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Marathon picking up speed WOODY’S MARATHON SEES MORE THAN 1,500 RUNNERS, NEW RECORDS BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The Woody’s Marathon continues to prove it’s the little RV that could. With its 17th edition on Sunday in the books, the marathon continues to establish its place as one SEE MORE COVERAGE of the mustrun events ON PAGES B1 AND C1 on the Alberta road race calendar. This year they surpassed their goal of 1,500 runners while an estimated 4,500-5,500 people watched either at Lindsay Thurber Composite High School or along the 42.2-kilometre course. “This course is made for runners,” said race director Jason Hazlett. “To us, this will be the best race course in Alberta. It may not be the biggest race, because how do you compete against Edmonton? How do you compete against Calgary for the numbers? But when we’ve got people coming from Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie and Cold Lake and Medicine Hat and Lethbridge coming up to do our race because of our scenic trails, that tells us that Red Deer has done something right and created an incredible environment for runners.” Camrose’s Brendan Lunty became the first man to win the marathon five years in a row, surpassing Jack Cook’s mark of four straight, while the women’s race was won by newcomer Rhonda Loo from Lake Newell Resort near Brooks. Meanwhile, Red Deer’s Dusty
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Full and half-marathon runners take off from the start line early Sunday morning for the 17th annual Woody’s RV Marathon. Spiller set a record in the half marathon, with a winning time of 1:12:31.95, while Jen Moroz from Vancouver was the fastest woman in the 21.1 kilometre race with a time of 1:22:42.65. Beyond medals, local artists Brian McArthur and Dawn Detarando of Voyageur Art & Tile fabricated cham-
pionship beer steins for each podium finish while they also made tiles painted with a scene from River Bend Golf Course section of the race for each of the age group winners. There were several new wrinkles added to this year’s even, including a kid’s race, a marathon relay, a tent
city on the Lindsay Thurber site and a Woody’s Egger sandwich that was provided by Red Deer Co-op and the Food Bank that went to each of the runners. It all added to the atmosphere of the race.
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County raises concerns about city’s environmental reserve LACOMBE BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Lacombe should require bigger buffers around water bodies to ensure they are not affected by future development, says Lacombe County. The county was asked for its input on a new City of Lacombe Municipal Development (MDP) Plan, the overall development guide for a community. After review, the county has raised concerns that the city isn’t taking enough land for environmental reserve, which ensures it is not developed. The county wants to see the 15-metre reserve called for in the MDP doubled to 30 metres, a standard met in county planning documents. Dale Freitag, county manager of planning services, said the county believes it’s important to maintain consistency among municipalities and that 30 metres offers better protection. “The water course doesn’t know the difference between Lacombe County and the City of Lacombe,” said Freitag. In some cases, a 15-metre setback may provide enough protection to lakes, rivers and streams — but maybe not in all. “It’s best to err on the side of caution when you’re dealing with water bodies,” he said. “It’s much cheaper to take (setback) land now than down the road if you’re wrong.” City planner Jennifer Kirchner said that the Municipal Government Act requires that a six-metre environmental reserve be set aside, and the city will add at least another nine metres of reserve to create a minimum 15-metre
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buffer zone. “The 15 metres will serve to not only protect these environmental features but allow for the public to be able to enjoy these sites,” said Kirchner. What the city is proposing is in line with the provincial government’s policies, she added. “The city believes that this policy will ensure environmental areas are protected and accessible to the community and will support diverse development to occur in Lacombe.” The city also pointed out in a written reply to the county that requiring a 30-metre reserve might leave the municipality unable to take enough municipal reserve land, which is typically used for recreation. Regulations are tighter for environmental reserves, which must be kept in their natural state and can be used for parks. City of Lacombe is holding a public hearing in council chambers on May 25 on its MDP. The county has raised similar concerns about ensuring 30-metre setbacks in a Sylvan Lake MDP. An appeal was launched and it is close to being resolved with the help of a mediator. Some county councillors have suggested it might be time for all Sylvan Lake communities to get together to work out a consistent set of development guidelines, including setbacks from the water’s edge. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com
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The Little Bobtail Lake fire, 50 kilometres southwest of Prince George, B.C., is shown on Sunday. A large forest fire in northern B.C. is growing as firefighters struggle to contain the out-of-control blaze that has forced dozens of people from their homes.
Firefighters battle raging B.C. wildfire BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — An unexpected spike in wind has spoiled the prospect of better firefighting conditions in British Columbia’s Central Interior, where crews are struggling to make headway against the first major blaze of this year’s fire season. B.C.’s Fire Management Branch welcomed Monday’s forecast of cooler temperatures and lighter winds in the fight against the Little Bobtail Lake fire, about 70 kilometres southwest of Prince George.But favourable wind conditions had waned by the afternoon, prompting the blaze to grow to 250 square kilometres — a jump from Sunday’s estimated size of 240 square kilometres.
“It’s a complex fire,” said Peter Goode of the Fire Management Branch on Monday, speaking by phone from the crew’s base camp about two dozen kilometres south of the flames. “It’s unpredictable because of the wind.” Goode listed several other factors that have contributed to the fire’s complexity: different types of wood, a mixture of harvested and unharvested areas, swamps and the intermittent presence of snow. Fire crews managed to contain 20 per cent of the blaze by Saturday, but that number had fallen to 15 per cent by Monday after strong winds fanned the flames, causing the fire to spread.
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Widow, ex-soldier move for final judgment on $134M suit against Khadr
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The widow of an American special forces soldier killed in Afghanistan and another soldier partially blinded by a hand grenade have moved to finalize a default civil-suit judgment against former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr. Court documents filed in Utah April 24, the day an Alberta court granted Khadr bail, show the plaintiffs are asking the courts to award them triple damages for a total of US$134.1 million. Lawyer Laura Tanner, who represents Tabitha Speer and Layne Morris, said in an interview she would be filing a final order for the federal judge to review and sign within days. Once that happens — final word on damages would be up to the judge — the families can move to have the judgment enforced against Khadr, 28, in a Canadian court. “It’s actually something that gets done pretty regularly,” Tanner said from Salt Lake City. In their lawsuit, Speer and Layne Morris allege Khadr, then 15, was responsible for the death of Sgt. Christopher Speer and Morris’s injuries in Afghanistan in July 2002. The suit leans heavily on Khadr’s guilty plea to five war crimes before a widely maligned U.S. military commission in Guantanamo Bay in October 2010. The plea deal included a stipulation of facts in which Khadr admitted among other things to murdering Speer in violation of the rule of war and four other war crimes — although he has since said he only pleaded guilty to get out of American clutches. Khadr’s lawyer, Nate Whitling, called it “unfortunate” his client was unable to retain a lawyer in Utah to defend against a suit he said has no legal merit. “Given that the convictions that they rely upon are likely to be overturned on appeal, they should not form the basis for civil liability,” Whitling said. Canadian courts do routinely enforce American judgments and it’s not clear what grounds there might be to resist such enforcement. While Khadr is essentially penniless, having spent almost 13 years behind bars before finally being released on bail earlier this month, he is in the process of suing the federal government for $20 million for alleged violations of his civil rights. In their suit, Speer asks for US$39.5 million and Morris for $5.2 million — but argue the damages should be tripled under an American law on victims of international terrorism. Speer died 10 “agonizing” days after being hit by a grenade Khadr admitted at his military commission trial to throwing, the claim states. “This was the day my world collapsed,” Speer’s widow and mother of his two children says in her claim. “Part of me died with him.” The plaintiffs are also asking the judge to award another US$52,000 in legal fees — some of which are for dealing with media. Tanner said the plaintiffs decided to move on getting the default judgment finalized after learning that Khadr was having a bail hearing. However, she said his release makes no difference to their plans to finalize the judgment and try to get it enforced in Canada.
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MARATHON: Other improvements “All of the improvements we added to race ... they went extremely well,” said Hazlett. “There are other improvements we will look at, but the committee will make the race better for 2016.” The Red Deer Food Bank and Right to Play will both benefit from the marathon this year. Organizers will continue to investigate new ways to make the race better for the coming years, includ-
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Police search for man accused of trying to shoot an officer, leading to car chase NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A man accused of trying to shoot an officer before leading police on a high-speed chase across the Lower Mainland should be considered armed and dangerous, police say. Patrol officers responded around 10 a.m. on Monday to reports of two people sleeping in a vehicle parked behind an apartment building on the 100 block of Royal Avenue in New Westminster, B.C. After being woken up, the driver allegedly pointed a handgun at an officer from inside the vehicle and pulled the trigger. “Thankfully that firearm did not discharge,” said Sgt. Chad Johnston of the New Westminster Police Department. Johnston said the man then led officers on a chase through New Westminster, Burnaby and Vancouver, and was last seen on Southeast Marine Drive and Inverness Street in Vancouver around 11 a.m. The pursuit was not a consistent 60-minute chase, said Johnston, adding that the suspect’s vehicle came in and out of contact with police. “Sometimes people think that we just keep a beat on (a suspect) and go with them,” said Johnston, refuting the Hollywood version of police car chases. ing tinkering with the start time of the kids’ race, improved course marking, better organizing of volunteers for things like tearing down, and expansion of the tent city. One of the new tents Hazlett wants to eventually see is a TV tent where spectators can follow along on a couple of big screens. “I want people to be able to watch the race as it’s in progress,” he said. “We’ll have our competitive type of television where you’re watching your leaders for the full, the half and the 10Ks ... and on the other television, you’ll be looking at your participants running by check points.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
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“If these people are driving so recklessly where they’re taking a chance of running intersections or stop signs or that kind of thing, all it takes is a few seconds while our officers are clearing intersections safely for that vehicle to make a right and a left and be gone.” Police said the suspect has full sleeve tattoos and a hoop earring in his left ear, while his passenger is a woman with reddish hair, wearing a floral-patterned tank top and tights. Neither has been identified. The vehicle is a rented white, four-door Buick Lacrosse with Alberta plates and is reportedly also carrying a small pit bull. The car was involved in several hit and runs during the chase but there are no reports of anyone being injured. New Westminster’s major crime unit has taken over the file, said Johnston, but virtually all police agencies in the Lower Mainland are collaborating in the search.
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Crowdfunding becoming popular in civic projects BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — At a time when municipal budgets are stretched and urban-improvement projects may not top a city’s priority list, community groups, non-profits and local governments are increasingly turning to crowdfunding to help finance public projects. Crowdfunding websites, which allow groups and individuals to solicit donations online, are usually associated with artists, entrepreneurs and humanitarian projects. However, a small but growing number of crowdfunding campaigns are looking to finance civic projects such as artwork, and green and public spaces. In the United States and Europe, purpose-specific sites such as Spacehive, IOBY and citizinvestor have been used to fund everything from bridges to bicycle services. Although in Canada the practice is less common, the presence of some homegrown web platforms and a host of online campaigns seems to indicate that civic crowdfunding may be on the rise in this country. Last week, securities commissions in six provinces also set up rules to allow Canadian businesses to raise equity through crowdfunding. There are several advantages to crowdfunding urban projects, says Nicolas Koff, the co-founder of Projexity, a Toronto-based crowdfunding website that helps groups gather resources for local projects. These can include engaging people and bumping up the timeline of proj-
ects that would otherwise take years to complete. “A lot of projects remain on the table for five, 10, or 20 years because they’re never really high priority,” Koff said. “We’ve seen a lot of really great projects fall through the cracks due to lack of visibility, lack of engagement, lack of resources.” Projexity’s most successful project to date has been a public patio for Market 707, a shipping container market in Toronto. The site raised $6,500 and also sought public input on the design and on the hiring of labourers — something that would have been impossible had the project been done entirely through municipal channels. “ 1/8Crowdfunding 3/8 allows you to go beyond the bottom-line design you get in a lot of our civic spaces, where everything is mostly based on trying to get the most cost-effective project,” Koff said. Another Canadian-made site, Raise an aim, was started last year to help municipalities crowdfund their projects. However, founder Abdullah Mayo concluded that city governments were still more reluctant to jump on the crowdfunding bandwagon than their American or European counterparts — either because they didn’t have the skills for a successful campaign or because they were reluctant to solicit citizens for additional funds. “A lot of Canadians feel like we pay enough taxes already, we should be able to have water fountains and good hiking trails,” he said.
Now, he has refocused his aim with a new website, lbx.com, or local bond exchange, which helps municipalities market and promote the sale of municipal bonds to residents. “We’re using the elements of crowdfunding to essentially take all the processes municipalities have now and making them more transparent and easy, using these online platforms,” says Mayo. He says at least six cities are interested in signing up for the currently beta-version website, including the Ontario communities of Hamilton and Kitchener as well as Victoria, B.C. Other Canadian groups are using traditional platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo to try to fund their projects. In Montreal, a group of urban design and citizen groups have launched an Indiegogo campaign to finance a project they call “Village Ephemere,” a summer-long public gathering place with street food, local artists and vendors. They want to fund the project’s third edition with $40,000 in crowdfunding, hopefully in combination with city grants. Jerome Glad of the nonprofit group Pepiniere and Co., which is spearheading the project, says city funding is uncertain and that corporate sponsorship comes with too many strings attached. Crowdfunding, he says, can ensure citizen participation while making up for funding shortfalls. “If we manage to get funding from citizens, it really reinforces the spirit of the project, which is a participative, collective, community project,”
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Jerome Glad, right, co-founder of Pepiniere and Co., and Guillaume Allyson, co-ordinator at Ateliers Jean Brillant, Glad’s current project, pose for a photo, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 in Montreal. he says. Another group in Lethbridge, Alta., has launched an Indiegogo campaign to save two historic buildings that make up the city’s Chinatown. They, like most, have turned to a variety of resources to attempt to fund their project, including a grant from the municipal heritage resource fund that matches every dollar raised. Some urban experts are concerned by the idea of crowdfunding despite its promise.
Community mailbox battle could have broad implications Canada Post and the city of Hamilton are bracing for battle — and municipalities across the country are watching to see who wins. The fight is over just how much of a say local governments can have over where new community mailboxes can be installed, with the city southwest of Toronto saying the Crown Corporation is not respecting local regulations. Amid mounting concerns over safety, privacy and litter, the dispute between the mail service and the city is now headed to court. The development means Canada Post’s plan to stop home mail delivery and install community mailboxes is now under attack on multiple fronts. Canada Post is already facing a lawsuit from a union representing postal workers that wants the Federal Court to declare the cancellation of home delivery unconstitutional. And a group of Montreal-area mayors last week said they were considering joining the action, accusing Canada Post of ignoring their concerns. In Hamilton, local officials say their dispute with the mail service has broad implications. “This really is a national debate,” said Hamilton Coun. Terry Whitehead, who has been dealing with a slew of resident concerns over the mailboxes.
“Do municipalities, who are basically the government of the grassroots, have the right to create standards in the communities that Canada Post and utilities must follow?” In the face of declining traditional mail volumes, Canada Post announced a plan in December 2013 to end doorto-door delivery and gave itself five years to implement the move to community mailboxes. About 100,000 made the transition in 2014, and another 900,000 households are expected to switch to community mailboxes this year. Canada Post says it told Hamilton of its intention to transition about 36,000 households to community mailbox delivery in June 2014. It says it met repeatedly with city officials to seek input on mailbox locations and has tried to address constituent concerns. But somewhere along the way, as the mailboxes have been installed on strips of municipal land alongside homes, relations between the city and the mail service have turned rocky. After hearing complaints over safety, privacy, litter and traffic when the mailboxes are installed in what they consider less-than-ideal locations, Hamilton’s city council amended a bylaw, which now requires Canada Post to obtain a $200 permit per site to install the mailboxes on municipal land. City staff would assess each mailbox’s
location to ensure it meets city standards before granting the permit. “We are the stewards of those right of ways,” said Whitehead, who has written to federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt asking her to direct Canada Post to obey the rules of local municipalities. Canada Post, however, ignored the bylaw, saying that under the federal Canada Post Act, it has the exclusive jurisdiction over postal services and the legal authority to install community mailboxes on municipally owned property. When the city issued an order in late April for the mail service to stop installing the community mailboxes until it complied with the bylaw, Canada Post filed a notice in Ontario Superior Court asking for the bylaw to be declared invalid. The issue will be heard before a
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The signs of change ACROSS THE NATION, PEOPLE ARE MAKING BOLD NEW CHOICES Recent events in Canada have shown not only that change is possible, but that people won’t stand for having corporate interests put before their own. When plummeting oil prices late last year threw Alberta into financial crisis, people rightly asked, “Where’s the money?” They could see that an oil producer like Norway was able to weather DAVID the price drop thanks to forSUZUKI ward planning, higher costs to industry to exploit resources and an oil fund worth close to $1 trillion! Leading up to the election, the government that ran Alberta for 44 years refused to consider raising industry taxes or reviewing royalty rates, instead offering a budget with new taxes, fees and levies for citizens, along with service cuts. The people of Alberta then did what was once thought impossible: they gave the NDP a strong majority. Almost half the NDP members elected were wom-
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en, giving Alberta the highest percentage of women ever in a Canadian provincial or federal government. On the other side of the country, voters in Prince Edward Island followed B.C. provincially and Canada federally and elected their first Green Party member, as well as Canada’s second openly gay premier. Remember, homosexuality was illegal in Canada until 1969! In my home province, after a long struggle by elders and families of the Tahltan Klabona Keepers, the B.C. government bought 61 coal licences from Fortune Minerals and Posco Canada in the Klappan and Sacred Headwaters, putting a halt to controversial development in an ecologically and culturally significant area that is home to the Tahltan people and forms the headwaters of the Skeena, Stikine and Nass rivers. The Tahltan and the province have agreed to work on a long-term management plan for the area. On the same night as Alberta’s election, people of the Lax Kw’alaams band of the Tsimshian First Nation met to consider an offer by Malaysian state-owned energy company Petronas of $1 billion over 40 years to build a liquefied natural gas export terminal on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, at the other end of the Skeena River, an estuary that provides crucial habitat
for salmon and other life. The 181 people attending unanimously opposed the offer. Two nights later in Prince Rupert, band members also stood unanimously against the proposal. A final vote was scheduled after this column’s deadline, but the message is clear: integrity, the environment and human health are more important than money. Gerald Amos, a Haisla First Nation member and community relations director for the Headwaters Initiative, said the federal Prince Rupert Port Authority’s decision to locate the facility on Lelu Island also demonstrated a failure to properly consult with First Nations. “By the time they get around to consulting with us, the boat’s already built and they just want to know what colour to paint it,” he said. On a broader scale, change is occurring around the serious threat of climate change. Even well-known deniers, including U.S. oil billionaire Charles Koch, now admit climate change is real and caused in part by CO2 emissions. But they argue it isn’t and won’t be dangerous, so we shouldn’t worry. Most people are smart enough to see through their constantly changing, anti-science, pro-fossil-fuel propaganda, though, and are demanding government and industry action.
We’re also seeing significant changes in the corporate sector. The movement to divest from fossil fuels is growing quickly, and businesses are increasingly integrating positive environmental performance into their operations. Funds that have divested from fossil fuels have outperformed those that haven’t, a trend expected to continue. We can’t expect miracles from Alberta’s new government, which has its work cut out. After all, it would be difficult to govern Alberta from an antioil position, and the fossil fuel industry is known for working to get its way. Although NDP Leader Rachel Notley has spoken against the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, she isn’t opposed to all pipeline and oilsands development, and she’s called for refinery construction in Alberta. But she’s promised to phase out coal-fired power, increase transit investment, implement energy efficiency and renewable energy strategies, and bring in stronger environmental standards, monitoring and enforcement. I’ve often said things are impossible only until they aren’t anymore. The past few weeks show how people have the power to bring about change. Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.
