Red Deer Advocate, April 23, 2016

PLEASE

RECYCLE

INDEX RED DEER WEATHER

NEWS A2-A8

SPORTS B1-B6

BUSINESS B7-B8

ENTERTAINMENT C1-C2

FOCUS C4-C5

COMICS D5

CLASSIFIED D6-D7

LOTTERIES

FRIDAY

LOTTO MAX: 13, 16, 20, 35, 37,

43, 49, Bonus 6

WESTERN MAX: 5, 14, 15, 27,

29, 31, 46, Bonus 34

EXTRA: 3782332

PICK 3: 496

Numbers are unofficial.

Local Today Tonight Sunday Monday

THE BARD

WILL BE

CELEBRATED

AT BOWER

PONDS

30 YEARS OF

PHOTOGRAPHING

CHORNOBYL

D8

S A T U R D A Y A P R I L 2 3 2 0 1 6

w w w . r e d d e e r a d v o c a t e . c o m$ 1 . 2 5

C1

B1

REBELS

DROP

OPENER

IN OT

D1ITALIAN

FURNITURE

MAKERS

STRENGTHEN

BRANDS

11°

60% Showers

4°

60% Showers

11°

Cloudy

9°

40% Showers

File photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Eric McKenzie presents evidence during a press conference at the Red Deer RCMP detachment. Three men face drug related charges as a result of the Priority Crimes Task Force action where 55 ounces of cocaine and 9 ounces of methamphetamine, a stolen hand gun and cash were seized.

AAAAAAADDVVOOCCAATTEE RREEPPOORRTTEERR CCRRYYSSTTAALL RRHYNO EXAMINES CENTRAL AALBERTA’S NEWLY FORMED PPRIORITY CRIMES TASK FORCE, WWHICH IS GAINING STEAM AS ITDDISRUPTS MEDIUM AND MAJOR OOPERATIONS IN THE REGION

SEE STORY ON PAGE A2

Last April 100 police officers de-scended on a 130-acre rural property near Markerville.

After combing the property for 11 hours, officers seized more than 150 items including drugs, drug parapher-nalia, stolen vehicles, firearms, sever-al rail torpedoes and weapons.

It was one of the largest Central Al-berta police operations in recent mem-ory and the largest effort by the newly formed Priority Crimes Task Force, which includes Mounties from Black-falds, Innisfail, Red Deer and Sylvan Lake and support from Lacombe Po-lice Services. RCMP from Rocky Moun-tain House have since joined.

The task force was designed to crack down on criminals who do busi-ness throughout Central Alberta.

Curbing crime in Central Alberta and opening up the communication lines among the six detachments and within units is the main objective, said Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Eric McKenzie.

Sure, information was shared in the past but it was on a very sporadic or as-needed basis.

Now there is a continual flow of in-formation and exchange of resources with regular meetings and phone calls.

But one thing is certain — criminals know no boundaries when it comes to committing crimes.

The police, on the other hand, have very defined working areas.

Sylvan Lake Staff Sgt. Gary Rhodes said the obvious truth is crime crosses borders.

“Criminals in Red Deer do not stay in Red Deer,” said Rhodes. “Criminals in Sylvan Lake do not stay there either. They come into other communities in Central Alberta.”

McKenzie said police have to work better to break down those borders and ensure that they are working to-gether to follow those criminals wher-ever they go.

They have also found that criminal groups from across the province are renting properties in rural areas.

Red Deer boasts the largest RCMP

detachment in the province with 159 officers.

That’s good news for the surround-ing detachments, which can take ad-vantage of the additional manpower and resources.

“One detachment on its own has a hard time dealing with that because of the resources and the time it takes to investigate these crimes,” said Rhodes.

Files and information are shared so if a crime is committed in Sylvan Lake and has the same modus operandi as one in Blackfalds, the police can con-nect the dots much faster.

Bobby and the Kids is an example of a street gang operating in Penhold and Red Deer but conducting business throughout the region.

Numerous drug, property and weap-ons charges were laid by police after the task force descended simultane-ously on two Red Deer homes and a Penhold address in November. Police seized 55 ounces of cocaine, nine ounc-es of methamphetamine, marijuana, a stolen pistol, drug paraphernalia, and $30,600 in cash.

“You have the Markerville file,” he said. “It’s tiny and it’s out in the mid-dle of nowhere. But what a great place to have an operation.”

On April 13, the task force raided three homes in Red Deer and broke up another significant drug operation in Timberlands and Garden Heights. Po-

lice seized more than eight kg of mari-juana, 1.3 kg of cocaine, 240 Oxycontin pills, 1.4 kg of magic mushrooms, weap-ons, cash and other drugs and drugs paraphernalia.

The task force is gaining steam across the jurisdictions as it continues to disrupt medium and major crime operations.

Rhodes said the task force has had a lot of success and there has been a decrease in crimes such as stolen ve-hicles, theft from vehicles and break and enter, which are fuelling the drug trade, particularly in the rural areas.

PIKE WHEATON

*All rebates to dealer. Price includes Owner Loyalty and must be proven by six months of ownership on any motor vehicle 99 or newer. Payment based on 60 month term at 1.5%. With 2500 down or equivalent trade. Residual value 5851. Price 400 admin, 20 tire, tax 6.25 Amvic.

www.pikewheaton.com

3110 GAETZ AVE., RED DEERLOCAL 403-347-3301 TOLL FREE 1-800-661-0995

DRIVE AWAYWITHOUT PAYING

2016 CHEVROLET CRUZE LIMITED 2LS

7549

362D

11-1

6

ON NOW UNTIL APRIL 23ON NOW UNTIL APRIL 23

NOW $18,20525*OR $8715BW

E V E N T

SC UC U S

Saturday, April 23, 2016NEWS A2

Sunrise6:20

Sunset8:49

Local Today

Rocky Mountain House

Sylvan Lake

Olds, Innisfail

Ponoka

Stettler

Lacombe

HalifaxTorontoVancouver

60% Showers

30% Showers10 3

60% Showers11 4

60% Showers10 4

60% Showers11 4

60% Showers11 4

60% Showers11 4

40% Showers17 4

Sunny13 1

30% Showers16 10

60% Showers Rain 60% Showers

Tues

6

Wed

14

Thur

15

Tonight Sunday MondayTHE WEATHER

The region’s weatherfor tonight

Fort McMurray •8/-1

• Grande Prairie15/5

• Jasper14/4

• Banff 8/4 • Calgary

10/4

• Lethbridge13/4

4° 11° 9°

•Edmonton11/2

11°

Photo by CRYSTAL RHYNO/Advocate staff

ABOVE: Sylvan Lake RCMP Staff Sgt. Gary Rhodes gives an overview of the April 15 drug bust near Markerville. Details on the search warrant and the value of property seized were not released.BELOW: Patrick Piche and Nathan Waldner of Rite-Way Fencing in Red Deer erect a fence around a home in Penhold at 52 Heartland Cres. under investigation by the RCMP and the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team.

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

Win Memorial Cup ticketsBY ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer Advocate is offering its sub-scribers the chance to experience the excitement of the upcoming Memorial Cup first hand.

Current subscribers to the Advocate can enter to win tickets to Memorial Cup games at reddeeradvocate.com/contests/, while anyone who starts a new subscription between now and May 16 will be entered to win a com-plete package of Memorial Cup games.

“The Memorial Cup is a big event for the city, and we want to share the excitement with our readers,” said Ad-vocate publisher Mary Kemmis. “It’s a fun way for us to say ‘thank you for your subscription.’

“We’ve made a lot of updates to our content and look over the past few months and we’re thrilled to share those changes with the community. Our local coverage is second to none and we’re extremely proud of our com-munity support initiatives.”

The last time an Alberta team host-

ed the Memorial Cup was in 1965, be-fore the WHL even existed. But this year, it returns to the Wildrose prov-ince as Red Deer hosts the best major junior teams in North America.

It’s one of the most difficult trophies in sport to win. Each of the major ju-nior leagues send their champions, the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the West-ern Hockey League. The host team, Red Deer Rebels this year, also par-ticipates in the tournament — if they win the WHL title, then the league’s

runner up will be sent as well.After a four-round playoff, the best

teams have to compete again in a 10-day tournament, May 19-29. It truly is a best-of-the-best competition.

A round-robin tournament sees the top team take on the winner of a playoff between the second and third placed team in the final.

The Advocate will providing daily Memorial Cup coverage with all the scores, colour and stats in a special wrap format. You can also visit www.reddeeradvocate.com.

Criminalsleft withnowhere to hide

PRIORITY CRIMES TASK FORCE

See TASK FORCE on Page A3

The owner of a tiny dog attacked and seriously injured by another larg-er dog in a Red Deer park is reminding people that dogs should be on leashes.

Robert Young said Friday that his teacup Yorkshire terrier named Trixie was on her leash when she was be-ing walked by a friend in Barrett Park on Wednesday. A large unleashed dog, that looked like a German shep-herd-cross, suddenly came along and grabbed his dog’s head in its mouth, biting and shaking it.

Young said his friend had to smack the large dog so it would re-lease the Yorkie, which weighs only a few pounds. Trixie’s left eye was torn out of the socket. The incident ended quickly.

The people with the larger dog — a man and woman who appeared to be in their 20s — took their dog and walked away while his friend franti-cally tried to deal with the injured dog. The incident happened about 3 p.m.

Trixie, eight years old, was rushed to a veterinary trauma centre where she underwent surgery.

“She’s maybe going to lose an eye,” said Young, adding the vet bill was $700. If the surgery doesn’t work, his dog will need another $700 surgery.

“She’s as big as a minute, not like she was even a threat.”

“I think people need to be remind-ed, not warned, that dogs need to be

on a leash in the city and there are dog parks if you want to run them free,” Young said.

“This has been an issue before. People continuously run their dogs at large in that park. I’m sure it’s a prob-lem everywhere there’s a park, and most dogs, you know, are pretty good, they come when they’re called but this one’s obviously out of control,” Young said. “I’ve been in the park often, see-ing dogs running at large but usually with their owners and usually well be-haved,” he said.

He’s not okay with dogs being al-lowed off leash, especially large ones “because you don’t know what they’re going to do, especially when you have little teeny-weeny dogs.”

“I’d like — if nothing else — people in Red Deer to know this and then if somebody has information or has had run-ins with this dog they can phone animal control.”

Alberta Animal Services, which en-forces the City of Red Deer’s animal control bylaw, was contacted on the day of the incident and is investigat-ing.

[email protected]

UNTIL MAY 16UNTIL MAY 16ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS OF

WILL BE ENTERED TO WIN

ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS O

WILL BE ENTERED TO WINA PAIR OF TICKETS FOR ALL A PAIR OF TICKETS FOR ALL

MEMORIAL CUP GAMES MEMORIAL CUP GAMES

CALL CALL 403-314-4300 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY403-314-4300 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAYCALL CALL 403-314-4300 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY403-314-4300 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAYCurrent Subscribers can enter into a draw for Memorial cup game tickets at RedDeerAdvocate.com/contests

*No Purchase Required. Visit the Red Deer Advocate at 2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 *See Website for rules and regulations


“The RCMP in Alberta, when need-ed, send resources,” said Rhodes. “For example we had a search warrant on a property in Sylvan Lake last year where there were over 90 RCMP mem-bers on site for protection and search-ing. Very large property. We can get those resources when we need them and that’s how we are being effective.”

McKenzie said this model is gaining

attention across the province and is being mirrored in other jurisdictions. He said the police do not have all the answers but they are trying new techniques and strategies to combat crimes.

Property crimes are increasing and it is often linked to drug use and popu-lation growth.

As communities get larger, people believe they are less known and can disappear in the crowd.

“So it’s easier for them to commit crimes and avoid detection,” said McKenzie. “In this town where I worked and there’s 80 people if some-one committed a crime, everybody in town knew who did it and I would hear about it within minutes. Here you have 300,000 in the region, it is quite easy to slip through the cracks and avoid the detection.”

But it may be harder for the crimi-

nals to hide with the co-ordinated po-lice efforts.

The task force recently reached out to other agencies that they have not traditionally worked with in the past such as Canada Post and the In-surance Bureau of Canada. It is also working with RCMP’s ALERT, SCAN and the Edmonton and Calgary Police Services. It is also working with the K Division’s prolific offender program.

The public also has a role to play too, said McKenzie. Residents are the eyes and ears of neighbourhoods.

“Members are out there doing the best job they can,” said McKenzie. “We want to catch criminals. We want to solve crime. We want the public to know we’re doing the best we can with-in the confines of the law. We have cer-tain restrictions that we have to follow. Some people do not understand that. That limits what we can and cannot do.

We have to work within that otherwise we are doing unlawful investigations and it does no one any good.”

Taking matters into your own hands, however, is not advised, said McKen-zie.

One only has to look at the death of Dawson “DJ” Wegner Cramer, who died after apparently trying to stop thieves from stealing his truck in March.

McKenzie said the best thing to do is to stand back and call the police.

To report a crime call Crime Stop-pers at 1-800-222-8277 or visit www.cen-tralalbertacrimestoppers.ca. Contact the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre at www.cacpc.ca for tips on pre-venting crime from happening in your neighbourhood.

[email protected]

TASK FORCE: Reaching out to other agencies

STORIES FROM PAGE A2

Terrier may lose eye after dog attack

BY MARY-ANN BARRADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Robert Young holds Trixie, his Yorkshire terrier, in Barrett Park on Friday. Earlier this week, the small dog was attacked in the park by another dog, which was off leash at the time. Trixie’s left eye was torn from the socket during the attack.

‘DOGS NEED TO BE ON A LEASH IN THE CITY, AND THERE ARE DOG PARKS

IF YOU WANT TO RUN THEM FREE.’

— ROBERT YOUNG

All operating rooms back up and running after flood repairs

Flooding repairs are complete and Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre’s nine operating rooms are now open for business.

“All of the ORs are back up and run-ning and online. The five that were closed are now reopened — one last week and four today,” said Kerry Bales, chief zone officer for Alberta Health Services Central Zone, on Fri-day.

Five out of the nine operating rooms at Red Deer hospital closed March 1 after a mishap caused water to pour down from a construction site on the second floor and into operating rooms below.

All five of the flooded theatres had to be stripped down to the foundation and studs and rebuilt.

“I think people are really quite hap-

py to see this milestone reached. We recognize this was a very large incon-venience for the patients who were im-pacted and we’re just extremely happy to be back and running at normal ca-pacity.”

A total of 309 surgeries were can-celled.

Bales said it’s difficult to say how long it will take for the surgery back-log to be eliminated as it will depend on how many extra hours operating rooms will run. Also patient status can change.

“We’re looking at options right now to see what we can perhaps do to run hours a little bit longer to look at some of the backlog.”

Normally, an average of 48 surger-ies per day are performed at the Red Deer hospital.

Urgent surgeries, like emergencies, obstetrical cases, urgent orthopedics and cancer cases continued to be do-ne at the Red Deer hospital during

re-construction, while elective and other surgeries were deferred.

Some procedures were diverted to hospitals in Olds, Innisfail and Stettler during flood remediation. That’s no longer the case, but the option to do more surgeries at those hospitals may be considered, he said.

Shortly after the flooding occured, one surgery was diverted outside AHS Central Zone.

Operating rooms were damaged at Red Deer hospital when water gushed from construction underway to build two operating rooms for scheduled caesarean sections and emergency ob-stetrical procedures.

Bales said nine out of 12 patient rooms that flooded on the second floor are back online and the rest are ex-pected to reopen by the end of April. General surgery and obstetrical rooms were impacted.

[email protected]

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

RED DEER REGIONAL HOSPITAL CENTRE

Julietta’s Places pays off mortgage after fundraiser

The mortgage is burned.Last weekend’s Sheraton Celebri-

ty Dance Off 2016 raised $250,000 for Women’s Outreach Julietta’s Place.

Barb Barber, executive director of Women’s Outreach, said the proceeds will pay off the mortgage on Julietta’s Place.

“This relieves some of the financial stress to our agency operations,” she said. “Plus we now have funds to put towards the much-needed building maintenance reserve.”

Barber said the event allowed the organization to share the story of Ju-lietta’s Place and raise awareness for the programs and services provided through the centre.

David Brant with Natalie Brooks

of Chair Tease Dance Studio won the competition and the technical award at the competition on April 16.

Other dancers were Ken King and Jena Smith; Tammy Schlamp and Dale Tosczak; Pat Higgins and Jody Liptak; Bonnee Gregg and Jo Jo Belmonte; Charlotte Rockwell and Brett Speight; Hermes Salas and Jinelle Themig; and Dusty Daines and Bryan Senn.

Julietta’s Place is a housing option for families fleeing domestic violence. It provides 10 affordable secure suites, while occupants participate in inten-sive programming to learn how to live life free from violence.

Visit www.womensoutreach.ca.

LocalB R I E F S

City urged to create beat patrol

A former Mountie turned city coun-cillor wants more boots on the street in downtown Red Deer.

Coun. Buck Buchanan is asking the city to create a beat patrol of uniform officers and possibly auxiliary officers to have a regular and consistent foot patrols in the downtown core.

Buchanan said the city spends all this money on infrastructure to make the downtown vibrant but it still grap-ples with the perception of a unsafe and crime-ridden downtown.

“What we hear all the time is that the downtown is a deep dark place and it’s scary, scary,” said Buchanan, who was a Mountie for 29 years. “I think what I am really hoping for is some real focus and scheduling on the down-town because of all the perception is-sues.”

Amanda Gould, executive director of the Red Deer Downtown Business Association, said this is what the city’s downtown needs.

“It has a lot to do with presence and perception,” said Gould. “Just having the presence will be a great deterrent. We all see criminal activity going on. I would be naive to say it isn’t happen-ing in the downtown. The downtown is meant to be the heart of the city. We’re promoting that more and more.”

Gould said there are great things happening downtown but she hears that people didn’t feel safe there.

“We need to address that and the best way to address that, I believe, is having some sort of presence whether it is in a beat patrol or some other ca-pacity, I don’t know entirely what the answer is,” said Gould. “I firmly be-lieve if we have some presence down-town it will go along way to deterring the crime and changing the percep-tion. Our people just want to feel safe.”

Council will discuss Buchanan’s mo-tion on Monday.

[email protected]

BY CRYSTAL RHYNOADVOCATE STAFF

Fireworks spark small fire in PonokaPonoka Fire Department is investigating after

fireworks sparked a small fire on Friday.The fire was discovered about 12:30 p.m. in a

grassy area under the trestle bridge at 39th Avenue between the Stampede Grounds. A lack of wind helped prevent the fire from spreading

The small blaze prompted the town to remind residents a fire ban remains in effect. All outdoor fires and fireworks are prohibited while the ban is in place. Propane and natural gas barbecues are allowed.

There are fire ban in the counties of Ponoka, Red Deer, Lacombe, Mountain View and Stettler, as well as the towns of Bashaw, Blackfalds and Trochu and the summer villages of Norglenwold, Birchcliff, Rochon Sands, White Sands.

RCMP hunting for suspect for stole tobacco from East Hill FasGas

Red Deer RCMP are looking the man who stole $5,000 worth of tobacco products from the East Hill FasGas on April 16.

Police say the suspect paid for his gas went into the store and took the contents of a box of tobacco products that had just been delivered.

The suspect left in a gold Dodge Caravan with noticeable hail damage on the hood. It is believed

there were two people in the van.

Anyone with information about this crime is

urged to call the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at

1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.

com.

W-18 is Alberta’s newest threat on the streets.The drug is a synthetic opioid 100 times more tox-

ic than fentanyl.Last year the province battled fentanyl, which is

about 100 times stronger than morphine, heroin, or oxycodone, with 272 deaths reported, including 15 in Red Deer.

Any street drug has the potential to be laced with fentanyl or W-18 so drug users never know what they are taking or the potency.

Dr. Mark Yarema, medical director of the poison and drug information service for Alberta Health Ser-vices, said so far no deaths have been attributed to W-18 in the province and it’s difficult to know if any non-fatal overdoses were caused by the drug.

He said labs in Calgary and Edmonton currently can’t detect W-18 in blood or bodily fluids because the concentration for toxicity would be so small that it won’t necessarily be detected.

He said potency does not provide an answer either because pills with fentanyl can also be so strong. Emergency departments give people 100 mi-cro grams of fentanyl to treat acute pain and some street drugs have been found to have 60 times more than that.

“There’s definitely going to be some challenges with truly being able to give numbers on how many people are affected by W-18. All I can accurately say at this point is that there was a seizure of four kilo-grams of powder believed to be W-18 in Edmonton and that’s really all that we know at this time,” Yare-ma said from Calgary on Friday.

Earlier in the week, Edmonton Police Service re-ported the W-18 was seized in December.

Yarema said AHS was first alerted to watch out for W-18 in mid-January by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.

“Definitely, W-18 is very scary. But again I’ve been in the job now for seven years so I’ve seen the PMMA fatalities, fentanyl, bath salts, and quite honestly every drug is scary because it does different things and all of these can result in sad outcomes. Either people die or they’re left with permanent deficits es-pecially from a perspective of their brain. They may be left psychotic or with mood disorders. So quite honestly they’re all scary.”

Even drugs prescribed by a doctor can be unsafe when misused or abused, Yarema said.

He said W-18 is a chemical the medical communi-ty doesn’t know a lot about. It has no clinical use. Its scientific use has been limited to research purposes. But the medication naloxone is probably going to temporarily reverse overdose symptoms as it does for fentanyl and other opioid poisonings, although more naloxone will to be needed.

Jennifer Vanderschaeghe, Turning Point execu-tive director, said drug users who get take-home nal-oxone kits from Turning Point are making sure they have their kit with them.

Naloxone, which is injected intramuscularly, keeps people breathing until paramedics arrive. It’s

possible for a person to lapse into an overdose again once naloxone wears off so medical attention is re-quired.

“People are certainly trying to be cautious. We recommend that people do a tester dose, a small dose, because you can always add but you can never take away. That small dose of a pill is one-eighth of a pill. It used to be one-quarter,” Vanderschaeghe said.

She also warned people not to use drugs alone.Last year Turning Point, formerly known as Cen-

tral Alberta AIDS Network Society, was one of eight agencies across Alberta giving out take-home nalox-one kits as part of the province’s response to the rise in fentanyl overdoses.

Since July 7, Turning Point has distributed 351 naloxone kits and 84 lives have been saved. That in-cludes 10 kits and two saves this week.

Recently some pharmacies, walk-in clinics and hospitals around Central Alberta have also started providing naloxone kits.

She said at the end of January, drug users were

reporting a drug stronger than fentanyl was causing

heroin users to overdose and required more nalox-

one. It’s not known if it was W-18, but the amount of

naloxone needed is a good indicator.

“It’s the best data available since science isn’t

there yet.”

Vanderschaeghe encouraged people to contact

Turning Point by phone, text, or on Facebook if they

notice something weird with street drugs.

“We are the people who warn other people who

use drugs about what’s going on and what we’re see-

ing,” Vanderschaeghe said.

Red Deer RCMP Const. Derek Turner said there

have been no reports of W-18 in the city, but if peo-

ple come across anything, they should tell police.

“It certainly is a big concern that drug dealers are

pushing stuff like this,” Turner said.

[email protected]

Dr. Andrew Towers, Au.D. Registered Audiologist — Owner

Toll free: [email protected]

BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT TODAY!

www.hearwell.ca

OLDS

403.556.6402 New Mountain View Credit Union Building6501 51 St, Ste #103

RED DEER403.346.6414 Creekside Professional Centre 4320 50th Ave, Ste #202

No money down, no obligation,

every reason to Hear Well today!

21 days to try hearing aids for free, followed by an additional 90 day trial period to

return or exchange.

Take the 21-day HearWell CHALLENGE

Ray S. – Sundre, ABI hear better than I ever have. My wife sure notices a difference. I’m so happy I can hear again. It is so much better than what I had before.

Sylvia E. – Innisfail, ABMy previous experiences with hearing aids had not been successful. Relationships were fading away and it had come to a point where friends hesitated to call because I couldn’t understand what they were saying. I knew I had to place myself under the care of a Doctor of Audiology. Since seeing Dr. Towers, I’m now able to stay better connected with family and friendships are being renewed. From the start, Dr. Towers’ care was never about selling me hearing aids. It was always about helping me hear at the best level possible. I feel a deep level of gratitude for Dr. Towers. He is honest, has high integrity and I trust his advice. I feel safe under his excellent care.

Amber E. – Hamilton, ON (daughter of Sylvia E.)Thank you so much for the quality of health care you’ve shown my mom. Her hearing is the best it’s been in years, and I can tell through my conversations with her that her mental health and overall quality of life has really improved.

7521

618C

15,2

3

460 Parkland Mall, Red Deer | 403.348.020060446

Find the

hidden bears.

Come in and tell

us how many you

found.With a Party of 4 or more,

receive 10% off.

7560

462D

18-E

21

s.tell . ll

Bring

your

smile for

the bears


Synthetic opioid ‘very scary’

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Fentanyl pills are shown in an undated police handout photo. Police and Alberta health officials are raising the alarm about a dangerous drug called W-18 that is much more toxic than fentanyl, another opioid that has been linked to hundreds of deaths in Canada.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKIADVOCATE STAFF

LocalB R I E F S

By Gordon Hamilton

Record low interest rates are contributing to robust home sales in some parts of Alberta despite an overall economy that has been hit by the downturn in oil prices, says mortgage broker Collin Bruce.Oil’s troubles are attracting most of the economic attention, but Bruce, of Dominion Lending Centres, says in places such as Edmonton, house prices have remained stable and homes in the under-$400,000 price range are generating multiple offers.

“There are pockets where you can get good deals,” Bruce says of Alberta’s real estate market.

Even in hard-hit cities like Calgary and Red Deer, low interest rates are on the side of homebuyers. Oil prices will rebound and along with them, the economy, making the downturn a home-buying opportunity.

There were fears in Alberta of a 20 to 30 per cent drop in house prices in the wake of lower oil prices says Bruce. However, in Edmonton, house prices have actually risen by 1.6 per cent over 2015. Prices have dropped in Calgary and Red Deer, but for those with stable jobs, the lower home prices along with low interest rates make home ownership or refinancing existing mortgages much more affordable.

Bruce says that the provincial capital has escaped some of the worst impacts of the oil downturn. Unemployment is lower than in Calgary and in the last 12 months the city has gained 25,000 new jobs. Edmonton also benefits from the large number of people who are employed by government or have stable jobs in fields such as health and education, factors that have contributed to the city’s stability. The NDP government, he says, is not expected to introduce any cutbacks in those sectors.

Across the rest of Alberta, low mortgage rates are fuelling a growing segment of the market: first time buyers who are employed in stable jobs. They form the strongest segment of the market. Bruce says that mortgage payments today for a $250,000 condo would be about the same as the cost of renting, which has opened a buying window for millennials.

Record low rates also offer existing homeowners the opportunity to refinance their mortgages in order to reduce their monthly payments.

“We are hitting record low interest rates. These are as low as we have ever seen them. When you getting a five-year fixed rate of 2.39 per cent, that’s unheard off.”

At the same time rates are stimulating demand, builders are often dropping prices to generate sales of unsold new homes. Further, in Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer, homes that were pulled off the market during the darkest days of 2015 are now coming back on the market, increasing the supply. It’s a buyer’s market, says Bruce.

The biggest challenge homebuyers face is fear, he says. When friends and neighbours are facing lay-offs, it’s difficult to make a decision to buy. Countering the fear, however, is the opportunity presented by the combination of low interest rates in a buyer’s market.

“Alberta overall may be a troubled market right now but there are opportunities to jump in.”

This story was provided by Dominion Lending Centres for commercial purposes. Postmedia had no involvement in the creation of this content.

Dominion Lending Centres: Real Estate Market Still Strong In Alberta

1-888-806-8080 www.dominionlending.ca

Advertisement

At Haynes Hall (Travelling east on Highway 11, turn north (left) on Range Road 244 for 3.3 km to Township Road 390. Cross over 390

Refreshments will be served

We hope to see you there!

Community Open House

Agenda:

• Get business and facility operations updates

• Get updates on the Polyethylene 1 Expansion Project

• Discuss any topic of interest

• Provide your input and suggestions

Joffre Site

Please join us:

Wednesday, April 27, 2016• 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. “Drop in to Chat”

• 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Presentation / Discussion

7515410D16-23


RCMP nab 34 speeders in two hours at Taylor and 67th

Red Deer RCMP clocked 34 speeders in just two hours at one location this week.

On April 20, the Red Deer Traffic Unit set up with hand-held lasers at locations on Taylor Drive and on 67 Street to measure the speeds of westbound traffic.

RCMP spent an hour at each location and ticketed a total of 34 drivers going at excessive speeds, including one man who was caught driving 95 km/hr in a 70 zone.

Red Deer RCMP Sgt. Al Nickolson said speed limits exist for public safety reasons. He said RCMP traffic campaigns actively target those drivers who place the community in jeopardy by driving at excessive speeds.

“The faster you’re driving, the more difficult it is to navigate around sudden obstacles and the longer it takes you to stop,” he said. “That makes you that much more likely to cause serious injury or death to yourself or to those around you.”

The Red Deer RCMP Annual Policing Plan identifies safer roads as one of five community priorities.

To report a dangerous driver, call

the RCMP complaint line at 403-343-5575.

RCMP need three pieces of information in order to follow up with traffic complaints including a licence plate of the vehicle. Partial plates can be useful when combined with a description of the vehicle and driver and a written statement from the witness and willingness to attend court if necessary.

Ponoka RCMP hunting for home invasion suspect

Ponoka RCMP are looking for a sus-pect in an attempted home invasion on April 18.

Police say a man knocked loudly on the front door at 51st Street before shoving the sole occupant back into the residence when he answered the door. A fight ensued and the suspect fled the residence.

The suspect is described as a man, tall, bigger frame with short blonde hair. He has a thorn tattoo and a Nova Scotia/Halifax tattoo on his left hand and arm. He was driving a white Nis-san Altima with the Nissan symbol missing from the back of the vehicle.

Do not approach this person simply call the Ponoka RCMP or local police.

If you have information, please call the Ponoka RCMP at 403-783-4472. If you want to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or by internet at www.tipsubmit.com. You do not have to reveal your identity to Crime Stoppers, and if you provide informa-tion to Crime Stoppers that leads to an arrest(s), you may be eligible for a cash reward.

LocalB R I E F S

Duffy judgment shines light on Harper’s PMOBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — There were no apol-ogies from Conservatives on Friday following a scathing court judgment that exonerated Sen. Mike Duffy of 31 expense-related criminal charges while indicting his former political masters in the Prime Minister’s Office of Stephen Harper.

Only Conservative MP Candice Bergen was willing to speak with re-porters, offering up a stout defence of Harper’s leadership while avoiding the specifics of the Duffy verdict.

Judge Charles Vaillancourt, in ac-quitting Duffy of all charges a day earlier, painted an exacting portrait of Harper’s underlings manipulat-ing the Senate using a covert com-mand-and-control system that the vet-eran judge flatly deemed “unaccept-

able.”Tight, centralized control from the

Prime Minister’s Office isn’t a new sto-ry in Canada’s parliamentary system, but the Duffy trial testimony and judg-ment gave rare insight into what Vail-lancourt described as a “mind-bog-gling and shocking” case study.

Donald Savoie, a political scientist who literally wrote the book on “court government,” said that his 1999 aca-demic treatise Governing From the Cen-tre was considered over the top.

“Clearly I didn’t overstate the case,” Savoie said Friday.

From his vantage point, Savoie said Vaillancourt absolved Duffy and found the PMO guilty.

“They over-played their cards,” said the acclaimed student of governments and bureaucracies. “It demonstrated tremendous disrespect for the insti-tutions of the land, for parliament,

for the Senate, for the House of Com-mons.”

“I think the lesson learned for the current PMO is, look, guys and gals, you can’t push your weight around like that anymore. It doesn’t work. The lev-el of transparency now (means) we will know.”

Harper, still the MP for Cal-gary-Heritage, did not respond to a re-quest for comment through his office.

Conservative interim leader Rona Ambrose was not in the House of Com-mons and top former cabinet minis-ters who were on hand, such as Jason Kenney and Peter Van Loan, exited by back doors rather than face reporters seeking reaction to the ruling.

Former cabinet member Michelle Rempel, usually a garrulous and open MP, offered a terse “no comment” as she sped past the microphones.

Only Bergen, the Conservative MP

for Portage-Lisgar and former minister of state for social development, was prepared to face the news cameras and defend her old government.

“I would respectfully disagree with people, including the judge, who some-how thinks that we were all told what to do at the PMO,” said Bergen.

She said the Conservatives worked as a team, while acknowledging Harp-er’s image problem as a control freak, contrasting him to current Prime Min-ister Justin Trudeau.

“It was the narrative because Mr. Harper wasn’t the selfie king at all. He wasn’t in GQ (magazine),” said Bergen.

“He wasn’t talking with all of you (news media) folks as much as you probably would have wanted. The nar-rative then was he’s controlling, he’s a dictator. That was the narrative. It wasn’t true. He was a strong, strong leader.”

YOUR HOSPITAL YOUR LOTTERYMAKING A CRITICAL DIFFERENCE

In support of Red Deer Regional Hospital

SUPPORTINGYOURHOSPITAL

VISIT THIS YEAR’S DREAM HOME AT 117 LAZARO CLOSE, RED DEER

SHOW HOME HOURS: MARCH 11 TO APRIL 30: 1-5 PM DAILY. STARTING MAY 1: WEDNESDAY – SUNDAY 1-5 PM DAILY.

Valued at $799,000

COMPLETE LOTTERY INFORMATION, MEGA BUCKS JACKPOT TOTAL AND ONLINE ORDERING AT HOSPITALSLOTTERY.COM

GUARANTEED MINIMUM PAYOUT OF $100,000OR 50% OF TICKET SALES, WHICHEVER IS GREATER!

TICKETS: 1 FOR $10, 10 FOR $25 AND 25 FOR $50TOTAL TICKETS PRINTED - 215,250CUT-OFF -11PM JUNE 19, 2016

DRAW - JULY 8, 2016

465 TOTAL PRIZES!

ONLINE hospitalslottery.com

OR CALL403.340.1878 1.877.808.9005

TOLL FREERED DEER & AREAMain Lottery Licence 425194 Hospitals’ Mega Bucks 50 Licence 425195

PHONE LINES OPEN 8 AM - 11 PM DAILY. HAVE YOUR VISA OR MASTERCARD NUMBER READY.

CUT-OFF: 11PM JUNE 19 2016 • DRAW: JULY 8 2016

ORDER YOUR TICKETS TODAY$35 EACH | 3 FOR $75 | 5 FOR $100 | 15 FOR $250

ORDER TOLL FREE: 1.877.808.9005WATCH THE JACKPOT GROW AT HOSPITALSLOTTERY.COM

Or buy in person at the Dream Home, 117 Lazaro Close, Red Deer or The Red Deer Regional Health Foundation at 3942 50A Ave, Red Deer.

See the Virtual Tour at hospitalslottery.com

FOLLOW US

DON’T MISS THE EARLY BIRD PRIZES

$500 CASH EVERY DAY IN JUNE 2016 WITH A CANADA DAY DRAW OF $5,000!

BUY BEFORE 11PM MAY 15, 2016 DRAW - JUNE 1, 2016

2016 HARLEY DAVIDSON ROAD KING PLUS $50,000 CASH 31 DAYS OF CRITICAL CASH!

7558

919D

23

David Fedechko DD, Denture Specialist

#140, 2325 - 50th AvenueRed Deer, AB T4R 1M7

www.gaetzavedentureclinic.com

403-358-5558North of Value Village

7478

415C

4-30

“Sometimes you have to wonder if they really

are your best friend”

havereally end”

We provide full denture services

- Complete and Partial Dentures- Implant Supported Dentures- Same Day Relines....and Repairs

As for your best friend, we can’t fi x that!NOW OFFERINGEXTENDED

HOURS


Ottawa wants ideas to reduce emissionsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined world leaders who rushed to put their sig-natures Friday to a global treaty on climate change in hope of bringing it into force.

