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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

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Jamie Cumberland of Airdrie, formerly of Red Deer, (left) and Pierre Cadieux of Innisfail and were the latest team to make the cut for the Canadian version of the long-running American adventure series.

Gay cowboys saddle up for Amazing Race

The flagship finale of the Homecoming Festival Weekend celebrating the city’s centennial has been revamped.

Red Deer Centennial Committee members announced on Tuesday that the River of Light: Points of View event will not go ahead as originally planned because the city has closed Bower Ponds and Great Chief Park, where the majority of the events were scheduled.

The city closed the parks for safety reasons following flooding along the Red Deer River.

“In spite of the fact things could be lovely on Sunday and Monday, we have to make the decisions based on today,” said Sheila Bannerman, committee chairperson. “And today the decision is the river is closed.”

The committee is scrambling to find alternate locations for the evening extravaganza events, including the community barbecue, outdoor concert and movie, interfaith celebration and a place to transform the planned light installation into an alternate production.

The Centennial Chocolate Chase has been postponed and the Banners on the Bridge event is still to be deter-

mined.

The free pancake breakfast at Parkland Mall and the Centennial Grove dedication on the North Hill, just below the mall, are still a go.

A big part of the festivities was to involve light and water as public art installments. The centennial committee has been working with the U.K.based Creatmosphere on the project for about a year. Bannerman said the River of Light: Points of View is not just a light show but a water education initiative and the Points of View will continue to be highlighted.

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BREAKING THE SPEED BARRIER

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Two gay cowboys are hoping to be the pride of Central Alberta when they compete for a big pay day in Amazing Race Canada next month.

The winning team gets a ‘I CLUTCHED $250,000 in cash, MY PEARLS. two 2014 Chevrolet Corvette I GRABBED Stingrays and the MY CHEST chance to fly free in executive class AND SAID, for a year for two ‘OH MY anywhere Air Canada flies.

GOD, GIRL, Pierre Cadieux WE HAVE TO of Innisfail and APPLY.’ Jamie Cumberland of Airdrie, formerly of Red — PIERRE CADIEUX ON HEARING ABOUT THE Deer, were the CANADIAN VERSION latest team to OF ‘AMAZING RACE’ make the cut for the Canadian version of the long-running American adventure series. CTV announced three more teams on Tuesday. Five teams have been announced and another four will be added for a total of nine teams competing in the race.

The two men are best friends who met through an Alberta Rockies Gay Rodeo Association fundraising dance about 15 years ago.

The best friends were not giving away any details to what happened during the race in May. Cadieux said viewers will just have to wait until next month to see how the team fared.

The show will debut on Monday, July 15, on CTV, TSN, TSN2 and RDS. The teams raced and competed in challenges across Canada as opposed to the American version where teams raced around the world.

“It was the most amazing experience of my life and I got to do it with my best friend,” said Cadieux. “I saw and did things that I never thought I could do.”

Cadieux said it looks a lot easier watching on television. He said it was the most challenging things he has ever done but at the same time one of the most rewarding experiences.

Cadieux said they have always dreamed about competing but couldn’t because the show was only open to United States residents.

So when Cumberland called to say a Canadian version in the works, Cadieux said, “I clutched my pearls. I grabbed my chest and said Oh my god, girl we have to apply.”

Cadieux, 38, is a general manager for creditor insurance sales for ATB Financial and Cumberland, 47, class of 1984 of Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School graduate, works in human resources in Airdrie. His parents, Barbara and Gary Cumberland, still call Red Deer home.

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Sutter tapped to coach World Juniors

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Hockey Canada is going back to the coach who laid golden eggs two years in a row.

Red Deer Rebels general manager/head coach Brent Sutter will run the Canadian bench at the 2014 World Junior Hockey Championship in Sweden. The appointment was to be made official during Brent Sutter a press conference this morning in Toronto. “(Hockey Canada president) Bob Nicholson contacted me three weeks ago and we sat down and talked about this at length,” Sutter said on Tuesday, as he drove to Calgary to board a flight to Toronto.

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League, too, and Hockey Canada was trying to restructure some things.

When they got their structure kind of in place, they approached me and asked me if I wanted to coach the team.”

Sutter was the Canadian team bench boss for world junior gold-medal triumphs in 2005 in Grand Forks, N.D., and the following year in Vancouver.

“It’s run a little differently now.

There’s a management staff involved and I’m one of five or six guys who could end up being on that staff and I’m also coaching the team,” he said.

Still, Sutter and his assistant coaches — Ryan McGill and Benoit Groulx — will have the final say in player selection.

“At the end of the day, after everything is discussed and there’s been a great dialogue with everybody, the coaching staff will have to decide on the final selection of the team,” said Sutter.

McGill rejoined the Kootenay Ice last summer and is the reigning Western Hockey League coach of the year.

He was also an assistant coach with the Calgary Flames when Sutter was the head man from 2009 to last year.

“Ryan did an outstanding job with

Kootenay and he has a lot of experience at both the pro and junior level,” said Sutter.

Groulx is the head coach of the QMJHL Gatineau Olympiques and along with current New Jersey Devils mentor Pete DeBoer was an assistant to Sutter during the 2007 Canada/Russia Super Series.

“These guys are a great fit. It’s a good staff,” said Sutter.

The success of the 2005 team started a run of five straight world junior championships for Canada, but the national squad hasn’t struck gold since 2009.

Perhaps Sutter’s approach to selecting and then preparing the team will reap the ultimate reward in the 2014 championship, which starts on Boxing Day. “There’s so much heat and pressure put on these players, these kids ... on the entire team, including the staff, because Canada expects to win every year,” he said. “We know what the ultimate goal is and yet that’s not what you focus in on. You focus in on the process to get to that point.

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Citizenship ceremony ‘a moving experience’

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Some said they truly felt Canadian when watching a Stanley Cup finals game on a beautiful late June evening.

For others, that feeling came when they were willing to spend half an hour waiting in line for coffee at Tim Hortons.

Those who already felt Canadian officially became as much Tuesday, as 112 people took the oath and became Canadian citizens in a ceremony at Red Deer College.

From Australia to Zimbabwe they came to the Great White North — one man who became a citizen Tuesday came to Canada way back in 1956 — and, after swearing allegiance to the queen and pledging to observe the laws of the land and fulfil the duties of citizenship, in both official languages, the ranks of Canadian citizenship swelled.

“Canada is a bigger and better nation than it was one hour ago,” said Judge Joan May Way after the oath was read.

Twenty-eight nations were represented among the home countries of the new Canadians, with the Philippines one of the most common.

Benjamin Braga initially saw himself leaving the archipelago for a life in the United States. His parents immigrated there and he had begun his own process in the 1990s.

But that process stalled, and in 2005 he came to Red Deer for a job pushing hogs with Olymel. He came alone, without his wife and son, now 19.

“The sacrifice is really there. It’s tough living all alone without anyone that you know here,” said Braga, 50.

The stepping stone of being nominated for permanent residency, he said, was tough. But that allowed him to bring over his wife and son, and Tuesday they all become Canadian citizens.

“It’s a big achievement for us. It’s really hard to achieve a certain goal to be a Canadian citizen,” he said.

The federal government has made obtaining citizenship a little harder in the last few years, changing the rules around the written citizenship test and language proficiency determinations. Speaking to the Advocate, federal Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney, who administered the oath and spoke at the ceremony, said the changes ensure the new Canadians have a better chance of succeeding.

“We’ve raised the bar a little bit on citizenship,

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SUTTER: Will leave Rebels for about a month “That has to be in place and my only concern right now is identifying the players we want to invite to our summer camp starting Aug. 3 in Montreal.”

Immediately following the two-day summer camp, the players will participate in a four-team, roundrobin tournament in Lake Placid, N.Y., an event also involving the United States, Sweden and Finland.

“That’s where you start the process and then when December comes along, you continue that during the final selection camp,” said Sutter.

“At the end of the day, the final result will be the final result. First, it’s about making sure the process is carried out and done right. We have to make sure we have the type of team we want to have and we have to have our system down. We have to make sure that players know — both when they come to camp and when they leave — what’s expected of them from myself and the staff.”

The prestigious post doesn’t come without its drawbacks, the most glaring being that Sutter will have to leave his WHL club for roughly a month.

“With the worlds being overseas, there’s an extra commitment you have to make and that’s being away from the (Rebels) for about eight games, and not just as a coach but also away from the organization as a general manager,” he said. “The (WHL) trade deadline of Jan. 10 is just five days after the end of the world championship.”

But Sutter isn’t concerned about the Rebels floundering in his absence.

“When you have good people around you it makes it easier to accept this type of position,” he said, in reference to associate coach Jeff Truitt and newlyhired assistant coach Steve O’Rourke.

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Ammar Kagdi, 7, shares a word with federal Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney at the Red Deer citizenship ceremony on Tuesday as sister Mariya, 10, talks with presiding Judge Joan May Way and father Hussain looks on at left. The three, along with Hussain’s wife, Nisrin, became Canadian citizens at the ceremony. but I think the new citizens appreciate that. They don’t take this country for granted, and they know it’s something worth working for,” said Kenney.

Kenney called the ceremony “a moving experience” and told the crowd that along with the rights and privileges they now enjoy, there are duties and responsibilities that come with citizenship.

“Find simple ways to be of service to this country,” he said.

Way, who has presided over hundreds of citizenship ceremonies, said each time she takes part, she gets a renewed appreciation for Canada though the newcomers.

“I look at them and think they are such brave people . . . It’s a leap of faith for every one of these people, and a big choice. These people have chosen Canada as their home. We as Canadians that have been born here, it’s our lot, but these people have made the conscious choice to live in Canada and become Canadian,” she said.

The citizenship ceremony, only the second one in Red Deer in the last five years, was able to go off thanks to some dedicated Citizenship and Immigration Canada staff, who had to go into the department office in downtown Calgary after the floodwaters hit the city to retrieve the necessary documents to swear people in. The event was organized by a local volunteer committee associated with the national nonprofit Institute for Canadian Citizenship.

The affiliation made the Red Deer ceremony unique, as a number of roundtable discussions on citizenship preceded the formal ceremony. In the discussions, new Canadians spoke of their appreciation for everything from fresh air to the benefits of holding a Canadian passport.

At the roundtable, Braga said his family left the Philippines simply looking for a greener pasture, something he said they did not find.

“We found a better one, a paradise.” mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

“We have an experienced coaching staff so I’m comfortable with doing this. I wouldn’t have taken the position if I wasn’t comfortable.”

The Rebels boss is also confident that director of scouting and player development Randy Peterson, senior scout Shaun Sutter and senior vice-president Merrick Sutter will have no problem handling the managing duties while he is with the national junior team.

Sutter insisted he will have the same message for the 2014 players as he did in 2005 and ’06.

“It’s a short experience, it happens quickly,” he said. “Every game is like a Game 7, but the reality is you try to get better every day throughout the tournament so that you’re at your best if you get to the dance (gold-medal game).

“But you have to work at it and go through the process to get there. I’m excited about it. When you’ve been through it before, you know what to expect because you know how it works.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

schedule featured many activities for the whole family at Bower Ponds and Great Chief Park.

Bower Ponds and Great Chief will be closed until further notice.

Some of the electrical equipment that was to be used in the events were submerged in water during the flooding at Bower Ponds over the weekend.

“We sincerely apologize but there’s nothing we can do,” said Bannerman.

Stay tuned to www.reddeer2013.ca and reddeeradvocate.com for updates. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

FESTIVAL: Barrels slated to float down the river More than 400 barrels installed with battery-operated lights that change colours were slated to float down the Red Deer River from Fort Normandeau to Three Mile Bend on Sunday.

Bannerman said the team was looking at alternate places for an installation that will still be pretty spectacular. “It will be open to the public for two or three days,” she said. “There will be something. We just don’t know exactly what and where it will exactly be. The river event is closed but there will be a points of interest event.”

The water tower projection show may not go ahead because the projection equipment from Calgary has been delayed.

The original Homecoming Festival Weekend

RACE: Mentally, physically challenging Cumberland said he hasn’t travelled in Canada very much so it was pretty incredible to jet set across the country to see different places. Both guys said meeting other Canadians and the other teams was amazing.

“The challenges are physical,” laughed Cumberland. “They are mental. They are all over the board.

That’s probably as much detail that I can give. They did test us.”

The guys found out they were on the show in April and the race was filmed for most of May. Cumberland said it is tough to keep quiet about what happened on the show particularly when they disappeared for a month.

Cumberland said he thought his biggest challenge would be putting his French language skills learned in French 30 at Lindsay Thurber to the test. Viewers will have to tune in to Amazing Race Canada to find out whether his skills were used.

Asked whether his cowboy team provided good television, Cumberland laughed, “We’re gay cowboys. Of course.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EDMONTON — It’s a long way from the Arctic Ocean to southern Alberta, but scientists are increasingly intrigued by theories that link disappearing sea ice to off-the-hook weather such as last week’s flooding.

Many are coming to believe there’s a common thread between not enough ice on the ocean and too much water in the rivers — a high-altitude, high-speed torrent of air called the jet stream.

“There’s been a lot interest in the jet stream in the last two or three years,” said Dave Phillips, an Environment Canada climatologist.

The jet stream usually rushes rapidly from west to east in a mostly straight direction, more or less around the Canada-U.S. border. But lately it’s been wobbling and weaving like a drunken driver, causing havoc as it goes.

The jet stream gets its energy from the temperature difference between the frigid Arctic and the milder south. The greater the difference, the straighter and more powerful the stream.

Other influences, such as continents and oceans, deflect that steady Vancouver-to-Halifax flow.

But Arctic sea ice has been collapsing for the last several years. The Arctic Ocean itself is also growing slightly warmer.

It’s not much, but the temperature gradient between the Arctic and equator has weakened. The jet stream is about 14 per cent slower in the fall now than in the 1990s, according to a recent study by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University in New Jersey.

The continental and oceanic influences are now relatively stronger, causing the jet stream to undulate more north and south.

“What we’re seeing now is more of the dipping and the diving, looking more like a roller coaster than a ribbon,” said Phillips.

“When that happens, it tends to kind of slow down. It doesn’t move as energetically as it did and so therefore the weather can back up.”

Instead of what Phillips describes as typically Canadian “hit-and-run” weather, systems can hang around for days. And when those systems are wet,

there’s a risk of flooding.

“What we seem to be developing, and there are some papers that are discussing this, is that the jet stream seems to be locking into these patterns longer,” said climatologist James Byrne at Alberta’s University of Lethbridge.

The theory could help explain anomalous seasons such as the warm winter of 2011-12 on the Prairies.

Last May, the weather was upsidedown. Early California wildfires fuelled by heat contrasted with more than a foot of snow in Minnesota. Seattle was the hottest spot in the United States one day, while Maine and Edmonton were warmer than Miami and Phoenix.

Phillips points out that last year there were more tornadoes in Saskatchewan than in Oklahoma.

Not all scientists make those connections. They see the randomness of weather or long-term cycles at work.

Many others are taking a wait-andsee approach about this latest theory.

It’s far from a scientific consensus, but it is something that is being studied more often and getting a lot of scientific buzz.

“There’s going to be a lot more to it that just a wobbly jet stream,” said Byrne.

But he called the theory a potentially powerful way to explain how climatic changes show up as weather.

“There’s controls on how the jet stream behaved historically,” he said.

“Weaken one set of those controls, we’re going to get some changes on how the jet stream behaves. It’s probably demonstrating it quite well now.”

Stay tuned, said Phillips. “(The theory’s) exciting. It seems plausible.”

With the overwhelming majority of scientists agreeing that human-caused global warming is fact, Phillips said the new frontier in research is linking climate change and weather.

“Now what seems to be the focus is, ’Is this having an effect on weather?”’ he said.

“This is the move in the science of climatology, to connect it with extreme weather, as opposed to going back and saying, ‘Gee, is the weather really warmer?”’

Uninsurable homes in Canada’s future: expert predicts

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Millions of Canadians living in many parts of the country could find their homes declared uninsurable, as the insurance industry grapples with skyrocketing water damage claims.

That’s the grim future predicted by Blair Feltmate, chair of the Climate Change Adaptation Project at the University of Waterloo.

“That’s going to be the harsh reality,” Feltmate said in an interview Tuesday.

“In the absence of weather-hardening infrastructure, under the new extremes of climate change and extreme weather events, we are categorically heading towards an uninsurable housing market in Canada in many, many regions.”

Feltmate’s project, jointly funded by the university and Intact Insurance, is aimed at finding practical, affordable solutions to the challenges presented by climate change.

Over the past 15 years, Feltmate said studies have indisputably shown that the frequency and severity of extreme weather events across the planet have increased.

In Canada, that’s meant water damage has vaulted ahead of fire as the leading cause of property insurance claims.

Indeed, Feltmate said insurance companies are now losing money on water damage insurance — even though it covers only water that backs up into basements. And they’re under mounting pressure to expand coverage to include the even more costly damage caused by “overland flooding” as well.

While most Canadians believe they’re insured for flood damage, in reality Feltmate said Canada is the only G8 country in which property insurance does not include damage caused when water pours in through windows and doors — as was largely the case in southern Alberta over the past week.

Insurance companies are between a rock and a hard place. The potential cost of overland flood insurance is

enormous but, at the same time, Feltmate said companies are aware there are repercussions for the industry’s already dismal image in continuing to allow victims of devastating floods to “go apoplectic” when they discover they’re not covered.

Moreover, if the industry doesn’t deal with the issue itself, he said the government could impose a solution that is less palatable.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, the minister responsible for southern Alberta, strongly encouraged insurance companies on Monday to pay the claims of people whose homes were damaged by both backed up water and overland flooding, without being overly nit-picky about the exact cause of the damage.

In a survey last month of presidents and CEOs of the country’s biggest property and casualty insurance companies, Feltmate and a colleague found agreement that overland flood insurance is an issue that must be addressed.

Insurance executives “know we have a problem and business as usual is not acceptable,” he said, although there is no agreement as yet on how to address the issue.

As a first, urgent step, Feltmate said either the industry or governments must pay to develop up-to-date maps of flood plains in Canada.

After that, he said “we can start to say, okay, in these extreme regions of high potential for flooding, these will be designated as uninsurable markets, do not build there.”

In areas with a lesser degree of vulnerability to flooding, insurance could be conditional on the infrastructure being “weather hardened” to reduce the risk of flood damage.

“We’re talking about large sectors of Canada that could be potentially uninsurable,” Feltmate said. “So we’re talking millions (of Canadians effected), we’re not talking 10,000 people in a city somewhere.”

“In my opinion, this is one of the key problems facing the country today.”

Collicutt Centre to host Canada Day celebrations Closure of the Bower Ponds due to flooding has forced the relocation of the Canada Day celebrations to the Collicutt Centre.

Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society, organizers of the celebrations, said the details are still being sorted out but the event will be slightly different.

In 2005, the celebrations were also forced to relocate because of flooding.

“We already have the plans that worked that were put in place then,” said Delores Coghill, manager of the

Red Deer Cultural Heritage Society.

“It was suggested by the city to use that same location.”

There will be food, entertainment and the usual Canada day celebrations throughout the day starting at 11 a.m.

Coghill said they hope to still put on a fireworks show. She said it will be a fabulous Canada Day in Red Deer but it is disappointing the events will not be held at Bower Ponds.

More details are expected in the next few days.

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Speeding to a tragic fate WHY IS THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT RELUCTANT TO CRACK DOWN ON EXCESSIVE SPEEDING? A 67-year-old Southern Alberta man appeared in court last week on a speeding charge.

The RCMP caught him driving at 180 km/h on Hwy 22 south of Black Diamond.

When asked why he was driving so fast, the man said that he had just washed his car and that he needed to dry it off.

With flimsy excuses like that floating around, it’s little wonder that Alberta’s police chiefs are asking the provincial government to tighten its traffic laws to curb excessive speeding.

The chiefs recently backed a resolution that would allow officers to seize for a week, at their discretion, the vehicles of drivers going more than 50 km/h over the speed limit.

The drivers’ licences also would be suspended for a week.

Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht, head of the Alberta Chiefs of Police, said there are too many people being killed on the Alberta’s highways because people are simply driving too fast.

There is plenty of evidence, anecdotal and otherwise, that speeding on Alberta’s highways is becoming the rule rather than the exception.

OURVIEW CAMERON KENNEDY While the posted speed limit on Hwy 2 remains 110 km/h, it is not uncommon for drivers who respect the limit to feel as though they are standing still as they are passed by others pushing 140 km/h or more.

Alberta’s highways were not designed to handle such excessive speeds, which disrupt the flow of traffic and lead to potentially deadly situations.

A recent anti-speeding campaign by Ponoka’s Integrated Traffic Unit that targeted morning commuters backs up Knecht’s argument that excessive speeding is a problem.

According to the report in the June 18 Advocate, the previous week’s twoday operation on Hwy 2 netted 65 speeders and aggressive drivers. Most of them had exceeded the highway’s 110 km/h speed limit by more than 40 km/h.

One 17-year-old from Lacombe was allegedly clocked at 204 km/h. He was charged with dangerous driving and is scheduled to appear in Ponoka provincial court on Aug. 14.

The Alberta Chiefs of Police proposed a similar resolution in 2009. The province rejected it.

The chiefs’ latest resolution has already been rejected by Alberta’s solicitor general.

Jonathon Denis says there’s no evidence the resolution would curb the number of speeders on Alberta’s highways.

However, similar legislation has been enacted in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec, with some success.

In B.C., for example, police who catch drivers going more than 40 km/h over the speed limit can impound the vehicle for seven days, plus towing and storage costs.

The penalty increases to 30 days for a second offence within a two-year period, and 60 days for any subsequent offences.

According to the B.C. Ministry of Justice, 16,000 vehicles have been impounded for excessive speed since September 2010, while road fatalities dropped from 167 in 2007 to 96 in 2011.

Alberta recognized that it had a speeding problem more than seven years ago when it commissioned the Alberta Traffic Safety Plan (October 2006).

It found almost 400 people die and more than 27,000 people are injured in more than 112,000 motor vehicle collisions in Alberta annually.

About 17 per cent of drivers who were killed were travelling at excessive speeds.

The plan offers various strategies aimed at reducing fatalities in 10 target areas. Speeding is No. 3 behind unbelted occupants and impaired driving.

One of those strategies includes introducing additional police resources to address issues such as speeding.

Higher fines and longer driving suspensions are one answer. Seizing offenders’ vehicles, whether for a week, a month or two months, would send a strong, immediate message that speeding is not tolerated in this province.

In the case of the 67-year-old Southern Alberta man who was drying his car, the judge fined him $800 and suspended him from driving for 45 days.

That’s hardly chump change, but it remains to be seen whether the fine and driving suspension will be enough to persuade him to use a towel next time.

Cameron Kennedy is an Advocate editor.

Examining the roots of CWD and BSE

BY KEN COLLIER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Rick Zemanek’s Insight article (Advocate, June 20) treats chronic wasting as a disease, caused by an unknown pathogen (germ).

An alternative is provided by Britisher Mark Purdey, an organic farmer in Somerset who resisted the national government’s requirement to inoculate cows against the BSE (bovine spongiform encephalitis, or mad cow disease) in the 1980s.

Purdey, trained in zoology, recognized that his cows could not have been exposed to any supposed infective agent, and suspected most cattle that died of BSE could not either.

Purdey’s book Animal Pharm details his struggles and his findings about chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, elk, moose, bison, scrapie in sheep, and similar ailments. He also researched Creutzfeld Jakob disease in humans, which has symptoms similar to BSE and CWD. The conditions result from animals grazing on foods and water low in copper, found in areas straddling the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, and around the globe where BSE and CWD occur.

Low or missing copper causes spongelike holes to open up when brain structure prions misfold, destroying ability to control body chemistry, muscles and growth.

These conditions develop only in animals (including humans) with certain already-identified genetic backgrounds where heavy metals are present in the air, vegetation and water.

Thus, programs to eradicate CWD by vaccines, slaughter or stopping game ranching will have no effect.

Heavy metals come from weapons ranges, airports, plane fuel exhausts, pesticides, herbicides, other organophosphate chemicals and industrial effluents and fumes.

Purdey succeeded with inexpensive experiments — salt licks and feed with copper added for cows and wildlife; seeding or spraying with edible copper; adding copper to water sources, etc.

Purdey’s book Animal Pharm can be supplemented by going to markpurdey. com. The website is better organized and more tightly argued than the book, which was hastily assembled shortly after Purdey died.

Purdey did a speaking tour of the Prairie provinces in 2004.

Ken Collier is a local activist and writer.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Calkins takes aim at CBC when transparency sins rest with his government Recently (June 12), our biddable MP, Blaine Calkins, submitted an article on transparency to The Ponoka News, and likely other small rural newspapers.

In it, Calkins undertook to trumpet the “Harper Government’s” (that’s the government of Canada, as the PM wants it labeled) passionate concern for greater transparency in Crown corporations. As usual, the target was the CBC, accused (also as usual) of all kinds of waste as well as the hiding of the salaries and benefits of its executives.

All this, our righteous MP bellowed, “should be available to the Canadian public on demand!”

Of course, it isn’t surprising that the CBC is a regular target for Conservative wrath. It is usually the CBC that uncovers the latest Conservative financial boondoggle — the Duffy Affair, the election fraud — and broadcasts that out to the Canadian public

for all to hear. The CBC, thank God, regularly reminds us of the venality and hypocrisy of “the Harper government,” thus earning the fury of that ruling elite!

This would all be totally amusing, if it were not so hypocritical. Biddable Blaine, always willing to spout the latest bumf when asked by the party whip of the PM, never appears to have any qualms about the veracity of what he says.

No ‘rebellious-for-truth’ MP is he.

It probably never occurs to our boy in Ottawa that while he is railing about transparency in the CBC, his boss, the PM, is negotiating a touted free-trade agreement with the European Union in complete secrecy, one of whose provisions grants the right of European multinational companies to sue Canadian government departments over policies that might restrict their profit taking.

These could be laws and policies about environmental protection, or emission standards!

Will the Canadian public ever hear about this before the day when our government is required to stand up in court on such an issue?

Scott Williamson Pre-press supervisor

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This is also the government that routinely hides important legislative plans for major changes deep within 500-page omnibus bills so that, once again, the Canadian public knows nothing about them until after they become law, without ever being presented and debated in the House of Commons as parliamentary government requires!

Biddable Blaine, who always does what he is told, is never heard raising his voice about the things he is asked to say that might stray far from the truth!

He may blather about transparency, but his government generally practises obfuscation rather than transparency!

(Obfuscation is fancy word meaning “to hide or confuse … to darken.”) I can’t imagine a government more fond of legislative darkness than our present one!

Pretty and ponderous, our MP Calkins is a very suitable shill for such misleading statements on transparency. He has become, sadly, a slick promoter quite willing to try to persuade voters that black is indeed white.

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Frustration grows in High River

BY BILL GRAVELAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Train tracks lay curled over themselves from rushing flood waters in High River, Alberta on Tuesday. High River was hit by a devastating flood on Thursday, June 20, which caused a mass evacuation of the entire town although some residents have chosen to defy the order. any other way.

Some were completely submerged.

“This was extraordinarily dangerous work assisted ably by the Canadian Armed Forces,” Woolsey said. “I can’t tell you ... how devastating it is in that community right now and in some sectors it is only getting worse because there is standing water in many, many places.”

Making matters worse were as many as 300 people who didn’t leave when ordered to do so, said Dave Galea of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency. They were discovered as RCMP and soldiers searched homes door to door.

“They are now starting to contribute to the problem,” Galea said.

“They are running out of supplies.

They have been isolated in the town for a number of days now, so water to drink, food supplies (are an issue),” said Galea.

