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Red Deer Advocate WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2014 Your trusted local news authority www.reddeeradvocate.com Four sections Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A3 Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . B1-B3 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A5 Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . D1-D4 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C4 Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . C6 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4-B8 INDEX PLEASE RECYCLE Reprisal killings fill morgues in Iraq Signs emerged Tuesday of a reprisal sectarian slaughter of Sunnis by Shiite militias in Iraq. Story on PAGE A6 FORECAST ON A2 WEATHER 30% showers. High 18. Low 11. ANGRY BIRD Gateway a go BY DENE MOORE THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — It took mere minutes for foes of the Northern Gateway pipeline to vow that the pipe- line will never be built, despite the go-ahead from the federal government on Tuesday. So with a major milestone on the path to the Brit- ish Columbia coast behind it, the path ahead for the controversial project was no more certain with final government approval than it had been during months of protests. “This project, and the federal process to approve it, violated our rights and our laws. We are uniting to defend our lands and waters of our respective ter- ritories,” said a statement from a coalition of B.C. aboriginal groups. “We will defend our territories whatever the costs may be.” The statement was signed by 28 individual bands and the three main aboriginal organizations in the province: the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Summit and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. They promised court action, and more. “Under no circumstances will this threat be al- lowed in our territory,” said Tso’dih Peter Erickson, a hereditary chief from the Nak’azdli band near Fort St. James. OTTAWA CONDITIONALLY APPROVES PIPELINE; OPPONENTS VOW TO BURY IT Please see PIPELINE on Page A2 ENBRIDGE PLOTS NEXT MOVE B1 Guilty ARENS TRIAL JUDGE CONVICTS DRUNK DRIVER OF ALL CHARGES IN FATAL CANADA DAY 2010 COLLISION BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF After almost four years, the family of a young teen killed in a crash in Red Deer on Canada Day 2010 has some semblance of closure. Rodney Ross Arens, 36, was convicted of all charg- es on Tuesday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. Arens, a building contractor, has lived in Rimbey, Red Deer and Sylvan Lake. Jeffrey Chanminaraj, 13, was killed and his broth- er Jamie, now 22, was injured in the July 1 crash involving a truck driven by Arens and car at the in- tersection of Kerry Wood and Taylor Drives. Justice Kirk Sisson found Arens guilty of impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous driving causing death, dan- gerous driving causing bodily harm and breaching release conditions. Arens sat with a blank stare on his face as Sisson read his decision. Arens was in the prisoner’s box to hear the verdict. Throughout the trial, he was al- lowed to sit beside defence counsel but on Tuesday, he sat in the prisoner’s box, flanked by Alberta sher- iffs. Jeffrey’s older sister, Stephanie, 24, said she was relieved to see the trial come to a conclusion. “It’s been so long,” she said. “I’m glad to have clo- sure, I’m glad it’s over for everyone. It’s been a long, drawn-out process, for everyone. “The memories are fresh, what I remember is fresh. Sometimes you don’t want to remember them.” Jamie said it was time to move on together as a family. “We miss our brother, our dad really misses him,” Jamie said. In the seconds after the crash that killed Jefferey, witnesses testified that Arens said of his truck: “Well I guess I’m not driving that away,” and that he said: “I need a cigarette.” Arens was arrested by Red Deer RCMP Const. Jean-Francois Tremblay at the scene. Before Trem- blay read Arens his charter rights, Tremblay was in- formed that Jeffrey had died as a result of the crash. Arens was re-arrested for impaired driving causing death. Sisson thoroughly went through the testimony of numerous witnesses at the scene, acknowledg- ing that there were differences in some people’s testimony with regard to the observations of Arens’ impairment. He said some civilian witnesses and RCMP mem- bers who were still new to the job had different ob- servations, ranging from no signs of alcohol impair- ment to slurred speech and stumbling. However, the testimony of seasoned officers, in- cluding Cpl. Cindee Scarrott, and video evidence at the RCMP detachment following Arens’ arrest indi- cated he was impaired. Please see ARENS on Page A2 Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff Acting like a defensive parent, this Canada goose was having a bit of a hissing fit as it was photographed Tuesday. The not-so-little goslings are keeping busy eating, growing and beginning to loose their baby feathers at McKenzie Trail Recreation Area in Red Deer. Rain threatens Southern Alberta BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — There are concerns Medicine Hat could see flooding similar to what happened a year ago as heavy rains continue to soak areas to the west of the southern Alberta city. Alberta Environment’s Evan Friesenhan stresses that prediction is a worst-case scenario and will only happen if the Oldman and Bow rivers to the west peak at the same time where they meet the South Saskatchewan River. And he added that scenario is still three days away, so a lot can change. The city says it has opened its Emergency Opera- tions Centre and has begun sandbagging using intel- ligence it gained last year. About 1,000 Medicine Hat homes were hit by high water in the flood of 2013 that ravaged southern Alberta and 10,000 people were forced to head for higher ground. Forecasters are calling for as much as 200 mil- limetres of rain in the southwest corner of the prov- ince by Thursday morning. To the west of Medicine Hat, officials in Leth- bridge County declared a local state of emergency Tuesday citing extremely high water levels on the Oldman River. The county says Oldman River valley residents should prepared for an evacuation order sometime on Wednesday, depending on river levels. There’s potential to reach levels seen in 1995, when heavy rains pushed rivers over their banks from Pincher Creek to Medicine Hat and more than 3,000 people had to flee their homes, the county says. Farmers are being advised to move their livestock and people are being told to stay away from river- banks. The city of Lethbridge, which is also on the Old- man river, said on its website that it has not declared a state of emergency, but was monitoring the situa- tion. Friesenhan said most of Lethbridge is on high ground and, while parkland may flood, homes should be OK. In total, 100,000 people had to flee their flooded homes in southern Alberta in June 2013. Communi- ties hit the hardest — including Canmore, Calgary and High River — are further to the north of area currently experiencing high water and are expected to be fine. In 2013, more than 300 millimetres of rain fell in some places over a 2 ½-day period. “We’re looking at a peak flow of 5,300 cubic me- tres per second through Medicine Hat on the South Saskatchewan River, which is very similar to last year,” Friesenhan said. “Obviously that’s the worst-case scenario and as- sumes that the flow coming out of the Oldman and the flow coming out of the Bow will merge together at the same time.” MEDICINE HAT COULD SEE REPEAT OF 2013 FLOOD FLOOD WATCH ISSUED FOR LITTLE RED DEER RIVER A2 UNIFYING FORCE Casey Kasem’s show was a weekly reminder of what Americans had in common PAGE C6 Mexico keeper Ochoa holds Brazil to 0-0 draw HERO, SAVIOUR B4

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PLEASE RECYCLE

Reprisal killings fill morgues in Iraq

Signs emerged Tuesday of a reprisal sectarian slaughter of Sunnis by Shiite militias in Iraq.

Story on PAGE A6FORECAST ON A2

WEATHER 30% showers. High 18. Low 11.

ANGRY BIRD

Gateway a goBY DENE MOORE

THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — It took mere minutes for foes of the Northern Gateway pipeline to vow that the pipe-line will never be built, despite the go-ahead from the federal government on Tuesday.

So with a major milestone on the path to the Brit-ish Columbia coast behind it, the path ahead for the controversial project was no more certain with

final government approval than it had been during months of protests.

“This project, and the federal process to approve it, violated our rights and our laws. We are uniting to defend our lands and waters of our respective ter-ritories,” said a statement from a coalition of B.C. aboriginal groups.

“We will defend our territories whatever the costs may be.”

The statement was signed by 28 individual bands and the three main aboriginal organizations in the province: the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Summit and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.

They promised court action, and more.“Under no circumstances will this threat be al-

lowed in our territory,” said Tso’dih Peter Erickson, a hereditary chief from the Nak’azdli band near Fort St. James.

OTTAWA CONDITIONALLY APPROVES PIPELINE; OPPONENTS VOW TO BURY IT

Please see PIPELINE on Page A2

ENBRIDGE PLOTS NEXT MOVE B1

GuiltyARENS TRIAL

JUDGE CONVICTS DRUNK DRIVER OF ALL CHARGES

IN FATAL CANADA DAY 2010 COLLISION

BY MURRAY CRAWFORDADVOCATE STAFF

After almost four years, the family of a young teen killed in a crash in Red Deer on Canada Day 2010 has some semblance of closure.

Rodney Ross Arens, 36, was convicted of all charg-es on Tuesday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. Arens, a building contractor, has lived in Rimbey, Red Deer and Sylvan Lake.

Jeffrey Chanminaraj, 13, was killed and his broth-er Jamie, now 22, was injured in the July 1 crash involving a truck driven by Arens and car at the in-tersection of Kerry Wood and Taylor Drives.

Justice Kirk Sisson found Arens guilty of impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous driving causing death, dan-gerous driving causing bodily harm and breaching release conditions.

Arens sat with a blank stare on his face as Sisson read his decision. Arens was in the prisoner’s box to hear the verdict. Throughout the trial, he was al-lowed to sit beside defence counsel but on Tuesday, he sat in the prisoner’s box, flanked by Alberta sher-iffs.

Jeffrey’s older sister, Stephanie, 24, said she was relieved to see the trial come to a conclusion.

“It’s been so long,” she said. “I’m glad to have clo-sure, I’m glad it’s over for everyone. It’s been a long, drawn-out process, for everyone.

“The memories are fresh, what I remember is fresh. Sometimes you don’t want to remember them.”

Jamie said it was time to move on together as a family.

“We miss our brother, our dad really misses him,” Jamie said.

In the seconds after the crash that killed Jefferey, witnesses testified that Arens said of his truck: “Well I guess I’m not driving that away,” and that he said: “I need a cigarette.”

Arens was arrested by Red Deer RCMP Const. Jean-Francois Tremblay at the scene. Before Trem-blay read Arens his charter rights, Tremblay was in-formed that Jeffrey had died as a result of the crash. Arens was re-arrested for impaired driving causing death.

Sisson thoroughly went through the testimony of numerous witnesses at the scene, acknowledg-ing that there were differences in some people’s testimony with regard to the observations of Arens’ impairment.

He said some civilian witnesses and RCMP mem-bers who were still new to the job had different ob-servations, ranging from no signs of alcohol impair-ment to slurred speech and stumbling.

However, the testimony of seasoned officers, in-cluding Cpl. Cindee Scarrott, and video evidence at the RCMP detachment following Arens’ arrest indi-cated he was impaired.

Please see ARENS on Page A2

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Acting like a defensive parent, this Canada goose was having a bit of a hissing fit as it was photographed Tuesday. The not-so-little goslings are keeping busy eating, growing and beginning to loose their baby feathers at McKenzie Trail Recreation Area in Red Deer.

Rain threatens Southern Alberta

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — There are concerns Medicine Hat could see flooding similar to what happened a year ago as heavy rains continue to soak areas to the west of the southern Alberta city.

Alberta Environment’s Evan Friesenhan stresses that prediction is a worst-case scenario and will only happen if the Oldman and Bow rivers to the west peak at the same time where they meet the South Saskatchewan River.

And he added that scenario is still three days away, so a lot can change.

The city says it has opened its Emergency Opera-tions Centre and has begun sandbagging using intel-ligence it gained last year.

About 1,000 Medicine Hat homes were hit by high water in the flood of 2013 that ravaged southern Alberta and 10,000 people were forced to head for higher ground.

Forecasters are calling for as much as 200 mil-limetres of rain in the southwest corner of the prov-ince by Thursday morning.

To the west of Medicine Hat, officials in Leth-bridge County declared a local state of emergency Tuesday citing extremely high water levels on the Oldman River.

The county says Oldman River valley residents should prepared for an evacuation order sometime on Wednesday, depending on river levels.

There’s potential to reach levels seen in 1995,

when heavy rains pushed rivers over their banks from Pincher Creek to Medicine Hat and more than 3,000 people had to flee their homes, the county says.

Farmers are being advised to move their livestock and people are being told to stay away from river-banks.

The city of Lethbridge, which is also on the Old-man river, said on its website that it has not declared a state of emergency, but was monitoring the situa-tion.

Friesenhan said most of Lethbridge is on high ground and, while parkland may flood, homes should be OK.

In total, 100,000 people had to flee their flooded homes in southern Alberta in June 2013. Communi-ties hit the hardest — including Canmore, Calgary and High River — are further to the north of area currently experiencing high water and are expected to be fine.

In 2013, more than 300 millimetres of rain fell in some places over a 2 ½ -day period.

“We’re looking at a peak flow of 5,300 cubic me-tres per second through Medicine Hat on the South Saskatchewan River, which is very similar to last year,” Friesenhan said.

“Obviously that’s the worst-case scenario and as-sumes that the flow coming out of the Oldman and the flow coming out of the Bow will merge together at the same time.”

MEDICINE HAT COULD SEE REPEAT OF 2013 FLOODFLOOD WATCH ISSUED FOR LITTLE RED DEER RIVER A2

UNIFYING FORCE Casey Kasem’s show was a weekly reminder of what Americans had in common

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Mexico keeper Ochoa holds Brazil to 0-0

draw

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PIPELINE: 209 conditionsThe federal government gave a conditional green

light to Calgary-based Enbridge (TSX:ENB) for its controversial $7-billion project, which would link the Alberta oilsands to an export terminal on the northern B.C. coast.

The decision — delivered at the 11th-hour ahead of a legislated deadline — is contingent on the com-pany satisfying conditions set out by a federal review panel. Those include further consultations with ab-original communities.

“Today constitutes another step in the process,” National Resources Minister Greg Rickford said in a news release. “Moving forward, the proponent must demonstrate to the independent regulator, the NEB, how it will meet the 209 conditions.”

The company echoed that view.“We know we have more work to do to re-engage

with some of our First Nations communities along the proposed route and to continue our engagement with British Columbians and Canadians,” said Janet Holder, an executive vice-president with Northern Gateway Pipelines. “We are committed to doing that work.”

Enbridge president Al Monaco said the company will pursue dialogue with detractors but is prepared for “the eventuality” of legal challenges.

“Our advice is that this is not necessarily an endless process, as some are suggesting,” he said. “There is a definitive process for Federal Court matters so I think there is a definitive timeline. This won’t go on forever in terms of endless legal battles.”

The decision already faces legal challenges. Sev-eral First Nations and environmental groups have filed applications with the Federal Court for judicial review of the federal panel report that recommend-ed approval.

And the Gitxaala and Coastal First Nations have said they are preparing broader lawsuits.

The Sierra Club B.C. called the decision a “slap in the face” for British Columbians and environmental-ist David Suzuki penned an open letter deriding the Conservative cabinet for “pushing an unwanted proj-ect on an unwilling public.”

“We are deeply disappointed, but you need to look no further than the spate of legal challenges filed against this project to know that cabinet’s ap-proval is by no means a guarantee that this project

will ever be built,” said Barry Robinson, a staff law-yer for the group Ecojustice.

The project was always going to be controversial.The 1,200-kilometre pipeline would link Alberta’s

Athabasca oilsands to a marine terminal on the northern edge of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest.

To do so, it would cross the territories of more than 50 First Nations. Most of those are in B.C., where aboriginal bands never signed treaties with the Crown and where many land claims remain un-resolved.

The pipeline will deliver bitumen — the heavy, molasses-like oil product from the oilsands — to oil tankers that are seven times the length of an NHL hockey rink.

Those oil tankers will then transport that product around the small islands that dot the narrow Doug-las Channel and past the Haida Gwaii archipelago and a UNESCO world heritage site.

The economics are compelling. Billions of dollars in revenues and GDP are at stake and groups includ-ing the B.C. Construction Association and the Cham-ber of Shipping both lauded the decision.

The joint federal review panel recommended ap-proval in December, with the 209 conditions, and the Conservative government has made it clear for some time that finding new markets for Canadian oil is an economic priority.

The B.C. government, which officially opposed the project at federal review hearings, will now face in-creasing pressure.

The province has set out five conditions for B.C.’s support and on Tuesday Environment Minister Mary Polak said with the final approval from Ottawa, one of those conditions has now been met.

Polak said the project will need dozens of permits from the province, which won’t be issued to a project that has adverse environmental effects.

“Obviously if they are not meeting the five condi-tions, then they won’t be able to show in a permit ap-plication that they don’t have adverse environmental affects and therefore those permits wouldn’t be granted.”

ARENS: Sentencing on Thursday

Sisson pointed specifically to testimony from two officers about Arens’ time in the telephone room.

Arens had a difficult time, fumbling through a phone book, dropping it and asking repeatedly for instruc-tions on how to make an outside call. Eventually, an officer dialed for him.

Further testimony from servers at the Vat pub and the Drummond Brewing Co. confirmed that Arens had been consuming alcohol that evening. He had a few beers, at least one of which was a light beer, and had a shot of Jagermeister. Sisson said these factors put together led him to his guilty deci-sion on the impaired driving charges.

Testimony from a friend of Arens indicated that in the days after the crash, he had tried to fabricate evidence. Arens had called and told the witness to say that they had looked at a motorbike and had a beer, and then went to a fast food restaurant, as a way to explain his impairment.

At the scene of the crash, several witnesses testi-fied to seeing the light at the intersection turn yel-low for northbound and southbound traffic when they heard a truck accelerate.

Sisson noted it was Canada Day and there was a high volume of traffic and pedestrians in the area heading to Bower Ponds for the fireworks. He said this meant that a reasonable and prudent driver would exercise more caution at the intersection.

However, Arens accelerated, which Sisson cited as reasons for the impaired and dangerous driving convictions.

A traffic reconstruction analyst said Arens was driving at about 79 km/h, well over the 60 km/h post-ed speed limit northbound on Taylor Drive.

Stephanie Chanminaraj was southbound on Taylor Drive, turning left onto Kerry Wood Drive. Her speed was about 27 km/h when the collision oc-curred.

Defence witnesses included two RCMP members who testified they arrived on scene and went to the car driven by Stephanie. According to their testi-mony, Stephanie said “It’s all my fault. I killed him,” immediately after the crash.

Sisson ruled those statements are what can be expected from an older sister when she is in a crash that injures her younger brothers and that they do not reflect guilt or lead the judge to believe she was the cause of the collision.

Sisson said under normal circumstances, Arens’ position as the northbound driver would have put him in the right. However, his acceleration well over the speed limit in an attempt to beat the yellow light puts Arens at fault.

Sentencing for Arens will take place on Thursday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

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LOTTERIES

Calgary: today, rain. High 15. Low 10.

Olds, Sundre: today, 60% showers. High 19. Low 7.

Rocky, Nordegg: today, sun and cloud. High 19. Low 7.

Banff: today, 30% showers. High 17. Low 4.

Jasper: today, sun and cloud. High 24. Low 4.

Lethbridge: today, rain at times heavy. High 13. Low 10.

Edmonton: today, increasing cloudiness. High 21. Low 10.

Grande Prairie: to-day, 30% showers. High 22. Low 10.

Fort McMurray: to-day, sun and cloud. High 24. Low 12

LOCAL TODAY TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

REGIONAL OUTLOOK

WINDCHILL/SUNLIGHT

GRANDEPRAIRIE22/10

JASPER24/4

BANFF17/4

EDMONTON21/10

RED DEER18/11

CALGARY15/10

FORT MCMURRAY24/12

TUESDAY Extra: 5222509Pick 3: 817

Numbers are unofficial.

30% chance of showers.

30% chance of showers.

40% chance of showers.

A mix of sun and cloud. Low 11.

60% chance of showers. Low 9.

HIGH 18 LOW 11 HIGH 21 HIGH 25 HIGH 21

TONIGHT’S HIGHS/LOWS

LETHBRIDGE13/10

WEATHER

UV: 4 ModerateExtreme: 11 or higherVery high: 8 to 10High: 6 to 7Moderate: 3 to 5Low: Less than 2Sunset tonight: 10:00 p.m.Sunrise Thrusday: 5:13 a.m.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Hunting Hills High School Environment Club members Haley Kitt, Kaitlin Hepfner and Dani Runzer address the audience during the launch of a recycling partnership with the South Hill Bottle Depot on Tuesday. Through a Recycling Infrastructure Partnership grant provided to the South Hill Bottle Depot by the Alberta Bottle Depot Association, $15,000 was awarded to South Hill to purchase the recycling containers and place them in the school of over 1,400 students. Containers will be placed in classrooms and common areas, and proceeds from the collection will go to funding clubs and programs at the school.

Flood watch issued forLittle Red Deer River

A flood watch has been issued for the Little Red Deer River and a pair of popular campgrounds could be affected.

The Alberta government’s streamflow advisory updated early Tuesday afternoon says that waters continue to rise in the Little Red Deer River and most of the other river basins in Southern Alberta.

“Water levels along the Little Red Deer River are expected to exceed known flood thresholds at West-ward Ho campground and Red Lodge Provincial Park,” says the online update.

Red Lodge is about 15 km west of Bowden and Westward Ho is about six km east of Sundre.

Up to 150 to 200 mm of rain is forecast for the southwest corner of the province by Thursday morn-ing.

Flood warnings have been issued for the entire Oldman River Basin. At Lethbridge, the river may rise six metres.

Day parole granted to P.E.I. man who killed cyclist from Alberta in 2012

CHARLOTTETOWN — A Prince Edward Island man who struck and killed a cyclist two years ago while driving drunk has been granted day parole.

Clarence Arnold Moase of Kensington has been serving a six-year prison sentence for drunk driving causing the death of Elizabeth Sovis.

The 63-year-old Alberta woman was cycling with her husband during a July 2012 trip to P.E.I. when she was hit by Moase, who was driving a van.

Moase’s blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit at the time.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Alberta’s highest court has upheld a ruling that the province’s civil service union was in contempt for not obeying labour board directives during an illegal strike by prison guards.

But the Court of Appeal also says a previous ruling went too far when it or-dered the Alberta Union of Public Em-ployees to stop supporting the guards and tell them to go back to work.

“It would be difficult to conclude that the circumstances were so serious and dangerous as to justify limiting the right to freedom of expression,” says the Appeal Court ruling.

In April 2013, several guards walked off the job over safety concerns at Ed-monton’s new remand centre and were soon joined by guards at several oth-er jails. The Labour Relations Board quickly ordered them back to work. It said the union should not only tell the guards about that order, but advise them to obey it as well.

Those directives were filed in court and became court orders. A judge ruled that the union disobeyed those orders in comments to media and on its website.

“The tenor of the leadership’s state-ments was ’utter defiance,”’ says the Appeal Court’s summary of the judge’s comments.

The initial judge found the union guilty of civil contempt and imposed restrictions on what it could and couldn’t say.

Union leaders were no longer al-lowed to express solidarity with strik-ing guards or publish their version of

strike-related news. The union was or-dered to publish a “clear and unam-biguous” directive on its website that members should return to work.

The Appeal Court found that went to far. It noted that while the strike was short-lived, the court order was permanent. It also ruled there was no evidence the speech restrictions would get the workers back on the job.

“Lesser measures were called for than the measures ordered.”

Union president Guy Smith said the contempt finding may be appealed to the Supreme Court. But he welcomed removal of the speech restrictions.

“We’re very pleased that the court recognized the original court decision overstepped its bounds and basically gagged AUPE and its officers,” he said. “When you take away an organization’s rights to speak on behalf of its mem-bers, I think that should be concerning to all Albertans and Canadians.”

Smith said the union has paid about $350,000 in fines as a result of the strike.

Progress on the original issues that led to the walkout has been slow, but real, he added.

“There’s been some improvement. There seems to be a bit more commit-ment.”

Smith said he has no regrets about the union’s stance.

“It’s important to recognize we’re trying to rebuild a very broken rela-tionship with the government, and that (strike) was one of the reasons it was broken. For that relationship to be re-built, there has to be some resolution to this and we need to move on and deal with the real issues of health and safety in worksites.”

THIS IS WHERE I WORK.IT’S TIME TO PLAN OUR FUTURE.

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A look at 2013 flooding by the numbers

200: In millimetres, the amount of rain that fell in Canmore in the 2 1/2 days before the flood — 10 times that of a typical sum-mer rainfall. (Source: Environment Canada)

345: In millimetres, the amount of rain that fell at the Burns Creek weather station west of High River in the 2 1/2 days before the flood. (Source: Environment Canada)

30 to 70: In cubic metres per second, the typical flow rate for the Highwood River in June. (Source: The Alberta Government)

1,500 to 1,800: In cubic metres per sec-ond, the flow rate of the Highwood River during the flood. (Source: The Alberta Gov-ernment)

180: In cubic metres per second, the flow rate on the Elbow River downstream of the Glenmore Reservoir before the city of Calgary has to start sandbagging. (Source: The Alberta Government)

1,240: In cubic metres per second, the flow rate on the Elbow River entering Glen-more Reservoir during the flood. (Source: The Alberta Government)

$6 billion: The Alberta government’s es-timated cost for the flood. (Finance Minister Doug Horner)

30: The number of communities the gov-ernment says were affected by flooding. (Source: The Alberta Government)

100,000: The estimated number of peo-ple affected by flooding. (Source: The Al-berta Government)

985: Kilometres of road closed due to flood damage. (Source: The Alberta Gov-ernment)

$70 million: The amount of money the government loaded onto 56,000 prepaid debit cards for flood evacuees. (Source: The Alberta Government)

10,500: The number of people who have applied to repair damage covered by the Disaster Recovery Program. (Source: The Alberta Government)

$71.5 million: The amount of money paid out under the program as of June 6. (Source: The Alberta Government)

254: The number of homes built in the flood zone and eligible for buyout by the province. (Source: The Alberta Government)

77: The number of homeowners who have accepted buyouts as of June 6. (Source: The Alberta Government)

$81 million: The amount it has cost to buy those homeowners out. (Source: The Alberta Government)

650,000: The estimated number of work hours it took to get Calgary’s damaged Sad-dledome ready for a Sept. 11, 2013, Eagles concert. (Source: Robert Blanchard, director of building operations for the Saddledome)

Province’s highest court upholds union contempt ruling

Legion to include RCMP, peace

officers as veterans

EDMONTON — The Royal Canadian Legion is changing its definition of a veteran to include RCMP officers.

The new definition also includes peace of-ficers who served in spe-cial duty areas, such as Ontario Provincial Po-lice officers who worked in Haiti or officers on United Nations missions

such as in Bosnia.Legion dominion pres-

ident Gordon Moore says those support operations and the recent shoot-ing of three Mounties in Moncton, N.B., show the risks officers face at home and abroad.

“They served pretty well wherever our Cana-dian Armed Forces have served as a member of the police force,” Moore said Tuesday from the legion’s convention in Edmonton.

“The delegates felt very strongly that they should be included be-cause they have been wearing the blue beret (of the United Nations), or they’ve been with the forces going over to these locations, and they de-serve to be recognized as a veteran as well.”

Four lives swept away in flood

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Raging flood waters killed four peo-ple in southern Alberta one year ago. Two were swept away as they tried to evacuate from High River, one of the hardest hit communities.

One woman was caught off guard while camping south of the town, along the Highwood River.

And when the flood put parts of Cal-gary under water, a senior drowned alone in her main floor condo.

Amber Rancourt, 35She was a spontaneous, fiery woman

from Sault Ste. Marie in northern On-tario, who tossed a dart at a map on a wall and headed for Alberta.

Amber Rancourt was tending bar at a hotel in the village of Longview when she met a mechanic named Scott, who often stopped in for coffee. He fell fast for the woman who shared his affec-tion for animals.

They were married five months lat-er in front of stunned guests during a surprise ceremony. The groom wanted so much to honour his new bride, he took her last name.

A month shy of their second wed-ding anniversary, they were camping on a friend’s ranch south of Longview, along the Highwood River, when the flood struck.

Scott Rancourt says he woke up in the early hours of June 20, looked out the camper window and saw water rushing everywhere around them.

They were both worried about the horse they had brought with them, so Scott waded through the current with the animal and got it to safety.

But he never made it back to his wife.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Amber Rancourt and her husband Scott are shown in a family handout photo. Raging flood waters killed four people in southern Alberta one year ago. Two were swept away as they tried to evacuate from High River, one of the hardest hit communities. Rancourt was caught off guard while camping south of the town, along the Highwood River.Please see FLOODING on Page A7

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BY MARK MILKESPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

There has been much handwring-ing over the claimed disappearance of the middle class. From a bestsell-ing international tome to domestic tax-and-spend types who think higher taxes will create more middle-income earners, there is no shortage of those who over-focus on redistribution and underestimate the benefits of oppor-tunity.

As an example of the benefits of op-portunity, Alberta created 71,200 new jobs over the past 12 months while Sas-katchewan saw a gain of 11,800 jobs. Compare that to a gain of 39,400 in On-tario (a province with a much larger population) and 10,300 new jobs in British Columbia. (The other six prov-inces lost jobs in the past year.)

As to why Alberta and Saskatch-ewan are doing so much better, the usual explanation is that Alberta (and Saskatchewan) lucked out because of their natural resources.

Except that dumb luck doesn’t ex-plain it all. Holland, Singapore and Hong Kong have little in the way of natural resources and yet prosper while Nigeria and Russia extract a lot

of oil but have very little in the way of a middle class.

At the national level, it is boring but important policy such as a stable cur-rency and domestic peace — as well as property rights, the rule of law, a lack of corruption, independent courts, smart but not over-burdensome regula-tion, an educated population, the size of government relative to the economy, and tax policy — that lead to the cre-ation of prosperity and the formation of the middle class.

I don’t have the space to discuss all such factors — any country or prov-ince can mess up a natural advantage. But let’s consider only one issue — tax rates — that can be easily compared across provinces and which has an ef-fect upon wealth creation and thus op-portunities and jobs.

Alberta has long had the lowest overall provincial tax burden. For ex-ample, a two-parent, one-income fam-ily with two kids and employment in-come of $75,000 pays $3,446 less in total provincial taxes when compared with the same $75,000 couple in Ontario. The same family in Nova Scotia will pay $6,947 more in provincial taxes than if they lived in Alberta.

