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RED DEER COLLEGE UNVEILS THE WINNING DESIGN FOR ITS CENTRE FOR HEALTH, WELLNESS AND SPORT

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer College’s new Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport will put both the educational institution and the city on the map, promises college president Joel Ward.

“This is an extraordinary GO BEHIND THE design. It re- SCENES WITH THE ally is iconic,” DESIGNER A2 said Ward on Friday, as the public got a first look at detailed drawings of the $88-million project.

Located on the west side of campus, the impressive building will be seen by a million drivers a year going up and down nearby Hwy 2.

“This will be the new building that everybody will see. They’ll know it’s Red Deer and they’ll know it’s Red Deer College.”

Adding to the local flavour, homegrown firm Scott Builders and Edmonton’s Clark Builders will construct the facility in a joint venture, along with design partner Stantec and HCMA. The group was chosen from nine bidders in a design/build competition.

Ground breaking will take place this fall, with construction getting underway next spring for a fall 2018 completion. That schedule will have it ready six months ahead of the 2019 Canada Winter Games, an event that will serve as the facility’s official coming-out party.

Many years in the planning, the centre will provide much-needed facilities for students, athletes, coaches

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This will be the new building that everybody will see. They’ll know it’s Red Deer and they’ll know it’s Red Deer College. and instructors.

It will also bolster the college’s case to become a degree-granting polytechnic university.

The college sees that as a critical evolution if Central Alberta is to stop the brain drain to other centres.

In Lethbridge, which has a college and a university, 75 per cent of its

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Artist renderings of the exterior of Red Deer College’s Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport and the interior of the gymnasium, the future home of the RDC Kings and Queens basketball teams.The public got its first look at detailed drawings of the $88-million project at a press conference on Friday.

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post-secondary students remain in the area. For Red Deer, the number is 33 per cent.

“I think we all agree, if (students) want to stay they should be allowed to stay,” said Ward, adding the average cost to send a student outside the community to study is $28,000.

The centre also fixes a serious

shortcoming in facilities for the college of 7,500 students.

“Our facilities are some of the worst in the country,” he said. “In fact, most high schools have better gyms ... than we do.”

An Olympic-sized ice surface, 1,200-seat gymnasium, 200-metre running track, squash courts, fitness rooms, and classroom and health spaces will be built around a huge great hall that opens onto a large outdoor patio area.

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BRIEFS Structural assessment set for industrial building that caught fire Fire investigators are waiting to be given the all clear before sifting through the remains of an industrial building fire for a cause.

Red Deer Emergency Services fire prevention officer Tim Kivell said a structural assessment will be done on the building on Monday to ensure it’s safe to go in.

“Then on Tuesday we’re going to be removing debris from the floor so we can take a better look at the whole bay where the area of origin was.

“We probably won’t know anything until midweek.”

Firefighters were called to the Riverside Industrial area location of Sadona Cabinets about 10 p.m. on Tuesday.

It took about eight hours to contain the fire, which badly damaged two of six bays in the industrial shop complex.

The damage is estimated at more than $1 million.

Meanwhile, the file on a small fire at the Buffalo Hotel on Monday has been turned over to the RCMP. “The fire is suspicious in nature,” he said. “It’s a police matter. It’s suspected arson.

“And they’re following up on that.”

Suspect arrested in Alhambra armed robbery RCMP have a suspect in custody after an armed robbery near Alhambra on Wednesday.

A police press release says that at about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Rocky Mountain House police received a 911 call that an armed man had just held up the gas station and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash and cigarettes.

Officers from Rocky and Sylvan Lake detachments subsequently spotted a suspect driving a stolen vehicle.

When officers attempted to stop the suspect, the driver fled, resulting in a brief high-speed chase before the arrest was made.

“These types of incidents are very volatile and have the potential to be of very serious consequences for both the public and our officers,” said Staff Sgt. Mark Groves, Rocky detachment commander.

“Fortunately, no one was physically injured during the armed robbery and the subsequent pursuit.”

Nelson Ryan Gomes, 29, of the Eckville area, has been charged with 18 criminal counts. The charges include armed robbery, flight from police, wearing a disguise with intent, dangerous driving, possession of a weapon for dangerous purpose and numerous breach of court orders.

Gomes is in custody and will appear in court on Monday.

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Ken Kowalchuk, the Red Deer Advocate’s advertising consultant, searches for the right LEGO piece during the “Ready, Set, Build” celebrity build-off on Friday afternoon as part of the Bower Place LEGO Challenge. The build-off, which featured a number of local radio personalities, Bower Place managers and a couple of city councillors, required competitors to create the best summer-themed masterpiece in just 30 minutes, The event was the kick-off for Bower Place’s Wild West Club for kids. The LEGO build will continue Saturday, with a variety of LEGO-activities happening at the mall’s centre court.

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Designer approached project with several goals in mind

RDC: Community will also benefit from facility Once complete, college officials are confident the project will make RDC a destination point for many students and student athletes who may have given it a pass in the past.

The college is predicting student numbers will climb to 10,000 in a few years.

“We did a capacity analysis and we can handle 10,000 students in our current facility and our new one,” said Ward.

In 20 years, the facility could hit 15,000 students “and that would be tremendous for our region.”

College Students’ Association president Maryanne McGrath said providing a state-of-the-art facility will both attract new students and encourage them to settle in the region.

The community will also benefit, said Ward, because the public will be able to access facilities when not in use by students. As well, the ice surface could be used by the Red Deer Rebels for practices and by hockey camps and other ice users.

The gymnasium will allow the college to hold national volleyball championships, among other sports events. Those kinds of draws fill hotel rooms and restaurants, and create other economic spinoffs.

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On a frigid February day, architect Enzo Vicenzino strolled Red Deer College’s campus thinking about the job ahead.

The request for proposals had just come out for a new Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport and the senior principal with Stantec and his staff wanted to get a feel for the site and the college.

They quickly came to a couple of conclusions about what kind of facility was needed.

“It really needed to reach out to the community, also to reach out to something that has been neglected, and that is the creek, Waskasoo Creek,” said Vicenzino on Friday at the college’s unveiling of designs for the eye-catching $88-million centre.

A feature that will no doubt define the building for many is a great hall that is meant to reach out to the community and the natural area nearby.

Vicenzino said that was a “very deliberate gesture on

About $50 million has been raised for the facility so far and a major fundraising campaign will be launched this fall with a target of $25 million more.

With the change in government, the college resubmitted its business plan and it was once again accepted and supported by the province.

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Blackfalds RCMP recovered several stolen recreational vehicles, mowers and prohibited weapons on Wednesday.

An RCMP press release says the seizure was the result of an ongoing investigation.

With the assistance of RCMP members from Innisfail, Ponoka, Sylvan Lake and Calgary ERT, a search warrant was executed on a rural property in Red Deer County.

Police recovered a 2011 load trailer, 2011 Polaris ATV side by side, Kubota Land Pride Mower, Kubota Mower and various prohibited weapons. The investigation continues.

Billyjack Williams, 43, of Red Deer County has been charged with four counts of possession of stolen property over $5,000 and was to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Friday.

Police hunting for suspects involved in assault, robbery Red Deer RCMP are looking for public help to identify a group of men who robbed and assaulted a man in the Normandeau neighbourhood on Aug. 22.

At about 5 p.m., a 25-year-old man was walking in the area of Nordegg Crescent when he was attacked from behind. He was kicked and punched repeatedly before the assailants took his cellphone and a small amount of cash.

The victim was treated at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for numerous injuries to his face.

He was attacked by between two and four Caucasian men who left the scene in a small, sporty black car.

If you have information regarding this assault and robbery, contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Man wanted on 33 warrants arrested Red Deer RCMP have arrested a man who turned out to be wanted on 33 warrants.

At about 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, RCMP responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle at 50th Avenue and 28th Street. The vehicle was a truck stolen Wednesday morning from the West Park neighbourhood.

The driver, arrested without incident, was wanted on warrants in Red Deer for a variety of Criminal Code and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act offences that stemmed from a number of incidents.

Warrants included charges of drug possession, possession for the purpose of trafficking, impaired driving, resisting arrest, possession of stolen property, theft, credit card theft, fraud, uttering forged documents, a number of failures to appear in court, and failing to comply with court-imposed conditions.

Brian Keith Elliott, 28, of Red Deer also faces eight new charges from Thursday’s arrest — six counts of failing to comply with a recognizance, and one count each of possession of stolen property over $5,000 and operating a motor vehicle while disqualified. Elliott was remanded in custody to appear in Red Deer provincial court on Friday.

our part to bring those together.”

As the campus is teeming with thousands of students, the architects and designers were also careful to create a landscape they could feel comfortable in.

Another requirement was to make use of the facility’s location not far from Hwy 2 to create the kind of building that would not go unnoticed by the one million drivers who use the corridor every year.

The centre reaches that goal, said college president Joel Ward, who called the design “iconic.”

After further consultation with students, the college and other users, some internal tweaks will be done to the building but Vicenzino is happy with what they have done so far.

“Overall, we were able to achieve their vision and dreams in terms of what this facility could be,” he said.

Now the biggest challenge lies ahead — building it on time.

Ground breaking will take place this fall, construction will start next spring and the doors are to open in the fall of 2018.

To see photos and a video walk-though of the design, go to www.rdc.ab.ca/thecentre.

“In fact, our new government, our new MLAs are incredibly supportive, not only of this project, but polytechnic university status.

“I believe we’ve got great support to make this happen very quickly.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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NDP nixes royalty changes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Alberta oil and gas companies can put together their budgets for next year knowing at least one variable — royalty rates — will stay steady through the end of 2016, Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd said Friday.

“I talk to owners and workers in the oil industry and gas industry daily and I recognize their concerns,” she said.

“They want certainty, particularly given how tough times are in the oil and gas sector right now.”

It’s been a tumultuous time in the oilpatch. Crude prices have dropped from highs above US$107 a barrel in June 2014 to below US$40 a barrel earlier this week, regaining some ground over the past two days to sit around US$45.

Reviewing whether Albertans are getting a fair slice of the province’s oil and gas wealth was a key election

promise from the left-leaning NDP, which swept to power in May. Some have warned against reviewing royalties at a time when thousands of jobs are being cut. Others have argued that if royalties are going to change, it’s best to let industry know as quickly as possible.

McCuaig-Boyd aimed to give businesses some clarity as they make plans for the upcoming winter drilling season.

If royalties are hiked, any incremental revenue will be saved in Alberta’s Heritage Fund.

Also Friday, the province announced three new members joining review chairman Dave Mowat — head of Crown-owned bank ATB Financial — on the panel.

They are: Leona Hanson, mayor of Beaverlodge, Alta., Annette Trimbee, a former Alberta deputy finance minister, and Peter Tertzakian, energy economist at Calgary’s ARC Financial.

Mark Scholz, president of the Ca-

nadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, said he was particularly happy to see Tertzakian picked given “his background and understanding some of those complex issues around royalties.”

Scholz said putting off any potential royalty changes to the end of next year was a “good olive branch to calm some of the uncertainty” — but it doesn’t quell all the concern.

“If we continue to see commodity prices the way they are and the investor climate the way it is in general, I really don’t see that particularly helping. I think activity’s going to be the same if not worse in 2016 as it is in ’15,” he said.

“What is the structure going forward when Alberta sees a recovery? I think that’s going to be the key when we get out of this mess and we see commodity prices come to more economic levels.”

Tim McMillan, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, said it’s important royalties be

examined within the bigger picture of Alberta’s competitiveness.

The NDP have already raised corporate taxes to 12 per cent from 10 per cent and doubled the carbon levy for large industrial emitters that exceed targets in 2017.

That’s why royalties mustn’t be looked at “in isolation,” said McMillan.

“Raising royalties would add even more costs at a time when new government policies are already reducing the competitiveness of the oil and natural gas industry — Alberta’s No. 1 economic driver and job creator.”

Brian Jean, leader of the Opposition Wildrose Party, welcomed the addition of Tertzakian to the panel. But he said keeping current rates through 2016 is a “minor concession” and the sector is still at risk.

“It’s been NDP policy for years to increase royalties, the finance minister is banking on it, and it would be naive to expect any other outcomes.”

Province backs off treatment change

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LEDUC — Alberta appears to have stepped back from a fight to stop a four-year-old girl from receiving a marijuana-derived treatment for her seizures.

Brian Fish, lawyer for the girl’s mother, says the Crown has withdrawn a request for an order that would have forced his client to stop giving her daughter cannabidiol and submit her to conventional treatment.

The mother says traditional drugs were ineffective against the girl’s seizures and doctors were suggesting brain surgery as an alternative.

The Canadian Press is not identifying the girl or her mother because of provisions in Alberta’s Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act. Cannabidiol is a non-intoxicating part of hemp that the girl was taking in pill form.

The mother says it significantly reduces her daughter’s seizures and that forcing her to stop taking it would be cruel.

“Somebody believed that cannabidiol is illegal and that is a basis for apprehending the child. That is not a basis under the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act,” Fish said outside a courtroom in Leduc, south of Edmonton, after the application was withdrawn.

Fish said it appeared that someone reported the family to child welfare.

Workers met with the mother, he said, but she was unwilling to cease her daughter’s treatment with cannabidiol, so the province applied for a supervision order.

The mother is seeking a medical marijuana exemption for the girl, something that was already in the works before child welfare became involved, Fish said.

Cannabidiol has been widely touted as a potential therapy for hard-to-treat forms of epilepsy. But many doctors say there’s little medical evidence to show if the compound is effective or safe.

In British Columbia, Michelle Arnold and Justin Pierce have been seeking a court order to allow them to continue to use cannabis oil to treat their baby girl, who also has epilepsy.

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Black bear cubs Athena and Jordan look on from their enclosure at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Association in Errington, B.C.. Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant won the hearts of animal lovers when he opted not to shoot the baby bears in July after their mother was destroyed for repeatedly raiding homes near Port Hardy, B.C.

Union vows to fight for B.C. conservation officer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A conservation officer who defied his bosses and refused to euthanize two orphaned bear cubs is being pushed out of his job, says the union that represents him.

Bryce Casavant won the hearts of animal lovers when he opted not to shoot the baby bears in July after their mother was destroyed for repeatedly raiding homes near Port Hardy, B.C. Casavant sent the cubs to a wildlife refuge instead.

But the decision earned him a suspension with pay, and on Friday, Casavant was transferred out of the Conservation Officer Service.

Stephanie Smith, president of the BC Government and Service Employees Union, said Casavant is shocked and disappointed by the move.

“He takes his role as a steward of our natural resources and our wildlife very seriously,” Smith said.

Jamie Edwardson, a spokesman for the B.C. Public Service Agency, said Casavant’s transfer was not a disciplinary action against him.

He said Casavant was moved to an equivalent position at the same salary and would be offered any training he needs.

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Leaders spar over fiscal report HARPER TRUMPETS SURPLUS; LIBERALS CALL CLAIM ‘PHONEY’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Stephen Harper trumpeted a new economic report Friday that he said validates his government’s policies, but questions quickly emerged as to whether the Conservative leader was offering too rosy an interpretation.

The Department of Finance’s monthly Fiscal Monitor reported a $5-billion surplus for the April-toJune period this year, but nearly 40 per cent of the gain was attributed to the government’s one-time sale of General Motors shares in April.

Harper issued a written statement shortly after the monitor was released, saying it meant that his Conservative government was “ahead of the game” on its budget plan.

The Liberal campaign accused Harper of claiming a “phoney surplus,” saying he is actually running a deficit, despite his claims to the contrary.

Kevin Page, the former parliamentary budget officer, said he was surprised by the size of the reported surplus, given the weakness of the economy.

“We are still many months away from pronouncing on a budgetary balance for the year,” Page cautioned. Quarterly GDP numbers due next week are also expected to shed additional light on the economic situation.

The Conservative leader did no formal campaigning Friday, opting instead to address the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Canada’s largest national Islamic convention, which kicked off a three-day conference in Mississauga.

Officials on the Conservative campaign had indicated that Harper would make mention of the fiscal monitor report in his speech, but the prime minister apparently decided otherwise.

Harper also spent part of Friday in Toronto shooting new television commercials, on what was a rare down day in the Conservative campaign. He’s not expected to resurface before Monday.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau were both in Montreal, arguing over which party has the best economic plan for the country.

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this week and the elder Liberal statesman stole the spotlight. Martin, who balanced the country’s books in the 1990s as the Liberal finance minister, called Harper “the king of deficits.”

Martin’s fiery speech was aimed at buttressing Trudeau, who staked out fresh ground this week by saying he would run modest deficits to 2019 in order to pay for new infrastructure investments that he said are essential to spurring long-term economic growth.

The NDP and Conservatives have promised balanced budgets, prompting Martin to say: “That Tom Mulcair is now a student of Stephen Harper’s economy makes absolutely no sense.”

Mulcair, himself a former Quebec cabinet minister, fired back at the Liberals, describing Martin as “the king of austerity.”

Mulcair accused Martin of trimming social and health transfers to the provinces by almost onequarter, while cutting employment insurance and housing spending.

“Could you be a little more discrete before you criticize the NDP’s balanced, realistic approach to taking care of future generations?” Mulcair asked.

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Kereel “Your Daddy” Blumenkrants of Russia, winner of the 2015 Air Guitar World Championships, performs after his victory in Oulu, Finland on Friday. What started off as a joke has turned into an annual fest of crazy mime artists who compete for the title of World Air Guitar champion in the city of Oulu, a high-tech hub on the Baltic Sea surrounded by forests. In 1996, there were eight competitors with one foreign champion, from neighboring Sweden. This year, a record 30 so-called “dark horses” from a dozen countries competed for a place in the final to join seven national champions from as far away as the United States, Japan and Canada.

Department mum on hunt for ‘missing’ child care benefit families OTTAWA — The federal department in charge of the monthly universal child care benefit is refusing to say how many families who had yet to sign up for the benefit opted to do so after a nationwide push earlier this year.

The Conservatives launched a frantic campaign in the early part of the summer to have an estimated 200,000 families sign up for the payments, estimating they were going to miss out on the cash.

Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre crossed the country holding events where he and other Conservative MPs repeated the message that there were thousands of families missing out on the increased benefit payments.

The government started referring to these households as “missing families.”

This week, Employment and Social Development Canada, which oversees the monthly child care

benefit program, wouldn’t say how many of those missing families had signed up on time for the increased payments, which started on July 20.

A department spokeswoman only said that the figure would be reported some time in the next few months, meaning the number won’t be available until after election day on Oct. 19. The department didn’t explain why it wasn’t releasing the number even though Poilievre had said they would be available by now.

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MONTREAL — The American headquarters overseeing the war against Islamic insurgents in Iraq and Syria says there were multiple air strikes in Iraq on the same day and in the same vicinity where Canadian CF-18s were accused of causing civilian casualties.

There were potentially 19 bombing raids on Mosul, carried out by several coalition countries, around the same time, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Central Command.

Canadian warplanes were involved in two separate missions, but one of them involved three bombing runs.

A spokesman for Central Command, which manages the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, confirms the Canadian military was advised of the allegation involving airstrikes that took place near Mosul on Jan. 21.

Lt.-Cmdr. Kyle Raines wouldn’t say which other countries carried out missions at the same time — or whether they were also investigated. The attacks happened during a period of intense fighting between Kurdish forces and extremists in the vicinity of Iraq’s second largest city, which has been occupied by Islamic State fighters since the summer of 2014.

The coalition command logs daily air strikes over a 24-hour period beginning at 8 a.m. U.S. figures show there were three missions over Mosul on Jan. 20-21 and a further 16 on Jan. 21-22.

He also said aircraft involved in the strikes that day were not American and the investigation involving the CF-18s was wrapped up with no evidence to support the claim.

“It is no longer under investigation,” Raines said from Tampa, Fla. However, he said the investigation could be reopened if new information comes to light.

The Canadian military has denied that the attacks against extremist targets killed civilians.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, whose party opposed the extension of the bombing campaign last spring, said the report is troubling, especially since the Harper government didn’t reveal the allegation before MPs voted on the extension.

“These are very serious allegations, but we need to know more about them,” Trudeau said Friday.

“One of the things that has been consistent from this government has been a lack of openness and transparency, even on issues as important as our engagements around the world with Canadian military forces.”

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Evacuation order issued in B.C. as wildfire burns OLIVER, B.C. — A wind-fuelled wildfire in British Columbia’s southern Okanagan has forced authorities to order the evacuation of 27 properties, although no homes were threatened Friday.

The 37-square-kilometre Testalinden Creek fire was discovered Aug. 14, is 60 per cent contained and is currently burning about seven kilometres south of Oliver.

The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen issued an evacuation order for the properties Friday, upgrading an evacuation alert that went out Thursday.

At least 250 properties, including homes, remain on alert, meaning residents may be ordered to leave at a moment’s notice.

Heather Rice, onsite fire information officer for the BC Wildfire Service, said winds have been pushing the flames north but none of the 27 properties was immediately threatened. “The wind is blowing from the south, so we always want to give people a lot of notice when it gets windy because it can be so unpredictable,� she said.

Cameron Baughen, a regional district spokesman, said people affected by the evacuation order can report to a local community centre for emergency social services.

The evacuation order is the second to be issued for the Testalinden Creek fire, Baughen said.

The wildfire service said 232 firefighters, 11 helicopters and 21 pieces of heavy equipment are battling the flames, and the fire is one of 169 fires burning across the province.

Environment Canada has issued a special airquality statement for the region and recommends residents avoid strenuous outdoor activities and get medical help if they have difficulty breathing, chest pains or other health concerns.

Smoke from the Stickpin fire in nearby Washington state has also blanketed the Okanagan Valley.

Environment Canada is forecasting showers and a risk of thunderstorms on Saturday and showers on Sunday. “The current forecast is calling for a bit of a cooling trend and so we are hoping to see a bit of wind shift and perhaps some cooler weather and even some moisture,� Rice said. “That would certainly help our efforts on the fire.�

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Hugh Segal honoured by defence group OTTAWA — The Conference of Defence Associations Institute has named former senator Hugh Segal as this year’s winner of its Vimy Award.

The institute is a non-partisan organization that promotes public discourse on defence and security issues.

Segal left the Senate in 2014 to become Master of Massey College in Toronto.

During his long career, he was chief of staff to Ontario premier Bill Davis in the 1970s and ’80s and held the same post with Brian Mulroney in the 1990s.

He taught at the University of Toronto Law School and lectured in strategic studies on a pro-bono basis for over 20 years at the Canadian Forces College.

The Vimy Award is presented annually to a prominent Canadian who has made outstanding contributions towards the security and defence of Canada and the preservation of democratic values.

The institute said Segal was a unanimous choice.

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s Ministry of Environment says a barge has tipped in Victoria’s harbour, dumping as many as 20 vehicles into the water.

The ministry says the barge was being loaded by metal recycling company Schnitzer Steel in an area of the harbour just north of the city’s downtown core.

Booms are in the water to contain any pollution, and the ministry says the coast guard, Transport Canada, police, fire and the harbour master are on scene.

The ministry says Transport Canada has indicated that the vehicles were cleaned of fuel before being loaded onto the barge.

Seaspan is the owner of the barge, and the ministry says it will be responsible for all cleanup costs.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A jury was right to reject a woman’s claim that her life was ruined after a sexual assault by the brother of serial killer Robert Pickton, says a judge who awarded her no costs at trial.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice George Macintosh ruled the woman should have accepted David Pickton’s $50,000 settlement offer before the civil trial, which ended in June.

