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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Less than a year after Jaysen Arancon Reyes was airlifted to hospital, suffering gunshot wounds to his face and hands, one of the two men accused of the armed robbery of the West Park Fas Gas where Reyes was working has admitted guilt to charges in relation to the crime. The other man accused in the robbery is now out on bail. Reyes appeared in Red Deer provincial court on Monday, with the scars of the Sept. 11, 2013, incident visible. He is still recovering from the injuries he received during the robbery. Jeffrey Lyle Geary, 31, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to four charges before judge Darrel Riemer. Geary was scheduled for his preliminary inquiry, used to test the strength of the Crown’s case before heading to trial. However, he entered guilty pleas to charges of robbery, possessing a loaded prohibited weapon, manufacturing a prohibited weapon and aggravated assault. He maintained his not guilty plea to the charge of attempted murder. Reyes was shot in the hands and face with a sawed-off shotgun on the evening of Sept. 11 during an armed robbery. He had turned over the cash from his drawer when the shotgun was fired, severely injuring him. Geary’s counsel, Patty McNaughton, asked for a pre-sentence report prior to the sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for Sept. 29 in Red Deer provincial court. Geary turned himself in to Blackfalds RCMP two days after the shooting. Co-accused Eric Michael Ayotte, 29, was released on $2,000 no-cash bail. Ayotte was to face a preliminary inquiry on Monday. However, Crown prosecutor Ed Ring said one of his witnesses required a Tagalog interpreter and one hadn’t been requested. Ring requested an adjournment of the inquiry so they could get an interpreter.

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Robin Williams in character as disc-jockey Adrian Cronauer in director Barry Levinson’s 1987 comedy drama, ‘Good Morning Vietnam.’ Williams has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63.

Laughter falls silent ROBIN WILLIAMS DIES IN APPARENT SUICIDE AT 63 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, died Monday in an apparent suicide. He was 63. Williams was pronounced dead at his San Francisco Bay Area home Monday, according to the sheriff’s office in Marin County, north of San Francisco. The sheriff’s office said the preliminary investigation shows the cause of death to be a suicide due to asphyxia. The Marin County coroner’s office said Williams was last been seen alive at home at about 10 p.m. Sunday. An emergency call from his house in Tiburon was placed to the Sheriff’s Department shortly before noon Monday. “This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken,” said Williams’ wife, Susan Schneider. “On behalf of Robin’s family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is

remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin’s death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions.” Williams had been battling severe depression recently, said Mara Buxbaum, his press representative. Just last month, he announced he was returning to a 12-step treatment program he said he needed after 18 months of nonstop work. He had sought treatment in 2006 after a relapse following 20 years of sobriety. From his breakthrough in the late 1970s as the alien in the hit TV show Mork and Mindy, through his standup act and such films as Good Morning, Vietnam, the short, barrel-chested Williams ranted and shouted as if just sprung from solitary confinement. Loud, fast and manic, he parodied everyone from John Wayne to Keith Richards, impersonating a Russian immigrant as easily as a pack of Nazi attack dogs. He was a riot in drag in Mrs. Doubtfire, or as a cartoon genie in Aladdin. He won his Academy Award in a rare but equally intense dramatic role, as an empathetic therapist in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He was no less on fire in interviews.

During a 1989 chat with The Associated Press, he could barely stay seated in his hotel room, or even mention the film he was supposed to promote, as he free-associated about comedy and the cosmos. “There’s an Ice Age coming,” he said. “But the good news is there’ll be daiquiris for everyone and the Ice Capades will be everywhere. The lobster will keep for at least 100 years, that’s the good news. The Swanson dinners will last a whole millennium. The bad news is the house will basically be in Arkansas.” Following Williams on stage, Billy Crystal once observed, was like trying to top the Civil War. In a 1993 interview with the AP, Williams recalled an appearance early in his career on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Bob Hope was also there. “It was interesting,” Williams said. “He was supposed to go on before me and I was supposed to follow him, and I had to go on before him because he was late. I don’t think that made him happy. I don’t think he was angry, but I don’t think he was pleased.

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Solving fire riddles is a complicated process Talking to Ed van Delden on Mon- off, van Delden has looked again at the day morning starts out a little slow, but file on the Henner’s Pointe fire that reby the end of it I am reluctantly trying sulted in three homes being destroyed to get off the phone for another ap- on the morning of July 29. pointment. “That’s a big fire for LaThat’s sometimes the recombe. I think that’s a big ality in this business of jourfire for any department,” nalism, where to keep the says van Delden. copy flowing expeditiously The good news, if there we pick up the phone incan be such a thing in these stead of meeting interesting life-changing dramatic people one on one. Sigh. events, is that the three I expect I will meet van families affected have good Delden in person another insurance and support sysday, since he offered to take tems, says van Delden. me for a tour of present-day The fire was ruled achousing construction methcidental. It started near or ods as seen through his eyes in the garage of one home, MARY-ANN as fire chief of the City of cause yet to be determined, BARR Lacombe. then took out the homes But for now, the story is on either side. There was, about some of the issues thankfully, no injury to any around the biggest residenof the people who lived in tial fire in Lacombe in recent memory, those homes. as well as other fire matters. Just fresh back from a brief week Please see FIRE on Page A2

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City of Lacombe Fire Dept. fire chief Ed van Delden outside the three homes that were destroyed by fire in the city last week.

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Man charged after weekend crime spree remains in custody

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BY ADVOCATE STAFF One man is accused of two attempted carjackings and a string of offences, including threatening a person with an unlit flare, during a crime spree through Red Deer over the weekend. Saturday evening, Red Deer RCMP were called to several reports of a violent incident in an alley in the Highland Green neighbourhood. Police said a suspect assaulted a female acquaintance and took her purse, money and phone. He then attempted to carjack a passerby’s vehicle, but was unsuccessful when the driver rolled her window up and locked the doors before he could enter the vehicle. As police arrived on scene, the suspect ran down a path towards Riverside Meadows, where it is alleged he attempted a second carjacking, threatening the driver and passengers with an unlit vehicle flare. Police chased the suspect to this location on foot and found him as he was threatening the occupants of the vehicle. According to the arresting officers, the suspect resisted, but after a physical struggle with police he was taken into custody without injury to himself or to officers. The suspect and the assaulted woman were known to each other, police said in a Monday release. She suffered some bruising and bleeding during the assault, but did not sustain serious injuries. The drivers and passengers of two vehicles were not injured. Arlen Darnell Potts, 28, of Ma Me O Beach has been charged with two counts of robbery and one count each of resisting a peace officer and theft of a vehicle. He has been remanded into custody and will next appear in Red Deer provincial court on Aug. 20. Anyone with information that may assist police in this investigating is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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SHOOTING: Date for inquiry to be set on Aug. 18 Ayotte’s counsel Mark Walters of Calgary then negotiated the judicial interim release for his client in exchange for allowing the adjournment. He can now be released on a strict set of conditions, including having no contact with Geary and having no weapons or explosives. A new date for Ayotte’s preliminary inquiry will be set on Aug. 18 in Red Deer provincial court. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

FIRE: Home construction methods have changed Having a neighbour as a firefighter has its intrinsic, perhaps even life-saving rewards. People don’t always think clearly and then act quickly when they see danger approaching. But when Brian Newbury, a Lacombe firefighter and training officer with the Lacombe Fire Department, woke up to noises early that morning, his wife soon ran out to alert neighbours while he called 911. In no time at all the destruction spread. The Newburys’ home — adjacent to the one where the fire started — was one of the other two houses damaged beyond repair by the fire. There’s really no new information today about the fire, as van Delden awaits information from insurance company investigators. The three houses affected were all covered in vinyl siding. It’s not a new story now that vinyl isn’t a fire deterrent. But van Delden says its too simplistic to blame the quick and dirty work of rapidly spreading residential fires on vinyl siding. It’s a combination of factors. Fire by it’s nature moves upward much quicker than downwards. If the fire had been contained to just one home, firefighters could have gone into the home and attacked the fire through the attic hatch. That wasn’t possible in the Henner’s Pointe fire because it was

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too fast and big. He points out as well that it’s very difficult to get to fire burning inside, under the roof, and notes an attic space is “really a nice dry lumberyard.” Van Delden talks about the combustible materials used on the exterior (vinyl) of homes today but also about homes being built closer together, and the tar paper or light building paper underneath the vinyl that’s easy to ignite and races up vented soffits that actually allow air to flow through, thus feeding a fire. At the same time, he supports good construction principles and good construction materials, “but put together the combination is terrible from a fire perspective.” Alberta construction methods have changed though. After the giant 2007 fire in Edmonton, known as the MacEwan fire, updated Alberta Fire and Building Codes took effect in 2009 to help reduce high-intensity residential fires. The MacEwan fire was the largest residential fire in Edmonton’s history, destroying or damaging nearly 100 homes. However there remain a lot of homes in Alberta built under the old codes. And the new codes are no guarantee anyway. The solving of fire riddles is a complicated process. In the case of the Lacombe fire, “The parts have been sent off to other professionals . . . we’re talking about electrical engineers, testing labs and so on,” says van Delden. Sometimes the cause of a fire cannot be determined. Fire investigators will do things like actually send an appliance, such as a stove, away for electrical testing. In the long run, conclusions can lead to safety improvements and become part of fire safety awareness campaigns. “That’s the most difficult part. It’s not what we think. It’s what we can prove.” We talk about how so many fires could be avoided with a little bit of common sense (my observation). Van Delden points out, nicely, that “It’s only common sense to those who have thought about that.” He refers to the fact that Alberta had 800 fires from overheated cooking oil last year. (It’s one of my fears that arises every time the popcorn kettle comes out.) “We had three in Lacombe last year.” “And wow, it was classic. The next thing they do is pick up that pot and try to move it to the sink. Well, of course as soon as you go to move the pot, the fire then blows back toward your hand because you’re moving. . . . Well of course your hand gets burned,

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“I had been on the road and I came out, you know, gassed, and I killed and had a great time. Hope comes out and Johnny leans over and says, ‘Robin Williams, isn’t he funny?’ Hope says, ‘Yeah, he’s wild. But you know, Johnny, it’s great to be back here with you.”’ In 1992, Carson chose Williams and Bette Midler as his final guests. Like so many funnymen, Williams had dramatic ambitions. He played for tears in Awakenings, Dead Poets Society and What Dreams May Come, which led New York Times critic Stephen Holden to write that he dreaded seeing the actor’s “Humpty Dumpty grin and crinkly moist eyes.” But other critics approved, and Williams won three Golden Globes, for Good Morning, Vietnam, Mrs. Doubtfire and The Fisher King. His other film credits included Robert Altman’s Popeye (a box office bomb), Paul Mazursky’s Moscow on the Hudson, Steven Spielberg’s Hook and Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry. On stage, Williams joined fellow comedian Steve Martin in a 1988 Broadway revival of Waiting for Godot. More recently, he appeared in the Night at the Museum movies, playing President Theodore Roosevelt in the comedies in which Ben Stiller’s security guard has to contend with figures that come alive and wreak havoc after a museum closes. The third film in the series is in post-production, according to the Internet Movie Database. In April, Fox 2000 said it was developing a sequel to Mrs. Doubtfire and Williams was in talks to join the production.

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you drop the pot, now you’ve got burning oil all over your kitchen. Away we go.” One value of the Henner’s Pointe fire was $3 million, from the fire department. But the other number is what the insurance company actually pays out, which is much higher, taking into consideration whether a person had replacement insurance, and things like having to rebuild a house by way of “reverse engineering.” But that’s a whole other conversation. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Brittany Annell works on a house shaped candy jar at the Red Deer Museum on Monday this week. Annell was taking part in the MAGsparks art session, which are held each Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. A drop-in fee of $3 per person is charged, or a membership is available to persons with disabilities for $50 annually. Through the month of August participants will be working with clay. On Sept. 8, the Fall/Winter sessions will begin.

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Court backs extradition SUSPECT COULD FACE TERRORISM, MURDER CHARGES IN THE UNITED STATES BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that an Edmonton man should be extradited to the United States to face terrorism and murder charges. Sayfildin Tahir Sharif is accused of murder and supporting a terrorist group that took part in suicide bombings in his native Iraq. The Americans allege Sharif worked Sayfildin Tahir Sharif from Edmonton to help a Tunisian man enter Iraq in 2009 and detonate a truck filled with explosives at a military checkpoint, killing five U.S. soldiers. Defence lawyers had argued before the Appeal Court that RCMP didn’t allow Sharif access to a lawyer or interpreter the day of his arrest, and transcripts of police interviews show he didn’t understand what was going on. They also said allegations against their client came from three people — including his brother — who were

tortured by investigators in Iraq. The Appeal Court ruled that none of the arguments merited keeping Sharif in Canada. The court agreed the extradition judge should not have outright rejected the torture allegations by Sharif’s brother. It also said the judge should have asked the federal attorney general to disclose evidence about the brother’s interrogation or strike the evidence from the deportation proceedings. Still, the court said, those failures weren’t enough to stop the extradition. “The information obtained from that interview constituted a minute part of the information contained in the record of the case, leaving a considerable body of evidence to support the extradition judge’s decision to commit,” the appeal judges wrote. Sharif’s lawyer, Nate Whitling, said he expects his client will ask the Supreme Court to hear the case. Several issues stood out as grounds for appeal, Whitling said, but the most concerning was the Appeal Court’s ruling on the relevance of the torture allegations. “We’re not aware of any case where a court has found that the potential commission of torture would not result in a miscarriage of justice,” Whitling said. “If he had received that disclosure as he should have, who knows what

might have come to light in terms of the misconduct that was perpetrated in building a case against him?” Whitling said Sharif cannot be extraditied until all of his appeals have been exhausted. Sharif, who also goes by Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa, is an ethnic Kurd who was born in Iraq but moved to Toronto as a refugee in 1993. Four years later, he became a Canadian citizen. He has been in custody since his arrest in 2011 at an Edmonton apartment, where he lived with his girlfriend and her children. Prosecutors contend that evidence from intercepted Internet and phone conversations shows Sharif was directly involved in supporting the Tunisian terrorists who conducted the suicide bombing by helping connect with other supporters as they made their way across the Middle East to Iraq. The terror network is also accused of blowing up an Iraqi police station, killing seven Iraqi officers. The Appeal Court said Sharif had access to a lawyer after his arrest, was aware of his right to silence and was not intimidated by investigators. “While he professed to be afraid, it is obvious from the context of the interviews that his fear was not generated by the interviews or the interviewers, but by his realization of the

information they had about him,” the judges wrote. Canada’s justice minister granted extradition last summer after receiving assurances from the U.S. that Sharif wouldn’t face the death penalty. Defence lawyers also received a letter from U.S. authorities promising the man wouldn’t be held indefinitely in pre-trial detention. Sharif was appealing the justice minister’s decision as well as a judge’s original 2012 ruling that there was enough evidence to extradite Sharif on two charges. One of the grounds that Sharif’s lawyers used in appealing the minister’s decision to grant extradition was that life imprisonment with no chance of parole in the U.S. is “unjust and oppressive” under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Appeal Court, however, suggested the bar for such an argument was higher. It cited a Supreme Court of Canada ruling which gave examples of stoning adulterers or amputating the hands of thieves as punishments which violate Canadian values of justice. “In our view, a sentence of life imprisonment without parole, while not a sentence available in Canada ... would not sufficiently shock the conscience of Canadians such that his surrender to face those charges would be unjust or oppressive.”

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Researchers used a combination of field data and mathematical modelling to tease out how different factors influence the overall state of the bighorn sheep, Alberta’s provincial animal. It turns out shrinking horn sizes from the bighorn hunt aren’t due to any unseen biological effect. Animals with big horns are rarer simply because hunters shoot lots of them.

Hunting not creating smaller sheep: study BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A new study indicates trophy hunters aren’t causing Alberta’s bighorn sheep to evolve into something smaller and less impressive. Previous studies have found that the average horn size of a six-year-old bighorn has decreased by about three centimetres over the last 30 years. Scientists have suggested that’s because hunting pressure is causing a kind of reverse natural selection — as hunters continually take out the biggest males in a herd, smaller animals have more chances to reproduce and pass along their DNA. But new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that inheritance isn’t a big deal when it comes to size. “Body mass is only weakly inherited,” said Lochran Traill, a biologist at Imperial College in London.

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BRIEF Boy, 12, charged with incest in sex assault on sisters LETHBRIDGE — A 12-year-old boy in southern Alberta is facing a number of charges, including incest, in the alleged sexual assault of his two younger sisters. Police in Lethbridge say they investigated after receiving information last month that a boy was engaging in sexual activity with his 10- and eightyear-old sisters. The boy, who cannot be identified because of his age, is charged with incest, sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching. He has been released from custody

“Thereby, any evolutionary response of the targeted trait to hunting is negligible.” Traill and his colleagues used a combination of field data and mathematical modelling to tease out how different factors influence the overall state of the iconic alpine ungulate, Alberta’s provincial animal. It turns out shrinking horn sizes from the bighorn hunt aren’t due to any unseen biological effect. Animals with big horns are rarer simply because hunters shoot lots of them. “Any shift in the distribution of body mass among males is demographic,” Traill said. “Changes are largely driven by the removal of larger animals “There are simply fewer males.” That means that the number of big males with fully curled horns could easily rebound if they weren’t targeted as much. “Any decreased frequency of hunting will simply mean that fewer large

males are being shot, and thus the likelihood of large males being found in the population may increase,” said Traill. He pointed out that letting big males breed is also good for the overall health of a herd. “It will always be better to let males in their prime breed,” said Traill, who added it remains “prudent practice” to target older males “past their mating prime.” Alberta Environment is examining its hunting regulations around bighorns to try to determine if adjustments need to be made to improve stocks. “We are in the process of completing a new management plan for bighorn sheep,” said spokeswoman Carrie Sancartier. “Once that is completed there is expected to be a public discussion that will include harvest.”

with the condition that he not be in the presence of anyone under 12 unless an adult is present. The boy made his first appearance in youth court last week. The matter was adjourned to Aug. 27. Police say no further information will be released.

an died. In an unrelated case, 21-year-old Nick Phongsavath of Regina was found dead in his tent while attending the Pemberton Music Festival north of Whistler, B.C., in late July. Toronto police confirm two people died and 13 were sickened after taking party drugs believed to have been bought on-site at the Veld festival over the August long weekend, the same weekend Tolocka collapsed. Police in B.C. have ruled out foul play in the British Columbia deaths, but officers in Toronto are appealing for information from Veld concertgoers as investigators try to find the source of the deadly drugs.

Coroner identifies woman who died at Boonstock music festival in B.C. VANCOUVER — A 23-year-old Alberta woman has been identified as the person who died while attending a music festival in British Columbia. Lynn Tolocka of Leduc was at the Boonstock Music Festival near Penticton, B.C., on Aug. 1 when she collapsed and could not be revived. The BC Coroners Service says the incident is still under investigation and it has not confirmed how the wom-

Finance minister vows Opposition will not ’bully’ him from office EDMONTON — Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner is rejecting calls

EDMONTON — Two of three Alberta Tory leadership hopefuls expressed a wish Monday to appear in a televised debate and their fellow candidate said he’d be open to taking part. Former provincial cabinet ministers Ric McIver and Thomas Lukaszuk appeared together at the legislature, where they released a joint letter to the PC party executive. The letter says Albertans should have every possible chance to hear from the candidates. It asks the PC party to work with media outlets to put together a TV tete-a-tete. During a stop in Lethbridge later in the day, Jim Prentice, said he’d be willing to take part as long as his schedule permitted. “I think I’ve been in, at last count, seven debates with the other candidates over the course of the campaign,” Prentice said. “We were in a threehour debate last week. “I love debates. I was in national politics for 10 years and I’m happy to debate.” But in a statement, party president Jim McCormick was cool to a TV debate organized by the Tories. “The three candidates have been in the same room in front of our members and the general public plenty of times this campaign, with at least three other events planned in the near future where that will be the case,” McCormick said. “One of those is a live debate on Aug. 21 that will be hosted by our youth organization ... and will be livestreamed on YouTube.” McIver and Lukaszuk suggested not all Albertans are Internet savvy and there’s a lot at stake in the leadership vote. “This is not simply a race to be leader,” reads the letter. “Whoever wins the race in September will be the premier of Alberta — the economic powerhouse of Canada — and Albertans deserve to know ... the values, policies and vision of their next leader.” The letter is on joint stationery and includes both men’s signatures. from the Opposition Wildrose party to resign over the controversy surrounding former premier Alison Redford’s travel expenses. Doug Horner says in a letter to the Progressive Conservative caucus that it’s “blatantly false” he misled Albertans about Redford’s use of government planes and other public resources. Horner says he will not let the Wildrose bully him into stepping down. He also says in his letter that the truth is his defence. The Opposition called for Horner’s resignation last week after the provincial auditor general concluded in a report that Redford and her office used public resources inappropriately and for personal and partisan purposes. Horner said after the report’s release that the province will immediately implement recommendations related to government travel and would also look into the current airline reservation system.

