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THE RED DEER REBELS WANT TO HOST A 2016 MEMORIAL CUP TOURNAMENT THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

It has been 21 years since Red Deer hosted its last truly prestigious junior hockey event — the 1994 world championship.

T h a t SUTTER CONTENT drought will WITH ROSTER B4 come to a conclusion next May when the city and the Red Deer Rebels present the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament, the national major junior championship.

“It’s going to be an exciting time … it will be the biggest amateur sporting event in File photo by ADVOCATE STAFF our province since the (2012) world juniors (in Calgary and The Red Deer Rebels celebrate their 2001 Memorial Cup championship victory at Regina. The Rebels, hosts of the 2016 Edmonton),” said Rebels own- Memorial Cup tournament, are hoping this scene repeats itself next May. er/president/general manager/ head coach Brent Sutter, who guided his team to a Memorial 2016 MEMORIAL CUP PREVIEW Cup title in 2001 at Regina.

“The Memorial Cup is a tough thing to win and it’s obviously just as tough to host it,” he added. “But we’ve had a lot of people put a lot of time into this and our goal is to host a Memorial Cup that will never be forgotten. We want to set new standards as to how things have to be done.

“I’m not saying past Memorial Cups haven’t been great, but we want to take it to another level here.”

File photos by ADVOCATE staff The Rebels were awarded the 2016 tournament in Octo- LEFT: Red Deer Rebels Captain Connor Bleackley advances the ber of last year, marking the puck past Glenn Gawdin of the Swift Current Broncos. first time since 1974 that the RIGHT: Red Deer Rebel Hayden Fleury during action at the province will stage the event.

“It’s absolutely insane that Centrium against the Calgary Hitmen. it’s been that long when evwas going on,” he said. “Here, ery other (western) province the following year.

The difference between it’s going to be everywhere, has hosted three or four times and the U.S. has hosted three the Quebec City event and the and that’s pretty cool. This tournament that Red Deer is going to be an outstanding times since then,” said Sutter.

Sutter and various Rebels will host was obvious, noted event and wherever you are Canadian Hockey League president David Branch presents the in the city staff and y o u ’ r e Memorial Cup to Red Deer Rebels captain Jim Vandermeer host com‘(THE 2016 MEMORIAL CUP) IS GOING TO BE EVERYWHERE, g o i n g following the team’s overtime win over the Val-d’Or Foreurs in m i t t e e members AND THAT’S PRETTY COOL. THIS IS GOING TO BE AN OUT- t o k n o w the 2001 championship final at Regina. about it.”

— includSTANDING EVENT AND WHEREVER YOU ARE IN THE CITY The event will require hunO f f - i c e space and the Hockey Hall of ing team activities Fame,” said Merrick Sutter. dreds of volunteers, precisely vice-presYOU’RE GOING TO KNOW ABOUT IT.’ w i l l b e “The Prairie Pavilion will be how many is currently being ident Merrick Sutter — BRENT SUTTER numerous the entertainment hub, with determined.

“We’re just working on that and orgaREBELS OWNER/PRESIDENT/GENERAL MANAGER/HEAD COACH a n d w i l l a beer garden and live enternow. We’ll be sending inforbe staged tainment. nizing com“We’re still finalizing the mation out to the public in mostly at mittee coWesterner Park, in the Park- official layout, but the two pa- late October and it will be earchair Ron LaRiviere — attend- Brent Sutter. vilions will be the core of the ly November when we do our “It’s going to be different land and Prairie Pavilions. ed this year’s Memorial Cup “The Parkland will host non-hockey activities. A good call out,” said Merrick Sutter. tournament at Quebec City on here. Quebec City is a bigger a fact-finding mission, which city, if you weren’t at the rink a combination of fan activi- chunk of the Westerner Altais common for teams hosting or the hotel you didn’t know it ty, merchandise sales, VIP plex will be used.”

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Celebrating the first month of classes at Normandeau, the Grade 1 through Grade 8 students participated in the school’s annual Turkey Trot Run on Friday. As part of the event, one student from each grade will receive a voucher for a turkey to take home for Thanksgiving dinner.

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CUP: ‘We don’t want to be a one-and-out team’ “We’re just establishing now how many volunteers are going to be needed and in which areas.”

Brent Sutter is confident that he has the team that can challenge for the Western Hockey League crown and head into the Memorial Cup as a true contender.

If he has any doubts regarding the ability of his team and/or has certain areas he feels must be upgraded, he won’t hesitate to execute one or more trades during the season.

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next season and beyond, which has often been the case with past Memorial Cup host teams that have mortgaged their future in the quest for a national championship.

“We don’t want to be a one-and-out team,” said Sutter. “We don’t want to be a team that hosts one year and then takes a nosedive. We want to be a consistent team every year and to that end Shaun (assistant GM/director of player personnel Sutter) and his scouts have done a great job of focusing on the bantam draft and selecting good players.

“If I have to add to the team this season, I will.

We have the depth to do that and that’s a tribute to Shaun and his staff.”

That the 2016 Memorial Cup tournament will be a resounding success is a virtual given, Sutter insisted.

“We have a great building and a great city and we know we’re going to get the support from everyone in Central Alberta. It’s going to be a sold-out event,” he said.

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“We’re excited about it and it’s going to be here quickly. Since we won the hosting bid, the past year has gone by very fast … the Memorial Cup is now just another eight months away.”

Sutter fully realizes and is thankful for all the work and organization that went into the Rebels’ Memorial Cup bid and has continued since last October.

“Merrick and Ron have done an amazing job of putting the right people in place to oversee committees,” he said.

“It’s been a process, but like I’ve told everyone, let’s enjoy this instead of getting frustrated with all the work. Let’s enjoy every moment because Red Deer is not going to get another chance to host for quite a few years … it might be another 15 t0 20 years.

“Let’s enjoy the ride, and that includes everyone who is involved with it, including the fans. Let’s have this be something that that we can all look back at and say it truly was an honour to host.”

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Jennifer Black with six counts of alcohol-impaired related offences causing death and injury.

Black is also charged with dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death and injury.

On April 5, police were called to a single vehicle collision on Highway 22 near township road 340.

Perry Vollmer, who was 57, and Brian Schrader, who was 65, were both killed in the crash, while a 50-year-old woman is still in hospital recovering from her injuries.

Mounties say alcohol, speed, and driver distraction were factors in the crash and ask anyone with information on Black’s whereabouts to call them.

A Red Deer woman who was behind the wheel in two separate hit-and-run collisions was sentenced to nine months in jail on Friday.

Cora Nicole Bush, 35, pleaded guilty to 14 charges in Red Deer provincial court connected with incidents dating back to last November.

Bush was first arrested after being caught driving a stolen Pontiac Grand Prix on Nov. 3.

She had been released from custody on various conditions when she was in trouble again on Nov. 16. She was spotted driving a stolen Chevrolet Avalanche erratically in the area of 38A Avenue in Eastview moments before crossing the street and slamming head-on into a pickup.

The Avalanche was so badly mangled Bush had to escape out the driver’s window. Two passersby tried to hold her for police but she got away.

Bush was nabbed by police in possession of stolen vehicles twice in January of this year.

On March 11, she was behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle once again, this time a Toyota Corolla. When a police officer tried to pull her over in Highland Green around 10 p.m. she drove off at high speed.

RCMP didn’t chase her through the residential area out of safety concerns. However, she was still speeding on Riverview Avenue when she hit a cyclist at the corner of 60th Avenue and 54th Avenue.

The stolen vehicle was left abandoned in the middle of 56th Avenue. A police dog unit was called in but Bush and a passenger could not be found. Bush was arrested on March 20.

On Friday, she pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property over $5,000, flight from police, failing to stop at the scene of an collision causing bodily harm and failing to comply with release conditions in connection with the cyclist hit and run.

Guilty pleas were also entered on possessing stolen property, dangerous driving, breaching release conditions and hit and run in connection with the earlier collision. She also pleaded guilty to three other possession of stolen property charges and three charges of failing to appear in court.

Crown prosecutor Ann MacDonald suggested a prison sentence of six to nine months and a two-year driving prohibition for Bush, who had only a short criminal record dating back to March 2014.

Court duty counsel Amna Qureshi said Bush is a single mother of two children, in care of her mother.

Her relatively recent criminal history is partly due to a number of tragedies she has faced that may have led to psychological issues.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A prisoner who shot and wounded a sheriff at an Alberta courthouse in a violent bid for freedom has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars.

Crown and defence lawyers jointly recommended the term for 32-yearold Clayton Ness, who pleaded guilty to nine charges, including aggravated assault.

Justice June Ross ruled the sentence was appropriate given that Ness used a restricted weapon — the sheriff’s own handgun — and shot off one of the man’s fingers.

Provincial sheriffs are essential to the function of the courts, Ross said Friday. “They absolutely deserve the protection of the courts when they are attacked while carrying out their duties.�

An agreed statement of facts said the wounded sheriff, Allan Buttree, and his partner, John Griffiths, transported four prisoners to the courthouse in the town of Whitecourt, about 180 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, on Feb. 26, 2013.

Along the way, the sheriffs realized they had forgotten keys to the courthouse holding cells, but decided to continue as they were running late.

They shackled and handcuffed the prisoners and left them in unlocked cells. The handcuffs were later re-

moved so the inmates could eat lunch.

Court heard that Ness, who had been arrested on drug charges, had a lengthy criminal record. Standing six-foot-six and weighing 279 pounds, he and another prisoner attacked the much smaller 71-year-old Griffiths as he was sitting at a desk in the holding area.

As the two prisoners fought to get the sheriff’s gun, he yelled for help.

Buttree, 44, had been sitting in court and bolted to the back room.

The officers wrestled with the prisoners and were beaten on their heads with one of their batons. The second inmate got Griffiths’ gun and fired shots that went through a wall into a busy courtroom next door. About 20 people were inside and some fled in panic.

Ness next grabbed Buttree’s gun and, as the officer reached to get it back, Ness pulled the trigger. The sheriff fell, bleeding and screaming in pain.

Court was told that one of the prisoners snatched the keys to the sheriffs’ van and, while still shackled, they drove off.

A lawyer tried to follow in his own car but lost track of the vehicle.

A short time later, RCMP found the van stuck in snow in a farm yard not far from Whitecourt. A man was about to start his backhoe and pull out the van, when Mounties ordered the prisoners to surrender.

Murder charge laid after body found

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Keston Hingley holds up a cardboard box, depicting an ocean complete with a boat and fish, as classmate Lyla McKeage fastens some tape to the project at École Barrie Wilson School in Red Deer on Friday afternoon. The two Grade 3 students along with their partner, Isabelle Simpson, were working together on a project-based learning unit event entitled ‘What Can You Do With A Cardboard Box.’ The introduction to project-based learning has the students learning to use collaboration, peer critique, planning, as well as mathematics and language arts skills together.

police are still waiting for the results of toxicology tests.

Stacey Charles Wahpistikwan, a 38-year-old man from Big Island Lake Cree Territory in northern Saskatchewan is also charged with indignity to a body.

Mounties say both men knew each other.

TABER — A charge of second-degree murder has been laid following the discovery this week of a man’s body in southern Alberta.

RCMP say Silas Kiseyinewakup, who was 36, was found Tuesday morning adjacent to a farm where he was employed north of Taber.

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Relief program ‘a disaster’: minister CALGARY — Alberta’s municipal affairs minister says the province’s disaster recovery program is a “disaster in and of itself� and there will eventually be changes.

Derek Bilous was responding to a resolution backed by delegates at the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association calling for an external review of the program.

The issue was brought forward by High River Coun. Bruce Masterman, who says the problems his town encountered during major flooding in 2013 are not unique.

she was sorry for what she had done. “I’m not someone who means to do these kinds of things ‌â€?

Andreassen sentenced her to 270 days in prison, with credit given for 41 days based on her time in custody.

She is prohibited from driving for two years on her release from prison and must provide a DNA sample to a national database.

She will also be on probation for a year and must undergo counselling as directed by her probation officer.

Bush was also ordered to pay $1,000 restitution to cover the insurance deductible of one of the owners of the vehicles she damaged.

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BUSH: Benefit from treatment, counselling “I think this is an individual that would benefit from treatment and counselling,� Qureshi said.

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Bilous said the government has been looking at disaster relief and there will be an announcement from the environment minister, but no date has been set. “It was something that we inherited which I can tell you ‌ from talking to people when it first was launched, was a disaster in and of itself,â€? Bilous said.

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Collaboration key component of upcoming legislation

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta municipalities will be required to work together for the “better good” as part of the new legislative framework that governs how all local governments in the province will operate in the future.

The current Municipal Government Act came into effect almost two decades ago and was to be updated a couple of years ago but was delayed as a result of the 2013 floods and municipal elections.

Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Derek Bilous gave a progress report on the legislation Friday to delegates attending the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association convention in Calgary.

He says the government will introduce the updated act in the legislature next spring and all changes will be proclaimed before municipal elections in the fall of 2017.

A key component of the legislation will be greater regional collaboration.

“The current structure of the MGA has led to municipalities competing against each other instead of working with each other,” Bilous told reporters after his speech.

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nerships and find new and innovative ways to integrate services, to manage growth and to use land better,” he added.

Bilous said giving the regional bodies increased taxation powers has not been discussed but will be with stakeholders before the act is proclaimed into law.

He said the co-operation is not a request.

“It’s legislation and so municipalities that contravene that are essentially breaking the law and there are consequences for those that do,” Bilous said.

“We’re looking at ways to support municipalities to partner and work together and so funding is a great way to incent that behaviour.”

Bilous said the legislation will resolve a number of outstanding issues involving municipalities and should result in better provincial-municipal relations and increased fairness and consistency for taxpayers.

Wildrose MLA Pat Stier said he had concerns about new growth management boards from the metropolitan regions of Edmonton and Calgary. Stier said it was only in a tweet by Bilous later that it was learned membership would be mandatory.

Bland tourism slogan draws attention

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OKOTOKS — Officials in a southern Alberta town are laughing all the way to the bank over a bland tourism tagline that has fired the imaginations and tickled the funny bones of social media users.

The slogan “There are a number of things to do in Okotoks” was photographed on a Calgary transit train and mocked on the Internet this week.

Shane Olson, economic development manager for the community just south of Calgary, isn’t at all offended by the attention.

He says the line was part of a bigger ad that started running on Calgary Transit during the Stampede last July.

The actual catchphrase is “Let your summer unfold in Okotoks” and the “number of things” was meant to draw attention to tourism sites and festivals.

There were other segments from the ad inside transit trains which actually did outline “things to do in Okotoks.”

“Hindsight is always 20-20, but we’re having fun with this, and now it’s gone viral and we’re getting a lot of attention for the community,” Olson said Friday.

“We’re highlighting the things that are awesome to do in Okotoks and we’ve created a hashtag .thingstodoi-

nokotoks.”

Social media is playing along with the hashtag and suggesting other slogans.

“Taber may have corn, but you can swear and spit in Okotoks,” writes Giant Blue Ring in reference to a bylaw in Taber, another southern Alberta town, that bans swearing and spitting on the sidewalk.

And in reference to the local tourism attraction known as the “Big Rock,” transported far from its place of origin by glacial ice: “Okotoks we have a rock that can beat paper and scissors,” tweeted Angelo Rinaldi.

Community slogans have been in the news before.

The town of Tisdale, Sask., is considering changing the slogan it has used for 60 years: “Land of Rape and Honey.”

Rape in the slogan refers to rapeseed, which has a number of varieties, including canola.

The entire cost of the Okotoks campaign was $5,000, said Olson, so the community of 25,000 is getting its money’s worth.

“Our whole goal here all along is how do we get Calgarians, being those day-trip visitors that they are, to shop and dine in Okotoks? And now this has gone all over Canada and people are talking about it.”

Wednesday to face first-degree murder charges in the deaths of 27-year-old Terry Blanchette and his two-year-old daughter Hailey.

He did not appear and instead his case was put over to Sept. 30.

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LETHBRIDGE — Two Calgary media outlets are reporting that the man charged in the slaying of a two-yearold toddler and her father in southern Alberta has come out of a medically induced coma.

Global and CBC say unnamed sources say 22-year-old Derek Saretzky was speaking as of Friday afternoon.

Saretzky had been scheduled to appear via closed-circuit television inside a Lethbridge courtroom on

LETHBRIDGE — The RCMP now say the death of a 43-year-old Lethbridge woman is being treated as a homicide.

Victoria Joanne Crow Shoe’s body was found along the shore of the Oldman River Reservoir at the Windy Point campground on Sept. 13.

Police say they’ve gotten a significant number of tips and information in response to a police release and now investigators believe she was killed.

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Tories playing to anxiety over the unknown Just how anxious are we?

Are we fearful that jihadists will infiltrate the masses fleeing Syria and land on our shores?

Are we concerned that allowing women to take the citizenship oath with their face covered will somehow render the fabric of the Canadian TIM family?

HARPER Do we lie awake at night INSIGHT believing fiscal deficits will lead us to ruination or that an NDP government federally would somehow replicate the “unmitigated disasters” of their provincial cousins?

There is no doubt Stephen Harper can claim a constituency on each of the above propositions he is putting to voters. If he can begin to move voters on two or more of those elements of doubt he has sown, he can build from his base and start reaching for a minority government on Oct. 19.

All three propositions are highly debatable, but each has a grain of truth that will appeal not only to Conservatives, but possibly the soft Liberals the Conservatives are courting.

Let’s look at each in isolation.

Conservatives deserve credit for moving to streamline the refugee acceptance process in this country, a week after announcing they will match humanitarian aid pledged by Canadians.

Canadians and the opposition parties also deserve credit for pushing Harper off a position that badly misjudged the level of compassion in this country.

Now that they have responded, however, the Conservatives still find it impossible to move off their baseless message that their opponents would forsake security for expediency.

Immigration Minister Chris Alexander quite reasonably says we cannot ignore the risk of jihadi terrorists seeking to exploit the generosity of nations such as Canada.

But Conservatives don’t stop there.

At last week’s economic debate, Harper made this claim: “These guys would have had, in the last two weeks, us throwing open our borders and literally hundreds of thousands of people coming without any kind of security check or documentation.”

Neither NDP Leader Tom Mulcair nor Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has ever suggested airlifting refugees to this country without security checks.

No one ever called for hundreds of thousands. The three parties can differ on numbers and timelines and argue over “political will,” but for Harper to

suggest the opposition parties are not concerned about security is flat-out fear-mongering.

Similarly, Harper’s decision to seek a stay on a court decision allowing Zunera Ishaq to cover her face during a citizenship ceremony is playing to fears of something different, something vaguely threatening.

When Conservatives argue — as they have intermittently — that their objection to the niqab is rooted in its oppression of women, they can spark a rational debate, but Harper rarely tries to make that case.

Harper is not promising to go as far as some of our European allies.

France banned face coverings in public places in 2011 and Belgium was close behind with its own law. The Dutch cabinet passed a partial ban in public places such as schools, hospitals and public transport this year.

But Harper’s argument that an “open, tolerant, pluralistic” society demands we reveal our face when seeking to join the Canadian family is

disjointed. Surely, an open, tolerant and pluralistic society would tolerate a woman from Pakistan who wishes to join this family being allowed to do so while honouring a custom sacrosanct to her.

This is not necessarily a Conservative “wedge issue,” used for short-term campaign gain.

They have vowed to reintroduce legislation banning the niqab at citizenship ceremonies within 100 days of being re-elected.

Lastly, on the economy, Harper is now vowing to “protect” the fragile economy — protect it from big deficits from Trudeau or those abject failures of NDP governments which Mulcair is sure to replicate.

Mulcair may yet rue the day he fell into the balanced-budget trap, but he can make a cogent case for New Democrats balancing the budget.

He needs only to point to previous administrations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, while Harper points to previous and current NDP govern-

ments in Ontario and Alberta to raise doubts.

Conversely, anyone can point to previous Conservative provincial governments — or the Harper government — that have run deficits because balancing the books is more often the product of circumstances rather than ideology.

Raising doubts about the unknown is a tempting target for an incumbent desperately trying to hang on one more time.

Fear is the trump card against change. Harper is betting that the unknown is scary, and he will argue that only he can protect us from the bad guys, whether they are coming to our shores or are already here waiting to kill your job or endanger your investments.

But a month out, it is an open question as to whether there is enough fear in the land in 2015 to play to Harper’s agenda.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer syndicated by the Toronto Star

Government needs active role in competitive market For the election, the timing couldn’t be better. A report by three economists, led by former senior Finance Canada official Don Drummond, highlights why economic growth has to be the big priority and why active government is needed to make this happen.

Conventional reliance on the free market economy won’t DAVID cut it, the report CRANE says, challenging prevailing INSIGHT economic orthodoxy.

The report — The Key Challenge for Canadian Public Policy: Generating Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth - contends we need a new approach to achieve stronger economic growth, that is also green growth and equitable growth, if we want to sustain our healthcare system and all the other public goods we desire. Indeed, as I have long argued, how to achieve stronger economic growth should be a central theme in the election campaign — but so far, unfortunately, it isn’t.

In the report, published by the Ottawa-based Centre for the Study of Liv-

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For some time, economists have assumed that market-oriented policies, such as boosting competition, embracing free trade and cutting taxes would drive economic growth, with nothing much left for governments to do. “But Canada has not experienced the boon in productivity which many had hoped these policies would bring,î the economists say.

A new approach is needed, with “a more active role for government in the competitive market.”

In their report, the three economists highlight several areas where government could act now to improve economic growth, productivity and jobs: Boost business spending on new technologies such as machinery, equipment and software; increase public investment in infrastructure; raise the level of investment in technological innovation, including research and development; and adopt a green growth strategy to develop new green industries and jobs for a low-carbon world.

Business investment in new machinery and equipment, a big driver of improved productivity, has been disap-

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pointing despite the array of tax cuts and other incentives for investment. In 2013, business investment in machinery and equipment was equivalent to just 3.87 per cent of GDP, a 52-year low, the economists note.

The U.S. has corporate tax rates much higher than Canada, yet invests more in innovation. “This demonstrates in simplistic fashion that while the rate of tax on capital may be an important variable, other factors lead to American superiority over Canada on investment and productivity.” It’s about more than tax rates.

Canada also suffers from underinvestment in infrastructure and the report urges government to “take advantage of low interest rates and the current output gap to increase public investment.”

As the authors argue, “temporarily running larger deficits to fund valuable public investments while stimulating the economy during periods of poor economic performance are justifiable.”

Then there is the innovation gap.

R&D spending by both business and government, as a share of GDP, has been declining significantly for some time. “Canada’s gross R&D intensity in 2014 had receded to its 1987 level; business R&D intensity has declined to the level last seen in 1992; and government R&D intensity was at a historic low.”

Yet if Canada underinvests in innovation it will simply fall further behind

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The three economists also point to the potential for new Canadian companies and jobs from adopting a green strategy, including carbon pricing, for a low-carbon world. Government, they argue, “should take special note of the potential of the global clean technology industry.”

Indeed, if Canada continues to resist the transition to a low-carbon economy, it will fail to develop the new industries and technologies, and the jobs that go with them, as other countries race ahead.

The three economists acknowledge that critics will point to past failings from activist policies as well as threats from more debt in the short term. But as they argue, the alternative to a more active role for government, “to continue the status quo, should not be acceptable le to Canadians and their governments. Canada can and must do better economically, socially, and environmentally. This requires going in new directions.”

No political party has yet emerged that seems ready to boldly lead Canada into new directions for a stronger growth strategy that also shares the benefits of growth among all Canadians and leads in the transition to a greener, low-carbon world. But there’s still time.

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Familiar faces “I can’t believe you remember me; it’s been more than three years since I’ve been here, I think that’s just amazing.”

This came from a fellow who used to frequent the kitchen and had been gone for three years or more.

H a d h e shaved, combed his hair and put on a suit, combined with the normal aging, I CHRIS might not have SALOMONS recognized him so easily. But STREET TALES he still has the same semi-shabby look he did when he lived on the street, and it did not take long and he was again mingling with the street crowd.

I once heard a quote that says that “the more things change, the more they remain the same.” Not sure where or from whom, but for a lot of people it is very true. For some, life has its comfort zones, and so that is where they stay, while others make desperate attempts to break away, but circum-

stances often seem to draw them back to a lifestyle that they hated in the first place; much like the other quote that comes to mind: “a dog often returns to its’ vomit.”

As I was contemplating these things, one thing that came to mind was the number of people whom I have met at the kitchen that have left a permanent impression on me. Allow me to introduce you to a few.

I met a lady who in middle age embraced a faith that was new to her and because of her love for the downtrodden, became a woman of such compassion that she has become “Mom” to the street.

I met a man who lives daily with the image of having killed his father who was constantly beating on his mother and himself.

