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Bring Taliyah home FAMILY OF SLAIN WOMAN TEARFULLY PLEADS FOR RETURN OF MISSING CHILD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Relatives of a missing five-year-old girl were pleading Tuesday for the safe return of a “vivacious” and “curious” curly-haired child whose mother was found dead in the basement suite where the two lived.

The slain woman’s uncle appealed directly to whomever might have Taliyah Leigh Marsman.

“Please return her. Drop her off at an RCMP station, a Calgary Police Service station, a grocery store, gas station — wherever you want,” Scott Hamilton said through tears as friends and family of his niece, Sara Baillie, surrounded him.

“Contact the family. We’ll come and pick her up. There’ll be no questions

asked.”

Police said family members last saw the girl Sunday morning.

They became concerned when Baillie, who had a full-time job at Chili’s at the Calgary airport, didn’t show up at

‘CONTACT THE FAMILY. WE’LL COME AND PICK HER UP. THERE’LL BE NO QUESTIONS ASKED.’ — SCOTT HAMILTON GREAT UNCLE

work. Police were called and officers found the woman’s body Monday evening.

Police issued an Amber Alert in the early hours Tuesday for the girl, who

recently finished kindergarten.

Hamilton said Baillie was single-handedly raising Taliyah, who was described as much more mature than her five years.

He said the two were “inseparable” and Taliyah “worshipped” her mother.

“Taliyah referred to Sara as Mama and it wasn’t necessarily like a mother-daughter relationship. It was almost like watching two sisters at times get along.”

She likes playing on her iPad and watching cartoons.

Hamilton’s wife, Marilynne, had recently taught Taliyah to ride a bicycle.

“The bicycle sits in our garage waiting for her to come back,” he said, his voice breaking.

Taliyah Leigh Marsman

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Pollinators quick to move into new homes

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Designated pollinator habitat located in four city parks are giving the public a new view of bees, beetles, butterflies and other insects necessary to grow vegetables, fruit and flowers.

Ken Lehman, the city’s parks, ecological and planning specialist, said pollinators were quick to move into the pollinator park at Bower Ponds that was completed on Monday.

“There are leafcutter bees using these logs already. There’s all kinds of stuff going on in here and it’s just days old. They establish pretty quick,” said Lehman at the pollinator park, located in the northeast end of Bower Ponds near Taylor Drive, where city council and staff gathered on Tuesday morning for the official announcement of the pollinator parks.

“The sand pile went in four days ago and the very next day there were already ground nesters in it.”

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Hudson Ford and his brother, Jensen, are big music fans, according to their mom, Jayme. The boys fuelled up on cotton candy during the Peavey Mart Barn Dance on Tuesday evening on Little Gaetz Ave.

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Hospitals’ lottery winner undecided about fate of home

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A long-time supporter of hospitals in Alberta won the grand prize in Red Deer’s Hospitals’ Lottery.

Bob Wynnyk, 64, who lives in Parkland County near Devon, said he has been buying tickets “forever” for lot-

teries that support hospitals.

“You never think you’re going to win these things, but it’s nice to support them,” said Wynnyk who won the grand prize three-bedroom bungalow, located at 117 Lazaro Close, valued at $799,000.

“Hospitals are important. I just had a hip done last year.”

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Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton because his granddaughter was born with heart problems.

“She’s four years old right now and she’s already had three heart surgeries. She had heart surgery at six weeks old.”

Immediately after his name was drawn last Friday, Wynnyk was notified by Red Deer Regional Health

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“It was quite a shock. I thought it was a telemarketer or something calling me,” he said with a laugh.

Wynnyk, who is a plumber and pipefitter and was at work when he got the call, said it was a nice surprise.

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Mandatory tip at Earls restaurant stirs controversy

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push back from some servers who may be taking home less gratuity income as a result.”

On the other hand, he said, the charge will allow Earls to better control differences in compensation between servers who get tips and the rest of the staff who generally don’t.

He said the initiative is also timely because of the Alberta government’s plan to raise the hourly minimum wage, which is now $11.20, to $15 by 2018. That plan includes the elimination of the lower minimum wage paid to servers of alcohol based on the assumption that they will make up the difference in tips.

Craig Blize, vice-president of operations for Earls, said the company came up with the experiment about two years ago as a way to make pay levels more fair. He said about 100 of the 280 staff at Earls.67 are considered back-of-the-house staff who would normally miss out on tips but who will share equally under the new model.

“Under a normal tipping model, 80 to 90 per cent of the tip goes to the server, which creates a disparity,” he said.

“The average tip out in the industry is 16 to 18 per cent. At Earls Bankers Hall (a predecessor restaurant to Earls.67), before we shut it down to build the prototype, our average tip there was 16.5 per cent. So we settled on 16 per cent because we wanted to give value for the experience that every guest is getting and the 16 per cent also compensates all of our hourly partners — our cooks to our servers — with that higher consistent wage.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A decision by Earls Restaurants Ltd. to eliminate tipping at a downtown Calgary restaurant and replace it with a mandatory 16 per cent “hospitality charge” is stirring controversy.

The Vancouver-based restaurant chain rolled out the concept this week at its newly opened 10,000 squarefoot Earls.67 and opinions were split among diners who waded through Calgary Stampede crowds to go out for lunch on Tuesday.

“I usually tip more, so this actually was cheaper,” said Nicole Dyck as she exited the packed eatery. “The service was good, the food was good, so no problems, no complaints.”

But Adam Haynes disagreed, saying the charge could take away the incentive to deliver good service.

“You know when you go to a restaurant and you get a table for 12 or more and they have an auto-grat? Generally the service is worse than if you have discretionary gratuities,” Haynes said.

“I’m against it.”

Many restaurants across Canada have fixed gratuities for large parties or during certain events, but Earls deserves congratulations for “breaking new ground” in testing the idea for all servings at all times, said Mark von Schellwitz, Western Canada vice-president for Restaurants Canada.

“I’m certain there’s going to be some resistance from some guests who want to keep control over how much they tip or not tip,” he said. “And certainly, there’s maybe going to be some

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A student constructs the next generation of Terminator — a programmable Lego behemoth — at Red Deer College Science Camp’s Techie and Robotics class for children aged 11 to 15 on Tuesday afternoon. Classes cover subjects ranging from biology to computer programming, and, of course, robotics.

from Kilpatrick when he and an unnamed woman drove up to the scene.

Defence counsel Maurice Collard and Crown prosecutor Dominique Mathurin returned with a plea agreement when the trial resumed after lunch.

Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to 10 of the 35 offences for which he was charged. They include three counts of careless use or storage of a firearm, four counts of possessing illegal drugs, two counts of possessing stolen credit cards and one count of possessing proceeds of crime.

He was sentenced to seven-and-ahalf months in jail, satisfied by the time he has served in pretrial custody since his arrest on Jan. 13.

Charges were previously stayed against Kolton Dalkin, Jeromy M. Arsenault and Johnny Edward Allison, who police allege were found inside the suite during the raid.

Local BRIEFS Man arrested during raid sentenced to time served A last-ditch plea deal has brought a sentence of time served for a man charged with 35 criminal offences laid after police raided a Red Deer apartment in mid-January.

Robert L. Kilpatrick, 35, went on trial before Judge Darrell Riemer in Red Deer provincial court last Thursday on a wide range of charges, including armed robbery, credit card fraud, possessing proceeds of crime, conspiracy to commit an offence, drug possession and a variety of weapons offences.

His trial opened with testimony from three of the Red Deer City RCMP members involved in the raid. The Crown’s case ran into trouble when the three Mounties gave conflicting evidence concerning a set of keys seized

short for Entrepreneurial Agriculture Tour, an annual opportunity for anyone interested to take part in an organized tour of farm-based businesses.

This year’s tour, running on Wednesday, Aug. 3, includes stops at the Nixon Honey farm, a variety of ALUS (alternative energy) setups, a tulip farm and visits to other ventures within the county. Seats are filling fast and have typically sold out, so those interested in joining the tour are encouraged to reserve their places as soon as possible. Tickets are $30 each and include fare, coffee and lunch. Contact tour co-ordinator Donna Trottier, 403-3470005.

RCMP hunting for suspect who shot at truck

Red Deer County hosting 13th annual EAT tour Do bees really have knees? Meet some of the world’s tiniest and most mobile food producers — and their human colleagues — during Red Deer County’s 13th-annual EAT tour. That’s

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Red Deer RCMP are looking for the man who shot at a truck after a traffic dispute in Normandeau.

Police say the incident occurred at 5:25 a.m. in the Corral Foods parking lot on 59 Avenue when the driver of the truck attempted to confront the driver of a white Chrysler Intrepid after an argument.

The man driving the Intrepid pointed and shot a handgun at the truck as the truck left the area.

No one was injured. The suspect Intrepid fled eastbound on 67th Street.

RCMP located the Intrepid and followed it near Range Road 275, west of Red Deer. The driver left the car and fled on foot.

Contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403343-5575. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Resident in custody after report of gun A Red Deer man is in custody after reports of an agitated man with a firearm at a residence near 58 Street and 69 Street Drive on Tuesday morning.

RCMP surrounded the area and blocked off a section of 69 Street Drive to traffic while they assessed public safety after receiving a report of a man with a firearm around 10:45 a.m.

A male resident of the home was taken into custody without incident.

Police seized an unloaded rifle from the home. At this time, charges have not been laid.

Contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403343-5575. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 or report it online at www. tipsubmit.com.

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Publication ban imposed on hearing for killer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A cloak of silence was imposed Tuesday on an Alberta Review Board hearing for a Calgary man found not criminally responsible in the stabbing deaths of five young people.

The twoday hearing for Matthew de Grood, 24, is the first step in a process which could eventually see him back on the streets.

De Grood was found not criminally responsible in M a y o n f i v e MATTHEW DE GROOD counts of first degree murder stemming from a house party two years ago marking the end of the school year.

According to court testimony, de Grood heard a voice he believed to be the devil telling him to kill. De Grood said he believed the end of the world was coming when he grabbed a knife from the kitchen in the northwest Calgary home and stabbed the victims to death.

Kaitlin Perras, who was 23, 27-yearold Lawrence Hong, 23-year-old Josh Hunter, 21-year-old Zackariah Rathwell and 22-year-old Jordan Segura were killed in the April 15, 2014 attack.

The review board consists of Alberta provincial court Judge Allan Lefever, two psychiatrists, a member of the legal community and a layperson. The board will hear updates on de Grood’s treatment, any progress he has made, privileges he may be entitled to and victim impact statements from friends and families of the five victims.

“Mr. de Grood has been confined to a secure medical facility and within that facility he has been treated and is being treated by a treatment team,” said LeFever, in an introduction to the dozens of family members sitting in the courtroom.

“They will be responsible for the development of a risk management plan which means a gradual reintegration of the individual into the community, if and when it is safe to do so.”

Lefever said the board considers four factors during a review including the safety of the public, the mental health of the patient, the reintegration of the patient into society and any other needs of the patient.

However details from Tuesday’s hearing were subject to an interim publication ban after objections from groups including Alberta Health Services and de Grood’s lawyer, Allan Fay, who argued evidence may be introduced that could interfere with his client’s treatment.

“Release of such information may interfere with the treatment process to a degree that my client does not receive the full benefit of that treatment process and, in my respectful submission, would be significantly prejudicial to him,” said Fay. Lefever imposed an interim publication ban until arguments could be heard Wednesday morning. The board has to balance the issue of confidentiality with the public interest in the case, he said.

“We have to recognize the interest of the public in this proceeding,” Lefever said. “The media really are the eyes and ears of everybody in Calgary and Alberta who couldn’t be here today.”

Suspects that shot at cruiser on the loose

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAC LA BICHE — Alberta Mounties are warning the public that two suspects who shot at police are on the loose and may be armed and dangerous.

Sgt. Jack Poitras says Lac La Biche RCMP spotted a vehicle believed to have been involved with several armed robberies were travelling from Wandering River towards Lac La Biche in a dark pickup truck on Monday afternoon.

Within a few minutes of following the pickup, RCMP say the occupants of the vehicle fired a single shot at the RCMP officer’s vehicle, striking the windshield.

The officer was not injured.

Two of the four people in the vehicle were taken into custody about 20 kilometres northeast of Lac La Biche.

Poitras says the other two have not been located and a rifle used to shoot at the cruiser has not been found.

“If the public knows anything about this, call and let us know who they are but not to approach them. As far as we know we haven’t recovered the weapon so they could be armed and dangerous,” Poitras said.

Police aren’t sure if the suspects are still in the area.

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Zoey Richard, 10, and her mom, Kelly, ponder the possible adoption of a bunny at the Red Deer SPCA. The centre is inundated with 134 rabbits in need of good homes.

Customers at Edmonton restaurant may have been exposed to hepatitis

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Health officials are warning that customers of a restaurant with locations in Edmonton and St. Albert may have been exposed to hepatitis A. Alberta Health Services says a food handler working at Edo Japan at Manning Town Centre in Edmonton and Tudor Glen in St. Albert has tested positive for hepatitis A. It says people who ate food from these locations between June 13-18 June 21-28 may have been exposed to the virus.

AHS says the risk to the public is low but advises anyone who ate there at those times should monitor them-

Alberta BRIEFS Nearly all health services restored in Fort McMurray FORT MCMURRAY — Health officials say residents of a northern Alberta city ravaged by wildfire in May now have access to most of the health-care services that were available before the blaze.

The Northern Lights Regional Health Centre’s cancer clinic reopened on Monday and Alberta Health Services says there are no longer any health service-related concerns for residents returning to the city.

AHS says all beds are open on each unit of the health centre, dialysis services resumed June 22 and all longterm care patients are back home.

David Matear, senior operating director for AHS’s area 10, says access to health care is a huge factor in people’s decision to return to Fort McMurray.

A wildfire The fire spread into the oilsands capital on May 3 and forced more than 80,000 people to leave for nearly a month.

It destroyed roughly 2,400 homes and other buildings — about one-tenth of the city. Firefighters were credited with saving the rest of the community.

“We are thrilled to have all of our health services back up and running in the community,” Matear said in a news release.

Nose wheel on Air Canada Express flight collapses at end of Calgary landing CALGARY — The crew of an Air Canada Express flight had to make an emergency landing at the Calgary International Airport when concerns surfaced that the front landing gear had not locked in place.

Flight AC-7212, which originated in Lethbridge, Alta., requested emergen-

selves and their family until Aug. 17.

Symptoms may include fatigue, poor appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and fever followed by dark-coloured urine, light-coloured stools, and yellowing of eyes and skin several days later.

If people develop the symptoms in the specified time period, they are asked to contact Health Link at 811 immediately.

“While we believe the risk to the public is low, hepatitis A is a serious infection,” says Dr. Joanna Oda, medical officer of health for Alberta Health Services, Edmonton Zone.

Oda says there is no ongoing risk of infection associated with either Edo locations.

Both have been cleaned, inspected,

and approved as safe to operate by AHS public health inspectors.

Hepatitis A is an infection of the liver caused by a virus. If an infected person does not properly wash his or her hands after using the bathroom, the virus can be transmitted through food and beverages prepared by the infected individual.

Illness can occur within 15 to 50 days after exposure to the virus, but usually does within 28 to 30 days.

Individuals can be infectious one to two weeks before symptoms occur until at least one week after the onset of illness.

There is no specific treatment for hepatitis A, but it can be prevented through immunization.

cy crews be on standby upon arrival in Calgary around 7:00 a.m. today.

The plane, carrying 15 passengers, circled the airport to burn off extra fuel before coming in.

Air Canada says the aircraft landed safely on its main landing gear, but the nose wheel collapsed when it came to a stop.

No one was hurt and the passengers were bussed to the terminal.

The 35-storey tower will replace the current office of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in a central Edmonton neighbourhood.

Chris Downey, a visually impaired architect from San Francisco, assisted with the design of the tower.

He helped with the braille exterior, coloured glass and textured walkways to help people find the entrance.

Inside the building, signage, hallways and elevators will all be designed with the visually impaired in mind.

The apartments in the building will be available to everyone but five per cent of them will be set aside for CNIB clients in need of affordable housing.

“There’s high unemployment rates if you’re visually impaired,” said John Mulka, executive director of the CNIB. “So it’s a great opportunity for our clients to access something that we might take for granted.”

Edmonton council OKs highrise that will cater to the visually impaired EDMONTON — A high-rise building tailored for the visually impaired has been unanimously approved by Edmonton city council.

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THE ADVOCATE Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Pride proud to not single out groups

BY MARTIN REGG COHN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Toronto’s Pride parade prides itself on never shouting down — or shutting down - participants.

That may be news to the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter, which rained on this month’s parade when it ransomed the event. But it’s an important distinction, the difference between protest tactics and parade principles.

Holding up the show by 30 minutes wasn’t so much a demand to be heard (they were already designated honoured guests) as a determination to prevent other gays, in this case cops, from being seen or heard. Or more precisely, banned from any future floats.

Unsurprisingly, their demand has backfired in the court of public opinion.

And for all the cries of betrayal from Black Lives Matter — furious that Pride organizers later declared they wouldn’t be bound by promises made under duress — there is a larger point here: Pride’s membership has a history of sticking to its guns when anyone tries to tell it what to do.

It’s a core principle enunciated by Pride for years, and an established

precedent.

Remember QuAIA? Queers Against Israeli Apartheid made its name by sullying the name of the Jewish state, year after year, at Pride parades. Having covered the Middle East conflict during a four-year posting to Jerusalem, I had my own view of QuAIA’s quixotic crusade.

Why would a gay group demonize the only gay-friendly oasis in a Middle East brimming with homophobia?

More than a logical stretch, it amounted to sophistry wrapped in enmity. The obtuse fascination with the semantics of apartheid seemed a pointless diversion. (Almost all occupiers segregate and discriminate against the occupied; the bigger question was whether a South African term for institutionalized racism helped anyone comprehend — or merely misapprehend — an entirely different geopolitical and historical context in the Middle East.)

Was QuAIA even aware that Lebanon’s government kept its Palestinian refugees penned inside designated camps, barring them from working in the professions and refusing citizenship even to Lebanese-born Palestinians several generations later? Another form of apartheid, or just another word game?

Against that backdrop, critics called QuAIA hate-mongers and, more specifically, accused them of hate speech.

Personally, I thought their appearances at Pride were more hurtful than hateful, and that banning them from parades would only make martyrs of them.

Why didn’t QuAIA organize its own anti-Israeli protests, rather than piggyback on a specifically LGBTQ parade?

Good question, but that was Pride’s call, not mine.

Under enormous political pressure, parade organizers set up an internal review and decided there were no grounds to ban them. Similarly, city hall concluded that the comments fell within the limits of free speech.

Despite its clear discomfort over the group’s antics, Pride held its nose, stood its ground and declined to disqualify QuAIA. Ultimately, the group withered away, crumbling under its own internal contradictions as their anti-Israeli obsessions were overtaken by far graver human rights abuses in neighbouring conflict zones such as Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Yemen.

The point is that Pride refused to single out a group for banning, thanks to its broader ethos of a big tent and a bigger parade.

Yes, protest has its place. But di-

alogue also pays dividends, which is presumably why Black Lives Matter will meet yet again with Premier Kathleen Wynne and Mayor John Tory this week to press its demands.

