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Dry Creek work rushes to finish Traffic diverted for crews to complete the $2.7-million flood mitigation project in time for salmon migration MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Traffic was diverted off of Third Avenue starting Tuesday this week as the city hurries to finish a project to expand Dry Creek. Work on the $2.7-million Dry Creek flood abatement project began in late July and has been in the planning process since 2013. Widening the creek channel through South Port to increase flow capacity has been a priority for the city since a flood in November 2006 caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage. The project is nearing completion but is faced with an upcoming fisheries window next month that requires the work to wrap up by Oct. 9, city engineer Guy Cicon told council at their regular meeting on Monday. Workers have to install culverts under Third Avenue by that date, Cicon said. The contractor will have to work double shifts to expedite the labour, he noted. Traffic is being detoured off Third Avenue between Dunbar and Napier streets. It will last for the next eight days as work continues on the project, said Cicon. “It’s going to be an inconven-

Kyle Chetcuti redirects traffic at the bottom of the Third Avenue hill while work intensifies to finish a project to protect Dry Creek from future flooding, including the installation of a new box culvert under the Uptown street. A detour is in place until Oct. 9 to allow Third Avenue to be closed from Dunbar Street to Napier. [ERIC PLUMMER, TIMES]

ience to the public, I understand that,” said Cicon. “It’s critical that we get that work in this year. This is a project that can’t be carried over to next year.” Two-thirds of the $2.7-million project funding is covered by provincial and federal grants,

with the remaining $900,000 paid by the city with long-term loans. The funding is for this year, said Cicon. Work could not continue through the winter anyway because of weather, he noted. Coun. Ron Paulson asked if

the project is on schedule or running behind. “We have to expedite this last push,” Cicon answered. Work on the culverts must be completed to allow for salmon migration, he said. “We are pushing up against that window. There will

be some surface work that we can do afterwards. We’re going to get this project done.” “Hundreds and hundreds of trees through that area” will be planted to finish the project, Cicon added. The trees will “naturalize” quickly and “provide shade as designed in a very short period of time,” he said. Ongoing work has widened the channel that begins 40 metres upstream from Fourth Avenue to the box culverts on Third. Improvements have lengthened the Dry Creek channel about 550 metres downstream past Third as it curves northwards parallel to Harbour Road, emptying into the Alberni Inlet south of the Catalyst Paper property. The creek improvements include plans to enhance habitat for salmon using fish rearing pools to nourish populations during hot and dry summers. Buildings have been demolished on Fourth Avenue over the summer to make way for the wider creek. The city acquired the former Jade Restaurant property for $650,000 and a derelict house for $40,000 before tearing them down.

EDUCATION

Curriculum brings days off for teacher planning “With two additional non-instructional days this year, groups of teachers will be able to meet and review the curriculum.”

KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Students in public schools have two additional days off this year. Those 10 hours of instructional time will be used by teachers to learn about and develop strategies as the new curriculum is phased in. On Monday, Minister of Education Mike Bernier and B.C. Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker announced a plan to provide teachers with services and financial support to be able to implement the upcoming changes. Included in the two days of professional development is $1 million for training and an additional $100 million over three years. Next year, the curriculum will include the merging of schools to encompass kindergarten to

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Ken Zydyk, Alberni District Teachers’ Union president

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Grade 9, but teachers have the option of exploring topics this year, including ways of focusing on individual students’ interests. “The curriculum includes a wide range, covering all areas

and subjects,” said Ken Zydyk, president of the Alberni District Teachers’ Union. “Teachers will be able to provide more in-depth personalized care and this will help them explore where their student’s interests are.” He’s happy with the announcement. “I am pleased with the sup-

port of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the Ministry of Education,” Zydyk said. Zydyk said teachers have been feeling the pressure of trying to cover all of the learning objectives and to meet the interests of their students and pace of the class. He said the announcement gives teachers a chance to learn from others. “With two additional non-instructional days this year, groups of teachers will be able to meet to review the curriculum,” Zydyk said. “There will be region-wide gatherings of teachers to develop a plan and reach out to other school districts to implement strategies.” Zydyk said he hopes it helps ease the anxiety of teachers The challenge to teachers continues to be a lack of in-class support, he said. The number

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of educational assistants has not changed from last year, but Zydyk is hopeful there are more to come. “I am hearing the concerns of teachers not being able to meet the needs of all students,” he said. “There is a wide diversity of students in the classrooms and [the teachers] are concerned about the lack of oneon-one support.” Zydyk said additional positions will be available but a consultation will be done to determine where best to place them. The provincial government’s plan also includes two additional professional days for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school year, when the Grade 10-12 curriculum will be implemented. Kristi.Dobson@avtimes.net

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Sports Drop-in circuit training on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Info: (778) 421-2721. FLK Taoist Tai Chi Society beginning and ongoing classes Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Italian Hall. Call Marilyn at 250-723-7956. Touch rugby games at the Port Alberni Black Sheep Rugby Club Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Everyone welcome. Bingo on Wednesdays at 6:45 p.m. and cards at 7 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Alberni Valley Branch. Horseshoe Club practices on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. at Dry Creek Park. Info: 250-724-

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Arts Alberni Valley Community Band meets Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m., E.J. Dunn band room. Info: 250-723-1285 (Cory) or 250-724-6780 (Manfred). The Barkley Sounds Community Choir practices on Wednesdays, 6:45 to 9 p.m. at Alberni Valley United Church. Info: 250-723-6884. Lounge Music with guitarist David Morton from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Char’s Landing. Musicians open mic hosted by Jeff Hallworth from 7 to 9 p.m. first Wednesday of each month at Char’s Landing. AV Transition Town Society meetings, 6 p.m. third Wednesday of each month at Char’s Landing.

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Addictions Al-Anon and Al-Ateen support groups for family and friends of problem drinkers meet on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. at 3028 Second Ave. Info: 250-7235526, 250-723-2372 or 250-720-4855. Narcotics Anonymous, Port Alberni. Info: 1-800-807-1780. Port Alberni Friendship Center offers free counselling on addictions, mental health, relationships and other issues. Info: 250-723-8281. Everybody welcome.