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Our mountains of trash YES, WE SHOULD RECYCLE MORE, BUT RECYCLING NEEDS TO PAY TO WORK If your European vacation involves much walking or cycling off the major tourist routes, you will find community trash recycling sites at pretty regular intervals. Large bins are usually set up where residents separately toss their waste paper, glass and metals. This is in addition to local neighbourhood garbage pickup, as far as I could tell. A good idea, GREG I thought, except that most NEIMAN people need to drive to the site as a separate errand in their daily lives. Such a program likely wouldn’t get much compliance here. Visiting Miami, I noticed pickup sites had separate dumpster bins for paper, metals (including beverage cans — there are no deposits and no depots to recover them), glass and plastics, as well as for household garbage. Good idea, I thought. At least there’s centralized collection. Except when the garbage truck arrived, all the bins were dumped in together and taken to the mountainous landfill north of the city. Compliance from citizens but not

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the city. So if Red Deer’s Waste Management Master Plan isn’t rolling out on schedule, the only waste we’re still creating is the waste itself. We may be not be recycling as much as we thought we would be at this point, but at least we’re not wasting money creating systems that are not used. As of last year, we were supposed to be able to throw almost all of our plastic waste into the blue box, where it could be ground up and sent off to a plant to be made into new things. Not quite. A report to city council last week says that part of our recycling effort is delayed, because there’s no secure market in which to sell ground-up mixed plastics. So we’re stuck with only recycling the white No. 2 plastic jugs, such as those that have the vinegars and cooking oils we use. Plastic milk containers carry a deposit, and you can get your money back on them when you take them with your other returnables to the depot. But if there’s no back end market, there can be no front end collection program and these things just end up in the landfill. Years back, when thinking green and urban recycling programs were much in their infancy, good old (and now-defunct) Alberta Report denounced efforts to reduce landfill waste as a waste of money. They pointed to mountains of paper,

pyramids of crushed glass and piles of plastics with no place to go. Another do-gooder scheme to milk money from the taxpayer, the magazine said. The campaign drained support for more such programs and set back efforts to curb our municipal waste problems. Meanwhile, Zhang Yin became a self-made billionaire buying huge bales of compacted waste paper at U.S. West Coast ports, shipping it to her native China, to be recycled into the boxes that contain all that stuff we buy from China. If you can make money recycling waste, recycling works. Right now, Chinese recyclers who used to buy ground-up mixed plastics are no longer doing so. And a local scheme to convert them into fuel and electrical power just devolved into a bad dream. No financially-viable end-use for what is essentially a resource, no program to collect it. So most of the plastics in our homes and businesses will all eventually end up in the landfill. Right now, plastics makes up about 12 per cent of the volume going to our landfill. Paper — despite our blue box program — makes up about 20 per cent. The largest portion of our garbage is organics. Some of that can be composted at home, but overall, compostables are not a very big slice of the total waste

pile (it’s a small part of the 30 per cent of garbage produced by residences — still very useful in the garden, but not an earth-saver on its own). Fortunately, there are local efforts to make it financially worthwhile to convert organic waste into fuel. We wish those efforts far more success than that achieved by Plasco (the company behind the failed energy conversion scheme), whose name is not uttered with favour in municipal offices. Alberta produces a lot of garbage — 1,122 kg per person, against a national average of 777 kg, according to city documents. Red Deerians each produce 812 kg of garbage a year, and the goal is to reduce that to 500 by 2023. Most of that has to be achieved on the commercial side, which produces 60 per cent of all Red Deer’s waste. But it’s not going to happen until someone can make a good buck doing it. So, as reported Monday, Red Deer is behind the master plan’s schedule for recycling plastics. Not great, but better than creating recycling programs whose products have no end-use, or setting out separate bins where people self-sort their recyclables, which are simply dumped together in a mountain of trash anyway. Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

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Do we ask too much of dogs and their owners? Re: Edmonton dog on grass No, this letter does not concern canines indulging in marijuana in our province’s capital city. Instead, it is merely a brief commentary regarding an Edmonton dog owner recently having to pay a $100 ticket she received for allowing her dog to tread in certain green spaces of Rundle Park. The dog owner had been told by park officials that she was permitted to walk her dog only on the sidewalks in designated areas; the woman countered, in part, by saying that cyclists zipped along those same sidewalks while often crowding uncomfortably close to foot traffic. Personal observations: During winter months, some dog owners outfit their pooches in muklukstyle boots; much of the summer thus far, however, has been stifling hot, and I assume that most, if not all, dogs walking in urban areas have never been given the option of wearing protective footwear. The pads of these dogs’ feet remain unprotected from the blistering heat the sidewalks exude. Also, the majority of dogs seem to have a penchant for rolling in grass (think: you’re treating yourself to a massage in a spa). Please correct me if I’m wrong, but — to the best of my knowledge — people can be credited with discarding cigarette butts, paper wraps, used condoms, and other garbage on both grassy areas and sidewalks. Canines cannot, because they do not. Excretory matter? Dogs seem to prefer discretion when they feel the need to ‘relieve themselves’ (i.e., squat while off of the main thoroughfares), and most dog owners/ caregivers conscientiously — and quickly — clean up after and dispose of their dogs’ excrements. Yes, there are applicable signs posted throughout Rundle Park, and other green areas, too, I’m sure. Which causes me to wonder if birds, mice, squirrels, gophers, et al, must do their natural duties prior to entering these designated park areas. Indeed, I really wasn’t aware that those critters could read. Colleen McNaught Bentley

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Fluoridating water must end in Red Deer Fluoride — the industrial poison that just wont go away. A recently published Harvard University study has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have “significantly lower” IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas. In a 32-page report that can be downloaded free of charge from Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers said: “A recent report from the U.S. National Research Council (NRC 2006)concluded that adverse effects of high fluoride concentrations in drinking water may be of concern and that additional research is warranted. Fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in laboratory animals, including effects on learning and memory?” To summarize: “Findings from our meta-analyses of 27 studies published over 22 years suggest an inverse association between high fluoride exposure

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and children’s intelligence. ... The results suggest that fluoride may be a developmental neurotoxicant that affects brain development at exposures much below those that can cause toxicity in adults. ... “In conclusion, our research shows adverse effects of fluoride exposures on children’s neurodevelopment.” Maybe our city council, who have supported water fluoridation, should be held legally responsible and liable for these facts. Class action lawsuit anyone? Rob Blais Red Deer

The Advocate has done a great disservice to the U14 Rage softball team! A nice article (on Page B1 on Thursday) was written and a good photo of the captains; but what about the rest of the team? The captains have a right to be proud; but they wouldn’t have been smiling and winning without the rest of their team! All the girls and all their coaching staff deserve recognition! Let’s see if you can make this right! Eve Walker Red Deer

Accolades for every team member We were disappointed as a family to read the article on the U14 Rage softball team’s win at Westerns. As each of us opened the paper to read about the team, we were disappointed to see that the writer chose to focus much of the story on only four of the

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players. The theme of the team this year was that it took all players to win a game. Each player was given a large puzzle piece to bring the message home. The team played 10 ball games in 4 days in hot weather. It took all 14 players to win the tournament. Each player made important plays in the field and contributed with their bats. That’s the only way they could score 11 runs in 1 inning. All of the players are good athletes and have been dedicated to a busy schedule all season. Most importantly, they are all amazing young people and deserved as much airtime as anyone else. I hope that the writers of future stories will take the time to consider the feelings of those teammates that have been left out before the story is published. The team did do something great and they represented Red Deer and Alberta as dedicated and respectful athletes. Too bad they were not all included in the accolades. They deserved it. Arlene Cassidy Red Deer Editor’s note: the entire team, including coaches, was featured in a photo in the Saturday Advocate.

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force members meeting the criteria. About five per cent reported having symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or anxiety. “Symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder were reported by 5.3 per cent of full-time regular force members in the 12 months prior to the 2013 survey, while 4.7 per cent reported symptoms consistent with generalized anxiety disorder,” the agency reported. Another 3.4 per cent reported symptoms consistent with panic disorder. Soldiers also reported troubles with substance abuse. Of the regular force members surveyed, 2.5 per cent said they had symptoms consistent with alcohol abuse while two per cent said they were dependent on alcohol. The results are somewhat in line with the Canadian Mental Health Association’s findings among the

general population. In a comprehensive mental health study conducted in 2011, the association found that one in five Canadians will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lifetime. Still, NDP defence critic Jack Harris described the Statistics Canada findings as “alarming” and said the government needs to take steps to lower the numbers of soldiers suffering with mental or alcohol abuse problems. “The biggest worry I have is the concern that they’re not getting treatment fast enough,” said Harris. Military officials say adequate care is being provided to Canadian Forces members who reveal that they are having difficulties. But Harris said the government needs to fund programs to help soldiers cope better before their problems get out of hand, and to reduce the stigma that exists about mental disorders. “In the military they expect people to stay in shape and they help them find ways of doing that from a physical standpoint,” said Harris. “(But) mental health is an important part of being able to carry on and to do your job in the military. “I think being proactive would work ... to find ways to do that instead of waiting for people to show up at a clinic.”

Canadians’ net worth up 8% BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada’s average household net worth rose nearly eight per cent in 2013 — making it one of the best years since the recession — mostly because of rising stock and real estate values as well as moderating debt levels. Data from Environics Analytics suggested the average net worth per Canadian household last year grew by 7.7 per cent to $442,130. It found that non-mortgage consumer debt was flat compared with 2012 while mortgage debt increased more slowly than the value of real estate or investments. “Overall, 2013 was an excellent year for Canadian balance sheets,” said Environics senior researcher Peter Miron said Monday in a press release. “Many people benefited from the strong stock market. But they also saved more and didn’t take on more debt — preparing (perhaps) for a rainy day.” The report drew on data from 121 financial and investment statistics from a variety of sources, including the Bank of Canada and Statistics Canada. The report also found that disparities in wealth for households in Canada’s three richest cities — Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary — are rapidly vanishing. Average household net worth in each of those cities is now within $29,718, or 4.4 per cent, of each other. In addition, the average household has $533,172 worth of real estate holdings. Alberta, Nova Scotia and Ontario had the highest growth in net worth among the provinces in 2013. In Saskatchewan, household net worth increased by 7.4 per cent, which was below the 7.7 per cent national average. Environics said that consumer debt in the province was up 7.6 per cent, partially offsetting a 9.1 per cent increase in the value of liquid assets such as investments. “A lot of people moved to Saskatchewan to take advantage of the resource-based jobs and they sparked an economic boom,” said Miron. “But now the real estate market is starting to cool off while incomes are staying high. Taking on more debt is a belief in better days to come.” The cities reporting the greatest increase in net worth were Oshawa and Halifax, where household net worth grew by double digits — 11.2 per cent and 10.9 per cent, respectively. Calgary was also part of the group, gaining a 10.6 per cent increase in net worth. From a macro view, Environics said the gains weren’t limited to a few small pockets — the effect

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OTTAWA — About one in six members of the military have reported experiencing symptoms of mental or alcohol disorders, Canada’s number crunching agency said Monday amid calls for “proactive” measures to combat the problem. In a 2013 survey of full-time regular Canadian Forces members, Statistics Canada found that nearly 17 per cent of respondents had experienced symptoms in the previous 12 months consistent with at least one of a half-dozen disorders. The military has been grappling to identify the triggers that led to a series of suicides among soldiers in 2013 and earlier this year. A report last fall that reviewed 38 suicide investigations came up with 74 different recommendations on how to deal with the issue. There were 25 confirmed suicides in 2011 and an additional 17 deaths in 2012, said the report. Statistics Canada’s Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey asked about major bouts of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, incidents of anxiety or panic and alcohol abuse, as well as alcohol dependence. Major depressive episode was the most common disorder reported, with eight per cent of regular

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 A7 discharged by the army.

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MONCTON, N.B. — Justin Bourque admits he targeted police officers on the evening in June that he fatally shot three Mounties and injured two others in Moncton, N.B., using a semi-automatic weapon. An agreed statement of facts filed with the Court of Queen’s Bench says Bourque used a Poly Technologies Model M305, 308-calibre Winchester semi-automatic rifle in the shootings that happened between 7:18 p.m. and 8:13 p.m. on June 4. Bourque pleaded guilty Friday in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Moncton to three charges of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. The 24-year-old returns to court Oct. 27 when victim impact statements and pre-sentencing documents will be filed with the court. The document obtained by The Canadian Press says Bourque understands that he and the prosecutor may introduce further facts at the sentencing hearing. Justice David Smith told the court Friday that the Crown has given notice it will seek three consecutive life sentences on the first-degree murder charges, which means Bourque would not be eligible for parole for 75 years. Constables Dave Ross, Fabrice Gevaudan and Douglas Larche were killed after responding to a report of a man with firearms in a residential neighbourhood in the northwest area of Moncton. Constables Eric Dubois and Darlene Goguen were wounded and later released from hospital.

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WINNIPEG — A candidate for the mayor’s chair in Winnipeg continued to lay low Monday as some of his competitors called on him to clear the air over his wife’s comments about aboriginal panhandlers. Gord Steeves has not held any news conferences and has refused interview requests since last Friday when comments by his wife, Lorrie, were leaked online. In a 2010 Facebook post, she said she was tired of dealing with “drunken native guys� who collect welfare and harass working people for money. Lorrie Steeves issued a short written apology Friday afternoon, but her husband has said nothing on the topic. His campaign team has said Steeves will address the situation at some point Tuesday. That’s a bit late, said fellow candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis. “I believe it is important for Gord Steeves to stand up and say it is not helpful for anyone in this city to be casting disparaging remarks ... about a population in our city,� she said. “If my husband should say something horrible ... I would not want to be held responsible for that. But I would be very embarrassed and it would feel very necessary to get out in front of it and say, ‘I in no way accept or tolerate those kind of comments.�’

OTTAWA — A Canadian North passenger jet has been grounded in Ottawa for mechanical inspection after a sensor indicated a fire on board just as the plane was making its way to the runway. The 76 people on the scheduled morning flight to Iqaluit were evacuated Monday shortly after an alarm sounded in the cockpit, the airline said. “The aircraft received a fire warning indication in what’s called the auxiliary power unit,� said airline spokesman Graeme Burns. That unit is in the tail section of the Boeing 737 and is used to start the engines. It also provides electricity and air conditioning for the plane while it’s on the ground. “The pilots immediately stopped the aircraft on the tarmac while it was taxiing and followed all the procedures ... to get the people off the plane,� Burns said. The alarm turned out to be false, he added. “We are very thankful that there was no actual fire.� There were reports of a burning odour on the plane when the sensor alarm sounded, but no visible signs of smoke and no injuries during the evacuation. Once the evacuation order was given, the 72 passengers and four crew members disembarked the plane and were returned to the Ottawa airport lounge by bus.

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TORONTO — Police were dispatched to Toronto city hall Monday after Mayor Rob Ford said a threat was made to bomb the building unless he resigned, but no evacuation was ordered. Toronto police spokesman Const. David Hopkinson said officers were sent to the building after city hall security informed them of the threat that morning. Police earlier said they were first notified Sunday night. Hopkinson said the building was not being evacuated and couldn’t confirm whether a bomb sweep had been done. Ford announced the bomb threat to reporters. He said the email was sent to his brother, Coun. Doug Ford, on Sunday night. The mayor held up a copy the typoridden note, which says there has been “chaos� since Ford returned from rehab in late June. “He has 12 hours to vacate otherwise city hall will blow. I have already set up explosive around.� Ford said he wasn’t fazed. “I’m moving on. Business as usual.

Obviously the police will be around and the police (will) handle this from here on in,� he said. Ford also defended going public about the email. “When I get something this serious sent to my brother’s office and to the deputy mayor’s office it’s only proper that the mayor of the city addresses this.� Coun. Paula Fletcher said there is a protocol dealing with threats, but that it doesn’t restrict officials from revealing them. But she said she hopes Ford knew the threat wasn’t real before he announced it. “I hope he’s followed what I would call the good rules, or good common sense. And since we’re still here in the building I’m going to assume it was just an angry letter from a disturbed individual.� Toronto spokeswoman Wynna Brown said in an email Monday afternoon that police “are conducting a thorough investigation in co-ordination with city hall security.� The controversial mayor has faced numerous calls for his resignation amid admissions of drug use, alcohol addiction and being caught on tape making offensive comments.

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JOLIETTE, Que. — Raymond Gravel, a former Bloc Quebecois MP and wellknown Quebec priest, has died. The diocese in Joliette says Gravel passed away from lung cancer this morning at the Centre hospitalier regional de Lanaudiere, northeast of Montreal. The 61-year-old acknowledged not long ago he had smoked for 49 years. The outspoken social activist represented the Montreal-area riding of Repentigny in the Commons between 2006 and 2008. Gravel was known for his progressive stands on issue like homosexuality and the role of women in the church. During his time in Ottawa, Gravel faced attacks from anti-abortion organizations after displaying his support for Dr. Henry Morgentaler when the late physician received the Order of Canada in 2008. More recently, he was critical of the Parti Quebecois government’s nowdefunct proposed values charter, describing it in an open letter as “worthy of a dictatorship.� He confirmed last October he’d been diTRAVEL WITH agnosed with stage four lung cancer. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was among “because we care� many to weigh in on the death of the popular priest, sending along his condolences through PAY FOR 5 CASINO DAY TRIPS Twitter. “Laureen & I offer our - 6TH DAY TRIP IS FREE condolences to the famCASINO DAY ily of Raymond Gravel,� the account read. “RayTRIPS CASINO mond was a former colAPEX CASINO ST. ALBERT league of mine from the August 5 TOURS HoC & will be missed.� GREY EAGLE CASINO GOLD EAGLE CALGARY A funeral will be held NORTH August 26 Friday afternoon in JoBATTLEFORD RIVER CREE CASINO liette.

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VOLD, JONES & VOLD AUCTION CO. LTD. BOUGHT BY HENRY AND ANDREA THALEN BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A Ponoka auction mart that’s been selling cattle and other livestock since 1957 has been sold itself. Henry and Andrea Thalen have purchased Vold, Jones & Vold Auction Co. Ltd. from the Vold family. The deal closed on Aug. 1, with the Thalens overseeing their first sale last Wednesday. “It went well,” said Morris Thalen, who is helping his son Henry with the changeover. Morris said it’s business as usual, with the auctioneers and other staff still there, and even the name remaining the same. “The business was built on honesty and integrity, and that’s something we want to carry on.” Blair Vold, who was managing the business, will continue to oversee Vold, Jones & Vold’s Canadian Satellite Livestock Auction. And his son Nansen remains a member of the company’s management team. “It gives me a little more freedom to get out on the road and the country now that they’re looking after the mechanics of the business in town,” said Vold of his new role. He said the change in ownership was not something he’d been planning on. “I had nothing on the horizon for selling, but then when they came along with their proposal and their offer, we looked at it and it was good for both sides.” For the Thalens, a livestock auction seemed a good fit for their skills and interests. The family operated Morsan Farms near Ponoka for almost 20 years, before selling that dairy and cattle breeding business to WestCoast Holsteins of Chilliwack, B.C. this spring. Morris and his wife Sandra had started Morsan Farms near Chilliwack in 1981, and Henry was managing the operation at the time of its sale. “I just encouraged him to do some-

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Henry Thalen and his wife, Andrea, are the new owners of Vold, Jones & Vold Auction Co. Ltd. in Ponoka. thing different,” said Morris. “This opportunity came up and he was pretty excited about it.” Vold, Jones & Vold Auction was agrelated, local and well-established, he explained. Vold said he was pleased to sell to buyers with the reputation of the Thalens, and he thinks Henry will be good for the auction mart. “He’s enthusiastic and knows the business good. He’s going to do well.” In addition to the Ponoka auction mart and Canadian Satellite Livestock

Auction, the Thalens have taken over Vold, Jones & Vold’s auction mart in Dawson Creek, B.C. Vold has sold his interest in a third Vold, Jones & Vold auction mart, in Stavely, to Rob Bergevin — his partner in there. Morris said the Ponoka auction mart employs about 10 full-time staff, with that number swelling to between 30 and 60 on sale days. Vold, Jones & Vold Auction was started 57 years ago by Vold’s father Ralph, along with Ralph’s brother Harry, and their business partners Bill

and Shorty Jones. Ralph has remained active in the business, with Blair becoming involved in 1970 when he was 16. Blair pointed out that his family’s involvement in the local livestock industry actually predates Vold, Jones & Vold Auction by more than 60 years. “The Vold family came in 1895 to the Ponoka area and they’ve been involved in the livestock and auctioneering business ever since.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Housing starts continue to outpace 2013

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Grande Prairie and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. Nationally, some economists are warning that the surge in the number of new homes being built in Canada is unsustainable and could approach “worrying” levels if interest rates remain at the current level. That follows CMHC’s report on Monday that housing starts increased to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 200,098 in July — a slight increase from 198,665 in June. Gains in urban starts were concentrated in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, with the Prairie provinces and Quebec recording declines and a modest decrease in British Columbia. July’s results mark the fifth consecutive monthly increase in new housing construction. According to analysis from TD Economics, builders are taking cues from the current housing market, which is riding high on lower interest rates and solid growth in resale prices. “This level of activity is unsustainable over the near term, on account of an already moderate level of overbuilding as well as the likely gradual increase in interest rates,” says TD economist Jonathan Bendiner.