Now comes the hard part.Canada is nowhere near its target

of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. Emissions are still inching up. A national plan is still being worked out.

Indeed, if you’ve got an idea how all this could work, please tell the federal government. Really — it wants your advice.

Trudeau used his appearance at the United Nations signing ceremony to promote the new website, www.cana-da.ca/climateaction, and the Twitter

hashtag where the government is seek-ing suggestions from Canadians.

“We’re looking for ideas on how to reduce emissions,” he told a news con-ference.

“On the best way to move forward with carbon. And (on) how we can best prepare for and, if possible, avoid the impacts of climate change…. It’s im-portant that all Canadians be part of this conversation.”

He promised not to give up. In his first speech to the UN General Assem-bly hall, Trudeau said: “Today, with my signature, I give you our word that Canada’s efforts will not cease.”

The agreement enters into force once it is ratified by 55 countries ac-counting for 55 per cent of global emis-sions, which is now expected to hap-

pen, given the resounding reaction.The event broke the record for most

first-day signatures for an agreement of its kind. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at least 175 countries signed on: “It is a very moving day for me, per-sonally.”

The pact negotiated last year differs from the old Kyoto accord in several important ways:

● Every major emitter has set indi-vidual targets under this one — unlike Kyoto which excluded fast-developing countries.

● It does not include broad global emissions targets, nor is it binding.

● It does include a mechanism that will report on each country’s progress — it’s a peer-pressure strategy.

The broad goal of the agreement is to keep global temperatures from ris-ing more than 2 C from pre-industrial levels, to stave off the most catastroph-

ic effects of rising sea levels.Trudeau received a warm reaction.

He was mobbed for photos, walking between meetings. The president of Colombia joked that he’s now the most popular leader in the Americas.

And he drew perhaps the most ova-tions of any leader who spoke to the as-sembly. One came when he described the particular challenge facing poorer countries: How to cut emissions, when their economies are growing fastest?

“They shouldn’t be punished for a problem they didn’t create, nor should they be deprived the opportunities for clean growth that developed nations are now pursuing,” Trudeau said.

Developing-country delegations ap-plauded again when he mentioned the $2.65 billion his government budget-ed for international-assistance pro-grams geared towards clean-energy programs.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Government’s assisted-death bill rejects both evidence and advice: NDP critic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The NDP’s justice crit-ic pleaded with the Liberal govern-ment Friday to ensure that desperate-ly ill Canadians don’t have to go back to the Supreme Court to fight contro-versial new legislation on doctor-as-sisted death.

Murray Rankin, a public law expert from Victoria, said he was deeply dis-appointed to find a majority of rec-ommendations made by members of a joint Commons-Senate committee were “missing from or contradicted” by the provisions in the bill.

Rankin, a member of the all-party panel, said the committee had a duty to make recommendations consider-ing all situations that could arise in coming years, such as the issue of ad-vanced consent for patients who face the prospect of losing their faculties.

“We can do better than flatly con-tradicting the evidence of experts and the advice of parliamentarians from all parties and both chambers,” Rankin told the House of Commons as debate on the bill got underway.

Canadians are relying on the gov-ernment to craft an appropriate legis-lative response to the top court’s land-mark ruling, and to get it right, he said.

“The reality is, this moment is not going to come again,” Rankin said. “This means abiding by the letter and

spirit of the Supreme Court ruling and strengthening this bill against obvious challenges to its charter compliance.”

Rankin has a personal connection to the lawyer who represented the B.C. Civil Liberties Association in the case that led to the top court’s ruling on assisted death. He and Joseph Arvay previously worked together at a law firm in B.C.

The exchanges that unfolded Friday in the Commons mark the first instal-ment of what is sure to be a long and emotional debate on the government’s legislative response to the Supreme Court’s ruling from February 2015.

That decision struck down the ban on physician-assisted dying, but was suspended until June 6 to give Parlia-ment a chance to craft a law.

The clock is ticking to pass the proposed legislation and there are already indications there could also be roadblocks once the bill hits the Senate, where some members have already hinted they fear the bill could violate the Charter of Rights and Free-doms.

Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Ray-bould insisted Friday the govern-ment’s bill is consistent with both the Supreme Court’s decision as well as the Constitution.

“There will always be a diversity of opinion about what is required to re-spond to a particular judgment, but it falls to Parliament not only to respect

the court’s decision but also listen to the diverse voices and decide what the public interest demands,” Wilson-Ray-bould said.

Parliament faces a difficult task in addressing this issue, she added.

“It must weigh and balance the per-spectives of those who might be at risk in a permissive regime against those who seek assistance in dying.”

On Thursday, the family of Kay Car-ter — whose bid to obtain an assisted death was at the heart of the Supreme Court decision — said that under the proposed legislation, their mother would not have qualified for medical help to end her life.

“We fought for a half a decade and won our case at the highest court in the land and this bill would erase the victory that we achieved for people like my mom,” Lee Carter said.

“We ask ourselves, ‘What was the point?”’

Wilson-Raybould denied that claim, insisting the legislation — known as Bill C-14 — would in fact ensure that individuals like those who were before the courts in Carter could obtain ac-cess to medical assistance in dying.

Conservative MP Scott Reid also raised concerns about the bill during Friday’s debate, noting he has hesi-tations about the terminology that permits access to competent adults “whose deaths are reasonably foresee-able.”

Police investigate Facebook post about transgender

womanLETHBRIDGE — Dillon Hargreaves

was heading home from the legislature where she had attended a ceremony recognizing 100 years of women’s suf-frage in Alberta when friends forward-ed her a Facebook post suggesting she shouldn’t have been there.

As a transgender woman, Hargreaves says she’s used to hearing such comments and typically ignores them. But when she learned that the post allegedly came from a police offi-cer, she couldn’t let it go.

“I felt that for someone in a position of authority, especially policing, to be posting comments like these was inappropriate and was painting him-self in a light that would make people such as myself question our safety,” Hargreaves said Friday.

The Lethbridge Police Service said in a statement that it had received several concerned messages about an employee’s personal social media post, including an official complaint, and the chief had ordered an investigation.

It said it would work with the com-plainant to address concerns.

“All members of LPS receive diver-sity training and the service is com-mitted to bias-free policing,” said the statement, which added that no other details would be released until the case is resolved.

NEWS IN BRIEF

Defence makes closing arguments in trial over boy’s death


LETHBRIDGE — A lengthy final argument by the defence lawyer for a couple charged in the death of their toddler portrayed them Friday as lov-ing caregivers who didn’t realize the boy was seriously ill.

“I’m going to suggest to you that you will likely conclude that David and Collet Stephan were attentive par-ents,” said Shawn Buckley, who spent four hours reviewing the case for the eight-woman, four-man jury in a Leth-bridge, Alta., courtroom.

The couple is charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life.

Ezekiel Stephan was nearly 19 months old when he died in March 2012. A pathologist testified the cause of death was bacterial meningitis and a lung infection.

His 32-year-old father, who works for a nutritional supplements company out of Raymond, Alta., and 35-year-old mother didn’t seek medical attention until he stopped breathing, when they called 911. He died a couple of days after being taken to hospital.

The couple believed that Ezekiel, who had been sick for weeks, had croup and the flu, and treated him with natural remedies.

Buckley described the Stephans as “very loving and concerned about

their kids’ health. Is it really likely if they were seeing any symptoms that would say ‘go see a doctor’ that they wouldn’t?”

Buckley said the jury has to decide if the Stephans’ actions were a marked departure from what a reasonable and prudent parent would do.

“Did they seek medical attention and did they seek it soon enough?” he asked. “There’s the issue if seeking medical attention could, not would, have made a difference in Ezekiel’s survival.”

Buckley told the jury not a single witness who had seen Ezekiel prior to the 911 call thought he was in need of medical attention.

A friend of the Stephans, who is a registered nurse, testified during the trial that she told the mother the boy might have viral meningitis and ad-vised he be taken to a doctor.

Buckley said Collet Stephan would have taken Ezekiel to a doctor if there had been any “red alert” emergency.

“A doctor’s not always called when a child has a typical illness,” said Buckley, noting that a number of wit-nesses indicated detecting bacterial meningitis can be a “tricky thing.”

Buckley also pointed to the testi-mony of Alberta’s former chief medi-cal officer who disputed the cause of death.

Murray Crawford, Sports Reporter, 403-314-4338 E-mail [email protected] SEE MORE ONLINE AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM>>>>

THE ADVOCATE SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2016

B1SPORTS

RED DEER

CITIZENYEAROF

THEGALA

GUEST SPEAKER: JOURNALIST

MOHAMED FAHMY

May 13, 2016 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Sheraton Red Deer

3310- 50th Ave

Red Deer, AB, T4N 3X9 Canada

Queens’ starting lineup shaping up nicely for next seasonBY DANNY RODE

SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Last season didn’t finish the way the RDC Queens volleyball team would have liked as they won the ACAC con-solation title, but then again it was basically a rebuilding season.

After winning their second-straight Canadian Colleges Athletic Confer-ence championship in 2015, they lost the majority of their starting lineup, leaving head coach Talbot Walton with several holes to fill.

Next season will be a different mat-ter with nine players back, including four starts and three others who saw

significant time. As well middle block-er Megan Schmidt, who played three years prior to taking last year off, has returned.

Schmidt will step right in to replace all-star Whitney Zylstra, who decided late she wasn’t returning.

“Megan is definitely a good pickup,” said Walton. “Whitney was very athlet-ic and super fast getting to the ball, but having someone with Megan’s experi-ence, understanding of training and how to be an everyday player is huge. It goes a long way to setting the tone in practices and for the new people to gain that experience of what we are about.

“Megan played a major role for us down the stretch in the provincials

and nationals. Her growth the last couple of months in her third season was huge. Now taking the year off and coaching some her knowledge will make it so that when the coaches talk with her she will get it.

“There should be a good line of communications between what our ex-pectations are, what the team is doing and how we go about getting that do-ne.”

Walton has both setters — Ashley Fehr and Maegan Kuzyk — returning along with right side McKenna Barth-el, left side Miranda Dawe and middle Hanna Delemont, who start after the team lost Taylor Wickson at Christmas.

Left side Jessica Jones, who saw a significant amount of playing time

last season, and Lauren Marshall, who played some power hitter and libero, is also returning.

Backup middles Fauve Welsh and Cherisse Johannson are returning.

“We’re now into our second year af-ter a big turnover and the people have grown,” said Walton.

“They understand our culture. They used last year to take the step forward and apply what they learned this year. We have 10 players who have the expe-rience and know what we do as a team. They should be a solid base for us to work with.”

Please see QUEENS on Page B2

Rebels drop opener in OTBY MURRAY CRAWFORD

ADVOCATE STAFF

Wheat Kings 4 Rebels 3 OTThe Red Deer Rebels and Brandon

Wheat Kings engaged in a back-and-forth battle to open the series, poten-tially foreshadowing a lengthy Eastern Conference Finals.

It ended with John Quenneville’s second goal of the night 2:53 into over-time. With only Rebels goalie Rylan Toth to beat, his wrist shot fooled the netminder and put an end to Game 1.

“We have to find a way to win Game 2,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter.

Overtime was almost unnecessary.Wheat Kings forward Stelio Mat-

theos scored what looked to be the final dagger — a wrist shot with 44 sec-onds left in regulation. The goal gave the Wheat Kings the late lead, 3-2.

But the Rebels responded.With the extra attacker on and time

winding down, Haydn Fleury carried the puck out of the Rebels zone and got an shot off that was blocked in front. Fleury picked up the loose puck just inside the Wheat Kings blueline and fired a long wrist-shot on net. The seeing-eye shot fooled Wheat Kings goalie Jordan Papirny and tied the game with 4.1 seconds on the clock.

Brandon now has a 1-0 edge with the Game 1 win in the Western Hockey League Eastern Conference Final.

“We played well enough to win,” said Brent Sutter. “We just got loose in the last seven minutes of the game and let some quality scoring chances hap-pen in the middle of the ice on us and they’re going to capitalize.”

The Rebels withstood an early on-slaught from the Wheat Kings, who had five shots in the opening few minutes. The Wheat Kings forecheck kept the Rebels hemmed in their own zone to start the first period. But the Rebels kicked up the tempo in the second and third periods, outshooting the Wheat Kings 27-19 from the second period on.

Sutter said turnovers were a prob-lem and that to win Game 2 they will have to be more careful with the puck.

Hagel had two assists while Evan Polei, Adam Helewka and Fleury were the Rebels goal scorers.

Quenneville led the Wheat Kings with two goals while Duke Reid and Tim McGauley both had three assists.

Toth kicked aside 27 shots while Papirny was up to the task of stopping the Rebels’ barrage of pucks. Papirny made 34 saves in the win.

The two teams are back at it tonight in the best-of-7 series in Brandon for Game 2, puck drop is at 6:30 p.m.

Notes: Akash Bains made his first start of the post-season in place of Ta-den Rattie. The 17-year-old played in three regular season games for the

Rebels … The Rebels have now lost

four straight road games this post-sea-

son … 5,006 fans packed into the Key-

stone Centre for Game 1.

[email protected]

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Oakland Athletics’ Khris Davis is tagged out at home by Toronto Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin during second inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Friday.

Athletics dump Jays for sixth-straight win


Oakland 8 Toronto 5TORONTO — Chris Coghlan drove

in three runs with a homer and Sonny Gray struck out seven as the Oakland Athletics hung on to win their sixth straight with an 8-5 victory Friday over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Oakland (10-7), the only team in the majors yet to lose away from home this season, extended its perfect road re-cord to 7-0 despite squandering a 6-1 lead. Toronto (8-10) lost its third in a row with two hit batters, an error, wild pitch and passed ball adding to an ugly bottom line.

Toronto made it interesting with a run in the sixth and seventh and two in the eighth. But a Khris Davis two-run single off Roberto Osuna padded the Oakland lead with two outs in the ninth when the ball eluded left-fielder Ezequiel Carrera, who was given an error on the play.

Ryan Madson pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his seventh save of the season.

Gray (3-1) faced just two batters over the minimum in the first five innings before fading slightly. He saw seven

Jays come to the plate in a 27-pitch sixth but gave up just one run. In seven innings, the right-hander gave up three runs on six hits with three walks on 100 pitches (59 strikes).

Oakland outhit Toronto 14-8.The game was played under the pall

of a drug suspension, with MLB an-nouncing prior to the game that Jays first baseman Chris Colabello had been suspended for 80 games without pay for testing positive for dehydro-chlormethyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid.

Oakland didn’t help the mood, get-ting to Toronto starter Aaron Sanchez early with one run in the first and three in the second thanks to Cogh-lan’s second homer in as many nights. Sanchez had to escape the bases load-ed with one out in the third.

Gray, meanwhile, mowed down the Jays with five strikeouts in the first two innings.

Please see JAYS on Page B2

Colabello suspended for using PEDs Page B3

Photo by COLIN CORNEAU/Brandon Sun

Brandon Wheat Kings’ Stelio Mattheos (left) pursues Red Deer Rebels’ Adam Musil during the first period of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference final, Friday, at Westman Place in Brandon, MB.

“As for Cherisse she’s coming off a learning year and we saw a lot of upside toward the end of last season.”

As for the two setters, Walton believes they’ll be even better this season, especially with they’re both healthy. Fehr ran into injury problems last season which forced Kuzyk, who moved to RDC from NAIT, to step in full time.

“Maegan had to learn our system so it was a big learning curve for her but she came a long way and toward the end of the season looked better and bet-ter. As for Ashley we’re hopeful she will be healthy.”

The pair will have a strong outside hitting core to work with, led by fourth-year all-star Dawe.

“We’re looking for a lot of things from Miranda in terms of her ability and leadership,” continued Wal-ton, who believes Barthel should be an all-star.

“She can be a dominating right side,” he said. “As for Jessica we have to remind ourselves she was just a first year player.

“Coming from Australia she had a big resume and we half expect she will be at a different level. But in all reality she was a first-year player. But after January she showed she could be a big time player for us on the outside.”

Marshall will also see more time at power this season and will also work with rookie libero Kaylee Domoney from Lindsay Thurber.

“Kaylee grew up around Queens volley-ball,” said Walton. “She’s a multisport athlete and had success in every sport which not only came from her skill, but her person-ality. She has a strong personality for the libero

spot. She understands it and played aggressively.”The other three newcomers are right side McKen-

na Olson of Saskatoon and left side Katyrina Dawe of Grande Prairie, who is Miranda’s sister, and Brittney Davis of Sherwood Park.’

All three bring impressive resumes.“Katrina is smaller than Miranda, but hits the ball

a tonne while passing and defending well. Brittney was looking at the CIS, but that fell through and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time. She’s six-foot-one and aggressive.

“As for Olson we were once again fortunate. Just after we lost (Kelsey Paton) I got an email from McK-enna saying she was interested in our program. She’s also six-foot to six-one and a good blocker.”

Danny Rode is a retired Advocate reporter who can be reached at [email protected]. His work can also be seen at www.rdc.ab.ca/athleticsblog.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Philadelphia 2 WashingtonWASHINGTON — Standing in the same crease

that Steve Mason allowed a goal from 101 feet out, Philadelphia Flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth saw shots from every angle and didn’t crack. Not even once.

Neuvirth stopped all 44 shots the Washington Cap-itals threw his way Friday night, carrying the Flyers to a 2-0 victory and sending the first-round playoff series back to Philadelphia for Game 6 on Sunday.

“They came at us pretty hard and if it’s not for Neuvy, we’re not winning this game,” Flyers captain Claude Giroux said.

After the Capitals took a 3-0 series lead, Neuvirth has been the difference since replacing Mason for Game 4 on Wednesday. Neuvirth has stopped 75 of 76 shots against the team that drafted and developed him after Mason allowed 12 goals on 81 shots.

It didn’t matter that Washington outshot Philadel-phia 44-11 and an almost unbelievable 35-6 at 5-on-5. It’s the first time a team won a Stanley Cup playoff game with 11 shots since the Capitals beat the Otta-wa Senators in 1998, and that total is the fewest shots in Flyers history counting the regular season and playoffs.

Neuvirth said he got used to heavy shot totals by playing with the lowly Buffalo Sabres last season, though this tied the second-biggest disparity by a los-ing playoff team since 1989-90, according to STATS.

“I like to face a lot of shots. It keeps me in the game,” said Neuvirth, who set a franchise records for saves in a playoff shutout and saves in a regula-tion playoff game. “I enjoy it. Guys did a really good job in front of me. I was seeing the puck well. We didn’t take any bad penalties, and we stuck to our system and big win for us.”

It’s the biggest win yet for the Flyers, who are still feeling the emotions of the death of founder Ed Snid-er, whose public memorial service they attended Thursday before travelling to Washington. Yet they were not at their sharpest in Game 5, which Giroux called the Capitals’ “best game of the series.”

The Flyers went 0 for 6 on the power play to fall to 1 for 21 in the series. Ryan White scored three sec-onds after a penalty expired as the puck bounced off Capitals defenceman Taylor Chorney’s left skate and past Braden Holtby 7:52 into the second period.

“To get it by that guy, they’re not going to be pret-ty on him,” White said about Holtby, who made nine saves. “Doesn’t matter how they go in.”

It matters to the Capitals, who lost back-to-back games in regulation after not doing so the entire regular season on the way to the Presidents’ Trophy. They chalked the loss up almost entirely to Neuvirth,

who stopped eight shots from superstar Alex Ovech-kin and five each from defencemen John Carlson and Karl Alzner.

“We have lots of perimeter shots, but we don’t have traffic in front of the net,” Ovechkin said. “You see all these shots that he makes, he sees every-thing.”

Washington coach Barry Trotz pointed to the 82 shot attempts as an indication of his team’s domi-nant play. There’s no arguing the Capitals were the better team.

“We had a couple good looks and we didn’t finish them,” Trotz said. “They got a little bit of a lucky goal. You put the puck to the net, sometimes, it goes in. It did. I went off, I think it was Chorney’s toe and went in, and it was really a nothing play. If we play like that, next game, we should be fine.”

Game 6 is noon Sunday at Wells Fargo Center. Even the thought of a Game 6 earlier in the week

would have been unfathomable, but thanks to Neu-virth it’s a reality.

“Neuvy stole us a game,” Flyers forward Sam Gag-ner said. “He’s made a lot of big, timely saves for us and kept us alive.”

Relying on Neuvirth to withstand onslaught after onslaught is not the Flyers’ plan moving forward, but there is some history to that in Washington. A hand-ful of Capitals players need only think back to 2010 when Jaroslav Halak stopped 217 of 231 shots and the Montreal Canadiens erased a 3-1 series deficit to pull off the upset.

That same year, the Flyers erased a 3-0 deficit to beat the Boston Bruins.

NOTES: Chris VandeVelde added an empty-net-ter for the Flyers with 30.8 seconds left. … Capitals forward T.J. Oshie fought Flyers forward Brayden Schenn off the opening faceoff.

2319 Taylor Drive, Red Deer Ph: 403.346.5555Monday.-Friday. 7 am - 5:30 pm, Saturday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Sunday Closed

April 18 - May 8, 2016*Cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Buy any container (3.4L-3.78L and 850mL-946mL sizes) of Dulux or Glidden paint at the regular retail price and get the second container (of equal or lesser value) free. Excludes Flood products. All products may not be available at all locations. See instore for offer details. At participating locations only. © 2016 PPG Industries Inc. All rights reserved. Dulux is a registered trademark of AkzoNobel and is licensed to PPG Architectural Coatings Canada Inc. for use in Canada only. The Multi-Colored Swatches Design is a trademark of PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc. Glidden is a registered trademark of the PPG Group of Companies.

learn more at Dulux.ca

© 2016, PPG Industried Inc. All rights reserved. Dulux is a registered trademark of AkzoNobel and is licensed to PPG Architectural Coatings Canada, Inc. for use in Canada only. The Multi-Colored Swatches Design is a trademark of PPG Architectural Finished, Inc. Glidden is a registered trademark of the PPG Group of Companies.

7563

070D

21-E

7

April 18 - May 8, 2016*Cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Buy any container (3.4L-3.78L and 850mL-946mL sizes) of Dulux orxGlidden paint at the regular retail price and get the second container (of equal or lesser value) free. Excludes Flood products.d

What year is your room stuck in?Buy one, get one FREE*on all Dulux manufactured paint

One Travel

Saturday, April 23, 2016SPORTS B2

Stellar Neuvirth forces Game 6

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner (27) can’t score past Philadelphia Flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth (30), from the Czech Republic, during the second period of Game 5 in a first-round NHL Stanley Cup hockey playoff series, Friday.

He retired the first eight batters he faced before Darwin Barney hit a solo homer to left in the third. It was the first Gray delivery to exit the infield.

Oakland added two more runs in the fifth on two singles, a wild pitch and Coco Crisp double before Sanchez finally got an out before giving way to left-hander Chad Girodo for his major-league debut.

Sanchez (1-1) gave up six runs on 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings with three strikeouts and one walk. He threw 85 pitches, including 53 strikes, in facing 25 hitters in his worst outing in 15 career starts (he gave up five earned runs in 5 2/3 innings against Baltimore last May).

Girodo, facing an Oakland lineup filled with left-handers, threw two scoreless innings before giving way to Jesse Chavez and Osuna.

Down 6-1, Toronto finally got to Gray in the sixth, loading the bases with no outs on walks to Barney and Josh Donaldson and a Carrera double. The Jays managed just one run — on a Jose Bautista sacri-fice fly — as Edwin Encarnacion flied out and Josh Thole, with the bases loaded again, grounded out. Thole had come in for Russell Martin, who had neck spasms.

Toronto cut the lead to 6-3 in the seventh on Bar-ney’s RBI single and scored two more on Kevin Pil-lar’s bases-loaded single off reliever Sean Doolittle with two outs in the eighth.

Justin Smoak, who had been platooning at first with Colabello, started at first base. Toronto gave left-fielder Michael Saunders (hamstring) and short-stop Troy Tulowitzki (hip) the night off, with Carrera starting in left and hitting leadoff, Barney at second and Ryan Goins shifting to shortstop.

Carrera threw out a greedy Davis at the plate as Sanchez gave up three straight singles to open the second. But one out later, Coghlan took him deep to left-centre to make it 4-0.

Oakland’s speed negated double-play attempts in the second and, at first blush, in the third inning. But after review, Crisp was returned to second base on the grounds that Barney had not touched the sec-ond-base bag when he tried to start the double play. That left the bases loaded with one out but Sanchez escaped further damage.

Another Oakland-requested video review in the fourth did result in a double play, with Toronto’s Encarnacion called out at first. The Jays lost a video replay in the ninth with Carrera ruled not to have beaten the throw at first.

Oakland came into the game having held its op-ponents to 2.4 runs an outing during its five previous games.

Toronto, which led the league last season with 891 runs (5.5 per game), had scored 65 in its 17 previous games (3.8 per game) this year to rank 12th in the ma-jors. The Jays also led the majors in strikeouts with 164, hitting just .141 with two strikes over the past 14 days.

NOTES: The Jays confirmed the signing of Mi-chael Bourn, a 33-year-old outfielder who split last season between Cleveland and Atlanta. He will be assigned to Buffalo. A former all-star known for his speed, Bourn has been hampered by injuries in re-cent years.

JAYS: Athletics to quick, avoid double plays

STORIES FROM PAGE B1

QUEENS: Impressive resumes

Delemont is a bit shorter, but played well the sec-ond half of the season.

“She played a big role for us. She stepped in and handled the position well,” said Walton, who expects Welsh and Johannson to be solid backups.

“Fauve is coming off her best season by far and that has a lot to do with her dedicating herself to her physical training. She makes good decisions and un-derstands the game. And her new strength will help put her into a position of dependability.

Quine wins it in 2nd OT, Islanders top Panthers 2-1

SUNRISE, Fla. — It’s been 23 years since the New York Islanders won a post-season series, a span that has seen the team use 383 players, hire 12 coaches, even change home arenas.

No team in the NHL has waited longer to advance.And the Islanders have two chances to end that

drought.Alan Quine scored on a power play at 16 minutes

of the second overtime, Thomas Greiss stopped 47 shots and the Islanders beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 on Friday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series. The Islanders lead the series 3-2 and can wrap it up at home Sunday in Game 6.

Roberto Luongo made 40 saves for Florida, which missed a penalty shot in the first overtime and was whistled for two penalties in the second overtime.

“We got the bounce on the power play,” Islanders coach Jack Capuano said.

The game ended at 12:16 a.m., and was the seventh consecutive play-off overtime loss for Flor-ida — a streak beginning with the final game of the 1996 Stanley Cup final against Colorado.

Panthers coach Gerard Gallant tipped his cap to Greiss.

“I think we’re playing great hockey,” Gallant said. “We’re getting great scoring chances. The kid’s playing really well. … Hopefully, sooner or later, we’re going to get some breaks.”

The Isles’ second OT power play came when

Derek Mackenzie was called for slashing at 14:31, and that would be the break New York finally need-ed. Quine took a pass from Marek Zidlicky and fired a blast from the right side that beat Luongo, and the Islanders swarmed the ice in celebration.

Red Wings follow refrain, make brief appearance in playoffs

DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings have devel-oped a pattern of consistency, and that’s not neces-sarily a good thing.

Detroit extended its post-season streak to 25, a feat the franchise hailed by showing a slickly pro-duced video montage before each of its two home playoff games.

The Red Wings, though, exited the playoffs in the first round for the third straight year and fourth time in five years. Since coming within a win of repeating as Stanley Cup champions in 2009, the Red Wings ha-ven’t made it past the second round.

The Red Wings lost 1-0 on Thursday night at Tam-pa Bay in Game 5 of their first-round season series.

“It was a very disappointing season,” Detroit gen-eral manager Ken Holland said Friday night. “We had higher hopes.”

Now, the Red Wings will have to hope Pavel Dat-syuk changes his mind about retiring or that they’re able to trade the last year of his $7.5 million salary to a team looking to inflate its salary cap to the league minimum without having to pay him.


The performance-enhancing substance that a To-ronto Blue Jays player tested positive for is known to boost recovery time in athletes, not bulk up their size.

First baseman Chris Colabello, suspended for 80 games on Friday, is the second baseball player in as many weeks to test positive for dehydrochlormeth-yltestosterone, an anabolic steroid sold under the name Turinabol.

“It would help in recovery, that’s its main form in this type of sport,” said Dr. Stuart Phillips, a profes-sor of kinesiology at McMaster University.

While body builders use the drug to gain a little bit of muscle, Phillips said its benefit for a baseball player would be the ability to recover faster to with-stand the rigours of a 162-game season.

Phillips has been at McMaster for 19 years and specializes in the interaction between weightlifting and nutrition. He also runs a lab at the Hamilton university that’s equipped with a detection and anal-ysis system he describes as “much the same as the system used by the doping lab that would have tested Colabello’s sample.”

Phillips said he could see why baseball players like Colabello — and Philadelphia Phillies left-hander Daniel Stumpf who was suspended 80 games after testing positive for the same drug last week — might find Turinabol appealing.

“Appreciate that a baseball player who flies around the United States and Canada, plays 162 games day in and day out, swings a bat at very high speed I would estimate around 3,000 times in a sea-son … that creates a tremendous amount of wear and tear on muscles, joints and ligaments,” Phillips said. “This substance, if it were to enhance anything, it would help with recovery from all that type of exer-tion.

“The bottom line is, if he had an enhancement, he recovers a little quicker and essentially comes back a little lighter on his feet the next day.”

The drug first came to light in the 1960s when an East German pharmaceutical company produced and gave East German Olympic athletes Turinabol during the 1970s and 1980s.

According to a 2005 article printed in the Guard-ian, 800 East German athletes who were given Turinabol developed serious ailments, including infertility among women, breast cancer, heart prob-lems and testicular cancer.

“Essentially the whole idea was to generate a class of substances that didn’t have to be injected and could have some anabolic effects,” Phillips said of the drug’s creation. “It’s gone in and out of favour

in clinical areas and athletic circles and it’s been on the shelf for a long time. The main point is it’s not made. In fairness, you have to search for it now.”

Colabello said in a statement issued by the MLB Players’ Association on Friday that he wasn’t sure how dehydrochlormethyltestosterone ended up in his system.

Phillips did say the drug could be taken acciden-tally.

“That’s a hard one to say because it is orally in-gested,” he said. “If there’s an out, if that’s the right word, from taking this stuff it is that it could have been in something like that (protein powder or sup-plements). “But I would imagine that the doses of

which it was found (would be) unable to be masked.”Colabello and Stumpf are not the only athletes to

test positive for the drug recently.In 2014 the International Ice Hockey Federation

banned Latvia’s Ralfs Freibergs for two years follow-ing an anti-doping rule violation for Turinabol com-mitted during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. An IIHF statement from Feb. 2014 said Freibergs’s positive test followed Latvia’s quarter-final loss to the eventual Olympic champion Canadians.

Track athlete Elena Nikulina, who specializes in the women’s 400 metres, received a four-year ban from the Russian Olympic Committee last January after testing positive for Turinabol.

TRAIN YOUR BODY AND YOUR MIND

GET IN AMAZING SHAPE AND DISCOVER THE POWERFUL ART OF

MUAY THAI KICKBOXING

START TODAY AND SAVE 20% ON START TODAY AND SAVE 20% ON YOUR STARTER PACKAGE!YOUR STARTER PACKAGE!

Call us at 403-350-3842 or email Call us at 403-350-3842 or email

[email protected] to get [email protected] to get started!!

PulseSURVEY

to the

WINNERS

RESEARCH

Of $1000 each in Bower Mall and Parkland Mall gift certifi cates

Left Wendy Moore, Advocate Advertising Manager. Right Winner Brett Neilson

Left Mary Kemmis, Advocate Publisher.Right Winner Dallas Jones


Colabello suspended for PEDs

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Toronto Blue Jays’ Chris Colabello hams it up on photo day at the team’s spring training facility, in Dunedin, FL. Colabello has been suspended for 80 games without pay after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.


Minnesota Wild center Mikko Koivu celebrates his goal during overtime in Game 5 against the Dallas Stars in the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs Friday in Dallas. The Wild won 5-4.

Koivu keeps Wild alive with winner in OT


Minnesota 5 Dallas 4 (OT)DALLAS — Mikko Koivu redirected Ryan Suter’s

shot from the left point 4:55 into overtime and the Minnesota Wild beat the Dallas Stars 5-4 on Friday night to stay alive in their first-round series.

Koivu scored the last two goals for the Wild, who go home still down 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 is Sunday.

Jason Spezza and Alex Goligoski scored 28 apart almost midway through the third period, giving the Stars their first lead of the game.

But the Wild forced overtime when Koivu went top shelf for the tying goal with 3:09 left in regula-tion. Koivu, the Wild’s leading scorer in the regular season with 56 points, had only one goal without an assist in the series until then.

Dallas fell behind 2-0 in the first 5 ½ minutes and didn’t lead until Goligoski’s goal with 11:04 left in regulation that hit the back of defenceman Marco Scandella on the way into the net and made it 4-3.

That came right after Spezza’s third goal of the series. With a defender tugging along, Spezza sent a shot that slid in front of Devan Dubnyk and hit the far post before ricocheting past the line to tie it.

Dubnyk stopped 37 shots.Antti Niemi stopped 19 of 24 shots in his second

consecutive start in the series for Dallas after Kari Lehtonen was in goal for the first three games.

After a scoreless, sometimes lethargic second pe-riod, the third period started with Minnesota up 2-1. The teams then almost immediately traded goals in a span of 50 seconds.

Stars captain Jamie Benn tied it at 2 with some nifty stick work, guiding the puck around Dubnyk and into the net only a minute into the third period.

The Wild didn’t stay down long, with Nino Nieder-reiter scoring to put them back up.

Like he has all season, Stars coach Lindy Ruff has gone with both goalies in the playoffs.

Lehtonen was in net when the Stars won the first two games at home, and for the 5-3 loss in Game 3 at Minnesota. Niemi then stopped 28 shots in their 3-2 win in Game 4, but gave up two goals in less than 5 ½ minutes Friday night.

SportsB R I E F S

THE ADVOCATESCOREBOARD B4S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 3 , 2 0 1 6

Local SportsLocal SportsToday

● Rugby: Red Deer Titans at Drayton Valley Riggers, 2 p.m., Frank Maddock

High School● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Brandon Wheat Kings, 6:30 p.m., the Drive

BasketballBasketballNBA PlayoffsFIRST ROUND

(Best-of-7 x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCECleveland 3, Detroit 0Sunday, April 17: Cleveland 106, Detroit 101Wednesday, April 20: Cleveland 107, Detroit 90Friday, April 22: Cleveland 101 Detroit 91Sunday, April 24: Cleveland at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.x-Tuesday, April 26: Detroit at Cleveland, TBA

Toronto 2, Indiana 1Saturday, April 16: Indiana 100, Toronto 90Monday, April 18: Toronto 98, Indiana 87Thursday, April 21: Toronto 101, Indiana 85Saturday, April 23: Toronto at Indiana, 1 p.m.Tuesday, April 26: Indiana at Toronto, TBAx-Friday, April 29: Toronto at Indiana, TBAx-Sunday, May 1: Indiana at Toronto, TBA

Miami 2, Charlotte 0Sunday, April 17: Miami 123, Charlotte 91Wednesday, April 20: Miami 115, Charlotte 103Saturday, April 23: Miami at Charlotte, 3:30 p.m.Monday, April 25: Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.x-Wednesday, April 27: Charlotte at Miami, 6 p.m.