No one doubts the disproportionate amount of discrimination borne by black people, and the Star has long held cops to account for the racial profiling that culminated in carding. I’ve written my share of columns criticizing the police, notably for vetting their notes and possibly colluding with colleagues after shootings of the mentally ill, a reminder that many tragic killings aren’t just race-based, but fearbased.

Yes, Black Lives Matter. But not just black lives.

Lacking familiarity of “the other” — gays, black people or the mentally ill — and lacking proper training, can be a deadly combination. That’s why police participation in the Pride parade, which increases familiarity and enhances understanding, is surely a good thing.

Most of us understand, intuitively, that for all the systemic and institutional challenges facing Toronto’s cops, demonizing them is a dead end.

And can sometimes prove deadly.

Martin Regg Cohn is a political columnist.

hind the scenes to ensure the approval process has been extended to last for many years before any decision is even discussed. A purposeful move by Justin Trudeau to delay the process until there is no marketable need for a pipeline and the opportunity is lost or no longer justifiable because he doesn’t want pipelines, but he doesn’t want to disrupt the process out in the open for the public to see. At the end of the day, more money will be taken out of your pocket for nothing in exchange, at a time when we are collectively going through one of the hardest economic downturns in decades, if not ever.

locked in a car, strapped in their car seat, unable to move. At first it is just a little boring, then the heat starts to climb. They start to sweat and their seat belt starts to chaff. Their heart beats faster, circulating blood to cool them down. Their tiny bodies struggle to keep up, but the car gets too hot and their bodies can’t cope. Their body temperature starts to rise. Their body, vainly trying to cool itself, keeps sweating, transferring liquids to the sweat glands, drying out their eyes and throat. After sweating so much they are thirsty, but they can’t move, even if there was a bottle left in the car. But the heat in the car keeps climbing and so does their body temperature.

Imagine their torment as they are baked to death.

The media has made heroes of the people who have saved children like these from their torment. Yet, 13 children, in the U.S. alone, have still suffered a horrible death. What if cars were equipped to sense movement and after 20 minutes they were programmed to circulate a gas that would painlessly kill the child? This would save their torment.

Perhaps you were outraged at my suggestion. “Gassing an innocent child?” Would you rather they suffer

an unimaginably horrible death? At least having it as an option would give parents the freedom to choose to safeguard their children from the possibility of a horrible death or take the risk of not having such a system in place.

Not having it is an infringement of personal freedoms and rights for those who want to prevent their children from suffering.

I hope you are still outraged at my suggestion. However this thinking is already present and legal. Doctor assisted suicide makes it legal to kill people to alleviate their suffering, much in the same way that a gas-equipped car system would.

What if, instead of circulating gasses, the cars were programmed to open the windows or turned on the AC after sensing movement? This would cool the vehicle, let air circulate and ease the child’s suffering.

And, what if, instead of killing people, and spending money debating how to make killing people legal, we spent money researching how to make their lives more bearable?

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Carbon tax domino effect In a few months, the NDP will introduce a carbon tax on all forms of energy consumed within our province. The premise, is to improve the image of the Alberta Oil and Gas Industry, gaining approval for new pipelines, desperately needed by that oil and gas industry and the people employed by it.

This tax will affect every single aspect of our lives, in ways not fully disclosed by the NDP. Every city and town council in the province is going to have to pay more for operating costs, for the fuel burned in city vehicles and buses, for heating and electricity used in city and town buildings and for the electricity to power street lights.

This extra cost will be passed on to all property owners in the form of increased city taxes, no matter where you live. Every single store we all shop in: groceries, clothing, furniture, electronics, gifts, and restaurant’s will all in turn face increased operating costs and have only one choice to recover these costs and that is to pass them onto the consumer. There will be no new pipelines in exchange for this new and sweeping financial burden. The Federal Government has taken steps beRED DEER

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This week I found out that there have already been twice as many child fatalities in the U.S. due to being trapped in a hot car then there were at this time last year. Currently there have been 13 hot car child deaths; this doesn’t count the number of pets that have died.

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Trudeau visits troops

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LVIV, Ukraine — A show of force capped Justin Trudeau’s six-day swing through eastern Europe on Tuesday, underlining the risks and challenges Canada faces in an increasingly volatile and politically important part of the world.

The prime minister flew into Lviv in western Ukraine before driving to a nearby military base for a firsthand look at the work of 200 Canadian soldiers who have been training the Ukrainian army since last summer.

From a distance, Trudeau, his son Xavier and defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance watched through binoculars as a Soviet-era armoured personnel carrier led a group of Canadian and Ukrainian soldiers toward a wooden building. The air shook as the vehicle’s cannon fired several bursts in quick succession.

The troops then moved away from the vehicle and spread out in a line facing the building. Four Canadians followed close behind as the eight Ukrainians slowly closed on the building while firing their rifles before placing an explosive inside and setting it off.

The exercise was the type of attack those Ukrainian soldiers could soon be conducting on their own in the east of their country, where the army has been fighting Russian-backed separatists for more than two years. Nearly 9,500 people have been killed in the conflict, including civilians. Thousands more have been wounded.

Earlier in the day, Trudeau spoke to the soldiers — members of the Valcartier-based Royal 22e Regiment, or Van Doos — about Canada’s role in helping Ukraine in its struggle with Russia, as

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau watches a live fire demonstration as he visits the International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in Yavoriv, Ukraine Tuesday. well as other countries that find their democracies or territory under siege.

“It has been a long time since Canada had to defend our valour and defend our territory,” Trudeau said in French.

“But we need to continue to work with those who are fighting for democracy and their territorial integrity. It is essential.”

The unanswered question, however, remains just how far Trudeau’s Lib-

eral government, which has declared its commitment to peacekeeping efforts and re-engaging with Russia — are prepared to go when such a fight looms.

Trudeau’s comments in Lviv, as well as remarks he made Monday in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, suggested a shift in tone, albeit a slight one.

He called Russia’s recent actions in the region “illegitimate” and “illegal,” and voiced strong support for NATO

Clement hopes to convert social media chops into leadership

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Former Conservative cabinet minister Tony Clement declared Tuesday that he’s running for the leadership of his party — but it’s not the first time he has pursued the job.

Clement tried in 2004 when the Canadian Alliance merged with the Progressive Conservatives to form the current Conservative party, but he finished third to Stephen Harper, who led the party until last fall.

This time, he’s already leading in one area that will be key to the party’s efforts to revitalize itself after last year’s election defeat: social media.

Clement was an early adopter in Tory circles of social media platforms and went on to shape and encourage the former Conservative government’s usage of such cutting-edge communications tools, earning the nickname “the minister for Twitter.”

In launching his campaign Tuesday, he turned to those tools again to stress what will be a key theme in his campaign — the need to reach out and empower the party’s grassroots and bring in new voters.

In addition to choosing a battleground Toronto-area riding to make his inaugural campaign address, he also livestreamed it on Facebook.

An advance copy of his remarks provided to The Canadian Press was replete with references to social media.

“My first draft of this speech was less than 140 characters long,” he joked, a nod to the message limit length on Twitter. That draft? A tweet to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, warning him his days in the job are numbered.

There’s no question Clement led the political pack in taking up social media, said Mark Blevis, a digital public

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Conservative MP Tony Clement is embraced by his mother, Carol Clement, as he arrives at a rally in Mississauga, Ontario to announce his candidacy for the leadership of the Federal Conservative Party on Tuesday. affairs strategist with Full Duplex who has been observing politicians’ use of social media for years.

It has earned the 55-year-old a strong following, but could also provide a glimpse into his approach to political leadership, Blevis said.

Most politicians just push out messages, but Clement takes his followers into his living room and his jam sessions, posting pictures not only of himself, but also those taken from his point of view.

“When you look at Tony Clement’s social media activity, you have a sense of him, a sense of his style by his style of usage,” Blevis said.

“He does talk, absolutely, but he replies. He responds to people’s comments.”

A challenge for Clement will be transforming that social media support into financial and membership support when the Conservatives gather next May to choose their new leader.

Two reviews launched into death of Nunavut infant IQALUIT, Nunavut — Two separate investigations are underway into the death of an infant who was in the care of staff at a nursing station in a remote Nunavut hamlet.

Almost no details are available, including the age and gender of the infant or when the baby died.

A Nunavut Health spokesman confirmed the department has launched an internal investigation.

“The baby’s death was duly report-

ed as a critical incident,” Ron Wassink said Tuesday in a release.

“An investigation was begun immediately following the incident.”

The Health Department defines a “critical incident” as an unexpected event causing death or serious harm when a patient is under care or receiving treatment in a health centre or hospital. The death or harm must not have resulted primarily from the patient’s medical condition or from a known risk in the treatment.

The Nunavut coroner’s office is conducting its own review.

“We are investigating this death,” said Khen Sagadraca, assistant to Nunavut’s chief coroner.

The infant died in Gjoa Haven on King William Island off the central Nunavut coast.

The territory is in the midst of an inquest into the murky circumstances surrounding the 2012 death of another infant, three-month-old Makibi Timilak from Cape Dorset.

Mounties committed to reconciliation: commissioner

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The RCMP needs to work in partnership with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples in order to improve relations between the force and the country’s indigenous communities, commissioner Bob Paulson says.

Paulson, whose organization has long been the object of scorn from aboriginal Canadians who feel unfairly treated, delivered that message directly to the Assembly of First Nations annual meeting Tuesday in Niagara Falls, Ont. The two sides have developed a joint protocol that spells out the force’s goals of working to ensure indigenous people in Canada are safe, to address diverse needs of communities and to strengthen mutual respect, Paulson said.

“I’m aware this protocol is simply words on paper, and words alone will not improve things,” he said.

“I’m here today to pledge we will put actions to these words so we can continue the healing, continue the building and improve these vital relationships in every way possible.”

Last December, Paulson raised eyebrows when British Columbia Grand Chief Doug Kelly asked him a pointed question about racism within the RCMP during an AFN session in Gatineau, Que. “I understand there are racists in my police force,” Paulson reportedly replied. “I don’t want them to be in my police force.”

It was important to invite the commissioner back to the July AFN meeting to discuss how to tackle officer misconceptions, Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde told the gathering.

“How can we work together to make sure that air is clear, that cloud is gone?” said Bellegarde. First Nations leaders are aware there are “always going to be issues” that play out with police locally, regionally and nationally, he added.

The question of racism and bias within law enforcement is sure to be a central theme during a forthcoming and long-awaited inquiry into the phenomenon of missing and murdered indigenous women.

The government is expected to announce the mandate of the inquiry sometime this summer a specific date has not been released.

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Same-sex vote result reversed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

ANGLICANS

TORONTO — Questions about the integrity of the voting process in which Anglicans narrowly rejected a resolution to allow same-sex marriage emerged Tuesday, leading to a stunning reversal of the result that had caused anguish among many members.

A few delegates to the six-day General Synod stood up just a couple of hours before the session was to close to say their votes had not been recorded during voting late Monday — when passage of the resolution failed by a single vote.

“That is an issue of concern,” Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the church, responded. “We cannot leave this synod with this kind of confusion.”

To pass, the resolution required two-thirds approval by each of three

orders — lay, clergy and bishops. The clergy failed to reach that threshold by one vote, which was apparently not counted because it was wrongly attributed to a lay member.

The error was only discovered after delegates requested a detailed hard copy of the electronic voting records.

“That is our reality,” Hiltz told stunned delegates. “That the motion is in fact carried in all three orders.”

He then declared the resolution in favour of same-sex marriage passed.

“Same Sex marriage. In the church.

In my lifetime,” tweeted Lauren Bryant-Monk, of Halifax. “I’m so proud to be Anglican today.”

However, the resolution to change the church’s marriage canon still needs to be affirmed by the next Gen-

eral Synod in 2019 before it becomes law.

The apparent failure of the motion on Monday night — which followed a bitter and divisive debate — stunned those on hand into silence. Some wept openly, others embraced.

On Tuesday, several bishops said they planned to go ahead with samesex marriages regardless. They leaned on a statement from the chancellor of the General Synod, who said the current marriage canon does not specifically ban solemnizing same-sex marriages.

Bishop John Chapman of Ottawa said he would proceed immediately with such unions in his diocese — although no one would be forced to officiate at such a ceremony.

“It is time my friends,” Chapman said. “It is past time.”

“Take heart,” said Rev. Melissa

Skelton, bishop of New Westminster, B.C. “This is not over.”

It was indeed not over as the questions arose Tuesday about the vote itself.

“This is the best news I have heard in a long time!” tweeted Marlene Wells from Nova Scotia. “My weepy day has ended let’s celebrate.”

“I’m flabbergasted, honestly,” said Eliot Waddingham, 24, a transgender person from Ottawa, who had earlier spoken of being broken-hearted by what had happened. “I can’t believe this.”

Not everyone, however, was pleased.

Northern representatives complained about feeling bullied, while Larry Robertson, Yukon bishop, left the floor earlier Tuesday in protest, saying he was angered at what he called the adversarial process.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Hopes were high Tuesday evening that sandbagging efforts had at least partially paid off in an east-central Saskatchewan town that had braced for a flash flood after a road holding back water gave way.

Earlier in the day, officials in Arborfield started going door-to-door after the breach 13 kilometres south of the town.

The SaskAlert app warned of the potential for a flash flood.

“The town of Arborfield has issued a mandatory evacuation order for the entire town as flood waters approach that have the potential to create dangerous situations and extreme flooding,” the alert said. “All residents … are ordered to self evacuate if they can.”

By the evening, though, deputy reeve Al Bronner said it looked like things were holding well.

“It hasn’t breached the sandbags,” he said. “It is flooding on one side of town where it flooded yesterday. But it’s keeping it out of the main part, away from the nursing home and the downtown.”

In the houses that had already been damaged Monday, however, “the water is basically running right through,” he said.

Bronner said the rain had stopped at least for the moment and officials were hopeful the water levels had reached their peak.

Despite the evacuation notice, he estimated that about 75 people in the community of 400 were planning to stay and protect their homes.

“I don’t blame them,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to leave either.”

The nursing home had been cleared out Monday. Others who left went to a community where an arena had been converted into temporary housing, or they stayed with friends or relatives.

Canada BRIEFS Alberta to end craft brewery tax discount CALGARY — The Alberta government says it is dropping a beer markup that favoured western small breweries and will replace it with a grant program.

The NDP government said Tuesday that starting August 5 it plans to charge the same $1.25 per litre beer markup for all beer, regardless of the size of the company or where the beer is made.

It was only last October that the government announced it was lowering the markup on beer from smaller breweries in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia as part of the New West Partnership trade agreement with the three provinces.

At the time, the move drew praise from local breweries but was criticized by craft breweries in Eastern Canada as a protectionist move.

Appeal unlikely in Kent defamation case CALGARY — It appears one of Canada’s largest media companies won’t be appealing the result of a lengthy defamation lawsuit involving former television war correspondent Arthur Kent.

Last month a judge ruled Postmedia

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Coast Guard crew honoured for heroics

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — It was their last hope of preventing a potential environmental disaster.

Buffeted by gale-force winds, three Canadian Coast Guard members gripped the rails of a 145-metre long barge that had been cut adrift in a storm in St. George’s Bay, near Port Hood, N.S. The ship, with as much as 34,000 litres of diesel fuel on board, was being propelled toward the pristine beaches of Henry Island. The team couldn’t get a tow line, and decided they had to try to anchor the barge where it was.

The team’s engineer, John Seymour, tried to steady himself on the heaving ship, as he bashed the anchor with a and its former columnist Don Martin defamed Kent while he was running for a seat in the Alberta legislature in 2008.

Justice Jo’Anne Strekaf awarded Kent a total of $200,000 in damages from the defendants — $150,000 from Martin and Postmedia for the article, plus an additional $50,000 from Postmedia for continuing to publish the article online.

She has since added interest to it, bringing the final tally to $261,764.38.

“I can confirm that last Thursday the process in which the defendants paid the damages plus interest was completed,” said Kent.

National housing strategy needs human rights pillar for success: UN watchdog OTTAWA — The federal government’s push for a national housing strategy may fall short of its vaunted goals if it doesn’t make human rights a central pillar of the plan, a UN housing watchdog says.

The Liberal government is in the midst of consulting on the national housing strategy that federal officials consider to be the most complicated file in front of Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos.

The UN has repeatedly told Canada that it needs a housing strategy as part of its pointed warnings that the country’s homeless population, which now stands at about 235,000, is a human rights issue that needs to be addressed.

Leilani Farha, the UN special rapporteur on adequate housing, said recognizing housing as a human right would give the government a built-in accountability measure to ensure the strategy works for all Canadians.

piece of timber, again and again.

Finally, it gave. The boat tipped on its side, splashing the crew with cold water as the five-metre waves lapped closer to the railing. The barge had been stopped less than a kilometre from shore.

“We got it literally just in the nick of time,” rescue specialist Peter Cowan said.

On Wednesday, more than eight years after the Dec. 17, 2007, rescue, five members of the CCGS Edward Cornwallis crew are among more than 70 Atlantic Canadians who will receive decorations from Governor-General David Johnston in Halifax.

Cowan said Tuesday he’s looking forward to seeing his old shipmates, some of whom have retired or lost touch since that fateful day barely a

week before Christmas.

The Cornwallis had been docked in Mulgrave, N.S., to take refuge from a winter storm.

Not far away, the American tug Eileen M. Roehrig had lost its tow of its barge, Houston, to the savage Gulf of St. Lawrence currents the previous night.

The Coast Guard dispatched the Cornwallis crew to board the barge, while the CCGS Terry Fox stood nearby readying its tow gear.

With five people on board, the rescue craft approached the lee side of the hulking vessel, which was perforated with small “step holes.” Cowan, Seymour and rescue specialist Paul York jumped amidst heaving waves and scaled 7.5 metres up the boat.

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Obama pays tribute to officers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS — President Barack Obama urged Americans rattled by a week of violence and protests to find “open hearts” and new empathy Tuesday in a speech that seesawed between honouring police officers for their bravery and decrying racial prejudice that can affect their work.

Obama spoke near five empty chairs for the white police officers killed last week by a black man seeking vengeance for police killings. Behind him, underscoring his message of unity: Dallas police officers, a racially diverse church choir and local officials who ranged from black Police Chief David Brown to former President George W. Bush, a Dallas resident.

Obama sought to reassure the nation that he understands the impact of the unsettling events of the past week — including the killing of two black men by white police officers as well as the Dallas attacks.

Disturbing videos of the events have “left us wounded and angry and hurt,” he said.

“It is as if the deepest fault lines of our democracy have suddenly been exposed, perhaps even widened.”

Undaunted, the president urged Americans to cast aside such doubt and replace it with faith in the nation’s institutions and progress.

“Dallas, I’m here to say we must reject such despair. I’m here to insist that we are not as divided as we seem.

And I know that because I know America. I know how far we’ve come against impossible odds,” he said.

The president spoke steps away from the chairs left empty for the five men killed last Thursday while protecting hundreds of people protesting the killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. The Army veteran killed by police after the Dallas attack said he was motivated by revenge.

“The soul of our city was pierced,” Mayor Mike Rawlings said, as he welcomed the president and a line of public officials, including Bush, who attended with his wife, Laura, Vice-President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, and Brown. The group on stage capped the ceremony by holding hands and swaying to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” — a symbol in sight and song of the service’s unity theme.