I met a young girl whose father and a couple of uncles sexually abused her, leading to her first abortion at age 13, and now because she feels she is not worth more, has no home but the street and occasionally prison.

I met and continue to serve a retired mechanic whose battle with illness along with the bottle leads me to believe that any day now I will hear of his death. In spite of it all, he is a most gracious and grateful man for everything he receives.

I met a middle aged woman whose childhood abuses led her to attempted suicide at age 16, only to have her father visit her in the hospital presenting her with a hunting knife so she could complete the suicide the next time. Although she has made permanent, positive changes, mentally she will suffer for the rest of her life.

I met a native child who grew up on the street in the last few years, and whose own brothers introduced her to drugs and life on the street.

Barely 16, she has already had one abortion.

I met a fellow who suffers from schizophrenia who is a beautifully gentle man who will never get away from the required drugs used to keep him on an even keel.

I met a man whose teachings led me to believe that a strong faith and a love for those who suffer was the best way to make a difference in the society in which I live.

I have met a whole group of people whose encouragements and care keep me walking with my head lifted high, and doing a work that I have grown to care about very much.

I met three women, and a couple of men, who in their life’s journeys have overcome great and many difficulties in their own lives who through the in-

fluence of their faith, and changes it has caused in them, have become my constant and increasingly important companions and valuable help at the kitchen.

I have met an 80-year-old retired pastor who several times a week comes to the kitchen to share his genuine love for God, embracing and encouraging each person who come through the door; a man who these folks have also grown to love.

I have a wife and children (and of course the two most beautiful granddaughters in the world), who along with other immediate family, support and encourage what I do.

So, do I remember individuals who have been gone for years who come back? Of course I do!

And the reason I do is simple. With every face that comes into my life, be it an old face, (age as well as absence), or be it a new face, each one has contributed to my life in such a way as to make me realize one thing.

All of these together with my faith have made me realize that there is no man on the face of this Earth who has greater wealth, than I. Not one!

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

Eliminating poverty is achievable Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson wants to eliminate poverty in a generation.

You have to admire his vision and ambition, but it won’t be easy to accomplish this lofty goal.

The Mayor’s Poverty Task Force studied the problem and has recently made 28 recommendations. It identified the root causes of poverty as a chronic lack of jobs, difficulty accessing public services, and racism.

The task force recommended the establishment of a community development corporation to help the disadvantaged obtain the job training they need and advocated for a single card that could be used to access government programs and services.

Edmonton’s disadvantaged youth are particularly vulnerable and regularly fall into a negative cycle. A typical story often involves a young, unemployed aboriginal youth living on the street. This young person is fined for riding on the LRT without a ticket.

With no known address, all communication fails, court dates are missed, fines are doubled and then tripled, eventually warrants are issued and our youth is then classified as an offender. Soon the youth in question is gobbling up vast amounts of police time and court costs, as well as penal and healthcare resources.

According to the task force, it is a spiral of despair that could easily be avoided if we established an aboriginal culture and wellness centre, or gave greater support to groups like Edmonton’s iHuman Youth Society.

These entities provide vital support for at risk youth and could provide qualifying individuals with tickets for riding public transit.

The most obvious symptom of poverty identified by the task force is housing. Buying or renting accommodation in Edmonton is expensive, even for the wage-earning majority. For low-income families, it’s an enormous burden and for the worst off amongst us, it is an insurmountable barrier to normalcy.

The task force recommends examining creative ways to overcome this burden by building low-cost housing alternatives, including tiny homes, or small pod-type apartments, lodges, and temporary modular facilities.

Regrettably, these initiatives will help relieve the worst symptoms of poverty but will not address the underlying disease, which is the growth of chronic imbalances in modern capitalism.

For several decades, now, there has been a growing disconnect between economic productivity and wages. This imbalance — which did not exist prior to 1973 — is placing downward pressure on lifestyles and forcing large numbers on the bottom rung of the social ladder into poverty.

It is here that we must focus attention if we’re to cure our cities from the disease of poverty.

A great battle between capital and labour was fought in Western Capitalism during the 20th century. After two of the most violent wars in history and an unparalleled rights revolution, it was thought that a balance had been struck between these competing forces. Alas, just as victory was being celebrated in 1960s, capital seized victory from the jaws of defeat with the rise of the Chicago School and the free market ideas embedded in monetarism.

Since the ascendency of the Chicago School, there has been a significant diversion of resources from labour to

capital. The forces of globalization, various ‘free’ trade deals, and the importation of temporary foreign works has tipped the capital/labour balance dramatically. This has disadvantaged wage earners while creating — on the capital side — galloping asset bubbles in property and the stock market.

Edmonton’s Poverty task force recommendations are impressive and will help, but this problem is much larger than the City of Edmonton.

Nevertheless, initiatives to re-balance modern capitalism are desperately needed. What can reasonable people do?

The idea of a guaranteed national income has been tossed around for many decades now, and was once again highlighted by the task force. Clearly, this is a national issue that demands a degree of political will and popular support not presently on the horizon. Although many purists oppose it on principle, it would help solve the central imbalances in modern capitalism by providing wage earners and

the poor with an additional dividend on their productivity, a return on their social equity.

But Canadians could also look to the past for innovative ways of dealing with poverty.

In the past Canadians were more generous. Programs like the Homesteading Act in 1871, introduced by Sir John A MacDonald, helped millions of poor immigrants gain access to valuable assets in exchange for their labour and social commitment.

Neo-homesteading programs targeted at inner-city residents or aboriginal peoples would give millions a pathway to self-determination and help re-balance capitalism in Canada as a necessary prerequisite to the permanent elimination of poverty.

Robert McGarvey is an economic historian and co-founder of the Genuine Wealth Institute, an Alberta-based think tank dedicated to helping businesses, communities and nations build communities of wellbeing and a Troy Media columnist.

Never drop your tooth in a movie theatre I hadn’t walked into a screen door in quite a while, really.

And then this summer, in full view of the Better Half and the two Rotten Kids I casually strolled out to the patio and suddenly hit an invisible force field. At least that’s what it felt like. The sliding door was open, but the sliding screen wasn’t. Apparently. Thing is, about two days later, I did it again. Same screen; same HARLEY invisible force HAY field. Only this time I was in a HAY’S DAZE bit of a hurry, thumbing my phone and walking at the same time when I suddenly hit a vertical trampoline. I could’ve gotten a ticket for distracted walking.

But that’s not all. I’m clearly gaining momentum on the slippery slope of what many people my age call “losing it”.

I went down to the movie theatre the other day. Being a movie nut, as well as just a general nut, I often like to go to a movie by myself when the B.H. is working late or just wants to get

rid of me for a while. I like to sit in the dark and eat large amounts of buttered popcorn and if there happens to be a movie playing, all the better.

So I was sitting there in the dark with my popcorn, the coming attractions flickering away up on the screen when I started to think about the time, not long ago, I sat in that very theatre watching a movie with Jennifer Aniston in it.

I think it was Jennifer Aniston but I’m not entirely sure, but the thing is, it took me nearly 45 minutes to realize I had seen that movie before. And not only that, I had seen that movie in that same theatre one week earlier!

Boy, I’m losing I thought to myself. And then I lost my tooth.

I may have mentioned before that I have a flipper in my gub on account of having my front teeth smashed playing hockey as a kid. This flipper thingy is a little plastic mold that sticks to the roof of one’s mouth and has a pretend front tooth on the end of it that sits nicely in the hole where the hockey stick hit and where the real tooth is supposed to be.

I’ve had this flipper for quite a while now and as such it’s a bit loose and has a nasty habit of popping out of my chops on occasion. Like when I’m eating popcorn. So I carefully placed the flipper on my knee and dug into the popcorn which was in a container the size of a five gallon pail. I’m in the

dark and there’s something good up on the screen and I immediately forget and cross my legs and the flipper goes flying.

My advice: never drop your tooth in a movie theatre. It’s almost impossible to find in the dark, and also I found out that other people trying to watch the movie don’t really appreciate someone crawling around on the floor, using their phone as a flashlight. It’s surprising how bright a cell phone can be in a movie theatre. Not, however, bright enough to be able to find a flipper on the floor.

So I figured I’d find it sooner or later and settled in to watch the movie.

Thing is, I was kind of distracted on account of flippers aren’t cheap and somebody might step on it, and besides the floor of a movie theatre isn’t exactly a sterile environment. So as the movie went on, I would periodically go down on all-fours to feel around in the sticky floor flotsam for that flippin’ flipper.

Even in the flickering dark I could tell that people were starting to stare.

I would too if someone down the row started crawling around on the floor every fifteen minutes.

Finally the movie ended and I still hadn’t found the freakin’ flipper. As soon as the lights go on, I thought to myself, I’ll be able to find it before anybody notices that I’m on the floor.

And as the credits roll and people

start to file out, it’s still dark in there so I flop onto the floor and somebody suddenly says: “Can I help you, sir?”

An usher is standing there with a broom and a flashlight. “What did you lose?” he says helpfully. “My mind,” I mumble to myself and then: “Um, I dropped some money and, um, stuff…”

I just couldn’t bring myself to tell him that I’d flipped my flipper, and besides, I planned to find it and grab it before he actually saw it.

“Here’s something!?” the quizzical usher says, loud enough for everyone to hear, and in the bright beam of his flashlight my flipper shone and the fake tooth flickered from where it was lodged up against the seat in front of me. On the carpet, in the aisle. People walking by. Looking at my flipper.

I grabbed it, pretending that I was imminently surprised that it was a tooth and not some money and stuff, and steadfastly avoiding eye contact, I mumbled my thanks and got the flip out of there.

Oh and don’t worry I didn’t put it back into my mouth until I’d rubbed all the guck off the flipper on my pant leg. I’m not losing it that badly.

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.

A8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015

Leaders offer Accused killer’s refusal to sign more promises probation order was a ‘message’ as campaign resumes

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OTTAWA — With the French-language debate behind them, party leaders hit the campaign trail running today.

Both NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau offered new election promises on forestry and immigration respectively.

Mulcair said and NDP government would pump $105 million over three into the forestry sector.

Trudeau, meanwhile, is promising to make it easier to re-unite immigrant families.

Mulcair was working the Quebec City region, looking to shore up support in the province which has been his party’s base since the so-called orange wave of 2011. Forestry is a pillar of the provincial economy.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper was also in Quebec, with a scheduled appearance in a riding which went to the NDP by a razor-thin edge four years ago.

Trudeau was in Brampton, working a vote-rich region with a lot of electoral clout.

Mulcair said an NDP government would direct $55 million to forestry manufacturing facilities, steer $40-million to forestry for research and spend $10 million to promote Canadian wood products abroad.

Trudeau promised to immediately double the number of entry applications for parents and grandparents of new immigrants to 10,000.

He also said he would also make it easier for immigrants to come in if they already have Canadian siblings.

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe followed a strong debate performance by saying he’s caught a second wind in the campaign.

He kept a focus on the niqab issue, which has become an unlooked-for touchstone in the campaign.

Although Harper opposes veils at citizenship ceremonies, Duceppe says they have no place on either side of any public service.

Green party Leader Elizabeth May, who says her party has real prospects in Quebec, was in Montreal, hoping to make that wish a reality.

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Crew of fishing vessel that went down off Baffin Island reunited with families ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — One of nine men who survived 10 hours adrift in a life-raft off Baffin Island says he doesn’t know what caused his ship to sink, but that he won’t let the trying ordeal stop him from going back to sea.

The crew of the Atlantic Charger stepped onto dry land in Harbour Grace, N.L., on Friday after a weeklong journey from Frobisher Bay where their fishing vessel went down Monday afternoon.

Winston Dearing was greeted by his wife and said that even though he and his mates endured rough, four-metre seas and an uncertain fate, the experience was probably tougher on their families.

“I’m sure it was a lot harder on the family and friends at home than us,” said Dearing. “We knew what was happening. We kind of had some control of our destiny, but they didn’t know.”

The nine men all donned survival suits and made it onto a life-raft, where they fired off flares that caught the attention of a patrolling Aurora military aircraft, which raised the alarm.

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Alarm bells should have gone off when the man now accused of killing three ex-girlfriends refused to sign a probation order last year prohibiting him from contacting one of them or coming within 200 metres of her, a women’s rights group said Friday.

Amanda Dale, executive director of the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, said Basil Borutski’s decision should have been cause for concern.

“It’s a pretty pointed refusal and we know that if people have understood and digested the risk factors in domestic violence, it would have been a huge red flag,” she said.

“He was giving somebody a message and the message wasn’t properly interpreted.”

A refusal to sign the order doesn’t mean it lacks the weight of the law, and such probation orders take effect immediately, regardless of whether offenders sign them.

Dan Brown, a Toronto criminal defence lawyer, said the revelation about Borutski, charged Wednesday with three counts of first-degree murder, doesn’t Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS raise any particular red flags for him.

He said a signature is little more than an acknowl- Mourners hold a candlelit vigil in remembrance edgment that the offender read the order. of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Natalie “The order becomes valid when it’s imposed on Warmerdam in Wilno, Ont. on Friday. him. It’s not a question for him to agree or disagree with it,” Brown said.

Borutski is accused in the deaths of 36-year-old realtor Anastasia Kuzyk, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Carol Culleton, 66. He appeared in court earlier this week to face the allegations and was ordered held in custody until his next court appearance Oct. 5.

The bodies of the three women were found within hours of one another on Tuesday in a usually sleepy area of the Ottawa Valley about 180 kilometres west of Ottawa.

Borutski, 57, went to jail in 2014 after being convicted of assaulting Kuzyk in December 2013.

He was released last December, and placed on two years’ probation.

The terms of that probation required him to stay away from her and not to contact her, according to media reports. But Borutski didn’t sign it.

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B.C.’s local governments vote for power over pot shops despite federal stance VANCOUVER — Local governments in British Columbia have declared they have the authority to licence medical marijuana dispensaries, defying the federal government’s opposition to regulation of the illegal stores.

Delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention voted in favour of a resolution endorsing the position that they have the power to regulate pot dispensaries.

The resolution states that an ongoing court challenge of Ottawa’s medical marijuana laws has created uncertainty while pot shops proliferate and cause problems in B.C. Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal said the vote sends a strong message to the federal government, which has not provided reasonable legal access to medical marijuana despite court rulings requiring them to do so.

“We have to do it because they’re not doing their job. They are continuing to be at odds with the federal courts,” she said after the vote.

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WHETHER YOU ARE EXPLORING CLOSE TO HOME OR GOING FURTHER AFOOT, THERE ARE PLENTY OF GREAT REASONS TO ENJOY A GETAWAY THIS SEASON

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t’s always a little sad to see summer slip away, but the inevitable changing of the seasons brings with it the special beauties of fall, Mother Nature’s last hurrah before the snow flies.

There’s something magical about the changing colours and crisp air of this season, and autumn is an ideal time to get out and explore.

Fall travellers enjoy smaller crowds, better hotel rates, pleasant temperatures and few insects. Whether you are exploring close to home or going further afoot, there are plenty of great reasons to enjoy a getaway this fall. Here DEBBIE are a few ideas for great AlOLSEN berta autumn escapes.

Lake Louise Wonderfall

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Every autumn, the Canadian Rockies explode with colour as the larch trees shift from deep greens to golden yellows. Thousands of visitors venture into the Larch Valley in Banff National Park for spectacular fall hiking, and the annual natural event has spawned a festival known as Wonderfall. Until Oct. 12, visitors to Lake Louise will enjoy discounts on accommodations, festival menus at area restaurants, special interpretive programs and free activities. Parks Canada will also be operating a free shuttle for hikers into the Larch Valley to help reduce issues with parking and traffic jams. For more information on the festival and to see a list of some of the best larch hikes in the area, visit: www. banfflakelouise.com/Area-Events/Festivals/Fall/ Lake-Louise-WonderFall.

Canmore Festival of Eagles

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Every fall, thousands of golden eagles migrate through the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies on what has become known as the golden eagle super flyway. Viewing can be hit and miss, but it’s not uncommon to see 200 eagles in a single day. Scientists, volunteers and bird lovers gather annually in Kananaskis to count the eagles and assess population trends. (eaglewatch.ca) and the City of Canmore holds an annual festival to celebrate the migration.

Festival activities include free interpretive programs, guided eagle viewing hikes, workshops, kids’ crafts, guided nature walks, live entertainment and more. This year, the festival will take place on Oct. 17. Keep an eye on the Tourism Canmore website (www.tourismcanmore.com) in the coming weeks for more information on festival activities.

Calgary Zoo Illuminasia Until Nov. 1, the Calgary Zoo is featuring a new fall event known as the ILLUMINASIA Lantern & Garden Festival. The seven-week festival celebrates the cultures of Japan, China and India and showcases the 800 year-old tradition of Chinese lantern making, with more than 366 Chinese lanterns representing the different animals in the zoo. There will also be authentic world-class Chinese, Japanese and Indian entertainment, garden and culinary programs. Headliners representing each of the three featured cultural groups include Japan’s Kenichi Ebina, 2013 winner of America’s Got Talent; Phoenix HuaYun Artistic Troup from Montreal, and Sparq Productions Bollywood performers from Calgary.

The event runs nightly, Thursday through Sunday.

For more information and to buy tickets, please visit www.calgaryzoo.com/ILLUMINASIA.

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Autumn is one of the best seasons for hiking the Larch Valley in Banff National Park.

Fall hiking has become so popular that Parks Canada is operating a free shuttle service during the Wonderfall Festival in Lake Louise.

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Fall is the ideal time to visit a maze like the Corn Maze at the Kraay Family Farm near Lacombe.

The annual golden eagle migration sees thousands of eagles on the super flyway near Kananaskis Country.

There are raptor counting events and a fall festival.

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Carnival Fantasy to begin operations in Alabama MOBILE, Ala. — The Carnival Fantasy will begin voyages from the Alabama coast, marking the return of cruise ships to Mobile after a four-year absence, city officials announced Wednesday.

The Mobile City Council approved the deal between Miami-based Carnival Cruise Line and the city-owned cruise ship terminal on Wednesday.

The 2,056-passenger Carnival Fantasy will offer four- and five-day cruises to ports in Mexico, officials said. The agreement approved by the council is for about 13 months, meaning the cruises will run from early November 2016 to late November 2017.

The return of cruise ships to Alabama’s coast will have a large impact on the economy, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said in a statement.

“We are proud that Carnival has decided to bring a cruise ship back to the Port City,” said Bentley, who praised Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson for his role in the agreement.

“We look forward to welcoming the thousands of additional visitors beginning in fall of 2016, and the great impact this decision will have on our economy,” Bentley said.

Stimpson praised the terminal’s general manager,

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FALL: Don’t have to venture far from home Feast on the Frontier Cook It Raw Alberta “is a gathering of culinary luminaries who explore the possibilities of cuisine.”

Cook It Raw Events take place around the globe, and organizers hope the Alberta event will put our culinary scene on the world map. From Oct. 5-8, 14 local chefs and seven international chefs will explore Alberta’s culinary culture and collaboratively create dishes from locally-sourced ingredients for the Feast on the Frontier luncheon event at Rouge Restaurant on Oct. 11. Tickets are $125 and are available at www. albertaculinary.com/cookitraw/events. There will be a large number of free social media events taking place from Oct 5-11. For more information, visit: www.cookitraw.org/events/alberta/.

Heritage Park Ghoul’s Night Out Ghouls’ Night Out at Calgary’s Heritage Park is designed specifically for children aged 3- 9 and provides a fun and safe Halloween event for families. This ticketed event runs for four nights in October and features great activities like Witches Flying School, Zombie dance lessons, storytelling, a Monster Mash family dance, carnival games, Mexico’s Day of the Dead in the Old Opera House, and tea with Alice in Wonderland. Heritage Park will be decorated for Halloween, and characters will roam the streets.

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DJ Tiesto performs during a concert at the Presidente Festival at the Olympic Stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. DJ Tiesta join Afrojack, David Guetta and other EDM acts at the TomorrowWorld festival outside of Atlanta in Chattahoochee Hills, Ga. ing their families as our villages start growing,” Reed said.

If Beers had it his way, he said, TomorrowWorld would stay in Georgia for a century. Los Angeles and countries from Canada to Australia lobbied to host the festival, but Beers said he “fell in love” with the

Georgia farmland that resembles the Tomorrowland space in Belgium.

“It’s not only bringing a popular festival here from Belgium,” Beers said. “It’s also about finding a balance with everything between what’s happening locally. This is our second home.”

Sheila Gurganus, for her continuous talks with Carnival.

“Had it not been for Shelia Gurganus, this may not have happened,” Stimpson told AL.com. “Sheila never let the relationship die.”

Carnival executive Terry Thornton said he took note of Mobile’s willingness to help the company in 2013 when the Carnival Triumph went adrift in the Gulf of Mexico following an engine fire, leaving more than 4,200 passengers with no air conditioning or running water.

“The city rolled out its help for us … even when they didn’t have a ship,” Thornton said. “That didn’t get lost on us. It was important to have partners stand by you.”

Mobile hasn’t had regular cruise ships since 2011, when Carnival ended its seven-year tenure with the city. Carnival’s departure then left Mobile with an empty passenger terminal, which has been used for dances, weddings and other events.

United States on the artist.

It features three paintings and 50 compositional drawings and figure studies he created in red and black chalk in developing his portraits and fresco paintings.

NYC exhibition features work of influential Renaissance artist NEW YORK — An upcoming New York City exhibition looks at the work of a leading 16th century Florentine artist.

Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action comes to the Frick Collection on Oct. 7 and runs through Jan. 10.

It highlights the prolific work of an artist collected by the Medici family and other royalty and whose peers included Michelangelo and Raphael.

It’s the first major monographic exhibition in the crows. For more information or to buy tickets, visit www.heritagepark.ca/plan-your-visit/event-calendar/ ghouls-night-out.html.

The Jungle Farm — Extreme Pumpkin Carving & More Innisfail’s Jungle Farm has a huge u-pick pumpkin patch and a fun fall festival on Oct. 3. Visitors will enjoy scarecrow building, entertainment from a great local band and more. On Oct. 24-25, you can visit the farm to enjoy the annual extreme power tool pumpkin carving event. Pick your pumpkin and then carve your own jack-o-lantern using the farm’s power tools. The best part is the mess gets left behind. Fall visitors to the farm enjoy wooden play structures and a giant slide, a corn maze, a bale maze, a trike track, a pumpkin slingshot, bull roping, farm animals and wagon rides. Admission is $7.50 per person. The farm is open on weekends until Oct. 31. For more information, visit www.thejunglefarm.com.

Fall Fun in Central Alberta You don’t have to venture far from home to enjoy an adventure this fall. Heritage Ranch (www.heritag-

Agency report recommends SeaWorld orca facility expansion SAN DIEGO — A state government report released Friday recommends allowing SeaWorld to expand its killer whale facility at its San Diego park, outraging environmentalists who say the tanks could be used to breed more orcas to be kept in captivity.

The staff of the California Coastal Commission made the recommendations ahead of the regulatory board’s Oct. 8 meeting where it is scheduled to vote on SeaWorld’s permit request for the $100 million expansion.

The staff recommends attaching nine conditions to the permit that include requiring SeaWorld to not house newly captured orcas at its San Diego location. The report states that while no orcas have been taken from U.S. waters since the 1980s, the new facility could “potentially create the incentive to commit such capture in the future, which would be an adverse impact to California’s coastal resources and to a species of special biological significance.”

Tens of thousands have written the commission about the issue. Many expressed opposition to the plans, calling the expansion a marketing ploy to boost its plummeting marine-theme park attendance and not address their belief that orcas should not be in captivity at all. eranch.ca) has an annual pumpkin hunt. Guests enjoy a tractor ride, a bonfire, hot chocolate, popcorn and pick their own pumpkins in a huge pumpkin patch. Kraay Family Farm (www.kraayfamilyfarm) is open Tuesday-Saturday until Oct. 17, and it’s fun to try the huge corn maze after dark. The 2015 maze pattern is celebrating the 35th anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope. There are farm animals and 40 other on-farm attractions to enjoy during a fall visit. The Bowden Sun Maze (www.sunmaze.ca) is open daily until the end of September and then on weekends until Oct. 11. It features a maze made from 100,000 sunflowers. There’s also u-pick veggies and a lot of farm animals. On Oct. 2, Kerry Wood Nature Centre (www.waskasoopark.ca) will be opening the Kiwanis Harmony Garden, an interactive and accessible outdoor musical playground and park. The playground is designed to encourage children to explore the natural world using all of their senses. The new Imagination Grove Nature playground, indoor displays, interpretive programming, walking trails and bird blind make the nature centre a good fall outing for families.

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

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ATLANTA — One of the largest music festivals in Europe has made a splash since crossing into the United States a couple of years ago.