“If first responders that are present in the community have to resupply

Zoo staff risked lives to stop hippo from escaping

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Staff risked their lives to stop a hippo from escaping and to usher ailing giraffes to dry ground during the recent flood, a Calgary Zoo spokesman said Tuesday.

“It was a cross between The Poseidon Adventure and Jurassic Park,” said Jake Veasey, the zoo’s director of animal care, conservation and research.

Veasey and other workers spent the weekend at the African Savannah exhibit juggling two challenges at once: moving shivering giraffes out of bellydeep water and securing an angry hippo that had escaped his holding area.

A glass window had to be broken for Veasey to get into a building to tend to the giraffes — skittish creatures that don’t cope well with cold and stress.

The building was so full of murky, brown water that he had to don a wet suit and swim to the back of the building to get to the giraffe enclosure.

At that point, the hippos were still where they were supposed to be, but, just in case, a shipping container was placed over a window that the hippos could have swam through.

Water levels eventually rose high enough for the dangerous herbivores to swim over the tops of their enclosure. Now they were able to move freely about the African Savannah building.

“There was the potential for the hippos to swim out of this building into a flooded zoo and potentially into the Bow River and we could have had hippos God knows where,” said Veasey.

“They could have been 20 or 30 miles downstream.”

Veasey said the powerful beasts could have easily pushed through the glass front doors, so cinder blocks and construction equipment were put there to block their way.

One of the two hippos, an older female named Sparky, stayed put. But a younger male named Lobi was much more adventurous.

“He was having a whale of a time just exploring a much bigger hippo pool than he was used to.”

Lobi stayed at the front of the building for a while, while Veasey and his colleagues were around the back, trying to coax nervous giraffes out of the building and to dry land through an unfamiliar exit.

The zookeepers had to live with the possibility that Lobi could come closer. They had a high-calibre rifle handy just in case.

“They certainly kill more people

in Africa than lions ever do. They’re arguably the most dangerous African vertebrate,” said Veasey, who could only tell where the hippo was by the rustling of debris.

At one point, Lobi managed to squeeze through a narrow door into a corridor and found himself stuck — and furious.

“It’s a human being door that you could never comprehend a hippo could go through.”

He said getting Lobi out of the corridor was just about as easy as squeezing toothpaste back into a tube.

Veasey and his team considered cutting out metal work to free the creature, but eventually built him a ramp made out of sandbags so that he could climb over a bar and back to his enclosure.

“Of course he’s an angry hippo and he’s trying to attack us and the sandbags as we’re dropping them in, literally in front of his mouth.”

Lobi did make it over — his hippo hide squeaking against the metal — and the crisis was over.

Keepers are working to hard to keep the giraffes warm and nourished.

The zoo is particularly worried about a 19-year-old female named Carrie, who isn’t eating as much as she should be.

“Giraffes are quite delicate animals, despite their size and strength,” said Veasey.

“We’re hopeful that the giraffe are going to pull through, but there is the potential that we may lose animals, including giraffes ... as the consequences of that stressful 48-hour period kick in.”

So far, at least two peacocks that were free to roam the zoo grounds have died.

In the mayhem following the flood, the birds crashed into objects and broke their necks.

The zoo also had to make the difficult decision not to rescue 140 tilapia fish that were in the hippo enclosure, because doing so would have taken too long and taken attention away from other animals.

Six of the zoo’s 12 piranhas also died.

Most of the zoo’s animals are currently crowded into facilities elsewhere on the property in less than ideal conditions.

“We’re now dealing with problems that are going to start arising due to stress, due to confinement and the sooner that we can remediate exhibits to bring animals back into their home enclosures, we can relieve stress on the animals.”

them, then that takes them away from the focus of making things right.

“It is also a point of friction between the residents who have evacuated and those who are staying in their homes.”

Galea acknowledged the people who are getting angry because they haven’t been allowed to go back to even look at their homes since the evacuation order went out last Thursday as the Highwood River burst its banks.

“There is great frustration that is frankly understandable. People have been out of their homes for awhile.”

Police said eight people who stayed behind, including two distraught women who indicated their situations were “quite desperate,” had to be rescued.

Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths vented his displeasure saying he had little sympathy for those who remained behind.

“I’m not and the community will not direct ... time, energy and resources for those who refuse to leave,” said a visibly angry Griffiths.

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“If they care about their community and the people in it, they need to leave.”

But Alberta Opposition Leader Danielle Smith, who lives in High River, suggested it was time to let people back.

“Get people back into the town and do it today or in the next couple of days,” Smith told The Canadian Press.

She said she defied the mandatory evacuation order for four days, staying in High River to help rescue pets.

She said much of the town was untouched and she understood the frustration of the displaced population.

“People are at their wit’s end and I can understand why,” Smith said.

“We have medical doctors now saying we have to start getting into those homes so they can be cleaned up otherwise we have a bigger problem.

“You let that still water stay there with three days of heat cooking it, you’re going to end up seeing mould and mildew going up the walls.”

Alberta says too soon to decide whether to restrict development in flood zones

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Some Medicine Hat flood evacuees go home MEDICINE HAT — Janice Tidy stood waiting anxiously Tuesday, wondering what damage the swollen South Saskatchewan River had wreaked on her idyllic home in southeastern Alberta.

“If it’s sewer, then you can’t go into your home, you can’t stay,” said an emotional Tidy.

“We’re hopeful. My husband did a really good job blocking things in the basement, so we’re hopeful.”

Tidy’s home is on a quiet street in Medicine Hat, across from a park and the river. Her front porch is normally a peaceful place to sit and enjoy the view.

But like some 10,000 other Medicine Hat residents, Tidy was forced from her home when the river spilled its banks. Tidy gathered a few valuables, her brother flew in from Ottawa to help move furniture to a higher floor, and then she and her husband left Friday evening as the rushing water started to lap a berm on the street.

City officials said the river reached a record high when it crested early Monday.

The flood waters started to go down quickly and by Tuesday, Medicine Hat were officials were allowing some of the evacuees to return home — if their properties passed inspection. Officials warned that even if streets appeared dry, basements could be full of water or sewage.

CALGARY — As people in southern Alberta begin to recover from the devastation caused by heavy flooding, the province says it is too soon to say whether it will restrict future development in flood-prone areas.

A government task force recommended such rules for municipalities in a report following severe flooding in 2005, but the recommendation has not been acted on.

Environment Minister Diana McQueen said Tuesday a new government committee will again study the question of building on flood plains.

Colin Lloyd, managing director of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency, suggested the extent of the recent flooding means some of the findings of the seven-year-old report are now out of date.

“Programs and arrangements and procedures that existed before have been swept aside,” Lloyd said Tuesday.

“Things have changed. Rivers have shifted. Flood plains will not be the same as they were before and there is a tremendous amount of work that is going to inform how we will deal with mitigation going forward.”

McQueen said it is also too soon to say whether the government will make a decision on whether municipalities should allow new construction in flood zones before major reconstruction work begins.

There is no initial estimate of the damage caused by the floods that have ravaged Calgary, High River and other communities.

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HIGH RIVER — The mayor of High River on Tuesday beseeched residents demanding to return to their homes to have some understanding for the monumental recovery task that faces the flooded southern Alberta community.

Emile Blokland said people need to realize that the water that engulfed the town of 13,000 and forced a full and mandatory evacuation last week bore little resemblance to a normal flood.

“What you don’t understand is we don’t have a flood. We have a disaster,” Blokland said. “Floods are very easy to deal with — water comes, water goes, and then we clean up afterwards.

“This is a major disaster we are dealing with. It’s at the same level as the Slave Lake fire that devastated that community. That’s what we are dealing with and that is the major reason we cannot have residents return to the town of High River.”

The wildfires that swept through Slave Lake in 2011 destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses.

In that disaster, evacuees were put on buses and driven around the town so that they could safely inspect the damage.

Not an option here, said Blokland.

“That will happer our efforts,” the mayor said. “We need to keep the town as completely free of people that don’t need to be there as much as possible.

“We can’t have more people in the community. It is as simple as that.”

Provincial officials said 80 per cent of High River remained without services Tuesday and the waste-water treatment plant wasn’t working.

“We do not have sanitary sewer. We have no water for those folks. We have no utilities for those folks,” an animated Blokland said at an afternoon update.

“When they get here, we have no gas for their cars. We don’t have a grocery store open. We don’t have the medical centre. We don’t have protective services for them. We don’t have a drugstore for them. No business in town is open at this moment.

“It is not safe to be in our community. When it is safe, we will let everybody in as quickly as possible in an organized manner.”

RCMP Insp. Garrett Woolsey said police-led search teams had cleared 4,700 residences and buildings.

Dive teams from Saskatchewan were checking 30 houses too unsafe to enter

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Obama sets out Keystone conditions PIPELINE MUST NOT LEAD TO INCREASE IN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: U.S. PRESIDENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Authorities should only approve TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline if they’re certain it won’t “significantly exacerbate” greenhouse gas emissions, U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday as he unveiled a national plan to combat climate change.

In a highly anticipated speech on his second-term climate objectives, Obama weighed in on Keystone despite suggestions he would steer clear of the controversial project because it’s in the midst of a State Department review.

A determination that building the northern portion of Keystone XL will not result in greater greenhouse gas emissions “is absolutely critical in determining whether this project will be allowed to go forward,” Obama said to cheers from the crowd gathered on a steamy day at D.C.’s Georgetown University.

The pipeline must be found to “be in our nation’s interest,” he added.

Keystone XL has become a flashpoint for U.S. environmentalists, who have branded it a symbol of “dirty oil” and have spent the past two years mounting a fierce public relations battle against the project. The pipeline would transport millions of barrels

of oilsands bitumen a week from Alberta to Texas refineries.

Calgary-based TransCanada has been pouring money into lobbying efforts in the U.S. capital in recent months. The company’s CEO, Russ Girling, said recently that he’s confident Keystone XL will ultimately win approval.

The draft environmental report on the pipeline

by State Department officials, released in March, suggested Keystone XL’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions would be minimal. The powerful Environmental Protection Agency later questioned that finding.

TransCanada officials have said that even if Alberta oilsands production doubled, the carbon emissions would be “immaterial” to global greenhouse gas levels. They say Canada accounts for only two per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the oilsands make up only five per cent of that total.

Obama rejected the pipeline in early 2012, but invited TransCanada to file a new application with an altered route that would skirt Nebraska’s ecologically sensitive Sand Hills region. TransCanada did so, earning the thumb’s up from the state of Nebraska.

A final State Department decision on the $7.6-billion project is expected this fall. After that, it will be up to Obama to bless or block Keystone XL. The president’s comments came as he provided

details of new U.S. climate change regulations will cut carbon emissions at power plants and require federal projects to better prepare for the sort of extreme weather that has left much of Calgary underwater.

He’ll use his executive authority to implement most of the proposals, bypassing congressional lawmakers reluctant to move on climate change.

Obama is directing the EPA, for example, to initiate regulations on carbon emissions from existing coal and gas-fired utilities by next June, and to kickstart similar rules on new power plants. And he’ll ask the Interior Department to issue permits for new wind, solar, and other renewable energy projects on public lands in efforts that could fuel more than six million American homes within seven years.

New energy-efficiency projects are also a big part of the plan — proposals that could present major opportunities for Canadian biofuel companies. The plan also calls for more forceful action in boosting efficiency for appliances such as refrigerators and lamps.

He’s also instructing federal agencies to help state and local governments with existing problems caused by climate change, including improved flood protection for roads and other infrastructure, better hospitals to respond to deadly storms, and drought relief.

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Bureaucracy still bloated two years after report

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Civilian staff numbers at National Defence grew by almost 30 per cent over six years, despite budget cuts and warnings the military has too much “tail and not enough teeth.”

The figures are in a spreadsheet report of the entire federal civil service, compiled by the Parliamentary Budget Office and posted last week.

The tables show that since the Harper government was elected, the number of non-uniformed employees at Defence rose to 27,177 at the end of the 2011-12 fiscal year from 20,978 in 2005-06.

That’s far above the 14 per cent increase in the entire civil service during the Conservative mandate.

The swelling of administrative ranks at Defence has caught the attention of the prime minister.

Stephen Harper warned Defence Minister Peter MacKay last year, in a letter obtained by The Canadian Press, to take a second run at budget cuts to reduce overhead.

Retired lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie, in his landmark report on overhauling the military in 2011, sounded the same warning. He said the bureaucracy, built up during the Afghan war, should be the principal target of the reductions.

Two years later, Leslie said, the cuts that have been made did not hit the target, landing instead on the people his report and the prime minister tried to protect.

“The underlying premise of the 2011 report on transformation was that everything possible should be done to protect the front-line teeth,” Leslie said in an interview with The Canadian Press on Tuesday.

The Leslie report noted that as of March 31, 2010, there were 29,348 civilians working at Defence and their growth “had been the highest in absolute and relative terms” throughout the department.

A spokeswoman for Defence Minister Peter MacKay pointed to spring federal budget records and said the government plans further reductions, taking the civilian workforce down to 25,408 in the current fiscal year.

“This is in line with our department’s transition to a lower pace of operations following the end of the combat mission in Afghanistan,” Paloma Aguilar said in a statement.

In the last year, “affected” notices have been issued to more than 1,500 civilian employees telling them their jobs were about to be eliminated.

But Leslie said the categories of affected workers are telling because they include clerical staff at bases, gun range supervisors, radiation safety advisers, armoury workers and trades helpers — people on whom the troops depend.

Without them, he said, the services won’t get done, or soldiers and sailors will have to pick up some of the duties. That, he says, leaves less time for training in a scenario that ultimately leads to an erosion of capability.

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Newly elected interim Mayor Laurent Blanchard enters the council chamber at City Hall Tuesday in Montreal. Blanchard was named to the job Tuesday, making him the scandal-soaked city’s third mayor in less than a year. He will hold the job for only a few months, until the November municipal election. The two-term city councillor was asked whether he feared that UPAC, Quebec’s anti-corruption squad, might also come knocking at his borough offices. “I don’t worry about that,” said Blanchard, a former community newspaper publisher. “Absolutely not!”

Terror suspect tortured: Amnesty International links to the terrorists who attacked an Algerian gas plant in January in an incident that ended with the deaths of the 37 hostages and 29 terrorists.

The terrorists included two Canadians from London, Ont., who were found dead at the plant after it was stormed by Algerian troops.

Mauritanian prosecutors want to increase Yoon’s sentence to 10 years because of what they say are his links to the Algerian plot.

Last July, Yoon was sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of having ties to a terrorist group and of posing a danger to national security.

Yoon is accused of travelling to Morocco with Ali Medlej and Xris Katsiroubas, all of whom went to the same high school in London, Ont. The RCMP confirmed that Medlej and Katsiroubas were among the dead terrorists found in the Algerian plant.

Yoon has said he went to the region for religious study and that he didn’t know how Medlej and Katsiroubas had become linked with militants.

Yoon said he heard about the Algerian gas plant attack while in prison, and that it was “news” to him at that point, Neve said.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Amnesty International says it supports the claims of a Canadian man who alleges he has been tortured while behind bars in the North African country of Mauritania.

Alex Neve, head of Amnesty’s Canadian branch, said he believes the torture allegations made by 24-year-old Aaron Yoon, who has been in a Mauritanian prison since 2011 on terror-related charges, including a link to the January terrorist attack on an Algerian gas plant.

Neve said that Yoon also told Canadian government officials who visited him in prison that he had been tortured, so he wants to follow up with Ottawa about what they are doing about his case.

Neve has just finished a 10-day trip to Mauritania where he repeatedly met Yoon, who denies all the terrorism charges against him and says he was tortured.

“I would say that his torture allegations were vivid and detailed,” Neve told The Canadian Press on Tuesday, shortly after he arrived back in Canada.

“They’re certainly credible and completely consistent with the wider pattern that we’ve known to be the case for quite some time in Mauritania.

Torture is very commonplace during the early period of detention.”

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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Putin rejects U.S. plea to turn over Snowden

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Yes, he’s at a Moscow airport, and no, you can’t have him.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the first official acknowledgment of the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday and promptly rejected U.S. pleas to turn him over.

Snowden, who is charged with violating American espionage laws, fled Hong Kong over the weekend, touching off a global guessing game over where he went and frustrating U.S. efforts to bring him to justice.

Putin said Snowden is in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport and has not passed through Russian immigration, meaning he technically is not in Russia and thus is free to travel wherever he wants.

After arriving Sunday on a flight from Hong Kong, Snowden registered for a Havana-bound flight Monday en route to Venezuela and then possible asylum in Ecuador, but he didn’t board the plane.

Speculation has been rife that Russian security services have been talking to Snowden and might want to keep him in Russia for a more thorough de-

briefing, but Putin denied that.

“Our special services never worked with Mr. Snowden and aren’t working with him today,” Putin said at a news conference during a visit to Finland.

Because Moscow has no extradition agreement with Washington, it cannot meet the U.S. request, he said.

“Mr. Snowden is a free man, and the sooner he chooses his final destination the better it is for us and for him,” Putin said. “I hope it will not affect the businesslike character of our relations with the U.S. and I hope that our partners will understand that.”

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that the U.S. wants Russia to show respect for the rule of law and comply with common practices when it comes to fugitives from justice.

Putin’s staunch refusal to consider deportation shows his readiness to further challenge Washington at a time when U.S.-Russian relations are already strained over Syria and other issues, including a Russian ban on adoptions by Americans.

“Just showing America that we don’t care about our relations, we are down to basically a Cold War pattern: The enemy of your government is our friend,” said Masha Lipman of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

“The Russian administration has not come that far, but we don’t know what it’s up to,” she said.

Despite Putin’s denial, security experts believe Russia’s special services wouldn’t miss the chance to question a man who is believed to hold reams of classified U.S. documents and could shed light on how the U.S. intelligence agencies collect information.

Igor Korotchenko, director of the Center for Global Arms Trade and editor of National Defence Magazine, said Snowden would be of particular interest because little is known about digital espionage.

“The security services would be happy to enter into contact with Mr. Snowden,” Korotchenko said.

Russia also has relished using Snowden’s revelations to turn the tables on the U.S. over its criticism of Russia’s rights record.

Putin compared Snowden to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been given asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, saying that both men were labeled criminals but consider themselves rights activists and champions of freedom of information.

“Ask yourself a question: Should people like that be extradited so that

they put them in prison?” he said. “In any case, I would prefer not to deal with such issues. It’s like shearing a piglet: a lot of squealing and little wool.”

In an apparent reference to claims that Russia could have played a role in Snowden’s exit from Hong Kong, Putin said his arrival in Moscow was a “complete surprise” and dismissed such accusations as “ravings and sheer nonsense.”

“He doesn’t need a visa or any other documents, and as a transit passenger he has the right to buy a ticket and fly wherever he wants,” Putin said.

Snowden, 30, is a former CIA employee who later was hired as a contractor for the NSA. In that job, he gained access to documents that he gave to newspapers the Guardian and The Washington Post to expose what he contends are privacy violations by an authoritarian government.

Snowden also told the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong that “the NSA does all kinds of things like hack Chinese cellphone companies to steal all of your SMS data.”

He is believed to have more than 200 additional sensitive documents in laptops he is carrying.

Defence says teen was Turkish PM again shot in self-defence lashes out at protesters

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANFORD, Fla. — A prosecutor told jurors in opening statements Monday that a Miami-area neighbourhood watch volunteer fatally shot a black teenager “because he wanted to,” not because he had to, while the defendant’s attorney said the shooting was carried out in self-defence.

The opposing attorneys squared off on the first day of testimony in a trial that has attracted international attention and prompted nationwide debates about gun control, race, and equal justice under the law.

Included among the millions likely to be following the case are civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson Jr. and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who joined national protests in the weeks before prosecutors filed second-degree murder charges against George Zimmerman 44 days after the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Zimmerman, 29, who identifies himself as Hispanic, has denied that the shooting had anything to do with race.

His mother was born in Peru.

His father is a white American. Martin was black. But just before opening statements began, Martin’s parents sent out an urgent plea to their supporters to pray with them for justice, while their family attorney, Benjamin Crump, described the case as clear cut.

“There are two important facts in this case: No. 1: George Zimmerman was a grown man with a gun, and No. 2: Trayvon Martin was a minor who had no blood on his hands. Literally no blood on his hands. ... We believe that the evidence is overwhelming to hold George Zimmerman accountable for killing Trayvon Martin.”

Prosecutor John Guy’s first words to jurors recounted what Zimmerman told a police dispatcher in a call shortly before the fatal confrontation with Martin: “F------ punks. These a-------.

They always get away.”

Zimmerman was profiling Martin

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH TRIAL as he followed him through the gated community where Zimmerman lived and Martin was visiting, Guy said. He said Zimmerman viewed the teen “as someone about to a commit a crime in his neighbourhood.”

“And he acted on it. That’s why we’re here,” the prosecutor said.

Zimmerman didn’t have to shoot Martin, Guy said.

“He shot him for the worst of all reasons: because he wanted to,” he said.

Defence attorney Don West told jurors a different story: Zimmerman was being viciously attacked when he shot Martin, he said.

He was sucker-punched by Martin, who then pounded Zimmerman’s head into the concrete sidewalk.

“He had just taken tremendous blows to his face, tremendous blows to his head,” said West, after showing jurors photos taken by Zimmerman’s neighbours of a bloodied and bruised neighbourhood watch volunteer.

Later, West said it was not true that Martin was unarmed.

“Trayvon Martin armed himself with a concrete sidewalk and used it to smash George Zimmerman’s head,” West said.

West also played for jurors the call to a police dispatcher in which Zimmerman used the obscenities.

Martin had opportunities to go home after Zimmerman followed him and then lost track of him, West said, but instead the teen confronted the neighbourhood watch volunteer.

The prosecutor described Zimmerman as someone who wanted to be a police officer, and he dismantled the story Zimmerman has told investigators about what happened during the fight between the neighbourhood watch volunteer and the Miami-area teen that left Martin dead from a bullet to his chest.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish police on Tuesday detained at least 20 people allegedly involved in violent protests, as the country’s prime minister continued to lash out at protesters — and a BBC journalist — he claimed were part of a conspiracy to harm Turkey.

Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters marched to Istanbul’s central Taksim square, this time to denounce a court decision that — pending trial — freed police officer accused of killing a demonstrator during the anti-government protests that have swept the country since May 31. Police surrounded the square, blocking their access.

At least three demonstrators and a police officer were killed in the protests that began in Istanbul following a heavy-handed police clampdown on peaceful activists. They quickly turned into widespread expression of discontent with what critics have said is Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian way of governing.

Erdogan, who came to power a decade ago denies the accusation, and frequently points at elections in 2011 that returned his party to power for a third successive term with 50 per cent of the vote.

One of the protesters was killed by a

bullet fired by police during a demonstration in Ankara on June 1. A court on Monday released the officer from custody pending trial, on the grounds that the shooting may have been accidental. But some see the release as proof that Turkish authorities are too lenient toward police.

The state-run Anadolu Agency said police searched some 30 addresses in the capital, Ankara, and rounded up 20 people with alleged links to “terror” groups and suspected of “attacking police and the environment.”

Erdogan holds unspecified foreign forces, bankers and media outlets responsible for the protests that had largely subsided until the court freed the police officer.

In an address to members of his Islamic-rooted party in Parliament, Erdogan reiterated that the protests were orchestrated by forces wanting to prevent Turkey’s rise.

He repeated his claim that the same conspiracy was at work in Brazil, saying both countries had paid off debts to the International Monetary Fund.

Mass rallies in Brazil were set off this month by a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere. The protests soon moved beyond that issue to tap into widespread frustration in the South American nation.

Top court ends enforcement of voting discrimination law WASHINGTON — A deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday halted enforcement of the federal government’s most potent tool to stop voting discrimination, saying it does not reflect racial progress. President Barack Obama, the country’s first black chief executive, said he was “deeply disappointed” with the decision.

The 5-4 ruling effectively puts an end to the requirement that has been used, mainly in the South, to open up polling places to minority voters since it was enacted in 1965 — a turbulent time when it was not unusual for blacks in some parts of the country to be essentially barred from voting and some civil rights activists on the issue were killed.

The landmark Voting Rights Act requirement, considered an emergency federal response when it was put in place, has determined which states and localities must get Washington’s approval for proposed election changes. That ends unless Congress can come up with a new formula that Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a conservative majority, said meets “current conditions” in the U.S. It was the most dramatic decision so far as the high court makes a broad re-examination of the necessity of laws and programs aimed at giving racial minorities access to major areas of life from which they once were systemati-

cally excluded. Census estimates look ahead to whites becoming a minority in the U.S. in coming decades.

Rights groups and the dissenting liberal justices on the court warned that discrimination still exists.

“The Supreme Court has effectively gutted one of the nation’s most important and effective civil rights laws. Minority voters in places with a record of discrimination are now at greater risk of being disenfranchised than they have been in decades,” said Jon Greenbaum, chief counsel for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Obama, reelected last year with the strong support of black and Hispanic voters, called on Congress to reinvigorate the law.

The advance approval requirement was put into the law to give federal officials a potent tool to defeat persistent efforts to keep blacks from voting.

But coverage also has been triggered by past discrimination against American Indians, Asian-Americans, Alaska Natives and Hispanics.

The requirement for federal approval for proposed election changes currently applies to the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It also covers certain counties in California, Florida, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota, and some local jurisdictions in Michigan.

Tuesday’s ruling came in a challenge brought by Shelby County, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham.

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Jump in housing starts forecast CMHC IS CALLING FOR AN INCREASE IN LOCAL HOUSING CONSTRUCTION the gates, with first-quarter housing starts up 88 per cent in the case of multi-family units and 45 per cent for single-detached homes.

For 2014, CMHC is now calling for a further increase in local housing starts, to 690.

It expects these to consist of 365 multi-

economist with CMHC. “By 2014, lower inventory, along with economic and demographic growth, will encourage a higher level of construction.”

Housing starts in Red Deer this year are The resale market in Central Alberta expected to jump nearly 20 per cent, says will see improvements in sales activity Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. in its and average prices this year and next, said most recent forecast.

CMHC in its housing market outThe national housing agency’s look.

‘A HEIGHTENED PACE OF HOUSING STARTS second-quarter housing market outMultiple Listing Service sales look, which was released on TuesIN 2012 INCREASED SUPPLY LEVELS are expected to number 4,540 in day, said there will be 680 residenSUBSTANTIALLY AND WILL COMPETE WITH 2013, a 5.5 per cent increase from tial construction starts in the city 4,304 last year. For 2014, the figNEW PROJECTS IN 2013.’ this year. That compares with 568 ure is projected to rise a further in 2012.

3.5 per cent, to 4,700.

— LAI SING LOUIE, A REGIONAL ECONOMIST WITH CMHC CMHC anticipates that much of The average local selling the increase will come from multiprice this year is anticipated to family development, with work exbe $288,500, up 3.3 per cent from pected to commence on 325 units $279,180 last year. The number in such projects — a 34.3 per cent increase family starts and 325 multi-family unit should rise a further 3.3 per cent next year, over the 2012 figure of 242. In the case of starts. to $298,000, said CMHC. single-detached homes, CMHC is projectCMHC expects total housing starts in AlFor the province as a whole, MLS sales ing 355 starts, up 8.9 per cent from 326 last berta to slip two per cent to 32,700 this year, are predicted to reach 61,600 this year — a year. and then rebound to 33,100 in 2014. two per cent improvement over 2012. In As recently as February, CMHC was fore“A heightened pace of housing starts 2014, the tally is expected to climb another casting just 605 housing starts for Red Deer in 2012 increased supply levels substan- 2.8 per cent, to 63,300. in 2013. tially and will compete with new projects But Red Deer builders were busy out of in 2013,” said Lai Sing Louie, a regional Please see HOUSING on Page B2

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BlackBerry introduces services for rivals BlackBerry (TSX:BB) is launching a business service for corporate and government workers with rival Google Android and Apple smartphones.

