

Maintaining your home isn’t the same as updating your home, although a lot of people confuse the two. Homes need constant maintenance and, unlike a condo, there’s only one tenant to pay the maintenance fees. Maintenance takes priority and will affect your overall budget.

After identifying what your current home needs, you can start to look at putting together a want list. Ask yourself what your priorities are, and then make a list. Go through the list and prioritize your wants. Now, assign a very rough budget to those priorities from the top down until you’ve reached your overall maximum budget and erase everything below that line. Don’t forget to subtract any maintenance costs.

Your budget is the No. 1 limiting factor when it comes to what you can and cannot do when you decide to renovate.

Hopefully your priority list has been whittled down a little by now, and you can start to think about specifics. If you plan to stay in your home forever, there really are no rules and (after essential maintenance) you can splurge on anything you want. The longer you’re planning to stay, the more money you can safely invest making your home your own.

However, if you’re planning on selling in the near future, be careful not to blow the budget on items that customize a home to your specific needs. Your dream home may not be your target

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Bryan Baeumler has filmed over 300 television episodes including his hit series Leave it to Bryan, Disaster DIY, Canada’s Handyman Challenge, and House of Bryan, the highest rated series on the HGTV network. He has written extensively about home renovation in national publications and recently released his howto guide to renovation, Measure Twice: Tips and tricks from the pros to help you avoid the most common DIY disasters. Topics range from renovation tips to vetting and hiring practices when working with contractors. market’s dream home. I believe that as energy prices rise, more of a home’s real value will reside in renovations that reduce the operating cost of the house — insulation and efficient windows are great examples. It’s up to all of us to recognize and promote responsible renos. Consult those in the industry who specialize in how to make your home more efficient. You can check out www.baeumlerapproved.com for a list of trades people in your area who can help.

When it comes to selecting specific finishing items for your home, you have to decide what’s important to you.

It’s an unfortunate truth that most truly environmentally friendly products tend to be more expensive but they are the more responsible choice. Look for products from sustainable sources, with high recycled content and low energy consumption during manufacturing. Also look for healthy products that don’t off-gas or contain harmful chemicals. Depending on the extent of your renovation plans, you may be lim-

ited to aesthetic finishes, or have the opportunity to get deeper in the walls, which affords you more options, but also increases costs.

Remember that the larger the renovation, the more options you have, which also means the more decisions you’ll have to make. Laying out your plans well in advance will help you avoid becoming overwhelmed, and will also give you the opportunity to shop prices and stretch your budget.

Now, go make a list — you’ve got some decisions to make.

Bryan Baeumler has filmed over 300 television episodes including his hit series Leave it to Bryan, Disaster DIY, Canada’s Handyman Challenge, and House of Bryan, the highest rated series on the HGTV network. Based out of Ontario, Bryan owns and operates Baeumler Quality Construction, and founded the Baeumler Family Foundation, a charitable organization that provides renovations to families in need of safety, accessibility and security. For more information visit bryanbaeumler.com.

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Brightening up the basement Question: We are close to of furniture without creating completing the renovation of bottlenecks and other traffic the basement in our home, a problems. raised bungalow.

In a room that will primarWe are having some trouble ily be used for watching televiplanning the decsion, comfort has got orating scheme, to be a main objecDAVID since this will be tive.

FERGUSON the new home of Seating cannot our current livbe placed too close ing room furniture to the TV, and you so it all has to be shouldn’t have to adapted. strain your neck to The problem get a good view. with this room is that it is not You should be able to reonly small, but long and nar- cline comfortably, if you row. choose.

Although the finishes are The appropriate lighting done really well, it continues types and fixtures should be to feel like a basement be- chosen to provide good amcause it has three windows, bient light, but being able to high up on the wall, and on- curl up and read will mean ly one of those provides very you also require task lighting. much natural light.

A carefully-selected comThe furniture was pur- bination of wall-mounted fix- Make a basement family room feel less like a cavern by choosing the same comfortable, modern chased a few years ago for a tures and recessed pot lights colours and finishes that you would use on the upper levels of your home. previous home, and consists on dimmers will reduce eye of a grey sectional sofa with strain for watching television, mote controls and snack food With that in mind, if it is include one or two area rugs, loose back cushions and a while strategically-placed dishes. still in top shape, instead of and wall hangings that share black leather swivel recliner reading light will brighten I have shown the TV unit replacing the sofa, thing about the furniture’s new colours. with foot stool. appropriately opposite the simply replacing the loose pilWhen considering a colour some seating positions.