TomorrowWorld returns with 300 international electronic dance music DJs from David Guetta to Afrojack, along with NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal performing as DJ Diesel. The festival in suburban Atlanta has made a big financial impact since its 2013 debut: It is estimated to produce millions dollars for Georgia and is hiring around 5,000 workers for the event this year.

Festival co-founder Michiel Beers said he hopes the third annual festival can bring in even more business.

“We want to build around this fantasy world,” Beers said of TomorrowWorld, an expansion of Tomorrowland, which drew 400,000 people for the 11th annual festival in July in Boom, Belgium. Around 160,000 attended TomorrowWorld last year.

“This has become a symbol of global unity of happiness, bringing people together to have the best time of their life,” Beers said of the festival, which took more than a month to build. “It’s so surreal to see flags from Brazil and Africa at one spot. People travel 24 hours just to be here. I’m proud of that.”

Organizers expect festival-goers from 75 countries at an 8,000-acre farm in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, that will be filled with nine 3D element stages, including one that floats in a lake. The festival partnered with “Top Chef” finalist Kevin Gillespie to build a sit-down restaurant on site.

Around 40,000 people are expected to camp onsite in the DreamVille area, which has food, shopping, and yoga and spinning classes.

“It’s the beacon for EDM (electronic dance music), a place where DJs come to bring our best stuff,” said Alex Pall of the duo The Chainsmokers. “It’s like the Disney World for festivals. Maybe you’re a businessman one day, and dress in a tutu at the festival. It’s a fantasy. You forget about reality.”

Organizers say safety is a top priority. People under 21 can’t get in, and there are body checks, spot checks for cars, ID checks, undercover security guards patrolling and an event control centre, said Jamie Reilly, director of TomorrowWorld.

Chattahoochee Hills Mayor Tom Reed said he looks forward to the influx of young people in the area over the course of the city’s 10-year contract to host TomorrowWorld.

“They are the kind of people who will move to Chattahoochee Hills in 10 years, when they’re start-

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Welcoming the cows back home SWISS VILLAGES MARK RETURN OF COWS FROM MOUNTAINS EACH FALL WITH YODELING, ALPHORNS, COSTUMES

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ABOVE; Men in local costume take part in the Swiss Alpabzug, a celebration of the descent of dairy cows and goats from high Alpine pastures, in Urnaesch, Appenzellerland, in Switzerland. Cows and cowherds who have spent the summer in the mountains are greeted in villages with traditional music and food around Switzerland each autumn.

RIGHT; Children and men in local costume take part in the Swiss Alpabzug. their 11-foot-long instruments as the village waited for each of the nine herds to descend. The alphorn’s loud, mellow call can be heard for miles.

The effect of three of them harmonizing in Urnaesch’s cozy, cobblestoned village square could be felt as much as heard.

The region is no longer dependent on cattle for survival, and modern comforts like indoor heating have softened the impact of weather. But the rituals that have set the rhythms of life for centuries here remain important markers of identity to many Appenzellers, said Erika Kist, of the Museum for Appenzeller Traditions. The museum, in a 400-year-old house, offers a wealth of information and careful displays of traditional life, arts and crafts.

In addition to the descent of cows at the end of summer, Appenzellerland hosts cattle shows in the fall, celebration of the herds’ ascent to the high pastures in spring, and ancient mid-winter rites in which men dress up in fearsome costumes and carouse in the pre-dawn hours to scare away evil spirits.

The herders’ costumes are not just worn to entertain tourists. The costly outfits are also used in special occasions like weddings, church services or other folk celebrations, Kist said.

Many of the villagers waiting for the cowherds to arrive also wore the single hoop earring on the right side that’s part of traditional menswear in the region, along with Edelweiss, light blue or grey shirts patterned with the tiny Alpine flowers.

Once the cows were through, piglet races commenced and food stands sold beer, fruit cordials, dried or cured meats, and sausages sizzling on grills.

The redolent Appenzeller cheese was everywhere, and the smell of it roasted to melting drew a long line of fans for raclette — bubbling, crusty cheese scraped onto slices of bread.

It’s another tradition that clearly has a long life ahead.

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URNAESCH, Switzerland — First, the sound of cowbells and yodeling.

Then the guests emerge from the green hills: Swiss brown cows with bells as big as their heads, accompanied by little white goats and cowherds in traditional red-and-yellow costumes.

Here in the village of Urnaesch and across much of Switzerland, crisp falls days mean it’s time to welcome the cows that have been grazing in high Alpine pastures as they return to the lowlands to beat the snow.

The ceremonies, known as Alpabzug, Alpabfahrt or the Desalpe, are one of many cultural rites that still mark the seasons in this country of deeply rooted agricultural traditions.

The event has also become a tourist attraction, with the train from Zurich full that morning for the 90-minute trip. “This is such a part of rural Swiss culture, I had to experience it,� said Lorraine Curran-Vu, an American from Massachusetts.

The celebrations happen throughout September and October, but they vary from valley to valley — not surprising given the deep regional distinctions bred by impassable mountains. Switzerland’s 8 million residents also have four official languages (German, French, Italian and Romansh) and innumerable dialects.

But the region where Urnaesch is located, Appenzellerland, is particularly fascinating. It is one of Switzerland’s least explored areas, and the pace of change seems to match the inching of glaciers across the Alps — grindingly slow, even by the standards of conservative Switzerland.

Although Swiss women won the right to vote on the federal level in 1971, Appenzell’s two sub-cantons, or localities, were the last in the nation to concede women a vote in 1989 and 1990. One sub-canton, Appenzell Innerrhoden, remains the last place in Switzerland where local issues are still decided by open-air voting. Men turn out to vote in the town square wearing swords, while women bake traditional voting-day pastries.

In Urnaesch, the cow-welcoming processions followed a firmly established order. First came a young boy in yellow leather lederhosen, an embroidered red vest and knee-high white socks, then a little girl in a striped frock, tending a flock of tiny white goats, then a herdsman in full traditional garb matching the boy’s, plus a black hat festooned with flowers and elaborate metal-work decorating his suspenders, pipe, or watch-chain.

Then came the cows deemed perfect in body and milk production, bearing the heavy clanging bells on colorful, intricately worked leather collars.

Finally, the yodelers: four farmers walking side by side in red and black outfits. Their singing kept the animals together and moving down the mountain. The rest of the herd followed, capped by a farmer leading the bull and a cart with carved wooden moulds and implements used in butter- and cheese-making.

The hike from the limestone flanks of the craggy Santis mountain took most of the day. Villagers greeted the herders with glasses of fresh-pressed apple juice, wine or beer.

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Sutter content with roster

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR There is no guarantee that the Red Deer Rebels who host the Edmonton Oil Kings in their WHL season opener tonight at the Centrium will be the same version that, say, visits the Medicine Hat Tigers Nov. 1.

For now, though, general manager/head coach Brent Sutter is content with his roster that will be further fortified with the hopefully impending return of forward Conner Bleackley and defencemen Haydn Fleury and Nelson Nogier.

“I’m as comfortable with this team as any team we’ve had since I’ve returned (in 2012 after coaching the New Jersey Devils and Calgary Flames for a total of five seasons),” Sutter said this week.

His comfort level has risen due to roster moves he made last winter and during the off season, moves that he rightfully felt were absolutely necessary for a team hosting the Memorial Cup tournament next May. First off, he solidified the team’s back end with the acquisitions of Nogier and Colton Bobyk last winter. Those moves were followed by the off-sea-

son additions of forwards Ivan Nikolishin and Lane Pederson, via the trade route, and winger Michael Spacek, who was selected in June’s import draft.

And just lately …

“During training camp we identified that we needed another left winger, which can be difficult to acquire

better and better,” said Sutter. “He’s really going to add to our mix both this season and moving forward.

“We bolstered our blueline with Nogier and Bobyk and added more skill to our lineup with the other four guys.

We have depth now, we have skill and we have size.”

As for the team’s goaltending …

‘I’M AS COMFORTABLE WITH THIS TEAM AS ANY TEAM WE’VE HAD SINCE I’VE RETURNED (IN 2012 AFTER COACHING THE NEW JERSEY DEVILS AND THE CALGARY FLAMES FOR A TOTAL OF FIVE SEASONS).’

— BRENT SUTTER GENERAL MANAGER/HEAD COACH through a trade,” said Sutter. “But Shaun (assistant GM/director of player personnel Sutter) stayed with it and he found a player.”

The Rebels boss was referring to the recent signing of Brandon Hagel, a skilled winger who started the season with the Whitecourt Wolverines of the AJHL and who had already attracted interest from schools south of the border.

“He’s 17 years of age and a heck of a hockey player who’s just going to get

“Our goaltending is right where I thought it would be at this point,” said Sutter, who watched Rylan Toth develop as a starter last season and also brought in Trevor Martin, who eventually replaced Taz Burman — dealt to Seattle as part of the Pederson trade — as the No. 2 stopper.

“Tother has been really good during the exhibition season and he has to carry on from last season. And Trevor has to respond the right way as a backup.

“If we play the right way we’ll give ourselves a chance to win every night.

We should be confident with that because we have a good team.”

Sutter stressed that his players can’t afford to look too far ahead. In other words, they have to avoid savouring the notion of playing in the Memorial Cup and simply focus on the task at hand.

“Just focus on the process and take it game to game, day to day,” he said.

“I’ve talked to the players about that.

Let’s not worry about next May, let’s not get caught up in that, but rather just focus in on the opponent that night.

“You can’t be looking into the future because it will mess you up. We want to be in the tournament as a good team, so we need to have a good regular season and a strong playoff. Then we’ll have a great Memorial Cup. “To do it that way we have to make sure we stay focused on what we can control at the time and not worry about down the road.” ● The Rebels will appear on Shaw TV game telecasts on three occasions this season — Oct. 9 and Feb. 12 at Calgary and Jan. 30 at home versus the Brandon Wheat Kings. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Jays keep winning

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto 5 Tampa Bay 3 TORONTO — As the final pieces started to fall into place Friday night for Toronto’s long-awaited post-season return, knuckleballer R.A. Dickey reminded his audience that the Blue Jays won’t be satisfied with just a wildcard berth.

The Jays left Rogers Centre not knowing their fate. But Dickey was clear there was more work to do.

“I do not know the magic number,” the 40-year-old knuckleballer said after pitching the Jays to a 5-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, “The one thing I do know is the wild-card game is not something that we as a unit would celebrate. We’re after the division championship. I think we would all be incredibly disappointed if that were not the case.

“Would it be great for the fans if we got into the post-season in a wild-card?

I’m sure it would. But for us that’s not at all our mentality.”

Toronto (88-65) went into the game knowing a win over Tampa combined with losses by the Twins and Angels would secure a wild-card berth, ending the longest post-season drought (22 years) in Major League Baseball.

Detroit downed Minnesota 6-4, thanks to a home run by former Jay Rajai Davis. The Angels-Mariners contest was a late start.

At worst, Toronto was headed into Saturday’s contest with a magic number of one for the wild card and six for the AL East.

Dickey earned his 100th career victory and Josh Donaldson slammed his 40th home run of the season as the Jays dispatched the Rays. Kevin Pillar and Jose Bautista also homered for Toronto, which reached 88 wins in a season for the first time since 1998.

Former Jay J.P. Arencibia went deep for Tampa (75-79), which saw its three-game win streak snapped. His solo shot came in the eighth off reliever Mark Lowe.

Roberto Osuna pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 18th save.

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher R.A. Dickey throws against the Tampa Bay Rays during first inning AL MLB baseball action in Toronto on Friday.

Toronto outhit Tampa 10-5 in front of a sellout crowd of 47,696 with the Rogers Centre roof open.

Dickey, who is 8-1 in 14 starts since the all-star break, put on a show after a rocky two-run first inning that saw him load the bases on 11 pitches with one out on a double, single and hit batsman. Two runs came in on a wild pitch and sacrifice fly.

Dickey (11-11) then found his aim.

He conceded a single to open the second, then retired 18 of the next 19 — including his last 11.

He limited the Rays to four hits in seven innings. He had two strikeouts

and no walks in an 88-pitch outing.

“It looked like it was dancing pretty good tonight,” Tampa manager Kevin Cash said of the knuckler. “After the first inning there weren’t too many hard-hit balls off him.”

Dickey’s 100th career win came in his 100th Toronto start.

“It’s really really special,” he said.

“I think I had 28 wins before I was 35 and 72 after.”

Donaldson, playing DH instead of third baseman, homered deep to centre field in the third to tie the game at 2-2. Of Donaldson’s home runs, 27 have either tied the game or given Toronto

the lead.

He is the ninth Jay to reach the 40-homer plateau but only the third to combine it with 40 doubles and fifth with 120 RBI’s in a season. Donaldson is now one home run away from the club single-season record for a third baseman set by Tony Batista in 2000.

He almost got it in the fourth, hammering a moonshot into the 500 level just foul.

Bautista hit his 37th homer, into the second deck, to open the seventh inning.

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Cougars pull out 16-10 victory over Raiders in defensive tilt

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Cougars 16 Raiders 10 The Notre Dame Cougars and Lindsay Thurber Raiders hooked up in a defensive battle Friday night at Great Chief Park, but winning coach Gino Castellan felt his team left too many points on the field.

“We had our chances, we should have capitalized but we didn’t,” said the Cougars head coach, whose squad pulled out a 16-10 Central Alberta High School Football League victory.

“Against a good team you’re often going to pay for it and luckily we didn’t tonight.

“Our defence played tough when they needed to, but we made a lot of mistakes. But the good thing with our schedule is you can make those mistakes and still make the playoffs.”

Cougars quarterback Devin De-

sormeau completed four of 14 passes for 108 yards and one touchdown, but was also picked off three times. The Raiders, however, didn’t turn any of the interceptions — two by Dawson McCrea and one by Alex Fletch — into points.

“Our defence played well. I’m happy with our defence,” said Castellan.

“But our offence, again … we’re struggling a little bit and we just have to work the kinks out.”

Cougars running back Johannes Smith opened the scoring on a 50-yard run late in the first quarter and Notre Dame made it 9-0 on a safety four minutes into the second half.

The Raiders answered back when Bradley Pope scored on a six-yard run with 3:07 left in the half, but just 66 seconds later Desormeau hooked up with Payton LaGrange on a pass-andrun touchdown play that covered 60 yards.

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booted a 17-yard field at 8:23 of the fourth quarter to account for the only second-half points.

“Our defence played well, but they also played a lot and that was the problem,” said Raiders head coach Dave Smith. “There was a couple of breaks, but otherwise our defence held really well.”

LaGrange hauled in two passes for 100 yards and Smith led all rushers with 134 yards on 19 carries.

Raiders rookie quarterback Sean Vandervlis was seven-for-14 passing for 65 yards, with Goulet hauling in a pair of balls for 55 yards. Pope was the Raiders’ top ground-gainer with 93 yards on 17 carries.

“Our offence started to find a rhythm a bit in the second half,” said Smith. “Vandervlis, for this being his first high school game at quarterback … it wasn’t a bad outing for him. I was impressed with him. He’s a Grade 10 student and he’ll only get better.”

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Castellan remains confident his offence will eventually start to click.

“We have a lot to improve on and we will,” he said. “We have a good quarterback and we have great receivers. We just have to find that mesh.

Once that mesh happens I think we’re going to be OK.” With the victory, the Cougars improved to 2-1. The Raiders fell to 1-2. ● In a Central League game Thursday, the visiting Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody Lakers got touchdowns from Ryan Arnold, Caleb Johnson, Kyle Zenert and Tristen Koller in a 36-0 rout of the Rocky Mountain House West Central Rebels.

Daggan Slimmon booted two field goals and four converts for the winners, while Ty Hamilton rushed for 55 yards on six carries.

Levi Munday had three catches for 31 yards in a losing cause. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Second period costly as Kings fall to Thunder

BY DANNY RODE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Thunder 5 Kings 4 PENHOLD – There are times when a slight letdown can be disastrous.

The RDC Kings found that out the hard way in dropping a 5-4 decision to the Concordia University of Edmonton Thunder in their opening Alberta Colleges Men’s Hockey League game of the season at the Penhold Regional Multiplex Friday.

The Kings led 3-1 after the first period, but a couple of miscues in the middle stanza saw them trail 4-3 heading into the final 20 minutes.

“The second period cost us the game,” said Kings head coach Trevor Keeper. “We had a really good first period and a really good third period.

You should have success when you outshoot a team 48-24 and win 70 per cent of the faceoffs.

“We spent a lot of time in their zone.

The line of (Riley) Simpson, (Pat) Martens and (Tyler) Berkholtz was in their end the whole time.”

Simpson opened the scoring at 5:49 of the first period with Concordia’s Nathan Smith evening the count with a power play marker. However, Ben Williams connected at 14:17 and Martens at 14:37 to give the Kings a 3-1 lead after 20 minutes.

The Kings held an 18-7 edge in shots

in the first period and 16-11 in the second, but it was the Thunder who did all the damage against RDC starter Kraymer Barnstable in the second period. Adam Wheeldon scored just 18 seconds into the middle stanza, with Filip Kejdana evening the score at 15:20 on a goal from the right side that went in on the short side after Barnstable went down. Former Red Deer midget AAA Optimist Chiefs forward Brady Bakke put the Thunder ahead at 16:02.

“We had two or three players who had a below average game and they were really below average in that second period,” said Keeper. “That cost us. It’s a team game and you can’t have any weak links.”

Barnstable also would have liked a couple of the goals back.

“He knows that. He’s a fifth-year player and the momentum changed in that second period,” said Keeper.

The Kings outshot the Thunder 146 in the third period, but fell behind 5-3 with 39.5 seconds remaining on an empty-net goal by Wheeldon. However, Logan Sceviour made it interesting when he connected on the power play with five seconds left.

The Kings also lost a couple players with injuries and Williams when he was called for checking from behind on a questionable call.

“We did have to change some things around, but we were also one-of-six

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Pat Martins, RDC Kings forward celebrates after scoring the Kings third goal against Concordia Thunder, in Friday ACAC hockey action. on the power play. We had so many chances, made some real good plays and moved the puck but didn’t finish,” said Keeper. “We want to be at least two-for-six or even three-for-six. The thing is we played most of the game real well, but the letdowns in the second period and some goals that shouldn’t have gone in did us in.”

Goaltender Rhys Hadfield was the

Concordia player of the game, while Simpson took the honour for RDC. The teams meet again today in Edmonton with the Kings back home next weekend as they host Briercrest Friday and Saturday.

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at drode@reddeeradvocate.com. His work can also be seen at www,.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

Mitchell, Stamps use air attack to down Bombers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Calgary 25 Winnipeg 23 WINNIPEG — Rookie receiver Lemar Durant scored his first CFL touchdown and quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell threw for more than 300 yards and ran in a major as the Calgary Stampeders held off the Blue Bombers for a 2523 victory on Friday.

The win boosted Calgary’s league-leading record to 10-3. Winnipeg fell to 4-9.

The Bombers squeezed the score to 25-22 with under two minutes left after Troy Stoudermire ran a punt back 40 yards.

That helped set up Matt Nichols’ six-yard TD pass to Rory Kohlert in the end zone, followed by Cameron Marshall’s run for the two-point convert with 1:54 to go.

The Bombers started marching down the field and had a chance to tie the score, but were hurt by a procedure penalty. They ended up having to settle for a single when Lirim Hajrullahu’s 50-yard field-goal attempt went wide right with 39 seconds left.

Mitchell was pressured by Winnipeg’s defence, and sacked twice, but completed 27-of-35 pass attempts for 333 yards with one TD and one interception.

Nichols was 18 of 28 for 234 yards with two TDs and no picks in front of an announced crowd of 23,113 at Investors Group Field. The Stampeders had five sacks.

Durant, a Vancouver native, notched his first touchdown off a nineyard reception. Mitchell ran eight yards for his major.

Stamps kicker Rene Paredes ran his field-goal streak to 21 in a row by connecting from 32, 27 and 10 yards. Rob Maver had a pair of punt singles.

STORY FROM B4

JAYS: Gibbons points to big bats Manager John Gibbons pointed to the bats of Donaldson, Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion “They’ve all had huge years. That’s why we’ve scored so many runs. it’s been a pleasure to watch.”

Toronto has 217 home runs for the season, the fourth most in club history.

Tampa starter Jake Odorizzi (8-9) lasted five innings, dancing on a tightrope on all but one of them. He gave up four earned runs on seven hits with three walks and four strikeouts in a 111-pitch performance that included 67 strikes.

Toronto’s playoff charge has been remarkable, given the team was 50-50 on July 26. Since then, it has gone 3815 while outscoring the opposition 310186.

In his second game back from injury, Stamps running back Jon Cornish rushed 16 times for 94 yards after being forced back a number of times by the Bombers’ defence.

Winnipeg also got touchdowns off a 42-yard catch by Darvin Adams and a three-yard run by Marshall. Hajrullahu made both his converts.

Calgary led 8-7 after the first quarter and the game was tied 14-14 at halftime.

Winnipeg quickly went from bad to good in the first quarter.

Stoudermire, filling in for a temporarily injured defensive back Johnny Adams, intercepted Mitchell’s second pass of the game, but it was nixed by a Bomber pass-interference penalty.

Stoudermire soon grabbed a tipped Mitchell pass and three plays later, Nichols hit Adams with the 42-yard toss at 4:28 for the 7-0 lead after the convert.

The Bombers conceded a single three minutes later for Calgary’s first point.

The Stampeders took the lead late in the first quarter after Durant capped an eight-play, 79-yard drive with his TD catch at 13:43.

Paredes’ 32-yarder made it 11-7, but a face mask penalty by Calgary helped set up Marshall’s team-leading sixth TD of the season at 7:15 of the second.

Aided by a 33-yard catch from Marquay McDaniel, Calgary got to Winnipeg’s nine-yard line and Mitchell finished the 79-yard drive with an eightyard run up the middle to regain a 21-14 lead at 5:12 of the third quarter.

A punt single by Maver made it 2214 late in the third.

Winnipeg’s defence turned the pressure up on Mitchell in the fourth quarter, but he managed to throw a 47-yard pass to Eric Rogers midway through.

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Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ Darvin Adams hauls in the pass as he gets wrapped up by Calgary Stampeders’ Joe Burnett during the first half of CFL action in Winnipeg Friday.

Knox looks to inspire struggling Roughriders

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Through the first 13 weeks of the CFL season, Jeff Knox Jr., has made a name for himself with his sharp play on the field.

What may have been overlooked is his sharp tongue away from the game.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ linebacker is tied for the league lead in tackles with 75 and has been one of the few bright spots on an otherwise dismal season.

With the Montreal Alouettes (5-6) set to visit the Riders (1-11) on Sunday at Mosaic Stadium, Knox’s second calling as a motivational speaker may become valuable down the stretch for a team that could use a pickme-up.

“I’ll throw in my two cents in the locker room from time to time, but we have other guys who will throw their two cents in as well,” said veteran linebacker Tyron Brackenridge. “Every little bit helps because it

might be something you hear from another guy that enlightens you and opens your eyes to different things. (Knox) is that kind of guy.”

Following the Week 13 matchup with Montreal, Knox said he plans to pay a visit to his hometown in Pittsburgh and speak to approximately 150 kids who are involved in one of that city’s minor football leagues. Knox was raised in the inner city and faced several challenges in his young life, including getting kicked off his university football team as a freshman. Poor grades and questionable behaviour nearly lost him his roster spot as a senior.

That’s when Knox chose to take his life in a more positive direction.

The message he wants to share with the youth is the same one he’s trying to send to his teammates at the pro level.

“No matter what people tell you, no matter what people say about you, never give up on yourself,” Knox said. “You’re going to come across people your whole life that are going to tell you that you can’t do this or

you can’t do that or that you’re never going to make something of yourself. In your heart, you have to write your own story.

“I come from a bad environment and a lot of us didn’t make it out of that. There are a lot of guys before me and probably a lot guys after me who were better football players than I am, but they’ll never get a chance to tell people their story because of the circumstances we live in.”

The Riders have experienced their share of adversity this season. A season-ending injury to franchise quarterback Darian Durant in the first week of the regular season cast a dark cloud over the team. Injuries to backup quarterback Kevin Glenn and a host of other key starters quickly led to a downward spiral and eventually to the basement of the West Division.

Despite the league’s worst record, the Riders remain mathematically alive in the playoff chase.

They trail the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and B.C. Lions by just six points.

Redblacks kick off four straight at home by hosting Argos

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks hope to make the most of an extended homestand as they chase their first CFL playoff berth.

After spending four of the last five weeks on the road, the Redblacks (7-4) return for four straight games at TD Place, and a winning record through that stretch would move them to the cusp of a post-season spot.

Ottawa will play the four games in 21 days, three of those in a span of just 11, which is what makes this homestand so important.