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A black bear looks for food on the west bank of the Somass River, across from the Vicotira Quay Friday evening. The large animals can often be seen across the river this fall, a regular occurance that has created a spectacle for crowds that gather to watch the bears in action. [JERRY FEVENS FOR THE TIMES]

4770 or 250-723-6050. Alberni Valley Billiards Club, 2964 Third Ave. - Wednesdays - youth league (ages 13 to 18) at 7 p.m. Info: 250-723-1212.

Child and youth Navy League Cadets (ages 9 to 12), meet Wednesdays, 7 p.m., at the Port Alberni Youth Centre. Info: 250-7236365 or 250-723-7442. PacificCARE free music dropin program for children and their families on Wednesdays, from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. at the Kiwanis Hilton Children’s Centre. Closures

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Support and help Volunteers urgently needed to help at Red Cross Loan Cupboard for four-hour shifts, once per week. Info: 250-723-0557 (call on Wednesdays or Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) MS Port Alberni self-help group meets on the third Wednesday of each month at Echo Centre at noon. The group meets to support those living with MS and their families. Info: 250-723-

7403 (Susan). Chair Fit Exercise Program for those with physical limitations or mobility issues. Group meets Wednesdays at Echo Centre, from 1 to 2 p.m. Info: 250-723-2181.

Groups The Freemasons Barclay Lodge #90 meets the second Wednesday of each month, 7:30 p.m. at the Freemasons Hall. Info: 250723-6075 or 250-723-3328. Genealogy Club members are able to visit at the Family History Centre in the Church of Jesus Christ of

Learn to Curl, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Curling Rink. Start of Daytime Curling League, Sept. 30. Call 250723-3111 or albernicurling@ shaw.ca. Start of U2 Friday Novice Curling League, Oct. 9. Call 250723-3111 or albernicurling@ shaw.ca. Alberni District Historical Society 50th Anniversary, Oct. 15 with a commemorative tea. Alberni Valley Museum from 2-4 p.m. Free 2-day Advance Care Planning Workshop Oct. 19 and 21 at Echo Field House 3–5 p.m. Seats limited to 30. Call 250-723-4478 to register. Dad’s Night Out Pirate Mystery Scavenger Hunt, Oct. 21 from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. at the library.

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FEDERAL ELECTION

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Tseshaht face hurdles for voting KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

When Hugh Braker wanted to get some information from the Port Alberni Elections Canada office to ensure his members had access to voting registration, he was surprised by the hoops through which he had to jump. Braker, the Tseshaht First Nation elected chief councillor, called the office to get some printed material for his office. “I was told they didn’t have any and that I could go to the office and write down what was on the poster,” Braker said. “I tried several options and they kept saying they couldn’t give out any posters.” Braker continued to ask for information on the current changes in election procedures and how he could help his members understand the steps needed to go through to register to vote. He was told again that the office was unable to provide printed materials. “I finally said ‘to heck with it, I can’t go there to write all that information out and return,’” Braker said. “I complained on Facebook and as a result, it went mini-viral.” It caught the attention of the returning officer, David Leblanc in Ottawa, who contacted Braker. “He apologized and said, in fact, the information I was given was wrong,” Braker said. “He had material and sent me a couple of boxes. The returning officer in Port Alberni also apologized.” Braker said his experience, and the subsequent feedback from others with questions on how to

register, explains the widespread problem of some of his members unable to understand the voting process. “Some of the reserve addresses are not listed on the maps that the (Elections Canada) registrar is using,” Braker said. “It is common not to have streets, so many people don’t have addresses, which makes it hard to register, especially for people in remote areas.” Outside the country is another issue, Braker said. He said many of his Tseshaht members have histories of living in the United States for work, school or family reasons and were disenfranchised. “It is disconcerting for me because what it tells me is that even though in this democracy called Canada the government says everyone should register to vote, but it is becoming more difficult to register,” he said. “Of course, in any democracy you want as many people to vote or have the opportunity to vote.” Braker said he will be using the information he acquired to start a drive to help all the Tseshaht members register to vote. “I just want all of my members who want to vote to have the opportunity,” Braker said. “That is the most important thing.” The elections office in Port Alberni is located at 4805 Mar Street. Eligible voters who do not have access to the internet can drop by or call 1-866-499-8028 to ensure they are on the voters list or to register. Voting day for the federal election is Oct. 19.

A hard hill to climb The slope on Fourth Avenue south of Dunbar Street proved challenging for a logging truck when part of the vehicle’s load was dislodged Tuesday afternoon. Traffic was heavy on the Uptown street due to a detour a culvert to be installed under Third Avenue. Police closed off one block of Fourth as well due to the logging truck’s mishap. [ERIC PLUMMER, TIMES]

MUNICIPALITY

Water restrictions lifted, city measures reservoirs MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Residents are now relieved from water restrictions, at least until next summer. Port Alberni city engineer Guy Cicon announced at the council meeting on Monday that water restrictions were entirely lifted for residents. Cicon said water usage dropped up to 30 per cent over the summer from an average of 17 million litres per day to 12 million in August. Cicon thanked residents and businesses for their efforts. Cicon said residential water consumption in Port Alberni is about 250 litres per resident per day, which is about the Canadian average. “We did achieve our goals,” Cicon said. “I think the community did respond to that.” Stage 1 water restrictions were in effect

