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TOP: A three-week-old deer stands in its enclosure as it recovers from what is believed to be an injury caused by barbed wire or machinery of some kind. The fawn was brought into the centre with severe cuts on its abdomen and side.

ABOVE: Medicine River Wildlife Centre executive director Carol Kelly in the decommissioned hospital at the centre. The building is being dismantled and sold in preparation for the new building being erected.

When you’re a naked baby squirrel, just an inchand-a-half long, your survival chances are dicey.

The pink-skinned infant gives life his best shot, lapping up a nutritious, energy-boosting formula from the end of a paintbrush at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre.

Hospital co-ordinator Alana Pay had tried feeding the baby squirrel from the smallest syringe, but his miniscule mouth was still having trouble negotiating the end.

Executive director Carol Kelly suggested dipping a paintbrush in the special formula, then holding the saturated bristles up to the squirrel’s lips.

It worked like a charm. “It’s used to feeding that way from its mother,” said Kelly.

The suckling red squirrel gets a lot of attention from centre staff, despite a busy schedule of caring for about 200 injured or abandoned animals, includ-

ing deer, porcupine, weasels, skunks, ducks, owls, eagles and other raptors.

If the teensy critter survives hourly feedings and waterings, he will beat long odds — three of his squirrel siblings, which were also brought to the centre cold and dehydrated, have already died — leaving the lone survivor.

Medicine River staff were told the squirrels’ home had been built precariously above the door of a cabin west of Rocky Mountain House. When the cabin was opened for the season, the nest dropped to the ground, and the rattled mother squirrel ran off, leaving four infants behind.

Well-meaning humans tried their best to keep the young ones alive, but probably waited too long before calling for expert advice, said Kelly.

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Blood drive held in honour of twins A Red Deer family hopes a birthday celebration this week for two-year-old twins also encourages people to donate blood.

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LEFT: A Great Grey Owl with a broken wing recovers in the owl enclosure at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre.

RIGHT: In the makeshift hospital, Medicine River Wildlife Centre volunteer Sarah Bodmer conducts a necropsy on an American crow and juvenile robin to determine cause of death BELOW: A volunteer holds a 1-2 day old red squirrel, feeding it with a small paintbrush.

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CENTRE: Fills a niche Such scenarios are common at this time of year, as spring and early summer are the most hectic at the wildlife centre.

Baby crows or magpies are routinely injured by cats, or fly into windows. Bats are discovered in rafters and skunks under stoops. Ducks relocate their nests and lose chicks. Fawns are orphaned when their mothers are killed in road accidents. ...

“We’ve treated everything from moose to hummingbirds over the years, more than 200 different species,” said Kelly.

She answers up to 80 calls a day, and then routinely hears gratitude expressed for the centre’s help and advice. “People say, ‘Thank goodness you’re here. You people are wonderful. What would we do without you?’ ” Kelly is pleased that the non-profit wildlife centre she started in 1984 fills an important niche in Central Alberta. It’s now rare to hear anyone say “Why don’t you just shoot it?” about injured wildlife, as Kelly often heard 31 years ago when she began operating the centre south of Raven.

“People now expect injured animals to be taken care of,” she added.

Kelly, who worked with wildlife in Newfoundland before moving to Alberta with her husband, would like Central Albertans to know there’s a way they can help the centre continue helping animals.

The dilapidated structure housing the wildlife hospital has a disintegrating in-floor heating system, so there’s an urgent need to build a new facility before winter sets in.

The centre is already halfway toward its goal of financing a new $800,000 hospital structure, said Kelly.

In fact, the foundation for it has been poured and an area resident is set to buy the wooden frame of the old building to create a storage shed on his property.

Kelly is also ready to order new pre-fabricated cement insulated walls for the new hospital — but she needs to raise $400,000 first through a crowd-funding campaign.

The rest of the hospital’s costs have been secured through public and corporate cash donations and donations in kind.

Kelly hopes Central Albertans will support the project with whatever they can afford to give. For instance, if the 52,000 people who liked a Facebook story about the centre helping a dazed deer that hid under a Christmas tree all sent $10 towards the project, the goal will have been met, said Kelly.

“I think it’s time for people to understand that there’s a real sense of urgency now.”

Other than badly needing a new hospital facility and having longer-term plans to replace the interpretive centre, the Medicine River Wildlife Centre is

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Kelly said operational money is in place for the eight paid staff members, who run the centre, its hospital and education programs with six student volunteers.

Philip Hennock is among the students who have come from afar to get work experience at the wildlife centre while travelling across Canada.

Hennock, from Sussex, England, has a zoology degree and interest in a career in animal conservation or surveying. He said he’s enjoyed caring for a variety of animals in the hospital.

A fawn was brought in with a gash on her side, possibly from machinery or a barbed wire fence.

Sundre veterinarians stitched her up and the young deer is recuperating.

There’s an owl that lost sight in one eye from slamming into something, a bristly orphaned porcupine, and a multitude of young crows and magpies with a variety of wing and leg breaks.

A young golden eagle fell out of his nest and was also at the wildlife hospital for a while. But he was near starvation for a week before being brought in and eventually succumbed to his injuries.

“Sometimes it’s hard when they don’t make it,” said Brittany Ginter, a hospital co-ordinator. “But we’ve seen so much that we understand they’re not all going to survive. ...”

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hope the bird’s broken wing will mend so he can eventually be released back into the wild.

Raptors are of most interest to Sarah Bodmer, a student from Germany. She came to the centre to gain life experience. Although she aims to be a pilot some day, Bodmer said, “It’s cool to hold an owl or an eagle.”

Kelly’s staff try placing baby birds with “foster families” already living in nest boxes on the property. As long as an orphaned baby swallow or bluebird is the same age as the other young birds in a nest, the mother doesn’t seem to mind looking after it.

Baby ducks are placed in a cage holding a large plush duck toy. The ducklings automatically run underneath the “mama” stuffy because it gives them security, said Kelly, with a chuckle.

When asked what will happen to these animals if a new, heated wildlife hospital can’t be erected before winter, Kelly admitted she doesn’t know. “I don’t have a Plan B.” But she remains optimistic that Red Deer residents will want to offer their support. “I don’t think they would be happy if we didn’t have a wildlife rehabilitation centre between Calgary and Edmonton.”

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Two crows have been born to normal looking parents that have most of the body and head feathers missing, according to the Medicine River Wildlife Centre.

They are only the second family recorded in North America with this condition, according to a Medicine River

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As the temperature heats up, the action at Discovery Canyon at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area in Red Deer gets busy. During Friday’s heat of the day, the cool water flowing through the park was obviously the place to be. Over the weekend temperatures are expect to get a little cooler before rising to the high twenties early next week.

Wildrose to choose byelection candidate on Aug. 15

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta’s Wildrose Opposition is getting reading for the yet to be called Calgary-Foothills byelection.

Leader Brian Jean says party members will choose a candidate to run in the byelection on Aug. 15.

Former premier Jim Prentice won the riding in the May 5 provincial election but quickly resigned when the Progressive Conservatives were swept from power.

Premier Rachel Notley says no date has been set for the byelection.

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failed and the pipe fell to the ground, striking and crushing one worker’s right leg,” she said.

There is a stop use order on the style of stand used when the incident took place, under Section 12 of the OHS code.

The incident is now under investigation.

One Fox Creek homicide victim was from Red Deer

RCMP hunting for parole violator

BRIEFS A Red Deer woman was one of the two victims in the Fox Creek-area double murder at a work camp on Tuesday.

Daniel Goodridge, 28, of Edmonton has been charge with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and other related charges.

Police have released the ages and hometowns of the two victims. Hally Dubois, a 50-year-old Red Deer woman, and David Derksen, a 37-year-old La Crete man, were killed.

Police were called to the camp, about 50 km outside of Fox Creek, just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday.

They found the two victims and later located the suspect.

Goodridge will appear in Fox Creek provincial court on July 27.

Alberta RCMP are renewing the call for public assistance to locate parole violator Stanley Dick, who is considered armed and dangerous and continues to elude officers.

Dick, 31, of Drumheller, is wanted on numerous charges in Red Deer, Blackfalds and Drumheller.

Charges in Red Deer include flight and dangerous driving, and driving while disqualified.

Stanely Dick He faces four charges in Blackfalds that include dangerous driving and resisting arrest. Eleven

Jean says because of the looming byelection the party will set aside a rule that says people must be a party member for six months before they can run as a Wildrose election candidate.

The Alberta New Democrats have set July 27 for their meeting that will determine who will carry the party flag in Calgary-Foothills.

Notley noted that people in the riding have faced two elections in the past eight months and are to go the polls again this fall in a federal election.

She said she must consider these factors before deciding on the byelection date.

“We’re deliberating on it but it’s a bit of a dicey situation because we’ve got a federal election in the middle of it and you want to be respectful of that process,” Notley said Friday.

Drumheller charges include uttering threats and break and enter.

Dick is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. Police put out their first call for public assistance to locate Dick on June 26.

RCMP are warning people not approach Dick and should instead call their local police.

You can also call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com, if you want to remain anonymous. Information that leads to an arrest could lead to a cash reward of up to $2,000.

Dozens of cats, dogs removed from Ponoka-area home Thirty-nine cats and four dogs were rescued from a Ponoka-area home on Thursday night.

Alberta SPCA seized the animals after complaints from neighbours and other residents who were concerned for the health of the cats.

The owner has since relinquished ownership of the dogs and cats.

The animals are being cared for at Klassic Kennels and Alberta Animal Services. They will be assessed by veterinarians.

No charges are pending at this time.

Worker’s leg crushed by pipe Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is investigating a workplace accident where a pipe crushed a 17-year-old’s leg at CMR Fabrications Ltd. in Penhold on Tuesday.

OHS spokeswoman Danielle Boucher said workers were using a pipe stand with a saddle to support a pipe weighing more than 300 kg around 9:15 a.m.

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Habitat for Humanity received $75,000 from the city, boosted by $225,000 in provincial government grants based on a 25/75 split. The money from Lacombe’s Affordable Housing Fund will be used to build a pair of duplexes in the community.

Another $80,000, using the same cost-sharing formula, will come out of the fund for a five-bedroom Supported Independence Housing project by Central Alberta Youth Unlimited. The Lacombe group is buying a five-bedroom house to provide a temporary home for four men between the ages of 16 and 24 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Char Lockhart, housing co-ordinator for Central Alberta Youth Unlimited, said the funding help allows them to purchase the home and begin work on turning it into a place where people can be helped to improve their lives.

“We’ve been working for three years to get the project off the ground. So that was kind of the final boost we needed to actually get moving forward,” said Lockhart.

The total cost of the project will be about $323,000, of which $90,000 has been lined up. They will carry a mortgage on the home and would welcome any other donations.

It is expected the house will be ready by fall. A second phase of the project will kick off shortly after that to raise money for housing for eight to 10 men and women that will hopefully be available next year.

Habitat for Humanity’s project will cost about $868,000 and the goal is to have the money together by an official sod turning ceremony set for Aug. 21 that will be attended by Alberta Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell and her husband. A formal garden party will follow that evening at Parkland Nurseries on Hwy 11, just east of Red Deer.

Habitat for Humanity executive director Brian Brake said the $300,000 Lacombe donation will pay for the lot costs.

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Blood drive honours twins AUSTIN AND JAXSON HATCH REQUIRED MULTIPLE TRANSFUSIONS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer family hopes a birthday celebration this week for two-year-old twins also encourages more people to donate blood.

Katrina Hatch, 34, required 19 blood transfusions during her pregnancy before she gave birth in 2013 to her premature twin sons Austin and Jaxson, who also needed multiple transfusions.

Hatch and her sons were at the Canadian Blood Services donor clinic in Red Deer on Friday for their second annual blood drive, where people could donate blood in honour of the twins.

The blood drive started in Calgary on Monday, on the twins’ birthday.

“Canadian Blood Services went above and beyond. They got them a cake. It was a really good way to celebrate the birthday because last year we could only do it with Jaxson because Austin was in hospital and couldn’t come out. This year was really special,” Hatch said.

When Hatch was 17 weeks pregnant, she was hospitalized for two months due to bleeding caused by placenta previa. The twins were born at 26 weeks, weighing 816.47 and 907.18 grams (1.8 and two pounds). Both have had numerous life-threatening complications.

The twins spent many months in care at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, where Hatch spent 534 days in Ronald McDonald House to be near her boys.

Now Jaxson is walking and Austin, who has required the most surgeries, has learned to crawl despite the real possibility that he was going to end up in a wheelchair.

“We’ve dodged that bullet. It’s been amazing since they’ve been home.”

She said both boys still require oxygen and there’s a chance Austin may require more surgery.

“We’re in the clear so far, but we’re not out of the woods.”

She said on Monday in Calgary there were some empty chairs at the blood donor clinic, which was really disappointing because chances are everyone will have someone in their life who needs blood.

Hatch donates whenever she can and will encour-

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Katrina Hatch attended an Honour Clinic at the Red Deer office of Canadian Blood Services Friday. With her she brought family friend Tyler Symons, left, her two-year-old twins Austin, left, and Jaxson and her son Kayden, 8. Katrina needed a total of 19 blood transfusions between her 20th and 26th weeks of pregnancy with the twins. age her children to become blood donors. Her oldest son Keegan, 16, will be old enough to be a donor next year.

“My grandma used to be huge into donating. I never understood why. Now I know. If it wasn’t for people taking the time, my kids would not have been

here.”

Hatch said if people are ineligible to donate blood, they may qualify for Canadian Blood Services’ OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network.

For more information, visit www.blood.ca. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Olympic champion leads Stampede parade CALGARY — Two-time Olympic bobsled champion Kaillie Humphries sported a gold-medal smile Friday as she presided over the kickoff to the Calgary Stampede.

An estimated 250,000 people took the morning off work, donned cowboy hats, boots and jeans, and lined up early for the parade, which marks the beginning of a 10-day celebration of the cowboy way of life.

“I’m super excited. This is honestly a dream come true, so I’m speechless. I really don’t know what to say except it’s going to be an amazing time,” said Humphries, sitting on a horse named Que. Humphries won the two-woman event at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and then successfully defended her title in 2014 in Sochi. Last November, she piloted a mixed-gender team to the bronze medal in the Canadian four-man bobsled championships.

Serving as parade marshal was clearly a highlight.

“This I prize very highly among the rest of all the other major accomplishments,” she said.

“It made my day and my year so much better. I don’t honestly think anything can top this.”

Previous marshals have included Canadian actor William Shatner, astronaut Chris Hadfield, country singer Ian Tyson, Man in Motion Rick Hansen, Mickey Mouse, actors Leslie Nielsen, Jack Palance and Sam Elliot, and former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

Andrea Daye arrived at 5 a.m. with a fleece blanket and coffee to stake out a prime spot along the route.

“I think the excitement of the parade is really something that can’t be missed. I like to get down here and get a good spot so my kids can watch it,” she said, adding her sons are most excited about the cowboys and the tanks.

Walter Klingele nabbed his spot about a half-hour later. He said he was looking forward to seeing Humpries head up the parade.

“She did a great job and I’m glad she’s doing the front today.”

Shatner, last year’s marshal, “didn’t wave much” from his vintage convertible, Klingele recalled.

“He was in the car. I wish he was on a horse. I would have seen him better on a horse.”

Rachel Notley, who was elected as Alberta’s premier in May, was taking part in her first parade.

“This time last year, when I was here at the Stam-

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HOUSING: Determined by local needs Since 1994, Habitat for Humanity’s Central Alberta branch has built 25 homes — 23 of in Red Deer — for worthy low-income families. That works out to be a little over one home a year.

Earlier this year, the non-profit society said it wanted to dramatically boost the number of homes built this year to 10.

Brake said he has already handed over keys to five homes in Red Deer and Lacombe will bring the number up to nine.

Council approved the housing support based on recommendations from the community’s Affordable Housing Committee.

Provincial affordable housing grants were received from 2007 to 2009 and held for suitable projects.

“We’ve been holding on to this money for a number of years,” said Guy Lapointe, Lacombe community and economic development manager. “We have now identified some projects we can use this funding towards.”

In the meantime, Lacombe undertook to determine its local needs and in 2014, a Lacombe Housing Plan and an Affordable Housing Strategy were adopted.

Lapointe said money remains in the city’s affordable housing fund that can be used for future projects.

For more information on donating to the projects, go to www.cayu.ca and habitatreddeer.ca. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

pede campaigning for the leadership of the NDP, I will say I did not plan to be (in the) parade on a horse the following year. It’s very exciting. I feel very privileged,” she said.

“I have ridden on a horse, although not for about 40 years.”

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said he doesn’t expect a downturn in the energy sector to dampen the party mood.

“Will people spend quite as much money? Maybe not, but there’s a quarter million people out there and they seem like it’s time to celebrate.”

The leaders of the three major federal parties, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, NDP leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, were also in attendance.

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Police piecing together blast at law firm WINNIPEG

WINNIPEG — A bomb sent to a Winnipeg law firm seriously injured a lawyer whose boyfriend was disbarred earlier this week for misappropriating client funds.

Winnipeg police were trying to put together the pieces of a puzzle Friday after an explosion left Maria Mitousis, a 35-year-old family law associate and community volunteer, in hospital. “We have no reason to believe this is an attack on the justice system,� Police Supt. Danny Smyth told reporters. “We’re not considering this to be a general threat to lawyers, law firms or the general public. We’re treating this right now as a very specific crime.�

Police say Mitousis was alone at the small firm — Petersen King — just south of downtown Friday morning when an explosive device that had been sent to the office went off.

Nearby residents alerted police and the area was evacuated.

Police would not comment on her injuries, but one source who spoke to The Canadian Press on condition of anonymity said Mitousis lost a hand and was in danger of losing the other one.

After the blast, police went to the downtown law firm where she had worked until last fall — Monk Goodwin — and workers were removed as a precaution.

Mitousis’s boyfriend, Barry Gorlick, had worked at that firm before being disbarred Monday on 15 counts of professional misconduct.

Gorlick pleaded guilty to misappropriating $87,329 from one client and $10,060 from another, according to the ruling from the Law Society of Manitoba. He also admitted to misleading a third client who was going through a divorce by telling her lies, including that she was going to receive millions of dollars in spousal support and property settlement.

Smyth said police “were aware� of the connection to Gorlick and media coverage of his misdeeds, but stressed they had no suspects and no motive yet for the bombing.

They were not certain whether Mitousis was the intended target.

Even though police believe no one else was at immediate risk, the Law Society of Manitoba sent a warning to members noting that other firms have received suspicious mail recently. “Under the circumstances, it would be prudent to exercise caution when dealing with mail and deliveries.�

Mitousis’s profile on the LinkedIn website says she was on the board of the St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church for five years. It also says she is a board member of the Hellenic Professional Association of Manitoba, which promotes Greek culture in Manitoba.

Petersen King is described as a boutique family law firm on the Internet.

One of its former partners was Jack King, the now-deceased husband of former Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Lori Douglas.

King pleaded guilty to professional misconduct and had a reprimand placed on his file in 2011 after he admitted he had tried to convince a client in 2003 to have sex with Douglas, who was then a lawyer with King at another firm. That client, Alexander Chapman, would later file a complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council over nude photos of Douglas that King had shared. The council launched an inquiry that became bogged down in procedural wrangling and accusations of unfairness, and Douglas ended up retiring last year.

King helped establish the law firm after his misdeeds in 2003 and enjoyed the last decade of his career there, according to his obituary.

Bernardo applies for day parole

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Paul Bernardo has applied for day parole in Toronto, though lawyers say he has almost no chance of succeeding.

The lawyer for the families of Bernardo’s murder victims, 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy and 15-year-old Kristen French, said Correctional Service Canada sent out a form letter to the families last week advising them of his application.

It is Bernardo’s right to apply for day parole three years before he is eligible for full parole on his life sentence, but this has left families of both girls devastated, even though they knew this day was coming, said their lawyer Tim Danson. “It is 22 years after the fact for my clients,� Danson said. “It was — I don’t even know what words to use — but really upsetting for them. It just brings everything back and they have to re-live things.�

He has told the families that there is no chance Bernardo will ever see the outside world again, that this is simply part of the process.

Bernardo was sentenced to life with no chance for parole for 25 years for raping and murdering Mahaffy and French.

He was also given dangerous offender status, the most severe designation in Canadian law, for admitting to raping 14 other women and other charges related to Mahaffy and French. Dangerous offenders can be imprisoned indefinitely.

Danson said he received the letter

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Deaths of three males in house tied to shooting BOUCHERVILLE, Que. — The deaths of three men found in a home set ablaze south of Montreal are possibly the result of a murder-suicide and are linked to a shooting north of the city, police said Friday.

A man in his 50s and a 30-year-old woman were shot around 6 p.m. Thursday in the office of a law firm in Terrebonne, just north of Montreal.

Police said the shooting victims remained in critical condition.

Officers then discovered the bodies of the three men just after midnight Friday in a Boucherville home that had been set ablaze.

Longueuil police spokesman Tommy Lacroix said the bodies are likely those of a father and his two sons but he wouldn’t confirm the information because the corpses had not been officially identified. “What we know up to now is that one of the people inside the house —

on June 25 and has been corresponding with the authorities since then.

It’s rare for people convicted of first-degree murder to also be designated dangerous offenders, since firstdegree murder already carries a life sentence. Danson believes the dangerous offender designation must be dealt with first, rather than the murder charges. “There is a process that’s set up for dangerous offenders to persuade the parole board that you’re no longer a dangerous offender, which is different criteria than normal parole board criteria,� he said. “That must be dealt with first.�

He said the authorities are working with him to figure out the proper process.

Michael Mandelcorn, president of the Canadian Prison Law Association, which advocates for prisoners’ rights, said the stigma of a dangerous offender designation inhibits any chance of parole. “There’s a huge amount of time that goes by before somebody normally gains a release on a dangerous offender designation,� said the Kingston, Ont.-based lawyer. “And those people are few and far between.�

While Mandelcorn has never worked with Bernardo, he said it’s unlikely he will be able to convince a parole board that he’s not at risk to re-offend. “He’s now in a maximum security institution. The normal chain of events is that you have to cascade downwards,� he said. “He needs correctional services’ support, he needs halfway house support. At this stage I would very much doubt that he has either.� one of the victims — seems to have left the house at night and when he came back set the house on fire before committing suicide,� Lacroix said.

Wind in Saskatchewan clearing some smoke, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says wind is proving to be a “doubleedged sword� in fighting wildfires in the northern part of the province.

Wall met Friday with emergency officials and community leaders in La Ronge, and also stopped to thank a group of firefighters for their efforts.

He said wind was threatening to spread the flames, while at the same time clearing enough dense smoke to get some firefighting aircraft off the ground. “I think they are hopeful to use the assets in the air a little bit more,� Wall said. “This is an amazing effort that’s happening ... we won’t be able to thank them enough.�

The province estimates the fires have forced at least 5,200 people from their homes since in the past week.

Fifty-one towns, villages and reserves around La Ronge and La Loche have been evacuated or partially-evacuated as a precaution.

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A bluffer’s guide to the eurozone crisis Political parties rarely commit suicide. The current crisis in Greece, which has led to Sunday’s referendum on the terms of a deal with the European Union, is mainly about the survival of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza Party. But it is also about the electoral future of Germany’s governing party, the Christian Democratic Union.

Almost all of Tsipras’s time since Syriza was swept into power in last January’s elecGWYNNE tion has been DYER devoured by negotiations about Greece’s foreign debt — at 175 per cent of gross domestic product, the highest in the developed world. But the negotiations did not focus on what to do about that staggering burden, which is so big it can never be repaid.

Four-fifths of the money is owed to official European bodies like the European Central Bank, with a relatively small role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but the “eurozone” authorities just want to kick the can down the road.

Why? Because 90 per cent of the money they have lent Greece in successive bailouts goes straight back to the German and French banks that financed Greece’s 10-year party on borrowed money.

Greece’s economy was too weak to join the euro, but the government of the day manufactured false statistics that concealed that fact. Once in the euro, the Greek public and private sectors could borrow money at low “German” rates — and they borrowed vast sums.

That money was blown in a massive spending spree on luxury goods, early retirement deals for the voters, anything but productive investment. The Greeks thought they were being very clever, but then came the global financial crisis of 2008. Greece’s economy has been on life support ever since, and the first bailout came in 2010.

It wasn’t charity. The richer eurozone countries were protecting their own banks, who recklessly lent Greece the money, and trying to stop Athens from crashing out of the euro, which would raise awkward questions about the viability of the new single currency as a whole. (At least four other eurozone countries — Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland — were also in financial difficulties at the time.)

So Greece got the money, but to justify these bailouts to voters in the richer eurozone countries (who were really footing the bill), the Greeks had to accept severe austerity measures.

So severe that the Greek economy has

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shrunk by a quarter in the past five years and 25 per cent of Greeks are now unemployed.