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President Barack Obama holds hands with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, right, and first lady Michelle Obama, second from left, during an interfaith memorial service for the fallen police officers and members of the Dallas community at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Tuesday. Former President George W. Bush is at left.

DALLAS SHOOTING “Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging ourselves by our best intentions,” Bush said. “And this has strained our bonds of understanding and common purpose.”

Bush and other speakers paid tribute to the fallen officers — Brent Thompson, a 43-year-old newlywed Patrick Zamarripa, 32, a Navy veteran who served in Iraq Michael Krol, 40, an athlete and basketball lover Michael Smith, 55, a former Army Ranger and father of two, and Lorne Ahrens,

whose wife is a police detective.

No one expressed his appreciation for the men more memorably than Brown, who has emerged as the steady and charismatic face of the Dallas police. The chief spent part of his time reciting Stevie Wonder’s I’ll Be Loving You Always to express his affection for his officers.

For Obama, the moment was a chance to try to defuse what some have described as a national powder keg of emotions over race, justice, gun violence and policing. The president positioned himself as both an ally of law enforcement and a sympathizer of the Black Lives Matter movement.

It’s a posture neither side has com-

pletely accepted.

Law enforcement officials have sharply criticized Obama and some of his policies, including a decision to stem the flow of military-grade equipment to local departments. One prominent voice, William Johnson, executive director the National Association of Police Organizations, accused Obama of waging a “war on cops.”

Some protesters, meanwhile, questioned why Obama rushed home from Europe to attend the service in Dallas before meeting with the communities grieving their dead in Minnesota and Louisiana.

Tribunal rejects China’s South China Sea claims

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An international tribunal rejected China’s extensive claims in the South China Sea in a landmark ruling Tuesday that also found the country had aggravated the seething regional dispute and violated the Philippines’ maritime rights by building up artificial islands that destroyed coral reefs and by disrupting fishing and oil exploration.

While the decision is seen as a major legal declaration regarding one of the world’s most contested regions, China immediately rejected it as a “farce” and the true impact is uncertain given the tribunal has no power of enforcement.

While the findings cannot reverse

China’s actions, it still constitutes a rebuke, carrying with it the force of the international community’s opinion.

It also gives heart to small countries in Asia that have helplessly chafed at China’s expansionism, backed by its military and economic power.

“The Philippines strongly affirms its respect for this milestone decision as an important contribution to ongoing efforts in addressing disputes in the South China Sea,” Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said in Manila, calling on “all those concerned to exercise restraint and sobriety.”

Former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, who helped oversee the filing of the case, said the ruling underscored “our collective belief that right is might and that internation-

al law is the great equalizer among states.”

Del Rosario stressed that it was important for the ruling to be accepted by all.

“For the sake of maintaining international order, it is imperative that the Award and clarification of maritime entitlements be accepted by all relevant countries - without exception - so that we can work together on how remaining issues can be peacefully resolved,” he said.

Six regional governments have overlapping territorial claims in the South China Sea, waters that are rich in fishing stocks and potential energy resources and where an estimated $5 trillion in global trade passes each year.

The disputes have also increased

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AMBER ALERT: Police flooded with tips The mother’s Facebook page shows a photo last week of Taliyah at the Calgary Stampede, smiling in a white hat and riding a straw bale pony.

A month earlier, a photo shows her dressed in a red, sequined dance outfit clutching flowers. Other pictures posted over the years show her eating cotton candy in her car seat, dressed as a monkey for Halloween and splashing around in a plastic backyard pool.

“She fills my heart with so much joy,” Baillie wrote next to a video post in March of her daughter reading a book.

Police said they weren’t ruling anything out in their search for the little girl, described as a mixed-race child with a slim build, brown curly hair and blue eyes.

“We have all the faith in the world that Taliyah will be found safe. Somebody who knows where she is, is going to step up and do the right thing,” Insp.

Don Coleman said following the family’s news conference.

He said police have been flooded with tips, as well as with offers of help from other agencies.

Police have not named any suspects.

Coleman said they have been doing interviews, working from Baillie’s inner circle outward.

The child’s estranged father has been co-operating with police, he said.

Coleman said there is a “limited” history of domestic violence in the family.

Court documents show Baillie was the complainant in a case with a man identified as Colin Evan Marsman.

Justice officials say Marsman, who turns 37 Wednesday, was charged with unlawful confinement and intimidation by threats on Feb. 1, 2015. But the charges were withdrawn a month later on March 2. A peace bond was issued

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City council and staff officially opened the city’s four pollinator parks in city parks on Tuesday. Ken Lehman, the city’s ecological and planning specialist, explained how pollinator hotels in pollinator parks, like the one at Bower Ponds, contribute to a healthier environment for pollinators. on that same day.

Baillie and her daughter moved into the basement suite of a house in a quiet northwest Calgary neighbourhood on May 1, said landlord Olumuyiwa Dada, who lives upstairs.

He said they were good tenants.

“No stress. No problems.”

Dada said family members came by on Monday looking for the woman and he did not see or hear anything in the downstairs apartment.

He said he has never met the fiveyear-old’s father. The last time he saw his tenants was last week when they were coming home with groceries.

Yellow police tape blocked off the stairway down to the suite’s entrance at the back of the house.

“I’m really feeling down because I only see things like this on the TV,” he said. “I don’t really understand what is happening, myself. I’m really in shock.”

The mother’s car police initially said may have been connected to the disappearance was found not far from

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Coleman said he is not convinced a stranger was involved in the child’s disappearance.

“That’s all part of the witness interviews and interviewing family to try and figure out who may have been coming and going from the residence, any relationships that she may have had. There is a whole host of investigative avenues to cover off in a short period of time,” he said.

“Our primary focus is the safe return of Taliyah.”

PARKS: Provide food, shelter Pollinator parks in City Hall Park, Snell Gardens, Maskepetoon Park and Bower Ponds will provide food and shelter for many native pollinators.

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friction between China and the United States, which has ramped up its military presence in the region as China has expanded its navy’s reach farther offshore.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest reacted to the ruling by encourage all parties to “acknowledge the final and binding nature of this tribunal.”

Earnest spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One as President Barack Obama was flying to Dallas. He said the United States was not a claimant in the case and that it seeks a peaceful resolution to disputes and competing claims in the region.

Park since the expanse of natural habitat already makes it a great place for pollinators. But in the other parks, city crews have installed pollinator hotels and planted some of the pollinators’ favourite flowers, trees and bushes.

Interpretive signs are being added to teach residents about the role pollinators play in the ecosystem and what people can do to enhance their own yards and gardens to include pollinator habitat and food sources.

Lehman said native bees are the primary pollinators and it’s important to keep their populations strong for the benefit of the complex ecosystem and ecology within the city.

He said it’s good for people to visit pollinator parks to see what pollinator habitat is all about.

“This park, like the three others, is instrumental in demonstrating what people can do in their backyard. It can be decorative. It can be art. It can be like this hotel, or it can be a log that’s on the ground. They’re both very useful.”

For more information visit www. reddeer.ca/recreation-and-culture/ parks-and-trails/pollinator-parks. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

HOME: ‘Sure looked beautiful’ He will tour his new house for the first time on July 22 when he will be presented with the keys.

Wynnyk, and his wife, Arlene, have not yet decided what they will do with the house.

“It sure looked beautiful when I saw it online,” he said.

Other Hospitals’ Lottery winners included Robert Schaefer, of Red Deer County, who won $224,892 in the Mega Bucks 50 draw; Ernie and Debbie Tkachyk, of Edmonton, won the Ford Mustang; Rameshwar Sharma, of Edmonton, won the Dodge Ram; and James Smith, of Pine Lake, won the heli-fishing adventure. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Pipeline companies: prepare to wait FINANCE DEPARTMENT MEMO SAYS NO NEW OIL PIPELINE NEEDED ‘UNTIL AT LEAST 2025’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is telling Ottawa there’s no more time to “dither” on pipeline approvals, but an internal federal analysis may indicate why the Liberals are content to consult widely before making a decision.

A memo to the deputy minister of finance says low oil prices mean there is enough transport capacity in Canada to move oil without any new pipelines for another decade.

Among the key points in the heavily redacted December memo, under the subject line “Energy East Pipeline and Carbon Price,” was a finding that: “the low price environment has led to oil production forecasts being revised downward, meaning that sufficient capacity (from both rail and pipelines) is projected to exist to transport oil until at least 2025.”

That’s not the view from Alberta, where an increasing chorus of voices has been demanding swift federal action on at least one of three major competing oil pipeline proposals.

Notley, whose provincial New Democrats have been seen as sympathetic to the Trudeau government’s environ-

mental agenda, took a more traditional Alberta swipe at the federal Liberals when she urged Ottawa to pick a pipeline — any pipeline — and to do it sooner than later.

“We’re just going to continue to work hard to make the case for why all of Canada needs this pipeline, or a pipeline, to get to tidewater and then a decision has to be made,” the Alberta premier said last Friday.

“We just can’t dither on this for a lot longer.”

Late last month, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers issued its long-term outlook with an estimate that Canada will produce 4.9 million barrels of oil per day by 2030, up 28 per cent from 2015 production.

At the time, CAPP president Tim McMillan said the forecast illustrates the need for more pipeline capacity, although the new 2030 forecast is 400,000 barrels per day lower than last year’s prediction.

The forest fire that devastated oilsands hub Fort McMurray in May also spurred angry calls for Ottawa to speed up resource infrastructure decisions to help revive an industry under seige.

The federal Liberals, however, are building in longer review periods by

adding additional public consultations on Kinder Morgan’s planned tripling of its Trans Mountain pipeline to Burnaby, B.C. The National Energy Board gave a conditional go-ahead to the $6.8-billion expansion in May and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has promised a cabinet decision by mid-December.

The 4,600-kilometre Energy East pipeline from Alberta to New Brunswick also faces a longer 27-month review process.

Apart from transport capacity, the case for new pipelines has rested in part on reducing the discount western Canadian producers receive for heavy crude.

Western Canadian Select (WCS) crude oil is currently trading about $15 a barrel lower than the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark, but the federal analysis suggests that’s about what should be expected.

“Because refineries have to incur additional costs to refine heavier oils like WCS compared to lighter oils like WTI or Brent, they generally demand a discount of around $9 a barrel,” said the analysis. Existing transportation costs in piping the WCS to Cushing, Oklahoma, add another $5.40, said the memo.

The Finance Canada memo said Energy East would only shave $1.48 per barrel off the Canadian discount “compared to oil shipped by existing pipelines in the U.S.” A spokesman for Energy East said Tuesday the existence of “firm, long term contracts” with oil shippers shows the pipeline is viable and needed.

“At the end of the day it is market demand which establishes the necessity to move product to market,” Tim Duboyce said in an email.

“And as such, energy forecasts indicate we will require oil over the coming decades despite the increasing role of renewables in the overall energy mix.”

Duboyce also said fluctuating oil prices are a given.

“Producers, refiners, and pipeline companies take into account the rise and fall of crude oil prices over time when developing a project such as Energy East, and not simply current or short-term market conditions. In addition, market access for Western Canadian crude oil both domestically and on international markets should lower the discount Alberta producers are subject to.”

Banks want Canada Post to stay off their turf

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

File Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Crews work to contain and clean up a pipeline spill at Nexen Energy’s Long Lake facility near Fort McMurray last July.

Nexen announced Tuesday that it plans to cut 350 jobs, following a blast in January at the Long Lake facility.

Nexen identifies workers as cause of blast, will cut 350 jobs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

LONG LAKE

CALGARY — Nexen Energy is placing some of the blame for a fatal January explosion on the two workers who died in the blast, something at least one of the families has called a “disgrace.”

Ron Bailey, head of Canadian operations at Nexen, said that after an extensive investigation the company found that the explosion at the Long Lake oilsands facility in Alberta was caused by staff doing work they weren’t supposed to be doing. Damage by the blast is expected to result in 350 layoffs.

“Our investigation indicates that the incident was a result of work being performed outside the scope of approved work activities,” said Bailey at a news conference Tuesday.

But he said the company, a wholly subsidiary of Chinese state-owned firm CNOOC Ltd., couldn’t release further details about the incident — which led to the deaths of Dave Williams, 30, and Drew Foster, 52 — because Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is still working on their own investigation.

A brother of one of the deceased, Archie Williams, however says that he doesn’t want his sibling remembered as being responsible for the accident, and doesn’t think the company should be blaming him.

“It’s a disgrace what they’ve done,” said Williams, who worked at the Long Lake site himself from 2008 to 2014.

He pointed out that the company had assigned his brother to the hydrocracker unit on Jan. 15 while on an overtime shift, even though his usual

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He’s convinced his brother didn’t cause the explosion because he was found at the entrance to the facility, well away from the blast site, with no broken bones and only burns to the front of his body.

He says Nexen invited the family to fly to Calgary and speak in person, but was disappointed the company didn’t come out to see them in Scotchtown, N.S. “They have no respect,” said Williams.

“They can’t fly out here to talk to us face to face? We lost my brother, my parents’ son, in a tragic accident, and they’re wanting us to fly across the country.”

At the news conference Tuesday, Nexen chief executive Fang Zhi expressed his “deepest sympathies” to the families of the Nexen employees who died, without naming those employees, and said the company was making changes to safety management and procedures.

“As a responsible operator, we are fully accountable for the conduct of work of any of the individuals that are on our site,” said Zhi. “We failed ourselves, our employees, and the community around us, through those two incidents.”

Zhi also took accountability for a pipeline leak last July that spilled about five million litres of bitumen, sand and produced water.

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After investigating its pipeline leak, Nexen determined that it was the result of an incompatible pipeline design for the muskeg ground conditions.

At the news conference, Bailey explained that because there was not enough soil on top of the recently-installed pipeline, as the high-pressure pipe went through temperature fluctuations, it began to buckle.

He said the company identified deficiencies in engineering, construction and operation that the company takes accountability for, but that the investigation also found a number of failings on the part of contractors and subcontractors during the design, construction and installation of the pipeline.

The Alberta Energy Regulator’s investigation into the pipeline spill continues, and in the meantime all pipes of the type that were involved in the spill on-site have been deactivated.

Nexen says that it has also indefinitely idled the upgrader portion of the Long Lake facility after determining there is no short-term fix to the damaged caused by the January blast.

The decision means the company will lay off about 350 employees at the Long Lake site and in Calgary by the end of the year.

But Bailey said the steam-based oil extraction at the site will continue, ramping up in about a month to roughly 27,000 barrels a day from the 15,000 barrels a day it currently produces.

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OTTAWA — The lobby group representing Canada’s big banks says there’s no need for Canada Post to expand onto their turf because Canadians already have an abundant choice of financial services.

The Canadian Bankers Association says there is “no public policy objective or existing gap in the marketplace” that would warrant a Crown corporation becoming a retail bank.

In a brief to the federal task force reviewing Canada Post, the bankers association says some proponents of postal banking are “disregarding the facts” about Canada’s highly competitive and accessible financial services sector.

While Canada Post itself has said little about getting into banking, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has strongly promoted the idea.

Postal services in many other countries, including Brazil, France and Italy, provide banking services, and Canada had such a system from shortly after Confederation until 1969.

Canadian banks have raked in enormous profits while cutting service, closing branches and charging some of the highest banking and automatic-teller fees in the world, the union alleges in an information bulletin published on its website.

The union says while thousands of towns and villages across Canada do not have a bank, many of them have a post office that could provide financial and banking services.

In addition, nearly two million Canadians in urban and rural areas “desperately need an alternative to predatory payday lenders,” the union says.

“A postal bank could be that alternative.”

Finally, postal banking could help Canada Post make money as traditional letter mail dwindles, boost its ability to provide public delivery service and create decent jobs in communities throughout Canada, the union says.

The bankers association denies it is failing to meet the needs of Canadians, questions the notion postal banking would help those who depend on payday loans and cautions that getting involved in retail financial services “should not be taken lightly.”

It is up to Canada Post to decide what lines of business to pursue, said Maura Drew-Lytle, a spokeswoman for the bankers association. But she added: “There have been a number of arguments made in favour of postal banking and we wanted to present some facts to address those claims as the task force does its review.”

Canada Post had no immediate comment on the bankers association’s submission.

In the brief, the association says 99 per cent of Canadians have an account with a financial institution.

While only 13 per cent of Canadians visit branches for daily banking, banks have maintained extensive branch networks for those clients who want in-person advice about investments, mortgages and retirement savings, the association adds.

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

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 118.94 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.03 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.54 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.82 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.16 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.25 Cdn. National Railway . . 79.79 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 177.94 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.33 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.67 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.50 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.95 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 55.48 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.85 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.09 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.60 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.06 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.73 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 55.62 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.89 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.26 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.59 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 60.45 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 144.29 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.53

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — A rosy global outlook and rising oil prices helped push Canada’s main stock market solidly ahead at the close of Tuesday, while major U.S. indices smashed through new records.

Strong gains in metals and energy stocks helped drive the S&P/TSX composite index in Toronto 115.79 points higher to 14,477.67.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 index both broke all-time highs, with the Dow up 120.74 points to 18,347.67 — surpassing its last record close in May 2015.

The broader S&P 500 composite index advanced 14.98 points to 2,152.14, while the Nasdaq composite gained 34.18 points to 5,022.82.

Market analyst Colin Cieszynski said the recent surges in North American stock markets is being spurred by more perceived stability in the two major economies of Britain and Japan.

“You’re seeing the unwinding of some of the fear trades that dominated in recent weeks. Some of that is easing,” said Cieszynski, who is chief market strategist at CMC Markets Canada.

Traders are being reassured by notions that the U.K. is getting “back to business” following the surprising result of the Brexit vote last month. British Prime Minister David Cameron, who steps down Wednesday, will be replaced by Home Secretary Theresa May. “The political chaos that emerged out of Brexit is starting to subside,” Cieszynski noted, adding that the impact of the U.K.’s departure from the European Union will still take some time to unwind.

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 70.74 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 28.97 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.27 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.59 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 26.89 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 14.05 First Quantum Minerals . 10.78 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.39 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.13 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 6.92 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.61 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 21.05 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.900 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.58 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.68 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 21.00 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.82 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.61 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.07 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.41 Canyon Services Group. . 5.51 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 18.73 CWC Well Services . . . 0.2050 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 10.56 Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.680

Traders are also being encouraged by expectations of more stimulus from Japan, where newly re-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised new government spending. Investors are betting he’ll keep flooding the market with money by expanding bond purchases.

But this week is set to be chock full of economic news that will have the power to inject volatility into stock and currency markets.

On Wednesday, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz is expected to make an announcement about the central bank’s benchmark interest rate, which is widely anticipated to stay on hold at 0.5 per cent.

Elsewhere, a new round of trade and GDP data is expected to be released from China later this week. And on Friday the U.S. will get the latest update on its economy, with retail sales data expected to garner the most interest.

Meanwhile, burgeoning oil prices continued to help the Canadian dollar appreciate. The loonie gained half a cent, climbing 0.54 of a cent to 76.75 cents US, as the August crude contract jumped $2.04 at US$46.80 per barrel.