Pickton was convicted and fined $1,000 more than two decades ago for the assault inside a trailer at a construction site in Burnaby, B.C. Macintosh said the woman, now 55, did not appear to be dishonest during her testimony, but that her memory and credibility were ravaged by her exceptionally difficult life. “Frankly, on any rational assessment, her dealings with Mr. Pickton in 1991 were only a small event by comparison with the miseries she faced in many other aspects of her life,� he said Friday. “She therefore, at trial, had an insurmountable task of proving causation for her claim, and the jury rightly, in my view, largely rejected her claim.�

The woman sued Pickton for about $1 million in 2013, alleging he cornered her at their workplace and felt her genitals through her jeans before threatening rape.

She testified that a co-worker later warned her to leave town or she would be “cut into pieces.�

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The global economy: a perfect storm?

You know how it is with buses?

You wait ages for one, far longer than seems reasonable — and then three arrive all at once. Financial crises are a bit like that, too.

The financial crisis everybody in the business has really been waiting for is a “hard landing” of the Chinese economy, now one of the two motors of the global economy. (The other is still the United States.)

Everybody thought it was GWYNNE bound to come eventually — DYER well, everybody who was not too heavily invested in the Chinese market — and it now appears to be here, although the Chinese government is still denying it.

The second crisis, less widely anticipated, is a credit crunch that is sabotaging economic growth in almost all the developing countries except India.

In many cases their currencies have fallen to historic lows against the dollar, making it harder for them to repay the dollars they borrowed. Moreover, it’s getting harder for them to earn dollars from their exports because commodity prices have collapsed.

And a third crisis is looming in the developed economies of Europe, North America and Japan, which can see another recession looming on the horizon before they have even fully recovered from the effects of the banking crash of 2007-08. And it’s hard to pull out of a new recession when your interest rates are still down near zero because of the last one.

These crises are all arriving at once because they are all connected. When the huge misdeeds and mistakes of American and European banks caused the Great Recession of 2008, China avoided the low growth and high unemployment that hurt Western countries by flooding its economy with cheap credit. But that only postponed the pain, and between 2007 and 2014 total debt in China increased fourfold.

The Chinese government is more terrified of mass unemployment than anything else. It believes, probably correctly, that the communist regime’s survival depends on delivering continuously rising living standards. So the Chinese economy went on booming for another six years, but the “solution” was fraudulent and now it’s over.

The huge amount of cheap credit sloshing around the Chinese economy mostly went into building unnecessary infrastructure, and above all into housing. That did preserve employment,

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but property values soared and a huge “housing bubble” was created. There was nobody to buy all those houses and apartments, and there are now brandnew “ghost towns” all over China, so property values are falling fast.

Since the crash on the Chinese stock markets began last month, the government has done everything it could to stop it. It has dropped interest rates repeatedly, it has devalued the currency, it has ordered state institutions to invest more — and nothing has worked.

Chinese exports have fallen eight per cent in the past year, and even the regime admits that the economy is growing at the lowest rate in three decades. Nobody outside the regime knows for certain, but it may scarcely be growing at all. The “hard landing” is now close to inevitable.

Now for the second crisis. While China’s artificial boom was rolling along, its appetite for commodities of

every sort, from iron to soya beans, was insatiable, so commodity prices went up. The other “emerging market economies” grew fast by selling China the commodities it needed, they attracted large amounts of Western investment because of their rapid growth, and they borrowed freely because Western interest rates were at rock-bottom.

The collapse of Chinese demand ends this party, too. From Brazil to Turkey to South Africa to Indonesia, exports are falling, the value of the local currencies is tumbling, and foreign investors are fleeing. Capital flight from the 19 largest emerging market economies has reached almost one trillion dollars in the past 13 months, and the outflow is still accelerating.

And the third crisis, in the West?

The problems that caused the crash of 2007-08 have not really been addressed, just papered over. What limited growth there has been in Western economies

is due almost entirely to absurdly low interest rates and “quantitative easing” (governments printing money).

The average time between recessions in the West is seven to 10 years, so one is due around now anyway. The likeliest trigger for that is a collapse of demand in China and in the other emerging economies, which is now practically certain.

And when it hits the West, neither of the traditional tools for pulling out of a recession will be available. Interest rates are already near zero, and the money supply has already been expanded massively.

It would be rash to talk about a longlasting global depression in the style of the 1930s, because a lot has changed since then. But it is certainly safe to say that the global economy is heading into a perfect storm.

Gwynne Dyer is a freelance Canadian journalist living in London.

On the road again, with a pickle jar “On the road again. …” Whenever I head out somewhere to some significant distance from where I’m not currently at, in my mind’s ear I always hear: “On the road again. …”

I hear Willie Nelson’s plaintiff ganjainfused voice wailing away in his famous song about heading HARLEY out on the road HAY again.

As a matter of fact, even though I’m not much of a Willie fan, I usually sing that line right out loud, much to the dismay of the passengers in my car.

And so it was a week ago when the whole fam damily hit the road for a memorable trip to the province to the left (when you are looking at a map of Canada, it’s to the left, right?) and it began with yours truly warbling the first verse of On The Road Again, but it ended thematically more like a bad version of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell.

Myself and the Better Half and the two Rotten Kids all piled into my vehicle, which soon turned out to be a tad smallish.

One of those newer models — a Kia

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Claustrophobia. Three adults, one subadult (me), four suitcases, four or five carry-on bags, two coolers of sustenance and many, many miscellaneous large and small items stuffed into one car for a 10-hour drive. Yikes.

Actually all went exceedingly well at first and the holiday was excellent until someone (me) was foolish enough to attempt the trip back basically without stopping except in extreme emergencies like running out of gas or a nuclear air strike on the Roger’s Pass.

Heaven forbid anyone should want to stop to eat.

Or stand up and stretch for a few minutes. Or need to go to the washroom. And “Ay …” as someone (Shakespeare) once said, “There’s the rub.”

I clearly (much too clearly) remember being on the road in our old band bus, a grand old Greyhound-style beast filled with tons of band gear, hordes of band mates, band friends and band aides and no washroom. Per se.

What we did have was a pickle jar.

Which many of us were reluctant to use, for a number of completely reasonable reasons.

Thing is, I always seemed to be the one tap-dancing up and down the bus isle doing the Bloated Bladder Polka, begging whoever was driving to stop at the nearest gas station.

And if one person happened to be driving (John), which he usually was, it was like pulling hen’s teeth getting him to stop, even if your back teeth

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were floating.

So one time on our way from a gig in Southern Alberta to a next-day gig in Northern Alberta, we were rumbling along through Edmonton and I was doing the cross-legged polka and begging the driver (John) to stop, but we were late (as usual) and he wouldn’t. Also, I believe he was amused by my misery, as only good friends are.

But I had no choice. As soon as he had to stop at the first red light, I swung the bus door open and bolted.

Across a lane of traffic, over a sidewalk and into the front yard of a house on the corner of the street. Broad daylight.

Mercifully, there was a large spruce tree there that clearly needed watering, so I was able to go about my business and be relatively (sort of) hidden.

Even John wouldn’t leave the drummer behind, as much as he may have wanted to.

So I was more than empathetic when various family members needed to take periodic bio breaks on our recent holiday trip.

And then I made a wee error, brought on by eight hours of driving, plus a slight tendency to be somewhat stubborn.

A bad combination.

I thought I knew where a better gas station turnoff was, so I passed by a row of gas stations and their respective washrooms that various family members told me to stop at and I kept going.

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Right into a highway traffic jam.

As in a virtual freeway parking lot as far as the eye could see. Some Department of Roads and Traffic Jams brainiac boss had determined to engage in highway construction on one of the busiest Saturday evenings of the summer, on one of the busiest stretches of the Trans-Canada Hwy in the nation.

For nearly two hours we inched (centimetered?) along the 10 or so kilometres with what must have been a thousand other vehicles carrying god knows how many bursting bladders.

And not a spruce tree in sight. Needless to say, various family members were not happy with me.

But we managed to somehow get through the Highway to Hell and finally got roaring On the Road Again and each of us at long last stumbled, staggered and tap-danced painfully into the first bathroom I could find (at a Walmart), and all was forgiven (eventually).

But I’ve learned my lesson. Next time, I’m going to bring a pickle jar.

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

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Toward a positive future As I gaze over the dining room at the kitchen, I see a lot of faces that have been there ever since we started Potter’s Hands Ministries. For a great variety of reasons, they have not moved on from where they were 15 years ago.

This is not a point of criticism, rather an observation that made me ponder: what of their futures?

Years ago, a good friend made the observation that I was not optimistic enough and sometimes I agree with that statement. You see, when I hear the news of any given day CHRIS with all of the turmoil in the SALOMONS world, the weather extremes and other cataclysms affecting us all, then I sometimes despair for the future.

Even though my faith tells me of the certainty of my future, I still sometimes worry about it. Being semi-retired, the worry is not so much for me as it is for my children and their children.

We just returned from two glorious weeks with our grandchildren (naturally their parents were included). The 15 hours driving there was soon forgotten because we spent time with, of course, the two most beautiful grandkids in the world.

Whenever you spend two weeks with another family, you make observations giving you a glimpse into

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someone else’s life. So, floor time spent with the two as they played, as they explored, laughed, cried and carried on, I ever so slowly began to see a brighter picture of their futures.

Their parents exercised a discipline that as grandma and grandpa (in our case Oma and Opa) we sometimes found a little harsh, but very soon the benefits of their loving care became evident. Within seconds of being chastised and apologies extended, our granddaughter moved on to another subject that was well received.

Instead of resentment at being chastised, this three-year-old accepted she had done something wrong. With apologies made and accepted, she felt free to move on to something else.

Because of the persistent training of her parents, she feels proud to imitate her mother and father, who sometimes lead music in their church. Consequently everything becomes a microphone and she sings (not always on key) at the top of her lungs. You can almost see her mind working; she becomes a singing performer.

The one-year-old is an aggressive and very expressive, highly vocal young girl who demands equal time. Because of commitments by her parents in the second week, I was blessed with the opportunity to spend a lot of time with her, and in doing so, I saw a very sensitive, beautiful child developing.

Coming back to the kitchen after these two great weeks, I began to look at our clients with different eyes. I wondered what their childhood was like; did their parents use the loving care as they disciplined them or was there anger that went unresolved?

I, of course, know that many were physically, mentally and sexually abused. But I also know that there are several who were indeed raised by loving parents, but outside influences carried them down a different path.

At Potter’s Hands, as with many different agencies, the goal is to present an alternative future to those we care for and about. When dealing with adults, this becomes a Herculean task, but we persist because we know that with the changing of mindsets, a brighter future can become a reality for many. As the saying goes, “It’s easier to train a child than to repair an adult.”

I’ve stated before that the greatest difficulty is trying to cram 16 years of loving disciplinary training into a shorter amount of time. This presents challenges that only the very committed will persist at.

But whenever we see a successful changeover, we tend to celebrate; that individual’s new lifestyle has become worth celebrating because he or she now can see a brighter future.

Although raising a child with positive discipline is a very arduous and trying work, the end result is one to cherish.

That well-trained child will one day step away from the guardianship of parents. The training received will place that child on a road that will be easier than one without that 16 years of caring training.

That child to me represents a very positive future.

Therefore, I don’t have to worry so much.

Chris Salomons is kitchen co-ordinator for Potter’s Hands ministry in Red Deer.

government policies. Free the executives from the government-imposed shackles and then the economy will soar.

Yet business has seen a succession of tax cuts, the abolition of the capital tax, accelerated depreciation to lower the cost of investment, and tariff elimination on imported machinery and equipment, but has been slow to invest in innovation, research and development and new productive capacity.

Business is unlikely to invest when the economy is weak.

A second misguided Conservative view is to underrate the relationship between public investment and economic growth. Infrastructure is one obvious example.

Public investment in infrastructure — roads, highways, bridges, airports, ports, water systems, public transit, social housing and broadband — all contribute to economic growth. It makes no sense to argue these investments cannot be made in a slow-growth economy if they result in a budget deficit.

Likewise, much innovation that occurs in the economy starts with public investments in research and development and the creation of markets for

new technologies, such as environmental regulation.

A third misguided Conservative view is that Canadians want small government.

The reality is that as societies grow richer, they want more public goods — more and better education and skills training, more and better health care, more and better public transportation and commuting expressways, a cleaner environment, safer and healthier food, a fairer society, as well as a safer society.

The reality is that government has a crucial role to play in fostering innovation and growth.

Government also has a vital role in building confidence in growth prospects so that business will invest and create jobs. Cutbacks in spending and balancing the budget in a weak economy equals less investment and growth and fewer good jobs.

By reinforcing the Conservative messages on the deficit and small government, the NDP and Liberals are weakening public support for active government and what has been called the entrepreneurial state at a time when an active government is needed.

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

Balanced budget shouldn’t be top priority Is the NDP trying to be more conservative than the Conservatives? Former Saskatchewan finance minister Andrew Thompson, a star candidate for the NDP who is running against Finance Minister Joe Oliver, argues that the top NDP priority is to balance the federal budget.

“There’s no doubt that the first thing that has to be done is to bring the budget back into balance,” Thompson says.

No. The first thing that has to be done is to put the Canadian economy on a path for stronger growth and better jobs at a time of mediocre economic performance and too many Canadians unemployed or underemployed.

It’s easier to deal with a DAVID deficit with a healthier econCRANE omy.

But when the economy is weak, business is under-investing because of weak demand in the economy, and too many Canadians have insecure jobs, it makes no sense to make balancing the budget the first priority.

While there is no budging the Conservatives since their goal is to shrink government and reduce is role in delivering growth and jobs, the NDP stance is puzzling. NDP goals are much different — as leader Thomas Mulcair has said, they include quality public services and less inequality. But stronger growth is fundamental and while, as Mulcair and Thompson have said, money can be found by changing spending priorities, these would be budget-neutral moves.

A stronger economy needs more spending and this implies a budget deficit for the next couple of years.

For their part, while Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has chastised the Conservatives for running deficits in recent years, the Liberals are now suggesting this would not be an immediate priority. “We are committed to a balanced budget, but how long it takes to get there will depend on the size of the mess Mr. Harper left behind.”

In fact, if either the NDP or the Liberals form the next government, one of their first acts should be to repeal the balanced budget legislation passed by the Conservative majority in June.

This draconian legislation was designed to put any future government in a fiscal straitjacket and to force a continuing reduction in the role of government.

It was 19th century economic thinking that has no place in a 21st century economy.

For their part, the Conservatives have several misguided views about public policy and the role of government. One is that a low-tax regime, along with deregulation, is the key source of economic growth, with bold business executives held back from growth and job-generating investments and innovations by

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Secret ballots should be mandatory when forming union

BY CHARLES LAMMAM AND HUGH MACINTYRE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Pilots at WestJet recently voted to reject union representation, sparking renewed interest in labour relations laws in Canada.

The vote means WestJet pilots will remain nonunion, in contrast to their counterparts at Air Canada where, in 2012, the airline became mired in labour disputes that ultimately hurt its bottom line.

But more importantly, the vote is one of the first high-profile drives to form a union under new federal rules requiring workers in federally regulated industries (including transportation and telecommunications) to use secret ballots.

Certifying a union is generally a two-step process.

In the first step, the union must obtain the support of a minimum percentage of workers by signing them up as union members (or more rarely, having workers sign a petition). The second step is a certification vote.

Under the old federal rules, union certification was put to a secret ballot vote if the union signed up 35 per cent of workers for membership.

A union could have bypassed a secret ballot vote and automatically certified if they signed up a sufficient percentage of workers (50 per cent plus one).

Under the new rules, union representation must always be approved or rejected by workers anonymously via secret ballot, protecting them from any

undue pressure.

The new rules apply to federally regulated industries; the provinces have their own set of labour relations laws regulating industries within their jurisdiction (including manufacturing and construction).

Although mandatory secret ballot voting is increasingly the norm in Canada, a number of provinces — Quebec, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island — still do not provide workers with the protection that comes with requiring unions to be certified by an anonymous vote. (In Ontario, the construction industry remains the only industry where certification by secret ballot vote is not mandatory.)

Implementing a mandatory secret ballot in these provinces would give workers in provincially regulated industries the same right to vote anonymously on union certification as is now enjoyed by workers in federal industries and in other provinces.

It’s crucial that union representation be approved via secret ballot because certification may otherwise not reflect the true desire of the majority of voting workers. Without the anonymity of secret ballots, union organizers can pressure workers into signing up for unions.

Any dissension or disagreement can become confrontational, especially in cases where unionization is controversial.

Even without outside pressure, some workers may be uncomfortable publicly voicing their opinions in the absence of secret ballot voting.

A mandatory secret ballot vote also provides an

opportunity for more debate and discussion about the benefits and drawbacks of union representation, helping workers make a more informed decision.

Interestingly, workers are less likely to choose unions when there’s no automatic certification and when decisions are made through secret ballot voting.

Academic research has shown that union drives are more often successful if they can be automatically certified without a vote. For example, one study found that union-drive success rates fell by 19 percentage points after mandatory voting was introduced in British Columbia. Another Canadian study found that, between 1978 and 1996, union-drive success rates were approximately nine percentage points higher in provinces with automatic certification.

The mandatory secret ballot vote at WestJet allowed the pilots to reject union representation under the same protection that Canadians enjoy when electing their politicians. It’s time that workers in every province are guaranteed the same right to vote for — or against — union certification in a secret ballot.

Charles Lammam is director of fiscal studies and Hugh MacIntyre is a policy analyst at the Fraser Institute. They are co-authors of Labour Relations Laws in Canada and the United States: An Empirical Comparison. This column was supplied by Troy Media (troymedia.com).

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Gunman a ‘professional victim’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bodies of 71 migrants taken to morgue

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NICKELSDORF, Austria — An overpowering stench of death came from the truck on Austria’s border with Hungary as workers unloaded the bodies of some of the 71 migrants who perished trapped inside the vehicle they hoped would take them to a better life.

Found Thursday on the main Austrian highway leading to Hungary, the truck containing the victims’ corpses was towed to a cooled border warehouse before police and forensic experts began the grisly work of unloading the partially decomposed bodies before shipping them to a Vienna morgue for autopsies.

On Friday, workers continued the work, wearing gloves and respirators as they hefted plastic body bags into coffins neatly lined up on the warehouse ramp. One after another, five trucks backed up to be loaded.

Moments after the last truck left in the direction of Vienna, about a dozen migrants scurried across a patch of the four-lane highway connecting the Hungarian capital, Budapest to Vienna.

They said they were Kurds from Syria and Iraq.

Two were women carrying small babies. All seemed exhausted.

No, they said: they hadn’t heard about the deaths.

As the trucks sped toward Vienna, police in Austria and Hungary worked to trace the perpetrators, announcing the arrests of several suspects.

Austrian police said three people had been arrested while their Hungarian counterparts said four were in detention. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy.

This year has seen tens of thousands of people risking everything to seek a better life or refuge in wealthy European countries. At least 2,500 have died, mostly at sea.

Many now travel from Greece through the Balkans and Hungary to other countries in the European Union, sometimes paying smugglers to drive them, but the discovery of the bodies in the truck showed there is no truly safe path.

In Austria, officials said they are still investigating but believe the migrants suffocated. Investigators found a Syrian travel document, indicating that at least some of the dead were refugees fleeing violence in Syria.

The 71 included eight women and four children, the youngest a girl between 1 and 2 years old, the others boys aged 8 to 10.

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People attend a candlelight vigil in front of the WDBJ-TV station in Roanoke, Va., Thursday, a day after reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward from the station were killed during a live broadcast. fore he was hired there and he had received positive recommendations.

Flanagan’s hair-trigger temper became evident at least 15 years ago at WTWC-TV in Tallahassee, Florida, said Don Shafer, who hired him there in 1999. Shafer recalled Flanagan as a good reporter and a “clever, funny guy” — but he also had conflicts

with co-workers “to the point where he was threatening people.”

“Had some physical confrontations with a couple of people, and at one point became such a distraction that we finally had to terminate him,” said Shafer, now news director with XETV in San Diego.

Extremists reportedly kill 28 in attack on remote villages BAUCHI, Nigeria — Boko Haram extremists killed 28 people during attacks on remote villages in northeast Nigeria, members of a civilian defence group said on Friday.

Twenty-four people were killed in an attack Tuesday night in Marfunudi, said resident Abubakar Jojo. The town is roughly 80 km from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.

Jojo said the Islamic extremists slit the throats of many of the victims.

Witnesses said the extremists also attacked the village of Kafa on Thursday, killing four people.

Sadiq Kaka, a member of a defence group, said the bodies were thrown into a river.

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ROANOKE, Va. — Vester Flanagan constantly saw himself as the target in his conflicts with WDBJ-TV colleagues, leading his former boss to describe him as a “professional victim.”

When the station tried to persuade Flanagan to get along better with his co-workers, he accused them of discrimination.

“He was victimized by everything and everyone and could never quite grasp the fact that he was the common denominator in all of these really sometimes serious interpersonal conflicts that he had with people,” said Dan Dennison, the former news director at WDBJ in Virginia.

Flanagan killed two of his former colleagues on Wednesday during a live broadcast and later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

On the day he was fired in 2013, Flanagan pressed a wooden cross into Dennison’s hand and said, “You’ll need this,” as two police officers escorted him out. Flanagan’s departure was filmed by Adam Ward, the cameraman who was killed along with reporter Alison Parker.

Parker and Ward died of gunshot wounds to the head and body, the medical examiner’s office said Friday. The woman Parker was interviewing, Vicki Gardner, was shot in the back and was in good condition at a hospital.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe met privately Friday with grieving station employees to share his condolences.

The 50 or so workers have been described as a closeknit group, and they have continued reporting on their slain colleagues in the face of the tragedy.

“The courage and determination they showed is truly, truly extraordinary,” McAuliffe said outside the station.

He talked about his support for universal background checks for gun purchases and said “there are too many guns in America and there are clearly too many guns in the wrong hands.” But McAuliffe, himself a gun owner, also said Flanagan had passed a background check.

Dennison, the former news director, said WDBJ had no idea of Flanagan’s personal shortcomings be-

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ABOVE: The Remington Carriage Museum, in Cardston, houses the largest collection of horse-drawn transportation in the North America. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fascinating museum.

BELOW: Apparently, the original female lead in the movie King Kong, Fay Wray, was from Cardston. Who knew? site trout ponds for guests and the kids practised fly fishing there and on the rivers inside the park. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a Montana fishing licence to fish at private ponds or inside the national park.

Unfortunately, after the first night we had to stay outside the park. We found a room that could accommodate five people at the Hampton Inn in the city of Kalispell, Mont., about 40 minutes from West Glacier. We stayed there for two nights and the kids did some back-to-school clothes shopping in the city and we made daytrips into the national park and enjoyed the incredible scenery of the Montana Rockies.

We lucked out on our last night and found a nice cabin through the Dancing Bears Inn at East Glacier.

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TRAVEL: Life got in the way of planning This summer was an exception. I meant to plan a summer vacation but life got in the way.

Before I knew it, summer was in full swing and my kids were disappointed that we had no travel plans during their summer school break.

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We found one room for one night at the Cobblestone Manor, a bed and breakfast in a small Southern Alberta town about 25 minutes east of the park.

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Phase 1 trip report The next day we were able to book a loft suite at the Glacier Suites in Waterton for two nights and we spent two amazing days exploring the park.

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Our first night in Cardston turned out to be more fun than we anticipated. Cobblestone Manor is within walking distance of Cardstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main attraction, the Remington Carriage Museum. After checking in, we walked to the museum and the girls petted the horses and fed them some grass.

Inside the museum, we saw hundreds of carriages and later that night we went to the Carriage Theatre to watch a live performance of the musical Catch me if You Can.

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Phase 2 trip report We loved West Glacier.

