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President: NIC not getting fair share MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

North Island College is not getting its fair share of provincial funding, says the college president. NIC president John Bowman visited Port Alberni for a “town hall” meeting at the local campus Thursday. About 40 people turned up for a presentation with a question and answer session; among them were other NIC staff, First Nations and City of Port Alberni representatives. Bowman discussed the college’s progress in drafting a five-year “Plan 2020.” Compared to rural colleges elsewhere in B.C., NIC receives significantly less funding per capita for the regional population it serves, Bowman noted. “We’re not getting our fair share,” Bowman said. “Our tax dollars are going to support other programs elsewhere.” NIC’s $139 per capita in provin-

“Our tax dollars are going to support other programs elsewhere.” John Bowman, president of North Island Collage

cial funding is less than the $217 provincial average for rural colleges, and less than half the $314 received by the West Kootenay’s Selkirk College. Selkirk serves a population of about 75,000–80,000 people, Bowman said. With four campuses in Port Alberni, Comox Valley, Campbell River and Mount Waddington – and a learning centre in Ucluelet – NIC serves a regional population of about 158,000. It’s the largest service area for B.C.’s rural colleges. Operating an annual budget of $41 million, about $30 million of

NIC’s funding is from the provincial government. The college president also mentioned the funding challenges at the Alberni school district’s board of trustees meeting last week. He said the core grant to NIC has been reduced by over a million dollars over the past decade. “It’s been a struggle over the last 10 years to make ends meet,” Bowman said. Bill Brown, community partnership co-ordinator with the Alberni Valley Employment Centre, attended the town hall meeting Thursday. He said the Port Alberni campus needs to provide more training for jobs in the trades. “It’s a barrier for our clients to attend schools in other locations,” Brown said. People here are looking for plumbing, instrumentation, mechanics and millwright training but can’t find it in Alberni, he said. “And that’s where the demand is

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here.” Bowman said the college needs to find more funding partnerships in order to provide training to meet local employment needs. “Our hopes and aspirations are to deliver more trades programming here in the Alberni Valley and around the region,” Bowman said. “We know there’s a need for more

trades training and want to work on it with you.” The college’s role in supporting people to gain employment is “crucial,” Bowman said. “We’re also an important link between students and employers,” he said. Twenty-five per cent of NIC’s enrolment is in adult upgrading of high school courses, Bowman noted. As of May 1, the province is no longer providing all of the funding for adults who already have a diploma. Only students with a low income can apply for grants. “We’re very concerned about that,” Bowman said. According to Statistics Canada, Port Alberni’s unemployment rate was over 10 per cent in the 2011 national census. The B.C. unemployment rate in March of this year was 6.8 per cent. martin.wissmath@avtimes.net

CRIME

Teen recovering from bone marrow virus shaken by early morning theft of dirt bike KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

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Tristan MacDonald woke up Wednesday morning to find his two motocross bikes gone. The 13-year old E.J. Dunn student was devastated when he found out of the possible theft, especially since he had just finished putting in so much work towards building one for the current race season. MacDonald’s mother, Kim, believes the bikes, one red and white CRX 100 and one yellow RM125, were taken from their home somewhere between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. Wednesday morning. “I was up until 3 a.m. watching TV and in the backyard we have a sensor light,” Kim said. “I have a huge window so I would have noticed if it went on. A neighbour who puts their dogs out at 5:30 a.m. said they would have barked so it had to have happened between then.” When a neighbour called around 8:45 a.m. to ask if the family was missing the bikes and a jerry can of gas, Kim went to investigate. “We have an enclosed deck with a door,” she said. “The door was open and the bikes were gone,” she said. “The back tire was chained to the bike because Tristan wasn’t allowed to go out on it until the yard work was done.” Kim assumes the bikes were pushed through the yard, up a hill and across a neighbour’s yard up the road. She, along with a neighbour, noticed skid marks about three houses down from pushing the heavy bike with a locked tire. “It had to be someone who knows our backyard,” she said.

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Tristan was at school and didn’t find out what happened until he came home. In the meantime, Kim was busy on social media. She posted photos of the bikes and information about the theft. Soon a stranger sent her a message saying she had followed a truck with what looked like dirt bikes covered with a tarp.

“She thought it seemed strange that they were covered,” Kim said. The witness took photos of the truck and license plate, which were given to the Nanaimo RCMP. “We will follow-up with it and if the license plate is in our jurisdiction, we will go to the residence,” said Constable Gary

O’Brien of the Nanaimo detachment. “If the bikes are there, we will seize them and assist the RCMP in Port Alberni with the case.” Since December, Tristan had been recovering from a bone marrow virus that left him severely anemic. See THEFT, Page 3

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Alberni SPCA now open on Mondays $16,000 increase from City covers cost of another animal control ofﬁcer in the Valley KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Anyone who has tried calling the Alberni-Clayoquot branch of the SPCA on a Monday would not have been able to get through in the past. Formerly closed to the public, the organization is just finishing up its first six-day work week. With the help of the City of Port Alberni, a small financial influx has helped expand the SPCA’s animal control services to include an extra day. Under contract by the city, an increase in $16,000 covers the cost of an animal control officer to work Mondays. In addition, a receptionist position went up from three days a week to four. “Having an animal control officer an extra day means we can respond to more calls of animals at large and complaints of nuisance and dangerous dogs,” said branch manager Irene Towell. The animal control officer responds to calls and deals

“I encourage anyone who needs their cat spayed or neutered to apply as quickly as possible.” Irene Towell, Alberni-Clayoquot SPCA branch manager

with issues on a case-by-case basis. The remainder of the organization’s services rely on fundraisers and donations, Towell said. “That is for things like spay and neutering, medical needs and the cost of care of lost, injured, sick or unwanted animals,” she said. The local branch has had much success with a spay and neuter program through a grant received by Pet Smart Charities. “We have noticed a drop in the number of strays and unwanted cats coming in so the program is working,”

Towell said. “I encourage anyone who needs their cat spayed or neutered to apply as quickly as possible.” A large number of feral cats were also spayed and neutered this year and the branch has seen a significant reduction in drop-off numbers. “If anyone knows of any in their neighbourhood, get in touch with us and we will look after it with a trap, neuter and release system,” Towell said. She added that the feral cats must be placed back where they came from to lessen the stress of living elsewhere, especially around people. The hours of the SPCA are now Monday to Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and through the lunch hour. Irene Towell holds a small bunny that is looking for a forever home at the SPCA. Now the public has an extra day of the week to view animals as the organization is now open on Mondays. [KRISTI DOBSON, TIMES]

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f you intend to operate your off-road vehicle (ORV) anywhere on public lands after June 1, 2015 you have just three weeks left to register it through ICBC. When the vehicle is registered an off-road vehicle licence plate will be issued and must be displayed. The changes replaced outdated legislation governing British Columbia’s growing off-road sector, and helps ensure these vehicles are driven in a safe and environmentally responsible

Tim Schewe Behind the Wheel manner. An ORV includes snowmobiles, all terrain vehicles (or “quads”), off road motorcycles, side by sides (i.e. rhino, argo, razors) and dual purpose on highway vehicles such as jeeps, trucks, and SUVs. The one-time fee of $48 for

the registration and number plate will be valid as long as the same person owns the vehicle. If the ORV is sold or disposed of, the owner keeps the number plate to transfer onto a replacement. Snowmobile owners who have registered their machines under the old Motor Vehicle (All Terrain) Act will receive a refund of the amount they have already paid when they register under the new rules. The requirement to register and license an ORV

TRAFFIC

Motorcycle accident RCMP Const. Rene Royer speaks with a man involved in a motorcycle collision Wednesday on Broughton and Johnston. A 50-year-old woman was taken to West Coast General Hospital with minor injuries. No charges were laid, though the motor bikes sustained over $1,000 in damage. Const. Royer said the two motorcyclists were well protected with safety gear. Both were wearing airbags, which prevented the woman’s helmet from hitting the pavement in the collision.

tered there. Otherwise, the ORV must be registered and licenced in B.C. before use. Similarly, jeeps, trucks and SUVs already licensed and insured for on highway use will be exempt.

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Alberta’s NDP spells trouble for Harper R

achel Notley touched a raw nerve when she made her rousing victory speech after burning down Alberta’s Conservative house in Tuesday’s stunning election. Party activists erupted in cheers as the New Democrat premierdesignate declared that “change has finally come to Alberta” after four decades of monolithic Tory rule, along with “new people, new ideas and a fresh start.” But those cheers abruptly turned to jeers when she went on to say she is “looking forward” to working with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. Many of her diehard supporters clearly are not, and their booing momentarily drowned her out. That spoke volumes about the combative mood in her party’s ranks as it celebrated a win for the history books. Having run Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice out of town on a rail, they are now eyeing the former Harper cabinet minister’s old colleagues in the Oct. 19 federal election.

The bounce the NDP win has given progressives can’t be good news for the Harper team. Granted, its Alberta bastion is far from crumbling, despite this rebuff. Notley’s NDP took 53 of the legislature’s 87 seats. Yet the Wildrose and Conservatives combined still pulled in half the popular vote. But for federal Tories the road to another mandate has just grown steeper. Change is in the air, bad news for a Conservative party that has been in power for nearly a decade and seeks a fourth consecutive stint in office. If anything, the effect may be greater outside Alberta than within the province. Notley won for all sorts of reasons specific to Alberta – chief among them bungling by Prentice and his hapless predecessor, Alison Redford. But the fact that Albertans, of all people, have entrusted the management of their economy to New Democrats will give the NDP brand added credibility across the country. Federal New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair clearly hopes to cash in on the Alberta halo effect. And

Notley’s big win will encourage Justin Trudeau’s Liberals as well, to the extent that it provides a morale boost for progressives of all stripes. To be sure, the prospect of a modest NDP bump-up in support that drains votes from the Liberals wouldn’t alarm Conservatives. But tactical considerations aside, the trend line is not running in their favour. Alberta now has an NDP government after 44 years of continuous Tory rule. So does Manitoba. Liberals hold sway almost everywhere else: in Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. The Conservatives have been reduced to a single provincial bastion, Newfoundland, while the centre-right Saskatchewan party holds power there. With Alberta’s seismic shift the political landscape has tilted decisively against the Tories. Whatever the federal impact, this moment belongs to Notley, who styled herself as a Jack Layton-style “hope-monger” during the campaign. She joins a trio of

Canadian woman premiers, including Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne and B.C.’s Christy Clark. That in itself is cause for celebration. While Prentice tried to label Notley “extremist,” her agenda is anything but. Facing the stresses of oil that commands $50 or less a barrel, job losses, plunging revenues and a deficit, she plans to exact “a little bit more” from the wealthy and corporations. She will replace Alberta’s 10-per-cent flat income tax with a scale of 12 to 15 per cent for those making $125,000 to $300,000 and more. And she intends to boost the corporate tax rate from 10 per cent to 12. She will also review the royalties paid by oil companies to ensure they are paying a fair share. And she promises to raise the minimum wage and invest more in health care and education. These policies are no more extreme than Trudeau’s plan to shift wealth from the richest to the middle class, reducing the middleclass tax burden, and to increase family benefits in part by scrapping Tory income-splitting. Or Mulcair’s promise of an affordable national

child-care program, infrastructure spending and generous health transfers, funded in part by ending income-splitting and increasing corporate taxes. The same impulse for a fairer redistribution of the tax burden drives all these agendas, plus a sense that the country needs to invest more in growth, jobs for young people and unmet social needs. If that’s “extremist,” it’s a label more and more thoughtful people seem content to adopt. Of course, Notley was helped by Prentice’s many missteps. They included presumptuously calling the election a year early; bringing in a budget that imposed new taxes on individuals while sparing corporations; and telling Albertans to “look in the mirror” to see who should be held to account for years of Tory tax aversion and overspending. But what voters really wanted was renewal and a government that would be on their side. That shattered the Tory monolith.. THE TORONTO STAR

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Do we have too many liquor stores for a city our size? Do we have too many gas stations, grocery stores, restaurants or building supply centres? I think this decision should be left up to the business people, not a city council member of anybody else. The general public will decide if they support these businesses where they are located. Customers look for convenience and price. Business looks for profit. Many businesses in Port Alberni had to close because of lack of income. Just because there are more liquor stores does not mean people have to buy or drink more. It boils down to education. Alcoholic beverages are in Europe and most of the U.S.A., as well as in Québec, available in liquor stores, grocery stores, gas stations, ect. B.C. is finally updating, which has been long overdue. It took the longest time to extend liquor stores to allow Sunday shopping. The stores which don’t have the custmer base are not open Sundays. We need more businesses in town, not less. Lets move forward. In 1964 there was only one liquor store in P.A. But there were lots of bootleggers at that time. More stores means employment and taxes.

