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‘UNSTOPPABLE FORCE’ RED DEER EMERGENCY SERVICES FIREFIGHTERS WERE RELENTLESS DURING THE BATTLE AGAINST WILDFIRES IN FORT MCMURRAY

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer firefighter Sheldon Christensen has battled his share of fires in his 27 years on the job.

Christensen witnessed devastation at the Pine Lake tornado in July 2000, which injured hundreds and killed 12 people.

But nothing prepared him Evacuees f o r t h e m a g - grateful home nitude of “the B e a s t ” t h a t still standing swept through Page A5 Fort McMurray two weeks ago.

“It was all Trudeau praises day,” said Chris‘amazing’ work tensen, who is an assistant pla- that saved city toon chief with Page A6 Red Deer Emergency Services.

“Fires all around us and rotating. You would see one rage up and it would be knocked down. Then there would be another one over there … It kept lighting up in different spots and changing direction. … We were just surrounded all the time.”

The first of three 10-person crews of Red Deer Emergency Services firefighters recently returned to Red Deer after battling the wildfires for close to a week. The second crew returned to Red Deer late on Friday before being replaced by a third crew.

“It was horrible that this happened but it is only possessions,” he said.

“They got 88,000 people out of that place with two fatalities on the highway, which was terrible in itself. Overall we didn’t lose many more houses after that. We kept everybody safe. By the time we got there, most of the damage was done. We were just trying to give the Fort McMurray guys a break.

They wouldn’t take one though.”

Red Deer has also had staff working in the call centre, Emergency Social Services personnel, water treatment plant operators, critical incident stress

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Contributed photos by SHELDON CHRISTENSEN

The first of three 10-person crews of Red Deer Emergency Services firefighters recently returned to Red Deer after battling the wildfires for close to a week.

The second crew returned to Red Deer late on Friday before being replaced by a third crew. management personnel, police officers and public information officers working in Fort McMurray.

Christensen was in charge of the first fire crew, which took up the wildland firefighting equipment, including

a Polaris UTV, a side-by-side all terrain vehicle and a command unit on May 4.

The crew left around 2:30 p.m. on that day and arrived in Fort McMurray around 10 p.m. and went straight to the

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They just wanted to work. Even after 48 hours and only having four to six hours of sleep. They were mad when they switched them out and mad when I took them away.”

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“Everyone was just raring to go,” said Christensen. “It was a bit hectic there as you can imagine. There’s really no way to be prepared for that situation. They were doing the best they could and it was a little chaotic.

Everybody was showing up at the same time and g0t to work.”

The crew set up camp using the command unit as its home base to sleep and eat for their stay in Fort McMurray. A few hours later, the crew was assigned to douse brush fires in Confederation Hill.

“There were townhouses on fire and the wind was blowing like crazy,” said Christensen. “It was nothing like I had seen before as far as fires go … We held our own pretty well for awhile.

Then it got going pretty good. We ended up being there with four or five other brush trucks. We pretty much fought that fire for the entire day until 2 p.m. before we finally got it under control.”

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Citizens honoured for community spirit

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

Kennedy, 61, said over the years the sense of community in Red Deer has become stronger as the city grew and the projects have gotten bigger, like the Mastercard Memorial Cup. “The volunteer organizations have stepped it up and grown with it. That’s just great for everybody,” said the investment advisor with RBC Dominion Securities.

Kennedy was previously named Optimist of the Year and received the 2005 Outstanding Service Award Westerner with Exposition Association, the 2005 Alberta Centennial Medal, and the 2009 Outstanding Service Award with the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise.

Panteluk, who will graduate from Notre Dame High School in June, in-

tends to pursue a career in medicine and has volunteered in four different units at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

One year on the stroke unit he organized a Christmas party where he played violin and bought a stuffed animal for every patient. He recruited volunteers to spread the event to three other units the following year.

“I’ve known I wanted to be a doctor, but being at the hospital has just totally reaffirmed that,” said Panteluk, 17.

“For me, helping those other people, helping the vulnerable, giving compassion to those who don’t have it, is why I wanted to be a doctor.”

Panteluk took part in a Heritage Youth Researcher Summer Program and assisted physiology and neuroscience researchers.

The high school honours with distinction student has also received a variety of academic, athletic and musical awards, as well as scholarship offers to attend University of Alberta, Queens University and University of Calgary.

He said volunteering can play a major role in the lives of youth and they can use their energy to make a positive impact on their community.

“My dad was a Rotary member for as long as I can remember. Watching him serve has called me to serve as well. Rotary is such a great organization. I hope to become a Rotarian one day being able to, on a local and international level, serve those less fortunate.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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The detour routes may change slightly throughout the weekend so follow the detour signs.

The intersection of 30 Avenue and Hwy 11 will remain open for north and southbound traffic.

Visit www.reddeer.ca for more information on the construction projects in the city.

to a lower residential waste limit as part of the progressive changes outlined in the city’s Waste Management Master Plan (WMMP) to divert even more waste from the landfill.

To ease the transition, all households that have residential curbside collection through the city will be receive an information package with five courtesy extra waste tags to use as needed.

The courtesy tags can be used at any time in circumstances where residents need to set out more than the three units by attaching a tag to the bag or can of garbage.

Residents will still be able to purchase extra waste tags for $1 through City of Red Deer facilities including

City Hall, the G.H. Dawe Community Centre and the Collicutt Centre.

The new limit comes on the heels of the expanded recycling program to include all plastics numbered 1-7 in the blue box, which allows residents to recycle more in order to waste less.

A unit of garbage defined in the bylaw as a bag or can up to 100 litres in capacity to a maximum of 25 kg (55 lbs).

With the new limit, each household will be allowed to set out three bags or cans with a total capacity of 300 litres per week. There will be no changes to the weekly pickup schedule; each household’s pickup day will remain the same.

2016 RED DEER CITIZEN OF THE YEAR SPRING GALA

A Red Deerian with a talent to help non-profits develop the fundamentals to succeed, and a teen with an eye on a medical career, were both recognized for their community spirit and contributions at the 2016 Red Deer Citizen of the Year Spring Gala on Friday night.

Rod Kennedy was named Citizen of the Year and Andrew Panteluk was chosen Young Citizen of the Year.

Presented by the Rotary Clubs of Red Deer, the awards recognize leadership and commitment to the community.

Kennedy said he was humbled to receive the award and proud of the diversity of volunteer organizations in Red Deer.

“I really like the idea that this community provides you that window of opportunity. If you want to volunteer there’s lots of great opportunities to participate,” said Kennedy before the start of the gala held at Red Deer Sheraton.

He has given his time to a variety of local organizations ranging from Westerner Exposition Association, Red Deer College, Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce, Red Deer Agritrade Society, Red Deer Optimist Club, Red Deer’s Festival of Trees, and the 2019 Canada Games Host Society. He has also made a provincial impact by serving the STARS Foundation and board, and as a University of Alberta senate member.

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Watch for road construction in northeast Red Deer More detours will be in place in northeast Red Deer to allow for road work this weekend.

Hwy 11 (55 Street) from 30 Avenue to Rutherford Drive will be closed from 7 a.m. on Saturday until 7 p.m. on Sunday.

Detours will be in place through Timberlands via Timothy Drive and Timberstone Way and through Rosedale via Ross Street and Reichley

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Andrew Panteluk, Young Citizen of the Year, left; and Rod Kennedy, Citizen of the Year, were guests of honour at the Rotary Club’s 2016 Red Deer Citizen of the Year Spring Gala on Friday.

Waste-limit reduction begins Monday A three-garbage bag limit for residences starts on Monday.

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FIREFIGHTERS: Split into two groups of five Christensen said the crew was there for 12 hours so they had been up for 23 hours at that time. He knew they could not continue to work 20 hours a day and continue to fight because it didn’t look like it was going to end anytime soon.

They split into two groups of five in six hour shifts. Many of the houses backed onto the forest so they spent most days putting out the brush fires to prevent it from reaching to the houses.

The trucks ran for 20 hours a day.

The crews were also sent to work in Anzac.

Contributed photo by SHELDON CHRISTENSEN

Red Deer Emergency Services firefighters learned lessons that they will be able to use in future campaigns, including bringing spare tires and proper equipment.

“It was amazing to see my guys in action,” said Christensen. “Just how

driven they were. They were an unstoppable force. My responsibility

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They just wanted to work. Even after 48 hours and only having four to six hours of sleep. They were mad when they switched them out and mad when I took them away.”

He said the support crew of mechanics and other staff in Red Deer made their work possible.

But Christensen said they were just happy they were in this fight and helping out their fellow Fort McMurray firefighters.

“We didn’t do anything during the Slave Lake (wildfires in 2011),” said Christensen. “It was really frustrating for us. We’re like ‘come on.’ Kelowna the same thing. We didn’t send anybody.”

There will be lessons learned that they will be able to use in future campaigns, including bringing spare tires and proper equipment. Christensen said they now have a better idea of what type of equipment and supplies are necessary in similar situations. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Lindsay guilty of murder

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF An Edmonton man who admitted in court to the brutal slaying of a friend has been pronounced guilty of her murder.

Dana Jane Turner, 31, was reported missing from her home in Fort Saskatchewan on Aug. 16, 2011. Her remains were found nearly two months later, near an oil lease west of Innisfail.

Mark Damien Lindsay, now 29, was arrested in mid-March of the following year on charges including second-degree murder, interfering with human remains and obstructing justice.

On trial in the Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench earlier this year, Lindsay admitted to the killing through his defence counsel, Kent Teskey and Curtis Steeves of Edmonton.

Court heard during the trial that Lindsay, recently released from an assault sentence for stabbing Turner in the cheek, had met up with her at a fast-food restaurant in Edmonton sometime in August of 2011. Fearing that she was planning to hurt him, Lindsay had armed himself with a pencil. At some point during their meeting, he stabbed her in the eye with the pencil, strangled her, and then ran over her with a car.

Defence counsel argued that Lindsay was delusional at the time and therefore could not be held criminally responsible for his actions.

In court on Friday, Justice Eldon Simpson said defense counsel had failed to prove that Lindsay’s mental illness rendered him incapable of appreciating the nature and extent of his crimes.

Lindsay’s calculated efforts to cover up his crime show, on a balance of probabilities, that he was fully capable of understanding what he had done, said Simpson.

He pronounced Lindsay guilty of second-degree murder and obstruction of justice. The charge of interfering with remains had been withdrawn earlier, during trial.

Dressed in a crisp, white shirt and black pants, his black eyebrows carefully plucked and his wavy black hair hanging like a mop on his head, Lindsay showed little emotion while the verdict was pronounced. He sat with his chin thrust forward and focused his attention on the judge until ordered to stand for the verdict. He then placed his right hand on the back of his head, where it remained while Alberta Sheriffs led him away.

Outside court, Turner’s mother,

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Wendy Yurko, mother of murder victim Dana Turner, takes comfort from Ringo, a member of the Camrose Victims’ Services police dog team. Mark Damien Lindsay was pronounced guilty of Turner’s murder by Justice Eldon Simpson in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Friday.

Dogs help victims cope with anguish of attending court Providing victims of crime with access to a tail-wagging crew of laid-back and gentle Labrador retrievers has been the greatest thing the RCMP could do for them, says a Victims’ Services worker from Camrose.

Wendy Yurko, said that while there is nothing the courts can to to save her daughter or to “erase the devastation” in her family, she is relieved that Lindsay will be prevented from harming any more women.

“At least we know that because of her murder, he’s off the streets for however long the government decides and that he’s not going to do this to someone else,” said Yurko “If the NCR (not criminally responsible) ruling had actually gone through, it would be the same thing as Tim McLean’s murderer (who is) now living free in Edmonton on our tax dollars.”

McLean, 22, was beheaded and can-

Air quality advisory issued for Central Zone

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF An air quality advisory is in effect for Central Zone until further notice.

Wildfires in Northern Alberta are expected to cause variable air quality across Central Alberta, over the coming days, and potentially, weeks, Alberta Health Services said in a statement.

It is a precautionary air quality advisory for the entire zone. The air quality health index showed the Red Deer area as low-risk on Friday morning.

The index ranges from low risk (ideal air quality for outdoor activities) to very high risk (avoid strenuous activities outdoors. Children and the elderly should also avoid outdoor physical exertion).

Alberta Health Services is advising people to be aware of air conditions and take precautions against potential health concerns that can be associated with smoke in the air.

“Although minor smoke conditions do not typically cause health concerns in healthy individuals, if smoke conditions become more severe, even healthy individuals may experience temporary irritation of eyes and throat, and possibly shortness of breath,” said the statement.

If you can taste and/or smell smoke in the air: Monitor your symptoms.

Minimize physical activity outdoors.

Remain indoors with windows, doors and air circulation fans/vents closed.

If you drive to another location, keep windows and vents closed. Run your car fan on re-circulate mode to avoid drawing in outdoor air.

Individuals with respiratory conditions (such as COPD and asthma), and individuals with existing cardiovascular conditions (such as angina, previous heart attack and congestive heart failure), may notice a worsening of symptoms in smoky air conditions.

These individuals should monitor for worsening of symptoms and take the precautions routinely recommended by their physicians if a worsening of symptoms occurs, AHS said.

Individuals experiencing symptoms can also call Health Link at 811 to speak to a registered nurse, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Information about the air quality in many areas of Alberta is updated regularly on the government of Alberta’s air quality website: airquality.alberta.ca. Air quality information is also available by phone, toll-free, at 1-877247-7333.

Michelle Hauser and her crew brought four Labs — two old hands and two trainees — to attend court on Friday with the family of Dana Turner, killed in 2011 by a trusted friend. The program was established three years ago as a means of helping victims cope with the anguish of attending court proceedings, where they see and hear detailed replays of the most painful moments in their lives.

Police service dogs Ringo, Lucy, Madison and Mulder each provided a furry sponge for their tears as Turner’s mother, sister and others prepared to go into the courtroom. They laid at their feet while Justice Elson Simpson read his verdict. And they were waiting outside the door when it was all over, ready for more cuddles.

And cuddles they got. And treats, too.

nibalized on a Greyhound bus west of Portage La Prairie, Man. on March 5, 2009. He was killed by a 40-year-old man who was later declared not criminally responsible for the murder. Remanded to a mental health centre in Selkirk, Man., the killer was released on May 8, 2015 by officials satisfied that his illness was stable and that he possessed no further threat.

Yurko said seeing something similar happen with Lindsay was her biggest fear because of the pain his actions have inflicted on her family.

“My family is like a beautiful glass vase that was smashed into a billion pieces. We can’t be fixed. The only thing they could do was stop this crime

from happening to somebody else.

They’ve done that today, and for that, I’m grateful,” she said.

Crown prosecutor Bina Border, who carried the case with co-counsel Ed Ring, said the pronouncement of guilty for second-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence. The only question now is the length of time Lindsay must serve before he can be considered for parole, said Border.

Crown and defence counsel have been asked to prepare their submissions to Justice Simpson for a sentencing hearing to be set at a later date, most likely during arraignment proceedings on June 6. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer provincial court on Friday.

Standing outside of the courtroom with their lawyer afterward, Jessica Alton said she and her mother both suffer chronic pain issues and had a small quantity of prescription drugs as well as vitamins and over-the-counter remedies in their home when it was raided.

A stay of proceedings means the charges remain in limbo for up to a year, providing the case is not reopened. The charges are dismissed if there is no further action after the deadline has expired.

Drug charges stayed against two Penhold women Charges have been stayed against two Penhold women accused last May of trafficking prescription drugs.

Susan Leah Alton, 60 and her daughter, Jessica Leah Alton, 33 had pleaded not guilty to charges of trafficking drugs and possessing proceeds of crime. They were to stand trial in

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Evacuees grateful home still standing

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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From the left, Denise Delaney and her friends Desiree MacKenzie, her husband, Jamie, and their daughter Myleigh, attended a luncheon at the Sylvan Lake Community Centre Friday. The evacuees from Fort McMurray are living in Sylvan Lake until they can get back to their homes. here has been so generous and heart warming. Everyone is reaching out to help us. It makes me feel really good that people are trying to make us as comfortable as we can.”

Delaney was also moved by the local support. “It’s been wonderful.”

When they can return to their jobs at the hospital is unknown. They’ve heard it could take up to two months to completely restore the hospital.

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A pair of nurses and friends from Fort McMurray’s hospital are in Sylvan Lake waiting for the allclear to return home and their jobs caring for others.

After frightening journeys to safety Denise Delaney and Desiree MacKenzie and their families arrived last week in Sylvan Lake, where they both have relatives. For the next few days, they watched anxiously to see if they would have homes to return to.

Both nurses in Fort McMurray Hospital’s maternity unit, MacKenzie and Delaney shared their stories on Friday at a lunch hosted by Town of Sylvan Lake staff and local volunteers. It also served as an information fair to connect evacuees to the help coming through the province and Canadian Red Cross.

Both families left their burning city on May 3.

The 30-minute journey to Anzac, took 10 hours, said MacKenzie, who fled with husband Jamie and their four children, aged five to 11.

They came close to losing their home, but the flames stopped short.

“The entire street in front of us is gone. We think our house is still there but it may be damaged,” said MacKenzie.

“We were really not that close to the fire so we thought we were going to be OK,” she said. “Then we found out it was our street that was on fire.

“It was frightening.”

Since they were so far from the flames when they left, she hadn’t taken any photos or other family memorabilia.

“I just packed the kids’ clothes.”

Friends and other neighbours they know through school have lost their homes, she said.

Delaney went to her sister’s home before evacuating. So many people were in the press of vehicles to leave, a neighbour had taken down a barricade to allow people to drive along a trail to reach the highway.

“We were standing on the back deck and we could see smoke coming from different directions and we could see helicopters.

“We could see people trying to get out from the trail (onto the highway).”

In Sylvan Lake she also got good news that her home, which she shares with her husband and two children, was untouched.

“Our house is, thankfully, still standing. It was away from any water and fire so we don’t think there’s much water or smoke damage.

“We didn’t know that for days. It was horrifying because when we were evacuated I didn’t have time to pack all my memories.

“I just kind of grabbed a couple of baby albums and my wedding album, clothes for the kids and I, and that was it.”

As she waited to find out whether she still had a home, her mind went to the things she wished she had taken — children’s christening clothes, her wedding gown, pictures on the wall.

Her husband, who works for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, has already returned but it will likely be a couple of weeks before the rest of the family can follow.

Both women appreciated the welcome they received in their temporary home town.

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‘Amazing’ work saved city: PM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — Justin Trudeau says Canadians have yet to grasp the scope of what happened in Fort McMurray and the lengths firefighters went to in saving almost 90 per cent of the city.

The prime minister was in northern Alberta on Friday and toured blackened, ash-filled neighbourhoods where many of the 2,400 buildings that were destroyed by a wildfire last week once stood.

The devastation was apparent but what stuck with him, he said, was how much was still standing — the airport, the downtown, the hospital.

“I don’t think Canadians yet understand what happened. They know there was a fire. They’re beginning to hear the wonderful news that so much of the town was saved,” he told 150 firefighters and first responders after an aerial tour by military helicopter.

“They don’t yet understand that that wasn’t a fluke of wind or rain or luck that happened. This was the extraordinary response by people such as yourself. The work you did to save so much of this community … was unbelievable.”

The disparity between what was destroyed and what was saved was striking, he said.

“The idea that there were firefighters rushing toward that blaze as the entire world must have seemed on fire is amazing,” he told reporters afterward. “And then you notice a downtown core that, other than being oddly deserted and immobile, is largely untouched. Then you notice neighbourhoods that stand.”

The federal government has promised to match donations made by individuals to the Canadian Red Cross. So far the charity has raised $86 million for fire recovery.

The prime minister had no new dollar commitments beyond that Friday, but gave assurances that the government will be there as the oilsands city recovers and rebuilds.

“Yes, there will be significant federal moneys invested in that community as we rebuild, but we are just beginning to understand the scale and the scoop of the problem,” he said. “The federal government will have Albertans’ back in the coming months and years.”

Local BRIEFS Reed among Canada’s most outstanding teachers A Red Deer teacher has been named one of the top teachers in Canada.

Mandy Reed, along with a group of 34 other outstanding teachers, was recognized in Ottawa this week for her work by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a former teacher himself.

She received a Certificate of Achievement and $1,000. She is one of only five teachers in Alberta, and the only one in Central Alberta, to receive recognition.

Reed teaches English as a Second Language, Social Studies and Canadian Studies, to grades 10 to 12 at

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre left, and Fort McMurray Fire Chief Darby Allen, centre right, look over a burnt out car during a visit to Fort McMurray on Friday.

EI benefits extended to three western regions

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government is extending employment insurance benefits to three western economic regions that were left out when changes were first made.

“More people … will be getting additional help from the federal government as we add them to the list of areas where residents will have access to extended employment insurance benefits,” Trudeau announced Friday in Edmonton.

“We said we would continue to monitor and assess the situation and act if need be,” he said. “Edmonton,

École Secondaire Notre Dame High School.

She has been noted for her work with a large population of immigrants and second-language learners, making it a priority to get to know her students.

Reed is recognized as a master teacher and English as a Second Language specialist, helping other teachers with their Englishlanguage learners.

Among her MANDY REED achievements, Reed developed the Taste of Home study unit where students brought recipes from their countries of origin and memories of home to class, which was used for language arts, social studies, science and math lessons.

Reed has also involved students in a fundraising campaign for

southern Saskatchewan and southern interior B.C. now meet the criteria we established.”

The March budget eased EI waiting periods and added weeks of coverage in 12 parts of the country hit hard by a prolonged downturn in commodity prices.

But the three western regions didn’t qualify under a formula used by the government.

The Liberals were under increasing pressure to add them to the list — especially from the premiers of oil-producing provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan. Tens of thousands have lost their jobs due to low oil prices that have crept up somewhat in recent months, but are nowhere

victims of a devastating typhoon in the Philippines, where many of the students emigrated.

Two Blackfalds men facing drug charges Drug trafficking and drug production charges have been laid against two men after Blackfalds RCMP searched a residential property there on Thursday.

Cpl. Brandon Smith alleged on Friday that a “fairly extravagant” marijuana grow operation was found in the garage, including a couple of plants, some clones (new plants) and about one kilogram of packaged pot.

Investigators have not determined whether the grow-op was recently started or if it had been recently harvested with a fresh crop underway, said Smith.

Police also allege finding an assortment of drug paraphernalia, two firearms, cash and other items related to producing and trafficking drugs.

Both men are co-accused on drugrelated charges, including possession for trafficking, drug production and

near what they were two years ago.

Notley praised the Liberals for changing EI rules in March to help many Albertans and for listening when she told them that “a little more needed to be done.”

“Your government is making … another important contribution to our province’s economic recovery,” she said.

“My kids really hate it when I nag at them, so I personally want to thank the prime minister for putting up with that and then … responding as thoughtfully and as fully as his government has.”

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall issued a statement thanking the government as well.

possessing property obtained by crime.

One man is also charged with unsafe storage of firearms.

Both have been released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court on June 23.

Woman charged after twovehicle collision near Rimbey A 62-year-old woman was charged

by RCMP after a two-vehicle collision north of Rimbey on Friday.

RCMP said the woman was driving westbound on Hwy 611. It is alleged she stopped at the stop sign and then proceeded, colliding with a southbound pickup on Hwy 20.

She was charged under the Traffic Safety Act for proceeding after stopping when it was unsafe.

The 25-year-old man driving the southbound vehicle was taken to hospital for observation. The other driver was not injured.

The southbound pickup rolled and its rear wheels were torn off in the collision about 25 km north of Rimbey.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Construction and cleanup firms are already mobilizing to help rebuild Fort McMurray, Alta., after the wildfires, a monumental effort that’s expected to take years.

Ben Dutton at the Casman Group of Companies says he has crews heading up to the major oilsands sites north of the city to help clean up and get ventilation and electrical systems back online.

The CEO of the Fort McMurray-based construction and labour firm says getting oilsands operations running is a key first step to the long-term restoration of the community.

“The oilsands operations are critical to the existence of Fort McMurray, they’re critical to the GDP of Alberta,” said Dutton. “There’s a massive industrial commercial enterprise up there that we need to get back online for everyone.”

