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Chiefs take silver at Esso Cup BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs made Esso Cup history on Saturday, but in the immediate aftermath it felt hollow. The Chiefs fell 2-1 to the Sudbury Lady Wolves in the midget AAA female hockey national championship, becoming the first home team to win at least a silver medal at the tournament, and just the second to reach the podium. But to know they came within a bounce or two of winning gold is something they will CHIEFS EDGED IN ESSO CUP not soon forget. FINAL B1 “Right now we’re still a little upset over the loss, tomorrow and the day after that we’re still going to think about it and it’s always going to be in the back of our minds starting next year,” said Chiefs assistant captain Abagael Thiessen. Regardless, the tournament was an overwhelming success for the Chiefs and Red Deer Minor Hockey Association. “Losing is not fun, but it will make us stronger and build a little more character in us,” said Chiefs head coach Tom Bast. “Overall it was a wonderful week for Red Deer, the Sutter Fund Chiefs and also for Red Deer Minor Hockey. I’m very pleased to be associated with an association like Red Deer Minor Hockey.” The Esso Cup set a new attendance record with more than 6,000 people heading to the Red Deer Arena over the course of the week, including an estimated 1,100 for the gold medal game on Saturday afternoon.
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Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs forward Skylar Colonna is tripped up by Sudbury Lady Wolves Taylor McGaughey during the final period of the Gold Medal Game at the Esso Cup on Saturday at the Red Deer Arena. The Chiefs fell 2-1 to the Wolves.
Notley makes campaign stop in Red Deer NPD LEADER NOT FAZED BY PAST RESULTS IN REGION BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF NDP provincial candidates have been perennial cellar dwellers in Red Deer but party Leader Rachel Notley isn’t fazed. Every day on the campaign trail she is hearing from disenchanted past-conservative voters who are willing to make the switch to NDP. Notley said their strategy is to continue to talk about the issues that matter to Albertans “And be open and honest and committed and passionate about the fact we will follow through on our platform and give people an alternative that is balanced but also reflects their needs and their views. “By doing that we’re hearing form people that they are prepared to give us a second look,” she said during a campaign stop in Red Deer’s West Park neighbourhood on Saturday afternoon. During her speech, Notley took issue with Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice’s dismissal on Friday of the left-leaning party’s prospects, saying “Alberta is not an NDP province.” Prentice’s comments are just another example of Tory arrogance and entitlement, she told dozens
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of cheering supporters braving the cold at the West Park Community Centre. “Albertans need to choose who they want to be their government, who reflects their interests. And they should not be told who they are and what they are.” Notley said many voters are coming to the conclusion that the choice is between two conservative parties willing to under-fund education and health to maintain “corporate tax give-aways,” and her party, which wants to protect health care and education while asking those who can afford it to contribute a little more. “That is the balanced approach to ensure that we are representing the interests of regular Albertans and their families …,” she added. In an interview with local media, Notley wouldn’t
bite on a question asking her to predict how many seats she expects to win. “We’re very optimistic. As I say I’m running for premier, so we’re going to push to get as many seats as we can that gets us to that point. “After more than 44 years I think this government has had more than enough second chances,” she said. “I think it’s time for a government that will listen to the people of Alberta and put those people at forefront and make those people their priority.” Notley was asked how to make her promised royalty review palatable to the oil and gas industry, which pulled out all the stops in battling former premier Ed Stelmach’s review. “It’s really a question of making it palatable to Albertans,” countered Notley. “I think it’s a question of talking about it openly, looking at the best practices and looking at the best opinions and listening to industry very carefully and ensuring that one of the principles that guides our decision is ensuring the sustainability of the industry and the protection of jobs. “So we’re going to do that, but we’re also going to do that in the context of ensuring that we get the best value that we can for Albertans.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
Alberta Downs owner still fighting for races BUT HAS PLAN B IF HORSE RACING ALBERTA DOESN’T CHANGE ITS MIND BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF
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Legal fights are expensive with no guarantee of victory. If Horse Racing Alberta doesn’t come through with some racing days, Allen already has a Plan B in mind. “Here’s what I’m going to do. If they don’t give me race days I’m running anyways. I’m going to run 33 days of thoroughbred racing.” Under the rules, he can’t have betting in Canada but he’s got U.S. tracks interested in the betting end. He says he also has betting contracts with tracks in Jamaica, Bahamas and South America. That means punters there can bet on races run at his track next to Hwy 2 just west of Lacombe. If he goes ahead with the plan, racing would start at the end of May.
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Allen sees this as a “last resort” option. What he still wants to see Horse Racing Alberta relent and give him the racing days he needs to make a go of it. “They started out at 26 days. Now they’re trying to cut me down to 10 days and they’ve got all kinds of other little conditions,” he said. He’s invested about $200,000 more in meeting conditions, including providing engineering and safety documentation and letters of support, without any guarantee of landing race days. What’s on the table — but hasn’t been officially approved yet — are 10 harness racing days and five thoroughbred days, he said. Meanwhile, in Calgary the new Century Downs track held its first racing on Saturday. Horse Racing Alberta could not be reached for comment on Friday. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF As voters get closer to Alberta’s general election on May 5, they may start asking about how, when and where they can vote. There’s no shortage of information available, either online, directly from local returning officers, or in newspaper information advertisements. The online information at Elections Alberta is extensive and can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about voting, from whether you are registered to vote to who the candidates are in your constituency, to where to vote and where the advance polls are located. Those eligible to vote include anyone who is 18 years of age or older on voting day, a Canadian citizen, and has been ordinarily resident in Alberta for the six months immediately preceding voting day. Today and Tuesday, before advance polls open on Wednesday, a special ballot is still available under certain circumstances for those who cannot get to the advance polls or to the polls on election day. These would include such situations as a person being away from one’s electoral division, physically incapacitated, imprisoned or living in a remote area. A special ballot can be requested either by going online to Elections Alberta at www.elections.ab.ca or contacting your local returning officer by phone, fax or in person at the returning office. Red Deer South returning officer Jim Taylor said the number of special ballots that had been requested in the 2012 election for the constituency was about 125. As of Friday they had 92 requests in the Red Deer South constituency, so it was fairly close in line with the last election, he said. Advance polls will be open for four days from Wednesday to Saturday inclusive. They will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day. A list of polling stations for each constituency is to be published as well, showing voters were they can vote on election day. “People should soon be receiving their Where To Vote cards,” said Taylor. “I would really, really be pleased if you would advocate that people bring those to the poll with them because it will speed the process up quickly. It will really make a difference if they bring that with them to the poll,” said Taylor. The cards have information on them that will make it very quick for the deputy returning officer and poll clerk to find their name on the voters list. Taylor said, adding that he encourages people to get out and vote. The Where To Vote cards are going out to voters by mail, and will have individual voter names on them. To find out if you are registered, go to the website www.elections.ab.ca. A secure part of the website lets you check to see if you are registered and where your polling station is. You may also register in person at advance polls from Wednesday to Saturday or on polling day May 5. When registering in person, identification that proves your identity and address is needed. On election day, the polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Unofficial results will be posted online.
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SILVER: No small potatoes For girl’s hockey, those numbers are no small potatoes as the game continues to build momentum on and off the ice. “I never would have thought those numbers a couple of years ago, but that’s part of the reason we did it, we wanted support for the female game and we got it,” said Red Deer Minor Hockey Association president and tournament director Todd Thiessen. The level of play at the tournament was also excellent. Though the Wolves were without question the best team at the Esso Cup it was not by an overwhelming margin, As well there was only one team that proved to be overmatched, the Moncton Rockets. For Wolves head coach Richard Walker, the parity
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Ewan Conroy-Kovach, as well as his mom and sister, Macy, take part in the Pop Up Perfection art activity at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. The activity was part of the MAG Saturdays programming, with participants creating a variety of different pop-up scenes, including a junglelike scene with pigs, giraffes and even a dinosaur.
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Lacombe city council has bought some more time for a proposed plant that would turn organic waste into fertilizer and power. A land purchase agreement with BioRefinex Canada Inc. that expired last month has been extended to the end of September. Details of the conditional deal for 12 acres of land were discussed in camera following the April 13 council meeting. Mayor Steve Christie is hopeful the long-awaited multi-million project will come to pass this year. A small demonstration plant has been running out by the county’s sewage lagoons for some time. “I believe the technology is proven. I think it’s just selling private investors on it,” he said. BioRefinex has received a pledge of $10 million from Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. — the non-profit organization that administers the funds paid by large greenhouse gas emitters under provincial legislation. The federal government has also offered to loan money for the plant originally priced at $30 million to $35 million. BioRefinex CEO Chris Thrall said the project is very much alive. “We continue to press ahead and are making good progress on the basis that the city, is of course, keen to see the project go ahead and they are providing the commensurate support.” Thrall is hoping to see some new developments
this summer. “We’re working towards that in earnest. That’s probably the extent that I can really comment right now just in terms of where we’re at. “We continue to move things along and we’re working with some finance partners so we can get this moving along into a construction mode,” he said on Friday. “These projects are complex and it’s a specialized type of project and when it requires a lot of capital these things just take time. But the market conditions are really positive, I would say, for us to accomplish that.” Working in BioRefinex’s favour is the strong U.S. dollar. The organic fertilizer the plant would produce are priced in U.S. dollars. “That actually benefits us,” he said. Another positive is the strength of the Canadian dollar against the Euro, which helps when buying the necessary equipment from Europe. The facility would use high-pressure and hightemperature steam to reduce organic material into its molecular components, and centrifugal force to separate out fatty acids, amino acids and digestible minerals that could be used in products like fertilizer. About 1.4 megawatts of electricity will be generated by combusting the biogas (produced in the process) in a cogeneration unit. The technology has been patented in the United States and a number of other countries. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
was an example of how far the girls’ game has come. “There’s evidence this week that ... there’s some standardizing in bringing the national quality of the game up,” said Walker. “We’re fortunate to have had the opportunity to play against a number of quality teams in the province of Ontario to prepare us for this stage.” Showing this level of play to local hockey fans only speaks towards a continued positive growth for the game in Central Alberta, which, as they proved this past week, is already producing some of the best female hockey players in Canada. “It’s huge for women’s hockey, the fastest growing (segment) in hockey is women’s hockey,” said Tom Bast. “We just have to make sure we nurture it and protect it and keep encouraging women to play hockey because there is a tremendous amount of opportunity for women (in the game).” The teams all went home with a set of once-in-alifetime memories and lessons to grow by with just about everyone praising Red Deer for the job they
did in putting on the tournament. “They were a great host,” said Walker. “Our girls and the coaching staff had an excellent time ... (the host committee) couldn’t have done a better job. It really made our girls’ experience here one for the ages, one our girls will carry with them for the rest of their lives.” The Esso Cup also served as a send off for one of the province’s great old barns. Though the Arena has one more season left before it is torn down, and it will host the junior B provincials next year, the Esso Cup will be its final national championship. A new $21.5-million arena is slated to be built on the same site in time for the 2019 Canada Winter Games. It was a proud final moment in the sun for the 63 year-old building, but hopes are it will lay the foundation for its replacement. “We want to pass some of the history and the legacy of the Red Deer Arena ... on to the new building,” said Thiessen. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
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Pair arrested on multiple charges after fleeing crash BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer man and a teen are facing multiple charges after allegedly fleeing a highway crash in a stolen truck before abandoning it in a field near Sylvan Lake. RCMP, fire and ambulance were called to a two-vehicle collision on Hwy 11 at Range Road 20 just west of Sylvan Lake about 9:30 a.m. last Thursday. On arriving at the scene, they were told a truck involved in the collision had taken off. It was driven through several barbed wire fences before being abandoned in a nearby field. The driver and a passenger were soon found nearby by police and arrested without incident. Three people in the other vehicle were taken to hospital and were treated and released for minor injuries. Police say the truck, with a stolen plate, had been reported stolen in Leduc two days earlier. It is alleged the same truck failed to stop for a sheriff, who had clocked the truck going 150 km/h about an hour
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before the collision. Out of concern for public safety, a chase was not begun. At the time, the truck was carrying a stolen ATV, which was later abandoned on a rural property near Half Moon Bay and recovered by police. A 37-year-old man is facing 10 charges including; flight from police, dangerous driving, failing to remain at the scene of a collision involving bodily harm, possession of stolen property over $5,000, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a prohibited firearm and unlawful possession of prohibited firearm contrary to a weapons prohibition order, and three counts of possession of stolen property. The 17-year-old passenger in the truck is charged with three counts of possession of stolen property, possession of stolen property over $5,000, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a prohibited firearm, three counts of failing to comply with a youth probation order and possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine). They are both due in Red Deer provincial court today.
Motion for government to take “prudent approach” to school Wi-Fi defeated BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A motion calling on Alberta’s education ministry to advise school boards to take a “prudent approach” on the use of wireless technology in schools has been soundly defeated. The motion, which was presented at the annual general meeting of the Alberta School Councils Association on Sunday, also called for an examination of protocols to ensure that students are safe when exposed to Wi-Fi at school. Association president Brad Vonkeman estimates about 75 per cent of delegates voted against the motion, with many feeling it wasn’t important enough for the association to deal with right now. A report by the Royal Society of Canada last year concluded that Health Canada’s guidelines for radiofrequency waves were adequate but
could benefit from more research. Vonkeman says opponents of the motion were concerned there’s not enough up-to-date information about the heath effects of wireless technology to support limits on their use. He says there were also fears that a motion for caution might discourage some Alberta schools that don’t have Wi-Fi yet from getting it. “I think part of the concern is that some of the information is just not there enough yet,” Vonkeman said on Sunday after the meeting was over. “We’re just getting Wi-Fi in some of these schools and we don’t want our kids not to have access to some of that technology, because it’s just starting to help some of the more outlying areas.” Some scientists publicly challenged the Royal Society’s report, claiming it failed to give enough weight to research suggesting a link between wireless devices and cancer.
EDMONTON — With just days to go in the Alberta election campaign, the battle is on for undecided voters between, depending on whom you talk to, the corporate muppets and the union puppets. And everyone has set their phasers to fear. As NDP Leader Rachel Notley enjoys a popularity bump coming off Thursday’s debate, Premier Jim Prentice and his Progressive Conservatives have switched from attacking the Opposition Wildrose to painting the New Democrats as the party that will turn Alberta into a socialist dystopia. During the debate, Prentice warned viewers Notley takes direction from “union bosses.” The weekend saw conservatives try to paint Notley as anti-pipeline for suggesting the controversial Northern Gateway project through B.C. isn’t likely to succeed in the face of stiff opposition along the route. It’s a reversal of the 2012 Alberta election that saw the Tories under Alison Redford woo progressive fence-sitters by stoking fears that the Wildrose was intolerant towards minorities and didn’t believe in climate change. “This is to appeal to conservatives to keep away the red scare,” says Duane Bratt, a political scientist with Mount Royal University in Calgary. “(The Tories) had been dealing with Notley with gloved hands. They have switched strategies mid-campaign. Now it is an NDP-PC battle.” The election was supposed to be
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VOTE: Constituency In Red Deer, you can reach Taylor at the returning office for the Red Deer South constituency at 101 4315 55th Ave. The phone is (403) 302-5791 or toll-free 1-844-419-2525. The Red Deer North constituency returning officer is Brenda Williams, (403) 357-1136, toll-free 1-844-419-2524 and the office is located at Bay 3, 4664 Riverside Drive. Other returning officers and office locations for Central Alberta are: (Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House- Sundre) Loren Braat, 5-6 110 Main Ave. W, Sundre, (403) 636-2001 or toll-free 1-844419-2526; (Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills)
a coronation for Prentice and his Tories, who have been running Alberta for more than four decades. But polls have put his party, the NDP and the Wildrose together in a three-way fight with about one in five voters still undecided. Political observers say with the Tories strong in Calgary and the NDP showing well in Edmonton, Prentice will focus on winning over soft-core Wildrose supporters in Calgary and rural areas to gain the 44 seats needed for a majority on May 5. Notley has already said she will spend much of the rest of the campaign in Calgary given that she needs a large breakthrough there to win government. Notley has sought to portray Prentice, a former bank executive, as a boardroom mouthpiece for refusing to hike corporate taxes or oil royalties in his budget, while boosting taxes for virtually everyone else. Political analyst Bob Murray says Prentice’s campaign has been plagued by gaffes, particularly his rollback on the reductions to the charitable tax credit — a plank in his supposedly ironclad budget that was brought down just days before the vote was called. “Jim Prentice’s flip flop ... on the charitable tax credit showed that Jim Prentice is or could be willing to negotiate away principles that he was trying to stand for in order to win government,” says Murray, the vice president of research for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The Tories have tried to portray Prentice on the campaign trail as an Everyman, in a suit jacket but no tie, having a coffee and flipping pancakes.
Laura Ewert, 519 Main St., Three Hills, (403) 443-4191 or toll-free 1-844-419-2522; (Lacombe-Ponoka) Margaret Devries, 117 5001 52nd St., Lacombe, (403) 7821301 or toll-free: 1-844-419-2515; (Innisfail-Sylvan Lake) Carla Gabert, Coop Shopping Centre, Bay 8 4303 50th St., Innisfail, (403) 227-0121 or toll-free 1-844-419-2513; (Drumheller-Stettler) Janice Hoover, Hanna Learning Centre, B167 401 Centre St., Hanna, (403) 857-7501 or toll-free: 1-844-419-2455. A list of all returning officers, the addresses of the returning offices and contact information is also on the Elections Alberta website. For more information, voters can also contact the Elections Alberta call centre, toll-free, 1-877-422-8683. It is open Monday through Friday: 8 a.m. to 8: p.m. and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the weekend. barr@reddeeradvocate.com
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Ottawa doesn’t owe Alberta BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE In a year when two heavyweight provinces, Alberta and Ontario (which together constitute 55 per cent of Canada’s GDP), are running substantial deficits, there are three ways to reduce the red ink. Strategy one: cut (and reform) spending, something neither province has been serious about. Strategy two: raise taxes (which both provinces have done), then hope you don’t depress economic activity and tax revenues. And finally, strategy three: blame Ottawa. Over time, Alberta’s premiers have mostly avoided this latter “strategy” (maybe because an easy federal response would be to point to out-of-control provincial spending). Ontario’s premiers, however, have shown no such rhetorical restraint. Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty routinely asserted that the federal government should do more to fund Ontario’s provincial budget. Premier Kathleen Wynne continues the pattern. The Ontario government claims that
it’s shortchanged because Ontarians send more federal tax dollars to Ottawa than what the federal government directly spends in Ontario, including transfers to the provincial government. Ontario’s claim is likely correct, based on the most recent available provincial data. Statistics Canada produced a series of provincial economic data covering 2000 to 2009. It has some drawbacks and limitations but can be roughly used to proxy the state of fiscal flows between the federal government and governments, businesses and individuals in a province. The data shows that each Ontarian contributed $1,548 more into federal coffers on average every year than the federal government subsequently directly spent in, or transferred to, Ontario. But does this prove that Ontario’s government thus deserves more money from the federal government? No. For one thing, British Columbians also sent more money to Ottawa than was directly spent in or transferred to B.C. — $666 more on average, annually. And Albertans contributed a net $3,852 to the federal government on average annually in those years. (Every other province was a net recipient during this period.)
Here’s the big picture. The federal government runs national programs which are needed less or more depending on provincial conditions. So it stands to reason that taxpayers in relatively wealthier provinces pump more into the federal treasury than the federal government will spend in, or transfer into, such provinces. To use one example, look at employment insurance. Ontario and Alberta record significantly lower unemployment than Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. So one would expect Ontario and Alberta workers to send more in employment insurance premiums to the federal treasury than the federal government will pay out in EI in those two provinces. That’s how EI (flawed though it is, for other reasons) is designed to work, and that, insofar as federal taxes are concerned, creates a net loss in some provinces and net gains in others. Moreover, the federal government has sent substantial extra cash to Ontario’s government in the form of equalization payments. Since 200910, when Ontario first classified as a “have-not” province , and including the fiscal year just begun (2015-16), Ontario’s government will have received $14.3 billion in equalization payments
from the federal government. True, it’s odd that Ontario, a province considered a have-not for equalization remains a net contributor to federal coffers. But that’s the equalization calculation. It doesn’t mean that Ontario should receive more federal money. For the record, transfers between governments are a poor idea. When one government taxes citizens but hands a portion to another government, the accountability lines between voters and the governments that tax them become blurred. That’s something Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier understood. “It is a sound principle of finance and still sounder principle of government that those who have the duty of expending the revenue ... should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying it,” said Laurier in a 1905 speech. Despite Laurier’s sensible advice, premiers then and now invent excuses as to why their governments “deserve” federal tax dollars. But that doesn’t mean Canadians — in any province — should accept the claims as valid. Mark Milke is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia. com).