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The dock at Cushing Island, Maine, is a diminutive rocky isle that’s pleasantly underdeveloped, for a relaxing place to find your own fun.

Not that I’m complaining. The muchballyhooed version at the touristbesieged Portland Lobster Co. down on the wharf wasn’t cheap — market price was $17 the day I was there — but the simple New England-style hot dog bun was amply filled with lobster.

Lightly dressed with melted butter, the meat was cradled in a single lettuce leaf. The lobster was sweet and juicy, with a hint of the deep, but the sandwich lacked. The roll needed butter and further toasting, and I’ve always preferred chefs who add a touch — a dash of mayo, maybe a tad of tarragon, perhaps some finely diced celery for crunch. Purists, you can shoot me now.

The next morning, back on Cushing, we strolled over to the World War II-era concrete observation tower in the northeastern corner of the island known as Whitehead.

The imposing structure rises out of the dense forest, a forgotten monolith of industrial gray. You climb four steep sets of steps and three sharply angled ladders to get to the top floor, but it’s worth it. Holding my son up to the seaside window slit, we had a gorgeous view of Ram Island Lighthouse off to our right. Above us and below us was dusky baby blue — it looked as if the ocean was melting into a sky streaked with ribbons of cloud.

Just a short ways away is what’s left of Fort Levett, built in the late 19th century and manned during both world wars when Americans feared a coastal attack.

The concrete battlements are covered in lichen and crawling with bramble but still generally intact. We walked down one of its tunnels, its ceiling beaded with condensation, to one of the former gun emplacements, a large roofed room with an open front.

The weaponry is long gone, and the view of the sea is obscured with overgrowth. Now the island’s residents use the space to store a few small boats that have all seen better days.

This eastern side of Cushing is heavily wooded, but there are plenty of trails wending their way through the trees and along the rocky shoreline.

I’ve been coming to the island for sporadic summer vacations since I was a teenager, so I know the pathways pretty well. They’re perfect for relaxing runs, but they’re impassible if you’re pushing a stroller, so we skipped them this time.

Instead, we walked over to Big Beach, on the southern end of the island. There’s plenty of space here for sunbathing or playing in the sand, and the water is refreshingly cold. I dived in but didn’t linger. I wanted to head back to the house, find a comfortable nook and jump into the novel I was reading.

For me, it’s not a successful summer vacation unless I enjoy a book or two.

It’s even nicer when I can do that with an island draft keeping me cool and nothing but the sounds of the sea in the background.

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PORTLAND, Maine — Staring down through the light jade Atlantic Ocean at its rippled sandy bottom, I could see a multitude of hermit crabs trekking across the miniature dunes. They looked like nomads carrying their domed homes on undersea journeys.

After hesitating for a moment — could they pinch me? — I plunged my hand into the chilly waters and gingerly plucked one up.

Bringing it out of the depths, I opened my hand so the dark shell rolled to the center of my palm. It was smaller than I’d thought; the ocean had magnified its size. A moment later, its beady eyes popped out, peering around to get a sense of its new surroundings. It didn’t end up nipping me, though its tiny legs tickled when they curled out of the shell to find footing.

“Whoa,” said my 2-year-old son, Zephyr, his eyes bright with curiosity.

“Want to hold it?” I asked, extending my hand.

He shook his head, furrowing his brow. “No, Poppa.”

However, he didn’t want me to put it back into the ocean. So I filled his red plastic pail with water and some slick strands of seaweed and gently deposited the hermit crab in it so Zephyr could examine it from a safe distance.

Then I returned to the shallows to find more crustaceans to add to my son’s makeshift aquarium.

It was our first morning of our summer vacation, an intensely sunny late July day mellowed by the briny breeze.

Our family was at Little Beach, on the northwest shore of Cushing Island, looking across Casco Bay at the wharfs and docks of Portland, Maine, about three miles away. There are so many islands here that explorers dubbed them the Calendar Islands, believing there was one for every day of the year.

However, it turned out there are only 136, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Coast Survey.

They vary in size from blink-andyou’ll-miss-it blips to larger landmasses, such as Peaks Island a mile to the north, with year-round communities.

Casco Bay Lines services the bigger islands, but most are accessible only by private boat.

A separate ferry service runs intermittently out to Cushing Island from Long Wharf, in Portland, or a water taxi can be rented.

The roughly triangular Cushing is only a mile and a quarter wide. The rocky isle is well forested, pleasantly underdeveloped and mostly inhabited solely for the summer season. Because there are no hotels on the island and the houses here are privately owned, most visitors must rent a property from one of the homeowners. We stayed in a cottage owned by relatives.

Although several modest roads loop across the small isle for the few vehicles on hand to help transport large goods and equipment, you generally walk everywhere. There are no stores, either, so all your groceries and other goods must be brought over from the mainland.

Generally, Cushing is the kind of place where you come to relax, enjoy the quiet and make your own fun. If you feel the need for a little excitement, you can head into Portland.

After spending the morning at Little Beach, where the sea air sharpened our appetites, we took a private boat into town for lunch at Central Provisions. Located a block away from the docks in the Old Port neighborhood, it’s a bi-level eatery/bar where chefowner Chris Gould specializes in sophisticated small plates.

Mustard-kissed tuna crudo dressed with a hint of sesame oil included micro matchsticks of radish and crispy shallots for crunch. A slate plate bore richer-than-rich lobster hush puppies with saffron aioli.

The raw-beef salad was enlivened with cilantro and plenty of Sriracha.

And a radiant red layer of rhubarb gelee topped the delicious foie gras parfait, which had the texture and sweetness of creme brulee and could have been dessert.

To perk up afterwards, I stopped in at Arabica Coffee (this one on Commercial Street) by the waterfront. The high-ceilinged, warehouse-style space with hardwood floors echoed with Beach Boys classics. Although I normally pass on flavored beverages, I couldn’t resist an iced latte amped up with real maple syrup. The dark sweetness complemented the dark roast without turning the whole drink into a liquid sugar bomb.

There was also a lobster roll on my itinerary, since eating one is a practically a duty when you’re in Maine.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR First and foremost, Ivan Nikolishin is a team player.

While he will most certainly play in the Red Deer Rebels group of top six forwards this season and most likely be a point-per-game contributor or more, the 19-year-old Russian doesn’t like to overplay his importance to his new team.

In fact, he’s absolutely humble when discussing — or not discussing — any personal goals he may set for himself heading into the 2015-16 campaign, which will end with the Rebels hosting the Memorial Cup tournament in May. “I don’t care about myself, it’s all about the team,” said the five-footnine, 170-pound centre, acquired from the Everett Silvertips in May in exchange for a third-round bantam pick and a conditional fourth-rounder. “I want the team to win the WHL and then the Memorial Cup. That’s all I think about. I don’t care if I get zero points or if I get 100. It doesn’t matter at all.”

Based on his statistics — 37 goals and 94 assists in 160 games — during his two seasons with the ‘Tips, Nikolishin comes across as a passer moreso than a shooter. But that, evidently, is not the case.

“I don’t really like to describe myself (as a player),” he said following Friday’s final practice session of the Rebels training camp. “I would really rather let the coaches do that, or my teammates.

“I do like setting up goals, but I do like to score goals. When I see a chance to pass, I pass. When I see a shot, I shoot.”

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is counting on Nikolishin to produce at a respectable rate and beyond.

“I look at him as being a guy who can create some offence for us,” said Sutter. “He’s a skilled player, he knows how to play the game.

“He’s a guy who is creative and very good on the power play. That’s one of the reasons why we got him — to help out on the power play. Last season it wasn’t great and it has to be better for us.”

Nikolishin was born in the United States while his father, Andrei, was in the midst of a nine-year NHL career that included stops in Hartford, Washington, Chicago and Denver. The family relocated to Russia when Ivan was six years of age and he has represented the country internationally at the under-17, under-18 and under-20 levels.

Nikolishin has a good command of the English language, which he credits to his time in Everett.

“I practised learning the language for two years in Everett, the boys helped me out a lot. That’s how I learned a little bit of English,” he said.

The talented forward, whose father now coaches in the Kontinental Hockey League, was recently approached by more than one Russian team regarding the possibility of playing this season in his home country. But the trade to Red Deer sealed his decision to remain in the WHL. “There was teams from Russia trying to get me back there, but I said two years ago when I came to North America that my goal is to make the NHL, so I’m trying any way I can to get there.

“It doesn’t matter how, it’s my goal to get there and I think there’s more chances to get there from the WHL. About the trade, it’s hockey, you never know where you’re going to be tomor-

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Forward Ivan Nikolishin (blue) controls the puck during a three-on-three game during Red Deer Rebels training camp on Friday afternoon at the Enmax Centrium. The 19-year-old forward is looking to do anything he can to help the Rebels win the Memorial Cup this season. row. I got traded, but it’s OK. I got traded to a team that’s hosting the Memorial Cup, which is a really big bonus.

Everything is good. I’m happy to be here.”

The Rebels training camp resumes today with the main camp players re-

turning to the Centrium ice at 11 a.m.

The rookies — 15- and 16-year-olds — register today and hit the ice for the first time Sunday and training camp concludes with the Black and White Game Wednesday at 7 p.m. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Franklin leads Eskimos over Argonauts

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Eskimos 38 Argonauts 15 EDMONTON — The Edmonton Eskimos may have finally found a quarterback who can fill Mike Reilly’s shoes until he returns from injury.

Rookie quarterback James Franklin threw a touchdown and ran in another as the Eskimos beat the Toronto Argonauts 38-15 on Friday.

The win moved the Eskimos (6-3) back into a first place tie in the CFL’s West Division with the Calgary Stampeders. Edmonton was coming off a 49-20 loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats last week.

“It’s a win,” said Franklin, who was making his first career CFL start. “The guys were doing a great job catching the ball and Kendial (Lawrence) did a pretty good job sparking us with that punt return. I was very fortunate things were going well on all sides of the ball in my first start.

“It definitely helped me out. It made me feel a lot more comfortable out there.”

Eskimos coach Chris Jones said Franklin did everything required of him.

“I thought he did a real nice job getting us in and out of the huddle, getting our plays called and executing,” said Jones. “When he had to get out and run, he did that in a good manner and protected the football.

“He’s a good quarterback.”

Toronto saw a three-game winning streak snapped and fell to 6-3 on the season.

The Argos have come from behind in every victory this season, including four wins where they trailed heading into the fourth quarter.

“We started bad, but battled back

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Toronto Argonauts A.J. Jefferson (24) tackles Edmonton Eskimos Derel Walker (87) during second half action in Edmonton, on Friday. into it like we have most of the season and got to within two points,” said Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich.

“We have to own this loss just like we own the wins. I thought we got outcoached, outplayed on offence, defence and special teams. That’s generally not a good combination.”

Reilly, Edmonton’s regular No. 1 quarterback, has been out since Week 1 after suffering a knee injury against Toronto. Franklin, starting in place of Matt Nichols, engineered a 92-yard opening drive before capping it off by eluding a tackle and scrambling 18 yards into the end zone for an early 7-0

lead.

Franklin hit Derel Walker with a 53-yard pass, setting up a 23-yard Grant Shaw field goal on Edmonton’s next drive.

Toronto got on the scoreboard midway through the second quarter, getting a single on a missed Swayze Waters field-goal attempt. The Eskimos responded with a punt single.

The Argos put together a late drive culminating in a one-yard TD plunge by backup quarterback Adrian McPherson to make it 11-8 at the half.

Edmonton started the third quarter with a 21-yard Shaw field goal.

Franklin completed a 62-yard pass to Walker midway through the third, resulting in another Shaw field goal and a 17-8 Eskimos lead.

Toronto closed the gap to two points late in the third quarter after a controversial pass interference call led to a one-yard touchdown pass from McPherson to Vidal Hazelton.

The Eskimos got a huge boost with just over 10 minutes to play when Lawrence exploded through coverage for a 65-yard punt return touchdown.

“That was certainly a turning point,” said Milanovich.

“We’ve been great on punt coverage all year. I’m not sure exactly what happened there.”

Edmonton made it 31-15 with five minutes to play when Franklin found Walker for an eight-yard TD pass.

The Esks put the game away for good when Aaron Grymes picked off a Trevor Harris pass and took it back 54 yards, setting up a nine-yard quarterback keep by third-stringer Jordan Lynch.

Both teams are off until Labour Day on Sept. 7 when the Argos travel to Hamilton and the Eskimos head south to Calgary to face the Stampeders.

Blue Jays use long ball to take down Tigers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 5 Tigers 3 TORONTO — Roberto Osuna fell behind 3-0 to the first batter he faced on Friday night.

After that, he had no trouble.

The Blue Jays’ rookie closer bounced back with three straight strikes, then promptly struck out the next two hitters, en route to his 16th save of the season and a 5-3 win over the Detroit Tigers.

Osuna touched 97 miles per hour on the radar gun while striking out the Tigers’ five-, six-, and seven-hole batters — J.D. Martinez, Nick Castellanos, and James McCann.

While the 20-year-old is new to his big-league gig, his teammates have been impressed with his composure on the mound.

“It feels like the kid’s got a few years in that (closer’s) role all ready,” said Josh Donaldson, who hit a home

run in the victory. “Three-0 to the first hitter right there, kind of all over the place and he’s able to get come back — boom, boom, boom — get the strikeout on Martinez. ... He did a great job.”

Troy Tulowitzki and Donaldson hit back-to-back homers, the eighth time Toronto’s done that this season, while Jose Bautista also went deep for the Blue Jays (72-56). Edwin Encarnacion extended his hit streak to 23 games while driving in a run.

R.A. Dickey (9-10) went 6 2/3 innings, allowing three runs on six hits while fanning six. Mark Lowe got out of the seventh with a strikeout to former Blue Jay Rajai Davis and Aaron Sanchez needed just five pitches in the eighth before Osuna took care of the rest.

“Oh he’s so good,” Dickey said of Osuna. “Sanchez too. Sanchez faced the heart of the order, he came in and had a really clean, quick inning.

“I always like watching relievers come in after me because the offence has seen so many knuckleballs all night long. When you’ve got guys

out there throwing 95, 96, it just compounds the velocity because it’s so much of a difference.”

Dickey threw 94 pitches, 60 for strikes, and cruised through much of the game.

“I was on a good roll there in the middle,” he said. “I was able to get our team back in the dugout quickly after we scored runs which is always big.”

Defence was also key for Toronto, which remained 1 1/5 games up on the Yankees for first place in the American League East after New York’s victory over the Atlanta Braves.

Tulowitzki made a spectacular offbalance, jumping throw to get Ian Kinsler out at first base in the eighth inning. Ryan Goins made a back-handed snag and quick toss to first to get Victor Martinez out in the fourth.

“That play Tulo made, it doesn’t get any better than that,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “And Goins, I don’t think that surprised anyone. He’s been as good as any second baseman you’re going to find out there.”

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Kinsler and former Toronto centrefielder Anthony Gose hit homers for the Tigers (60-68).

Former Blue Jays pitching prospect Matt Boyd (1-5), who was part of the deal that sent David Price to Toronto, took the loss after giving up five runs over six innings. The 24-year-old lefthander also walked three and struck out four.

Kinsler launched the first pitch he saw from Dickey over the left-field wall in the first inning but the Blue Jays got the run back in the bottom of the frame when Encarnacion plated Bautista on a double to centre-field.

Tulowitzki’s one-out solo shot gave Toronto the lead in the third, and Donaldson followed with his 35th homer of the year, a monster blast that hit the fifth-deck at Rogers Centre.

“I knew I hit it well,” Donaldson said. “I didn’t know if it was going to stay fair or not but it was one of those things where I got a pitch in a spot that I was looking for and was able to get the bat there.”

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Cup winning coach Arbour dies at 82

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS As coach of the 1980s New York Islanders dynasty, Al Arbour commanded immediate respect from his players and contemporaries around the NHL. “Al used to say that the negative energy that you’re feeling, turn it into a positive energy,” Hall of Fame defenceman Denis Potvin said. “That has never left me, and I know many of my teammates must feel the very same way because he just never felt than anything was insurmountable.”

Arbour led the Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cups, and on Friday the hockey community remembered him for his temperament and incredible success after his death at the age of 82 following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease and dementia.

Potvin said Arbour left the Islanders “feeling like champions.” That team, led by Potvin, Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier, captured the Cup in 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983 and won an NHL-record 19 straight playoff series through 1984.

No team has won even three straight titles since.

Arbour’s 782 regular-season victories are the second most in league history behind only Scotty Bowman, who he played for with the St. Louis Blues.

“He was thorough,” Bowman said by phone Friday. “He had experience on good teams, he knew what it took to win. He was a no-nonsense guy. He laid down a plan, and you had to execute it.”

Arbour took the expansion Islanders to the playoffs in just their third year of existence and won the Cup in their eighth, his seventh behind the bench. He made 15 playoff appearances and coached a total of 1,500 games for New York, hitting the milestone when he came out of retirement for one final game in 2007 at the request of Ted Nolan.

“Al will always be remembered as one of, if not, the greatest coaches ever to stand behind a bench in the history of the National Hockey League,” Islanders general manager Garth Snow said in a statement released by the team.

“From his innovative coaching methods, to his humble way of life away from the game, Al is one of the reasons the New York Islanders are a

historic franchise.”

Arbour, who also coached the Blues for parts of three seasons, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a builder in 1996. Bill Torrey, the GM of the 1980s Islanders dynasty, said Arbour treated his players like family and prized winning above everything else in the sport.

“He never doubted the direction we were going in and I think the players could see this wasn’t just words, this was something that this man believed deeply,” Torrey said. “And that makes it a little bit easier to follow.”

Former Islanders forward Ray Ferraro remembered Arbour as much as a person as a winning coach and has fond memories of New York’s run past Bowman’s Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1993 playoffs.

“He was very firm and very demanding, but he was so incredibly fair that I don’t know how you could want to play for anyone else,” Ferraro said by phone. “He never panicked, was always sure but always sure without being a dictator. ... Al never tried to be the man. He just was.”

Sutter has fond memories of first NHL coach

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Brent Sutter will forever be grateful that Al Arbour was his first NHL coach.

The Red Deer Rebels owner/president/GM and head coach on Friday spoke fondly about his former New York Islanders bench boss, who died earlier in the day at the age of 82.

“It’s a tough day, a sad day,” said Sutter. “He touched every player that he coached. For me, personally, my (NHL) career wouldn’t have been what it was if it wasn’t for Al Arbour.”

Arbour coached the Islanders for 19 seasons. The club won four consecutive Stanley Cups from 1980 to ‘83, with Sutter experiencing the last two after joining the club early in the ‘8182 season.

The legendary coach had a gift for pushing all the right buttons as basically a one-man show.

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In this May 17, 1983 photo, New York Islanders coach Al Arbour celebrates in the locker room as he holds the Stanley Cup after the Islanders won their fourth cup in a row, beating the Edmonton Oilers 4-2 to sweep the series at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. Arbour, who ranks as the NHL’s second-most winningest coach, has died Friday. He was 82.

“He just had a great feel for the room and for the game,” said Sutter.

“When you think about it, back in that day when we won Stanley Cups in the early ‘80s, there was only one coach on the bench. He ran the forwards and the defence, but he had just such a great pulse for it.

“I was very fortunate to have him as my coach, without a doubt he’s the best coach that I’ve every had as far as the way that he respected players, the way he talked to players and his mannerisms around players. He knew when to be strict and when not to be, but he never showed any disrespect to individuals.”

Arbour’s influence has remained with Sutter, whose playing career ended in 1998.

“Even after I was done playing, from a coaching perspective . . . I learned so much from him. Al was my mentor, a guy I looked up to when I came into the National Hockey League. He was like a father to all the players, he was someone who was always there for you.”

Sutter eventually became the Islanders captain and appreciated the confidence that Arbour showed in

him.

“He had a good feel for letting you handle the room, and yet when he felt he needed to step in, he did,” said Sutter. “ But he had a lot of trust in myself as the captain.”

The Islanders, during their glory years, also featured the likes of future Hall of Fame inductees Denis Potvin, Billy Smith, Bryan Trottier and Mike Bossy, yet Arbour didn’t show any preference to the more decorated players.

“He was always there for you and he kept everybody grounded,” Sutter recalled. “During the years when the Islanders were winning Cups they had some pretty high-profile players, but everyone parked his ego at the door, and if he didn’t Al made sure he did.

He just knew how to handle everybody.

“Al was my mentor, the most respected man that I know in the game.

He was someone who was more than just a coach. He was a person who cared very deeply for his players and never showed a lack of respect toward anyone. He was an amazing man.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Bombers give Marve start against Stamps WINNIPEG — Robert Marve is feeling more pumped now that he’s not on borrowed time.

Blue Bombers head coach Mike O’Shea said this week the former thirdstring quarterback will get his second pro start when Calgary visits on Saturday — and be the guy for the foreseeable future.

“It’s nice when you hear that from the boss man,” Marve said Friday after the team’s walk-through practice.

“But more than anything, I’ve been here for a year and a half. I want to play well for my teammates, I want to play well for the city and getting some wins can get some movement going towards the playoffs.”

Marve is replacing starter Drew Willy, who suffered a serious knee injury Aug. 9 and is out six to eight weeks.

O’Shea gave Marve his first start the following week over backup Brian Brohm, but the debut was a 27-20 home loss to Toronto.

The Bombers (3-5) take on the Stampeders having lost two in a row and four of their last five games.

The Stampeders (6-2) are on a threegame win streak and lead the CFL West Division.

Winnipeg is coming off a bye week and Marve, 26, stayed in the city to go over film and the playbook with the coaches.

“I thought I played well looking back at the film,” Marve said. “You got to play better to win games and I’m not the one to have any type of excuses.”

He said he now knows what it’s like to play all four quarters and that should benefit him in trying to be more consistent.

His confidence has been infectious for his teammates, who noticed a difference in Marve this week.

“I think it’s just that confidence knowing you’re going to be the guy and having a full week to prepare,” Bombers receiver Clarence Denmark said.

He likes Marve’s demeanour in the huddle.

“He’s loose. He always plays loose and he’s always talking to the guys, keeping us in the game,” Denmark said.

“And I just love that confidence in a quarterback.”

Winnipeg has five changes to its roster from the loss to the Argonauts, most notable another switch on its offensive line. Right tackle Jace Daniels is injured and will be replaced by Patrick Neufeld.

The offensive line may also be without veteran centre Dominic Picard, who’s seeing doctors this week because of an upper-body injury. He’ll be a game-time decision, O’Shea said. His replacement would be Matthias Goossen, the second-overall pick in the 2014 CFL draft.

Former Stamps linebacker Jasper Simmons, who was cut last week and picked up by Winnipeg, won’t dress for the game.

Calgary is making four changes, including losing defensive lineman Charleston Hughes (back), who’s tied for the league lead in sacks with six.

Stampeders receiver Eric Rogers has caught touchdown passes in six straight games, the first time for such as a string since Weston Dressler in 2012.

Bombers defensive back Bruce Johnson could spend some time covering the slotback, who has seven TDs overall and a league-high 660 receiving

Watson takes lead at Barclays, Spieth sent packing early

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EDISON, N.J. — Jordan Spieth lost out on a chance to play the weekend at The Barclays.

He also lost his No. 1 ranking.

Bubba Watson, momentarily distracted by a rare warning for taking too long to play a shot, recovered with a birdie on the 18th hole at Plainfield Country Club for a 2-under 68 and a one-shot lead going into the weekend at the opening FedEx Cup playoff event.

On an otherwise sleepy afternoon at a course where no one could get some separation, two peculiar moments stood out — a bad time for Watson, bad golf from Spieth.

Trying to rally to make the cut, Spieth hit into a hazard on the 12th hole, and a bogey later became a double bogey when he was penalized one shot for stepping on his ball during the search.