Atlanta 2, Boston 1Saturday, April 16: Atlanta 102, Boston 101Tuesday, April 19: Atlanta 89, Boston 72Friday, April 22: Boston 111 Atlanta 103Sunday, April 24: Atlanta at Boston, 4 p.m.x-Tuesday, April 26: Boston at Atlanta, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Golden State 2, Houston 1Saturday, April 16: Golden State 104, Houston 78Monday, April 18: Golden State 115, Houston 106Thursday, April 21: Houston 97, Golden State 96Sunday, April 24: Golden State at Houston, 1:30 p.m.Wednesday, April 27: Houston at Golden State, 7 or 8:30 p.m.x-Friday, April 29: Golden State at Houston, TBA

San Antonio 3, Memphis 0Sunday, April 17: San Antonio 106, Memphis 74Tuesday, April 19: San Antonio 94, Memphis 68Friday, April 22: San Antonio 96 Memphis 87Sunday, April 24: San Antonio at Memphis, 11 a.m.x-Tuesday, April 26: Memphis at San Antonio, TBAx-Thursday, April 28: San Antonio at Memphis, TBA

Oklahoma City 2, Dallas 1Saturday, April 16: Oklahoma City 108, Dallas 70Monday, April 18: Dallas 85, Oklahoma City 84Thursday, April 21: Oklahoma City 131, Dallas 102Saturday, April 23: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6 p.m.Monday, April 25: Dallas at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.x-Thursday, April 28: Oklahoma City at Dallas, TBA

L.A. Clippers 2, Portland 0Sunday, April 17: L.A. Clippers 115, Portland 95Wednesday, April 20: L.A. Clippers 102, Portland 81Saturday, April 23: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.Monday, April 25: L.A. Clippers at Portland, 8:30 p.m.x-Wednesday, April 27: Portland at L.A. Clippers, 7, 8 or 8:30 p.m.x-Friday, April 29: L.A. Clippers at Portland, TBA

GolfGolfTEXAS OPEN

Partial Second Rounda-amateur

Brendan Steele 64-70—134Scott Langley 69-68—137Stuart Appleby 67-70—137Charley Hoffman 66-71—137Ricky Barnes 68-70—138Patrick Reed 65-73—138Ryan Palmer 68-70—138Jon Curran 70-68—138Mark Wilson 69-69—138Sung Kang 71-67—138Peter Malnati 67-71—138Luke Donald 69-70—139Brandt Snedeker 70-69—139Spencer Levin 69-70—139Andres Romero 69-71—140Jason Gore 70-70—140Zac Blair 70-70—140William McGirt 71-70—141K.J. Choi 71-70—141Kyle Stanley 73-68—141Kevin Chappell 71-70—141Harold Varner III 69-72—141Padraig Harrington 70-71—141Kevin Streelman 70-71—141Bryce Molder 70-71—141Shawn Stefani 72-69—141Cameron Tringale 71-70—141Brian Stuard 73-69—142D.H. Lee 71-71—142Chris Kirk 71-71—142Daniel Summerhays 72-70—142Mark Hubbard 72-70—142Chad Collins 73-69—142Whee Kim 72-70—142Keegan Bradley 71-71—142Billy Horschel 70-72—142J.B. Holmes 72-70—142Ben Crane 71-71—142Dicky Pride 70-72—142Kyle Reifers 71-71—142John Rollins 74-69—143Tom Gillis 72-71—143Greg Owen 74-69—143Nick Taylor 75-68—143Francesco Molinari 68-75—143Brendon de Jonge 69-74—143D.J. Trahan 74-69—143Wes Roach 72-71—143Thomas Aiken 71-72—143Andrew Landry 70-73—143Matt Jones 69-74—143Brian Harman 70-73—143Luke List 71-72—143Kelly Kraft 72-71—143John Merrick 70-74—144David Hearn 73-71—144George McNeill 71-73—144Branden Grace 72-72—144Matt Kuchar 71-73—144Johnson Wagner 70-74—144Freddie Jacobson 69-75—144Brice Garnett 73-71—144Bronson Burgoon 73-71—144Tom Hoge 76-68—144Steve Flesch 68-76—144Aaron Baddeley 74-70—144John Huh 70-74—144Tim Wilkinson 73-71—144Chris Stroud 72-72—144Zach Johnson 69-75—144Justin Leonard 73-71—144Scott Stallings 74-70—144Roberto Castro 73-71—144D.A. Points 73-71—144Jason Kokrak 72-73—145Marc Turnesa 72-73—145Brooks Koepka 73-72—145J.J. Henry 70-75—145Robby Ormand 73-72—145Carlos Ortiz 78-67—145Ernie Els 72-73—145Camilo Villegas 74-71—145Brendon Todd 73-72—145

Andres Gonzales 74-71—145Justin Hicks 74-71—145Brett Stegmaier 75-71—146Rory Sabbatini 73-73—146John Senden 76-70—146Geoff Ogilvy 75-71—146Si Woo Kim 72-74—146Will MacKenzie 73-73—146Henrik Norlander 75-71—146Rhein Gibson 74-72—146Russell Henley 73-73—146Hunter Mahan 72-74—146Seung-Yul Noh 73-73—146James Hahn 75-71—146Rod Pampling 73-73—146Scott Pinckney 72-74—146Chad Campbell 71-75—146Chez Reavie 76-71—147Steve Marino 74-73—147Richard H. Lee 73-74—147Ben Curtis 75-72—147Alex Prugh 75-72—147Robert Garrigus 74-73—147Thongchai Jaidee 72-75—147Derek Ernst 73-74—147Bryson DeChambeau 74-73—147Jhonattan Vegas 75-73—148Phil Mickelson 77-71—148Paul McConnell 73-75—148Julien Brun 76-72—148Andrew Loupe 76-72—148Hudson Swafford 72-77—149Chesson Hadley 76-73—149Patrick Rodgers 76-74—150Greg Chalmers 73-77—150Cameron Percy 74-76—150David Mathis 75-75—150Michael Bradley 75-75—150Billy Mayfair 75-76—151Troy Merritt 77-74—151Brian Gay 75-76—151Michael Thompson 78-73—151Tim Herron 77-74—151Ted Purdy 75-76—151Carl Pettersson 74-77—151Hunter Stewart 74-78—152Jimmy Walker 75-77—152Dawie van der Walt 77-75—152Cameron Beckman 74-79—153Frank Lickliter II 76-77—153Darron Stiles 75-78—153Brett Wetterich 81-73—154Luke Guthrie 78-77—155Matt Every 78-77—155Michael Putnam 74-81—155a-Brad Dalke 73-85—158

SWINGING SKIRTS CLASSICAt Lake Merced GC. Yards

Daly City, Calif.Purse: $2 million

Yardage: 6,507 Par: 72Second Round

a-denotes amateurHaru Nomura 65-70—135Minjee Lee 73-65—138Na Yeon Choi 68-70—138So Yeon Ryu 63-75—138Karine Icher 71-68—139Gerina Piller 70-69—139Brittany Lang 69-70—139Lydia Ko 68-71—139Julie Yang 72-68—140Lee-Anne Pace 71-69—140Mi Hyang Lee 69-71—140Catriona Matthew 68-72—140Angel Yin 70-71—141Su Oh 70-71—141Danielle Kang 69-72—141Carlota Ciganda 74-68—142Brooke M. Henderson 71-71—142Kelly Tan 70-72—142Azahara Munoz 70-72—142Ryann O’Toole 69-73—142Xi Yu Lin 67-75—142Christel Boeljon 67-75—142

Shanshan Feng 74-69—143Mika Miyazato 73-70—143Christina Kim 72-71—143Morgan Pressel 72-71—143Amy Yang 72-71—143Tiffany Joh 70-73—143Moriya Jutanugarn 69-74—143Hee Young Park 74-70—144Mi Jung Hur 72-72—144Mariajo Uribe 71-73—144Cristie Kerr 71-73—144Katherine Kirk 70-74—144Wei-Ling Hsu 69-75—144Candie Kung 65-79—144Kelly W Shon 76-69—145Sakura Yokomine 73-72—145Jessica Korda 72-73—145Jenny Shin 72-73—145Jaye Marie Green 72-73—145Tzu-Chi Lin 72-73—145Brittany Lincicome 71-74—145In Gee Chun 71-74—145Min Lee 71-74—145Ariya Jutanugarn 71-74—145Julieta Granada 70-75—145Lindy Duncan 73-73—146Nasa Hataoka 73-73—146Chella Choi 73-73—146Ssu-Chia Cheng 73-73—146Jodi Ewart Shadoff 73-73—146Michelle Wie 73-73—146Lee Lopez 72-74—146Caroline Masson 72-74—146Lexi Thompson 72-74—146Rachel Rohanna 68-78—146Gaby Lopez 73-74—147Austin Ernst 73-74—147Sadena A Parks 73-74—147Alena Sharp 73-74—147Anna Nordqvist 73-74—147Sandra Changkija 72-75—147Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras 72-75—147

EL BOSQUE MEXICO CHAMPIONSHIP At El Bosque CC

Leon, MexicoPurse: $650,000

Yardage: 7,762 Par: 72Partial Second Round

Wesley Bryan 68-63—131Brad Fritsch 66-65—131Martin Flores 69-66—135Adam Long 70-66—136Seamus Power 70-67—137Ryan Brehm 66-72—138Eric Axley 72-66—138Kevin Tway 69-69—138Doug Letson 69-69—138Justin Hueber 72-66—138J.J. Spaun 69-69—138Jason Millard 70-68—138Ryan Armour 70-68—138Denny McCarthy 68-71—139Andrew Putnam 67-72—139Brandon Hagy 72-67—139Sebastian Vazquez 69-70—139Jonathan Byrd 69-70—139Scott Harrington 70-69—139Ian Davis 69-71—140B.J. Staten 68-72—140Rafael Campos 70-70—140Tag Ridings 70-70—140Ollie Schniederjans 71-69—140Max Homa 72-68—140Timothy Madigan 70-71—141Andy Winings 71-70—141Sebastian Cappelen 71-70—141Roger Sloan 70-71—141Nicholas Maruri 72-69—141Greg Eason 71-70—141Jin Park 72-69—141Gonzalo Fdez-Castano 71-70—141Mark Anderson 69-72—141Erik Barnes 71-70—141Cody Gribble 70-71—141Aaron Watkins 72-70—142

HockeyHockeyWHL 2016 Playoffs

Second RoundDIVISION FINALS

(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCEEast DivisionBrandon (1) vs. Moose Jaw (3)(Brandon wins series 4-1)

Central DivisionRed Deer (2) vs. Regina (WC1)(Red Deer wins series 4-3)Tuesday’s resultRed Deer 2 Regina 1

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DivisionVictoria (1) vs. Kelowna (2)(Kelowna wins series 4-3)Tuesday’s resultKelowna 3 Victoria 2 (OT)

U.S. DivisionSeattle (1) vs. Everett (2)(Seattle wins series 4-1)

Third RoundCONFERENCE FINALS(Best-of-7)EASTERN CONFERENCEBrandon (E1) vs. Red Deer (C2)(Brandon leads series 1-0)Friday’s gameBrandon 4 Red Deer 3 (OT)Saturday’s gameRed Deer at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 26Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Apr. 27Brandon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Friday, Apr. 29x-Red Deer at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, May 1x-Brandon at Red Deer, 5 p.m.Tuesday, May 3x-Red Deer at Brandon, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCESeattle (U1) vs. Kelowna (B2)(Seattle leads series 1-0)Friday’s gameSeattle 2 Kelowna 1Saturday’s gameSeattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.Tuesday, Apr. 26Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.Wednesday, Apr. 27Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.Friday, Apr. 29x-Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.Sunday, May 1x-Kelowna at Seattle, 5:05 p.m.Tuesday, May 3x-Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.x — played only if necessary.

WHL Playoff Scoring LeadersAdam Brooks REG 7 16 23Jack Walker VIC 8 8 16Dryden Hunt MJ 7 9 16John Quenneville BDN 7 9 16Cole Sanford REG 7 9 16Brayden Point MJ 6 10 16Reid Duke BDN 6 10 16Sam Steel REG 6 10 16Jayden Halbgewachs MJ 9 6 15

Tanner Jeannot MJ 6 9 15Brett Howden MJ 4 11 15Tim McGauley BDN 6 7 13Nolan Patrick BDN 5 8 13Adam Helewka RD 8 4 12Tyler Soy VIC 7 5 12Jake DeBrusk RD 5 7 12Mathew Barzal SEA 2 10 12Jayce Hawryluk BDN 2 10 12Justin Kirkland KEL 8 3 11Alex Forsberg VIC 5 6 11Rourke Chartier KEL 5 6 11Tomas Soustal KEL 5 6 11Connor Hobbs REG 4 6 10Keanu Yamamoto SPO 3 7 10Luke Philp RD 3 7 10Michael Spacek RD 2 8 10Lane Zablocki REG 7 2 9Evan Polei RD 5 4 9Kale Clague BDN 4 5 9Gage Quinney KAM 3 6 9Ethan Bear SEA 3 6 9Noah Gregor MJ 3 6 9Austin Wagner REG 3 6 9Colby Williams REG 2 7 9

FRIDAY’S SUMMARIESWheat Kings 4, Rebels 3 (OT)

First Period1. Brandon, Quenneville 8 (Duke, McGauley) 19:33.Penalties — DeBrusk RD (interference) 9:45 Bran-don bench (too many men served by Mattheos) 16:32.

Second PeriodNo Scoring.Penalties — Patrick Bdn (goaltender interference) 5:06 Quenneville Bdn (high-sticking) 9:43 Fleury RD (hooking) 11:33 Brandon bench (too many men served by Mattheos) 14:10.

Third Period2. Red Deer, Polei 6 (Musil, Hagel) 3:39 (pp).3. Red Deer, Helewka 9 (Hagel, Spacek) 7:54.4. Brandon, Provorov 3 (Duke, McGauley) 13:39.5. Brandon, Mattheos 3 (Campbell, Erkamps) 19:16.6. Red Deer, Fleury 2, 19:55.Penalties — Mattheos Bdn (high-sticking), 2:35 Musil RD, Polei RD, Mattheos Bdn, Provorov Bdn (roughing) 8:33 Coulter Bdn (roughing) 9:06.

Overtime7. Brandon, Quenneville 9 (Duke, McGauley) 2:53.Penalties — None.

Shots on goal byRed Deer 10 12 12 2 — 37Brandon 12 7 10 2 — 31Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 2-2-1) Brandon: Papirny (W, 9-3).Power plays (goals-chances) — Red Deer: 1-6 Brandon: 0-2.Referees — Mike Campbell, Derek Zalaski. Lines-men — Kelsey Mahoney, Darrell Surminski.Attendance — 5,060 at Brandon, Man.

2016 Stanley Cup PlayoffsFirst Round

DIVISION SEMIFINALS(Best-of-7)

EASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic DivisionFlorida (1) vs. N.Y. Islanders (WC1)(New York leads series 3-2)Wednesday’s resultFlorida 2 N.Y. Islanders 1Sunday’s resultN.Y. Islanders 4 Florida 3 (OT)Friday’s gameN.Y. Islanders 2 Florida 1 (OT)

Sunday’s gameFlorida at N.Y. Islanders, TBA

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3)(Tampa Bay wins series 4-1)Thursday’s resultTampa Bay 1 Detroit 0Tuesday’s resultTampa Bay 3 Detroit 2

Metropolitan DivisionWashington (1) vs. Philadelphia (WC2)(Washington leads series 3-2)Wednesday’s resultPhiladelphia 2 Washington 1Monday’s resultWashington 6 Philadelphia 1Friday’s gamePhiladelphia 2 Washington 0Sunday’s gamex-Washington at Philadelphia, TBA

Pittsburgh (2) vs. N.Y. Rangers (3)(Pittsburgh leads series 3-1)Thursday’s resultPittsburgh 5 N.Y. Rangers 0Tuesday’s resultPittsburgh 3 N.Y. Rangers 1Saturday’s gameN.Y. Rangers at Pittsburgh, TBAMonday, Apr. 25x-Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral DivisionDallas (1) vs. Minnesota (WC2)(Dallas leads series 3-2)Wednesday’s resultDallas 3 Minnesota 2Monday’s resultMinnesota 5 Dallas 3Friday’s gameMinnesota 5 Dallas 4 (OT)Sunday’s gamex-Dallas at Minnesota, TBA

St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3)(St. Louis leads series 3-1)Thursday’s resultChicago at St. Louis, lateTuesday’s resultSt. Louis 4 Chicago 3Saturday’s gamex-St. Louis at Chicago, TBA

Pacific DivisionAnaheim (1) vs. Nashville (WC1)(Series tied 2-2)Thursday’s resultAnaheim 4 Nashville 1Tuesday’s resultAnaheim 3 Nashville 0Saturday’s gameNashville at Anaheim, TBAMonday, Apr. 25Anaheim at Nashville, TBA

Los Angeles (2) vs. San Jose (3)(San Jose wins series 4-1)Wednesday’s resultSan Jose 3 Los Angeles 2Monday’s resultLos Angeles 2 San Jose 1 (OT)Friday’s gameSan Jose 6 Los Angeles 3

SoccerSoccerMLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA PtMontreal 6 4 2 0 10 6 12Philadelphia 6 3 3 0 8 7 9Orlando 6 2 1 3 11 8 9Toronto 6 2 2 2 6 5 8New England 7 1 1 5 8 10 8New York City 6 1 2 3 9 10 6Chicago 6 1 2 3 6 7 6D.C. 7 1 3 3 7 10 6Columbus 6 1 3 2 6 9 5New York 7 1 6 0 5 15 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA PtDallas 8 5 1 2 15 10 17Salt Lake 6 4 0 2 10 6 14Colorado 7 4 2 1 7 5 13Kansas City 7 4 3 0 9 7 12Los Angeles 6 3 1 2 12 5 11San Jose 7 3 2 2 10 10 11Seattle 6 2 3 1 6 7 9Portland 7 2 3 2 11 14 8Vancouver 7 2 4 1 6 11 7Houston 6 1 3 2 13 13 5Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Today’s GamesNew York City at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.Toronto at Montreal, 2 p.m.New England at D.C., 3:30 p.m.Houston at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.Seattle at Colorado, 7 p.m.Salt Lake at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.Dallas at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesKansas City at San Jose, 1:30 p.m.Orlando at New York, 5:30 p.m.

English Premier League GP W D L GF GA PtsLeicester City 34 21 10 3 59 33 73Tottenham 34 19 11 4 64 25 68

Arsenal 34 18 9 7 58 34 63Man.City 34 18 7 9 62 34 61Man United 34 17 8 9 42 30 59West Ham 34 14 14 6 57 43 56Liverpool 33 15 9 9 56 43 54Southampton 34 14 9 11 45 35 51Stoke 34 13 8 13 37 47 47Chelsea 33 11 11 11 49 45 44Everton 34 9 14 11 53 48 41Watford 34 11 8 15 33 40 41Bournemouth 34 11 8 15 41 57 41Swansea 34 10 10 14 34 45 40West Brom 34 10 10 14 31 42 40Crystal Palace 35 10 9 16 36 45 39Norwich 34 8 7 19 35 60 31Sunderland 33 7 9 17 39 57 30Newcastle 34 7 8 19 36 62 29r-Aston Villa 34 3 7 24 23 65 16r-Relegated

Tuesday, April 19Newcastle 1, Manchester City 1Wednesday, April 20West Ham 3, Watford 1Liverpool 4, Everton 0Manchester United 2, Crystal Palace 0

Thursday, April 21Arsenal 2, West Brom 0

Saturday, April 23Manchester City vs. Stoke, 1145 GMTAston Villa vs. Southampton, 1400 GMTBournemouth vs. Chelsea, 1400 GMTCrystal Palace vs. Everton, 1400 GMT, Ppd.Liverpool vs. Newcastle, 1400 GMTNorwich vs. Watford, 1400 GMT, Ppd.West Ham vs. Manchester United, 1400 GMT, Ppd.

Sunday, April 24Sunderland vs. Arsenal, 1305 GMTLeicester City vs. Swansea, 1515 GMT

Monday, April 25Tottenham vs. West Brom, 1900 GMT

LacrosseLacrosseEast Division

GP W L Pct GF GA GBx-Buffalo 16 11 5 .688 224 194 —x-New England 15 9 6 .600 193 179 1.5Georgia 16 7 9 .438 213 213 4Rochester 15 6 9 .400 168 179 4.5Toronto 16 5 11 .313 168 196 6

West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GBy-Sask.16 12 4 .750 208 167 —x-Colorado 16 10 6 .625 182 187 2Calgary 17 7 10 .412 198 199 5.5Vancouver 15 4 11 .267 168 208 7.5x — clinched playoff berth y — clinched division.

WEEK 17

Today’s GamesGeorgia at New England, 5 p.m.Buffalo at Rochester, 6 p.m.Toronto at Colorado, 7 p.m.Saskatchewan at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

WEEK 18Friday, Apr. 29Vancouver at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Apr. 30Vancouver at Georgia, 5:05 p.m.New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.Saskatchewan at Rochester, 6 p.m.Toronto at Calgary, 7 p.m.Sunday, May 1Rochester at New England, 4 p.m.End of 2016 NLL Regular Season

BaseballBaseball

TransactionsTransactionsBASEBALL

COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Toronto 1B Chris Colabello 80 games for violating Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American LeagueBOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP William

Cuevas to Pawtucket (IL). Recalled LHP Roenis Elias from Pawtucket.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Sent OF Michael Brantley to Columbus (IL) for a rehab assignment.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent OF Danny Santa-na to Fort Myers (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Branden Pinder on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday. Recalled RHP Nick Goody from Scranton/Wil-kes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed 3B Danny Valencia on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday. Recalled INF Tyler Ladendorf from Nashville (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed 1B Chris Co-labello on the restricted list. Selected the contract of LHP Chad Girodo from Buffalo (IL). Agreed to terms with OF Michael Bourn on a minor league contract.

National LeagueCINCINNATI REDS — Designated RHP Tim

Melville for assignment. Assigned RHP Keyvius Sampson outright to Louisville. Selected the contract of RHP JC Ramirez from Louisville. Sent RHP Homer Bailey to Louisville (IL) for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RHP Miguel Castro on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Optioned LHP Jason Gurka to Albuquerque (PCL). Designated RHP David Hale for assignment. Rein-stated RHP Jon Gray from the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Carlos Estevez from Albuquerque. Selected the contract of RHP Gonzalez Germen from Albu-querque.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned LHP James Russell outright to Lehigh Valley (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Released 1B Michael Morse. Optioned INF Cole Figueroa to Indianapolis (IL). Recalled INF Jason Rogers from Indianapolis.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHP Leonel Campos to El Paso (PCL). Recalled OF Jose Pirela from El Paso.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned OF Mac Williamson to Sacramento (PCL). Selected the contract of 3B Conor Gillaspie from Sacramento. Transferred SS Ehire Adrianza from the 15- to the 60-day DL.

Can-Am LeagueNEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed OF Michael

J. O’Neill.ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Signed RHP

Hector Nelo.SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed RHP

Drew Cisco.FOOTBALL

National Football LeagueNEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed LB Tony

Steward and LS Christian Yount.WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed CB Josh

Norman.Canadian Football LeagueWINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Named Marty

Costello assistant offensive line coach and Paul Boudreau special teams assistant.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Agreed to terms with F Joakim Nordstrom on a two-year contract and D Jake Chelios on a one-year, two-way contract.

WINNIPEG JETS — Announced the contract of coach Keith McCambridge of Manitoba (AHL) will not be renewed.

American Hockey LeagueBAKERSFIELD CONDORS — Signed LWs

Scott Allen and Joey Benik to one-year contracts.GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Promoted Sam

Iannamico to graphic designer.SOCCER

Major League SoccerMLS — Suspended Orlando City M Antonio

Nocerino and D.C. United coach Ben Olsen one game for violating the entering the field of play poli-cy. Rescinded the one-game suspension for the red card issued to Columbus D Tyson Wahl.

COLLEGEATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE — Granted

Duke men’s basketball F Amile Jefferson a medical hardship waiver.

DETROIT — Named Bacari Alexander men’s basketball coach.

FORDHAM — Agreed to terms with men’s bas-ketball coach Jeff Neubauer on a contract extension through the 2020-21 season.

ILLINOIS — Named graduate LB Hardy Nicker-son is transferring from California.

KANSAS STATE — Agreed to terms with athletic director John Currie on a two-year contract extension through the 2022 academic year.

NORTH CAROLINA — Announced sophomore F Justin Jackson and junior F Kennedy Meeks de-clared for the NBA draft.

NORTH DAKOTA STATE — Signed football coach Chris Klieman to a six-year contract through the 2021 season.SOUTH DAKOTA — Named Dawn Plitzuweit women’s basketball coach.

USC — Named Chris Capko men’s assistant basketball coach.

WISCONSIN — Extended the contracts of wom-en’s hockey coach Mark Johnson through June 30, 2021 wrestling coach Barry Davis through May 31, 2019 and men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Whitney Hite through June 14, 2019.

AMERICAN LEAGUEEast Division

W L Pct GBBaltimore 10 5 .667 —Boston 8 8 .500 2.5Toronto 8 10 .444 3.5Tampa Bay 7 9 .438 3.5New York 6 9 .400 4

Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 11 5 .688 —Chicago 11 6 .647 1/2Detroit 8 7 .533 2.5Cleveland 7 7 .500 3Minnesota 5 12 .294 6.5

West Division W L Pct GBOakland 10 7 .588 —Texas 10 7 .588 —Seattle 7 8 .467 2Los Angeles 7 9 .438 2.5Houston 5 12 .294 5

Friday’s GamesWashington 8, Minnesota 4N.Y. Yankees 6, Tampa Bay 3Oakland 8, Toronto 5Cleveland 2, Detroit 1Boston 6, Houston 2Chicago White Sox 5, Texas 0Kansas City 4, Baltimore 2Seattle at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Today’s GamesMinnesota (Hughes 1-2) at Washington (Roark 1-2), 11:05 a.m.Tampa Bay (Andriese 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 1-0), 11:05 a.m.Oakland (Bassitt 0-0) at Toronto (Happ 2-0), 11:07 a.m.Cleveland (Kluber 0-3) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 2-1), 11:10 a.m.Texas (Lewis 1-0) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 1-2), 12:10 p.m.Boston (Buchholz 0-1) at Houston (Fiers 1-1), 2:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Worley 1-0) at Kansas City (Medlen 1-0), 5:15 p.m.Seattle (F.Hernandez 1-1) at L.A. Angels (Santiago 1-0), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesTampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.Oakland at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.Cleveland at Detroit, 11:10 a.m.Minnesota at Washington, 11:35 a.m.Texas at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.Baltimore at Kansas City, 12:15 p.m.Seattle at L.A. Angels, 1:35 p.m.Boston at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s GamesChicago White Sox at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.Boston at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.Oakland at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 6:05 p.m.Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.Houston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division

W L Pct GBWashington 12 4 .750 —New York 8 7 .533 3.5Philadelphia 8 9 .471 4.5Miami 5 9 .357 6Atlanta 4 12 .250 8

Central Division W L Pct GBChicago 13 4 .765 —St. Louis 8 7 .533 4Pittsburgh 8 8 .500 4.5Cincinnati 8 9 .471 5Milwaukee 7 10 .412 6

West Division W L Pct GBLos Angeles 10 6 .625 —Colorado 8 7 .533 1.5Arizona 9 8 .529 1.5San Francisco 7 10 .412 3.5

San Diego 6 10 .375 4

Friday’s GamesWashington 8, Minnesota 4Chicago Cubs 8, Cincinnati 1N.Y. Mets 6, Atlanta 3Philadelphia 5, Milwaukee 2L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.Pittsburgh at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.Miami at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.St. Louis at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

Today’s GamesMinnesota (Hughes 1-2) at Washington (Roark 1-2), 11:05 a.m.Chicago Cubs (Lackey 3-0) at Cincinnati (Straily 0-0), 5:10 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Matz 1-1) at Atlanta (Chacin 0-0), 5:10 p.m.Philadelphia (Morton 1-1) at Milwaukee (Ch.Ander-son 1-1), 5:10 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 2-0) at Colorado (Chatwood 2-1), 6:10 p.m.Pittsburgh (Nicasio 2-1) at Arizona (R.De La Rosa 1-3), 6:10 p.m.St. Louis (Wacha 1-0) at San Diego (Vargas 0-0), 6:40 p.m.Miami (Fernandez 1-1) at San Francisco (Peavy 0-1), 7:05 p.m.

Sunday’s GamesChicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 11:10 a.m.Minnesota at Washington, 11:35 a.m.N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.Miami at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.St. Louis at San Diego, 2:40 p.m.

Monday’s GamesBoston at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.Pittsburgh at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.St. Louis at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.San Diego at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Rays set to promote top prospect Snell to

pitch vs YankeesNEW YORK — Blake Snell

woke up Friday morning at the team hotel in Virginia, ate breakfast and began to focus on pitching several hours later for Triple-A Durham.

A top prospect in the ma-jors, he then got a call from his manager. The call that every young player hopes to

hear.Snell wasn’t starting Friday

night at Norfolk. Nope, he was starting Saturday for the Tam-pa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadi-um in his big league debut.

“I liked the sound of pitch-ing tomorrow,” Snell said.

A season after zooming through the minors, the 23-year-old lanky lefty arrived in New York, in time to play catch on the field and meet his new teammates.

Rays outfielder Steven Souza Jr. asked Snell to do something in particular, trying to help him settle in amid the whirlwind.

NEWS IN BRIEF


TORONTO — In the midst of the Toronto Raptors’ Game 3 rout of Indiana on Thursday night a mini-bat-tle raged.

DeMarre Carroll versus Paul George. Carroll emerged as the undisputed victor.

The defensive specialist, who was acquired by the Raptors in the off-season for exactly the reasons he showed in Game 3, held George to 6-of-19 shooting in the 101-85 victory that gave Toronto a 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven series.

Thursday’s on-court hostilities spilled into a good-natured war of words on Friday, with Carroll scoffing at George’s complaints of non-calls.

“Playoff basketball is physical. If it was a cake-walk, there would be a lot of people in the playoffs, right?” Carroll said. “So I feel like I’m just going to continue to play the way I’ve played him and let him talk to the refs and I’ll talk to the refs after the sea-son.”

George said he’d complained to officials countless times during Game 3, claiming that Carroll was “hit-ting my elbow every shot.”

“We were laughing about it during the game… That’s what DeMarre does,” George said. “I knew at some point I was going to see that DeMarre that’s going to be the chippy DeMarre. But a lot of my shots he was getting away with hitting the elbow hitting the wrist, making it tough for me to follow through and see the ball go down.”

George’s complaints came despite a big discrep-ancy in free throws favouring the Pacers. George went 12-for-12 from the foul line, and the Pacers had 33 free throws. The Raptors went to the line just 16 times.

“How many more free throws you want? 20? 30?” Carroll said. “But that’s on him, man. Like I said I’m going to worry about myself and worry about the Raptors and we’re going to come out and keep do-ing what we need to do.”

“That’s Paul being Paul, man,” Carroll add-ed. “But at the end of the day I’m going to keep playing him the way I’ve been playing him and that’s physical basketball. And obviously if the refs didn’t call it, it wasn’t a foul, right?”

Carroll’s solid 35-min-ute performance, which included 17 points, was welcome news for the Raptors, who’ve waited for months for Carroll to be back at his best. Even better news: he declared himself healthy and able to go for another 35 min-utes if needed in Satur-day’s Game 4 in Indianap-olis.

“I feel good,” said Car-roll, who practised in compression tights un-der his basketball shorts. “Body’s a little fatigued, but I feel good. The (knee swelling) is the same as it’s been the whole time, so that was a positive thing. We’re just going to

take it from there, and do some more treatment to-

night and it will be like I never played 35 minutes

before.”

Canadian Tire #329 2510 Gaetz Ave.

Red Deer, AB403-342-2222

Canadian Tire #645 300, 6380 - 50 Ave.

Red Deer, AB403-346-1497

Canadian Tire #655#200 62 Industrial Trail,

Sylvan Lake, AB403-887-0581

Ca2

7554

134D

22,2

3

10-PC BIANCO COOKSET WITH BONUS WOK.Swiss-formulated ceramic non-stick coating. Induction suitable. 299-2068-8.**If bought separately, our Reg price for 10-pc cookset is $699.99 and Wok Reg price is $139.99. While quantities last. Sorry, no rainchecks.

FRIDAY, APRIL 15 TO THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2016

My CanadianTire ‘Money”

FRIDAY, APRIL 15 TO THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2016FRIDAY, APRIL 15 TO THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2016

LOWES PRICES

OF THE SEASON

KSET

non-stick . 299-2068-8.rice for 10-pc

SAVE

75%SPECIAL BUY! 19899**

20V MAX LI-ION COMBO KIT. Includes 1/2” drill driver, 1/4” impact driver, 2 batteries, charger and case. 54-2320-8. Reg 299.99

SAVE$110

NOW 18999

SAVE$210

NOW 23999

10.00†† monthIN 24 EQUAL MONTHLY PAYMENTS

NO FEENO INTEREST

SMARTCLEAN ROBOT VACUUM43-7848-0. Reg 449.99

10-PACKSAVE

60%NOW 3399

10-PACK STAINLESS STEEL SOLAR LIGHTS52-4032-6. Reg 84.99

SPECIAL BUY! 22999

NOW 329.99-379.99GOURMET 600B BBQ. 3 stainless-steel burner. 580 sq-in cooking surface. Propanepane or natural gas. 85-3094X. Reg 449.99-499.99.

SAVE$120

SPECIAL BUY! 19999

32”SMART HDTV. Resolution: 136 x 768.3 HDMI ports. 299-2449-2. While quantities last. Sorry, no rainchecks.


NO FEENO INTEREST

SPECIAL BUY! 3993999999

RICHMOND DINING SET WITH RICHMOND DINING SET WITH TWO BENCHES.TWO BENCHES. FSC certifi ed eucalyptus wood. Cushions included. 299-4561-0. While quantities last. Sorry, no rainchecks.

VALUE 20-PACK YARD WASTE BAGS. 199-0240-6. While quantities last. Sorry, no rainchecks.

20-PACKSPECIAL BUY! 699

SAVE

15%PLUS GET A

$5BONUS CARD*when you buy ScottsTurf Builder Pro LawnFertilizer. 59-2292-2

*Bonus Card to be redeemed on future

purhases at Canadian Tire. See store for details.

NOW 1499

SCOTTS TURF BUILDER PRO LAWNLAWN FERTILIZER. 59-2292-64. Reg 17.99

SAVE

60%NOW 1199

FIBREGLASS SHOVEL. Long-handle round point. Lightweight and durable. 59-6848-0. Reg 29.99

SAVE

50%NOW 2499

75’ HEAVY-DUTY GARDEN HOSE. Heavy-duty construction. 59-4296-4. Reg 49.99 Colour may vary.

SAVE

35%MOBIL 1 OIL FILTER. Synthetic media captures over 99% of dirt particles. High capacity for longer oil change intervals. 17-1633X. Reg 17.69


NO FEENO INTEREST

GAS LAWN MOWER. 140ccPowerMore engine. 21” cutting deck. Mulch, bag and side discharge. 299-2929-0. While quantities last. Sorry, no rainchecks.

NOW 1159

ea

SAVE

45%MOBIL 1 MOBIL 1 SYNTHETIC OILSYNTHETIC OIL Selectecd grades. 4.4L jug. 28-9424X/9434X. Reg 51.99-59.99

NOW 2859

-3299

44 DAYS ONLY! THURSDAY TO SUNDAYAPRIL 21 TO 24, 2016

Hauck Vision & Hearing

Parkland MallHearing, Eyeglasses and Contacts 403-346-5568Optometry appointments 403-342-4343 | 1-800-813-0702

Eyewear packages from

Select frames up to

$149

60%OFF

COMPLIMENTARY HEARING TESTS FOR SENIORS

Proudly local owned since 1972

SERVING RED DEER AND AREA FOR OVER 43 YEARS


Steele takes three-shot

lead inTexas Open


SAN ANTONIO — Brendan Steele completed an 8-under 64 in the morning and shot a 70 in the second round Friday to take a three-stroke lead in the Texas Open.

The 2011 winner at TPC San Antonio for his lone tour title, Steele had a 10-under 134 total. Play was suspended because of darkness with 13 players left on the course.

“It’s my favourite place to come,” Steele said. “I have good memories, good mojo. I like all the shots.”