In other commodities, August gold fell $21.30 to US$1,335.30 an ounce, August natural gas gained three cents at US$2.73 per mmBTU, and September copper contracts rose seven cents to US$2.21 a pound.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,477.67, up 115.79 points Dow — 18,347.67, up 120.74 points (record high) S&P 500 — 2,152.14, up

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.95 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 46.03 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.79 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.91 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.96 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.35 Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.880 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.73 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 37.23 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.48 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.53 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 42.00 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1500 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 83.88 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.62 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98.70 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.11 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 34.07 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 35.72 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.00 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 17.68 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.93 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.650 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.08 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 42.10 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.29

14.98 points (record high) Nasdaq — 5,022.82, up 34.18 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.75 cents US, up 0.54 of a cent Pound — C$1.7267, up 2.14 cents Euro — C$1.4414, down 0.94 of a cent Euro — US$1.1062, up 0.05 of a cent Oil futures: US$46.80 per barrel, up $2.04 (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,335.30 per oz., down $21.30 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $27.510 oz., down 27.7 cents $884.45 kg., down $8.90 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $4.90 higher $472.80 Nov. ‘16 $4.90 higher $475.40 Jan. ‘17 $4.90 higher $482.00 March ‘17 $5.30 higher $487.80 May ‘17 $5.50 higher $492.20 July ‘17 $5.40 higher $495.90 Nov. ‘17 $5.30 higher $498.80 Jan. ‘18 $5.30 higher $498.90 March ‘18 $5.30 higher $498.90 May ‘18 $5.30 higher $498.90 July ‘18 $5.30 higher $498.90.

Barley (Western): July ‘16 $1.50 lower $158.50 Oct. ‘16 $1.50 lower $158.50 Dec. ‘16 $1.50 lower $158.50 March ‘17 $1.50 lower $160.50 May ‘17 $1.50 lower $161.50 July ‘17 $1.50 lower $161.50 Oct. ‘17 $1.50 lower $161.50 Dec. ‘17 $1.50 lower $161.50 March ‘18 $1.50 lower $161.50 May ‘18 $1.50 lower $161.50 July ‘18 $1.50 lower $161.50.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 269,580 tonnes of canola 500 tonnes of barley (Western Barley).

Total: 270,080.

Couche-Tard’s annual profit tops US$1B for first time

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Quebec-based company that runs Couche-Tard, Mac’s and Circle K convenience stores said Tuesday it earned more than US$1 billion in annual profits for the first time in its history.

Alimentation Couche-Tard (TSX:ATD.B) said its profit for the 2016 fiscal year surged by 28.4 per cent to nearly US$1.2 billion, despite lower selling prices for fuel.

That included US$206.2 million earned in the fourth quarter that ended April 24, up more than 60 per cent from US$126 million in the comparable period last year.

Annual revenue slipped 1.1 per cent to US$34.1 billion due to factors including lower fuel prices, the impact of currency fluctuations and the sale of its aviation fuel and lubricants business.

Fourth-quarter revenue rose by 1.5 per cent to nearly US$7.4 billion, and the dividend will increase by one cent per share to 7.75 cents Cdn., payable Aug. 4.

The higher profit comes as CoucheTard (TSX:ATD.B) continued to build its network of convenience stores and gas bars in Canada, the United States and northern Europe.

The company has also started to erase the century-old Statoil retail name from Europe.

Beginning in May, one store a day in Norway, Sweden and Denmark has taken on the new Circle K name.

The rebranding of Couche-Tard’s entire network of 2,700 European locations is expected to be complete by mid-2018.

‘I’M OPTIMISTIC WE WILL BE ABLE TO RETAIN THE STRENGTH OF THE OLD BRAND AND GO ON TO MAKE THE CIRCLE K BRAND STRONGER THAN STATOIL IN THE YEARS TO COME.’ — CEO BRIAN HANNASCH CEO Brian Hannasch said giving up one of Scandinavia’s best known and respected retail brands is risky but accompanying changes including the sale of hot dogs and coffee is producing “promising” results.

“I’m optimistic we will be able to retain the strength of the old brand and go on to make the Circle K brand stronger than Statoil in the years to come,” he told analysts during a conference call.

The rebranding is part of a global change that includes the U.S. and Canadian provinces aside from Quebec.

More than 400 American sites have taken the Circle K name.

The chain said it is also expanding the number of locations through international licences. T he number of Circle K locations in Mexico will increase to more than 1,100 by August 2017, eventually reaching at least 2,400 by 2030, the company said.

Couche-Tard is also eyeing opportunities in Asia.

“We think it will be a key growth market for our industry for the next 20-plus years … as we see incomes growing, disposable income growing, middle class emerging in many countries,” Hannasch said.

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An artist’s rendering of a floating turbine system is shown in this undated image. A Dutch firm that calls the Bay of Fundy ‘the holy grail’ aims to exploit the bay’s powerful tidal currents by testing a floating turbine system starting next year. Halifax-based Minas Energy announced Tuesday it was partnering with Netherlands firm Tocardo International BV and Ontario-based International Marine Energy Inc. to form the Minas Tidal Limited Partnership.

Dutch firm to test floating turbine in tidal-power ‘holy grail’ of Bay of Fundy

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — A Dutch firm that calls the Bay of Fundy “the holy grail” aims to exploit the bay’s powerful tidal currents by testing a floating turbine system starting next year.

Halifax-based Minas Energy announced Tuesday it was partnering with Netherlands firm Tocardo International BV and Ontario-based International Marine Energy Inc. to form the Minas Tidal Limited Partnership.

The new partnership plans to test the Dutch company’s technology in the Minas Passage by late 2017, the third distinct approach announced recently to harnessing the bay’s powerful forces.

Tocardo president Hans Van Breugel said after testing in similar waters off Holland, his company finally feels it’s ready for the highest and strongest tides in the world.

“We feel brave enough to go to the Bay of Fundy,” said Van Breugel. “The Bay of Fundy is the holy grail.”

The Tocardo technology consists of four 250 kilowatt bi-directional open rotor turbine generators which are attached to a floating platform. The partially submerged platforms are held in place with a mooring system that will allow water to flow beneath the turbines.

Local BRIEFS CommunityCloud helps charities online Making sure that charities can afford their services is part of the business plan for an Edmonton-based information technology company that operates a branch office in Red Deer.

CommunityCloud, a service offered

by Next Digital, provides steep discounts to charities, freeing up money from their IT budgets so they can have more to spend on actual projects,

The company says its in-stream device is designed to ensure the safety of human and marine life.

Van Breugel said he is well aware of objections by local environmentalists and fishermen who contend instream tidal turbines can’t be made safe for the ecosystem.

He said his company has conducted extensive environmental monitoring at its projects in Europe and has worked within one of the highest-ranked environmental protection zones off the Netherlands. Van Breugel believes a balance can be struck understanding the benefits and drawbacks of renewable energy technologies.

“I agree with the fishermen, we should understand it (environmental effects). On the other hand I would say to the fisherman that we are in a changing climate … and if we don’t change then nature will change.”

The partnership said it would hold consultations with First Nations, local communities and the fishing industry prior to testing.

John Woods, vice-president of energy development for Minas Energy, said his company realizes the importance of community outreach.

“We consider ourselves to be very good at that. We try to bring issues forward and try to get them resolved, so that’s Minas’s contribution to this (partnership).” says John McLaughlin, president and founding partner.

Visiting with branch manager Rick Cloney in Red Deer on Tuesday, McLaughlin explained that the discounts are his company’s way of helping to support local charities. Some money has to change hands, said Cloney, to ensure a sound working relationship between the company and its clients.

Next Digital expanded into Red Deer two years ago with the purchase of an existing IT service that had been in the area for about 13 years. Based in the Clearview industrial park south of Westerner Park and East of Gasoline Alley, the company serves small and medium businesses that are not in a position to fund their own IT department. Services include design and setup of internal networks and help with selection and maintenance of equipment and software.

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RIGGERS DOMINATE TIGERS

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Riggers 19 Tigers 2 (7 innings) Rebounding from their first loss of the season, the Red Deer Riggers struck early and often on their way to a 19-2 win over the St. Albert Tigers.

It took the Riggers just seven innings to beat the Tigers on home soil in Sunburst Baseball League action as the mercy rule came into effect. They drove in 19 runs on 15 hits.

Causing problems for the Tigers were five errors. That left their starting pitcher with only seven earned runs of the 16 scored while he was on the mound.

Playing catcher because of some re-arranging, J.P. Wilner foreshadowed the coming runs onslaught in the first inning with a two-run home run to right field. He went two-for-three with a single and two walks.

After a scoreless second inning, the Riggers bats really came alive as they scored six runs in the third.

That set off four straight innings of offence, as the team scored 17 runs from the third to the sixth.

Leading the way was Jaret Chatwood, playing shortstop, who went two-for-five with a two-run double and a singles.

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Red Deer Riggers’ J.P. Wilner blocks a Tiger at home plate Tuesday night.

Former Kings off to Olympics

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American League’s Eric Hosmer, of the Kansas City Royals, hits a home run off National League starting pitcher Johnny Cueto, of the San Francisco Giants, during the second inning of the MLB baseball All-Star Game, Tuesday.

Hosmer, Perez lift AL to win American League 4 National League 2 SAN DIEGO — Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez made sure the Kansas City Royals will start at home, sweet, home if they get a chance to defend their World Series title.

The Royals duo homered off former Kansas City teammate Johnny Cueto during a six-pitch span in the second inning, Hosmer added an RBI single and the American League beat the Nationals 4-2 Tuesday night for their fourth straight win in the All-Star game.

David Ortiz found himself in the middle of the most touching moment at Petco Park, embraced by his AL teammates near first base after exiting his final All-Star Game. The popular Big Papi plans to retire at 40 after this season with Boston.

Blue Jays right-hander Aaron Sanchez allowed two hits, a walk and a run in one inning of work in his first appearance at an all-star game.

Toronto DH Edwin Encarnacion walked and scored a run while Josh Donaldson and Michael Saunders each went 0 for 1.

Kris Bryant of the Cubs led the parade of sparkling young talent with a first-inning home run. Dellin Betances flashed his 100 mph heat and Astros reliever Will Harris came on to throw a called third strike past Cardinals rookie Aledmys Diaz on a 3-2 pitch on the outside corner with the bases loaded to end the eighth.

Royals reliever Kelvin Herrera pitched a hitless sixth for the AL, which will open the Series at home for the 11th time in 14 years since the All-Star winner was used to determine the hosts for Games 1 and 2.

Kansas City became baseball royalty last fall,

bursting to a 2-0 lead over the New York Mets at Kauffman Stadium, where Cueto pitched a two-hitter in the second game. The Royals won in five games for their first title since 1985.

This year, Kansas City is languishing at 45-43, seven games off the AL Central lead and in the middle of the wild-card race as attention turns to which teams will be buyers and sellers as the Aug. 1 trade deadline approaches.

Cleveland’s Corey Kluber pitched a 1-2-3 second inning for the win, and Zach Britton got the save for the AL, which cut its deficit to 43-42 with two ties Ortiz, Boston’s beloved designated hitter, wore spikes with gold-colored bottoms and matching batting gloves to mark his 10th All-Star selection and delivered the AL batting order to umpires at home plate.

Ortiz hit a smash down the first-base line that Anthony Rizzo snagged to rob him of a potential RBI double in the first and walked against Jose Fernandez in the third.

When Encarnacion came out to pinch run for him, Ortiz waved to the crowd and then spent his AL teammates came out of the dugout to exchange hugs as the crowd of 42,386 rose in tribute.

“I was supposed to hit a home run in my second at-bat. My boy told me he was going to throw me a fastball, and the first pitch was a changeup,” Ortiz said.

“Then 3-2 he threw me a slider and I’m like, “Are you trying to break my back?” But he said it was the catcher’s fault.”

Fernandez admitted “I couldn’t believe that I was actually pitching to him. We both looked at each other and smiled.”

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Eight straight national titles is bound to produce solid players, and three former Red Deer College Kings volleyball team members are off to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

From 1999 to 2007, the Kings won eight straight national volleyball titles. An unprecedented run that earned the teams a spot in the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame this summer.

Representing the program from those teams are Gavin Schmitt, Dallas Soonias and Chaim Schalk.

They will compete at the Olympics starting on Aug. 5.

Schmitt and Soonias are a part of the national volleyball team that clinched a sport in the games for the first time since 1992.

“Gavin is one of the strongest players on the national team and he was at RDC during the 2006-07 season — he actually hit the last ball to win the national title during our eight-in-a-row run,” said Keith Hansen, the Kings head coach for much of the historic run.

“Dallas is from Red Deer and played two seasons.

He has been a huge part of building the national team, helping them achieve the success they have.”

The indoor team snuck into the Olympics in a last chance qualifying event with a five-set victory over China (25-16, 20-25, 24-26, 15-20, 15-9).

Unfortunately, Soonias’ status is in question as he suffered a knee injury and it is not decided if he will be a part of the team or not. After leaving college, Soonias played 10 years of professional volleyball and has been a part of the national team for 13 years.

“I’m training daily to get to the level needed to compete,” said Soonias. “One of my biggest motivators is that I realize this is bigger than me personally.

Several years ago, I started to receive messages that I was a role model for Aboriginal Youth — at first I didn’t consider myself in that way, but as I got older, I realized that I have to be a positive role model.

“That’s why I’m still working hard to be able to go to Rio.” Schmitt and Soonias have been on the national team since 2007, despite not playing together with the Kings. Schmitt noted the annual world championships are a bigger event with 24 teams, but the Olympics is still king despite a narrower field of 12 teams.

“A national team does all of its building and planning based on a four-year cycle to try and get to the Olympics, so this is a massive achievement for our team,” said Schmitt. “This is such an exciting time for us — for the current players and coaches and for all of those who were such an important part of us getting here.”

Schalk is on his way to the international competition as one half of a beach volleyball squad with Ben Saxton, of Calgary. He grew up on his family’s acreage near Red Deer playing beach volleyball int he backyard. After playing for the Kings during the impressive run, he switched to the beach side of the game in 2009.

Partners since 2013, they train in California when not competing on the world tour. Their spot in the Olympics was secured on June 13 when the team was in the top-15 in the Olympic rankings.

“Representing Canada at the Olympics is a dream come true for me,” said Schalk. “Ben and I have proven that we can medal at the toughest tournaments so that is our focus. There’s still a ton of preparation that needs to happen before August, but our team is ready for the challenge.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Busy off-season for Canadian teams fenceman Roman Polak for one season.

Polak rejoins a Toronto defence that will presumably include Nikita Zaitsev, a 24-year-old formerly of the KHL.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS From top draft picks to new coaches to big-time free agent signings, Canadian teams have been among the busiest in the NHL this off-season following the first spring without playoff hockey in Canada in 46 years.

A progress report on the happenings so far: Calgary Flames Biggest Move: Traded for Brian Elliott The Flames haven’t stopped moving this off-season, pulling off significant changes in key areas.

Glen Gulutzan was hired to replace Bob Hartley, the 2014-15 Jack Adams Trophy winner, as Calgary’s head coach. It’s the second NHL head coaching job for Gulutzan, who served as an assistant in Vancouver for three seasons.

Calgary also took serious steps toward addressing a goaltending situation that was woeful last season. The club traded for new No. 1 Brian Elliott and then signed Chad Johnson to be his backup on July 1. Elliott boasts the second-best save percentage in the league (.925) over the past five seasons, a substantial upgrade over last year’s duo of Jonas Hiller and Karri Ramo.

Beyond the crease, the Flames got a boost up front by signing veteran Troy Brouwer to a rich four-year deal before buying out Mason Raymond, a disappointment over two seasons in Calgary.

The Flames added Matthew Tkachuk with the fifth overall pick at the draft, a promising piece to pair up front with Sean Monahan, Johnny Gaudreau and 20-year-old Sam Bennett.

Still to come for Calgary are new contracts for Monahan and Gaudreau, both as yet unsigned for next season.

Edmonton Oilers Biggest Move: Traded Taylor Hall for Adam Larsson Edmonton GM Peter Chiarelli made no secret of his intention to find help on defence following a 10th straight season without playoff hockey. Chiarelli made that happen by sending former No. 1 overall pick Taylor Hall to New Jersey for 23-year-old Adam Larsson. It was an admittedly need-based (and risky) trade for the Oilers, who like Larsson’s upside as a top pairing defender.

Edmonton also plunged deep into the free agent market and came up with heavy winger Milan Lucic on a seven-year deal worth US$42 million.

Lucic was arguably the top available free agent on July 1 and adds a rough, if pricey, veteran edge up front. A quieter signing later in the day saw the Oilers add backup goaltender Jonas Gustavsson. Edmonton’s high-potential forward group has also gotten deeper. Finnish

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RIGGERS: Ready He finished the game with four RBIs and scored four times.

“It felt good today,” said Chatwood.

“Everyone came out ready to play and we jumped on the pitcher. I think they were a little short on guys tonight and we came out ready to go. We hadn’t played in a while and guys were ready to go.

“We wanted to get back into the wins and we did that in a big way tonight.”

But the offence was spread around for the Riggers as right fielder Josh Edwards also sent the ball out of the park with a three-run home run in the bottom of the fourth. Designated hitter Jordan Weinkauf and left fielder Derek Chapman also pitched in with two-run doulbes during the game, Weinkauf in the sixth inning and Chapman in the fifth.

Tigers pitcher Adams shouldered most of the game, going four and twothirds throwing 105 pitches.

The Riggers turned to stalwart pitcher Dustin Northcott who threw five innings, allowing one earned run and striking out four. Davin Gulbransen and Joel Peterman pitched the remaining two innings. Gulbransen surrendered the Tigers other run, while Peterman struck out one to close out the shortened game.

“Anytime you have Dustin on the mound, he throws great,” said Chatwood. “Davin came in and threw well and then Joel closed it out. Our pitchers did what we needed to do and only gave up two runs.”

With the win, the Riggers improve their season record to 12-1, still atop the Sunburst Baseball League standings. They have a busy few days ahead of them early next week as they will play three games in three nights, two of them are on the road.

After a road game on July 18 against the Confederation Park Cubs, the Riggers will host the Parkland White Sox on July 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park. Then on July 20 they go to Sherwood Park to play the Athletics. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

ASG: Delivered “He signed the jersey I brought for him,” the 23-year-old Miami Marlins ace said.

Ortiz delivered a pregame speech to his mates.

“You don’t get here with a good name or a good family,” he said. “You have to put up the numbers. I told them that they have to do that for their

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Los Angeles Kings’ Milan Lucic (17) skates with the puck during an NHL hockey game in Glendale, Arizona. winger Jesse Puljujarvi was plucked with the fourth overall pick and Drake Caggiula, a Pickering Ont., native who led the University of North Dakota to a Frozen Four title, was signed to a twoyear deal.

Montreal Canadiens Biggest Move: Traded P.K. Subban for Shea Weber Montreal won’t soon forget this off-season. On the same day that Edmonton dealt Hall, one of the NHL’s top left-wingers, Montreal sent away 27-year-old defenceman and former Norris Trophy winner P.K. Subban, flipping him to Nashville for 30-yearold Shea Weber. Rumours of discontent had bubbled around Subban and the Canadiens for some time. Still, it was jarring to see Subban dealt for a player four years his senior and seemingly on the decline.