It’s called the Secure Work Space, and it allows Apple and Android users to separate their data and work apps, such as email and calendars, from their personal apps bringing a greater level of security.

The business service is a way for BlackBerry to compete with its rivals, which have been eating into its business user base, which is mainly long-term corporate customers. Those deals can be highly lucrative.

BlackBerry announced plans for broadening its business services earlier this year. The new service makes its security features and operating system available to the growing trend of “bring your own device” users who have opted for something other than a BlackBerry phone.

CRTC will rule on Bell’s bid for Astral Media The federal broadcast regulator will hand down its decision Thursday on Bell’s proposed $3.8-billion acquisition of Astral Media (TSX:ACM.A).

The Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission says it will announce its decision at 4 p.m., after markets close.

The CRTC rejected the deal last fall, saying it wasn’t in the interest of Canadians. Bell (TSX:BCE) has since offered to sell some of Astral’s specialty TV channels and radio stations to satisfy CRTC concerns that it would be too dominant in the market. But Bell has said it will drop its offer if forced by the CRTC to sell more of Astral’s assets like The Movie Network because it would cripple attempts to compete with services like Netflix.

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TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS

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Representatives of a broad cross-section of Central Alberta’s business community spent two hours with federal Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney in Red Deer on Tuesday.

And they made sure the Calgary Southeast MP left with an understanding of the challenges they’re facing in Alberta’s tight labour market.

Red Deer Chamber of Commerce president Gayle Langford said much of the discussion focused on the federal government’s temporary foreign worker program, and the changes to it that were announced in April.

Preceded by media reports about abuses to the program, the changes are expected to make it more difficult for employers to bring in workers.

Langford said Kenney was urged to consider the needs of areas like Alberta when making such changes.

“That was our whole message. Don’t react to the political pressures by doing a national change; look at a regional program that’s sensitive to the regional reality.”

It makes more sense for the federal government to develop regional strategies for its temporary foreign worker program, rather than one that applies to the entire country, suggested Langford.

“When you’re making changes, make a regional change.” In addition to associations representing sectors like manufacturers, home builders and hoteliers, the meeting attracted business owners and human resources officers.

“They had an opportunity to really voice their frustrations with some of the changes,” said Langford.

Kenney was also told that the temporary foreign worker program’s requirements are onerous on small businesses that don’t have anyone trained to navigate the paperwork.

“We also heard from businesses that said they’re just giving up,” said Langford. “ They realize that with these changes they can’t grow anymore.”

She said Kenney seemed receptive to the feedback, including the specifics of a Red Deer Chamber policy that was recently adopted by the Alberta Chambers of Commerce. It urges the federal government to reverse some of its changes to the program and implement others that will streamline the process.

“He was looking for solutions — that was part of it.”

Langford said other labour issues were discussed with Kenney.

Like many people in Calgary, Jason Hamer and Chris Buckman have been spending long hours fighting back the flood.

Only Hamer and Buckman pack more powerful punches than most others who are battling the water.

Hamer has four, six-inch diesel-driven pumps at his disposal and Buckman is sporting a pair of 1.5-million-BTU flameless heaters.

Hamer is a partner in Rusch Equipment Inc., a pump and fluid management company located on Red Deer’s northern outskirts.

And Buckman is president of Ignite Frac Services Inc., a Calgary oilfield company with its main shop in Red Deer.

Each of the businesses dispatched a half-dozen workers and equipment to the flooded neighbourhood of Sunnyside on the weekend.

There, and in other residential areas, they’ve been pumping water off streets and out of basements, and drying out homes.

Hamer said Rusch’s pumps have been going non-stop since they were first deployed on Sunday.

“We estimated that we pumped out 3.36 million gallons in that one 14-hour period.”

Buckman said his heaters have also been humming.

“Since we started they haven’t stopped.”

The workers operating that equipment have also been running flat out.

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Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Justin Kane of Brand Scaffoding and his coworkers are working to remove shoring from the wall and ceiling near where a portion of the Red Deer Lodge roof collapsed in February 2011.

Business community tries to convince Kenney to be sensitive to regions RECENT CHANGES ARE EXPECTED TO MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR EMPLOYERS TO BRING IN WORKERS

Soft skills bring value to your business

JOHN MACKENZIE

ACTION COACH

In today’s demanding workplace, businesses require more from employees than just the knowledge and experience — the “hard skills” — necessary to get the job done.

“Soft skills,” personal traits and competencies — like a constructive attitude, the ability to communicate clearly and effectively, and the willingness to manage change — are critical to business success.

Just a few decades ago, references to soft skills were practically

unheard of. You showed up on time and toed the company line.

There was little opportunity to ask questions, provide input or take the initiative to solve problems independently.

In my consultative and coaching practice, the major issues I observe through interviews with owners, managers and employees all indicate similar responses.

Many business owners and managers perceive employees (often the

younger generation) as typically having short attention spans, minimal attention to detail and an apathetic attitude.

The owner doesn’t believe they are getting through to them, or that they simply don’t care. Missed deadlines and deliverables are common. Motivation is poor and there is little responsibility for results.

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ISSUES: Negative attitudes impact the workplace When I ask the team to identify key issues, the first comment usually states that poor communication creates major problems: “I don’t know where I stand or if I’m doing a good job”; “No one listens, I don’t even bother anymore.”

Both comment on how negative attitudes impact the workplace. The employer is constantly dealing with employee retention. In some circumstances workplace bullying is a big issue.

Dysfunctional teams experience a range of performance standards. Owners/managers/supervisors avoid and even ignore poor behavior.

All of these scenarios clearly indicate that companies are not aware that the lack of soft skills in their businesses directly affects productivity and profitability.

So what key pieces are necessary to solve the puzzle?

If no clear guidelines and standards exist, it’s more challenging to meet goals, or even do a job as expected.

Organizational norms are shared standards that define acceptable behaviours, dictate how things get done and state how problems are to be uniformly dealt with. Design an organizational structure that supports specific values.

Develop job descriptions for every role. These documents will ensure that neither the employee nor employer will end up discouraged.

Be clear about what “hard” technical skills are required and include how you define results.

Be sure to evaluate which soft skills are necessary for each position.

Will candidates require a higher level of problem-solving skills, or will they work with a core team?

What level of accountability is expected, what can management expect from the team, and what can the team expect from management?

Every organization has a culture — that collective consciousness that’s infused in the organization. If there is no stated culture, everyone brings their own.

Changing a company’s culture means changing the collective habits of all employees. Not an easy thing to do!

It requires tremendous goodwill and persistence on the part of the owners, managers and employees.

Develop culture statements with input from all employees.

This ensures that everyone will hold each other accountable for their behaviour.

Start at the recruitment phase.

Present and discuss your company’s culture statement during the interview process.

Highlight what’s acceptable and what’s not.

Ask candidates key questions to determine how they would handle specific situations.

Reward performance and results that champions your company’s culture, and dismiss those that are unwilling to embrace and reinforce these values.

It takes time and consistent effort to build an environment of trust. Until then the fear of conflict will prevail.

Once confidence is established, all employees will hold one another accountable for their behaviors and overall commitment to results.

It’s critical to publish quarterly and annual goals.

Incorporate a structure that lets everyone report on their personal objectives.

Encourage individuals to deal with short-term issues before they become major problems.

A good leader is an informed leader. They are willing to support a certain amount of risk-taking and personal accountability.

Informed employees are happier employees.

They are more able to handle conflict and maintain positive relationships with co-workers and clients.

Clear communication becomes the established norm.

Everyone trusts that they have a format to express opinions, to listen and to be heard. There is confidence that issues will be addressed fairly and equitably.

Companies that have established personality assessments and communication profiles can quantify their value to their business.

Understanding personal styles enhances both personal and professional relationships.

These tools identify distinct and predictable behaviour. Understanding what motivates you and others will improve communication while increasing motivation and reducing conflict.

Photos contributed by JEFF WORTH

Above: Jason Hamer prepares to deploy Rusch Equipment Inc.’s pumping equipment in the flooded Calgary neighbourhood of Stanley Park.

Right: Mud remains in Stanley Park after the water was pumped away.

Upcoming generations expect more than just a job.

Ideally, the workplace should support individual growth and development of a variety of soft skills.

Creating a co-operative learning environment will improve workplace satisfaction and establish your competitive advantage.

ActionCoach is written by John MacKenzie of ActionCoach, which helps small- to medium-sized businesses and other organizations. He can be contacted at johnmackenzie@actioncoach.com or by phone at 403-340-0880.

HOUSING: Prices rising The average price on this year’s sales in Alberta will hit $374,000, said CMHC, up three per cent from the 2012 average.

And it anticipates a further 2.1 per cent climb to $381,900 in 2014.

Nationally, CMHC estimates that between 173,300 and 192,500 housing units will be started this year, with a mid-point forecast of 182,900 units.

That’s down nearly 15 per cent from the 2012 level of 214,827 units.

In 2014, housing starts are expected to range between 166,500 and 211,300 units, with a mid-point forecast of 188,900 units, up 3.3 per cent from 2013.

The agency also expects sales of existing homes to range between 412,000 and 474,800 units in 2013, with a mid-point forecast of 443,400 units, down from the 2012 level of 453,372 sales.

In 2014, MLS sales of previously owned homes are expected to range between 435,800 and 501,400 units, with an increase in the mid-point forecast to 468,600 units.

The average MLS price is forecast to be between $359,400 and $380,000 in 2013 and between $362,400 and $392,200 in 2014.

“So far in 2013, the average monthly growth rates of MLS sales, new listings and prices have all been increasing,” said Mathieu Laberge, the agency’s deputy chief economist.

“This follows a period of average monthly declines that held sway over the second half of 2012.

“This change in the trend of the resale market is expected to eventually lead to a similar change in the trend of the new home market, as housing starts dynamics typically lag the resale market by one to three quarters.”

CMHC’s outlook for economic factors is in line with the consensus of private-sector forecasters.

Higher interest rates are not anticipated until mid-2014, reflecting expectations of a slower economy in 2013.

It said housing starts should decline in all provinces this year, while a modest rebound is expected in all provinces except in Atlantic Canada.

Ontario, P.E.I. and Saskatchewan was expected to face the steepest declines this year, falling by more than 21 per cent, while B.C., Alberta and

Manitoba are expected to fare the best with declines of less than five per cent.

Average home prices are expected to outpace the rate of inflation this year in the Prairies, and Newfoundland and Labrador and be in line with inflation in 2014, except in P.E.I. and Quebec, which will see modest price growth.

Single-detached housing starts are relatively more stable than multiplefamily units.

The CMHC forecast mirrors the outlook presented last week by the Canadian real estate industry, which said Canada’s housing market is showing signs of stability ahead of a possible rebound in 2014.

The Canadian Real Estate Association — whose members operate the MLS system — said the number of homes sold so far this year is slightly higher than projected, although it still expects fewer sales this year than in 2012.

Douglas Porter, chief economist with BMO Capital Markets, said the figures presented CREA showed there been at least a delay in the doom and gloom that has been anticipated for the Canadian housing sector.

“Overall, this is relatively encouraging news,” Porter said.

“If anything, the surprise has been how healthy the housing market has been.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com With files by The Canadian Press.

MINISTER: Wants Canadians to have first crack at jobs These included the importance of aligning the education system with the needs of the labour market, and restrictions that limit the availability of seasonal workers.

Speaking to the Advocate prior to his meeting with the business groups, Kenney said his government “remains committed to ensuring that our immigration and visa programs help us to address acute labour shortages.”

But, he added, it’s important to prevent policies like the temporary foreign worker program from being misused.

“It must ensure that Canadians always get the first crack at available jobs. That’s why we are reviewing it.”

Kenney added that it’s impossible to develop a temporary foreign worker strategy that satisfies everyone.

“The view of labour unions is that the entire program should be shut down; the view of employers is that it should be massively expanded. The truth is probably somewhere in between.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

CREWS: People ‘haven’t stopped being grateful’ “I think they went close to 38 hours straight before they had an hour of sleep,” said Buckman.

“We’ve been running on adrenaline a little bit. We’re just going to keep going as long as we can.”

When the opportunity for rest does arise, the crews don’t go far.

“We’ve just been sleeping in our trucks when we can get a little nap,” said Hamer.

But the fatigue has been worth it, agree the two men.

“I’ve had phone calls saying we were the angels,” said Buckman.

That gratitude was evident the moment the crews from Red Deer arrived, convoy-style, at the first water-logged neighbourhood.

“There were people hugging each other and there were crowds around us helping us get rigged up,” said Hamer.

“They haven’t stopped being grateful.”

Buckman, who owns Ignite with former Calgary Flame Rhett Warrener, became aware of the urgency of the situation when his own basement flooded on Friday. He and Warrener agreed to do what they could to help.

Meanwhile, Hamer and his partner Jeff Worth were trying unsuccessfully to contact emergency planning personnel in Calgary to pledge their own support. Because Ignite and Rusch work closely in the field, it was quickly agreed to stage a joint campaign.

Hamer said he was stunned by what he saw when he arrived in Calgary.

“Some of these houses, the water has come up almost to the roof.

“It’s like a war zone.”

Buckman, who played for the Red Deer College Kings hockey team from 1993 to 1995 and has maintained connections with the college and Red Deer, said the two crews are helping out any way they can.

They see the impact they are having, but realize there’s still a lot of work to be done, said Hamer. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Tentative deal reached in Quebec construction strike A tentative deal has been reached between striking construction unions and companies in Quebec’s homebuilding sector.

The residential sector deal announced late Tuesday afternoon follows an agreement in principle between the unions and the civil engineering and road construction sector a day earlier.

The unions hailed the deal, saying a negotiated settlement is always preferable to confrontation.

“After more than a week on strike, residential workers will be glad to return to their work sites

on Wednesday morning,” said union spokesman Yves Ouellet in a statement.

“Deadlines are tight, but we hope to be able to meet the commitments for families awaiting the delivery of a home in the coming days.”

Premier Pauline Marois had warned the two sides in the strike that her patience had limits and she didn’t completely rule out a legislated end to the dispute.

A deal has yet to be reached in the industrial and commercial sectors.

The provincial government has been reluctant to estimate the cost of the strike, which began June 17

and shut down work sites across the province.

The government says it’s difficult to put a dollar figure on the strike’s cost.

Labour Minister Agnes Maltais dismissed speculation that the strike is costing $1 billion per week as “simplistic.”

The figure was floated by the opposition Coalition party on Monday.

Maltais says the construction sector is worth about $50 billion annually and that sum can’t just be divided by 52 weeks to estimate losses.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 89.86 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 42.02 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.32 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.67 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.94 Cdn. National Railway . 100.74 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 126.51 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 35.50 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.46 Cervus Equipment Corp 19.85 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 32.50 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 43.99 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.45 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.33 General Motors Co. . . . . 31.82 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 16.75 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 15.32 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.68 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 44.03 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 43.16 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 33.37 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.13 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.20 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 78.96 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.30 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 12.80 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.77 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 14.43 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.82 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.66 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 56.29 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.37 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 22.20 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 16.91 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.81 First Quantum Minerals . 14.74 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 24.61 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 7.07 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.07 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.36 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.02 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Tuesday as solid U.S. economic data persuaded traders to pick up stocks beaten down by concern over the U.S. Federal Reserve turning off the stimulus taps as well as trouble in China’s credit system.

The S&P/TSX composite index jumped 168.56 points to 12,005.42.

The Canadian dollar slipped 0.21 of a cent to 95.16 cents US amid ris-

Teck Resources . . . . . . . 21.94 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 27.45 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 49.91 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 45.08 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.95 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 49.13 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 29.76 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 19.32 Canyon Services Group. 11.93 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 29.27 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.720 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17.97 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.70 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.11 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 41.15 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.08 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 27.86 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 39.93 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 5.01 Penn West Energy . . . . . 11.25 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.640 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 9.01 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 30.37 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 12.18 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 14.89 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 7.86 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 50.70 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 60.16 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 55.94 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.09 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 27.42 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.41 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 28.06 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.08 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 58.32 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 16.52 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 73.65 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.62 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 60.15 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 30.24 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.79

ing U.S. bond yields.

U.S. indexes were also positive with the Dow industrials up 100.75 points at 14,760.31, the Nasdaq rising 27.13 points to 3,347.89 and the S&P 500 index climbing 14.94 points to 1,588.03.

Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index showed that U.S. home prices jumped 12.1 per cent in April from a year ago. The index also showed a 2.5 per cent increase in April from March, the big-

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This chart is compiled by the Advocate each week with figures supplied by financial institutions operating locally. Term deposit rates are for $5,000 balances, while guaranteed investment certificates are for $1,000 balances. Figures are subject to change without notice. gest month-over-month gain on records dating to 2000.

Also, the U.S. Commerce Department said new home sales rose 2.1 per cent last month compared with April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 476,000, the highest level since July 2008.

Other data showed that orders for durable goods increased 3.6 per cent last month, matching April’s gain, but it was also much stronger than most economists had expected.

And Americans’ confidence in the economy rose to its highest level in more than five years, bolstered by a more optimistic outlook for hiring. The New York-based Conference Board says its U.S. consumer confidence index jumped to 81.4 in June from 74.3 in May. Markets have sold off partly on worries that the U.S. Federal Reserve is prepared to put the brakes on its program of bond buying. Those US$85 billion of purchases every month have kept long-term rates low and helped many stock markets to rise sharply this year.

Rising bond yields have also spooked markets. Yields spiked, up to 2.6 per cent Tuesday, which is almost a two-year high. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury stood at 2.25 per cent last Wednesday before Fed chairman Ben Bernanke indicated that the Fed could start winding up the bond buying program later this year.

Markets were further rattled after China raised its interbank lending rate — the interest rate that banks must pay to borrow from each other — to over 13 per cent as part of an effort to trim off-balance-sheet lending.

Markets feared the move could hurt economic growth. China’s major state-owned banks are unwilling to lend to any but their biggest clients, so the vast majority of smaller busi-

nesses must rely on informal lending.

Traders were reassured on that front Tuesday after comments from the People’s Bank of China and other key government agencies. The central bank promised “liquidity support” if needed after a shortage of money in credit markets caused the interbank rate to spike last week. That move raised fears the world’s second-largest economy might face a credit crisis.

The bank appeared to soften Monday’s tougher line, when it said markets had adequate liquidity and blamed the credit crunch on mismanagement by banks.

Traders also took in some major acquisition news in the health-care sector.

Two of Canada’s largest medical lab operators will be combined under a $1.22-billion friendly takeover deal backed by one of Ontario’s largest public sector pension funds. LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services will pay $10.75 per share cash and assume $255 million of debt to acquire all of CML HealthCare Inc. of Mississauga, Ont. (TSX:CLC).

CML shares jumped $3.40 to $10.60.

Several major financial services companies, including Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY), are planning to set up a new Canadian stock market. The venture, to be called Aequitas Innovations Inc., would be an alternative to the Toronto Stock Exchange and other markets owned by TMX Group Inc. (TSX:X). TMX shares dropped $1 to $42.80.

The TSX base metals component rose almost 2.9 per cent as the July copper contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange was ahead five cents at US$3.07 a pound. First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) advanced 45 cents to C$14.74 while Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) im-

U.S. new home sales hit fastest pace in 5 years

proved by 72 cents to $21.94.

The information technology sector was ahead 2.7 per cent, with BlackBerry (TSX:BB) gaining 57 cents to $15.32 as the company launched a business service for corporate and government workers with Google Android and Apple smartphones. Called the Secure Work Space, it allows these users to separate their data and work apps, such as email and calendars, from their personal apps, bringing a greater level of security.

The industrials group rose 2.36 per cent while Canadian National Railways (TSX:CNR) advanced $2.16 to $100.74.

August crude on the Nymex edged up 14 cents to US$95.32 a barrel and the energy sector rose 0.5 per cent. Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) was ahead 41 cents to C$29.76.

The gold sector was slightly higher as growing conviction the Fed will start to wind up its bond purchases pushed August bullion down $2 to US$1,275.10 an ounce. Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) was down 37 cents to C$16.91.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday: Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 12,005.42 up 168.56 points TSX Venture Exchange — 882.36 up 2.34 points TSX 60 — 689.85 up 8.79 points Dow — 14,760.31 up 100.75 points S&P 500 — 1,588.03 up 14.94 points Nasdaq — 3,347.89 up 27.13 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 95.16 cents US, down 0.21 of a cent Pound — C$1.6217, up 0.27 of a cent

Euro — C$1.3760, down 0.02 of a cent Euro — US$1.3094, down 0.30 of a cent Oil futures: US$95.32 per barrel, up 14 cents (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,275.10 per oz., down $2 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.446 per oz., down 23.1 cents $689.49 per kg., down $7.43 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 882.36 points, up 2.34 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 114.79 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — Closing prices: Canola: July ’13 $1.60 higher $608.00; Nov. ’13 $3.30 lower $554.40; Jan. ’14 $2.60 lower $559.00; March ’14 $2.30 lower $557.70; May ’14 $2.50 lower $555.00; July ’14 $2.50 lower $553.10; Nov. ’14 $2.50 lower $522.90; Jan ’15 $2.50 lower $522.90; March ’15 $2.50 lower $522.90; May ’15 $2.50 lower $522.90; July ’15 $2.50 lower $522.90.

Barley (Western): July ’13 unchanged $244.00; Oct. ’13 unchanged $194.00; Dec ’13 unchanged $199.00; March ’14 unchanged $199.00; May ’14 unchanged $199.00; July ’14 unchanged $199.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $199.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $199.00; March ’15 unchanged $199.00; May ’15 unchanged $199.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 291,080 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 291,080.

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WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes rose in May to the fastest pace in five years, a solid gain that added to signs of a steadily improving housing market.

New home sales rose 2.1 per cent last month compared with April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 476,000, the highest level since July 2008, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

The median price of a new home sold in May was $263,900, up 3.3 per cent from a year ago.

Sales of new homes remain below the 700,000 annual rate that’s considered healthy by most economists. But the pace has increased 29 per cent from a year ago.

Analysts say the housing recovery is looking more sustainable and should continue to boost economic growth this year, offsetting some drag from higher taxes and federal spending cuts.

buying tax credit briefly inflated sales Steady hiring and low mortgage rates have encouraged more people to buy homes. And with demand up, prices rising and few homes on the market, builders have grown more optimistic about their prospects, leading to more construction and jobs.

Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cited the housing gains as a major reason the Fed’s economic outlook has brightened.

Still, mortgage rates have jumped in recent weeks. And they’re expected to rise further now that the Fed has signalled it plans to scale back its bond purchases this year if the economy continues to strengthen. A pullback in the bond purchases would likely send long-term borrowing rates up.

Higher mortgage rates could slow some of the housing market’s momentum.

Measure of U.S. consumer confidence rises to highest level since Jan. 2008 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Americans’ confidence in the economy rose to its highest level in more than five years, bolstered by a more optimistic outlook for hiring.

The Conference Board, a New Yorkbased private research group, said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index jumped to 81.4 in June. That’s the best reading since January 2008. And it is up from May’s reading of 74.3, which was revised slightly downward from 76.2.

Consumers’ confidence in the economy is watched closely because their spending accounts for about 70 per cent of U.S. economic activity.

The report shows consumers are more positive about current economic conditions and have a more optimistic view of the economy and job market in the next six months.

Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board, said that “suggests the pace of growth is unlikely to slow in the short-

term, and may even moderately pick up.”

Employers added 175,000 jobs in May, nearly matching the average monthly gain for the past year. That’s enough to slowly lower the unemployment rate. The rate ticked up to 7.6 per cent last month but has fallen 0.6 percentage points in the past year.

Americans have been resilient this year, despite tax increases and steep government spending cuts. Consumer spending rose at the fastest pace in two years in the first three months of the year. That helped the overall economy grow at a 2.4 per cent annual pace during the JanuaryMarch quarter.

Economists forecast that overall economic growth is slowing to a 2 per cent annual pace in the April-June quarter, in part because they expect consumers have

eased up on spending from the robust firstquarter pace.

So far, reports on consumer spending for the second quarter have been mixed. In April, consumer spending fell as income was unchanged. But spending appears to have rebounded in May, based on a preliminary report on retail sales. Americans spent more on cars, home improvements and sporting goods, boosting retail sales 0.6 per cent.

The Commerce Department will release a more complete report on May consumer spending and income on Thursday.

The Conference Board survey is conducted in the first half of the month. So the June report didn’t capture the impact of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments last week after the Fed’s policy meeting.

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TORONTO — Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) says its lowcost carrier Rouge will be flying to 23 sun destinations in time for the winter holiday season.

“We’re going to start small and build it up gradually,” president and chief executive Calin Rovinescu said at a launch party Tuesday.

“We didn’t want to start with 10 or 15 aircraft. That creates too much complexity.”

Air Canada said Rouge’s fleet will consist of two Airbus A319 aircraft and two Boeing 767-300ER aircraft when it begins operations July 1.

That will grow to 10 aircraft by the end of 2013 with the addition of six Airbus A319 aircraft, followed by the addition of four Airbus A319 aircraft by March 2014.

Within a few years, the fleet is expected to grow to 50 planes.

A number of popular holiday destinations currently served by Air Canada’s mainline carrier will be converted to Rouge beginning in October as additional aircraft are released by the main airline for operation by its leisure carrier.

This summer, Rouge will fly to Edinburgh, Venice and Athens, as well as a number of Caribbean destinations.

In the winter it will add additional sun destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico and the U.S.

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The sales gains in May were led by a 40.7 per cent increase in the Midwest followed by a 20.7 per cent gain in the Northeast. Sales were also up 3.6 per cent in the West but they fell 9 per cent in the South.

The inventory of unsold homes rose 2.5 per cent to 161,000 in May, the highest level since August 2011 but still just 13 per cent higher than the record low for inventories set in July 2012. Prices of new homes have been rising in part because more people are bidding on a limited number of homes.

The National Association of Realtors reported last week that sales of previously occupied homes surpassed 5 million in May. It was the first time that’s happened in 3 ½ years.

Sales of previously owned homes rose to an annual rate of 5.18 million in May. The last time sales had exceeded 5 million was in November 2009, a month when the pending expiration of a home-

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Blue Jays get stung by Rays REBELS TO PLAY PRESEASON GAME IN RED DEER The Red Deer Rebels will play a Western Hockey League preseason game in the city for the first time in more than a dozen years. The Rebels will face the Lethbridge Hurricanes Sept. 7 at the Red Deer Arena in one of the club’s six exhibition games leading into the 201314 campaign. The Rebels’ preseason schedule opens with games Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 versus the Prince George Cougars and Edmonton Oil Kings in the Oil Kings tournament at St. Albert. Red Deer’s other exhibition encounters are slated for Sept. 6 versus the Calgary Hitmen at a site to be determined, Sept. 13 at Lacombe against the Oil Kings and the following day at Stettler versus the Medicine Hat Tigers.

The Rebels open the regular season with a home-and-home series against the Kootenay Ice — Sept.

20 at Cranbrook and 24 hours later at the Centrium.

Today

● Pro rodeo: Ponoka Stampede, 1 p.m.; pony wagons and World Pro chuckwagons, 6:30 p.m. ● Midget AAA baseball: Calgary Cubs at Red Deer Carstar Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park. ● Parkland baseball: Eckville at Lacombe, Irricana at Innisfail, 7 p.m.

Thursday

● Pro rodeo: Ponoka Stampede, 1 p.m.; pony wagons and World Pro chuckwagons, 6:30 p.m. ● Women’s fastball: N.Jensen’s Bandits vs.

TNT Athletics, Snell and Oslund Badgers vs.

Conaco/Phillips Threat, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Lacombe Physio Shooters at Stettler Heat, 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Gary Moe Volkswagen Legends vs. Lacombe Stone and Granite, The Hideout Rays vs. North Star Sports, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.