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CRIME

Phony employment ads scam job seekers If you have to pay money to an employer to get hired for the job, it’s probably not a real job, says the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. Port Alberni residents were victimized by a fraud last week when answering job opportunities advertised online, according to the Port Alberni RCMP detachment. Fraudsters posted fake job ads on the Facebook site AV Chatter Box and sent crooked cheques to locals hoping to find work. The phony online ads were for a supposed job opportunity as a care aid for an elderly person who would be moving to Port Alberni soon, according to police. Communication was established over email. Victims who answered the scam were sent a $3,000 cheque with instructions to deposit the amount in their account and then transfer $2,500 to another account to purchase a wheel chair for the elderly person. The remaining $500 would be used by the applicant for administrative fees to secure the employment opportunity, RCMP noted in a news release. “Scams like this continue to victimize citizens of Port Alberni,” stated Const. Aaron Aasen of the local RCMP detachment, adding that fraudsters can be persuasive. “Further research needs to be done on the business prior to entering into these agreements. People need to be skeptical when somebody mails you a cheque with instructions to transfer the

same to another bank account.” Unfortunately the applicant would be on the hook for the entire amount when they were informed that the cheque was no good, said Cpl. Josée Rousseau, who works with the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre. Rousseau said waiting for the cheque to clear at the bank is recommended before transferring any funds. But fraudsters will pressure people to transfer the funds earlier and may make threats, Rousseau noted. For example, a scammer pretending to be an employer may tell the victim to send the money sooner or they won’t be hired. A good rule of thumb: if you have to pay for the job, it’s not a real job, Rousseau said. It’s difficult to trace where the cheques come from, said Insp. Mac Richards, officer in charge of the Port Alberni detachment. They can also take a while to be cleared by your financial institution. Foreign money orders, for example, can take up to a month to be processed, said Richards. This scam is nothing new, Richards noted; it’s a new twist on an old technique: to get people to deposit phony cheques and transfer real money. Richards recommends reporting scams to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (1-888-495-8501). Information on different types of scams targeting Canadians is available on their website www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca.

its water consumption. Coun. Denis Sauvé asked how the city will monitor the water supply over the winter and forecast for next summer. Cicon said work is being done to better understand the China Creek watershed and the city’s reservoirs. Last winter’s low snowpack was an “extreme” situation, he noted. A worker has been hired to cruise Bainbridge and Lizard lakes to do a sonar sounding of the lake bottoms, Cicon said. “Just so we understand the full extent of our water system.” The use of sonar would help the city’s engineering department measure the reservoirs better for next year. “We’ll be watching the snowfall.” Martin.Wissmath@avtimes.net

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starting on June 8, limiting outdoor lawn sprinkling to every other day. This limited consumption by about 10 per cent, Cicon said. Following a summer with an unusually low snowpack on mountains around the Valley, concerns about the Bainbridge Lake and Lizard Lake reservoirs lead to a decision to enact Stage 2 restrictions for the first time in the city’s history in July. Stage 2 restrictions limited lawn sprinkling to twice a week as well as limits on garden watering to two hours per day maximum. Cooler temperatures and rainfall in recent weeks have replenished the reservoirs, Cicon noted. “We had the gold lawn campaign,” he said. “Those lawns are luscious green now.” Mayor Mike Ruttan said Port Alberni is a leader in monitoring

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A lopsided electoral weight to the east

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andidates in the new Courtenay-Alberni electoral district face a daunting task leading up to the federal riding’s first vote this fall. With the new electoral alignment, Courtenay-Alberni replaces a portion of Vancouver Island North – currently represented by MP and Conservative candidate John Duncan – as well as parts of the old Nanaimo-Alberni federal riding that has been served for the last 15 years by the now independent parliamentarian James Lunney. With a population of more than 110,000, Courtenay-Alberni stretches across the middle of Vancouver Island, encompassing several communities with vastly different needs. On the west side of the riding lies Tofino and Ucluelet, two tiny communities of under

2,000 residents each that swell in numbers during the summer tourist season. Along the east side of the new electoral district sit several growing communities that have become popular retirement destinations, notably the seaside towns of Qualicum Beach and Comox. Also included in this mix are numerous First Nations and Port Alberni right in the middle – a community urgently in need of a strong advocate for local needs in Ottawa. Despite the natural beauty of being cradled in a mountain range with a shining Inlet cutting through the Valley, Port Alberni has failed to grow over the last generation, sitting stable with a population of just under 18,000, according to census figures. Including the surrounding rural areas, just over 25,000 people live in the Alberni

Valley – but this total could easily be overwhelmed by the eastern communities when Courtenay-Alberni’s ballots are counted on Oct. 19. Parksville, Qualicum Beach plus other nearby settlements total 26,715 residents according to national data from 2011. Comox Valley, which includes Courtenay, Comox, Cumberland and a few other communities, more than doubles the Alberni Valley with upwards of 55,000 residents, making this area critical for the four campaigning political candidates. This issue is a concern in the Alberni Valley, where a number of issues have suffered from a lack of political attention as MPs focus on the larger population centres. Since the early 1970s, Alberni’s population growth has stagnated along with the decline in the local forestry industry.

This economic situation has resulted in the current dependence on shipping raw logs to be manufactured in other markets overseas, while the community’s mills employ a fraction of the workforce they did a generation ago. Port Alberni’s crime rate is twice as high as British Columbia’s, with the most frequent occurrence of serious offences on Vancouver Island, according to Statistic’s Canada’s Crime Severity Index. With an average per capita income of under $32,000, the Alberni Valley falls below more affluent communities on the east side of the Island, where the average incomes in both the Comox Valley and Parksville-Qualicum Beach approach $36,000 annually. And then there’s concerns facing aboriginal voters, which encompass a higher proportion

of the Alberni Valley than the eight per cent seen throughout the Courtenay-Alberni riding. The new electoral district includes several First Nations with their own governments – some of which have been at odds with the federal government over the last few terms with court battles over traditional rights to use Vancouver Island’s land waters. With the east side of the Island carrying the majority of Courtenay-Alberni’s voting weight, Port Alberni and West Coast communities are at risk of being considered secondary targets as candidates aspire to gain the majority of the electorate. This makes the upcoming chance to exercise our democratic rights all the more important in the hopes of finding representation in Ottawa that fosters a better future for Alberni’s needs.

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cies, one finds that nothing could be further from the truth. The West and its allies have been funding and arming the Arab rebels and ISIS in order to create domestic war and replace the Syrian leader with a minion of the western superpowers. Russia, by stepping in to actually stop the attack on Syria by the western-backed ISIS rebels and mercenaries, is exposing the truth that this war. As in the case with Iraq and Libya, it was created by the West for domination and control of Middle Eastern oil and trade routes. Are these Syrian people to be labelled as ‘potential terrorists’ or are we to treat them as refugees fleeing from the ME crisis which the West has been fueling for 14 years? Let us hold the U.S. administration and our own federal government accountable once and for all. If we, the people, are too afraid to discuss such topics, then such fear will be our own demise.