Olymel, which operates a major pork processing plant in Red Deer, has pledged to work to overcome the impact of Russian sanctions. Russia announced on Thursday that it’s restricting agricultural imports from Canada, the United States, Europe and other countries that imposed sanctions on it in response to the conflict in Ukraine. In 2012, Canada’s agricultural exports to Russia was about $563 million, with most of this frozen pork. Olymel, which is based in Quebec, said the Russian market is its second largest. It produces frozen pork at plants in Quebec and Red Deer. The company said in a release that it “will make every effort to find other outlets for products that were destined for the Russian market in order to reduce the impact of this decision.” It added that it’s too early to assess the impact of the Russian sanctions.

BY ADVOCATE STAFF New home construction in Red Deer continues to exceed 2013 levels, with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reporting that there were 50 housing starts in the city last month — up from 36 in July 2013. Starts on single-detached homes numbered 36, with units in multi-family projects adding another 14. Last year, the tallies for July were 32 and four respectively. Red Deer builders had combined for 521 total housing starts to the end of July in 2014 — with 222 of these in the single-family category and 299 in multi-family projects. A year ago, the tally was 450, including 232 single-detached and 218 of the multi-family variety. Total housing starts among Alberta’s seven largest urban centres during the first seven months of this year are up nearly 10 per cent from the same point in 2013 — to 21,105 from 19,223. The pace of construction has quickened in Calgary, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer, but is down in Edmonton,

The Bank of Canada’s overnight rate has been set at one per cent since September 2010. Bendiner forecasts that the pace of housing starts will work its way downward to the 175,000 to 180,000 unit range through 2015. The results coincide with Statistics Canada’s report last week that a paltry 200 jobs were added to the economy last month, raising questions as to what’s really driving the demand for new housing. Demand for housing is strong among the 25 to 35-year-old demographic, counters BMO senior economist Benjamin Reitzes. Young people are increasingly moving to provinces that offer better prospects for employment, driving up demand for housing in a few key provinces, he adds. However, if building continues at the current pace, it might be difficult to absorb all the units that are currently under construction, says Reitzes. “We’re not quite at that worrying stage yet but it’s something to keep an eye on.” With files from The Canadian Press.

Ratings agency takes a more cautious look at big banks BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Ratings agency S&P has downgraded Canada’s biggest banks to “negative” over concerns about the federal government’s stance on possible bailouts in the future. The decision hinges on concerns that Ottawa will be reluctant to bail out large financial institutions in the event of another major economic meltdown, and would instead opt for a “bail in” regime that would not use taxpayer money. “The outlook revision reflects our expectation of reduced potential for extraordinary government support,” wrote credit analyst Lidia Parfeniuk in a note released Friday. A week earlier, Ottawa launched a public consultation on the bail-in pro-

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posal that’s scheduled to wrap up on Sept. 12. The revised outlook covered all of the major Canadian financial institutions, Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSX:TD), Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX:BNS), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX:CM), Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) and National Bank of Canada (TSX:NA). The ratings agency said its revision is hinged on the possibility that the bail-in policy could lead it to lower its ratings on the banks within two years. The S&P revision comes after fellow credit ratings firm Moody’s Investor Services shifted its sentiment last month. Despite the downgrades, the TSX financial sector was ahead 0.55 per cent on Monday, with all of the major bank

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stocks higher. “Over the years we have gotten incremental downgrades to the Canadian banking group but they just continue to defy gravity to some extent ... particularly as it relates to their stock prices,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis. “But I think it’s a bit of a prudent move, perhaps a cautious move on their (S&P’s) part,” Fehr said. Canada’s banking system has been touted by politicians and business leaders as one of the most stable in the world in the wake of the recent financial crisis. The Harper government has also supported efforts to prevent the bank bailouts that happened in the U.S. and Europe during the crisis from occurring in Canada.

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Hacker with access to Canadian ISP stole $83K in bitcoins: researchers A hacker with access to a Canadian Internet provider hijacked net traffic from large foreign networks to steal more than US$83,000 in virtual currency over a four-month period, a cyber security company said Monday. Researchers with the U.S.-based Dell SecureWorks said the hacker’s attack started last February and stopped in May, after the Canadian Internet service provider (ISP) was notified. Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, said the hacker targeted firms that hosted servers generating virtual currencies such as Bitcoin — including Amazon in the U.S. and OVH in France — and redirected some activity. “We were able to track the origins to a Canadian ISP,” he said from Las Vegas, where he was attending a computer security conference. “Someone had access to a router at that ISP. It had to be someone who managed to hack into that router and gained administrative rights, or someone who already had access.”

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 98.97 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.69 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.41 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.40 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.97 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.84 Cdn. National Railway . . 73.20 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 209.38 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 38.63 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.38 Cervus Equipment Corp 22.19 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.80 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.52 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 33.70 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.50 General Motors Co. . . . . 33.80 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 19.70 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.61 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 57.22 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 70.41 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.30 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.39 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 54.50 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 108.59 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.80 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.70 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.62 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher amid an easing of tensions in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and reassuring inflation data from China. The S&P/TSX composite index ran up 65.33 points to 15,261.64. The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.43 of a cent to 91.58 cents US. U.S. indexes were also positive as traders felt more inclined to take on risk, following reports Friday that Russia called an end to military exercises near Ukraine and withdrew troops to their bases. “We’re seeing a little bit of that risk abate and I would caution investors about getting too complacent on one side or the other when it comes to geopolitical tensions,” said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis. “In the very near term, it’s going to remain a headline risk for the market for the foreseeable future,” Fehr said. But gains started to deteriorate late in Monday morning after the Ukraine government announced that the Red Cross will lead an international humanitarian aid operation into Ukraine’s conflict-stricken province of Luhansk with assistance from Russia, the European Union and the United States. Such initiatives have previously faced sustained opposition from Ukraine and the West, who had feared they could act as a pretext for sending Russian troops into rebel-held territory. The Dow Jones industrials was well off the highs of the day but still up 16.05 points to 16,569.98, the Nasdaq climbed 30.43 points to 4,401.33 while the S&P 500 index was ahead 5.33 points to 1,936.92. Meanwhile, China’s consumer price index in July stayed at 2.3 per cent, well below the official target for the year of 3.5 per cent. That gives the central bank room to ease access to credit if needed to shore up economic

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.35 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.38 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 52.62 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.36 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 28.59 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.45 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.27 First Quantum Minerals . 24.70 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 30.86 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 11.17 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.31 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.60 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.30 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.08 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.81 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 29.93 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 35.39 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 68.61 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.88 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 61.28 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 46.07 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.50 Canyon Services Group. 16.38 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.65 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.900 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 23.90 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.54 growth, which was 7.5 per cent in the latest quarter. TSX leadership came from the financial sector, ahead 0.57 per cent with investors unfazed by a move by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s on Friday to revise its outlooks to negative from stable on almost all Canadian banks. It comes a week after Ottawa launched a public consultation on its proposed ”bail-in regime,“ which seeks to protect taxpayers from having to foot the bill for bailing out a big bank in the event that it runs into financial trouble. Industrials were up 0.75 per cent. The base metals was well off session highs, closing flat as the positive news from China failed to lift metal prices, with September copper unchanged at US$3.17 a pound. The gold sector edged up 0.27 per cent as increased appetite for risk pushed December gold down 50 cents to US$1,310.50 an ounce. The energy sector was slightly higher while September crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained 43 cents to US$98.08 a barrel. Shares of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. (TSX:TKM) continued to charge ahead following a U.S. regulatory decision that relaxes safety precautions on the Vancouver-based company’s experimental drug for treating Ebola. Its stock surged $2.84 or 12.35 per cent to $25.84, after jumping 47 per cent on Friday. Tekmira has a $140-million contract from the U.S. government to develop its drug TKM-Ebola, but last month a small human trial of the experimental drug was put on hold after safety issues emerged. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Monday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,261.64, up 65.33 points Dow — 16,569.98, up 16.05

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Loonie up amid solid housing data TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed higher Monday amid strong domestic housing data and a greater willingness to take on risk. “A volatile global environment, with some easing in concern over Ukraine offset by an escalation in Iraq, is being watched carefully by markets,” observed Camilla Sutton, Chief FX Strategist, managing director for Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets. The loonie was up 0.43 of a cent to 91.58 cents US as Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported that housing starts during July came in at an annualized rate of 200,098, up slightly from 198,665 in June. The currency tumbled over fourtenths of a cent Friday in the wake of a huge miss in July employment data. Only 200 jobs were created last month, a far cry from the estimated 20,000 positions that economists had expected. On Monday, traders felt more inclined to take on risk after Russia called an end to military exercises near Ukraine on Friday and withdrew troops to their bases. The Ukraine government announced Monday that the Red Cross will lead an international humanitarian aid operation into Ukraine’s conflict-stricken province of Luhansk with assistance from Russia, the European Union and the United States.

Customer disloyalty? The competition for your dollars is fiercer than ever TORONTO — With competition fierce for consumer dollars, companies are pulling out all the stops to build loyalty, from cost-cutting and beefing up loyalty programs to shamelessly broadcasting the bestowment of gifts on surprised customers.

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 98.73 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 69.42 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.01 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.35 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 53.83 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.73 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 8.04 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.095 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.45 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 43.16 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.47 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.47 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 10.05 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 69.11 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 79.63 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 72.05 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.63 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 41.23 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.55 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.41 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 50.73 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.13 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.73 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.66 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.10 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.37 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 40.44 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.48 points S&P 500 — 1,936.92, up 5.33 points Nasdaq — 4,401.33, up 30.43 points File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.58 cents US, up 0.43 of a cent Pound — C$1.8334, down 0.73 of a cent Euro — C$1.4615, down 1.00 cent Euro — US$1.3385, down 0.28 of a cent

Christian Oggenfuss stands near solar panels on top of the living roof at the Odette Estate winery in Napa, Calif., on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Odette Estate, which opened recently, is part of a small but blossoming trend of green-roofed wineries. Their roof combines 8,500 square feet of planted living roof with 2,500 square feet of solar panels. ‘It’s really cool working underneath something you know is helping the environment and not impacting it in a negative way,’ says Oggenfuss, director of marketing for the winery. ‘I’m pretty proud, actually, that this spot right now is greener than it was when we started.’

Oil futures: US$98.08 per barrel, up 43 cents (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,310.50 per oz., down 50 cents (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.721 oz., down 1.3 cents $730.48 kg., down 42 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $5.60 lower $438.30; Jan ’15 $5.80 lower $443.30; March ’15 $5.70 lower $445.00; May ’15 $5.50 lower $442.50; July ’15 $5.60 lower $439.40; Nov ’15 $4.70 lower $434.00; Jan. ’16 $4.70 lower $440.00; March ’16 $4.70 lower $443.80; May ’16 $4.70 lower $443.80; July ’16 $4.70 lower $443.80; Nov. ’16 $4.70 lower $443.80. Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 unchanged 136.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $138.00; March ’15 unchanged $139.00; May ’15 unchanged $139.00; July ’15 unchanged $139.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $139.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $139.00; March ’16 unchanged $139.00; May ’16 unchanged $139.00; July ’16 unchanged $139.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $139.00. Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 182,720 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 182,720.

But marketing experts say these tactics don’t work unless consumers actually like the product or service being reinforced. “Basically, you’re trying to buy friendship,” says Ken Wong, a marketing professor at Queen’s University. “You’re trying to suggest to people that you’re this good guy bank or this good guy airline. But the reality is, if you want to be a good guy, give good service.” “It’s a nice, cute event but it says nothing about what it’s like to do business with these folks every day,” he adds. A recent online campaign by TD Bank featured a video with a talking ATM that gave unsuspecting customers free flight tickets, smartphones and surprise visits from Toronto Blue Jay’s outfielder Jose Bautista. At 2 p.m. on the day the video premiered, tellers at more than a thousand branches TD branches across Canada distributed envelopes stashed with $20 bills to unsuspecting customers.

Chiquita Brands attracts a $611M buyout offer NEW YORK — Chiquita Brands attracted an approximately $611 million buyout offer from investment firm Safra Group and Brazilian agribusiness and juice company Cutrale Group. Safra and Cutrale are offering $13 per share, a 29 per cent premium to Chiquita Brands International Inc.’s closing price of $10.06 on Friday. The unsolicited bid disclosed Monday comes as Chiquita and Fyffes of Ireland were working on their own transaction. The two companies agreed in March to merge in a stockfor-stock deal to create the world’s biggest banana supplier. If a transaction were to occur between Chiquita and Fyffes, Chiquita’s headquarters would move from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Dublin, a more tax-efficient corporate base. In a letter sent to Chiquita President and CEO Edward Lonergan and Chairwoman Kerrii Anderson, Safra and Cutrale said that they believe their proposed transaction doesn’t have the same execution risk and uncertainty that a deal with Fyffes does.

Taxpayers run afoul of TFSA withdrawal rule BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A tricky rule keeps tripping up thousands of Canadians who make withdrawals from their tax-free savings accounts, and replace the money too early. Some 54,700 taxpayers got warning packages from the Canada Revenue Agency earlier this year about the problem affecting the 2013 taxation year, and were told they face a penalty. The number has been dropping steadily from a peak of 103,000 in 2010, but still represents a persistent misunderstanding of TFSA rules even as the agency and financial institutions step up education measures. The regulations say that account holders can put back the amounts they withdraw from a TFSA only in a later calendar year. Doing so in the same calendar year exposes them to a tax hit for overcontributions, even though they’re only replacing the withdrawn funds. By the end of 2013, some 10.7 million Canadians had opened a TFSA, a savings vehicle introduced by the Conservative government in 2009 that allows money to grow inside tax-free with no income-tax hit on withdrawal. The popular savings tool cost the federal treasury some $410 million in forgone taxes in 2013, or more than a billion dollars over its first five years. Some taxpayers are apparently slow to absorb the finicky withdrawal rule: this year 11,260 of them got the same warning package from the Canada Revenue Agency last year as well, figures provided by CRA show. As of the end of last month, the

agency had waived penalties for more than 17,000 Canadians who broke the rule in 2012. The average penalty waived was $516, or a total of almost $9 million. And for the 2013 taxation year, more than 20,000 Canadians have already paid their penalties. Taxpayers who received a TFSA warning package in the mail this summer were given 60 days to respond. Those who don’t respond get a notice of assessment, imposing a penalty. A spokesman for the agency said the onus is on Canada’s banks and other financial institutions to make sure their customers know the rules. “As with any financial or investment product, financial institutions have a responsibility to inform their clients of the details and restrictions relating to TFSAs,” said Philippe Brideau. “The CRA continues to work very closely with the financial institutions to ensure that CRA information related to TFSA is well understood and known by the Canadian financial sector.” Brideau noted that fewer than half a per cent of TFSA holders ran afoul of the rules in 2013. The current maximum annual contribution to a tax-free savings account is $5,500, though Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promised to double the maximum once the federal books are balanced, expected next year in advance of the scheduled 2015 federal election. A special analysis in 2012 by the Finance Department found that the savings vehicle is more popular among higher income and older Canadians.

Mexico opens industries to foreign, private companies BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed into law on Monday new rules governing a historic opening of the state-run oil, gas and electricity industries to foreign and private companies. Pena Nieto said that the government will let potential investors know by Wednesday which blocks of gas and oil fields will be open for them. The state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has the right under the new rules to take first dibs and set aside some fields for itself; Pena Nieto said those set-asides will also be made public Wednesday. The president also promised to start putting in place regulatory and oversight agencies to implement the new rules

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by the end of August. Government control of the oil industry began with the 1938 nationalization of foreign oil companies, and has long been a touchstone of Mexican nationalism. Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell acknowledged the new reforms have changed that. “Today marks a watershed ... a change in the energy paradigm,” Coldwell said at the signing ceremony at Mexico’s National Palace, where beloved late president Lazaro Cardenas announced the expropriation 76 years ago. “It is a change in the way we relate our national identity to energy, to bring it up to date with realities of the 21st century.” Those realities include a constant decline in oil and gas production in recent years, as Pemex proved unable to open up significant deep-water or shale-gas production.

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Ex-teacher desperate for a change

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Dear Annie: I’m a young forgotten us. I don’t know how woman with a degree in edu- to address this with him withcation. After spending sever- out coming across as rude. – al years as a student teacher Lonely Mom and co-teacher, I decided that Dear Mom: You are making I really don’t want to remain in this an emotional crisis, and teaching. I know I should have it doesn’t have to be. Your son switched majors in college, but still loves and cares about you. I hoped this would work out. I Let us explain: When your son also was worried about what lived at home, you saw him evmy family would think. ery day, and contact didn’t reThese same well-meaning quire any effort from him. Now family members are now ac- that he lives away, it doesn’t tively pushing me to accept a occur to him to call or text, beteaching position in a nearby cause he never had to think small town. I went to the inter- about it before. He is condiview to please them, but the tioned to let someone else do entire time, I was wishing I the work. were somewhere else. I have Here’s how you fix it: Let told only my immediate fam- him know you miss him and ily that I’m going to would love it if turn down the job if he’d remember to offered. call or text once or So what do I tell twice a week. But these other relatives understand that about my job deciyou’ll still have sion? How do I keep to do most of the them off my back? work. Then make I’m already suffering friends with his health issues due to wife. Call her. Text anxiety, and I don’t her. Ask her to go know how much shopping with you more I can take. I’m or meet you for tempted to move out lunch. But also be of the area, but I love sure to give them MITCHELL living in my town. their space. While & SUGAR Any help would be they are both part much appreciated. – of your family, they Ready To Run Away are first and foreDear Ready: You most a unit unto have to develop a themselves. stronger spine. Your Dear Annie: career choices belong to you, I read with interest the letter and although some folks may be from “My Heart Is Breaking,” disappointed, that’s their prob- whose father-in-law wanted to lem. Their disapproval should have a second memorial sernot determine your future. vice for his late wife, even Practice saying, “I’m sorry you though they already had one are unhappy with my choice.” when she died two years ago. You don’t have to talk about My mother passed away two the reasons, nor do you need years ago and was cremated. to create excuses. But you have We only recently put her ashes to be able to withstand the fall- where she wished, because we out, which will be temporary in wanted the whole family to be any case. This, too, shall pass. there, and many of them lived Dear Annie: Last year, my far away or had other commitson married a girl we adore. ments. He and his new wife live in the We had a wonderful time same town. But ever since the remembering the good times. wedding, he barely speaks to It’s never too late to commemous. It’s as if he started his new rate your parents. Mine are allife and forgot about his old ways in my heart. – A Grateful one. Daughter He’ll respond when I call Annie’s Mailbox is written by or text, but he never initiates Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, contact. He treats his siblings longtime editors of the Ann Landthe same way, which makes me ers column. Please email your sad. The only way we see him questions to anniesmailbox@comis when I invite them over for cast.net, or write to: Annie’s Maildinner. We got along fine when box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 he lived at home, so I don’t un- 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA derstand how he has seemingly 90254.

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Peggy-Sue Stuckky, left, and Diane Fischer were all smiles as they collected a cheque for $1,220,24.76 at the Jackpot Casino in Red Deer. When she found out she hit the jackpot, Stuckky said she could not stop shaking “I was literally doing the funky chicken,” said Stuckky. The two women have decided to split the winnings. Fischer had given Stuckky $20 to play on the Diamond Millions machine when she had to step out of the casino for a few minutes. When she was gone, the machine Stuckky was playing rolled the three diamonds needed to payout. “I feel pretty good — pretty good says it pretty mildly — but I’m freaking ecstatic to be honest,” said Stuckky. The two women are planning to take life a little easier now and share their winnings with family and help children and grandchildren with their educations.