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Federal election requires more strategic voting It has become apparent to all that Albertans have grasped and now own the concept of strategic voting. During the May 5 provincial election, strategic voting toppled a 44-year-old PC dynasty. Voters of all stripes — Wildrose, Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, Green, Alberta Party and New Democrats — voted for the candidate most likely to beat PCs. Last election, they voted PCs to keep the Wildrose from winning. It started at the bottom of the political food chain, at the kitchen table, then in the coffee shops, and then the pollsters started reporting changes on the phone, online and in the mail. It gained traction by Jim Prentice’s “look in the mirror” comment, it burst out on the street after the leaders’ debate, and became unstoppable in the final week of the campaign. The voters found the desire for change was paramount and the will was there to take the necessary steps. No single poll was to be trusted, every newspaper was suspect. Voters needed to trust their instincts and wait for a general consensus. Diehards and zealots were discounted or ignored; desire, instinct and will became the signals. Polls started to show it, newspapers started to report it, and whispers became questions and suddenly, change was possible. The “anyone but Conservative” phrase became real, it took on a life all its own. It went from being a possibility to being a reality, and voters were energized. Alberta has an NDP majority government, and Alberta is still by and large a small-c conservative province, but it needed to be heard in the legislature. This is the wakeup call. There are some issues and they will be ironed out in time. In time for the next election? Possibly. Growing pains? Definitely. Some of the new MLAs will have to grow into their unexpected roles, and others will leave their role for personal reasons. Albertans will survive and prosper and the sky will not fall. Was the election an anomaly or a harbinger is anyone’s guess. But I am willing to bet that strategic voting will play a big part in every election in Alberta’s future. So how do we prepare for the next election, the federal vote on Oct. 19? The “anyone but Conservative” movement has tasted victory and hungers for more. Should we plan for it, work for it or just wait for it? During the last election, voters had a choice basically between Wildrose and New Democrats, but there will not be a Wildrose in the federal election. We had Reform but they merged to form the Conservatives. The Conservatives are quick to point out that they are the only conservative choice and the progressives will split their vote between the Liberals and the New Democrats, but they are ignoring strategic voting at their peril. During the last provincial election, many conservatives went to the NDP to beat the PCs. Many progressives went to the Wildrose for exactly the same reason — to beat the tired party at the helm of the province. To many voters, the federal party at the helm is equally as tired, out of touch and lost in the halls of perks and power, necessitating strategic voting. That leaves two main alternatives: Liberals and New Democrats. Will momentum stay with the NDPs
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from provincial into the federal arena under the capable hands of Tom Mulcair or will the desire for change also encompass a generational change and go with the Liberals under the capable hands of Justin Trudeau? It wasn’t long ago that question would have never been asked and, if asked, dismissed. But May 5 changed everything — Albertans are starting to look at alternatives. Albertans know that they can take a chance, and if they are unhappy they can vote them out the next time. We need good candidates, in all parties. We do not need paper candidates, straw candidates or parachute candidates. Every candidate should be ready to assume their duties as if they have already won. The public should help the parties pick their candidate in advance, get to know them and then determine the best choice. The candidates better get used to the idea that they represent us in the capital and not just represent the capital at home. May 5 was the day the bear awoke from a 44-year nap, and that bear is hungry and one election was not enough to sate his appetite. The bear aptly titled strategic voting is awake, hungry and Albertans own it. Oct. 19 should be interesting. Garfield Marks Red Deer
Couple picking up garbage fills my heart with faith To the couple helping keep our city clean: Almost every morning around 8 a.m. I pass by you. Every time I see you, you are picking up garbage along the road and green space along the sidewalk. One of you controls the claw stick and the other holds the grocery bag.
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I see both of you strolling along happily picking up garbage that was put there by strangers and nature. It is not your job to keep our city clean, you are not paid or acknowledged for your time. But I see you almost every morning walking along doing a good deed and it makes me smile and fills my heart with faith, and makes my day! I have no idea who you are or why you do what you do. But I think that you need a great big thank you! If only there were more people like you in our world! Quite often it reminds me to pay it forward as well and do what I can to protect our beautiful city! Whoever you are, thank you! Shawna Bauer Red Deer
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hones, Tumblr and Facebook. “Never, ever, ever in our history have we been anti-technology,” said Huck, a U.S. train hopper who asked that his real name not be used because his lifestyle is illegal. “When freight trains were invented, hobos were the first ones to jump on ’em, and when automobiles were invented, we were sticking out our thumbs for rides.” Huck is the founder of /r/vagabond, a reddit community for hobos to share photos and advice about living on the road. The forum has grown rapidly from 500 to 10,000 members in the past year, according to Huck, and has been
featured in Newsweek and on the Vice Motherboard news website. Many outsiders are surprised to learn that homeless travellers use the Internet and smart phones. But Huck pointed out that it’s pretty cheap to buy a used cell and a small package of prepaid minutes. Even those who don’t have phones can pop into a public library to use Google Maps or Craigslist, he said. Jon Smith, a 16-year-old from Saint John, N.B., stumbled across /r/vagabond last fall while surfing the Internet. Amazed, he spent the harsh winter scouring the website and planning for his first big hitchhiking trip this sum-
mer. “Here I saw an entire underground world of people I always thought of as bums, working together in a secret infrastructure in a seemingly solid and orderly fashion all over the world,” he said in an email. The demographics of online hobo communities are not easy to determine, as most people use pseudonyms and don’t reveal much about their backgrounds. Both Smith and St. Pierre said they came from good homes, with loving parents and enough food on the table, although they were not rich. Squat the Planet founder Matt Derrick said most members appear to be middle-class people choosing the lifestyle, as opposed to street homeless with mental health or addiction issues. He added it’s not clear whether the community is growing or if the Internet is just making it more visible. “Some people travel for awhile and then they stop, have a kid and a family. People fall out of the community and people come in for the first time. Just like the culture itself, it’s very transient,” he said. Vagabonds are also using the Internet to share and document their experiences. One Canadian man who goes by the name Wize Hop posts videos of himself hopping trains on YouTube, where they have been viewed tens of thousands of times. Wize Hop, who asked that his real name not be used for safety reasons, said he began creating the videos to share his love of riding the rails, which he called meditative and therapeutic. He’s careful to post a disclaimer warning that train hopping is dangerous and illegal. While he’s heard from some concerned viewers, he believes that overall his videos have a positive effect.
No trace of violence was found on the bodies or at the site. The deaths appear to be be due to carbon monoxide poisoning stemming from the camper’s propane heating system. A police investigation into the cause of death is underway.
RCMP have not released the man’s identity but they say he was taken to a nearby clinic with serious injuries, where he later died. Several suspects were taken into custody in relation to the death, said police. The Mounties are also investigating a separate stabbing that took place fewer than 24 hours later, shortly before midnight on Sunday. The second incident also involved a 19-year-old victim. The man was taken to hospital in Vancouver to be treated
for multiple stab wounds but he is expected to recover, said police. “This has been beyond devastating,” Milos said on Monday, describing his younger brother as his best friend. “People are going to think this is a gang-on-gang thing but it’s not like that,” he said. “He was an innocent little man.” Luka, who turned 19 earlier this month, graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary School a year ago and was studying to become a plumber.
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Eric St. Pierre may not have been an obvious candidate for the hobo life. Growing up in Windsor, Ont., he spent every waking minute outside of high school online, playing World of Warcraft or scrolling through message boards. He’s always had wanderlust — at 15, he became obsessed with the idea of walking across Canada and begged friends to come with him. The plans fell apart, his friends grew up and they went to university or got full-time jobs. St. Pierre felt stuck. At 21, he was spending his days answering phones in a FedEx office and crashing at home every night, drained of energy or inspiration. “I went into a pit of depression. I couldn’t sleep very well, getting up two or three times a night,” he recalled. “I could hardly look people in the eye.” Then he came across an Internet forum thread about vagabonds. Intrigued, he clicked through and found Squat the Planet, an online community filled with tips on how to safely train hop, hitch rides or sleep outdoors. His old dream of travelling across Canada came roaring back. One day, he asked his dad to drop him off at a truck stop. As St. Pierre got out of the car, all his father said was, “I don’t know why you need to do this, but be safe.” His life as a hobo had begun. St. Pierre is one of many young Canadians who are dropping out of the 9 to 5 life and hitting the road to work odd jobs, dumpster dive and sleep under the stars. But while vagabonds of generations past stayed connected through a secret code scratched on walls, today’s hobos are turning to iP-
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A YouTube user who goes by the name Wize Hop and is known for his train hopping videos, is pictured in Colombia in a handout photo. Canadian millennials are being drawn to vagabond culture through online communities.
Violent long weekend in B.C. mountain party town claims teenager’s life WHISTLER, B.C. — The brother of a young man fatally stabbed while celebrating May long weekend in Whistler, B.C., is demanding that the mountain resort municipality take action to stem what he sees as a rising problem of unchecked violence. Luka Gordic, 19, of Burnaby, B.C., died after being stabbed near Main Street early Sunday morning, confirmed his older brother Milos.
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HMCS Preserver, one of Canada’s operational support ships, designed to carry large amounts of fuel, provisions, and dry stores during naval operations, is pushed by tugs in Halifax harbour on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Newly released government records show that navy mechanics in Halifax had to scour the Internet and use eBay to find parts for one of its two supply ships.
Navy techs scour eBay to keep supply ships running BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Newly released government records show that navy mechanics in Halifax had to scour the Internet and use eBay to find parts for one of its two supply ships. But the briefing notes obtained by The Canadian Press, prepared for navy commander Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, show the technicians were fighting a losing battle to keep HMCS Preserver on duty. The documents show many of the parts on the 45-year-old ship were “beyond acceptable limits” because corrosion issues had begun to compromise the vessel’s structural integrity. National Defence said last year that both Preserver and its sister ship HMCS Protecteur — gutted by a dangerous at-sea fire — would be retired before replacement ships arrived. “It will be very difficult to continue to confidently operate her at sea until her planned divestment date in 18 months,” said the May 9, 2014 briefing note, which was also copied to the head of military procurement. The navy had planned to replace both ships, but the Conservative government pulled the plug in August 2008 because industry proposals were proving too costly. The new program is still up to eight years way from delivering new ships. It’s long been known that the ships were in precarious shape and getting worse, but the briefing said it “was no longer viable to expend limited resources” to keep them going. The notes make evident the department’s frustration that the ships were not retired on schedule. Technicians would fix one broken part and “once this is fixed, the next question is which equipment or system will be the next to fail.” Protecteur was recently decomissioned, while a formal ceremony for Preserver has to be announced. Since the original manufacturers long ago stopped making spare parts, a “disproportionate amount of time” was being used to source replacements, “some of which have been procured via eBay,” the documents found. A separate set of briefing notes, obtained by the federal Liberals, shows
the impending retirement of the navy’s Iroquois-class destroyers will leave an air defence gap for Canadian task forces at sea. Liberal MP Marc Garneau, a former naval officer and astronaut, said the fleet is in a shambles, even with the multibillion-dollar upgrade to the Halifax-class frigates, which are the backbone of the navy. Lauren Armstrong, a spokeswoman for Defence Minister Jason Kenney, said the navy will be able to carry out operations ordered by the government, both at home and abroad. She added the Liberals are in no position to be lecturing on military procurement. “As the minister said at committee, between 1992 and 2005, the previous Liberal government did not procure or even attempt to procure, with the exception of the failed maritime helicopter procurement, a single major piece of military equipment,” said Armstrong in an email. While the Liberals cut the defence budget deeply, under their watch the military did receive new LAV III armoured vehicles, M-777 artillery, CH149 Cormorant helicopters, coastal defence vessels and the oft-maligned Victoria-class submarines. Garneau said the absence of supply ships means Canadian warships will have to operate individually; they cannot form task forces of their own, and must rely on other nations for replenishment. Armstrong responded by saying construction of the first replacement for the supply ships is expected to begin in 2017, and the government is also studying plans for an interim capability. Without air defence destroyers, Canadian frigates will have to seek protection from long-range threats under the umbrella of U.S. combat vessels, said Garneau. He said the Conservatives played politics with the navy by cancelling new supply ships on the eve of the 2008 election, and forced the military to accept Arctic patrol ships ahead of new destroyers. “Mr. Harper decided he wanted to be known from a legacy point of view as big on the Arctic and has gone up every year for that photo-op,” Garneau said.
OTTAWA — Canada has an obligation to publicly warn Saudi Arabia, its military partner in an ongoing bombing campaign in Syria, to refrain from using banned cluster bombs, say advocates who campaigned against the weapon. The issue has come to light because of a report earlier this month by the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch that said a Saudi-led coalition may have used the banned weapons while bombing Shiite rebels in Yemen. Canada and Saudi Arabia, along with the United States, are among the half-dozen countries in another coalition that is currently engaged in bombing missions against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Syria. Regardless of Canada’s activities in Syria, it has an international legal obligation to speak out because it ratified the United Nations treaty to ban cluster bombs, said Steve Goose, the head of the arms division of Human Rights Watch. “They could have done a demarche or something,” said Goose, referring to the use of a standard, behind-thescenes diplomatic notice. But that would not have been enough, he added. “Publicly speaking out is the best way to do this because that’s how you stigmatize the weapon. That’s how you generate outrage against it, and that’s the best way to discourage any use.” An emailed statement from the Foreign Affairs department on Monday said Canada would pursue opportunities “to discourage the use of cluster munitions by states not party to the convention.” The statement did not directly answer a question about whether Canada had raised the Human Rights Watch report with Saudi officials. “We will continue to engage with Saudi Arabia on a range of issues including regional security and human rights,” it said. Goose said other countries have publicly called out the Saudis on the report, including Costa Rica, which holds the rotating chair of the cluster bomb convention, and Norway, which took the lead in creating it. Paul Hannon, the executive director of Mines Action Canada, said the government has an obligation to tell its coalition partners that it won’t use cluster munitions and that they shouldn’t either.
‘HISTORICALLY, USE OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS HAS RESULTED IN AT LEAST 94 PER CENT OF THE CASUALTIES BEING CIVILIANS’ — PAUL HANNON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, MINES ACTION CANADA
“Historically, use of cluster munitions has resulted in at least 94 per cent of the casualties being civilians,” said Hannon. “If we want to create stability in this region, no one should ever use cluster munitions because of the deadly legacy they leave behind.” A single cluster bomb contains hundreds of brightly coloured, baseballsize submunitions that often fail to explode and can sit dormant for decades. They pose an ongoing hazard to civilians, especially children, in dozens of post-war countries. The Harper government faced widespread international criticism for undermining the cluster bomb treaty, which it took more than six years to ratify. The government was broadly condemned because the legislation that it used to ratify the treaty contained a loophole that would allow the Canadian Forces to be involved in the use of cluster bombs in joint operations with the United States, which has opted out of the convention. Its critics included the usually neutral International Committee of the Red Cross. The government eventually agreed to remove the word “using” from the bill, which prohibits Canadian military personnel from directly using the weapons, but doesn’t entirely bar their indirect involvement in combined operations. Goose said anti-cluster bomb advocates are happy Canada finally ratified the convention, and there is hope it will be a good partner in preventing the weapons from being used. But he added one caveat. “We will closely monitor Canada’s implementation because of the extreme weakness of its legislation implementing the convention,” said Goose. “We don’t think Canada will ever utilize those loopholes — it certainly never should, which would potentially put it in violation of the convention.”
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Texas size shootout in Waco SHOOTOUT BETWEEN RIVAL MOTORCYLE GANGS LEAVE NINE DEAD, 18 WOUNDED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WACO, Texas — About 170 members of rival motorcycle gangs were charged with engaging in organized crime Monday, a day after a shootout at a Texas restaurant that killed nine people and wounded 18. The crowd of suspects was so large that authorities opened a convention centre to hold them all before they were arrested, police said. Sunday’s melee at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco drew a broad police response that included placing officers atop buildings and highway overpasses to watch for other bikers rushing to the scene to retaliate. McLennan County Justice of the Peace W.H. Peterson set bond at $1 million for each suspect. He defended the high amount, citing the violence that quickly unfolded in a shopping market busy with a lunchtime crowd. “We have nine people dead, because these people wanted to come down and what? Drink? Party?” Peterson said. “I thought it was appropriate.” Peterson also performed inquests on the nine dead bikers but declined to identify them pending notification of family. Peterson says all nine were from Texas. Police acknowledged firing on armed bikers. But it was unclear how many of the dead were shot by gang members and how many had been shot by officers. Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said the Waco Convention Center was used to hold the suspects temporarily as police rushed to secure many parts of the city amid reports of rival bikers going elsewhere to continue the fight. Those at the convention centre were later taken to jail. It’s too early to determine how many motorcycle gang members will face
murder charges, Swanton said. Five gangs had gathered at the restaurant as part of a meeting to settle differences over turf and recruitment. Prior meetings had been held at the restaurant, and managers there had dismissed police concerns over the gatherings, he said. “They were not here to drink and eat barbecue,” Swanton said. “They came here with violence in mind.” Twin Peaks — a national chain that features waitresses in revealing uniforms — on Monday revoked the franchise rights to the restaurant, which opened in August. Company spokesman Rick Van Warner said in a statement that the management team chose to ignore warnings and advice from the company, and did not establish the “high security standards” that the company requires. The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission on Monday issued a seven-day suspension of the restaurant’s liquor license, but owners had the option of reopening to serve meals. Police and the restaurant operators were aware of Sunday’s meeting in advance, and 18 Waco officers in addition to state troopers were outside the restaurant when the fight began, Swanton said. Swanton has repeatedly declined to identify which gangs were involved in a fight that began with punches then grew to include chains, knives and then guns. “I am not about to give them the respect of mentioning their names,” he said. However, many men detained in the hours after the shooting were seen wearing leather vests that read Bandidos or Cossacks. McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara, whose office is involved in the investigation, said the nine dead were members of those gangs. More than 100 motorcycles were in the parking lots around the restaurant
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Authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday, in Waco, Texas. Authorities say that the shootout victims were members of rival biker gangs that had gathered for a meeting. Monday, along with another 50 to 75 vehicles that probably belong to gang members, Swanton said. All were scheduled to be towed from the scene, 95 miles south of Dallas. Swanton said authorities had received threats against law enforcement “throughout the night” from biker groups and stood ready to confront any more violence. Officials stopped and questioned motorcycle riders. Agents from the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were assisting local and state authorities. In a 2014 gang-threat assessment, the Texas Department of Public Safety classified the Bandidos as a “Tier 2” threat, the second highest. Other groups in that tier included the Bloods, Crips and Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
The Bandidos, formed in the 1960s, are involved in trafficking cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The Bandidos conduct their activities as covertly as possible to avoid publicity, according to the DPS assessment. Members are not covert, however, about making their presence known by wearing their colours and insignia, and riding in large groups. The Texas assessment does not mention the Cossacks. There’s at least one previously documented instance of violence between the two groups. In November 2013, a 46-year-old from Abilene who police say was the leader of a West Texas Bandidos chapter was charged in the stabbings of two members of the Cossacks club.
Flood, mudslide kill at least 52 in Colombia injuries and an unknown number of people are still unaccounted for. Colombia’s rugged topography, in a seismically active area at the northern edge of the Andes, combined with shoddy construction practices, has made the country one of Latin America’s most disaster-prone. More than 150 disasters have struck the country over the past 40 years, claiming more than 32,000 lives and affecting more than 12 million people, according to the InterAmerican Development Bank.
The tragedy in Salgar appeared to be the single deadliest event since a 1999 earthquake in the city of Armenia that left hundreds dead. A wave of flooding during the 2011 rainy season left more than 100 dead. Luz Maria Urrego, 74, said she escaped certain death because she had travelled to Medellin for the long holiday weekend. She said her brother was killed along with his children and grandchildren.
