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BRODY PERFORMS PATRIOTIC SHOWCountry singer Dean Brody wasn’t shy about wearing his patriotism on his sleeve and waving the red and white for more than 3,200 of his fervent fans during West-erner Days at Red Deer’s Centrium. B7

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DAUGHTER’S LIGHTSHINESA big collection of smiling faces — 134 in total — speaks volumes about the efforts family and friends of Stacy Regier have made to deal with their grief. A7

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Red Deer 1913 — 2013 Create Celebrate Commemorate

Man’s life on the street takes turn for the better

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO

ADVOCATE STAFF

Around this time last year, Virgil Frencheater was drinking heavily while scraping out an existence on the streets in Red Deer.

His days were spent with his street family hanging out, scoring a de-cent meal and finding a warm and safe place to sleep for the night.

Li t t le has changed in the last 12 months — but the changes are sig-nificant.

The 45-year-old has curbed his drinking, secured three pieces of identifica-tion and began painting and drawing.

“I’m doing odd jobs now,” said Frencheater.

“Not really moving on much but at least I am work-ing.”

Frencheater says he’s do-ing pretty much the same things as last year but the

main difference is that he is thinking about his future.

The identification will allow Frencheater to open a bank account and get his own place.

While he does spend time at Safe Harbour, Frencheat-er is considering finding a home come winter.

“I still want to get off the streets but because of my ad-dictions, it makes it a little bit harder,” said Frencheat-er.

“Like I said last year — that’s what makes it harder to get off the streets.”

A f e w w e e k s a g o , Frencheater was picked to paint a mural on one of the buildings near Turning Point at the south end of Lit-tle Gaetz Avenue.

Frencheater designed a picture of an eagle with four feathers.

He has not been to detox lately but he is staying sober to get the job done.

“All I got right now is the artwork that I do,” said Frencheater. “It’s mostly what I survive on these days.

I t g i v e s m e t h a t c e r t a i n spiritual opening in my life. It just does something for me.”

Frencheater says painting the mural gives him pride because people believe in him. And it helps to rebuild his name in the community.

Years ago, Frencheater was a popular grass dancer in Central Alberta.

His legs aren’t what they used to be so he said, “like Wayne Gretzky I retired a champion.”

Photo by CRYSTAL RHYNo/Advocate staff

Virgil Frencheater, 45, has lived on and off the streets for most of his life. These days he’s rebuilding his life and tapping into his artistic side to paint a mural on Little Gaetz Ave.

Wild finish to fair

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

A fearsome thunderstorm bring-ing high winds and heavy hail caused damage throughout the city and forced police to order an evacuation at the Westerner Days fair on Saturday night.

Westerner Park manager John Harms said on Sunday that he had seen a series of storms forming on the weather radar, which he watches through each day of the fair, just in case.

The first storm had blown in and the midway was already shut down at about 10:30 p.m. when RCMP patrolling the grounds ordered that the entire fa-cility be evacuated.

The fair had been busy and the Cen-trium was full of people taking in the Dean Brody concert when the evacua-tion was ordered, said Harms.

It was the first time an evacuation has been ordered in the Westerner’s history.

There have been previous occasions in which people were asked to take shelter inside, but they’ve never be-fore had to leave the property alto-gether, he said.

While there were some traffic jams in the process, the parking lots were emptied by 11 p.m., leaving Westerner crews the task of cleaning up the left-overs.

Harms said there was no damage on the midway, but one ATM machine was blown over by a gust of wind and storm drains were blocked up with leaves that the hail had stripped off of the trees.

Photo by BRENDA KOSSOWAN/Advocate staff

Dominic Thomsen, 5, of Blackfalds, got to test drive some of the new Hot Wheels toys and cars to be released this fall. Hot Wheels made the Westerner Days one of its 55 stops for its 2013 Road Trip.

Image contributed by KATRINA KINDRAT

Fairgoers enjoy a ride straight up as a storm closes in at The Westerner on Saturday evening.

‘IT GIVES ME THAT CERTAIN SPIRITUAL OPENING IN MY LIFE. IT JUST DOES

SOMETHING FOR ME.’

— VIRGIL FRENCHEATER

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FAIR: Red Deer hit with most intense part of storm

Environment Canada meteorologist Brad Power said Red Deer got the most intense part of a big storm that had started forming around Drayton Val-ley along the edge of a cold front.

The storm lasted for about half an hour and brought hail stones ranging from toonie to golfball size riding winds that gusted up to 117 kilometres per hour, said Power.

The big storm had just moved on when another se-ries of thunderstorms struck, bringing more hail and heavy rains, he said.

Harms said he heard that some people’s gardens had been shredded and he knows of at least one home in Oriole Park that had its siding stripped.

As intense as the storm was on Saturday, he said it had a relatively small impact on what looks to be one of the most successful Westerner Days fairs yet.

The midway would have suffered some loss of revenue as a result of the storm, but there was little if any impact on the gate because very few people come into the fair at that time of night, said Harms.

New attractions this year included SuperDogs,

lumberjack demonstrations and a one-day visit from the Hot Wheels Road Trip on Sunday.

Harms said he would not know how the 2013 West-erner Days stacks up against previous events until final figures were tallied from Sunday.

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STREET: Children left street life behind

His two children were also living on the street in Red Deer last year.

They have since left the streets and returned to homes in Rocky Mountain House. Frencheater said he is happy that his children have left his hard life behind.

“One of my dreams, if I ever win the lottery, is to get some land and live by the mountains or the creek and build a little house and buy a few horses,” he said. “Just live off the land.”

On Oct. 16, 2012, 279 people were considered homeless, according to Red Deer’s Point in Time Homeless Count.

Of the tally, 37 per cent were under the age of 25; 31 per cent were female; and 44 per cent self-report-ed as aboriginal.

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Canada’s foreign affairs minis-ter has spoken to senior Palestin-ian and Israeli officials to offer his support in efforts to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table.

John Baird’s office says he placed phone calls on Sunday to his counterpart in the Palestin-ian Authority, Riyad al-Malki, and Israel’s chief negotiator with the Palestinians, Justice Minister Tz-ipi Livni.

He commended both countries for agreeing to meet in Washing-ton in the coming days and weeks.

“Negot iat ions wi l l take strength, courage and compromise

but in the end, peace is worth trav-eling this difficult road,” Baird tweeted Sunday afternoon after speaking to both sides.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Friday that the two sides had reached an agreement that establishes a ba-sis for resuming negotiations, but cautioned the details are still be-ing worked out.

A government official says Baird told Livni on Sunday that Israel would have to make hard compromises and that the pres-sure would be on the Israelis go-ing forward.

The official says Baird’s mes-sage to Malki was that this is an opportunity that shouldn’t be al-lowed to slip away.

On Sunday, Palestinian officials made it clear there is no clear path to a resumption of talks.

They said their key demand re-mains: Ahead of any talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu must accept Israel’s pre-1967 frontier as the starting point for drawing the border of a future state of Palestine.

Palestinian sources also indi-cated that a resumption of talks is not a done deal, saying negotiators for the two nations would have to hold more talks.

Netanyahu’s right-wing allies were adamant that Israel would not budge on the issue of 1967 bor-ders, and Netanyahu appeared to be trying to lower expectations about any future negotiations.

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Hold public hearings on European trade deal, groups urge provinces


OTTAWA — Critics of the free trade talks with Eu-rope are urging provinces to ensure any negotiated deal gets a full public airing before it is formally signed.

The Trade Justice Network and Quebec-based Le Reseau quebecois sur l’integration continentale has sent premiers a letter in advance of their meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., next week, saying the fed-eral review mechanism is not sufficient.

The umbrella groups, which represent unions and civil society organizations, say provinces must step in because “the current federal government has rejected virtually every amendment proposed by op-position parties to every trade agreement that has come before Parliament for review.”

The Harper government has made a successful Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with 28 European Union nations a key economic and political goal — it would constitute the only major free trade deal since NAFTA two decades ago.

Unlike trade talks of the past, however, Canadian provinces have had to be directly involved in the process since some of the biggest issues — such as liberalized government procurement and public hydro-electricity tenders — fall under provincial ju-risdiction.

As well, expected extensions in pharmaceutical patent protections will likely result in higher provin-cial health care costs.

With so much involved, the groups say the prov-inces must hold public hearings, adding there is precedent for doing so.

“If there is a difference between the CETA and these other trade and investment agreements it is surely that the Canada—EU agreement will have far greater impacts on provincial sovereignty, as well as on policy flexibility at all levels, including munici-pally,” the letter notes.

Adam Taylor, a spokesman for International Trade Minister Ed Fast, insisted Sunday that the talks with the European Union are the most trans-parent and collaborative trade negotiations Canada has ever conducted. Ottawa has maintained a deal could boost Canada’s economy by $12 billion and create about 80,000 jobs, although critics say the ben-efits are exaggerated.

TRADE TALKS

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

What amounts to a minor bump at 20 ki-lometres per hour is more likely to be a kill-er when the same car strikes the same child at 50 kph.

Armed with research from across the conti-nent, a Red Deer father is lobbying the city to either reduce the speed limit in residential areas or double the fine for people caught exceeding it — or both.

Red Deer has a “de-fault” speed limit of 50 kph, which Ryan Brown would like to see low-ered to 40 in residential areas both to prevent pe-destrian collisions and to reduce the impact if a vehicle does bump a child running blindly in-to the street.

Brown is forming a lobby plan after learn-ing that other parents, including some of his neighbours in Kentwood, share his concerns about cars, trucks and motorcy-cles speeding along the streets in front of their homes.

One of the houses near his has been struck twice by vehicles that have lost control on the curve, said Brown.

Both he and Mayor Morris Flewwelling

point to the Town of Syl-van Lake’s default speed limit of 40 kph, which is 10 kph lower than the urban speed limit pre-

scribe by provincial law.Part of the rationale

for the lower limit in Syl-van Lake is its place as a recreational and tour-

ist centre, said Flew-welling.

He acknowledged that many drivers habitual-ly drive faster than the posted rate.

However, there is an argument to be made for a lower limit, because it will slow them down, he said.

While he had not seen any submissions from Brown as of Friday after-noon, Flewwelling sup-ports the principal, hav-ing recently discussed the issue during the Liveable Cities confer-ence in Portland, Ore.

One of the sessions in-cluded discussion of the relationship between

the severity of injuries to pedestrians and the speed the vehicles are travelling when they are struck.

Severity increases po-tential for a fatality rises sharply as speed rates rise from 20 to 50, said Flewwelling.

“I brought the idea home, that we might look at reducing our speed limits.”

Flewwelling beleives speed limits of 60 and 70 on major thoroughfares should stay, but limits should be lowered on streets inside residential areas.

Brown said he is just getting rolling with and

has not received much encouragement from the staff he has spoken with at City Hall.

More than 50 people have now signed up to a Facebook page he start-ed about two weeks ago and he is also looking at other options.

They include making a presentation to City Council and raising the issue with candidates during upcoming munici-pal elections.

Facebook users can look up Neighbournood Speed Init iat ive in Red Deer, AB to learn more.

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

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OLDS COLLEGE — The aroma of freshly turned soil and a cairn bear-ing 30 stones remain on the site where the world’s most highly skilled plow-ers tested their mettle during the past weekend.

The 60th-annual World Plowing Contest, held on Friday and Saturday, brought national winners from five continents for an event that one of its organizers described on Sunday as a country fair combined with an Olym-pic-calibre sporting event.

Jordan Cleland, vice-president ad-vancement for Olds College, said the plowing competition was one of the “capstone” events organized to help the college celebrate its 100th anniver-sary.

There is little doubt that some of those first students fron 1913 learned their skills on the same plots that were worked during the competition by plowers from 30 different coun-tries.

Cleland said he was surprised to see the event attract more than twice as many people as were anticipated, with paid admissions unofficially tal-lied at 4,000 on Friday and 7,000 on Saturday.

Along with that surprise, Cleland said he was delighted to see a first-place and second-place awards go the only two women entered in the compe-tition.

Barbara Klaus of Austria won first place in conventional plowing, fol-lowed by Fabian Landre of France and Eamonn Tracey of the Republic of Ireland. Top three in the reversible category were John Whelan from the Republic of Ireland, Margareta Heigl of Austria and Thomas Cochrane of Northern Ireland.

Canadians placed in the top third in both classes, with Brian Fried placing seventh in reversible and Barry Tim-bers placing 10th in conventional.

Cleland said he was also warmed by the camaraderie shown among com-petitors who came from countries that have long histories of political acri-mony.

For example, competitors from for-mer Soviet Bloc countries, including Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo and Lithu-ania practised and worked alongside plowers from Russia.

Cleland said he had heard that the championship event on Friday and Sat-urday was Kosovo’s first international competition since it was recognized as an independent nation.

Following a long-standing tradition, each country brought a stone which was then contributed to the cairn erected at the site, said Cleland. Olds

is the only site in WPC history that is home to two such cairns, having hosted the competition in 1986 as well as in 2013.

R e p r e s e n t a -tives from Kenya characterized the event at both art and sport, with only a modest rel-evance to common farming practices.

Alice Kalya, chair of the Agri-cultural Society of Kenya and Paul Njuguna, chair of the Kenya Plow-ing Organization, had arrived in Canada a week before the competition to support their team: Simon Otidi Oroni on the reversible plow and Joshua Kiptim Kigen on the conventional plow.

Kalya and Njuguna said that, unlike some of the Europeans, their plowers

found the heavy, black soil at Olds to be quite similar to the soil at home.

Plowing competitions are originate from the impor-tance of preparing of a good seedbed, said Kalya.

C o m p e t i t o r s are judged on 12 different param-eters, including straightness and depth of their fur-rows and the pre-cision with which they start and fin-ish each row.

P l o t s w e r e worked from the outside toward the centre, requiring that the plowers keep an even width from start to finish so the last furrow draws exactly through the middle.

Competitors were seen leaving their tractors at times to measure the width between the two sides of

their plot in case corrections were needed.

Veteran competitor Ian Smith of Australia, one of the judges for the 2013 competition, said the first thing he looks for in the grassland competi-tion is whether there are blades of grass sticking up between the fresh furrows. Points are deducted for each spot where the plow has missed, said Smith.

While precision plowing was the focal point for the event, it was wrapped in a package that bore a remarkable resemblance to an old-time country fair, including horse plowing, tractor pulls, line dancing, dog demonstrations, beer gardens, antique tractors and a variety of live entertainment.

Olds College had bid for the 2013 competition both to celebrate its past and to raise its profile on the world stage, said Cleland.

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Red Deer dad pushes for lower residential area speed limits


Peter Alderslade works on his reversible plow during competition in the grassland event on Saturday. Alderslade placed 12th out of 30 competitors in the reversible plow category. The 60th-Annual World Plowing Championship was held at Olds College on Friday and Saturday.

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocatea staff

Ryan Brown, a man who wants to see speed limits in residential areas reduced to 40 kilometres and hour, looks up at a posted speed sign on Kingston Street on Friday afternoon. The street, Brown said, often has drivers going well over the posted speed limit.

Alice Kalya Paul Njuguna

COMPETITORS FROM FIVE CONTINENTS ATTEND 60TH-ANNUAL WORLD PLOWING CONTEST AT OLDS COLLEGE

Like smokers who put off quitting until their health starts to suffer, we’re learning what happens when bad hab-its catch up with us.

We’re wit -nessing the ter-rible effects of fossil fuel ad-diction every day: frequent, intense storms a n d f l o o d s , e x t e n d e d droughts, rapid-ly melting Arc-tic ice, disap-pearing glaciers, deadly smog and pollution, contaminated waterways and destroyed habi-tats. Transport accidents are also increasing as gov-ernments and industry scramble to get fuels out of the ground and to market as quickly as possible.

Throughout it all, we’re asking the wrong questions.

Take the recent horrific disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que. A train carrying fracked crude oil from North Dakota to a refinery in Saint John, N.B., derailed, caught fire and caused explosions that destroyed much of the town and killed dozens of people, sending millions of

litres of oil into the ground, air, sewers and Chaudière River. It’s a senseless tragedy that has everyone in Canada and beyond grieving for the commu-nity’s citizens and their families.

Governments and the railway com-pany must answer numerous questions about safety regulations and practices, to prevent a similar catastrophe from ever occurring.

The larger questions, though, are about the dramatic increases in fossil fuel use and transport. Sadly, industry proponents quickly exploited the situ-ation to argue for expanding pipelines.

As growing human populations and increasing industrialization drive up the worldwide demand for fossil fuels, and as oil, gas and coal companies rush to extract, sell and burn as much as possible while markets remain strong, we’re seeing ever-increasing exploita-tion from difficult sources — fracking, oilsands, deepsea drilling and more.

The Canadian Association of Petro-leum Producers expects oil produc-tion in Western Canada to double from three million barrels a day to more than six million by 2030. This means a huge increase in the amount of fuels transported around the country and the world in pipelines, rail cars, trucks and ocean tankers. According to the Railway Association of Canada, rail shipment of oil has already increased dramatically in Canada, from 500 car-

loads in 2009 to 140,000 this year.It’s true that rail accidents can be

more devastating to human life than pipeline accidents — although when it comes to oil, pipeline breaks usu-ally spill greater quantities and cause more environmental damage than train derailments. But shipping massive vol-umes of oil and gas is unsafe by either method.

As we transport ever-increasing volumes of fossil fuels over greater distances to broader networks, we can expect more spills and accidents. Wastefully and rapidly burning them is also driving climate change, which experts say may even affect rail safety, as extreme heat and sudden tempera-ture shifts can cause rails to buckle, in-creasing the potential for derailments.

Massive pipeline spills and devas-tating rail accidents are among the im-mediate and frightening consequences of our growing appetite for fossil fuels, but our bad habits are really starting to hit back with climate change.

The homes and lives lost around the world, numerous plant and animal species facing extinction, rising health-care costs from pollution-related ill-ness and massive clean-up efforts after flooding show that failing to address climate change is far more costly than doing something about it.

Much of what we’re seeing now — from increased intense rainfall and

flooding in some parts of the world to extended droughts in others — is what climate scientists have been predict-ing for decades.

We’re not going to stop using oil overnight, and we will continue to transport it, so we must improve stan-dards and regulations for pipelines, rail, trucks and tankers. This should include safer rail cars for moving dan-gerous goods.

Also, many environmental groups are calling for “a comprehensive, inde-pendent safety review of all hydrocar-bon transportation — pipelines, rail, tanker and truck.”

But in the long run, we have to find ways to slow down. By conserving en-ergy and switching to cleaner sources, we can start to move away from fossil fuels — and to use remaining reserves less wastefully.

That’s the discussion we need to have, rather then getting mired in de-bates about transport methods. As energy writer Russ Blinch noted in a Huffington Post article, “Looking at pipelines versus rail tankers is real-ly like asking, ‘Should I drive the car with bad brakes or the one with bad tires?’ ”

We need to look at the big picture.Scientist, author and broadcaster Da-

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Long after politicians and pundits stop asking big, unsettling questions, the scholars at Canadian Institute for Advanced Research keep probing and pondering.

Every five years, the fellows of the institute’s “suc-cessful societies” program — historians, political sci-entists, economists, criminologists, urban planners, psychiatrists, epidemiologists and philosophers — collaborate on a book examining the trends that are changing the global landscape and reshaping people’s lives.

This year’s book, entitled Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era, looks at the way communities react to successive shocks such as technological change, globalization, the triumph of market economics, privatization, deregulation, job insecurity, rising in-come equality and shrinking social programs.

Some communities struggle to survive. Others ab-sorb the blows and come out stronger.

This book seeks to identify the factors that allow the adapters to move forward. It also aims to move the debate beyond buzzwords and half-baked theo-ries.

Neoliberalism, for example, is a phrase commen-tators toss around freely.

But they often seize on one aspect of it — fiscal austerity, market discipline, income polarization, job insecurity — thinking they’ve grasped the whole. Their prescriptions are partial at best, harmful at worst. This book pulls together all the pieces.

“It offers new ways of understanding the sweep-

ing long-term effects of neoliberal policies,” says Alan Bernstein, president and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Social resilience is an emerging concept, a do-it-yourself ideology taking hold at the community level. Political elites aren’t sure whether it is a threat or a godsend. Individuals and groups are organizing themselves to fill the gaps left by cost-cutting govern-ments, solve their own problems, and create oppor-tunities that didn’t exist before.

“Social resilience does not mean a society faces challenges and recovers unchanged,” says Jonathan Arac, founding director of the Humanities Centre at the University of Pittsburgh, who helped set up the successful societies program. “It makes it possible for people living in societies to lead good lives de-spite the challenges.

The book’s 21 contributors — 10 Canadian, 10 American and one British — share the conviction that social resilience is the flip-side of neoliberal-ism.

But it consists of small experiments and scattered innovations and it raises new moral quandaries. Here are some of the issues they explore:

Do tectonic shifts in the economy change people’s values, allegiances and identity?

Is multiculturalism relevant in a borderless world of commerce, communication and competition?

What makes a life worthy when a tiny fraction of the population controls a disproportionate share of the wealth?

Does prejudice increase or recede when no one feels immune to job loss?

What does leadership mean when governments play a dwindling role in people’s lives?

Why do small homogeneous societies such as Que-bec seem to do better at balancing market forces and social welfare policies than bigger, more pluralistic societies such as Canada?

Some chapters are more compelling than others, some insights more practical for people eager to push back against those who insist individuals and communities have no choice and no power.

What all of the authors do, in various ways, is point out that there is room for ingenuity and there are ways societies can shape a better future.

New jobs are emerging. Economic-social hybrids that would have been unthinkable a generation ago are popping up.

Art and culture have moved from the margins to the mainstream, creating employment opportunities and social structures that didn’t exist a decade ago.

Young people, using social media, are organizing mass movements to topple repressive regimes.

Older people are redefining retirement, carving out roles as active, involved citizens.

There is still much to learn, says senior fellow Peter Hall of Harvard University, co-director of the CIFAR’s successful societies program. “We want to open up this concept of social resilience and identify it as a phenomenon so others will go out and study it and help contribute new thinking.”

He is right; the 416-page book is more of a catalyst for brainstorming than a user’s guide to building strong, resilient communities. But its message is one of hope. People have the capacity to bounce back from trauma, to live meaningful lives in disruptive times.

Carol Goar is a syndicated Toronto Star national af-fairs columnist.

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Metis relic returnedBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BATOCHE, Sask. — The longstand-ing mystery surrounding the where-abouts of Bell of Batoche was unrav-elled Saturday, as the man who stole it from an Ontario Legion hall in 1991 came forward.

Billyjo Delaronde, a Metis man from Manitoba, shared his story with thou-sands as he gave the bell back to the Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert.

Cast in solid silver and standing about 30 centime-tres tall, the bell is an important cultural relic of Canada’s Metis.

The bell was seized from Ba-toche’s church as a trophy of war by federal troops who put down the Northwest Rebel-lion of 1885, crush-ing the dream of Metis leader Louis Riel to build an independent Me-tis state. It was brought east and eventually ended up in a Royal Ca-nadian Legion hall in Millbrook, Ont.

In 1991, it was stolen from the Le-gion by unknown conspirators and wasn’t seen publicly until this week-end.

Delaronde said he and four Metis accomplices travelled to Millbrook on a “gentleman’s dare,” determined to get the relic back.

“It was Metis Mission Impossible,” Delaronde said.

Some of the men created a distrac-tion by spilling a pouch of tobacco, he said, while others made off with the bell.

Delaronde said that in 1967 the fed-eral government asked the Millbrook Legion to turn over the bell and return it to Batoche, but the request was re-fused

“I believe I repatriated the bell,” he said. “There was no intention of ever stealing the bell from them, because it

was ours.”Delaronde said he never feared

prosecution for stealing the bell, but still feels a great weight has been lift-ed from his shoulders.

During a mass held at Batoche, Delaronde told his story before hand-ing the bell — wrapped in buffalo skins and a Metis flag — to the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Prince Albert.

Monsignor Albert Thevenot, also Metis, negotiated the return of the bell.

“One idea he had was to throw it in a lake, because it could cause a lot

of commotion,” Thevenot said. ”But friends con-vinced him he had to bring it back to Batoche.”

Since the bell was property of the church, it is not considered stolen property Thevenot said.

“We checked out to see that no legal problems would come,” he said. “I’m the own-er of the bell.”

Robert Douc-ette, president of the Metis Nation of Sakatchewan, said hearing the

bell — known amongst Metis as Marie Antoinette — brought tears to his eyes.

“For the first time I really felt a lot of the unity that has been missing was there today,” he said. “The nation has turned a corner.

“The bell belongs to all of us.”Guy Savoie, an elder with the Union

Nationale Metisse St-Joseph du Mani-toba, said the bell will initially be dis-played at the St. Boniface Museum in Winnipeg, which has a large collection of Metis artifacts.

The bell will not be remounted in the church steeple from which it was stolen 128 years ago, Savoie said, no matter how bad Parks Canada may want it.

‘I don’t care what the feds feel about it,” he said.

“It’s not their bell.”

Action plan TV adslanding with a thud


OTTAWA — Slick television ads this year for the Harper government’s “eco-nomic action plan” appear to be in-spiring a lot of, well, inaction.

A key measure of the ads’ impact is whether viewers check out actionplan.gc.ca, the web portal created in 2009 to promote the catch-all brand.

But a survey of 2,003 adult Canadi-ans completed in April identified just three people who actually visited the website.

The Harris-Decima poll for the Fi-nance Department also delivered some of the worst results among nine viewer-reaction surveys commissioned since the action plan ads were launched for the pivotal 2009 budget.

Just six per cent of those who said they recalled the TV ads that began running in February this year reported doing anything as a result.

That’s the worst result for follow-up action of any survey. The best was an August 2009 survey that found 25 per cent of respondents saying they took advantage of a temporary home reno-vation subsidy.

And among the few people who took action, nine said all they did was com-plain or “express displeasure” about the 30-second TV spots, dismissed by critics as thinly veiled Conservative propaganda.

The poll — mandatory under fed-eral advertising rules — did not report anyone who called the toll-free num-ber shown on screen, 1-800-O-Canada, another explicit goal of the ad cam-paign.

Harris-Decima also asked: “How would you rate the overall perfor-mance of the Government of Canada,” the same question asked in the other eight surveys.

Previous results from 2009 to 2012 showed an average of 43 per cent of re-spondents rating the government from good to excellent. The latest survey found only 38 per cent giving a positive endorsement, a trough hit only once before, in 2010.

Other questions about providing information or communicating effec-tively also produced relatively poor grades.

The telephone survey was conduct-ed between March 19 and April 3, with the margin of error at plus or minus 2.2 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

The Canadian Press obtained the $29,000 poll under the Access to Infor-mation Act.

Other surveys have found Canadi-ans increasingly bored and annoyed by

the action plan branding on TV, radio, newspapers and online, to say nothing of the ubiquitous signage at federally supported building sites across the country.

The government has already spent about $113 million on action plan pro-motion in the last four years, and in May issued a tender for more such ads over the next year, and perhaps run-ning to 2016.

Finance Department action plan polling has so far cost taxpayers $330,000.

The 30-second TV spots that ap-peared February-to-April showed workers building a plane, a car and a ship while a narrator refers to ap-prenticeship grants, student loans and innovative research.

They were a rerun of ads from last fall.

“Total partisan bunk,” said Liberal MP Scott Brison, the party’s chief critic of the ads, some of which he said cost nearly $100,000 for 30 seconds of air-time during this year’s NHL playoffs.

“This has been a gross failure in terms of value for tax dollars,” Brison said in an interview from Cheverie, N.S.

“The ads ought to be paid for by the Conservative Party of Canada, not by the Canadian taxpayer who derives no benefit from them.”

The NDP’s Mathieu Ravignat said he’s not surprised the info-light ads — which he called propaganda — are get-ting little traction.

“They’re creating apathy rather than actually engaging citizens, and that’s because they have really no im-portant content,” he said from Quyon, Que.

“They’re a bad investment.”A spokesman for the Finance De-

partment said other surveys show over-all awareness of the government’s ac-tion plan campaign has risen to a high of 62 per cent this year from a low of 20 per cent in 2009.

Jack Aubry also said traffic to the action plan website increased mark-edly during the winter campaigns — which included TV, radio, print and online ads — to 12,600 visits each day from a baseline of 2,300.

The department said it could not yet provide final costs for the winter TV ads.

On the web, the TV ad that was the focus of the survey is: actionplan.gc.ca/en/video/canadas-economic-action-plan-working-canadians


Billyjo Delaronde, dubbed the Keeper of the Bell, looks on as The Bell Of Batoche is official displayed during Back to Batoche Days in Batoche, SK on Saturday, in Batoche.

GATHERING HEARS TALE OF HOW METIS GROUP STOLE BELL OF BATOCHE FROM ONTARIO LEGION

‘IT WAS METIS MISSION IMPOSSIBLE...

“I BELIEVE I REPATRIATED THE BELL.

“THERE WAS NO INTENTION OF EVER

STEALING THE BELL FROM THEM, BECAUSE IT WAS

OURS.’

—BILLYJO DELARONDE, A METIS MAN DUBBED

THE KEEPER OF THE BELL

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Shadow of past abuses lingers over First Nations education debate

BY MEGAN DOLSKI

THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — Aboriginal leaders are pointing to past abus-es as evidence that the federal government should let their com-munities craft their own educa-tion policies.

When news broke that more than 1,300 aboriginal people, most-ly children, were used as subjects of nutritional experiments initi-ated by the Canadian government in the 1940s and ’50s, it struck a chord with aboriginal leaders that was all-too-contemporary.