Tuesday, Aug. 12 spouse is taking a better direction than CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: ever before. Your finances will increase Cara Delevingne, 21; Jim Beaver, 63; Ty- which will help out with any joint resourcson Furry, 25 es. You will take a realistic look at having THOUGHT OF THE DAY: children now. Today will be deep, there is LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): no superficial energy going Any issues that come up toon, imagined or not. Today day will highlight a need to you will examine the true reconcile resources to crenature of your feelings and ate better living standards will take a realistic look at for yourself and those in your that aspect of your life. What family and at home. You will changes need to be made in need to take more actions at order for you to feel like you home to create the ideal situare making progress? This is ation you’ve envisioned for what will be on the agenda yourself. today as you secretly analyze VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. needs today. 22): When Venus enters your LARISA MAIRA HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If totwelfth house today, you OZOLINS day is your birthday, this year will have in total of 4 planets SUN SIGNS dancing around in your subwill prove to be the year you learn how to create better circonscious. There’s no doubt cumstances for you and oththat this will create a smile on ers in your life. Any wounds your face, and now you’ll be that have come about through others will attracting more into your life than ever bebe let go and you will discipline yourself fore. Attractions will be had in secret. to take appropriate actions towards your LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today will joint ventures. Perhaps there were some be awesome! Your ruling planet Venus money issues in the past — this year will will enter into the eleventh house and join heal that aspect for you! three other planets. This will mark a time ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today when your dreams truly start coming true. can incorporate two scenarios for you. There’s no doubt in my mind that you will You will have support to create your ca- feel blessed and extremely grateful for this reer ambitions now and creative projects energy! will run smoothly. Or, you will start a lovely SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A huge romantic relationship that will prove to be emphasis on your tenth house of career the one. Creative projects and romance and public status will have you attracting are on the agenda! even more individuals today. There will TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is have to be changes in the way you exa great opportunity for you to truly create press yourself to truly tap into this lovely special bonds with family members and transit happening for you. You will draw in others today. Others in your life, significant crowds! relationships will give you a realistic view SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): of where things are progressing towards. There is such a strong attraction to travel Follow your heart now, it won’t lead you now that perhaps it is simply expanding wrong! your mind to its fullest. Take every opporGEMINI (May 21-June 20): You are tunity given to you to create the soul level feeling quite empowered by the resources abundance and family life that you desire. you have available to you now. There Your direction is right on target now! is likely a change in that scenario soon CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Any which will highlight daily life, work and issues you’ve had with the funding of your health issues, perhaps not your own. A creative projects or simply utilizing your serious look at those aspects of life will be ideas will take a turn for the better today. realized today. Not only will you receive resources for CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your your endeavours, they will surmount to personal value will increase with Venus’ something greater than you believed postransit into your second house today. Your sible now!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is a tremendous focus on others in your life now, most likely those within your work environment or with your mother. In the past, you would place faith in them, but now you are seeing the truth and are attracting those who share your heart’s desires! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There is such a great opportunity for you to reach

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RECIPES Basic Mushroom Meat Blend MAKES: 8 servings PREPARATION: The cooked mixture can be refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 6 months. INGREDIENTS 1 pound white button mushrooms, cleaned, stemmed and coarsely chopped (see headnote) 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 pound ground chicken, turkey, pork or lean ground beef 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce Water (optional) STEPS Place the chopped mushrooms in a food processor; pulse until almost pureed. The consistency will resemble that of tapenade. Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Once the oil shimmers, stir in the mushrooms and half of the salt. Cook, stirring often, for 8 to 10 minutes. Some, but not all, of the mushrooms’ moisture will have evaporated. Add the ground meat, pepper, the Worcestershire sauce and the remaining salt, stirring to incorporate. Cook, stirring often to break up the meat, for 10 to 12 minutes (depending on which meat you’ve chosen) until cooked through. Add water by the tablespoon during that time if the mixture seems dry before the meat is done. If you’re using the blend right away, drain any remaining liquid from the skillet. For cold storage, retain the liquid; drain before using.

MushroomBlended Graffiti Burgers MAKES: 8 servings PREPARATION: It’s best not to let the mixture sit in the refrigerator for more than the recommended 4 hours, as its mushroom content will exude liquid. The uncooked patties can be frozen for up to 1 month. Defrost on a plate in the refrigerator for 2 hours, then drain before cooking. INGREDIENTS 2 1/2 ounces portobello mushroom caps, gills removed 2 1/2 ounces king oyster mushrooms (may substitute a gourmet mix of sliced mushrooms) 1 ounce white button mushrooms 1 pound ground beef, preferably 85-15 (lean meat/fat) 2 tablespoons finely diced onion 1 tablespoon seeded, finely diced tomato 2 teaspoons finely chopped cilantro 1/2 teaspoon peeled, finely grated fresh ginger root 1 small clove garlic, minced 1/2 small red bird’s eye chili pepper, seeded and minced 1/3 teaspoon ground turmeric 1/3 teaspoon onion powder 1/3 teaspoon tomato powder (see NOTE) 1/3 teaspoon ground coriander 1/3 teaspoon chili powder 1/3 teaspoon lemon grass powder (optional) Kosher salt Brioche buns, for serving (optional) STEPS Clean the portobello, king oyster and white button mushrooms; stem the white button mushrooms. Finely chop them, or grind them in a food processor, to about the same consistency as the meat. Transfer to a large mixing bowl; add the ground beef, onion, tomato, cilantro, ginger, garlic, red chili pepper, turmeric, onion powder, tomato powder, if using, ground coriander, chili powder and lemon grass powder, if using. Use your clean hands to gently blend the mixture. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours and no more than 4 hours. Spray a grill pan with cooking oil spray; heat over medium heat. Meanwhile, shape the mixture into 8 thick patties of equal size. Lightly salt both sides of each patty; place on a plate or paper towels to catch any juices. Working in batches as needed, arrange the patties in the hot grill pan, leaving at least an inch of space around each one. Cook for 6 to 8 minutes or until a good crust forms on the bottom, then use two spatulas to carefully turn each one over. Cook on the second side for about 8 minutes or until firm to the touch and cooked through. The burgers should not be pink inside. Serve on buns, if desired. NOTE: You can make tomato powder by grinding freeze-dried or dehydrated tomatoes. Look for Just Tomatoes at natural-foods stores.

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MUSHROOMS’ ‘BLENDABILITY’ WITH MEAT IS SEEN AS A ROUTE TO MOREHEALTHFUL EATING BY JANE BLACK ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES If you have a question about mushrooms, Bart Minor is your guy. As the president and chief executive of the Mushroom Council for 16 years, he has a stunning depth of knowledge about edible fungi and an alarming enthusiasm about them. Minor could talk forever about enokis (did you know they are grown in plastic bottles?), industry sales (a record $1.1 billion for 2012-13 in the United States) or nutrition (mushrooms are the only item in the produce aisle containing vitamin D). But Minor is particularly excited about what he sees as the latest miracle of mushrooms: their ability to mix with and boost the flavors of ground meat in foods such as burgers and chili, while simultaneously cutting calories, fat and costs. A sensory study funded by the council, to be published in the Journal of Food Science this fall, showed that consumers generally preferred meat-mushroom blends in tacos over a 100 percent beef filling, citing increased aromas, flavors and moisture. “You can make things healthier by putou can make things ting broccoli in it. You y in it,” Minor says. cheaper by putting soy y because it’s so sim“This is revolutionary ushrooms. They go ple. It’s meat and mushrooms. together like peanut butter and jelly.” Clearly, Minor has skin in the game. If chefs and restaurant operators see what lendabilthe industry calls “blendability” as an easy way to serve more-healthful food, his members are going to sell a lot more mushrooms. But then, the man does have a point. In an indusvtry that thrives on giving customers what they want, the best way to get eir people to improve their ful diets is to find healthful te foods that don’t taste like a sacrifice. n, No wonder, then, e that the Cheesecake ns Factory and Seasons ns 52 restaurant chains atrecently added meatmushroom burgers to ons their menus. Institutions rvard including Yale, Harvard and the University off Southushrooms in ern California use mushrooms co fillings and chilBolognese sauces, taco ies. Compass Group, one of the world’s largest food-service operators, is encouraging its cafes to do the same; more than 300 locations have already signed on. Mixing meat and mushrooms, Minor admits, is hardly a novel idea. Beef dishes such as Wellington and stroganoff are classics because the pairing with mushrooms is a natural one. But positioning blends as a healthful and more ecofriendly alternative is new. The evidence is compelling: Substituting mushrooms for just one-quarter of a recipe’s beef content reduces calories, fat and sodium by about a third. Because livestock production and distribution accounts for an estimated 14.5 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide, eating less meat is also environmentally responsible.

The push for blending started in 2011, when the Mushroom Council, an industry trade group, joined a Culinary Institute of America initiative called the Healthy Menus R&D Collaborative. Participants, which include McDonald’s, Panera, Compass and Cargill, aim to develop practical ways to expand healthful dining choices. Chefs at the CIA in Napa, Calif., worked to develop recipes that substituted mushrooms for ground beef. At an early tasting, Minor says, the dishes “tasted good, but the texture was wrong.” For a follow-up, chefs quartered button mushrooms, cooked them, then minced them to mimic the texture of ground beef. “That,” he says, “was the aha moment.” The technique can be applied in any kitchen. Among the most enthusiastic adopters have been school cafeterias. In 2010, Congress passed tougher federal nutrition guidelines governing school meals, and food-service directors have been scrambling to find ways to cut back on calories and fat and to add more vegetables. With uncharacteristic speed, institutional suppliers brought meat-mushroom patties to the market. Next fall, the patties will be available in cafeterias that serve more than 4 m i l lion children in five states, including Maryland.

Corporate cafeterias are embracing the strategy as well. h Navy Federal d l Credit di Union i iin The Vienna Va., feeds 1,800 people a day. Its customers are looking for comfort food, something they can eat quickly or take back to their desks that they know will satisfy them. At the same time, “they are constantly being told to eat healthier. And most of the time, they don’t know how,” says the cafeteria’s executive chef, James Foley, who works for Compass Group. “They think ‘healthy’ is low-fat cottage cheese.” And so several months ago, Foley began replacing about 25 percent of ground beef with mushrooms in recipes such as meatloaf. “Mushrooms introduce moisture and a lighter texture. It’s all the things you want in a nice meatloaf, with

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This is revolutionary because it’s so simple. It’s meat and mushrooms. They go together like peanut butter and jelly. — Bart Minor President, Mushroom Council less calories.” Even though the Mushroom Council study found that consumers preferred a 50-50 blend of beef and mushrooms over the all beef taco fillin all-beef filling, some fine-dining chefs — many of w whom have been using that techniq technique for years — say 20 percent m mushrooms is about the limit before the dish starts to taste too much of mushr mushrooms. “At 20 percent, people don’t realize,” Jehangir Mehta, exec executive chef of Graffiti iin New York, says of hi his signature burger — alt although the recipe he pro provided for it uses 6 ounc ounces of mushrooms for 1 pound of beef, or abo about 27 percent. “It jus just tastes like a very fla flavorful burger.” Dwayne Motley, e executive chef of N Nage in D.C., agrees tthat the 80-20 ratio p provides the right b balance: “It gives y you a depth of flav vor, but you still ta taste the meat, the ch cheese, the garlic, everyt erything.” To make his Angus Burgers, Motley first m makes duxelles, the classic French mixture of mushrooms, aromatics and seasoning seasonings; he uses a blend of creminis and porto portobellos, plus morels when they are in season. He finely chops the mushrooms and cooks the mixture twice to release any remaining liquid. Then he combines it with ParmigianoReggiano cheese, Worcestershire sauce, oregano and ground beef. The resulting burgers are served with cheese and a few drops of truffle oil. Neither Motley nor Mehta says he uses mushrooms to make his food more healthful: That’s just a bonus. And that, says Minor, is the beauty of blendability: “The bottom line is that people in America love burgers. People know they are supposed to eat more fruits and vegetables. If we are actually going to change things for them, we need to improve the things they eat most often.”

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Storm-chaser yarn a windy affair INTO THE STORM SPINS TOO-FAMILIAR STORY, BUT THE EFFECTS ARE GOOD Into the Storm Two stars (out of four) Rated: PG BY BRUCE DEMARA SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

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‘Into the Storm’ is far superior to ‘Twister’ in one sense: the special effects and their evocation of the raw and destructive power of nature. task. The film is bound to be compared Twister, the 1996 film about two rival storm-chasing gangs that is much better plotted. But Into the Storm is far superior in one sense: the special effects and their evocation of the raw and destructive power of nature. The cast of Into the Storm is actually pretty solid and appealing, particularly Deacon and Kress as the two brothers and Callies as the plucky tornado expert. But despite the plethora of impressive visuals, Into the Storm comes close to being — with apologies to Shakespeare’s Macbeth — a tale full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Bruce DeMara is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Ready for a new spin on storm-chasers? If weak plotting isn’t a big concern, then Into the Storm may be right up your tornado alley. Despite a relatively compact running time, the film feels like a windy affair, involving a team of desperate twister chasers and a high school full of teens in peril, including a stern assistant principal and his two sons. But the special effects are quite impressive and diverting, preventing the film from being so much hot air. Sarah Wayne Callies, of Walking Dead fame, plays meteorological wonder woman Allison. Her petulant boss Pete (Matt Walsh) demands that she use her fancy gizmos to come up with a big blow for his team to video and fast. Allison pins her hopes on little Silverton, Okla., to keep her job and the wind gods are more than happy to oblige with a multi-funnelled extravaganza. Meanwhile, stern widower dad Gary (Richard Armitage) is too distracted to realize he’s treating sons Donnie (Max Deacon) and Trey (Nathan Kress, star of Nickelodeon’s iCarly) too gruffly. Script writer John Swetnam employs the increasingly hackneyed “found footage” concept — just about everyone in the film fortuitously has a camera on hand as the wind blows — while resorting to another tired trope, pointlessly giving captions to even the most minor of players in the film. But the film’s biggest misstep — again, courtesy of Swetnam — is the introduction of two hayseed characters, Donk (Kyle Davis) and Reevis (Jon Reep) who happily and drunkenly revel outside as the storm sends everyone else screaming and running for cover. If these two guys were meant to be comic relief, they fail utterly in the

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TERRY FOX RUN SEPT. 14 It’s not too soon to think about gathering pledges for the annual Terry Fox Run in Red Deer, scheduled for Sept. 14. The route is 10 km and family friendly. Participants can walk, run or wheel through the city’s trail system. The event starts and ends at Heritage Ranch. Registration will start at 11 a.m. and the event starts at noon. Afterwards, there will be a barbecue and door prizes. Online pledging is available. There is no registration fee and no minimum pledge required. For more information, contact the run organizer for Red Deer, Loretta Winia, at 403-346-4005, or go to www.terryfox.org.

FUNDS RAISED FOR ATHLETES The inaugural Stantec BFF Golf Tourney held on July 21 raised $36,000 to support young female athletes in Central Alberta. Money raised at the event, held at River Bend Golf Course, was split between Red Deer College’s Athletics Leadership Fund to provide scholarships to female student athletes and Red Deer Games Foundation’s endowment fund for sport grants to assist a female athlete each year with interest from the tournament money.

Grant Kozak didn’t know if he would ever drive again — until life-changing surgery. He lost his driver’s licence because his Parkinson’s disease was progressing rapidly about four years ago. The 53-year-old has been battling the disease since 1995. But last October, Kozak underwent a surgery called deep brain stimulation (DBS) in Edmonton that has brought some relief and freedom. The neurological procedure involves implanting small electrodes connected to a battery to target specific areas of a patient’s brain that control body movement. The electrodes send electrical impulses to specific areas to help alleviate symptoms and/or diminish side-effects caused by Parkinson’s disease medications. Kozak said while the surgery isn’t for everyone, it has been a life changer for him. He said this procedure just shows where medical advancement is heading. “It shows there is always hope,” said Kozak. Since the surgery, Kozak feels less fatigue and does not have “jumpy movements.” “Before I was walking, I would freeze,” he said. “Somebody would have to tap me to keep me going. So that’s gone.” Kozak takes about 15 pills a day compared to the 24 to 28 that he used to take

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before the procedure in 2013. “And I got my driver’s licence back,” said Kozak, a former brand manager Ikon Office Solutions. “That was one of my goals that I never thought I would hit. If I got it, fantastic. I didn’t think it would ever come.” Parkinson’s is a degenerative brain disorder characterized by trembling lips and hands and muscular rigidity, later producing body tremours, a shuffling gait and, eventually, even incapacity. “I feel wonderful,” said Kozak. “Now it’s time to give back.” Kozak is writing a book about his experiences. He is also looking forward to volunteering at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and working on his golf game. An avid golfer, Kozak did not give up his golf clubs while his disease progressed. After the procedure, he continues to be a “terrible golfer.” Walkers, runners and pledges are welcome at the annual Parkinson Step ’n’ Stride event the Golden Circle on Sept. 6. There is are three and five km distances, followed by a picnic and barbecue. Registration, coffee and snacks start at 9 a.m. There will also be prizes, massages and a silent auction. Register online at www.parkinsonalberta.ca. Pre-registration is available on Aug. 27 and 28 only at 5406Db43rd St. Call 403-3464463 to arrange. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Grant Kozak, 53, says he has regained his freedom after undergoing surgery to alleviate some of the symptoms caused by Parkinson’s disease last year.

Lacombe family wants to help families bring sick children home BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A Lacombe family, whose young son was only able to spend a year out of hospital before he died, want to help other families bring their sick children home. Kathy and Matt Oszust started Lukey’s Light Foundation to raise money to help families obtain the specialized equipment they require at home for their sick children, no matter their level of income. Their son, Lukas, was born in August 2011 with a severe heart defect, and he suffered kidney failure and strokes. He spent 16 months in hospital before he was able to go home. Lukas was only two when he died in January. Kathy Oszust said being at home allowed them to be a real family, and they cherish their memories of Lukas. She wants other families to have the opportunity to leave the hospital behind. “I want them to feel that joy and I want them to be able to experience all those things that we did. And I want people to see that special needs kids are extremely precious,” Oszust said on Monday. “(Lukas) brought us joy like we would have never known. He was fun. He was such a happy kid. That year at home, it allowed us to be a family.” She said it also gave their daughter, Lylah, the normal life she deserved. Bringing Lukas home in December 2012 required specialized medical equipment. Oszust said the majority of equipment was

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A section of the revised Taylor Drive will open to motorists later this week. Traffic will be diverted to one lane on the new road alignment northbound by the Real Canadian Superstore from the bypass route, starting on Friday or Saturday. This switch will allow for construction work on and near the bypass road. The number of lanes and access points will not change until construction is complete this fall. The $20-million Taylor Drive Improvements Project is geared to improve safety for pedestrians and drivers as the city grows over the next five, 10 and 20 years. With an estimated 30,000 vehicles using Taylor Drive every day, enhancements are needed to make it safer for drivers and pedestrians as traffic is expected to increase in the coming years. At the end of the project, there will be better traffic flows, new intersections with enhanced crosswalks and new sidewalks, says city officials. There will also be improved connections to transit stops at Sorensen Station, Historic Downtown, Riverlands, Railyards and the Red Deer River.

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Specialized equipment allowed Lukas, 2, to go home to Lacombe with his family Kathy and Matt Oszust, and his sister, Lylah. government-funded, but some wasn’t, like the monitor for his oxygen and heart rate. “That was a very important thing to know for dialysis and his heart condition. We didn’t necessarily have to have that, but the doctors recommended it. Those machines range from about $1,500 to $3,000, which is a lot of money. We had to do that on our own.” They also purchased a $7,000 specialized hospital crib for Lukas because he needed to lie at a 30-degree angle to improve blood flow. Little funding was provided for the crib, she said. “It allowed us to put the arms down if we needed to get in there in a hurry and he was at the angle he needed to be at and he was

comfortable. I think that honestly gave us the year at home that we got with him.” Work to develop Lukey’s Light Foundation began earlier this year in memory of Lukas. The inaugural Lukey’s Light Charity Golf Classic, scheduled for Aug. 23 at Lacombe Golf and Country Club, is the first fundraising event for the foundation. Oszust said the golf tournament is filling up fast and sponsors are on board. “The support has been pretty mind-blowing.” For more information about the golf classic contact Matt Oszust at 403-896-1279 or at mo@southsidereddeer.com szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Two of the 12 artists will be selected as feature artists and be allotted a larger space and a preferred location in which to create their art. The deadline for entries is Aug. 29. Chalk will be supplied to the artists. However, artists are welcome to bring special colours and props for art techniques. Items such as cloths, sponges and brushes make good blending tools and produce great special effects. For more information and artist submission requirements, visit the Alberta Culture Days page on www.reddeer.ca or like the Red Deer Culture Days Facebook page.

Red Deer RCMP issued an updated press release on Monday correcting the cost of a fine for driving 20 km/h over the speed limit in a playground zone. An earlier release indicated a fine of $289 was applied to such violations. In fact, the correct fine is $124. Police spent several hours for three days in a row policing the playground zone on 47th Avenue between 46th and 48th Streets. In that time, 45 tickets were issued and 10 other drivers were given warnings for other violations. In Red Deer, the speed limit through playground zones is 30 km/h. That speed limit is in effect from 8:30 a.m. to one hour after sunset every day.

Sidewalk chalk artists sought Calling all amateur and professional artists. You are invited to participate in the Sidewalk Art Competition during Alberta Culture Days on Sept. 27 in downtown Red Deer. Peter McGee, city special events programmer, said for one day downtown Red Deer will be transformed into an outdoor museum, turning the sidewalks into a gallery of creative art. “This event is a combination festival, exhibition space, learning experience and catalyst for support and participation in the arts community,” he said. Artists may submit their concepts for a six-foot-by-six-foot sidewalk drawing. Twelve artists will be selected from all entries to create their work in chalk along Little Gaetz and the Ross Street Patio area.

