Red Deer Advocate, July 23, 2012

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Riley Murphy, left, of Movie Stunt Adventures flips while jumping off a tower at Westerner Days Sunday. At right, Michael Owens of Movie Stunt Adventures flips while jumping Sunday. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

The wild, wild Westerner RED DEER’S ANNUAL FAIR WILL LIKELY BREAK OVERALL ATTENDANCE RECORD

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

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Amanda Greening of the Canadian Rabbit Hopping Club urges Buttercup over an obstacle during a Westerner Days demonstration Sunday. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com.

Sunday’s attendance at Westerner Days has yet to be announced, but it’s safe to say Red Deer’s annual fair will likely break the overall attendance record set in 2011.

Last year 93,965 people visited the five-day event at Westerner Park.

In the first four days of the 2012 fair, a total of 81,324 came out to play at Westerner Days.

With the good weather on Sunday afternoon, a steady stream of vehicles filled the parking lot.

“To beat our overall attendance, we actually don’t even need to have that big of a day today.

We would need to have 12,642 people come through the gates,” said Erin Gobolos, Westerner Park marketing manager, on Sunday.

“We could do it.”

Sunday’s attendance will be announced today.

(Monday) On Saturday, a total of 21,517 visitors passed through the gates, compared to 26,825 in 2011 which set a new Saturday record for the fair.

About 4,500 came out to the free concert featuring country singer Terri Clark on Saturday night.

On Friday, 22,492 people came out, compared to 14,885 in bad weather at the 2011 fair.

The Friday record was set in 2010 with 24,302.

‘TO BEAT OUR OVERALL ATTENDANCE, WE ACTUALLY DON’T EVEN NEED TO HAVE THAT BIG OF A DAY TODAY (SUNDAY). WE WOULD NEED TO HAVE 12,642 PEOPLE COME THROUGH THE GATES.’ — ERIN GOBOLOS, WESTERNER PARK MARKETING MANAGER

A diverse crowd of about 5,200 people attended Friday’s Nazareth concert.

“That’s huge.

“Classic rock is a really popular night for us,” Gobolos said.

On Saturday and Sunday visitors to livestock exhibits at the Stockmans Pavilion were introduced to a growing sensation — The Canadian Rabbit Hopping Club.

The club, started in 2007 by 4-H members in Calgary, brought 21 rabbits to Westerner Days for the first time where they bounced over bars and climbed over A-frames on a minature agility course.

The adorable domestic breeds gained celebrity status appearing in March on Canada’s Got Talent where they charmed the audience, but failed to impress judges.

“I think it’s awesome. Ridiculous, but awesome, and he’s loving it,” said Kim Goddard, of Edmonton, with her four-and-a-halfyear-old son Benjamin.

“Babbitty rabbit,” cheered Benjamin as he watched Babbitty Rabbitty

race through the obstacle course with a winning time of 10.41 seconds.

Club founder Amanda Greening, of Calgary, said her club now does about 40 events each year.

“We’ve been invited to Hong Kong. We’ve been invited to Manitoba, Toronto, all kinds of places,” Greening said.

In August, the club will be at Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver.

Greening said rabbits are smart and getting them involved in agility helps stimulate them and burns energy.

“You can teach them voice commands. I doubt he’ll do it here because he’s kind of excited, but at home he knows spin on command and stand up,” she said about Babbitty Rabbitty who is five years old.

For more information and the club’s YouTube video from Canada’s Got Talent visit canadianrabbithoppingclub.com. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Receivership puts water plant, hospital work on hold

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Renovations to expand Red Deer’s water treatment plant office and hospital surgery space in Innisfail and Red Deer are on hold after builder KT Construction Services Inc. went into receivership.

KT Construction Services Inc. was hired by the

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City of Red Deer to do about $1.1 million in work on office expansion and lab upgrade at the plant.

It is part of the city’s $55-million water treatment plant upgrade over the next several years.

Gord Ludtke, city environmental planning engineer, said agreements are put in place with companies tendered to do city work to ensure work is completed.

The city is hoping work will get underway again in

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KT Construction was on the job for two to three weeks and put in some piles and was working on the expansion foundation before work stopped.

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Whitewater rafter killed

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONGVIEW — A whitewater rafter has died in an accident south of Calgary.

RCMP say the 35-year-old man was rafting with four friends on the Highwood River on Sunday afternoon when their raft went over a waterfall and flipped.

The others made it to safety, but the man who died drifted downstream where swimmers saw him floating face down.

Police say they pulled him from the water but had to scramble up a steep 60-metre bank to call for help.

They say the victim was wearing a helmet and a life jacket.

Police say he was from Calgary.

Vietnam ranked worst in wildlife crime report

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANOI, Vietnam — A conservation group ranked Vietnam the worst country for wildlife crime Monday in its first-ever report on how well 23 Asian and African countries protect rhinos, tigers and elephants.

WWF said Vietnam’s tiger farms and its citizens’ voracious appetite for rhino horn as a supposed cure-all helped put it at the top of the list. Neighboring China, widely viewed as the world’s largest market for illegal wildlife products, finished a close second, and Laos was third.

The Switzerland-based WWF focused its report on countries where the threatened animals live in the wild or are traded or consumed.

Many consumers in Asia demand illegal wildlife products for their purported, if unproven, medicinal properties. The Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institution has said the illegal wildlife trade is worth an estimated $8 billion to $10 billion per year in Southeast Asia alone.

The WWF report said Vietnam is “the major destination” for rhino horns trafficked from South Africa, where 448 rhinos were poached last year. Rhino horn can fetch the U.S. street value of cocaine in Asia, where it is crushed and consumed by people who believe — wrongly, doctors say — that it can cure diseases.

It also said Vietnam’s 2007 decision to legalize tiger farms on a pilot basis has “undermined” the country’s efforts to police illegal trade in tiger products. Vietnam has 11 registered tiger farms.

The 35-page report comes on the heels of a controversy that erupted in May, when international wildlife experts learned that Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development had in March proposed allowing parts of tigers that die in captivity to be made into traditional medicine on a pilot basis.

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PROJECTS: City informed on June 20 The city was alerted that KT Construction had gone into receivership on June 20.

KT Construction has no other projects with the city.

Projects affected at Alberta Health Services include renovations to move cataract surgery to Innisfail Health and Care Centre from Red Deer Regional Health Centre.

The Red Deer hospital was also adding a fourth endoscopic suite to accommodate the colorectal

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Parking attendant Victor Robicheau puts on a show with his furled flag for Westerner Days patrons entering Westerner Park Sunday. Please see related video at www.reddeeradvocate.com. screening program, as well as renovations to the hospital’s outpatient department’s main nursing station and patient waiting areas.

The cost of the Red Deer hospital project is $2.3 million. The cost of the Innisfail project was not available.

AHS says both these projects are to create additional future capacity so there is no immediate impact to patient care.

The projects will continue and additional capacity will come on stream later this year.

Cataract surgery was expected to move to Innisfail this summer.

Kerry Bales, senior vice-president for AHS Central Zone, said work to convert the former operating room and patient room into a surgical suite, recovery area and outpatient clinic in Innisfail was nearing completion when it came to a halt.

“We’re hoping within the next few weeks to have a better idea what the time line will look like,” Bales

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Surgeries were last done in Innisfail in 2006.

Moving cataract surgery to Innisfail is one of the ways AHS Central Zone is increasing access to surgery.

It’s part of a $16.7-million AHS plan to increase the number of high-priority surgeries by 5,000 a year in the province.

The goal is to add 400 more urgent, emergent and day surgeries in Red Deer. In 2010-11, about 13,350 were performed.

Bales said about 1,200 cataract surgeries are performed in Red Deer annually. Once the program is transferred to Innisfail, AHS will look at opportunities to increase the number of cataract surgeries performed.

Until Innisfail is ready, cataract surgery will continue in Red Deer. szielinski@reddeeradvocate

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Monday, July 23, 2012

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BY LAURA TESTER ADVOCATE STAFF

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Drew and Jessica Soderburg watch a line painting crew make its way west on 47th Avenue from a lift perch high above their 49th Street home in Sylvan Lake Saturday night. The couple rented the machine to take down poplar and Manitoba maple trees in their yard and made use of it to give themselves a rewarding if temporary lake view.

Police said that traffic was unusually slow through the collision scene in both directions due to numerous drivers slowing to take videos and pictures of the crash.

One driver was charged for distracted driving.

Police remind people to focus on the road.

Northbound lanes of the highway were limited to just one lane for about one hour while emergency crews cleaned up debris.

Neither excessive speed nor alcohol were considered factors in the crash.

Molnar said the cable barrier did its job.

“Based on our investigation, these vehicles would have likely continued through the median and into opposing traffic had they not been stopped by the cables.”

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Heavy rain on Saturday morning contributed to a three-vehicle collision about two km south of Red Deer on Hwy 2.

RCMP with the Innisfail Integrated Traffic Unit say a northbound vehicle lost control and spun into the centre median cable barrier at about 10 a.m.

A motorist who stopped his truck to help out was nearly struck when a second northbound vehicle also lost control and collided with both vehicles.

“The male who had stopped to assist had just stepped back into his truck seconds before a vehicle collided with his vehicle, skidding passed where he was standing,” said RCMP Const. Steve Molnar.

Despite the severity of the crash, only minor injuries were reported. All occupants were wearing their seatbelts.

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A $2.2-million lift station will collect the wastewater from the Summer Village of Birchcliff and some lakeshore development immediately north of Birchcliff on Sylvan Lake.

Lacombe County commissioner Terry Hager said the lift station will then pump the sewage into the regional line which will then transfer it to the Sylvan Lake lagoon system for treatment and eventual release through the Cygnet Lake system and into the Red Deer River.

A lift station is a big cement tank with a pump in it and that’s where the effluent is collected.

Once it reaches a certain point, the pumps kick in and the effluent is pumped into the lagoons.

Previously, residents and larger developments in the area were relying on private water and sewage systems.

The whole purpose behind building the regional lines around Sylvan Lake is to allow municipalities to move to a municipal system and eliminate all the private wastewater systems, said Hager.

Hager said the lift station will tie into an existing regional line that then transports the effluent to the Town of Sylvan Lake lagoons.

Construction should begin on the lift station later this summer. ]It’s hoped this station will be operational by next spring, Hager said.

All the homes in Birchcliff would tie in,

along with about 120 other residential lots within Lacombe County.

“It’s part of a much larger project that provides for regional sewage lines to go around Sylvan Lake, to (the town of) Sylvan Lake for treatment,” said Hager.

The long-term plan is to have the effluent -piped to the City of Red Deer and treated through its system.

And that is part of an even larger plan in which all the effluent from the Olds area, Sylvan Lake area and the Lacombe area is treated centrally through the Red Deer wastewater plant, said Hager.

“It would return to the river downstream from the main water treatment intake for the city,” he said.

County council was told this week that the Alberta Transportation must agree to increase the grant funding under the Water for Life program for the project to move forward. County council agreed to increase the funding for oversizing.

The north lift station is funded 90 per cent through the provincial Water for Life program.

Lacombe County has agreed to pay the remaining 10 per cent, or the oversizing of the project to accommodate for development within Lacombe County.

The tank was made bigger, plus the pumps were made bigger, Hager said. ltester@reddeeradvocate.com

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Smoothing path of immigrants Canada is a nation of immigrants.

We all know that.

But how profoundly immigrants are shaping — and will continue to shape — the new demographic and economic reality of this nation in the 21st century is a story that continues to unfold.

And some in this community are helping steer that narrative in a very positive direction.

In the United States, family reunification remains a primary focus of its immigration policy (a focus that was once the norm in Canada as well).

Two thirds of its annual immigrant pool enters the U.S. for that reason.

In Canada, a country with a declining birth rate, that figure lies just a little north of 20 per cent.

OTHERVOICES There is greater emphasis in Canada on admitting immigrants for economic reasons.

These immigrants, with their various skills, are much-needed as workers so we can remain economically viable and competitive, and we need to ensure that they are able to integrate into our labour force with confidence and poise.

That’s where Michael Hayford, Keghani Mardikian, Ghazala Fauzia and Pragya Pandey enter the picture.

They are offering invaluable counselling to new Canadians who face language and other challenges, some

of them cultural, as they acclimatize themselves to the sometimes harsh realities of the Canadian job market.

Canada likes to contrast its cultural mosaic approach to the melting pot Americans profess to so fervently believe in.

But without assistance in helping break down the oftentimes overwhelming barriers faced by many of our immigrants and refugees, we risk confining them to a needless insularity at the very time when they are trying to establish themselves as valuable future citizens.

It would be disheartening for anyone to find their previous work experience undervalued.

How many Canadians trained as

doctors, engineers or other professionals would be able to successfully cope if they moved to another country and were told their professional credentials don’t measure up?

That is the actuality for far too many who come to this country.

The KW Immigrant Support Group is currently partnered with the K-W Multicultural Centre and K-W Counselling Services.

They and other organizations like them can be found around the contry.

We hope they can soon partner with an appropriate government agency as well, so they can receive funding to help carry on this vital work.

From the Waterloo Region Record

LETTERS Life in a construction zone a dusty, noisy condition I live at the end of Timothy Drive in Red Deer next to an apartment development.

I have been dealing with construction for seven months.

Of those seven months at least six days of week of construction noise, contractors blocking the streets and blocking access to my driveway, dump trucks driving down the alleys till 9 p.m. with tractor trailers attached, dump trucks speeding down the street spreading dust everywhere, our streets are a mess, I can’t open my windows without dusting my house and disturbing our new born.

Contractors trespass on our neighbours’ property and drive large equipment on their driveway without permission. Large tractor trailers back down the street causing traffic issues and possible collisions.

I have been getting attitude from contractors about these issues. There is no care and attention taken or courtesy taken to accommodate the residences surrounding the neighborhood.

It is an active construction area but at the same time its a residential area full of families and construction companies can’t be ignorant of that and hide behind, “It’s a construction zone.”

My family has lost all enjoyment of our home due to this mess and the constant noise six days a week bordering our property and problems with contractors and are considering moving because of it.

I am new to this area and wasn’t present for the council meetings for zoning for this area, but there should be more controls in place to monitor activities of these companies and how they impact the existing neighbourhood. The residences should not have shoulder this problem due to progress and development.

Dylan Read Red Deer

Why are governments financing asbestos mines?

Mesothelioma is a nasty cancer that affects the lining around a person’s lungs. It can also damage membranes around the abdomen, heart, and testicles. The prognosis for those who have it is poor. It causes close to 90,000 preventable deaths a year.

More than 90 per cent of cases are attributed to asbestos exposure.

Asbestos is made up of tiny fibres that can be inhaled, penetrating the lungs. Because they are mineral-based, they can’t be broken down by the body’s natural defences, so they cause inflammation.

The fibres also remain in the lining around the lungs, and over time — often 20 to 30 years or more — may cause DAVID mesothelioma or other disSUZUKI eases.

Because asbestos is a known carcinogen, it has been banned by more than 50 countries, including all members of the European Union. They appear to be getting along fine without it, probably because there are safe alternatives for construction, fire-proofing, and other asbestos functions.

Canada and the U.S. have not banned it but don’t use it much anymore.

Although Canada doesn’t have a domestic market for asbestos, we actively support the industry and promote exports to other countries, especially India.

In fact, Canada is one of only a few countries that

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still exports asbestos. And despite these times of government cutbacks, the Quebec government has even stepped in to keep the industry alive by agreeing to lend the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec, $58-million to restart and expand.

The Jeffery operation is one of the two last asbestos mines in Canada, both of which were shut down last year. Proponents also hope to restart the other, Lac d’amiante du Canada in nearby Thetford Mines.

Quebec has one of the highest rates of mesothelioma in the world.

Meanwhile, the Quebec and federal governments had been funding the Chrysotile Institute, an asbestos industry lobby group, to the tune of a quarter million dollars or more a year. Federal funding was axed last year and the institute closed earlier this year.

The federal government has also blocked international efforts to have asbestos listed as hazardous — against advice from Health Canada — by repeatedly voting to keep it off the UN Rotterdam Convention, a treaty listing hazardous substances and requiring exporting countries to inform importers of bans, dangers, and safe-handling methods.

Asbestos may be good enough for export to Indonesia and India, but not for the politicians who support the industry here at home.

The federal government has spent millions of dollars to remove asbestos from buildings on Parliament Hill and from the prime minister’s residence.

As for the stuff that will be removed from the Jeffrey Mine — more than 200,000 tonnes a year for the next 20 years — it will be sent to developing countries that may not adhere to safety standards for its use and handling.

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Interestingly, the Jeffrey Mine’s owner had asked for a loan guarantee, but the government offered a direct loan. Maybe the private sector didn’t see much future in trading a known carcinogen that countries around the world are moving to ban.

It’s particularly disappointing to see the Quebec government, which otherwise has a pretty good environmental track record, support a project with known negative environmental and health risks.

It also says a lot about the absurdity of an economic system in which creating a few jobs and boosting wealth is a higher priority than preventing cancer, protecting health, and having a clean environment.

The Jeffery mine re-opening is expected to create just over 400 direct jobs, each paying about $16 an hour.

Is such a small economic boost worth the misery and death continued extraction and exports will cause? Many health and environmental experts from here and around the world don’t think so.

The Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Public Health Association, Canadian Labour Congress, and other organizations have called for a ban, with labour groups also asking for a just transition strategy for affected workers.

Around the world, numerous health agencies, scientists, and doctors, including the World Health Organization, have warned of the dangers of asbestos and have recommended banning it.

We must urge the governments of Quebec and Canada to listen to scientists, experts, and the public and put the brakes on this deadly industry.

Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Editorial and Communications Specialist Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

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Thousands of people take to the streets of Montreal in a mass demonstration against the Quebec Liberal governments policies, including university fee hikes and Bill 78 on Sunday.

Quebec students take to streets WITH ANTI-CHAREST MESSAGE AS ELECTION LOOMS

BY BENJAMIN SHINGLER THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Thousands of students and their supporters took to the streets of Montreal on Sunday to denounce the province’s tuition increases, sending a message they will be ready for a fight if Premier Jean Charest decides to call an election.

Protests against Quebec’s Liberal government have eased during the summer months, but students said a strong turnout during the height of the summer holidays was proof the movement hasn’t died out.

The crowd, an enthusiastic mix of students, families and seniors, winded its way through the city’s downtown on a hot and humid afternoon.

“We want to make sure the momentum is still there,” Gabriel NadeauDubois, a spokesman for the powerful CLASSE student group, told reporters.

“One could say that the river has turned into a delta. The movement may be less strong, but it’s wider.”

It has been widely speculated that Premier Jean Charest may call an elec-

tion Aug. 1 for a vote in early September.

CLASSE, which organized the march, has promised it won’t support one particular party, but will work to make sure the Liberals don’t return to power.

Other student groups are also planning an information campaign explaining their opposition to the tuition increases.

“We want to make sure everybody understands what we did during the spring time, what we continue to do, and why we are doing it,” said Yanick Gregoire, vice-president of a university student group.

“We also want to make sure everybody knows what the Liberals did during their mandate.”

Michel Leblanc, 72, who has been taking part in the protests for nearly five months, said he’s hopeful the movement will have an impact at the ballot box.

“We all need to vote,” said Leblanc.

“Sometimes students don’t vote, and if they do it will help get out Charest.”

While some student leaders said tuition hikes remain the main point of disagreement, the movement has taken

on a wide range of issues including the government’s environmental and economic policies.

Many remain upset about Bill 78, the provincial law introduced in May that suspended school for striking students and put limits on some protests.

The province’s human rights commission released a report last week saying portions of the law infringe on fundamental rights and violate the Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The theme of the march, according to CLASSE, was the government’s destructive “neo-liberal agenda.”

One thing everyone in the crowd agreed on was that it’s time for Charest to leave office.

Polls, however, suggest a tight race between the Liberals and the Parti

Quebecois, with the new Coalition for Quebec’s Future also garnering considerable support.

Eliane Laberge, the head of another student group, said getting out the vote will be a priority if an election is called.

Voter turnout among Quebecers between 18 and 25 was below 50 per cent in the last election in 2008.

“We want a party that is representing the youth of Quebec,” she said.

“And we thought if the majority of them go vote, then maybe we can (make) a big difference.”

There were also protest marches held Sunday in Quebec City and TroisRivieres. Students have been holding major marches on the 22nd of every month since March.

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Premiers hope to forge common ground ON HEALTH, ENERGY DESPITE HARPER’S ABSENCE this meeting,” he said in an interview before the three-day meetings begin Wednesday.

“The federal government needs us to deliver the services that are of most importance to Canadians and, at some point, they have to come to us and discuss how that’s going to take place.”

That consternation centres on a series of federal decisions the provinces contend were made with little to no consultation, such as changes to employment insurance, the omnibus crime bill and reforms to the Fisheries Act. High on the list is Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s announcement late last year that health transfer payments would increase at six per cent annually until 2017.

After that, the transfers would be tied to the rate of economic growth and inflation — currently estimated to be about four per cent — but the government wouldn’t let the amounts fall below three per cent.

Provinces including Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador said Flaherty

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Canada’s premiers will try to forge a common front when they meet this week to discuss a range of contentious issues, including health care, energy and the economy, while pushing back against a federal government some of them say has shut the door on talks.

Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter, the host of the Council of the Federation gathering, said he and his colleagues will tackle everything from crafting a position on disputed health transfers to the development of a pan-Canadian energy plan.

But he added that much of the talk between the provincial and territorial leaders will be tinged by frustrations over their increasingly distant relationship with the prime minister, who last met with them three years ago.

“There is a fair amount of consternation about the question of engagement between the federal government and the provinces ... That’s going to be a very lively topic for

imposed the deal on them without leaving room for negotiations.

But the federal government has said the new formula is generous.

Several Eastern provinces with small but increasingly elderly populations have said the scheme will result in punishingly high costs. “(If it goes to per capita), P.E.I. is destroyed,” Premier Robert Ghiz said before the Halifax meeting.

“The feds aren’t listening to the experts and the experts are the provinces because we are the ones delivering health care in Canada.”

Ghiz will deliver a report he co-authored with Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall on new ways to meet health challenges, including the needs of seniors, patients with chronic diseases and northern populations.

It will look at scope of practice, clinical practice guidelines and human resources in the hopes that they can share ideas about improving the delivery of health care.

Premier Greg Selinger of Manitoba is expected to pres-

ent a study he took on after the last meeting of premiers in Victoria in January on federal fiscal transfer payments.

The premiers are also expected to discuss moving ahead with a national energy strategy being led by Alberta that would form a common approach to developing, marketing and sustaining energy resources.

The Western premiers are already backing the vision put forward by Alberta’s Alison Redford, who was in Toronto last week to meet with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and has held one-on-one meetings with other premiers in the run-up to the council gathering.

Many of the leaders have insisted publicly that their divergent regional interests and varying energy resources won’t get in the way of any kind of unified front, a sentiment endorsed last week by a Conservative-led Senate committee that recommended a national approach to energy.

“The provinces may have different ambitions in terms of what they’re trying to do, but a comprehensive energy

policy won’t take a portfolio approach,” Dexter said.

“We’re a big country and there’s a going to be different approaches in different parts of the country, all of which can be equally valid and supportable.”

But some say that might be overly optimistic if agreements don’t come with incentives.

Harvey Lazar of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations says the provinces succeeded in pressing Ottawa to restore fiscal cash transfers in the late ’90s leading up to the health accords years later.

“History suggests that it is easier for provinces and territories to make common cause when they all stand to benefit immediately,” he said.

“Each premier has a unique electorate and each province a unique economy. It is far from obvious that the premiers can or should even try to make common cause on issues that affect their economies differently, like EI or energy.

“It is not their task to be the national government.”

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“I’ve been told repeatedly that on the ground (on reserves), there’s tremendous grassroots leadership from women, who are using it as a launching pad,” she said.

“It is for us to look at what they (First Nations) are doing right. Because we’re not faring as well in the rest of Canada.”

Still, the numbers suggest that a rise to the top for First Nations women is not easy.

The AFN says just 111 out of 633 chiefs are women — about 17.5 per cent.

That’s just slightly higher than the percentage of female mayors in cities across Canada, according to Equal Voice.

And it’s about the same percentage of women that are head of Liberal Party of Canada riding associations, where low female participation is considered a problem, said Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, a one-time leadership candidate herself who also attended the AFN election meetings last week.

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Now, the issue is a top priority for any national chief, and the key activists on the file are as likely to be male as female, she added.

Shawn Atleo, who defeated the four women and three men for the title of national chief to retain his title, notes that many First Nations have matrilineal roots — roots that were often disrupted by the imposition of the Indian Act. “The issue of gender division (is) one of the external influences that have come into our communities and the re-building of relationships between men and women is something all our communities are undergoing.”

At the local level of First Nations politics, there is ample space for women to get involved in politics and gain the networks and experience they need to move up, said Audette.

Nancy Peckford has noted the same phenomenon. Peckford is executive director of Equal Voice, a group that advocates for more women in Canadian politics.

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OTTAWA — They did it without quotas, action plans or affirmative action.

Half of the eight candidates in the recent election for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations were women — a novel event, not just for the native organization but for Canadian politics in general.

The secret to such high female participation is two-fold, says Michele Audette, president of the Quebec Native Women’s Association.

It lies in politics at the local level, where women on reserves have been taking the reins more and more often, she says.

And it lies in an inclusive approach to men, making them realize that their own health and welfare improve along with the empowerment of women, Audette said in an interview as the AFN elections wrapped up.

“We do not push the men away,” she said.

Audette recalls that just 30 years

ago, the women of her reserve had to peer through the windows of the band office in order to read the lips of the male counsellors in the room making decisions on their behalf. Women had been banned.