Workers can already start work on the oilsands projects because they were largely untouched by the wildfires. But Dutton says he thinks it will be weeks before he can get into Fort McMurray to begin the rebuilding process.

The Alberta Emergency Management Agency says 550 staff with utility company Atco have been dispatched to Fort McMurray to restore the critical natural gas, electricity and water infrastructure needed to get the city ready for the bigger cleanup efforts. It’s not clear how long it will be before those services are back online.

Spirit Staffing & Consulting is filling about 500 job openings on behalf of a major disaster recovery firm that is getting ready to enter Fort McMurray.

The company hosted a hiring fair in Edmonton this week and about 1,300 people applied for the positions, with another 600 applications coming into their Calgary office, said Spirit co-owner Beatrice Floch.

She said she expects the workers will be among the first allowed into the community once it’s deemed safe for non-essential personnel.

Spirit’s client, which Floch declined to name, has already booked 1,400 beds for workers in camps near Fort McMurray, she said.

Housing workers will be one of the biggest challenges as restoration efforts get fully underway, said Dutton.

There could be conflicts between those looking for short-term and long-term accommodation, he said, but he’s optimistic that will be resolved.

“If people behave rationally, we’ll be able to put enough labour on the ground and put in place the necessary infrastructure to sustain that labour on the ground,” said Dutton.

“Hopefully after 60 days or so, some of the excitement will die down and it will be less about people trying to shoehorn their own commercial interests into the community and we’ll actually have a co-ordinated effort to clean up and rebuild.”

He said he’s pushing the municipal and provincial governments to help co-ordinate who comes into the community and who does what task. That’s something Jim Rivait, CEO of the Alberta branch of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association, is also advocating for.

“You can’t just start 2,000 houses all at once, there’s absolutely no way,” said Rivait.

“It’s going to have to be done in some sort of a sequencing, and it’s going to have some focus to minimize the number of companies in a particular area at a particular time,” said Rivait. “Otherwise, it will be a free-for-all.”

He said there were some failed efforts to co-ordinate the rebuilding of Slave Lake after its disastrous wildfire in May 2011.

“It didn’t work out so well,” he said. “It just became everyone for themselves.”

He said there needs to be strong leadership from governments to avoid that, as contractors look at opportunities in Fort McMurray.

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Opposition reject move to extend debate LIBERALS ACCUSED OF USING ‘BULLDOZER’ TACTICS

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ASSISTED DYING

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals have lost a bid to extend debate next week on their contentious medically-assisted dying legislation.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould introduced two motions Friday to extend sitting hours next Tuesday and Wednesday into the early morning hours so MPs could speak their minds about Bill C-14.

But the procedural move was rejected by the opposition parties, who accused the Liberals of using “bulldozer” tactics to get the legislation through third reading.

Wilson-Raybould said she would have preferred to have more time to debate the proposed new law.

But the Opposition Conservatives complained that their constituents deserve to hear their MPs debate the legislation at a time when they’re actually awake.

New Democrat MP Peter Julian said the Liberals should have approached his party first to seek consent to extend the sitting hours.

The Supreme Court last year struck down the ban on medical assistance in dying and gave the government until June 6 to draft a new law that recognizes the right to an assisted death for clearly consenting adults with grievous and irremediable medical conditions who are enduring intolerable physical or mental suffering.

The government has taken a more restrictive approach than the top court with a bill that would allow medical assistance in dying only for consenting adults in “an advanced stage of irreversible decline.”

The bill would also require those seeking a doctor’s help to be suffering from a serious and incurable disease, illness or disability and for whom a natural death is “reasonably foreseeable.”

Wilson-Raybould continued Friday to suggest she would be open to amendments from the Senate to ensure the law is passed before the June deadline.

“I embrace the realities of a parliamentary democracy and I will consider those amendments if, in fact, they come,” she said.

Photographs of abducted children called ‘propaganda’

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — New photographs of four missing Vancouver Island siblings and an open letter posted in the name of their fugitive father have surfaced on a dedicated Facebook page that the children’s mom hopes will lead to a break in the case.

Alison Azer has spoken to RCMP about the recent online posts and pictures of her children she hasn’t seen since last August, when her ex-husband allegedly fled to the Middle East.

The photos, which include selfies and video, show the smiling children with their father playing in the park, dancing and romping in bouncy castle, posts Azer called “propaganda.”

“The photographs to me mark a moment in time of the children. They are clearly staged,” said Azer on Friday from Red Deer where she is visiting her sister.

“I think they tell the story of children who are doing their very best to survive a confusing and challenging time.”

Azer’s children, Sharvahn, Rojevahn, Dersim and Meitan, range in age from three to 11 and are believed to be living in a region of northern Iraq that’s embroiled in conflict.

A Canada-wide warrant remains in place on charges of abduction in contravention of a custody order for Saren Azer, a well-known Canadian doctor of Iranian descent. International policing organization Interpol also issued an alert for the 49-year-old father.

An open letter posted to the page on Wednesday is signed by “Saren Azer” and describes the health and welfare of the children.

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Bishop-less Bolts top Pens

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lightning 3 Penguins 1 PITTSBURGH — The Tampa Bay Lightning’s 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday night may have come at a heavy price.

Tampa Bay goalie Ben Bishop left the ice on a stretcher in the first period after injuring his left leg. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 25 stops while filling in and the Lighting took advantage of some sloppy miscues by Pittsburgh’s defence to take away home-ice advantage in the best-of-seven series.

Game 2 is Monday night in Pittsburgh.

Alex Killorn, Ondrej Palat and Jonathan Drouin scored for Tampa Bay, and the Lightning kept Pittsburgh’s dynamic offence under wraps for long stretches.

Patric Hornqvist picked up his sixth goal of the playoffs for the Penguins.

Rookie goaltender Matt Murray finished with 17 saves, but was put in a tough spot several times because of defensive miscues in front of him.

The Lightning dropped just two games while sprinting to their second straight appearance in the conference finals despite missing franchise centre Steven Stamkos and top defenceman Anton Stralman, both of whom remain out indefinitely with health issues.

Now Tampa Bay faces the prospect of journeying forward without Bishop, their 6-foot-7 anchor at the back end who is enjoying the finest season of his career.

One that may be over after a weird sequence just past the midway point in the first period. Bishop was outside the crease during a Pittsburgh power play when he turned around to scramble back into position. His left leg appeared to wrench awkwardly underneath him and he tumbled to the ice writhing in pain before being taken off on a stretcher.

Enter Vasilevskiy, still more than two months away from his 22nd birth-

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Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy (88) stops the puck as Pittsburgh Penguins’ Tom Kuhnhackl (34) and Lightning’s Andrej Sustr (62) tangle in front of the net during the second period of Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals Friday, in Pittsburgh. day. He hardly appeared overcome by the stage. He had plenty of help in front of him as the Lightning did a solid job of keeping Pittsburgh’s dynamic attack under wraps.

The meeting between two of the quickest teams in the league was supposed to play in stark contrast to Pittsburgh’s physical six-game series with Washington. The expected track meet

largely didn’t development, and the scoring chances created off the rush were one-sided in favour of the Lightning.

Tampa Bay struck 18:46 into the first when Killorn slipped behind struggling Pittsburgh defenceman Olli Maatta and fit a shot between Murray’s legs. Palat doubled the lead 2:33 into the second when Valtteri Filp-

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Jays blank Rangers

HEAT SLAM RAPTORS

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EASTERN SEMIFINALS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Heat 103 Raptors 91 MIAMI — The Toronto Raptors have one game left in the Eastern Conference semifinals — to either make history, or see their season come to an end.

Kyle Lowry had 36 points, while DeMar DeRozan battled through a thumb injury to add 23, but they got little help from the rest of the team as the Miami Heat beat Toronto 103-91 to even their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series at three wins apiece.

Goran Dragic scored 30 points, while Dwyane Wade added 22 for the Heat.

Bismack Biyombo grabbed 13 rebounds for the Raptors, who had just their two all-stars score in double-digits.

The Raptors, who are now 1-5 in road closeout chances, were keen to end this series in Miami and avoid another game in what’s already been their longest post-season in franchise history.

But the Heat dominated for most of the night, and when Dragic drilled a three-pointer late in the third quarter, it put Miami up by 13 points. The Heat took an 82-72 advantage into the fourth.

Lowry scored eight straight points to pull Toronto to within six points with 8:45 to play, but the all-star guard also picked up his fifth foul two minutes later, and six quick points from Wade had the Heat back up by 12.

Lowry free throws had the Raptors within eight before Joe Johnson threw up a three-point dagger with 2:15 to play, essentially spelling the end for Toronto. Game 7 is Sunday.

Injuries have ravaged both teams.

DeRozan spent every timeout having his thumb wrapped in a red shoelace by the team’s sport science guru Alex McKechnie. DeMarre Carroll played with his left wrist taped — hidden under a wristband — after injuring it on Wednesday night.

The Raptors were already without Jonas Valanciunas (ankle) for the series, while the Heat is missing Hassan Whiteside.

A couple hundred Toronto fans made the trip south hoping to see the Raptors make history.

The American Airlines Arena was otherwise a sea of white, including one fan who held up a “We The South” sign.

The Raptors, who won a franchise-best 56 games in the regular season, are playing in the conference semifinals for just the second time in the team’s 21-year history. They made the conference semifinals in 2001 and

pula’s slap shot smacked off Murray’s pads and — with no Penguins around — Palat reached out and slammed home the rebound. Drouin finished off a 3-on-2 by burying a feed from Palat into the open net 18:25 into the second period to give the Lightning complete command.

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Toronto Raptors’ DeMar DeRozan (10) shoots against Miami Heat’s Tyler Johnson during the first half of Game 6 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinals, Friday. were a Vince Carter miss away from beating Philadelphia and advancing to the conference final.

Lowry and DeRozan combined for 13 points in an ugly first quarter. The two teams made just 15-of-41 shots and neither squad led by more than three

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points. The Heat took a 21-20 lead into the second.

Josh Richardson drilled a three midway through the second that put the Heat up by nine, and they took a 53-44 advantage into the locker-room at halftime.

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Blue Jays 5 Rangers 0 ARLINGTON, Texas — R.A. Dickey tossed eight innings, Edwin Encarnacion and Troy Tulowitzki homered and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers 5-0 on Friday night.

Dickey, a knuckleballer who broke into the majors with Texas in 2001, struck out six and walked one while allowing only three singles. Chad Girodo finished the three-hitter.

The Rangers had won five of their last six games since losing three in a row last week at Toronto.

Dickey (2-4) threw 74 of 111 pitches for strikes in the same stadium where 10 years ago he allowed six home runs in his only start for the Rangers after making the knuckleball his primary pitch.

He perfected the pitch after that, winning 20 games and the 2012 NL Cy Young Award with the New York Mets before going to the Blue Jays the following season.

Matt Bush made his major league debut with a perfect ninth for the Rangers against the heart of Toronto’s order, seven months after getting released from a 3 ½-year prison sentence for a drunken-driving accident that seriously injured a man. It was 12 years after he was the No. 1 overall pick by his hometown San Diego Padres, when he was still a shortstop.

The Rangers signed the 30-year-old Bush to a minor league contract in December and promoted him Friday after only 12 relief appearances at Double-A Frisco.

He pitched against the 2-4 hitters in the Blue Jays lineup, with several fastballs in the upper 90s.

Rangers starter Martin Perez (1-3) pitched into the seventh. He had only one inning without a baserunner, but allowed only two runs in 6 1/3 innings.

The Blue Jays’ homers came to start the eighth, in a span of three batters faced by Tom Wilhelmsen. Encarnacion led off with his seventh homer, and after Justin Smoak’s double, Tulowitzki also hit his seventh to make it 5-0.

Toronto scored first in in the sixth when Tulowitzki reached on a fielder’s choice with the bases loaded. That was two batters after shortstop Elvis Andrus’ one-out error.

After No. 8 batter Darwin Barney singled to start the seventh and Josh Thole followed with a sacrifice, Sam Dyson took over for Perez. Barney went to third on a grounder and scored on a wild pitch — a high, hard pitch that sent Josh Donaldson sprawling to the ground in a limbo-like position to avoid getting hit.

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Derby winner Nyquist ready for the Preakness

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS He’ll have another.

Happy, healthy and hangin’ in his new home, Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist is gearing up for another big race, the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore next Saturday.

With a victory, Nyquist would head to the Belmont Stakes in New York three weeks later with a shot at winning the Triple Crown. What a turn of events that would be for horse racing — a record 37-year drought between Triple Crowns followed by back-toback Triples for only the second time in history.

“He’s full of energy, and looks fantastic,” Nyquist trainer Doug O’Neill said this week as his unbeaten Derby winner settles into his fourth new stall in the past seven weeks. “He should be ready.”

O’Neill likes to say one race at a time, but it’s difficult not to think of the glory that awaits if his brilliant 3-year-old bay colt wins his next two races. Especially since O’Neill, along with owner J. Paul Reddam and jockey Mario Gutierrez — has been on the cusp of history before.

In 2012, O’Neill won the Derby and Preakness with I’ll Have Another, but the horse was retired the day before the Belmont with a tendon injury. A year ago, American Pharoah swept the Derby, Preakness and Belmont, a feat many consider the toughest in sports.

Like almost everyone else in racing, O’Neill saw how American Pharoah became the people’s horse, a calm, friendly and gentle colt that thrived on the attention. He’s hoping it can happen again with Nyquist.

“I thought the American Pharoah camp did a wonderful job, and having a horse that thrived on it (the attention) helped,” O’Neill said this week.

“And I think Nyquist — they are big shoes to fill — has the ability to fill them if we were to get so fortunate and do what American Pharoah did last year.”

For his part, Pharoah’s owner Ahmed Zayat is all in.

“Let’s have another Triple Crown, back to back,” he said hours after Nyquist’s 1 ¼-length Derby win in a time nearly 2 seconds faster than American Pharoah ran.

But on to the Preakness, where a whole new set of challengers await.

Unlike a huge 20-horse field in the longer 1 ¼-mile Derby, the second leg of the Triple Crown has a 14-horse limit,

CFL BRIEFS Eric Norwood and Clarence Denmark join Roughriders REGINA — CFL veterans Eric Norwood and Clarence Denmark have both landed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Norwood, a former Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive lineman, and Denmark, who spent five seasons catches passes for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, signed with the Riders on Friday.

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Mario Gutierrez rides Nyquist to victory during the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Happy, healthy and hangin’ in his new home, Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist is gearing up for another big race, the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore next Saturday. and is run at a shorter distance of 1 3/16 miles.

Back to take on Nyquist is Derby runner-up Exaggerator, a fast-closing second but an exasperating 0 for 4 against Nyquist. In the career debut for both, Exaggerator was fifth behind Nyquist, then fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, and second in the San Vicente prior to the Derby.

Kent Desormeaux, the brother of Exaggerator trainer Keith Desormeaux, says “a clear trip” is what it’ll take to turn the tables. The Hall of Fame rider was aboard for three of those losses, and claims he had a troubled trip every time. Which is why, he figures, “I still have a chance.”

Lani, who ran ninth in the Derby, is a definite for the Preakness, with third-place finisher Gun Runner still possible. Lani would become the first Japan-based horse to run in the Preakness.

The list of newcomers is long in a field that could total 12. It includes

Laoban and Cherry Wine, a pair of colts who were on the Derby also-eligible list but did not get to run because no horses were late scratches.

Others looking for an upset include possible rising start Stradivari, Lexington Stakes winner Collected, Federico Tesio winner Awesome Speed, California Chrome Stakes winner Uncle Lino and Fellowship, who ran third behind Nyquist in the Florida Derby.

With Collected, trainer Bob Baffert is seeking a record-tying seventh Preakness win. He’s currently tied with D. Wayne Lukas. Robert Wyndham Walden won seven, including five in a row from 1878-1882.

Stradivari is trained by Todd Pletcher and will be ridden by John Velazquez. The lightly-raced son of Medaglia d’Oro will be making his second start of the year and his stakes debut — he’s 2 for 3 overall — but won his last two races by a total of nearly 26 lengths.

“We’re behind in experience and

seasoning to quite a few of the competitors in there,” Pletcher said. “But from everything we’ve seen from a talent standpoint, he belongs.”

For now, there seems to be no horse in a class with Nyquist, a perfect 8 for 8 and a presumed heavy favourite when the post-position draw takes place on Wednesday.

Nyquist is the eighth undefeated Derby winner to run in the Preakness, and first since Big Brown won the first two legs in 2008 but was pulled up in the Belmont with a quarter-mile to go and did not finish.

“It looks like the field is going to be tough,” O’Neill said. “It’s going to be a full field and there are a lot of new shooters, so that’s always a concern.

But our main focus is on Nyquist’s health. He looks great and has good energy coming off a big win in the Derby. It’s amazing how good he looks.”

Maybe good enough for another.

receiver Alec Lemon.

The six-foot-three, 255-pound Norwood had 123 tackles and 24 sacks over three seasons with Hamilton. The 27-year-old was an East Division allstar in 2014.

Denmark had 306 career catches for 4,165 yards and 16 TDs in 88 regular-season appearances with Winnipeg. The 30-year-old was a West Division all-star in 2014 after amassing 1,080 receiving yards.

Following his college career at Syracuse, Lemon signed with the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent. He later spent time on the Baltimore Ravens’ practice squad.

Saskatchewan also released receiver Alex Carroll, running backs Brandon Deschamps, Carl Fitzgerald and Stephen Houston and defensive lineman Sage Harold. Carroll, Deschamps and Fitzgerald are Canadians.

Eskimos GM Ed Hervey to receive his degree Saturday

“I started on this path several years ago and this week it comes to fruition.”

Hervey’s mother, Velma, will be there along with his sister, brother-inlaw and niece when he’s given his degree at the Thomas & Mack Center.

Hervey played college football at USC, where he converted to receiver from quarterback, but left school without his degree to pursue a pro career.

He was selected in the fifth round of the 1995 NFL draft to the Dallas Cowboys and also spent time with Oakland (twice) and Denver before joining the Eskimos in 1999.

“My family was living in housing projects in Los Angeles so when I was at USC my main objective was to get my family out of there,” he said. “The opportunity to go play professional football was out there so earning my degree at the time had to be sacrificed.”

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BOLTS: Far different team Facing just their second three-goal deficit of the playoffs, Pittsburgh drew within two on Hornqvist’s power-play goal with just 55 seconds left in the second, a shot from the right circle set up by a pretty between-the-legs flick

by Sidney Crosby.

While the score seemed to give the Penguins a decided lift — they carried the play over much of the final 20 minutes — the Lightning and Vasilevskiy held on to grab the early momentum in a series that looks far more contentious going forward than it appeared going in.

Pittsburgh insisted it was a far different team than the one that lost all three regular season meetings to the Lightning, pointing to the club’s strong finish and heady play while dispatching the Rangers and the Capitals as proof the Penguins were much improved over than the group Tampa Bay last saw on Feb. 20.

Maybe, but the Lightning tested that mettle early when Callahan crunched

Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang in the corner less than three minutes in, sending the star defenceman slumping to the ice.

Letang was motionless for a moment before eventually skating to the locker room. Callahan received a major penalty for boarding but remained in the game, and Letang made a surprisingly quick return during the lengthy delay as Bishop was stretchered off.

The rancour continued late in the first when Pittsburgh’s Chris Kunitz collided with Tampa Bay’s Tyler Johnson along end boards. Kunitz’s right knee connected with Johnson’s right knee as Johnson spun around to avoid the check. Johnson re-entered the game midway through the second period. Pittsburgh defenceman Brian Dumoulin was pushed head-first into the boards by Palat late in the third but made it off the ice without help.

NOTES: Tampa Bay went 1 for 2 on the power play. The Penguins were 1 for 4. … Stralman, who is dealing with a fractured left leg, skated on Friday morning and is nearing a return. …

Stamkos skated on Friday morning too and wore a regular jersey instead of a red “no contact” jersey but coach Jon Cooper said there was no change in Stamkos’ status.

LAS VEGAS — When Ed Hervey was 12, he promised his mother he’d earn his college degree.

More than 30 years later, Hervey will make good on that vow. On Saturday, the 43-year-old Edmonton Eskimos GM will receive his bachelor of arts degree in multidisciplinary studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

“I made a promise to my mom that had to be kept,” Hervey said in a release issued by the school. “She was very much against me playing football in the first place but after I begged her to let me on the field, I had to promise that I would go to school and get my degree.

JAYS: Infamous bat flip BOOING BAUTISTA Rangers fans got their first opportunity to boo Jose Bautista since that now infamous bat flip on his homer in the deciding Game 5 of last October’s AL division series at Toronto. There were loud boos when Bautista was introduced before batting each time, and those quickly turned into cheers in the first when he grounded into an inning-ending double play. Bautista finished 1 for 5 and scored the first Toronto run.

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: 2B Devon Travis started his rehab assignment for Single-A

Dunedin on Friday. Travis had been at extended spring training while recovering from off-season surgery on his left shoulder.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: Marco Estrada (1-2) pitches at Texas for the first time since holding the Rangers to one run over 6 1/3 innings in Game 3 of the division series last October. The right-hander got a no-decision at home against the Rangers last week when he allowed one run over six innings.

Rangers: Colby Lewis has gone at least six innings in his last seven starts, the longest streak for a member of the Rangers’ season-opening rotation since Alexi Ogando’s 12 in a row in 2011.

He is winless in his last four outings against Toronto, including last week when he went seven innings in a no-decision.

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Blues reap benefits of staying course

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St. Louis Blues right wing Troy Brouwer (36) celebrates his goal with teammates Paul Stastny (26) and Robby Fabbri (15) during the second period of Game 7 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinals against the Dallas Stars Wednesday. has had a standout post-season with six goals and six assists. Defenceman Alex Pietrangelo has been rock-solid on the back line playing every other shift.

Forwards Alexander Steen and Jaden Schwartz excel at two-way play, Patrik Berglund has raised his level of play significantly for the post-season and Vladimir Tarasenko is the scoring threat no opposition can ignore.

“You know how much work it takes to get here, even just this season, this playoffs,” Backes said.

Memorial Cup participants set

BY ADVOCATE STAFF In rapid succession, the Red Deer Rebels have gone from being the lone decided participant to knowing their Memorial Cup opponents in a matter of days.

Over a three-day period, the Western Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League wrapped up their championship series.

It started on Wednesday, when the London Knights completed their best-of-seven sweep of the Niagara IceDogs in the OHL final.

Led by Toronto Maple Leafs first round draft pick Mitch Marner, the Knights handled the IceDogs quickly winning 4-1, 6-1, 6-5 and 1-0.

Marner won the Red Tilson Trophy, OHL player of the year, for the 2015-16 season, scoring 39 goals and 77 assists. He followed it up with 16 goals and 27 assists in 18 playoff games, breaking the OHL’s all-time highest points-per-game pace at 2.44.

Then on Thursday night, the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies finished off the Shawinigan Cataractes with a 7-2 win in Game 5 of the QMJHL final.

Francis Perron led the Huskies in playoff and regular season scoring with 12 goals and 21 assists in the post-season, preceded by 41 goals and 67 assists in

the regular season. He was named the QMJHL Most Valuable Player for his efforts, winning the Michel Briere Memorial Trophy.

The Huskies knocked off the Cataractes in five games winning 4-2, 4-1, 2-1 and 7-2, the team’s only loss game in Game 4 when the Cataractes downed them 6-4.

The Rebels’ final opponent was decided Friday night as the Brandon Wheat Kings finished off the Seattle Thunderbirds.

Games 1 through 3 look identical on the score sheet. The Wheat Kings and Thunderbirds go to overtime, with the Wheaties emerging as 3-2 victors.

Though the Thunderbirds rallied on home ice with a 6-1 win in Game 4, the Wheat Kings finished off the series in Game 5 on Friday with an 8-4 win .

The Wheat Kings have dominated the post-season scoring with Nolan Patrick leading with 12 goals and 15 assists, followed by John Quenneville with 15 goals and 11 assists and Tim McGauley with eight gaols and 16 assists.

Wheaties defenceman Ivan Provorov won the Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy as the WHL’s defencemand of the year.

The Red Deer Rebels open the Memorial Cup tournament against the Knights on Friday, May 20.