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town of Salgar, about 60 miles (100 kilometres) southwest of Medellin. Dozens of rescuers supported by Black Hawk helicopters evacuated residents near the ravine for fear of another mudslide. A red fire truck could be seen hauling away several bodies, their bare feet dangling from an open trunk. President Juan Manuel Santos, who travelled to the town to oversee relief efforts, said several children lost their parents and the bodies of those killed needed to be transported to Medellin to be identified. As giant diggers were removing debris he vowed to rebuild the lost homes and provide shelter and assistance for the estimated 500 people affected by the calamity. “Nobody can bring back the dead ... but we have to handle this disaster as best we can to move forward,” Santos said. Authorities said that 52 people were confirmed dead but that the number could rise. Dozens have suffered light
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The struggle with the migrants crisis PEOPLE RUSH TO HELP MIGRANTS AS SOUTHEAST ASIAN GOVERNMENTS STRUGGLE “The public response has been overwhelming and governments really need to follow this example and let people disembark as soon as possible,� Tan said. One prominent Islamic scholar in Malaysia noted KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — For hundreds of migrants stranded at sea in sinking boats, the first that the government is still searching for a Malaysia helping hand came not from governments but from Airlines plane believed to have crashed at sea over a fishermen who towed them to safety. The despera- year ago, “while those who are still alive, we leave to tion of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh has die out at sea.� “Where is our humanity?� Asri Zainal Abidin, a not compelled neighbouring countries to take them in, but has inspired compassion — and pleas for help state mufti in Malaysia, wrote on his Facebook page. Navy ships from Malaysia, Thailand and Indone— from ordinary people across Southeast Asia. Sympathetic Malaysians have launched dona- sia intercepted boats last week packed with despertion drives to help feed migrants who have flooded ate, hungry migrants, giving them food and water and ashore in the past two weeks. In Indonesia, where then sending them away — a move that drew strong fisherman rescued three boats last week and saved international criticism. The U.N. warned that push900 lives, villagers have donated clothing and home- ing away boats of starving people could create a crisis of “floating coffins.� cooked meals. It also sparked outrage Aid groups estimate that ‘OUR CHIEF CONCERN IS THOSE in Malaysia, a predomithousands more migrants STILL OUT AT SEA BECAUSE THIS IS nantly Muslim country, — who fled persecution in sympathetic citizens Myanmar and poverty in A REAL HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. WE where and Muslim groups have Bangladesh — are stranded NEED TO PROVIDE SOME SORT OF launched donation drives in the Andaman Sea after a crackdown on human trafSOLUTION. I DON’T THINK WE CAN to collect food, clothing and medical aid for a boatload fickers prompted captains WASH OUR HANDS OF THIS.’ of more than 1,100 migrants and smugglers to abandon who landed at a Malaysian their boats. —MARINA MAHATHIR But more than two weeks MALAYSIAN SOCIAL ACTIVIST island on May 10 and are being held at a detention into the spiraling humanicamp. tarian crisis, the stance of Another prominent Malaysian, Marina Mahathir, Southeast Asian governments remains unchanged — none wants to take the migrants in, fearing that ac- a social activist and daughter of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, issued an appeal last week cepting a few would result in an unstoppable flow. A political cartoon in Thailand’s The Nation news- for anyone with seaworthy boats to send aid to the paper on Monday summed up the official reaction, migrants still at sea. “Our chief concern is those still out at sea because showing a boatload of Muslim Rohingya refugees being kicked back to sea by people on the shores of this is a real humanitarian crisis,� she said. “We Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Ban- need to provide some sort of solution. I don’t think we can wash our hands of this.� gladesh. An online petition is calling on the Malaysian “On the one hand, we’re seeing governments quibbling and struggling to find ways to deal with these government to put humanity before politics. “We the boat people. But on the other hand, it’s encouraging people want incoming migrants who have been abanto see that the people in this region have responded doned at sea by traffickers to be rescued and cared very generously to these boat people,� said Vivian for by our elected Malaysian government,� it says. Malaysia is the current chair of the 10-country AsTan, a Bangkok-based spokeswoman for the U.N. refsociation of Southeast Asian Nations, and has called ugee agency, UNHCR. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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YOLA, Nigeria — The Nigerian military says it destroyed 10 Boko Haram forest camps over the weekend, but the Islamic extremists killed a man and abducted several women as they attacked a recently recaptured town, according to witnesses. Soldiers killed many militants and captured heavy weaponry in Saturday’s offensive in northeastern Sambisa Forest, said spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade of the Ministry of Defence. One soldier was killed by a land mine when troops overran 10 Boko Haram camps, Olukolade said. This comes after a surge in attacks by the Islamic extremists including suicide bombings, assaults on a business school and villages and a repelled night-time raid by hundreds of fighters on the biggest military base in northeast Nigeria. Also Saturday, some militants attacked villages and the town of Sabongari Yandulam in northeast Yobe state, a survivor, farmer James Musa, said Monday. Local official Maina Ularamu confirmed the attack and said one man was killed and six women abducted. Olukolade and other Nigerian officials had said Boko Haram’s main fighting force was trapped in the vast Sambisa Forest following a 14-week multinational offensive that drove them out of dozens of towns and villages where they had declared an Islamic caliphate. But some must have escaped to press last week’s attack on Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, the biggest northeastern city, 200 kilometres from the forest. The forest offensive had destroyed some 20 other camps and allowed soldiers to free about 700 captured girls and women before getting bogged down by land mines and other booby traps, soldiers told The Associated Press. During the government offensive, there has been no word on the fate of boys and young men kidnapped by Boko Haram.
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Johnson leads Bolts to electric win BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Lightning 6 Rangers 2 NEW YORK — Under the bright lights in the big city, the Tampa Bay Lightning got a gigantic performance from their smallest player. Tyler Johnson continued his stellar Stanley Cup playoffs with a hat trick in Game 2 Monday night as the Lightning routed the New York Rangers 6-2 to even the Eastern Conference final at a game apiece. The five-foot-eight dynamo scored short-handed, on the power play and at even strength for the first hat trick in franchise history. Johnson improved his playoff-leading goal total to 11 and became the first player in the NHL with four multi-goal playoff games in the same season since Jamie Langenbrunner in 2003. “Oh, Tyler Johnson, the bigger the game, the better he plays,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “In the greatest league in the world on the biggest stage, in the world’s most famous arena, it’s pretty impressive. It doesn’t get any bigger than that.” Johnson scored Tampa Bay’s first three goals in the convincing victory, followed by two from Alex Killorn and one by Steven Stamkos. In a game that lacked flow thanks to 13 minor penalties and just 46 minutes of five-onfive play, Johnson was the catalyst in sending the Lightning home happy for Game 3 Wednesday night at Amalie Arena. “It seems like he was leading the way tonight and we were kind of following,” said Killorn, who finished with three points. “When you have a guy that can turn it up a notch like that, it’s huge.” Johnson’s game-winner was his fourth of the playoffs, and the Lightning know they wouldn’t be into the third round without him and “Triplets” linemates Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov. Cooper made sure to credit Palat for his strong game getting the puck into the offensive zone and in spots to score. But Game 2 was another showcase
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Tampa Bay Lightning center Tyler Johnson shoots to score his second goal of the game against New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist during the first period of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference final during the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, Monday. for Johnson, the undrafted 24-year-old who went through the Western Hockey League with the Spokane Chiefs and then to the American Hockey League with the Norfolk Admirals without much fanfare. Johnson was a Calder Trophy finalist last season as a rookie and broke out with 72 points this year. These playoffs have been a chance for fans around the NHL to appreciate his journey and his play. “I think every morning I’m just happy to be here and I’m living my dream,”
Johnson said. “So that’s what’s driving me is to try to be the best I can and play for my family. They sacrificed so much for me to be here, and I’m living my dream, so I want to keep living it as long as possible.” Johnson and the Lightning will keep living it now knowing they can hang with the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Rangers. After a Game 1 performance that made Cooper “want to vomit,” his team responded to tie the series.
Lunty wins record-breaking fifth Woody’s marathon RHONDA LOO WINS WOMEN’S RACE, RED DEER’S SPILLER SETS NEW RECORD IN HALF MARATHON BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF It ain’t easy being king. Brendan Lunty may have won his record-setting fifth-straight Woody’s Marathon on Sunday, but it is getting more and more difficult to stay on top. The biggest challenger to the Camrose runner’s crown came from Red Deer’s Craig Schmitt (two hours, 45 minutes and 8.3 seconds) who cut four minutes off of his own personal best to finish just over two minutes behind Lunty (2:42:51.45). But Lunty is not quite cut throat about it. “It’s not a ‘I come here to win’ type thing, I had a great run and Craig had a great run and had he beat me ... it’s just about coming out and enjoying and being part of this,” said Lunty, 36. Schmitt knew he was close to the reigning champion, but knows it’s going to take a special kind of effort to put a new man in the gold medal position. “We need someone from Red Deer to win this one year, but Brendan from Camrose has come first the last few years and he pushed me today, pushed me way out of my comfort zone,” said Schmitt. “But it’s fun to race and he’s amazing. It was a tough day but fun.” In all, there were five men who broke the three-hour mark, including Jonathan Fuller (2:53:25.45), Ian Blockland (2:56:22.15) and Red Deer’s Brian McArthur (2:56:26.85). The women’s race went to newcomer Rhonda Loo from Lake Newell Resort, near Brooks in a time of 3:06:26.45. Red Deer’s Dusty Spiller set a new record to win the half marathon at 1:12.32, three weeks after winning the Edmonton Police Foundation Half Marathon at 1:13.38. Vancouver’s Jen Moroz, meanwhile won the woman’s half in 1:22:42.65. Kieran McDonald of Red Deer was the fastest man in the 10K at 33:31.80 while Emily Lucas of Innisfail was the fastest woman at 40:21.40. The newest addition to the slate of races was the marathon relay, which was won by the brother team of Courtney and Nathan Doerksen in a time of 2:45:23.90. Loo, 39, edged out last year’s champ Adela Salt from Calgary for the women’s title, but it was her time that really surprised her. “It’s always emotional,” said Loo, who is preparing for the Blackfoot Ultra Marathon on May 30. “I’m actually really surprised, because I’ve had some longer runs in the last few weeks.
“The mind-set was a little different, for whatever reason,” Stamkos said. “We weren’t there mentally, physically, we didn’t compete. When this group competes, we talk about it all year, we have the skill and the speed to do anything if we’re willing to compete.” The Rangers competed early on and tried to make a game of it with goals by Chris Kreider and Derek Stepan. But Johnson busted the dam open on the way to Henrik Lundqvist’s first game allowing more than three goals against in these playoffs.
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LEFT; Rhonda Loo smiles as she crosses the finish line after completing the full marathon at the Woody’s RV Marathon on Sunday. Loo was the first female to finish the run. RIGHT; Brendan Lunty crosses the train bridge just before the 18 kilometre mark of the Woody’s RV Marathon. Lunty earned his fifth straight men’s title for the full marathon run. My best time is three hours, my worst time is 3:18, so I thought if I could pull off a 3:20 I’d be happy with that, so 3:06 is sweet.” This was the first time she has run the course and she was impressed with what the mother of two saw. “It was beautiful,” she said. “It’s picturesque, it’s quiet, there’s not a lot of traffic and a lot of people were out, which I was surprised to see, a lot of spectators, and the volunteers were amazing. I would run this again, and I don’t say that about every race I run.” For Lunty this race is a must-run, something he has now done for the last 11 years. He is drawn to Red Deer by the course’s beauty and the atmosphere of the race. “This was the first one I ever did, I just love the runners here, the Red Deer running group is fantastic ... and the trails here are great, you can tell the community likes it,” he said. Lunty plans to do five marathons this year, including Saskatoon in two weeks. For Schmitt, the family ambiance cultivated by the organizers makes this an important race for him to run. This year marked the first kids race for the
marathon — a 1.2 kilometre event — in which all four of his kids competed, and his wife ran the 10K. “Last night my oldest boy woke up and said ‘Dad I can’t sleep, I’m too excited about the race,’” said Schmitt. “They’ve been training for this and it’s pretty cute but we get involved with their running a lot, we bike with them a lot. It’s a local event that gets families out. If we didn’t have this, there wouldn’t be as much motivation for people to do it.” Next up for Schmitt is the Iron Man in Coeur d’Alene, Id. With rain all day Saturday, there was concern over how the course would hold up, but it performed beautifully, with really only one sketchy section by River Bend where it got muddy. Beyond that, conditions were perfect. “It was a runner’s paradise this morning,” said Loo. “It’s OK to be cool, because once you get going you heat up real quick and with that sun on your back in a lot of spots, I was wishing I didn’t wear a three-quarter shirt in a lot of spots but a tank top maybe.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Kyle Palmieri hadn’t scored a goal in the Anaheim Ducks’ entire playoff run until he beat Corey Crawford in the Western Conference finals opener, sliding on his back in celebration of what turned out to be the game-winner. With Palmieri and several lesserknown Ducks stepping up splendidly in the post-season, the Chicago Blackhawks realize they’ve got to match that depth. The Ducks have had two of the world’s top scorers atop their roster for several years, but Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry never had the supporting cast necessary to truly contend for another Stanley Cup title until now. In fact, complementary players from both teams had a major role in Game 1 — and for Chicago, that wasn’t a good thing. The Ducks host the Blackhawks in Game 2 on Tuesday night. “We know, and the Blackhawks know, that you have to get scoring from everywhere in your lineup to win at this level,” Getzlaf said Monday after practice at Honda Center. “We’ve got a bunch of it this year, and the guys came through in Game 1 when our line wasn’t very good. We’ve got players we trust all through this lineup.” After just 60 minutes, depth already is a glaring factor in this conference final between two NHL powers with few obvious weaknesses. Chicago’s perennial success over the past seven seasons was built on its remarkable top-end talent, but also on an enviable depth that has been a bit shallow this spring. The Ducks have 11 players with at least six post-season points, while the Blackhawks have only five. “We’ve had some of our top guys playing really well, (but) I think there’s still some guys who feel like their offence is yet to come,” Chicago captain Jonathan Toews said. “Doesn’t matter who it is. We’ll keep pushing, we’ll find ways, and we’re confident.” The Ducks’ depth was obvious on the scoresheet when their vaunted top line contributed just one assist in a 4-1 victory Sunday. Anaheim is rolling four strong lines with goal-scoring potential, along with six defenceman equitably sharing minutes. “Every series now, a different guy has stepped up,” Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau said.
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Canada claims world championships gold WINS GOLD AT HOCKEY WORLDS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2007
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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada 6 Russia 1 PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Team Canada was perfect in Prague, capping an outstanding run at the world hockey championship with a dominant win over its archrival. After five straight years of quarterfinal defeats, the Canadians are heading home with world championship gold medals for the first time since 2007 after a 6-1 thrashing of defending champion Russia on Sunday at O2 Arena. Arguably the deepest team in a tournament rich with big-name stars, the Canadians ran the table in 2015 with a perfect 10-0 record. “Our guys really wanted to win — they really did,� said coach Todd McLellan. “I thought that we got a little extra motivation from the Russian team today,� said McLellan. “Their staredown in the warmup was just exactly what our team needed. We talked about which staredown would be more important — the one before the game or the one after. We decided the one after would be more important so we appreciated the motivation.� Sidney Crosby, Tyler Ennis, Cody Eakin and Claude Giroux paced the Canadian attack with a goal and an assist each. Tyler Seguin and Nathan MacKinnon also scored. Crosby finished the tournament with 11 points and became just the eighth Canadian player to join the Triple Gold Club, adding his world championship win to Olympic gold medals in 2010 and 2014 and his 2009 Stanley Cup. “It’s a great honour,� said Crosby of the achievement. “I’ve been fortunate to play for some great teams. You know sometimes you just need some luck. I feel fortunate to be a part of it and it’s a privilege that we could do this as a group.�
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NHL: Too early to tell “Whether it’s Kyle going to do it for the rest of the series, or the third line or the fourth line, it’s too early to tell. To be successful, it’s usually somebody different, some line different or some defence pairing different that makes you successful series to series, and it’s usually not the same guys,� Boudreau added. Palmieri hadn’t scored a goal since late March, but kept his lineup spot with hard work and faith from Boudreau. Jakob Silfverberg also went through several lengthy goal droughts
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Canada’s goalkeeper Mike Smith lifts the trophy after his team defeated Russia in the Hockey World Championships gold medal match in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday. Crosby was quick to share the tournament win with his teammates. “That was really the story for the whole tournament. Everyone contributed, every line, both offensively and defensively,� said Crosby. “We had some guys did a great job on the penalty kill. Smitty (Mike Smith) was awesome in net. It was a total team effort.� Evgeni Malkin had the only goal for Russia, and star forward Alex Ovechkin was held off the scoresheet. All tournament long, Canada relied on a potent and balanced scoring attack. On Sunday, the fourth line set the tone for the win. When Canada took a 4-0 lead at the 9:02 mark of the second period, the Russians took a time out in an attempt to regroup, still looking for their first shot on goal in the period. But Canada’s dominance was absolute. Giroux, on the power play, and MacKinnon added insurance goals in the third pe-
riod to lock down Canada’s first win in history over the Russians in a world championship gold-medal game — and by the biggest margin of victory ever surrendered by the Russians. Canada did win the 1955 world title against what then the U.S.S.R., and the tournament was round-robin. Smith’s bid for a third-consecutive shutout was foiled when Malkin scored Russia’s only goal with 7:13 remaining in the third period. Shots on goal were 37-12 for Canada in the game. Strong at both ends of the ice, Canada’s 66 goals scored set a new Canadian tournament record. In the bronze-medal game played earlier on Sunday, forward Nick Bonino of the Vancouver Canucks had a goal and an assist as the United States shut out the host team from the Czech Republic by a score of 3-0. The last medal for the United States was also a bronze, in 2013.
during the regular season, but has exploded for 13 points in the post-season, tied for the second-most in the league behind Perry. The Blackhawks also realize their apparent lack of depth on defence has been underlined. With Michal Rozsival sidelined by an ankle injury, Chicago relied on Duncan Keith (28:25), Brent Seabrook (26:57) and Johnny Oduya (22:29) to play substantial minutes in the opener — and even then, their supporting cast struggled. David Rundblad played under 11 minutes, but was on the ice for Anaheim’s first two goals. Late-season acquisition Kimmo Timonen did even less, playing 5:15 and getting just two shifts in the third period while struggling to get in the flow. When the Blackhawks essentially play only four defencemen, the Ducks
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Russia’s hockey team may end up paying for its Canadian anthem snub. Russian news agency TASS reported the Russian team is facing sanctions after players left the ice before O Canada. The Canadians crushed Russia 6-1 in Sunday’s goldmedal game, and most of the Russians quickly departed for the dressing room, a breach of the sport’s etiquette. “Once we arrive back home after the world championships we will look into this question and we will get in touch with those in charge at the Russian Ice Hockey Federation,� IIHF president Rene Fasel said in the statement to TASS. “The IIHF has its own protocol and some sort of punishment will be handed down.� According to TASS, Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Viktor Tikhonov and Dmitry Kulikov were among the few players who remained on the ice for the anthem. Russia’s general manager Andrey Safronov called the incident “a shame.� “Nothing forced our team to leave the ice and it was simply an organizational mistake and it was our mistake and not the one of the organizers,� Safronov told TASS. “We are feeling very ashamed and uncomfortable now and on the behalf of the national team I bow to the Canadians,� Safronov said. “I am lost for words and can say only that there was nothing of a premeditated nature in the incident.� The incident reached governmental level, with Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko blaming tournament organizers for opening a gate in the boards. According to Mutko, the Russian team took this as an invitation to leave. Canada’s victory was its first at the world tournament since 2007.
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Red Deer teams play well in home tourney TRADITION LIVES LACROSSE TOURNAMENT BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF
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Kai Liska of the Red Deer Chiefs is tripped up by his Cranbrook Outlaws opponent during a Bantam B game which was part of the Tradition Lives Lacrosse Tournament. A number of games were held at the various arenas in the city, with lacrosse players of all ages taking part.
Axemen 2 Chiefs 1 When you hold your opposition to two goals in lacrosse, 99 per cent of the time you win that game. Unfortunately for the Red Deer Bantam A Chiefs, they fell into that final one per cent in their 2-1 defeat to the Calgary Axemen in the gold medal game at the 24th annual Tradition Lives Lacrosse Tournament in Red Deer. After six games in three days, down three players, they were flat out gassed. “The last game we played against them, I think it was 14-11, so the defence on both sides was a lot better today,” said Chiefs head coach Steve Hills. Captain Dolan Hills scored the lone goal for Red Deer, as they dug a 2-0 hole through the first period and a half. Brendan Godwin, meanwhile was rock solid in net for the Chiefs giving them every opportunity to stay in the game. The Chiefs dropped the first game of the tournament, 12-9 to the Sherwood Park Titans, but rebounded to beat the Calgary Hornets 7-5, the Edmonton Warriors 9-7, the Rockyview Rage 8-1 and then topped the Hornets on Sunday morning to put them in the final. A common theme in those games was the strong play of Godwin. “We try not to lean on him, but when we do have to he definitely pulls through,” said Hills. Still, a silver medal is something for the Chiefs to build off of as they prepare for a run at provincials this season. Full results were not available at presstime. The bantam As were not the only
Flyers make surprise pick with North Dakota’s Hakstol as new head coach BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
289-143-43 with a .654 winning percentage over 11 seasons and reached the Frozen Four seven times in that span. In 2014-15, he led North Dakota to a 29-10-3 record with a .726 winning percentage and a berth in the NCAA Frozen Four. His program had become a pipeline to the NHL with players such as Jonathan Toews (Chicago), Matt Greene (Los Angeles), T.J. Oshie (St. Louis) and Chris VandeVelde (Philadelphia) all developed out of the North Dakota system. Hakstol’s program has produced 20 NHL players and 46 have played professionally at some level. Hakstol is also a former Red Deer Rustlers player who donned the jersey during the late 1980s. For all the big wins and bigger prospects, Hakstol could never
win a championship, something that has given Philly four decades of agony. “He’s had a lot of success at the college level, (just) never found a way as a head coach to win a national championship,” Toews said. “I think it’s an opportunity he definitely earned, and I think he’ll seize it and do well.” But one prospect yet to make the NHL provided the biggest tie to Hakstol and the Flyers — Hextall’s son, Brett. Brett Hextall played for Hakstol, letting the Flyers GM in on all the inside-the-locker-room info that made the North Dakota program hum along as one of the best in the nation. Hextall had a checklist of qualifications he wanted his next coach, and his first major hire, to meet.