She grew up to be an ardent feminist, eventually becoming the deputy minister in the Status of Women ministry in Quebec. She believed in quotas and rules and affirmative action.

But she later returned to First Nations politics, and found she had to change her approach.

The word “feminist” does not really exist in her native language, she said, but that’s not because women weren’t standing up for their rights. They just did it differently.

“We started to think, we have to work with the men, and have a healing process.

“And we have to work with the women, and empower them,” she said.

Violence against women has proven to be a catalyst, Audette said.

Native women, and then their husbands, sons and fathers, have been or-

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Scott collapse gives Els win ELS STAYS STEADY WHILE OTHERS STRUGGLE ON WINDY DAY AT BRITISH OPEN AARON BERRY

BERRY ARRESTED AGAIN Detroit Lions cornerback Aaron Berry has been arrested in Pennsylvania for the second time this off-season. Cpl. Kyle Gautsch of the Harrisburg Police Department says Berry was taken into custody early Saturday morning on three charges of simple assault. Gautsch said there “was a weapon allegedly brandished during the incident.”

Berry was also arrested in that area June 23 on suspicion of DUI, failure to stop and render aid from an accident and other counts. He was set to enter a diversionary program in that case.

His second arrest was the latest bit of bad publicity during a troubled off-season for the Lions.

Today

● Senior baseball: Gary Moe at Lacombe, North Star Sports vs. Printing Place, doubleheader, Great Chief I; The Hideout vs. Sylvan Lake, Great Chief II, 7 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Lacombe at Rocky, 7 p.m.

Tuesday

● Ladies fastball: Red Deer League final, Panthers vs. Badgers, first game of best-of-three, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Senior baseball: Lacombe vs. The Hideout, 7 p.m., Great Chief II. ● Sunburst baseball: Red Deer Riggers vs. Fort Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — Ernie Els plucked the ball from the hole after one last birdie and heaved it into the grandstand. At the time, it looked like nothing more than a classy gesture by a former British Open champion — not the next one.

The name on the claret jug was supposed to be Adam Scott, who had a four-shot lead with four holes to play.

But in a shocking turnaround Sunday, Els returned to the 18th green less than an hour later to claim the oldest trophy in golf.

Scott joined a list of players who threw away a major.

That was not lost on Els, whose heart sank when he looked over at the 32-year-old Australian.

“Sorry,” Els told him.

“You’re a great player, a great friend of mine. I feel very fortunate. You’re going to win many of these.”

Scott might not get another chance like this.

After hitting a 3-wood into a pot bunker on the final hole, Scott had one last chance when he stood over a 7-foot par putt to force a playoff. It stayed left of the cup, and Scott dropped into a crouch. Standing off to the side, his chin quivered as the magnitude of the meltdown hit him. Instead, he mouthed one word: “Wow.” Wow, indeed.

Even though Els had gone more than two years without winning, and had thrown away two tournaments in recent months with shaky putting, the Big Easy felt all along that something special was going to happen at this British Open.

And it did — all because of a collapse by Scott that no one saw coming.

“I know I let a really great chance slip through my fingers today,” Scott said.

On a wind-swept afternoon at Royal Lytham & St. Annes that blew away the hopes of Tiger Woods and a handful of others, Scott looked steady as ever by going eight straight holes without making bogey. And that’s when it came undone.

“I had it in my hands with four to go,” Scott said.

A bogey from the bunker on the 15th cut the lead to three.

That was followed by a threeputt bogey on the 16th, where his 3-foot par putt spun in and out of the cup and made the gallery gasp. From the middle of the 17th fairway, he hit a 6-iron that turned left, ran down the slope and took one last bounce in shin-high grass.

“I thought, ’Hold on. We’ve got a problem here,’ ” said Graeme McDowell, playing with Scott in the final group.

By then, Els had posted a 2-under 68 with a 15-foot birdie putt on the final hole, a cheer that Scott recognized while playing the 17th. Scott failed to get up-and-down for par from the rough and suddenly was tied.

Els headed to the practice green, where it rarely works out for him. In perhaps the most crushing defeat in a career filled with them, Els was on the putting green at Augusta National in 2004 when Phil Mickelson made an 18-foot birdie putt to win the Masters.

“I just thought, ’I’ll probably be disappointed again,’ ” Els said.

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Adam Scott reacts after missing a putt on the 18th green at Royal Lytham & St Annes golf club during the final round of the British Open Golf Championship, Sunday. Scott bogied his last four holes to lose a four-stroke lead and the British Open. Ernie Els won at two-under.

Thiel holds on for first chucks title

BY CARSON PAPKE ADVOCATE STAFF

Wednesday

● Ladies fastball: Red Deer League final, Panthers vs. Badgers, second game, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Parkland baseball: Lacombe at Eckville, Red Deer at innisfail, 7 p.m.

Thursday

● Senior baseball: Printing Place vs. Gary Moe, 7 p.m., Great Chief. ● Ladies fastball: Red Deer League final, Panthers vs. Badgers, third game of best-ofthree, if necessary, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Sunburst baseball: Red Deer Riggers vs. Red Deer Stags, 7:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Friday

● Soccer tournament: Red Deer City youth tournament, Sked TBA

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Ronnie helps Riggers to win 32nd annual tourney

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Garry Thiel in the Pumps and Pressure rig comes out of the barrels to win the Dash For Cash and the North American Pony Chuckwagon Championship at Westerner Days, Sunday.

The final race at the North American Pony Chuckwagon Championships came down to last year’s champion Ray Adamson chasing Garry Thiel, who was looking for his first ever title.

Thiel and his Pumps and Pressure wagon put down the best run of the day in an exciting Dash For Cash finale at Westerner Days on Sunday. Thiel held a slim lead going into the last race but the Sherwood Park driver made sure there was nothing to stop him from his first championship by throwing down the best run of the five-day event in a time of one minute 15.6 seconds, close to a full second over Adamson who finished third in the heat.

“The track was awesome,” said Thiel.

“I had to be cautious today and just come out clean but when the horn sounded my horses ran hard.”

The duel win (the Dash for Cash and the North American crown) was a career highlight for Thiel who is in his 25th year of racing. He has won the chariot championship portion of the All Pro Taste the Dust tour five times but was only able to crack third in the pony chuckwagons which was last year.

“There is 56 wagons here and they’re all tough competition,” he said. “To win both is very special.”

Thiel did win the chuckwagon title in Westlock in early June and felt confident heading into Westerner Days because his horses have been running good. He rested up his horses by not racing them last week and the move seemed to pay off.

“They have been doing well all week and I knew if we came out clean we had a chance,” he said.

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Riggers 7 A’s 3 Thanks to an injured thumb on his left hand Mike Ronnie wasn’t able to swing the bat this weekend for the Red Deer Riggers.

But he was willing to help out any other way he could and when manager Curtis Bailey pencilled him in to start on the mound against the Fort Saskatchewan A’s in the final of the 32nd annual Riggers baseball tournament he couldn’t have been happier.

And all he did was scatter five hits in going the distance as the Riggers downed the A’s 7-3.

“I was bummed out I couldn’t hit, but I told Bails before the tournament I’d help out any way possible and he had confidence in me and I’m glad he did,” said

Ronnie.

It was only the second time all season Ronnie took the mound, and his first appearance was only for three innings.

On Sunday it looked as if he wouldn’t last past the fourth inning as he appeared to be hitting a wall.

“It was weird like that. They got two in the fourth and I was feeling tired, but something happened and I was able to refocus and I felt great in the seventh,” explained Ronnie, who threw 122 pitches.

It was a hot, humid day which definitely helped keep him loose.

“But he’ll be sore for a few days, but that’s OK,” said Bailey, who didn’t let Ronnie know he was starting until 30 minutes prior to the game.

“We talked about it yesterday and we didn’t want him thinking about it. We wanted him to

find out, focus and get ready, which he did. He did a great job. But we expected him to do well. He has a good arm and his curve ball was outstanding.

He threw it for strikes and kept them off balance and they got themselves out.”

And when they weren’t chopping the ball to the infield the Riggers defence was solid.

Second baseman Denver Wik pulled off the play of the game when he went far to his right and made a full-out drive to rob James Fischer of a hit to open the seventh inning.

“The defence behind me was outstanding,” said Ronnie, who didn’t allow a hit after the fourth inning. “Plus they got me seven runs . . . that made it a lot easier.”

The win was big for the Riggers against the Sunburst Baseball League leaders.

“We’ve had some great

games against them this season but we’ve also had some unfortunate losses,” said Ronnie. “We wanted to play them, eventhough we were short of pitching and it worked out.”

The Riggers were missing pitchers Brant Stickel, Dustin Northcott and James Dykstra.

“But it’s been that way all year. When someone is injured, or can’t make it, someone else steps up and does the job,” said Ronnie.

Bailey was ejected in the bottom of the sixth after arguing a called third strike and was replaced in the outfield by Mark Fay, who also made a fine running catch in the seventh inning.

“That was the first time I was ejected in my career,” said Bailey, who appeared to have walked on the play.

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Jays hammer Lester in sweep of Sox

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 15 Red Sox 7 BOSTON — The Toronto Blue Jays more than made up for the loss of slugger Jose Bautista against the Boston Red Sox. Brett Lawrie hit the game’s first pitch for one of Toronto’s four homers and the Blue Jays tagged Jon Lester for a career-worst 11 runs in a 15-7 victory that completed a three-game sweep over the Red Sox on Sunday.

J.P. Arencibia, Rajai Davis and Travis Snider also homered for the Blue Jays.

Coming into Boston last in the division and minus one of the game’s best power hitters, the Blue Jays pounded the Red Sox by a combined score of 2811 after being swept in three games by the Yankees.

“It was just a very good offensive day and a very good weekend, considering what we came out of in New York and the loss of Jose,” Toronto manager John Farrell said. “The guys bounced back and we had a very good weekend here.”

Bautista who leads the club with 27 homers, is on the 15-day disabled list with a sore left wrist.

Toronto (48-47) posted a season high for runs and climbed out of the AL East cellar, moving a half-game ahead of the Red Sox (48-48). The Blue Jays matched their season high with 18 hits.

“I think the boys set the tone.

First pitch of the game, Brett comes out swinging,” Snider said. “J.P. and the rest of the at-bats we put together against Lester were good at-bats against a good pitcher like Lester.

We’ve struggled (against him) before and to come out of here with a sweep is nice.”

Lester (5-8) allowed a career-high

four homers and nine hits. He was booed off the field after being pulled with no outs in the fifth.

“God, I hope so,” said Lester when asked if he needs to get better soon.

“It’s getting old.”

The left-hander’s teammates know they need him to rebound.

“We have to have him back. Everyone goes through hard times,” second baseman Dustin Pedroia said. “We’re not going to turn around if Jon’s not himself. We have to have him. We’re not going to run away from him and turn our backs on him.”

Adrian Gonzalez hit a three-run homer and Jacoby Ellsbury a solo shot for the Red Sox, who play their next six games on the road against division leaders.

Boston opens a three-game series against AL West-leading Texas on Monday and has a three-game set versus the East-leading New York Yankees next weekend.

Henderson Alvarez (6-7) pitched 5 2-3 innings, giving up seven runs and seven hits.

Lawrie belted a 95 mph fastball completely out of Fenway Park over the Green Monster. Edwin Encarnacion and Davis sandwiched RBI doubles around Arencibia’s run-scoring grounder, moving Toronto ahead 4-0.

Jeff Mathis then laid down a safety squeeze, scoring Davis to make it 5-0.

Gonzalez hit a three-run homer in the bottom half, but the Blue Jays scored four more runs off Lester on consecutive homers by Arencibia and Davis in the second.

Lester sounded like someone that’s feeling extra pressure lately.

“It’s embarrassing,” Lester said.

“I’ve let my teammates down a lot this year. It’s hard for me to walk around this clubhouse and look guys in the eye right now.”

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Brett Lawrie slides safely at home on a single hit by Colby Rasmus as Boston Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia waits for the ball in the eighth inning at Fenway Park in Boston, Sunday.

Arencibia hit a three-run shot into the Monster seats after Lawrie walked leading off and Encarnacion drew a two-out walk. Five pitches later, Davis homered into the first row of seats above the left-field wall. After Lester fanned Snider for the final out, he walked slowly to the dugout to loud boos.

“We just kept on putting (good atbats) together and to be able to score nine runs on a guy like that is tough,” Arencibia said.

Gonzalez homered about 10 rows

into the bleachers behind Boston’s bullpen.

Mike Aviles’ sacrifice fly made it 9-3 before Snider, the last batter Lester faced, hit a two-run shot onto a black tarp that covers two sections of centrefield seats during day games to help the hitters’ background.

Lester’s ERA ballooned to 5.46 from 4.80.

In the sixth, Boston made it 11-7 on back-to-back RBI hits by Aviles and Nick Punto. Toronto added four more runs in the eighth.

Barao beats Faber for 19th straight win and title

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Renan Barao ran his winning streak to 19 with a unanimous decision over Urijah Faber at UFC’s debut in Calgary on Saturday night.

The Brazilian bantamweight outlasted his opponent in the five-round main event of UFC 149 in front of a sellout crowd at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

“I was well prepared,” said Barao through an interpreter right after his victory. “I’m very happy. Faber is a great athlete.”

With the win, Barao now holds the interim bantamweight title and has put himself in position to take on current belt holder Dominick Cruz.

“I’m going to train as hard as I can once again, as I did for this fight, to have another win,” said Barao (31-1), who ran his unbeaten streak to 32 — he had one fight declared a no contest during that span — since losing his first professional fight back in 2005.

Earlier this month at UFC 148, Faber was supposed to fight Cruz, who had to bow out due to a knee injury. Instead, Faber accepted the fight against Barao.

“Barao fought a smart fight,” said Faber, who added that he may have suffered a broken rib early in the fight.

“I also was a little (shaken) up.

He got me with a knee.”

In what was billed as the co-main event, middleweight Tim Boetsch earned a splitdecision victory over Hector Lombard, who was making his UFC debut.

“I was glad to give him his first loss though I wasn’t too thrilled with how things went,” Boetsch said. “I landed a few strikes. My foot is a testament to that. Hector is heavy-handed and a tough fighter. He’s a power striker but I knew that

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Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Renan Barao, from Brazil, celebrates his winning the Interim Bantamweight Championship over Urijah Faber of California during UFC 149 in Calgary, Saturday. and was able to put together a good strategy to beat him.”

Matthew Riddle kicked off the main card with a submission win over Chris Clements of London, Ont. After Riddle executed a perfect arm triangle, Clements tapped out at 2:02 of the third round.

“I tried to give it all I could but I could hardly breathe,” Clements said. “I couldn’t catch my breath and it hurt me in the end.”

For his efforts, Riddle earned Submission of the

Night and earned a bonus of US$65,000.

Also on the main card, welterweight James Head won a split decision over Brian Ebersole, while Cheick Kongo earned a unanimous decision over Shawn Jordan in a battle of heavyweights. Fans at the Saddledome expressed their displeasure of both bouts by reigning down a chorus of boos several times during the action.

During the post-fight press conference, UFC president

Dana White said he wasn’t pleased with many of the fights, especially the one between Kongo and Jordan.

“I think that Cheick Kongo and Jordan pushed against the fence for three rounds and I think that the ref let them do it,” White said. “This isn’t the ultimate clinching championship. It’s the fighting championship.”

Edmonton’s Ryan (Big Deal) Jimmo made a spectacular statement with his right fist earlier in the night, taking

just seven seconds to knock out Anthony Perosh in their light heavyweight preliminary round.

The quick KO was just one second off of tying the UFC record held by Duane Ludwig, and it earned Jimmo US$65,000 for Knockout of the Night.

In the main bout of the preliminary card, Calgary’s Nick (The Promise) Ring didn’t disappoint his supporters in the capacity crowd, earning a unanimous decision over Court McGee. “I never felt so much support in my life. I can’t thank the fans enough for cheering me on and giving me that extra bit of energy I needed,” Ring said. “I gave everything I had out there. Even when I was hurting I kept going and put it all out there. I was going to keep fighting until the end.”

In other preliminary-round action, Antonio Carvalho of Oshawa, Ont., scored a TKO victory over Daniel Pineda at the 1:11 mark of the first round of their featherweight fight.

“I guess I do have some fights left in me,” said Carvalho, who had thought about quitting leading up to his firstever UFC victory.

“Two weeks ago I thought I was overtraining and I had to stop training for four days.

I asked myself if I wanted to do this and if I had fights left in me.”

Meanwhile, bantamweight Mitch Gagnon of Sudbury, Ont., lost by submission in the third round to Bryan Caraway. However, it was deemed as Fight of the Night and both fighters earned $65,000 for their efforts.

Also, Edmonton’s Mitch Clarke suffered a split-decision loss to Anton Kuivanen in their lightweight fight, while Winnipeg’s Roland Delorme was knocked by Francisco Rivera at 4:19 of the first round of their bantamweight bout.

Stallings wins PGA’s True South MADISON, Miss. — Scott Stallings strolled down the fairway on the 18th hole of the True South Classic, smiling and waving to a few fans like he didn’t have a care in the world.

There would be no final-hole drama at Annandale Golf Club. He had this one all wrapped up.

Stallings shot a 4-under 68 in the final round on Sunday to beat Jason Bohn by two strokes. It was his first Tour victory of the year and the second of his career. He finished with a 24-under 264, which is a tournament record at Annandale. With a few holes remaining, it looked as if the True South Classic would host a tight finish. But Stallings made back-to-back birdies on 16 and 17 to suck all the suspense right out of the final hole.

“It made that tee shot on 18 a lot easier,” Stallings said with a grin.

Bohn shot a 5-under 67 on Sunday.

Billy Horschel was alone in third, four strokes back.

The 27-year-old Stallings raced up the leaderboard after shooting backto-back 64s in the second and third rounds. That gave him a one-stroke

lead over Horschel heading into the final day.

Stallings wasn’t quite as spectacular on Sunday, but didn’t need to be.

Instead, he was steady, methodically working his way around the course, avoiding major trouble and picking up occasional birdies.

“He played really well, swung the club well, made the putts when he needed to make the putts, and that’s the way you win,” Horschel said.

Stallings had a two-shot lead by the turn, but made his only real mistake on No. 14, hitting his tee shot far to the right which caused his only bogey of the day.

It was a surprising mistake simply because Stallings had been so good for so long — he had gone 54 holes without a bogey.

But he recovered, responding with one of his best shots of the tournament two holes later on No. 16, sticking the approach within three feet for a short birdie putt.

He birdied 17 after another pinpoint approach shot, making a 12-footer for a three-stroke lead.

Bohn made a birdie on 18, but it didn’t matter.

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BRIEFS U18 girl Renegades take over second place The Red Deer Renegades U18 Tier II girls’ soccer team moved into second place in the Edmonton Interdistrict Youth Soccer Association with a win and a tie during the weekend.

The Renegades beat the Edmonton Scottish II 5-0 and tied Edmonton Juventus 2-2.

The Renegades will compete in the Red Deer City Soccer Association tournament, which runs Friday to Sunday.

The tournament will take place at Edgar Park and MacLean St. Fields and have teams ranging from U10 to U18.

Gary Moe Legends take B championship

Rampage move on in lacrosse playoffs The Red Deer TBS Rampage downed the Saskatchewan SWAT 19-8 Saturday in Crossfield and 13-6 Sunday in Blackfalds to win their best-of-three Rocky Mountain Junior B Tier I Lacrosse League playoff series 2-0.

Spencer Lee led the Rampage with four goals Saturday with Davis Reykdal adding three goals and five assists and Trey Christensen three goals and three helpers. Mitch Vellner, Tucker Dougherty, Eric Reierson, who had three assists, Troy Klaus, Dave Westwood, Jordan Hemstad, Reid Swier, Jayden Rausch and Curtis Ennis added single markers.

Dustin Reykdal added five assists and Adam Mooney was in net.

On Sunday, Davis Reykdal had four goals and six assists and Christensen four goals. Reierson chipped in with three goals with singles added by Lee and Vellner. Klaus added four assists with Mooney once again in goal.

The Rampage now face the Sherwood Park Titans in a best-of-three series.

Castroneves wins Edmonton Indy THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — After four years of frustration, Helio Castroneves finally broke through Sunday and won the Edmonton Indy.

The Brazilian racer beat frontrunner Alex Tagliani out of the final pit stop, took the lead, and held off Japan’s Takuma Sato by less than a second for the checkered flag at the City Centre Airport.

Will Power, Castroneves’ Penske teammate, was third, 5.4 seconds off the pace.

For Castroneves, it was a big weight off his shoulders in the Alberta capital.

He had finished second three times in the last four races in Edmonton. In 2010 he took the checkered flag only to be stripped of the win for blocking Power.

“It’s my second win here — but today it counts,” said the 37-yearold from Sao Paulo.

“Today was a great day, realizing finally we can say we’ve won here.”

For two-thirds of the event, under sunny skies and hot temperatures, it was Tagliani’s race to lose.

The driver from Lachenaie, Que., started fourth and drove past pole-sitter Dario Franchitti on the first lap to take the lead.

He held off Franchitti and Castroneves until the final stint, when he changed tires, got passed

by Castroneves, and slid down the grid.

Tagliani, with Team Barracuda, said the tires weren’t right.

“As soon as we started pushing, (the car) started sliding and that maybe was the difference,” he said.

“We just have to keep doing what we’re doing and it (the win) is coming.”

Tagliani was fifth at the flag for his best finish of the season. He was seventh at Milwaukee.

The win was the second of 2012 for Castroneves and moved him past Power into second in the driver standings, behind Ryan HunterReay.

Hunter-Reay won the pole for the race on Edmonton’s 2.2-mile, 13-turn course, but started 11th for an unapproved engine change. He finished 7th. The loss snapped his string of three consecu-

tive wins.

The race was accident free, with no yellow or red flags or restarts, which bunch the cars together and give the backmarkers a chance to move up.

Hunter-Reay said that was the difference.

“The guys had a solid day today, but we just needed a yellow,” he said.

“To take an engine penalty on a day like today — at a track with long straights — we expected yellows. Maybe lots of them, but we just didn’t get ’em.”

Power qualified seventh but started 17th on the grid for his own engine change. He, too, said the error-free race was surprising.

“We don’t get it very often in IndyCar to be full green on tracks where you can pass,” he said.

“I would have been much more happy if I could have at least caught up to these guys (Sato and Castroneves) and had a battle, but they were running fast.

“I could see them battling and I hoped they would come together,” he laughed.

Sato recorded the best finish of his career, but said he was disappointed.

“The winning was just there, close by, but we tried. We challenged and we attacked,” he said.

“It’s OK, we’ll take second place.”

Canadian James Hinchcliffe was never a factor. The 25-yearold from Oakville, Ont., started ninth on the grid but quickly dropped to 13th after getting pushed wide on a turn. He ended up 12th.

“It was definitely a tough race for us. The car wasn’t quite handling the way we needed it to,” said Hinchcliffe, with Andretti Autosport.

“I didn’t drive great at the start and made a few mistakes. I set us back at the beginning and we were playing catch-up after that.”

Castroneves, a threetime winner of the Indy 500, is enjoying a strong season. He has been in the top six in seven of the 11 races, won in St. Petersburg, and was on pole in Alabama. Edmonton had been no end of frustration for him, boiling over in 2010, when he took the checkered flag but was penalized for blocking Power.

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Bradley Wiggins, winner of the 2012 Tour de France celebrates on the podium in Paris, France, Sunday.

Wiggins becomes first Brit to win Tour de France

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — It was a rare sight at the Tour de France: The yellow jersey holder charging down the streets of Paris at the head of the peloton, trying to set up a teammate for a sprint victory on the final stage.

Bradley Wiggins turned his victory lap into another exhibition at the Tour de France.

With Wiggins heading for a historic victory at the end of a largely ceremonial ride into the French capital, there was one last job to perform before savoring his achievement of becoming the first British rider to win cycling’s biggest race.

As with everything else over the last three weeks, Wiggins did it to perfection — leading the team Sky train for parts of the final kilometres before pulling back to let Mark Cavendish secure yet another sprint victory.

Only then was it time for Wiggins to take it all in — the British flags waving in the heart of Paris, the view of the Champs-Elysees from the top of the podium and God Save the Queen being sung in his honour.

“It’s been a magical couple of weeks for the team and for British cycling,” Wiggins said. “Some dreams come true. My mother over there, she’s now - her son has won the Tour de France.”

There’ll be little time to celebrate, though.

The British success comes less than one week before the start of the London Olympics, where Wiggins and Cavendish are the overwhelming favourites for gold in the time trial and the road race.

“Tonight I go home,” Wiggins said. “Everything turns to the Olympics and I’ll be out on the

bike tomorrow and I’ve got an Olympic time trial to try and win.

So that’s a higher priority than anything else. It’s a little weird to leave Paris without a party because it would be nice to spend time with the team and really enjoy it.”

Wiggins enjoyed a perfect Tour from the start and secured the victory with a dominating performance in Saturday’s final time trial to extend his already commanding lead.

Fellow Briton and Sky teammate Christopher Froome finished second, 3 minutes, 21 seconds behind overall. Vincenzo Nibali of Italy finished third, 6:19 off the pace.

And with Cavendish having sacrificed some opportunities for more stage wins along the way by helping his teammate protect the yellow jersey, Wiggins was all too happy to pay him back over the final kilometres of the race — normally a time when the winner is merely cruising along and already receiving congratulations from other riders.

“It’s hard to take in as it happens,” Wiggins said. “Every lap of the Champs-Elysees was goosepimple stuff. We had a job to do with Mark today and we were all motivated to do that so it made it go a lot quicker. The concentration was high and for Mark to finish it off like that... well, it couldn’t get any better.”