Yet during that time Greece’s debt has continued to grow. Greece’s only hope of escape from perpetual austerity is a “restructuring” of the debt that writes off as much as half of it. But Germany and the eurozone’s other big creditor countries will not even discuss that, because their own taxpayers would rebel.

So five months of negotiations about Greece’s debt haven’t even touched on “restructuring” it. They have just been about what new austerity measures Greece must accept to get the last tranche of the last bailout, which would give Athens enough money to pay the loans that are coming due this summer.

Tsipras was elected on an anti-austerity platform, and the left of his own Syriza Party would rebel if he gave in to all the demands for further cuts in Greek government spending. He came

close to his “red lines” in June, but he would not cross them — and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel still won’t discuss writing off some of Greece’s debt.

So in the end Tsipras walked away and called a referendum.

The last eurozone offer, which only crossed Tsipras’s red lines a little bit, is no longer even on the table, but the referendum on Sunday asks Greek voters if they will accept it. The eurozone leaders say it is therefore a vote on whether Greece wants to leave the euro (and quite likely the EU as well), but Tsipras insists that a ‘No’ vote will just strengthen his hand in another round of negotiations.

If the Greeks vote ‘Yes’ — and they may well do so, because they really want to stay in the euro and the EU — then Tsipras says he will simply quit and let somebody else take the blame for accepting the terms. His own party’s unity will be intact, and he will be a hero to the Greek left. There

would have to be a new election, and he might even win it. (A referendum win requires 51 per cent of the vote; you can win a Greek election with 35 per cent.)

If the Greeks vote ‘No’, Tsipras will stay in power. Maybe there would then be further negotiations, but that depends mainly on whether Merkel can be moved on the question of debt relief. That could be very costly politically for her, but after the talks collapsed both the European Commission and the IMF put out statements saying that writing off some of Greece’s debts could be part of future negotiations.

If Tsipras doesn’t get a solid promise on that after winning a ‘No’ vote, he might end up leading Greece out of the euro and the EU. That would open several new cans of worms, but we can wait until Sunday before we get the can-openers out.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Learning to love and accept everyone “Canada has to be one of the worst countries in the world for discrimination,” was the statement that came out of his mouth as we were visiting at the kitchen while preparing for a dinner.

This came from a man who while he was working as a tow-truck operator was asked if he would not like to improve himself or make something more out CHRIS of his life than SALOMONS ‘just tow truck driving.’ His response at that time was: “Not really, I honestly like what I’m doing.”

As we were discussing this topic, he asked what the reason was for asking a question like that.

He realizes now more than ever that he was and is perfectly happy doing the work that he is doing. So of course that started the gears in my head turning again.

I thought about the attitude often displayed toward the folks on the street; the attitude towards the native

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or any other race of people that inhabit our dominantly white culture. For that matter, even the attitudes (and this is where it starts), toward people of ‘lower’ positions than ours.

What exactly generated that discriminatory attitude that seems to be so prevalent in our society? Furthermore, how does it start and how far does it go?

You may not agree with my thought process, but this is how my mind took this subject to any kind of conclusion.

Two words came to mind as I thought about this subject: pride and fear.

For a lot of people, when they are in a position of affluence or a supposed or imagined higher standard, a degree of arrogance takes over and they tend to use this standard to judge other folks who may not be at that same level of loftiness.

What we don’t take the time to realize is society’s need for people in those positions that we so often deem lower than our own.

I can’t imagine too many of these same lofty people desiring to be garbagemen or house-cleaners, or grocery clerks for that matter — “I’m much better than that!”

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developed or as intelligent as we are.

We are all guilty of the same way of thinking, and that attitude is returned to us by the same people we discriminated against.

That folks is pride in its ugliest form, pure and simple.

The other factor is fear. Living in a country that gives almost every race and colour of people equal access to immigration puts the incumbents in a position of not knowing how many of these people think.

A lot of times that makes us fearful of how they will act in the operation of our society and so we feel threatened.

Many are the comments that are overheard stating how one group of people or another is going to take over, or of how they are taking our jobs (jobs we wouldn’t lower ourselves to do, jobs below our level of dignity), and the list goes on and on. In order to bolster our way of thinking, we then run these people down with defamatory comments and criticism.

The key here is rejection because of the differences in daily living. If we can’t control them to our way of thinking and acting, then we reject them which is the ultimate form of discrimination.

The opportunity to place ourselves over other people is too easy a temptation to ignore. Then because these

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What is worse is that those who find themselves in that state of rejection in some cases can begin to feel unworthy and therefore unwanted. And, voila, you have a fractured society.

I wonder what our society would look like if before we even thought about opening our mouth or venturing an opinion, we actually took the time to think about the impact our words might have?

What is really evident to me is the rejection felt by the folks on the street, and those whose vocation is not of the glamorous type.

Is there discrimination in Canada?

For sure there is, but it all starts with the simple types of feelings like above, which we all have at times, then allow them to escalate.

I know it sounds smaltzy to a lot of people, but the only way in my opinion to overcome this state of negative behaviour is to learn to love and accept; not only those who are nice to us or those who line our wallets, but everyone, including tow-truck drivers.

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Reaching our potential Canada likes to boast that one of its greatest advantages in attracting investment is that so many Canadians have a post-secondary education. The federal government’s Why Invest in Canada? campaign, for example, states that “Canada’s workforce is the most highly educated among member of the OECD, DAVID with half its CRANE working-age population having a tertiary level of education.”

Yet new data shows this does not necessarily translate into high levels of literacy or numeracy. The data, published by Statistics Canada as part of the OECD’s Project for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, should raise questions about how well our investments in education are paying off and how well we are doing in ensuring that all Canadians have the opportunity to develop their potential.

The results, based on testing of 27,285 Canadians in the 16 to 65 age

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group, found that Canada ranked at the OECD average in literacy and below the OECD average in numeracy.

Within NAFTA, the U.S. and Mexico both ranked lower than Canada, making Canada the best performer in North America. But Canada lagged significantly behind Japan and Scandinavian countries such as Finland and Sweden.

The findings reinforce the need to pay much greater attention to the needs of the bottom 40 per cent of our society rather than the much broader middle class. They also underline the need to put more effort into early childhood development and improving non-cognitive skills that are so important for readiness to learn, as well as raising the quality of math, science and technology education in elementary schools. They also point to the urgency of improving Aboriginal education and to providing better English (or French)-as-a-second-language training.

Only a relatively small part of our working-age population is developing the needed literacy, numeracy and computer-related problem solving skills for success in today’s economy, while far too many Canadians are at the lowest levels of needed skills. The survey also found that between 2003 and 2012, Canada’s performance declined in both literacy and numeracy scores.

In addition to testing for literacy and numeracy, the survey tested Canadians on their ability to use digital technology to solve complex problems.

The survey found that 37 per cent of Canadians performed at the two highest score levels, compared to 44 per cent of Swedish and Dutch participants, 42 per cent of Finns and 41 per cent of Norwegians. But 15 per cent of Canadians ranked at the very lowest level.

“Given the centrality of written communication and basic mathematics in virtually all areas of life, coupled with the rapid integration of ICT, individuals must be able to understand, process, and respond to textual and numerical information, print and digital, it they are to participate fully in society,” Statistics Canada said, declaring that the three skills measured “provide a foundation for the development of other, higher-order cognitive skills, and are prerequisites to gaining access to, and understanding of, specific domains of knowledge.”

Without a strong foundational skills base, it is hard to progress in society today.

The survey showed that 14 per cent of working-age Canadians had the highest level of literacy skills, which meant they could deal with complex problems — compared to 23 per cent in Japan, 22 per cent in Finland, 19 per

cent in the Netherlands, 16 per cent in Australia and Sweden and an OECD average of 13 per cent. Moreover, 17 per cent of working-age Canadians had only the very lowest levels of literacy skills, compared, for example, to just five per cent in Japan and 11 per cent in Sweden and an OECD average of 15 per cent.

Not only was Canada’s numeracy score below the OECD average but we ranked 11th out of 24 countries. Some 13 per cent of working-age Canadians ranked at the highest level of numeracy skills, compared to 19 per cent in Finland, Japan and Sweden, while 23 per cent of working-age Canadians were at the lowest level of numeracy skills, compared to just eight per cent in Japan, 13 per cent in Finland and 14 per cent in Sweden (and 31 per cent in the U.S.).

There’s no doubt there are many successes in our education system. But far too many Canadians are failing to achieve their potential.

This lowers life chances for many and weakens our country due to lost potential. We may have the most people with post-secondary education but we don’t have the best-educated workforce.

Economist David Crane is a syndicated Toronto Star columnist. He can be reached at crane@interlog.com.

Reunion reminders to remember Ah … reunions. So many kinds, so many potential disasters, so many turbulent mega-litres of water under the bridge.

You have your high school reunions, family reunions, book club reunions (now called E-reader reunions), golf buddy reunions, college reunions, bowling league reunions, fight club reunions, etc. and etc. — not to mention reunions to mark the last time you had a HARLEY reunion.

HAY I was thinking about reunions whilst lying face down, immobile and exhausted, on the nearest couch to the door (luckily it was the door to our house) because that’s as far as I could get after a big reunion last weekend.

Sure, we played a night full of music as hard as we could and throngs of old friends (and also some friends we’ve known for a long time) danced and, as we used to say, “boogied” as hard as they could for hours and hours. And our faces hurt because we couldn’t stop smiling.

The exhaustion part, however, for myself and many of the males there, came from the Herculean effort required to hold in our stomachs for, like, four or five solid hours. That spare tire that seems to develop as we gracefully age. That Dunlop. As in “my belly dun-lopped over!” (Har har. …)

But as is usual for all reunions, there was a room full of surprises.

Any reunion is an event full of: “That can’t be so-and-so!” — both good and not so good. As in: “Hey, check out so-and-so over there. She used to shuffle around school like a bag lady on her way to enrol in a convent, now she looks like she’s just stopped in for a moment on her way to marry Prince Harry.”

Or: “Wow, so-and-so used to be the prom queen (or king) and now she (or he) looks like a reject from a cast of the Walking Dead.”

But maybe the best kind of reunion was like the band get-together last weekend.

Lots of mayhem and cacophony and several other interesting words with a packed crowd and not a single name tag. It’s a little like jumping into a glistening pool full of random fish, but you don’t know the sharks from the guppies.

And the only way to find out who’s who is to dive in and start fishin’.

Someone once said: “A reunion is

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when former classmates and acquaintances are so grey and wrinkled, they don’t recognize you.”

But that’s half the fun, isn’t it? You can talk to a complete stranger in the bustling reunion crowd for 20 minutes and it hits you three days later that that complete stranger was your girlfriend for six months in Grade 10. Or your cousin from Montana. Or maybe the guy you thought was Debbie the accountant turned out to be George the cross-dresser.

But one thing is for sure for us baby boomers these days when it comes to reunions: it really is 50 shades of grey.

I clearly remember my 20th high school reunion. It was the classic case of mistaken identities, gob-smacking recognitions, and pretending to be someone else when somebody failed to recognize you. Many of the former classmates had been married right after high school, and there were a surprising amount of former teenaged friends there who now had teenaged children of their own.

Thing is, whilst having all these grownup kids and the fact that many of my former classmates were facing the empty nest syndrome was a dominant theme for discussion at the reunion, my Better Half stuck out like an swollen sore thumb on account of she was about nine and a half months pregnant at the time.

And apparently she was the only one there in that condition, although there were several male attendees with abdomens roughly the same size or significantly larger.

OK, so we got married later than some, had children later than many and arrived at the party later than most. Also, it is true that the Better Half is several years younger than Yours Truly and still looks like a perpetual teenager, but I must say it caused quite a gossip-fest at the ole reunion. It’s like the old joke that when you go to a reunion of your peers, you can become quite disappointed because there’s nobody in there but a bunch of old codgers!

But what I saw last weekend at the band reunion party was a group of young-at-heart boomers and honourary boomers reliving the past by celebrating the here and now with good music and good people. And, also, good beverages, which helped.

Because one of the best things about reunions is that they remind you of where you once were and what you’ve become, for better or for worse. And every single person there has a story to tell, whether they were once a prom king or a bag lady, a shark or a guppy, and whether they have been, after all these years, treading water, swimming or floating in the turbulent water under the bridge.

And when you are partying like it’s 1969, like we all did last weekend,

here are a few reunion reminders to remember, if your memory cells can remember to recall them: ● ‘Pulling an all-nighter’ is being able to sleep all night without having to get up and go to the bathroom. ● Your best dance moves are made waiting outside a locked bathroom door. ● Getting lucky is finding your car in the parking lot. ● Everything that works hurts and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work. ● Your knees buckle and your belt won’t. ● Your back goes out more than you

do. ● You know all the answers but nobody asks the questions.

Except at reunions.

That’s why we should all go to them once in a while.

Old age is when former classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald, they don’t recognize you.

Harley Hay is a local freelance writer, award-winning author, filmmaker and musician. His column appears on Saturdays in the Advocate. His books can be found at Chapters, Coles and Sunworks in Red Deer.

Weapons-grade uranium OK’d for road trip to Chalk River

BY JOANNA SMITH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The United States has approved what is expected to be the last shipment of weapons-grade uranium to be sent to Canada for the production of medical isotopes.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission signed an export licence on June 23 to transport 8.1 kg of highly enriched uranium from Oak Ridge, Tenn., along a secret route to Chalk River, Ont., by the end of this year.

There, for what is expected to be the last time, the uranium will be used to produce target material for the aging National Research Universal (NRU) reactor to irradiate in order to produce medical isotopes used in nuclear medicine.

“The game is over for Canada’s unnecessary and irresponsible use of bomb-grade uranium to produce medical isotopes. Better late than never,” Alan Kuperman, co-ordinator of the

Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a statement.

Kuperman has long been tracking the controversial U.S. exports of highly enriched uranium to Canada.

The Conservative government has committed to shutting down the routine production of medical isotopes at the NRU by Oct. 31, 2016.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Ltd., the subsidiary of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. that operates the NRU, will keep the reactor on standby until March 2018 in case of unexpected shortages in global supply.

CNL did not respond to requests for comment.

The shutdown includes the possibility of the NRU retaining licences to operate until March 2018 in case of unexpected shortages.

The isotope has a very short lifespan, causing it to disappear within a day of being generated and so it cannot be stockpiled.

Kuperman said that based on his

analysis of past usage, the newly approved shipment should last until production shuts down.

The shipment of highly enriched uranium north of the border has long been controversial, with anti-proliferation critics urging the U.S., which was always largely dependent on the Canadian supply of medical isotopes, to pressure Canada to convert to lowenriched uranium, which is safer.

Kuperman said Canada reneged on a pledge to convert to low-enriched uranium made in the 1990s — when it first announced its failed plan to build two new reactors that would have replaced the NRU. Kuperman said “it’s almost fateful” that, with the pending closure of the NRU, Canada is finally abandoning highly enriched uranium.

The Chalk River reactor, which began operating in 1957, is one of five major producers of molybdenum-99, which decays into the technetium-99m isotope used in 85 per cent of nuclear medicine procedures such as bone

scans and other diagnostic tests.

The other reactors, in Australia, South Africa, Belgium and the Netherlands, have either already begun, or will soon begin, using only low-enriched uranium.

“Canada is the only one of the big producers that did not commit or make efforts to convert its reactor-based production from (highly enriched uranium) to (low-enriched uranium),” Kuperman said.

Other sources, such as a cyclotron operated by TRIUMF, Canada’s national nuclear laboratory for particle and nuclear physics at the University of British Columbia, are in the works.

But even that project would produce only about 20 per cent of the Canadian supply.

“We remain really quite concerned about the medical isotopes supply,” said Dr. Andrew Ross, president of the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine.

Joanna Smith is a Toronto Star reporter.

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Europe ready for heat wave POPE GIVES THANKS FOR SOME RAIN

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Europeans struggled Friday to find relief from unusually high temperatures, but the UN weather agency said the continent is better prepared than ever to avoid major heat casualties.

From Spain to Poland, temperatures have climbed as a mass of hot air from Africa has pushed northward. Some cities have seen temperatures near or beyond 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), and they’re expected to stay high through the weekend.

World Meteorological Organization spokeswoman Clare Nullis told reporters Friday that Europe is “much, much better prepared” to cope with the heat than in 2003, when tens of thousands died in a heat wave — mostly elderly people in France.

Many European governments now have early warning systems in place.

French authorities were reaching out to vulnerable people and encouraging the homeless to use public baths. In Berlin, Europe’s biggest animal shelter was letting its dogs splash about in a pool.

A sudden sun shower, accompanied

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A man jumps into the canal of Ourcq in Paris, France. A mass of hot air moving north from Africa is bringing unusually hot weather to Western Europe in recent days, as temperatures in Paris rose to 36 degrees Celsius. by a rainbow, cooled the tens of thousands waiting Friday for Pope Francis to appear at Saint Peter’s Square in

Rome — where temperatures hit 33 degrees C (91 F).

“First the heat, then a shower. The

Lord is good,” a smiling Francis later told the faithful as many held umbrellas that kept both the sun and the raindrops away. “Even the water is welcome, since the Lord made it.”

Meteorologists say the heat wave is likely to slam Rome on Sunday.

Authorities in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, meanwhile, imposed a speed limit of 80 km/h (50 mph) on all concrete highways to prevent accidents. The extreme heat causes concrete to expand and push upward.

Experts, meanwhile, were assessing the possible effects of climate change on the heat wave.

“Man-made global warming greatly increases the number of such heat waves,” Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said in a statement, citing Europe’s heat wave and others in Pakistan, India and the western U.S. Others said it was too early to tell.

“It’s is premature to say whether it (the heat wave) can be attributed to climate change or whether it is due to naturally occurring climate variability,” said Omar Baddour, who coordinates the UN’s world climate data and monitoring program.

Good nuclear deal could lead to some common causes: Iran VIENNA — In a message to Washington, Iran’s foreign minister on Friday called for an end to “coercion and pressure” at the nuclear talks, suggesting a deal acceptable to his country will open the door to co-operation on fighting the upsurge of Middle East extremism threatening both nations’ interests.

Mohammad Javad Zarif did not mention the United States by name in his video message. But with the Iran sixpower talks having devolved essentially into bilateral U.S.-Iran negotiations over the past year, his comments were clearly directed at the Americans, who have been the primary drivers of the crippling economic sanctions imposed on his country over its nuclear program.

Any deal would result in an end to the sanctions. But negotiations remain bogged down ahead of the extended July 7 target date for an agreement.

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All 66 riders safely removed from 400-foot Ferris wheel that halted in Florida ORLANDO, Fla. — Firefighters safely evacuated all 66 riders stranded aboard The Orlando Eye after the 400-foot Ferris wheel that towers above central Florida abruptly halted Friday afternoon, authorities said.

Orange County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Kathleen Kennedy told The Associated Press no one was injured and everyone was taken off in an evacuation operation lasting three hours. She said the ride had initially stopped for more than 45 minutes.

Power was restored via a backup generator and firefighters on ladders clambered atop the enclosed capsules after each was slowly lowered to the ground, Kennedy said. She said the emergency crews had to reach in through a hatch and manually opened the doors of the gondolas because of limited power.

“All guests are safely evacuated,” she told AP by phone Friday evening, minutes after the last person was taken off.

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its nuclear program to make weapons while Iran insists it is only meant to generate power and for other peaceful uses. Suggesting that Islamic extremism is a far greater threat to the world than his country’s atomic activities, Zarif called for an end to “unjust economic sanctions” and for the West to join Iran in common cause against “the growing menace of violent extremism and outright barbarism.”

“The menace we’re facing — and I say we, because no one is spared — is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization,” Zarif said. He called for realignment from Iran’s nuclear activities, saying it was time to “open new horizons to address important, common challenges.”

Zarif and U.S Secretary of State John Kerry have taken the lead in the negotiations. In comments echoed by Zarif ahead of their renewed meeting on Friday evening, Kerry said the talks “are making progress.” But he also spoke of “some tough issues,” telling reporters, “We have a lot of work to do.”

The Obama administration says that at least part of the sanctions relief for Iran under any pact will depend on Iran’s full co-operation with the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency to probe allegations that Tehran worked secretly on atomic weapons. But hopes of progress any time soon on that issue dimmed Friday.

Yukiya Amano, head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, said his meetings with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani resulted in a “better understanding on some ways forward,” but that “more work will be needed.” The formulation of his statement was similar to previous ones issued by the IAEA, which has struggled for nearly a decade to resolve its concerns.

Amano’s trip Thursday to Tehran was significant because it represented his last chance to secure access and cooperation before the July 7 target date.

Rouhani also provided no hint of substantial progress. Iran has previously acknowledged some activities like experiments with detonators, but

says those activities had no connection to exploding a nuclear device and were instead developed for industrial purposes.

Repeating the standard Iranian line, Rouhani said after meeting Amano that the agency now understands the “pointless allegations” are “baseless.”

The issue was put on the IAEA front burner four years ago when the agency published an annex of 12 alleged activities it said pointed to nuclear weapons research and development by Iran.

A U.S. intelligence assessment published in 2007 raised similar allegations, but said the work ended early last decade. Iran says the suspicions are based on doctored intelligence from Israel, the United States and other adversaries.

The UN agency’s investigation has gained even more significance as part of the overall nuclear talks.

Amano said he discussed his agency’s monitoring of Iran’s commitments under any deal. Backed by the U.S., the agency seeks pervasive oversight to ensure Tehran doesn’t cheat.

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at an Albuquerque motel had fled parole in Tennessee, police said Thursday.

Albuquerque Police Department spokesman Tanner Tixier (tih-SHAY) said that Tomorio Walton had absconded from parole out of Memphis and it wasn’t clear how long he had been in New Mexico.

Chuck de Caro and his wife, Lynne Russell, were in their room when Walton, 27, allegedly tried to rob them, authorities said.

Russell, a former CNN anchor, said the couple stopped at an Albuquerque Motel 6 on Tuesday night after a long

day of travelling and they also had their dog. She said an armed man was at their door when she returned from getting something from their car.

“He pushed me into the room and that’s when my husband came out of the shower and saw what was happening,” Russell said. “We tried to calm him, confuse him and do everything we could do to just come out of it in one piece.”

Walton allegedly took de Caro’s briefcase before shooting at him. Both Russell and de Caro have concealed carry weapons permits and de Caro “fired back and it was a shootout,”

IS group says it destroyed archaeological pieces BEIRUT — Islamic State group militants have destroyed six archaeological pieces from the historic town of Palmyra that were confiscated from a smuggler, the group said.

An IS statement, released late Thursday, said the six busts were found when the smuggler was stopped at a checkpoint. The issue was referred to an Islamic court in the ISheld northern Syrian town of Manbij, which ordered that they be destroyed and the man be whipped.

Photographs released by the group show IS militants destroying the busts with large hammers. Another photo shows the smuggler being whipped.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday it was unclear if the busts were authentic or if the militants destroyed fake busts as a cover for the IS group’s own antiquities smuggling.

While there is no firm evidence of the amount of money being made by the Islamic State group from looting antiquities, satellite photos and anecdotal evidence confirm widespread plundering of archaeological sites in areas under IS control.

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Stratford

The little city that theatre built

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here are times when a selfie stick would come in handy. It was a lovely spring evening and my son and I were standing in front of Festival Theatre in Stratford, Ont., attempting to get a selfie with Shakespeare before the evening performance of Taming of the Shrew.

The gardens outside the main theatre are really quite stunning and a statue of Shakespeare is one of the highlights.

After several attempts, we finally managed to get both of our heads and the statue’s head in the shot just as trumpeters arrived to announce that ticketholders could take their seats.

The small city of Stratford is home to the largest classical repertory theatre in North America — but it wasn’t always a theatre town. There was a time when it was an industrial centre known for furniture manufacturing, locomotive repair and as the divisional headquarters for the Grand Trunk Railway.

Thomas Edison, the famous inventor and entrepreneur, had his first full-time job working as a telegrapher at the Stratford Station at the age of 16 in 1863. After only a few months on the DEBBIE job, he was held responsible for a near collision at the junction OLSEN and left the job before he could be fired. Fortunately, he found his true calling in life elsewhere.

With the advent of automobiles, the railway started dying out. By the early 1950s, many people were unemployed and the town was suffering from the loss of an economy that had sustained it for nearly 80 years.

It was at that point in time that Stratford-born journalist Tom Patterson came up with the idea to turn Stratford into a cultural destination by mounting a theatre festival devoted to the works of William Shakespeare. On Jan. 22, 1952, Stratford city council gave Patterson a grant of $125 to seek artistic advice. It was the best money they ever spent.

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TOP: Stratford’s City Hall building dates to 1898 and is a national historic site.

ABOVE AND RIGHT: Stratford has one of those quaint Elizabethan main streets where you find things like old-time ice-cream parlours, one of which is featured on Stratford’s chocolate tour.

Photos by DEBBIE OLSEN/ Freelance

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: There are more than 250 varieties of perennials in the Arthur Meighen Gardens, which are found next to the Festival Theatre in Stratford. It’s a good idea to go early to your show, so you have time to explore them.