The television will be low cushions and building a scheme, remember that this Try as I did to be uniquely sectional. mounted on the wall above a creative in furniture placeRight next to the sofa, your new colour scheme around room will be used primarily in stand that matches most of the ment, there are really only a black recliner and foot stool them. the evenings. wood furniture.

Since the base fabric in For that reason, you might few ways to appropriately ac- is shown located comfortably I would like to replace or commodate your sofa. close to the television, but both the sofa and recliner are consider going for a dramatic re-upholster the sofa with Below the windows, I have still allowing enough free wall neutral tones, you can add a scheme that uses a medium-tosomething more versatile and shown your sectional sofa space for a small writing desk, rainbow’s assortment of throw dark colour, or combination of colourful, but until I have got- comfortably placed in the cor- if you like. pillows that will not only add colours, on the walls. ten around to redecorating ner, facing the media centre.

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Why painting matters When it comes to painting, it isn’t just about colour chips, sheen levels or complementing the hue of the couch. Painting is really about visual renewal, and Havana, Cuba, is one city that reminds me how important this is.

Havana is a spotlessly clean city, even by Canadian standards. Its stunning architecSTEVE ture comes from MAXWELL an older era of affluence and style that ran full tilt until the 1950s. The streets are safe and wellordered.

But despite these things, Havana also has a distinct feeling of shabbiness. This feeling is unmistakable and comes from one thing. Most of the city needs paint. Needs it badly.

Dismantling of the U.S. trade embargo will probably bring renewing coats of paint to the city in time, but Havana as it exists now will always remind me never to under estimate the importance of paint on a large scale.

Paint matters on a smaller scale, too. It’s even more meaningful to our individual spaces and life stages.

Painting your own place means you’re not a kid any more, and painting as a couple marks a particularly important milestone in any relationship.

I had the chance to watch two 20-something newlyweds paint together for the first time this spring, and it made me smile because it reminded me of all the things I didn’t know at their age and stage. Practical things and relationship things.

Do-it-yourself painting has a way of bringing out sides of people that rarely surface during ordinary courtship. Painting well isn’t easy, especially when you’re new to it, so hope gets blended with stress as you try to keep things neat but don’t always succeed. Then there’s the give and take of who gives painting orders and who takes them. The bigger person is always the one who can take the orders with a smile, especially when it comes to painting.

The end result of painting together teaches lessons about working through the tough times and getting to a place that’s better than it was before. The

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TOP: Painting well is more challenging than it looks. DIY painting has been on the decline over the last 20 years, with professionals taking on more of the work.

RIGHT: A typical Havana building — beautiful but in need of paint. It may seem insignificant, but paint does more to brighten our hearts than any other single building feature.

BOTTOM: Painting is even more meaningful to our individual spaces and life stages. Painting your own place means you’re not a kid any more, and painting as a couple marks a particularly important milestone in any relationship. pattern of facing a challenge, working through it, growing bigger and getting better is something that we’re forgetting more and more often in our world.

Keep this in mind if you ever find yourself feeling less fond of your partner in the middle of a paint job.

Painting matters in a third realm, too. There’s a vital part of society that exists between the large scale of our cities and the small spaces of our homes and relationships. Non-profit organizations across Canada serve an important function, but they often do it on shoestring budgets that forgo paint for the same reasons Havana does.

There’s simply no money, and this is where a unique Canadian initiative is helping.

Dulux Paints will be treating 25 non-profit Canadian organizations in need with fresh coats of paint this year, plus the people to roll and brush it on. “We’re encouraging the public to nominate charities, non-profit organizations and other community groups in need of renewal anywhere in Canada,” explains Martin Tustin-Fuchs, brand manager for Dulux Paints. “This year we’re aiming to transform the 25 organizations in greatest need.”

Dulux has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars of paint and painters to community spaces since 2011, and nominations for the 2015 campaign are open right now. Know of a nonprofit that needs a facelift? Visit www. colourfulcommunities.ca to get your favourite place in the running.

Ultimately, painting is about empowering spaces and structures so they make us feel good. A big part of the value of a good paint job is the emotional boost it delivers, and the pursuit

of good feelings is one of the most powerful human motivators in the world.

And it all comes from a can, a roller and a brush.

When Steve Maxwell isn’t writing about home improvements, he’s the editor of Pro Painter magazine. Visit him online at SteveMaxwell.ca.

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Lighter, slimmer profiles give fresh vibe

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There’s been a subtle shift in contemporary decor; it started to emerge at this year’s furniture and design shows, and continues to gain ground in retailers’ fall and winter collections.

It’s a shift of light, in colour and design.

Hues are soft yet grown-up — snow, fog, lavender, blush. And after years of dark wenge wood and stolid furniture, we’re seeing elements with a lighter footprint. Blond woods like maple, ash and birch. Whitewashed oak and pine.