Alberta’s politicians have also gen-erally and comparatively been smart

on what might be called “opportunity policy.” Unlike Atlantic Canada, Que-bec or Manitoba on taxes, or Ontario on power policy, or Quebec on exces-sive interference in almost every as-pect of its economy, Alberta has his-torically not disadvantaged its entre-preneurs. That policy alone has led to wealth-creating opportunities and a cornucopia of new jobs, helping make Alberta the most middle class-friendly province in Canada.

More proof of this comes from the Canada Revenue Agency. Compared with other provinces, Alberta has the smallest share of people (42.2 per cent) who report income of less than $30,000. Saskatchewan is next (47.4 per cent). The national average is 50.6 per cent; Ontario’s is 50.1 per cent and Quebec’s is 53 per cent, while half or more tax filers in all other provinces have in-comes of less than $30,000.

Now look at income between $30,000 and $100,000 and let’s assume that range as a proxy for the middle class. Fully 45.5 per cent of Albertans fall in-to that category. Again, only Saskatch-ewan (45.2 per cent) comes close to Alberta. Ontario has a smaller middle class (42.9 per cent) as does Quebec (42.7 per cent), with the national per-centage at 42.9 per cent. Newfound-

land and Labrador has the smallest proportion here, with just 39.7 per cent of the population reporting an income between $30,000 and $100,000.

More dramatically, in Alberta 12.2 per cent of the population report in-comes of over $100,000. That is almost double the proportion of all Canadians (6.6 per cent), higher than in Ontar-io (seven per cent) and starkly higher than Quebec, where just 4.5 per cent of the population report taxable income above $100,000.

Or put another way, Alberta has less of its population in the very poor-est income class and proportionately more in the middle- and high-income cohorts. And Alberta (and to a lesser degree Saskatchewan) performed this feat with massive in-migration from other provinces and from around the world.

Alberta is not perfect and has its policy failures. But good overall pro-vincial policy produces natural wealth creation. That, in turn, encourages job creation and explains why Alberta in particular is flourishing and does so with a burgeoning middle class.

Mark Milke is a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. This column was sup-plied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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The middle class livesALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN MAKE THE MOST OF OPPORTUNITY,

BUT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS NOT SO FORTUNATE

With the return to power for another four years of a Liberal government in Ontario, the last major pro-vincial piece of the federal pre-election puzzle has fallen in place.

But as to where exactly it belongs in the Canadian big picture, there is anything but a consensus.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Thomas Mulcair’s NDP could equally welcome Kath-leen Wynne’s majority victory as a sign that the mood of Can-ada’s largest province runs to government activism.

Wynne did campaign on a left-leaning platform that staked out a large role for gov-ernment in the social and eco-nomic affairs of the province. It could be argued that Con-servative Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper’s intervention-ism-adverse mantra took a hit by proxy on Thursday.

Many of the moderate Conservatives whose votes Harper needs to hang onto his Ontario seats next year were apparently more turned off by the hard turn to the right proposed by Tim Hudak’s Tories than by Wynne’s tilt to the left.

The NDP’s efforts to edge closer to the centre did not pay off in additional seats but its support did in-crease in the popular vote.

On that basis, it would be hasty for the New Demo-

crats to jump to the conclusion that they would have done better had they campaigned further to the left of the Liberals.

If the Ontario results suggest anything, it is that the real edge on the NDP that the Liberals could take into next year’s federal battle is their ability to turn disaffected red Tories into blue Liberals.

Harper’s strategists, for their part, will take solace in the notion that incumbency trumped change on Thursday in spite of voter fatigue with a three-term government.

The Liberal victory leaves the federal Conserva-tives on the winning side of a pattern that has usu-ally seen Ontario put its eggs in different federal and provincial baskets.

But if recent electoral history suggests anything, it is that patterns are there to be broken. Ask the Nova Scotia NDP or Quebec’s Parti Québécois. Both provinces consistently granted incumbents a second mandate — until they did not in their last elections.

What is certain is that the political dynamics of Central Canada have changed dramatically over the first half of this year.

Both Quebec and Ontario now have majority Lib-eral governments in place, with long enough man-dates to weather the potential fallout of lingering past scandals, as well as outlive the current federal government.

Philippe Couillard and Wynne each have some heavy fiscal lifting to do — and neither has much room to manoeuvre.

Couillard has not yet been in power 100 days and he has already had to cancel or postpone most of the

spending promises his party campaigned on.Reality in the shape of a bulging structural deficit

and a mediocre economic environment could simi-larly catch up to Wynne sooner rather than later.

One way or another, one can bet the family farm on the fact that the premiers of Ontario and Quebec will agree to set their hungry sights on the federal surplus that is expected to materialize between now and next year’s federal campaign.

When all is said and done, the most striking dif-ference between the newly elected governments of Quebec and Ontario involves the nature of their re-spective mandates rather than their agendas.

Wynne, in contrast with Couillard, was elected with the support of fewer voters than the number that did not bother to cast a ballot.

For the second time in a row, half of Ontario vot-ers stayed home on Thursday.

In Quebec in April, the turnout was 70 per cent.The result for Ontario’s re-elected government

is a weaker mandate that, even with a majority, will make it harder for Wynne to secure a so-called social licence from the public for her more ambitious poli-cies.

In an ideal world, the disturbingly high level of voter disengagement in Canada’s largest province should give impetus to the cause of electoral reform. But it is a rare governing party that would rock the boat of a system that allows it to rule in the comfort of a majority with the support of less than one in five eligible voters.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

MISSION, B.C. — Pam Sawler was in Grade 9 when she learned her father had been murdered with eight other men in a Yellowknife mine bombing, and now she expects bad news at every turn.

While Sawler awaits phantom phone calls from hospital or police, her mother Bonnie says her own emotional pain is multiplied a thousand-fold with every milestone she can’t share with her husband.

Roger Warren has been serving a life sen-tence for the mass mur-der inside the Giant Mine 21 years ago. On Tuesday, the federal parole board granted him conditional re-lease into the community.

Warren, 70, listened to the daughter and mother weep as they urged the board to keep him locked up until he dies. Then a board member asked him if he was prepared for day parole.

“I’m sure I’d probably feel the same way. That’s the worst thing ... I always prayed people wouldn’t waste their life hating me,” said Warren, soon chok-ing back his own sobs.

“All I can say is, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry for all the pain I’ve caused.”’

Warren was 49 when he conspired to further shake up a volatile labour dispute at the mine, which had already seen two smaller bombings and a riot.

Nine replacement workers died in September 1992 when their ore car tripped a wire Warren had rigged to set off dynamite hundreds of metres under-ground. Thirteen months later, he confessed to set-ting the bomb. He retracted that confession at trial, was convicted in 1995, and finally admitted his guilt again years later in prison.

After a two-hour hearing on Tuesday, the two pa-role board members ruled that Warren did not pose an “undue risk” to the community and they agreed to his release from the Mission Minimum Institute, east of Vancouver.

Board member Bent Andersen said Warren has taken responsibility for his actions, has shown remorse and has a track record of good behav-iour.

Warren will live in a halfway house during his release, which will come up for renewal in six months. It’s not clear where that will be, but he’s not expected to re-turn to Yellowknife. He must abide by several conditions, including ab-staining from alcohol, at-tending counselling ses-sions and not contacting families of the men who died.

Warren has already been on about 400 escort-ed trips into the commu-nity and has completed a 120-day work term away from the prison. He has volunteered at a commu-

nity garden and delivered its produce to food banks and he regularly attends church.

“My father is a very good man who made a mistake ... I feel blessed that I still get to see him and speak to him,” Warren’s daughter told the hearing.

“I think he deserves a chance in society.”Her father, now a thin, balding man who used a

hearing aid during the proceedings, was asked to de-scribe his crime in detail during the review.

He recalled collecting gear for several days be-fore sneaking down the shaft and walking kilome-tres with a half bag of ex-plosive powder and sticks to set up the bomb.

“I’ll admit it was hair-brained stupid,” he said, saying he never intended

to kill anyone, although he recognized someone might get hurt.

Warren, who started at the mine in 1978, was in-terviewed several times after the explosion, but was considered a peripheral figure before he confessed, he said. He told the board that guilt and the fear someone else would be punished prompted his first confession.

“I was in shock for days. I still am. I think about it every day.”

He then recanted out of shame and cowardice, he said.

“I couldn’t bear to have my family think I could do such a stupid thing.”

Warren was convicted of nine counts of second-degree murder in 1995 and maintained his innocence until 2003.

“I just found myself a despicable person and then I couldn’t do it anymore,” he said. “I take the full re-sponsibility for it and I have for quite a while.”

Board spokesman Patrick Storey said Warren will remain under the supervision of federal corrections officers for the rest of his life.

“If he takes his freedom for granted, if he is no longer compliant with the rules, then he can be re-turned to prison,” Storey said.

“Whether he lives or dies in the community is completely up to him.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

SAINT-EUSTACHE, Que. — A Quebec daycare where children were overcome by carbon monoxide did not have a detector to alert staff, authorities said Tuesday.

At least five children were overcome by carbon monoxide at Les petits explorateurs daycare centre in St-Eustache, north of Montreal.

Later in the day, local hospital officials said none of the children’s lives were in danger.

Those who experienced the more serious symp-toms were transferred to a children’s hospital in Montreal for further follow-up.

“The first ones to arrive by ambulance showed symptoms of typical intoxication,” Dr. Alain Tur-cotte, the director of professional services, told a news conference Tuesday. “Five young children were transferred to St. Justine’s hospital so they could be followed more closely. . . they showed more severe symptoms of intoxication.”

Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, and tasteless gas that is toxic to humans in high concen-trations.

Turcotte also said that two of the children had actually lost consciousness and others were vomiting and complaining of nausea and headaches.

The rest of the daycare’s 72 children and about 10 staff were taken to the St-Eustache hospital by school bus as a preventive measure and treated with oxygen.

A regional health department spokeswoman said

there was no carbon monoxide detector installed at the centre.

“In an ideal world, everyone would have had a carbon monoxide detector, like they have a smoke detector,” Dr. Marie-Claude Lacombe said. “But in this case there was not one.”

The St-Eustache fire department said its prelimi-nary investigation points to a propane-fuelled floor cleaning machine used at the daycare as the poten-tial source.

“At this stage, we can say that we suspect equip-ment used to clean floors,” said fire chief Charles de Rouville.

“We took readings (and) there were high readings of carbon monoxide,” de Rouville said.

The daycare was quickly aired out by firefighters.The incident caught the attention of Prime Min-

ister Stephen Harper, who expressed his concerns about the state of the children on his Twitter ac-count.

“Very worrisome news out of St-Eustache,” he wrote. “Hoping for the quick recovery of all those involved.”

In Quebec City, Families Minister Francine Char-bonneau promised the incident will be subject to an administrative investigation. The daycare is a pri-vate, subsidized facility.

She said it was probably stressful for parents who were contacted and asked to come to the hospital.

Charbonneau said that initially there were sus-picions that the children were affected by a flu bug, but staff quickly realized something else was wrong.

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Rob Fordplans to

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Yellowknife man who set Giant Mine bomb,killing nine people, gets day parole

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Only time will tell whether Rob Ford’s stint in rehab has changed him, some of the Toronto mayor’s colleagues said Tuesday, just weeks before his scheduled return to city hall.

Ford plans to come back to work on June 30, ac-cording to a letter he sent to the city clerk’s office.

The letter says he will return to resume his duties as mayor “in the later portion of the afternoon” and asks that his office locks be changed back by 1 p.m.

“I’m hoping that he really seriously applied him-self at rehab and he will come back a very changed person,” Coun. Paula Fletcher said.

She said city hall has been “pretty calm and scan-dal-free” in the mayor’s absence, a sentiment echoed by other councillors.

“Ever since his departure from city hall, things have been very calm, there’s a lot of business being conducted, there’s a level of civility I believe has re-entered city hall,” Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam said.

“It clearly demonstrates to me that when he’s here, he’s a distraction.”

Coun. Janet Davis said it’s impossible to know what to expect from Ford.

“I don’t want to predict how Rob Ford will be-have, I don’t think anybody’s ever been able to do that,” she said.

The embattled mayor has been in rehab since an-nouncing on April 30 he was seeking help for an al-cohol problem, just as new allegations of substance abuse surfaced in several published reports.

Ford has been faced with allegations of drug use since May 2013, when the Toronto Star and the U.S. website Gawker reported seeing a video that ap-peared to show him smoking crack cocaine.

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The letter announcing Ford’s return is dated June 2, but the clerk did not receive the letter until Mon-day, City of Toronto spokesperson Jackie DeSouza said in an email.

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Reprisal killings fill morgues

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD — Signs emerged Tuesday of a repri-sal sectarian slaughter of Sunnis in Iraq, as police said pro-government Shiite militiamen killed nearly four dozen detainees after insurgents tried to storm the jail northeast of Baghdad.

A local morgue official said many of the detainees had bullet wounds to the head and chest, though the Iraqi military insisted the Sunni inmates were killed by mortar shells in the attack on the facility outside the city of Baqouba.

In Baghdad, meanwhile, the bullet-riddled bodies of four men in their late 20s or early 30s, presum-ably Sunnis, were found at different locations in the Shiite neighbourhood of Benouk, according to police and morgue officials who spoke on condition of ano-nymity because they were not authorized to talk with the media.

Also Tuesday, a car bomb in Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City district killed 12 people and wounded 30 in a crowded outdoor market, police and hospital officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, but attacks targeting Shiite districts are routinely the work of Sunni militants.

The Sadr City deaths take to at least 22 the num-ber of people killed in violence in Baghdad on Tues-day.

The discovery was a grim reminder of a dark chapter in Iraq’s history when nearly a decade ago the city woke up virtually every morning to find dozens of bodies dumped in the streets, trash heaps or in the Tigris river with torture marks or gunshot wounds.

The allegation of Shiite killings of Sunnis near Baqouba and in Baghdad were the first hints of the beginnings of a return to sectarian warfare that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007. Sunni militants also have been accused of atrocities — an apparent attempt to provoke Shiite militias into revenge attacks that would strengthen the hand of an al-Qaida splinter group within Iraq’s Sunni com-munity.

A UN commission warned Tuesday that “a re-gional war in the Middle East draws ever closer” as Sunni insurgents advance across Iraq to control areas bridging the Iraq-Syria frontier. It said Iraq’s turmoil will have “violent repercussions” in Syria, most dangerously the rise of sectarian violence as “a direct consequence of the dominance of extremist groups.”

During the United States’ eight-year presence in Iraq, American forces acted as a buffer between the two Islamic sects, though with limited success. The U.S. military withdrew at the end of 2011, but it is now being pulled back in — albeit so far in far fewer numbers.

The fighting around the jail was the closest to

Baghdad since the al-Qaida breakaway group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant began its light-ning advance, seizing several key northern cities in the Sunni heartland last week.

There were conflicting details about the clashes in the al-Kattoun district near Baqouba, the capital of Diyala province and one of the bloodiest battle-fields of the U.S.-led war, and on how the detainees were killed. The city is 60 kilometres northeast of the Iraqi capital.

Officers said the local police station, which has a small jail, came under attack Monday night by Sunni militants who arrived in two sedan cars to free the detainees. The militants fired rocket-propelled gre-nades on the building before opening fire with as-sault rifles.

A SWAT team accompanied by Shiite militiamen rushed to scene and asked the local policemen to leave, according to the officers. When the policemen

later returned to the station, they found all those in the detention cells dead.

The bodies were taken to the Baqouba morgue, where an official said most had gunshot wounds to the head and chest. One detainee, however, survived and was taken to the hospital.

Police later arrived at the hospital and took the wounded man away, said a hospital official.

The police officers, the hospital and morgue offi-cials all spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for their own safety.

A different account was provided to The Associ-ated Press by Iraq’s chief military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi. He said 52 detainees who were held at the station in al-Kattoun died when the attackers from the Islamic State shelled it with mor-tars.

Nine of the attackers were killed, al-Moussawi said.

SIGNS EMERGE OF POSSIBLE SECTARIAN SLAUGHTER

OF SUNNIS IN IRAQ

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Iraqis who have fled fighting between security forces and al-Qaida inspired militants in their hometown of Tal Afar sit in their tents at Germawa camp for displaced Iraqis, in a hot dusty plain in the largely-autonomous Kurdish area of Dahuk, 430 kilometers northwest of Baghdad Tuesday. It’s not clear how many people fled Tel Afar. The aid group, the International Rescue Committee estimated 3,000 families fled, most to Sinjar. Others trickled to the Germawa camp.

Political leaders blamed for two coastal attacks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NAIROBI, Kenya — The killers in the Kenyan vil-lage singled out non-Muslims, shooting them point-blank or slitting their throats, just like the previous night in an adjacent hamlet. A Somali extremist group claimed responsibility but Kenya’s president on Tuesday blamed local political networks for the 60 deaths.

President Uhuru Kenyatta, in a national address, said evidence indicates that the motive for the kill-ing spree was to evict a community of people in or-der to grab the land along the coast near the Somali border. He said al-Shabab, a Somali group linked to al-Qaida, was not behind it.

But analysts expressed doubt. Matt Bryden, the former head of the U.N. Monitoring Group on Soma-lia, said al-Shabab has never claimed credit for an attack it didn’t carry out.

“It has all the hallmarks of an al-Shabab attack, said Bryden, now the head of Sahan Research. ”Sec-ondly, there’s been no sign of a Kenyan group carry-ing out an attack on this scale or with these tactics.“

In a nearby village, residents stood on top of burned-out vehicles and erected barricades of burn-ing tires to blockade the road in protest against the recent killings and what they claimed was the government’s failure to provide them with enough security.

Some residents abandoned another village with their belongings on their heads while armed secu-rity forces marched in single file along narrow paths leading through the dense swamp and forest, search-ing for the killers.

Al-Shabab said Monday that such attacks would continue “as you continue to invade our lands and oppress innocent Muslims.” Al-Shabab gunmen at-tacked an upscale mall in the Kenyan capital, Nai-

robi, last September, killing at least 67 people in reprisal for Kenya sending its troops to Somalia.

The second night of deadly attacks against a Chris-tian community on Kenya’s north coast seemed de-signed to try to inflame Christian-Muslim tensions in Kenya, religious and political leaders said.

Bearded Muslim leaders conferring inside Nai-robi’s largest mosque, a grand white facade nestled among the capital’s high rises, condemned what they called savage acts and ghastly killings and said there was no justification for them.

They warned of a potential sectarian rift.“The continued violence risks tearing the country

apart,” they said, continuing later: “We need to be cognizant of the fact that some of these attacks are aimed at planning seeds of discord and animosity among Kenyans and divide the country along ethnic and religious lines.”

Kenyatta labeled the perpetrators of the attacks as reckless hate-mongers who create intolerance and fanaticism.

Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said a new slate of government and security officials have been installed in Lamu in the wake of the attacks, in part because “there seems to be some inside job.”

The newer attack happened in Majembeni village, which is next to Mpeketoni, where four dozen Chris-tian men were slaughtered Sunday night and Mon-day morning. Al-Shabab said in a radio broadcast in Somalia that its fighters killed government workers and Christians.

A county commissioner, Benson Maisori, said the attackers Tuesday night appear to have been the same group as in Mpeketoni. He confirmed 10 deaths in Majembeni.

Albania battles armed drug gangs in farming villageBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAZARAT, Albania — Until ten years ago, Lazarat was a regular farming community. Now the village in southern Albania is Europe’s biggest illegal mari-juana producer, raking in billions of euros every year from the plants openly cultivated in fields and house gardens.

Set in a green plain overlooked by high hills, this sprawling southern village of 5,000 is believed to pro-duce about 900 metric tons of cannabis a year, worth some 4.5 billion euros ($6.1 billion) — just under half of the small Balkan country’s GDP.

The lucrative business has left its marks on soci-ety. Today flashy cars and expensive homes dot the village, where many residents were left unemployed after the political purges that followed changes of government in Albania in the late 1990s. Ironically, many had previously worked for the customs service,

handling nearby border crossings with Greece.The marijuana-farming has grown constantly

since then, encouraged by strong demand in neigh-bouring Greece and Italy, while Albania has also become a major transit point for other drugs coming in to Europe from Asia and Latin America.

Previously, authorities left the drug gangs pretty much to their own devices, as police visits tended to be met with gunfire. But change has come with the new Socialist government, which came into power last year with a clear aim to stamp out the marijuana economy and persist with efforts to seek Albanian membership in European Union. The country’s ap-plication for candidate member status in the 28-na-tion bloc has already been turned down three times, with organized crime and corruption always cited as a stumbling block.

In their most ambitious effort so far, 500 police officers were deployed this week to impose law and order in Lazarat as part of a nationwide anti-drug

operation— only to be hailed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortar shells and heavy machine-gun fire once they reached the outskirts of the village. With local television broadcasting the events live, police and the Interior Ministry urged residents to stay in-doors and warned others to stay away from the area, some 230 kilometres (140 miles) south of the capital, Tirana.

Police chief Artan Didi told reporters in Tirana that police were targeting a “very well-structured and organized criminal group that is keeping the vil-lage in its claws.”

On the second day of operations Tuesday, police numbers were reinforced to 800 and officers took control of about a quarter of the village, seizing “con-siderable quantities” of marijuana and ammunition, as well as drug-processing machinery. Amid near-continuous gunfire, they also destroyed 11,000 can-nabis plants, and were planning to gingerly advance into gang-defended areas.

Seven people thought to have Ebola die in Liberia capital

MONROVIA, Liberia — Seven people believed to have the Ebola virus have died in recent days in the first deaths reported in the Liberian capital since the outbreak began, a health official said Tuesday.

Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah told The Associated Press that brings to 16 the number of people believed to have died from the virus in the West African country. Four of the deaths were con-firmed by tests to be Ebola, he said.

The deaths, recorded since June 8, are worrying because no new cases had been confirmed in Liberia in about two months. Nyenswah said the new wave of cases was believed to have begun on May 30.

The virus, which causes severe bleeding and high fevers, has continued to ravage neighbouring Guinea in that time and has spread to Sierra Leone.

“The first phase of the epidemic was contained,” said Nyenswah. “But because of proximity to Guin-ea and Sierra Leone, we did not declare outbreak over.”

Other officials have previously downplayed the significance of the virus jumping borders, saying that it is to be expected since people travel and trade fre-quently across the borders of the three countries.

One of the seven deaths was a woman who had recently travelled from an infected area in Sierra Leone and is believed to have passed the disease on to others in the house where she was staying.

Fear of the disease, which has no known cure, appears to have helped its spread. There have been several reports of relatives taking sick loved ones out of isolation wards; that makes the work of stop-ping the disease’s spread harder.

At one hospital on the outskirts of Monrovia, staff and patients fled after the death Saturday of a nurse. On Tuesday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited the hospital and met with a few nurses who came back to the hospital to mourn their colleague.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Four Alberta First Nations have filed a lawsuit against the federal government in an effort to resolve long-standing drinking water problems.

“We just want equality,” said Chief Jim Badger of the Sucker Creek First Nation, where water lines are tainted by poorly designed sewers.

As well, cisterns are so inadequate that dead mice float in them, Badger said.

“All we’re asking for is equality with what other, white people, have, that In-dians are not allowed to have.”

The court action — filed by the Tsu T’ina, Ermineskin, Sucker Creek and Blood First Nations — asks Federal Court to force Ottawa to upgrade their water systems, provide ongoing sup-port to keep them operating safely and to refund money the bands say the gov-ernment has saved over the years by not doing so.

“Canada has avoided significant ex-penditures on account of its breaches of fiduciary duty and the obligations imposed by the honour of the Crown,” says a statement of claim filed Monday. “Canada should therefore be required to disgorge the benefits it has received as a result of its misconduct.”

The most recent estimate of the cost of bringing water treatment on re-serves up to federal standards is about $1.2 billion, with another $470 million a year for maintenance.

The lawsuit argues that Ottawa built substandard water treatment on the four reserves and then didn’t maintain them.

“(The government) failed to build water system facilities to any enforce-able building standard or operational standard,” says the claim.

“(It also) failed to ensure water fa-cilities were built in appropriate loca-tions on-reserve, away from activities that had the potential to contaminate drinking water.”

The results, the claim argues, have encouraged the breakup of First Na-tions communities, damaged the health of those who live there and slowed economic development. The failure to ensure one of the basic necessities of life is systematic discrimination, the lawsuit alleges.

“(It) demeans the position of aborig-inals relative to their non-aboriginal neighbours and reinforces the impov-erished and disadvantaged position of aboriginal people within Canadian society.”

Safe drinking water on reserves has been a public issue since before 2003, when a government report found

three-quarters of all water systems on reserves were at high or medium risk of failure.

Two years later, the auditor general found higher standards needed to be backed up with sufficient resources. That conclusion was echoed the fol-lowing year by a panel convened by then-aboriginal affairs minister Jim Prentice.

A third study in 2011 found little had changed since 2003.

Badger’s reserve isn’t the only one where water and sewer lines cross-contaminate.

“A lot of our community members are suffering from stomach infections that are due to unsafe drinking water,” said Dorothy Firstrider of the Blood band. “A lot of our infants are con-stantly being treated for a lot of infec-tions that are due to unhealthy drink-ing water.”

Water on the Ermineskin reserve is often so bad members have to drive to the nearest town to buy bottled water, said Chief Craig Makinaw.

The Harper government has said it’s spent about $3 billion since 2006 on ab-original water systems.

Lawyer Clayton Leonard, who rep-resents the bands, said most of that was spent prior to the 2011 assessment.

“How many times do you get to re-announce the same amount of money? If you spent $2 billion, and then you find that 73 per cent of First Nations still face serious drinking water issues, it’s a pretty clear indication it’s not enough.”

The government legislated tougher standards last fall that made bands re-sponsible for operation of their water treatment facilities.

Aboriginals say it’s not fair to give them the responsibility without the re-sources to back it up.

The claim alleges that the transfer of responsibility for water didn’t come with the resources to do the job.

“Canada knew ... that First Nations, including the plaintiff First Nations, did not have the resources or skills required to maintain and operate their already deficient water systems,” the statement says.

“Further, Canada only partially funded the operations of on-reserve water treatment systems and mainte-nance costs regardless of a First Na-tion’s ability to generate the rest of the funding.”

The lawsuit’s claims have not been proven in court. The federal govern-ment has not yet filed a statement of defence.

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FLOODING: ‘My everything’Pushed back by rising water and debris, the man

managed to climb on top of their horse trailer but couldn’t reach the camper. He was eventually res-cued by helicopter but it was unable to reach the woman.

She had been pinned underneath an uprooted tree near the campsite.

He went back the next day, used a chainsaw to free her, then carried out her body.

“Amber was my everything,” he says. “She was the only person I ever truly loved.”

Rancourt is saving money to start a ranch for res-cued animals that the couple had dreamed of open-ing someday.

He’s also selling copies of the “Cowgirl Country Cookbook,” a collection of his wife’s recipes that she finished just before she died.

She loved to cook, bake and decorate cakes, he says.

His favourite treat? Her white-chocolate, maca-damia-nut cookies, which she somehow turned into a cake on their wedding day.

“We only had a short time together,” he says. “But it was a lifetime.”

Jacqueline Brocklebank, 33Jacqui Brocklebank’s family describe her as a

happy-go-lucky woman with an infectious smile, who was also stubborn and determined to live on her own in High River.

Born with cerebral palsy, she worked various jobs at fast food restaurants and grocery stores, through a society that supports adults with developmental dis-abilities.

She filled her home with plants, worked on intri-cate puzzles and was so sociable that she knew many people in town by name. She had a boyfriend in Cal-gary and two loyal cocker spaniels named Tazz and Bugs.

When flooding hit the town, Brocklebank became worried when she couldn’t reach a friend by phone and took a cab to the woman’s home.

Mac Brocklebank says his daughter took along her pets, who went everywhere with her. She found her friend and encouraged her to leave, but the pair found themselves struggling to walk through deep, raging water.

They held onto each other, and the two dogs, for as long as they could. But Brocklebank went under.

“It was like a small river coming at her,” says Brocklebank’s father. “She got washed off the side-walk.”

Her parents called her cellphone to make sure she got out of town, then grew worried when they couldn’t reach her.

RCMP later told them they found her body.They never found her dogs.In her obituary, her family wrote that Brockle-

bank’s love of family and friends is why she headed into the flood, “as she would not leave her friend behind.”

“She left this world helping others, which is what she loved doing. We are forever proud of our special girl.”

Dominic Pearce, 52Dominic Pearce served in the army for several

years before retiring as a sergeant.But with a young son in Nova Scotia, the man who

hailed from a large family in Newfoundland’s Boyd’s Cove headed to northern Alberta’s oilsands like so many others from the East Coast before him.

When he had days off at a stretch, he sometimes went south to the High River home of his longtime friend Sean Morrow.

Morrow says they’d drink beer while listening to music in the kitchen or head to a local bar where Pearce would buy a round for everyone in the joint.

He could finish a crossword puzzle in a flash, says Morrow. And because of his time in the military, Pearce always looked clean cut.

That’s why the day the town flooded, when Mor-row’s girlfriend warned the men they needed to hurry and get out, Pearce took his time and shaved.

When Pearce, Morrow and a friend named Fish left the house minutes later, the water was already up to their waists and too high for them to drive away in a truck. The three men waded into a nearby yard, found a small boat and grabbed two fence pickets for paddles.

It was raining and freezing cold. The water was moving with force, says Morrow. At one point, the boat tipped over and Fish was able to get on top of a camper.

Pearce and Morrow managed to scramble back into the boat, but they weren’t hopeful.

“We both knew we were screwed,” Morrow says.They didn’t talk. Morrow says Pearce gave him a

knowing look and a shrug as if to say, “It’s been fun but I think we’re going to die ... the party’s over.”’

The boat flipped again, says Morrow, and his friend was gone.