Boat tours are popular on the Avon River.

There’s music inside the theatres and on the streets in Stratford.

The lobby lounge in the Bruce Hotel has a huge map of the world as it was in Shakespeare’s day.

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LEFT: One of the highlights of the Warehouse Costume Tour is trying on the costumes.

RIGHT: Our guide Nancy is showing us the prop books that aren’t really books at all. With more than 55,000 costumes and more than 100,000 catalogued items, Stratford’s costume warehouse is one of the largest in North America and Stratford is the top archival theatre in the world.

BELOW: What’s a skinny actor to do if they need to play a heavy-set person? Wear padded body garments.

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STRATFORD: Arts and theatre city Walk around Stratford today and you’ll discover an arts and theatre city that is unlike any other.

There are restaurants, hotels, service businesses and tour operators on the lively Main Street and beautiful parks along the Avon River. With four permanent theatres and 13 plays in a season, the Conference Board of Canada estimated in 2010 that the festival generates $139.8 million in economic activity, $75.6 million in taxes to all levels of government and 2,957 full-year jobs. Stratford has become the poster city for what funding the arts can do for a community.

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of land within steps of the famed Festival Theatre, the Bruce Hotel (thebruce.ca) is Stratford’s most luxurious accommodation.

The 25 rooms are all fully accessible, large and well-appointed, and there are two excellent restaurants onsite, a gym, an indoor resistance pool and a huge hot tub.

The hotel is beautiful and my son and I enjoyed impeccable personal service and nice little touches like a turndown service featuring cute house made fortune cookies with Shakespearean quotes inside. It was hands down one of the best properties I have had the pleasure of experiencing.

Rates for a twin room with breakfast start at $225 during the winter months and go up to $500 per night during the peak festival season. The made-to-order à la carte breakfast included in the rate was so good that I regretted not taking time to enjoy a dinner in the onsite restaurant — just another reason to come back.

For more information on visiting Stratford, go to the official tourism site at www.visitstratford.ca.

Debbie Olsen is a Lacombe-based freelance writer. If you have a travel story you would like to share or know someone with an interesting travel story who we might interview, please email: DOGO@telusplanet.net or write to: Debbie Olsen, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, Alta., T4R 1M9.

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Stratford bills itself as Canada’s premiere arts destination and few cities can rival it for culture or character. ● Take in a show or two or three: The Stratford Festival is featuring 13 productions this season. Be sure to take in one of the four Shakespearean plays on offer. Festival Theatre features an innovative thrust stage that is very much like the stage Shakespeare used in his Globe Theatre. At the time it was built, it was unique in the world and it has since inspired the design of other major theatre venues and attracted top actors to come to Stratford.

Over a weekend, we watched Taming of the Shrew, The Sound of Music and The Diary of Anne Frank — three completely different plays. I enjoyed the way director Chris Abraham presented Shakespeare’s most misogynistic play to a modern audience and I felt I really knew Anne Frank after watching that production, but The Sound of Music was my favourite production of the weekend. ● Go on the Costume Warehouse Tour: With more than 55,000 costumes and more than 100,000 catalogued items, Stratford’s costume warehouse is one of the largest in North America and Stratford is the top archival theatre in the world. A tour of the warehouse provides a glimpse of all that goes into staging a theatrical production and all of the people working behind the scenes. “When you see a production, you should try to understand how the director is trying to connect with you,” advised our guide Nancy. “The costumes and props used play a big part in that.” ● Rent a bike or a boat: Stratford is blessed with beautiful parks that front the Avon River. See the parkland from the river by going on a guided river cruise or by renting a canoe, a kayak or a paddleboat. Explore the trails and parkland on foot, rent a bike or enjoy a guided historic cycling tour (avonboatrentals.ca). ● Savour Stratford’s Chocolate Trail: If you can’t imagine life without chocolate, Stratford is a good place to be. The city is home to several long-standing chocolate factories and there are restaurants that know how to do it right. You can purchase a pass for the Chocolate Trail for $25 from Stratford Tourism (visitstratford.ca) and get six vouchers for chocolate foods and products at any of the locations on the trail — including Rheo Thompson, my favourite. If chocolate is not your thing, they also have a Bacon and Ale trail. ● Museums and Galleries: If you like museums and art galleries, be sure to check out Gallery Stratford (gallerystratford.on.ca) and the Stratford Perth Museum (stratfordperthmuseum.ca). Gallery TRAVEL WITH Stratford is located in the city’s historic pump house and until July 12, “because we care” it has a very moving holocaust exhibition by Jason PAY FOR 5 Schwartz entitled FragCASINO DAY TRIPS ments. The Stratford Perth - 6TH DAY TRIP IS FREE Museum is a bit of a drive from the downtown area, YELLOWHEAD CASINO but it’s worth the effort.

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NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN ADVENTURE ON THE CHURCHILL RIVER CAN PROVIDE SOME OF THE BEST FISHING IN NORTH AMERICA

BY DUANE MCCARTNEY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE When I think of wilderness, I think of the Churchill River system in the Canadian Shield in northern Saskatchewan.

The explorer Alexander Henry was one of the first white fur traders to reach the upper Churchill River. In his diary he noted, “We found the river frequently widened into lakes some 30 miles long and crowded with islands so that we were unable to distinguish the mainland on either side. … There were shallow and rocky channels with many rapids. …”

The river system is approximately 1,100 km long and is a series of lakes joined by rapids or falls. It passes through a forested landscape of rock outcroppings and muskeg in Canada’s Precambrian Shield.

Missinipe is a very small community on the Churchill River in northern Saskatchewan. It is 80 km north of La Ronge or about a five-hour drive north of Saskatoon. It is a main access point to the Churchill River.

Missinipe is located on the western shore of Otter Lake, which is one of the lakes that form the Churchill River.

The name Missinipe was the original name for the Churchill River, meaning “Big Water” in the Cree language.

The hamlet has a float plane service, canoe and fishing outfitters, lodges, a store, cabin rentals and a small campground. The area is part of the Lac La Ronge Provincial Park.

Otter Rapids are located six km north of Missinipe and you can get a spectacular view of the rapids from the Otter Rapids bridge. There are walking trails upstream and downstream of the rapids and a picnic area, as well as a small provincial park campground.

The cold, clear waters of the Churchill River have a reputation for some of the best walleye or pickerel fishing in North America, as well as above-average northern pike. People from all over Canada and the United States come here to fish.

On one memorable canoeing trip, I remember one of our teammates hooking on to a big fish that pulled his canoe in various directions for quite some time before finally breaking the high-test line. We never did figure out what kind of fish was on his hook. It might have been a sturgeon.

There is a vast difference between growth rates of fish from northern and southern waters. Fish grow slowly in the cold northern waters. This results in an extremely low replacement rate of fish in northern waters and anglers are encouraged to practise catch and release fishing for the very large trophy fish.

Early June is when the fishing ac-

tion really begins. My wife Joan and I were invited to join in a fishing trip with one of our sons, his wife and their young daughter on her first fishing trip.

We pre-booked our campsites with Saskatchewan Parks. It is necessary to book camping spots as this is basically the start of the fishing season.

From previous experience, our son knew his way around the many islands, lakes and tributaries. Otherwise it would be advisable to hire a fishing guide.

One of our son-in-laws and his fishing buddies plan an annual fishing trip every July and they rent cabins and boats through Thompson Outfitters at Missinipe. The six of them fish from a pontoon boat. The guide finds great places for them to fish and the shore lunches of fresh fish and bannock are simply awesome.

Missinipe may look like a frontier town, surrounded by wilderness, but visitors who venture this far north in Saskatchewan will be rewarded with great scenery and excellent fishing that make it well worth the long drive north. It’s one of my favourite spots in Canada.

Photos by DUANE MCCARTNEY/freelance

TOP: Churchill River system offers great places to fish. The McCartney family are waiting for the fish to bite.

ABOVE: Joan McCartney admires the wilderness scenery at Robertson Falls portage on the Churchill River.

BELOW: A float plane brings in another load of excited fishermen to these northern waters.

If you go ● There is great information and photographs of the area at http://www. krolltravel.com/stories/saskatchewanmissinipe.html ● Accommodation and boat and canoe rentals information at http://adventuredestinations.ca/lodges/thompsons_ camps_otter_lake_resort and at http:// www.churchillrivercanoe.com/ Duane McCartney is a Lacombe based freelance photographer, travel and agricultural writer.

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SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2015

ROOKIE QB HAS THREE TD TOSSES IN CFL DEBUT AS ALOUETTES TOP STAMPEDERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Montreal 29 Calgary 11 MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes look to found their starting quarterback — Rakeem Cato.

The rookie stepped into his first CFL game and threw three touchdown passes to lead the Alouettes to a convincing 29-11 victory over the defending Grey Cup champion Calgary Stampeders on Friday night.

He got a lot of help from his defence, who held the Stampeders off the scoreboard until late in the third quarter. Running back Tyrell Sutton was also a big help with 134 yards on 25 carries.

But the star of the game for his teammates and the 19,111 fans at Percival Molson Stadium was the 23-yearold Cato.

“I don’t get nervous,” said Cato. “I lived a rough life.

“I lost my mom. I never seen my father. Those things are hard. Not football. I love the game of football, so every moment I try to have fun with it.”

Cato completed 20 of 25 passes for 241 yards, including TD tosses to Samuel Giguere, Cody Hoffman and former Stampeders star Nik Lewis. Boris Bede added three field goals for Montreal (11).

“He’s an amazing player but now it’s time to build,” Lewis said of Cato.

“He’s still learning the offence.”

Jon Cornish had a touchdown, Marquay McDaniel added a two-point convert and Rene Paredes had a field goal for the Stampeders (1-1), who did not get on the board until Paredes’ 28-yard field goal 11:41 into the third quarter.

Calgary moved the ball most of the night, but laboured to put up points.

They had 309 yards in net offence and McDaniel had 113 receiving yards.

“We’re doing a good job of moving the chains, but when it comes to the big plays, we have to make them,” said quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell. “We’ve

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Montreal Alouettes quarterback Rakeem Cato throws for a touchdown against the Calgary Stampeders during first half CFL football action in Montreal, Friday. all got to look at ourselves in the mirror and look at the film.”

The Alouettes were forced to go with a rookie quarterback when both starter Jonathan Crompton and backup Dan LeFevour were hurt in a seasonopening loss to Ottawa last week.

Coach Tom Higgins opted for Cato over Canadian Brandon Bridge, who had seen his first CFL action against the Redblacks. Both took reps in practice all week and Cato said he didn’t

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Milos Raonic of Canada serves to Nick Kyrgios of Australia, during their singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Friday.

find out he was the starter until earlier Friday.

“He’s a pure passer,” said Higgins.

“We thought Brandon would get more snaps, but we have a quarterback who can get the ball to the receivers.”

He cautioned that opponents, including Winnipeg next week, would now have tape to watch of Cato’s play and it would get more difficult.

Cato led the Alouettes to a touchdown on their first possession. Looking

calm and efficient, he went 5 for 5 on a 95-yard drive capped by a six-yard TD pass to Giguere.

He led another drive for a 23-yard Bede field goal and, on the next-to last push of the first half, marched downfield again for a six-yard touchdown strike to Lewis, who ran over Brandon Smith on his way into the end zone.

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Raonic eliminated from third round

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON — A year after making the Wimbledon semifinal, a banged-up Milos Raonic made an early exit at the All England Club on Friday by dropping a four-set decision to flamboyant Aussie Nick Kyrgios.

The star player from Thornhill, Ont., who had foot surgery in May, said he was hurting “all over” by the end of his 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-3 third-round defeat.

The seventh-seeded Raonic was clearly suffering as the match went on. He called his foot the “instigator,” but said he was feeling pain in many places.

“I’m just dealing with a lot of things,” said the 24-year-old. “I still have some discomfort in my feet, so compensations and stuff like this just make any pain pretty much come up.

The more I got through the match the more difficult it was.”

“First, ankle, then the hip, and then the back,” he added. “Then when those things aren’t working, you just put too much pressure on your shoulder, and then your shoulder hurts.”

The Canadian said he had been expecting to have these issues during his recovery but it just became too much to overcome against Kyrgios, the 20-yearold rising star who stunned star Spaniard Rafael Nadal here last year.

“It’s disappointing,” said Raonic. “I wanted this tournament to last longer, but it is what it is.”

Raonic said even his reliable, blistering serve abandoned him.

“Oh, it wasn’t even there at the beginning of the match,” he said. “It wasn’t there. It’s just things I was dealing with from the start of the day from even the previous match, and I tried (to) make the most of it. That’s it. I had what I had, and I put it all out there.”

Kyrgios, who lost to Raonic in the 2014 quarter-finals, served 34 aces and hit flashy winners from all over the court to reach the round of 16.

“I don’t fear anyone,” the 26th-seeded Kyrgios said. “I definitely feel I’m playing better tennis than last year.”

The battle on Court 2 featured two of the young stars of the game and two of the biggest servers in tennis. While Raonic was stolid and businesslike, Kyrgios was as flamboyant and expressive as ever.

He went for spectacular winners, bantered with the crowd, pumped his fists and shouted. He hit three aces in a row in two different games. He hit second serves at 200 km/h. He waved his arms in the middle of a point that he lost. He hit a between-the-legs shot from close to the net that went long.

Kyrgios received a code violation in the second set after slamming his racket to the ground so hard it bounced over the back wall into the crowd. A male fan caught it and handed it back to him.

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McDavid’s dad looking forward to son’s life returning to normal

BY STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS Connor McDavid played 66 junior games for the Erie Otters this season and seven more at the world junior championship. Even when the hockey stopped, there was more to do.

McDavid went to Quebec City for the CHL awards, Buffalo for the NHL scouting combine, Edmonton for a visit and then South Florida for the NHL draft. This week, he’s back in Edmonton for the Oilers development camp, his first time on the ice in that orange and blue, and on Friday agreed

to terms on his three-year entry-level contract.

Amid all the excitement of a new chapter, McDavid’s father is looking forward to his youngest son going home to Newmarket, Ont., next week and resuming life as a normal teenager.

“He’s had such a busy schedule the last, oh gosh, I can’t even tell you when he’s had any real significant downtime,” Brian McDavid said in a phone interview this week.

“I’m really looking forward to next Tuesday when he gets back and he can sort of resume some semblance of a normal schedule, as normal as it ever gets for him where he can sort of be

around, see his friends, get up to the cottage with us on the weekends.”

McDavid has had a spotlight on him for years, which helped prepare the McDavid family for the circus that was coming. His father said he was fortunate to know some people who played in the NHL, so the whirlwind of events even after Connor’s junior career wasn’t a surprise.

“It sort of just goes with the territory,” Brian McDavid said. “It’s cool, mind you, I have to tell you that. It’s very cool. But it’s not shocking all the things that are happening.”

Talked about as the next Sidney Crosby or Wayne Gretzky, McDavid

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has looked poised at every turn of this journey.

Television cameras may have caught an unflattering look on his face when the Oilers won the draft lottery, but the reserved, genuine 18-year-old insisted that was no slight to the team lucky enough to draft him.

A couple of weeks ago, the McDavid family got a tour of Rexall Place and the new Rogers Place, which is set to open for the 2015-16 season. Brian McDavid said the new facilities are “outstanding.”

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Jays held hitless until eighth inning COMEBACK FALLS SHORT AS JAYS OPEN ROAD TRIP WITH LOSS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tigers 8 Blue Jays 6 DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera’s calf injury overshadowed Anibal Sanchez’s no-hit bid for the Detroit Tigers.

Miguel Cabrera left Friday night’s 8-6 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in the fourth inning when he got hurt while breaking for second base on an attempted hit-and-run. Detroit expects the two-time AL MVP to go on the disabled list.

“I’m not optimistic at all,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said. “When Miggy says he can’t play, it is serious, because Miggy plays through everything.”

Cabrera had an MRI, which showed no injury to his Achilles’ tendon. He will be examined again Saturday.

“I can’t sit here and say we’ll be fine, because he’s the best hitter in baseball, at least in my eyes,” Tigers

Hamelin, Squires qualify for Junior Golf Tour Championship Pheasantback golfers Sam Hamelin and Jackson Squires each carded an 80 in a McLennan Ross Sun Junior Golf Tour event Thursday at Barrhead.

Hamelin, who finished second in the junior boys 1999- and 2000-born category, and Squires, competing in the 2001 and later division, both qualified for the Tour’s championship tournament Aug. 31 at Wolf Creek.

Conor Keaveny of Slave Lake won the Barrhead event with a 74.

Sabres sign O’Reilly to seven-year extension The Buffalo Sabres have made newly acquired forward Ryan O’Reilly their highest-paid player by signing him to a $52.5 million, seven-year contract extension on Friday.

The Sabres announced the signing, while two people familiar with discussions revealed the value of the contract to The Associated Press. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Sabres did not dis-

right fielder J.D. Martinez said. “But if you look at our lineup, we’ve still got a lot of weapons.”

Sanchez’s no-hit bid was broken up when former Detroit teammate Ezequiel Carrera lined a single to left with one out in the eighth inning.

“I was trying to get a double play, but he fought the whole at-bat,” Sanchez said. “I got ahead in the count, but he put a good swing on a changeup away.”

Given an 8-0 lead, Sanchez (7-7) wound up allowing four runs, three hits and three walks in 7 1-3 innings, and left after 117 pitches.

He was bidding to become the sixth pitcher to throw no-hitters in the AL and NL, according to STATS, a feat accomplished by Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Nolan Ryan, Hideo Nomo and Randy Johnson. Sanchez pitched a no-hitter for the Florida Marlins against Arizona on Sept. 6, 2006.

Cabrera, a two-time AL MVP, was

on first base with no outs in the fourth inning and a 3-2 count to Victor Martinez, and took off with the pitch. Martinez fouled the ball off, but Cabrera pulled up sharply, grabbing his left leg. He was attended to by trainers and limped off the field. Detroit said Cabrera will have an MRI. Sanchez walked Justin Smoak leading off the eighth, and Devon Travis and Ryan Goins followed Carrera with singles to make it 8-1. Josh Donaldson added a two-run single off Alex Wilson, and Jose Bautista walked to load the bases.

Edwin Encarnacion flied out, Dioner Navarro hit a three-run double that made it 8-6 and Bruce Rondon threw a wild pitch and then walked Smoak.

With closer Joakim Soria hurrying to warm up, Kevin Pillar hit an inningending flyout.

“That’s the mentality of this team,” Navarro said. “We can score a bunch of runs in the blink of an eye, but it is

tough to dig yourself out of that hole.”

Soria pitched the ninth for his 18th save in 20 chances, striking out Josh Donaldson to end the game with a runner on second.

“We won the game, and that makes it a good day,” Sanchez said. “That’s all that counts.”

Drew Hutchinson (8-2) gave up seven runs — five earned — 10 hits and two walks in 4 2/3 innings. Victor Martinez had three hits for the Tigers.

Cabrera’s RBI single put the Tigers ahead in the first, then broke open the game in a five-run fourth. With the bases loaded, Nick Castellanos lined a ball into shallow left-centre and it bounced out of Carrera’s glove as the left fielder tried for a diving catch.

Carrera threw to third, trying to force Martinez, who hadn’t seen the ball bounce free, but the throw eluded Josh Donaldson, and Martinez ended up scoring Detroit’s second run on the throwing error.

close the monetary terms.

Ryan O’Reilly’s extension kicks in after he completes the final year of his existing contract, which will pay him $6.2 million next season. He will make $11 million in 2016-17 of an extension that runs through the 2022-23 season.

The 24-year-old O’Reilly is regarded a top-line talent and was acquired from Colorado in a trade that involved five players during the first round of the NHL draft on June 26.

The Sabres also acquired forward Jamie McGinn, while giving up forward Mikhail Grigorenko, JT Compher, defenceman Nikita Zadorov and the 31st pick of the draft.

cord of playing his best hockey at crucial times of the season.”

Ward ranked third on the Capitals with six power-play goals and second on the team with four game-winning goals. It was the second straight season he played in all 82 regular-season games.

The 34-year-old Ward has 97 goals and 123 assists in 517 career games with Minnesota, Nashville and Washington. He also represented Canada at the 2014 World Championships, finishing with six goals and three assists in eight games.

“Joel is an identity player in that he plays exactly the way I want our team to play,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said. “He’s big, strong, fast and hard to play against. That’s exactly what we are looking for.”

contract in December 2007, they reached a separate marketing agreement. It called for $6 million each for up to five milestone accomplishments in exchange for marketing rights, such as using A-Rod’s name and image in selling licensed goods. The first was to be for A-Rod’s 660th home run, tying Willie Mays for fourth on the career list.

“I’m very happy, not only for what happened here with 3,000, but obviously with the big news of the day, which we all heard about,” Rodriguez said Friday. “It’s been a good day.”

The club’s relationship with Rodriguez deteriorated during 2013, when he was a target of Major League Baseball’s Biogenesis drug investigation. That led to A-Rod’s suspension for the entire 2014 season after thenCommissioner Bud Selig concluded he violated the sport’s drug agreement and labour contract. Rodriguez sued MLB, the players’ union and the Yankees’ team physician, then dropped the litigation.

When the 39-year-old hit No. 660 on May 1, New York said it had the discretion not to make the payment and declined to do so, saying his marketing rights did not have any worth. MLB and the players’ association stopped the clock on the time to file a grievance as negotiations continued.

Sharks ink Ward to threeyear deal SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Jose Sharks signed veteran forward Joel Ward to a three-year contract Friday.

Ward had 19 goals and 15 assists last season with Washington. He also had three goals and six assists in 14 playoff games.

“Joel is a quality veteran player who can score but also plays an extremely hard-nosed brand of hockey,” Sharks general manager Doug Wilson.

“He meshes well with our core group of forwards and has a strong track re-

A-Rod, Yankees settle marketing dispute NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees settled their dispute over a marketing payment with a deal announced Friday that gives $3.5 million to charitable groups, saves the team $5.5 million and gets A-Rod the home run ball from his 3,000th hit.

At the time Rodriguez and the Yankees signed their $275 million, 10-year

Vegas, Langley share second round lead WOODS MAKES CUT WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Jhonattan Vegas hasn’t had much success since winning his second PGA Tour event as a rookie in 2011. The Greenbrier Classic could give him that needed boost.

Vegas shot a 5-under-par 65 to tie Scott Langley for the lead after the second round Friday. They were at 9-under 131 on the Old White TPC course in West Virginia.

Twenty-three golfers were within three shots of the lead, including seven at 8 under.

Vegas doesn’t have a top 10 finish this season, but he’s looking to change that. He made five birdies during a

bogey-free round Friday, including two of his final three holes.

“I feel like I’m playing great, I just haven’t been able to put it all together,” the Venezuelan said. “But I’m staying patient and working really hard to make it happen, and it’s coming together.”

Langley didn’t have the same birdie explosion as he enjoyed in the first round, when he shot 62 to take the lead. Starting his round on the back nine, Langley made back-to-back birdies on Nos. 6 and 7 and shot 69.

“Following up a round of 62 is never super easy,” Langley said. “I left a lot of putts within 6 inches of the hole, just right in the heart. I need to be a little more assertive (Saturday) on the greens.”

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MCDAVID: Could live with Ryan Smyth Edmonton’s downtown is on the rise just in time for the “Next One” to burst onto the scene. Under new president Bob Nicholson, general manager Peter Chiarelli, coach Todd McLellan and with a revamped roster, the Oilers might be, too.

“Connor’s probably said it better than anybody: There’s no bad places to play in the NHL,” Brian said. “He’s realizing his dream, and he’ll be treated well and he’ll live in a good place.

Yeah I think he’s going to be more than fine.”

There have been rumours about McDavid living with former Oilers captain Ryan Smyth. His father said Tuesday there have been some “cursory conversations” about that but nothing finalized.

“That’d be really cool,” Connor said minutes after he was drafted.

This week, McDavid flew from Toronto to Edmonton with Canadian world junior teammate Darnell Nurse, the Oilers’ first-round pick in 2013 and top defensive prospect.

“Darnell’s a little bit older, and he’s been out there,” Brian McDavid said.

“He knows the lay of the land. It’s all great from our perspective.”

This process has been mostly great for the McDavid family, Brian said, with couple bumps and a little stress along the way. That’s to be expected, but he added that Connor’s on-ice play has made everything so easy.

“He just had such a terrific year that whatever happened was outstanding,” he said.

The best may be yet to come. After another summer of training and preparing, McDavid has training camp in September and then should make his NHL debut in October.

Just as Connor was careful to never

publicly acknowledge he’d be the first pick or joining the Oilers, his family never got any team gear until he was handed the No. 97 jersey on stage at the draft.

Right now his father wants him to get some rest. But the next step is also not far away.

“Long-term of course I’m looking forward to him finally getting started,” Brian said. “And when I say finally, I always knock on wood when I say that because we’re a little bit superstitious.

“But I’m anxious for him to finally realize his dream and play in the league and hopefully be the kind of player he’s always envisioned he was going to be.”