Writer R. G. Burnett repeats the mythology that my views on evolution are at variance with the overwhelming majority of scientists worldwide. On the contrary, my views are mainstream in today’s world of molecular and cell biology. In 2009, polling of the American Association for the Advancement of Science showed 33 per cent of scientists believe in a personal God and 44 per cent atheist. Even more interesting is the age group 18-34 years, where 42 per cent believe in God versus 33 per cent atheist. Atheists are diminishing. It is advances in the world of molecular biology and cell biology that have made the theory of the origin of life or the simplest cell by simple undirected, random processes increasingly untenable. I refer writer Burnett to the Harvard video clip, The Inner Life of the Cell. Modern science reveals worlds within worlds of nanotechnology in each of your 80-100 trillion cells; a world of self-directed, responsive activity, eclipsing anything man has made. You want evidence? Check it out.

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Why are Port Alberni’s schools ranked so low? Like a cold wind cruelly passing through town, the Fraser Institute’s rankings this week did not reflect favourably on Port Alberni’s public schools. Wood Elementary was the only school to earn marks above the provincial average of 6.0, while others scored near the bottom of a list of hundreds of B.C. schools ranked by the public think tank. Alberni Elementary was even second last in the province for a school with more than 50 per cent of its’ students in French immersion. The local elementary school’s scored 3.1, falling from 5.0 in 2012. The Fraser rankings are based on Foundation Skills Assessment tests taken by students in Grades 4 and 7 across the province. These Ministry of Education assessments are usually done over two or three days, measuring abilities in reading, writing and

mathematics. The Alberni School District has responded to the unfavourable rankings by saying the Fraser report is not an accurate measurement of students’ performance; education is a practice that engages a range of skills too complex to be pinned down by a few tests undertaken over a few days. It might seem harsh to give a low grade to an elementary school full of educators doing their best to serve developing and impressionable minds, but to simply cast off rankings based on tests undertaken by the Ministry of Education will only ignore underlying needs. Although it might be hard to swallow, the Fraser report is significant, and for the benefit of our future the community deserves explanations as to why Port Alberni’s schools are falling behind.

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Telehealth an alternative for Alberni’s issues

happened to have the opportunity to share a medical situation with a good friend recently. The situation required, at first glance, an out of town visit to a medical specialist. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term “Telehealth” – and there proves the point – Telehealth is an option to many of those patients and their loved ones who are required to travel to Nanaimo, Comox, Vancouver and Victoria for interviews with medical specialists. Telehealth isn’t new. The practice was pioneered to a great extent in the province of Newfoundland, and it has apparently been well used there for many years. One physician I interviewed stated that physicians will sometimes conduct half their patient consults via Telehealth from their office, while

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patients remain in their home towns until they actually need to go to the larger urban centres.They share the results of lab work, CT scans, MRI scans, ultrasounds etc. on multiple screens with the patient, their invited friends and families. The next time you, or someone you know, is referred to an out of town physician for a consult, consider requesting it be done via video link, which is what Telehealth is. Start with your local physician, then follow this up with the out of town physician’s staff. In some cases, Telehealth isn’t appropriate, but if you

are told that it isn’t – as I was – ask why. The reason I was given, by the very helpful receptionist, was basically “because”. When I asked for this decision to be revisited, for the simple reason that a physical presence of the patient wasn’t needed, and many hours travel, plus fuel costs, meals etc. would be ultimately billed to the poor taxpayer, it was miraculously decided that a video appointment could, and would be set up. Why was I met with initial reluctance? Why isn’t it used here, in B.C., in Port Alberni more often? My impression was twofold : 1) The “I am the Centre of the Universe Syndrome”. Many out of town consultants are simply not aware of Port Alberni or the travel implications, they simply view patients as having strolled in from their wait-

ing room. 2) The “Way it has always been done Syndrome”. Telehealth simply isn’t embedded into the system. Staff on both ends of the spectrum aren’t used to the process, let alone it being requested. In Port Alberni, it is arranged through your specialist and West Coast General Hospital. You are given a room with a TV screen, you may take some companions along who can also ask questions, and – what I found really effective – you have time to prepare yourself in a fairly organized fashion, much more so than in a crowded physician’s office in an unfamiliar city. It saves time, it saves money, it is more comfortable, and in many cases...is more effective. Perhaps the next step should be to take the receiving end completely out of the hospital, lighten the load on staff there,

and arrange for it to be done at community and health centres, or, God forbid, even in the patient’s home! If you are faced with a trip out of town for medical referral, ask for Telehealth, or a “Video Conference”, and don’t take “no” or “because” for an answer. In many cases the very helpful staff on the other end of the phone are as unfamiliar with it as you might be. If you have any questions about the Telehealth process, need to know how it works, or are frustrated about being unable to access it, the administration staff at our local hospital should be able to help you out. Contact the Site Manager, Ellen Brown, at 250-7313170, extension 48113. A Healthy Community is a Wealthy Community! www.jmdouglasportalberni.ca

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Ontario sexual education changes are unfairly targeted by zealot propaganda

he Ontario government must not back down on its plan to implement new and up-todate sex education curriculum in public schools starting this fall. At a time when social media and the Internet are changing the way kids are exposed to explicit information and behaviour, it would be irresponsible of public education to turn its back. Yes, there are protests. But they are driven by ignorance and misinformation. A minority of conservative and religious activists are making unsubstantiated claims which can easily be debunked by anyone who has read the curriculum. They claim explicit content including oral and anal sex and consent will be taught to kids aged six. Untrue. In

Grade 1, kids will be taught the correct names of body parts, including genitals. In Grade 2, the concept of consent will be introduced as the right to say no to unwanted touching. The first discussion of sexual intercourse happens in Grade 5 at the same time as in the previous curriculum. Masturbation is defined as harmless at the Grade 6 level, but the curriculum is not explicit. Oral-genital contact and anal intercourse are introduced in Grade 7 and are listed as activities one should abstain from or delay and are not described graphically. Critics say the curriculum was designed by a pedophile. Ben Levin was charged with multiple counts related to child por-

nography and did have a hand in developing the last failed curriculum update in 2010. He did not have a hand in the 2015 curriculum overhaul, although many others did, such as child development and policy experts and 4,000 heads of parent councils across the province. And this, one of the most disgusting pieces of propaganda: The new curriculum promotes alternative gender preferences and lifestyles, a clandestine plot somehow linked to the fact that the premier is a lesbian. The truth is that, at the Grade 3 level, the new curriculum teaches children to respect people’s differences. Gender orientation and other invisible characteristics are part of that. So are differences in cultural values, physical and mental

ability and even allergies. Broadly, this curriculum teaches children to accept, not to judge. That’s what parents are pulling their kids out of school to protest. And, ironically, some of the most militant protesters are Muslim parents, who themselves are the victims of stereotyping and intolerance based on cultural differences and appearance. Don’t believe the propaganda. Don’t believe this editorial if you don’t want to. Read the curriculum. Judge for yourselves. If you still object, you have the right to pull your kids from sex ed classes. But please don’t be sheep driven by zealots and idealogues. The Hamilton Spectator

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730-0397 (Terry MacDonald). Port Alberni Friendship Center offers free counselling on addictions, mental health, relationships and other issues. Info: 250-723-8281. Everybody welcome. Narcotics Anonymous, Port Alberni. Info: 1-800-807-1780. Alcoholics Anonymous, Port Alberni. Info: 1-800-883-3968.

Folk Song Circle meets Tuesdays, from 7 to 9 p.m., at Fir Park Village. Info: 250-723-7945.

Sports & recreation

Valley Cloggers meet Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. at the Arrowsmith Baptist Church. Beginners welcome. Info: 250-724-2137. Touch rugby games at the Port Alberni Black Sheep Rugby Club Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Everyone welcome. Kingsway Pub meat draw on Tuesdays, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., and 50/50 raffle to benefit the Alberni Valley Hospice Society and Ty Watson House. Board Games social on Tuesdays, from 4 to 10 p.m., at Char’s Landing.

Child and youth

Mothers Uplifting Mothers group meets Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Lighthouse Church. Info: 250-724-9733. Youth Clinic services at ADSS (around the left front corner) on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Info: 250-731-1315 or 250-720-9591. Play & Learn Library at Kiwanis Hilton Children’s Centre on Mondays, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., Tuesdays, 9 to 11 a.m. and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Info: 778- 421-2244.

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Literacy Alberni, drop-in times Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info: 250-723-7323.

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Genealogy Club meets the last Tuesday of every month at the Family History Centre in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members can visit on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesday evenings, from 7 to 9 p.m. Special twice a week fitness class designed for new moms and their

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Hiking for Hospice Val and Ivy Deakin donned fancy ties and took part in the Alberni Valley Hospice Society’s Hike For Hospice last Sunday. [KRISTI DOBSON, TIMES] babies. To register drop into Echo Centre or phone 250-723-2181.

Support and help Literacy Alberni, drop-in times Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info: 250-723-7323. Urgently needed: volunteers to help at Red Cross Loan Cupboard for fourhour shifts, once per week. Info: 250723-0557 on Wednesday or Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Alberni Valley Hospice Society’s Dementia Support Group meets third Tuesday monthly 10:30 a.m. to noon at 3088 3rd Avenue. This group is for individuals dealing with Early On Set Dementia, Alzheimer’s, and other Neurological Degenerative Disorders. 250-723-4478 Walk and Talk grief support group meets Tuesday mornings. The goal of this group is to offer bereavement support in an informal and comfortable way that combines exercise and companionship. Call Ruth at 250-723-4478 to

register. Somass Toastmasters meet Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at 3088 Third Ave. for speaking, leadership and fun. Info: 250-724-0976 (Shirley Maxwell). Meals on Wheels program needs volunteer drivers. Info: 250-730-0390. First Open Heart Society of Port Alberni support group. Info: 250-723-2056 or 250-724-2196. Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and other kinship care providers are welcome to call a province-wide information and support line toll free at 1-855-474-9777 or e-mail grg@parentsupportbc.ca. KUU-US Crisis Line, plus mobile outreach support services. If you, or someone you know, is having difficulties, please call 250-723-2040.

Addictions The Christian Intervention Program runs Tuesdays, from 6 to 8 p.m. Info: 250724-3688 (Pastor Ron Nickle) or 250-

Hospice Training Course, 12 weeks from April 9 to May 21. For info: 250-7234478 or theresa@albernihospice.ca. Pasta Dinner and Auction, May 8 at 5 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion 293, 4680 Victoria Quay Book Sale on May 8 from 6-8 p.m. and May 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Echo Centre. A fundraiser for the Community Arts Council. Grab your bags and boxes! The Mt. Klitsa Garden Club presents its 16th annual Plant Sale Saturday May 9th at Rollin Art Center at the corner of 8th and Argyle between 10 am – 12 noon. Annuals, perennials, shrubs and more! Call Leslie Wright, 250 724 7219 for info.