Scott Langley, Stuart Appleby and Charley Hoff-man were tied for second. Langley shot 68, Appleby 70, and Hoffman 71. Appleby rallied after four-put-ting from 7 feet for a triple bogey on his opening hole.

“I was swatting at it — a golf ball got in the way,” Appleby was able to joke. “I was doing like when Seve (Ballesteros) had a four-putt many years ago. I asked him, ‘How did you have a four-putt?’ He said “I miss. I miss. I miss. I make.’”

Nick Taylor is the top Canadian through 36 holes after shooting a 4-under 68 on Friday. The Abbots-ford, B.C., native sits at 1 under, good for 40th spot. David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., is even after a 1-un-der 71 in the second round.

Patrick Reed (73) was 6 under along with Ricky Barnes (70), Jon Curran (68), Sung Kang (67), Spencer Levin (69), Peter Malnati (71), Ryan Palmer (70) and Mark Wilson (69).

“I feel like I hit a couple of loose shots,” said Reed, who was born in San Antonio. “The game feels solid. Just the ball striking a little bit.”

Branden Grace, the RBC Heritage winner last week in South Carolina, shot his second round 72 to make the cut on the number.

Defending champion Jimmy Walker missed the cut with rounds of 75 and 77. Phil Mickelson also dropped out, shooting 77-71.

“I don’t feel bad about the physical game, the ball coming off the blade,” Mickelson said. “The swing is on plane. I need better mental focusing, seeing the shot before I step into it.”

Former SMU star Bryson DeChambeau also missed the cut in his second pro start, shooting 74-73.

On-court hostilities spill into war of words between

Carroll, George


Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) shoots over Indiana Pacers center Ian Mahinmi (28) during the first half of Game 3 of an NBA first-round playoff basketball series in Indianapolis, Thursday.


Brendan Steele waves to the gallery after making a birdie putt on the second hole during the second round to the Texas Open golf tournament, Friday.

Bonds a major distraction in return to old ball park


SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds strolled into the indoor batting cage to join his hitters at work and immediately shut the door.

No distractions.He was the major distrac-

tion Friday. No getting around it when you’re wearing a Mar-lins uniform in your old ball-park.

Bonds is all smiles these days in front of the cameras, seemingly content in his new role as Miami’s hitting coach when initially the job left him longing to get back in the bat-ter’s box and swing for the fences as he used to making his living clearing outfield walls.

“At first in spring training, the emotions (were tough) be-

cause I’m used to being on the field with them and being in the dugout watching them biting my lip and going, ‘Oh, I wish I could do this, oh, I wish I could do that,”’ Bonds said Friday, sitting in the visitor’s dug-out at AT&T Park. “You have to take a step back and realize your job is different. You can’t be a player anymore, you have to be a coach.”

In fact, he likes this coaching thing so much he will consider giving it another year beyond 2016. He isn’t ruling out that possibility yet, at least.

Even with all the extra hours at the ballpark spent in the batting cage and studying video, and the early wakeup calls at spring training he had forgot-ten about since his playing days ended in 2007.

“He’s behaving, I’ll leave it at that,” joked assis-tant hitting coach Frank Menechino.

In the house that Bonds built, the home run king returned to AT&T Park, hoping for a warm reception in the Bay Area where he grew up and played the fi-nal 15 of his 22 major league seasons.

And he got it, bringing out the lineup card before first pitch to a warm ovation and chants of “Barry! Barry!” He tipped his cap.

“It’s good to see him in baseball. It really is. He’s doing what he wants to do,” said Giants skipper Bruce Bochy.

BARRY BONDS

A PAIR OF TICKETS FOR ALL A PAIR OF TICKETS FOR ALL MEMORIAL CUP GAMES MEMORIAL CUP GAMES

A PAIR OF TICKETS FOR ALL A PAIR OF TICKETS FOR ALL MEMORIAL CUP GAMES MEMORIAL CUP GAMES

CALL CALL 403-314-4300 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY403-314-4300 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAYCALL CALL 403-314-4300 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY403-314-4300 TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY

*No Purchase Required. Visit the Red Deer Advocate at 2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

*See Website for rules and regulations

Current Subscribers can enter into a draw for Memorial cup game tickets at RedDeerAdvocate.com/contests

WILL BE ENTERED TO WINILL BE ENTERED TO WI

FROM APRIL 16 TO MAY 16ALL NEW SUBSCRIBERS OF


Bettman on what fans can throw on iceBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Attention, Florida Panthers fans: throwing those toy rats on the ice during a game means draw-ing the ire of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

Days after fans in Philadelphia threw light-up wristbands onto the ice during a Flyers playoff loss, Bettman said the league strongly discourages throwing anything onto the ice except for hats to celebrate a hat trick.

That includes playoff traditions of faux rats in Florida and real octopi in Detroit.

“Putting aside the hat trick, we don’t think it’s a good idea for fans to be throwing things on the ice for a whole host of reasons.” Bettman said Friday. “We don’t think it’s appropri-ate, other than the case of the hat trick, to throw things on the ice. Not only is it disruptive to the game, it’s potentially dangerous.”

Bettman was at Wells Fargo Cen-ter in Philadelphia on Monday when fans threw hundreds of wristbands on the ice during the third period of a 6-1 loss to the Washington Capitals. The commissioner called it an unfortunate incident, especially considering the wristbands were part of a pregame tribute to late founder Ed Snider.

When Panthers fans threw rats onto the ice during a March 31 game against the New Jersey Devils, the team was given two minor penalties for delay of game, a rule the NHL put in to cut down on such events. Bettman said he spoke to the team’s executive chair-

man, Peter Luukko, immediately to express his concern about a tradition that dates to Florida’s Stanley Cup Fi-nal run in 1996.

Detroit’s octopus tradition goes back much further, but that doesn’t mean it’s league-approved.

“An occasional octopus, I’m not jus-tifying it, is certainly different than 10,000 rats,” Bettman said. “They do a good job at Joe Louis (Arena) of getting the octopi off the ice as quickly as pos-sible. And they don’t swing it around anymore because you can get octopus goop on the ice or on a player’s jer-sey.”

That won’t be a problem until at least next spring, as the Red Wings were eliminated Thursday night. The NHL told the Panthers that fans can throw toy rats on the ice only after a game.

Bettman and deputy commission-

er Bill Daly touched on other topics during the hour-long meeting:

NO TOLERANCE FOR INTOLER-ANCE: After Chicago Blackhawks for-ward Andrew Shaw was suspended a game for using a gay slur, Bettman said the league has tried to “raise the consciousness” about those kinds of issues. Daly said the league educates players and specifically rookies about the subject and sent out a memo be-fore the season to make them aware of what’s not appropriate to say. Shaw apologized the next day.

“If you focus on the quotes that the

players gave after the incident, there’s an awareness and a greater awareness on the subject than ever before,” Bett-man said. “And I think even Andrew’s response was an acknowledgement of that. Perhaps this was a teaching mo-ment.”

COACH’S CHALLENGES: Bettman defended the league against criticism of the new coach’s challenge system that has been at the centre of contro-versy in a handful of playoff games. Bettman believes plays that are offside by even the slightest amount should be subject to review.

“We’re trying to get it right,” Bet-tman said. “And in the playoffs, you look at how close the games are. The Chicago-St. Louis series, they’ve played 96 per cent of the time either tied or within a goal. Every goal mat-ters.”

EXPANSION: There was nothing new on expansion, which Bettman again repeated wasn’t a guarantee for 2017-18 or at all. Las Vegas and Que-bec City are the only cities in consid-eration for expansion, which has no timetable but for now also no opportu-nity for Seattle to join the fray.

“What’s new in Seattle on a build-ing?” Bettman asked. “Even if you told me they were under construction to-morrow, it wouldn’t impact this pro-cess.”

Canada falls to Scotland in world mixed doubles curling


KARLSTAD, Sweden — Canada was knocked out of the playoff round at the world mixed doubles curling champi-onship on Friday after dropping a 6-5 decision to Scotland at the Lofbergs Lila Arena.

The Scottish duo of Gina Aitken and Bruce Mouat hit a takeout for the deci-sive single point in the eighth end.

Saskatoon’s Dustin Kalthoff and Marliese Kasner scored three points in the fifth end for a 4-3 lead but the Scots answered with a deuce in the sixth end before giving up a single in the seventh. It was Canada’s first loss at the competition.

Earlier Friday, Canada dumped New Zealand 12-2 in the opening play-off game for its seventh straight win. Scotland qualified for the quarter-fi-nals by upsetting defending champion Hungary 6-5.

Scotland will face China in one semifinal Saturday while the United States will take on Russia in the other. Canada will play Finland in a place-ment game.

The medal games are scheduled for Sunday.

The combined results of the 2016 and 2017 world mixed doubles events will decide the seven teams who will join host South Korea at the 2018 Win-ter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

No Canada: NHL playoff ratings plummet north of

the border

With no Canadian teams in the NHL playoffs, TV ratings have plunged north of the border.

Viewership is down by nearly 60 per cent through the first week of the post-sea-son compared to last spring, when there were five Canadian teams competing.

The numbers are a concern but not

a surprise to Sportsnet President Scott Moore, who played a role three years ago in securing the Toronto-based cable giant’s 12-year, $5.2 billion (Canadian) bid to secure Canadian NHL broadcasting rights.

Moore is disappointed but not panicked seeing first-round playoff viewership de-cline from 1.3 million to about 500,000 in the second year of the deal.

By comparison, Canadian ratings are still out-pacing those in the U.S., where NBC is averaging about 484,000 viewers.

Are you tired of Are you tired of wearing dentures?wearing dentures?

We have a xed We have a xed denture solution that denture solution that

would anchor to would anchor to implants.implants.

ALL ON 4ALL ON 4®®

call for your consultation and mention this ad to receive

your complimentary Denture Care Kit

403.343.7266

#100, 4918 - 46 Street, Red Deerthedenturecentre.net dentalimplantsreddeer.net

Scan this

CANADIAN DOLLAR

▲¢78.92US+0.35

NYMEX NGAS$2.138US+0.070

NYMEX CRUDE$43.73US+0.55

DOW JONES18,003.75+21.23

NASDAQ4,906.23-39.66

TSX:V656.18-2.20

S&P / TSX13,874.00-7.20 ▼ ▲

THE ADVOCATE Saturday, April 23, 2016

B7BUSINESS

▲ ▲▼ ▼


OTTAWA — Fresh economic da-ta released Friday showed sturdi-er-than-expected retail sales and un-derlying inflation, providing further evidence the economy has started to show some life.

A new Statistics Canada report found that inflation remained cool last month at 1.3 per cent as cheaper en-ergy prices — compared to a year ago — continued to weigh down the annual rate.

But the core inflation rate, which omits some of the most volatile items such as gas pump prices, produced a robust reading of 2.1 per cent. The central bank watches core inflation closely because it’s a better indicator of underlying price pressures.

A separate Statistics Canada report Friday showed that retail trade num-bers rose 0.4 per cent in February to $44.2 billion, which followed a healthy two per cent gain in January. Analysts had expected the figure to land in neg-ative territory.

“I think the bottom line here is the Canadian consumer is still very much alive and well,” BMO chief economist Doug Porter said of the retail sales figures.

“We’re seeing very strong numbers out of places like Ontario and B.C. — pretty much anywhere but the Prairies reported very strong retail sales activ-

ity.”One retail sales number really

jumped out at him: the 9.2 per cent year-over-year increase in Ontario.

He believes it was “way stronger” than anyone would have anticipated and may have been partly a result of more Canadians spending their cash at home, rather than absorbing the ex-change rate hit of the low loonie across the border.

But despite the encouraging num-bers, some forecasters are still expect-ing next week’s real gross domestic product figure — a measure of eco-nomic growth — for February to show a contraction after a few weak reports.

Looking at growth in the first quar-ter as a whole is showing more prom-ise.

BMO is projecting real GDP to rise about 3.25 per cent over the three months of 2016, while National Bank is expecting a bump of three per cent.

“February’s increase in retail spending surprised consensus giv-en that it comes on top of the prior month’s massive gains,” National Bank senior economist Krishen Rangasamy

wrote in a research note to clients.“All told, Canada is on track to reg-

ister a strong first quarter … driven by consumption and exports.”

The February retail trade gains were seen in most sub sectors, with motor vehicles and parts dealers ben-efiting from the largest increase in dol-lar terms. Sales were also up for cloth-ing and clothing accessories stores, building material and garden equip-ment, as well as sporting goods, hobby book and music stores.

The biggest contributor of down-ward pressure on the headline retail number was the value of sales at gas stations, which slid for the eighth con-secutive month to reach their lowest level since August 2010.

For inflation, the March reading fol-lowed a 1.4 per cent year-over-year in-crease in February and a two per cent rise in January.

The agency’s latest consumer price index said its headline inflation rate remained below the Bank of Canada’s two per cent target, largely due to a drop in prices for gasoline, natural gas and fuel oil compared to the year be-

fore. Prices were down 13.6 per cent at the pump, 17.4 per cent for natural gas and 25.8 per cent for fuel oil.

Those downward forces countered higher prices for shelter and food — particularly fresh vegetables and fresh fruit. Due in part to the lower Canadi-an dollar, vegetables prices were up 14.9 per cent and fruit rose 11.3 per cent compared to the year before.

Inflation was lower in eight prov-inces in March compared to the previ-ous month, leaving Alberta and British Columbia as the only ones that saw a higher rate.

The new numbers suggest to Porter that the risk adjustment the federal government added to its forecasts in last month’s budget may have been too cautious.

Critics have said the Liberals de-liberately lowered their fiscal outlook by including larger-than-usual risk adjustments of $6 billion per year in order to help the government beat ex-pectations down the road.

“I would say the overall theme over the last month is that generally speak-ing there’s a little bit more certainty and there’s a little bit more positive vibes behind the Canadian economy this year than what was presented in the budget,” Porter said.

“It now looks like it will do a little bit better than what was expected. So, that’s going to put a healthier glow on Ottawa’s finances through this year.”

Inflation breathes life into economyCanada is on track to register a strong first quarter,”

-Krishen RangasamySenior Economist, National Bank

“


TORONTO — A U.S. settlement in the Volkswagen emissions scandal that will see the automaker buy back or repair affected vehicles or compen-sate their owners will apply to Cana-dian owners of about 100,000 Volkswa-gen vehicles as well, VW Canada said.

U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer announced Thursday that an agreement-in-principle had been reached that addresses the majority of vehicles affected by the ongoing TDI emissions issue.

Breyer has ordered all parties to keep the specifics of the agreement confidential until full details are filed in court on June 21.

Under the tentative agreement out-lined by Breyer, owners of polluting Volkswagens would have the option of selling them back to the company or getting them repaired at VW’s ex-pense.

“Resolutions reached with the EPA apply to Canada as well because our Canadian vehicles are certified by the EPA,” Thomas Tetzlaff, a spokesman for VW Canada, said in an email Fri-day.

In a release Thursday, Volkswagen Canada said owners do not need to take any action at this time and they will be provided with next steps once they are available.

Volkswagen has admitted some

diesel cars had software installed to cheat on emission tests after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publicly revealed the scheme last Sep-tember. The car maker has said about 500,000 cars had cheated emissions tests and about 100,000 of them were sold in Canada.

“We appreciate the ongoing pa-tience and loyalty of our Canadian Volkswagen customers, employees and dealers, and we will provide more details as additional information is released,” Volkswagen Canada said Thursday.

Details of the agreement are ex-pected to come out over the next cou-ple of months. Breyer set a June 21 deadline for attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department and for Volkswa-gen owners to file additional paper-work about the agreement.

After that, owners will get the chance to comment before Breyer signs off on any deal.

The scandal erupted in September when it was learned that the German automaker had fitted many of its cars with software to fool emissions tests and had put dirty vehicles on the road.

“Although it is too soon to tell whether VW owners will be satisfied, and there are still other liabilities that must be addressed, this is the begin-ning of the end of the story,” said Mi-chael Steel, an attorney in San Fran-cisco who has advised car manufactur-ers.

Buyback, repairs for VW owners in emissions deal

Photo by The Associated Press

Joyce Ertel Hulbert, owner of a 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI, holds a sign while interviewed outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, Thursday. An agreement will give consumers who bought nearly 600,000 Volkswagen vehicles rigged to cheat on emissions tests the option of having the automaker buy back the cars or fix them.

SETTLEMENT TO APPLY TO CANADIAN OWNERS OF ABOUT 100,000 VOLKSWAGEN VEHICLES


CALGARY — Alberta’s energy regu-lator is studying the risks posed by the province’s aging energy hardware.

“Aging infrastructure is an issue for the province,” said Jim Ellis, head of the agency which released a three-year strategic plan this week.

Ellis said the regulator has already compiled a database that locates and assesses Alberta’s thousands of aban-doned wells. Now it’s time to do the same for pipelines, wellheads, com-pressor stations and all the other in-dustrial facilities a century of energy development has left on the province’s landscape, he said.

“We now have a database on what wells there are, what state they’re in,” Ellis said.

“What we’re going to do is move that … to pipelines, all subsurface infra-structure, and then the surface infra-structure. That’s going to take us a lit-tle bit of time.”

The database is to be compiled from agencies that preceded the current regulator, which brought together three different bodies in 2013. By the time it’s complete in March 2018, the database will detail the age, location and condition of about 415,000 kilo-metres of pipe and 50,000 oil and gas facilities.

The facilities — especially pipe-lines — will be ranked according to the human health and environmental risks they pose and dealt with accord-ingly, said Ellis.

He pointed to the effort his agen-cy is already making on cleaning up 37,000 abandoned wells that dot Alber-ta. By January, he said, 6,800 such sites had been cleaned up.

Targets and procedures for pipeline

cleanups are being developed.“We will sit down with stakeholders

and government to look at this and determine how we’re going to move through this.”

The regulator also hopes to in-crease public confidence in its work. It wants its overall approval among Albertans who are aware of the agency to increase to 80 per cent from about 77 per cent.

Polling released last summer sug-gested approval rates by industry were already at 90 per cent. That means the regulator will have to work on First Nations, landowners and environmen-tal groups, where only between half and two-thirds of respondents were confident in its ability.

“We know that’s the focus we have,” said Ellis.

“One of the things I want to do over the next couple of years is to refocus on indigenous people. As a regulator, we can do a better job.”

First Nations have criticized the agency for not allowing them to speak at public hearings on energy proj-ects adjacent to or on their tradition-al land. Ellis wouldn’t comment on whether the regulator would loosen its rules on who gets standing to appear.

He did point out a recent pipeline hearing held a special session on the Driftpile First Nation to make it easier for elders to testify.

Chris Severson-Baker of the Pembi-na Institute, a clean-energy think-tank, said there’s real urgency to tidy up the legacy of Alberta’s oilpatch.

Low oil prices have crimped the cash flow that used to pay for clean-up, he said. As well, carbon pricing will place further demands on indus-try funds.

Regulator to study risks of aging energy infrastructure

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

An idle pump jack is silhouetted against the prairie sky in Central Alberta. Wellheads, pipelines and other industrial facilities in the energy sector are being inspected for human health and environmental risks.

GM Stops production at four plants


OSHAWA, Ont. — General Motors is shutting down production at four plants, including its flex line in Osha-wa, Ont., for two weeks due to a part supply issue caused by the recent earthquakes in Japan.

The automaker said the shutdowns, which start Monday, will also include assembly plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., Lordstown, Ohio, and Fairfax, Kansas.

The Chevrolet Impala, Buick Regal and Cadillac XTS are built on the flex line. The consolidated line at the Os-hawa plant will not be affected.

GM said the stoppage is not expect-ed to have any material impact on its full-year production plans in North America or its second-quarter or full-year financial results.

Two earthquakes caused wide-spread damage last week in parts of Kumamoto and surrounding communi-ties on Kyushu.

…with up to 35%* in savings & discounts• Winter tires? Save up to 5%*• Multiple vehicles? Save up to 15%*• Hybrid or electric vehicle? Save up to 10%*• College or university student? Save up to 10%*• Additional savings* if you have multiple policies

with State Farm®

Call me today.

*Conditions apply. State Farm branded policies are underwritten by Certas Home and Auto Insurance Company.

® State Farm and related trademarks and logos are registered trademarks owned by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, used under Licence by Certas Home and Auto Insurance Company.1510023CN

your auto insurancesavings further…

drivingStart

David Allin Ins Agcy LtdDavid Allin, Agent

Unit 101 3622 50th AveRed Deer, AB T4N 3Y6

Bus: 403-358-5995

We’ve got your back.

EXPLORE NOW | rdc.ab.ca

Map your journey at Red Deer College.

Your future can go down many roads.

Let us support you along the way.

7521

905D

28

96057 - 2431 DRIVE EASTHIGH RIVER, AB

www.canadianpublicauction.com

UNRESERVED INDUSTRIAL AUCTIONMAY 3, 2016 8:00 A.M.

For more information please call Canadian Public Auction 403-269-6600 or 800-786-0857. For Details & Live Internet Bidding see www.canadianpublicauction all internet purchases are subject to an internet buyer’s fee & a deposit may be required depending on your purchase history. Auction License # 200278, AMVIC License # 200279.

Various New Travel Trailers & Motorhome 2013 Deere 700J LGP Crawler Dozer 2011 Cat 14M VHP Motor Grader

Saturday, April 23, 2016BUSINESS

Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 109.12ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.92BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.48BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.19Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . 1.710Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.78Cdn. National Railway . . 83.45Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 189.30Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.05Capital Power Corp . . . . 17.91Cervus Equipment Corp 12.05Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.61Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.84Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.60Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.88General Motors Co. . . . . 32.18Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.72Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.53SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.11Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 32.27Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.40Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 50.97Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 15.18

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 136.28Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.30Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.18

Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 69.37Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 26.52Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.83Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.72WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 21.05

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.41Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.59First Quantum Minerals . . 8.76Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 21.65Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 5.43Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.90Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.74Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 22.72Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . 0.920Teck Resources . . . . . . . 13.17

EnergyArc Resources . . . . . . . . 20.97Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 22.94Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 46.43Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.98Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 26.59Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 38.68Canyon Services Group. . 4.89Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.24CWC Well Services . . . 0.1550Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 9.46

Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.680Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 87.53Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 40.84High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.87Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 18.05Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 40.58Pengrowth Energy . . . . . 1.880Penn West Energy . . . . . 1.390Precision Drilling Corp . . . 6.00Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.30Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.710Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.26Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 41.39Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2300

FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.17Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.29CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.16Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.72Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.71IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 39.25Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.81Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.78National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.06Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.200Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.58Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 43.08TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.19

OF LOCAL INTEREST

DILBERT

B8

MARKETS

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

COMPANIES

MARKETS CLOSETORONTO — The Toronto

stock market closed in the red Friday, while major U.S. index-es were mixed, with the Nasdaq significantly lower amid disap-pointing earnings from several big tech companies.

The S&P/TSX composite index was down 7.20 points at 13,874.00, after having slipped 30 points the previous session.

In New York, disappointing earnings from several big tech-nology companies weighed on markets, particularly the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which retreated 39.66 points or 0.8 per cent to 4,906.23.

Among the biggest losers were Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), whose shares fell $4 or 7.17 per cent to US$51.78, and Google parent company Alphabet (Nas-daq:GOOGL), off $42.23 or 5.41 per cent at US$737.77.

Meanwhile, coffee chain Starbucks (Nasdaq:SBUX) fell $2.96 or 4.88 per cent to US$57.68 after reporting disap-pointing sales growth for the first three months of the year.

Despite Nasdaq’s struggle, other New York markets man-aged to edge higher, with the Dow Jones industrial average adding 21.23 points to 18,003.75 and the broader S&P 500 gain-ing 0.1 of a point to 2,091.58.

Tom Siomades, head of Hartford Funds Investment Con-sulting Group, noted earlier in the session that absent major economic data, investors have been riding the ups and downs of earnings this week, although market swings haven’t been as volatile as earlier in the year.

“These mixed earnings that we’ve been getting … these mini rallies and mini sell-offs … are part of it,” Siomades, told The Associated Press.

At home, the Canadian dollar rose 0.35 of a U.S. cent to 78.92

cents US.New economic data from

Statistics Canada helped move the loonie higher, said Ian Na-kamoto, director of research at 3MACS.

Statistics Canada released data Friday showing that overall, inflation cooled to 1.3 per cent in March from 1.4 per cent the previous month. However, core inflation, which excludes items like gasoline, rose to 2.1 per cent from 1.9 per cent.

A second report from the agency showed that retail trade numbers rose 0.4 per cent in February, outperforming ex-pectations of analysts, many of whom expected a negative showing for the month.

The loonie finished up 0.35 of a U.S. cent at 78.92 cents US.

The commodity-sensitive loo-nie’s rise was also helped by an improvement in oil prices, said Nakamoto. It’s definitely positive for the loonie, he said.

The June contract for bench-mark crude rose 55 cents to US$43.73 although still shy of the US$44.18 it hit Wednesday, a five-month high.

Nakamoto anticipates oil will reach the $50 mark this year, boosting the Canadian dollar’s exchange rate along with it.

Elsewhere in commodities, May natural gas shot up 7.2 cents to US$2.14 per mmBtu. May copper added 1.3 cents to US$2.26 a pound, while June gold bullion shed $20.30 to US$1,230.00 a troy ounce.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTSHighlights at the close Friday

at world financial market trading.Stocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index

— 13,874.00, down 7.20 pointsDow — 18,003.75, up 21.23

pointsS&P 500 — 2,091.58, up

0.10 of a point

Nasdaq — 4,906.23, down 39.66 points

Currencies:Cdn — 78.92 cents US, up

0.35 of a centPound — C$1.8263, up 0.28

of a centEuro — C$1.4221, down

1.48 centsEuro — US$1.1223, down

0.67 of a centOil futures:US$43.73 per barrel, up 55

cents(June contract)Gold futures: US$1,230.00

per oz., down $20.30(June contract)Canadian Fine Silver Handy

and Harman:$22.475 oz., down 17.6 cents$722.57 kg., down $5.66

ICE FUTURES CANADAWINNIPEG — ICE Futures

Canada closing prices:Canola: May ‘16 $5.30 lower

$489.40 July ‘16 $5.40 lower $493.60 Nov. ‘16 $4.40 lower $488.60 Jan. ‘17 $4.10 lower $493.40 March ‘17 $3.90 lower$495.10 May ‘17 $3.90 lower $494.10 July ‘17 $3.90 lower $493.80 Nov. ‘17 $3.90 lower $485.30 Jan. ‘18 $3.90 lower $485.30 March ‘18 $3.90 lower$485.30 May ‘18 $3.90 lower $485.30.

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

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 663,380 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Bar-ley). Total: 663,380.

Get your local news at RedDeeradvocate.com

THE ADVOCATE


REGINA — Premier Brad Wall says he hopes a uranium operation in northern Saskatchewan will eventu-ally reopen, but he doesn’t think that will happen any time soon.

Mining giant Cameco (TSX:CCO) an-nounced Thursday that it is suspend-ing work at the Rabbit Lake mine, because of an oversupply of uranium around the world, caused in part by the shutdown of nuclear facilities in Japan.

About 500 jobs will be lost at the mine and another 85 at the company’s U.S. operations.

“It’s a terrible day for northern Sas-katchewan, for those 500 people that have lost their jobs, at least temporari-ly,” Wall said Friday.

“If there’s some hope, it’s that they’re not closing it completely and permanently, that they are going to keep 100-plus staff there in terms of maintenance, for the occasion when prices regain strength and it can po-tentially open.”

But the premier added that he doesn’t believe there’s any expecta-tion on the part of industry or analysts “that prices will be coming back to the extent that they would need to for Rab-bit Lake to reopen any time soon.”

Wall said a team from the Econo-my Ministry will help those who have been laid off to identify other jobs or retraining opportunities.

Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel travelled to the mine to meet with employees.

“It’s a tough decision so I wanted to be there to explain it to them face to face,” he said Thursday. (They’re) obviously disappointed, but they know our business, they know our company. Rabbit Lake is a higher cost mine and had a limited life.”

Cameco said it will offer employ-ees exit packages and will consider relocating workers to other Cameco facilities.

About 150 people will be kept on at Rabbit Lake to maintain the facility and to do environmental monitoring and reclamation. That transition work is expected to be completed by the end of August.

Rabbit Lake has produced more than 91 million kilograms of uranium concentrates since production began at the Saskatchewan facility in 1975.

Gitzel said the mine was old and small compared with the company’s two other mines in the province, which each produce as much as 9.7 million kilograms of uranium a year. Rabbit Lake only produced about 1.8 million kilograms.

He said the market has been soft for about five years since a 2011 earth-quake and tsunami caused a nucle-ar meltdown at three reactors in Fukushima, Japan. Uranium is selling for about two-thirds less than it did be-fore the accident.

“There’s certainly an excess inven-tory of uranium available around the world so that’s driven the prices way down.”

The company also said it will re-duce its 2016 production target at the McArthur River/Key Lake operation, given the current state of oversupply in the market.

Wall said the province will work with companies and the federal gov-ernment to find new markets and build demand for Saskatchewan uranium.

“When prices strengthen, if they don’t come back to the point that Rab-bit Lake makes sense for this company, there might be other opportunities for production increases from companies.

“That would mean Saskatchewan people working again,” he said.

Cameco closes Rabbit Lake mine

IN BRIEF


TORONTO — A new clinic promis-es to help Toronto’s busy Bay Street financiers and overworked tech entre-preneurs cure their hangovers, shake off jet lag and even stave off the signs of aging through an intravenous drip.

Reviv, an international company offering IV infusions of vitamins and medicines, opened its first Canadian treatment centre last week, and more locations across the country are ex-pected to follow.

“We aim to be coast-to-coast in the next couple of years,” says David Pot-ter, partner at Reviv Canada, adding that roughly 80 private health and wellness clinics nationwide have said they’d like to get on board.

“The clientele we’re looking to at-tract is really that demographic of peo-ple that are living a 24-hour life cycle — working hard and then playing hard as well,” says Potter.

Reviv is not the first company to offer so-called “vitamin drips” in To-ronto.

Naturopathic clinics have been pro-viding the service for years, although Potter and his business partner Chris-topher Chapheau say Reviv goes be-yond simple vitamin infusions.

What sets Reviv apart are its recov-ery concoctions, which deliver active medicinal ingredients such as an-ti-nausea and anti-inflammatory drugs

straight into the bloodstream to com-bat the symptoms of flu, hay fever, sun-burns and more, says Chapheau.

Reviv was founded in Miami Beach, Fla., in 2010 by emergency room doctor Johnny Parvani, before expanding to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, London, Johannesburg and more.

“I personally believe that, if you fast forward 10 years down the road, these treatments will be as ubiquitous as Bo-tox is today,” Parvani says.

As IV infusions have gained popu-larity, they have also attracted critics who question their efficacy.

Parvani says ER doctors have been using IV drips to deliver medicines and help hydrate patients for years.

“This is something we do day in and day out,” Parvani says. “There’s really no argument because this is standard of practice medicine.”

At Reviv’s Toronto location, located just west of the financial district in the heart of the startup tech community, treatments are administered by a team of registered nurses.

First-time patients fill out medical questionnaires and consult with one of the clinic’s three doctors via Skype.

“The foundation of Reviv is that we are delivering a controlled medical procedure,” says Potter, noting that it is governed by Ontario’s Regulated Health Professions Act and subject to oversight by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.

New IV to cure jet lag, hangovers


C1LIFE

32 3

Downtown Sounds at Gaetz Concert features The Master’s Singers — 60 member male voice choir from Calgary under the direction of Muriel Wiebe — on Sunday, 3 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church in Red Deer. Tickets are $15 at the door. See themasterssingers.org

The third annual Bentley Library Fundraiser featuring Funhouse Dance Band, Bob Ronnie catering, silent auction, dance, bar, 50/50 draw and door prizes goes Saturday night starting at 7:30 p.m. and runs until 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning at the Blindman Valley Ag Centre. For more information call 403-748-4626 or email [email protected].

THE MASTER’S SINGERS PERFORM AT GAETZ UNITED

BENTLEY LIBRARY FUNDRAISER

THINGSHAPPENINGTOMORROW

1St. George’s Day Tea will be hosted by Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary on Sunday starting at 2 p.m. at Red Deer Legion. Enjoy scones with Devonshire cream and dance to music by Red Deer Music Makers. Tickets are $5 and they are available at the Legion reception desk.

ST. GEORGE’S DAY TEA AT ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION

FIND OUT WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN OUR EVENT CALENDAR AT WWW.REDDEERADVOCATE.COM/CALENDAR.

BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

The Bard will be celebrated at Bower Ponds this summer with a triple-threat season of romantic comedy, high-stakes drama, music and Shakespear-ean-themed improvisation.

Prime Stock Theatre will be staging three Bard on Bower plays, instead of two, to help mark the 400th anniversary this year of William Shakespeare’s death on April 23, 1616.

Four centuries of the Bard are being commem-orated around the world — from authors such as Margaret Atwood writing so-called “deleted scenes” from Shakespearean works, to an English theatre company vowing to stage a Shakespearean produc-tion in every country on Earth.

In Red Deer, Julius Caesar and Love’s Labour’s Lost will be staged by a 14-actor cast on the outdoor stage in repertory from July 14-31st, said Prime Stock The-atre’s artistic director, Thomas Usher.

And in this seventh season of Bard on Bower pro-ductions, Usher will also present a smaller, scaled-down version of Othello.

A cast of five actors will stage this tale of love, jealousy and manipulation inside the Bower Ponds Pavilion. Seating will be provided for an audience of 40 for this ticketed, 70-minute “pocket production” that runs on July 17-31.

“We’re trying to create more of a festival atmo-sphere” at Bower Ponds, said Usher. To achieve this, there will be a plethora of special performances around the Bard on Bower productions. “There will be Shakespeare-based improvisation,” he added, from groups including Bull Skit Comedy, Tree House Youth Theatre and Improv Jelly.

There will also be pre-show chats, workshops, and a fundraising musical cabaret at Fratters held July 18-20 and 28-30.

Music will also be heard at Bower Ponds. Red Deer trio Underside Pattern will add Buddy Holly tunes to Love’s Labour’s Lost to go with a re-imagin-ing 1950s plot line. The comedy is about four men who try — unsuccessfully — to avoid the company of women during their three years of monk-ish studies. It will be directed by Emily Pole, a recent graduate of the Red Deer College Theatre Studies program and one of Usher’s former students.

Usher will direct the two tragedies.Othello, is about a powerful military commander

has his emotional strings pulled by his advisor Iago, who’s bent on revenge after he feels another soldier is “unfairly” promoted over him.

Julius Caesar tells of the dramatic fall of the Ro-man Emperor. Most of the play deals with Cassius’s plans to kill Caesar and Brutus’s psychological strug-gle between honor, patriotism and friendship.

Bard on Bower is operating with a grant from Heritage Canada and a generous corporate donation from Servus Credit Union and some other business-es.

Usher is seeking more corporate sponsorship for Prime Stock’s Bard on Bower season.

And he hopes the audience will help cover more

of the costs. While the Shakespearean productions

have been drawing bigger crowds, he has noticed

that public donations aren’t increasing. Admission

to the two outdoor plays will remain free, but there’s

a suggested donation of $20 for adults.

The indoor run of Othello will cost $20 a ticket.

More information on the shows and the cabaret

will be available later this spring from www.primes-

tocktheatre.com.

[email protected]

BY LANA MICHELINADVOCATE STAFF

Toney Springer, of Wild T & The Spirit, is often compared to Jimi Hendrix. But he feels he actually learned more from David Bowie.

The Canadian guitarist grew up in Trinidad and Tobago playing “funky jazz” guitar, without knowing too much about rock or blues.

“We never heard of the blues. We had the ocean, beaches and sunshine… Why would we need the blues?” said Springer, who plays with Wild T & The Spirit on Sunday, May 1, at Fratters Speakeasy in Red Deer.

When a friend lent him a Hendrix cassette he wasn’t overly impressed at first. “I held onto (the recording) because there was some Otis Redding on the other side, and at the time, I was O.D.-ing on Redding!”

Springer gained greater appreciation of Hen-drix’s music after coming to Toronto in the early ’80s and being recruited to a Jimi Hendrix tribute band. “I learned Jimi Hendrix’s music because it was a job. They were offering me money,” he recalled.