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Colin Fraser bringing Stanley Cup to Sylvan Lake Three-time Stanley Cup winner Colin Fraser is bringing the cup back to Sylvan Lake during the final day of the town’s jazz festival on Sunday. Fraser will arrive with the cup between 12:30 and 1 p.m. at the Sylvan Lake Lions Park at 5012 48 Ave. He will give a brief speech at 1 p.m. Photos with the cup are available from 1:15 to 2:30 p.m. for a minimum donation of $5 to the future Sylvan Lake NextSource Centre. Fraser won Stanley Cup sith the Los Angeles Kings in 2012 and 2014 and with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010. A community block party with Central Alberta bands will fill the town with music from 1 to 4 p.m. at the park gazebo. Admission is free. In the event of rain, the events will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion at 4916-50th Ave.

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Fate of blockade key to talks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DEIR EL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Mohammed al-Telbani lost his life’s work when Israeli shells repeatedly slammed into his four-story snack and cookie factory during the Gaza war, finally sparking a fire that engulfed vats of margarine and sacks of cocoa powder. As he contemplated starting over, sitting near the smouldering ruins of one of Gaza’s largest factories, he looked to Cairo for answers. There, negotiators from Israel and Hamas launched another attempt Monday to negotiate an end to the 34-day-old war — and, perhaps even more crucial for Gaza’s 1.8 million people, reach a new border deal for the coastal territory. Gazans haven’t been able to trade or travel freely since Israel and Egypt imposed stringent border restrictions in response to the violent Hamas takeover of the territory in 2007. The closure also deepened Gaza’s separation from the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas on the opposite side of Israel that, along with Gaza, are envisioned as part of a future Palestinian state. The blockade was meant to isolate the Islamic militant Hamas and perhaps loosen its grip on power. Seven years later, Hamas remains rooted in Gaza, albeit weakened by a financial crisis brought on by the closure as well

as thousands of Israel airstrikes over the past month. Gaza’s civilians have borne the brunt of the blockade. Unemployment — already at 30 per cent in 2007 — has risen to 45 per cent, according to official figures. Tens of thousands of jobs have been wiped out. The main U.N. aid agency in Gaza says it provides food aid to about 800,000 Gazans, ten times the number it helped in 2000, when Israeli travel bans linked to unrest intensified. A ban on virtually all exports from Gaza, along with the destruction of scores of factories in three rounds of fighting, has reduced the number of manufacturing businesses from 2,400 to 400 over eight years, according to a local business association. Al Awda, al-Telbani’s snack business, was big enough to survive by shifting to local sales and he says he will likely rebuild because he needs to make a living. If the borders were open, though, he could do it better and faster. “I could employ 2,000 workers instead of 450 if I could export,” said the 62-year-old, a self-made man who grew up poor in a refugee camp. “Instead of producing 40 tons (a day), I could produce 120 tons.” Yet hopes are faint that the indirect Cairo talks, run by Egyptian mediators, will deliver a brighter future. Israel says it won’t lift the closure

unless Hamas disarms. It argues that Hamas has exploited eased restrictions in the past to boost its military infrastructure, diverting cement and steel imported for schools and homes for the construction of tunnels used as staging areas for attacks on Israel. Hamas views such a demand as an existential threat. It fears that if it disbands its 20,000-strong fighting force and hands over remaining rockets — essentially dropping its core principle of armed struggle against Israel — it will become indistinguishable from rival Fatah, the movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that has tried and failed for two decades to win statehood through negotiations with Israel. The Cairo talks might not produce more than an easing of the restrictions. Partial solutions could include Israel allowing more building materials into Gaza, under international supervision, for post-war reconstruction. In any scenario, Abbas is expected to regain a foothold in the territory he lost in 2007, with some of his forces to be deployed at Gaza’s crossings to allay security concerns by Israel and Egypt. Europe wants a broader deal and has proposed a sea corridor for pas-

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Canadian professor to work with Clooney’s fiancée on UN team probing Gaza war BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA — A Canadian professor will be working alongside British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who is engaged to George Clooney, and another lawyer from Senegal on a UN commission examining possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza. William Schabas, who currently works as an international law professor at Middlesex University in England, will be chairing the threemember commission of inquiry. Senegalese lawyer Doudou Diene, who has filled UN posts on racism and human rights in Ivory Coast, is also a member of the commission. Schabas has previously served as one of three international members of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has been a consultant on capital punishment for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. The appointments for the new commission were announced Monday by Gabon Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella, who is president of the 47-nation UN Human

sengers and cargo between Gaza and Cyprus, with international inspection points at both ends. This would give Gaza its own gate to the world, independent of Israel and Egypt. The Palestinian delegation, which includes representatives of Hamas, Fatah and other factions, has welcomed the plan. But it’s not clear if Israel and Egypt would readily give up leverage over Gaza without Hamas relinquishing power. Any partial deal could ease life in Gaza. However, economists say that real development depends on free trade and movement. Since slamming Gaza’s gates shut, Israel has recalibrated the restrictions, and it has allowed more consumer goods into the territory. The goal is to “enable civilians to earn a livelihood while not allowing Hamas to improve its terror capacities,” said Maj. Guy Inbar, an Israeli military spokesman. However, some say Israel has overstretched the security argument. Israel’s Gaza policy “goes way beyond what is necessary for security,” said Sari Bashi of the Israeli rights group Gisha, which lobbies for access to and from Gaza. “Israel is pursuing political goals in restricting travel.”

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‘Fat-shaming’ hurtful Retiree wonders what to do next and unnecessary “Oh my god, if I ever look like that, just said something to them. Maybe I should put me out of my misery and shoot me.” have stood up for their objective mark. “It’s a rare land whale, seldom seen in I admit, I didn’t. such parts.” Instead, I walked over to the “It is just disgusting, how can kids playing on the jungle gym. I they even let themselves get to watched as children of all sorts that point?” weaved in and out of their play. This is the conversation I half Kids with missing front teeth, listened to as I watched my chilkids with straggly hair (that was dren play joyfully at the beach Sophie), little kids, big kids, park. kids of different skin colours Let’s not beat around the and kids who didn’t speak bush here, we all have judged English. And the entire time I at one time or another. Whether watched these children interit be the overweight lady at the acting, not one of them at any beach, the skinny albino-lookpoint ever leaned cattily over ing kid who has no friends at to another and said, “I can’t school, or the old woman who believe we are playing with ol’ LINDSAY lives next door and always talks freckles, like can you say ew?” BROWN to her cat like he is an infant or, “Please just shoot me if I child. ME PLUS THREE ever look like that kid who has If we’ve seen it, then more no front teeth.” than likely we’ve talked about Yeah, sounds pretty ridicuit to someone else in a mocking lous coming from a child right? nature. This is how we sound when we come down But what I hope happens to me also is on others who do not add up to our aestrue for every other person who has impul- thetic tastes. sively judged another. Although I may have Children have become the role models participated in the gossip game and unkind and we the pupils in life’s lesson plan on dialogue, in my heart of hearts there is a how we should treat our fellow human bestruggle surfacing. And it is this struggle ings. that I hope will begin to make an irreversAnd there is a disastrous yet subtle eleible change in the way we treat others. ment brewing in this equation. This person who is clearly in earshot of That is that the children don’t know they our mindless jibber jabber has feelings, are the role models. They still believe that too. They are a human being no different our actions and words never fail. We never than me. What gives me the right to judge falter. These children will see us behavthem so brazenly? And what would happen ing in this sick and twisted way towards if the tables were turned on me? our neighbours, friends, the stranger walk“Oh my god, did you see the ego on that ing ahead of us and soon it will become a one? Betcha it needs some serious strok- learned behaviour. Some say that children ing! How pathetic.” are the worst for being cruel and mean. I “That is downright the ugliest personal- would rebut that with the idea that those ity I’ve ever seen.” children must have learned the unkind be“What personality? No wonder she com- haviour from somewhere and usually that pensates with selfies and selfishness.” somewhere stems from home. It is entirely possible. And yet still in One day our beautiful babes who today this day and age it is the people with the play catch with the overweight kid or talk physical differences that don’t match up openly with the child about her prosthetic to today’s ‘beauty standards’ who have to arm will be the ones sniggering behind listen to the off-colour comments and rude their backs. A meanness will surface in innuendoes. them and we will wonder where it came I am sick of it and want no part of it any from. We will wonder where our lovely litlonger. Now when I see this type of banter tle Sally went. Where our polite and courtefrom near and far, all it makes me think ous Gordy has gone. And we will only have of is how unhappy these people must be ourselves to blame. with themselves. So much to the point that I’ve heard it called ‘fat shaming’ but in they pick apart complete strangers for no reality it is simply marginalization due to other reason than to provide a small bit of difference. And for the sake of this next self-satisfaction: “At least I am better than generation and all those to follow, it has them.” got to end. Now. I decided to walk away from the conLindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of versation completely. Maybe I should have two and freelance columnist.

Question: After decades of look- there are times when she’s increding forward to retirement, I find ibly rude and unkind to me, our that the promised carefree life- kids and even family and friends. style isn’t quite what I expected. How can I “honour” her when I worked hard to attain this goal, she’s behaving badly? and now I’m struggling with disDr. Greg Smalley, vice-president, contentment. What do Family Ministries: you suggest I do? There are many ways JIM Jim: Restlessness a husband can honour DALY and discontent are ofhis wife. Admittedly, ten spawned by false that’s a lot easier when hopes and unrealistic we’re happy and the expectations. relationship is peachy. We’ve been condiBut unkind and selfish tioned by advertisers behaviour is something and marketers to picwe’ve all been guilty ture retirement as an endless ex- of, and it’s how we respond to our istence of leisure and luxury. The spouse when we’re on the receivproblem is that most of us never ing end that’s the key. Here’s an make it to this “paradise” — and approach I’ve found helpful. even those who do sometimes ● Separate the person from the find it leaves a sour taste in their behaviour. As someone created in mouth. God’s image, your wife is of value Perhaps your dissatisfaction and worthy of honour regardless stems from your experience not of her behaviour. matching up with the hype. ● Recognize that your percepIf retirement isn’t delivering tion of your wife is affected by what you really want out of life, I’d her behaviour. It’s easy to “switch encourage you to shake up the sta- lenses” when you’re frequently tus quo. Start by taking an honest hurt or frustrated by her. Conseinventory of who you are and what quently, you may be tempted to you desire. It’s quite possible that see everything through a lens that you’re a person who, more than accentuates the negative and elimanything else, wants the opportu- inates the positive. Psychologists nity to keep giving of yourself. In call this “confirmation bias.” The fact, Focus on the Family has been remedy is to flip the lens and beblessed by the invaluable contri- gin actively looking for the posibutions of retirees who volunteer tives. their skills and experience to ● Consider how you might be help us in our outreach. If you feel distorting the problem. Is it possomething like this might provide sible that you have a hot button, the fulfilment you’ve been lacking, a pet peeve, an old wound or an I can assure you that there is no issue in your past that makes a shortage of organizations needing particular behaviour loom large in your help. You might start with your mind? your church or local school dis● Finally, confront the negative trict — they always need mentors behaviour, not the person, using or teaching assistants. healthy conflict-resolution tools. And many nature preserves, It’s critical to do this in the spirit museums and fine art centers are of honesty and humility versus ansearching for docents. ger and pride. This, ultimately, is That said, it’s also possible you how you will honour her. may be struggling with depression For help on navigating conflict that sometimes accompanies a ma- in a respectful, appropriate and jor change in life. effective way, check out my book, If you think this may be your Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage situation, I’d invite you to call (Howard Books, 2013), or call our our Focus counselling staff. They Focus staff of counselors. would be privileged to help you Jim Daly is a husband and father, work through this transition, so an author, and president of Focus on you can embrace this new season the Family and host of the Focus on to the fullest. the Family radio program. Catch up Question: I know I’m supposed with him at www.jimdalyblog.com or to love and honour my wife, but at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

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Listen with the intent to understand other person “The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.” — Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist, poet and author

People, once said, “Most people don’t needs of the mind. Effective listen- is important and that you are interlisten with the intent of understanding ing enables us to learn what those ested in what he or she has to say. You — they listen with the intent to reply.” needs are for ourselves and for oth- are saying, “I respect you and your Effective communication is always ers. Breakthroughs happen when we thoughts. You are worth listening to a two-way street. The onus falls on learn to listen to our own inner voice. and have things of value to say.” “I explained this to both parties to ensure the Says Maslow, “Listening is a window to Karl Menninger, an American psyyou already,” she said. time, place and topic are what’s going on inside.” chiatrist and author of the landmark “Weren’t you listening?” appropriate for the disTo what degree do you listen to volume, Man against Himself, once said, Years ago, I started a cussion. your colleagues, friends and family “Listening is a magnetic and strange new job and the manager To keep the conver- members? Are you mentally preparing thing, a creative force. The friends who was not the best trainer. sation on track, start by your response while they speak? If so, listen to us are the ones we move toShe had little patience establishing clear guide- you’re not being an effective listener. ward. When we are listened to, it crewith new staff. I rememlines or ground rules The next time you listen, make a ates us, makes us unfold and expand.” ber her showing me someprior to beginning the conscious effort to be engaged and It’s interesting to note that the Chithing once then asking, dialogue. Remember, if give the speaker your full attention. nese symbol for listening consists of “Go it?” When I asked for you’re asking to be heard, Listen without mentally formulating 10 distinct elements combining words clarity, I got the above reyou too will need to be a a response; then pause before you do like ear, eye, heart, sense and respect. sponse. I was listening but good listener. respond. When you listen with your ears, eyes wasn’t being heard. I think most of us Finally, respond with a question and heart, you truly begin to comprePart of the job involved would agree that having rather than an answer — one that asks hend the other person’s context, emooperating one of the early someone listen intently to the speaker to further clarify the situ- tion and intentions. electronic cash registers what we say makes us feel ation. Ask how the speaker feels about There will be no need to ask, “Do MURRAY and I couldn’t for the life better both mentally and what has just been shared. If the shar- you think I talk just to hear myself FUHRER of me get the device to cophysically. Being heard ing involves a problem, ask for solu- speak?” operate. is important because it tions instead of immediately offering Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert Usually, I would ask validates our thoughts suggestions. I am amazed how many and facilitator. His new book is entitled for help from one of the and feelings. 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You just need “Do you think I talk just to hear my- frustration and anxiety level went up. someone to listen when self speak?” In therapy sessions, I often tell my cli- you ask the question.” I tried to explain that I was a hands- ents to talk while I listen and that’s The frustration of not on learner but she didn’t want to hear just what I do: listen intently, take being heard illustrates it. Telling me once how to do some- notes and observe. Being listened to is the strong link between thing and then leaving me to my own cathartic and many of my clients claim listening and self-esdevices had never worked well. I need- to feel profoundly better for being able teem. When someone lised to ask questions, hold it, touch it — to speak their minds. tens to you, you feel good experience it. In Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of about yourself. 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LUANN Aug. 12 1992 — Canadian Trade Minister Michael Wilson signs draft North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) deal with U.S. and Mexico after 14 months of negotiations. It creates the world’s largest trading block; to start Jan. 1, 1994; to phase out trade and investment barriers over 10 years. It will take another year to iron out side issues. 1984 — Close of XXIII Olympiad in Los

Angeles; record attendance of 5.5 million people despite Soviet-led boycott. Canada makes its best Olympic showing ever, winning 44 medals — 10 gold, 18 silver, 16 bronze — including a double gold in swimming by Alex Baumann, the 200-metre individual medley and the 400-metre individual medley. Other golds: Victor Davis in 200-metre breaststroke; Linda Thom in match pistols; Lori Fung in rhythmic gymnastics; Ann Ottenbrite in 200-metre breaststroke; Sylvie Bernier in springboard diving; and the men’s eight rowing team.

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A’s even final with Riggers BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Athletics 10, Riggers 9 For the second time this season, the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics have handed the Red Deer Riggers their first loss —only this time, it should stand up. The Athletics beat the Riggers 10-9 in Game 2 of the Sunburst Baseball League final at Great Chief Park on Monday night, in a heartbreaker for the home team. The A’s originally beat the Riggers 7-5 during the regular season, but were forced to forfeit the game due to using an ineligible player. There will be no technicality keeping the Riggers perfect this time. The win could not have come at any better time for Fort Saskatchewan, as the series now switches back to the capital region for Games 3 and 4. “It’s huge, to come here and walk away with a split,” said A’s third baseman Lance Romanchuk. “We feel like if we had another inning (in Game 1) we would have won that ball game, so we’re feeling pretty good right now, we’re happy with where we’re sitting.” Red Deer, however, came within a heartbeat of sweeping the first two games at home. The Athletics built a huge 9-2 lead through the top of the eighth inning, but Red Deer battled back and tied it with a seven-run bottom half of the inning. The Riggers loaded the bases with none out for slugging first baseman Jason Louis and he singled to left centre field to bring in two runs. Shayne Court followed with a double to score another run and to put runners at second and third with none out. Kevin Curran then singled to score Louis and Reign Letkeman grounded out to first, scoring Court. After Denver Wik reached first, short stop Jason Chatwood singled up the middle to score Curran and put runners on first and second with one out. Catcher Jaret Chatwood made it two out with a fly ball to right field, but Kerry Boone singled up the middle tie the game. However, they could not covert it into a win. Riggers relief pitcher Sean Maguire loaded the bases with none out before being lifted for Josh Edwards. He got the first batter he saw to hit a ground

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Red Deer Rigger pitcher Drew Boyer started the game against the Fort Saskatchewan Athletics at Great Chief Park on Monday night. ball to first base and got the force at home. But he walked the next batter to score Jeremy Harasymchuk. Edwards got out of the jam after that, but the damage was done. In the bottom half of the ninth, the Riggers got Louis over to third base with two out, but could not bring him in. It was a tough way to go down. “It’s always tough losing in the playoffs,” said head coach Curtis Bailey. “It’s one of those things where even

though we’re down by seven, we string some hits together and it shows a lot of character that we can come back and we can battle with them.” Red Deer dug their own grave early, as starting pitcher Drew Boyer gave up five singles to the first five hitters, plating three Fort Saskatchewan batters, and Kiel Vertz kept the Riggers at bay until he ran out of steam in the eighth inning. Boyer lasted 3 2/3 innings for the Riggers, giving up five runs, three

earned, with eight hits, while Vertz went seven-plus innings allowing six runs, five earned on 10 hits with two strike outs. Davin Gulbransen followed Boyer, going 2 1/3 innings, giving up three earned runs on six hits while Maguire went two-plus innings, allowing two earned runs on three hits and taking the loss.

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North Korea a mighty obstacle for Canada

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Canada’s captain Kinley McNicoll brings the ball under control as coach Andrew Olivieri looks on during first half action in 2014 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup action against Finland in Toronto on Friday.

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MONTREAL — Canada’s hopes of reaching the quarter-finals at the women’s under-20 World Cup likely depend on a win against the toughest team in their group — North Korea. Canada (1-1-0) plays North Korea (2-0-0) in their final group stage match Tuesday night at Olympic Stadium. The Canadians enter the game in a precarious position after losing their opener 1-0 to Ghana and then needing a dramatic, second half comeback to top Finland 3-2. “We’ve known since the 90th minute of the Ghana game that we needed two results, or two wins,” coach Andrew Olivieri said Monday. “You saw the impact the crowd had in Toronto in the second half (against Finland). That was great for us. We hope to have the same in Montreal.” After playing before crowds of 14,834 and 16,503 at cosy BMO Field in Toronto, Canada will move indoors onto artificial turf in the cavernous, 55,000-seat Big O to face one of the top teams in women’s soccer at the junior level. The North Koreans, led by striker Ri Un Sim, downed Ghana 3-0 on Saturday after edging Finland 2-1 in their opener. They are known as a well-organized, disciplined team that makes opponents pay for mistakes.

“We have to make sure we’re careful and that there are not too many lapses,” said Olivieri, a Montreal native and former goalkeeper for the Montreal Impact. North Korea leads the group with six points and a plus-4 goal differential, while Canada has three points and an even differential and Ghana has three and is minus-2. Finland has no points and is minus-2, but still has a chance to get into the tie-breaking mix if Canada loses and it wins big against Ghana in Moncton, N.B. on Tuesday night. Canada looked doomed when it fell behind by two goals in the first half against Finland. But Janine Beckie scored in the 48th minute, followed two minutes later by the equalizer from Valerie Sanderson, who slotted home a feed from Nichell Prince. Spurred by a roaring home crowd, Prince got the game-winner that kept Canada in contention. “It was amazing,” said Sanderson, who will have a large group of family and friends from Boisbriand, Que., in the seats. “Every time we were touching the ball they were screaming. “Even when we were down 2-0 they were behind us. I hope Montreal does the same for us.”