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» Your Letters // e-mail: letters@avtimes.net Dangerous tailgating downhill on Highway 4 Upon coming up the hump on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. (for a wedding), and following the well organized Toy Run from the Cathedral Grove, my wife and I made our way down the hump into the beautiful Alberni Valley. We noticed that the lineup of cars we were in was travelling quite slow (around 20 kilometres per hour) a few times. We thought that it was just a few motorcycles proceeding slowly down. When we came around a few corners, we witnessed a truck with a canopy, tail gating behind a car by sometimes 10 feet. The car was slowing right down in response to the tailgater – very dangerous. Luckily we were seven cars back. Then, again in response to the tailgater, the car almost came to a complete stop right before Elkford Road. The truck then swung out into on coming

traffic, (almost hitting a car that was waiting to make a righthand turn onto Elkford Road), and speeds down the hump. The funny thing was, we continued on and still caught up with the truck at Walmart. What transpired next is what prompted me to write this letter. On the back of the offending truck was the following message —“Do NOT tailgate – my grandson is learning how to drive.” At first I thought that maybe the grandson was driving the truck, but when we passed the truck, an elderly gentleman was driving. I think someone needs to read their own message from the back of their truck. I sure hope grandpa is not teaching his grandson how to drive. I will in the future be looking out for this truck and staying as far away as possible. Paul Kurucz Courtenay

The federal election is still three weeks away, but with all of the facts and reality on the table, the final result has been calculated. The federal Conservatives will win the federal election either in a majority or minority government. The federal Liberals will become the official federal opposition party. The federal NDP will become the third party in parliament. Joe Sawchuk Duncan

The West is responsible for the Syrian crisis A Mr. Dandy recently wrote: “We did not cause the current refugee crisis in the Middle East.. These refugees are fleeing political instability caused by ISIS and the Assad regime.” However, searching outside of the pro-war slant of mainstream news agen-

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SAANICH

Witness wanted in UVic sex assault Police seek individual who stepped in after woman attacked by group of men on university campus TRAVIS PATERSON SAANICH NEWS

Saanich Police are seeking a key witness who came to the aid of a woman being sexually assaulted by a group of males on the University of Victoria campus. The assault happened between midnight and 1 a.m. on Saturday when a group of men attacked a woman near the residences next to UVic’s parking Lot.

No. 1. The group managed to get the victim into the woods of Mystic Vale against her will when an unknown person came to her aid. Police are unwilling to release many of the details, such as the number of suspects and their descriptions, as they hope to engage additional witnesses. It was in the woods that the unknown individual intervened and brought an end to the sexual assault. A physical altercation

then ensued between the defender and the assailants, the result of which is unknown. The victim managed to escape and did not suffer any significant injuries or require medical attention, Saanich Police Sgt. Steve Eassie said. “The victim bravely came forward with this info. She fought diligently and did everything she could to prevent the attack from happening.

“At no time did she give in.” Saanich Police officers were in fact on campus that Friday night, as they ran enhanced patrols with UVic Campus Security, a standard exercise this time of year. Officers attended to assaults, physical assaults and public drunkenness, and identified a number of people who may be contacted during this investigation, Eassie added. But most of all police would

like to speak to the individual who came to the victim’s aid. “We’re very interested… they may have a description of the individuals involved and may have witnessed certain things that took place,” Eassie said. The victim is a UVic student who detached herself from a larger group and was travelling alone to another party or gathering. It is unknown at this time if the assailants are UVic students.

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Legless feral kitten going mobile thanks to extendable wheelchair

Video clip shows attack on campaign sign by car

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Cassidy, the kitten who lost both of his back feet shortly after birth, has been fitted for a wheelchair. Andrew Phillips of Handicapped Pets Canada met with Shelly Roche of Tiny Kittens last week, and they got Cassidy fitted out to take his first steps. Phillips had offered his services shortly after Cassidy appeared on the Tiny Kittens website and Facebook page. Because of the wide exposure from Tiny Kittens and local media, there was a lot of support for finding some kind of solution that would allow Cassidy to move around freely. “We got inundated with calls from the general public wanting to help Cassidy,” said Phillips. The chair will be extendable as Cassidy grows larger, and when he outgrows this the kitten can move into a new chair. “He still needs to grow into it a little bit, and get a little stronger, but I think it will be really wonderful for him,” Roche said in an email to the Langley Advance. Other options like prosthetics may be investigated for him when he’s older, she said. “We ended up getting three wheelchairs,” Roche said. That includes the one built by Phillips, one 3D-printed by two Walnut Grove Secondary students, and another built by an online viewer. Any excess equipment will be

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Cassidy tried out his new wheelchair last week. Multiple chairs have been donated for the kitten, who lost his feet shortly after he was born. [SUBMITTED]

made available to other animals in similar need in the future, Roche said. Cassidy was found living in a feral cat colony in rural Langley. He had apparently lost his back

feet shortly after birth, but had survived almost nine weeks when the landowner trapped him and gave him to Tiny Kittens to care for. Cassidy suffered from a severe

AROUND THE PROVINCE Black Press ◆ PITT MEADOWS

Woman dies after getting stuck in bin A 45-year-old homeless woman who got stuck inside a clothing donation bin at a Pitt Meadows mall on Sunday has died. The B.C. Coroner’s office is investigating the death, Ridge Meadows RCMP said. Pitt Meadows firefighters had to pry open a clothing donation bin at Meadowtown Centre on Sunday to free the woman. Emergency crews responded to a call of a woman trapped in a bin adjacent the Real Canadian Superstore at 10:45 p.m. A witness reported that bystanders were trying to hold the woman’s legs up as her head was caught inside and that she was unresponsive. Firefighters pried the bin open and free the woman, who reportedly was not breathing. CPR was immediately started and she was taken to Royal Columbian Hospital. It is not known how long she was trapped before an employee at Superstore saw her through window and called 9-1-1.