The puck drops at 6 p.m. at the Centrium.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER Raiders 3 Cougars 2 A two goal performance from Shae Demale was enough for the Lindsay Thurber Raiders to edge out the Notre Dame Cougars 3-2 in Central Alberta High School girls Soccer.

Demale wasn’t the Raider’s only goal scorer as Kiera Fujimoto pitched in with a goal.

For the Cougars, Natalie Frenette and Jazzy Brown scored both of the teams goals.

Cougars 2 Rams 1 The Notre Dame Cougars boys soccer team edged out the Lacombe Composite Rams 2-1.

William Arcinegas and Felmon Tsegay scored for the Cougars while Marcel Schlak scored the Rams’ lone goal.

Cougars 1 Lightning 0 Joao Bozzon scored the lone goal in a 1-0 Notre Dame Cougars win over the Hunting Hills Lightning in boys Central Alberta High School Soccer.

Raiders 14 Lakers 2 Five goals from Shae Demale led the way for the Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls soccer team in a 14-2 win over the H.J. Cody Lakers.

Lizzy Morneualt had a hat trick, Khloe Labrador and Mikayla Fujimoto had two goals each and Hannah Morin and Emma Holmes had a goal each for the Raiders in the win.

Megan Steembergen and Taylor Ferguson scored the goals for the Lakers.

Djokovic beats Nadal for 7th straight time ITALIAN OPEN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bacsinszky 7-5, 6-2 and will meet Madison Keys, who eliminated Barbora Strycova 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

Seven-time champion Nadal and four-time winner Djokovic have combined to win the last 11 titles at the Foro Italico, and their match was billed as “a premature final.”

Djokovic closed out the first set by sticking out his racket at the last second for a volley winner to finish off a close exchange at the net, concluding a long point that also saw the Serb spinning around far behind the baseline to retrieve a shot with a desperation backhand.

Djokovic reacted to winning the first set with a big fist pump, but then after dropping his serve to start the second he slammed his racket to the clay in frustration. Nadal called for a trainer to examine his left foot while leading 2-1 in the second set, apparently because the Spaniard was having trouble feeling his foot. The trainer tapped around in a few areas to see if Nadal could feel anything then cut off supportive tape around his ankle.

Serving for the second set at 5-4, Nadal wasted five chances to push it to a third, then shanked a forehand off his racket frame into the stands to set up Djokovic’s first break point of the set, which the Serb promptly converted.

Nadal was also up a break early in the first set.

“Towards the end of both sets I managed to find an extra gear and come up with some important play — aggressive play,” Djokovic said. “I won maybe a couple of points more than him in the match, so that says enough about how even this encounter was.”

ROME — Novak Djokovic extended his recent mastery over Rafael Nadal with a 7-5, 7-6 (4) win in the Italian Open quarterfinals on Friday, coming from behind in both sets of a match he agreed was “a classic.”

Nadal wasted five set points in the second set of an encounter that went nearly 2 ½ hours.

“It felt definitely special to be on the court today playing against Rafa for several hours,” Djokovic said. “Thankfully, we didn’t play (like in) Grand Slams, best of five. Who knows when this match would finish?”

Djokovic has beaten Nadal in the last seven of their 49 encounters, the most in the Open Era. Overall, Djokovic leads the series 26-23.

This was their last opportunity to play each other before the French Open, which starts in nine days.

“Winning against Nadal on clay doesn’t happen often, doesn’t happen every day, so it is one of the ultimate challenges if not the ultimate challenge we have in sports,” Djokovic said. “So I’m going to take this as a boost of confidence, no doubt, for the rest of this tournament, and then of course for French Open.”

While Djokovic has won 15 straight sets against Nadal, this marked their closest match since Nadal won the 2014 French Open final.

“I was not disappointed,” Nadal said. “Overall, I am playing well. … I have been competing at the highest level against the best player.”

Djokovic’s semifinal opponent will be Kei Nishikori for the second straight week, and the fourth time this year. Djokovic has won each time, including their last seven matches since late 2014.

Nishikori took out Dominic Thiem, who has the second most wins on tour this year after Djokovic, 6-3, 7-5. In the other half of the draw, Andy Murray overcame some trouble on his service games to beat David Goffin 6-1, 7-5 and improve his record on clay this year and last to 27-3.

“I’m getting rewarded now for the work that I put in over the years on this surface,” Murray said.

“I deserve it because I have worked hard for it.”

Murray’s semifinal opponent was French qualifier Lucas Pouille, who advanced when Argentine opponent Juan Monaco withdrew. Organizers said Monaco had a problem with his left side. In the women’s quarterfinals, top-ranked Serena Williams routed Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-0 and will play Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania, who defeated Misaki Doi of Japan 6-2, 7-6 (3). Also, Wimbledon finalist Garbine ffood ood | music Muguruza beat Timea

BANTAM AAA BASEBALL Overcoming a weekend opening loss, the Red Deer Bantam AAA Servus Credit Union Braves rattled off two subsequent wins.

In the opening game, Josh Zinger, Colby Lindseth and Cleary Simpson shouldered pitching duties.

Lindseth had five strikeouts through four innings.

Carter Claerhout had a double and Kolby Clark and Kyle Baumgardt both had RBIs in Game 1. But team lost 7-2 to the Calgary Bandits.

A five-run first inning got the Braves rolling in Game 2 to an 11-2 win over the Calgary Cubs.

Baumgardt, Jared Lee and Zack Jansen took the mound for the Braves and catcher Aidan Gehring threw out two base-stealers for the win.

The Braves closed out the weekend with a 5-1 win over the St. Albert Cardinals. The Braves were down 1-0 until the fourth inning, when they blew it open with three runs scored by Colby Lindseth, Kolby Clark and Jared Arnold. Two more runs were driven in by Gehring in the fifth to take the 5-1 lead.

Gehring and Liam Graham also pitched the game, combining for five strikeouts.

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The St. Louis Blues general manager can crow just a bit now that patience has been rewarded and the franchise is in the NHL’s final four heading into a matchup against the San Jose Sharks. The roster has come together with a mixture of long-term veterans who have move past playoff futility, newcomers accustomed to success and rookies who know nothing about the past and hit the ice at a sprint.

“I never recommended to ownership that we start from scratch,” Armstrong said Friday, two days ahead of the Blues’ first appearance in the Western Conference finals since 2001. “I said we should tinker, and we have to try to get better. I didn’t lose sight of how well the team played for six months.”

The Blues finished second overall in the West this season, forged by adversity from numerous long-term injuries and fueled by contributions from old hands (Troy Brouwer) and fresh-faced kids like 20-year-old Robby Fabbri, tied for the team lead with 13 points in the playoffs, and fellow rookie defenceman Colton Parayko.

Nobody blinked when it took three chances to finish off the Blackhawks in the first round, or when they missed a chance to clinch at home against the Stars in the second round.

“We have handled adversity differently this year,” coach Ken Hitchcock said. “We’ve learned to hang together.”

Much of the core survived the lean times.

Captain David Backes, a former second-round draft pick in his 10th season with the franchise,

“One of these four teams is going to win the Cup and we’re thinking in this room, ‘Why not us?”’

It’s still largely a homegrown team, driven by first-round picks Berglund (2006), Pietrangelo (2008), Tarasenko (2010), Schwartz (2010) and Fabbri (2014).

Jake Allen, a second-rounder in 2008, is behind redhot Brian Elliott after the pair shared the goaltending job during the regular season.

Astute decisions have been made later in the draft, too. Parayko and forward Jori Lehtera were third-round picks, rookie defenceman Joel Edmundson is a fourth-rounder and Ryan Reaves, who Hitchcock likes to refer to as a “regulator,” came in the fifth round.

Brouwer got the game-deciding goal in Game 7 of the first round against the Blackhawks and had three points in the 6-1 win at Dallas on Monday. He came from Washington last summer in exchange for fan favourite T.J. Oshie because the Blues craved more blue-collar experience. The Capitals won the President’s Trophy but were knocked out in the second round by the Penguins, so now Oshie said he’s rooting for St. Louis.

“If I’m not going to be able to hold up the Cup, why not 15, 16 of my good buddies, you know?” Oshie said. “I’m pulling for them.”

One of the best deals, Steen from Toronto in exchange for Carlo Colaiacovo and Lee Stempniak in 2008, was made before Armstrong arrived. Hitchcock said Steen might have been in the running for the Selke Trophy for best defensive forward had he not missed 15 games.

Elliott was a low-cost, free-agent pickup in 2011 who has emerged in his first extended playoff experience. Mobile defenceman Kevin Shattenkirk came from Colorado in a deal for faded No. 1 overall pick Erik Johnson in 2011.

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SCOREBOARD SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016

Hockey

Local Sports Pgh (cross-checking) 20:00.

Shots on goal by Tampa Bay 6 9 5 — 20 Pittsburgh 10 9 16 — 35 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (9 shots, 9 saves), Vasilevskiy (12:25 first period, W, 1-0-0, 26 shots, 25 saves). Pittsburgh: Murray (L, 7-3-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Bay: 1-2 Pittsburgh: 1-4.

Referees — Francis Charron, Wes McCauley.

Linesmen — Greg Devorski, Jonny Murray.

Attendance — 18,554 at Pittsburgh.HKO-IIHFWorld-Men-Stdgs : 2016 IIHF Men’s World Championship At Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia

WHL 2016 Playoffs Fourth Round ED CHYNOWETH CUP League Championship (Best-of-7) Brandon (E1) vs. Seattle (US1) (Brandon wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Seattle 6 Brandon 1 Tuesday’s result Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Friday’s game Brandon 8 Seattle 4 PREVIOUS RESULTS Game One — Friday, May 6 Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT) Game Two — Saturday, May 7 Brandon 3 Seattle 2 (OT) NHL CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7 x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Tampa Bay 1, Pittsburgh 0 Friday, May 13: Tampa Bay 3, Pittsburgh 1 Monday, May 16: Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Wed. May 18: Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay 6 p.m.

Friday, May 20: Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay 6 p.m. x-Sunday, May 22: Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. x-Tuesday, May 24: Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay 6 p.m. x-Thurs. May 26: Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 6p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis vs. San Jose Sunday, May 15: San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 17: San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Thursday, May 19: St. Louis at San Jose,7 p.m.

Saturday, May 21: St. Louis at San Jose, 5:15 p.m. x-Monday, May 23: San Jose at St. Louis, 6 p.m. x-Wedn. May 25: St. Louis at San Jose, 7 p.m. x-Friday, May 27: San Jose at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Lightning 3, Penguins 1 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Killorn 4 (Hedman) 18:46.

Penalties — Callahan TB (boarding major) 2:50.

Second Period 2. Tampa Bay, Palat 3 (Filppula, Garrison) 2:33 (pp).

3. Tampa Bay, Drouin 2 (Palat, Filppula) 18:25.

4. Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 6 (Crosby, Kessel) 19:05 (pp).

Penalties — Malkin Pgh (hooking) 1:46 Nesterov TB (hooking) 7:50 Cullen Pgh (tripping) 10:50 Hedman TB (tripping) 18:49.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Palat TB (boarding) 15:14 Hornqvist

PRELIMINARY ROUND Group A GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Czech Rep. 5 4 1 0 0 21 6 14 Russia 4 3 0 0 1 20 8 9 Sweden 4 2 1 0 1 16 10 8 Switzerland 4 1 1 2 0 13 13 7 Denmark 5 1 1 1 2 11 20 6 Norway 4 1 1 0 2 8 15 5 Latvia 5 0 0 3 2 10 18 3 Kazakhstan 5 0 1 0 4 13 22 2 Group B GP W OTW OTL L GF GA Pt Canada 4 4 0 0 0 25 4 12 Finland 4 4 0 0 0 17 5 12 U.S. 5 3 0 0 2 18 12 9 Germany 5 2 0 1 2 15 16 7 Slovakia 4 2 0 0 2 12 11 6 France 4 1 1 0 2 10 13 5 Belarus 5 1 0 0 4 11 27 3 Hungary 5 0 0 0 5 5 25 0 Note: Three points awarde for a win in regulation, two for an overtime/shootout victory & one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Friday’s results At Moscow Czech Republic 3 Kazakhstan 1 Denmark 3 Latvia 2 (SO) At St. Petersburg, Russia United States 5 Hungary 1 Germany 4 Belarus 1 Thursday’s results At St. Petersburg, Russia Canada 5 Germany 2 United States 4 France 0 At Moscow Czech Republic 7 Norway 0 Russia 10 Denmark 1 Today’s games At Moscow Norway vs. Sweden, 3:15 a.m.

Russia vs. Switzerland, 7:15 a.m.

Kazakhstan vs. Latvia, 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia France vs. Finland, 3:15 a.m.

Hungary vs. Belarus, 6:15 a.m.

Canada vs. Slovakia, 11:15 a.m.

Sunday’s games At Moscow Denmark vs. Czech Republic, 7:15 a.m.

Switzerland vs. Sweden, 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia Germany vs. United States, 7:15 a.m.

Slovakia vs. Finland, 11:15 a.m.

Monday, May 16 At Moscow Russia vs. Norway, 7:15 a.m.

Denmark vs. Kazakhstan, 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia Canada vs. France, 7:15 a.m.

Germany vs. Hungary, 11:15 a.m.

Tuesday, May 17 At Moscow Czech Republic vs. Switzerland, 3:15 a.m.

Latvia vs. Norway, 7:15 a.m.

Russia vs. Sweden, 11:15 a.m.

At St. Petersburg, Russia United States vs. Slovakia, 3:15 a.m.

Belarus vs. France, 7:15 a.m.

Canada vs. Finland, 11:15 a.m.

IIHF World Hockey Championship Scoring Leaders

2016 IIHF world men’s hockey championship scoring leaders following Friday’s games: At Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia G A Pts Vadim Shipachyov, Rus 3 7 10 Artemi Panarin, Rus 3 6 9 Yevgeni Dadonov, Rus 3 5 8 Patrik Laine, Fin 4 3 7 Nigel Dawes, Kaz 3 4 7 Derick Brassard, Cda 2 5 7 Mikael Granlund, Fin 2 5 7 Philip Gogulla, Ger 2 5 7 Taylor Hall, Cda 5 1 6 Gustav Nyquist, Swe 5 1 6 Michal Birner, Cze 3 3 6 Matt Duchene, Cda 2 4 6 Roman Cervenka, Cze 2 4 6 Dylan Larkin, U.S. 2 4 6 Alexander Wennberg, Swe 1 5 6 David Pastrnak, Cze 1 5 6 Raphael Diaz, Sui 0 6 6 Nicklas Jensen, Den 4 1 5 Mikko Koivu, Fin 3 2 5 Nino Niederreiter, Sui 3 2 5

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

American League East Division W L Pct GB 22 12.647 — 22 14.611 1 19 18.514 4 15 18.455 6 14 20.412 8 Central Division W L Pct GB 24 12.667 — 17 15.531 5 17 18.486 6 15 20.429 8 8 26.235 15 West Division W L Pct GB 21 13.618 — 20 16.556 2 15 21.417 7 15 22.405 7 13 21.382 8

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Detroit (Sanchez 3-3) at Baltimore (Wright 1-3), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Foltynewicz 0-1) at Kansas City (Gee 0-0), 5:15 p.m.

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

L.A. Angels (Chacin 1-2) at Seattle (Iwakuma 1-4), 7:10 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Cleveland, 11:10 A.m.

Oakland at Tampa Bay, 11:10 A.m.

Detroit at Baltimore, 11:35 a.m.

Houston at Boston, 11:35 a.m.

Atlanta at Kansas City, 12:15 p.m.

Toronto at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Seattle, 2:10 p.m

Washington New York Philadelphia Miami Atlanta

National League East Division W L Pct GB 22 13.629 — 21 14.600 1 21 15.583 1 1/2 18 16.529 3 1/2 8 26.235 13 1/2

Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct GB 26 8.765 — 19 16.543 7 1/2 18 16.529 8 15 21.417 12 14 21.400 12 1/2

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Thursday’s Games Baltimore 7, Detroit 5 N.Y. Yankees 7, Kansas City 3 Boston 11, Houston 1 St. Louis 12, L.A. Angels 10 Friday’s Games Baltimore 1, Detroit 0 Chicago White Sox 7, N.Y. Yankees 1 Cleveland 7, Minnesota 6 Houston 7, Boston 6 Oakland 6, Tampa Bay 3 Toronto 5, Texas 0 Kansas City 5, Atlanta 1 L.A. Angels at Seattle, LATE Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox (Quintana 5-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Nova 1-1), 11:05 A.m.

Houston (McHugh 4-3) at Boston (Buchholz 2-3), 11:05 A.m.

Minnesota (Santana 0-2) at Cleveland (Kluber 2-4), 2:10 p.m.

Oakland (Graveman 1-4) at Tampa Bay (An-

San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado Arizona San Diego

West Division W L Pct GB 20 18.526 — 18 17.514 1/2 17 18.486 1 1/2 17 21.447 3 16 21.432 3 1/2

Thursday’s Games

Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 4, 10 innings San Diego 3, Milwaukee 0 San Francisco 4, Arizona 2 St. Louis 12, L.A. Angels 10 L.A. Dodgers 5, N.Y. Mets 0 Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs 9, Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 2 Washington 5, Miami 3 Milwaukee 1, San Diego 0 Kansas City 5, Atlanta 1 Colorado 5, N.Y. Mets 2 San Francisco 3, Arizona 1 St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, late Saturday’s Games Miami (Nicolino 2-0) at Washington (Strasburg 5-0), 11:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Locke 1-2) at Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 6-0), 12:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (Adleman 1-0) at Philadelphia (Nola 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Flores 0-0) at Washington (Roark 2-2), 5:05 p.m.

San Diego (Perdomo 1-0) at Milwaukee (Peralta 2-4), 5:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Foltynewicz 0-1) at Kansas City (Gee 0-0), 5:15 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Verrett 3-0) at Colorado (Butler 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Peavy 1-4) at Arizona (Corbin 1-3), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Martinez 4-2) at L.A. Dodgers (Kazmir 2-3), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Miami at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

San Diego at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Kansas City,1 2:15 p.m.

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

N.Y. Mets at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

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

St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.

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Transactions Friday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Announced Colorado SS Jose Reyes accepted a suspension through May 31 for violating Major League Baseball’s Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy. Suspended Cincinnati RHP Ross Ohlendorf three games and fined him an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing at Pittsburgh’s David Freese during a May 11 game. Suspended Cincinnati manager Bryan Price one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for the intentional actions of Ohlendorf while warnings were in place. Suspended Houston Astros Minor League OF Marc Wik for 50 games without pay following a second positive test for a Drug of Abuse.

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Selected the contract of LHP Matt Purke from Charlotte (IL). Placed LHP John Danks on waivers for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed OF Lonnie Chisenhall on the bereavement list. Recalled OF Tyler Naquin from Columbus (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Josh Fields and C Max Stassi to Fresno (PCL). Activated RHP Lance McCullers from the 15-day DL and C Jason Castro from the paternity list.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled C Gary Sanchez from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned LHP Tyler Olson to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled C Matt McBride from Nashville (PCL). Optioned RHP Zach Neal to Nashville.

TEXAS RANGERS — Selecteded the contract of RHP Matt Bush from Frisco (TL). Optioned OF Delino DeShields Jr. to Round Rock (PCL).

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Placed OF Billy Hamilton on the bereavement list. Recalled INF-OF Jose Peraza from Louisville (IL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated INF Daniel Descalso from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Ben Paulsen to Albuquerque (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Selected the contract of 1B Tommy Joseph from Lehigh Valley (IL). Optioned 1B Darin Ruf to Lehigh Valley.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled INF-OF Cole Figueroa from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned LHP Kyle Lobstein to Indianapolis.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Selected the contract of LHP Christian Friedrich from El Paso (PCL). Activated C Hector Sanchez. Designated OF Jabari Blash

for assignment. Placed RHP Andrew Cashner on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 9.

American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Claimed RHP Patrick Mincey off waivers from Lincoln.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released INF John Contreras.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Reinstated RHP John Brownell to the active list. Placed OF Delta Cleary Jr. on the disabled list.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed RHP Shaun Ellis.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed RB Jonathan Williams.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed DT Vernon Butler.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed WR Corey Coleman, WR Jordan Payton, OL Spencer Drango, WR Rashard Higgins, DB Trey Caldwell and LB Scooby Wright III. DETROIT LIONS — Signed DL Louis Palmer. Released OT Lamar Holmes.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed LB Myles Jack to a four-year contract.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Re-signed RB Joey Iosefa.

Arena Football League PORTLAND STEEL — Activated QB Shane Austin off their other league exempt list.

HOCKEY National Hockey League LOS ANGELES KINGS — Agreed to the terms with coach Darryl Sutter on a multiyear contract.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Signed F Pavel Buchnevich on an entry-level contract.

SOCCER National Women’s Soccer League SKY BLUE FC — Activated G Erin Nayler. Released G Caroline Casey.

COLLEGE GEORGIA — Announced sophomore DL Chauncey Rivers has been dismissed from school following his third arrest on marijuana charges.

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Waived F Michael Seaton.

QUINNIPIAC — Named Sarah Fraser deputy director of athletics, effective June 1.

Golf The Players Championship Friday At TPC Sawgrass, Players Stadium Course Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Purse: $10.5 million Yardage: 7,215 Par 72 Partial Second Round Shane Lowry 65-68—133 -11 Jonas Blixt 67-67—134 -10 Alex Cejka 67-67—134 -10 Cameron Tringale 65-69—134 -10 Boo Weekley 66-69—135 -9 Colt Knost 72-63—135 -9 Francesco Molinari 66-69—135 -9 Jerry Kelly 67-68—135 -9 Gary Woodland 67-68—135 -9 Zach Johnson 67-69—136 -8 Rory McIlroy 72-64—136 -8 Brooks Koepka 66-70—136 -8 Ryan Palmer 67-70—137 -7 Sean O’Hair 70-67—137 -7 William McGirt 72-65—137 -7 Bryce Molder 70-68—138 -6 Scott Piercy 70-68—138 -6 Retief Goosen 70-68—138 -6 Sergio Garcia 72-66—138 -6 Justin Thomas 70-68—138 -6 Adam Scott 73-65—138 -6 Matt Kuchar 71-67—138 -6 Brendon de Jonge 71-67—138 -6 Kevin Chappell 71-67—138 -6 Bill Haas 65-73—138 -6

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Buffalo (1) vs. New England (2) Monday, May 16 Buffalo at New England, 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

West Division Saskatchewan (1) vs. Calgary (3) Saturday, May 14 Saskatchewan at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 21 Calgary at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

UFC ready to shift buzz toward stacked Brazilian card, Basketball away from potential sale Second Round Division Finals (two-game series, followed by 10 minute tiebreaker, if necessary) East Division

UFC 198

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UFC 198’s roughly $50 pay-per-view price tag is a steal compared to the numbers floated for the cost of buying the promotion.

UFC President Dana White has denied rumours the undisputed champion of MMA companies is on the market, though a $4 billion offer could make him and the Fertitta brothers at least consider a sale.

Until that sweet mega offer comes — if it comes — for all the company or even a small stake, White will remain out in front talking bouts not deals as UFC closes in on its milestone UFC 200 event in July.

But even card promotion has seemingly faded into the foreground of late for UFC. UFC has dealt with sale rumours, MMA legalization in New York and Conor McGregor’s psuedo-retirement controversy more than highlighting a stout card Saturday in Curitiba, Brazil.

Brazil’s Fabricio Werdum (20-5-1) defends the UFC heavyweight championship in his home country in the main event against Stipe Miocic (14-2).

Werdum has won five straight fights, highlighted by a win against Mark Hunt for the interim title and then a submission victory against Cain Velasquez in a unification bout.

They’ll fight in front of a sold-out crowd of about 45,000 fans at Arena da Baixada in what was expected to become the second-biggest sporting event of the year in the country behind only the Rio Olympics.

“This is my country. It is a special moment in the history of MMA and UFC,” Werdum said.

“It’s the first time in the stadium and first time having a heavyweight title fight in Brazil. My mom is here too, it’s the first time she has come to watch me fight.”