A statement from the Assembly of First Nations said such horrors would never have happened if ab-original people were in control of their own lives and communities.

News of the old abuses resur-faced as the national organization was meeting this week in White-horse, where members were dis-cussing education reform.

Some lamented that federal policy-makers haven’t learned key lessons of the past, as they pre-pare to present the First Nation Education Act to Parliament this fall.

“The pattern in which the fed-eral government has approached this (legislation) hasn’t broken the pattern we are looking to break,” Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo said in an interview.

Participants at the Whitehorse meeting issued a statement asking Canada to work with First Nations as partners on a path to progress.

Since 2012, the federal govern-ment has been crafting legislation that it says does exactly that. It says it has consulted with aborigi-nal communities at every step in the process, met with 600 people and received written input from almost 600 more.

The legislation would create a framework allowing First Nations to establish their own education systems.

The government sent a letter to First Nations chiefs earlier this month outlining a “blueprint” of its planned legislation, which is now available online, and has requested feedback on progress made to date.

That draft version of the bill proposes standards for “school-success plans” for each First Na-tion school; suggests following up with annual reports; and promises governance “options” for commu-nities in accordance with treaty rights.

But the AFN unanimously passed a motion this week oppos-ing the government blueprint, cit-ing seven key problems with it.

That motion pointed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s 2008 Residential Schools apology and cited his statement that “this pol-icy of assimilation is wrong, has caused great harm, and has no place in our country.”

The motion said the impending legislation “denies” the primary importance of First Nations lan-guages and cultures.

It also cited a failure to: affirm First Nation control over First Na-tion Education; apply the success-ful lessons learned by First Na-tions; and address historic fund-ing shortfalls.

Since 1996, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development has seen its educa-tion funds capped at a two per cent increase per year.

Meanwhile, the aboriginal pop-ulation is growing at a much faster rate. It grew just over 20 per cent from 2006 to 2011, in contrast to

the rest of the population which grew about five per cent.

The AFN pegs the funding shortfall at $3 billion since 1996.

Atleo says there are still prob-lems that date back to the painful residential-school era.

“I can make the link to that (malnourishment) study, because it was clear back in the ’40s that the problem was that there wasn’t adequate funding,” he said.

“(The government) knew it be-forehand, they knew it after, and there are studies today that dem-onstrate there are unfair funding levels for First Nations learners.”

Provincial bodies have also tak-en steps to fight the legislation.

In Quebec, First Nations com-munities commissioned a firm to produce a legal opinion on wheth-er the government’s consultation process respected its constitution-al obligations.

Hutchins Legal Inc. determined that — as of March 15 — the gov-ernment’s consultation process

had fallen short of fulfilling its constitutional duties.

First Nations in Saskatche-wan took a more pre-emptive ap-proach.

Vice-Chief Bobby Cameron of the Saskatchewan Federation of Indian Nations recently asked all the association’s member-nations to develop and implement their own education acts before the fed-eral government beat them to it.

When asked about concerns re-garding the process, the federal government said in an email that the consultation was “ongoing.”

When Nippissing Univeristy President Michael DeGagne spoke to the Whitehorse assembly, he described misunderstandings be-tween non-native and native lead-ers.

“Aboriginal people are not say-ing, ‘Give us control of our educa-tion,’ because they want control,” he said in an interview later.

“They are asking for control so they can have better outcomes.”

1874The Canadian government’s involvement in residential schools be-

gins. Aboriginal children are removed from their communities across the country and placed in government-funded, church-run institutions. These schools are used to assimilate aboriginal children, by exposing them to new language and cultural traditions while stripping them of their own.

1972The National Indian Brotherhood (which later becomes the Assem-

bly of First Nations) asks for more control of its peoples’ education. A policy is outlined in a paper called Indian Control of Indian Education.

1996The last residential school closes in Yellowknife. The negative re-

percussions of life at these schools trickles down through generations of aboriginal peoples.

2004Canada’s auditor general finds that if current trends continue, it will

take nearly 30 years for aboriginal people on reserves to obtain edu-cational equality with the rest of the Canadian population.

2008June 11: Prime Minister Stephen Harper offers an official apology,

on behalf of Canada, to survivors of the residential school system.Along with the apology, the federal government establishes the

Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The TRC is given a $60-mil-lion budget, and a five-year mandate to investigate and document this under-represented period in Canada’s historical archives.

2010June 9: AFN makes a call to action on First Nations education,

inviting the entire country to participate in improving education on re-serves.

July 22: AFN releases “First Nations Control of First Nations Edu-cation 2010.” AFN Chief Shawn Atleo asks that First Nations people be allowed to lead the way in improving their education.

2012Jan. 24: A Crown-First Nations gathering is held. A commitment is

made to “take action on education.”Dec. 11: Plans are announced for a First Nation Education Act.

A discussion guide is published and released by the government, launching the first phase of the consultation process.

2013May: After six months, phase one of the consultation process

ends.June 11: On the five-year anniversary of Harper’s residential-

schools apology, AFN Chief Atleo expresses discontent with relations with the government. He has sent a letter to Harper citing areas that must be addressed if reconciliation is to be achieved.

July 12: A letter is sent from the government to chiefs, updating them on the consultation process and outlining the next steps in pre-paring the First Nation Education Act.

The government releases a “blueprint” of the proposed legislation, which opens the second consultation phase. The legislation is slated to be presented before Parliament this fall.

The early outline of the bill proposes standards for “school-success plans” for each First Nation school; suggests following up with annual reports; and promises governance “options” for communities in accor-dance with treaty rights.

2014September: The Canadian government hopes to implement the

First Nations Education Act.

Coffee shop workers in Halifax in midst of unique drive to unionize


HALIFAX — Coffee shop workers in Halifax are leading a push to unionize in what could serve as a model for baristas elsewhere in Canada, one na-tional union says.

In recent months, employees at one cafe joined a union and workers at two others have launched ef-forts to do the same.

“We’re seeing a real phenomenon in Halifax of coffee shop workers coming together and organiz-ing,” said Tony Tracy, Atlantic representative for the Canadian Labour Congress.

“In terms of the coffee shop industry, Halifax has been a bit of an anomaly.”

Employees at a Just Us! coffee shop in Halifax successfully joined Local 2 of the Service Employees International Union. The unionization came amid an allegation carried in local media reports that two workers were fired for trying to form a union, an ac-cusation the employer denied, saying it had not been aware of a bid to unionize.

Workers at two Second Cup outlets in the city also recently voted whether to join the same union, though the Labour Board has yet to release their results.

“I’ve been taking calls from colleagues and co-workers across the country who’ve been following this trend in Halifax very closely and looking at it as

a model for talking to young workers in other cities,” said Tracy.

“I think we’ll still be analyzing this one for years to come.”

Labour organizing in the service industry has been traditionally low for both ideological and eco-nomic reasons, said David Doorey, a professor of labour and employment law at York University in Toronto.

“It is a highly competitive industry, and employ-ers believe unionization will pose a threat to their profit margins,” he said in an email.

“The labour force is often part-time, there is high turnover, and pay and benefits are low. Many of these workers do not have enough commitment to the job to tolerate the inevitable tensions that arise when the employer begins to resist the union cam-paign.”

But that may be changing, Tracy said.“It’s not a temporary job anymore,” he said.“We’re seeing a lot of young workers unable to

find work in their field and find themselves working in coffee shops for a period of years.”

These usually university-educated workers often realize their stop-gap employment has become more long-term and they are motivated to turn these posi-tions into good jobs, he added.

The move seems to mimic a similar trend among janitors across the country, as well as one that saw Halifax’s casino workers unionize in 2007, he said.

Jury out on whether Aglukkaq will help, hinder Environment

NEWS THAT MORE THAN ABORIGINALS WERE USED AS SUBJECTS OF NUTRITIONAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE 1940S AND ’50S, STRIKES A CHORD WITH

ABORIGINAL LEADERS

KEY MOMENTS IN FIRST NATIONS SCHOOLING

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OTTAWA — If there are any questions about why Leona Aglukkaq, the soft-spoken Inuk politician from Nunavut, was chosen by Stephen Harper to lead Environ-ment Canada, the Prime Minister’s Office is eager to dispel them.

“As an Inuk woman, minister Aglukkaq grew up with a cultural con-nection to our country’s proud and vast Arctic,” Julie Vaux, Harper’s spokeswoman, told The Canadian Press in an email.

“She understands the need to protect our beautiful land as well as anyone.

“The minister is com-mitted to protecting the environment for our families today and into the future.”

Vaux was even more direct in a response to the Globe and Mail.

“The appointment of a minister of the Envi-ronment from the North, a region susceptible to climate change, speaks volumes about our gov-ernment’s commitment to the environment and sustainability.”

Aglukkaq, 46, was largely overlooked in media coverage of last week’s cabinet shuffle, when after more than four quiet — critics would say invisible — years as Harper’s min-ister of health she was moved to Environment.

She becomes the fifth Conservative environ-ment minister — sixth, if you count John Baird’s two, separate stints — since Harper took office less than eight years ago.

Aglukkaq takes over the post at a time when the government is work-ing overtime to convince Americans of Canada’s environmental policy credentials in order to ease the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The $5.3-billion proj-ect, designed to carry bi-tumen from Alberta’s oil-sands to refineries in the southern U.S., has been called a “no-brainer” by Harper but is being held up by President Barack Obama over concerns from the Democrat-back-ing environmental move-ment.

Aglukkaq will also be-come the fourth Conser-vative minister to prom-ise greenhouse gas reg-ulations for the oil and gas sector — regulations that were first promised by Baird back in 2007.

Aglukkaq’s prede-cessor, Peter Kent, last promised the regulations would be revealed by mid-2013, a date the gov-ernment has once again pushed off to the “com-ing months.”

Insiders say Aglukkaq is hard-working, bright, looks after her constitu-ency and is highly man-aged from the top. She

seldom goes off script and almost never scrums with reporters. Her of-fice did not respond to a request for an interview for this story, but issued a statement shortly fol-lowing publication.

“As an Inuk, who has grown up and lives in Nunavut, I will bring a unique perspective to the portfolio. The protec-tion of the land, water and wildlife is a funda-mental principle of the Nunavut Land Claim Agreement. Through this lens, I know the im-portance of responsible and sustainable devel-opment,” the statement partially read.

Aglukkaq has not dis-tinguished herself as a gifted political com-municator, and she has been widely criticized from across the political spectrum for her lacklus-tre four years at Health Canada.

The right-wing Fraser Institute, for instance, has taken her to task for failing to tackle Cana-da Health Act reforms, while critics on the left have decried cuts to in-dependent health re-search and a hands-off approach on everything from OxyContin addic-tion to obesity and sodi-um reduction programs.

Aglukkaq’s most no-table flashes of political passion have revolved around her aboriginal ancestry.

Last year when a United Nations rappor-teur delivered a harsh report on food security among Canada’s aborigi-nal communities, Agluk-kaq —and not the gov-ernment’s minister for Indian and Northern Af-fairs —was dispatched to respond.

Calling the report’s author “an ill-informed and patronizing academ-ic,” Aglukkaq told the House of Commons that she had taken “the op-portunity to educate him about Canada’s North and aboriginal people that depend on the wild-life that they hunt every day for food security.”

She later fulminated to Maclean’s magazine that, “As an Inuk per-son who depends on the environment where I’m from for my well-being, it’s insulting.”

Aglukkaq also played on her ancestry to shoot down a Liberal MP’s question about health care funding cuts for dia-betes, suicide prevention and aboriginal health staff.

“Can the minister ex-plain to this House why her cuts target the pop-ulation with the worst health outcomes in Can-ada, the aboriginal peo-ple of Canada,” asked Liberal Carolyn Bennett, herself a physician.

“As an aboriginal per-son, I take that type of line of questioning to be unacceptable,” Agluk-kaq responded.

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Leona Aglukkaq arrives at a swearing in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Monday, July 15, 2013. The soft-spoken Inuk politician from Nunavut was chosen by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to lead Environment Canada.

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MAVERICK AT RANCH

The classic movie Maverick featuring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner will be shown at Heritage Ranch later in July. It was one of three movies people voted for, the other two being Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and City Slickers, and will be shown at the ranch at 6300 Cronquist Dr. Maverick was the overwhelming favourite, receiving 45.7 per cent of the vote. The show starts at sunset on July 24, with the next day, July 25, set aside in case of rain. Attendees are invited to bring lawn chairs and blankets to sit back and relax under the stars, both on the screen and in the sky. The movie is free and the first 500 entrants get free popcorn and water, and the first 100 Scotiabank Scene debit and Visa cardholders who show their Scene cards get entry into a VIP section. The show starts at sunset.

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FAMILY WATER DAY

Red Deer Native Friendship Society is hosting a family water day at Discovery Canyon on Tuesday. Transport will be provided for a limited number of people who must pre-register. The day trip runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. For more information or to pre-register, call 403-340-0020. Discovery Canyon is just west of the parking lot at River Bend Golf Course.

TEEN SUMMER READING CLUB

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The Teen Summer Reading Club opens the pages of the Great Wonders of Great Britain on July 25. Take a whirlwind tour through England, Scotland and Wales and watch Stone of Destiny, an exciting adventure/comedy. The club will meet at the Dawe branch of the Red Deer Public library from 1 to 2:30 p.m. This is geared for children 12 years and older.

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI

ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer is making it easier to walk down memory lane with heritage interpretative signs planted in front of 62 buildings and sites.

In the 1980s, about 30 signs were posted at significant sites. Those sites now have new signs.

Out of the 62 signs, 24 were installed in April or May.

“We have another 10 to finish off this year,” said Janet Pen-nington, the city’s heritage com-munity development co-ordina-tor.

“Any site that is a designated municipal or provincial historic resource has a sign. We’ve also been putting them on some of the other buildings and sites listed in our Land Use Bylaw. And all the sites we’re includ-ing in our new series of heri-tage tours that we launched in June — every one of those has a sign.”

Signs are either attached to the building or a post nearby

and cost about $1,000 to fabri-cate and install.

Some of the sites that have never had signs before this year include Capital Theatre at 4924 Ross St., Club Cafe at 5019 50th St., the former Gaetz Manufacturing Co. at 4840 51st St., the former Eaton’s store at 4807 Gaetz Ave., Horsley Block at 4952 Ross St., and the former Peacock Inn at 5018 Ross St.

“All of these have some re-ally interesting stories behind them.” Pennington said the sign at Peacock Inn says Colonel Sanders visited the building to see if the owners wanted to turn it into a Kentucky Fried Chick-en franchise.

“We don’t cram it full of de-

tails because people don’t need it. We just try to come up with the tidbits.”

For each site, a web page will be developed with more information about the site or the owners and archival photos. When the pages are completed, a code will be added to the sign for people with smartphones to access the page while they visit the site.

Pennington plans to invite people to send in interesting stories about the sites and she welcomes suggestions for more sites.

A list of the sites with heri-tage interpretative signs will eventually be available at www.reddeer.ca/heritage.

Pennington said the signs promote cultural tourism and a sense of community for people who are new to Red Deer.

“This is a great way for them to explore the community and also to see what went on before they got here.

“It gives a sense of who the pioneers were and over time, as we’ve had waves of immigrants, the contributions that they’ve made. I think it really creates that sense of identity and sense of belonging and hopefully it gets some people interested in their heritage.”

To contact Pennington, call 403-309-6270.

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Signspointway tothe past

Cyclists will pedal 200 km to raise money for furnishing and operating Magdalene House Society this month. On July 27, local cyclists will set out on a Freedom Ride to raise money for the recovery home for those exploited by human trafficking. The cyclists will ride from Sylvan Lake to Caroline on July 27 and make a return trip the next day. Pledges are being accepted at www.magdalenehouse.ca.

FREEDOM RIDE

Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Signs, like the one sitting next to the doors of the Club Cafe on Ross Street, have started to appear in front of buildings throughout the city, allowing passersby to learn about the historic buildings in Red Deer.

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

SYLVAN LAKE — A big collection of smiling faces — 134 in total — speaks vol-umes about the efforts family and friends of Stacy Regier have made to deal with their grief.

A City of Red Deer office work-er, Stacy suffered severe head inju-ries from a car crash in Calgary on Oct. 20, 2008.

She was rushed to a trauma unit at the Foothills Hospital, where two other patients had also been admitted with head injuries.

At the time, the hospital had on-ly one CoolGuard machine, used to reduce brain swelling by cooling the body’s inter-nal temperature. Doctors chose to put Stacy on the machine, feeling that she had the greatest need.

Her injuries were too severe. Stacy died in the trauma room at the age of 24.

Witnessing the hospital staff’s tremen-dous efforts to save their daughter’s life,

Peter and Cindy Regier of Sylvan Lake de-cided to seek a positive outcome, setting up a charity golf tournament to help fund equipment for the unit where she had been treated.

Cindy said her daughter’s light shone down on the fifth-annual tournament, held on Saturday at the Meadowlands Golf Club in Sylvan Lake.

Taking shelter from the afternoon sun-shine, she said the tournament has had excellent weather every year, bringing throngs of family and friends for an after-noon of fun on the links followed up with a dinner and silent auction.

“This tournament was designed to keep Stacy’s memory alive, so for her family and friends, it is a reunion. She definitely is with us — she has brought us 25-plus weath-er almost every year,” said Cindy.

By midafternoon on Saturday, the tournament had added $10,000 to the $115,000 raised in the previ-ous four years, said Cindy.

She anticipates it will take another week before she knows the total amount raised through course fees, donations and silent auction sales.

The tournament is supported by a variety of sponsors, with proceedings sent to the Calgary

Health Trust and directed from there to-ward purchasing specialized equipment for the trauma unit.

Clubhouse manager for Meadowlands, Cindy said during the tournament that she and her family will continue to host the tournament in years to come, but may alter the format. Those changes have yet to be discussed, she said.

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Cindy and Peter Regier take a quick break during the charity golf tournament they organized in memory of their daughter, Stacy.

A daughter’s light shines FAMILY ESTABLISHES CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT FOR FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL

AFTER DEATH OF DAUGHTER

‘THIS TOURNAMENT WAS DESIGNED TO KEEP STACY’S MEMORY ALIVE, SO FOR HER

FAMILY AND FRIENDS, IT IS A REUNION. SHE DEFINITELY IS WITH US.’

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Deal endsCoca-Cola

plant strike

Production will resume at a Coca-Cola bottling facility in Brampton, Ont., today, ending a three-week strike at the company’s largest Canadian plant. A spokesman for the Canadian Auto Workers says a new three-year deal for 700 union workers was approved by a strong majority.Jerry Dias says pension benefits and concerns over outsourcing were the biggest issues that have now been resolved in the new agreement. The new deal at the plant just northwest of Toronto also includes wage increases.

Michelin recalls 100,000 tires

Michelin is voluntarily recalling 100,000 tires after a retailer discovered that some had holes and quickly deflated. The recall affects certain sizes of Michelin’s LTX M/S 2, X Radial LT2 and Latitude Tour tires. The tires are typically used on light trucks and SUVs.The puncture, in the sidewall, was caused by machines used to handle the finished tires. The tires were made in Michelin’s Lexington, S.C. plant.There have been no reports of damage, death or injury. Michelin says about 2,500 of the recalled tires may have the defect. Customers who may have purchased the tires will be notified by mail beginning next week. Customers who have already replaced the tires may be reimbursed. Owners can contact Michelin at 1-855-851-4951 orwww.michelinman.com/voluntarysafetyrecall

Lew meeting Greek leaders

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urged Greece on Sunday to continue its efforts to stabilize its debt-ridden economy and capitalize on the sacrifices already made “to ensure prosperity and growth for generations to come.” Lew was on a one-day visit to Greece after attending a Group of 20 summit in Russia. In an hour-long meeting with Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras, Lew discussed Greece’s austerity program, its long-term prospects, and visits the so-called troika of Greece’s creditors — the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund — have made to Greece, said Dimitris Kanellisa, a Finance Ministry spokesman.Later, Lew met with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at an unusual setting, the Acropolis Museum, not the Greek leader’s office.Samaras is due to meet President Barack Obama in Washington next month.“Our talks focused on the obvious challenges of stability and growth,” Samaras told reporters before he and Lew dined under the Acropolis.

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MONEYWISE

Still reeling from the market downturn, Canadian investors are reacting emotionally by putting too much money into cash, GICs and long-term bonds, and many of them don’t even know where their money is invested, a recent poll by Edwards Jones revealed.

According to the poll, Canadian investors are holding as much as 13 per cent of their money in guar-anteed investment certificates and 11 per cent of investors don’t even

know what they are invested in.Among Canadians who have in-

vestments, including those with registered retirement savings plans and tax free savings accounts, the majority (41 per cent) owned mu-tual funds, followed closely by stocks (14 per cent) and GICs (13 per cent). The poll also found that half of Canadians plan to make the same kind of investment this year and about 25 per cent plan to buy GICs, further adding to their cash

and short-term holdings.Cash essentially is an emotional

investment, a reaction to the mar-ket downturn of 2008 and 2009, said Craig Fehr, Canadian market strat-egist with Edward Jones.

“It’s interesting that we are still seeing emotion and impulse deci-sions to cash, short-term GICs and fixed income investments,” Fehr said.

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Credit card decision loomsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — A ruling expected this week on a complaint against Visa and Master-Card could significantly change how con-sumers use credit cards in Canada.

The federal Competition Tribunal is set to issue a decision Tuesday on whether rules imposed on merchants by the credit card giants are too restrictive.

Striking down the rules could allow mer-chants to either reject certain cards that offer incentive points, or charge consumers more for using them.

Under the current rules, merchants are required to accept all Visa and MasterCard offerings, but are prevented from charging an additional fee to those who pay with so-called premium cards, which come with higher costs.

Canada’s Commissioner of Competition filed a formal complaint with the tribunal in May 2012, accusing Visa and MasterCard of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.

Consumers have been forced to pay an estimated $5 billion worth of hidden fees

each year as a result, the complaint says.“Without changes to the rules, merchants

will continue to face high costs for accept-ing credit cards, and all consumers, even those who use lower-cost methods of pay-ment like debit or cash, will continue to pay higher prices,” commissioner Melanie Aitken said in a statement at the start of hearings.

The rules allow Visa and MasterCard to charge ever-increasing interchange fees to merchants who accept their cards without allowing them the choice of rejecting those card that carry higher fees, says the Retail Council of Canada.

“We’re very hopeful that the tribunal recognizes that there needs to be changes in the way this market functions,” said Da-vid Wilkes, the council’s senior vice-presi-dent.

Interchange fees are charged by the banks and credit card companies on every credit or debit card transaction.

Credit card interchange fees range from a low of 1.54 per cent for accepting a basic card to as high as 2.65 per cent for so-called “premium” cards that offer cardholders

travel points or other incentives.Debit transactions, meanwhile, are

based on a flat fee per transaction.If the requirements are struck down,

consumers could soon face retailer sur-charges for using premium cards, or at the very least confusion at the cash register, warns the Canadian Bankers Association.

“If merchants were allowed to surcharge — add an extra cost — that would be a very bad consumer experience,” said CBA presi-dent Terry Campbell.

“If they were allowed to, in effect, dis-criminate among cards or accept some cards and not accept others, again that would not be a good customer experience. Changes to those two rules could negatively affect the interests of consumers.”

Merchants don’t want to impose sur-charges because that wouldn’t address the root cause of the problem, said New Demo-crat consumer critic Glen Thibeault, who launched a summer-long public consulta-tion on the issue.

But they do want the power to decide whether to reject certain cards that carry higher interchange fees, he added.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WAITSFIELD, Vt. — Some Ver-mont farmers want to plant hemp now that the state has a law set-ting up rules to grow the plant, a cousin of marijuana that’s more suitable for making sandals than getting high.

But federal law forbids growing hemp without a permit, so farmers could be risking the farm if they decide to grow the plant that the Drug Enforcement Agency basi-cally considers marijuana.

Hemp and marijuana share the same species — cannabis sa-tiva — but hemp has a negligible content of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana. Under federal law, all cannabis plants fall under the marijuana label, regardless of THC content.

To grow marijuana for industri-al purposes or research, a grower must register with the DEA and meet specific security require-ments, such as installing costly fencing for a field of hemp.

A national non-profit group is

pushing to change current law and move regulation of hemp farming from the DEA to the state. In the meantime, the group, Vote Hemp, does not recommend growing hemp while state and federal laws conflict.

“It’s literally betting the farm,” said Tom Murphy, national out-reach co-ordinator for the group. Farmers who grow it, or even con-spire to grow it and import the seeds face jail time and the forfei-ture of their land, he said. But it’s unclear how seriously the DEA will enforce it.

Murphy said he’s heard that people have planted hemp on leased land in Colorado.

“Now if somebody chooses to do it as civil disobedience, know-ing full well what’s going to hap-pen, then that’s on them,” he said.

So far, 19 states have passed hemp legislation, including nine that allow its production. Eight states have passed bills calling for the study of hemp, while three states passed bills setting up com-missions or authorizing the study of it, according to Vote Hemp.

The states hope to nudge the federal government to change its law.

John Vitko would like to grow hemp on his Vermont farm to use as feed for his chickens now that Vermont has passed a law setting up rules to grow it. He doesn’t know where to find any seed and knows he would be breaking federal law if he finds some and grows a small amount of the plant.

With the cost of feed continu-ally rising, he said hemp provides an economical way to feed and provide bedding for his 100 birds, whose eggs are used in the cus-tard-based ice cream he sells to restaurants and in a dessert shop in Waitsfield.

“It’s one of the few things that are manageable for a small farmer to handle,” he said of hemp, which doesn’t require large equipment to plant and harvest like corn does.

“It’s complete protein,” he said. “It has all their amino acids. It’s a seed which birds like.”

Firstlawsuitin courtTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Noriko Uno was afraid of driving fast, often avoiding the freeway and taking the same route every day from her Upland home to and from her family’s sushi restaurant. She had put only 10,000 miles on her 2006 Camry in about four years.

So when her car un-expectedly acceler-ated to speeds up to 100 mph on a street with a posted limit of 30, the 66-year-old bookkeeper did everything she could to slow down, stepping on the brake pedal and pulling the emergency handle as she swerved to avoid hitting other ve-hicles.

Uno was killed when her car went onto a median and struck a telephone pole and a tree.

Her case is the first to go to trial in a proceed-ing that could determine whether Toyota Motor Corp. should be held lia-ble for sudden unintend-ed acceleration in its ve-hicles — a claim made by motorists that plagued the Japanese automaker and led to lawsuits, set-tlements and recalls of millions of its cars and SUVs.

Toyota has said there was no defect in Uno’s Camry.

The automaker has blamed such crashes on accelerators that got stuck, floor mats that trapped the gas pedal and driver error.

The company has settled some wrongful death cases and agreed to pay more than $1 bil-lion to resolve lawsuits where owners said the value of their vehicles plummeted after Toyo-ta’s recalls because of sudden-acceleration concerns.

The Uno trial, starting with jury selection Mon-day, is expected to last two months.

Vt., 8 other states clash with federal law over hemp cultivation;

FARMERS SEE LUCRATIVE CROP


In this Friday, July 12, 2013, photo, work continues at the crash site on in Lac-Megantic, Quebec of a train that derailed igniting tanker cars carrying crude oil that killed fifty people. U.S. and Canadian drillers are producing oil faster than new pipelines can be built. As a result, trains have become an unexpected yet vital way to move this bounty of energy from the continent’s midsection to refineries along the coasts. However, since the July 6 tragedy in Lac-Megantic, where a runaway train carrying 72 carloads of crude derailed and killed 50 people, there have been calls for tougher regulations, stronger rail cars and more pipelines.

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INVESTMENTS: Long-term goals

“This might help investors sleep at night, but it won’t help them meet their long-term investment goals. With exceedingly low interest rates, cash is providing little to no return and Cana-dians could be missing out on oppor-tunities to grow investments in their portfolios if they aren’t balanced, even more so if they are not aware of what’s in them.”

Holding as much in cash and GICs as growth investments such as stocks means your portfolio may not be prop-erly balanced, which can cause you to miss out on opportunities to grow your investments.

Putting too much money into cash and fixed income investments in a low-interest rate environment, like the current one, can actually mean your investments are moving backwards, when the impact of inflation over time is taken into account.

“Given the market’s performance recently, with stocks doing well and with the potential for rising interest rates in the future, we recommend investors review their portfolios, re-balance their mix of stocks and bonds and add quality investments that are poised to perform well today and over the long term,” Fehr advises.

Investors should be wary of being over-weighted in long-term bonds and instead move to medium-term bonds of six to 15 years, as the threat of rising interest rates is likely to impact future returns in the long term.

Fehr recommends younger inves-tors seeking greater returns should consider a portfolio mix of 65 per cent stocks and 35 per cent bonds, evolving to a 50/50 mix as they grow older and a greater emphasis on fixed income as they move into retirement.

He also recommends looking to in-vestments outside of Canada.

Seventy-five per cent of the Toronto Stock Exchange, for example, is made up of three major sectors: financial, energy and materials.

A good strategy is to look to global markets for greater diversification into other areas such as health care and technology.

“These are a small part of the Ca-nadian economy but big in the global market, so it’s not a bad idea to con-sider some international equities and investments,” Fehr said.

Fehr believes it’s not too early to start hedging against a future rise in interest rates.

“Investors should be wary of be-ing over-weighted in long-term bonds as the threat of rising interest rates is likely to impact future returns and look for high-quality dividend paying equities,” Fehr said. “Over the last 50 years, dividends have outpaced infla-tion.”