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Canadians open tournament with win over Swiss BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 5 Switzerland 1 PIESTANY, Slovakia — Mathew Barzal scored the winning goal and an assist as Canada opened its defence of its U18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup title with a 5-1 win over Switzerland on Monday. Canada has won the summer hockey tournament six years in a row, and 18 of the past 23 times since it began in 1991. The Canadians took a step toward adding another title by spreading the scoring out and getting a solid performance in goal from Zachary Sawchenko. Dylan Strome, Lawson Crouse, Mitchell Vande Sompel and Mitchell

U18 IVAN HLINKA MEMORIAL CUP Stephens had the other goals for Canada, while Sawchenko made 20 saves. “We’ve jelled together quite a bit lately, and it’s really easy for me to play in front of this group,” Sawchenko said. Canada coach Jody Hull said the team is coming together despite having just three practices and one exhibition game before Monday’s contest. “Everything’s happening pretty quick with this group of guys, but they’re all professional and they all understand what it takes to win,” Hull said. Dominik Schmid had the lone goal for Switzerland. Tim Guggisberg gave

up all five Canada goals on 27 shots, while Joren Van Pottelberghe stopped all nine shots he faced in relief. Canada continues group play against Sweden on Tuesday. “We’re going to expect speed,” goaltending coach Corey Hirsch said of the Swedes. “They’re always a quick team and they’ll be well coached. You’ve got to be patient, attack when you can attack and play a smarter game.” Canada started quickly with Strome scoring at 7:27 of the first period. Barzal, who played with Canada’s bronze-winning team at the U18 world championships earlier this year, made it 2-0 under three minutes later.

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Crouse and Vande Sompel scored in the first half of the second period to give Canada a 4-0 lead halfway though the game. Schmid scored one minute after Vande Sompel’s goal to give Switzerland some life. “We got out of our comfort zone a little bit, but as the game wet on I thought we got back to playing the proper way,” Hull said. Stephens got Canada back on track with a goal at 2:21 of the third period, and the Canadians shut Switzerland down for the victory. Both teams struggled on the power play, with Canada going 0-for-6 and Switzerland going 0-for-5. Adam Musil of the Red Deer Rebels is a member of Team Canada.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct 68 50 .576 63 57 .525 61 57 .517 58 60 .492 52 65 .444 Central Division W L Pct 64 53 .547 63 53 .543 59 59 .500 56 63 .471 53 64 .453 West Division W L Pct 72 46 .610 68 49 .581 63 55 .534 49 70 .412 46 72 .390

2-3), 8:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Sale 10-2) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 7-8), 8:15 p.m.

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Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 11, Detroit 6 Baltimore 11, N.Y. Yankees 3 Tampa Bay 7, Texas 0 Minnesota 4, Houston 2 Kansas City 3, Oakland 2 Seattle 11, Toronto 1 Tuesday’s Games Arizona (Collmenter 8-6) at Cleveland (House 1-3), 5:05 p.m. Detroit (Ray 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 9-7), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Greene 3-1) at Baltimore (W.Chen 12-4), 5:05 p.m. Boston (J.Kelly 0-0) at Cincinnati (Latos 4-3), 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Hellickson 1-1) at Texas (Tepesch 4-7), 6:05 p.m. Minnesota (Pino 1-4) at Houston (McHugh 4-9), 6:10 p.m. Oakland (Lester 12-7) at Kansas City (Guthrie 8-9), 6:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Williams 0-0) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 8-8), 8:05 p.m. Toronto (Happ 8-6) at Seattle (C.Young 10-6), 8:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Sale 10-2) at San Francisco

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct Washington 63 53 .543 Atlanta 60 58 .508 Miami 58 60 .492 New York 57 62 .479 Philadelphia 53 66 .445 Central Division W L Pct Milwaukee 66 53 .555 Pittsburgh 63 55 .534 St. Louis 62 55 .530 Cincinnati 60 58 .508 Chicago 50 67 .427 West Division W L Pct Los Angeles 68 52 .567 San Francisco 62 56 .525 San Diego 54 62 .466 Arizona 51 67 .432 Colorado 46 71 .393

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Monday’s Games N.Y. Mets 5, Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 11, Detroit 6 L.A. Dodgers 6, Atlanta 2 Miami 6, St. Louis 5 Milwaukee 3, Chicago Cubs 1 Colorado at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Arizona (Collmenter 8-6) at Cleveland (House 1-3), 5:05 p.m. Detroit (Ray 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 9-7), 5:05 p.m. Boston (J.Kelly 0-0) at Cincinnati (Latos 4-3), 5:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Haren 9-9) at Atlanta (Minor 4-7), 5:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 14-6) at Miami (Cosart 0-1), 5:10 p.m. Washington (Fister 11-3) at N.Y. Mets (R.Montero 0-2), 5:10 p.m. Milwaukee (W.Peralta 14-6) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 3-1), 6:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Williams 0-0) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 8-8), 8:05 p.m. Colorado (Flande 0-4) at San Diego (Despaigne

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Capuano, Warren (7), Whitley (8), R.Hill (8) and Cervelli; B.Norris, Brach (6), O’Day (7), A.Miller (8), Tom.Hunter (9) and C.Joseph. W—B.Norris 10-7. L—Capuano 1-3. HRs—Baltimore, C.Davis (21), N.Cruz (31), Schoop (10). T. Bay Texas

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Smyly, Yates (8), Jo.Peralta (8), Balfour (9) and Casali; Lewis, Klein (6), Adcock (7), S.Baker (9) and Chirinos. W—Smyly 7-10. L—Lewis 8-9. Oakland K. City

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Gray, Cook (8) and D.Norris; Ventura, K.Herrera (7), W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez. W—K.Herrera 3-2. L—Gray 12-6. Sv—G.Holland (35). Minnesota 100 Houston 100

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Milone, Pressly (7), Duensing (8), Perkins (9) and K.Suzuki; Peacock, J.Buchanan (6), Fields (9) and J.Castro. W—Duensing 3-2. L—Fields 2-5. Sv— Perkins (29). HRs—Houston, Altuve (5), Carter (26). Toronto Seattle

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Hutchison, Mills (6) and D.Navarro, Thole; F.Hernandez, Beimel (8), Farquhar (9) and Zunino. W—F.Hernandez 13-3. L—Hutchison 8-10. HRs— Toronto, Bautista (23). Seattle, Cano (10). INTERLEAGUE Detroit 100 003 020 — Pittsburgh 530 002 01x —

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Verlander, Ju.Miller (2), Krol (4), Whelan (6), Coke (7) and Avila; Locke, J.Hughes (6), Sadler (8), Watson (8), Ju.Wilson (9) and R.Martin. W—Locke 4-3. L—Verlander 10-11. HRs—Pittsburgh, Snider 2 (9), R.Martin (6), I.Davis (8). NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 000 100 400 — Philadelphia000 200 001 —

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Niese, Carlyle (8), Familia (8) and Recker; D.Buchanan, De Fratus (7), Bastardo (8), C.Jimenez (9) and Ruiz. W—Niese 6-8. L—D.Buchanan 6-6. Sv—Familia (3). HRs—New York, Recker (4). Philadelphia, Ruf (2). St. Louis Miami

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Correia, B.Wilson (7), J.Wright (8), Frias (9) and A.Ellis; Teheran, Russell (8), Jaime (8), Varvaro (9) and Gattis. W—Correia 1-0. L—Teheran 10-9. Milwaukee 010 Chicago 000

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Gallardo, W.Smith (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy; Arrieta, Strop (8), Grimm (9) and Castillo. W—Gallardo 7-6. L—Arrieta 6-4. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (36). HRs—Milwaukee, Mar.Reynolds (20).

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● Red Deer Senior Men’s Baseball League — Makeup game or exhibition

Wednesday

● Sunburst Baseball League Finals: Red Deer Riggers @ Fort Saskatchewan Athletics in Fort Saskatchewan. Game 3 of best-of-five series. ● Parkland Baseball League semifinal: Rocky Mountain House Red Dogs @ Red Deer Razorbacks at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park. Game 2 of best-of-three series.

Thursday

● Red Deer Senior Men’s Baseball League — Makeup game or exhibition ● Sunburst Baseball League Finals: Red Deer Riggers @ Fort Saskatchewan Athletics in Fort Saskatchewan. Game 4 of best-of-five series if needed.

Friday

● Sunburst Baseball League Finals: Fort Saskatchewan Athletics @ Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park. Game 5 of best-of-five series if needed. ● Parkland Baseball League semifinal: Rocky Mountain House Red Dogs @ Red Deer Razorbacks at 7 p.m. at Great Chief Park. Game 3 of best-of-three series if needed.

Swimming RED DEER MARLINS 2014 ASSA REGION D REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS 1,500M Free - Julia Richards (14) Silver 400M Free - Emma Wrench (11) Silver, Katelyn Cookson (11) Bronze 400M Free - Grant Claerhout (12) Silver, Kaden Schiller (11) Bronze 400M Free - Aidan Johns (15) Silver, Tyler Driesen (15) Bronze 25M Short Fly - Darby Duncan (8) Bronze 25M Short Fly - Sara Mateika (10) Gold 50M Short Fly - Emma Wrench (11) Bronze 50M Short Fly - Kathryn Richards (16) Bronze 50M Short Fly - Jack Walton (11) Silver 50M Short Fly - Liam Stalwick (14) Gold, Matthew Purdy (14) Silver 50M Short Fly - Ryan Mah (16) Gold, Tyler Driesen (15) Silver 50M Long Back - Grace Hitchcock (6) Gold, Priya Thomas (6) Silver 50M Long Back - Saryn Jacques (7) Silver, Hayden Bettenson (7) Bronze 50M Long Back - Chloe Becher (9) Gold 50M Long Back - Sean Raivio (8) Gold, Noah Thomas (8), Silver 50M Long Back - Adam Hucal (10) Gold, Mason Leroux (9) Bronze 100M Long Back - Lauren Bettenson (11) Gold 100M Long Back - Paige Olmstead (15) Silver 100M Long Back - Cale Kooyman (13) Gold, Keelan Armstrong (14) Bronze 100M Long Back - Aiden Kooyman (16) Gold, Aidan Johns (15) Silver 25M Short Breast - Corey Ovie (6) Silver 25M Short Breast - Hanna Mateika (8) Silver, Makenna Vanmaarion (8) Bronze 25M Short Breast - Delaney Lehman (10) Silver, Jélena Snydal (10) Bronze 25M Short Breast - Rhett Becher (6) Gold 25M Short Breast - Brady Leroux (7) Gold 25M Short Breast - Owen Halford (9) Silver, Payden Vanmaarion (10) Bronze 50M Short Breast - Hannah Morrison (12) Gold 50M Short Breast - Jane Gosling (14) Gold, Julie Gosling (13) Silver 50M Short Breast - Grant Claerhout (12) Silver, Richard Seo (11) Bronze 50M Short Breast - Cale Kooyman (13) Gold, Erik Sveinson (13) Silver, Matthew Purdy (14) Bronze 50M Short Breast - Ryan Mah (16) Gold 50M Long Free - Grace Hitchcock (6) Silver 50M Long Free - Saryn Jacques (7) Silver 50M Long Free - Rhett Becher (6) Gold, Justin Squire (6) Bronze 50M Long Free - Sean Raivio (8) Gold, Noah Thomas (8) Bronze

100M Long Free - Delaney Laehman (10) Silver, Veronica Panteluk (9) Bronze 100M Long Free - Amy Cookson (15) Gold, Kathryn Richards (16) Bronze 100M Long Free - Adam Hucal (10) Silver, Owen Halford (9) Bronze 100M Long Free - Jack Walton (11) Silver, Kaden Schiller (11) Bronze 100M Long Free - Liam Stalwick (14) Gold, Matthew Purdy (14) Silver, Keelan Armstrong (14) Bronze 100M Long Free - Ryan Claerhout (15) Bronze 100 IM - Hayden Bettenson (7) Bronze 100IM - Sara Mateika (10) Silver, Chloe Becher (9) Bronze 100IM - Lauren Bettenson (11) Gold, Erika Driesen (12) Bronze 100IM - Sean Raivio (8) Gold 100 IM - Kieran Monaghan (10) Silver 200 IM - Claire Halford (13) Gold, Jane Gosling (14) Silver 200 IM - Cale Kooyman (13) Gold, Liam Stalwick (14) Silver 200 IM - Aiden Kooyman (16) Gold Girls 200M Free - Sara Mateika (10) Gold, Delaney Lehman (10) Silver Girls 200M Free - Claire Halford (13) Gold Girls 200M Free - Amy Cookson (15) Gold, Kathryn Richards (16) Silver Boys 200M Free - Owen Halford (9) Silver, Adam Hucal (10) Bronze Boys 200M Free - Grant Claerhout (12) Silver, Kaden Schiller (11) Bronze Boys 200M Free - Erik Sveinson (13) Gold, Keelan Armstrong (14) Silver, Carson Schiller (14) Bronze Boys 200M Free - Aiden Kooyman (16) Bronze Girls 50M Long Fly - Sara Mareika (10) Silver Girls 100M Long Fly - Emma Wrench (11) Silver Girls 100M Long Fly - Jane Gosling (14) Gold, Julia Richards (14) Silver Boys 100M Long Fly - Jack Walton (11) Silver Boys 100M Long Fly - Liam Stalwick (14) Gold Boys 100M Long Fly - Ryan Mah (16) Gold, Tyler Driesen (15) Silver Girls 25M Short Back - Grace Hitchcock (6) Gold, Priya Thomas (6) Bronze Girls 25 M Short Back Saryn Jacques (7) Gold, Hayden Bettenson (7) Bronze Girls 25M Short Back - Chloe Becher (9) Gold Boys 25M Short Back - Justin Squire (6) Gold, Rhett Becher (6) Bronze Boys 25M Short Back- Sean Raivio (8) Gold, Noah Thomas (8) Silver Boys 25 M Short Back - Adam Hucal (10) Gold, Mason Leroux (9) Silver Girls 50M Short Back - Lauren Bettenson (11) Gold Girls 50M Short Back - Paige Olmstead (15) Gold, Amy Cookson (15) Silver

Boys 50M Short Back - Keelan Armstrong (14) Bronze Boys 50M Short Back - Aiden Johns (15) Gold, Aiden Kooyman (16) Silver Girls 50M Long Breast - Hanna Mateika (8) Gold, Makenna Vanmaarion (8) Silver Girls 50M Long Breast - Jélena Snydal (10) Silver Boys 50M Long Breast - Brady Leroux (7) Silver, Makai Wannop (8) Bronze Boys 50M Long Breast - Owen Halford (9) Gold, Payden Vanmaarion (10) Silver, Kieran Monaghan (10) Bronze Girls 100M Long Breast - Hannah Morrison (12) Gold Girls 100M Long Breast - Jane Gosling (14) Gold Boys 100M Long Breast - Grant Claerhout (12) Gold Boys 100M Long Breast - Cale Kooyman (13) Gold, Erik Sveinson (13) Silver Boys 100M Long Breast - Ryan Mah (16) Gold, Aidan Johns (15) Silver Girls 25M Short Free - Grace Hitchcock (6) Silver, Priya Thomas (6) Bronze Girls 25M Short Free - Saryn Jacques (7) Bronze Boys 25M Short Free - Rhett Becher (6) Gold, Justin Squire (6) Silver, Parks Tweedale (6) Bronze Boys 25M Short Free - Noah Thomas (8) Gold Girls 50M Short Free - Delaney Lehman (10) Gold, Veronica Panteluk (9) Bronze Girls 50M Short Free - Lauren Bettenson (11) Gold, Erika Driesen (12) Silver, Emma Wrench (11) Bronze Girls 50M Short Free - Amy Cookson (15) Silver, Kathryn Richards (16) Bronze Boys 50M Short Free - Payen Vanmaarion (10) Bronze Boys 50M Short Free - Kaden Schiller (11) Silver Boys 50M Short Free - Erik Sveinson (13) Gold, Matthew Purdy (14) Silver Girls 800M Free - Claire Halford (13) Gold Girls 800M Free - Paige Olmstead (15) Gold Boys 800M Free - Carson Schiller (14) Silver Boys 800M Free - Tyler Driesen (15) Silver

style Relay Gold: Noah Thomas, Brady Leroux, Rhett Becher, Sean Raivio Bronze: Makai Wannop, Justin Squire, Finn Colebrook, Matthew Hansen Girls 10&U 100M Freestyle Relay Gold: Sara Mateika, Chloe Becher, Veronica Panteluk, Delaney Lehman Boys 10&U 100M Freestyle Relay Gold: Payden Vanmaarion, Kieran Monaghan, Eoin Wolfe, Owen Halford Bronze: Andrew Seo, Cameron Ovie, Parks Tweedale, Adam Hucal Girls 12&U 200M Freestyle Relay Gold: Erika Driesen, Emma Wrench, Hannah Morrison, Lauren Bettenson Boys 12&U 200M Freestyle Relay Gold: Jack Walton, Kaden Schiller, Mason Leroux, Grant Claerhout Girls 14&U 200M Freestyle Relay Gold: Jane Gosling, Julie Gosling, Julia Richards, Claire Halford Boys 14&U 200M Freestyle Relay Gold: Cale Kooyman, Erik Sveinson, Matthew Purdy, Liam Stalwick Bronze: Carson Schiller, Chad Lantz, Luke Panteluk, Keelan Armstrong Girls 17&U 200M Freestyle Relay Gold: Amy Cookson, Kathryn Richards, Nathania Sunga, Paige Olmstead Boys 17&U 200M Freestyle Relay Gold: Aidan Johns, Ryan Mah, Tyler Driesen, Aiden Kooyman Girls 8&U 100M Medley Relay Gold: Hanna Mateika, Makenna Vanmaarion, Darby Duncan, Hayden Bettenson

Girls 8&U 100 Freestyle Relay Gold: Hanna Mateika, Darby Duncan, Makenna Vanmaarion, Saryn Jacques Silver: Grace Monaghan, Haven Pendle, Kayla Zankl, Hayden Bettenson Bronze: AlexisbSquire, Grace Hitchcock, Sarah Raivio, Micah Tweedale

Silver: Haven Pendle, Kayla Zankl, Grace Monaghan, Saryn Jacques Bronze: Alexis Squire, Grace Hitchcock, Sarah Raivio, Micah Tweedale Boys 8&U 100M Medley Relay Silver: Brady Leroux, Sean Raivio, Noah Thomas, Rhett Becher Girls 9-10 100M Medley Relay Gold: Chloe Becher, Jélena Snydal, Sara Mateika, Delaney Lehman Boys 9-10 100M Medley Relay Gold: Mason Leroux, Kieran Monaghan, Owen Halford, Payden Vanmaarion Bronze: Finn Colebrook, Andrew Seo, Adam Hucal, Cameron Ovie Girls 12&U 200M Medley Relay Gold: Lauren Bettenson, Hannah Morrison, Emma Wrench, Erika Driesen Boys 12&U 200M Medley Relay Gold: Eoin Wolfe, Grant Claerhout, Jack Walton, Kaden Schiller Girls 14&U 200M Medley Relay Gold: Claire Halford, Jane Gosling, Julia Richards, Julie Gosling Boys 14&U 200M Medley Relay Gold: Erik Sveinson, Cale Kooyman, Liam Stalwick, Matthew Purdy Girls 17&U 200M Medley Relay Silver: Paige Olmstead, Amy Cookson, Kathryn Richards, Nathania Sunga Boys 17&U 200M Medley Relay Gold: Aiden Kooyman, Ryan Mah, Tyler Driesen, Aidan Johns Bronze: Ayden Wannop, Richard Seo, Ryan Claerhout, Niamh Sunga

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Woods still in contention for Ryder Cup BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, Ky. — U.S. captain Tom Watson said he would be foolish not to consider Tiger Woods as one of his three wild-card selections, a decision that ultimately would be based on Woods’ words instead of his actions. Watson has said all year he wanted Woods on his team if he were healthy and playing well. Even though Woods is injured and not playing for the next month, Watson wouldn’t rule him out Monday. “I can’t assess his medical condition and I honestly can’t assess how he’s playing,” Watson said. “It really is going to be having to come from information from Tiger himself. But, again, I don’t make this comment loosely. He is Tiger Woods and he brings a lot to the team — if he has the ability to play and he’s healthy. He brings a lot to the team. And I’d be a fool not to consider him.” Nine players qualified for the American team after the PGA Championship. Watson has three weeks before he announces his three captain’s picks for the Ryder Cup, which is Sept. 26-28 at Gleneagles in Scotland. Woods’ season ended when he missed the cut by five shots at the PGA Championship, where he said he played through the pain of a nagging back injury. He is not playing the Wyndham Championship this week in North Carolina, and Woods is not eligible for the two FedEx Cup playoff events that will serve as an audition for Watson. “I’ll be very, very focused on the players who are high up in the ranks,” Watson said. As for Woods? He made it sound as if he would have a telephone glued to his ear. “I will continue to speak with Tiger over the next three weeks to monitor his situation,” Watson said. “Obviously, he has not been playing well. But I think it’s been a result, as you well know, of his injury and his coming back from back surgery.”