He had a 73, the first time since the Tour Championship last year that he had consecutive rounds over par.

He missed the cut by five shots. That means Rory McIlroy, who isn’t playing

this week, returns to No. 1.

“I’ve reached that peak already and I know it’s going to be close enough to where if I just get the job done next week, I’ll be back in that ranking,” Spieth said. “But again, that ranking, it’s great once you reach it but it’s not something that I’m going to live or die on each week.”

McIlroy becomes the 14th player since the world ranking began in 1986 to get to No. 1 without playing that week.

Watson is in good shape through 36 holes to claim his own No. 1 ranking — a victory would move him to the top of the FedEx Cup. Much like the world ranking right now, that figures to change by the week.

Ultimately, what matters to Watson, Spieth and others is winning the Tour Championship to capture the $10 million bonus.

Halfway through this event, no telling what else will happen over the next two days.

PGA Tour rookie Justin Thomas had a few late bogeys for a 69 and shrugged when asked if he was happy with his score. He was seven shots back.

yards off 39 catches heading into this week’s CFL games.

“We respect each and every receiver,” Johnson said. “We’re going to go

out there and play our game and make him adjust to what we have to do instead of us adjusting to what he has to do.

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Local Sports

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Toronto 72 56 .563 New York 70 57 .551 Baltimore 63 65 .492 Tampa Bay 63 65 .492 Boston 59 69 .461

GB — 1 1/2 9 9 13

Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chicago Detroit

Central Division W L Pct 79 49 .617 66 62 .516 61 66 .480 60 67 .472 60 68 .469

GB — 13 17 1/2 18 1/2 19

Houston Texas Los Angeles Seattle Oakland

West Division W L Pct 71 58 .550 66 61 .520 65 63 .508 60 69 .465 55 74 .426

GB — 4 5 1/2 11 16

Thursday’s Games L.A. Angels 2, Detroit 0 Texas 4, Toronto 1 Kansas City 5, Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 4 Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle 2 Friday’s Games Toronto 5, Detroit 3 Boston 6, N.Y. Mets 4, 10 innings Kansas City 3, Tampa Bay 2 Cleveland 3, L.A. Angels 1 N.Y. Yankees 15, Atlanta 4 Texas 4, Baltimore 1 Minnesota 3, Houston 0 Seattle 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Arizona 6, Oakland 4 Saturday’s Games Detroit (Farmer 0-2) at Toronto (Hutchison 12-2), 11:07 a.m.

Boston (J.Kelly 7-6) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 12-6), 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Medlen 2-0) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 6-6), 4:10 p.m.

Houston (Fiers 1-0) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 6-7), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 12-10) at Cleveland (Kluber 8-13), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Severino 1-2) at Atlanta (Wisler 5-4), 5:10 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 5-3) at Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 8-10), 5:10 p.m.

Baltimore (U.Jimenez 9-8) at Texas (M.Perez 1-3), 6:05 p.m.

Oakland (Doubront 1-1) at Arizona (Chacin 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Detroit at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Boston at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 11:10 a.m.

L.A. Angels at Cleveland, 11:10 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

Houston at Minnesota, 12:10 p.m.

Seattle at Chicago White Sox, 12:10 p.m.

Baltimore at Texas, 1:05 p.m.

Oakland at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

Milwaukee 5, Cincinnati 0 Arizona 6, Oakland 4 Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, late St. Louis at San Francisco, late

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Texas at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Kipnis Cle 111 441 73 143 .324 Brantley Cle 114 441 55 141 .320 NCruz Sea 126 489 76 155 .317 Bogaerts Bos 123 478 58 151 .316 Fielder Tex 123 479 58 151 .315 LCain KC 113 442 78 138 .312 Altuve Hou 121 494 64 153 .310 Hosmer KC 125 473 78 146 .309 Kinsler Det 126 509 83 156 .306 JIglesias Det 115 399 42 120 .301 Home Runs NCruz, Seattle, 39; CDavis, Baltimore, 35; Donaldson, Toronto, 35; JMartinez, Detroit, 34; Pujols, Los Angeles, 34; Trout, Los Angeles, 33; Bautista, Toronto, 31; Teixeira, New York, 31.

Runs Batted In Donaldson, Toronto, 102; CDavis, Baltimore, 92; KMorales, Kansas City, 89; Bautista, Toronto, 88; JMartinez, Detroit, 87; NCruz, Seattle, 82; Encarnacion, Toronto, 81.

Pitching Keuchel, Houston, 15-6; FHernandez, Seattle, 15-8; Lewis, Texas, 14-6; McHugh, Houston, 14-7; Eovaldi, New York, 13-2; Price, Toronto, 13-4; Buehrle, Toronto, 13-6.

New York Washington Atlanta Miami Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 71 57 .555 64 63 .504 54 74 .422 52 77 .403 51 78 .395

GB — 6 1/2 17 19 1/2 20 1/2

St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati

Central Division W L Pct 82 45 .646 78 49 .614 73 53 .579 54 74 .422 52 75 .409

GB — 4 8 1/2 28 1/2 30

West Division W L Pct 70 56 .556 68 59 .535 63 65 .492 62 66 .484 51 75 .405

GB — 2 1/2 8 9 19

Los Angeles San Francisco Arizona San Diego Colorado

Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers 1, Cincinnati 0 San Francisco 9, Chicago Cubs 1 N.Y. Mets 9, Philadelphia 5, 13 innings Washington 4, San Diego 2 Pittsburgh 2, Miami 1 St. Louis 5, Arizona 3 Friday’s Games Pittsburgh 5, Colorado 3 Miami 4, Washington 3 Philadelphia 7, San Diego 1 Boston 6, N.Y. Mets 4, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 15, Atlanta 4

Today

Saturday’s Games Boston (J.Kelly 7-6) at N.Y. Mets (deGrom 12-6), 2:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Lynn 10-8) at San Francisco (Vogelsong 9-9), 2:05 p.m.

Colorado (Rusin 4-6) at Pittsburgh (Happ 2-1), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Koehler 8-12) at Washington (Zimmermann 10-8), 5:05 p.m.

San Diego (Rea 2-1) at Philadelphia (Morgan 4-4), 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Sampson 2-2) at Milwaukee (Garza 6-14), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Severino 1-2) at Atlanta (Wisler 5-4), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (Doubront 1-1) at Arizona (Chacin 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Lester 8-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Latos 4-9), 7:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Boston at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Colorado at Pittsburgh, 11:35 a.m.

Miami at Washington, 11:35 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m.

San Diego at Philadelphia, 11:35 a.m.

Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

St. Louis at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Oakland at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers, 6:05 p.m.

Monday’s Games Miami at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m.

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

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Washington at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Texas at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Harper Was 120 413 89 DGordon Mia 112 476 63 Goldschmidt Ari 127 457 83 Pollock Ari 123 484 90 Posey SF 119 441 60 LeMahieu Col 121 452 69 Panik SF 97 375 56 YEscobar Was 112 428 59 MDuffy SF 114 425 59 Votto Cin 125 435 75 Home Runs

H 138 158 150 154 139 141 116 132 130 133

Pct. .334 .332 .328 .318 .315 .312 .309 .308 .306 .306

CaGonzalez, Colorado, 31; Harper, Washington, 31; Arenado, Colorado, 30; Frazier, Cincinnati, 29; Stanton, Miami, 27; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 26; Rizzo, Chicago, 25.

Runs Batted In Goldschmidt, Arizona, 96; Arenado, Colorado, 92; McCutchen, Pittsburgh, 85; Posey, San Francisco, 80; Kemp, San Diego, 78; Bryant, Chicago, 77; Rizzo, Chicago, 77.

Pitching Arrieta, Chicago, 16-6; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 16-6; Wacha, St. Louis, 15-4; GCole, Pittsburgh, 157; Greinke, Los Angeles, 14-3; CMartinez, St. Louis, 13-6; deGrom, New York, 12-6.

● Men’s third division rugby: Airdrie Highlanders at Red Deer Titans, noon, Titans Park. ● Men’s second division rugby: Airdrie Highlanders at Red Deer Titans, 1:45 p.m., Titans Park. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium; main practice 9:30-11 a.m., pro skate 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., main practice 1:30-3 p.m.

Sunday

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels training camp at the Centrium; rookie scrimmage 10-11:30 a.m., pro skate noon-1:30 p.m., main scrimmage 2-3:30 p.m., rookie scrimmage 4-5:30 p.m. ● Exhibition university women’s soccer: University of Lethbridge Pronghorns vs.

University of Alberta Pandas, 1 p.m., RDC.

Golf PGA Tour-Barclays Friday At Plainfield Country Club Edison, N.J. Purse: $8.25 million Yardage: 7,012; Par: 70 Second Round Bubba Watson Henrik Stenson Tony Finau Zach Johnson Jason Dufner Jason Bohn Camilo Villegas Sean O’Hair Ryan Palmer Robert Streb Sangmoon Bae Jason Day Hudson Swafford Spencer Levin Cameron Tringale Russell Knox Jim Furyk Bryce Molder Zac Blair Daniel Summerhays Pat Perez Patrick Reed Danny Lee Morgan Hoffmann Shawn Stefani Kevin Kisner Kevin Na Hideki Matsuyama Steven Bowditch Jim Herman Johnson Wagner Brian Harman Charles Howell III Matt Jones Webb Simpson Ben Martin David Hearn Phil Mickelson John Senden Kevin Chappell Vijay Singh

65-68 68-66 65-69 69-65 66-68 71-64 65-70 68-68 69-67 68-68 69-67 68-68 68-68 65-71 66-71 66-71 68-69 66-71 69-68 67-70 68-69 68-69 66-71 70-68 71-67 67-71 69-69 69-69 71-67 69-69 67-71 71-68 70-69 67-72 71-68 69-70 70-69 68-71 69-70 72-68 70-70

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LPGA-Yokohama Tire Classic Friday At Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill, The Senator Prattville, Ala. Purse: $1.3 million Yardage: 6,607; Par: 72 (a-amateur) Partial Second Round 39 golfers did not finish due to darkness Yani Tseng 70-64 — 134 Austin Ernst 70-65 — 135 Lexi Thompson 69-67 — 136 Stacy Lewis 70-68 — 138 Brittany Lang 65-73 — 138 Kris Tamulis 71-68 — 139 Wei-Ling Hsu 69-70 — 139 Sei Young Kim 69-70 — 139 Kelly Tan 72-68 — 140 Sadena A Parks 71-69 — 140 Mi Hyang Lee 71-69 — 140 Simin Feng 68-72 — 140 Hyo Joo Kim 68-72 — 140 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 73-68 — 141 Christina Kim 72-69 — 141 Brooke M. Henderson 71-70 — 141 Ashleigh Simon 71-70 — 141 Xi Yu Lin 70-71 — 141 Ariya Jutanugarn 68-73 — 141 Felicity Johnson 74-68 — 142 Shanshan Feng 72-70 — 142 Anna Nordqvist 72-70 — 142 Karlin Beck 72-70 — 142 Minjee Lee 72-70 — 142 Ally McDonald 70-72 — 142 Candie Kung 69-73 — 142 Brittany Lincicome 74-69 — 143 Angela Stanford 72-71 — 143 Min Seo Kwak 71-72 — 143

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Sunday’s game Saskatchewan at Ottawa, 2 p.m.

WEEK 11 Bye: Ottawa Thursday, Sept. 3 B.C. at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 6 Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 2 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 7 Toronto at Hamilton, 11 a.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 2:30 p.m.

Friday’s summary Eskimos 38, Argonauts 15 First Quarter Edm— TD Franklin 18 run (Shaw convert) 9:19 Edm — FG Shaw 23 13:42 Second Quarter Tor— Single Waters 49 8:23 Edm — Single Shaw 53 11:33 Tor — TD McPherson 1 run (Waters convert) 14:18 Third Quarter Edm— FG Shaw 21 4:31 Edm —FG Shaw 32 8:44 Tor — TD Hazelton 1 pass from McPherson (Waters convert) 15:00 Fourth Quarter Edm — TD Ke.Lawrence 64 punt return (Shaw convert) 4:08 Edm — TD D.Walker 8 pass from Franklin (Shaw convert) 9:51

Edm — TD Lynch 9 run (Shaw convert) 12:36 Toronto 0 8 7 0 — 15 Edmonton 10 1 6 21 — 38 Attendance — N.A. at Edmonton.

TEAM STATISTICS Tor Edm First downs 14 23 Yards rushing 40 87 Yards passing 201 355 Total offence 241 422 Team losses 15 19 Net offence 226 403 Passes made-tried 21-28 29-38 Total return yards 118 192 Interceptions-yards by 0-0 1-54 Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0 Sacks by 4 2 Punts-average 8-48.9 6-46.5 Penalties-yards 9-60 11-67 Time of possession 25:10 34:50 .

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing — Tor: Kackert 4-16, Josey 5-13, Harris 2-7, McPherson 2-1, Gale 1-3; Edm: Franklin 4-51, Lynch 6-20, Lawrence 1-19, Bell 6-(minus 3).

Receiving — Tor: Coombs 6-50, Spencer 3-45, Elliott 3-32, Hazelton 4-27, Gurley 3-27, Josey 2-20; Edm: Walker 7-164, Lawrence 7-52, Bowman 5-33, Bell 3-33, Watson 3-21, Bailey 2-18, Stafford 2-14.

Passing — Tor: Harris 20-26, 200 yards, 0 TDs, 1 int, McPherson 1-1-1-1-0, Gale 0-1-0-0-0; Edm: Franklin 29-38-335-1-0.

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Houston Jacksonville Tennessee Indianapolis

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Friday’s Games New England 17, Carolina 16 Kansas City 34, Tennessee 10 Detroit 22, Jacksonville 17 Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 2 p.m.

Minnesota at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Cincinnati, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 5:30 p.m.

Seattle at San Diego, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Green Bay, 6 p.m.

Indianapolis at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

San Francisco at Denver, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Houston at New Orleans, 2 p.m.

Arizona at Oakland, 6 p.m.

Redblacks look to RB Johnson for production as they take on Riders

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Former Cy Young Award winner Eric Gagne starts for first time in six years TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. — Eric Gagne allowed one run on two hits in his first start in six years as the Trois-Rivieres Aigles beat the Quebec Capitales 5-3 in Cam-Am League action on Friday night.

The 2003 Cy Young Award winner struck out two while walking five in 4 1/3 innings.

Gagne, who is a co-owner of the Aigles, spent nine seasons

in MLB, mostly with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Gagne began his career as a starter before the Dodgers turned him into a reliever, where he set a record with 84 consecutive saves.

The 39-year-old left the game after 81 pitches and a no-decision. Gagne received plenty of applause from the crowd and was even forced come back out of the dugout to re-thank the fans — taking off his hat in appreciation.

Gagne’s last start came in 2009 when he attempted a comeback with the Capitales, two years after his name was linked to an MLB doping scandal.

JUNIOR GOLF Central Alberta golfers Sam Hamelin and Daria Ledenius took overall top honours in a McLennan Ross Junior Tour event Thursday at Edmonton Blackhawk.

Hamelin, who plays out of Pheasantback, carded an evenpar 71 to win the boys division of the final Tour event preceding Monday’s championship tournament at Wolf Creek.

Ledenius, a Wolf Creek member, shot a 76 to capture the girls title. Her twin sister, Shaye, recorded a 79 and both will compete in the champion-

ship.

Tyler Watt of Innisfail shot a 77 to finish tied for 10th in the boys category. Watt, who also finished second in the category for boys born in 2001 and later, will be at Wolf Creek Monday, as will Hamelin.

Brady McKinlay of Lacombe checked in with a 79 and placed third in the 2001 and later category, while Taylor Dobbs of Innisfail — another championship qualifier — shot an 80 and was sixth in the 1999-2000 born division, in which Hamelin finished first.

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B7 Ottawa posts $1.1B surplus

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The federal government posted a surplus of nearly $1.1 billion for June — half a billion less than in the same month last year when the surplus was $1.6 billion.

The surplus came as the federal government’s revenue increased by $600 million to $24.3 billion for the month.

Excise taxes and duties were the source of most of the revenue growth.

Federal program spending increased by $1.6 bil-

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lion from a year ago to $21.3 billion in June.

The universal child care benefit was responsible for most of the spending increase, which was partly offset by a $500-million decline in public debt charges, which fell to $1.9 billion.

For the April to June period, the government recorded a surplus of $5 billion compared with a surplus of $400 million in the same three-month period a year earlier.

The Finance Department said the results for the first three months of the fiscal year provide limited information with respect to the outlook for the year as a whole.

“That being said, the financial results through the April to June 2015 period are consistent with the fiscal projection for 2015—16 presented in the budget,” the department said in a statement Friday.

The government forecast in April a surplus of $1.4 billion for its 2015-16 fiscal year, however the parliamentary budget office suggested in July that Ottawa was on track to run a deficit based on a downgraded economic projection by the Bank of Canada.

The budget office projected the government producing a $1-billion shortfall in 2015-16.

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Protesters march in front of the Kinder Morgan offices in Pittsfield, Mass., to protest a proposed high volume natural gas pipeline through the Berkshires that would reach the eastern part of the state, Friday. The pipeline is controversial because of fracking and the disruption that construction would cause in the rural area.

Decision reserved in challenge of cross-border beer rules

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — Lawyers for a New Brunswick man fighting a fine for buying cheap booze and bringing it into the province reiterated their position that the provincial laws are unconstitutional as they presented closing arguments Friday.

The judge has reserved decision until the end of April 2016 in a case that could have implications on cross-border trade right across Canada.

“I think it’s going to affect free trade with regards to alcohol and it could be a benchmark for the other provinces as well. It’s going to affect Canadians from coast to coast,” defence attorney Mikael Bernard said outside provincial court in Campbellton, N.B. Gerard Comeau is charged with illegally importing 14 cases of beer and three bottles of liquor from a Quebec border town in October 2012.

The 62-year-old retired steelworker was one of 17 people stopped during a two-day police sting operation. His liquor was seized and he was given a fine of $292.50.

Section 134 of the New Brunswick Liquor Control Act prohibits anyone in the province from having more than 12 pints of beer that wasn’t purchased through an NB Liquor outlet.

Comeau’s defence lawyers argue that’s unconstitutional because Section 121 of the Constitution Act says anything produced in one province shall be admitted free into each of the other provinces.

In his closing arguments, defence lawyer Arnold Schwisberg said evidence presented during the fourday hearing showed the Fathers of Confederation wanted an unfettered economic union in Canada and Section 121’s wording of “admitted free” must be interpreted broadly rather than confined to such things as duties and tariffs.

Crown Prosecutors Bill Richards and Kathryn

Gregory declined comment outside court, but during closing statements Richards said Section 134 of the Liquor Control Act is being scapegoated.

He said the issue is section 121 of the Constitution and whether its intention applies today in a country that has developed significantly since 1867.

Comeau said he’s glad his case has finally been presented and says most of the people he’s spoken to believe the courts will rule in favour of removing restrictions on where they buy their beer.

“They should be able to go and shop wherever they are. They live in Canada and Canada is a free country,” he said.

The final witness on Friday was the chief financial officer for New Brunswick based Moosehead Breweries.

Patrick Oland said he has no problem with New Brunswickers going to Quebec to buy lower priced beer for their personal use, but worries that removing current import restrictions could result in bootleggers bringing truckloads of beer into New Brunswick for illegal distribution.

Oland was called by the Crown to explain the patchwork of different tariffs and regulations in place across the country, which he said are usually designed to favour local producers.

Although the tariffs limit profits, Oland worries what would happen if they were struck down.

“Any changes to the regulatory regime nationally have to be well thought out to ensure there’s a level playing field and we get a fair situation,” he said.

In Quebec, local brewers sell directly to convenience stores without a government mark-up.

Earlier this week, Richard Smith, senior vicepresident of the New Brunswick Liquor Corp., said in New Brunswick where the sale of liquor must be through NB Liquor outlets, the corporation adds a mark-up of as much as 89.8 per cent to the price it pays the breweries.

The organization’s provincial funding was cut in 2011 and it closed the following year, but Wall says he will run the mayor’s idea past Tourism Saskatchewan in hopes of providing funding to reboot the tourist trade.

Dionne says a number of tourism-related businesses have already lost the season and can’t afford to lose another one.

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Funding sought to help Saskatchewan tourism rise from wildfire ashes Alberta Energy Regulator orders Nexen to suspend operations on 95 pipelines PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Firefighting in northern Saskatchewan this summer has switched to fire recovery, particularly in the area of tourism.

Devastating wildfires that struck the region destroyed property and forced visitors away from provincial parks, fishing lodges and other tourist amenities.

The issue was discussed Thursday at a meeting in Prince Albert involving Mayor Greg Dionne and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.

Dionne wants to restart the Northern Saskatchewan Tourism Region, which solely promoted tourism north of Prince Albert for more than a decade and focused mainly on small tourist operators.

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CALGARY — Alberta’s energy regulator has ordered Nexen Energy to immediately cease operations of 95 pipelines in northeastern Alberta.

It issued the order late Friday due to what it calls non-compliance surrounding pipeline maintenance and monitoring in its Long Lake oilsands project.

Alberta Energy Regulator spokesman Bob Curran says every oil and gas company is required to monitor, inspect and maintain records for all of their pipelines.

He says Nexen couldn’t demonstrate that those activities have occurred on those lines.

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TORONTO — Ashley Madison has made public relations mistakes but forgiveness may be out of reach for the adultery website as it hopes to salvage relationships with its members following the departure of CEO Noel Biderman.

The Toronto-based website announced Friday that Biderman had stepped down from the company he founded 14 years ago after a cyberattack left the personal details of its customers exposed to hackers.

His exit marks what could be the first step for the company on a long road of challenges.

“This change is in the best interest of the company and Noel Biderman allows us to continue to provide support to our members and dedicated employees,” Ashley Madison said in a statement on its website Friday.

“We are steadfast in our commitment to our customer base.”

Ashley Madison and Biderman mutually agreed he should step down, the statement said. The company did not return messages for comment.

What remains to be seen is whether Ashley Madison can mend a damaged reputation that was built primarily on secrecy and trust.

“Basically, I think the brand is dead,” said Bill Walker, president of crisis consultancy film MidtownPR in Toronto.

“It has gone from a place you go to cheat anonymously to the place where everybody gossips about it. No matter what you think of it in terms of its morality, they made a brand promise to people and failed to fulfil it.”

The website, which facilitates extramarital affairs for a membership fee, was the victim last month of hackers who stole a list of names purported to be users of Ashley Madison, claiming the company refused to bow to their demands to shutdown the business.

The hackers also claimed to have exposed data on millions of spouses who signed up.

Only a few months ago, Ashley Madison was riding high on its reputation as a portal for married people to connect discreetly online. Biderman was talking up his plans to take the company public on the London Stock Exchange, an effort he said would help it grow into new markets.

When news that hackers infiltrated the company’s computer systems spread online, details began to emerge about some of its questionable business practices, such as charging its customers extra money to completely delete their accounts, even though they were still being saved in a database.

Cleaning up the mess of such consumer deceptions could prove to be difficult. What happens from here is hardly a textbook case of crisis management, partly because Ashley Madison already operated on the fringes of common morality.

“It’s sort of a Wild West frontier,” said Walker. “A lot of the tried and true methods might not apply.”

Such a massive leak would bury many technology companies, but Ashley Madison has the advantage of marketing its business on temptation, which could ultimately work to its advantage.

“This is a torpedo to the bow, but it isn’t necessarily fatal,” said Bruce Philp, an independent branding consultant in Toronto.