Many investors have never before seen or experienced current market conditions, and should look to a pro-fessional adviser for help.

Twenty per cent of investors in the survey admitted they didn’t know where they would be putting their money this year.

“Working with a financial adviser can help people choose the right in-vestments that fit their own individual needs,” Fehr said. “Good advice, qual-ity investments and a steady focus on your financial goals can help you make wise choices with your hard-earned money.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based busi-ness communications professional who has worked with national news organiza-tions, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

HEMP: Grown in the past

Hemp has been grown in the U.S. in the past to make rope, fabric and even the paper that used to draft the Declaration of Independence. The country even launched a “Hemp for Victory” campaign during World War II as supplies for other overseas fibers dwindled.

Now most hemp products in the U.S. are imported from Canada, China and Europe and some farmers think the U.S. is missing out on a lucrative crop.

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado was granted a request to fly an Ameri-can flag made of hemp over the capitol in Washington on the Fourth of July.

He held the flag during the U.S. House debate in over a hemp amend-ment to the farm bill that he intro-duced with Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon. The measure would have allowed colleges and universities to grow hemp for re-search in states where its cultivation is permitted.

The amendment passed but the farm bill failed.

“Support for our recent farm bill amendment demonstrated that there is growing consensus to revisit the an-tiquated drug laws that now keep U.S. farmers from participating in the $300 million hemp retail market,” Blume-nauer said.

“A hemp flag flown over the Capitol on the Fourth of July is a powerful symbol of this reform movement.”

The figure Blumenauer referenced comes from a Congressional Research Service report that says the indus-try estimates that U.S. retail sales of hemp-based products may exceed $300 million per year.

The bill that Democratic Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law last month is intended to push the fed-eral government to change its law after Canada reintroduced industrial hemp in the late 1990s.

“The reason we want to push for a

change is that hemp is potentially a valuable crop,” said Democratic Rep. Caroline Partridge, chairwoman of the Vermont House Committee on Agricul-ture and Forest Products.

“People want to grow it. Hemp oil is a valuable product, and there’s so much of the hemp plant that can be used for very, very productive pur-poses,”

The Vermont law sets up pro-cedures and policies for growing hemp. A grower must register with the state agriculture secretary and provide a statement that seeds used do not exceed a certain concentra-tion of THC.

The grower also must allow the hemp crops to be inspected and tested at the discretion of the Agriculture Agency, which warns growers that cul-tivating and possessing hemp in Ver-mont is a violation of federal law.

It’s too late this growing season in Vermont for Vitko to grow hemp, but he hopes to plant just an acre of the plant next spring if the rules are worked out.

“I’m going to be a little farmer that’s growing hemp, they’ve got bigger prob-lems than me,” he said of the DEA.

TOYOTA: Accused of making safety an option

“Toyota decided to make safety an option instead of a standard on their vehicles,” said attorney Garo Mardiro-ssian, who is representing Uno’s hus-band and son. “They decided to save a few bucks, and by doing so, it cost lives.”

The proceeding represents the first of the bellwether cases in state courts, which are chosen by a judge to help predict the potential outcome of other lawsuits making similar claims.

Other cases expected to go to trial in state courts this year include one in Oklahoma and another in Michigan. There are more than 80 similar cases filed in state courts.

The Toyota litigation has gone on parallel tracks in state and federal court with both sides agreeing to set-tlements so far.

A federal judge in Orange County is dealing with both wrongful death and economic loss lawsuits that have been consolidated.

He’s expected to give final approval to the economic loss settlement next week.

Federal lawsuits contend that Toy-ota’s electronic throttle control system was defective and caused vehicles to surge unexpectedly.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys have deposed Toyota employees, reviewed software code and pored over thousands of documents.

Toyota has denied the allegation and neither the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration nor NASA found evidence of electronic problems.

A trial in one of the lead cases is scheduled for November.

The Uno trial will likely focus on why Toyota didn’t have a mechanism to override the accelerator if the gas and brake pedals are pressed simul-taneously in Camrys sold in the U.S. The automaker put the brake override system in its European fleet, Mardiros-sian said.

Toyota said Uno’s vehicle was equipped with a “state-of-the-art” braking system and denied any defect played a role in her death.

“We are confident the evidence will show that a brake override sys-tem would not have prevented this accident and that there was no defect in Mrs. Uno’s vehicle,” the automaker said in a statement about the upcom-ing trial.

Legal observers said Uno’s attor-neys won’t necessarily have to prove what was wrong with the vehicle, but show that the accident could have been prevented with a brake override system.

“If the plaintiff succeeds in convinc-ing a jury it wasn’t human error, that it was attributed to the car, I think they have a strong case,” said Gregory Keat-ing, a law professor at the University of Southern California. “Jurors, as drivers, are likely to believe strongly that cars shouldn’t become uncontrol-lable in this way.”

It was nearly four years ago when Uno, who was out grocery shopping and depositing receipts from the res-taurant, died after her car went onto a median, struck a telephone pole and then hit a large tree.

Witnesses told police they saw Uno swerve to avoid hitting an oncoming truck, according to the lawsuit.

Mardirossian said Uno was a cau-tious driver and neither floor mats nor driver error were to blame.

He said witnesses heard the Camry engine racing and saw brake lights go-ing on and off. Pulling the handbrake had “zero effect,” Mardirossian said.

“Imagine her strapped into her Toy-ota Camry driving 100 mph knowing the next move would be fatal,” he said. “She saved many lives by veering off into that centre median knowing that death was near.”

That same day — Aug. 28, 2009 — off-duty California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Saylor and three family members were killed on a suburban San Diego freeway when their 2009 Lexus ES 350 reached speeds of more than 120 mph, struck a sport utility vehicle, launched off an embankment, rolled several times and burst into flames. A 911 call captured Saylor’s brother-in-law tell-ing the others to pray before the car crashed.

Toyota, which makes the luxury Lexus brand, agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the victims’ family for $10 mil-lion.

An inquiry into the crash led to re-calls of millions of Toyota vehicles. In-vestigators said a wrong-size floor mat trapped the accelerator and caused the accident.

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Retailers aim for balance over customers’ loyalty expectations

BY DAVID FRIEND

THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Canadian retailers have spent years weaning shoppers onto the concept of loyalty cards, and what was once considered an added perk is now putting pressure on the companies that run the programs.

Loyalty cards walk a fine line that can benefit both customers and drive revenues, but as many corporations have found over the years, a shopper who has fallen in love with their re-wards isn’t prepared to compromise much.

Last week, Loblaw learned that hard lesson when the grocer’s trum-peted $12.4-billion acquisition of Shop-pers Drug Mart (TSX:SC) was briefly eclipsed by concerns over the future of the pharmacy retailer’s popular Opti-mum rewards card.

Customers flooded social media with their fears that the Optimum pro-gram would evaporate and the atten-tion forced both the retailers to reas-sure customers that the rewards card wasn’t on deathwatch — for now.

The passionate reaction to the Optimum card showed that rewards programs are working, and can suc-cessfully create a brand loyalty that helps buck trends and downturns in the economy.

At the same time, customers who once saw rewards as a simple perk now feel they’re entitled to reap ben-efits for their loyalty.

Telecom giant Roger Communica-tions (TSX:RCI.B) is the next big com-pany to jump into the loyalty program game, an effort it hopes will keep cus-tomers from switching to rival carriers.

Under the program, wireless, cable, Internet and home phone clients will be able to earn points that can be re-deemed for rewards such as U.S. roam-ing packages, premium TV content and upgraded Internet packages.

Rogers launched the program ear-lier this month in Red Deer, and plans to roll it out across the country in stag-es throughout the rest of the year.

A study from industry group Collo-quy found that Canadian households belong to 8.2 loyalty programs on av-erage, and that includes companies ranging from gas station cards like Petro-Points and Esso Extra, the gro-cery card at Sobeys, Indigo’s Plum Rewards and Hudson’s Bay card HBC Rewards.

The Shoppers and Loblaw (TSX:L) incident isn’t the first time that a rela-tionship forged around loyalty points has nearly turned sour.

Other popular loyalty programs have faced their own backlash over the years as the fine print of points programs, or significant changes to the rules, left customers feeling short-changed.

“Canadians have grown up with them in many circumstances, so there’s almost an expectation,” said Kevin O’Brien, chief commercial officer at Aeroplan Canada.

Aeroplan is perhaps the most popu-lar rewards program that weathered a negative reaction from its customers after revealing changes. In 2006, the company said it would expire points that were unused for more than seven years.

The change was set to kick in this year, but Aeroplan retreated from its plan and said members would not lose their points provided they remain ac-tive in the program.

While the announcement was criti-cized by some users at the time, the fury appeared to die down for awhile, though that was before Aeroplan orga-nized focus groups to study customer reaction.

What executives found was that while some members had gone silent, they still weren’t happy with the revi-sions.

Aeroplan initially picked seven years for their rewards to expire be-cause it was double “the average life of a mile,” or the amount of time the points stayed unspent on an account.

“It was introduced to put some background pressure on people to look for redemption opportunities, so they didn’t just sit on a bunch of miles and let them build and build and never re-deem,” O’Brien said.

“But we discovered it’s not really that they don’t have an intention to redeem, it’s that sometimes people are saving up for something very spe-cific.”

Like all loyalty programs, unspent rewards points are essentially con-sidered a debt, and companies keep tally of how much it would cost if all of the points were to be cashed in at once.

Points competitor Air Miles fol-lowed a similar shift in early 2012 when it began to let points expire after five years.

The announcement went relatively unnoticed over the winter holiday sea-son, and though it was met with some negative reaction, the company hasn’t changed its mind.

“We’ve got collectors with miles sit-ting on our books for 20 years,” Neil Everett, executive vice-president and chief marketing officer for Air Miles, said in an interview at the time.

“As a result of that, it makes it very difficult as a program continues to grow to be able to basically plan your financials accurately. And as a result, we need to get better discipline in place.”

Movie exhibitor Cineplex (TSX:CGX) is learning about the challenges and benefits of its widely successful Scene program, which launched in 2007 and has quickly grown into one of the most popular loyalty cards in the country with 4.6 million members.

Cineplex chief executive Ellis Jacob said that unlike many loyalty cards, Scene has grown its customer base across broad demographics, with a large amount in the lucrative tar-get audience aged 18-34 years, with a nearly even split between males and females.

The points program, which the company developed with Scotiabank (TSX:BNS), has received plenty of at-tention, but it’s also starting to cost the company more money as consumers get smart about its loopholes.

Moviegoers who earn free movies can redeem the points for either regu-lar-priced movie tickets or films shown on their UltraAVX or Imax screens, which can cost nearly twice as much as a regular ticket. Those bigger sav-ings to the customer ultimately cost Cineplex.

“I know from the data we’re looking at, that’s a big problem,” Jacob said.

“I really want to leave it the way it is, but we have to be careful to what the eventual cost is... We don’t want to rush to fix it, but at some point it’s go-ing to get to where we may not have a choice.”


Canadian retailers have spent years weaning shoppers onto the concept of loyalty cards, and what was once considered an added perk that’s putting pressure on the companies that run the programs. Loyalty cards walk a fine line that can benefit both customers and drive revenues.

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Odour leads to grisly discovery


EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — Au-thorities responding to a report of a foul odour from a home discovered a body and arrested a registered sex of-fender who sent police and volunteers through a poor Ohio neighbourhood in a search for more victims, officials said Sunday.

East Cleveland Police Chief Ralph Spotts had cautioned searchers Sun-day to be prepared to find one or two more victims, but he declined to elabo-rate. But after a daylong search that in-cluded 40 abandoned houses and other areas, no more bodies were found.

Spotts identified the suspect as 35-year-old Michael Madison. He said Madison is expected to be formally charged Monday.

Mayor Gary Norton said the suspect has indicated he might have been in-fluenced by Cleveland serial killer An-thony Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 of murdering 11 women and sen-tenced to death.

It’s the latest in a series of high-pro-file cases involving the disappearance of women from the Cleveland area.

One body was found Friday in a ga-rage. Two others were found Saturday — one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house. The three female bodies, all wrapped in plastic bags, were found about 100 to 200 yards apart, and authorities be-lieved the victims were killed in the last six to 10 days.

Searchers rummaging through va-cant houses in the same neighbour-hood Sunday were warned by Spotts to brace themselves for the smell of rotting bodies and to look out for trash bags that might conceal a body. He declined to elaborate on his comments about the possible additional victims.

Spotts indicated later Sunday that the suspect’s comments haven’t pro-vided clarity on whether more bodies might be found.

“He really hasn’t stated that there’s any more, but he hasn’t said anything that would make us think that there’s not,” Spotts said.

Norton said authorities have “lots of reasons” to suspect there are more victims, but he refused to say why.

Norton said the suspect, who was arrested Friday after a police standoff,

has indicated to authorities he might have been influenced by Sowell.

“He said some things that led us to believe that in some way, shape, or form, Sowell might be an influence,” Norton told The Associated Press.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Madison has an attorney, and no one was commenting Sunday afternoon at the address he registered.

A report of a foul odour emanating from a home led police to the discov-ery of the first body, found in a garage, and to the suspect. Two other bodies were found nearby Saturday.

The bodies were each in the fetal position, wrapped in several layers of trash bags, Norton said. He said detec-tives continue to interview the sus-pect, who used his mother’s address in Cleveland in registering as a sex offender, the mayor said.

“The person in custody, some of the things he said to investigators made us go back today,” the mayor said Satur-day.

Cuyahoga County medical examiner Dr. Thomas P. Gilson said Sunday that the bodies were in advanced stages of decomposition and that it would take several days to identify them and how they died.

About three dozen volunteers, in-cluding community anti-crime activ-ists, fanned out Sunday morning across yards, through vacant houses and along a railroad to help police search. The chief advised them to watch for miss-ing floor boards as they looked inside houses. One young searcher crawled under a board screwed across a door to go inside a house to search.

“The MO of each body we’ve found so far was wrapped up in a lot of gar-bage bags, so if you see anything .... and it might not look like it’s a body, but it could be — because each bag, the way he had each person was in a fetal posi-tion,” Spotts told searchers before they began. “It didn’t look like a person could actually fit in the bag.”

Pam Butcher, 55, said she came out to help search her neighbourhood be-cause she was disturbed by the death and said she knew other volunteers were, too.

“They are concerned because it could have been one of their fam-ily members,” she said. “It could have been one of their kids. It could have

been one of their nieces. It could have been one of their aunts.”

One neighbour, Nathenia Crosby, said she was familiar with the suspect and had seen him walking through the neighbourhood. She said she had told him to stop chatting with her daughter and warned him after seeing him talk to her cousin.

“It’s very scary, especially when he used to be talking to my daughter,” said Crosby, 48. “But I told him he was too old to be talking to my daughter because she was only 19. When I found out how old he was, I said, ‘You need to move on, she’s too young.’ ”

The police, FBI, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Cuya-hoga County Sheriff’s Department went

through yards and abandoned houses over about three blocks Saturday and used dogs trained to find cadavers.

The neighbourhood in East Cleve-land, which has some 17,000 residents, has many abandoned houses and au-thorities want to be thorough, the may-or said.

“Hopefully, we pray to God, this is it,” he said.

It’s the third recent high-profile case in the Cleveland area that in-volves missing women.

In May, three women who separately vanished a decade ago were found cap-tive in a run-down house. Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver, has plead-ed not guilty to nearly 1,000 counts of kidnap, rape and other crimes.

POLICE ARREST SEX OFFENDER AFTER DISCOVERY OF THREE FEMALE BODIES IN GARBAGE BAGS,

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Sanautica Hicks-Ross searches an abandoned home Sunday, near where three bodies were found in East Cleveland, Ohio. Hicks-Ross is an East Cleveland resident. Police Chief Ralph Spotts told volunteers to check vacant houses in a neighborhood where three bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags that he believes there could be one or two more victims.

U.S. fighters drop unarmed bombs into Great Barrier Reef in air emergency


CANBERRA, Australia — Two American fighter jets dropped four unarmed bombs into Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park last week when a training exercise went wrong, the U.S. Navy said, angering environ-mentalists.

The two AV-8B Harrier jets launched from the aircraft carrier USS Bonhomme Richard each jettisoned an inert practice bomb and an unarmed laser-guided explosive bomb into the World Heritage-listed marine park off the coast of Queensland state on Tues-day, the U.S. 7th Fleet said in a state-ment Saturday.

Commander William Marks, spokes-man for the 7th Fleet, said the emer-gency jettison was made in consulta-tion with Australian officials.

“There is minimal environmental impact,” Marks told Australian Broad-casting Corp. radio on Monday. “It is a safe situation for the environment, for shipping, for navigation.”

The four bombs, weighing a total of 900 kilograms (2,000 pounds), were dropped into more than 50 metres (164 feet) of water away from coral to mini-mize possible damage to the reef, the statement said. None exploded.

The jets from the 31st Marine Expe-ditionary Unit had intended to drop the ordnances on the Townshend Is-land bombing range, but aborted the mission when controllers reported the area was not clear of hazards, the statement said.

“There were civilian boats right be-low them,” Marks said.

The pilots conducted the emergency jettison because they were low on fuel and could not land with their bomb load, the Navy said.

The emergency happened on the second day of the biennial joint train-ing exercise Talisman Saber, which brings together 28,000 U.S. and Aus-tralian military personnel over three weeks.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were working with Australian author-ities to investigate the incident, the Navy said.

Australian Sen. Larissa Waters, the influential Greens party’s spokes-woman on the Great Barrier Reef, de-scribed the dumping of bombs in such an environmentally sensitive area as “outrageous” and said it should not be allowed.

“Have we gone completely mad?” she told ABC. “Is this how we look af-ter our World Heritage area now? Let-ting a foreign power drop bombs on it?”

Graeme Dunstan, who is among the environmentalists and anti-war activ-ists demonstrating against the joint exercises, said the mishap proved that the U.S. military could not be trusted to protect the environment.

“How can they protect the environ-ment and bomb the reef at the same time? Get real,” Dunstan said from the Queensland coastal town of Yeppoon, near where the war games are taking place.

The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest network of coral structures, is rich in marine life and stretches more than 3,000 kilometres (1,800 miles) along Australia’s northeast coast.

Mortar rounds fired by Syrian troops slam into town market

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A M M A N , J o r d a n — Government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria on Sun-day, killing at least 20 civilians, activist groups said.

The mortar shells struck the town of Ari-ha, which is held mostly by opposition fighters, a few hours ahead of iftar, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Co-ordination Committees, two opposition groups tracking the violence in Syria, said at least 20 people were killed in-cluding two children and two women. It was not immediately clear what triggered the shelling.

Also Sunday, state media said government forces killed nearly 50 rebels in an ambush near Damascus.

Separately, Kurd-ish rebels freed the lo-cal commander of an al-Qaida-linked group in a town near Syria’s north-ern border with Turkey in return for 300 Kurd-ish civilians detained by the group, as part of an agreement to end rebel infighting that erupted a day earlier in the region.

The commander in the town of Tal Abyad, who is known as Abu Musaab, was captured during intense fight-ing between the Islamic State in Iraq and the Le-vant and Kurdish mili-tants late Saturday, the

Observatory said. The Is-lamic fighters retaliated by rounding up civilians believed to be relatives of the Kurdish fighters to hold as bargaining chips.

Infighting between al-Qaida militants and more mainstream Syr-ian rebels, as well as be-tween Kurds and Arabs, has grown more common in Syria in recent weeks — part of a power strug-gle that is undermining their efforts to topple President Bashar Assad.

Kurdish gunmen have been fighting to expel al-Qaida militants — many of whom are for-eign fighters — from the northeastern province of Hassakeh over the past week. More than 60 fighters have been killed from both sides, accord-ing to activists.

On Saturday evening, the fighting spread to Tal Abyad, which is located in neighbouring Raqqa province near the Turk-ish border.

The inter-rebel clash-es, along with the efforts by extremist foreign fighters to impose their strict interpretation of Islam in areas they con-trol, are chipping away at the opposition’s popu-larity at a time when the Assad regime is making significant advances on the ground.

In recent weeks, As-sad’s troops have seized the momentum in the civil war, now in its third year. His forces have been on offensive against rebels on several fronts, including in the north.

Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said Abu Musaab was seized by Kurdish fight-

ers late Saturday during clashes between the two sides. That prompted the al-Qaida militants to ar-rest hundreds of Kurdish residents in retaliation. He said Kurdish rebels freed Abu Musaab Sun-day following mediation for a cease-fire and an agreement that the mili-tants would release 300 civilian Kurds in ex-change. The fighting sub-sided Sunday.

Kurds, the largest ethnic minority in Syria, make up more than 10 per cent of the country’s 23 million people. Their loyalties in the conflict are split between the two sides. Most Kurds live in the poor northeast-ern regions of Hassakeh and Qamishli, wedged in between the borders of Turkey and Iraq. Da-mascus and Aleppo also have several predomi-nantly Kurdish neigh-bourhoods.

More than 93,000 people have been killed since the Syria uprising started in March 2011, according to the United Nations. It escalated into a civil war after opposi-tion supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown.

In the northeastern suburbs of Damascus, re-gime forces killed scores of rebels in an ambush early Sunday.

State-run news agen-cy SANA did not give a number but said the army in Adra “eliminat-ed a number of terror-ist members of Jabhat al-Nusra trying to infil-trate” suburbs near the capital, a reference to an al-Qaida affiliated rebel group.

AT LEAST 30 KILLED


TOLUCA, Mexico — A pipeline explosion Sun-day that injured seven people and sent flames and smoke shooting hun-dreds of feet into the air in central Mexico was caused by illegal tapping, Mexico’s state-owned oil company said.

The pre-dawn explo-

sion in a farm field in-jured four police officers and three firefighters among those called to the scene by a report of an oil leak.

Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, issued a state-ment on its Twitter ac-count blaming the blast on an attempt to steal oil with an illicit tap. The supply of crude oil through the pipeline was

immediately suspended, it said.

The explosion in To-nanitla in central Mexi-co state did not threaten any of the area’s commu-nities, Mexico state Gov. Eruviel Avila said via Twitter. There were no evacuations.

An oil leak was first reported about 3:35 a.m. and the explosion oc-curred at 4 a.m., said Francisco Ventura of the Tecamac municipal po-lice.

MEXICO EXPLOSION


BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos promised decisive retaliation Sunday after Colombia’s main rebel band killed 19 soldiers in a single day in the biggest blow to the military since peace talks began in November.

Santos travelled to Arauca state on the Venezuelan border, where 15 mem-bers of an army battalion that guards

oil facilities were killed in an ambush Saturday. The other four soldiers killed in combat Saturday died in the town of Doncello in the southern state of Caqueta, a traditional stronghold of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The attacks fell on Colom-bia’s independence day.

The rebels, known by their Spanish initials FARC, had sought a cease-fire when peace talks launched in Havana in November but Santos refused. From 1999 to 2002, the government granted the FARC a Switzerland-sized safe ha-ven in the country’s south for peace talks that failed.


BEIJING — A strong earthquake struck a moderately populated part of western China on Monday morning, killing at least 11 people and injuring 81, according to the local government.

The quake hit near the city of Dingxi in Gan-su province, a region of mountains, desert and pastureland with a popu-lation of 26 million. That makes it one of China’s more lightly populated provinces, although the Dingxi area has a greater concentration of farms and towns with a total population of about 2.7 million.

The deaths and in-juries were reported in Min County and other rural southern parts of Dingxi municipality, the

provincial government said in a statement post-ed on its official microb-log.

Residents described shaking windows and swinging lights but little major damage and little panic.

Shaking was felt in the provincial capital of Lanzhou 177 kilometres (110 miles) north, and as far away as Xi’an, 400 kilometres (250 miles) to the east.

“You could see the chandeliers wobble and the windows vibrating and making noise, but there aren’t any cracks in the walls. Shop as-sistants all poured out onto the streets when the shaking began,” said a front desk clerk at the Wuyang Hotel in the Zhang County seat about 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the epicenter. The

clerk surnamed Bao re-frained from identify-ing herself further, as is common among ordinary Chinese.

The government’s earthquake monitoring centre said the initial quake at 7:45 a.m. (2345 GMT Sunday) was magni-tude-6.6 and subsequent tremors included a mag-nitude-5.6.

The quake was shal-low, which can be more destructive. The centre said it struck about 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) beneath the surface, while the Gansu provin-cial earthquake admin-istration said it was just 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) deep.

The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude of the ini-tial quake as 5.9 and the depth at 10 kilometres (6 miles).


ATLANTA — What is the most valu-able fruit crop produced in the Peach State?

This is not a trick question, but you may want to pause a second before answering.

Ready? It’s the blueberry.Georgia is famous as a major pro-

ducer of the peach, the fuzzy succu-lent orange fruit whose image appears on state license plates, “welcome to Georgia” billboards and on road signs. When driving in the capital city of Atlanta, you can pass the corner of Peachtree Street and Peachtree Cen-ter Avenue, just one block from West Peachtree Street.

There’s just one problem: Blueber-ries are Georgia’s most lucrative fruit crop, by far. In a little-noticed develop-ment, the value of blueberry produc-tion in Georgia beat the peach crop in 2005 — and the gap has grown even bigger since then, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture surveys.

Blueberries generated an estimat-ed $94 million for Georgia growers in 2012, meaning the blueberry crop was more than three times as valuable as the nearly $30 million peach crop.

“It’s surprising around the country how many people don’t realize Georgia grows blueberries,” said Joe Corne-lius, chairman of the Georgia Blue-berry Commission and a farmer who grows about 170 acres of the crop. He refuses to gloat about surpassing his fellow peach farmers.

“I don’t foresee Georgia changing to the blueberry state.”

Analysts and growers say a combi-nation of supply-and-demand econom-ics coupled with a good growing envi-ronment propelled blueberries from a tiny crop to a profitable niche that dwarfs the famed peach.

Blueberries used to make up a rela-tively small percentage of the state’s fruit crop. But major blueberry pro-ducers, particularly in Michigan, were searching for ways to get berries on the supermarket shelves earlier in the year.

They signed deals with growers in Georgia since the state starts harvest-ing its berries in April, ahead of other producers except Florida and Califor-nia, said Scott NeSmith, a horticultur-ist at the University of Georgia who

studies blueberries.Other climate factors help, too.

While blueberry-killing frosts are pos-sible in Georgia, they are not frequent.

Celebrated by physicians and nutri-tionists for their antioxidant qualities, blueberries have grown greatly in de-mand among health-conscious consum-ers. Farmers say it greatly expanded the public’s appetite for the berry.

Average prices have jumped from 48 cents a pound in 1993 to $1.34 in 2012, and the growth was among one of the main factors prompting farmers to plant larger and larger numbers of blueberry bushes.

It only takes three or four years for the bushes to reach full production. Since prices hit a peak in 2007, many of the new blueberry fields planted by farmers seeking lucrative prices are now entering full production. And as supply has increased, prices have de-creased.

“We’re probably nearing the peak, I feel,” said Bradley Vickers, 28, a blue-berry farmer from rural Nashville, Ga. “I hope it continues to be profitable for my sake and everyone else’s.”

Another reason blueberries have proliferated to such a degree is that Georgia farmers are searching for al-ternatives to traditional Southern row crops such as tobacco and timber.

Tobacco production has trailed off as Americans smoke less, and the tim-ber industry took a big hit when the Great Recession slowed home build-ing.

Vickers is one of those farmers. As of now, he still makes more money from tobacco, and sometimes cotton and peanuts. But he thinks blueberries probably have better long-term pros-pects than tobacco.

“If they begin to go down —and to-bacco is probably one of those things — I have something to replace that, in case we need it,” he said.

Georgia is not the biggest U.S. peach producer, and is regularly beat by Cal-ifornia and neighbouring South Caro-lina. Its reputation for peaches was always one part reality and one part marketing.

The Civil War left the Southern economy in ruins and ended slavery, which meant it was no longer possible for white farmers to produce cotton and other labour-intensive cash crops with cheap slave labour.

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Valuable goods in old tailing pilesBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Across the West, early miners digging for gold, silver and copper had no idea that one day something else very valu-able would be buried in the piles of dirt and rocks they tossed aside.

There’s a rush in the U.S. to find key components of cell-phones, televisions, weapons systems, wind turbines, MRI machines and the regenera-tive brakes in hybrid cars, and old mine tailings piles just might be the answer.

They may contain a group of versatile minerals the pe-riodic table called rare earth elements.

“Uncle Sam could be sitting on a gold mine,” said Larry Meinert, director of the min-eral resource program for the U.S. Geological Survey in Res-ton, Va.

The USGS and Department of Energy are on a nationwide scramble for deposits of the elements that make magnets lighter, bring balanced hues to fluorescent lighting and colour to the touch screens of smartphones in order to break the Chinese stranglehold on those supplies.

They were surprised to find that the critical elements could be in plain sight in piles of rubble otherwise consid-ered eyesores and toxic waste. One era’s junk could turn out to be this era’s treasure.

“Those were almost never analyzed for anything other than what they were mining for,” Meinert said. “If they turn out to be valuable that is a win-win on several fronts — getting us off our dependence on China and having a re-source we didn’t know about.”

The 15 rare earth elements were discovered long after the gold rush began to wane, but demand for them only took off over the past 10 years as elec-tronics became smaller and more sophisticated. They be-gin with number 57 Lantha-num and end with 71 Lutetium, a group of metallic chemical

elements that are not rare as much as they are just difficult to mine because they occur in tiny amounts and are often stuck to each other.