Friday

● Pro rodeo: Ponoka Stampede, 1 p.m.; pony wagons and World Pro chuckwagons, 6:30 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Eckville at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park; Rocky Mountain House at Innisfail, 7 p.m.

Saturday

● Pro rodeo: Ponoka Stampede, 1 p.m.; pony wagons and World Pro chuckwagons, 6:30 p.m. ● Women’s rugby: Calgary Rams at Red Deer Titans, 4 p.m., Titans Park. ● Boxing: Red Deer and District Boxing Club presents Pro-AM/Tuff Glove, 7 p.m., Sheraton Hotel.

Sunday

● Pro rodeo: Ponoka Stampede, 1 p.m.; pony wagons and World Pro chuckwagons, 6:30 p.m.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rays 5 Blue Jays 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — All that mattered to Matt Moore was that he earned his 10th win, even if it wasn’t very pretty.

Moore overcame control problems to allow one run over six innings and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-1 on Tuesday night.

“In a pitching sense, he was the bend but not break,” Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said.

“Wavered a bit in the beginning but he did not cave in, and that’s a beautiful thing about him.”

Moore (10-3) tied career highs with six walks and 11 strikeouts en route to his 10th win this season and second straight after a three-game skid. The left-hander gave up four hits.

“Any time where there’s six walks and I can get through the sixth inning, it’s a pretty unusual thing to happen,” Moore said.

Tampa Bay rookie Wil Myers had an RBI single during a three-run fourth. Considered one of baseball’s top prospects, the outfielder has eight RBIs in nine games since being called up June 18 from TripleA Durham.

Mark Buehrle (4-5) gave up four runs, eight hits and four walks in five innings for the Blue Jays, who have lost two in a row since arriving at Tropicana Field after tying a franchise record with 11 consecutive wins.

Toronto, by dropping the first two games of the three-game set, has not won a series at Tampa Bay since April 2007, a stretch of 19 series.

The Blue Jays get their leadoff hitter back Wednesday when shortstop Jose Reyes, sidelined since mid-April by a left ankle injury, will be activated from the disabled list.

“I’m very excited about it,” Reyes said.

“I missed two months of doing what I love to do and now I know I’m going to be on the field one more time around my team. The way they’re playing, I want to be part of the success they’re having right now.”

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said Reyes has no limitations.

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Tampa Bay Rays’ Jose Molina slides around the tag by Toronto Blue Jays catcher J.P. Arencibia, right, to score on a fourth-inning sacrifice fly by Sean Rodriguez off Jays pitcher Mark Buehrle during a baseball game Tuesday, in St. Petersburg, Fla. “He’s one of those centerpieces of our team,” Gibbons said.

“Before he got hurt he was great. He was playing really well. He’s been gone a while and now maybe he can put us over the top.

We’ll see.”

Toronto loaded the bases with one out in the third, but failed to score when Moore struck out Rajai Davis and Colby Rasmus.

Toronto entered hitting .194 this season with the bases loaded.

Rays relievers Jake McGee, Kyle Farnsworth and Jamey Wright completed the six-hitter.

Tampa Bay went ahead 4-1 in the fourth on consecutive sacrifice flies by Sean Rodriguez and Ben Zobrist, and an RBI single from Myers, who was part of a multiplayer off-season deal that sent pitchers James Shields and Wade Davis to Kansas City.

Toronto right fielder Jose Bautista almost threw out slow-footed catcher Jose Molina on Rodriguez’s fly.

“I was pretty much watching the incredible throw by Bautista,” Maddon said. “He throws it right on the plate. How does he do

that from that distance?”

After Zobrist hit his sac fly and Evan Longoria was intentionally walked, Myers completed the three-run outburst with his hit.

Blue Jays reliever Brett Cecil entered in the seventh and gave up a leadoff single to Yunel Escobar that ended his team-record streak of not allowing a hit over his previous 40 at-bats. Kelly Johnson made it 5-1 later in the inning with a run-scoring grounder.

Maicer Izturis put the Blue Jays up 1-0 with an RBI single in the second. The Rays tied it in the bottom half on Desmond Jennings’ run-scoring single.

NOTES: To make room for Reyes, Toronto optioned INF Munenori Kawasaki to Triple-A Buffalo. “It’s tough,” Gibbons said.

“You feel for the kid — he did a tremendous job for us. But he’ll be back.” RHP Ramon Ortiz (right elbow) was from moved the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day DL. ...

Tampa Bay LHP David Price (left triceps) will make his second start for Class-A Charlotte on Wednesday night.

O’Connell ready to impress home crowd

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF If Cam O’Connell had his way he’d schedule all his fights in Red Deer.

That’s impossible, but he will give the local boxing fans a glimpse of his immense talent in the main event of the Tuff Glove card at the Sheraton Hotel Friday.

“I’ll always keep Red Deer as my home base . . . I can’t leave, although I’ll have to travel for different sparring partners and I can’t expect all my fights to be here. But I hope to bring back belts and if I get a chance to win a world title and if I get a chance to defend it where I want I’ll choose Red Deer. It would be great to have a huge super fight here.”

O’Connell takes a professional record of 3-0-1 into the lightweight bout against Mexican Luis Arjona (3-1-1). All four of his previous fights have been on the road in Edmonton and Calgary.

Getting an opportunity to have his fans behind him will be special, says O’Connell, who is already feeling the excitement.

“The anticipation is killing me,” he said. “I know what it’s like in the ring and I know what

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Red Deer boxer Cam O’Connell is ready for his match-up this Friday. The Tuff Glove event goes at the Sheraton Hotel at 6 pm.

I have to do and what my opponent will do. Once I’m in the ring it won’t matter if anyone was in the crowd, but I’m excited to see how involved the crowd will be. How revved up they’ll be and what kind of noise we can create.

“That’s part of the game.”

O’Connell prepared for the fight by sparring with world class fighter Urash Usmanee.

“I worked on a couple of things, but mainly we banged it out for eight rounds,” said the 24-year-old O’Connell. “He’s like my big brother and he didn’t take it easy on me. If I can stay in eight rounds with Arash I don’t see a Mexican with a 3-1-1 record as a big threat.”

Still O’Connell knows little about Arjona.

“I know his name, where he’s

from and his stance, he’s right handed,” he said. “From what I’ve heard he’s tough and comes to fight. Hopefully that’s true.”

O’Connell had the one blemish on his pro record, battling Lexton Bates to a four-round draw in December of last year.

Since then he defeated Ryan Brigham on a first-round TKO in May. “I have the one blemish. He was a tough opponent and it didn’t get me up in the rankings, but you need tough fights to get anywhere and after watching it on TV I felt I won three of the four rounds. But I’ll take it as a learning experience and won’t let it happen again.”

As for his future there’s been talk about a Canadian title shot or a shot at the WBC Youth championship.

“I hope to follow in Arash’s footsteps,” he said. “I know when promoters talk with him and ask about his sparring partners he mentions my name. My name keeps coming up, which is good.”

O’Connell’s bout is the third of three professional fights on the card, which will also include four or five amateur bouts, The amateur contests begin at 7 p.m. with the first pro bout expected to begin around 8:30 p.m.

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Ticats and Argos to battle it out for East title Another season of Canada’s game begins the success of the team and the Argos will this week with the start of the 2013 CFL have plenty of success this year. season.

The Tiger Cats would be a shoe-in for The CFL exists in no other country on number one in the CFL East this year if the planet, so we can truly call it our own. the Argos played in the CFL West, but the I want to sort out the order of finish in the Cats will be a great second place team in CFL East and West with a cauthe East Division. Kent Austin tionary note that my opinions are will be around the CFL just long my own and do not necessarily enough to make a big impact on reflect actual football acumen. I the Ticats because Austin has also want to remind readers that a very checkered past of lovmy predictions are based upon ing ‘em and leaving ‘em when it the continued good health of key comes to CFL teams. football players on each team However, you can expect age— a long shot at best in an ultraless Ticat quarterback Henry violent game.

Burris to have an amazing seaThe CFL East will have two son once again this year under Ontario rivals duking it out for Kent Austin’s guidance, plus first place because I believe the Hank will have help from an acMontreal Alouettes are not a tual ‘Cat defense.

JIM factor in this division. Instead Last year Burris put up the Guelph Tiger Cats will claw amazing numbers that would SUTHERLAND away at the Toronto Argonauts have looked great if opposition for first place in the East, but the offenses had not been able to Grey Cup champion Argos will score at will against the toothfinish on top in that division. less Tiger Cat defense. Make no The Argos have the CFL version of Cool mistake about 2013; the Cats are back in the Hand Luke behind center with quarter- hunt, even if they are not back at home in back Ricky Ray and he is now a second Hamilton this year. year student of Toronto head coach Scott The Montreal Alouettes are destined to Milanovich, a very good coach who will begin the big slide toward the basement in likely follow Marc Trestman to a future 2013. They have an aging quarterback who NFL head coach position. Both quarter- can no longer play at the brilliant level he back and head coach play crucial roles in enjoyed as an under-40 football player in

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the CFL. Als quarterback Anthony Calvillo has defied the odds and managed to extend his career and success well past an age when his peers have moved on to life after football.

I have admired Calvillo’s ability to play a highly demanding game and position for many years, but I doubt whether the man can pull any more rabbits out of the hat in 2013.

Calvillo simply cannot avoid the cumulative effects of a profession where other guys want to inflict serious physical damage on you on every play. This may well be the season where AC resembles Ali at the tail end of his boxing career and it may not be pretty.

Last place in the East will still be the home of the woeful Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The biggest highlight for the Bombers’ 2013 season will be their new stadium because they are a very bad team led by a very fragile and unlucky quarterback named Buck Pierce. He has been blindsided by everything but an unexpected paternity suit and Pierce has paid a huge price to be a pro quarterback. Pierce’s career has been a slow-moving train wreck filled with multiple injuries and I still admire his guts but question his sanity. It may be time for him to begin a post-football career as a motivational speaker for people who are about to enter war zones.

Tomorrow: The CFL West

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Lepp takes Skins game with a big putt

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR His first visit to the Red Deer Golf and Country Club was a successful one.

And yet, RDG&CC Skins Game winner James Lepp admitted he didn’t exactly shoot lights out during the nine-hole event Tuesday.

“I did not play well, it just takes good timing to win in a format like this,” he said, after his 16-foot birdie putt on the eighth green earned him a cheque for $12,000.

“You need to have one good hole when the others guys don’t, and the timing was right for me. I made my putt and no one else made a birdie. I didn’t play better than really anybody else. You just need that one good hole in this format and I was fortunate enough to have that happen to me.”

Host pro Roy Hide earned $200 for his drive of 308 yards on the opening hole and then canned a nine-foot putt for birdie to take the first skin of $1,500.

But from there, it was carryover after carryover for the five man-field — also including Canadian Professional Tour players James Love, Steven Lecuyer and Mike Mezei — until Lepp drained his bigmoney putt on No. 8.

“Two guys putted before me

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James Lepp tees off on the opening hole of the Skins Game at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club on Tuesday. Lepp won the game after getting a birdie on the eighth hole that won him $12,000. on a very similar line and it was an easy putt,” said Lepp.

“It was a downhill, left-centre putt and it just tracked perfectly.

“It’s a nine-hole skins game for fun. I probably shot even par today, I didn’t play that great at all, I just made a putt

at the right time.”

Lepp turned pro in 2006 and is a two-time winner on the Canadian Tour, including once as an amateur. He was runnerup on the Golf Channel’s The Big Break Greenbrier and in 2005 became the first Canadian to win the NCAA individual

MacTavish looks to add size at draft EDMONTON OILERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Craig MacTavish said he has spoken to virtually every NHL general manager over the last few weeks, talking possible deals involving draft picks or roster players in an effort to bulk up his team.

The Edmonton rookie GM is heading to Newark, N.J. for Sunday’s NHL draft determined to add desperately needed size to the Oilers.

He said he will be disappointed if he doesn’t come home with two or three roster players.

“I’m motivated to do something to help this current roster,” he said. “I want to make sure we’re at least able to add a big piece with that first pick (No. 7), but outside of that I’m pretty open minded to doing anything.”

The primary need, he explained, was size and depth.

“We will try and use some of the existing players that we have now to try to make some trades for the meat that we’ve all talked about and that everybody has identified as a real area of concern for our team,” he said.

“My sense is that we try to put together some packages to attract some of those players. We all know the division we’re going into next year is a strong division. We’re going to need big, strong players to compete.”

He said it will likely take a combination of moving some current roster players and some draft choices. After No. 7, Edmonton has two second-round picks, Nos. 37 and 56, plus one pick each in the fifth, sixth and seventh rounds.

MacTavish said he has received some offers for his first-round pick, but nothing “that even remotely would sway me to move that pick.”

This year’s draft is considered a deep one and MacTavish is confident there will be several players available at No. 7 who could help the Oilers in

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BOXING: Brings out the best in you Going into a bout at home, gives O’Connell an opportunity to look back at the early portion of his career and his mentor, Rob Carswell with the Red Deer Boxing Club.

“He’s not only been huge in my development as an athlete, but huge in my development as a person,” he said.

“A true coach brings out the best in you. Takes you from being just a fighter to being a champion. It’s more than just hoisting the belt, but being able

the near future, if not immediately.

“We realize at seven we’re going to get one of about four players. Through the course of the last six months a I realized there are a lot of players out there I would be excited to add to our roster and certainly at seven there’s a lot.”

With the deep draft, he expects the second-round picks to become more valuable as Sunday nears.

“I feel the most liquid currency in this business are second-round picks and we have a couple of those,” he said At the same time, he’s not overly anxious to move those picks without what he considers fair compensation in return, keeping in mind the success the early Oilers had with draft picks.

They got Mark Messier at No. 48 in 1979 and in 1980 got Hall of Fame defenceman Paul Coffey at No. 6, forward Jari Kurri at No. 69 and goaltender Andy Moog at No. 132.

MacTavish said this year’s Stanley Cup final once again demonstrated the value of having depth, something the Oilers lack with their current roster.

“The year we went to Cup final (2006) we had lots of guys who could contribute offensively and last year we really didn’t,” he said. “We had a lot of one or two or zero goal scorers who were out there a really the best you could hope for was they were a non-negative factor. We have to let the core players continue to develop a and we have to build that supporting cast around them.”

For that reason, he said the team wouldn’t be looking at role players with their later picks, but rather players with skill potential to develop.

Role players, he said, could easily be found if needed.

MacTavish wouldn’t comment on his plans for the two available contract buy-outs this year or what qualifying offers the team intends to make.

He did say he is “somewhat optimistic” he can get forward Sam Gagner, the team’s second leading scorer with 38 points, signed to a long-term contract. to talk with people, represent yourself and be humble. Rob taught me everything from setting . . . he’s been a huge part of my life.”

O’Connell now works with Doug Bolianatz and Roman Rzepkowski.

“Doug has been a killer for me. Everything I need he puts in the time and Roman has helped me big time. He’s there every day in the club working on what Doug has given me to work on.”

The other two pro bouts sees Lucazs Wierzbicki of Calgary taking on Antonio Dos Santos of Vancouver and American Kenneth Council meeting Ted Reno of Calgary.

Wierzbicki had an amateur record of 106-4 in Poland and is making his pro debut against Dos Santos, 2-5.

Council is 3-0 with three knockouts while Reno is at 3-6-2.

The amateur portion of the card is

championship.

He’s also the co-founder of Kikkor Golf, a golf shoe and apparel company that soaks up much of his time. As a result, he will play a limited number of events on the tour this year, including the Players Cup at Winnipeg July 18-21.

“That’s the only event I have scheduled for now. I’ll play in that one for sure and then I might get into some of the events out east,” he said.

The 2013 RDG&CC Skins Game champion said it’s almost certain he’ll return next year to defend the title.

“This is a great event, a lot of fun on a fun course,” he said. “I live in Abbotsford and that’s only an hour flight to Calgary and then it’s just a little jump to get up here. I see no reason not to come back next year.”

Love, a Calgary native and winner of the 2009 Canada Pro Tour championship, claimed the final skin of $2,000 in a pitch-off with Lecuyer on the ninth hole, landing his shot a mere 52 inches from the pin.

The two-time member of the Canadian national amateur team also paired with Lethbridge product Mezei to beat Lepp and Lecuyer in the team event, which featured a purse of $500.

Lecuyer, a native of Grimshaw who made seven of eights cuts on the Canadian Tour last year and won the Alberta Amateur in 2010, pocketed $200 for his long drive of 312 yards on the par-five sixth hole and also picked up $200 for being closest to the pin with his tee shot on the par-three fifth. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Blackhawks feel they can make another Cup run CHICAGO — When Rocky Wirtz took over the Chicago Blackhawks six years ago, they were among the worst teams in the NHL. Fast forward to Tuesday, when the owner mingled with fans and friends hours after the Blackhawks flew home with the Stanley Cup for the second time in four seasons. It’s been quite the turnaround, and the 60-year-old Wirtz thinks there is more to come.

“I think we’re going to see a lot of good years ahead of us,” he said.

It sure looks that way. Unlike in 2010, when the title-winning team underwent changes because of salary-cap issues, the Blackhawks will be able to bring back many of their top players next season when they try to become the first repeat Stanley Cup winner since the Detroit Red Wings in 1998.

Forwards Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Marian Hossa and Patrick Sharp, and defencemen Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook are all under contract for at least two more seasons.

Brandon Saad, one of the finalists for the Calder Trophy given to the NHL’s top rookie, is years away from restricted free agency.

“I think there’s something about our core,” said Kane, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the playoffs.

“Hopefully we can stay together a long time, because that’s two Cups in four years, and we seem to only be getting better and better as players as time goes on here.”

The Blackhawks lost in the first round of the playoffs in each of the previous two seasons, but general manager Stan Bowman decided to stay the course. He kept Joel Quenneville in place even though the coach was hired by his predecessor, Dale Tallon. Corey Crawford was given time to develop in goal, and he rewarded the

organization’s patience with a terrific performance in this year’s playoffs.

Kane matured into one of the NHL’s top players.

Ask Wirtz and team president John McDonough about the Blackhawks’ turnaround, and their response often includes some variation of hire the right people and then stay out of the way. The steady leadership in the front office is one of the reasons Chicago is the first franchise with two titles since the salary cap era.

“I think Stan Bowman and Al MacIsaac and Norm Maciver and everybody in our hockey operations, they do a meticulous job,” McDonough said, “and they’ve been planning for this off-season as we did before for months and months, so we’ll be ready for it.

“We’re going to do everything we can and try to keep as many of these guys as we can and keep this rolling.”

But with the salary cap dropping to $64.3 million next season, it’s going to be next to impossible for the Blackhawks to bring everyone back.

According to CapGeek.com, forwards Bryan Bickell, Michal Handzus, Viktor Stalberg and Jamal Mayers, defenceman Michal Rozsival and goalie Ray Emery are eligible for unrestricted free agency.

Bickell is likely headed for a big pay day that would put him out of Chicago’s reach unless it decides to shed salary to make room for the physical winger. The 6-foot-4 Bickell had nine goals and eight assists in the playoffs, including the tying score at the end of the third period in the Blackhawks’ title-clinching 3-2 victory at Boston.

Stalberg and Emery probably won’t be back, as well. Stalberg was in and out of the lineup during the playoffs after he had nine goals and 14 assists in his third season with Chicago. With Crawford’s emergence, Emery didn’t make a post-season appearance.

highlighted by a 69-kilogram senior elite boxoff between Red Deer’s Brian Samuel and Devin Reti of Calgary that will determine the provincial champion and earn a berth to the Canadians.

Cole Farwell of Red Deer will clash with Danny Vo of Edmonton in a 60kg youth bout while Red Deer’s Lester Cudillio faces Wolfgang Pederson of Medicine Hat in a 52kg junior C fight.

As well, Robbie Cuisine of Edmon-

ton meets Gwyn Lewis of Calgary in a 65kg senior elite bout while Eric Taylor of Edmonton and Connor Busch of Calgary could clash in a 60kg senior elite bout. ● A portion of the proceeds will go to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Red Deer and District Cops for Kids charity . . . Tickets can be purchased by calling 403-877-4391. drode@reddeeeradvocate.com

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Red Deer Senior Men Gary Moe 13 Printing Place 11 Lac Stone & Granite 15 Hideout 5

Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami

St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Milwaukee Chicago

Arizona Colorado San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles

National League East Division W L Pct 45 33 .577 38 38 .500 37 41 .474 30 43 .411 26 50 .342

GB — 6 8 12 1/2 18

Central Division W L Pct 48 29 .623 47 30 .605 45 33 .577 32 43 .427 31 44 .413

GB — 1 3 1/2 15 16

West Division W L Pct 41 35 .539 39 39 .500 39 39 .500 38 38 .500 33 42 .440

GB — 3 3 3 7 1/2

Monday’s Games San Diego 4, Philadelphia 3, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 1 Tuesday’s Games Washington 7, Arizona 5 Boston 11, Colorado 4 Miami 4, Minnesota 2 Atlanta 4, Kansas City 3 Milwaukee 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Chicago White Sox 5, N.Y. Mets 4 St. Louis 13, Houston 5 Oakland 7, Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 6, San Diego 2 Pittsburgh 9, Seattle 4 San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, Late Wednesday’s Games Minnesota (Diamond 5-6) at Miami (Koehler 1-5), 10:40 a.m.

Cincinnati (H.Bailey 4-5) at Oakland (Griffin 5-6), 1:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (J.Gomez 2-0) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-4), 1:40 p.m.

Colorado (Oswalt 0-1) at Boston (Lackey 4-5), 2:05 p.m.

Arizona (Miley 4-6) at Washington (Zimmermann 10-3), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Minor 8-3) at Kansas City (Mendoza 2-4), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Feldman 6-6) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 6-6), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Marcum 0-9) at Chicago White Sox (Joh. Danks 1-4), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 10-1) at Houston (Bedard 2-3), 6:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 2-11) at San Diego (Erlin 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 4-7) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 5-5), 8:10 p.m.

Boston New York Baltimore

4 1/2 6 1/2

and C.Stewart. W—Rivera 1-1. L—Scheppers 5-1.

HRs—Texas, L.Martin 2 (5). New York, Hafner (12), Gardner (7), J.Nix (2), I.Suzuki (4).

Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 42 33 .560 39 37 .513 35 39 .473 34 39 .466 32 42 .432

GB — 3 1/2 6 1/2 7 9 1/2

Los Ang. 001 180 130 — 14 16 1 Detroit 002 030 003 — 8 10 6 C.Wilson, Kohn (6), Richards (7), Buckner (9) and Conger; Porcello, D.Downs (5), E.Reed (5), Putkonen (8), Coke (9) and Holaday. W—C.Wilson 7-5.

L—Porcello 4-5. HRs—Detroit, Mi.Cabrera (21).

Texas Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Houston

West Division W L Pct 44 33 .571 45 34 .570 34 43 .442 34 44 .436 29 49 .372

GB — — 10 10 1/2 15 1/2

41 38

37 38

Monday’s Games Cleveland 5, Baltimore 2 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 1 Tuesday’s Games Baltimore 6, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Yankees 4, Texas 3 L.A. Angels 14, Detroit 8 Boston 11, Colorado 4 Miami 4, Minnesota 2 Tampa Bay 5, Toronto 1 Atlanta 4, Kansas City 3 Chicago White Sox 5, N.Y. Mets 4 St. Louis 13, Houston 5 Oakland 7, Cincinnati 3 Pittsburgh 9, Seattle 4 Wednesday’s Games Toronto (Dickey 6-8) at Tampa Bay (Ro.Hernandez 4-8), 10:10 a.m.

Minnesota (Diamond 5-6) at Miami (Koehler 1-5), 10:40 a.m.

Cincinnati (H.Bailey 4-5) at Oakland (Griffin 5-6), 1:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (J.Gomez 2-0) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-4), 1:40 p.m.

Colorado (Oswalt 0-1) at Boston (Lackey 4-5), 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Kazmir 4-4) at Baltimore (Hammel 7-4), 5:05 p.m.

Texas (Grimm 6-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Pettitte 5-5), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Hanson 4-2) at Detroit (J.Alvarez 1-0), 5:08 p.m.

Atlanta (Minor 8-3) at Kansas City (Mendoza 2-4), 6:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Marcum 0-9) at Chicago White Sox (Joh. Danks 1-4), 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 10-1) at Houston (Bedard 2-3), 6:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Texas at N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

L.A. Angels at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 100 020 000 — 3 6 0 Baltimore 000 010 50x — 6 6 0 Masterson, Hagadone (7), Albers (8) and C.Santana; Tillman, Patton (8), Ji.Johnson (9) and Wieters. W—Tillman 9-2. L—Masterson 9-6. Sv—Ji. Johnson (27). HRs—Cleveland, Kipnis (10). Baltimore, C.Davis (28), A.Casilla (1).

Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Arizona at Washington, 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Colorado, 4:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

American League East Division W L Pct 46 33 .582 42 34 .553 43 35 .551

.526 .500

Tampa Bay Toronto

GB — 2 1/2 2 1/2

Texas 001 110 000 — 3 7 2 New York 000 111 001 — 4 8 1 Darvish, Cotts (6), Scheppers (8) and Pierzynski; Kuroda, Logan (7), D.Robertson (8), Rivera (9)

Toronto 010 000 000 — 1 6 0 Tampa Bay 010 300 10x — 5 11 0 Buehrle, Wagner (6), Cecil (7), Delabar (7), McGowan (8) and Arencibia; M.Moore, McGee (7), Farnsworth (8), J.Wright (9) and J.Molina. W—M.Moore 10-3. L—Buehrle 4-5.

INTERLEAGUE Minnesota 001 000 010 — 2 8 3 Miami 000 002 11x — 4 8 1 Correia, Duensing (7), Roenicke (7), Thielbar (8) and Mauer; Fernandez, A.Ramos (6), M.Dunn (8), Qualls (8), Cishek (9) and Brantly. W—A.Ramos 2-2. L—Correia 6-5. Sv—Cishek (13). HRs—Miami, Dietrich (7).

Colorado 010 100 200 — 4 11 1 Boston 232 100 21x — 11 20 3 Nicasio, Ottavino (3), Corpas (6), Outman (8) and W.Rosario; Dempster, A.Wilson (7), Breslow (7), Beato (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—Dempster 5-8.

L—Nicasio 4-4. HRs—Colorado, W.Rosario (12).

New York 200 010 001 — 4 5 1 Chicago 101 020 001 — 5 7 1 Z.Wheeler, C.Torres (6), Edgin (8), Hawkins (9) and Buck, Recker; Sale, A.Reed (9) and Flowers.

W—A.Reed 3-0. L—Hawkins 2-1. HRs—New York, A.Brown (3). Chicago, Flowers (7).

Atlanta 000 030 100 — 4 10 2 Kan. City 100 020 000 — 3 8 0 Medlen, Walden (8), Kimbrel (9) and McCann; E.Santana, Collins (7), J.Gutierrez (8), W.Smith (9) and S.Perez. W—Medlen 5-7. L—Collins 2-2. Sv— Kimbrel (22). HRs—Atlanta, Heyward (6). Kansas City, Hosmer (4).

St. Louis 000 702 220 — 13 15 0 Houston 000 004 001 — 5 6 1 Westbrook, Maness (7), K.Butler (8), Mujica (9), Blazek (9) and Y.Molina, T.Cruz; Harrell, Keuchel (4), Blackley (7), Fields (8), Ambriz (9) and J.Castro.

W—Westbrook 4-2. L—Harrell 5-8. HRs—St. Louis, Beltran (18), Freese (5), Craig (7). Houston, Dominguez (11).

Cincinnati 000 120 000 — 3 10 0 Oakland 024 100 00x — 7 7 0 Arroyo, Partch (5), M.Parra (7), Hoover (8) and Hanigan; Milone, Neshek (5), Blevins (6), Cook (7), Doolittle (8), Otero (9) and Vogt. W—Neshek 2-1.