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Black Bear, Ursa americanus, common on West Coast MANDALA SMULDERS

Whether you live on the West Coast or you’re just visiting, chances are you’ve seen a black bear or two. Black bears are the most frequently encountered large predator on the West Coast and many have become accustomed to humans; therefore it is not rare to have an interaction of some sort with these amazing creatures. Black bears are part of the family, Ursidae, which also includes eight different species that live on four continents, grizzly bears and polar bears are the two other species that live in North America. Currently, the estimated population of black bears in British Columbia is between 120,000-160,000; this totals a quarter of all black bears in Canada. Black bears prefer wet regions with lots of vegetations. They are omnivores, meaning they will eat pretty much everything; their diet primarily consists of plants, berries, bird eggs, insects, carrion and spawning salmon. They have been known to eat newborn ungulates including elk, deer, moose and caribou. Since their diet is so diverse, they can be found foraging in a variety of habitats including forests, wetlands, beaches and

riparian habitats. In BC, the black bear population density is highest in coastal regions, which is thought to be due to spawning salmon populations in coastal creeks, streams and rivers. Through their feeding and foraging habits, black bears play a key role in transporting nutrients throughout a watershed; through defecation they transport nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from salmon carcasses, as well as disperse species of berry-producing plants. Black bears mate in early June to mid July, but due to a process called delayed implantation the embryo is not actually implanted into the uterus until later in the year, usually October or November. Females will give birth to two or three cubs while in hibernation; these newborn cubs are very small (around 200mm), they are also hairless and blind. The mother and cubs will not emerge from the den until spring has sprung. The mother will stay with her cubs for the first complete year, she will nurse them for up to nine months; they will hibernate with her for the following year, after which she will drive them away to fend for themselves. On the West Coast, black bears choose large trees, snags, stumps or logs for their hiber-

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nation dens; these characteristics are not often found in second growth forests. Did you know that during hibernation a bear does not eat, drink, urinate or defecate? This is because they are able to recycle their metabolic waste and gain nutrients through this process. During hibernation their heart rate decreases from 50 beats per minute down to 10 beats per minute, they lose up 3% of their body weight and

their oxygen intake decreases by half. Traditionally, black bears have been trapped and hunted for furs and meat by Nuu-chahnulth First Nations; bear hides, skulls and claws are a very important part of cultural traditions and have been found in archaeological sites. Central Westcoast Forest Society understands the very important roles that black bears play within our local

ecosystem. With an understanding and consideration of how food and den availability affect black bears, we have been restoring riparian areas and streams in order to ensure these aspects remain healthy and intact. To find out more, please visit clayoquot.org or email info@ clayoquot.org. » Mandala Smulders is a biologist with the Central Westcoast Forest Society.

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driver escaped unharmed from a significant single vehicle collision last week. The collision occurred on Highway 4, near Hydro Hill, around 7 p.m. on April 24, according to Sgt. Jeff Swann of the Ucluelet RCMP. Police located the vehicle overturned in a ditch but did not immediately find the driver, according to Swann who said the driver returned to the scene about 30 minutes after police arrived. Swann said the driver had been traveling west towards Ucluelet but was driving too fast for the wet road conditions and wound up losing control of their vehicle. “He began to hydroplane so he pulled the handbrake on his vehicle which sent him into a further spin. The vehicle then crossed the centre line and went off road left into a deep ditch and overturned,” Swann said. “The driver was not given any tickets but was warned for driving too fast for weather conditions.” Swann said the driver was sober and had been the vehicle’s sole occupant.

oo much affection was shown in too public a place last week. A man and woman drew public, and police, attention by engaging in oral sex on Ucluelet’s Whiskey Dock around 5 p.m. on April 24. The couple had left by the time police arrived but were located nearby and identified based on eyewitness reports, according to Sgt. Swann. “Both were intoxicated,” Swann said. He said police arrested the man after discovering he was under a probation condition to abstain from alcohol but the woman does not face charges at this time.

Swann encourages locals and visitors to keep their public displays of affection appropriate. “Once clothes start coming off, especially around Whiskey Landing where a lot of tourists and people and families and children walk...There’s a much better place to be involved with a partner, behind closed doors,” he said. “It’s called indecent exposure... There’s lots of reasons why there’s those laws in place.”

woman got too day-drunk to make it through dinner at a local restaurant last

week. On April 24, around 4 p.m., Ucluelet RCMP and BC Ambulance personnel responded to a report of an intoxicated female who had fallen in a local restaurant’s bathroom and was believed to be in distress. Sgt. Swann said the woman was checked over by paramedics and determined to be OK. “The female was just severely intoxicated; no other issues or concerns other than the alcohol,” Swann said. “She was cleared by the ambulance and given a ride home by a police officer. No charges are anticipated; she just had to much to drink in the afternoon.”

olice found no impaired drivers during a roadblock in Ucluelet last week. “It’s great to see that we’re getting very few and far between impaired drivers,” said Sgt. Swann. The roadblock was conducted on April 25 and, while no impaired drivers were found, a vehicle was pulled over around 11:30 p.m. and police found marijuana and open alcohol inside. “No charges were issued but the marijuana was seized,” Swann said adding the driver was issued a sobriety test from an approved screening device and determined to be sober.

Council helps Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation’s Run-of-the-River growth; employment, training opportunities, economic beneﬁts expected ANDREW BAILEY WESTERLY NEWS

Tofino’s municipal council officially lent its support to the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation’s Run-of-the-River hydro project at Winchie Creek last week. During April 28’s regular meeting, council reviewed a letter from the Nation’s economic development committee chair Saya Masso who suggested a letter of support from Tofino would help the Nation’s application to the Island Coastal Economic Trust. “To date we have built and are operating two Run of the River small hydro projects and are planning on proceeding with a third at Winchie Creek in the Kennedy River watershed,” Masso wrote. “In addition to providing clean electrical energy to Vancouver Island and Tofino, it will provide access through re-commissioning old logging roads, to an undeveloped TFN reserve. IR7.” He suggested the undeveloped spot could be an “ideal location” for a hatchery that would rear and release juvenile Sockeye, Chinook, Coho and Chum. “However the concept of hatchery development at IR7 has been cost-prohibitive due

to the lack of access and electrical service as the reserve is isolated by the Kennedy River,” he wrote. “A bridge across the Kennedy River and access road infrastructure in Winchie Creek will enable TFN to access IR7 cost effectively. Furthermore, the proposed hydropower project would also provide power to the hatchery.” He added the hatchery would create employment and training opportunities, bring economic benefits to commercial and recreational fisheries, and have ecological benefits on the Kennedy River Watershed. “This co-development strategy is a perfect example of the potential benefits of TFN’s long reaching view of economic development,” he wrote. Tofino’s council agreed to support the project but Coun. Greg Blanchette said the district should ensure this support does not suggest an overarching approval of Run of the River projects. Blanchette said he had reached out to the Clayoquot Sound Conservation Alliance who are tracking Run of the River power projects. “They say they’ve decided not to oppose Winchie Creek because the level of industrial development is relatively low,

it mostly uses existing corridors and it’s also quite close to an existing grid of power lines and the Tla-o-qui-aht aim to be 100 per cent onerous of it,” Blanchette said. “That said, there are other Run of River projects in the works that are much less benign and they would ask that any letter from council stipulate that this would not represent blanket support for Run of the River projects in Clayoquot Sound.” He estimated Clayoquot Sound currently has about eight operating, or proposed, Run of the River projects. “Some of them are in quite remote locations, which would require a long string of access roads, and also transmission line corridors, and that really can have an impact on what would otherwise be pristine wilderness,” he said. “Each of these projects has a relatively small footprint, but once you get eight or more in, then it could very well challenge the golden egg that we call Clayoquot Sound in terms of pristine wilderness.” Mayor Josie Osborne assured council’s letter of support would be specific to the Tlao-qui-aht’s Winchie Creek project. reporter@westerlynews.ca

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The Grade 12 graduating members of the Alberni Valley Wrestling Club are welcomed by their coaches and other alumni as “Knights of the Armada” at the Italian Hall on Thursday. [STUART MESSENGER PHOTO]

priced at $50 each. “Now I can slide into obscurity,” McEvay joked. “I’ve dumped everything I know into that book.” After certificates were presented to middle school and ADSS graduates, the roll call of awards commenced. Some of the major awards were: Most Outstanding Seniors Nolan Badovinac and Michel Kurucz Most Outstanding Juniors

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Sunday Sunday ϭϬ͗ϬϬ Ă͘ŵ͘ 10:00 a.m. WƌĞͲ^ĞƌǀŝĐĞ WƌĂǇĞƌ Pre-Service Prayer ϭϬ͗ϯϬ Ă͘ŵ͘ Worship & Communion 10:30 a.m. tŽƌƐŚŝƉ Θ ŽŵŵƵŶŝŽŶ ͞tŚǇ / &ŽůůŽǁ :ĞƐƵƐ ͞ ͞DŽƚŚĞƌƐ DĂƩĞƌ͟ ϳ͗ϬϬ Ɖ͘ŵ͘ tŽƌƐŚŝƉ ^ĞƌǀŝĐĞ 8:00 p.m. AD The Bible Continues ͞WƌĂǇŝŶŐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ^ŝůĞŶĐĞ͟ (on NBC) Monday Tuesday ϵ͗ϯϬ Ă͘ŵ͘ 6:00 p.m. tŽŵĞŶ͛Ɛ ŝďůĞ ^ƚƵĚǇ Junior Youth gr 4-7 Tuesday Friday ϲ͗ϬϬ Ɖ͘ŵ͘ :ƵŶŝŽƌ zŽƵƚŚ ŐƌϰͲϳ Rock Solid Youth Group is at Friday Historymaker in Chilliwack ϳ͗ϬϬ Ɖ͘ŵ͘ ZŽĐŬ ^ŽůŝĚ zŽƵƚŚ ŐƌϴͲϭϮ May 15-17

KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 4850 Regina Avenue Minister: Laura Hargrove Phone: 250-723-7751 Fax: 250-723-7759 SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2015 10:15am Worship Service Coffee Hour JOIN US FOR WORSHIP SERVICE & FELLOWSHIP

PASTORS: John Cox, Dave DeJong YOUTH PASTOR: Lefty Harold Williams

Wheelchair accessible EVERYONE WELCOME

Meet 10 AM SUNDAY AT 5100 Tebo Ave. (former Mt. Klitsa bldg.)

Sunday School for ages 0-14 www.jerichoroad-church.com CEDAR GROVE CHURCH A Christian Community of the Reformed Church in Canada 4109 Kendall St. 250-723-7080 10:30am SUNDAY WORSHIP Pastors: Per & Chris Knudsen Everyone welcome to worship

Details at the church 250-723-2328

4890 Locke Road www.albernilighthouse.com Pastor: Ron Nickel SUNDAY SERVICES 10:30 AM Sunday School 11:45 AM Worship Service Bible study Tues. 7pm Youth Group Thursday 7pm ASL Interpreter Available

HOLY FAMILY/NOTRE DAME CHURCH ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH

4731 Burke Rd 250-723-8912 Fax: 250-723-0123 Pastor: Fr. Stephen Paine Weekend Masses: Saturdays: Reconciliation 4:15 pm Mass 5:00 pm Sundays: Reconciliation 9:15 am Mass 10:00 am

A warm welcome awaits you at

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday Morning Service 10:30am Pastor Bill Cottrill 6211 Cherry Creek Road 250-723-7441 ﬁrstbaptistport@shaw.ca for more information on our activities for all ages, please call our church ofﬁce!

Alberni Valley United Church Minister: Rev. Minnie Hornidge

Southside Community Church 4190 Victoria Dr.