McDavid’s new contract is worth approximately US$11.325 million in total — $925,000 per year plus bonuses — the maximum allowed for an entrylevel contract.

RAONIC: Pospisil the lone Canadian left “I don’t want to hurt anyone,” Kyrgios said. “It was a good catch by the fan anyway.”

Raonic said he barely noticed Kyrgios’s antics.

“I had too many of my own things to be concerned about,” he said. “That was a distraction enough on its own.”

Kyrgios came out during the second set sporting a Wimbledon headband in the club’s official green and purple colours — only to be told that it was too colourful for the tournament’s dress code. So he turned the headband inside out and wore it that way for the rest of the match.

“They told me to turn it around, so I turned it around,” Krygios said.

The match turned in Kyrgios’ favour when he broke for a 6-5 lead in the second set. Raonic was at the net and poised for a forehand volley but let the

Langley and Vegas had a chance to make noise last week at the Travelers Championship. Langley was four strokes behind eventual winner Bubba Watson entering weekend play, while Vegas was six shots back.

Both faded in the final two rounds.

The top four finishers at The Greenbrier not previously eligible for the British Open will earn spots next week at St. Andrews, provided they are among the top 12 and ties.

“That’s one of the goals for the week,” Vegas said. “So we’re going to try to go get it.”

Tiger Woods made little progress after a solid first round but avoided missing consecutive cuts for the first time as a pro. Woods shot 69 Friday and was at 5 under, four shots back.

Woods had more trouble reaching fairways on Friday. He found the water to the right on the par-5 17th for the second straight day, hit his golf bag with his driver in disgust, then nearly holed his 97-yard fourth shot and made par. He salvaged his underpar round with a short birdie putt on the par-3 18th. He declined interviews afterward.

Langley is looking to become the third person to become a first-time PGA Tour winner by winning The Greenbrier in the tournament’s sixyear history.

So, too, is David Hearn, who was among those in the group at 8 under.

The Canadian from Brantford, Ont., is still looking for his first PGA Tour win in his 164th event.

ball go and watched Kyrgios’ forehand pass fall in for a winner. Kyrgios hit three aces in a row in the next game to close out the set.

Raonic finished with 18 aces, but broke only once out of seven chances.

Raonic had 62 total winners, one more than Kyrgios, but the Australian had only 13 unforced errors, compared to 21 for the Canadian.

Kyrgios next faces Richard Gasquet, who dismantled No. 11 Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 on Friday.

Raonic said he plans to get his foot checked by his doctor but plans to play in Davis Cup later this month in Belgium.

Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil is the lone Canadian left in the singles draw.

He plays Britain’s James Ward in the third round on Saturday.

CFL: Sam cut from Als roster Cato’s first drive of the second half led to a 16-yard TD pass over the middle to Hoffman.

A Bede field goal to open the fourth quarter put Montreal up 25-3, but Mitchell answered with a 63-yard pass to McDaniel that led to Cornish’s score on a one-yard carry at 4:25. Bede added another boot with 2:53 to play.

Calgary’s Jeff Fuller, named second star of the week for his 148 receiving yards in the season opener, was scratched with a nagging knee problem. Montreal had Michael Sam on its 46-man roster, but he was dropped when the team cut to 44 players before the game.

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Sunday’s games Toronto at Saskatchewan, 1:30 p.m.

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Toronto (Dickey 3-8) at Detroit (Price 7-2), 1:08 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 9-3) at Boston (Buchholz 6-6), 11:35 a.m.

Baltimore (Tillman 6-7) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 5-4), 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Co.Anderson 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Locke 4-4), 2:05 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 10-4) at Oakland (Graveman 5-4), 2:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 5-5) at Kansas City (Blanton 2-1), 5:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Santiago 4-4) at Texas (W.Rodriguez 5-3), 7:05 p.m.

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Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

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Seattle at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 5:05 p.m.

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Baltimore at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

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

Detroit at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

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N.Y. Mets at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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San Diego (Despaigne 3-6) at St. Louis (C.Martinez 9-3), 12:15 p.m.

Cleveland (Co.Anderson 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Locke 4-4), 2:05 p.m.

Miami (Cosart 1-3) at Chicago Cubs (Richard 0-0), 5:15 p.m.

Milwaukee (Nelson 5-8) at Cincinnati (Jos.Smith 0-1), 5:15 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 7-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 6-2), 5:15 p.m.

Philadelphia (Correia 0-2) at Atlanta (A.Wood 5-5), 5:15 p.m.

Colorado (Hale 2-3) at Arizona (Collmenter 3-6), 8:10 p.m.

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Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

San Diego at St. Louis, 12:15 p.m.

Miami at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

Colorado at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Washington, 6:08 p.m.

Monday’s Games Cincinnati at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

San Diego at Pittsburgh,5:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

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

N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

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WIMBLEDON At The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club London Purse: $42.1 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Grass-Outdoor Singles Men Third Round David Goffin (16), Belgium, def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

Richard Gasquet (21), France, def. Grigor Dimitrov (11), Bulgaria, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

Stan Wawrinka (4), Switzerland, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.

Nick Kyrgios (26), Australia, def. Milos Raonic (7), Canada, 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-3.

Kevin Anderson (14), South Africa, def. Leonardo Mayer (24), Argentina, 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-3.

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Bernard Tomic (27), Australia, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.

Denis Kudla, United States, def. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 6-2, 6-7 (3), 2-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Marin Cilic (9), Croatia, vs. John Isner (17), United States, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-7 (4), 10-10, susp., darkness.

Women Third Round CoCo Vandeweghe, United States, def. Sam Stosur (22), Australia, 6-2, 6-0.

Belinda Bencic (30), Switzerland, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, 7-5, 7-5.

Maria Sharapova (4), Russia, def. Irina-Camelia Begu (29), Romania, 6-4, 6-3.

Lucie Safarova (6), Czech Republic, def. Sloane

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Activated OF Shane Victorino from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Jackie Bradley Jr. to Pawtucket (IL).

Placed C Blake Swihart on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 1.

Selected the contract of RHP Noe Ramirez from Pawtucket. Designated RHP Zeke Spruill for assignment.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Signed RHP Carson Fulmer to a minor league contract.

DETOIT TIGERS — Designated RHP Joba Chamberlain and LHP Tom Gorzelanny for assignment. Recalled RHP Drew Verhagen from Erie (EL) and RHP Jeff Ferrell from Toledo (IL). Activated C Alex Avila from the 15-day DL. Optioned C Bryan Holaday to Toledo.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Selected the contract of INF Dusty Coleman from Omaha (PCL). Optioned INF Christian Colon to Omaha.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Shane Robinson on the family emergency list. Activated OF Aaron Hicks from the 15-day DL. NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled OF Ramon Flores and INF Gregorio Petit from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Placed OF Carlos Beltran on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 1. Optioned OF Taylor Dugas to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with RHP Boomer Biegalski on a minor league contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Activated 1B James Loney from the 15day DL. Optioned RHP Preston Guilmet to Durham (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Traded OF Jake Skole to the New York Yankees for cash considerations. Signed SS Adrian Pernalete, RHP Rodolfo Garcia and C Max Morales.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Selected the contract of LHP Felix Doubront and recalled RHP Ryan Tepera from Buffalo (IL).

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Acquired LHP Manny Rondon and international slot number four from the Los Angeles Angels for C Rafael Lopez. Acquired LHP Clayton Richard from Pittsburgh for cash considerations. Optioned RHP Donn Roach to Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Placed assistant hitting coach Lee Tinsley on administrative leave.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Recalled RHPs Tyler Cravy and David Goforth from Colorado Springs (PCL). Optioned INF-OF Jason Rogers and RHP Corey Knebel to Colorado Springs.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Activated RHP Jake Peavy from the 15-day DL. Placed RHP Tim Hudson on the 15-day DL, retroactive to June 27. Purchased the contracts of LHP Josh Osich and OF Ryan Lollis from Sacramento (PCL). Designated 1B-OF Travis Ishikawa and RHP Brett Bochy for assignment. Optioned RHP Mike Broadway to Sacramento.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned LHP Tim Cooney to Memphis (PCL). Recalled OF Tommy Pham from Memphis.

American Association AMARILLO THUNDERHEADS — Signed LHP Austin Kirk.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS — Released INF Stephen Rogers.

GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS — Signed RHP Sam Martin and C Michael Pair. Traded RHP Dakota Watts to Wichita or cash.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Released INF Steve Pascual.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Traded RHP Daniel Carela to Rockland for a player to be named and cash.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Signed C Greg DePalma. Placed C

Stephens, United States, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Victoria Azarenka (23), Belarus, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 6-4, 6-4.

Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, def. Andrea Petkovic (14), Germany, 7-5, 6-4.

Venus Williams (16), United States, def. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-3, 6-2.

Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.

Doubles Men Second Round Vasek Pospisil, Canada, and Jack Sock (3), United States, def. Eric Butorac, United States, and Colin Fleming, Britain, 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Rohan Bopanna, India, and Florin Mergea (9), Romania, def. Thomaz Bellucci, Brazil, and Guillermo Duran, Argentina, 7-5, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5).

Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Max Mirnyi, Belarus, def. Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez (6), Spain, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.

Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo (2), Brazil, def. Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Poland, and Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (4), 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, and Horia Tecau (4), Romania, def. Andre Begemann, Germany, and Julian Knowle, Austria, 1-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 15-13.

Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Michael Venus, New Zealand, def. Raven Klaasen, South Africa, and Rajeev Ram (14), United States, 7-6 (4), 6-4, 3-6, 6-7 (5), 11-9.

Alexander Peya, Austria, and Bruno Soares (8), Brazil, def. Sergey Betov and Aliaksandr Bury, Belarus, 6-1, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-1.

Jose Morales on the disabled list.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed RHP Brady Adamek.

QUEBEC CAPITALES — Rreleased INF Ben Bostick and LHP Dan Meyer.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed INF Jon Dziomba.

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM — Activated RHP Austin Delmotte from the injured list.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed RHP Jon Pusatari.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Released RHP Clint Wright.

ROCKFORD AVIATORS — Signed INF Cody Lenahan and INF Danny Stienstra. Released INF Will Du’Pont and OF Ja’Ron Shepherd.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Agreed to terms with G Gary Neal on a one-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed D Alex Grant, D Derek Smith and F Eric Selleck to one-year contracts.

BUFFALO SABRES — Signed F Ryan O’Reilly to a sevenyear contract extension.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Named Mark Morris coach of Charlotte (AHL). Re-signed Geordie Kinnear as an assistant coach for Charlotte.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Andrew Desjardins on a two-year contract.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed LW Brandon Saad to a six-year contract through the 2020-21 season and D John Ramage to one-year contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Signed D Vili Saarijarvi to a threeyear entry-level contract.

EDMONTON OILERS — Agreed to terms with C Connor McDavid on a three-year entry-level contract.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Signed D Marc-Andre Gragnani and G Yann Danis to one-year contracts.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Agreed to terms with F Luke Adam.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Named Andre Tourigny assistant head coach.

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Signed F Joel Ward to a three-year contract.

American Hockey League TORONTO MARLIES — Agreed to terms with D Andrew Campbell, D Brenden Miller and Fs Christopher Clapperton, Brett Findlay and Patrick Watling.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Announced the retirement of F Ryan Cruthers to become coach and assistant general manager of Charlotte (USPHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Loaned G Matt Lampson to Charlotte (USL) for six matches.

COLLEGE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON — Named Milan Brown men’s assistant basketball coach.

RADFORD — Named Courtney Davidson women’s assistant basketball coach.

SAN FRANCISCO — Named Sundance Wicks men’s assistant basketball coach.

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Results June 30

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(10 innings) Straily, Sipp (5), J.Fields (7), Thatcher (7), W.Harris (7), Neshek (8), R.Hernandez (9), Gregerson (10) and J.Castro; Masterson, Layne (4), M.Barnes (6), Breslow (7), Uehara (9), No.Ramirez (10) and Hanigan. W—R.Hernandez 3-5. L—No.Ramirez 0-1.

HRs—Houston, Correa (6). Boston, H.Ramirez (17).

Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def.

Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey, United States, 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-3.

Women Second Round Cara Black, Zimbabwe, and Lisa Raymond, United States, def. Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro (6), Spain, 6-3, 6-1.

Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Flavia Pennetta (7), Italy, def. Margarita Gasparyan and Alexandra Panova, Russia, 6-3, 6-4.

Michaella Krajicek, Netherlands, and Barbora Strycova (14), Czech Republic, def. Vera Dushevina, Russia, and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (7).

Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, def. Lauren Davis, United States, and Kurumi Nara, Japan, 6-4, 6-1.

Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japan, and Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 6-0, 6-1.

Mixed First Round Artem Sitak, New Zealand, and Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, def. Jonathan Marray and Anna Smith, Britain, 6-4, 6-4.

Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Alize Cornet, France, def. Adil Shamasdin and Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, 6-4, 6-3.

Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spain, def. Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

Ken Skupski and Johanna Konta, Britain, def.

Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, and Vera Dush-

evina, Russia, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

Nicholas Monroe and Madison Brengle, United States, def. Mahesh Bhupathi, India, and Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2.

Nick Kyrgios, Australia, and Madison Keys, United States, def. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, and Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Nenad Zimonjic, Serbia, and Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, def. Chris Guccione, Australia, and Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, 6-3, 7-5.

Lleyton Hewitt and Casey Dellacqua, Australia, def. Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and Abigail Spears, United States, 6-4, 6-2.

Marin Draganja and Ana Konjuh, Croatia, def.

Colin Fleming and Jocelyn Rae, Britain, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1.

Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Poland, def. Scott Lipsky, United States, and Chan Hao-ching, Taiwan, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-5.

Michael Venus, New Zealand, and Raluca Olaru, Romania, def. Andre Sa, Brazil, and Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, 6-3, 6-2.

Philipp Oswald, Austria, and Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, def. Dominic Inglot, Britain, and Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 6-2, 6-3.

Andre Begemann, Germany, and Janette Husarova, Slovakia, def. Rajeev Ram, United States, and Arina Rodionova, Australia, 7-5, 6-3.

Rohan Bopanna, India, and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, def. Eric Butorac, United States, and Katalin Marosi, Hungary, 7-6 (9), 5-7, 7-5.

Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, def. Neal Skupski, Britain, and Lisa Raymond, United States, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4).

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Labour disruption delays, cancels flights 100 FLIGHTS CANCELLED AT PEARSON, CAUSES PROBLEMS FOR ALL CANADIAN AIR TRAVELERS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Scores of passengers saw their plans disrupted Friday when about 100 flights at Toronto Pearson International Airport were cancelled and many others delayed as a result of an apparent protest by workers facing job losses when a refuelling contract changes hands later this year.

A union spokesman says 30 of 47 workers scheduled for the Friday morning shift called in sick, while others refused to work overtime. About 20 of 56 workers showed up in the afternoon with one shift remaining to provide fuel for the rest of the day’s flights, said Bill Trbovich of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

“Basically these guys are all going to lose their jobs Oct. 1 and so I think frustration is the key phrase,” said Trbovich.

“It’s one of those cases of they took matters into their own hands. We sure as hell don’t condone this but the airlines are the ones that started this.”

A number of airlines are switching their refuelling business to Aircraft Service International Group (ASIG) in Toronto as of Oct. 1 and have al-

ready moved to Swissport in Montreal as of July 1.

Trbovich said employees of Consolidated Aviation Fueling Services will have to apply for the same type of job at ASIG at lower wages and with no pension.

Workers currently earning between $18 and 23 per hour will start at minimum wage up to a high of $14.

Consolidated Aviation Fueling didn’t return calls seeking comment.

The union said it has encouraged workers to return to work. Trbovich said there is no indication the work disruption will continue Saturday.

“We put out bulletins saying this was unlawful and that you can have consequences if you persist in this,” Trbovich said, pointing to possible dismissal or jail time.

The Canada Industrial Relations Board is set to hear the union’s unfair labour practices complaint in early September.

The Greater Toronto Airport Authority said 95 flights were cancelled as of the late afternoon, accounting for about 11.2 per cent of the 842 daily departures. Other flights were delayed.

Some arrivals were also affected, including two Air Canada flights from Trudeau International Airport even though an airport spokeswoman said there

was no job action in Montreal.

Pearson spokeswoman Shabeen Hanifa said passengers should check their flight status online, but wouldn’t say how many airlines were affected.

The cancellations and delays primarily affected Air Canada, which uses Pearson as its main international hub. Air Transat said none of its flights have been affected. About a dozen WestJet (TSX:WJA) flights were cancelled and a few delayed.

Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said the dispute is between the airlines’ current refuelling company and its Toronto workers.

“Delays and cancellations can be expected as a result and passengers should check on the status of their flight before getting to the airport,” he said in an email.

Fitzpatrick said a fuel consortium, managed by the FSM Management Group for the airlines, notified Consolidated’s parent last fall that it would not renew the agreement that was set to expire March 31. They extended the agreement until the work is taken over by the new fuel providers.

WestJet spokesman Robert Palmer said the shortage of fuel workers means it is taking longer to have its aircraft refuelled.

Regulator shuts down Murphy Oil wells for noncompliance

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Travis Young loops through the air as he does a back flip on a Flyboard at Gull Lake as Curtis Pangrass keeps an eye on his boss Friday. Young is the franchise operator of the Alberta Flyboard company at Gull Lake and operates his business at Parkland Beach near the RV Haven and Marina on the northwest corner of the lake. Gull Lake Flyboards is open Thursday to Monday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and offers Flyboard, lessons, sales, rentals and for those who want to give it a try Young and Pangrass will take you out on the lake for a thrill. Gull Lake Flyboards can be reached at 1-855-359-2232 www.albertaflyboard.com.

Fraud case against SNC-Lavalin put off until October MONTREAL — The criminal fraud case against engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has been put off until Oct. 16 after the disclosure of additional evidence to the defence.

Crown prosecutor Richard Roy said Friday that defence lawyers have received about 1,000 new documents.

Initially, there were some 5,000 pieces of evidence. The RCMP alleges that SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) paid nearly $47.7 million to public officials in Libya between 2001 and 2011 to influence government decisions. It also charged the company, its construction division and its SNC-Lavalin International subsidiary with one charge each of fraud

and one of corruption for allegedly defrauding various Libyan organizations of about $129.8 million.

SNC has said it will plead not guilty and that the charges stem from the same alleged activities of former employees who face criminal charges.

The company has filed a lawsuit seeking to recover more than $127 million it alleges was embezzled by two former senior executives and their associates.

It is seeking payment mainly from former construction vice-presidents Riadh Ben Aissa and Sami Bebawi. SNC says it’s claiming money that was tied to two projects but allegedly funnelled to entities that were secretly owned by Ben Aissa.

None of the claims in the April filing has been proven in court.

The lawsuit is in addition to SNC’s efforts to recover $22.5 million allegedly paid to Ben Aissa and others related to a Montreal hospital construction contract.

CALGARY — The Alberta Energy Regulator has forced Murphy Oil to shut heavy oil wells in northwestern Alberta because the company didn’t meet the rules for properly handling gases.

In an unannounced compliance sweep of 71 sites last month, the regulator found 16 Murphy wells weren’t meeting a requirement to capture and flare, incinerate, or conserve all casing gas and tank-top gases according to a schedule set out by the company.

Following that, the AER ordered Arkansas-based Murphy to conduct further inspections, and the company found another 17 sites that were venting gas.

Of the 33 total affected wells, 17 have had production cut off entirely, while the rest only had specific components ordered shut, said AER spokeswoman Melanie Veriotes.

“Albertans expect the AER to protect public safety and the environment and to make sure operators follow the rules,” said AER president and CEO Jim Ellis in a release.

“The AER is committed to continued action in Peace River and ensuring all our requirements are met. When they are not, we will take enforcement action as we have demonstrated with these recent compliance sweeps.”

In June 2014, following odour complaints in nearby communities, operators in the Seal Lake and Walrus areas submitted plans to the AER to capture tank-top gases in order to improve air quality.

Craig Popoff, general manager of regulatory affairs at Murphy Oil, said the company is assessing the situation. Its Calgary offices were closed on Friday afternoon, when the AER issued its release.

The AER is investigating the issue. The Murphy Oil sites will remain shut or partially shut until the regulator approves Murphy’s plans to comply with the rules.

Since June of last year, the AER has done six compliance sweeps in the Peace River area, inspecting 834 sites. That’s on top of regular inspections.

Separately, the AER continues to investigate a petroleum leak from a Murphy Oil pipeline in the same general area that took place in March.

In that event, up to 17,000 barrels of condensate — used to make heavy oil thin enough to flow through pipelines — spilled into muskeg.

Tips to keep cool when working in the summer heat Dear Working Wise: This is my first summer working construction and a couple of days have already been so hot that I felt like I was going to pass out.

What can I do to keep my cool this summer? — Signed Overheated Dear Overheated: Summer has finally arrived and workers and employers need to start planning how they work safely in the heat.

Our bodies work best in a very narrow temperature range. Raising or lowering your core temperature a couple of degrees beyond normal (98.6° F or 37° C) can cause severe damage to your brain, heart and other organs.

Our bodies regulate temperature by sweating and shivering. If you don’t replace the fluid you lose from sweating, you can dehydrate and your body will stop sweating.

Heat will build up and you will be in serious trouble.

Early warning signs of heat stress include: headache, dizziness, fatigue, feeling faint, irritability, heavy sweating, heat rash, muscle cramps, dehydration, and changes in breathing and pulse.

Keep your cool this summer by following these tips: ● Work in the shade when possible; ● Take short frequent breaks away from the heat/ sun;

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●Limit your sun exposure especially during peak times (Noon – 3 p.m.); ● Wear reflective/insulated/cooled clothing near heat sources; ● Wear loose-fitting lightweight clothing that wicks sweat away from the skin; ● Wear a wide-brimmed hat, UV-absorbent sunglasses and minimum SPF 30 sunscreen; ● Drink small amounts of CHARLES water frequently, e.g., a cup STRACHEY every 20 minutes; ● Avoid caffeinated drinks, WORKING alcohol and pop, because they tend to dehydrate you.

WISE You and your employer can also help limit the effects of working in the heat by: ● Avoiding intense physical activity during the hottest times of the day; ● Providing a cool, shaded rest area for workers to recuperate; ● Implementing a schedule of work and rest periods.

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Other ways to keep cool at work, include: ● Lowering the air temperature with air conditioning; ● Increasing air circulation by using a fan or opening a door or window; ● Lowering the humidity using an air conditioner, dehumidifier or ventilation system; ● Rotating workers between more and less demanding activities; ● Decreasing exposure to radiant heat (e.g., asphalt, heavy machinery, etc.) by moving hot equipment away from the work area, moving the work away from things that radiate heat, or by using barriers to reflect or block the sun/heat.

For more tips and information on working safely in the heat, check out the Government of Alberta’s booklet: Best Practice — Working Safely in the Heat and Cold, which is available at: http://work.alberta. ca/documents/WHS-PUB_GS006.pdf Do you have a work-related question? Send your questions to Working Wise, at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca. Charles Strachey is a manager with Alberta Human Services. This column is provided for general information.

Working Wise is compiled by Charles Strachey, a manager with Alberta Human Services, for general information. He can be contacted at charles.strachey@gov. ab.ca.

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Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.75 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.05 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.86 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 26.53 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 13.39 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.38 First Quantum Minerals . 16.38 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 20.58 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.39 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.87 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.09 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.26 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.15 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 12.07 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 21.97 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 26.33 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 60.35 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.54 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 30.69 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 33.69 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.82 Canyon Services Group. . 5.57 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 19.44 CWC Well Services . . . . . 0.28 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 13.83 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.12 Meanwhile, the loonie continued to drift lower, down 0.09 of a U.S. cent at 79.62 cents amid growing concerns that Canada may be in a recession, largely as a result of the plunge in oil prices over the past year.

“I think that the Canadian economy is going to continue to face challenges over the next couple of months if not couple of quarters, and that is in part going to be reflected in the TSX,” Petursson said.

Fears of a recession — defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction in gross domestic product — have increased speculation that the Bank of Canada might reduce its trend-setting interest rate, with negative consequences for the loonie.

On the commodity markets, oil prices continued their recent downward spiral. Around 4 p.m.

Friday, the August crude contract was down $1.41 to US$55.52 a barrel, a level last seen in midApril. The August gold contract was up $4.30 at US$1,167.80 an ounce.

Among investors, all eyes will be focused on the outcome of this Sunday’s referendum in Greece on whether to accept or reject the austerity measures demanded by creditors in exchange for bailout loans.

The government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras contends a No vote will strengthen its bargaining position in dealing with the country’s sovereign debt load, which now totals more than 300 billion euros.

Critics say rejection could lead to Greece’s exit from the euro and perhaps the 28-member European Union itself.

MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher in light trading Friday ahead of a weekend debt referendum in Greece, while the loonie slid lower amid fears about a recession in Canada.

The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 44.40 points at 14,682.39 after rising almost 148 points the previous two trading days.