L—Arroyo 6-6. HRs—Cincinnati, Votto (14). Oakland, Donaldson (11).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona 000 001 211 — 5 14 1 Washington005 010 01x — 7 11 1 Cahill, Spruill (6), W.Harris (7), Sipp (7), Ziegler (8) and M.Montero; G.Gonzalez, Storen (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and K.Suzuki. W—G.Gonzalez 4-3. L—Cahill 3-9. Sv—R.Soriano (20). HRs—Arizona, Prado (6). Washington, Ad.LaRoche (11).

Chicago 003 000 000 — 3 8 1 Milwaukee 010 052 01x — 9 11 0 E.Jackson, H.Rondon (5), Camp (7) and Castillo; Lohse, Mic.Gonzalez (8), Badenhop (9) and Lucroy.

W—Lohse 3-6. L—E.Jackson 3-10. HRs—Chicago, Schierholtz (11). Milwaukee, J.Francisco (7), Weeks 2 (8).

Cowboys get off to good start at Ponoka Stampede

BY DIANNE FINSTAD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Cowboys from across North America are journeying to Ponoka this week in search of big bucks. And several made a good head start on their cash collecting efforts in the first round of action at the 77th annual Ponoka Stampede.

Kyle Bowers jumped to the lead of the bareback race with an 85 point ride on the Kesler horse Western Star Tuesday evening.

“I hadn’t seen him yet, but I was hoping he was going to be good today, and I was hoping I’d be able to keep up,” grinned the three-time Canadian champion. “It worked out.

The horse was really good.

“For the amount of rain Alberta’s had now, Ponoka’s done a great job on keeping the ground as good as they could around here, which gives everybody, and the horses and bulls the best chance they can.”

It showered during the first part of the performance, but that didn’t slow anything down for the weather hardy community.

Bowers is hoping this could be the year the Stampede is a big rodeo for his season.

“Over the years, Ponoka hasn’t really been that good a rodeo for me,” admitted the 14-year pro. “It just hasn’t been my lucky town. But maybe it’s changing around.

“I’ve needed that big cheque. Actually last weekend at Wainwright, I jumped out and did pretty good there, and made some money. It’s too bad Sundre got cancelled, because I had a really good horse there and I was looking forward to that one.”

Sundre has rescheduled its pro rodeo for the August 23-25 weekend.

“I want to win another Canadian championship, so I want to get to as many of these rodeos as I can. Now that things are starting to roll a little bit better, I can look forward to maybe having a shot at it.”

In the bull riding, last year’s Canadian season leader, Ty Pozzobon got the job done, laying down an 86.25 point score to sit first. He rode the Kesler bull Kyle Style.

“That bull is one you want to pick every place there’s a lot of money up,” he grinned.

“I’ve been on that bull before, when he was just a calf. But he felt even nicer now. If you could draw one like that at every big rodeo like Ponoka,

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Holding on for a wild 75-point ride Caleb Bennett of Morgan, Utah rides a horse named Remind Me during the bareback event during the first night of competition at the Ponoka Stampede Tuesday. The Ponoka Stampede runs daily 23 through to July 1st with Rodeo and Professional Chuckwagon racing daily. you’d be rich.”

The B.C. cowboy finished runner-up to the Canadian championship last year, so feels like he’s got some unfinished business. But he’s got more than just Edmonton in his sights.

“I’m doing good in the PRCA right now. I’m looking to make my first NFR this year, and this rodeo counts towards that too, so this is one where a guy wants to win it.”

The 21-year-old is feeling momentum, but also pain these days.

“I tore my PCL (in my knee) the other day, so I’m riding pretty sore. A bull fell on top of me at Reno, but hey, when you have one like tonight, you forget about it.”

Pozzobon plans to continue riding, because it’s too busy a time of year to take a break.

So he gets his knee wrapped and carries on.

“The Sports Medicine team, you can’t thank them enough. I wouldn’t be getting on without

them. This is not the time to be sitting at home.”

Troy Crowser of South Dakota leads a close saddle bronc riding race at Ponoka, with an 83.75 mark on Spanish Pair, just a quarter point more than Jacobs Crawley of Texas. Nikki Steffes, also a South Dakotan, posted the fast time of the barrel racing at 17.337 seconds. In the tie-down roping, Texan Timber Moore is the leader on two runs, with a total of 17.8 seconds, while Dallas Frank of Stony Plain has the best steer wrestling tally at 12.7 seconds on a pair of runs.

And in the team roping, Todd Gallais of Olds and Grady Branden of Barrhead have the best record with a total of 17.7 seconds on the pair of runs.

This afternoon, 1:00 pm is rodeo performance time while the evening performance featuring the steer riding, pony chuckwagons and the WPCA pro wagons starts at 6:30.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs STANLEY CUP FINAL (Best-of-7) Chicago (W1) vs. Boston (E4) (Chicago wins series 4-2) Monday’s result Chicago 3 Boston 2 Saturday’s result Chicago 3 Boston 1 PREVIOUS RESULTS Wednesday, June 12 (Game One) Chicago 4 Boston 3 (3OT) Saturday, June 15 (Game Two) Boston 2 Chicago 1 (OT) Monday, June 17 (Game Three) Boston 2 Chicago 0 Wednesday, June 19 (Game Four) Chicago 6 Boston 5 (OT) Monday’s summary Blackhawks 3 at Bruins 2 First Period 1. Boston, Kelly 2 (Seguin, Paille) 7:19 Penalties — Oduya Chi (hooking) 10:40, Rozsival Chi (high-sticking) 18:25.

Second Period 2. Chicago, Toews 3, 4:24 Penalties — Shaw Chi (roughing) 2:24, Seabrook Chi (tripping) 5:12, Seguin Bos (hooking) 13:57.

Third Period 3. Boston, Lucic 7 (Krejci) 12:11 4. Chicago, Bickell 9 (Toews, Keith) 18:44 5. Chicago, Bolland 3 (Frolik, Oduya) 19:01 Penalty — Kelly Bos (high-sticking) 14:21.

Shots on goal Chicago 6 9 16 — 31 Boston 12 6 7 — 25 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (W,16-7-0); Boston: Rask (L,14-8-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Chicago: 0-2; Boston: 0-4.

Attendance — 17,565 (17,565).

2013 Playoff Scoring leaders TORONTO — Unofficial final 2013 National Hockey League playoff scoring leaders following Monday’s sixth game of the Stanley Cup final: SCORING G A Pt Krejci, Bos 9 17 26 Kane, Chi 9 10 19 Horton, Bos 7 12 19 Lucic, Bos 7 12 19 Bickell, Chi 9 8 17

Sharp, Chi Hossa, Chi Malkin, Pgh Letang, Pgh Bergeron, Bos Crosby, Pgh Chara, Bos Toews, Chi Carter, LA Voynov, LA Marchand, Bos Keith, Chi Iginla, Pgh Pavelski, SJ Zetterberg, Det M.Richards, LA Brassard, NYR Dupuis, Pgh Couture, SJ Handzus, Chi P.Martin, Pgh Neal, Pgh Kunitz, Pgh Alfredsson, Ott Cleary, Det J.Thornton, SJ Frolik, Chi Jagr, Bos

10 7 4 3 9 7 3 3 6 6 4 2 4 4 4 3 2 7 5 3 2 6 5 4 4 4 3 0

6 9 12 13 6 8 12 11 7 7 9 11 8 8 8 9 10 4 6 8 9 4 5 6 6 6 7 10

16 16 16 16 15 15 15 14 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

Most NHL Stanley Cup Championships Through 2013 Final x-Montreal Canadiens 23 Toronto Maple Leafs 13 Detroit Red Wings 11 Boston Bruins 6 Chicago Blackhawks 5 Edmonton Oilers 5 New York Islanders 4 New York Rangers 4 y-Ottawa Senators 4 New Jersey Devils 3 Pittsburgh Penguins 3 Colorado Avalanche 2 Montreal Maroons 2 Philadelphia Flyers 2 Anaheim Ducks 1 Calgary Flames 1 Carolina Hurricanes 1 Dallas Stars 1 Los Angeles Kings 1 Tampa Bay Lightning 1 Toronto Arenas 1 Toronto St. Pats 1 Victoria Cougars 1 x — Does not include 1916 title prior to inception of NHL. y — Won in original incarnation.

Football GP 0 0 0 0

CFL East W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0

GP B.C. Lions 0 Calgary 0 Edmonton 0 Saskatchewan 0

West W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

T 0 0 0 0

PF 0 0 0 0

PA 0 0 0 0

Pt 0 0 0 0

Hamilton Montreal Toronto Winnipeg

Friday’s game Hamilton at Toronto, 5 p.m.

B.C. at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 29 Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 1:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 4 Winnipeg at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Toronto at B.C., 8 p.m.

Friday, July 5 Calgary at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.

Sunday, July 7 Edmonton at Hamilton, 3 p.m.

Thursday’s game Montreal at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Golf World Golf Ranking 1. Tiger Woods 2. Rory McIlroy 3. Justin Rose 4. Adam Scott 5. Matt Kuchar 6. Phil Mickelson 7. Luke Donald 8. Brandt Snedeker 9. Graeme McDowell 10. Louis Oosthuizen 11. Steve Stricker 12. Lee Westwood 13. Charl Schwartzel 14. Ernie Els 15. Sergio Garcia 16. Keegan Bradley 17. Bubba Watson 18. Jason Day 19. Webb Simpson 20. Ian Poulter 21. Jason Dufner 22. Hunter Mahan 23. Dustin Johnson 24. Peter Hanson 25. Nick Watney 26. Matteo Manassero 27. Bo Van Pelt 28. Jim Furyk 29. Bill Haas 30. Rickie Fowler 31. Zach Johnson 32. Henrik Stenson 33. Branden Grace 34. Martin Kaymer 35. Billy Horschel 36. Thorbjorn Olesen 37. Kevin Streelman 38. G. Fernandez-Castano 39. Jamie Donaldson 40. Scott Piercy 41. Nicolas Colsaerts 42. Francesco Molinari 43. Carl Pettersson 44. Robert Garrigus 45. Ryan Moore 46. Paul Lawrie 47. David Lynn 48. Hideki Matsuyama 49. Michael Thompson 50. D.A. Points

USA NIr Eng Aus USA USA Eng USA NIr SAf USA Eng SAf SAf Esp USA USA Aus USA Eng USA USA USA Swe USA Ita USA USA USA USA USA Swe SAf Ger USA Den USA Esp Wal USA Bel Ita Swe USA USA Sco Eng Jpn USA USA

PGA Tour FedExCup Leaders Rank Player Points 1. Tiger Woods 2,380 2. Matt Kuchar 1,964 3. Brandt Snedeker 1,528 4. Phil Mickelson 1,518 5. Billy Horschel 1,413 6. Justin Rose 1,358 7. Kevin Streelman 1,234 8. Boo Weekley 1,154 9. Jason Day 1,101 10. Keegan Bradley 1,044 11. Hunter Mahan 1,003 12. Adam Scott 999 13. Webb Simpson 994 14. D.A. Points 985 15. Charles Howell III 940 16. Russell Henley 935 17. Harris English 927 18. Steve Stricker 918 19. Dustin Johnson 887 20. Ken Duke 842 21. Graeme McDowell 838 22. Jimmy Walker 812 23. Sang-Moon Bae 770 24. Chris Kirk 757 25. Scott Stallings 756 26. Bill Haas 755

12.89 9.53 8.16 7.43 6.73 6.21 6.06 5.98 5.51 5.19 5.12 4.98 4.89 4.87 4.82 4.80 4.58 4.53 4.40 4.34 4.31 4.19 4.06 3.61 3.52 3.49 3.47 3.38 3.23 3.18 3.16 3.15 3.08 2.99 2.91 2.86 2.83 2.77 2.73 2.72 2.70 2.70 2.69 2.57 2.57 2.56 2.53 2.51 2.50 2.46 Money $5,909,742 $4,393,265 $3,503,655 $3,417,984 $2,998,128 $3,032,310 $2,572,989 $2,307,509 $2,566,023 $2,246,059 $2,164,115 $2,356,511 $2,038,061 $2,151,022 $1,739,000 $1,800,028 $1,812,952 $2,187,146 $1,889,743 $1,600,045 $1,910,654 $1,507,450 $1,604,762 $1,332,198 $1,497,947 $1,591,333

27. Martin Laird 28. John Merrick 29. Graham DeLaet 30. Michael Thompson 31. Brian Gay 32. Charl Schwartzel 33. Ryan Palmer 34. Chris Stroud 35. Rickie Fowler 36. Charley Hoffman 37. Bubba Watson 38. David Lingmerth 39. Angel Cabrera 40. David Lynn 41. Josh Teater 42. Rory McIlroy 43. Brendon de Jonge 44. Freddie Jacobson 45. John Rollins 46. Tim Clark 47. Scott Piercy 48. Luke Donald 49. Lee Westwood 50. Henrik Stenson

750 745 743 733 730 726 704 691 676 672 670 666 662 652 651 650 641 636 636 635 632 632 632 629

$1,647,282 $1,532,105 $1,348,387 $1,516,253 $1,266,129 $1,543,853 $1,412,028 $1,359,584 $1,338,744 $1,341,628 $1,311,226 $1,478,797 $1,418,356 $1,332,578 $1,257,470 $1,390,586 $1,076,510 $1,175,281 $1,097,754 $1,275,351 $1,271,822 $1,250,696 $1,424,654 $1,371,397

LPGA Money Leaders Through June 23 1. Inbee Park 2. Stacy Lewis 3. Suzann Pettersen 4. So Yeon Ryu 5. Beatriz Recari 6. I.K. Kim 7. Karrie Webb 8. Cristie Kerr 9. Jiyai Shin 10. Na Yeon Choi 11. Lizette Salas 12. Paula Creamer 13. Shanshan Feng 14. Catriona Matthew 15. Anna Nordqvist 16. Jessica Korda 17. Ai Miyazato 18. Ilhee Lee 19. Pornanong Phatlum 20. Caroline Hedwall 21. Hee Young Park 22. Jennifer Johnson 23. Yani Tseng 24. Chella Choi 25. Angela Stanford 26. Mika Miyazato 27. Giulia Sergas 28. Haeji Kang 29. Morgan Pressel 30. Karine Icher 31. Carlota Ciganda 32. Moriya Jutanugarn 33. Mo Martin 34. Amy Yang 35. Gerina Piller 36. Jenny Shin 37. Hee Kyung Seo 38. Lexi Thompson 39. Sun Young Yoo 40. Azahara Munoz 41. Chie Arimura 42. Jodi Ewart Shadoff 43. Julieta Granada 44. Jane Park 45. Nicole Castrale 46. Irene Cho 47. Danielle Kang 48. Mina Harigae 49. Sandra Gal 50. Alison Walshe

Trn 12 14 12 12 13 12 11 12 12 12 13 12 10 11 14 11 12 13 14 13 13 13 12 14 13 10 13 14 12 13 8 13 12 10 13 13 13 12 13 14 10 12 14 12 12 9 13 14 13 12

Money $1,521,827 $838,668 $828,898 $592,924 $589,023 $527,964 $496,512 $460,965 $459,605 $424,212 $410,174 $374,216 $362,004 $354,228 $340,537 $334,375 $333,327 $316,648 $316,357 $305,776 $282,793 $279,671 $273,743 $257,878 $253,431 $252,683 $240,813 $225,864 $210,811 $206,593 $204,508 $203,216 $201,005 $200,053 $199,630 $194,620 $169,224 $161,060 $155,526 $153,873 $152,287 $144,453 $143,627 $139,302 $137,324 $136,207 $128,261 $126,812 $123,350 $114,163

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES—Agreed to terms with F Brett Sutter on a one-year contract.

FLORIDA PANTHERS—Named Peter Horachek coach and Chuck Weber director of hockey operations and associate head coach of San Antonio (AHL). Promoted San Antonio assistant coach Jason Cipolla to Panthers video coach.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS—Bought out the remainder the contract for G Ilya Bryzgalov.

VANCOUVER CANUCKS—Named John Tortorella coach.

ECHL UTAH GRIZZLIES—Announced the resignation of coach Kevin Colley.

FOOTBALL National Football League DALLAS COWBOYS—Signed C Travis Frederick and DT Jerome Long.

Canadian Football League TORONTO ARGONAUTS—Signed WR-KR Chad Owens to a two-year contract extension.

BASEBALL MLB—Suspended Free agent LHP Mike O’Connor for 50 games following a positive test for metabolites of Trenbolone under baseball’s minor league drug program. The penalty will take effect when O’Connor signs with another big league club.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Agreed to terms with RHP Hunter Harvey and OF Josh Hart on minor league contracts.

BOSTON RED SOX—Selected the contract of INF Brandon Snyder from Pawtucket (IL). Recalled RHP Pedro Beato from Pawtucket. Transferred C David Ross to the 60-day DL. Optioned 3B Will Middlebrooks to Pawtucket. Placed LHP Franklin

Morales on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 23.

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Sent RHP Chris Perez to Mahohing Valley (NYP) for a rehab assignment.

DETROIT TIGERS—Agreed to terms with RHP Joe Jimenez on a minor league contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS—Recalled INFs Brett Wallace and Jake Elmore from Oklahoma City (PCL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Recalled LHP Will Smith from Omaha (PCL). Optioned RHP Kelvin Herrera to Omaha. Reinstated LHP Danny Duffy from the 60-day DL and optioned him to Omaha.

Designated LHP Francisley Bueno for assignment.

Announced OF Quintin Berry accepted his outright assignment to Omaha.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Acquired OF Collin Cowgill from the New York Mets for OF Kyle Johnson.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Recalled RHP Kyle Gibson from Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Sent RHP Michael Pineda to Trenton (EL) for a rehab assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS—Sent RHP Brandon Gomes to Charlotte (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

Agreed to terms with 2B Tyler Young and OF Thomas Milone on a minor league contract.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Reinstated 2B Aaron Hill from the 15-day DL. Sent 3B Eric Chavez to Reno (PCL) for a rehab assignment. Optioned LHP Joe Paterson to Reno. Announced the suspension of OF Eric Hinske was reduced to one game from five by Major League Baseball.

CHICAGO CUBS—Designated RHP Carlos Marmol for assignment. Selected the contract of LHP Brian Bogusevic from Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS—Placed 2B Brandon Phillips on the paternity list. Reinstated OF Chris Heisey from the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Henry Rodriguez from Louisville (IL). Optioned OF Donald Lutz to Pensacola (SL).

COLORADO ROCKIES—Assigned RHP Logan Kensing outright to Colorado Springs (PCL).

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 26, 2013 B7

Tortorella introduced as Canucks new coach

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Vancouver Canucks’ head coach John Tortorella, centre, poses for photographs with owner Francesco Aquilini, left, and general manager Mike Gillis after he was hired by the NHL team in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday. ing scoring stars Henrik and Daniel Sedin — accountable.

“We have a really good leadership group ... but we have not won the Stanley Cup,” he said. “There’s going to be more asked of (the players), and that starts from the twins right on down.”

Gillis indicated that Vigneault’s tenure with the Canucks had run its course after seven seasons.

“You have a shelf life as a coach in the National Hockey League,” said Gillis. “And, occasionally, a different voice is necessary.

“I think John just has a different voice than Alain. Alain’s a very good hockey coach. John’s a very good hockey coach. But they approach it from different places and they approach it in different ways, and I felt it was necessary to make a change.”

Gillis said the team’s ownership group was involved in the interviewing process, but he dismissed the idea that the Aquilini family chose the new

Flyers buy out Bryzgalov THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOORHEES, N.J. — Calling the decision to sign Ilya Bryzgalov two years ago a “costly mistake,” the Philadelphia Flyers will buy out the remainder of the goalie’s hefty contract.

The move made Tuesday saves the team nearly $6 million under the salary cap for each of the next seven years. Bryzgalov was two seasons into a $51 million, nineyear contract he signed in 2011.

“Obviously it’s a costly mistake that we made,” general manager Paul Holmgren said. “You know Ilya, it’s hard to fault him. I still believe he played pretty good, but in a salary-cap world, you need to make decisions from time to time that put you in a better light moving forward.”

Last week, the Flyers exercised the first

of their two compliance buyouts on forward Danny Briere.

Bryzgalov was 52-33-10 with a 2.61 goals-against average and a .905 save percentage in the regular season for Philadelphia, which failed to make the playoffs this year.

Bryzgalov’s quirky personality and sometimes brutal honesty with the media didn’t always endear him to teammates. But the Flyers say that didn’t factor into this decision.

The Flyers acquired former NHL Rookie of the Year Steve Mason from Columbus before the trade deadline to back up Bryzgalov. Mason went 4-2 with a 1.90 goals-against average and .940 save percentage for the Flyers.

Mason will likely compete for the starting job with a goalie currently outside the Philadelphia organization.

JUNIOR B LACROSSE SASKATOON, Sask. — The Red Deer TBS Rampage dropped a pair of games to the Saskatchewan SWAT in Rocky Mountain Junior B Tier I Lacrosse League play during the weekend, losing 13-10 Saturday and 16-5 Sunday.

Mitch Vellner, Reid Swier and Jayce Grebinski had two goals each for the Rampage on Saturday with singles added by Kane Weik, Spencer Lee, Pearce Just and Brandyn Blain. Troy Klaus had three assists with Chris Amell in goal.

Weik, Lee, Klaus, Swier and Grebinski scored on Sunday with Darrian Banack and Amell sharing goaltending duties.

coach. “At the end of the day, we were both unanimous in our selection,” said Gillis.

The 55-year-old Tortorella has reached the playoffs on eight occasions and won the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year in 2004. He was let go four days after the Rangers’ season ended with a second-round loss to the Boston Bruins.

An assistant with the Rangers in the 1999-2000 season, he took over for John Muckler as head coach for the final four games.

Tortorella later spent seven seasons as head coach of the Lightning before taking over as head coach of the Rangers in February 2009.

Vigneault was let go after the Canucks were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs for the second straight year. He guided the Canucks to a berth in the Stanley Cup final in 2011 and helped the team win the Presidents’ Trophy on two occasions, as

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Call it “Home Improvement, the CFL Edition.”

CFL stadiums are being replaced or refurbished at a pace probably unmatched in league history, starting this season with the opening of a new home for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

In 2014, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats will move into a new facility while the expansion Ottawa Redblacks are projected to call a revamped Frank Clair Stadium home. And in 2017, the Saskatchewan Roughriders are scheduled to move into a new open-air venue to replace Mosaic Stadium.

Existing facilities in Calgary and Edmonton get upgrades this season to make the game-day experience nicer for their fans.

The big story this year is Investors Group Field in Winnipeg.

A year behind schedule, a lot about the new facility drew rave reviews: the player areas, sightlines, comfortable seats and fancy suites and concessions.

But there are kinks to be worked out. Cracks in the concrete are being repaired and then there’s the small matter of getting 33,400 people on and off the campus of the University of Manitoba in time to actually watch football games.

“I think it was great (but) I have a feeling people will have to figure out the traffic patterns,” Bombers coach Tim Burke after the season’s first exhibition game at the stadium.

That was a bit of an understatement. The pre-season game against the Toronto Argonauts had almost 5,000 empty seats by the time the official count was taken despite most having been sold.

Bomber president Garth Buchko apologized the next day for the massive traffic congestion that stranded so many and promised better for the first

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More buses and bus-only lanes, plus earlier access to parking spots, are among the cures the team is hoping will ease the pain.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” said Buchko. “We have to get better and we will get better.”

Parking is scarce but, after two years of planning, they also weren’t prepared for the 60 per cent larger crowd than estimated who opted for public transit to reach the $200-million stadium.

Even staff who man concessions were caught in the snarl, leaving fans who could get inside standing in long lines at those food and beverage outlets which were able to open.

And, in a city often referred to as “Winterpeg,” the open-air pressbox has already received a thumbs down from the CFL if the Bombers want to host a Grey Cup. They do and renovations are planned.

This season, the Ticats will play their home games at Alumni Stadium in Guelph, Ont., as a new $145.7-million facility is built where venerable Ivor Wynne Stadium used to stand.

The Ticats are scheduled to move into the venue in 2014 with the facility slated to hold the 2015 Pan American Games soccer competition as well.

Until then, the CFL team will spend a cosy year at Alumni, which even after expansion will seat about 13,000. The Ticats will practise at McMaster in Hamilton and also play a home game in Moncton, N.B. When the new stadium is complete, it will initially seat 22,500 with standing room for another 1,500. But it will also have 700 club seats and 30 VIP suites and the potential expanded capacity of 40,000 for special events like the Grey Cup. Ticats owner Bob Young says the new facility will generate more revenue that could go back into stadium improvements.

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Yes, the new Vancouver Canucks coach acknowledged Tuesday, his reputation needs some restructuring, and he vowed to improve it as he attempts to give the city a long-sought Stanley Cup. “This is the mess I put myself into, and this is the mess I’m going to get myself out of,” Tortorella said during a news conference.

The Canucks named the fiery Boston native as their replacement for Alain Vigneault, the winningest coach in franchise history. Known for being abrasive, Tortorella is perceived as a bench boss who can lose his temper quickly, sometimes blasts players in public, and has little time for questions from reporters.

Vigneault was known more as a cerebral coach who laughed on many occasions and had a rapport with the media. But Tortorella, dressed in a dark suit and tie and smiling at times, turned on the charm at a news conference, even thanking a reporter for her question.

It was all part of Tortorella’s effort to let people get to know him better and deal with the media more effectively.

“I know how important that part of the job is here,” Tortorella said. “When you lose your job, you crawl into a hole a little bit, you reassess yourself, you try to learn, and I have certainly gone through that process.

“Have I made mistakes? Absolutely.

I make my own bed in this type of situation with the perception of myself in the media. But I know how important it is with this job here, especially in this city and this province.”

He is also known for battling verbally on occasion with players. But Tortorella, who has 24 years of coaching experience and won a Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004, still vowed to be demanding of his charges and hold everyone — includ-

well as six Northwest Division titles.

Tortorella, the career leader in wins by a U.S.-born coach with 410, served as an assistant for the American team that won silver at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and has also coached at the world hockey championships.

He will attempt to rebuild his reputation while coaching for the first time in Canada — something he has always dreamed of.

“To be involved with this, I couldn’t be more excited,” he said. “It’s always something I thought about and wanted the opportunity.”

But while Canadians are known for being tolerant and accepting, Tortorella will still not find it easy to deal with a loss while coaching north of the border.

“Everybody says: Be a good loser,” he said. “I think if you’re a good loser, you are a loser.”

Meanwhile, some of Tortorella’s former players credit him with turning them into winners and helping them extend their careers — despite his temperamental ways.

“Personally, I think he’s a good coach, but it takes a special player to play under his coaching,” said former NHLer Brad Lukowich, who played under Tortorella during two stints with Tampa Bay, including the 2004 Stanley Cup victory. “He’d come in and tell us what to do, and he held us to the highest degree of accountability.

“Once we figured that out, we gelled and we became a good team.”

Lukowich said the team succeeded because assistant coach Craig Ramsay, goaltending coach Jeff Reese and captain Dave Andreychuk acted as buffers between Tortorella and players. During the second stint, Ramsay, Reese and the retired Andreychuk had left the team, while captain Tim Taylor and key leader Dan Boyle were injured much of the season.

The team was unable not achieve the same success and Tortorella continued with his abrasive ways. But Lukowich, now an assistant coach with the WHL’s Lethbridge Hurricanes, credited Tortorella with extending his career by eight seasons.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — A reporter wanted to know whether Serena Williams contemplates adding more variety to her power-based game.

She did not take kindly to the question’s premise.

“I don’t only play hard tennis.

Maybe if you want to get out there, I can show you, like, how I mix things up. I hit a lob today. I’m hitting slices and drop shots, especially more recently,” Williams replied.