Cavendish — widely regarded as the best sprinter in the world — won the final stage of the Tour for the fourth year in a row. After Wiggins pulled back, Edvald Boasson Hagen delivered the perfect lead-out for Cavendish to sprint away from his rivals at the end of the 120-kilometre stage. Cavendish accelerated coming out of the final corner, never looked

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOCKENHEIM, Germany — Fernando Alonso led from the start to win the German Grand Prix in his Ferrari on Sunday and extend his Formula One championship lead, while two-time defending champion Sebastian Vettel was penalized and dropped from second to fifth.

Alonso never opened up a big lead but never looked in serious danger of losing it either, success-

back and raised four fingers as he crossed the line.

“That was incredible, what a sight,” Cavendish said. “The yellow jersey, Brad Wiggins pulling at the end after Chris Froome had been riding. ... I just gave everything to the line, I wanted it so bad. It’s the cherry on top of an amazing Tour for us.”

The last time two riders from the same nation finished first and second in the Tour was in 1984, when Frenchman Laurent Fignon defeated Bernard Hinault.

Wiggins congratulated his teammates after crossing the line, gave a big hug to his wife and clutched the hands of their children.

The 32-year-old lanky Londoner blew kisses and bowed to a sea of union jacks.

After a soprano sang the British anthem, Wiggins thanked the crowd with a touch of British humour.

“Cheers, have a safe journey home, don’t get too drunk,” said Wiggins, who wrote in his autobiography about overcoming drinking problems after his early successes in the Velodrome.

Wiggins’ father also died four years ago after struggling with alcohol and drugs addiction.

Cavendish claimed his 23rd Tour stage win and third this year.

He also became the first reigning world champion to win on the Champs-Elysees.

“It’s been incredible,” Cavendish said. “We’ve come in with the aim of winning the yellow jersey.

We got first and second on GC. We’ve won six stages as a team. It’s a very successful Tour for Team Sky. Maybe there would’ve been more opportunities for sprints, but we won six stages. We’ve raised the profile of British cycling and it’s been an incredible thing to be a part of.”

fully fending off the Red Bull of Vettel and the upgraded McLaren of Jenson Button.

“It was tough. Maybe we were not the fastest in dry conditions but we were competitive to retain the lead,” Alonso said. “Jenson was putting a lot of pressure.”

Alonso also won the German GP the last time it was run on the Hockenheim circuit two years ago.

Vettel failed again to win his home race and he was penalized for overtaking Button from outside the track, having gone off the circuit with all four wheels with one lap remaining in the race. The 20-second penalty further dents Vettel’s chances of retaining the title.

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Detroit Chicago Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota

Texas Los Angeles Oakland Seattle

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American League East Division W L Pct 57 38 .600 51 44 .537 49 47 .510 48 47 .505 48 48 .500 Central Division W L Pct 52 44 .542 50 45 .526 47 48 .495 40 54 .426 40 55 .421 West Division W L Pct 56 38 .596 52 44 .542 51 44 .537 42 55 .433

GB — 6 8 9 9 GB — 1 4 11 11 GB — 5 5 15

Tomlin, Rogers (7), Accardo (8), C.Allen (9) and Marson. W—Britton 1-0. L—Tomlin 5-7. Sv—Ji. Johnson (30). HRs—Baltimore, Hardy (14), Betemit (11). Cleveland, C.Santana (7).

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Saturday’s Games Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 1 Texas 9, L.A. Angels 2 Baltimore 3, Cleveland 1 Kansas City 7, Minnesota 3 Seattle 2, Tampa Bay 1 Toronto 7, Boston 3 Oakland 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Today’s Games Baltimore (Tom.Hunter 4-4) at Cleveland (Masterson 6-8), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (Doubront 10-4) at Texas (Feldman 3-6), 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Liriano 3-9) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 7-8), 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City (B.Chen 7-8) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 9-6), 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 9-7) at Seattle (Millwood 3-7), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Detroit at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Oakland at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Boston at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Major League Linescores Chicago 100 002 100 — 4 10 0 Detroit 303 000 00x — 6 7 0 Humber, H.Santiago (4), N.Jones (7), Veal (8) and Flowers; Ja.Turner, Villarreal (6), Coke (7), Dotel (7), Benoit (9) and Avila. W—Ja.Turner 1-1. L— Humber 4-5. Sv—Benoit (2). HRs—Chicago, Rios (14), Youkilis (9). Detroit, Berry (2), Mi.Cabrera 2 (23), Boesch (11).

Toronto 540 020 040 — 15 18 0 Boston 300 112 000 — 7 9 0 H.Alvarez, Beck (6), Loup (6), A.Carpenter (9) and Mathis; Lester, Tazawa (5), Melancon (8), Albers (8), Aceves (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—H.Alvarez 6-7. L—Lester 5-8. HRs—Toronto, Lawrie (9), Arencibia (15), R.Davis (5), Snider (1). Boston, Ad.Gonzalez (9), Ellsbury (1).

Seattle 110 000 000 — 2 5 1 Tampa Bay 100 000 000 — 1 5 0 Beavan, Wilhelmsen (9) and Olivo; M.Moore, Farnsworth (9) and J.Molina. W—Beavan 5-6. L—M. Moore 6-7. Sv—Wilhelmsen (10).

Minnesota 014 001 100 — 7 8 0 Kansas City000 100 022 — 5 10 0 Deduno, T.Robertson (7), Swarzak (8), Perkins (9) and Butera; Guthrie, Collins (6), L.Coleman (8) and S.Perez. W—Deduno 1-0. L—Guthrie 0-1. HRs— Minnesota, Doumit 2 (9). Kansas City, Butler (19), Y.Betancourt (7).

Baltimore 200 000 110 — 4 11 0 Cleveland 000 000 003 — 3 8 0 Britton, Ayala (7), Ji.Johnson (9) and Teagarden;

New York 003 100 000 000 — 411 1 Oakland 000 021 001 001 — 511 1 (12 innings) Sabathia, D.Robertson (8), R.Soriano (9), Phelps (10), Rapada (11), Eppley (12) and C.Stewart; B.Colon, Norberto (7), Balfour (10), Blevins (11) and K.Suzuki, D.Norris. W—Blevins 3-0. L—Eppley 0-2.

HRs—New York, Granderson (26). Oakland, Inge (10), K.Suzuki (1), S.Smith (11).

Texas 000 200 011 — 4 5 0 Los Ang. 120 000 31x — 7 15 1 M.Harrison, Ogando (7), R.Ross (7), Mi.Adams (8) and Torrealba; Haren, Jepsen (7), S.Downs (8), Frieri (9) and Bo.Wilson. W—Haren 7-8. L—M.Harrison 12-5. HRs—Texas, N.Cruz (12). Los Angeles, Bo.Wilson (1), Pujols (18).

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Trout LAA 74 300 70 Mauer Minn 87 322 51 MiCabrera Det 96 382 64 Konerko ChiW 87 322 42 Cano NYY 95 371 63 Beltre Tex 90 351 55 Ortiz Bos 89 320 65 AJackson Det 74 292 59 Rios ChiW 93 354 54 AEscobar KC 92 344 38

H 107 107 126 104 118 111 101 92 111 107

Avg. .357 .332 .330 .323 .318 .316 .316 .315 .314 .311

RUNS — Trout, Los Angeles, 70; Granderson, New York, 67; Kinsler, Texas, 67; Ortiz, Boston, 65; MiCabrera, Detroit, 64; Bautista, Toronto, 63; Cano, New York, 63; AdJones, Baltimore, 63.

RBIs — MiCabrera, Detroit, 79; Hamilton, Texas, 78; Fielder, Detroit, 68; Willingham, Minnesota, 68; Encarnacion, Toronto, 67; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 66; Bautista, Toronto, 65; ADunn, Chicago, 65; Teixeira, New York, 65.

HITS — MiCabrera, Detroit, 126; Jeter, New York, 123; Cano, New York, 118; Beltre, Texas, 111; Rios, Chicago, 111; Fielder, Detroit, 110; AdGonzalez, Boston, 110; AGordon, Kansas City, 110; AdJones, Baltimore, 110.

DOUBLES — AGordon, Kansas City, 31; Choo, Cleveland, 30; Cano, New York, 28; Brantley, Cleveland, 27; MiCabrera, Detroit, 27; AdGonzalez, Boston, 27; Kinsler, Texas, 27.

TRIPLES — Andrus, Texas, 5; Berry, Detroit, 5; De Aza, Chicago, 5; AJackson, Detroit, 5; Rios, Chicago, 5; ISuzuki, Seattle, 5; Trout, Los Angeles, 5; JWeeks, Oakland, 5; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 5.

HOME RUNS — ADunn, Chicago, 28; Hamilton, Texas, 28; Bautista, Toronto, 27; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 27; Encarnacion, Toronto, 26; Granderson, New York, 26; MiCabrera, Detroit, 23; Ortiz, Boston, 23; Willingham, Minnesota, 23.

STOLEN BASES — Trout, Los Angeles, 31; RDavis, Toronto, 25; Kipnis, Cleveland, 21; Revere, Minnesota, 21; Crisp, Oakland, 19; JDyson, Kansas City, 17; DeJennings, Tampa Bay, 17.

PITCHING — Price, Tampa Bay, 13-4; Weaver, Los Angeles, 12-1; MHarrison, Texas, 12-5; Sale, Chicago, 11-3; Verlander, Detroit, 11-5; Darvish, Texas, 11-6; Sabathia, New York, 10-3; Doubront, Boston, 10-4; Nova, New York, 10-4; Vargas, Seattle, 10-7.

STRIKEOUTS — FHernandez, Seattle, 143; Verlander, Detroit, 142; Scherzer, Detroit, 134; Darvish, Texas, 132; Shields, Tampa Bay, 124; Price, Tampa Bay, 120; Peavy, Chicago, 120.

SAVES — JiJohnson, Baltimore, 30; Rodney, Tampa Bay, 27; CPerez, Cleveland, 26; RSoriano, New York, 24; Broxton, Kansas City, 22; Aceves, Boston, 20; Nathan, Texas, 19.

Washington Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 55 39 .585 52 43 .547 47 48 .495 44 51 .463 42 54 .438

GB — 3 8 11 14

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Cincinnati Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee Chicago Houston

W 55 54 50 44 38 34

San Francisco Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Colorado

West Division W L Pct 53 42 .558 52 44 .542 47 48 .495 41 56 .423 36 58 .383

Pct .579 .574 .526 .468 .404 .354

GB — 1/2 5 10 16 21

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GB — 1 6 13 16

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Saturday’s Games Atlanta 4, Washington 0, 1st game L.A. Dodgers 8, N.Y. Mets 5 San Francisco 6, Philadelphia 5, 10 innings Washington 5, Atlanta 2, 2nd game Pittsburgh 5, Miami 1 Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 2 St. Louis 12, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 12, Houston 3 Colorado 8, San Diego 6, 12 innings Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 6-8) at Pittsburgh (Bedard 5-10), 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Wolf 3-6) at Philadelphia (Halladay 4-5), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Minor 5-6) at Miami (Jo.Johnson 5-7), 5:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 7-6) at N.Y. Mets (C.Young 2-4), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Latos 7-3) at Houston (W.Rodriguez 7-8), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 4-9) at St. Louis (J.Kelly 1-2), 6:15 p.m.

Colorado (J.Sanchez 0-0) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 7-8), 7:40 p.m.

San Diego (Richard 7-10) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 7-4), 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati at Houston, 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Sunday’s Major League Linescores Los Ang. 000 201 000 005 — 814 0 New York 000 100 101 000 — 316 1 (12 innings) Eovaldi, Elbert (5), Sh.Tolleson (6), J.Wright (8), Guerra (9), Wall (11), Lindblom (12) and A.Ellis, Treanor; Niese, Byrdak (8), Rauch (8), Parnell (9), R.Ramirez (11), El.Ramirez (12) and Thole, Nickeas. W—Wall 1-0. L—R.Ramirez 2-2. HRs—Los Angeles, J.Rivera (5).

Milwaukee 001 000 000 — 1 10 1 Cincinnati 002 000 00x — 2 8 0 Fiers, Loe (7), M.Parra (8), Axford (8) and M.Maldonado; Cueto, Ondrusek (8), Chapman (9) and Hanigan. W—Cueto 12-5. L—Fiers 3-4. Sv— Chapman (17).

Atlanta 000 002 000 — 2 8 1 Washington402 021 00x — 9 18 0 Jurrjens, Avilan (3), Varvaro (6), Venters (7) and McCann, D.Ross; Detwiler, Stammen (8) and Leon.

W—Detwiler 5-3. L—Jurrjens 3-4. HRs—Washington, Zimmerman 2 (14).

Miami 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 Pittsburgh 100 000 20x — 3 7 0 A.Sanchez, M.Dunn (8), Cishek (8) and Hayes, J.Buck; Karstens, J.Hughes (8), Hanrahan (9) and McKenry. W—Karstens 3-2. L—A.Sanchez 5-7.

Sv—Hanrahan (28). HRs—Pittsburgh, P.Alvarez (21).

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(12 innings) Zito, Ja.Lopez (8), Romo (9), Affeldt (10), Hensley (11), Penny (12) and Posey; Blanton, Bastardo (9), Horst (10), K.Kendrick (10) and Kratz, Ruiz. W—K. Kendrick 4-8. L—Penny 0-1. HRs—San Francisco, Schierholtz 2 (5). Philadelphia, Mayberry 2 (8).

Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 St. Louis 400 120 00x — 7 12 0 T.Wood, Beliveau (7), Maine (8) and Clevenger; Lynn, Salas (7), Rzepczynski (9) and T.Cruz. W— Lynn 12-4. L—T.Wood 4-5. HRs—St. Louis, Holliday (16), Beltran (21).

Colorado 110 000 000 — 2 5 1 San Diego 100 100 10x — 3 6 0 Friedrich, Ottavino (6), Mat.Reynolds (7), Ekstrom (7), Brothers (8) and Pacheco; Ohlendorf, Thayer (7), Street (9) and Jo.Baker. W—Thayer 2-2. L— Ottavino 2-1. Sv—Street (16).

Houston 010 001 000 — 2 9 1 Arizona 010 007 00x — 8 12 0 Lyles, W.Wright (6), Abad (8) and Corporan; Collmenter, Zagurski (7), Bergesen (8), Putz (9) and M.Montero. W—Collmenter 2-2. L—Lyles 2-7.

HRs—Houston, Maxwell (9). Arizona, Kubel (21), C.Young (10).

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R McCutchen Pgh 90 344 65 MeCabrera SF 91 371 64 DWright NYM 91 338 61 Ruiz Pha 87 289 45 Votto Cin 86 298 52 CGonzalez Col 87 352 65 Holliday StL 92 349 61 Posey SF 86 308 39 Braun Mil 88 337 61 AHill Ariz 92 354 48

H 128 132 118 100 102 116 112 96 104 109

Avg. .372 .356 .349 .346 .342 .330 .321 .312 .309 .308

BATTING — McCutchen, Pittsburgh, .372; MeCabrera, San Francisco, .356; DWright, New York, .349; Ruiz, Philadelphia, .346; Votto, Cincinnati, .342; CGonzalez, Colorado, .330; Holliday, St. Louis, .321.

RUNS — CGonzalez, Colorado, 65; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 65; Bourn, Atlanta, 64; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 64; Braun, Milwaukee, 61; Holliday, St. Louis, 61; DWright, New York, 61.

RBIs — Kubel, Arizona, 71; Beltran, St. Louis, 69; CGonzalez, Colorado, 66; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 66; DWright, New York, 66; Braun, Milwaukee, 65; Holliday, St. Louis, 63.

HITS — MeCabrera, San Francisco, 132; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 128; Bourn, Atlanta, 121; DWright, New York, 118; CGonzalez, Colorado, 116; Prado, Atlanta, 113; Holliday, St. Louis, 112.

DOUBLES — Votto, Cincinnati, 36; ArRamirez, Milwaukee, 31; DWright, New York, 30; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 29; DanMurphy, New York, 29; Cuddyer, Colorado, 28; Prado, Atlanta, 25; Ruiz, Philadelphia, 25.

TRIPLES — Fowler, Colorado, 9; Bourn, Atlanta, 8; MeCabrera, San Francisco, 8; SCastro, Chicago, 7; Reyes, Miami, 6; 13 players tied at 5.

HOME RUNS — Braun, Milwaukee, 26; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 22; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 21; Beltran, St. Louis, 21; Kubel, Arizona, 21; Bruce, Cincinnati, 19; CGonzalez, Colorado, 19; Stanton, Miami, 19.

STOLEN BASES — DGordon, Los Angeles, 30; Bourn, Atlanta, 28; Bonifacio, Miami, 25; Campana, Chicago, 25; Schafer, Houston, 23; Pierre, Philadelphia, 21; Reyes, Miami, 21; Victorino, Philadelphia, 21.

PITCHING — Dickey, New York, 13-1; Lynn, St. Louis, 12-4; GGonzalez, Washington, 12-5; Cueto, Cincinnati, 12-5; AJBurnett, Pittsburgh, 11-3; Hamels, Philadelphia, 11-4; Miley, Arizona, 11-5; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 11-6.

STRIKEOUTS — Strasburg, Washington, 140; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 132; Dickey, New York, 132; Hamels, Philadelphia, 131; GGonzalez, Washington, 129; MCain, San Francisco, 128; Gallardo, Milwaukee, 122.

SAVES — Hanrahan, Pittsburgh, 28; Kimbrel, Atlanta, 28; SCasilla, San Francisco, 24; Motte, St. Louis, 21; Papelbon, Philadelphia, 21; HBell, Miami, 19; Myers, Houston, 19.

Alberta Downs Results Friday First: Pace. $3,000, time 2:00.4 Gts Danielle (Hoerdt) 4.00 6.40 3.60 Artninspiration (Jungquist) 2.70 3.00 D And Gs Lady (Gray) 2.70 Exactor: (6-1) paid $69.10 Superfecta: (6-1-4-5) paid $21.15 Triactor: (6-1-4) paid $15.10 Second: Pace. $3,900, time 1:55.4 Mr Brightside (Hudon) 12.10 4.50 2.80 Bomber Brown (Grundy) 6.00 2.70 Murphy Delivers (Chappell) 2.10 Daily Double: (6-4) paid $14.80 Exactor: (4-5) paid $14.40 Superfecta: (4-5) paid $19.70 Triactor: (4-5) paid $30.70 Third: Pace. $2,800, time 1:56.2 Bridgette Hanover (Hudon) 3.80 2.10 12.80 Rossridge Divine (Gray) 6.60 7.10 Major Ziggy (Starkewski) 0.00 Exactor: (1-9) paid $27.30 Superfecta: (1-9-2-8) paid $45.50 Triactor: (1-9-2) paid $43.20 Fourth: Pace.$ 7,500, time 1:55.1 Cowboy Caper (Hoerdt) 3.60 2.10 3.70 Playbook (Clark) 4.60 3.10 Watch And Pray (Gagne) 4.40 Exactor: (1-5) paid $14.80 Superfecta: (1-5-6-7) paid $34.10 Triactor: (1-5) paid $25.60 Fifth: Pace. $7,500, time 1:54.4 No Fear (Gagne)101.40 23.80 2.80 Stirling Advocate (Hoerdt) 5.90 2.80 Outlaw Beacon (Marino) 2.10 Exactor: (3-4) paid $59.30 Superfecta: (3-4-1-6) paid $56.05 Sixth: Pace. $7,500, time 1:55 Dealers Edge (Clark) 2.50 5.60 2.80 Arroway (Gray) 20.00 2.60 Outlawtowerinferno (Hennessy) 3.70 Exactor: (1-3) paid $72.85

Results Sunday

CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE WEST DIVISION W L T Pts PF PA 3 1 0 6 121 78 3 1 0 6 89 56 2 2 0 4 147 120 2 2 0 4 106 102

EAST DIVISION Hamilton Toronto Montreal Winnipeg

W 2 2 2 0

L 2 2 2 4

Note: Saturday races cancelled.

Soccer

Football Saskatchewan Edmonton Calgary B.C.

Seventh: Pace. $3,400, time 1:57 Arctic Pine (Gray) 8.10 4.40 2.90 Hollywood Breeze (Hudon) 5.90 3.30 Js Honeybet (Remillard) 4.50 Exactor: (5-2) paid $75.20 Superfecta: (5-2-6) paid $45.70 Triactor: (5-2) paid $83.80 Win Four: (3-8-5-5) paid $44.70 Eighth: Pace. $2,300, time 1:55.3 Touch Of Magic (Tainsh )5.70 3.30 3.00 Mood Light (Chappell) 3.70 3.80 Hollywood Jubilee (Hudon) 8.80 Exactor: (9-2) paid $25.70 Superfecta: (9-2-3-4) paid $61.60 Triactor: (9-2-3) paid $88.80 Ninth: Pace. $3,900, time 1:56.4 Big Bang Theory (Hudon) 8.00 2.90 2.60 Feelin Flush (Chappell) 4.10 2.20 Major Beach Girl (Grundy) 3.50 Exactor: (3-6) paid $38.00 Superfecta: (3-6-1-4) paid $83.65 Triactor: (3-6-1) paid $205.40 Tenth: Pace. $2,300, time 1:55.3 Nevermissabeat (Grundy) 8.40 4.00 4.20 Art By Dylan (Hoerdt) 6.10 3.60 Lakers R Electric (Schneider) 9.40 Exactor: (4-5) paid $43.80 Superfecta: (4-5-9-3) paid $84.70 Triactor: (4-5-9) paid $336.70 Win Three: (9-3-4) paid $117.50 Eleventh: Pace. $50,000, time 1:52.4 Phone Terror (Masse) 9.10 4.00 2.60 Blue Star Beauty (Tainsh) 3.10 2.90 Credit Card Junkie (Clark) 2.60 Exactor: (8-6) paid $19.10 Superfecta: (8-6-5-2) paid $78.30 Triactor: (8-6-5) paid $68.40 Mutuels: $18,522

First: Pace. $4,000, time 1:57.2 Blue Star Admiral (Tainsh) 4.20 2.30 2.10 Aerial Time (Starkewski) 3.00 2.10 Play Me Right (Gagne) 11.60 Exactor: (5-1) paid $16.70 Superfecta: (5-1-2) paid $26.10 Triactor: (5-1-2) paid $74.60 Second: Pace. $3,600, time 1:57.2 Farm Team (Chappell) 7.30 4.80 3.50 King Carver (Schneider) 6.70 3.40 Cenalta Magic (Tainsh) 2.60 Daily Double: (5-4) paid $22.80 Exactor: (4-5) paid $57.80 Superfecta: (4-5-7) paid $18.35 Triactor: (4-5-7) paid $156.45 Third: Pace. $3,000, time 1:58 Fulla Promise (Clark) 7.10 3.20 3.00 Mavericks Pride (Chappell) 4.70 3.40 Westcoast Son (Schedlosky) 8.80 Exactor:(3-6) paid $50.50 Superfecta: (3-6) paid $5.70 Triactor: (3-6-1) paid $191.80 Fourth: Pace. $4,700, time 1:55.3 Location Baran (Marino) 20.90 8.20 5.80 Acesndeuces (Tainsh) 5.60 3.00 Mjjz R Us (Starkewski) 3.50 Exactor: (3-5) paid $50.90 Superfecta: (3-5-6-7) paid $162.10 Triactor: (3-5-6) paid $191.75 Fifth: Pace. $3,400, time 1:56.4 Slender Pride (Jungquist) 7.10 3.30 2.20 Mystic Light (Clark) 11.20 5.10 Rope The Wind (Chappell) 2.50 Exactor: (8-4) paid $110.90 Superfecta: (8-4-9-6) paid $62.15 Triactor: (8-4-9) paid $48.20 Sixth: Pace. $8,500, time 1:54.3 River Lass (Hoerdt) 3.10 2.30 2.10 Minettas Nightstar (Clark) 3.00 2.30 Shoplifter Hanover (Marino) 4.00 Exactor: (5-2) paid $8.00 Triactor: (5-2-1) paid $12.70

Superfecta: (1-3-7-5) paid $94.20 Triactor: (1-3) paid $108.15 Seventh: Pace. $5,500, time 1:53.2 Tap Out (Marino) 12.90 3.90 3.10 B C Fantasy (Gray) 2.90 2.20 Keystone Vanyla (Tainsh) 2.30 Exactor: (5-2) paid $21.80 Superfecta: (5-2-7) paid $63.20 Triactor: (5-2-7) paid $73.50 Win Four: (1-3-1-5) paid $80.00 Eighth: Pace. $3,600, time 1:57.3 Blue Star Classic (Gray) 3.60 2.30 2.10 Apalamine (Hoerdt) 3.70 5.80 Lady On A Mission (Remillard) 8.00 Exactor: (9-1) paid $27.60 Triactor: (9-1-2) paid $126.40 Ninth: Pace. $3,800, time 1:55.4 Balzac Billy (Jungquist) 7.40 3.40 2.10 Blue Star Charger (Gray) 4.60 2.20 Skirmish (Clark) 2.60 Exactor: (7-2) paid $12.10 Superfecta: (7-2-9-8) paid $37.55 Triactor: (7-2-9) paid $76.40 Tenth: Pace. $6,000, time 1:53 Red Star Tiger (Clark) 8.70 3.40 3.40 Greek Ruler (Chappell) 7.70 13.20 Loneridge Shannon (Jungquist )0.00 Exactor: (5-2) paid $41.50 Superfecta: (5-2-6) paid $90.50 Triactor: (5-2-6) paid $160.80 Eleventh: Pace. $3,600, time 1:56 Hollywood Lenny (Schneider) 18.00 4.00 2.60 Too Young Man (Grundy) 7.90 3.20 Kg Cody (Thomas) 2.80 Exactor: (6-5) paid $15.30 Superfecta: (6-5-3-4) paid $20.05 Triactor: (6-5-3) paid $70.60 Win Three: (7-5-6) paid $16.30 Mutuels: $6,039

T Pts PF PA 0 4 127 133 0 4 106 113 0 4 108 139 0 0 78 141

Wednesday’s Game Toronto 25, Winnipeg 22 Thursday’s Game Calgary 41, Saskatchewan 38, OT Friday’s Game Edmonton 27, B.C. 14 Saturday’s Game Hamilton 39, Montreal 24 Thursday, July 26 Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 27 Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, July 28 Hamilton at Saskatchewan, 4 p.m.