“It’s imperative that you win at home,” said quarterback Hen-

ry Burris. “That’s the most important thing. You’ve got to protect home base. I’ve never been in a situation to have four home games in a row, but I’ll take it.”

The Redblacks kickoff their homestand Saturday night as they host the Toronto Argonauts (6-5). The two teams will meet again Oct. 6 in a mid-week contest that was moved from Toronto to Ottawa due to a potential conflict with the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.

Ottawa will be looking to extend its three-game winning streak, while the Argonauts will be desperate to put an end to a three-game skid.

Ottawa has some unfinished business with the Argonauts as the last time the two teams met

the Redblacks basically coughed up the game due to a number of foolish penalties. It also marks the Redblacks last loss.

“We lost a close one in Toronto so I’m expecting a great game,” said Redblacks running back Jeremiah Johnson. “I’m sure the fans want to see us give them a great whipping. This is a game against someone that could be a great rival.”

Midway through the season there were still a number of question marks surrounding this team, but it now seems to have found its stride along with a healthy dose of confidence.

“We’re doing well right now and finding ways to win,” said defensive tackle Keith Shologan.

“Even last week when we didn’t

have the game in the bag until the last play. On the sidelines last week we had a feeling that we were going to pull this out and find a way to do well and win and that speaks to the confidence that we have and the confidence in each other.”

The Redblacks currently lead the CFL in average net yards, first downs, offensive plays and time of possession. Ottawa sits alone in second in the East Division, but a win could put them in a tie with Hamilton for first.

“We know these next three games are hugely important because they’re against Eastern opponents,” said Burris. “It gives us a chance to battle for the top spot in the east, but we don’t worry about all that stuff.”

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ESKIMOS-LIONS PREVIEW

Esks looking for better performance from Reilly

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Henrik Stenson lines up a putt on the 17th hole during the second round of the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Club, Friday in Atlanta.

Stenson still on top SPIETH THREE STOKES BEHIND AT TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Two years after Henrik Stenson sailed to victory at the Tour Championship, he has another comfortable lead after 36 holes at East Lake and Jordan Spieth is chasing him.

Back then, Spieth was a 20-year-old rookie.

Now he’s the Masters and U.S. Open champion, and he found a spark in a steady drizzle Friday.

Stenson overcame a few mistakes off the tee and was solid on the back nine for a 2-under 68, stretching his lead to three shots over Spieth going into the weekend and moving closer to his first win of the year — and a $10 million bonus for claiming the FedEx Cup. “I didn’t feel like it was my best day, but I managed to keep it together and 2 under around here is never bad,” Stenson said.

He doesn’t know anything different. This was his sixth straight round under par at East Lake, a course where the Swede has led after every round he has played.

Stenson, who went wire-to-wire in the Tour Championship in 2013, was at 9-under 131.

Spieth has made only one bogey over two rounds, and a pair of par saves on consecutive holes on the front nine felt just as valuable as his four birdies in a round of 66. The average score was 71.6 on a wet day that yielded only four rounds under par.

Spieth went from the right rough to the left rough on No. 5 and still had 60 yards left and a tree in front of him. He took a risk going through the tree to 6 feet for par, and then rolled in a 20-foot par putt for a bunker save on the par-3 sixth.

“It was huge,” Spieth said about the par saves. “I thought I may have to re-tee, and I was just kind of all over the place at that time. And that third shot I hit on 5, I mean, one of 10, maybe. There was no other option, but it wasn’t necessarily smart. And I had to have the wind blowing this branch back and forth, I had to hit it when it blew it this way or else it would

LOCAL

BRIEFS

Local product off to sledge hockey selection camp Tanner Fandrey of Red Deer is one of eight defencemen — and one of 33 players in total — attending the weeklong Canadian national men’s sledge hockey team selection camp starting Sunday at Calgary WinSport.

The national team depth is evident with the return of 18 players who competed for Canada during the 2014-15 season, as well as 15 who helped Canada win bronze at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

“We had a strong development camp in Calgary last month, so the players and staff know what to expect,” said Shawn Bullock, senior manager of hockey operations and national teams with Hockey Canada. “This should

have gone up into it.”

He closed with a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-3 18th to get into the final group.

Paul Casey made bogey from the bunker on the 18th for a 70 and was four shots behind, while British Open champion Zach Johnson birdied three of his last four holes to overcome a double bogey on the par-5 ninth. He had a 70 and was at 4-under 136.

Jason Day, in his first event as No. 1 in the world, finally looked human. He felt flat, wasn’t sharp off the tee or into the greens, and shot a 71. It was his third round over par in his last 10 tournaments, and it left him nine shots behind.

Stenson was four shots clear of Adam Scott after 36 holes when he won the Tour Championship two years ago, with Spieth another shot behind. Spieth made a late run on Sunday and tied for second, capping off a remarkable rookie season.

He is looked at differently now — the Masters and U.S. Open champion and looking more certain to be voted PGA Tour player of the year.

“He’s one of the best players in the world as we know, and had a fantastic year behind him,” Stenson said. “So he’s going to be a very tough contender throughout these last two days. He was good already back then, but he’s certainly not any less good now.

We know that much. Once again, I’ve got to focus on my game and bring my game and keep my head down and foot down and press on if I want to leave the guys behind me.”

The biggest challenge figures to be East Lake, especially with more wet conditions in the forecast.

The Bermuda rough can be tricky when it’s dry because it can be difficult to judge how far the ball flies out of it. Wet rough is difficult in a different manner. It makes the course longer off the tee, and longer coming out of the thick grass.

Day hit a 3-wood from 195 yards in the rough on No. 5. Had it been dry conditions like Thursday, Day figures he would have hit 8-iron.

Stenson hit a 4-wood and a gap wedge to a front pin on No. 4 in the opening round.

be an exciting camp and we will have some difficult decisions to make.

“Our goal is to build the best team possible to have a successful year.

Players have the World Sledge Hockey Challenge (Jan. 17-23 in Bridgewater, N.S.) on their radar and want to be there, so there should be tremendous competition for roster spots.”

Grizzlys let one get away OKOTOKS — The Okotoks Oilers trailed 2-0 after one period but rallied for a 5-3 Alberta Junior Hockey League win over the Olds Grizzlys Friday.

With the score tied at three late in the game, the Oilers got empty-net goals from Matt McNair (power play) and Carter Huber in the final three minutes to pull out the victory.

McNair scored twice for the hosts, who fired 48 shots at Grizzlys netminder Kurtis Chapman. Colin O’Neill and Trey DeGraaf also tallied for the Oilers.

Chase Olsen, who also picked up an assist, James Miller and Landon Kletke, who tied the game at 3-3 at 13:04 of the third period, replied for Olds.

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EDMONTON — Mike Reilly is a fierce competitor, so it’s no surprise that last week’s showing by the Edmonton offence did not sit well with him at all, even if the Eskimos managed a win.

The veteran quarterback completed just seven of 22 passes for 49 yards in Edmonton’s 27-18 win over Hamilton. That was the lowest passing total in a league game by a winning team since Winnipeg Blue Bombers completed just two passes for 15 yards in a 19-12 win over Hamilton back in 1974.

“He (Reilly) would have liked to have practised on one of our days off,” head coach Chris Jones said Friday as the Eskimos prepared to welcome the B.C. Lions this weekend. “Sure enough, this week for the first time the offence beat the defence on two straight days.”

Thing is, as Reilly said, that was practice.

“I expect this week’s worth of work to translate out on the field. But again, practice is one thing, we have to do it on the field,” said Reilly, who had just his second start last week after missing eight weeks with a knee injury suffered in the season opener.

Jones, who was given a Gatorade shower Friday to celebrate this birthday, said he’s confident Reilly and the offence will be vastly improved Saturday against the Lions.

“I would fully expect us to bounce back,” he said.

“We have some awfully good coaches on the offensive side of the ball and some awfully good players who take pride in the work they do so I would fully expect our offence to come out and play a strong game.”

The Eskimos (8-4) will have running back Chad Simpson and lineman Simeon Rottier back from lengthy injuries. Simpson could have played last week in Hamilton but Jones said the staff decided to keep him out one more week to be sure he’s 100 per cent healthy.

The Eskimos signed the former Winnipeg Blue Bomber back in June when John White suffered a season-ending injury. Simpson, who didn’t play in 2014 and has been hampered by injury this season, has played in five games, carrying 27 times for 148 yards.

“I was sitting out for a whole year so any time I get some action I’m thankful,” Simpson said of getting back onto the playing roster. “As my running back coach at Morgan State used to say, stay ready so you don’t have to get ready. I’ve been doing this since I was seven so I don’t have to get up for this.”

Although the Lions have struggled to a 4-7 record, the Eskimos aren’t taking them lightly, partly because the Lions beat Edmonton 26-23 earlier this season.

“They make you earn everything, they sit back and they rally to the football,” receiver Ken Stafford said of the B.C. defence. “They’ve got that great linebacking corps, the defensive secondary is good, the D line gets after the quarterback so we have to take what they give us and make our plays and continue to do what we do.”

Stafford said the offence remains confident they can move the football and score points.

Jake Mullen made 16 saves for the Oilers, who were three-for-six on the power play in front of 497 fans at the Pason Centennial Arena.

The Grizzlys, zero-for-six with a man advantage, host the Calgary Canucks tonight at 7 p.m.

Kings building toward start of the regular season The RDC Kings ran their record to 2-0 in the ACAC South Challenge men’s volleyball tournament Friday at RDC, but the main thing was to continue to build toward the opening of the regular season.

“I thought we were a little more crisp than we were on Thursday (a 3-1 win over the RDC Alumni),” said Kings head coach Aaron Schulha, following a 31-29, 22-25, 25-23, 25-20 victory over the Vancouver Island University Mariners.

“That first set was a long one which set the tone and was something we needed at this point in the season.”

Schulha was able to use a different

lineup than he had on Thursday.

“I was able to mix the lineups up a bit. I used Tanner (Rehn) for the first two sets (at power) and Brian (Grenier) for the second two. As well we rested Turk (Adam Turlejski) a bit and gave Cole (Vriend) some playing time in the middle. It was good to give those young guys some playing time.”

Schulha enjoyed facing what should be one of the top college teams in the PacWest this season.

“I expect we could see them in the nationals,” said Schulha. “It was good to gauge ourselves against a good college team and I liked what I saw for sure. But the plan is to keep on building and improving.”

The Kings face College of the Rockies today at noon and defending ACAC champion Augustana at 8 p.m.

The RDC Alumni downed SAIT 2517, 25-20, 13-25, 25-8 on Friday while Augustana defeated SAIT 3-0 and lost 3-0 to Briercrest. Briercrest also downed College of the Rockies 3-1 and VIU stopped Medicine Hat 3-0. Medicine Hat also defeated College of the Rockies 3-0.

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Criminal case opened against Blatter ZURICH — FIFA President Sepp Blatter was placed under criminal investigation by Swiss authorities on Friday as a probe into soccer corruption reached the highest levels and left his grip on the top job in peril.

The Swiss attorney general’s office opened proceedings against Blatter for possible criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of FIFA money. Authorities also searched Blatter’s office and seized data.

The announcements came as FIFA wrapped up a two-day executive committee meeting and marked another stunning day of turmoil for the governing body and Blatter, who have been targeted by American and Swiss investigations into corruption.

The 79-year-old Blatter is set to step down in February as a result of those probes, but Friday’s events made an early exit seem inevitable.

The opening of formal criminal proceedings against Blatter could lead the FIFA ethics committee to provisionally suspend him from duty.

Blatter’s U.S.-based lawyer, Richard Cullen, said in a statement his client was co-operating and that “certainly no mismanagement occurred.”

The latest allegations also threaten UEFA President Michel Platini, Blatter’s onetime protege and favourite to succeed him in February’s election.

Platini was questioned as a witness Friday about taking a “disloyal payment” from Blatter of 2 million Swiss francs (now $2.04 million) of FIFA money in February 2011.

At the time, Platini was already tipped as a future FIFA leader though unlikely to run against Blatter in that year’s presidential election — instead backing the incumbent against Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar. Blatter was re-elected in May 2011 after Bin Hammam withdrew amid bribery alle-

gations.

According to Switzerland’s attorney general, the money was supposedly paid nine years later for Platini’s work as Blatter’s football adviser at FIFA from 1999-2002.

Under Swiss law, a payment is classified disloyal if it is against the best interest of the employer — in this case FIFA. Platini said in a statement issued by UEFA that he was entitled to receive the money.

“I wish to state that this amount relates to work which I carried out under a contract with FIFA and I was pleased to have been able to clarify all matters relating to this with the authorities,” Platini said. The statement did not address the apparent nine-year wait for payment.

The American probe rocked FIFA on May 27, when senior officials suspected of bribery and racketeering were arrested in dawn raids at a luxury Zurich hotel two days before Blatter’s re-election.

Blatter is a stated target of that case but has always denied being corrupt, blaming individuals who are outside of FIFA’s control But the Swiss allegations suggest authorities suspect Blatter of criminal mismanagement of FIFA money to shore up his own power base — political enrichment, if not taking money himself.

Blatter had been set to hold a news conference for international media after the executive committee meeting, but it was first postponed and then suddenly cancelled.

FIFA later issued a statement saying the Swiss attorney general “conducted interviews and gathered documents pursuant to its investigation,” adding that it was co-operating with the probe but would not make further comments.

Blatter is the first person publicly revealed to be formally quizzed as a

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FIFA President Sepp Blatter stands inside an office at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. Blatter was placed under criminal investigation by Swiss authorities on Friday as a probe into soccer corruption reached the highest levels and left his grip on the top job in peril. suspect in the Swiss case, which FIFA instigated last November when it complained about possible money laundering in the 2018-2022 World Cup bidding contests won by Russia and Qatar.

His right-hand man, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, was suspended last week after being implicated in a scheme to sell tickets for the 2014 World Cup on the black market.

Friday’s allegations also relate to undervalued World Cup broadcasting contracts for the Caribbean that Blatter agreed to with disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner in 2005.

“There is as suspicion that, in the implementation of this agreement, Joseph Blatter also violated his fiduciary

Accuser’s mom had the rape kit EVIDENCE BAG ON DOORWAY WAS A LIE: PROSECUTOR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUFFALO, N.Y. — The prosecutor overseeing the sexual assault investigation of Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane says the accuser’s mother lied about finding an evidence bag in her doorway.

Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita said during a news conference Friday he’s not sure yet how the twoday sideshow of how evidence was handled affects the main case. Sedita said all the evidence, including the rape kit used to examine the accuser, was handled properly and is still in custody of authorities.

“Obviously there has been an effort to create a hoax,” Sedita said. “I gotta figure out who was in on that, why they would do that and what it means vis-avis all the other evidence.”

Sedita said the mother was given the bag at a hospital when her daughter was examined, but it never contained a rape kit. The examining nurse gave the mother the bag after learning the accuser changed her top before going to the hospital, Sedita said. The mother was to put the top in the bag and turn it into authorities, but never did, Sedita said.

The mother did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment Friday.

Questions about the bag were raised publicly Wednesday by the accuser’s former attorney, who abruptly quit the case Thursday night and said he no longer believed the story about how the folded up paper bag — which he’d said had once held the rape kit — was found. Thomas Eoannou said he was still confident in the woman’s allegations against Kane. The accuser, in her 20s, says Kane sexually assaulted her at his waterfront mansion outside of Buffalo on Aug. 2.

Kane has not been charged.

Sedita said that the mother was interviewed Friday by investigators from his office and denied ever taking possession of the bag. He said he thought the suspicions were odd when Eoannou raised them because rape kits are stored in boxes, not bags. At his news conference, Sedita showed reporters surveillance video of the rape kit being stored in an evidence room.

“It’s a bizarre hoax,” Sedita said.

“And it’s a dog and pony show.”

The woman’s mother declined an

duties and acted against the interest of FIFA,” the Swiss federal office said.

Warner, who was a longtime FIFA power broker supporting Blatter at elections, was indicted in the wide-ranging U.S. case in May. “(W)e are confident that when the Swiss authorities have a chance to review the documents and the evidence they will see that the contract was properly prepared and negotiated by the appropriate staff members of FIFA who were routinely responsible for such contracts, and certainly no mismanagement occurred,” Blatter’s lawyer Cullen wrote.

The statement appeared to focus only on the Warner contract, and not the payment to Platini.

Bradford in tough to start season

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III gestures as he answers a question as he addressed the media on allegations of evidence tampering in connection with the alleged sexual assualt case against Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane in Buffalo, N.Y. Friday. interview request Thursday night after Eoannou said he was quitting the case.

She referred to a statement the family released to reporters that said they were disappointed the attorney was withdrawing.

“We have every intention of pursuing this case to a just conclusion,” the statement said. “It must be emphasized that there exists no evidence or allegation that the accuser herself had any knowledge of the evidence bag until it was brought to Mr. Eoannou’s office.”

The AP doesn’t identify people who may have been sexually assaulted unless they have come forward and voluntarily identified themselves.

Hamburg police chief Gregory Wickett said Friday that an officer who went the mother’s home the day she went to the hospital saw the bag, but didn’t take it and put the clothing requested by the nurse in a different bag instead.

Sedita said he doesn’t think the mother did anything illegal because

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it’s not illegal to lie to her daughter’s lawyer and she wasn’t under oath when interviewed by his office.

The criminal investigation into the sexual assault allegation against Kane continues, Sedita said, adding that it could be affected if investigators determine the accuser was aware of the alleged hoax.

Otherwise, “the child is usually not guilty of the sins perpetrated by the parents,” he said.

At one point earlier this month, prosecutors were scheduled to present the case to a grand jury but postponed the proceedings, a person familiar with the investigation told to The Associated Press.

The person did not provide a reason for the postponement, and spoke on condition of anonymity because Sedita and Hamburg police had not revealed any details of the case.

PHILADELPHIA — Sam Bradford’s critics had plenty of material this week.

He’s afraid to take a hit. He can’t throw deep. He can’t read defences.

He’s too tentative in the pocket. He’s too slow. He’s never won anything.

The Philadelphia Eagles (0-2) hardly look like the Super Bowl contender fans expected. That makes Bradford a main target for criticism. Only coach Chip Kelly hears more grief.

“Obviously, there are ups and downs in this league,” Bradford said.

“Would we have liked to have started 2-0? Absolutely. That’s not how it went, though. We started 0-2. But we can’t back down, and can’t lose confidence in what we’re doing or what our system is. I think we all still believe in it.”

Bradford overcame a tough start in Week 1 at Atlanta, completed 21 of 25 passes in the second half and nearly rallied the Eagles to a win before his interception on a pass that bounced off receiver Jordan Matthews’ hands sealed the loss. He struggled along with the entire offence in a 20-10 loss to Dallas. Bradford has a 72.3 passer rating and four picks in two games.

“Obviously, I haven’t played to my capabilities,” he said. “I felt like I was playing much better than this a couple years ago, and I expect myself to play better. Sometimes when it starts out like this you have to get back to the basics.”

Many people questioned Kelly’s decision to trade Nick Foles and a second-round pick to St. Louis for Bradford, who was 18-30-1 with the Rams and hadn’t played since October 2013 because of two ACL surgeries on the same knee. Foles had a breakout year in 2013, leading Philadelphia to the NFC East title. He was 14-5 under Kelly, including a playoff loss. The Eagles were 5-2 when he broke his collarbone in the first quarter of a game last November.

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SCOREBOARD Local Sports ● College men’s volleyball: RDC Kings ACAC South tournament; games at 10 a.m., noon, 4, 6 and 8 p.m. ● Peewee football: Drumheller Terrapins at Red Deer Hornets, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● High school cross-country running: Hunting Hills meet, 11 a.m. start at River Bend Recreation Area. ● Peewee AA hockey: Medicine Hat Hounds at Red Deer Parkland Chiefs, 11:30 a.m., Kinsmen A. ● Bantam football: Ponoka Broncs at Lindsay Thurber Raiders, 3:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Bantam AA hockey: Airdrie Lightning at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m.; Red Deer Steel Kings at West Central Tigers, 5:15 p.m., Sylvan Lake. ● WHL: Edmonton Oil Kings at Red Deer Rebels, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● AJHL: Calgary Canucks at Olds Grizzlys, 7 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Three Hills Thrashers at Red Deer Vipers, 8 p.m., Arena; Mountainview Colts at Ponoka Stampeders, 8 p.m. ● College women’s preseason hockey: SAIT Trojans at RDC Queens, 9:15 p.m., Collicutt Centre.

Sunday ● Peewee AA hockey: Red Deer Parkland at Central Alberta Selects, 10:15 a.m., Lacombe; Western Central Tigers at Olds Grizzlys, 1 p.m. ● Midget AAA preseason hockey: Fort Saskatchewan Rangers at Red Deer Optimist Chiefs, 3 p.m., Arena. ● Bantam AA hockey: Central Alberta Selects at Red Deer Steel Kings, 3:15 p.m., Kinsmen A; Foothills Bisons at Olds Grizzlys, 3:30 p.m. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Airdrie Thunder at Blackfalds Wranglers, 3:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Edmonton Oil Kings, 4 p.m., Rexall Place.

WHL EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Saskatoon 1 1 0 0 0 7 2 Moose Jaw 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 Swift Current 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 Brandon 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 Regina 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 Prince Albert 1 0 1 0 0 2 7 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Lethbridge 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 Calgary 1 1 0 0 0 4 2 Kootenay 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 Medicine Hat 1 0 1 0 0 1 5 Red Deer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edmonton 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Victoria 1 1 0 0 0 4 1 Kamloops 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Prince George 0 Kelowna 0 Pt 2 2 2 1 0 0 Pt 2 2 0 0 0 0 Pt 2 0 0

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF GA Pt New York 28 14 8 6 49 32 48 Columbus 30 13 9 8 49 49 47 New England 30 13 10 7 43 41 46 D.C. 30 13 11 6 37 37 45 Toronto 29 12 13 4 49 50 40 Montreal 28 11 11 6 40 39 39 Orlando 30 9 13 8 37 51 35 New York City 30 9 14 7 44 50 34 Philadelphia 30 9 15 6 38 47 33 Chicago 30 7 17 6 37 48 27

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Toronto 88 65 .575 New York 84 69 .549 Baltimore 76 77 .497 Tampa Bay 75 79 .487 Boston 73 80 .477 Central Division W L Pct x-Kansas City 89 64 .582 Minnesota 78 75 .510 Cleveland 76 76 .500 Chicago 73 81 .474 Detroit 72 81 .471 West Division W L Pct Texas 84 69 .549 Houston 80 74 .519 Los Angeles 78 74 .513 Seattle 74 79 .484 Oakland 64 89 .418 x-clinched division

GB — 4 12 13.5 15 GB — 11 12.5 16.5 17 GB — 4.5 5.5 10 20

Friday’s Games Chicago White Sox 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 6, Minnesota 4 Boston 7, Baltimore 0 Cleveland 6, Kansas City 0 Texas 6, Houston 2 San Francisco at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

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

WEEK 14 Bye: Hamilton Friday’s game Calgary at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Today’s games B.C. at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Sunday’s game Montreal at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

WEEK 15 Bye: Toronto Thursday, Oct. 1 Montreal at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 2 Calgary at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3 Edmonton at Winnipeg, 2 p.m.

Saskatchewan at B.C., 5 p.m.

Wednesday’s results Montreal 2 Chicago 1 Houston 1 Kansas City 0

Friday’s results Swift Current 2 Brandon 1 (SO) Calgary 4 Kootenay 2 Lethbridge 5 Medicine Hat 1 Saskatoon 7 Prince Albert 2 Everett at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Victoria 4 Portland 1 Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s games Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Saskatoon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.

Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Portland at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Tri-City at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday’s games Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Everett at Prince George, 6 p.m.

Kelowna at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

NHL PRESEASON Friday’s Games Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Islanders (ss) 2 New Jersey 4, N.Y. Islanders (ss) 2 Chicago 5, Montreal 1

Tampa Bay 4, Florida 1 Buffalo 6, Toronto 4 Edmonton 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Calgary 4, Vancouver 1 Los Angeles at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Arizona at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Games Columbus at Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders vs. Carolina, 3 p.m.

Minnesota vs. Edmonton, 3 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Dallas,6 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at San Jose, 7 p.m.

Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Ottawa vs. Carolina, 1:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Florida at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Today’s Games Texas (D.Holland 3-3) at Houston (McHugh 177), 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 12-12) at Toronto (Price 17-5), 11:07 a.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 10-7) at Boston (Breslow 0-3), 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 7-13) at N.Y. Yankees (Warren 6-7), 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco (T.Hudson 8-8) at Oakland (Zito 0-0), 2:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Duffey 4-1) at Detroit (Simon 13-10), 5:08 p.m.