Legs are more tapered, profiles more attenuated.

There are more reflective surfaces — metals with patinas; mirror finishes; and transparent or opaque acrylics.

Much of it has a Nordic vibe, what some in international design are calling “The New Scandi.”

You can opt for a soft, casual approach with weathered woods and creamy linens, or a more dressed-up version with crisply tailored whites and burnished metals.

White walls are one easy way to get started. Farrow & Ball’s creative head, Charlotte Cosby, notes how effective whites and pale hues can be together. “Light neutrals create an illusion of a larger space and can act as a canvas, emphasizing artwork and statement accessories,” she says. “Try layering whites to create a softness and depth to rooms.”

Jackie Jordan, marketing director at paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams, sees a shift to soft, monochromatic palettes with creamy whites, warm greys, khaki hues and greyed blush tones.

“The serenity of these colours provides a sense of calm to balance hectic lifestyles,” she says. “They celebrate natural materials as well as honed, soft and sheer finishes. These colours lend themselves well to both luxurious spaces and casual retreats. ” As to furnishings, Kimberly Winthrop, designer for online interior-design marketplace Laurel & Wolf, says, “Bright, clean palettes give Scandinavian Design a minimal and modern feel, while still keeping beauty and a hint of glamour in balance.”

She says the look can work especially well for work spaces, where lighter hues and minimal decor can help focus the mind.

Don’t go overboard, however. You’re after rooms that look attractive, interesting and livable. Rooms dressed top to bottom in unrelieved white or one

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The Philadelphia design studio Konekt, helmed by designer Helena Sultan, offers the Gazelle wood dining table — sleek, lithe legs anchor a slab of white ash or walnut. The slim profile fits décor’s new interest in lighter woods, silhouettes and colours. neutral hue may look stark and clinical. Adding textures, eclectic pieces and artwork keeps the spaces comfortable.

Kardiel offers a chic tufted ottoman that pairs white cashmere wool with stainless-steel legs. Silky white leather clads a sexy Monroe midcentury sofa.

The Sputnik dining table is a slim glass slab balanced on shapely walnut legs. (www.kardiel.com ) At Design Within Reach, Swedish designer Greta Magnusson Grossman’s Grasshopper floor lamp perches a conical head on lithe legs; it’s available in hues like salmon, putty and blue grey. And simple circles of plywood give Danish designer Thomas Bentzen’s Around side tables a clean, spare appeal.

Pablo Pardo’s Swell pendants in matte white with anodized brass interiors evoke the simplicity of wa-

ter droplets, and come in three sizes. (www.dwr.com ) Light, reclaimed teak and a lacy rope seat make the Bentley armchair a contemporary standout at AllModern. A delicate starburst mirror from Ashton Sutton would add wall interest with a midcenturymodern vibe. A set of white lacquered storage boxes could hold tech gadgets, toiletries, jewelry or keys. (www.allmodern.com ) Lucite’s a wonderful material for introducing the illusion of airiness into a room; there are several pieces in Wisteria’s Disappearing furniture collection. (www.wisteria.com ) Z Gallerie’s got some fun, faux-fur slipper chairs on acrylic legs, with matching ottomans. Armless slipper chairs provide seating with a slimmer silhouette. (www.zgallerie.com )

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EDWARDS, Colo. — Bob and Karin Weber built their dream home 14 years ago, creating an 11,000-square-foot mountaintop oasis. Now that the couple is in their 70s, they’re ready to downsize and possibly move to nearby Vail.

After trying the traditional list-and-wait method of selling the 35-acre Elk Ridge Ranch, the Webers are putting their estate up for auction, hoping for a streamlined process and a more lucrative result.

Once considered a last resort to dump a property that was distressed or couldn’t sell, auctions have become a viable marketing option for selling luxury homes, mirroring common marketing techniques for high-end art, antiques and collectibles. There are still plenty of foreclosed luxury homes being sold off at cut-rate prices, but the perception of selling a luxury home via auction has started to change.

With sales of luxury homes and prices on the rise, sellers can use an auction to control the structure of the sale, set a firm deadline for the transaction and hope a bidding war will send the price higher. The buyers get an opportunity to tour the property before putting in a bid, unlike most foreclosure auctions, and have the opportunity to land a deal.

Properties costing more than $1 million represent about 3 per cent of the total housing market, according to the National Association of Realtors, and those doing luxury auctions are even smaller.

“There aren’t that many of us out there in this luxury real estate marketing world who are consistently doing high-end luxury home auctions around the country,” said Trayor Lesnock, founder and president of Platinum Luxury Auctions. “We’re definitely a niche market.”