Canadiens GM Marc Bergervin said he valued the experience and leadership Weber, a two-time Olympic gold medal winner, could bring to the club’s defence.

Bergervin continued his bold summer by signing 30-year-old winger Alex Radulov for one season. Radulov left the NHL in 2012 after a messy tenure in Nashville, starring in the KHL for four seasons before joining the Habs.

The Radulov signing came on the heels of a trade for Andrew Shaw, the feisty former Chicago Blackhawk promptly signed for six years and more than $23 million.

Ottawa Senators Biggest Move: Hired Guy Boucher as head coach The quietest of the seven Canadiwhole career.”

The All-Star Game returned to San Diego for the first time since 1992 at Jack Murphy Stadium. Just before this first pitch, commissioner Rob Manfred joined Rod Carew, his family and the family of late Padres great Tony Gwynn and named the batting titles after the two Hall of Famers, giving Gwynn the NL honour and Carew the AL championship.

Gwynn died of salivary gland cancer two years ago at age 54.

Sailors dressed in white lined the foul lines and outfield warning tracks for the national anthems. The Tenors, a British Columbia-based group, changed an “O Canada” lyric to “We’re all brothers and sisters. All lives matter to the great,” and one held up a sign reading “All Lives Matter.”

Randy Jones threw out the ceremonial first pitch and former Padres All-Star closer Trevor Hoffman helped open, bringing the game ball to the mound from the bullpen accompanied

by AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells.”

With an NL ballpark hosting for the second year in a row in a streak of at least four, the AL wore white uniforms, hit last and used the Padres clubhouse on the first-base side. Ball boys in retro-style mustard-and-mud Padres uniforms lent a San Diego feel to Petco, which opened in 2004. There was a home run on the game’s fourth pitch for the second straight year Bryant connected on a 96 mph Chris Sale fastball with two outs as hitters swung early in the count to beat the shadows creeping in from the left-field corner in the late-afternoon start. Bryant, who had struck out in all of his regular-seat at-bats against Sale, was part of an allCubs infield — the first starting infield quartet from a single team since the 1963 St. Louis Cardinals.

The Tenors change lyrics of O Canada at all-star game to include political statement SAN DIEGO — The Tenors changed some of the lyrics of O Canada as they made a political statement while singing the national anthem at Tuesday night’s MLB all-star game.

The group based in British Columbia changed a line of the anthem during their on-field performance at Petco Park to “We’re all brothers and sisters, all lives matter to the great.”

One member of the four-man group held up a sign saying “All Lives Matter” while singing the altered lyrics. The words “United We Stand” were written on the back of the sign.

Although the audio wasn’t crystal-clear at the park, many fans reacted with surprise.

an teams this off-season, the Senators made their biggest splash on May 8 when they hired Boucher to replace Dave Cameron behind the bench.

Boucher, who last ran an NHL bench with Tampa in 2013, is the fifth Senators coach since 2008, hoping to turn around a squad that gave up a league-leading 32.8 shots per game last season. Ottawa, which picked huge American centre Logan Brown (six foot six, 208 pounds) with the No. 11 pick at the NHL draft, stayed predictably quiet on July 1, signing only minor league talent before bringing back veteran Chris Kelly on a one-year deal.

New Senators GM Pierre Dorion still has to sign 26-year-old winger Mike Hoffman and 22-year-old defender Cody Ceci.

Toronto Maple Leafs Biggest Move: Drafted Auston Matthews with No. 1 overall pick The Maple Leafs made Matthews not only their first top pick in 31 years, but the first player to don the club’s new sweater, a fresh take on an old look that features a big, booming version of the team’s new logo. A potential franchise centre, Matthews was one of 11 draft picks made by the club in Buffalo.

The Leafs also landed their hopeful goalie of the future just before the draft, trading for 26-year-old Frederik Andersen before gambling on the Danish keeper with a five-year deal. Toronto later traded former No. 1 Jonathan Bernier to Anaheim and is now seeking a veteran backup for Andersen.

Once a major player in free agency, the Leafs only scooped up 27-year-old hit machine Matt Martin on a four-year deal and brought back 30-year-old de-

Vancouver Canucks Biggest Move: Signed Loui Eriksson to six-year deal Canucks GM Jim Benning let it be known that his club was chasing the most attractive summer assets — Stamkos and Subban — a move for which his club was penalized $50,000 for tampering. Benning managed to strike on July 1, however, inking Swedish winger Loui Eriksson to a six-year deal worth $36 million. The second-lowest scoring team in hockey last season, the Canucks needed firepower and Eriksson, who scored 30 goals last season, helps fill that void somewhat.

Vancouver also sought change on defence, trading 20-year-old centre Jared McCann for 24-year-old defenceman Erik Gudbranson, a now-rather-than-later transaction for a club that finished last season with the third-worst record in hockey. The Canucks, which lost longtime defender Dan Hamhuis to free agency and bought out disappointing winger Chris Higgins, look much the same otherwise.

The club did sign Jacob Markstrom, the (hopeful) long-term solution in goal to a three-year deal which takes effect in 2017, also selecting promising Finnish defenceman Olli Juolevi with the fifth overall pick at the draft. Juolevi was the highest-scoring defenceman for the Memorial Cup champion London Knights.

Winnipeg Jets Biggest Move: Drafted Patrik Laine with No. 2 overall pick The Jets were the surprise winner at the draft lottery, leaping past four teams for the right to pick second at the draft and select Finnish highlight maker Patrik Laine. Laine joins one of the league’s most impressive groups of young talent that includes 23-yearold Mark Scheifele, 20-year-old Nikolaj Ehlers and Kyle Connor, who led the NCAA with 71 points as a University of Michigan freshman.

Beyond the draft, the Jets were also busy locking key members of their current core while also adding a piece from the outside. Scheifele, a restricted free agent who had a career-high 29 goals and 61 points last season, was inked for eight years and $49 million.

Matthieu Perrault, who wasn’t due to be a free agent until next summer, was signed for four years. Goaltender Michael Hutchinson re-upped for this year and next. Veteran winger Shawn Matthias, meanwhile, was signed for two years on July 1. Winnipeg GM Kevin Cheveldayoff has one more move to make: promising American defenceman Jacob Trouba is due a new contract.

Bantam Braves win two on busy stretch

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Six games in five days had the Red Deer Bantam AAA Servus Credit Union Braves busy, but they came away with two wins.

It started last week with a 5-2 loss to the St. Albert Cardinals at home.

The Cardinals jumped out to a 5-0 lead through the sixth inning and the Braves comeback only mustered two runs.

Liam Graham and Josh Zinger had singles and then Kolby Clark drove them both home with a double, the only Braves runs. Aidan Gehring and Colby Lindseth combined to throw 72 pitches in the game, Gerhing had five strikeouts. Zack Jansen finished off the game, striking out two.

Two days later, the Braves dropped an 8-3 decision to the Fort McMurray Oil Giants. Their three runs came in the third inning off of singles by Jared Lee, Kobe Karol, Cleary Simpson and Kyle Baumgardt, who along with Colby Lindseth and Liam Graham drove in the runs.

A double header against the Sherwood Park Athletics on Saturday

proved beneficial for the Braves as they rattled off two wins. It started with a 7-5 win. Zinger and Lindseth helped spur the rally with doubles while Kyle Baumgardt had three singles. Zinger and Graham took to the mound for the Braves.

They kept on rolling with an 114 win in the second half of the double header. Zinger hit a triple and Baumgardt drove in two runs with his sixth inning double. Carter Claerhout hit two singles and drove in four runs in the winning cause. Zinger and Jared Arnold took to the mound.

On Sunday, the Braves were on the losing side of their double header against the Parkland Twins. They were shutout in the opener, losing 8-0. Kolby Clark and Karol shared pitching duties in the loss.

In the second game, marred by inconsistent weather, the Braves had a 6-3 lead going into the fifth inning. But a nine run fifth and another run in the seventh gave the Twins a 13-6 win.

Graham went two-for-two at the plate and drove in a run while Karol was two-for-three with two RBIs. Lindseth, Baumgardt, Karol and Lee shared pitching duties in the last game.

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Comaneci, Leonard among standouts at ’76 Olympics

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — While Canada became the only host country not to win a gold medal at a Summer Olympics, the 1976 Games had notable performances from athletes from around the world. Here are some of the stars of the Games:

Nadia Comaneci, gymnastics

All the world seemed to fall in love with the ponytailed 14-year-old from Romania who became the first to earn a perfect 10 score on the uneven bars. It was the first of seven 10s for the four-foot-11 sprite, who also won the balance beam and overall golds and got bronze in the floor exercises.

The scoreboard at the Montreal Forum could only post two digits, so she was a little confused when her first 10 was written as 1.0.

Sugar Ray Leonard, boxing

His light-welterweight gold was one of five won by what is considered the best U.S. Olympic boxing team ever, but all eyes were on the flashy fighter who won all six of his matches by 5-0 scores. As a pro, Leonard was a fivetime champion, perhaps the biggest name in the sport in the 1980s. He returned for the Brawl in Montreal in 1980 against Roberto Duran.

Alberto Juantorena, athletics

The Cuban became the only athlete to win the 400- and 800-metre events at the same Games. He had only taken up the 800 seriously that year, but set a world record of one minute 43.50 seconds.

Vasily Alekseyev, weightlifting

There was a freak show quality to the attention paid to the 350-pound Soviet, who stunned viewers by lifting 500-plus pound weights as if they were toys. The super-heavyweight, who set 80 world records in his career, repeated his gold medal performance from the 1972 Games in Munich.

John Naber, swimming

The American knew he had little chance of topping compatriot Mark Spitz’s seven swimming gold medals

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American boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, left, defeats East Germany’s Ulrich Beyer in the 63.5 category boxing tournament at the Montreal Olympic Games in a July 27, 1976, photo. His light-welterweight gold was one of five won by what is considered the best U.S. Olympic boxing team ever, but all eyes were on the flashy fighter who won all six of his matches by 5-0 scores. and seven world records from the 1972 Games. So he collected a mere four golds, all in world record time. Michael Phelps topped them both in 2008 with eight golds.

decathlete who set a world record of 8,616 points in Montreal. A fan handed him an American flag, which he waved to the crowd, starting an Olympic track tradition.

dium crowd on the edge of their seats.

It earned him the nod as Canada’s flag-bearer at the closing ceremonies.

Kornelia Ender, swimming

Edwin Moses, athletics

Anne Mountbatten-Windsor didn’t win the three-day event on Queen Elizabeth’s horse Goodwill. But she was the only female athlete exempted from since-dropped gender-testing, which was deemed inappropriate in her case.

Also useless, since men and women compete together in her sport.

Greg Joy, athletics

The Finn won the 5,000- and 10,000-metre events at the 1972 Games and then became the first ever to do it again in Montreal.

A day after the 5,000, he finished fifth in the marathon.

She also won four golds and set four world records, the first woman to do so, but the exploits of the East German team were considered suspect even then. She later revealed she was regularly injected with a substance, but wasn’t sure what it was. For lack of proof, her medals still stand.

Bruce Jenner, athletics

The name is now Caitlyn Jenner, having officially renamed and re-identified himself last year as a transgender woman. In 1976, he was a brash

It wasn’t considered that big of a deal when the brainy American won the 400-metre hurdles. But it presaged one of the most remarkable feats in the sport’s history — 107 consecutive wins in race finals over a nearly 10-year period, including another gold at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.

He didn’t win, but the Vancouver (now Ottawa) high jumper became the toast of the Games for his silver medal performance that had the Olympic Sta-

Thurston puts in strong performance Tuesday

Princess Anne, equestrian

Lasse Viren, athletics

GOLD MEDALLISTS

DIANNE FINSTAD RODEO It’s been a year since Zeke Thurston won the $100,000 cheque at the Calgary Stampede, but he kept right in step with his winning ways on his first horse of 2016.

The second half of the world’s richest tournament rodeo got underway Tuesday, with the first action for Pool B contestants. The kid from Big Valley managed to meet up with an old friend named Spring Planting, and score 84.5 points, the best mark of the day.

“I had that horse in the Final Four here last year, and was 90.5 on her,” recalled Thurston. “You can’t ask for a better horse. She just turns out of there and bucks, and does the job and is honest about it. That’s what you want as a bronc rider. Luckily, I stayed on.”

“Me, being a young guy matching up with an old veteran mare like that, it’s kind of cool.”

The horse has a few moves in her arsenal, including a sky-high jump out of the chutes when the gate cracks.

“She’s kind of known for raring out, and will hit you on the (chute) post. So you just try and do some tricks to work around it, and keep her from hitting you. When she does that rare up, and if you can get her spurred out, it sure looks cool to the judges,” he smiled.

The ‘tricks’ included silent-latching the gate, so the horse didn’t hear when it opened, and Thurston also got in the saddle in the chute early to keep her relaxed.

“Just some horsemanship plays into it. You try to make it as comfortable for them too. When you change it up like that, she doesn’t expect it, and you can get around it pretty good. It’s stuff you learn from guys like my Dad, and guys that have been around and done it for a long time. All the old boys have the tricks!” he chuckled.

Zeke’s Dad Skeeter, who also rode broncs at the Calgary Stampede, was behind the chutes to help him with the ride, which netted Thurston $5500 and the lead in the Pool B Standings. The top four riders in each Pool get a bye into Showdown Sunday.

Thurston admits it was exhilarating to return to Stampede Park, knowing he was the defending champion.

“We got in here about eleven last night to the campground, after driving all day from Boise (ID). I just got butterflies pulling in and seeing the city and the lights. You get excited. There’s something wrong if you don’t, because it’s awesome.”

But once he gets the saddle on, it’s all business, and the business at hand for Thurston is three more days with big Stampede money to ride for, and the thought of another $100,000 bonus at the end of the rainbow.

Although he picked up $9000 in cash,

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Zeke Thurston scored the best mark of the day as the Pool B action started Tuesday. the Calgary Stampede came to an early end for Ponoka-raised bareback rider Jake Vold. Rib injuries he suffered at the Finals of the Ponoka Stampede took their toll, and after the third round, when he actually won first place, Vold decided to pull the plug.

“I’ve got separated ribs, some cartilage damage, and now they think I maybe did some muscle damage in my abdomen,” outlined the Canadian Champion.

“I didn’t want to miss Calgary. I had four days (after Ponoka) and I got better and better. I knew with the (Canadian Pro Rodeo Sports Medicine) Team here, they’d be able to take care of a guy, but it’s just kind of getting to the point where there ain’t nothing they can do for it anymore, so I don’t want to keep hurting it.”

Injury also kept saddle bronc rider Clay Elliott from competing at his first Calgary Stampede, but that was good news for Ponoka’s Luke Butterfield who got the last-minute call to replace him in Pool B. He didn’t place on his first horse Tuesday. In Pool A, Rocky’s Jim Berry made $4000 but will be back for Wildcard Saturday to try and get a spot in Showdown Sunday. That’s the same boat Rimbey tie-down roper Dean Edge is in, after being shut out in Pool A. Steer wrestler Curtis Cassidy was $250 shy of earning a berth to Sunday, with his $6250 won in Pool A, so he’s hoping to be among the two fastest on Wildcard Saturday.

Brother Cody Cassidy is in Pool B, but didn’t win any money for his 6.2 second run on Tuesday.

Dianne Finstad is a local freelance writer and covers rodeo for the Advocate.

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SCOREBOARD WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2016

Baseball All-Star Game Results 2016 — American, 4-2 2015 — American, 6-3 2014 — American, 5-3 2013 — American, 3-0 2012 — National, 8-0 2011 — National, 5-1 2010 — National, 3-1 2009 — American, 4-3 2008 — American, 4-3, 15 innings 2007 — American, 5-4 2006 — American, 3-2 2005 — American, 7-5 2004 — American, 9-4 2003 — American, 7-6 2002 — Tied 7-7, 11 innings 2001 — American, 4-1 2000 — American, 6-3 1999 — American, 4-1 1998 — American, 13-8 1997 — American, 3-1 1996 — National, 6-0 1995 — National, 3-2 1994 — National, 8-7, 10 innings 1993 — American, 9-3 1992 — American, 13-6 1991 — American, 4-2 1990 — American, 2-0 1989 — American, 5-3 1988 — American, 2-1 1987 — National, 2-0, 13 innings 1986 — American, 3-2 1985 — National, 6-1 1984 — National, 3-1 1983 — American, 13-3 1982 — National, 4-1 1981 — National, 5-4 1980 — National, 4-2 1979 — National, 7-6 1978 — National, 7-3 1977 — National, 7-5 1976 — National, 7-1 1975 — National, 6-3 1974 — National, 7-2 1973 — National, 7-1 1972 — National, 4-3, 10 innings 1971 — American, 6-4 1970 — National, 5-4, 12 innings 1969 — National, 9-3 1968 — National, 1-0 1967 — National, 2-1, 15 innings 1966 — National, 2-1, 10 innings 1965 — National, 6-5 1964 — National, 7-4 1963 — National, 5-3 1962 — National, 3-1 1962 — American, 9-4 1961 — Tied 1-1, 9 innings, rain 1961 — National, 5-4, 10 innings 1960 — National, 5-3 1960 — National, 6-0 1959 — National, 5-4 1959 — American, 5-3 1958 — American, 4-3 1957 — American, 6-5 1956 — National, 7-3 1955 — National, 6-5, 12 innings 1954 — American, 11-9 1953 — National, 5-1 1952 — National, 3-2, 5 innings, rain 1951 — National, 8-3 1950 — National, 4-3, 14 innings 1949 — American, 11-7 1948 — American, 5-2 1947 — American, 2-1 1946 — American, 12-0 1945 — No Game 1944 — National, 7-1 1943 — American, 5-3 1942 — American, 3-1 1941 — American, 7-5 1940 — National, 4-0 1939 — American, 3-1 1938 — National, 4-1 1937 — American, 8-3 1936 — National, 4-3 1935 — American, 4-1 1934 — American, 9-7 1933 — American, 4-2 All-Star Game MVPs 2016 — Eric Hosmer, Kansas City, AL 2015 — Mike Trout, Los Angeles, AL 2014 — Mike Trout, Los Angeles, AL 2013 — Mariano Rivera, New York, AL 2012 — Melky Cabrera, San Francisco, NL 2011 — Prince Fielder, Milwaukee, NL 2010 — Brian McCann, Atlanta, NL 2009 — Carl Crawford, Tampa Bay, AL 2008 — J.D. Drew, Boston, AL 2007 — Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle, AL 2006 — Michael Young, Texas, AL 2005 — Miguel Tejada, Baltimore, AL 2004 — Alfonso Soriano, Texas, AL 2003 — Garret Anderson, Anaheim, AL 2002 — None 2001 — Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore, AL