“Power’s often extremely good to have in your game,” she continued. “But if I were to sit here and hit every ball hard, my arm would fall off.”

It’s true that Williams does pound serves, up to 121 mph (195 kph) in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday. And her groundstrokes are big, too, enough for a 25-5 edge in winners against Mandy Minella of Luxembourg. It’s also true that Williams has been showing off a soft touch when needed during a winning streak that reached 32 matches — the longest single-season run on the women’s tour in 13 years — with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Minella.

That marked the top-seeded and top-ranked Williams’ return to competition following a little break after winning the French Open on June 8 for her 16th Grand Slam trophy.

Also her first match on a grass court since winning her fifth Wimbledon title and two Olympic gold medals back-to-back at the All England Club a year ago. That was the beginning of a stretch in which Williams has gone 75-3 and claimed three of the past four major championships.

“You can call her pretty much unbeatable,” the 92nd-ranked Minella said. “She’s playing better than ever. ... Every time she steps on court, you can see why.”

Off the court, things have been a little more hectic for the 31-yearold American lately. Tuesday’s victory capped a week filled by a headline-grabbing, off-court tiff with Maria Sharapova and a series of apologies stemming from a magazine profile.

Williams and the French coach who’s been helping her for about a year, Patrick Mouratoglou, agreed that she did not have too hard a

Raonic leads strong day for Canadians at Wimbledon

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David Ferrer of Spain plays a return to Martin Alund of Argentina during their Men’s first round singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday. time setting aside the events of the previous seven days, which included a lot of saying “I’m sorry” — face-to-face with Sharapova, at a news conference, in two separate statements posted on the web — over things Williams was quoted as saying in a Rolling Stone story. Williams made a negative reference in a phone conversation to a top-five player’s love life (the piece’s author surmised that was about Sharapova) and an off-thecuff remark about a widely publicized rape case in the U.S. that was perceived by some as criticizing the victim.

“It hasn’t been a distraction,” Williams insisted. “I’m just here to focus on the tennis.”

The third-seeded Sharapova and Williams are on different halves of the draw and could meet in the final. Sharapova, the 2004 champion, was scheduled to play her second-round match Wednesday on Court 2 against 131stranked qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal.

Other women slated to play on Day 3: second-seeded Victoria Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion who twisted her right knee in a first-round victory; 2011 Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova; 17th-seeded Sloane Stephens of the United States.

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Roger Federer was to face Sergiy Stakhovsky on Centre Court, while 2012 U.S. Open champion and Wimbledon runner-up Andy Murray was placed on Court 1.

Murray, of course, is hoping to be the first British man to win Wimbledon in 77 years, but he’s not the only local product still around of the 10 who were in the field at the outset.

Laura Robson, a teenager who beat Kim Clijsters at the U.S. Open last year in the final match of the four-time major champion’s career, became the first British woman in 15 years to eliminate a top-10 opponent at Wimbledon by defeating No. 10 Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 6-4.

Otherwise, order mostly was restored after Monday’s stunning development: the only first-round Grand Slam loss of 12-time major champion Rafael Nadal’s career.

Novak Djokovic dispatched 34th-ranked Florian Mayer of Germany 6-3, 7-5, 6-4, and the only real hitch was when the top-seeded Serb slipped to the Centre Court grass. No. 4 David Ferrer, who reached his first Grand Slam final at the French Open but lost to Nadal, took two falls and said he felt a “little bit of pain” in his left ankle during a 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory over 101st-ranked Martin Alund of Argentina.

LONDON — Milos Raonic capped an impressive start by Canadian players at Wimbledon with a straight-sets victory over Argentina’s Carlos Berlocq on Tuesday at the All-England Club.

Raonic, the No. 17 seed from Thornhill, Ont., needed less than two hours to complete the 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 win to become the fourth Canadian to reach the second round at the Grand Slam event this week.

It has been 25 years since four Canadians won first-round singles matches at the same major. Sebastien Lareau, Daniel Nestor, Sonya Jeyaseelan and Jana Nejedly last accomplished the feat at the Australian Open in 1988.

Raonic, who has struggled of late to get his grasscourt game in form, said he was happy with the way he played Tuesday.

“My game feels a lot better than last week,” Raonic said. “We worked on a lot of things. Also, this is a grand slam and you bite down harder.”

The 22-year-old had 19 aces and just 18 unforced errors in the match.

“I kept the pressure on (Berlocq) the whole time,” Raonic said. “I’m feeling much more comfortable on grass. I’ve had moments in the past when I doubted myself, but I’m playing with more peace and confidence.”

Raonic’s next opponent will be Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands, who beat American Alex Kuznetsov 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

Ottawa’s Jesse Levine also won his opening match Tuesday, a day after Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil and Montreal’s Eugenie Bouchard posted victories.

Levine defeated Guido Pella of Argentina 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 3-6, 4-3. Pella had to be helped off the court midway through the fifth set with an apparent hamstring injury. The match lasted nearly three hours as the 112th-ranked Levine advanced to the second round for the second straight year.

Pella appeared to slip on the grass and received medical treatment while lying on the baseline. He shook Levine’s hand before being taken away on a stretcher. Levine said he was able to refocus after dropping the third and fourth sets.

“My energy went down and I got away from my game plan,” Levine said. “I wasn’t hurting him any more with my shots. He is good on clay and slow surfaces so I wanted to force him to speed up. In the first and second sets I took it to him, I didn’t want to get into a long battle. I finally got back to doing what I had been doing. I’m glad to be into the second round.”

Levine had 19 aces and converted five of eight service breaks. He will face Juan Martin Del Potro in the second round. The 25-year-old Canadian says he’ll have to sharpen his game against the eighthseeded Argentine.

“Against Del Potro I really have to hit the ball,” Levine said. “I can’t get away with what I did today.

He’s a big strong guy, so I hope to use my speed to move him around the court. I’m going to try and not let him set up on too many balls, but that’s easier said than done.”

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SCOUTS COMING EN MASSE More than 6,500 youth and volunteers will be attending the 2013 Canadian Scout Jamboree at Camp Woods, on Sylvan Lake, from July 6 to 13.

CJ’13 involves youth ages 11 to 14, leaders and volunteers. Scouts will be involved in various events such as camping, whitewater rafting, canoeing, snorkelling, zip lining and raft building.

The Scouts will also investigate ways they might help out regarding the recent flooding in Alberta.

The jamboree includes performances from the Arrogant Worms and the Abrams Brothers.

County planning detour FLOOD-DAMAGED GARRINGTON BRIDGE WILL BE CLOSED FOR TWO MONTHS from Bowden to the Red Deer River and beyond.

Those areas are affected almost every year when waters run high during spring runoff, he said.

“In the southwest part of the county, we

to recede before we can repair all of (the roads).”

There have been no reports of homes under water, although a property owner who Red Deer County will explore detour lives just east of the Dickson Dam found the operations after getting word from Alberroad into his home blocked by rising waters ta Transportation that the floodwhen the sluice gates were opened damaged Garrington Bridge will on the weekend.

“WE’LL BE WORKING TOGETHER WITH be closed for two months.

County staff are also lending “We’ll be working out the best their skills outside the municipal(ALBERTA TRANSPORTATION) ON THIS, detour routes and how to manity. age and maintain those for the TRYING TO HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT ON OUR Assistant county manager Ric summer,” said Marty Campbell, Henderson and 11 other staff left LOCAL ROADS.” county operations manager on for Canmore on Tuesday to help Tuesday.

— MARTY CAMPBELL, COUNTY OPERATIONS MANAGER shore up buildings in the flood-rav“We’ll be working together with aged community. Nine technical (Alberta Transportation) on this, rescue personnel and two firefighttrying to have minimal impact on ers will join Henderson in Canmore our local roads.” had 10 to 12 sections of road washed out until Thursday night.

The bridge is located about 36 km partially.

The Canmore fire department has rewest of Bowden and crosses the riv“For the most part, (repairs involve) quested Red Deer County to assist with er to link with Sundre to the southwest. bringing in gravel, pit run and grader time structural collapse and stabilize properOverall, there was much less damage in the and we’ll rebuild most of it. ties. county than in 2005, he said. Much of the “It’s of much smaller magnitude and For more information about Red Deer damage is in the Garrington Bridge area we’re actually in repair mode already. County activities, check www.rdcounty.ca. near Secondary Hwy 587, which runs west We’re just waiting for some of the waters pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

SUPERMOON OVER CENTRAL ALBERTA

FRIDAY TAX DEADLINE City of Red Deer property owners have until Friday to pay their property taxes.

Those who miss the deadline pay a six per cent penalty on the outstanding property taxes owing. Residents can pay their taxes in person at City Hall until 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

After hours payment can be dropped in the night depository on the east side of City Hall at 4914 48th Ave. Payment that is mailed must be postmarked June 28 and should be sent to City of Red Deer, Box 5008, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3T4. For more information about taxation and property assessment, go to www. reddeer.ca/tax or stop by the fourth floor of City Hall.

POETRY AT MARKERVILLE The homestead of Iceland’s national poet seems a fitting site for poetry on July 14. Stephansson House, 7 km north of Markerville, will be the location for the annual poetry event which runs from 1 to 5 p.m.

Those not interested in poetry can enjoy music, crafts or baking.

Stephansson House is a provincial historic site. It was home to Stephan Stephansson, a renowned CanadianIcelandic poet.

Stephansson was born in 1853 in Iceland but moved his family to the Markerville area where he homesteaded by day and wrote poetry by night. His poetry is renowned in his homeland.

His homestead was restored in 1927 and offers a glimpse of Icelandic heritage and this pioneer poet. For more details go to www.history.alberta.ca/ stephansson/

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Approximately 14 per cent larger and 30 per cent brighter the full moon Sunday evening was the brightest and largest it will be for 2013. The Supermoon or perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun cycle is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the moon makes to Earth on its elliptical orbit.

Plenty of Canada Day options around Central Alberta

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Skies across Central Alberta will light up this weekend as fireworks celebrating Canada Day are set off all across the region.

Communities surrounding Red Deer have their events all ready to go to celebrate the country’s 146th birthday.

In Sylvan Lake, they have turned it into a weekend event with the rescheduled drive-in movie, The Goonies, set for Friday starting at 10:30 p.m. at the Canadian Tire parking lot.

Then on July 1, the town has a barbecue, the March of Canadians — featuring the Sylvan Lake Legion colour party and the Innisfail Legion pipe band — which ends on the pier, where there will be a birthday cake.

There is also a nine-hole golf tournament at the nearby Meadowlands Golf Club.

“It is pretty big,” said Joanne Gaudet, Town of Sylvan Lake communications co-ordinator, of the cake.

“Depending on how they cut it, about 100 people could probably eat it.”

For children, there is hat painting and an activities area with bouncy apparatus, clowns, temporary tattoos and cake.

“We have some tube paint and instead of doing shirts or shoes that get messy and expensive, we just got a bunch of white hats so people can make whatever sort of art they want,” said Gaudet.

The day winds down with the unofficial illuminated boat parade.

A group of boaters typically

light up their water craft and illuminate the water. This is then followed by fireworks at 10:30 on Monday evening to end the long weekend.

Lacombe similarly has several events planned to celebrate the holiday.

Deven Kumar, City of Lacombe communications officer, said there are numerous events planned.

There will be free activities at the English Estates Centre, a pancake breakfast, a kid’s cash sand pile, face painting and industrial equipment on display.

“The Lacombe and District Historical Society is hosting a guided tour of the historic downtown and murals,” said Kumar.

The tours go from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., starting from the Flatiron Building.

Both the Michener House Museum and the Flatiron Museum and Interpretive Centre will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but closed over the lunch hour.

There will also be a live blacksmith demonstration.

There will be two firsts in the Lacombe celebration: a flag raising and colour parade at the Lacombe Legion Hall.

As well the fireworks will happen at Cranna Lake, which Kumar called “a visual treat.”

Other Canada Day events throughout the region include: ● Cupcakes are a constant at the Blackfalds ceremony, handed out at Tayles Water Park at 1 p.m. and then at 8 p.m. at the All-Star Park followed by dusk fireworks, 10:30 to 11 p.m. ● Innisfail is getting a head start on Canada Day with fireworks taking place the night before, on Sunday. On Monday, the

Innisfail Historical Village hosts entertainment, kids activities, a teepee celebration, food, cake and ice cream. ● In Stettler, there will be cake entertainment and fireworks. ● A day of performances, pancakes, barbecues and fireworks highlight Canada Day at the Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site. ● In Ponoka, the Klaglahachie Fine Arts Society will hold the Tim Hortons Children’s Day Festival on the street in front of the Ponoka United Church, at 5020 52nd Ave., from 1 to 7 p.m. Activities include a bouncy castle, photos in costumes, children’s games, carnival activities, a balloon artist, live bands, face painting, a petting zoo and food. A birthday cake supplied by the town will be served from 2 p.m. onwards. ● Olds Centennial Park will hold activities, games, prizes and entertainment for free. At 11 p.m., fireworks will be visible from the No Frills and Canadian Tire parking lots. ● The Rocky Mountain Rail Society will host celebrations at the historic Big Valley Canadian Northern Train Station. There will be rides, a historic display in an old boxcar, art and face painting. Activities start at 1 p.m. in Big Valley. ● The Sargent Community Centre in Lacombe County will have a Canada Day picnic at 2 p.m.

People are encouraged to bring their own musical instruments for a jam session and any games or activities they would like. People can also bring a donated item for a silent auction and stay for a potluck barbecue. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Students to benefit from funding Red Deer and area students will benefit from $38,000 in funding from Red Deer Regional Education Foundation.

The money will pay for 15 school projects, four school division projects and five high school student scholarships for the 2013-2014 school year.

The foundation funds will provide enhanced opportunities not available through tax dollars, said foundation president Kurt Schultz.

The education foundation organizes fundraising initiatives throughout the school year.

It held its annual fundraising gala in May, raising more than $40,000.

A monthly 50/50 draw in which staff and trustees participate raised more than $15,000 in the 2012-2013 school year.

Red Deer Catholic Regional Education Foundation is a not-forprofit fundraising society established in 2009 to enhance the mission of Catholic Education and promote the advancement of education for the division’s students and alumni.

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BRIEFS Planners reject foam business A proposed industrial spray foam business in a Red Deer County subdivision has been turned down by the municipal planning commission.

Ryan and Jessica Wilson had hoped to operate the mobile business out of a new 2,400-square-foot shop located behind their home in Woodland Hills, one km southwest of Red Deer.

County planning staff recommended the application to operate the foam and industrial coating venture as a home business be rejected because it is industrial in nature and involves toxic and flammable chemicals and is not suited to a residential area.

Commission members agreed.

Several nearby residents had also voiced their opposition.

“I believe this type of operation will change the nature of this area,” said County Mayor Jim Wood.

“For the safety of residents, I cannot support this.

“I think this kind operation should be in an industrial site.”

The commission voted against the foam business on Tuesday.

However, the 2,400-square-foot shop was approved. It must match the home aesthetically.

Man jailed for selling drugs to police A Winnipeg man caught selling drugs to undercover police in Red Deer has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail.

William George Sinclair, 18, pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday to trafficking crack cocaine from the parking lot of Red Deer’s Collicutt Centre recreation complex.

Sinclair was arrested by members

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Not pausing as the skies opened up Tuesday students at Ecole Oriole Park School continued with their school track meet despite the showers. The events focused on having fun and building skills in the area of running, jumping and throwing. of the Red Deer RCMP street team after selling 2.7 grams of crack to an undercover officer on Feb. 21.

Crown prosecutor Dave Inglis cited the drug itself, Sinclair’s participation in a “dial-a-doper” drug scheme and the fact that his actions took place at a location where children congregate as particularly aggravating in terms of sentencing.

Those factors were balanced against Sinclair’s early guilty plea on the charge.

In accepting a joint submission from Inglis and defence counsel Paul Morigeau, Judge Darrell Riemer allowed Sinclair four months of credit for the time he has served in custody since his arrest.

And additional charge of possessing crack for trafficking was stayed with

Jail time for worker who stole from employer

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF A former tire shop worker will serve 30 days in jail for stealing from his employer.

Daniel Ramkissoon, 28, pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday to ordering tires and then selling them and pocketing the cash.

The theft was tallied at $3,941.

Ramkissoon worked at the Kal Tire store at 67th Street and Gaetz Avenue between Nov. 1 and Dec. 12 last year when the offence occurred.

Defence counsel John MacNaughton told Judge Darrell Riemer that his client admitted the theft to his employer before the loss was reported to police.

MacNaughton said his client chose to plead guilty at the earliest possible date, but his first court appearance was scheduled for a considerable time after the charge was laid.

He said Ramkissoon has already given him the money to cover the cost of the tires. The money was placed in trust to return to the store.

Crown prosecutor Tony Bell advised the court that the sentence should take into account the breach of an employer’s trust as well as Ramkissoon’s prior conviction for assault in 2008.

Riemer said a prison term is warranted when a worker steals from an employer, but gave Ramkissoon credit for admitting to his crime.

Riemer ordered that the sentence be served on weekends, starting on July 5, with six months of probation during the times that he is not in jail.

Bell said outside of the hearing that intermittent sentences are still available in some circumstances, although the province announced earlier this year that the practice would be curtailed. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

Sinclair’s consent to forfeit all goods seized during the investigation.

Storage expansion stalls A Red Deer County landowner’s proposal to expand his ‘sea can’ business has been turned down by the municipal planning commission.

In 2011, a sea container rental business was approved for the property about 10 km west of Red Deer off Sec-

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FOUNDATION: Marks excellence The Education Foundation assists initiatives that enhance Catholic education by providing scholarships, celebrating excellence in Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, and nurturing and promoting the importance of Catholic education.

The funded projects at Catholic schools include: ● École Camille J. Lerouge School: $2,250 for faith based materials, $1,250 for a student leaders’ retreat and $1,000 for Beautiful Girls Club; ● Holy Family School: $2,500 for Catholic readers; ● Maryview School: $1,890 for multisensory outdoor learning environment, and $1,250 for a faith and literacy project; ● St. Elizabeth Seton School: $1,250

ondary Hwy 596. Approval was given to store 50 sea cans there.

The owner was looking to expand the business with a further 50 sea cans to be stored on site as rental storage units. Also, permission was sought to store up to 50 RVs. Planning commission Coun. George Gehrke noted the property was zoned agriculture. To expand the business, an application to rezone the property should come first, he said.

for faith and literacy project; ● St. Francis of Assisi Middle School: $1,500 for a retreat; ● St. Marguerite Bourgeoys School (Innisfail): $3,000 for an iPad 3-D initiative project; ● St. Martin de Porres School: $1,250 for faith and literacy; ● St. Patrick’s Community School: $1,250 for faith based classroom Grades 1-2; $1,250 for faith based classroom for Grades 3-5; and $1,000 for speed stacks for facts for kindergarten to Grade 9; ● St. Teresa of Avila School: $1,250 for a Catholic reading project; ● St. Gabriel Learning Centre: $2,000 for a prayer and Catholic Christian centre; The division projects for Red Deer, Sylvan Lake, Rocky Mountain House, Innisfail and Olds include $3,000 for a Grade 5 beginner band day; $1,500 for Go Girl activity event in 2014; $2,000 for Grow Boys Grade 5 leadership event; and $5,000 for Reading College at RDC. There will also be five $500 faithbased scholarships and one $500 alumni project.

Gravel pit operators agree to reduce weekend noise Deer off Secondary Hwy 595 (Delburne Road).

The pit will operate from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Monday to Saturday and extract about 145,000 tonnes of gravel in two phases.

Coun. Philip Massier said another gravel source is welcomed in that part of the county and the location is well suited given there are two other gravel pits nearby.

“So it’s nothing new in the area.”

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It was noted there is some distance between the park and the gravel pit, which is behind a hill.

“If we have to have to pick a spot this is maybe as good a spot as we can find,” said Hoar.

“While I do have concerns about asphalt plans on occasion, this is not one of them.”

The commission also approved a small gravel operation on five acres about 26 km east of Red

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The operators of a gravel pit near Red Lodge Provincial Park have agreed to keep the racket down on weekends.

Located about two km west of the park and campground, the 106-acre pit will include mining, crushing, screening, sand and gravel washing and asphalt mixing.

The pit, about 12 km west of Bowden on Secondary Hwy 587, will be mined in six phases over its 30-year lifespan.

Operating hours are listed at 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday to Saturday, but operator Vince Walker Construction Ltd. has already agreed to start at 7 a.m. weekdays unless a big contract requires an earlier start time.

Coun. Dave Hoar said his main concern was that noise might bother campground users.

“I would hate to negatively affect the park. It’s a nice park within our region.”

On Saturdays, the company has agreed to push back the start time to 8 a.m. to reduce the potential impact on the campground.

There will be no operations on Sundays or statutory holidays. Gravel truck drivers will also be reminded to keep speeds down and not use engine brakes near the park.

Commission members were satisfied with these

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Some diseases never die THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN ERADICATED, RARE CONDITIONS STILL AFFECT CANADIANS

BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS It started with strange patches on the skin and small nodules on the legs that baffled even the family doctor.

Prescription creams seemed to help at first, but the lesions kept coming back.

“I had an itchy feeling in the evening on my whole body, not really itchy, it’s hard to explain,” recalls Raghu, who asked that his real name not be used.

He was referred to a dermatologist, who tried other skin treatments, but to little effect. And the condition was getting worse — Raghu developed a small bluish nodule on one leg. It was totally numb: he could have stuck a pin in it, he says, and there would have been “no feeling at all.”

A skin biopsy finally gave him an answer — but it was one that shook him to his very core, says Raghu, who has lived in Canada for roughly three decades since immigrating to the Toronto area from India.

Raghu had leprosy.

Leprosy? In Canada?

It may come as a surprise, but several age-old diseases that many believe have been eradicated or affect people only in far-away, impoverished countries still occur in Canada, where good nutrition and stateof-the-art health care is considered a birthright.

Few diseases spawn the kind of fear engendered by leprosy, a bacterial infection that for millennia led to social ostracism and forced segregation to prevent the contagion passing to others.

Today, that kind of reaction is completely unwarranted, says Dr. Jay Keystone, a tropical medicine specialist at Toronto’s University Health Network who treats up to about a half-dozen cases of leprosy a year.

“Essentially, I think the public needs to know that it’s an absolutely curable infection,” says Keystone. “It’s certainly less contagious than tuberculosis and way less contagious than influenza.”

Although rare — there are an estimated two to 10 cases diagnosed in Canada each year — leprosy is still around.

Most cases are among people who have come to Canada from India, Indonesia, the Philippines or Myanmar, countries where leprosy has a greater foothold.

Also known as Hansen’s disease, most cases of leprosy worldwide are caused by the rod-like micro-organism Mycobacterium leprae, which is thought to be transmitted via droplets from the nose and mouth during close contact with untreated cases.

Because M. leprae multiplies very slowly, leprosy’s incubation period is about five years, but symptoms can take 20 to even 40 years to appear.

About 95 per cent of people never develop symptoms because their immune system shrugs off the infection.

Those who can’t clear the bug get a range of disease: from tuberculoid, a minimally contagious infection primarily in the lungs, to lepromatous, “where they have gazillions of organisms and therefore are much more infectious,” says Keystone.

At the lepromatous end of scale, the disease can involve the entire body and multiple nerves. Left untreated, it can cause permanent damage to the skin, nerves, limbs and eyes.

But with the advent of powerful sulfa drugs in the early 1940s, the oncedeadly disease could be successfully treated. Today, patients are given a cocktail of drugs for six months to two years, depending on the nature of their infection.

The disease is a softening of bones in babies and young children, usually due to a prolonged vitamin D deficiency.

Rickets can cause badly bowed legs and knock knees, thickened wrists and ankles, delayed tooth development and an abnormal breastbone.

Such skeletal deformities can lead to delayed growth, pain in the spine, pelvis and legs, and weakened muscles.

Because vitamin D promotes the absorption of calcium and phosphorus needed for strong bones, deficiency of the so-called sunshine vitamin can lead to the disease.

A 2007 study led by Dr. Leanne Ward turned up 104 confirmed cases of rickets among Canadian children over a two-year period.

While the highest incidence occurred in Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, cases were reported in cities and rural areas across the country.

Another major risk factor is exclusive breastfeeding. While recommended for six months by major health organizations around the globe, there’s a critical caveat about feeding a baby only breast milk.

“The message is not fully out that breastfed infants require vitamin D supplementation, as there is little vitamin D that passes through breast milk,” says Ward, a specialist in pediatric bone health at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

Health Canada and the World Health Organization recommend giving infants a supplement of 400 IUs daily for the first year of life, and the Canadian Paediatric Society advises raising that to 800 IUs during the fall-winter months when there is minimal sunlight.

● It’s been called “the king of diseases, and the disease of kings.” Henry VIII was thought to have it, and it was known to affect Charles V of Spain, Charles Darwin and Benjamin Franklin.

While gout may be an age-old condition, it is still causing its share of pain among Canadians in the 21st century.

Gout is caused by an excess in the body of the waste product uric acid. Too much uric acid in the blood causes deposits of crystals in the joints, which can lead to severe inflammation and often excruciating pain. About five to six per cent of Canadian men and about two per cent of women will experience a bout a gout in their lifetimes, says Dr. Gregory Choy, a rheumatologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

The condition tends to run in families. For males, gout typically hits in the 40s and 50s, while women are more prone to an attack after menopause, when a drop in protective estrogen makes it more likely, says Choy.

The onset of gout can be sudden, characterized by severe pain, redness and tenderness in a joint —often the joint at the base of the big toe.

But this form of arthritis can also erupt in the ankle, knee, foot, hand, wrist or elbow.

“An acute attack of gout can wake you up in the middle of the night with the sensation that your big toe is on fire,” says the Mayo Clinic website.

Urate crystal can also form under the skin, causing spots called white tophi, which can cause damage into subcutaneous tissues below the skin. A tophus can develop in fingers, hands, feet, elbows or the Achilles tendon at the back of the ankle.

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LUANN June 26 1991 — Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon starts talks with native leaders on responding to long-term effects of residential schools.

1990 — Justice Minister Kim Campbell introduces gun control legislation banning automatic assault weapons with five-year jail term to anyone convicted of converting a weapon to auto fire.

1976 — Opening of CN tower, the world’s tallest self-supporting structure at 555 metres (1,821 feet).

1970 — Parliament lowers voting age in federal elections from 21 to 18 and revises Canada Elections Act. 1929 — Canadian National and Canadian Pacific acquire and will jointly operate 1,380 km of Northern Alberta Railways: Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway, Alberta & Great Waterways Railway, Central Canada Railway and Pembina Valley Railway.

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BASKING IN THE SUNLIGHT

HOROSCOPE Wednesday, June 26 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Chris Isaak, 57; Derek Jeter, 39; Sean Hayes, 43 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The infamous Mercury retrograde cycle starts today.

Whenever the planet of commerce and communication is in hibernation mode, it is wise of us to avoid signing anything new. Expensive purchases should be avoided such as hitech related items or anything on four wheels. Our judgement is weaker during this time, ASTRO therefore we need to be enDOYNA during and strive to be super understanding. Our patience will be certainly tested.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, your attention will be directed inwardly this year. Your need for emotional space is a must for you in order to conduct your usual tasks. Change will likely occur in your shared resources and your partner’s values. You have a strong drive and much confidence which will not be quite apparent to others.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will start to question yourself whether your basic foundations are built on secure and safe grounds. Any inner struggle that has been pondering over your mind will push you to re-evaluate a situation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your mind is cloudy these days making it hard for you to make up your mind. You vacillate from one though to another without really fully grasping its essence. Don’t fill up your agenda as you will not able to rush anything during this time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Assets your financial situation and plan a budget where you can reallocate more efficiently your savings. Avoid risky ventures for now and do not start a new project. Re-evaluate your own values. You might have omitted a valuable strength that you own.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are driven and tempted to move mountains these days. During this time you might change your course in life and the direction of your intentions.