◆ NANAIMO

School district officials apologize for info leak An accidental disclosure of personal student information has led to an apology from the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district. District students were given forms with personal information, including their names, addresses,

infection, and is still slowly recovering. He is to meet with a specialist this Thursday (Oct. 1) to check into whether he can maintain the use of his left knee.

A video of a person mowing down a roadside election sign with a vehicle will be investigated by Ladysmith RCMP. The video on Facebook — posted Sept. 26 and shot from inside a right-hand drive vehicle — had more than 10,000 views before being removed. It showed a driver plowing into a large sign once before circling around for a second run. Traffic can be seen driving past on the highway during the incident, which occurred just south of Ladysmith near the south Davis Road intersection with the Island Highway. “It was appalling,” said Mark MacDonald, Conservative Nanaimo-Ladysmith candidate, whose sign was destroyed in the video. Destruction of an election sign falls under the Criminal Code. “If there’s any way they can be identified, that would be a criminal offence — mischief,” said Supt. Mark Fisher of the Nanaimo RCMP. “The challenge would be identifying who it is.” Fisher said he would forward the video on to the Ladysmith RCMP detachment. Candidates from other camps say it’s not OK and call for cool heads so voters can focus on campaign issues, not signs. Chantal O’Neill, Nanaimo-Ladysmith NDP campaign manager, called the incident “ridiculous.”

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date of birth, sibling and parent information and emergency contacts earlier this month to bring home to parents for them to verify and to ensure the information was correct and up to date. The information was to be used in the Ministry of Education’s new MyEducation B.C. System which tracks each student’s data. Superintendent John Blain said in a letter to parents that some of the forms were not accurate and, in some cases, personal student data was given to the wrong students.

◆ LANGFORD

Suspect escapes, intense search called off Police suspended search efforts Friday in Langford after a fruitless four-hour manhunt for a suspect who may have attempted to hit officers with a stolen vehicle. At approximately noon, West Shore RCMP officers attempted to stop a vehicle in relation to a stolen vehicle investigation. The vehicle drove away a short distance and crashed. One suspect was arrested without incident at the crash site, while the alleged driver ran away. The situation escalated to include a significant police response with multiple local and regional RCMP units assisting including an RCMP helicopter, police dog units, an emergency response team and numerous uniformed officers. Preliminary RCMP reports suggest the remaining suspect attempted to hit officers with the vehicle he was driving before it crashed.

◆ COWICHAN-MALAHAT

Liberal candidate steps down after 9/11 post After announcing her decision Monday to step down as the Liberal Party of Canada’s federal candidate in Cowichan-Malahat-Langford, Maria Manna sounded rather upbeat. “I’m really OK with it,” the Bear Mountain resident said, having issued a resignation statement on her Facebook page — the very vehicle on which she posted what became her controversial views on 9/11 and the fall of the World Trade Center towers. Manna commented in 2013 on the social media website about the attacks. She called the official story that planes hitting the twin towers caused them to collapse a “lie,” and said she believed a different truth.

◆ COURTENAY

Bad air issue a mystery to up-Island community Courtenay has an air quality issue, but nobody seems to know why. City council agreed last week to refer the matter over to the regional district because “airsheds have no boundaries,” according to city CAO David Allan. The air quality issue came to light in a letter from the provincial environment ministry advising the city that fine particulate levels had exceeded the national air quality targets for the past three years.

YOU AND THE LAW®

WHY YOU NEED AN ENDURING POWER OF ATTORNEY By the time you reach late middle age, you are at higher risk of strokes, dementia, Alzheimer’s and other incapacitating illnesses. These sad events can occur quite suddenly, out of the blue. If something like this happens to you, questions may arise about whether you’re still mentally fit to put paperwork in place authorizing others to act in your place. There may not be enough time to make such arrangements, or it may be too late. And these mental capacity issues can lead to bitter disputes among family members. In one recent case, two sides of a family were pitted against each other in a heated court battle. One group of siblings argued their mom had lost her ability to make independent decisions by a certain date due to rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s disease. The other faction put material before the court suggesting otherwise. The court heard that what distressed the mom most was the two groups’ fighting. What should you do to protect yourself and avoid these problems? The law presumes that an adult person is capable of making independent decisions about their financial affairs. The law also presumes that you’re capable of making or changing an “enduring power of attorney.” This is true unless the contrary is demonstrated. (Similar rules are in place for health care decisions and representation agreements). So it’s best that you think about whom you would wish to act in your place well before anyone can suggest you’re no longer fit to make that choice. The way to express your choice, so far as your financial affairs (not your health care) is concerned, is through a document called an “enduring power of attorney.” With a power of attorney, you can appoint someone you trust as your agent or “attorney” to act for you in financial matters. But a standard power of attorney ends if you become mentally incapable. Not so for an enduring power of attorney, which must specifically state that your attorney’s power is to continue despite such mental incapacity. This makes an enduring power of attorney very useful. It allows your attorney to make financial decisions for you, perhaps only once you’re no longer able to – without someone (maybe not who you would pick) having to go to court to be appointed as “committee.” That’s an expensive and time-consuming process, which would otherwise have to be undertaken. (A representation agreement for health decisions also avoids the committee court process.) As we all know, abuses are sometimes committed by the very people who are supposed to protect your interests, especially if you are vulnerable or elderly. There are rules to help prevent that. Some spell out tests for determining your capacity to sign these estate planning documents, set requirements on who must witness and sign them, and say that except for your spouse, parent or children, paid health care workers can’t act as your attorney (or representative). You should plan ahead and take action. Your lawyer can explain available options and ensure all rules and requirements are followed. This column has been written by Janice and George Mucalov, LL.B.s with assistance from FABRIS McIVER HORNQUIST & RADCLIFFE. It provides information only and must not be relied on for legal advice. Please contact FABRIS McIVER HORNQUIST & RADCLIFFE for legal advice concerning your particular case. Lawyer Janice Mucalov is an award-winning legal writer. YOU AND THE LAW is a registered trade-mark. © Janice and George Mucalov

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GOLF

NON-CONTACT HOCKEY

Colin Mowat first career NCHL goal BRUCE EDWARDS FOR THE TIMES

Both teams had 26 shots on goal apiece.