Welcomes You! “A House of Prayer” “A People of Prayer” SUNDAY MAY 10TH 9:30 am - Sunday School 10:30 am: Celebration & Worship TUESDAY 6:30 pm - Praise & Prayer YOUTH THURSDAY 6::00 pm - Youth Night FRIDAY 7:00 am - Prayer Telephone: 250-724-7275 prayer@alberninazarenes.com Find us on Facebook

SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2015 Worship begins at 10:15 am with Praise & Singing. The service follows at 10:30 am Old Testament Bible study group meets every Tuesday from 1:30 to 2:30 pm. May 9 - HUGE Garage Sale in the basement of the church. Access is located from the parking lot, west side of the building. 9 am to 1 pm. Surrey Children’s Choir “Over The Rainbow”, Saturday, May 16 at 7:30 pm. Admission by donation with proceeds going to UCC Nepal Emergency Relief Efforts. 3747 Church Street 250-723-8332 Tues to Fri 10am-2pm www.albernivalleyuc.com

SPORTS

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015 | ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES |

SCOREBOARD HOCKEY

NHL Playoffs - Round 2 (Stanley Cup quarterfinals) All series best-of- seven Yesterday’s result Montreal 6, Tampa Bay 2 (Tampa Bay leads series 3-1) Chicago 4, Minnesota 3 (Chicago wins series 4-0) Today’s schedule Washington at NY Rangers (G5), 4 p.m. (Washington leads series 3-1) Anaheim at Calgary (Game 4), 6:30 p.m. (Anaheim leads series 2-1) Saturday, May 9 (Game 5) Tampa Bay at Montreal, TBD Sunday, May 10 NY Rangers at Washington, (Game 6*) TBD Calgary at Anaheim, (Game 5*) TBD

Canadiens 6, Lightning 2 First Period 1. Montreal, Markov (1) (Pacioretty, Subban) 2:44 2. Montreal, Pacioretty (4) (Gilbert) 8:43 (PP) Penalties: Markov Mtl (Cross checking Ryan Callahan) 7:54 Second Period 3. Montreal, Desharnais (1) (Galchenyuk, Weise) 5:08 4. Montreal, Petry (2) (Galchenyuk, Subban) 9:39 (PP) 5. Montreal, Gallagher (3) (Pacioretty, Plekanec) 9:54 6. Tampa Bay, Kucherov (4) (Stralman, Palat) 12:26 (PP) Penalties: Callahan Tb (High-sticking Tomas Plekanec) 8:01, Markov Mtl (Tripping Steven Stamkos) 11:35, Weise Mtl (Roughing Braydon Coburn) 19:39 Third Period 7. Tampa Bay, Palat (2) (Stamkos, Johnson) 0:17 (PP) 8. Montreal, Prust (1) (Eller, Parenteau) 4:52 Penalties: Sustr Tb (Slashing) 6:20, Carle Tb (Hooking) 12:41, Galchenyuk Mtl (Roughing) 19:13, Namestnikov Tb (Roughing) 19:13 Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd T Montreal 9 15 16 40 Tampa Bay 8 10 6 24 Goaltending summary: Montreal: Price (22/24), Tampa Bay: Bishop (11/14), Vasilevskiy (23/26) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Montreal: 1/3; Tampa Bay: 2/3 Att: 19,204

Blackhawks 4, Wild 3 First Period 1. Chicago, Seabrook (3) (Bickell, Oduya) 10:23 Second Period 2. Chicago, Shaw (1) (Toews, Kane) 3:28 (PP) 3. Minnesota, Haula (1) (Cooke, Dumba) 6:41 Penalties: Toews Chi (Hooking) 0:18, Niederreiter Min (Hooking) 2:32 Third Period 4. Chicago, Kane (7) (Bickell, Hjalmarsson) 13:20 5. Chicago, Hossa (1) (Toews) 16:53 (PP) 6. Minnesota, Spurgeon (2) (Scandella, Koivu) 17:42 (PP) 7. Minnesota, Niederreiter (4) (Dumba, Suter) 18:33 Penalties: Prosser Min (Hooking) 4:46, Bickell Chi (Boarding) 16:02 Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd T Chicago 8 10 6 25 Minnesota 8 18 11 37 Goaltending summary: Chicago: Crawford (34/37), Minnesota: Dubnyk (21/24) Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO): Chicago: 1/2, Minnesota: 1/3 Att: 19,163

Western Hockey League Championship Final (Best-of-seven) Today’s schedule - Game 1 Kelowna at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 9 (Game 2) Kelowna at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 11 (Game 3) Brandon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, May 13 (Game 4) Brandon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m. Friday, May 15 (Game 5*) Brandon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

IIHF World Championships May 1-17, at Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic The Top Division Championship has 16 teams in two groups. Round robin standings Group A GP W L OTL GF GA Pts Canada 4 4 0 0 28 8 12 Sweden 5 4 1 0 28 16 12 Switzerland 4 2 1 1 8 7 7 Czech Rep 4 2 2 0 17 15 6 Germany 4 1 3 0 5 16 3 France 4 1 3 0 5 10 3 Latvia 4 1 3 0 6 19 3 Austria 3 0 2 0 5 11 2 Group B Belarus USA Russia Finland Slovakia Norway Denmark Slovenia

GP W 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 3 4 1 4 1 4 0 4 0

L OTL GF GA Pts 0 1 15 7 10 1 0 13 9 9 1 0 18 11 9 1 0 13 5 9 1 0 11 8 7 3 0 6 15 3 3 1 6 17 1 4 0 6 16 0

Yesterday’s results Czech Republic 5, France 1 Belarus 5, United States 2 Sweden 4, Germany 3 Finland 4, Slovenia 0 Today’s schedule Austria vs. Czech Republic, 7:15 a.m. Norway vs. Slovenia, 7:15 a.m. Latvia vs. Germany, 11:15 a.m. Denmark vs. United States, 11:15 a.m. Remaining Canada games 5. Saturday, May 9 vs. France, 3:15 a.m. 6. Sunday, May 10 vs. Switzerland, 11:15 a.m. 7. Tuesday, May 12 vs. Austria, 3:15 a.m. Quarterfinals: begin Thursday, May 14

American Hockey League Calder Cup playoffs - Round 1 Conference Semifinals All games best-of-seven Eastern match-ups 1-Manchester Monarchs vs. 4-WilkesBarre/Scranton Penguins 2-Hershey Bears vs. 3-Hartford Wolf Pack Western match-ups 1-Utica Comets vs. 6-Oklahoma City Barons 2-Grand Rapids Griffins vs. 4-Rockford IceHogs Yesterday’s results (Games 1) Manchester 5, W-B/Scranton 2 Oklahoma City 2, Utica 1 (4OT) Today’s schedule (Games 2) Hartford at Hershey, 4 p.m. (Hartford leads series 1-0) Oklahoma City at Utica, 4 p.m. Rockford at Grand Rapids, 4 p.m. (Grand Rapids leads series 1-0) Saturday, May 9 (Game 3) Manchester at W-B/Scran (G3), 4 p.m. (Manchester leads series 1-0) Sunday, May 10 Hershey vs. Hartford (Game 3), noon

Minnesota Wild centre Kyle Brodziak, right and Chicago Blackhawks left wing Patrick Sharp chase the puck Thursday in St. Paul, Minn. [AP PHOTO]

Hawks sweep by Wild with 4-3 win DAVE CAMPBELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Corey Crawford made 34 saves, Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist, and the Chicago Blackhawks advanced to the Western Conference finals with a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night for a four-game sweep. The Wild never led in the series. Goals by Jared Spurgeon and Nino Niederreiter with 2:18 and 1:27 left gave them one last shot, with their net emptied. The final few whacks were either wide or turned aside by Crawford, who stopped 124 of 131 shots in the four games. Brent Seabrook and Andrew Shaw scored for the Blackhawks, who were down to five defencemen after a serious injury to veteran Michal Roszival. Marian Hossa had a long empty-netter, and Jonathan Toews and Bryan Bickell had two assists apiece. Chicago eliminated Minnesota from the playoffs for the third straight year. It won 12 of the 15 games. It was the first sweep by the Blackhawks since the Western Conference finals in 2010 against San Jose. They improved to 30-0, including 5-0 in this post-season, when leading after two periods. Devan Dubnyk made 21 saves for the Wild. The Blackhawks have scored 12 times in the first period in 10 games this post-season, the key to keeping a firm grip on this series from start to finish. Their defence in the neutral zone has been as stingy as ever, able to force a turnover and spring their speedy attackers on the rush at just the right moments, and getting that first goal has given them more reason to hang back in protection of the lead and wait for mistakes they can pounce on. The Blackhawks improved to 5-1 when scoring first in the playoffs this year. Seabrook, one of their most offensively gifted defencemen, controlled a cross-ice pass by Bickell with his skate and stayed in stride to shoot from behind the circle as he eluded Kyle Brodziak’s back-check attempt.

Royal Bank Cup - RBC Canadian Junior A Championship May 9-17, PCU Centre, Portage la Prairie, Man. Teams, with 2014-15 records Host: Portage Terriers (53-3-4) West: Penticton Vees (44-9-3-2) West 2: Melfort Mustangs (39-8-9) Central: Soo Thunderbirds (38-7-1-6) East: Carleton Place Canadians (49-10-3) Round robin Penticton Melfort Soo Carleton Place Portage

GP W 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L OTL GF-A Pts 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 0-0 0

Schedule: Preliminary Round Saturday, May 9 Penticton vs. Portage, 1 p.m. Soo vs. Carleton Place, 6 p.m. Sunday May 10 Melfort vs. Penticton, 1 p.m. Portage vs. Carleton Place, 6 p.m. Monday May 11 Melfort vs. Soo, 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 12 Carleton Place vs. Penticton, 1 p.m. Soo vs. Portage, 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 13 Carleton Place vs. Melfort, 6 p.m. Thursday, May 14 Penticton vs. Soo, 1 p.m. Portage vs. Melfort, 6 p.m. Saturday, May 16 Semifinals, 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, May 17 Final, 6 p.m.

This week’s auto racing schedule

NASCAR SpongeBob SquarePants 400 (STP 400) Saturday, May 9, 4:46 p.m., Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas. Tri-oval, 1.5 miles per lap. Today’s schedule Qualifying, 3:45 p.m. Pts 394 354 342 335 319 305 297 292 286 281

NASCAR driver stats 2015 winnings 1 Kevin Harvick 2 Jimmie Johnson 3 Joey Logano 4 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 5 Brad Keselowski 6 Matt Kenseth 7 Denny Hamlin 8 Kurt Busch 9 Martin Truex Jr. 10 Jamie McMurray 2015 poles 1 J Logano 1 J Gordon 3 K Busch 4 K Harvick 4 M Kenseth 2015 wins 1 K Harvick 1 J Johnson 3 J Logano 3 M Kenseth 3 D Earnhardt Jr. 3 K Busch 3 D Hamlin 3 B Keselowski

BASKETBALL

BASEBALL

Twins 6, Athletics 5

This week’s tournaments

NBA Playoffs

MLB

ab r h bi ab r h bi Burns CF 4 1 1 0 Dozier 2B 3 1 0 0 Vogt PH 1 0 0 0 Hunter DH 4 0 0 0 Fuld LF 3 0 0 0 Plouffe 3B 3 1 1 0 Canha PH-LF 1 0 0 0 Vargas 1B 2 1 1 0 Reddick RF 4 0 0 0 Escobar LF 3 1 1 2 Butler DH 4 2 2 1 Schafer CF 0 0 0 0 Davis 1B 3 2 2 2 Suzuki C 3110 Lawrie 2B-3B 4 0 2 0 Robinson OF 4 1 0 1 Muncy 3B 2 0 0 1 Rosario RF 3 0 1 2 Semien PH-SS1 0 0 0 Santana SS 3 0 0 0 Phegley C 2 0 0 1 Totals 28 6 5 5 Sogard SS-2B 3 0 1 0 Crisp PH 1000 Totals 33 5 8 5

PGA The Players Championship, May 7-10 TPC Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Par 72, 7215 yards. Purse: $10,000,000. 2014 champion: Martin Kaymer. Leaderboard: Round 1 Golfer Par R1 T1 David Hearn Brantford, Ont. -5 67 T1 Hideki Matsuyama-5 67 T1 Charley Hoffman -5 67 T1 Kevin Na -5 67 T5 Troy Merritt -4 68 T5 Ben Martin -4 68 T5 Billy Horschel -4 68 T5 Brendon Todd -4 68 T5 Charles Howell III -4 68 T5 Derek Fathauer -4 68 T11 Jeff Overton -3 69 T11 Cameron Tringale-3 69 T11 Marc Leishman -3 69 T11 Webb Simpson -3 69 T11 Rickie Fowler -3 69 T11 Steve Stricker -3 69 T11 Jason Day -3 69 T11 Rory McIlroy -3 69 T11 Ricky Barnes -3 69 T11 Jason Kokrak -3 69 T11 Alex Cejka -3 69 T11 Brandt Snedeker -3 69 T11 Sergio Garcia -3 69 T11 Martin Kaymer -3 69 Other Canadians T60 Nick Taylor E 72 T109 Adam Hadwin +3 75 T109 Graham DeLaet+3 75