Cleveland (Tomlin 6-2) at Kansas City (Medlen 5-1), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 18-9) at L.A. Angels (Heaney 6-3), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Chicago White Sox at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Baltimore at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

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

Texas at Houston, 12:10 p.m.

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

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

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

Toronto at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Detroit at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

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

Houston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

New York Washington Miami Atlanta Phila.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB 87 67 .565 -78 75 .510 8 1/2 67 87 .435 20 62 92 .403 25 58 96 .377 29

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Central Division W L Pct GB 97 57 .630 -94 60 .610 3 89 64 .582 7 1/2 65 89 .422 32 63 90 .412 33 1/2

West Division W L Pct GB Los Angeles 87 66 .569 -San Francisco 79 73 .520 7 1/2 Arizona 73 80 .477 14 San Diego 72 81 .471 15 Colorado 64 90 .416 23 1/2 z-clinched playoff berth Friday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Philadelphia 8, Washington 2 Miami 12, Atlanta 11 N.Y. Mets 12, Cincinnati 5 Colorado 7, L.A. Dodgers 4 Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 3

San Francisco at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

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

Today’s Games Pittsburgh (Liriano 11-7) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 9-6), 11:05 a.m.

Philadelphia (Nola 6-2) at Washington (Strasburg 10-7), 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco (T.Hudson 8-8) at Oakland (Zito 0-0), 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 12-7) at Cincinnati (Jo.Lamb 1-3), 2:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 10-7) at Miami (Nicolino 3-4), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Wagner 0-0) at St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 9-5), 5:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Bre.Anderson 9-9) at Colorado (K.Kendrick 6-13), 6:10 p.m.

Arizona (Hellickson 9-10) at San Diego (Erlin 0-1), 6:40 p.m.

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

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

Philadelphia at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

Monday’s Games Cincinnati at Washington, 1:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Football West Division GP W L T PF PA Pt Calgary 13 10 3 0 347 269 20 Edmonton 12 8 4 0 297 215 16 B.C. 11 4 7 0 245 316 8 Winnipeg 13 4 9 0 245 377 8 Saskatchewan 12 1 11 0 289 365 2

Western Conference GP W L T GF GA Pt Vancouver 29 15 11 3 40 31 48 Dallas 28 14 9 5 41 34 47 Los Angeles 30 13 9 8 49 36 47 Seattle 30 14 13 3 38 32 45 Kansas City 29 12 9 8 44 40 44 Portland 29 11 10 8 29 34 41 San Jose 30 11 12 7 37 36 40 Houston 30 10 12 8 37 39 38 Salt Lake 29 10 11 8 35 41 38 Colorado 29 8 11 10 27 33 34

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTLSOL GF GA Pt Portland 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 0 Seattle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Everett 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tri-City 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Spokane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 z-league title y-conference title d-division leader x-clinched playoff berth. Note: Division leaders ranked in top two positions per conference regardless of points a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns

Baseball

CFL East Division GP W L T PF PA Pt Hamilton 12 8 4 0 410 246 16 Ottawa 11 7 4 0 254 286 14 Toronto 11 6 5 0 277 322 12 Montreal 11 5 6 0 242 210 10

Soccer

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIES Stampeders 25, Blue Bombers 22 First Quarter Wpg — TD D.Adams 42 pass from Nichols (Hajrullahu convert) 4:28 Cgy — Single Maver 65 7:27 Cgy — TD Durant 9 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 13:43 Second Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 32 3:45 Wpg — TD Marshall 3 run (Hajrullahu convert) 7:15 Cgy — FG Paredes 27 11:03 Third Quarter Cgy — TD Mitchell 8 run (Paredes convert) 5:12 Cgy — Single Maver 43 13:46 Fourth Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 10 9:04 Wpg — TD Kohlert 8 pass from Nichols (two-point convert: Marshall 2 run) 13:06 Wpg — Single Hajrullahu 49 14:21 Calgary 8 6 8 3 — 25 Winnipeg 7 7 0 8 — 22 Attendance — N.A. at Winnipeg.

National Football League AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA New England 2 0 0 1.000 68 53 N.Y. Jets 2 0 0 1.000 51 17 Miami 1 1 0 .500 37 33 Buffalo 1 1 0 .500 59 54

Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 56 42 Houston 0 2 0 .000 37 51 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 21 47

Minnesota 1 1 0 .500 29 36 Detroit 0 2 0 .000 44 59 Chicago 0 2 0 .000 46 79

North W L T Pct PF PA Cincinnati 2 0 0 1.000 57 32 Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 38 45 Pittsburgh 1 1 0 .500 64 46 Baltimore 0 2 0 .000 46 56

West W L T Pct PF PA Arizona 2 0 0 1.000 79 42 St. Louis 1 1 0 .500 44 55 San Francisco 1 1 0 .500 38 46 Seattle 0 2 0 .000 48 61

West W L T Pct PF PA Denver 2 0 0 1.000 50 37 Oakland 1 1 0 .500 50 66 San Diego 1 1 0 .500 52 52 Kansas City 1 1 0 .500 51 51

Thursday’s Game N.Y. Giants 32, Washington 21

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 2 0 0 1.000 47 36 N.Y. Giants 1 2 0 .333 78 72 Washington 1 2 0 .333 55 59 Philadelphia 0 2 0 .000 34 46 South W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 2 0 0 1.000 50 44 Carolina 2 0 0 1.000 44 26 Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 40 61 New Orleans 0 2 0 .000 38 57

Sunday’s Games Atlanta at Dallas, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Houston, 11 a.m.

San Diego at Minnesota, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 11 a.m.

Oakland at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at New England, 11 a.m.

New Orleans at Carolina, 11a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

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

Chicago at Seattle, 2:25 p.m.

Buffalo at Miami, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Kansas City at Green Bay, 6:30 p.m.

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W L T Pct PF PA Jacksonville 1 1 0 .500 32 40

W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 2 0 0 1.000 58 40

Thursday, Oct. 1 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 8:25 p.m.

Michael Brewster. Placed RB DuJuan Harris on the practice squad-injured list. Signed WR R.J. Harris to the practice squad.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Signed S Tevin McDonald to the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Terminated the contract of DT Mitch Unrein. Signed TE Kyle Miller.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Terminated LB Josh Keyes from the practice squad. Signed DE Kourtnei Brown to the practice squad.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Waived-injured FB Jordan Campbell.

Signed LB Nico Johnson to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — D Francis Bouillon announced his retirement.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned LW Michael Bunting, D Alex Grant, C Dustin Jeffrey and RW Eric Selleck to Springfield (AHL) C Ryan MacInnis to Kitchener (OHL) and D Dysin Mayo to Edmonton (WHL).

CALGARY FLAMES — Reassigned Fs Austin Carroll, Ryan Lomberg, Louick Marcotte, Mitchell Heard and Hunter Smith D Aaron Johnson and G Kent Simpson to Stockton (AHL). Returned G Nick Schneider to Medicine Hat (WHL). Released D Douglas Murray from his professional tryout contract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Assigned F Mike Liambas and D Mathieu Brisebois, Dillon Fournier, Dennis Roberston and Nolan Valleau to Rockford (AHL).

Released D Sam Jardine and Nick Mattson and Fs SDaniel Ciampini, Jake Dowell and Dane Walters.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned D Brett Bellemore and Tommy

Hughes, LW Marek Hrivik, D Tommy Hughes and C Adam Tambellini to Hartford (AHL).

OLYMPICS U.S. OLYMPIC COMMITTEE — Extended the contract of CEO Scott Blackmun by five years, through the middle of 2021.

SOCCER North American Soccer League JACKSONVILLE ARMADA — Signed D Mechack Jerome.

National Women’s Soccer League

SKY BLUE FC — Loaned M Sarah Killion to Adelaide United (W-League-Australia).

TENNIS ITF — Elected David Haggerty as president.

COLLEGE CHOWAN — Named Charles Rhodes men’s assistant basketball coach.

DAYTON — Named Neil Sullivan vice-president and director of athletics.

Transactions

Today’s games Chicago at Toronto, noon D.C. at Montreal, 3 p.m.

Portland at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

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

Colorado at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

New York City at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Salt Lake at San Jose, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts Manchester City 6 5 0 1 12 2 15 Man.United 6 4 1 1 9 5 13 West Ham 6 4 0 2 13 7 12 Leicester City 6 3 3 0 13 9 12 Arsenal 6 3 1 2 5 5 10 Everton 6 2 3 1 8 5 9 Swansea 6 2 3 1 7 5 9 Crystal Palace 6 3 0 3 8 7 9 Tottenham 6 2 3 1 5 4 9 Watford 6 2 3 1 5 5 9 Norwich 6 2 2 2 9 10 8 West Brom 6 2 2 2 4 6 8 Liverpool 6 2 2 2 4 7 8 Bournemouth 6 2 1 3 8 9 7 Chelsea 6 2 1 3 9 12 7 Southampton 6 1 3 2 7 8 6 Aston Villa 6 1 1 4 6 9 4 Stoke 6 0 3 3 5 9 3 Newcastle 6 0 2 4 3 9 2 Sunderland 6 0 2 4 6 13 2 Saturday, Sept. 26 Tottenham vs. Manchester City, 1145 GMT Leicester City vs. Arsenal, 1400 GMT Liverpool vs. Aston Villa, 1400 GMT Manchester United vs. Sunderland, 1400 GMT Southampton vs. Swansea, 1400 GMT Stoke vs. Bournemouth, 1400 GMT West Ham vs. Norwich, 1400 GMT Newcastle vs. Chelsea, 1630 GMT

BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Washington RHP Jonathan Papelbon three games for throwing a pitch in the head area of Baltimore 3B Manny Machado.

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Announced the resignation of trainer Rick Jameyson. Named Frank Wren senior vice-president for baseball operations, Brad Pearson trainer and Paul Buchheit assistant trainer. Promoted Jared Banner to director of player personnel.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Reinstated INF Johnny Giavotella from the 15-day DL. MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed LHP Logan Darnell on the 60-day DL. Reinstated RHP Ricky Nolasco from the 60-day DL. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Named Mike Maroth minor league rehabilitation pitching co-ordinator.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Assigned 1B Xavier Scruggs outright to Memphis (PCL).

American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Exercised the 2016 option on OF Jason Martin.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Sold the contract of RHP Michael Zouzalik to the Baltimore Orioles.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed Cs Josh Harrellson and Jaleel Roberts and Gs Jaron Johnson, Toure’ Murry and Ish Smith.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Denver DE DeMarcus Ware and Arizona S Rashad Johnson $17,363, Seattle LB K.J. Wright $10,000 and Denver DT Malik Jackson, Green Bay G T.J. Lang, Buffalo S Aaron Williams and Tennessee WR Harry Douglas $8,681 for their actions during last week’s games.

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed RB Kerwynn Williams to the practice squad.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Terminated TE Dominique Jones from the practice squad. Signed RB Terrence Magee to the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Waived DL Lavar Edwards. Signed DL Mitch Unrein.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Waived-injured CB Sheldon Price. Terminated G David Arkin from the practice squad. Signed CB Eric Patterson from the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released LB Eric Martin from the practice squad. Signed DL Joe Vellano to the practice squad.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Waived-injured C

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Above: Show n Tell, the Most Outstanding Dahlia of the Show, grown by Reg & Marlene Powys-Lybbe of High River.

Inset photos: Gladiolas are a garder’s favourite, and come in a complete rainbow of colours.

Bursting with blooms at the Annual Dahlia & Gladiolus Flower Show STORY AND PHOTOS BY LOIS TALLAS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

It was a show of beautiful colourful blooms and arrangements that adorned the Bower Place Shopping Centre on Aug. 29 & 30th for the Annual Dahlia and Gladiolus Flower Show.

Many judges, growers of dahlias and glads, floral designers, friends and volunteers came together to stimulate interest and promote the culture and development of dahlias and glads.

During this event, the Alberta Dahlia and Glad Society hosted the Western International Gladiolus Show, which brought Gladiolus growers and judges from Washington and Montana.

For three hours on Saturday morning, dahlias, glads and arrangements were judged to find the top winners

Swede Gustafson, a judge from Montana representing the Western International Glad Show, carries winning glads to the head table.

in the show! This was a most difficult task because there were so many beautiful entries. The big winners were displayed at a head table in Bower Place Shopping Centre.

Visitors to the Flower Show were able to see many different varieties and colors of dahlias and glads which numbered 980 blooms. Growers displaying their flowers came from various communities in Alberta including Reed Deer, Lacombe, High River, Wildwood, St. Albert, Edmonton, Okotoks, Delburne, Red Deer County, Ponoka, & Stony Plain.

People were amazed that such beautiful flowers could be grown in Alberta. The flowers and arrangements were admired by all ages from young children, teenagers, young people to middle aged and older.

The colorful booms brought smiles to many faces as they visited the show.

Lowell Dubbels, a gladiolus judge from Washington, admires a winning glad. Lowell has grown up to 3000 glads on his land in Washington.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 2015

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A draft plan aimed at protecting the Red Deer River watershed now needs final input from the public and other stakeholders.

This first of several phases of the plan focuses on water quality and contains a number of non-binding recommendations ranging from strengthening the commitment to protect water quality to establishing better monitoring.

The Red Deer River Watershed Alliance — which has just released a draft of the Integrated Watershed Management Plan, Phase One, Water Quality — wants final feedback via an online survey.

The draft plan and survey can be accessed at www.rdrwa.ca and the survey is available until Oct. 14.

Jeff Hanger, executive director of the watershed alliance, said Friday the document came from a number of years of research and technical input, and views from a wide range of individuals and organizations, to get to the point of key recommendations.

The goodwill and engagement of everyone in the watershed is needed to make it sustainable and to maintain or improve the river’s water quality, Hanger said.

If municipalities and others can work toward the recommendations, there’s a really good chance of improving that watershed, and making sure the people in communities on the river have good clean drinking water for years to come, he said.

“Our best chance of maintaining or improving our watershed is by working

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Wading into the shallows near Bower Ponds in Red Deer a fisherman cast his line into the Red Deer River earlier this summer. together and using a document like this as a decision-support tool and encouraging people to work together to share the same recommendations and aims.”

Future regional planning is perhaps when some of the recommendations could be taken forward and incorporated in planning, Hanger said.

The draft comes out of community engagement and research over several years. The RDRWA wants to finalize the first phase of the plan late this year, prior to moving on to other phases that will address land use, riparian areas, wetlands, biodiversity, and water quantity.

The contents of the plan, a living document that will be updated as the consultation process continues to unfold, are not legislated.

The recommendations include: 1. Improve the understanding and strengthen the commitment of watershed users to protect water quality.

2. Establish a robust monitoring program for surface water quality.

3. Develop and implement a management-response framework based on site-specific Water Quality Objectives for the Red Deer River and major tributaries.

4. Encourage and promote the implementation of beneficial manage-

ment practices across municipalities, industry, and agriculture.

5. Research, curate, and share information on emerging issues that impact water quality (e.g., pharmaceuticals, pesticides).

6. Identify and address risks to source waters, including water used as a source of drinking water.

7. Fill information gaps to improve lake monitoring and inform the development of lake watershed management plans.

8. Establish a robust monitoring program for groundwater quality.

9. Establish an integrated monitoring, evaluation, management, and reporting framework for groundwater.

10. Expand efforts to map and characterize groundwater resources across the Red Deer River Watershed .

11. Incorporate the sustainable management of groundwater quality, including the protection of recharge areas, into land-use planning and resource management.

“Water quality is a very complex but essential issue for the whole watershed. If there’s any major comments, this would be a good time to hear them,” said Hanger.

The watershed alliance describes itself as “a multi-sector, non-profit organization that promotes the good use and proper management of water within the Red Deer River watershed.” The greater part of its funding comes from the provincial government.

More detailed information about the recommendations is provided in the online draft.

A paper copy can be requested by calling the RDRWA at 403-340-7379. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS

RED DEER

‘Aggressive dog’ label being appealed by owner

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The owner of a dog that attacked and killed another dog in a City of Red Deer off-leash park is appealing a decision by the city that subsequently designated the dog as aggressive.

Erin Stuart, Development and Licensing supervisor for the city, said Friday that the designation of aggressive brings with it considerable restrictions such that the American Staffordshire terrier must be muzzled when not at home and it is not allowed in off-leash parks.

The dog is not currently in the city, Stuart said.

The owner can appeal the decision so the matter will now go to a hearing before the city’s Appeal and Review Board on Oct. 8 at 5 p.m. at City Hall.

The board will hear all of the evidence and ultimately decide whether or not to uphold the decision, said Stuart.

The owner of the dog was also charged with being the owner of a dog causing death to another domestic animal.

The incident occurred on July 29 at the city’s Oxbow Off Leash Park off 40th Avenue and 19th Street.

Carla Rider was in the dog park with her small dog, a Pomeranian, chihuahua and Shih Tzu cross named Vienna, when the owner of the other dog arrived at the park. His American Staffordshire terrier suddenly attacked and killed Rider’s dog.

The identity of the owner of the American Staffordshire has not been revealed.

Stuart said earlier that there had not been any previous incidents of a dog being attacked and killed in either of the city’s two off-leash parks.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/ Advocate staff

Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School Grade 5 students Ayden Partridge, Megan McGonigal and Jasmine Filiatrault were on duty in the library at the school on Friday giving tours of the space to people attending the 50th anniversary of the school located in Morrisroe. During the event everyone attending got the chance to tour the school which has undergone a full renovation over the past year.

Council to look at snow removal policy

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The forecast for Monday’s city council meeting calls for snow.

Council will look at proposed changes to the Integrated & Accessible Transportation policy that put city snowplows on roads quicker last winter.

One of the outstanding snow issues to be dealt with are snow clearing differences between residential streets (grey routes) compared to collectors, transit routes and residential streets adjacent to schools (green routes).

Grey and green routes have the same trigger to clear snow (10-cm snow pack), but target for clearing is five days for grey routes and 20 days for green routes.

Council will consider a recommendation that the level of service be 15 days for both green and grey routes.

Another issue that left some residents cold last winter were the windrows that blocked driveways in residential areas.

Currently, a 50-cm snow pack is left after clearing instead of plowing to the pavement. Dual windrows are created instead of a single, big windrow that would restrict parking to one side of the street. Windrows are no longer cleared from driveways — only at lane crossings. These changes reduced the size of windrows and more easily accommodated on-street parking.

Council will consider a recommendation that windrows on grey routes be cleared from front driveways only,

with the snow added to existing onstreet windrows.

There’s also the issue of snow clearing at transit stops. The target for transit stops is 10 days, while the sidewalk target is three days for the upcoming winter.

Council will consider a recommendation that the current level be maintained for transit stops.

The final issue is whether snow plowing on industrial and commercial roads (orange routes) can start prior to the 15 cm snow pack trigger to allow more flexibility to meet the target to plow within five days.

Council will consider a recommendation to allow snow plowing on orange routes prior to reaching the trigger level.

Calkins, Tories still as working hard after 10 years ern half of Red Deer.

With the north half of Red Deer now in his riding, the Lacombe resident Fresh off a late night is all too familiar with the rally in Edmonton with his city. family in tow, Blaine Calk“What we can’t get loins, 46, and some of his camcally, Red Deer is a place paign staff were watching you’ll inevitably end up, so the footage of Prime MinRed Deer feels like home ister Stephen Harper’s anyway,” said Calkins, who speech with one of Calkins’ previously lived in the city. three children behind the Calkins has a diverse Conservative Party Leader. background including a Calkins is approaching bachelor degree in zoology, his 10th year as an MP, but a conservation law enforceis campaigning in a riding ment diploma and a comthat has changed signifiputer systems technology BLAINE cantly. Elected in the old diploma. He grew up on a CALKINS Wetaskiwin riding, the farm and has worked as a park ranger/warden, buildboundaries were realigned. ing information systems, in Gone is the northern half of the old riding including the city of the oilfield and even as a computer Wetaskiwin, but added in is the north- sciences teacher at Red Deer College

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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

RED DEER-LACOMBE for about six years. During the 2005 winter exam period at RDC, Calkins embarked on his first campaign.

Early in his life, Calkins said he wasn’t tied to any political party and when he decided to be more active he took a good look at all the offerings.

But it was Preston Manning and his Reform movement that caught his attention. He joined the party and was invited by a university friend to a general meeting with the Wetaskiwin Reform Party electoral district association.

“The next thing I knew I was on the board of directors, a couple of years later I’m the president of the riding association,” said Calkins. “It snowballed from there.”

Now 10 years later, he’s on the federal campaign trail for the fourth time.

The issues motivating this campaign, aside from preventing the undoing of the past 10 years of accomplishments, include market access and trade partnerships. He talked about the importance of the Trans Pacific Partnership and providing better market access and better prices for Canadian industries including agriculture, manufacturing and oil and gas.

Calkins is running against Jeffrey Rock for the Liberal Party, Doug Hart for the NDP and Les Kusyk for the Green Party.

Voting day is Oct. 19. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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RELIGION

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The Pope Francis paradox JULIE BYRNE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE All pope, all the time. Pope Francis’ tour of the East Coast started this week. Soon the news cycle will be all pope, all the time.

Wall-to-wall coverage is warranted. Pope Francis is the spiritual head of a billion people, including one in five in the U.S. He is the first American pope. He is the first Third World pope.

He has famously rejected papal trappings and reset the church tone toward openness and compassion.

In short, Francis has changed an ancient church faster in two and a half years than anyone since Pope John XXIII opened the second Vatican Council in 1962.

Like so many other Catholics and non-Catholics, I think Pope Francis is fresh, inspired, and fascinating.

But as a historian of Catholicism, I marvel at how one version of Catholicism — a version that makes the pope center and celebrity — has dominated the modern age.

It wasn’t always so.

Division in deciding the pope’s authority In the early church, the pope was just the bishop of Rome, regarded as important because Rome was the capital of the Empire, but not because he had more real power than the four eastern “patriarchs.”

When the church split into eastern and western parts in 1054, the bishop of Rome was the only patriarch left in the west.

For the next eight centuries, the western church debated exactly what kind of authority the pope had.

Some Catholics advocated “collegiality,” saying the pope could not tell the “college” of bishops what to do. Others — especially after the Protestant Reformation and the French Revolution — wanted a stronger pope whose power trumped other bishops.

This was “ultramontanism” — the idea that the final say should always come from “beyond the mountains,” that is, from Rome.

Still other Catholics questioned the need for a pope at all. This was not just a Protestant idea. Catholic “conciliarists” proposed that councils of bishops, not the pope, properly governed the church.

Some conciliarists voted with their feet, organizing new Catholic churches that kept apostolic succession, seven sacraments, and devotion to the saints, but not a pope.

Those new Catholic churches still exist today.

They include about 64,000 Old Catholics in Europe and a million “independent Catholics” in the U.S., including dozens of small churches in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. The Orthodox churches and the Anglican Communion are also examples of Catholics who practice the tradition without the pope.

The high status of the pope that we take for granted today is not ancient, but modern.

Pope Pius IX sealed the deal in the nineteenth century.

Vatican I and the celebrification of the pope Photography was invented by then, and celebrity culture was becoming widespread. Pius IX was the first pope to be photographed — and to embrace a role as one-man tourist attraction.

Before that, Vatican potentates were a mystery.

Now, writes historian John O’Malley, for the first time, “Catholics knew the name of the reigning pope and could recognize his face.”

Massive immigration of Catholics to the U.S., including many priests and nuns fleeing anti-Catholic regimes in Europe, meant that in America, the Roman church tilted permanently in the ultramontane direction.

Even liberal Roman Catholics in the U.S. generally take for granted a monarchial pope — and positively celebrate it when they like what he’s doing, as with Pope Francis.

The triumph of ultramontanism happened at Pius IX’s Vatican Council, convened in 1869. That was the council that gave the pope powers of infallibility. If the bishops of the world disagreed, they did not feel free to say so.

Many dissenting prelates left Rome to avoid voting against infallibility.

Others were pressured to vote in favor or publicly

Myanmar president seeks to capitalize on anti-Muslim sentiment

to switch stances later.

In terms of the celebrification of the pope, it was Vatican I, not Vatican II, that stamped the character of modern Catholicism.

The U.S. media adopts the pope-centric version of Catholicism without question. Its “all pope, all the time” coverage will help trumpet Pope Francis’ voice over those of bishops, priests, and laity who disagree.

Yet Francis himself reopens the old debate about the status of the pope.

The paradox of Pope Francis Like Pius IX, Francis welcomes celebrity. He can change things fast partly because ultramontane Catholicism holds sway. He knows it and he uses it.

But unlike Pius IX, Francis embraces dissent. It is hard to square the doctrine of infallibility with the humble pontiff who calls himself first and foremost “a sinner.”

He identifies himself as the bishop of Rome and downplays grander titles.