Morrow managed to keep one hand on the boat and the other on something he believes was a gar-bage bin. A rescue crew in a motorboat picked him up, along with Fish. They searched briefly for Pearce, but Morrow told them it was no use.

Pearce’s body was found the next day.

Lorraine Gerlitz, 83Her Calgary condo was full of cat figurines. Each

summer, there were pots full of pansies on her patio.Lorraine Gerlitz had no close family. She and her

husband had worked with the homeless for several years at the Salvation Army before he died, and the couple had no children. She had a cat named Lucy.

Gerlitz and her next-door neighbour Yvonne Scott became close friends. The pair went to church to-gether on Sundays, exchanged meals of meatloaf and stew, and called each day to check in and make sure the other was fine.

Gerlitz was growing frail, had had some recent bad falls and didn’t hear well, says Scott.

But when police officers and firefighters knocked on the main floor units in the building, urging resi-dents to flee, Scott thought Gerlitz would be fine.

Scott’s two children were picking her up when she met Gerlitz in the hallway.

“We gave each other a good hug and she kind of had tears in her eyes,” recalls the 79-year-old. “She said she’d be OK.”

Gerlitz told her that if the flood came, she’d go up to a friend’s condo on the third floor. That friend, says Scott, assumed Gerlitz was with Scott.

It wasn’t until a couple of days later, when Scott’s children took her home to assess the water damage, that they looked inside Gerlitz’s place and found her in her pyjamas, lying dead inside the doorway.

Her cat was hiding on top of the kitchen cup-boards.

An autopsy determined Gerlitz had drowned, says Scott, but it remains a mystery as to why.

Scott wonders if Gerlitz lost her footing on the slippery river water as it filled her condo, reaching about 1.5 metres high.

Gerlitz left some money in her will to a cat charity, says Scott, and a family friend has adopted Lucy.

Scott says she misses her dear friend.“I can’t believe that it’s been almost a year,” says

Scott. “I’ll never forget her.”

STORY FROM PAGE A3 Canada still isolates Iran,

despite Iraq crisisBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Harper government’s unyield-ing isolation of Iran persisted Tuesday, even as the United States and Britain explored how to enlist Tehran’s help in defusing the escalating crisis in Iraq.

Britain announced it would re-open its embassy in Tehran while the U.S. said it was looking at other possible areas of co-operation in an effort to stop the violent offensive by militants across Iraq.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the “circumstances are right” for his country to re-open its embassy, which was closed in 2011 after it was at-tacked and ransacked.

Canada followed suit in 2012, shuttering its em-bassy in the Iranian capital and expelling the coun-try’s diplomats.

A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada’s relations with Tehran will remain severed until Iran can prove it is trustwor-thy.

“We have a made-in-Canada foreign policy, and while we respect the decisions of our friends and al-lies, our position on Iran remains clear and one root-ed in principle,” Baird’s spokesman Adam Hodge said in an email.

“While we want to believe the regime is genuinely committed to positive change, we believe that ac-tions speak louder than words.

“Until Canada is given real reasons to trust the words of the regime, Canadian sanctions will remain in full force, and relations with Iran will remain sus-pended.”

Hodge said Iran has sown mayhem in the region for decades by supporting terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah.

“Iran continues to destabilize the region in coun-tries like Syria and Iraq,” he said.

“We believe co-operation with Iran deserves pause and reflection on their true intentions.”

Baird cited the attack on the British embassy as one of the reasons behind the government’s decision to shut down its mission in the fall of 2012.

The Harper government maintains that the safety of its diplomats is paramount.

However, Hague told the British parliament that he believed his country’s diplomats would be able to carry out their duties unfettered.

And he said he spoke to his Iranian counterpart on the weekend about doing more to improve rela-tions.

The embassy opening is part of a gradual rap-prochement between Britain and Iran following the election of a new moderate Iranian president, Has-san Rouhani, last August.

British Prime Minister David Cameron telephoned Rouhani last fall, the first time the leaders of the two countries had spoken in more than a decade.

The militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has taken control of several cit-ies in Syria and Iraq.

That has now given Iran a shared interest with the West: finding a way to bring stability to its Iraqi neighbour.

The Obama administration is sending about 300 military personnel in and around Iraq to help secure its assets, and is also considering airstrikes.

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CALGARY — Enbridge Inc.’s con-troversial Northern Gateway proposal passed a key milestone on Tuesday, but the Calgary-based pipeline giant says it has a long-way to go before it decides to break ground.

Ottawa gave the green light to the multibillion-dollar Alberta-to-West Coast project, subject to 209 conditions recommended by a regulatory panel late last year.

But Enbridge still needs to cross a number of federal and provincial regulatory hurdles, fight a bevy of le-gal battles launched by opponents and win over communities along the pro-posed route.

Enbridge CEO Al Monaco described the economic case as “straightforward” for a pipeline that would connect grow-ing oilsands crude with eager buyers on the other side of the Pacific.

But he acknowledged that’s not enough to proceed.

“If we can’t prove out safety and en-vironmental protection on these proj-ects, the economic benefits won’t mat-ter,” he said in a conference call with reporters.

“In other words, the economic ben-efits alone are not enough to sustain public support.”

Enbridge will be working to meet the panel’s conditions — more than 100 of which must be met before shovels can even hit the dirt — during the next 12 to 15 months. The earliest possible in-service date would be 2018.

He said Enbridge won’t put off building the pipeline indefinitely, but

it’s in no hurry to give it the final go-ahead either.

“We’re not going to be driven by our calendars or watches here. We’re going to take this one step at a time,” said Monaco.

On the call, Monaco touted the slate of pipelines it has in the hopper to connect Alberta crude to eastern and southern markets.

The good news, some observers say,

is that Enbridge has time to look west-ward.

“There is some flexibility on tim-ing to ensure that it’s done right,” said Greg Stringham, with the Canadian As-sociation of Petroleum Producers.

CAPP predicts that oilsands produc-tion will hit 4.8 million barrels per day by 2030, about two and a half times higher than last year’s output of 1.9 million barrels. At that point, the ca-

pacity of all pipelines currently pro-posed will be needed, said Stringham.

Jack Mintz, with the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, said demand from new markets isn’t going to diminish.

“There’s huge Asian coker demand for oil and I think that demand is not going to disappear,” he said.

Green light for GatewayENBRIDGE PLOTS NEXT STEPS AFTER NORTHERN GATEWAY GETS FEDERAL NOD

File Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

A group of protesters gathers outside the Northern Gateway hearings in Prince Rupert, B.C. on December, 10, 2012.

Please see GATEWAY on Page B2

MICROTEL CONSTRUCTION

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

The new Microtel Inns & Suites on Leva Avenue in Gasoline Alley continues to take shape, with the four-storey 100-room hotel expected to open around Dec. 1. Two restaurants are also being developed as part of the project: a Boston Pizza and a Sunset Grill, with the latter an Ontario-based franchise that specializes in breakfasts. Preliminary work on the Boston Pizza has begun, with the Sunset Grill to follow shortly. Both are expected to open about a month before the hotel. The Microtel Inns & Suites will have a pool and a waterslide, as well as a fitness area and two meeting rooms. The brand is part of the Wyndham Hotel Group, and is known as an upper-end economy hotel.

BY HARLEY RICHARDSADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

The art of sewing is alive and well in Red Deer.

At least that’s the observation of Carrie White, owner of Sew Savvy Café.

Since opening her sewing-themed coffee shop in April 2013, the accom-plished seamstress has had a growing number of students come to her for lessons.

But changes are pending, White confirmed on Tuesday. Most notably, she plans to relocate from her current No. 103, 4916 Ross St. premises to 5005 Ross St.

There, she’ll share the building that was the longtime home of Red Deer Community Clothing Service — better known as the Red Deer Clothing Bank — with Red Deer Hot Yoga and an a related juice and smoothie bar busi-ness.

White said the new space is better suited to her needs, although she plans to discontinue Sew Savvy Café’s food and beverage service.

“There will no longer be a café por-tion, so the word ‘café’ will be used dif-ferently.”

White explained that customers will be able to grab refreshments at the nearby juice and smoothie bar, and enjoy them in her space.

“There will still be a social environ-ment,” she said, adding that the sewing classes will become her focus, along with the growing demand for custom work, such as prototype garments for textile businesses.

Sew Savvy Café will also continue to sell fabrics and rent sewing machines by the hour or day. White is optimistic that having three businesses in close proximity to each other will create syn-ergies.

“This should work out great,” she said, pointing out that her old prem-ises are too big for her needs.

She said she wants to remain in Red Deer’s downtown.

“I fell in love with the community,” said White, who moved to Red Deer from Oklahoma about seven years ago.

White expects to close out her ex-isting shop the last week of July, and reopen at her new location by mid-August.

She anticipates that Sew Savvy Café will then operate from Monday to Sat-urday as compared with its current Tuesday-to-Saturday schedule.

[email protected]

Sew Savvy moving

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Bank location

BY HARLEY RICHARDSADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

If the energy sector is too volatile for your entrepreneurial taste, you might want to sling hamburgers in-stead.

Dave Yager illustrated this point during a presentation in Red Deer on Tuesday. One of three panelists taking part in an energy services breakfast organized by Alberta Oil magazine, the 43-year veteran of the oilpatch pro-duced a graph that plotted hamburger sales against drilling rig activity.

The line representing the burger business ran straight and level, while the record for the drilling industry spiked up and down erratically.

Yager, who is currently the national leader of oilfield services with nation-

al accounting and consulting firm MNP LLP, emphasized the unpredictable nature of the oil and gas sector.

He got no arguments from his fel-low panelists: Shane Walper, president and CEO of Red Deer-based Predator Drilling Inc.; and Travis Robertson, president and CEO of Jewel Energy Services Inc., also headquartered in Red Deer.

Walper recalled the rollercoaster ride he and his partners experienced after they founded Predator in 2008.

“That was absolutely one of the worst times a guy could have started a business,” he said, reflecting how oil prices tumbled with the onset of the recession.

Walper contrasted that period with the preceding decade, which was char-acterized by steady growth and pros-perity in the energy sector.

“There was no down side. It was all just straight up.”

Robertson listed some of the techno-logical advancements that have shaken up the industry in recent years: lon-ger and deeper horizontal wells, and increasingly complex fracking opera-tions.

There’s also been a massive shift to oil wells away from gas plays.

“The market,” he added, “volatile like nothing else on earth.”

Energy sector volatilitymay be too tough for some

ENERGY SERVICES BREAKFAST

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“Derek, I’ve heard it’s possible to get money out of your RRSP tax-free. Is that true?”

I hear that question quite often — and it’s cer-tainly not true — but what is true is that there seems to be a lot of myths and misconceptions about regis-tered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) that should be addressed.

To answer your question specifically, you can’t get money out of an RRSP tax-free, just like you can’t con-vince your employer to pay you tax-free. Those who claim that it is possible, use a lever-aged asset strategy where the interest on the loan is used to offset the income from a cli-ent’s registered retirement in-come fund (RRIF) — a risky venture to say the least. Be-fore considering this strategy, please ensure you have done your research and consider a second opinion.

Another common myth is that if you contribute to a spousal RRSP you can get twice the amount of annual deductions: one for the con-tribution in your account and another for the one you made in your spouse’s ac-count. This is a common misconception.

The simplest way of remembering who can take the deduction is to remember that an individual has only one deduction limit based on him/her having earned income (or carryforwards) from a previous year. In the case where spouse A wants to contribute to spouse B’s RRSP, the contribution must be made based on spouse A’s RRSP limit.

For example, Jane has a limit (let’s say it’s $20,000) and can choose to contribute to her own RRSP or to John’s RRSP. Even if John also has a limit of $20,000, the most Jane can contribute is still $20,000, based on her own limits.

Jane cannot use John’s contribution room, al-though Jane could fund John’s contribution, but John will get the tax deduction. There can be ben-efits to contributing to a spousal RRSP, but it’s best to discuss that with your adviser and accountant.

Another common myth is that once investors con-tribute they have to claim the full amount as a de-duction for that year. The truth is, many people lose sight of the fact that once the contribution is made the deduction does not have to be claimed and can be carried forward to a future tax year.

This can be a good strategy when an individual wants to take advantage of tax-deferred growth now, but knows they will be in a higher tax bracket in the future and will therefore get a better deduction. Con-sult your accountant for specifics on this.

Most investors assume that once they turn 71 they are no longer eligible to contribute to an RRSP. Nothing could be further from the truth.

No piece of legislation exists that states there are any age restrictions on making an RRSP contribu-tion. Whether young or old, individuals can make a contribution as long as they have earned income in a previous year or at least have a carryforward amount from a previous year.

What this means, of course, is that someone who is over the age of 71 who has had to collapse their RRSP can still make a spousal contribution.

This, of course, assumes that the spouse still has an RRSP ( is 71 or younger) and the contributor is able to contribute because he/she either had earned income the previous year or still has carryforwards that were never used. Some investors believe that they may only contribute cash to their RRSP. The truth is that you don’t have to use cash. You can in fact also use stocks and bonds and make what is known as a “contribution-in-kind.”

The thing to remember is that the contribution of the asset is considered a disposition for tax purposes and as a result, tax would have to be paid on the cap-ital gain. It is also vital to remember that if a capital loss should result from the transfer, this loss cannot be used for tax purposes.

Lastly, many investors believe that they can sell an investment to create a capital loss and then buy back the security in their RRSP. This is actually true! Contrary to popular belief, this is a recognized and acceptable tax planning strategy.

The idea here is that you would first sell the secu-rity that is held outside of your RRSP. Once the loss has been realized, you turn around and reacquire the security in your RRSP. This creates a capital loss and you maintain ownership of the position — a win-win.

Regardless of what strategy you’re considering, all of these concepts should be discussed with a qualified accountant. RRSPs and RRIFs have lots of myths and misconceptions and it’s important that you understand how best to use these powerful tools.

Happy Investing!Derek Fuchs is a wealth adviser with ScotiaMcLeod

in Red Deer, and a certified financial planner, financial management adviser and a fellow of the Canadian Se-curities Institute. He can be contacted at [email protected].

DEREK FUCHS

WEALTH WATCH

“In fact, the Asian market is actually the growing market for oil products and there is a very big de-mand for Canadian oil.”

Laura Lau, a senior portfolio manager with the Brompton Group, agrees the window of opportu-nity should stay open for some time, given the rate at which oilsands production is expected to grow.

“We still need as many pipelines as possible, so perhaps it would be past the end of this decade,” she said.

However, Lau believes other pipeline proposals to the south and east, such as TransCanada’s Keystone XL and Energy East, have a much better chance of going ahead than Northern Gateway, given the First Nations and political challenges that are specific to British Columbia.

Enbridge’s most recent estimates put the price tag of the project at $6.5 billion, but the company has said costs are sure to go up. The joint review panel’s report pegged the cost at $7.9 billion, including $500 million for marine infrastructure.

“The ultimate question is whether the pipeline just becomes way too expensive to build,” said Dylan Jones, with the Canada West Foundation.

“And if there’s something that kills it, it’s going to be a combination of the challenge of building sup-port in British Columbia and the cost.”

Jones praised the “humble” tone Enbridge’s lead-ership has been taking lately on Northern Gateway and that he’s optimistic the line will ultimately be built.

“It has never been good for Canada to be so de-pendent on the United States,” said Jones. “Even if we secure a good access through the East Coast, there’s still going to continue to be a strategic im-perative for Canada around accessing the Pacific in a cost-effective way.”

The Joint Review Panel set December 31, 2016 as a deadline for Enbridge to start building the project, unless the National Energy Board says otherwise.

Yager reflected on how the total value of oil and gas produced in Canada grew from $26.5 billion in 1998 to $145 billion in 2008 — a 550 per cent increase. Revenues then tumbled by some $40 billion in 2009, but are on track this year to hit a record $157 billion.

Natural gas went from $8 billion in 1999 to $52 billion in 2005, and then back down to $12 billion in 2012.

“Complete asset classes were rendered useless,” he said of natural gas production.

Meanwhile, revenue from the oilsands has gone from $2 billion 15 years ago to a projected $60 billion this year.

“The oilsands boom is just absolutely phenom-enal,” said Yager.

Even on an annual basis, the oil and gas sector fluctuates wildly, pointed out Walper.

“If you look at the drilling side of the business, we go from 400 rigs kind of working in the off season to 800, 850 rigs working come December. That is an incredible draw on resources, manpower, finances, you name it.

“No two cycles are probably identical,” added Walper, stressing that companies must be agile and learn quickly.

When it comes to coping with the ups and downs, Robertson said diversification seems to help. He also suggested “putting a steering wheel on your business” by strategically choosing equipment, loca-tion, people and products. You can also prepare for adversity through such measures as developing in-house skills and working as a team.

Walper agreed that skilled personnel and team-work are keys, as are having a commitment to learn, and processes and procedures to organize and streamline your operation.

Yager stressed the importance of maintaining a healthy balance sheet, noting that debt is a killer during bad times.

He added that there are a minefield of poten-tial problems that oilfield service companies can’t do anything about: commodity prices, currency ex-change rates, interest rates, investor enthusiasm, government policy, weather, worker demographics, technological change and global events.

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GATEWAY: Growing market

Myths about RRSPs

Much more than a plot line from a western novel, this month’s brazen theft of cattle in Eastern Alberta is a stark reminder of the downside of the upswing in ranchers’ fortunes.

Cattle rustling is one of the oldest crimes on the Prairies, yet those who raise livestock fear it’s been relegated to a novelty status, the kind of story reporters can bring out their best “cow puns” for, and the kind of case for rookie lawyers (if the perpetrators are ever caught).

But as cattle prices contin-ue to raise the ceiling to new heights across North America, that may have to change.

Thankfully, Alberta at least has an RCMP Livestock Inves-tigation Unit, which has been busier than ever.

The latest case it’s asking for the public’s help on in-volves the theft of 59 heifers from a farm near Czar, in the Provost region. At cur-rent market value, those feeder heifers are worth about $80,000.

Ranch owner Allan Hobbs is prepared to put up a $25,000 reward for information leading to the recov-ery of the missing cattle.

Corp. Dave Heaslip has been chasing rustlers and their ilk for years. In this case, the RCMP live-stock investigator is confident the animals didn’t just break through a fence. They were in an 80-acre field, right near the feedlot in the main farm yard, and were fed and checked regularly. They were branded and tagged — all the things that are supposed to help in cases like this.

“We suspect the animals were taken by someone who knew the daily routine so evaded detection,” said Heaslip.

The number was just right for a full load in a straight haul livestock trailer, which could have been filled relatively quickly.

Allan Hobbs admits theirs is a busy yard. With the feedlot, and the fact the family buys and sells feed,

vehicles are coming and going regularly. But one of those departing rigs must have contained their cattle.

“There were supposed to be 192 head, and when we brought them in to sort and haul them off for sum-mer pasture the first week of May, that’s when we no-ticed ‘holy smokes, we’re short,’” exclaimed Hobbs.

It was a gut-wrenching discovery.“It felt like I had a target on my back,” admitted

the rancher, whose faith in his fellow man has been shaken.

“But it’s not a real first for the area. These thefts have been going on for quite some time. About three years ago, a potload and a half of cows and calves went missing from south of Czar, and they never did find a trace of them. It’s an ongoing issue.”

Like so much of rural Alberta, this region is big country, with miles between ranches, and traffic usu-ally sparse.

But there is routine and rhythm to farm work, and Hobbs believes someone had been studying their operation.

“Oh, I think so. I think they’re very organized, and I think they knew where those cattle were going be-fore they picked them up.”

Costly cattle problem

Contributed photo

The RCMP are on the lookout for 59 heifers stolen from a farm near Czar.DIANNE

FINSTAD

FROM THE FIELD

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ENERGY: Oilsands boom

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

A second Central Alberta business has joined the Profit 500 club.

WA Grain & Pulse Solutions is ranked 18th on Profit magazine’s 2014 list of Canada’s Fastest-Grow-ing Companies.

The Innisfail company, which buys and sells ce-reals, pulses and oilseeds, was founded in 2007 by Chris and Tracey Chivilo.

Between 2008 and 2013, WA Grain & Pulse Solu-tions’ revenues increased by 2,733 per cent . Last year, it had 34 employees and processing facilities in Bashaw, Bowden and Vanguard, Sask.

Also on Profit’s 2014 list is Red Deer’s Rifco Inc., which provides consumer loans for new and used vehicles. It came in at 261 this year, and was ranked 85th in 2013.

The Profit rankings are based on revenue growth over a five-year period.

The full list can be found online at PROFITguide.com, and will be published in the July issue of Cana-dian Business.

Another Central Alberta business

makes list of fastest-growing

companies

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WILLISTON, N.D. — North Dakota has joined the ranks of the few places in the world that produce more than a million barrels of oil per day, due in large part to the rich Bakken shale formation in the western part of the state.

The April figures released Tuesday by the state’s Department of Mineral Resources showed the re-cord tally. North Dakota had flirted with the million-barrel-per-day mark for months, but the harsh win-ter slowed the pace. In March, production had hit 977,000 barrels per day. North Dakota’s oil fields now represent more than 12 per cent of all U.S. oil pro-duction, and more than 1 per cent of global produc-tion — a situation unfathomable just a decade ago, when technology hadn’t yet caught up to the chal-lenge of extracting oil from the shale. Since then, the oil boom and the jobs it brings have transformed North Dakota, now home to the nation’s fastest-grow-ing cities and its lowest unemployment rate.

“Reaching the 1 million barrel a day mark is a tremendous and timely milestone for the petroleum industry and our state, but it is also a tremendous milestone for our nation,” U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, a Republican, said in a statement, citing the need for the United States to build its domestic energy resources. North Dakota joins Texas, Alaska, Califor-nia and Louisiana as the only states ever to produce more than a million barrels per day. Of those, Texas is the only other state still producing above that level.

“Until April, only Texas, one Canadian province and 19 countries were producing 1 million barrels per day, putting North Dakota among the top oil pro-ducers in the entire world,” said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, an oil lobby-ing group. The state’s production is still dwarfed by behemoths such as Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest producer with nearly 10 million barrels of oil per day.

North Dakota oil production hits 1 million barrels a day

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Hobbs and his sons run the mixed farming outfit that’s been going for 104 years. Their dis-tinctive “Lazy H C run-ning bar” brand would not be easy to alter, but Hobbs suspects those heifers may end up in a remote pasture as breed-ing animals that never come to town, to avoid detection. But he’s hop-ing his sizable reward of-fer might still lead to the recovery of the animals.

“We want to catch who did this. Look, I’m out $80,000 now. If I get the heifers back, and if I pay the $25,000 reward out, I’m still $55,000 ahead of where I am now. The more we can get the word out there, the more people will be vigilant, and not only in this case, but in other cases as well.”

Hobbs calls cattle rustling a real problem, with not very real conse-quences.

“The thing is these guys who are doing it have nothing to lose, and if they get caught, there’s really no penalty. They’ll get a small fine, maybe a year’s probation, and then they’ll go back and do it again. “We need to fix the justice system so there’s some recrimina-tion for these criminals. We need some tougher penalties, something with some teeth in it, that will make them think twice if they get caught.

“The industry is go-ing to have to address this theft issue. It’s been ongoing forever, and it’s getting worse, be-cause things are worth so much. It’s really hard because it’s straight loss for the producer that los-es them.

“If somebody out there has any information on any of this, maybe we can break this ring up, and do some good. Be-cause I don’t think this

is the first time they’ve done this.”

For the Hobbs farm, it’s a search and recov-ery operation. But for other ranchers, Corp. Heaslip advises vigi-lance in these heady eco-nomic times for the beef business.

“We’re asking guys, if you’re going to put your cattle out on pas-ture, check to see who the neighbors are. Tell them what you drive, and who’d be checking the cattle. Out in the ru-ral community, every-body knows what’s going on. Always brand your cattle. If you’re check-ing them once or twice a week, maybe you’d better check them three times a week, because time is of the essence.”

There have been

some tips coming in on the Hobbs case, and as costly as it would be, Al-lan Hobbs is convinced his sizable reward of-fer for the cattle, the ar-rest, and conviction of the criminal would be a small price to pay for the greater good of his farm, and the cattle industry.

“I would pay it in a heartbeat.”

If you have any infor-mation about this crime, you can Allan Hobbs at 780-842-7106, your local RCMP detachment or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Dianne Finstad is a veteran broadcaster and reporter who has covered agricultural news in Cen-tral Alberta for more than 30 years. From the Field appears monthly in the Advocate.

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Diversified and IndustrialsAgrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 100.48ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.39BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.56BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.74Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.85Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.76Cdn. National Railway . . 67.94Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 197.91Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.87Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.38Cervus Equipment Corp 20.41Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 52.00Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.96Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.29Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.08General Motors Co. . . . . 36.36Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.44Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 53.77Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 67.47Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.24Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 21.98Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ConsumerCanadian Tire . . . . . . . . 103.50Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.70Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.40Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.02

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.86Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.46Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.75Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.99WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.95

MiningBarrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.54Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.33First Quantum Minerals . 21.30Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.23Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.72Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.44Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.92Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.49Teck Resources . . . . . . . 23.27

EnergyArc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.79Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 36.30Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 71.35Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.00Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 60.99Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 47.35Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 24.22Canyon Services Group. 17.70Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.99CWC Well Services . . . . . 1.09Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 26.66

Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.67Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 102.42Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 67.61High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.28Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 36.50Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 56.09Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.52Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.71Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.115Precision Drilling Corp . 115.20Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 46.32Talisman Energy. . . . . . . 11.47Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 17.50Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.62Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 75.66FinancialsBank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.89Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.01CIBC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.64Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 39.08Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.94Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.60IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.17Intact Financial Corp. . . . 73.11Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.90National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.99Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.55Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.18Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.92TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.59

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TORONTO — The Toronto stock market racked up a small gain Tues-day as commodities mostly fell de-spite continuing uncertainty in Iraq, while south of the border the U.S. Federal Reserve began a two-day policy meeting.

The S&P/TSX composite index added 15.46 points to 15,055.89. The Canadian dollar dipped 0.19 of a cent to 92.05 cents US.

Traders were cautious as they awaited the outcome of the Fed meet-ing and its latest economic outlook, due for release Wednesday.

The meeting is taking place amid news from the U.S. Labor Depart-ment that American consumer prices rose 0.4 per cent in May, the big-gest one-month jump since February 2013, pushed up by the rising cost of food and gasoline and the biggest hike in airline fares in 15 years.

The U.S. central bank is expected to cut its monthly bond purchases by $10 billion to US$35 billion a month but traders will be looking for clues as to the Fed’s intentions on tapering go-ing forward. The stimulus has helped keep long-term borrowing rates low and supported equity markets.

Wall Street was higher, with the Dow Jones industrials up 27.48 points to 16,808.49, the Nasdaq 16.12 points higher at 4,337.23 and the S&P 500 index ahead 4.21 points at 1,941.99.

Meanwhile, Ottawa’s long-await-ed decision on Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline was due after markets closed Tuesday.

The $7-billion, 1,200-kilometre pipeline would link crude from the Alberta oilsands to a terminal in Kiti-mat on the British Columbia coast for shipment overseas. The project has already received approval from a joint panel of the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency but faces stiff opposition from many First Nations, who have threatened court chal-

lenges if the project gets the green light. Shares in Enbridge (TSX:ENB) gained 45 cents to $51.96.

Commodity prices were mostly lower after enjoying a bump last week as a result of the deteriorating military situation in Iraq.

About 300 U.S. soldiers are be-ing moved into position to protect the U.S. Embassy and other American interests as President Barack Obama weighs options for dealing with the al-Qaida inspired militants who have captured a vast swath of the country’s north. Iraq’s crude oil exports have so far not been disrupted, but the conflict had raised concern about whether the country can rebuild its oil infrastruc-ture and meet global demand.

The July crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange de-clined 54 cents to US$106.36 a bar-rel.

Investors did not flock to gold ei-ther, which is usually seen as safe haven amid geopolitical uncertainty. August bullion was down $3.30 to US$1,272 an ounce, while July cop-per was up a penny at US$3.06 a pound.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights at close TuesdayStocks:S&P/TSX Composite Index —

15,055.89, up 15.46 pointsTSX Venture Exchange —

1,006.05, up 7.36 pointsTSX 60 — 859.71, up 0.90 of a

pointDow — 16,808.49, up 27.48

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CATTLE: Sizable reward offer

STORY FROM PAGE B2

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Alberta is expected to lead the provinces in Western Canada and the rest of the country in economic growth this year, according to a report by the Conference Board.

The board predicted Tuesday in its spring provincial outlook that Alber-ta’s economy will grow by 3.5 per cent this year compared with 3.9 per cent last year, helped by an influx of mi-grants to the province and investment spending.

However, it also cautioned that while exports and consumer spending are forecast to remain strong heading into 2015, a second consecutive year of slower investment will see growth to slow to 3.1 per cent for Alberta next year.

“Economic prospects have bright-ened for several provinces, as the ex-pected strengthening in the U.S. econ-omy will help boost real GDP growth on this side of the border over the next two years,” said Marie Christine Ber-nard, the report’s author and an asso-ciate director at the board.

“Atlantic and Central Canada are expected to gather more momentum in 2015, and even stronger growth is expected in Western Canada.”

In its outlook, the Ottawa-based think tank noted B.C. is expected to grow by 2.3 per cent, up from two per cent in 2013, while Manitoba is expect-ed to grow by 2.1 per cent, helped by

increased public infrastructure spend-ing, but down slightly from the 2.2 per cent pace set last year.

Meanwhile, growth in Saskatchewan is expected to slow to 0.8 per cent from 4.8 per cent last year. However, the province is expected to have the low-est unemployment rate in the country, the report said.

Overall, the Canadian economy is expected to grow by 2.1 per cent this year compared with two per cent in 2013.

Nova Scotia is expected to post the strongest growth outside Western Can-ada with a gain of 2.3 per cent com-pared with 0.8 per cent in 2013, helped by natural gas production from Deep Panuke and upgrades at Irving Ship-building.

The reported noted that both Ontar-io and Quebec are wrestling with large fiscal deficits that will limit the ability of the provincial governments to add to economic output.