But after listening carefully to guitarist’s grooves, Springer found himself a convert to the cult of Jimi. “I thought, holy, s—t man, this guy’s amazing!”

Despite his admiration for Hendrix’s music, he believes it didn’t teach him more than different vari-ations of what he’d already been playing in Trinidad.

Bowie, on the other hand, proved to be a revela-tion.

Springer, who played with Toronto band Rough Trade before starting Wild T & The Spirit in 1990, was asked to play on Bowie’s 1993 Black Tie White Noise album. He figures it was because the English superstar was always interested in musical experi-mentation, and his own guitar sound originates from the loose jamming style of Caribbean music.

In the studio, Springer asked to hear a loop of Bowie’s music for the tune I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday, for which he would play lead guitar. The Toronto-based musician listened to Bowie’s melody a few times, then did some “doodling” on his guitar to figure out how he would approach it.

By the time Springer said he was ready to record his part, some 15 minutes later, he was told, “It’s OK, we’ve already got it. You can go home now!”

It turned out Bowie had been recording his im-provisational grooves while he was practising. “He told me, ‘I wanted to get you fresh, and not in your comfort zone,’” Springer recalled.

He figures this “sweet, small-boned Englishman who liked to tell stories,” was always looking to straddle new musical ground. “He liked my playing because there was no (formula)… I was always mak-ing something out of nothing,” said Springer, who went on to perform with Bowie on several talk shows and for the DVD for Black Tie White Noise.

“I learned a lot from him,” recalled the guitarist,

who studied Bowie’s unique vocal techniques and his on- and off-stage demeanor.

He remembers the thin, blond artist was “the calmest man I’ve ever seen” while waiting in the wings to perform on Jay Leno and Arsenio Hall’s late-night talk shows. “There was not a bit of anxiety. But as soon as the lights went on, he was on fire!

“I thought, this is the real deal. There is no space for ‘fair.’ (Bowie) knows how to turn it into this posi-tive force,” said Springer, who was saddened to hear of his death in January. “We kept in touch for quite a while after I played with him,” and Bowie recom-mended filmmakers when Springer was looking to make a music video.

Drawing on a similar zen spirit of musical loose-ness, Wild T & The Spirit have recorded a live al-bum.

It includes a couple totally new songs written by Springer: No No No and Hooked. It also features a ZZ Top-style arrangement of the Wild T tune I’m a River, a slower version of Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtow-er and a cover of James Brown’s Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.

Springer explained, “I’m a funky cat, man. I come from funk, and James Brown is the King of Funk for me… I had to pay tribute.”

He promises his trio, recently back from a Eu-ropean tour, will show Red Deer fans a good time. “The mood we set for people is so musical, it allows us to go anywhere and everywhere” — from Bob Marley’s reggae influences to the soul of Sly and the Family Stone.

There’s a $10 cover for the 8 p.m. [email protected]

This Bard season is a celebration

FILE Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate Staff

Gertrude (Tara Rorke) questions Hamlet’s (Albertus Koett) sanity during the Bard on Bower’s production of Hamlet at Bower Ponds in 2014.

Wild T channels Hendrix, Bowie

Contributed photo

Wild T & The Spirit are set to perform on Sunday, May 1, at Fratters Speakeasy

www.royalcanadiancircus.caDISCOUNT TICKETS WITH PROMO CODE: ADVOCATE

FOR 2 FOR 1 TICKETS GO TO

ENTER TO WINRun Away to the Circus for 1 Day!

Name

Address City

Postal Code Phone

Mail or deliver to: Red Deer Advocate

2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

Contest Deadline: Friday, April 29, 2016

8 x VIP Tickets

Part of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies

Backstage Tour for you and your guests to meet Marie & Shelly the Elephants

2 Elephant Rides

As the Honorary Ringmaster your Grand Prize includes:

UNDER THE BIG TOP

MEDIA PARTNER:

RED DEER, May 6 - 8

orary RingmastngmaHonohee HHHHHHonohh

7527

955D

267525

614D

4-28

#600, 3020-22 Street Red Deer, ABPhone: 587-457-0820

DOG WASHNOW OPEN!

7563

102D

23

Saturday, April 23, 2016ENTERTAINMENT C2

Free screening of Goon on Saturday

Celebrate National Canadian Film Day by watching a free screening of the hockey movie Goon on Saturday, April 30.

Described on Rotten Tomatoes as a “crude slapstick comedy with well-formed characters and a surprising amount of heart,” Goon stars Seann William Scott, Liev Schreiber, Jay Baruchel and Eugene Levy. The Cana-da-U.S. production is supposed to take place in Boston, but was filmed mostly in Brandon, Man. and Winnipeg.

The plot is about a nice but dimwit-ted man (Scott) who becomes the en-forcer for a minor-league hockey team, despite not knowing how to skate.

The 7 p.m. showing (Rated 18+) is free at the Welikoklad Centre in down-town Red Deer.

Canadians from coast to coast are invited to stand together during this third-annual National Canadian Film Day and “celebrate the great cinematic stories we tell one another in this cold, vast country.”

St. Groove to bring the funk to Bull Skit

Red Deer funk-fusion band St. Groove will heat things up Bull Skit’s April shows.

This month it’s DIY Bull Skit on Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, at the Scott Block theatre. “Come down and create your very own sketch show.”

The happy hour shows go from 7 to 7:45 p.m.

The regular monthly Bull Skit shows of live music, improvs and sketch come-dy start at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $23 from www.bullskit-comedy.com or $25 at the door.

Calf Skit presents Frog PrinceThe next Calf Skit show is Frog

Prince: She Kissed a Frog and She Liked It!

Bull Skit’s family-friendly fairy tale improvisation will be presented at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, at the Scott Block Theatre.

Come on down for a fun take on the classic The Frog Prince story by the Brothers Grimm. There will be plenty of audience interaction and free pop-corn for the kids.

Tickets are $20 per family at the door.

LocalB R I E F S


TORONTO — Prince’s final mo-ments in Canada were spent at Toron-to’s Everleigh night club last month, where he thrilled a tiny crowd with a surprise performance.

A day before playing back-to-back shows at the Sony Centre for the Per-forming Arts, Everleigh owner Zark Fatah got a call asking if Prince could host an after-party there.

They set up a stage with a keyboard and provided two bottles of Limoncello liqueur for the “Purple Rain” super-star and his entourage.

Prince showed up around 12:30 a.m. dressed in a velour robe.

It would be another 90 minutes or so before he addressed a large crowd of fans who were hoping he might per-form.

“He came on the mic, thanked ev-erybody for coming,” said Fatah. “Then he said, ‘If you all stick around, I’ll come back and dance with all of you.”’

Prince then “went back behind his curtain” and hung out until about 3:20 a.m.

By that point most fans had gone home disappointed and Fatah began closing the club.

But Prince had a change of heart.Fatah said one of the singer’s man-

agers called Everleigh’s head of secu-rity and said, “Prince wants to come back.”

Naturally, Fatah accommodated.“I think he didn’t perform in front of

everybody (earlier) because there were 400 people standing a few feet away from him,” said Fatah.

“Maybe he just wanted a more inti-mate type of experience.”

Hadi Teherany was one of those people who patiently waited for Prince to perform but eventually left the club when it looked like Prince wasn’t going to play.

He was sitting in his condo and tuck-ing into a late-night meal when he got a text from a friend — one of the club’s other owners — encouraging him to rush back.

“I literally (threw) on my sweatpants and popped in the back door,” Tehera-ny said.

“Lo and behold (Prince) is sitting there on stage, tuning up his equip-ment.”

Only a small number of people — maybe two dozen — were still milling around.

Most of them had been working that night and were treated to an unbeliev-able experience.

Inside Prince’s final late-night Toronto show

EVERLEIGH


TORONTO — After a whirlwind two-year world tour that saw him hanging out with Saudi royals and Syrian refu-gees, Canadian standup superstar Rus-sell Peters is winding down on home soil.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, per-formances at Toronto’s Massey Hall will be recorded for a Netflix special. Then after a couple of other shows next month — and an appearance on “Lip Sync Battle” with CeeLo Green — he’ll finally start a four-month break in June to spend time with his five-year-old daughter.

“I’m kind of excited about it, actual-ly — nervous and excited,” the 45-year-old said of taking so many months off for the first time in his career.

The Brampton, Ont.-raised comic, who’s known for skewering racial ste-reotypes, is in town after performing 250 shows in 120 cities across 25 coun-tries for his “Almost Famous World Tour” — his longest and biggest yet.

The Middle East has probably his biggest fanbase, “the most rabid, that’s for sure,” said Peters.

In Saudi Arabia, one of the show promoters was a prince and he was “treated literally like royalty by royal-ty.” Meanwhile, in Jordan, he visited the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp on a request by the Canadian government.

He discovered the children there don’t have aspirations of living in oth-er countries, as he and many others had come to believe.

“They just want to go back to Syr-ia,” said Peters. “I get it. When you’re there and you see it in their face, there’s no evil in them. They’re just displaced people, they just want to go home.”

Peters also beefed up his acting re-sume while on tour, with credits in-cluding the Jon Favreau film “Chef” and Disney’s “The Jungle Book,” in which he voices the peacock and Rocky the Rhino.

For his appearance on “Lip Sync Battle” next month, liquid courage helped him get through his songs, which include “Oh, What a Night” by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

“In all honesty, I was pretty ham-mered when I did that because that’s the only way you’re going to get me to sing and dance on TV like that,” he said.

“The good thing is, because I was a little buzzed, I was really taking shots at (CeeLo Green).”

Peters said he picked Massey Hall for his Netflix taping because he want-

ed to “scale it back to a normal-sized venue” after previously recording spe-cials at Madison Square Garden, the O2 arena, and the Allphones Arena.

“I wanted to do it in my city,” he added, “and I think Massey Hall de-fines my city as that building has been there before all the other buildings.”

This is Peters’s second straight-to-Netflix special and he enjoys the free-dom the platform offers.

“Regular TV, I deal with all their other corporate BS,” he said. “Netflix is still run fairly loose, I would say. They let you do what you want to do and then they take the content.”

In his act, he plans to riff on some Canadian topics as well as his little girl — who lives in Los Angeles with Peters’s ex-wife, Monica Diaz— and the sassy nature she got from him.

“Too much of it,” he said. “But it’s so funny because she’ll do things the exact same way I would do something, and then I try to explain to her, ‘Baby, you can’t pull that on me, that’s exactly

what I would have done. And I’m not mad at you because that’s exactly what I would have done.’

“She stalls when she doesn’t want to do something, or if she doesn’t want to say hi to you she’ll just make a face at you.”

Peters got his start at Toronto’s Yuk Yuk’s comedy chain, which is celebrat-ing its 40th anniversary.

Founder Mark Breslin recently told The Canadian Press he feels standup comedy has “gotten really, really soft,” which Peters agrees with.

“Political correctness has disal-lowed us to be angry,” he said.

“We have to be so accepting of ev-erything that if you have an opinion on something, it automatically means you are against these people. And that’s not what it means. It means I have a preference, this is what I like and that’s what they like and we can still co-exist quite fine, both liking differ-ent things.”

Russell Peters on Netflix special, meeting Syrian refugees, political correctness

Photo by ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

Comedian Russell Peters poses for a press photo.After a whirlwind two-year world tour that saw him hanging out with Saudi royals and Syrian refugees, Canadian standup superstar Peters is winding down on home soil.


TORONTO — A widespread percep-tion of palliative care as being synon-ymous with death is preventing ma-ny patients from accessing supportive therapies aimed at improving their quality of life, researchers say.

In a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Jour-nal, researchers found that cancer pa-tients referred for early palliative care tended to view the concept as frighten-ing and a sure sign they were dying.

But principal researcher Dr. Ca-milla Zimmermann, head of palliative care at the University Health Network in Toronto, said the service is intended to provide pain relief and other symp-tom control from the point of diagnosis through the course of a patient’s ill-ness.

Zimmermann said there’s a discon-nect between the World Health Orga-nizations’s definition of palliative care — the use of various therapies to im-prove quality of life for both patients with a life-threatening illness and for their families — and many people’s be-liefs about what the term means.

“I think attention needs to be paid to this because palliative care is some-thing that can help so many people and there are people who are not ac-cessing it because they’re afraid of it,” she said.

“It’s like being afraid of the um-brella rather than the storm, because we’re really trying to protect people from suffering.”

Zimmermann said not all patients referred for palliative care end up dy-ing from the disease for which they are being treated, and some may live for several years following diagnosis.

“We might not know at the begin-ning if that life-threatening illness is going to be the cause of death for that person or not. But anyone with a serious illness has concerns related to symptom control. They often need emotional support, spiritual support, social support in terms of helping their families and maybe caregivers

at home, or they may have financial needs.

“So regardless of whether the pa-tient is actually actively dying, they need support for all these things.”

Palliative care is relevant for pa-tients with a number of illnesses be-sides cancer, including heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary dis-ease, neurological disorders such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or even dementia, she said.

“So any disease may result in death, but that death may not occur for a very long time.”

To conduct the study, researchers interviewed 48 patients with advanced cancers and 23 caregivers who had participated in an earlier investigation of 461 patients. In the first study, half the participants received early pallia-tive care at an out-patient clinic, in ad-dition to cancer treatment. The other half received only cancer care.

Participants had an estimated sur-vival prognosis of between six months and two years. The 2014 study showed improved quality of life for those who received early palliative care.

Both groups in the follow-up study initially viewed “palliative care” as a frightening term they equated with a loss of hope, with incapacity and “it being a place where you go to die, a place you never get out of again,” said Zimmermann. She added that some weren’t clear what the term meant.

After the four-month study, the group enrolled in palliative care shift-ed their view and saw the service as beneficial to their quality of life, while the group that didn’t get the support-ive care continued to find the concept alarming.

Patients in both camps found the la-bel “palliative care” extremely stigma-tizing and said they wouldn’t use the term when speaking of their treatment with family or friends.

Participants said the stigma pri-marily arises from the medical system, with doctors and nurses giving the im-pression that palliative care was only end-of-life care, explained Zimmer-mann. She added that the mainstream media and social media tend to per-petuate that notion.

Many believed the expression should be changed to “supportive care” and the service should undergo a rebranding to better re-flect what it offers.

In an accompanying commentary, Dr. Anthony Caprio, a geriatric medi-cine specialist at the Car-olinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, N.C., said al-tering the name may help promote a more positive view of palliative care.

But, he added, “the stigma will persist if this type of care is recom-mended only as default treatment when curative or life-prolonging treat-ments are deemed inef-fective or undesired.”

If palliative care is viewed as an essential component of advanced disease management, then its benefits should be available and recom-mended to all patients at every stage of their ill-

ness, Caprio wrote.“Palliative care would no longer be

chosen it would simply be integrat-ed into comprehensive oncology treat-ment that supports patients and care-givers by incorporating palliative-care principles and services into all aspects of their care.”

Zimmermann said addressing nega-tive perceptions about palliative care is particularly timely, given that med-ical aid in dying is soon to be fully legalized in Canada, against a back-ground recognition that supportive services for people with potentially life-limiting illnesses are inadequate or non-existent in many parts of the country.

“There’s the fear some people might be able to easily access physician-as-sisted death who don’t have access to palliative care,” she said. “And we would never want someone to choose assisted death without having experi-enced palliative care.”

FrFrFrFrFr iiddddayyy && SSSSaaatttuuuurddddaaaayy NNNNiigghhts——aaffffttteeeerrrr 4444ppmmm ——

7552

613D

20

Auditions April 26 & 28 7-9 pm Contact Maureen

403-347-8111 ext. 5

*submissions for one act plays and other performing and creative arts accepted until April 26.

June 3

ONE ACT DESSERT GALA

Festival Hall Doors Open 7 pm

Tickets $40.00 at the BKI Ticket Centre

Opening June 2-4 & 9-11

C.A.T. ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL

Nickle StudioDoors Open 7 pm

4214-58 St.(entrance west of the Memorial Centre doors)

Tickets $10.00 at the door

DRAMA?

www.centralalbertatheatre.net

??Check Out Our ONE ACT PLAYFestival

Looking for

SHOWTIMES FOR FRIDAY APRIL 22, 2016 TO THURSDAY APRIL 28, 2016

GALAXY CINEMAS RED DEER 357-37400 HWY 2, RED DEER COUNTY 403-348-2357

ZOOTOPIA () CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; SAT 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; SUN 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50; MON-THURS 6:50, 9:30BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE 3D (PG) (FRIGHTENING SCENES,VIOLENCE,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN) CC/DVS FRI 6:40, 10:05; SAT 12:00, 6:40, 10:05; SUN 12:00, 6:40, 10:10; MON-THURS 6:35, 9:55THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER’S WAR (PG) (FRIGHTENING SCENES,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO, NO PASSES FRI 4:05, 4:35, 7:00, 7:30, 9:55, 10:25; SAT-SUN 1:10, 1:40, 4:05, 4:35, 7:00, 7:30, 9:55, 10:25; MON-THURS 6:40, 7:10, 9:25, 10:05THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO, NO PASSES FRI 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; SAT 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; SUN 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; MON-THURS 7:00, 9:40THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D (PG) CC/DVS, NO PASSES FRI 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; SAT-SUN 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; MON-THURS 6:30, 9:10THE JUNGLE BOOK 3D (PG) ULTRAAVX, NO PASSES FRI 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; SAT-SUN 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; MON-THURS 7:30, 10:10

DEADPOOL (14A) (SEXUAL CONTENT,VIOLENCE,NUDITY) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI 3:50, 6:30, 9:10; SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10; MON-THURS 6:55, 9:45CRIMINAL (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE,BRUTAL VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI 4:20, 7:10, 9:55; SAT-SUN 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55; MON-THURS 7:05, 9:50CRIMINAL (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE,BRUTAL VIOLENCE) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30THE BOSS (14A) (COARSE LANGUAGE) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI 5:10, 7:40, 10:15; SAT-SUN 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15; MON-THURS 7:25, 10:00BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE (PG) (VIOLENCE,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN,FRIGHTENING SCENES) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO SAT-SUN 3:20; STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING WED 1:30THE CROODS (G) SAT 11:00MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2 (PG) CLOSED CAPTION & DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO FRI-SUN 4:00, 9:20; MON-WED 9:20GOD’S NOT DEAD 2 (PG) FRI,SUN-WED 6:30; SAT 1:00, 6:30CAROUSEL () SUN 12:55MOTHER’S DAY () THURS 7:00, 10:00

THE ADVOCATEHEALTH C3S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 3 , 2 0 1 6

Lace up and get moving Alberta

We all know that physical activity is important for physical and mental health. But many of us do not know how active we have to be to reap the benefits. Many of you might be think-ing that since you are walking three times a week, you are probably get-ting adequate activity. But only 42 per cent of Albertans over the age of 50 are physically active, according to Canadi-an physical activity guidelines.

Among seniors between the ages of 65-74, only 20 per cent of men and 17 per cent of women get adequate activ-ity, and among seniors aged 75 years and above, only 9 per cent of men and 6 per cent of women meet the recom-mended guidelines.

The benefits of regular exercise, recommended activity levels for older adults, and the initiatives taken by the province, and the cities to increase the physical activity levels of Alber-tans, formed the main topics of discus-sion at the ‘Active Living for Healthy Brains’ – a two day community engage-

ment event organized by the Universi-ty of Calgary, and sponsored by several organizations such as AIHS Confer-ence Grant program, Brenda Strafford Foundation Chair in Alzheimer Re-search, Brenda Strafford Centre on Aging, CIHR, CAIP Chair in Healthy Brain Aging, Heart & Stroke Founda-tion Chair in Stroke Research, Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta.

So what is the latest research on the benefits of regular exercise? Research shows that regular exercise can sig-nificantly reduce the risk of premature death from coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and colon cancer. It can im-prove mental health by reducing de-pression, anxiety, and reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.

Exercising regularly can also re-duce the risk of osteoporosis and the risk of falls by increasing balance and coordination, thereby improving our functional independence. This in turn allows us to stay in our homes longer. It can also improve our memory, mood, make us happier, and improve sleep.

Being physically active also in-creases the size and function of criti-cal areas of the brain associated with memory, learning, information pro-cessing, problem solving and executive functions. It increases blood flow to

the brain, delivering more oxygen to the brain and promotes the formation of new nerve cells and new connec-tions, all of which help to mitigate the age-related changes in the brain.

How much exercise should we do to reap these benefits? According to Ca-nadian guidelines for older adults, the ideal dosage of exercise is 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity ac-tivity per week or an equivalent com-bination. Examples of moderate inten-sity physical activity are brisk walk-ing, jogging, biking etc. We do not have to do all that exercise at one time, it can be done in three 10 minute slots, spaced throughout the day.

We also need to do strengthening exercises for the major muscle groups twice a week and flexibility exercises three or more times a week.

Where do Albertans stand in terms of meeting the guidelines? Although 94per cent of Albertans believe that physical activity will improve their health, only 35 per cent of Albertans 65 years and older meet this guideline. Not only are we exercising less, we are also more sedentary. About one-third of Albertans spend more than 10 hours every day in sedentary activities. Phys-ical inactivity of Canadians is emerg-ing as a major threat to the country’s economy, directly and indirectly, since

it decreases productivity and increas-es healthcare spending.

Just increasing our physical activity by 1 per cent can give us significant returns in terms of improved physi-cal and mental health, reduced risk of developing chronic health conditions or achieving better control of health conditions, and an overall improve-ment in the quality of our life. This can also save the nation billions of dollars in healthcare costs, which can then be made available for providing essential programs and services.

Walking is a preferred activity for Albertans and it is a no-cost activity that can be done individually or in groups. Goal setting and planning can help older Albertans get 150 minutes of physical activity per week.

Our city provides a variety of activ-ities for seniors at discounted rates. We are also blessed with beautiful and safe trails and parks that are waiting to be explored. So let’s lace up and get moving!

Padmaja Genesh, who holds a bach-elor degree in medicine and surgery as well as a bachelor degree in Gerontolo-gy, has spent several years teaching and working with health care agencies. A past resident of Red Deer, she is now a Learn-ing Specialist at the Alzheimer Society of Calgary. Please send your comments to [email protected].

SENIORS

PADMAJAGENESH

Palliative care not synonymous with deathSTIGMA PREVENTING PATIENTS FROM ACCESSING SUPPORTIVE THERAPY, RESEARCHERS SAY

It’s like being afraid of the umbrella rather than the storm, because we’re really trying to protect people from suffering”

-Dr. Camilla Zimmermann

Palliative Care Services Head, University Health Network

“


C4FOCUS

facebook.com/RDAdvocate

Published at 2950 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 1M9

by The Red Deer Advocate Ltd.Canadian Publications Agreement #336602

Member of the Audit Bureau of CirculationMain switchboard 403-343-2400

NewsNews tips 403-314-4333

Sports line 403-343-2244News fax 403-341-6560

Sports editor 403-314-4363

[email protected]

[email protected]: 403-314-4343

Fax: [email protected]

Alberta Press Council memberThe Red Deer Advocate is a sponsoring

member of the Alberta Press Council, an independent body that promotes and

protects the established freedoms of the press and advocates freedom of informa-tion. The Alberta Press Council upholds

the public’s right to full, fair and accurate news reporting by considering complaints, within 60 days of publication, regarding the

publication of news and the accuracy of facts used to support opinion. The coun-cil is comprised of public members and

representatives of member newspapers.

The Press Council’s address: PO Box 2576, Medicine Hat, AB, T1A 8G8. Phone 403-580-

4104. Email: [email protected]. Website:

www.albertapresscouncil.ca.Publisher’s notice

The Publisher reserves the right to edit or reject any advertising copy; to omit or discontinue any advertisement. The advertiser agrees that the Publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out of error in advertisements beyond the amount paid for the space actually occupied by that portion of the advertisement in which the error occurs.

C E N T R A L A L B E R T A ’ SD A I L Y N E W S P A P E R

twitter.com/RedDeerAdvocate

R E D D E E R

Mary Kemmis [email protected]

Josh Aldrich Managing [email protected]

Wendy MooreAdvertising sales [email protected]

www.reddeeradvocate.com

But for young millennial voters Jus-tin Trudeau might not have won a ma-jority victory last fall.

As an Abacus Data study confirmed this week, the younger cohort of the electorate tilted the balance in favour of the Liberals. By turning out in great-er numbers and coalescing behind Trudeau, voters aged 18 to 25 almost certainly made a difference between a minority and a majority.

Early indications suggest the Liber-als were the preferred choice of a plu-rality of younger voters (45 per cent) beating the NDP (25 per cent) and the Conservatives (20 per cent).

In comparison to 2011, turnout among that age group went up 12 per-centage points.

Before dismissing the growth of the youth vote and its impact on the elec-tion outcome as a one off — essentially due to Trudeau’s status as a political rock star — it might be prudent to con-sider that the reverse could turn out to

be true.In politics, empowerment and en-

gagement tend to come as a pair. The sense that one’s vote can make

a difference is one of the main incen-tives to continue exercising one’s fran-chise. On that score, the experience was positive for many of those who voted for the first time in 2015.

In the big picture, no federal par-ty can afford to ignore the changing demographics of the electorate. As the Abacus report points out, by the next election all millennials (born ap-proximately between 1980 and 2000) will have a vote. Their generation will make up the electorate’s largest co-hort.

The Liberals were the main bene-ficiaries of a higher level of youth en-gagement in the electoral process last fall but that does not mean they can take that support for granted.

Come 2019, Trudeau’s edge with young voters could be blunted by the upcoming leadership changes at the helm of the other parties.

Over the course of his first mandate, Trudeau also stands to lose some of the patina that allowed him to cast himself as the greatest agent of change last fall. It is often easier to act like an underdog than an incumbent.

Many New Democrats came out of the 2015 campaign feeling they had been outflanked on the front of gener-ational change.

That widespread sense contribut-ed to Thomas Mulcair’s demise at the hands of party members earlier this month.

But before the NDP concludes that a younger leader could act as a magic bullet for what ails it, it might consider that under Jack Layton, in 2011, the NDP was the preferred choice of the younger cohort. Mulcair’s failure to keep that connection alive had more to do with the larger failure of the NDP campaign to connect with the elector-ate at large than with the age of the leader.

More so than any of its predeces-sors, the millennial generation was raised in a culturally diverse Canada. That theme happens to be a constant in Trudeau’s political discourse and it is reflected in his caucus.

Looking at the delegates at the NDP convention in Edmonton, one had to look hard for evidence of the country’s cultural diversity.

Even before the last election polls showed that if younger voters were left to decide who should run Canada, the Conservatives would come dead last -

behind the Green party. Under Stephen Harper the party

worked hard at hanging on to that last place.

The dismissive Conservative dis-course on climate change; the reluc-tant acceptance of marriage rights for same-sex couples; the over-the-top fear campaign over the legalization of mar-ijuana all seemed designed to drive millennials away.

The party’s reductive depiction of Trudeau’s leadership might as well have been calculated to come across as a generational put-down.

Like their elders, younger Canadi-ans believe bread-and-butter issues like jobs should sit at the top of the to-do list of the federal government. But also like a majority of their elders, they crave aspirational politics and believe in the virtues of government activism.

Those are generational traits that a decade of Conservative counterspin probably exacerbated rather than di-minished.

On that basis, Trudeau should share the credit for the higher youth engage-ment that had such defining impact on the last election with Harper.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

What do you do when times get re-ally bad where you are, and when your loved ones are at risk?

Well, you either stay where you are, and hope that things finally get better. Or you move.

Around here, that question isn’t an abstraction. Around here, a majority of Calgary’s residents came from some-where else, to get a piece of Alberta’s (formerly) limitless promise — better jobs, better services, better opportu-nities.

That’s why my own family came here, in fact: to escape Quebec’s cul-tural and language wars. We stayed three decades. This is home, still.

Now many Calgarians are agonizing about moving. The bottom has fallen out of the energy industry, and things aren’t going to get better anytime soon. For the first time in three decades, many Calgarians are pulling up stakes and heading elsewhere. Nova Scotia, Ontario, B.C.

Anywhere they can get a job. Any-where they can give their families a semblance of a future.

That dilemma — should we stay or should we go — is arguably a bit easier for Calgarians to resolve. They came here to get away from tough times, and they’re now readying to leave here to escape tough times. They know what families have to do sometimes.

But what if your culture is wholly different? What if you were brought up to believe that you were, quite lit-erally, part of the land beneath your feet? That you and the Earth are inter-changeable?

In Attawapiskat, that’s what some folks may be feeling. They know peo-ple are saying they should leave. That they should get away from the grind-ing, bottomless misery of the place.

But, but, but: to leave the reserve is to leave behind a part of who they are. Because the reserve isn’t a place. It’s them.

The issue came up in the House of Commons last week. My former boss, Jean Chretien, was on the Hill and the media caught up with him. They wanted to ask him about the state of emergency at Attawapiskat — about a youthful suicide pact that had been overheard involving 13 kids. One of the kids was just nine years old.

They wanted to ask Canada’s best prime minister about the 39 record-ed suicide attempts since the start of March. In a place with only 2,000 peo-ple.

“People have to move sometimes,” my former boss said. “Sometimes it’s desirable to stay if they want to stay, but it’s not always possible.”

That doesn’t mean the reserve should be shut down or relocated, he said. “… It’s one case at a time.”

Chretien is father to an aboriginal boy. Some consider him the best Indi-

an Affairs minister Canada has ever had. He has spent a lot time — during and after politics – in remote places like Attawapiskat. And he taught his staff to strive to improve the lives of the people who were here first.

But that didn’t stop the NDP from implying Chretien is a colonial antedi-luvian monster.

An “assimilationist.”Fresh from stabbing their leader

in the back in Edmonton — fresh from immolating themselves by embracing a document that would economically emasculate Alberta and not a few oth-er places — the NDP tried to change the channel on their problems. Theirs is the party that represents Attawa-piskat in the House of Commons, you see, and they would prefer you not re-member that.

So they went after Jean Chretien.Said NDP MP Niki Aston: “A for-

mer prime minister of Canada, when asked about the suicide epidemic in Attawapiskat, perpetuated such assim-ilationist views in suggesting that First Nations people should just leave their communities.”

She went on: “These views are unac-ceptable.”

Hearing this sort of thing from the NDP was almost enough to make one throw up.

But piety is standard operating pro-cedure for the NDP. They’ve repre-sented Attawapiskat for years in the House of Commons, and it’s difficult to think of single thing they have done to improve lives there.

They would prefer, instead, that the people of Attawapiskat stay where

they are, and wait for things to get bet-ter.

The time for waiting is over. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, per the cliché, is the definition of insanity.

The people of Attawapiskat were here first.

We — the ones who took away their culture, their language, their religion, their land – owe them.

And if that means paying for them to move to a better place, then so be it. In places like Calgary, they know what that is.

It’s not assimilation. It’s protecting the ones you love.

Troy Media columnist Warren Kinsella is a Canadian journalist, political adviser and commentator.

Millennials helped, and could hurt, PM

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

CHANTAL HEBERT

No time for waiting in Attawapiskat

OPINION

WARREN KINSELLA

Saturday, April 23, 2016FOCUS C5

On days that I am not at the kitchen, as I sit at my computer and look out my window, I watch as this five-foot-11, fortyish, grizzle-faced fellow walks by on his way to the kitchen for breakfast. There he eats, gets a bag lunch and goes off to work in the construction field.

I’ve known him ever since I took over the kitchen seven years ago. At that time, he was much more involved in the drug culture and his life was one of chaos. He had a son that he cher-ished and the possibility of getting him back from Social Services was the rea-son he needed to leave that chaos and do his best to make a home for him and his son.

Every day that I see him at the kitchen, I am reminded that it can be done, and his thankfulness for the help he received to ‘straighten’ out is what keeps us and many other agencies go-ing. He is still doing well, but the lack of work is a worrisome thing for him; he needs to work full time in order to live and, in his own words, “keep from doing something stupid.”

“I’m never going back to that life-style, I would sooner die first;” this from a five-foot, bubbly young woman who has made dramatic changes in her own life in the last four years. Al-

though recently she has met with some real challenges to that statement, and has a very occasional slip, she manag-es to hold on. She is a joy to behold as she makes tremendous efforts to stand firm.

About once or twice a year this smile walks into the door.

There really is no other way to de-scribe this woman.

If ever some toothpaste company needed a model to show teeth along with an ear to ear smile, we have her here in Red Deer, or should I say Blackfalds where she now lives with her man.

For the last three years, in a her-culean effort, they moved away from downtown and found a place in Black-falds.

They are clean, working and just ab-solutely enjoying life.

I could go on for quite a while about all the victories downtown, and seri-ously we should, because these beau-tiful folks have made greater strides

than Sir Edmund Hillary ever did. In my mind, climbing Mount Everest does not even come close.

We often don’t hear much about the changes these folks make, but I’m go-ing to ask you to consider the follow-ing.

Many people will not come down-town because of the goings on with the drug crowd; they are scared that someone might do something to them. Others look on with absolute disgust at these same people, desiring that they would just leave. For sure they have the right to feel that way with certain individuals who abuse others by intim-idation.

That those that are afflicted with addiction stand judged by society goes without saying. Without studied under-standing, society has a tendency to just rule these addicts and their actions as not worthy, and therefore reject them outright.

For many years now I have been part of a society that has declared non-judgemental encouragement to addicts and all those afflicted. I have been at meetings where we cheered as a person declared that they were one week clean, no drugs, no alcohol, no prostituting. They may fail again, but we would encourage them the next

time as well. We do this for a simple reason; let me try to explain.

I smoked for 53 years, a pack-a-day habit for about 45 of them. Notice that I called it a habit, not an addiction? I probably tried at least 15 times to quit; once I did for about six months. Each time I tried, my wife and my children would cheer me on and thankfully say very little when once again I failed. Then when I took over the kitchen I continued to smoke for just about an-other year. I was addicted, pure and simple.

One day as I stood outside to have a smoke, I realized just how much of a hypocrite I was; here I was telling these folks that drugs are bad for your health and can destroy their lives, while at the same time blowing smoke in their face! I quit then and there. That was six years ago and have not touched a smoke since; not that the urge has not been there, but now I was committed to a smokeless life. It still is, to this day, a subject of pride in our family.

Would we not be better served to treat each and every person with the same loving, patient care and regard; let alone encouragement?

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

STREET TALES

CHRIS SALOMONS

We should treat every person with respect

So I may have mentioned previously that the new dog we finally got recent-ly turned out to be more of — well — more of a cat, per se. The adorable puppy I was looking forward to is ac-tually more of a little hairball kitten, technically. And for me being a certi-fied life-long dog lover, when it comes to cats, it’s always been: um, not so much.

Don’t get me wrong, our old barn cat Kitty ruled our roost for nearly 17 years and though she’s been gone to the great cat barn in the sky for a cou-ple of years now, I miss her still. But when she was around doing her duty as official household Guard Cat we also had two deranged dogs who cut the cat a wide swath, but they’re gone to the great gopher meadow in the sky now too, so this is the first time in all my years in this veil of tears that I’ve attempted to live with a solo cat.

Oh, the Better Half is ecstatic, of course. She is paw-sitive that this weird new creature running rampant around the house is meow-nificent. It was the B.H. who accidentally dis-covered the fur ball at an Alley Cat Rescue Society display and then sab-

otaged Yours Truly into going to “just look at” the cat more or less against my will. But the rescue people told us the eight-month-old beastie had been found abandoned in a dumpster, and then when they looked at us and smiled a knowing smile and took the little fuzzhead out of the cage and it rubbed it’s weird little catface on me and curled up on the B.H.’s lap and gave a little contented cat sigh, I knew it was game over.

Once we got her home, we barely saw the thing for two whole days. Ap-parently cats, especially scaredy-cats, like to hide and sleep under beds, couches, furniture etc. I’m pretty sure I caught a glimpse of her once trying to squeeze under the refrigerator.