Miocic, an Ohio firefighter, also defeated Hunt in his current stretch of five wins in his last six fights. The bout was scheduled for February until Werdum pulled out with injuries and forced a postponement.

“It’s not going to be fun having 44,985 people against me,” Miocic said.

“I also have people supporting me, which is all I need. It’s for the heavyweight title and we always know there is going to be nerves, but you got to have nerves. If you’re not nervous

then you aren’t ready. I’m going to be ready, no worries.”

And watch out LeBron. As an added bonus for the Ohio native, Miocic could be the athlete that wins a championship for Cleveland.

While LeBron James and the Cavaliers are still in the hunt for an NBA crown, the city’s long-suffering fans haven’t celebrated a major professional championship since 1964.

“It would be amazing, hometown boy, bringing it back to Cleveland,” he said. “Start to win championships in Cleveland, it’s going to be amazing. Cleveland against the world, that’s how we say it.”

Miocic, who made his UFC debut in 2011, believed that even with Cleveland’s sorry sports history and a decided disadvantage with the crowd against him that he could win the belt in his first major title bout.

“It’s what I signed up for, winning the heavyweight title, which I’m going to do,” he said.

“When I get there it’s going to be a great moment. Me and the team, the guys that helped me here, we are all going to cherish it together.”

Werdum-Miocic tops a card that includes Ronaldo Souza vs. Vitor Belfort in a middleweight bout, Mauricio “Jacare” Rua vs. Corey Anderson in a light heavyweight fight and Cris “Cyborg” Justino vs. Leslie Smith in a women’s bout.

Justino (15-1) has long been considered one of the top fighters in the women’s sport. The Brazilian veteran has a 15-fight winning streak since her debut in 2005, stopping nine consecutive opponents and winning titles in the Strikeforce and Invicta promotions.

Fans have long clamoured for Justino to face former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey, but Justino had expressed concerns about making the 135-pound limit. Rousey’s loss to Holly Holm last year derailed the discussion.

Justino served a one-year suspension in 2012 for testing positive for steroid use.

The card suffered a blow when former middleweight champion Anderson Silva was forced to withdraw from his fight against Uriah Hall because of gall bladder surgery on Wednesday.

He could be sidelined up to six weeks.

2016 NBA Playoffs Second Round CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Atlanta (4) (Cleveland wins series 4-0)

Third Round Champion’s Cup (Best-of-3) East vs. West Champions, TBD

Tuesday’s result Oklahoma City 95 San Antonio 91 CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7) EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Toronto/Miami Schedule TBD

Toronto (2) vs. Miami (3) (Series tied 3-3) Wednesday’s result Toronto 99 Miami 91 Monday’s result Miami 94 Toronto 87 (OT) Friday’s game Toronto 91 at Miami 103 Sunday’s game Miami at Toronto, 1:30 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Portland (5) (Golden State wins series 4-1) Wednesday’s result Golden State 125 Portland 121 San Antonio (2) vs. Oklahoma City (3) (Oklahoma City wins series 4-2) Thursday’s result Oklahoma City 113 San Antonio 99

WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Oklahoma City (3) Monday, May 16 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 18 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 26 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 28 Golden State at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Monday, May 30 Oklahoma City at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Sports BRIEFS Senegalese UN official appointed FIFA secretary general MEXICO CITY — FIFA will have its first female secretary general after Senegalese United Nations official Fatma Samoura was appointed by the governing body’s council.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino says “she will bring a fresh wind to FIFA — someone from outside.”

Samoura will replace the fired Jerome Valcke if she passes an eligibility check.

Also on Friday, FIFA lifted Indonesia’s suspension from world soccer. Indonesian national and club teams, referees, and officials were banned over government interference in the running of the national federation.

Indonesia was readmitted after the government agreed to end its suspension of the soccer federation, but the national team has missed out on qualifying for the 2018 World Cup and 2019 Asian Cup while banned.

Benin and Kuwait are suspended due to government interference in their federations’ independence.

SPORTS

Saturday, May 14, 2016

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Slugging homers: Pitchers contributing at plate

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The New York Mets already had one of the game’s most celebrated starting rotations, and now their pitchers are outdoing each other in an entirely unexpected manner.

With their bats, not their arms.

Last weekend, Bartolo Colon hit the first homer of his career at age 42 in San Diego. It was a moment that seemed hard to top, but Noah Syndergaard did his best when he went deep twice in Los Angeles against the Dodgers on Wednesday night. This wacky stretch of unlikely slugging is a reminder that as overmatched as pitchers are at the plate, they are capable of making solid contact on occasion.

“We definitely take pride in it,” San Diego right-hander Colin Rea said.

“We compete against each other as a staff. We spend more time on it when we are at home just because we have more time and we can take BP on the field. Usually on the road we don’t do too much.”

National League pitchers combined for 23 homers last year, with Madison Bumgarner of San Francisco setting the pace with five. Bumgarner actually posted a .743 OPS last season in 77 atbats, an unusually respectable mark for a pitcher.

“We’ve seen it with Bumgarner, where they win their own game,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “It’s pretty cool to see, like the old Little League days, when the star guy was pitching and did all the hitting.”

Bumgarner is 2 for 20 to start this season, but one of his hits was a homer. Jake Arrieta and Adam Wain-

wright have also gone deep in 2016.

So has Kenta Maeda, the Los Angeles right-hander who gave up the two homers by Syndergaard.

“It was a dream,” Syndergaard said.

“It wasn’t real.”

Syndergaard is hitting .200 for his young career, and he now has three home runs to his credit. So he’s not an automatic out, and at 6-foot-6, 240 pounds, he can drive the ball when he makes contact.

“When you’re that big and strong obviously, if you can put that barrel on the ball you can hit a homer,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “He does handle the bat pretty well, but you never expect any pitcher to a hit home run.”

There’s been plenty of speculation recently that the designated hitter could eventually come to the National League, standardizing that rule across all of baseball and eliminating the spectacle of pitchers trying to hit. But Commissioner Rob Manfred has said he’s OK with the status quo.

In fact, last year Manfred joked that the DH could deprive baseball fans of the chance to watch Colon hit, which he called “a great source of entertainment.” Little did anyone realize that the portly right-hander would provide one of 2016’s most endearing moments by hitting a home run.

For every homer, of course, there’s someone on the other end who allowed it, and nobody wants to give one up to a pitcher. Rea said it’s important to avoid taking anybody lightly when you’re on the mound.

“There are some good-hitting pitchers out there. You pitch them the way you think they would pitch you,” Rea

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New York Mets’ Bartolo Colon rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run off San Diego Padres starting pitcher James Shields during the second inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 7. said.

“It is hard to see spin when you don’t see it all the time. It is tough to hit curveballs or sliders. You can’t be afraid to throw those in there every once in a while. They can time up a fastball just like any other hitter.”

As for his own approach at the plate, Rea keeps it simple.

Olympic gold medallists from Russia deny doping claims

Tokyo 2020 bid: Payments were ‘legitimate’ consulting fees

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Two Olympic gold medallists from Russia denied doping Friday, a day after they were identified in a newspaper report detailing state-sponsored cheating at the 2014 Sochi Games.

Bobsled champion Alexander Zubkov and cross-country skier Alexander Legkov were among the athletes accused of doping by the former head of the Russian national drug-testing laboratory in a New York Times article .

“I considering it an accusation not supported by anything,” Zubkov said, calling the story “simply lunacy.”

At a news conference in Moscow, Zubkov and Legkov sat on either side of deputy Sports Minister Yuri Nagornykh, who denied Russia had ever operated a state doping program.

Legkov waved a thick folder of papers that he said contained the records of all his doping tests over three years. The sheer number of tests was evidence enough that he could not have taken banned drugs without being caught, he said.

“You’d have to be a complete kamikaze to do that in Russia if you’re an athlete representing our nation,” Legkov said.

The article also brought a strong response from the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman denounced the allegations as “a turncoat’s libel.”

Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Russian lab now living in Los Angeles, told the Times he was given a spreadsheet of doping athletes by the Sports Ministry before the games.

It allegedly bore the names of 15 athletes who later won medals, including Zubkov and Legkov.

The spreadsheet was not published and The Associated Press could not verify it.

Rodchenkov said he then switched tainted urine samples for clean ones at the doping lab used for the Sochi Games, with help from people he believed to be officers of the Russian security services. Zubkov and Legkov, who both threatened to sue Rodchenkov for defamation, are two of Russia’s most prominent winter sports athletes.

Zubkov carried the Russian flag at the opening ceremony for the Sochi Olympics and won gold in the two-man and four-man bobsled events at age 39, becoming one of the oldest pilots to win an Olympic event.

Legkov won gold in the men’s 50-kilometre cross-country mass start on the last day of the games and was given his gold medal at the closing ceremony.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin rejects the accusations that the Russian government oversaw a state-sponsored doping pro-

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Russia’s gold medal winner Alexander Legkov celebrates during the medals ceremony for the men’s 50-kilometer cross-country race during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Two Olympic gold medalists deny doping after they were named in a New York Times report as having been on a list of doped athletes allegedly compiled by the Russian Sports Ministry. Skier Alexander Legkov told the state TV that he was clean during the Sochi Olympics. gram and subsequent coverup.

“It just seems like, you know, some kind of a turncoat’s libel,” Peskov said, without mentioning Rodchenkov by name. “I wouldn’t put trust in such unfounded claims.”

The government continues to back Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, Peskov added. He also said the Kremlin backs the idea of legal action against Rodchenkov.

“We would potentially support such action to file lawsuits against this gentleman and against the publications, which are spreading this slander,” he said.

The deputy sports minister, Na-

gornykh, said there is no way that Russia could have manipulated doping samples at the Sochi Games because of the presence of foreign observers. “(Russia) did not have the opportunity to influence in any way the system of doping control procedures, storage and transport,” Nagornykh said.

He also denied allegations in the Times article that he had met regularly with Rodchenkov to discuss a secret doping program leading to the Olympics. The World Anti-Doping Agency is set to investigate Rodchenkov’s allegations, and Rodchenkov himself has volunteered to identify which samples he tampered with.

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TOKYO — Leaders of Tokyo’s winning bid for the 2020 Olympics acknowledged Friday making payments to a firm in Singapore, but said the funds were for legitimate consulting fees and maintained that all bid activities were “fair and correct.”

In the months immediately before and after Tokyo was awarded the games in 2013, 2.8 million Singapore dollars ($2 million) is thought to have been transferred in two segments from a bank in Japan to the account in Singapore of a company called Black Tidings, French prosecutors said Thursday.

The transactions were marked “Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Bid.” Ian Tan Tong Han is the holder of the Black Tidings account, which has been linked to the son of disgraced former IAAF President Lamine Diack.

“The payments mentioned in the media were a legitimate consultant’s fee paid to the service we received from Mr. Tan’s company,” former bid committee president Tsunekazu Takeda and director general Nobumuto Higuchi said in a statement on Friday. “It followed a full and proper contract and the monies were fully audited by Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC.” Takeda, who now serves as the president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, said the consultant services included planning for the bid, advice for international lobbying, and information and media analysis.

“The amounts paid were in our opinion proper and adequate for the services provided and gave no cause for suspicion at the time,” the statement said.

“This message was conveyed to the IOC when these allegations first surfaced after a request for information from the IOC.” The statement added: “The activity by the Tokyo bid committee was at all times fair and correct.” Tokyo defeated Istanbul and Madrid in an International Olympic Committee vote in Buenos Aires in September 2013. Black Tidings has earned a dubious reputation over the years. It was used to transfer funds in the coverup of a Russian doping case, according to a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation.

As president of the International Association of Athletics Federations and member of the International Olympic Committee, Diack was one of the most influential men in sports.

He is under investigation in France for suspected corruption, barred from leaving the country while the magistrates’ probe continues.

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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Jason Day has 3-shot lead in suspended Players Championship

Hockey BRIEFS Kings agree with coach Darryl Sutter on contract extension

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Jason Day finished with two big birdies as the sky darkened Friday to reach 14 under and stay in firm control of The Players Championship.

Day rolled in a 40-foot putt down the slope on the par-3 13th, and then hit a 5-iron into 2 feet on the next hole to stretch his lead to three shots over Shane Lowry on another day of low scoring at the TPC Sawgrass.

Greg Norman set the 36-hole record at The Players at 14-under 130 in 1994, the year the Shark made only one bogey the entire week. Day looks just as good and has yet to drop a shot over the 32 holes he has played.

A two-hour storm delay meant the second round could not be finished.

“I’m at 14-under par, I’ve got a good lead going on, I just can’t sit back,” Day said. “I need to keep pushing forward. And the moment that I lose a little bit of focus and make a few mental errors and mistakes, that’s when I let the field back in. And I just can’t afford to do that.”

Lowry had a 68 and was at 11-under 133, a solid round that only got going when he hit a wedge so badly that it didn’t each reach the island green at the par-3 17th. He managed to escape with bogey, and then holed a wedge from about 180 yards on the 18th hole for eagle.

Two tough pars at the end of his round meant he was likely to be in the final group with Day. Jordan Spieth was just hopeful of a Saturday tee time, as was Phil Mickelson.

Spieth, looking frustrated as ever, got to the projected cut of 2 under with back-to-back birdies to start the back nine, only to catch a bad break when a rake kept his ball from rolling into the bunker and stayed on the steep slope leading to the sand. The best he could do was chip over the green and he made bogey, and his tee shot was wild to the right on the 15th when they stopped because of darkness. Spieth was at 1 under.

Mickelson had to make an 8-foot par putt on the par-5 16th to stay at 1 under. He was to return at 9:15 a.m. to play the 17th and 18th, likely needing a birdie on one of them to make the cut.

Defending champion Rickie Fowler shot 71 and was at 1-under 143. He needed help to make the cut.

Alex Cejka and Jonas Blixt each shot 67 and were at 10-under 134, along with Cameron Tringale (69).

Another day of calm and soft greens in the morning led to more record-tying performances, and a few irritated golfers who could have gone even lower.

Colt Knost made a 15-foot birdie putt on the 17th to reach 10 under, only to three-putt the 18th and have to settle for a course record-tying 63.

“I was a little nervous over the second one,” Knost said about his 5-footer for par and a 62. “I knew what it was for. But I didn’t hit a bad putt. I hit it on the left lip and it just stayed there. So a little disappointing, but still, I would have taken 9 under before I started today.”

Then came Rory McIlroy, 7 under through seven holes when he made a 50-foot eagle putt from just off the 16th green. His momentum slowed, but he still came to the par-5 ninth needing a birdie to become

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Kings and coach Darryl Sutter have agreed to a multiyear contract extension that begins in the fall.

The two-time Stanley Cup champion coach reached an agreement that is reportedly for two more seasons with an option for a third. His current deal was to expire July 1.

“I have lots of coaching left,” the 57-year-old Sutter said Friday during a conference call.

The Kings won the Cup in 2012 and 2014 before missing the playoffs last season. They led the Pacific Division for most of this season before finishing one point out of first place. They lost to San Jose in five games in the first round of the playoffs.

Sutter is 186-112-45 in the regular season since being hired in December 2011. Re-signing him was the first major task general manager Sean Lombardi faced this off-season. The Kings have six major unrestricted free agents, including forward Milan Lucic.

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Jason Day, of Australia, looks at his shot on the 14th green during the second round of The Players Championship golf tournament Friday, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. the first player to shoot 62 on the Stadium Course at Sawgrass.

McIlroy opted to lay up from 271 yards because going for the green historically has not worked out well for him on No. 9. Laying up wasn’t much better. He chunked a wedge, chunked a chip and made bogey for a 64.

“I wanted to make birdie and shoot 62,” he said.

“So yeah, I’m disappointed, but there’s still two more days to go. That’s the nice thing. I’m in good position heading into the weekend. … Hopefully, I’m not too far behind.”

Day was making it feel hopeless for several players.

He had to scramble for a pair of pars early — on Thursday, no par putt was longer than 30 inches — but he added enough birdies to move back into the lead. Day caught a huge break on the ninth when his ball rolled over the back of the green and settled in a sprinkler hole, and the club length of free relief got him in position to putt.

Day laboured for two pars until it all changed on the last two holes he finished.

The 13th green, with a pin below the ridge, was still slow. Day was able to pick up on this by watching Branden Grace and Spieth hit their putts before him. His rolled true into the cup. And on the 14th, with the strongest wind all day in his face, he hit 5-iron onto the green and could barely see it roll out to 2 feet.

Even with a storm delay, there was no shortage of excitement.

The biggest thrill belonged to Will Wilcox, who hit pitching wedge for a hole-in-one on the island-green 17th. It was the first ace on that hole in 14 years.

MOSCOW — Forward Nick Foligno scored twice to lead the United States past Hungary 5-1 in the ice hockey world championship on Friday.

The US has won three of its five games in Group B, while Hungary is winless. Group leaders Canada and Finland, each 4-0 in the preliminaries, were idle on Friday.

In Moscow, the Group A-leading Czech Republic defeated Kazakhstan 3-1. Tomas Plekanec scored twice and Robert Kousal added the third. Kazakhstan’s goal came from Nigel Dawes.

In St. Petersburg, Foligno opened the scoring in the second period on a power play with a high shot past goalkeeper Adam Vay’s left hand. Vince Hinostroza scored from close in just 18 seconds later, and Dylan Larkin made it 3-0 with a deflection off Vay’s back.

Foligno and Connor Murphy added two more in the third, before Istvan Sofron got Hungary on the scoreboard with less than two minutes to go.

The US took 37 shots on goal against Hungary’s eight.

The lopsided statistics aside, US coach John Hynes said Hungary was “well-coached, well-structured.”

Stars’ Seguin had strained left calf after cut to Achilles FRISCO, Texas — Tyler Seguin missed the last 11 games of the playoffs for the Dallas Stars with a strained left calf that was weakened by sitting out the final 10 games of the regular season because of a cut on his Achilles tendon.

The All-Star forward was limited to 16 minutes in Game 2 of a first-round series victory against Minnesota. He strained the calf in that game, his only appearance of the post-season, and missed all seven games of a second-round loss to St. Louis.

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Sensational suds TROUBLED MONK WINS SILVER IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer’s Troubled Monk Brewery has a little swagger these days.

The craft brewer beat out nearly 80 other brewers to take home silver in the American brown ale category at the 2016 World Beer Cup in Philadelphia last week.

Troubled Monk co-owner Charlie Bredo was still riding a frothy high on Friday as he talked about his one-year-old brewery’s international triumph with its Open Road American Brown Ale. “We’re making our mark, so we’re really, really excited,” said Bredo, who owns the brewery with brother Graeme.

The World Cup attracts the best brewers with more than 1,900 brewers from 55 countries competing in this year’s competition.

An international panel of 253 judges from 31 countries did the tasting honours.

“The biggest names in craft beer can enter this thing. So it’s full on,” said Charlie. “It’s a world-class big competition.

Bredo credits brewmaster Garret Haynes, a graduate of Olds College’s brewmaster program, for concocting their palate-pleasing ale.

“When I tasted his beer it was ‘Wow,’ this is excellent beer,” he said.

“I didn’t know at the time whether it was one of those, ‘my child is the cutest situations,’ or if it was really good,” he said with a laugh.

“I always felt our beer was fantastic, so now it’s really cool that we’re getting worldwide recognition.”

Better yet, Open Road is almost entirely homegrown. Eighty per cent of the base malt is sourced locally from Alix’s Rahr Malting and the beer is made with Alberta barley.

“It’s something Central Alberta should be so proud of. We make world-class barley and we make

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From the left, Troubled Monk Brewery owner Charlie Bredo holding a six pack of his silver medal winning Open Road American Brown Ale. Head brewer Garret Haynes, and assistant brewers Doug Ellertson, John Hawkins and Tom Ross raise a glass of the winning ale at the brewery in Red Deer Friday. pretty good beer too.”

Each brewery is allowed only three entries. Troubled Monk also sent its Pesky Pig Pale Ale and Golden Gaetz Golden Ale. Troubled Monk also produces Homesteader Bel-

gian Saison.

Troubled Monk is located at 5551 45th St. and has an onsite taproom open seven days a week.

For more information, see www.troubledmonk. com.

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Cory Sousa, principal planner with the City of Edmonton, poses for a photo in Edmonton on Thursday.

Sousa is a part of an initiative to name Edmonton streets, infrastructure and neighbourhoods.

What’s in a neighbourhood name?

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Edmonton’s naming committee wanted to call the new neighbourhoods Balsam Woods, Golden Willow and River Alder — names that pay homage to local tree species and the area’s natural geography.

But the city’s executive council ultimately sided with the developers, who favoured The Uplands, Stillwater and River’s Edge.

Experts say the quarrel that came to a head in March highlights the growing role that marketability is playing in the naming of new neighbourhoods.

“Neighbourhoods used to be named based on their historical origins, but now it’s much more geared towards creating something that sounds hip and cool,” says Susannah Bunce, assistant professor of human geography and city studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

“The naming of neighbourhoods can be part of a larger process of gentrification.”

Cory Sousa, a planner on Edmonton’s naming committee, says it’s not surprising that the wishes of developers — who have invested big money and are looking for marketable names to help them sell properties — may sometimes clash with those of the committee.

While developers are seeking names that roll off the tongue, the committee is striving to preserve the city’s heritage and highlight the flora, fauna and geographic features of the area, says Sousa.

Sousa points to the Big Lake area as an example, where an avian theme was used to name five neighbourhoods — Hawks Ridge, Kinglet Gardens, Pintail Landing, Starling and Trumpeter — due to the presence of hundreds of bird species in the area.

In another region of the city called Pilot Sound, the committee tapped into Edmonton’s aviation history and named the neighbourhoods after pilots.

“Those are the kinds of names that we really like to focus on — honouring all the great people that have done great things,” says Sousa.

Bunce says it should be the people who live and work in a particular neighbourhood who decide

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how it’s named.

“They are the ones who live there and have a stronger sense of identification with the place,” she says.

Barbara Lawlor, president of Baker Real Estate, a Toronto firm that markets and sells new condo developments, says names can affect not only property values but also the identities of local residents.

“Part of how we define ourselves is what area of town we live in,” Lawlor says.

“When you say, ‘I live in Yorkville,’ people immediately know that you live in a tony neighbourhood and therefore you’re doing well. Or if you say, ‘I live on Queen Street East,’ they know you’re very trendy and cool.”

However, it takes time for a name to take on that sort of meaning, Lawlor adds.

“The Bridle Path is one of our most prestigious areas, but if we didn’t have mansions in that area it wouldn’t be significant,” says Lawlor. “A name is just a name until it gathers that character and significance.”

Sometimes, efforts to rebrand a neighbourhood can draw the ire of its residents — even when the original name carries with it negative associations.

That was the case in 2008, when signs bearing the name “University Heights” were plastered around Toronto’s Jane and Finch intersection.

Paul Nguyen, a longtime resident of Jane and Finch, says many community members were upset that money was being dunked into such a superficial fix.

“It’s like lipstick on a pig,” says Nguyen, who founded the website Jane-Finch.com in 2004. “Making signs is not going to fix the fundamental problems in the community.”

Many residents also felt like the initiative was a rejection of their heritage, says Nguyen.

“Jane and Finch is an identity,” he says.

“It’s about overcoming obstacles, proving other people wrong, overcoming discrimination. … It’s a badge of honour. A lot of people are proud of that label. It represents overcoming struggle.”

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TORONTO — The SiriusXM Canada satellite radio service is poised to undergo ownership changes, with its current American partner becoming majority shareholder but voting control resting with two existing Canadian investors.

The complex plan — designed to meet Canada’s foreign ownership rules — comes as the satellite radio industry faces an ever-changing media world that now includes Internet alternatives as well as conventional radio.

“It’s no secret that our operating environment is rapidly changing,” Mark Redmond, president and CEO of SiriusXM Canada, said on a conference call with analysts to discuss the offer from Sirius XM Holdings (Nasdaq:SIRI).

“An expanded relationship with Sirius XM will provide us with access to existing and future technologies and products and services not included under our existing licence agreements.”

The offer comes at a time SiriusXM Canada needs to renew important licensing agreements with its larger American counterpart — which aims to buy out most of the Toronto-based company’s other shareholders for $351 million in cash or stock.