Growth in Ontario is expected come in at 1.8 per cent as the U.S. recovery picks up speed, up from 1.2 per cent last year, while the Quebec economy is expected to grow by 1.7 per cent, up from 1.1 per cent.

New Brunswick is forecast to grow by 1.1 per cent compared with no growth in 2013, while Newfoundland and Labrador is expected to cool to 1.3 per cent from 7.9 per cent last year.

Prince Edward Island’s growth is expected to come in at 1.3 per cent, down from 1.4 per cent in 2013.

Alberta to lead provincial growth

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Milk produced on a British Columbia farm where work-ers were captured on video allegedly beating cattle will be destroyed, says the industry’s regulatory board. Tues-day’s announcement by the BC Milk Marketing Board came one day after dairy-food giant Saputo Inc. (TSX:SAP) said it would not accept milk from Chilliwack Cattle Sales.

The SPCA in B.C. has recommended charges against eight fired employees of the Fraser Valley farm, after Mercy for Animals Canada publicized the un-dercover video filmed by the group.

A notice published online by the milk board states processors do not want any product from the company until independent audits of its opera-tions are complete.

“The board will act in accordance with processor requests and, due to

a lack of market, the milk will be de-stroyed,” the board said in the notice.

It did not say how much milk would be destroyed. No one from Chilliwack Cattle Sales was immediately avail-able for comment Tuesday but farm owner Jeff Kooyman has described the video as “horrifying to watch.”

He has previously said that he didn’t know why the young men seen on the video kicking, punching and beating the animals with pipes took such ac-tion.

Charges have not yet been laid and the allegations have not been proven in court.

Kooyman has said the dairy opera-tion will put in security cameras that will be monitored and would work with the SPCA on better training for staff.

The board initially suspended milk pickup from the farm but it resumed this week after the board announced it was satisfied that animal-welfare is-sues were being addressed.

B.C. milk board to destroy milk from farm accused of abuse

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Dairy cows are pictured at the Kooyman family dairy farm in Chilliwack, B.C. last week. The B.C. Milk Marketing Board says it will destroy milk from a farm where staff were captured on video allegedly beating cattle.

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Cote chosen to coach Midget

AAA Chiefs

BY GREG MEACHEMADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Clearly, Brandin Cote relishes a challenge.

Just as he did when he replaced Bri-an Sutter as head coach of the Bentley Generals in 2012, Cote is following a tough act as the new bench boss of the five-time defending Alberta Midget Hockey League champion Red Deer Optimist Chiefs.

The Red Deer Minor Hockey Association an-nounced Tuesday that Cote has been hired as the Chiefs head coach. Cote replaces Doug Quinn, who was at the helm of the club for all five of the recent glory years.

“After Doug came out and said he wouldn’t be coaching the team next season, a couple of people approached me and asked if I was interested,” said Cote. “After Dallas (RD-MHA manager Gaume) contacted me, I thought it through and talked to my family. I had to figure out a few things to see if this was a commitment I could make.

“In the end, I decided I wanted to get back into coaching this year, so I put my name in and it worked out OK.”

Cote played five seasons with the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League and seven years of pro hockey before joining the senior AAA Bentley Generals for one and a half seasons.

He caught the coaching bug as an assistant to then Red Deer College Queens bench boss Trevor Keeper dur-ing the 2011-12 season and was then approached by Generals general man-ager Jeff McInnis in regards to tak-ing the Chinook Hockey League club’s head coaching reins.

Cote coached the Generals to the 2013 Allan Cup championship in what turned out to be his only season behind the team’s bench. Having just complet-ed his education degree at RDC and with a teaching job at Red Deer St. Patrick’s Community School secured, he realized he didn’t have the time to put into another year of coaching.

“I knew it would be too much to con-tinue with both this past season. I was facing too much of a learning curve as a first-year teacher,” he said. “I just needed a little break to regroup a bit and kind of get familiar with my new job and spend time with my family.

“I took a year off and realized I defi-nitely missed it. Coaching is definitely something I envision myself doing for a long time and something I’m passion-ate about. After thinking about this opportunity and making sure I can put forth the commitment, I decided to ap-ply.”

Cote knows he’s stepping into new territory, that coaching at the top se-nior and midget levels requires differ-ent mindsets.

“At the end of the day, the biggest difference between coaching men and coaching teenagers is that there’s probably a little more patience and

teaching involved with the younger guys,” he said. “At the senior level, the teaching isn’t necessarily the most im-portant part, it’s getting people to buy in as a team.

“At the same time, hockey is hockey. You have to be able to expect the best out of your players, you expect them to come to work every day. Over the last five to 10 years both the Bentley Generals and the Optimist Chiefs have enjoyed the kind of success that re-quires a lot of commitment from both

the coaches and players.”Helping develop future

junior, university and even pro players is another key element of coaching at the midget AAA level, Cote in-sisted.

“The teaching part is re-ally important, as is the de-velopment of the players,” he said. “Doug and his staff did that very well. They had a good group of play-ers, but they obviously also had a plan in place and de-veloped players.

“The real measure of success with those teams is not necessarily the pro-

vincial and (two) Telus Cup champion-ships, which are great, but all the play-ers who moved on to the junior lev-els and university and college. That’s where you see the real success.”

In just five years, Quinn established himself as somewhat of a coaching leg-end in Red Deer. The shoes that Cote is stepping into are very large indeed, although he’s confident that he’s up to the task.

“I look at it as a very similar situa-tion to when I took over Bentley,” he said.

“The Advocate headline at the time was ‘Cote has big shoes to fill.’ That’s what most people are saying now, and maybe it’s true, but I don’t really view it that way. I’m very confident in my abilities as a coach. I’m not going to be feeling any pressure, I’m just going to go out and do what I love to do.

“At the end of the day you set the bar high and you expect that from your players and from yourself. I know we’re going to put the best possible plan in place and these kids are going to be prepared and expected to come to work every day. If we all do that we’ll give ourselves a great chance to be successful as a team and for them to develop as players and people.”

Cote has already enlisted Justin Jar-molicz to help him behind the bench during the 2014-15 season and hopes to add more assistant coaches. Jarmolicz coached the minor midget AAA North Star Sports Chiefs last winter.

“I have more people in mind,” said Cote.

“I’ve talked to a few people that I’ve coached with and interacted with . . . I’m kind of in that process. Obviously you can’t do it all yourself. You need good people around you.”

● The RDMHA also announced Tuesday that Tom Bast will return as head coach of the major midget girls Sutter Fund Chiefs.

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No easy games for World Cup favorites

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The headline from the World Cup, Day 6: Big favourite Brazil is vulnerable.

Those who thought the World Cup host or world champion Spain — thumped 5-1 last week by the Neth-erlands — would walk away with this should think again.

Proving the old adage that there are no easy games in football’s showcase, Brazil failed to beat Mexico for the first time at the World Cup, held Tues-day to a 0-0 draw in their second game in Group A.

Belgium — a long-shot pick for the title — also struggled to break down Algeria, but got help off its bench to win 2-1 in Belo Horizonte.

In steamy Cuiaba, an evenly matched and entertaining back-and-forth contest ended Russia 1, South Korea 1.

Substitutes scored all but one of the five goals on Tuesday, proving the im-portance of having a Plan B.

All 32 teams have now played at least once. The Netherlands and Germany, which scored four Monday against Portugal, are the standouts so far.

With Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe

Bryant in the crowd of 60,342, Tues-day’s big surprise was Brazil’s failure to find the net in the northeastern city of Fortaleza.

With Neymar rampant through the middle, Marcelo ever-willing to go for-ward and Oscar supplying passes and inventiveness, Brazil should be able to score almost at will. Time and again, Brazil’s yellow shirts swarmed over Mexico’s penalty box.

But shots and passes went awry, Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa made outstanding saves and Brazil is clearly missing a top-notch centre-for-ward.

Other attackers — Thomas Mueller for Germany, the Netherlands’ duo of Robin Van Persie and Arjen Robben, France’s Karim Benzema — all bought their scoring boots to Brazil, finding the net at least twice. Neymar also got two for Brazil in its opening 3-1 defeat of Croatia. But his teammate Fred is yet to get off the mark.

Mistiming his run, the striker had a first-half effort disallowed for off-side, didn’t weigh heavily on the game and was substituted in the second half. This was the second scoreless draw at this tournament, where goals have rained in.

Bernard announces retirement from competitive curlingBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian skip Cheryl Ber-nard feels she could still com-pete at an elite level for the next year or two.

She’s just unsure whether she could still do it for a four-year Olympic cycle.

That was one of the reasons why she announced her retire-ment from competitive curling on Tuesday, ending a career highlighted by four appear-ances at the national champi-onships and an Olympic sil-ver medal at the Vancouver Games in 2010.

“When you’ve been there, that’s really all you want is to get back,” she said from her hometown of Calgary. “It’s a funny thing, so I realize that.”

Bernard, 47, said she start-ed to seriously consider retire-ment after losing the Alberta provincial final to Val Sweet-ing last January.

“I really had to sit down and think,” she said. “We came so close and that was a heartbreaker. Funny, I’ve lost a few of them. And that one was without a doubt the worst because it would have just been a really neat way to may-

be end the year and at least have a couple more years to look forward to.”

Bernard skipped Team Al-berta at the Scotties Tourna-ment of Hearts in 1992, 1996, 2007 and 2009. The best result for the Grande Prairie native was a runner-up finish in 1996 at Thunder Bay, Ont.

One of her most memorable victories came over a decade later as she defeated Shannon Kleibrink in the final of the Olympic Trials in 2009 at Ed-monton.

At the Games, Bernard and her team of third Susan O’Connor, second Carolyn Dar-byshire (now McRorie), lead

Cori Bartel (now Morris) and alternate Kristie Moore took top spot in the round robin at 8-1. They defeated Switzerland in the semifinal before drop-ping a 7-6 decision to defend-ing champion Anette Norberg of Sweden in the final.

Bernard had the final throw in the extra end but couldn’t knock the two Swedish rocks out of the house and settled for second place.

“I tried to really look at the positive that came out of that,” Bernard said.

“I really wanted to go through my life looking at it like our team won a silver and we didn’t lose a gold.”

Both competitions provided lasting memories.

“(The Trials) are kind of the pinnacle for Canada because it’s all the Canadian teams and it’s all your peers,” she said. “They’re both so up there in my memory and in my mind. Being able to stand on the (Olympic) podium in your own country. I’ll never forget that, that was pretty neat.”

Now that she’s retired, Ber-nard plans to spend more time with her family and continue her charity work and public speaking endeavours.

She usually brings her sil-ver medal along during her talks and the gold-medal game is a frequent discussion sub-ject.

“I relive it a lot,” she said. “I talk about that and I have realized that sometimes you’re lucky enough to win and some-times you’re lucky enough not to win. Because I think the things you get from a loss can sometimes be more educa-tional, they can be more life-changing than the things when you win.

“I think you look at a lot of different things after a loss and I think you can actually do a lot of good with that knowl-edge and see some really great life lessons. I really try to look at that as some great lessons I learned. I learned some amaz-ing things about my team-mates and about my family. You learn a lot when some-thing doesn’t maybe go exactly like you hoped.”

Bernard is excited to tack-le some new challenges. She recently completed her first marathon and plans to work with World Vision and climb Mount Kilimanjaro to help children in Third World coun-tries.

Brandin Cote

FORMER BENTLEY GENERALS COACH TAKING OVER REINS FROM DOUG QUINN

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mexico’s Jose Juan Vazquez, left, holds Brazil’s Dani Alves during the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, Tuesday.

MEXICO PLAYS BRAZIL TO DRAW, BELGIUM NEEDS LATE GOALS TO GET BY ALGERIA

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File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada skip Cheryl Bernard calls after a shot at the Olympic Centre on Feb. 25, 2010 in Vancouver. Bernard announced her retirement from competitive curling on Tuesday.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Yankees 3 Blue Jays 1NEW YORK — Once Masahiro Tana-

ka overcame that early jolt from Jose Reyes, the Japanese rookie did just fine.

Tanaka gave up a home run to Reyes on the first pitch of the game, then earned his major league-high 11th vic-tory as the New York Yankees beat To-ronto 3-1 Tuesday night for their 14th straight home win over the Blue Jays.

That was the first time Tanaka could remember getting tagged so quickly and said it “threw me off my rhythm a little bit.”

“Overall, I think my stuff wasn’t re-ally there,” he said through a transla-tor.

Even so, Tanaka (11-1) struck out 10 in six innings and left with an AL-best 1.99 ERA. The right-hander has made 14 starts this season — he’s gone at least six innings in every outing and never permitted more than three earned runs.

“What he’s done is remarkable,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “He wins.”

Brett Gardner hit a two-run homer off the right-field foul pole and the Yankees sent the AL East leaders to their seventh loss in 10 games.

Tanaka made his big league debut April 4 at Toronto and Melky Cabrera hit a leadoff home run on the third pitch.

Reyes provided an even faster start with a drive into the lower deck in right, and slapped his hands as he rounded first.

“I made up my mind before the game that I was going to swing at the first pitch,” he said. “You don’t want to face Tanaka with two strikes.”

Said Girardi: “He just threw a pitch right down the middle and up. Reyes knew what to do.”

“Reyes is familiar with this ball-park,” he said. “He went to the short part of the park.”

Cabrera followed with a liner be-

tween Tanaka’s legs that knocked off the pitcher’s glove. But Tanaka scram-bled to retrieve the ball behind the mound and threw out Cabrera, and never again allowed a runner past sec-ond.

Tanaka gave up five hits and walked two in moving ahead of Toronto’s Mark Buehrle for the most wins in the ma-jors. Buehrle starts Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium in the middle game of the three-game series.

The Blue Jays were the second team to face Tanaka twice. He blanked the Chicago Cubs for eight innings in April before they handed him his only loss a month later.

Dellin Betances worked two innings and David Robertson closed for his 17th save in 19 tries. New York pitch-ers combined for 15 strikeouts and be-came the latest staff to slow down the Blue Jays, limited to 24 runs in their last 11 games.

Pitching about 50 miles from his Long Island hometown, Blue Jays rook-ie Marcus Stroman (3-2) threw 98 pitch-es in 3 2-3 innings on a sticky night. Gardner gave him a workout right away, grounding out in a 12-pitch at-bat to lead off the first.

Kelly Johnson doubled in the third for the Yankees’ first hit and Gardner pulled a go-ahead home run.

Derek Jeter opened the fifth with his second hit of the game and scored his 1,900th run on a single by Mark Teixeira. Jeter is 10th on the career runs list, 19 behind longtime teammate Alex Rodriguez.

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Szabados stronger through adversity

BY JOSH ALDRICHADVOCATE STAFF

Shannon Szabados is no stranger to adversity.

She has battled it as the girl goalie on boys hockey teams going back to her minor hockey days, but what she and the rest of her Canadian Olympic teammates went through in the past year en rout to gold was unlike any-thing she had experienced before.

On Tuesday morning, she spoke in front of a sold out Harvest Centre for the annual Red Deer Special Olympics Celebrity Breakfast, with a message of being formed through adversity.

“Adversity makes better teammates and players, but it also makes better people as well,” she said.

The Edmonton product grew up watching Bill Ranford and her beloved Oilers at the end of their dynasty, it was her dream to follow in their foot-steps in some capacity.

Szabados, 27, started playing the game when she was five years old, at a time when girls hockey was not an option.

Gender, however, did not become an issue until she earned a spot on a ban-tam AAA team. The league came to her with two demands, to cut her long hair — because it was distracting — and to sign a contract agreeing to use a sepa-rate change room. She refused both.

When she entered the Alberta Ju-nior Hockey League with the Sherwood Park Crusaders in 2002, the league had to vote on whether they would allow a girl to play or not. Even a team website had a poll question to the same effect, and 51 per cent of respondents said “no.”

She was viewed as a side show.But she more than earned her place.

She made three all-star teams, twice was named her team’s MVP and in her final season was named the league’s top goaltender.

Playing for the women’s Olympic team her gender wasn’t the issue, in-stead it was the two long time stalwarts in net ahead of her. She went a full year without even dressing for a game for the national team.

In 2009, prior to the Vancouver Olympics, she started the season as the No. 3 goalie on the roster, but by the time the gold medal game rolled around, she was starting.

Not only did she start, but she stopped all 28 shots she faced in a 2-0

shutout of the hated Americans.She should have been a cinch to be

the starter for the Sochi Olympics this winter, but the team suffered through their worst year in more than a decade. They were dead last in the Alberta Ma-jor Midget Hockey League, which they played in as a warm up, and they were routinely getting beat by the U.S. More-over, their coach Dan Church quit five games before the Olympics, and they lost four of five games heading into the tournament.

Szabados had been battling injuries in the run up to the games and lost her hold on the starting gig to Charlene Labonté.

But she took it as a challenge and once again wrested the crease away from her teammate in time for the gold medal game.

The Canadians appeared to be on the brink of losing the gold until a late flurry with two goals in the final 3:26 squared the affair. They had been out-played, but they went into the inter-mission confident.

Marie-Philip Poulin then scored the winner for Canada 8:10 into the extra frame.

“It was a long year for us, it was by far the toughest year we’d ever been through,” said Szabados. “Those chal-lenges and those adversities that we went through as a team is where it ul-timately lead to us winning that gold medal game.”

Her performance earned her a call by her hometown NHL team to fill in at a practice in an emergency situa-tion and then a shot with the Columbus Cottonmouths of the Southern Profes-sional Hockey League.

This time, however, there was no need for a league meeting to allow her to play. Once again she proved herself and back stopped the Cottonmouths to the league final.

“The response was overwhelming, especially from the league and the fans of the league and the guys on the other teams,” said Szabados. “I knew it wouldn’t be an issue on my team, I had played with a few of the guys and they accepted me right away. But it was cool to play another team and for them to come up and congratulate me and welcome me to the league.”

There is one more major hurdle for Szabados, and women’s hockey play-ers, to climb over: to prove they can play with the best men in the world and get a legitimate shot to make an NHL team.

“It might be a few years away, but I think women are slowly closing that gap between men’s and women’s hock-ey, and I think no position better than a goalie — the strength and the size isn’t that much of a difference,” she said.

Getting Szabados to speak at the breakfast was a major coup for Red Deer Special Olympics chairman Jerry Tennant.

“Every year it gets more and more difficult to find someone, but this year to have Shannon, in particular an Olympic year and the story of the Ca-

nadians hockey team that was so amaz-ing at Sochi, ... it was terrific to have someone of that calibre be part of the breakfast,” he said.

They hope to raise between $12,000 and $15,000 to help fund the organiza-tion for the year. The breakfast gener-ally accounts for about a 20 per cent of their funding, and this was the first year they had sold out.

There are more than 250 local athletes participating with the Red Deer Special Olympics in 11 different sports.

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OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST GOALTENDER SPOKE ABOUT HER ADVERSITY IN THE GAME OF HOCKEY DURING RED DEER SPECIAL OLYMPICS CELEBRITY BREAKFAST

Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Two-time Olympic gold medalist goaltender Shannon Szabados was the keynote speaker Tuesday morning at the Special Olympics Red Deer Celebrity Breakfast at the Harvest Centre.

Yankees, Tanaka take down Blue Jays

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York Yankees third baseman Kelly Johnson waits for the throw from left field as Toronto Blue Jays Munenori Kawasaki slides into third with a ninth-inning triple off Yankees relief pitcher David Robertson, in Tornoto’s 3-1 loss at Yankee Stadium, Tuesday.

CUP: GoalkeepersIf goal scorers struggled Tuesday,

it was also because goalkeepers had a good day. Before Tuesday, the first 14 matches saw an average of more than 3 goals per game — bettering the rate of all World Cups since Brazil’s first vic-tory in 1958.

But that dipped to 2.9 goals per game following Tuesday’s three match-es. Ochoa’s seven saves in the tourna-ment — six of them against Brazil — are the most by any goalie so far.

He got an outstretched hand to Ney-mar’s superb first-half header. After another spectacular two-handed reflex save in the second half, batting away Thiago Silva’s header, Ochoa high-fived a team-mate.

Despite letting in two, Rais Mbolhi was impressive for Algeria, making six saves that put him just behind Ochoa. For Russia, Igor Akinfeev frustrated South Korea’s long-range attempts un-til the power of a 25-yard shot from substitute Lee Keunho seemed to surprise him and bounced out of his hands into the net.

Aleksandr Kerzhakov equaled up the score for Russia just three minutes after coach Fabio Capello put him in.

Belgium looked anything but fright-ening in a first half where Algeria was more watchable than its brief appear-ance in 2010. Algeria moved and kept the ball well, looked to hit Belgium on the counterattack and took the lead from a penalty.

Credit Belgium coach Marc Wilmots for turning things around. His second-half substitutions pushed aside the bus — two banks of four players — that Algeria had parked in front of goal.

Dries Mertens and Divock Origi came off the bench to inject much-needed speed and ideas. Wilmots’ other substitution, Marouane Fellaini, played better Tuesday than for Man-chester United this season, planting himself in Algeria’s box.

He headed in Kevin De Bruyne’s fizzing cross and equalized in the 70th minute. Mertens curled in the winner 10 minutes later.

Sofiane Feghouli’s score off a pen-alty snapped Algeria’s scoreless streak at World Cups stretching back through a record-tying five matches and 505 minutes, just 12 minutes short of the longest World Cup goal drought — 517 minutes for Bolivia.

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Building towards the showcaseBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Kadeisha Buchanan sometimes has to pinch herself.

The 18-year-old defender with Canada’s women’s soc-cer team was always confident in her ability, but she never thought her rise would hap-pen this fast.

“I did not expect to come in at such a young age,” the Toronto native said this week. “Sometimes when I’m in my room I just relax (and think) ’I’m actually here.’ This is a huge opportunity that I’m will-ing to take and do my best.”

After scoring her first goal with the national team in a 1-1 draw with the United States last month, Buchanan will get another chance to show off her talents when Canada hosts Germany in another friendly on Wednesday night.

And as Canada continues its preparations ahead of host-ing next year’s women’s World Cup, Buchanan has fit in seam-lessly with the national team after impressing at lower lev-els.

“I don’t think it’s difficult because my teammates just encourage me to bring what I bring to the team,” said Buch-anan. “They’re very accepting to what I bring.”

Canada head coach John Herdman said Buchanan — who will play at this summer’s under-20 women’s World Cup on home soil — has impressed him ever since he first saw her at an under-17 camp in 2011.

“She was just streets ahead of anything I’d seen before,” said the Englishman. “We didn’t fancy taking her to the (2012) Olympics because she was 15. She probably could

have handled it, to be honest. She’s that good.”

Herdman said Buchanan’s versatility is what has made her such an effective player in 13 appearances for her coun-try, including 11 starts.

“We’ve challenged all the senior players to start show-ing the DNA of a modern cen-tre back, and a modern centre back can play like a midfield-er,” he said. “They can dis-guise their passes, they have a range of different types of passes and they can defend. These younger players have been able to do that. Kade-isha’s never given her shirt back.”

Canada comes into Wednes-day’s game at B.C. Place Sta-dium ranked seventh in the world by FIFA, while the Ger-mans sit No. 2 behind only the Americans.

Herdman’s team lost 1-0 in Germany last year in game that saw Canada defend well, but fail to get much going of-fensively.

With less than a year until the World Cup, he wants to see more positive play as the team continues to build towards the showcase tournament.

“We have to shift forward pretty quickly on how we at-tack the game. I think that’s been a big emphasis over the last couple of days,” said Herdman. “Last time we played against Germany we defended well, we hung on for 90 minutes, kept it within one goal. But we definitely didn’t threaten them in a way that, if you’re going to win a World Cup, you have to.

“I’m hoping that we’re a bit more lively. The game might be a bit more open and they might get a few more chances to score because we’re try-

ing to change a few things in the way we go about how we play. Judge us on the amount of shots, crosses we have in the game and that will give an idea of how we’ve progressed against Germany.”

Canadian captain Christine Sinclair said Wednesday’s game is crucial as the team looks to see where it stacks up against the world’s best on the field that will host next year’s final.

“This is a huge preparation game for us,” said the veteran striker. “Obviously a World Cup venue and we’re playing the second-ranked team in the world. I don’t think many peo-ple understand that. They just see the Americans. Germany is a quality side.

“It’s a completely different test for us.”

Herdman has tried to im-plement a more free-flowing system since Canada’s bronze-medal performance at the London Olympics two years ago, and despite that 1-1 draw with the U.S. in May, Sinclair said the players still have a ways to go.

“I think consistency for us right now is very important. We’re coming off a decent re-sult against the Americans,” she said. “It’s important for us to be able to put together another one against another top side because that’s what’s going to be expected in the World Cup.”

While Canada has contin-ued to produce good young tal-ent in defence and midfield, the country still relies heavily on the 31-year-old Sinclair for goal scoring.

Herdman said the national team is constantly trying to identify and develop talent in the attacking third, but it has

not come easy.“You have to be ready to

have a talent system where you have a profile, you know what that profile is and play-ers then develop from the age of 13 on to fit that profile,” he said. “I think that’s not what we’ve done in the past. We haven’t had a very clear pro-file.

“It’s going to take time, but with the talent we’ve got, an-other (Sinclair) is going to pop up soon.”

Herdman said he expects Germany to present its usu-al well-organized defence on Wednesday, adding that his

side will have to be clever in attack if it’s going to defeat the European giants for the first time.

“It’s got to be a high-tempo, possession game and we’ve got to have players with the tech-nical capacity to work against that German block,” he said. “There isn’t a better defensive unit. They’re physical, they move collectively together on every blade of grass, they’re so hard to break down. It’s a huge challenge.

“You’re going to see one of the best teams in the world here — a huge challenge ahead of us.”

CANADA SET FOR TOUGH TEST AGAINST GERMANY IN WOMEN’S SOCCER FRIENDLY

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada’s national women’s soccer team head coach John Herdman watches his players warm up before an international friendly soccer game in Vancouver, B.C., on Nov. 24, 2013. Herdman says Canada isn’t good enough to win the Women’s World Cup right now, but the team’s head coach adds it “absolutely” will be by the time the country hosts the tournament in 2015.

Lucy Li brings pigtails and giggles to U.S. Women’s OpenBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PINEHURST, N.C. — With pigtails and plenty of giggles, Lucy Li just wants to have fun like any 11-year-old girl.

Except that she’s playing the biggest event in women’s golf.

Li, a sixth-grader from the Bay Area who doesn’t ap-pear to be the least bit over-whelmed by the attention around her, became the young-est qualifier in U.S. Women’s Open history when she shot 68 at Half Moon Bay last month to win her sectional by seven shots.

She celebrated by having dinner at her favourite restau-rant and watching “The Amaz-ing Spiderman 2.”

Now it’s time for the amaz-ing Lucy Li show.

“She looks so darn cute,” said Michelle Wie, who didn’t make it to her first Women’s Open until she was 13. “I was like, ’I don’t think I looked that cute when I was 11.’ But she just looks so excited, so wide-eyed. ... And I’m just really so excited for her to be out. It’s a memory that will last her a lifetime. What other 11-year-old can say that they played in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst? And she got to see the men play, too.”

Life is moving at warp speed for little Lucy Li.

She only became serious about golf four years ago when she set up shop in Miami to work with Jim McLean. Just two months ago, the preco-cious 11-year-old with a mouth full of braces won her age di-vision in the inaugural Drive, Chip and Putt Championship at Augusta National. And now she’s at Pinehurst No. 2, ready to take on the course where Martin Kaymer won the U.S. Open on Sunday.

“It’s awesome, right?” she said. “I mean, Pinehurst and Augusta National in like two months. I mean, that’s just

amazing. It’s mind-blowing for me. It’s been awesome, be-cause it’s been ... I mean, the food is great and it’s been a lot of fun. I’ve made a lot of friends.”

There’s something about U.S. Women’s Open in the North Carolina sandhills that attracts all the kids.

Morgan Pressel qualified when she was 12 and had just turned 13 when the Women’s Open was down the street at Pine Needles in 2001 (Li wasn’t even born then). Lexi Thomp-son qualified and played at 12 when it returned to Pine Needles in 2007.

Too young? Both went on to win major championships.

“Look, if you’re good enough, you’re old enough — or young enough, whichever way you look at it,” Laura Da-vies said. “If you can play the golf and you can qualify, then have a go. What’s the worst that can happen? She shoots a million this week and ev-eryone says, ’Wasn’t it great she was here?’ So I don’t think anything bad can come out of it because she’s too young to worry about the pressure.

“She’s just having fun. She’s got a week off school. It’s per-fect.”

Li looked as if she was hav-ing a blast on a broiling day of practice Tuesday. She went nine holes with a local cad-die. Then, it was time for a press conference, which drew the largest crowd of the day. Her pigtails in braids, held by clips the shape of hearts, she twirled in her chair waiting for it to start.

She giggled before just about every answer, including one about whether her father could beat her.

She laughed. She laughed again. And then she moved closer to the microphone and said, “No.”

But the kid made one thing clear. She’s not out to prove anything. She not out to make history.

“The perfect week? I just want to go out there and have fun and play the best I can, and I really don’t care about the outcome,” Li said. “I want to have fun and learn. I want to learn a lot from these great players.”

She is not the youngest play-er in Women’s Open history. Beverly Klass was 10 when she played in 1967, before there was qualifying. The youngest player to make the cut was Marlene Hagge, who was 13 in the 1947 Open at Starmount Forest in North Carolina.

Among the favourites this week is Lydia Ko, the youngest LPGA Tour winner in history at 15 in the Canadian Women’s Open two years ago.

Age is becoming irrelevant, though something about the number “11” grabs the atten-tion.

“I saw her on the range this morning for the first time and didn’t really watch her hit any balls — just how little she was, and the pigtails kind of caught me off guard,” Stacy Lewis said. “But I’m not a big fan of it. She qualified, so we can’t say anything about that. You qualify for an Open, it’s a great thing. I just like to see kids be successful at every level be-fore they come out here.