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RIGGERS: Game 3 goes Wednesday Karnie Vertz followed Kiel Vertz for the A’s but lasted only 1/3 of an inning, giving up three earned runs on three hits. Top reliever James Fischer closed out the final 1 2/3 innings, giving up just two hits while walking one and striking out one. The offence really started to come for the A’s on Sunday night, when they scored five runs in the final three innings of Game 1, nearly rallying from their own 8-3 deficit only to lose 8-6. On Monday, Tom Muhlethaler led Fort Saskatchewan with three singles and a home run while Matt Beaudry had four singles. “We’re very happy with the way we’re swinging it, we’re probably going to see their best arm on Wednesday and we’re looking forward to it,” said Romanchuk. The Riggers, however, are not surprised by what they are seeing from the Athletics. “They’re a competitive team and we know they’ll battle — they’ve always had that,” said Bailey. “On paper we’ve got a great team and we’ve just got to go out an execute. A lot of the time they will execute the simple stuff and they’re pretty successful that way.” Game 3 goes Wednesday in Edmonton at John Fry Sport Park with Game 4 on Thursday in St. Albert, both games go at 7:30 p.m. If Game 5 is needed, it will be back at Great Chief Park on Friday at 7:30 p.m. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

SOCCER: Team has grit She said the win showed the team that it has the grit and mental strength to recover from setbacks and pull out victories. They may need it against North Korea, which won the women’s U20 in 2006 and has been consistently in contention, mostly just behind favourites Germany and the United States. Ri, who scored twice against Ghana and helped set up both goals against Finland, is the player to watch. She won the golden shoe as top scorer at the 2012 under-17 tournament in Azerbaijan and has a shot at doing the same in the U20. Her two goals is one short of tournament leaders Claire Lavogez of France and Theresa Panfil of Germany. It should be a test for centrebacks Kadeisha Buchanan and Rebecca Quinn, who are among five U20 players who also play for the senior national team, and goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan. Canada’s concern is that it has yet to show top form for an entire game. “I think we’re well prepared,” said Sanderson. “We watched a game they played and we know what we have to do. “We’re ready mentally, physically and tactically. We have to battle 90 minutes. They’re really good on the ball, possession-wise. They go on the flanks a lot. I think we can handle what they do.”

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BRIEFS Marlins hold on to top provincial ranking swimming regional The Red Deer Marlins held on to their top provincial ranking by dominating the Alberta Summer Swimming Region D Championship in Lacombe on the weekend. The club secured 183 medals between the 83 members who swam in Lacombe, including 73 gold, 61 silver and 49 bronze medals. With these results, 51 Red Deer swimmers will be heading to provincials in Edmonton from Aug. 16-17. The Marlins won the team event at the meet, beating out the Innisfail Dolphins in second and the Ponoka Gators in third. The Lacombe Dolphins finished fourth, the Forestburg Aquanauts fifth, the Killam Cyclones sixth and the Hanna Seals seventh. For full Marlins results, see page B6.

Ko ready to defend Canadian Open title BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Lydia Ko says it feels like she’s going home. The New Zealander became the youngest winner on the LPGA Tour when she captured the CN Canadian Women’s Open at the age of 15 two summers ago. Ko won again last year, and will headline the field for the 2014 tournament — now known as the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open — when it gets going later this month at London Hunt & Country Club. “I love playing in Canada and the support I’ve been getting is huge,” the 17-year-old said on a conference call Monday. “To me, Canada feels quite close to what it’s like in New Zealand. It feels really welcoming whenever I go there. “Having my first LPGA win in Canada, that’s huge and that’s always going to be with me. They always say the first is one of the most memorable and it’s definitely been the case.” Tournament director Brent McLaughlin said the Canadian golf community has a strong connection to Ko because of the success she’s had the last two years. “Any time you see young talents just excel you’re proud of them,” he said. “It’s even brought further to the forefront when you feel like you’ve had a part in helping them along. “People need heroes. They need to rally around heroes and they need a reason to watch.” Ko was an amateur and didn’t collect any winnings when she won her back-to-back Canadian championships at Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam,

B.C., and at Edmonton’s Royal Mayfair Golf Club. She turned pro in October 2013 and has already won two tournaments this season, including the Marathon Classic last month. “This year has been very exciting, first year on the tour as an LPGA rookie. It’s been a fun year. I’ve learned a lot of things along the way,” said Ko. “I really look forward to going back and playing the Canadian Women’s Open. The last two years, the Canadian Open was a very exciting tournament for me.” While she’s happy with her decision to play on tour full time, Ko said dealing with the weekly grind has been an adjustment. “I’ve been trying to balance life outside the course and not over doing it and taking some time off,” she said. “Outside the golf course I do the normal teenage things — watch TV, talk to my friends on Facebook. “I think that kind of helps me to bring back my life outside of golf and outside of what I do most of the time, and actually be like a normal teenager and talk about school and gossip about things.” Ko — who was named one of Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential people in April — is still adjusting to her fame. “That’s pretty cool because I’m only 17 myself,” she said. “When I hear these little girls or boys say ’You’re my role model and I look up to you’ it is kind of cool and it makes me feel like I need to become a better person, a better player so that I live up to what they expect of me.”

Canucks name veteran NHL assistant Pearn to coaching staff VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have hired Perry Pearn as an assistant coach. Pearn joins the new Vancouver staff led by head coach Willie Desjardins. The 63-year-old from Stettler has spent over 19 NHL seasons as an assistant coach with Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and the New York Rangers. His NHL coaching career began in 1995-96 with Winnipeg, and he spent the past two seasons with the Jets. “We are very excited to name Perry to our staff today,” Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning said in a statement. “Perry brings a wealth of experience and knowledge at the NHL level to our organization.” On the international stage, Pearn coached Canada to gold at the 1993 world junior championship. He also served as an assistant on championship-winning Canadian teams in 1990 and 1991.

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SHUNDA Const. req’s F/T IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR Receptionist/AP Clerk. A CAREER & NOT A JOB... If you have a vision to help Duties: All aspects of A/P WHAT’S HAPPENING & data entry & general others improve their health... YOU are the person we office administration. CLASSIFICATIONS are looking for! If you are highly organized 50-70 Wellness Coach have exc. communication & time management skills - Natural Pain Relief Centre & are motivated. requires energetic health conscious P/T Administrative Fax resumes & ref’s to: Lost 403-343-1248 or email to: & clinical assistant. admin@shunda.ca Please drop off convincing letter & resume in person LICENCE PLATE for trailer to 30C Gaetz Ave. Crossing, taken from Stall 19 South Red Deer (Between End Storage. Plate # Dental Quiznos & Booster Juice) W89754. If found please Tuesday through Friday call 403-348-0866 Between 9 a.m.-5 p.m. BOWER DENTAL REQ’S LOST: SET OF KEYS F/T ORTHODONTICS OPTICIAN/OPTOMETRIC including a Honda key, TRAINED ASSISTANT. ASSISTANT WANTED in the downtown area. Position to start immed. Full or Part time in the REWARD OFFERED. Must be a member of the Red Deer area. Experience 403-597-9139 343-4914 College of Alberta Dental Association. Great benefits preferred. Duties include: MISSING SINCE Frame/Lens consultingJULY 24TH: SMALL CAT. and perks. Email resume to: repairing adjustment of marina@bowerdental.com 3 year old female short eyewearreception dutiesor drop off resume. haired, black. contact lens trainingLost in the Bower area. EXP’D receptionist req’d assisting with patient care. She is an indoor cat, this is for general and cosmetic Applicants are expected to be the first time she’s been out. dental office. 4 day work professional reliable and If found please call week Mon. - Thurs, team-minded. Computer 403-352-9904 guaranteed monthly skills and the ability to salary, with generous work in a fast-paced active bonus plan. Please environment are needed. reply with resume to Competitive wage based Personals info@saby.com Resume on previous experience. may also be delivered to Respond by email with 100 3947-50a ave, Red attached resume to: ALCOHOLICS Deer, AB. T4N 6V7. optometryjob2014@gmail.com ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 Contact Dr. Brian Saby at COCAINE ANONYMOUS Classifieds 403-340-3434 403-396-8298 Your place to SELL FULL TIME POSITION Your place to BUY FOR LEVEL 2 RDA required for a busy family dental office in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Oilfield Ortho module would be an asset. Please fax your resumes to 403-845-7605 or e-mail: markochatenay @gmail.com CLASSIFICATIONS

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MELANSON Christopher 1976 - 2014 Mr. Christopher James ‘Chris’ Melanson of Blackfalds, Alberta passed away suddenly in Saskatchewan, on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at the age of 38 years. Chris was born on June 5, 1976 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. An avid car enthusiast, Chris enjoyed working on cars whether it be fixing, restoring, painting or cleaning them, it was his passion. He loved his life and it reflected in the way he took care of his family and friends, always sharing a good meal by the fire or just hanging out with a nice cold refreshment. Laughter always echoed when in his presence and music and dance usually were in the midst. He will be truly missed by his loyal companion, co-pilot and buddy, Ricky. Chris will be lovingly remembered by his wife, best friend and confidant, Jennifer and three sons, Marcus, Dakota and Jesse, all of Nova Scotia, step-daughter, Jenna of Blackfalds and daughter, Paige of Lethbridge, Alberta. He will also be sadly missed by his father, David (Kathy) Melanson, his mother, Shawna Martin, his brother, Chad; as well as all his relatives and close friends. Chris was predeceased by his grandfather. A Celebration of Chris’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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Caregivers/ Aides

710

LIVE IN CAREGIVER / COMPANION for 50 yr old memory challenged female. Excellent living conditions. 403-346-3179 P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-505-7846 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Clerical

720

EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS

requires RECEPTIONIST Must have computer experience and be available from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. No Phone Calls Please Start your career! See Help Wanted

Clerical

720

Legal

780

IMMEDIATE OPENING Sully Chapman Beattie LLP is looking for a well organized, fast working, BARDEN Oilfield Hauling legal assistant with Ltd. is now hiring Bed Truck, experience in real estate Winch Tractor and Picker conveyancing. Salary and Operators, as well as benefits are negotiable and Swampers. Experience a must. will be commensurate with Fax resumes to experience. Please email 403-341-3968 or email your resume to kbeattie@ bardentrucking@telus.net. scblaw.ca Please Note: No phone calls please. We will only reply to those CUSTOMER Sales Support candidates meeting our Experience in customer criteria. service, shipping/receiving (forklift certification), inventory. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Medical On call rotation required. E-mail resume to: steed@coorstek.com. BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE No phone calls. requires a PRESCREENING TECH. Land Survey Assistant Computer literacy is a must. Required. Just Graduated Experience not necessary, from High School? This job job training is provided but could be for you! Quest qualifications will be Geomatics is experiencing considered. Starting wages very positive growth with $14/hr. Please fax resume an increasing client base to 403-342-2024. of work within the Red Pharmacy Technician Deer area of Alberta If you enjoy working in the out of P/T position avail. Must doors, are enthusiastic have experience. Please about learning new skills fax resume to and would like to work to403-343-2556 ward a career in the Classifieds...costs so little recognized profession of Saves you so much! Land Surveying then please visit our website at: www.questinc.ca Or email mailroom@questinc.ca

790

LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

Southside Dodge is looking for a new full-time team member to join our great staff!

LOOKING FOR FULLTIME CREW TRUCK HELPER for oilfield maintenance shop near Haynes/Joffre. Must have current H2S & First Aid tickets and own transportation to/from shop. Fax resumes to 403-784-3813 or e-mail to: bkkromm@telus.net.

Southside Dodge is looking for an

Office Manager/Assistant Controller

Oilfield LOGAN RAYMOND Sept. 7, 1992 - Aug. 12, 2010 A special person, a special face Someone we love and can’t replace Never selfish, always kind. These are the memories he left behind. Love Mom, Len, Kayne, Grandma P., Uncles Stacy, Larry and Allan

Over 2,000,000 hours St. John Ambulance volunteers provide Canadians with more than 2 million hours of community service each year.

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pk@southsidereddeer.com.

Now Hiring Experienced Oil and Gas Well Testing Day/Night Supervisors and Operators. Must have valid tickets and drivers license. Email resume to welltestingrd@gmail.com

Trades

800

Oilfield

800

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

JJAM Management (1987) TREELINE Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s WELL SERVICES Requires to work at these Has Opening for all Red Deer, AB locations: positions! Immediately. 5111 22 St. All applicants must have 37444 HWY 2 S current H2S, Class 5 with NOW HIRING 37543 HWY 2N Q Endorsement, and First Well Testing Personnel 700 3020 22 St. Aid. We offer competitive Experienced Supervisors FOOD ATTENDANT wages & excellent benefits. & Operators Req’d permanent shift Please include 2 work Must have valid applicable weekend day and evening reference names and tickets. Email: lstouffer@ both full and part time. numbers. testalta.com 15 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + Please fax resume to: benefits. Start ASAP. 403-264-6725 Job description Or email to: www.timhortons.com tannis@treelinewell.com Education and experience No phone calls please. not req’d. www.treelinewell.com Apply in person or fax OIL & GAS OPERATOR resume to: 403-314-1303 Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field JJAM Management (1987) operations for an intermediate Professionals Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s oil and gas operator. Applicants Requires to work at these must have experience as a Red Deer, AB locations: heavy duty mechanic or 5111 22 St. journeyman instrument 37444 HWY 2 S mechanic and possess 37543 HWY 2N strong mechanical skills, 700 3020 22 St. be quick learners, motivated Manager/Food Services and hard working and live Boundary Permanent F/T shift. $18/hr. or be willing to relocate Technical Group Inc. 40 hrs/week, + benefits , 1 within a 20 minute commute Is now hiring for: Vacancy, 2-3yrs. exp., to workplace location. This criminal record check req’d, position offers a challenging - Technologist (Party Apply in person or fax work environment, attractive Chief) resume to: 403-314-1303 benefits with competitive - Technician (Rodman) pay and significant room RAMADA INN & for promotion. In the Red Deer and SUITES Please submit resumes surrounding area req’s Permanent Attn: Human Resources ROOM ATTENDANTS Boundary offers a email:kwolokoff@ Attendants. Exp. not nec. competitive salary and bearspawpet.com will train. Approx. 35 - 40 benefits package Fax 403-252-9719 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 as well as an RRSP Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but program. We are a Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 not limited to: vacuuming, Construction/Land dusting, washing floors, survey company based in OILFIELD making beds, empty trash, Airdrie. EQUIPMENT SALES disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance POSITION Please send resume to: based bonus program. FAX: (403) 948-4924 or AVAILABLE Must be fluent with verbal DRAGON ENERGY email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca l& written English, be Start your career! Red Deer division is physically fit. Applicants currently accepting See Help Wanted may apply in person at resumes for an oilfield 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer equipment sales position. T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 Experience in water con- Restaurant/ or email: tainment, Conical Trailer Hotel info@ramadareddeer.com and Frac Water heater is an asset. Candidates Sales & must be self-motivated and willing to travel. Oilfield Distributors back ground, Class 1a and oilfield tickets and passport AUTO EQUIPMENT are an asset. Only AND SUPPLY CO. selected individuals will be IS LOOKING FOR A contacted for interviews. EAST SIDE MARIO’S F/T SALES REP Thank you. HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS for an est. route sales position Please forward resume to Full Time & Part Time. in the Central AB area. jeff.sahli@modernusa.com Apply after 2 p.m. ask for Training, company vehicle the manager on duty. Classifieds...costs so little and expenses supplied. Saves you so much! Please email resume to HUBIES ‘”1955” DINER michelle@equipmentpro.ca REQ’S. 2 P/T Snubco Pressure or fax to 403-279-8214 LINE COOKS Control Ltd. No nights or Stat holidays. WANTED: SALES PERSON Now Hiring All Snubbing Please apply to: Above average wage & Positions kerco1@telus.net benefits. Flexible hours. Candidate must have a THE RUSTY PELICAN Drop off resume to 5211 50 Ave. valid Class 1 or Class 3 is now accepting resumes license (No GDL Please) for experienced Buying or Selling Valid H2S, Fall Arrest, and F/T SERVERS your home? First Aid tickets Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. Check out Homes for Sale must express a strong Apply within: 2079-50 in Classifieds work ethic. Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Positions are base out of Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Something for Everyone Nisku, AB calls WILL NOT be accepted. Everyday in Classifieds Qualified applicants can email their resumes to careers@snubco.com or fax to 780 955 3508 Professionals attn. AJ Grant

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Become An Optician Would you like to become an Optician? TR3 Energy is at the forefront of reclamation and remediation in the oil & gas industry We are currently recruiting for:

Heavy Equipment Operators & Laborer Requirements: Valid Driver’s License H2S Alive Standard First Aid WHIMIS and/or CSTS or PST Pre-Access A&D Testing Ground Disturbance Level 11 Please e-mail or fax your resume to: hr@tr3energy.com Fax: (403) 294-9323 www.tr3energy.com

Earn your Diploma in Optical Sciences at NAIT’s 2 year program Requirements • Grade 12, GED, or assessed equivalent • Must be a Canadian Citizen Earn While You Learn Full Time Employment 40hrs/wk Training & Practicum hours provided to successful candidate. Mon-Fri 10-7, Sat 9-6 Medical/Dental Benefits To arrange for an interview

Please call (403) 347-7889 EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS 4924-59 Street, Red Deer, Alberta

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800

IS HIRING! Surveyor Assistants

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(Red Deer & Lacombe) Just Graduated from High School? This job could be for you! If you enjoy working in the out of doors, are enthusiastic about learning new skills and would like to work toward a career in the recognized profession of Land Surveying then please visit our website at: www.questinc.ca

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER CONCRETE FINISHERS CARPENTERS OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATORS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included. Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

www.eaglebuilders.ca 429747H8-16

In Memoriam

to join our great admin staff! The right candidate is punctual, can work independently and is computer savvy. You must be a quick learner and have a positive attitude. Experience with ADP and/or CTWIZARD is preferred but not required. Accounting experience and/or HR skills would be an asset. Our company offers competitive wages and excellent benefits. If you think you can be an asset to the Southside family then please contact us with your resume via:

Oilfield

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403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources

or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca. We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 B9

850

Busy concrete company looking for labourers. Must be willing to work hard and have your own transportation. Experience an asset but not necessary. Please email resume to redcon@shaw.ca CRYSTAL GLASS needs EXP’ D GLASS WORKER. Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca

F/T COMMERCIAL GLAZIER

Journeyman & apprentices We offer competitive wages. Full benefits after 90 days. Must have valid drivers licence. Email resume to: d.generationglass @platinum.ca or Fax: 403-886-5224 or Call 403-886-5221

IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS:

CERTIFIED QUALITY CONTROL/QUALITY ASSURANCE • •

• • • •

Applicants qualifications should include: Understanding of Quality standards and Quality Management systems Establish and maintain a QC/QA program for monitoring supplier quality, including audits and controls Knowledge of pipe processes and operations Good technical writing skills Strong communication skills and able to work within deadlines Capable of using Microsoft Office, such as Excel, Word and Outlook.

HUMAN RESOURCES RECRUITER • • • • • • •

Experience with MS Excel, Outlook, Word Efficient & Organized Able to multi-task, can work with our without supervision Extreme attention to detail Ability to work with deadlines SAP experience an asset Position will require some overtime

JOURNEYMAN / APPRENTICE PIPEFITTERS BOILDERMAKERS Email: resumes @newcartcontracting.com Fax: 1-403-729-2396 Email all safety and trade tickets

Truckers/ Drivers

Must possess clean drivers abstract, know city well. The individual must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Some heavy lifting is required.

Parts Person

Parts person required for rapidly expanding HD Parts Supply Store. Must be able to work unsupervised in a fast paced environment. Have experience in the heavy truck/trailer industry. Must possess strong customer service skills.

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Professional Truck Driver

Position Available www.ads-pipe.com Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., the world’s largest and most innovative manufacturer of HDPE drainage products are expanding and are currently accepting applications for a certified Class 1 Driver, with a minimum of two (2) years B-train trailer experience.

ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS CANADA INC. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

is looking to hire for a FT

FALL START

Maintenance Assistants Position.