Chiefs’ team to have a good tournament as several other teams from the association also earned medals. “Definitely against Calgary and Edmonton they have significantly larger numbers than we do, it’s nice to see that Red Deer can be competitive against the bigger clubs,” said tournament director Shelley Koger. The Tradition Lives tournament attracted 76 teams from Alberta and B.C., as 1,239 kids battled it out for bragging rights. Koger says the tournament continues to get bigger every year, even if it is no longer biggest tournament in Alberta, it is still the oldest and one of the most prestigious. “It’s part of the overall growth of the game of lacrosse,” said Koger. “We have a lot of field lacrosse players getting into box lacrosse to play year-round, it’s becoming a year round game.” The tournament is an important one for Red Deer and the Red Deer Lacrosse Association with the vast majority of teams coming in from other centres with parents and family coming to town, staying in hotels or camping and buying food and gas among other things. Koger says the local community does get behind the tournament in terms of sponsorship, including their top two sponsors Slash Lacrosse and The Grind Sports who get involved on more than just a financial basis. It takes many hands to put on the weekend long tournament which included 154 games in three days at the Dawe Arena, the Kinsmen Arenas, the Collicutt Centre and the Kinex Arena. “It’s run solely on volunteers,” said tournament co-chairman Audrey Pennycook. “Every parent in our association is involved in this on some level to make this a success.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
MIDGET AAA BASEBALL GRANDE PRAIRIE — The Red Deer Midget AAA Carstar Braves picked up some much needed momentum with a three-game road sweep of the Grande Prairie Reds over the long weekend. Michael Ozga pitched a complete game three-hitter in the first game to pace the Braves to a 3-1 win. Ozga finished with six strike outs and two walks. Benett Kary had two singles, an RBI and scored twice to lead the offence while Austin Hammond had an RBI single and Zach Olson also had a single and scored a run. The Braves needed just four-and-a-half innings to take the second game 10-0 with Ty Wagar allowing two hits and no walks while striking out three batters. Brad Pope led the onslaught with two singles and three RBI, Kary had two singles and two RBI and Parker Booth had two singles, an RBI and scored twice. The Braves finished off the weekend route with a 13-7 win in the third game. Brett Stockwood led the way at the plate with three RBIs on a double and a single, while Wagar had and RBI triple and a walk, Zach Olson three singles and an RBI and Austin Sorokan two singles. Jordan Muirhead and Ozga both had RBI singles. Andrew MacCuaig went 6 2/3 innings and allowed six runs on six hits and two walks while striking out five. Kary finished out the final 1 1/3 innings, allowing one run on two hits and a walk with one strike out. The Braves are at home to the Okotoks Dawgs at Great Chief Park on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
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THIRD ROUND Conference finals EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers (1) vs. Tampa Bay (2) (NY Rangers leads series 1-0) Saturday, May 16 NY Rangers 2 Tampa Bay 1 Monday, May 18 Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 20 NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. Friday, May 22 NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. Sunday, May 24 x-Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 26 x-NY Rangers at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. Friday, May 29 x-Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 6 p.m.
Monday’s summary Lightning 6, Rangers 2 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Johnson 9 (Killorn) 5:38 (sh). 2. NY Rangers, Kreider 6 (St. Louis, Boyle) 8:50 (pp). 3. Tampa Bay, Johnson 10 (Stamkos, Kucherov) 11:15 (pp). Penalties — Boyle TB (holding) 3:38, Garrison TB (delay of game) 4:31, Morrow TB (high-sticking) 8:15, Kreider NYR (roughing) 10:00, Callahan TB (tripping) 10:31, Stepan NYR (tripping) 11:00, Brassard NYR (high-sticking) 15:14. Second Period 4. Tampa Bay, Johnson 11 (Palat, Kucherov) 8:17. 5. NY Rangers, Stepan 5 (St. Louis, Boyle) 14:17 (pp). Penalties — Coburn TB (roughing) 0:36, Paquette TB (interference) 13:42. Third Period 6. Tampa Bay, Killorn 4 (Hedman, Filppula) 3:09. 7. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 4 (Coburn, Kucherov) 6:28 (pp). 8. Tampa Bay, Killorn 5 (Garrison, Filppula) 17:58 (pp). Penalties — Stepan NYR (tripping) 1:02, Brassard NYR (high-sticking) 4:40, Glass NYR (misconduct)
WESTERN CONFERENCE Anaheim (1) vs. Chicago (3) (Anaheim leads series 1-0) Sunday, May 17 Anaheim 4 Chicago 1 Tuesday, May 19 Chicago at Anaheim, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 21 Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 23 Anaheim at Chicago, 6 p.m. Monday, May 25
NHL Scoring Leaders Corey Perry, Ana Tyler Johnson, TB Patrick Kane, Chi Jakob Silfverberg, Ana Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Nikita Kucherov, TB Jonathan Toews, Chi Zach Parise, Minn Steven Stamkos, TB Duncan Keith, Chi Derick Brassard, NYR Alex Ovechkin, Wash Patrick Sharp, Chi Ryan Kesler, Ana Ondrej Palat, TB Derek Stepan, NYR Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy Alex Killorn, TB Joel Ward, Wash Jiri Hudler, Cgy Nicklas Backstrom, Wash Hampus Lindholm, Ana Marian Hossa, Chi P.K. Subban, Mtl
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Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct New York 22 17 .564 Tampa Bay 21 18 .538 Boston 18 20 .474 Baltimore 16 19 .457 Toronto 18 22 .450
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West Division W L Pct 25 14 .641 19 19 .500 17 20 .459 16 22 .421 14 26 .350
GB — 1 3 1/2 4 4 1/2 GB — 1 1/2 3 4 1/2 9 1/2 GB — 5 1/2 7 8 1/2 11 1/2
Sunday’s Games Baltimore 3, L.A. Angels 0 Kansas City 6, N.Y. Yankees 0 Tampa Bay 11, Minnesota 3 Houston 4, Toronto 2 Texas 5, Cleveland 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Oakland 3 Seattle 5, Boston 0 St. Louis 2, Detroit 1 Monday’s Games Toronto 10, L.A. Angels 6 Milwaukee 3, Detroit 2 Chicago White Sox 2, Cleveland 1, 10 innings Oakland 2, Houston 1 Tuesday’s Games Minnesota (Nolasco 3-1) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 1-3), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 3-1) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-2), 5:05 p.m. Seattle (T.Walker 1-4) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 4-2), 5:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Santiago 2-2) at Toronto (Aa.Sanchez 3-3), 5:07 p.m. Milwaukee (Nelson 1-4) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 3-4), 5:08 p.m. Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 1-1) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 2-0), 5:10 p.m. Texas (Gallardo 3-5) at Boston (Miley 2-4), 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Cueto 3-3) at Kansas City (Ventura 2-3), 6:10 p.m. Cleveland (Bauer 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (Quintana 2-3), 6:10 p.m. Oakland (Gray 4-1) at Houston (R.Hernandez 1-3), 6:10 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Oakland at Houston, 12:10 p.m. Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Seattle at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Toronto, 5:07 p.m. Milwaukee at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Texas at Boston, 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R JIglesias Det 33 110 8 Fielder Tex 38 151 15 NCruz Sea 37 144 25 AGarcia CWS 34 133 20 Brantley Cle 31 119 20 AJones Bal 35 134 19 Kipnis Cle 37 153 25 MiCabrera Det 39 141 23 Ellsbury NYY 36 147 28 Hosmer KC 38 148 25 Home Runs
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National League East Division W L Pct 23 16 .590 22 17 .564 18 19 .486 17 23 .425 16 23 .410
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Sunday’s Games Atlanta 6, Miami 0 N.Y. Mets 5, Milwaukee 1 San Francisco 9, Cincinnati 8 Philadelphia 6, Arizona 0 Pittsburgh 3, Chicago Cubs 0 L.A. Dodgers 1, Colorado 0 Washington 10, San Diego 5 St. Louis 2, Detroit 1 Monday’s Games Milwaukee 3, Detroit 2 Arizona 3, Miami 2, 13 innings N.Y. Mets 2, St. Louis 1, 14 innings Philadelphia 4, Colorado 3 Tuesday’s Games Minnesota (Nolasco 3-1) at Pittsburgh (Liriano 1-3), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 3-1) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-2), 5:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Nelson 1-4) at Detroit (An.Sanchez 3-4), 5:08 p.m. Arizona (Hellickson 1-3) at Miami (Koehler 2-3), 5:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wacha 5-0) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 3-3), 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (E.Ramirez 1-1) at Atlanta (Foltynewicz 2-0), 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Cueto 3-3) at Kansas City (Ventura 2-3), 6:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Harang 4-3) at Colorado (Bettis 0-0), 6:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Hammel 3-1) at San Diego (Shields 5-0), 8:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Frias 3-0) at San Francisco (T.Hudson 1-3), 8:15 p.m. Wednesday’s Games Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. Arizona at Miami, 5:10 p.m. St. Louis at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Colorado, 6:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. DGordon Mia 36 155 21 63 .406 AGonzalez LAD 36 135 29 48 .356 Rizzo ChC 37 131 26 45 .344 Galvis Phi 37 129 16 44 .341 Harper Was 39 133 36 45 .338 Goldschmidt Ari 37 137 30 45 .328 YEscobar Was 35 138 23 45 .326 Pagan SF 36 142 12 46 .324 LeMahieu Col 34 115 9 37 .322 Belt SF 33 112 16 36 .321 Home Runs Harper, Washington, 14; Frazier, Cincinnati, 12; Stanton, Miami, 11; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 10; Pederson, Los Angeles, 10; Upton, San Diego, 10; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 9. Runs Batted In Harper, Washington, 37; Stanton, Miami, 36; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 32; AGonzalez, Los Angeles, 32; Zimmerman, Washington, 29; Upton, San Diego, 27; Marte, Pittsburgh, 26. Pitching BColon, New York, 6-2; Wacha, St. Louis, 5-0; Shields, San Diego, 5-0; SMiller, Atlanta, 5-1; Harvey, New York, 5-1; Greinke, Los Angeles, 5-1; GCole, Pittsburgh, 5-2. Monday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Los Ang. 000 302 010 — 6 12 0 Toronto 040 004 20x — 10 17 0 C.Wilson, Morin (6), Pestano (6), C.Ramos (7), J.Alvarez (8) and Iannetta; Redmond, Tepera (5), Osuna (6), Loup (8), Delabar (8), Cecil (9) and Ru.Martin. W—Osuna 1-0. L—Morin 1-1. HRs— Los Angeles, Pujols (7), Freese (7), Iannetta (1). Toronto, Bautista (7). Oakland 010 001 000 — 2 6 1 Houston 100 000 000 — 1 2 0 Pomeranz, Mujica (5), Scribner (7), Clippard (9) and Vogt; McCullers, Thatcher (5), W.Harris (6), Fields (7), J.Buchanan (8) and J.Castro. W—Mujica 2-1. L—Thatcher 0-1. Sv—Clippard (4). Cleveland 001 000 000 0 — 1 4 0 Chicago 000 001 000 1 — 2 7 0 (10 innings) Kluber, McAllister (10) and R.Perez; Sale, Robertson (9), Duke (10) and Flowers, Soto. W—Duke 2-2. L—McAllister 0-2. INTERLEAGUE Milwaukee 100 100 100 — 3 8 1 Detroit 110 000 000 — 2 9 0 Fiers, Jeffress (6), Broxton (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Maldonado; Lobstein, Nesbitt (7), A.Wilson (9) and J.McCann. W—Jeffress 1-0. L—Lobstein 3-4. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (8). HRs—Milwaukee, C.Gomez (4), Ar.Ramirez (4). NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 000 000 001 00000 — 1 9 0 New York 000 100 000 00001 — 210 1 (14 innings) Lackey, Choate (8), M.Harris (8), Siegrist (9), Belisle (10), Maness (12), Tuivailala (14), Rosenthal (14) and Molina; Harvey, Familia (9), Robles (10), Goeddel (11), A.Torres (11), C.Torres (13) and Plawecki. W—C.Torres 2-2. L—Tuivailala 0-1. Arizona 000 200 000 0001 — 3 9 0 Miami 000 000 200 0000 — 2 6 0 (13 innings) R.De La Rosa, Ziegler (10), Reed (12), Burgos (13) and Gosewisch; Haren, A.Ramos (9), S.Dyson (10), Cishek (12) and Realmuto. W—Reed 1-2. L—Cishek 1-4. Sv—Burgos (1). HRs—Miami, Realmuto (1). Phila. 100 003 000 — 4 10 1 Colorado 010 000 011 — 3 10 1 Hamels, L.Garcia (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz; Lyles, Friedrich (7), Roberts (8), Oberg (9) and Hundley, McKenry. W—Hamels 4-3. L—Lyles 2-4. Sv— Papelbon (10).
Track and Field Track and Field Calgary Spring Challenge and Combined Events Meet Foothills Athletic Park May 9-10 Red Deer Titans Track and Field Club results Midget Female 800m - 10th Bergeron, Beth 2:51.73 Long jump - 9th Bergeron, Beth 4.11m 1200m - 8th Lucas, Chloe 4:23.17 Peewee Female 60m - 9th Frey, Alyssa 9.86sec
600m - 7th Frey, Alyssa 2:11.80 Long jump - 9th Frey, Alyssa 3.21m Discus - 9th Frey, Alyssa 9.39m 60m - 34th van Arragon, Kennedy 11.18sec 600m - 21st van Arragon, Kennedy 2:41.84 Peewee male 60m - 15th Morgan, Brook 10.43 600 - 10th Morgan, Brook 2:19.29 Long jump- 5th Morgan, Brook 3.29m Discus - 9th Morgan, Brook 10.17m
2nd overall - Posyluzny, Brayden 100m - 11.37, long jump 6.59m, 400m - 52.30, 1500m - 5:08.06, 110m hurdles - 16.40, high jump - 1.79m, pole vault - 2.8m, shot put - 11.85m, discus - 32.48m, Javelin 42.29m, total - 5,925 points 200m - 17th Boomer, Nick 24.06 100m - 15th Boomer, Nick 11.70 Senior Women 400m - 7th Oscar, Jessica 1:07.28 800m - 7th Oscar, Jessica 2:30.83 1500m - 5th Lucas, Emily 4:54.17
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Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Placed RHP Bud Norris on the 15-day DL, retroactive to May 11. Recalled RHP Tyler Wilson from Norfolk (IL). BOSTON RED SOX — Assigned OF/1B Allen Craig outright to Pawtucket (IL). CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Assigned RHP Raul Fernandez outright to Birmingham (SL). CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Austin Adams to Columbus (IL). Reinstated INF Mike Aviles from the restricted list. Sent C Yan Gomes to Columbus (IL) for a rehab assignment. Announced the retirement of LHP Bruce Chen. HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed RHP Samuel Deduno on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Thursday. Selected the contract of RHP Lance McCullers from Fresno (PCL). Transferred SS Jed Lowrie to the 60-day DL. MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned 1B Kennys Vargas to Rochester (IL). OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with LHP Omar Duran on a minor league contract. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Designated LHP Jeff Francis for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Todd Redmond from Buffalo (IL). Recalled RHP Scott Copeland from Buffalo. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Seth Webster on a minor league contract. Placed INF infielder Phil Gosselin on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of INF Adonis Garcia from Gwinnett (IL). MIAMI MARLINS — Named Dan Jennings manager
and Mike Goff bench coach. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned INF Scooter Gennett to Colorado Springs (PCL). Recalled RHP Corey Knebel from Colorado Springs. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed RHP Chad Billingsley on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday. Recalled RHP Hector Neris from Lehigh Valley (IL). SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Designated RHP Erik Cordier for assignment. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned RHP Erik Davis to Syracuse (IL). Sent LHP Felipe Rivero to Syracuse for a rehab assignment. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed RB David Johnson and TE Gerald Christian. BUFFALO BILLS — Signed LB Tony Steward. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed LB P.J. Dawson, CB Josh Shaw and DT Marcus Hardison. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed WR Vince Mayle and LB Hayes Pullard. DALLAS COWBOYS — Released FB Jed Collins. Signed FB Tyler Clutts. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Signed WR Rashad Greene. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed QB Ryan Tannehill to a four-year contract extension. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Released CB Chimdi Chekwa, LB Cameron Gordon and WR Devin Gardner. Signed LB Brandon Spikes. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed WRs Josh Morgan and Kyle Prater, LB Henry Coley, PK Zach Hocker and OL Antonio Johnson. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Announced the retirement of DL Justin Smith.
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SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed RB Demitrius Bronson on the waived/injured list. Signed WR Deshon Foxx. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with TE Tevin Westbrook and LB Dezmond Johnson. Waived RB Lache Seastrunk and LB Dontay Moch. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Released T Brey Cook, LB James Gayle, QB Connor Halliday, DL LaKendrick Ross and WR Tyler Rutenbeck. Signed OT Tovar Allen, QB Hutson Mason, DL Daryl Ward and LBs Houston Bates, Dasman McCullum and Alonzo Highsmith. Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed LB Denicos Allen. Released DB Shea Pierre. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Announced the contracts for their AHL coaching staff Ray Edwards, John Slaney, Trent Whitfield and Alfie Michaud will not be renewed. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled Fs Phillip Danault and Ryan Hartman and Ds Ville Pokka and Viktor Svedberg from the Rockford (AHL).COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Announced the resignation of assistant general manager Chris MacFarland. PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Named Dave Hakstol coach. American Hockey League GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Assigned F Alden Hirschfeld to Toledo (ECHL). ECHL ECHL — Suspended Florida F Mitch Wahl for the first six games of the 2015-16 season. READING ROYALS — Promoted Heather Hefty to vice-president of finance.
the last seven seasons before parting ways with the team after missing the playoffs this April. The 47-year-old was 311-163-66 with the Sharks. McLellan also coached the Canadian men’s hockey team that won gold at the world hockey championship in Prague on Sunday. It was Canada’s first gold medal at the tournament since 2007. Edmonton has not had a full-time head coach since the team fired Dallas Eakins last December. Todd Nelson filled in as an interim coach for the rest of the 2014-2015 season.
Today
● Girls high school soccer: Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, 4:15 p.m., Collicutt East. ● Senior men’s baseball: Breakaway Hotshot Nighthawks vs. North Star Sports, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Women’s fastball: Bandits vs. Stettler, Athletics vs. Rage, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1; Panthers vs. Badgers, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Black at Red Deer Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Sunburst baseball: Sherwood Park Athletics at Red Deer Riggers, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.
Wednesday
● High school track and field: Area meet at Lindsay Thurber, 9 a.m. start. ● Girls high school rugby: Lacombe at Lindsay Thurber, Wetaskiwin at Hunting Hills, 4:30 and 5 p.m., Titans Park 2 and 1; Notre Dame at Olds, Rimbey at Rocky Mountain House, 4:30 p.m. ● Boys high school rugby: Notre Dame at Lindsay Thurber, Rocky Mountain House at Hunting Hills, 6 and 6:30 p.m., Titans Park 2 and 1. ● Midget AAA baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Red at Red Deer Braves., 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Lacombe, 6:45 p.m.
Thursday
● Girls high school soccer: Central Alberta Christian at Lindsay Thurber, 4:15 p.m. ● Boys high school soccer: Central Alberta Christian at Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody, 4:15 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Play it Again Sports Athletics vs. Lacombe Stone and Granite, Printing Place Padres vs. North Star Sports, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Women’s fastball: Panthers vs.
Bandits, Badgers vs. Athletics, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Rage at Stettler, 7 p.m.
Friday
● Girls high school soccer: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake H.J. Cody, 4:15 p.m. ● Boys high school soccer: Innisfail at Notre Dame, Lindsay Thurber at Olds, 4:15 p.m. ● Girls high school rugby: Rocky Mountain House at Lindsay Thurber, Olds at Wetaskiwin, 4:30 and 5 p.m., Titans Park 1 and 2; Notre Dame at Rimbey, 4:30 p.m. ● Senior women’s lacrosse: Saints at Red Deer Rage, 9 p.m., Kinex.
Saturday
● Men’s third division rugby: Calgary Irish Canadian Athletic Club at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park. ● Women’s rugby: Calgary Rams at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park. ● Men’s second division rugby: Calgary Hornets at Red Deer Titans, 1:45 p.m., Titans Park. ● Bantam AAA baseball: Edmonton Cardinals at Red Deer Braves, doubleheader at 2 and 5 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Junior B tier 3 lacrosse: Crowsnest Pass Ravens at Olds Stingers, 5:30 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Acme at Rocky Mountain House, 6:45 p.m.