“When I found out she qual-ified, I said, ’Well, where does she go from here? What do you next?’ I don’t know. If it was my kid, I wouldn’t let her play in the U.S. Open qualifier at 11. But that’s just me.”

Li played in the U.S. Wom-en’s Amateur last year at 10. She was the youngest to qual-ify for match play at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links. The idea to try to qual-ify for the Women’s Open was “mine.”

“Because I wanted to go out there and get the experience,” she said. “Because it’s 36 holes and I didn’t care if I qualified or not. I didn’t think about it. I just wanted to go for the expe-rience.”

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Amateur Lucy Li, 11, hits from the fairway on the 15th hole during a practice round at the U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament at Pinehurst No. 2, Tuesday, in Pinehurst, N.C. The sixth-grader from California is the youngest qualifier in the history of the U.S. Women’s Open.

Agent for Tiger Woods says back improving, extends practice swings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PINEHURST, N.C. — Tiger Woods is making progress in his recovery from back sur-gery and starting to extend his swing, his agent said Tuesday.

Woods already has missed two majors this year while he recovers from a microdiscec-tomy on his back on March 31. He last played on March 9 at Doral, when he closed with a 78 despite the pain in his lower back. Woods has said he has no idea when he will be healthy enough to return to competition.

A report on Golf Channel’s morning show said he was tak-ing full swings at the Medalist

Golf Club in South Florida.“Tiger is progressing like

he expected,” Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports Management said in an email.

“Feeling good each day. As each day passes and he feels that way, he lengthens the swing a bit.”

Woods is the tournament host next week for the Quicken Loans National at Congressio-nal. It is not expected that he will play. The deadline to en-ter is Friday. This is the first year of title sponsorship for the Detroit-based company.

The next major is the Brit-ish Open on July 17-20 at Royal Liverpool, where Woods won in 2006.

The last time Woods missed two majors in one year be-

cause of injuries was in 2011, when he sat out the U.S. Open and British Open to let his leg fully recover. That year, he re-turned at Bridgestone Invita-tional in early August, a World Golf Championship that has no cut.

In a promotional day for Quicken Loans last month, Woods said he was chipping and putting in a way that did not require rotation in his back. That was four weeks ago.

He also did not know how much time it would take for him to be ready for a tourna-ment once he could take full swings with no pain.

“The more time you give me, I think the better I’ll be,” he said.

“The great thing about what

I’ve done so far and all my oth-er previous surgeries is that I worked on my short game. Once I start expanding from there and start competing and playing, if I start spraying it all over the lot and not hitting it that great, at least my short game is solid. That’s one of the positives to it.”

Woods has slipped from No. 1 to No. 4 in the world ranking, and he is likely to fall a couple of more spots in coming weeks. He is at No. 207 in the FedEx Cup standings — having fin-ished 72 holes only once this year — and the top 125 get into the playoffs that start Aug. 21.

The news comes one day after Martin Kaymer won the U.S. Open with the second-lowest score in history at 271.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Patrick Nemeth scored his first goal of the playoffs in overtime as the Texas Stars beat the St. John’s IceCaps 4-3 on Tuesday to win the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup.

Nemeth deked inside and out going into the slot before firing home the winning shot top shelf 14:30 into extra time.

Texas dominated the se-ries, taking the minor hockey league’s title in five games.

Mike Hedden had two goals and Brett Ritchie also scored for Texas in regulation time.

Blair Riley, Jordan Hill and Josh Lunden supplied the of-fence for St. John’s.

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American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBToronto 41 31 .569 —New York 36 33 .522 3 1/2Baltimore 36 34 .514 4Boston 33 38 .465 7 1/2Tampa Bay 28 44 .389 13

Central Division W L Pct GBKansas City 38 32 .543 —Detroit 36 31 .537 1/2Cleveland 36 36 .500 3Chicago 34 37 .479 4 1/2Minnesota 32 37 .464 5 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBOakland 42 28 .600 —Los Angeles 38 32 .543 4Seattle 37 34 .521 5 1/2Texas 35 35 .500 7Houston 32 40 .444 11

Monday’s GamesCleveland 4, L.A. Angels 3Kansas City 11, Detroit 8Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 4Boston 1, Minnesota 0Texas 14, Oakland 8Seattle 5, San Diego 1

Tuesday’s GamesSeattle 6, San Diego 1Washington 6, Houston 5L.A. Angels 9, Cleveland 3N.Y. Yankees 3, Toronto 1Kansas City 11, Detroit 4Baltimore 7, Tampa Bay 5Boston 2, Minnesota 1Chicago White Sox 8, San Francisco 2Texas at Oakland, late

Wednesday’s GamesKansas City (Guthrie 3-6) at Detroit (Smyly 3-5), 11:08 a.m.Baltimore (Gausman 2-1) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 2-4), 11:10 a.m.Minnesota (Gibson 6-5) at Boston (Lackey 8-4), 11:35 a.m.San Francisco (Hudson 7-2) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 5-1), 12:10 p.m.Texas (Tepesch 2-2) at Oakland (Gray 6-3), 1:35 p.m.Houston (Feldman 3-4) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-4), 5:05 p.m.L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 7-6) at Cleveland (Masterson 4-5), 5:05 p.m.Toronto (Buehrle 10-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 2-0), 5:05 p.m.Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-2) at San Diego (Cashner 2-6), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesL.A. Angels at Cleveland, 10:05 a.m.Kansas City at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.Seattle at San Diego, 4:40 p.m.Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.Houston at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.Boston at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.VMartinez Det 67 255 34 86 .337Cano Sea 67 260 35 85 .327Altuve Hou 69 288 34 94 .326Rios Tex 70 272 33 88 .324Brantley Cle 69 266 49 86 .323MiCabrera Det 67 257 39 82 .319Trout LAA 66 254 47 79 .311

Home RunsNCruz, Baltimore, 21; Encarnacion, Toronto, 20; JAbreu, Chicago, 19; Donaldson, Oakland, 17; VMartinez, Detroit, 17; Moss, Oakland, 17; Pujols, Los Angeles, 16; Trout, Los Angeles, 16.

National League

East Division W L Pct GBWashington 36 33 .522 —Atlanta 36 34 .514 1/2Miami 36 34 .514 1/2Philadelphia 31 38 .449 5New York 31 40 .437 6

Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee 43 29 .597 —St. Louis 39 32 .549 3 1/2Cincinnati 34 35 .493 7 1/2Pittsburgh 34 36 .486 8Chicago 29 40 .420 12 1/2

West Division W L Pct GBSan Francisco 43 28 .606 —Los Angeles 38 34 .528 5 1/2Colorado 34 36 .486 8 1/2San Diego 29 42 .408 14Arizona 30 44 .405 14 1/2

Monday’s GamesChicago Cubs 5, Miami 4, 13 inningsPhiladelphia 6, Atlanta 1, 13 inningsSt. Louis 6, N.Y. Mets 2Milwaukee 9, Arizona 3L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 1Seattle 5, San Diego 1

Tuesday’s GamesSeattle 6, San Diego 1Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 5Washington 6, Houston 5Miami 6, Chicago Cubs 5Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 2Chicago White Sox 8, San Francisco 2St. Louis 5, N.Y. Mets 2Milwaukee 7, Arizona 5Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, late

Wednesday’s GamesPhiladelphia (R.Hernandez 2-5) at Atlanta (Harang 5-5), 10:10 a.m.Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 2-1) at Miami (Eovaldi 4-2), 10:40 a.m.N.Y. Mets (Colon 6-5) at St. Louis (Lynn 7-4), 11:45 a.m.San Francisco (Hudson 7-2) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 5-1), 12:10 p.m.Cincinnati (Simon 9-3) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 4-5), 5:05 p.m.Houston (Feldman 3-4) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-4), 5:05 p.m.Milwaukee (Garza 4-4) at Arizona (Miley 3-6), 7:40 p.m.Colorado (J.De La Rosa 6-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Ker-shaw 6-2), 8:10 p.m.Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-2) at San Diego (Cashner 2-6), 8:10 p.m.

Thursday’s GamesCincinnati at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m.Milwaukee at Arizona, 1:40 p.m.Seattle at San Diego, 4:40 p.m.Atlanta at Washington, 5:05 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Miami, 5:10 p.m.Philadelphia at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct.Tulowitzki Col 67 228 55 81 .355Lucroy Mil 67 259 34 88 .340Puig LAD 65 249 37 81 .325AMcCutchen Pit 69 259 38 84 .324CGomez Mil 64 256 45 80 .313McGehee Mia 69 267 26 83 .311Goldschmidt Ari 73 284 54 88 .310

Home RunsStanton, Miami, 19; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 18; Fra-zier, Cincinnati, 16; Gattis, Atlanta, 15; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 15; Rizzo, Chicago, 14.

Tuesday’s Major League LinescoresAMERICAN LEAGUELAA 100 041 102 — 9 15 0Cleveland 010 100 001 — 3 7 1Shoemaker, Frieri (9) and Conger; Tomlin, Crock-ett (6), Lowe (7), Outman (8) and Y.Gomes. W—Shoemaker 4-1. L—Tomlin 4-4. HRs—Los Angeles, Trout 2 (16), H.Kendrick (4), Calhoun (5). Cleveland, Chisenhall (8).

Toronto 100 000 000 — 1 6 0New York 002 010 00x — 3 6 0Stroman, Loup (4), Redmond (6), Santos (8) and D.Navarro; Tanaka, Betances (7), Dav.Robertson (9) and McCann. W—Tanaka 11-1. L—Stroman 3-2. Sv—Dav.Robertson (17). HRs—Toronto, Reyes (5). New York, Gardner (6).

Kan. City 070 030 100 — 11 15 1Detroit 020 010 010 — 4 10 1Ventura, L.Coleman (8), Crow (9) and S.Perez, Hayes; Scherzer, Coke (5), E.Reed (6), B.Hardy (8), Alburquerque (9) and Avila, Holaday. W—Ventura 5-5. L—Scherzer 8-3. HRs—Kansas City, A.Gordon (8), Moustakas (7). Detroit, Kinsler (7).

Minnesota 000 001 000 — 1 4 0Boston 101 000 00x — 2 8 0P.Hughes and K.Suzuki; Lester, Badenhop (7), Breslow (7), Tazawa (8), Mujica (9) and D.Ross. W—Lester 8-7. L—P.Hughes 7-3. Sv—Mujica (2).

Baltimore 005 000 200 — 7 8 1Tampa Bay 002 020 010 — 5 11 0M.Gonzalez, R.Webb (6), Matusz (7), O’Day (8), Z.Britton (9) and C.Joseph; Bedard, Yates (5), Box-berger (7), Balfour (8), C.Ramos (9) and J.Molina, Hanigan. W—M.Gonzalez 4-4. L—Bedard 3-5. Sv—Z.Britton (8). HRs—Baltimore, C.Davis (12), Pearce (5). Tampa Bay, S.Rodriguez (7), De.Jennings (6).

INTERLEAGUESan Diego 010 000 000 — 1 4 1Seattle 020 020 20x — 6 8 0Stults, Stauffer (6), Thayer (8) and Rivera; Elias, Leone (8), Farquhar (9) and Zunino. W—Elias 6-5. L—Stults 2-9. HRs—San Diego, Rivera (5). Seattle, J.Montero (1), Cano (4).

Houston 000 100 040 — 5 14 0Wash. 202 002 00x — 6 9 1Keuchel, D.Downs (6), Farnsworth (6), Williams (7), Sipp (8), Zeid (8) and J.Castro; Roark, Stammen (6), Storen (7), Clippard (8), Barrett (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton. W—Roark 6-4. L—Keuchel 8-4. Sv—R.Soriano (14).

San Fran. 101 000 000 — 2 7 1Chicago 002 330 00x — 8 10 1M.Cain, Petit (6) and H.Sanchez; Joh.Danks, Guerra (7), Putnam (8), D.Webb (9) and Flowers. W—Joh.Danks 6-5. L—M.Cain 1-5. HRs—San Francisco, Pence (10). Chicago, G.Beckham (5), Viciedo (6).

NATIONAL LEAGUECincinnati 100 200 201 — 6 13 0Pittsburgh 011 000 300 — 5 13 2Cueto, LeCure (7), M.Parra (7), Ondrusek (7), A.Chapman (9) and B.Pena; Cumpton, Ju.Wilson (7), J.Gomez (7), Melancon (8), Grilli (9) and R.Martin. W—Ondrusek 2-2. L—Grilli 0-2. Sv—A.Chapman (12). HRs—Cincinnati, Frazier (16).

Phila. 200 200 001 — 5 10 0Atlanta 000 010 100 — 2 6 2K.Kendrick, Diekman (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz; E.Santana, Beato (7), S.Simmons (8), Avilan (9) and Laird. W—K.Kendrick 3-6. L—E.Santana 5-4. Sv—Papelbon (16). HRs—Philadelphia, Howard (13).

Chicago 030 000 101 — 5 9 2Miami 100 200 30x — 6 9 0Samardzija, Schlitter (7), Grimm (8) and Whiteside, Jo.Baker; DeSclafani, S.Dyson (7), M.Dunn (8), Cishek (9) and Realmuto, Mathis. W—S.Dyson 1-0. L—Schlitter 2-2. Sv—Cishek (16). HRs—Chicago, Lake (9). Miami, G.Jones (9).

New York 000 100 001 — 2 7 2St. Louis 010 022 00x — 5 10 0Niese, Matsuzaka (7), Familia (8) and Recker; Wacha, S.Freeman (7), Motte (9), Neshek (9) and Y.Molina. W—Wacha 5-5. L—Niese 3-4. Sv—Neshek (2). HRs—New York, D.Wright (5), Duda (9). St. Louis, Y.Molina (6).

Milwaukee 010 001 500 — 7 11 1Arizona 300 010 001 — 5 7 1Lohse, W.Smith (7), Kintzler (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy; Bolsinger, E.Marshall (7), Ziegler (7), Delgado (8) and M.Montero. W—Lohse 8-2. L—E.Marshall 2-2. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (22). HRs—Mil-waukee, Ar.Ramirez (8), Lucroy 2 (8). Arizona, Kieschnick (1).

Today● Parkland baseball: Rocky Mountain House at Lacombe, 7 p.m.

Thursday● Women’s fastball: TNT vs. Badgers, Badgers vs. Topco Oilsite, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Red Deer U16 vs. N. Jensen’s, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; Lacombe Physio at Stettler, 7 p.m.● Senior men’s baseball: North Star Sports vs. Gary Moe Volkswagen, Printing Place vs. Lacombe Stone and Granite, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.

Friday● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 7 p.m.● Parkland baseball: Rocky Mountain House at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1; Lacombe at Eckville, 7 p.m.● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Red Deer at Lacoka, 7:30 p.m., Barnett Arenas.● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Edmonton/Spruce Grove at Blackfalds, 8:30 p.m., Multiplex.

Saturday● Junior golf: Maple Leaf Tour Mountain View Credit Union Classic at Olds Central Highlands.● Junior golf: Canadian Junior Golf Association event at Coyote Creek,

Sundre.● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 1 and 7 p.m.● Peewee AAA baseball: Fort McMurray at Red Deer, doubleheader at 3 and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park 2.● Third division rugby: Calgary Canadian Irish at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m.● Second division rugby: Calgary Candian Irish at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Titans Park.● Jr. B tier 1 lacrosse: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

Sunday● Junior golf: Maple Leaf Tour Mountain View Credit Union Classic at Olds Central Highlands.● Junior golf: Canadian Junior Golf Association event at Coyote Creek, Sundre.● Peewee AAA baseball: Fort McMurray at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park 2.● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 1 p.m.● Jr. B tier 3 lacrosse: Medicine Hat at Olds, 1:30 p.m., Sports Complex Main.● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Lethbridge at Blackfalds, 3:30, Multiplex.● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary Wranglers at Innisfail, 4:30 p.m., Arena Blue.● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: St. Albert at Red Deer, 6 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

FIFA WORLD CUPAt Brazil

GROUP A GP W L T GF GA PtBrazil 2 1 0 1 3 1 4Mexico 2 1 0 1 1 0 4Cameroon 1 0 1 0 0 1 0Croatia 1 0 1 0 1 3 0

GROUP B GP W L T GF GA PtNetherlands 1 1 0 0 5 1 3Chile 1 1 0 0 3 1 3Australia 1 0 1 0 1 3 0Spain 1 0 1 0 1 5 0

GROUP C GP W L T GF GA PtColombia 1 1 0 0 3 0 3Ivory Coast 1 1 0 0 2 1 3Japan 1 0 1 0 1 2 0Greece 1 0 1 0 0 3 0

GROUP D GP W L T GF GA PtCosta Rica 1 1 0 0 3 1 3Italy 1 1 0 0 2 1 3England 1 0 1 0 1 2 0Uruguay 1 0 1 0 1 3 0

GROUP E GP W L T GF GA PtFrance 1 1 0 0 3 0 3Switzerland 1 1 0 0 2 1 3Ecuador 1 0 1 0 1 2 0Honduras 1 0 1 0 0 3 0

GROUP F

GP W L T GF GA PtArgentina 1 1 0 0 2 1 3Nigeria 1 0 0 1 0 0 1Iran 1 0 0 1 0 0 1Bosnia-Herz. 1 0 1 0 1 2 0

GROUP G GP W L T GF GA PtGermany 1 1 0 0 4 0 3United States 1 1 0 0 2 1 3Ghana 1 0 1 0 1 2 0Portugal 1 0 1 0 0 4 0

GROUP H GP W L T GF GA PtBelgium 1 1 0 0 2 1 3South Korea 1 0 0 1 1 1 1Russia 1 0 0 1 1 1 1Algeria 1 0 1 0 1 2 0

Monday, June 16Germany 4 Portugal 0Iran 0 Nigeria 0Ghana 1 United States 2

Tuesday, June 17Belgium 2 Algeria 1Brazil 0 Mexico 0Russia 1 South Korea 1

Wednesday, June 18Netherlands at Australia, 10 a.m.Chile at Spain, 1 p.m.Croatia at Cameroon, 4 p.m.

Thursday, June 19Colombia vs. Ivory Coast, 10 a.m.Uruguay vs. England, 1 p.m.Japan vs. Greece, 4 p.m.

CFL PRE-SEASONEast

GP W L T PF PA PtHamilton 1 1 0 0 28 23 2Toronto 1 1 0 0 24 22 2Ottawa 1 0 1 0 17 21 0Montreal 1 0 1 0 23 28 0

West GP W L T PF PA PtSaskatchewan 1 1 0 0 21 17 2B.C. 1 1 0 0 14 11 2

Calgary 1 1 0 0 23 20 2Edmonton 1 0 1 0 11 14 0Winnipeg 2 0 2 0 42 47 0

Thursday’s gamesHamilton at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Friday, June 20Ottawa at Montreal, 5 p.m.Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.Calgary at B.C., 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Sports Transactions

BASEBALLMAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL —Suspended

Colorado RHP Nick Masset three games and fined him and Atlanta RHP David Carpenter undisclosed amounts for throwing at batters during a game last week.

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated RHP

Miguel Gonzalez from the 15-day DL. Designated RHP Josh Stinson for assignment.

BOSTON RED SOX — Designated OF Grady Sizemore for assignment. Recalled OF Garin Cec-chini from Pawtucket (IL). Agreed to terms with OF Derek Miller, C Alex McKeon, SS Hector Lorenzana, 3B Jordan Betts, 1B Sam Travis and RHPs Michael Kopech, Chandler Shepherd, Kuehl McEachern and Brandon Show on minor league contracts.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with OF Bradley Zimmer, 1B Bobby Bradley and RHPs Cameron Hill and Grant Hockin on minor league contracts.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Derek Hill and Michael Gerber; RHPs Spencer Turnbull, Jack Fischer. Gabe Hemmer Jacob But-ler Nate Fury Gage Smith Joseph Pankake Paul Voelker Josh Heddinger and Adam Ladwig; SSs Will Kengor and Garrett Mattlage; LHPs Kenton St. John, Trent Szkutnik and Tyler Ford; Cs Grayson Greiner and Michael Thomas; 1B Corey Baptist; 3B Will Maddox; and 2B Brett Pirtle and Ross Kivett on minor league contracts.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned C John Ryan Murphy to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Rein-stated C Francisco Cervelli from the 60-day DL.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed LHP Drew Pomeranz on the 15-day DL. Optioned SS Jake Elmore to Sacramento (PCL). Recalled RHP Evan Scribner from Sacramento. Agreed to terms with SS Trace Loehr on a minor league contract.

TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled LHP Aaron Poreda from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned LHP Robbie Ross, Jr. to Round Rock. Agreed to terms with 1B Carlos Pena and RHP Austin Pettibone on

minor league contracts. Assigned Pena to Round Rock.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Reinstated OF Colby Rasmus from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Anthony Gose and RHP Steve Delabar to Buffalo (IL). Re-called INF Munenori Kawasaki from Buffalo.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP

Will Harris to Reno (PCL). Recalled RHP Mike Bols-inger from Reno.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed RHP David Carpenter on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Pedro Beato from Gwinnett (IL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Trevor Oaks on a minor league contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Traded LHP Brad Mills to Oakland for cash considerations.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent 3B Cody As-che to Lehigh Valley (IL) for a rehab assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with C Kevin Krause, INF Erik Forgione and OFs Connor Joe, Jordan Luplow and David Andriese.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with 3B Danny Diekroeger on a minor league contract.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned OF Daniel Carbonell to Salem-Keizer (NWL).

American AssociationGRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS — Signed RHP

Ty’Relle Harris.LAREDO LEMURS — Released RHPs Joe Cruz

and RHP Sean Tracey and INF Ryan Flynn.Can-Am LeagueQUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed RHP Kirk

Clark.Frontier LeagueFLORENCE FREEDOM — Released OF Justin

Kalusa.FRONTIER GREYS — Signed INF Frank Florio.

Released OF Matthew Scruggs.JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed OF Chris Epps.LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Sent OF Seth

Granger to Joliet to complete an earlier trade. Signed INF Matt Dickason, 1B Michael Failoni and RHP Brant Masters. Released 1B Brian Haggett, RHP Michael Jahns and LHP Jose Rosario.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed RHP Troy Lambert.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Released RHP Michael Devine.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed 3B Garrett Carey.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball AssociationMINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Named Sam

Mitchell assistant coach.FOOTBALLNational Football LeagueCLEVELAND BROWNS — Agreed to terms with

QB Johnny Manziel. Released WR Earl Bennett.NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL

Seali’i Epenesa.SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Announced the

retirement of CB Eric Wright.TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Released OT

Emmett Cleary and LB Steven Jenkins.TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with

WR Derek Hagan and RB Bishop Sankey. Re-leased WR Lamont Bryant.

Canadian Football LeagueB.C. LIONS — Released DB Brandon McDon-

ald.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueBUFFALO SABRES — Placed LW Ville Leino

on unconditional waivers.DALLAS STARS — Bought out the contract of

D Aaron Rome.MONTREAL CANADIENS — Agreed to terms

with F Dale Weise on a two-year contract extension.SAN JOSE SHARKS — Signed G Alex Stalock

and F Mike Brown to two-year contracts.VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Placed LW David

Booth on unconditional waivers.Southern Professional Hockey LeaguePEORIA RIVERMEN — Signed F Alec Haga-

man to a tryout form.SOCCERMajor League SoccerMLS — Named Sal Della Monica director of

communications.

Reid Swier erupted for eight goals as the Red Deer TBS Rampage outlasted the visiting Calgary Mountaineers 20-18 in a Rocky Mountain Lacrosee League junior B tier 1 game Sunday.

Davis Reykdal fired three goals for the winners, who got two from each of Pearce Just and Spencer Lee and single markers from Dawson Reykdal, Cole deGraaf, Logan Elliott, Brandyn Blain and Colton Woytas.

In other weekend contest, Spencer Lee netted four goals to lead the Rampage to an 11-4 victory over the Edmonton War-riors. Dawson and David Reykdal each scored twice and Just, deGraaf and Ryan Beaton also tallied.

Darrian Bannack guarded the Rampage net during both games. The Red Deer squad has two home contests this week-end — Saturday at 7:30 p.m. versus the Sherwood Park Titans and Sunday at 6 p.m. against the St. Albert Crude — at the Blackfalds Multiplex.

● The Lacoka C-Key Trucking midget C team split a pair of weekend playoff games to keep their championship hopes alive. The C-Key squad, which finished third in league play with a 9-3 record, lost 6-5 to Red Deer M1 and doubled Stettler 10-5.

Meanwhile, the Lacoka Strand Media bantam squad entered weekend playoffs as the No. 1 seed following an 11-1 regular season. The team posted a pair of convincing playoff wins — 17-3 over Stettler and 10-5 over Blackfalds.

The Lacoka peewee teams — Strand Media and C-Key Truck-ing — finished 1-2 in regular-season play with respective 11-1 and 9-3 records.

Strand was 2-0 during the weekend, beating Innisfail 7- and Red Deer PW2 5-4, to advance to the next round, and C-Key fell 9-4 to Olds before routing Didsbury 14-3 and downing Red Deer PW3 10-6. C-Key also advanced to the next round.In novice play, Lacoka McDonald’s 1 defeated Lacoka Energy 2 3-2 in a weekend playoff game, and then edged Red Deer 3 by a 2-1 count. Energy downed Blackfalds and Innisfail by 4-1 scores, then saw their season come to a close with a 1-0 loss to Olds.

LACROSSE

Trevor Baron stroked a double and a triple and drove in three runs as the Red Deer North Star Braves downed Heisler 16-10 in weekend bantam AA baseball action.

P.J. Clubine had two triples and one RBI, Connor Jacobson contributed an RBI triple, John Nicholson added a two-run dou-ble and Ethan Scrase cracked a run-scoring triple. Piercen Dif-ferenz drove in two runs with three hits, Craig Bradley knocked in two runs on two hits, and Reid Howell and Connor Fenton each had two hits and an RBI. The Braves used three pitchers — Howell, Justin Wasylowich and starter Kade Kahlert.

North Star also smashed Strathmore 32-3 as Clubine knocked in six runs and Baron drove in five. Kahlert brought home four runners and Jacobson and Howell each had three RBI.

Kahlert slugged a home run, while Howell and Baron each stroked a triple and Clubine contributed a double. The Braves’ pitchers were Baron, Bradley and Fenton.

Mosquito AAThe Red Deer Gord’s First Line Braves, with Heath

Hachkowski stroking a triple and driving in four runs, routed host Wetaskiwin 20-7 during the weekend.

Ben Mason, Hachkowski and Dakota Clubine each had two hits, with Clubine knocking in three runs. Matthew Murray had two RBI and Tate Howell, Greyson Borchers and Tysen Wandler each drove in a run.

MINOR BASEBALL

ATHABASCA — Tim Boston of Wolf Creek fired an even-par 72 Tuesday and was in a four-way tie for first place following the opening round of the Alberta Men’s Mid-Amateur golf championship.

Also checking in with even-par scores were Gordon Selman of Edmonton Belvedere, Dan Lambert of the Alberta Public Player Club and Don Breen of Edmonton Glendale. Sitting another stroke back were Frank Van Dornick of Camrose and David Alberti of Springbank Links.

Lorne Riffin of Lacombe carded a 3-over 75 and was tied for 12th heading into today’s second round of the 54-hole tournament, while Blair Neal of Wolf Creek was in a seven-way tie for 18th after posting a 76.

Tom Skinner of the Red Deer Golf and Coun-try Club shot a 78 and was tied for 28th.

Other Central Alberta results: Ron Harder, Innisfail, 78 (tied for 34th); Les Swelin, Sundre, 81 (tied for 50th); Gerald Tardif, Wolf Creek, 84 (tied for 65th).

ALBERTA MID-AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Tour of Alberta to feature world’s top pro teams

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

The Tour of Alberta will roll through Red once again with some of the top teams in the world.

Organizers announced the inclusion of top pro teams Cannondale Pro Cycling from Italy, led by Peter Sagan, Australia’s top team Orica GreenEDGE and the Netherland’s Team Giant-Shimano for the Sept. 2-7 tour.

Two other top pro teams — Garmin-Sharp from the U.S. and Belkin-Pro Cycling — who had already committed to the race.

The five teams will compete in the Tour de France.

Organizers also announced the inclusion of 10 other teams from the Pro Continental and Continental circuits, including United Helath-care out of the U.S. and Garneau-Quebecor,

Silber Pro Cycling and the Canadian National Team all from Canada.

“Like last year, we have put together a great world-class field which includes several top-ranked, top-tier teams along with the top teams on the North American continent,” said Tour of Alberta executive director Duan Vienneau in a press release.

The province-wide race drew 120 cyclists in its inaugural running last year. Sagan won four of the six stages while Rohan Dennis from the Garmin-Sharp team won the overall title. Both will be back this year.

The race starts in Calgary with a prologue on Sept. 2 and will come through Central Alberta for the second stage on Sept. 4, cycling up from Innisfail and a road race through Red Deer. Stage 1 is a circuit of Lethbridge while Stage 3 goes from Wetaskiwin to Edmonton the final two stages taking place in the Edmonton area.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers dropped back and threw a high-arcing pass, the ball just skipping off the edge of a net stationed in the corner of the end zone about 20 yards away.

As the crowd swooned at Green Bay Packers minicamp Tuesday, the quarterback slapped his hands in disappointment as if he had just missed an open receiver for a touchdown at midseason. Going into his 10th year in the league, Rodgers is as competitive as ever in the off-season.

“It’s the opportunity to build team chemistry with the guys. It’s the challenge of beating up on Dom (Capers) and his defence,” said Rodgers, jokingly referring to the team’s defensive co-or-dinator.

“And it ’s proving yourself to young guys that haven’t seen you in action other than on TV over the years as I’ve become one of the older guys in the locker room,” Rodgers added. “But I have said that in the past — if I can’t be an almost-to-a-completely full off-season participator, then I’m going to move on. I plan on being here for a long time.”