But Canada’s main market was still down sharply on the week — and virtually flat for the year to date — courtesy of an almost 318-point drop Monday on fears of possible knock-on effects from Greece’s debt woes.

New York markets were closed Friday for U.S. Independence Day, but not before also putting in a losing week blamed largely on the uncertainty over Greece that produced its biggest single loss of the year on Monday.

“Uncertainty is the market’s nemesis,” said Philip Petursson, managing director at Manulife Asset Management.

The Dow Jones industrial average finished the week down 216.57 points or 1.2 per cent and is in slightly negative territory for the year.

The S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq were also down more than one per cent on the week, although both are still positive year to date.

Petursson said he expects that North American markets will rebound from the losses, regardless of whether or not a deal is reached between Greece and its creditors.

“North American markets fell over the past couple of weeks in sympathy with what’s going on in Europe. But really, one shouldn’t have anything to do with the other,” he said.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close on Friday at world financial market trading.

GREEK REFERENDUM

Polls neck-and-neck ATHENS, Greece — On a night filled with emotion and packed city squares, naysaying Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his “yes” vote rivals made their final pitches Friday at bailout referendum rallies, as polls showed the two sides in a dead heat.

More than 40,000 people gathered at the two rallies, half a mile (800 metres) apart, before Sunday’s vote on whether to accept creditors’ proposals for more austerity in exchange for rescue loans, or reject the deal as a show of defiance against years of harsh economic austerity.

“This is not a protest. It is a celebration to overcome fear and blackmail,” Tsipras told a crowd of 25,000 in front of parliament, who were chanting oxi, oxi— “no, no.”

Meanwhile, police said about 17,000 people gathered outside the nearby Panathenian stadium for the “yes” rally, waving Greek and European Union flags and chanting “Greece, Europe, Democracy.”

Rallies for both campaigns were al-

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Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,682.39, up 44.40 points Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq — closed for holiday Currencies: Cdn — 79.62 cents US, down 0.09 of a cent Pound — C$1.9575, unchanged Euro — C$1.3950, up 0.42 of a cent Euro — US$1.1107, up 0.21 of a cent Oil and gold futures — closed for holiday Canadian Fine Silver — Handy and Harman’s Canadian office is closed until July 6th.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’15 $2.90 lower $538.40; Nov ’15 $0.40 higher $533.50; Jan. ’16 $3.00 higher $535.40; March ’16 $3.60 higher $533.00; May ’16 $3.70 higher $529.30; July ’16 $3.70 higher $523.60; Nov. ’16 $4.00 higher $477.90; Jan. ’17 $4.00 higher $479.00; March ’17 $4.00 higher $480.70; May ’17 $4.00 higher $480.70; July ’17 $4.00 higher $480.70.

Barley (Western): July ’15 unchanged $209.40; Oct. ’15 unchanged $204.40; Dec. ’15 unchanged $209.40; March ’16 unchanged $211.40; May ’16 unchanged $212.40; July ’16 unchanged $212.40; Oct. ’16 unchanged $212.40; Dec. ’16 unchanged $212.40; March ’17 unchanged $212.40; May ’17 unchanged $212.40; July ’17 unchanged $212.40.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 80,520 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 80,520.

so held in 10 other Greek cities Friday.

Tsipras is gambling the future of his five-month-old left wing government on Sunday’s snap poll — insisting a “no” vote will strengthen his hand to negotiate a third bailout with better terms. But the high-stakes standoff with lenders this week saw Greece default on debts, close banks to avoid their collapse, and lose access to billions of euros as an existing bailout deal expired. At the “no” rally, Athens resident Maria Antiniou held a handmade sign, reading “oxi.”

“We have to strengthen Tsipras. It’s not his fault we are bankrupt,” she said.

“He doesn’t have the mandate to take tougher measures and now we are giving that to him. It’s not true this is a vote on the euro. It’s a vote to change course and stay in the euro, and Tsipras is our best hope,” she said.

That is a message the “yes” voters refuse believe. Evgenia Bouzala, a Greek born in Germany, said she was considering shutting down her olive oil export business because of the financial turmoil.

“I don’t think we can keep going.

Look at what happened in the last three days. Imagine if that lasts another six months,” she said.

Walmart to start offering online grocery store pickup orders COMPANY SELECTS 11 OTTAWA-AREA STORES FOR INITIAL ROLL OUT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Walmart will offer grocery pickup for the first time in Canada starting next week at locations in the Ottawa area, and it says it’s prepared to roll out the service to other cities if demand warrants.

The $3 service will allow people to place orders through Walmart Canada’s website. The orders must be a minimum $50 and made at least the previous day.

Simon Rodrigue, Walmart Canada’s senior vice-president for electronic commerce, said the company has been working on the service for more than a year and decided to launch it in Ottawa because the city has been a strong market for e-commerce.

“The other thing is Ottawa gives us a great cross-section of Canada,” Rodrigue said in a phone interview Friday from Ottawa. “We see a strong education segment with two universities, a high-tech sector and demographically, there’s a lot of young families here.”

The service will begin at six Ottawa stores on Tuesday, followed by another five on July 21. It will be available for grocery items including frozen foods, produce, meat and fish, dry goods, personal care and household cleaning products. But it won’t apply to overthe-counter or prescription drugs or for non-grocery items such as clothing.

Customers will park at a selected Walmart location at an agreed-on time and orders, which can be made as far in advance as 21 days, will be loaded within five minutes, the company says.

Walmart, with nearly 400 stores across Canada, has been offering a pickup service for non-perishable goods at about 55 locations, mostly in the Toronto area. But the two services are being kept separate.

Putin mulls selective sanctions against some Western countries MOSCOW — Russia will consider new selective retaliatory measures against some specific Western countries, the nation’s security chief said Friday, pointing at Finland as a possible target.

The tough statement appears to herald a new round in spiraling RussiaWest confrontation over Ukraine. It followed a session of Russia’s Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, who vowed to firmly resist Western pressure and ordered to draft a new response. Russia may, for example, revise favourable conditions for Finnish timber traders in response to Helsinki’s refusal to issue a visa to the Russian lower house speaker, the council’s secretary, Nikolai Patrushev said. He added in televised remarks that Russia wouldn’t necessarily make the move, but wants to consider this and other retaliatory measures.

Finland has denied entry to the State Duma speaker, Sergei Narysh-

Loblaw (TSX:L) launched a similar service last year at three locations in the Toronto area. It added an Ottawa location last month and plans to launch another four in the area this summer.

“We believe they’re fairly connected and tech savvy in the Ottawa space,” said Loblaw senior vice-president Jeremy Pee. “We’ve been getting a lot of requests from the Ottawa area in terms of customers sending us emails and calling our call centres. So we know there’s demand out there.”

One of the surprises for Loblaw, Pee said, has been the demand for fresh products such as produce, deli, cheese and meat.

“I think we’ve done a really good job on training our (food pickers) as well as educating our customers and making the assortment available.”

Rodrigue says Walmart Canada is drawing on expertise at its U.K. subsidiary Asda Stores and trained employees “how to pick that perfect avocado, the type of meat you’d look for” and will give customers final approval of the food they pick up.

“So we know that, based on experience globally, we’ll be able to deliver on that customer expectation every time.”

In some ways, both Walmart and Loblaw are lagging a relatively small regional competitor - the family-owned Longo’s chain in the Toronto area, which acquired the GroceryGateway. com delivery service in 2004.

Although Longo’s doesn’t have a pickup service at its stores, Grocery Gateway has a staff that hand-picks a range of grocery products that are delivered by its own fleet of 50 trucks.

It also delivers beer, wine and spirits under agreements with the Beer Store and Liquor Control Board of Ontario. kin, because he was on the EU sanctions list. Naryshkin planned to lead a delegation to next week’s session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Moscow responded to the Finnish move by boycotting the meeting. Travel restrictions against Russian officials and businessmen are part of the U.S. and the EU response to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and its support for pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine. The West also has slapped Russia with economic sanctions, which have cut its access to capital markets and banned transfers of military and energy technologies.

Speaking at the Security Council’s meeting, Putin said the West wants to punish Russia for its course. “We are conducting independent domestic and foreign policy. We aren’t trading in our sovereignty and some don’t like it,” he said. Putin pointed at the EU’s decision last month to extend its sanctions and the U.S. warnings of possible new penalties as signals that “we shouldn’t expect some of our geopolitical opponents to revise their unfriendly course in the foreseeable future.”

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Saturday, July 4, 2015

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lackfalds Days 2015 was a great success. Despite the cooler, damp weather, community members came out in full force and enjoyed the many family-oriented events that took place from June 12 to 14.

Food lovers enjoyed the councillors’ pancake breakfast and several barbecues that were put on by local business and community organizations.

There was no shortage of fun activities for this active community, with kids of all ages taking part

in a family dance, the family edition of the amazing race, a mud challenge obstacle course, and a slowpitch tournament.

The expected festival events all took place as well, with the rain kindly holding off for the parade and the fireworks, while the midway and the oldies show and shine were well attended in between the rain showers.

New venues were used for some of the events this year.

The community church service took place at the

newly opened amphitheatre at the Abbey Centre and the Blackfalds Block Parents hosted a party in the park at Centennial Park.

While celebration and a sense of community is the main focus of Blackfalds Days, the sponsors, volunteers and residents also strive to use this annual event as a way to raise awareness of and funds for worthwhile causes.

This year, the Blackfalds Food Bank was one of the beneficiaries, receiving over $1,700 in donations.

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SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2015

JUNE 2013 FLOODING UNDERMINED BANK AT RIVER BEND

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Work is underway to restore and stabilize the river bank in the River Bend Golf and Recreation Area.

Curtis Martinek, the city’s projects superintendent, said a contractor has been given the green light on the $650,000 project at the River Bend Golf and Recreation Area next to Discovery Canyon.

The damage was caused by the June 2013 spring flooding along the Red

Deer River.

The bank eroded about 20 feet in some areas, said Martinek.

“There is a weir that functions to serve water to the ponds at River Bend,” said Martinek. “It used to have a big piece of earth in front of the weir and now it’s totally exposed to the river.”

The contractor, Dakota Reclamators, moved onto the site on Tuesday.

Crews will install rip rap or big rocks along the bank from the pedestrian bridge to the weir. The work will protect the weir.

The river bank near the picnic area has also eroded in Discovery Canyon and the city is monitoring the area for further erosion.

Because there is no nearby infrastructure, the city has not deemed it as a top priority.

“It may down the road become an issue but at this time, we are monitoring it,” said Martinek.

The pedestrian bridge from Three Mile Bend to River Bend Golf and Recreation Area will remain open initially but could close on short notice if pedestrian traffic becomes unmanage-

able around the worksite.

Depending on the weather, the work is expected to last three to four weeks.

Other river banks in the city suffered collateral damage from the flooding two years ago, including along Maskepetoon Park, which has already been fixed.

In June 2013, the city was forced to declare a state of emergency in response to a flood warning after Alberta Environment planned to release water from the Dickson Dam. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Contest revives wedding dreams

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF They were just days away from ordering the wedding dress and invitations, and then they found out they couldn’t.

Kailey Wass and Justin Noel were going to get married in mid-August, officially uniting their young blended family. But they had to call everything off over financial concerns.

Now, thanks to being selected as the winning couple this week in a contest, the date may have changed a bit but the Lacombe couple will be getting married after all.

The couple had to cancel their wedding plans due to Alberta’s slowing economy, which made Justin’s job less secure, and an unexpected large income tax bill.

The Wedding Rescue Contest was organized by Innisfail photographer Fawna Sidoryk, who wanted to help after she ran into the unusual situation of several couples cancelling their weddings due to the economy.

Besides the wedding photography, a number of related businesses offered free services to the winning couple, such as the venue, planning, hair and makeup services for the bride and two attendants, marriage commissioner and DJ services.

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BRIEF Gospel music showcase on for three days at Westerner A showcase of North America’s most inspirational gospel acts will be held next week in Red Deer.

The Booth Brothers, Collingsworth Family, Legacy Five, Young Street Vocal Band and Mark Trammell Quartet will join Canada’s largest Gospel Music Celebration, Thursday to Saturday, July 9 to 11, at Westerner Park.

These devotional acts will be joined by a dozen others from across Alberta, Canada and the U.S. — Potters Clay, Roset, Three and Company, Greater Vision, Triumphant Quartet, the Ball Brothers, Sweet Saturday, Canada’s Double Portion, The Daae Family, The Sundrops, Penny Loafers, and the Amundruds.

The event features evening concerts hosted by Gerald Wolfe of Greater Vision and Scott Fowler of Legacy Five.

There will be a Showcase Spectacular of afternoon congregational hymn singing, led by Wolfe and Kim Collingsworth, and two morning chapels, featuring Bible lessons and special musical guests.

A free Canadian Showcase will be performed on Friday and Saturday afternoons in the Parkland Pavilion.

And trade show booths will also be available.

Various ticket options are available through Ticketmaster — including the chance to reserve a seat for the 2016 festival.

For more information about the event, visit www.gospel music.ca.

Search for reckless driver comes up empty downtown All efforts by Red Deer RCMP turned up empty after blocking off streets and using a helicopter to find a reckless driver late Thursday evening.

Around 10 p.m., police began receiving reports of an erratic driver speeding and driving recklessly on the city streets.

Photo by LINDSEY JENKINS

Kailey Wass and Justin Noel with their children. They had to cancel their wedding plans due to the slowing economy, but winning a contest means the ceremony is back on.

Up to 120 guests could attend.

Kailey, 24, a hair stylist on maternity leave, and Justin, 26, a welder, thought about just eloping or getting married at the courthouse. But they didn’t because they wanted family to be with them.

Kailey said Friday that she was “severely speechless” when she learned they had won. She is in shock and very grateful.

The couple describe themselves as a blended family. She has a four-year-

old son, Carson, and he has a five-yearold son, Ashton. Together they now also have a nine-month-old daughter, Olivia. Neither had been married before.

Since winning, they have bumped up the number at their planned wedding from 80 to 100. It’s not just her and Justin getting married. The couple are accepting each other’s children as well, she said.

It was heartbreaking to cancel their original plans, Kailey said.

Now she’s “over the moon.”

Sidoryk said Friday that one of the three couples involved in the contest had to withdraw and so it came down to two finalists.

After online voting, the couples were interviewed and a committee chose the winners. They will get married on Aug. 29.

Sidoryk said she will likely hold the contest again next year but it will start earlier, in March. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Police found the suspect vehicle, a Ford F350, in a parking lot at 4909 49th St. A large area was cordoned off while police searched for the driver.

The RCMP air services helicopter was in the area and helped.

The suspect was not found and the incident remains under investigation.

RCMP ask anyone with information in relation to this incident to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit. com.

5 p.m., the garage sale fundraiser will take place at the same spot in Village Mall.

For more information, email whiskerrescue@live.com or phone Diane at 403-318-9448.

that a male had broken into a holiday trailer. The suspect fled.

A short time later, a resident in the area of 53rd Street and 48th Avenue reported that a male had unlawfully entered their home, but fled when confronted by the homeowners.

Then another complaint was received that a church in the area of 50th Avenue and 58th Street had been broken into with several items stolen.

With help from several residents, police determined that the suspect had fled on a bicycle, using the trail system to leave Lacombe towards Blackfalds.

The suspect was tracked and arrested with the help of Blackfalds RCMP. Lacombe Police say they recovered all the property stolen in the break and enters, including computer equipment that had been hidden in a treed area.

Teddy bear picnic at Dickson Store Museum If you go out to the woods in August, you may be in for a big surprise by the Dickson Store Museum.

The annual teddy bear picnic at the Dickson Store Museum is scheduled for Aug. 6 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the museum west of Red Deer near Spruce View.

At the Teddy Bear Picnic, there will be crafts, games, music, homemade lemonade making, a picnic (of course) and a bear hunt. The event costs $2 and that includes lunch.

You must preregister by calling the museum at 403-728-3355.

The museum is located south of Hwy 54 near Spruce View on Range Road 31.

Donate to Whisker Rescue Garage Sale A local stray cat rescue organization is holding a garage sale at the end of July to support its operation, but is accepting donations starting Monday.

The proceeds raised by the Whisker Rescue Garage Sale will go to support medical care for rescue cats. Whisker Rescue works with facilities in Red Deer, Olds and Edmonton to help adopt cats.

From July 6 to 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., items can be donated to Unit 26 6380 Gaetz Ave. in the Village Mall.

However, Whisker Rescue asks people to not donate large appliances, furniture, electronics, clothes, shoes or mattresses.

Then on July 30 and 31, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on Aug. 1, from 10 a.m. to

Family dance, fiddling at Deer Valley Meadows A family dance hosted by the Alberta Society of Fiddlers is inviting everyone to join the fun this August.

On Aug. 18 starting at 7 p.m. at Deer Valley Meadows, the fiddler society is hosting an evening filled with fiddles.

The site is at 39017 Range Road 230; go east of Red Deer on Hwy 11 and then south on Range Road 230.

People have the chance to learn to dance, bring their own fiddle and join the band on stage and above all have fun. The cost is a silver collection at the door.

For more information, visit www. albertafiddlers.com, email troybgates@ hotmailcom or Laurie Maetche at lmaetche@burmanu.com or call 780998-4817 or 780-721-3502.

Learn more about martins on Wednesday at bird farm Sit back, enjoy a morning coffee while watching the martins at Ellis Bird Farm on Wednesday.

Everyone is invited to learn more about the remarkable birds from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Admission is by donation.

The event will be treated like an open house. Coffee and muffins will be served.

Information on Ellis Bird Farm is available at www.ellisbirdfarm.ca.

The event is weather dependent.

Citizens help police track suspect in Lacombe Lacombe Police have arrested a break and enter suspect who was also wanted on outstanding warrants for armed robbery, among other things.

Police praised Lacombe citizens for helping track and ultimately arrest the suspect, a 46-year-old man.

On Thursday, police were called to the area of 47th Street and 47th Avenue in Lacombe after a complaint

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

Photo radar sites through July 15 in city The current Red Deer photo radar sites are in effect until July 15.

The locations are: Playground zones: Jewell Street, Kendrew Drive, Oak Drive, 58th Street, 55th Avenue, Boyce Street, McLean Street, Davison Drive, Lancaster Drive, Roland Street.

Traffic corridors: 30th Avenue, 40th Avenue, Riverside Drive, 50th Avenue, Barrett Drive, 49th Avenue, 49th Street, 50th Street, 22nd Street, 39th Street, Police reserve the right to change sites without notice.

CMHA, brain injury group present wellness bike ride Up to 100 cyclists can raise money for the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Central Alberta Brain Injury Society at the sixth annual Red Deer Wellness Ride.

Scheduled for Aug. 15, participants can ride a 25-km, 50-km or 100-km route in Central Alberta to raise funds and awareness for the two causes.

The ride is put on as a joint venture

by Berry Architectural and the Red Deer Primary Care Network.

For more information, visit www. wellenssride.ca or email events@reddeer.cmha.ab.ca.

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Four spiritual lessons that Muslims can teach Christians CHRISTIANS HAVE MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT SEEKING GOD FROM THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES OF MUSLIMS.

BY ERIC DEMETER SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

Storing scripture

I asked to pray alongside a devout Muslim in Phuket, Thailand.

He faced west, toward Mecca; I looked upward, facing the ceiling.

He kneeled on a rug; I stood on the floor with outstretched arms.

Our styles were different, but our intentions were the same — we both wanted to connect with God. Normally, I don’t interact in a spiritually intimate manner with those of other faiths — especially with followers of Islam in shopping-mall prayer rooms.

But throughout my world travels as a missionary, I have appreciated how Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and Muslims alike consistently devote themselves to practicing their faith — even when it’s inconvenient.

There are undeniable differences between the core beliefs of each faith, but at the same time, there is often overlap in the methodology, or how followers attempt to interact with their deity.

These common spiritual disciplines include (but are not limited to) fasting, prayer, solitude, alms giving, scripture reading, and service.

Much to my surprise, I realized there is much Christians can learn about interacting with God from the habits of those who follow different creeds.

With this in mind, here are four lessons Islam can teach us:

Muslims are encouraged to memorize as many passages of the Qur’an as possible.

They believe that God will bestow many blessings for their efforts. In fact, every year Muslims who have memorized the Qur’an travel from around the world to compete for the Dubai International Holy Quran Award.

My 15 minutes of spiritual fame involved memorizing all three chapters of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.

That was seven years ago.

I lost my place in the spotlight since then, but I do remember my hours of mental travail to accomplish this feat.

Overall, it’s impossible to follow the What Would Jesus Do model if we really don’t understand how He lived in the Bible.

Memorizing scripture places Jesus’ ways at the forefront of our minds and forms our will to His. In a social-media world that always has us watching talking llamas or deciphering the color of a woman’s dress, it’s easy to become distracted from what matters most.

Important character growth and hearing God’s voice are often only achieved through engaging in these trustworthy disciplines.

And if members of other faiths are dedicated to this process, then it’s probably time for me to fire Pastor Pillow.

Prayer should be paramount Prayer is of utmost importance in Islam. In fact, it’s listed as the second of Five Pillars (with confession of faith being number one).

Muslims are required to pray a whopping fivetimes a day facing the direction of their holy place.

Their first call to prayer is at dawn, and they pray bowing on a mat called a sajjada.

I can relate.

When the sun rises, I’m usually lying prostrate as well — only I’m on my mattress and facing my pillow.

I wish I prayed more, but I’ve placed an unconscious moratorium on any serious activity before 8 a.m.

Even on Sunday mornings, I’ve attended a Bedside Baptist service more than a few times.

Jesus models prayer as a cornerstone to the Christian faith as well.

He tells His followers in Matthew to “Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”

The book of James also says, “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”

Christians would do well in taking a lesson from the Muslim’s prayer calendar.

Throwing up sporadic supplications driving to work or between classes certainly has some benefit.

Yet, making an effort to daily set time aside in focused prayer is invaluable.

Eric is an entrepreneur at heart. He has the desire to change hearts towards Christ through Biblecentric teaching, and to create opportunities for the marginalized. He has traveled around the world several times and has a master’s degree in theological studies. www.ericdemeter.org.

Hospitality is meant to honour the stranger It’s difficult to miss the extreme hospitality travelers often receive from Muslims in the Middle East. Once, in a random shop in Jerusalem, the owner doled out fresh bread and hummus for me and a friend to enjoy.

Also, recently in Central Asia, another friend was affectionately “adopted” into an Islamic family upon her first visit to their home.

I wholeheartedly agree with going the extra mile for guests.

For instance, last month I allowed a newlywed couple to sleep on our blow-up air mattress for a week. Though I didn’t cook them a fresh meal, the lovebirds had access to all the leftovers lingering in our refrigerator.

In the New Testament, the Greek word for hospitality (philoxenos) actually means “the love of strangers.”

It’s one thing to invite our usual gang over for a Super Bowl party, but showing “benevolence . . . to those outside our normal circle of friends” is the true meaning of this practice.

It’s unbiblical that Western culture is so private.

How can we love even our neighbor when our doors are locked and our windows boarded?

It wasn’t Jesus who marketed the term, “stranger danger.”

Instead, Christ says that when we invite outsiders to join us, we do this unto Him (Matthew 25:31-46).

Gospel standards recorded

by Red Deer man Gospel songs Lorry Boschman has been singing his whole life have finally ended up on a CD. The Red Deer man who recorded the gospel album has also made CDs of himself singing standards by Dean Martin and Nat King Cole, as well as country classics. “But it’s the gospel CD that sells the most,” said Boschman, who’s been getting great word-of-mouth on his devotional recording.

Some listeners “tell me it’s the only CD they can play in their vehicle.”

The former business owner who occasionally sings in church, at karaoke and Central Alberta Legions, selected songs such as Peace in the Valley, Amazing Grace, Rock of Ages and Mansion Over the Hilltop for the album. Performing them is almost second nature, since “I was raised in the church, and have been singing these songs all my life. ...

“I’m not interested in getting rich or getting famous,” said Boschman. “I retired and finally have a chance to do these things.” He recorded his CDs at Carl Stretton Studios in Red Deer.

Boschman hopes to give listeners “an hour of relaxation and good music.”

The album is available for $10 by calling 403-5985136 or emailing lorbinrd@hotmail.com.

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Coming events Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held July 7 and July 21. Phone 403-742-4273.

Bentley United Church holds spring/summer services on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. Coffee and fellowship are offered at 6:30 p.m. Call Rev. Brenda Kersell at 403-885-4780, or Gail at 403-748-2935.

Boomtown Trail Cowboy Church meets the second and last Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Elnora Drop In Centre. Cowboy boots and hats welcome. Next dates are July 8 and 29. For more information, call 403-749-3361.

Lacombe Free Reformed Church is offering Miracles of Jesus Vacation Bible School on July 13 to 17 form 9:30 to 11;30 a.m. at Lacombe Memorial Centre.

Children ages four to 12 years invited. Contact lfrcvbs@ gmail.com or Andrea at 587-876-1110 to register by July 6. See www.lfrc.webs.com

join us this

Sunday

Fasting is more about feasting Each year, Muslims fast from dawn until dusk during the holy month of Ramadan.