Local Sports 2000 — Derek Jeter, New York, AL 1999 — Pedro Martinez, Boston, AL 1998 — Roberto Alomar, Baltimore, AL 1997 — Sandy Alomar Jr., Cleveland, AL 1996 — Mike Piazza, Los Angeles, NL 1995 — Jeff Conine, Florida, NL 1994 — Fred McGriff, Atlanta, NL 1993 — Kirby Puckett, Minnesota, AL 1992 — Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle, AL 1991 — Cal Ripken Jr., Baltimore, AL 1990 — Julio Franco, Texas, AL 1989 — Bo Jackson, Kansas City, AL 1988 — Terry Steinbach, Oakland, AL 1987 — Tim Raines, Montreal, NL 1986 — Roger Clemens, Boston, AL 1985 — LaMarr Hoyt, San Diego, NL 1984 — Gary Carter, Montreal, NL 1983 — Fred Lynn, California, AL 1982 — Dave Concepcion, Cincinnati, NL 1981 — Gary Carter, Montreal, NL 1980 — Ken Griffey Sr., Cincinnati, NL 1979 — Dave Parker, Pittsburgh, NL 1978 — Steve Garvey, Los Angeles, NL 1977 — Don Sutton, Los Angeles, NL 1976 — George Foster, Cincinnati, NL 1975 — Bill Madlock, Chicago, NL, and Jon Matlack, New York, NL 1974 — Steve Garvey, Los Angeles, NL 1973 — Bobby Bonds, San Francisco, NL 1972 — Joe Morgan, Cincinnati, NL 1971 — Frank Robinson, Baltimore, AL 1970 — Carl Yastrzemski, Boston, AL 1969 — Willie McCovey, San Francisco, NL 1968 — Willie Mays, San Francisco, NL 1967 — Tony Perez, Cincinnati, NL 1966 — Brooks Robinson, Baltimore, AL 1965 — Juan Marichal, San Francisco, NL 1964 — John Callison, Philadelphia, NL 1963 — Willie Mays, San Francisco, NL 1962 — x-Maury Wills, Los Angeles, NL 1962 — x-Leon Wagner, Los Angeles, AL x-two games Home Run Derby Winners 2016 — Giancarlo Stanton, Miami (Petco Park) 2015 — Todd Frazier, Cincinnati (Great American Ball Park) 2014 — Yoenis Cespedes, Oakland (Target Field) 2013 — Yoenis Cespedes, Oakland (Citi Field) 2012 — Prince Fielder, Detroit Tigers (Kauffman Stadium) 2011 — Robinson Cano, N.Y. Yankees (Chase Field) 2010 — David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox (Angel Stadium) 2009 — Prince Fielder, Milwaukee Brewers (Busch Stadium) 2008 — Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins (Yankee Stadium) 2007 — Vladimir Guerrero, Los Angeles Angels (AT&T Park) 2006 — Ryan Howard, Philadelphia Phillies (PNC Park) 2005 — Bobby Abreu, Philadelphia Phillies (Comerica Park) 2004 — Miguel Tejada, Baltimore Orioles (Minute Maid Park) 2003 — Garret Anderson, Anaheim Angels (U.S. Cellular Field) 2002 — Jason Giambi, New York Yankees (Miller Park) 2001 — Luis Gonzalez, Arizona Diamondbacks (Safeco Field) 2000 — Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs (Turner Field) 1999 — Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners (Fenway Park) 1998 — Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners (Coors Field) 1997 — Tino Martinez, New York Yankees (Jacobs Field) 1996 — Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants (Veterans Stadium) 1995 — Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox (The Ballpark in Arlington) 1994 — Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners (Three Rivers Stadium) 1993 — Juan Gonzalez, Texas Rangers (Camden Yards) 1992 — Mark McGwire, Oakland Athletics (Jack Murphy Stadium) 1991 — Cal Ripken, Baltimore Orioles (SkyDome) 1990 — Ryne Sandberg, Chicago Cubs (Wrigley Field)

Baltimore Boston Toronto New York Tampa Bay Cleveland Detroit

MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 51 36 .586 49 38 .563 51 40 .560 44 44 .500 34 54 .386 Central Division W L Pct 52 36 .591 46 43 .517

GB — 2 2 7½ 17½ GB — 6½

Kansas City Chicago Minnesota

Texas Houston Seattle Oakland Los Angeles

45 43 45 43 32 56 West Division W L 54 36 48 41 45 44 38 51 37 52

.511 .511 .364

7 7 20

Pct .600 .539 .506 .427 .416

GB — 5½ 8½ 15½ 16½

Saturday’s Games Detroit 3, Toronto 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Atlanta 4 Baltimore 3, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 1 N.Y. Yankees 7, Cleveland 6, 11 innings Oakland 3, Houston 2 Kansas City 5, Seattle 3 Minnesota 8, Texas 6 Sunday’s Games Toronto 6, Detroit 1 N.Y. Yankees 11, Cleveland 7 Baltimore 4, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 0 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Houston 2, Oakland 1, 10 innings Seattle 8, Kansas City 5 Minnesota 15, Texas 5 Friday’s Games Texas at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

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

Kansas City at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

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

Toronto at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 810 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 54 36 .600 New York 47 41 .534 Miami 47 41 .534 Philadelphia 42 48 .467 Atlanta 31 58 .348 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 53 35 .602 St. Louis 46 42 .523 Pittsburgh 46 43 .517 Milwaukee 38 49 .437 Cincinnati 32 57 .360 West Division W L Pct San Francisco 57 33 .633 Los Angeles 51 40 .560 Colorado 40 48 .455 San Diego 38 51 .427 Arizona 38 52 .422

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed RHP Jose Cisnero.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed LHP Jason Byers.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Released LHP Austin Solecitto.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Signed C Boban Marjanovic to a three-year contract.

LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Signed C/F Marreese Speights and F Brice Johnson.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed G Andrew Harrison and C Deyonta Davis to multiyear contracts.

Waived G Tony Wroten.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Agreed to terms with D Korbinian Holzer on a one-year contract.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed RW Shane Doan to a one-year contract.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Agreed to terms with C Victor Rask on a six-year contract.

DALLAS STARS — Signed D Jamie Oleksiak to a one-year contract.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Named Ryane Clowe assistant coach.

American Hockey League

GB -6 6 12 22½ GB -7 7½ 14½ 21½ GB -6½ 16 18½ 19

Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 5, Atlanta 4 St. Louis 8, Milwaukee 1 San Francisco 4, Arizona 2 Miami 4, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 12, Chicago Cubs 6 L.A. Dodgers 4, San Diego 3 Washington 6, N.Y. Mets 1 Colorado 8, Philadelphia 3 Sunday’s Games Miami 7, Cincinnati 3 Washington 3, N.Y. Mets 2 Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 5 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 1 Philadelphia 10, Colorado 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, San Diego 1 San Francisco 4, Arizona 0 Friday’s Games Texas at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Colorado at Atlanta, 5:35 p.m.

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

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Signed F Carter Sandlak to a one-year contract and F Matthew Ford to a two-year contract.

ECHL FLORIDA EVERBLADES — Named Brad Ralph coach and director of hockey operations. Promoted assistant coach Tad O’Had to associate head coach.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed M Emmanuel Appiah. Traded D Amadou Dia to Montreal for F Cameron Porter.

COLLEGE EASTERN MICHIGAN — Named Isaiah Walton director of women’s basketball operations.

FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON — Promoted Tom Meade to associate athletic director for external affairs.

FLAGLER — Promoted men’s and women’s assistant tennis coach Rodrigo Puebla to women’s tennis coach.

FURMAN — Named Dan Scott director of broadcasting.

HOFSTRA — Named John Jordan women’s golf coach.

LA SALLE — Named Brian Quinn senior director of athletic development.

Harris not feeling nostalgic about facing former Argonauts teammates

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Trevor Harris isn’t feeling the least big nostalgic about facing his former team for the first time.

Harris leads the Ottawa Redblacks into BMO Field on Wednesday night against the Toronto Argonauts. The six-foot-one, 210-pound quarterback spent his first four CFL seasons with the Argos and went 9-7 as their starter last year while incumbent Ricky Ray recovered from off-season shoulder injury.

In February, Harris signed a two-year deal with Ottawa as a free agent.

“I think it (Toronto return) is something that’s overblown,” Harris told The Canadian Press via telephone Tuesday. “They’ve moved on, I’ve moved on.

“I’m very very thankful for the years I had

in Toronto … anything not about the Ottawa Redblacks I don’t think too much about. We just want to play the best we can against a great Eastern foe and see where we stack up.”

Harris, 30, has made an immediate impact with Ottawa (2-0-1). He came off the bench to replace injured starter Henry Burris (hand) and guide the defending East Division champions to a thrilling 45-37 overtime win over Edmonton in a Grey Cup rematch.

Harris leads the CFL in passing yards (1,083) and touchdowns (nine) and has found a favourite target in Chris Williams. The speedy Williams is the league’s top receiver with 25 catches for 493 yards and six TDs to anchor Ottawa’s top-ranked offence.

Toronto (2-1) is coming off two straight road wins and looking to play better at home than it did in a 42-20 loss to Hamilton last month in the first-ever regular-season game at BMO Field.

ALBERTA JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS DE WINTON — Lacombe’s Chase Broderson is six strokes off the pace of the Alberta Junior Golf Championships at the Cottonwood Golf and Country Club after the opening round.

The Lacombe Golf and Country Club golfer is tied for fifth with a three-over 74. Half the boys junior field was unable to finish their opening round due to weather and Broderson and Red Deer Golf and Country Club’s Cameron Duffin were among the few who played all 18.

Jacob Thomas leads the field, despite only playing nine holes, with a three-under 33.

Duffin finished with an eight-over 79 and is tied for 12th. Innisfail’s Jace Ouellette played only nine holes, but his nine-over has him tied for 16th.

Broderson is in the hunt in the Juvenile

p.m., Great Chief Park

● Bantam baseball: Red Deer AAA Bantam Braves vs. Calgary Cubs, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Calgary Dino’s Black, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Ladies Fastball: U18 Rage vs.

Bandits, 7 p.m. and U18 Rage vs.

Badgers, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park

Friday ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Edmonton Warriors at Red Deer Junior B Tier I Rampage, 8 p.m., Kinex

Saturday

Thursday

● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Lights Academy, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park

● Senior mens baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite at Phantoms, 6:30 p.m; North Star Sports at Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks, 7 p.m.; and Canadian Brewhouse Ballers at Lacombe Stone and Granite, 8:30

● Midget baseball: Red Deer AAA Midget Braves vs. Lights Academy, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park

Sunday

Football

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP Jason Garcia to Bowie (EL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Assigned OF Ryan LaMarre outright to Pawtucket (IL). Agreed to terms with OF Juan Carlos Abreu on a minor league contract.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Sent 1B Justin Morneau to Birmingham (SL) for a rehab assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent OF Michael Brantley to Mahoning Valley (NYP) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Traded RHP Matt Tindall to Washington for cash.

National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Assigned 2B Cole Figueroa outright to Oklahoma City (PCL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned RHP Michael Blazek to Colorado Springs (PCL).

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Released RHP Mike Broadway. Reinstated 2B Kelby Tomlinson from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Sacramento (PCL).

American Association GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Signed RHP Zach Staniewicz.

JOPIN BLASTERS — Released RHP Jason Zgardowski.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Released LHP Randy Zeigler.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Released LHP Miseal Siverio.

Today

Boys championship, where he is in second place behind Ethan de Graaf. de Graaf did not finish his opening round and was at par through nine holes.

Duffin’s eight-over has him tied for seventh in the juvenile division while Ouellette is tied for 10th. Brady McKinlay of the Lacombe Golf and Country Club is tied for 19th with a 13-over, 84. McKinlay is tied for 31st in the junior division.

The girls were able to finish their opening round. Innisfail’s Nicole Norlin sits tied for 16th after an opening round 16-over, 87.

Play resumes this morning with golfers who didn’t complete their round teeing off at 7 a.m., with second round tee times starting at 12 and 5 p.m.

Ottawa Toronto Montreal Hamilton

Canadian Football League East Division GP W L T PF 3 2 0 1 99 3 2 1 0 75 2 1 1 0 35 3 1 2 0 69

PA Pt 76 5 73 4 42 2 76 2

West Division W L T 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 0

PA Pt 46 4 68 3 81 2 82 2 69 0

GP B.C. 3 Calgary 3 Edmonton 2 Winnipeg 3 Saskatchewan1

PF 62 80 76 64 53

WEEK THREE Bye: Montreal

Friday’s results Calgary 26 Ottawa 26 (OT) Edmonton 39 Saskatchewan 36 (OT) Thursday’s results Winnipeg 28 Hamilton 24 Toronto 25 B.C. 14 WEEK FOUR Bye: Calgary Today’s game Ottawa at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s game Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s game Hamilton at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 16 B.C. at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.

Hockey National Hockey League remaining free agents Players who have yet to sign a contract since the National Hockey League’s free agency period began on July 1 (note: players are listed until a new contract has been processed by the League office): Group Two — Subject to compensation and right to match contract Group Three: Unrestricted Free Agents Age 27 or older or with at least seven accrued seasons.

Group Six Unrestricted Players whose contracts have expired, are age 25 or older, have completed three or more professional seasons and (i) in the case of a player other than a goaltender, have played fewer than 80 NHL games (regular-season and playoff), or (ii) in the case of a goaltender, have played fewer than 28 NHL games (regular-season and playoff). Please note that these amounts are subject to pro-rating due to the 48-game season in 2012-13.

Unrestricted Were not tendered a qualifying offer and are therefore Unrestricted free agents and are not subject to a right-to-match or draft choice compensation.

Anaheim Ducks Group Two: Hampus Lindholm, Rickard Rakell.

Group Three: Shawn Horcoff, Brian McGrattan, Shane O’Brien, Joe Piskula, Mike Santorelli.

Unrestricted: Matt Bailey, Kevin Gagne, Martin Gernat, Brandon Pirri, Charlie Sarault.

Arizona Coyotes Group Two: Stefan Fournier, Connor Murphy, Tobias Rieder, Michael Stone.

Group Three: Kyle Chipchura, Shane Doan, Steve Downie, Maxim Goncharov, Alex Grant, Nicklas Grossmann, Anders Lindback, Brett MacLean, Dylan Reese, Eric Selleck, Derek Smith, Alex Tanguay, Viktor Tikhonov.

Group Six: Brendan Shinnimin, Jordan Szwarz.

Unrestricted: Niklas Treutle.

Boston Bruins Group Two: Chris Casto, Brian Ferlin, Alexander Khokhlachev, Colin Miller, Joe Morrow.

Group Three: Chris Breen, Brandon DeFazio, Joonas Kemppainen, Max Talbot.

Unrestricted: Ben Sexton.

Buffalo Sabres Group Two: Daniel Catenacci, Marcus Foligno, Zemgus Girgensons, Rasmus Ristolainen.

Group Three: Carlo Colaiacovo, David Legwand, Bobby Sanguinetti.

Group Six: Jerry D’Amigo, Matt Donovan, Eric O’Dell, Schaller, Michael Sdao.

Unrestricted: Alexander Guptill, Colin Jacobs, Nathan Lieuwen, Andrey Makarov, Jack Nevins.

Calgary Flames Group Two: Freddie Hamilton, Sean Monahan, Tyler Wotherspoon.

Group Three: Niklas Backstrom, Jonas Hiller, Jakub Nakladal, Karri Ramo.

Unrestricted: Kenny Agostino, Bill Arnold, Josh Jooris, Joni Ortio, Kevin Poulin, Drew Shore, Bryce Van Brabant.

Carolina Hurricanes Group Two: Keegan Lowe, Ryan Murphy, Dennis Robertson, Brody Sutter, Brendan Woods.

Group Three: Evgeni Dadonov, T.J. Hensick.

Unrestricted: Danny Biega, Zach Boychuk, Anthony Camara, Dane Fox, Michal Jordan, Rasmus Rissanen, Carter Sandlak, Justin Shugg, Rasmus Tirronen.

Chicago Blackhawks Group Two: Mark McNeill.

Group Three: Kyle Cumiskey, Christian Ehrhoff, Tomas Fleischmann, Jay Harrison, Tim Jackman, Michael Leighton, Drew MacIntyre, Brandon Mashinter, Michal Rozsival.

Unrestricted: Mathieu Brisebois, Matt Fraser, Ryan Haggerty.

Colorado Avalanche Group Two: Tyson Barrie, Mikhail Grigorenko, Duncan Siemens.

Group Three: Patrick Bordeleau, Maxim Noreau, Jack Skille, Jesse Winchester.

Group Six: Andrew Agozzino.

Unrestricted: Sami Aittokallio, Gabriel Beaupre, Trevor Cheek, Dennis Everberg, Brandon Gormley, Joey Hishon, Garrett Meurs, Roman Will.

Columbus Blue Jackets Group Two: Alex Broadhurst, Scott Harrington, T.J. Tynan.

Group Three: Rene Bourque, Maksim Mayorov, Ilari Melart.

Dallas Stars Group Two: Matej Stransky.

Group Three: Travis Moen, Kris Russell.

Unrestricted: Emil Molin, Taylor Peters, Troy Vance.

Detroit Red Wings Group Two: Louis-Marc Aubry, Mitch Callahan, Colin Campbell, Danny DeKeyser, Alexei Marchenko, Petr Mrazek, Teemu Pulkkinen, Ryan Sproul.

Group Three: Joakim Andersson, Daniel Cleary, Kyle Quincey, Brad Richards.

Group Six: Tom McCollum.

Edmonton Oilers Group Two: David Musil.

Group Three: Eric Gryba, Ryan Hamilton, Brad Hunt, Rob Klinkhammer, Nikita Nikitin, Adam Pardy, Antti Tyrvainen.

Unrestricted: Kale Kessy, Niklas Lundstrom.

Florida Panthers Group Two: Jonathan Racine, Logan Shaw.

Group Three: Jiri Hudler, Willie Mitchell, Brett Olson, Michal Repik.

Group Six: Sena Acolatse, Rob Flick, Corban Knight.

Unrestricted: John McFarland, Dylan Olsen.

Los Angeles Kings Group Two: Andrew Crescenzi.

Group Three: Jhonas Enroth, Oscar Moller, Luke Schenn, Brett Sutter, Kris Versteeg.

Unrestricted: Patrik Bartosak, Maxim Kitsyn, Alex

NEWS IN BRIEF

Hearn, DeLaet lead 12 national golfers at Canadian Open David Hearn and Graham DeLaet will lead a contingent of 12 golfers who will try to break the host country’s 61-year Canadian Open title drought. PGA Tour regulars Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor and Canadian Golf Hall of Fame member Mike Weir will

Roach.

Minnesota Wild Group Two: Matt Dumba, Darcy Kuemper (resigned), Zach Palmquist, Jordan Schroeder.

Group Three: Jonathon Blum, Ryan Carter, Ruslan Fedotenko, Justin Fontaine, David Jones, Chris Porter, Jarret Stoll, Tyson Strachan.

Group Six: Conor Allen.

Unrestricted: Brett Bulmer, Raphael Bussieres, Brody Hoffman, Jared Knight, Scott Sabourin.

Montreal Canadiens Group Three: Mike Brown, Bud Holloway, John Scott, Ben Scrivens.

Unrestricted: Mac Bennett, Morgan Ellis, Lucas Lessio.

Nashville Predators Group Two: Taylor Aronson, Stefan Elliott, Petter Granberg, Calle Jarnkrok.

Group Three: Paul Gaustad, Joonas Jarvinen, Simon Moser, Patrick Mullen, Corey Potter.

Group Six: Jamie Devane.

Unrestricted: Johan Alm, Gabriel Bourque, Cody Hodgson, Kristian Nakyva, Garrett Noonan, Max Reinhart.