Platinum Luxury Auctions’ sales volume more than doubled from 2011 through 2014 and the average sale price went from about $4.4 million last year to nearly $5 million so far this year.

Chicago-based Sheldon Good & Company, the brokerage firm selling the Webers’ home, has seen auction sales rise from 32 in 2010 to 62 last year. Sheldon Good has held 36 auctions so far in 2015 and expects more than 70 by year’s end.

Overall, sales of homes $1 million or more are up 8 per cent from a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors. Homes in the $250,000$500,000 range had the largest jump, climbing 17.4 per cent from May last year.

It can be a gamble for the sellers. If the brokerage company sets the minimum price too high, no one will show up for the auction. Too low, the property could sell well below market value.

Sheldon Good recently sold a house next to the 12th fairway of the Pebble Beach Golf Links for $14 million from a starting bid of $6.9 million.

On the other hand, a seller in Seattle who previously had a home on the market for $25 million ended up selling for $12 million after no buyers were willing to pay the minimum auction bid of $15 million. Sellers can only back out of an auction if their minimum bid isn’t met. Otherwise, they are locked in.

“The auction helped to identify the buyer and the marketplace,” Craig Post, executive director of Sheldon Good, said of the home in Seattle. “In this case, the market didn’t feel the home was worth $15 million. The seller listened and accepted a lower price.”

With an auction, the sellers have more control over when they sell and the properties are sold asis. In the list-and-sell method, the cost of selling the home gets split between the buyer and the seller.

In an auction, the costs get shifted to the buyer. The industry standard for a buyer’s premium is about 10 per cent, which is used to pay the brokerage firm, closing costs and commission to an agent who brought a buyer to the auction.

The seller typically pays an upfront marketing fee, ranging from around $45,000 up to $250,000, depending on the size of the property. That money is usually wrapped back into the sale, so the sellers usually get it back.

Auctioneers use the money to market the property internationally, saying it’s much more effective than a typical real estate agent listing the property on the Multiple Listing Service.

The Webers had listed Elk Ridge Ranch for $8.955 million until last October before abandoning the traditional selling method for an auction.

The starting price for Elk Ridge Ranch was set at $5.5 for an auction originally scheduled for July 28. Bidding was pushed back to August 25 because several potential buyers want to expand the home and asked for extra time to work with architects and builders to finalize their bids.

This luxury home in Edwards, Colo., is one of many properties in a trend once considered a last resort. Once used to dump a property that was distressed or couldn’t sell, auctions have become a viable marketing option for selling luxury homes, mirroring common marketing techniques for high-end art, antiques and collectibles. There are still plenty of foreclosed luxury homes being sold off at cut-rate prices, but the perception of selling a luxury home via auction has started to change.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 - OUT OF TOWN 1206 Windsor Ave ................... 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ........Cindy Dooley ......................... RE/MAX ...............................................................................597-0284 .............................. Penhold 3707-50 Avenue ........................ 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. ........Margaret Comeau .......... RE/MAX ...............................................................................391-3399 .... $419,900....... Sylvan Lake 23 Morris Court........................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Bonnie Meaney .................. SUTTON, LANDMARK.....................................885-4936 .... $325,000....... Blackfalds 4261 Westbrooke Rd ...... ......1:00 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Terri-Lynn .... Terri-Lynn Anderson . CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE..............

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Decker............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231 .............................. Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street .......11:00 ....... 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. ..Jessica .. Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Springbrook 19 Richfield Crescent...... ......1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. .....Debbie ..... Debbie Morgan........... ABBEY MASTER BUILDER .............. 587-377-0128 $320,500....... Sylvan Lake

SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 - RED DEER 15 James Street .......................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Nadine Marchand ........... ROYAL CARPET REALTY ...............................342-7700 .............................. Johnstone Park 161 Van Slyke Way ...........1:00 ........... 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Melissa Morin ........................ CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE .....................346-0021 .............................. Vanier East 19 Webb Close ............................. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Doug Wagar ............................ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................304-2747 .... $827,900....... Westlake 7 Alton Street................................. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Carol Donovan..................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................350-5502 .............................. Anders South 501 Wishart Street .................. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Alex Wilkinson...................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................318-3627 .............................. Westlake 15 Howarth Street .................. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Bob Gummow ...................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................598-7913 .............................. Highland Green 145 Lazaro Close....................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Nolin Maurier......................... REALTY EXPERTS GROUP ..........................302-2882 .... $498,500....... Laredo 148 Lazaro Close....................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Paul Jones................................... RE/MAX ...............................................................................343-3020 .... $519,900....... Laredo 151 Adams Close...................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Ivan Busenius ........................ RE/MAX ...............................................................................350-8102 .... $459,900....... Anders South 5804-44 Avenue ........................ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Tara Dowding........................ REALTY EXECUTIVES ........................................872-2595 .... $559,000....... Waskasoo 126 Ingram Close..................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Kelly Jones ................................. COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK.....392-0382 .... $485,000....... Ironstone 40 Halliday Avenue. ............. 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ........Avril Evans.................................. CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE .....................348-6303 .... $336,500....... Highland Green Estates 6 Thompson Crescent .... ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. ..Aaron .. Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... Timberstone 22 Tindale Place ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. ..Samantha .. Samantha ...................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6261............................... The Timbers 17 Lazaro Close ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Kyle ..... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo

SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 - OUT OF TOWN 40 Burris Pointe ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. .....Lisa ..... Lisa Suarez .................... ROYAL LEPAGE, LIFESTYLES...........

LIFESTYLES........... 782-3171 .... $579,900....... Lacombe 23 Morris Court........................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Bonnie Meaney .................. SUTTON, LANDMARK.....................................885-4936 .... $325,000....... Blackfalds 262 Teasdale Drive ................. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Bett Portelance ................... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE .....................307-5581 .............................. Red Deer County 5102-63 Avenue Close ... ...2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. .....Garry ..... Garry Raabis ................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK ............ 340-6789 .............................. Ponoka #32, 5308 Womacks Rd ... 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ........Cindy Dooley ......................... RE/MAX ...............................................................................597-0284 .... $124,900....... Blackfalds 1216 Westview Drive.......... 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ........Derek Austin ........................... CENTURY 21, YOUR REALTY ..................597-2871 .... $349,900....... Bowden 3 Bardwell Way .................1:00 ................. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jennifer ..... Jennifer .......................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6841............................... Sylvan Lake 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jocelyn ..... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612............................... Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd..1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Chantal ..... Chantal Decker............

Decker............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231............................... Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street .......1:00 ....... 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jessica ..... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Springbrook 19 Richfield Crescent...... ......1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. p.m. .....Debbie ..... Debbie Morgan........... ABBEY MASTER BUILDER .............. 587-377-0128 $320,500....... Sylvan Lake

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GRAY Gordon S. Aug. 10, 1932 - Feb. 27, 2015 A Celebration of Life will be held August 23, 2015 at the Pioneer Lodge, 4324 46A Ave. Red Deer, from 1 - 4 pm.

RENTON Bryan Renton of Red Deer, AB passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital with his family at his side on Aug. 10 at the age of 60, after a short and abrupt battle with pancreatic cancer. Bryan was born and bred in Glasgow, Scotland but eventually his family came across the pond and settled in Canada. Bryan ended up joining the Navy and getting to see many other corners of the world in result. After his tour of duty in the Navy he moved to Edmonton where he worked as a gasfitter by trade and quickly made a name for himself as the man to call for troubleshooting and repair in the HVAC industry. He met his wife, Bianca there and moved with her to B.C. to start a family. In 2001 he and his wife and two children ended up in Red Deer where they have resided ever since.

His hobbies included camping, golfing, woodwork, playing darts and many board games. Although his battle with cancer ended quick and untimely, he never lost his sense of humor, cracking risqué jokes the whole time to his doctors and nurses. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Bianca of 32 years, his daughter, Trish, and his son, Corey. A memorial service will be held at the Red Deer Legion (2810 Bremner Ave.) on Friday, Aug. 21 at 5:00 pm.

Corey can be reached to field any questions at (587) 876-9423.

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RAHKO Fredrick Niilo Rahko Margaret Irene Windle (nee Rahko) Inerment, Saturday, August 22, 1 p.m.

There will be a small service at the Rocky Mountain House Cemetery for Fredrick Niilo Rahko and Margaret Irene Windle ( nee Rahko ).

A reception will follow at the Royal Canadian Legion, Rocky Mountain House.

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

WASHKEVICH Michael Aug. 21, 1925 - Aug.10, 2015 On August 10 Michael peacefully left this world.