B.C. at Calgary, 7 p.m.

CFL scoring leaders TORONTO — Unofficial CFL scoring leaders following Saturday’s game (x — scored two-point convert): SCORING TD C FG S Pts Paredes, Cal 0 14 9 0 41 Shaw, Edm 0 8 10 1 39 x-Lewis, Cal 6 2 0 0 38 McCallum, BC 0 11 9 0 38 Prefontaine, Tor 0 5 10 2 37 Palardy, Wpg 0 6 10 0 36

MIDGET AAA EDMONTON — Reign Letkeman played a key role for the Red Deer Carstar Braves in their 10-1 win over the Edmonton Cardinals II in NorWest Midget AAA Baseball League play Saturday.

Letkeman tossed five innings of three hit ball to pick up the win and also keyed a six-run sixth inning with a single that drove in two runs to

Milo, Sask Sheets, Sask Walker, Ham C.Williams, Ham Whyte, Mtl Congi, Ham Boyd, Tor Dressler, Sask Whitaker, Mtl Charles, Edm Cornish, Cal Lavoie, Mtl Matthews, Wpg x-Fantuz, Ham Bratton, Mtl Brink, Wpg Getzlaf, Sask Gore, BC Grant, Ham Harris, BC Iannuzzi, BC Inman, Tor Lulay, BC Mitchell, Cal Stephenson, Ham Taylor, Cal Alix, Tor Waters, Tor Barnes, Tor Bekasiak, Mtl T.Brown, BC Bruce, BC Burnett, Edm Chambers, Edm Cote, Cal T.Edwards, Wpg Green, Mtl Hill, Edm Hughes, Sask J.Jackson, Tor T.Jackson, Sask K.Johnson, BC Kent, Edm Koch, Edm London, Mtl MacDougall, Cal

0 5 5 5 0 0 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

8 0 0 0 12 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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break a 1-1 tie.

On the mound Letkeman allowed one unearned run while fanning 10 and walking one.

Ian Chevalier tossed no-hit ball over the final two innings.

Ty Elliott, Levi Moon and Letkeman, who had three RBIs, had two hits each.

The Braves visit Spruce Grove Tuesday then host St. Albert for a doubleheader Saturday and Spruce Grove for a twin bill Sunday. Both doubleheaders start at noon.

MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF New York 21 11 5 5 37 Kansas City 21 11 6 4 26 Houston 21 9 5 7 31 D.C. 20 10 7 3 34 Chicago 20 9 7 4 22 Columbus 18 7 7 4 18 Montreal 23 7 13 3 30 New England20 6 9 5 25 Philadelphia 18 6 10 2 20 Toronto 20 5 11 4 24

Sunday’s result Vancouver 2 San Jose 1 GA 29 19 25 27 22 19 42 25 21 36

Pt 38 37 34 33 31 25 24 23 20 19

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA San Jose 22 13 5 4 44 27 Real Salt Lake22 12 7 3 33 26 Vancouver 22 9 6 7 25 26 Seattle 20 8 5 7 25 21 Los Angeles 22 9 10 3 38 35 Chivas USA 19 6 8 5 13 21 Colorado 21 7 13 1 27 30 Dallas 22 5 10 7 25 30 Portland 20 5 11 4 19 35 Note: Three points for a win, one for a tie.

Pt 43 39 34 31 30 23 22 22 19

Saturday’s results Houston 3 Montreal 0 Columbus 1 D.C. United 0 Dallas 5 Portland 0 Kansas City 0 New England 0 Los Angeles 3 Chivas USA 1 New York 2 Philadelphia 0 Real Salt Lake 2 Colorado 0 Wednesday’s game Chelsea vs. MLS All-Stars, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 27 Vancouver at Real Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 28 Houston at Toronto, 2:30 p.m.

New York at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Chicago at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Chivas USA at Portland, 9 p.m.

British Open Scores Sunday At Royal Lytham & St. Annes Lytham St. Annes, England Purse: $7.75 million Yardage: 7,086; Par: 70 Final Ernie Els, $1,405,890 67-70-68-68 Adam Scott, $812,292 64-67-68-75 Brandt Snedeker, $464,725 66-64-73-74 Tiger Woods, $464,725 67-67-70-73 Luke Donald, $304,610 70-68-71-69 Graeme McDowell, $304,610 67-69-67-75 Thomas Aiken, $222,599 68-68-71-72 Nicolas Colsaerts, $222,599 65-77-72-65 Mark Calcavecchia, $124,343 71-68-69-72 Miguel A. Jimenez, $124,343 71-69-73-67 Dustin Johnson, $124,343 73-68-68-71 Zach Johnson, $124,343 65-74-66-75 Matt Kuchar, $124,343 69-67-72-72 Alexander Noren, $124,343 71-71-69-69 Geoff Ogilvy, $124,343 72-68-73-67 Thorbjorn Olesen, $124,343 69-66-71-74 Ian Poulter, $124,343 71-69-73-67 Vijay Singh, $124,343 70-72-68-70 Steven Alker, $79,277 69-69-72-71 Bill Haas, $79,277 71-68-68-74 Hunter Mahan, $79,277 70-71-70-70 Louis Oosthuizen, $79,277 72-68-68-73 Matthew Baldwin, $60,044 69-73-69-71 Simon Dyson, $60,044 72-67-73-70 Peter Hanson, $60,044 67-72-72-71 James Morrison, $60,044 68-70-72-72 Carl Pettersson, $60,044 71-68-73-70 Steve Stricker, $60,044 67-71-73-71 Nick Watney, $60,044 71-70-69-72 Bubba Watson, $60,044 67-73-68-74 Jason Dufner, $47,124 70-66-73-74 Rickie Fowler, $47,124 71-72-70-70 Anirban Lahiri, $47,124 68-72-70-73 Keegan Bradley, $40,615 71-72-68-73 Jim Furyk, $40,615 72-70-71-71 Paul Lawrie, $40,615 65-71-76-72 John Senden, $40,615 70-71-75-68 Gary Woodland, $40,615 73-70-70-71 K.J. Choi, $32,023 70-73-71-71 Padraig Harrington, $32,023 70-72-70-73 Troy Matteson, $32,023 70-72-71-72 Francesco Molinari, $32,023 69-72-71-73 Kyle Stanley, $32,023 70-69-70-76 Richard Sterne, $32,023 69-73-73-70 Greg Chalmers, $23,180 71-68-71-76 Rafael Echenique, $23,180 73-69-71-73 Bob Estes, $23,180 69-72-74-71 Ross Fisher, $23,180 72-71-74-69 Justin Hicks, $23,180 68-74-69-75 Simon Khan, $23,180 70-69-71-76 Pablo Larrazabal, $23,180 73-70-71-72 Joost Luiten, $23,180 73-70-69-74 Lee Westwood, $23,180 73-70-71-72 Thomas Bjorn, $20,073 70-69-72-76 Harris English, $20,073 71-71-70-75 G. Fdez-Castano, $20,073 71-71-72-73 Yoshinori Fujimoto, $20,073 71-70-73-73 Fredrik Jacobson, $20,073 69-73-73-72 Greg Owen, $20,073 71-71-71-74 Jamie Donaldson, $19,292 68-72-72-76 Rory McIlroy, $19,292 67-75-73-73 Ted Potter, Jr., $19,292 69-71-74-74 Dale Whitnell, $19,292 71-69-72-76 Sang-Moon Bae, $18,589 72-71-71-75 Retief Goosen, $18,589 70-70-75-74 Charles Howell III, $18,589 72-71-74-72 Garth Mulroy, $18,589 71-69-72-77 Lee Slattery, $18,589 69-72-75-73 Aaron Baddeley, $17,964 71-71-74-74 Adilson da Silva, $17,964 69-74-71-76 Jeev Milkha Singh, $17,964 70-71-76-73 Chad Campbell, $17,339 73-70-74-74 Brendan Jones, $17,339 69-74-72-76 Martin Laird, $17,339 70-69-82-70 Toshinori Muto, $17,339 67-72-74-78 Juvic Pagunsan, $17,339 71-72-73-75 Warren Bennett, $16,636 71-70-75-76 Branden Grace, $16,636 73-69-71-79 Thongchai Jaidee, $16,636 69-71-74-78 Tom Watson, $16,636 71-72-76-73 Rafael Cabrera Bello, $16,168 70-71-76-77 John Daly, $16,168 72-71-77-74 Andres Romero, $15,933 70-69-77-82

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PGA True South Classic Scores

By The Associated Press Sunday At Annandale Golf CLub Madison, Miss.

Purse: US$3 million Yardage: 7,202; Par: 72 Final Round Scott Stallings, $540,000 68-64-64-68 Jason Bohn, $324,000 64-67-68-67 Billy Horschel, $204,000 68-63-66-71 Bud Cauley, $144,000 67-66-70-66 Scott Brown, $109,500 72-66-67-65 Will Claxton, $109,500 67-67-68-68 William McGirt, $109,500 70-69-64-67 J.J. Killeen, $93,000 66-68-69-68 Josh Teater, $87,000 73-64-71-64 Hunter Hamrick, $75,000 68-68-69-68 Ryuji Imada, $75,000 66-71-67-69 Chris Kirk, $75,000 67-68-69-69 Woody Austin, $54,600 71-67-66-70 Gary Christian, $54,600 67-68-69-70 Chris Couch, $54,600 69-69-67-69 Jerry Kelly, $54,600 69-69-68-68 Heath Slocum, $54,600 69-67-67-71 Roberto Castro, $42,000 67-69-69-70 Luke Guthrie, $42,000 65-68-72-70 Willie Wood, $42,000 66-73-67-69 Jason Gore, $26,700 66-68-66-76 David Hearn, $26,700 71-67-70-68 J.J. Henry, $26,700 70-67-71-68 Russell Knox, $26,700 67-71-71-67 Jonathan Randolph, $26,700 67-69-68-72 Patrick Reed, $26,700 73-65-66-72 Chris Riley, $26,700 70-70-69-67 Duffy Waldorf, $26,700 68-69-68-71 Boo Weekley, $26,700 67-73-66-70 Garrett Willis, $26,700 66-71-71-68 Stuart Appleby, $16,650 69-71-69-68 Shane Bertsch, $16,650 68-71-69-69 Glen Day, $16,650 70-71-70-66 Brendon de Jonge, $16,650 70-66-68-73 Ken Duke, $16,650 68-67-70-72 Tommy Gainey, $16,650 70-68-66-73 Skip Kendall, $16,650 68-71-69-69 Len Mattiace, $16,650 69-70-70-68 Steven Bowditch, $12,900 66-67-71-74 Mathew Goggin, $12,900 66-71-72-69 Gene Sauers, $12,900 73-67-68-70 Tim Petrovic, $9,917 70-67-71-71 Paul Stankowski, $9,917 66-70-72-71 Cameron Beckman, $9,917 69-71-65-74 Michael Bradley, $9,917 68-72-66-73 Gavin Coles, $9,917 68-68-72-71 Brian Gay, $9,917 71-70-70-68 Rocco Mediate, $9,917 67-69-71-72 Eric Axley, $7,215 73-67-69-71 Matt Bettencourt, $7,215 66-66-76-72 Guy Boros, $7,215 70-69-66-75 Mark Brooks, $7,215 71-68-72-69 Jason Kokrak, $7,215 69-66-74-71 Steve Lowery, $7,215 66-75-70-69 Alexandre Rocha, $7,215 67-73-70-70 Vaughn Taylor, $7,215 72-67-69-72 Marco Dawson, $6,660 67-71-72-71 Kevin Kisner, $6,660 68-71-72-70 Dicky Pride, $6,660 75-66-71-69 Chris Stroud, $6,660 69-66-76-70 Kyle Thompson, $6,660 69-72-67-73 Alex Cejka, $6,450 70-69-73-70 Ted Purdy, $6,450 69-72-71-70 Mark Anderson, $6,300 68-73-73-69 Scott Dunlap, $6,300 71-69-76-67 Patrick Sheehan, $6,300 69-69-71-74 Arjun Atwal, $6,150 70-71-70-73 Robert Gamez, $6,150 68-71-71-74 Bill Lunde, $6,000 70-71-74-70 Roland Thatcher, $6,000 71-69-76-69 Omar Uresti, $6,000 68-72-74-71 Matt Jones, $5,850 69-70-75-72 Brendon Todd, $5,850 72-67-72-75 Kyle Reifers, $5,760 69-70-72-76

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Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL MLB—Suspended Cleveland RHP Roberto Hernandez three weeks for engaging in age and identity fraud.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Added INF Omar Quintanilla to the roster. Designated OF Steve Pearce for assignment.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Acquired RHP Brett Myers and cash considerations from Houston for RHP Matt Heidenreich and LHP Blair Walters and a player to be named. Optioned RHP Brian Omogrosso and RHP Dylan Axelrod to Charlotte (IL).

Reinstated RHP Jesse Crain from the 15-day DL. CLEVELAND INDIANS—Signed LHP JC Romero to a minor league contract and assigned him to Columbus (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Optioned LHP Francisley Bueno to Omaha (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS—Placed 1B Justin Morneau on the paternity list. Recalled 1B Chris Parmelee from Rochester (IL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Placed DH Luke Scott on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Cesar Ramos from Durham (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS—Announced C Yorvit Torrealba was reinstated from restricted list. Optioned C Luis Martinez to Round Rock (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Placed RHP Jason Frasor on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 17.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Reinstated RHP Takashi Saito from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Jonathan Albaladejo to Reno (PCL).

ATLANTA BRAVES—Placed OF Matt Diaz on the 15-day DL. Activated LHP Jonny Venters from

the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Randall Delgado from Gwinnett (IL).

NEW YORK METS—Placed LHP Johan Santana on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jeremy Hefner from Buffalo (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Recalled RHP Evan Meek from Indianapolis (IL). Placed RHP Juan Cruz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 18.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Optioned LHP John Lannan to Syracuse (IL). Reinstated OF Xavier Nady from the 15-day DL and designated him for assignment.

American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS—Signed RHP Adam Miller.

SIOUX FALLS PHEASANTS—Sold the contract of RHP Cody Evans to Toronto (AL).

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES—Signed OF Norm Gosselin. Released LHP Shawn Joy. Frontier League NORMAL CORNBELTERS—Signed INF Jason Thompson and INF Noberto Susini.

RIVER CITY RASCALS—Released RHP Nick Schreiber.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS—Signed 3B Greg Bachman. Released 1B T.J. McManus.

BASKETBALL DALLAS MAVERICKS—Signed G Jared Cunningham.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES—Signed C Greg Stiemsma to an offer sheet.

SOCCER NEW YORK RED BULLS—Acquired a conditional draft pick from Toronto FC for F Quincy Amarikwa.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned LHP Donnie Veal to Charlotte (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Optioned RHP Stephen Pryor to Tacoma (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Recalled RHP Brandon Gomes from Durham (IL). Optioned LHP Cesar Ramos to Charlotte.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Assigned OF Kipp Schutz to Lansing (MWL) and OF Josh Almonte to the Gulf Coast Blue Jays.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Bryan Shaw to Reno (PCL). Added RHP Brad Bergesen to the 25-man roster.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Ramon Delgado to Gwinnett (IL).

CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled LHP Jeff Beliveau from Iowa (PCL). Optioned RHP Rafael Dolis to Iowa.

CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with LHP Will Ohman on a minor league contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Assigned RHP Gera Sanchez to the Gulf Coast Astros. Claimed RHP Mark Hamburger off waivers from San Diego and assigned him to Oklahoma City (PCL). Recalled LHP Dallas Keuchel from Oklahoma City. Traded RHP Brett Myers to the Chicago White Sox for RHP Matthew Heidenreich and LHP Blair Walters.

NEW YORK METS — Recalled RHP Elvin Ramirez from Buffalo (IL). Designated RHP Miguel Batista for assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Reinstated OF Laynce Nix from the 15-day DL. Designated OF Jason Pridie for assignment.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, July 23, 2012 B5

Sadler takes NASCAR Chicagoland race

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOLIET, Ill. — Elliott Sadler spent most of the week in bed with a stomach virus, and wasn’t able to eat anything beyond a single biscuit Sunday morning.

As weak as Sadler felt, there was no way he was giving up his seat.

Sadler brushed off questions from team owner Richard Childress about a potential replacement driver, then held off a charge by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on a green-white-checker finish to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday.

Was there a pride factor in toughing it out?

“You’re damn right,” Sadler said. “I told Richard yesterday, I was like, ’I can handle this.”’

Childress said he thought about putting a backup driver in place as an insurance policy, but understood why Sadler didn’t want to give up the wheel.

“I’ve seen drivers when it gets down to it, that’s worse than giving your wife away, I think,” Childress said.

Childress then sheepishly apologized to Sadler’s wife, who was sitting off to the side in the postrace interview room.

Explaining why it was so important to tough it out, Sadler proudly noted that he threw up three times in

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OPEN: Amazing Els “You’re not really hoping the guy is going to make a mistake, but you’re hoping you don’t have to go a playoff, you can win outright. This one was different, because I feel for Adam,” Els added.

Els, who started the final round six shots behind, wound up with his second British Open — the other one was 10 years ago at Muirfield — and fourth major championship at a stage in his career when it looked as if his best golf was behind him.

“Amazing,” Els said. “I’m still numb.

It still hasn’t set in. It will probably take quite a few days because I haven’t been in this position for 10 years, obviously. So it’s just crazy, crazy, crazy getting here.”

The celebration was muted, unlike his other three majors.

“First of all, I feel for Adam Scott.

He’s a great friend of mine,” Els said.

“Obviously, we both wanted to win very badly. But you know, that’s the nature of the beast. That’s why we’re out here.

You win. You lose. It was my time for some reason.”

The wind finally arrived off the Irish Sea and ushered in pure chaos — a mental blunder by Woods that led to triple bogey on the sixth hole, a lost ball by Brandt Snedeker that took him out of contention and a topped shot that made McDowell, a former U.S. Open champion, look like an amateur.

“I guess my disappointment kind of seems relatively stupid in relation to the guy ... I’ve just seen a guy lose The Open Championship,” said McDowell, who played in the final group of a major for the second straight time.

Nothing was more stunning than what happened to Scott, who closed with a 75.

“I managed to hit a poor shot on each of the closing four holes,” Scott said. “Look, I played so beautifully for most of the week. I shouldn’t let this bring me down.”

Even so, it added another chapter to Australian heartbreak, most of that belonging to his idol, Greg Norman.

Scott was the fourth Australian since the 2007 Masters to lead going into the final round of a major, yet the proud land Down Under remains without a major since Geoff Ogilvy won the U.S. Open at Winged Foot in 2006.

“Greg was my hero when I was a kid, and I thought he was a great role model, how he handled himself in victory and defeat,” Scott said. “He set a good example for us. It’s tough. I can’t justify anything that I’ve done out there.

I didn’t finish the tournament well today. But next time ... I’m sure there will be a next time and I can do a better job of it.”

Already in the World Golf Hall of Fame, the 42-year-old Els joined even more elite company. He became only the sixth player to win the U.S. Open and British Open twice. The others are Jack Nicklaus, Woods, Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones and Lee Trevino.

Woods came undone on the sixth hole when he tried to blast out of a bunker from a plugged lie, stayed in

his helmet during a race earlier in his career.

“It was a big-time pride thing today to stay in the car and do what I felt like I needed to do to be competitive,” Sadler said.

Stenhouse finished second, followed by Justin Allgaier, Kenny Wallace and Michael Annett.

Wallace’s car was found to be too light in postrace inspection. NASCAR officials are expected to determine any penalties early this week.

Stenhouse appeared to have the stronger car and was chasing down Sadler in the closing laps of the race. But a late caution bunched up the field for NASCAR’s version of overtime, Sadler got a push from Allgaier on the restart and pulled away.

Had the race gone green until the end, Stenhouse was certain he would have ended up in victory lane.

“We had it won,” Stenhouse said.

It was the third win of the season for Sadler, who has eight Nationwide victories in his career. Sadler won at Phoenix and Bristol earlier this season.

He leads the series standings by 11 points over Austin Dillon, who finished sixth.

Track officials held a moment of silence before the race and the No. 24 car driven by Benny Gordon carried the message “Remember Aurora Colorado” on its rear fender.

Danica Patrick finished 14th.

Sunday’s race drew a sparse crowd, although no official attendance figure was immediately released.

The Sprint Cup Series was off this weekend and will resume racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway next week.

Many of the leaders had just made their final pit stop of the day when Brad Sweet spun to bring out a caution. It was a boost to several drivers, including Sadler, Allgaier and Kyle Busch, who were able to pit under caution.

The ill-timed caution flag hurt several drivers who already had pitted — especially Sam Hornish Jr., who expressed his annoyance to his crew on the radio.

Sadler led when the race restarted with 28 laps to go.

Stenhouse then made a charge, taking third place away from Busch with 20 laps to go and taking second from Allgaier with 16 to go.

Sadler had a lead of just under two seconds, with Stenhouse closing in quickly. Then Hornish tapped the rear bumper of Busch and sent him crashing into Brendan Gaughan with eight laps left, bringing out a caution and bunching up the field.

Stenhouse was hoping officials would stop the race with a red flag to clean up the track and run a few more laps to the finish, but it didn’t happen.

Sadler and Stenhouse lined up for the greenwhite-checker restart, and Allgaier gave Sadler a push when the green flag fell. Sadler surged away and Allgaier couldn’t stay in contact.

the bunker, and three-putted for triple bogey. Still with an outside chance after a birdie on the 12th, he stuck with his conservative plan of hitting iron off the tee and made three straight bogeys.

He closed with a 73 to tie for third with Brandt Snedeker, who also had his share of problems for a 74.

Woods had his best finish in a major since he lost to Y.E. Yang in the 2009 PGA Championship, though he remains winless in the last 17.

“It’s part of golf,” said Woods, who moves to No. 2 in the world. “We all go through these phases. Some people, it lasts entire careers. Others are a little bit shorter. Even the greatest players to ever play have all gone through little stretches like this.”

Els finished at 7-under 273. He failed to qualify for the Masters this year for the first time in nearly two decades, but that won’t be a problem now. His win gives him a five-year exemption into the majors.

It was the most shocking collapse at the British Open since Jean Van de Velde took a triple bogey on the final hole at Carnoustie and lost in a playoff. But this was different. It wasn’t a last-minute blowup, more of a slow bleed, similar to Jason Dufner losing a five-shot lead to Keegan Bradley in the PGA Championship last year, or Ed Sneed making bogey on the last three holes at the 1979 Masters.

There was just enough wind to make the 206 bunkers at Royal Lytham look a little bit bigger. And as the gusts increased, a calm week turned chaotic.

THIEL: Great run The great final run gave Thiel a fiverun time of 6:26.76 over two seconds better than Adamson’s Pidherney’s Trucking wagon who finished second with a time of 6:28.76. Curtis Hogg and the Kellough Enterprises Wagon held on to third place after posting the second best time on Sunday (1:16.38) and finished at 6:30.55. Wade Salmond drove the Nossack Food Group rig to fourth with a time of 6:33.26.

Jim Lang and the Hoff Trailer Sales wagon jumped up a spot to take fifth place with an overall time of 6:33.92.

Dale Young’s Calgary Flames Ambassadors wagon also jumped up one spot to finish sixth at 6:34.43. Seventh place went to Chris Spreen’s Trojan Safety rig who started the day in ninth, but after posting the fourth best time Sunday (1:17.09), finished with a time of 6:35.62.

Eighth place went to Louis Johner who clocked a 6:35.9 while Jack Stott and the Strategic Energy Group wagon finished ninth at 6:37.01. Rounding out the top ten was the ABC Country Restaurant rig and Neil Salmond at 6:37.28.

The drivers certainly saved their best runs for the final day as over half the field had their best times of the week. Thiel said the track was in great condition and it made for a great week with an exciting last run.

“The fair board and Westerner Park did a great job and treated us very well here,” he said. “It is one of our favorite places to come to and always makes for some fast races.” cpapke@reddeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer Stag Byron Whitford goes for and gets the double play after getting Sheldon Tyschuk of the Parkland White Sox out at second base, Sunday. The Stags lost to the White Sox 9-6 in the third place game at the Riggers annual tournament.

RIGGERS: Very good “But overall this was a great team effort,” he said. “Our guys are winning to battle and pick up the guy next to him and if keep that up we’ll be fine,” Bailey added.

The Riggers jumped on A’s starter Cory Kokotailo for two runs in the first as Matt Fay stole home on a back-end of a double steal and Shayne Court drove in Jason Chatwood. They added four more runs in the second on four hits and a key error that kept the inning alive with only one run in. Kokotailo was able to keep the Riggers under control until the sixth when Jaret Chatwood walked and Jason Chatwood singled for his third hit of the game.

Jeremy Harasymchuk came on and Court drove in Jaret Chatwood with his second hit to go with a walk.