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Plastic waste of consumer madness How much are whiter teeth and smoother skin worth to you? Are they worth the water and fish in the Great Lakes? The cormorants that nest along the shore? The coral reefs that provide refuge and habitat for so much ocean life? Are they worth the oceans that give us half the oxygen we breathe, or the myriad other creatures the seas support? DAVID If you use SUZUKI personal-care products such as exfoliators, body scrubs and toothpastes containing microbeads, those are the costs you could be paying. The tiny bits of plastic — less than five mm in diameter, and usually from one-third to one mm — are used as scrubbing agents. Now they’re turning up everywhere, especially in oceans, lakes and along shorelines. They aren’t biodegradable. Research by the 5 Gyres Institute found an average of 43,000 beads per
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square kilometre in the Great Lakes, with concentrations averaging 466,000 near cities. Tests on fish from Lake Erie found an average of 20 pieces of plastic in medium-sized fish and eight in small fish. Cormorants, which eat fish, had an average of 44 pieces of plastic each. Microplastics have been found in the oceans and even under Arctic sea ice. Scientists at Australia’s James Cook University found corals starving after eating the tiny beads, their digestive systems blocked. It’s not just the plastic that harms animals; the beads absorb toxic chemicals, making them poisonous to any creature that mistakes them for food or that eats another that has ingested the plastic — all the way up the food chain. Because humans eat fish and other animals, these toxins can end up in our bodies, where they can alter hormones and cause other health problems. It’s a high price to pay for limited benefits from unnecessary personal care products. Exfoliators and scrubs can use any number of harmless natural ingredients, including baking soda, oatmeal, ground seeds, sea salt and even coffee grounds. Microbeads are not only pointless in toothpaste; they can be harmful. Dentists and hygienists are finding plastic particles embedded under people’s gum lines, which can
cause inflammation and infection. The folly of producing and marketing products without adequate regulatory oversight and consideration of long-term consequences makes you shake your head. As Great Lakes study researcher Sherri Mason told the Ottawa Citizen, producers haven’t given much thought to anything beyond the fact that the beads wouldn’t clog drains. “There wasn’t that forethought, which is often the trouble with man and the environment,” she said. Microbeads illustrate the excesses of marketing and consumerism, but they’re only part of the problem. Most plastics eventually break down into microparticles, often ending up in oceans and other waters, where they’re eaten by organisms ranging from tiny plankton to large whales. Some plastic has even started to fuse with rocks, creating a substance new to our planet that scientists call “plastiglomerate”. According to British Antarctic Survey scientist David Barnes, “One of the most ubiquitous and long-lasting recent changes to the surface of our planet is the accumulation and fragmentation of plastics.” That’s astounding, considering mass production and widespread use of synthetic, mostly petroleum-based plastics only began in the 1940s. Barnes and other researchers who compiled
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BRIEF Jordan’s King Abdullah II, bound for Ottawa: report OTTAWA — A Jordanian newspaper is reporting that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will host King Abdullah II, one of his key allies in the fight on terrorism, in Ottawa in the coming days. The tiny Middle Eastern desert kingdom has been punching above its weight internationally as one of Canada’s top allies in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Jordan has also borne a heavy load from Syria’s civil war, now in its fifth year, because its hosts an estimated 625,000 refugees. It has a population of eight million. Jordan is also one of the five countries joining Canada in conducting bombing missions against ISIL targets inside Syria, along with the United States, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar. The Jordan Times said Abdullah’s official visit to Ottawa would be final leg of a threecountry trip that started Wednesday at the AfroAsia Summit in Indonesia. Abdullah’s second stop was to be San Francisco for business meetings, before coming to Ottawa to meet Harper and “several other officials,” the newspaper said. The newspaper did not say exactly when Abdullah would arrive in Ottawa. The Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa had no comment. Harper visited Jordan in January 2014 and pledged $105 million in aid to help the country cope with its influx of refugees. Abdullah visited Ottawa in 2007, and since then, the monarch and Harper have developed what appears to be a warm relationship. On Harper’s 2014 visit, Abdullah praised Canada’s global leadership, and said that he and Harper “as brothers” would work together to overcome the security challenges facing the world.
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Nepalese-Canadian groups rally in aftermath of devastating earthquake BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Members of Canada’s Nepalese community worrying about relatives in Nepal spent Sunday brainstorming how to get aid to the earthquake-stricken country. Groups of Nepalese-Canadians were banding together to try to kick start aid donations in the aftermath of Saturday’s magnitude 7.8 quake that has left more than 2,500 dead. Various Nepalese-Ca- NEPAL REELING FROM nadian orga- MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE nizations met D5 with Defence Minister Jason Kenney and Nepal’s ambassador Kali Pokhrel in Mississauga, Ont., to discuss how to streamline fundraising efforts. “There is no one in this community that has not been affected by this tragedy,” said Ravi Sapkota, secretary of the Nepalese Canadian Heritage Centre, adding that his parents and extended family had survived but were sleeping outside due to the threat posed by powerful aftershocks. Anil Thapa, president of the Non-Resident Nepalese Association of Canada, said it was decided at Sunday’s meeting that money raised by individual organizations would be funnelled through the national association. He also said Kenney had assured the assembled community leaders that the Canadian government would match their contributions. So far, $50,000 has been collected by the community groups, said Thapa. He estimated the Nepalese-Canadian community in Canada to number around 30,000, with most based in the Greater Toronto Area. Gopal Bhandari, president of the Nep-
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alese Canadian Community Services, said the extent of the damage in Nepal — which included buildings, roads and countless cultural relics, such as centuries-old temples — meant significant funding over an extended period of time would be needed to rebuild the afflicted country. About 10 organizations took part in the meeting, said Bhandari, including the Nepalese Canadian Women’s Association, the Lali Gurans Sports Club and the United Sherpa Association. “This looks like a very long-term fundraising project,” said Sapkota. “It’s going to take a long time to rebuild.” He said groups would focus on reaching out to community members, as well as to the Canadian public at large, to solicit donations. A Montreal woman stranded in Nepal described a scene of chaos at the airport as foreigners tried to leave the afflicted country. Emilie-Anne Leroux said she was in a taxi on the way to the airport to return to Canada to be with her father who was having heart surgery when the quake hit. It felt like the car “had four flat tires at different moments,” Leroux said Sunday, adding she thought it was car trouble until the driver stopped at an open area and let her out. It was shaking so much that everyone was holding onto handrails at the side of the street “because we thought we could fall if we didn’t hang on,” she said. Raphael Slawinski of Calgary was preparing to climb the northern Chinese side
of Mount Everest when the earthquake struck. “We were resting after a few days up in the mountains, just sort of resting in base camp having lunch when the ground began to sway and when the shaking was at the highest, it was actually hard to stand up,” Slawinski said Sunday via satellite phone. Slawinski said he felt two aftershocks shortly after the quake and a third on Sunday. He said the climb has been delayed indefinitely but he added he feels safe where his group is camped. The earthquake, centred outside the capital city Kathmandu, was the worst to hit the South Asian nation of 31-million in more than 80 years. The Canadian government dispatched elements of its Disaster Assistance Response Team on Sunday. They were going to an undisclosed location in order to be speedily deployed to Nepal once it was determined how they could be best utilized. CARE Canada, a non-profit disaster relief charity, said Sunday that emergency specialists from across the world — including a Canadian — were on their way to Nepal, adding that CARE also has over 150 staff already in Nepal. CARE’s emergency response co-ordinator in Kathmandu, Santosh Sharma, said staff were putting plans in place to assist up to 75,000 people with temporary shelters, ready-to-eat meals, water purification and toilet construction. The Foreign Affairs Department has said there are 388 Canadians registered as being in Nepal, but cautioned that is only an estimate as registration is voluntary.
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A pair of debates in Prince Edward Island will mark the last week of an election campaign centred on two leaders with deep island roots, but who are just getting their feet wet in provincial politics. Just two months after assuming their leadership roles, Wade MacLauchlan of the Liberal party and Rob Lantz of the Progressive Conservatives will have those roles put to the test in the provincial election May 4. “The inexperience is well distributed,” said Don Desserud, a political science professor at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown. “Neither one can claim an advantage as a consequence. So basically it’s taken the issue right out of the campaign.” The NDP and Green party have also taken on new leaders since P.E.I. held its last provincial election in 2011. None of the party leaders hold seats in the legislature and only the Green party’s Peter Bevan-Baker has experience running as a candidate in a provincial election. The Tory and Liberal leaders aren’t complete beginners to politics. Lantz, 45, spent eight years on Charlottetown city council in addition to his work in the technology field.
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Dinosaur path tracks heyday of prehistoric beasts NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA “This was still in the dinosaurs’ heyday,” said McCrea. “It’s kind of like the VICTORIA — A type of dinosaur middle age of dinosaurs.” He said he wants the area protectAutobahn, with a riot of ancient footprints that are likely more than 100 ed by the B.C. government, and he’s million years old, has been discovered part of a pitch to create a Peace Country dinosaur tourist zone that rivals in northeastern British Columbia. Hundreds of prints from extinct car- Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum at nivores and herbivores are pressed Drumheller. McCrea envisions dinointo the flat, rocky surface spanning an saur tours to Tumbler Ridge, Williston area the size of three Canadian foot- Lake and the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur ball fields, indicating the site was a Museum in nearby Wembley, Alta. Last fall, Tumbler Ridge was desmajor dinosaur thoroughfare. Many of the three-toed prints at the ignated as a UNESCO global geopark site — located near Williston Lake that recognizes geological heritage. about 1,500 kilometres northeast of The community converted a school inVancouver — closely resemble the To- to a dinosaur museum and repository for the dinosaurs fossils discovered in ronto Raptors logo. “From what I saw there is at least a the area. McCrea said he wants to see a tourscore or more of trackways, so 20-plus trackways of different animals,” said ist building overlooking the dinosaur trackway area at Williston Lake. A paleontologist Rich McCrea. “We’re looking at a few hundred similar concept at China’s Zigong Difoot prints that were exposed when nosaur Museum attracts seven million people a year, he I visited the site. said. If it keeps up that ‘IT WOULD BE ONE Tumbler Ridge density and we Liberal MLA Mike are able to peel OF THE TOP SITES, Bernier said he’s back a bit of the UNQUESTIONABLY.’ been trying to consurface and exvince cabinet minpand it by anoth— RICH MCCREA er 1,000 square PALEONTOLOGIST isters that the area is an important metres we’re likeasset and needs ly to find there heritage and fossil protection policies. are thousands of foot prints.” “People go crazy when they see McCrea is the curator of the Peace Region Paleontology Research Centre dinosaur bones and fossils. There’s in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. He believes the something about it: the old Jurassic dinosaur path has major potential as a Park movie coming to life in your ridworld-class scientific and tourism site, ing,” he said. Bernier said he’s reviewing heribut said he’s concerned the B.C. government’s approach to protecting and tage protection laws from across North promoting dinosaur zones is somewhat America and plans to submit a proposal to government this year. prehistoric. B.C. Forests, Lands and Natural “It would be one of the top sites, unquestionably,” said McCrea, who’s part Resource Operations Minister Steve of a local crowdfunding campaign to Thomson, whose ministry covers fossil raise $190,000 to research and promote protection, said he’s seen the Tumbler Ridge dinosaur site and has met with the dinosaur track site. “It already looks like it’s going to be Bernier on strengthening the provone of the biggest sites in Canada. That ince’s fossil management. Five years ago the government proalso means one of the biggest sites in tected the world-renowned McAbee the world.” He said his visits to the secret site fossil beds near Cache Creek in B.C.’s indicate the area was a major trav- Interior from professional fossil huntel zone for the Allosaurus, a Jurassic ers and others who were mining the Park look-alike, 8.5-metre-long, two- area for cat litter. “We are looking at what legislative legged predator with a huge head and adjustments might be needed to be put rows of teeth. McCrea said the area is also ripe in place,” said Thomson. McCrea said Alberta and others with tracks made by the Anklosaurus, a four-legged, nine-metre-long herbi- have protected and profit from their vore, that weighed almost 6,000 kilo- fossil heritage, while B.C. remains begrams and was known for its distinctive hind the times. “We’re missing out on all the oparmour-plated head and long, club-like portunities, not just tourism and edutail. He estimated those tracks are be- cation, but also, how about just pride tween 115 million and 117 million that the province itself is the custodian of all its natural resources,” he said. years old. BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Toronto- born Joe Sallai, 45, panhandles on the corner of College and Yonge in Toronto on Friday, March 20 2015. Statistics Canada does not track murders, assaults and sexual assaults committed against homeless people. But people who live on the street and their advocates say they happen frequently.
From burnings to beatings, homeless people face violence on the streets BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Tyler Dunlop says his moment of terror came after he passed out in the back parking lot of a bakery in Edson, Alta. The 30-year-old homeless man says he awoke to the sound of taunts as he was being punched and kicked by four intoxicated youths. “They ganged up on me and beat me within an inch of my life,” he said of the beating in 2011, which he didn’t report to police. Dunlop’s brush with violence offers a glimpse of the dangers faced by people living on the streets. On Tuesday, two men in Nova Scotia will be sentenced after they pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the slaying of Harley Lawrence, a 62-yearold homeless man set on fire as he slept in a bus shelter in Berwick northwest of Halifax. Daniel Wayne Surette, 27, and Kyle David James Fredericks, 26, admitted in an agreed statement of facts that they doused Lawrence in $10 worth of gas before setting him on fire in October 2013. Ian Burton says he almost experienced something similar when he was living on the streets in Halifax in the fall of that same year. Burton, 30, says a youth came at him one night with a bottle of hair spray, flicking a lighter in an attempt to set him alight as he stood on a wharf downtown. He managed to flee but he says the episode served as a reminder of how dangerous it can be to live on the streets. “The streets have a territory-like feel to it,” Burton says. Statistics Canada does not track murders, assaults and sexual assaults committed against homeless people. But people who live on the street and their advocates say they happen frequently. “We have a lot of work to do in protecting vulnerable Canadians,” says Tim Richter, the president of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, which estimates about 235,000 people lived without shelter last year.
In downtown Toronto, Joe Sallai says he’s lived on the streets since he was 16 and has been kicked, hit and spat on. He has seen people hurl bricks at other panhandlers. “I’ve seen them get pulled by their hair and stuff just because they were panning,” he says. “Somebody wanted to be ignorant and walk by and do it. I’ve seen it happen quite a few times.” Life descends into a constant state of wariness, Sallai says. “If not, they’ll just catch you off guard and that’d be it.” Stephen Gaetz, director of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness at York University in Toronto, says alarm bells should be going off for policymakers and police after a municipal study in Waterloo, Ont., last fall. Of 281 people surveyed, 41 per cent of them said they were a victim of a violent attack since becoming homeless. Some of the violence involved homeless people beating each other up, he said. “If that was my neighbourhood or your neighbourhood I kind of feel like there would be troops on the streets,” Gaetz said. “We would see that as a crisis.” Christina Murray, who was homeless but now has housing in Halifax, says violence can break out among people who are competing for privacy in shelters and space on sidewalks. She says she knows firsthand what it’s like to be assaulted in such a situation. “I was at my friend’s and she was letting me stay there and another girl came in and she wanted to stay there,” says Murray, 57. “This fight started and she got a hold of my hair and pulled out a garbage pail full of my hair.” Dunlop says each outburst of anger and violence leaves lasting trauma, adding that he feels nausea and fights off panic attacks when a “loud or vexatious” youth approaches him. “It is a fear behaviour, with people trying to unconsciously eliminate the threat of homelessness in their own lives by harming those who remind them of it,” he says.
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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Lady Wolves 2 Chiefs 1 The Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs had to settle for silver Saturday at the Arena, but silver generally sucks. Still, the Chiefs took pride in the fact that they became the first host team in the history of the Esso Cup to reach the final of the national midget girls hockey championship. Assistant captains Mairead Bast and Abagael Thiessen expressed their feelings following a 2-1 loss to the Sudbury Lady Wolves in front of roughly 1,100 fans and both insisted the players can hold their heads upright. “Obviously the feeling is not too good right now, but I can really say that I’m proud of each and every one of the girls in that room,” said Bast. “We finished strong and that’s all we could have ever asked for.” The Chiefs were 7-2 losers to the Ontario champs during round-robin play earlier in the week and entered the sudden-death final as underdogs. But the contest was extremely tight and displayed the actual parity between the two teams. “It does feel a lot better than a 7-2 loss, but still not the best,” said Bast. Karli Shell sniped both goals for the Lady Wolves, opening the scoring with a backhand from the low slot 2:57 into the game.
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The Sudbury Lady Wolves hoist the Esso Cup while celebrating their 2-1 gold medal game victory over the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs on Saturday afternoon. Skylar Collona pulled the Chiefs even just under eight minutes later, breaking down the right side and beating Wolves netminder Danika Ranger to the short side. But Shell answered back with less than four minutes left in the opening frame, sweeping the puck past Chiefs goalten-
der Sarah Murray on a wraparound. And that was it for the scoring, with Ranger stopping 15 shots over the final 40 minutes and 22 overall, and Murray also making 15 saves through the second and third periods to boost her total to 20. Ranger’s best stop was directly off
an in-close deflection, while Murray took a goal away from Meagan McGaughey with a sizzling pad save. The Chiefs were the better team over the final 10 minutes of the game but couldn’t find one more goal. “We never gave up,” said Bast. “We were down by one
(after two periods) and we believed in each other and played for each other. We didn’t get our feet moving at the beginning of the game but we kept going.” But the late push wasn’t enough. “Right now we’re still a little upset about the loss, but tomorrow and the day after that we’re still going to think about it and it’s always going to be in the back of our minds that we’re the team that made history,” said Thiessen. “We can’t be disappointed about anything we’ve done this week or throughout the season.” The Chiefs defenceman stressed that the absence of power forward Maddison Toppe, who was hurt in Friday’s 2-1 semifinal shootout win over the Saskatoon Stars, hurt the club in the final, while at the same time praising the players who filled the injured players’s ice time. “We’ve used her to set the pace. We wanted her to come out strong and get the puck moving, get the feet moving,” said Thiessen. “It was a really big loss, but a lot of younger girls and girls who don’t really play that kind of role stepped up for us and they’ve been doing that since the provincials. “We really had a full team going, in my opinion.” Chiefs head coach Tom Bast also touched on the loss of Toppe.
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Flames must find way to win in Anaheim BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — For the Calgary Flames to extend their Cinderella run in the NHL playoffs, they’ll need to conquer the hostile Honda Centre. The Flames open their bestof-seven Western Conference semifinal series on the road this week against the Anaheim Ducks. The NHL has yet to announce the schedule as other first-round series are still in progress. Calgary hasn’t won a regular-season game in Anaheim since Jan. 19, 2004, for a 20-game losing streak. The Flames did earn a single playoff win there April 25, 2006, in the one previous playoff round between the two clubs. The Ducks won the other two at home and Game 7 in Calgary to advance to the second round that year. The Flames face a Ducks team as resilient as they and more rested. Both clubs earned 24 points in the regular season when trailing after two periods which was second only to Detroit’s 25. Calgary twice came from behind to beat the Vancouver Canucks 7-4 in Saturday’s Game 6 and get beyond the first round for the first time since 2004. In their four-game sweep of the Winnipeg Jets in the first
round, the Ducks became the first team in playoff history to win three games when trailing after two periods. “They beat out a very good team in Winnipeg,” Flames assistant captain Kris Russell said. “They swept them so we’ve got to make sure we’re ready.” Anaheim will have had about a week between their first and second series to top up their tanks. Calgary is riding their top three defencemen — T.J. Brodie, Russell and Dennis Wideman — hard. Defenceman Deryk Engelland also played a series-high 22 minutes 56 minutes Saturday because he had one shift where he couldn’t get off the ice for three minutes 22 seconds. “We’ve just got to get a couple days in here of rest,” Flames forward Michael Ferland said. “Anaheim is a big, tough physical team and we’ve got to be ready to hit them back.” Anaheim (51-24-7) topped the Western Conference with 109 points. Calgary (45-307) was eighth with 97 points. The Flames earned third in the Pacific Division, however, to gain a divisional matchup with the Canucks instead of a first-round meeting with the Ducks. Anaheim posted a 3-2 record in the regular season against Calgary, but the Flames doubled them 6-3 in
their most recent meeting March 11 at the Saddledome. Calgary matched a franchise record for road wins with 22 this season, but Anaheim’s away record of 25-12-4 topped the Western Conference. The prominent storyline of this series is Calgary goaltender Jonas Hiller is Anaheim’s former No. 1. Hiller was demoted from starter just over a year ago in Anaheim and appeared in six of their 13 playoff games in 2014. The Ducks didn’t offer the 33-year-old a contract extension and went with Frederik Andersen and John Gibson instead for this season. Hiller signed with Calgary as a free agent last July. The Swiss goaltender was solid to conclude the regular season and in the first five games of the Vancouver series. But he was pulled for Karri Ramo after giving up two goals on the first three shots he faced Saturday. Hartley followed a philosophy of “he who wins the last game, starts the next” during the regular season, so it remains to be seen whether Hiller or Ramo gets the nod for Game 1 versus Anaheim. “I apologized to Jonas Hiller in front of the entire team,” Hartley said following Saturday night’s win. “I didn’t pull him because I felt it was his fault. I just felt it wasn’t a good start for us. There was water
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Calgary Flames Jiri Hudler celebrtes his goal during third period NHL first round game six playoff action against the Vancouver Canucks in Calgary, Saturday. The Falames won the game 7-4 to win the series and will now face the Anaheim Ducks in the second round. in the fuel. “Sometimes just changing the goalie changes the pace of
the game. It kind of creates a reaction (among) the players. Our players answered back.”
Price shuts out Senators, Canadiens advance to next round BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadiens 2 Senators 0 OTTAWA — There was as much relief as jubilation when the Montreal Canadiens finally finished off the Ottawa Senators. It took a shutout from Carey Price and goals from Brendan Gallagher and Max Pacioretty for the Canadiens to post a 2-0 victory over Ottawa in Game 6 on Sunday and advance to the second round of NHL playoffs. Montreal won the best-ofseven series 4-2 and will next face the winner of the DetroitTampa Bay series, which the Red Wings lead 3-2. The Senators outshot Montreal 43-20 and dominated most of the final two periods. Price, however, showed why he is a nominee for the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goalie and a likely candidate for most valuable player honours as well with a few sizzling saves and a lot of solid, mistake-free play. It was the first time this season the Senators were shut out. “Price stepped up and he
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Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price sprawls in front of a leaping Ottawa Senators’ Mika Zibanejad during third period NHL playoff action in Ottawa, Sunday. was the difference,” said Montreal defenceman P.K. Subban. After taking a 3-0 series lead, it took the Canadiens three attempts to put away a never-say-die Ottawa side that had only made the playoffs on the final weekend of the regular season after a frantic final push.