Michael will be sadly missed by his loving family and many dear friends. Michael was born in Laskow Poland and was the eldest son of Elizabeth and Konan Washkevich. In 1934 he immigrated to Canada with his mother, to join Konan at the family homestead west of Rimbey Alberta. Michael later had his own farm at Leedale, Alberta. He met his wife Nettie and they were married on June 6, 1955. They raised their family on the farm until moving to Red Deer in 1976 where they spent thirty-eight years. Michael leaves behind his loving wife of 60 years, Nettie: three daughters Irene Aldrich, Olga Stern and Debbie Baudais, and numerous Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren: his four siblings Mary Leblanc, Nena Rowat, Peter Washkevich and Nadia Papp. Michael was preceded in death by his daughter Anne Kimenius. He will be remembered as a wonderful Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother, Uncle and Friend. A Celebration of Life will be held from Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer on Monday, August 17th, 2015 at 11:00 AM. If friends desire memorial contributions may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta, #202, 5913-50 Ave., Red Deer, AB. T4N 4C4.

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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The children & grandchildren of Laurence and Val HOUSEMAN are pleased to announce their 40th Wedding Anniversary August 16, 1975 - 2015

Card Of Thanks BELLAMY We would like to thank our Children and Grandchildren for all their work they did to make our 60th Anniversary very special. Thank you to our relatives and friends for the gifts, baking and all the lovely cards. Thanks Jean and Eugene for all your help.

It was a great party; many Memories and Surprises.

Thank you All Ron & Dolores Bellamy

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Have current Safety certificates including H2S • Be prepared to work in Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd remote locations for is seeking a extended periods of time FLOORHAND • Must be physically fit Locally based, home every • Competitive wages, benefits night! Qualified applicants and RRSP offered must have all necessary Please email resume with valid tickets for the position current driver’s abstract to: being applied for. jbecker@colterenergy.ca Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary Central Alberta LIFE and benefits package The newspaper far mers along with a steady look to for best values in: work schedule. *Farm Machinery, *Feed & Please submit resumes: Grain, *Livestock, *Trailers, Attn: Human Resources *Supplies & *More.

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In Memoriam WALLNER - Joyce (Jay) Elaine Mar. 13, 1963 - Aug, 15, 2003 Quietly remembered every day Sadly missed along life’s way But in our hearts you’re always there.

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DECOINE Hank Joseph 1963-2015 The family of Hank Decoine sadly announce Hank’s sudden passing on Saturday, August 8, 2015. He leaves to mourn his daughter Alexandra and her mother Emily. His sisters, Sophia, Cecile, Christina and Lorna; brothers, Rick and Keith as well a many nieces and nephews Celebration of life at Potter’s Hands Church, 5202 53 Ave. Red Deer, Alberta, Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 10:00 am.

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NIELSEN Dale Apr. 12, 1940 - Aug. 10, 2015 Dale Nielsen passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital with his loving family at his side after a long, brave battle with cancer. Dale worked as a backhoe operator digging basements and footings in and around Benalto. Later he worked 6 years in Fernie at the Kaiser Coal Project, then back to Alberta to work on a gravel crusher. He loved watching his Blue Jays and the Chicago Blackhawks and also really loved playing Bingo. He will be sadly missed by his sons Darby, Dan and his partner Bonnie, Darren and Dayton, grandchildren Shawn, Sarah, Sheldon, Travis, Shari, Jeana and Danie, Tia, Tyler, Layne, Jade, Sage, Terrance, Kristin, Kasey and Kyle. Great grandchildren Benjamin, Jaden, Emily, Eve, Jacob, Mylo, Mya and Caiden. Also his sister-in-law Shirley, niece Susan, nephew Todd, daughter-inlaws Kendra, Susie, Monique, Kelly and Rolande.

He is also survived by his children’s mother, Donna Vig and his longtime friend Mary White. He was predeceased by his Mom and Dad, Orla and Edna, brother Darwin and sister Shirley. Dale was lovingly cared for by the Angels in Palliative Care in his last days and the family is forever grateful for their kindness. At Dale’s request there will be no funeral service. Condolences may be sent to the Parkland Funeral Home at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

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BAKER Arthur (Art) Arthur (Art) Leslie Baker passed away peacefully at the Ponoka Hospital & Care Center on Tuesday, August 11, 2015. He will be sadly missed by his son, John (and Margaret) Baker; his daughters, Ann (and Harvey) Sonnenberg and Helen (and Al) Kidney; his grandchildren, Conrad Enns, Jackie (and Chad) Robinson, Jeff (and Jessica) Baker, Alison Kidney and Amy (and Jason) Archambault; as well as his great-grandchildren, Troy and Brian Robinson, Lenyx Baker and Elizabeth Archambault.

Art was predeceased by his wife, May in 2003. A Memorial Service will be held in his honor at the Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 104), 5108 49 Avenue, Innisfail, AB on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 2:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Art’s memory may be directed to Royal Canadian Legion (Branch 104), 5108 49 Avenue, Innisfail, AB, T4G 1R1. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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OVER 100 LP records, (45 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020

1830

1630

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

2 Siamese, 2 Burman kittens $50/ea; 403-887-3649 KITTEN, (3) 12 wks, to give away, to good homes only.

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1640

Tools

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1660

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7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

1710

DISHWASHER, portable Danby, good cond. $200.