Meanwhile, the Parkland White Sox downed the Red Deer Stags 9-6 in the third-place game.

The Stags led 2-0 in the second before falling behind 3-2 They grabbed a 5-3 lead in the top of the fifth before the Sox scored four times in the bottom

of the frame. Parkland put the game away with two runs in the sixth.

Jordan Ostrov started on the mound for the Stags with Davin Gulbransen coming in in relief. Shawn Connor had two hits for the Stags while Jamie Duncan and Kevin Curran had a single and two walks each.

“We know we can play with them, but once again we were missing three key guys,” said Gulbransen. “It seems the same every game we have a rotating roster. It’s work, or family . . . I’ve heard them all.”

What frustrated Gulbransen was that the Stags loss came a day after they played some of their best ball of the season. They beat Prince George 12-6 and lost 5-3 to the A’s.

“We played very good baseball, some of our best and it came down to one hit that was an inch over our shortstop’s glove against Fort Saskatchewan,” he said. “We put up six runs after falling behind by five against Prince George, then today we’re missing guys and it’s not the same.”

St. Albert edged Prince George 4-3 in eight innings to take fifth place. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

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Larkin, Santos inducted to Hall baseball hall of fame

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Barry Larkin lost it before he even started. Vicki Santo never wavered as she honoured her late husband, Ron. Baseball’s highest honour always seems to leave a special impression on those directly involved.

Larkin, the former star shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds, and Ron Santo, a standout third baseman for the Chicago Cubs and later a beloved broadcaster for the team, were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

After wiping away tears as his teenage daughter sang the national anthem, Larkin began a litany of thank-yous to the important people who helped him along his journey, none more important than his mom, Shirley, and father, Robert, who were seated in the first row.

“If we were going to do something, we were going to do it right,” Larkin said. “Growing up, you challenged me.

That was so instrumental.”

Born and raised in Cincinnati, Larkin was a two-sport star at Moeller High School and thought he might become a pro football player after accepting a scholarship to play college ball at Michigan for Bo Schembechler.

That changed in a hurry.

“He (Schembechler) redshirted me my freshman year and told me that he was going to allow me just to play baseball,” Larkin said. “Occasionally, I’d call him while I was playing in the big leagues and told him that was the best decision he made as a football coach.

He didn’t like that too much.”

Drafted fourth by the Reds in 1985, despite playing just 41 games his first year Larkin finished seventh in the National League Rookie of the Year voting in 1986.

Two years later, Larkin was an AllStar with a .296 average, 91 runs scored, 32 doubles and 40 stolen bases. And with a host of older players to guide him — Eric Davis, Ron Oester, Buddy Bell, player-manager Pete Rose, a Cincinnati native, slugger Tony Perez, and even star shortstop Dave Concepcion, the man he would replace — Larkin’s major league career quickly took off.

“I played with some monumental figures in the game,” said Larkin, who was introduced to baseball by his dad at the age of 5. “They helped me through some very rough times as a player.”

After giving special thanks in Spanish to the Latin players that also helped mould him, Larkin heaped special praise on Rose and Concepcion.

“I wouldn’t be in the big leagues if it weren’t for Pete,” Larkin said, eliciting a stirring applause from the fans, two of whom were holding a placard inscribed with “Cincinnati’s hometown heroes, Larkin and Rose.”

“And Dave Concepcion, understanding that I was gunning for his job, understanding that I was from Cincinnati, he spent countless hours with me preparing me for the game,” Larkin said. “I idolized Davey Concepcion as a kid. Thank you, my idol. My inclusion in the Hall of Fame is the ultimate validation. I want to thank you all for helping me along the way.”

Larkin, who played his entire 19-year career with the Reds, retired after the 2004 season with a .295 career average, 2,340 hits, 1,329 runs scored and 379 stolen bases.

Ron Santo didn’t live to experience the day he always dreamed of. Plagued by health problems, he died Dec. 3, 2010, at the age of 70. His long battle with diabetes cost him both legs below the knees, but he ultimately died of complications from bladder cancer.

A member of the Chicago Cubs organization for the better part of five decades as a player (1960-74) and then beloved broadcaster (1990-2010), Santo was selected by the Veterans Committee in December, exactly one year after his death.

Vicki Santo said she cried a lot while practicing her speech. Her poise was remarkable when it counted most.

“It just feels right, a perfect ending to a remarkable journey,” Vicki Santo said. “Ron left an awful hole for many of us today. This is not a sad day. This is a great day. I’m certain that Ronnie is celebrating right now.”

So, too were his beloved Cubs. They paid a tribute of their own to Santo, clicking their heels as they jumped over the third-base line to start the bottom of the first inning at St. Louis.

In 15 major league seasons, all but one with the Cubs, Santo was one of the top third basemen in major league history. He compiled a .277 batting average, had 2,254 hits, 1,331 RBIs and 365 doubles in 2,243 games. He also was a tireless fundraiser for juvenile diabetes, raising more than $65 million.

Santo fought serious medical problems after he retired as a player. He underwent surgery on his eyes, heart

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Former Cincinnati Reds star Barry Larkin holds his plaque after his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum during a ceremony, Sunday, in Cooperstown, N.Y. and bladder after doctors discovered cancer. He also had surgery more than a dozen times on his legs before they were amputated below the knees — the right one in 2001 and the left a year later.

As a broadcaster, Santo was known for unabashedly rooting for the Cubs, a trait that endeared him to fans who never saw him play.

“I want you to know that he loved you so much, and he would be grateful that you came here to share this with him,” Vicki Santo said to the fans. “He

fought the good fight, and though he’s no longer here we need to find a cure (for juvenile diabetes). He felt he had been put here for that reason. He believed in his journey. He believed in his cause. We can’t let him down.”

Two inductees were honoured Saturday in a ceremony at Doubleday Field. Former catcher Tim McCarver received the Ford C. Frick Award for his contributions in broadcasting, while Bob Elliott of the Toronto Sun was given the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for sports writing.

Robson caps penalty to put Whitcaps over Earthquakes VANCOUVER — Barry Robson has looked quite comfortable at B.C. Place Stadium since joining the Whitecaps.

The Scottish midfielder scored in his second straight home game with a penalty kick in the 63rd minute Sunday to give Vancouver a 2-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes.

After joining the club on the road for four games, the designated player scored his first in Wednesday’s 2-2 draw with the L.A. Galaxy, the Whitecaps’ first home game in almost a month.

“It feels really good,” said Robson. “You don’t really get time to settle ... (the fans are) judging you right away.”

Panthers going to Canadian Fastball Championships The Red Deer Topco Oilsite Panthers captured the Alberta women’s senior B fastball championship and earned a berth in the Western Canadian championships in Abbotsford, B.C. in mid-August.

The Panthers, who play in the Red Deer Ladies Fastball League, posted a 3-1 record in their pool, finishing second and advancing to a double life game, where they beat the Edmonton Warriors 5-2.

Jenn Potts picked up the victory on the mound, scattering six hits and striking out five.

The Panthers scored

four runs in the second on an RBI single by Karissa Burnstad and a runscoring double by Potts.

The win guaranteed the Panthers a berth in the Western finals, but they capped off the weekend with a 4-2 win over the Warriors in the final.

Becky Bergstrom led the way with a double and a triple while Potts chipped in with two doubles and Cassandra Kirkham a single and a double. Brianna Weinrauch picked up the win tossing six strong inning with Potts working the seventh for the save.

In the 61st minute, Robson’s initial shot deflected to Camilo but the Brazilian was tripped in the penalty area. Robson stepped up and put the ball in the top corner, bringing 20,112 fans to their feet. “(I wanted to) just hit it as hard as I can,” said Robson. “If you hit it hard, even if the goalie picks the right side it’s still got that power on it and they might still not be able to save it.”

When Camilo went down the referee initially did not call a foul, but after a brief word with the assistant referee, a penalty was awarded. During that moment, Robson picked up the ball for himself.

“Barry Robson’s scored in some really big games and Camilo’s scored for other teams as well,” said Vancouver head coach Martin Rennie. “But Barry Robson wasn’t going to give the ball away once he got it.”

“I kind of sneaked up and grabbed the ball,” said Robson. “I’ve took penalties wherever I’ve been... and it was available for me to take it. Thankfully I was able to score a goal.”

That call was a sore spot with Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop after the game.

“The referee decided the game, well, undecided it,” said Yallop. “His first reaction was ‘get up’ and then he looks over and he gives a penalty kick. We had chances after that to score but it was a bit of a game changer, a big moment in the game. I was dis-

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Bantam AA baseball The Red Deer Boston Pizza won one of three starts in bantam AA baseball league action during the weekend.

The Braves downed the Camrose Cubs 13-6 Sunday at Great Chief Park while losing 12-2 to the Bonnyville Braves Saturday in Camrose and 18-3 to the Edmonton Jays Sunday.

Brad Pope was three-for-four and named MVP of the game against the Cubs while Austin Kelts-Larsen had a two-run double and Cole Simon a two-run single. Matthew Michnik stole home on the back-end of a double steal with Kelts-Larsen.

Carter O’Donnell was the MVP of the game against Bonnyville as he pitched four innings and added a double. Griffin Moline had a run-scoring single and Pope a double.

Moline was the MVP of the game against the Jays, which saw Simon, who was on the mound, take a line drive to the eye. He was taken to the hospital, but was OK.

appointed we didn’t get at least a point.”

Dane Richards scored in the 20th minute for the Whitecaps (9-6-7).

Alan Gordon responded in the 38th minute for the first-place Earthquakes (13-5-4), who were coming off back-to-back wins at home.

Despite just two wins in its past eight games, Vancouver took sole possession of third in the Western Conference.

“It was a big confidence booster for us as well,” said Rennie. “San Jose are having a great season... and we’ve managed to beat them twice and were a little unfortunate in the first game against them.”

Asked why B.C. Place has been inhospitable to his club this year, Yallop, who lived in Vancouver much of his life, said it is a combination of the field itself and also regular road woes.

“It’s a difficult surface, indoor, a different feel,” he said. “It’s not easy playing on the road. We looked weary in the 60th to 75th minute. Our legs weren’t under us. But we got a bit of a second wind after that and ... took the ball into their area a lot.”

Vancouver’s Joe Cannon stopped two shots in the win while Jon Busch made one save in the loss.

Richards got the opener when Young-Pyo Lee fed him a great ball up the right wing. The Jamaican beat his man Justin Morrow and fired a right-footed blast past Busch.

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Seniors, students matched ECKVILLE DANCE JAMBOREE Get your dancing shoes on for this year’s final Eckville ’50s and ’60s Dance Jamboree.

After nine years of showcasing local bands from across Alberta, the event will come to an end. The jamboree goes Aug. 24 to Aug. 26 at the Eckville Arena. In addition to top performances, the 2012 jamboree will feature a trade show, RV show and charity dinners. For more information, contact the organizing committee at 403-5978700.

INDIA CULTURE Central Albertans can learn more about India’s culture through a free event at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Wonders of India will take place on Thursday, Aug. 2, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Central Alberta Refugee Effort and the museum are hosting the event. Those attending will be able to get a henna tattoo and try on a sari, plus make crafts, including friendship bracelets.

For entertainment, there’s punjabi dancing. Snacks and refreshments will be on hand. For more information, call 403309-8405.

PIONEER DAYS Antique tractors will get fired up for Red Deer’s Pioneer Days Festival on Saturday, Aug. 18, and Sunday, Aug. 19.

Festivities include a pancake breakfast from 8 to 10:30 a.m., a silent auction, antique toy display, children’s pedal tractor pull and a featured demonstration of Reynolds-Alberta Museum’s 1922 Sawyer Massey steam traction engine. Also planned is the beef-on-a-bun dinner at 4 p.m. on the Saturday, live musical entertainment and much more. Admission is $5 per person or $15 per family. Additional food charges will apply.

Sunnybrook Farm is located at 4701 30th St. Parking is on hand at the Alberta Motor Association parking lot immediately west of Sunnybrook Farm. For more information, call 403-340-3511.

HOME SHARE HAS STUDENTS HELP SENIORS IN EXCHANGE FOR REDUCED RENT

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Applications and processes will soon be in place for a Red Deer program to match seniors who have an empty room with a college student who needs affordable housing.

“Right now we’re aiming for the end of July,” said Dawna Morey, Generations Project co-ordinator.

As part of the internationally recognized program Home Share, the student helps the senior with some type of work and in exchange, he or she will receive reduced rent.

“They won’t do anything medically or anything that requires a professional. Nothing to do with the body or pills,” Morey said.

Community workshops on topics such as prevention of elder abuse and helping seniors become resilient, will also be led by a senior and a college student. Those taking part in the Generations Project must attend some of the workshops.

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Home Share is an interesting idea that has attracted mature students in Calgary.

“I’m kind of curious to see how it rolls out in Red Deer. It’s going to be a pretty beneficial thing to students,” Peppinck said.

Generations Project information will be posted on Family Services of Central Alberta’s website — www.fsca.ca — and on the SARDC website — www.sardc.ab.ca/ housing.htm — along with the online offcampus housing directory.

Peppinck said each year the directory typically has 200 listings for rooms, condos, houses or duplexes.

Twenty-two housing options were posted last week as landlords and students begin preparing for the upcoming school year.

The majority were rooms for rent at a cost of $400 to $500 per month, including utilities. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Swimmer has heart, to take on Sylvan

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer athlete who almost died from an undiagnosed genetic heart disorder is preparing for a daring 5-km swim across Sylvan Lake on Aug. 18 to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Austin McGrath, 22, said his recovery would not have been possible without the foundation’s research.

“My life was saved, and that is exactly what I want to do for someone else,” said McGrath who was a competitive swimmer and martial artist.

McGrath went into cardiac arrest on May 13, 2011 while lane swimming with his mother Debi McGrath at Red Deer’s Rec Centre.

Thirty minutes into the swim, McGrath was struggling. When he was pulled out of the pool he had no pulse and was not breathing. CPR was started immediately, along with mouth to mouth resuscitation.

Paramedics had to defibrillate McGrath three times before his heart started.

A coma was induced and Red Deer doctors struggled to stabilize McGrath before he was flown by air ambulance to Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre.

While in an induced coma for 17 days, McGrath’s kidneys failed, he suffered from pneumonia and an enlarged spleen.

Brain damage from his heart failure was anticipated.

On May 23, his 21st birthday, he was still unconscious and in

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Phil Foreman, left, and Austin McGrath discuss McGrath’s upcoming Sylvan Lake swim aboard Foreman’s boat Sunday. critical condition.

But McGrath wouldn’t give up and made a miraculous recovery.

“I remember running to the pool in the morning and then waking up in the hospital two and a half weeks later,” said McGrath about the day he was brought out of his coma.

McGrath was diagnosed with prolonged QT syndrome, a genetic disorder where sudden death can occur due to an abnormal heartbeat.

“My family has never had any heart conditions, ever. My whole family is completely scotfree, so that’s why it was a blow to us.”

He required rehabilitation to speak, walk and write and within six weeks, he had accomplished what medical experts expected would take six months.

His short-term memory loss has also dramatically improved.

Since his heart failure, Lind-

say Thurber grad has completed some engineering prerequisite classes at Red Deer College.

When McGrath left hospital after 47 days, he was determined to do something to help others.

Two months ago, he contacted the Heart and Stroke Foundation and began training for the Sylvan Lake swim from the town’s pier.

“I’ve never done a long distance swim in Sylvan Lake before,” McGrath said.

Swimming in a lake is harder with currents, winds, unpredictable weather, and waves from boat traffic, he said.

He also has to watch his heart rate.

“If I push myself too hard then I could have another cardiac arrest.

“There’s a bunch of safety precautions I have to take. I will have a boat following me the whole time. I will have a person in there who is a confident

swimmer who can jump in case something happens. I will have a paramedic in the boat just in case.”

So far McGrath has raised $2,500 for his event Swim for Life.

A barbecue will be held on the pier on the day of the swim to raise money.

The swim across the lake and back starts at 11 a.m..

A silent auction will also be held Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. at Bo’s Bar and Grill in Red Deer.

An 90s alternative rock band will perform and UFC 150 competition will be on the screen.

Tickets are $10 each and include a pint and an appetizer.

For tickets call McGrath at 403598-4630.

For more information or to donate online visit www. heartandstroke.ab.ca and click on upcoming events under the events tab. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

Red Deer Baptist team help with construction of orphanage in Haiti

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Morey said about five seniors have already told her they want students in their homes.

“We hope we will have some matches in the fall session.”

She said the reasons seniors are looking into the program vary and include isolation that comes from losing a spouse and assistance with chores around the house. “(One senior) thinks she has a lot to share with students in terms of the aging process of seniors, at the same time, she thinks there’s a lot she can learn from the students as well.”

Partners in the three-year project include Family Services of Central Alberta, the Golden Circle Senior’s Resource Centre, Red Deer College Students Association, and Alberta Council on Aging, Central Alberta.

For more information on Generations Project call Morey at 403-348-6547.

Eric Peppinck, Students’ Association of Red Deer College, said the rising cost of housing for students is a big concern and

A 16-member humanitarian team from Red Deer volunteered this month at an orphanage in Haiti, a country still rebuilding after the 2010 earthquake.

The team from Unity Baptist Church worked in conjunction with Haitian Children’s Aid Society to help in the construction of a security wall where a new home for Haiti Children’s Home will be built.

“If there is an earthquake, it will be really something that won’t be shaken,” said member Petro Sabengele.

It was the first trip to Haiti for executive director of the Central Alberta African Centre, who remembered the scenes of destruction after the earthquake that were broadcast around the world.

“It was my dream, to be there, and get involved in a small way, especially with a

children’s project.”

Sabengele, also a pastor with Kingdom Citizens Ministries International, got his chance after he was invited to preach at Unity Baptist and asked to join the team.

From what he saw, recovery continues to be slow in Haiti.

About 400,000 people are still living in tent cities.

While volunteers were there, a 16-year-old girl showed up at Haiti Children’s Home, located in the small town of Mirebalais, seeking help for her young baby.

Sabengele said with earthquake damage to its building, the orphanage couldn’t take any more children, and staff were trying to figure out how to help the girl. She left suddenly, leaving her baby behind.

During the 10-day trip, the volunteer team of six youth and 10 adults, worked with locals to begin building the security wall, tackled problems with the existing building, and ran bible school programs for about 150

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Humanitarian team assists drilling of hole for security wall where a new home for Haiti Children’s Home will be built. community children.

Construction of the wall is continuing and is providing jobs for Haitians, he said.

“It was a very successful mission trip. Many people were moved and want to go back again.

“I would definitely go,” said Sabengele, who recently received his degree in social work.

He also spoke at two churches while in Haiti and spoke on a Christian radio station.

“I have a passion for the people of Haiti.”

For more information about Haiti Children’s Home visit haitichildrenshome.com or Haitian Children’s Aid Society at hcas.ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate. com

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July 23, 2012 1840: The British Parliament passed the “Act of Union,” providing for the union of Upper and Lower Canada under a single government.

1904: Charles Menches of St. Louis is said to have conceived the ice cream cone.

The walk-away cone debuted at that year’s St. Louis World’s Fair. (Note: the same fair also saw the premiere of another hot-weath-

er staple. Richard Blechyden, an Englishman who had a tea concession at the fair, invented and sold iced tea.)

1944: The Canadian Army went into action in northern France during the Second World War as a separate unit for the first time. Until then, it had been under British command.

1986: Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey. The Duke and Duchess of York divorced 10 years later.

2002: The Pope John Paul II arrived in Toronto for the World Youth Day festival.

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TAKE STOCK Explosion shuts down oil pipeline ANKARA, Turkey — An explosion and fire have shut down a pipeline that carries oil from Iraq to world markets, an official said Saturday. No one was hurt in the blast.

The explosion late Friday hit a section of a pipeline that takes oil from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk to Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, near the southeastern town of Midyat, said an Energy Ministry official.

A second line that runs parallel was not damaged, but was also briefly shut down as a precaution, the official said. The two pipelines carry about 25 million tons of crude oil a year.

Kurdish rebels, fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s Kurdishdominated southeast, have bombed the pipeline before, cutting oil flows from Iraq for days. Firefighters put out the blaze by Saturday afternoon, the official said, adding that repairs to the pipeline were about to begin. It was not clear when oil flows to Ceyhan would resume.

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Recovery still fragile THREE YEARS ON AND TRILLIONS SPENT

BY JULIAN BELTRAME THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Few are noting the occasion, but about now Canada and the rest of the world should be celebrating the third anniversary marking the end of the Great Recession.

It was in the third quarter of 2009 — the July-September months — that Canada and many other major advanced nations began to breathe a little easier in the knowledge they had peered into the economic abyss and somehow survived.

Yet there are no signs of rejoicing, or even relief.

At separate stock-taking events last week, U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and the International Monetary Fund each had different versions of the same message — the global economy still hangs by a thread, growth is painfully slow and full employment is years away.

Europe is suffering through a Japanstyle lost decade.

Canadians have been told repeatedly

they have done better than most, and the message has become the reality.

France’s L’Express magazine last week declared Canada “number one” in a cover story, encouraging readers to pack up and head to the promised land.

The reality is a little more nuanced, although Canada looks awfully good next to much of Europe, which is now expected to be in recession the rest of the year.

But even in Canada, things might have turned out better.

The first full year of recovery saw the output expand by an acceptable 3.2 per cent, but slow to 2.4 per cent in 2011. Depending on the forecast, it will likely slow further to between 1.5 and 2.1 per cent this year.

And that’s gross domestic product, which includes population growth of about 1.2 per cent a year. Take away the fact there are more people in the country producing and spending, and the picture looks very different.

On a per capita basis, a truer measure of whether a country is getting richer or poorer, Canadians on average are still not back to where they were before the 2008-09

crisis. Per capita GDP in inflation-adjusted dollars peaked at $40,015.79 in the fourth quarter of 2007, and had only returned back to $39,648.11 in the first quarter of this year.

That’s not the way these things usually go. Normally break-outs from sharp, deep slumps are just as sharp in the reverse, with growth rates of four, five and even six per cent for several years.

But as Carney said last week, this was not a normal recession and anyone expecting a typical bounce-back would have been fooling themselves. Even so, the recovery has been softer than might have been hoped for.

“The broad brush of the difficulties of the aftermath of a major financial crisis — yes, we would have seen it,” he said.

“The broad relative weakness of the United States and the impact on Canadian exporters ... we would have seen.

“I would say the scale and debt of the European crisis — this has proven to have taken longer and has been more acute than we would have anticipated.”

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Markets await better news

Marchers protest Spain austerity MADRID, Spain — Several hundred demonstrators have travelled to Madrid from many parts of Spain to protest the country’s near 25 per cent unemployment rate as well as the stinging austerity measures introduced by the government in a bid to avoid an international financial bailout. Many of the protesters are unemployed and walked long distances to converge on the capital city. They arrived a day after the final go-ahead for a bank bailout loan of up to C100 billion ($122.9 billion) failed to calm international markets.

The nation’s key borrowing rate rose to a euro era record of 7.2 per cent in reaction to the country’s continued recession and the debts of its regions. Carrying banners saying “No cuts” and “United, that’s enough” protesters headed to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square late Saturday.

Greek PM meets former U.S. President Bill Clinton ATHENS — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to discuss foreign investment in Greece. Clinton is in Greece to promote the “Hellenic Initiative,” an initiative by businessmen of Greek origin living abroad who want to facilitate foreign investment in the debt-ridden country and to raise $100 million to help charities active in Greece. Later, Clinton and Samaras will be joined by a team of Greek-American businessmen and Greece’s foreign, defence, finance and development ministers.

Clinton was scheduled to speak to a select audience of GreekAmerican businessmen.

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This photo provided by Starbucks shows a new Evolution juice store in Bellevue, Wash. On Friday, Starbucks Corp. announced the opening of three new Evolution juice stores. The move is just the company’s latest push to expand beyond its ubiquitous coffee shops.

Euro “absolutely not” in danger as debt crisis simmers: ECB

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN — The head of the European Central Bank said the euro is “absolutely not” in danger as the continent’s financial crisis simmers, and insisted in an interview published Saturday that the multi-nation currency is “irrevocable.”

Worries about the 17-nation eurozone’s future health have been fueled lately by Greece’s persistent troubles and by the financial woes of Spain, the bloc’s fourthbiggest economy.

European ministers this week signed a rescue package worth up to C100 billion ($122 billion) for its ailing banks, but concern flared about Spain’s prolonged recession and the debts of its regions, and the country’s borrowing costs rose.

Asked in an interview with French daily Le Monde whether the euro is in danger, ECB President Mario Draghi replied: “No, absolutely not.”

When outside analysts draw up scenarios for an “explosion” of the eurozone, “that underestimates the political capital that our leaders have invested in this union, as well as the support of European citizens,” Draghi said in the interview, which was posted on the ECB’s website.

“The euro is irrevocable,” he added.

The ECB this month cut its benchmark interest rate to a record-low 0.75 per cent but gave little sign of further action soon to ease the crisis. It already has made two rounds of three-year emergency loans to banks, but has shown little appetite to reactivate its government bond-buying program.

“Our mandate is not to resolve the financial problems of countries, but to ensure price stability and to contribute to the stability of the financial system in full independence,” Draghi said in the interview with Le Monde, conducted Wednesday — emphasizing the ECB’s primary task of fighting in-

flation.

Asked whether the ECB should do more to ease the economy, Draghi replied: “We are very open.

We do not have any taboos.”

He said the ECB decided to cut interest rates in July because it forecast that inflation would be at its target level — close to or below 2 per cent — at the start of 2013.

“It now seems likely that it will fall sooner than expected, at the end of 2012,” he said.