“This team has been a real treat,” said Ottawa coach Dave Cameron. “We got beat by a pretty good hockey club and, when we get over it, we’ll feel pretty good about what we accomplished here.” Montreal, which reached the Eastern Conference final last spring, is in the second round for a second year in a
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row for the first time since 1992 and 1993. “I know some people thought it would be pretty easy for us to get the fourth win, but we knew they were a capable team that battled hard all season to get into the playoffs,” said Subban. “I like the way we had to win this series. We deserved it. We worked for it. I thought we had some bounces early in the series. We didn’t get them as the series went on but today we stuck to the plan regardless of what happened. And when you have Carey Price back there, it makes everything a lot easier.” Pacioretty sealed the win with an empty-net goal with less than one second remaining. “Advancing is such a great feeling but we have to be honest, we got some bounces tonight,” said Pacioretty. “They poured it on us pretty good and Carey was a wall back there.” After controlling the early going, the Canadiens got the first goal for the first time in the series when Gallagher took a high Greg Pateryn shot
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off his body and batted it past Craig Anderson at 13:26. “It hit my arm and I felt it go that way so I spun around, found the puck and was fortunate to put it in,” said Gallagher. “You don’t plan on whacking them out of the air all the time but I was able to catch the goalie out of his position.” Montreal had the first six shots of the game but the Senators outshot them 16-3 in a dominant second in which they did everything but score. The 20,500 fans at the Canadian Tire Centre were screaming for a too many men on the ice call against Montreal when perhaps a worse omission occurred as referee Chris Lee blew a quick whistle just before Jean-Gabriel Pageau put a puck in at 6:55 that had fallen past Price. “It was just bad puck luck,” Cameron said about the disallowed goal. With Senators legend Daniel Alfredsson cheering from a luxury box, Ottawa went all out in the third for the equalizer but Montreal finished with strong checking and two or three more solid saves from Price.
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Wild win Game 6 to pull off upset over Blues BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wild 4 Blues 1 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota was killing an early penalty when Zach Parise snagged a loose puck in the neutral zone, raced away from St. Louis and triggered a huge roar from the home crowd with his highlight-reel goal off a bad-angle shot. That was a bad sign for the Blues. Game 6 belonged to Parise and the Wild. Parise scored twice, including that short-handed goal to get the Wild going in the first period on their way to a 4-1 victory over the Blues in Game 6 of the series on Sunday for a spot in the Western Conference semifinals. “He’s tenacious. He’s an all-world player for a reason, because he works his butt off and he’s able to find opportunities like that,” Blues captain David Backes said, praising Parise after the third straight first-round ouster by the Blues. Justin Fontaine also scored, Nino Niederreiter added an empty-net goal and the Wild set up a rematch with Chicago. The Blackhawks, who beat Nashville in six games to move on,
knocked the Wild out in six games in the second round last year and in five games in the first round the year before that. “I think we’re all ready for them,” Fontaine said. Devan Dubnyk made 30 saves, giving him 66 over the last two games after the 6-1 defeat here that allowed the Blues to tie the series. The Wild outscored the Blues 8-2 after that. This was the 10th straight post-season loss for the Blues when facing elimination. “It’s hard to win when you’re chasing games all the time,” coach Ken Hitchcock said. Hitchcock pulled goalie Jake Allen for Brian Elliott after Fontaine scored with 8:41 left in the second period, and T.J. Oshie’s first goal of the series came with 4 seconds left before the second intermission to give the Blues some life. They outshot the Wild 27-11 over the last two periods, too. Parise’s next goal came on a rebound of Jason Pominville’s attempt early in the third, though, and Dubnyk and the Wild were in lockdown mode after that. Only one of the six games in the series was decided by less than three goals, a 4-2 win by the Wild in Game 1, and the average margin was
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Minnesota Wild’s Zach Parise (11) shoots the puck past St. Louis Blues goalie Brian Elliott for a goal in Game 6 of an NHL first-round playoff series in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday. The Wild won 4-1 to win the series and advance to the second round. 3.2. “They are as tough a team as any to play against,” Dubnyk said. “We should enjoy that and realize that we deserve to win the series.” The building was buzzing from the start, befitting of the opportunity to see the Wild celebrate a post-season advancement at home for the first time. The Wild won three of their previous nine playoff series, all with Game 7 victories on the road. “It meant a lot to us to try to win this game in front of our fans,” coach Mike Yeo said. “They deserved that.” Matt Cooke set up Parise’s remarkable play on his way to the bench by
knocking Paul Stastny off the puck and diving to deflect it toward Parise, who evaded a check attempt by Kevin Shattenkirk and snapped a shot between Allen’s right arm and the near post into the far side of the net. “He was kind of in that paddle-down position,” Parise said. “I thought I was a little far out to hit a hole, but you just try to raise it a little and get lucky.” Allen was disheartened afterward. “I was more focused today than I ever was all year. Just two bad goals that can’t go in at this time of year,” said Allen, who stopped 11 shots. “Right now, it’s going to sit with me in a terrible way for a while.”
Chiefs expected to make strong run at another national title BY ADVOCATE STAFF Tom Bast could only wonder about what might have been. “A bounce here and there and it could have been a different story,” the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs head coach said Saturday at the Arena following his team’s 2-1 loss to the Sudbury Lady Wolves in the final of the Esso Cup tournament, the Canadian midget girls hockey championship. “The last 10 minutes of the game we found some energy. We were finding ways to score and finding ways to win earlier in the week. Today we came up a little bit short.
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CHIEFS: Wearing “No question, it’s a long week and the energy level was getting low,” he said. “Losing Maddie was a little tough on us because she’s a big strong energy lady who could have certainly helped us, especially down the stretch . . . during the last half of the game.” Sudbury bench boss Richard Walker admitted his girls — playing their 14th game in a stretch of about three weeks dating back to the Ontario provincials — were wearing down as the game progressed. “We were running on a bit of adrenalin near the end,” said Walker. “We were pretty tired, we’ve played a lot of
“We’ve had a fabulous week and if anyone had told our girls that we’d be in the final and down 2-1 in the final period, I think we would have taken that big-time. The girls got a great experience. Losing is not fun but will make us stronger and build a bit more character. We’ll go back to the drawing board next year and keep battling along and developing young women in hockey.” The Chiefs might get another shot at a national title next season considering they will return all but two players — goalie Sarah Murray and forward Ashley Richard — from the 2015 Esso Cup silver medal team. “We’re only losing two players so hopefully we can be strong and come back next year,” said Chiefs defenceman and assistant captain Abagael
Thiessen. “The adversity that we faced together and with all that we learned . . . we will be back,” said Mairead Bast, also a rearguard and an assistant captain. Both players admitted that performing in front of an enthusiastic gathering of 1,100 Saturday at the Arena was an experience they won’t soon forget. “It was incredible playing in front of our hometown fans,” said Bast. “It was very special. They were our seventh player, they kept us going.” Added Thiessen: “That was probably the biggest crowd I’ve ever played in front of. They really kept us going through the whole game and kept us in it. I’m looking forward to more of that, hopefully.” Thiessen suggested that the Chiefs’ home-ice showing in the national
championship tournament should help with the growth of female hockey in Red Deer and Central Alberta. “I’m really excited about the possibility of this giving younger players the motivation to continue playing after minor hockey,” said Thiessen. ● Nara Ella scored once and added two assists to help the Saskatoon Stars defeat the Central Plains Capitals of Manitoba 5-1 in the bronze-medal game earlier Saturday. Also connecting for the Stars were Sophie Shirley, Julia Rongve, Mackenna Parker and Kianna Dietz. Sheridan Oswald netted the lone Capitals goal. Karlee Fertch turned aside 27 shots as the winning goaltender. Lauren Taraschuk made 10 saves for the Manitoba champs. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
hockey the last few weeks.” Despite her in-control, on-ice demeanour, Ranger insisted that the fact the game was televised by TSN brought out the butterflies. “I just felt like very excited and nervous nerves because it’s the championship game and being on TV for the first time,” she said. “With so many people watching you don’t want to make a mistake. “Red Deer just played their hearts out. It was really close, it was there for either team but we pulled through.” For Shell, it was a golden manner in which to finish off her midget career after being part of a Lady Wolves squad that last year finished third in the 2014 Esso Cup. “It feels incredible to be back here for the second year in a row,” said the Sudbury sniper, who next season will
play at the University of Guelph. “You don’t get that many chances to go to this tournament so if you come a second time you want to make it count, and that’s what we did. It’s an unbelievable moment.” “Overall, it was a heck of a game. You wouldn’t have it any other way,” said Walker. “Canada had a great view of an exciting game between two evenly-matched teams. It could have gone either way, we were fortunate that we got a couple of bounces. You need a little bit of puck luck to win this kind of championship.” That being said, the Lady Wolves were the top team all week, finishing atop the round-robin standings with a 5-1 slate. “We had a good week,” said Walker. “Between provincials and nationals we went 12-2. We peaked at the right
time of year. “We kept the girls focused on the end goal, and that was always the gold medal. We had a returning group from last year who were committed and reminded the younger girls what we were working forwards. We’re fortunate it went our way and we’re so proud of the girls.” Ditto for the Chiefs head coach. “There’s a lot of tears in there (dressing room) right now, so I thought I wouldn’t say too much to them right now,” said Bast. “But I will have a message once we settle down. There’s a lot of heartbreak, but I’m very proud of the girls. I have no regrets and I hope that our entire team doesn’t have any regrets because we left everything on the line. Our girls battled and they fought and that’s all we could ask.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
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The Flames play as confidently in front of Karri Ramo as they do Hiller, in contrast to the Mikka Kiprusoff days when the Flames were tentative in front of a seldom-used backup. Hartley preaches “no fear” to his troops and he practised it with his bold goalie move. “I said ’there’s no way that I’m going back to Vancouver,”’ the coach said. “My job was to go down striking and not get caught looking.”
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Five reasons the Calgary Flames reached the second round of NHL playoffs
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Flames advanced to the second round of NHL playoffs for the first time since 2004 and will face the Anaheim Ducks. Not considered a playoff contender this season, here are five reasons the Flames beat the Vancouver Canucks four games to two in the first round.
A light team plays a heavy game
The series against Vancouver turned nasty in the second and third games. The Flames, the playoff team with the lightest average weight, took care of themselves and each other. Calgary had the third-least penalty minutes during the regular season. As of Sunday, they had the most in the first round with 152.
T.J. Brodie
“Supersonic”, according to coach Bob Hartley, the tireless defenceman was Calgary’s bedrock on offence and defence. His speed with and without the puck opened up scoring chances and his poise in Calgary’s end was a
Calgary got new forwards for the post-season without trading for them. Stepping in for injured Lance Bouma, Ferland was a punishing deterrent against Vancouver. In addition to 40 hits in six games, Ferland scored late in the first period Saturday to spark Calgary’s comeback. With just one regular-season game under his belt, 18-year-old Bennett scored the game-winner in Game 3 and brings a combination of speed, skill and scrappiness to the post-season lineup.
Top line of Hudler, Gaudreau and Monahan
Somewhat quiet with three powerplay goals between them over the first five games of the series, centre Sean Monahan and wingers Jiri Hudler and Johnny Gaudreau brought it when it really mattered. They produced four goals in Game 6 including two equalizers. Calgary had zero second-period goals in the series until Monahan and Gaudreau collected their first at evenstrength Saturday.
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Penguins stars remain committed to team BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin does not plan to leave the team that drafted him. After nine seasons in Pittsburgh with one Stanley Cup, Malkin said he continues to believe his best chance to win a second championship remains with the Penguins. Pittsburgh has not reached the Stanley Cup Final since winning it all in 2009. The Penguins have been a fixture in the playoffs every year of Malkin’s career, but now head into a long off-season after getting knocked off by the New York Rangers in five games last Friday. Despite the lopsided outcome, Malkin pointed to the competitiveness of the series — all five games were decided by a goal — as proof Pittsburgh is not far off. “It’s a good group,” Malkin said Sunday as players packed up for the summer. “We stay together all throughout the playoffs. They’re good guys . We lost three good defencemen. It was a tough
season for us. I had a couple injuries, but it’s tough to say right now. We have a good team, but we played against the best team in the league. The Penguins faced the Rangers without injured defencemen Kris Letang, Christian Ehrhoff and Derrick Pouliot. Malkin, who missed time in the final month of the season with an unspecified injury, thought that played a role in Pittsburgh’s post-season struggles. Malkin didn’t record a goal in his 15 games or a point in his final 10. With a healthy lineup, Malkin thinks the Penguins remain a Stanley Cup contender. As long as that’s the case, he has no desire to look elsewhere for work. “I’d like to stay here,” he said. “I have a house here. My parents love to stay here. We won one time, a Stanley Cup. Me and (Sidney Crosby), and (Marc-Andre Fleury). I believe we can do it again.” Malkin played impressively in his first season under coach Mike Johnston before injuries hit. While he tied Sidney Crosby for the team lead with 28 goals, his last one came against Ana-
heim on March 6. Malkin stuck up for Johnston, who was hired last summer after the Penguins fired Dan Bylsma. “It’s tough for (Johnston). It was his first year,” Malkin said. “I think he’s nervous. But I like that he always stays positive. If we have a problem at the end of the season ... He stays positive. He supports the guys. We practice hard. We work hard. We always stay positive.” Pittsburgh entered the Christmas break 22-6-5 and atop the Metropolitan Division by three points over the New York Islanders. It since went 21-21-7, and earned a playoff berth on the final day of the regular season with a 2-0 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. “It’s been a short time, but reflecting back, I take a look at the season, up until Christmas, I thought things were rolling on all cylinders,” Johnston said. “We had the mumps at that time, but still, until the Christmas break, we were right there at the top of the league. We were scoring. Our goals against were down. Our special teams were good.”
Johnston said the Penguins’ season came down to one particular day. “I thought the real turning point for me was March 14,” Johnston said. “I know I always talk about that date, but we were coming in to play Boston and we had only lost two games of our last 10 or 11. We were really picking it up as a team. Our injuries, we were healthy. “We were feeling good as a group. Probably playing our best hockey. Then Sid went out before the game. (Malkin) goes out during the game. (Patric) Hornqvist, we lose two games later. And then Ehrhoff couldn’t return.” When Letang followed Ehrhoff to the injured list after suffering a concussion against Arizona on March 21, Pittsburgh limped to the finish line. Yet Malkin and Crosby remain undaunted. “The expectations are high and they haven’t changed,” Crosby said. “It’s the same. This is where I want to be. It’s tough, obviously, when you lose and you don’t like it, but that’s the process sometimes.”
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NHL commissioner Bettman speaks on relocation, concussions, outdoor game OTTAWA — Expansion, concussions and finances were just a few of the items NHL commissioner Gary Bettman discussed while in Ottawa on Sunday night. Bettman was in town to watch Game 6 between the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens. It appears there is nothing new on the expansion front, but Bettman was quick to point out that at this time there is no potential for relocation and he would like to see such speculation come to an end as no team is in danger of moving. “Ultimately, it’s up to the Board of Governors to decide if there’s going to be expansion anywhere at any particular point and time and what the timetable is,” said Bettman. While Las Vegas, Quebec City and Seattle remain the front-runners for any possible expansion Bettman said it’s quite possible another city could express its interest once a formal expansion process was announced. It’s believed an expansion fee would likely be in the US$500 million range. “We’re a long way from making a decision,” said Bettman. Bettman anticipates next year’s salary cap to be around $71.5 million dependent on the strength on the Canadian dollar. “The Canadian dollar has been fluctuating, during my term over 20 years, and my guess is it will continue to fluc-
tuate,” said Bettman. The commissioner also touched on the concussion lawsuit launched by a number of retired players in connection with a newspaper article written by former player Mike Peluso. “We believe that we’ve been appropriately active in terms of understanding the medicine and treatment and that’s something we’ll continue to work on,” said Bettman. “We were the first sports league to begin to study concussions and their impact because the medical science has been far from certain over the years.” Bettman pointed out a number of initiatives taken by the league and said they will continue to take the issue seriously and “this is something we are focused on.” He believes teams are following the protocol for potential head injuries and says if anyone believes a team has failed to follow protocol it would be looked into by the league. Bettman said the league has an interest in hosting an outdoor game in Ottawa, but at this time there is no timeline in place for such an event. The commissioner, who was late arriving to Canadian Tire Centre, joked that he would fully support a downtown arena that would be much closer to Ottawa’s airport. The Senators have made a formal proposal to the National Capital Commission to build a new arena closer to the downtown core. The Senators project one of four proposals being considered.
Cougars take down Raiders for provincial handball bronze The Notre Dame Cougars boys won a battle of Red Deer to earn bronze at the Tier I handball provincial championships on Saturday, beating the Lindsay Thurber Raiders 31-26. As hosts, the Cougars split their two round robin games on Friday, setting up a semifinal game against the Bev Facey Falcons on Saturday morning. The Falcons won the game 30-22, dropping the Cougars into the bronze medal game against the Lindsay Thurber Raiders who fell 35-27 to the Eastglen Blue Devils in the other semifinal. The Blue Devils went on to win gold 22-20 over the Falcons. The Notre Dame girls, meanwhile, fell 33-21 to Eastglen in their bronze medal game. The Cougars also split their opening day round robin games to end up in the Saturday morning semifinal, won by Bev Facey 33-26. Bev Facey then beat the Harry Ain-
lay Titans 24-20. Lindsay Thurber right back Logan Howard and Notre Dame staff member Dada Woroniuk received sportsmanship pins for their roles in the tournament.
Syncro swim club masters wins big at provincials EDMONTON — The Red Deer Synchronized Swim Club masters team had a huge weekend at provincials. The club, coached by Paige Greenwood, brought back three gold medals, led by their combo routine with a lineup of Nicole Elliot, Heather Mast, Natalie Maclise, Martine Giguere, Maureen McCall, Karen Draves and Cassandra Woods. Mast and Woods added a gold medal in the 18-29 free duet division while Maclise and Elliot added another in the 40-49 free duet division. Maclise also competed in technical solo for the first time and earned the Scraba Trophy for highest score.
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CALGARY — Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby has been added to Canada’s roster for the upcoming world hockey championship, giving the Canadian team a huge boost as it seeks to win its first gold medal since 2007. Crosby became available after the New York Rangers beat Pittsburgh in five games in their first-round NHL playoff series. “Any time you can represent Canada, it’s an honour,” Crosby said. “I looked at the roster Hockey Canada has put together and I’m excited about the opportunity we have to win gold.” The native of Cole Harbour, N.S., led the Penguins with 84 points (28 goals, 56 assists) in 77 games this season. He added two goals and two assists in five playoff games. The Penguins forward has played for 10 seasons in the NHL, scoring 302
goals and adding 551 assists in 627 games. He won the Hart Trophy as the NHL’s most valuable player in 2007 and 2014 and led the Penguins to the 2009 Stanley Cup title. Crosby has represented Canada six other times over his career, most notably at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Crosby served as team captain in Vancouver and scored the game-winning goal against the U.S. in the goldmedal final. He played for Canada at the 2006 world championship in Latvia, scoring a tournament-high 16 points as Canada finished fourth. With the addition of Crosby, Canada’s roster now stands at 21 players: two goaltenders, five defenceman and 14 forwards. Former San Jose coach Todd McLellan will lead a young team that also includes forwards Taylor Hall, Tyler Seguin, Claude Giroux and Nathan MacKinnon and defenceman Aaron Ekblad.
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WHL PLAYOFFS THIRD ROUND Conference Finals (Best-of-7)
Washington (2) vs. N.Y. Islanders (3) (Series tied 3-3) Wednesday, April 15 NY Islanders 4 Washington 1 Friday, April 17 Washington 4 NY Islanders 3 Sunday, April 19 NY Islanders 2 Washington 1, OT Tuesday, April 21 Washington 2 NY Islanders 1, OT Thursday, April 23 Washington 5 NY Islanders 1 Saturday, April 25 NY Islanders 3 Washington 1 Monday, April 27 NY Islanders at Washington, 5:30 p.m.
Kelowna (BC1) vs. Portland (US2) (Series tied 1-1) Friday, Apr. 24 Kelowna 3 Portland 2 Saturday, Apr. 25 Portland 3 Kelowna 2 Tuesday, Apr. 28 Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 29 Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m. Friday, May. 1 Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, May. 3 x-Kelowna at Portland, 6 p.m. Tuesday, May. 5 x-Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary. Playoff Scoring Leaders G 10 8 11 4 9 5 2 9 6 5 5 7 6 5 3 9 7 6 5 3 2
Penalties — Edler Vcr (high-sticking) 5:32, Bennett Cgy (slashing) 9:18, Jooris Cgy (interference) 10:19. Second Period 5. Calgary, Monahan 2 (Hudler, Wideman) 1:02. 6. Calgary, Gaudreau 2 (Hudler, Brodie) 5:35. 7. Vancouver, Sbisa 1 (Hansen) 10:36. Penalties — Bonino Vcr (closing hand on puck) 15:43. Third Period 8. Calgary, Hudler 2 (Monahan, Gaudreau) 6:14 (pp). 9. Calgary, Stajan 1 (Ferland, Jones) 15:43. 10. Calgary, Hudler 3 (Monahan, Gaudreau) 19:31 (en). 11. Calgary, Ferland 2 (Jones, Stajan) 19:57 (en). Penalties — McMillan Vcr (interference) 5:25. Shots on goal Vancouver 7 9 6 — 22 Calgary 9 11 13 — 33 Goal — Vancouver: Miller (L, 1-1-0); Calgary: Ramo (W, 1-0-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Vancouver: 1-2; Calgary: 1-3.