Thursday, Sept. 24

Mac Five Challenge sponsor Bruce McDonald (centre) presents prizes to the challenge winners, Paul Saulnier (left) and Bob Vandermolen. [SUBMITTED PHOTO]

Prizes awarded Sunday for Mac Five Challenge Sponsored men’s club events conclude; $500 for Ty Watson Gerry Fagan

COULSON’S 4 THE BLUE MARLIN INN 3 Coulson’s got goals from Kirk Fong and rookie Andrew Gaiga. Erik Waldriff, Carson McCulloch and Travis Thompson assisted. The Blue Marlin Inn got their goals from Mike Carter and Shawn Fearing to end the opening half tied at 2-2. Darin Kozlowski, Darcy Haggard and Jeff McAuley assisted. Early in the final half Gaiga added his second goal for Coulson’s on assists from McCulloch and Fong to put his team up 3-2. Blue Marlin Inn rookie Colin Mowat tied the game 3-3 with his first AV-NCHL goal on assists from Josh Versteeg and Carter with 5:29 to go in the game. The game seemed destined for a 3-3 tie until Gaiga netted his hattrick goal and game winner for Coulson’s with 38 seconds left in the game. Dave Gibson and Kyle Sketsch assisted. Coulson’s outshot the Blue Marlin Inn 26-24 in this closely played game.

Beautiful day for last ladies’ organized golf

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reat crowd great weather for the Mac Five Challenge held on Sunday. Probably the most competitors we have had at an event all season. Top honours went to the twosome of Paul Saulnier and Bob Vandermolen, followed by Phil Anker and Bill Barrett, Vic Carlton and Mel Trelvik, Fred Fredrickson and Mike Savard, Jerry White and Steve White, Jim Rhodes and Ron Barker, Lloyd Fairley and Gerry Fagan, Jacque Giovetti and Gerry Toms, Bill Johnston and Devin Cusson, Dave Mann and Steve Pointon, Bill Bjornson and Jack Sparks, and winning the final prize was the twosome of Wayne Johnstone and Masami Hirayama. Closest to the pin winners were Tyler Ruel on No. 2. James Weening on No. 4, Bob Matlock on No. 13 and Clive Brown on

MAGIC MOMENTS 4 HETHERINGTON INDUSTRIES 2 Mike Locke finished off an early scoring play with Darin Oscienny and Billy Lloyd to give Magic Moments a 1-0 lead. With 8:47 to play in the opening half Colby Lim tied the game for Hetherington on assists from Kevin Connell and Cody Chretien. Five minutes into the final half Matt Maczulat gave Hetherington a 2-1 lead on a lone assist from Dan Lamb. Hetherington held the lead until Oscienny’s unassisted goal with 8:03 left to play tied the game for Magic Moments. A minute and a half later rookie Jacob Bottaro scored the game winner for Magic Moments on a lone assist from Nick Zoet. With 1:12 left in the game Oscienny provided some insurance for Magic Moments with his second goal assisted by Bottaro.

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L On the left is club captain Preben Rasmussen with head professional Bruce Macdonald presenting Jenn Collette of Ty Watson House with a cheque for $500 the men’s club raised over the season. [SUBMITTED]

No. 17. Club captain Preban Rasmussen presented a cheque for $500 to Jenn Collette of Ty Watson house. Monies were raised through our weekly charity closest to the pin. With the Mac Five Challenge held on Sunday that brings the men’s club sponsored events to a close. Although we will continue to have non-sponsored events

until the end of October. This next week on Oct. 4 will be a net and gross skins competition. Once again thanks to our many sponsors who come through year after year to ensure the success of the men’s club. » Gerry Fagan is an avid golfer, and volunteers around the community, including at the Alberni Golf Club.

ast day for organized ladies golf. We ended on a beautiful sunny day. For the nine-hole ladies low handicap group Claudia Romaniuk won low gross, Julie Swaney won low net and Mel Mhychuk had the lowest putts. In the high handicap group low gross was shared by Lorraine Wilson and Lauralee Edgell, Lauretta Howard-Dyer won low net and Jean Illman had the lowest putts. Pars were had by Kelly Gauthier on No. 3, Lee Anne Van Lent no. 5, Mel Mhychuk on Nos. 2 and 8, Romaniuk on No. 4, and Marta Williamson on Nos. 2 and 4. Mhychuk and a chip in on No. 6 and Howard-Dyer on No. 1.

In the 18-hole ladies group low gross went to Janice Cross with an 85, low net was won by Barb Sheare with a 70. KP’s were won on No. 5 by Carol Bouchard and No. 16 by Cross. Cross also won the special prize. Gwyn Bowen had a chip in par with her putter out of the sand trap on No. 18. Next Tuesday we will have the Annual General Meeting at 10 a.m. followed by our closing luncheon at noon. If you haven’t already let Patsy know if you are coming; please do right away. » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@avtimes.net. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.

RUGBY WORLD CUP

Canada looks to regroup after tough loss As a Tier II nation, Canada rarely gets a chance to play elite teams but is about to do so versus France

NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

Still rueing missed chances against Italy, Canada has little time to regroup ahead of what could be a long night Thursday against seventh-ranked France at the Rugby World Cup. The 18th-ranked Canadians led No. 14 Italy 10-0 in the first half Saturday and 15-13 in the second and controlled play for stretches. But mistakes caught up with them and the Italians survived the Canadian onslaught to win 23-18. “To be honest it was pretty gutting afterwards. They were pretty down for a fair while — which is natural,” Canadian coach Kieran Crowley said of his players. “It’s not so much disappointment now but just the realization that it was there for us if we had performed a little bit better in a couple of areas,” he added. “I think we’re starting to get over the hump and hopefully come game time against France, we’ll be excited about getting back out there and trying to do it again.” As a Tier II nation, Canada rarely gets a chance to play elite teams other than at the World Cup. So a Tier I scalp would have been a handsome prize. Instead the weekend game in Leeds get filed under the “What might have been” category. Things only get more difficult at Stadiummk in Milton Keynes against France, which is 7-1 all-time against Canada and has won the last six meetings between the two, outscoring Canada 239-70 along the way.