New Jersey Devils Group Two: Reid Boucher, Reece Scarlett.

Group Three: Yann Danis, Patrik Elias, Bobby Farnham, Stephen Gionta, Marc-Andre Gragnani, Tyler Kennedy, Brian O’Neill, Harri Pesonen, Tuomo Ruutu, Jiri Tlusty.

Group Six: Brandon Burlon.

Unrestricted: Raman Hrabarenka.

N.Y. Islanders Group Two: Christopher Gibson, Kirill Petrov, Alan Quine, Ryan Strome.

Group Three: Steve Bernier, Eric Boulton, Marc-Andre Cliche, Justin DiBenedetto, Mark Katic, Mikko Koskinen, David Ullstrom,Marek Zidlicky.

Group Six: Kevin Czuczman, Justin Florek.

Unrestricted: Justin Vaive, James Wright.

N.Y. Rangers Group Two: Kevin Hayes, Marek Hrivik, Tommy Hughes, Chris Kreider, Dylan McIlrath, J.T. Miller.

Group Three: Dan Boyle, Cedric Desjardins, Raphael Diaz, Brian Gibbons, Dominic Moore, Daniel Paille, Nick Tarnasky.

Group Six: Matt Lindblad.

Unrestricted: Luke Adam, Michael Kantor, Chris McCarthy, Josh Nicholls, Samuel Noreau, Michael St. Croix.

Ottawa Senators Group Two: Cody Ceci, Mike Hoffman, Matt Puempel.

Group Three: Matt Frattin, Scott Gomez, Chris Phillips.

Group Six: Jason Akeson, Dave Dziurzynski.

Unrestricted: Travis Ewanyk, Jerome Gauthier-Leduc, Michael Keranen, Troy Rutkowski.

Philadelphia Flyers Group Two: Nick Cousins, Brandon Manning, Brayden Schenn, Petr Straka.

Group Three: Tim Brent, Davis Drewiske, Ray Emery, Sam Gagner, Erik Gustafsson, Jason LaBarbera.

Group Six: Aaron Palushaj.

Unrestricted: Brandon Alderson, Maxim Lamarche, Derek Mathers.

Pittsburgh Penguins Group Two: Dominik Uher.

Group Three: Niclas Andersen, Matt Cullen, Riley Holzapfel, Dustin Jeffrey, Kael Mouillierat, Steve Oleksy, Tom Sestito.

Unrestricted: Tyler Biggs, James Melindy, Daniel O’Donoghue, Matthias Plachta, Harrison Ruopp, Justin Schultz, Anton Zlobin.

San Jose Sharks Group Two: Ryan Carpenter, Matt Nieto.

Group Three: Bryan Lerg, John McCarthy, Frazer McLaren, Nick Spaling, Dainius Zubrus.

Group Six: Mark Cundari.

Unrestricted: Chris Crane, Petter Emanuelsson, Jeremy Langlois, Joel Rumpel.

St. Louis Blues Group Two: Jordan Binnington, Pheonix Copley, Anders Nilsson, Ty Rattie, Jaden Schwartz.

Group Three: Andre Benoit, Chris Butler, Patrick Cannone, Peter Harrold, Jeremy Welsh.

Group Six: Danny Kristo.

Unrestricted: Cody Beach, Richard Nedomlel, Zack Phillips, Ryan Tesink, Yannick Veilleux.

Tampa Bay Lightning Group Two: Yanni Gourde, Alex Killorn, Nikita Kucherov, Vladislav Namestnikov, Nikita Nesterov.

Group Three: Mike Angelidis, Dmitry Korobov, Mattias Ohlund, Jeff Tambellini.

Unrestricted: David Broll.

Toronto Maple Leafs Group Two: Connor Carrick, Frank Corrado, Peter Holland, Josh Leivo, Martin Marincin, Garret Sparks.

Group Three: Mark Arcobello, Brad Boyes, T.J Brennan, Rich Clune, Juraj Mikus, Marcel Mueller, Ben Smith, Raffi Torres.

Unrestricted: Colin Smith.

Vancouver Canucks Group Two: Alexandre Grenier, Andrey Pedan, Michael Zalewski.

Group Three: Matt Bartkowski, Blair Jones, Brandon Prust, Radim Vrbata.

Group Six:: Alex Friesen, Ronalds Kenins.

Unrestricted: Ludwig Blomstrand.

Washington Capitals Group Two: Marcus Johansson, Dmitry Orlov.

Group Three: Sean Collins, Dan Ellis, Mike Moore, Mike Richards, Mike Weber.

Group Six: Ryan Bourque.

Unrestricted: Caleb Herbert.

Winnipeg Jets Group Two: Joel Armia, J.C. Lipon, Adam Lowry, Jacob Trouba.

Group Three: Grant Clitsome, Matt Halischuk, Arturs Kulda.

Group Six: Patrice Cormier.

Unrestricted: Austen Brassard.

also tee off at the 2016 Canadian Open, which runs July 18-24 at Glen Abbey Golf Course in Oakville. The Canadians will join a field that includes defending champion and world No. 1 Jason Day, U.S. Open champion and world No. 2 Dustin Johnson, World No. 15 Matt Kuchar, two-time champion Jim Furyk and World Golf Hall of Fame member Ernie Els. Hearn, from Brantford, Ont., is currently the topranked Canadian on the PGA Tour at No. 127. His 2016 season includes six top-20 finishes.

B5

LIFE

THE ADVOCATE WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2016

WHAT IS YOUR STORY? PADMAJA GENESH SENIORS My mother-in-law passed away a couple of months ago, on April 25th. Though she was not doing very well since December, her death was a bit unexpected. She was very fond of her great grandchild who just turned two last month.

How will the child ever know anything about his grandmother, her love for him?

She was a healthy person until the last few months before her passing. We never thought of recording a narrative of her life story in her own voice, or take a video, despite having all the required technology.

I realize that we lost a wonderful opportunity to document her life story, and about her love for her family and her grandchild in her own voice.

Writing your life story is not only a wonderful legacy for the coming generations, it is also very beneficial for your wellbeing. Once thought to be a useless activity or a harmless past time for seniors, families are increasingly recognizing the value of reminiscence and life story narratives.

One of the first researchers to appreciate the power of life stories was Dr. Robert Butler, the founder of US-based International Longevity Center, who also coined the term “Life Review”.

There is a growing body of evidence (anecdotal, and scientific) supporting life story exercise for seniors. Life story exercise or Reminiscence Therapy is

now being recognized as a therapy for seniors, their family, and their caregivers. Writing or reminiscing about family history improves self-esteem, enhances feelings of control and mastery over life, and often results in a new or improved vision of one’s life.

Telling one’s life story has shown to improve cognition, lessen depression, and improve mood and behaviours in those that are advancing in their senior years. Writing one’s own life story makes people think differently of their own life and can be a powerful tool to visualize and create their future.

Even if you think you have not accomplished much in your life, just writing down your story might help you recognize some of the highlights, some of the difficult situations you bravely encountered, that you never realized earlier. It is a much beneficial exercise than simply thinking about the past.

The importance of writing one’s life story for future generations is even greater when a person has dementia. The very young grandchildren may not have had the opportunity to know the person as they were originally, and the only memory they would have is of the person with dementia. Recording or documenting the person’s story in their own words when they are in health is the only way to give this opportunity to the grandchildren.

It is never too early or too late to begin the exercise.

Even when someone is in the early stage of dementia, the life story exercise can be done in short segments, on the person’s good days, and when they are in a good mood.

Technology can be a useful ally in compiling your life story. There is a free online service one can use to create their life story – GreatLifeStories.com, created

by Phil Gibson. He was inspired to launch this service

after listening to his mother-in-law’s description of her friend in a dementia care unit who used to be a celebrated poet and artist in her younger days, and none of the caregivers had any clue about it.

Life story narration can be a bonding experience for caregivers and grandchildren. It gives the listeners an opportunity to understand and appreciate the senior, their life in the past, and helps build and strengthen relationships. This activity can even help families reconcile decades-long disputes.

It will be a great service to a family member who is transitioning to a care facility to have their life story video or journal created to be shared with staff. This will enable the staff to have a better understanding of the person and their background, and to provide a more person-centered care to the person. The benefits are even greater for someone who is impaired mentally or physically.

Life story exercise can be done individually or in groups, and can be a great intergenerational activity to do with grandchildren. It can be in writing, or as a story telling exercise. Short videos can be recorded even on the cell phone and saved on to a computer or transferred to a disc. You can find a template for life story at www.legacyproject.org.

This summer, when you are spending time with your grandchildren, let life story narration be one of your chosen activities.

Padmaja Genesh, who holds a bachelor degree in medicine and surgery as well as a bachelor degree in Gerontology, has spent several years teaching and working with health care agencies. A past resident of Red Deer, and a past board member of Red Deer Golden Circle, she is now a Learning Specialist at the Alzheimer Society of Calgary.

Please send your comments to padmajaganeshy@yahoo. ca

Hoarding: new science DRS OZ AND ROIZEN YOU DOCS

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Brenda Hudson listens as her sister Michelle Tucker shows her scar length from donating her kidney to Brenda 40 years ago. Hudson was about to undergo a second living donor kidney transplant, this time with her husband as donor, at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington.

New kidneys 40 years apart show transplant progress

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Brenda Hudson recalls weeks spent in a glass-enclosed isolation room after her first kidney transplant, her family allowed to visit only when suited up against germs.

That transplant lasted a remarkable four decades — and now Hudson’s recovery from a second one, this time faster and surrounded by germy visitors, showcases how far organ transplants have come and the hurdles that still await.

“I’m ready to be well again,” Hudson exclaimed before being wheeled into an operating room at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital last month, far more confident than back at age 17 when she was that hospital’s first recipient of a living-donor kidney.

Transplants still require courage, but medical advances haven’t just helped patients. Hudson’s initial donor, her older sister, has a scar stretching from belly to side where doctors cut into her rib cage. This time Hudson’s husband donated, and went home two days after surgeons squeezed his kidney through a roughly 3-inch incision.

Hudson’s own lupus-damaged kidneys were removed about a month before her first transplant.

That’s hardly ever done anymore — nonworking kidneys shrink to make room.

Back then, finding a donor was pretty miraculous.

It still is. And with more than 120,000 people on the national waiting list for a kidney or other donated organ — but only about 30,000 transplants performed each year — new moves are getting underway to try to ease the critical shortage.

Efforts range from smartphone apps letting would-be donors register with a few clicks, to helping transplant centres use some organs that today would be discarded for fear they’re not good enough.

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“I really didn’t think about getting another kidney. How could I be that fortunate?” said Hudson, 57, of Owings, Maryland, who this time went home five days after surgery. Her thoughts strayed to friends on dialysis: “I just wish we could see more donors coming out.”

The average kidney from a deceased donor lasts 10 years, while one from a living donor averages about 15 years, said Dr. David Klassen of UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees the nation’s transplant system. Doctors can’t explain why occasionally people like Hudson beat those odds by a lot.

Dana Hudson knew his wife wouldn’t ask for another kidney so when her first deteriorated badly enough to require dialysis, he volunteered.

Dr. Matthew Cooper, Georgetown’s kidney and pancreas transplant director, examined the fistsized organ and proclaimed it “a beauty.”

Sewing it into its new owner, however, would prove nerve-wracking.

More than 6,000 people died last year waiting for a new kidney, liver, lung or other organ, according to UNOS. Last month, the White House issued a call to reduce the wait, and highlighted $160 million in regenerative research that one day might offer alternative therapies. Kidneys are most in demand, with nearly 100,000 people on the national transplant list awaiting one.

“Without a transplant, we lose way too many people,” said Georgetown’s Cooper. “It’s just an organ supply problem.”

To try boosting that supply: —Apple says its upcoming software update will let iPhone users register as an organ donor through its health app, linking to Donate Life America’s national registry. Georgetown also is developing an app for smartphones and tablets that will allow a click for donor registration.

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Even though they’re buried in their own junk, the hoarders on reality TV shows just seem in need of a couple more trash bags and storage bins to overcome their problem. But in truth, hoarding is a far deeper, more intractable disorder than that. An estimated one in 20 Americans is a serious hoarder, and for the millions of spouses, children, friends and relatives who live with and love a hoarder, coping with this mental-health problem requires plenty of patience, understanding and even tough love.

New science reveals that hoarding is based in a person’s genetic makeup; it runs in families and has roots in the way a hoarder’s brain is wired. Brain imaging studies show that brain areas involved with emotions and thinking showed lower-than-average activity in hoarders, but became revved-up when they have to think about tossing some of their own possessions.

The good news: In one Boston University study, cognitive behavior therapy designed specifically for hoarders led to improvements for 70 percent of those who tried it. This type of short-term, solutions-based counseling helps hoarders make better decisions about acquiring and keeping objects. You can find a trained therapist through a local hoarding task force (more than 100 have formed in communities across the U.S. and Canada in recent years) or through organizations like the nonprofit Children of Hoarders, Inc. (www.childrenofhoarders.com).

The tough truth? With hoarding, change is slow, happens in small steps and is like doing the cha-cha — two steps forward, one step back.

You can’t force it from the outside. If you live with a hoarder, or if a parent or close friend is hoarding, here’s how to nurture YOUR peace of mind as you help: Identify a hoarding problem: Hoarding goes beyond clutter; it’s not the same as collecting (collectors love to display their beloved stuff, whether it’s baseball caps or silver spoons).

It crosses the line from mere annoyance to trouble when hoarded objects take over living spaces so the hoarder and those around them can’t use rooms as they were meant to be used, when the clutter makes a home or apartment unsafe and when the sheer volume of stuff interferes with daily living and relationships.

Line up support — for you. A local task force or hoarding organization such as Children of Hoarders can help you connect with others via online and in-person support groups.

You’ll also find links to cleaning services; healthcare professionals who work with hoarders and their families; and real-world, been-there-done-that advice for dealing with challenging situations such as crisis cleaning when a hoarder’s home has become unsafe.

Stake out your territory. If you live with a hoarder, declare areas of your home off-limits for your beloved hoarder’s stuff. Firmly and gently defend your space; move stuff that isn’t yours or insist that the hoarder do it. You’ll feel better organized and more serene.

Understand a hoarder’s emotions.

Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Wellness Officer and Chair of Wellness Institute at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into “The Dr. Oz Show” or visit www. sharecare.com.

TWO NEW EXHIBITS AND DUTCH POTLUCK ‘The Catalysts for Change: Local Women and the Suffrage Movement’ exhibit highlights the 100th anniversary of women obtaining the vote in Alberta. The second exhibit is ‘The Origins of Lacombe’s Dutch Community.’ Both exhibits are open from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Flatiron Museum. Guests are encouraged to bring a Dutch specialty for the potluck. Call 403-755-6935.

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BARD ON THE BOWER — JULIUS CAESAR Bard on Bower returns this summer for a fifth season of outdoor theatre. This year’s plays are ‘Julius Caesar’ and ‘Love’s Labours Lost.’ Admission is free but donations are appreciated.

More details are available at www. primestocktheatre.com/.

Show starts at 7 p.m.

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announcements Obituaries ELIUK Lance Edward Lance was born in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan on January 5, 1957 and passed away suddenly on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. He was predeceased by his parents Walter and Audrey Eliuk.

Lance will be lovingly remembered by his family and friends. Lance lived a life as big as he was. He was an avid outdoorsman, truly at his happiest out west whether hunting, quadding or sharing a campfire with friends. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Sylvan Lake, on Friday. July 15, from 2 pm to 4 pm. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made in Lance’s name at the Alberta Diabetes Foundation, 8602 112 St. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. T6E 2E1.

“Rest in Peace Big Guy”

GROOM Kelly Lewis July 7, 1964 - June 29, 2016 It is with much sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the sudden and tragic passing of Kelly Groom. Kelly will be missed by his children Kassie and Landon, his parents Joy and Ernie Groom, three sisters: Pam Groom (Alf Petkau), Kim Keating, and Jody (Brian) Halbert, his nieces and nephews, aunties, uncles, and cousins, as well as numerous friends.

Kelly worked in the oil and gas industry on many different projects in Western Canada.

He worked through his apprenticeship and attained his journeyman pipefitter ticket. He most recently worked as a Project Manager with Quinn Construction, and has made many close friends through work over the years.

Kelly loved the outdoors. He was always happiest out fishing, boating, riding his Harley, spending time in the mountains, skidooing and camping. Kelly brought the “FUN” to any campfire. He could always make you laugh, and was known for teasing. He may have even played a trick or two on you.

At the beginning of June this year, Kelly moved into his ‘Dream Property’ in Markerville, AB, where he had found the perfect place with enough nature for his liking, and room for all his toys. Our family will always cherish the Father’s Day celebration he hosted. We welcome you to join us in a celebration of Kelly’s life at the Ponoka Legion, 3911 Hwy 2A, on Friday, July 22 at 2:00 p.m. ~Casual dress~ “ Kelly style “ - Bring your stories.

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MERCHANT GRACE PIMM William Nov. 26, 1926 - July 13, 2015 1933 - 2016 Mr. William Graham ‘Bill’ Your life was a blessing, your memory a treasure, Merchant passed away you are loved beyond words peacefully into the arms of and miss beyond measure. his Lord and Saviour, surrounded by his loving Dianne, Darlene, Rod, family, at Extendicare Chuck and Bev Michener Hill, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, July 8, 2016 at the age of 82 years.

In Loving Memory Bill was born on December 8, JERRY BLAIR 1933 at the Coronation Hospital. All his schooling was completed in Coronation.

He started work in the Oil & Gas Industry for Gulf. Bill then went on to work for Northwestern Utilities for ten years and finished his career with the E.R.C.B. in Red Deer, Alberta, retiring in 1996. He leaves to mourn his wife, Lila; daughters, Kathy (Brian) Flasch, Barbara Merchant, Sharon (Pat) McMurray and four grandchildren. He will also be sadly missed by Lila’s children, Jodi Hampton (Bobbi Gayle), Shelly Priest (Jason) and Tracy Abel and families; sister, Verona Aug. 31, 1936 - Jul. 13, 2015 (Gerald), brother, Hilliard (Helen) and sister, Marietta We Love you forever, (Bill) and families; Lila’s family, Gordon (Sylvia), Deb, til we dance again my love Julia, Darryl, Linda (Scot).

- Shirley Bill was predeceased by his first wife, Beatrice; sister, til we connect again Maralyn; brother, Les; triplet - Linda infant brothers; both his til we cast a line again parents; sister-in-law, Eileen; - Tal three brothers-in-law, Charlie, Cecil and just recently, Fred. til we hit the casino again A Funeral Service will be - Shelley held at the Knox Presbyterian Church, 4718 til we walk the hills again Ross Street, Red Deer, - Kelly Alberta on Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Interment til we bear hug again will take place at the - Shanna Coronation Cemetery, Coronation, Alberta at a later til we play cards again date. If desired, Memorial - Kortney Donations in Bill’s honor may be made directly to a Charity “You are the wind beneath of the donor’s choice. our wings.”

Condolences may be sent or The Blair Family viewed at www.coronationfuneralhome.ca Arrangements in care of Heather Caseley, Funeral Director at CORONATION FUNERAL Anniversaries HOME, Coronation, Alberta.