“She is just getting used to us,” the B.H. says. “She’s been through a lot, and just needs to sleep and find out that we are her new family, and that she is safe here.” The Better Half grew up having cats. What I mean is, she always had pet cats in her house when she grew up. So, as with many things in life, she knows what to do when I don’t have a clue.

We finally named the four-legged fuzzface Chicklet on account of she is a small female with a brain the size of a small piece of gum. I usually call her D.C. for ‘Dumb Cat’ or sometimes even F. C. (if you get my drift). But I must admit, she is fairly attractive (for a cat), what with her soft fluffy white and multi-colour fur, which she delib-

erately deposits in clumps and strings all over the house, the furniture, my clothes etc. They said she’s a “diluted calico” which is just a fancy way of saying “a white cat that’s been rolling around on a fresh paint canvas of mod-ern art.”

And sure enough, eventually the lit-tle cloud of a cat finally emerged and decided that yes, she would stay here and not only that, she would allow us to stay here too.

She displayed her acceptance by attacking the lovely fern that grows in a pot on a table by the window and very nearly pulling the entire kit and kaboodle over onto the floor. She de-cided that scratching the couch would be a real fun thing to do on a regular basis.

Also, ambushing one or more of my wiggling feet under the table seems to be a highly enjoyable pastime for her, and an on-going surprisingly painful surprise for me. And she was just get-ting going.

So now, over a month after letting the cat out of the bag, we have a bo-na fide cat house that looks like the Feline Department of a well-stocked pet shop. Chicklet has scratch posts, scratch pads, an assortment of small whiffle balls, cloth balls and rub-ber balls to chase, several fuzzy fake mice, a couple of furry blobs that you wind up or switch on and they zig zag around on the floor and amuse the cat for about 20 to 30 seconds before she

gets bored and goes off to stare into the toilet. Her favorite is the classic feather on stick. We have two of these of course, enough to keep her busy for another one to two solid minutes in feline attack mode. Before she gets bored again and decides to jump up on the kitchen table just because she knows she’s not supposed to.

She has her own basket full of toys. She has an expensive plug-in water fountain, because apparently cats like their water to move. She has a little harness and a leash and likes to take the B.H. on long and arduous tours of the back yard as many times per day as possible. This Chicklet chick is ob-viously, one cat-egorically spoiled and very fortunate feline.

Thing is, when you come home, the D.C. comes running to the door to greet you and then flops over on her back, all fours in the air, meowing and wait-ing for a tummy rub. In fact, for cat, she acts an awful lot like a dog. A dog that doesn’t bark at every doorbell. A dog that uses a litter box. A dog that doesn’t mind when you leave them alone for a while.

A canine-like feline? Really, what else can you ask for from a cat?

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

The Leap manifesto raises two im-portant questions: How is Canada to meet its existing climate change com-mitments and move to a low-carbon economy, and what is the role of the fossil fuel industry in Canada’s future? The country needs to be able to plan its future so these are questions that need to be settled. But what are the best answers?

The Leap manifesto answers are, to be sure, blunt and direct. As it says, “small steps will no longer get us where we need to go.” So no new infra-structure projects that support fossil fuels — no new oil or gas pipelines, no fracking, and no increased tanker traffic off our coasts and, by inference, no new oil sands plants. By 2050, the manifest claims, we could have a 100 per cent clean economy based on re-newable energy, with no role for coal, oil, or, it appears, nuclear power.

Leap envisages a Canada with en-ergy efficient homes, retraining for workers in carbon-intensive jobs so they can be a part of the clean energy economy, high-speed rail powered just by renewables and “affordable” pub-lic transit in every community. There would be higher royalties in the re-source industries, an end to fossil fuel subsidies and a progressive carbon tax.

Some of these things will happen, or are already happening, in clean en-ergy, building codes and infrastruc-ture investments in public transit. But are they enough to achieve our emis-sion reduction obligations made to the international community? We don’t know because, despite much posturing in Paris last December by Prime Min-ister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, we still don’t have a national action plan on climate change.

Moreover, the Trudeau government seems certain to support one, if not two, pipelines to move oilsands oil. It’s not clear what the net effect on carbon emissions will be but there are good grounds for believing that Canada will fall short of the emission reduction target set by the Harper government.

Leap has done the country a favour,

though, if it forces Canadians to think through what moving to a low-carbon economy entails and how to do it. But much of the Leap manifesto fails.

In an interview with Maclean’s Mag-azine, Leap spokesperson Avi Lewis acknowledged Leap plans would car-ry a huge price but said it had not been calculated. “It wasn’t written by economists. But we know the money is there,” he said. Lewis said the mani-festo was “an aspirational, high-level document that attempts to tell a sto-ry about where we are in history and what we need to do next.” The plans, he said, would emerge from town hall meetings across the country.

Yet there is much that is troubling about the manifesto. It appears to cherish a “small is beautiful” version of society, with locally owned renew-able energy systems and what it calls “a far more localized and ecological-ly-based agricultural system” that

would “produce healthier and more af-fordable food for everyone.” But as the bumper stickers proclaim, “farmers feed cities” which of necessity means highly efficient and increasingly larg-er farms, and the transition to more genetically-modified crops if sufficient food is to be produced in greater quan-tities as our population continues to grow.

It is a manifesto that pays scant attention to wealth creation and the need for an economy that can pro-duce tradable goods and services we can sell to the rest of the world and finance our education, healthcare and other programmes. It appears to take the challenges of innovation, techno-logical change, productivity and com-petitiveness, as well as the related challenges of an aging society and the affordability of healthcare, as not wor-thy of consideration.

Instead, it talks of “expanding the

sectors of our economy that are al-ready low carbon: Caregiving, teach-ing, social work, the arts and public-in-terest media.” But how would we pay for this somewhat utopian world, in-cluding the universal annual income it proposes? It calls for higher income taxes on corporations and wealthy people at a time of “unprecedented private wealth.” Yet there are limits to how far the state can push. Corpo-rations don’t have to invest here and talented Canadians can leave.

The manifesto is designed to force hard thinking within the NDP on where it wants to go, but it should also invigorate thinking among Canadians more broadly.

While it does not have many of the right answers, Leap does ask some — but clearly not all — of the important questions.

David Crane can be reached at [email protected].

FOLLOWING THE FELINE FOLLIESHAY’S DAZE

HARLEY HAY

Questions from the Leap manifesto

INSIGHT

DAVID CRANE


MORIA, Greece — In a gesture both political and personal, Pope Francis flew 12 Syrian Muslims to It-aly aboard his charter plane Saturday after an emo-tional visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, which has faced the brunt of Europe’s migration crisis.

Refugees on the overwhelmed island fell to their knees and wept at his presence. Some 3,000 migrants on the island are facing possible deportation back to Turkey under a new deal with the European Union.

Francis said he decided only a week ago to bring the three refugee families to Italy after a Vatican official suggested it. He said he accepted the propos-al “immediately” since it fit the spirit of his visit to Lesbos.

“It’s a drop of water in the sea. But after this drop, the sea will never be the same,” he said, quoting a well-known phrase of Mother Teresa.

During the five-hour trip, Francis implored Eu-ropean nations to respond to the migrant crisis on its shores “in a way that is worthy of our common humanity.” The Greek island just a few miles from the Turkish coast has seen hundreds of thousands of desperate people land on its beaches and rocks in the last year, fleeing war and poverty at home.

The pope visited Lesbos alongside the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians and the head of the Church of Greece. They came to thank the Greek people for their welcome and highlight the plight of refugees as the 28-nation EU imple-ments a controversial plan to deport them back to Turkey.

Many refugees wept at Francis’ feet as he and the two Orthodox leaders approached them at the Moria refugee detention centre, where they greeted 250 people individually. Others chanted “Freedom! Freedom!” as they passed by.

Francis bent down as one young girl knelt at his feet, sobbing uncontrollably. The pope also bless-ed a man who wailed “Thank you, God. Thank you! Please Father, bless me!”

The Vatican said the three Syrian families, in-cluding six children, who were taken back with the pope will be supported by the Holy See and cared for initially by Italy’s Catholic Sant’Egidio Commu-nity. It said the homes of all three had been bombed in Syria.

Two of the families hail from the Damascus area and the third from Deir el-Zour, a city close to the Iraqi border that the Islamic State group has been besieging for months, leading to malnutrition among area’s 200,000 residents.

Francis said the three families — identified by Sant’Egidio as Hasan and Nour and their 2-year-old son, Ramy and Suhila and their three children, and Osama and Wafa and their two children — all had their documents in order and Italian visas.

“It’s a small gesture,” he said. “But these are the small gestures that all men and women must do to give a hand to those in need.”

Francis seemed particularly shaken by the trau-ma the children he met at the detention centre suf-fered as a result of their voyages. En route home to Rome, he showed the picture one Afghan child gave him of a sun weeping over a sea where boats carry-ing refugees had sunk.

“If the sun is able to weep, so can we,” Francis said. “A tear would do us good.”

Hundreds of migrants have drowned so far this year in the waters between Greece and Turkey.

At a ceremony in the port of Lesbos to thank Greeks, Francis said he understood Europe’s con-cern about the recent migrant influx. But he said migrants are human beings “who have faces, names and individual stories” and deserve to have their most basic human rights respected.

“God will repay this generosity,” he promised.In his remarks to the refugees, Francis said they

should know that they are not alone and shouldn’t lose hope. He said he wanted to hear their stories and bring the world’s attention to their plight.

“We hope that the world will heed these scenes of tragic and indeed desperate need, and respond in a way worthy of our common humanity,” he said.

Human rights groups have denounced the EU-Turkey deportation deal as an abdication of Eu-rope’s obligation to grant protection to asylum-seek-ers.

The March 18 deal stipulates that anyone arriving clandestinely on Greek islands since March 20 will be returned to Turkey unless they successfully apply for asylum in Greece. For every Syrian sent back, the EU will take another Syrian directly from Turkey for resettlement in Europe. In return, Turkey was grant-ed billions of euros to deal with the more than 2.7 million Syrian refugees living there and promised that its stalled accession talks with the EU would speed up.

The Vatican said the 12 Syrians who came with the pope to Italy had been in Lesbos prior to March 20, and thus were not subject to possible deporta-tion.

During the visit, Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and the archbishop of Athens, Ier-onymos II, signed a joint declaration calling on the international community to make the protection of human lives a priority and to extend temporary asy-lum to those in need.

The declaration also urged political leaders to use all means to ensure that everyone, particularly Christians, can remain in their homelands and enjoy the “fundamental right to live in peace and securi-ty.”

“The world will be judged by the way it has treat-ed you,” Bartholomew told the refugees. “And we will all be accountable for the way we respond to the crisis and conflict in the regions that you come from.”

Francis and the two Orthodox leaders, officially divided from Catholics over a 1,000-year schism,

lunched with eight of the refugees to hear their sto-ries. They then went to the island’s main port to pray together and toss floral wreaths into the sea in mem-ory of those who didn’t survive the journey.

Upon his arrival in Greece, Francis met Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the airport and thanked him for the generosity shown by the Greek

people in welcoming foreigners despite their own economic troubles.

Tsipras said he was proud of Greece’s response “at a time when some of our partners — even in the name of Christian Europe — were erecting walls and fences to prevent defenceless people from seeking a better life.”

SUNDAY

join us this

We invite you to join us on Sundays at 9am, 11am or 6pm Living Stones Church, 2020 40th Avenue, RD

To find us, turn into the Southbrook subdivision off of 40th Ave and take the next two immediate left hand turns.

32 Street & Hwy 2, Red Deer County 403-347-6425 AFFILIATED WITH THE EVANGELICAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CANADA

www.CrossRoadsChurch.ca

Join us this Sunday at 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:30pm

CrossRoads Kids at each service (infant to grade 6)

Current Series: Luke - Gospel for the Outsider

THE SALVATION ARMYCOMMUNITY CHURCH

4837 54 Street 403-346-2251SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE - 11:00 A.M.

WEDNESDAY BIBLE STUDY - 7:00 P.M.“Come Worship With Us”

#1 England Way 403-343-6570

Sunday9:30am, 11:15am

and 1:00pm.

myhomechurch.ca

7513259.indd 1 2016-03-22 11:30 AM

Growing in Faith Through Word and Sacrament

MOUNTCALVARY

(LC-C)#18 Selkirk Blvd. Phone 403-346-3798

Pastor Don Hennig | Pastor Peter Van Katwyk

9:30 a.m. Sunday School

10:30 a.m. WorshipWednesday

10:00 a.m. Morning PrayerEveryone Welcome

Saved by grace - called to serve

Rev. Dr. Marc Jerry

40 Holmes St.403-340-1022

GOOD SHEPHERD

LUTHERAN CHURCHESOF RED DEER

WELCOME YOUSunday, April 24

9:00 a.m. Divine Service

10:00 a.m. Sunday School & Bible Study

11:00 a.m. Divine Service

www.mclcrd.orgKing Kids Playschool

GroGrowinwing ig ig n Fn Faitaithh ThThrThrThrThrougougougough Wh Wh Wh Wh W dordordordord anananan Sd Sd Sd Sd Sd Sacracracracrameameameame tntntntnt

Living Faith

Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.

Fifth Sunday of Easter Pastor: Jonathan Aicken

Sunday School

Bethany Collegeside, RDCwww.livingfaithlcrd.org

The Anglican Church of CanadaSunday, April 24

Officiant: Rev. Gary Sinclair

8:00 am Holy Communion 9:00 am Celebration Service

10:30 am Holy Eucharistwith Sunday School

and Nursery

ST. LEONARD’S ON THE HILL“A Church For All Ages”

43 Avenue & 44 Street403-346-6769

www.stleonardsonthehill.org

Come Worship With Us

11:00 a.m.Celebration

Service

www.cslreddeer.org#3 - 6315 Horn Street

Rev. Valentine Owen

KNOX4718 Ross St. • 403-346-4560

Minister: The Rev. Wayne Reid

10:30 amWorship Service“Salvation for all”

www.knoxreddeer.ca

Established1898

THE PRESBYTERIANCHURCH IN CANADA

Sunday, April 24

WILLOW VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN

26016-HWY 595(Delburne Road)

Sunday 10:00 a.m.Speaker:

Rev. Bert deBruijnLunch & AGM to follow

Everyone Welcome

Need to advertise your religious event here? Call Pam 403.314.4350

Sunnybrook United ChurchCaring - Dynamic - Proactive - Inclusive

12 Stanton Street 403-347-6073 10:30 a.m. Worship Service

“All Are Welcome” Guest Minister: Rev. Jeff Challoner

Babyfold, Toddler Room Sunday Club www.sunnybrookunited.org

“Sharing Faith, Serving Community”4758 Ross Street, Red Deer 403-347-2244

www.gaetzmemorialunitedchurch.ca

Worship Service Sunday 10:30 a.m.Children’s Programs weekly

UNITED CHURCH OF CANADAGaetz Memorial United Church

2nd Wed. each month - Testimonial Meetings NoonChristian Science Reading Room:

Wed., 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; 4907 GAETZ AVE. 403-346-0811

CHRISTIAN SCIENCESOCIETY

SUNDAY SCHOOL & SERVICE — 11:00 A.M.

For more information on Christian Science visit christianscience.com

THE ADVOCATERELIGION C6S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 3 , 2 0 1 6

POPE BRINGS 12 SYRIAN REFUGEES TO ITALY FROM GREEK ISLAND LESBOS

Photo by The Associated Press

Pope Francis greets a group of Syrian refugees upon landing at Rome’s Ciampino airport last Saturday. Pope Francis gave Europe a provocative and concrete lesson in how to treat refugees by bringing home 12 Syrian Muslims aboard his charter plane after an emotional visit to the hard-hit Greek island of Lesbos.

A lesson in kindness for Europe

Pope recalls Chornobyl and ‘forgotten’ conflict in Ukraine

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is calling atten-tion to the suffering in Ukraine caused by what he terms the “forgotten” armed conflict between gov-ernment forces and Russian-backed rebels.

At his weekly audience Wednesday, Francis also renewed his call for generous contributions at Cath-olic churches in Europe on April 24 to help relieve the humanitarian emergency in Ukraine.

Greeting people from Ukraine and Belarus who attended, Francis also recalled this month’s 30th anniversary of the nuclear accident at the Chornobyl power plant in Ukraine.

He expressed gratitude to rescuers who helped after the accident and praised initiatives aimed at alleviating the suffering and damage.

Nestled in the Holiday Inn, 33 Petrolia drive, Gasoline Alley

#tasteBLVD

From the cobblestone streets of the French Riviera and the

rolling hills of Italy’s Piedmont region to Portugal’s lively

Lisbon and Spain’s Catalonia to the spicy streets of India

all the way down under to the wine soaked regions of

Australia, Chef Emmenuel David takes your tastebuds on a

culinary adventure around the world.

Bring your appetite. Leave your passport.

INDIA – NOSH ON NAWABI – JAN. 24, 2016

ITALY – PIEDMONT PERFECTION – FEB. 28, 2016

AUSTRALIA – DISCOVER DOWNUNDER – MAR. 27, 2016

FRANCE – A TASTE OF PROVENCE – APR. 24, 2016

PORTUGAL – LIVE IT UP IN LISBON – MAY 22, 2016

SPAIN – CATALAN CUISINE – JUN. 26,2016

Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Sunday Brunch (á la carte)

CALL 403-314-BLVDwww.boulevardrestaurant.caw

Find us onFacebook

TRUST YOUR HOME CARPET CLEANING TO US...

The Gentlemen Cleaners!

#8, 7428 - 49 Ave., Red Deer403-347-1845

www.mancusocleaning.com

Mancuso is Central Alberta’s only fully modern carpet and upholstery cleaning plant and training facility. We have established a standard of excellence that is unrivaled and are proud to have set the BENCHMARK STANDARD FOR THOROUGH CLEANING™ in North America.

Baby-Safe Clean

food | music | drinksGREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH

f ddd | i | dddd i k

6350 67 Street Red Deer | 403.346.3339

come alive at

7556294D15,23

SOCIAL MEDIA CAN WAIT UNTIL AFTER A NIGHT OF FUN...

THE ADVOCATEYOUTH C7S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 3 , 2 0 1 6

Let go of immature ex and move on

Dear Harlan; I’m a freshman in col-lege right now and dated a guy during my senior year of high school.

Five days after he got to his south-ern college and I started at my north-ern college, he called and broke up with me. Two weeks after the breakup, my “friend” told me he had planned to break up with me as soon as college started, which was two months before the day actually came.

When we were both home for win-ter break, I contacted him to hang out and get on good terms. He told me he would check his work schedule and let me know, but he never did. He has not contacted me since, but I continuously hope and everyday face disappoint-ment.

I’ve also heard that he and his friends got together and said terrible things about me (a trusted friend told me). How do I get over this guy? Why am I so sad over these bullies? — Hold-ing On

Dear Holding on; Let it go. Stop holding on. Respect yourself enough to see that you’re not getting any respect.

Your ex is immature and disre-spectful. His behavior is childish. At-tempting to fix this is just going to give him and his friends more fuel to be offensive.

The best thing you can do for your-self is to move on. Give them permis-sion to be flawed and immature. Avoid them. If you stay away and they stay away, that’s not bullying. It’s called moving on. It’s the opposite of holding on.

Be sad, but don’t give them any more of your time or energy. Focus on doing things you love to do with people who share similar interests. Work to be the best version of yourself.

Hi Harlan; My daughter has been with this guy for eight months and is head over heels in love with him.

She sees getting married to him sometime down the road. They have been discussing the future together.

He disclosed to her that he feels that she is more into him then he is into her. They have said the “L” word and I know he cares for her greatly, but this revelation just devastated her.

I am so disappointed for her and honestly pretty mad at her boyfriend. I would really like to see her be strong and break up with him, or at least tell him that she needs some time apart to figure everything out. She doesn’t want to do that because she feels that with time he will come around.

My daughter has always been a pretty strong woman, so it surprises me that she is being so meek when it comes to her boyfriend.

I honestly don’t know what to say to her other than offer my support for whatever choices she makes regarding this relationship (which I have done), but other than that, is there anything else I can say to her to help her sort this out?

It upsets me so much to see her heartbroken over this, and I really don’t know what to do. Thanks for any advice you can give me. — Concerned Mother

Dear Concerned; Her boyfriend told her the truth.

This is a gift - a sad, disappointing, awful gift. This gift gives you an oppor-tunity to remind your daughter that she needs to maintain a balanced life with or without him. She needs to be independent and self-sufficient, and

maintain relationships with friends and family.

She can’t depend on him to make her happy. When she has balance, she has power.

In the future, if he can’t give her what she wants, trust that she’ll be equipped to move ahead. The relation-ship will run its course, but wherever it goes, she needs to make sure she is strong, independent and balanced.

Dear Harlan; I took a risk and texted a guy I have a crush on.

I invited him over to do home-work, which we actually did. Then we watched our favorite show (“The Of-fice,” in case you were dying to know) and started to fool around afterward.

Now, I’m still relatively new to these things, so it was like PG-13 stuff - maybe R, but nothing crazy, if that makes sense.

I just got out of a serious relation-ship, so I’m not really ready to start dating again. But at the same time, I’m not into the hook-up culture. I do like what’s going on. The thing is, the more we hang out, the more I feel like we’ll simply hook up and nothing will hap-pen, dating-wise.

I know I should just say that to him, but I’m not even sure if I want a rela-tionship with him. — Took a Risk

Dear Took a Risk; Talk. Don’t just hook up.

Tell him: “I’m not sure what I want, but I like hanging out. What about you?”

That’s all you have to do. If he knows you’re non-committal,

there will be no misunderstandings. Talk about your feelings. Ask him what he’s looking for.

Make it safe for him to share his truth. Set a precedent that you two will talk about your feelings. Hook up with clarity.

Hello Harlan; I am a first-year grad-

uate student. I’m a bit shy, and it is dif-ficult for me to approach people.

It is also hard because I live in an apartment away from school, so I don’t meet people from dorms. I just go to class and then go home.

What are some ways for me to make new friends? I am planning on moving to on-campus housing. I want to try having a roommate, as I think it will be good to have company, and it’ll help me be less lonely.

I am an introvert, and I sometimes need alone time. I have had bad expe-riences with roommates before. I am just wondering if you think having a roommate just for the purpose of hav-ing company is a good idea? — Moving Out

Dear Moving Out; You don’t need a roommate. You need a life that gets you out of the house and involved with other people.

You need a leadership position, part-time job or interest that puts you in the middle of the action. Get in-volved in a cause, campus group or organization where you have a respon-sibility. You can be a volunteer, get involved in a spiritual organization or join a team sport.

You need to force yourself to take on a role where you are accountable to someone else. If you can’t get out, then find someone to talk to about these so-cial issues.

As for where you live, stay close to campus but don’t expect a roommate to help you be social. If you want to get out of the house, get a pet. This will force you to walk around the neighbor-hood.

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

HELP ME HARLAN

HARLAN COHEN

Teen finds her voice through photographyJENNIFER LARUE

ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

Razan Elbaba recently made a statement about attitudes toward re-ligion in the United States, but she didn’t need to say a word.

The 17-year-old from Vienna, Vir-ginia, photographed friends and rel-atives wearing head scarves that are customary in the Muslim faith. She added newspaper clippings, bits of cloth and “googly” eyes to tell more of the story.

The striking artwork, which Razan called Covered, won the top prize in this year’s Scholastic Art & Writing competition. She was one of 16 stu-dents in the nation — out of 320,000 who entered — to win a Golden Portfo-lio. She will receive a $10,000 prize at a celebration in June at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Razan didn’t think she would win, but she said art teacher Susan Silva believed the Oakton High School se-nior’s talent would impress the judges.

“Ms. Silva always told me that I have something special about me, but I never had the confidence to think that I would be the one” to get a Golden Portfolio, Razan says. “It was very unexpected.”

Razan explains that she started to stutter when she was 3, not long after she learned to talk. She says her severe stut-ter has made it hard for her to do things that are easy for other kids, “like answer the phone or or-der a pizza.”

“Things that were so simple for other people were really hard tasks for me,” Razan says.

“So I was always trying to find ways to express myself” without having to speak.

When she started high school, Razan says, she “set myself a goal to find a way to do that.” That’s when she discovered pho-

tography.“I found a way to say what I want

to say using a camera, not my mouth,” Razan says.

Silva helped her a lot. “She gave us random stuff and said, ‘Make art.’ “

Razan had an idea to take photos of women and girls wearing the hijab, a head scarf she has worn for five years as part of her religious practice. Peo-ple in the United States often stare at girls and women who wear a hijab, Razan says. Being stared at can make those women and girls feel “like alien beings that don’t belong,” she says.

To help people understand those feelings, Razan began gluing “googly” eyes to some of the photographs. In other photos, she covered the scarf in newspaper articles.

“I’ve also always been passionate about social justice,” Razan told Scho-lastic after winning the Golden Portfo-lio. “I felt like it was my job to break the stereotypes and significantly ex-press the true goal of Muslim women, which is to spark positive change in this world.”

Razan has taken photography class-

es with Silva all four years of high school. The two have become close. Razan calls Silva “my second mom, my best friend and sometimes even my older sister.”

Razan says she plans to use her $10,000 prize to help pay for college, where she is headed in the fall. She

hopes to study art.“I hope my work will make people

be optimistic and make them not judge others,” Razan says. She wants people to look at her photographs and realize: “We’re all human. We all have a heart and a soul. We are all wanted on this Earth.”

Saturday, April 23CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS

DATE: Gigi Hadid, 21; Lee Majors, 77; Michael Moore, 62

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Don’t skip over details today. Look a lot deeper.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You love to feel emotionally and financially secure, but avoid being inflexible.

2016 is the year to smile more and worry less.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rushing Rams — you’re keen to move ahead on a project, as hasty Jupiter increases your impatience.

But slow down and examine details in depth, before you make any misguided moves.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Take a good look at your feelings and inner motivations today Taurus. Are they sup-porting your dreams and aspirations for the future?

If not, them some serious tweaking is required.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re in the mood to rush current projects and jump to half-baked conclusions. But im-pulsive actions now will be regretted lat-er.

Friendships with international contacts are favoured.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Flexibili-ty is the key to a happy day.

There will be opportunities to release old emotional baggage from the past.

If you hold onto grudges, it will ad-versely affect your relationships.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Lions can be incredibly fixed in their opinions and atti-tudes, which can put others off-side.

As today progresses, you’ll find a flex-ible and innovative approach produces the best results.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Moon’s in Scorpio but try not to obsess about minor details.

If you concentrate on improving com-munication with others, then you’ll reap

the rewards further down the track.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll feel

pulled in many different directions, as loved ones demand more of your time and energy.

If you pace yourself and prioritize, you’ll get through the day in a positive way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Busi-ness projects and financial dealings are highlighted, as Saturn stimulates your money zone.

But retrograde Mars cautions you to slow down and read the fine print care-fully first.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Impulsive Sagittarians are the big spend-ers of the zodiac, but now is the time to hunker down and count your pennies. Pluto encourages you to have a solid financial plan for the future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): With Venus visiting your home zone, find ways you can bring more beauty, cre-ativity and harmony into your domestic environment.

A current work issue must be exam-ined carefully.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): With Jupiter and Neptune activating your money zones, Aquarians are keen to shop up a storm.

But is that really such a good idea? It’s time to focus on smart saving

rather than frivolous spending.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t

be afraid to go off in exciting new di-rections. Be inspired by Piscean movie great Elizabeth Taylor: “There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.”

Sunday, April 24CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS

DATE: Shirley MacLaine, 82; Barbra Streisand, 74; Kelly Clarkson, 34

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Spend some time in the great outdoors today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Your motto for 2016 is from birthday great Shirley Ma-cLaine: “Donít be afraid to go out on a limb. It’s where all the fruit is.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re keen to jump in and act with lightning speed but loved ones may need some time to adjust.

So aim to get the balance right be-tween being spontaneous and thinking things through.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): With thorough research you can find the solu-tion to a problem that’s been bugging you. So don your detective cap and look beneath the surface to discover what’s really going on.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A close relationship is challenging at the moment Twins, as it’s full steam ahead one min-ute, and the brakes are on the next. So aim to be super flexible, rather than per-manently frustrated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You’re keen to help and support others today Crabs — especially children, teenagers or close friends.

And they will respond positively to your upbeat mood and positive attitude.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The stars favour travel, study and all forms of com-munication as you socialize with a wide range of people, and cover a multitude of conversation topics.

There’s always more to learn.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t let

vague worries do your head in Virgo. Stressing about things that might happen is not the sensible way to go.

Concentrate on practical changes you can make right here and right now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You are currently very focused on loved ones and

their needs. Single Librans — you have a better

chance of finding your soul mate if you are proactive, creative, and cast your net wide.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you stuck in the middle of a financial fiasco?

Listen to your intuition today Scorpio — it will point you in the right direction, and help you find the best way to ap-proach the problem.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A child, teenager or friend may surprise you with a move that comes right out of left field — and requires a quick re-sponse.

But others can forget that it’s hard to out-fox a smart Sagittarian!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put aside some quiet time for contemplation Capricorn, as you reflect on the past and set goals for the future.

You’ll also gain valuable insights into a worrying issue with a work colleague or close friend.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): At-tached Aquarians — is your partner losing patience with your unpredictable ways?

Clear communication is the secret to a successful union.

Singles — love could be as close as the boy or girl next door.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When it comes to finances, Lady Luck is on your side at the moment.

But don’t spoil your future prospects by being rash with cash. Think — care-fully — before you make expensive pur-chases.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an inter-nationally syndicated astrologer and col-umnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

The Hearing Centre4928 - 53 Avenue, Red Deer

Call 403-347-4703 Out of Town 1-800-661-4703

7549

773D

9-30

Locally Owned and Operated, Internationally Connected.

BETTER HEARING THROUGH PROFESSIONAL CARE

FOR YOUR PERSONAL CONSULTATION

HEAR WITH CONFIDENCE

A hearing test is quick, simple and completely

painless

At Beltone, It’s all about you!

We provide you with. .• 75 years of hearing aid innovation• Belcare, our lifetime service

commitment to you• Personalized hearing for your lifestyle• Hearing evaluations• And much more

A complete line-up of hearing instruments from thesmallest (invisible) to the most powerful.

Beltone LegendTM

Hearing InstrumentsAsk your Beltone

certifi ed Hearing

Instrument specialist

about hearing aid

options including the

Beltone Legend

shown here.

We’re bringing the season to life at our

Spring Open House.

AgeIsMore.com

Join us any time between 1pm & 4pm on Sunday, May 15th for some springtime gardening.

Come and experience what retirement living is all about. You can enjoy a little gardening, meet our friendly staff and residents and enjoy some seasonally inspired refreshments.

Come in for a tour and enter to win a two night stay in Banff.

Aspen Ridge3100-22nd St. 403-341-5522

Inglewood10 Inglewood Dr. 403-346-1134

7557

101D

21-E

13

THE ADVOCATEADVICE C8S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 3 , 2 0 1 6

Dear Annie: My husband passed away last month.

His six children (who are my age) were never fans of our marriage, even though their father was happy for the 10 years we were together.

They never considered me a part of their family. Only one of his children attended the funeral.

I have not received a condolence card from any of them, although one called to express sympathy. Another called wanting things belonging to her father.

I loved my husband, but his unwill-ingness to insist that his children in-clude me in their lives was always a problem.

I made every effort to have a rela-tionship with them, but they were not at all interested and some were out-right hostile.

My children accepted my husband into their lives and loved him as part of the family.

So here’s my question. Since they never wanted anything

to do with me, is it best if I just let this side of my family go or do I try to

keep in touch? I was raised to think that family meant something. Should I just move on? — New Widow

Dear Widow: Our condolences on the death of your husband.

You should do as much as you are comfortable with when it comes to his children, without expecting closeness in return. Do you want to send holiday cards? Sure.

Birthday cards? Fine. Presents for the grandchildren?

If you like. But if there is a total lack of reci-

procity and it makes you resentful, it’s perfectly OK to stop. While we agree that family should mean something, these stepchildren don’t consider you to be “family.”

We’d give it a one-year try and see what happens, but you are not obligat-ed to stress yourself out in an effort

to create what is neither wanted nor appreciated.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Old and Trapped,” who resents her husband now that he’s retired and re-fuses to help around the house.

When I first read the letter I laughed, and then it truly ticked me off.

I, too, am in my 70s, raised five chil-dren and was married 54 years to the most remarkable man I ever met.

He worked every day, sick or well, to enable me to be a homemaker and stay-at-home mother.

He had no such freedom. I made sure all of my duties and social gath-erings were completed while he was at work and we spent evenings and week-ends together.

He provided every material thing we needed.

So your husband wants to stay in the house he worked so hard for.

Why not? There are only two of you. Close the other bedroom doors and leave them be.

You have laundry for only two. You make meals for only two.

You are intent on making the man who worked so hard for you miserable. I would thank God every day for him. I would sit with him and surf the TV channels.

He sounds like a decent man who is in it for the long haul. — A Woman Blessed With a Retired Lover

Dear Woman: You have a charming-ly retro attitude, and we suspect your husband shows his appreciation for you in many ways.

Not all women are as fortunate, and when retirement hits, they resent the ungrateful husband who expects to be waited on.

There is no reason a retired spouse cannot do his or her share around the house.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime ed-itors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mail-box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. You can also find Annieon Facebook at Face-book.com/AskAnnies.

Woman feels left out by her stepchildren

ANNIE’S MAILBOX

KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR

HOROSCOPES

JOANNE MADELINE

MOORE

7555586D16-30


D1HOMES


MILAN — Big Italian furniture brands turned out collections at the 55th Milan Furniture Fair that includ-ed forgotten or neglected treasures from their archives, along with fresh innovations by the “starchitects” who have infused design with glamour.

A record 372,000 people attended the premier event for Italian design and furnishings that ended Sunday. It featured more than 2,400 exhibitors at the Rho fairgrounds and spilled out into eight design districts in Milan’s city centre. The annual gathering high-lights the prowess of Italy’s furniture manufacturing sector, which last year reported a 3 per cent increase of rev-enues to nearly 25 billion euros ($28 billion).

Some highlights:

GENDER BENDINGPatricia Urquiola, who was named

Cassina’s new art director in Septem-ber, is doing it all: launching her own designs while curating new works from colleagues, and updating the Italian brand’s iconic pieces ahead of its 90th anniversary next year.

Urquiola said she has brought a more feminine influence to the Cassi-na DNA, which “has always been very masculine, very architectural.”

She started with a new armchair called “Gender,” which she described as her “manifesto piece.” It combines two elements: a ridged, high-back form that embraces the occupant with a more cartilaginous, adjustable head-rest and a fitted cushioned “dress.” The chair can be paired with an in-verted U-shaped ottoman.

“I think it is time to stop the argu-ment of gender. We need more blend-ed gender,” she said.

For her debut collection, Urquio-la also revisited a steel-supported ta-ble designed by Carlo Scarpa in 1968, making it from anodized aluminum in strong shades including copper and matte red to lighten the impact. The table in the central Milan showroom featured a clear glass top, but it’s also available in white or black marble.

“Now the table is much lighter,” she said. “Evolution means to take care of things and make them new.”

The energetic Spaniard’s works also

popped up at collateral design events, including a stained-glass credenza, cabinet and room divider trio commis-sioned by Spazio Pontaccio.

EAST MEETS WESTTaiwan-based architect Shi-Chieh

Lu adapted the traditional yoke-back Ming chair popular in China for Pol-trona Frau, as the Italian brand in-fuses its collection with a taste of the Orient.

While the Ming chair has tradi-tionally been crafted from wood, the “Ming’s Heart” design for Poltrona Frau takes its European cues from the leather styling. The distinctive geomet-ric back and seat are suspended from the tubular frame, creating the sensa-tion of a swing.

“It gives the idea of floating in the air,” Shi-Chieh said.

The Ming chair is among a series of pieces commissioned by Asian design-ers this year that merge with Poltrona Frau’s iconic pieces and contemporary design.