Sirius XM Holdings — which already owns a stake in the Canadian company — is offering $4.50 per share cash or 0.898 of a share for each Sirius XM Canada share.

The number of U.S. shares available is capped at 35 million.

Redmond described the offer from the American company as financially fair to shareholders, adding that it would reduce the long-term risks associated with the business.

The Canadian company’s current shareholders also have an opportunity to remain invested in the industry if they opt to take shares of the U.S. company rather than cash, he added.

The deal require consent from the Canada Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the industry’s regulator, and other approvals SiriusXM Canada currently has about 2.7 million subscribers.

Slaight Communications and Obelysk Media, two Toronto-based companies that have been involved with Sirius XM Canada and its predecessors since the beginning, will end up with 30 per cent and 67 per cent of the voting shares.

The CBC — another major shareholder with a 9.6 per cent voting interest and 10.6 per cent economic stake — will sell all of its shares, but remain a programming partner.

CBC president Hubert Lacroix said in a statement that “we see this transaction as a good opportunity to monetize our non-core investment in SiriusXM Canada and we intend to vote our shares in favour of the privatization.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 111.89 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.24 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.72 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.45 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.970 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.92 Cdn. National Railway . . 76.03 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 172.87 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.71 Capital Power Corp . . . . 18.28 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.47 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.55 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.70 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.33 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.63 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.52 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.82 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.57 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.00 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.46 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 40.53 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.84 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 51.74 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 141.12 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.63 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.65 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market turned modestly lower and the loonie fell against the greenback Friday, while markets south of the border took a beating despite positive retail sales data for April.

The S&P/TSX composite index slipped 39.22 points to 13,748.58, after finishing flat for two straight days.

The metals and mining sector of the TSX was hit the hardest, falling 1.79 per cent, while energy stocks declined 0.73 per cent. Health-care stocks gained 2.18 per cent, while the gold sector was up 1.81 per cent.

Meanwhile, the oil-sensitive Canadian dollar lost 0.61 of a U.S. cent to 77.31 cents US. The June contract for benchmark North American crude slumped 49 cents to US$46.21 a barrel as it continued to trade in a narrow range, although at the best levels the commodity has seen in six months.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 185.18 points to 17,535.32 and the broader S&P 500 shed 17.50 points to 2,046.61, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 19.65 points to 4,717.68.

That’s despite new data on U.S. retail sales from the Commerce Department that suggests consumer spending rebounded in April after a weak first quarter.

“There were a lot of earnings releases over the week from a number of department stores and the numbers were shockingly bad, so it’s a little bit of a sigh of relief today,” said Patrick Blais, managing director and senior portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.

“It seems as though the U.S. economy is still on track to grow.

It might be muted, but at the very

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.54 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 29.27 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.98 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.94 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.77 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 23.86 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.97 First Quantum Minerals . . 8.38 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.25 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 4.83 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.69 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.67 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 20.30 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.750 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 12.19 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.12 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.89 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 44.63 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.12 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.12 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 36.94 Canyon Services Group. . 4.54 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.08 CWC Well Services . . . 0.1550 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 8.69 least it still seems to have some traction, according to today’s data.”

Retailers have seen their stocks plunge this week, with Macy’s and Kohl’s among those whose shares have seen double-digit retreats.

On Friday, Nordstrom slashed its annual projections and said a key measure of sales fell for the first time in almost seven years. Stock in Nordstrom (NYSE:JWN) fell US$6.07 or 13.42 per cent to US$39.16.

J.C. Penney’s and Dillard’s also reported earnings that fell shy of analyst expectations. J.C. Penney’s shares fell nearly three per cent, while Dillard’s saw its stock slip 1.29 per cent.

“It’s been a shaky earnings season,” said Blais.

“We can’t look to the earnings powers of the companies to drive the market.”

Elsewhere in commodities, July natural gas fell six cents to US$2.10 per mmBtu, July copper was unchanged at US$2.07 a pound and June gold edged up US$1.50 to US$1,272.70 a troy ounce.

“That’s probably the biggest surprise within the Canadian market — that gold is holding in even though you would expect it to be down, given the fact that statistics in the U.S. are good,” said Blais.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,748.58, down 39.22 points Dow — 17,535.32, down 185.18 points S&P 500 — 2,046.61, down 17.50 points Nasdaq — 4,717.68, down 19.65 points

Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.580 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 88.66 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 39.06 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.57 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 14.88 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.15 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 2.150 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.050 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.29 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 34.07 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.610 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.24 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 41.63 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2200 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.07 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.62 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.14 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.01 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.47 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 36.66 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 89.13 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.90 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 42.03 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.240 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 76.82 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.48 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.09 Currencies: Cdn — 77.31 cents US, down 0.61 of a cent Pound — C$1.8586, up 0.43 of a cent Euro — C$1.4631, up 0.34 of a cent Euro — US$1.1311, down 0.63 of a cent Oil futures: US$46.21 per barrel, down 49 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,272.70 per oz., up $1.50 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.006 oz., up 18.9 cents $739.64 kg., up $6.07 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ‘16 $9.30 higher $514.60 July ‘16 $9.30 higher $515.80 Nov. ‘16 $6.90 higher $512.90 Jan. ‘17 $6.60 higher $516.90 March ‘17 $4.90 higher $517.00 May ‘17 $4.70 higher $515.90 July ‘17 $4.80 higher $515.70 Nov. ‘17 $2.70 higher $503.60 Jan. ‘18 $2.70 higher $503.60 March ‘18 $2.70 higher $503.60 May ‘18 $2.70 higher $503.60.

Barley (Western): May ‘16 unchanged $172.00 July ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $174.00 March ‘17 unchanged $174.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 unchanged $174.00.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 337,060 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 337,060.

Financial officers file complaint against KPMG over Isle of Man controversy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The union representing more than 4,500 government financial officers has lodged two formal complaints of professional misconduct against accounting firm KPMG over its work in setting up offshore tax structures on the Isle of Man. The Association of Canadian Financial Officers wants the Ontario and Quebec chapters of the self-regulating Chartered Professional Accountants, or CPA, to assess KPMG’s behaviour against the profession’s code of conduct, bylaws and regulations.

The complaints — filed Friday but dated May 12 — cite a 1999 confidential Tax Court of Canada memorandum on KPMG’s alleged role in tax sheltering for wealthy Canadians using an Isle of Man company.

“We believe that providing this type of service is contrary to the profession’s reputation for competence and integrity,” says the complaint.

“These actions go well beyond the establishment of individual reputations it affects the public perception of the chartered professional accountancy profession as a whole.”

The letters, signed by ACFO interim president Dany Richard and vice-president Richard Rizok — both of whom are CPAs — request that the Quebec and Ontario organizations “review and investigate the professional and ethical standards of KPMG LLP ….”

About 2,500 of the ACFO’s 4,500-plus members are chartered professional accountants, working in some 65 federal departments and agencies. The union does not represent Canada Revenue Agency accountants.

KPMG issued a statement in response to a request for comment on the complaint, calling it defamatory

“nonsense.”

“All tax planning undertaken by KPMG has always and continues to meet the requirements of all Canadian and provincial tax laws. We know that any review will conclusively demonstrate that KPMG’s people acted with the highest integrity and respect for the law at all times. To suggest anything else is defamatory.”

The complaints come a week after KPMG partner Gregory Wiebe was called before a parliamentary committee, where he testified that the Isle of Man tax scheme complied with the laws of the day and that the accounting firm no longer offers such services.

However, the fallout from the tax scheme continues, with the CBC reporting earlier this year that 26 KPMG clients had been offered amnesty by the Canada Revenue Agency in May 2015 if they paid back the taxes deemed to be owing.

Scott Chamberlain, the general counsel for the ACFO, said public sector financial officers are concerned about tax avoidance “because we know, in the end, tax revenue supports the public services we deliver.”

Chamberlain said Wiebe’s testimony helped spur the union’s complaint, particularly Wiebe’s invoking of accountant privilege not to divulge the firm’s client list.

Chamberlain said there’s no accountant-client privilege for accountants, unlike lawyers.

As for KPMG leaving the Isle of Man tax shelter scheme behind, Chamberlain said that’s not the point.

“With all due respect, whether that’s true or not is really irrelevant.

If you’ve committed a crime, as is alleged, or if you’ve made an ethical breach, you don’t just get to say, ‘We’ve changed our ways,’ without an investigation,” said the ACFO lawyer.

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Shell: Skimmers in Gulf begin to clean 88,200-gallon spill

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Vessels have begun cleaning up an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after about 88,200 gallons of oil were released from a Shell flow line about 90 miles off the coast of Louisiana, the company said Friday.

Shell said five boats were dispatched to clean up oil they can skim off the surface of the Gulf.

Meanwhile, environmental groups said this latest spill was another example of why offshore drilling should be banned. Activists plan to hold a march in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to demand an end to drilling and used this new spill as further evidence.

“It’s unacceptable that oil spills have been permitted to become the status quo in the Gulf,” said Michael Brune, the Sierra Club’s executive director, in a statement. “We have allowed the region to be perpetually

treated as a sacrifice zone.”

Shell did not directly respond to the complaints of environmental groups. In a statement, Kimberly Windon, a Shell spokeswoman, said, “No release is acceptable, and safety remains our priority as we respond to this incident.”

Spills happen every year in the Gulf.

This new spill is classified as medium in size under U.S. Coast Guard guidelines.

Since 2012, there have been 147 spills and about 516,900 gallons of oil spilled in the Gulf, according to figures from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the agency that oversees drilling. But scrutiny of the offshore industry’s spills has increased since BP’s catastrophic oil spill in 2010 when an out-of-control well leaked for 87 days, releasing millions of gallons of oil. Eleven workers were killed and many more injured when the blowout of the well caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to explode and sink.

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Hip-hop group jumps into the spotlight

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer hip-hop band Midwest Mindset has jumped from the Alberta bar circuit into the national spotlight.

The “empowering” rap group that plays with all-live instrumentation was selected into the Top 25 in the CBC 2016 Searchlight talent contest from 2,000 entrants from across Canada.

MC Travis Omen thinks it’s very cool to have been chosen the No. 1 band from the Southern Alberta region, including Calgary, where the group relocated two years ago for broader opportunities.

The judging panel (included CBC host George Stroumbouloupoulis and many music industry insiders), credited Midwest Mindset for crafting “empowering, thoughtful lyrics,” and for “playing with the (rap) medium and pushing it forward.”

The panelists loved the band’s “polished” mix of singing and rapping, as well as acoustic and electric sounds that are all created live on stage (instead of being pre-recorded).

Up to now, the Searchlight contest has been determined by on-line voting as well as judging scores, Omen noted his six-member group didn’t spend a lot of money for YouTube or Facebook ads to drum up votes. “We didn’t win the voting rounds… we were pushed ahead by the judging panel.”

Next week, the musicians will hear whether they get into the Top 4 of Searchlight. Since voting has closed, it’s now up to a new set of Searchlight judges — Maestro Fresh Wes, Sarah Blackwood of pop-folk band Walk Off the Earth, and Dallas Smith of country-rock band Default — to pick three finalists. (The fourth will be determined by vote scores).

The four finalists will vie for the $50,000 grand prize on a prime-time televised broadcast on CBC TV. Omen hopes his group moves forward. But he believes Midwest Mindset is already benefitting by getting more social media attention from the contest. The band’s debut album, 1313 (named for a lot of ‘lucky 13s’ associated with the group) was released last summer. And Erasing My Mind, the first single, is getting played by college radio stations across the country as well as by CBC Radio.

Midwest Mindset was formed in Red

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Red Deer hip-hop Midwest Mindset performs at Bo’s Bar and Grill on Friday June 10.

Deer in 2011. Omen, who had graduated from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School in 2007, got together to create music with his long-time school buddies, MC Danny (Epic) Atsbaba, and DJ Ben “Official” Larsen.

They were joined by local guitarist Berkley Roth and keyboardist Jared Buote, as well as drummer Jordan Swanson of Lacombe.

Bringing various musical influences, ranging from punk to old-school rap, the six began collaborating on original material. “It all starts with the beat. The music pretty much determines that the song is going to be,” said Omen, now 27.

The band’s tunes tend to be inspired by either the personal or the political.

Erasing My Mind, with its video of televisions being smashed, takes a swipe at unrealistic media images that cause dissatisfaction. The song ends with a twist: “erasing my mind” becomes “embracing my mind,” which is about self-acceptance.

The next single, with a music video expected out at the end of the month, is Footsteps. “Without sounding too cliché-ed,” said Omen, it’s about starting on a positive path.

Midwest Mindset performed all over Red Deer before group members

decided they had gone as far as they could in the local music scene and needed to expand their horizons in Calgary. But Omen and the other musicians regularly return to their hometown to play for fans, friends and family members.

“We have a soft spot for Red Deer,” he said. “We always get a great turnout.”

The next local show by Midwest Mindset is at 9 p.m. Friday, June 10, at Bo’s Bar and Grill. There’s a $10 cover from the venue or Ticketfly.com lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The weekly Next Big Thing column highlights what’s bubbling under the surface in entertainment.

With the Eurovision finals set to take place in Stockholm on Saturday, we take a look at the origins of the annual music competition and performers making a splash this year.

What it is: Eurovision is the longest-running televised song competition in the world watched by nearly 200 million people. To put that into context, the Super Bowl was seen by 112 million people in the U.S. in January. The song contest was launched by the European Broadcasting Union in 1956 as a way to unite the nations in a post-war climate. Over the years it’s become slightly less “European.” For example, organizers decided the show’s popularity in Australia was enough to ask the country to join last year. Why it’s unique: the show is a cultural mish-mash of pop music and colourful costumes that is always guaranteed to raise eyebrows. Austrian bearded drag singer Conchita Wurst stole the show in 2014 with the James Bond-esque sizzler Rise Like a Phoenix, while a pack of Russian grannies chanted through Party For Everybody in 2012. Aside from the gimmicks there are always a few catchy ditties too. Who you may know: Eurovision introduced the world to ABBA, who performed Waterloo in 1974. They gave the top prize to Celine Dion in 1988 when she represented Switzerland.

How it works: nearly every participating country holds its own internal music competition — think American Idol with original songs — before sending the winner to the Eurovision semi-finals, which were held earlier this week. After eliminating the stragglers, the grand final chooses a single winner through viewer votes and a jury.

The champion becomes like a Miss Universe of European pop music for a year and the winning country hosts the next competition.

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This year’s event: longtime fans will tell you Eurovision has been gaining visibility over the past decade, helped especially by YouTube clips. Perhaps that’s why global pop star Justin Timberlake picked this year’s show to debut his new single, Can’t Stop the Feeling, on stage.

Where you can watch: viewers can see it live on TV in most countries — even the U.S. this year — but if you’re in Canada, forget it. You can only stream Saturday’s finals live from the Eurovision website at www.eurovision. tv.

Standout Contenders: Russia Fans know it’ll be a long shot for Russia to win, but that hasn’t stopped bookies from picking Sergey Lazarev’s You Are the Only One as a favourite.

The singer, who’s already a superstar in his homeland, performs a visual circus with the help of a digital screen.

He starts by flapping giant black wings before hopping across disintegrating platforms that lead to a space vortex. It’s stunning, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a lock.

Eurovision isn’t just about performance. It’s also about politics, and Russia’s anti-gay law soured the competition’s gay fan base who protested last year by waving rainbow flags during the nation’s performance. But even that couldn’t stop Russia from coming in second place, which is why Lazarev’s stunning showcase could sneak a win.

If he doesn’t, the guy shouldn’t worry much. Aside from singing, he operates a side business making custom-made pastries for dogs. Weirdly charming, right?

France Oozing with rousing handclaps and a sing-along chorus, Amir’s bilingual J’ai Cherche is a charmer.

The singer got his start as a finalists on La Plus Belle Voix, the French version of The Voice. And his experience on TV shows in his live performance where he’s all smiles as he uses the

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Iveta Mukuchyan of Armenia performs during the first dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest final in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, digital screens to surf across the stars.

Bulgaria Bulgarians can finally celebrate once again with Poli Genova’s If Love Was A Crime, easily one of this year’s catchiest tracks.

The country joined Eurovision in 2005 but had only made it to the finals once before this year. Genova’s live performance isn’t quite as spectacular as some of the others, but it does include a costume that lights up. Her song is her best weapon though: a Euro dance-flavoured track with hints of Ace of Base.

Australia It’s a long way from Europe, but Australia’s die-hard Eurovision fan base has given them an upper hand in the competition. After proving they have the pop chops last year, Australia got invited back. Once again they’re

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considered a potential underdog with the song Sound Of Silence, performed

by Dami Im. The song fits the type of soaring mid-tempo power anthems that Eurovision audiences love.

Sweden Riding into the contest with Mans Aelmerlow’s pulsing Heroes last year meant Sweden was practically a lock to win. They did — but that was then.

This year’s more laid-back entry from 17-year-old singer Frans doesn’t stand a chance. On its own, If I Were Sorry is the kind of song you might hear on North American radio, but it’s also a sound Eurovision voters tend to reject for not being rousing enough. Frans is already a winner in some ways. The song climbed the Spotify Viral charts in both his home country and Canada when it was released earlier this year.

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Afrika Bambaataa denies abuse allegations NEW YORK — Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa is speaking out to deny accusations from men who claim he sexually abused them as teenagers at the peak of his career in the 1980s.

“I never abused nobody,” the 59-year-old Bambaataa said in an interview this week with WNYW-TV in New York. “You know, this sounds crazy for people to say, ‘You abused me.”’

Two men have publicly come forward in recent weeks to accuse the rapper, and three others have made allegations anonymously in news reports.

Ronald Savage, a 50-year-old Democratic Party community advocate, said he was 14 when he took a cab to Bambaataa’s apartment in the Bronx seeking to become a part of the rapper’s hip-hop group Universal Zulu Nation.

There, he said, Bambaataa fondled him.

“I was scared, but at the same time I was like, ‘This is Afrika Bambaataa,” Savage told The Associated Press, recalling, in detail, that encounter and four others that he said followed.

Bambaataa denied Savage’s allegations and said he was never even alone with him. “I ain’t touch this brother

Local BRIEFS Local woman compiling humourous stories Red Deer resident Connie Brown is collecting funny stories.

That’s funny ha-ha, not funny strange.

Brown is seeking public submissions of stories she can compile in a book of jokes. “There are many people out there with hilarious stories,” she said, and they deserve to be heard.

She’s especially keen on stories relating to our long winters or jokes from seniors as “old age is no laughing matter, and perhaps it can be helped by recalling funny things from the past.”

Brown, who has published two previous books — Cowboys and Kinfolk and Keep Breathing — is offering prizes for the funniest jokes, whether they come in anonymously, or can be attributed to a particular submitter.

Submission can be mailed until Aug. 30 to Brown at 61 Selkirk Blvd., Red Deer, AB, T4N 0G4.

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whatsoever,” he said in the TV interview.

Savage acknowledged he never spoke of the allegations to anyone until decades later, after contemplating taking his own life and seeing a therapist.

“I just remember Bam being so big and laying on top of me,” Savage said.

“It confused me. I really started disliking myself.”

Another man, Hassan Campbell, told the New York Daily News that Bambaataa had sexually abused him when he was 12 and 13 years old. The now 39-year-old said he used to stay at Bambaataa’s house and viewed him as a father figure. A phone number listed for Campbell in public records wasn’t in service and other attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.

The AP does not generally name people who report being sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Savage and Campbell have done.

Bambaataa’s attorney, Vivian Tozaki, told the AP that the allegations were aimed at hurting her client’s reputation “so as to lower him in the estimation of the community while deterring others from associating or dealing with him.”

Bambaataa rose the fame in the month from the City of Lacombe Arts Endowment Fund.

Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie joined members of the Lacombe Arts Endowment Committee to make grant presentations to the following recipients: ● Sydney Zens, of Lacombe, received $2,000 to attend the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. ● Danielle Folkerts, a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, got $1,500 to attend Small Pond Arts residency in Picton, Ont., and ● Lacombe-based Flat Iron Jazz received $1,500 to host Big Band fall workshop and concert.

Also, student art awards of $250 each were given to: ● Kyle Snethlage, of Alix, received the Jan Holoboff Jr. High School Art Award. ● Mckenzie Reiss, also of Alix, was presented with the Charlie Donald Memorial High School Art Award, and ● Nina-Marie Boettger, of Bentley, was given the Dustin Peers Memorial Drawing Award.

The Lacombe arts award program is designed to support the training and development of artists of all disciplines living in the Lacombe area. The goal is to “create a vibrant and sustainable artistic community.”

Relive Bull Skit’s greatest sketches

Come see The Best of Bull Skit next Harpdog Brown is bringing his week in Red Deer.

Travelin’ Blues Show and sizzling ChiAll the best sketches from the past cago blues sound to Wild Bill’s next season will be packed into three nights week. of comedy, from Thursday to Saturday, The veteran singer and harp player May 19-21, at the Scott Block. is known for bringing traditional blues Wacky characters, warped plot lines into the 21st century. His 2014 album, and special musical guests will all line What It Is, made it into the Top 20 of up for three very different nights of the Blues Albums of the Year list by entertainment.

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Aichelle releasing new album at Fratters Sylvan Lake-based country singer Alecia Aichelle is releasing her new album Golden in Red Deer this month.

The CD release party is at Fratters Speakeasy on Wednesday, May 25.

Aichelle, who studied music at RDC, had to slowly regain her vocal range after surgery to remove a non-cancerous tumor from her thyroid gland.

Although doctors told her she would never sing again, Aichelle defied the odds and made a full recovery.

A song about her journey can be heard on her Nashville-produced album, Golden. It also includes the love song Without June, recorded in Red Deer at Heath West’s Melodious Designs Studio and released to country radio stations, including Red Deer’s KG Country.

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Dateless woman needs hope and help HARLAN COHEN HELP ME HARLAN Hi Harlan; I am 43 years old and never have been in a relationship, on a date or even had a boyfriend.

I have always been the third wheel and don’t have many friends. The last friend I had got married almost 20 years ago, and we have not spoken since then.

I am tired of people using me and making me think they are my friend. Nobody has ever set me up on a date. I feel it is too late for me, and I don’t know where to get started. I have reached out to dating coaches in the past, but everything is geared to people who have had relationships before.

I have realized I probably will be alone. I have somewhat accepted it, but other people don’t understand it.

I am not proactive about looking for someone. I just started some counseling, but it’s not working out for me; we never get to the root of the problem. I am too set in my ways. I can’t spend a lot of money - I know that is an excuse.

Also, I still live at home with my father. He has said in the past: “Why start now? You sit at home and never go anywhere.” I never thought about it back then. I worked in a hospital and would work three or four shifts in one week. I never knew if I would keep my job. I still work at the hospital, but I have a steady shift now. It wasn’t until my mom passed away three years ago that I thought, I have missed out on life.

I am too embarrassed about my inexperience and feel as if people judge me. I see the nasty comments people leave on the internet about people like me.

It is depressing. I am tired of some dating coaches on the internet saying that there is nothing wrong with you, or that there IS something wrong with you.

Should I start again with a dating coach, a therapist or something else? — Single and 43 Dear Single and 43; Forget everyone else. What do you want? Love, intimacy and connection, right?

Here are the only two questions you need to answer: Why has it been so hard for me? What can I do

to get what I want?

The first step is believing. This is called hope.

Hope is knowing that you can get what you want, even if you can’t see it. Hope is dangerous because it opens you up to getting hurt. I can tell you’ve been hurt a lot. This is why you need a therapist, counselor and other 40-somethings who identify with you.

If you get hurt, you’ll need to move forward. These people will help you. They will pick you up and give you strategies, tools and encouragement.

Create a support system outside of your home.

Encourage your dad to do the same. Once you have support, work to create change.

A therapist can help you pinpoint why it’s been so hard for you to connect. There could be other reasons. Maybe you have a hard time picking up on social cues. Maybe you have anxiety. Get professional help (face to face, not online) before opening yourself up to others.

Then get involved in groups and activities where single people can connect. Explore dating sites, singles functions and activities that will help you engage with other people.

Start with hope, and get help. Otherwise, expect more of the same.

Dear Harlan; This is a long one, but I don’t think I have anyone else to talk to.