Try hard to remain flexible because last-minute changes will occur quite frequently.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During this time, trust your intuition. Your inner voice speaks to you much more than oneon-one conversations. You will notice random coincidences to happen now and pieces of information that will get to your ear.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Learn to rely on yourself and accept the fact that promises will be broken or will not prove to be definite. Misunderstandings will occur at this time and it would be wiser of you to stay away from any verbal fights.

Save your personal opinions for a rainy day.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You seem confused about your direction in life. Encounters with tough competitors and authority figures seem to be too demanding. More work and dedication is required from you and you are running low on energy. You might consider a change of direction.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It is essential to not omit the details as you are prone to focusing on the bigger picture instead. Read the fine print and read between the lines. Keep an open mind and don’t get lost into even greater confusion.

Rushing into anything is a big no-no these days.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This is a productive time to go back into time and to revise your joint account. Resources might need to be better allocated and disbursed. You may stumble upon an asset which you did not think you had.

Weird coincidences pop out of nowhere.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Apply greater patience with your partners. Be it romantic or of a business nature, all your dealings need some extra diligence. Your interactions might not be definite at times, but with a little bit of effort you will manage to pull through.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It might seem too bewildering at times when it comes to your priorities. You will question your methods as well. Consider another alternative to your usual way of running your errands. You may discover something less time-consuming.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Follow your creativity and your imagination without expecting it to run smoothly. The more flexible and open-minded you remain, the easier it will be for you to unleash your individuality.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer/ columnist.

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Neighbours don’t want porn site associated with community Dear Annie: We live in a quiet terferes with my ability to confamily neighbourhood. Recently, centrate on my work. I know some a neighbour tried to locate the of this is allergies, but she also owner of a rental home next door doesn’t stay home when she is in order to discuss a shared fence sick. issue.

I have offered cough drops and When our neighbour could find antihistamines, which she has reno contact information fused. I suffer from althrough the city departlergies, as well, but try ment of housing, he to keep my symptoms searched the Internet. to myself.

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None of us wants a I used to like going to porn site associated work, but I am ready with our neighbourto hand in my notice. hood. How should we What do you suggest?

MITCHELL handle this? — No — Had It with the Hack& SUGAR Name or Location, ing Please Dear Had It: First be Dear No Name: While more direct with this we certainly underco-worker, explaining stand your moral objections, these your discomfort and asking her to owners seem to be running a legal please cover her nose and mouth. operation.

If that doesn’t help, can you Most web-based or home-based complain to the human resourcbusinesses are fine unless there es department or a higher-up? are customers or employees com- Is it possible to move your desk? ing to the house.

Would you be willing to wear a There may be a requirement to surgical mask or filter? have a business licence, but that’s Allergies can’t always be about it. You can contact a lawyer helped, but people should be conin your city to find out whether siderate of one another. there are other possibilities, but Dear Annie: I read your advice we suspect there is nothing you to “Nervous in Vermont” with can do, legally, about this. Sorry. much interest, being the parent of Dear Annie: I share a small a transgender child myself. workspace with someone who conEven if an initial conversation stantly coughs, sneezes, clears her may have seemed encouraging, it throat, blows her nose and grunts. can be dangerous for trans kids to Worse, she never covers her come out to their parents. mouth, so I am surrounded by airHalf of all homeless kids are borne germs all day.

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home after coming out to their families. And a staggering number of trans kids end up committing suicide if met with scorn, shame or parental refusal to accept or discuss the subject.

Coming out must be done eventually, but unless the child is nearing 18 or has contingency plans, one must take into consideration the things that can go wrong.

I’d like to offer a couple of parental resources for such situations: Trans Youth Family Allies (imatyfa.org) is a wonderful group of parents of trans kids that includes a support email list, as well as organized trainings for schools and other organizations.

Gender Spectrum (genderspectrum.org) holds a yearly Gender Spectrum Family conference in Oakland, Calif., as well as a transmasculine oriented Gender Spectrum conference in Seattle, Wash.

These two groups can be of incredible assistance to parents after their kids have come out.

We’ve found that going through the process of accepting our kids is not dissimilar to the grieving process. What is lost is not the person (thank goodness), but our hopes, dreams and plans for our child. We fear for them and their future. But we support each other and learn to move on, create new dreams and celebrate our children’s true identities. — Sara Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

WORLD’S UGLIEST DOG

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PETALUMA, Calif. — A huge-headed, duck-footed mix of beagle, boxer and basset hound was the upset winner at the 25th annual World’s Ugliest Dog Contest.

Walle ((WAHL-ee), a four-year-old mutt from Chico, Calif., who entered at the last minute, was judged most unsightly of 30 dogs at Friday’s Northern California competition. It’s been dominated in recent years by nearly hairless Chihuahuas, Chinese cresteds, or combinations of the two. Judges said they were especially impressed by Walle’s bizarre waddle of a walk. Walle wins $1,500 and will make several network TV appearances next week.

Organizers say the dogs are judged for their “natural ugliness in both pedigree and mutt classes.”

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A male American avocet basks in the late day sunlight in a local slough. This male had a mate nearby. It is not uncommon for the birds to form breeding colonies numbering in the dozens of pairs. When breeding is over, the birds gather in large flocks, sometimes numbering in the hundreds. This species is migratory, and mostly winters on the southern Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Mexico and the United States.

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Exile in Guyville’s cultural impact goes on

BY JESSICA GROSE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES It’s the 20th anniversary of Liz Phair’s cult classic album Exile in Guyville, which has been a coming-ofage touchstone for a certain kind of liberal arts student since its debut.

The album’s cultural impact far outweighs its sales — considering how large it loomed in my own early 20s imagination, I was shocked to find out that Guyville has sold fewer than 500,000 copies.

(To put that in early ‘90s, predownload context, the Chicago Tribune compares it to the Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream, which has sold 4.9 million.)

Unsurprisingly considering Phair’s impact on writerly feminists (“a certain kind of liberal arts student”), lots of Guyville tributes were published over the past few days.

Most mentioned the unabashed, nearly profound way Phair deals with female sexuality, particularly in the songs “Flower” and “F--- and Run.” Since I’ve been lady blogging for way too long, I remember when these same tributes popped up five years ago, for the 15th anniversary of Exile, also focusing on Phair’s frank, explicit sexual lyrics — this is what she’ll always be known for.

So, I’d like to be a total indie rock douchebag and praise instead her lessbeloved material: the smart and searing songs that deal with other aspects of the female experience — in particular divorce and motherhood.

The angry breakup song is a mainstay of modern music.

But what sets Phair’s breakup songs apart is their humanity. On Guyville’s The Divorce Song, which music writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd describes as “freaking generous,” Phair’s narrator always owns up to her own part in the demise of the relationship and the shared pain that results.

Divorce Song is about a failed road trip, with two people on the brink of

a breakup descending into pettiness: “And it’s true that I stole your lighter/ And it’s also true that I lost the map/ But when you said that I wasn’t worth talking to/ I had to take your word on that.”

She deals with breaking up again — this time with children involved — on the song Go on Ahead from her third album whitechocolatespaceegg.

Again, generosity and compassion shine through: “It’s a death in our love that has brought us here/ It’s a birth that has changed our lives/ It’s a place that I hope we’ll be leaving soon/ And I fear for the year in his eyes.”

Phair’s 2003 self-titled album was a critical failure (Slate contributor Meghan O’Rourke called it “an embarrassing form of career suicide” in The New York Times), but it includes a gem about single motherhood, Little Digger.

As she often does, Phair tackles a subject that so many women experience but is fairly undercovered in modern rock — raising a child of divorce: “I’ve done the damage, the damage is done/ I pray to God that I’m the damaged one/ In all these grown-up complications that you don’t understand/ I hope you can, someday.”

In Jessica Hopper’s fantastic oral history of Guyville in Spin, Phair talks about deciding to include the song Flower on the album, with its explicit, lusty lyrics.

She says she woke up in a cold sweat one night fretting about the choice; she knew the song was going to be controversial.

But she decided to include it, because “I knew what portrait I was painting — I thought it was part of a well-rounded portrait, fulfilling all of what a woman is.” I’m so glad she included Flower, but I’m also glad she didn’t pigeonhole herself into being “that woman who sings about sex.”

Whether you like Phair’s subsequent work, it is undeniable that she is committed to painting the portrait.

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“Part of what I think makes us Canadian is our compassion,” said Kielburger, 30.

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“So much of our work is trying to get young people to follow their passions,” said Kielburger.

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Dan McGrath, chair of Canada’s Walk of Fame’s board of directors, takes great pleasure in the range of people the Walk recognizes.

“We’ve got a great balance of Canadians from many disciplines. We don’t just focus on just music, or just the arts, and it’s really people who have made a difference in Canada,” he said.

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two this year because we wanted to have a special recognition of Terry Fox as part of our 15-year anniversary,” said McGrath.

“Terry is just an incredible, incredible individual who inspired the entire country.”

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Pop star Carly Rae Jepsen of Mission, B.C., was announced as the fourth winner of the Allan Slaight Award, which recognizes young and inspirational Canadians.

Past recipients include the rapper Drake and jazz-pop singer Nikki Yanofsky. Jepsen will be performing at the award ceremony on Sept. 21 at the Elgin Theatre.

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HEWITT Marion Matilda Hewitt first born daughter of William John Hewitt and Bertha Mary (Brown) Hewitt passed away June 3, 2013 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital at the age of 95 years. Marion Hewitt was born on September 9, 1917 on her father’s farm six miles north of Bulwark.

Marion attended School at Minot, Odellville, and Castor High School, before attending Alberta College in Edmonton.

Marion Hewitt was a founding employee of the Cross Cancer Institute, as a personal Secretary to various Doctors in the field of Radiology and stayed until her retirement.

Marion has been predeceased by her mother Bertha Mary (Brown) Hewitt, father William John Hewitt, brother James Hewitt and brother-inlaw Frank Baker. Marion is survived by sister Isabel (Hewitt) Baker, sister-in-law Francess (Dewitt) Hewitt, nieces Joan (Baker) Toliver, Allission (Hewitt) Lang, Faye (Baker) Oszli, nephews Jim Baker, Tyrrill Hewitt, Lorne Hewitt, Lennard Hewitt, their spouses and numerous great-nieces, great-nephews as well as great great-nieces and great great-nephews.

Memorial service will be held at the Knox United Church, Castor, Alberta on Friday, June 28, 2013 at 2:00 PM. Donations in memory of Marion may be made to the Alberta Cancer Foundation or Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories c/o Parkview Funeral Chapels & Crematorium, Box 186, Castor, Alberta T0C 0X0, 403-882-3141, who have been entrusted with the care and funeral arrangements.

To send or view condolences to Marion’s family, please visit www.parkviewfuneralchapels.com

WONG Yvonne On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Mrs. Yvonne Wong of Red Deer County passed away. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband Karlit Wong; son Matthew; and daughter Beatrice. A Funeral Service will be held on Sunday, June 30, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. at the Red Deer Seventh-day Adventist Church (behind Leons on McKenzie Road). Memorial donations are gratefully accepted to ADRA Canada.

To express condolences to Yvonne’s family, please visit www.womboldfuneralhomes.com Arrangements Entrusted To PONOKA FUNERAL HOME ~ A Wombold Family Funeral Home ~ 403.783.3122

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LUND Eileen (nee Birchmore) 1923 - 2013 Madelaine (Mandy), Curtiss and Mark regret to report that their mother Eileen quietly passed away at the Red Deer Hospital June 19, 2013.

The family would like to thank all the staff on the cardiac (Unit 22) and palliative care (Unit 32) wards for their kind and excellent support. Mum was predeceased by our dad, Bud (2011), and all her siblings.

She is survived by Mandy and Lee Hicks, Curtiss and Mary Lund, Mark and Lois Lund (Hans, Anna and Eric).

Born in Sussex, England, Mum enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, the last child (of four) of a successful baker and grocer. After graduating from high school in 1942 she worked for the British post office until the end of the war.

She met Dad towards the end of the war at a dance, and after a relatively brief courtship, married him on July 11, 1945; she followed him to Canada some 6 months later on a ship load of “war brides.” These war brides became her “Canadian sisters” and lifelong friends.

Mum joined Dad and Grand-dad in the family business, Lunds’ Red Deer Florists. Mum worked alongside Dad for 37 years in the shop: designing, selling, doing the books, pricking out bedding plants, or whatever needed doing.

Mum’s interests were her family, the business and then service to the community.

She belonged to the Quota Club in the early years, the Venus Chapter No. 2 of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Red Deer Chapter of the Ladies of the Royal Purple.

She was an active member of St. Luke’s Anglican Church her whole life. Her life-long passion was the family dogs.

Very early in life we learned the importance of communicating with family. We kids thought she kept the Canadian Post office “afloat” with her weekly airmail postings to her mother, siblings and friends back home in England. Later in life Mum learned to use the computer to e-mail and Skype family.

In retirement, Mum enjoyed travel with family and friends, entertaining, and maintaining a home where family and friends were always welcome for a great meal or place to stay. Mum’s wish is that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Red Deer SPCA, or to the St. Luke’s Anglican Church - Building Fund. Mum has been cremated and a memorial service will be held at St. Luke’s Anglican Church (4929-54 Street, T4N 2G7), Red Deer, on July 11, 2013 at 11:00 a.m., lunch in the hall afterwards, with interment at the Red Deer Cemetery later that afternoon.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

COATES Lucille Norine (Storey) 1922 - 2013 Lucille, beloved Mom, Grandma and Great Grandma of Red Deer passed away peacefully at the Extendicare Michener Hill, Red Deer on Friday, June 21, 2013 at the age of 90 years. Lucille was born on December 25, 1922 at home on the farm in Springvale, Alberta, the fourth child for Carl and Gladys Storey. She took her schooling at Springvale School and then she remained on the family farm except for a short time when she moved to Red Deer to work at Eaton’s.

In 1946, she met Don Coates and they were married on December 1, 1948 at which time, they moved to their farm in Springvale, where they lived for the next eleven years. During this time, Lucille and Don were blessed with five children. In 1959, they sold their farm and moved into Red Deer. Lucille remained a stay at home mom for the most part as her family was her top priority. She enjoyed growing flowers, picnics, family gatherings, camping, berry picking, music and especially dancing. Lucille was member of the Springvale WI until she moved to town. She then joined the Ladies of the Moose and once her children were grown, Lucille joined the Golden Circle.

She played in the Golden Circle fun band and sang in their choir for over twenty years and thoroughly enjoyed both. Her greatest joy was spending time with her family and she showed great pride in all of us. Lucille’s final years were spent at Extendicare Michener Hill where she looked forward to visitors and family outings. Lucille will be lovingly remembered by her four children; Marilyn of Red Deer, Dale (Roseanne) of Prospect, Nova Scotia, Shauna of Red Deer and Eldon (Debbie) of Springbrook, son-in-law John (Sheila) Westera.

Her eleven cherished grandchildren; Lori, Trent, Landon, Tyler, Cari, Carly, Sean, Dakota, Mike, Cheyenne and Keegan.

Her thirteen precious great-grandchildren; Cayli, Sydney, Hannah, Andrew, Tanner, Chloe, Alexis, Isaiah, Daine, Pyper, Layla Charlee and Lochlyn, sister, Barb (Harold) Sande, sisters-in-law, Joyce Storey, Marg Miller and Nancy Storey, three brothers-in-law, Allan Coates, Neil (Florence) Coates and Cecil Coates as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. She was predeceased by her loving husband, Donald Coates in 1999, beloved daughter Linda Westera in 1993; three brothers, Bill, Harold and Bob; two sisters, Edith and Anne; brothers-in-law, George, Glen, Cliff and Howard. The family would like to thank all the staff on unit 2300 of Extendicare Michener Hill for the care and compassion given to Lucille. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society, www.cancer.ca or to S.T.A.R.S, www.stars.ca. Relatives and friends are invited to pay their respects at the Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street on the evening of Thursday, June 27, 2013 between 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. A Funeral Services in honor of Lucille will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 - 67A Street, Red Deer, on Friday, June 28, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Jeff Rock officiating. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040

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F/T LIVE IN FEMALE Caregiver/Companion for elderly woman west of Rimbey, AB. Non-smoking.

Valid Drivers. Criminal check and references req’d. $1845 - $336 room & board. Email ndsmith1@mac.com.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

P/T up to 30 hrs. a week, Must be organized, have drivers license and fluent in Twitter, Facebook etc.

Work for dynamic non profit and help your community at the same time. Please apply in person with resume and salary expectations to Red Deer Food Bank #12, 7429 49 Ave. R.D. Ask for Executive Director.

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In memory of Eli Palm June 1, 1995 - June 26, 2012

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Excellence in the following skills is mandatory: Microsoft Office, written and verbal communication, ability to multi-task and be well-organized. Candidates with a two year business diploma or administrative diploma are preferred.

Sunreal is a dynamic company, which offers a rewarding work experience in an atmosphere where employees are treated with respect. If you are interested in working hard and having fun, please fax your resume to 403-342-0212 no later than July 2, 2013.

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR The Lending Cupboard is looking for a Volunteer Coordinator. (this is a paid position) • Computer skills req’d, Windows 7 Microsoft Office, • Management skills req’d, Diplomatic, be able to motivate volunteers, scheduling, organized • People skills, friendly, open minded.

Hours are Mon., Wed., & Fri. , 9:30- 3:30 pm. email resume to: paul.lendingcupboard@ shaw.ca

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Painfully missed Always remembered With love…

There are not enough words to thank all of the individuals, coaches, teachers, friends and mentors that shaped him. This boy we loved so dearly was truly ‘raised by a village’.

We are so proud of the man Eli was becoming, and grateful for each moment of his wild and precious life.

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You hid something away, something that slid so smoothly into place that even the rings on our fingertips, their nerves acute as pins, could not discern the spot.

For you were no aquarium, no lion fish fanned the glass and flared, no clown drolled its acrylic anemones for us to see.

You were an elegant cabinet, the wood exquisite and rare for it was felled from a hearty tree.

In your secret corners, tiny scrolls no bigger than the bones in our ears brooded in moods of black ink; an obsidian arrowhead, a smoky sea glass pulsed out of sight in their covert drawers.

We wish that in a threatening crash you had tipped and spilled yourself open, that even one golden hinge had broken. We wish that even the subtlest of secrets had shaken your contents free.

We wish you hadn’t swallowed the key.

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DARLNE CURRIE The Currie family are having a memorial tea, for Darlene at the Sylvan Lake Legion Hall on Saturday, July 6, 2013 from 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

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Landcore Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of Rathole and Pile Driving services throughout Janitorial Western Canada. We are currently seeking a full-time Journeyman or ARAMARK at (Dow 3rd/4th Year Heavy Duty Prentiss Plant) about Mechanic for our Ponoka 20-25 minutes out of Red location. We offer Deer needs hardworking, competitive wages with an reliable, honest person excellent benefits plan. w/drivers license, to work Duties will include, but are 40/hrs. per week w/some not limited to: weekends, daytime hrs.

- Heavy Truck and Trailer Fax resume w/ref’s to maintenance and repair 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black - Light Duty Pick-up Classifieds maintenance and repair Your place to SELL - CVIP inspection Your place to BUY -Heavy off-road equipment maintenance and repair Candidates should own their own tools, class 5 drivers license, Heavy Duty Trade Certification.

Experience in welding and fabrication an asset (but CCCSI is hiring sanitation not necessary). Successful candidates should excel in workers for the afternoon oral communication skills, and evening shifts. Get problem solving, and paid weekly, $14.22/hr. working with others.

Call 403-348-8440 or fax To apply, either email 403-348-8463 resumes to info@ landcore.ca or fax to 403 783 2011 Medical Start your career!

See Help Wanted BUSY MEDICAL OFFICE requires a Prescreening Tech with front desk duties.

Experience not necessary, job training is provided but qualifications will be considered. Starting wages $14/hr. Please fax resume PRODUCTION to 403-342-2024.

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A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted.

JOURNEYMAN HD CVIP MECHANIC

We are currently seeking motivated hardworking personnel to join our busy oilfield trucking division.

Top wages. Email or fax resumes to 403-782-0913 kelly@downtons.com

EXPERIENCED OILFIED TRACKHOE Operators & LABOURERS REQ’D. Must have all safety tickets.

Competitive wages.

Call 403-502-1091 LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers for areas including Sask. and US. Positions available immediately.

Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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AL-TERRA ENGINEERING (RED DEER) LTD. SEEKING CIVIL ENGINEERING DESIGN TECHNOLOGIST. Above industry standard wages, benefits plan, vehicle allowance, profit sharing.

Experience a diverse variety of projects in Red Deer & all over Alberta.

C.E.T designation with a minimum of 2-5 years of experience using AutoCAD or Civil 3D. Please email resumes to: Tyler Broks, R.E.T - tbroks@al-terra-rd. com or fax 403-340-3038.

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FULL-TIME Residential Architectural Technologist.

The candidate must have 3-5 yrs experience, be proficient in AutoCAD Architecture 2012, Google SketchUp and MS Office.

Construction field work exp. is preferred. We offer competitive wages and a comprehensive benefit plan. Interested candidates may apply with resume and references between 8-5 to: TRUE-LINE HOMES #140, 4731 61 Street We thank all applicants, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Employee pricing, extended health benefits and training provided for the right candidate.

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Heavy Equipment Operators.

Must be able to pass a Physical and Drug test.

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Central Line Locating req’s a locator assistant. No experience necessary, willing to train. Must be physically fit. Working varied hours. Send resumes to: office@ centrallinelocating.com Fax 403-747-3535 Office: 403-747-3017

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Is looking for general carpenters for the Red Deer area. Call Brad 403-588-8588

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NEWCART CONTRACTING (1993) Ltd. (Located Between Rocky Mountain House and Red deer) is currently looking for a F/T

HR Administrator.

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DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d.

Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres.

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GPW WATER req’s a Bondable Delivery Person, in great physical shape, enjoys a friendly work environment & values true customer service.

Part/Full Time. Drop resume & driver’s abstract to 100, 87 Patrolia Drive, Red Deer County, Fax: 403-343-4166 or email to: gpw2002@telus.net Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

NEED AN EXPERIENCED CLASS 1 DRIVER FOR PICK-UP & DELIVERY in Red Deer. Forklift exp, needed. You will be home every evening & weekends off. Good wage.

Call 403-346-0158 or fax resume to 403-314-9234 RONCO OILFIELD HAULING Sylvan Lake. Openings for winch tractor, bed truck drivers and swamper’s.

Top wages and benefits.

Email resume tom@ roncooilfieldhauling.ca or fax. 403-887-4892

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HELP WANTED. Penhold Cadet Camp is now seeking experienced Bakers, First & Second Cooks, Servers, General Help.

FoodSafe a must.

Apply w/ resume at Penhold Cadet Camp.

2453 24th St. Springbrook, AB 403-886-3002

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

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Must be avail. eves and wknds. Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person

GRANDVIEW 40A Ave & 47 St. area & N. side of Ross St. MOUNTVIEW 43 Ave & 35 St. & area. $67/mo.

LOOKING FOR A P/T CUSTOMER SERVICE REP in a green drycleaning plant.

Must be able to work some evenings until 7 p.m. & some Saturdays.

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ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Close & Ritson Close $98/mo.

DEER PARK AREA Dodge Ave, Donald Cl., & Dentoom Cl. $97.00/mo.

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Night Supervisors and dignified level of care.

OPERATORS • Must be highly organized Academic Express (2-4yrs experience) Minimum 5 yrs. exp, work as well as punctual.

ADULT EDUCATION FOR FLYERS, 7 days a week at least 12 Salary will commensurate AND TRAINING JOIN OUR FAST hrs. a day, overtime and RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE with experience. Role is Responsibilities Include: GROWING TEAM!! full-time, but with flexibility. subsided pay. Please • Manage employee AND EXPRESS FALL START Competitive Wages, Fax: resume to data base including ROUTES IN: Benefits, Retirement and 403-309-1944 or email to: Please email your new hires and termina- • C o m m u n i t y S u p p o r t Worker Saving Plan! info@tblconstruction.ca confidential CV to tions.

ANDERS AREA greatjobs@chantellegroup.com • Partner with manage- • Women in Trades CRYSTAL GLASS QUALIFICATIONS: ment to plan for the • Math and Science in needs summer help. the Trades Celebrate your life organizations human Will train.

• GED classes days/ with a Classified • Must be able to capitol needs.

Asmundsen Ave. Drop off resume at: evening Provide own work truck ANNOUNCEMENT • Recruit and select new 4706-51 Avenue or fax • Leadership and Superhires based on their 346-5390 or email: Gov’t of Alberta Funding INGLEWOOD AREA visory skills- mentor knowledge, skills, and branch208@crystalglass.ca may be available. and train crew training.

Restaurant/ • Strong Computer Skills Hotel • Provide support to the CUNNINGHAM 403-340-1930 • Operate 5000psi compensation and Ivey Close www.academicexpress.ca ELECTRIC LTD. 10,000 psi (sweet and salary administration 989240 AB LTD. Irving Close req’s res./comm.

Sour wells) programs. o/a TIM HORTONS Ingle Close • Collect Data - pressure, • maintain a positive Journeyman Hiring 15 Permanent F/T rates, temperatures Inglewood Drive working relationship Electricians • Assist in Rig in and Rig Food Counter Attendants with employees and to start immed. Competi& 4 Permanent F/T ADULT or YOUTH out of equipment management. tive wages and benefits.

LANCASTER CARRIERS • Tr a v e l t o a n d f r o m Food Service Supervisors • Other duties may be Fax resume to AREA locations across Western for both Red Deer Locations assigned as required.

NEEDED 403-342-4022 or drop off Parkland Mall Canada For delivery of at #7 7880-48 Ave. email: 6359 50 Ave. and Please call 403-729-2223 Lamont Close cunnelec@telusplanet.net 6020 - 67 St. Flyers, Express and REQUIREMENTS: or fax 403-729-2396 Fax: 403-314-4427, email Lees St./ Sunday Life email: resumes@ parklandtimhortons Lawrence Cres.

• Va l i d 1 s t A i d , H 2 S , newcartcontracting.com ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK @gmail.com Driver’s License required! in • M u s t b e w i l l i n g t o Must be available all shifts, MORRISROE eves., wknds., nights submit pre access fit MUSTANG ACRES $11./hr. - FCA AREA for duty test, as well as $13./hr. - FSS drug and alcohol Fax or email resume Exp. Framers Req’d • Travel & be away from & Call Prodie @ PASQUALE MANCUSO local work, transportation home for periods of time 21/7 403314-4301 CONSTRUCTION* DAD’S PIZZA provided, exc. wages, • A b i l i t y t o w o r k i n PART/FULL TIME COOK (49 Years Of Service) KENTWOOD bonuses paid. for more info changing climate Apply at East 40th Pub. Call 403-588-0808 Keen Cres. & conditions 3811 40th Ave. ********************** Kendrew Drive FOUNDATION COMPANY Concrete Finishers For the Red Deer Area TO ORDER HOME website: in Red Deer is currently Buying or Selling Excellent rate of pay DELIVERY OF THE www.cathedralenergyservices.com hiring experienced commercial your home?

Call Joanne Benefit package.

Methods to Apply: ADVOCATE CALL foundation form workers.

Check out Homes for Sale 403-314-4308 info HRCanada@ please fax resume to OUR CIRCULATION in Classifieds Please fax resume to: cathedralenergyservices.com 403-346-5867 DEPARTMENT 403-342-1549 pnieman@ DRAGON City req’s exp’d or email: FULLY EXPERIENCED cathedralenergyservices.com P/T or F/T Servers. Please 314-4300 apply@pmcl1964.ca framers req`d. 403-350-5103 apply in person to Sam. NO BEGINNERS! DELI CLERK, Your application will be PLASTERTONE Flexible hours including.