Curran says the pipelines will stay shut down until Nexen can show the AER that it is complying with the requirements of the Pipeline Act. On July 15, a pipeline at Nexen’s Long Lake project was found to be leaking, spilling about five million litres of a mixture of bitumen, water and sand.

The company, which was taken over by China’s CNOOC Ltd. in 2013, said the affected area was about 16,000 square-metres along the pipeline’s route.

Gap’s store brands in Canada to phase out on-call, short-notice shifts TORONTO — Stores operated by Gap Inc. in Canada will join their U.S. counterparts in ending the practice of requiring workers to be on call for shortnotice shifts.

Gap spokeswoman Laura Wilkinson says the changes apply to all four of the brands operated by the company in Canada — the Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy and Intermix.

The company’s fifth brand, Athleta, does not have stores in Canada.

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MARKETS Scotiabank CEO touts positives of cheap oil

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 136.14 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.95 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.33 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.72 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.34 Cdn. National Railway . . 73.54 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 193.18 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.89 Capital Power Corp . . . . 20.62 Cervus Equipment Corp 13.30 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 44.00 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 53.64 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 22.46 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.31 General Motors Co. . . . . 29.00 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 22.13 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 40.04 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 31.11 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.20 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.87 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 45.50 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 123.50 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.47 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 13.75 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 71.10 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 22.17 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.47 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.94 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.94 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . . 9.44 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.00 First Quantum Minerals . . 7.05 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 18.47 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 6.83 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.43 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.69 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 34.31 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange closed in the black Friday after a wild week that took traders on a rollercoaster of huge drops and advances largely linked to a slowing Chinese economy.

Toronto’s S&P/TSX index finished 98.40 points higher to settle at 13,865.07, its fourth consecutive advance after a sixday slide in which Canada’s main market lost more than 1,200 points, including a 420-point drop on Monday alone.

Much of the strength came from the energy sector amid a strong, two-day rebound in oil prices from multi-year lows.

The October crude contract rose $2.66 or 6.3 per cent to US$45.22 a barrel on top of a 10.3 per cent advance Thursday, the biggest one-day gain for U.S. benchmark oil since March 2009.

“I think the most interesting thing today is the continuing rally in oil,” said Stephen Lingard, senior vice-president at Franklin Templeton Solutions.

“I’m not sure if that’s a short squeeze or just more positive risk sentiment,” added Lingard, noting that an overabundance of crude supply remains.

“There is not a lot of people bullish on commodities and oil specifically.”

New York markets softened after huge jumps the two previous sessions followed a weeklong plunge that saw the Dow Jones industrial index shed almost 1,900 points.

At the close, the Dow Jones was down 11.76 points at 16,643.01, while the broader S&P 500 eked out a gain of 1.21 points to 1,988.87 and the Nasdaq moved up 15.62 points to 4,828.32.

“People are taking a little bit of a pause,” Paul Springmeyer, senior portfolio manager at the Private Client Reserve at U.S. Bank, told The Associated Press.

“We’re finally winding down here where maybe we’re seeing more rational behaviour.”

Lingard said he expects volatility to continue into the fall, especially in advance of policy rate meetings of the Federal Reserve as traders speculate on when and how quickly the U.S. central bank will move to raise interest rates from historically low levels near zero.

However, he also sees better times ahead.

“One of the big things that the market doesn’t focus on is this lower oil price that we’ve seen.

This 60 per cent fall in oil off the highs (of just over a year ago) is ultimately very beneficial to the majority of the global economy,” he said.

“While we may still face a little bit of pain given we’re more an oil-producing country, at some point that global growth or that global oil dividend will come through.”

Former Subway ad exec unaware of Fogle’s criminal sexual conduct NEW YORK — A former executive who was in charge of Subway’s advertising says he wasn’t aware of Jared Fogle’s criminal sexual conduct with minors.

Jeff Moody, who was CEO of the Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund Trust, says in a statement Friday that he was “shocked” to learn of the “deplorable criminal sexual behaviour with minors” to which the former Subway pitchman has agreed to plead guilty.

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October natural gas was up five cents at US$2.71 per thousand cubic feet and December gold rose $11.40 to US$1,134 an ounce.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 13,865.07, up 98.40 points Dow — 16,643.01, down 11.76 points S&P 500 — 1,988.87, up 1.21 points Nasdaq — 4,828.32, up 15.61 points Currencies: Cdn — 75.67 cents US, up 0.02 of a cent Pound — C$2.0354, down 0.21 of a cent Euro — C$1.4785, down 0.79 of a cent Euro — US$1.1188, down 0.57 of a cent Oil futures: US$45.22 per barrel, up $2.66 (October contract) Gold futures: US$1,134.00 per oz., up $11.40 (December contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $19.998 oz., up 2.9 cents $642.94 kg., up 94 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov ’15 $4.90 higher $477.70; Jan. ’16 $4.70 higher $482.10; March ’16 $4.50 higher $486.10; May ’16 $3.90 higher $485.90; July ’16 $4.10 higher $485.10; Nov. ’16 $3.20 higher $466.00; Jan. ’17 $3.20 higher $467.20; March ’17 $3.20 higher $468.90; May ’17 $3.20 higher $468.90; July ’17 $3.20 higher $468.90; Nov. ’17 $3.20 higher $468.90.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’15 unchanged $191.90; Dec. ’15 unchanged $191.90; March ’16 unchanged $193.90; May ’16 unchanged $194.90; July ’16 unchanged $194.90; Oct. ’16 unchanged $194.90; Dec. ’16 unchanged $194.90; March ’17 unchanged $194.90; May ’17 unchanged $194.90; July ’17 unchanged $194.90; Oct. ’17 unchanged $194.90.

Friday’s estimated volume of trade: 509,340 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 509,340.

TORONTO — Concerns about the prolonged decline in the value of crude have left a dark cloud hanging over the banks, but the chief executive of Scotiabank is stressing the positive effects of oil prices on parts of the country’s economy.

“Mining and oil and gas make up less than eight per cent of Canada’s GDP,” Brian Porter told analysts during Scotiabank’s (TSX:BNS) quarterly earnings conference call Friday.

“Many of the other industries that make up more than 90 per cent of Canada’s GDP will benefit from lower commodity prices,” said Porter, citing automotive manufacturing and agriculture as examples.

“And lower commodity prices should ultimately be supportive of higher global growth.”

Scotiabank reported $1.847 billion of third-quarter net income Friday, which amounts to $1.45 per share.

That was down from $2.351 billion or $1.85 per share in net income in last year’s third quarter, which included an unusual item in its Canadian banking operations from the sale of most of Scotiabank’s investment in CI Financial.

Excluding $555 million in one-time gains in last year’s third quarter, Scotiabank’s net income last year was worth $1.40 per share.

The bank also raised its dividend by two cents to 70 cents per share.

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Air Canada deal of 10 flights for $800 a computer glitch; packages cancelled CALGARY — It was too good to be true.

Earlier this week, Air Canada’s website offered a package of 10 flights within Western Canada for a total cost of $800 before taxes.

Two Calgary men quickly snapped up the promotion.

They each received a confirmation number and a receipt, but the next day, when they tried to book a trip, they couldn’t find their purchases on their Air Canada accounts.

When they called the airline to find out what the problem was, they were told it was an error — the package deal was supposed to be priced at $8,000.

Air Canada wouldn’t say how many packages had been purchased, but in an emailed statement to CTV Calgary, said it will honour any bookings made before it caught the error.

“On the evening of August 25, a computer loading error resulted in a temporary mispricing of a West-

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ern USA Flight Pass product for Business Class travel. The product, good for 10 flight legs, was displayed at CAD800 instead of the correct price of CAD8,000,” the statement said.

“Once Air Canada became aware of the error on the evening of August 26, the passes were withdrawn from sale and the booking of flight credits was inhibited. Air Canada is contacting purchasers to apologize and provide a refund. However, any flight pass credit bookings already made using the passes will be honoured.”

Courts deny First Nations’ Site C stopwork order and dismiss judicial review VANCOUVER — Two courts have rejected attempts by a pair of British Columbia First Nations to halt the construction of the Site C hydroelectric dam.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled Friday against issuing a stop-work order for the first phase of construction of the nearly $9-billion project on the Peace River, near Fort St. John.

The Federal Court also dismissed the First Nations’ challenge of the environmental approval process among a pair of related decisions affecting Site C. The West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations went to court for separate hearings — earlier this month in the B.C. court, and Federal Court in July.

Both of the Federal Court rulings issued Friday saw the dismissal of a judicial review of the environmental certificate.

A second case launched by the Peace Valley Landowner Association was also dismissed after a hearing in July.

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Scotiabank’s results capped off what analysts have described as a solid quarter for the banks despite a flurry of concerns in recent months about how oilpatch woes might affect the lenders.

“Investors have been worried about the outlook for the banks these past few years because of the housing market or because of low oil prices, consumer leverage or low interest rates,” said Scotiabank analyst Sumit Malhotra.

“They have, to their credit, continued to grow earnings and continued to grow dividends.”

Combined, Canada’s six biggest banks — BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank and TD — earned $9.2 billion in net income during the third quarter — down from $9.3 billion a year ago.

Quarterly revenue for all six lenders totalled $32.8 billion, up from $32.5 billion during the same quarter last year.

Fears about crippling loan losses stemming from the oil price shock have, so far, failed to materialize.

Although many of the banks saw a rise in impaired loans to the energy sector, credit conditions were still strong, while consumer loans have not shown any sign of stress.

Analysts say that’s likely to change over the coming quarters, which could hamper growth.

“An abrupt increase in loan losses would make it difficult for the banks to produce earnings growth,” Malhotra said. “But that’s a far cry from getting to a situation where you’re worried about capital adequacy, given the capital position of the group does remain in very solid shape.”

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The music starts right away at the Condor Jamboree. As the campers began to arrive, the instruments were brought out and the first evening’s jam is begun.

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Potluck suppers are held on Friday and Saturday and there is always lots of good food to eat.

With volunteers to help out, Condor Jamboree has been a huge success.

Steve Potter from Delburne area has been MC and Lloyd Greenough from Sylvan Lake has been sound man.

In the summer, jamborees like this one bring people together and they have a chance to meet once a year.

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Shelly Wilson of West Kelowna helps her daughter Taylor as she prepares to enter the show ring at Westerner Park.

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JEFF STOKOE/ADVOCATE STAFF Westerner Park is once again the location for the Canadian National Quarter Horse Show through this weekend.

On Friday, the show held an NSBA (National Snaffle Bit Association) futurities event with added money to the winners of each class, said Leslie Noble McCleave, of Cochrane. Nobel McCleave is show manager for the Alberta Quarter Horse Association. The added money in the futurity events is big news, said Noble McCleave. “We start with halter classes Friday morning and then we run the futurities in the afternoon then we have a banquet in the evening for the futurity winners.” Winners split just under $10,000 on Friday.

Riders and horses have come from the northwest United States, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

Over 200 horses and riders will take part in the weekends events.

The winner of each class will receive a championship buckle.

“We have Western, English, we have ranch riding, we have reining, we have pleasure driving, we have quite a variety of classes,” said Noble McCleave.

“The number of classes is in the hundreds,” says Lyle Jackson of Cochrane, show steward for the American Quarter Horse Association. “There is lots of opportunity for people to show in different things. It’s an all-inclusive type of event so the youth can show, novices can show, amateurs and professionals can show, so we try to give everybody a chance to participate,” said Jackson.

The show is open to the public at no charge and people are invited to come and watch the action in the show ring, walk through the showcase barns in the premium stables and interact with vendors and participants through to the end of the show on Sunday.

Mykaila Reece of Lashburn, Sask., leads Duplicate That to the ring as she and the horse prepare to compete in the Hunter Under Saddle class.

ABOVE: Riders warm up in the show ring prior to their class.

BELOW: Patty Seiller of Carbon brought a style of her own to the show this weekend.

Madden Burwash, 10, of Cochrane warms up on her horse Sara in the covered practice ring. Madden and her sister Molly are competing in showmanship, western pleasure and western horsemanship classes.

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What are you doing?

The ultimate religious question

BY GALEN GUENGERICH SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The tradition of theology initiated by Frederich Schleiermacher in the late eighteenth century and clarified by William James at the dawn of the twentieth century insists that religion is not mainly a set of beliefs. Rather, religion is first and foremost a way of life. On these terms, the ultimate religious question is not “What are you thinking?” but rather “What are you doing?”

If you want to know what we think is important, look at how we spend our time. If you want to know what we value, look at how we spend our money. If you want to know what we believe, look at how we live.

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poems, Robert Hass makes a similar point in the title poem, which he calls “Time and Materials.” Hass observes that life is a slow and gradual accretion of experiences. The goal, he writes, is . . .

To make layers, As if they were a steadiness of days: It snowed; I did errands at a desk; A white flurry out the window thickening; my tongue Tasted of the glue on envelopes.

On this day sunlight on red brick, bare trees, Nothing stirring in the icy air.

On this day a blur of color moving at the gym Where the heat from bodies Meets the watery, cold surface of the glass.

Made love, made curry, talked on the phone To friends, the one whose brother died Was crying and thinking alternately, Like someone falling down and getting up And running and falling and getting up.

The implied question to which this poem responds is “What are you doing?” The answer is: falling down and getting up and running and falling and getting up. Making love, making curry, and talking on the phone to friends. Lives are not created in a dramatic instant or even over a spectacular week, like the world according to the book of Genesis. Rather, lives are laid down in layers, a gradual accumulation of actions. This is a significant change from the standard religious view. Religion has often encouraged believers to view their time in human history as a special time and to view themselves as a specially chosen people. In recent centuries here in the United States, this conviction emerged as the religious face of our civic sense of manifest destiny.

Whatever its form, however, the view that we are exceptional, either as believers or as humans, seems unwarranted. As Copernicus discovered centuries ago, human beings do not stand at the center of things. In fact, the more we learn about the universe, the more non-special our location here on Earth becomes. The Earth orbits an ordinary star in an undistinguished region of an ordinary galaxy.

We probably aren’t living at a special time either.

In 1969, the Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott visited the Berlin Wall and found himself wondering how long the wall would last. Was it a temporary aberration or a permanent fixture of modern Europe?

He made the following conjecture. If he divided the wall’s total history, from beginning to end, into four quarters, and if his visit was located somewhere randomly in that history, there was a 50 percent chance that his visit happened in one of the middle two quarters — not in the first quarter of the wall’s life, and not in the last quarter. Using these terms as the basis of further calculations, Gott concluded that there was a 50 percent chance that the wall would come down sometime between three and 24 years later. It came down 20 years later, in 1989. Using the same approach, Gott asked how long the human species is going to last, assuming that we are probably living during the middle 95 percent of the ultimate duration of our species. Gott concluded that there is a 95 percent chance that our human future will last more than 5,100 additional years but less than 7.8 million additional years.

In other words, chances are that we are ordinary people, and these are ordinary times. To me, that’s the good news. It enables me to live my life as it unfolds, in steady ways on ordinary days. If my focus in life — religiously and otherwise — is to stand around waiting for special moments or supernatural events, I will end up missing the 95 percent of my life that makes up 95 percent of my life. As Gott demonstrates, chances are that I will spend most of my life in ordinary ways. And it’s how I spend most of my time that will mostly determine whether my life as a whole is satisfying.

To be sure, many religions seem fixed on the ends of the earth — either the creation or the apocalypse, or both. But enlightened faith thrives not in the miraculous but in the mundane, the steady unfolding of days.

I recall a scene described by the late Andre Du-

bus in his book Essays From A Movable Chair. Dubus was an award-winning writer who had lost his leg in an auto accident. He tells about making sandwiches on Tuesdays for his second- and seventh-grade daughters and taking the sandwiches to school. He writes: On Tuesdays when I make lunch for my girls, I focus on this: the sandwiches are sacraments. And each motion is a sacrament, this holding of plastic bags, knife, of bread, of cutting board, this pushing of the chair, this spreading of mustard on bread, this trimming of liverwurst, of ham. All sacraments, as putting the lunches into a zippered book bag is, and going down my six ramps to my car is. I drive on the highway, to the girls’ town, to their school, and this is not simply a transition; it is my love moving by car from a place where my girls are not to a place where they are; even if I do not feel or acknowledge it, this is a sacrament. If I remember it, then I feel it too.

Feeling it does not always mean that I am a happy man driving in traffic; it simply means that I know what I am doing in the presence of God. If I were much wiser, and much more patient, and had much greater concentration, I could sit in silence in my chair, look out my windows at a green tree and the blue sky, and know that breathing is a gift; that a breath is sufficient for the moment; and that breathing air is breathing God. Enlightened faith humbly accepts the sufficiency of each moment. It embraces the steadiness of the days as they unfold, and the purpose we can fulfill within them, and the sacrament of gratitude we can express through them. Presenting us with time and materials, it asks: “What are you doing?”

Galen Guengerich is Senior Minister of All Souls Unitarian Church, a congregation located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College (BA, 1982), Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1985), and the University of Chicago (PhD, 2004). His doctoral dissertation is titled “Comprehensive Commitments and the Public World: Tillich, Rawls and Whitehead on the Nature of Justice.”

Dr. G is author of “God Revised: How Religion Must Evolve in a Scientific Age” (Palgrave Macmillan) and writes a regular column on “The Search for Meaning” for psychologytoday.com.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Italian-born nun who challenged outlaw Billy the Kid, calmed angry mobs and helped open New Mexico territory hospitals and schools faced her first test for the long road to sainthood this week.

Supporters and researchers presented their case before the Archdiocese of Santa Fe at a ceremonial “first inquiry” in Albuquerque on why Sister Blandina Segale should become a saint. The public inquiry, headed by former Archbishop Michael Sheehan, was aimed at determining if there was enough evidence to move her case through the largely secret process in the Vatican. Witnesses said that during her life Segale fought against the cruel treatment of American Indians and sought to stop the trafficking of women as sex slaves. They also testified that in death Segale has helped cancer patients and poor immigrants who have prayed to her for help. Victoria Marie Forde of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati said documents show Segale went out of her way to provide assistance to Italian-American immigrants and protect Mexican Americans facing violence in western territories.

“Sister Blandina as a canonized saint will lead and strengthen thousands of others to see that they, too, can fight injustice with compassion and untiring ingenuity,” she said. Last year, the archdiocese received permission from the Vatican to open her sainthood case.

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Cardinal William Joseph Levada of Menlo Park was stopped last week while driving on the Big Island, Hawaii County police spokeswoman Chris Loos said.

Levada was alone in his car.

He was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and released from jail after posting $500 bail. He is due in Kona District Court on Sept. 24.

In a statement issued through the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, the 79-year-old Levada said he regrets his error in judgment and intends to co-operate with authorities.

Levada was stopped after a Kona patrol officer saw him swerve while driving on Queen Kaahumanu Highway, authorities said.

Levada started serving as archbishop of San Francisco in 1995.

Between May 2005 and June 2012, he served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Pope Benedict XVI. He was one of the highest-ranking officials of the Roman Catholic Church. Levada resigned the post in 2012.

Mike Brown, spokesman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, confirmed the cardinal was on vacation in Hawaii with priest friends.

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Red Deer’s Justice Brooks (Letkeman) is starting to make waves as a U.K.-based filmmaker.

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF From the local dinner theatre stage to the world stage, Red Deer’s Justice Brooks is starting to make ripples as a U.K.-based filmmaker.

The 21-year-old, who was known as Justice Letkeman while growing up in this city, began performing at age 12 with Central Alberta Theatre in comedies such as Nuncrackers and Ethan Claymore.

His interest gradually turned to filmmaking, and he began making corporate videos at age 16.

After graduating from Notre Dame High School, Brooks took film production in SAIT in Calgary and managed to work on a project while in Melbourne, Australia.

He later interned with a Columbia University team that was filming in Alberta.

And Brooks feels fortunate to have learned some of his craft from these U.S. filmmakers, whose work had been showcased at Sundance. “It was a very humbling experience,” said the young Central Albertan (who professionally uses his middle name as his last name).

Brooks continued his overseas adventures with his first job after SAIT, becoming expedition cinematographer for the Global Education Network and doing a project in Ghana.

He accrued more international experience after moving to the U.K. last year on a two-year work visa. Brooks is planning to stay in England until the fall of 2016, saying “there’s a lot more opportunity here. It’s a huge hub for film and videos, so it’s really easy to make connections.”

Brooks now works part time as a camera operator with a London company called Sinikle Visual, making music videos for such artists as English rapper Skepta.

He also volunteers for the charitable Hillsong production company

with links to an Australian church. The company, with an interest in global development, captures live events on video.

But the international film project that’s closest to Brooks’s heart has already started shooting, with help from a Calgary film studio that’s worked on the TV show Hell on Wheels.

Street Dreams will be a 15-minute documentary that Brooks is directing

about street performers and how their artistry is sometimes mistaken for panhandling.

“It will have a unique spin, with the street performers telling their stories,” said Brooks, who believes “there’s so much talent involved with street performing, and a lot of these artists don’t get the credit they deserve.”

Segments are being shot by freelance camera operators in up to 10

countries around the globe. When the film is done, Brooks plans to submit it to film festivals and have an Alberta premiere.

The Red Deer native wants to work full time as a music video director, someday.

In the meantime, he’s trying to gain as much experience as he can, “so I can hit the ground running.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

We Are Your Friends: a good story you can dance to ZAC EFRON STARS AS A CALIFORNIA DJ OUT TO CAPTURE EARS AND HEARTS We Are Your Friends 2.5 stars (out of four) Rated: 14A Millennials may ultimately embrace We Are Your Friends as their anthemic music movie, something its makers fervently hope.

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While posterity makes up its mind (and critics grouse), We Are Your Friends comes on strong with a story to get caught up in and a pulse to dance to, one that approximates the human heart at 128 beats per second. Titled for a hit tune by Justice, it’s powered by electronic dance music, the disco of the 21st century.

Zac Efron is Cole, an underemployed DJ in California’s glitter-free San Fernando Valley whose digital dreams don’t match his analog existence.

Like Ahab chasing Moby Dick, he’s on an obsessive quest: mixing the one killer EDM track he’s convinced will be his “ticket to everything.”

Inspiration seems to be running on empty. A sign reads “nobody’s perfect” on the bedroom wall of the abode Cole shares with three equally hungry pals, played by Alex Shaffer, Jonny Weston and Shiloh Fernandez. (They all must

get really tired of people making Entourage jokes.)

Cole and his crew make a few bucks at menial tasks, but what really engages them are the club shows they all help organize and Cole spins for, hustling as many hip-shakers as they can get. At one of these events, Cole meets James (Wes Bentley), an older DJ with a reputation as deep as his cynicism.

James offers to help Cole in his hunt for the killer track, but the mentor’s sultry girlfriend/helper Sophie (Emily Ratajkowski) becomes a serious distraction that could blur lines and break bonds between teacher and student.

First-time feature director Max Joseph hails from television (Catfish: The TV Show) and advertising, and a short attention span seems baked into his DNA. He muddies his screenplay, cowritten with Meaghan Oppenheimer and Richard Silverman, with an un-

necessary subplot about a rapacious realtor (Jon Bernthal) who moves only to the ka-ching of dirty cash.

But restlessness suits the rootless generation on view, and Joseph’s digressions also instruct and amuse: there’s a mid-movie lesson on how beats define music and an acid-dropping interlude that brings an art gallery colourfully to life.

The cast is uniformly good, especially Efron and Bentley as collaborators on the dance floor but rivals in the bedroom.

And We Are Your Friends really finds its groove in the end, when all those sounds and experiences that Cole has been gathering come magically together, seeking to answer the question the film provocatively poses to its target demo: “Are we ever going to be better than this?”