I’m not the brightest kid, so I didn’t get any merit scholarships. I really want to go to Loyola in Chicago and that school will cost $42,000 per year. My parents said they are fine with paying that money if I’m serious about learning. But that’s $168,000 for a bachelor’s degree!

I am serious about learning and I know I can maintain good grades in college, but I just feel guilty making my parents pay that ridiculous amount of money. I’ve been putting a lot of thought into it, and I’m wondering whether it would be more beneficial to go to a community college for two years and then transfer into Loyola for the next two, or go straight to the four-year school.

I am the first person in my family to be born in America and to go to college, so I really don’t have a close relative to talk to. I need a push in the right direction. — First-Gen Grad Dear First-Gen Grad; I get it. That’s A LOT of money. Why pay $84,000 to get something you can get for a fraction of the cost at a community college over two years? It’s worth thinking about.

Here’s what’s going to happen: You will attend Loyola with focus, direction and purpose. You will take part in clubs, activities and organizations where you can discover new interests, pursue your passions and build relationships. You will engage with the top professors and leaders in your field. You will seek out leadership positions and get a part-time job on campus where you can make money, find mentors and build new relationships. You are going to meet people from all over the world and learn about other cultures and faiths. You are going to grow socially, emotionally, spiritually, financially and academically. You’re going to leave for college with a plan and use all the resources available to you - this includes the college’s career and alumni network.

If you’re committed to what I’ve just presented, go to Loyola. If not, DO NOT GO. Save yourself $84,000 and attend community college the first two years.

If you want to save money, consider summer school and graduate in three years.

Admission is your ticket. What you do with it determines the value of your college experience. If your parents can afford it and want to make the investment, reward them by honoring their time, love and investment. That’s all they could ever want.

Dear Harlan; I have never written to an advice columnist, but I’m compelled to immediately send this note after reading your reply to “Worried” in a recent column.

The writer, “Worried,” is concerned about all the support the LGBT community receives. The media has made the LGBT lifestyle so trendy that it will certainly influence our children.

This total embracement of the LGBT lifestyle seemed to have happened in only the past few years.

I am very worried about its effect in the next 10 years. — Lois Hi Lois; People have been part of the LGBT community for thousands of years. It’s only in the past 30 years that we’ve started to accept them. I haven’t seen anyone turning gay because we’ve accepted them.

I’ve only seen them turning to find more help and support. We’ll see what happens in 10 years.

Write Harlan at harlan(at)helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com. Send paper to Help Me, Harlan!, 3501 N. Southport Ave., Suite 226, Chicago, IL 60657.

‘Uncharted 4’ finds brotherly love amid spectacle

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Everyone has a relative like Sam Drake — that seedy brother (or uncle, or in-law) who shows up every now and then with a bottle of bourbon, a pack of cigarettes and a fresh neck tattoo. You love the guy, but you know his appearance means trouble ahead.

Sam is the older brother of Nathan Drake, the hero of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (PlayStation 4, $59.99).

The twist here is that Nathan is kind of rakish himself, as we’ve seen in his three earlier adventures.

But as this new chapter begins, Nathan has settled into domestic bliss with his lovely wife, Elena, and sworn off his globe-trotting, treasure-hunting ways.

Nathan gave Sam up for dead during a caper that went bad 15 years ago. So when Sam reappears with a price on his head and a tall tale of lost pirate booty, his brother feels obliged to help. And we’re off on another high-stakes romp around the world.

The best parts of the Uncharted games have always been the sequences where Nathan is exploring new vistas, whether he’s climbing mountains or descending deep underground. Your job is to guide the impossibly athletic rogue to his destination, with the most exotic settings turning into elaborate mazes. The puzzles never get too difficult even when Nathan seems trapped, careful observation will help you find a way out.

Unfortunately, the Drakes aren’t the only ones

on the trail of the treasure, and their path is often blocked by heavily armed mercenaries. The resulting firefights are far less rewarding, even if they are slickly executed. And then there are the gonzo action sequences that are a specialty of developer Naughty Dog. A Thief’s End is filled with enough explosions, chases and hairsbreadth escapes to fuel a summer’s worth of Hollywood blockbusters, and one in particular — a frantic race through a seaside town — left me giggling and breathless.

All of this is presented with the most gorgeous graphics that have ever been summoned for a video game. Whether you’re lost in a jungle or perched on a lofty mountaintop, it’s worth taking a break to appreciate the gloriously detailed scenery.

Amid all the spectacle, Naughty Dog takes the time to carefully build the relationships among its four main characters — Nathan, Sam, Elena and Nathan’s old partner-in-crime, Sully. The banter between the Drake brothers (played by video-game voice all-stars Nolan North and Troy Baker) is eerily lifelike, filled with the kind of silly in-jokes, affectionate concern and genial chops-busting I share with my own brother.

And in the end, the humble concerns of these four people mesh nicely with the globe-spanning fable of greed, ambition and hubris that they uncover. Uncharted 4 is one of the most ambitious video games ever created, and it succeeds on almost every level.

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Electoral reform destined to fail CHANTAL HEBERT NATIONAL AFFAIRS

Among Justin Trudeau’s commitments, few are as time-sensitive as his promise to have a new voting system in place for the 2019 federal election.

And so, as the weeks turned into months and eventually into more than half a year without any action from the new government, questions arose as to how committed the Liberals were to a promise they had made when they were twice-removed from power.

Elections Canada needs about two years to get a new voting system up and running for the 2019 campaign.

Presuming that the Liberals promised electoral reform in good faith, only the search for a way to invest as much legitimacy as possible in the process could justify the delay.

Instead, on Wednesday, the mountain gave birth to a mouse in the shape of a parliamentary committee that is special only in name. Its make-up replicates the very distortions that the Liberals claim to want to redress through electoral reform.

Like every other committee on Parliament Hill, it will feature a Liberal majority made up, in this case, of six government MPs, with three Conservatives and one New Democrat rounding up the lot.

The Bloc Québécois and the Green Party have been each assigned a seat, albeit at the equivalent of the children’s table.

Their respective representative will have no voting rights.

The latter is generous only by the standard of the parliamentary rule that denies official status and de facto committee spots to parties that fail to elect at least 12 MPs. But in the larger picture, the condescending Liberal approach to the place of the smaller parties in the electoral reform debate amounts to treating the 1.5 million Canadians who supported the Bloc and the Green Party last fall as second-tier voters. Surely on a matter that affects the way Canada’s electoral life is governed, voters should be able to expect that MPs be allowed to weigh in on an equal basis, regardless of partisan affiliation.

As if Liberal control of the committee was not enough, there is no commitment on the part of the government that it would use its majority to introduce a new voting system unilaterally and no pledge to submit the result to a plebiscite before implementing it.

If only based on the calendar, there is no time to both bring a new voting system to a referendum and put it in place for the next federal election.

A committee set up on the eve of the dead political season that is the Canadian summer will already have to take more than a few shortcuts if it is going to a) consult widely and b) come up with a recommendation in time for a

Dec. 1 deadline.

Mind you, based on the recent experience of the MPs and senators who toiled diligently on the medically assisted death file, only to see the thrust of their report ignored by the government, this committee could amount to little more than a make-work project designed to allow the Liberals to check an item off their bucket list.

There has for a long time been an implicit convention that in matters that pertain to the elections law, governments should strive to secure a consensus that extends beyond their

own ranks.

Yes, the Conservatives broke that convention when they last overhauled the election law.

But the Liberals promised to do better.

Their actions on the electoral reform front so far fall short of that commitment.

Where legitimacy should have been striven for, opposition suspicions that the Liberals want to use this process to either give their party a permanent electoral edge or more simply to sabotage it have instead been reinforced.

It is an open secret that more than a few Liberals would not be unhappy to see the entire electoral plan founder — as long as they could blame someone else for it.Looking at how Trudeau has stacked the electoral reform deck, a cynic could conclude that his bid to move to a different voting system is programmed to fail if not in the Liberal-controlled House of Commons, then in a Senate conveniently once-removed from the government.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer. Her column appears Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

The problems with urban growth CHRIS SALOMONS STREET TALES For many years while growing up and probably for as long as into my forties, one of the dreams I had was to buy a cabin in the hills where I could sit on the porch watching the sunset while smoking my corncob pipe. You know, one of those idyllic dreams that many of us have to combat the tension and turmoil of everyday life in the city.

I was fortunate in that I grew up with this city.

When we arrived here in 1955 or 56, I believed the population to be about 11,000 but according to my brother, in conversation, he thought it was only about 9,000.

Whatever the number, we grew up with the city so we had a decent understanding of all the choices both good and bad that were available to be made along the way.

It was not uncommon for us even at age 14 or 15 to hitchhike to Sylvan Lake on a summer’s day, and when we were tired to hitchhike back to town.

A two day hike along the river with

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my buddy Jim would take us to Maskapatoon Park where we would make a shelter out of a piece of plastic, heat a can of beans over an open fire, and then make a steam bath along the river bank; there was always lots to do.

With growth of course comes many changes and many more restrictions (cannot do’s) which I see the results of, as I work at the kitchen. My views here are obviously (because I work there) from the inner city point of view, a location that has become somewhat isolated is still an integral part of our community. I have observed and know both.

Yesterday while preparing for supper, as I looked out the window, I observed that many young people were gathered across the street at a youth drop-in centre. The question often comes to mind; why are you not in school, looking for work, or doing something for your growth? You know those questions, because many in Red Deer tell me that they ask exactly the same things, and although legitimate, maybe they are the wrong questions.

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“what in heaven’s name are you doing here? Don’t you know that a lot of the others that are holding your child have not washed in some time, have colds and possibly other communicable illnesses?”

I know why she is there; she has come to see her friends. These are the kids she has grown up with. Although she is only 17 and without a mate, she holds up her child with pride to share with the folks that she grew up with and knows the best. For whatever reason, she feels rejected by those who should be the centre of her life. But for a number of years already she has been actively present at the youth drop-in, and has made many friends there.

Most of these kids have grown up in relatively decent homes but for various reasons have chosen to befriend other youth who are committed to “having a good time.” The only negative of “the good life” is that there is little or no growth; I see them acting the same over a period of several years.

In any urban setting, as a community ages and grows, the development of a core group of people without purpose is inevitable. It is not so different in the rest of the town or city. People have their idiosyncrasies wherever

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they live, including not getting along with their neighbours. The only difference, is that some have goals and purpose. Those in the inner city many times do not.

It is not an affirming thing to say, but if ever we are going to make positive changes, we have to confront the situation as it is. Many of these kids live this way, because they in most ways have not been given an alternative by the right people. Sadly, it seems at times that the only new thing we as a society are offering is legal pot, and the legal right to kill yourself; it literally scares the hell right out of me to think what they will change next.

Red Deer is not unique in this type of growth, it happens in every large urban centre. My one desire is to see a system of government that would actually care enough to invest in the changing of this type of societal deadening rather than constantly catering to the pursuit of their next election by giving in to the harmful desires of a few.

Another case of “the squeaky wheel gets the grease;” maybe we should be using that grease to smooth the way for these kids to make more positive choices.

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

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We can build an innovation nation DAVID CRANE INSIGHT Canada, we have a problem. The latest data on merchandise exports reinforces the point that Canada is not a true innovation nation. We have great innovators and entrepreneurs but this is not translating into great companies that can be great exporters.

This is the national challenge facing the Trudeau government: How do we create innovative businesses, with high-paying jobs, that can profitably produce products, and services, that the rest of the world wants to buy?

Exports in March fell to the lowest level since January 2014. And we can’t blame it all on falling oil and natural gas prices. Excluding energy, exports were down nearly five per cent from a year ago. Canada is not competitive in world markets, with high costs and weak productivity, and too few products and services that find eager buyers. We are not paying our way in the world.

To pay its way in the world Canada has relied, first, on promoting oil and other raw material exports while

hoping prices would be high, and by looking to a low dollar and a growing U.S. economy to sustain manufactured exports. This has made Canada a derivative economy, dependent on the U.S. for growth, largely in commodities and semi-processed or intermediate products. There are, to be sure, exceptions. But fundamentally we are a mid-range supplier economy to the U.S. and free trade with the U.S. hasn’t changed that.

But these days this is not enough.

Oil and other commodity prices are low. In manufacturing, other countries, notably China and Mexico, are crowding Canada out of the U.S. market.

In addition, the U.S. economy is not growing that fast. As Statistics Canada reports, Canada’s trade surplus with the U.S. in March was the lowest since December, 1993. Canada has run a merchandise trade deficit each year for the four previous years, aside from 2014.

Canada is not at a crisis point though it could be in the next decade if we don’t change. Canada urgently needs to determine its longer-term future strategy. What has worked in the past won’t work in the future. What we need to figure out is how we create a much more competitive tradable goods and services sector in our economy —

this is the wealth-creating sector that is essential to sustain our standard of living and, in the process, enable us to meet the rising healthcare and other costs of an aging society.

This is why the government’s innovation strategy will be so important.

Simply signing free trade agreements won’t cut it if we don’t have competitive businesses that can export. As Canada-U.S. free trade and NAFTA have shown, free trade does not make an economy more competitive. In the case of the U.S., Canada’s productivity gap has widened significantly since the free trade agreement was signed, the opposite of what proponents claimed would be the major benefit.

But it has made it easier for U.S. companies to close Canadian plants and serve the Canadian market from the U.S. or Mexico.

In looking to future opportunities, the government’s innovation strategy will have to consider the transformative technological changes underway in the world today, the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

We are at the start of a full-scale robotics revolution, machine-learning and artificial intelligence, a world of algorithms where more Internet traffic will be machine-to-machine rather than todayís domination of the Inter-

net by human communication, the Internet of Things.

The strategy will also need to recognize that global competition will become more intense as countries compete for exports, jobs and investment, and as the U.S., Germany, China and India, as well as Mexico and Brazil, invest to gain advantage in higher-value industries.

The most recent trade figures show that Canada is not well prepared. We run trade deficits with most of the world, aside from the U.S. and Britain.

Our businesses have not been investing for the future — business spending in research and development has fallen over the past decade while investment in machinery and equipment, aside from the oil sands, has been stagnant. This is not the profile of a business sector energized by the animal spirits of capitalism. Rather, it is the profile of a risk-averse business sector focused on cost-cutting instead.

This is the challenge for the government’s promised innovation strategy.

We don’t need boastful words about how great Canada is but a credible and realistic strategy to realign the Canadian economy for a much more competitive world.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Torstar columnist.

Car salesmen are people too HARLEY HAY HAYS DAZE Car salesman joke: “I saw the most beautiful cars in the window of a dealership. A salesman came out and said, ‘Come on in. They’re bigger than ever and they last a lifetime!’ Later I discovered he was talking about the payments.”

They get a bad rap, don’t they? Car salesmen, I mean. Who hasn’t visualized the stereotypical shirt-and-tie, key jangling, fast talking meathead spouting more clichés than you can shake a stick at. The kind of metal peddler who ambushes you if, heaven forbid, you walk into a car showroom to, say, use the bathroom, or ask directions. Within about 12 minutes (eight minutes in the larger cities) you will be THIS CLOSE to signing a purchase agreement for a $45,000 dollar SUV that you don’t want, don’t need and don’t know what the heck just happened.

Car salesmen (and by “salesmen” I mean gender encompassing “salespersons”) are very often quite normal humans. Generally, most people don’t actually mind having vehicle hawkers as neighbours, as long as you never, ever make idle chit chat about cars. Or politics. Or religion. Or anything.

I personally think we should cut them some slack. I have dealt with car dealerships quite a few times over the years because it seems I don’t like to walk that much and I must say I’ve been pretty lucky. Once I came THIS CLOSE to actually getting a pretty good deal.

Back when the Better Half and I were pregnant with our first Rotten Kid (well the B.H. was; I was just experience sympathetic birth pains from the third month on) we decided we needed a little larger vehicle for the growing family. We went through the typical tap dance with a car salesman.

He is scribbling numbers on paper, talking fast, spouting words like OAC, compound fluctuating zero interest, sticker price, base price, the actual price (never disclosed), the alien Martian special discount fantasy price, add-ons and an extra $100 for floor mats. He writes a bunch of unreadable numbers with circles and arrows and exclamation marks until you’re so confused you start nodding your head to try to clear the cobwebs and sooth

your migraine, and the sales dude jumps up to “go run the numbers with the Big Guy.” (This would be the sales manager.) And this is where the fun really starts. The tap dance. The Car Salesman Tango.

Your faithful sales dude goes and gets a coffee, hides around a corner for a while, and then comes back in with the sad news that the sales manager couldn’t quite make the price work, but hey, he really wants your business, so how about these other numbers. A bit larger (of course) but hey, you’ll never get another deal as good as this one!

And this goes on back and forth forever until you are starving and the BH is almost ready to pop right then and there even though the due date is four months away, and that’s when it happens. The mysterious S.M. finally comes in with a flourish, a grin like a mule chewing on barbed wire, and a promise to seal the deal. “Folks,” he always says. “We really, really (really) want your business. What can I do to make this happen and get you guys into that beautiful car right here right now? Today.” It always has to be today.

Those wacky sales managers.

Thing is, all we were doing was buying a second hand hatchback so I finally put my foot down (after secret instructions from the BH). “OK,” I said. “We didn’t want to pay quite that much, but we’ll take the deal if you throw in one of those child car seats that you are giving out free with a new car.” The car salesman could clearly see that we soon needed one of those expensive car seats.

So how good are car salesmen? This is how good they are: they wouldn’t give us a lousy little car seat and we bought the car anyway.

Some of those dudes and dudettes could sell refrigerators to an Inuit person.

The scenario has repeated itself in different unfortunate variations over the years, so it was with great trepidation that I decided to drop into a dealership the other day. I know — it was a momentary weakness, a profound error in judgment. But curiosity killed the cat.

When the young salesman (I would estimate that he will be probably graduating Grade 9 this year) asked for my contact information, I reluctantly relinquished my email address but refused to give out my phone number.

“No phone number,” I said adamantly. “And please write that on your sheet … write: ‘NO PHONE CON-

TACT.’” I explained I have had bad experiences with automobile peddlers phoning me at 7 a.m. and every three hours or so until midnight. Every day, until I had to move out of town.

Kidding, but not by much. So the young sales dude assured me they would never, EVER phone me and I agreed to come back “for a chat” at noon the next day. He went back to doing his junior high math homework.

You can see where this is going.

Next day, I’m busy at a job and my cell rings. I should have known better than to answer it, but I just didn’t think they had the gall. It was the sales manager stating I was 10 minutes past my

“appointment” and he was wondering when I might be there.

I had a snit. A pretty one, I must admit. And now I still have the same old car and I burned another dealership bridge.

But hey, car salesmen are people too, and they have to eat too occasionally, right? Just never, EVER give them your phone number. You don’t have to. They already know it.

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.

The single-cup coffee conundrum

BY SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Canadians love their coffee but the rise of single-serve brewers has created an environmental headache: What to do with used coffee pods?

More than 91 per cent of Canadian adults drink some coffee, at home or elsewhere, every day.

Not surprisingly, single-serve coffee has emerged as a significant consumer growth market. About 27 per cent of homes have single-serve brewers and use coffee pods.

With convenience, however, comes increased waste, and consumers are starting to connect their love of the single-serve brewing machine with the guilt that the garbage can represents.

With a whopping 10 billion coffee pods thrown away globally each year, consumers are starting to walk away from the product.

For example, Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany, banned the use of single-serve coffee pods from its council buildings earlier this year.

However, there are ways for consumers to feel environmentally responsible while continuing their affair with the single-serve coffee phenomenon.

Nespresso first introduced coffee

pods in 1976. Early Nespresso users could break the product into several parts to make it recyclable. But this turned out to be an unreasonable expectation for most consumers. It is now understood that single-serve is convenience-driven, and a green supply chain solution ought to be equally convenient.

Forty years later, convenient solutions are being developed.

The compostable pod, developed by the University of Guelph and championed by Club Coffee, a well-known Toronto-based food vendor, is ready to go. It is the only single-serve coffee pod designed to be digested by bacteria. The coffee chaff is reclaimed using bio-composite technology, and new bio-resin rings and lids are employed, allowing food waste to be significantly reduced.

This innovative project, involving business and academia, stands to make a significant contribution to the market.

The path to launching this technology, which is a combination of product development and social engineering, has not been easy.

Municipalities, the caretakers of the technology at the end of the products’ lifecycle, did not initially embrace the compostable pod. However, with testing, municipal officials have come to

realize that the product does break down as advertised – unlike other self-proclaimed recyclable food packaging products that they have been presented with in the past.

The bigger issues are composting stewardship and funding.

Resistance to the compostable pod stems from uncertainty around funding for waste collection between municipalities and governments, particularly in Ontario. Municipalities are not pleased about how the funding model works – composting is not funded but recycling is. Municipalities expect some budgetary relief from the province in Bill 151, presented in November 2015.

However, doubts remain and without some much-needed clarity, waste will continue to be unnecessarily generated.

While companies may come up with the best of technologies based on sound environmental values, the reality of the marketplace is much more complicated.

But strides are being made. Loblaw chairman and president Galen Weston recently endorsed Club Coffee’s compostable pods at his company’s annual general meeting and served it to attendees.

That’s a significant call-out from Canada’s No. 1 food retailer.

However, the broader industry will only make significant moves if consumers voice concerns, point to better solutions and choose those solutions.

That would help build business cases for improved and sustainable food packaging solutions.

And this is just the beginning.

With an aging baby boomer population and the number of people living alone steadily growing, the single-serve philosophy will be key in food innovation.

Compostable food serving technologies are increasingly available to consumers, and that means policy-makers from all levels of government must find new funding models to support enhanced composting facilities across the country.

Single-serve packaging could even be edible in the future. Technologies from forward-thinking food companies and academia could allow us to eliminate household waste all together.

But to accomplish these significant goals, we need to give today’s innovative thinkers and their products a fighting chance, even if it is one cup of coffee at a time.

Troy Media columnist Sylvain Charlebois is Dean of the Faculty of Management and Professor in the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University.

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Red Deer Hospice, along with title sponsors RBC Dominion Securities Wealth Management and the RBC Foundation are excited to announce profits of over $37,000 from our annual RUN/HIKE for HOSPICE .

Held this past Sunday, May 1st at the beautiful Kerry Wood Nature Centre, over 300 participants ran, hiked and raised pledge $ to support end of life care in Central Alberta.

After welcome and warm up runners set out for 5 or 10 K along the city’s scenic riverside trails while hikers headed into the beautiful Kerry Wood Sanctuary.

Hikers and runners came back together in the Marquee Field for a bbq courtesy of Mr. Mikes Steakhouse Casual.

Hike for Hospice is a national event with thousands of participants across Canada. This annual event helps recognize the valuable work done by hospice palliative care volunteers and health care providers across our vast country, and is helping to build awareness of the need for better access to quality end-of-life care for Canada’s aging population. Red Deer Hospice added a run to the local event in 2015.

All funds raised at Run/Hike for Hospice Red Deer stay in our community. Corporate sponsors not only underwrite expenses but provided participants with t-shirts , water bottles, wristbands and snacks. Our thanks to Big 105 & The Drive, Century 21 Advantage Commercial Realty, Guy’s Pure Water, Old Dutch, The Running Room and Sobeys South.

Over 50 volunteers helped keep our event organized including a number of corporate groups. The Phone Experts Cares Team provided parking patrol; Royal Bank Day of Service volunteers assisted with Registration & Count Room and Eventide Funeral Home ran our bag storage area while also entertaining the youngsters onsite with balloon twisting and temporary tattoos.

Red Deer Hospice is working to ensure that more Canadians, especially in Central Alberta, realize that we have a quality end-oflife care facility, and that we are here to care for and support families in their time of need.

RUN/HIKE for HOSPICE returns May 7, 2017. Registration opens Jan. 1, 2017 at www.reddeerhospice.com

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RELIGION SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016

Finding strength in faith FORT MCMURRAY PRIEST LEADS FIRST SUNDAY MASS SINCE WILDFIRE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAC LA BICHE, Alta. — Worshippers, many with red eyes and weary expressions, filed Sunday morning into a modest brown church on the southern shores of Lac la Biche.