403-342-4774

Household Furnishings

1720

WANTED

1900

Travel Packages

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

3 BDRM, 3 flr, 3 bath house at 7316-59 Ave. to rent to over 35 yr. old couple. Five appliances, fenced yard., deck and 3 car parking. Rent/DD $1650. Ph: 403-341-4627.

AVAIL. immed. 3 bdrm. in Parkvale area 4614-47 St. Apply in person at 4610-47 St. No Pets.

EASTVIEW 3 BDRM. house, recently reno’d, fin. bsmt., 4 appls., no pets.

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Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning

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880

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403-347-2526

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403-347-5846

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1590

Household Appliances

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Earn Extra Cash 850

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(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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403-885-5020

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403.341.4544

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1760

Misc. for Sale

POT belly stove w/chimney’s pail shovel and poker, used in garage, exc.

SOLD! LEAPSTER 2 by leap frog cond. $200 with extra game. $10.; TEAPOT with creamer & Wooden doll house furnisugar, Avon collectible. ture, nursery set, several $25. 403-347-5846 pieces, $10; wooden doll house furniture, playground set, several pieces, $10. 403-314-9603 Cats

Firewood

OILFIELD TICKETS

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900

TRAINING CENTRE

880

1580

EquipmentHeavy

F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

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NORTH HILL (6889 50 AVE) LOCATION

830

1070

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Contractors

1100

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1300

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1130

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403-506-4822

1160

Entertainment

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Handyman Services

1200

Misc.

Services

5* JUNK REMOVAL CLEAN UP AND JUNK REMOVAL. 403 550 2502

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

1310

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects. JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

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1280

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1300

1370

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403-350-7602

1372

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1290

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1530

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880

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820

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860

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278950A5

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3030

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3140

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3190

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2 BDRM. bi-level in 4 plex Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., rent $995 403-314-0209 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

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3060

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4430

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4050

GREAT LOCATION. 4.6 acres of privacy, yet close to the town of Dickson and easy access to Glennifer lake. Older 1 1/2 storey home with extensive upgrades. 3 bedrooms plus a bit of a loft, master bedroom is on the main Áoor. MLS# c3656487 Directions: 1/2 mile West of the Hamlet of DICKSON $309,000. Contact E. Dwayne Hassett, CIR Realty 403-650-8605

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2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d. 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $790 rent/d.d. 403-346-1458

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5030

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4020

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5040

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5050

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5070

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5080

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5100

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American flag flies over embassy in Cuba

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Secretary of State John Kerry, and other dignitaries watch as U.S. Marines raise the U.S. flag over the newly reopened embassy in Havana, Cuba on Friday. Kerry traveled to the Cuban capital to raise the U.S. flag and formally reopen the long-closed U.S. Embassy. Cuba and U.S. officially restored diplomatic relations July 20, as part of efforts to normalize ties between the former Cold War foes.

HAVANA — Jubilant crowds waved American flags and chanted “Long live the United States!” as the Stars and Stripes rose over the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Cuba on Friday after a half-century of often-hostile relations. Secretary of State John Kerry celebrated the day but also made an extraordinary, nationally broadcast call for democratic change on the island.

Hundreds of Cubans mixed with American tourists outside the former U.S. Interests Section, newly emblazoned with the letters “Embassy of the United States of America.” They cheered as Kerry spoke, the United States Army Brass Quintet played “The Star-Spangled Banner” and U.S. Marines raised the flag alongside the building overlooking the famous Malecon seaside promenade.

Meeting more than 54 years after the severing of diplomatic relations, Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez set an early September date for the start of talks on full normalization of a relationship so long frozen in enmity.

Not all the talk was as warm as the sunny summer day. Kerry and Rodriguez said their nations would continue to disagree over issues such as democracy and human rights. But they also said they hoped to make progress on issues ranging from maritime security and public health to the billions of dollars in dueling claims over confiscation of U.S. property and the U.S. economic embargo on the island.

It seemed that virtually all of Cuba was glued to television or listening by cellphone as Kerry directly addressed the island’s people on political reform. That’s a subject that has remained off-limits in Cuba even as the singleparty government has implemented a series of economic reforms and re-established diplomatic ties with the U.S. “We remain convinced the people of Cuba would be best served by a genuine democracy, where people are free to choose their leaders, express their ideas, practice their faith,” Kerry said. He spoke before an audience of Cuban and U.S. diplomats on the embassy grounds and hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of islanders watching and listening live.