N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Pittsburgh (WC) (NY Rangers wins series 4-1) Thursday, April 16 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1 Saturday, April 18 Pittsburgh 4 NY Rangers 3 Monday, April 20 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1 Wednesday, April 22 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1, OT Friday, April 24 NY Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1, OT
Brandon (E1) vs. Calgary (C1) (Brandon leads series 2-0) Friday, Apr. 24 Brandon 9 Calgary 4 Saturday, Apr. 25 Brandon 3 Calgary 2 (OT) Tuesday, Apr. 28 Brandon at Calgary, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 29 Brandon at Calgary, 7 p.m. Friday, May. 1 x-Calgary at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May. 5 x-Calgary at Brandon, 6 p.m.
Tambellini, Cal Petan, Por Bjorkstrand, Por Draisaitl, Kel Magee, Vic Sanheim, Cal Merkley, Kel Rankin, Cal J.Quenneville, Bra Bowey, Kel McGauley, Bra Baillie, Kel P.Quenneville, Bra Virtanen, Cal De Leo, Por Chartier, Kel Hawryluk, Bra Helgesen, Cal Philp, Koo Fazleev, Cal Bukarts, Bra
B4
A 13 13 9 12 6 10 13 5 8 9 9 6 7 8 10 3 5 6 7 9 10
Pts 23 21 20 16 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals
Sunday’s summaries Canadiens 2, Senators 0 First Period 1. Montreal, Gallagher 1 (Pateryn, Plekanec) 13:26. Penalties — Markov Mtl (high-sticking) 2:34, Mitchell Mtl (holding) 9:41. Second Period No Scoring. Penalties — Markov Mtl (tripping) 15:52. Third Period 2. Montreal, Pacioretty 2 (Subban) 19:59 (en). Penalties — MacArthur Ott (high-sticking) 3:42, De La Rose Mtl (tripping) 16:46. Shots on goal Montreal 13 3 4 — 20 Ottawa 13 16 14 — 43 Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 4-2-0); Ottawa: Anderson (L, 2-2-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Montreal: 0-1; Ottawa: 0-4.
WESTERN CONFERENCE St. Louis (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Minnesota wins series 4-2) Thursday, April 16 Minnesota 4 St. Louis 2 Saturday, April 18 St. Louis 4 Minnesota 1 Monday, April 20 Minnesota 3 St. Louis 0 Wednesday, April 22 St. Louis 6 Minnesota 1 Friday, April 24 Minnesota 4 St. Louis 1 Sunday, April 26 Minnesota 4 St. Louis 1
Wild 4, Blues 1 First Period 1. Minnesota, Parise 2 (Cooke) 7:14 (sh). Penalties — Stastny StL (interference) 3:41, Fontaine Minn (tripping) 6:31, Niederreiter Minn (hooking) 11:14. Second Period 2. Minnesota, Fontaine 1 (Scandella) 11:19. 3. St. Louis, Oshie 1 (Shattenkirk, Pietrangelo) 19:56. Penalties — Jackman StL (hooking) 5:29, Cooke Minn (Embellishment) 5:29. Third Period 4. Minnesota, Parise 3 (Pominville, Granlund) 1:01. 5. Minnesota, Niederreiter 3 (Koivu) 18:08 (en). Penalties — None. Shots on goal St. Louis 4 15 12 — 31 Minnesota 10 7 4 — 21 Goal — St. Louis: Allen (L, 2-4-0); Minnesota: Dubnyk (W, 4-2-0). Power plays (goal-chances)St. Louis: 0-2; Minnesota: 0-1.
Nashville (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago wins series 4-2) Wednesday, April 15 Chicago 4 Nashville 3, 2OT Friday, April 17 Nashville 6 Chicago 2 Sunday, April 19 Chicago 4 Nashville 2 Tuesday, April 21 Chicago 3 Nashville 2, 3OT Thursday, April 23 Nashville 5 Chicago 2 Saturday, April 25 Chicago 4 Nashville 3 Anaheim (1) vs. Winnipeg (WC) (Anaheim wins series 4-0) Thursday, April 16 Anaheim 4 Winnipeg 2 Saturday, April 18 Anaheim 2 Winnipeg 1 Monday, April 20 Anaheim 5 Winnipeg 4, OT Wednesday, April 22 Anaheim 5 Winnipeg 2
EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal (1) vs. Ottawa (WC) (Montreal wins series 4-2) Wednesday, April 15 Montreal 4 Ottawa 3 Friday, April 17 Montreal 3 Ottawa 2, OT Sunday, April 19 Montreal 2 Ottawa 1, OT Wednesday, April 22 Ottawa 1 Montreal 0 Friday, April 24 Ottawa 5 Montreal 1 Sunday, April 26 Montreal 2 Ottawa 0
Vancouver (2) vs. Calgary (3) (Calgary wins series 4-2) Wednesday, April 15 Calgary 2 Vancouver 1 Friday, April 17 Vancouver 4 Calgary 1 Sunday, April 19 Calgary 4 Vancouver 2 Tuesday, April 21 Calgary 3 Vancouver 1 Thursday, April 23 Vancouver 2 Calgary 1 Saturday, April 25 Calgary 7 Vancouver 4 x — if necessary.
Tampa Bay (2) vs. Detroit (3) (Detroit leads series 3-2) Thursday, April 16 Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, April 18 Tampa Bay 5 Detroit 1 Tuesday, April 21 Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 0 Thursday, April 23 Tampa Bay 3 Detroit 2, OT Saturday, April 25 Detroit 4 Tampa Bay 0 Monday, April 27 Tampa Bay at Detroit, 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 29 x-Detroit at Tampa Bay, TBD
Saturday’s summary Flames 7, Canucks 4 First Period 1. Vancouver, McMillan 1 (Higgins, Horvat) 2:36. 2. Vancouver, Hansen 2 (Matthias, Tanev) 7:32. 3. Vancouver, Vrbata 2 (Sedin, Sedin) 9:42 (pp). 4. Calgary, Ferland 1 (Stajan, Jones) 17:02.
NHL Playoff Scoring Leaders G Jonathan Toews, Chi 3 Vladimir Tarasenko, StL 6 Corey Perry, Ana 3 Patrick Kane, Chi 2 Duncan Keith, Chi 2 Kevin Shattenkirk, StL 0 Filip Forsberg, Nash 4 Jiri Hudler, Cgy 3 Nicklas Backstrom, Wash 3 Jakob Silfverberg, Ana 2 Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy 2 John Tavares, NYI 2 Colin Wilson, Nash 5 Tyler Johnson, TB 4 James Neal, Nash 4 Ryan Kesler, Ana 3 Patrick Sharp, Chi 3 Sami Vatanen, Ana 2 Sean Monahan, Cgy 2 David Jones, Cgy 2 Craig Smith, Nash 2 Josh Bailey, NYI 2 Zach Parise, Minn 1 Mike Ribeiro, Nash 1 Marian Hossa, Chi 0 Nick Leddy, NYI 0
A 5 1 4 5 5 7 2 3 3 4 4 4 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5
Pts 8 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 11 8 .579 Tampa Bay 11 8 .579 Boston 10 9 .526 Baltimore 9 10 .474 Toronto 9 10 .474
GB — — 1 2 2
Detroit Kansas City Chicago Minnesota Cleveland
Central Division W L Pct 13 6 .684 12 6 .667 8 9 .471 8 10 .444 6 11 .353
GB — 1/2 4 4 1/2 6
Houston Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Texas
West Division W L Pct 11 7 .611 9 10 .474 8 12 .400 7 11 .389 7 11 .389
GB — 2 1/2 4 4 4
Saturday’s Games Detroit 4, Cleveland 1 Kansas City at Chicago, ppd., rain Houston 9, Oakland 3 N.Y. Mets 8, N.Y. Yankees 2 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 2 Baltimore 5, Boston 4, 10 innings L.A. Angels 4, Texas 1 Minnesota 8, Seattle 5 Sunday’s Games Detroit 8, Cleveland 6 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 1 Baltimore 18, Boston 7 Chicago White Sox 3, Kansas City 2, comp. of susp. game Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 3 Texas 5, L.A. Angels 4, 11 innings Houston 7, Oakland 6 Minnesota 4, Seattle 2, 11 innings N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 4 Monday’s Games Kansas City (J.Vargas 1-1) at Cleveland (Kluber 0-2), 4:10 p.m. Toronto (Aa.Sanchez 1-2) at Boston (J.Kelly 1-0), 4:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-2) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 1-1), 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Karns 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Warren 1-1), 5:05 p.m. Seattle (T.Walker 0-2) at Texas (Gallardo 2-2), 6:05 p.m. Detroit (Price 1-1) at Minnesota (Milone 2-0), 6:10 p.m. Houston (McHugh 3-0) at San Diego (Shields 2-0), 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Kansas City at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. Seattle at Texas, 6:05 p.m. Detroit at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Oakland, 8:05 p.m. Houston at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. AJones Bal 19 72 17 29 .403 JIglesias Det 18 58 5 22 .379 MiCabrera Det 19 69 10 26 .377 Cain KC 17 64 13 24 .375 Fielder Tex 18 72 6 26 .361 Travis Tor 18 64 13 23 .359 Donaldson Tor 19 75 14 26 .347 IDavis Oak 18 58 11 20 .345 Vogt Oak 18 58 10 20 .345 Calhoun LAA 16 61 9 20 .328 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 9; HRamirez, Boston, 8; Teixeira, New York, 8; Abreu, Chicago, 5; AJones, Baltimore, 5; JMartinez, Detroit, 5; ARodriguez, New York, 5; Travis, Toronto, 5; Valbuena, Houston, 5. Runs Batted In NCruz, Seattle, 20; AJones, Baltimore, 18; Teixeira,
New York, 18; HRamirez, Boston, 17; Travis, Toronto, 16; Abreu, Chicago, 14; Donaldson, Toronto, 14; JMartinez, Detroit, 14; Vogt, Oakland, 14. Pitching Simon, Detroit, 4-0; McHugh, Houston, 3-0; Betances, New York, 3-0; Pineda, New York, 3-0; FHernandez, Seattle, 3-0; Greene, Detroit, 3-1; Buehrle, Toronto, 3-1.
New York Atlanta Miami Philadelphia Washington
National League East Division W L Pct 14 5 .737 9 9 .500 8 11 .421 7 12 .368 7 12 .368
GB — 4 1/2 6 7 7
St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee
Central Division W L Pct 12 5 .706 10 7 .588 11 8 .579 8 10 .444 4 15 .211
GB — 2 2 4 1/2 9
West Division W L Pct 11 7 .611 10 8 .556 11 9 .550 8 10 .444 8 11 .421
GB — 1 1 3 3 1/2
Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona San Francisco
Sunday’s Major League Linescores
Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, ppd., rain N.Y. Mets 8, N.Y. Yankees 2 Miami 8, Washington 0 Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 2 St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 3 Pittsburgh 2, Arizona 1 San Francisco 5, Colorado 4, 11 innings L.A. Dodgers 11, San Diego 8
Cleveland 010 100 121 — 6 10 1 Detroit 201 022 01x — 8 13 0 Carrasco, Atchison (5), Rzepczynski (7), Allen (8) and R.Perez; Lobstein, Nesbitt (8), B.Hardy (8), Soria (9) and J.McCann. W—Lobstein 2-1. L— Carrasco 2-2. Sv—Soria (7). HRs—Cleveland, Dav. Murphy (2). Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (3).
Boston 000 000 403 — 7 9 1 Baltimore 016 212 60x — 18 20 1 Miley, Varvaro (3), Ross Jr. (5), Hembree (6), Breslow (7), Mujica (8) and S.Leon; B.Norris, Jas. Garcia (7) and Lavarnway. W—B.Norris 1-2. L— Miley 1-2. HRs—Boston, Sandoval (1), H.Ramirez 2 (8). Baltimore, C.Davis (4).
Monday’s Games Milwaukee (Nelson 1-1) at Cincinnati (Marquis 1-1), 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Gee 0-1) at Miami (Cosart 1-1), 5:10 p.m. Washington (Fister 1-0) at Atlanta (Stults 0-1), 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Worley 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 1-1), 6:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Hamels 0-2) at St. Louis (Lackey 1-0), 6:15 p.m. Colorado (Matzek 1-0) at Arizona (C.Anderson 0-0), 7:40 p.m. Houston (McHugh 3-0) at San Diego (Shields 2-0), 8:10 p.m. San Francisco (Lincecum 1-1) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 1-1), 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. Colorado at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. Houston at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m. H 26 32 27 26 22 19 27 23 28
AMERICAN LEAGUE Kan. City 001 010 000 — 2 8 2 Chicago 000 100 101 — 3 8 1 D.Duffy, Frasor (6), F.Morales (6), C.Young (7), K.Herrera (9) and S.Perez; Quintana, Putnam (8), Robertson (9) and Flowers, Soto. W—Robertson 2-0. L—K.Herrera 0-1.
Toronto 000 000 001 — 1 5 1 Tampa Bay 200 102 00x — 5 13 1 Buehrle, Estrada (6), Loup (8) and Ru.Martin; Archer, Andriese (8) and Rivera. W—Archer 3-2. L— Buehrle 3-1. HRs—Tampa Bay, Guyer (1).
Sunday’s Games Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 2 Miami 6, Washington 2 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 4 Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 3 San Diego 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 Pittsburgh 8, Arizona 0 San Francisco at Colorado, ppd., rain N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R LeMahieu Col 18 62 5 DGordon Mia 19 82 10 AGonzalez LAD 18 71 17 MCarpenter StL 17 71 14 Galvis Phi 18 61 6 Holliday StL 16 53 7 Pagan SF 19 76 6 Alonso SD 19 65 8 Kemp SD 20 80 16
JhPeralta StL 17 67 7 23 .343 Home Runs AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 7; Votto, Cincinnati, 6; Dickerson, Colorado, 5; Frazier, Cincinnati, 5; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 5; Guerrero, Los Angeles, 5; Harper, Washington, 5; Marte, Pittsburgh, 5; Stanton, Miami, 5; Upton, San Diego, 5. Runs Batted In AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 18; Stanton, Miami, 17; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 16; Hechavarria, Miami, 16; Votto, Cincinnati, 15; Dickerson, Colorado, 14; Frazier, Cincinnati, 14; Kemp, San Diego, 14. Pitching BColon, New York, 4-0; Harvey, New York, 4-0; Greinke, Los Angeles, 3-0; SMiller, Atlanta, 3-0; Cole, Pittsburgh, 3-0; McCarthy, Los Angeles, 3-0; Wacha, St. Louis, 3-0.
Kan. City 001 200 000 — 3 8 2 Chicago 000 005 00x — 5 6 1 Volquez, Frasor (6), F.Morales (7), Madson (8) and S.Perez; Danks, Petricka (7), Duke (8), Robertson (9) and Flowers. W—Danks 1-2. L—Volquez 2-2. Sv—Robertson (3). HRs—Kansas City, A.Gordon (2). Texas 011 000 001 02 — 5 9 1 Los Ang. 000 000 210 01 — 415 2 (11 innings) N.Martinez, Bass (7), Sh.Tolleson (8), Kela (9), Feliz (10) and Corporan; Santiago, C.Ramos (6), Morin (8), J.Smith (9), J.Alvarez (10) and Iannetta. W— Feliz 1-1. L—J.Alvarez 0-1. HRs—Texas, L.Martin (1). Los Angeles, Trout (4). Houston 003 200 002 — 7 10 0 Oakland 020 300 100 — 6 7 1 Wojciechowski, Deduno (5), Sipp (7), Gregerson (9) and J.Castro; Pomeranz, Abad (6), Cook (7), Scribner (8), Clippard (8) and Vogt. W—Sipp 2-0. L— Clippard 0-2. Sv—Gregerson (4). HRs—Houston, Marisnick (2). Minnesota 101 000 000 02 — 4 9 1 Seattle 000 200 000 00 — 2 6 0 (11 innings) Gibson, A.Thompson (8), Fien (9), Perkins (11) and Herrmann; Elias, C.Smith (6), Furbush (7), Farquhar (8), Rodney (9), Olson (10) and Sucre, Zunino. W—Fien 1-1. L—Olson 1-1. Sv—Perkins (5). HRs— Seattle, S.Smith (1).
Pct. .419 .390 .380 .366 .361 .358 .355 .354 .350
INTERLEAGUE New York (N)202 000 000 — 4 7 4 New York (A)140 010 00x — 6 9 2 Niese, Goeddel (6), A.Torres (8) and Plawecki; Eovaldi, Shreve (5), Ch.Martin (6), J.Wilson (7), Betances (8), A.Miller (9) and J.Murphy. W—Shreve 1-0. L—Niese 2-1. Sv—A.Miller (7). HRs—New York (N), Granderson (1). New York (A), A.Rodriguez (5).
Wednesday
● High school girls rugby: Rocky Mountain House at Notre Dame, Lindsay Thurber at Hunting Hills, 4:30 p.m., Titans Park 1 and 2; Wetaskiwin at Lacombe, 4:30 p.m.; Rimbey at Olds, 4:30 p.m. ● High school boys rugby: Hunting Hills at Lindsay Thurber, Wetaskiwin at Rocky Mountain House, 6 p.m., Titans Park 1 and 2.
Saturday
● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Okotoks Ice at Lacoka Locos, 6:30 p.m., Ponoka.
Sunday
● Senior women’s lacrosse: Calgary Cougars at Red Deer Rage, 2:30 p.m. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Edmonton Warriors at Red Deer Rampage, 5 p.m., Kinex.