Canada players after a penalty was awarded to Italy during the Rugby World Cup Pool D match between Italy and Canada at Elland Road, Leeds, England, Saturday. [AP PHOTO]

Canada’s lone win, an 18-16 decision, came 21 years ago in Ottawa. France (2-0-0, nine points) currently stands second in Pool D behind fourth-ranked Ireland (2-0-0, 10 points). Canada (0-2-0, one point) is fourth in the fiveteam group. “This is basically I think a dress rehearsal for them for Ireland,” Crowley said of the French. “They’ve got just about their strongest team out there. You could probably have a debate about a couple of positions.” The top two teams in each pool

advance to the quarter-finals while the third secures automatic qualification for the next World Cup. France opened with a 32-10 win over Italy before dumping Romania 38-11. Canada opened with a lost 50-7 loss to Ireland. In choosing his team for France, Crowley has made four changes in the forward pack and two in the backs. Aaron Carpenter comes in for Ray Barkwill at hooker with Brett Beukeboom replacing Jebb Sinclair at lock. There are two changes in the back row with Kyle Gilmour

and Richard Thorpe coming in for Nanyak Dala and John Moonlight. Crowley says Barkwill and Moonlight are being given a rest after a heavy work load, with the more physical Thorpe coming in to help combat the French drive up the middle. Beukeboom, rested against Italy, gets another start after excelling in the opening game against Ireland. Both changes in the backs are injury-related. Phil Mack starts at scrum half in place of Jamie Mackenzie, who took a blow to the ribs against

Italy, and Nick Blevins takes over at centre for Connor Braid, who was forced to withdraw from the tournament after suffering a broken jaw and a concussion against Italy. Braid has been replaced in the squad by Patrick Parfrey. Winger Jeff Hassler continues to be sidelined by a calf strain, The Canadians are in the midst of playing three games in 11 days. France, which played its first two games in five days, has been off since Sept. 23. After the Canada game, France doesn’t play again until Oct. 11 when it faces Ireland in the marquee matchup of Pool D. Canada wraps up Oct. 5 against No. 17 Romania. French coach Philippe SaintAndre has made 12 changes to his starting 15, including a test debut for winger Remy Grosso who replaces Yoann Huget (knee). Only utility back Brice Dulin, powerful centre Wesley Fofana and flanker Bernard Le Roux started last week against Romania. Saint-Andre has switched back to his preferred halves pairing of Frederic Michalak — France’s all-time leading scorer — and Sebastien Tillous-Borde, but No. 8 Louis Picamoles and winger Noa Nakaitaci are not in the squad. Saint-Andre says he is resting Picamoles, who played in all three warmup games and the first two matches of the competition, so that he “can recover physically and get some of his freshness back.”

SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 | ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES |

MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION x-Toronto N.Y. Yankees Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay

W 91 86 77 76 76

L 65 71 80 80 81

Pct .583 .548 .490 .487 .484

GB — 51/2 1 14 /2 15 151/2

WCGB — — 6 61/2 7

L10 7-3 5-5 7-3 4-6 5-5

Str W-5 L-2 W-5 L-4 W-1

Home 53-28 44-35 43-38 44-31 37-39

Away 38-37 42-36 34-42 32-49 39-42

W 90 81 77 74 73

L 67 75 78 83 84

Pct .573 .519 .497 .471 .465

GB — 81/2 12 16 17

WCGB — 11/2 5 9 10

L10 4-6 6-4 5-5 4-6 4-6

Str L-2 W-3 L-2 W-1 L-1

Home 51-30 46-32 35-39 38-38 38-43

Away 39-37 35-43 42-39 36-45 35-41

CENTRAL DIVISION d-Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Chi. White Sox Detroit

WEST DIVISION W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home Texas 85 72 .541 — — 6-4 W-1 40-36 Houston 83 74 .529 2 — 6-4 W-3 53-28 1 L.A. Angels 82 74 .526 21/2 /2 8-2 W-6 48-31 Seattle 74 83 .471 11 9 3-7 L-6 34-42 Oakland 65 92 .414 20 18 2-8 L-3 34-47 Note: d-clinched division title; x-clinched playoff berth; w-clinched wild card

Away 45-36 30-46 34-43 40-41 31-45

(Tanaka 12-7), 7:05 p.m. Oakland (Zito 0-0) at L.A. Angels (Richards 15-11), 7:05 p.m. Miami (Cosart 2-4) at Tampa Bay (Smyly 4-2), 7:10 p.m. Minnesota (Pelfrey 6-10) at Cleveland (Anderson 6-3), 7:10 p.m. Toronto (Dickey 11-11) at Baltimore (Gausman 3-7), 7:35 p.m. Detroit (Boyd 1-5) at Texas (Gallardo 12-11), 8:05 p.m. Kansas City (Volquez 13-9) at Chi. White Sox (Quintana 9-10), 8:10 p.m. Houston (Kazmir 7-11) at Seattle (Paxton 3-4), 10:10 p.m. Thursday Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Miami at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Kansas City at Chi. White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday Toronto at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Boston 10 N.Y. Yankees 4 Tampa Bay 4 Miami 2 Minnesota at Cleveland, postponed Texas 7 Detroit 6 Chi. White Sox 4 Kansas City 2 Oakland at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m. Houston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Monday Toronto 4 Baltimore 3 Boston 5 N.Y. Yankees 1 Minnesota 4 Cleveland 2 Detroit 7 Texas 4 L.A. Angels 5 Oakland 4 Houston 3 Seattle 2 Wednesday Toronto (Stroman 3-0) at Baltimore (Gonzalez 9-11), 4:05 p.m. Minnesota (Gibson 10-11) at Cleveland (Carrasco 14-11), 4:10 p.m. Boston (Miley 11-11) at N.Y. Yankees

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L 68 77 88 94 97

Pct .567 .510 .439 .401 .382

GB — 9 20 26 29

WCGB — 111/2 221/2 281/2 311/2

L10 5-5 4-6 5-5 6-4 4-6

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Home 48-30 46-35 41-40 38-38 34-42