He is “collegial” and “conciliar,” citing fellow bishops and regional councils in his encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’. His first thought on anyone with whom he might disagree: “Who am I to judge?”

Francis is using the celebrity papacy to leach its power.

He has global stage on which to enact an ethos of “simple, simple, simple.” He wears a silver ring, not gold; a white cassock, not colorful finery. He is a religious superhero who is (literally) shrugging off the cape.

Roman Catholics who love Francis are challenged to love the paradox.

U.S. journalists and commentators who cover Francis are challenged not to unwittingly take sides in the old pope debates. Massive news coverage in itself already leans the news media toward the ultramontane side.

If Francis were not a modern celebrity pope himself, he might pick that other side.

Julie Byrne is the Hartman Chair of Catholic Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Hofstra University. She has also taught at TCU and Duke University.

Her book “The Other Catholics: How Independents are Remaking America’s Largest Religion” will be published

by Columbia University Press in the spring of 2016.

SEPT. 26

Our Lady of Peace Annual Turkey Supper will be served on Sept. 30 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Royal Canadian Legion in Innisfail. Adult ages 13 years and up cost $14, $6 for six to 12 years, and free for under six.

Take out and delivery for seniors and shut-ins available. Phone 403-865-1985.

SEPT. 27

Blackfalds United Church Turkey Supper will be held on Sept. 27. Two sittings — 5 and 6:30 p.m. — are available and advanced tickets are required. Prices are $15, adults, $7 for children and free for those under five. Contact Bev at 403-3885-4861 for more information and tickets. Leave a message and calls will be returned.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Beef on a Bun Supper at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will be offered on Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. Adults cost $12, ages six to 12 years cost $6, and under six, free. Phone 403-347-5372 to reserve tickets by Oct. 21.

IN BRIEF

Putin joined for mosque opening in Moscow by Turkish, Palestinian leaders MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has been joined by the Turkish and Palestinian leaders at the ceremonial opening of the Russian capital’s new main mosque.

An estimated 2 million Muslims now live in Moscow, which has seen an influx of people from the North Caucasus republics of southern Russia, Azerbaijan and the former Soviet states in Central Asia.

The new mosque — built on the site of a smaller, more than 100-year-old mosque destroyed in 2011 — can accommodate 10,000 worshippers, but it is still one of only six mosques in the city. Calls from Muslim religious leaders to build more mosques have met with opposition from city officials and residents.

Putin was joined at Wednesday’s ceremony by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

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LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF RED DEER

Sunday, Sept. 27

GOOD SHEPHERD

11:00 a.m.

Celebration Service

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RCCG Upper Room Assembly

Sunday Worship 10:00am Pastor Femi Babalola 4807 50 Avenue Unit 102. 403-962-2444

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

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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ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL “A Church For All Ages” 43 Avenue & 44 Street 403-346-6769

www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

8:00 a.m.

Holy Communion 9:00 a.m.

Celebration Service 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist with Sunday School/Nursery

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Sunday, Sept. 27

KNOX 4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560 Established 1898

Minister:

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Worship Service 10:30 am

“Pray Without Ceasing” www.knoxreddeer.ca

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YANGON, Myanmar — With an eye on upcoming elections, Myanmar’s president has ticked off a list of accomplishments under his administration — noting with apparent pride a number of anti-Muslim policies he hopes will help him win another fiveyear term.

In a video message posted on Facebook this week, Thein Sein said he repeatedly, and firmly, told the international community there were no Rohingya Muslims in the predominantly Buddhist nation.

He said a string of controversial laws on race and religion were passed under his watch and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation — which represents more than a billion Muslims across the globe — tried unsuccessfully to open an office in western Rakhine state. The president’s comments came as the U.S., Britain and other governments expressed concern about rising religious tensions ahead of the Nov. 8 general election in the country also known as Burma that many hope will be relatively free and fair following decades of military rule. The countries issued a statement this week saying they were “concerned about the prospect of religion being used as a tool of division and conflict during the campaign season.” In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. was aware of reports that almost all Muslim candidates have been disqualified, including some current members of parliament. He said disqualifications through an opaque and discriminatory process, “risks undermining the confidence of the Burmese people and the international community in these elections.”

Myanmar has seen a rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric since Thein Sein’s nominally civilian government came to power in 2011, including attacks on Rohingya that left up to 280 people dead and sent another quarter million fleeing their homes. Half are now living under apartheid-like conditions in camps.

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Divine Service 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School & Bible Study 11:00 a.m.

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Children’s Programs weekly

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ENTERTAINMENT

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Songwriter tackles abuse in new song “EMINEM GAVE ME AN OUTLET TO FEEL ANGER AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SITUATION…. I WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL ANGER IN CONNECTION TO MY SONG, TO FEEL, THIS IS ME AND IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ME.” KRISTINA GAGNON SONGWRITER

BY LANA MICHELLIN ADVOCATE STAFF First came the verbal abuse, then mounting threats and vicious shoving and grabbing.

Kristina Gagnon didn’t stick around to get slapped across the face or punched.

With the help of the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter and her supportive friends and relatives, she was able to bail out of an abusive sixmonth relationship with a controlling boyfriend.

Now the Red Deer songwriter has written a YouTube song to help other women leave similarly bad situations.

In her debut single, Half of Love is War, Gagnon tells the story of a woman “who’s used to the horrible things that

are happening in her life. She thinks there’ll never be anything better for me. Love is slamming doors and half of love is war …”

The 24-year-old hopes that women suffering from domestic violence will listen to the song, see themselves in the lyrics, and gain some perspective.

“I hope they will get the motivation to get out,” said Gagnon, who recommends seeking assistance from the Central Alberta Women’s Shelter.

While her soft-rock song can be heard for free, she asks listeners to make a donation to the shelter. She never stayed there, but got some invaluable outreach assistance. “They gave me the information I needed, and reassured me that I was making the right decision.”

Gagnon understands how easily confidence can be eroded by daily put-

Contributed photo

Kristina Gagnon has written a YouTube song to help other women leave abusive relationships downs. “What really affected me was him saying, ‘You’re never going to find anyone better than me.’ I was feeling

like I’m the lowest of the low. I’ll never find anyone else, so I might as well stay …”

The singer and composer, who works as a taxi dispatcher, credits supportive friends and family members — especially her mom (“she’s my rock”) — for helping her see that she’s worthy of better treatment.

This isn’t the first time Gagnon has had to deal with adversity or abuse.

She said she’s been publicly open about being the victim of a sexual predator when she was younger. Her abuser was later charged by police.

Gagnon hopes the song Half of Love is War (which contains a couple of profanities) will help female victims of domestic abuse find motivation through anger — in the way that listening to Eminem’s rap songs made her furious enough with her sexual abuser to contact police.

“Eminem gave me an outlet to feel anger and do something about the situation ... I want people to feel anger in connection to my song, to feel, this is me and it doesn’t have to be me.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

The Intern makes life look positively sunny The Intern 2.5 stars Rated: PG If Martha Stewart ever becomes a film director, she will make movies like The Intern, the latest Nancy Meyers confection.

Such a movie is lavishly sculpted, like Stewart’s twicebaked biscotti, to make even the most humdrum event seem worthy of celebration.

Everyone in Meyers’ celestial casts are jolly, even when PETER they’re not supHOWELL posed to be, and why not?

MOVIE REVIEW Delicious food and drink abound, everyone owns an Apple gadget and lives in a designer abode, and epiphanies occur every 10 minutes or so, accompanied by a triumphal soundtrack swell.

Even the sun seems happy to dance to Meyers’ lifestyle symphony, cheerfully popping up on cue in her brightly appointed frame.

The Intern offers more of the same, with Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway being the celebrities du jour, and it must be said that gruff De Niro delivers a charming performance opposite the reliably perky Hathaway.

There’s a teensy plot twist. Instead of hilariously exploring domestic tangles, in the style of She’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated, Meyers moves into the workplace, although home is still just a pleasant Subaru drive away.

A cross between Mary Poppins and The Devil Wears Prada, the film is another crowd-pleaser — albeit one with the knotty subtext that women seeking

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo shows, JoJo Kushner, left, as Paige, and Robert De Niro as Ben Whittaker, in a scene from the comedy, The Intern. harmony at home and office need a father figure to light the path.

That figure is De Niro’s Ben, a 70-year-old recent widower who has grown tired of doing Tai Chi in the park and taking Mandarin lessons. He longs to be back in the office, as he was for 40 years as a telephone book maker.

He volunteers as an elder intern at the booming Brooklyn e-commerce clothing firm created by Hathaway’s Jules, a thirty-something workaholic who uses a bicycle to speed between the desks of her dutiful drones.

Gentle Ben just wants to help, any way he can.

Frazzled Jules doesn’t want him around — she finds him “too observant.” But when her regular chauffeur turns unreliable, Ben slides behind the wheel and begins touring her around NYC, and also her life.

He offers business advice and family counselling too, assisting Jules’ neglected house hubby (Anders Holm) and precocious young daughter (JoJo Kushner). He even brings Jules chicken soup.

Before you know it — and of course you already knew it — she’s fallen for his old-school charms. Which is not to remotely suggest anything sexual or even romantic.

The closest these two get to a bed is sitting on one while watching Gene Kelly croon You Were Meant For Me to Debbie Reynolds in a Netflix screening of Singin’ in the Rain.

But what, you cry, is in it for Ben? I am sworn to secrecy, but I note in passing that Jules’ e-commerce firm has a delightful in-house masseuse, played

by Rene Russo, the world’s sexiest sexagenarian.

If only real life were like a Nancy Meyers movie.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

2-hour special marks the end of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — There was scant evidence suggesting it would be a hit.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was a last-minute pickup by CBS, plugged into a Friday lineup whose widely forecast surefire hit would be a reboot of The Fugitive, not a quirky little drama dwelling on hair fibers and blood spatter.

“I thought it was never going to succeed,” says Jorja Fox. At the time she had a recurring role on The West Wing as a Secret Service agent, “but I thought, ‘How fun would it be just to take this ride for a little while!’ By Christmas, I figured I would be back on ‘The West Wing.”’

“I figured there would be an audience for it,” says William Petersen — “among those people who do crossword puzzles. I never thought the audience would also be everyone who’s NEVER done a crossword puzzle!”

Though set in Las Vegas, CSI occupies the world of forensic investigators who solve criminal cases not in the streets or an interrogation room, but in the lab, where the truth reveals itself in the evidence they probe.

Premiering in October 2000, CSI was an out-of-nowhere smash. (The Fugitive flopped.) But that was just for starters. It would spawn two long-running spin-offs, set in Miami and New York, and recently gave birth to a third, CSI: Cyber, which now will survive it as the 15-season run of the original CSI comes to an end Sunday at 7 p.m. MDT. The two-hour farewell brings back bygone stars including Marg Helgenberger (who played blood-spatter expert Catherine Willows until departing three seasons ago) and Petersen (who headlined for eight-plus seasons as lab boss Gil Grissom).

Petersen recalled that in 2000 he

was looking for a TV series, “but I didn’t want to play a lawyer, a cop or a divorced dad. CSI was something different, and while we didn’t know what it was going to be, we wanted a chance to figure it out.”

He got his chance and loved the experience, he says, then moved on in 2008 to pursue theatre work. (Now he is joining another series, WGN America’s Manhattan, for its second season starting Oct. 13.)

Being back on the CSI set for the finale “was like no time had passed,” he says. “It felt like yesterday.”

“It was a delight to be back with Billy,” says Helgenberger.

“We always had great chemistry.

He’s a funny guy, and I laugh at all his jokes.”

But as the series marks the end, some viewers thought they’d never see, the inevitable question arises: Why was CSI so big, for so long?

Petersen observes that just weeks after CSI premiered, a much-disputed presidential election left many Americans confused and disillusioned. The terrorist attacks the following September traumatized millions.

This all cemented a period of what Petersen calls “postmodern vagueness,” with people doubting themselves and their world and wondering, “What does it mean? What does it matter? Where is the truth?”

“What our show did was give you the truth,” he declares. “You can be confused about many things, but this little piece of lint that we found on the floor, you can count on that. Granted, it was just one small truth about one particular case, but it was something you could touch and see and trust in.”

“The show had a new way of coming at crime and murder and mayhem,” says Ted Danson, who joined the series in Season 12 as “D.B.” Russell and now is a star of the “Cyber” spin-off.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this image David Berman, from left, Marg Helgenberger, Jorja Fox, William Petersen and Ted Danson appear in a scene from the two-hour series finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, airing on Sunday.

“Taking a scientific point of view on a crime show was new back then, and allowed viewers into the darker side of life in a way that wasn’t just cops-androbbers.”

“On pretty much every show we got the guy, thanks to irrefutable science,” says Helgenberger. “We made science fun and interesting.”

Even now, when science has fallen into disfavour among many — people for whom what you believe overrules what science proves — CSI still champions the scientific method in the face of its cultural assault.

As Grissom told his colleagues on an early episode: forget personalities, ambitions and assumptions. “Concentrate on what cannot lie: the evidence,” he said.

Ever since on CSI, hard evidence with its glorious certitude paved the way to enlightenment.

The trip ends Sunday, “by offering the fans who’ve been loyal so long with an opportunity to say goodbye to the people they fell in love with at the start,” says Danson, who vows, “It will be very satisfying.”

“I still feel a little delirious,” says Fox, speaking only a couple of days after wrapping the finale.

“Right now, I really feel maniacally happy about it,” she says, having spent most of 15 seasons as forensics scientist Sara Sidle.

“I feel like, wow, look at this amazing run we were able to have! And now we’ve gotten a chance to close the book. That’s a very comforting feeling.”

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Tomlin finds kinship with character in Grandma

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Lily Tomlin didn’t have to stretch much for her latest film Grandma, in which she plays a sharptongued feminist and lesbian.

The legendary comic and actress admits her cantankerous character Elle is “not unlike me in so many ways,� right down to the car she drives and the clothes she wears.

Writer/director Paul Weitz devised the script specifically for Tomlin after the two worked together on his 2013 college comedy “Admission,� and Tomlin found herself casually inserting her own personal touches as the project developed. “I was with the costume designer and she brought things and I tried them on and I kept saying, ‘Well, maybe I should just wear the clothes I just took off,�’ Tomlin says matter-of-factly in a recent phone interview from New York. “The car is just an accident. We were meeting and (Weitz) said, ‘I have to go and see a car,’ and I said, ‘Well, I have an old car.’ We went over to my house and he liked it. He said, ‘Does it drive?’ I said, ‘Yeah, sort of.�’ The clunker ends up being a key part of the emotional comic road movie, in which Elle and her 18-year-old granddaughter Sage, played by Julia Garner, spend a day trying to collect on debts so the teen can pay for an abortion. The misanthropic Elle is fresh from a breakup with girlfriend Olivia, played by Judy Greer, and obviously still consumed by grief over the death of her previous partner. The former academic and once-prominent poet finds herself schooling Sage on the history of the women’s movement, shocked that the teen has never heard of The Feminine Mystique. Weitz says he liked the idea of exploring that generational gap. “I think that, literally, this generation has completely forgotten what cer-

tain words mean,� says Weitz, whose other films include About A Boy and Little Fockers. “There’s been a somewhat stigmatization of the word feminist, which I think is now coming around a little bit again.�

The film actually examines three generations of women, including Elle’s daughter and Sage’s mother Judy — a steely corporate lawyer conceived via a sperm donor. She’s played by Marcia Gay Harden. Tomlin welcomes any reminder of the history of the women’s movement, pointing to ongoing battles that keep gender inequality alive and well. “Some strides have been made

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The Stanfields set to play The Vat Halifax root-rockers The Stanfields will share tunes from their new album Modem Operandi with a local audience this week.

The group performs Friday at The Vat in Red Deer.

Modem Operandi is comprised of hard rock songs that honour the East Coast music tradition and hardworking people everywhere.

After a summer of festivals, the Stanfields are on a Western Canada tour from Toronto to Vancouver.

For more information about the 8 p.m. show, please call The Vat at 403346-5636.

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piece of cake on a summer day. Simple pleasures born out of endless miles on the highway.� The singer/songwriter, who’s played across Canada and the U.S., is inspired to write lyrics about people he’s met along the way.

His latest songs of love and innocence are recorded on the album Beautiful Things.

There’s a $5 cover for the 8:30 p.m. show.

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Award-winning Canadian bluesrocker David Gogo is coming to Red Deer on Oct. 4 as he tours his 14th album Vicksburg Call.

The Nanaimo, B.C., born musician has toured for the past two decades and will be stopping at Fratters for a Sunday night show. His latest album has been received well, being called “The album of his career,� by Gonzo Online, while the Victoria Times Colonist called it “One of Gogo’s strongest to date.�

Gogo has won multiple Maple Blues Awards and earned several Juno nominations for his work, which is best known for his passion for blues and his extraordinary guitar-playing talents.

The show starts at 7 p.m. with tickets going for $20.

NEW YORK — A new exhibition in New York City takes an in-depth look at the life and writings of Ernest Hemingway.

The Morgan Library & Museum installation covers key periods in the Nobel Prize-winning author’s life, from 1918 through World War II. Nearly 100 items shed light on his creative process. They include heavily revised manuscripts of such masterpieces as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises. “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars� opened Friday and runs through Jan. 31.

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realizing it was his first to feature a female lead. “There have been interesting female parts in my films, I think, but not a female lead and I thought that was kind of shameful,� he says, noting that “Grandma� is his 10th feature. “The first film I directed was American Pie — which oddly we were trying to aim towards girls as opposed to boys. And if you look at that film, actually, most of the situations end up with the girl in control. “Having said that, it’s clearly a male-dominated film and it took me a while but it was quite a relief, actually, to do a completely female-dominated film.�

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Toronto troubadour Ben Kunder will sing his “folk tales of the road� in Gasoline Alley.

The singer/songwriter will perform on Oct. 3, at The Hideout, just south of Red Deer.

After residing in a solar-powered cabin on Salt Spring Island, B.C., and working in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Kunder has wrapped his life experiences into songs on his latest the album, Golden. Members of Ladies of the Canyon were among the special guests on the release.

At times jangly or swathed in the blues, Golden contains rock numbers like Trailhead, as well as softer ballads such as Love and Motion and Don’t Dance.

For more information about the 9 p.m. show, please call 403-348-5309.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WATERLOO, Ont. — With its hardware sales still flagging BlackBerry’s chief executive John Chen says he’s found a different way to sell his devices.

For the first time in BlackBerry’s history, the company is going to sell a smarphone that runs on somebody else’s programming rather than its own inhouse creation.

BlackBerry will release the Priv phone later this year, which uses Google’s popular Android operating system.

The switch was a controversial decision at BlackBerry, Chen said in an interview Friday with reporters at the company’s Waterloo, Ont. headquarters, but it addresses one of the biggest marketing problems BlackBerry faced in recent years: its phones are missing some of the most popular apps and games used by most customers and even businesses.

“I am now going to eliminate apps as an excuse not to buy our phone,” Chen said. “We’ll see how it goes.”

Amid all of the financial troubles of recent years, BlackBerry’s lack of apps has been a thorn in its side. Handfuls of popular apps, from dating service Tinder to Candy Crush, were unavailable for years.

Chen tried to remove that problem last fall in a partnership with the Amazon Appstore, which offers thousands of apps built for the Android operating system.

His hope was that Amazon’s store would see its app selection multiply quickly after the launch of the Amazon Fire phone last year.

“I was dying for Amazon to be successful with their phone,” Chen said.

But when sales of Amazon’s first device failed to ignite it left Chen in a partnership that wasn’t quite as ideal as he’d hoped — many apps, like Netflix and Snapchat, were still missing from the mix — and sales showed that customer weren’t swayed by the proposition.

BlackBerry hopes the Priv will give it another swing at making a smartphone that competes with the best of them, despite calls from some analysts for the company to shut down its hardware development all together.

Chen has remained a staunch supporter of BlackBerry phones partly because “marquee customers” like government agencies and other power players use the device, he said.

But the CEO plans to make an ultimate decision on whether to pull the plug on BlackBerry hardware during the next fiscal year, after the Priv hits the market.

“I promise you that I do not like running a business at a loss,” he said.

Whether introducing Google’s Android operating system into the mix will improve sales of BlackBerry phones remains to be seen.

BlackBerry (TSX:BB) missed already low expectations on Friday as its second-quarter financial

results that showed it’s still struggling to turn around its business. The company reported a profit of US$51 million for the three months ended Aug. 29, which was an improvement on the year-earlier net loss of US$207 million.

But it fell short of expectations with an adjusted loss of US$66 million or 13 cents per share — deeper than the nine cents per share that had been estimated.

Revenue for the quarter dropped 46 per cent from a year ago to US$490 million, which was well below analyst estimates of US$611 million and the $658 million recorded by BlackBerry in the previous quarter that ended in May. BlackBerry phone sales also continued their decline, falling to a dismal 800,000 units around the world, a further slide from the 1.1 million phones sold in the company’s first quarter.

Chen has focused on reworking BlackBerry’s operations since he joined in November 2013, with tight cost management and cheaper smartphone production being two major objectives.

Strengthening software licensing and services revenues has been part of Chen’s priorities. He said revenues for that part of its business grew 19 per cent to $74 milllion during the quarter.

The Waterloo, Ont.-based company has issued widespread layoff notices to its workforce this summer.

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company faces unprecedented challenges. I have respect for this, but I am also facing this task with confidence.”

Speaking at Volkswagen’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, he said he would “do everything to win back the trust of our customers, our employees, our partners, investors and the whole public.

“We stand by our responsibility,” he said.

“Occasionally, our and your patience will be tested, but … carefulness is even more important than speed.”

Mueller said it is “decisive that nothing like this ever happens at Volkswagen again. So we will introduce even tougher compliance and governance standards in the company.”

He pledged to make Volkswagen “an even stronger company.”

The main risk of VW’s decision to go with an insider is that some in the markets could consider Mueller “tainted” by association with the crisis, said Jason Hanold, managing partner of Evanston, Illinois-based executive search firm Hanold Associates.

CALGARY — Kinder Morgan has filed new reports to the National Energy Board touting the economic benefits of its proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, replacing evidence that the regulator ordered removed from the record last month.

The filings include an 89-page market analysis by Dallas consulting firm Muse Stancil and an updated Conference Board of Canada tally of the project’s broader economic spinoffs.

Muse Stancil estimates $73.5 billion (in 2012 dollars) will be added to producers’ bottom lines over 20 years if the Alberta-to-B.C. project goes ahead.

“This is a fairly straightforward analysis. It connects a huge source of crude oil supply with a market that has a growing demand for crude oil and it does that in a very economically efficient basis,” Muse Stancil president Neil Earnest said in an interview.

The $5.4-billion project would nearly triple the amount of crude shipped on the Trans Mountain pipeline between the Edmonton area and the B.C. Lower Mainland, enabling exports to lucrative Asian markets. The economic case is strong even as oil prices languish around US$45 a barrel, said Earnest.

“This is a long-life asset. Pipelines operates for decades.”

The financial boost to producers from being able to access new markets is expected to ripple through the rest of the Canadian economy in the form tax revenue and jobs, according to the Conference Board analysis.

The total fiscal benefit to Canada as a result of the improved producer “net backs” is pegged at nearly $24 billion over two decades, with $14 billion flowing into Alberta government coffers and $1.4 billion for British Columbia.

The project is expected to see 14,000 people working at the peak of construction and 3,300 direct and indirect jobs annually over 20 years of operation.

The Conference Board also sees a $12.2-billion contribution to Canada’s gross domestic product over two decades of operations.

Kinder Morgan Canada president Ian Anderson said he was pleased with the results of the new reports.

“It reaffirms the very real need and significant benefits the expansion would bring to all Canadians by providing much-needed access to global markets, resulting in jobs and dollars here at home,” he said in a release.

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Newly appointed Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller, second from left, poses for a photograph with, from left, Bernd Osterloh, head of the workers’ council, Berthold Huber, acting chairman of the supervisory board, Stefan Weil, governor of German state Lower-Saxony and member of the supervisory board, and Wolfgang Porsche, member of the supervisory board, after a press statement following a meeting of Volkswagen’s supervisory board in Wolfsburg, Germany, Friday, after CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned on Wednesday amid an emissions scandal.

VW taps head of Porsche unit to be new CEO MUELLER WILL LEAD COMPANY THROUGH EMISSIONS SCANDAL B Y THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — Volkswagen’s board appointed the head of its Porsche unit as CEO on Friday, handing longtime company insider Matthias Mueller the task of trying to lead the world’s top-selling automaker past a growing emissions scandal.

The company also said it was suspending some employees and would reorganize its North America operations after admitting it used a piece of engine software to cheat on diesel car emissions tests in the U.S. The decisions come after the previous CEO, Martin Winterkorn, quit the job this week over the scandal, which has shredded the company’s reputation.