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Beyonce 101 CANADIAN RESEARCHERS OFFER UNIVERSITY COURSES STUDYING POP SUPERSTAR

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — With the release of every new track, magazine cover and Instagram post, Beyonce’s every move sparks endless chatter on social media.

Soon they’ll also be discussed in some Canadian classrooms.

The University of Victoria and the University of Waterloo have dedicated courses to exploring the career of the superstar, who turns 34 on Sept. 4.

“I just thought she would be an artist that a lot of the students — especially in this young 20s age range — would be able to identify with.... They’ve pretty much had Beyonce in their lives their entire lives,” said University of Victoria lecturer Melissa Avdeeff, whose course debuted in January and will return this fall.

The introductory music course touched on everything from music video analysis to feminism and gender studies, tracking Beyonce’s career trajectory from her girl-group days with Destiny’s Child to solo stardom.

“She’s an artist that has stayed relevant culturally. She’s had her hand in a lot of different cultural aspects — not just her music,” said Avdeeff.

“She’s also done a bit of acting. She’s very active on social media and she presented a really interesting case study, I thought.”

Avdeeff said she devoted a section of her inaugural class to addressing criticisms of the course, including negative remarks posted in response to a Globe and Mail article.

“Some of the comments I received were: ’I can understand having a course on someone like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, but not Beyonce — she hasn’t been around long enough.’

“It’s good to document culture as it’s happening so we have this record, so we see what’s happened, so we see how it’s reflecting in our society as we’re living it.”

Most recently, Beyonce’s decision to stay relatively mum in the media is generating even more press.

She graces the cover of Vogue’s famed September issue, but without being interviewed. A recent New York Times story examining Beyonce’s media moves said she hasn’t answered a direct question for more than a year.

While she has 44.2 million Instagram users and regularly posts candid images, there is rarely — if ever — text to accompany the photos. Beyonce also hasn’t tweeted from her official account since August 2013. It will be her music that will be the prime focus of “Gender and Performance,” debuting at the University of Waterloo this fall.

The course, being offered by the school’s drama and speech communication department, will centre on Beyonce’s self-titled visual album, analyzing videos and looking at performance study models, feminist and race theories in the context of her work.

“This album, I think, operates on many platforms,” said assistant professor and course instructor Naila Keleta-Mae, an award-winning performance poet and playwright.

“She spoke about wanting all of these videos ...

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BRIEFS Craig Ferguson to perform at Memorial Centre in November Ex-Late Late Night Show host Craig Ferguson will be appearing this fall at a venue near you.

The standup comedian will perform with his “extra naughty” The Real Deal Tour at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre on Friday, Nov. 6.

The Scottish-born American television host, standup comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice artist garnered an Emmy Award nomination and Peabody Award for his The Late, Late Show.

The show aired on CBS from 2005 to 2014.

After starting his career in the U.K. with music, comedy and theatre, Ferguson moved to the U.S., where he found success on The Drew Carey Show.

He’s written and starred in three films and done voice-over roles for animation.

Ferguson has also written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and his memoir American on Purpose.

Tickets for his live standup show at 7 p.m. are $63.90 from the Black Knight Ticket Centre.

Library shingle project aided by historic grant Roof shingle replacement at the Red Deer Public Library is one of 60 projects to get funding from the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation.

A grant of $36,500 was received from the foundation for the replacement of cedar shingles on the roof of the main library building.

The two-and-a-half storey brick structure was constructed in the Edwardian free style in 1913 as

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Beyonce Knowles in the press room for MTV Video Music Awards in 2014. The University of Victoria and the University of Waterloo have dedicated courses to exploring the career of the singer.

thought about as a movie of sorts. And so for me, as a performance studies scholar, it was interesting to think of an entire album as being a visual performance.”

In a mini-feature about the album, Beyonce spoke of watching videos on YouTube to learn about feminism. She came across a speech on the subject by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and wound up sampling a clip from it in her feminist anthem “Flawless.”

Keleta-Mae said Beyonce’s use of digital media as an informational resource “speaks a lot to the moment that we’re in,” noting that it’s an approach being embraced by students — and one that the academic world should also note.

“Whether or not scholars across the country like it, when our students are turning in papers, they’re quoting Wikipedia and YouTube. When they want to get the definition of something they’re going to Dictionary.com,” Keleta-Mae said.

an armoury, and used as a recruiting centre for both World Wars.

The building later served as Red Deer’s firehall from 1961 to 1992.

Today, it houses the children’s section of the downtown branch of the public library.

The Alberta Historical Resources Foundation has granted a total of $1.5 million through its Heritage Preservation Partnership Program for a wide array of heritage projects across the province.

performances by: 16-year-old Natalia Wells; acoustic folk-punk band Terrace Park; Red Deer’s pop-punk band Likeminded; post-hardcore group Hostage By Consent; Southern Hardcore; and Dusty Tucker. The headliner is Edmonton’s 780Hardcore Slumlord.

The zombie walk will cost either $2 or a donation to the local food bank.

The musical event costs $10 in advance from Slumland or $15 at the door.

All food donations will go to the local food bank, and cash donations will be split between the food bank and the Slumland renovation project, “so we can continue to support and provide an all-ages music scene.”

For more information, call 403-307-3528.

Red Deer Players seek board members The Red Deer Players are holding an annual general meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 9.

Nominations are being sought for board positions, including chair, vice-chair, secretary and treasurer.

Anyone can be a member of Red Deer’s newest theatre group for an annual $10 fee.

The 7 p.m. annual general meeting is at St. Luke’s Church Hall.

The Players are planning to put on three plays this year, including a fall murder mystery and a Christmas pantomime.

For more information, email reddeerplayers@ gmail.com.

Zombie Walk, concert at Slumland Theatre Central Alberta’s undead will reunite at the fourth annual Zombie Walk for the Red Deer Food Bank on Saturday, Sept. 12.

Anyone interested in unleashing their closet zombie can come down to Slumland Theatre at 4732 50th St. Doors open at 3 p.m. for the application of costumes and makeup.

A zombie parade will begin stumbling around the downtown at 4 p.m., returning to the Slumland Theatre for a barbecue by donation.

A lineup of musical acts begins at 6 p.m., with

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LUANN Aug. 29 1994 — Mario Lemieux announces that he is taking a medical leave of absence due to fatigue, an aftereffect of his 1993 radiation treatments.

1964 — FLQ terrorists hold up a gun store in Montreal.

1922 — Radio CFAC goes on the air in Calgary. It is the first privately-owned station between Winnipeg and Vancouver.

1917 — Robert Borden’s Union government passes the Military Service Act. All male British subjects up to 45 years of age are liable, with certain exceptions. A mob of 5,000 Montrealers start a violent two-day riot against the Canadian act, which receives Royal Assent on this day.

1883 — Thomas Ahearn, head of the Ottawa Street Railway Co., presides over a demonstration of his pioneering electric stove at the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa. This is believed to be the world’s very first dinner cooked on an all-electric stove.

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Ride refusals are fraying friendships Dear Annie: My husband and I are up for being given a ride, I have treatsnowbirds in our late 60s. ed one couple on occasion, but the othMost of our snowbird er refuses any offers. Both friends are several years parties live across the street older. We have neighfrom us and their stubborn bours in the North and in refusal is putting a damper the South and we normally on our get-togethers. Any trade off taking turns drivadvice? — Snowbird Driver ing back and forth.

Dear Snowbird: Let’s be Our dilemma is, we have clear — your objection is a set of neighbours in our that you cannot reciprocate North home and one in our by driving, and one couple South home who will not let will not allow you to recipus drive them. rocate in any other way.

I am an excellent driver.

You need to discuss this (My husband seldom drives.) honestly with them. Tell MITCHELL Every time we plan a dinyour friends that you are & SUGAR ner out, one tells us that he uncomfortable not being “loves” to drive and the othable to return the favour, er claims it hurts her back and that they must allow to ride in someone else’s you to repay them in some car. They refuse to get in our vehicle, fashion, perhaps treating them to dinwhich is a luxury car and quite de- ner at a nice restaurant or buying them pendable. a gift card to their favourite store.

I know this is a control issue, but I Your other option, of course, is to don’t know how to handle it. To make drive separately, saying that you pre-

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fer to have your own car with you (a reasonable statement), and that you will see them when you get there.

Dear Annie: I had to respond to “Confused Family Member,” whose niece is having a large wedding several months after a civil ceremony.

My husband and I, as have many of our close friends, had a civil ceremony prior to a larger wedding for family and friends. Members of the military do this quite frequently due to deployments and schedules. I have heard of other reasons, like couples waiting for immigration papers and couples who cannot have a church wedding for several months and prefer not to “live in sin.”

We just recently celebrated my son’s wedding a year after the couple was married by a judge at their duty station. It is because of responses by people like “Confused” that many of us try to keep it a secret so our guests believe they are coming to the “real” wedding.

When I married, the church ceremony meant more to me than the civil ceremony, and it is the same with my daughter-in-law.

Every bride wants to have her special day and it usually doesn’t mean standing in front of a judge with a couple of witnesses. The bigger wedding is a way for two families to get together and share in the joy of this newly married couple. The fact that they weren’t able to pull the party off until a year after the “first” marriage shouldn’t detract from the celebration. — Two Wedding Anniversaries Dear Two: Thank you for giving reasonable explanations for treating a second ceremony in a more compassionate way.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

Secret crush from high school resurfaces Dear Harlan: I have a crush on my I just got my roommate assignment, old friend from high school, and read- and I need to get in contact with her. ing your book has made me realize that What do I write in that first email? — I need to do something about it!

Can’t Write He gives me “that feelDear Can’t Write: Here’s ing,” and always has. The my problem with your mesonly problem is I’ve never sage: You’re already too come out to him before, and afraid of making a mistake.

I have no idea if he is gay.

This is not a make-orThe only way I have to break exchange. You send get in touch with him is your roommate a note tellthrough Facebook. ing her that you’re looking Should I spill the beans forward to living together. all at once, or come out to Tell her you wanted to conhim first and see how he nect on the phone so you reacts? How do I even bring don’t bring the same things that up? — Ready to Make to the room. Then talk on the Leap the phone and have a conHey, Ready to Make the versation.

Leap: You’ve got to ease inBut this probably will HARLAN to this. be extremely hard for you, COHEN You can’t post on his too. There is a risk that you timeline, “I’m in love with might not say the right things you, and I can’t contain myto her. Please stop worrying! self anymore! By the way, The only expectation you is that picture on your Facebook page should have for living with this person you with your wife and three kids?” is to coexist. Friendship is a bonus.

“Discreet” is the word. This all The moment you can shift your exseems much bigger to you than it is pectations from “friend” to “roomto him. Send him a Facebook friend mate” will be the moment you’ll stop request, or find him on another social being so afraid of offending her. network. Tell him that you were think- If you’re already this worried about ing about him and wanted to recon- opening up, imagine how you’ll be nect. when something substantial happens.

If he accepts your request, play it Make sure you create a life outside cool. Find out about his life since you of your room so there isn’t this preslast saw him; he’s probably got enough sure to always say the right thing and history under his belt to help you fig- do the right thing. ure out if he’s into guys. When you spot The best relationships are based a picture of him as the grand marshal on honesty, trust and mutual respect. of this year’s pride parade, you’ll know Trust that she wants to get along, and he’s into men. respect her enough to have an honest Once you have a couple of back-and- conversation. forth messages, ask him if he’s marNow, email or call her so you don’t ried, single or dating. Then, see if it bring the same stuff. feels appropriate to share your secret.

Dear Harlan: People don’t seem to Don’t send a long message — a call understand me. would be best (no paper trail). Again, I know I’m a child and a geek at your life will be no worse if he’s not heart, and I like many things that other interested; he has never been your sig- people don’t. nificant other. Use this as one step in I try not to bring my weird hobbies an ongoing risk-taking journey. into conversations (not that I think Who knows? You might just find out they are weird, but other people have he’s had a secret crush on you and has told me they are). For some reason, been waiting to share the truth since this makes people think I’m an innohigh school. cent person who does not know how to Dear Harlan: I’m four weeks away have fun. from my first day of my first year in When I try to tell people about my college, and I’m going to be living in a hobbies and that I do have fun — just college dorm. not what

they would find fun — it just makes it worse.

How can I convince people that I’m not someone who needs saving from herself and that I do enjoy all the geeky things I do?

I feel like I have a stamp on my face telling people to help me, but I don’t need saving. — Not Looking For Help Dear Not Looking for Help: You’re

going to be frustrated for a good part of your life.

Then, one day, you’re going to realize something: You can’t control other people. You’ll spend several years trying to figure this out.

Some people spend their entire lifetime and don’t figure it out. It’s true.

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NY Now Above: A Corina chandelier that is crafted from wound Philippine Nito fibre. The organic roots of the piece add to its sculptural, modern vibe.

Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo provided by Ayadeena shows a pillow from the women’s craft collective in Jordan. It was an award finalist at this August’s NY Now show in New York. Their Indian silk and French cotton pillows are intricately hand sewn by women restricted from the workplace because of family obligations, poverty or cultural mores. The organization provides them an opportunity to practise their creative art and become more financially independent.

Home décor with a worldly vibe gets display in the Big Apple

BY KIM COOK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lifetime Brands, a Garden City, New York, company that makes and markets household products.

“It’s a cultural mashup. You could call it neo-global, or geo-hybrid. We’re embracing this style because it makes us feel worldly and well-travelled.”

Some show highlights:

NEW YORK — Today, home decorating can be a game of curatorial discovery. It’s fun to find an artisan-forged wall hook, a uniquely carved stool, a cool contemporary art piece or a handpainted tablecloth, each from some farflung corner of the world.

T h e NY Now show is one place where retailers can find goods like those all in one place, and chances are you’ll see many of them in stores in a few months.

T h e wholesaleonly market, which recently concluded its biannual Clockwise: faux shagreen (shark skin) clads a chic dresser crafted in Vietnam; a Hungry Wolf tray fair at the from the London-based illustrator and designer Wilson, who showed her charming collection of Javits Center nature-printed dinnerware in ceramic and melamine; made by Made Goods, burnt wood is encased in Manhat- in resin to create a striking Vietnamese lamp base. tan, offers international from honed onyx; water hyabuyers — large retail chains, museum cinth; wave-patterned resin; ● Made Goods had a sophisticated gift shops, gift catalogues, independent and a graphic, black-and-whitecollection of faux shagreen (sharkshopkeepers — an opportunity to oneveined Nero marble. (www.piskin) items including a stool wrapped stop shop for everything from gourmet with a band of brass, and a slim side geonandpoodle.com ) housewares to bedding to furniture. ● Ayadeena, a women’s craft collectable. The Corina pendant shade was a Designers and manufacturers from cylinder wound of fibers from the Phil- tive in Jordan, was founded by Hanan around the world set up booths. ippine Nito vine. Burnt wood encased Jaber Sahawneh. Her childhood crossA new and growing component is in resin created a striking base for the stitching hobby eventually led her to Artisan Resource, an area at the fair Vietnamese Eskor lamp. And also from fund this initiative to help improve the where buyers can source and discuss Viet Nam, an oversize tortoise-shell lives of underprivileged, uneducated opportunities with fledgling craftspeo- motif graced a ceramic stool glazed in yet talented women who are restricted ple and importers. either a crackled gold or black pearl from the workplace by family obligaThe NY Now show makes it clear finish. The Lexi side table featured tions or cultural mores. The group was that globalized design is alive and an elaborate Indian mosaic print us- a show award finalist for its Indian silk thriving. ing camel bone inlaid in grey or white and French cotton Deema pillow, intriDecades ago you might have done a resin, for a piece that was feminine cately hand-sewn in a Middle Eastern whole room with a Japanese flair, or a without being fussy. (www.madegoods. print. (www.ayadeena.com ) ● Modern art met ancient craft in Moroccan vibe. Not now. com ) “The new look of global isn’t one ● At Pigeon & Poodle, there were Bridge for Africa’s display of colorful single country,” says Tom Mirabile of tabletop and bath accessories made Lavumisa baskets from Swaziland, wo-

ven out of indigenous grasses into pop art swirls. (www.bridgeforafrica.org ) ● London designer Donna Wilson showed her new collection of winsome, animal-print dinnerware and soft toys.

Her bone china and melamine plates and cups featured illustrations of friendly bears, wolves and foxes gamboling among tropical fruits. (www. donnawilson.com ) ● Yamazaki, a Japanese housewares company, had well-designed homestorage solutions, including a white, woven-steel basket with wood handles; sleek, wood-veneer jewelry and gadget holders; and an umbrella stand made of laser-cut metal evoking a bird’s nest. (www.theyamazaki.com )

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Eliminating musty odours Question: How can I get rid of the musty smell from a white, antique wicker mirror frame I bought from a yard sale a few months back?

The frame is beautiful, but I didn’t notice the odour until I got home.

Answer: Musty smells are always caused by mould or mildew of some kind, and I’m getting more and more questions about mould all the time.

In all cases the solution is the same: Dry the area or item as much as possible, kill the mould spores and roots, then keep things dry.

In your case, start by taking out the mirror from the frame and wash off any dirt or dust from the wicker.

Let the frame dry completely, then saturate the entire thing with something to kill the mould.

A bleach and water solution is the traditional option, but it’s harsh and will almost certainly ruin the colour of your frame.

STEVE Reasons like these are why MAXWELL the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) recommends non-bleach mould control products.

The only product that’s registered in Canada to both kill mould and discourage regrowth is Concrobium Mold Control. It’s performed well since I began testing and using it almost 10 years ago.

The spritz bottles or aerosol cans make the most sense for your situation.

The same approach would also work well to freshen old musty drawers, wooden chests and cabinets.

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Caulking for glass replacement Question: How can I install a replacement glass pane in a window alongside an entrance door?

The window has coloured glass on the outside, but the clear inner glass broke.

Answer: After getting a replacement glass cut to fit, clear silicone caulking is the best option for securing and sealing the new glass.

Just be careful. You want to use real, 100 per cent silicone caulking, not one of the new “siliconized” caulkings that are out there.

They won’t work nearly as well in this application.

You’ll also want to keep things neat, too, and that’s where painters tape comes in.

Run a length of tape along each side of the corner of the joint, about three or four mm away from the corner itself.

One length of tape goes on the glass and another length on the frame surrounding the glass.

Apply a continuous bead of silicone caulking on the ledge that supports the glass, set the pane in place, then smooth the excess caulking so it extends to the tape on both sides. Peel off the tape and you’ll have a perfectly neat caulking joint.

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We are drawn to the customized shapes of the furnishings and rich layering of deep colour in Midnight Blue bedroom shown here, designed by Studio Catoir.

There is texture everywhere, the woven leather headboard, fabric-covered walls, velvet curtains and wool and silk carpet.

These tactile surfaces contrast with the smooth, hard materials in the desk and wood floor to create balance.

The eye is captivated by the sculpted shape of the headboard that appears to be wrapping its arms gently around the bed. There’s a mid-century feel to the chair and the kidney bean desk top.

This is an elegant, masculine room where midnight blue is the dominant colour. The white window sheers, bed linens and strips of white in the carpet allow the room to breathe and feel fresh.

Another room where blue is dominant has a completely different character. Artist and designer Susan Hable Smith has incorporated her talents as a textile designer to create Cottage Colours in an early 20th-century cottage. Smith combines the soft tones of blues and greens taken from nature (and the garden view just outside this family den). It is not surprising that Smith usually starts with the drapery and floor coverings to set the tone of a room. She layers carpets over the wood floor, switching throughout the year.

A casual country atmosphere continues with her choice of flea market finds and some treasures from travelling. The two rows of decoupage birds continue the symmetry of the room’s straight lines.

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Heights....12:00 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. p.m. ..Margaret .. Margaret Comeau ...... RE/MAX................................................. 391-3399 .... $640,000....... Red Deer County 3707-50 Avenue ...............3:00 ............... 3:00 -5:00 p.m. p.m. ......Margaret ...... Margaret Comeau ...... RE/MAX................................................. 391-3399 .... $419,900....... Sylvan Lake 116 Hinshaw Drive ................ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Nicole Dushanek .............. ROYAL CARPET REALTY ...............................342-7700 .... $329,900....... Sylvan Lake 1 Alderwood Close ................ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Shantel Campbell............ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................396-0721 .............................. Blackfalds 5556-44 Avenue ........................ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Doug Wagar ............................ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................304-2747 .... $249,900....... Waskasoo 5833 Maple Crescent ......... 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Darlis Dreveny ...................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................358-4981 .... $489,900....... Innisfail 325 Waskasoo Estates ....... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Bob Gummow ...................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................598-7913 .... $139,900....... Waskasoo Estates 31 Elreg Street ..................1:00 .................. 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. .....Izetta ..... Izetta Sellors ................. COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 506-2968 .............................. Penhold 56 Henderson Crescent ..2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m ..........Chris Forsyth........................... MAXWELL, REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS ....391-8141 .... $496,900....... Penhold 3 Bardwell Way .................1:00 ................. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Jennifer .... Jennifer .......................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6841 .............................. Sylvan Lake 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Jocelyn .... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612 .............................. Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd..1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.. p.m.. ....Lyle .... Lyle Kellington ............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231 .............................. Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street .......11:00 ....... 11:00 - 5:00 p.m. ..Jessica .. Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550 .............................. Springbrook

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 - RED DEER 110 Turner Crescent........ ........1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Susan ..... Susan Rochefort ......... LIME GREEN ........................................ 505-0066 .............................. Timberlands 406, 5300-48 Street .........1:00 ......... 1:00 - 3:30 p.m. .....Peggy ..... Peggy Lane ................... COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 872-3350 .... $309,900....... Downtown South 35 Kemp Avenue .............12:00 ............. 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. p.m. ..Tim .. Tim Maley...................... RE/MAX................................................. 550-3533 .............................. Kentwood West 31 Edwards Crescent ...... ......2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. .....Neall ..... Neall Stevens ............... SUTTON, LANDMARK ...................... 347-0751 .... $379,000....... Eastview Estates 20 Valentine Crescent ....... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Len Parsons .............................. RE/MAX ..............................................................................350-9227 .... $629,900....... Vanier Woods 2 Vernon Close ..................2:00 .................. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Melissa Morin ........................ CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE .....................346-0021 .............................. Vanier East 90 Maxwell Avenue .............. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Doug Wagar ............................ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................304-2747 .... $377,900....... Morrisroe 4036-39 Street.............................. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Darlis Dreveny ...................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................358-4981 .... $337,900....... Grandview 7544-59 Avenue ........................ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Sena Walker ............................. ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................358-0077 .... $344,900....... Glendale 15 Howarth Street .................. 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Bob Gummow ...................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................598-7913 .... $424,900....... Highland Green 85 Archibald Crescent ...... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Jan Carr........................................... ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................396-1200 .... $474,900....... Anders Park East 5804-44 Avenue ........................ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Tara Dowding........................ REALTY EXECUTIVES ......................................872-2595 .... $549,000....... Woodlea 6 Thompson Crescent .... ....12:00 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. ..Aaron .. Aaron .............................. LAEBON HOMES ................................ 396-4016............................... Timberstone 22 Tindale Place ...............12:00 ............... 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. ..Samantha .. Samantha ...................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6261............................... The Timbers 17 Lazaro Close ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Kyle ..... Kyle Lygas ..................... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Laredo

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 - OUT OF TOWN 94 Cedar Square...............2:30 ............... 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. p.m. .....Tim ..... Tim Maley...................... RE/MAX................................................. 550-3533 .............................. Blackfalds 21 Paramount ................... ...................2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Bett Portelance ................... CENTURY 21, ADVANTAGE .....................307-5581 .............................. Blackfalds 9 Portway Close ......................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Janice Mercer ........................ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................598-3338 .... $469,900....... Blackfalds 25 Portway Close ..................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Janice Mercer ........................ ROYAL LEPAGE, NETWORK .....................598-3338 .... $489,900....... Blackfalds 46 Aztec Crescent ................... 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ........Nicole Dushanek .............. ROYAL CARPET REALTY ...............................342-7700 .... $359,900....... Blackfalds 5316 Queen Crescent..... .....1:00 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. .....Izetta ..... Izetta Sellors ................. COLDWELL BANKER, ON TRACK .. 506-2968 .............................. Blackfalds 56 Henderson Crescent ..2:00 2:00 - 4:00 p.m ..........Chris Forsyth........................... MAXWELL, REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS ....391-8141 .... $496,900....... Penhold 3 Bardwell Way .................1:00 ................. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jennifer ..... Jennifer .......................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 392-6841............................... Sylvan Lake 129 Mann Drive ................1:00 ................ 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jocelyn ..... Jocelyn ........................... LAEBON HOMES ................................ 302-9612............................... Penhold 4273 Ryders Ridge Blvd..1:00 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Lyle ..... Lyle Kellington ............ MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2231............................... Sylvan Lake #102 639 Oak Street .......1:00 ....... 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. .....Jessica ..... Jessica Mercereau ...... MASON MARTIN HOMES................ 588-2550............................... Springbrook

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Have you ever noticed that when you walk into an ill-conceived room, you react immediately to the negative aspects?