They rely on this time to “ . . . purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice self-sacrifice.”

And for 31 days straight.

I’m no stranger to this discipline. Once, I abstained from eating candy for the duration of Lent — an entire 40 days without any sweets, if we’re counting. Impressive, I know.

Fasting grows our faith in two ways. First, it frees our time to connect to God when we’d otherwise be munching on a burrito.

Second, the pangs of hunger remind us how much we need Him in our lives.

A friend of mine once said this practice shouldn’t be seen so much as fasting from food, per say, but instead, as an opportunity to feast on God. It’s amazing that followers of Islam are also required to abstain from smoking, sex, and drinking liquids during their holy season.

A “Facebook Fast” has merit, but it’s incomparable to what our Muslims brothers and sisters endure.

Remember, the blessing is not in the amount that we give up, per say, but in the amount of godly things that are replaced.

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Wide Mouth Mason get scrappy

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Wide Mouth Mason bring their scrappy three-piece blues-rock to Red Deer on Wednesday, July 15, at Westerner Days.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF In this era of flawlessly engineered albums, Wide Mouth Mason singer Shaun Verreault is making a case for “raggedy, un-tweaked” music, with edges that catch.

“Music that’s really produced is not made for dudes like me,” said Verreault, who performs with his “scrappy” three-piece blues-rock band on Wednesday, July 15, at Red Deer’s Westerner Days, opening for Big Sugar.

“Some of the recordings I love best are flawed recordings,” said Verreault, “... where Aretha Franklin sings Dr. Feelgood and her voice cracks with this amazing emotion. ...” Where Michael Jackson can be heard catching his breath, or “taking a second to get right to the pitch of a note. ...

“You can hear that a human being was singing that,” he added.

By comparison, when you listen to some of the computer-enhanced and modulated voices on radio today, “It could be anyone,” said Verreault.

Since moving to Vancouver from Saskatoon 14 years ago, he’s seen acts like The Police (on a reunion tour) and Prince at semi-private rehearsal shows that were held in the city before

the performers would embark on long North American tours.

“Their stuff would still be a little rough ... a little raggedy. But it was magical hearing it,” he said.

Verreault believes the energy and emotion of live performances, the “collaboration” between musicians and the audience, are what makes music interesting. Wide Mouth Mason likes to jam for these reasons, and most of the band’s music comes out of those sessions.

The group’s last album, No Bad Days, was recorded quickly from full performances, rather than being produced with layered engineering techniques.

“It’s not a Michael Bay production,” said Verreault, referring to the special effects-happy Transformers film director. “There’s no green screen, with stuff to be added later. ... It’s just three guys and their instruments, some energy and spontaneity, and about capturing rather than manufacturing something.

“What speaks to us is the truth of that moment,” he added. Sometimes when you’re playing, “you’re going for something you’re not sure you can do. It’s about the magic of hitting that something. If you can’t hit it, then you move on and try something else.”

He believes musicians can achieve

things in concert settings they would be hard-pressed to later repeat in studio. The encouraging effect of the crowd’s energy is “unbeatable.”

Wide Mouth Mason was formed in 1995 by Verreault, his buddy since elementary school, drummer Safwan Javed, and bassist Earl Pereira.

Pereira left the band in 2010, just before Wide Mouth Mason was to go on tour with ZZ Top, so Verreault and Javed asked their record producer, Big Sugar’s Gordie Johnson, for his recommendations on lining up a new bass player.

“He recommended himself,” recalled Verreault, with a chuckle. “Who says ‘No’ to that?”

After the tour, Johnson officially joined the band — and it’s been a great fit, musically and personally.

Johnson’s “loose, funky and gritty” approach exactly aligns with Wide Mouth Mason’s sensibilities, said Verreault. “Between us, so much goes unspoken. We come from the same place musically, we’ve known each other for years. He’s seen us play thousands of times and knows what we’re capable of as musicians. ...”

Plus, Johnson is a good “hang,” he added — the kind of guy you don’t mind spending time with in a touring van.

The three musicians are now in

the process of compiling songs for the band’s next album. “Most often we start with an idea I have as the singer/ guitar player,” said Verreault. “We email ideas about the chorus and couple of versus, then we get together for a few days to attack the stuff,” musically.

There are already more potential songs than ever lined up for the next album. Verreault said blues and rock are influences that Wide Mouth Mason doesn’t deviate from. “We’ve always been about two worlds — the Hendrix experience, and The Police/Prince kind of stuff. ...”

Yet “everyone’s still open to experimentation, working efficiently, there’s lots of ideas floating around if you sat us in a room.”

The beauty of the Wide Mouth Mason/Big Sugar concert at the Centrium is that Verreault and Javed get to play with both bands, later joining Johnson in his larger reggae-rock group.

“Saf and I are only children, so we get to choose who our brothers are,” said Verreault, who considers it pretty great to be with people with whom he can share both music and laughs.

The 8 p.m. concert in the Centrium is free with gate admission to the fair. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Terminator Genisys brings back Ah-nold THE ONLY ONE HAVING A GOOD TIME IN TERMINATOR GENISYS IS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, IN THIS FIFTH INSTALMENT OF THE TERMINATOR FRANCHISE Terminator Genisys Rated 14A Two stars (out of four) The most quotable line in Terminator Genisys is the returning Arnold Schwarzenegger’s retort: “I’m old, not obsolete.”

The most appropriate one, though, is this shout by another character: “Are you kidding me?”

This latter exclamation will resonate PETER with fans of The HOWELL Terminator saga, now making its fifth take on sci-fi survivalism, who are confronted with headslapping timeline and story changes.

Director Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) and screenwriters Laeta Kalorgridis (Avatar) and Patrick Lussier (Drive Angry) pay due homage to the first three Terminator films, delivering the CGI-enhanced sight of Ah-nold’s T-800 cyborg in three different eras, right back to 1984. (The Schwarzenegger-free fourth film, Terminator Salvation, is as forgotten as its title punctuation.)

No problem so far. But the T-brains also trample on key aspects of the humans versus machines narrative, introducing alternate histories that are explained away as “nexus points” of disrupted lives.

The “Judgment Day” apocalypse by diabolical computer network Skynet in James Cameron’s T2 (still the best of the five films) is bumped from 1997 to 2017, all the better to fit the revised time-travelling tale that stretches beyond 2029.

Schwarzenegger’s killer Terminator has been rebooted into a teddy beartoting parental figure, with grey hair and answering to “Pops.”

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This photo provided by Paramount Pictures shows Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in Terminator Genisys, from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.

The changes aren’t terrible per se, because the franchise hasn’t exactly been a model of consistency. But everything unfolds with the grim solemnity of a tax audit, albeit an audit accompanied by car chases, pursuing liquid metal men (T-1000 is also back, played by Byung-hun Lee) and explosions (what, the Golden Gate Bridge gets smashed again?)

There are new faces and character arcs for major supporting characters: Antimachine matriarch Sarah Connor

(Games of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke), her resistance-leading son John (Jason Clarke) and his loyal lieutenant Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney), all played with dour authority by capable actors.

The only one really having a good time is Schwarzenegger, who grins like a Cheshire cyborg even when nothing’s funny, least of all the impending destruction of humanity. He’s always had a problem with empathy.

But Terminator Genisys has a couple of other things going for it, besides

happy cat Schwarzenegger. The plot threat about people potentially sealing their Skynet fate by voluntarily downloading Genisys, the “ultimate killer app,” actually makes wicked sense.

And Sarah Connor’s command “Come with me if you want to live!” not only makes a great gender-flipping salute to T2, it also qualifies as the year’s best double entendre.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic

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Mark Ruffalo portrays bipolar dad in Infinitely Polar Bear TORONTO — As a break from portraying the Hulk in the infinite Avengers franchise, Mark Ruffalo took on another character with fearsomely mercurial moods.

In Infinitely Polar Bear, the 47-yearold Ruffalo plays Cam Stuart, a charming eccentric raising two daughters while coping, barely, with bipolar disorder. Much of the story is autobiography for first-time writer-director Maya Forbes, who helped Ruffalo inhabit her late father’s idiosyncratic mannerisms by passing on his old Super 8 home videos, letters and photographs.

Ultimately, Ruffalo absorbed her dad’s self-styled accent, his chainsmoking and even his oddly regal gait.

It was a little eerie for all involved, honestly.

“There was a lot of built-in pitfalls,” Ruffalo conceded during September’s Toronto International Film Festival.

“It feels like a big responsibility and you want to honour him. It was a constant sort of measuring of what I was doing against what Maya thought it should be.”

“It’s sort of like having a walking photo album that talks,” Forbes said in a separate interview.

“It’s pretty crazy. Anyone who knew my father is just like: ’I cannot believe that he’s up there like that.”’

To put her dad up there, Ruffalo

had to put himself out there, with a daring performance that edges into downright uncomfortable territory at times. (Not to mention all the smoking, which Ruffalo said left him bed-ridden for two weeks with bronchitis after the shoot, “sicker than (he’s) ever been.”)

He makes his onscreen introduction clad in minuscule red briefs, tearing around his family on a bicycle during a particularly ugly episode, while the children’s mother, Maggie — played with limitless patience by Zoe Saldana — tries to escort them out of harm’s way. Other times, he’s all freewheeling whimsy, a source of spontaneity and joy for the girls he oversees by himself in Boston while Maggie pursues her business degree in New York.

Even as Cam’s volatile behaviour veers toward the seemingly dangerous, the movie bounces along at an upbeat pace — a relief for Ruffalo, who wanted to avoid anything “too maudlin or too precious.”

“Bipolar people are, half the time, a lot of fun,” said the two-time Oscar nominee.

“People I know who are bipolar are probably the most charming, funniest, smartest, most driven people I know — except for when they’re not.”

Forbes, who cast her own daughter as the onscreen version of herself, lost sleep wondering whether she’d calibrated the character just right.

“I had this total crash and panic

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Saved by the Bell actor won’t serve time for misdemeanours during appeal PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. — Jail time is on hold for former Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond while he appeals his sentence for an altercation at a bar in Wisconsin.

Diamond was supposed to begin serving a four-month sentence last weekend at county jail north of Milwaukee.

On Thursday, a judge in Ozaukee County Circuit Court stayed Diamond’s sentence pending his appeal.

Diamond’s attorney, Thomas Alberti, says it could take as long as two years for the case to be considered, depending on the appellate docket.

The 38-year-old Diamond played Screech on the popular 1990s TV show.

Diamond was recently convicted of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct, but was cleared on a felony charge.

Diamond testified he was trying to protect his girlfriend when he pulled out a pocketknife at the Port Washington bar last Christmas Day.

Late guitarist Jerry Garcia added to Magisto NEW YORK — Deadheads looking to add a little more Jerry Garcia to their lives can now incorporate the late Grateful Dead guitarist into their social media with the video storytelling platform Magisto. And Trixie Garcia hopes that will turn more people on to her father’s music.

Magisto added a Jerry Garcia “editing style” to its platform on Wednesday. It allows users to upload photos and videos and have them mixed into a professional-looking presentation featuring photos of Garcia and a bit from his songs. The launch coincides with the CD release of a 1987 concert by one of Garcia’s side projects, the Jerry Garcia Band.

“We don’t often get to just showcase a beautiful snippet of Jerry’s music in this way,” Trixie Garcia said in a phone interview Wednesday.

“I’m really excited for the people who’ll be like, ’... Is that what Jerry’s music sounds like?

Wow, maybe I’ll listen to some more.’ And then we’ve created one more open-hearted music lover in the world.”

Garcia died in 1995 at

age 53.

“It’s great music and I would love for more people to get over the Deadhead stigma and just enjoy a great American rock band,” she said.

“You don’t have to put on your beads or anything.”

The Magisto partnership comes as the surviving members of the Grateful Dead get ready to play what they’re billing as their final gigs this weekend in Chicago. The pioneering jam band is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Trixie Garcia, 40, has something in common with those who are being exposed to her father’s music for the first time; originally she didn’t listen to the Grateful Dead either. But that has changed in recent years.

“I listen to it a little bit. Not a lot because it’s still a little weird. It’s still real emotional,” she said. “But I do listen.”

Trixie Garcia was at the reunited Dead’s first two shows last weekend in Santa Clara, California. One special moment for her occurred not on the stage but in the sky when a rainbow appeared over Levi’s Stadium as the band was playing. For many fans, it was a sign that her father was smiling down on the proceedings.

Trixie Garcia was in the audience at the time.

“I took a picture of the rainbow and I turn back and all these Deadheads are crying,” she said. “It was really sweet.”

Billy Joel sets new record at MSG with 65 performances NEW YORK — Billy Joel set a record for most performances by a single artist at Madison

Square Garden with his 65th show Wednesday night, besting Elton John.

The Piano Man was full of energy as he performed for a feverish crowd of all ages in New York City for more than two hours. He sang hits like Uptown Girl, We Didn’t Start the Fire, It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me and Only the Good Die Young.

“Welcome to Madison Square Garden — the centre of the universe,” he said as 20,000 fans roared. “I didn’t know I’d be here 65 times, amazing,” he said. “I want to thank you very much for making this possible.”

Robin Thicke says he was ’careless’ during Blurred Lines deposition NEW YORK — Robin Thicke says a deposition for the Blurred Lines case took a backseat to his crumbling marriage, in his first interview since he and Pharrell lost the lawsuit in March.

In an interview with The New York Times, Thicke says he was “careless” during the deposition, which occurred two weeks after he separated from actress Paula Patton.

He and Pharrell were later ordered to pay nearly $7.4 million to three of Marvin Gaye’s children after a jury determined the performers had copied elements of the R&B icon’s 1977 hit Got to Give It Up for Blurred Lines.

Thicke said he was surprised they lost the case. “That’s why we’re appealing. I know the difference between inspiration and theft. I’m constantly inspired, but I would never steal.”

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INSIDE OUT (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI, SUN-THURS 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25; SAT 11:45, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 INSIDE OUT 3D (G) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-THURS 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 JURASSIC WORLD (PG) (GENRE VIOLENCE, PERIL INVOLVING CHILDREN) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-THURS 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 JURASSIC WORLD 3D (PG) (PERIL INVOLVING CHILDREN, GENRE VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-THURS 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 TERMINATOR GENISYS 3D () CLOSED CAPTIONED, NO PASSES FRI-WED 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; THURS 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 TERMINATOR GENISYS 3D () ULTRAAVX, NO PASSES FRI-SAT, MON-WED 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; SUN 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20; THURS 1:30, 4:30 TED 2 (14A) (CRUDE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE, SUBSTANCE ABUSE) CLOSED CAPTIONED, NO PASSES FRI-TUE 12:50, 1:30, 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:10, 9:05, 9:55; WED 12:50, 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:10, 9:05, 9:55; THURS 12:50, 1:30, 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 9:05

TED 2 (14A) (CRUDE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE, SUBSTANCE ABUSE) STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING, NO PASSES WED 1:30 SPY (14A) (VIOLENCE, NUDITY, COARSE LANGUAGE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-SAT,MON-WED 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45; SUN 1:00; THURS 1:00, 4:00 SAN ANDREAS 3D (PG) (FRIGHTENING SCENES,NOT REC. FOR YOUNG CHILDREN) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-THURS 10:10 MINIONS (G) ULTRAAVX, NO PASSES THURS 7:45, 10:15 MAGIC MIKE XXL (14A) (SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE SCENES, COARSE LANGUAGE, SUBSTANCE ABUSE) NO PASSES FRI-THURS 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 MAX (PG) (INFREQUENT VIOLENCE) CLOSED CAPTIONED FRI-THURS 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 SPYMATE () SAT 11:00 FARE THEE WELL: CELEBRATING THE GRATEFUL DEAD () SUN 6:00 THE GALLOWS (14A) (FRIGHTENING SCENES) THURS 7:00, 9:25

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As a break from portraying the Hulk in the infinite Avengers franchise, Mark Ruffalo took on another character with fearsomely mercurial moods. Ruffalo takes on the role of Cam Stuart, seen here in a scene from the film Infinitely Polar Bear. about, ‘Oh my God, people are not going to like Cam. He’s so annoying and what have I done? I’ve done a horrible disservice to my father, whom I loved,”’ she recalled of the film’s first screening.

“My sister said: ‘Well, not everyone liked dad in real life all the time.”’

For what it’s worth, Ruffalo knows where he stands.

“By any standard, he’s probably the most unorthodox parent you could pos-

sibly have,” he said. “But his love for them is so deep. His commitment to them and his belief in them.

“His style of parenting — if somebody doesn’t get really hurt or damaged along the way — is pretty powerful to create people who are well-possessed and capable and fearless.

“When I look at Maya and (her sister) China, who are the byproduct of Cam and their mom, I’m pretty damn impressed. They’re great girls.”

WWE seeks to block former wrestlers from suing over head injuries PRO WRESTLING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HARTFORD, Conn. — World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. is asking a federal judge to block lawsuits by former wrestlers who claim they have suffered long-term health problems from concussions they received in the ring.

The Stamford-based company, in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Connecticut on Monday, argues the wrestlers’ claims are fraudulent and should be barred because of a threeyear statute of limitations on such claims in Connecticut.

The company, which already is facing several lawsuits across the nation, is also asking that all such litigation be moved to federal court in Connecticut.

WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt said the company is being targeted by a lawyer who is improperly shopping lawsuits to former wrestlers across the country.

He said the wrestlers are being convinced they can make a windfall similar to former NFL players who brought similar litigation. The NFL would pay $1 billion total to about 20,000 players under a settlement approved by a judge. That settlement is being appealed by about 90 players.

“Before this guy started trolling around looking for people to sue, we didn’t have one person, none, claiming they had any kind of traumatic brain injuries, or dementia or ALS or any of the kind of stuff you seek associated with the NFL,” McDevitt said.

In a statement, the WWE detailed what it alleged were false claims made

by the attorney.

“It is unfortunate that some former performers have been improperly recruited under the guise of a big ’pay day’, and we feel badly that these individuals are being misled and exploited,” the statement read.

Konstantine Kyros, who represents the wrestlers, denies those allegations.

He said he has been retained by dozens of former WWE performers who all have health problems related to being dropped on their heads too many times. He said each of them suffered repeated concussions and sub-concussive injuries after performing up to hundreds of times a year.

He said he will argue the statute of limitations doesn’t apply when medical conditions manifest themselves years after the events that caused them.

“What the WWE lawsuit is doing is trying to do is prevent some of the most storied performers in the history of the organization from having their day in court,” he said.

Robert Windham, who wrestled under the name “Blackjack Mulligan,” is one of those named in WWE’s lawsuit, along with James “Koko B.” Ware and Thomas “Dynamite Kid” Billington.

All three have sent letters to WWE indicating an intent to sue.

Reached at his home in Groveland, Florida on Wednesday, Windham said he has been diagnosed with dementia and blood clots in his brain, and feels abandoned by WWE. The 73-year-old, who has not wrestled in 12 years, said he’s positive his conditions are due to years of suffering head trauma in the ring.

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1997 — The Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft, lands on Mars.

1946 — The Philippines achieves full independence for the first time in over 400 years.

1945 — Canadian troops enter Berlin as part of British force, to share occupation duties.

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LIFESTYLE HOROSCOPES Saturday, July 4 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: David Kross, 25; Gina Lollobrigida, 88; Eva Marie Saint, 91 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s the perfect day to explore and experiment.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You enjoy being part of a group or organization, and have many talents to offer.

JOANNE December is terrific for love MADELEINE and romance.

MOORE ARIES (March 21-April 19): Friendships need to be nurtured.

SUN SIGNS Get your thoughts and feelings out in the open, as you explore ways to add excitement and adventure to stale relationships.

Constant communication is the key.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your imagination is firing today Taurus so make the most of it. With Venus and Jupiter both visiting your domestic zone, it’s also time to foster family cooperation and goodwill.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Aquarian Moon encourages you to explore and experiment, as you do something wildly adventurous. It’s also a great day to catch up with your international friends and contacts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There’s stimulating, frantic energy around but, in your hurry to get things done, you may end up overwhelmed. You’re keen for excitement but make sure you don’t go too far out on a limb.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The spotlight is off you — for a change. The Moon’s moving through your relationship zone so it’s time to focus on your nearest and dearest, as you listen to their concerns and support their endeavours.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Aquarian Moon may contribute to annoying disruptions in your carefully orchestrated day. Don’t be overly organized — leave room for spontaneous gestures and exciting surprises.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You can be lazy but don’t rest on your lovely laurels today Libra. It’s time to stimulate your mind as the stars favour conversation, reading, writing, studying and travelling.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Socializing with work colleagues or clients brings benefits today. All types of study and research are also highlighted, so roll up your sleeves and learn something new Scorpio!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Aquarian Moon boosts your adventurous nature, and amps up your communication skills. You’ve got a lot on your plate but don’t bite off more than you can comfortably chew.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There could be some surprises to do with money today Capricorn. With Mars firing up your relationship zone, it’s time to be proactive about patching up potential partnership problems.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s a terrific day to talk about your feelings, as you get something off your chest.

But your moods are in a state of flux, so avoid making important decisions that have long-term ramifications.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t be in such a rush that you ignore the joy and beauty within your daily routine.

Whether you are at home or at work, put aside time to smell the roses along the way today Pisces.

Sunday, July 5 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Eva Green, 35; RZA, 46; Ryan Hansen, 34 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Try to combine being creative with being practical.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s Day of the Showman, you love to entertain others.

But don’t neglect your relationship responsibilities along the way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Restless Rams — it will feel like one step forwards and two steps back today, as Saturn stymies your motivation and slows your progress.

The lesson to learn at the moment is patience!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Venus is in your home zone, which encourages using tact and grace in your dealings with loved ones. You’ll achieve more from a kind and caring approach than by burning bridges.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Marvellous Mercury aspects stimulate your gregarious Gemini side and innate curiosity.

So make sure you fill your day with plenty of social activities and exciting learning experiences.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Crabs are feeling cranky today! It won’t take much to irritate you, and relations with loved ones or colleagues will be strained. So pace yourself and do all you can to avoid stressful situations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Relations with your nearest and dearest are likely to be a little fractured today, as you encourage them to do something and they drag their heels.

Not everyone shares your natural enthusiasm!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When it comes to money matters today, keep it simple and try not to stress about things that you can’t change. If you are expecting money from others, be prepared to wait a while.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With Jupiter and Venus in your hopes and wishes zone, make your dreams for the future as big and beautiful as possible. There’s always more to learn and exciting new people to meet.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Expect an intense day, full of deep emotions and intriguing insights. Don’t blame others if things aren’t working out — the only person who’s likely to sabotage your efforts is you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take your time when communicating today. If you blurt things out, you may regret it later on. You’re keen to get your message across but that doesn’t mean others are ready to listen.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It will be difficult to get the balance right between home and work responsibilities, as your stress levels rise and your patience flies out the window. Slow and steady is the motto for today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re keen to communicate creatively, as you collaborate with like-minded souls to achieve a win-win result for everyone. But a professional project may encounter a temporary setback.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Close relationships will be a challenging juggle today, as many demands are placed on you and your energy levels fluctuate. Even so, strive to keep the lines of communication open.

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Employee needs more tact when correcting boss’s spelling Dear Annie: After living and working for 35 years common these days. in a large city, my husband and I were able to return We recommend a little more tact. Tell your friend to our hometown to help care for our elderly parents. that you hope she thinks you are good at what you do, I reconnected with a high school friend who asked and to please allow you to produce your best efforts, me to work part-time in her large, nationally known because you want her company to look good on pafamily business. One of my duties is to per, as well as in reality. But the final word assist my friend with media relations, belongs to her, right or wrong. If she insists including press releases, something I on being wrong, your choice is simply to handled for years in my previous job. stay or go.

However, when I corrected a press reDear Annie: Last year on July 4, you lease she had prepared, I could tell she printed a column about the Liberty Bell. was not happy. But, Annie, the release Thank you for the history lesson. I’ve read was poorly written and there were sevthat the bell was rung gently on another eral grammatical errors that would have day of great significance: D-Day, June 6, been embarrassing if published.

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She asked me a few questions about When news of the Allied invasion of my corrections, but eventually approved France reached Philadelphia, the bell was the release. rung and the sound broadcast over the raI am now reviewing proofs for a comdio.