The company could be heavily fined and hit with class-action lawsuits costing billions. It will also have to fix programming it has said is in some 11 million cars worldwide, far more than the 482,000 identified last week by U.S. authorities.

The 62-year-old Mueller, who has spent his career with Volkswagen Group brands, acknowledged that he was taking the job “at a time in which our

How to get callbacks and interviews from a job fair Dear Working Wise: I attended a job fair recently and I didn’t get any call backs for interviews. Am I doing something wrong? Signed, Confused Dear Confused: It’s hard to guess why you haven’t heard back, but some job seekers do not use job fairs to their full advantage.

I have attended a number of job fairs and used the opportunity to ask employers what tips they would give job seekers.

Here are some great job fair tips and a few pointers from employers for your next job fair.

CHARLES Before the fair: STRACHLEY ● Find out which employers will be there and learn a WORKING WISE little about what they do and what positions they are trying to fill. ● Update your resumé, have someone proofread it, and print at least 20 copies on good-quality paper.

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Use a folder to protect your resumés from creases and stains. ● Prepare a 15-second introduction that tells the employer what kind of job you are looking for along with your key skills and experience. Practice your introduction before you go and be ready to sell yourself. ● Dress like you are going to a job interview — the people you talk to may be making the hiring decision or might want to interview you on the spot.

At the fair: ● Arrive early so you can visit the employers you are most interested in first. Visit the remaining employers afterward and keep an open mind — you might discover an exciting new career direction. ● Use your time well. If you are waiting in line to talk to an employer, try to listen to what the employer is saying to other job seekers. ● Always behave as though your future boss is watching you. Be polite to other job seekers, considerate of each employer’s time, and don’t talk on your mobile phone while waiting in line for an employer. ● Greet the recruiter with a smile and a firm handshake. Be friendly, enthusiastic and ready to ask and answer questions.

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● Do not just hand in your resumé — you can do that via e-mail. This is your chance to put a face and personality to your resumé and start building a relationship. ● Do not call in sick to your current job to attend the job fair — your current employer might be there too — this has happened before. ● Do not show up at the job fair in your current employer’s uniform — most employers assume you will treat them the same way you treat your current employer. ● Ask what the next step is in the hiring process to show your interest and enthusiasm. ● Collect business cards and send a “thank you” e-mail or note re-stating your interest in the position and your qualifications.

You can find out about upcoming job fairs at humanservices.alberta.ca/jobfairs or by following local Alberta Works Facebook pages at humanservices. alberta.ca/socialmedia.

Good luck at your next job fair!

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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MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — North American were mixed as investors digested U.S. Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen’s hawkish comments late Thursday about the American economy.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed 39.90 points higher at 13,378.57, while the loonie was up 0.01 to 75.10 cents US. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average advanced 113.35 points to 16,314.67, while the broader S&P 500 index gave back 0.90 points to 1,931.34.

The Nasdaq fell 47.98 points to 4,686.50.

Yellen said in a speech after markets closed on Thursday that the U.S. economy is strengthening and that global economic weakness won’t prevent the central bank from hiking interest rates before the year’s end.

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate has remained at record low levels since the 2008 global financial crisis.

“I think the market took it as positive,” Ian Nakamoto, director of research at 3Macs, said in relation to Yellen’s comments.

Usually, central banks raise rates to cool down breakneck pace in the economy that threatens to send inflation soaring.

“This is a bit of the opposite, where the initial hike of interest rates from 0 to 25 basis points to 25 to 50 basis points is being viewed as a signal that everything is fine in the U.S., and that the economy can withstand a small increase in interest rates,” Nakamoto said.

On the commodity markets, the November crude oil contract was up 79 cents at US$45.70 a barrel, sending the energy sector of the Toronto stock market higher, while the November contract for natural gas was down four cents at US$2.63.

The December gold contract fell $8.20 to US$1,145.60 an ounce and the December copper contract slipped two cents to US$2.28 per pound.

The gold and metals and mining sectors of the TSX both declined more than one per cent.

In the coming weeks, investors will be turning their attention to earnings reports out of the U.S., Nakamoto said.

“October overall tends to be a pretty good month,” Nakamoto said. “Expectations are pretty low so companies should be

able to meet and exceed their earnings expectations.”

Shares in Nike Inc. (NYSE:NKE) soared 8.89 per cent, or $10.21, to close at $125,00 after the company reported better than expected sales, driven by a jump in revenue from China.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,378.57, up 39.90 points Dow — 16,314.67, up 113.35 points S&P 500 — 1,931.34, down 0.90 of a point Nasdaq — 4,686.50, down 47.98 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.10 cents US, up 0.01 of a cent Pound — C$2.0232, down 0.75 of a cent Euro — C$1.4921, down 0.26 of a cent Euro — US$1.1205, down 0.18 of a cent Oil futures: US$45.70 per barrel, up 79 cents (November contract) Gold futures: US$1,145.60 per oz., down $8.20 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $20.972 oz., down 12 cents $674.25 kg., down $3.86 ICE FUTURES WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ‘15 $4.60 higher $476.30 Jan. ‘16 $4.80 higher $481.50 March ‘16 $5.40 higher $483.80 May ‘16 $5.50 higher $483.70 July ‘16 $5.40 higher $482.40 Nov. ‘16 $7.90 higher $469.10 Jan. ‘17 $7.90 higher $470.30 March ‘17 $7.90 higher $472.00 May ‘17 $7.90 higher $472.00 July ‘17 $7.90 higher $472.00 Nov. ‘17 $7.90 higher $472.00.

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Ottawa posts small July surplus

expansion of the universal child care benefit.

Public debt charges fell by $119 million or nearly five per cent, due to lower interest rates.

The government’s spring budget projected a surplus of $1.4 billion for the 2015-16 fiscal year, which ends next March.

The July figures come in the heat of the federal election campaign which has seen the party leaders try to position themselves as best for the economy.

OTTAWA — The federal government’s fiscal surplus crept higher in July, as rising tax revenue grew at a faster pace than spending.

Ottawa’s surplus after four months of the 201516 financial year was $5.16 billion — including July’s $150 million surplus.

That compares with a deficit of $807 million through the April-to-July period last year, which included a $1.23-billion deficit for July 2014.

The Finance Department’s monthly fiscal monitor said revenue in July increased by $2.12 billion, or nearly 10 per cent, compared with last year. The report cited higher revenue from corporate income tax and the goods and services tax. Spending on federal programs in July increased by $858 million, or about four per cent, compared with a year earlier, boosted in large part by the increase and

The upside, he said, is that Mueller’s knowledge of the company offers the chance of “faster traction to help root out the problems within the organization.”

Acting supervisory board Chairman Berthold Huber lauded Mueller’s “great strategic, entrepreneurial and social competence” and “critical and constructive” approach.

“He knows the group and its brands well and can immediately engage in his new task with full energy,” Huber said.

Winterkorn, who had been CEO since 2007, said he took responsibility for the “irregularities” found by U.S. inspectors in VW’s diesel engines, but insisted he had personally done nothing wrong.

Volkswagen offered few new details Friday on the fallout from the scandal.

“The supervisory board has, on the basis of current information, recommended suspending some employees immediately until the whole case is cleared up,” Huber said. “This has, in part, already happened.”

He did not elaborate, and a statement from Volkswagen did not specify who the employees were, at what level or where they worked.

The head of VW’s employee council, Bernd Osterloh, said that Volkswagen “needs a new beginning” with a “different company culture.”

Osterloh, who also sits on the supervisory board, said, “We need for the future a climate in which problems are not hidden but communicated openly to superiors.”

He praised Mueller as a “team player.”

Mueller brings experience with several of Volkswagen’s 12 brands to his new job at the head of a sprawling automotive group with nearly 600,000 employees worldwide.

He was an apprentice toolmaker at Audi between finishing high school and studying computer science at Munich’s University of Applied Sciences. Mueller returned to Audi in 1978 and worked his way up to become head of product management for Audi, Seat and Lamborghini.

In 2007, Mueller became head of product management for the Volkswagen Group. He has been Porsche chief executive since 2010 and a member of parent

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on Friday, before meeting with members in New Westminster.

“We are looking to raise the profile of these issues so we can raise awareness among those who can actually do something to help.”

Safety and the environment

are shared concerns among politicians in B.C., Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and California, he said. Other problems include traffic congestion, fossil fuels displacing locally produced goods for transport, and the impact of coal dust on human health.

VANCOUVER — In the days after a train laden with crude oil exploded and burned in a small Quebec town, killing 47 people, the city of New Westminster, B.C., took inventory of the safeguards for its four railways.

D “We realized there I really wasn’t anything in L place,” said Coun. Chuck B E Puchmayr. “A disaster R of that nature would be T even more devastating than it was in Lac-Megantic.”

Puchmayr and other local politicians in British Columbia are banding together with 165 elected leaders from the U.S. Pacific Northwest to pressure federal governments in both countries to overhaul antiquated railway laws.

The American-led Safe Energy Leadership Alliance is lobbying for new protections from train accidents in Canada and the United States.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015 C7 Volkswagen’s management board to two sources who were familiar since March. with the cuts.

Alongside Mueller’s appointSome of those employees have ment, the supervisory board also been told they will lose their jobs approved changes to the managein November, one of the sources ment structure aimed at scaling close to the matter said. back complexity and strengthenBut the issue of further reducing brands and regions. tions wasn’t addressed in Friday’s That includes a reorganization of the North America business un- press release or the analyst call.

The sources both say hundreds der Winfried Vahland, until now chairman of the board of directors of additional jobs have been quietly shed over the summer, at Czech-based brand Skoda. affecting software development The company said Michael jobs in Ottawa, manufacturing in Horn will remain as president and CEO of Volkswagen Group Cambridge, Ont., and BlackBerry of America, but its U.S, Canada headquarters in Waterloo. and Mexico markets will be “comChen told reporters at a mebined and significantly strengthdia roundtable that it’s “hard to ened” to form a new “North Amer- determine” exactly how many ica region.” employees have been laid off beThe board called for hiring cause the figures are complicated German and American lawyers by recent hirings in certain divi“to objectively investigate and sions and the acquisition of other fully clarify the manipulation of technology companies. emissions data of diesel engines.”

“I’m sure there will come up It did not specify who they would with a net reduction of some sort, be. but it’s not going to be that big,” Volkswagen has yet to dehe said, declining to get more spescribe in full what cars contain the suspect software and where cific. they were sold. On Friday, howHe noted that when factoring ever, it said the vehicles include in recent hires BlackBerry has 5 million cars made by the core about 3,000 employees across all Volkswagen brand — with models of its Canadian operations, which such as the sixth-generation Golf, is about 500 fewer workers than a seventh-generation Passat and year ago. first-generation Tiguan containing the engines concerned.

In Germany, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told Parliament that 2.8 million vehicles in Germany are affected — diesels with 2-litre and 1.6-litre engines and possibly with 1.2-litre engines. He said light commercial vehicles also have the engines.

German authorities asked Last month, the NEB panel Volkswagen whether it is able to weighing the $5.4-billion project eliminate the emissions manipusaid any evidence prepared by lations and said they expected “a binding timetable” for finding a Steven Kelly, then a consultant technical solution and implement- with IHS Global Canada, must be ing it, Dobrindt said. removed from the regulatory apAs he announced Mueller’s application. pointment, Huber offered another That’s because Kelly has been apology for what he called “a mor- appointed to a seven-year term at al and political disaster.” the National Energy Board start“In the name of the supervisory ing on Oct. 13 and the panel said board, I apologize in every way to his dual role may raise concerns our customers, the public, the auabout the integrity of the hearing thorities and investors,” he said. process. The NEB says Kelly won’t “I ask all of you: Give Volkswagen be involved in the Trans-Mouna chance to make good the damtain assessment process. age and win back lost trust.”

The evidence Kinder Morgan had to replace ended up being “narrow in scope” — about 64 pages out of the original 15,000 filed.

The replacement of Kelly’s evidence has lengthened the review process. The National Energy Board must now complete its review by May 20, 2016, versus its previous deadline of Jan, 25, 2016.

Over the past few weeks, those Critics have lambasted the reductions have centred on deep NEB review, with 35 participants cuts to its hardware development dropping out of the process this and manufacturing business as summer calling it “biased” and it puts a lower priority on smartphone development, according “unfair.”

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Long distance relationship becoming distraction I should be used to this, considering Dear Harlan; I’ve been in a long-distance relationship, and it’s starting to my brother back home used to do the same thing with his TV, phone, combecome too much of a distraction.

How do you tell someone you’re in puter and iPad all at once. I tried to tell him to use earphones, but a long-distance relationthen he’d just get mad at me ship with that he needs and turn up the volume. to grow up more to make There is no escape. it work? — Not Working At this point I think either I Dear Not Working; am cursed, or very few people Telling someone he actually appreciate the beauneeds to grow up is like ty of earphones. Anyway, how telling someone to get should I introduce such a wontaller; it just makes that drous and complex device to person feel small. all my roommates? — Noisy You might need to do Dear Noisy; I CAN’T MAKE some growing up of your IT STOP. YOU MUST TAKE own. Let me explain.

CONTROL (oh, sorry to shout).

Blaming him only HARLAN Start with an escape plan. puts him on the defenCOHEN It’s the only thing you can consive. But sharing how trol. you feel will help him HELP ME HARLAN Find three places other than to listen. Don’t tell him your room where you can find what he needs to do; explain how you feel and what you would peace and tranquility.

Use the library, hang out in the like. Understand the difference?

Instead of focusing on what he’s do- student union, find a study lounge ing wrong (this NEVER works), focus and make some headphone-wearing on what you want and need. Articulate friends. Find your peaceful oasis.

Use your bedroom to sleep and this in the kindest, clearest and most loving way possible. Don’t threaten or keep your stuff. Once you have a place attack him — he will just shut down. to go, you’ll be in a much better place Help him understand what you want. to address the noise pollution.

Find a moment of peaceful quiet Ask him if he can give it to you.

If he’s open to listening and ad- and discuss making some group rules. dressing your feelings, your relation- Make sure you have your conversation ship will grow. If not, make a decision: during a moment of silence. Try not to address the problem when the probstay or go.

Dear Harlan; Out of my three room- lem is happening.

That usually ends up with more mates, I seem to be the only one who knows of the amazing invention called problems.

Dear Harlan; My boyfriend has all of “earphones.”

Seriously, my roommates listen the sudden started making digs at me to their own stuff out loud and all at about my body.

He never did this in the past. I’ve once. For instance, one is watching Netflix, one is listening to music and told him it hurts my feelings, but he another is watching annoying Vine doesn’t stop. What should I do? — Body videos while the TV is playing in the Trouble Dear Body Trouble; Before I scream background. I wish it would stop.

DUMP HIM! DUMP HIM! DUMP HIM! I have a little question. Has your body changed?

I ask because he might not know how to bring up something so sensitive in a compassionate way. If you’ve made a dramatic change, he could be a bumbling boyfriend who doesn’t know how to address you.

You might need to help him. If your body has changed, you can explain what’s going on in one breath and explain that his digs are hurting you.

Simply addressing it may be enough to get him to understand.

If he still is acting disrespectful and abusive (yes, this is emotional abuse), dump him. NO one who loves you should EVER knowingly put you down.

Dear Harlan; I’m not good at talking to people I don’t know well. I find it especially hard to talk to people I find attractive. I freeze up.

How do I begin a friendship with a person I’m attracted to? I don’t talk to him daily, but I’d like to get to know him. Any suggestions? — Frozen Dear Frozen; Shared experiences plus time equals friendship.

Put yourself in the right places with the right people and share some experiences. Put yourself in a place with this person. Use your mutual connections.

The connections can be friends, interests, activities, religion, athletics, school or events. Let the things you have in common connect you.

Use the things you have in common (classmates, coworkers, volunteering) to drive the conversation. When you get nervous, use this self-talk to guide you.

Tell yourself, “Are you as interesting as you are attractive? This conversation is NOT about you liking me. It’s about ME deciding if I like you. I give you permission to respond freely. I just want to know if you’re as interesting as you are attractive.”

Then start a conversation by asking a question or making an observation.

And you’ll see what happens next.

Dear Harlan; I have an ex-boyfriend of three years, but we still are best friends and hook up on a daily basis when we are back home.

How do I make him date me again? I would like to have a real relationship.

— Hooking Up and Hurting Dear Hooking Up and Hurting; Either date him or stop hooking up with him.

I know you know this, but you don’t want to face it. Right now, he has no reason to date you.

He gets what he wants without having to commit to you.

The dynamics of this relationship need to change or nothing will change.

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Up from the 50s A TINY BRICK RAMBLER GETS A MAJOR MODERN MAKEOVER

BY MICHELE LERNER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The 3,100-square-foot contemporary house in Falls Church, Va., is ideal for Utpal and Kinjal Shah’s tastes and needs. But that was hardly the case when the couple first saw the then-1,460-square-foot rambler.

“When we first came to this house, I walked in the front door and right out the back because it smelled so terrible,” Kinjal Shah said.

“The people who owned it must have smoked packs of cigarettes every day for decades,” she added. “The place smelled like cats and dogs, too.”

The Shahs told their real estate agent, Genevieve Concannon, that the house wasn’t for them, although their plan was to buy a fixer-upper.

“The house was in bad shape and even had a gap in the floor that you had to jump over because beetles had eaten through the floor joists,” Concannon said.

“But we eventually ended back there after months of frustration because I knew that the footprint of the house and the beautiful backyard would work for them.”

Like many millennials, the Shahs were ready to move out of their one-bedroom condo and start a family in a larger home.

They had a healthy budget Photos by THE WASHINGTON POST and also had some specific Above: Utpal and Kinjal Shah and their son, Kabir, pose in their remodeled California contemporary style-house.

Inset: After extensive ideas of the type of home renovations, the Utpal and Kinjal Shah transformed a 1950s 1,460-square-foot one-story rambler into a 3,100-square-foot two-story they wanted.

They were open to a fix- California contemporary. er-upper that they could “For example, they were look- barn-style door with steel hardware. convert into a Califor“About the only part of the house ing at a very expensive material nia contemporary-style for the second-floor exterior and that we kept is a small bedroom on the place. Utpal, 36, works the back of the house, but they main level at the front of the house,” at the U.S. Patent Office went with Hardie plank when I Utpal says. “We gutted the adjacent and Kinjal, 34, is a fedshowed them it could save them bathroom to make it bigger.” eral contractor.

All the bathrooms in the home have $20,000 to $40,000. They were able The couple couldn’t to spend that money on other contemporary-style vessel sinks and a find a contemporary clean palette of gray and white tiles. things they wanted.” home in their area that Kinjal chose a bright red front The main level also has a coat closfit their budget — and door to add pops of color and to et and a large laundry room next to everything that was complement the solid gray panels the side entrance and mudroom. The shown to them was eion the front of the house. The cou- stairs to the upper level feature steel ther an old Colonial or ple opted to keep the back wall of cable railings for a modern look, with Craftsman-style place the original home as an exposed matching cable inside the original “that wasn’t our style,” brick interior wall with a window window frame on the exposed-brick said Uptal. wall. The window lets natural light filinto the stairwell.

Kinjal, who grew up “Landscaping isn’t in our bud- ter in from the back of the house, while in a neighborhood of get yet, but we love the space and a skylight at the top of the stairs adds traditional homes was the trees in the backyard and we more light. drawn to contempoThe Shahs opted for an open den made sure to put in as many winrary-style homes when dows as possible across the back with a TV at the top of the stairs. “We looking on Web sites didn’t want a TV downstairs since we of the house,” Utpal said. such as Houzz.

Inside, the Shahs opted to cre- like entertaining there,” Utpal said.

Concannon, who has The upstairs has an office that can ate a completely open living and experience in custom dining area, kitchen and family be used as a guest room. Two other home building, helped bedrooms share a connecting bathroom. the Shahs recognize that The Shahs paid the most atten- room that can be accessed from the they needed to broadtion to their kitchen, which has hall. This bathroom has a bathtub with en their search. Utpal pale gray tile flooring bordered a brightly tiled niche to add color. . said they met with a The master suite includes French by the hardwood on the rest of the lender and established doors that open onto a balcony with a level. a budget of $480,000 for “We both love to cook with a view of the treetops. the home purchase and The Shahs chose a Silestone quartz center island with The Shahs’ master bathroom, a selot of spices and oils, so we decid$500,000 for the renova‘waterfall’ sides that extend the surface to the floor for a ed we wanted a tile floor that was rene room with a wall of pale gray and tions. white patterned tiles, white sinks and easier to clean,” Utpal said.

“We lost out on so ma- clean, modern look.

The Shahs chose a Silestone tile flooring, is one more space where ny homes because we quartz center island with “wa- the couple spent a little extra. were competing with allended up with was in the price range “We decided to put in a steam showterfall” sides that extend the surface cash offers,” Kinjal said. “When Gen- for the neighborhood. er with a bench because we thought it to the floor for a clean, modern look. evieve brought us back here, I wait“The Shahs had a great vision, so ed outside while Utpal looked at the it was my job just to break that into They selected stainless steel appli- would be great for when Kabir or we inside and I realized that the back- smaller pieces to achieve what they ances, including a convection micro- get a cold, plus we love all the differyard was exactly what we wanted, with wanted,” Moore said. “They were real- wave oven. They also chose contempo- ent showerheads,” Utpal said.

Many of the green features in the rary-style white cabinets with mostly these huge oak trees and a level lawn, istic about the budget, the process and open shelving and deep drawers, and Shahs’ house didn’t cost more to inperfect for kids.” the timeline.” stall, such as sealing the ductwork and an oversize sink.

Utpal said that if the house had The Shahs were able to save some “We had made a lot of selections adding extra insulation. been in better condition, it would have money by keeping the foundation and ahead of time and then finalized them The Shahs chose a tankless water cost at least $100,000 to $200,000 more.

The Shahs, along with their all four exterior walls of the original in the two months we had after choos- heater for energy efficiency because 8-month-old son, Kabir, recently 1950s brick rambler. They gutted most ing our builder and the December due it’s more compact than a conventional moved into their new home in Falls of the interior to expand the living date for Kabir,” Kinjal said. “We knew water heater. The home also has LED Church, which is close to subway sta- space, eliminated an old sunroom to it would be harder to go to design lighting, high-efficiency windows, and tions, restaurants, entertainment, and extend the back of the house and add- centers with a newborn baby, plus it a high-efficiency heating and air-conditioning system. helped us stick to our budget.” two farmers markets. In addition, Ut- ed a second floor.

Opening up the roof to add the secAlthough the road from January The family room, which originally pal said the neighborhood met their ond floor helped eliminate the odors had a brick wood-burning fireplace, 2014, when the Shahs first seriously bepriority for a good school district.

The purchase of the proper- in the house, as did ripping up all of now has a gas fireplace surrounded gan house hunting, to moving into their ty in June 2014 was just the start of the flooring and installing all new win- by a wall of tile that complements the home last month may have seemed kitchen on the opposite side of the long at times, the couple is completely a year-long journey to transform the dows.

“The biggest mistake a lot of buyers room. Overhead are square recessed satisfied that the compromises they three-bedroom, one-bathroom home made have been balanced by their joy into a four-bedroom, three-bathroom do is to design things they can’t afford LED lights. to install, but the Shahs were great at The main level also includes a in their new modern home and their home.

Concannon said the Shahs were balancing what they wanted with their walk-in pantry with extensive shelv- neighborhood.

Washington Post/Bloomberg News ing and a sliding white contemporary careful to make sure the home they budget,” Moore said.

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Capture the whimsical mood of ovals floating across the wall with a handmade stencil. tion marks to the stencil, and draw a grid on the wall. Use a roller to apply the paint. The basecoat is pale turquoise, the stenciled ìcornersî or spaces between the ovals are dark.

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When I was asked for advice on decorating a small apartment for a young woman starting out on a busy career, we talked about how she wanted to be greeted when she arrived home after a long day. In stark contrast to her professional environment, she wished for a colourful room that was a bit quirky and would immediately bring out a smile. Circles or ovals came to mind as the inspiration for the wall shown here. On a tight budget we settled on the idea of painting oversized shapes on the wall, bold but not overpowering, and definitely not boring.

To do this yourself, make a template of an oval shape and cut out four ovals from a piece of paper. Arrange them edges touching on a large piece of paper and draw around the corners to the halfway point of each oval. This is the stencil pattern you require — it represents the space between the oval shapes. Trace it onto a piece of plastic or Mylar and cut it out. Add registra-

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I find it fascinating to learn about how all the different shapes we see around us impact on our feelings and moods. Our reactions are mostly subconscious. We don’t question the fact that a square looks more solid and stable than a circle, we simply know from experience that it is. That circle could roll away at any time, while the square is not going anywhere.