Basketball 99 Monday, April 20: Golden State 97, New Orleans 87 Thursday, April 23: Golden State 123, New Orleans 119, OT Saturday, April 25: Golden State 109, New Orleans 98
NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 2, Brooklyn 1 Sunday, April 19: Atlanta 99, Brooklyn 92 Wednesday, April 22: Atlanta 96, Brooklyn 91 Saturday, April 25: Brooklyn 91, Atlanta 83 Monday, April 27: Atlanta at Brooklyn, 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 29: Brooklyn at Atlanta, TBA x-Friday, May 1: Atlanta at Brooklyn, TBA x-Sunday, May 3: Brooklyn at Atlanta, TBA
Houston 3, Dallas 1 Saturday, April 18: Houston 118, Dallas 108 Tuesday, April 21: Houston 111, Dallas 99 Friday, April 24: Houston 130, Dallas 128 Sunday, April 26: Dallas 121, Houston 109 Tuesday, April 28: Dallas at Houston, 6 p.m. x-Thursday, April 30: Houston at Dallas, TBA x-Saturday, May 2: Dallas at Houston, TBA
Cleveland 4, Boston 0 Sunday, April 19: Cleveland 113, Boston 100 Tuesday, April 21: Cleveland 99, Boston 91 Thursday, April 23: Cleveland 103, Boston 95 Sunday, April 26: Cleveland 101, Boston 93
San Antonio 2, L.A. Clippers 2 Sunday, April 19: L.A. Clippers 107, San Antonio 92 Wednesday, April 22: San Antonio 111, L.A. Clippers 107, OT Friday, April 24: San Antonio 100, L.A. Clippers 73 Sunday, April 26: L.A. Clippers 114, San Antonio 105 Tuesday, April 28: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30: L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, TBA x-Saturday, May 2: San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, TBA
Chicago 3, Milwaukee 1 Saturday, April 18: Chicago 103, Milwaukee 91 Monday, April 20: Chicago 91, Milwaukee 82 Thursday, April 23: Chicago 113, Milwaukee 106, 2OT Saturday. April 25: Milwaukee 92, Chicago 90 Monday, April 27: Milwaukee at Chicago, 6 p.m. x-Thursday, April 30: Chicago at Milwaukee, TBA x-Saturday, May 2: Milwaukee at Chicago, TBA Washington 4, Toronto 0 Saturday, April 18: Washington 93, Toronto 86, OT Tuesday, April 21: Washington 117, Toronto 106 Friday, April 24: Washington 106, Toronto 99 Sunday, April 26: Washington 125, Toronto 94 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, New Orleans 0 Saturday, April 18: Golden State 106, New Orleans
Memphis 3, Portland 0 Sunday, April 19: Memphis 100, Portland 86 Wednesday, April 22: Memphis 97, Portland 82 Saturday, April 25: Memphis 115, Portland 109 Monday, April 27: Memphis at Portland, 8:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 29: Portland at Memphis, TBA x-Friday, May 1: Memphis at Portland, TBA x-Sunday, May 3: Portland at Memphis, TBA
Golf PGA-Zurich Classic of New Orleans Sunday At TPC Louisiana Avondale, La. Purse: $6.9 million Yardage: 7,425; Par: 72 Final Justin Rose, $1,242,000 69-66-65-66 Cameron Tringale, $745,200 69-65-68-65 Boo Weekley, $469,200 64-70-69-65 Jason Day, $303,600 67-65-68-69 Jim Herman, $303,600 69-68-67-65 Daniel Berger, $239,775 66-67-68-69 David Hearn, $239,775 65-70-67-68 Blayne Barber, $193,200 67-70-64-70 Chad Campbell, $193,200 67-68-68-68 Chesson Hadley, $193,200 67-72-66-66 Whee Kim, $193,200 68-71-68-64 Steven Bowditch, $115,920 68-67-71-66 Erik Compton, $115,920 66-69-68-69 Jason Gore, $115,920 70-68-66-68 George McNeill, $115,920 74-64-66-68 Sean O’Hair, $115,920 65-71-68-68 Scott Pinckney, $115,920 69-70-65-68 D.A. Points, $115,920 70-69-68-65 Hudson Swafford, $115,920 67-66-70-69 Justin Thomas, $115,920 68-66-72-66 Steve Wheatcroft, $115,920 72-66-69-65 Keegan Bradley, $64,055 69-70-66-68 Brendon de Jonge, $64,055 64-70-68-71 Jerry Kelly, $64,055 70-64-70-69 Danny Lee, $64,055 70-64-68-71 Scott Stallings, $64,055 74-65-69-65 Chris Stroud, $64,055 67-66-73-67 Retief Goosen, $46,920 70-66-71-67 Freddie Jacobson, $46,920 68-71-69-66 Kevin Kisner, $46,920 69-68-70-67 Marc Leishman, $46,920 74-63-70-67 Spencer Levin, $46,920 70-69-69-66 D.H. Lee, $38,985 70-67-71-67 Bryce Molder, $38,985 69-67-70-69 Bernd Wiesberger, 38,985 69-68-69-69 Scott Brown, $31,099 70-68-72-66 Brian Davis, $31,099 66-71-70-69 Carl Pettersson, $31,099 72-66-69-69 Jhonattan Vegas, $31,099 67-71-69-69 K.J. Choi, $31,099 67-70-69-70 Morgan Hoffmann, $31,099 68-66-69-73 Michael Smith, $31,099 70-68-67-71 Chad Collins, $22,770 70-69-68-70 Dustin Johnson, $22,770 67-70-68-72 Russell Knox, $22,770 69-70-68-70 Greg Owen, $22,770 66-70-70-71 Cameron Smith, $22,770 69-70-69-69 Tommy Gainey, $16,991 73-66-68-71 Billy Horschel, $16,991 71-68-70-69 John Huh, $16,991 69-70-66-73 John Peterson, $16,991 70-68-71-69 Nick Taylor, $16,991 70-69-68-71 Michael Thompson, $16,991 70-68-70-70 Johnson Wagner, $16,991 68-69-73-68 Tim Wilkinson, $16,991 69-69-70-70 Woody Austin, $15,594 70-66-70-73 Ben Crane, $15,594 67-71-72-69 Mark Hubbard, $15,594 66-73-72-68
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266 267 268 269 269 270 270 271 271 271 271 272 272 272 272 272 272 272 272 272 272 273 273 273 273 273 273 274 274 274 274 274 275 275 275 276 276 276 276 276 276 276 277 277 277 277 277 278 278 278 278 278 278 278 278 279 279 279
GF GA 10 7 8 6 10 5 12 6 6 7 6 10 10 11 5 7 10 17 2 6
Pt 14 14 12 11 9 8 6 6 6 2
Fabian Gomez, $15,180 Carlos Ortiz, $15,180 Mark Wilson, $15,180 Jonathan Byrd, $14,766 Lucas Glover, $14,766 Ryo Ishikawa, $14,766 Alex Cejka, $14,283 Max Homa, $14,283 Colt Knost, $14,283 Brian Stuard, $14,283 David Toms, $13,938 Andres Gonzales, $13,731 Roger Sloan, $13,731
69-70-71-70 67-67-73-73 69-68-73-70 69-70-68-74 71-68-76-66 70-67-72-72 68-69-75-71 70-68-69-76 71-68-74-70 69-69-74-71 72-67-73-73 71-68-72-77 71-68-71-78
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LPGA-Swinging Skirts Classic DALY CITY, Calif. — Scores Sunday from the $2-million LPGA-Swinging Skirts Classic, played at the par-72, 6,507-yard Lake Merced Golf Club course: Final a-amateur Lydia Ko, $300,000 67-72-71-70 — 280 Morgan Pressel, $182,956 69-72-67-72 — 280 Brooke Henderson, $132,721 70-65-72-74 — 281 Min Seo Kwak, $102,670 72-67-69-74 — 282 Shanshan Feng, $82,638 70-70-71-72 — 283 Ha Na Jang, $57,930 68-71-77-68 — 284 Amy Yang, $57,930 72-68-75-69 — 284 Stacy Lewis, $57,930 69-71-71-73 — 284 Mirim Lee, $42,571 74-68-73-70 — 285 Sei Young Kim, $42,571 74-69-70-72 — 285 Na Yeon Choi, $36,310 69-68-78-71 — 286 Sakura Yokomine, $36,310 71-67-77-71 — 286 P.K. Kongkraphan, $31,853 68-76-71-72 — 287 Sandra Gal, $31,853 74-67-72-74 — 287 Gerina Piller, $27,512 72-73-73-70 — 288 Juli Inkster, $27,512 68-74-75-71 — 288 Moriya Jutanugarn, $27,512 70-72-72-74 — 288 Cristie Kerr, $21,874 71-74-75-69 — 289 Q Baek, $21,874 73-72-74-70 — 289 Hyo Joo Kim, $21,874 71-73-74-71 — 289 Minjee Lee, $21,874 71-72-74-72 — 289 Inbee Park, $21,874 73-71-73-72 — 289 Yueer Cindy Feng, $21,874 70-68-76-75 — 289 Julieta Granada, $21,874 70-69-75-75 — 289 Tiffany Joh, $21,874 70-70-74-75 — 289 Michelle Wie, $16,413 75-74-72-69 — 290 Ai Miyazato, $16,413 73-70-77-70 — 290 Caroline Hedwall, $16,413 69-72-77-72 — 290 Jenny Shin, $16,413 72-69-75-74 — 290 Kelly Tan, $16,413 72-70-74-74 — 290 Anna Nordqvist, $16,413 70-74-70-76 — 290 So Yeon Ryu, $16,413 73-68-71-78 — 290 Ryann O’Toole, $12,588 76-69-77-69 — 291 Azahara Munoz, $12,588 72-73-75-71 — 291 Eun-Hee Ji, $12,588 73-70-75-73 — 291 Pornanong Phatlum, $12,588 70-72-76-73 — 291 Kim Kaufman, $12,588 73-72-72-74 — 291 Brittany Lincicome, $12,588 71-72-73-75 — 291 Jane Park, $9,816 73-73-75-71 — 292 Alison Lee, $9,816 74-75-71-72 — 292 Ilhee Lee, $9,816 74-72-74-72 — 292 Amelia Lewis, $9,816 74-73-73-72 — 292 Chella Choi, $9,816 70-73-74-75 — 292 Mi Jung Hur, $9,816 72-71-74-75 — 292
Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T New England 8 4 2 2 D.C. 7 4 1 2 New York 6 3 0 3 Columbus 7 3 2 2 Chicago 6 3 3 0 Orlando 8 2 4 2 Toronto 6 2 4 0 New York City 8 1 4 3 Philadelphia 9 1 5 3 Montreal 4 0 2 2
Vancouver Dallas Seattle Los Angeles Houston Kansas City San Jose Portland Salt Lake Colorado
Western Conference GP W L T 9 5 3 1 8 4 2 2 7 4 2 1 8 3 2 3 8 2 2 4 8 2 2 4 7 3 4 0 8 2 3 3 7 2 2 3 7 1 2 4
GF GA 11 9 11 11 10 5 9 8 10 8 11 12 7 9 7 8 6 9 6 6
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New England 4 Salt Lake 0 Columbus 4 Philadelphia 1 Houston 4 Kansas City 4 Vancouver 1 D.C. 2 Sunday’s results New York 1 Los Angeles 1 Orlando 0 Toronto 2 Seattle 1 Portland 0 Wednesday’s games Colorado at New York, 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 1 Dallas at Houston, 6 p.m. San Jose at Salt Lake, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 2 Toronto at Philadelphia, 2 p.m. Columbus at D.C., 5 p.m. New York at New England, 5:30 p.m. Vancouver at Portland, 8:30 p.m. Colorado at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, May 3 Chicago at Kansas City, 3 p.m. Seattle at New York City, 5 p.m.
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Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF x-Toronto 17 13 4 .765 220 x-Rochester 17 12 5 .706 193 x-Buffalo 17 10 7 .600 216 Minnesota 17 5 12 .294 172 New England 16 4 12 .200 169
GA 178 160 198 214 219
GB — 1 3 8 9
West Division GP W L Pct GF GA GB y-Edmonton 17 12 5 .706 228 167 — x-Colorado 17 9 8 .529 202 205 3 Calgary 17 6 11 .353 198 204 6 Vancouver 17 5 12 .294 198 251 7 x — clinched playoff berth; y — clinched division.
WEEK 17 Saturday’s results Buffalo 17 Vancouver 9 Rochester 14 New England 6 Edmonton 16 Minnesota 12 Sunday’s games Buffalo 20, New England 9 WEEK 18 Friday, May 1 Toronto at New England, 5 p.m. Saturday, May 2 New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m. Rochester at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Edmonton at Colorado, 7 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 8 p.m. End of regular season
Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Kansas City RHP Yordano Ventura seven games; Kansas City RHP Edinson Volquez and Chicago White Sox LHP Chris Sale and RHP Jeff Samardzija five games; and Kansas City OF Lorenzo Cain and RHP Kelvin Herrera two games and fined them undisclosed amounts for their actions during an onfield incident in Thursday’s game. Find Chicago C Tyler Flowers an undisclosed amount for his actions during the same incident. American League
BOSTON RED SOX — Placed OF Shane Victorino on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday. Recalled RHP Matt Barnes from Pawtucket (IL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed INF/OF Ben Zobrist on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of INF Max Muncy from Nashville (PCL). Designated LHP Eury De La Rosa for assignment. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Designated 2B Steve Tolleson for assignment. Released LHP Ricky Romero. Reinstated OF Michael Saunders from the 15-day DL. National League LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned OF Chris
Heisey to Oklahoma City (PCL). Assigned RHP Daniel Corcino outright to Oklahoma City. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned LHP Frank Garces to El Paso (PCL). Reinstated RHP Ian Kennedy from the 15-day DL. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Dallas coach Rick Carlisle $25,000 for public criticism of officiating. HOCKEY American Hockey League AHL — Suspended San Antonio D Shane O’Brien one game.
GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Assigned F Alden Hirschfeld to Toledo (ECHL). Sunday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY ECHL ECHL — Fined Ontario D Kyle Bigos and Florida D Mike Cornell. WHEELING NAILERS — Released G Mike Nepsa as emergency backup. Signed G Philippe Cadorette to an amateur tryout agreement. COLLEGE CLAYTON STATE — Announced the resignation
of men’s basketball coach Paul Harrison to become men’s assistant basketball coach at Bucknell. KENNESAW STATE — Named Al Skinner men’s basketball coach. BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned RHP Matt Barnes to Pawtucket (IL). Recalled RHP Heath Hembree from Pawtucket. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP Matt Albers on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 20. Selected the contract of RHP Scott Carroll from Charlotte (IL). Designated LHP Eric Surkamp for assignment.
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Raptors get swept from NBA playoffs BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Wizards 125 Raptors 94 WASHINGTON — It didn’t take very long for Kyle Lowry to show his built-up frustration on Sunday against Washington. Lowry and his Toronto Raptors were swept from the post-season after a 12594 loss in Game 4 against the Wizards. The guard’s emotion from throughout the series boiled over in the first quarter. He protested an early foul on Paul Pierce by firing the basketball to a referee as he walked off the court after a time out. Lowry earned a technical foul and moments later was on the bench with a third personal foul just six minutes 54 seconds into the game. The meltdown encapsulated the series for Lowry and Toronto, which dropped the first-round matchup 4-0. “It was very unsatisfactory, to be honest,” said Lowry. “At the end of the day, I’ve got to continue to get better and I will get better.” It was a miserable week for Lowry, who battled back spasms, an illness and a leg injury, but refused to concede he was hurt. His shot was off. Foul trouble was a constant problem. The Raptors’ most dynamic player, who started at guard for the Eastern Conference in this year’s All-Star game, was a shell of himself in the series. Lowry scored a team-high 21 points on 8-of-15 shooting on Sunday. But the Raptors’ defence was inconsistent, their offence sputtered and they
couldn’t rebound the shots they did miss. “I’ve got no answers. It’s a tough end for us,” said guard Greivis Vasquez. “But as a team we’ve got to stay together. We’ll see what happens this summer. We all, as individuals, have to get better. That really wasn’t us the whole series.” The Wizards led 20-10 just 6:18 into the contest when Lowry was forced to the bench with that third foul. The lead grew to 20 midway through the second quarter and the game was never competitive in the second half as one Washington starter after another was pulled from the game to a standing ovation. “I was surprised, but I kind of saw it coming,” said Toronto coach Dwane Casey. “With how hard we played in the first game and overtime, emotionally I thought we were just drained. Once they hit us with the haymakers, we didn’t have enough emotional fortitude to sustain it.” Washington set a franchise post-season record by making 15 of its 3-point shots. It had just five turnovers in the first half. Lowry picked up his fourth foul at 6:16 of the third quarter with the Raptors down 79-61 and later knocked over a chair on the Toronto bench in anger. “When we play unselfish basketball we’re a different team. That’s just the facts,” said Vasquez. “It’s not defence or breakdowns or any (thing) like that. We’ve just got to play together and when we do that, we win. They did it.”
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Washington Wizards guard John Wall passes the ball to center Marcin Gortat past Toronto Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas in the first half of Game 4 in the first round of the NBA playoffs, Sunday, in Washington. The Wizards won 125-94 to complete the first sweep of a seven-game series in club history, and advancing them to the second-round. A Raptors team that began the year 24-7 and had reached Game 7 in the first round last season — only to lose to the Brooklyn Nets when Lowry’s buzzer-beating jumper was blocked by Pierce — was left wondering what went wrong.
“For us, we did have high expectations. But at the end of the day it was unsuccessful,” said Lowry. “The way they came out, their level, they played extremely hard. We’ve got to learn from it. Regular season is completely different than the playoffs.”
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Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson throws to first base but can’t get Tampa Bay Rays’ Kevin Kiermaier in time after fielding his grounder during a baseball game in St. Petersburg, Fla., Sunday.
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Blue Jays struggle again at Tampa Bay as Archer and Rays complete sweep BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rays 5 Blue Jays 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Toronto Blue Jays’ futility at Tropicana Field has extended into a fourth season. Chris Archer pitched two-hit ball in seven scoreless innings and Brandon Guyer drove in four runs Sunday as the Tampa Bay Rays completed a threegame sweep, 5-1 over the Blue Jays. Toronto scored six runs in the series and are 11-21 in road games against Tampa Bay since 2012. “This has always been a tough place for us,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “You move on.” Mark Buehrle (3-1), who had been supported by 12 or more runs in each of his three preceding starts, gave up five runs and 13 hits in 5 2-3 innings. The Blue Jays were coming off a three-game sweep of Baltimore. “We just need to be consistent all around, in all aspects of the game,” Buehrle said. “Seems like we’re not doing that. A few games good, a few games bad. When we’re going good, we’re not that good. When we’re going bad, we’re not that bad.” Archer (3-2) became the first American League pitcher to go four starts within one season without giving up an earned run since Zach Greinke did it for Kansas City in 2009. The right-hander started having flulike symptoms Friday, which carried over into Sunday. “The biggest thing is I didn’t want to compromise the team, put them in a bad situation, and not be able to compete,” Archer said. “I felt like I could compete today and things went really
well.” Archer gave up an unearned run in a 1-0 loss to Boston on Tuesday, but he has not given up an earned run since opening day, a span of 26 2-3 innings. His ERA is 0.84. Evan Longoria had three straight hits and a walk for the Rays after going 4 for 4 on Saturday. Longoria’s batting average rose from .218 to .306 in two games. Guyer hit the second pitch from Buehrle for a home run, his first of the season. Logan Forsythe drove in another run for the Rays in the first inning with a double after Longoria’s single. Guyer made it 3-0 with a sacrifice fly in the fourth, then drove in two more runs with a two-out single off Buerhle in the sixth. Matt Andriese pitched the final two innings for the Rays. Tim Beckham had two hits and scored twice. TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: RF Jose Bautista (sore right shoulder) missed his fifth straight game. Bautista hit in an indoor cage and Gibbons is hopeful the slugger will return to the lineup in the next couple days. ... INF Maicer Izturis (groin) is progressing but not close to playing in minor league games. Rays: CF Desmond Jennings, who left after seven innings Saturday due to left knee soreness, didn’t play. SLUMPING JAYS 1B-DH Edwin Encarnacion was 0 for 3 and has one hit in his last 24 at-bats. In the last 11 games against Tampa Bay, he has three hits in 38 at-bats. ... SS Jose Reyes, who has two hits in 22 at-bats, got the day off. ... 2B Devon Travis was hitless in four at-bats and had his 11-game hitting streak end.
AVONDALE, La. — Whatever derailed Justin Rose’s game appears long gone now. Sensing he needed to birdie the final two holes to keep the lead, Rose pulled it off with aggressive swings and clutch putts for a one-stroke victory over Cameron Tringale on Sunday in the Zurich Classic. “Earlier this year it looked impossible to win,” Rose said, referring to his three missed cuts and failure to finish better than 37th in his first five starts of 2015. “I’m very happy to have turned my game around.” Rose completed a 7-under 65 in the rain-delayed third round Sunday morning and closed with a 66 at TPC Louisiana for his seventh PGA Tour title. He finished at 22-under 266, a record total on the course southwest of New Orleans that has hosted the city’s PGA Tour stop 10 times since 2005. The Englishman has won at least once in six straight seasons, the second-longest streak on the tour behind Dustin Johnson’s eight straight. He’s projected to jump from ninth to sixth in the world ranking. Rose said his drastic improvement two weeks earlier at the Masters, where he tied for second, helped him in the Big Easy. “I took my Masters performance with a huge amount of confidence,” Rose said, recalling in particular the sense of calm he was able to maintain down the stretch at Augusta National. Playing aggressively on the soggy TPC Louisiana, Rose made six birdies in the final round and played the last 66 holes without a bogey. Rose’s final two putts from 10 and
13 ½ feet allowed him to hold off Tringale, who birdied the 18th for a 65. “I’m pleased,” said Tringale, who was looking to become the eighth firsttime winner in the last 11 years in New Orleans. “To finish one back is still a pretty good week.” David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., tied for sixth at 18-under par. Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, Ont., was in a group tied for 48th at 10 under, while Calgary’s Roger Sloan was tied for 70th, at par. Boo Weekley, who led after the first round, finished third at 20 under, and Jim Herman and Jason Day, ranked sixth in the world, tied for fourth at 19 under. When Rose sank his final putt, he punched his right hand high above his head and looked straight behind the green at roaring fans in the suite of one of his main sponsors, Zurich, which also sponsors the tournament. He then took off his white cap whipped it across his body and later flexed his left arm to bring attention to the sponsor’s logo on his sleeve. He had to wait about a half-hour before his closest pursuers completed their rounds, but allowed himself to soak up adulation from fans before the result was official. “I obviously walked off the golf course feeling like I’d done enough,” Rose said. “The reception when I came off the golf course was I’d done enough. So it’s hard not to enjoy it.” Rose began the final round tied with Day for the lead at 16 under. But Day, who had to finish most of his third round Sunday morning, hooked his drive into trees lining the left boundary of the second fairway. On the next swing, his ball smacked a tree and bounced right back to him. He wound up with a bogey on the par-5 hole that he birdied in first and third rounds. On 13, left a 70-yard approach shot short of the green. He said hot, steamy conditions wore him down over the course of 32 holes. “The early days and the hot days, and just the long days in general kind of finally caught up to me,” Day said. “I played great all week, but this final round just had a lot of mental errors.”
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Busch outruns Harvick at Richmond BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. — Kurt Busch has spent time this year in a Delaware courtroom, then on NASCAR’s sidelines as he served a three-race suspension for an alleged domestic assault on a former girlfriend. Now he has made a trip to Victory Lane, where Busch hoped his victory Sunday at Richmond International Raceway will help him close one of the messiest chapters of his volatile career. “Standing on the truth the whole time, that gave me the feeling of when I do get back to the car, it’s going to be easy to focus, and I think I’ve shown that,” said Busch, who still has a nocontact order against him that was issued in February by a Delaware Family Court judge. The judge ruled that Busch likely assaulted ex-girlfriend Patricia Driscoll in September. The 2004 series champion dominated the rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup race that was originally scheduled for Saturday night under the lights. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver led a career-best 291 of the 400 laps on the 0.75-mile oval, outrunning teammate Kevin Harvick over the final dozen laps to end a 35-race winless streak. Earlier in his return, he said he was trying too hard. “I think I might have been driving too hard, too much of a chip on my shoulder, so to speak,” he said, adding that he realized last weekend that there is danger in driving along the line that separates effectively aggressive and overly aggressive. One week later, he’s already secured a spot in NASCAR’s 10-race playoff. “We’re winners in April. It feels good,” he said. “Plenty of time to do fun things to build the team up, get stronger, learn from all these races coming up and continue to go for-
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Kurt Busch does a burnout as he celebrates after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., Sunday. ward.” “Like (team owner) Gene Haas said: One win is great. I want four or five more.” Harvick, meanwhile, finished in the top two for the seventh time in nine races, but said he had to rally after his car struggled on one set of tires and drifted back into the pack. The race looked much like the Xfinity Series event Friday night in which Denny Hamlin led 248 of 250 laps and only lost the lead during green flag pits stops. This time, there were actual green flag lead changes, but only two
— when Busch passed Joey Logano after 94 laps to take the lead, and when Jamie McMurray passed Busch after 262 laps. Busch regained the lead under caution and never relinquished it, beating Harvick to the finish by 0.754 seconds. The victory was the 26th of Busch’s career and second at Richmond. Jimmie Johnson rallied from a No. 36 starting spot to grab third. McMurray was fourth and pole-sitter Logano, who led the first 94 laps, was fifth. Rookie Chase Elliott, making his second start in NASCAR’s premier series,
finished 16th. McMurray’s pass came during a series of green flag stops, and when a caution came out on lap 270, only three cars were on the lead lap, including Busch, who had just pitted. He stayed out, regained the lead and slowly pulled away from Justin Allgaier, who got up front because of the green flag stops. “We just had a really good car after 40 or 50 laps,” McMurray said. “Really, for us to have a shot at winning, we had to have a long green-flag run at the end.”