MITCHELL pany announcement to be mailed to emWe must never forget the sacrifice made & SUGAR ployees and clients. My friend put an that day to secure the freedom we enjoy toapostrophe “s” in their family name (the day. — P.S., Henryville, Ind. Smith’s). When I told her that it should Dear P.S.: You are correct that the bell be “Smiths” to indicate more than one was lightly tapped on D-Day. (Also on V-E Smith, my friend went ballistic. She said Day and V-J Day.) I was nitpicking her work. She said that’s how the inThe light taps were necessary because the bell vitations were done every year, and it was also how had developed several cracks in addition to the fathey did the company Christmas cards. I told her mous original. Most of those cracks occurred when they had been wrong every year. the bell was transferred to other cities for special Annie, at this point in my life, I don’t need a job, patriotic occasions. but I enjoy it. The people are wonderful and I know The last such transfer was in 1915, after which many of their families. But I don’t want my name as- requests to acquire the bell were refused in order to sociated with shoddy work. minimize the damage. (Souvenir hunters were also How do I help my friend understand that my ef- known to chip away pieces of the bell.) forts will help her company? — Know the Difference Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Between You’re and Your Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers colDear Know: Correcting the grammar of an adult is umn. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ tricky. creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators A lot of people are sensitive and assume the criti- Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. cism means you think they are stupid. But grammati- You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ cal and spelling mistakes are, unfortunately, quite AskAnnies.

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Embrace your lighting Dear Debbie: I fell in love with a light fixture when shopping for some replacement lighting for our home. But it’s far too modern for the rest of our home’s country-style décor. What to do? — Charlotte Dear Charlotte: It is not unusual for our sense of style to expand as we see and learn more about history and design.

In fact, our home’s décor can be a showcase for new discoveries.

Never be afraid to introduce DEBBIE something that TRAVIS you admire, and don’t worry about how it will fit in with what you already have — mixing modern with traditional or country is on trend today and will be for the foreseeable future.

Embrace your lighting find as the new kid on the block, and discover the many ways it will enhance your life.

Shown here are two very different light fixtures that are definitely not your typical country style, but they work brilliantly.

It’s always fun to have a story to tell, and the design concept behind the Glendale pendant from Hudson Valley that hangs above the dining table in a cozy ski chalet is a good one.

Remember Sputnik, the famous satellite that was launched in 1957?

Hudson Valley tells us that the Glendale pendant revives the innovative spirit of Sputnik by suspending the signature starburst within a crisp, textured cube to create a play of stunning effects.

The series is available in three sizes and in either aged brass or polished nickel finishes (www.hudsonvalleylighting.com).

The soft, white sheers that frame the large expanse of windows help to further project a feeling of floating quietly in the air as does the clean design of the table and chairs. This is a relaxed, imaginative space that fits seamlessly into a country setting.

More background for a very different pendant from Troy Lighting’s new Aviation Collection. Idlewild is classic industrial modern.

Iron and vintage aluminum panels are welded together to form a tiered pendant with exposed rivets and finished in aviation gray.

The LED light delivers powerful illumination down a fluted glass diffuser, and is dimmable for maximum versatility.

There are a variety of pendant sizes and as well as a one-tiered wall sconce in the Aviation Collection (www.troylighting.com).

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ABOVE: Sputnik light: The capsule shape of the carbon filament bulbs creates drama in this fun take on a mid-century starburst design.

INSET: Idlewild: Aviation meets Industrial Chic in this tiered iron and aluminum pendant from Troy. tioned in a living room, we think of them best placed over tables or islands.

But this eye-catching pendant is suspended over an inviting sitting area, which combines strong wood elements on the fireplace surround with traditional white sofas and contemporary art. It makes a stunning setting, where contrasts in colour and materials combine freely to produce a harmonious whole.

It could be a light fixture that you just have to have, or a period console table discovered at a second hand

shop, or a modern area carpet with a combination of colours in a pattern that you can’t resist.

These are all exciting and capture your adventurous spirit, and they are always welcome — they will breathe new life into your home.

Debbie Travis’s House to Home column is produced by Debbie Travis and Barbara Dingle. Please email your questions to house2home@debbietravis.com. You can follow Debbie on Twitter at www.twitter. com/debbie_travis, and visit Debbie’s new website, www.debbietravis.com.

Upholstered walls for a close-knit family room

BY ELIZABETH MAYHEW SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE While the summer temperatures heat up, I am doing the opposite of what one might think: I’m turning inward with my decorating and choosing this time to make our family room warmer and cozier.

Our family room, as in most homes, is where my husband, children and I spend much of our time.

The sofa and chairs are our most comfortable, and it is the location of our only television . The room is where we congregate to read, work, watch movies and listen to music.

Yet even though we gravitate to the room, I have always been dissatisfied with its decor. In an effort to make the room more inviting, I have tried painting the walls a darker color, swapping out the rug for one with a plusher pile, reupholstering the sofa from a cotton to a velvet, and replacing the overhead light with dimmable ambient fixtures — all without fully achieving the cozy effect I desired.

Finally, this summer, I have decided to do what I wanted to do all along: I am having the walls upholstered.

Kings and queens of Europe dating to the 14th century hung fabric — tapestries to be exact — not only for decorative display, but also to insulate their drafty castle rooms during the cold months and absorb sound, much needed in echoey stone spaces.

The tapestries were portable, so they could be rolled up and moved from one castle to the next.

While I am not about to hang replicas of “The Lady and the Unicorn” in my family room, and I don’t need to move readily from one domicile to the next, I do want to achieve the same warming effect.

My reason for not previously upholstering the walls is simple: It is an expensive endeavor, and last I checked my husband and I are not of royal birth.

Even without the installation labor expense, the cost of fabric alone can be

substantial; most average-size rooms (say, 12 by 15 feet) require approximately 30 to 35 yards of fabric, and that’s assuming the fabric is a standard 54 inches wide. Clearly the price can mount even if your chosen fabric is $25 a yard.

I figured I could try to save money by doing the labor myself, but a quick Google search unveiled several DIY fabric wall upholstery tutorials that prove it is not a simple task.

The Design Sponge blog, which has seemingly the most accurate and detailed of all posts, goes as far as to separate the process into two parts.

The first part includes an extensive material list and then outlines 32 steps followed by five tips. Part 2 is equally daunting with a total of 33 steps.

Full disclosure: Steps 1 through 5 tell you how to thread a needle, but even I know better than to tackle this one myself.

I called my upholsterer, who is quite experienced in upholstering walls and, after hiring him for the job, asked him what might make the job difficult for a novice. He explained that every fabric behaves differently, so every job requires subtle adjustments. (He suggests choosing a fabric with the slightest amount of give so it can be stretched tightly on the wall.) He also cautioned against choosing a fabric with both horizontal and vertical lines, such as a tartan, because it is very difficult to match all of the lines and have them appear perfectly straight.

He suggests making sure that your walls are in decent shape — the last thing you want is to have your fabric walls covered in mold because they were exposed to moisture — and to avoid areas with a lot of traffic unless you are planning on using a durable outdoor-grade fabric.

For our family room, I chose a chocolate brown and cream printed linen stripe that my upholsterer will seam together and then stretch over a thin layer of quarter-inch-thick Dacron, to give the walls just a bit of padding.

The project should be complete in time for fall (I am still waiting for the fabric to arrive!), at which point I will

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Walls upholstered in Schumacher’s Moorea in Lava Black by Schumacher; upholstered walls can create a cozy room. happily ensconce myself in the room much in the way a caterpillar enters its cocoon. Come spring I might emerge as a changed being, or I might just be so

content that I remain inside.

Mayhew, a Today show style expert and former magazine editor, is the author of “Flip! for Decorating.”

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, July 4, 2015

Cooling a sleeping loft Question: How can I make the upper level of my cottage cooler in summer? We’ve got a sleeping loft up there with open rafters and roof boards that look great. Trouble is, the space is way too hot to use at this time of year.

Answer: There are two things you can do that will make all the difference: insulate and ventilate. My preferred method for insulating a cottage roof like yours is to add a layer of foam insulation with roof sheathing on top, before reshingling. You could insulate with batts between rafters and cover it with drywall, but that’s often more disruptive. Drywall also ruins that great look of an openrafter roof, too. Two inches of extruded polystyrene foam STEVE on top of the roof does wonMAXWELL ders to help keep a cottage loft cool. No matter how much insulation you have in the roof, you’ll still need to ventilate your loft if you want it cool enough to use. This is where openable skylights make all the difference. The kind made narrow enough to fit between rafters are the easiest to install, but a wider design lets in more light and air. I prefer these, even though they’re more trouble to install. Open the skylights with the lower windows open too and you’ll feel a breeze running through the entire cottage. The whole place will feel more comfortable, not just the loft.

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Insulating panels being applied on top of a wooden roof. Besides providing a continuous layer of insulation, this method allows classic wooden roof structures to remain visible underneath.

Question: How can I stop rain from leaking behind my eavestrough. The water comes off the roof, but doesn’t go into the trough. I’m 88-years-old, and not as good on a ladder as I used to be. Who could I get to help me?

Answer: The problem of rain getting behind eavestroughs is more common than most people realize, and it’s bad for the roof. One solution is to install a strip of sheet metal that tucks under the shingles and extends down over the back of the eavestrough.

Think of it like a long, narrow shingle.

I find that strips of metal cut off a piece of factorypainted aluminum fascia works well for this repair.

Use a utility knife guided by a straight edge, score the metal, then bend it back and forth to break off what you need. Make this strip wide enough to do the job, then slip it in place. Any handy person who does outdoor repairs could help you with this. Watch a video and see how at SteveMaxwell.ca/eavestroughleaks

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Preventing outdoor mould

Landscape additions can be functional, personal, attractive

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flowers are the face of a garden, providing colour and texture.

But a few well-placed landscape accessories can give it character and a dash of personality. Accessories can range from water fixtures, like ponds and streams, to outdoor furniture and appliances, fountains to statuary, miniature fairy gardens to antiques.

Give it some thought, however.

“There’s some wonderful stuff out there (to collect) and it’s awfully tempting, but you have to be really careful not to overdo it,” said Linda Engstrom, a landscape designer from Portland, Oregon.

She advises putting no more than two or three items in one area. “It gets too cluttered and the eye doesn’t know where to go,” she said. “You need some negative space.”

Many of those items also can be high-maintenance. And landscape accessories should fit the architectural style of the home, Engstrom said.

“I had a client once who had a Tudor house but who wanted a Japanese garden. That wasn’t such a great idea, but I was able to give her a Japanesestyle garden semi-enclosed in the backyard, and it wasn’t jarring,” she said.

Engstrom doesn’t like the trend toward elaborate outdoor living rooms with weather-proof furniture.

“I can’t picture leaving that stuff out there in wet or snowy winters,” she said. “It’s quite a chore to keep it looking nice when placed outside.”

Accessories can be used to screen unsightly utility sheds or add some visual flavour to hobby greenhouses, she said. “Put up a pergola and string it with vines and flowers. Add a fountain or garden seat.”

Homemade landscaping objects are becoming fashionable again, said Leonard Perry, an extension professor with the University of Vermont.

“Making your own accessories may be a great way to save money, a fun craft hobby or family activity,” Perry said.

“Making colorful pavers (stepping stones), either with inlaid objects, designs or leaf impressions, is a great activity to involve children.”

Creativity also comes into play finding unusual objects from flea markets, garage sales or your basement, and figuring out how to incorporate them into a garden. Landscape accessories can be functional as well as attractive. Consider low-voltage lighting that enhances safety along walks and drives, and home security. “

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Answer: I don’t think there’s anything more you can do to increase air circulation from what I’ve seen in the photos you sent, but perhaps a different method of cleaning would help.

The only product I know of that offers residual protection is something called Concrobium Mold Control. I’ve used it ever since it came out more than 10 years ago, and it works quite well. It’s nontoxic and contains no bleach. It works by crushing mould spores mechanically as it dries. Killing mould doesn’t necessarily get rid of stains though, so you might consider one of the new oxygen based cleaners on the market. Mold Stain Eraser has worked better for me than anything else in my tests. Regular washing will help prevent mould regrowth, too. The more dust and cobwebs you can remove, the less there is for mould to feed on.

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When it’s time for a gardener to pull up roots

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The author’s mother in the 1980s, standing with the author’s greatgrandmother’s damask roses.

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When my husband and I started gardening on my family’s Maryland farmstead more than 13 years, ago, we inherited the trees planted over the past century by my parents and grandparents.

A copper beech that had outgrown its corner of the yard. Towering tulip poplars and pin oaks. Chinese chestnuts, now covered with creamy flowers shaped like fireworks and smelling of sweet nuts. A black cherry tree, dangling its luminous fruits just out of reach; last month we stood on tiptoe, popping them into our mouths, the sweet delicious juice running down our chins.

We will miss these old souls when we move in the fall, to a smaller place farther north, near bays and marshes.

And though we can’t take the big trees, we can take seedlings of the tulip poplars, sassafras and cedars that pop up along the hedge. When the weather cools in late summer, I’ll sink a nursery spade — one with a long, sharp, narrow blade — in a circle around each baby tree. The goal will be to not break the taproot as I lift each seedling into a gallon pot, fill it with soil, and set it in a semi-shaded, protected spot.

I will also dig up sprouts of Madame Lemoine, the French double white lilac with a spicy scent that my grandmother brought with her, from her own farm, a mile up the road, when she married my grandfather.

Sprouts, or shoots of lilacs, which arrange themselves around the base of the shrub, are connected to the mother plant by an underground stem, or stolen. I use a sharp blade to cut this umbilical cord, dig around the shoot, and lift it from the ground. I put these in pots deep enough for their roots, filled with a mix of compost and soil.

My grandmother also brought her mother’s fragrant damask rose to this farm. It’s a pink quartered type that never gets a spot of mildew or black spot, so I want to carry it to my own new home.

Layering is the easiest way to propagate an old rose. Choose a long, supple cane that bends low to the ground, and dig a little shallow trench where it touches the soil. Then bend the cane, just enough so that it so that it cracks open ever so slightly, without breaking in half. Place it gently in the trench, cover it with moist soil, then pin the cane to the ground with a piece of wire or coat hanger, bent like hairpin.

The cane should root in a month or so, when you can sever it from the mother plant, and let it grow on its own, until moving it in the early fall.

Taking cuttings of old roses is trickier. (Ken Druse’s “Making More Plants,” is a great guide for propagation, too detailed to fully explain here.)

I was introduced to the art 20 years ago, on a rose-rustling adventure with Stephen Scanniello, a rosarian and garden designer. We took cuttings from heritage roses flourishing on neglect in century-old New Jersey cemeteries.

The roses that survive in such places, without pesticides or additives, are hardy plants. They can be spotted in old neighborhoods, too, so ask permission and take a few cuttings.

It helps, of course, to rose-rustle when the plants are blooming, so you can bury your nose in their velvety blossoms, to see if they’re worth the trouble. But if you know the rose, even if it has finished flowering, July is a good time to take cuttings.

Look for long canes of new growth, about the diameter of a slender pencil.

Using a pair of sharp, clean pruners, cut the stems into 6-inch sections, remove the leaves from the bottom half, and trim a few from the top, so the cutting doesn’t transpire too much, but can still photosynthesize, while forming new roots.

I had fairly good luck my first time with Scanniello, sticking the cuttings into quart-size plastic zipper bags halffilled with moist light sterile potting soil and leaving the bag slightly open to let in a little air.

I just set the bags in the semi-shade of bigger pots, out of direct sunlight, and checked them daily to make sure they had not dried out. (Mist them if they do, but don’t let them get so wet that they rot.)

Plastic bags have the advantage of letting you see when the roots form. At that point, you can transplant them to little pots, until they grow into sturdy plants and can be set out in the garden. I had about a 25 percent success rate, so take a lot of cuttings.

This year, instead of bags, I used four-inch plastic pots filled with half soilless mix, half perlite. I used a pencil to make a hole in the soil of each pot. I took each cutting, trimmed on the diagonal, and tapped its base into a bit of rooting powder, then set it into the hole. The big challenge is to keep the plants humidified, so I put my pots into a shallow wooden box rigged with bent coat hangers and draped a plastic dry-cleaning bag over the whole thing.

You can also set each pot into a gallon-size bag with a zipper, but you have to rig some way to keep the plastic from collapsing onto the leaves. I’ve heard of people planting the cuttings right in the bags and hanging them from a clothes line in dappled light.

Others simply stick the cutting under the mother rosebush in moist soil.

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Changing the layout of an older home Question: We can finally see the end of the renovation and restoration of our 75-year-old home.

Throughout that time, my husband and I have tried every possible layout for furniture in the living room, but nothing seems right.

We feel certain that we DAVID are missing FERGUSON something that a trained eye might see.

The living room has some beautiful and interesting features including: wide decorative plaster mouldings at the ceiling line; light oak window casings; a red brick fireplace with a grey, faux-granite mantel; the original wall sconces on each side of the fireplace; maple hardwood floors and leaded glass windows.

The way we see the problem is the lack of uninterrupted walls on which to align furniture.

The window wall is mostly a large and beautiful, but impractical, bay window.

The opposite wall has a small arched entry to the front hall and dining room, and the fireplace interrupts the remaining major wall.

Our 2.1 metre (seven-foot) sofa is a standard size, but it really seems to be too large a piece of furniture for this room!

As this is a small house, the living room will be an all-purpose room for reading, watching television and listening to music.

The only other design constraint is a pair of large loudspeakers that fill the space on either side of the fireplace.

Answer: I have always thought that we can learn a lot about interior design from older homes like yours.

The decorative architectural details you describe not only add interest to the space, but they set a tone for the room’s décor, creating a warm and homy atmosphere.

Your home does share something with today’s newly-built houses — smaller, more compact spaces.

Of course, one advantage new homes have over yours is that they can easily adapt to fast changes in technology in entertainment and security.

Back when your home was built, televisions and other electronic paraphernalia were simply not considerations in how interior space was designed.

The living room was a place for the family to congregate for conversation,

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It may take a little extra thought to design a strong layout that incorporates today’s technological needs in an older home.

It is not surprising that the sound that can emanate from new speakers, no more than a few inches square, is infinitely better than older, larger ones.

Your love seat and sofa set too, are from an era that won’t jive with your room.

Trying to cram these two pieces into the room will result in always bumping into one piece or another.

My plan calls for a rethink of the space, and adapting new furniture to suit the way you live.

A unit that houses the television and stereo, for example, could be a traditional-looking piece suited to this more compact environment.

It may be a design that can accommodate the stereo as well, hiding these high-tech pieces behind doors.

The main seating piece could be a

small love seat, accompanied by two comfortable chairs with ottomans.

Flanking each side of the fireplace, these chairs will provide you with cosy niche for reading and listening to music.

Lighting this room will also be a challenge since there will be little room for end tables.

Take a cue from the past by installing wall-mounted fixtures evenly throughout the room for a wash of soft light on each wall.

Another source of light could be from traditional “torchere” fixtures, which are floor lamps from which the light comes out of the top and bounces off the ceiling.

David Ferguson is a regular contributor to CBC Radio. Write to David at david.ferguson@hotmail.ca.

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The point is, sometimes living in a character-filled home in the 21st century requires compromises.

I might suggest that a part of the reason you are having such difficulty with a layout is because your minds are set on creating a modern living room with all its conveniences within a traditional environment.

I’m afraid that may be a case of trying to fit the proverbial square peg in a round hole.

Your unusually large stereo speakers that take up precious floor space are a good example of this.

I would strongly recommend that you replace them with smaller, highperformance speakers that can be mounted on the wall or neatly tucked in a bookcase, out of the way of necessary furniture.

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BARNES Sharon Jean (Walton) passed away peacefully after a courageous struggle with cancer on June 28, 2015 at the Red Deer Hospice.

Sharon moved to Elnora with her parents as a teenager.

She married Jack Barnes on November 20, 1959 and they spent their life farming at Elnora. They were blessed with two daughters, Pat and Kathy. She was a dedicated farm wife, mother, sister in law, friend, sister, grandma and great grandma. Jack and Sharon retired to a lovely home east of Elnora in 2005.

Following Jack’s passing in 2007, Sharon remained at their home until moving to town in 2012. Sharon loved her volunteer time spent at the Elnora Library, gardening and flowers, rodeos and a good chuckwagon race. She was very proud to have been involved in the creation of Buried Treasures, Volume 2 which highlights the history and settling of Elnora.

Sharon will be lovingly remembered by her daughters Pat (John) Christensen and Kathy (Dean) Tucker; four cherished grandchildren: Shane (Bev) Christensen, Brad (Chelsey) Christensen, Austin (Shayleen) Pisko and Hannah Tucker and five precious great grandchildren: Chase, Keeley, Taves, Luxa and Quincee. Sharon is also survived by her brothers Don (Verna) Walton and Larry Walton, sister in laws Dorothy Empey, Helen Neufeld, Jean Ferguson and Irma Barnes and a host of good friends. She was predeceased by her husband Jack Barnes and by her parents Ernie and Luella Walton. In lieu of flowers memorial tributes may be made to the Red Deer Hospice and STARS Air Ambulance. A celebration of Sharon’s life will be held on Monday, July 6, 2015 at 2:00pm at the Elnora Community Hall.

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BRYAN (Lunn) E. Joyce May 26, 1931 - June 7, 2015 Following a brief illness we said goodbye to our much loved Mom and Gramma.

Joyce was born in Winnipeg to Albert and Maude Lunn.

She spent her childhood and teen years there. In the early ‘50’s she met Stan Bryan on a Greyhound bus while traveling from Winnipeg to Toronto for work. They were married on April 17, 1953 after a month long engagement and her life’s adventures truly began. Mom loved people and made many true and good friends as Dad’s job took them to several northern towns. Many years were spent in Spirit River, AB where Mom was involved in all of our activities. She embraced the role of being our Mom and loved to include our friends. Joyce was always the first mother to volunteer. All were welcome to join her and there was lots of laughter. Upon retirement Mom and Dad spent several winters in Mexico, finally they settled in Innisfail, AB. Mom became involved with the food bank, quilting for the women’s shelter and committees at the United Church. After Dad’s passing she moved to Evergreen Retirement community in Calgary and then in June 2014 settled into Sunrise Village in High River. Mom continued to enjoy life; lunches out, drives with a view of the mountains, talking with distant friends on the phone, meeting newer friends in the Sunrise Bistro for coffee and befriending the resident dogs. Mom always said she had a wonderful life.

Left behind to cherish her memory are her children; Lynne (Arnold) Lair of High River; Brenda Bryan of Winnipeg, MB; Heather (Sean) Sweeney of Victoria, BC; Neil Bryan of Edmonton, AB and Catrin Bryan of Kelowna, BC; her cherished grandchildren; Paul, Finn, Tess, Alexandra and Isobel; her sister Donna (Bill) Saunders of Calgary and her sister-in-law Jean Bryan of Innisfail; and many nieces and nephews. Joyce was predeceased by her husband of 57 years in 2010 and her brother George Lunn. The family would like to thank the staff on the 3rd floor of the High River Hospital for their compassionate care. As Mom wished, there will be no service. Please think of her, smile and share your laughter. Interment to take place in the Highwood Cemetery in High River at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to The Kidney Foundation of Canada or The War Amps of Canada. To send condolences and view Joyce’s Tribute Page please visit www.lylereeves.com.

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CARTWRIGHT Hally Lynn Mar. 23, 1965 - June30, 2015 Hally Lynn Cartwright was born March 23, 1965, in Red Deer, Alberta.

She is survived by her two children, Kayla and Will Storkson, and their dad Craig, Hally’s parents, Terry Stewart and Doug (Rose) Cartwright, her siblings Don (Aletta) Cartwright, Kim (Shawn) Cartwright, Randy (Donna) Martin, Dean (Helen) Martin.

Hally also leaves to mourn her partner Rob Marsh, her four nieces, three nephews, and one great-niece as well as numerous aunts, uncles and cousins.

She is predeceased by her grandparents, two aunts and two cousins. Hally will be missed by a large circle of friends, she loved you all very much. Hally lived through some crazy battles and came out stronger and wiser. Hally was sassy, spunky and so beautiful. Her warrior spirit was laid to rest on June 30, 2015. A Celebration of Life for Hally will be held on Thursday, July 9, at 2 p.m. at Unity Baptist Church, 139 Northey Ave., Red Deer. Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

DAHLBERG Gilbert Wesley “Gil” Oct. 19, 1937- Red Deer, Alberta June, 28, 2015 - Calgary, Alberta Gil Dahlberg, beloved husband of the late Reta Dahlberg (nee Sweet), passed away peacefully on June 29, 2015. He is survived by daughters, Sandra Ball (Glenn) and Lesley Rysavy (Trevor), four cherished granddaughters, Jamie and Georgia Ball and Dinah and Eve Rysavy, brother Alan Dahlberg and sister Joyce Poire (Gilles).

Born in Red Deer in 1937 to Lola and Erik Dahlberg, Gil moved to Calgary in 1969 to continue a successful business career and raise a family with Reta. As a devoted member of the church and an active member of the southern Alberta business community (banking and property management), Gil made a lasting and positive impression on many, many individuals and will be dearly missed. He will always be remembered for his love for Jesus, commitment to family, generosity and compassion.

A memorial service will be held at Foothills Alliance Church (333 Edgepark Blvd.

N.W. Calgary, AB) on July 8, 2015 at 2:00 PM. If friends so desire, Gil would be honoured if memorial tributes were made in his name directly to Urban Grace Church (111 - 10A Street N.W. T2N 4M7).