Shapes play a very important DEBBIE role in every TRAVIS design process.

Here are some HOUSE TO HOME general points you may find interesting to consider when you are shopping for a piece of furniture or a wallpaper design.

Squares signify equality, there are four equal sides. They are safe and solid and strong. What a perfect design for an ottoman on which to rest your feet or balance a tray. The square can be elongated into a rectangle, still firm and safe for tables and book shelves and seating like benches and sofas.

Circles are happy figures. They represent movement and have a whimsical side. With no beginning or end points, they can roll on forever even when they remain in one spot.

I learned that when men and women are asked what they prefer, a round shape or a square shape, round wins.

We mostly all find roundness beautiful. So rounded cushions on a sofa, and a round or oval dining room table feel pleasurable and welcoming.

A triangular shape is not as common in furniture, but crops up in fabric and wallpaper design. The way the triangle sits gives us a clue to its apparent strength or weakness. If the triangle is sitting on its base, we recognize this as a stable and powerful figure. If sitting askew or on one of its points, the message becomes conflicted — it might be unstable or simply having fun.

There are several elements to consider when selecting a piece of furniture — where it will sit, its size in relation to what you already have, its price, the material, whether wood, metal or plastic. You may not initially think of shape, but it will weigh in as you sift through alternatives. The same goes for patterns in fabric and wallcoverings. Geometric shapes can be very contemporary and edgy, and they can be youthful and playful. Colour con-

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Do you have a rural or and forth like this. cottage water system?

Besides being hard on Millions of Canadi- the pump, all this switchans do, and how long ing ON and OFF means your water pump lasts that the water pressure depends in part on the you experience at the size of the tap or shower pressure tank varies quite a you’ve got. bit with ordiThis is nary systems. where a simPump-killple, effecing switching tive but litand varying tle-known water presvalve called sure are the Cycle Stop two main can add years problems to pump life. that Cycle I’ve installed Stop elimione and it nates.

STEVE works better Cycle Stop MAXWELL than I thought maintains a HOUSEWORKS possible. constant 50 The one psi of water thing all pripressure outvate water systems have put as long as any fixture in common is a pressure in your house is turned tank. Water pumps last ON and drawing more longest when they switch than one gallon per minON and OFF as infre- ute. quently as possible, and No more onning and this is related to the size offing for your pump, of pressure tank you’ve and no more varying wagot. ter pressure.

The bigger the tank, The pump simply the longer your pump keeps running as long as stays ON filling up that the water does, delivertank and raising system ing a perfectly steady 50 pressure. psi.

Long run time is a I installed Cycle Stop good thing. in a water system I put By contrast, smaller into a building with no tanks trigger frequent room for anything other ON/OFF cycles because than the tiniest water they fill up and emp- tank. ty out more often while The performance is water is being used. But excellent, there are no even if you’ve got a lot of electronics or fragile room for a big tank, all parts to break, and as a that wasted space is still bonus, theres also a rea pain. duction in electricity And if a smaller space use, too. demands a small waCycle Stop works by ter tank, then frequent adding more or less reswitching could easily sistance to water flow to cut pump life in half. maintain a 50 psi output The Cycle Stop valve regardless of whether (cyclestopvalves.com; one fixture or more is 800-652-0207) was in- flowing. vented more than 25 It’s essentially an years ago by an engineer automatic throttle, and named Cary Austin, and though you’d think rethe valves his small com- stricting water flow like pany makes today are in this would be bad, it’s millions of homes and actually easier on most many municipal water types of pumps. systems.

Connect a power conTo understand how sumption meter to a waCary’s valves operate, ter pump feeding into a you need to understand Cycle Stop valve and you how an ordinary tank- can see that less wattage equipped water system is used compared to runworks without the help ning the pump without of Cycle Stop. the valve.

The heart of every This effect happens private water system is for submersible pumps the pump, and itís con- and jet pumps —the two trolled by a pressure most common types used switch. W in residential water syshen water pressure tems. Cycle Stop doesn’t in the system tank drops work with piston pumps, below a preset level — so don’t even try if typically 30 pounds per you’ve got this rare type. square inch (psi) — the A simple valve, lonpressure switch energiz- ger pump life, steadier es the pump that then water pressure and a 25 delivers water to the year track record of suctank. cess.

As water accumulates Sounds like progress in the tank, internal to me. pressure rises to a preset maximum — typically Steve Maxwell, syndi60 psi — then the pump cated home improvement turns OFF. and woodworking columBack and forth, back nist, has shared his DIY

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McCAUGHEY Sharon Amey April 20, 1949 - Lacombe, Alberta Sept. 22, 2015 -Calgary, Alberta It is with great sadness that the family of Sharon McCaughey announce her passing.

Sharon passed away on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 surrounded by family.

Sharon will be forever remembered by her daughters, Janice McCaughey (Allin Richards) of Lacombe, Jacqueline Earl (Chris) and Michelle Hammond (Adam) of Calgary. Sharon treasured her time with her 5 grandchildren, Qwanell and Gabrielle Richards, Riley and Liam Hammond and Eric Earl. Sharon was predeceased by her husband, Gerald in 2012, who she greatly missed. Our family would like to acknowledge the amazing care our mother received from Unit 37 of The Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. A memorial tea for Sharon will be held at the Ponoka Legion Branch 66 3911 Hwy 2a, Ponoka, AB on Sunday, October 4th at 2pm. If friends so desire, donations in memory of Sharon can be made to the Kidney Foundation or the charity of choice. In living memory of Sharon McCaughey, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by

VAN DER VLIS Teunis Apr. 10, 1939 - Sept. 23, 2015 Teus van der Vlis joined his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in Heaven on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at the age of 76 years. Teus will be dearly missed by his loving wife of 51 years, Marja, children; Hans (Kathy), Rene (Barb), Bernhard (Annemarie) and Dirma (Michael), fifteen grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren. Our family would like to express our sincerest gratitude to Dr. Daniel and the staff of Unit 32 for their compassionate care over the course of his illness. A Memorial Service will be held at the First Christian Reformed Church, 16 McVicar Street, Red Deer, on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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FOREVER LOVED FOREVER MISSED HARRY and FAMILY Hodge, Kenneth Dwayne A memorial service will be held for Ken Hodge, who passed away on November 11, 2014. The service will be held on October 3, 2015 at the Pioneer Centre in Rocky Mountain House at 2:00 p.m.

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JOHNSON David Franklin (July 9, 1945 - Sept. 21, 2015) David Franklin Johnson of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the Lacombe Hospital and Long Term Care Centre on September 21, 2015 at the age of 70. Our profound thanks to the staff for their care and comfort of David in his final days. He is survived by his wife, Rose, and their children, Brian (Dawn), Douglas (Danielle), Karen Davis (Tyler), and Owen. He is also lovingly remembered by his grandsons Tyler and Hunter, niece Sydney, his mother Eva Morris, as well as his brother Clifford (Gail), and sister Beverly Johnson.

David was predeceased by his father Frank in 1985 and his sister Valerie Smart in 2013. David and Rose were married July 10, 1970 at the Shady Nook Community Centre. Their first home was in Sylvan Lake where David began a 26 year career working as a cleaning porter at Michener Centre in Red Deer. David’s interest in raising livestock led to leaving town life and reestablishing his farm roots in the Sylvan Lake and Bentley rural areas while continuing his job at Michener Centre. This is where their four children were raised with family chores and other rural responsibilities.

In the summertime, he and his two oldest sons would often volunteer at the Little Red Barn at the Red Deer Westerner, masterminding the celebrity goat-milking contests and assisting with care of the animals. He also contributed animals as well as time to various petting zoos throughout Central Alberta. This lifestyle continued until 1999 when poor health forced David and his family to retire from farm life and move to Red Deer. David’s sociable nature and love of people continued to thrive in Red Deer, as evidenced by his many friends, and he was able to maintain close family ties for the remainder of his life. Interment will be held on Friday, September 25, 2015 at 3:00 PM at the Tindastóll Cemetery, near Markerville, Alberta. A memorial service for David will be held on Saturday, September 26, 2015 at 1:00 PM at 3002 47 Ave, Red Deer, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Bower Chapel, after which a luncheon will be held in his honour. All are welcome to attend. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), the Alberta Diabetes Foundation, or a charity of your choice. Viewing details at www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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Syrian refugees cover their faces after they arrived from Turkey on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos, on an inflatable dinghy, Friday. More than 260,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Greece so far this year, most reaching the country’s eastern islands on flimsy rafts or boats from the nearby Turkish coast.

Croatia lifts migrant LARGE blockade with Serbia

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of

JASON ROSS BOYD who died on August 17, 2015

If you have a claim against this estate, you must Àle your claim with the undersigned by October 31, 2015.

Gerig Hamilton Neeland LLP 501-4901-48 St. Red Deer T4N 6M4 Attention: Ian Milne

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BUDAPEST, Hungary — Southeastern Europe’s squabbling leaders moved Friday to ease the border tensions that have escalated for more than a week since Hungary sought to slow the flood of asylum seekers through its territory.

Croatia reopened its main cargo crossing Friday with Serbia after heated exchanges between the two former Yugoslav states. The decision came hours after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pledged to consult with governments in the region before moving ahead with plans to build a fence along the Croatian border.

The concessions came shortly after a European Union summit on the migrant crisis, suggesting that the 28-nation bloc had become alarmed at the lack of co-operation between neighbouring governments and the increasingly ugly tone of their exchanges.

Just hours before Croatia announced its decision, a senior EU official appealed to authorities in Zagreb to change their minds.

“This crisis is of global dimension,” Johannes Hahn, commissioner for regional policy, told reporters in Belgrade, the Serbian capital.

Hungary’s closure of its border with Serbia on Sept. 15 triggered a domino effect that sent those fleeing their homelands scurrying from one European border to the next as they tried to reach Western Europe.

Croatia at first welcomed the migrants, thinking they would transit through to Slovenia, Austria and then Germany. But Slovenia refused to let the people pass, leaving Croatia, one of the EU’s poorest nations, responsible for tens of thousands of people.

The government in Zagreb then accused Serbia of shunting the refugees into its territory and closed the cargo crossing in retaliation.

Some 60,000 asylum seekers have entered Croatia since Hungary shut its border with Serbia on Sept. 15.

Orban on Friday sought to ease tensions, promising to consult with others before Hungary completes a razor-wire fence along its border with Croatia, a move that would insert more confusion into an already difficult situation in the Balkans.

“It is not enough to tell the world through the press what we are doing and why,” Orban told reporters in Vienna. “We have to go everywhere and gather support before the closing of the (border) takes place.”

The chaos also strained relations between Croatia and Serbia, old rivals who fought a war amid the break-

up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

After an emergency meeting Friday night, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told Croatian state TV that Serbia will “absolutely” lift its embargo on Croatian goods.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said he lifted the blockade, but that he may reinstate it again if Serbia keeps on busing migrants to the Croatian border instead of sending at least some of them up north to the border with Hungary.

“There is no wall, no (razor) wire that can stop the people,” Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said while visiting the Opatovac transit centre in Croatia.

Djorjde Vlajic, a commentator and acting editor-in-chief of Serbia’s state Radio Belgrade 1, said the apparent softening of positions was the result of EU pressure. Key players in Brussels have decided that the smaller players must resolve their differences because the bloc as a whole must develop a unified response to the immense wave of refugees that is still on its way.

“This was a lesson for the voters,” Vlajic said. “Europe will now clear up its yard and take care of the school kids.”

Hungary’s conciliatory gesture came after Orban travelled to Vienna for talks with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann. Austrian officials have been critical of Hungary’s quickly built border fences, saying they damaged bilateral relations.

Austria “denied its friendship to Hungary in particularly difficult times, and I came to restore the earlier condition,” Orban said.

Faymann, in separate comments, said there was “tensions” between the two countries but said relations were “correct,” the Austria Press Agency reported. Friday’s meeting “shows we have to talk to each other,” he said.

The Austrian leader said Hungary’s steps to secure the EU’s external border were lawful, but he stressed that asylum is a human right. He called on Orban to honour laws guaranteeing freedom of movement in Europe’s passport-free Schengen travel zone and those governing the right to asylum. Orban got the message, toning down his often-nationalistic diatribes.

“It is clear that Orban is being more conciliatory and moderate instead of sticking to the ‘Hungary does it alone’ position,” said Csaba Toth, director of the Republikon Institute think-tank in Budapest. “He has gone in a more consensus-seeking direction in the last few days.”

On the border in Croatia, rain and colder temperatures added to the misery of the migrants.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner plunged Congress into deeper turmoil on Friday, abruptly announcing his resignation and shutting down a conservative tea party drive to depose the nation’s highest-ranking Republican but opening up fresh troubles for the party.

The 13-term Ohio lawmaker, second in line to the presidency, shocked his rankand-file when he told them of his plans in an emotional closed-door meeting. He said he would step down from John Boehner the speaker’s job he’s held for nearly five years, and from Congress, at the end of October.

One important result: A government shutdown threatened for next week is all but sure to be averted — but only for now. A new December deadline and a potentially market-rattling fight over the government’s borrowing limit still lie ahead.

Boehner’s announcement came one day after a high point of his congressional career, a historic speech

by Pope Francis to Congress at the speaker’s request.

It also came before what would have been a new low: a potential floor vote to oust him as speaker, pushed by conservative, anti-tax tea partiers convinced he was capitulating in a struggle over funding of Planned Parenthood, a non-profit abortion provider, that threatened a government shutdown next Thursday. Such a formal challenge against a speaker has not been used in the House for over 100 years.

On Friday, an upbeat Boehner declared that he’d decided to spare the House, and himself, the chaos such a vote would bring.

“It’s become clear to me that this prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable harm to the institution,” he said.

Even as he announced his plans to leave, Boehner told lawmakers they could expect to vote next week on legislation to fund the government through Dec. 11 with Planned Parenthood funding intact, a bill likely to pass with Democratic help, notwithstanding conservative complaints.

So no shutdown for now. But Boehner will leave behind a stack of other problems, including the new December funding deadline, a crucial highway bill, and the annual battle over the federal borrowing limit.

And it’s not clear that the next speaker will have any easier time taming the unruly tea party lawmakers who forced Boehner out despite the largest Republican majority in 84 years, or making the deals with the White House and Senate Republicans that Boehner habitually cut to keep the gears of government running.

Although a disorderly leadership race is certain for some of the top jobs, the likeliest contender to replace Boehner is his current No. 2, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, whom Boehner endorsed on Friday, saying he “would make an excellent speaker.”

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In the early evening, he led a jubilant parade through Central Park past a crowd of about 80,000 and celebrated Mass at Madison Square Garden, usually the site of basketball games and rock concerts but this time the scene of a solemn service celebrating New York in all its diversity.

“Living in a big city is not always easy,” Francis told 18,000 people at the Garden, easily one of the most respectful crowds the arena has ever seen. “Yet big cities are a reminder of the hidden riches present in our world in the diversity of its cultures, traditions and historical experiences.”

Francis’ itinerary for his only full day in New York was packed with contrasts befitting a head of state dubbed the “slum pope” for his devotion to the poor. He moved from the corridors of power to the grit of the projects with lush Central Park in between.

He drew huge, adoring crowds while also managing to connect oneon-one with countless New Yorkers, despite extraordinarily tight security

that closed off many streets and kept most spectators behind police barricades.

“As he passed by, you passed a cool, refreshing peace, as if he were spreading a huge blanket of peace through the crowd,” Ruth Smart of Brooklyn said of the procession in Central Park. “Even though the crowd exploded in a roar, it was pure joy.”

On Saturday morning, he flies to Philadelphia for a big Vatican-sponsored rally for Catholic families. As many as 1 million people are expected for the closing Mass on Sunday, the last day of Francis’ six-day, three-city visit to the U.S., the first of his life.

As Friday’s Mass came to a close with a sustained and thunderous roar of applause, the toll of the long day seemed evident as an exhausted Francis walked with assistance down the stairs of the altar.

In his speech at the U.N., the pope decried the destruction of the environment through a “selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity.”

He declared the environment itself has rights, and that mankind has no authority to abuse them, presenting his environmental mantra live before world leaders in hopes of spurring concrete commitments at the upcoming climate-change negotiations in Paris.

He demanded immediate access for the world’s poor to adequate food, water and housing, saying they have the right to lodging, labour and land.

Francis’ speech, delivered in his native Spanish, received repeated rounds of applause from an audience that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousefzai, the young Pakistani activist shot and gravely wounded by the Taliban.

The ovations contrasted sharply with the moment of silent prayer during the pope’s visit later in the morning to ground zero for an interfaith tribute to the Sept. 11 victims.

After praying before the waterfall pools that mark the spot where the twin towers once stood, Francis met with relatives of the 3,000 victims whose names are inscribed on the water’s edge.

Among those on hand was Monica Iken-Murphy, whose husband, bond trader Michael Patrick Iken, died in one of the towers.

“This is where loved ones lost their lives … and this is the way we are going to honour them by having someone who is holy, closest to God, Pope Francis, come here and bless this site,” Iken-Murphy said. “I couldn’t be prouder to share this memorial and museum with him.”

Francis’ afternoon schedule reflected the penchant of the “people’s pope” for engaging with the public, starting with a visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School, set amid public housing in the heavily Hispanic neighbourhood of East Harlem.

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Sister worried about money talk with brother Dear Annie: My brother and I are both in our 60s, purchase. and we phone each other regularly.

He wouldn’t want to be kept in the dark about My problem is, over the years, I have been fortu- these things. Once in a while, you could even ask him nate and, though not wealthy, am pretty well-off. My what he thinks, provided you truly listen. He is your brother, however, has barely eked out brother and you seem to be close. a living for himself and his wife.

You can ask him how he feels about this, When he called the other day to see saying you cherish the relationship and don’t what I was up to, I didn’t want to say want to do anything to jeopardize it. that I had been buying a rental propDear Annie: I was married the first time erty. for 23 long years and I could do nothing right, I don’t know how to discuss this no matter how hard I tried. with him without seeming as though I worked full-time, was a soccer mom and I’m bragging or putting him down for yet dinner better be on the table at 5:30, or not being as successful. Any hints? — else. If he wiped his hands over the furniture Lucky Brother and found dust, then I was put in my place.

Dear Lucky: Your brother surely Fast forward to my second marriage, now knows that you have more money than going on 20 years. he does. He may, in fact, enjoy hearing The pattern hasn’t changed. We get along MITCHELL about the things you are able to buy. great for quite a while, but if I try to fix a & SUGAR There may be some envy, naturally, special meal, he does his best to ruin the but not as much as you think. evening.

ANNIE As long as you aren’t boasting, he Today, I made pasta salad and had saved may not begrudge you or your fortune. up for two steaks that I barbecued to perfecYou don’t have to tell him everything, but it’s OK to tion. What does he say? “This is too much. My steak say that you bought a new home, car or other major has fat on it. I don’t like pasta salad.”

I am an excellent cook, by the way.

What am I doing wrong? I am in my 60s now and can’t get it right. I am just so tired of this. — Sick of Men Complaining Dear Sick: When someone repeats the same negative pattern, it helps to look at yourself.

You seem to be attracted to men who are picky and demanding, so you can prove you are good enough to please them.

Then you turn yourself inside out for someone who will never find you adequate. Stop letting others treat you like a doormat. If you want to cook a special meal, do it for yourself.

If he complains, tell him he can cook his own meal and see if it’s better. Standing up for yourself can be satisfying, as well as empowering.

Get counseling if you can’t figure it out on your own.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ AskAnnies.

Sunday, Sept. 27 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: There’s a fiery Lunar Eclipse and emotions are high, so pace yourself.

Saturday, Sept. 26 HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Listen to the views of others. The CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Olivia New- coming year will be full of some dramatic twists and turns — it ton-John, 66; Serena Williams, 33; James Caviezel, 46 certainly wonít be boring!

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Don’t rush people and situaARIES (March 21-April 19): Expect the sparks to fly, as tions. Be patient and take baby steps. the Lunar Eclipse fires up relationships and heats up your HAPPY BIRTHDAY: With you, there is a hasty side. Slow down Rams — otherwise you’re fine line between being persistent and being likely to over-react and do something you later regret! obsessive. Just remember — perfection is a TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Can you get the goal, not a destination. balance right between being assertive and being ARIES (March 21-April 19): Restless cooperative? It’s time to write, paint, play music or Rams are in the mood for adventure today, do other activities that draw on the richness of your as you stretch yourself in exciting new direcimaginative world within. tions. But, when it comes to money, don’t buy GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When it comes to a things you really can’t afford. child, teenager, friend or acquaintance — you ain’t TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Bulls to the seen nothing yet Twins! A long-standing cherished rescue as you help others, and inspire those dream may also suddenly veer off in a totally differaround you with your practical approach and ent direction. kind heart. Keep in mind that some people CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Lunar Eclipse wonít want your assistance though! activates your work and home zones so expect proJOANNE MADELINE GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re likely fessional or personal dramas today Crabs. Avoid MOORE to get anxious about events that normally negative individuals, as youíll pick up their energy wouldn’t bother you. Don’t let your imaginaSUN SIGNS like a sponge. tion conjure up scenarios that are unlikely to LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Cool down Cats. If you happen — especially involving work. are too hot and hasty, then you could find yourself CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s not a good time to host headed for an argument or accident. Pace yourself, and take a party or family function, as there may be some tension with particular care when walking and driving — no distractions! a child, teenager or friend. Avoid being loose with the truth or VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Being around unreliable peoevasive about your future plans. ple will drive you crazy today. So try to surround yourself with LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll need all your detective skills individuals who have firm ideas about where they’re going — to sort out what’s really happening on the home front today. and practical contributions to make.

What a loved one says and what they really mean will be two LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Peace, harmony and happivery different things. ness are a faraway dream today, as the Lunar Eclipse stirs up VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Serious Saturn demands high standards today, so vigilant Virgos won’t have much time for frivolous fun and frivolity.

It’s also time to catch up with Powered Powe ered by chores around the home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Central Alberta’s Don’t let someone pull the wool over your eyes — especareer site of choice. cially involving work or money.

Check details and paperwork thoroughly and, if you’re in doubt, ask for a second opinion.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): All is not as it appears — especially when it comes to children, teenagers or friends.

You may discover your point of view is based on a false asWant your career to have a meaningful sumption. Deal with the facts, impact on people’s lives? To know your then move on. ideas and initiatives are helping transform SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Expect a demandcommunities and build futures? The ing day — and don’t be disapGovernment of Alberta offers you an pointed if you accomplish little opportunity to play an active role in practical work. You’re making shaping our province—making it an even connections and sharing inforbetter place to live and work. Discover mation that will pay off handhow working for the Government of somely in the future.

Alberta can work for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Capricorns are conscientious folk but if you are too meticulous today, then Operations Manager you’ll just complicate matters and end up getting yourself inAlberta Transportation, Peace River, Grande Prairie, Stony Plain or Red Deer. to a super stressed state. So The Operations Manager is a key front line position that is critical to the delivery of a keep it simple! dependable and safe provincial highway network. In this role, you will provide leadership AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. to a team of dedicated technical, administrative and engineering professionals to deliver 18): Restless and unpredicta full range of highway operations programs ensuring the safety of the travelling public able, you’re hard to pin down and the integrity of the highway system. Your major areas of responsibility will be the as you jump from one project maintenance and roadside development programs. Job ID #1031876 to another. Your approach looks randomly chaotic to othVisit jobs.alberta.ca to learn more about this ers but you know what youíre opportunity, to apply online or to find out more doing — don’t you? information about the Government of Alberta.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re at your creative best — and gullible worst — as Moon/Neptune aspects over-stimulate your imaginaParkland C.L.A.S.S. has grown over Äve decades to become one tion. You’ll feel incredibly inof the largest disability based service providers in Alberta. Parkland spired, but donít believe everyC.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults thing you hear.

problems with partnerships — whether romantic or platonic.

So expect the unexpected Libra!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Inner compulsions and hidden obsessions are likely to go into overdrive today, as the Lunar Eclipse stimulates your unconscious mind. So strive to keep things in perspective Scorpio.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The fiery Lunar Eclipse falls in your drama zone so expect plenty of ups and downs Sagittarius, especially with children, teenagers and friends.

Patience — not one of your virtues — is the key.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be prepared for domestic dramas and family fiascos Capricorn, as the Lunar Eclipse highlights your home zone. Aim to get the balance right between your personal and professional responsibilities.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Travel and/or communication will be complicated today Aquarius, as the Lunar Eclipse increases your impulsiveness, and your tendency to blurt things out — in person and online.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A fresh fiscal cycle calls for a radical new approach. Cut the dead wood and start building firm foundations, by employing a hot shot accountant or fine-tuning your financial portfolio.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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