Unlike metals higher up on the table such as silver and gold, there’s no good agent for dissolving elements so close-ly linked in atomic structure without destroying the target. It makes mining for them te-dious and expensive.

“The reason they haven’t been explored for in the U.S. was because as long as Chi-na was prepared to export enough rare earths to fill the demand, everything was fine — like with the oil car-tels. When China began to use them as a political tool, people began to see the vulnerabil-ity to the U.S. economy to hav-ing one source of rare earth elements,” said Ian Ridley, director of the USGS Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center in Colorado.

Two years ago, China raised prices — in the case of Neo-dymium, used to make Prius electric motors stronger and lighter, from $15 a kilogram in 2009 to $500 in 2011, while Dysprosium oxide used in la-sers and halide lamps went from $114 a kilogram in 2010 to $2,830 in 2011.

It’s also about the time Chi-na cut off supplies to Japan, maker of the Prius, in a dis-pute over international fishing territory.

That’s when the U.S. gov-ernment went into emergency mode and sent geologists to hunt for new domestic sourc-es.

“What we have is a clash of supply and demand. It’s a global problem. A growing middle class around the world means more and more people want things like cellphones,” said Alex King, director of the Critical Materials Institute of the Department of Energy’s Ames Research Lab in Iowa. “Our job is to solve the prob-lem any way we can.”

At the University of Ne-vada-Reno and University of Colorado school of mines,

USGS scientists used lasers to examine extensive samples of rocks and ore collected across the West during the gold rush days by geologists from Stan-ford University and Cal Tech.

“If we could recycle some of this waste and get something out of it that was waste years ago that isn’t waste today, that certainly is a goal,” said Alan Koenig, the USGS scientist in charge of the tailings project.

One sample collected in 1870 from an area near Sparks, Nev., where miners had searched for a viable copper vein, has shown promise and has given researchers clues in the search for more. They have found that some rare earths exist with minerals they had not previously known occur together.

“The copper mine never went into production, but now after all of this time we’ve ana-lyzed it and it came back high with Indium, which is used in photovoltaic panels. It never

economically produced cop-per, but it gives us insight into some associations we didn’t previously recognize,” Koenig said.

Indium also has been found in the defunct copper mine that dominates the artsy south-ern Arizona town of Bisbee.

Koenig and his colleagues are working to understand the composition of all of the na-tion’s major deposits sampled over the past 150 years. In some cases, the mines were depleted of gold or copper, but the rocks left piled alongside mines and pits could hold a modern mother lode.

“We’re revisiting history,” he said.

They are compiling data from 2,500 samples to better understand whether it’s pos-sible to predict where rare earths might be hiding based on the presence of other ele-ments there, too.

“If I had to venture a num-ber, I’d say we have found sev-

eral dozen new locations that are elevated in one or more critical metals,” Koenig said. “With this project the goal would be to have this large data base available that would allow us to predict and to form new associations.”

Currently there is only one U.S. mine producing rare earths— at Mountain Pass in the Southern California des-ert. Molycorp Inc.’s goal in re-opening the defunct mine is 20,000 metric tons of rare earth elements by this summer, in-cluding cerium oxide used to polish telescope lenses and other glass.

The USGS is counting on companies like Molycorp to use the information they’ve gleaned to uncover other easy-to-reach deposits sitting on federal land and elsewhere.

“Without rare earths we’d be back to having black-and-white cellphones again,” said the USGS’s Ridley.

Peach no longer king of Georgia’s fruit hill

GEOLOGISTS MINING OLD WESTERN U.S. TAILING PILES FOR MINERALS TO BUILD SMARTPHONES


A mining haul truck carries waste rock at the Kennecott Utah Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in April in Bingham Canyon, Utah.

Strong earthquake hits western China

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Rule changes didn’t reduce concussionsBY HELEN BRANSWELL

THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A recent NHL rule change designed to cut down on the number of concussions in the league hasn’t made a difference, a new study suggests.

The research suggests the rule, which outlawed bodychecks aimed at the head and checking from a player’s blind side, has not led to lower concus-sion rates among pro hockey players since it came into force in the 2010-11 season.

The senior author of the work said the league should take another crack at the rule change, noting that as it stands the wording is too subjective and gives referees leeway not to en-force it.

“If player safety is the prime prior-ity of the NHL in bringing this kind of rule in ... then they need to relook at this in a very serious way and adjust things,” said Dr. Michael Cusimano, a neurosurgeon who heads the injury prevention research unit at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital.

“If it isn’t a priority, I could see them just leaving things the way they are and it’s kind of a Band-Aid re-sponse to a major problem.”

The NHL did not respond Wednes-day to a request for comment on the article. And the NHL Players’ Asso-ciation declined to comment because it hadn’t had a chance to review the study.

But another concussion expert ap-plauded the work, saying Cusimano and his team had performed a service by exploring the impact of the rule change.

Dr. Charles Tator, a brain surgeon with Toronto Western Hospital, said the change’s lack of impact has an ef-fect not just in the arenas of the Na-tional Hockey League, but on rinks where kids who dream of making it to the NHL some day emulate their pro-fessional heroes.

“Professional hockey is still a bad influence on the amateurs,” said Tator, who is project leader for the Canadian Sports Concussion Project at the Krem-bil Neuroscience Centre.

The study was published Wednes-day in the journal PLoS One.

Cusimano and colleagues painstak-ingly put together data on reports of concussions and suspected concus-sions — based on reports of symptoms — from a variety of sources. Some of the information came from teams, oth-ers from media reports.

The information was gathered for both the NHL and the Ontario Hockey League, which has stricter rules on checks to the head than the NHL does. The OHL rule penalizes any hit to the head of another player, intentional or unintentional.

The data showed that there was no statistical significance in the incidence of concussions in the NHL in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons compared to the 2009-10 season. That latter was the year before the NHL rule change went into effect.

The researchers estimated there were about 5.23 concussions per 100 games in the NHL regular season. De-spite its stiffer rule, the OHL didn’t have markedly different concussion rates, clocking 5.05 per 100 games in the regular season.

The analysis also showed that the type of hits outlawed by the NHL rule weren’t actually the major cause of concussions.

About 28 per cent of interactions produced a concussion also generated a penalty call, said Cusimano. In that 28 per cent, the bulk of the penalties were for fighting. “And blindsiding, which was what the rule was initially was written about, was only 4.1 per cent of all those.... But four per cent of 28 per cent is a very small number.”

“I wasn’t totally surprised, but I was disappointed that we weren’t able to show a difference,” Cusimano said.

“Part of it’s the way the rule’s writ-ten. Part of it’s the way the rule is en-forced. Part of it’s the penalties asso-ciated with the rule. And part of it is that concussions are also coming from other causes like fighting, that is still allowed.”

The way the NHL rule is worded gives referees outs to avoid levying penalties for some of the hits, for in-stance in cases where players are deemed to have put themselves in a vulnerable position.

“So it’s like his fault, because he put himself into a vulnerable position. And this highlights one of the major problems in sport and particularly in hockey these days. We victimize the victim even more, rather than looking at the game and the system and saying: ’What can we do to reduce these inju-

ries?”’ Cusimano said.He suggested that if the league

wants to get serious about protect-ing players, it has to raise the cost of concussion-inducing hits, both on the player who inflicts the injury, and on the team which sent him out to do it.

If the player who sidelined Pitts-burgh Penguin captain Sidney Crosby for a year was forced to spend as much time off the ice for the injury, the cul-ture of teams might start to change, Cusimano suggested.

“If there were more severe conse-quences to those who inflict that kind

of injury — let’s say that player was out for an equal amount of time as Crosby — that might have more impact,” he said.

Tator estimated that hockey has moved only about 10 per cent of the way down the path it would need to take to make the game safe for ama-teurs and professionals.

“In terms of injury prevention, it isn’t enough to enact regulations,” he said. “The other half of the coin is enforcement. And if you really aren’t strictly enforcing a rule, the rule is go-ing to be ineffective.”

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A recent NHL rule change designed to cut down on the number of concussions in the league hasn’t made a difference, a new study suggests. The research suggests the rule, which outlawed bodychecks aimed at the head and checking from a player’s blind side, has not led to lower concussion rates among pro hockey players since it came into force in the 2010-11 season.


ATLANTA — If you’re 65 and liv-ing in Hawaii, here’s some good news: Odds are you’ll live another 21 years. And for all but five of those years, you’ll likely be in pretty good health.

Hawaii tops the charts in the gov-ernment’s first state-by-state look at how long Americans age 65 can expect to live, on average, and how many of those remaining years will be healthy ones.

Retirement-age Mississippians fared worst, with only about 17 ½ more years remaining and nearly seven of them in poorer health.

U.S. life expectancy has been grow-ing steadily for decades, and is now nearly 79 for newborns. The figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention es-timate life expectancy for people 65 years old, and what portion will be free of the illnesses and disabilities suffered late in life.

“What ultimately matters is not just the length of life but the quality of life,” said Matt Stiefel, who oversees population health research for Kaiser Permanente.

The World Health Organization keeps “healthy life expectancy” statis-tics on nearly 200 countries, and the numbers are used to determine the most sensible ages to set retirement and retirement benefits.

But the measure is still catching on in the United States; the CDC study is the first to make estimates for all 50 states.

Overall, Americans who make it to 65 have about 19 years of life ahead of them, including nearly 14 in relatively good health, the CDC estimated.

But the South and parts of the Mid-

west clearly had lower numbers. That’s not a surprise, experts said.

Southern states tend to have high-er rates of smoking, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and a range of other ill-nesses. They also have problems that affect health, like less education and more poverty.

These are issues that build up over a lifetime, so it’s doubtful that moving to Hawaii after a lifetime in the South will suddenly give you more healthy years, they said.

After Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia and Alabama had the lowest numbers for both life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.

States with the best numbers in-cluded Florida — a magnet for healthy retirees — as well as Connecticut and Minnesota.

The estimates were made using 2007 through 2009 data from the cen-sus, death certificates and telephone surveys that asked people to describe their health.

The CDC’s Paula Yoon cautioned not to make too much of the differenc-es between states. Results could have been swayed, for example, by how peo-ple in different states interpreted and answered the survey questions.

Other findings:— Nationally, women at 65 can ex-

pect nearly 15 more years of healthy life. Men that age can expect about 13 years.

— Blacks fared much worse than whites. They could expect 11 years of healthy life, compared to more than 14 for whites.

The CDC report makes “painfully clear” the disparities in the health of whites and blacks in their final years, said Ellen Meara, a health economist at Dartmouth College.

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DELGADO HONOURED

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Carlos Delgado is now officially one of the Toronto Blue Jays’ greats. The former slugger was inducted into the club’s Level of Excellence at Rogers Centre ahead of Sunday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Delgado joins former players Dave Stieb, Roberto Alomar, Tony Fernandez, Joe Carter and George Bell, along with former manager Cito Gaston, former general manager Pat Gillick, late broadcaster Tom Cheek and current president and CEO Paul Beeston in being honoured by the club. The 41-year-old Delgado was a member of the Blue Jays from 1993 to 2004 and is the franchise leader in home runs (336), RBIs (1,058), walks (827), slugging percentage (.556), OPS (.949), runs (889), total bases (2,786) and doubles (343).

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Today● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone & Granite vs. The Hideout, Great Chief 1; Printing Place vs. Gary Moe Volkswagen, Great Chief 2, 6:30 p.m.● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Eckville, 7 p.m.● Women’s rugby: Red Deer Titans, vs. Calgary Saracens, 8 p.m., Titans Park.

Tuesday● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite vs. North Star Sports, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief 2.● Ladies fastball: Red Deer League final, first game best-of-three, TNT vs. N. Jensen’s, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park.● Senior baseball: Red Deer Riggers vs. St. Albert Tigers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Wednesday● Junior golf: McLennan Ross/Sun Tour, Olds.Bantam AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves vs. St. Albert, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Lacombe, 7 p.m.

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Wood rolls to record

BY CARSON PAPKE

ADVOCATE STAFF

When the dust settled from this year’s Red Deer Motors North American Pony Chuck-wagon Championships it was a familiar face that won it for the record eighth time.

Keith Wood in the Uncle Ben’s RV rig was the leader heading into Sunday’s final heat and went wire-to-wire for

the best time on the final day for the win and the top prize at Westerner Park. The victory also moved him past Jim Pollitt for the most titles at the event.

“It is hard to put into words but thank God everything went nice,” said Wood who ran a 1:17.07 for a combined time of 6:26.30 during the five-day event.

“It’s very special for me as there have been some great

drivers come through here like Jim Pollitt who is a legend in the sport. I have never raced with him but heard great things about him. I’m just glad to be able to have put some good runs together here over the years.”

Wood added that there are some great young drivers com-ing up in the sport and one of those was his son Curtis Wood in the C4Ever Consulting wagon who he was battling all week.

Curtis was in second place heading into the final heat. A tough start dropped Curtis back to third after running a 1:19.11 and finishing with a total time of 6:29.72.

Keith said there was no ri-valry and he told Curtis to ‘go for it’ and that these types of chances don’t come often.

“There’s some luck getting through the five days and if you get to the final you just have to give it your all,” said Keith.

Keith also couldn’t take all the credit as he had some good horses that were able to come from behind and close the gap in every race this week which were able to eventually carry them to a win.

The second best time on the afternoon went to Curtis Hogg in the Kellough Enterprises wagon who sat third going into the final heat and finished sec-ond overall after a 1:17.12 clock-ing for a total time of 6:27.12. Fourth overall with a time of 6:31.47 was defending cham-pion Gary Thiel in the Pumps and Pressure rig after finishing third in the final heat with a time of 1:17.66.

Finishing fifth was Jack Stott and the Rai-Lynn Trucking wag-on with a time of 6:31.96. Wade Salmond and his Nossack Fine Meats rig took sixth with a time of 6:33.05 while Louis Johner and the Wei’s Western Wear wagon had a time of 6:33.91 for seventh.

Eighth was the A-1 Rentals wagon driven by Lee Adam-son who finished with a time of 6:33.94. Rene Salmond and the Paradise RV wagon got ninth place with a time of 6:34.44.

Rounding out the top ten was Marvin Hubl on the Eldorado Pressure Services rig finishing at 6:34.82.

Photo by CARSON PAPKE/Advocate staff

Keith Wood pumps his fist as he crosses the finish line in the final heat of the North American Pony Chuckwagon Championships at Westerner Park, Sunday. Wood won this year’s competition to pass Jim Pollitt for the most wins at the event with eight.

Ticats get rocked in Regina

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Roughriders 37 Tiger-Cats 0

REGINA — Rey Wil-liams promised Ham-ilton Tiger-Cats head coach Kent Austin a big game.

Sunday he delivered, but he was hardly alone.

Williams had two of the Roughriders’ five sacks, Rob Bagg caught for two touchdowns, and Darian Durant threw four TDs on 347 yards passing as Saskatchewan spoiled Austin’s return to Regina with a 37-0 win over the Ticats.

“Any time you play your old team and you don’t leave on the best of terms you want to go there and you want to embarrass them, and we were able to do that tonight,” said Williams, who was cut by the Ti-ger-Cats in February af-ter two seasons in Ham-ilton.

Saskatchewan (4-0) re-mains the only undefeat-ed team in the CFL while the Ticats (1-3) dropped into a three-way tie for last in the East Division.

The game was Aus-tin’s first in Saskatche-wan since coaching the

Riders to the 2007 Grey Cup.

A u s t i n l e f t t h e Roughriders after the championship win and spent five years in the U.S. college ranks before signing on as Hamilton’s head coach and general manager in December.

“We’ve got to look at our lineup,” he said. “Like I told the coaches, it’s going to start with us. We’ve got to figure out what our guys can do well and only ask them to do that because there’s some things we just aren’t good enough to do.”

Williams returned to the Roughriders, with whom he played his first three CFL seasons, after the Ticats released him and, in the lead-up to Sunday’s game, pledged to make Austin look bad.

He delivered by sack-ing Burris on Hamilton’s first drive of the third and fourth quarters, putting an exclamation point on a sparkling day for the Riders’ defence, which also forced three first-half turnovers.

“They have problems over there and next week when they see us we’re going to try to do the same thing,” said Wil-

liams, whose team will travel to Hamilton for a rematch in Week 5 on July 27. The game was big in other ways for Sas-katchewan as well.

Big as in 310-pound offensive lineman Dan Clark, who lined up as a tight end and caught the first touchdown of his career on an eight-yard pass from Durant to end the third quarter.

“It’s an unbelievable experience,” said Clark, who was mauled by his teammates after the catch and gave the ball to his father after the game. “I never thought in 10 years of football that I’d be catching the ball in the end zone in the CFL.”

The Riders also over-came a big mental hur-dle, after last year’s team also opened 3-0 only to drop five straight games en route to an 8-10 finish.

S a s k a t c h e w a n — ranked seventh in yards allowed entering Sun-day’s game — held the Ticats to 161 yards of net offence, forced them to punt 11 times and also got sacks from Craig But-ler, Jermaine McElveen and Ricky Foley.

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Mickelson dazzles to claim first British OpenBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GULLANE — One of the greatest final rounds in a major. Two of the best shots he ever struck with a 3-wood. The third leg of the Grand Slam.

Phil Mickelson never imag-ined any of this happening at the British Open.

No wonder he never took his hand off the base of that silver claret jug as he talked about the best Sunday he ever had at a major. Five shots out of the lead, Mickelson blew past Tiger Woods, caught up to Lee West-wood and Masters champion Adam Scott, and won golf’s old-est championship with the low-est final round in his 80 majors.

With four birdies over the

last six holes, Mickelson closed with a 5-under 66 for a three-shot win over Henrik Stenson.

No longer is he mystified by links golf, and he has his name etched in that jug to prove it.

“This is such an accomplish-ment for me because I just nev-er knew if I’d be able to develop the game to play links golf ef-fectively,” Mickelson said. “To play the best round arguably of my career, to putt better than I’ve ever putted, to shoot the round of my life ... it feels amaz-ing to win the claret jug.”

Introduced as the “champion golfer of the year,” he held the oldest trophy in golf over his head to show it off to one side of the massive grandstand lining the 18th green at Muirfield, and then the other. An hour earlier,

they gave the 43-year-old Mick-elson the loudest ovation of the week as he walked up the final fairway.

He drained an 8-foot birdie putt and thrust his arms in the air, hugged caddie Jim “Bones” Mackay and whispered to him, “I did it.” After signing for the lowest final round ever at Muir-field, Mickelson huddled with his wife and three children — back from a quick holiday to Spain — for a long embrace and waited for the others to finish.

Westwood, who started the day with a two-shot lead, fell behind for the first time all day with a bogey on the par-3 13th hole and never recovered, clos-ing with a 75.

Scott took the outright lead with a 4-foot birdie on the

11th, and then closed as slop-pily as he did last year when he threw away the Open at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He made four straight bogeys starting at the 13th, and a final bogey on the 18th gave him a 72. At least he has a green jacket from the Master to console him.

Woods, in his best position to win a major since the crisis in his personal life, stumbled badly on his way to a 74 and was never a serious challenger.

“We know that he goes for broke, and if that’s how he was feeling and pulling it off, he’s got the ability to do that,” Scott said about Mickelson. “And he’s gone and won an Open easily. So every credit to him.”

ROUGHRIDERS STAY UNDEFEATED AFTER SHUTOUT WIN OVER TIGER-CATS

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Saskatchewan Roughriders offensive lineman Dan Clark celebrates a touchdown against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats during the third quarter of CFL football action at Mosaic Stadium on Sunday, in Regina.

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Harris leads Lions over EskimosBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lions 31 Eskimos 21VANCOUVER — Andrew Harris and the rest of

the B.C. Lions saved their best for the second half Saturday night.

Harris ran for three touchdowns, including two in the final 30 minutes, and Emmanuel Arceneaux scored on a 77-yard passing play early in the third quarter as the Lions beat the Edmonton Eskimos 31-21.

Harris scored three rushing touchdowns for the first time in his CFL career.

“It’s huge for me,” said Harris. “But at the same time, it’s all about the team and getting the win.”

The Lions (3-1) swept the home-and-home series with the Eskimos (1-3) after downing them a week earlier in Edmonton.

“I’m just happy to get the win especially against a Western opponent (in) back-to-back games,” said Harris. “I thought we played well. We were consis-tent, we sustained drives and when we needed to run the clock down at the end there, the (offensive) line played amazing.”

Arceneaux’s spectacular touchdown broke a 10-10 tie and sent the Lions on to victory. The Lions bet-tered the Eskimos in the final 30 minutes for the sec-ond straight game after trailing at half-time a week earlier.

“Just coming out in the third quarter, it was the same situation as last week,” said Eskimos quarter-back Mike Reilly, who completed 12 of 20 passes for a modest 152 yards.

“It turned over into half-time. Generally, when that happens, whoever comes out (strong) in the third quarter, and sets the tempo and sets the tone for the game, is gonna be on the inside track for the win — and B.C. did that again tonight.

“We didn’t seem prepared after half-time.”Paul McCallum booted a 37-yard field goal to ac-

count for the rest of the B.C. scoring.Edmonton backup quarterback Kerry Joseph and

Fred Stamps, with just over a minute left in the game, scored touchdowns for Edmonton. Kicker Grant Shaw provided the other Eskimo points on two field goals and a 51-yard single off a missed three-pointer.

Reilly, the former B.C. backup who was traded to Edmonton in the off-season, got the Eskimos offence going early after Chris Thompson intercepted a Tra-vis Lulay pass intended for Arceneaux.

The Eskimos opened the scoring with just over five minutes gone in the game as Shaw kicked a 47-yard field goal, giving them a 3-0 lead after the first quarter. But the Lions were able to build a 10-3 lead in the second quarter as McCallum, playing his first game of the season after missing the open-ing three with a groin injury, succeeded on his lone field-goal attempt and Harris bowled his way 13 yards.

After coming in for an apparent plunge on second down, Edmonton backup QB Joseph ran for a three-

yard touchdown late in the second quarter to create suspense heading into the second half. But it was almost all Lions in the final 30 minutes.

“For whatever reason, we just got into more of a groove,” said Lulay, who completed 18 of 24 passes for 284 yards.

Arceneaux shook off Thompson’s tackle attempt and also stayed in bounds, as the Eskimos defensive back got his arms on him but could not bring him down along the sideline. Lulay said he and Arce-neaux, who accumulated 106 yards off just five re-ceptions, had prepared for just such a play.

“We had a (defensive) look, and we had talked about talked about that earlier, if we had that cer-tain coverage, how Manny could release to get some width,” said Lulay. “I was ready for him to make the release that he did.

“So I threw a little bit into space, and Manny got the release that he needed. The biggest thing about that play was his ability to break the tackle and make the big play. For him to break the tackle and stay in bounds takes a little bit of strength.”

Lulay maintained his hot passing arm later in the third quarter as he was good on all four attempts

during a scoring drive that culminated with a Harris one-yard run. Harris set up his own touchdown as he caught a short Lulay pass and gained 24 yards a play earlier, leaping over a defender in a bid to get into the end zone.

Harris thought he had scored, and fireworks went off prematurely, but a replay showed that his knee was out of bounds before he crossed the goal-line. He felt forced to jump after his attempt to spin in-side did not go as planned.

“I wish I could have scored on that, because, I think, that would have been a highlight for sure.”

He still thrilled fans as he ran a reverse un-touched into the end zone, staking B.C. to a 24-10 lead. The Eskimos showed signs of a comeback at-tempt, but could only pull within a point off Shaw’s wide 43-yard field goal attempt.

Then after the Lions ran about three minutes off the clock and a McCallum punt that pinned Edmon-ton deep in its own territory, Jabar Westerman re-corded a rare interception for a defensive lineman. B.C. Westerman enabled B.C. to use up more time before Harris juked and jived four yards for his third touchdown of the night.


Stampeders 38 Alouettes 27CALGARY — A young quarterback

led his team to a CFL win Saturday, while one of the Canadian game’s greats continued to struggle.

Third-string quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell led the Stampeders to an enormous rally on Saturday as Calgary stormed back from a 24-point deficit for a 38-27 victory over the Montreal Alouettes.

“My mindset when I went in — we just made the comeback — was don’t let the offence sputter,” said the 23-year-old Mitchell, a second-year pro from Eastern Washington University.

“We had to make sure we went out there and got a couple of touchdowns and get ahead in this game.”

The Alouettes suffered their third straight loss under new head coach Dan Hawkins and are 1-3. The Stam-peders improved to 3-1.

Jon Cornish scored a pair of second-

half touchdowns and Mitchell led two drives after coming on for starter Kev-in Glenn, who injured his right elbow in the third quarter.

Mitchell finished with a pair of TD passes on 7-of-13 throwing for 49 yards. He also had a 26-yard run.

Glenn was starting for the second straight week in place of Drew Tate, who strained a muscle in his right arm in a loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders July 5.

Mitchell came on when Glenn was rocked by Aaron Lavaris when deliver-ing a 45-yard pass to Marquay McDan-iel. Glenn didn’t appear too hurt after the contest.

“I never got the strength back in it,” he said. “I felt the way the game was going it was best if Bo went in and gave us a spark.”

It looked like Montreal was going to take out its offensive frustration on the Stampeders after back-to-back losses at home, including a 22-14 loss to Cal-gary last week. The normally explosive Anthony Calvillo-led Montreal offence scored only 11 points in a defeat at the hands of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers the week before that.

The Alouettes put up three touch-downs and a field goal to open up a 24-0 lead after one quarter. Drives of 82 and 79 yards were capped off by Brandon Whitaker’s two-yard scoring run and S.J. Green’s catch-and-run for a 59-yard score. Jerome Messam ran in from four yards.

That was most of the Alouettes of-fence, though. Calvillo was 9-of-13 for 167 in the first half but 9-of-17 for 76 in the second.

“It’s frustrating when you’re losing, especially when everyone is playing so hard,” said Calvillo, who turns 41 in August.

“We did solid out there in the first quarter but after that . . . . I’m not say-ing we went back to our old ways, but

we were inconsistent. I can’t tell you why, but today that’s the way it was for whatever reason.”

Calgary woke up and dominated af-ter the first quarter, during which they only had 23 total yards.

Mitchell, who saw spot duty in the game before Glenn’s injury, lobbed a one-yard TD pass to Tim St. Pierre. Glenn found Nik Lewis with a five-yard strike and Rene Parades kicked field goals of 27 and 41 yards to close the gap to 24-19 at the break.

The Stampeders took the lead for good with 4:57 left in the third quarter. Mitchell found Cornish with an 11-yard scoring pass to finish off a 89-yard drive for a 28-24 advantage.

The Alouettes looked like they would get the lead back on the ensuing kickoff. Noel Devine was about to cross the Calgary goal-line on the return but Fred Bennett punched the ball loose and it was recovered in the end zone by Alvin Bowen.

“It was the play of the game,” said Stampeders head coach John Hufna-gel. “That was a 14-point swing. It took seven points off their board and we got the ball at the 25 and marched down for a touchdown.

“It was kind of an indication of our team in this game. No matter how bad it looked we played to the last whistle and never gave up.”

The Stampeders indeed drove again right away and Cornish ran in his sec-ond touchdown from 21 yards out. Cor-nish finished with 109 yards on 11 rush-ing attempts.

Paredes finished with four field goals to close to within one of tying B.C. Lions’ Paul McCallum for the CFL record of 30 consecutive regular sea-son field goals. His tying attempt from 35 yards with 1:04 to go was blocked by John Bowman. It doesn’t count as a missed field goal, but is considered a fumble.


B.C. Lions’ Andrew Harris, centre, rushes past Edmonton Eskimos’ Odell Willis, left, for a touchdown during the first half of a CFL football game in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday.

Mitchell rallies Stamps to comeback win


Montreal Alouettes’ Brandon Whitaker, centre, breaks past Calgary Stampeders’ Demonte Bolden during first half CFL football action in Calgary, Saturday.

Austin gets first win in seven years at Sanderson FarmsBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADISON, Miss. — Woody Austin’s spent the past few years living the life of a golf nomad, not knowing when his next opportunity to play on the PGA Tour would come.

Those days are over for a while.The 49-year-old Austin won the Sanderson Farms

Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour vic-tory since 2007, beating Cameron Beckman and Dan-iel Summerhays with an 8-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.

“It’s been a long road and a long time,” Austin said. “Now I’ve got a job again.”

Austin is the eighth-oldest winner in PGA Tour history and the oldest since Fred Funk won at 50 in 2007. The victory gave him a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour and a spot in the PGA Championship — not to mention a $540,000 paycheque.

Not bad for a guy who hadn’t even made a cut on the tour this year.

Austin came into the final round two shots behind Summerhays and Nicholas Thompson, but made up ground with a 5-under 67 to finish at 20-under 268. His final round didn’t start particularly well — he bogeyed No. 2 — but he recovered with an eagle on No. 5 and birdies on Nos. 6 and 7 to vault back into

contention.“My iron play is my strength and it was there this

week,” said Austin, who has four career victories. “I was able to manoeuvr the ball around, get the ball close to the flag. The most important part of the game is putting and I putted good this week, plain and simple.”

Beckman and Summerhays both birdied No. 18 to match Austin, and Beckman missed a 5-foot putt that would have forced a second playoff hole.