Sunday
● Bantam AAA baseball: Edmonton Cardinals at Red Deer Braves, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Medicine Hat Sun Devils at Red Deer Renegades, 2:30 p.m., Kinex; Calgary Axemen at Lacoka Locos, 3:30 p.m., Lacombe. ● Junior B tier 3 lacrosse: Crowsnest Pass Ravens at Olds Mavericks, 2:30 p.m. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Okotoks Marauders at Red Deer Rampage, 5 p.m., Kinex.
Basketball CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta vs. Cleveland Wednesday, May 20: Cleveland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 22: Cleveland at Atlanta,6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 24: Atlanta at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26: Atlanta at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. x-Thursday, May 28: Cleveland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. x-Saturday, May 30: Atlanta at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. x-Monday, June 1: Cleveland at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.
NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 4, Brooklyn 2 Cleveland 4, Boston 0 Chicago 4, Milwaukee 2 Washington 4, Toronto 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State 4, New Orleans 0 Houston 4, Dallas 1 L.A. Clippers 4, San Antonio 3 Memphis 4, Portland 1
WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State vs. Houston Tuesday, May 19: Houston at Golden State, 7 p.m. Thursday, May 21: Houston at Golden State, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 23: Golden State at Houston, 7 p.m. Monday, May 25: Golden State at Houston, 7 p.m. x-Wednesday, May 27: Houston at Golden State, 7 p.m. x-Friday, May 29: Golden State at Houston, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, May 31: Houston at Golden State, 7 p.m.
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland 4, Chicago 2 Atlanta 4, Washington 2 WESTERN CONFERENCE Houston 4, L.A. Clippers 3 Golden State 4, Memphis 2
Golf Wells Fargo Championship Sunday At Quail Hollow Club Charlotte, N.C. Purse: $7.1 million Yardage: 7,562; Par 72 Final Rory McIlroy, $1,278,000 Patrick Rodgers, $624,800 Webb Simpson, $624,800 Phil Mickelson, $293,467 Gary Woodland, $293,467 Robert Streb, $293,467 Geoff Ogilvy, $228,975 Justin Thomas, $228,975 Jason Bohn, $184,600 Brendan Steele, $184,600 Shawn Stefani, $184,600 Kevin Streelman, $184,600 Scott Brown, $137,267 Danny Lee, $137,267 Jim Herman, $137,267 Kevin Chappell, $113,600 Tony Finau, $113,600 Boo Weekley, $113,600 Carlos Ortiz, $99,400 Stewart Cink, $71,621 Chesson Hadley, $71,621 Will MacKenzie, $71,621 Hideki Matsuyama, $71,621 Sean O’Hair, $71,621 Pat Perez, $71,621
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LPGA- Kingsmill Championship Monday At Kingsmill Resort (The River Course) Williamsburg, Va. Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,349; Par: 71 Final a-amateur Minjee Lee, $195,000 68-67-69-65 So Yeon Ryu, $118,120 67-69-68-67 Alison Lee, $85,688 66-67-70-69 Perrine Delacour, $66,286 67-68-67-71 Hyo Joo Kim, $44,515 70-69-67-68 Suzann Pettersen, $44,515 72-65-69-68 Paula Creamer, $44,515 67-71-66-70 Candie Kung, $28,994 72-70-68-66 Catriona Matthew, $28,994 70-67-73-66 Lexi Thompson, $28,994 72-66-67-71 Anna Nordqvist, $22,699 70-69-71-67 Mi Jung Hur, $22,699 68-73-67-69 Jing Yan, $22,699 70-67-69-71 Julieta Granada, $19,336 72-66-70-70 Angela Stanford, $19,336 68-70-68-72 Brooke M. Henderson, $10,218 71-69-74-67
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Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts D.C. United 6 2 3 21 New England 5 2 4 19 New York 4 1 5 17 Columbus 4 4 2 14 Orlando City 3 5 3 12 Toronto FC 3 5 1 10 Chicago 3 5 1 10 Philadelphia 2 7 3 9 New York City FC 1 6 4 7 Montreal 1 3 2 5
GF 13 15 14 15 13 13 9 11 9 7
GA 9 11 9 12 14 14 12 21 14 9
WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA FC Dallas 6 2 3 21 17 13 Vancouver 6 4 2 20 14 11 Seattle 6 3 1 19 17 9 San Jose 5 4 2 17 12 11 Houston 4 4 4 16 16 15 Sporting KC 3 2 5 14 13 13 Los Angeles 3 4 5 14 11 15 Real Salt Lake 3 3 5 14 10 15 Portland 3 4 4 13 10 12 Colorado 1 2 7 10 9 9 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie. Saturday’s Games Montreal 4, Real Salt Lake 1 Seattle 2, Vancouver 0 New England 1, Toronto FC 1, tie Sporting Kansas City , Colorado Houston 3, Portland 1 San Jose 2, Columbus 0
FC Dallas at Montreal, 6 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 7 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Seattle, 8 p.m. New York City FC at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m. Sunday, May 24 Philadelphia at New York, 3 p.m. Orlando City at San Jose, 5 p.m. English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts ch-Chelsea 37 25 9 3 70 31 84 Manchester City 37 23 7 7 81 38 76 Arsenal 36 21 8 7 67 35 71 Man. United 37 20 9 8 62 37 69 Liverpool 37 18 8 11 51 42 62 Tottenham 37 18 7 12 57 53 61 Southampton 37 18 6 13 54 31 60 Swansea 37 16 8 13 46 48 56 Stoke 37 14 9 14 42 44 51 Everton 37 12 11 14 48 49 47 West Ham 37 12 11 14 44 45 47 Crystal Palace 37 12 9 16 46 51 45 West Brom 37 11 11 15 37 47 44 Leicester City 37 10 8 19 41 54 38 Aston Villa 37 10 8 19 31 56 38 Sunderland 36 7 16 13 30 50 37 Newcastle 37 9 9 19 38 63 36 Hull City 37 8 10 19 33 51 34 r-Burnley 37 6 12 19 27 53 30 r-QP Rangers 37 8 6 23 41 68 30 ch-Clinched Championship r-Relegated
Wednesday, May 20 New England at Sporting Kansas City, 6 p.m.
Saturday, May 16 Southampton 6, Aston Villa 1 Burnley 0, Stoke 0 Queens Park Rangers 2, Newcastle 1 Sunderland 0, Leicester City 0 Tottenham 2, Hull City 0 West Ham 1, Everton 2 Liverpool 1, Crystal Palace 3
Friday, May 22 Chicago at Columbus, 6 p.m. Houston at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 17 Swansea 2, Manchester City 4 Manchester United 1, Arsenal 1
Saturday, May 23 Portland at Toronto FC, 3 p.m. D.C. United at New England, 5:30 p.m.
Monday, May 18 West Brom 3, Chelsea 0
Sunday’s Games Orlando City 4, Los Angeles 0 Philadelphia 1, D.C. United 0
Lacrosse National Lacrosse League Playoffs SECOND ROUND Divisional Finals (Best-of-3) East Division Toronto (1) vs. Rochester (2) (Rochester leads series 1-0) Saturday’s result Rochester 10 Toronto 9 Saturday, May 23
Rochester at Toronto, 5 p.m. West Division Edmonton (1) vs. Calgary (3) (Edmonton leads series 1-0) Friday’s result Edmonton 10 Calgary 8 Saturday, May 23 Edmonton at Calgary, 7:30 p.m. Note: If series is tied after second game, a minithird game will be played immediately after
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Jays down Angels to end losing skid BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 10 Angels 6 Toronto manager John Gibbons started his post-game availability by joking around with reporters. A short distance away, techno music blared in his team’s clubhouse. An ugly 1-6 road trip was in the past. Starting off a long homestand with a 10-6 victory over the Los Angeles Angels had lifted the Blue Jays’ spirits Monday afternoon at Rogers Centre. Jose Bautista homered as Toronto ended a five-game losing skid by reaching a double-digit run total and pumping out 17 hits. “We really needed that game,” Gibbons said. “We’d been scuffling bigtime.” Toronto had dropped seven of eight entering the Victoria Day matinee. The Blue Jays gave spot starter Todd Redmond an early four-run lead but the Angels chipped away with three runs in the fourth inning and took the lead in the sixth. Toronto loaded the bases in the bottom half of the frame and with most of the 29,306 fans in attendance on their feet, Canadian Russell Martin delivered a two-run single that put the Blue Jays up to stay. “Russell has gotten big hit after big hit in those kind of situations,” Gibbons said. “Tight game where we really need something, two outs. He’s been that guy who always seems to come through for us.” Martin, a Toronto native who grew up in Chelsea, Que., had three hits and scored a run. Bautista and Josh Don-
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Toronto Blue Jays baserunner Kevin Pillar pops up after being tagged out by Los Angeles Angels second baseman Johnny Giavotella on a steal attempt during fifth inning baseball action in Toronto, Monday. aldson also had three hits apiece while Steve Tolleson chipped in with two hits and two runs to help Toronto (1822) take the opener of the four-game series. “You have to turn the page,” Donaldson said of the team’s recent struggles. “It obviously wasn’t a very good road trip for us. But we got things going on the right track right now and
hopefully we continue to do this.” Albert Pujols, David Freese and Chris Iannetta homered for Los Angeles (19-19). Redmond, called up from triple-A Buffalo a day earlier, had little trouble his first time through the Angels’ order but Pujols touched him up for a nodoubt solo shot to get the Angels on the board. Redmond allowed three earned
runs, four hits and a walk while striking out three over four innings. Reliever Roberto Osuna (1-0) recorded five outs for his first majorleague win. Angels starter C.J. Wilson lasted five innings, giving up four earned runs, 10 hits and two walks with three strikeouts. Mike Morin (1-1) absorbed the loss. “On the pitching side this is probably our worst game of the year, if you put everything together,” said Angels manager Mike Scioscia. Bautista belted a two-run shot on a 3-2 pitch from Cesar Ramos in the seventh inning. Iannetta hit his first homer of the year in the eighth inning off southpaw Aaron Loup. Brett Cecil worked a scoreless ninth for Toronto. Notes: Bautista served as designated hitter while he continues to recover from a right shoulder injury. He tried some light throwing before the game but said there was nothing new to report. “A very short distance and very minimal effort,” he said. “Just trying to get the motion down. That will start the progression so we’ll see how it goes.” ... Redmond started the season with the Blue Jays but was designated for assignment a month ago. It was his first start and third appearance for Toronto this season. ... The game took three hours 28 minutes to play. ... The roof remained open despite the presence of threatening clouds in the later innings. ... The Blue Jays are looking for their first series win over the Angels since 2007. ... Toronto right-hander Aaron Sanchez is scheduled to start on Tuesday night. Left-hander Hector Santiago gets the nod for the Angels.
Cougar girls rugby team rolling at right time BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF
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A Hunting Hills Lightning player tries to take down a Notre Dame Cougar during high school girl’s rugby actio at the Collicutt Centre, Friday.
The Notre Dame Cougars are emerging as a legitimate threat to the Red Deer girls rugby throne. They’re experienced, athletic and versatile. Most importantly, they are starting to pick up steam, including a 34-0 win over the Hunting Hills Lightning last week. As they prepare for a likely showdown with defending zone champion Lindsay Thurber Raiders, their biggest hurdle may just be themselves. “We would like to see the girls get a little more confidence in their abilities,” said Cougars head coach Ian Rattan. “They are still just a little bit hesitant going for rucks ... to make tackles. It’s just getting some more confidence and experience in those situations and if we can shore that stuff up, it would be great to see that improvement each day they we are striving for.” The veteran talent — maybe the biggest overriding key for anyone team — is there. They are loaded with experienced Grade 12 athletes like Chelsea Antonio, Alyssa Reid, Cierra Stephens, Kendra Tieken-Maerz and Brenna Colona. Perhaps this year’s biggest standout has been Jade Kolkman. “She’s come a long way since her Grade 10 year and she’s made a lot of tackles for us this year,” said Rattan. She plays No. 2 — that’s her sheer athleticism, we can put her anywhere in the field outside of maybe second row, because she’s not the tallest girl. But she makes up for it in heart and she’s a good player.” In addition to veterans — it is a pretty close split on their 30 players
between experienced and seasoned players — many of them can play multiple positions, giving Rattan options when injuries and absentees crop up or even in terms of strategy when trying to match up against other teams. But Rattan has to be careful not to go to the blender too much. “It is kind of frustrating as a coach, because where do you put these girls?” he said. “And you don’t really want to tinker too much with your combinations because you want to get some chemistry at certain spots.” The Cougars have got in a lot of extra time on the field this year with a tournament in Kamloops, B.C., and a few exhibition games in Calgary, but their most telling series of games was the Cougar Classic where they brought in some of the top team in Western Canada. They finished fourth in the tournament, losing 20-0 to Western out of Calgary. But Rattan was impressed by what he saw. “It was the same score we lost to them in Calgary, but it was an 80-minute game (at the Classic) as opposed to a 40-minute game,” said Rattan. “It was great to see our defence step up and hold them, because they are usually one of the better women’s teams in the province.” The Raiders are still the team to beat in Red Deer, and Rattan is doing his best not to put too much focus on the city championship. Instead he is focused on taking small steps. “We want to get better each week, as long as we are improving each game, I’m not really concerned about the results of games.” The Cougars are in Olds on Wednesday and Rimbey on Friday this week. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
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Schmitt, Canada downs Cuba in straight sets in 2015 FIVB world league match play CALGARY — Canada remained perfect by beating Cuba in straight sets for the second time in as many outings on Sunday in 2015 FIVB world league match play. Former RDC King Gavin Schmitt led all scorers for the second successive evening — this time with 19 points — as Canada toppled the Cubans 26-24, 25-19 and 25-21. Gordon Perrin added 12 points for the Canadians, who are atop the standings in Pool C. “It’s good to get two 3-0 wins because that’s not what usually happens in the first leg of World League — usually you split because both teams are a little rusty,” said Perrin. “But we escaped with two big wins and it’s starting to come together.” Schmitt scored a game-high 17 points on Saturday en route to beating Cuba 25-20, 25-19 and 26-24 in the season opener.
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Playing for a bigger prize FOR WARRIORS AND ROCKETS, WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS GO BEYOND CURRY, HARDEN MVP TALK BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OAKLAND, Calif. — The MVP race was decided weeks ago. Newly crowned Stephen Curry and runner-up James Harden insist there’s a bigger prize they’ve wanted all along. Now is their chance to compete for it. Curry and the top-seeded Golden State Warriors will meet Harden and the rejuvenated Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals beginning Tuesday night. The Baby-Faced Assassin starring opposite the Bearded One is a scintillating subplot to a series that should feature a frenetic pace and a ton of 3-point shots. But when the ball is tossed amid a sea of screaming fans in golden-yellow shirts at Oracle Arena, only one thing will be on the minds of the leading men. “We’re four wins away from getting to the Finals and one step closer to our dream,” Curry said. “There’s one team in our way to get there. That’s it.” The Warriors went 4-0 against the Rockets in the regular season, winning by an average of 15.3 points. But a lot has changed for Houston since the teams last played Jan. 21. Dwight Howard sat out two meetings and is playing as well as he has in years. Josh Smith has found his groove and starters Patrick Beverley and Donatas Motiejunas are out with injuries. “We’re a new team,” Harden said. “It’s a new series.” The Warriors rolled to a franchiserecord 67 wins in the regular season, finishing 11 games ahead of secondplace Houston. Golden State is in the conference finals for the first time since 1976, a year after winning the franchise’s only Bay Area title. The Rockets are in the conference finals for the first time since 1997. Houston hasn’t been to the NBA Finals since winning back-to-back titles in 1994 and 1995. The offensive sets vary between the teams, but the overall philosophy is similar: make stops, push the pace and
spread the floor with shooters. “That’s our brand of basketball,” Warriors forward Draymond Green said. “And we feel like we’re really good at our brand of basketball.” Both teams rallied from series deficits to win three straight games in the last round. The Warriors overcame a 2-1 hole against Memphis, and the Rockets became the ninth team in NBA history to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a playoff series when they closed out the Clippers in Game 7 on Sunday. Whether the Rockets are recovered from that emotional series is unclear. The tight turnaround — and longdistance flight — surely don’t work in their favour. But after fighting back to get this far, this much is clear: the Rockets don’t lack for confidence. “We’re going to put the pressure on them,” Harden said. “It’s the playoffs, anything can happen.” Here are some things to watch for during the series: THREE BALL: The Warriors and Rockets made more 3-pointers than any team in the NBA during the regular season, and they haven’t slowed down in the playoffs. They’re averaging nearly 30 attempts per game, with the Warriors shooting a post-seasonhigh 40 per cent and the Rockets just under 35 per cent from beyond the arc. Which team shoots it best from long range — and can stop the other — will be a major factor in this series. TWO-WAY THOMPSON: Klay Thompson is often touted as the league’s best two-way shooting guard, a player who can score at will and dominate on defence. The Warriors will lean on Thompson to harass Harden, who averaged 25.3 points, 5.3 assists and 5.5 rebounds while shooting 40 per cent against Golden State in the regular season. Harden also had a hard time stopping Thompson, who averaged 21.8 points against Houston. HACK-A-HOWARD: Don’t expect Golden State to intentionally foul Howard the way the Clippers and Mavericks have in the first two series. War-
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riors coach Steve Kerr believes the strategy disrupts his team’s flow and fast pace. But with Howard shooting 41.3 per cent on free throws in the playoffs, Kerr could employ the approach in certain situations. Of course, Rockets coach Kevin McHale could return the favour. Warriors centre Andrew Bogut shot 52.4 per cent from the line in the regular season and is just 1 for 4 in the playoffs. THE OTHER GUYS: Both teams
have counted on their depth to get this far. The Warriors bring former AllStars Andre Iguodala and David Lee and veterans Shaun Livingston and Leandro Barbosa off the bench. Forward Marreese Speights is out for Game 1 with a strained right calf but could return later in the series. The Rockets played half the season without Howard and have gotten big performances in the playoffs from reserves Corey Brewer, Pablo Prigioni and Terrence Jones.
Cavs guard Irving returns to practice, says he’s ready for Game 1 against Hawks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Kyrie Irving finished an animated post-practice shooting game of “Around The World” with LeBron James and then quickly removed any doubt about his playing status for Game 1. “I’m going to go,” he said. Cleveland’s All-Star guard may not be 100 per cent — or anywhere close — but he’s much better and that’s welcome news to the Cavs, who will open the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday in Atlanta. Irving has been bothered by a sore right foot since Game 2 of the opening round against Boston, and he sat out the final half of the Cavs’ series-clinching win over Chicago last week with tendinitis in his left knee. But a weekend of rest and rehab allowed Irving to make it through a full practice on Monday, lifting his spirts and improving the Cavs’ chances against the East’s top seed. Irving said he has come a long way from the way he felt Thursday night while sitting on the bench in United Center. “Just being able to actually feel both my feet underneath me, especially when I’m shooting, it feels amazing,” said Irving, who was limited to 12 minutes in Game 6. “I don’t want to be on
the sideline at all, especially preparing for a big stage like this.” Irving’s improved health seemed to have an immediate impact with James, who ran around like a little kid after all of his teammates left the practice floor. “I can’t leave. You just gotta let me go,” James yelled to good friend, Damon Jones, his former teammate who works with him on his shooting. “I’m locked in.” James knocked down 8 of 10 shots from 40 feet and threw down several jaw-dropping dunks before meeting with reporters in good spirits. “He feels better,” James said. “Obviously the days have helped him. You know, we really don’t know until we get out there on Wednesday. The good thing is he’s positive, he’s feeling better, and that’s positive for our team.” Irving’s injuries threatened to derail the Cavs before they even took the floor against the Hawks, a balanced squad with quick guards and numerous offensive weapons. The Cavs are already without forward Kevin Love (shoulder surgery) and can’t afford to be without another of top player. Still, there’s no way of knowing how effective Irving will be until he’s on the court trying to drive past Hawks forward Paul Millsap or guarding fellow All-Star Jeff Teague or his backup, Dennis Schroder.