In living memory of Gil Dahlberg, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, Crowfoot, 82 CROWFOOT CIRCLE N.W. Telephone: 1-800-661-1599.

GRAHAM Norma Elizabeth Norma Elizabeth (Beanie) Graham was born on July 31, 1920 in Halkirk, Alberta and passed away on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at Villa Marie Covenant Care in Red Deer, Alberta. She is survived by one sister, Joan Campbell of Winnipeg; her children, David (Loretta) Graham, Danny (Barbara) Graham, Barbara (Baird) Thomas, Janet Janssen, and Susan (Allan) Martin; one son-in-law, Gerald Bennett; 19 grandchildren; 43 great grandchildren; and 3 great great grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband, John; daughter, Shirley Bennett; one son-inlaw, Ivan Janssen; one sister and two brothers. A Memorial Service will be held for Beanie at the Cornerstone Gospel Chapel, 5911- 63 Street, Red Deer, AB on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 2:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Beanie’s memory to a charity of the donor’s choice.

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McLEOD Darcy Allen June 26, 1971 - July 1, 2015 It is with broken hearts that we announce that Darcy Allen McLeod received his much earned angel wings on July 1st, 2015. To see his full obituary and send condolences, please go to www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

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FERGUSON Bonita 1972 - 2015 It is with extreme sorrow, that we announce Mrs. Bonita ‘Bonnie, Bobo, B’ Ferguson of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away after a courageous battle with her health at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Sunday, June 28, 2015 at the age of 43 years.

Bonnie was born and raised in Barrhead, Alberta. She and Neil eventually settled in Red Deer in 1997 and embraced their new home.

At heart, a shy, sensitive soul, Bonnie evolved into a fearless, straight forward woman, who was passionate in her beliefs. She loved supporting local businesses, and really believed that one person could effect change.

Always curious, Bonnie loved to travel the world, try new foods, activities and hobbies.

She played a beautiful guitar and wrote incredible songs.

Bonnie is survived by her best friend of twenty-three years, partner in crime, soul mate and devoted husband, Neil Barton. She will also be sadly missed by her mother, Joyce Ferguson, sisters, Cindy Ferguson and Laurie Ferguson, brother, Robert (Desiree) Ferguson, nieces, Payton, Riley, Piper and Harper Ferguson, numerous other family members and a wide circle of dear friends.

Bonnie was predeceased by her father, Hugh Ferguson, grandparents, Robert and Edna Ferguson, Arnold and Edna Harms, and an uncle, William Ferguson. Honoring Bonnie’s wishes, no formal Funeral Service will be held.

If desired, Memorial Donations in Bonnie’s honor may be made directly to the Salvation Army, Safe Harbour Society, or to the Red Deer Food Bank. Better yet, please donate some of your time like Bonnie did; she always worried about others.

But to really remember our girl, go to a local pub, order a good, locally made craft beer and share your funny, crazy Bonnie stories. Take the trip you’ve always wanted, go get that dream, explore. Love fearlessly. Never give up.

Laugh. We love you Bobo and we’ll miss you every day.

Sleep well, sweet dreams.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Quinn Edwards, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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LANGEVIN Mrs Nancy Langevin passed away peacefully with her family by her side June 25, 2015 at the Innisfail Hospital at the age of 91. Nancy was born July 16, 1923 in England arriving in Canada as an English war bride in 1944. Married to Pee Wee Langevin for 54 years before his death in 1996, Nancy is survived by five sons; Gary (Charla), Dale (Shirley), Val (Darlene), Robin, Danny (Bonnie) and one daughter Joy (Vaughn), eleven grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren. There will be no funeral or service at Nancy’s request.

Condolences may be directed to Heartland Funeral Services. The family wishes to thank all the staff at the Innisfail Hospital for their compassionate care.

HEARTLAND FUNERAL SERVICES, LTD., INNISFAIL entrusted with arrangements.

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PITCHELL William John “Jack” Jan. 23, 1938 - Jul. 1, 2015 It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Jack Pitchell on July 1st, 2015 at the age of 77 years.

He was husband for 57 years to Rosemary. He was also father to Brenda (Marty) and Kevin (Michelle). The love of his life were his four granddaughters; Natasha, Katrina, Ashley, and Zoey. Friends are invited to a celebration of his life at the Golden Circle 4620 47 Ave, Red Deer, AB on Sunday, July 12, 2015 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements. Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

RADCLIFFE Beverly Beverly Ann Radcliffe (nee Homenuk) passed away on June 29, 2015 at the age of 62. Beverly is lovingly survived by her husband of 36 years, Gerald; daughters Desiree and Christie (Kelly); son Jordan (Katie); grandchildren Braedon, Hayley, Melissa, Riley, and Kate; mother Eva; brother Joseph (Myra); sisters Sharon (Alex) and Donna (Albert); and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her father Nick. Funeral Services for Beverly will be held on Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the Clive Baptist Church in Clive, Alberta.

Memorial donations can be made on her behalf to The Red Deer Hospice Society.

To express condolences to Beverly’s family, please visit www.womboldfuneralhomes.com.

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Dear friends, family, and ex-work colleagues: the family of Dorothy McWhan is hosting a 90th birthday party on Saturday, August 22nd at the Lousana Community Hall. The gathering will start at 16:00 where a buffet lunch will be provided, and there will be some evening entertainment starting at approx. 19:30. We would greatly appreciate an RSVP to Casey McWhan, phone: 403-981-2268 email: caseymcw@icloud.com Please: No Gifts, your presence is enough.

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Free Est.. 403-506-4822

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds Free Est. 403-872-8888 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602

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Class 5 license Clean, Clear drivers abstract Installing and set-up of equipment in client’s homes.

Mechanical and electrical aptitude an asset.

Verbal and written Communication skills.

Understands the importance of delivering legendary customer service.

Send resumes by fax to 403-342-4516 Attn: Robert or email Rhogan@ Shoppershomehealthcare.ca

Business Opportunities

870

ARE you retired and have an idea for a business, but don’t want to work? Do you currently have a job, but would like to start a business without leaving your current job? I have a prime location on Main Street (Innisfail). I will rent/lease my store & I will work F/T for your business opportunity. Please contact George @ 403-227-3561 Weekdays 9 am - 5 pm.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

DO you have a Plan B? Lots of ambition but no opportunity? Contact Carol 403-596-2739

880

Misc.

Help

Employment Training

SAFETY

F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 GREENHOUSE workers wanted, starting date July.

Must be able to work weekends, hardworking and reliable, $10.20/hr. e-mail hillsidegreenhouses@ live.ca IMMEDIATE Openings **STARS FOUNDATION** Help Save Lives... Be a STARS* Fundraiser FACE - TO - FACE Fundraisers Required You have the chance to impact those in your community... You can make a difference with STARS Calendar sales!

This position is for those who have a huge heart, articulate, goal oriented, and love meeting new people. Sell calendars in your community with the annual STARS Air Ambulance Calendar Campaign. $14/hour plus bonus Flexible Hours * Local Territory Contact: 1.877.778.8288 bdickson@stars.ca Now Hiring In-Home Caregiver $11/hr 40 hrs/wk Care of a 7 yr. boy. Optional accommodation available at no charge on a live-in basis. Note: This is not a condition of employment.

Email resume: delmundot4r@gmail.com SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. mail resume to: nwoods1976@ hotmail.com or fax to: 403-346-9099 or drop off at: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

Advocate Opportunities

900

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

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CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1605

SONY cassette cd player, mini hi-À component system, $100.

403-346-7825

1630

EquipmentHeavy

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

1640

Tools

SKILL SAW, Craftsman 7.25, $30. 403-314-0804 VARIETY of miscellaneous tools, $20. 403-885-5020

1660

Firewood

CARRIERS REQUIRED

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

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

Spruce, Pine - Split. Avail.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

1680

Garden Supplies

CARRIERS REQUIRED

WILLOW basket and chair for plants, $40 each.

Chocolate mint herb plants, $1.50 each.

403-346-7825

To deliver the

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in:

Household Furnishings

LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

1720

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1760

VINTAGE Royal Doulton Beswick horse, brown shetland Pony, 3 1/2” high $50; Merrell Ortholite shoes, air cushioned, size 6 1/2, like new $35. Lazy Boy, recliner, tall style, beige, $95. 403-352-8811

Office Supplies

1730

1800

UNUSED ofÀce desk, can sit 6 people $180 403-347-0939

1830

Cats

stuff

Electronics

Misc. for Sale

TWO pairs of men’s like new, quality leather hiking boots, size 8, $25 each.

403-346-2192

278950A5

860

Truckers/ Drivers

1 BALINESE kitten, 1 Siamese $60/ea; 403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

1860

AIR HOCKEY by Sportscraft was $900 new, exc. cond, $200 403-352-8811 GOLF clubs and misc. clubs and bag $20 and up. 403-314-0804

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Wanted To Buy

1930

ATENTION FARMERS: Looking for scrap wheel moves and irrigation pipe.

403-330-7357 MEDICHAIR, electric scooter WANTED. 403-346-9899

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

3 BDRM. townhouse in Red Deer, 1 1/2 bath, full bsmt, 2 parking stalls, fenced back yard.

403-887-4670

rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

www.seibelproperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 Starting at $1195 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

Tour These Fine Homes

1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. or July 1 References required.

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 SYLVAN 2 bdrm. condo w/balcony & 2 parking.

Special price.

403-341-9974

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

THE NORDIC

3 BDRM., no pets, $1000 mo. 403-343-6609 ACROSS from park, Oriole Park, 3 bdrm.

4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls.

Rent $1075/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. now or Aug. 1.

403-304-5337 3 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls., 1 1/2 baths, Rent $1125. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail.

Aug. 1. 403-304-5337

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2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $975. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. now or Aug.1 403-304-5337

Houses/ Duplexes

GLENDALE

WEST PARK

Avail. July 1, 2 bdrm bsmt. suite, 4 appls, private entry, n/s, n/p, rent $750 rent/dd. + utils. 403-845-2926

Rooms For Rent

FOR LEASE, Executive style 1/2 duplex in Lacombe on large lot.

4 bdrms., 3 bath, dble. garage, no pets, N/S. 403-588-2740

Suites

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820 VACANT Pad for rent, South Park Village Gasoline Alley, East side.

Can accommodate a 16’ wide x 68’ long home.

Incld’s natural gas, sewer & water. $500./mo. Call or leave msg. 403-346-0499

“COMING SOON” BY

SERGE’S HOMES

Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050 BLACKFALDS 1200 sq. ft. bi-level walkout 3 bdrm. 2 bath, open Áoor plan, a must see! $355,000 Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld. $454,000 LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

1999 MERCEDES SLK hardtop convertible, only 60,000 kms. Call/Text for more pics or options. $12,700. 403-358-4582

SUV's

5040

LACOMBE 2 bdrm. 1 full baths, livingroom, kitchen, bsmt, single car garage $1095 782-7156 357-7465

2007 DODGE Nitro 4x4, SLT V6, auto., loaded w/sunroof, low kms., clean, REDUCED 403-352-6995

Blackfalds. Beautiful Bungalow 1 only. 1320 sq. ft. 2 bdrm. 2 bath, main Áoor laundry.Granite, hardwood, tile, Chigaco brick Àreplace. Lots of extras.

Backs onto green space walking trail.Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld. $454,000 LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

MICHENER Hill condos Phase 3 Red Deer New 4th Ár. corner suite, 1096 Sq. ft., 2 bdrm, 2 bath, a/c, all appls, underground parking w/storage, recreational amenities, extended care center attached, deck 403-227-6554 to 4 pm. weekdays or 588-8623 anytime. Pics avail. on kijji

Lots For Sale

4160

Residential Building Lots in a Gated, Maintenance Free Golf & Lake Bedroom community, 25 minutes from Red Deer. Lots starting from 99K Contact Mike at 1-403-588-0218

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2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

3090

Avail Immed: 1 Lrg fully furn bdrm c/w gas Àreplace - $300 dd $600/mth.

Call 403-396-2468

1/2 DUPLEX, 2 bdrm. c/w NORMANDEAU stove/fridge, no pets, n/’s, 40+, $900 rent + utils., 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S $900 s.d., 403-348-0241 Quiet adults. 403-350-1717 2 BDRM Duplex overlooking ORIOLE PARK Kin Canyon, 5 appls. 1.5 bath, 2 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1075.

NO PETS. $1150 incl. rent, s.d. $650, incl water water, garbage & sewer, sewer and garbage. Avail. d.d. $1000. avail. Aug.1. now or Aug 1. 403-304-5337 403-346-3179 2 BDRM. main Áoor of House.

Newly reno’d.

403-872-2472

5030

2002 CHEV Cavalier, 2 dr., 96,000 kms. 403-318-3040

RISER HOMES

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

2 BDRMS., no pets. $900./mo. 5805-56 Ave 403-343-6609 3 BDRM. 4 plex, Innisfail, heat included, $795 w/laundry connection 403-357-7817

Cars

Newer 2 bdrm. bsmt suite. Something for Everyone Mature responsible, clean, Everyday in Classifieds working only. All utils incl.

Separate entrance & offFREE…LIST OF HOMES street parking, avail. Aug. 1 with owners phone 403-348-1304 numbers, addresses and 2008 DODGE Nitro, 4x4 V6, auto., very clean, prices. Call Help-U-Sell of Red Deer at 403-342-7355 RECUCED 403-318-3040

3050

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

1760

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ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY House for Rent 4 bdrm 3 BLDG, no pets, Oriole SONY Trinitron tv 26” Park. 403-986-6889 w/remote, used little $75, bath 5 appl 4 level split also black glass tv stand, near park in Eastview EsBRAND NEW tate (RD). hardwood Á r n/s bought at Sims $125.

RENTAL no pets. $1750 + util. Avail.

403-352-8811 Aug 1st 780-742-9399 COMMUNITY Now leasing for Sept. 1!

Misc. for 1 & 2 BDRMs from $1230.

Condos/ In-suite laundry. DishwashSale Townhouses er. Storage. Balcony. Pet friendly. Elevator. Parking 100 VHS movies, $75. avail. Gym. Community 2 bdrm. townhouse w/gar403-885-5020 garden. Non-smoking. age in Parkvale 4603-44 4 CEMENT blocks 18 x 18” St. no pets, must be 50+, On-site mgmt. 39 Van $2/ea. 403-346-5423 Slyke Way, Red Deer. avail. July 15.

403-392-6751 OVER 100 LP records, (45 eves. 403-309-7707 days SkylineLiving.ca 403-506-0265 & 78). $100. 403-885-5020

Open House

LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888)679-8031

SEIBEL PROPERTY

CLEARVIEW MEADOWS 4 Plex, 2+1 bdrms., 1.5 baths, $1100, N/S, no pets. 403-391-1780

4020

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

CLEARVIEW

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Houses For Sale

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000

PARKVALE, 55+ condo, 2 bdrm., 1 bath, garage, $1250. + utils. Avail. Sept.

1, min. one year lease.

403-347-5387

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3060

Suites

CLASSIFICATIONS 4000-4190

Realtors & Services

FINANCIAL

CLASSIFICATIONS Money To Loan

4430

CONSOLIDATE All loans with rates from 2.1% business or personal loan bankruptcy or bad credit ok. Call 778-654-1408

3030

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Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

5050

2006 CHEVY SILVERADO, well-maintained, 200,000 km, $7,800 obo 403-352-3160

Fifth Wheels

5110

2004 CORSAIR 26.5’, 5th whl. large slide,exc. cond.

403-227-6794, 505-4193

Boats & Marine

5160

WatersEdge Marina

4400-4430

4010

Trucks

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Full Title Boat Slips Starting at $58,000 Located in Brand New Marina, Downtown Sylvan Lake, AB www.watersedgeslyvan.com

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

1,000 POUND equalizer hitch comes with shank, head, arm and a ball. $200. 403-346-7825

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Roommate not respecting boundaries Dear Harlan: I’m in my early 20s and sex and make better choices than your have a roommate problem: My room- generation. mate’s boyfriend never leaves our Here’s the challenge with his first place. experience: It takes time to make the I tell her that I need my personal right kind of friends — the kind of space, but she ignores me. I’ve made it friends who will protect your son, not clear that he’s around way pressure him, protect him, too much. She says “OK,” not push him, call for help if but never changes anything. he needs it and who will not I don’t know what else to cover up the truth or remain do. Help! — Horrible Roomsilent. These friendships mate take time to develop.

Dear Roommate: Your If your son isn’t very exroommate’s boyfriend gives perienced at drinking alher something she wants. cohol and is under 21, he She has made it clear shouldn’t drink (yes, it’s that you are not going to get possible to have fun and not what you want. You can’t drink). compete. You need an exit He should start by lookstrategy. ing for the right kind of Stop asking your roomfriends who make similar mate to give you space, choices.

HARLAN and discuss a new living But how do you find the COHEN arrangement. Suggest he right kind of friends? It all move in and you move out. starts with a plan. Instead Suggest subletting. Suggest of encouraging your son to ending the lease altogether plan on drinking with peoand having you both move out. ple who will take care of him, encourI know this might seem a bit dra- age him to surround himself with peomatic, but when your roommate makes ple who don’t need to drink and also to a clear choice to ignore you and your take care of himself. boundaries after multiple attempts, Once he finds the right places and this isn’t going to get better. the right people, he’ll have a foundaDear Harlan: Is it OK that my son tion. This takes time. has no experience with drinking beAlso, talk about not feeling presfore going to college (which is his own sure to drink. The reality is that most choice)? students don’t get drunk. Most drink I’m hoping his first experience will responsibly or don’t drink at all. If he be with friends who will make sure he knows this, he won’t feel pressure. And gets back to his dorm in one piece. — if he leaves for school with a plan, he Sober Kid can find the right people in the right Dear Sober Kid: Good news! Today’s places. college students drink less, have less Dear Harlan: What do we do if our

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child goes to college and makes the transition seem seamless?

He is happy and appears to be healthy. At home, we’d like to hear about his life, but he doesn’t think to call.

As adults we understand, but we would love it if he would call his younger siblings. Any advice?— Quiet Kid Dear Quiet Kid: Celebrate. Then, tell him what you want. But ask him what he wants, too.

This idea of asking him is life-changing. Most parents don’t ask; they tell.

He might have no clue that you want to talk more often.

Usually, in these situations, you’ll get a call when there is a problem or when you ask for a call. Since there isn’t a problem, ask for a call once in a while. Make it about you — not him.

You love and miss him. You don’t know what’s going on in his life. And because he’s an adult, you don’t have access to his personal information.

Tell him that you would like to talk a little more. Ask him if talking or Skyping once a week can work. Don’t demand it — ask for it.

Also, plan campus visits. Find a reason to visit once or twice. Make it an event, like an athletic game or a family weekend.

When you’re not at school, ask him what would be the best way to communicate. He might prefer texting to talking. Accept his style of communication and ask him for what you want, but don’t expect too much.

Dear Harlan: My son just finished his first year in college, and his roommate tried to commit suicide.

Kardashian discusses Spanx, selfies and Kanye

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — The big reveal from Kim Kardashian’s guest turn for San Francisco’s revered Commonwealth Club of California this week?

She was wearing maternity Spanx under her black designer dress to conceal cellulite, not her pregnant belly.

The reality TV star and fashion mogul was invited by the 112-year-old club that describes itself as the United States’ oldest and largest public affairs program to talk about her famous family, the business of millennial culture and the objectification of women in media.

Before her visit, the Commonwealth Club’s invitation to Kardashian provoked minor controversy.

Some members and listeners of the club’s radio broadcasts said they felt she was not worthy of sharing the same spotlight as such notable past speakers as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. The program’s Facebook page has lit up in recent days with comments opposing and supporting her selection.

Kardashian did discuss the key topics, and others, during an hour-long appearance before an adoring audience that was mostly young and female.

But the mild questions she was asked, first by a retired state judge who served as interviewer and then by

audience members via Twitter, elicited few deep answers.

“How do you explain your popularity?” Judge LaDoris Cordell asked Kardashian after the topic of the 34-yearold’s outfit was covered.

“I really do love social media. I credit it to a lot of my career,” Kardashian answered.

“My career is based on openness, openness and honesty.”

Cordell noted that Kardashian has 94 million social media followers.

“Maybe it’s the bikini selfies,” the photogenic guest continued. “I think I definitely overshare, but I’m really engaged.”

The judge also asked if it is realistic for young girls to be successful in a man’s world.

Kardashian, who has makeup, hair care, perfume, and clothing lines to her credit along with a bestselling game app, was thoughtful.

“There is this generation of young people — girls — who are beautiful but don’t have a strong work ethic,” she said. “People sometimes think that with looks things will be easy, But I just encourage people to put in the work.”

Then it was time for the tough questions. Do the media degrade women, Cordell asked, to the status of mere sexual objects? Does the large number of selfies Kardashian posts objectify her?

“Yes. I don’t think it’s a bad thing,” she answered. “I think there’s power in that and I think I have the control to put out what I want so even if I’m objectifying myself, I feel good about it.”

During her time on stage, Kardashian also said the public had been “more supportive than we ever could have imagined” of Caitlyn Jenner, her transgender stepfather. She said her family is attending group therapy and “everybody has their own transition to accept and support this.”

The most meaningful exchange might have come when Cordell, who was the first African American female judge appointed to the bench in Northern California, wondered how Kardashian and her husband, rapper Kanye West, planned to protect their biracial children from discrimination.

The couple has a two-year-old daughter and Kardashian is fourmonths pregnant with their second child, a boy.

Kardashian shared making the difficult decision not to engage with a fellow airline passenger who screamed profanity and racial comments at her while she was travelling with her daughter. West “is very vocal about racial issues,” she said. “Our communication, I think, will be really helpful for our children.”

My son decided to move out of his room, but he felt bad for the other student.

How should he deal with this situation? — College Mother Dear College Mother: Anytime you’re around someone who attempts suicide, your world gets rocked.

I don’t know if you are aware, but suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students — just behind accidents. And depression is widespread.

Over 30 per cent of college students admit feeling so depressed that it was hard to function (this according to the ACHA-National College Health Assessment).

While your son may appear to be fine and balanced, you want to be sure this isn’t quietly taking an emotional toll. He needs to address the questions he might have.

Friends of people who attempt suicide can have a range of emotions.

He might feel angry, anxious, powerless, betrayed or indifferent. He might want to know what he could have done to prevent it. He still could be worried that he could have done more. He might be hiding guilt.

Ask him to talk to a therapist just to address these feelings. He needs to make sure he can make sense of the past.

If he needs encouragement, make this about helping family and friends who are impacted by suicide. Than it’s not about him, but about helping others. Either way, he’ll be helped.

Write Harlan at harlan@helpmeharlan.com or visit online: www.helpmeharlan.com.

Woman who played beloved Maria on Sesame Street is retiring

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Sesame Street is about to be less A-OK. Sonia Manzano, who has played the role of Maria on the groundbreaking kid show since 1971, is retiring.

Manzano, 65, broke the news this week. She said she wouldn’t be part of PBS’ new Sesame Street season.

A beloved resident of Sesame Street since she was a teenager, the character Maria owned the neighbourhood repair shop with husband Luis (played

by Emilio Delgado, who remains on the show).

Manzano also served as a writer for the show, sharing in 15 Emmy awards as a member of the writing team. She has also written children’s books.

Born in a Puerto Rican neighbourhood of The Bronx that resembled the city world Sesame Street would later embrace, Manzano attended Manhattan’s High School of Performing Arts and then Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She began her show business career in the original cast of the musical Godspell, which began as a student production.

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The Bethany Group is a not-for-profit organization providing health and housing services to seniors and low income Albertans. Our corporate offices are in Camrose, a vibrant community of 18,000 located an hour southeast of Edmonton. Residents enjoy excellent schools, arts and recreational facilities, as well as a regional hospital and a campus of the University of Alberta.

The Bethany Group is seeking a highly motivated and positive individual to lead the Financial Services team. Working in our Camrose office, you will be responsible for the efficient delivery of financial services for the entire organization which encompasses many sites throughout Central Alberta. Key duties will include preparation of audited financial statements, budgeting and forecasting, and reporting to management, Board and external stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS: Professional accounting designation (CA, CGA, CMA, CPA) Senior-level accounting and management experience Experience with payroll and benefits preferred Proficiency with Excel, accounting applications, other business software Experience in developing enhancements to information systems an asset SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Thrives in an office setting that is busy and demanding Self-directed and able to make decisions independently Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Excellent organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines Strong leadership and team-building skills Commitment to ongoing development of professional skills COMPENSATION: The Bethany Group offers a competitive salary combined with a generous benefits plan including pension, medical and dental coverage with a flexible spending component.

Closing Date: 13 July 2015 Please submit applications to: Human Resources, The Bethany Group 4612 – 53 Street Camrose, AB T4V 1Y6 Fax: (780) 679-2001 Email: hr@bethanygrp.ca For further details go to: www.thebethanygroup.ca Careers Section

A current Police Information Check is a pre-employment requirement for new employees to The Bethany Group.

We sincerely thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.