Beckman shot 67, and Summerhays had a 69.Summerhays and Thompson started the day tied

for the lead, two shots ahead the pack.But Thompson fell out of contention quickly with

a double bogey on No. 5 and a bogey on No. 8. He finished fourth at 18 under, two shots back after a 71. Summerhays moved into the lead with a birdie on No. 9, but made bogey on 14 and fell behind until making birdies on both Nos. 17 and 18.

It was the second straight week Summerhays failed to close a tournament after having at least a share of the lead on the final day. His drive on the playoff hole — the 532-yard, par-5 18th — found the bunker on the right side of the fairway and he hit into the water on his second shot.

He tied for fourth the week before at the John Deere, a stroke out of a playoff after bogeying the final hole.

“It’s tough to swallow for sure, but again, it’s my first playoff and there are all these new ’firsts,”’ Summerhays said. “Hopefully I can continue to learn and grow.”

Summerhays praised Austin for making clutch putts in the final round.

“You’ve got to be kidding me — he’s 49 years old and kicking all our butts,” Summerhays said. “Hats off to him.”

Austin wasn’t the only veteran making a move on the final day.

Beckman, a 43-year-old, recovered from a 72 in the opening round to post a 64, 65 and 67 in the final three rounds. He was tied for the lead at various times Sunday.

He drilled an impressive 15-foot birdie putt to force the playoff, but his 5-foot putt on the playoff hole missed to the right.

Billy Andrade charged up the leaderboard with a 65 to tie for fifth at 17 under. The 49-year-old started the day seven shots off the lead but climbed quickly by shooting 7 under through his first 11 holes. He fin-ished with seven straight pars.

It was the first day of the tournament that didn’t involve a weather delay. But there was plenty of heat and humidity — as well as some wind for the first time all week — as players dealt with a soft course that received more than an inch of rain overnight.

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Canadian Football LeagueEAST DIVISION

W L T Pts PF PAToronto 2 2 0 4 118 116Winnipeg 1 3 0 2 91 109Montreal 1 3 0 2 90 112Hamilton 1 3 0 2 79 136

WEST DIVISION W L T Pts PF PASaskatchewan 4 0 0 8 151 67B.C. 3 1 0 6 104 84Calgary 3 1 0 6 125 109Edmonton 1 3 0 2 72 107

Friday, July 19Toronto 35, Winnipeg 19Saturday, July 20Calgary 38, Montreal 27B.C. 31, Edmonton 21Sunday, July 21Saskatchewan 37, Hamilton 0

Thursday, July 25Edmonton at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.Friday, July 26Calgary at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.Saturday, July 27Saskatchewan at Hamilton, 5:30 p.m.Tuesday, July 30B.C. at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday’s summaries

Stampeders 38, Alouettes 27First Quarter

Mtl — TD Whitaker 2 run (Whyte convert) 6:08Mtl — FG Whyte 43 8:57Mtl — TD Green 58 pass from Calvillo (Whyte convert) 11:39Mtl — TD Messam 4 run (Whyte convert) 15:00

Second QuarterCal — FG Paredes 27 5:13Cal — TD St. Pierre 1 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 10:58Cal — FG Paredes 41 13:28Cal — TD Lewis 10 pass from Glenn (two-point convert failed) 14:58

Third QuarterCal — FG Paredes 28 4:43Cal — TD Cornish 11 pass from Mitchell (two-point convert failed) 10:03Cal — TD Cornish 21 run (Paredes convert) 13:48

Fourth QuarterMtl — FG Whyte 27 5:10Cal — FG Paredes 19 10:54Montreal 24 0 0 3 — 27Calgary 0 19 16 3 — 38Attendance — 27,378 at Calgary.

TEAM STATISTICS Mtl CalFirst downs 17 25Yards rushing 85 175Yards passing 243 253

Total offence 328 428Team losses 19 26Net offence 309 402Passes made-tried 18-30 25-40Total return yards 299 132Interceptions-yards by 1-0 0-0Fumbles-lost 1-0 1-1Sacks by 2 3Punts-average 7-40.6 6-46.3Penalties-yards 13-120 8-103Time of possession 25:42 34:18

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing — Mtl: Whitaker 11-42, Messam 5-27, Calvillo 1-9, Devine 1-7; Cal: Cornish 11-109, Mitchell 3-29, Walter 5-18, Parker 1-10, McDaniel 1-7, Taylor 1-2.Receiving — Mtl: Green 7-121, Richardson 5-51, Bruce III 4-47, Deslauriers 1-16, Whitaker 1-8; Cal: McDaniel 4-75, Arthur 2-48, Lewis 5-41, Parker 3-21, Cornish 4-20, Sinopoli 2-17, Taylor 2-14, Cote 1-12, West 1-4, St. Pierre 1-1.Passing — Mtl: Calvillo 18-30, 243 yards, 1 TD, 0 ints; Cal: Glenn 18-27-204-1-1, Mitchell 7-13-49-2-0.

Lions 31, Eskimos 21First Quarter

Edm — FG Shaw 47 9:43Second Quarter

B.C. — FG McCallum 37 2:04B.C. — TD Harris 13 run (McCallum convert) 6:21Edm — TD Joseph 3 run (Shaw convert) 11:31

Third QuarterB.C. — TD Arceneaux 77 pass from Lulay (McCal-lum convert) 3:32B.C. — TD Harris 1 run (McCallum convert) 9:49

Fourth QuarterEdm — FG Shaw 15 0:15Edm — Single Shaw 51 6:51B.C. — TD Harris 4 run (McCallum convert) 13:00Edm — TD Stamps 12 pass from Crompton (Shaw convert) 13:51Edmonton 3 7 0 11 — 21B.C. 0 10 14 7 — 31Attendance — 26,623 at Vancouver.

TEAM STATISTICS Edm B.C.First downs 19 24Yards rushing 102 136Yards passing 243 284Total offence 345 420Team losses 16 10Net offence 329 410Passes made-tried 17-26 18-24Total return yards 102 84Interceptions-yards by 1-1 1-2Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0Sacks by 1 3Punts-average 5-46.2 4-42.0Penalties-yards 5-47 4-30Time of possession 28:25 31:35

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing — Edm: Charles 11-50, Reilly 4-23, White

2-13, Joseph 2-8, McCarty 2-8; B.C.: Harris 17-103, Lulay 4-31, Demarco 2-3, Lumbala 2-0, Arceneaux 2-minus-1.Receiving — Edm: Coehoorn 6-103, Stamps 3-62, Koch 2-25, Henry 2-19, Charles 2-17, Reilly 1-15, McCarty 1-2; B.C.: Arceneaux 5-106, Moore 4-54, C.Taylor 4-51, Iannuzzi 2-32, Harris 2-30, Haidara 1-11.Passing — Edm: Reilly 12-20, 152 yards, 0 TDs, 1 int, Koch 1-1-15-0-0, Crompton 4-5-76-1-0; B.C.: Lulay 18-24-284-1-1.

Sunday’s summary

Roughriders 37, Tiger-Cats 0First Quarter

No Scoring.Second Quarter

Sask — FG Milo 13 0:30Sask — FG Milo 47 7:50Sask — TD Bagg 28 pass from Durant (Milo con-vert) 11:07Sask — FG Milo 15 15:00

Third QuarterSask — TD Clark 8 pass from Durant (Milo convert) 1500?

Fourth QuarterSask — TD Bagg 60 pass from Durant (Milo con-vert) 2:07Sask — TD Dressler 28 pass from Durant (Milo convert) 8:37Hamilton 0 0 0 0 — 0Saskatchewan 0 16 7 14 — 37Attendance — 37,372 at Regina.

TEAM STATISTICS Ham SaskFirst downs 10 29Yards rushing 16 153Yards passing 179 347Total offence 195 500Team losses 34 4Net offence 161 496Passes made-tried 19-31 20-32Total return yards 81 75Interceptions-yards by 0-0 1-0Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0Sacks by 0 5Punts-average 11-39.7 6-30.8Penalties-yards 12-88 11-99Time of possession 25:32 34:28

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRushing — Ham: Burris 4-10, Walker 3-3, Giguere 1-3; Sask: Sheets 24-130, Durant 2-18, Sanders 1-5.Receiving — Ham: Grant 6-80, Ellingson 4-42, Giguere 4-29, Lamar 2-16, Walker 1-5, Delahunt 1-4, Hilton 1-3; Sask: Bagg 5-125, Dressler 5-73, Smith 3-51, Simon 2-38, McHenry 2-29, Sanders 1-14, Getzlaf 1-9, Clark 1-8.Passing — Ham: Burris 16-27, 158 yards, 0 TDs, 1 int, Lefevour 3-4-21-0-0; Sask: Durant 20-32-347-4-0.

British OpenSundayAt MuirfieldGullane, ScotlandPurse: $7.8 millionYardage: 7,192; Par: 71FinalPhil Mickelson, $1,442,826 69-74-72-66 — 281Henrik Stenson, $832,106 70-70-74-70 — 284Ian Poulter, $428,776 72-71-75-67 — 285Adam Scott, $428,776 71-72-70-72 — 285Lee Westwood, $428,776 72-68-70-75 — 285Zach Johnson, $249,377 66-75-73-72 — 286Hideki Matsuyama, $249,377 71-73-72-70 — 286Tiger Woods, $249,377 69-71-72-74 — 286Hunter Mahan, $175,582 72-72-68-75 — 287Francesco Molinari, $175,582 69-74-72-72 — 287Angel Cabrera, $142,756 69-72-73-74 — 288Brandt Snedeker, $142,756 68-79-69-72 — 288Miguel A. Jimenez, $121,381 68-71-77-73 — 289Justin Leonard, $121,381 74-70-74-71 — 289Keegan Bradley, $95,043 75-74-70-71 — 290Eduardo De La Riva, $95,043 73-73-75-69 — 290Harris English, $95,043 74-71-75-70 — 290Matt Kuchar, $95,043 74-73-72-71 — 290Charl Schwartzel, $95,043 75-68-76-71 — 290Danny Willett, $95,043 75-72-72-71 — 290Rafael Cabrera Bello, $72,218 67-74-76-74 — 291Darren Clarke, $72,218 72-71-76-72 — 291Stephen Gallacher, $72,218 76-70-76-69 — 291Sergio Garcia, $72,218 75-73-68-75 — 291Richard Sterne, $72,218 75-75-68-73 — 291Jonas Blixt, $56,873 72-78-73-69 — 292Stewart Cink, $56,873 72-75-76-69 — 292Jason Dufner, $56,873 72-77-76-67 — 292Ernie Els, $56,873 74-74-70-74 — 292Paul Lawrie, $56,873 81-69-70-72 — 292Steven Tiley, $56,873 72-75-73-72 — 292Bud Cauley, $39,251 74-75-71-73 — 293Fred Couples, $39,251 75-74-73-71 — 293Jason Day, $39,251 73-71-72-77 — 293Jamie Donaldson, $39,251 74-71-71-77 — 293Oliver Fisher, $39,251 70-78-77-68 — 293Thongchai Jaidee, $39,251 79-71-71-72 — 293Dustin Johnson, $39,251 68-72-76-77 — 293Martin Kaymer, $39,251 72-74-72-75 — 293Shane Lowry, $39,251 74-74-75-70 — 293Ryan Moore, $39,251 72-70-72-79 — 293Bubba Watson, $39,251 70-73-77-73 — 293Y.E. Yang, $39,251 78-70-73-72 — 293Mark Brown, $24,641 77-73-72-72 — 294K.J. Choi, $24,641 76-74-71-73 — 294Tim Clark, $24,641 72-76-76-70 — 294Freddie Jacobson, $24,641 72-75-75-72 — 294Shingo Katayama, $24,641 73-77-69-75 — 294Martin Laird, $24,641 70-71-81-72 — 294Geoff Ogilvy, $24,641 75-75-72-72 — 294Jordan Spieth, $24,641 69-74-76-75 — 294Bo Van Pelt, $24,641 76-73-77-68 — 294Matthew Fitzpatrick, $0 73-76-73-72 — 294Gonzalo Fdez-Castano, $20,955 70-79-73-73 — 295Marcus Fraser, $20,955 73-74-76-72 — 295Padraig Harrington, $20,955 73-75-77-70 — 295Carl Pettersson, $20,955 74-76-70-75 — 295Tom Lehman, $20,077 68-77-75-76 — 296Graeme McDowell $20,077 75-71-73-77 — 296Mark O’Meara, $20,077 67-78-77-74 — 296Richie Ramsay, $20,077 76-74-72-74 — 296Johnson Wagner, $20,077 73-72-73-78 — 296Boo Weekley, $20,077 74-76-71-75 — 296Gregory Bourdy, $19,085 76-70-74-77 — 297Ben Curtis, $19,085 74-71-80-72 — 297Ken Duke, $19,085 70-77-73-77 — 297Branden Grace, $19,085 74-71-77-75 — 297Webb Simpson, $19,085 73-70-77-77 — 297Bernd Wiesberger, $19,085 71-74-75-77 — 297Chris Wood, $19,085 75-75-75-72 — 297George Coetzee, $18,398 76-71-75-76 — 298Gareth Wright, $18,398 71-78-75-74 — 298Thomas Bjorn, $17,864 73-74-72-80 — 299Todd Hamilton, $17,864 69-81-70-79 — 299Russell Henley, $17,864 78-71-75-75 — 299Shiv Kapur, $17,864 68-77-83-71 — 299K.T. Kim, $17,864 73-76-77-73 — 299Jimmy Mullen, $0 71-78-75-75 — 299Mikko Ilonen, $17,253 72-78-76-74 — 300Peter Senior, $17,253 74-76-73-77 — 300Kevin Streelman, $17,253 74-71-82-73 — 300Josh Teater, $16,947 72-77-75-77 — 301Graham DeLaet, $16,795 76-72-76-79 — 303Sandy Lyle, $16,642 76-72-80-79 — 307

PGA-Sanderson Farms ChampionshipSundayAt Annandale Golf ClubMadison, MississippiPurse: $3 millionYardage: 7,202; Par: 72Final Round(x—won on first playoff hole)x-Woody Austin, $540,000 69-65-67-67 — 268Dan. Summerhays, $264,000 63-67-69-69 — 268Cameron Beckman, $264,000 72-64-65-67 — 268Nic. Thompson, $144,000 69-65-65-71 — 270Billy Andrade, $114,000 73-66-67-65 — 271Kyle Reifers, $114,000 65-69-67-70 — 271Bill Lunde, $96,750 67-67-68-70 — 272Chad Campbell, $96,750 67-69-65-71 — 272Jason Bohn, $75,000 73-68-66-66 — 273Chris Stroud, $75,000 69-70-68-66 — 273Billy Mayfair, $75,000 72-62-71-68 — 273

Chris Kirk, $75,000 69-65-70-69 — 273Jim Herman, $75,000 66-69-68-70 — 273Jonathan Randolph, $54,000 66-69-70-69 — 274Seung-Yul Noh, $54,000 69-68-67-70 — 274Brendon Todd, $54,000 72-64-66-72 — 274Steven Bowditch, $36,667 67-68-73-67 — 275Russell Knox, $36,667 69-69-69-68 — 275Peter Lonard, $36,667 67-67-72-69 — 275Stuart Appleby, $36,667 73-67-69-66 — 275Glen Day, $36,667 70-69-71-65 — 275Troy Matteson, $36,667 67-67-70-71 — 275Paul Stankowski, $36,667 66-68-70-71 — 275Rory Sabbatini, $36,667 68-68-67-72 — 275Vaughn Taylor, $36,667 67-67-68-73 — 275Chris Riley, $20,417 67-68-72-69 — 276Ryan Blaum, $20,417 70-68-71-67 — 276Steve LeBrun, $20,417 67-71-69-69 — 276Brandt Jobe, $20,417 75-65-69-67 — 276William McGirt, $20,417 66-70-70-70 — 276Scott Langley, $20,417 70-69-67-70 — 276Martin Flores, $20,417 71-65-70-70 — 276Brad Fritsch, $20,417 66-69-70-71 — 276Charles Howell III, $20,417 72-69-69-66 — 276

PGA Tour of Canada-The Players CupWINNIPEG — Leading scores Sunday from the final round of the PGA Tour of Canada’s C$150,000-The Players Cup, at the par-72 Pine Ridge Golf Club:Carlos Sainz, Jr. 65-67-71-68 — 271Nathan Tyler 68-64-69-71 — 272Kent Eger 68-71-67-68 — 274Mackenzie Hughes 66-67-70-71 — 274Wil Collins 67-68-73-67 — 275David Skinns 71-68-69-67 — 275Brady Schnell 71-69-68-67 — 275Hugo Leon 69-68-67-72 — 276Derek Gillespie 68-69-71-70 — 278Kyle Stough 67-69-71-71 — 278Sean Shahi 67-72-71-70 — 280Cory Renfrew 68-66-74-72 — 280Trevor Murphy 72-68-68-72 — 280Eugene Wong 67-71-76-67 — 281Doug McGuigan 66-69-74-72 — 281Brock Mackenzie 72-71-67-71 — 281Darren Wallace 67-71-69-74 — 281J.J. Spaun 68-68-70-75 — 281Devin Carrey 70-73-73-66 — 282Jon McLean 68-72-71-71 — 282Riley Wheeldon 69-73-69-71 — 282

LPGA-Marathon ClassicSundayAt Highland Meadows Golf ClubSylvania, OhioPurse: $1.3 millionYardage: 6,512; Par: 71Finala-amateurBeatriz Recari, $195,000 69-65-67-66 — 267Paula Creamer, $120,655 66-68-67-67 — 268Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $77,618 69-68-68-66 — 271Lexi Thompson, $77,618 66-71-67-67 — 271Angela Stanford, $49,544 71-72-64-67 — 274Jacqui Concolino, $49,544 67-68-69-70 — 274Meena Lee, $31,543 70-73-70-62 — 275Stacy Lewis, $31,543 70-72-69-64 — 275a-Lydia Ko 69-67-71-68 — 275Jennifer Johnson, $31,543 73-66-66-70 — 275Chie Arimura, $31,543 69-67-68-71 — 275Se Ri Pak, $22,476 69-74-67-66 — 276Haeji Kang, $22,476 67-71-71-67 — 276Brittany Lang, $22,476 68-72-68-68 — 276So Yeon Ryu, $22,476 68-69-70-69 — 276I.K. Kim, $18,144 70-69-70-68 — 277Mo Martin, $18,144 68-70-68-71 — 277Chella Choi, $18,144 68-71-66-72 — 277Amelia Lewis, $15,220 74-68-68-68 — 278Danah Bordner, $15,220 73-70-66-69 — 278Ayako Uehara, $15,220 68-72-68-70 — 278Dewi Claire Schreefel, $15,220 69-71-67-71 — 278Hee Young Park, $15,220 71-68-67-72 — 278Kristy McPherson, $13,102 73-71-68-67 — 279Cindy LaCrosse, $13,102 71-68-69-71 — 279Heather Bowie Young, $13,102 70-69-68-72 — 279Moira Dunn, $11,032 73-67-72-68 — 280Mika Miyazato, $11,032 70-70-72-68 — 280Candie Kung, $11,032 71-69-70-70 — 280Brooke Pancake, $11,032 71-72-66-71 — 280Eun-Hee Ji, $11,032 68-72-67-73 — 280Gerina Piller, $11,032 67-72-68-73 — 280Karine Icher, $8,315 67-71-75-68 — 281Na Yeon Choi, $8,315 72-71-69-69 — 281Natalie Gulbis, $8,315 68-73-70-70 — 281Katherine Hull-Kirk, $8,315 73-67-71-70 — 281Sun Young Yoo, $8,315 71-73-67-70 — 281Inbee Park, $8,315 67-69-73-72 — 281Amy Yang, $8,315 69-69-71-72 — 281Alison Walshe, $8,315 65-69-73-74 — 281Lizette Salas, $6,474 70-73-70-69 — 282Ji Young Oh, $6,474 70-71-70-71 — 282Mariajo Uribe, $6,474 71-70-69-72 — 282Morgan Pressel, $6,474 68-72-67-75 — 282Momoko Ueda, $5,417 71-71-72-69 — 283Sarah Jane Smith, $5,417 72-71-70-70 — 283Michelle Wie, $5,417 74-67-72-70 — 283Paige Mackenzie, $5,417 74-70-68-71 — 283Sandra Changkija, $5,417 69-72-70-72 — 283Jennifer Rosales, $4,437 72-70-74-68 — 284Ilhee Lee, $4,437 70-72-73-69 — 284Ryann O’Toole, $4,437 68-72-74-70 — 284Irene Cho, $4,437 70-74-69-71 — 284

American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBBoston 59 40 .596 —Tampa Bay 58 41 .586 1Baltimore 56 43 .566 3New York 52 45 .536 6Toronto 45 52 .464 13

Central Division W L Pct GBDetroit 53 44 .546 —Cleveland 52 46 .531 1 1/2Kansas City 45 50 .474 7Minnesota 41 54 .432 11Chicago 39 56 .411 13

West Division W L Pct GBOakland 57 41 .582 —Texas 54 44 .551 3Los Angeles 46 50 .479 10Seattle 46 52 .469 11Houston 33 64 .340 23 1/2

Saturday’s GamesTampa Bay 4, Toronto 3Chicago White Sox 10, Atlanta 6N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 2Minnesota 3, Cleveland 2Kansas City 6, Detroit 5Seattle 4, Houston 2Baltimore 7, Texas 4L.A. Angels 2, Oakland 0

Sunday’s GamesTampa Bay 4, Toronto 3Chicago White Sox 3, Atlanta 1Cleveland 7, Minnesota 1Detroit 4, Kansas City 1Seattle 12, Houston 5Oakland 6, L.A. Angels 0Baltimore 4, Texas 2N.Y. Yankees at Boston, Late

Monday’s GamesN.Y. Yankees (Nova 4-2) at Texas (Darvish 8-4), 5:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 7-3) at Toronto (Jo.Johnson 1-5), 5:07 p.m.Tampa Bay (M.Moore 13-3) at Boston (Workman 0-0), 5:10 p.m.Baltimore (Feldman 1-1) at Kansas City (W.Davis 4-8), 6:10 p.m.Detroit (Scherzer 13-1) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 6-8), 6:10 p.m.Oakland (Milone 8-8) at Houston (Keuchel 4-5), 6:10 p.m.Minnesota (Deduno 5-4) at L.A. Angels (Blanton 2-12), 8:05 p.m.Cleveland (U.Jimenez 7-4) at Seattle (Harang 4-8), 8:10 p.m.

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

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.MiCabrera Det 96 373 75 134 .359DOrtiz Bos 79 295 50 95 .322Trout LAA 95 380 67 122 .321Mauer Min 91 363 51 116 .320Loney TB 97 328 40 103 .314ABeltre Tex 96 387 56 121 .313Pedroia Bos 98 384 57 120 .313CDavis Bal 98 356 72 111 .312Machado Bal 99 426 58 132 .310Infante Det 76 291 38 90 .309

Home RunsCDavis, Baltimore, 37; MiCabrera, Detroit, 31; Encarnacion, Toronto, 26; ADunn, Chicago, 24; Ibanez, Seattle, 24; Bautista, Toronto, 22; ABeltre, Texas, 22; NCruz, Texas, 22.Runs Batted InMiCabrera, Detroit, 96; CDavis, Baltimore, 94; Encarnacion, Toronto, 74; Fielder, Detroit, 70; NCruz, Texas, 69; AJones, Baltimore, 69; Cano, New York, 67.PitchingScherzer, Detroit, 13-1; MMoore, Tampa Bay, 13-3; Colon, Oakland, 13-3; Tillman, Baltimore, 12-3; FHernandez, Seattle, 11-4; Masterson, Cleveland, 11-7; CWilson, Los Angeles, 10-6.

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta 55 43 .561 —Philadelphia 49 50 .495 6 1/2Washington 48 50 .490 7New York 43 51 .457 10Miami 35 61 .365 19

Central Division W L Pct GBSt. Louis 59 37 .615 —Pittsburgh 57 39 .594 2Cincinnati 55 43 .561 5Chicago 43 53 .448 16Milwaukee 41 56 .423 18 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBArizona 51 47 .520 —Los Angeles 50 47 .515 1/2Colorado 48 51 .485 3 1/2San Francisco 45 52 .464 5 1/2San Diego 43 56 .434 8 1/2

Saturday’s GamesN.Y. Mets 5, Philadelphia 4Chicago White Sox 10, Atlanta 6Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 4L.A. Dodgers 3, Washington 1, 10 inningsMilwaukee 6, Miami 0San Diego 5, St. Louis 3Colorado 9, Chicago Cubs 3San Francisco 4, Arizona 3

Sunday’s GamesN.Y. Mets 5, Philadelphia 0Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 2L.A. Dodgers 9, Washington 2Chicago White Sox 3, Atlanta 1Milwaukee 1, Miami 0, 13 inningsSt. Louis 3, San Diego 2Arizona 3, San Francisco 1Colorado 4, Chicago Cubs 3

Monday’s GamesPittsburgh (Morton 1-2) at Washington (Haren 4-10), 5:05 p.m.L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 7-3) at Toronto (Jo.Johnson 1-5), 5:07 p.m.Atlanta (Teheran 7-5) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 7-7), 5:10 p.m.San Diego (Cashner 5-5) at Milwaukee (Gorzelanny 1-3), 6:10 p.m.Miami (Koehler 1-5) at Colorado (Pomeranz 0-3), 6:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs (Garza 6-1) at Arizona (Skaggs 2-1), 7:40 p.m.Cincinnati (Arroyo 8-7) at San Francisco (Lincecum 5-9), 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s GamesPittsburgh at Washington, 5:05 p.m.San Francisco at Cincinnati, 5:05 p.m., 1st gameL.A. Dodgers at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.San Diego at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.Philadelphia at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.Miami at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.Chicago Cubs at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.Cincinnati at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m., 2nd game

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.YMolina StL 90 333 42 112 .336Craig StL 93 361 52 120 .332Cuddyer Col 77 295 46 97 .329MCarpenter StL 92 369 75 120 .325Segura Mil 95 385 55 125 .325Posey SF 93 334 41 108 .323Votto Cin 98 360 68 114 .317FFreeman Atl 84 319 50 99 .310Goldschmidt Ari 97 362 62 112 .309Scutaro SF 84 327 38 101 .309

Home RunsCGonzalez, Colorado, 26; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 24; DBrown, Philadelphia, 24; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 21; Beltran, St. Louis, 19; Bruce, Cincinnati, 19; Ug-gla, Atlanta, 19.Runs Batted InGoldschmidt, Arizona, 78; Phillips, Cincinnati, 78; Craig, St. Louis, 77; DBrown, Philadelphia, 69; Bruce, Cincinnati, 66; CGonzalez, Colorado, 66; FFreeman, Atlanta, 64.PitchingWainwright, St. Louis, 13-5; Zimmermann, Wash-ington, 12-5; Corbin, Arizona, 11-1; Lynn, St. Louis, 11-5; ClLee, Philadelphia, 10-4; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 10-6; Locke, Pittsburgh, 9-2.

Sunday’s Major League Linescores

AMERICAN LEAGUETampa Bay 000 103 000 — 4 8 1Toronto 010 000 002 — 3 8 0

Archer, J.Wright (8), Rodney (9) and Lobaton; Dick-ey, J.Perez (7), Loup (8) and Thole. W—Archer 5-3. L—Dickey 8-11. Sv—Rodney (24). HRs—Tampa Bay, Longoria (20), Scott (9), K.Johnson (15).

Detroit 100 010 101 — 4 11 1Kan. City 010 000 000 — 1 7 0Fister, Smyly (7), B.Rondon (8), Benoit (9) and B.Pena; Shields, K.Herrera (8) and S.Perez. W—Fister 8-5. L—Shields 4-7. Sv—Benoit (9). HRs—Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (31), Dirks (7). Kansas City, M.Tejada (3).

Seattle 070 030 110 — 12 13 2Houston 000 000 104 — 5 9 1F.Hernandez, Noesi (7), Luetge (8), LaFromboise (9), Farquhar (9) and H.Blanco; Lyles, Harrell (5), W.Wright (8) and Corporan. W—F.Hernandez 11-4. L—Lyles 4-4. HRs—Seattle, Franklin (7).

Cleveland 012 030 001 — 7 9 1Minnesota 000 000 100 — 1 2 1Masterson, C.C.Lee (8), Allen (8), C.Perez (9) and C.Santana; Diamond, Swarzak (5), Thielbar (7), Roenicke (8), Pressly (9) and C.Herrmann. W—Masterson 11-7. L—Diamond 5-9. HRs—Cleveland, Kipnis (15).

Oakland 002 022 000 — 6 9 0Los Ang. 000 000 000 — 0 4 3Colon and Jaso; Williams, Richards (6), Kohn (8), Roth (9) and Iannetta. W—Colon 13-3. L—Williams 5-6. HRs—Oakland, Sogard (2).

Baltimore 021 100 000 — 4 10 0Texas 000 010 001 — 2 6 2Tillman, Matusz (9), O’Day (9) and Wieters; M.Perez, Cotts (7), Soria (8), Burns (9) and Pierzyn-ski. W—Tillman 12-3. L—M.Perez 3-3. Sv—O’Day (2). HRs—Texas, A.Beltre (22).

INTERLEAGUEAtlanta 000 010 000 — 1 9 1Chicago 101 001 00x — 3 5 0Minor and G.Laird, Gattis; Quintana, Troncoso (6), Veal (7), N.Jones (8), A.Reed (9) and Flowers. W—Quintana 5-2. L—Minor 9-5. Sv—A.Reed (25).