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NEW YORK — Phil Jackson remembers watching old teammate Dave DeBusschere pound his fist in triumph, when the Knicks and NBA were dual winners. The first draft lottery in 1985 gave New York the No. 1 pick and the NBA all the publicity a league could want, plus a way to deter teams from losing on purpose. Thirty years later, the lottery still creates hope and headlines — though it’s debatable if tanking has ever gone away. “It’s unique,” Jackson said. “It’s a fascinating process.” It returns Tuesday night with the Knicks, now run by Jackson, with the second-best odds of winning, perhaps for the right to choose between big men Karl-Anthony Towns of Kentucky or Jahlil Okafor of national champion Duke. The Minnesota Timberwolves have the best chance, though they’ve fallen backward eight times and never won even from the pole position. The team with the worst record rarely has, going winless since the Orlando Magic got the rights to Dwight Howard in 2004. Howard is now playing in Houston, which is where this whole lottery story begins. The Rockets nose-dived their way toward the bottom two years running, with longtime Orlando executive and four-time lottery winner Pat Williams once saying they “not so subtly basically packed it in for the last month” on their way to getting Hakeem (then Akeem) Olajuwon in 1984. The top pick then was determined by a coin flip between the teams with the worst records in each conference,
with the remaining teams picking in inverse order of their won-lost records. The lottery debuted in 1985 with the seven non-playoff teams having equal odds as they vied for Patrick Ewing, and conspiracy theories forever followed when Commissioner David Stern pulled the envelope of the big-market Knicks, triggering the celebration of DeBusschere, their general manager. Envelopes have given way to pingpong balls and the format has been tweaked through the years, though it dodged significant change last fall. Commissioner Adam Silver, concerned about the tanking perception fueled largely by Philadelphia’s strategy of angling for high draft picks, favoured reform to the current system that gives the team with the worst record a 25 per cent chance of winning. It fell short of approval, and Silver now suggests the lottery will remain as is at least until after the league’s new TV contracts begin in 2016-17. Perhaps by then the 76ers’ tactics will have worked, though Silver considers them rebuilding rather than tanking. “What’s interesting in the discussion here, conventionally, when you think of tanking, you think of teams trying to lose,” he said. “Here in this case, even the greatest critics of a so-called rebuilding strategy would acknowledge that the team is trying to win. They are trying to win over a longer time period than that particular year.” The 76ers are slotted in the third spot with a 15.6 per cent chance of moving up to No. 1 and could land another high pick if the Lakers fall outside the top five and have to give it up as terms of a previous trade. So Los Angeles also ended up on the perceived tankers list while finishing with the NBA’s fourth-worst record.
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Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry gestures during the second half of Game 6 of a second-round NBA Western Conference playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies, May 15, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn. Curry and the top-seeded Golden State Warriors will meet Harden and the rejuvenated Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals beginning Tuesday night.
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McIlroy dominates Well Fargo Championship BECOMES FIRST TWO-TIME WINNER AT QUAIL HOLLOW BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rory McIlroy had one word to his play on the back nine Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship. “Boring,” the world’s top-ranked golfer said with a laugh. That’s sort of what it has come to when McIlroy is playing it at the top of his game. Few in the world can challenge him when he’s driving the ball and putting the way he is right now. On Sunday, he became the first twotime winner at the Wells Fargo Championship with an impressive sevenshot victory over Webb Simpson and Patrick Rodgers. It was his second win in the last three weeks. McIlroy closed with a 3-under 69 to finish at 21-under 267, shattering the tournament record by five strokes. That came after he fired a courserecord 61 on Saturday to take a commanding four-stroke lead. McIlroy said it was “boring” on the back nine compared to his win here in 2010, when he carded 3s on the last six holes to finish 15 under. He played the last half-dozen holes in 1-under on Sunday and the outcome was never in question. McIlroy had set himself up to win with his big round Saturday when he made a run at 59. So McIlroy didn’t need to be outstanding because there was nobody was chasing him. As he said, he just had to get to the finish line. “It was a more controlled run,” McIlroy said. “I feel like I’m a more controlled player these days. I’ve learned how to finish things off.” McIlroy also won Match Play Championship two weeks ago in San Francisco and has 11 PGA Tour titles. He has six top-10 finishes in his last eight PGA Tour starts. Phil Mickelson called McIlroy’s performance this week “impressive.” “Everything is firing on all cylinders for me,” McIlroy said.
Rodgers, playing on a sponsor exemption, was the only player to mount any type of a challenge, getting within three shots after a birdie at No. 15. But there was too much ground to make up, and he played the final two holes in 3-over and finished with a 68. Simpson shot a 72. McIlroy almost didn’t play at Quail Hollow this week, but decided he needed to play more because he needed the FedEx Cup points after the Masters. The win moved him into third place in the standings. McIlroy got off to a shaky start with a three-putt bogey on No. 2 — his first in 167 holes — but quickly pulled it together. He didn’t have another bogey until the 17th hole, when he had built a seven-stroke lead and the outcome was already decided. Simpson failed to capitalize on McIlroy’s early mistake, shooting 37 on the front nine that included a double bogey on the par-3 sixth when he threeputted from 8 feet. That dropped the Charlotte resident six shots back and he was never in contention again. “He’s our best player right now and I wish more than anything I could have shot a couple under on the front to make it more exciting,” Simpson said. “Just didn’t have it today.” McIlroy reached 20 under on No. 12 when he knocked his approach shot from 132 yards to 2 feet of the cup for a tap-in birdie and it looked as if he might coast the rest of the way. But Rodgers, who earned his first top-25 finish on the PGA Tour, made it interesting when he played a sevenhole stretch in 6-under par, sparked by an eagle on the par-5 10th hole. But McIlroy didn’t flinch when Rodgers drained a 15-foot putt on No. 15 to pull within three shots of the lead. Instead, McIlroy countered by rolling in a birdie putt on his own on No. 14, moving to 21 under and regaining a four-shot cushion. McIlroy then put an exclamation point on the win by drilling his approach shot from 145 yards to 3 feet on
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Rory McIlroy chips to the 15th green during the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday. No. 16 for his tournament-record 27th birdie. “I had a goal to go out there and birdie the par 5s and the two drivable par 4s and I knew if I made six birdies there was pretty much no chance that anybody could catch me,” McIlroy said. “With my length and the way I’m driving it, it’s a big advantage around
here and it showed this week.” It also helped having a big lead. “You can pick and choose where you want to be aggressive,” McIlroy said. Mickelson finished in a three-way tie for fourth place at 12 under with Gary Woodland and Robert Streb. Geoff Ogilvy and Justin Thomas fin-
Rookie Minjee Lee wins Tour’s Kingsmill Championship after delay BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
coming into the week obsolete because the victory earned her a spot in the U.S. Open. “I’ve had a pretty good start to the season, but I didn’t really see this coming. ... I was actually trying to get ready to play the (U.S. Open) qualifier,” she said, “but I don’t have to anymore.” Very briefly after the 7 a.m. start Monday, Lee looked to be in trouble. Having marked her ball on No. 16 when darkness halted play Sunday night, she knocked her first putt about 4 feet past the hole, then missed the comebacker. She didn’t let the mistake bother her, helped perhaps by not knowing that Alison Lee had birdied the par-5 15th to get within two shots. A pair of two-putt pars made the lead stand, earning her a $195,000 winner’s check. So Yeon Ryu, who began the day six shots off the pace, started with three consecutive birdies and finished second, with Alison Lee dropping into third after making a bogey on the final
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Minjee Lee didn’t get the dousing with champagne often afforded a winner on the LPGA Tour. Instead, she signed autographs and posed for photos with fans behind the 18th green on the Kingsmill Resort’s River Course, waiting to see if her twoshot lead would hold up through the final pairing. When it did, the surprise of victory was more than enough for the 18-yearold Australian. “I didn’t think this moment would come this year, so I’m stoked to have won,” Lee said after overcoming a three-putt bogey on her first hole in the morning with a pair of clinching pars. “Just because I won in my rookie season, I feel like I could probably do it again.” Lee, who turned pro in September, had already seen fellow rookies Sei Young Kim and Hyo Joo Kim win tournaments this season. She joined them thanks to a blistering charge to the lead Sunday night. She was 5 under over a five-hole stretch and started Monday with a fourshot lead over Alison Lee. Her three-putt bogey from about 15 feet on the par-4 16th, coupled with Alison Lee’s birdie on the par-5 15th, cut the lead in half, but she made good on her plan to finish with pars for the victory. Her closing round was a 6-under 65. Her 15-under 269 total also made her the seventh player to win on tour before her 19th birthday, joining a very accomplished group that includes top-ranked Lydia GREAT Ko, Lexi Thompson and Paula Creamer. And it made her goal
hole. “Sometimes early morning my body is still not awake, but this morning my body condition was even better than yesterday,” Ryu said. “So I pretty much made every shot and every putt.” After her birdie at No. 15, Alison Lee’s approaches to Nos. 16 and 17 left her with long putts. “On 16 and 17, I felt like I hit two good putts, but they didn’t go in,” the 20-year-old UCLA student said. “And on 18, I just kind of gave up on myself and I shouldn’t have done that. I should have finished strong.” Like Minjee Lee, Alison Lee had planned to play in a U.S. Open qualifier near Richmond on Monday. The USGA allowed her to switch to another sectional qualifying site Tuesday at Goose Creek Golf Club in Mira Loma, California. Perrine Delacour of France, the leader entering the final round, closed with a 71 and wound up fourth, easily the best finish of her three-year career. Ko tied for 16th at 5 under.
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Minjee Lee holds the winners trophy after winning the rain delayed Kingsmill Championship LPGA tournament at the Kingsmill Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va., Monday.
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Preakness winner American Pharoah returns to Churchill Downs before prep for Belmont BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, Ky. — American Pharoah took a short walk to stretch his legs after his flight before getting a bath and retiring to his barn for some well-earned rest. There was no sign of Jet lag as he returned to Churchill Downs following his dominant Preakness victory that put him on the cusp of capturing the Triple Crown. Pharoah assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes said “everything went well� during the trip and added, “He’s a very good shipper.� After winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, American Pharoah will try to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 when he races in the Belmont Stakes on June 6. He will have light work this week after arriving Monday afternoon from Baltimore and getting a bath in front of Barn 33. Trainer Bob Baffert isn’t expected to arrive from California until next week. American Pharoah will work out at
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LEFT: A runner loses some of his drink as he passes through a water station near the 18 kilometre mark of the Woody’s RV Marathon.
ABOVE: Runners follow the trail system through the first leg of the Woody’s RV Marathon on Sunday morning. RIGHT: Half-marathon runners pass by a puddle BELOW: The band 89 performs live music for the runners near the 18 kilometre mark of the Woody’s RV Marathon on Sunday.
BELOW: Linnea Erickson, 8, receives a balloon flower from Rosco the Clown following the kids race.
Half-marathon and full marathon runners grab water, gels and energy drinks at a water station just before the 18 kilometre mark of the Woody’s RV Marathon.
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Tossed salad with an avocado twist Summer time is salad time. When it’s hot out and the garden is bountiful, everyone’s in the mood for a light and refreshing entree salad. And what could be easier? You just toss together a bunch of lettuce with some cooked protein, add an excellent dressing, and boom! You’re done. Or not. Turns out that if you pay a little more attention to the components of the salad, you won’t need to rely quite so much on the dressing to provide all the flavour. In fact, it’s easy to make something wonderful. Here’s the basic formula per serving of salad: 2 cups of lettuce, a heaping 1/3 cup of halved cherry tomatoes, 1/3 cup of sliced cucumbers, a quarter of an avocado (cubed), and 1 tablespoon of dressing. The key, though, is to season each and every part one at a time, and to do so at just the right moment. It’s also important to deal with the water. Vegetables contain a high percentage of water. If you remove some of that water, you concentrate and amplify the vegetable’s flavour. Let’s start with the cherry tomatoes. You’ll be amazed at how much more tomato-y they’ll taste after they’ve been salted and drained, preferably for 30 minutes. Cucumbers, likewise, become more cucumber-y with salting, though the salt also tenderizes them. If you care more about a cuke’s crunch than its flavour, skip the salting of them. By the way, here’s a little tip I learned from Rachael Ray about how to slice a raft of cherry tomatoes all at once rather than one-by-one. Put a whole bunch of them on a small plastic lid, then place another lid on top of them. Stabilize the tomatoes by gently pressing the lids together. Insert a serrated knife into the gap between the lids and slice all of the tomatoes in
half at one time. While the tomatoes and the cucumbers are draining, you should cut up the avocado, put it in the bottom of the salad bowl, season it, and toss it with the dressing. This last step prevents it from oxidizing and turning colour. Pile on the additional ingredients as they become ready. Note: To remove the pit from an avocado safely, cut it into quarters. As tempting as it might be to imitate the TV chefs — who cut the avocado in half, slam a huge knife into the pit, and twist out the pit — it’s a technique that has landed many a home cook in the emergency room. After rinsing the lettuce, spin it dry or gently pat it dry with paper towels. Dressing will slide right off of wet greens. Keep in mind that a variety of lettuces is more enticing than just one kind, and mixing in whole herb leaves with the greens makes a salad extra special. Finally, after all of the components have been prepped and added to the bowl, sprinkle the greens with a little salt and pepper and toss the salad with your hands. Lettuce bruises easily. Your hands are exactly the right tool for this delicate job. Now that your basic salad is dressed and ready to go, top it off with grilled chicken, shrimp, beef, pork or tofu to turn it into a substantial summertime entree. ——— TOSSED SALAD 101 Start to finish: 50 minutes (15 active) Servings: 4 1 ½ cups cherry or grape tomatoes Kosher salt 6 ounces English cucumber 1 firm ripe avocado 8 cups lightly packed torn lettuce Ground black pepper ¼ cup dressing Set a wire rack over a rimmed baking sheet. Halve the cherry tomatoes and ar-
From bourbon to hot sauce, producers tap into American oak as flavour booster BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OAKVILLE, Calif. — Napa Valley vintner David Duncan has been known to stick his head in an American white oak barrel to get a full hit of the vanilla-laden, fresh-baked cookie smell the emanates from the wood. In fact, his Silver Oak winery — which produces classic cabernet sauvignon from the Napa Valley and Alexander Valley — is so wedded to using only American oak (no French wood will suffice) to age its popular cabernet sauvignon, the family-owned winery recently took on 100 per cent ownership of its own cooperage, where wooden staves are bent into barrels according to an ancient trade. And Duncan isn’t the only producer stoked on oak. Figures for the mostly privately held industry are hard to come by, but demand is evident in the 40 to 50 per cent price hikes seen in stave log prices since 2012, says Brad Boswell, president and fourth-generation cooper at Independent Stave Co., which supplies customers and cooperages in more than 40 countries. Factors behind the price increases include the shutdown of about 40 per cent of U.S. hardwood sawmills due to the recession, which in turn led to a drop in logging, says Boswell. Barrels make up just a fraction of the hardwood market, but cooperage demand due to the bourbon boom came back faster than other segments. An unusually wet season in 2013 didn’t help. Bourbon is the big driver in demand because by law it must be aged in new, American oak barrels. And domestic whiskey sales continued an upward trend in 2014, with more than 19 million cases of bourbon and Tennessee whiskey sold — up 7.3 per cent over 2013 — for overall revenues of $2.7 billion, according to the U.S. Distilled Spirits Council. Once used, barrels used to age whiskey go on to second lives aging scotch and other spirits, as well as a few things outside the spirits world. Tabasco sauce is barrel-aged, as is Bluegrass Soy Sauce. Before being used to age bourbon, the barrels must be charred, which is when a cooper catches the interior of a barrel on fire, allowing it to burn for times ranging from 20 seconds to nearly a minute and a half. This process produces a caramelizing effect considered desirable in the liquors that are aged in the barrels. Producers decide on all kinds of variables, including how long the wood will be seasoned, how much the insides will be heated and with what.
Maker’s Mark, an Independent Stave customer, for instance, requires 32-stave barrels, as opposed to the more common 34 or 35 staves, with fewer knots in the wood to create a tighter barrel with less leakage. Once filled, the barrels are aged on different floors of a warehouse so they’re exposed to different temperatures, with a tasting panel deciding when each 19-barrel batch should be moved. “It’s horribly inefficient in a lot of different ways, but by rotating our barrels we ensure that each and every barrel is aged the optimal way consistently,” says Rob Samuels, Maker’s Mark chief operating officer and an 8th-generation distiller. Jack Daniel’s, meanwhile, has access to its own two cooperages under parent company Brown Forman. “The good news is there’s still plenty of oak left in the U.S., particularly the eastern half,” says Jeff Arnett, Jack Daniel’s master distiller. Jack Daniel’s is classified as Tennessee whiskey, which also must be aged in new American oak, which then is sold for reuse. “We tell people if there’s a scotch that they like there’s a good chance that it’s because there’s three gallons of Jack Daniel’s soaked into the barrel,” Arnett jokes. Demand in recent years has made the wood a little harder to find — Jack Daniel’s now has nine people working
range cut side up on the wire rack. Sprinkle the cut sides liberally with salt, then turn the tomatoes so the cut sides are down. Let stand for 30 minutes. Peel the cucumber if it has a thick skin. Halve it lengthwise, then slice it thinly crosswise. Toss the sliced cucumber with some salt and let drain in a colander set in the sink for 30 minutes. Quarter the avocado, remove the pit and lay the avocado, skin side down on the counter. Using a paring knife, make a crisscross pattern in the flesh in ½-inch cubes, cutting down to the skin. Use a spoon to lift out the cubes and transfer them to a salad bowl.
Sprinkle the avocado lightly with salt and toss gently with a fork. Add the dressing and toss again. When the tomatoes and cucumber have sat for 30 minutes, pat them dry with paper towels and add them to the bowl with the avocado. Add the lettuce, sprinkle with salt and pepper and use your hands to toss the salad very gently just until the leaves are coated. Serve right away. Nutrition information per serving: 140 calories; 90 calories from fat (64 per cent of total calories); 10 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 440 mg sodium; 13 g carbohydrate; 6 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 3 g protein.
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multiple times. The measure was blamed for a drastic decline in meat exports from other North American countries, who repeatedly threatened to retaliate if successful at the WTO. That moment has arrived. The U.S. is now left with two options according to the Canadian and Mexican governments: Fix the law, or suffer punitive tariffs on a range of goods. The Canadian government said it will prepare an application to the WTO for punitive measures. The process involves setting a dollar value on the retaliation, and identifying targeted goods for tariffs. The federal government estimates the U.S. legislation costs the Canadian pork and beef industries about $1 billion annually. The retaliatory measures, if imposed, could set tariffs at a similar amount. Canada has already announced possible targets for a 100 per cent surtax. They were designed to hit states where lawmakers supported the meat-labelling requirements. The preliminary list released by Canada suggests a couple of main targets: California and Pennsylvania. Wine, frozen orange juice, chocolate, ketchup, pasta, cereals — stats show Canadians import hundreds of millions of some of those products from the U.S. each year, and California or Pennsylvania are key producers of almost every single one. “The United States has used and exhausted all possible means to avoid its international obligations,” said a statement from Canada’s agriculture and trade ministers. “In light of the final ruling ... Canada will be seeking authority from the WTO to use retaliatory measures on U.S. agricultural and non-agricultural products.” But U.S. policy-makers appear keen
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Meat labels are seen at a grocery store in Washington, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Labels on packaged steaks and other cuts of meat in the United States that say where the animals were born, raised and slaughtered will have to be dropped or revised after a World Trade Organization ruling. The office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Monday that the WTO has rejected a final U.S. appeal, deciding that the U.S. “country of origin” labels put Canadian and Mexican livestock at a disadvantage. to find a solution, before such talk escalates. The Obama administration says it’s working with lawmakers to find a legislative fix. Also, the chair of a key legislative committee said he planned to introduce a bill this week to repeal mandatory labelling. He referred to mandatory labels as a failed marketing program, not a food-safety program. “It is more important now than ever to act quickly to avoid a protracted trade war with our two largest trade partners,” Michael Conoway, the Republican chair of the House agriculture committee, said in a letter published on the website for the congressional newspaper Roll Call.
Taking “Big Brother” along for the ride NEW PHONE APP TRACKS DRIVING HABITS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FREDERICTON — A new smartphone app means parents can now be backseat drivers to their kids, without having to leave home, and an Internet and privacy lawyer says its use raises some interesting questions. Fredericton-based GeodeTech has released its GeodeVu tracking app that records a driver’s route along with driving behaviours, such as speeding, hard braking, and even distracted driving. “We call our product a solution for driver analysis and behaviour coaching,” said Michel Chiasson, the company’s CEO. “As you start driving around, what’s going to happen is you will see the true behaviours coming through,” he said. The app can be downloaded for free on Android, iOS and Blackberry 10 phones, while the tracking service will cost you a monthly rate of $9.95. The app uses the GPS and other functions in the driver’s phone to track its location, and whether it’s used for calls or texting while the car is in motion. Parents concerned with ongoing driver training can log into a website to see where and how their child has been driving.