You don’t feel comfortable.

It could be that the furniture is out of balance creating an awkward path to follow.

The colours may clash, patterns fight each other, there’s not enough light, the mood is jumbled.

It’s often easier to see why a space doesn’t work DEBBIE for you than to TRAVIS figure out how to fix it.

Interior design theory is a complicated business not learned overnight. But fortunately there is lots of help available in books, magazines, newspapers and online to guide you through some of the most common obstacles.

Our home spaces are created over time. Being aware of what to look for and how to add and edit as your life evolves is one of my only rules. Learn by doing, make mistakes and move on.

It’s a great adventure.

Dominic Bradbury, author of Interiors in Detail, 100 Contemporary Rooms, has compiled an inspiring collection of rooms that work in all senses. Each space projects a mood and affords the details that make it useful, practical and inviting. Each room fulfils its role with a flourish. Bradbury takes a close look at the elements that help to bring

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HOME: Colour fits A blue wave, originally a theatrical prop from an opera house, is an unexpected theatrical element, while its colour fits the blue theme perfectly.

Interiors by Design examines key design principles as a guide to helping you make the most of your rooms. With the current trend to downsizing upon us, proportion and scale have become a challenge.

Furnishings that fit comfortably in a house are often out of scale for a small space.

Yes, we are editing like mad, but it is so helpful to get a new perspective.

Start fresh, don’t try to match up the past, but instead reinvent. Inspiration is everywhere.

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Removing ceiling texture Question: What sort of tradesperson can I get to remove a textured, popcorn ceiling? It’s applied over a plaster surface, not drywall.

Answer: Stucco and textured ceilings can usually be removed by softening the surface with water, followed by gentle scraping.

This is something you can do yourself or you could hire a handy person to take care of it.

No matter how careful the removal process, it’s quite likely that some small grooves and dents might develop in the ceiling. A drywaller is the ideal tradesperson to make this right, applying skim coats of plaster where needed.

Wavy fascia solution Question: What can I do about new aluminum fascia that’s wavy and

Your renovation, furniture and electronics are a large investment, and an electrician recommended by the manufacturer or retailer will be the best person for installing the wiring (or wireless service and devices) in a quick, efficient, cost-effective and aesthetic way. “beige blah’s” it is advisable to use colour and patterns on the walls and in the accent pieces.

While the eastern solar exposure will provide warm light in the daytime, it will cool off in the late afternoon, so I will often recommend choosing a warmer colour palate as the primary tones for the room. For example, the golden tint of the coffee table and the wall unit will be nicely complemented with yellow and orange tones, perhaps complemented with some green shades.

Whatever style you choose, do remember that the darker the shade that you use on the walls, the more dramatic will be the effect.

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buckled. I’ve just paid thousands for something that looks terrible. I hate it.

Please help if you can.

Answer: Aluminum expands and contracts a lot with changes in temperature, so it will buckle and look ugly if it’s installed poorly.

That said, fascia can be installed so it never buckles, even in hot weather.

It’s just a matter of skill and planning.

What portion of the total job cost

have you paid so far?

Withholding some money until you’re satisfied is the best method for making wrong things right.

From the sounds of it, all the existing fascia will have to come off.

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As you can see from the plan I have drawn, the television’s wall unit fits perfectly well on the room’s short wall.

To me, this is a natural location for the piece since there is no foot traffic to block the view, and you should be able to locate it at the manufacturer’s recommended distance from the seating.

Generally, adding electrical outlets is not a difficult, nor an expensive proposition, even if they have to be surface-mounted due to architectural limitations.

Keep in mind that, unless your home is completely wireless (and this is a good time for you to investigate that subject), there are still many wires associated with today’s electronics. It’s a good idea to have the wiring professionally installed by a manufacturer-suggested installer, and that is often a licensed electrician.

Traffic flow in your living room is confined to one corner where the busy access from the entry hall is located, so it is a good idea to keep this area free of furnishings.

A large windowed area with its eastern solar exposure, means that the room is likely bathed in early daylight, and maintains a low-but-consistent brightness throughout the day, free of disturbing glare that needs to regularly be controlled.

Overall, this simple, uncluttered arrangement that I propose should give you a clear, unobstructed view of the television from every seat in the room.

When planning your next shopping trip, aside from the wall unit, the only additional furniture that I would recommend buying are a smaller scale sofa and a few end tables.

If you decide not to match the new end table with your coffee table, you could consider end tables that feature a slightly darker shade of regular-grained maple.

It is most popular to choose neutral colours for furnishing, and if you decide to do that, to avoid the

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Question: At a glance, the location for my new wall-mounted television and electronics cabinet seems cut-and-dried. My problem is, I can’t figure out where it is best placed both for appearance within the room, and for watching the thing. I have tried many mock-up locations using a cardboard cutout, but because this room is very, very narrow and I am not convinced any arrangement is appropriate.

Until the TV location is established, I have put off buying new furniture because I don’t know where to begin that quest either.

DAVID Should I be looking for a FERGUSON sectional or regular sofa?

Do I get a combination with a love seat, or will a group of comfortable chairs be best?

The 2.7-metre (nine-foot) long east wall has no electrical outlet, yet that’s where I would prefer to locate the television. I’m a mess every time I sit down to think about this!

The only furniture that I have purchased for the room are a burl maple coffee table and two brown leather chairs, both of which are beautiful, comfortable and I should be able to make them work in any arrangement.

I have the television’s wall unit on hold, pending your reply to my letter.

Answer: Now I’m a mess thinking about the pressure to perform.

Of course, I’m kidding.

The short answer to your woes is: Trust your instincts because, as they have been on other room issues, they are almost always correct about what you need and want.

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FRIESEN Albert 1921 - 2015 Albert Friesen passed away peacefully on August 22, 2015 in Red Deer, AB, one month shy of his 94th birthday. Albert enjoyed the land, planting, harvest and all four seasons. Woodworking and gardening were favorite hobbies of his. He served in W.W. II. When the war ended, he returned to Saskatchewan to the life of farming he had grown up with and very much loved until his retirement. Al married Elvera Liese of Macoun on October 14, 1958. They farmed and raised their family in the Macoun/Midale area. He enjoyed to work and was also passionate about his work with the Sask. Surface Rights Assoc. After retirement, Al and Elvera moved to Red Deer to be near children and grandchildren. Albert was predeceased by his parents, Nicholas and Helena (Veer) Friesen; four brothers, Jake, Nick, Abe and Ben; two sisters, Emalyn Reitenbach and Hazel Wiebe, and daughter-in-law Wendy (Meyers) Friesen. He leaves to mourn his wife of 56 years, Elvera, and four children, Doug of Midale, SK, Darrell of Eckville, AB, Barb (Bert) Thompson of Red Deer, AB and Les (Lorraine) of Airdrie, AB; his cherished grandchildren, Stacey (Steve) Dyck, Cheryl (Colin) Baines, Nathan Friesen, Katherine, Natalie, Luke and Jerrica Thompson, Shannon and Michael Noseworthy and Alysha Friesen, as well as two precious great-grandchildren, Caleb and Desmond Dyck. Also left to mourn are one brother Art (Angeline) of Estevan; two sisters, Tillie (Curt) Jahnke of Santa Barbara, CA and Gladys (Ray) Buzan of Lompoc, CA; one brother-inlaw Ray (Doreen) Liese of Estevan, and sisters-in-law, Agnes Friesen, Lorna Stubel and Inez Steinke. Al will be fondly remembered by many dear nephews, nieces, neighbours and friends. A Funeral Service to honor Albert’s life will be held on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s United Church, Estevan, with Sandy Dalziel officiating.

Interment will follow at the Macoun Cemetery.

“The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation.” Psalm 118:14.

If desired, donations in Al’s memory may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, 1910 McIntyre Street, Regina, SK, S4P 2R3.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to HALL FUNERAL SERVICES, Estevan. Messages of condolence may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.hallfuneralservices.ca

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HAMILTON Barbara Mary The oldest child of Tom and Matilda Hazlett, Barbara was born in Coronation, AB on May 12, 1918 and passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 in Red Deer, AB. She will be dearly missed by her children, Elizabeth (John Thomas) Wengberg, Geraldine (Ron) Shulhan, Lee (Janet) Hamilton and Linda (Ron) Taylor; daughters-in-law, Arlene Hamilton and Shirley Hamilton; sister, Pat Maxson; grandchildren; greatgrandchildren; great-great grandchildren; and nieces and nephews. Barbara was predeceased by her devoted husband, Isaac; two sons, Mac and Lloyd; special grandson, Randy Hamilton; loving companion, Gerald Breen; and two sisters, Isabel and Matilda. She was very artistic with sewing, knitting and crocheting, but especially painting. She was extremely proud of her pictures.

Barbara has touched the lives of all her family and many friends. She will forever be in our hearts.

A Celebration of Barbara’s Life for the family will be planned at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Barbara’s memory to the charity of one’s choice. Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

VERES Joan Our Mom, Grandma, and Great Grandma, Joan Veres, passed away suddenly on August 25, 2015, at the age of 90 years. Joan was born in Hanna, AB, June 17, 1925 to Ralph and Nellie Greenway.

Joan spent 23 years on the farm at Wimborne and then moved to Red Deer in 1983.

During that time she enjoyed babysitting for family and friends, she was an excellent seamstress where she made and altered many wedding dresses throughout the years. Camping was a highlight, often taking the grandkids to the lake on weekends. She loved to travel, she spent many holiday’s in Washington, Quebec and Ontario with the family, and the ultimate trip overseas to Africa. Joan spent the last year of her life in Olds, Alberta. Throughout her life she made many good and lasting relationships. She never realized the impact she had on the younger generation; they appreciated her total acceptance of them, her shared wisdom, and encouragement in their lives.

Joan is survived by her children Ralph (Joyce), Sheldina (Kenton), Ron (Wendy), Stan (Shelly), Keith (Chris), Cindy (Jenny), her sister Gretta, eight grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was sadly pre-deceased by her son Kenny, her parents, two brothers (their spouses) and one brother In-law.

Funeral service will be held at First Baptist Church, 5005 - 53rd Avenue, Olds, Alberta on Thursday September 3rd, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. with reception following.

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WYNTJES Wilhelmus (Bill) Johannes 1927 - 2015 Bill Wyntjes passed away peacefully at Harmony Care Homes in Red Deer on Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 at the age of 87 years.

Bill was born in Amersfoort, Holland on September 20, 1927 as the third of ten children born to Petrus and Christina Wyntjes. In 1953, he married Betty Roest and shortly thereafter, they immigrated to Canada to build a future. Bill leaves to cherish his memory: his wife, Betty; his children, Peter (Brenda), Henry (Dianne), Bill (Pam), Allan (Dianne), his son-in-law Lane Francis, Chris (Sandra), Angela Bell (Dan), Tom (Brenda) and Nancy Junck (Cameron); twenty-nine grandchildren; and seventeen great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his daughter, Elizabeth Francis and his grandson, Bretton Bell. Bill spent his childhood working on the family farm in Holland.

During WWII, the family endured many physical and spiritual hardships. Following the war in Europe, the world conflict continued in Southeast Asia. Young Dutch soldiers were sent to protect the colonies. Bill served three years with the Dutch Army in Indonesia. When he met his wife, Betty in 1951, the new couple were anxious to leave war-torn Holland and begin a new life in the country that had liberated them. He secured employment as a labourer for a farmer in White Fox, Saskatchewan, and later for a farmer in Red Deer. He purchased his first farm in North Red Deer and began homesteading. Two years later, Bill and Betty purchased their current farm south-east of Red Deer. The family farm has been operating for 54 years.

Together with his wife and family working by his side, Bill built a thriving farm operation. In recent years, his favourite past times included enjoying his cattle, checking on his crops and visiting at the auction market and the UFA. A remembrance and celebration of Bill’s life will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer on Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Canadian Cancer Society (#101, 6751 - 52 Ave., Red Deer, AB. T4N 4K8) in memory of his beloved daughter, Elizabeth Francis.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by v i s i t i n g www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

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In loving memory of Vivian Irene Provost (Johnson) Mar. 3, 1937-Aug. 29, 1975 She was taken without any warning Her going left hearts filled with pain But though she is gone from amongst us In our hearts she will always remain Patricia, Suzanne, Paul, Bernard, Joan and Greg.

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THANK YOU Our family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone for the phone calls, visits, flowers, cards, food and gifts we received after the passing of our husband, dad and papa, Jim Ross. Thank you to all of the staff at Villa Marie, Covenant Care Facility for the care Jim received while a resident there. We are so fortunate to live in such a wonderful and caring community.

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ARE YOU interested in design and enjoy working with people? Bigstone Custom Cabinets in Millet, AB. is looking for a designer/sales person to join our team. We are willing to train. The applicant must have a working knowledge of blueprints and be very comfortable with computers. Please email ONLY all inquiries to: tracy@ bigstonecustomcabinets.ca

Today things move quickly and with purpose.

After the last 2 years of hard work and studies, Evan Arnold Gillies graduated from NAIT with an exemplary academic standing, obtained scholarships and earned a place on the Dean’s Honour Roll, receiving his Diploma with Honours in the Instrumentation Engineering Technology program.

“It’s our choices who makes us who we are and he chose to make great achievements!”

Evan, you’re as “strong as an eagle” and by soaring to the greatest of heights, you’ve attained this milestone!

May your wings continue to soar!

We are so very proud of you and celebrate your accomplishments with pride and appreciation.

Congratulations Evan!

Love Mom, Dad and Owen xo

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Food Service Supervisor Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening both full and part time.

4 Vacancies, $13.75 /hr. + medical, dental, life and vision benefits. Start ASAP. Job description www.timhortons.com Experience 1 yr. to less than 2 yrs.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015 D5

BUY IT.

Classified. It’s the easy-to-access, information-packed marketplace visited regularly — by all kinds of consumers.

Classified. It’s the resource you can count on to sell a myriad of merchandise items because our columns compel qualified buyers to call.

309-3300

FIND IT.

Classified. It’s the solution you’re searching for — whether you’re seeking a home, an apartment, a new occupation or even a stray pet.

Oilfield TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK ANDERS BOWER HIGHLAND GREEN INGLEWOOD JOHNSTONE KENTWOOD RIVERSIDE MEADOWS PINES SUNNYBROOK SOUTHBROOKE WEST LAKE WEST PARK Call Rick at 403- 314-4303

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For early morning delivery by 6:30 am Mon. - Sat. INGLEWOOD ORIOLE PARK ANDERS Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

Earn Extra Money

MULTI-FAMILY 43 KITSON CLOSE Sat. Aug. 29, 8:30 - 2:30 From antiques & vintage to household, furniture, tools & more! Something for everyone! No reasonable price refused

ash Extra C ise! & Exerc

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

4305 46A AVE. (Alley) RAIN or SHINE Aug. 28, Fri. 4 - 7 Aug. 29, Sat. 9 - 3 Plus size ladies Love My Garage Sales. Shoes, handbags, household items, snow blower, elect. lawn mower etc....

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Routes Available in Your Neighborhood

38 WISHART ST.

SAT. AUG. 22 TO SUN. AUG 30 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

NO SALE - MON. AUG 24 Tools, garden, housewares, ladders, toys, bikes, old magazines, golf clubs.

Too much more to list.

Weather permitting.

West Park Estates

Parkvale

For that new computer, a dream vacation or a new car

Professionals

880

Misc.

Help

ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• • • • • • • • •

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

F/T DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

810

OFFICE MANAGER POSITION

Sylvan Lake

HUGE multi family/estate sale. 10 Wiltshire Place Fri. Aug. 28, noon-7, Sat. 9-3. Everything new or gently used. Furniture, sm. appls, sporting goods, housewares, etc.

Sylvan Lake COUNTRY garage sale, Sat. and Sun., Aug. 29 and Aug. 30, 9-6. Vintage and not so vintage. Everything must go. 10 min. sw of Sylvan, Hwy 11 West, south on RR 20, follow the signs.

Sylvan Lake

The Associate Clinic Innisfail is seeking applications for the position of Office Manager.

The successful applicant would be responsible for the management of the Clinic’s day to day operations including management of staff, liaison with electronic medical records provider, payroll, accounts receivables and payables, and facilities.

Previous management experience would be preferred. Knowledge of medical software programs a definite asset.

Please forward resume to: inni2@telus.net or by fax to 1-888-490-3946 Please note, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Reporter/Photographer The Red Deer Express, one of Alberta’s leading community newspapers, has an immediate opening for a reporter/photographer.

This is a shared position between the Red Deer Express and the Lacombe Express. Both papers are publications within the Black Press group which publishes more than 150 other publications.

Red Deer Ponoka Sylvan Lake Lacombe

This position is full time with approximately three days per week spent in the Red Deer office and two days per week assisting our Lacombe Express editor in the Lacombe office.

call: 403-314-4394 or email: carriers@reddeeradvocate.com

Oilfield

800

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CALL:

309-3300 TRICAN is a global well service company with operations in Canada, USA, and Norway.

If you are a motivated, service-oriented team player with excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills, we invite you to apply for the following positions:

Classified does it all!

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Fracturing Operators, Frac Sand B-Train Drivers

The Red Deer Advocate Classified is the community’s number-one information centre and marketplace.

It serves as the best single source for selling items, seeking jobs, finding housing, meeting new people and more.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that Trican’s safety program, Target Zero, is followed and is promoted to employees, customers partners and the public at all times.

• Operate various large duty trucks over outdoor terrain and through all weather conditions.

• Perform pre and post trip inspections and accurately ¿ll out all required forms.

• Perform rig-in and rig-out of all equipment, for travel • Operate all equipment in safe and responsible manner • Attend pre-job safety meeting on location • Perform maintenance on units and auxiliary equipment • Complete required paperwork • Establish and maintain effective communication with colleagues • Consult with supervisor and crew regarding any operational de¿ciencies

Red Deer Advocate Classified:

• Helps lost pets find their families • Brings buyers and sellers together • Serves as a key resource for renters • Helps families find new homes • Puts individuals in touch with each other • Provides job seekers with career information • Serves as a great guide to garage sales • Makes selling and shopping simple

Experience & Skills:

• Valid Class 1 Driver’s licence is required, safe driving skills – current driver’s abstract required • Pressure pumping experience is preferred • High school diploma is an asset • Heavy lifting required, must be physically ¿t • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Values-driven organization • Full coverage bene¿ts program, Health spending account, RRSP matching program • Global technical leader within our industry • Focus on safety, training and development • Career advancement opportunities

Working Conditions:

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• 15 days on/6 days off • On call 24-hours per day during days on • Willing to live near base of employment • Pre-employment medical testing required • Working in all weather conditions

Please forward your resume and a copy of a current driver’s abstract (in confidence) Fax: (403) 314-3332, Online: https://trican.hgcareers.com Please visit our website at www.trican.ca for additional information about our company

Put the power of classified to work for you today.

To place an ad, call 309-3300.

To subscribe, call 314-4300.

We thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted

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For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA

860

West Park

Kentwood Estates

What Makes Us Attractive:

CARRIERS NEEDED

Truckers/ Drivers

EASY!

552216E16-I19

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

850

Trades

NEWSPAPER ROLL ENDS 50¢ PER POUND

7109693H31

Call Jamie at 403-314-4306

CallDebbie at 403- 314-4307

800

830

JJAM Management (1987) JJAM Management (1987) GANZ seeks experienced BUSY Central Alberta GOODMEN Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s SALES Grain Trucking Company ROOFING LTD. Requires to work at these Requires to work at these REPRESENTATION looking for Class 1 Drivers Requires Red Deer, AB locations: Red Deer, AB locations: for Red Deer and/or Lease Operators.

5111 22 St. 5111 22 St. (Central Alberta).

We offer lots of home time, SLOPED ROOFERS 37444 HWY 2 S 37444 HWY 2 S Independent Agents are benefits and a bonus LABOURERS 37543 HWY 2N 37543 HWY 2N welcome to apply. program. Grain and super & FLAT ROOFERS 700 3020 22 St. 700 3020 22 St. Visit www.ganz.com for B exp. an asset but not FOOD ATTENDANT Manager/Food Services information about the necessary. If you have a Valid Driver’s Licence Req’d permanent shift Permanent P/T, F/T shift. company and our everyday clean commercial drivers preferred. Fax or email weekend day and evening Wknd, day, night & eves. and seasonal lines. abstract and would like to info@goodmenroofing.ca both full and part time.

Start date ASAP $19.23/hr.

Email resumes to start making good money. or (403)341-6722 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + 40 hrs/week, + benefits , Larry Neary, National fax or email resume and NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! benefits. Start ASAP. 8 Vacancies, 3-5 yrs. exp., Sales Manager, comm. abstract to Job description criminal record check req’d. larryn@ganz.com.

403-337-3758 or Classifieds www.timhortons.com Req’d education some dtl@telus.net Your place to SELL Education and experience secondary. Apply in Looking for a place Your place to BUY not req’d. person or fax resume to: to live?

Apply in person or fax 403-314-1303 For full job Take a tour through the resume to: 403-314-1303 description visit www.

CLASSIFIEDS SMALL RURAL MEAT timhortons.com SHOP in central AB Start your career!

Great For covering Tables, CLASS 3 DRIVERS looking for F/T meat See Help Wanted Ar t Work, Clean Packing cutter. 8 - 4:30, no weekw/airbrake endorsement Paper, Painting, Playschool, ends. Knowledge of cutting needed immed. for waste & and Lots More. recycling automated & roll A Star Makes Banners, hanging carcasses off trucks. Email resume VARIETY OF SIZES needed. Rental house with a min. of 2 references Your Ad Pick Up At: The easy way to find a avail. within walking disto: canpak@xplornet.ca RED DEER buyer for items you want to tance of meat shop at a A Winner!

ADVOCATE sell is with a Red Deer Classifieds...costs so little very reasonable rate with CALL: Circulation Advocate want ad. Phone paid utils. $21 to start with Saves you so much!

Department 309-3300. skill & exp. 403-843-4383 309-3300 2950 Bremner F/T TOW TRUCK drivers jkcmeats@hotmail.ca Ave. req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract.

Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

No s! ion Collect

For delivery of Flyers, Wednesday and Friday ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK CLEARVIEW RIDGE CLEARVIEW TIMBERSTONE LANCASTER VANIER WOODLEA/ WASKASOO DEER PARK GRANDVIEW EASTVIEW MICHENER MOUNTAINVIEW ROSEDALE

820

Sales & Distributors

★

SELL IT.