Rodgers is a well-paid constant on an offence that undergoes some turnover each year given the front office’s “draft-and-develop” philoso-phy. This off-season, the receiving corps is in a

bit younger with veteran James Jones gone and three rookies joining the team from the draft.

Jermichael Finley, the starter at tight end the past few seasons, re-mains a free agent after getting sidelined in Oc-tober with a neck injury. Green Bay added tight end Richard Rodgers from the draft.

Rodgers, the Packers’ first-round pick in 2005, doesn’t think the added youth adds more work.

“It’s the same, it’s just different guys,” Rodgers said. “You know you look for ways to get to know your new teammates, you try to work on your tim-ing in the spring and you get yourself and your of-fence ready for training camp.”

Coach Mike McCa-

rthy sees it a little dif-ferently. He said some changes have been made on offence to make it easier for newer players, though in the end the biggest change was actu-ally for Rodgers.

“But it was the best thing for the group, so he had a little more study-ing to do this year than in prior years. I think he’s handled that very well,” McCarthy said. He said it shows on the practice field in ball efficiency, for instance, which has been one of the points of emphasis this season.

Rodgers did yoga in the off-season, which he has said helps with flex-ibility as he gets older. Rodgers, 30, had a left collarbone injury that knocked him out for much of the second half

last season.He stayed away from

some heavy lifting, espe-cially with his shoulders. Took rehab slow and feels good, he said ear-lier in the off-season.

There’s a different voice in the quarter-backs room with position coach Alex Van Pelt slid-ing over to new responsi-bilities after overseeing running backs last year. Van Pelt replaced Ben McAdoo, now offensive co-ordinator of the New York Giants.

“We’re talking, teach-ing the same system obvi-ously. But sometimes the language can be differ-ent. the style of coaching can be a little bit differ-ent,” Van Pelt said. “The key for him is just to lock in and he’s done a great job of that.”

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with familiar offence for

changeBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAKE FOREST, Ill. — While quarterback Jay Cut-ler insists he hasn’t changed much since last year, he’s glad he can also say the same for the Chicago Bears offence.

Cutler doubts he has actually gotten bigger or stronger with a physical regimen he began earlier than in past years, but when the Bears opened mini-camp Tuesday there was no denying the effect of playing in the same offensive system under coach Marc Trestman in successive seasons.

“We’re going into my ninth year,” Cutler said. “I think this is only the second or third time I’ve been in an offence multiple years. Still a little bit new to us, you know, we did some good thing last year. We’re still in the learning process but guys are much more familiar with what the concepts are and the forma-tions and everything. So that’s going to be a help: less thinking and able to go fast.”

The Bears improved from 29th ranked to No. 5 in passing and from 28th to No. 8 in total offence in their first year playing in Trestman’s attack. Cutler and former backup Josh McCown set a franchise re-cord with a combined 96.9 passer rating. Now the as-sumption is they’re further along in the offence and it can get even more effective, although McCown is now with Tampa Bay and the Bears are auditioning for backups.

“The beauty of continuity in football is learning the system and understanding where the problem lies on each play and each down and distance, and having the answer for that,” Bears offensive co-ordinator Aaron Kromer said. “The more you know about the play, the more you know about the offence, the more problem-solving you can do as opposed to just running the play.”

With wide receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery, tight end Martellus Bennett and running back Matt Forte back behind a veteran line, Cutler sees nothing but big things ahead for the offence.

“He’s been in so many different systems, but just to be able to go back to back in the same environ-ment, the same coaching environment, the same players around him, the way we do things and the way we say things, I think can allow him to enjoy more flexibility at the line of scrimmage and un-derstand what we’re trying to get to,” Trestman said about Cutler. “Each of these plays we have, there’s a lot of different answers against a lot of different types of (defensive) looks and coverages, and I think he’s at a place now, because he’s had so much expe-rience on these plays, he can utilize the entire play to find the right answers.”

Trestman was the one who has said he thought Cutler looked bigger and faster, but Tuesday backed off this comment a bit. Cutler himself called it an exaggeration. Cutler, who signed a seven-year, $126 million contact at the end of last season, said he be-gan working out earlier this year because he wanted to get stronger on his left side after suffering a groin strain on his left side and a left ankle sprain.

“I got back into it a little bit earlier this year be-cause with the dual injuries I just wanted to get my whole left side back to even with my right side,” he said. “So I feel good. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary to get ready for this year.

“It takes some time. I wasn’t really feeling good until into March, really, right before we started.”

Cutler missed five games last year, and played an entire Bears season only in 2009, his first year with the club. So his physical condition is a concern.

“I was straight until I really got here for a while and it was a hit parade back there,” Cutler said, referring to the 148 sacks he absorbed his first four years as a Bear. “It takes its toll from time to time.”

Cutler was sacked just 19 times last year, but still was injured.

“I think with the offensive line we’ve got here, the guys are doing everything possible,” Cutler said. “Last year was last year. Kind of two freak injuries. I don’t really foresee that happening again.”

OFF-SEASON WORKOUT

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett talks with players during warm ups at NFL football minicamp Tuesday, in Irving, Texas. All 32 NFL teams opened their three-day minicamps to get in a quick off-season session in before coming back for full training camp at the end of July.

Rodgers as competitive as ever going into 10th year with Green Bay Packers

Browns agree to contract with Johnny Manziel

CLEVELAND — The Browns have agreed to terms with quarterback Johnny Manziel on his rookie contract.

Financial terms of the deal were not immediately available.

The Browns moved up in May’s NFL draft to select the popular and polariz-ing Manziel in the first round with the No. 22 overall pick. The former Heis-man Trophy winner will enter training camp next month as Cleveland’s No. 2 quarterback behind veteran Brian Hoyer, who is coming off knee surgery.

Manziel went 20-6 in two seasons at Texas A&M, where he earned the nickname “Johnny Football” for his dynamic playmaking abilities and became the first freshman to win the Heisman. The Browns have signed four of their six 2014 draft picks.

Seattle QB Russell Wilson wins Good Guy Award

SEATTLE — Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson has won the Good Guy Award from the Profes-sional Football Writers of America for his professional approach to helping the journalists do their job.

In leading the Seattle Seahawks to their first NFL championship, Wilson was cited for being not only the face of the franchise, “but also the voice and conscience of it.”

Wilson became only the fourth sec-ond-year quarterback and the third-youngest QB to win a Super Bowl. He

led five fourth-quarter or overtime comebacks in 2013, including a 62-yard touchdown drive in the NFC champi-onship against San Francisco.

Lynch decides against holdout and shows up for

start of Seahawks minicampRENTON, Wash. — So much for

concern that running back Marshawn Lynch would be absent from the Se-attle Seahawks minicamp.

Lynch was in attendance when the Super Bowl champions opened their mandatory three-day minicamp on Tuesday. Reports surfaced last week that Lynch might consider not attend-ing the practices in hopes of getting a higher salary for the 2014 season. Lynch signed a four-year contract be-fore the 2012 season. He is scheduled to make $5 million in base salary this season plus per game roster bonuses.

Lynch could have faced fines of nearly $70,000 if he had decided to skip the minicamp. He did not take part in Tuesday’s practice but was on the field watching. Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Lynch has a sore ankle and likely will not participate during the three-day camp.

Raiders, Cowboys to hold joint training camp practices

ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys will par-ticipate in two joint training camp practices this summer.

The Raiders announced Tuesday that they will practice with Dallas at the Cowboys training camp base in Ox-nard, California, on Aug. 12 and 13.

This is the first time since 2005 that the Raiders have travelled for a pre-season practice. Oakland went to Hous-ton that year.

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CORRECTION

The story in Tuesday’s Advocate headlined “Urban energy feedback sought” contained an incorrect date. Members of the public have until July 15 to complete an online questionnaire about energy development in and around urban areas. The questionnaire can be accessed at www.energy.alberta.ca.

The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. Call 403-314-4333.

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Two Alberta authors will read from their collections of short stories and sign books at Sunworks on Friday at 7 p.m. Lee Kvern will read from 7 Ways to Sunday, a group of short stories that revolve around humanity in all its flawed glory. Rosemary Nixon will read from Are You Ready to Be Lucky, stories that look at the chaos and absurdity of friendship, marriage, divorce, betrayal and the complexities of luck and love. Admission is free. There will be appetizers and a cash wine bar. Sunworks is located at 5924 Ross St.

CLARIFICATION

A story on front-page of Tuesday’s Advocate was incomplete when crediting the couple who donated $1 million to Red Deer College. The story and photograph should have stated the donation came from Bill and Irma Welikoklad. The donation will be used for a variety of college projects, starting with $100,000 for the Welikoklad Family/Home Building Centre Endowment, which was established in 2010 when the family donated $250,000 to the college. The rest of the money will go to programs and facility enhancements at the college.

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WALKING FOR FRIENDSHIP

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

About 50 members of the public and friends of the Native Friendship Centre in Red Deer took a walk through the streets of downtown Red Deer on Monday. The group joined walkers around the province for the annual Walk For Friendship with the goal of raising awareness in the communities they serve to the importance of the friendship centres in each community. The walkers made their way through City Hall Park and then on to Rotary Park where they had a barbecue dinner.

Online 211 service launched

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI

ADVOCATE STAFF

Information on social services in Central Alberta is now only a click away at www.ab.211.ca.

United Way of Central Alberta launched an online 211 service on Tuesday to connect Central Albertans with details on community and social services pro-vided by non-profits and government.

Robert Mitchell, United Way of Central Alberta CEO, said it’s not just a list of phone numbers and website addresses.

“You’re going to get information about the orga-nization. You’re going to get information about pro-grams, where they’re located, its referral services, times they’re available.

“It’s very detailed information. It’s more than what you’ll find on 411 or in the phone book,” Mitch-ell said at Tuesday’s launch.

“We’re putting all the data in one place. Not only that, we’re categorizing it correctly so it’s easier to find.”

Data will be regularly updated.

Pilot project launched to help homeless youth

BY MURRAY CRAWFORDADVOCATE STAFF

The City of Red Deer is taking steps to address an under-served and vulnerable group of people in Red Deer with a new homeless pilot program.

According to the 2012 point-in-time homeless count, there were 279 homeless people, of which about 30 were youth. The city has issued a request for proposals for a homeless youth pilot program to address the problem.

The project should be aimed at youth aged 16 to 24 and follow the Housing First path.

Janell Bunbury, Red Deer Social Plan-ning Department program co-ordinator, said Housing First reflects the city’s strat-egy to address homelessness.

“It would provide immediate housing, but also provide the supports youth need to be successful in that housing,” said Bun-bury.

Those sup-ports range from addic-tions counsel-ling to men-toring youth on how to pay b i l l s , r e n t , dealing with landlords, lo-cating housing, proper budget-ing and it should have some life skills de-velopment.

“Reconnecting with family, helping them access training and educational opportuni-ties as well,” said Bunbury.

The proposal, which has received some provincial government funding, has a bud-get of $124,344.

T h e city has an op-tion to r e n e w t h e project f o r a further period, p r o -v i d e d the pro-

gram meets the provincial outreach and support services initiative criteria for fund-ing.

Two students from Central Alberta were awarded prestigious scholarships to com-plete two-year International Baccalaureate diploma programs.

They were among eight students from across the province to receive the 2014 Grant MacEwan United World College Scholarships and will begin their Grade 11 studies this fall in a foreign country.

Charlie Thompson, from Lindsay Thurb-er Comprehensive High School, will attend

Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma, N.M.

Olds High School student Cheyenne Cr-anston will attend Red Cross Nordic United World College in Fjaler, Norway.

Valued at $80,000 each to cover tuition and accommodation, the United World Scholarships are the single largest scholar-

ships the Alberta government offers.Recipients are selected based on aca-

demic performance, leadership, volunteer-ism and citizenship.

The United World College international organization has a network of over 40,000 graduates including Canadian astronaut Julie Payette.

Loose trash

angers residents

BY PAUL COWLEYADVOCATE STAFF

C o r o n a t i o n - a r e a landowners frustrated with flying garbage took their case to a development appeal board this week.

The group appealed a County of Paintearth municipal planning com-mission decision to allow an expansion at the local landfill by BFI Canada, a subsidiary of Progressive Waste Solutions.

Residents are angry that garbage — which is trucked in from as far as Calgary and Red Deer County — is blowing around and getting caught up in fences and collecting in ponds.

Poor garbage handling has created a stench and attracted scavenger birds such as gulls, land-owners claim.

On a Facebook page under Coronation Com-munity Against BFI Landfill Expansion, it says that the company’s “track record for con-trolling escaped litter, gulls, odour and other negative aspects of the operation has been ter-rible.

“Previous complaints by impacted neighbours (to various entities in-cluding BFI) about this operation has not pro-duced a satisfactory long-term solution,” says the site.

See COMPANY on Page C2Please see 211 on Page C2

UNITED WAY PLACES ALL THE DATA IN ONE PLACE

REFLECTS THE CITY’S STRATEGY TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS

Please see YOUTH on Page C2

‘IT WOULD PROVIDE IMMEDIATE HOUSING, BUT ALSO PROVIDE THE

SUPPORTS YOUTH NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THAT HOUSING.’

— JANELL BUNBURY, RED DEER SOCIAL PLANNINGDEPARTMENT PROGRAM CO-ORDINATOR

Students nab prestigious scholarshipsBACCALAUREATE DIPLOMAS

CORONATION

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COMPANY: Will join dialogue

Paintearth County chief administra-tive officer Tarolyn Peach said about 40 people turned out for the subdivi-sion and development appeal board hearing on Monday afternoon.

Peach said she was acting as secre-tary for the board so could not speak for the county on the issue.

Chaya Cooperberg, of Progressive Waste Solutions, says in an email the company wants to be respectful of the appeal process and does not want to comment until the board releases its decision.

Once that happens, the company would like to outline the steps it is tak-ing to address area concerns.

“We are committed to being a good neighbour and look forward to being able to talk about our plans,” says Cooperberg, vice-president of investor relations and corporate communica-tions.

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YOUTH: City works with strategy group

Work done by the Red Deer youth homeless strategy group over the past year led the city to put forth this re-quest.

Bunbury said the city worked with the strategy group to develop a frame-work for the pilot project.

“The key component of what we want the project to look like is support for self-sufficiency and for a healthy transition to adulthood and case man-agement,” said Bunbury.

Two orientation sessions will be held on Thursday for people to under-stand the scope and direction of the project. One goes from 9 to 10 a.m. and the other from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. To reg-ister, call 403-342-8100.

Proposals are due by 4 p.m. on July 10. For more information on the re-quest for proposals, visit www.reddeer.ca/socialplanning.

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211: Value clearMaintaining the online service will

cost United Way of Central Alberta $35,000 annually.

Red Deer joins Edmonton and area, Calgary and area, and the regional mu-nicipality of Wood Buffalo in providing 211 online.

Mitchell said the value of the 211 service to South-ern Alberta was clear dur-ing last summer’s flood in High River and Calgary.

“It really is a momen-tous day. There are about 1,600 records in the data base for Central Alberta. Now we have access to that 24/7.”

United Way of Central Alberta also hopes to launch a free and confi-

dential 211 phone service for Central Alberta in the next 12 months through a funding partnership with local mu-nicipalities on a per capita basis and businesses. The 211 phone service will cost $120,000 annually.

The phone service would see an operator guiding individuals towards services they may require.

In Canada, 211 is available both online and by phone in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, and most of B.C.

Mitchell said 211 calls will also help to identify gaps and demands in ser-vices for municipalities.

Kath Hoffman, executive director of Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour So-ciety for Health and Housing, said 211 will provide a good snapshot of needs within the community as well as assist Safe Harbour staff and clients to find appropriate services.

About a month ago, Red Deer city council advocated for the Alberta 211 service.

Mayor Tara Veer said 211 will ulti-mately help citizens get the right sup-ports at the right time.

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Cables stop truckA semi truck that hit the median

north of Olds on Hwy 2 early Tuesday morning was restrained from oncom-ing traffic by the cable barrier system.

The southbound semi pulling a flat-bed trailer hit the median about 7:20 a.m., pulling out more than 15 support pillars.

But it did not breach the cables and no injuries were reported as a result of the collision.

The initial collision caused delays for about an hour. Traffic delays were expected later in the day when the vehicle was to be removed from the median, a process expected to take several hours.

Brain injury talkA caregiver of a person with brain

injury will share her story on Thurs-day at noon.

Mufty Mathewson will speak of her experience taking care of an adult with an acquired brain injury.

She will share how her family coped with the changes over the years, and her plans when her current sup-ports are no longer available.

Her talk is at Catholic Social Ser-vices office at 5104 48th Ave. For more details, call 403-342-2266.

Oldstice is growingThe annual Olds Summer Oldstice

Street Festival and Market is joining forces with a popular MVP Show and Shine for the first time ever.

In past years, the events have been a week apart but this year, the events fell into calendar alignment, said Old-stice organizer Deb Aitken.

“We’re excited about that because it will bring a nice crowd. It’ll be in-teresting and it will make it a bigger festival,” said Aitken.

The annual festival kicks off on Saturday at 8 a.m. downtown with a pancake breakfast and the Show and Shine begins at 10 a.m., followed by the market at 11 a.m.

New this year is a public square dance at 1 p.m. in front of the main stage, where there will be entertain-ment all day, led by country music headliner Dani-Lynn of Olds at noon.

Aitken said organizers are using the festival to highlight local talent, busi-nesses and artists.

Among those taking a booth are the Alberta Storm Chasers.

Sundre storm chaser Joe Vonesch said they will have a table set up to meet the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and sell photos and Storm Chaser sou-venirs as a fundraiser for STARS.

“We’re kind of promoting storm safety and awareness of what can hap-pen.”

Alberta Storm Chasers has its own Facebook page and about 2,600 mem-bers. Thirty to 40 storm chasers are expected to show up at Oldstice.

For more information on Oldstice, see Uptowne Olds’s page on Facebook.

Students video historyThree Central Alberta students put

together some of the top video casts as part of a Canada-wide project look-ing for a fresh take on historical mile-stones.

Across the country, 150 students from Grades 4 to 11 submitted vod-casts, a mini movie or documentary, to interpret the history in their own back yards. Of those 150, six will have the chance to go to the Governor General’s Awards in November.

Abby Peterson of Rocky Mountain House, Moria Thompson of Pine Lake and Gabe Streilbsky from Red Deer all have a chance to attend the awards ceremony in Ottawa.

Using video cameras, the students interpreted history in their part of the country. Using primary source docu-ments, role-playing, dramatic readings and digital technology, the students created online videos about their top-ics.

Thompson shared a story of the Roy-al Canadian Mountain Police, Peterson researched Canada’s connection to the doomed Titanic disaster and Strel-bisky explored the story of his great, great, great-grandfather who worked on the first-ever radio broadcast.

“Students involved in the process don’t just research history, they live and breathe it for several weeks,” said Deborah Morrison, president and CEO of Canada’s History Society.

“Finding that passion and connec-tion is key to fostering a lifelong inter-est in our past and what better way for students to discover what’s interest-ing about our history than from each other.”

Now Canadians can vote on their favourite submissions by viewing them at www.youngcitizens.ca until July 11. A panel of judges will review all the videos and select six final recipients based on the result of the vote and the quality of their videos.

As well as each winning a trip for two to Ottawa for the Governor Gener-al’s History Awards in November, the winning student’s video will premiere at the Canada’s History Forum.

Spray park repairedA City of Red Deer spray park is

closed for repairs.The Blue Grass Sod Farms Central

Spray & Play will be closed until fur-ther notice. The timeline for repairs is unknown. The city will provide more information as it becomes available.

The spray and play park is located at the corner of 48th Street and 47A Avenue near the Golden Circle.

LOCALBRIEFS

Red Deer’s mountain of snow has only melted by one-third in the past two months.

The Edgar Snow Storage site, once dubbed Mount Rederest, remains 24 metres high from its original 31 metres. The mountain of snow is still visible from both Hwy 2 and 67th Street.

“The area was surveyed this past week and the volume has reduced from 258,000 to 168,000 cubic metres,” said Greg Sikora, city Public Works Depart-

ment manager.Sikora said staff may consider using

equipment to spread the snow to in-crease the surface area and melt rate.

“We would like to have the entire pile completely melted before fall as crews need time to haul away all the tonnes of debris left behind,” Sikora said.

“This is all in preparation for next year’s snow season.”

The Edgar Snow Storage Site is one

of two permanent snow storage loca-tions in Red Deer.

The other is on the south end of Red Deer south of the city waste manage-ment site on 40th Avenue.

That snow pile remains as well.With the above-average snowfall

in the 2013-2014 snow season, both sites reached capacity at 550,000 cu-bic metres and a temporary site was opened to accommodate private snow haulers.

UP AND OVER

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

With a break in the rain Monday, Grade 7 girls sprint down the track at Lindsay Thurber High School as they participate in the 60-metre hurdle event at the Central Middle School track and field day. About 70 per cent of the students from the school took part in the day’s activities.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

A cyclist passes the snow dump just off 40th Avenue on the City of Red Deer land fill site Tuesday. The two main snow dump sites in Red Deer have reportedly lost about a third of their volume since the winter.

City considering using equipment to break up mountain of snow

SNOW HAULED FROM STREETS SLOW TO MELT AT DUMPS

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BY SHERYL UBELACKERTHE CANADIAN PRESS

It may be the most unusual — and quick-thinking — use of a smartphone selfie yet.

When Stacey Yepes lost all feeling on her left side while driving home after running some post-work errands, she grabbed her phone and videotaped herself to show doctors what had been happening to her.

The video shows Yepes (pronounced JEP-ess) describing her symptoms: the left side of her face is drooping and her speech is slurred; she says she can-not move her left arm or leg.

It was not the first time she had ex-perienced such a frightening loss of function.

A day earlier, Yepes had been in her Thornhill, Ont., condo watching TV after work when suddenly she lost feeling in her entire left side and she couldn’t lift her limbs.

“And just as that was happening, my phone rang, so I had answered the phone, and my roommate was calling and ... had said, ‘Why are you talking funny?”’ recalled Yepes, 49.

“And as I’m speaking, I can hear my slurred speech and the feeling inside of my face, all frozen.”

Even though the symptoms dissipat-ed in about 10 minutes, Yepes decided to go to the emergency department of a nearby hospital.

“I was scared. I kept thinking as I could hear myself speaking of all the (public service) an-nouncements on the TV,” she said. “And I thought, ‘Oh, my goodness, this is a stroke.”’

But at the hospital, following a round of tests, the doctor told the divorced legal secretary her symptoms were the result of stress, which she should learn to man-age more effectively.

As she was leaving the hospital three hours lat-er, Yepes felt the numb-ness coming back. “And I stood there and I said, ‘OK, this isn’t stress.’ I knew it wasn’t, but I thought I had just been diagnosed. What am I go-ing to do?”

The next day, she went to work and was fine all day, until the ep-isode while driving that prompted her to pull over and whip out her smartphone.

Yepes is not sure how she had the cool-headed-ness to record her symp-toms as they were occur-ring.

“I think it was just to show somebody because I knew it was not stress-related. And I thought if I could show somebody what was happening, they would have a better understanding.”

She got herself to Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto, where an ER doctor said he believed she had been experiencing tran-sient ischemic attacks, or TIAs, which are small but potentially serious strokes.

The physician re-ferred her to the stroke unit at Toronto Western Hospital, where tests confirmed the diagnosis.

“We’ve never had a patient do this before,” Dr. Cheryl Jaigobin said of Yepes’ video selfie.

“And I guess for a pa-tient who wanted some-one to believe her symp-toms were real, it was ab-solutely incredible,” said the stroke neurologist at the hospital’s Krem-bil Neuroscience Centre. “When we saw Stacey’s videotape, we were all touched by it and abso-lutely convinced that her deficits were clearly be-cause of a mini stroke, or a TIA.”

Jaigobin says Yepes’ mini strokes resulted from a buildup of plaque in her arteries, a con-dition called athero-sclerosis. A blood clot formed on the plaque, then blocked a small ar-tery leading to one side of her brain, resulting in paralysis on the opposite side of her body.

Called an ischemic stroke, it is the most com-mon type of stroke. Warn-ing signs include loss of speech, slurring or an inability to form words; weakness or paralysis on one side of the body; double vision or loss of vision; balance prob-lems; and pronounced dizziness, Jaigobin ex-plained.

The other kind is known as a hemorrhagic stroke and results from

bleeding somewhere in the brain; typi-cally, the first warning sign is a sud-den-onset headache, she said.

Risk factors for an ischemic stroke such as Yepes experienced include high blood pressure, diabetes and el-evated cholesterol; longtime smokers are also at risk.

But not only older people can have a stroke — they can occur in young adults and even babies.

“Stroke can affect anyone at any age, and in fact studies are showing that younger people are presenting with stroke because things that we usu-ally saw in older age, like high blood pressure and diabetes and high choles-terol, in our modern North American society they tend to occur at a younger age,” said Jaigobin.

Anyone who experiences symptoms that might indicate a stroke should immediately call 911 and get to the hospital, she said, noting that ischemic strokes caused by a blocked artery can be treated with the clot-busting drug tPA, which needs to be administered within 4 ½ hours to be effective.

There are also other medications that can help reverse deficits accruing from a stroke and speed recovery in many cases.

Neurologists who specialize in stroke have a saying: “Time is brain,” meaning that the earlier the diagno-sis is made and treatment started, the “more neurons we’re able to save,” she said.

Yepes, who has been off work but

hopes to return in July, is participat-ing in a stroke rehabilitation program and will continue to be monitored by Toronto Western’s TIA and Minor Stroke unit, or TAMS. As well as tak-ing cholesterol-lowering and blood-thinning medications to prevent an-other mini stroke, she has revamped

her lifestyle, eating a healthy diet and exercising daily.

“Thankfully, because I reacted so quickly, I am what they call a high-functioning post-stroke person,” said Yepes, who still has lingering effects from the March mini strokes that may resolve over time.

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Stacey Yepes in her home in Thornhill, Ont. When Yepes lost all feeling on her left side while driving home after running some post-work errands, she grabbed her phone and videotaped herself to show doctors what had been happening to her.

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2009 — Greenland assumes control over its law enforcement, judicial affairs, and natural resources from Denmark. 1990 — Environment Minister Robert de Cotret brings in legislation to make environ-mental-impact studies mandatory for federal projects or joint projects.1959 — Queen Elizabeth II arrives with Prince

Philip to start a 45-day Canadian tour. Earlier in the day, CBC broadcasts the first live tele-cast from England to Canada.1953 — Boston Red Sox set a Major League baseball record by scoring 17 runs in one in-ning against Detroit Tigers in a 23-3 victory.1940 — Canada announces compulsory mili-tary training for home defence.1928 — Amelia Earhart arrives in Wales on a flight from Newfoundland in about 21 hours.1812 — U.S. President James Madison asks Congress to declare war on Britain. It is the beginning of the War of 1812.

TODAY IN HISTORY

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Always better to tell truth

Wednesday, June 18 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE:

Paul McCartney, 71; Kurt Browning, 47; Carol Kane, 61

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will be a favourable day for financial deal-ings.

You will be more able to see life through a serious and practi-cal lens that will help credibility when dealing with others.

On another level, you will be quite intuitive and psychic and this will give you an edge in busi-ness dealings.

Inner strength will be promi-nent and this will create a very peaceful and harmonious day.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today if your birthday, then this year will be filled with great financial rewards.

There is a great possibility for you to let go of bad habits that only undermine your progress.

There is almost an instinctual understand-ing of what your next career objective will be and an outstanding possibility of powerful support towards these new ventures. Write your plan, live your plan!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you run a business, then profit will exceed your expec-tations today.

Today will mark a time when you feel at peace in your own skin. Home life and family interactions will be encouraging. This day will be one to mark on your calendar for overall good cheer and love!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today, you are extremely compassion and this will attract

many to you. Your instinct with friends will be astute and

you’ll be very much in tune with them. Close relationships will encourage you to

great inner strength and you will be able to put up with a lot from them.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your talents will prove to be prof-itable today. Trust your instincts when dealing with others at work and in the public.

You will provoke deeper feel-ings in them and they will be supportive in a very real way.

You have great inner strength and stamina today — use it wisely!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There is a great possibility to meet a new friendship that will prove to be a blessing for you.

Network and see what turns up as they will help you towards your aspirations.

Your vision is clear and now you are able to push your ideas through and have them reach many!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are feeling good and this is being reflected publicly. If ever there was a time to ask for a raise, it would be today.

Trust your inner judgement on how to ap-proach any risky situations to reach a positive outcome.

Taking on more responsibility will be profit-able now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today you will be at the right place, at the right time.

Do not think about your lateness to work, there is an ultimate reason for this that sur-

passes what you might believe at this stage. Luck is on your side now.

Trust the relationships in your life, they are leading your correctly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Greater finan-cial support will arrive today.

Perhaps your spouse has received a raise and this will in turn help you feel calmer and relaxed about your current circumstances.

You will instinctively know what is good for you and what is not today, trust yourself!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Others in your life will offer you a great new perspective on world issues.

Perhaps they provide you with a brilliant idea for a new book or new knowledge that you can incorporate into your life. You have the inner strength to take it and make it work now!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There is great support coming in for you.

Your daily routine, work, and health regime will seem very amicable and peaceful today.

You are very much in tune with fam-ily members — get in touch with them if you need that extra bit of morale. Solid day to get work completed!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There is a great possibility to meet a potential romantic interest today. If you are currently working on a creative project, it will be extremely well received.

The more you express yourself today, the more empowered you will feel. Take your time and aim for the stars!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Great love and support will come from your family, or, if you own a business, perhaps recent changes are proving to be extremely profitable for you now.

Trust your instincts today when dealing with your finances, they will prove to be right.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your hob-bies and talents will reap some major recog-nition. New friendships can be made that will reside on a deeper level.