“I think that Frau is recognizable beyond the fact of whether a design-er is from Taiwan or from Milan, be-cause identity is something you create through the construction, the way of working the leather, and the stitch-ing,” said Marco Romanelli, who is in charge of reviving the brand’s icons. “It is like saying the brand is strong enough to absorb the work of people who come from any part of the world.”

THE ESSENTIAL CHAIRLeave it to Knoll to provide the es-

sential chair update.The U.S. brand has made some of

the world’s most distinctive, enduring chair designs, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair.

“The chair is an intricate question,” allowed Benjamin Pardo, Knoll’s design director, recalling the 70 se-ries executive seating collection that marked the brand’s entry into the Eu-ropean market in the mid-20th century.

Knoll’s latest entry to the world of side dining seating, designed by Marc Krusin, arches comfortably around the occupant and features a functional horizontal aperture between the seat and the back that is both appealing to the eye and allows for easing lifting.

Keeping the focus on seating, Piero Lissoni designed a new rail-based sofa

system, a trend in the sector, allowing combinations of softer seating with ta-bles on the same base. Dubbed “Avio,” the Knoll system evokes a sense of floating, and has the interior-design advantage of not being either left- or right-handed.

“It is intended to be a sofa that one can sit up and have a great conversa-tion in, and also take a really great nap in,” Pardo said.

CRYSTAL WORKSOne of architect Zaha Hadid’s

last design projects before her sud-den death last month was a striking, curved, crystal statement piece for the Austrian crystal maker Swarovski.

Titled “Crista,” the massive crystal and metallic flutes splay out of a cen-tral point like arching reeds, utilizing for the first time Swarovski’s new wave cut technology.

The work anchored Swarovski’s de-but home collection, which also fea-tured a collection of brightly reflecting trays, centerpieces and bowls by Span-iard Tomas Alonso, and candle hold-ers with refracting crystal wax catch-

ers by Kim Thome of Norway.Hadid’s creativity lived on else-

where at the Milan design fair, with a prototype cubed low-back armchair for Cassina and curving, black granite wall shelves for Italian brand Citco.

HEROIC ACCENTSAs with his runway designs, Tomas

Maier took inspiration from materials for Bottega Veneta’s latest home col-lection, with heroic bronze accents.

The bronze base of round, arched coffee tables provided a fitting themat-ic counterpoint to frescoes of fierce war scenes in the living room of the brand’s 18th century palazzo show-room.

They were harmonized with velvet seating.

Bottega Veneta launched its home line in 2006, and as with other design houses, it is a growing part of the port-folio.

This year’s collection featured up-dates on tableware, including porce-lain dishes and flatware imprinted with Bottega’s distinguishing weave pattern.


In this photo, visitors looks at furniture in the Cassina space, part of the Design Fair exhibition, in Milan, Italy. Big Italian furniture brands turned out collections at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair that both mined neglected treasures from their archives and added fresh innovations by the ‘’starchitects’’ who have infused design with glamour.

Classic stylesITALIAN FURNITURE MAKERS STRENGTHEN BRANDS THROUGH ARCHIVES

Saturday, April 23, 2016HOMES D2

Dear Debbie; Our condo bal-cony has a great view, but not much space.

How can we make the most of it for sitting and eating out-side?

Also privacy is an issue as the adjoining balcony is only partially blocked off. Thank you.— Marilyn

Dear Marilyn; Begin by thinking realistically about how many people you want to be able to seat on your balco-ny.

If it is small, I am guessing you can make a comfortable arrangement for four.

Both indoor and outdoor furniture is being manufac-tured for small spaces today, so take your tape measure along with you when you shop

and aim for a table and chairs that will fit.

A love seat set up against the wall with a narrow rect-angular table in front flanked by two side chairs creates an intimate setting, and provides a path in front of the table for walking.

I have just launched an exclusive collection of home products that are designed to meet the various demands of outdoor living.

Inspired by the Tuscan lifestyle, these pieces bring together the clean lines of modern Italian design and the comfort of relaxed living — ev-erything you need for spend-ing time outside.

The Chelsea shown here is an elegant, space-saving conversation set that can be tucked away when not in use.

The chairs nest within the loveseat framework and the coffee table sits on top of the sofa.

It’s a clever design a bit like rubik’s cube, and it comes

with a storage/rain cover. www.sears.ca. Outdoor furni-ture needs to be good quality to withstand the rigors of sun, wind and temperature fluctu-ations.

The Chelsea has a pow-der-coated steel frame, hand woven all-weather wicker and UV resistant cushions.

Privacy is a tricky issue when we move outdoors, whether it’s a balcony or back-yard.

You should check your con-dominium rules about add-ing onto the existing privacy structure.

A solid wall is not neces-sary, why not add a wood or metal trellis and decorate with ivy, climbing plants or a fabric drape.

Consult your neighbours as they will be sharing this addi-tion.

They will most likely be de-lighted.

Dear Debbie: We have an open living dining space and are unable to come up with a

colour or colours that work in both ends of the room.

I admit to liking black and white, while my partner is more colour oriented.

We know you will have a compromise. —Daryl

Dear Daryl; You can defi-nitely have fun compromising with these shades.

Start with your black and white palette in the dining room end as it will set up a theatrical, dramatic atmo-sphere that is perfect for din-ner parties.

Try a soft matte charcoal back wall, white table (or ta-blecloth), black and white or gray china and napkins.

All very sophisticated. Turn on the colour in the liv-ing room.

Go neutral with the sofa, then choose one or two side chairs in your favourite colour — pastel blue, rose pink and new leaf green are on trend, so will be easy to find. Mix and match colours and patterns in the throw cushions.

Link up to the black in the dining room with wrought iron in a book shelf, coffee table legs, or accessories in the liv-ing room.

Both black and white will punctuate the colours.

Hang white draperies. Frame artwork in black or white.

Add a touch of colour to the dining table with a few simple blooms.

Finish with a stunning piece of art to hang on the matte black wall.

This will be visible to both areas and can radiate with your combined styles.

Debbie Travis’ House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to [email protected]. You can follow Debbie on Twit-ter at www.twitter.com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbieís new website, www.debbietravis.com.

BALCONY BLISSContributed photo

The Chelsea Conversation Set is a perfect fit for small patios and balconies.

HOUSE TO HOME

DEBBIE TRAVIS

SHOW SUITES OPEN DAILY 1-5 PM

403.600.0317 www.valleycrossing.ca

2 Bedroom, 2 bath Condos222222 BBBBBeeeeddddddddrrrooooooooommmm,, 222222 bbbbbbbaaatttthhhhhhh CCCCCCoooonnnndddddddooooss22222222 BBBBBBBBeeeeeddddddddrrrrrooooooooommmm,,, 222222 bbbbbbbaaaattttthhhhhhh CCCCCCCoooonnnndddddddoooossss

ALLEY CROSSING

CONDOSCONDOS PRICED FROM THEPRICED FROM THE

$$219219ss**

7556

358D

16,2

3IMMEDIATE POSSESSIONS AVAILABLEIMMEDIATE POSSESSIONS AVAILABLEE4 5300 VISTA TRAIL, BLACKFALDS, ABE4 5300 VISTA TRAIL, BLACKFALDS, AB

Homes Starting from the $370’S

SALES CENTRE: 346 & 350 KING’S HEIGHTS DRIVE SE, AIRDRIE, AB, (403) 980-0413

SHOWHOME HOURS: MON-THURS 2-8PM, SAT-SUN 12-5PM, FRI CLOSED

Visit the showhomes or see more at jayman.com

URBAN AMENITIESRURAL PRICES

• Live in Airdrie near all the amenities you want• Designs ranging from 1,771 sq. ft. - 2,788 sq. ft.

• More included in your base home than ever before• Highest core specifications in the industry

Only 17 homes sites

still available

Triple Pane windows Stainless steel

appliances

Multiple interior styles to choose from


When it comes to food, people even-tually make their way back to basics. Heritage vegetables, free-range meats, artisanal cheeses — they’re all exam-ples of what I mean. No matter how modern and convenient our food sys-tem has become, it has a hard time delivering a close enough connection to the land for many of us. This dynam-ic is probably why backyard chicken husbandry is on the rise, and of course this means an interest in backyard chicken houses of the kind I want to show you here.

We’ve kept chickens on our island home since 2002, and there’s one hous-ing idea that we keep coming back to: modularity. A handful of smaller, semi-portable coops is better than one large, permanently anchored house. This is especially true when you’re dealing with a city or suburban back-yard. Permanent coops don’t make much sense in places like these, yet the serious drawbacks aren’t obvious until it’s too late. That’s why people keep building the wrong kind of chick-en house, only to have to stick to it be-cause they’re invested so much in the structure.

Permanent chicken houses are al-most always troublesome and expen-sive to build.

Lack of flexibility means they of-fer no chance to reduce or expand flock size. Keeping chickens in one place all the time will turn that area of your lawn into a dusty, vegetation-free wasteland. Permanent coops are also difficult to heat with winter sun — an issue that really matters here in Can-ada.

So what’s the solution? Something I designed call a modular coop “com-munity”.

One or more smaller, semi-portable backyard chicken barns that can be mixed and matched in different ways. Raise some day-old chicks in one, and use another as a production house for adult birds.

Add a third house if you want to separate some birds.

The modular coop I designed are solid and surprisingly warm in winter because of the clear, solar roof, yet easily ventilated in summer.

Simple to build, this design can be moved to new locations when needed. Individual modules can be pulled out of production for a time to break pest cycles, and they’re easy to clean with-out standing in poop.

My coop design sits on legs that raise the structure off the ground, keeping the wood of the coop well and truly dry and away from the soil.

Nothing can rot because of soil con-tact, as it often does with other coops. Raising the height of a chicken house like this also makes it perfect for win-ter use in areas that get snow.

Although this design looks fan-cy, it’s really only a 5/8’ plywood box. Nothing this substantial could be eas-ier to build.

The opportunity to collect eggs without opening the chicken door is another advantage of the hinged roof. Simply swivel the top upwards, reach down into whatever nesting box you’re using, then retrieve the eggs.

You can also replenish feed and wa-ter this way, too.

Although hens can get in an out of a very small door, having a large door makes it easier to move feed and water in from the side if you want, and move out manure when it’s time to clean the houses.

In my design nearly one whole side swings outwards, with no lip above the floor level.

Manure and bedding is easy to scrape out.

There are more details here than I have space for, but you can download free plans for my chicken barn at Bai-leyLineRoad.com/chickens.

As practical as it is to keep back-yard chickens, the real attraction is also because these birds are great fun to watch.

In a world with too many screens in front of us, it’s refreshing to be enter-tained by something non-digital for a change. Try it you’ll understand what they mean by “chicken TV”

Steve Maxwell blends digital and out-door rural life with his family on Man-itoulin Island. Visit him online at Bai-leyLineRoad.com to learn and be enter-tained.

Photo by Len Churchill

This modular coop is idea for keeping backyard chickens. Self-heating in winter, easily ventilated in summer and portable.

Photo by STEVE MAXWELL

Jacob Maxwell now 15 years old, building the modular chicken coop he helped design.

Simple coop for

backyard chickens

HOUSEWORKS

STEVE MAXWELL

A Smarter Way to Remodel

Call 587-797-1504

www.granitetransformations.com/southalberta

*Only valid on initial consultation. Minimum purchase required. See store for details. Expires Apr. 30/2016.

for a Free In-Home Consultation Today

QUARTZ • GRANITE • GLASS • TILE • CABINETS

CHECK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON RED DEER & CENTRAL ALBERTA’S OPEN HOUSES AND FIND YOUR DREAM HOME!

YOURHOUSE

YOURHOME OPEN OPEN HOUSESHOUSES

SATURDAY, APRIL 23 - RED DEER

22 Lampard Crescent22 Lampard Crescent ..... .....1:30 – 3:30 pm1:30 – 3:30 pm ...... ......Cindy DooleyCindy Dooley ............... ............... REMAXREMAX .................................................. .................................................. 597-0284597-0284 ..... ..... $427,900$427,900 ....... ....... Lancaster GreenLancaster Green107-5300 48 Street107-5300 48 Street .......... ..........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Kim ArgentKim Argent ................... ................... REMAXREMAX .................................................. .................................................. 343-3020343-3020 ..... ..... $249,900$249,900 ....... ....... Downtown SouthDowntown South59 Jennings Crescent59 Jennings Crescent ..... .....2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Len ParsonsLen Parsons .................. .................. REMAXREMAX .................................................. .................................................. 350-9227350-9227 ..... ..... $274,900$274,900 ....... ....... Johnstone CrossingJohnstone Crossing5816 43 Avenue5816 43 Avenue ............... ...............12:00 – 2:00 pm12:00 – 2:00 pm .... ....Margaret ComeauMargaret Comeau ...... ...... REMAXREMAX .................................................. .................................................. 343-3020343-3020 ..... ..... $333,500$333,500 ....... ....... WaskasooWaskasoo110 Lalor Drive110 Lalor Drive ................. .................3:00 – 5:00 pm3:00 – 5:00 pm ...... ......Jordanna RowatJordanna Rowat .......... .......... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 346-8900346-8900 ..... ..... $499,900$499,900 ....... ....... LaredoLaredo3 Forest Close3 Forest Close .................... ....................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Rick BuregaRick Burega ................... ................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 350-6023350-6023 ..... ..... $299,900$299,900 ....... ....... FairviewFairview#104 5144-45 Avenue#104 5144-45 Avenue .... ....1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Garry RaabisGarry Raabis ................. ................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 340-6789340-6789 ..... ..... $399,000$399,000 ....... ....... WoodleaWoodlea7368-59 Avenue7368-59 Avenue ............... ...............2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Alex WilkinsonAlex Wilkinson ............. ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 318-3627318-3627 ..... ..... $272,700$272,700 ....... ....... Glendale Park EstatesGlendale Park Estates153 Carrington Drive153 Carrington Drive ...... ......2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Jay McDouall/Kim FoxJay McDouall/Kim Fox CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 506-7552506-7552 ..... ..... $449,900$449,900 ....... ....... Clearview RidgeClearview Ridge4902 Doncaster4902 Doncaster ................ ................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Barb Brodie/Kim FoxBarb Brodie/Kim Fox ... ... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 506-7552506-7552 ..... ..... $199,900$199,900 ....... ....... Davenport PlaceDavenport Place10 Grove Close10 Grove Close .................. ..................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Kim FoxKim Fox .......................... .......................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 506-7552506-7552 ..... ..... $790,000$790,000 ....... ....... Garden HeightsGarden Heights262 Teasdale Drive262 Teasdale Drive .......... ..........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Bett PortelanceBett Portelance ........... ........... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 307-5581307-5581 ..... ..... $359,900$359,900 ....... ....... Timber RidgeTimber Ridge283 Cornett Drive283 Cornett Drive ............ ............2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Christina BourkeChristina Bourke ......... ......... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 350-3985350-3985 ..... ..... $249,900$249,900 ....... ....... Clearview MeadowsClearview Meadows28 Ash Close28 Ash Close ...................... ......................2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Mark WhitakerMark Whitaker ............. ............. CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 587-377-5210587-377-5210 .. .. $879,900$879,900 ....... ....... Anders Park EastAnders Park East74 Dobler Avenue74 Dobler Avenue ........... ...........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Tracie WindsorTracie Windsor ............. ............. COLDWELL BANKERCOLDWELL BANKER ......................... ......................... 396-1361396-1361 ............................... ............................... Deer Park VillageDeer Park Village28 Harvey Close28 Harvey Close ............... ...............1:00 – 4:00 pm1:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......George JohansonGeorge Johanson ....... ....... COLDWELL BANKERCOLDWELL BANKER ......................... ......................... 318-4799318-4799 ..... ..... $347,500$347,500 ....... ....... Highland Green EstatesHighland Green Estates4918 Doncaster Avenue4918 Doncaster Avenue 1:00 – 4:00 pm1:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Jake WarkentinJake Warkentin ............ ............ REALTY EXECUTIVESREALTY EXECUTIVES ........................ ........................ 348-9996348-9996 ............................... ............................... DavenportDavenport6325 61 Avenue6325 61 Avenue ............... ...............1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ... ...Bob PelletierBob Pelletier ................. ................. SERGE’S HOMESSERGE’S HOMES ................................ ................................ 505-8050505-8050 .............................. .............................. Highland GreenHighland Green105 Lalor Drive105 Lalor Drive ................. .................1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ... ...Kyle LygasKyle Lygas ..................... ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMESMASON MARTIN HOMES ................ ................ 588-2550588-2550 .............................. .............................. LaredoLaredo7 Tory Close7 Tory Close ........................ ........................12:00 – 6:00 p.m.12:00 – 6:00 p.m. . .AaronAaron .............................. .............................. LAEBON HOMESLAEBON HOMES ................................ ................................ 396-4016396-4016 ............................... ............................... Timber Ridge Timber Ridge 3 Thomlison Avenue3 Thomlison Avenue ....... .......12:00 – 5:00 p.m.12:00 – 5:00 p.m. . .BradBrad ................................. ................................. LAEBON HOMESLAEBON HOMES ................................ ................................ 350-4375350-4375 ..... ..... $309,900$309,900 ....... ....... Timber RidgeTimber Ridge

SATURDAY, APRIL 23 - OUT OF TOWN

9 McKelvey Close9 McKelvey Close ............. .............1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Milena TonchevaMilena Toncheva ........ ........ CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 304-5265304-5265 ..... ..... $439,500$439,500 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds4 Heartland Crescent4 Heartland Crescent ..... .....1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Kim WyseKim Wyse ....................... ....................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 587-679-1079587-679-1079 $429,900$429,900 ....... ....... PenholdPenhold43 Morris Court43 Morris Court ................ ................1:00 – 5:00 pm1:00 – 5:00 pm ...... ......Alison RichardsonAlison Richardson ...... ...... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 358-1557358-1557 ..... ..... $409,900$409,900 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds115 Morris Court115 Morris Court .............. ..............1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Alison RichardsonAlison Richardson ...... ...... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 358-1557358-1557 ..... ..... $439,900$439,900 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds94 Pine Crescent94 Pine Crescent .............. ..............2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Christina Courte/Kim FoxChristina Courte/Kim Fox .. .. CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 506-7552506-7552 ..... ..... $300,000$300,000 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds716 Cypress Lane716 Cypress Lane ............. .............11:30 – 2:00 pm11:30 – 2:00 pm .... ....BENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE SERVICESBENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE SERVICES .......................... .......................... 507-5405507-5405 ..... ..... $379,000$379,000 ....... ....... SpringbrookSpringbrook53 Springvale Heights53 Springvale Heights........3:00 – 5:00 pm3:00 – 5:00 pm ...... ......Margaret ComeauMargaret Comeau ...... ...... REMAXREMAX .................................................. .................................................. 343-3020343-3020 ..... ..... $624,900$624,900 ....... ....... Red Deer CountyRed Deer County4 Johnson Close4 Johnson Close ............... ...............1:30 – 4:00 pm1:30 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Dale StuartDale Stuart .................... .................... COLDWELL BANKERCOLDWELL BANKER ......................... ......................... 302-3107302-3107 ..... ..... $269,000$269,000 ....... ....... PenholdPenhold5008 41 Street5008 41 Street ................... ...................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Kile MeiklejohnKile Meiklejohn ........... ........... KILE MEIKLEJOHN HOME SELLING TEAMKILE MEIKLEJOHN HOME SELLING TEAM . . 872-9178872-9178 ..... ..... $539,900$539,900 ....... ....... Sylvan LakeSylvan Lake46 Harper Drive46 Harper Drive ................ ................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Kile MeiklejohnKile Meiklejohn ........... ........... KILE MEIKLEJOHN HOME SELLING TEAMKILE MEIKLEJOHN HOME SELLING TEAM . . 872-9178872-9178 ..... ..... $315,000$315,000 ....... ....... Sylvan LakeSylvan Lake46 Sunridge Avenue46 Sunridge Avenue ....... .......2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Jim EscottJim Escott ...................... ...................... SUTTON LANDMARK REALTYSUTTON LANDMARK REALTY ....... ....... 391-1397391-1397 ..... ..... $295,900$295,900 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds5201 – 52nd Street5201 – 52nd Street .......... ..........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Darlis DrevenyDarlis Dreveny ............. ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 358-4981358-4981 ............................... ............................... LacombeLacombe10 MacKenzie Crescent10 MacKenzie Crescent . .1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Lisa SuarezLisa Suarez .................... .................... ROYAL LEPAGE LIFESTYLEROYAL LEPAGE LIFESTYLE .............. .............. 782-3171782-3171 ..... ..... $489,000$489,000 ....... ....... LacombeLacombe4814 Lansdowne Avenue4814 Lansdowne Avenue .. ..2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Bob GummowBob Gummow ............. ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 598-7913598-7913 ..... ..... $210,900$210,900 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds3605 50 Avenue3605 50 Avenue ............... ...............2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Ryley DuncanRyley Duncan ............... ............... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 346-8900346-8900 ............................... ............................... Sylvan LakeSylvan Lake#E4, 5300 Vista Trail#E4, 5300 Vista Trail ......... .........1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. .... ....Debra GraboDebra Grabo ................ ................ TRICON DEVELOPMENTSTRICON DEVELOPMENTS ............... ............... 396-1688396-1688 ..... ..... $219,900$219,900 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds129 Mann Drive129 Mann Drive ................ ................1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. .... ....JocelynJocelyn ........................... ........................... LAEBON HOMESLAEBON HOMES ................................ ................................ 302-9612302-9612 ............................... ............................... PenholdPenhold4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd . .1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. .... ....Jessica MercereauJessica Mercereau ...... ...... MASON MARTIN HOMESMASON MARTIN HOMES ................ ................ 588-2550588-2550 ............................... ............................... Sylvan LakeSylvan Lake

SUNDAY, APRIL 24 - RED DEER

37 Holt Street37 Holt Street .................... ....................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Lori Loney Lori Loney ................... ................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 350-9700350-9700 ..... ..... $289,900$289,900 ....... ....... Highland GreenHighland Green168 Andrews Close168 Andrews Close ......... .........1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Bob GummowBob Gummow ............. ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 598-7913598-7913 ..... ..... $334,900$334,900 ....... ....... Anders Park EastAnders Park East13 Keast Way13 Keast Way ..................... .....................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Rick BuregaRick Burega ................... ................... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 350-6023350-6023 ..... ..... $329,900 Kentwood West$329,900 Kentwood West20 Pearson Crescent20 Pearson Crescent ....... .......2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Sena WalkerSena Walker .................. .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 358-0077358-0077 ............................... ............................... PinesPines41 Northey Avenue41 Northey Avenue ......... .........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Kathy FitzsimonsKathy Fitzsimons ........ ........ ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 505-1894505-1894 ..... ..... $199,900$199,900 ....... ....... NormandeauNormandeau43 Martin Close43 Martin Close ................ ................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Kevin GloverKevin Glover ................. ................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 396-2706396-2706 ..... ..... $344,900$344,900 ....... ....... MorrisroeMorrisroe180 Inglewood Drive180 Inglewood Drive ...... ......1:00 – 4:00 pm1:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Pamella WarnerPamella Warner ........... ........... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 302-3596302-3596 ..... ..... $349,900$349,900 ....... ....... Inglewood WestInglewood West121 Chappel Drive121 Chappel Drive ........... ...........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Kevin DurlingKevin Durling ............... ............... ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 346-8900346-8900 ............................... ............................... Clearview MeadowsClearview Meadows11 Cole Street11 Cole Street .................... ....................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Ed KatchurEd Katchur .................... .................... MAXWELL REAL ESTATEMAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. .................. 506-7171506-7171 ..... ..... $339,900$339,900 ....... ....... Clearview MeadowsClearview Meadows215 Lyons Close215 Lyons Close................................2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Hilary RosebrughHilary Rosebrugh ....... ....... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 358-2691358-2691 ..... ..... $314,900$314,900 ....... ....... Lancaster GreenLancaster Green124 Van Slyke Way124 Van Slyke Way ........... ...........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Usman SheikhUsman Sheikh ............. ............. COLDWELL BANKERCOLDWELL BANKER ......................... ......................... 587-876-3696587-876-3696 $474,900$474,900 ....... ....... Vanier EastVanier East3657 41 Avenue3657 41 Avenue ............... ...............2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Carol ClarkCarol Clark ..................... ..................... COLDWELL BANKERCOLDWELL BANKER ......................... ......................... 350-4919350-4919 ..... ..... $335,000$335,000 ....... ....... MountviewMountview24 Orillia Park24 Orillia Park .................... ....................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Gord IngGord Ing.................................................. REMAXREMAX .................................................. .................................................. 341-9995341-9995 ..... ..... $314,000$314,000 ....... ....... Oriole ParkOriole Park7 Stanhope Avenue7 Stanhope Avenue ........ ........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Christina CourteChristina Courte .......... .......... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 505-6194505-6194 ..... ..... $350,000$350,000 ....... ....... SunnybrookSunnybrook100 Timberstone Way100 Timberstone Way .... ....2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Bett PortelanceBett Portelance ........... ........... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 307-5581307-5581 ..... ..... $559,900$559,900 ....... ....... Timberstone Timberstone 4 Amy Close4 Amy Close ....................... .......................2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Bill HoggBill Hogg ........................ ........................ CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 346-0021346-0021 ..... ..... $474,900$474,900 ....... ....... Anders South Anders South13 Leung Close13 Leung Close ................. .................2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Jay McDouall/Kim FoxJay McDouall/Kim Fox CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 506-7552506-7552 ..... ..... $475,000$475,000 ....... ....... Lancaster GreenLancaster Green17 Jenkins Drive17 Jenkins Drive ............... ...............2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Lana ClubineLana Clubine ................ ................ SUTTON LANDMARK REALTYSUTTON LANDMARK REALTY ....... ....... 347-0751347-0751 ..... ..... $249,900$249,900 ....... ....... Johnstone ParkJohnstone Park1 Rose Crescent1 Rose Crescent ................ ................2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......BENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE SERVICESBENEDICT DEVLIN REAL ESTATE SERVICES .......................... .......................... 307-3737307-3737 ..... ..... $459,000$459,000 ....... ....... Rosedale EstatesRosedale Estates105 Lalor Drive105 Lalor Drive ................. .................1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. ... ...Kyle LygasKyle Lygas ..................... ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMESMASON MARTIN HOMES ................ ................ 588-2550588-2550 .............................. .............................. LaredoLaredo7 Tory Close7 Tory Close ........................ ........................12:00 – 6:00 p.m.12:00 – 6:00 p.m. . .AaronAaron .............................. .............................. LAEBON HOMESLAEBON HOMES ................................ ................................ 396-4016396-4016 ............................... ............................... Timber Ridge Timber Ridge 3 Thomlison Avenue3 Thomlison Avenue ....... .......12:00 – 5:00 p.m.12:00 – 5:00 p.m. . .BradBrad ................................. ................................. LAEBON HOMESLAEBON HOMES ................................ ................................ 350-4375350-4375 ..... ..... $309,900$309,900 ....... ....... Timber RidgeTimber Ridge

79 Ponderosa Avenue79 Ponderosa Avenue .... ....2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Bonnie MeaneyBonnie Meaney ........... ........... SUTTON LANDMARK REALTYSUTTON LANDMARK REALTY ....... ....... 885-4936885-4936 ..... ..... $317,000$317,000 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds4 Heartland Crescent 4 Heartland Crescent ... ...1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Kim Wyse Kim Wyse ..................... ..................... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 587-679-1079587-679-1079 $429,900$429,900 ....... ....... PenholdPenhold43 Morris Court43 Morris Court ................ ................1:00 – 3:00 pm1:00 – 3:00 pm ...... ......Alison RichardsonAlison Richardson ...... ...... CENTURY 21 ADVANTAGECENTURY 21 ADVANTAGE............................ 358-1557358-1557 ..... ..... $409,900$409,900 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds7117 Henners Road7117 Henners Road ........ ........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ...... Ivan BuseniusIvan Busenius ............... ............... REMAXREMAX .................................................. .................................................. 350-8102350-8102 ..... ..... $479,000$479,000 ....... ....... LacombeLacombe12 Ebony Street12 Ebony Street ................ ................1:30 – 4:00 pm1:30 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Dale StuartDale Stuart .................... .................... COLDWELL BANKERCOLDWELL BANKER ......................... ......................... 302-3107302-3107 ..... ..... $371,900$371,900 ....... ....... LacombeLacombe9 Briarwood Crescent9 Briarwood Crescent ..... .....2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Kelli HildrethKelli Hildreth ................ ................ COLDWELL BANKERCOLDWELL BANKER ......................... ......................... 587-877-3267587-877-3267 .. .. $319,900$319,900 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds28241 Highway 59628241 Highway 596 ........ ........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Carol ClarkCarol Clark ..................... ..................... COLDWELL BANKERCOLDWELL BANKER ......................... ......................... 350-4919350-4919 ..... ..... $699,900$699,900 ....... ....... Red Deer CountyRed Deer County10 Horne Close10 Horne Close ................. .................2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm.. ..... .....Cam OndrikCam Ondrik .................. .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 346-8900346-8900 ............................... ............................... Sylvan LakeSylvan Lake9 Falcon Ridge Drive9 Falcon Ridge Drive ....... .......2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Darlis DrevenyDarlis Dreveny ............. ............. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 358-4981358-4981 ............................... ............................... Sylvan LakeSylvan Lake4668 Westbrooke Road4668 Westbrooke Road2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ........ ........Larry HastieLarry Hastie .................. .................. ROYAL LEPAGE NETWORKROYAL LEPAGE NETWORK ............. ............. 550-3984550-3984 ............................... ............................... BlackfaldsBlackfalds607 Maple Crescent607 Maple Crescent ........ ........2:00 – 4:00 pm2:00 – 4:00 pm ...... ......Tim McRaeTim McRae .................... .................... MAXWELL REAL ESTATEMAXWELL REAL ESTATE .................. .................. 350-1562350-1562 ..... ..... $230,000$230,000 ....... ....... SpringbrookSpringbrook#E4, 5300 Vista Trail#E4, 5300 Vista Trail ......... .........1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. .... ....Debra GraboDebra Grabo ................ ................ TRICON DEVELOPMENTSTRICON DEVELOPMENTS ............... ............... 396-1688396-1688 ..... ..... $219,900$219,900 ....... ....... BlackfaldsBlackfalds129 Mann Drive129 Mann Drive ................ ................1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. .... ....JocelynJocelyn ........................... ........................... LAEBON HOMESLAEBON HOMES ................................ ................................ 302-9612302-9612 ............................... ............................... PenholdPenhold4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd . .1:00 – 5:00 p.m.1:00 – 5:00 p.m. .... ....Jessica MercereauJessica Mercereau ...... ...... MASON MARTIN HOMESMASON MARTIN HOMES ................ ................ 588-2550588-2550 ............................... ............................... Sylvan LakeSylvan Lake

SUNDAY, APRIL 24 - OUT OF TOWN



Bees aren’t the only pollinators suffering from a massive North American die-off. Butterflies and moths, those flying flowers of the insect world, are disappearing too.

“But the situation isn’t hopeless,” says Scott Hoffman Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, in Portland, Oregon.

“Anybody — gardeners or butterfly lovers — can make an oasis in their landscape for these important animals. It doesn’t matter if you have a tiny lot or a farmyard. A little effort can help a lot.”

Besides their beauty, butterflies and moths play a significant role in the pollination of flowering plants, 80 per cent of which rely on animals — mostly insects — to move their pollen from plant to plant, the Xerces Society says.

Butterflies and moths also serve as an important food source for other animals.

Yet in the United States alone, at least five butterfly species have gone extinct since 1950 an additional 25 are listed as endangered nationwide, and four are listed as threatened, according to Xerces in its new guide, Gardening for Butterflies (Timber Press, 2016).

Federal protection is being sought for the monarch butterfly population, which has plunged 90 per cent in North America in less than 20 years.

“During the same period, it is estimated that these once-common, iconic orange and black butterflies may have lost more than 165 million acres of habitat — an area about the size of Texas — including nearly a third of their summer breeding grounds,” the Center for Biological Diversity says.

Just as significant has been the near elimination in farm fields of milkweed, the exclusive food of monarch caterpillars.

Donald Lewis, a professor and extension entomologist with Iowa State University, cites a 2012 study that documented an 81 per cent decline in milkweeds in agricultural fields from 1999 to 2010.

“The cure for butterfly and pollinator preservation, conservation and improvement is to create biodiversity, which, of course, is at odds with most farming, urban sprawl and commercial development,” Lewis said.

“But it is our goal.”Nurture, enrich and diversify your home

habitat, entomologists say.Planting pollinator gardens that emphasize

nectar plants that bloom year-round for bees, wasps and other wildlife is a good first step.

Butterfly gardens take that a stage further by adding host plants suitable for hungry caterpillars.

“Since butterfly larvae are picky eaters, it takes a variety of food plants,” Lewis said.

Butterfly gardens should be located where they’ll get at least six hours of sun per day.

They should contain at least four annual, biennial or perennial nectar plant species, and at least 10 milkweed plants of two or more types.

Ironically, beware the invasive butterfly bush, which has been listed as a noxious weed in several states.

And think twice about the mass release of but-terflies.

“Xerces is taking a stand that we should not be moving or releasing butterflies for such things as weddings, out of a concern for possible diseases,” Black said.

“We have a sense that the same issues that are happening with bees are happening with butter-flies.”

Online:For more about creating butterfly gardens, see this

University of Kentucky fact sheet:https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef006


A pearl crescent butterfly, member of a group that includes some of North America’s most endangered butterflies. Crescents are medium sized, strong flying pollinators.

Celebrities of the

gardenGARDENERS CAN HELP PROTECT BUTTERFLY

POPULATIONS

POLLINATION

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 23, 2016 D5

SUDOKU

Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

Solution

ARGYLE SWEATER

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

HAGAR

BETTY

PICKLES

GARFIELD

LUANN

TUNDRARUBES

TODAY’SCROSSWORD PUZZLE

April 232012 — Alison Redford leads Alberta Pro-gressive Conservatives to their 12th consec-utive majority. 1968 — First public hearings of the CRTC held in the Chateau Laurier Hotel.1932 — Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol leaves Calgary for nearby Chestermere Lake to take food and supplies to about 50 starving motorists, stranded in the Ches-

termere general store for five days after a freak spring snowstorm1928— Calgary city officials meet with Ca-nadian General Electric reps to discuss in-stalling electric stop and go traffic signs in Calgary.1924 — King George V opens the British Em-pire Exhibition at Wembley 1923 — First concert of the New Symphony Orchestra, later the Toronto Symphony. 1851

postage stamp

TODAY IN HISTORY

Saturday, April 23, 2016 D6

WHAT’S HAPPENINGCLASSIFICATIONS

50-70

ComingEvents 52

FREEHOLD OWNERS ASSOCIATION (FHOA) 2016 AGM & SEMINAR

on Sat., April 30 at the CrossRoads Church,

Red Deer County from 9:00 to 4:00.

Members - $20 person/ couple

Non-members - $30.person/couple &

$10 per person for lunch. Seminar Topics:

Best in Class Energy Regulators - Jennifer Wells

with AER, New Crown Royalty Regime - Mike Ekelund, ADM of AB Energy and Current

Freehold Owner Problems - R.J. Young, Lawyer/

Director and David Speirs, Geologist/Director.

Contact www.fhoa.ca, [email protected] or

403-245-4438.

TURKEY SUPPER SPECIAL

HUBIES “1955” diner in Westpark. Apr. 24,

3 - 7 pm. 403-340-3795

Found 56LADIES ring with unique colored stone found April

12 in back alley in old Anders. Call to identify,

403-343-9271

Companions 5859 YR. old farmer near Sylvan Lake seeks his

country, n/s, slim, honest, healthy, sweetheart, for lifetime relations. I am

around 175 - 180 lbs, 5’ 9”. Please enclose photo and phone number: Reply to Box 1118, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., R.D. , AB T4R 1M9

Personals 60ALCOHOLICS

ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

COCAINE ANONYMOUS403-396-8298

CLASSIFICATIONS700-920

wegot

jobs

Caregivers/Aides 710EXPERIENCED Caregiver

needed for a Diabetic Mother, $18/hr. Mon. -

Friday). Please apply to robert_seeliger@

hotmail.com

Dental 740

REG. DENTAL HygienistMust be fl exible with hours.