Like many of those gathered for mass, Rev. Andrew Schoenberger is far from home and doesn’t know when he’ll be able to return to fire-ravaged Fort McMurray.

Schoenberger had a message for those who, like him, have been displaced by the massive wildfire.

“We may be tempted to think, ‘Well Jesus left us.’

But Jesus did not leave us,” he told the congregation at Saint Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church.

“Indeed we have seen Christ through the kindness and the love and the generosity of so many people who have opened our arms to us. Even in the midst of tragedy. … God is present, God is with us.”

Some in the congregation showed the signs of the stress caused by the evacuation.

A man in shorts, flip flops and a fleece jacket appeared dazed as he slowly dipped his fingers in holy water by the door, made the sign of the cross and shuffled to his seat. A woman in the pews dabbed at her eyes with a tissue.

Schoenberger fled north from Fort McMurray when a city-wide evacuation order was issued, picking up five other people on the way.

He left his car at Canadian Natural Resources’ Horizon oilsands site and managed to catch a flight south to Edmonton.

Last weekend, he came to Lac la Biche, a normally sleepy hamlet about halfway between Edmonton and Fort McMurray that has taken in thousands of wildfire evacuees. On Sunday afternoon, he was scheduled to attend a service in Conklin, about 90 minutes north.

He said he understands St. John the Baptist church in downtown Fort McMurray is still standing, as is another one in the neighbourhood of Thickwood.

Toward the end of the service, Schoenberger read aloud a message sent Friday from the Vatican.

“The Holy Father was saddened to learn of the destruction and distress caused by the extensive fires around Fort McMurray, and he assures you of his prayers for all the displaced, especially the children, who have lost their homes and livelihoods,” read the letter signed by Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Pastor’s role in murder case highlights issues with confessions

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Fort McMurray evacuee Gloria Trottier, centre, falls to the floor after participating in the “laying of the hands,” a blessing and healing tradition in the Christian faith, acted out by church member Daniel Barker, right, at the Word of Faith Family Church, in Lac la Biche, May 8.

“He asks God to bless civil authorities and those co-ordinating evacuation and shelter for the homeless, as well as for strength and perseverance for all who are battling the fires.”

To anyone whose faith has been shaken by the disaster, Schoenberger said: “This too shall pass.”

“We have many crosses and challenges in our lives, but they do pass and we always have hope that God is in control, that there is going to be a future

beyond this,” he said.

“All of the tragedies and things in my own personal life, the difficulties I’ve had, I have moved through it, I have moved on, even though … sometimes in the midst of this I have said ‘How can I possibly get through this? This is too much for me. this is too much for us.’

“And God still never failed to get us through and I know he’ll get us through this too.”

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Readers respond to ‘Family Mistake’ KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “The Family Mistake,” the 12-year-old boy whose nearest sibling is 29. He hates his life, saying people assume he’s the grandchild, and his parents call him a “mistake.” He said his parents are in their 50s.

My husband and I are in our 50s. We have three kids between the ages of 9 and 13. No one has mistaken our children for our grandchildren. Also, a lot of our friends are in their mid or late 50s and they have kids the same age as ours. There is nothing unusual about having children later in life.

I have five siblings and we have

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Saturday, May 14 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: George Lucas, 72; Cate Blanchett, 47; Mark Zuckerberg, 32 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Romantic relationships will be extra intense today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a strong perfectionist streak. Just make sure you don’t get so wrapped up in personal projects that you neglect the needs of loved ones. August is a fabulous month for love and romance.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Has a problem been worrying you and causing sleepless nights?

Today a friend or colleague offers some welcome — and sensible — advice. Just make sure you’re smart enough to take it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you making the most of Venus visiting your sign? It’s the perfect time to flirt up a storm or call in some old favours, as you charm and persuade others around to your way of thinking.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You mean well but avoid over committing your time, talent and energy. Its a good time to revisit an old relationship problem or deal with a disagreement in a diplomatic fashion.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Crabs are romantic and sentimental creatures, but don’t end up being a martyr in relationships. Pluto helps you find the inner resolve to transform a partnership in a positive new direction.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo is a fixed sign, and you can be very stubborn and set in your habits and beliefs.

Aim to be much more adaptable today, as you transform a difficult situation with a deft diplomatic touch.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Avoid getting into “Very-Stressed Virgo Mode!” Try to worry less and focus more, as you complete current tasks before moving on to new projects. Plus take some time out to relax and rejuvenate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How well do you really know loved ones Libra?

There is still plenty to explore as you dig deeper and gain valuable insights into the inner workings of certain family members — and yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Group activities are favoured, as long as you are prepared to compromise.

But don’t believe everything a child, teenager, friend or acquaintance tells you. You may not be hearing the full story.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your Sagittarian study skills are firing today. So put something — or someone — under the microscope, as you uncover a scintillating secret or two.

Take your time and don’t rush the process.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Capricorns are awesome organizers, supreme strategists and marvellous managers. But today aim to be more collaborative,

been loving and supportive throughout our lives. We never bully or tease one another. It’s cruel to make fun of someone to the point where he feels put down and hates his life. “Family Mistake” seems like a good kid, and his family should be proud of him.

He should also give his family your column with his letter and your response. Hopefully his family will start to respect and appreciate him more. — Proud Parent From Burbank, California Dear Burbank: We received an outpouring of sympathetic, caring letters for this young man. We hope he sees these and is encouraged. Read on for more: Dear Annie: My heart ached for that 12-year-old. We have a similar situation and refer to our youngest as our “pleasant surprise.” He is quite a character and a joy to have around.

We can’t imagine life without him. I hope his parents see this and realize

how very lucky they are with their own pleasant surprise. — Amazed Mom Dear Annie: I had to respond to that poor 12-year-old who is constantly referred to as a “mistake.” We had our last child when I was 44. What a joy it is to have them still around, and yes, occasionally folks think we are the grandparents. But God does not make “mistakes.” — Blessed Mama Dear Annie: This is for the boy whose family makes fun of him because of the age difference. When jokes are made about him not being planned, he should retort with, “Well, since I am so young, maybe Mom and Dad now have a child who can help look after them when they reach old age.” This might make those bullying siblings start thinking. Maybe even his parents will reconsider their attitude.

—D Dear Annie: We had our fourth child somewhat later in life. People would

otherwise colleagues or family members may refuse to cooperate.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Venus gives a positive boost to your emotional well being, as you concentrate on feeling good from within. Don’t worry about what others are doing. Instead, focus on an enjoyable personal project.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Hey Pisces — are you viewing a current situation through decidedly rose-coloured glasses?

Today try your best to be much more discriminating, so you start to see things as they really are.

your hands dirty — and some sweat on your brow — is in!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll feel right at home today Virgo, as the Moon moves through your sign.

Don’t assume you have all the answers though.

When it comes to a loved one, you may be way off the mark.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When it comes to your glorious goals for the future, don’t just talk about them Libra. Long-term plans require action — plus the cooperation of others — to turn them into robust reality.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t let your subconscious mind play tricks on you.

If you stop procrastinating; prioritize tasks; and focus on practical projects; then you’ll have a surprisingly productive day.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Hey Sagittarius — resist the temptation to splash cash around. There may not be as much in the kitty as you think. And don’t pass on gossipy information unless you know it’s 100 per cent accurate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll feel grounded and at ease, as the Moon moves through fellow earth sign, Virgo.

So activities like cooking, gardening, craft work and renovating are all favoured today Capricorn.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarians can get carried away with vague dreams and pie-in-the-sky schemes. The Moon’s in earthy Virgo today, which encourages you to take a more grounded and practical approach.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When the Moon’s in Virgo you feel more emotionally steady.

So it’s time to communicate with others in creative ways, but beware being evasive about a relationship issue.

Sunday, May 15 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jasper Johns, 86; Brian Eno, 68; Andy Murray, 29 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Virgo Moon favours being practical and organized.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac;s Day of the Dream-weavers, you are very creative. Don;t isolate yourself too much in 2016. You need the support and input of others to get projects off the ground.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many Aries are pioneers in their chosen fields.

With Uranus charging through your sign, you’re at your inventive best as you experiment with fabulous fresh approaches to old ideas.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t believe everything a child, teenager or friend tells you today Taurus — especially when it comes to money matters. Make sure you check the facts and figures thoroughly first.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Spend some quality time with a family member who supports your goals for the future.

But don’t believe everything that a relative or neighbour says — they may have incorrect information.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Perhaps it’s time to discard your crusty Crab shell?

An intimate relationship has the chance to deepen today and become more meaningful. So don’t be afraid to get up close and personal.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You love talking about grand plans and ambitious schemes, but it’s time to walk your Leo talk. Idle chatter is out; whereas getting

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

often ask us, “Was he was a mistake?”

As he grew older, he began to understand what they were asking, so we decided to tell people that he was not a mistake. We had done such a good job with our first three children that God had given us a bonus child. From then on, we called him our “bonus.” Our friends picked up on it, and no one ever asked that question again. No child should ever be considered a mistake.

— Grateful Parents in Kentucky 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.

BRIEF German minister seeks to annul convictions for homosexuality BERLIN — Germany’s justice minister said Wednesday he will draw up legislation to annul the convictions of thousands of gay men under a law criminalizing homosexuality that was applied zealously in post-World War II West Germany.

Heiko Maas’ announcement that he will seek to overturn the convictions and create a “right to compensation” came after an expert study commissioned by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency found that there is no legal barrier to rehabilitating the men.

“We will never be able to eliminate completely these outrages by the state, but we want to rehabilitate the victims,” Maas said in a statement.

“The homosexual men who were convicted should no longer have to live with the taint of conviction.”

Some 50,000 men were convicted between 1949 and 1969 under the socalled Paragraph 175 outlawing sexual relations between men, which was introduced in the 19th century, toughened under Nazi rule and retained in that form by West Germany.

Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969 but the legislation wasn’t taken off the books entirely until 1994.

In 2000, Parliament approved a resolution regretting the fact that Paragraph 175 was retained after the war.

Two years later, it annulled the convictions of gay men under Nazi rule, but not post-war convictions.

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Tropical vibe for the summer Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo provided by Overstock.com, bedding with a fun flamingo print is shown and is an easy way to introduce tropical decor.

A rattan side table is shown and brings a bit of retro tropical style to a room.

BY KIM COOK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS If there’s one decor trend that hits summer’s sweet spot, it’s tropical style.

Furnishings and accessories made of tropical plant and tree fibers started to appear in the fall, in modern vintage and midcentury pieces.

That trend has expanded for spring and summer to wall coverings, textiles and rugs printed with imagery drawn from the jungle, beach and rainforest.

“I think it really took off when design bloggers collectively rediscovered the iconic banana-palm wallpaper in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel,” says Joss & Main’s style director Donna Garlough. (www.jossandmain.com) “It’s called Martinique, and it’s this huge, oversize print that makes a gigantic statement and has a cool Old Hollywood vibe,” she says.

“It makes me think of a ’40s starlet on vacation at glam resorts in Beverly Hills or Miami. When designers and shelter magazines started featuring it in midcentury-style rooms, often with white furnishings and brass accents, readers loved it.”

One fun aspect of tropical decor is that you can interpret it many ways — glamorous is one style, but there’s also island, preppy or boho.

You may even have a little moment of déjà vu, says Garlough.

“There can be an element of late ’70s/early ’80s kitsch to it,” she says. “I recently watched a rerun of ‘Golden Girls’ and laughed my head off over all the tropical elements on that set that have come back into vogue, from the rattan furniture to the macrame plant hangers. Blanche even had that famous palm wallpaper in her bedroom.”

For her Nashville, Tennessee-based studio, Peacoquette Designs, Sarah Walden has created a striking palm-leaf print. With the leaves printed on a teal blue background, the design has a historical vibe. On a coral/pink background, it looks more midcentury modern. It’s available on several different fabrics, or as wallpaper. (www. spoonflower.com) A palm-printed pillow can freshen a sofa or chair. You’ll find a collection of throw pillows and shower curtains with big, bold palm-leaf prints at H&M Home. (www.hm.com) Add a few inexpensive rattan pieces the textures contrast nicely with contemporary furniture’s trim lines, and bring homey charm to more bohemian spaces. Rattan also works as a foil for both bright and neutral hues.

Pottery Barn’s Beachcomber collection includes sea grass, rattan and abaca fibers woven into chunky baskets. (www.potterybarn.com) A little rattan bar cart is part of Target’s summer Threshold collection. (www.target.com) For colour beyond foliage green, consider sultry hues like orchid, banana and passion fruit.

Go beachy with a palette of tans, creams and greys.

Overstock.com has Tommy Bahama’s Tropical Hibiscus throw pillow and a chic white pineapple table lamp. Flamingo-printed sheets bring the theme into the bedroom, and the pink bird struts across a preppy-striped rug.

Kate D. Spain, based in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has designed a woodblock print incorporating exotic blooms, leaves and vines. The limited edition artwork comes in ocean-y hues of turquoise, blue and violet. (www.shopkatespain. com) Antique scarf prints of tropical flowers and birds have been reproduced as canvas wall art at Pottery Barn. And Grandin Road has a set of four vintage-style parrot illustrations for wall art. (www.grandinroad.com)

In this photo provided by H&M, playful toucans peek out from behind bamboo branches on a whimsical, tropical print throw pillow

A pink flamingo struts across a preppy striped rug shown here from Overstock. Tropical imagery on rugs, textiles and accessories is a hot trend in home décor this spring and summer.

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Eyes up: Raising the ceiling can dramatically change a room ADD ROOM TO A ROOM

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Architects tend to look skyward: The ancient Greeks built coffered ceilings in their temples. Romans introduced the barrel vault. Medieval builders constructed Gothic arches and Renaissance domes to inspire the masses.

Centuries later, the impact is the same, says architect Kevin Lichten: “The ceiling of any room has the potential to be the most dramatic and mood-altering part.”

American builders in the early and mid-20th century did embrace flat ceilings. Frank Lloyd Wright would manipulate the impact of a flat ceiling by designing it lower near a room’s entrance. “So when you came in the room and he popped it up, you felt that you’d arrived somewhere,” says Lichten, founder of the architecture and design firm Lichten Craig.

Trouble is, many other mid-century home-builders didn’t get Wright’s message. America’s suburbs are dotted with high ranches and split-level houses with flat and noticeably low 8- or 9-foot ceilings.

Some homeowners are opting to change that, removing a low, flat ceiling and extending it all the way up to the roof. It’s a big project, but it can powerfully change the look and feel of a home.

PIGGYBACK ON OTHER CONSTRUCTION If you’re already doing heavy remodeling — perhaps removing walls to open up a kitchen and dining room — consider raising the ceiling in those rooms, suggests Chip Wade, contractor and host of HGTV’s Elbow Room and Curb Appeal: The Block.

The expense and challenge of redistributing the roof’s load can be shared by both projects.

If you’re not making any other changes, then raising a ceiling is an expensive choice, similar to putting an addition on your house, says Scott McGillivray of the DIY Network series Income Property.

Yet it can be worth the investment.

“It changes the feel of the whole space,” McGillivray says, so there’s no harm in getting estimates and considering the project.

Last year, McGillivray was part of the team that renovated a small bungalow in North Carolina, turning it into HGTV’s Urban Oasis for 2015. The cramped little home with ceilings “barely 8 feet high” became an open, airy retreat because of a new cathedral ceiling.

Once the ceiling was lifted, “Bam! The place felt monstrous,” McGillivray says.

“And you get a tremendous amount of light if you do some skylights, which is what we did.”

EVERY HOME IS DIFFERENT Get estimates from engineers or architects who can think creatively about your particular home, says Wade.

“It needs to be someone who can see the engineering side first” and will consider more than one approach, Wade says.

Raising the ceiling of an older, pre-1950s home can be simpler than doing so on a newer home, says McGillivray, because older houses were often built with rafters rather than prefab trusses.

Exposing rafters doesn’t change the structure of the roof, so it’s a smaller job.

Removing modern trusses and rebuilding the roof’s support is a larger project, usually involving the addition of a huge centre beam running the length of the room.

Older, Victorian-style houses are likely to have a very pitched roof, adding considerable height to a room.

So you can raise the ceiling to a game-changing height by exposing those vintage rafters.

OTHER CEILING OPTIONS If raising your ceiling is too expensive, consider easy, decorative fixes like metallic ceiling tiles and coffered panels.

You can make the most of a decorative ceiling through “vertical tricks,” says Lichten.

Try installing paneling vertically up to the ceiling, or adding tall, vertical windows to create the illusion of height.

Or try making the ceiling artificially lower at the entrance by adding a few inches of soffit above the doorway.

“There’s a basic human need to feel this vertical force in a room,” Lichten says. “ So anything you can do to bring the eye upward, to bring it skyward helps.”

This photo provided by Brian Patrick Flynn shows a home designed by Flynn for HGTV’s ‘Urban Oasis 2015’house that had ceilings barely 8 feet high and were raised as shown to create a dramatic open space.

The raising of the ceiling also allowed a loft to be added above the living room as seen in this photo.

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SEALING A CONCRETE FLOOR STEVE MAXWELL HOUSEWORKS Q: What’s the best product for sealing an interior concrete floor? It’s in our cottage and includes infloor heating.

A: There are many options and the right one depends on how it makes your floor look. Even oil-based urethane is worth a try. I say “worth a try” because testing of different products in small areas is key to finding one that you’re pleased with. Don’t just choose something then put it on an entire floor without experience. I know testing sounds like a pain, but there’s no going back on a floor that looks bad because you used something you shouldn’t have.

It would be a shame for that to happen. Buying small cans of a few different products is an added expense, but it could save you from a big mistake.

My own preference is for something with a gloss-free satin sheen as opposed to a gloss. A shiny floor will reveal flaws and dirt more obviously than a flatter finish.

Finishing a Pine Floor Q: What’s the best way to finish an old pine floor without putting a lot of fumes in the house? The floor is sanded now and I’d like to make it a little darker.

A: There are many ways to finish a floor, and several options that use low-odour coatings. My favourite is the old approach of finishing oil. It’s the least common floor finish, and it requires more initial coats than the more typical urethane floor treatment. That said, oil is easy to maintain and repair.

That’s the big plus. Just clean the floor, then rub on more oil in areas of wear or damage as they appear. Polymerized tung oil is the best I know of for finishing floors.

You could colour the floor beforehand using waterbased stain (Minwax makes the best), but pine also ages to a mellow, golden colour in time. It will get a nice, antique look in a few years with no stain at all.

The main thing to understand is that it’s important to experiment with your finishing methods in a test area.

You don’t want to go to a lot of trouble only to find that you don’t like the look of what you achieved. Finish a small area using the same methods you plan to use on the whole floor, just to see what you’ll be getting.

If you do decide to go with some kind of urethane floor finish, understand it will make your floor rougher after the first coat dries. That’s why you’ll need to sand your floor using 180- or 220-grit sandpaper in a hand-held finishing sander, then vacuum the floor before adding additional

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Latex caulking like this is ideal for filling cracks, gaps and nail holes in trim before painting. Low odour, easy to use and water clean up make it perfect for the job. coats. Most modern urethanes dry very fast, and this makes it challenging to get a smooth, bubble-free application. The trick is to brush the wet urethane as little as possible. One initial brushing in a given area, then that’s it.

Drywall Crack Fix Q: How can I fix a narrow crack that’s been developing down the centre of our livingroom? We first noticed it 10 years ago when we moved in.

We had it fixed soon after, but it reappeared two years ago.

A: There are two kinds of cracks in houses, ones that matter structurally and cracks that just look bad.

It sounds like you have the harmless-but-annoying kind.

I recommend filling the crack with interior latex caulking before your next paint job.

DAP offers the gold standard for caulking of this kind and I know from experience that it works great. Just rub some

into the crack with your finger and let it dry.

Do this filling job when the crack is at its widest (typically in winter), then paint. It might just be the last time you have to tackle this repair.

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Dear Debbie; We have tried several warm whites on our walls, however we have fir floors that have a strong orange colour with a touch of yellow. The orange casts off onto the walls, so the warm whites and off whites we have tried either turn orange or pink.

Light changes in every room. We are hoping to get away from the yellows and prefer to stay on the lighter side. Could you recommend a warm white that is not too yellow and not too dark or dense. Thank you.— Wendy Dear Wendy; Colour theory is a complicated business. We do not all see and react to colours the same, so there is the personal factor to take into consideration.

External factors such as natural and artificial light that changes throughout the day and evening affect colours. White walls are particularly prone to outside influences. As you have experienced, the yellow/orange hues that radiate from your wood floor bounce off your white walls which now reflect that wood colour. There are some basic rules that do help us make choices, then experimenting with different shades of white will tell the tale.

The level of sheen in paint makes a big difference. High sheen has a high reflective quality. High sheen acts like a mirror, so that light and other colours are reflected back into the room. Since you are trying to avoid this, your best bet is a paint that has either no sheen or a very small amount. Try a matte or flat finish.

Texture will break up the reflective quality as well. Consider adding a textured wall surface, it can be two or three whites painted over each other in random patches, each white tinted with either a touch of brown, grey and khaki. This will create a whitewash effect, and again use paint with a matte or satin finish.

The impact the floor colour has on your walls will be diminished when furniture and an area rug are in place. Choose colours for your furnishings that will complement floors, but won’t highlight the yellow/ orange hue. Blues and greys work well in any combination of patterns or solid tones.

Your white walls are the perfect backdrop for any form of artwork. (It’s the go-to colour for art galleries.) Posters, paintings and collages, framed or unframed, allow you to give each room your personal stamp, building character and interest, and taking away from that all white look.

Different shades and tones of white combine to add energy to an all white room. Seen here is a family room that I transformed from a dark paneled den for a young couple with kids. The mom’s dream was to have all white, but she was concerned that it wasn’t a smart choice with young children. As it turned out, everyone was happy. A light umber glaze was rubbed over the textured white plaster on the brick fireplace and adjoining wall. Dark wood panels were painted white with light grey paint strokes.

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Different textures and sheens show off the many complementary characteristics of a white room. sheers at the window take on a bluish quality behind the soft blue tones of the sofa. Funky white tables contribute a kid-friendly quality. The dark wood floor grounds this light and airy room where all the whites join together to produce an harmonious whole.

You will find that these decorating ideas will make a big impact on your rooms. Try white with a

grey tint on one wall, move in the furniture and see how it looks Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter.com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbieís new website, www.debbietravis.com.

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FELLHAUER Dominic 2011 - 2016 Dominic James Fellhauer, beloved son of Delaney and Tye Fellhauer of Clive, Alberta, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family at Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at the age of 4 1/2 years old.

He will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his parents; his sisters, Kiara and Zoey and his brother, Cyrus; his great grandpa, Harry Lawson of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta; his great grandma, Lorraine LeBourdais; and his grandparents, Merle (Della) Fellhauer, all of Kamloops, British Columbia, Leslie Jones of Calgary, Alberta, Ken (Judy) Dyrland of Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Wayne (Heidi) Smith of Maple Ridge, British Columbia; as well as numerous other relatives and loving friends.

Dominic “Squeaker” was a fun loving, happy child with a keen wit and sense of humor. He loved the color green, little plastic snakes, Ninja Turtles and goats. He had a passion for water, whether it be fountain or swimming pool, and music touched him in a special way. Dominic was an advocate for Cerebral Palsy, both in person and in the media. He inspired people and created an awareness for both youth and adults to accept and work with disabilities through public forum and internet postings.

In his short time with us, he touched many lives in a very meaningful way. A Celebration of Dominic’s Life will be held at the Clive Baptist Church, 4716 - 50 Street, Clive, Alberta on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. with Pastor Jamie Veitch and Pastor Rick Williams, officiating. If desired, Memorial Donations in Dominic’s honor may be made directly to the Stollery Children’s Hospital, 8440 112 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2B7 or at w w w. s t o l l e r y k i d s . c o m .

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HOSKIN Richard A Celebration of Life We the family of Richard Hoskin invite you to attend a memorial service celebrating his life. Richard passed away peacefully in his sleep on December 10, 2015 at the age of 70. Please join us in remembrance of him on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. at the Lousana Hall.