Trust your instincts today — they will not lead you down the wrong path.

You have a vision of what you want and the inner strength to get you there!

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Dear Annie: My husband calls me the “Throwaway Queen.”

I have gotten into hot water for not asking before I trashed something.

Now I think I’ve made a huge mistake.

My husband is now far into dementia.

We are thinking of mov-ing, so I started cleaning out storage bins. I threw away two items of my husband’s that had been in those bins for years.

Last week, his son came over to help clear out some things and specifically asked for the items I tossed.

They apparently were of sentimental value to him.

I acted as if I hadn’t a clue what he was talking about, but I feel so guilty and ashamed.

This is a burden on my conscience, and I don’t know what to do.

I don’t want to keep lying to him, but I’m afraid of confessing.

What should I do? — Stepmom in California

Dear California: Imagine the reac-

tion from your stepson when he discov-ers that you threw out these two items. We think you can tolerate his anger

and disappointment. Please tell him.Apologize profusely. Say

you had no idea he would want these things, or you would have saved them.

Say that you are ashamed for not telling him sooner.

Ask him to forgive your lapse in judgment.

We think once he gets past his disappointment, you both will be able to put this behind you.

Dear Annie: Yesterday, I attended my son’s much anticipated college gradua-tion from a very celebrated institution.

Despite our hefty investment in edu-cation, what were we treated to?

Graduates in cutoff shorts and flip-flops and mortarboards with raunchy slogans written on them.

Many graduates reeked of alcohol and were still visibly under the influ-ence.

The behaviour of the audience when

they handed out degrees was startling: air horns, wolf whistles, bellowing, screaming and other inappropriate responses.

What should have been a respectful, dignified celebration was tarnished by the too common behaviour of a rock concert.

I am in my late 40s and am not a prude.

But I feel such formal events, which ought to warrant a respectful and cour-teous audience, have instead disinte-grated into chaos.

So, please tell your readers: If you are going to a graduation this spring, please set a good example for your children and others.

Don’t holler. Don’t stand on your seat and scream.

Don’t bring air horns, cowbells or whistles.

Stand and applaud respectfully. Of-fer your support before and after the ceremony.

Please don’t diminish the success and accomplishment of the graduates with your ill-conceived and unappreci-ated conduct.

Graduates: Dress and act your role as accomplished academics. Save the

beachwear for another day.Stand tall and accept the congratu-

lations due. Everyone will be apprecia-tive, especially your family.— A Gradu-ate’s Mom

Dear Mom: Good advice, and we hope at least some in the crowd will pay attention.

People get excited.In some places, commencement ex-

ercises have become raucous free-for-alls.

The school should make an an-nouncement to the graduates before-hand, and to the audience prior to the ceremony, explaining what type of be-haviour is expected.

Dear Annie: “Somewhere in the USA” was considering not returning to a restaurant where a group of senior men made audibly insulting comments about other customers. If she decides not to return, she should tell the man-ager or owner the reason. The owners need to know whether they are losing business because of the “old coots.” — Restaurant Manager

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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BY MARC FISHERADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

WASHINGTON — Already by the mid-1970s, Casey Kasem and his American Top 40 radio show felt like an anachronism, a hokey blast from a time when everything was supposedly hunky-dory, when all the kids danced to the same tunes and America was all about possibility.

Kasem’s weekly countdown of the top hits arrived at the radio station where I worked not through the mod-ern miracle of the premium-quality electronic network feed from New York, but in the regular mail, in boxes containing four 12-inch vinyl records containing all the music, Kasem’s corn-pone storytelling, and the national ads. All we had to do was pop in the local ads.

It was backward, old-fashioned, im-possibly uncool. Every DJ in the land rolled his eyes at the persistent popu-larity of Casey’s countdown, his long-distance dedications, his tear-jerking tales of men in uniform sending their love and a song to their girl back home. And every station manager who could land the rights to AT40 held on for dear life, because although the jocks made fun, the listeners were totally addicted.

This was the era of FM’s ascent — in 1980, FM listening topped AM radio for the first time — the beginning of radi-cal new formats like progressive rock and singer-songwriter-focused stations, the start of the splintering of the Amer-ican media and of popular culture, the birth of the niche. Radio was all about the new science of psychographics, the idea being that there’d be a different station for each demographic group, a division of tastes and cultural experi-ence depending on your income, age, location and race.

And then, once a week, on Sunday morning after church in every town across the nation, in the midst of all that fine-tuning of formats, Americans came together again, as radio stations played Casey Kasem and the “hits from coast to coast.”

The accidental genius of Top 40 ra-dio from its inception in the late 1950s had been to tap into America’s ex-ploding youth market at a time when businesses had not yet figured out the transforming nature of the baby boom. By the ‘70s, when Kasem, who died Sunday at age 82, started his show, the mass appeal of Top 40 was being sliced

and diced into demographically tar-geted formats. That left the field wide open for Kasem to bring us all together again, if only for three hours each Sun-day.

He was a cute, bubbly, energetic voice, benign, anodyne, like Dick Clark before him and Ryan Seacrest after him. He had none of Johnny Carson’s bite, hardly any of the sex appeal of the pop heartthrobs whose tunes he spun. He was steady and unthreaten-ing, like Walter Cronkite or Ed Sul-livan, the other men who earned the nation’s trust mainly for being there, dependable and uncontroversial.

He was a Lebanese-American from Detroit who spent his time in the Army spinning records on Armed Forces Ra-dio, a little guy blessed with a captivat-ing voice that made him sound forever young yet authoritative and fun. He was for many years the voice of Shaggy on the Scooby-Doo cartoons, and for a few years in the late 1970s, he was the voice of NBC television.

But it was during those Sunday vis-its, when America was driving home from church or getting the groggy of Saturday night out of their systems, that Kasem found his way into what was then still one big audience. On a single Sunday in 1977, Kasem played Glen Campbell’s Southern Nights, The Spinners’ Rubber Band Man, Rod Stew-art’s Tonight’s the Night, Bill Conte’s Theme from Rocky, Electric Light Or-chestra’s Telephone Line, and KC & The Sunshine Band’s I’m Your Boogie Man — an impossible mash-up of tastes and subcultures, yet there they were, se-lected not by psychographic research aimed at molding a demographically pure audience, but by the old-fash-ioned method — counting record sales and playing whatever people were buying.

At a time when the questions that could place a stranger were shifting from “Who’s your favorite DJ?” or “What’s your favorite song?” to “What’s your station?” Kasem created a ref-uge for those who still wanted to know what the other kids were listening to.

The era when a single Top 40 sta-tion, great radio stations like WPGC in Washington, WABC in New York, or WLS in Chicago could dominate a mar-ket, drawing 30 or 40 per cent of listen-ers, was over. Now, niche stations were happily profitable with five or six per-cent slices of the audience.

Kasem counted down the 40 best-selling hits every week from 1970 to 2004 — for a few years in the early-’90s,

he lost control of American Top 40 and marketed his own show as Casey’s Top 40 — with more than 1,000 stations car-rying his program during its best years.

As far as listeners could divine, Kasem was format-agnostic. He seemed to like everything, from syrupy pop to hard rock to country to disco. What linked those varieties of pop music was the stories behind them, the mini-biographies that Kasem had started inserting into his shows on KRLA in Pasadena in 1963, quick bits such as “In a moment, we’ll hear a song by a former truck driver who parlayed an accident into a million bucks.”

Kasem’s show resisted the splinter-ing of the culture until rap came along; starting in the early-’90s, the stations that aired AT40 would no longer tol-erate Kasem’s openness to whatever tunes made Billboard’s sales charts. To accommodate his stations’ belief that their listeners would not accept hip-hop mixed in with Celine Dion and Trisha Yearwood, Kasem switched from Billboard’s list to one based on airplay at the nation’s top-rated radio

stations. That allowed an occasional Will Smith or Sir Mix-A-Lot number onto Kasem’s countdown, but it kept most hip-hop off the show.

From Three Dog Night’s Momma Told Me Not to Come, the No. 1 hit on AT40’s first show, to Outkast’s Hey Ya! the final No. 1 on Kasem’s last Amer-ican Top 40, the show was a weekly reminder of what Americans had in common — not just big ideas like lib-erty and democracy, but small things, single voices that remind us of who we are and what we care about. No romance was too saccharine to become the stuff of Kasem’s long-distance ded-ications; no adolescent’s attachment to a silly love song was ever to be poked fun at.

“Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars,” Kasem instructed us at the end of every show. Hokey, cliched, all that, yes, but he produced a little catch in the throat ev-ery time, and that optimism, that sense of community, is what kept people coming back. It’s also what kept them, at some level, together.

Tech N9ne bringing Strangulation Tour to cityDynamic rapper Tech N9ne will

perform in Red Deer during his Stran-gulation Tour in September.

The rap artist from Kansas City, Mo., is slated to entertain on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at the Memorial Centre, along with Kriss Kaliko.

Tech N9ne (aka Aaron Dontez Yates) is cofounder of the Strange Mu-sic record label and has released more than 10 albums over his career, includ-ing Absolute Power, Killer, Sickology and K.O.D.

His speedy, chopper-style rap tunes were featured in various films, such as Alpha Dog and Born 2 Race, as well as TV shows and video games. Tech N9ne has also made various film and televi-sion appearances — including in the movies Vengeance, Night of the Living Dead and Origins 3D.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $46.95 and are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre.code:3

Grint heads for Broadway in Terrence McNally’s

‘It’s Only a Play’NEW YORK — Producers of Ter-

rence McNally’s Broadway-bound re-vival of It’s Only a Play have added a little Harry Potter magic — Rupert Grint.

Grint, who played Ron Weasley in

the Potter film franchise, will make his Broadway debut alongside Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Stockard Channing, Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham and Emmy winner Megan Mullally.

The revival will play the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre and opening night is Oct. 9.

It’s Only a Play, which previously appeared off-Broadway in 1986, is a send-up of show business. It is set on the eve of a play’s opening night and its anxious playwright has to deal with Broadway show business types as they await the first reviews.

Grint made his West End Debut in the 2013 revival of Jez Butterworth’s Mojo.

Prosecutor drops disorderly conduct case against Paul

Simon, Edie BrickellNORWALK, Conn. — Prosecutors

are dropping a disorderly conduct case against Paul Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, stemming from a fight at the couple’s home.

The 72-year-old Simon and 48-year-old Brickell had been scheduled to be in court Tuesday, but they did not appear. Prosecutors told a judge they were declin-ing to pur-sue the case, meaning the charges will be dropped and eventu-ally erased a f t e r 1 3 months.

The cou-ple fought April 26 in-side a cot-

tage on their property in New Canaan, police said.

Brickell told officers she confronted her husband after he did something to “break her heart,” according to police, but she did not provide any details. She told police Simon shoved her and she slapped him.

The report says Simon suffered a superficial cut to his ear and Brickell, who smelled of alcohol, had a bruise on her wrist.

Simon is a 12-time Grammy winner and member of The Songwriters Hall

of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — as half of the duo of Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist.

Brickell is perhaps best known for the song What I Am, recorded with her band the New Bohemians and released in 1988. She collaborated last year with comedian Steve Martin, who has an acclaimed career as a folk musician, for the roots album Love Has Come For You.

The singers were married in 1992. They have three children.

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INBRIEF

Kasem a refuge amidst change

Photo by THE WASHINGTON POST

Casey Kasem, host of the ‘American Top 40’ radio show.

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WHAT’S HAPPENINGCLASSIFICATIONS

50-70

ComingEvents 52

All Visits are Free.No Obiligation.Compliments of

Local Businesses.

Are you new to the neighbourhood?

Expecting a Baby?Planning a Wedding?

Call or visit us online!1-866-627-6070

welcomewagon.ca

SUPER FIGHTS #22 Kickboxing and Muay Thai Championships. June 21 Sheraton Hotel Special

Events Center. For tickets and info 1-403-347-9020

Lost 54LOST CAT in Johnstone area. Pure white, bushy tail with two tufts under chin. Answers to Lucy.

Please call 403-986-5505

LOST in Deer Park Thurs. June 12 from Dentoom Cl.

Large tortoiseshell cat named Lisa wearing a red

collar. Call Donna/Jim **FOUND**

URGENT!Orange & white male cat,stolen and dropped off in the middle of nowhere.

Please call 403-782-3130

Personals 60ALCOHOLICS

ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

NO MORE DIETS, no feesFood Addicts Anonymous

www.foodaddictyanonymus.org 403-307-4706

CLASSIFICATIONS700-920

wegot

jobs

ComputerPersonnel 730

Chatters Canada has an immediate opening in our

Corporate Offi ce for aP/T IT Support Tech (0.5 position with potential

to lead to full-time).

Key Responsibilities:• Provide remote IT sup-

port to staff in our chain of over 100 retail stores across Canada.

• Onsite support to our corporate offi ce includ-ing network equipment (workstations, servers, routers, switches, printers, warehouse manage-ment systems etc.), corporate backups (on and offsite) and various software products such MS Offi ce, Simply Accounting etc..

• Some travel, within Canada, to complete IT setup at store locations may be required

Qualifi cations:• Candidate must have a

Computer Systems Technology diploma or equivalent in experience

• Excellent customer service, communica-tion & organizational skills required

• Team player; willing-ness to adhere to company policies & procedures

Remuneration: Based on experience and

education.Excellent benefi ts

package, competitive wage, perks.

Apply in confi dence to [email protected] or

fax resume to 1-888-409-0483, clearly

identifying the position you are applying for. Only

those suited for the posi-tion will be contacted, no

phone calls please.

Dental 740Busy family oriented dentaloffi ce requires a part time RDA II with fl exible sched-ule for holiday coverage and 1-2 days per week. Great working environ-

ment. Reply with resume to [email protected]

Dental 740EXP’D receptionist req’d for general and cosmetic dental offi ce. 4 day work

week Mon. - Thurs, guaranteed monthly salary, with generous

active bonus plan. Please reply with resume to

[email protected] Resume may also be delivered to 100 3947-50a ave, Red

Deer, AB. T4N 6V7. Contact Dr. Brian Saby at

403-340-3434

Medical 790F/T REGISTERED

MASSAGE THERAPISTREQUIRED. Apply in person to Associate Chiropractic.

5415 49 Ave.

Oilfield 800

$2500 BonusEvery 100 days

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS

Oil & Gas Well Testing Night Foremen,

Experienced/Inexperienced

Junior Day/Night Operators

Must have H2S, First Aid,valid driver’s license. Pre-employment Drug

screening Competitive Wages.

Benefi t PackagePlease submit resume

with references to:[email protected]

or by fax to (403) 783-8004Only individuals selected

for interviews will be contacted

A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing

BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig

exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email

[email protected] those selected for

interview will be contacted.

CGSB Level 2Radiographer and CNSCCEDO Required for work

out of local Red DeerBranch. Union rates and

benefi ts. Fax information to403-342-1205

LOCAL SERVICE CO.in Red Deer REQ’S EXP.

VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR

Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfi eld tickets.

Fax resume w/driversabstract to 403-886-4475

Oilfield 800

Central Alberta’s LargestCar Lot in Classifieds

Oilfield 800

NOW HIRING Well Testing Personnel

Experienced Supervisors& Operators

Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@

testalta.com

OIL & GAS OPERATORBearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler fi eld operations for an intermediateoil and gas operator. Applicantsmust have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivatedand hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commuteto workplace location. This position offers a challengingwork environment, attractivebenefi ts with competitive pay and signifi cant room for promotion. Please submit resumes

Attn: Human Resourcesemail:[email protected] 403-252-9719Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Oilfield 800

Something for EveryoneEveryday in Classifieds

Oilfield 800

SERVICE RIGBearspaw Petroleum Ltd

is seeking exp’dFLOORHANDS &DERRICK HANDS

Locally based, home every night! Qualifi ed applicants must have all necessary

valid tickets for the position being applied for.

Bearspaw offers a very competitive salary and benefi ts package along with a steady

work schedule. Please submit resumes: Attn: Human Resources

Email: [email protected]: (403) 258-3197 or

Mail to: Suite 5309, 333-96 Ave. NE

Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

ZUBAR Production Services

is currently taking resumes for experienced

Production TestingPersonnel

Email resume to: rdzubaroffi [email protected] or fax to (403)346-9420.

Must have all valid tickets.

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Salein Classifieds

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

Meet our Recruitment Team!Join us for an Open House Job Fair for the following positions:

• Water Transfer Laborers

Date: Wednesday July 2nd, 2014Time: Drop in anytime between 10:00am – 3:00pmLocation: Sheraton Red Deer Hotel (3310 50 Ave)Essentials: Bring your own resume and appropriate

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WELLHEAD ISOLATION SERVICE

TECHNICIANS AND TRAINEES

ISOLATION Equipment Services Inc.,

an expanding Oil Service & Supply Company is seeking quality

Service Technicians and Trainees.

Previous experience with service rigs, fracturing, or similar industry experience with oilfi eld tickets is an asset. Class 1 or 3 driver’s License applicants will get primacy. (Drivers with Class 5 & 5Q will be considered if Applicant has relevant oilfi eld experience) A current driver’s abstract required. Off-road driving experience is an asset.

MUST HAVE

valid H2S and AB/BC First Aid Tickets

BENEFITS

* Excellent monthly guarantee* Excellent job bonus

* Northern Allowance Program* Excellent Benefi t Plan and Travel Expenses

* Retirement Plan* Lucrative Quarterly Safety Bonus Program

* Christmas Bonus

Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to:

Fax: (403) 347-3406

Email: [email protected]

or drop off at 239 Clearview Drive, Red Deer County

ATTN: Lori Enzie

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Anders Park47 ARMITAGE CLOSE

Wed. 18th, 1-5,Thurs. 19th & Fri. 20th,2-6

Large estate downsize. New items daily.

ClearviewTHE ROTARY CLUB

OF RED DEER SUNRISE PRESENTS A GRANDIOSE

GARAGE SALEat 80 Cole Street.

June 19 & 20, 6 to 9 pm and June 21, 9 to 12.

Household items, collectibles,surprises! All proceeds

raised will fund our Club’sYouth Programs.

We appreciate your support

Deer Park28 DIXON AVE.June 19 & 20th,

10-5Something for everyone.

Classifieds...costs so littleSaves you so much!

Deer ParkGarage Sale - 70 DuvalCres., RD. June 20 - 5-8;June 21 - 9 - 2. The usual G Sale stuff plus someartwork, some vintageitems.

Devonshire18 DAWE CLOSE

Wednesday, June 18th6 a.m.-9 p.m. only.

Good quality.Something for everyone.

Normandeau83 NYMAN CRESJune 19th-22nd.

Thurs, Fri, Sat. & Sun. 9-5.Lots and lots of misc. items.

Too much to mention.

Rosedale24 RAMSEY CLOSE (Alley)

June 19th-21st.Thurs. & Fri. 12-7, Sat. 10-3

Multi-family. Household items, tools, furn. & more.

West Lake28 WEDDELL CRES

June 19th-21stThurs. & Fri. 2-7, Sat. 9-2Built-in oven, dishwasher, sm. tools, & misc. items.

97 WEDDELL CR.MULTI FAMILY

June 19, 20 & 21Thurs., Fri. & Sat. 10 - 6

Something For Everyone!

Out of Town

3 days only!Massive Multi-Family Farm

Sale. Many items from housewares to farmwares;Free section, lets make a deal! Thur: 3pm-8pm/Fri: 9am-5p/Sat: 9am-4pm

25225 HWY 595 - 18km east on HWY 595 Once you go past HWY 816

turnoff, we are 3rd lane-way on right side of HWY.

Sign will be out!

ClassifiedsYour place to SELLYour place to BUY

Obituaries

AUBUCHONFlorence MabelJan. 25, 1918 - June 14, 2014Florence went home to be with her Lord from the Red Deer Hospice on Saturday, June 14, 2014 at the age of 96 years. She is survived by her sons, Dale (Diane) and Gary (Sheila); daughter, Joan (Norm Engman); eight grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren; three great-great grandchildren; two brothers; one sister; and many nieces and nephews. Florence is predeceased by her husband of 60 years, Dave; three grandsons; one great granddaughter; her parents; one brother; and three sisters. A Celebration of Life will be held on Monday, June 23 at 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer with Reverend Jeffrey Rock offi ciating. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com

Arrangements entrusted toRED DEER FUNERAL HOME &

CREMATORIUM6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

FUNKMark BernardMay 1, 1925 Rosstern, Sask.June 16, 2014 Red Deer, AB.

Mark Funk passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital with his family by his side on Monday, June 16, 2014 at the age of 89 years. Mark is survived by his beloved wife of 67 years, Margaret; son, Barry (Barb); daughter, Julee (Larry); treasured grandchildren, Ryan (Laura), Chris and CJ. Mark was predeceased by four sisters and four brothers, Mark being the last surviving sibling. A celebration of Mark’s life will be held on Friday June 20, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. McInnis & Holloway, 369 Railway Ave. Cochrane, AB. (viewing at 10:00 a.m.) If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to The Calgary Humane Society, 4455 - 110th Ave. S.E., Calgary, AB T2C 2T7,

Telephone: (403)205-4455 www.calgaryhumane.ca.

Condolences may be forwarded through

www.mcinnisandholloway.com

In living memory of Mark Funk, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by

McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES,

Crowfoot Chapel, 82 Crowfoot Circle N.W. Telephone:

(403) 241-0044.

Obituaries

PARMETERDorothy Amy1932 - 2014Mrs. Dorothy Amy Parmeter of Sylvan Lake passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Saturday, June 14, 2014 at the age of 81 years. Dorothy, a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, was an exceptionally kind and loving woman who touched many lives and made them better. Dorothy is predeceased by her loving husband of 62 years, George Russell Parmeter. She is survived by her loving children, Philip (Medgee), Laurie (John) Ramsey and George Jr. and her cherished grandchildren, Jack (Tashina) Ramsey, Jessica (Elliott) Young, Russell and four great grand-children; as well as her dearest niece, Dianne Sekura and loving extended family and friends. Dorothy was born in Calgary, AB to William and Elizabeth Penney and was the fi fth of six children: Bill (Gladys), Marjorie, Len (Joan), Eric (Sophie) and Jack (Robina). A Funeral Service will be held at St. Leonard’s On The Hill Anglican Church, 4241 - 44 Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, June 20, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca. Dorothy’s family would like to thank the staff at the Sylvan Lake Bethany and Unit 31 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital for their kindness and support. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

In Memoriam

Christina Marie RossJune 8 1947-June 18 2009

It has been fi ve yearssince Tina was taken

from her family and many friendswho loved her and the smile

she had for everyone.A day does not go bythat memories of Tina

are not with us.Her special bond

she had with her familyshe was so proudof is missed by all.

Card Of ThanksWOLNEY

The family of the lateDennis Wolney wish to

express our sincere thanks and appreciation to those who have offered such kindness,

support and messages of sympathy and comfort in our bereavement. We also send

our gratitude to those who sent the beautiful fl ower arrangements, who brought food, and who

generously donated. A special thank you to The Rev. Sandra Franklin Law for the support and care of our family during

our loss, and to the ladies who provided lunch after the service. Your sympathy andthoughtfulness will alwaysbe gratefully rememberedand deeply appreciated.

Offi ce/Phone Hours:8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mon - Fri

Fax: 403-341-4772

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Circulation403-314-4300

DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

TO PLACE AN AD

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wegotservicesCLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

wegothomesCLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4310

wegotstuffCLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1940

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D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 18, 2014

CARRIERS NEEDEDFOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekendsROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREAAshley Ave., Ashley Close

Alexander Drive,Anquetel/Atlee Close

MORRISROE AREAMcDougall Cres. McCullough Cres.

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Springfi eld Ave.also

Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close

LANCASTER AREALancaster Dr.

alsoLister Cres. & Lockwood Ave.

alsoLandry & Lawson Close

VANIER AREAVoisin Close/Viscount Drive,

Vanier Drive/Volk Place

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

**********************TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION

DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDEDFor delivery of

Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

WOODLEA AREA

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St.$175./mo

GRANDVIEW AREA

3900 - 4200 Blocks of 43A Ave.

EASTVIEW

Ellis St. Area$97./moALSO

South Half of Embury Cres.South half of 46 St. and 35 Ave. Close

$70./mo

For More Information Call Jamie at 403-314-4306

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *Carriers are Needed to Deliver

Central Alberta Lifeafternoons & evenings one day per week

SPRINGBROOK

The papers arrive ready to deliver.NO COLLECTING!

Phone 403-314-4316 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

To order your own home or offi ce deliveryof the Red Deer Advocate NewspaperPhone our Circulation Department at

403-314-4300

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *Carriers are Needed to Deliver

Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Lifeafternoons & evenings 3 days per week

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION

35 Street 36 Street 37 Street 38 St. Close

41 St. Cres 57A Ave. 58 Ave. Warwick Drive

Welton Cres. Wiltshire Pl. Westpark Cres. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone 403-314-4316 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

To order your own home or offi ce deliveryof the Red Deer Advocate NewspaperPhone our Circulation Department at

403-314-4300

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *Carriers are Needed to Deliver

Central Alberta Lifeafternoons & evenings one day per week

INNISFAIL

The papers arrive ready to deliver.NO COLLECTING!

Phone 403-314-4316 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

To order your own home or offi ce deliveryof the Red Deer Advocate NewspaperPhone our Circulation Department at

403-314-4300

INNISFAIL

Adult Newspaper Carriers NeededFor Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Six days per week.Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your homeand are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

MORRISROE INGLEWOOD

AND SOUTHBROOK AREAS

Adult Newspaper Carriers NeededFor Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

6 Days a week!Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am

For More Information, Please call Prodie

Phone 403-314-4301

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK

Adult Newspaper Carriers NeededFor Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Six days per week.Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your homeand are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK

Adult Newspaper Carriers NeededFor Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Six days per week.Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your homeand are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

Restaurant/Hotel 820GRILLER’S Steak House in Rocky Mtn. House is

looking for Cook’s. Wage $15-$20./hr. dependant

on exp. Submit resume to:[email protected] or fax to

403-845-7469

HERITAGE LANESBOWLING

Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s

permanent F/T frontcounter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds).Please send resume to:

[email protected] or apply in person

RAMADA INN &SUITES

req`s PermanentROOM ATTENDANTS

Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 - $14/hr. Duties incl’d but

not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing fl oors,

making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning

bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fl uent with verbal l& written English, be

physically fi t. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer

T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email:

[email protected]

THE RUSTY PELICANis now accepting resumes

for experiencedF/T SERVERS & DISWASHERS

Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri.

Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

Sales &Distributors 830

GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales reps

selling skin & body care products in Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer,

$12.10/hr + bonus & comm. F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d.

Email resumes: gratiaereddeersr@

gmail.com

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T - P/T Beauty Treat-

ment O/P, selling soap & bath products $14.55/hr. +

bonus & comm. Beauty cert. req’d. Location

Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email premierjobrdbto@

gmail.com

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d. Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume [email protected]

Trades 850

You can sell your guitar for a song...

or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

CELEBRATIONSHAPPEN EVERY DAY

IN CLASSIFIEDS

Sales &Distributors 830

StoreSmart Self-Storageis now hiring for

the following positions!

Assistant Manager (Full Time)

Customer Service Rep

(Part Time)

For job descriptions and how to apply, go to

www.StoreSmart.ca/jobs. No phone calls please.

Trades 850Absolute Fusion

Contracting is a welding, fabrication, maintenance

and repair facility requiring a supervisor/instructor.

Knowledge and experience in fabrication with

engineered drawings or designing from instruction.Strong mechanical ability

for repair and maintenance.Must be able to organize

and instruct up to 10 employees.Comprehensive Benefi t plan.Wages are negotiable with experience and attitude.Please forward resumes and references by fax to

403-309-7134 or by email to [email protected] Phone Calls Please!

BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Dozer &

Excavator Operators and Laborers. Send resumes

by Fax: 403-347-6296

COMMERCIAL Foundationcompany in Red Deer are currently seeking

experienced foundation form workers. Please fax resume to 403-346-5867

oremail cavemancontracting

@hotmail.com

EXP. PAVERS WANTEDCall 403-341-6900

or Fax: 877-787-1605

EXPERIENCEDEXCAVATOR OPERATOR

for local commercialconstruction company.Please fax resume with

current drivers abstract to403-342-6881

F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience

needed. Apply to: [email protected]

GOODMENROOFING LTD.

Requires

SLOPED ROOFERSLABOURERS

& FLAT ROOFERS

Valid Driver’s Licencepreferred. Fax or email

info@goodmenroofi ng.ca or (403)341-6722

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

Trades 850JOURNEYMAN WELDER

Required ASAP.Please call 403-318-6262

or email resume to:[email protected]

NOW HIRING Req’d immed.

Certifi ed asbestosworkers.

Wage negotiable. 780-818-8524

SHOP & PORTABLE Welding Business in Lacombe looking for

Welders for local work. Only reliable need apply.

Call Mon. - Fri. 8:30 - 4:30 403-318-9445

SHUNDACONSTRUCTION

Requires Full TimeCarpenters& Helpers

Competitive Wages& Benefi ts.

Fax resumes & ref’s to:403-343-1248 or email to:

[email protected]

SIDING INSTALLER with or without trailer & tools. F.T. year round

work, must have truck and 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 per sq.ft. 403-358-8580

Truckers/Drivers 860CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d

for moving equipment.Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St.

Cres. Red Deer.

DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local &

long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

MEGA CRANES is now hiring exp’d Class 1 drivers.Boom/crane truck tickets an asset. Please email

résumé with drivers abstract to

[email protected] or fax 403-885-4292

Required ImmediatelyParts Delivery

DriverMust possess clean

drivers abstract, know city well. The individual must be able to work

unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Some warehouse work and some

heavy lifting is required. The company

offers full benefi t package for this full time position. Please email or drop off

resume.ARTIC TRUCK PARTS

#3-6540 71 STRed Deer AB T4P 3Y7

(P)403-348-0999(F)403-348-5198

Email to:ron.cain@

nfl eetsolutions.com

Misc.Help 880

AdvocateOpportunities

Truckers/Drivers 860

PIDHERNEY’S requires experienced

DRIVERSCLASS 1 ,3 & LOWBOY,

FOREMAN, OPERATORS AND

LABOURERS

For work in Rocky Mountain House area, as well as out of town

locations. Priority will be given to those candidates with

experience.