Addressing reporters with Kerry after the

ceremony, Rodriguez responded by indignantly opening his remarks with complaints of U.S. human rights transgressions — from police shootings of black men to mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base that Cuba says must be returned.

“Cuba isn’t a place where there’s racial discrimination, police brutality or deaths resulting from those problems,” Rodriguez said. “The territory where torture occurs and people are held in legal limbo isn’t under Cuban jurisdiction.”

Many Cubans disagree with that assessment, including Afro-Cubans who say discrimination is still rampant despite the revolution’s egalitarian ideals, and human rights groups who say regular, short-term arrests of government opponents aim to intimidate dissent and include beatings.

In New York, Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American senator from Florida, said he would reverse the Obama administration’s new Cuba policy on his first day in office, arguing it gives the Castro government international legitimacy and more resources to repress its people.

Kerry acknowledged that the Obama administration would have a difficult fight in Congress to end the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba so that normal business ties between the two countries could resume.

“There is no way Congress will lift the embargo if we are not making progress on issues of conscience,” Kerry said.

President Barack Obama also called for change in Cuba when he announced the new U.S. policy of engagement in December, but his words were less pointed than Kerry’s in Havana. Cuba formally reopened its Washington embassy last month. The U.S. raised its flag in Havana then, too, though saving the formal ceremony for Kerry’s visit. Three Marines who took part in the flag-lowering in 1961 handed over the new flag to Marines who raised it on Friday.

Kerry was the first secretary of state to visit since 1945, and his speech was remarkable for its bluntness and the national spotlight in which it came.

Many Cubans lauded Kerry’s call for reform, including greater access to technology on an island with one of the world’s lowest rates of internet penetration.

DNA evidence frees man in jail for 34 years CONVICTED OF RAPE AND MURDER IN 1981

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — A man who spent 34 years in prison for the rape and shooting death of a teenage girl was released from prison after a judge vacated his murder conviction, citing new DNA evidence.

Lewis Fogle, 63, was freed Thursday on bond because he remains charged and could be retried by the prosecutor who filed the joint motion to vacate the conviction with the New York-based Innocence Project.

“We are incredibly grateful to District Attorney Patrick Dougherty for working with us to conduct the DNA testing and for acknowledging that Mr. Fogle’s conviction should be set aside,” said David Loftis, managing attorney for the Innocence Project.

But Dougherty said his actions and the judge’s decision don’t mean Fogle has been exonerated in the death and rape of 15-year-old Deann Katherine Long in 1976.

“I am not agreeing that he is actually innocent,” Dougherty said. “I also don’t want to let somebody out that deserves to be” in prison.

Dougherty is reviewing and attempting to gather more evidence before announcing Sept.

14 whether Fogle will be retried for second-degree murder. In Pennsylvania, that’s defined as any killing that occurs during another felony, in this case rape.

Fogle has denied any involvement. He was the only one of four people arrested in March 1981 to be tried. Paul Cates, a spokesman for the Innocence Project, said attorneys don’t want Fogle answering questions about the case “because there’s too much at stake.”

“I hoped this day would come,” Fogle said as he was leaving the prison grounds, The Tribune-Review newspaper reported. “Sometimes it seemed like it was never going to come,” he

said.

Fogle’s wife, Deb Fogle, said they were “always hopeful” he’d be released.

“He’s my husband, and I love him,” she said tearfully. “We’re just so happy today.”

Deann’s body was found July 31, 1976, by a stranger picking blackberries in the woods.

The previous day, Deann’s younger sister saw a man telling her their brother had been in a car crash, and the sister later saw her in the man’s car.

That man checked himself into a psychiatric facility and was questioned about the killing five times but was never charged. But after he was hypnotized to aid in the investigation, he said he was present when Fogle, his brother and two other men raped the girl before she was shot.

Fogle was tried and convicted after three jailhouse informants testified he confessed to them.

Charges against his brother, who is imprisoned for a child sex conviction last year, were dismissed under speedy trial rules. Prosecutors eventually cited a lack of evidence in dropping charges against the other two, one of whom has since died.

Dougherty said the new DNA evidence came from a semen sample gathered from Deann’s body using new technology. The tests showed the semen wasn’t Fogle’s.

“I believe that would have been enough to give him a new trial, and that’s all I agreed to do,” Dougherty said. He’s having the sample tested to see whether it matches any of the others originally charged.

But even if it does, Dougherty said, there may not be enough evidence to retry Fogle.

Witnesses may have died or may not remember as much after all these years, he said.

“The question is, 40 years later, do we have the pieces of the puzzle?” Dougherty said.