Newgarden claims first IndyCar Series win close to home BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Josef Newgarden’s wait is over. To his relief, so is the race. The 24-year-old Tennessean held off a hard-charging Graham Rahal on Sunday in the Indy Grand Prix of Alabama for his first IndyCar Series victory. “I’m so relieved that it’s over with,” Newgarden said. “I really wanted that race to end. It was just so stressful for me. Normally I’m pretty cool, and I felt cool out there, but it was just very stressful to run those laps and try to control that thing. We’ve been there before and things have gone wrong, and today nothing went wrong.” Things started going right on the opening lap, in fact, when he moved all the way from fifth to second behind pole-sitter Helio Castroneves. Newgarden led 46 of the 90 laps. He
got his milestone win at Barber Motorsports Park a few hours from his hometown of Hendersonville, Tennessee, with most of the major drama coming behind him. It was his first chance to celebrate a win since Indy Lights in 2011 Newgarden had posted secondplace finishes in each of the past two years before finally finishing up front for CFH Racing, a merger of Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing and Ed Carpenter Racing. He’d been off to a good start, including a seventh-place finish last weekend at Long Beach, before finally snaring a victory. “I’m honestly just happy to win one,” Newgarden said. “I feel like we’ve been working forever for that. “Everyone says you get that first one and it’s off your back and then you can just let it flow. I don’t know if it’s true yet, but it was going to happen at some point. This team is too good.”
Ko successfully defends title at Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic CANADIAN LPGA ROOKIE BROOKE HENDERSON FINISHES IN TOP 10 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DALY CITY, Calif. — Lydia Ko celebrated another birthday week at Lake Merced with another victory Sunday in the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. Ko won for the second straight year, this time beating Morgan Pressel on the second playoff hole by rolling in a 5-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th for her seventh career LPGA Tour victory. She turned 18 on Friday. Ko made two birdies in the three times she played the closing hole at Lake Merced. She made an 8-footer in regulation to close with a 2-under 70. Pressel had to settle for three pars on the 18th. She missed a 15-footer in regulation for the win, closing with a 72. Her best chance was a 10-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole that grazed the edge of the cup. Pressel badly pulled an 8-foot birdie putt on her third try with Ko in close. “At the start of the day, I didn’t know
how it was going to go,” Ko said. “It’s been a great birthday week again.” Canadian Brooke Henderson, the 17 year old from Smith Falls, Ont., holed a bunker shot for eagle on the par-5 14th to stay close to the lead and she had a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole to join the playoff. It missed on the low side and she had to settle for a 74. Henderson, trying to become the third player in history to win on the LPGA Tour before turning 18, was shaky from the start. She hit her opening tee shot to the right behind trees and had to punch out to the fairway, leading to bogey. She came up well short on the par-3 third and made another bogey, and fell out of the lead for the first time since Friday morning. “It was one of the least nervous putts I had all day,” Henderson said. “I could see it going in in my mind, but it didn’t happen in real life.” She headed for Texas to try to Monday qualify for the next LPGA event. Finishing in the top 10 only makes a player eligible for the next tournament if she is an LPGA member. Henderson last year was denied a waiver to the LPGA’s minimum age requirement of 18.
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MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2015 STORY AND PHOTOS BY ASHLI BARRETT/ADVOCATE STAFF Horse lovers from across Alberta and western Canada gathered at Westerner Park this past weekend for The Mane Event Equine Education and Trade Fair. The ninth annual event packed over 100 hours worth of clinics, demonstrations and presentations into just 32 hours, and with two arenas and a round pen constantly in use, there was always something for attendees to take in. The Trainers Challenge was one of the more popular demonstrations, with attendees crowding around the Hi-Hog Round Pen to watch trainers Kateri Cowley, TJ Clibborn and Patrick King work with unbroke colts. Cowley was the first Albertan female to be featured in event history. Dressage, jumping, barrel racing, driving, reining and horsemanship clinics were held by 13 world-class clinicians, all of which were open to the public to view. The Equine Experience, held on Friday and Saturday night, provided attendees with action-packed equine entertainment, including trick horses, drill teams, a driving competition and a mini polo cross match. More than 260 exhibitors were also on site, with everything from western wear, tack, trailers and livestock handling equipment for sale. For those who can’t wait for next year’s show, The Mane Event will be headed to Chilliwack, B.C. from Oct. 23-25.
PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A rider is silhouetted against the Westerner Park sky while heading into a clinic session during The Mane Event Saturday at Westerner Park. Riders prepare to take part in jumping clinic in the Morand Arena at The Mane Event Saturday. Geoff Teall works with Sandra Spilde during a jumping clinic in the Morand Arena at The Mane Event Saturday at Westerner Park. A handful of riders were coached through a variety of different jumps, learning new techniques to get over the jumps, and approach them at the proper speed and take off and land at the appropriate time. Kateri Cowley demonstrates how she uses a whip while working with horse Spark during her second Trainers Challenge session at The Mane Event Regan Noyes takes her horse over a jump during a Geoff Teall Jumping clinic in the Morand Arena at The Mane Event Saturday at Westerner Park.
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Big week for the oilpatch FIVE THINGS TO EXPECT WHEN OILPATCH FIRMS REPORT FIRST-QUARTER RESULTS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — This coming week the toll of weak oil prices will be thrown into stark relief as some of Canada’s biggest energy names report first-quarter results and hold annual shareholder meetings. In the first three months of the year, crude hovered around US$50 — less than half last summer’s highs. It’ll be the first full quarter to register the new crude reality. Oilpatch earnings season kicks off with major oilfield service firm Precision Drilling Corp. (TSX:PD) on Monday, followed by oilsands giants Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU), Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE), Imperial Oil Ltd. (TSX:IMO), and Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. (TSX:COS). Pipeline heavyweight TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) caps off the week. Here are five things to watch for: How to ride it out: Producers can’t control commodity prices and all of them will be squeezed by the crude slump to some degree. But Desjardins Capital Markets analyst Justin Bouchard said they’re going to have to find ways to manage their way through the doldrums. In a recent research note, he said options could include: overhead cost savings; capital spending and dividend cuts; asset sales and equity and debt financings. “A mistimed asset sale or equity financing could destroy significant shareholder value, and dividend cuts could result in a reputational hit; however, not taking the opportunity to raise cash or cut cash outflow when it is available could have adverse ef-
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Pumpjacks at work pumping crude oil near Halkirk, Alta., June 20, 2007. fects.” Let’s make a deal: Firms may want to sell off assets to shore up finances. But who’s got an appetite to buy? And to the extent there are buyers, are they willing to pony up the prices being asked? Laura Lau, senior portfolio manager at Brompton Funds in Toronto said it’s a tough time for mergers and acquisition activity in the oil-
patch. “In a good market, you can sell your second-, third-tier assets,” she said. “In this kind of market, you’re going to have to sell the crown jewels.” Cenovus has been looking at selling or taking public its Alberta royalty lands for a while now, but the timing still might not be right. Costs deflating: The industry has the opportunity to take a breath when
The new space wranglers INTERNET BILLIONAIRES TAKE DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO EXPLORING NEW HORIZONS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VAN HORN, Texas — An isolated edge of vast West Texas is home to a highly secretive part of the 21st-century space race, one of two being directed in the Lone Star State by Internet billionaires whose personalities and corporate strategies seem worlds apart. The presence of Blue Origin, LLC, the brainchild of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, barely registers in nearby Van Horn, a way station along Interstate 10, a full decade after he began buying land in one of Texas’ largest and most remote counties. Few visitors are allowed beyond the “No Trespassing” sign and a remotecontrolled gate and into the desert and mountain environment reminiscent of the Air Force’s renowned Area 51 in Nevada. The privileged who do get inside decline to describe what they’ve seen, typically citing confidentiality agreements. “No one gets in other than employees,” says Robert Morales, editor of the weekly Van Horn Advocate newspaper. At the opposite end — of Texas and the competition — is the highly visible SpaceX venture, led by PayPal cofounder and electric car maker Elon Musk. His company contracts with NASA to resupply the International Space Station and is building a launch site about 600 miles from Van Horn, on the southernmost Texas Gulf coast, with the much-publicized goal of sending humans to Mars. SpaceX and Blue Origin are among several U.S. companies engaged in the private space business. Both men have seemingly unlimited resources — Bezos’ wealth is estimated at nearly $35 billion, Musk’s at $12 billion — and
PRIVATE SPACE BUSINESS lofty aspirations: launching a new era of commercial space operations, in part by cutting costs through reusable rockets. Texas’ glory days of space exploration, when “Right Stuff” Mercury astronauts trained in Houston and the city’s name was the first word spoken on the moon by Neil Armstrong, are long gone. The utilitarian Space Shuttle fell to budget cuts, depletion and age, leaving astronauts to hitch rides on Russian rockets. Any success by the newcomers would offer “significant potential for re-invigorating space research and development in the state,” said John Junkins, director of the Center for Mechanics and Control at Texas A&M’s Department of Aerospace Engineering. Earlier this month, Bezos announced his company’s new hydrogen rocket engine, designed for suborbital missions, had completed hundreds of tests at the West Texas site, adding, “soon we’ll put it to the ultimate test of flight.” That could come late this year. A more powerful engine for orbital flights, fueled by liquid oxygen and liquid natural gas, is being developed with United Launch Alliance, a venture of aerospace veterans Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. Blue Origin officials declined requests for an interview and site visit. “I’m so sorry,” spokeswoman Brooke Crawford said. “It’s just the way it is.” Bezos’ love of space originated in Texas in the 1960s when his family moved to Houston, which dubbed itself “Space City USA.” “For me, space is something that I have been in love with since I was 5
years old,” Bezos, 51, said in a September interview with The Washington Post, which he purchased in 2013. “I watched Neil Armstrong step onto the surface of the moon, and I guess it imprinted me.” Over the last decade, he has bought at least seven ranches, totalling 1,900 square miles, near the Texas-New Mexico border and Guadalupe Mountains National Park. “It’s very secretive out there,” said Maricel Gonzalez, chief appraiser for the Culberson County Appraisal District. She declined to describe it, citing a nondisclosure agreement. A UPS driver who recently emerged from the compound also declined to talk. Nuny Morriss, a Van Horn city council member and FedEx delivery driver, said the site includes a “big warehouse-looking building and some offices ... But they don’t let us go around in the back.” Blue Origin’s presence in Van Horn is minimal. Morriss recalled word getting out a few years ago about a scheduled launch. Traffic at the local airstrip suggested that VIPs were coming in, and local officials were eager to join them. “No one in town got invited,” Morriss said. By contrast, SpaceX is frequently in the headlines thanks to its nearly $2 billion federal contract. Attempts to reuse booster rockets have been rocky; it’s failed three times to land them on a platform off the Florida coast. SpaceX already has a rocket plant near Waco. With more than $15 million in state incentives, it’s also building a launch site at Boca Chica Beach, near Brownsville. Musk hopes for at least 12 rocket launches a year, starting late next year.
activity slows, especially in the oilsands epicentre of Fort McMurray, Alta. During boom times, the cost of labour and materials skyrocketed. In a recent note, CIBC World Markets analyst Arthur Grayfer said he’s expecting to find out to what degree suppliers and service providers are sharpening their pencils. Suncor, in the midst of building its massive Fort Hills oilsands mine, will likely be able to provide some insight. While it’s a silver lining for producers, it’s tough on the companies that provide services, like Precision Drilling. Pipeline prospects: TransCanada has said it doesn’t see the latest crude downturn undermining the economic case for new pipelines that would take crude to market, such as the perennially delayed Keystone XL proposal to the U.S. or its more recent Energy East cross-Canada pipeline, whose startup has also been pushed back. The company will likely be asked what it’s been hearing from customers and whether rail is still picking up the slack of stalled pipelines these days, given that it’s a more expensive mode of transport. Is the worst over? U.S. benchmark crude has been gradually bouncing back from its first-quarter depths around US$50 a barrel. On Friday, West Texas Intermediate closed at US$57.15 a barrel — still far from a stellar price. Lau said experience from past crude corrections suggest that the worst has likely passed. “We’re starting to see demand come back and I’m not sure how much more Saudi Arabia can increase their oil production.”
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BRIEF Greenpeace spots 3-mile oil slick off tourist resort Canary Islands, urges Spain to clean up MADRID — Greenpeace has called on Spain’s government to dedicate more resources to cleaning up an oil spill rising up from a sunken fishing trawler off the Canary Islands after spotting a five-kilometre (3-mile) slick. The group said one of its planes had detected “thick oil” covering the ocean just above where the Russian fishing boat Oleg Naydenov sank on April 14, about 24 kilometres (15 miles) south of the tourist hot-spot of Gran Canaria. Development Ministry spokesman Julio Gomez acknowledged Sunday that slicks were being monitored; a day after the government activated an alert, saying oil could damage the islands’ vulnerable coasts.
Vessel that spilled fuel in B.C. deemed safe, allowed to leave Canadian waters A vessel that leaked toxic bunker fuel into Vancouver’s English Bay is being allowed to return to normal operations and leave Canadian waters. Transport Canada says inspectors are confident the MV Marathassa’s deficiencies have been fixed and it meets regulations and is environmentally safe for travel. The grain-carrying ship on its maiden voyage leaked at least 2,700 litres of fuel into the city’s harbour on April 8, quickly spreading to popular beaches nearby. Transport Canada says a thorough investigation continues and the ship’s operators could face fines or prosecution if they violated Canada’s shipping laws.
Insurance can help ease travel concerns Spring is here and Canadians are travelling. According to a recent study by BMO Insurance, Canadians plan to spend $1,800 on average on their travel this spring. While they look forward to their trips, Canadians have a number of concerns while on vacation. TALBOT Half are worBOGGS ried about experiencing bad weather, 41 per cent are concerned about needing medical attention while abroad and 32 per cent fear they could become a victim of a crime. The study showed that 62 per cent purchase supplemental medical insurance when they travel. However, 32 per cent rarely do. When those who do not purchase additional travel medical insurance were asked why, 53 per cent said they are covered in other ways, such as through
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work benefits or their credit cards. They may believe that, but that actually may not be the case. “It’s important to check your insurance policy and know what is covered,” said Rocco Casullo, head of direct to consumer insurance with BMO Insurance. “A robust travel medical insurance plan can help to keep you and your loved ones financially protected in the event of a medical emergency. With adequate coverage you can cross one concern off your list and focus on having a safe, stress-free holiday.” Another reason for not taking out insurance is that a lot of people just don’t believe anything bad is going to happen to them while they’re away and they won’t need it. But what if it does? The BMO study found that 36 per cent of Canadians have needed medical attention while on vacation and as a result many had to file a claim when they returned home in order to request reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses covered by their insurance policy. Among those with travel medical insurance, 76 per cent found the claims process to be easy. Of those surveyed,
74 per cent received the full balance of what was owed and 26 per cent were partially reimbursed. “Canadians should have confidence that the vast majority of claims do get paid,” Casullo said. “Travel medical insurance is meant to help you when the unexpected happens on your trip. A quick call to your insurance company before travelling gives you the opportunity to ask questions about pre-existing medical conditions or any other situation that may potentially impact your coverage.” In the event of a medical emergency abroad, a call to your insurance provider will guide you through the steps required to ensure you get the care and assistance you need. Your provider can direct you to the nearest health-care facility that best suits your requirements and detail the various payment options available. In some cases, payment can be handled directly through the insurance provider or the individual can pay out of pocket and get reimbursed later. Overall, it is best to discuss directly with your provider to see what options are available to you. The benefits and terms of travel insurance can vary greatly from one in-
surer to another. Read the policies carefully to understand the circumstances under which coverage would or would not be approved. Look for a high limit of coverage. Hospital and medical costs can be expensive, and choosing a higher limit can give you greater peace of mind and lessen the possibility that treatment costs are above your coverage. Limits of as much as $5 million are available. Besides medical emergencies, weather is another thing to take into account in your vacation plans. Insurance companies are hesitant to provide coverage for weather and acts of God. If you’re flying to a location to board a ship for a cruise, consider arriving the day before. Most people arrive the same day the boat leaves, but if there’s a storm at home and your flight is delayed or you miss a connecting flight you could end up literally missing the boat. Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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Russian oilpatch ignores rights: aboriginal leader tonnes per year — six times the volume of the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of kilometres of seismic lines and uncounted wellsites and other infrastructure cut up the landscape. Drilling occurs as close as 100 metres from homes, said Rochev. Toxic water from the wells is often simply pumped out on the ground. Last year, 150 reindeer died at a single site within minutes after drinking from one such pool. Abandoned wells are left in muddy, tracked-up disarray for years. Pipelines block reindeer migration routes. Meanwhile, promises of jobs, schools and other benefits from Russian companies such as Lukoil, Gazprom and Rosneft have failed to materialize. Companies make annual payments to communities that amount to a few dollars per capita. Public hearings, oversight, transparency? Nyet. “We are fed up with the situation when oil companies ignore us,” Rochev said. “There is no legal leverage to change the system.” In a recent survey, Izvatas found that 70 per cent of the local people were somewhat or heavily dependent on the land for hunting and gathering. As well, the Komi still raise 80,000 reindeer. But the increasingly tainted land doesn’t just hurt the Komi in the pocketbook or larder, said Rochev. In his language, the word for “forest” and “home” are the same. “It’s for spiritual surviving,” he said. “It’s about keeping their traditional
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS IQALUIT, Nunavut — When you live in the middle of the Russian oilpatch, even the fish smell, says an aboriginal leader from that country. “The fish are smelling like oil and the water in the rivers, it’s undrinkable,” said Nikolay Rochev, the head of Izvatas, a group that represents the Izhma Komi people who herd reindeer in the forests, wetlands and tundra of a France-sized area in central Russia. Rochev was in Canada for a meeting of the Arctic Council, the group of eight nations that ring the North Pole that offers the main international forum for regional cooperation. His group belongs to the federation of Russian aboriginals that is one of the council’s permanent participants. On Friday, Russian Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi told the council that his country is determined to develop its Arctic resources according to the highest international standards. “We are certain that this should happen, but only happen with great care and stewardship for the environment and with the necessary respect for the people who live there.” Asked if he believed that, Rochev’s response required no translation: “Nyet.” Russia has no public oil spill inventory. But Greenpeace — which brought Rochev to Canada — used satellite data to count up at least 1,000 spills over the last two years in the Komi region alone. Greenpeace estimates the volume of all Russian spills at six million
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An oil spill is pictured outside Usinsk, Komi Republic, Russia in this undated handout photo. Russian aboriginal people from the area affected by the spill are in Canada at an international meeting of Arctic states to raise attention to the environmental costs of that country’s oilpatch. land use.” One municipality is so angry it passed a resolution banning Lukoil from its area even though it has no legal right to do so, said Rochev. “Politically, it’s a very strong signal in Russia, where such steps are impossible to imagine.” But Rochev knows his main weapon
is public awareness and publicity. He’s also trying to bring Arctic aboriginals together to speak with one voice on energy development on their lands. “We have to unite indigenous people from different Arctic states,” he said. “The earth is quite small.”