Robin Peter Neufeld, aged fifty nine years passed away peacefully on May 6, 2016 at the Red Deer Hospital, after a brief illness. Robin was born in Bassano, Alberta on May 23, 1956. Rob grew up in Calgary and spent his school years in the Forest Lawn area. Robin spent much of his working life in the oil fields of the world, overseas, offshore and for many years as a consultant in Alberta where he was known for both his gruff demeanor and his generous heart.

He would often be heard to say “Of course I want it today; if I wanted it tomorrow I’d order it tomorrow”. Robin was married twice, first to Mary Neufeld (nee Walsh) in 1988. They had one daughter, Hayley Anne in 1994. Subsequently Robin met and fell in love with Shelley (nee Hoem) and they were married in 2007. They have since lived together on an acreage near Red Deer. Robin was known as an avid motorcyclist who owned, rode and even built motorcycles throughout his life. During his early working life in Europe, he had very fast motorcycles on which he would lean forward into the corners of the narrow highways of France and Spain. Later, as his stature increased, he leaned back and adopted the Harley Davidson as his vehicle of choice. He was well known and loved among the closeknit motorcycle community around Red Deer. Robin was predeceased by his father, Peter and his sister, Vicki Lynn (Ben). He is survived by his mother, Gladys Margery of Calgary; his wife Shelley Deanne; and one granddaughter, Charlotte Marie Dyck; as well as his daughters, Hayley Anne Neufeld, Becky Hoem-McNall and her partner Colton Arvanitakis, Christie Hoem-McNall and her partner Ron Dyck. Also left to mourn his loss are his sister, Carmen Skyers (Aubry); his four brothers, Garry (Patricia), Timothy (Ju), Neil (Darlene) and Darryl; as well many nieces, nephews and his extended family of countless friends that held very special places in his life. The Celebration of Robin’s Life will be held on Monday, May 23, 2016 at the Valley Centre Hall (Address: RR260 TWP380 east of Red Deer) at approximately 2 pm, where Shelley and Robin were married a little under 9 years ago, on what would have been his 60th birthday. There will be a bike procession starting at the Gasoline Alley Harley Davidson which will travel to the hall with Robin’s ashes carried by Grant Price, his longtime best friend. Please contact the Gasoline Alley Harley Shop for more details regarding the coordination and timing of the bike procession should you wish to be a part of Robin’s last ride. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Stars Air Ambulance, Robin’s favorite charity.

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TOIVANEN The family of Judi (Clark) Toivanen wish to express our deepest and sincerest “Thank You” to all for being a part of Jude’s life. She loved her friends and family and wanted to be a part of everything she could. She climbed many hills and crossed many valleys, but she never gave up. Thank you for attending her memorial services, for the many expressions of sympathy, cards, gifts and food, memorial donations and “HUGS.” Special “Thank You” to Barb and Elaine for spending extra time with Jude. To all the nieces and nephews for their help, tributes and music. Your song was beautiful Paula. The Stampede Barn was a perfect setting. Jude would have loved the get together with all her friends and family, and the balloon send off was so special.

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Terry waited for the sunrise and took his final breath surrounded by his family at the age of 65 years. Terry was a vibrant great man who was the rock of our family, a friend to so many people. His friends and family meant everything to him. Terry leaves such a void in so many lives that will be impossible to fill. Terry is survived by the love of his life Janice, three sons Brandon (Melissa) of Rimbey, Dallas (Stacey) of Sylvan Lake, Colin (Mallary) of Sylvan Lake, grandchildren Taryn, Hunter, Allie, Ashley, Kyndal, Kaje, Karson, Braun, Tanner and Logan. Terry also leaves to mourn four brothers, three sisters and their families.

Terry was predeceased by his parents Fred and Lil Shaw as well as two brothers. A celebration of Terry’s life will be held from the Peter Lougheed Community Center in Rimbey, Alberta on Wednesday May 18, 2016 at 2 p.m. If friends so desire, memorial contributions may be made to the Firefighters Burn Treatment Unit, University of Alberta, 8440 - 112 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2B7.

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Apply in person with resume 3811 40th Ave. JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

The Matheson Family

A baby’s Smile can warm your heart...

Remember their special celebrations

First steps, first words, first birthday.

CELEBRATIONS everyday

Happy 1st Birthday!

Gracie Love, Mom & Dad

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Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino req’s Line Cooks, 1 day, 1 nights. Exp. is req’d.

Please apply in person w/ Touy between 2 - 4 pm.

4950 47 Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

WHISTLE STOP, Domo Gas in Mirror Ab. is currently looking for 2 full time servers for a fast pasted environment.

Please only seriously application apply.

Whistlestop2012@ outlook.com or in person at the Whistle Stop.

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Employment Training

900

POLICE Bike Auction

SAFETY

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

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403.341.4544

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

278950A5

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R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

1530

Auctions

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Sunday May 15 11 a.m.

Viewing 9 a.m.

Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Weather Premitting For Directions visit www.cherryhillauction.com Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals Phone 403-342-2514

Event Tickets

1610

MEMORIAL CUP TICKETS 1 set. Section Y, Row 7, Seat 15. $700.

403-721-2050 evenings

EquipmentHeavy

wegot

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Firewood

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, TO ORDER Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 HOME DELIVERY OF Household Furnishings THE ADVOCATE LA-Z-BOY Full-size rocker recliner. Burgundy fabric, CALL OUR freshly cleaned like new. obo. 403-755-2760 CIRCULATION $75.TWO oak book cases DEPARTMENT with glass, 76”h x 32”w, $75 each. 403-309-5494 403-314-4300 WANTED

1720

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

Misc. for Sale

1760

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020

Coming Events

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE

Misc. for Sale

1760

rentals

2 electric lamps, $20.

403-885-5020

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

COFFEE Pot, Martello Espresso Machine, New in box. $50.

403-872-1014

Anders Park

FREE COOKIE TINS, assorted sizes.

403-346-2231 GRILL, Charcoal, 180 sq. in. of cooking surface, temp. gauge on lid, used twice, like new.

Replacement $259.

Asking $65. 403-346-2859

MULTI-FAMILY 15 ANDERS STREET incl. tools, Thurs. & Fri., May 12 & 13, 2 - 7, & Sat., May 14, 9:30 - 2. Lots of everything.

Aspen Ridge

Vanier Woods VISTA CLOSE, MultiFamily Garage Sale, Fri., May 13, 4-8 p.m. and Sat., May 14, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Bell Satellite Receiver, Stihl gas weed eater, 2 lawn movers, ladies golf set, and lots more.

WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

WINDOW Air conditioner, 5000 BTU, Gen. Electric $80. 403-872-1014

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

1830

Cats

KITTENS, 1 Siamese and 1 Burman, $50 each, and 1 grey and white kitten for free. 403-887-3649 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Sporting Goods

1860

West Lake 23 ASHTON CLOSE ACCESS FROM THE BACK LANE ONLY Sat., May 14, 10-4 p.m.

Sun. May 15, 10-4 p.m.

Numerous household items, pet items, children’s items, Christmas decor, jewelry and more.

Deer Park

EXPERIENCED golf balls, 8 dozen, $2/dozen, and quick-dry sports pants by REI, 30” waist, navy, $15.

403-347-3741

14 DENMARK CRES. May 13 & 14 Fri. 5 - 8, Sat. 8 - 4 Closing basket making business, household items

Travel Packages

178 DORAN CRES. Wed. to Sat., May 11 - 14, 2016 ,10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Something for everybody.

Downsizing.

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

2 DENMARK CRES. 3 Family SALE May 14/15 - Sat. 10-5 & Sun. 10-2; Books, camping items, tools, Xstitch etc....

Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

131 WYNDHAM CRES. MEGA HUGE MULTI SALE May 13 & 14, Fri. 3-8 & Sat. 10-3 Kitchen, home decor, bed & bath, camping, quading, electronics, yard, Check out 50% off items on Sat.!

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Lacombe

to support local charities.

Father Lacombe Catholic School, in the gym, 5114 - 54 Ave., Sat., May 14, 8 a.m. -3 p.m.

Sylvan Lake

CAR BOOTIE SALE

52

Kentwood Alliance Church 4 KENNEDY DR. Southside Parking Lot May 14, Sat. 9:30 - 12:30 10+ Vendors so far....

New Vendors Welcome No trailers or large furniture. Call Kat 403-307-0726 for additional information

Morrisroe 4 MARTIN CLOSE, Thurs.

May 12, 3 - 7 p.m., Fri. and Sat., May 13 & 14, 9 a.m. 7 p.m., Lots of baby items, and something for everyone.

Office & Phones CLOSED MONDAY, May 23, 2016 Non Publishing Day RED DEER ADVOCATE

Rosedale

Publication dates: Saturday, May 21, 2016 Tuesday, May 24, 2016

5 ROLAND St. May 13 & 14 Fri. 2-7 & Sat. 9-4 RV Goods, laminate flooring, 17” tires, portable A/C and much more.

DEADLINE: Friday, May 20, 2016 @ 4 pm

#35 Lakeview Cres.

Sylvan Lake WEATHER PERMITTING May 13, Fri. 10 - 5 May 14, Sat. noon - 5 Barn fresh Mantiques, truck accessories, small freezer, 2 stainless range hoods (new), Whurlitzer organ, hand tools, power tools, garden tools, garden ornaments/yard art.

A Star Makes Your Ad A Winner!

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3326 - 49 AVE., May 13, 14 & 15 - Fri. 3-9, Sat. 9 - 4 & Sun. 12 - 4 Asst. electronics, Karaoke equip., sporting goods , swimming pool, 12’ x 3’ and much more.....

CALL CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

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For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK

1000-1430

CLASSIFICATIONS

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

ANDERS classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com BOWER Massage Seniors’ HIGHLAND GREEN Fencing Therapy Services Accounting INGLEWOOD ACRE FENCING HELPING HANDS Home JOHNSTONE INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Supply & Install Supports for Seniors.

Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

KENTWOOD CHAIN LINK Cooking, cleaning, with oilfield service Residential, Industrial companionship.

At home companies, other small RIVERSIDE & Commercial. or facility. 403-346-7777 businesses and individuals Elite Retreat, Finest 42 years experience.

MEADOWS RW Smith, 346-9351 in VIP Treatment.

Looking for a new pet?

Located in Leduc 10 - 2am Private back entry Check out Classifieds to PINES Serving All of Alberta.

403-341-4445 find the purrfect pet.

780-986-0267 SUNNYBROOK Contractors FENCE WAREHOUSE Tired of Standing?

SOUTHBROOKE Misc.

SUPPLY ONLY Find something to sit on Services Chain link, Wood and WEST LAKE in Classifieds BLACK CAT CONCRETE Barbed Wire.

Garage/Patios/RV pads WEST PARK Buy Direct From the Sidewalks/Driveways 5* JUNK REMOVAL Yard Manufacturer Dean 403-505-2542 Property clean up 505-4777 Call Tammy at James @ 780-803-6491, Care 403-314-4306 Scott @ 780-668-8940.

BRIDGER CONST. LTD.

1169

1372

1280

FANTASY SPA

1100

1290

We do it all! 403-302-8550 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

CARRIERS NEEDED

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197

For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week

DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

DAMON INTERIORS

INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER

Repair or Renovate No job too small, full service. Free Estimates Seniors Discount.

Call 403-598-7499 R.D.

1160

Entertainment 7119052tfn

Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303

Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured.

Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Flooring

1180

NEED FLOORING DONE? Don’t pay the shops more.

Over 20 yrs. exp.

Call Jon 403-848-0393

Handyman Services

1200

BOOK NOW! For help on your home projects such as bathroom, main floor, and bsmt. renovations. Also painting and flooring.

Call James 403-341-0617

Health Care

1210

Dr. Lyla May Yip

Alternative & Complementary Health Care Provider Dr. of TCM & Reg. Acup. (house calls available) 403-597-4828

Painters/ Decorators

1430

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

3010

FOR RENT - ACREAGE, near Pine lake - New Mobile Home, 3 bdrm., 1/2 hour from Red Deer/ Innisfail for rent, eff. Oct 1, 2016 - $1500 per month. call - 403-478-5165 forv further details

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

CLEARVIEW 4 bdrm. duplex, 2 bath, fenced yard, n/s, no pets, no parties, $1275/mo., $1000/dd.

Ref. req. 403-343-0306 DUPLEX reno’d, Gibson Close, 2 bdrm., 1 bath, 5 appl. (newer), large shed, fenced yard, close to school, n/s, no pets, $1001/mo., HEAT INCL’D Linda 403-314-0635 home or 403-396-4726 cell.

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 BDRM., 1 bath, Condo for rent Sunnybrook. $1200/mo. Avail: July 1.

403-357-4203.

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1000. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

Manufactured Homes

ACE LAWNCARE 403-596-5917 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

3040

AVAIL. immed. in Benalto, 3 bdrm. older mobile plus addition, lrg. fenced yard, $750/mo. plus util., $800/dd. 403-843-4379 WELL-MAINT. 2 bdrm. mobile home close to Joffre $810 inclds. water, 5 appl.

403-348-6594

3050

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or May 1. 403-304-5337

GLENDALE

3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

May 1 403-304-5337

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. now or May 1st.

403-304-5337 TWO WEEKS FREE CLEARVIEW, 4 plex 2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 1/2 baths, $975.mo. n/s, no pets, . 403-391-1780 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. now or May 1 403-304-5337

Suites

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 1010

Acreages/ Farms

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

+

South Hill

PLEASE NOTE: our NEW Classifieds hours are now Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

SEIBEL PROPERTY Knights of Columbus ONE MONTH Garage Sale & BBQ FREE RENT

Kentwood Estates

CLASSIFIEDS - VICTORIA DAY Hours & Deadlines

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

wegot

3060

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

CITY VIEW APTS.

2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, newly reno’d adult building.

Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospital. No pets. 403-318-3679 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

LIMITED TIME OFFER:

One free year of Telus internet & cable AND one month’s rent FREE on 2 bedrooms! Renovated suites in central location.

Cat friendly. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888)482-1711

MORRISROE MANOR

Opposite Hospital

THE ROTOTILLER GUY Rototilling Services & Yard Prep. 403-597-3957 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s TREE /YARD CARE, Roofing. Re-roofing JUNK Removal, Garage specialist. Fully insured.

Door Service. 403-358-1614 Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

YARD CARE Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459 403-350-7602

3090

$430./mo. All utils incl.

Furnished, cable, internet. n/s, working, clean adults only. 403-550-1298 BLACKFALDS, $500, all inclusive. 403-358-1614 ROOM TO RENT very large $450. 403-350-4712

Offices

3110

Downtown Office

Large waiting room, 2 offices & storage room, 403-346-5885

Storage Space

3160

10’ X 26’ INDOOR space $150/mo, 403-348-0241

Pasture

3180

2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

403-346-5885 PENHOLD 1 bdrm. 4 appls, inclds. heat & water, no pets $760/mo., avail.

June 1. 348-6594

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S, No pets.

403-596-2444

wegot

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

5030

Cars

2011 SUZUKI Swifts, silver, 1.6 L, 4 cyl., auto, 106,000 km, $6,500.

403-505-3113

5040

SUV's

2005 MITSUBISHI Endeavor, fully loaded, AWL, leather, exc. shape.

160,000. kms. $6500.

403-318-1878

Motorcycles

5080

PASTURE

North Red Deer. 10 cow/calf pairs, no bulls, no yearlings. 403-346-5885

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC No shortage of power ALL the Bells & Whistles!!

44,600 kms.

MINT CONDITION Never laid down.

$7600. o.b.o.

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(403)318-4653 Red Deer

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

2006 HARLEY DAVIDSON Dyna Super Glide, 10,800 kms. Mint Condition, $13,000. 403-896-1620.

Fifth Wheels

5110

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

1995 TRAVELAIRE, 25.5’, Call GORD ING at very good, clean cond., RE/MAX real estate sleeps 6, new awning, full central alberta 403-341-9995 propane tanks, full size fridge, 4 burner stove/ oven, microwave, queen Houses bed, x-long couch, makes For Sale into bed, N/S, no pets. $7000. obo. 403-350-6695 OWN 2, like new, side by side homes in Donalda.

6 bdrms., 4 baths, w/2 lots Boats & and garages for $289,000. Marine and receive $750. per month rental income.

MLS CA0082629, Wayne/Sutton 403-318-9114

4020

5160

SPACIOUS 1,150 ft. duplex condo in Michener Place, one bdrm with ensuite, walk-in closet, den, basement 60 % finished with bdrm., full bath, rec room, rear deck with awning, 2 car garage, only 459,900.

Call 403-505-8625.

No agents pls.

SUNNYBROOK, 2 bdrm., $340,000. 403-346-8121

Income Property

4100

RARE OPPORTUNITY 2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 plexes, side by side, $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780

Industrial Property

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430

Money To Loan

4430

HAVE you exhausted your efforts at the banks?

Is your company in need of financing? Call 403-969-9884

Public Notices

WatersEdge Marina

Boat Slips Available For Sale or Rent Sylvan Lake, AB 403.318.2442 info@watersedgesylvan.com www.watersedgesylvan.com

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

TIRES, summer (4) Continental, 225/55/R17 Low mileage. $150. all 4.

403-986-6878 3 33

YOU 4120 DO WANT

QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARK New industrial bay, 2000 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult sq. ft. footprint, $359,000. or for Rent. 403-391-1780 bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or MAY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

Rental incentives avail.

1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

SECOND 2 NONE, reg. only, N/S, No pets. and res. grass cutting/yard 403-596-2444 clean-up/trim hedges, brush/ rock and sod jobs/eaves. NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 MIKE’S Refresh Painting bdrm. apartments, rent Free est. 403-302-7778 Exterior/Interior, $750, last month of lease Prompt & Courteous Service free, immed. occupancy.

403-302-8027 403-596-6000 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Rooms For Rent

YOUR AD TO BE READ BY 100,000 Potential Buyers???

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6010 ABILITY LIFT RETROFIT NOTICE

FOR MODELS SA148, SA172, SA180, SA1104, SA1128 Certain models of Ability Lifts, that are not maintained to the manufacturer’s required specifications, may experience a lift bearing or shaft assembly failure resulting in the Ability Lift dropping downwards which may cause injury. The useful life of all Ability Lifts is 15 years.

Retrofit parts to address this issue will be installed free of charge to all owners.

To find out if your Ability Lift is affected and to register your lift to be retrofitted please contact:

Saskatchewan Abilities Council

1-877-233-2053

retrofit@abilitiescouncil.sk.ca http://www.abilitiescouncil.sk.ca/html/commercial _products_ services/metalwork/index.cfm

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HOMES

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United in marriage and design

BY HARRIET EDLESON ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

resulting two spaces have been used as bedrooms for their now-grown children, ages 25 and 28.

Another feature of the house, known as Trees on the Roof for the trees and vegetable garden on the rooftop, is its energy sustainability.

A canopy of trees that grow from the ground below encircles the rooftop.

Planters on the roof are large enough to grow 20-foot trees, and soil is deep enough to sustain broccoli, cauliflower and tomatoes.

Two Japanese maple trees - one red, the other green - provide a low canopy that shields the architects from the sun when they are seated up on the roof.

“We’re up there every day,” Murphey said.

“You’re up there under the tree canopy,” Murphey said. “The trees shade you from the sun.”

He prefers the roof in the evening but says “there’s always a breeze up there.”

The vegetable soil bed is 14 inches deep to accommodate broccoli because it requires the most depth, Murphey said.

Planters for the trees are five feet deep, five feet wide and 12 feet long.

Solar panels, a geothermal well in

From the moment you spot the house, you know it will be different inside.

The original boxy exterior has been changed into an L-shaped structure with the same square footage as the original. Bark adorns the front of the house. The bark panels from Highland Craftsmen wrap around the front entry ramp to the house, hinting that this house is, indeed, one of a kind.

The architects say they “struggled” to find just the kind of material for the entry, considering stucco and tile, for example, before choosing bark siding for the curve at the front of the house.

The wall curves a second time as you go up the ramp. It reiterates the theme of bringing the outdoors into the interior as the bark continues inside as you move into the living room and kitchen. The material is made from reclaimed tree bark.

The three-level house plus rooftop slopes front to back with the lower-level basement office seven feet lower than the front of the house. The main level features the kitchen, dining Powered by and living room combiCentral Alberta’s nation, with sliding glass career site doors opening the living of choice. area to both an interior courtyard and to the front of the house. Utilizing materials such as translucent, frosted glass in the kitchen allows natural light in but blocks the view of the house next door. It’s “maximizing the sun,” Murphey said. “EvThe Red Deer Advocate, Central Alberta’s ery room has windows on only daily newspaper, is seeking an three sides.” A glass floor EDITOR for one evening shift a week. in the living room allows light to flow into the lower Duties will include writing, editing and level.

The second level houspage layout on Friday evenings, posting es the music room and to the web for our website and social the master bedroom, media sites and any other duties assigned which opens to a terrace by the managing editor. They may also affording outdoor space and views. This level is be asked to fill in when other editors are inviting in its own way on vacation or are ill. with a room that holds two pianos and wall units Qualifications for books and other possessions. The key to the A degree or equivalent work experience light in this room, situated in journalism, and a working knowledge at the back of the house, of InDesign and Photoshop is required. was placing windows near The successful candidate will have strong the ceiling of the room clerestories - that allow in layout and editing skills. the light but not the view.

“The windows are high,” Anyone interested is asked to apply Murphey said. “You see to managing editor Josh Aldrich by only the treetops.”

May 27, 2016.

As they did for the rooms on the main levJosh Aldrich el, the architects chose Managing Editor monochromatic color 403-314-4320 schemes: lime green for the music room and prejaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com dominantly white for the We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only master bedroom and bath. selected candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.

Downstairs, on the main To learn more about Black Press see blackpress.ca level, the living area is orange and beige. On the lower level, next to their office, is additional room with a red color scheme.

Square footage totals 3,200, including the lower level.

On the third level is space that can be converted into two bedrooms with a sliding partition. The

EVENING EDITOR

the ground, radiant heating and insulation create energy efficiency.

Half of the electrical needs of the house are met by the solar panels. In addition, sensors have been installed on the roof to automatically tilt the louvers that cover interior windows and doors when the temperature reaches a pre-set level.

Recycled shredded blue jeans commercially sold - provide insulation.

A perforated aluminum staircase

connects the levels. In an effort to make the best use of space, the bathrooms convert into showers.

A wood-fired pizza oven and a raised herb garden make cooking fun and functional.

The house has such broad appeal that it has been featured on annual neighborhood house tours. “We weren’t trying to match what was next door,” Murphey said. “That was never an issue, to fit in.”

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Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual. Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture and some related postsecondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room and be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license and transportation are required.

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For years, architects Marcie Meditch and John Murphey lived in a dark and boxy house in Chevy Chase, Md., that they didn’t like. So a few years ago they decided to tear down the old home and design a new open and sunny house on the lot.

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For years, architects John Murphey and Marcie Meditch lived in houses they didn’t like.

Their house in Chevy Chase, Maryland, was dark and boxy, but they had lived with it since 1990 because the schools were good. Finally, a few years ago, the house no longer worked for them. “The old house was falling apart, and had a basement that flooded,” Meditch said.

They decided to design a new house for the lot.

Both Meditch and Murphey could envision the boxy, dark house replaced by one that would maximize natural light and bring the outdoors inside. The only downside was they would have to move out and rent a place nearby for two years while they executed the project.

Ultimately, the 7,200-square-foot lot drove the design of their new home.

“The house is shaped by the area around it,” said Murphey, a native of Michigan whose exuberance seems to be the driving force behind the project. “There are terraced areas and ways to get outside. It had to fit within the confines of a tight lot,” he said.

In the end, the three-level house plus the rooftop is the kind of space that the couple are eager to return to after traveling for work and play.

“You’re anxious to get back” to the house, said Meditch, who is originally from Indiana. The two met while studying architecture at the University of Minnesota.

During their travels, the architects saw designs in cities like Rome and Berlin from which they could see for miles. It inspired them to create a design that allowed them that kind of visibility.

The architects aimed to utilize natural light and create a visually appealing space on a small site with neighbors not far away. “Sun pours in like a greenhouse,” Murphey said. “Placement of the windows was crucial so you’re not staring into your neighbor’s home.” Their challenge was to create a “sense of private spaces and not feel hemmed in,” he said.