Apply to Healthy Smiles Fax resumes attn: Corinne or Chrissy

(403) 347-2133 or email:healthysmiles4life@

hotmail.com

Oilfield 800Keyera is currently seeking

a Gas Plant Operator at our Gilby Gas Plant.

The Gas Plant is located 60 km northwest of Red

Deer. The successful candidate will perform

intermediate tosenior level operating assignments on plant

equipment. Please visit www.keyera.com for further information.

SERVICE RIGBearspaw Petroleum Ltd

is seeking aFLOORHAND AND DERRICK HAND

Locally based, home every night! Qualifi ed applicants must have all necessary

valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefi ts package along with a steady

work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources

Email: [email protected]

Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Mail to: Suite 5309,

333-96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

ClassifiedsYour place to SELLYour place to BUY

Professionals 810*CLIENT RELOCATIONS*

Immed. P/T position forprofessional individual toprovide tours and rental

housing assistance in RedDeer. Need car! $200-275per day. Email resume to:[email protected]

Restaurant/Hotel 820JJAM Management (1987)

Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’sRequires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations:

5111 22 St.37444 HWY 2 S37543 HWY 2N700 3020 22 St.

Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift

weekend day and evening both full and part time.

10 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. +medical, dental, life and vi-sion benefi ts. Start ASAP.

Job description www.timhortons.com

Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs.

Apply in person or faxresume to: 403-314-1303

Sales &Distributors 830

LTC Inc in Innisfail is seeking

Telephone SalesAgents to take incomingand outgoing sales calls

and provide qualitycustomer service. $11.75/hr+ commissions+benefi ts

Submit resume to:resume@

letstalkconnections.ca

LTC Inc in Innisfail is seeking an

Executive SalesManager responsible for

developing a sales team tomanage sales and service

throughout Alberta.Responsible for team

management, nurturingaccounts, maintaining

customer service, overallrevenue and profi tability.Salary+benefi ts based on

experience $75,000 - $100,000/yr.

Please forward yourresume in confi dence to:

[email protected]

WIRELESS World Solutions at 107-4747

67 ST, RED DEER, AB, requires a F/T, Perm.

Assistant Manager-Retail with min. 1-2 yrs of related sales exp., ASAP. Duties: Plan, direct and evaluate the operations, Manage staff and assign duties,

Resolve customer complaints etc. Wages

$26.50/Hr. Email Resume - [email protected]

Professionals 810

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Trades 850BUSY dealership

now hiring. Pike Wheaton

Chevrolet is currently seeking an

exp. licenced automotive technician. GM Dealership exp. would be considered

an asset. This position offers a competitive wage with a bonus system. Pls.

apply in person with resume to the Service

Manager. No phone call pls.

Site ConstructionManager Required

Currently acceptingapplications for RTM site

construction manager located in Red Deer, AB.

We are looking for an individual with proven ability to organize and lead contractors and

possibly a small crew in our new RTM location.

Preference will be given to anyone with

Construction Journeyman certifi cation. Valid drivers

license is required. Send resume to:

[email protected]. Only those considered

will be contacted.

Restaurant/Hotel 820

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Salein Classifieds

CELEBRATIONSHAPPEN EVERY DAY

IN CLASSIFIEDS

Celebrate your lifewith a Classified

ANNOUNCEMENT

Restaurant/Hotel 820

The Alberta Energy Regulator ensures the safe, efficient, orderly, and environmentally responsible development of hydrocarbon resources in Alberta. This includes allocating and conserving water resources, managing public lands, and protecting the environment while providing economic benefits for all Albertans. The AER provides full life-cycle regulatory oversight of energy resource development: from application and construction to abandonment and reclamation, and everything in between. For over 75 years, Alberta’s oil and gas regulator has adapted to meet innovations in technology, new industry activity, and changing societal expectations. The Alberta Energy Regulator is building on this foundation and preparing the province for the next era in energy regulation.

The Alberta Energy Regulator is seeking new Hearing Commissioners. Appointed by the Government of Alberta through an Order in Council, Hearing Commissioners represent an important part of the AER’s structure. Hearing Commissioners report to a Chief Hearing Commissioner and are responsible for conducting public hearings and conducting alternative dispute resolution related to energy applications and regulatory appeals. Hearing Commissioners are independent adjudicators whose decisions are only subject to review by the Court of Appeal of Alberta. Hearing commissioners are also involved in developing the AER’s hearing processes and rules and alternative dispute resolution practices.

To fulfill this important mandate you will possess in-depth experience and knowledge of Alberta’s energy activities including technical, regulatory, safety, legal and financial requirements, an understanding of landowner, Aboriginal and environmental issues, and an understanding of provincial government policy, legislation and operations. You will have knowledge of the principles of administrative law and natural justice and experience presiding over or participating in public hearings and designing and leading alternative dispute resolution processes. Your aptitude for adjudicative decision making includes good listening skills, open mindedness, sound judgement, and the ability to interpret legislation and organize and analyze complex evidence. Your strengths include exceptional communication skills, both oral and written. Technical training and experience in the fields of geoscience, engineering or environmental science are preferred, but not required. Experience working with Aboriginal communities would be considered an asset.

The results of this search will be used to fill upcoming vacancies for full- and part-time Hearing Commissioners.

If you are ready to take a leadership role in ensuring a positive future for Albertans, please contact Boyden’s Calgary office at 403-410-6700 or forward your resume and related materials, in complete confidence, to [email protected] .

......................................................................................................................

Hearing Commissioners

CALGARYMONTREALOTTAWATORONTOVANCOUVER boyden.com/canada

70 officesin 40 countriesworldwide

7561

230D

23

To work a 15/13 compressed schedule in Northern BC

Forward resume WITH REFERENCES And copies of Food Handling & Safety Tickets:

Are searching for experienced:

CAMP COOKS

PLEASE EMAIL: [email protected]

75

65

13

9D

23

7554137D13-26

Now HiringGASOLINE ALLEY

LOCATIONFULL TIME

SUPERVISORS• Very Competitive Wages• Advancement Opportunities• Medical Benefits • Paid training• Paid Breaks

Apply in person or send resume to:

Email:[email protected] Fax: (403) 341-3820

85TH BIRTHDAY FORERNIE SURKANApr. 30, 2 - 5pm

Antler Hill Hall27471 Township Rd. 362More Info? 403-318-2000

announcementsObituaries

ESTELLKathleen ‘Kay’ (July 1, 1927 - Apr. 21, 2016)Mrs. Kathleen (Kay) Estell of Camrose formerly of Mirror, passed away peacefully on Thursday, April 21st, 2016 at the age of 88 years. Kay will be lovingly remembered and forever missed by her four sons, Paul (Gail) Estell of Alix, AB, Glenn (Lorraine) Estell of Gull Lake, AB, Ross (Paulette) Estell of Tisdale, SK and Sean (Carolyn) Estell of Mayerthorpe, AB; two daughters, Pat (Wayne) Sorochan of St. Albert, AB and Shauna (John) Boden of Camrose, AB; fourteen grandchildren; and nineteen great-grandchildren. Kay is also survived by her sister-in-law Lisa McIlveen. Kay was predeceased by her parents, George and Kathleen and her two brothers Charlie and Herb. Many thanks to all the staff at Bethany Meadows for their love, care and compassion over the years Kay was there. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, April 28, 2016 from the Mirror Community Hall in Mirror, AB. Rev. David Eriksson offi ciating. Interment will take place at the Mirror Cemetery. For those who wish to do so, memorial contributions may be made to the Rheumatoid Arthritis Association, Bethany Meadows, Willow cottage, or the charity of your choice. To send condolences, please v i s i t www.burgarfuneralhome.com BURGAR FUNERAL HOME

CAMROSE & DAYSLAND (4817 51 Ave, Camrose,

Alberta T4V 0V4) in care of arrangements.

780-672-2121.“Dedicated service since

1906”

Celebrations

Obituaries

PARKERELLAElla May Parker (nee Matthews) was called home to be with her Lord and Saviour on Saturday, April 16th, 2016, at the age of 92 years. She was born in Govan, Saskatchewan, on October 15, 1923 to Donal and Emily Matthews. Ella married Frank Allen Parker on November 16th, 1942 at Melfort, Saskatchewan. Frank and Ella were able to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Ella is together again with her husband, Frank Parker, who passed away April 1994, her parents Donal and Emily Matthews, sisters Donelda, Phyllis and Reena, and nephew Gilbert Thompson. Ella is lovingly remembered and survived by her three children: Donald (Shirley) Parker, Lacombe; Roy (Sherry) Parker, Ponoka; and Gloria (Duane) Bulmer, Penhold. Ella was blessed with 10 grandchildren (and their spouses); 21 great-grandchildren and one on the way. Special thanks to Dr. Keller and staff at Lacombe Hospital; the Parkview Manor residents; and the wonderful people at the Lacombe Senior Citizens Lodge for their care and concern for Ella. Funeral Services will be held at 1 pm. on Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 - at Lacombe Pentecostal Church, 40331 - Range Rd 27-1 (west of Lacombe on Highway 12). If desired, memorial contributions can be made to the Canadian Bible Society or Gideons, and condolences through: www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca

WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of

arrangements. Phone 403-782-3366 or 4003-843-3388

“A Caring Family, Caring For Families”In Memoriam

Steve StaykoApril 24, 2013

Till memory fades and life departs, You live forever

in our hearts.Always loved and

remembered, Blair, Jo-Anne and Cody

Funeral Directors & Services

Offi ce/Phone Hours:8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mon - Fri

Fax: 403-341-4772

2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

Circulation403-314-4300

DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

TO PLACE AN AD

403-309-3300classifi [email protected]

wegotjobsCLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

wegotrentalsCLASSIFICATIONS 3000-3390

wegotservicesCLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

wegothomesCLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4310

wegotstuffCLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1940

wegotwheelsCLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5240

CLASSIFIEDSRed Deer Advocate

wegotads.ca

Over 2,000,000hoursSt. John Ambulancevolunteers provideCanadians with morethan 2 million hours of community serviceeach year.

Just had Just had a baby boy?a baby boy?

Tell Everyone with a Classified Announcement

309-3300309-3300

Say more with an Announcement

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 23, 2016 D7Truckers/Drivers 860

CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

CONTRACT DRIVERS

in AB. Super B exp. req’d. Home the odd night. Week-

ends off. 403-586-4558

EmploymentTraining 900

SAFETY TRAINING CENTREOILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.454424 Hours

Toll Free 1.888.533.4544H2S Alive (ENFORM)First Aid/CPRConfined SpaceWHMIS & TDGGround Disturbance(ENFORM) B.O.P.D&C (LEL)

#204, 7819 - 50 Ave.(across from Totem) 27

8950

A5

D&C

(across from Rona North)


wegot

stuff

Antiques& Art 1520

CARSWELL’S27th Annual Red Deer

MOTHER’S DAY

ANTIQUEFurniture & Collectibles

Show & SaleMay 7 & 8

Sat. 10-5:30, Sun. 10-4:00Westerner ParkOver 300 Tables

Carswell’s 343-1614

Clothing 1590NURSES’ uniforms,

pants & tops. med. to X large size. $5 each.

(approx. 30) good shape. 403-347-2526

Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, offi ce, well site or

storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Something for EveryoneEveryday in Classifieds

Something for EveryoneEveryday in Classifieds

Tools 1640METRIC Socket, plus tool

box. $100.403-343-6044

Firewood 1660B.C. Birch, Aspen,

Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

HouseholdAppliances 1710

MICROWAVE, Kenmore over the counter, black,

clean, works perfectly. $100. 403 309-3475

HouseholdFurnishings1720

GENUINE LA-Z-BOY rocker recliner, beige, $80.

403-877-0825

WANTEDAntiques, furniture and

estates. 342-2514

Misc. forSale 176010’ x 12’ GAZEBO, material

covered, good cond., $120. 403-782-5206

100 VHS movies, $75 for all. 403-885-5020

2 electric lamps, $20. 403-885-5020

CAMPING dishes, Set $35; Air Conditioner, $100.

Tire - Step, $23. 403-343-6044

COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40.

403-343-6044

DIE CAST models, cars, trucks, and motorcycles, biker gifts, replica guns,

tin signs, framed pictures, clocks, fairies, and dragons.

Two stores to serve you better, Man Cave and

Gold Eagle, entrance 2, Parkland Mall.

SOFA & chair, very clean. $25. 2 matching table

lamps, $5 for set, water cooler, $15. Sony 32” TV

with stand, works well FREE. 403-346-6303

UNIQUE black metal bathroom mirror, towel bar, towel ring, and 2 hangers look like “gazelles”. All for

$65. 403 309-3475

WATER HOSE REEL, $35. 403-885-5020

Start your career!See Help Wanted

SportingGoods 1860INVERSION Table, $200.

403-343-6044

RED DEER GUN SHOWApril 30, 10 am - 5 pm May 1, 10 am - 3 pm

Westerner Agri Centre WestAdmission $ 5

TravelPackages 1900

TRAVEL ALBERTAAlberta offers SOMETHINGfor everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURALCLASSIFICATIONS

2000-2290

Horses 2140FARRIER

403-392-5533Graduate of the

OKLAHOMAHorseshoeing School

Serving Red Deer& surrounding areas

SeedGrain 2200

MALT BARLEY GROWERS WANTED for new high yielding specialty craft brewing

variety. Attractive terms. Call Mastin Seeds @

403-994-2609 for details.

CLASSIFICATIONSFOR RENT • 3000-3200WANTED • 3250-3390

wegot

rentals

Houses/Duplexes 30203 BDRM. 2 bath, newly re-no’d 2 minutes from R.D. $1600/mo. 403-346-1825

Houses/Duplexes 30203 BDRM., main fl r. no pets, no kids, no drugs, mature, quiet adult, fully employed preferred. $650 rent/dd, 1/2 util. 403-348-0530 after 3

Condos/Townhouses30302 BDRM. townhouse w/5 appls, avail. immed. rent

$895 403-314-0209

AVAIL. May 1, 3 & 4 bdrm. townhouse, 4 appl.,

hardwood, 2 parking stalls, close to shopping &

schools.$975 - $1100 + util. + d.d. 403-506-0054

IMMACULATE 2 bdrm, condo, SE Red Deer, fi re-place, cherrywood fl oors, 4 appls, utils. incld., avail.

May 1, $1195/mo. First 2 mo. $995/mo.

403-358-4582

SEIBEL PROPERTY$500 OFF

1ST MONTH’S RENT6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained town-houses, lrg, 3 bdrm,

11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls. Westpark, Kentwood,

Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at

$1100. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or

403-347-7545

SOUTHWOOD PARK3110-47TH Avenue,

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses,generously sized, 1 1/2

baths, fenced yards,full bsmts. 403-347-7473,

Sorry no pets.www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/6 Plexes 30501 & 2 BDRM. apts avail. in a quiet, pet-free adult only

building. Please phone 403-340-1222

for more information (no text msgs please).

3 BDRM., no pets, $975. mo. 403-343-6609

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

GLENDALE3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.,

$975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail.

May 1 403-304-5337

4 Plexes/6 Plexes 3050

ORIOLE PARK3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water

sewer and garbage. Avail. now or May 1st.

403-304-5337

WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or May 1

403-304-5337

Suites 30601 BDRM. apt. avail.immed.

$825 + power. Call Bob 403-872-3400.

2 BDRM. bsmt suite. $850/mo. 403-348-1304

2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. now or MAY 1. $900/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337

2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $800. rent/d.d. 403-346-1458

CITY VIEW APTS.2 bdrm in Clean, quiet,

newly reno’d adult building. Rent $900 S.D. $700.

Avail. immed. Near hospi-tal. No pets. 403-318-3679

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

LIMITED TIME OFFER:

One free year of Telusinternet & cable AND onemonth’s rent FREE on 2bedrooms! Renovated

suites in central location.Cat friendly. leasing@

rentmidwest.com 1(888)482-1711

MORRISROEMANOR

Rental incentives avail.1 & 2 bdrm. adult bldg.

only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

NEW Glendale reno’d 1 & 2 bdrm. apartments, rent

$750, last month of lease free, immed. occupancy.

403-596-6000

Opposite Hospital 2 bdrm. apt. w/balcony,

adults only, no pets heat/water incld. $875.

403-346-5885

THE NORDIC

Rental incentives avail. 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building,

N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

RoommatesWanted 3080

BOWER area home, shared main fl oor &

laundry, $550./mo. incld’s all utils. except internet. $300. dd. Ref’s req’d.

403-309-4464 after 6 pm

RoomsFor Rent 3090

BLACKFALDS, $500, all inclusive. 403-358-1614

S.E. House, furn. room, working M 403-396-5941

StorageSpace 316010’ X 26’ INDOOR space $175/mo, 403-348-0241

MobileLot 3190

PADS $450/mo.Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm.,2 bath. As Low as $75,000. Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

Tenders 6020

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

CELEBRATIONSHAPPEN EVERY DAY

IN CLASSIFIEDS

Tired of Standing?Find something to sit on

in Classifieds

TOO MUCH STUFF?Let Classifiedshelp you sell it.

Looking for a new pet?Check out Classifieds to

find the purrfect pet.


wegot

homes

Realtors& Services 4010

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Call GORD ING atRE/MAX real estate

central alberta 403-341-9995

IncomeProperty 4100

RARE OPPORTUNITY2 CLEARVIEW MEADOWS

4 plexes, side by side, $639,000. ea. 403-391-1780

IndustrialProperty 4120QUEEN’S BUSINESS PARKNew industrial bay, 2000 sq. ft. footprint, $360,000.

403-391-1780


wegot

wheels

Cars 5030

1971 CORVETTE, 454 big block. $16,500.

403-598-4131

SUV's 5040

2011 DODGE Caliber, only 56,000 km, exc. con.,

$8,900. 403-406-7600

2005 MITSUBISHI Endeavor, fully loaded,

AWL, leather, exc. shape. $6900. 403-318-1878

Motorcycles 5080

2008 SUZUKI C109, 1800 CC

ALL the bells & whistles!!44,600 kms.

Excellent Condition Never laid down. $7600. o.b.o.

(403)318-4653

Boats &Marine 5160

WatersEdge MarinaBoat Slips Available

For Sale or RentSylvan Lake, AB

[email protected] www.watersedgesylvan.com

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALSFAST FOOD CONCESSION OPERATIONS

ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS PARKS DIVISION

We are seeking individuals, groups or firms to operate the Fast Food Concession facility located at Pigeon Lake Provincial Park. The concession building is located in the hub of the Provincial Park. It shares an active day use area, boat launch and large re-developed campground.

We invite all interested parties to download the Request For Proposal documents by creating a free account with Alberta Purchasing Connection at http://www.purchasingconnection.ca/ and using the reference # AB-2016-02481 or by picking up a hard copy from the address noted below:

Alberta Environment and Parks Parks Division, Suite 700, Millennium Centre, 4909-49 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 1V1.

The Province reserves the right to reject any or all proposals.

For more information on Alberta Parks, please go to the following website address http://albertaparks.ca. For specific details regarding this opportunity, contact 403-755-1452.

Out OfRed Deer 4310

OPEN HOUSEApr. 24, SUN - 1 - 549 VINTAGE CLOSE

BLACKFALDS SERGE’S BUILT

OpenHouseDirectoryTour These Fine Homes

Clearview

MULTI-FAM SALE. LOTS of great items. Furniture,

rims, theater seating, decor, kids stuff, LOTS of GOOD books & DVD’s & MUCH more! Fri. April 22 4pm - 8, Sat 23rd 8 - 4.

92 Timberstone Way

You can sell your guitar for a song...

or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Tired of Standing?Find something to sit on

in Classifieds

Kentwood Estates

144 KELLOWAY CRES.Complete Household Goes

Apr. 16 to April 239 am - 9 pm

Everything Must Go!Massive Party Lights,

home, women & children’s decor.

Morrisroe

11 MCKINNON CRES.Apr. 22 & 23

Fri. 10-5 & Sat. 10-4 Baby items, pool table,

deep freeze, home decor...

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Accounting 1010INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

with oilfi eld service companies, other small

businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Acupuncture 1020Traditional Chinese Acupuncture & Therapeutic Massage ~

Acute or chronic pain, stress, surgery problems. 4606 - 48 Ave., Red Deer. Walk-ins. Call or txt 403-350-8883

Wholistic Health Care for stress, anxiety, pain, insomnia: DrLyla.caAcupuncture, TCM, TuiNa

Massage, QiGong Exercises for appts. or house calls contact 403-597-4828/ [email protected]

Contractors 1100BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads

Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

BRIDGER CONST. LTD.We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???We’ll do it all...Free est.Call E.J. Construction

Jim 403-358-8197

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Contractors 1100DAMON INTERIORS

Drywall, tape, texture, Fully licensed & insured.

Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176

Repair or RenovateNo job too small, full

service. Free Estimates Seniors Discount.

Call 587-377-0977 R.D.

RMD RENOVATIONSBsmt’s, fl ooring, decks, etc.Call Roger 403-348-1060

Entertainment1160DANCE DJ SERVICES

587-679-8606

Fencing 1169ACRE FENCING Supply & Install

CHAIN LINKResidential, Industrial

& Commercial. 42 years experience.

Located in Leduc Serving All of Alberta.

780-986-0267

FENCE WAREHOUSESUPPLY ONLY

Chain link, Wood and Barbed Wire.

Buy Direct From the Manufacturer

James @ 780-803-6491, Scott @ 780-668-8940.

HandymanServices 1200

BOOK NOW! For help on your home

projects such as bathroom, main fl oor, and bsmt.

renovations. Also painting and fl ooring.

Call James 403-341-0617

MassageTherapy 1280FANTASY

SPAElite Retreat, Finest

in VIP Treatment. 10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Misc.Services 12905* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777

PARKING LOT, Street Sweeping,

Pressure washing, complete hotmix asphalt services, crack sealing,

complete concrete services. Call ConAsph reception 403-341-6900

Painters/Decorators1310

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and

Colour Consultations.403-342-7801.

Plumbing& Heating 1330JOURNEYMAN PLUMBERExc. @ Reno’s, Plumb Pro

Geary 403-588-2619

Roofing 1370PRECISE ROOFING LTD.15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

Seniors’Services 1372HELPING HANDS Home

Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning,

companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

YardCare 1430SECOND 2 NONE aerate, dethatch, clean-up, eaves, cut grass. Free estimates. Now booking 403-302-7778

SPRING LAWN CLEANUPCall Ken 403-304-0678

THE ROTOTILLER GUYRototilling Services &

Yard Prep. 403-597-3957

You can sell your guitar for a song...

or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Classifieds...costs so littleSaves you so much!

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifi eds 403-309-3300classifi [email protected]

wegotservicesCLASSIFICATIONS

1000-1430

Earn Extra MoneyFor that new computer, a dream vacation or a new car

Red DeerPonoka

Sylvan LakeLacombe

call: 403-314-4394 or email: [email protected]

ROUTES AVAILABLEIN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD 71

1907

8TF

N

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday

and FridayONLY 2 DAYS A

WEEK

CLEARVIEW RIDGE

CLEARVIEWTIMBERSTONE

LANCASTERVANIER

WOODLEA/WASKASOODEER PARKGRANDVIEWEASTVIEW MICHENER

MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE

GARDEN HEIGHTS

MORRISROE

Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

CARRIERS NEEDED

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday

and FridayONLY 2 DAYS A

WEEK

ANDERS BOWER

HIGHLAND GREENINGLEWOODJOHNSTONEKENTWOODRIVERSIDE MEADOWS

PINESSUNNYBROOK

SOUTHBROOKEWEST LAKEWEST PARK

Call Tammy at403-314-4306

ForCENTRAL

ALBERTA LIFE1 day a week

INNISFAILPENHOLD LACOMBE

SYLVAN LAKEOLDS

BLACKFALDSPONOKA

STETTLER

Call Sandra at403- 314-4303

TO ORDER HOME

DELIVERY OF THE

ADVOCATE CALL OUR

CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

ADULT or YOUTH

CARRIERS NEEDED

711

90

52

tfn

ADULT or YOUTH

CARRIERS NEEDED

If youthink an ad

with a

LARGEHEADING

grabs your

attention

theREVERSE

is also true

CALL309-3300CLASSIFIEDS

to findout

more...

CALL CLASSIFIEDS

309-3300TO ADVERTISE YOUR

PROPERTY HERE!

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KIEV, Ukraine — Efrem Lukatsky, a Ky-iv-based photographer for The Associated Press, recalls the confu-sion and anxiety of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion, the world’s worst nucle-ar accident.

The Chornobyl nucle-ar power plant explosion was only about 100 kilo-metres (65 miles) from my home in Kyiv, but I didn’t learn about it un-til the next morning from neighbour Natalia Fin-kel, a policeman’s wife.

There’s radioactive dust, she said close all the windows and plug all the cracks. Later, my anxiety grew when I saw her husband,, Andrei taking off his clothes and putting them in a plastic bag before entering his apartment.

It was two full days after the April 26, 1986, explosion when the Soviet Union’s tightly controlled news media acknowledged that any-thing had happened — and the reports’ dis-honesty was as bad as no news at all. The Tass news agency called it an “unlucky accident” and said there was nothing to worry about.

Nobody cancelled a May Day parade in Ky-iv that saw thousands of people walking in col-umns along the streets, with songs, flowers and Soviet leaders’ portraits, covered with invisible clouds of fatal radiation. A thick cloud of smoke was carrying radioactive poisons over much of Eu-rope.

The only reliable source of information was the Voice of Ameri-ca, but the KGB was jam-ming the signal. If the signal got through, we heard doctors advising us to take a daily drop of iodine to protect our thyroids from radiation.

A friend, an Insti-tute of Nuclear Physics engineer named Vik-tor Ivashchenko, called me a few days after the blast and urged more me to flee Kyiv and never come back. But I stayed, and went on to develop a photographic relation-ship with the ruined plant that lasts to this day.

Soviet authorities fi-nally unveiled what had really happened, and let in a few photographers to cover the destroyed reactor and the desper-ate cleanup efforts. Ini-tially, only three Tass photographers were allowed in: Vladimir Repik, Igor Kostin and

Valery Zufarov. Repik and Zufarov later died of radiation-related illness-es and Kostin suffered from the effects for de-cades before dying in a car accident last year.

They were not al-lowed to develop the film they shot. Instead, the rolls were sent to Moscow, where the pho-tos were edited and top-level discussions took place on which could be made public.

Kostin was with a group of “liquidators,” soldiers who had been pressed into service to battle the disaster.

He climbed to the roof of the building next to the exploded reac-tor, firing off frames to record the soldiers who were frantically shovel-ling debris off the ruined structure’s roof. He had to shoot fast.

“They counted the seconds for me: one, two, three … As they said ‘20’ I had to run down from the roof. It was the most contaminated place,” he told The Associat-ed Press in 2011. “Fear came later.”

“If that explosion had occurred now and I had been told to go to Chor-nobyl, I would have nev-er gone,” Repik told me a few weeks before he died.

I went myself a few months later, the first of dozens of trips, as a stringer for Ogonyok magazine.

I saw crews of sol-diers and firemen hasti-ly labouring to cover the destroyed reactor with a concrete and steel sarcophagus. They had no protection from the radioactive smoke and dust except for face masks that they tore off because of heat.

I had no protec-tion other than a gauze mask and a white medi-cal-style coat and head covering, all provided by the plant, which also gave us a shower after-wards.

In all, some 600,000 people took part in the cleanup operations in the first five months of the work in subsequent years, that group has reg-istered a markedly high-er rate of cancer than in the general population.

In 2000, after I had been hired by AP, I went to mark the closing of Chornobyl’s last oper-ating reactor and got a look into the sarcopha-gus over the destroyed unit.

I put on two layers of thick white cotton clothes, rubber boots, a special hat and a helmet, padded jackets, gloves and a face mask.

My guide’s flashlight picked up the sparkle of dust slowly whirling around us. We tried not to take any deep breaths as we wove our way through dark, wreck-age-strewn passages.

We reached the old control room, long and poorly lighted, with its damaged machin-ery. This was the place where the Soviet engi-neers threw a power switch for a routine test on that doomed night, and two explosions fol-lowed.

We bent our heads to get through the dark, narrow labyrinth lead-ing to the centre of the sarcophagus. The walls were covered with lead plates intended to de-crease radiation lev-els. There were piles of lead and boron powder dropped by helicopters to suppress the nuclear reaction.

My Geiger counter registered about 80,000 microroentgens an hour normal background radi-ation is about 23 micro-roentgens an hour. It was time to leave.

The half-life of cesi-um-137, one of the most dangerous of the parti-cles emitted by the ex-plosion, is 30 years — as long as it has been since the blast.

At least three more of those half-lives will have to pass before the soil might be considered un-contaminated.

The catastrophe’s ef-fects will outlive all of us who endured it. 75

4970

6D9

Parkland C.L.A.S.S. has grown over five decades to become one of the largest disability based service providers in Alberta. Parkland C.L.A.S.S. exists to improve the quality of life of children & adults with developmental disabilities through individual choice, dignity and rights. We strive to empower the people we serve, measuring our success against the goals they set for themselves.

CHILDREN & ADULT PROPRIETORS NEEDED!Apply now to provide value in the Human Services Industry

We are continuously seeking specialized Proprietors for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Individuals or couples willing to open up their home have the opportunity to make an incredible difference in the life of an individual. As a Respite (part time) Proprietor you will provide a caring, safe and structured environment with fun activities and dependable routines. Respite Proprietors offer support and care, working one to two 48 hours weekends per month. This commitment involves the inclusion of the child/adult in your regular family life. PCLASS has a licensed basement suite where Respite can be provided if applicants are not able to provide Respite within their own home.

Proprietors will provide a very individualized service that is based on the needs of the individual. Experience with young children, youth and/or adults with developmental disabilities would be ideal. Knowledge of First Nations culture and some related post-secondary education would be an asset. Individual must have a private room and be in a non-smoking environment. Driver’s license and transportation are required.

Respite Proprietors are paid $125.00 per days worked. Parkland CLASS provides extensive training which all Proprietors are required to take.

Please send a cover letter & resume confirming you are interested in either children or adult Proprietorship to:

HR Fax: (403) 986-2404 or e-mail: [email protected]

If you would like to inquire more information please contact Roxanne Rose, HR Coordinator at 403-986-2400

Co-ordinator, Blackfalds Parent Link Centre0.8 FTE (28 hours/week)

We are searching for an independent leader to co-ordinate the new Parent Link Centre in Blackfalds.Working with parents, partners and staff, the Co-ordinator will be responsible for overall operations including program development, staff supervision, budget management and reporting, and compliance with Parent Link best practice standards.Parent Link Centres provide programs and services for parents and caregivers of young children, newborn to 6 years in the areas of Parent Education, Early Learning, Family Support, Developmental Screening and Information and Referral. For more information about your local Parent Link Centre, see www.centralparklandparentlink.caThe successful candidate will have achieved a Post –Secondary Degree/Diploma in a related Human Services discipline, as well as sound knowledge and experience in

• Program Development and Evaluation• Group facilitation• Family dynamics• Relationship building and partnerships• Early childhood development• Supervision and mentoring of staff• Excellent Interpersonal skills

Usually daytime hours, but some evening and Saturday hours will be required.Competitive salary and benefit package.Closing date Friday, April 29, 2016Please forward your letter of interest and resume to:Ms. Donnie Tafts,Regional Parent Link Manager,Lacombe and District FCSS201 – 5214 50 Avenue,Lacombe, AB T4L 0B6email: [email protected]

MHA properties looking for a full time, outgoing, customer service oriented individual to manage a townhouse community in Red Deer.

Successful candidate will manage staff, contractors and the property while maintaining excellent resident relations.

On-site residency is not required.

We offer a competitive salary and benefit package including health and RRSP plans.

Please submit resumes to:

COMMUNITYMANAGER

[email protected]

Powered byPoweered by

Central Alberta’s career site of choice.

THE ADVOCATEFEATURE D8S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 2 3 , 2 0 1 6

Looking back: 30 years of photographing Chornobyl

Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABOVE: This photo, taken in 1996, shows photographer Efrem Lukatsky, wearing protective clothes to reduce the radiation impact, standing in front of the sarcophagus that covers destroyed reactor No.4 in the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, in Chornobyl, Ukraine. The Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion was only about 100 km from photographer Efrem Lukatsky’s home, but he didn’t learn about it until the next morning from a neighbour. Only a few photographers were allowed to cover the destroyed reactor and desperate cleanup efforts, and all of them paid for it with their health.BELOW: In this photo taken in March, a worker checks the radiation level on barrels in a storage of nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit destroyed by explosion at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, Chornobyl, Ukraine.

In this photo a crucifix and a radiation sign at the entrance to the out-of-bounds town Pripyat close to the Chornobyl nuclear power station are seen through a bus window.

A4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 23, 2016 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, April 23, 2016 A5

TOTAL SAVINGS

$947

BACK BY POPULAR DEMANDEXCLUSIVE TO CAM CLARK

TOTAL SAVINGS

$11,375

50% OFF FACTORY OPTIONS

TOTAL SAVINGS

$4,175

TOTAL SELLING PRICE$59,074

Or $399/Bi-Weekly Over 84 Months At 0.99%


$6,625

DELIVERY ALLOWANCE

$3,750COSTCOREBATE

$1000

SAVINGS

Stock #16T0694Stock #16T0694

2016 Ford F150 2016 Ford F150 Super Crew LariatSuper Crew Lariat

MSRP - $70,449MSRP - $70,449

NGS

Stock #16C8390Stock #16C8390

2016 Ford Focus2016 Ford FocusWith Heated Seats And Heated Steering WheelMSRP - $23,094MSRP - $23,094


$947



www.camclarkfordreddeer.com 417 Lantern Street, Red Deer County, Ab T4E 0A5

1.888.308.9457*All rebates to dealer including delivery allowance and Costco. Selling prices do not include tax. #16C8390 b/w payment over 84 months, 0.99%, $0 down, O.A.C. #16A5733 b/w payment

over 84 months, 0.99%, $0 down, O.A.C. #16T6492A b/w payment over 84 months, 2.49%, $0 down, O.A.C. #16T0694 b/w payment over 84 months, 0.99%, $0 down, O.A.C. #16T8250 b/wpayment over 96 months, 4.99%, $0 down, O.A.C. Cost of borrowing #16A5733 is $1231. Sale ends Saturday, April 23rd, 2016. Vehicles may not be exactly as shown. See dealer for full details

441177 LLaanntteerrnn SSttrreeeett RReedd DDeeeerr CCoouunnttyy AAbb TT44EE 00AA55

TOTAL SAVINGS

Stock #16A5733Stock #16A5733

2016 Ford Escape2016 Ford EscapeWith Navigation And Roof RackWith Navigation And Roof Rack

TOTAL SAVINGS

$18,890



$2,675

DELIVERY ALLOWANCE

$500

SAVINGS

COSTCOREBATE

$1000


Cost Of Borrowing - $1231

Stock #16T8250Stock #16T8250

2016 Ford F350 2016 Ford F350 PlatinumPlatinumCrew Cab DieselCrew Cab DieselMSRP - $84,829


$9,890

DELIVERY ALLOWANCE

$4,000

EXTENDED FINANCE CASH ALTERNATIVE

$4,000

COSTCOREBATE

$1000


Or $413/Bi-WeeklyOver 96 Months At 4.99%

MSRP - $36,039MSRP - $36,039

TOTAL SAVINGS

$6,425


TOTAL SELLING PRICE

$44,214


$3,675

DELIVERY ALLOWANCE

$1,750

TAL SAVINGS

COSTCOREBATE

$1000

Stock #16T6492AStock #16T6492A

2016 Edge Titanium2016 Edge TitaniumWith Navigation And Moon Roof

MSRP - $50,639MSRP - $50,639

FINAL DAY TODAY! LAST CHANCE,HURRY IN!

Documents

Red Deer Advocate, April 23, 2016