•

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 ADS Drivers are required • Ponoka to safely operate company • Lacombe equipment and provide a Gov’t of Alberta Funding high level of customer may be available. service, delivering our products within Alberta. 403-340-1930 ADS Drivers are required www.academicexpress.ca to be drug free and maintain legal transportation COMPANY req’s live in paperwork and driving retired maintenance practices. This position person for our apartment requires a valid Class 1 operations. Journeyman License, with previous off plumbing exp. an asset. road forklift experience a Call Mike for definite asset. We offer details 403-342-4923 quarterly cash safety bonuses as well as a DISPATCHER REQ’D. comprehensive Knowledge of Red Deer medical plan. and area is essential. Verbal and written BENEFITS INCLUDE: communication skills are • Signing Bonus paid upon completion of req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 a 60 day/120 day retention period RESIDENTIAL APT • Company provided MANAGER Group Canadian Benefits 23 suite apt. complex. • Voluntary dental Live-in role. Responsibilities • Life insurance incl. cleaning, maintenance, • Short-term and longyard care, administration. term disability Fax to 403-346-5786 • Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred SOURCE ADULT VIDEO Profit Sharing Plan requires mature P/T help (DPSP) Sat. & Sun. 7 a.m. - 3 p.m. • Paid Vacation Fax resume to: • Safety Bonus 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue All applicants are subject to a pre-employment physical and MVR check. Employment Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers abstract to:

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ACADEMIC Express

Training

Duties include but not limited to: check all equip. is operational, perform preventive maintenance, check AC units, follow up on guest requests, paint, silicone etc. Applicants may apply in person at 2803 50 Avenue or fax resumes to 403-340-8540

PRECISION CYCLE KAWASAKI

We are accepting applications for a SERVICE DEPARTMENT WORKER. Duties to include new unit set up and minor service on units we sell. Mechanical experience an asset. Drop off resume to John Ferguson Precision Cycle Works Gasoline Alley, East. No phone calls please. Or email: precycle@telus.net

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Children's Items

1580

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Must have Class I or Class II with air. Send resume to gwen@biwest.com or fax to 780-672-9567. View our web page at www.biwest.com CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment. Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer. CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca 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

Fluid Experts Ltd. Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

Class 1 Operators

to join our team of drivers hauling clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry. Home most evenings, scheduled days off, company benefits with exceptional pay structure that includes guarantied salary + hourly when hauling. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

Household Furnishings

1720

BED, dble. $100. Queen bed, $100. 403-347-6754, 347-6509 CLOTH couch, must sell moving $100. Computer Chair w/adjustments, good cond. $40. 403-314-9433 COFFE Table, 3 pce. wood and glass, $150. 403-347-6754 COUCH w/reclining ends $100; maple kitchen table w/4 chairs $75 403-346-5488

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

www.academyoflearning.ab.ca

1760

4X8 DYNAMO COIN OP POOL TABLE & Various Arcade & Pop Machines. Call 403-314-0594 9000 BTU AIR CONDITIONER. 12.25”x19” $75. 403-782-7439 AIR GUN. Crossman 357 Shooters kit w/ 4” & 8” barrels, .177 cal. copperhead pellets. Asking $50. 403-755-2760 BABY swing, blue, like new, $60; patio table w/4 chairs $30. 403-342-1934

PLAIN Indian Teepee 4’ diameter fur rug (composed of 100’s of fur pieces) $200. 403-347-7405

Misc. for Sale

1760

MANTLES GRAND CASUAL BLUESTONE: 1 teapot, 1 cream & sugar set, 1 salt & pepper set, 2 platters, 1 dutch oven $80. WHITEFRENCH CORELL large casserole dish $10. Call 403-358-3073. Pick up only. Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds MICROWAVE, Kenmore, white, 900 Watts, $30; SPACE HEATER, electric with adjustable flame, black, 1500 Watt, 120 Volt, $75. CARPETS, 2 wool accent, matching, 5x7, 1 matching oval. clean. $45. for all three. Will sell separately. 403-352-8811 PATIO TABLE, glass top Asking $40; Vinyl Lounge Chair, $15. 403-347-3814 PRINTER, HP Photosmart C4780 “All-In-One” printer. Can print, scan, and copy.† Includes AC adapter. Like new/has never been used. $100 obo. Call (403) 342-7908. VITAMIX BLENDER, $200. 403-782-7439

Musical Instruments

1770

DRUM SET, 400. OBO 403-347-6754, 872-6754

Office Supplies

1800

PRINTER, HP Photosmart C4780 “All-In-One” printer. Can print, scan, and copy.† Includes AC adapter. Like new/has never been used. $100 obo. Call (403) 342-7908. Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Advocate Opportunities

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/week in:

6 Days a week! Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

GLENDALE

Phone 403-314-4301

KENTWOOD

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

Call Today (403) 347-6676

Misc. for Sale

GRAND FATHER CLOCK, battery operated. $50. BLACK leather jacket, 403-358-3798 small, $50; Coolatron cooler $15 403-347-0325 L SHAPE COMPUTER DESK. Tan in colour. DANBY DE-HUMIDIFIER, One year old. Asking $50. $150. Call 403-986-2849 403-782-7439 LIFT CHAIR, PRYDE FLOOR LAMP, exc. cond. $600. 1 mo. old. $10; Bread Maker, $30.; 403-392-8604 Vegetable Juicer, $20. 403-358-3798 LOVESEATS (2) black, $75. ea. coffee tables set. LADIES HARLEY (3), $50. DAVIDSON BOOTS. 403-347-6754, 347-6509 Like new, size 7.5. Asking $125. TAN futon, exc. shape, LADIES GREY $200 403-347-0325 COWBOY BOOTS, size 6.5. Like new. WANTED Asking $75. Antiques, furniture and 403-342-5056 estates. 342-2514 LAST one! Blackfoot Medicine Man’s shield 18 x 36” $75. 403-347-7405

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres. Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres. Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres. For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316 NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave. Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE

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job?

KENTWOOD Kerr Close & Kingston Dr.

EASTVIEW AREA

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

DEERPARK AREA

Employers: 1. CARE 2. Sears 3. Target 4. Manpower 5. G4S Canada 6. Action Group 7. Cargill Foods 8. Almita Piling 9. Latta Corporation 10.Winners\Homesense 11.Wendys Restaurants 12.Sungold Specialty Meats

Mini Job Fair

Duval Cres, Doncaster Place area $332/mo.

Wednesday, Aug 13, 2014 9:30 a.m. - Noon Alberta Works Centre 2nd Floor, First Red Deer Place 4920 - 51 Street, Red Deer

For More Information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED 3 days per week, no weekends

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CLEARVIEW AREA

ROUTES IN:

Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive area

ANDERS AREA

also

3900 to 4400 blocks of 40A Ave., 2 blocks of 41 Ave, and 1 block of 39, 46 & 47 St. $71/mo.

MORRISROE AREA

also

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sunnyside Cres. Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Sutton Close Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close

CAREER FAIR HIRING NOW!!!

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr. also Lister Cres. & Lockwood Ave. also Ladwig Close Lund Close

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR JOB FAIR SATURDAY, August 23, 2014, 10 AM - 3 PM

easyhome store Located at: 36320 50th Avenue, Suite 42 Red Deer, AB T4N 4C6

Chism Close, Cunningham Cres area $115/mo.

Alexander Cres. Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Andrews Close Archer Drive/Austin Dr. Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atlee St. Allison Cres Metcalf Ave

VANIER AREA

Job Opportunities include:

Vanier East

Store Managers & Customer Retention Specialist (Collections) Leasing Specialist (Sales) Delivery Drivers

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

http://easyhomecareers.ca

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

Bring your resumé For more info, call 403-340-5353

Government

Career Planning

ORIOLE PARK Otterbury Ave

Monday through Saturday. Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am. Reliable vehicle needed.

$605/mo.

427264H11-12

MOTOR COACH OPERATOR.

PSP w/5 games, $80. GAMEBOY ADVANCED w/1 game, $60 403-782-3847

Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake

437916H22

BI WEST TRANSLINES, CAMROSE has a opening for full time

LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $190. 403-314-0804

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

3 On-Site Clinical Practicums No Waiting List Scrubs are provided

1730

PS2 w/10 games, $40. DS LITE w/19 games, $140. 403-782-3847

CARRIERS REQUIRED

900

Stereos TV's, VCRs

GARDEN HOSES on Wheeled Reels (2). $25. Each. 403-343-1503

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

860

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

1680

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

Carpenters & Helpers

Truckers/ Drivers

1660

Garden Supplies

1 day a week in:

Requires Full Time

TJ PAVING is looking for employees with paving experience. Comp wages, great working atmosphere. Come join our team. Email resume to tjpaving@ hotmail.com or fax 403-346-8404.

Firewood

Advocate Opportunities

FISHER PRICE TOYS, 2 houses, 2 schools, 1 garage, 1 school bus, 1 stove top. All for $175. 403-343-1503

Shipper/Receiver

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Above average wages, benefits package. Apply with resume @ Artic Truck, Email: ron.cain@nfleetsolutions.com Fax: 403-348-5198 A local company requires an energetic person for shipper/receiver. Email resume to mark@aesreddeer.com Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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Jays open key series with loss BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Seattle 11 Toronto 1 SEATTLE — Felix Hernandez allowed one run in seven strong innings and Robinson Cano helped provide him with a jolt of run support as the Seattle Mariners romped to an 11-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night. Opening the most anticipated August series in Seattle since 2007, Hernandez (13-3) made his 16th straight start of at least seven innings while allowing two earned runs or less. Hernandez needed just 96 pitches to get through seven and his only mistake was Jose Bautista’s solo home run in the fourth. The only other Toronto batter to get a hit was Colby Rasmus, who had two and is now 7 for 10 against Hernandez. King Felix struck out eight, walked none and lowered his ERA to 1.95 for the season. Hernandez is 9-2 with a 1.41 ERA during the 16-game streak. Seattle remained one game back in the chase for the second AL wild card while Toronto dropped two games back. And for a change, Hernandez wasn’t left wondering if Seattle would score enough. Cano ignited a seven-run sixth inning with his 10th homer of the season for a 3-1 lead. That was just the start. Mike Zunino followed with an RBI triple — the second triple of his career — and an

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BEREA, Ohio — Brian Hoyer knows Johnny Manziel is gunning for his job, but the Browns’ incumbent starting quarterback wants to make one thing clear. It’s his job to lose. “To me, this is my team until someone else tells me otherwise,” Hoyer said. And after a rain-soaked practice Monday morning, the evidence would point to that still being the case, as Hoyer took his reps with the first-team offence, relegating Manziel to secondteam duty. He may be fighting for the starting job, but for now, the Browns remain Hoyer’s team. That doesn’t mean Manziel won’t get the opportunity to prove himself before Cleveland takes on Washington next Monday night. Browns coach Mike Pettine said the reps will be mixed this week, and a decision on the starting quarterback for the second preseason game will come later in the week. In other words, nothing is locked

TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have reportedly been fined US$25,000 for comments that rap star Drake made about Kevin Durant at a recent concert. Drake, who serves as the team’s global ambassador, used the stage at a concert in Toronto to make a pitch for Durant to sign with the Raptors when he becomes a free agent. According to a report in ESPN, the NBA deemed Drake’s comments to be a violation of its anti-tampering regulation. Durant was in attendance at the Toronto show when Drake urged the crowd to show their support for the NBA’s reigning most valuable player. “Before we leave, I just want to show one of my brothers something,” Drake announced to the crowd. “You know, my brother Kevin Durant was kind enough to come to the show tonight and watch us. I just want him to see what would happen if he came to

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Los Angeles Kings announce plans to retire Rob Blake’s No. 4 jersey on Jan. 17 LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Kings will retire Hall of Fame defenceman Rob Blake’s No. 4 jersey on Jan. 17. The Stanley Cup champions announced the honour Monday. Blake played 14 of his 20 NHL seasons with the Kings, including six seasons as their captain. The seven-

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Miller lined an RBI triple and Dustin Ackley brought home two runs with a single. Cano came up again, and after stepping out of the box while a lightning bolt and thunder crackled outside the stadium, just missed a second homer in the inning by inches with a RBI double off the wall. When the inning was done, Seattle had sent 11 batters to the plate, scored seven times, had two doubles, two triples a home run and a single. A day after going 19 innings to beat Detroit at home and not arriving to Seattle until 12:30 a.m. local time, Bautista’s 23rd homer was the only highlight for Toronto. TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: 1B Adam Lind (foot) is expected to join the team on Tuesday in Seattle, and 1B Edwin Encarnacion (quad) is still on track to rejoin the team Friday in Chicago. Mariners: OF Michael Saunders (oblique) will have his rehab assignment delayed by a few days. He was set to leave Triple-A Tacoma to be with his wife for the birth of their child. UP NEXT Blue Jays: J.A. Happ (8-6) has thrown at least seven innings in each of his past two starts, but has just one victory since June 26. He’s given up three earned runs combined in his last two starts and the Blue Jays have lost both games. Mariners: Chris Young (10-6) is 5-2 with a 2.79 ERA in his last 10 starts. Young has reached 11 victories only twice in his career. time All-Star won the franchise’s first Norris Trophy in 1998 and became the club leader in games played, goals and assists by a defenceman. The former fourth-round draft pick finished his career in San Jose in a move that irked many Kings fans. He has since returned to Los Angeles as the club’s assistant general manager. Blake will be honoured before a home game against the Anaheim Ducks.

Hope Solo trial date set KIRKLAND, Wash. — A November trial has been set for U.S. women’s goalkeeper Hope Solo, who is accused of assaulting her sister and 17-year-old nephew in June. Solo, who also plays with the Seattle Reign of the National Women’s Soccer League, appeared in court in Kirkland, Washington, on Monday. In June, she pleaded not guilty to two counts of fourth-degree domestic violence. KOMO-TV reports her lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss the case. Her lawyer has said Solo was a victim in the altercation. A Nov. 4 trial means Solo won’t miss time with the Reign or October’s CONCACAF qualifying tournament for the 2015 World Cup in Canada. Solo appeared in court accompanied by her husband, former Seattle Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens.

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Antiques Roadshow finds $1M baseball collection in NYC LOS ANGELES — The PBS series Antiques Roadshow says it hit a home run with a collection of 1870s Boston baseball memorabilia. A trove of signatures and rare baseball cards from Boston Red Stockings players was appraised at $1 million for insurance purposes, series producer Marsha Bemko said. She said it’s the largest sports memorabilia find in the history of the 19-year-old public TV show, which travels America looking for varied heirlooms and treasures. The collection was brought to an Antiques Roadshow taping Saturday in New York City. The owner inherited it from her great-greatgrandmother, who ran a Boston boarding house where the team lived in 1871-72, PBS said. The owner’s identity was kept private for security reasons, PBS said Monday. The collection had not been formally valued before but the owner had once received a $5,000 offer, PBS said.

Investigators studying Stewart crash THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The collision was as common as any in racing. Kevin Ward Jr.’s car spun twice like a top, wheels hugging the wall, before it plopped backward on the dimly lit dirt track. In a sport steeped with bravado, what happened next was another familiar, but treacherous, move: Wearing a black firesuit and black helmet, the 20-yearold Ward unbuckled himself, climbed out of the winged car into the night and defiantly walked onto the track at Canandaigua Motorsports Park. He gestured, making his disgust evident with the driver who triggered the wreck with a bump: three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart, who continues to race in sprint cars on dirt tracks. Many NASCAR drivers, including Stewart, got their start on the short ovals. Ward, a relative unknown compared to NASCAR’s noted swashbuckler, was nearly hit by another passing car as he pointed with his right arm in Stewart’s direction. As he confronted Stewart in his passing car, disaster struck. Ward was standing to the right of Stewart’s familiar No. 14 car, which seemed to fishtail from the rear and hit him. According to video and witness accounts, Ward was sucked underneath the car and hurtled through the air before landing on his back as fans looked on in horror. Ward was killed. Stewart,

considered one of the most proficient drivers in racing, dropped out of Sunday’s NASCAR race at Watkins Glen, hours after Saturday’s crash. And the sport was left reeling from a tragedy that could have ripple effects from the biggest stock car series down to weeknight dirt track racing. “There aren’t words to describe the sadness I feel about the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr.,” Stewart said in a statement. There was no immediate decision if Stewart would drive in this weekend’s NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway. Stewart “will have as much time as he needs to make that decision,” spokesman Mike Arning said Monday. “It is still an emotional time for all involved, Tony included. He is grieving, and grief doesn’t have a timetable.” Arning said Stewart’s extracurricular racing plans are on hold until further notice. Plymouth Speedway in Warsaw, Indiana, said on its website

that Stewart would no longer compete in Saturday’s race. Canandaigua Speedway promoter Jeremie Corcoran said Monday the track has cancelled Wednesday’s event to give “my family, staff, fans, and racing teams time to grieve and process all that has occurred.” Authorities questioned the 43-year-old Stewart once on Saturday night and went to Wat-

kins Glen to talk to him again Sunday. They described him as “visibly shaken” after the crash and said he was co-operative. On Sunday, Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero said that investigators also don’t have any evidence at this point in the investigation to support criminal intent. But he also said that criminal charges have not been ruled out.

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Police investigating whether Lynch involved in an assault BELLEVUE, Wash. — Police in Bellevue, Washington, are investigating whether Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch was involved in an assault and damage of personal property. The Bellevue Police Department released a statement Monday morning saying that the alleged incident took place around 2:30 a.m. Sunday and that Lynch is alleged to have been involved. Bellevue police stated that they have not been able to verify whether Lynch was involved, but are investigating. The incident was reported by the female victim about 12 hours after it took place at a downtown Bellevue apartment. Police say there was no domestic violence or sexual assault involved in the allegation.

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Manufacturer Rebates are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. **Until September 30, 2014, receive [$3,585/ $4,630]/ [$3,505/ $5,255]/ [$2,510/ $4,516]/ [$1,755/ $3,977]/ [$7,747/ $9,895]/ [$1,640/$4,275]/ [$735/$14,393/$14,911] / [$10,141/ $13,459]/ [$10,407/ $13,781]/[$1,280 /$1,809/ $2,175] / [$3,675/ $5,814] / [$1,370/ $3,457]/ [$1,870/ $4,344] / [$2,680/ $8,637]/ [$1,595/ $6,188]/ [$2,085/ $2,645] in total Ford Employee Price adjustments with the purchase or lease of a new 2014 C-Max [Hybrid SE/Energi SEL]/ E-Series [E-150 Commercial Cargo Van/ E-350 Super Duty XLT Extended Wagon]/ Edge [SE FWD/ Sport AWD]/ Escape [S FWD/ Titanium 4x4]/ Expedition [SSV 4x4/ Max Limited 4x4]/ Explorer [Base 4x4/ Sport 4x4]/ F-150 [Regular Cab XL 4x2 6.5’ box 126” WB/ Super Crew Platinum 4x4 5.0L 5.5’ box 145” WB/ Super Crew Limited 4x4 6.5’ box 157” WB] / F-250 [XL 4x2 SD Regular Cab 8’ box 137” WB/ Lariat 4x4 SD Crew Cab 8’ box 172”WB]/ F-350 [XL 4x2 SD Regular Cab 8’ box 137” WB SRW/ Lariat 4x4 SD Crew Cab 8’ box 172” WB DRW]/ Fiesta [S Auto/SE /Titanium]/ Flex [SE FWD/ Limited AWD]/ Focus [S auto Sedan/ Electric Base]/ Fusion [S FWD Sedan/ Energi Titanium]/ Mustang [V6 2 door coupe/ GT 2 door convertible]/ Taurus [SE FWD/ SHO AWD]/ Transit Connect [XL Cargo Van/ Titanium Wagon]. Total Ford Employee Price adjustments are a combination of Employee Price adjustment of [$2,085/ $3,130]/ [$3,505/ $5,255]/ [$1,760/ $3,766]/ [$1,255/ $2,977]/ [$4,747/ $6,895]/ [$1,640/$4,275] / [$735/ $7,643/$8,161] / [$3,891/ $7,209] /[$4,157/ $7,531]/ /[$530 /$1,059/ $1,425] /[$1,675/ $3,814] / [$620/ $2,957]/ [$1,120/ $3,594]/ [$1,180/ $4,387]/ [$1,595/ $4,188] / [$1,945/ $2,645]/ [$530/ $1,051] /[$1,675/ $3,814]and delivery allowance of [$1,500]/ [$0]/ [$750]/ [$500/$1,000]/ [$3,000]/ [$0]/ [$0/ $6,750/ $6,750]/ [$6,250]/ [$6,250]/ [$5,000] /[$750]/ [$2,000] / [$750/$500]/ [$750]/ [$1,500/ $4,250]/ [$0/ $2,000] / [$0] -- all chassis cab, stripped chassis, cutaway body, F-150 Raptor, Medium Truck, Mustang Boss 302 and Shelby GT500 excluded. Employee Price adjustments are not combinable with CPA, GPC, CFIP, Daily Rental Allowance and A/X/Z/D/F-Plan programs. Delivery allowances are not combinable with any fleet consumer incentives. ◆Offer only valid from August 1, 2014 to September 2, 2014 (the “Program Period”) to Canadian resident customers who currently (during the Program Period) own or are leasing certain Ford car, Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), Cross-Over Utility Vehicle (CUV) or Minivan models (each a “Qualifying Loyalty Model”), or certain competitive car, Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV), Cross-Over Utility Vehicle (CUV) or Minivan models (each a “Qualifying Conquest Model”) and purchase, lease, or factory order (during the Program Period) a new qualifying 2014 Ford Car, CUV, or SUV (excluding Fiesta, Focus, CMAX, and Shelby GT500). Some eligibility restrictions apply on Qualifying Loyalty and Conquest Models and Eligible Vehicles – see dealer for full offer criteria. Qualifying customers will receive an incentive of CAD$1,000 towards the purchase or lease of the Eligible Vehicle, except for Mustang (excluding Shelby GT500) where qualifying customers will receive an incentive of CAD$1,500. Eligible Vehicle must be delivered and/or factory-ordered from your participating Ford dealer during the Program Period. Limit one (1) incentive per Eligible Vehicle sale, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales, per Qualifying Conquest/Loyalty Model. Each customer will be required to provide proof of ownership/registration and insurance of the applicable Qualifying Conquest/Loyalty Model (in Canada) for the previous 3 months and the ownership/registration address must match the address on the new Buyer’s Agreement or Lease Agreement for the Eligible Vehicle sale. Taxes payable before incentive is deducted.©2014 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. ©2014 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved. Available in most new Ford vehicles with 6-month pre-paid subscription

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