U.S. Starbucks stores back London man may have bluffed in business Saturday after his way to riches and helped glitch forced many to close set off the 2010 ’flash crash’ charge. “I’m not going to complain about a free cup of coffee,” said Suveer Sharma, who stopped in before heading on a trip to Idaho. Others at a Starbucks in Phoenix weren’t as happy. “I have a sleeping baby in the back and I’m waiting for a prescription,” said Claudia Larson, 40, of Scottsdale. “I wanted a coffee! I’m bummed!” Starbucks stores are typically busiest in the mornings when people are on their way to work, meaning the impact of the outage on sales could have been far worse. Still, the company has been trying to attract more customers in the late afternoons and evenings with an expanded menu of food and drinks. Most fast-food and restaurant chains have some type of computer system that lets them track sales at registers companywide, said John Gordon, a restaurant industry analyst and consultant. The company said the outage also affected four Evolution Fresh stores and six Teavana Tea Bar stores. Those stores were also to reopen Saturday, Starbucks said. Starbucks said the outage did not affect the more than 4,800 licensed Starbucks stores in the U.S., which are in airports, supermarkets and other places. The company also has more than 300 licensed stores in Canada that were not affected.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — Starbucks was back in business Saturday after a computer outage forced thousands of its stores to close early the night before. The company said the outage was resolved Friday night after several hours. The glitch affected registers at 7,400 company-operated stores in the U.S. and 1,000 in Canada, and prompted some stores to give away drinks. “All Starbucks stores in the U.S. and Canada are expected to open for business as usual on Saturday,” the company said in a statement late Friday. “We apologize to our customers for this inconvenience.” Starbucks said the outage was caused by “a failure during a daily system refresh.” Jim Olson, a company spokesman, stressed it was an internal issue and that no external breach was involved. The problem began in the evening Friday on the East Coast, with workers posting hand-written “Cash Only” signs on windows and giving away free drinks and food because they were unable to ring up orders on registers. Starbucks initially said stores would remain open during the outage, then changed course and said it decided to close stores early. At a Starbucks in Seattle, customers were told workers couldn’t process orders and were offered coffee at no
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — He operated from a modest suburban London home he shared with his parents, far from the city’s glamorous financial centre. He used off-the-shelf software anyone can buy. Yet, if U.S. authorities are correct, Navinder Singh Sarao, 36, managed to send a jolt of fear through the world’s markets by helping to set off the 2010 “flash crash,” in which the Dow Jones average plunged 600 points in less than seven minutes. Just how big a role he played has been hotly debated since the federal complaint was unsealed earlier this week, but the idea that a little-known investor had even a small part is deeply troubling, say traders and market experts. “If this guy can do it,” asks finance professor James Angel of Georgetown University, “who else is doing it?” In an age of rapidly advancing computer power, the fear is that it’s not just big banks and hedge funds that can create chaos on exchanges and wipe out the savings of millions of ordinary investors. Someone working from home might be able to do it, too. “The risks are coming from the small guys who are under the radar,” says Irene Aldridge, managing partner of research firm ABLE Alpha Trading and an expert in the kind of highspeed computerized trading that Sarao did. “The regulators don’t have the real-time tools to monitor them.” Sarao allegedly employed a ruse called spoofing, a bluffing technique in which traders try to manipulate the price of stocks or other assets by making fake trades to create the impression they want to sell when they really want to buy, or vice versa. Eric Scott Hunsader, founder of Nanex, a provider of financial data that has documented what it claims are cases of blatant spoofing, says the practice is widespread — in stocks and bonds, oil and gold, cotton and coffee. He says bluffing is turning markets
into a lawless Wild West, despite efforts by trading firms to fight back with software that can sniff out the false trades. If the allegations against him are true, Sarao may rank among the best of this new breed of bluffers. His feat was impressive because of the target of his alleged bluffing — investors in E-Mini S&P 500 futures, which are financial contracts that allow you to bet on the rise and fall of the Standard and Poor’s 500 stock index. Passing off a fake trade like that as real, much less moving prices, isn’t easy, because E-Mini is one of the most widely traded, transparent and scrutinized markets in the world. “Everyone is watching it,” says Manoj Narang, former CEO of Tradeworx, a high-frequency trading firm. A key to spoofing is placing large orders to sell or buy without ever executing them. Since other traders can see your orders, a large one to sell might convince them prices are likely to head down. One to buy might make them think prices are likely to rise. So they will often mimic your order, which moves prices up or down, as if you had sold or bought yourself. Next, you cancel your order, and do the opposite — buying at the new, artificially lower price or selling at the new higher one. The advent of highfrequency trading firms has added a level of sophistication and speed to this bluffing technique. Using computers to sift through news articles, social media feeds and other data in split seconds, these firms are able to snatch tiny, fleeting profits that mere mortals can’t spot. The firms can also bluff fast, sending a series of sell orders, for instance, then cancelling them as the price moves down and replacing them with new orders — all within thousandths of a second. The complaint against Sarao says it was just this sort of lightning-fast spoofing, called dynamic layering, that allowed him to make nearly $880,000 on May 6, 2010, the day of the flash crash.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEW YORK — Furious 7 enjoyed a victory lap over the weekend, becoming only the third film ever to make $1 billion internationally and leading the domestic box office for the fourth straight week. But the movie that’s poised to topple the Universal juggernaut, Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron, revved up overseas with a massive $201.2 million debut. In North American theatres, Furious 7 had enough left in the tank to top all films with an estimated $18.3 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. While the film has been a huge domestic hit, it’s been even bigger abroad — particularly in China, where it’s set a record with $323 million. Furious 7, a film whose fate was once in doubt after the death of star Paul Walker midway through shooting, has now made $1.3 billion globally. Only two other films, both by James Cameron — Avatar and Titanic— have made more money internationally than Furious 7. Furious 7 has had little competition to challenge it throughout April. This weekend, the only new wide release was the Blake Lively fantasy romance The Age of Adaline. The Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertainment release came in third with $13.4 million. The Sony comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 held up stronger than expected to take second place with $15.5 million in its second week. But the reign of Furious 7 is effectively over now that the highly anticipated Avengers sequel is on the way. Though it doesn’t open in North America until Thursday night, it debuted in 44 countries and territories this week-
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end. That represents about half of its international rollout. Disney said the film is exceeding the pace of 2012’s The Avengers by 44 per cent in the places it has opened. Joss Whedon’s first installment of the superhero team-up franchise, starring Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson and many others, made $1.5 billion worldwide, good for third all-time. With two enormous blockbusters covering much of the globe, the summer movie season is ready to officially begin next weekend. In the meantime, a few smaller films carved out more limited releases. Russell Crowe’s directorial debut, The Water Diviner, opened in 320 locations with $1.3 million. The critically acclaimed indie science-fiction drama Ex Machina expanded to 1,255 screens in its second week of release and earned $5.4 million. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday. 1. Furious 7, $18.3 million ($69.7 million international). 2. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, $15.5 million ($5.3 million international). 3. The Age of Adaline, $13.4 million ($1.3 million international). 4. Home, $8.3 million ($13.7 million international). 5. Unfriended, $6.2 million. 6. Ex Machina, $5.4 million ($500,000 international). 7. The Longest Ride, $4.4 million ($1.1 million international). 8. Get Hard, $3.9 million. 9. Monkey Kingdom, $3.5 million. 10. Woman in Gold,”$3.5 million. “Let us have a private moment in this place that we dreamt so long to be a part of,” Hayek said before entering the Gibran Museum. The Prophet, written in 1923, has inspired generations of artists. The book, a series of poems about love, joy, sorrow, work and spirituality, has been translated into at least 40 languages. Gibran also was a sculptor and a painter influenced by the English Romantics. He migrated to the United States in the late 1890s, dying there in 1931. Hayek posed with one of Gibran’s towering sculptures outside the museum and dipped her feet in nearby mountain spring waters before visiting his tomb and viewing his work. The Prophet director Roger Allers, who also directed Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, accompanied Hayek.
RDSO SHOWCASES COMPOSER IN BRANDENBURG PROJECT Bach’s earthy and ethereal sides strings and woodwinds. Each “sang” in were both showcased in the Red Deer a different, complementary voice, showSymphony Orchestra’s blockbuster casing Bach’s flourish for spotlighting Brandenburg Project on Satvarious instruments. urday. The period instruments All six of Johann Sebasused in the second half tian Bach’s Brandenburg Conof the program produced certos were delivered in their more rounded, mellow entirety by RDSO musicians sounds. This required that and guest artists in a behea harpsichord tuned to a moth 2 ¾-hour concert at the lower register be brought Red Deer College Arts Cenin for player Wendy Markotre. In chamber groupings of sky, one of the gifted soloseven to 13 players, the virists on Concerto No. 5, along tuosic musicians performed with flutist Lucie Jones and the first three concertos on violinist Naomi Delafield. modern instruments, then The first movement LANA switched to period instruseemed breezy and familMICHELIN ments for the last three. And iar — until Markosky began the effect was fairly breatha difficult harpsichord solo taking — with a couple of huthat comically went on and morous exceptions. on. Lapalme mentioned in While many of Bach’s musical pas- the program notes that the “ludicrously sages are so transcendingly beautiful lengthy cadenza” was thought to have they sound as if they came straight from been penned to show off Bach’s own the divine, the composer was actually a harpsichord skills. One could imagine working stiff who had to feed a growing a sign slowly being lowered behind the family. He had no compunction about original orchestra: “Call Bach for all working things to his benefit when pos- your harpsichording needs.” sible — and his shameless promotional More shenanigans were heard side could also be glimpsed during the in Concerto No. 6. It featured soloists performance. O’Brien and Ronelle Schaufele playing RDSO music director Claude a rather complicated, circular melody Lapalme cannily used Bach’s most ear- on violas, while two players on viola candy-ish concertos to open both halves de gambas (period instruments resemof the program and to close the show. bling slightly smaller cellos) performed The evening started with the stately very simple background strains. strains of Concerto No. 3, featuring solo Apparently, the plodding de gamviolinist Diane Lane and violist Dean ba parts were written because Bach’s O’Brien. The gorgeous and familiar wealthy patron, Prince Leopold, was an work has a fast-moving first movement, amateur de gamba player and wanted switching to a slower second with a to join the orchestra. Bach obligingly fluttery melody reminiscent of a lift- wrote him a part he could manage. ing cloud of butterflies. The exuberThe evening wrapped with Concerant strings players helped close the to No. 4, another favourite. It featured concerto in high spirits. The delightful some amazing violin playing from brilConcerto No. 2, which was the theme liant soloist Delafield, who put her of William Buckley’s Firing Line pro- whole body into creating the soulful, gram, contains one of the most daunt- stirring, and ultimately exuberant ing trumpet solos ever written. But the sounds. oscillating melody line was wonderAs well, Terri Hron and Gerard fully carried by RDSO trumpeter Rich- Gibbs used recorders to give the work a ard Scholz, whose strain only showed distinctive, lute-like, Renaissance feel. in his rising cheek colour. With trilling The sell-out crowd rewarded the reflute, this concerto seemed to herald markable effort of all the musicians springtime. with a standing ovation. Although The first half of the program closed Lapalme suggested this all-Bach conwith Bach’s longest and largest Con- cert might mean the RDSO takes a certo No. 1, featuring solo violinist Di- break from the composer’s works for a ane Lane and oboist Melody McKnight. while, there just might be no such thing It began as a counterpoint between as Bach overload.
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Let adult children see sick parents NEW IOWA LAW WOULD ENSURE ACCESS DES MOINES, Iowa — A year after the children of radio personality Casey Kasem had to seek court action to see their ailing father, a new law in Iowa aims to ensure that adult children can see their sick parents — granting them visitation rights unless the person’s guardian goes to court to stop them. Gov. Terry Branstad signed the bill into law Friday. Under the measure, an adult with a legal guardian — someone who cannot manage their own affairs — would have the right to receive visits from family members and others they have previously expressed interest in seeing. The legal guardian could still control factors like the time and place of the visits. Previously, Iowa law did not address how to handle such situations, said Sen. Rob Hogg, a Cedar Rapids Democrat who pushed for the bill. The legislation was backed by Kasem’s daughter, Kerri Kasem, who appeared on Iowa talk radio several times advocating for the bill. Kasem, a radio show host herself who lives in Los Angeles, is pushing for similar laws in several other states and said she believes Iowa is the first to enact such a bill. “I promise you, every single state will have what I have dubbed the visitation bill. We need guardianship laws to change. We need visitation laws to
change,” said Kasem. She and her siblings fought with her father’s wife of more than 30 years over his care in his final days. Lawmakers from both parties worked on the legislation, which won unanimous approval in both chambers. Hogg said he started working on the issue after hearing last year from a constituent who was having difficulty visiting her brother. “There was a hole in Iowa’s law and we are filling that with a really well-crafted piece of legislation that balances the right of visitation with the right of the guardian,” Hogg said. Kasem, the host of “American Top 40,” died last June in Washington. He was 82 and suffering from dementia. Kasem’s children and his second wife, former actress Jean Kasem, feuded over his care for years. In 2013, his children filed a legal petition to gain control of his health care, alleging that Kasem was suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease and that his wife was isolating him from friends and family members. Last May, a judge temporarily stripped Kasem’s wife of her caretaker role after she moved him from a medical facility in Los Angeles to a friend’s home in Washington state. Kerri Kasem was appointed caretaker and has said her stepmother’s actions shortened Kasem’s life. Jean Kasem has denied that she caused her husband harm.
ahead in leaps and bounds. Just remember Gemini— you’re only limited by the size and scope of your dreams. CANCER (June 21-July 22): When it comes to hopes and dreams, friendships and group activities, aim to be proactive and productive today Crabs. Others will get annoyed if you are all talk and no action! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The work place is a bit of a minefield, as colleagues become irritable about constant changes. You’ll feel unsettled at home too, so try to find some space in the day to relax and debrief. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a good day to research a complex topic with extra Virgo vim and vigour. You’ll pick up information that other less observant signs miss! Plus strive to stretch your dollar even further. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Good fortune comes via your involvement with a group, club or organization as your peer group expands and your social connections widen. So make sure you use it to your advantage. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpios are awesome organizers, supreme strategists and marvellous managers. But today, aim to be more collaborative — oth-
erwise colleagues and family may refuse to cooperate. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll get bored easily today Sagittarius so make sure your timetable is crammed full of entertaining things to do. Plus share a fun outdoor activity with a child, teenager or close friend. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The stars shake up your finance zone — which puts you in the mood for a spending spree. But is that really such a good idea? It’s time for canny Capricorns to show some financial restraint. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Chances are you’ll feel restless and dissatisfied today. So it’s a suitable time to take a long hard look at your goals and aspirations for the future. Perhaps they require some serious tweaking? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Be careful what you say to a relative or neighbour, as there’s a tendency to blurt out the first thing on your mind — and spend the rest of the day apologizing. Be cautious on social media too. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
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GESSHE Emmanuel Leslie Emmanuel Leslie Ray Gesshe, beloved son of Shannon Rae Gesshe, passed away suddenly in Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, April 20, 2015 at the age of 13 years. ‘Manny’ was born in Calgary, Alberta on September 13, 2001. He was a beautiful baby boy and his mom’s pride and joy. Manny spent his early life in Olds, AB and then Red Deer became his home. As a young boy Manny loved the outdoors, his chickens, hiking and was a talented swimmer. More recently, Manny enjoyed being part of the 126 Red Deer Sea Cadets where he participated in a variety of activities such as sailing and camping. Manny also took great joy in spending time laughing and playing with his adoring little brother, Malachi. Manny was in grade 8 at St. Francis of Assissi Middle School where he benefited from a talented and caring staffing team. He also attended St. Mary’s Parish where he was confirmed Catholic during the spring of 2014. Manny is survived by his loving family: mother, Shannon; grandparents, Ray and Lorraine Gesshe; stepfather, Douglas Burden; brother, Malachi Burden; uncle Brian Gesshe (Dixie); uncle Todd Gesshe (Kristi) and cousins, Evan and Julia Gesshe. We are heartbroken by our tragic loss and will love our Manny forever, until we meet again. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Parish 6 McMillan Ave., Red Deer with Father Les Drewicki Celebrant on Monday, April 27, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Emmanuel may be made to 126 Red Deer Sea Cadets (registered charity). Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
Monday, April 27, 2015
PERRIN Margaret “Marj” Ethel 1931 - April 22, 2015 We Remember Mama, You immediately noticed the softest brown eyes, Margaret or “Marj” was born in Windygates, Manitoba, during the depression. She overcame so much, was a role model: balanced a career but still dedicated her life to her family. Dad was mom’s boss in the Officer’s Mess ..... he adds, “it was the only time he was ever her boss!” Blessed to have been married for 66 years, they were our families’ inspiration. Her strong and intelligent spirit saw her dedicated to the care of others, working at “The Red Deer Hospital” and “Michener Centre.” She loved to laugh, possessing a warm sense of humour, with a mischievous wink that would warm your heart while making you wonder what she was up to. Although Mom had many challenges in her life she faced them head on. She remained selfless and always put her family first. A “Purple Social Butterfly,” mom loved to have fun creating her famous “Miss Piggy” character and was instrumental in creating the Social Club at Legacy Estates: organizing charity drives and was affectionately known as, “The Card Shark, Scrabble Queen and Crafty Lady!” Mom was lovingly cherished by her love of her life, husband Art; children, Janyce (Paul), Bruce (Kris), Murray (Shelley), Twyla (Bill) and Rick (Adrian); and nieces and nephews, numerous grand and great grandchildren. She was welcomed home by her son “Terry” and her precious granddaughter “Dani Nic.” We will miss the softest hands that held ours and our hearts. As your own personal Vince Gill sings, “Go Rest High Upon That Mountain.” A Celebration of Marj’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, please honour Mom’s memory with donations to her precious, “Children’s Wish Foundation.” Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Ashley Paton, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
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HOBSON WHITE Islay Marion John Jeffrey March 28, 1970 - April 20, 2015 Islay Marion Hobson (Nee passed away With great love and deep Thexton) sorrow our family announces peacefully at the Rosefield the sudden loss of a beloved Centre in Innisfail on Friday, son, brother and father. He April 17th, 2015, at the age will be sadly missed and of 91 years. Islay was born forever remembered by his on a farm near Winnipeg on loving family and friends. September 26th, 1923. Her John was born and raised in father died shortly after in Red Deer, Alberta and his 1928 and her mother raised number one pride was his Islay and her six other children. John was a very children on her own. Islay’s hard worker and he ran a first job was at the Eaton’s couple of family owned and mail order office in Winnipeg. operated businesses over Islay loved to dance and met the years. He was employed the love of her life at the by Smed International, Legion dance in Winnipeg. Westridge Cabinets and Married in 1949, she and her currently Jesse James husband Bill (now deceased) Coating. John is survived by moved to Alberta where Bill his father Lorne White found work as an electrician (Joann) and mother Marieanne eventually working for the White; stepmother Wendy government of Alberta. Islay Kroetsch; his wife Stacey and Bill lived in Calgary, Wanzuk; and two daughters Edmonton, Drumheller, Lethbridge Breanne and Jonnie-Lyn; and Red Deer where they step-children Kaila (Ray), finally settled in retirement. Mike and Josh Wanzuk; Islay went back to work with Mersadie- Eaton’s in Lethbridge in the granddaughter Rae; siblings Bryon and 1970’s and later when the David White of Calgary; and family moved to Red Deer. step siblings Staci Porter, After that she worked as a Lisa Irwin, Allan Porter, clerk in maternity shops in Nathan and Jesse Brassard. Parkland Mall. Her hobbies John and his quirky sense of were dancing, travelling and humour will be greatly gardening. Islay was a very missed by his buddies Jess sweet lady and made friends and Kelly McKinnon and all easily. She was entirely the staff at Jesse James devoted to her family and Coating. A memorial service raised loving children; Louise will be held at St. Mary’s (now deceased), and Bill Jr. Roman Catholic Church, 6 She is also survived by McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Louise’s son Michael and Alberta on Tuesday, April 28 daughter Carolyn and Bill at 11:00 a.m. Cremation Jr.’s daughter Ramsay as entrusted to the Rocky well as great-grandchildren; Mountain Crematorium, Ella, Everett and Jantelle. A Rocky Mountain House, small service will be Alberta. Condolences may scheduled in Edmonton be forwarded to: where her remaining family resides. Condolences may be www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca. SYLVAN LAKE AND forwarded to the family by visiting ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. AND CREMATORIUM, Arrangements entrusted to your Golden Rule Funeral EVENTIDE FUNERAL Homes, entrusted with the CHAPEL arrangements. 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. 403-887-2151 Phone (403) 347-2222 “Rest easy Daddy: You will be missed dearly. I am honestly so lost for words, I can’t believe what I was told is true. I want to be able to see you again, get those big hugs, those loving kisses, the movie nights and great meals with you. The long laughs we shared, the stupid things we’d do together, I’ll miss it all. There won’t be a day that goes by that I don’t think of you. You were my backbone, In Memoriam my motivation, my happiness. HUMPHREY I was Daddy’s girl my whole In memory of life, that won’t change. I know our beloved Warren you’ll always be watching who passed away over me, always. I love you April 27, 2001 Dad. Until me meet again.” You left us precious memories, Love Breanne and Jonnie-Lyn Your love is still our guide. Although we cannot see you You are always at our side. Our family chain is broken Nothing seems the same. But as God calls us one by one The chain will link again. Forever loved & missed Dot & Family
Obituaries OLDFORD David “Dave” In Loving Memory. It is with heavy broken hearts our family announces the passing of our beloved father and grandfather, David “Dave” Oldford. Dave passed away with family by his side at the Red Deer Regional Hospital after a short courageous battle with cancer in the early morning of Friday, April 17th, 2015 at the age of 70 years. David was born on May 19th, 1944 in Red Deer, AB to Bruce and Anna Oldford. He married Claudia Schneider on August 29th, 1964 and together they had three children; Theresa, Glenn and Laura. Left to cherish Dave’s memory are his daughters; Theresa Giesbrecht of Winfield, Laura (Rod) Duckett of Ponoka and son Glenn Oldford of Lacombe. Grandpa will also be lovingly remembered and terribly missed by his grandchildren; Thomas Young, James Young (girlfriend Meredith Conrad), Cole Giesbrecht, Taylor Duckett (fiance Steven Krause) and Colin Duckett. Left also to mourn is his beloved mom Anna Oldford, brothers; Art (Elaine) Oldford, Tim (Lucy) Oldford, Peter (Shelly) Oldford and sisters; Carol (Chris) Gregory, Barb Geigle and sister-in-law Sybil Oldford, along with thirteen nieces and nephews. David was predeceased by his father Robert Bruce Oldford, brother Robert James “Bobby” Oldford, best friend and brother George Oldford, brother-in-Law Don Giegle, nephew Chad Giegle and niece Debbie Oldford. As a young man Dave practiced as a journeyman mason and graduated with honors from NAIT’s first graduating class on August 30th, 1966. His plaque is still on display in the halls of Nait. Together with his brother George, they built an outstanding mason business “Oldford Brothers Masonry” which grew to be a business that has left a visible presence in several cities yet today. Dave was well respected for his business savy as an estimator and his work ethic. Dedicated to detail and perfection, David also had a passion for horses and livestock - specifically the cattle industry. He started with an outstanding herd of cross-breeds and later expanded into purebred polled Herefords. Working diligently to improve his breeding program, David nightly studied pedigrees and percentages on crossbreeding specific blood lines. This led to an incredible herd of “beef” cows and a strong line of breeding bulls. He was the first person to ship frozen Hereford embryos to Norway in the early 1980’s and was also successful with his embryo transplant program. David was a devoted Father and Grandfather who gave his all to support his family. He always loved being with family and friends. He enjoyed working outside in the yard with his grandkids, going fishing, a good game of cribbage and placing the odd wager on the “hoss” races. We invite you to come and celebrate and remember his life with us at the Kozy Korner, 5024 53 Street, Lacombe, AB, on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: CLASSIFICATIONS 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 1500-1990 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services Children's Permanent P/T, F/T shift. Central Alberta’s Largest Items Wknd, day, night & eves. Car Lot in Classifieds Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. CENTRAL AB based 40 hrs/week, + benefits , L-MAX trucking company requires LEAPSTER 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., w/game and tv cables $20 CONTRACT criminal record check req’d. $20; baby doll w/sleep Medical DRIVERS Req’d education some eyes and rooted hair, in AB. Home the odd night. some secondary. Apply in clothes, $10 Weekends off. person or fax resume to: 403-314-9603 F/T & P/T Pharmacist 403-586-4558 403-314-1303 For full job positions req’d. Apply w/ description visit www. resume to: Highland Green timhortons.com Value Drug Mart, Red Deer Clothing JJAM Management (1987) Misc. Looking for a place Help Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s to live? BOOTS, leather, Italian Requires to work at these Take a tour through the ladies chocolate, soft Red Deer, AB locations: ACADEMIC Express CLASSIFIEDS glove fit over knee length, 5111 22 St. ADULT EDUCATION zippered back, 2 3/4” heel, 37444 HWY 2 S Provincial Sleep Group in AND TRAINING $200. 403-227-2976 37543 HWY 2N Red Deer has an immedi700 3020 22 St. LADIES TOMMY Hillfiger ate opening for a Full Time SPRING START FOOD ATTENDANT jean jacket size M, good Respiratory Therapist or Req’d permanent shift cond., $20 403-314-9603 Registered Nurse. Please GED Preparation weekend day and evening email/fax resume to Karen Classifieds...costs so little both full and part time. Gain via kareng@psgi.ca Saves you so much! 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + Gov’t of Alberta Funding or 403.346.0427. Posting benefits. Start ASAP. may be available. closes May 1, 2015 Job description Equipmentwww.timhortons.com 403-340-1930 Education and experience www.academicexpress.ca Heavy not req’d. Oilfield Apply in person or fax TRAILERS for sale or rent resume to: 403-314-1303 OLDS Gymnastics club is Job site, office, well site or currently looking for both storage. Skidded or Competitive level 1 NCCP wheeled. Call 347-7721. Teachers/ or higher and Recreational Celebrate your life coaches for Sept/2015. Tutors Please send resumes to with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT MUSIC CENTRE CANADA info@oldsgymnastics.com is looking for a piano/vocal teacher. Interested Advocate applicants, pls. call EXPERIENCED 403-986-4701 or Opportunities LABOURERS and e-mail mitch@ HEAVY EQUIPMENT musiccentrecanada.com OPERATORS REQ’D. Must have all safety tickets. ADULT Newspaper Carriers Needed and valid drivers license. Trades For Early Morning Delivery of the Competitive wages. Call 403-502-1091 RED DEER ADVOCATE by 6:30 am. NOW HIRING Instrument/Electronic Mon. - Sat. Reliable vehicle needed. 2 - Tile Setters $25/hr Technician needed in 5 Floor Covering Lacombe, AB at Decoking For ROSEDALE Area Installers $25/hr Descaling Technology, Inc. $391.00/mo. Position will include work- Min 3 years exp./ 40hrs/wk ing locally in our shop 3 - Construction Labourers facility as well as field $20/hr. No exp required. For more info call Jamie at Full time perm position work. Please apply to 403-314-4306 c a l v i n @ d e c o k i n g . c o m with Valid Driver’s Licence Email Resume to: Thank you for your interest cat1employment@ gmail.com CARRIERS REQUIRED LOCAL SERVICE CO. or drop off resume at in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. Central Alberta Tile One VACUUM TRUCK To deliver the 7619 50 Ave #9 Red Deer OPERATOR CENTRAL AB LIFE Must have Class 3 licence 1 day a week in: w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 INNISFAIL
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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $12/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible. No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. or Call 403-848-2356 Buying or Selling your home? Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds
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Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 CHOPPED POPLAR - free, you pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385. FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227
LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346
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AIR Compressor, Porter Cable, 40’ hose w/ nozzles, 3 HP, 4 gal., $100. 403-782-7439 RASPBERRY mature canes, free. ALL GONE
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With 42 papers, approximately $220./mo
Carpenters Competitive Wages & Benefits. Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca
LIZ ARDEN NY, NEW, 1 red croc., make-up bag, w/12 eye shadows, 2 blush, 1 nail polish, 1 lip gloss. This would make a great Mother’s Day gift, $195. value, Asking $50. 403-227-2976
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32” x 82” STEEL door, $50 obo. 403-341-3334
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GUN SHOW May 2, 10 am - 5 pm, May 3, 10 am - 3 pm. UFA Agri Centre West Info: 403-347-3767 PROSET Hockey Card, one box (NEW) 1991 - 1992, $30. GOLF bag, black, traveling style. $45. 403-885-5020
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3 BDRM. main level house, Johnstone Park. $1300 + d.d., 70% utils., avail. now, no pets. 403-667-5527 587-877-2839 FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot. 4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740
WEST PARK Just completely reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1400 mo. $1000. d.d. Avail. now or May 1. 403-304-5337
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NICE Upper Level 2 bdrm. condo, avail. now or May 1. Very large master bdrm. w/walkin closet, good location in Sunnyside. Prefer no pets. $1350. & d.d. 250-859-6689
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CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303
FLYER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)
Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr.