European Tour

AUTO RACING

Drivers’ standings Driver Car 1 Kevin Harvick 4 2 Martin Truex Jr 78 3 Jimmie Johnson 48 4 Joey Logano 22 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr 88 6 Brad Keselowski 2 7 Jamie McMurray 1 8 Matt Kenseth 20 9 Kasey Kahne 5 10 Denny Hamlin 11

GOLF

$3,519,807 $2,636,716 $3,127,455 $2,332,035 $1,956,925 $1,912,715 $1,824,238 $1,108,940 $1,841,933 $1,679,880 3 3 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

Formula One Spanish Grand Prix Sunday, May 10, 5 a.m., Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Saturday, May 9 Qualifying, 5 a.m. Current drivers’ standings Driver Points 1 Lewis Hamilton 93 2 Nico Rosberg 66 3 Sebastian Vettel 65 4 Kimi Raikkonen 42 5 Felipe Massa 31 6 Valtteri Bottas 30 7 Daniel Ricciardo 19 8 Felipe Nasr 14 9 Romain Grosjean 12

LACROSSE BC Junior A Lacrosse League Standings GP W L T Pts Delta 3 3 0 0 6 Victoria 3 2 1 0 4 Coquitlam 2 1 1 0 2 Burnaby 3 1 2 0 2 Langley 2 1 1 0 2 New Westminster 3 1 2 0 2 Nanaimo 3 1 2 0 2 Port Coquitlam 3 1 2 0 2 Today’s schedule Port Coquitlam at Langley, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 9 Langley at Victoria, 5 p.m. Burnaby at. Nanaimo, 5 p.m. Port Coquitlam at Delta, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 10 Delta at Victoria 5 p.m. Coquitlam at Burnaby 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 12 Coquitlam at New Westminster 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 13 Langley at Coquitlam 7:30 p.m. Burnaby at Langley 8 p.m. Thursday, May 14 New Westminster at Port Coquitlam 8 p.m.

National Lacrosse League Playoff seeding 1 Toronto Rock (14-4) 2 Edmonton Rush (13-5) 3 Rochester Knighthawks (12-6) 4 Buffalo Bandits (11-7) 5 Colorado Mammoth (9-9) 6 Calgary Roughnecks (7-11) Division semifinals Friday, May 8 Buffalo at Rochester Saturday, May 9 Calgary at Colorado Division finals Friday, May 15 Saturday May 23 (return legs) Toronto at Buffalo/Rochester Edmonton at Colorado/Calgary Saturday, May 23 Buffalo/Rochester at Toronto Colorado/Calgary at Edmonton

AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, May 7-10 Heritage Golf Course, Bel Ombre, Mauritius, Par 72, 7,106 yards. Purse: $1,000,000. Inaugural event. Leaderboard: Round 1 Golfer Par R1 T1 Thorbjorn Olesen -6 65 T1 Jeunghun Wang -6 65 T1 Carlos Pigem -6 65 T4 Oliver Bekker -5 66 T4 Terry Pilkadaris -5 66 T6 Madalitso Muthiya -4 67 T6 Dan Woltman -4 67 T6 Dean Burmester -4 67 T6 John Parry -4 67 T6 Rahil Gangjee -4 67 T6 Justin Walters -4 67 T6 Panupol Pittayarat -4 67 T6 Nathan Holman -4 67 T14 Carlos Del Moral -3 68 T14 Borja Virto -3 68 T14 Matthew Fitzpatrick -3 68 T14 Andrew McArthur -3 68 T14 Pelle Edberg -3 68 T14 Masahiro Kawamura -3 68 T14 Mikael Lundberg -3 68 T14 Rikard Karlberg -3 68 T14 Kevin Phelan -3 68 T23 Ryan Cairns -2 69 T23 Sam Brazel -2 69 T23 Thanyakorn Khr’pha -2 69 T23 Jazz Jane’ananond -2 69 T23 Paul Peterson -2 69 T23 Mardan Mamat -2 69 T23 Scott Barr -2 69 T23 Colin Nel -2 69 T23 Thomas Aiken -2 69

LPGA No events this week. Kingsmill Championship, May 14-17 Kingsmill Resort, River Course, Williamsburg, Virginia. Par 71, 6,379 yards. Purse: $1,300,000. 2014 champion: Lizette Salas.

Champions Tour No events this week. Regions Tradition, May 14-17 Shoal Creek, Alabama. Purse: $2,300,000. 2014 champion: Kenny Perry

Web.com Tour No events this week BMW Charity Pro-Am, May 14-17 Played on three courses: Thornblade Club, Greer, South Carolina; Green Valley Country Club, Greenville, South Carolina and The Reserve at Lake Keowee, Sunset, South Carolina. Purse: $675,000.

TENNIS ATP and WTA World rankings (as of May 4) Men (ATP) 1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 2. Roger Federer (SUI) 3. Andy Murray (GBR) 4. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 5. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 6. Milos Raonic (Toronto)

Points 3,845 8,635 6,120 5,390 5,280 5,070

Women (WTA) 1 Serena Williams 2 Simona Halep 3 Maria Sharapova 4 Petra Kvitova 5 Caroline Wozniacki 6 Eugenie Bouchard

Points 9,981 7,755 7,525 6,060 4,790 4,063

Mutua Madrid Open, May 4-10 Madrid, Spain. Surface: Clay. Purse: €4,185,405. Men - Singles, Round 3 Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Marcel Granollers, Spain, 6-2, 6-0. Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, def. Simone Bolelli, Italy, 6-2, 6-2. Kei Nishikori (4), Japan, def. Roberto Bautista Agut (14), Spain, 6-3, 6-3. Milos Raonic (5), Toronto, def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, 6-4, 6-3. Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, def. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (12), France, 7-5, 6-2. David Ferrer (7), Spain, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Grigor Dimitrov (10), Bulgaria, def. Stan Wawrinka (8), Switzerland, 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3. John Isner (16), United States, def. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, 6-3, 6-7 (7), 6-4. Men - Doubles, Round 2 Feliciano Lopez, Spain, and Max Mirnyi, Belarus, def. Daniel Nestor, Toronto, and Leander Paes (7), India, 7-6 (4), 6-3. Juan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia, and Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Bob Bryan, United States, and Mike Bryan (1), United States, 7-6 (4), 7-5. Women - Singles, Quarterfinals Serena Williams (1), USA, def. Carla Suarez Navarro (10), Spain, 6-1, 6-3. Maria Sharapova (3), Russia, def. Caroline Wozniacki (5), Denmark, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. Petra Kvitova (4), Czech Republic, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 7-5, 6-3. Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, def. Lucie Safarova (13), Czech Republic, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3). Women’s Doubles - Quarterfinals Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Lucie Safarova (7), Czech Republic, def. Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 11-9. Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, def. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, and Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, 6-3, 6-4. Garbine Muguruza, Spain, and Carla Suarez Navarro (3), Spain, def. Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, and Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 6-2, 6-2.

(All series best-of-seven) Round 2, Games 2 Yesterday’s results No games scheduled Today’s schedule Cleveland at Chicago, (Game 3) 5 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) Houston at LA Clippers, (Game 3) 7:30 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) Saturday, May 9 Atlanta at Washington, (Game 3) 2 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) Golden State at Memphis, (G3) 5 p.m. (Series is tied1-1)

SOCCER

UEFA Champions League Semifinals Return legs Games begin at 11:45 a.m. PDT Tuesday, May 12 Bayern Munich vs. Barcelona (Barcelona leads 3-0) Wednesday, May 13 Real Madrid vs. Juventus (Juventus leads 2-1)

MLS Eastern League Club PTS GP W L T N. England 17 9 5 2 2 DC United 17 8 5 1 2 NY Red Bulls 13 8 3 1 4 Columbus 11 8 3 3 2 Toronto 9 7 3 4 0 Chicago 9 7 3 4 0 Orlando 8 8 2 4 2 NY City FC 6 9 1 5 3 Philadelphia 6 10 1 6 3 Montreal 2 4 0 2 2 Western League Club PTS GP W L T Dallas 17 9 5 2 2 Vancouver 17 10 5 3 2 Seattle 16 8 5 2 1 Los Angeles 14 10 3 2 5 San Jose 13 9 4 4 1 Sporting KC 13 9 3 2 4 Salt Lake 11 9 2 2 5 Portland 10 9 2 3 4 Houston 10 10 2 4 4 Colorado 9 9 1 2 6 Today’s schedule New England at Orlando, 5 p.m. San Jose at Colorado, 7 p.m/

GF GA 12 8 10 6 12 8 12 8 11 11 6 8 6 10 6 10 10 18 2 6 GF GA 15 12 11 9 13 6 10 9 9 10 12 12 7 10 7 8 11 13 8 8

Saturday, May 9 Salt Lake at Chicago, noon Portland at Montreal, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at Vancouver, 4 p.m. Sporting KC at DC United, 4 p.m. Seattle at Columbus, 4:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Dallas, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, May 10 Houston at Toronto, 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 13 Orlando at DC United, 5 p.m. Friday, May 15 Chicago at NY City FC, 4 p.m.

GB 3.0 4.0 4.5 4.5 GB 0.5 2.5 6.5 7.5 GB 5.0 6.0 7.0 7.0

Strk W1 L1 W1 L1 L3 Strk W1 W1 W2 L1 L1 Strk L3 W2 W4 L2 L2

PCT .643 .500 .483 .464 .345 PCT .750 .519 .500 .464 .310 PCT .643 .500 .483 .462 .423

GB Strk - W2 4.0 W2 4.5 W1 4.5 W1 8.5 L2 GB Strk - W1 6.5 L1 7.0 L1 8.0 W1 12.5 L1 GB Strk - W1 4.0 L1 4.5 L2 4.5 W3 6.0 L7

Yesterday’s results Minnesota 6, Oakland 5 LA Dodgers 14, Milwaukee 4 St. Louis 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Kansas City 7, Cleveland 4 Detroit 4, Chicago Sox 1 NY Yankees 4, Baltimore 3 Pittsburgh 7, Cincinnati 2 Texas 5, Tampa Bay 4 Arizona 11, San Diego 0 Houston at LA Angels Miami 7, San Francisco 2 Today’s schedule Atlanta at Washington 4:05 p.m. Stults (1-2) vs Gonzalez (2-2) Baltimore at NY Yankees 4:05 p.m. Gonzalez (3-1) vs. Warren (2-1) NY Mets at Philadelphia 4:05 p.m. Harvey (5-0) vs Hamels (1-3) St. Louis at Pittsburgh 4:05 p.m. Wacha (4-0) vs Liriano (1-1) Boston at Toronto 4:07 p.m. Miley (1-3) vs. Sanchez (2-2) Kansas City at Detroit 4:08 p.m. Ventura (2-2) vs Price (3-1) Minnesota at Cleveland 4:10 p.m. Pelfrey (2-0) vs Bauer (2-0) Texas at Tampa Bay 4:10 p.m. Gallardo (2-4) vs Karns (1-1) Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee 5:10 p.m. Hammel (2-1) vs Nelson (1-2) Cincinnati at Chicago Sox 5:10 p.m. Marquis (3-1) vs Noesi (0-3) LA Dodgers at Colorado 5:40 p.m. Anderson (1-1) vs De La Rosa (0-2) San Diego at Arizona 6:40 p.m. Shields (3-0) vs. Hellickson (1-3) Houston at LA Angels 7:05 p.m. Hernandez (1-2) vs. Weaver (0-4) Oakland at Seattle 7:10 p.m. Gray (4-0) vs Walker (1-3) Miami at San Francisco 7:15 p.m. Cosart (1-2) vs. Lincecum (2-2)