LUAU Investments Ltd. kept strictly confidential.

Stucco, Trowelers & Stone Currently seeking weekends.

GOODMEN Apply in person (O/A Tim Hortons) Masons Needed. Top wages.

TEAM Snubbing Services reliable newspaper ROOFING LTD. to the Baker at FOOD SERVICE Everyone welcome to apply. now hiring experienced Requires carrier for the RUN’N ON EMPTY SUPERVISOR Call Tony 403-588-0840 operators Email: 5101 - 76 Street.

1 yr previous experience.

POSITION IN janderson@ SLOPED ROOFERS F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) BOWER AREA DISPATCHER req’d.

MANUFACTURING PLANT teamsnubbing.com LABOURERS Must be avail. weekends Knowledge of Red Deer fax 403-844-2148 & FLAT ROOFERS F/T Palm Sanding/ $13.00 per hour and area is essential.

Delivery is 4 times 4217 - 50 Ave. Quality Control WANTED Verbal and written Valid Driver’s Licence 6721 50 Ave. Starting wage, $14/hr. per week, no collecting.

EXPERIENCED communication skills are preferred. Fax or email 7111 - 50 Ave. Hours are 6 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. req’d. Send resume by fax CLASS 3 info@goodmenroofing.ca timhire@telus.net Mon. - Fri. Must have own to 403-346-0295 Perfect for anyone VAC/steamer Truck driver. or (403)341-6722 transportation & be avail.

Lacombe area, NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! SAM’S CAFE looking to make GRAYSON EXCAVATING immed. Please apply by HOME EVERY NIGHT. LTD. requires experienced fax: 403-885-5810 NORTH some extra $.

LOCAL Construction Fax resume to 403-704-1442 foremen, pipelayers, or email: jonathan@klaas.ca Taking applications for Company now hiring equipment operators, Only selected candidates F/T or P/T DISHWASHER. experienced Dozer, You can sell your guitar Please reply by email: Class 1 drivers, topmen will be contacted.

Apply in person AFTER Excavator & Grader for a song... qmacaulay and general labourers for 2 p.m. 7101 Gaetz Ave. Operators. Please fax or put it in CLASSIFIEDS WATER WELL DRILLING installation of deep utilities Red Deer @reddeeradvocate.com and we’ll sell it for you! resumes to 403-347-6296 COMPANY IN BENTLEY (water and sewer). Fax or phone Quitcy at REQ’S EXPERIENCED resume to (403)782-6846 403-314-4316 WATER WELL or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com DRILLERS HELPER with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation Misc. provided when out of town. Help Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015 WESTAR MASONRY is currently looking for SKILLED MASONRY with a minimum of 2 years experience LABORERS in fine grading and finishing, offering a Contact Conrad at competitive wage and benefits, on local 403-340-1145, Fax: 403-342-6670 or email: job sites in Lacombe & area. Applicant must westar_masonry@yahoo.ca have a valid Class 3 license with air. Only

LPN MANAGER

880

CARRIERS NEEDED

820

880

BOBCAT OPERATOR(S)

CLASS 3 DRIVER/ EQUIPMENT OPERATOR req’d immed. Local work, need drivers abstract.

Fax resume to 403-986-8142

Sales & Distributors

those who have the above prerequisites will be interviewed.

Please submit resume with Driver’s abstract to:

306449F27

860

Truckers/ Drivers

E-mail: lloyd@dbbobcat.com or Fax: 403-782-7786

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED For afternoon delivery once per week In the towns of: Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in OLDS BOWDEN RIMBEY Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 REG COX FEEDMIXERS Req’s In Service Shop, exp’d with farm equipment and the ability to weld.

Apply fax 403-341-5622 RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.

Fax to 403-346-5786 RETAIL STORE SUPERVISOR C-store Gas Cwash Apply ABA Investments Inc oa Heritage Esso, FT $15.50/hr Supervise, train staff, prep schedule, sales reports, merchandising, inventory mgt, HS grad, computer literate, some exp.

Mail Resume 6020 67 St. Red Deer, AB T4P 3M1 SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

Please no phone calls.

920

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

Building Supplies

1550

LAMINATE Flooring, 10 sq. ft. new in original pckg. $90.; HARDWOOD flooring, 2.5 sq. meters in original pckg. $90. ; WINDOW Well covers, 58 x 19 (2); $25.

403-314-5557

830

FULL TIME SALES POSITION

Fracturing Operators Nitrogen Pumper Operators Cement Operators/Cement Bulk Drivers Coil Tubing Supervisors / Operators Bulk Plant Operator Heavy Duty Journeyman Mechanics / Apprentices

880

Misc.

Help

Computers

1600

HEWLETTE PACKARD PRINTER. Works Great. $20. 403-755-2760

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Scan to see Current Openings

Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

drill 2 batteries and charger $35 403-347-1501

Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview. Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

308338G2

307064F23

1640

One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations Tools is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

19.2 VOLT drill, 2 batteries Sales Experience is a requirement. and charger $35; 18 volt

FREE FIRE WOOD Bring your own saw.

403-346-4307

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 26, 2013 D3

FAST TRACK PHOTOS Call 403-309-3300 to get your vehicle pictured here

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2001 CHEVY Blazer SUV 4 x 4 -very good condition, low km’s -$5,750.00 OBO

2004 GMC 1500 4x4

2005 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS FWD, auto., $10,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

Screamin Eagle $21,888.

SOLD Sport & Import

2004 HARLEY CVO

2006 BMW X5 panoroof, lthr., $16,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 MERCEDES BENZ B200 FWD $8888 SOLD Sport & Import

2009 DODGE VIPER SRT ACR replica 28000 kms., $74,888. SOLD Sport & Import

2004 KIA Sorento LX, 4X4, 77859 kms., $8,888.

2006 BMW Z4 6 speed,

extended cab. Good shape in & out $6950. **SOLD**

403-343-1651, 341-0606

1966 CADILLAC DeVille $9888. SOLD Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1977 CHAMPION

2003 AUDI A4, fully loaded, $7300.

403-340-0295

command bridge, 26’ twin OMC gas motor needs some work, on 11,000lb.

CVW trailer. $4900 obo 780-910-7024

2007 SPORTSMAN

59,123 kms., $29,888.

SOLD Sport & Import

LX, 3254, 3 slides, clean, dual pane, fireplace, lots of extras. $28,900. trades considered. 403-598-0682

2009 FORD MUSTANG Shelby GT 500 16163 kms lthr., $39888. SOLD Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2008 BMW 335i, lthr., 65,955 kms, nav., $25888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 BMW Z4 3.0L 6

2006 GMC Envoy Denali, white, grey leather int. loaded, very clean, 205,000 km. $8995 obo. 403-343-2218 day, 403-886-2411 evngs.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2010 FORD Expedition

2006 NISSAN MAXIMA SE

2008 GMC 1500, 4x4, 5.3 SLE, no issues.

161,000 km

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

348-8788 Sport & Import

1984 CORVETTE new engine, $8888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2003 CIVIC DX 180,000 km. $5000.

403-340-0295

1990 GMC SIERRA 1500 SLE; 1 owner; 100% original; 54,000 km; fully loaded; estate sale; in storage since 2004; $8,900; 403-318-8282

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1997 TRAVELLAIRE Prestige 265, clean, well kept, back kitchen w/sunshine ceiling, electric front jacks, back tow hitch $8000. 887-6295

2004 CHEV Avalanche 4x4 loaded $10,500 obo 403-391-8264

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 CHEV SUBURBAN Z71, 120,000 km.

Good cond. $12,000 obo. **SOLD**

2005 GULF STREAM 1 Owner, N/S, no pets. $66,000. 30,000 km.

780-372-2079

2007 BMW 328 Xi sunroof, lthr., $20,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2008 GRAND PRIX $10,888 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2010 LINCOLN MKX AWD, nav. sunroofs, lthr. $24888. SOLD Sport & import

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

2005 MINI COOPER lthr., 5 spd, 77596 kms, $17888.

403-348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 BUICK ALLURE CX FWD, $7888 SOLD Sport & Import

2008 HUMMER H3 Alpha lthr., sunroof, $15,888. 403-348-8788 Sport & Import

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 FORD Freestar.

Perfect in every way.

190,000 km. All options incl. remote start. New tires. New windshield. Asking $8000.

587-377-3547

Perfect for Travel, V10, 43,000 km, 2 Slides, New Tires, $42,900.OBO ***SOLD***

2008 HYUNDAI SANTA FE

2011 MITSUBISHI RVR GT Fully loaded, black cloth seats.

45,000 km. $19,400 OBO. Ty @ 403-588-1087

1999 35’ DUTCHMEN pulled 600 kms., a.t., heat & air, full bath, 1/2 bath w/dbl. bunks at rear, 14’ pushout sleeps 8, n/s, $9500 403-227-6442 304-5894

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 LAND ROVER SE3 Freelander AWD, $8,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

speed, lthr., $22,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

Fully loaded with heated steering wheel, fast car. Only 89,000 kms. Asking $12,000 403-304-5860

2005 SAFARI 30’

2007 CHEV Monte Carlo LS

FWD, 93492 kms., $10,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

$14,900. 403-346-9816

AWD, lthr., sunroof, 52012 kms, $18,888. 348-8788 Sport & Import

Eddie Bauer 4X4,.$26888 348-8788 Sport & Import

Sell your vehicle FAST with a Formula 1 Classified Vehicle Ad

OVER 4.5 MILLION IN NEW CAR INVENTORY !!!

The Boss called and we need to make deals, no reasonable offers refused.

GARY MOE MAZDA

Locally Owned And Family Operated

81 Gasoline Alley East, Red Deer

www.garymoe.com

403.348.8882

101560E16

Come down and drive the 58 mpg Mazda 3, take a spin in the 55 mpg 2014 Mazda 6 or take an adventure in the 48 mpg 2014 Mazda CX-5

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 26, 2013

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

1680

Garden Supplies

ANNA’S Water Gardens now open. 403-885-5742 ANNA’S Water Gardens, Coy & Gold Fish.

403-885-5742

1710

Household Appliances

APPLS. reconditioned lrg. selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 DRYER exc. shape $125 403-347-1563 LARGE KENMORE FRIDGE with 2 side doors for freezers. Very clean. Excellent working cond. Almond w/wood grain trim. Asking $150.

780-884-5441 WASHER & DRYER Working cond. $150.

403-346-4307

54” FRAMED mirror $5; stand alone white lamp 58” w/adjustable arm $5; almost new paper shredder $20; small slow cooker w/removable crock $7; white metal plant stand w/4 collapsible shelves 60hx10x12 $7 403-340-1120 ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE, $100.

ROCKER - GLIDER, $100 403-346-3708 ESTATE SALE. Household furniture in good cond, household items, Tues.

June 25 - Thur. June 27, noon - 7, 5021-47 St. Sylvan Lake FOR SALE: 5 shelf bookcase $15. Light oak office chair $10. **SOLD** KITCHEN set with 4 chairs, Chesterfield set. $500. FOR BOTH. 403-314-0097 LARGE OLDER HIDE-A-BED Good cond. Beige floral print, Asking $50.

780-884-5441 MOVING SALE-All household furnishings must be sold before July 15. 403-346-3708

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

1730

Stereos TV's, VCRs

NINTENDO WII w/14 Games $160.

403-782-3847 PS2 w/6 games. $60.

Xbox w/6 games. $60.

403-782-3847

1760

Misc. for Sale

LUGGAGE, veg. steamer, rice cooker, high chair, toaster, ironing board, Foreman grill, canning jars, pictures, lawn chairs, patio flower pots, watering hoses, waste containers, plant hanger baskets, etc.

All for $100.; Electric basement HUMIDIFIER, $90 403-314-5557

1810

Pets & Supplies

7 PRETTY KITTENS desperately need loving homes. Very playful & active.

FREE. 2 female - calico, 3 male - orange, 2 male cream. 403-782-3130 SCOTTISH FOLD KITTENS $400. 403-597-3956, cell SIAMESE (2) kittens and Also 1 BURMAN kitten. $50/ea.

403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

1860

PING GOLF SET RIGHT HANDED PING IST driver, PINGPING EYE 2 irons, 3-pw Ping Zing putter, $150 403-346-0093

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

6 MONTH OLD BABY HAMSTER Free to good home White with black & brown spot. Friendly.

403-755-5407 OUTDOOR FISH POND, 50 Gallon, with stand FREE 403-343-6785

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

MODERN & TRENDY 2 BDRM. HOME

Boasting 1.5 Baths, Cathedral ceilings upstairs, 9ft. ceilings downstairs, designer colors & finishings, 5 appliances and assigned parking. This property will not last! Just $1295/month!

Hurry and call Kristina at 403-396-9554 while it lasts.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

NEW main floor house 3 bdrm. 2 bath 1250 ft, seperate laundry and furnace room, rent $1500 + utils, DD $1500 403-347-0014

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

32 HOLMES ST.

1 1/2 blocks west of mall, 3 bdrm. bi-level, blinds, lg. balcony, 4 appls, no pets, n/s, rent $1195 SD $1000 Avail. Immed.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545 ALIX: 2 bdrm. 1 bath, 5 appls, shows like new. $1000 + utils. Avail. now 403-341-9974

KITSON CLOSE

AGRICULTURAL

1720

Household Furnishings

1830

Cats

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Farm Equipment

2010

1996 HESTON 565A Baler Low usage, new belts & serviced. Shedded, field ready w/operator manual & computer console. $11,000. 403-845-3501 or 403-844-1954 2011 MASSEY FERGUSON 1359, 9’ Disc Bine. Like new.

7 cutting discs, field ready.

With operator manuals. $15,000. 403-845-3501 or 403-844-1954 5 WHEEL RAKE, independent hydraulic arms & height adjustment, $4000. 403-845-3501 or 403-844-1954

2140

Horses

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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rentals

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail. July 1 403-304-7576 / 347-7545

LARGE 2 & 3 BDRM. CONDOS Bldg located on a quiet close backing onto treed area.

Comes with Dishwasher.† Short walk to schools and Parks. Starting at $995/mo.

Heat and Water included.

Call Kristina at 403-396-9554.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 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

With 4 appls, a fenced yard, 2 bathrooms and lots of space this townhouse is a steal at just $1225/month.

Qualified pets welcome!

Call Kristina at 403-396-9554 to see it now.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099

Riverfront Estates

Deluxe 3 bdrm. 1 1/2 bath, bi-level townhouse, 5 appls, blinds, large balcony, no pets, n/s, $1195 or $1225 along the river.

SD $1000. Avail, July 1.

403-304-7576 347-7545

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Manufactured WANTED • 3250-3390 Homes

3010

EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW ON ACREAGE IN RED DEER. 4 bdrms, 2 baths, rent $2000 + DD Avail. now. 403-346-5885

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

2 BDRM. WITH GARAGE

UTILITIES INCLUDED! This main floor suite with open concept , a mature treed and fenced yard in desirable Westpark for only $1295/month. Call and book your showing soon with Kristina at 403-396-9554.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 3 BDRM, 3 bath home , nice deck, new paint & carpet, for over 40 couple with no pets at 7316-59 Ave. Rent $1500/Sec. $1500.

Ph: 403-341-4627

SUNNYBROOK

2 bdrm. avail. July. Water & heat incld, clean and quiet, great location, no pets. 403-346-6686

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

3090

Rooms For Rent

3060

2 BDRM. IN 4-PLEX $895 & 2 BDRM SUITE IN APARTMENT $850.

403-314-0209

2 BDRM. OPEN CONCEPT APT.

This Adult only Building is located conveniently near all amenities.† Perfect for the budget-minded at just $895/month with Heat and Water included! Call Kristina at 403-396-9554 while it’s still available.

Hearthstone 403-314-0099 LARGE 2 & 3 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR

LACOMBE 4 bdrm, 1 bath $1295 403-782-7156 403-357-7465

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

NEW lower suite house 2 bdrm, 1 bath, 1000 ft., separate entrance/laundry/furnace room, rent $1150 + utils, DD $1150 403-347-0014

OPPOSITE HOSPITAL Large adult 2 bdrm. apt., balcony, No pets. $800 rent/SD, heat/water incld., 403-346-5885

Cars

5030

BLACKFALDS: Bungalow, 2 bdrm., 2 bath, front. att. garage. Many upgrades. $319,900.

Includes legal fees, GST & appls.

Front sod & tree.

Call Lloyd 403-391-9294

2008 BMW 335i, lthr., 65,955 kms, nav., $25888 348-8788 Sport & Import CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

NEW MODERN HOME IN TIMBERSTONE

4050

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homes CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

4010

Businesses For Sale

Deliver Delight and Originality to Red Deer

Your success is in the basket with THE ORIGINAL BASKET BOUTIQUE a celebrated gifting franchise.

Check us out at obbgiftsfranchise.com or call

1.877.622.8008

Lots For Sale

Choosing the Right Realtor DOES make a Difference Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta (403) 341-9995

4140

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS

2005 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS FWD, auto., $10,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2005 BMW Z4 3.0L 6 speed, lthr., $22,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

1960 bungalow, full bsmt. w/dble det. 22x24, garage, 50x120 Westpark lot, NEW: laminate flooring, roof (house & garage), hot water tank & dishwasher.

5 appls. Ready to move in. $254,900. 1-250-756-6686

PRIVATE LENDER: Mortgage money available on all types of real estate.

We lend on equity.

Fast approvals Ron Lewis 403-819-2436

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www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Cars

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Eavestroughing

1130

1070

1280

1100

Escorts

1165

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542

CURVY all natural Korean early 20’s. Daytime only 587-377-1298

BOBCAT & sodding services, 14 Years Exper.

403-588-4503

587-877-7399 10am-midnight LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car ULTIMATE PLAYMATES. 403-986-SEXY Red Deer’s Best

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PUBLIC NOTICE Proposed Rogers Rural Telecommunications Facility

Proposed rural wireless telecommunications facility: • 50 metre Self-Support Tower • Lat: N 51º 55’ 31.19” Long: W - 114º 25’ 40.13” • NE 13-34-4-W5M - Rural Garrington, AB • The facility will include (1) mechanical radio equipment walk-in-cabinet with fencing around the base compound PLEASE TAKE NOTICE as the approval of this site and its design is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Government of Canada through Industry Canada, Red Deer County acts as a commenting body to Industry Canada and the applicant. For more information contact the Industry Canada office at 1-800-556-1349.

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Brazil protesters back in the streets DESPITE PROMISED REFORMS FROM PRESIDENT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO, Brazil — Protesters returned to the streets in low-income suburbs of Brazil’s biggest city Tuesday to demand better education, transport and health services, one day after President Dilma Rousseff proposed a wide range of actions to reform Brazil’s political system.

Police said at least 500 people blocked streets for several hours in a peaceful protest in the districts of Capao Redondo and Campo Limpo on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.

At the same time, police in Rio de Janeiro were looking for a looter who killed a police officer after a protest on Monday. Police said eight people, including the police officer, were killed in the Nova Holanda slum in a clash with demonstrators who had looted stores and robbed bystanders.

“We think the people who are most interested in the demands being made in the street demonstrations of the past several days are those who live in these kind of suburbs,” said Guilherme Boulos, one of the leaders of Tuesday’s protests.

So far, Brazilian protesters don’t appear appeased by Rousseff’s proposals, which shifted some of the burden for progress onto Brazil’s widely loathed Congress by calling for a plebiscite on political reform lawmakers will have to approve. The divided Congress would likely struggle to take any quick action on such a plebiscite.

Protesters have filled cities to air a wide spectrum of grievances including poor public services and the high cost of hosting next year’s World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympics.

About 100,000 people are expected to march in the city of Belo Horizonte Wednesday before Brazil plays Uruguay in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup. City officials have declared a holiday in Belo Horizonte, and authorities say they are expecting confrontations with demonstrators.

Sepp Blatter, president of soccer organizing body FIFA, is scheduled to at-

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People march toward the Cinelandia square during a protest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday. Under pressure after more than a week of nationwide protests, Brazilian leader Dilma Rousseff said Monday her government will spend $23 billion more on public transportation and announced five core areas that leaders will focus on to speed political reform and improvements to government services. Rousseff made the announcement after meeting with leaders of a free-transit activist group that launched the first demonstrations more than a week ago. tend the game. FIFA officials have said security has been boosted because of the protests, but it wasn’t immediately known if any changes were expected in Belo Horizonte because of Blatter’s presence.

In the city of Porto Alegre, Ronaldo Sielichow, president of the Association of Store Owners there, asked law enforcement to beef up security after looting has hit the southern city over the past few days during demonstrations.

Rousseff told governors and mayors Monday that her administration would allocate $23 billion for new spending on urban public transport, but she didn’t provide details on what the new projects would be. Four leaders from the free-transit activist group that launched the demonstrations more

than a week ago said she also gave them no concrete plans while meeting with them Monday.

She said her government would focus on five priorities: fiscal responsibility and controlling inflation; political reform; health care; public transport, and education.

Mayara Longo Vivian, one of the leaders of the Free Fare Movement, said their “fight would continue” despite Rousseff’s promises. The movement has been working since 2006 to eliminate public transport fares.

Vivian referred to the billions of dollars Brazil is spending on the World Cup, saying, “If they have money to build stadiums, they have money for zero tariffs” on public transportation.

In her weekly column posted Tuesday on the presidency’s website, Rous-

seff said: “The money spent to build or renovate stadiums for the World Cup is not part of the federal budget and does not affect funds earmarked for health and education.”

Rousseff added that the World Cup cost “was financed and will be paid back by the companies and state governments that use these stadiums.”

At a Monday demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, 68-year-old sociologist Irene Loewenstein said she wasn’t impressed with Rousseff’s plans.

“It’s a necessary first step, but not a particularly meaningful nor surprising one,” she said. “Neither Dilma nor any other politician here is capable of even understanding, much less putting into practice, the kind of systematic change the people are demanding. It’s just not within their world views.”

Arab Idol winner touted as symbol of unity GAZA HOMECOMING HIGHLIGHTS PALESTINIAN DIVISIONS , DESPITE APPEAL TO UNITE

Taliban attack complicates peace process

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban attack at the gates of the Afghan presidential palace cast a cold light Tuesday on the course of a war that Washington remains committed to ending.

A week after NATO forces handed all security operations to the Afghans, local forces fought off the attackers on their own, killing all eight militants without calling in any coalition help. But the assault also made clear that the Taliban’s fighting spirit remains unbroken and demonstrated their ability to bluff their way past two checkpoints and storm a highly fortified zone of the capital.

The firefight took place in Ariana square, about 500 metres (yards) and several more checkpoints away from the presidential palace, where President Hamid Karzai was apparently preparing for a speech later in the morning.

The attack could complicate American efforts to try to get Karzai’s government to sit down with the Taliban to talk peace.

U.S. President Barack Obama later talked with Karzai in a video conference that lasted more than an hour and covered issues including the peace process and the newly opened Taliban political office in the Gulf nation of Qatar.

The Taliban have said they would continue fighting even as they pursued peace talks, and the attack served to drive that home, said Moeen Marastial, a political analyst and former member of the Afghan parliament.

“The main point is the Taliban wants to show to the government of Afghanistan and to the world and to the powers who are working for the peace process that they are in power,” Marastial said. “They can come close to the palace, they can come close to the places where NATO is, where American forces are — they wanted to show to the world that ’we can do it.”’

The gunbattle started about 6:30 a.m. near the east gate leading to the palace next to the Afghan Ministry of Defence and the former Ariana Hotel, which

former U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed is used by the CIA. One carload of Taliban fighters dressed in military-style camouflage uniforms emerged from their black Land Cruiser and started shooting. Another got stuck between two checkpoints and detonated their explosivesladen vehicle.

The Taliban said all eight of its fighters died in the attack, while the Interior Ministry said three security guards were killed and another wounded.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility, saying in an emailed statement that “eight of our suicide bombers were able to reach the most secure area of Kabul.”

“The brave mujahedeen, with special tactics and help from inside, were able to reach their target with their weapons and cars,” he said.

He said their targets were the CIA building, the palace and the Defence Ministry and claimed “a number of foreign invaders were killed and wounded in the attack.”

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Abbas repeatedly injected himself into the “Arab Idol” craze since last month, when it became apparent Assaf had a shot at winning. He urged Palestinians to vote for the singer, praised him after his victory and named him an honorary ambassador.

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Palestinians have a new voice: a 23-year-old wedding singer from a Gaza refugee camp touted as a rare symbol of national unity after he won the Arab world’s top TV contest.

But Mohammed Assaf’s homecoming Tuesday highlighted the harsh reality of political divisions between the Islamic militants who rule Gaza and the Palestinian president in the West Bank.

Even as thousands thronged the streets in a frenzied welcome for the newly crowned winner of “Arab Idol,” Hamas supporters stayed away, unable to reconcile the young crooner’s triumph in the world of glitzy entertainment with their religious beliefs.

In contrast, Hamas’ main rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, portrayed the singer’s victory as an achievement for all Palestinians, apparently hoping Assaf’s popularity would rub off on him.

The singer with the silky voice and warm smile had put Palestinian pride centre stage throughout the competition, bringing many in the audience to their feet when he struck up his signature anthem to Palestinian nationalism, “Raise the Kaffiyeh.”

Street celebrations and fireworks erupted across the West Bank and Gaza after he was named the winner Saturday at a TV studio in Beirut.

On Tuesday, Assaf revisited the theme of unity.

“My message is national unity and ending the split,” he told a news conference at the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. “We are one people, and we want our freedom.”

Still, the thousands of fans waiting for him in scorching heat waved Palestinian flags and the yellow banners of Abbas’ Fatah movement, not the green flags of Hamas.

Assaf, who grew up in Gaza’s Khan Younis refugee camp, almost didn’t get to compete. He had to plead with Hamas to let him leave Gaza, he said, then bribe Egyptian border guards to let him enter the country en route to Lebanon. A fellow Palestinian gave up his slot during the audition phase because he believed Assaf had a better chance at winning.

As Assaf advanced in the competition, excitement

and national pride built in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the territories where the Palestinians hope to one day establish a state. Rooting for the talented performer allowed Palestinians to feel as one people, forgetting at least for a while their political and geographic split.

Hamas seized Gaza from Abbas in 2007, leaving him with only the West Bank, where he heads a selfrule government in part of the territory. Since then, both sides have tightened their hold on their respective areas, on opposite sides of Israel, and reconciliation seems more distant than ever.

Assaf’s victory had put the Islamic militants in a bind. Devout Muslims who support Hamas’ fundamentalist brand of Islam oppose shows like “Arab Idol” as forbidden by their religion. And since seizing control of Gaza, Hamas has imposed stricter religious rules, including greater gender separation in public, on the already conservative territory.

However, Hamas is sensitive to public opinion and usually relents when it encounters widespread resistance. Earlier this year, for example, Hamas police shaved the heads of young men who sported gelstyled spiky hairstyles considered contrary to rules of modesty, but halted the campaign after an outcry.

In the case of Assaf, Hamas didn’t want to be seen as going against the prevailing mood, but also did not want to endorse a frivolous form of entertainment, analysts said.

“Hamas knows there is huge energy behind (Assaf), and it will lose the street if it stands against him,” said Mhaimar Abu Sada, a Gaza analyst.

In a compromise, the Hamas government dispatched a senior official in its Culture Ministry to be among those receiving the singer at the border crossing.

Assaf “proved that the Palestinian people are distinguished in all areas, despite the (Israeli) occupation and despite the aggression against Palestine,” said the official, Fikri Judah.

However, Assaf will not perform in Gaza, instead travelling to the West Bank for a concert in Ramallah, the seat of Abbas’ government, on July 4. He will also visit Dubai. He received a one-year con-

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