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MICHENER AREA 44 & 45 AVE.
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Timberstone Way, Thompson Cres., Thomas Place, Talson Place, Talisman Close, Trump Close, etc...
Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres. Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Aikman Cres. Atlee / Ansett Cres. Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.
BUSY rig moving company looking for exp. bed truck operators, winch tractor hands, and picker operators. Oilfield ticket an asset. Must be able to pass a drug test. Pls call 1-306-463-6674.
JOHNSTONE PARK
$207.20/mo. ALSO Timothy Dr. Towers Close, Turner Cres. and Tobin Gate $107.36/mo. ********************** For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306
BOWER AREA Brown Close/Barrett Dr. Bunn Cres. Barrett Drive INGLEWOOD AREA Isbister Close
Jackson & Jarvis Close WWwWWES********************* For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308
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INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351
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Misc. for Sale
ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED Morning Delivery 6 days/week by 6:30 am
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EARINGS, pierced, Stirling Silver, Made in Israel, never worn, w/case, 1 1/2” drop, appraised $135. Asking $100. 403-227-2976
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ROYAL Dux Bohemian Cat, porcelain, mint cond. $35. Merrill Ortholight shoe, sz. 6.5, air cushion, women’s, like new. $40. Maui Jim Sunglasses, Makaha, with brown sport case, brand new. $95 403-352-8811
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SONY Trinitron tv 26” w/remote, used little $75, also black glass tv stand, bought at Sims $125 403-352-8811 VHS movies, (100). $75. 403-885-5020
RECLINERS, (2), Maroon, cloth, $45. each. Wine making equip., $55. Queen size. air bed with electric pump, $30; 403-343-2618
GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area
For More Information, Please call Prodie 403-314-4301
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Stereos TV's, VCRs
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Health & Beauty
WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514
Beswick, horses, porcelain, with Welsh Cob (rearing), made in England. $175. DCSHOES Cap, sz. 7 3/8, like new. $18. 403-352-8811
ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in
With 73 papers, approximately: $380.00/mo.
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Homestead Firewood
3 BIG LIVINGROOM CHAIRS, floral $30/ea. 403-342-1934 BLUE COUCH and chair some wood on front $110 can deliver 403-342-1934 COUCH and chair floral $125 can deliver 403-342-1934 END Tables, (2) matching, $14. ea. or both for $25. 403-782-7439 TWO 6’ mahogany 5 shelf wall units, like new $50/ea., beige glider rocking chair, like new $45, 2 beige highback bar stools, $20/ea, 2 black bar stools $10/ea, dbl. stainless steel sink $5, white ceiling fan w/ 4 lights $15 403-358-5568
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To deliver the
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NEW PROGRAMS
2965 Bremner Avenue
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Firewood
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Call (403) 347-6676
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Household Furnishings
Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307
For residential & commercial concrete work in the Red Deer area. -Excellent rate of pay -Benefit packages Send Resume to: apply@pmcl1964.ca or Fax Resume to 403-342-1549 SHOP HELP AND/OR APPRENTICE MECHANIC REQ’D IMMED. Truck exp. preferred. 8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of Blackfalds. Fax: 403-784-2330 Phone: 403-784-3811
Truckers/ Drivers
TWO SEARS Craftsman table saws, 1 lrg. $275 obo, 1 sm. $110 obo. 403-341-3334
GAS DRYER $195 OBO 403-506-1907
ORIOLE PARK
Concrete Finishers, Carpenters, Bobcat Operators
Requires Full Time
SEARS Radial Arm Saw with stand and blades, $125 obo. 403-342-0754
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Household Appliances
Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake
SEEKS
Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************
Construction
TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300
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CONSTRUCTION WORKER with 13 yrs. exp. in all kinds of building and renovating. Get the deck that would make a good impression, or a fence that will be to your taste, or finish the bsmt. that once seemed impossible. To get a quote today, call Justin Pullen @ (403) 519-1059.
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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542
HIRING ALL POSITIONS Wages Starting at $13.00/hr.
CONCRETE??? We’ll do it all...Free est. Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197
Health Benefits 539281D22-30
Professionals
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Tools
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RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc. Call Roger 403-348-1060 SIDING, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.
Handyman Services
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BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects. Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking. Call James 403-341-0617
Health Care
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CREATIVE SOLUTIONS CONSULTING INC. is now accepting referrals! Sara Kreklewich, Registered Occupational Therapist, provides services in the areas of: -Disordered Eating -Wellness Coaching -Stress Management -Relaxation Sara at: 403-704-9459 or visit our website: www.createsolutions.biz
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DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301
Massage Therapy
REMOVAL of old concrete, Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285
MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161
Massage Therapy
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FANTASY SPA
Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment. 10 - 2am Private back entry
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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 GARAGE DOOR SERVICES 403-358-1614 NOW is the time to get your yard in shape. Aerations & power rakes 403-318-7625
Painters/ Decorators
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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.
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a denizen of the 31st century would see is not a before-and-after image, not what today we might call time-lapse photography, but rather one picture depicting a millennium of change. For example, if the now heavily forested area were to gradually turn to grasslands, the trees, Keats predicts, will linger on the photograph as ghostly reminders of a prior period, set against the bolder outline of the more recent landscape. Later this spring, Keats will ascend a harrowing set of wooden stairs inside the dusty steeple, position the camera and open its shutter, beginning what he believes will be history’s longest exposure. He hasn’t sought a patent for the device, which he estimates costs about $100 in raw materials to build, saying he wants others to copy it and place their own millennium cameras strategically around the world.
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Nepal reeling from massive earthquake MORE THAN 2,500 KILLED AS RESCUERS KEEP LOOKING, AFTERSHOCKS TERRIFY SURVIVORS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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TOP: India’s National Disaster Response Force personnel look for survivors in a building, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday. Sleeping in the streets and shell-shocked, Nepalese cremated the dead and dug through rubble for the missing Sunday, a day after a massive Himalayan earthquake devastated the region and destroyed homes and infrastructure. ABOVE LEFT: One of the Kathmandu’s landmark Bhimsen tower is seen in rubbles after it was
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The first nations to respond were Nepal’s neighbours — India, China and Pakistan, all of which have been jockeying for influence over the landlocked nation. Nepal remains closest to India, with which it shares deep political, cultural and religious ties. India suffered its own losses from the quake, with at least 61 people killed there and dozens injured.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Shell-shocked and sleeping in the streets, tens of thousands of Nepalese braced against terrifying aftershocks Sunday while digging for survivors in the devastation wrought a day earlier by a massive earthquake that ripped across this Himalayan nation and killed more than 2,500 people. Acrid, white smoke rose above the nation’s most revered Hindu temple, where dozens of bodies were being cremated at any given time. Aid groups received the first word from remote mountain villages — reports that suggested many communities perched on mountainsides were devastated or struggling to cope. Landslides hindered rescue teams that tried to use mountain trails to reach those in need, said Prakash Subedi, chief district official in the Gorkha region, where the quake was centred. “Villages like this are routinely affected by landslides, and it’s not uncommon for entire villages of 200, 300, up to 1,000 people to be completely buried by rock falls,” said Matt Darvas, a member of the aid group World Vision. “It will likely be helicopter access only.” Saturday’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake spread horror from Kathmandu to small villages and to the slopes of Mount Everest, triggering an avalanche that buried part of the base camp packed with foreign climbers preparing to make their summit attempts. At least 18 people died there and 61 were injured. With people fearing more quakes, tens of thousands spent the day crowding in the streets and the night sleeping in parks or on a golf course. Others camped in open squares lined by cracked buildings and piles of rubble. Helicopter blades thudded periodically overhead. Crows screeched as the ground shook with the worst of the aftershocks — magnitude 6.7. Panicked residents raced outdoors. “We don’t feel safe at all. There have been so many aftershocks. It doesn’t stop,” said Rajendra Dhungana, 34, who spent the day with his niece’s family for her cremation at the Pashuputi Nath Temple in Kathmandu. “I’ve watched hundreds of bodies burn. I never thought I’d see so many ... Nepal should learn a lesson from this. They should realize proper buildings should be built. There should be open spaces people can run to.” By late Sunday, the aftershocks appeared be weakening. A magnitude 5.3 quake shook an area about 30 miles east of Kathmandu. Nepal authorities said Sunday that at least 2,430 people died in that country alone, not including the 18 dead in the avalanche. Another 61 people died from the quake in India and a few in other neighbouring countries. At least 1,152 people died in Kathmandu, and the number of injured nationwide was upward of 5,900. With search-and-rescue efforts far from over, it was unclear how much the death toll would rise. Three policemen died during a rescue effort in Kathmandu, police spokesman Komal Singh Bam said. The capital city is largely a collection of small, poorly constructed brick apartment buildings. But outside of the oldest neighbourhoods, many in Kathmandu were surprised by how few modern structures collapsed in the quake. While aid workers cautioned that many buildings could have sustained serious structural damage, it was also clear that the death toll would have been far higher had more buildings caved in. Aid workers also warned that the situation could be far worse near the epicenter. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centred near Lamjung, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Kathmandu. In the aftermath, United Nations officials were concerned about thunderstorms that could threaten the many people staying outdoors and about a shortage of vaccines that could invite disease. As planeloads of supplies, doctors and relief workers arrived from neighbouring countries, journalists reported on social media that aftershocks forced some aircraft to circle the Kathmandu airport while waiting to land. Thousands of Indians lined up in hopes of gaining a seat on a plane returning to New Delhi. One of those fleeing, 32-year-old tailor Assad Alam, said he and his wife and daughter were leaving with heavy hearts. “It was a very difficult decision. I have called this home for seven years. But you have to think about the family, about your child.” The earthquake was the worst to hit the South Asian nation in more than 80 years. It destroyed swaths of the oldest neighbourhoods of Kathmandu and was strong enough to be felt all across parts of India, Bangladesh, China’s region of Tibet and Pakistan. Nepal’s worst recorded earthquake in 1934 measured 8.0 and all but destroyed the cities of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan. Rescuers aided by international teams spent Sunday digging through rubble of buildings — concrete slabs, bricks, iron beams, wood — to look for survivors. Because the air was filled with chalky concrete dust, many people wore breathing masks or held shawls over their faces. Hundreds of people in the western Kalanki neighbourhood nervously watched the slow progress of a single backhoe digging into the rubble of the collapsed Lumbini Guest House, once a three-story budget hotel. Police officer RP Dhamala, who was co-ordinating the rescue efforts, said they had already pulled out 12 people alive and six dead. He said rescuers were still searching for about 20 people believed to be trapped but had heard no cries, taps or noises for a while. Most areas were without power and water. The United Nations said hospitals in the Kathmandu Valley were overcrowded and running out of emergency supplies and space to store corpses. Most shops in Kathmandu were closed after the government declared a weeklong period of recovery. Only fruit vendors and pharmacies seemed to be doing business. “More people are coming now,” fruit seller Shyam Jaiswal said. “They cannot cook so they need to buy something they can eat raw.” Jaiswal said stocks were running out, and more shipments were not expected for at least a week, but added, “We are not raising prices. That would be illegal, immoral profit.” The quake will probably put a huge strain on the resources of this impoverished country best known for Everest, the highest mountain in the world. The economy of Nepal, a nation of 27.8 million people, relies heavily on tourism, principally trekking and Himalayan mountain climbing.
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Baltimore protest turns violent BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE — Thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand answers in the case of a 25-year-old black man who died in police custody after suffering a fatal spine injury. After hours of peaceful demonstrations, pockets of protesters smashed police car windows and storefronts. Saturday’s protests came a day after Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis said Freddie Gray should have received medical attention at the spot where he was arrested, before he was put inside a police transport van handcuffed and without a seat belt, a violation of the department’s policy. Grey’s death on April 19 has intensified a national debate over police treatment of African-Americans. It has been compared to those of unarmed black men who died at the hands of police in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri, cases that sparked social unrest around the U.S. Gray was arrested after he made eye contact with officers and ran away, police said. Officers held him down, handcuffed him and loaded him into the van. While inside, he became irate and leg cuffs were put on him, police have said. Authorities have not explained how or when Gray’s spine was injured. Video showed him being dragged into a police van, and police have said he rode in it for about 30 minutes before paramedics were called. Residents voiced their anger Saturday at how the department and the city’s officials are handling the investigation into Gray’s death. Protesters threw cans and plastic bottles in the direction of police officers. One protester broke the window of a police cruiser, grabbed a police hat inside and wore it while standing on top of the cruiser with several other protesters. A small “splinter group” of protesters looted a convenience store and threw tables and chairs through storefront windows, authorities said. Police said Sunday that a total of 34 people were arrested and six officers suffered minor injuries. In her first public comments since Gray’s death, his twin sis-
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A protestor, left, fights with a bar patron outside of a bar near Oriole Park at Camden Yards after a rally for Freddie Gray, Saturday, in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a police van. ter, Fredricka Gray, appealed for calm. “My family wants to say, can you all please, please stop the violence?” she said at a news conference with the mayor. “Freddie Gray would not want this.” Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said roughly 1,200 officers were deployed downtown and across the city to try and keep the peace. At least five officers were injured and 12 people were arrested. Batts said he believes the “very violent agitators” are not from Baltimore. Earlier Saturday, the crowd paused for a moment of silence in front of Shock Trauma, the hospital where Gray died. Signs in hand, with slogans such as “Jail Killer Police!” and “Unite Here!,” demonstrators filled two city blocks and marched to City Hall, where the crowd overtook a grassy plaza.
At a downtown intersection, a dozen marchers laid down in the street during an impromptu “die-in.” Both Commissioner Batts and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who took office in 2010, are African-American. They came in making promises to the inner-city residents and police who spent decades staring each other down in neighbourhoods ravaged by crack and heroin. But with each death of a black man in custody, their efforts to overcome mistrust have hit hard walls of skepticism and outrage. Batts says he’s fired 50 police employees and reduced officer-involved shootings, and the use-of-force reports police must file dropped from 598 in 2012 to 435 in 2014. But he acknowledged that some cases have “tarnished this badge and the reputation of the department.”
Grey is at least the fifth black man to die after police encounters since Batts took charge. A Baltimore Sun investigation revealed last year that the city has paid roughly $5.7 million in brutality settlements since 2011, involving 102 instances of excessive force. Batts then asked the U.S. Justice Department to review the department’s policies and procedures. Now the Justice Department has opened a second probe, by its Civil Rights division, examining Gray’s death. Baltimore had one of the nation’s busiest markets for heroin and crack cocaine when Martin O’Malley ran for mayor in 1999. The future Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate imposed a “zero tolerance” policy that did reduce crime, but it also resulted in thousands of arrests without cause.
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JERUSALEM — Israel’s military said Sunday it launched an airstrike on its border with Syria after spotting militants carrying a bomb in the Israeli-held Golan Heights. The military said it carried out the strike after troops saw “a group of armed terrorists” approach the border with an explosive intended to target Israeli troops. It said that Israeli aircraft “targeted the squad, preventing the attack.” It did not offer any casualty figure for the strike. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said four Syrian soldiers were killed by a missile fired from Israeli-occupied territory in the Golan. Observatory director Rami Abdurrahman said it was not clear whether the missile was fired by a plane or from a vehicle. On Twitter, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent messages commending the soldiers involved in the strike. “Any attempt to harm our soldiers and civilians will be met with a determined response like the military action tonight that thwarted a terror attack,” Netanyahu said. No one immediately claimed responsibility of the attack launched from inside Syria, which has been in the grips of a civil war since 2011. Syrian state media did not immediately report on the strike. Israel has tried to stay GREAT out of the war in Syria, but it has spilled into the country before. In September, the Israeli military shot down a Syrian fighter jet in airspace over the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed in a move that has never been internationally recognized. In August, Israel shot down a drone that came into the same airspace from Syria.
Malaysia detains 12 men suspected of plotting attacks on government targets KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police said Sunday that they have detained 12 men with suspected links to the Islamic state group who are believed to be plotting attacks on strategic government targets in the country. National police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the men, all Malaysians aged from 17 to 41, were detained during an operation this weekend. Police also seized Islamic State group flags and various items that could be used to make explosives, including ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, kerosene and wires, Khalid said in a statement. “The plan by the cell members to launch attacks is in response to calls by IS leaders in Syria to attack secular Islamic countries deemed to be their enemies,” he said. Malaysia has now detained 104 suspected supporters of the Islamic State
France detains second suspect in thwarted church attack investigation PARIS — French officials say a second man has been detained in an investigation into an alleged plot to attack a church near Paris. The detention occurred Sunday in Saint-Ouen north of Paris, according to a French security official. The man’s DNA was found on a hairbrush in the house of Sid Ahmed Ghlam, the chief suspect in the thwarted attack, the official said. The official wasn’t authorized to be publicly named. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that a suspect is in custody. Authorities say Ghlam, a computer science student, planned an attack on a church in Villejuif south of Paris, and is suspected in the killing of a woman nearby. He was arrested and handed preliminary terrorism-related charges. It is unclear whether the man detained Sunday was involved in the plot.
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