NATIONAL LEAGUEPhila. 000 000 000 — 0 4 0New York 200 300 00x — 5 7 0Cl.Lee, Bastardo (7), Papelbon (8) and Kratz; Har-vey, Atchison (8) and Buck. W—Harvey 8-2. L—Cl.Lee 10-4. HRs—New York, D.Wright (15), Byrd (17), Lagares (2).

Pittsburgh 010 000 200 — 3 7 0Cincinnati 000 010 010 — 2 3 0Locke, Watson (7), Morris (7), Ju.Wilson (7), Melan-con (8), Grilli (9) and McKenry; H.Bailey, Hoover (7), Partch (9) and C.Miller, Mesoraco. W—Locke 9-2. L—H.Bailey 5-9. Sv—Grilli (30). HRs—Pittsburgh, G.Jones (10).

Los Ang. 070 200 000 — 9 15 1Wash. 010 000 100 — 2 4 0Kershaw, League (8) and A.Ellis; Zimmermann, Ohlendorf (3), Abad (9) and K.Suzuki. W—Kershaw 9-6. L—Zimmermann 12-5. HRs—Los Angeles, Kemp (5), H.Ramirez (10). Washington, Werth 2 (12).

Miami 000 000 000 000 0 — 0 4 0Milw. 000 000 000 000 1 — 1 7 2(13 innings)H.Alvarez, M.Dunn (8), Qualls (9), A.Ramos (10), Webb (12) and Brantly, Mathis; W.Peralta, Fr.Rodriguez (9), Mic.Gonzalez (10), Henderson (11), Axford (12) and Maldonado. W—Axford 4-3. L—Webb 1-4. HRs—Milwaukee, Gindl (1).

San Diego 100 001 000 — 2 10 1St. Louis 003 000 00x — 3 8 0Stults, Vincent (7), Thatcher (8) and R.Rivera; Wain-wright, Mujica (9) and Y.Molina. W—Wainwright 13-5. L—Stults 8-8. Sv—Mujica (28).

Arizona 100 000 020 — 3 8 2San Fran. 000 000 001 — 1 5 0Delgado, E.De La Rosa (6), Bell (7), D.Hernandez (8), Ziegler (9) and M.Montero; Bumgarner, S.Rosario (8), J.Lopez (8), Machi (8), Dunning (9) and Posey. W—Delgado 2-3. L—Bumgarner 10-6. Sv—Ziegler (4).

Chicago 000 002 001 — 3 10 1Colorado 200 002 00x — 4 5 1E.Jackson, Russell (8), Guerrier (8) and Castillo, D.Navarro; Chatwood, Outman (7), Escalona (7), Belisle (8), Brothers (9) and Torrealba. W—Chat-wood 6-3. L—E.Jackson 6-11. Sv—Brothers (5). HRs—Chicago, Rizzo (14).

MLSEASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L T GF GA PtKansas City 21 10 5 6 31 20 36Montreal 19 9 5 5 31 29 32New York 21 9 7 5 29 24 32Philadelphia 21 8 6 7 32 30 31Houston 19 8 6 5 22 19 29New England 20 7 7 6 25 18 27Chicago 19 7 9 3 24 29 24Columbus 20 6 9 5 23 25 23Toronto 20 2 10 8 17 28 14D.C. 20 2 14 4 9 33 10

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA PtSalt Lake 21 11 6 4 33 20 37Portland 20 8 2 10 30 18 34Los Angeles 21 10 8 3 32 25 33Vancouver 20 9 6 5 33 28 32Dallas 21 8 5 8 27 27 32Colorado 22 8 7 7 36 24 31Seattle 18 7 7 4 22 21 25San Jose 21 6 9 6 21 32 24

Chivas 20 4 11 5 18 35 17

Saturday’s resultsDallas 0 Montreal 0New York 0 Toronto 0Los Angeles 2 Vancouver 1Chicago 4 D.C. 1Colorado 1 Seattle 1Kansas City 2 Salt Lake 1New England 2 Columbus 0Portland 0 Philadelphia 0

Saturday, July 27Columbus at Toronto, noonLos Angeles at Colorado, 5 p.m.New England at D.C., 5 p.m.Kansas City at Montreal, 5 p.m.Salt Lake at New York, 5 p.m.Philadelphia at Vancouver, 5 p.m.Chicago at Houston, 7 p.m.Portland at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 28Chivas at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Saturday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican LeagueBOSTON RED SOX—Activated SS Stephen

Drew from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Brock Holt to Pawtucket (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Placed OF Zoilo Al-monte on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Melky Mesa and OF Thomas Neal from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Designated INF Alberto Gonzalez for assignment.

National LeagueCOLORADO ROCKIES—Placed RHP Rafael

Betancourt on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Mitch-ell Boggs from Tulsa (TL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS—Placed OF Matt Holliday on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 12. Purchased the contract of 1B-OF Brock Peterson from Memphis (PCL).

American AssociationAMARILLO SOX—Signed RHP Jeff Lyman.EL PASO DIABLOS—Signed LHP Carlos Teller.GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS—Signed LHP

Chuck Lukanen.LAREDO LEMURS—Signed RHP Jon Kountis.Can-Am LeagueNEW JERSEY JACKALS—Released RHP Andy

Wells.QUEBEC CAPITALES—Released C Mike

Greico.TROIS-RIVERES AIGLES—Signed C Kyle

Nisson.

FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueNFL—Suspended New York Giants S Will Hill

four games for violating the league’s substance of abuse policy.

MIAMI DOLPHINS—Signed DE Dion Jordan to a multiyear contract.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES—Signed OT Lane Johnson to a four-year contract.

HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueWINNIPEG JETS—Agreed to terms with D Zach

Redmond on a one-year contract.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLAmerican LeagueTAMPA BAY RAYS—Activated 1B James Loney

off the paternity list. Optioned INF Ryan Roberts to Durham (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Activated OF Melky Cabrera from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Neil Wagner to Buffalo (IL).

National LeagueATLANTA BRAVES—Purchased the contract of

RHP Kameron Loe from Gwinnett (IL). Optioned INF Tyler Pastornicky to Gwinnett.

HOUSTON ASTROS—Designated 1B-DH Carlos Pena and SS Ronny Cedeno for assignment. Called up SS Jonathan Villar from Oklahoma City (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Activated OF Matt Kemp from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF-1B Scott

Van Slyke to Albuquerque (PCL).SAN DIEGO PADRES—Recalled RHP Miles

Mikolas from Tucson (PCL). Placed RHP Jason Marquis on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 20.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Placed LHP Jer-emy Affeldt on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jean Machi from Fresno (PCL).

American AssociationEL PASO DIABLOS—Signed C Ivan Villaes-

cusa. Released RHP Seth Lintz.SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS—Released RHP

Jon Plefka.WICHITA WINGNUTS—Signed OF Madison

Beaird. Released OF Colt Loehrs.WINNIPEG GOLDEYES—Released LHP Allan

Caldwell.Atlantic LeagueLONG ISLAND DUCKS—Released C Anthony

Armenio. Reinstate LHP James Houser to the ac-tive list.

SUGAR LAND SKEETERS—Announced LHP Jason Lane has agreed to terms with San Diego (NL).

Can-Am LeagueNEWARK BEARS—Released RHP Leonard

Giammanco.QUEBEC CAPITALES—Released RHP Edu-

ardo Nunez.ROCKLAND BOULDERS—Released INF

Robert Kelly.TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES—Released C John

Bobillo.Frontier LeagueRIVER CITY RASCALS—Signed RHP Ryan

Wilkins.WASHINGTON WILD THINGS—Sold the con-

tract of LHP Al Yevoli to Chicago (NL).

FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueCLEVELAND BROWNS—Signed LB Barkevious

Mingo to a four-year contract.DALLAS COWBOYS—Placed DT Jay Ratliff and

G Mackenzy Bernadeau on the physically unable to perform list and G Nate Livings, OL Ryan Cook, LS Louis-Philippe Ladouceur and G Ronald Learyon the non-football injury list. Signed OT Demetress Bell and WR Lavasier Tuinei and placed them on the non-football injury list. Signed QB Alex Tanney.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS—Signed DB Justin Green.

HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueLOS ANGELES KINGS—Agreed to terms with F

Jordan Nolanon on a two-year contract.ECHLREADING ROYALS—Agreed to terms with F

Nikita Kashirsky.

COLLEGEBAKER—Announced the resignation of softball

coach and assistant volleyball coach Matt Windle to become a volunteer assistant softball coach for Kansas.

FLORIDA—Suspended sophomore LB Antonio Morrison for the first two games of the season after being arrested for the second time in five weeks.

The Red Deer Carstar Braves managed just one win as they finished their NorWest Midget AAA Baseball League regular season with four games on the road during the weekend, but it was a memorable one.

Justin Logan tossed a five-inning no-hitter as the Braves beat the Spruce Grove Sox II 11-0 Sunday afternoon.

Logan walked three and fanned four while Jayden Hutlet had a pair of hits and drove in three runs. Jesse Muirhead had two hits and scored twice and Dylan Borman and Nik Fis-cher scored twice each.

Earlier the Braves lost 11-3 to the Sox I while on Saturday they lost 16-7 and 4-1 to the Sher-wood Park Dukes.

Braedon Majeski started on the mound against the Sox I and allowed four runs on eight hits over five innings. Triston Hill was touched up for five runs on only one hit and

one walk and Ryan Klinck finished the seven-run sixth, allowing two runs on two hits.

Mac Guckert and Jesse Kowalchuk had two hits each for the Braves.

Ty Wagar started on the mound in the open-er against the Dukes and allowed seven runs on nine hits over three innings. Blake Thomson gave up eight runs — three earned — on six hits over two innings with Brendan Baker and Klinch working the final inning.

Borman and Hill had two hits each for the Braves.

Borman took the loss in the nightcap, allow-ing four runs on nine hits and two walks over 4 1/3 innings. Ty Elliott went the final 1 2/3 in-nings, allowing one hit.

Klinck had two of the three Red Deer hits.The Braves open provincial play Wednesday

in Okotoks.

Midget AAA Braves pitcher throws no-hitter in team’s only win of weekend


Rays 4 Blue Jays 3TORONTO — Humming along

through five innings, all it took was two mistakes to ruin R.A. Dickey’s Sunday afternoon.

The veteran right-hander had his knuckleball dancing until the top of the sixth, when Tampa Bay’s Luke Scott and Kelly Johnson hit back-to-back home runs on successive pitches to propel the Rays to a 4-3 victory and a three-game sweep of Toronto.

“That seems to have been my bane this year. It’s not all the time that you make a mistake with one and it gets hit out of the park. It’s just this year it’s been the case,” said Dickey, the 2012 National League Cy Young Award win-ner. “You make a mistake and they pop one out.”

With the score tied 1-1 and James Loney on board with a single, Scott belted his ninth home run of the sea-son just over the wall in right to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 13 games.

“His knuckleball is a great pitch, it’s really tough to square up,” Scott said. “It should be illegal to throw that pitch. There’s a reason why he won the Cy Young last year. It’s a real good pitch.”

The Rays (58-41) had barely finished celebrating the two-run bomb when Johnson hit a towering drive into the second deck in right for the former Toronto second baseman’s 15th home run of the campaign. Johnson’s homer marked the fourth time Tampa Bay has gone back-to-back in 2013, includ-ing twice against Toronto (45-52), and the sixth time the Blue Jays have sur-rendered back-to-back home runs this season.

“We needed a little bit better pitch-ing performance than (what) I gave us today,” said Dickey, whose team has lost four straight. “We needed a big one out of me today and I was hope-ful to go into the seventh. I felt really good — could have easily gone back out and it’s just frustrating that the re-sults were what they were.”

Evan Longoria also went deep for the Rays, who hit seven home runs in the weekend series.

Toronto scored two in the ninth to cut Tampa Bay’s lead to one when Jose Reyes doubled home Josh Thole and Brett Lawrie, but Rays closer Fernan-do Rodney struck out Jose Bautista and got a ground balls from Edwin En-carnacion and Melky Cabrera to pick up his 24th save.

“Tough one. We had our opportunity to at least tie the game,” Reyes said. “It is what it is and it’s a tough one. Disap-pointing.”

Dickey, who has not won since Can-ada Day and is now tied for the ma-jor league lead for home runs allowed with 23, agreed with fellow Toronto starter Mark Buehrle’s assessment af-ter Saturday’s loss that the Blue Jays, who were expected to contend, might be “overrated.”

“It’s hard to see it any other way ... because of our record. I think the ca-pability that this team has is still very, very good,” said Dickey (8-11) after giv-

ing up four runs on seven hits and a walk while striking out eight. “We ob-viously still haven’t put all the pieces together and hopefully we’re going to be able to do that. This is a team that’s not just built for (one) year.”

Rays starter Chris Archer (5-3) had a stellar outing for Tampa Bay, giv-ing up one run on five hits over seven innings. The 23-year-old right-hander also walked four and struck out one batter for the Rays, who have now won five straight games, 13 of their last 14 and 17 of 19 to climb into second place in the American League East.

“I’ve realized where my potential is and I’m striving for that every time out,” Archer said.

Toronto, which occupies the AL East basement, had a chance to get back in it in the bottom of the sixth after Scott and Johnson went deep, but Lawrie popped out to second with the bases loaded for the third out. A large section of the sun-soaked but frustrat-ed crowd of 41,247 at Rogers Centre, which watched the home team waste a number of similar opportunities in Saturday’s loss, voiced its displeasure with a smattering of boos.

“Right now we’re not playing good enough baseball to win a lot of games. That’s just basically what it comes down to. They outplayed us in all three games ... they’re on a nice little roll,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “They’ve got a good ballclub, great pitching. That’s just the way it is.”

Toronto opened the scoring in the second when Thole’s ground rule dou-ble to left brought Cabrera home from third.

Longoria tied it in the top of the fourth when he took Dickey’s first pitch of the inning to the opposite field in right for his 20th home run of the season.

Dickey got in trouble in the top of the fifth when Tampa Bay put runners on second and third after two singles and a passed ball, but the 38-year-old struck out both Desmond Jennings and Ben Zobrist to keep the score tied 1-1 before things unravelled the following inning.

“The buck always starts with the guy in front of the camera. If I turn in a few more outings that are better outings we might be at .500. I think it starts with our pitching and me in particu-lar,” said Dickey, before adding: “We are all just spokes in a big wheel and everybody plays a part.”

Notes: Prior to the game, the Blue Jays added former slugger Carlos Del-gado to the club’s Level of Excellence. Delgado joins former players Dave Stieb, Roberto Alomar, Tony Fernan-dez, Joe Carter and George Bell, along with former manager Cito Gaston, for-mer general manager Pat Gillick, late broadcaster Tom Cheek and current president and CEO Paul Beeston in being honoured. ... Dickey only gave up 24 home runs all of last season. ... The Blue Jays activated Cabrera (left knee tendinitis) from the 15-day disabled list and optioned reliever Neil Wagner to triple-A Buffalo. ... The Blue Jays open an interleague series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Rogers Centre on Monday, while the Rays travel to Boston to take on the Red Sox.

WAGONS: PassionWinning the Tom Jackson Memorial

consolation final was Chance Thomp-son and the PureChem Services rig who beat out Ron Moar on the Alex-ander First Nations wagon, Lori Stott and the Goosehaven Charalois rig, and Albert Whiskeyjack and the Billy Bob Dance Hall wagon. The consolation fi-nal was the running of the fastest four wagons from the bottom 28 in the week.

When it comes down to winning an-other championship Wood said that he is not ruling out coming back for run at a ninth but added he has a strong pas-sion for the sport and it will be hard for him to leave when it’s time.

He does have confidence that when he decides to park the wagon that his son and grandchildren will continue to race with passion he has had when winning all of these championships in Red Deer.

CFL: Defence“On defence what we talked about

is being a championship defence and making sure teams don’t score,” said Roughriders head coach Corey Cham-blin.

“We went back and we thought we had some poor fourth quarters over the last couple of weeks. The guys did a good job of playing quarter-by-quar-ter. They did a great job and they had great focus ... and it just turned out be-ing no points.”

With the Roughriders facing a north wind in the first quarter that gusted to over 50 km/h throughout the game, the defence came up with a steady stream of big plays before Durant found his groove. The returning Eddie Russ forced the ball from the hands of Ti-cats receiver Greg Ellingson in the first quarter to give Saskatchewan the ball near midfield, and made a shoestring tackle on Samuel Giguere on Hamil-ton’s next possession to force a third-and-one attempt that came up short.

Chris Milo got Saskatchewan on the board with his first of three field goals to start the second quarter and the Riders got the ball right back when Butler came up with an end zone in-terception on a Henry Burris pass in-tended for Ellingson.

Saskatchewan took a 16-0 lead in-to halftime after a 28-yard touchdown pass from Durant to Bagg and two more field goals from Milo, including a career-best 47-yarder with the wind at his back.

The last gasp of wind in the Ticats’ sails was snuffed out by a pass inter-ference call near the end of the third quarter that negated a 30-plus yard in-terception return by Rico Murray.

Geroy Simon made his Roughriders debut and kept his streak of consecu-tive games with a reception alive on a six-yard catch in the first quarter.

He added a 32-yard grab in the third to set up Clark’s TD, and now has catches in 174 straight games.

The Riders padded their lead in the fourth quarter with a 60-yard TD reception by Bagg and a 28-yard touch-down pass to Weston Dressler. Bagg finished with a game-high 125 yards on five catches.

Durant completed 20 of 32 passes for

347 yards with no interceptions. Bur-ris went 16-for-27 for 158 yards before giving way to Dan LeFevour with five minutes to play. LeFevour finished 3-for-4 with 21 yards.

OPEN: ‘I got it’At the end of a rough-and-tumble

week along the Firth of Forth, Mickel-son was the only player under par at 3-under 283. In his four other majors — three Masters and one PGA Champion-ship — he had never started the final round more than one shot behind.

“I don’t care either way how I got this trophy — I got it,” Mickelson said. “And it just so happened to be with one of the best rounds of my career, which is really the way I’ve played my entire career. I’ve always tried to go out and get it. I don’t want anybody to hand it to me. I want to go out and get it. And today, I did.”

Westwood, whose only other 54-hole lead in a major ended with Mickelson winning the Masters, paid tribute to Lefty for what will go down as one of the great closing rounds in a major.

“When you birdie four of the last six of a round any day, that’s good go-ing,” Westwood said. “With a decent breeze blowing and some tough flags out there, it’s obviously a pretty good experience. When you do it in a major championship, it’s an even better ex-perience.”

But this major? Phil Mickelson?He had only contended twice in two

decades at golf’s oldest championship. One week after he won the Scottish Open in a playoff on the links-styled course of Castle Stuart, Mickelson was simply magical on the back nine of a brown, brittle Muirfield course that hasn’t played this tough since 1966.

Tied for the lead, Mickelson smashed a 3-wood onto the green at the par-5 17th to about 25 feet for a two-putt birdie, and finished in style with a 10-foot birdie putt on the 18th to match the lowest score of this championship.

“Those two 3-woods were the two best shots of the week, to get it on that green,” Mickelson said. “As I was walking up to the green, that was when I realized that this is very much my championship in my control. And I was getting a little emotional. I had to kind of take a second to slow down my walk and try to regain composure.”

Mickelson figured a par on the 18th would be tough for anyone to catch him. When the ball dropped in the cen-tre of the cup, he raised both arms in the air to celebrate his fifth career major, tying him with the likes of Seve Ballesteros and Byron Nelson.

“Best round I’ve ever seen him play,” said his caddie, Jim “Bones” Mackay.

Westwood and Scott tied for third with Ian Poulter, who played a four-hole stretch in 5-under around the turn and closed with a 67. At 1-over 285, he cancelled a flight home in case of a playoff. Moments later, with Mickelson pulling away, the outcome was clear.

Jack Nicklaus said on Twitter, “Phil’s round was incredible. After his bad break on 16 and to then get up and down showed a lot of guts. And the two great shots at 17 ended the tourna-ment.”

Making this even sweeter for Mick-elson is that just one month ago he lost out on yet another chance to win the U.S. Open, the missing link of a career Grand Slam.


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Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Maicer Izturis turns a double play on Tampa Bay Rays Sean Rodriguez during 8th inning action in Toronto on Sunday.

STATELINE, Nev. — Billy Joe Tolliver won the American Century Championship for the fourth time, beating fel-low former NFL quarter-back Mark Rypien with a par on the third hole of a playoff Sunday.

They finished regula-tion at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course tied at 67 in the modified Stableford format that awards grad-uated points for pars or better. Tolliver took ad-vantage of Rypien’s pitch shot into the water, win-ning with a two-putt par from 25 feet.

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Phil Mickelson of the United States holds up the Claret Jug trophy after winning the British Open Golf Championship at Muirfield, Scotland, Sunday.

Tuesday● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone and Granite vs. North Star Sports, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief 2.

Wednesday● Junior golf: McLennan Ross/Sun Tour, Olds.Bantam AAA baseball: Red Deer Braves vs. St. Albert, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Lacombe, 7 p.m.● Ladies fastball: Red Deer League final, second game best-of-three, TNT vs. N. Jensen’s, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park.● Major league women’s soccer: Red Deer Renegades vs. Edmonton Northwest United, 7:30 p.m., RDC.

Thursday● Senior men’s baseball: Printing Place vs. North Star Sports, doubleheader, Great Chief 1; Gary Moe Volkswagen vs. The Hideout, Great Chief 2, 6:30 p.m.● Ladies fastball: Red Deer League final, third game best-of-three, if necessary, TNT vs. N. Jensen’s, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Friday● Minor soccer tournament: Red Deer City Soccer tournament, U12-U18 boys and girls, tier I and II.● Mosquito baseball provincials: AA tier II, Red Deer vs. Edmonton, 9 a.m.; South Jasper Place vs. Spruce Grove, noon; Edmonton vs. Strathmore, 3 p.m.; Red Deer vs. Spruce Grove, 6 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Peewee baseball provincials: AA tier II, games 3 and 6 p.m., Lacombe.● Parkland baseball: Irricana at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Titans Park.Men’s rugby: Red Deer Titans vs. Bow Valley, 8 p.m.

Saturday● Minor soccer tournament: Red Deer City Soccer tournament, U12-U18 boys and girls, tier I and II.● Mosquito baseball provincials: AA tier II, South Jasper Place vs. Strathmore, 9 a.m., Spruce Grove vs. Edmonton, noon, Strathmore vs. Red Deer, 3 p.m., Edmonton vs. South Jasper Place, 6 p.m., Great Chief Park.● Peewee baseball provinials: AA tier II, games 9 a.m., noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., Lacombe.● Parkland baseball: Irricana at Eckville, doubleheader; Acme at Rocky, doubleheader.

Sunday● Minor soccer tournament: Red Deer City Soccer tournament, U12-U18 boys and girls, tier I and II.● Mosquito baseball provincials: AA tier II, Strathmore vs. Spruce Grove, 9 a.m., Red Deer vs. South Jasper Place, noon, semifinal, 3 p.m. if no tiebreaker or one tiebreaker. 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., if two tiebreakers.● Major league women’s soccer: Red Deer Renegades vs. Edmonton Angels, noon, RDC.● Peewee baseball provincials: consolation final 9 a.m., semifinals noon and 3 p.m., final 6 p.m. if no tiebreakers; if one tiebreaker, 8 a.m. tiebreaker, 10:30 a.m. consolation final, semifinals 1 and 3:30 p.m., final 7 p.m.; if two tiebreakers, 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. tiebreakers; 1 and 3:30 p.m. semifinals; 7 p.mn., final; Lacombe.

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Athletics top Riggers in finalBY DANNY RODE

ADVOCATE STAFF

Athletics 7 Riggers 0T h e d e p t h a n d

strength of the Red Deer Riggers this sea-son has made it easy to look at them and predict they’re the team to beat in the Sunburst Baseball League and provincial senior AAA champion-ships.

But just in case any-one forgot the Fort Sas-katchewan Athletics are still the defending league and provincial champi-ons, which they showed with a 7-0 win over the Riggers in the Riggers annual baseball tourna-ment at Great Chief Park Sunday afternoon.

“They’re a good team, that doesn’t do a lot to hurt themselves and they put together solid at bats,” said Riggers man-ager Curtis Bailey. “I know every time we play them we learn some-thing.”

The Riggers need to learn to handle the bunt play more efficiently. In fact it was a pair of bunts in the third inning that gave the A’s a 3-0 lead.

Former Red Deer Stag Dan Zinger led off the inning against Rig-gers starter Matt Davis with an opposite field single. Matt Debeurs bunted and catcher Cur-tis Mazurkewich rushed his throw and pulled first baseman Matt Fay off the base. Andy Her-man bunted to third and Jaret Chatwood’s throw

went off second baseman Kevin Curran’s glove into right field, allowing both Zinger and Debeurs to score. A passed ball, a walk and a ground out and it was 3-0.

“One of our weak-nesses has been the bunt play,” said Bailey shaking his head. “We talked last week with Davis on the mound and he indicated that’s not a strength of his, com-ing off the mound. They exposed that weakness today and it’s something we need to work on and communicate better.

We’ll figure it out and we need to.”

As it was Davis al-lowed just two hits through five innings while the Riggers man-aged five off Fort Sas-katchewan starter Kiel Vertz. However, the Rig-gers simply did a poor job of hitting with runs in scoring position.

That was never more evident than in the sixth inning when they trailed 6-0, but loaded the bases with none away, against reliever James Fischer. However, Bailey was called out on what ap-

peared to be a ball out-side, Jordan Weinkauf w a t c h e d t h e t h i r d strike and Mazurkewich grounded out.

“We had our chances, but didn’t come through, it’s one of those things that have hurt us at times this season,” said Bailey. “We need to do a better job of putting the ball in play with runners on and forcing the defence into making the plays.”

Davis gave up three earned runs in the sixth on four hits, includ-ing a two-run double by Zinger. Josh Edwards al-

lowed a run in the sev-enth on an off-field bloop single.

“Overall I thought our pitching was fine,” said Bailey. “We didn’t gave them any runs to work with and our defence could have been better.”

But everything wasn’t all negative for the Rig-gers as Jaret Chatwood made the play of the game with a brilliant diving stop behind third base, got up and threw a bullet to first base to nail Herman.

Jason Chatwood had two hits and a walk and Jaret Chatwood a pair of hits. Bailey had a double and was hit by a pitch.

Riggers reached the final with a 10-2 win over the St. Albert Tigers Sat-urday evening in their final pool game as Brant Stickel tossed a four-hit-ter while striking out 11.

The A’s defeated the Edmonton Confedera-tion Cubs 10-5 and the Calgary Cardinals 13-2 in their pool. The Cubs also downed the Cardinals 3-1 and beat St. Albert 14-11 in the third-place game.

St. Albert stopped the Innisfail Merchants 13-1 in their other pool game.

The Cards downed the Merchants in the fifth-place game.

The Riggers host St. Albert Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in league action and finish their regular season on the road with two makeup games. They open league playoff ac-tion, Aug. 5 at home.

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Red Deer Rigger Jaret Chatwood hits a ball into left field during the sixth inning in the final against the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics at their annual baseball tournament, Sunday, at Great Chief Park.

Renegades drop close game to Callies

BY DANNY RODE

ADVOCATE STAFF

Callies 3 Renegades 2The Calgary Callies are definitely one

of the better teams in the Alberta Women’s Major Soccer League, sitting second with six wins and a tie in nine games

However, the Red Deer Renegades, who are 4-3 and in fifth place, aren’t far behind.

The Renegades gave the Callies every-thing they could handle Sunday afternoon at Edgar Park before falling 3-2, thanks to a late goal on an outstanding header on a corner kick.

“Corner kicks have been one of our downfalls of late,” said Renegades assistant coach Paul Morigeau, who was handling the team with head coach Ado Sarcevic away.

“We’ve given up too many corner kicks of late and that’s a sign we have a little too much pressure in our zone. We have to make an adjustment and defend it a bit bet-ter.”

As it was it was the third straight corner

kick by the Callies before they managed to find the open side. Red Deer had a number of excellent chances to tie the game late, but didn’t capitalize.

“We missed a couple of other break-aways as well, so the chances were there to tie, or even win,” said Morigeau, who also gave the Callies all the credit.

“They’re a very good veteran team that moves the ball well and makes it look easy,” he said. “We don’t do that, but we’re getting there. Overall I’d say we’re at least four years younger than they are. They have a lot of players with NCAA and university ex-perience and because of it they don’t have to work as hard as we do to have success.”

Paula Dadensky scored both Red Deer goals and leads the league with 11 in seven games. Goaltender Lauren Good was solid in net and didn’t have any chance on the ones that beat her.

“They’re one of the top teams,” said Good, who attends the University of Calgary after two years with the RDC Queens.

She’s also very familiar with several members of the Callies.

“Four of them play with me at the U of C. So they rubbed a bit of salt into the wounds,” she said with a laugh.

Overall Good has had a strong season

and a much more enjoyable one compared to previous years when the team struggled to score, never mind win.

“We’re a lot stronger, with more depth,” she said. “It’s been a good season . . . a lot better for all of us.”

Good came up through the Renegades minor system before joining RDC.

“The Renegades were a great building program and prepared me for going on to college and university,” she said.

Last year was Good’s first at the U of C and not one she wants to remember. She suffered a concussion in her second game and missed the rest of the season. However, the U of C applied to get her year of eligi-bility back and it was accepted so she still has three years of eligibility remaining.

She’s looking forward to that and to re-turn to Red Deer for the summer and play with an up and coming Renegades team.