Baltimore

English Premier League W D L GF GA 25 8 2 69 27 21 7 7 71 36 21 7 6 66 33 19 8 8 59 35 18 7 10 49 38 17 7 11 55 50 17 6 12 48 28 15 8 12 43 44 12 11 12 43 42 13 8 14 39 44 11 11 13 46 46 11 9 15 42 48 10 10 15 33 46 9 8 18 29 50 9 8 18 36 60 8 10 17 33 48 9 7 19 39 54 6 15 13 28 50 7 6 22 39 61 5 11 19 26 53

PCT .621 .517 .483 .464 .462 PCT .643 .621 .552 .400 .370 PCT .643 .464 .429 .400 .393

Yankees 4, Orioles 3

Saturday, May 16 Salt Lake at Montreal, 1 p.m. Seattle at Vancouver, 4 p.m. Toronto at New England, 4:30 p.m. Colorado at Sporting KC, 5:30 p.m. Portland at Houston, 5:30 p.m. Columbus at San Jose, 7:30 p.m. Position/Club 1 Chelsea 2 Man City 3 Arsenal 4 Man United 5 Liverpool 6 Tot Hotspur 7 Southampton 8 Swansea 9 West Ham 10 Stoke City 11 Everton 12 Crystal Pal 13 West Brom 14 Aston Villa 15 Newcastle 16 Hull City 17 Leicester 18 Sunderland 19 Q.P. Rangers 20 Burnley

American League East W L NY Yankees 18 11 Tampa Bay 15 14 Toronto 14 15 Boston 13 15 Baltimore 12 14 Central W L Kansas City 18 10 Detroit 18 11 Minnesota 16 13 Chicago Sox 10 15 Cleveland 10 17 West W L Houston 18 10 LA Angels 13 15 Texas 12 16 Oakland 12 18 Seattle 11 17 National League East W L NY Mets 18 10 Atlanta 14 14 Washington 14 15 Miami 14 15 Philadelphia 10 19 Central W L St. Louis 21 7 Chicago Cubs 14 13 Cincinnati 14 14 Pittsburgh 13 15 Milwaukee 9 20 West W L LA Dodgers 18 10 San Diego 15 15 San Francisco 14 14 Arizona 13 14 Colorado 11 15

Oakland

Pts 83 70 70 65 61 58 57 53 47 47 44 42 40 35 35 34 34 33 27 26

Saturday, May 9 Everton vs. Sunderland, 4:45 a.m. Aston Villa vs. West Ham, 7 a.m. Hull vs. Burnley, 7 a.m. Leicester vs. Southampton, 7 a.m. Newcastle vs. West Brom, 7 a.m. Stoke vs. Spurs, 7 a.m. Crystal Palace vs. Man United, 9:30 a.m. Sunday, May 10 Man City vs. Q.P. Rangers, 5:30 a.m. Chelsea vs. Liverpool, 8 a.m. Monday, May 11 Arsenal vs. Swansea, noon Saturday, May 16 Southampton vs. Aston Villa, 4:45 a.m. Burnley vs. Stoke, 7 a.m. Q.P. Rangers vs. Newcastle, 7 a.m. Sunderland vs. Leicester, 7 a.m. Spurs vs. Hull, 7 a.m. West Ham vs. Everton, 7 a.m. Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace, 9:30 a.m. Sunday, May 17 Swansea vs. Man City, 5:30 a.m. Man United vs. Arsenal, 8 a.m.

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Baltimore 101 010 000 3 NY Yankees 201 010 00x 4 2B: BAL Snider (3, Eovaldi), Joseph, C (3, Eovaldi); NYY Gardner (6, Tillman), Teixeira (6, Tillman), Drew (4, Tillman). GIDP: NYY Gardner. HR: BAL Paredes (4, 1st inning off Eovaldi, 0 on, 1 out), Joseph, C (3, 3rd inning off Eovaldi, 0 on, 1 out); NYY Rodriguez, A (7, 3rd inning off Tillman, 0 on, 2 out). S: BAL Machado, M. Team Lob: BAL 6; NYY 8. DP: BAL (Machado, M-Hardy, J-Davis, C). PICKOFFS: NYY Eovaldi (Paredes at 1st base). Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO C Tillman (L, 2-4) 5.210 4 4 3 3 R Hunter 1.1 1 0 0 0 2 B Matusz 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SO N Eovaldi (W, 3-0) 5.2 6 3 3 3 3 J Wilson 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 D Betances 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 A Miller 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 Time: 2:51. Att: 39,816.

Rangers 5, Rays 4 Texas

Tampa Bay

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Texas 040 100 000 5 Tampa Bay 000 030 010 4 SB: TEX DeShields 3 (6, 2nd base off Archer/Wilson, B, 2nd base off Frieri/ Wilson, B, 3rd base off Frieri/Wilson, B). 2B: TEX Blanks (2, Archer), Choo (7, Ramirez, E); TB Elmore (1, Martinez, N), Butler, Jy (1, Martinez, N). GIDP: TB DeJesus. HR: TB Kiermaier (3, 8th inning off Tolleson, Sh, 0 on, 0 out). Team Lob: TEX 8; TB 3. DP: TEX (Beltre-Odor-Blanks). Texas IP H R ER BB SO N Martinez 4.2 6 3 3 1 2 A Claudio (W, 1-0) 1.1 0 0 0 0 2 K Kela 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 S Tolleson 1.0 1 1 1 0 2 N Feliz 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO C Archer (L, 3-4) 3.1 4 5 5 4 8 E Ramirez 3.2 3 0 0 0 4 E Frieri 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 B Gomes 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 Time: 2:47. Att: 8,701.

Tigers 4, White Sox 1 Pacific Coast Soccer League Team Victoria Vancouver Tbirds Mid Isle Tim Hortons Kamloops Khalsa Vancouver Utd Abbotsford FC Tigers

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Saturday, May 9 Victoria vs. Tim Hortons, 4 p.m. Sunday, May 10 Mid Isle vs. Tim Hortons Pinnacles, noon Victoria vs. FC Tigers Vancouver, 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 12 Vancouver Thunderbirds vs. Vancouver United FC, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 13 FC Tigers Vancouver vs. Abbotsford Magnuson Ford SC, 9 p.m. Saturday, May 16 Tim Hortons Pinnacles vs. FC Tigers Vancouver, 7 p.m.

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Chicago Sox

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Detroit 100 010 020 4 Chicago Sox 000 100 000 1 SB: DET Davis, R (7, 3rd base off Quintana/Flowers). 2B: DET Martinez, V (2, Quintana), Kinsler (6, Jennings, Da). GIDP: CWS Ramirez, Al, Eaton. Team Lob: DET 8; CWS 5. DP: DET 2 (Castellanos-Avila, Kinsler-RomineCabrera, M). E: DET Kinsler (1, throw). Detroit IP H R ER BB SO K Lobstein (W, 3-2) 7.2 5 1 0 2 3 J Soria 1.1 0 0 0 0 4 Chicago Sox IP H R ER BB SO J Quintana (L, 1-3) 5.0 4 2 2 2 8 J Petricka 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 D Jennings 1.2 3 2 2 2 1 S Putnam 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP: Cabrera, M (by Quintana). Time: 2:53. Att: 20,081.

Minnesota

Oakland 022 001 000 5 Minnesota 030 120 00x 6 SB: OAK Burns (2, 2nd base off Nolasco/ Suzuki, K); MIN Robinson, S (3, 3rd base off Pomeranz/Phegley). 2B: OAK Butler, B (6, Nolasco), Davis, I (7, Nolasco), Sogard (4, Nolasco); MIN Plouffe (4, Rodriguez, Fe). GIDP: MIN Escobar, E. HR: OAK Davis, I (2, 6th inning off Tonkin, 0 on, 0 out). Team Lob: OAK 5; MIN 5. DP: OAK 2

Royals 7, Indians 4 Cleveland

Kansas City

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Cleveland 012 000 100 4 Kansas City 400 010 20x 7 SB: CLE Brantley (4, 2nd base off Volquez/Perez, S); KC Dyson, J (5, 3rd base off Kluber/Perez, R). 2B: KC Infante (7, Atchison). 3B: CLE Chisenhall (1, Volquez). HR: CLE Santana, C (4, 7th inning off Madson, 0 on, 1 out); KC Hosmer (5, 1st inning off Kluber, 2 on, 0 out). S: KC Colon, C. Team Lob: CLE 6; KC 11. E: CLE Moss (3, fielding), Kipnis (2, throw). Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO C Kluber (L, 0-5) 5.2 7 5 5 2 7 M Rzepczynski 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 B Shaw 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 N Hagadone 0.0 2 2 2 0 0 S Atchison 0.0 2 0 0 0 0 C Allen 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 R Webb 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO E Volquez 3.0 2 3 3 6 3 F Morales (W, 3-0) 2.0 1 0 0 0 2 L Hochevar 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 R Madson 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 W Davis 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 G Holland 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 HBP: Gordon, A (by Kluber). Time: 3:13 (2:17 delay). Att: 38,271.

Dodgers 14, Brewers 4 LA Dodgers

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LA Dodgers 012 004 034 14 Milwaukee 100 200 010 4 SB: MIL Braun (2, 2nd base off Frias/ Grandal). 2B: LAD Hernandez, E (2, Jeffress); MIL Ramirez, Ar (6, Frias). 3B: LAD Ethier (2, Fiers). GIDP: LAD Gonzalez, A, Kendrick, H. HR: LAD Guerrero, A (6, 2nd inning off Fiers, 0 on, 0 out), Grandal 2 (4, 8th inning off Wooten, 2 on, 1 out; 9th inning off Broxton, 2 on, 2 out); MIL Lind (6, 4th inning off Frias, 0 on, 0 out). Team Lob: LAD 8; MIL 7. DP: MIL 2 (Ramirez, Ar-Segura-Lind, Gennett-Segura-Lind). E: MIL Parra, G (1, throw). LA Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO C Frias (W, 3-0) 5.0 6 3 3 1 6 P Baez 1.2 0 0 0 1 2 A Liberatore 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 S Santos 2.0 2 1 1 1 1 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO M Fiers (L, 1-4) 5.0 5 5 5 5 8 J Jeffress 1.0 3 2 2 1 0 N Cotts 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 R Wooten 1.2 2 5 5 4 2 J Broxton 0.1 3 2 2 0 1 HBP: Guerrero, A (by Cotts). Time: 3:16. Att: 28,505.

Cardinals 5, Cubs 1 Chicago Cubs Coghlan LF Bryant 3B Rizzo 1B Montero C Soler RF Castro SS Szczur CF Arrieta P Grimm P Fowler PH Russell P Motte P Castillo PH Russell 2B Totals

St. Louis

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Chicago Cubs 000 000 100 1 St. Louis 020 201 00x 5 SB: STL Heyward (4, 2nd base off Arrieta/Montero, M). 2B: CHC Coghlan (5, Lackey), Soler (6, Lackey); STL Lackey (1, Arrieta), Peralta (8, Russell, J). 3B: STL Bourjos (2, Arrieta). Team Lob: CHC 7; STL 5. DP: CHC (Russell, A-Castro, S). E: CHC Castro, S (5, throw), Soler (1, fielding). Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO J Arrieta (L, 3-3) 5.1 9 5 4 1 7 J Grimm 0.2 0 0 0 0 2 J Russell 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 J Motte 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO J Lackey (W, 2-1) 7.2 5 1 1 1 10 K Siegrist 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 M Maness 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 T Rosenthal 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 Time: 2:53. Att: 44,472.

B.C. Premier League Team North Shore North Delta Okanagan Langley Vic Eagles Nanaimo Abbotsford Whalley Coquitlam Vic Mariners Parksville White Rock

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Yesterday’s results Whalley 6, Coquitlam 1 Today’s schedule Langley at Abbotsford, 7 p.m. Saturday, May 9 Nanaimo at Coquitlam, 12:30 p.m. Vic Eagles at White Rock, 1 p.m. Okanagan at North Shore, 1 p.m. Nanaimo at Coquitlam, 3 p.m. Vic Eagles at White Rock, 3:30 p.m. North Shore at Okanagan, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 10 Okanagan at North Shore, 11 a.m. Nanaimo at White Rock, 1:30 p.m. North Shore at Okanagan, 1:30 p.m. Victoria Eagles at Abbotsford, 1:30 p.m. Whalley at Coquitlam, 1:30 p.m. Victoria Mariners at Langley, 3:30 p.m.