“Our mandate is to maintain price stability in order to prevent both higher inflation and a generalized, broadly based fall in prices. If we see such risks of deflation, we will act.”

As for the eurozone economy, Draghi said that the situation “has gradually worsened, but not to the point of plunging the whole of the monetary union into recession.”

“We still expect a very gradual improvement in the situation by the end of this year or the beginning of next year,” he said.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market could find some lift from earnings news this week as the second quarter reporting season starts to move into high gear.

Traders will gauge the health of Corporate Canada from companies across the resource, industrial and consumer sectors, including both of Canada’s major railways, grocer Loblaw Cos. (TSX:L), telecom Rogers Inc. (TSX:RCI.B) and some of the country’s top miners.

The TSX ended last week with a small gain of 0.94 per cent as markets in general got a lift from hopes that central banks will do whatever is necessary to keep a fragile global recovery on the rails. Also, oil prices boosted the resource heavy market as another round of Mideast tensions pushed oil back above US$90 a barrel.

The small advance still left the TSX down 2.77 per cent year to date.

It was a quarter marked by lower commodity prices as oil and metals retreated on worries about slowing economies around the world.

“The commodity prices haven’t been all that great in the past quarter and I’m not expecting barn burner results out of anybody (in the resource sector),” said Colin Cieszynski, market analyst at CMC Markets Canada.

“It wouldn’t surprise me at all if we saw some small disappointments out of the various resource producers, probably just because commodity prices haven’t been all that great.”

The first major report of the week comes down Tuesday night from Suncor Energy (TSX:SU). Its results could be affected by a sharp drop in crude during May and June.

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Reduce investment volatility with DCA

TALBOT BOGGS

MONEYWISE

Volatility in financial markets is a fact of life that can play on the psyche of investors.

Periods of volatility like we’ve experienced can either keep investors out of the markets altogether or cause them to act on emotion and sell when they go down and buy when they go up, which is just the opposite of what they should do.

Investing regularly through a continuous savings plan is one of the best ways investors can take

advantage of an investing technique known as dollar cost averaging (DCA) and generate wealth during periods of market volatility and fluctuations.

DCA is intended to reduce exposure to risk associated with making a single large purchase.

The idea is simple: spend a fixed dollar amount at regular intervals on a particular investment, portfolio or part of a portfolio, regardless of the share price or market value.

By doing this, more shares are

purchased when prices are low and fewer shares are bought when prices are high.

DCA is a good strategy for all types of markets.

In a falling market, it can let you purchase more securities; in a rising market it protects you from paying too much; and in a flat market it ensures that you stay invested.

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DCA: Must give up some returns Since the market has a positive mean rate of return, dollar cost averaging usually requires the investor to give up some returns for the benefit of reduced risk. Basically it saves you from yourself since you are not the one trying to decide where the market is going and can save you from making many of these common mistakes.

DCA has an added advantage of letting the value of your investment compound over time and taking away the negative turns in the market.

Regular investing over a long period during good markets and bad has some other benefits. It creates a savings first approach to your finances.

Most people find it a lot easier to set aside small amounts of money over a period of time than coming up with a large lump sum at one time.

Some financial products available to investors let them automatically save and invest.

Dividend reinvestment programs (DRIPs), for instance, allow investors to reinvest their cash dividends by purchasing additional shares or fractional shares on the date the dividend is paid.

A DRIP is an excellent way to increase the value of your investment.

Most DRIPs allow you to buy shares commission free and at a discount to the current share price. Dividend paying stocks generally provide less volatility and excellent returns.

Life cycle mutual funds are another financial product that is suited for people who are averse to volatility.

Unlike traditional mutual funds, life cycle funds mature or end on a specific date in the future, typically five, 10, 15 years or even longer. The end date usually coincides with an important event in the investor’s life, such as retirement or a child’s graduation.

As the target end date approaches, the overall asset allocation of the fund will adjust to become more conservative. This helps investors take advantage of market growth opportunities at the beginning while protecting the value of the fund as it gets closer to maturity.

Investors should set their own financial targets and first save in their RRSPs to take advantage of compounding and the immediate tax benefits.

And one of the best ways to do that is to use dollar cost averaging.

Over time, it can be a great creator of wealth.

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.

MARKETS: Worries Oil fell from US$106 to as low as around the $78 mark as worries grew about a slowing global economy. Still, analysts expect Suncor to turn in earnings per share of 77 cents, more than double the 36-cent showing from a year earlier.

Rogers Communications is also out with results Tuesday. Canada’s largest cable TV operator is expected to hand in earnings per share of 87 cents, up from 80 cents a year earlier. In June, Rogers announced it was cutting 375 jobs, as the wireless, cable and Internet provider cuts costs in the face of lower profits and tougher competition on all fronts.

Canadian National Railway (TSX:CN), Canada’s biggest railroad, is expected to issue earnings per share of $1.44, up from $1.18 a year earlier.

Analysts suggest CN could find lift from the drop in fuel prices during the quarter.

Grocer Loblaw Cos. Ltd. also hands in results on Wednesday and expectations are muted.

“The grocery market is extremely competitive,” observed Robert Gorman, chief portfolio strategist TD Waterhouse.

“Right now, I suspect you’re going to see softness in their earnings versus a year ago.”

Loblaw saw its profit drop 22 per cent in the first quarter after incurring a number of costs, including upgrading its technology systems, that will continue to depress its earnings as it revamps operations.

The company is also converting some of its Ontario stores from a conventional format to a discount format.

Analysts expect the grocer to hand in earnings per share of 62 cents, five cents less than a year ago.

Teck Resources will deliver quarterly results on Wednesday. Analysts expect the miner to report earnings of 77 cents per share, down sharply from $1.12 a year ago.

Copper prices slid sharply during the quarter, down from a high of around US$3.92 a pound to a low of under US$3.40.

Meanwhile, it’s a relatively light week on the economic calendar.

Traders will take in the May reading on retail sales from Statistics Canada. Economists expect sales rose by 0.5 per cent, alongside a rebound in auto sales, hopefully reversing a 0.5 per cent decline in April.

D I L B E R T

The latest reading on U.S. economic strength comes out Friday. Data is expected to show annualized growth of only 1.7 per cent during the second quarter, reflecting belt-tightening by governments and cautious consumer spending.

Other key data during the week includes new U.S. home sales data for June. Economists expect they rose 0.3 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 370,000, up slightly from May when sales jumped 7.6 per cent.

Other data was expected to show U.S. durable goods orders for June increased 0.4 per cent on top of a 1.3 per cent gain for May.

RECOVERY: Could all go wrong And as Carney, Bernanke and the IMF made clear — it could all go terribly wrong if Europe falls off the highwire act that has managed to contain the crisis without solving it.

What went right, say analysts, is that aggressive policy action in the form of trillions of dollars in stimulus and sharp cuts to interest rates succeeded in breaking the fall. In Canada, Ottawa and the provinces chipped in about $60 billion in stimulus, while Carney dropped the central bank’s benchmark interest rate to a previously unheard of 0.25 per cent.

That kept the fall relatively shallow.

About 430,000 Canadians lost their jobs in three quarters, but by July 2009, employment began rising again and has continued to build.

CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld, who early on coined the phrase the “Great Disappointment” about the recovery, credits the global response for preventing a Japan-style lost decade, with its record of double and triple-dip recessions and real deflation in the 1990s.

The conventional wisdom is that Japan’s mistake was that waited too long to react. It took five years to drop the overnight rate to one per cent, and 10 to get into quantitative easing and recapitalizing its banking system.

“We’ve done better in terms of trying to prevent outright deflation from taking hold,” Shenfeld said.

But the benefit of all that stimulus has not been as bountiful as might have been hoped for, especially in Europe and the U.S. Part of the reason is that unlike Canada, many governments entered the crisis already burdened down with heavy debt loads or large deficits, so could not or chose not to throw all their chips in the stimulus pot. Others might have spent on the wrong things.

The United States spent its way to fiscal no-man’s land, but with the exception of the bail-out of the broken banking sector, much went to tax cuts and other short-term relief that provided only fleeting relief, said Derek Holt, vice-president of economics for Scotia Capital.

“With the benefit of hindsight, they’d be in better shape now if they spent more on debt-relief (of the housing sector) and infrastructure projects,” he said.

Some, like union economist Jim Stanford of the Canadian Auto Workers, say the problem is that governments didn’t spend enough, or gave up to soon.

“Governments stepped in a temporary way,” Stanford said. “Within 18 months, most governments, including Canada, turned off the stimulus and moved forcefully to austerity, so I’m not surprised at what’s happened.

“If you are in an environment where the private sector hasn’t really kicked back into gear and governments start cutting, then it’s a no-brainer, your recovery will run out of gas pretty quickly.”

Not surprisingly, Carney believes Canadian policy-makers did what was necessary. With the global economy collapsing, export markets for Canadian shippers dried up, leaving little choice but to prop up the domestic economy.

“We’ve relied on consumption (and) initially the government played an import role on the fiscal side,” explained Carney. “We’ve relied on broader household spending. But there’s limits to that strategy and we’re seeing the limits on the household debt side.”

Canadians in essence rescued the economy by borrowing, building up their household debt to a record high 152 per cent of income by the end of 2012. With the money, they mostly bought homes, leading to a real estate boom at a time of high unemployment and soft economic conditions.

“It’s not sustainable,” said David Madani of Capital Economics, agreeing with Carney.

“You only have to look at housing as a percentage of GDP — (near record seven per cent) — to realize this is not a long-term strategy.”

Unfortunately, there’s no magic elixir to lift the economy out of its doldrums, either in Europe or the U.S. Carney said the bridge years should be spent repositioning the export sector by increasing productivity and changing the mix of markets away from traditional to emerging economies, but that takes time.

It means Canada’s recovery will stay in the slow lane for a while, maybe a long while, longer.

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Machine operator Ed Snyder, foreground, works in the cell assembly line at General Electric’s battery plant in Schenectady, N.Y. General Electric Co., said Friday, that net income fell 16 percent in the second quarter, but that was mainly due to lingering charges from financing companies that were sold off four years ago. Its energy infrastructure business, meanwhile, reported double-digit growth in the period, and the company’s quarterly results topped Wall Street expectations.

Profits also surged for the company’s transportation business.

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Murdoch resigns from boards THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a number of News Corp. subsidiary boards in Britain and the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday.

Murdoch stepped down this past week as a director of NI Group, Times Newspaper Holdings and News Corp.

Investments in the U.K., said Daisy Dunlop, spokeswoman for News Corp.’s British arm, News International. The companies oversee Britain’s newspapers The Sun, The Times, and The Sunday Times.

It was not immediately clear which of News Corp.’s U.S. boards Murdoch had left. Britain’s Telegraph newspaper, which first reported the news late Saturday, said those details had not yet been disclosed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

News International sought to play down the significance of the resignations, saying in a statement that “this is nothing more than a corporate housecleaning exercise prior to the company split.”

That was a reference to News Corp.’s announcement June 28 that it would separate its publishing business from its much more profitable media and entertainment business — forming two distinct, publicly traded companies. Under those proposed changes, Murdoch, 81, will chair both of the companies, although he would continue as chief executive of the media and entertainment company only.

Saturday’s announcement suggests that Murdoch may be distancing himself from his British newspaper interests, which have been shaken to the core by a wide-

spread phone hacking scandal.

The scandal erupted anew last year when it emerged that Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid had systematically hacked voicemails of politicians and celebrities. The revelations have rocked Britain’s establishment and triggered three parallel police investigations that have resulted in more than 40 arrests.

Illegal eavesdropping allegations at the News of the World led to the resignation of Rebekah Brooks, then-CEO of News International, who has been accused of perverting justice in the scandal.

Parts caused Ford Escape recall DETROIT — A manufacturing problem at a company that makes fuel lines forced Ford to recall thousands of its

brand-new Escape small SUVs and tell owners to stop driving them right away. Ford Motor Co. announced the recall Thursday, saying there was a risk of an engine fire.

In documents filed by Ford and posted Friday on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website, the company said fuel lines were “mechanically scored” or damaged on the outside during manufacturing. The lines, made by a TI Group Automotive Systems plant in Indiana, can split when pushed over a connector fitting, and leaking fuel could ignite.

The recall involved 11,500 Escapes. About 4,800 have been sold to customers; the rest are still on dealer lots.

Ford urged customers in the U.S. and Canada not to drive the SUVs and to contact dealers, who would pick up the Escape and drop off a loaner car.

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Dark Knight rises despite killings LATEST BATMAN INSTALLMENT APPEARS UNAFFECTED BY COLORADO MASSACRE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The Dark Knight Rises was on track to earn $160 million, which would be a record for 2-D films, over the weekend following a mass shooting at a Colorado screening of the Batman film.

Citing box office insiders, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and other media outlets reported Sunday that the latest

Batman sequel earned $160 to $162 million.

That amount would best the $158.4 million debut of The Dark Knight in 2008 and give Dark Knight Rises the third-highest domestic weekend opening ever after the 3-D films The Avengers with $207.4 million and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 with $169.2 million.

Tickets for 3-D films cost a few more dollars than 2-D screenings, netting extra cash

at the box office.

Movies released in 3-D typically earn under half of their income in 3-D screenings, sometimes as little as a third.

Sony, Fox, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Lionsgate joined Dark Knight Rises distributor Warner Bros in publicly withholding their usual revenue reports out of respect for the victims and their families.

Box-office tracking service Rentrak also did not report

figures following the Aurora, Colo., shootings that killed 12 and injured 58 at a midnight screening of the new Batman sequel on Friday.

“This tragedy did not seem to impact the box office in a major way,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for Hollywood.com who specializes in box office.

“For this film to still be in the rarified air of the topthree openings of all time is phenomenal, given the un-

fortunate circumstances surrounding the release of this film.”

Dergarabedian noted that the box-office ranking of director Christopher Nolan’s final installment of his Batman trilogy would not be official until Warner Bros. and other studios release their final weekend box-office tallies today.

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Hamill leaves Luke Skywalker to join the dark side NEW CRIME FILM

BY NELSON WYATT THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Members of My Morning Jacket, from left, Bo Koster, Carl Broemel, Jim James, Tom Blankenship and Patrick Hallahan in Louisville, Ky. The band is scheduled to play at the 2012 Newport, R.I., Folk Festival.

Newport Folk Festival attracts mix of veterants, up-and-comers as a proving ground for young artists ever since a then-unknown 18-yearold Joan Baez performed at the inaugural festival.

The festival’s striking setting overlooking the blue waters of Narragansett Bay helps too, according to Dave Simonett, guitarist with the band Trampled by Turtles, which is returning to the festival for its second time.

He said he thinks the festival’s continued strength also reflects a response to the mainstream recording industry and the electronically manipulated music heard on pop radio stations.

“Pop music is so filled with computer-generated stuff anymore — and don’t get me wrong, I like a lot of it — that I think this kind of music is a natural reaction,” he said. He said he thinks the folk music of the ’50s and ’60s represented a similar response to mainstream American culture.

The festival almost died out during a long hiatus in the 1970s but returned with new vigour in the 1980s.

Wein sold the festival and its older sibling, the Newport Jazz Festival, in 2007 but returned to run them in 2009 after the company that bought them ran into financial trouble.

In 2011, Wein created the Newport Festivals Foundation to oversee the folk festival and the

jazz festival — which gets under way Aug. 3 — saying he wanted to ensure the festivals’ longevity.

The festivals combined cost about $3 million to produce, Wein said.

Last year, they ended with a surplus of several hundred thousand dollars.

Wein said he’d like to find a big sponsor to underwrite both events and establish an endowment to ensure they “go on forever.” He said he has no plans to stop producing them.

“What else am I going to do?” he said.

James, of My Morning Jacket, liked the folk festival so much he volunteered to serve on as an adviser to Wein and the foundation board.

“There is no reason the festival shouldn’t be around as long as humans are around,” James said.

“It would be a crime if it’s not.”

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Newport Folk Festival has sold out before, but never as early as it did this year, with tickets for the two-day event disappearing a full three months in advance.

The seminal music festival returns to Rhode Island’s Fort Adams State Park on July 28 with a lineup featuring veteran stars like Arlo Guthrie as well as upand-comers hoping to turn an appearance at Newport into their big break.

Fifty-three years after music impresario George Wein created the festival, and 30 years after it appeared all but dead, its draw is as strong as ever.

“I’m old enough I know that these things go in cycles,” Wein, 86, told The Associated Press during an interview in his hotel room the day before his band, the Newport All-Stars, played a date in Boston. “I want people to go to the festival knowing they’re going to hear great music. And these bands — they’re hugely popular.”

Some 10,000 attendees are expected each day for performances

by Guthrie, My Morning Jacket, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Jackson Browne, Patty Griffin and more than 40 other bands.

Tickets remain available for a kick-off concert on Friday headlined

by Wilco.

Folk music and its place in American music have shifted mightily since Bob Dylan famously traded in his acoustic for an electric guitar here in 1965, but the festival continues to grow.

Last year, tickets sold out a few weeks before the event for the first time; this year, it sold out in April.

Jim James, vocalist and guitarist for My Morning Jacket, said he’s not surprised by the

festival’s staying power.

He said the venue, the organizers, the performers and the fans set Newport apart from other festivals.

“It is a transcendental, beautiful experience that goes way beyond playing a festival,” he said.

“There’s just something so special about Newport, playing on the main stage and looking out to see the boats on the water. You don’t ever get a chance to play for a bunch of sailboats.”

Organizers and artists interviewed by the AP credit the lineup’s diversity and renewed interest in roots music, an umbrella term that can cover alt-country, bluegrass, Americana, Cajun and several other genres.

“There’s something magical about folk music; it has this mechanism built in that means it will never die,” said Nick Panken, guitarist and vocalist for the Spirit Family Reunion, a New York-based band making its Newport debut Saturday.

“It feels so fresh and relevant and exciting.

This is a festival that’s been revitalized.”

While other festivals may be larger, or boast bigger acts, the folk festival is known as a musician’s festival, where artists often show up early or stay late to check out another act.

The festival has also enjoyed a reputation

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MONTREAL — Star Wars could have been a lot different if Mark Hamill had picked his role.

“I remember reading Star Wars and thinking, ’boy, I wish I could be playing Darth Vader — that’s the part,’ ” Hamill said with relish in an interview.

There was never any question of that, however, and he went on to become a pop culture icon as plucky Luke Skywalker, the intrepid space adventurer who helps derail the evil Vader’s plans for galactic domination in three Star Wars films.

Hamill’s latest role is a galaxy away from the earnest Skywalker.

Mark Hamill In Sushi Girl, a crime noir flick having its international premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, he plays Crow, a sadistic robber who inflicts pain with all the nonchalance of a chat between Skywalker and his robot pal R2D2.

“Every actor wants to push the envelope and explore the extremes on both sides,” Hamill said, calling Skywalker “an icon of virtue.”

But playing villains has proven lucrative for him too, with one of the most notable being his over-thetop vocal interpretation of The Joker in the animated Batman TV series and video games.

“It was a great kick to be cast as The Joker because he’s an icon 180 degrees away from Luke,” Hamill said, agreeing it’s often more enjoyable to play the villain than the hero.

“You’re messing up the chance for good to succeed and that’s a lot of fun.”

In Sushi Girl, Hamill teams with a roster of horror and action movie stars including James Duval from Donnie Darko, serial heavy Andy Mackenzie (Shoot ’Em Up), Michael Biehn, who duked it out with Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator, and Tony Todd, who chilled filmgoers in The Candyman and has appeared on various TV shows including 24.

Todd said the script for Sushi Girl reminded him of other prominent genre films such as “Asphalt Jungle” and The Killing, which Hamill calls his favourite Stanley Kubrick movie.

“I just wanted to get away from the career wearing prosthetics and hooks on my hands and have a role that was 100 per cent,” said Todd, adding he saw the crime flick as a chance to “take things to another level.”

Hamill appreciated director Kern Saxton’s interest in giving him such a dark role, saying a few years ago he probably would have been picked for a more innocent character.

“It’s just creepy,” he said of the quirky Crow, who has a pair of particular shoes he likes to wear when torturing people.

“He kind of whistles while he works.”

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CANADIANS GETTING HOOKED ON SINGLE-SERVE COFFEE MACHINES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Watch out, Tim Hortons and Starbucks.

The coffee industry’s push to sell machines that make single-serve specialty brews have upped the amount of java Canadians are drinking at home.

Coffee drinkers average two cups per day and two-thirds of them are brewing some their drinks at home, said Robert Carter, executive director of foodservice at the NPD Group, on Thursday.

The new report What’s Brewing in the Canadian Coffee Market: A Consumer Perspective suggests auto-drip coffeemakers are still dominant for in-home, morning preparation but single-serve machines are being revved up in the afternoons, evenings and later at night.

Over a quarter of Canadian coffee drinkers (27 per cent) said they sip coffee at home more than they did last year, and the same percentage stated they now consume the beverage less when they’re out.

“The main driver is the innovation, convenience and ease of use of singleserve, in-home brewing systems,” Carter said, particularly now that there are higher-quality brands available, like those made by Starbucks and Timothy’s, for use in machines made by such companies as Keurig or Tassimo.

“We know overall consumers are motivated by convenience. The easier you make it, the more consumers will do something,” he said.

“Fifty-seven per cent of all our restaurant visits are off-premise through the drive-thru in Canada so convenience is one of the key drivers and those coffee-pod machines are so convenient and simple to use at home.”

Coffee shops are not in hot water yet, however.

Canadians still love to go out for coffee, especially to quick-serve res-

taurants in the morning for a cup of joe and a breakfast sandwich. Over the last year there were 1.7 billion servings of coffee consumed in these restaurants, a three per cent increase over the year before.

In fact, Canadians quaff more coffee outside of home per capita than any other country except Italy, Carter said.

“With some of the burger guys getting into the coffee game they’re stealing share from some of the other players in the market and that’s driving some of the volume of coffee consumption,” Carter said.

“I think there is definitely some switching going on.

“The upscaling within some of the operators, like the McDonald’s with the McCafes, is driving some of the increased consumption.”

Brewed cups are where the coffee shops are mostly cashing in. When Canadians visit their local coffee houses, 80 per cent buy a quick brew rather than an espresso or an espresso-based beverage.

Specialty hot espresso-type beverages are more popular during the morning and afternoon break periods, Carter said, adding there were 390 million servings sold last year, an eight per cent growth over the previous year.

The consumption of iced, slushytype coffee beverages is the industry’s fastest-growing category, Carter said.

Last year there were 161 million servings consumed through quick-service outlets, a 15 per cent increase over the year before. The research showed that iced coffee is twice as likely to be consumed on the weekend than during the week.

NPD tracks purchase behaviour in the out-of-home foodservice segment through a panel of 100,000 consumers online.

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I N S T R U M E N TAT I O N Technician Job Description The successful candidate will be responsible for the manufacture, repair and calibration of electronic instrumentation. $2500 Bonus Preference will be given to Every 100 days those with a IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Post secondary Night Foremen, certification in Electronics Day & Night operators Engineering or Must have H2S, First Aid, Instrumentation valid driver’s license.

Strong computer skills Pre-employment Lonkar offers an immediDrug screening ate benefits package Competitive Wages. including a matching Benefit Package RRSP plan. Please submit Please submit resume your resume to: with references to: 8080 Edgar Industrial apply@wespro.ca Drive Red Deer AB, T4P or by fax to (403) 783-8004 3R3 Fax: 403-309-1644 Only individuals selected Email: careers@lonkar. for interviews will be com contacted

CASH CASINO is hiring a 3am - 11am shift.

Need to be physically fit.

Must have reliable transportation.

Please send resume to cleaning@cashcasino.ca or fax 1-403-243-4812 or drop off at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St. Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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DEADLINE IS 5 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

• Very Competitive Wages • Advancement Opportunities With medical Benefits • Paid training • Paid Breaks Apply in person at 6889 Gaetz Avenue or send resume to: Email:kfcjobsrd@yahoo.ca or Fax: (403) 341-3820

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D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, July 23, 2012 Trades

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REBEL METAL FABRICATORS

APPLIANCE DELIVERY DRIVER

DRAFTSPERSON

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7652 Gaetz Ave Red Deer

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Gary Moe Hyundai

3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS

LOOKING for a Journeyman Welder with fabrication exp. Brake and Shear knowledge an asset. Only faxed resumes accepted. Fax 403-343-3548 SCOTTS STEEL FAB R.D.

Apply in person with resume and Hyundai certification to: Dave @

403-350-3000

Residential exp. only Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

LOOKING FOR A CAREER? KAL TIRE

Busy Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers. We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net

CLASS 1 DRIVING INSTRUCTOR

has an opening for a JOURNEYMAN LIGHT DUTY MECHANIC Preference will be given to those w/alignment exp.

Great pay, profit share and full benefits.

Bring your resume to: 5139 - 50 Street, Innisfail LOOKING for hourly drywallers and general laborers. Please fax resume to 403-782-0610

Req’d in Sylvan Lake Immediately.

Phone 1-877-463-9664 or email resume to info@

Welders Needed Immed.

and Machinists with CNC and manual experience.