• Top wages and benefi ts based on experience

• Possible career advance-ment opportunities

Valid First Aid and H2S tickets required.

We offer competitive wages, benefi ts package,

and opportunities for advancement.

Please reply by fax 403-845-5370 or E-mail:

[email protected]

Misc.Help 880ACADEMIC Express

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START

• Community Support Worker Program

• GED Preparation

Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• Red Deer• Rocky Mtn. House• Rimbey• Caroline• Castor• Sylvan Lake• Innisfail• Stettler• Ponoka

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930www.academicexpress.ca

GAETZ SOUTH

F/T MEAT CUTTERF/T Bakery Production

Full benefi ts, staff incentives. Apply within.

MATURE FEMALE forcleaning, shopping, assist

senior male. Paid daily. Resume, & ref’s req’d. 403-342-6545

Misc.Help 880Gasoline Alley Harley-Davidson is currentlyseeking Lot Technicians.Provides assistance to allemployees of the ServiceDepartment as needed.Please fax resume Attn:Christina @ 403-342-7244

NORAL-TECH LtdManufacturer of 12 Volts

electrical control panels forspecialized trucks. We are

currently seeking 2 full time assemblers withautomotive related

electrical experience. Thesuccessful candidates

must be able to read and interpret electrical draw-

ings. Email resume normand@noraltech-com

PEST CONTROL TECHS REQ’D. [email protected]

Call 403-373-6182

PLANT LABORERJob Description

As a critical member of our operational team, you will

be required to perform tasks including climbing

above three meters, loading and unloading of chemicals, some heavy

lifting and general housekeeping and

laborer tasks.Qualifi cations Required:

We are looking for workers experienced in handling

chemicals, equipment use and maintenance. CFR is

offering an excellent benefi ts package with the company matching RRSP

contributions while providing all required

training (certifi cations). Workers are required to

provide personal transpor-tation with a valid “Alberta” driver’s license. Drug and alcohol policy is effect with pre-employment testing.

Please forward your resume to Dave Oyka at [email protected] Wage:$17.50/hr

PT offi ce help and or Class room Instructor

req`d. Please call Street Wise Driving School.

403-340-8840

RENTAL STORERequires a Front End Person.

Duties include assisting customers, answering

phones, data entry, deliveries.Must be organized,

have computer knowledge, and be physically fi t.

Being mechanically inclined and having construction

knowledge an asset. Full time.Apply 5929-48 Ave. or email:[email protected]

We are looking for2 P/T MAILERS

to work Tuesday - Saturdaystarting at 1 a.m.

Wage is $13.12/hour plus $2.10/hour shift premium.

Please email resume to:gmccarthy

@reddeeradvocate.comor drop off to:

2950 Bremner Ave.NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

AdvocateOpportunities

TOO MUCH STUFF?Let Classifiedshelp you sell it.

Misc.Help 880

SEASONALEMPLOYMENT!!

Full time seasonal positionsavailable in our industrial

and highway division.

Highway applicators are fully trained. We apply weed control products to roadside ditches around the province. You will be back to Red Deer each night. All products are approved by Health Canada and Alberta Environment.

DUTIES:• Drive a 990 4x4 John

Deere tractor and spray gun.

QUALIFICATIONS:• Strong work ethic• (Successful candidates

must supply a driver’s abstract)

• A self-motivated, respon-sible worker that demonstrates a positive attitude

• Mechanical experience is benefi cial but not required to succeed

• Willing to work long hours during peak production times

Email resume to:[email protected]: www.greenoasis.ca

SWAMPERS F/Tneeded immediately for a

fast growing waste &recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved(driver’s helper) position.Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to [email protected]

AdvocateOpportunities

ADULT CARRIERSNEEDED

For morning delivery of the

ADVOCATEDelivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

GLENDALE

KENTWOOD

JOHNSTONECROSSING

Call Joanne403-314-4308for more info

CARRIERSNEEDED

For delivery3 days per week.NO WEEKENDS!!

KENTWOOD

Kirby St. &Kennings Cres.

MUSTANG ACRESMOBILE HOME

PARK

69 Street & 63 Ave

Call Joanne403-314-4308for more info

CLASSIFICATIONS1500-1990

wegot

stuff

Bicycles 1540RIALTO, Shimano, Ultima

18 spd., front & back brakes, like new. $125.

403-346-2070

Children'sItems 1580

CHILDS WOODENROCKING CHAIR, $25.

403-346-7825

Equipment-Misc. 1620

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs.

$15,500. 587-679-1000

2004 S250 Gold Pkg. A/C, power bobtach, keyless start, 2 spd. 1891 hrs. Exc. cond.$30,000 obo. 403-350-6470

Equipment-Heavy 1630TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, offi ce, well site or

storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood 1660AFFORDABLE

Homestead FirewoodSpruce & Pine - Split

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

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. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

GardenSupplies 168015’ LAUREL LEAF WILLOW6-8’ NORTHWEST POPLAR

& BROOK POPLARBeautiful trees. You dig.

Please phone 403-302-1919

HouseholdAppliances 1710APARTMENT size fridge 1 yr. old $90 403-314-0804

BEER fridge, McClary $175 obo 403-314-0804

STOVE, Inglis, Good working order.

Clean. $75. 403-346-6999

HouseholdFurnishings17202 BAR STOOLS, $10/ea.

SMALL DESK & CHAIR, $40.403-346-0674

COMPUTER DESK W/ HUTCH.59.5” w x 57” h x 24.25” d, slide out tray. 2 fi le drawers.

Light oak. $110.403-347-7858

SECTIONAL, 3 pce. $300. obo, 2 pc. china

cabinet $200 obo 403-848-1499

AdvocateOpportunities

HouseholdFurnishings1720DARK wood bureau w/mir-ror and 2 matching night tables $120 obo; retro magazine table from

1950’s $30 obo 403-506-9453

FUTON, black tubular frame w/mattress, 2

matching cushions 80”L x 45”w, like new valued over

$400, now $200 403-314-2026

SOLID oak oval kitchen table 38 x 42 w/4 chairs

plus leaf $150 obo 403-506-9453

WANTEDAntiques, furniture and

estates. 342-2514

Misc. forSale 17601 YR. old 1200 watt gen-erator 1 hr. use $200 obo 403-314-0804

5 SHEETS 5/8” O.S.B. board 1-24’W, 2-17 3/4”w and 2-16”w, ALL 8’ L, all

for $15; 2 sheets 3/8” O.S.B. board 1-21’w and 1-10”w, both 8’L all $5, several misc. pieces of

wood all for $5; 4 chrome tooth brush and glass hold-ers wallmount all $10; wall

shelf Dr. Brown arborite covered 5’L x 9 1/2”W $5, 4 sets of 2 L shaped fancy shelf brackets 7 1/4” x 10”

$5/set 403-314-2026

60 4 oz. balls of wools, same color $50; set of new fl ares $25; 2 faux queen blankets, like new $25/ea., 2 queen fl oral quilts $20/ea. 403-348-6449

GLASS COFFEE POTS, $3/ea.

PANTS HANGER, $15.403-346-7825

PICTURES, golf balls & clubs, wood frame, dble. matte, 16x30, 2 in set.

$25. 403-346-2070

TENTS with fl ys, light-weight 3 person $35 & $20; air mattresses $15/ea., oil lantern $15, Craftsman seat for riding mower $20 403-342-7460

Cats 1830BEAUTIFUL 10 week old kittens. Variety of colours:Pink & white, orange, &

grey tabby. Free to loving home. 403-782-3130

Dogs 1840

Offering to loving pet homes, Teacup Morkies, Extra Fluffy & Extremely Cute! nonshedding& vet

checked. Call 587 876 0331or email wendyschedel

@gmail.com

SportingGoods 1860

GOLF EQUIPMENT & POOL CUES at garage

sale prices. 403-343-7430

MUST SELL Deer head mounts on shields, profes-sionally done, only 2 left $100/ea. 403-314-2026

Central Alberta’s LargestCar Lot in Classifieds

Operator 2 PositionRahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full

time Operator 2 position.The position includes Plant Operations and

Sanitation duties.Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 diploma

and must be available for shift work. Experience in manufacturing or factory environment

is preferred.

Application Closing Date: June 30, 2014.

Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd.Attn: Human Resources

Box 113,Alix, AlbertaTOC OBO

Fax: (403) 747-2660

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

4149

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HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC

JOURNEYMAN OR APPRENTICEGrande Prairie Base

Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage,

supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and

liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry.www.ferus.ca

Ferus’ Operations division requires a Heavy Duty Mechanic or Apprentice to join our growing team to service Ferus’ expanding fl eet of tractor & trailer units.

Reporting to the Shop Foreman you will be responsible for a variety of duties in a service oriented environment. Working in the Oil and Gas Field you will be required to work effectively unsupervised, have good working knowledge of Heavy Duty Truck and Trailer repairs, combined with a great attitude. A CVIP inspection license or the ability to obtain one is required. Due to the nature and volume of work there will be a potential requirement for overtime and on call work.

Ferus offers:• Top industry wages & bonus incentive plan• Shift rotation with accommodations

provided or relocation allowance• Excellent benefi ts package• Flexible Spending Account• Group RSP Savings Plan

Successful candidates must be willing to relocate to Grande Prairie.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please email your resume to

[email protected]

or fax 1-888-879-6125Please reference: Ad # RD – 0414 – HDMJ

We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position

will be contacted. 4152

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5

Pidherney’s requires experienced drivers

CLASS 1 ,3 AND LOWBOY, FOREMAN, OPERATORS AND LABOURERS

For work in Rocky Mountain House area, as well as out of town locations.

Priority will be given to those candidates with experience.

* Top wages and benefi ts based on experience* Possible career advancement opportunities

Valid First Aid and H2S tickets required.We offer competitive wages, benefi ts package, and opportunities for advancement.

Please reply by fax: 403-845-5370

or E-mail: [email protected]

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Get your vehicle listed on the Get vehicle listed on the

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

DO YOU HAVE ANATV

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised

$15,500. Runs good. Would like at least $9500

403-391-3456

1985 BUICK Riviera.Original paint, fully loaded,

sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner. Immaculate interior. 158,000 km.

$3750 obo.403-347-3950

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor,

exc. cond. low kms. $6900,

403-505-9446

1989 LINCOLN Mark II, 2 door, low kms.,

exc. cond. $4000.

403-343-0081

1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’.Class A, 35,000 miles,

Generator, AC, Rear Bed,Exc. Cond.

$10,000 obo.Call 403-442-3837

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs.

$15,500. 587-679-1000

DO YOU HAVE ATENT TRAILER

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1999 PONTIAC Sunfi reGT, well maintained.

$2000. 403-346-9169

DO YOU HAVE ASPORTS CAR

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE ATRUCK CAMPER

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2001 FORD F150 loaded Triton 5.4L, 7700 lb. tow

pckg. 5th whl. hitch, Landau cover, lockable

196,860 kms. $8000. 403-358-5465

2001 SILVERADO LT 2wd, X cab, 5.3L, 166,600

kms, grey, tow pkg, $6800 obo

403-343-8206

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi. A1 cond., E450, V10,

4 kw Ohan gen. loaded. $32,500.

587-876-2308

DO YOU HAVE ASEADOO

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 HONDA 450, 4x4 $3800. obo**SOLD**

2003 WINDSTAR LX, fully loaded,

very good cond. $3500.

403-755-2867

DO YOU HAVEVEHICLE ACCESSORIES TO SELL? ADVERTISE

IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 GMC 3/4 C/C SLT leather, Duramax diesel,

200,000 kms, not oilfi eld, black, $16,500. **SOLD**

2004 TITANIUM model 31E36MK.

Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580

DO YOU HAVE AJEEP

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 37’ DAY DREAMERby Cedar Creek. 3 slides.

Luxury Coach. E/H disc brakes, hydraulic legs & rear levelers.

Air ride hitch. $39,500.See @ 5 Roland St. Red Deer

403-347-4896

2006 CHARGER DaytonaRT, limited addition, #3

of only 250 made, loaded w/leather, low

kms., top banana color. $16,995. 403-350-4588

DO YOU HAVE ABOAT

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 CHEV Aveo.80,000 km.

$4950403-348-1382

DO YOU HAVE AMOTORHOME

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 Dutchman Express26’ Class C 12,800 Miles

Slide, Generator, air,V10, $40,000 403 782 4207

2007 FLEETWOOD Regal, 355RL. Exc. cond., 1

owner, loaded, lots of extras$32,500.00 obo.

Daryl (403)256-0025

ULTIMATE TRUCK CAMPER2007 Okanagan 117 DBL

- 2 Slides, Sleeps 6, Full bath & kitchen. Queen. Huge. Mint

$24,250 obo403-620-8106

2007 SPORTSMAN LX, 3254, 3 slides,thermo

windows, fi replace, lots of extras. MINT

$26,900. trades cons. 403-598-0682

2007 STARCRAFT, 30’, slide, solar, air,

walk-around bed, sleeps 6, rear kitchen.

**SOLD*

2007 VW CITY GOLF.Blue, heated seats,

winter tires, 205,000 km. $5500

403-782-5617

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71,

$16,400. 403-391-9662

DO YOU HAVE ATRUCK

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 KUSTOM KOACH 24.5’ exc. cond, 1 owner,

110 Watt solar panel, 1 slide, $22,500 403-986-3834

2009 AEROLITE Dutchmenrear slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C, couch, table, awning.

$16,900 obo.403-347-5947

DO YOU HAVE ADIRT BIKE

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2009 KEYSTONE Passport Ultralite 29 ft Reduced, 1 slide, dbl.

bunks, queen bed, A/C. See Kijiji Ad ID 548133556 $19,000. 403-343-1043

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms.,

exc. shape, $12,900. trades cons.

403-598-0682

DO YOU HAVE ACAR

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2010 Ford ExplorerLimited, 4.6L, V8, 112,000 kms., fully loaded, leather,

DVD, every option, $20,500.

403-318-5505

DO YOU HAVE AHEAVY TRUCK

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 ALPINE 39’, 7500 w generator, king bed, 2011 GMC 3/4 ton Denali, hitch, matched to trailer, sell as

unit $105,000 obo, trailer only $54,900 obo 403 358-4031

2011 DAYBREAK THOR, 27’, 2 slides, generator, lots

of extras selling due to health, 4847 mi.

$70,000. ***SOLD***

DO YOU HAVE AHOLIDAY TRAILER

TO SELL? ADVERTISEIT IN THE FAST

TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 F150 XLT Supercab, Exc. cond.

403-347-5078

2012 CHEV, 4x4, loaded,$23,300. **SOLD**

2012 FORD FOCUS titanium hatchback,no GST, private sale

$14,250 obo403-227-5123

2012 FUSION SE only 10,000 kms, exc. cond. no gst 17,500 403-350-6434

2013 GMC 2500 HD 4x4, 36,000 kms., Duramax Diesel

$42,300. 587-679-1000

2014 GMC, S/B, Loaded, z71,

$34,300. 587-679-1000

HONDA 250 CC,automatic, 110 KPH max.

Very reliable.First $700 takes it.

**SOLD**

T@B 14’, 1200 lbs., loaded.

Like New. $10,999.

SOLD

TITANIUM TOYHAULER34E39 MP RV.

Loaded, exc. shape. 2 slides,New fridge, 6 yr warranty,

$35,500.403-340-2535

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AGRICULTURALCLASSIFICATIONS

2000-2290

Tractors 2030JOHN DEERE 4320 Tractor. Approx. 6000 hrs. Front end loader, complete w/8’ snow blade attachment. Exc. cond.

Sold farm. $13,500.ALSO John Deere 14’ Disc & Cultivator. 403-350-1007

or 403-782-3617

Horses 2140WANTED: all types of

horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, FeedHay 2190TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, ap-

prox. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale

Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

CLASSIFICATIONSFOR RENT • 3000-3200WANTED • 3250-3390

wegot

rentals

Condos/Townhouses3030

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

Suites 30602 BDRM. adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet,

lrg. suite, Avail July 1/Aug. 1.$1050/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water

incld., Oriole Park.Mike 403-350-1610

403-342-4923

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROEMANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. Adult bldg. N/S No pets

403-596-2444

Newly renovated bachelor,1 & 2 bedroom suites

available in central [email protected]

1(888) 679-8031

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building,N/S. No pets. 403-596-2444

Suites 3060

NOW RENTING1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S.

2936 50th AVE. Red DeerNewer bldg. secure entry

w/onsite manager,5 appls., incl. heat & hot

water, washer/dryer hookup, in oor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

SUNNYBROOK2 bdrm. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets.

403-346-6686

RoomsFor Rent 3090

ROOM TO RENT 403-350-4712

ROOM, kitchen access.403-343-0421

Offices 31102000 SQ.FT. OFFICE,

4836 51 Street.Parking is avail. $1800/mo.

403-343-9300

MobileLot 3190WANTED: family with ownmobile home to live on farm.10 min. north of Sylvan Lake & 25 min. from Red Deer.

403-255-1627 or 701-1235

Acreages/Farms 3255Farm yard/acreage- Semi-retired farm/ranch couple.Willing to do chores,etc.Ref. avail. 403-224-3378 [email protected]

CLASSIFICATIONS4000-4190

wegot

homes

Realtors& Services 4010

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVECall GORD ING atRE/MAX real estate

central alberta [email protected]

HousesFor Sale 4020

ADULT/RETIREMENTLIVING AT ITS BEST.

IMMACULATE 1/2DUPLEX IN DEERPARK ,DBL ATTACH GARAGE, 3BATH, 2 BDR PLUS DEN,

FULLY DEVELOPEDBSMT. 5 APPL, NO

CONDO FEES. A MUSTSEE. ASKING $359,900.

SOLD

CUSTOM BUILTNEW HOMES

by Mason Martin HomesKyle, 403-588-2550

www.laebon.comLaebon Homes 346-7273

HousesFor Sale 4020

FREE Weekly list ofproperties for sale w/details,

prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355

Help-U-Sell of Red Deerwww.homesreddeer.com

MUST SELL1217 sq.ft. duplex.4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

MUST SELLNew Home. 1335 sq.ft.

bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.403-588-2550

Condos/Townhouses4040

* *$309,000* *#314 6 Michener Blvd.

Welcome To One Of Red Deer’s Premier Adult

Complexes! 1 bdrm. 2 baths plus Den open concept

condo is in new cond. Immed. poss. Enjoy great views & privacy. Call TIM MALEY,

Re/Max 403-550-3533

EXECUTIVE townhouse condo. 505 150 Vanier Dr. $315,000 Kijiji #599833430Call Albert 403-396-3920

NEW CONDO1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000. 403-588-2550

Acreages 4050

ACREAGE FOR SALEEast of Didsbury, 10.25 acres,exceptionally reno’d main

house, second house, shop,machine shed, barn, other out buildings, fenced, 2 waterers. Quiet, well-treed & landscaped.

Asking $709,000. See ComFree.com #518693 for photos & details. 403-335-3359

Farms/Land 4070

FOR SALE BY OWNER5.48 acres in a scenic creek valley on a dead end road.

It is zoned CRA and the power is at the property line.43049 township road. 39-4

$129,500.00, no GST. 780-712-2922/ 780-712-7884

Cottages/ResortProperty 4130*SANDY COVE RESORT*

Pine LakeLAKE FRONT LOTS

FOR SALE& SEASONAL LOT RENTALS.Cheapest in the area, $3000.

Call 306-402-7776

CLASSIFICATIONS5000-5300

wegot

wheels

AutomotiveServices 5010 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. May pay cash

for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Cars 5030

2012 FUSION SE only 10,000 kms, exc. cond. no gst $17,500 403-350-6434

2008 PONTIAC G6, good shape. 131,000 km. 403-346-6470

2006 CHARGER Daytona RT, limited addition, #3 of only 250 made, loaded w/leather, low kms., top banana color. $16,995.

403-350-4588

2003 DODGE Neon loaded safetied 403-352-6995

1994 Chrysler Intrepid 4 dr. Red, clean. 126,000 km 348-2999

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PRODUCTSat

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Locally owned and family operated

SUV's 5040

2010 Ford ExplorerLimited, 4.6L, V8, 112,000 kms., fully loaded, leather,

DVD, every option, $20,500. 403-318-5505

Trucks 5050

2014 GMC, S/B, loaded, Z71, $34,300. 587-679-1000

2013 GMC 2500 HD 4x4, 36,000 kms., Duramax $42,300. 587-679-1000

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400. 403-391-9662

Trucks 50502004 CHEVY SILVERADO

2500HD 195K REBUILTTRANNY LOTS EXTRAS$8300.OBO 403-352-6457

2001 SILVERADO 4x4, 8500 winch, snow tires, topper, $6500 obo. 403-304-1013

2001 DAKOTA quad cab 4x4 ATC 230,000 kms, runs exc. $4500 obo

403-358-4022

1988 CHEV Sierra, 1/2 ton very clean. 403-318-3040

VansBuses 5070

2005 FORD Freestar SEL 164,000 kms, good cond, c/w 8 rims & tires $6500 obo 403-347-0149

Celebrate your lifewith a Classified

ANNOUNCEMENT

Looking for a new pet?Check out Classifieds to

find the purrfect pet.

Campers 5090

ULTIMATE TRUCK CAMPER2007 Okanagan 117 DBL - 2 Slides, Sleeps 6, Full bath & kitchen. Queen. Huge. Mint$24,250 obo 403-620-8106

Motorhomes 5100

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi. A1 cond., E450, V10,

4 kw Ohan gen. loaded. $32,500. 587-876-2308

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WASHINGTON — U.S. special forc-es seized a “key leader” of the deadly Benghazi, Libya, attack and he is on his way to face trial in the U.S. for the fiery assault that killed the U.S. am-bassador and three other Americans, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. It was the first breakthrough in the sudden overseas violence in 2012 that has become a festering politi-cal sore at home.

President Barack Obama said the capture on Sunday of Ahmed Abu Khattala sends a clear message to the world that “when Americans are at-tacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice.”

“We will find you,” Obama declared.As recently as last August, though,

Abu Khattala told The Associated Press that he was not in hiding nor had he been questioned by Libyan authori-ties about the attack at the diplomatic compound.

He denied involvement and said that he had abandoned the militia. Administration officials said Tuesday that despite his media interviews, he “evaded capture” until the weekend when military special forces, includ-ing members of the Army’s elite Delta Force, nabbed him.

Whatever the path to his capture, he was headed for the United States to face what Obama called “the full weight of the American justice sys-tem.” Obama called the Libyan an “al-leged key leader” of the attack.

U.S. officials said Abu Khattala was being held on the Navy amphibious transport dock ship USS New York, which was in the Mediterranean Sea. The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss Abu Khattala’s whereabouts.

The Libyan was the commander of a militant group called the Abu Obaida bin Jarrah Brigade and is accused of

being a senior leader of the Benghazi branch of Ansar al-Shariah in Libya, which the U.S. has designated a terror group.

In Congress, Republicans urged the administration to get as much intelli-gence out of Abu Khattala as possible before anyone reads him his rights to remain silent, supplies him with a lawyer and prepares him for trial in a U.S. courtroom. In fact, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, said in-terrogation of the Libyan already was underway and “we hope to find out some positive things.”

Abu Khattala is charged with terror-related crimes in U.S. District Court in Washington and will be tried like a civilian, the administration said. The Obama administration policy is to treat terror suspects as criminals when pos-sible and not send them to the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, like hundreds of terror suspects captured during the administration of President George W. Bush.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said the U.S. should skip the legal niceties and focus on inter-rogation.

“The most valuable thing we can get from this terrorist is information about who else was involved in this,” McCon-nell told reporters. “We’ll be watching closely to see how much information they glean from him and how they’re handling it.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, added: “We should have some qual-ity time with this guy — weeks and months. Don’t torture him; have some quality time with him.”

Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi declined to comment on whether Abu Khatalla had been read his rights to remain silent or when that might happen.

“As a general rule, the government will always seek to elicit all actionable intelligence and information we can from terrorist suspects in our custody,” Raimondi said in an email.

U.S. nabs Libyan militant involved

in Benghazi attack

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chinese students, supporters of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, one holding a puppet depicting a dragon, wave their national flags as they gather at a counter-demonstration against a protest against the leader across the street from Downing Street in central London, where he was meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron at his official residence, Tuesday. The Chinese leader met with Cameron and other senior government officials, and the two sides are expected to announce a slew of trade and investment deals.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAMATURU, Nigeria — A sui-cide bomber detonated a tricycle taxi packed with explosives at an outdoor World Cup viewing centre in a north-east Nigerian city Tuesday night, and witnesses said several people were killed.

Hospital workers said the death likely will rise with 15 people critically wounded and casualties still coming in to the main hospital at Damaturu, capi-tal of Yobe state.

Police Assistant Superintendent Nathan Cheghan confirmed the explo-sion but said rescue workers were be-ing careful for fear of secondary explo-sions. Islamic extremists of the Boko Haram group frequently time second-ary explosions to kill people who rush to the scene of a bomb blast.

Cheghan said he had no casualty figures.

There was no immediate claim for the blast witnesses were blaming on Boko Haram fighters who have target-ed football viewing centres and sports bars in the past.

Two explosions in recent weeks killed at least 40 people in two north-ern cities.

Witnesses said the tricycle taxi was driven into the outdoor area soon after the Brazil-Mexico match started Tues-day night.

All spoke on condition of anonym-ity for fear of reprisals.

One hospital worker said he saw at least seven bodies.

Another said 15 casualties were in intensive care.

Both asked that their names not be published because they are not autho-rized to speak to reporters.

Suicide bomber blasts World Cup viewing centre in Nigeria

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FASHION D5WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2014

BY SYLVIA HUITHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — In the world of women’s fashion, London often plays second fiddle to other style capitals — it lacks the allure of Paris’s haute couture or the polish of Milan’s luxury labels.

Yet when it comes to dressing the gentleman, no city can rival the British capital’s heritage.

Steeped in a rich history of tailor-ing for kings, army generals and the world’s wealthiest men, London is now being marketed as the home of men’s fashion — the original birthplace of the tuxedo jacket, the bowler hat and the three-piece suit, among other clas-sic items.

As trendy designer labels like Alex-ander McQueen and Burberry kick off the new season’s menswear shows in London this week, the catwalks will be staged just blocks away from the elite tailoring houses that have been per-fecting their craft for over a century.

“Men in this city have always made a point of dressing well,” said Simon Cundey, who manages the historic tai-lors Henry Poole & Co.

The company, which first opened shop on London’s famed Savile Row in 1846, has measured and dressed every-one from Napoleon III to J.P. Morgan, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle. Records of their orders and others dating back to the 1850s are bound in thick volumes and proudly displayed.

“We’re very lucky in London — no other city in the world has a suiting street like this,” he added.

Savile Row, a street lined with more than a dozen tailors, is a living museum of the English love affair with luxury menswear. It’s a long-standing tradition that’s closely tied to a history of royal dress, military uniforms and gentry sports like horseback riding and hunting.

One example is the tailcoat, whose cutaway front was originally designed for ease of movement when worn as an equestrian coat. And the brogue shoe, which came from rural Scotland, be-came fashionable as urban wear after Edward VII — a fashion trendsetter in his time — sported them on his golfing trips.

London shops had a big role in in-venting and popularizing many trends. Lock & Co., founded in 1676 and said to be the oldest hat shop in the world, helped create the bowler hat — also called a Derby hat in the U.S. — in the 1840s.

Henry Poole, who worked closely with Edward VII, helped the dandy royal develop the tuxedo jacket to wear during “informal” dinners.

Some of Savile Row’s pedigree tai-lors, including Gieves & Hawkes, are showcasing their designs at London’s menswear shows this week alongside much younger labels such as Tom Ford, Paul Smith and J.W. Anderson.

The influ-ence of their heritage may not be appar-ent on these runways, but experts say it feeds into modern de-signs in subtle ways.

“When we talk about work place-ments, the first thing a lot of my students mention is Savile Row, because it’s so classic,” said Chris New, who teaches menswear at London’s pres-tigious Central Saint Martins college.

A tradition of apprentice-ships means many young designers learn the art of tailoring from the best in the business, he said.

The best-known Savile Row appren-tice story is probably that of McQueen, whose label is showing Monday. At 16, he trained for two years at Anderson & Sheppard, and many have attributed the late designer’s success to his abil-ity to combine excellent tailoring with subversive designs.

Burberry, which is showcased its designs Tuesday, is one of the savviest

in capitalizing on British tradition. Its signature trench coat, first worn by soldiers during World War I, is still a bestseller, and the brand continues to launch modern versions of it for both men and women every season.

Like many other brands, Burberry says menswear is a fast-growing money maker for them.

London’s menswear week has ex-panded impressively since it broke away from the main womenswear fashion showcases in 2012. This year it

started Sunday and ran until Tuesday, followed by other men’s fashion shows in Milan and Paris.

Still, there’s no denying that design-er or bespoke menswear is far from accessible to the average man. Asked what sartorial advice he could give to those without deep pockets, Cundey said: “Invest in quality, not quantity.”

“There are three things you need in life. A good day-to-evening suit, a tailored blazer or coat, and a tuxedo,” he said.

Home of the well-dressed gentlemanNEW MEETS OLDAS MENSWEAR

SHOWS KICK OFFIN LONDON

All photos: Models wear creations by Alexander McQueen during London Men’s spring summer fashion collections 2015, at the Royal College of Surgeons of England by Lincoln’s Inn Fields, central London this week.

Photos by JOEL RYAN/

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