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ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs. $15/hr. Floor skills would be an asset. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 or e-mail: lobb-black-valerie @aramark.ca. Attn: Val Black Looking for a place to live?

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JJAM Management (1987) TRAILERS for sale or rent Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Job site, office, well site or Requires to work at these storage. Skidded or Red Deer, AB locations: wheeled. Call 347-7721. #3, 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N Tools 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d F/T & P/T AIR Compressor, 3 gal. or permanent shift, early 11.4 L, paid $149.99 plus a morning, morning, day, 2/1 nailer, drives, nails and eves. shift weekend day narrow crown staples, pd. night. 40 - 44 hrs/wk $119.99. Used once.

8 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + Will sell both for $100. medical, dental, life and or $50. each. vision benefits. Start 403-309-7387, 392-6138 ASAP. Job description FRAMING Nailers, 3 in 1 www.timhortons.com KING Canada, 28 degree Experience 1 yr. to less x34 degree, flipped head. than 2 yrs. Education not Performance Plus. req’d. Apply in person or 18 guage,2 Brad Nailer fax 403-314-1303 Kits Performance Plus, 18 guage x 1/4, narrow Business crown stapler, in carrying case. Includes full box of Opportunities 3 1/4 nails. Sold for $300.

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MASTER CRAFT Driver, Impact wrench, square, 1/2”, speed 65 RMP Max. torque 320. Asking $30.

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ANYONE with strawberries to give away, please call 403-346-7825 BEAUTIFUL farm fresh chickens - too many for my freezer. avg weight 6 pounds. 35 available 25 more august 1st butchering 780-217-8201 or 403-510-4121

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UNRESERVED Real Sale Estate Auction Sale 100 VHS movies, $75 Gary & Bonnie Muzylouski Land Located Near Rimbey, Alberta August 19, 2016 Time: 12:00 Noon Selling a A Truly Fabulous, Executive Built, Stunning Home, Built in 2013 w/ Attached Garage, Trout Pond, Cabin, Finished Shop & A Beautifully Landscaped Yard.

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403-885-5020 COLEMAN Camp stove, 2 burner Propane, older, with stand. $30. 587-876-2914 GOLF cart, large wheeled, used 2 times, $25; brand new fabric golf bag, $35; and Singer sewing machine in cabinet, $45.

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Call Prodie at 403-314-4301 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK

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403-347-0325 PRECIOUS Moments Debbie, 1981, Mint-in-box, 18: tall, $75. 403-314-9603 ROCKWELL Plate Collection, (16), 7 Ladies, 4 Shelties, 5 variety. $175 for all or $12. each.

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2 BDRM. townhouse/ condo, 5 appls., 2 blocks from Collicutt Centre. $1150/mo. + utils., inclds. condo fees. 403-616-3181 LOCATED in Red Deer, 3 bdrm., townhouse, 1 1/2 bath, full bsmt., stove, fridge, microwave, washer, dryer. 403-887-4670, or 403-350-6194

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ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or Aug. 1. 403-304-5337

2 BDRM. 1400 sq. ft. 2009 condo w/att. single garage, Ironstone Way Ref’s req’d.

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2 + 1 BDRM home, with lrg garage. $1600/mo. + d.d. & utils. N/S, not pets, Avail Aug. 1. 403-347-1563

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

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WIZARD of OZ Dolls, Mint-in-box, 1985.

Complete set of 6. $200.

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2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or Aug. 1 $900/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337 2 Bedroom BLOWOUT for $899/month! Receive $500 on Move-In Day! One FREE year of Telus cable & internet.

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2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

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Opposite Hospital 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony, adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

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PENHOLD, deluxe 3 bdrm., hrdwd. flrs., inclds. heat and PADS $450/mo. water, $1100. 403-348-6594 Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

CITY VIEW APTS. Down payment $4000. Call 2 bdrm in Clean, quiet, at anytime. 403-588-8820 Rental incentives avail. newly reno’d adult building.

CELEBRATIONS 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, Rent $900 S.D. $700.

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FROM LEFT: Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon star in ‘Ghostbusters.’

Reboot or pass the torch?

REVIVING ‘GHOSTBUSTERS’ AND KEEPING THE ORIGINAL SPIRIT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Forget everything you think you know about the new Ghostbusters movie.

For all the scrutiny, hand-wringing and vitriol, you’d think it was about a presidential campaign, not just a kindhearted comedy based on a 32-yearold idea that features four funny women instead of four funny men. But between the Sony hack, a course-shifting death and an elusive movie star, a few internet trolls were decidedly the least of anyone’s worries.

As producer Ivan Reitman puts it: “The movie is the only answer to the question, ‘Is the movie good, or not?”’

In the long and twisty development process, the big question internally was never about gender. It was about whether to reboot or pass the torch.

Reitman, who directed the original Ghostbusters, had been working on a third film, a pure sequel to Ghostbusters II, which would have focused on the now-grown son of Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver’s characters. The film was greenlit and a script was in the works — which, by the way, featured a mixed gender cast — but it wasn’t going all that smoothly.

Murray wasn’t enthusiastic about a sequel in general and demanded that his character be killed off after five minutes. And then Harold Ramis, the beloved co-star and co-writer of the original, got very sick with vasculitis and died in February 2014 at the age of 69.

“It just broke all of our hearts,” Reitman said.

“There was no way to do that movie without him and with a reluctant Bill. I decided I would give up the directing and negotiated a deal to make it possible for the studio to continue this thing that we started.”

Shortly after, Bridesmaids director Paul Feig entered the picture, through then-Sony Pictures chief Amy Pascal, with interest from comedy superstars Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig. Feig brought on Katie Dippold, who wrote The Heat, to co-write the screenplay, and they were off — holding on for dear life amid the turmoil caused by the breach of Sony’s computer system.

Feig added up-and-coming Saturday Night Live cast members Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon to round out the four Ghostbusters.

“When Paul told me the four people who were on it, I was like, ‘Oh he’s going for a beast fest.’ All of us are comedic beasts,” said Jones, whose worries about how the four personalities would mesh in an ensemble were quickly assuaged.

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Screenwriter brings the heat

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Like most kids of the 1980s, Ghostbusters played on a near constant loop in screenwriter Katie Dippold’s home. For one Halloween, her mother even made a Slimer costume — not for the children, for herself.

“It’s actually pretty good,” Dippold, 36, said, wondering aloud if she was too young to be watching so many scary movies. “It may be why I’m a neurotic writer.”

At the very least, it established a lifetime affinity for the spooky, which she got to meld with her comedic sensibilities when Paul Feig asked her to write Ghostbusters, out Friday.

“There was a moment when they were making the final deals and I remember thinking, ‘would it be the worst thing if it fell apart? Is this going to be too much?”’ Dippold said. “It still hasn’t really hit me.”

She’d cut her teeth writing for MADtv and Parks and Recreation before making a big screen splash with the original comedy The Heat, which Feig directed with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock starring. great comedic energies, and Reitman was on board too, deciding to give Feig space to make the film he wanted.

“I knew very early that we were in very good shape when I saw the four of them together,” said Reitman. “There’s this remarkable in-step quality that really good improvisers can do with each other.

You believe the truth of them having been together forever, even if they haven’t.”

Reitman had a simple rule: he didn’t want this film to be an insult to the first, a spoof, send up, or silly version.

And it’s not. The story is its own creation about the formation of the Ghostbusters, set in the present day where the 1984 Ghostbusters don’t exist and only a few eccentric scientists believe in the paranormal.

For Wiig, it was “an easy yes.” She took comfort in knowing that they also had the support and participation of the original cast, including Murray, Dan Aykroyd (also a producer), Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver.

“It really felt like we were being blessed in such

Costing only $43 million to make, The Heat grossed $229.9 million globally in 2013. It’s the kind of success that can secure a screenwriter a place at the table when a studio wants to pour $150 million into resurrecting a dormant franchise with a new cast.

“She’s very specific. She doesn’t write typical jokes,” Kristen Wiig said. “In real life she’s just a funny, nice, easy going person. That shines through in her writing.”

As she waits to see how the public receives Ghostbusters, she’s looking forward to a little break. She’s cautiously optimistic about the idea for a sequel, too, which has been left open-ended.

“I’m envious of the original Ghostbusters for a billion reasons, but one being what that must have been like not knowing what it was going to be. There was no pressure, no bar. They were just making a crazy movie where they were fighting ghosts and having a good time. It made me really anxious to create something completely new,” she said.

“I can almost hear an internet troll saying ‘well why didn’t you do that this time?’ It’s like OK, I hear you, but for now I just want to celebrate Ghostbusters. I’ll do that next.” a way that we were all part of this thing together. It’s kind of what the spirit of the movie is,” Wiig said.

Ramis also gets a little tribute, which eagle-eyed viewers will surely spot. His family visited the set that day, which Wiig said was an emotional day, and his son, Daniel Ramis, has a bit role too at a heavy metal show.

But beyond the cameos, rock star cast and bona fides of the creative team, Ghostbusters has been overshadowed by a passionate group of naysayers — critical of the cast, the trailer, women, and deeply defensive of their childhood favourite.

“Here’s the problem with the Internet: It’s that small, small minority who scream the loudest and the media covers them, but it’s not reflective of the vast, vast majority of people,” Feig said.

The cast has a similarly removed and bemused view of the hate.

“You just can’t give that much credence to somebody who’s like “I’m predicting the future about this thing that’s not been made,’” McCarthy said.

Plus, the finished film gets a few digs in.

The series stars Ryan Phillippe as a highly decorated ex-marine sniper who is coaxed back into action after he learns about a plot to kill the president.

Country singer wants to hear more about Jason Kenney policies

NEW YORK (AP) — The Hollywood Vampires will resume their tour Tuesday night without ailing Joe Perry, who is planning to return to the stage at a later date.

A representative for the band said that Perry “will rejoin his fellow Vampires onstage again soon.” Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper also are members of the band, which is scheduled to play at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, Ohio, on Tuesday.

CALGARY — Alberta country music star Paul Brandt says he wants to see more of Tory leadership candidate Jason Kenney’s policies after the politician used his well-known song Alberta Bound without asking the singer first.

The song was played as Kenney was introduced last week for his leadership announcement.

Brandt says no one from the Kenney campaign reached out to him asking if they could use the song.

Politicians don’t have to get artists permission to use their music at campaign events, as long as the venue has a licence from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, or SOCAN. An official from the Kenney camp said they have every reason to believe the song use was handled appropriately, as the venue has a licence.

Brandt said he also looks at someone using his music for a cause as a compliment.

“I didn’t receive a call and I’m really looking forward to knowing more about what he has to say in the future,” he stated.

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Home imposition DEAR ANNIE ANNIE LANE Dear Annie: I’m getting sick of my living situation. After college, I moved in with a very close family friend. He has an awesome house right by the beach and was kind enough to offer me his spare bedroom for very cheap rent while I’m still looking for a full-time job. It was really perfect for the first few months; he’s a really mellow, simple guy who generally keeps to himself. But lately, I feel as if I’m walking on eggshells at home.

You see, he’s a bit older — in his 40s — and he has never been married.

All of the furniture and appliances in the house are his. It’s a pretty tiny space, so we agreed to just share

appliances and things when I moved in. I’ve always been respectful of his space. At night, he likes to cook for hours and play video games in the living room until 11 o’clock or so. Lately, if he comes home to me watching a movie on his TV or cooking on his stove or even just stretching before a workout in the living room, he gets all bunged up and passive-aggressive. I’m only comfortable when confined to my room. What’s the best way to handle this? — Tiptoeing Dear Tiptoeing: To think — a 40-something single man who prefers to be alone and play video games doesn’t like sharing his space?! Shocking.

You have a right to feel comfortable, so talk to him and see what happens. It’s unrealistic for him to expect you to live like a ghost. But at the end of the day, you are in his home, and this was supposed to be temporary. So enough with the tiptoeing. Pull your-

self up by your bootstraps and march on to a new apartment.

Dear Annie: I’m finally finding my stride in life. I have a good job, am completely financially independent and am constantly busy working on projects. I feel good about my accomplishments.

I have a formerly close friend — let’s call her Christine — who hasn’t really grown in my direction. She met a 35-year-old wealthy artist last year and has been a kept lady since then.

She casually floats between jobs and spends almost every day just doing yoga, going to the beach and smoking marijuana. It’s as if she has no clear picture of what she wants to do with her life.

I was initially sad when she stopped putting in effort to hang out, but I’ve been sort of ambivalent since realizing we don’t have much in common anymore. I would rather spend my time with people who are actually doing

things with their lives.

She recently reached out to me and apologized for being off the radar, and she said she wants to hang out. I’m not sure whether I really want to rekindle the friendship. She’ll probably show up high anyway. What do you think? — Losing Touch Dear Losing Touch: How’s the boyfriend’s art? Any idea? Have you given her new life a chance, or are you dismissing it out of hand because it’s not what you would choose for yourself?

We’re all on our own paths. Perhaps hers is a meandering one. There’s nothing wrong with that. You shouldn’t compare your life, scoreboard-style, with anyone else’s life — especially not a friend’s. Christine no doubt senses the judgment, and that’s why she’s been distancing herself.

Meet up with her and have an open mind.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators.com.

Canadians who don’t cook turning to convenience of delivery

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hot dog infused with hash browns and pieces of cheese coated in corn batter and drizzled with gravy.

“It’s a really unique flavour,” said Riley Peters as he kept an eye on a dog sizzling in the deep fryer.

But, Radke said, the real favourites are the mainstays — corn dogs, mini-donuts, candy apples and pretty much anything on you can put on a stick.

“I always stick with the bratwurst on a bun,” he said.

“We spend our whole year worrying about our calories. Ten days of Stampede is when you have fun. It’s when you stop thinking, stop worrying and just have a good time.”

The big pickle dog appeared to be a hit on the Stampede’s opening night.

“They are extremely popular. It’s actually crazy how many people get them,” said recent high school graduate Jenessa Achal during her shift inside Big Coco’s Corndog’s booth.

“They’re so good, too. Trust me — they’re really good.”

Stampede goer Tricia Draper wasn’t disappointed, despite the mess.

“I decided to just forget about the stick and just eat it with my hands,” she said. “It’s going to be my meal of the day, probably.”

Dietitian Andrea Hardy said there’s nothing wrong with Stampede food in moderation.

But she said over indulging for the whole 10 days is not a wise idea.

“People take days and days off work and go from pancake breakfasts to barbecue lunches to events in the evening. So those days can really derail a person’s nutrition very quickly,” she said.

“Those peanut butter bacon balls?

I can’t imagine that really tasting that good and to me deep fried peanut butter with bacon and chocolate sauce are just empty calories.

“You’d probably have to do a solid three hours of dancing at Nashville North. You’d have to walk around the grounds for a good five hours to burn off all those extra calories.”

TORONTO — Experts say Canadians are spending less time cooking meals from scratch at home and are increasingly turning to the convenience of food delivery services, including the burgeoning meal-kit market.

Research by marketing analysis company NPD Group suggests 75 per cent of all meals are now typically prepared in 15 minutes or less as Canadians rely on more shortcuts in the kitchen. That’s given rise to more varieties of frozen food, prepared meals and side dishes at grocery stores and companies that deliver food right to consumers’ doors. Meal-kit companies say they help harried home cooks by delivering customizable pre-portioned fresh ingredients in insulated packaging along with step-by-step recipes, removing the need to plan meals or shop for groceries.

“The delivery market in Canada seems to be really growing quite dramatically and a lot of that is being driven by the technology, so people ordering through apps and websites and whatnot,” says Robert Carter, executive director of food service at NPD Group. “Consumers equate fresh, not frozen, meals to being healthier and better for you, so I think meal kits are also speaking to that trend,” he adds.

The company is categorizing the trend as “digital-door spending,” including traditional delivery services for pizza and chicken, newer players such as Just Eat and UberEats that drop restaurant meals at customers’ doors, and meal-kit providers.

“Last year digital-door spending by consumers actually topped $1 billion in Canada, which is incredible,” says Carter, adding the trend is being driven by millennials, those in the 18- to 34-year-old age group.

“At the end of the day, convenience is the No. 1 driver of consumer behaviour as it relates to food,” adds Carter. “The easier you make it, consumers will respond…. Meal kits are also speaking to that convenience factor.”

Food marketing research company Technomic reported earlier this year that the global meal-kit market topped US$1 billion in 2015 and is projected to reach US$10 billion by 2020.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With Venus visiting your sign — until August 6 — it’s time to flirt up a storm and call in a few old favours.

When you’re on firing on all cylinders, it’s hard for others to resist your special Cat charisma!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll enjoy spending quality time on your own today, as you indulge in some delicious daydreams and tap into your intuition. Some single Virgos will become involved in a secret love affair.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Are you capitalizing on your Libran creativity? The stars encourage you to join a group that will help develop your particular creative talent — whether it’s art, writing, dance, photography or music.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): With Venus shifting into your career zone — until August 6 — socializing with colleagues will help improve workplace relations. If you’re looking for employment, put the word out amongst your friends.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Education, research, travel, publishing and international connections are all favoured over the next three weeks. But with Saturn still reversing through your sign, you’ll have to be patient and persistent.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll gain great satisfaction from being focused, as you follow a disciplined daily routine. If you can combine meticulous planning with productive work, then it will lead to lasting results.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Peacemaker Venus encourages you to repair a rickety relationship — plus take creative ideas and put them into practice. So don’t waste the

opportunity to make some positive changes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’re attached, work hard to keep the relationship in tip-top condition. Single Fish — you could find lasting love via an online dating

site or through an introduction from a work colleague.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Josh Lathrop enjoys a Poutine Corn Dog at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary on Saturday. If you’re entering the Garden of Earthly Delights that is the food concessions at the Calgary Stampede, it’s better to be a fan of the classics.

Deep-fried Coke gives way to poutine corn dog on the Stampede menu CALGARY — If you’re entering the Garden of Earthly Delights that is the food concessions at the Calgary Stampede, it’s better to be a fan of the classics.

“We’ve had foods come and go,” said James Radke, midway operations manager for the Calgary Stampede.

“Deep-fried Coke — gone. Deep-fried jelly beans — gone. Some foods will be a fad for one year. The scorpions on pizza was a fad for two years.

“Some foods will just disappear.”

You can get still get your hands on something exotic each year.

The new artery-hardening offerings in 2016 include the big pickle dog, a hot dog inserted into a hollowed-out pickle and coated in corn batter, or PB dumbbells, peanut butter bacon balls wrapped and deep fried in corn batter and then topped with chocolate sauce and bacon bits.

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JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPES Wednesday, July 13 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Cheech Marin, 70, Harrison Ford, 74; Patrick Stewart, 76 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Make sure you stimulate your mind in creative new ways today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You have a daring side and you like to win. Over the coming year don’t be afraid of making mistakes, as they can lead you into exciting new territory.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): With Venus vamping through your entertainment zone, the next three weeks is the perfect time to attend a book reading, music concert, theatrical event or art exhibition — plus party like a pro!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Venus gives a family relationship a welcome boost, as you discover you’ve got more in common than you previously thought. Single Bulls — you could find love via an introduction from a relative.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re in the mood for fashion, flirting, romantic candlelit dinners and creative partnerships. But — if you avoid facing your relationship responsibilities — then problems are likely.

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