“It’s a lot of fun to come back, play for a good team and to play with players you grew up with,” she said.

The Renegades host the Edmonton Northwest United Wednesday at 7:30p.m. at RDC and host the Edmonton Angels Sunday at noon at RDC.

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Peewee AA Braves finish strong in provincial championship win

BY DANNY RODE

ADVOCATE STAFF

Braves 14 Yankees 0Red Deer North Star Braves head

coach Randy Gehring wasn’t about to go out on a limb and predict a provincial championship.

But he also knew that everything was on their side heading into the provincial peewee AA tier III final Sunday evening at Great Chief Park.

Not only were the Braves facing the Barrhead Yankees in the final, a team they defeated 19-4 in pool play, but had their ace on the mound in Branden Woods.

“You never know what can happen, but we had our big guy on the mound,” said Gehring. “He threw a lot of strikes, put the ball in play and let the defence do the rest.”

The Braves defence was solid, as was Woods, who tossed a four hitter, didn’t walk a batter and fanned six in the five in-ning affair, called on the mercy rule.

The Braves all but put the game away with five runs in the bottom of the first in-ning. They added three runs in the second, one in the third and five in the fourth.

Mason Love-Hollman had three singles while Shea Thomas, the only second year member of the Braves, added ]a triple. Woods chipped in with three hits and scored twice and was named the MVP of the final.

Josh Zinger had two singles and scored three times.

Despite the fact the Braves had 11 first-year players who played mosquito AA last year, Gehring had looked at putting the team into the AA tier II provincials. However, Baseball Alberta wanted them

to host the tier III finals.“We also had to confirm Great Chief

Park for the provincials, so it worked out better this way,” said Gehring.

“We got to host, which was good for the kids. It was also good for them to win.

“Last year we lost in the mosquito AA final, so a chance to win was good for ev-eryone. You can see the smiles on their faces.”

The Braves were a solid team that has grown together for several years.

“We’ve had a chance to develop a lot of them and they have good skills, a good attitude and like to learn. They’re aggres-sive and play hard. As I told the kids after the game that with this group and groups coming up baseball in Red Deer is in good shape for years to come.”

A number of the players will move up to the peewee AAA next season.

“If some return and with a good group of kids moving up from mosquito this team will be strong again.”

The Braves reached the final with an 18-8 win over Camrose in the semifinals while Barrhead downed Edmonton 13-3. Red Deer also defeated Okotoks 12-2 in their pool.

● In the mosquito A tier III provincials, also at Great Chief Park, Stettler downed Coronation 10-1 in the final.

Stettler downed the Red Deer Braves Blue 14-7 and Coronation stopped the Braves Red 14-11 in the semifinals.

Both Red Deer teams won Saturday to reach the semifinals as the Reds stopped Barrhead 12-9 and the Blues downed Sherwood Park 18-7. As well, Coronation defeated Sherwood Park 5-0 and Stettler beat Barrhead 16-5.

Barrhead downed Sherwood Park 25-22 in the consolation game.

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The Rampage won the best-of-there North semifinal against the Edmonton Warriors, win-ning 22-14 Saturday and 6-4 Sunday. Darrian Banack was in goal Saturday, facing 48 shots. Reid Swier had five goals, Jayce Grebinski four, Mitch Vellner three, Spencer Lee, Troy Klaus, Pearce Just and Trey Christensen two each and Jordan Hemstad and Cole deGraaf one apiece. Rhett Baldwin picked up the win in goal Sunday, facing 39 shots. Lee and Chris-tensen had two goals each with singles added by Taylor Osterman and Hemstad.

The Rampage will meet the St. Albert Crude in the best-of-three North final. The winner advances to the best-of-five league final from which the winner goes to the Cana-dian championships in Winnipeg.

● In junior B tier II action, the Red Deer Renegades defeated the Strathmore Venom 11-9. Colton Levie and Nate Bellanger scored three times each with single added by Tucker Kambietz, Ryan Strome, Scott Ebbert, Carter Copeland-Blair and Brady Thudium.

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GRANDE PRAIRIE — The Central Alberta Buccaneers put the finishing touches on their Alberta Football League regular season with an impressive 38-2 win over the Grande Prai-rie Drillers Saturday.

The win left the Bucs with a 5-1 record and in second place.

Once again it was the Bucs defence that was the story as they held the Drillers to less than 100 total yards and consistently had pres-sure on the Grande Prairie quarterback. Chad Murray and Taylor Waldbauer had strong games on offence grabbing touchdown passes from Byron Stearns and Andrew Stannix.

The Bucs have a bye in the league quarter-finals before hosting a playoff game Aug. 10 in Lacombe.

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JOLIET, Ill. — Joey Logano held off Sam Hornish Jr. to win the NA-SCAR Nationwide race at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday.

Logano, the lone Sprint Cup regular in the race, earned his second Nation-wide win of the year and No. 20 for his career. He also won at Dover in June.

Hornish held on for second, giving car owner Roger Penske the top two spots. Austin Dillon finished third, earning a $100,000 bonus. Elliott Sadler had the lead on a restart with 24 laps remaining. But the defending race win-ner faded as Hornish moved in front on the track where he won an IndyCar race in 2002. Hornish looked in posi-tion to secure the victory when Logano roared into the lead and went on to the victory while the rest of the Sprint Cup drivers took the weekend off.

Sadler finished fourth, and was fol-lowed by Brian Vickers, Parker Kliger-man and Trevor Bayne. Illinois native Justin Allgaier, Brad Sweet and Matt Crafton rounded out the top 10 in the first Nationwide stop of the year at Chicagoland.

The series returns in September on the same weekend that the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship begins at the track. Sadler and Regan Smith did not see very much of each other one week after their collision at New

Hampshire led to a midweek phone call to clear the air. Sadler confront-ed Smith right after the race, promis-ing he would not win the series title, and then said he would race the No. 7 Chevrolet differently in the future.

There were no such problems at Chicagoland, with Sadler racing near the front and Smith struggling with the feel of his car all day long. Smith, who entered the race with a five-point lead over Hornish in the series standings, slid into the infield on Lap 129, result-ing in caution No. 4. Smith finished 13th. Hornish won his second career pole earlier in the day, and then led the first 49 laps. But he was flagged for speeding into pit road and sent to the back of the field for a restart on lap 54. He quickly climbed back into conten-tion, but was unable to run down Lo-gano at the end.

Sadler was still upset with Smith when the series arrived in Chicago-land this week. The dispute started when Smith spun Sadler around on the final restart in last Saturday’s race at Loudon, costing him a shot at a solid top-10 finish and a potential $100,000 bonus.Smith took responsibility for the accident, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., the co-owner of Smith’s car, also reached out to his longtime friend Sadler. But it did little to assuage Sadler’s anger.

“We’re here to win the champion-ship, period,” Sadler said Saturday, “and I honestly think as good as we’ve been running the last month or so, I don’t think he’s going to run good enough to run with us anyway.”

Bantam AAA Braves lose both games of doubleheader

The Red Deer Servus Credit Union dropped both ends of a bantam AAA baseball league doubleheader against the homestanding Sherwood Park Ath-letics Saturday, losing 12-11 and 14-3.

Zach Olson had a single, double and triple while driving in two runs in the opener while Parker Booth had a single, a triple, a walk and three RBIs. Hayley Lalor added a pair of singles and a walk, Jordan Muirhead a single, two walks and a RBI on a sacrifice fly and Austin Hammond a RBI double.

Ethan Ropcean started on the mound and went five innings, allowing three runs on three hits and four walks while fanning four.

Muirhead went 2/3 of an inning, al-lowing four runs on two hits and a walk and Hammond went 1 2/3 innings, giv-ing up five runs on six hits and a walk.

In the second game, Hammond had a pair of singles while Olson picked up two walks and a single and Griffin Mo-line a single. Muirhead and Ropcean had walks.

Brad Pope took the loss, allowing eight runs on five hits over three in-nings.

Carter O’Donnell went two innings, allowing six runs on nine hits and no walks.

The Braves host St. Albert Wednes-day at 6:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park and finish their regular schedule Thursday in Okotoks.

Soehn wins gold at Canada Cup Championships

Keegan Soehn won gold for the Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club at the Canada Cup Championships in Airdrie during the weekend,

Soehn won the national senior men’s double-mini trampoline (DMT) while placing 10th on the trampoline.

Kyle Soehn was seventh in both events in national senior men.

Logan Chaput was fifth in DMT and trampoline in the national U18 men’s division while Zach Blakely was fifth in DMT and seventh on the trampoline in the national espoir men’s category.

Alexandra Potter was fourth on the trampoline and 13th in DMT in nation-al U18 women’s competition.

The Thunder Country won a pair of gold in synchronized trampoline.

Kyle and Keegan won the national senior men’s final and Chaput and Blakely the national men’s category.

Peewee AAA Braves win four road games in weekend play

The Red Deer Dairy Queens Braves are preparing for the provincial pee-wee AAA baseball championships in style.

The Braves, who host the provin-cials, Aug. 2-4 at Great Chief Park, won all four games on the road this week-end.

They downed the Spruce Grove Sox 17-6 on Saturday and 9-8 on Sunday and the Edmonton Cardinals 14-2 on Saturday and 10-7 on Sunday.

Adam Junck took to the mound against the Sox Saturday and went 6 1/3 innings, allowing six runs, but only four earned.

Reid Howell went the final 2/3 of an inning.

Aiden Schafer was three-for-three at the plate with three RBIs while Zach Baker was two-for-two.

Rylan Eberle was four-for-five and Ty Moline three-for-four with two RBIs and a pair of runs.

Junck helped himself with three hits, including first his home run of the season, a solo shot in the top of the fourth.

The Braves had 13 hits and took ad-vantage of eight Edmonton errors on Saturday as they exploded for seven runs in the third to take control.

Baker went the five innings, allow-ing just one earned run and striking out four. Cooper Jones went five in-nings against the Sox on Sunday. He started slowly, allowing a pair of home run and four runs in the first before settling down.

He left with an 8-6 lead. Ben LeB-lanc came on and gave up two runs in the sixth to tie the game, but the Braves Brett Porter scored on a passed ball in the bottom of the inning to pull out the win.

LeBlanc was three-for-three while Hunter Leslie and Moline, who had two RBis, were two-for-four.

Leslie started against the Cards Sunday and worked 4 1/3 innings, al-lowing six runs. Porter pitched the final 2 2/3, holding Edmonton to a run on two walks.

MacGregor Manyluk was two-for-three with Jones, Leslie and Baker adding two hits and two RBIs each. Riley Seward was one-for-one with an RBI and a run.

The game was tied at six after five innings, but the Braves scored four times in the sixth.

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Froome wins 100th Tour de FranceBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — I won’t let you down like Lance Arm-strong. This Tour de France champion is for real.

That, in so many words, is the promise Chris Froome made as the newest winner of cycling’s showcase race so badly hurt over the years by riders who doped to win it.

Because of their deceit, Froome faced a barrage of questions as he dominated rivals over three weeks of racing, all centred on the same key concern: Can we believe in you?

Yes, he insisted. The sport is changing, he argued. He handled the scrutiny politely and adroitly. He said he understood the skepticism. And on the po-dium in Paris, his wiry frame wrapped in his canary yellow jersey, Froome asked the guardians of the 110-year-old race and all those who love it to trust him.

“This is one yellow jersey that will stand the test of time,” he said.

In two years, Britain has had two different win-ners: Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and now Froome, a cooler, calmer, more understated but no less deter-mined character than his Sky teammate with famous sideburns.

Froome rode into Paris in style: Riders pedaled up to him to offer congratulations; he sipped from a flute of champagne; a Tour organizer stuck an arm from his car window to shake Froome’s hand. He dedicated his victory to his late mother, Jane, who died in 2008.

“Without her encouragement to follow my dreams I would probably be at home watching on TV,” he said.

Froome took the race lead on Stage 8 in the Pyre-nees, never relinquished it and vigorously fended off rivals whose concerted challenges turned this 100th Tour into a thriller. Froome and his Sky teammates linked arms as they rode for the line.

“This is a beautiful country with the finest annual sporting event on the planet. To win the 100th edition is an honour beyond any I’ve dreamed,” he said.

Five-time winners Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain joined Froome on the podium. Missing, of course, was Armstrong. Stripping the se-rial doper of his seven wins tore a hole in the Tour’s roll of honour as large as that left by World War II, when the race didn’t take place from 1940-46.

None of the 100th edition’s podium finishers — Froome, Nairo Quintana and Joaquim Rodriguez — have ever failed a drug test or been directly im-plicated in any of cycling’s litany of doping scandals. That is an encouraging and notable departure both from the Armstrong era and many other Tour podi-ums before and since.

“In a way, I’m glad that I’ve had to face those questions. That after all the revelations last year and just the tarnished history over the last decade, all that’s been channeled toward me now,” Froome said. “I feel I’ve been able to deal with it reasonably well throughout this Tour, and hopefully that’s sent a strong message to the cycling world that the sport has changed — and it really has.”

“The peloton’s standing together, the riders are united and it’s not going to be accepted anymore.”

The spectacular nighttime ceremonies, with the Eiffel Tower in glittering lights and the Arc de Tri-omphe used as a screen for a flashing lightshow, capped what has been a visually stunning Tour.

It started with a first-ever swing through Corsica, France’s so-called “island of beauty,” before veer-

ing through the Pyrenees to Brittany and then across France to the race’s crescendo in the Alps — 3,404 grueling kilometres (2,115 miles) in total.

Because of the unique late-afternoon start for the final Stage 21, the riders raced on the cobbles of the Champs-Elysees as the sun cast golden hues over the peloton and shadows lengthened over the dense, cheering crowds. Marcel Kittel won the final sprint on the avenue, the German’s sprinter’s fourth stage win of this Tour.

French Air Force jets in formation trailed red, white and blue smoke in the skies. The riders circled like a necklace around the Arc de Triomphe in their bright colored team jerseys.

After setting off from the magnificent Versailles Palace, the former residence of three kings and their seat of power until the French revolution of 1789, the riders were granted the privilege of meandering through the chateau’s manicured gardens, past lakes like mirrors, spurting fountains and statues looking on stonily.

Before the pace picked up sharply on the Champs-Elysees, Sunday’s 133-kilometre ride was largely leisurely. The 169 finishers — from 198 who started — savored the pleasure of surviving the three-week ordeal.

Ryder Hesjedal of Victoria topped the Canadian contingent with a 70th-place finish overall. Tour rookies David Veilleux of Cap-Rouge, Que., finished 123rd while Svein Tuft of Langley, B.C., was last in 169th.

“We are very proud of these three Canadian rid-ers at the Tour de France,” said Jacques Landry,

head coach at Cycling Canada. “Crossing the finish line of the Tour de France is a remarkable feat, and we should all be proud of them.”

Quintana, the 23-year-old Colombian who secured second place behind Froome with an impressive win on Saturday’s penultimate Stage 20, laughed as third-placed Rodriguez tried to spark up a cigar in the saddle.

Froome’s clear physical superiority made him overwhelming favourite going into the Tour and car-ried him through it.

His winning margin of 4 minutes, 20 seconds was the largest since 1997, when Jan Ullrich — who has since admitted to doping — beat Richard Virenque — who also confessed to using performance-enhanc-ers — by 9 minutes, 9 seconds.

Armstrong had larger margins of victory than Froome but those no longer count.

Froome’s three stage victories — in the Pyrenees, on Mont Ventoux in Provence and in a mountainous time trial — were the most for a Tour winner since Armstrong got five in 2004, results now annulled.

Sky team manager Dave Brailsford said the Tour is seeing “a new generation” of young riders who “have never lived in an era of doping.”

Cycling’s future “is in good hands with Chris, be-cause he is an exceptional rider and an exceptional character.”

Unlike some other riders who cut short ques-tions about doping and bristled, Froome said he was happy during the Tour to discuss the issue that has so poisoned his sport. He said he, too, felt let down by his cheating predecessors.

TOOK LEAD ON STAGE 8 AND NEVER LOOKED BACK, SAYS WIN WILL STAND TEST OF TIME


Team Sky with 2013 Tour de France cycling race winner Christopher Froome of Britain, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, crosses the finish line of the 21st and last stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race over 133.5 kilometers (83.4 miles) with start in Versailles and finish in Paris, France, Sunday.

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It wasn’t Canada Day on Satur-day night — but it might as well have been.

Country singer Dean Brody wasn’t shy about wearing his pa-triotism on his sleeve and wav-ing the red and white for more than 3,200 of his fervent fans during Westerner Days at Red Deer’s Centrium.

Not only did Brody prompt an audience singalong of O Canada, he preceded the an-them with his heart-felt Brothers, a choke-you-up tune about saying goodbye to a Canadian soldier.

Then he wrapped up with his No. 1 hit, Cana-dian Girls, in praise of outdoorsy women who can fish, skate and ap-preciate hockey.

The audience went nuts for the 37-year-old Nova Scotia resident, who came across as an affable guy in sunglasses, check shirt and cowboy hat.

His stage presence was laid-back, occasionally to the point of languidness.

But just when you thought he’d stand with his guitar for-ever, Brody would do a little jig, or bounce up and down to shake things up a bit.

When the wild and crazies re-ally struck, he’d walk along the aisles, shaking hand with his most-ly young fans — a few of whom would hand him things and wave signs of adoration.

“I’ve seen the Canadian flag in a bunch of cool places,” said Brody, who explained that some were less appropriate than others

(one involved a drunken woman wearing a Canadian flag bikini that rode up her backside).

“Nothing makes me prouder than when I see (the flag) on a uni-form,” he added — “especially on

a soldier fighting for our country overseas. ”

The audience ap-plause to this statement was deafening — indi-cating that Brody clear-ly knows his crowd.

Saturday night ’s concert evoked a lot of sentimental country imagery — from front porches and picnics in apple orchards, to listening to grandma’s advice by the river bank.

There were lots of songs about driving along dirt roads — and even a song called

Dirt.It all might have come across

as cloying and contrived if not for Brody’s earnestness and likabil-ity.

In his intro to his moving song Trail in Life, the singer spoke about the regret all of us feel at some point for friendships or ro-mances that felt like they would last forever, but are now history.

Brody mentioned college bud-dies he hadn’t seen in years and his first girlfriend who vanished into past. “I hope she’s doin’ good . . . ”

While it’s been famously said that life is more about the journey than the destination, he added, most of the journey involves “the people we travel that road with.” He dedicated Trail in Life to old friends.

Body went on to perform a se-ries of poignant tunes, along with his talented four-piece band, in-cluding Underneath the Apple Trees, about being hopeful about finding love, Bob Marley, about staying cool, and The Porch, about seeking forgiveness after a roman-tic blow-out.

The B.C.-born singer admitted he was having a hard time being upbeat, since he buried his dog Boo just three days ago. “These little four-legged little creatures get a part of your heart and don’t let go.”

“I love you!” shouted a support-ive fan, prompting a smiling Brody to respond, “I love you too!”

He managed to quicken the tempo for light-hearted covers of Tom Petty’s Yer So Bad and Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds (Don’t Worry).

And Brody delivered rousing renditions of his rollicking Mar-itime-flavoured hit, It’s Friday, and his tongue-in-cheek comical ditty That’s Your Cousin, about “not swimming in the same gene pool.”

His energetic Roll That Barrel tune got Brody stomping his foot to the beat. And fans sang along to Dirt Road Scholar and Little Yel-low Blanket, and tapped their toes to People Know You By Your First Name.

By the time Brody ended the concert with his encore perfor-mance of Nowhere U.S.A., a few audience members had been step dancing at the back of the Cen-trium.

Not bad for a guy who didn’t think he had much ‘upbeat’ in him.

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Glee’ will air three episodes, including tribute to late star

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NEW YORK — Glee executive pro-ducer Ryan Murphy is planning a trib-ute episode to honour the series’ de-ceased star, Cory Monteith.

In remarks to news outlets pub-lished Saturday, Murphy said the trib-ute would address the death of Finn, the character Monteith played on the Fox network high school musical se-ries.

That show will be the season’s third episode, following two episodes that had already been written.

Then the series will go on a hia-tus to reassess its direction, Murphy said. The body of 31-year-old Monteith was found last weekend in a Vancou-ver hotel room.

Tests showed he died of an overdose of heroin and alcohol.

On Glee he played high school quarterback and glee club member Finn Hudson, who had graduated and

moved on to college but was an adviser to his old club and remained part of the show.

Finn also had an off-and-on ro-mance with fellow student and singer Rachel, played by his real-life girl-friend Lea Michele.

Monteith had been candid about his struggles with addiction, which includ-ed a rehab stint several months before his death.

Murphy said he had helped stage an intervention in his office for Monteith last March.

“He wanted to continue working and we said, ‘That’s not an option. No. The TV show doesn’t matter, your life matters,”’ Murphy told the Eonline website. Monteith’s rehab began soon thereafter.

Murphy also spoke with Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter and TV Line.

On Friday, Fox announced the se-ries would return for its fifth season on Sept. 26, a week later than originally scheduled.

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SUPERMAN IS COMING BACK ANDHIS CO-STAR WILL BE BATMAN


SAN DIEGO — Superman is coming back, and he’ll have a caped co-star.

“Man of Steel” director Zack Snyder made a sur-prise appearance at Comic-Con on Saturday to an-nounce he is making another Superman film and it will include Batman — the first time the two su-perheroes will be united on the big screen.

He declined to reveal many details, saying the script is just being written. He then invited an actor onstage to read a passage to hint at the story line.

“I am the man who beat you,” read Harry Lennox, be-fore an image of the Superman logo, backed by the Bat-man symbol, flashed on the screen.

Warner Bros . confirmed the first-ever pairing in a statement.

Snyder reimag-ined Superman in his June blockbust-er “Man of Steel,” starring Henry Cav-ill and Amy Adams. The film has grossed more than $630 million world-wide.

Cavill and Adams will appear in the sequel, War-ner Bros. said. Reaction to the news stunned Twitter and left fans at Comic-Con giddy.

“Personally, I love him,” said Claudia Gomez, who was wearing a Batman T-shirt while her niece, Ana, wore a Superman shirt.

Gomez, who travelled to Comic-Con from Mexico City, said the pairing of both heroes left her optimis-tic about a new Superman film.

Benjamin Ha, who dressed as Superman to his wife’s Wonder Woman, said bringing the two super-heroes together will yield fireworks.

“They’re both alpha males,” he said.Saturday’s announcement about the film follows

DC Entertainment’s debut last month of the Greg Pak-written Batman/Superman comic, an ongoing monthly series illustrated by Jae Lee that was the top-selling title among comic books in June.

The book pairs the two characters together a time in their lives when they’re both young and still adapting to being superheroes.

Superman and Batman have also been at odds in comic books, too.

In Frank Miller’s dark telling of The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue mini-series from the 1980s, Bat-man came out of retirement while Superman became a tool of the federal government.

Production on the Superman sequel is set to begin next year. The film is expected to be released in the summer of 2015.

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WHMIS and TDG training will be provided.

If you require additional information, please call

Owen Kaczmar at 403-340-1017.

Please fax your resume and current driver’s

abstract to 403-340-0004 Attn: Owen or e-mail to:

[email protected]

Oilfield 800

ClassifiedsYour place to SELLYour place to BUY

Oilfield 800

PRODUCTIONTESTING

PERSONNEL REQ’D

Day Supervisors (5- 10yrs experience)

Night Supervisors (2-4yrs experience)

JOIN OUR FASTGROWING TEAM!!

Competitive Wages, Benefits, Retirement and

Saving Plan!

QUALIFICATIONS:

• M u s t b e a b l e t o Provide own work truck

• Leadership and Super-visory skil ls- mentor and train crew

• Strong Computer Skills• Ope ra te 5000ps i -

10,000 psi (sweet and Sour wells)

• Collect Data - pressure, rates, temperatures

• Assist in Rig in and Rig out of equipment

• Trave l to and f rom locations across Western Canada

REQUIREMENTS:

• Val id 1st A id, H2S, Driver’s License required!

• Mus t be w i l l i ng t o submit pre access fit for duty test, as well as drug and alcohol

• Travel & be away from home for periods of time 21/7

• A b i l i t y t o w o r k i n c h a n g i n g c l i m a t e conditions

website:www.cathedralenergyservices.com

Methods to Apply:HRCanada@

cathedralenergyservices.compnieman@

cathedralenergyservices.comYour application will be kept strictly confidential.

PROFLO Production Seperators is currently taking applications for

PRODUCTION TESTERS Candidates must have

oilfield experience, enthu-siasm, willingness to work hard and be on call 24/7.

H2S, First Aid, PST and/or CSTS. and a valid drivers

license are the basic training req’d for the

position. We are a small busy testing company with big standards. Please send

a resume via email [email protected]

or fax to: 403-341-4588 Successful candidates will be called and put to work

as soon as possible.

Oilfield 800

SERVICE RIGBearspaw Petroleum Ltd

is seeking an exp’dFLOORHAND

Locally based, home every night! Qualified applicants must have all necessary

valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefits package along with a steady

work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources

Email: [email protected]: (403) 258-3197 or

Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE

Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

TEAM Snubbing Services now hiring experienced

operators Email: janderson@

teamsnubbing.comfax 403-844-2148

TIGERS COIL TUBING SERVICES

Looking to hire Class 2 coil tubing supervisors. Competitive wages and benefits. 403-866-5597

Fax resume to 403-504-9241

Oilfield 800

Oilfield 800 VERSATILE

ENERGYGrowing Central AB. Prod. Testing Co. is accepting

resumes for Exp. Supervis-ors, Night Operators &

Operators. Positions are safety sensitive. A valid

Driver’s Licence, H2S and First Aid Tickets are req’d.Successful Applicants will

be notified. Please faxresume with current tickets to (403)887-0343 or email:

[email protected]

Restaurant/Hotel 820

989240 AB LTD.o/a TIM HORTONS

Hiring 15 Permanent F/T Food Counter Attendants

& 4 Permanent F/T Food Service Supervisorsfor both Red Deer Locations

Parkland Mall 6359 50 Ave. and

6020 - 67 St. Fax: 403-314-4427, email

[email protected]

Must be available all shifts, eves., wknds., nights

$11./hr. - FCA$13./hr. - FSS

Fax or email resume

Classifieds...costs so littleSaves you so much!

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Pidherney’s is busy and requires the following:

OILFIELD FOREMAN & EQUIPMENT OPERATORS

We require Experienced Oilfi eld Foremen and Equipment

Operators for the following:

Excavators, Dozers, Graders, Scrapers & Loaders

Pidherney’s offers:• Top wages paid based on

experience• Flexible work schedule• Benefi t Package• Career Advancement

Opportunities

First Aid, H2S and Ground Disturbance certifi cation required.

Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370

Or E-mail: [email protected]

Obituaries

BARBEREsther Eileen (nee Kurtz)1927 - 2013

I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy gates,

O Jerusalem. - Psalm 122:1-2

Esther entered the gates of the New Jerusalem and into the presence of her Lord and Saviour on July 16, 2013. E s t h e r w a s b o r n i n Lethbridge, Alberta on March 17, 1927, the tenth of twelve children to John and Olga Kur tz . She at tended the Twelve Mile Coulee School near Picture Butte, Alberta. Starting in Grade 8, Esther was bussed to school in Picture Butte. At age 16, Esther moved to Red Deer to complete h igh school a t Canadian Nazarene College where she also completed commercial secretarial and bookkeeping courses. Esther worked for a variety of Red Deer businesses. Esther met Art Barber 1952; they were married in Red Deer in June 1954. Esther was raised in the Lutheran church and has attended the Nazarene and A l l i a n c e c h u r c h e s a n d Potter’s Hands Ministry in Red Deer. Esther enjoyed spending t ime doing her handicrafts of sewing and crochet ing. Many of her f r iends and fami ly have received gifts of her hand-made afghans and table clothes and quilts over the years. Esther is survived by her sons; Rick and David, g randdaugh te rs ; Kay la , Breanna and Morgan. She is also survived by her sister, Maxine Morrison (Ken) and many nieces and nephews. Esther was predeceased by her husband, Art in 2012 and siblings; Baby Kurtz, Herbert, Edith, Irene, Alma, Lenora, Ted, John, Anne and Ed. Celebration of Esther’s life will be held on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 2:00 pm at Deer Park Alliance Church, 2960 39th Street, Red Deer. The f am i l y r espec t f u l l y decl ines f lowers; in l ieu, donations in Esther’s memory can be made to Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4R 3S6. The family wishes t o t hank t he Red Dee r Hospice and the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre - Unit 31 for their attention, kindness, care and compassion. C o n d o l e n c e s m a y b e forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com

Arrangements entrusted toEVENTIDE FUNERAL

CHAPEL4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

Obituaries

QUARTLYEdith 1922 - 2013Mrs. Edith Quartly passed away surrounded by her loving family in Red Deer on Wednesday, July 18, 2013 at the age of 90 years. She was born August 30, 1922 to Donald and Annie McMillan at Innisfail, Alberta. She grew up in the Antler Hill and Hill End Districts and took her school ing there as wel l . Edith married Frank Quartly on November 7, 1940. They moved to the J.M. Marshall farm on February 20, 1946 where they raised their three children: Donald, Janette, and Clifford. They continued to farm there until they retired and moved to town in October 1982. Edith enjoyed gardening, traveling, bowling, playing cards, and going to bingos. She always had t ime for visiting and having coffee with her friends and family. She moved into the Country Manor in May of 2007 and continued to live there until her passing. She is survived by her daughter Janet te (Roy) Sparks, two grand-daughters, Arleen Frank (Jeff Knowles), and Fay (Patrick) Stemmler; nine great grand-children: John and Wyatt Sparks, Caitlin Rankin, Curtis, Lindsay and Nikki Frank, Amanda, Simon, and Dwight S t e m m l e r. S h e i s a l s o survived by Pierre Cadieux a n d D o n ’ s f r i e n d J o a n Birchall. Edith was prede-ceased by her husband, Frank (1986), her brother Robert McMillan (1998), her sons Clifford (1970), and Donald (2013) and grandson Dwayne Sparks (2010). A Funeral Service will be held at the Innisfail United Church on July 24, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. If friends so desire, memorial t r ibutes may be made to the Alzheimer’s Society.

HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES LTD.,

Innisfail entrusted with arrangements. 403.227.0006.

www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

In MemoriamDOBSON

In loving memory of our Dad, Ross, who passed

away July 22, 1988.

No matter how life changesNo matter what we may do

A special place within our heartsIs always kept for you.

Forever loved and sadly missed by Jim, Judy, Barb

and families

CLASSIFIEDSOffi 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

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announcements

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, July 22, 2013 B9Restaurant/Hotel 820CALKINS CONSULTING

o/a Tim Hortons10 FOOD COUNTERATTENDANTS $11/hr.

Apply at 6620 Orr Drive. Fax: 403-782-9685

Call 403-848-2356 or apply in person

HARVARD Park BusinessCentre Ltd is looking for anexperienced cook for our

kitchen. Banquetexperience is a plus and

knowledge on dealing withlarge groups. Seasonal.

Fax resume to 403-886-5003.

KITCHEN HELPERSFor (Thai Cuisine)

wage $12 hr. Please apply in person w/resume to:BLACKJACK LOUNGE

#1, 6350 - 67 St.Phone/Fax: 403-347-2118

The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time

cooks. Apply with resume at 1927 Gaetz Avenue

between 2-5 pm.

Sales &Distributors 8301693338 Alberta LTD o/a

Custom T’s, is Hiring Salespersons Parkland

Mall, Red Deer, AB. Good English and

communication skills, Customer service oriented.

F/Time, Perm, Shifts, Weekends Salary - $14.00

hourly E-mail: [email protected]

Trades 850

Misc.Help 880

EmploymentTraining 900

Misc.Help 880

Sales &Distributors 830

Alberta LTD 1693338Extreme Energy o/a

Hiring Sales Supervisor-retail at Parkland Mall,

Red Deer, AB. Exp. min. 2 yrs. Good English. Super-vise and co-ordinate sales staff. F/time, perm, shifts,

weekends. Salary - $19./hr [email protected]

CUSTOM Energized Air is a leader in compressed air technology and requires an Outside Sales Rep for our solutions driven

sales team. Experience in air compressors and pneumatics a definite

asset. Base + commission + mileage + benefits. For Red Deer & area. Apply:

[email protected]

DONORWORX, INC. is North America’s premier

face-to-face fundraising organization. We are

looking for enthusiastic FUNDRAISERS

and a TEAM CAPTAIN to join our team!

From August 1st- August 14th, you will represent World Vision at Bower

Place Mall. For more infor-mation, please visit

www.donorworx.com. $17.00 - $20.00/hr, 15 - 30 hrs/week

RED Deer based Acid hauling company looking for a Salesperson. Fax

resume to 403-346-3766

Trades 85024/7 COMPRESSION

LTD. is looking for a field service technician. Mini-

mum 10 yrs. exp. CAT,ET and Waukesha ESM cer-tification needed. Full time contractor or employee.

Send resume to [email protected]

Trades 85024/7 COMPRESSION

LTD. is looking for a shop service technician. 10 yrs. industry exp. and cylinder and accessory repair exp. an asset. Send resume to

[email protected]

EXPERIENCED sheet metal installer req’d.

Residential new housing and/or replacement

expertise req’d. Call Brad 403-588-8399 or email

[email protected]

EXPERIENCED VALVE PERSONNEL &

ASSISTANTS WANTEDAdvantage Valve in Sylvan Lake is moving into a new facility and expanding. We are looking for experienced

valve personnel and assistants. Knowledge in API, ANSI and Actuated Valves with ability to deal with customers in service would be an asset. We

offer competitive wages & benefit package.

EMAIL: [email protected] or

FAX: 403-887-1463

is now accepting resumes for the upcoming

turnaround seasonJOURNEYMAN/APPRENTICE

* Pipefitters* Welders* Boilermakers* Riggers* Field Administrators

ALSO ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR

PERSON(S)EXPERIENCED WITH

* Quality Control* Towers* Skilled Mechanical Labourer* Welder Helpers

Please email along with resume all safety tickets and trade tickets. Please spec i fy which pos i t ion you’re applying for.

Email: [email protected]

JEETS PLUMBING & HEATING

Service Plumbers.Journeyman, w/service

exp. Competitive wages. Fax resume: 403-356-0244

JOURNEYMAN or 4th.Yr. Apprentice Plumber/Gas Fitter

req’d for small shop in Westaskiwin area.

Competitive wages & health plan. Submit

resumes to: [email protected] or fax to: 780-312-2889 or

call 780-387-6087

NEED A CLASS 1 INSTRUCTOR FOR DRIVING SCHOOL.

Must have a clean driving record/abstract. Good

benefits & pay. Must work flexible hours

Send resume to dmcculley@

camerondriver.com

NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Central City Asphalt Ltd.Class 1 or Class 3

OperatorPacker OperatorFlag People and

Labourer.Fax resume to (403) 885 5137Email resume to [email protected]

Shipper / ReceiverAES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD.

looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233

SHUNDACONSTRUCTION

Requires Full TimeCarpenters

Carpenters Helpers& Site Foreman

For local work.Competitive Wages

& Benefits.Fax resumes & ref’s to:

403-343-1248 or email to: [email protected]

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCEDDrillers & Helpers to Drill for Pilings

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodationprovided when out of town.

Fax resume with driversabstract: 403-748-3015

You can sell your guitar for a song...

or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Truckers/Drivers 860

Central AB based trucking company requires

Owner Operators& Company Drivers

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late

model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

TRUCKING company based out of Red Deer looking for experienced Class 1 drivers for winch

tractor used for heavy hauling and tank truck

operators. Top wages and exc. benefit pkg. Fax resume and driver’s

abstract to 403-346-3766

UPS is now hiring a FULL TIME DRIVERApplicants must be

physically fit and be ableto lift up to 70 lbs.

Mon. to Fri, 10 to 12 hours per day. Alberta Class 5 license, clean abstract.

This is fast paced, physically demanding

environment. All candidates are subject

to criminal record checks.Apply by online @www.upsjobs.comor fax resume to:

403-648-3310

Misc.Help 880Academic Express

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START• Community Support

Worker• Women in Trades• Math and Science in

the Trades• GED c lasses days /

evening

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930www.academicexpress.ca

ADULT or YOUTHCARRIERS NEEDED

For delivery of Flyers, Express and

Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

in

GRANDVIEW40A Ave & 47 St. area & N. side of

Ross St.

MOUNTVIEW43 Ave & 35 St. &

area.$67/mo.

ROSEDALE AREARowell Close & Ritson Close

$98/mo.

DEER PARK AREADodge Ave,

Donald Cl., &Dentoom Cl.$97.00/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

CARRIERS NEEDEDFOR FLYERS,

RED DEER SUNDAY LIFEAND EXPRESS

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Archibald Cres.Armitage Close

INGLEWOOD AREA

Inglewood Drive

LANCASTER AREA

Logan CloseLees St./

Lawrence Cres.

SUNNYBROOKAREA

Sherwood Cres./Stanhope Ave.

Call Prodie @403- 314-4301 for more info

**********************TO ORDER HOMEDELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL

OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

314-4300CRYSTAL GLASS is

seeking MOBILE REPAIR OPERATOR. Must have

vehicle, pay is hourly and commission. Will train.

Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax

346-5390 or email:[email protected]

GRAYSON EXCAVATINGLTD. requires experienced

foremen, pipelayers,equipment operators,

Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers forinstallation of deep utilities

(water and sewer). Faxresume to (403)782-6846

or e-mail to: [email protected]

HARVARD PARKBUSINESS CENTRE LTD

in Springbrook is looking for aMaintenance/Painter for

immediate employment. Must not be afraid of heights. Please fax resume to 403-886-5003

Classifieds...costs so littleSaves you so much!

Misc.Help 880

Currently seeking reliable newspaper

carrier for the

BOWER AREA

WESTPARK AREA

Delivery is 4 times per week, no collecting.

Perfect for anyone looking to make some extra $.

Please reply by email:qmacaulay

@reddeeradvocate.comor phone Quitcy at

403-314-4316

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Is seeking to hire Shop Supervisor for our Red

Deer location. This position is a fulltime and is

a salary based position with company benefits

upon hire. Duties include maintain shop, minor repairs of units and equipment, monitor

inventories, loading of fluid trucks with various

products for the Oil & Gas industry and will be trained

to blend KCl fluid in shop utilizing specialized

equipment. Ideal candidate will have a mechanical

background with a class 1 license with fluid hauling experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current

drivers abstract to:403-346-3112 or email to:[email protected]

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week

delivery of theCentral Alberta Life

in the town of

INNISFAIL

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Contact Quitcy at403-314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

To deliver1 day a week in

OLDSBOWDENRIMBEY

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

RENTAL STOREREQUIRES A

DELIVERY PERSON.Must be physically fit.

Apply in person5929-48 Ave. or email:

[email protected]

SUBWAY All Red Deer

LocationsHiring ImmediatelyFood Counter Attendants

Are you looking for a career opportunity with excellent benefits, a mature working environment and opportunityto advance? If so, Subway

has a position for you! Please apply online @

mysubwaycareer.com orDrop resume off in person at 180, 6900 Taylor Drive

Or email to [email protected]

or Call us at 403-342-0203


wegotstuff

Auctions 1530Bud Haynes &

Co. AuctioneersCertified Appraisers 1966

Estates, Antiques,Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave.347-5855

Children'sItems 1580FISHER Price village, vin-tage little people set, many

pieces, good cond. $45. 403-314-9603

Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or

storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood 1660AFFORDABLE

Homestead FirewoodSpruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

FIREWOOD, spruce & maple. Truck load. $20.

403-343-0823

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver

1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGSSemi loads of pine, spruce,

tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. /

del. Lyle 403-783-2275

GardenSupplies 1680MURPHY LAWNMOWER,

runs well. Asking $35. 403-347-5955

HouseholdAppliances 1710APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances

403-342-1042

STOVE, Kenmore, self clean, white. $50.

403-343-0823

HouseholdFurnishings1720METAL bed frame, $30; brass desk lamp. $5; la-dies plus size close $20; winter coats (3) need zippers, $20. ea.; blanket sheet set, dble. $10; knife & cutting board set, $5; kitchen utensils, $5. set. 403-986-0986

WANTEDAntiques, furniture and

estates. 342-2514

StereosTV's, VCRs 1730

53” SONY projection tv, good working condition.

First $150 takes itYou pick up. Phone Viki

403-346-4263

GAME CUBE w/16 games,$140 obo.

403-782-3847

INTELLIVISON w/40 Games, $160 obo.

403-782-3847

PSP w/13 games &7 movies. $160 obo.

403-782-3847

Start your career!See Help Wanted

Misc. forSale 1760

1937 VIOLIN, needs restoring, $150;

Washer Toss game $60 403-347-6183

CANNING JARS,Quarts, $7/doz.Pints $5/doz.

8 SPIDER PLANTS, Large $10. ea. Small. $5/ea.

403-347-7658, 396-4078

HP 4 in 1 printer, fax machine, copier, scanner

never used, $75 403-347-0104

PLAYHOUSE 10 x 8 1/2, to be moved, upright freez-er, elliptical exercise bike ALL FREE 403-887-8717

ROSE bowls, vases and plant holders. Box full for

$20. 403-314-9603

MusicalInstruments1770

DO YOU HAVE A CHILD THAT LIKES TOMAKE MUSIC?

Kimball Organ - TheEntertainer - Superstar 3

$100.00 or offer.Please call/leave message

403-347-1505

Cats 1830CUTE FLUFFY KITTENS

5 weeks old. Free to loving home. Good for farm or

house pet. 403-343-0730

PRETTY KITTENSdesperately need loving

homes. Very playful & active.FREE. Variety of colorful

kittens 403-782-3130

Collectors'Items 1870

BELL COLLECTION 40 assorted sizes, colors, designs $75 (cash-no

refunds) 403-782-3073

DOLL COLLECTION large, med, small, priced accord-

ing to size, class & year $200 403-782-3073

SPOON COLLECTION 51 spoons, various sizes in

oak display cabinet $200(cash-no refunds)

403-782-3073

TravelPackages 1900

TRAVEL ALBERTAAlberta offers SOMETHINGfor everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURALCLASSIFICATIONS

2000-2290

FarmEquipment 2010J.D. 510 Baler exc. cond. 1209 J.D. Haybine, 6 whl.

Vicon Rake, 403-350-1007, 782-3617

Horses 2140WANTED: all types of

horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

CLASSIFICATIONSFOR RENT • 3000-3200WANTED • 3250-3390

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TOO MUCH STUFF?Let Classifiedshelp you sell it.

Houses/Duplexes 3020LARGE 2 bedroom, with new paint, new carpets, security cameras, private parking, new appliances to over 40 year old quiet tenants. Laundry on site, heat and water included, no pets for $950 rent/$950 damage. 403-341-4627.

Condos/Townhouses3030

2 BDRM. well cared for condo, North of river. Up-

graded w/ hardwood floors, 4 appl. Avail. immed.

$975 mo. & s.d.Call Linda 403-356-1170

32 HOLMES ST. 1 1/2 blocks west of mall, 3 bdrm. bi-level, blinds, lg. balcony, 4 appls, no pets, n/s, rent $1245 SD $1000

Avail. Immed.403-304-7576 or 347-7545

HALMAN Heights3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1445

SD $1000 avail. Aug. 1 1.403-304-7576 or 347-7545

INGLEWOOD 2 bd, 2 bath executive condo. Heated

underground parking. N/S, no pets. professional

single or couple preferred. (403)350-3722, (780) 479-1522

KITSON CLOSEnewer exec. 3 bdrm.

bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking,

no dogs, rent $1445SD $1000. n/sAvail. Aug. 1

403-304-7576 / 347-7545

LARGE 2 & 3 BDRMCONDOS

Bldg located on a quiet close backing onto treed area. C/W Dishwasher. Short

walk to schools and Parks. Starting at $995/mo. Heat & Water incl. Call Lucie at

403-396-9554Hearthstone 403-314-0099

MORRISROE 2 storey townhouse, 3 bdrm., 1 1/2

bath, large kitchen, no pets, n/s, fenced yard,

$1200 rent + $1000 s.d. + util. Aug. 1, 403- 342-6374

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

ManufacturedHomes 3040Newly Reno’d MobileFREE Shaw Cable + more

$950/monthSharon / Wanda 403-340-0225

4 Plexes/6 Plexes 30502 BDRM. 4 appls, no pets $875/mo. 403-343-6609

Suites 30601 BDRM. apt. avail. Aug. 1

$775 plus power, 403-872-3400

2 Bdrm. Apartment for the Budget

Minded!This bldg. offers a central location near downtown, assigned parking and all

amenities. For just $750./mo. you can’t beat the price in this market.

Call Nicole at 403-896-1193 to take a look and see your new

home. Hearthstone 403-314-0099

2 BDRMS. Utilities Included Just $895.

This lower unit is located in Eastwood and even has a dishwasher. Call ASAP to jump on this in a tight mar-ket. Nicole 403-396-1193 Hearthstone 403-314-0099

APPRENTICE POWERLINE TECHNICIANEQUS, Canada’s largest member owned utility, requires an apprentice. Based in Innisfail, you will learn the Powerline trade as you assist with installation and servicing a variety of electrical services in our rural area.We require a High School diploma, including math, and experience in trades or heavy equipment operationPlease apply by August 2, 2013 to

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YOUR CAREER IN

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Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

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RV Service work• Seasonal extended

hours• Customer

interaction

Attributes:• Previous experience• Organized &

Reliable• Physically fit• Mechanically

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UNCLEBEN’S

Will consider:• Journeyman RV Technician status or

equivalent related trade experience• Salary based on experience and ability• Company benefits• Top industrial wage for right person

E-mail [email protected]: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume,

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RV TECHNICIAN/ RV TECH APPRENTICE

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Pidherney’s is busy and requires the following:

SCRAPER OPERATORSEarthworks Division

We require individuals with push pull experience,

grade knowledge & able to work well with others

for work in the Central AB area.

• Top wages paid based on knowledge & experience• Benefi t package• Career advancement opportunities

Fax resume to Human Resources 403-845-5370

Or E-mail: [email protected]

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Popes’ trip spurs worries about security, more protests

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIO DE JANEIRO, Bra-zil — Since taking the helm of the world’s biggest church in March, Pope Francis has wad-ed into massive crowds with minimal protection to hug chil-dren and wash the feet of the faithful.

He has surrounded himself with everyday worshippers at every turn, winning acclaim that he’s breaking down barri-ers between the Vatican and the world’s 1.2 billion Catho-lics.

Yet for Brazilian security of-ficials charged with protecting the 76-year-old pontiff with the common touch, his seven-day visit this week is an uncommon security challenge.

In his first international trip as pope, Francis has built much of his schedule in the world’s biggest Catholic coun-try around high-profile events that send him straight into un-predictable, potentially chaotic environments — without the protection of the bulletproof popemobile used by his two predecessors.

On Thursday, the pope will visit a tiny chapel founded in 1971 in the Varginha slum, one of Rio’s more than 1,000 hill-side shantytowns.

Many such slums cower un-der the control of dangerous drug gangs or deadly militias made up mostly of former and current police and firefighters. Police invaded Varginha in January to clear out traffickers, but the gangs remain a shad-owy presence there.

The next day, Francis will hit Copacabana beach to walk the Stations of the Cross among an expected one million young Catholics gathered for World Youth Day festivities.

Vatican officials have said he’ll travel to the beach past thousands of devotees in an open-topped vehicle, a plan that would put the thousands of police and soldiers dispatched to protect the pope on high alert and require more plain-

clothes security.Brazil’s justice and defence

ministers, along with a top ar-my commander, urged the pope to use an armoured popemo-bile instead, but the Vatican has responded that Francis likes to jump in and out of his vehicle to greet the faithful, which wouldn’t be possible in the more protected vehicle.

“The bulletproofing would lessen our worries, it’d be bet-ter if he had it,” said Gen. Jose Abreu, the top officer oversee-ing the military’s role in the security scheme.

“It’s a personal choice and we’ll respect it, but it’s not re-motely pleasant for security forces.”

On the top of everyone’s minds are the massive and sometimes violent anti-govern-ment protests that swept this continent-sized country last month.

They’ve continued, albeit with fewer people, less than a week before Francis’ arrival today.

Last week, a small protest in Leblon, one of Rio’s poshest neighbourhoods, erupted into looting and destruction, with demonstrators smashing store-fronts, defacing street signs and setting piles of garbage on fire.

A handful of protests are planned. If violence breaks out near the pope, the world may once again see images of dem-onstrators enveloped by clouds of tear gas, stun grenades ric-ocheting off stately buildings and rubber bullets whizzing through the air.

Jose Beltrame, the top secu-rity official for Rio de Janei-ro state overseeing the police who will counter any violent protests, said he’s certain his officers “are ready to host the pope” because they know his set agenda and have a plan in place.

However, Beltrame acknowl-edged that the protests are an unknown factor and that each demonstration would need to be approached differently de-pending upon how it unfolds.

“The challenges of the pro-

tests are different. The police have to be flexible and adapt, because there is no co-ordi-nated agenda (of protests),” he said.

“We’re vigilant, but it de-pends upon how they happen, when they happen, which is in-formation that we don’t fully have.”

Joe Biundini, a Brazilian-born former U.S. Marine who heads the FAM International Group security firm, warned that much will depend on po-lice response to any protests.

“If you see the police doing something stupid, like violently attacking protesters, that could cause some very serious prob-lems,” Biundini said.

Security officials have said the stiffest security challenge will be providing security for the pope’s two mass events on 2.5 mile-long (4 kilometre-long) Copacabana beach.

Still, they insist they’re ex-perienced in handling mega-crowds and point to a string of concerts that have attracted similarly massive numbers of spectators to Copacabana.

April’s bombing attacks on the Boston Marathon, which killed three and injured 264, have certainly raised sensitivi-ties about the potential dan-gers of such mass events.

But Brazilian police said there’ll be no checkpoints or bag inspections of the crowds at Copacabana, similar to the security schemes at other events. That doesn’t mean the Brazilians won’t be making a show of force.

Some 10,000 police officers and more than 14,000 soldiers will be on duty during the pope’s visit, and six Brazilian military aircraft will provide transportation for the pontiff.

Nearly 100 lookout towers will also allow police to moni-tor an expected 1.5 million peo-ple turning out for yet another mass event, the World Youth Day’s closing Mass in the rural neighbourhood of Guaratiba, about 30 miles (50 kilometres) west of Copacabana on the far outskirts of Rio.

Rival Vagos, Hells Angels on trial for murder

in fatal nevada casino shootout

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENO, Nev. — Nearly two years after a gun battle between motorcycle gangs turned a Ne-vada casino floor into a shooting gallery, two ri-val gang members go on trial on murder charges Monday in the death of a high-ranking Hells An-gels officer from California.

Ernesto Gonzalez, president of the Vagos chapter in Nicaragua, is accused of fatally shoot-ing the president of the Hells Angels’ San Jose chapter, Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew, during the melee at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks on Sept. 23, 2011.

He has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, open murder and conspiracy to commit murder in what prosecutors say was part of an organized assassination plan.

Making for a bit of unusual courtroom drama, Gonzalez and his lawyer will be sitting at the defence table with a rival Hells Angel who has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges in the same shootout. Cesar Villagrana is accused of shooting a Vagos mem-ber in the leg, but his lawyer says he only was defending himself and Pettigrew when gunfire erupted.

Courthouse security has been tight with a heavy police presence during earlier hearings on trial motions.

Washoe District Judge Connie Steinheimer has banned the wearing of gang or “club” insig-nia in the courtroom. Prosecutors say they are gang members. Defence lawyers say they are club members. The judge ruled earlier that nei-ther phrase should be used.

“From now on, no gangs, no clubs,” Stein-heimer said. “Use proper names. Refer to the Hells Angels as the Hells Angels and the Vagos as the Vagos.”

Another Vagos member who police blamed for starting the fight that led to the killing plead-ed guilty in March to second-degree murder.

Gary Rudnick, former head of the Vagos Los Angeles chapter who went by the nickname “Jabbers,” is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 22. Police say he repeatedly taunted Pettigrew until Pettigrew threw a punch that led to the gunfire.

A grand jury indicted all three in November 2011 based in part on the testimony of a confi-dential informant who said he was a high-rank-ing Vagos member for two decades and char-acterized the shooting as an unplanned event that got out of hand because Rudnick was acting outside his authority within the gang.

But Chief Deputy District Attorney Karl Hall said in amended complaint earlier this year that Gonzalez was “lying in wait” for Pettigrew. He said he conspired with other Vagos with the “specific intent” to kill in promotion of their gang.


A wooden cross, symbol of the World Youth Day given to young people of the church in 1983 by Pope John Paul II, is carried along Copacabana beach by pilgrims in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. Pope Francis, the 76-year-old Argentine who became the church’s first pontiff from the Americas in March, will return today to the embrace of Latin America to preside over the Roman Catholic Church’s World Youth Day festival.

Brazilian authorities facing uncommon security challenge

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Monday, July 22CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE:

Selena Gomez, 21; Danny Glover, 67; Willem Dafoe, 58

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Happy Birth-day, dear Leo! The celestial climate is full of planetary activity! There is a lot of fresh energy as the Sun moves into radiant Leo bringing us fun, play and innocence. Gener-ous acts will be appreciated with even greater rewards. Venus moves into Virgo where de-tailed attention could translate into love and affection. A Full Moon in Aquarius will open up our eyes to a new shift of conscience of free thinking and living.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, get ready to sail away on a jour-ney of new experiences! New beginnings as well as new endings will mark this year as a significant one for you. Your interaction with other will have a greater impact upon what you do. Public re-lations will be your forte.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are in the mood to let go and celebrate life. Inspiring vibes uplift your moral to live life to the fullest. If you’ve always wanted to launch a new venture or an idea, now is your opportunity to give it a try.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Promising opportuni-ties and a victory may make you move up the ladder of success. You are ready to receive your delicious cake and eat it too. You feel that you are finally moving closer towards your aimed ambi-tions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An imaginary journey or a voyage taken somewhere far will enlighten you with new visions of hope and op-timism. Boundaries will be removed from your path of personal evolution. Tune into your network circle.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are turning into a social butterfly where honey is as juicy as the latest news you are collecting around you. A burst of profound emotions resurface. This is a time for soul cleansing of unnecessary worries and concerns. Let go of outworn fears.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Live life like it’s meant to be lived! You are more present than ever as you are being illuminated with a surge of mega dose of energy and vi-tality. Be clear with your part-ner about your future roman-tic expectations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As you are moving away

from your social circle, your personal cha-risma will be hard to miss. Charm overflows like honeysuckle. A new style will be greatly compensated with a healthy mind and a fit body. Get out and keep on moving.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Business will make you more engaged into your social cir-cle. As open as you are, you will want to keep your amorous life under an air of mystery. Whatever feelings you experience now, they will be intensified. Oh drama, sweet drama!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You intend to create something that will put your name up there and high. A friend might want to be-come a part of your life. An important female relative will make you more conscious and responsive about a domestic situation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A greater emphasis will be put in your experi-

ential knowledge that can take you very far. You are on a mission to find out more about your true destiny. Share your ideas as you got convincing powers to persuade almost anyone.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The hid-den realms of life attract you now and you embark on a journey to the unknown. Educa-tion or a voyage overseas could bring you a fulfilling and a pleasant predisposition. Job security will highlight a need to increase your income.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You long for a committed partnership more than your own freedom. The yearning to relate and connect to another being makes you value and appreciate relationships to a much more significant level. You will see yourself under a new light, rejuvenated and transformed.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) : One-on-one time is one of your favou-rite pastimes now. Everything seems nicer and sweeter when the game is played in duo. You might need to put a closure to some-thing in order to regain your inner peace.

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Dear Annie: I find myself trying to keep every tiny bit of my life a secret since I got married — not because I’m ashamed of anything, but because my in-laws make my business fodder for gossip. Every time I talk to them, it feels as if I am being interrogated. If I slip up and offer a small piece of per-sonal news (such as an upcoming trip), they pepper me with a million pointed questions trying to get details.

I would be m u c h m o r e willing to share if, when I did mention a tid-bit, I was told, “Oh, how won-derful for you,” and they didn’t press further or continue to spread my plans beyond pres-ent company. Instead, know-ing that every-thing I say will be picked apart and broadcast to the universe, I clam up and am re-luctant to say anything at all.

Is there anything I can do to put off their questions in a polite manner while avoiding the impression that I’m being aloof and rude? — Not an Inter-rogator

Dear Not: You are under no obliga-tion to respond to questions that are no one’s business, particularly if you know they will repeat the information to everyone.

However, if it is something innocu-ous (a promotion, for example), you should try to answer their questions honestly. If they tell the universe, you have no reason to be concerned. For other things, practice a sincere smile while saying, “There’s really nothing interesting happening. How have you been?”

But we don’t believe your in-laws are being malicious. We think they find everything about you more entertain-ing than what they are doing, and shar-ing it makes them feel important.

Dear Annie: I will be sending out wedding invitations soon. The problem is, I don’t know what to do about my grandparents.

They are still friends with my ex-husband, who is unstable and a bit scary. Last year, they didn’t hesitate to give my phone number to his girlfriend when she asked.

I was furious. They don’t have my new address because I fear they would give it to my ex and he would show up and cause trouble.

I worry that when my grandparents get their invitation, they will give my ex the date, time, place and my return address. The fact that they are family and love me would not stop them. They are stubborn and thoughtless. They adore my ex and aren’t so crazy about my fiance.

Should I send them the invitation and give them a stern talking to? I doubt it would do any good. Should I give them the information the day of the wedding so they have less time to share it? Of course, that would neces-sitate asking other family members not to tell them anything, which would be difficult. Any advice? — Burned by Family

Dear Burned: You always have the option of telling your grandparents after the wedding takes place. But we assume you want them to be there. You could send Grandma and Grandpa a handwritten invitation, omitting your return address and the location of the wedding. Arrange for a friend to pick them up and bring them to the cer-emony. On the assumption that other relatives will spill the beans, you also could ask another friend to act as “se-curity” (or hire someone) to guard the door so your ex doesn’t show up unin-vited.

Dear Annie: “Happy in Hawaii” rec-ommended that teenagers participate in their school’s community service clubs so they are less influenced by their friends and won’t get into trou-ble. When I was a child, I learned a saying that I passed on to our four chil-dren. I think it helped them to become independent-thinking adults: “Of all excuses this is most forbid, ‘I did it ’cuz the others did.’ ” — Marion, Mass.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edi-tors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Charlie Jacobson, a local blues rocker, performs for the crowd on the Ross Street Patio in Red Deer during a recent noon hour. Jacobson previously performed at the same location as part of Red Deer’s Best Summer Ever celebrations.

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Red Deer Advocate, July 22, 2013