Pace is a well-established, Journeyman or apprentice long standing business in for General Repair/ ManuRed Deer. Our company facturing shop. CNC & is focused on providing the Welding experience an highest of quality to all our asset. Competitive wages customers. We are and benefit package avail. presently looking for selfEmail resume to: motivated, goal-oriented deansmachineinc@ individuals, willing to learn, gmail.com possessing high or fax to 403-742-8833 standards, looking for longterm employment and would like the opportunity to join our team. Please drop off your resume, in person, Or mail to Pace Manufacturing at PIPELINE & Facility 6820-52 Ave., Red Deer, Construction Now Hiring : AB, T4N 4L1 E-mail: pace@telus.net *Qualified Ticketed Laborers or Fax to: 403-340-2985 *EquipmentOperators *Chain Saw Hands WELDERS *Landscape personnel We are expanding and looking for Apprentice & Please forward a resume Journeyman Welders to by fax to 403-309-4232 work with us. We specialize in Repair and MainteSIDING INSTALLERS nance as well as custom needed immediately. fabrication of shacks & We offer competitive rates components. We have a & a fantastic benefit variety of jobs coming package. If you have siding installing experience through our door on a daily basis. The ideal candidate & your own reliable would have some transportation, please call mechanical ability and a Darcy at 403-391-6293. desire to learn. Please Tools are an asset but not send your resume & necessarily a requirement. references by email to STRONG Insulation Inc. info@absolutefusion.ca or Looking for exp. residential fax your resume to insulators w/drivers licence 403-309-7134. No Phone (Batt And Poly, Blow-in).

Calls Please Call 403-848-2402 WELDERS, MILLWRIGHT or Millwright Welder Apprentices to work in the Ag. Industry.

Must be willing to travel Ab. & Sask. Email to tracous@yahoo.com

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Machinist

APEX OILFIELD SERVICES IS HIRING! Looking for a Journeyman or Apprenticing Welder in Red Deer. Experience required.

Call 403-314-4748 or email hr@apexoil.ca to apply.

CALIBER PAINT & BODY INC.

We are looking for a DETAILER/CLEAN UP PERSON We offer a good working environment & benefits.

Please apply with-in at 6424 Golden West Ave. or email resume to: caliberpaint@telus.net EXP’’D drywall tradesmen & laborers req’d, Phone 403-348-8640 EXPERIENCED repair person or HD Mechanic to work in Clive area shop.

Exp. working on highway tractors and trailers, Class 3 an asset. We offer an 8:30-5 work day. All tools supplied. Health and dental benefits. Fax resume to 1-855-784-2330 or call 1-877-787-2501 F/T PAINTERS REQ’D Painting exp. necessary.

Must have vehicle.

Must be task orientated, self motivated & reliable.

Recognized as a top safety award winning company.

Phone 403-596-1829

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DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

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CAMP COOK - HINTON

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We are looking for a cook with food safe certification and a min of 3 years’ experience to work at our camp in Hinton.

Responsibilities include cooking for 10-40 people at any given time, baking, grocery orders and keeping an exceptionally clean kitchen. Ideal candidate must also be a team player. Schedule is 2 weeks on / 2 weeks off.

Pidherney’s offers competitive wages and benefits.

Job # HCMA-0022 Fax resume to Michelle at michellea@pidherneys.com.

Or can call 403-322-0124 for more information.

Sales & Distributors

Family owned & operated, Trail Appliances continues to grow and due to this, we are looking to expand our delivery department. Trail offers excellent training and a competitive compensation and benefit plan.

We are currently looking for an experienced Delivery Driver to work out of our Red Deer Warehouse.

Launch your career with a well known and respected company. Become a part o f t h e s u c c e s s f u l Tr a i l team by applying in person to: Colin Parsons in person at #6 4622 61 Street in the Riverside Industrial District, Red Deer. Security checks will be conducted on successful candidates.

Vehicle maintenance service, replace, fix, adjust systems and components, steering, brakes, suspension, transmission, electronics, electrical, engines and accessories.

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Central AB based trucking company reqires

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CLASS 1 and 3 drivers req’d for road construction.

Water truck and truck and pup exp. preferred. Living allowance incld. Fax 403-309-0489 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

CLASS 3 WATER HAULER needed. Only those with Drilling Rig Water Hauling experience need apply.

Need H2S & First Aid tickets.TOP WAGES PAID Fax clean drivers abstract and resume between the hours of 9 am to 6 pm to: 403-746-3523 or call 403-304-7179

Vacuum & Water Truck operators req’d. to start immed.

CLASS 1 or 3 WITH Q All oilfield safety tickets req’d. Clean drivers abstract. Must comply with drug and alcohol policy.

References Req’d.

Exc. salary & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-742-5376 hartwell@telus.net

$2500 + /MO. Red Deer company is increasing in size.

F/T positions. Promotions within 30-90 days.

Applicants must be 18+ years. Corporate training for those selected. 340-8788 Students Welcome!

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* Work in a FUN environment * Paid Weekly + bonuses * Only 4 hrs./night & 3-7 days per wk.

* MUST speak fluent English

FOR recycling company in Central Alberta. Must be able to work independently and enjoy sales. Class 3 license needed. Call 403-635-4123 or fax 403-329-1585 or email tdtren@telus.net CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

For further information please contact

**************************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

314-4300 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIER NEEDED

• Ongoing commitment to training • Benefits Plan

Only suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview

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QUALIFIED CANDIDATES, PLEASE FORWARD RESUMES TO JAMES O’DWYER.

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate 6 days per week in

CARRIERS NEEDED For Advocate routes INGLEWOOD AREA ANDERS AREA VANIER AREA LANCASTER AREA FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

ANDERS AREA: Anders Close Ackerman Crsc.

Asmundsen Ave/ Arb Close

F/T Customer Service Representative. Must be avail. weekdays and Sat’s. Some outside work req’d. Computer skills an asset. Fax resume to 403-347-0788

SUNNYBROOK AREA: Savoy Cres. / Sydney Close

Career Opportunity

$18.36/hr. + bonuses. Red Deer distribution company beginning 2nd. successful year of growth in the Red Deer area. We are currently seeking energetic individuals looking to get ahead. Positons include: Water quality advisers, customer service and general labor. P/T & F/T positions avail. Rapid advancement avail. Please call Sat. Mon. & Tues.

10-6 403-356-0330

WEST LAKE 77 Advocate $404/month $4851/year

INGLEWOOD AREA: Imbeau Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

ESSO IN PONOKA Hiring Supervisor Up to $15.65/hr + benefits. Fax resume to: 403-783-8273

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ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED for Morning Newspaper delivery in the Town of Stettler

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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HYPE MARKETING is currently looking for students to join our award winning team. We do marketing for 34 newspapers across Canada and Red Deer is the Number 1 team! Here’s why.....

Earn $500.mo. for 1--1/2 hrs. per day 6 days a week.

Work 3-7 days a week you choose the days! Hours are from 4:30 - 9:30 pm.

Must have a reliable vehicle .

Please contact Rick at 403-314-4303

Earn extra money with daily cash bonuses!

Get paid weekly!

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Average earnings are $300 - $600 per week.

Candidates must be friendly, outgoing, and very good looking! Just kidding.

But seriously you need to self motivated and have a positive attitude. Sales experience isn’t necessary as training will be provided.

If you think you got what it takes, call now to set up an appt..

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Richard Schnurr 587-894-1199

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308 DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in ROSEDALE

ROUTES AVAIL.

Robinson Crsc., Reinholt Ave. DEER PARK

ROUTES AVAIL.

Dunning Crsc.

Depalme St.

PIDHERNEY’S IS GROWING! We currently require a

UTILITY/BASE CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN For work in and around the Red Deer area This successful individual will possess the following quali¿cations: • Have experience running a small base crew • Have blueprint knowledge and experience • Understands grade setting • Parking lot and subdivision experience an asset • Valid driver’s license Pidherney’s offers competitive wages based on experience & a medical bene¿t package.

Please fax resume to 403-845-5370 or email to hr@pidherneys.com Please reference # KZWS - 0007

MICHENER

ROUTE AVAIL.

51 Street & 43 Ave. area ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 for more info

TO LIST YOUR WEBSITE CALL 403-309-3300

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jwinter@badgerinc.com Fax: 403-343-0401 No Phone Calls Please

ASSOCIATIONS

HEALTH & FITNESS

www.centralalbertahomebuilders.com Central AB Home Builders 403-346-5321 www.reddeer.cmha.ab.ca Canadian Mental Health Assoc. www.realcamping.ca LOVE camping and outdoors? www.diabetes.ca Canadian Diabetes Assoc. www.mycommunityinformation.com /cawos/index.html www.reddeerchamber.com Chamber of Commerce 403-347-4491

www.liveyourlifebetter.com Lose weight naturally with Z-Trim www.dontforgetyourvitamins.net The greatest vitamins in the world www.matchingbonus123.usana.com the best...just got better!! www.greathealth.org Cancer Diabetes DIET 350-9168

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

BALLOON RIDES

www.workopolis.com Red Deer Advocate - Job Search

www.air-ristocrat.com Gary 403-302-7167

PET ADOPTION

BUILDERS www.fantahomes.com 403-343-1083 or 403-588-9788 www.masonmartinhomes.com Mason Martin Homes 403-342-4544 www.truelinehomes.com True Line Homes 403-341-5933 www.jaradcharles.com BUILDER M.L.S

This is full time position and only experience Industrial Spray Painter need apply. Preference will be given to those who have previous industrial spray painting experience and to those who take pride in their work and generate high quality workmanship. Some weekend work required.

Full company benefits are available as well as a wage that compliments experience.

Please reply to this ad by fax or email, including references:

WE OFFER:

WEST PARK

GLENDALE Goodall Ave & Grimson St. Gunn St. & Goodacre Cl.

for the PAINT department in the Red Deer manufacturing shop.

• A team player with a commitment • Exceptional communication skills to exceptional customer service and (including computer literacy) satisfaction • Vehicle sales experience is an • A positive work attitude with strong asset but we are willing to train a work ethics suitable applicant

WEST LAKE

BURNT Lake Trail Construction Ltd has an opening for a full time permanent position for a Carpenter helper in the red deer area. Duties include all aspects of residential and commercial construction. $17-$20 hourly. Fax resume to: 403-347-0929.

INDUSTRIAL SPRAY PAINTER

YOU OFFER:

We Have a part time position now available in Red Deer 1-3 hours/day 3 - 4 Days /week.

We offer flexible hours, paid training, free comprehensive benefit package.

The work will include, light duty maintenance, site inspections, equipment verifications.

Knowledge of filing systems, familiarity with Microsoft Outlook and basic computer skills.

Wage starting at $20 and up to $24.00/hour depending on experience.

Fax resume to 306-244-4498 or email to: jadeverishine@kwpetro.com

& Red Deer Life Sunday in

Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Phone 1-780-716-4202

Call Rick at 403-314-4303

ARE YOU RETIRED OR SEMI-RETIRED OR JUST LOOKING TO WORK A FEW HOURS A DAY?

Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

Badger Daylighting LP the industry leader in Hydro-vac excavating requires an:

SALES PERSON

for details

GRANDVIEW 69 Advocate $362/month $4347/year

* Excellent work experience

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

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MOUNTVIEW 71 Advocate $372/month $4473/year

* Training is provided

CARRIERS REQUIRED to deliver the Central AB. Life twice weekly in

Please call Debbie

EASTVIEW 82 Advocate $430/month $5165/year

www.badgerinc.com

Palliser Chevrolet requires a

Palliser Chevrolet. 4604 42nd Ave., Innisfail, Alberta T4G 1P6 Fax: 403-227-3195 Email: jodwyer@palliserchev.com

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

Trades

Palliser Chevrolet has earned a reputation for Reliability, Quality, and Customer Service.

To do this it means having the right people and product.

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Wanted for delivery of Flyers, Express & Sunday Life In

EXPERIENCED

ADULT CARRIERS REQUIRED for Early morning delivery of Red Deer Advocate in Sylvan Lake

* GED Preparation UPS is now hiring for * Trades Entrance Exam Part time Early Morning Preparation MORNING WAREHOUSE AND FULL TIME DRIVING. * Women in the Trades Applicants must be physically fit and be able Academic Express to lift up to 70 lbs.

Adult Education & Training P/T Warehouse, 340-1930 Mon. to Fri. 15 - 20 hrs/wk. www.academicexpress.ca Driving Mon. to Fri, 10 to 12 hours per day.

Alberta Class 5 license, clean abstract. This is ADULT & YOUTH fast paced, physically demanding environment.

CARRIERS All candidates are subject NEEDED to criminal record checks.

Apply by online @ for delivery of www.upsjobs.com Flyers or fax resume to: Red Deer Express 403-648-3312

CHRIS MCGINNIS Red Deer and area Team Leader

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late LOCAL ACID Transport model tractor pref. company looking for expd’ 403-586-4558 F/T Class 1 truck driver.

BUSY CENTRAL AB Top wages and exc. company req’s exp’d. Class benefit pkg., 1 drivers to pull decks.

Fax resume and driver’s Assigned truck, exc. wages abstract to 403-346-3766 and benefits pkg. Paid extras. Family orientated.

Celebrate your life Resume and abstract fax with a Classified to 403-784-2330 or call ANNOUNCEMENT 1-877-787-2501 Mon,. - Fri,. 8 a m to 6 pm TRUCK DRIVER wanted, Super B flat deck work, for Alberta only, Mon. to Fri. Call 403-350-1406

JOIN A GREAT TEAM!!!

• Long established, respected dealership environment • Superior earning potential

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Two full time, permanent positions in Red Deer, AB From $29.75/hr to $33.00/hr

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Alberta Government Funded Programs Student Funding Available!

The ideal candidate will: * be able to maneuver merchandise in excess of 100 lbs * possess exceptional customer service skills * enjoy working within a diverse team * hold a valid driver’s license and a clear drivers abstract

(Hyundai Master Technician Required)

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ADULT UPGRADING

Immediate Opportunity.

This position is responsible for ABSA drawings and shop layout drawings for truck mounted vacuum systems using Autodesk THE RUSTY PELICAN is Inventor. Production now accepting resumes for Bonuses Comp.

EXP`D SIDER , must have a well experienced wages & benefits. truck and tools.

F/T SERVER Long term employment Call 403-347-2522 Apply within: 2079-50 Please email resume to Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. hr@rebelvac.ca FOUNDATION COMPANY Fax 403-347-1161 Phone or fax to: 403-314-2249 calls WILL NOT be accepted. in Red Deer currently seeking Experienced Commercial STAIR MANUFACTURER White Goose Stettler Foundation workers.

Req’s F/T workers to build Kitchen helper Full Time, Please fax resume to stairs in Red Deer shop.

Salary: $11.50 Hourly for 403-346-5867 MUST HAVE basic car40 hours per week pentry skills. Salary based Location: Stettler, Alberta FRAMER req’d. 2-3 yrs. on skill level. Benefits residential exp. own vehiApply In Person avail. Apply in person at cle a must. 403-350-5103 100, 7491 Edgar Galaxy Plumbing & HeatIndustrial Bend. email: Sales & ing Ltd requires 2nd and earl707@telus.net. and/or Distributors 3rd year apprentices. Must fax 403-347-7913 be mature and deSTUCCO LABOURERS PREMIER Spa Boutique is pendable. Send resumes needed Immed. Exp’d but seeking Retail Sales to galaxyadmin@telus will train. Drivers License Supervisor for our Park- .net or fax to 403-347-4539. pref’d. Call 403-588-5306 land Mall location, Red Deer. $17.40/hr.

JOIN THE BLUE Email resume GRASS TEAM! premierjobrd1@gmail.com BLUE GRASS SOD FARMS LTD is seeking 2nd. or 3rd. yr. heavy duty mechanic apprentice Trades with experience in TRUE POWER ELECTRIC agriculture equipment Requires and trucks. bluesod@xplornet.com or AUTOMOTIVE QUALIFIED fax to 403-342-7488

SERVICE TECHNICIANS

Truckers/ Drivers

EXPERIENCED SHEET METAL INSTALLERS

For interview phone Brent or Brian @ 403-309-8301 Fax or email resume to 403-309-8302 or info@ComfortecHeating.com

Restaurant/ Hotel

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SUBWAY RESTAURANT Innisfail, AB needs F/T Food Counter Attendant.

Must be Mature and willing to work any shift. $11.00/hr. Fax resume to 403-227-6176 or email d_merkley@telus.net

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www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 403-346-7273 www.albertanewhomes.com Stevenson Homes. Experience the Dream.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES www.ultralife.bulidingonabudjet.com MLM’ers attract new leads for FREE!

CLUBS & GROUPS www.writers-ink.net Club for writers - meets weekly

COMPUTER REPAIR

www.reddeerspca.com Many Pets to Choose From

REAL ESTATE www.homesreddeer.com Help-U-Sell Real Estate5483

RENTALS www.homefinders.ca Phone 403-340-3333 www.lonsdalegreen.com Lonsdale Green Apartments

SHOPPING www.fhtmca.com/derekwiens Online Mega Mall 403-597-1854

VACATIONS www.radkeoutfitting.com AB Horseback Vacations 403-340-3971

WEB DESIGN

www.albertacomputerhygiene.com

affordablewebsitesolution.ca

AB, Computer Hygiene Ltd. 896-7523

Design/hosting/email $65/mo.

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, July 23, 2012 D3

F.T. WAREHOUSE

Needs a Drivers licence, some heavy & light lifting, friendly, personnel.

Monday-Friday, with some Saturdays, exc. wages & benefits.

Fax to: 403-309-3000.

Drop off: #9 - 7619 50 Ave Red Deer, AB

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Very busy Red Deer Flooring Company is seeking Interior designer (male or female). Must have an eye for design and professional attitude.

Commercial & Residential Estimating: Floor & Wall Tile, Hardwood, Laminate and F/T Retail Trade Supervisor Carpet. Wages are 2 positions $14.90/hr. negotiable based on F/T Food Service Supervisor experience & benefits 1 position $13.00/hr. avail. Fax 403-309-3000 F/T Food counter attendants 2 positions $10.70/hr.

1105903 AB Ltd. o/a Eckville Gas & Snacks, 5008 - 48 St. Eckville, AB T0M 0X0 F/T Retail Trade Supervisor 1 position $14.90/hr.

F/T Food Service Supervisor 1 position $13.20/hr.

F/T Food counter attenLOOKING for laborers and dant 2 positions $11.50/hr flaggers for road construc1105903 AB LTD. o/a tion. Fax 403-309-0489 Alhambra corner Hwy.11 R R 54 AB TOM OCO F/T Retail Trade Supervis- Maintenance Person Req’d. F/T employment. or 1 position $14.90/hr.

Carpentry or flooring instalF/T food service lation exp. is an asset supervisor, 1 position (carpet, tile, lino & hard$13.20/hr. wood) but not necessary.

F/T food counter Must be neat, clean, proattendants 2 positions fessional, friendly, works $11.50/hr well with others or alone.

1373883 AB Ltd. o/a Drivers License req’d.

Caroline Gas & Snacks.

Exc. wages, benefits & #1 4903 50 Ave. Caroline great working environment.

AB T0M 0M0 Please fax résumé to Please send resumes by 403-309-3000 or drop off e-mail, mail, fax or in person at 9-7619 50 Ave Fax: 403-746-3229 Red Deer, AB shinbukap@hanmail.net or mail to Box 506 CELEBRATIONS Eckville T0M 0X0 HAPPEN EVERY DAY until July 31, 2012 IN CLASSIFIEDS

F/T YARD LABORER

* Great customer service * Must have a valid driver’s license * Clean drivers abstract * Ability to work unsupervised * Ability to work with others * Lumber experience an asset but not a requirement * Physically demanding * High pace * Must be able to work weekends Please forward resumes Attention Manager to fax # 403-887-3625 Or email to: resumes@ lakesiderona.com Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

GROWING TAXI COMPANY in Stettler needs drivers.

Part time and full time positions available. Clean Drivers abstract required Contact 403-742-1444

NO Experience No Problem

We will be holding a corporate training program to train men & women for F/T positions in our company.

Some Management positions also avail.

Those selected can expect $2500/mo. to start as well as bonuses & incentive trips For personal interview Call 403-340-8599

Employment Training

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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Career Planning

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

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Auctions

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

EquipmentHeavy

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

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Tools

SKILL SAW, Black & Decker, $30.

SANDER, Craftsman, $30.

JIGSAW, Craftsman, $30.

403-782-7439

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Farmers' Market NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED for Afternoon delivery in Bowden & Innisfail.

Please contact QUITCY

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

ALBERTA Spring lamb, cut and wrapped by the piece, 1/2 or whole carcass.

Come see our 100 mile radius store. Brown Eggs and Lamb 403-782-4095 BISON meat cut & wrapped, no medicine or growth hormones 340-9111 or 342-0891 after 6 VERY good healthy raspberry plants to transplant $6/ea. 403-346-9886

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Firewood Personal Assistant

Central Alberta Tile One is looking for a Personal Assistant.The office is very busy and the ideal person would need to be able to multi task while handling a number of different projects. Team oriented, effective verbal and listening skill, proficient computer skills (MS Office) email: Shannon@catile1.com or drop off resume at #9 7619 50 Ave Red Deer.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

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Household Furnishings

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COFFEE table and 2 end tables, solid oak. $125.

403-314-5528 COUCH, LOVESEAT, COFFEE TABLE & 2 END TABLES. Good Cond. $200. 403-391-7843 DBL. reclining loveseat $80; Sony DVD $40 403-346-9635 HIDE-A-BED , GREEN, in good cond. $200.

403-346-0124 MOVING 2 Chesterfields, $50/ea, would be good for rumpus room, recliner, $80, OR BEST OFFER 403-864-2009 MOVING Table, $20, double bed, $50.

OR BEST OFFER 403-864-2009

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

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Stereos TV's, VCRs

UNIVERSAL T.V. Wall Mount for up to 50’ with tilt.

Brand New! $40.

403-346-4609

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4 GLASS bottom steins(alum) $32; decorative stein with music box $20; 6 tall 8 oz. glasses (sherry style) $10; green flared chip/dip bowl set $8; large white turkey platter $5; large blue enamel roaster $12; med. blue enamel roaster $6; wood burning art work picture, moose in meadow (one of a kind) 42” x 35 1/2” $60; driftwood 31 1/2”L x 9 1/2”h stained $45 403-314-2026 COMPOSTER Brand New. $30.

403-346-4555

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine, Birch Spilt, Dry. Pickup or Del. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. All Types.

P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275 birchfirewoodsales.com

1710

246823F8-G31

1720

BED ALL NEW,

Queen Orthopedic, dble. pillow top, set, 15 yr. warr.

Cost $1300. Sacrifice $325.

302-0582 Free Delivery BED: #1 King. extra thick orthopedic pillowtop, brand new, never used. 15 yr. warr. Cost $1995, sacrifice @ $545. 403-302-0582.

CHINA CABINET, $100; 403-346-4555

1800

1 - Office Desk, $60 obo.

Dark Cherry wood color 2 - top drawers and 2 large “legal” drawer.

Leave msg @ 403-598-3986

1810

Pets & Supplies

BIRD CAGES (2) $20 ea.

403-346-4555

1830

Cats

CATS need a new home.

Due to allergies must find a new home for my pets.

Ozzie, 6 yr. old M. Manx, orange tabby, neutered & declawed; Patches, 4 yr. o l d F. b l a c k & w h i t e , spayed & declawed. Both littered trained. Do not have to live at the same home. FREE to a good home. 403-347-1410

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

1100

Black Cat Concrete

Sidewalks, driveways, garages, patios, bsmts. RV pads. Dean 403-505-2542 BLACK PEARL CONCRETE Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285 BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980 COR CONSTRUCTION ~Garages ~Decks ~ Fencing ~ Reno’s.

35 years exp. 403-598-5390 DALE’S Home Reno’s.

Free estimates for all your reno needs. 755-9622 cell 506-4301 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Contractors

1100

Massage Therapy

1280

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia Prefering non- combustible fibre cement, canexel & smart board, Call Dean @ 302-9210.

Gentle Touch Massage 4919 50 St. New rear entry, lots of parking 403-341-4445

1165

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Escorts

*LEXUS* 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT Busty Babe w/My Own Car! EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages www.eroticasplaymates.net 403-598-3049 ROXY 26 Hot Blonde 403-848-2300 UPSCALE Hotties in town mydiamondgirls.org 403-550-0732

Handyman Services

1200

TIRED of waiting? Call Renovation Rick, Jack of all trades. Handier than 9 men. Specializing in mobile home leveling and winterizing 587-876-4396

Massage Therapy

1280

* NEW * Executive Touch.

Relaxation massage for men. 5003A - Ross St. 403-348-5650

HOT STONE, Body Balancing. 403-352-8269

VII MASSAGE

Feeling blue, under the weather? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave. www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels 403-986-6686 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 FREE removal of all kinds of unwanted scrap metal.

No household appliances 403-396-8629

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

Moving & Storage

1310 1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for an honest reliable person to help on small renovations or jobs around your house? Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship, helping you/helping your family. Call 403-346-7777 Low Price Guarantee. www. helpinghandshomesupport.com Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Yard Care

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

NORMANDEAU

3 bdrm townhouse. 1.5 baths, 5 appl. Fenced yard.

Small PET allowed.

Close to schools. $1250 HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-896-1193

Riverfront Estates

Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, no pets, n/s, $1150 or $1175 along the river.

SD $1000. avail. Aug. 1.

403-304-7576 347-7545

WESTPARK

3 bdrm. bi-level, lg. balcony, no pets, n/s, rent $1150 SD $1000 avail. July 15.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

Manufactured Homes

3040

FOR RENT IN ECKVILLE 3 bdrm., 1 bath mobile home on a basement. Lrg. fenced yard. rent incl. water.

403-845-7721 to leave msg.

Newly Reno’d Mobile FREE Shaw Cable + more $899/month Lana 403-550-8777

3050

INNISFAIL

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS

2 bdrm., 2 baths, brand new, rent $995. + d.d. + utils, 403-343-1010

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

ENJOY THE WHOLE HOUSE IN WESTPARK 5 bdrms, 2 baths. 5 appls.

Mature fenced yard.

Attached garage.