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A screenshot of the GeodeVu tracking app. “What are the great behaviours that we want to reinforce and what are things that we want to change?” said Chiasson. Chiasson said his company has lots
of competitors but right now it’s the only one that is tracking distracted driving. “We think we have something very unique in the fact that we are leveraging the technology in mobile phones,” he said. Aside from tracking young drivers, GeodeTech is promoting its service to companies with fleet vehicles, and to insurance companies to rate drivers for good driver rebates. Chiasson said the app now has just over 1,000 users, and is about to start making a profit. “We have some very strong momentum where we have one of the top three beer distributors in North America as a client, also one of the top three retailers in Canada ready to go for a pilot project, and one of the top 10 North American insurance carriers about to sign with us.” David Fraser, a lawyer with the firm McInnes Cooper in Halifax, said the advent of smartphones has made it easier and cheaper to track people, and raises a number of privacy concerns. He said companies can track your driving and location if it is reasonable under the circumstances, such as a company needing to know where their trucks are and if they are being driven properly.
“We must act quickly to prevent the irreparable damages of retaliation, both to our economy and the trade relationship with Canada and Mexico.” The WTO decision won plaudits in the U.S. from business groups concerned about trade sanctions. “We flaunt our country’s obligations under the rules-based trading system at our peril,” John Murphy, a senior vice-president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in a release. But one farming organization in the U.S. that supports the labels, the National Farmers Union, said there was still time to negotiate a solution with Canada and Mexico that would allow labelling throughout North America.
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Critics of Arctic Ocean drilling march to Seattle port to stop work on Shell rig Critics of oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean plan to block the gates to a seaport terminal in Seattle, where Royal Dutch Shell’s massive floating drill rig will be loaded up before heading to the waters off Alaska this summer. A few hundred protesters marched across a bridge to Terminal 5, temporarily closing the road during Monday morning’s commute.
Mortgages about more than just money The average price for residential property in Canada now is hovering at around $431,000. In Toronto, Canada’s largest housing market, the prices are even higher. The average sale price of all housing types across the Greater Toronto Area recently hit almost $614,000, TALBOT with the averBOGGS age price of detached homes in the city reaching just over $1 million. Buying a home is probably the largest single purchase that you’ll ever make and if you’re like most people there’s no way you can afford to buy a home at today’s prices without a mortgage. Financial lenders use benchmarks such as the gross debt service (GDS) and total debt service (TDS) ratios to determine whether a potential borrower has the financial means to carry
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is 95 per cent. “Most first-time home buyers come up with a 10 per cent down payment while those who are purchasing their second or even third home will have made enough on their previous purchases to be able to afford a down payment of 20 per cent or even more,” says Ken Walus, director of mortgage credit, banking and mortgage operations with Investors Group.. Deciding how much house and mortgage you can afford is not always strictly a matter of numbers. “There are a lot of other considerations that financing standards and benchmarks do not take into account when deciding how much house to buy and how big a mortgage to take on,” Walus says. For example, if the couple in the above illustration both were young professionals such as doctors or lawyers, their future earning power could easily tip the scales for qualify for the mortgage in their favour. “There are a number of other considerations and activities that benchmarks like the GDS and TDS and conventional financing guidelines don’t take into account, things like saving for retirement, private schooling for the children, insurance needs, the age of
your car and the type of home you’re planning to buy, that also will factor in to what you can afford,” says Walus. If you’re planning to buy an older home rather than a newly-built one you could face costly maintenance repairs to replace outdated wiring and plumbing and an old roof. Appreciation of your home’s value is another factor. Real estate still is considered one of the best investments you can make. House prices on average rise about five per cent a year. The average price of detached homes in the city of Toronto last year rose 15.9 per cent. “You’ve got to understand your living expenses and lifestyle preferences, what you like to do and how much you are willing to sacrifice to have your home,” Walus says. “There are a lot of things to consider that are not included in formal financing formulas. Consider everything because you can become house rich but cash poor.” 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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Dr. Garth Webb holds a bionic lens he developed on the tip of his finger, while sitting for a photograph at Manterra Technologies where the lens would be mass produced in Delta, B.C.. Dr. Webb says it would allow people to see to infinity and replace the need for eyeglasses and contact lenses.
Bionic Lens means perfect vision without ever needing glasses, contacts: B.C. doc BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Imagine being able to see three times better than 20/20 vision without wearing glasses or contacts — even at age 100 or more — with the help of bionic lenses implanted in your eyes. Dr. Garth Webb, a British Columbia optometrist who invented the Ocumetic Bionic Lens, says patients would have perfect vision and that driving, progressive and contact lenses would become a dim memory as the eye-care industry is transformed. Webb says people who have the specialized lenses surgically inserted would never get cataracts because their natural lenses, which decay over time, would have been replaced. Perfect eyesight would result “no matter how crummy your eyes are,” Webb says, adding the Bionic Lens would be an option for someone who depends on corrective lenses and is over about age 25, when the eye structures are fully developed. “This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before,” he says, showing a Bionic Lens, which looks like a tiny button. “If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away,” says Webb, demonstrating how a custom-made lens that folded like a taco in a saline-filled syringe would be placed in an eye, where it would unravel itself within 10 seconds. He says the painless procedure, identical to cataract surgery, would take about eight minutes and a patient’s sight would be immediately corrected. Webb, who is the CEO of Ocumetics Technology Corp., has spent the last eight years and about $3 million researching and developing the Bionic Lens, getting international patents and securing a biomedical manufacturing facility in Delta, B.C. His mission is fuelled by the “obsession” he’s had to free himself and others from corrective lenses since he was in Grade 2, when he was saddled with glasses. “My heroes were cowboys, and cowboys just did not wear glasses,” Webb says. “At age 45 I had to struggle with reading glasses, which like most people, I found was a great insult. To this day I curse my progressive glasses. I also wear contact lenses, which I also curse just about every day.” Webb’s efforts culminated in his recent presentation of the lens to 14 top ophthalmologists in San Diego the day before an annual gathering of the
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American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Dr. Vincent DeLuise, an ophthalmologist who teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, says he arranged several meetings on April 17, when experts in various fields learned about the lens. He says the surgeons, from Canada, the United States, Australia and the Dominican Republic, were impressed with what they heard and some will be involved in clinical trials for Webb’s “very clever” invention. “There’s a lot of excitement about the Bionic Lens from very experienced surgeons who perhaps had some cynicism about this because they’ve seen things not work in the past. They think that this might actually work and they’re eager enough that they all wish to be on the medical advisory board to help him on his journey,” DeLuise says. “I think this device is going to bring us closer to the holy grail of excellent vision at all ranges — distant, intermediate and near.” Pending clinical trials on animals and then blind human eyes, the Bionic Lens could be available in Canada and elsewhere in about two years, depending on regulatory processes in various countries, Webb says. As for laser surgery, which requires the burning away of healthy corneal tissue and includes potential problems with glare, the need for night-time driving glasses and later cataracts, Webb says the Bionic Lens may make that option obsolete. Alongside his Bionic Lens venture, Webb has set up a foundation called the Celebration of Sight, which would donate money to organizations providing eye surgery in developing countries to improve people’s quality of life. “Perfect eyesight should be a human right,” he says. DeLuise, who has been asked to manage the foundation, says funds would also be funnelled to some of the world’s best eye research institutes. “He has the technology that may make all of this happen,” he says, adding several companies have spent tens of millions of dollars trying to develop a similar lens, though none have come close.
TORONTO — Here are five things to look for in Canadian business this week: Joe Oliver: The minister of finance is the keynote speaker on Tuesday at a private capital markets conference in Toronto. Last week, Oliver told a group of American financiers in New York that a looming slate of U.S. bank reforms violates the North American Free Trade Agreement. Valeant Pharmaceuticals: The Quebec-based pharma giant holds its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday in Laval, Que. The company’s chief financial officer, Howard Schiller, is stepping down at the meeting but is standing for reelection to the company’s board of directors. Schiller has been the architect of the company’s aggressive growth-byacquisition strategy. StatCan: It’s a busy week for Statis-
tics Canada. The federal agency releases the wholesale trade figures for March on Wednesday, as well as a report on travel between Canada and other countries for that month. On Friday, StatCan is out with both inflation data as well as the retail trade figures for March. They’re all critical gauges of the health of the country’s economy. Emera: The Nova Scotia-based electric utility company, one of the largest in North America with more than $7 billion in assets, is holding its annual general meeting on Thursday in Saint John, N.B.. The company has been investing heavily in New England power plants in recent years. Silvercorp: The Vancouver mining corporation releases its fourth-quarter and year-end results on Thursday. The company has been under the glare of publicity after a B.C. man won the right to sue Silvercorp, alleging it conspired with Chinese authorities to force him to spend years behind bars after he wrote a report that questioned its ore estimates at a Chinese mine.
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NEW YORK — Bright lights, big city? Not so much, if a New York City council member gets his way. He’s introduced a bill requiring most office high-rises to turn off the lights at night as a way to cut energy costs and help migratory birds. And it might even give New Yorkers a chance to see some stars other than the celebrities walking down the street. “We need to be doing everything we can to conserve energy,” said Councilman Donovan Richards Jr. “This is a commonsense measure. It’s not going to cost anybody a lot of money.” Seventy-one per cent of New Yorkers like the idea, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday of 969 registered city voters. But the bill, one of the first in the city focusing on what supporters call “light pollution,” is causing concern among some residents who worry that dimming the lights could make the city less safe and dampen its signature sparkle. For Joyetta McCullen, who lives in Brooklyn, the lights are part of what makes her city special, even though she has often wondered why buildings keep all their lights on at night when there’s no one working. “I’m 25, lived in New York all my life, that’s all I saw,” she said, “lights and noise.” Richards’ proposal is aimed at commercial buildings at least 20 stories high, and requires them to turn off the lights after midnight if no one is inside. On a recent dusk, whole floors could be seen lit up in high-rise buildings in midtown Manhattan, even long after most workers had left for the day. It would exempt landmarks, such as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, as well as the city’s brightest nighttime tourist draw, Times Square. Richards said he was inspired in part by a trip to Paris last year. The City of Light has had office and shop buildings turning off their lights at night for the past couple of years. And if Paris can do it, he said, New York City can, too. “We should be the world leader for conservation,” he said. At a hearing on the measure last
month, critics raised issues of safety, and whether the law would just add more onerous regulations for building owners and the potential for fines. The Daily News of New York was even stronger in an editorial headlined: “We’ll not go gentle: Keep New York City’s nighttime skyline bright and beautiful.” It went on to say Richards “means well, much as those who would have us ration the paint and canvas wasted in the production of museum masterpieces might mean well” but that turning off the lights would “cast a permanent pall over one of America’s most beautiful sights.” Hardly, said Scott Kardel, managing director of the Tucson, Arizona-based International Dark-Sky Association, which advocates against light pollution. “No one’s talking about plunging people into darkness and chaos like you get when there’s a major disaster,” Kardel said. “It’s really just dialing it back when there’s an opportunity to do that. It’s not going to change significantly the ambiance at street level.” Bird lovers say lowering the light level would also help migrating species, many of which fly through the night and can become confused and disoriented by bright city lights. “It would be a wonderful message from New York City to do this,” said Susan Elbin, director of conservation and science for New York City Audubon. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last month that state buildings would turn off non-essential lights from 11 p.m. to dawn through the spring and fall, peak bird migration times. Utility company Consolidated Edison said it was reviewing the proposal. Richards said he would be talking to stakeholders like building owners and the New York Police Department. There is no timetable for any legislation to come up for a vote. If it does make it in law, it can’t come soon enough for Joseph Rosen, a 74-year-old retired music store owner who lives at the corner of 56th Street and Broadway and says light streaming in from a sign on a building several blocks away is a nightly annoyance.
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George Harrison guitar from 1963 brings $490,000 at auction; $122,000 for Elvis ‘penguin’ suit
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NEW YORK — A guitar George Harrison played at a time when Beatlemania was taking flight has sold for nearly half a million dollars at a New York auction. Julien’s Auctions says the 1963 Mastersound electric guitar went for $490,000 Friday to an undisclosed bidder. Julien’s says Harrison borrowed it from a British music store and played it on stage several times in England and in Channel Islands in the summer of 1963. It was offered during a two-day rock memorabilia auction. A so-called “penguin” suit that Elvis Presley wore on stage in Las Vegas in 1975 sold for nearly $122,000. Presley’s marriage certificate from his 1967 wedding to Priscilla Presley sold for over $40,000. A vest worn by Jimi Hendrix sold for over $59,000. A tank top Madonna wore sold for $25,000.
Cannes Film Fest: what we’ve learned so far BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNES, France — Andie MacDowell has been coming to Cannes for some 30 years, and she still knows how to slay on a red carpet. The actress and her show-stopping gown reigned as one of the highlights of Day Six at the Cannes Film Festival, a day where we also learned not to try and set up Colin Farrell for romance, John Turturro’s inspiration for his temperamental character, and why amfAR is counting on Jeff Koons for big bucks. Here’s a look at what our Associated Press reporters at the Cannes Film Festival found out on Monday, as we reach the halfway point of the event: NO FIX-UPS FOR COLIN: In his new sci-fi movie The Lobster, Colin Farrell plays a single man desperate to get into a committed relationship or risk being transformed into an animal. In real life, though, he’s unattached — and in no rush to change his status. “In my life I’ve had relationships with women that weren’t in the public eye that have been pulled into the public eye as a result of the nonsense of celebrity and being close to me, and I hate that and I hated that for them,” he said in an interview last week. “And so that would be just another thing that would lead into my reticence to being in a relationship.” Farrell is in Cannes to promote The Lobster, which is competing for the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or. The film is about single people who are forced to stay in a hotel until they find a mate. They have 45 days to find a partner or face being transformed into an animal and be released into the woods. The 38-year-old actor said being in a relationship isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. “I have one friend who just broke up and he’s been in a relationship for six years, and before that he was married for 15 years, and he just broke up and our other shared friends who are in relationships are doggedly pursuing him — ’I have this person you have to meet,”’ he said. “But I’m just like, ’Just let him (rest.)’ And part of me goes, ’Is that misery loves company?”’ NO NEED TO LOOK ANY FURTHER: John Turturro drew on three decades of experience in the movie business for his role as a disrup-
tive, egomaniacal actor in Nanni Moretti’s Cannes entry My Mother. But he won’t name names. “I’ve seen behaviour way more extreme than that,” Turturro said of his character, an American star who wreaks havoc on the set of an Italian workplace drama. “From lots of people. And from directors, too.” Moretti’s tragicomedy, one of 19 competing for Cannes’ Palme d’Or, centres on a director (Margherita Buy) whose latest project is coming unstuck even as her mother is dying. Turturro provides much of the film’s humour as Barry Huggins, who propositions his director almost as soon as he steps off the train, struggles with his Italian dialogue and tells self-aggrandizing anecdotes about working with Stanley Kubrick. The film is a poignant meditation on losing a parent, and also provides a sharp insider’s view of the movie business, with its egos and foibles. “I’ve seen all kinds of crazy behaviour,” said Turturro, who won Cannes’ best-actor prize in 1991 for Barton Fink. That film’s directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, head this year’s Cannes jury. WILL KOONS MEAN CASH? Jeff Koons is about to generate some major cash for AIDS charity amfAR: He’s agreed to auction off his massive Coloring Book sculpture for the group’s annual gala outside Cannes this week. The sculpture, which has been on display in London and in Beverly Hills, is made of mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent colour coating. It is part of Koons’ “Celebration” series, which also includes “Balloon Dog” — sold for $58 million in 2013 as the most expensive artwork by a living artist. Organizers at amfAR are hoping Coloring Book can generate similar numbers for its Thursday gala at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, just outside of Cannes in d’Antibes. The artwork will be on display for the guests, which include top celebrities, in case they want to check it out before they purchase it. featuring carved
Guns N’ Roses guitarist defends cop who helped him use police helicopter for wedding proposal LAS VEGAS — A Guns N’ Roses guitarist said a former Las Vegas police captain who helped him use the department’s helicopter for an elaborate wedding proposal did nothing wrong and he’s glad he won his job back. Daren Jay “DJ” Ashba hailed Friday’s decision by a Nevada state board ordering the Las Vegas police department to reinstate David O’Leary to his job. “When you know you’re innocent for almost two years, it couldn’t be a better day,” Ashba told KLASTV of Las Vegas “He loses his job because he did something out of the kindness of his heart. He did nothing wrong. We did nothing wrong.” O’Leary had been criticized for helping arrange a police helicopter ride for his friend so the rocker could propose to then-girlfriend Nathalia Henao in 2013. Ashba said he asked O’Leary where he could find a private helicopter to use for his wedding proposal and was instead offered a ride in the police helicopter.
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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full & Part Time Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE SWISS Chalet -Red Deer HIRING FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISORS: $13.75 $ 14.50 and 40 hours per week. Supervise and coordinate staff activities and customer service. Establish work schedule and train associates Interested parties can email swiss1702@cara.com, fax 1 866 928 5481 or deliver resume to unit #8, 5111 22nd St. Red Deer, T4R 2K1.
The Tap House Pub & Grill req’s full and part time COOKS AND DISHWASHERS. Apply with resume at BUSY Retreat centre 1927 Gaetz Avenue Looking for a weekend between 2-5 pm. cook, specializing in home made food, from scratch, a cabin is available during your weekend stay, if you Trades think you have the qualifiYou can sell your guitar cations we are looking for, DRYWALL HELPER REQ’D. for a song... call or text or put it in CLASSIFIEDS please Experience an asset. 780-878-4019, Thank You and we’ll sell it for you! 403-341-7619 CALKINS CONSULTING LOOKING for Framers/ o/a Tim Hortons carpenters 403-357-9816 15 vacancies at each Personals SELF motivated journeylocation for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS man req’d for sheet metal shop in Innisfail. The sucALCOHOLICS for 3 locations $12/hr. + cessful applicant will have ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 benefits. F/T & P/T a truck and fuel supplied. positions. Permanent shift COCAINE ANONYMOUS Must possess good work, weekends, days, 403-396-8298 organizational skills and nights, evenings. Start be able to work commerdate as soon as possible. cial projects without No experience or assistance. Will be trained education req’d. Job on computer sheet metal description avail. at layout. Must have clean www.timhortons.com drivers license. CompetiApply in person to 6620 tive rates $34/hr. and Orr Drive. Red Deer, benefit incld. Call 6017 Parkwood Road, 403-227-6554 or fax Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. resume to 403-227-6478 CLASSIFICATIONS Lacombe. or Call 403-848-2356 SHOP HELP AND/OR 700-920 APPRENTICE MECHANIC EAST 40TH PUB REQ’D IMMED. REQ’S P/Tor F/T COOK Truck exp. preferred. Caregivers/ Apply in person with resume 8:30-5. 15 mi. E. of BlackAides 3811 40th Ave. falds. Steady f/t year round employment Buying or Selling FT caregiver needed 40 w/benefits. Fax: your home? hrs/wk, Red Deer, 403-784-2330 Check out Homes for Sale $10.20/hr. to aid special Phone: 403-784-3811 needs adult, male, permain Classifieds nent position, light JJAM Management (1987) Truckers/ housekeeping, 12 mo. Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s exp., high school diploma, Drivers Requires to work at these must speak english. ConRed Deer, AB locations: tact eurocan5@telus.net BUSY rig moving company 5111 22 St. looking for exp. bed truck Classifieds 37444 HWY 2 S operators, winch tractor Your place to SELL 37543 HWY 2N hands, and picker operators. Your place to BUY 700 3020 22 St. Oilfield ticket an asset. FOOD ATTENDANT Must be able to pass a Req’d permanent shift Looking for : In-Home drug test. Pls call weekend day and evening Caregiver/Nanny for 2 1-306-463-6674. both full and part time. children (12 years old and 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + Promax Transport is 6 years old with special benefits. Start ASAP. looking for a P/T Class 1A need -Autism).Full-Time Job description shunt driver to work ($10.50 -40/44hrs/week) www.timhortons.com weekend shifts. Please Must be reliable. ExperiEducation and experience send resumes to fax # ence is not required but not req’d. 403-227-2743 or call willing to train. Located In Apply in person or fax 403-227-2712 for more Red Deer, Alberta. Email: resume to: 403-314-1303 information limpinnoel@yahoo.ca
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WESTMAN William Jacob Norman William Westman of Red Deer passed away suddenly on May 6, 2015 at the age of 31. He is sadly missed by his parents Louise and Doug Westman, his sister Nicole, and a world of friends. A Celebration of William’s life will be held at the CrossRoads Church, Red Deer on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. Cremation will follow at the Rocky Mountain Crematorium, Rocky Mountain House. Condolences may be forwarded to www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151
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AIREY Mrs. Vera Ethel May 3, 1920 - May 10, 2015 Vera Airey passed away at the Stettler Health Care Centre on May 10, 2015 at the age of 95 years. She is survived by her loving family: Clarence (Delores), Bill (Judy), Wiltse, Maureen (Lynn) Roxinne Carlson, Clarinda Langford, Melinda (John) Parker; daughter in law Laurie Waltham; 17 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandson; sister in law Mary Airey; as well as other relatives and many friends. Vera was predeceased by her parents, husband Fred, sons Gerald and Lawrne, daughters in law Dorothy and Mary, son in law Reg Langford and all of her beloved Blaney siblings. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 1:00 PM in the Heartland Chapel of Stettler Funeral Home, 4707-70 St., Stettler, Alberta with Rev. Lyn Lamers, Stettler United Church, officiating. Memorial donations may be made to Omega Cemetery, Box 11, Gadsby, AB T0C 1K0. Sympathies may be viewed or sent to the family by signing the guestbook at www.stettlerfuneralhome.com STETTLER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 403-742-3422, entrusted with the care and funeral arrangements.