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Novice Tyee’s Icebreakers tourney set for weekend MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Eight lacrosse teams from around the Island are scheduled for a tournament in Port Alberni this weekend. The Alberni Valley Minor Lacrosse Association is hosting its second annual Novice Tyee’s Icebreakers Tournament. The tournament starts Saturday at the Multiplex at 11 a.m. and runs through until Sunday, with the gold medal game at 3 p.m. The Nanaimo Timbermen’s masters and grandmasters (over 35 and over 45-year-old) teams will play in an exhibition match on Saturday evening at 6 p.m. Admission is free. AVMLA president Kelly Fines will also play in the match. Fynes said lacrosse registration in the Alberni Valley has been steadily increasing, from about 60 players a decade ago to over 80 this year. Registration is highest among the younger age groups, he said. This is the second year in a row that the association does not have a midget team. “We see an increase in the

From left, Aaron Badovinac, Michelle Kuruzc and Nolan Badovinac receive their awards as National Placers. Each of these athletes were recognized for numerous achievements along with their peers at the recent awards banquet. [STUART MESSENGER PHOTO]

7 national titles for AV wrestlers 10 gold medals in BC summer games AWARDS, from Page 8 Match of the Year Lauren Barker Most Improved Junior Scott Coulthart Most Improved Seniors Johannes Kulich and Daniel Spencer National Placers Cadet Aaron Badovinac, 2nd 69 kg Cadet Men Freestyle Aaron Badovinac – 5th 69 kg FILA Cadet Men Juvenile Nolan Badovinac – 1st 76 kg Juvenile Men Freestyle Michel Kurucz – 2nd 60 kg Juvenile Women Freestyle Nolan Badovinac – 2nd 76 kg Juvenile Men Greco Roman Junior Nolan Badovinac – 2nd 84 kg 2014 Canada Summer Games Nolan Badovinac – Bronze at Sherbrooke, Que.

BCSSWA Placers 2015 Nolan Badovoinac – 1st at 84 kg Michel Kurucz – 2nd at 60 kg Ravi Manhas – 3rd at 38 kg Remi Wells – 3rd at 57 kg Aaron Badovinac – 4th at 63 kg Dean Leyland – 6th at 78 kg Emma McGowan – 6th at 64 kg Johannes Kulich – 6th at 66 kg Isaac McDonald – 6th at 48 kg Kylea Anderson – 6th at 75 kg

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ages in the divisions below so we’re hoping that the kids come back next year,” Fines said. “We should have a midget team [next year].” The lacrosse association is

looking to host more tournaments in the older age groups, Fines noted. It’s two weeks into the lacrosse season, which runs until the end of June.

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BC Summer Games Gold Medal Island Team Isaac McDonald (45kg), Aaron Badovinac (63kg), Dean Leyland (78kg), Nolan Badovinac (84kg), Johannes Kulich (70kg), Emma McGowan (64kg) Michel Kurucz (60kg), Lauren Barker (57kg), Remi Wells (60kg) Jarred Beckett (60kg). Jeanette Badovinac (Coach), Chris Bodnar (Coach). » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to news@avtimes.net. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.

Minor lacrosse teams compete at the Multiplex. The Alberni Valley Minor Lacrosse Association is hosting an eight-team novice tournament this weekend, with an exhibition game by the Nanaimo Timbermen masters and grandmasters.

Carol Bouchard wins Monthly Medal KATHY WHITE FOR THE TIMES

For the low handicap 9-hole group La Donna Knutson won low gross, Kathy Toms won low net and there was a tie for low putts between Marta Williamson and Kelly Gauthier. In the high handicap group, Lauralee Edgell won low gross and had the fewest putts for the day. Betty Adair won low net. Pars were had by Louise Berlinski on No. 2, Claudia Romaniuk on No. 4 and Kathy Toms

had pars on Nos. 2, 5, 6 and 8; way to go, Kathy. In the 18-hole ladies group, Carol Bouchard won Monthly Medal. Bouchard and Janice Cross tied for low gross. Kathy White took low net. Closest to the pin prize on No. 5 went to White, Pat Nicklin won on No. 14. Carol Jaworski won the special prize. Come and join us , if you would like to have a game with the ladies at 8:30 AM on Tues-

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Nepal quake survivor from Cowichan ‘lucky’ KEVIN ROTHBAUER COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

All things considered, the cough Nick Versteeg is still coping with, days after his return from Nepal, is pretty minor. Known as the Khumbu Cough, it afflicts everyone who visits the Mount Everest Base Camp. “You get small particles of sand in your lungs,” the celebrated Cowichan Bay filmmaker explained on Monday, three days after he got back to Canada on May 1. “Everybody deals with it. The coughing is incredible. I’ve been coughing more or less the last 14 days.” After surviving the magnitude-7.8 earthquake on April 25 that killed more than 7,600 people, Versteeg will take the cough. “It’s better than being hit by massive rocks,” he said. When the devastating earthquake struck, Versteeg and his trekking companion had just returned to Namche Bazaar - the hub for Everest exploration - from Base Camp, and were waiting to rejoin the Seattlebased dentist that Versteeg had been filming on behalf of Rotary International as the dentist did volunteer work among

The village where Nick Versteeg was staying when the earthquake hit Nepal was mostly destroyed, with many buildings left crumbling, spilling piles of rubble that were once walls. [NICK VERSTEEG PHOTO]

the Sherpas and their families. They were staying in a lodge in Namche, which provided food and shelter, with no extravagances, and constructed, like most buildings in the village, out of large stones - not bricks or cinderblocks - and no cement. “You have to envision, it’s not a hotel,” Versteeg said. “It’s very simple; super basic.” Versteeg and his friend had just ordered lunch, and managed to convince the Australian fellow whose bedroom was next to Versteeg’s (and who had been up all night with

the Khumbu Cough) to join them rather than head to his room for a nap. Then the earthquake hit. They all ran outside, feeling the ground shake beneath them while the building in front of them swayed left and right and cracks appeared. “I had never been in a 7.8 earthquake before,” Versteeg noted. After a major aftershock struck about an hour later, and after the Nepalese paramilitary police had arrived to take control of the situation, they returned to the lodge, where the wall they

had been sitting beside had fallen inwards, and the Australian man’s bedroom was destroyed. “Where we had been sitting, the whole ceiling had come down,” Versteeg said. “I felt incredibly lucky.” Fortunately, Versteeg was able to recover his equipment, including six weeks of film footage, which was dusty, but not damaged. Despite what they were going through, the Nepalese people did their best to take care of the many international visitors who were trapped by the quake. “The people from Namche were fantastic,” Versteeg said. “There were hundreds of trekkers from all over the place who didn’t know what to do.” After another night of aftershocks, the police moved everyone from the village to a camp at the top of a nearby mountain. Around that same time, Versteeg and his friend were reunited with the Seattle dentist and his guide. The guide was eventually able to arrange for a helicopter ride to Lukla, where the nearest airport to Namche Bazaar is located. They waited there a couple of days before they could fly to Kathmandu.

The capital and largest city in Nepal, Kathmandu was just 80 kilometres from the earthquake’s epicentre, and sustained significant damage, particularly in older parts of the 3,000-year-old city. “The situation was pretty grave, but I was surprised by how much was still standing,” Versteeg said. Versteeg and his companions stayed in a hotel that remained intact with some structural damage, and where all the staff had been laid off as tourists fled the country. While they were eating a breakfast of boiled eggs, white bread and tea, a couple came in - Versteeg doesn’t know if they were English or American - expecting the hotel’s usual spread and taken aback by what they considered “camping.” That was the only time Versteeg lost his composure. “I lost it,” he admitted. “There were 5,000 people dead. I found it incredibly rude. That was the only negative thing.” It wasn’t easy to leave Kathmandu, and Versteeg spent a day at the airport before he was able to get a flight out. There, he was able to watch the international

aid efforts in action. “There were huge planes coming in - Russian, Chinese, Turkish - and all the unloading was done by hand, which would take a couple of hours,” he recalled. “And everything was stocked on the side of the runway. What we felt they need is people with forklifts and trucks.” Eventually, Versteeg flew from Kathmandu to Delhi, beginning his journey home. It was 41 hours before he made it to Vancouver for a “tearful reunion” with his wife, Elly Driessen, and her sister. “That was a minor inconvenience after what we went through,” he said. Versteeg had already planned a showing of his two latest productions, 71 Years (about a Second World War-era military flight that crashed on Vancouver Island and wasn’t discovered until 2013) and One Man’s Dream (about the creation of the Malahat Highway) at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre on June 3. That will still go ahead, but now all the profits will go to the Nepalese village of Khumjung, where Versteeg filmed the Seattle dentist in action, and which has been completely destroyed.

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JUSTICE

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Omar Khadr is freed on bail after 13 years in prison

Experts meet to review libido pill for females

Supporters in courtroom gasped in joy after justice rejects government effort

WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Food and Drug Administration will ask a group of outside medical experts next month to evaluate a much-debated experimental drug designed to boost sexual desire in women. The meeting is the latest twist in the ongoing saga of flibanserin, a proposed female libido pill which the FDA has already twice declined to approve. But the drugâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backer, Sprout Pharmaceuticals, has enlisted womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s groups and other advocates to lobby the agency to approve the pill, saying womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual problems have been too long overlooked by the federal government. The FDA said Thursday in a posting it will convene a meeting of its reproductive drugs and drug safety panels on June 4. The agency is not required to follow the advice of such panels, though it often does. For decades, drugmakers have tried unsuccessfully to develop a female equivalent to Viagra, the blockbuster drug that treats menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s erectile dysfunction. But disorders of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual desire have proven resistant to drugs that act on blood flow, hormones and other simple biological functions.

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EDMONTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Khadr, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re free to go.â&#x20AC;? With those spare words, an Alberta justice on Thursday paved the way for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr to get his first taste of freedom in almost 13 years. Supporters in the courtroom gasped in joy and Khadr, 28, smiled broadly as Appeal Court Justice Myra Bielby rejected the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last-ditch attempt to block his bail. The government, she said, had failed to prove his release would cause serious harm to Canadian interests or pose a risk to the public. Khadrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longtime lawyer Dennis Edney walked over to his client and whispered, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We done it,â&#x20AC;? as he squeezed his fingers. Edneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Patricia sobbed uncontrollably for a few minutes, then hugged and kissed her husband. Outside court, an emotional Edney said the day had been a long time coming as he talked about his clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ordeal since the Americans captured him grievously wounded in Afghanistan in July 2002, when he was 15 years old. The government, which has consistently branded Khadr an unrepentant terrorist and said it would fight his release every step of the way, expressed disappointment at the latest turn of events. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(We) regret that a convicted terrorist has been allowed back into Canadian society without having served his full sentence,â&#x20AC;? Jeremy Laurin, a spokesman for

Omar Khadrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lawyer Dennis Edney speaks to media in Edmonton, Alta., on Thursday after Khadr was ordered released on bail. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney, said in a statement. As paperwork was prepared for Khadrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release, which comes with a list of restrictions including wearing a tracking bracelet and a curfew, an emotional Edney stepped outside to denounce a federal government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper for showing no mercy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr. Harper is a â&#x20AC;?bigot,â&#x20AC;&#x153; Edney said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We left a Canadian child in Guantanamo Bay to suffer torture (and) we Canada participated in this torture. So todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wonderful day for justice.â&#x20AC;? Within two hours of Bielbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision, a grinning Edney who had received a crash course in tracking bracelets left the courthouse with Khadr for his first venture outside without guards in more than a decade. Edneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-counsel, Nate Whit-

ling, tweeted a picture of the two leaving. Khadr, who had no immediate comment, pleaded guilty in October 2010 before a widely discredited military commission to five war crimes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including murder in the death of a U.S. special forces soldier. In exchange, the commission handed him a further eight-year sentence. Dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Guantanamoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Child,â&#x20AC;? he was the youngest inmate and

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TOKYO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A Japanese zoo has apologized after being criticized for naming a baby monkey Charlotte, the name of the newborn British princess. The Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden said Thursday it was considering renaming the macaque. It was flooded with angry calls and emails Wednesday after announcing the name for its first monkey born this year, a tradition at the zoo run by the southern city of Oita. Charlotte was the favourite in a public ballot, receiving 59 out of 853 votes in the counting, conducted after the female monkey was born Wednesday. Votes for Charlotte surged after the British princess was named Monday and topped the ballot in the last three days of voting, which ran from March 27 to May 6. Many critics said giving the princessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; name to a monkey was disrespectful to British royals. According to zoo official Akira Asano, some said the Japanese people would feel offended if a monkey were named after Japanese princesses.