Sorry, no pets.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-396-9554

GLENDALE 3 bdrm., good cond. 4 appls., fenced yard, no pets, n/s, 403-318-0136

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

14 ELLENWOOD

3 bdrm townhouse in Eastview. 1.5 bath, 6 appls.

Fenced yard. CAT friendly.

Avail Aug 1. $1295.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-396-9554 www.hpman.ca 3 BDRM. townhouse/ condo, 5 appls., 2 blocks from Collicutt Centre. $1200/mo. + utils, incl. condo fees. 403-346-4868 GILMORE TOWNHOUSE 3 bdrm., 1.5 bath, 5 appl.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099

Suites

3390

Mobile Lot

WANTED: LOT 65x130, serviced. In Central 1990 BMW 735i 200,000 AB area for new mobile kms, RWD, p/w, p/s, a/c, home. 403-391-0388 custom wheels w/2 sets of tires $4400 403-340-0438

wegot

homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

4020

Houses For Sale

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL Large 2 bdrm. apt. with balcony. Rent $775.

403-346-5885

THE NORDIC

2 bdrm. adult building, n/s No pets. 403-596-2444 VERY large 1 BDRM. apartment in Ponoka $750/mo. inclds. all utils. plus laundry facilities.

Avail. Aug. 1. 403-993-3441

3090

Rooms For Rent

MOUNTVIEW: avail now fully furn bdrms for rent.

Working M only.

Call 403-396-2468.

N/S, fully furn., private, bath, all inclusive $650, 403-350-4304

Warehouse Space

3140

VIBRANT ADULT Community coming soon to Sylvan Lake. Call Lorraine 403-896-3553 www.brightwaterliving.ca

Acreages

Farms/ Land

3150

60’ x 32’ heated, 2 doors 12’ x 12’ $1700/mo. Sylvan Lake area 780-434-0045

3040

1430

YARD maintenance, hedge trimming services Call Paul 587-679-0917

Only

4070 4090

Homes

MUST SELL

By Owner $7,000.

Lana 403-550-8777

4130

Cottages/Resort Property

STUNNING LAKEFRONT HOME IN ALBERTA. Visit: www. centralalbertalakefront.com

Lots For Sale

20,000with Intro

400/month lot Rent incl. Cable

$

FULLY SERVICED res & duplex lots in Lacombe.

Builders terms or owner will J.V. with investors or subtrades who wish to become home builders. Great returns. Call 403-588-8820

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) Lots From $83,900 .You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail. 403-304-5555 SYLVAN LAKE big lot, nice location, well priced.

403-896-3553

www.lansdowne.ca

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FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 4400-4430

Money To Loan

4430

FREE Cable 2 & 3 bedroom

Campers

5090

1994 STARCRAFT Roadstar camper. Fits 1/2 ton. No longer needed. Best offer.

Well kept. 403-845-3299

Fifth Wheels

5110

2004 32’ Dutchman, 3 pullouts, washer/dryer, air, trade for camp.van or pickup. $19,500 403-392-8006

Holiday Trailers

5120

2007 TIMBERLODGE

28’, fully loaded, sleeps 9, rarely used, moved only twice, some extras incl.

Can be viewed 1/2 km east of Red Deer on Hwy 11 near Balmoral Golf Course. $14,500 obo Phone 403-391-2586

5160

14’ ALUMINUM BOAT with 9.9 Mercery Motor, 4 stroke. C.W trailer & canvas boat cover.

Best offer. 403-845-3299

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

CLASSIFICATIONS

REMOVAL of unwanted cars, may pay cash for complete cars. 304-7585

Cars

5030

WANTED FREE REMOVAL of unwanted cars and trucks, also wanted to buy lead batteries, call 403-396-8629

PUBLIC NOTICES

6010

in pet friendly park

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS

Starting at

Estate of Norman Stanley Williams who died on April 26, 2012

849

$

5080

A1 RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal. We travel. AMVIC approved. 403-396-7519

Public Notices

modular/mobile homes

2004 FORD F150, 4x4, Supercab s/b with topper.

Very good shape inside and out. $6750.

403-348-9746

wheels

2004 CHRYSLER 300 Special. 140,000 km.

Loaded w/options + more.

Must see. 403-783-3683 or 403-704-3252 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Renter’s Special

2007 FORD F150, 4x4, MECHANICALLY INSPECTED Crew cab loaded. $11.800.

403-348-9746

Boats & Marine

5000-5300

Lana (403) 550-8777

5050

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Trucks

1/4 SECTION with moun- Motorcycles tain view west of Sundre, clear title. Contact MINI trailer, custom made, 1-902-843-5141 or good behind motorcycle 902-986-8882 for more info $4000 firm 403-845-3299

PRIVATE LENDER: Mortgage money available on all types of real estate.

We lend on equity.

Fast approvals Ron Lewis 403-819-2436

A MUST SEE!

216751

4050

60 x 60 HEATED or nonheated shop + yard space 403-340-9111 or 403-342-0891 after 6pm.

Garage Space

has relocated to

Call for more info call 403-342-4544

SPACIOUS, BRIGHT Manufactured 2 bdrm suite available in a quiet adult building. $850 plus elect. Sorry, no pets. Coin-op laundry in bldg. Avail. Aug 1.

HEARTHSTONE 403-314-0099 OR 403-896-1193 www.hpman.ca

At

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Mason Martin Homes has

Clean, quiet bldg.

Call 318-0901.

PRICE REDUCED! 1 BDRM. apt. avail.

3 LAKE FRONT PROPERTIES: immed. $750 plus power, 30 acres (2300 sqft home), 403-872-3400 $495,000. 37 acres $195,000. & 10 acres $175,000.

1 BDRM. furn. bsmt. suite, 10 min from Ponoka. single, working person, Fishing, swimming & N/S. $850/mo. utils. incl. boating at your back door.

403-341-6224 See welist.com #47984, LARGE 1, 2 & 3 BDRM. #47993, #47994.

SUITES. 25+, adults only Call 403-519-6773 n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 brettie@platinum.ca

1 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

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5030

2001 HONDA Accord EX Coupe, V6, leather, sunMOBILE HOME PAD, in roof, exc. cond. 194,000 Red Deer Close to Gaetz, kms. $5300. 403-352-1863 2 car park, Shaw cable incl.

Lana 403-550-8777

3060

2000-2290

Cars

LACOMBE new park, animal friendly. Your mobile or ours. 2 or 3 bdrm.

Excellent 1st time home buyers. 403-588-8820 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

11/2 blocks west of hospital!

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

1300

LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Seniors’ Services

Halman Heights

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1350 SD $1000 avail. July 31.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

3190

Mobile Lot

with Laminate Flooring, new carpet, newly painted

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315

Painters/ Decorators

3030

Newly Renovated Mobile Home

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

Contractors

1900

Travel Packages

Manufactured Homes

1000-1430

Complete Janitorial

1870

3020

CLASSIFICATIONS

www.performancemaint.ca 403-358-9256

P.B. JACK RUSSELL puppies. $350.

403-896-9998 or 348-1810

rentals

wegotservices

1070

GOLDEN RETRIEVER pups, 2 F, 2 M. Ready to go, 1st. shots.

Vet checked. Born May 13.

403-773-2240 or 304-5104

wegot

1680

Household Furnishings

Cleaning

GERMAN Shepherd P.B. pups. Ready to go!

587-377-2288

WILL do Custom Baling.

JD round net or string wrap.

FOR SALE: 342-0891 or 340-9111 after 6 MOTO-SAT H.D. T.V. DISH (Shaw) for a Motorhome complete w/a G.P.S. & a Nomad programmer, used one year Garden it is just like new.

Supplies Asking price is $2,000.

Call (403)347-6817, CLASSIFICATIONS LANDSCAPING mulch, or e-mail $ 1 0 . 0 0 y a r d . P h o n e lmwalkerb35543@yahoo.ca FOR RENT • 3000-3200 403-346-3800 weekdays or 403-343-6182 eves. & OLDER Sony Trilitron tv, WANTED • 3250-3390 16”, color, remote, works wknds. good $5; Star Choice rec e i v e r $ 5 ; p o r t a b l e Houses/ Health & r a d i o / c a s s e t t e , S h a r p , Duplexes 12v/110 or 8 D cells $10; Beauty metal record holder $8; 8 CAMPBELL AVE. 3 bdrms, track tape holder HANDICAPPED wheel 1.5 baths, 5 appls, Den. $5 403-314-2026 chair porch lift, electric. †HEARTHSTONE† $1200. 403-342-2530 403-314-0099† Office Start your career!

Household See Help Wanted Supplies 18 CU. FT. Fridgidaire, like new, white $200 obo 403-597-9929 APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 FRIDGE, GE, frost free. $30. 403-782-7439

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

1840

Dogs

1700

900

1010

QUITE, SOFT, ADORABLE KITTENS Free to a good home.

Litter trained. Assorted sizes & colours. Black w/chocolate brown highlights, tabby w/tan & brown markings. 403-782-2397

ROUND oak table w/leaf Collectors' that sits 10, 7 chairs $150; Items curio cabinet $50 403-343-3160 3 PETIT POINT PICTURES. Japanese Geisha Girls.

SOFA and chair, tan veProfessionally framed. lour, Sklar, good shape 88” $125/set of 3. long sofa, no pets, n/s, 403-314-9603 $140; record cabinet stained wood 26” x 15” x HARDY BOYS BOOKS 22”h $45 403-314-2026 from the 1960’s. Good cond.

5/$25. 403-314-9603 SOFA, cloth, dark brown, exc. cond. $50. Moving LAURA SECORD DOLL Must Sell. 403-391-4276 1984 musical, mint cond.

Certificate of authenticity, Looking for a new pet? $150. 403-314-9603 Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

AFFORDABLE

Appliances

Accounting

1830

Cats

Condos/ Townhouses

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by August 18, 2012 and provide details of your claim with The Public Trustee for the Province of Alberta at:

/month

Lana (403) 550-8777 www.lansdowne.ca

246655F6-G31

880

Misc.

Help

4th Floor, 10365 - 97 St., Edmonton, AB T5J 3Z8, Phone: (780) 427-2744 Fax: (780) 422-9136 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

AIDS officials aim to finally stem spread of virus

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — From dark days to a critical turning point in the AIDS epidemic: The landscape has changed dramatically in the two decades since the world’s largest AIDS conference last met in the United States.

Back in 1990, the first good medicines were still a few years away. Before they arrived, caring for patients with HIV was like “putting Band-Aids on hemorrhages,” said the leading U.S. AIDS researcher, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Fast forward: Today’s anti-AIDS drugs work so well they not only give people with HIV a nearnormal life expectancy, they offer a double whammy — making those patients less likely to infect other people.

On Sunday, the International AIDS Conference opened in the U.S. capital with the goal of “turning the tide” on HIV. Even without a vaccine or a cure, the goal is to finally stem the spread of the virus, using that so-called “treatment as prevention” and some other powerful protections. The conference runs through Friday.

“There is no excuse, scientifically, to say we cannot do it,” Fauci, infectious disease chief at the National Institutes of Health, told reporters Sunday.

But the challenge that more than 20,000 scientists, doctors, people living with HIV and policy-makers will grapple with this week is how to get to what the Obama administration calls an AIDS-free generation. Where’s the money? What works best in different countries and cultures?

And with HIV increasingly an epidemic of the poor and the marginalized, will countries find the will to invest in the most vulnerable?

“Rich countries think, ’Who cares? We have the treatment, I hear now that HIV is a chronic condition,”’ a worried French Nobel laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, co-discoverer of HIV, told The Associated Press.

“I really think there is not the same political commitment as it was in the past.”

That political commitment must expand to fight laws that are driving some of the populations most at risk — gay and bisexual men, sex workers and injecting drug users — away from programs that could help protect them from getting or spreading HIV, said Michel Sidibe, director of UNAIDS, the United Nations AIDS program.

“It’s outrageous that in 2012, when we have everything to beat this epidemic, that we still have to fight prejudice, stigma, exclusion,” he said.

More than 1,000 people — many of them living with HIV — marched through downtown Washington Sunday to urge the public and policy-makers to pay attention to a disease that, in the U.S., doesn’t get much publicity anymore.

Organizers said the aim of the “Keep the Promise” march was to remind world leaders and policymakers that AIDS remains a threat to global health.

Marchers used red umbrellas to create a human red ribbon in advance of the march.

Some carried balloons in the shape of globes as they marched, and others carried signs reading “Test & Treat Now” and “Yes we can control AIDS.” “The war against AIDS has not been won and now is not the time to retreat,” said AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein in an interview Sunday.

Weinstein’s Los Angeles-based group organized the march, which began near the Washington Monument.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Sunday purports to show Syrian Brig. Gen. Abdul-Nasser Farzat, centre front, from the Aleppo Academy for Military Engineering, and warrant officer Ziad Ahmad Khodr from Criminal Security, centre back, announcing their defection to the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, Syria. In the video Farzat says, “I have joined the Free Syrian Army, the army of heroes that is defending the nation.”

Rebel group attacks Syria’s largest city

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — A new rebel group boasting some 1,000 fighters launched an operation Sunday to capture Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, while government troops using helicopter gunships and heavy artillery rolled back opposition gains in the capital Damascus.

The spread of fighting into a second major metropolis displayed the rebels’ growing confidence even though they still can’t hold ground against the government’s heavy weapons, pushing Syria’s civil war toward a new phase of destructive urban combat.

On Sunday, however, a group calling itself the “Brigade of Unification” announced in an online video that it was launching an operation in Aleppo, Syria’s most populated city and a key commercial hub that has remained relatively quiet throughout the uprising.

“We gave the orders to march on Aleppo with the aim of liberating it,” says Col. Abdul-Jabbar Mohammed Akidi, one of the group’s leaders.

The push into Aleppo follows weeks of high-level military defections, soaring death tolls, fierce fighting near President Bashar Assad’s seat of power and a bomb blast that killed four top players in his regime’s efforts to crush those seeking to end his rule. Reb-

els also captured several border crossings with neighbouring Iraq and Turkey. The opposition’s momentum put the regime on the defensive for the first time in the 16-month conflict.

But while the gradual swelling of their ranks and increasing organization have allowed them to push into major cities, they remain largely unable to hold ground against Assad’s forces and helpless before his helicopters.

The week’s violence pushed the death toll for the uprising above 19,000, according to the Britainbased Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The group said July is likely to be the conflict’s deadliest month so far, with more than 2,750 people killed in the first three weeks — nearly as many as in the previous month.

More than 100 people were killed Sunday, it said, including at least 24 government troops.

The escalating fighting is also feeding fears that Syria’s war could spill across borders and spark a regional conflagration. Assad’s regime is a bridge between Iran and the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah. On the other side, the uprising is largely driven

by Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority, which has more natural links with the region’s Sunni nations such as Saudi Arabia.

Complicating matters, almost all hate Israel — the closest U.S. ally in the Middle East.

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Min-

ister Benjamin Netanyahu said he feared that chaos following Assad’s fall could allow Hezbollah, which seeks Israel’s destruction, to access Syria’s chemical weapons.

“That this is something we’ll have to act to stop if the need arises,” he told Fox News Sunday.

No evidence has emerged of Hezbollah involvement in Syria’s unrest.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced a national campaign to collect support for “our brothers in Syria.” Saudi Arabia and other nations have spoken positively of arming the rebels, though no country is known to be doing so.

Syria’s uprising began in March 2011 when the government violently tried to quash protests calling for political reform. As dissent spread and the death toll rose, scores of rebel groups formed to fight government troops, and the conflict evolved into a civil war.

Throughout the conflict, Syria’s rebels have been outgunned by Assad’s army, fully equipped with a modern arsenal largely bought from Russia. Rebel brigades are mostly local groups with light arms and little co-ordination outside of their immediate area.

The new rebel group announced its formation in another video this week that showed about 1,000 fighters, most wielding rifles, wearing camouflage and chanting “God is great!” — a Muslim battle cry.

Egypt’s new president says 1952 coup failed to bring about democracy CAIRO, Egypt — On the eve of the 60th anniversary of a coup that started decades of military rule, Egypt’s new president said Sunday that it failed to bring about democracy. He credited last year’s uprising with correcting the path.

Mohammed Morsi, the country’s first freely elected civilian and Islamist president, delivered the message at a time when his Muslim Brotherhood patrons are struggling to wrest authority from the country’s military, which has been at the centre of power since the coup 60 years ago.

The generals, who ruled Egypt for 16 months after last year’s uprising, took legislative powers from the Brotherhood after parliament was dissolved. Just days before Morsi was sworn in last month, they issued a decree that also gave themselves budgetary authority and control over the process of drafting a new constitution.

Morsi said the 1952 coup’s ambitions failed in the last three decades, a reference to the reign of Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in the 2011 popular uprising.

“It stumbled in many of its goals ... especially in trying for democracy in the last 30 years due to corruption and fraud,” he said.

He added that “the second revolution in Jan 25, 2011”, when the uprising against Mubarak began, corrected the path.

Egypt’s military released its own statement online Sunday, congratulating the people for the 1952 revolution, also known as the Free Officers Coup.

The military has been Egypt’s de facto ruler since army officers first seized power in 1952. Its first four presidents, ending with Mubarak, all came from the military.

With conscription of men in force since the 1960s and four wars against Israel between 1948 and 1973, there is hardly an Egyptian family without a male who has military experience or has at least one member in active service.

FLUID POWER LTD.

Due too a recent expansion of our Facilities at 7597 Edgar Industrial Drive, Red Deer, Alberta. We have immediate opening for Personnel in the following depts. These are Full Time opportunities. Some on the Job Training Provided

GENERAL LABOUR

ORDER DESK INSIDE SALES

BENCH/FIELD MECHANICS

Training Position/ Junior Mechanic

• Background in Order Desk/Phone Sales • Inventory/Marketing knowledge • Industry knowledge an asset

• Back ground in Mechanical Duties • Heavy duty automotive and millwright experience • Clean Drivers license

Duties will include: • Fabrication • Tear Down • Plumbing • Pick Up Driving

Please send Resumes to: Fax: 403-358-7614 E-mail: miked@psifluidpower.ca Phone: 403-358-4212

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You must be a resident of Alberta and 18 years of age or older to enter.

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Suspect displayed ‘bizarre behaviour’ GUN CLUB OWNER REJECTED BID FOR MEMBERSHIP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AURORA, Colo. — The suspect in the Colorado shooting rampage displayed behaviour that a gun range owner thought was “bizarre,” but it is still unclear if anyone at the university where he studied had any hint of his plans.

Police said James Holmes began buying guns at Denver-area stores nearly two months before Friday’s shooting.

He also received at least 50 packages in four months at his home and the University of Colorado, Denver that authorities are investigating to see whether they contained materials for the potentially deadly booby traps that police found in his apartment.

At the same time, the quiet 24-yearold was in the final weeks of the first year of a rigorous Ph.D. neuroscience program, where he took a three-part final exam required for students to progress in the program and was scheduled to give a presentation on MicroRNA Biomarkers before abruptly leaving in June.

Holmes is being held without bond on suspicion of multiple counts of firstdegree murder after a shooting rampage minutes into a premiere of the new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora early Friday that left 12 people dead and 58 injured.

He is scheduled for an initial court hearing Monday and has been assigned a public defender.

Amid the continuing investigation of Holmes and his background, Sunday was a day for healing and remembrance in Aurora, with President Barack Obama arriving to visit with families of the victims and a vigil planned for later in the evening.

Congregations across Colorado prayed for the shooting victims and their relatives. Churches sent out social-media appeals for neighbours who wanted to join in remembrance. Elderly churchgoers at an aging Presbyterian church within walking distance

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Barack Obama greets Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, left, as Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan, back, watches with other dignitaries after Air Force One landed at Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., Sunday. Obama spent the afternoon visiting families of victims of the Colorado shooting rampage. of Holmes’ apartment joined in prayer, though none had ever met him.

Holmes was being held in solitary confinement at a Denver-area county detention facility and was not co-operating with authorities, Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said.

“He lawyered up. He’s not talking to us,” the chief said.

Authorities are working with FBI behavioural analysts and are looking into Holmes’ relationships to figure out a motive, which could take months, Oates said.

The gunman’s semiautomatic assault rifle jammed during the attack at the Aurora movie theatre, forcing him to switch to another gun with less fire-

power, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. That malfunction and weapons switch during the shooting rampage might have saved some lives.

Oates said a 100-round ammunition drum was found in the theatre but said he did not know whether it jammed or emptied.

The owner of a gun range told the AP that Holmes applied to join the club last month but never became a member because of his behaviour and a “bizarre” message on his voice mail.

He emailed an application to join the Lead Valley Range in Byers on June 25 in which he said he was not a user of illegal drugs or a convicted

Beijing’s heaviest rain in 6 decades kills at least 37

Thousands march against presumed presidential winner in Mexico vote

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Thousands marched through Mexico City’s centre on Sunday to protest what they called the “imposition” of the candidate of the old ruling party as the country’s new president.

Protesters carried signs accusing presumed President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto of electoral fraud and Mexico television giant Televisa of being a “factory of lies.”

Opponents say Pena Nieto’s party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, won the July 1 election through vote-buying and overspending, including paying major media outlets such as Televisa for favourable coverage.

“Mexico didn’t vote for fraud.

Mexico wants a country that is honest and democratic,” said marcher Marlem Munoz, 26, who studies dentistry at Mexico’s Na-

tional Autonomous University.

“What happened in the elections was a total mockery directed at the Mexican people.”

The PRI has vehemently denied the charges and on Friday accused losing leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of trying to “disqualify the entire electoral process with lies.”

Televisa also has denied charges of being paid for positive coverage.

Mexico City authorities did not immediately release an official crowd estimate, but the march appeared to draw far fewer people than similar protests before the election with as many as 90,000 participants.

A July 7 march, the first after election, drew 50,000. The events have attracted people from a new student movement, “I Am 132,” and leftist groups supporting Lopez Obrador.

The lower participation rais-

felon, said owner Glenn Rotkovich.

When Rotkovich called to invite him to a mandatory orientation the following week, he said he heard a message on Holmes’ voice mail that was “bizarre — guttural, freakish at best.”

He left two other messages but eventually told his staff to watch out for Holmes at the July 1 orientation and not to accept him into the club, Rotkovich said.

Three days after the massacre, it still remained unclear whether Holmes’ professors and other students at his 35-student Ph.D. program noticed anything unusual about his behaviour.

His reasons for quitting the program in June, just a year into the five- to seven-year program, also remained a mystery.

The university declined to release any details of Holmes’ academic record, citing privacy concerns, and at least two dozen professors and other staff declined to speak with the AP. Some said they were instructed not to talk publicly about Holmes in a blanket email sent to university employees.

Jacque Montgomery, a spokeswoman for the University of Colorado medical school, said that police have told the school to not talk about Holmes.

The university also took down the website for its graduate neuroscience program on Saturday.

While authorities continued to refuse to discuss a possible motive for one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history, details about Holmes’ background as a student and would-be scientist trickled out.

He had recently withdrawn from the competitive graduate program in neuroscience at the University of Colorado Denver, where he was one of six pre-thesis Ph.D. students at its Neuroscience Program to be funded by a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health. The program of 35 students is dedicated to training outstanding neuroscientists and academicians who will make significant contributions to neurobiology, the university said in a statement.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

es questions of whether Mexico’s university students have spawned a real movement in their demand for “authentic democracy” and an opening of Mexico’s media, or if it’s just part of the standard postelection protests in Mexico.

In 2006, after Lopez Obrador narrowly lost to President Felipe Calderon, he marshalled hundreds of thousands of supporters to block Mexico City’s main centre for weeks.

Lopez Obrador said he will not mobilize people to the streets this time.

His choking of central Mexico City in 2006 was highly unpopular with everyday residents.

I Am 132 has released a series of proposed events over the coming weeks, including Sunday’s march, designed to overturn the vote results.

Other groups have said they will block the Dec. 1 inauguration of Pena Nieto.

BEIJING — Officials have raised the death toll to at least 37 in the heaviest rainstorm to hit Beijing in six decades, and dozens of other storm deaths have been reported elsewhere in China.

The rain Saturday night knocked down trees in Beijing and trapped cars and buses in waist-deep water in some areas. A statement from the city government late Sunday said 25 people drowned, six were killed when houses collapsed, one was hit by lightning and five were electrocuted by fallen power lines.

The official China Daily newspaper reported Monday that rain and flooding caused damages of at least 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), with 60,000 people evacuated from their homes.

The official Globe Times said Monday that it was the heaviest rainstorm in the capital in 61 years.

It was the heaviest on record in Fangshan district in the southwest of the city, which received 460 millimeters (18.4 inches) of rain Saturday, according to the weather bureau. The agency also said suburban Pinggu district got 100.3 millimeters (4 inches) of rain in one hour.

A flash flood in Fangshan stranded 104 primary school students and nine teachers at a military training site, Xinhua said.

They were taken to safety.

Wildfires in Spain turn deadly

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MADRID, Spain — Two wildfires fanned by strong winds killed three people, injured 24 others and severely disrupted transportation in Spain’s northeast region of Catalonia on Sunday, officials said.

Train services in Alto Ampurdan were suspended and several cross-border roads linking Barcelona with France were closed because of the advancing flames, regional government spokesman Felip Puig said.

One person died of a heart attack while dousing flames around his home in Llers and two people fell to their deaths when they jumped into the sea as they tried to escape fires that had engulfed cars on a road near Portbou, the regional fire department said.

The fire service said in a statement that more than 80 teams had been deployed to combat the wildfires, which appear to have started close to the border with France.

“The situation on the roads of the area is very complicated,” the statement said, adding that the main highway linking Spain with France through La Jonquera had been closed.