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CRYSTAL GLASS needs a GLASS INSTALLER. Some exp. preferred, but training is provided. BeneÀts and company uniforms after 3 months. Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires
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Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s a SPECIAL EVENTS CO-ORDINATOR Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person
Blue Water Wash has openings for Wash Bay Attendants at our new location in Red Deer! Wash bay attendants are responsible for washing the exterior of tractors and trailers ensuring the highest level of bio-security standards. We offer fulltime positions, opportunities for advancement, and health and dental beneÀts. Please apply to: Blue Water Wash Red Deer, Alberta, Email: HR@slt.ca
Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T & P/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds). Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person
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Labourers & Flag Persons Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND Áag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489
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MORRISROE 3 bdrm. townhouse, across from park, 1.5 bath, fenced yard, 5 appls., rent $1250, SD. $800. Avail. June 1 Call 403-304-5337
Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, SEIBEL PROPERTY Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail. www.seibelprperty.com PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, 6 locations in Red Deer Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates
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Boston Marathon bomber likely to appeal death sentence OVER JUDGE’S REFUSAL TO MOVE TRIAL BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s appeal of his death sentence is likely to focus on the judge’s refusal to move the trial out of Boston and the prosecution’s barrage of heartbreaking testimony from more than a dozen victims of the attack. While the case will probably take years to wend its way through the courts, legal observers say there are some obvious grounds for challenging the punishment handed out by the jury Friday to the 21-year-old former college student for the 2013 bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260. Tsarnaev’s lawyers fought to get the trial moved, warning that too many people had personal connections to the marathon or the tragedy and that the anguish in Boston was just too powerful to find an impartial jury. But U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. rejected all four changeof-venue motions, and a federal appeals court backed him, 2-1. “The venue thing is obviously strong. Anybody who would sit on the jury in Boston has been personally affected by the event in question,” said Eric M. Freedman, a death penalty specialist and professor of constitutional law at Hofstra Law School. Others say the judge had valid reasons to keep the trial in Boston and scrupulously tried to weed out potential jurors who were biased. “He did very careful questioning before seating them on the jury,” said George Vien, a former federal prosecutor in Boston. Vien added: “If they had granted the change of venue, what are the victims and the victims’ families supposed to do? Are they going to travel and live in Iowa for months?” Tsarnaev’s lawyers may also argue that the judge allowed too many amputees and others who were hurt in the bombing to describe their traumatic experiences and severe injuries in great detail. Such graphic testimony can cause jurors to be overcome by sympathy for the victims and cloud their judgment, said David Hoose, a death penalty lawyer in Massachusetts. “I think there’s a strong argument to be made here that the judge really did not do much of anything to properly rein this in,” he said. Still, he said judges are given considerable latitude in deciding how much victim testimony to allow. “The problem is on appeal that courts tend to say, ’Well, it might have gone a little too far, but it was within the judge’s discretion,’ or ’We don’t think it made an ultimate difference in the outcome,” Hoose said. Another issue Tsarnaev’s lawyers could raise is the judge’s refusal to tell the jurors that if they were unable to reach a unanimous decision on death, a sentence of life in prison without parole would automatically be imposed. Freedman said such instructions are often given in capital cases to let the jury know that the case will not be tried all over again — the usual outcome when a jury can’t reach a unanimous verdict.
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Rat droppings, poison, urine: London police warn of health dangers in fake makeup BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The City of London police have issued a warning about the health risks posed by counterfeit makeup. Police said Monday that imitations of brand-name makeup are often produced in unsanitary conditions. They said rat droppings and poison have been found in fake cosmetics and laboratory tests have uncovered poisonous chemicals — including cyanide and human urine — in counterfeit perfume. They said suing such bogus products can cause skin irritation, swelling, rashes and burns and can lead to long-term health problems. They also noted that some counterfeit sun creams offer no protection from the sun. City of London police said more than 5,500 websites selling fake luxury items have been suspended and more than B3.5 million ($5.5 million) in bogus items seized.
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Dear Annie: I have been with “Joe” since his wife died nine years ago. The problem is, we have different styles of communication. At first, it wasn’t too bad. I have tried to analyze our fights to see what I could do differently or what we could do together to make it better. But I have settled on the fact that Joe can never be wrong, and it affects everything. He won’t do anything in a new way, cannot say he’s sorry for anything he has said or done, won’t admit to hurting my feelings, and often won’t believe what I say. Worse, when he gets an idea in his head, he won’t change it even when presented with new information that proves him wrong. And when I suggest he reconsider, he often makes comments that are below the belt and painful for me. It’s frustrating. Joe is 75, and I am 66. We live together and don’t want to move. I know he won’t go for counseling, nor will he believe anything he reads that contradicts his impressions. How do I keep my sanity and stop these fights? — Need Your Help Dear Need: Let’s understand this. You are willing to put up with what sounds like frequent verbal abuse because you don’t want to move? Does Joe have any redeeming qualities that make up for his stubborn ignorance and disagreeable nature? We don’t see love here. We see fear of being alone. You cannot make Joe become a better communicator unless he works at it, which he won’t. Only you can decide whether you are willing to tolerate this in order to stay with him. Some counseling for you alone might be helpful. Dear Annie: Why do people pay so little attention to the proper pronunciation of certain words? This morning, I received a telephone call from a salesclerk, who informed me that something I had ordered was no longer available, but she had “fount” a similar item if I cared to substitute. I’d like to substitute “found” for “fount.”
Also, I’ve heard several people say “ax” when they mean “ask.” An “ax” is something you use to chop wood. If the speaker had “axed her,” she wouldn’t be able to answer, now, would she? “Ask” should rhyme with “task.” Last week, for the umpteenth time, I heard someone say, “We are having a sells event.” The word is “sales.” You are having a sale where you hope to sell things. You MITCHELL are not having a “sell.” And & SUGAR why do people continue to say “I done this” or “I seen that” or “they come over yesterday.” These people have been to school and presumably learned the proper tense for verb usage. Why are we so careless in our speech? OK, Annie. I feel better now. — Shepherdsville, Ky. Dear Shepherdsville: Glad to help. Some kids don’t pay that much attention in school. And how your friends and family members speak can be a greater influence than what you learn in a short class. Rules of grammar, if not reinforced at home, often go by the wayside. Standards have relaxed a great deal, but still, people who cannot correctly pronounce words are considered uneducated or worse, and it can affect the jobs they get and the people they attract, which shapes the rest of their lives. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG — Cyclists in South Africa’s biggest city usually worry about getting hit by vehicles. But one cyclist rode into an unexpected obstacle in Johannesburg’s suburbs: a dead buffalo. Andrew McLean said Friday that he damaged a ligament on his collarbone and broke his hand when he hit the buffalo carcass while riding downhill at up to 60 kilometres (37 miles) an hour in Fourways, a suburban area in northern Johannesburg. McLean said he didn’t have time to brake before the predawn accident on May 6. Two cycling companions also crashed but were not seriously injured. “It just looked like a huge shadow,” said McLean, a veteran cyclist who runs a chain of cycling stores. “At the last minute, I suddenly realized that this was more than a shadow.” He recalled lying injured on the road and seeing steam rising off the buffalo’s body. “I think the buffalo had been running and had died within a couple of minutes of us getting there,” McLean said. Authorities were unsure how the buffalo died and how it ended up in the city suburbs. A farmer or wildlife owner had reported weeks ago that a buffalo was missing from a property, but it was unclear whether it was the same buffalo, said Roleta Lebelo, spokeswoman for the provincial department of agriculture and rural development. She said her department checked for the threat of disease from the buffalo carcass, concluding there was no need for worry. McLean said he had sometimes trained in rural areas where warthogs are common, and had expected he might collide with one at some point. But not a buffalo.
The more you multitask and mix things up, the better and more stimulating the day will be. Plus be more proactive about a work or volunteer project. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Today is bright and breezy stars suit your upbeat personality. So all sorts of social activities are favoured as you chat and circulate; mix and mingle. But resist the urge to pass on hot gossip. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most Scorpios are serious souls. The Moon is in Gemini today and you have much to learn from this adaptable sign. Like being more flexible, letting your hair down, and having some fun! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sharing the good times with loved ones puts a sunny smile on your Sagittarian dial. The Moon encourages you to be more cooperative with loved ones. Compromise is definitely the key.
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Kids are loud and obnoxious. Kids are messy. Kids are the worst kind of know-it-all. They push your buttons and will find the most inopportune moment to reveal your deepest darkest secrets to that stranger passing you on the street. Kids are rambunctious and have most likely smashed more than one of your precious keepsakes. Kids are clingy and impatient. Kids are blunt and rarely worry about your feelings. It was for all these reasons that I was fretting endlessly as I packed our day-trip bag during the early hours of the morning. I had decided to take the children out for breakfast followed by a road trip to the Markerville Creamery and then to their cousin’s new home in Elnora. It was going to be a full day, and I was praying that the many stresses and strains of parenthood weren’t going to get in the way of our adventures. As they grumbled out of their bedrooms, trying to rub the sleep away from their eyes — none the wiser to my plans — I confronted them with their jackets and sweaters. “Hop in the car kids, we’re going on a road trip!” Lars was immediately elated with this unexpected change in routine and giddily pulled on his fleece while heading towards the front door. Sophie, however, had other things on her mind. “I’m hungry! I’m not going anywhere until I eat my cereal.” Tears were welling in her sleepy eyes. I should have known better than to try and surprise her during breakfast time.
However, she became a good deal happier once we arrived at our local eatery and she realized the plethora of options that were up for the pickings. I ordered an omelet and coffee, Lars had pancakes complete with a whipped LINDSAY cream smiley BROWN face and Sophie — well, Sophie ME PLUS THREE had a full-size plate of bacon, eggs and a side of french toast. She was content. We drove to the creamery with full bellies and happy spirits. We were singing Down by the Bay loud enough that I’m sure at one point the driver of a passing truck joined in on the chorus. Lars conjured up a fascinating verse that went something like this: “… for if I do, my mother will say, ‘have you ever seen a llama eating a grandma?’ ” There was an awkward silence for about a millisecond before Sophie began hysterically laughing. Lars joined her and the two’s laughter was rather contagious, which got me going as well (even though I didn’t quite get the joke and was still feeling a bit unnerved as to why my children found llamas eating grandmothers so side-splitting).
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Q: Should I insist on being in the exam room when my child visits a doctor? Recently, I took my 14-year-old daughter for a checkup and was told to wait outside. To be honest, I’m concerned about messages my daughter might receive that may run counter to my values. Jim: We understand why you felt uncomfortable at being excluded from the room when such significant matters were being discussed. At the same time, members of our Physicians Resource Council report that teens often feel freer to talk about things they might never mention with Mom or Dad present. These aren’t necessarily troubling secrets or problems, but issues that, for one reason or another, teens don’t feel they can talk about with anyone else. In such cases, a good doctor has a tremendous opportunity to provide wise counsel and guidance during a confusing season in life. That’s why we recommend seeking out a health care professional who shares your values — or who is at least willing to honor them. Talk to your daughter’s doctor and discuss your concerns candidly but respectfully, particularly with regard to sexuality. Also, when it comes to such delicate procedures as a pelvic exam, some adolescents may want a parent present, while others prefer to be on their own. Discuss this possibility with your daughter in advance so that you can both consider her feelings on the matter. Most importantly, continue investing time and energy into strengthening your relationship with your daughter. Doing so will make it more likely
that she’ll look to you for guidance about important matters and life choices, now and in the future. If you haven’t already, take this opportunity to engage your daughter on the topic of sex and make sure she underJIM stands God’s deDALY sign for human sexuality. Focus on the Family can provide you with resources to help you do so with confidence. Q: Is it appropriate for wives to initiate sex and to take the lead on occasion when it comes to lovemaking? My husband and I enjoy a fulfilling and satisfying sex life, but that’s one thing I’ve wondered about. I guess I’ve always felt that should be the man’s place. There are times when I desire physical intimacy, but I have doubts about whether it’s right for me to get things started. Do you this this is OK? Greg Smalley, Vice President, Family Ministries: I think I can safely answer for most husbands out there with an enthusiastic “Yes!” But personal interests aside, in a healthy marriage, both partners should have the liberty to be honest and authentic with each other.
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The difference between life we have and the life we want “Stay engaged,” I repeated silently to myself. “Stay engaged, damn it!” Years back, I worked at a job I dreaded. I lived for the weekends and felt my anxiety increase as I counted down the last fleeting hours of freedom each Sunday night. Each weekday my eyes would pop open around 4 a.m. and I’d lie in bed mulling over all the things I needed to accomplish — things I had little interest in accomplishing. Invariably, I would find myself in weekly meetings trying to appear interested in the current topic of discussion. It didn’t work. Ultimately, I was taken aside asked that most dreaded of questions, “Do you enjoy working here?” I recall having coffee with a friend and sharing my burdens or, more precisely, whining and venting about my sad state of affairs. Being a good friend, my buddy listened for a while then finally interrupted my pity party by suggesting that we look at the issue objectively. “Did you like the job when you started it?” he asked. I told him I did but the bloom had come off the rose, so to speak. A lot of the original staff had moved on and the
management philosophy was no longer the same since the business had been sold to a large conglomerate. I no longer found meaning or purpose in my work. “It sounds as though MURRAY you’re incomFUHRER patible with the job.” I had heard the term incompatible or incompatibility used to describe everything from blood types to relationships but I hadn’t heard it used in this sense. As it turns out, incompatibility can also be used to describe the resistance and resulting stress created between the life we want and the life we’re living. Incompatibility is the inability to exist in harmony. I used to believe that I could create the life I wanted while continuing to tolerate negative aspects of my current existence. I was mistaken. Tolerance is resistance and resistance keeps you
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says that if you decline something you really should have accepted (and you’re honest with yourself) you’ll feel more guilt and disappointment than relief. That’s the litmus test. If, for example, we’re feeling called to be in a different line of work, then we need to stop saying yes to the current occupation. Now let’s be clear. Pavlina is not suggesting that we disengage and refuse to fulfill our obligations at work. Instead he suggests we bring awareness to the fact that we’re pouring our energy into something we know we don’t want. He suggests we stop — be still — and step beyond what we think is necessary, appropriate or expected.
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Mountview Elementary grade four student Eleena Kidd negotiates around a tight turn on the serpentine course during the school’s bike rodeo event at the school on Thursday. Students in grades 2-4 took part in the bike rodeo that included a variety of events including a slow straight line event, figure eight, left turn and stop and right turn and stop elements. gy and your awareness because you’re no longer mired by an attitude of resistance. You feel relief and freedom. I know I did. This opens the door to creating and experiencing what you truly want. Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His recent book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca.
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ROCKFORD, Mich. — A Michigan couple who already had 12 sons have kept the all-male streak alive with the birth of boy No. 13 on Wednesday. Jay Schwandt told The Associated Press that his wife Kateri gave birth Wednesday morning, four days after her due date. The couple had said they were sticking to the tradition of not knowing the baby’s sex ahead of time. The 40-year-old father confirmed the birth in a text message to The Associated Press, saying the family will release details Thursday on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America.” “Ok, so the boys know now!” Schwandt said in a post on Facebook. “It’s a BOY! Now we need to choose a name! BLESSED beyond belief!” The Schwandts live in Rockford, north of Grand Rapids. Kateri Schwandt, 40, says she has a lot of experience with large families, as one of 14 children herself. In an interview last week, she said she finds motherhood to be “very rewarding.” “Your children are a little piece of you. Every day is Mother’s Day,” she told The Grand Rapids Press. “They will bring me flowers that they pick in the yard. Even if it’s a dandelion, it’s special because they were thinking of Mom.”
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I used Pavlina’s approach when I decided it was time to leave the job in question. Though I respected most of the people I worked with, I no longer felt compatible with the work and was merely tolerating it. Did I stand up one day and announce, “I quit?” No, but my first step was to stop saying yes to it. Though I stayed engaged (and it actually became easier), I began making plans for the future. Obviously, this caused me some tension, but it also allowed me to start accepting the need for change. Instead of being resigned to my job, I ultimately resigned from it. Says Pavlina, “After you’ve stopped saying yes, your energy and enthusiasm will rise to the point where you’re ready to commit to a new beginning. You may not be ready to say, ‘I quit,’ right that minute, but you’ll know it’s unavoidable. You can see a fork in the road approaching.” I found that the better my self-esteem, the more willing I was to embrace change. And you’ll find that once you stop saying yes, the death of the old becomes inevitable. Once you stop putting energy into an incompatible career, relationship or activity, the curtain will fall. Be patient and remember: all things to history in their own time. Allow yourself time to transition. If you’re tolerating aspects of your life rather than accepting, releasing or trying to change them, then you’re likely to find yourself waking up at 4 a.m. filled with dread and regret. Accountability is the key, says Pavlina. “If your life isn’t filled with who or what you love, who chose that? Who’s choosing it right now? Who’s free to say no at any time? Who’s responsible for fixing it? If you can’t say no to what you don’t want, then how can you possibly experience what you do want?” Want to travel the right path? Stop taking steps along the wrong one first. When you drive the incompatibilities from your life, you raise your ener-
This includes the freedom to express feelings and desires, sexual and otherwise, in open, transparent and non-manipulative ways. That being the case, you can rest assured it’s good, healthy, right, proper and appropriate for both marriage partners to take an active role in initiating sexual relations. This will vary according to circumstances and each spouse’s mood, feelings and desires. Here, if anywhere, a couple’s relationship should be characterized by the give-and-take of a dance. The most important thing is to maintain the kind of mutual affection and respect that enables you to be open and honest with each another. Among other things, this means taking time to talk about sex outside the bedroom. Remember that in marital sex the two of you are co-creating something that is radically exclusive and uniquely your own. It’s a painting, a tapestry, a work of art that requires active input from both parties. It’s all about you and your spouse becoming who you want to be together. So be creative,
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Once we were all sung out and arriving into the hamlet of Markerville, it took us about two seconds (this is not an exaggeration) to find the creamery and another two to realize it was not open for the season for another week. I really do need to start calling ahead to these kinds of places. But because Lars and Sophie are a couple of the coolest people I know, they weren’t all that upset. Rather than stew about our miscalculation (like a bunch of lacklustre adults would do), we strolled the town and took in the beautiful sights and scenery that Markerville had to offer. About three minutes later we were off to Cousin Hannah’s house. When we hit the halfway mark on our way to another small settlement called Elnora, I realized that I had to pee something fierce. I pulled into a little checkstop bathroom where I would have called the lighting in the place unjustifiably eerie. I tried to convince Lars to join Sophie and me in the bathroom but he looked at me like I was wearing a mongoose as a top hat and said, “There’s NO WAY I’m going in the GIRLS bathroom MOM!” I wondered when he had defined such strong feelings about this kind of subject matter but my bladder felt as though I was nine months pregnant and jumping on a trampoline. So instead, I made him stand directly outside of the door and told him if anybody even came close to him to yowl like he’s never yowled before. He seemed OK with that, although I don’t think he knew what “yowl” meant. I’ve never peed so quickly in my life. We arrived at our destination in good time and had a wonderful visit with the family. As I drove home, I wondered why I was so worried about this trip in the first place. Kids can be a lot of things, but sometimes I think we can get all too wrapped up in the negatives to appreciate the alternative. And the alternative is to remember that most of all kids are fun. Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.