BUSINESS

McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brings kale salads to Canada more than six-fold between 2010 and 2014, to nine per cent of all restaurants across the country. The vegetable is even referenced in Beyonceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music video for last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;7/11â&#x20AC;? single, in which the singer wears a sweater emblazoned with the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kaleâ&#x20AC;? while dancing on a hotel balcony. McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is introducing kale at precisely the right time as its moment of pop-culture relevance seems to be at its peak, said Armida Ascano of Toronto-based research firm Trend Hunter. If the company had released kale options when the vegetable was only popular on food blogs and social media, she said, they would have run the risk of intimidating their existing customers for the sake of impressing those who already choose not to eat at

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TORONTO â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Canadian McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outlets are now serving up new salads featuring an unexpected ingredient from the struggling fast-food giant: Kale. The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest burger chain, in a battle to reinvent itself, introduced three salads in Canada on Thursday with trendy kale as an ingredient. The nutrient-rich green has seen a surge in popularity in recent years as health-conscious consumers have eaten leafy kale in salads, smoothies and even baked as chips. Chris Foong, an analyst with research firm Datassential, said in an email that the number of dining establishments in Canada with kale on the menu increased

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Embracing kale may seem an odd choice given McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently mocked the green -along with soy, quinoa and Greek yogurt -- in an ad that celebrated the Big Mac. Kathleen Kevany, a social scientist in Dalhousie Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faculty of agriculture who was involved in organizing the first national kale day in 2013, said in an email that McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is known for bringing products that are already popular to a mass market, not innovating new products themselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can see, with the decline of McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sales in recent years, that other successful products are attracting the attention of consumers,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kale is one of these successful foods.â&#x20AC;?

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Dancestreams, Vancouver Island’s longest established youth dance company, is coming to Port Alberni on Mother’s Day Sunday, May 10th. Dancers in the company are chosen annually by audition, and for thirty years, they have been coming together for six hours every Sunday from September to May, in addition to their regular home studio training. They come from a variety of communities and studios in order to learn together in a non-competitive, professional atmosphere. The sacrifice of time and energy is welcomed by these dedicated and enthusiastic dancers, in order to work with some of Canada’s top professional choreographers and guest teachers. Dancestreams has been honoured to work with such luminaries as Wen-Wei Wang, Joe Laughlin, Serge Bennathan, Bengt Jorgen, Judith Marcuse and many more. This season, the dancers have been privileged to work with former Dancestreams alumnus and now internationally acclaimed choreographer Alysa Pires from Toronto. The piece, to the music of Sinatra, is exquisite in its detail and perfectly embodies the emotional commitment of the melodies. Dancestreams Asst. Director Julia Carr, co-director of the Vancouver-based Body Narratives Collective, reflected on

her Australian multi-disciplinary arts journey to create “from little things…”. Julia was one of only 20 international artists (three Canadian) to take part in the TIME_PLACE_SPACE: NOMAD project in the Australian outback in the fall of 2014. It was where she first learned the story of Vincent Lingiari and the history of the Australian Land Rights Movement. In March, the Dancestreams Company travelled to Los Angeles, where over a period of eight days they worked with LA choreographer Benita Bike, and visited professional training programs and companies to take classes in a variety of disciplines. Benita’s piece “Bloomers” is lively and fun; sure to be a crowd pleaser! Raven Spirit Dance Company’s Artistic Director Michelle Olson arrived in April to create her new work. Raven Spirit’s mandate is to create, develop and produce exceptional contemporary dance that is rooted in traditional and contemporary Aboriginal worldview. In the piece, Michelle looks at how technology can overpower our ability to be with nature, and how when it is removed, the stress of everyday life drops away, leaving us in sync with our environment. The program is rounded out with a piece created last season by Lisa Gelley Martin- co-director of the 605 Collective from Vancou-

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Book Sale from 6-8 p.m. at Echo Centre for the Community Arts Council. Pasta Dinner and Auction at 5 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion 293, 4680 Victoria Quay. DJ Mark at Westwind Pub. Dale Bottaro entertainment at the Blue Marlin Inn. John Gogo CD release concert at 8 p.m. at Char’s Landing. Opening night of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre The Island’s longest running youth dance company takes the stage in Port Alberni on May 10.

ver. The Company is looking forward to next season, when among others, the group will work with Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg and Serge Bennathan! Dancestreams is delighted to welcome guest artist Catherine Wilkins to our Port Alberni production. A former member of Dancestreams and now an accomplished singer and musician, Catherine completed a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Victoria and is pursuing a professional career in music. One Port Alberni dancer, Kaara Plater, a pupil at MacKenzie School of Dance, is a member of the current dance company. Port Alberni has been well-

represented over the years, by former members Juli Booker (Martell) of Stage West, Samantha Booker, Carla Gaiga, Deanna Goundan, Avery Herbert, Kendall Anderson, Alysha Rata, Mikaela Roberts, Meghan Francoeur and many others. The show starts 3 p.m. at the Bavarian Centre. Tickets are available at the Rollin Art Centre, MacKenzie School of Dance, EM Salon & Spa and at the door. Each mom in the audience will receive a flower, and refreshments are included in the ticket. This show is made possible due to the generosity of the Province of British Columbia, the BC Arts Council.

SATURDAY Garage and Bake sale at John Paul II Catholic School at 9 a.m. Book Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Echo Centre for the Community Arts Council. Mount Klitsa Garden Club plant sale from 10 a.m. to noon at Rollin Art Centre. Conversations with a Rattlesnake from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. with Theo Fleury at the Athletic Hall. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. Cassie and Maggie concert at 8 p.m. at Char’s Landing Cruze Control entertainment at the Blue Marlin Inn SUNDAY

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he 11th annual giant book sale! The Rollin Art Centre’s annual giant book sale is this weekend. We have added an additional evening, Friday, May 8th from 6-8 p.m. and our usual Saturday, May 9th from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at Echo Centre. Books, jigsaw puzzles and videos, we have it all. You may pay for your purchases by cash, Visa and MasterCard. Stock up for the summer holidays, camping trips and cozy evenings by the fire. he Rollin Art Centre is excited to bring to you our current art exhibit. This unique exhibit happens every year, showcasing several elementary school classes who took part in, “Art in the School “ program. This year, we have 4 classes, one from John Howitt, Gill, Eighth Avenue and Wood schools, as well as, students from Port Alberni Community Living. This wonderful exhibit will run until May 16th. Join us for refreshments in the gallery, Sat., May 9th from 1-3 p.m., by showing your support to these very young talented artists. t. Klitsa Garden Club’s annual plant sale. Grab your bags and boxes! The Mt. Klitsa Garden Club presents its 16th annual Plant Sale Saturday May 9th at Rollin Art Center at the corner of 8th and Argyle between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. Annuals, perennials, shrubs and more! No earlies! arbour City Big Band Dance. This is a benefit for Bread of Life this year. This band of local musicians led by Greg and Sarah Falls is their annual dance. It is being held at the Bavarian Center on 4th Ave. from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Come out and enjoy a range of great dance music. There will be featured singers this year from various music schools that began their singing career while at ADSS. Pete from Pete’s Mountain’s Meats is a

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Hart and Stone concert at 8 p.m. at Char’s Landing. Dancestreams Mother’s Day performance and tea, May 10 at Bavarian Centre at 3 p.m. Tickets are available at the Rollin Art Centre, MacKenzie School of Dance, EM Salon & Spa and at the door. Meat Draw and 50/50 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at the Kingsway Pub to benefit the Alberni Valley Hospice Society. MONDAY

fabulous sax player; the great Dave Auld on drums; some wonderful younger musicians, band teachers ....about 20 musicians in all. Let’s support our local talent. Let’s support the Bread of Life. There will also be a fun silent auction and door prizes. Tickets can be purchased from a band member, Pete’s Mountain Meats, and Bread of Life/Cornerstones Thrift shop. arbour City Big Band Dance. This is a benefit for Bread of Life this year. This band of local musicians led by Greg and Sarah Falls, is their annual dance. It is being held at the Bavarian Center on 4th Avenue, 7:30 to 11:30pm. Come out and enjoy a range of great dance music. There will be featured singers this year from various music schools that began their singing career while at ADSS. Pete from Pete’s Mountain’s Meats is a fabulous sax player, with the great Dave Auld on drums, some wonderful younger musicians, band teachers....about 20 musicians in all.Let’s support our local talent. Let’s support the Bread of Life. There will also be a fun silent auction and door prizes. Tickets can be bought from a band member, Rollin Art Centre (CASH ONLY), Pete’s Mountain Meats, and Bread of Life/Cornerstones Thrift Shop. aint a banner for 2015. Get a group of family or friends or as an individual and join the “banner paint-in” at the Kinsmen Community Centre, sponsored by the Arrowsmith Rotary Club. Pick up your applications at the Rollin Art Centre today, registration fee is $10. Deadline is

Latin Dance Social with Cuba’s Watson Hernandez from 7 to 9 p.m. at Char’s Landing. TUESDAY Meat Draw and 50/50 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Kingsway Pub to benefit the Alberni Valley Hospice Society. Harpdog Brown with J Arthur Edmonds concert at 8 p.m. at Char’s Landing. Annie production by E.J. Dunn students at 7 p.m. at ADSS

WEDNESDAY A wide variety of good quality books will be available for two days, starting tonight at Echo Centre for the annual giant book sale.

May 15. Banner “Paint-Ins” will take place Thurs., May 21, 12-8 p.m., Fri., May 22, 12-8 p.m., Sat., May 23, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. and Sun., May 24, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Kinsmen Community Centre (Fall Fair Grounds). The Arrowsmith Rotary Club will provide the banner material, paint & brushes. emembering Gill School. The Alberni District Historical Society will be hosting an evening of stories and memories to celebrate nearly 120 years of Gill’s history. Please join us at 7 p.m. in the Dogwood Room at Echo Centre on Thurs., May 21. RAW Gallery is pleased to open our 2015 Season with Spring into ART! - Group Exhibit. May 1st thru June 26th “...How are we connected to the Natural world around us as well as to the nature within us.”

Artist’s Reception Fri., May 8th from 6 – 8 p.m. Featuring work by Cynthia Bonesky, Colleen Clancy, Cecil Dawson, Pamela Holl Hunt and Todd Robinson. Visit us online & on location at the corner of Melrose & 8th Ave. in the dynamic Alberni Valley. Thursday and Friday from 12 – 5 p.m. Call 250-724-2056 or www. drawgallery.com. » Melissa Martin is the arts administrator for the Community Arts Council. This is a group dedicated to enriching individuals and the community by sharing and shaping the cultural environment of the Valley. If you would like to submit something to this column, please drop it off (e-mail preferred) at the Rollin Art Centre by noon on the Friday before your event. Your articles must be 150 words or less. E-mail: communityarts@shawcable.com.

Duane Steele country folk concert at 8 p.m. at Char’s Landing. Annie production by E.J. Dunn students at 7 p.m. at ADSS. THURSDAY Green Party hosting with Glenn Sollitt at 7:30 p.m. at 4487 Elizabeth Street. Daniel Nickerson concert at 8 p.m. at Char’s Landing.

UPCOMING fundraisers & events Bread of Life fundraising dinner, May 30 at 5:30 at the Bread of Life. Sproat Lake Volunteer Fire Department 50th Anniversary Open House, May 30 from 2 p.m. with BBQ and social at the Harold Bishop Fire Hall.

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