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED

820

Restaurant/ Hotel

7133730H28,29

70

Restaurant/ Hotel

552220E16-I19

Happy Ads

Primary Focus: Covering community news for both cities.

Providing a range of feature/human interest stories as well as some sports writing.

There is some weekend and evening work required.

The successful applicant will have exceptional writing and communication skills and a strong understanding of grammar and Canadian Press style.

A reliable vehicle and your own camera equipment is a must.

Black Press offers competitive compensation, a team environment, benefits and opportunity for career advancement.

Interested candidates should forward their resume to: Tracey Scheveers, Publisher Red Deer Express, Email: publisher@reddeerexpress.com No phone calls please.

We thank everyone for their application however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

blackpress.ca X bclocalnews.com

7133150H27-29

Sales & Distributors

830

JOIN OUR TEAM! Recreation Vehicle Sales Associate We are looking to compliment our sales floor with an ambitious, energetic team player.

Experience in sales would be an asset but not required.

If you are a fit for our team, have the right attitude and follow our core values, we would like to give you the opportunity to grow with us!

Along with daily, weekly, monthly and yearly training, you will enjoy an extensive group benefit plan, allowable holidays in the summer months, and an aggressive pay structure featuring an above industry commission plan, bonus program and multiple incentive programs.

Our team at Vellner Leisure Products looks forward to you joining us.

Come see what we are all about... you will not be disappointed!

Please fax or email your resume to: ronanne.ashton@vellner.com Fax 403.340.8135 1890-49th Ave., Red Deer 7134662H29-I11

Earn Extra Money

¯ ROUTES AVAILABLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Red Deer Ponoka

Sylvan Lake Lacombe

call: 403-314-4394 or email:

carriers@reddeeradvocate.com

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For that new computer, a dream vacation or a new car

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015

880

Misc.

Help

F/T LABORER req., exp. with hydro-vac, backhoe, and direct drill preferred.

Must have valid dr. licence and ref. e-mail resume attn: jason@ttlocates@gmail.com RETIRED professional person req’d to be personal assistant for a blind lady.

Ref’s req’d. 403-309-4554

Employment Training

900

SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

1710

Household Appliances

DANBY apartment size dishwasher, 19”Wx36”H on wheels, connects to standard kitchen faucet $200. 403-342-4774

Household Furnishings

1720

1760

Sale

278950A5

wegot

stuff

1540

1830

1580

ED HARDY shirts, 3 long sleeve, 1 short sleeve, Child’s size L and XL. $20 for all 4. 403-314-9603

1590

Clothing

LADIES Rieker, size 37 white sling leather upper shoes, antistress, Dora style, worn once. Reg. $129, asking $85. 403-227-2976 NURSES’ uniforms, pants & tops. med. to large size. $5 each. (approx. 30) good shape.

403-347-2526

1630

EquipmentHeavy

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1640

Tools

VARIETY of miscellaneous tools, $20. 403-885-5020

1660

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

Spruce, Pine - Split. Avail.

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 FREE POPLAR logs. You pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385.

3020

2 Siamese, 1 Balinese, 1 Burman kittens $50/ea; 403-887-3649 KITTENS, (2) 3 mos. old, 1 Male, 1 Female.

FREE to a good home.

403-885-2104

Sporting Goods

1860

3030

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

2 BDRM. bi-level in 4 plex rent $895 403-314-0209 NORMANDEAU 2 Bdrm. 4-plex. 1.5 bath, 4 appls. $1100. No pets, N/S Quiet adults. 403-350-1717 SYLVAN LAKE, 2 bdrm.

4-plex, 4 appl., rent/$980, dd/$980, adults with ref., n/s, no pets. 403-358-8586

Suites

3060

2 BDRM. bsmt suite. $950 DD same 403-348-1304 2 BDRM. lrg. suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail. Sept.1 $900/mo., S.D. $650.

403-304-5337 2 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $875 rent/d.d. 1 BDRM. N/S, no pets. $790 rent/d.d. 403-346-1458 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., ADULT ONLY BLDG, no pets, Oriole Park. 403-986-6889 AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Co-Op, no pets, 403-348-7445

BRAND NEW RENTAL COMMUNITY

2 MAN tent in a bag, Sears Now leasing for Sept. 1! $30; classic Coleman stove w/stand, 2 burner, 1 & 2 BDRMs from $1170.

In-suite laundry. Dishwashwindblock, well used, $50 ; Coleman single burner er. Storage. Balcony. Pet friendly. Elevator. Parking SOLD 403-227-2976 avail. Gym. Community garden. Non-smoking.

Collectors' On-site mgmt. 39 Van Slyke Way, Red Deer.

Items 403-392-6751 SkylineLiving.ca KISS Collectibles, includes special order watch, playing cards, pictures, Archie Kiss Book. All for $45.

403-314-9603

1870

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

Suites

3060

AVAIL. Sept. 1, 3 bdrm.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. house for rent in Parkvale. apartments, avail. immed, RENTED No pets. Apply rent $875 403-596-6000 in person or call RENTED LARGE 2 bdrm. suite EASTVIEW 3 BDRM. w/balcony, $895/mo. house, recently reno’d, fin. inclds. most utils. bsmt., 4 appls., no pets.

403-314-0209 403-848-4618 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

LAZY Boy recliner, very Condos/ good cond, green fabric, Townhouses $200 403-346-3086 LAZYBOY power recliner SEIBEL PROPERTY w/heat & massage con- 6 locations in Red Deer, 3 trols. Like new. was $1600. bdrms, 1 1/2 bath, appls, $500. obo SOLD starting at $1100. For more info 403-347-7545 or LOVESEAT, exc. cond.

403-304-7576 $200. obo.

Call or text 403-348-3107 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, WANTED 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, Antiques, furniture and generously sized, 1 1/2 estates. 342-2514 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets.

Misc. for www.greatapartments.ca

100 VHS movies, $75.

403-885-5020 BBQ grill on wheels Electric Patio Caddy brand 30” high. Like New. $60. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North) 403-340-8199 COLLECTION of over 1,000 old buttons, $100.

403-885-5020 DOUBLE MATTRESS topper, 2” foam style with zipper cloth cover, like new, seldom used. Was $129. new, asking $40.

CLASSIFICATIONS 403-346-2192 1500-1990 RUBBERMAID storage tubs, assorted larger sizes, clean, $5/ea, or all 6/$25; bakers rack, like new Bicycles 31”Wx17”Dx75”H, 5 glass shelves $90 403-755-2760 TREK 7000 ONYX series, TEAPOT with creamer & Alpha custom aluminum sugar, salt & pepper in frame, gear shaft on each Cottage house design. side of handlebar, 9 7 pieces. Avon collectible. sprocket rear wheel, 3 sprocket pedal, Superstack NEW $25. 403-347-5846 hubs & rims, American Bicycle technology, largest bike company in USA. Cats $200. 403-505-6597

Children's Items

Houses/ Duplexes

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

MORRISROE MANOR 1 & 2 bdrm., Adult bldg. only, N/S, No pets. 403-596-2444

NEW bsmt. suite In RYDERS RIDGE,

Sylvan Lake, 2 bdrm. 6 appls., separate entrance, parking and storage, infloor heat, laundry etc. no pets, n/s, ref’s, 1 yr. lease $795. avail. Sept.15 587-876-7977

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 SYLVAN: Furn. Private suite. + Cable, fridge, etc. $650/mo. 403-880-0210 SYLVAN: 4 fully furn. units avail. OCT 1. $1100. to $1400. 403-880-0210.

THE NORDIC

FOR LEASE

RIVERSIDE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL 2400 sq. ft. large 55 x 85 compound 403-350-1777

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820

wegot

Roommates Wanted

3080

OVER 200 CHANNELS, TV SUPPLIED, MUST LOVE DOGS, MUST BE WORKING M., RENT $600., N/S, 587-272-1952

Rooms For Rent

3090

Avail Immed: 1 Lrg fully furn bdrm c/w gas fireplace - $300 dd $600/mth.

Call 403-396-2468 COZY Furnished room, n/s, $575. 403-466-7979

4010

Open House

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

4020

Directory

552205E16-I19

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Eavestroughing

Massage Therapy

1280

BODY BALANCING, Hot Stone. 403-352-8269

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

Moving & Storage

1300

Misc.

Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 LAUREL TRUDGEON Residential Painting and Colour Consultations.

403-342-7801.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Moving & Storage

1300

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS

Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Window Cleaning

1420

RESIDENTIAL. Free Quotes. 403-506-4822

Yard Care

552217E16-I19

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

1370

1300

ROBUST CLEANING SERVICES Eavestroughs and gutters cleaned. Free quotes.

403-506-4822

1160

Roofing

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Moving & Roofing. Re-roofing Storage specialist. Fully insured.

Insurance claims welcome.

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. 10 yr. warranty on all work.

403-350-7602 removal. 403-986-1315

1130

Entertainment

For Home Delivery

CALL 314-4300

5050

2003 Chev S15 E/C, V6 auto, full load, $6500. Call Harold 403-350-6800 2004 RAM 1500 6 cyl.

5.7L, auto, air, tilt, 4x4, cruise, p. locks, transmission cooler for trailer and brakes, box liner, 191,000 kms, $6900 403-505-3113

Motorhomes

5100

1996 26’ PHOENIX 147,000 kms, sleeps 6, new tires, good working order $9100 403-704-3094 LAINCHBURY CONST. Show Home - Open House 110 Turner Crescent Thurs. & Fri. 5-7, Sat. and Sun. 1-5. 3 bdrm. 2 bath 1307 sq. ft. up, 600 down, maple cabinets and trim, den office and rec. room has bar & fireplace.

403-391-6444

RISER HOMES

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

ATTIC INSULATION BLOW IN. New construction or upgrade existing.

Call or text 780-898-9708 cedarbrookltd@gmail.com

5030

Cars

Tires, Parts Acces.

5180

TIRES, Michelin, 235/65R 16”, 2 tires for $75.

403-314-9603

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1085

Your Guide To Entertainment

CALL 309-3300

1000-1430

Construction

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

SERGE’S HOMES

GREAT STARTER HOME. BLACKFALDS 1200 sq. ft. bi-level walkout 3 bdrm. 2 bath, open floor plan, a must see! $355,000 Legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. incld. LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

1430

FALL cleanup. Tree/junk removal. Snow removal contracts welcome 403-358-1614 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S LARGEST CAR LOT

SENIOR’S DUPLEX DEER PARK, check Kijiji #1097639209.

4050

CLASSIFICATIONS

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Pick Up At: RED DEER ADVOCATE Circulation Department 2950 Bremner Ave.

Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050

ACT NOW! Blackfalds Bungalow walkout backing onto valley view. A must see.

This 2 bdrm. 2 bath has many upgrades. This weekend only $405.000.

GST, legal fees and 4 appl. package included.

LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

3020

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617

VARIETY OF SIZES

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

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RISER HOMES

wegotservices

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Great For covering Tables, Art Work, Clean Packing Paper, Painting, Playschool, Banners, and Lots More.

5000-5300

Trucks

CLASSIFICATIONS

1200

Find the right fit.

wegot

4000-4190

Realtors & Services

CONSIDERING ACAREER CHANGE?

NEWSPAPER ROLL ENDS 50¢ PER POUND

CONSOLIDATE All loans with rates from 2.1% business or personal loan bankruptcy or bad credit ok. Call 438-992-5916

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Handyman Services

4430

Money To Loan

CLASSIFICATIONS

Acreages

1010

4400-4430

homes

S.E. House, working M. $475./mo. 403-341-4664

1680

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Venezuela’s Maduro announces extension of border closure CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Friday broadened a crackdown on Colombian migrants and border smugglers that has drawn strong rebuke by Colombian leaders and international organizations.

Speaking at a rally in Caracas, Maduro expanded the state of emergency and border closure he called last week to more cities on the western edge of the socialist South American country and said he would send an additional 3,000 soldiers to the area.

He said he was open to meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to discuss the mounting tensions between the two neighbouring countries wherever and whenever his counterpart chooses, but was leaving the next day for a trip to Asia.

The spat erupted when Maduro shut a major border crossing last week to combat what he says are rampant smuggling and paramilitary activities near Colombia, and declared a state of emergency in six western cities. On Friday, he extended the decree to more municipalities.

Venezuelan officials have deported more than 1,000 Colombian migrants and another 5,000 have left voluntarily, with some carrying all of their belongings across a muddy river on a frantic moving day.

On Friday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on both sides to work to resolve the crisis, and put extra emphasis on Venezuela’s responsibilities.

ment, saying Friday that it was a good deal for America and for allies like Israel.

“Like all families, sometimes there are going to be disagreements,” Obama said in a webcast with Jewish Americans. “And sometimes people get angrier about disagreements in families than with folks that aren’t family.”

Explosion in Bahrain kills police officer, wounds 7 others, including a child MANAMA, Bahrain — An explosion in Bahrain has killed one police officer and wounded seven other people, among them a child, the country’s Interior Ministry said late Friday.

The explosion took place west of the capital, Manama, in a predominantly Shiite village called Karanah.

The explosion, described by the ministry as a “terrorist blast,” wounded four policemen as well as a married couple and their child. The statement did not disclose further details on the location or target of the explosion.

Last month, a bombing killed two police officers in Sitra, south of Manama. Police investigators say five suspects arrested for that attack are connected to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, as well as the Iranianbacked Lebanese Hezbollah group.

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday ruled in favour of the Obama administration in a dispute over the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone data on hundreds of millions of Americans.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court ruling that said the program likely violates the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches.

The ruling means the government can continue collecting the data for the next few months, although the program is set to expire at the end of November under legislation that Congress passed earlier this summer to replace it. The appeals court sent the case back for a judge to determine whether the government must divulge more details about the program that would enable the case to go forward.

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Obama expects improved ties between U.S., Israel after Iran deal is implemented WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday compared tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the Iranian nuclear deal to a family feud and said he expects quick improvements in ties between the longtime allies once the accord is implemented.

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Two months after it legalized gay marriage nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked by a Kentucky county clerk for permission to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis objects to samesex marriage for religious reasons. The Supreme Court says the constitution guarantees gay people have the right to marry, but Davis contends the First Amendment guarantees her the right of religious freedom.

She stopped issuing all marriage licenses the day after the court effectively legalized gay marriage nationwide in June.

Two gay couples and two straight couples sued Davis, arguing she must fulfil her duties as an elected official. A federal judge ordered Davis to issue the licenses, and an appeals court upheld that decision.

Davis’ lawyers said they petitioned the Supreme Court on Friday to delay that decision until her appeal is finished, which could take months.

Her attorneys with the Christian law firm Liberty Counsel wrote in their appeal that Davis is seeking “asylum for her conscience.”

Justice Elena Kagan, who joined the majority opinion in June, will hear Davis’ case. Kagan could reject it in a matter of days, or she could ask the couples’ attorneys to file a response and refer it to court for review.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine judge on Friday authorized a money laundering probe involving the prosecutor who died mysteriously while investigating the bombing of a Jewish centre.

Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral approved a prosecution request to question relatives and associates of the late Alberto Nisman, including his mother, his sister and a man who had worked with Nisman.

Prosecutor Juan Pedro Zoni says investigators detected nearly $670,000 in suspicious movements though a New York account that Nisman opened in 2002. And he said Nisman appeared to be living above his means as a public employee.

Canicoba Corral ordered four people to testify, barred them from leaving Argentina and embargoed some of their assets. After questioning, the judge will determine if charges should be brought against Nisman’s mother Sara Garfunkel, sister Sandra Nisman, informatics adviser Diego Lagomarsino and businessman Claudio Picon.

Nisman was found dead of a gunshot wound in his apartment on Jan. 18 and officials are still trying to determine if he killed himself or was murdered.

Four days earlier, he had accused President Cristina Fernandez of leading a plan to cover up the involvement of Iranians suspected in the 1994 attack on the Jewish centre, which killed 85 people.

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HOROSCOPES Saturday, Aug. 29 Sunday, Aug. 30 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Chris Hatfield, 55; Carla Gugino, 43; Rebecca Peggy Lipton, 68; Warren Buffett, 84; CamDe Mornay, 55 eron Diaz, 42 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: It’s crazy Full THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Aim to get the Moon time, when emotions are high and self- balance right between being creative and control is low. productive.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You’re not as confiHAPPY BIRTHDAY: Organized and relident on the inside as you appear on the out- able, others can depend on you. Over the side. The coming year brings next 13 months, Jupiter encouragsome challenges, which you’ll es you to be more flexible, let your handle with extra Virgo vim hair down and have some fun! and vigour.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): ARIES (March 21-April Are you worried about something 19): Don’t be a rash Ram. Get Rams? If you have a problem that’s the facts straight, before you bothering you, look within for the rush in and make a sensitive answers you require. Your intuition situation worse. Relationships will lead you in the right direction. look particularly confusing so TAURUS (April 20-May 20): leave important decisions for Are you confused about your future another time. direction? Try turning to an older TAURUS (April 20-May friend or family member for advice JOANNE 20): It’s time for Taureans to and calm reassurance. RememMADELEINE re-assess a rickety romantic ber Bulls — a problem shared is a MOORE relationship or close friendproblem halved. ship. Do you need to demonGEMINI (May 21-June 20): The strate more commitment or is buzz word for Twins is communicait time to bite the bullet and tion, as you aim to get your meswalk away? sage out loud and clear. When it GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re in the comes to a work colleague, avoid making aspublic spotlight so make sure it’s for all the sumptions that aren’t based on reality. right reasons. Strive to get the balance right CANCER (June 21-July 22): Think bebetween being creative and being organized, fore you speak today, otherwise you are likely and don’t neglect your home life in the pro- to say the wrong thing to the wrong person, cess. at the wrong time. Instead, channel your creCANCER (June 21-July 22): You’ll be ative Crab energy into joint projects. tempted to make vague promises today, but LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Avoid saying the don’t commit to future projects unless you’re first thing that comes into your head today sure you have the time and energy to follow Lions. through on your well-meant intentions.

A sensitive and tactful approach is reLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Resist the temp- quired if you want to avoid problems with a tation to shop up a storm, and use retail ther- stressed friend or family member. apy as entertainment. Find less expensive VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a good ways to amuse yourself! When it comes to day to gather information, using your logic joint finances, have you got all the facts? plus your intuition but don’t make a final deciVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Full Moon sion until a later date. Be careful you don’t energizes partnerships and joint ventures, but misinterpret what a loved one has to say.

Neptune makes matters more confusing and LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Moon’s complicated. in compassionate Pisces so you’re eager to Don’t assume things. Sit down and listen please, and are in the mood to help others. to what loved ones have to say.

But don’t take on too much and end up conLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Full Moon fused about what you are actually achieving. highlights health, diet and exercise plus emoSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A personal tional and spiritual wellbeing. Issues from the matter requires a disciplined approach. Get past could also arise, as unresolved matters the facts before you believe everything a child demand to be addressed ASAP. or friend tells you though.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Expect a With a cool head, you’ll steer your way creative and chaotic time, especially involving through any problems. children, teenagers or friends. Draw up a toSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Being do list and then be flexible enough to change boisterous won’t be appreciated by others this and tweak it as the day develops. today Sagittarius. Try a more subtle approach SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You instead. When it comes to financial matters, may drive everyone crazy with your impatient, it’s time to pay bills and tidy up paperwork. impulsive ways, which are magnified by the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Clear Full Moon. communication is the secret to a successful Channel excess energy into professional day Capricorn. If you are too abrupt or too projects and domestic chores. vague, then it will cause problems. Escape CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Full into another world via a favourite book or Moon increases your energy levels and your movie. determination to get things done. It’s also a AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re terrific time to network with colleagues plus keen to help others today, but don’t get cardevelop a new social media strategy. ried away and promise more than you can AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s not a actually deliver. When it comes to health and good time to go on a shopping spree or lend diet, tune into what your body is asking for. money to others. You’re liable to make finanPISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t get cial decisions based on your emotions, which carried away with wild imaginings that have are fluctuating wildly under the full moon- no basis in reality. beams.

The key to keeping relationships on track PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Expect a is to communicate clearly and honestly plus roller coaster ride, as the Full Moon lights up keep things real. your sign. You may have mood swings and Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationemotional dramas but there’ll be plenty of cre- ally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her ative inspiration and spiritual insights as well. column appears daily in the Advocate.

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McDonald’s, Tyson cut ties with farmer after video shows chickens being abused

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — McDonald’s and its supplier Tyson Foods say they’ve cut ties with a chicken farmer after an advocacy group released a video taken with a hidden camera that the group said showed abusive practices at its farm.

The video was released by Mercy for Animals, an animal rights group that says it has released more than 40 similar videos in the past.

The footage shows people scooping chickens into a bucket by whacking them with a pole with a spike on the end, and standing on birds’ heads to break their necks.

Tyson Foods Inc. said in a statement that it was investigating the situation, but that it terminated the farmer’s contract “based on what we currently know.”

McDonald’s Corp. said in a statement that it supported Tyson’s decision to terminate its contract with the farmer in question.

“We’re working with Tyson Foods to further investigate this situation and reinforce our expectations around animal health and welfare at the farm level,” McDonald’s said in a statement.

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HARLAN: You can only control what you think You can’t control what other people say or do. You can’t control what other people think or feel.

You have no control over these people. You have no control over romantic partners, friends, family, parents and children (if you ever have them). I don’t have control over them, either.

You can only control what you think, feel and do (even that can be hard). You can work to tilt things in your favor, but that’s a temporary fix.

My secret is that I make people laugh. I learned to do it as a defense mechanism. If I can make people laugh, I know they’re not thinking horrible thoughts about me.

When I was younger, I was extremely overweight and insecure. When I made people laugh, I knew what they were thinking — that is, until they stopped laughing. Then I would have to make them laugh again. This is how I became funny. I learned to do this because I wanted to try to control people.

My humour deflected people from seeing that truth. What is the truth that

ately be reached.

The farm supplied chicken for McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets, according to Mercy for Animals. McDonald’s said the farm may have also supplied chicken for menu items including grilled and deep-fried chicken filets and its McChicken sandwich.

Tyson said in its statement that the video doesn’t reflect the treatment of chickens by the thousands of farmers that supply it. But Matt Rice, director of investigations for Mercy for Animals, said the group’s investigators walk away with images that “shock and horrify” every time they go on site at a farm.

“Unfortunately this type animal abuse runs rampant in the animal agriculture industry,” Rice said.

Mercy for Animals is asking McDonald’s to adopt a number of animal welfare policies, such as giving chickens more space, ending breeding practices designed to make chickens grow so quickly that they develop health problems, and the installation of video monitoring on farms.

Rice said Mercy for Animals has requested meetings with Tyson, but said the company has declined its requests.

A representative for Tyson, Gary Mickelson, said Tyson has previously offered to meet with the group. you’re hiding?

Why do you find it so bothersome that people misunderstand you? Instead of feeling like a target, engage these people. Educate them. Bring them into your world. Give them permission to appreciate you or not appreciate you. Teach them about your hobbies. Help them to see all the things that make you interesting, intriguing and dynamic.

Don’t do it so they can like you. Do it so you can get to know them. These people are not trying to help you — they just want to understand you.

Also, find someone in your corner who will always understand you.

This is why therapists are so awesome. They will help you understand yourself so you can understand other people. Once you can open up and love the things about yourself that make you uncomfortable, it will be easier to share these qualities with the world.

The problem isn’t everyone else; it’s how you see yourself. I relate to you. I feel connected to you. I, too, felt misunderstood and underappreciated for most of my teens. I didn’t like it. Then, I learned to love myself. Now, it’s all changed.

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