Away 41-38 34-42 28-48 25-56 26-55

W 99 95 91 66 63

L 58 62 65 90 93

Pct .631 .605 .583 .423 .404

GB — 4 1 7 /2 321/2 351/2

WCGB — — — 25 28

L10 7-3 8-2 6-4 4-6 1-9

Str W-1 L-2 W-2 W-1 L-9

Home 55-26 50-26 49-32 34-44 34-44

Away 44-32 45-36 42-33 32-46 29-49

W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home L.A. Dodgers 87 69 .558 — — 2-8 L-4 52-26 San Francisco 82 74 .526 5 9 5-5 W-3 45-30 Arizona 75 81 .481 12 16 6-4 W-1 35-40 San Diego 73 83 .468 14 18 5-5 L-1 38-40 Colorado 66 90 .423 21 25 5-5 W-3 36-45 Note: d-clinched division title; x-clinched playoff berth; w-clinched wild card

Away 35-43 37-44 40-41 35-43 30-45

d-N.Y. Mets Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia

CENTRAL DIVISION

x-St. Louis x-Pittsburgh x-Chicago Cubs Milwaukee Cincinnati

WEST DIVISION

Tuesday St. Louis at Pittsburgh, postponed Philadelphia 4 N.Y. Mets 3 Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. Atlanta 2 Washington 1 Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Milwaukee at San Diego, 10:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. Monday Washington 5 Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 3 Pittsburgh 0 Chicago Cubs 1 Kansas City 0 (11) San Francisco 3 L.A. Dodgers 2 (12) Wednesday St. Louis (Wacha 17-6) at Pittsburgh (Morton 9-8), 1:35 p.m. St. Louis (Lyons 2-1) at Pittsburgh (Cole 18-8), 7:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Verrett 1-1) at Philadelphia (Asher 0-5), 7:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Lester 10-12) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 9-12), 7:10 p.m. Washington (Zimmermann 13-9) at Atlanta (Perez 6-6), 7:10 p.m. Colorado (Bettis 8-5) at Arizona (Anderson 6-6), 9:40 p.m. Milwaukee (Davies 2-2) at San Diego (Cashner 6-15), 10:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 6-5) at San Francisco (Leake 10-10), 10:15 p.m. Thursday Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 12:35 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 3:45 p.m. Milwaukee at San Diego, 6:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

RANGERS 7, TIGERS 6

WP — Norris. HBP — Romine. 8Ppires—Home, Alfonso Marquez; First, Tom Hallion; Second, Dan Bellino; Third, Bruce Dreckman. T—3:13. A—28,729 (48,114) at Texas.

Detroit ab Davis lf 5 Kinsler 2b 5 Cabrera dh 3 Martinez rf 3 Castellanos 3b 1 Romine 1b 2 Marte 1b-3b 4 Machado ss 3 Avila ph 1 Holaday c 3 Collins ph 1 Gose cf 4

NFL

HOCKEY Duke H, 26 1-3 Robertson S, 33 1

r 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1

h bi 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0

Texas ab r h bi Deshields cf 4 2 1 0 Stubbs cf 1 0 0 0 Choo rf 5 2 2 2 Beltre 3b 5 1 3 2 Fielder dh 2 1 1 0 Napoli lf 2 1 0 0 Venable lf 1 0 0 0 Moreland 1b 4 0 1 0 Andrus ss 2 0 0 1 Odor 2b 3 0 1 1 Gimenez c 3 0 0 0 Hamilton ph 1 0 0 0 Chirinos c 0 0 0 0 35 6 9 6 Totals 33 7 9 6 222 000 000 —6 510 100 00x —7

WHITE SOX 4, ROYALS 2

Chi. White Soxabr h bi Eaton cf 4 1 2 2 Abreu 1b 4 0 2 1 Cabrera dh 4 0 1 0 Thompson lf 3 1 1 0 Ramirez ss 4 0 2 1 Garcia rf 4 0 0 0 Brantly c 0 0 0 0 Totals Soto c 2 0 0 0 Detroit Shuck ph-rf 1 0 0 0 Texas Olt 3b 4 0 0 0 E—Kinsler, Marte, Romine. LOB—Texas 8, Saladino 3b 0 0 0 0 Sanchez 2b 2 2 2 0 Detroit 5. DP—Detroit 2. 2B—Choo (31), Totals 35 2 9 2 Totals 32 410 4 Beltre (29), Deshields (21), Holaday (5), Kansas City 000 002 000 —2 Machado (3). 3B—Odor (9). HR—Choo —4 (21). Martinez (38); Holaday (2). SB—Gose Chi. White Sox 001 020 01x

(23). S—Venable. SF—Andrus. Detroit IP Norris 1 2-3 Farmer L, 0-4 2 Gorzelanny 2-3 Verhagen 1 2-3 Hardy 1-3 Alburquerque 1 2-3 Texas Hamels W, 6-1 6 Dyson H, 11 1 Kela H, 21 1 1 Tolleson S, 34

H R ER BB SO 5 6 2 1 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 0 0 2

6 0 0 0

6 0 0 0

2 0 0 0

8 0 1 0

Kansas City ab Zobrist 2b 4 Gordon lf 4 Cain cf 4 Hosmer 1b 4 Morales dh 3 Moustakas 3b 4 Perez c 4 Rios rf 4 Escobar ss 4

r 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0

h bi 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0

LOB—Kansas City 7, Chi. White Sox 7. DP—Kansas City 2. Chi. White Sox 1. 2B—Ramirez (32). HR—Eaton (14). Hosmer (17); Morales (22). Kansas City IP Cueto L, 3-7 6 Duffy 1 Chamberlain 1 Chi. White Sox Samardzija W, 11-13 3 Albers H, 5 2-3

H R ER BB SO 8 3 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 7

8

2

2

0

1

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0

0

0

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WP — Duffy, Chamberlain. 8PSLUHV— Home, Adam Hamari; First, Angel Hernandez; Second, Chris Conroy; Third, Ted Barrett. T—2:48. A—13,024 (40,615) at Chi. White Sox.

RED SOX 10, YANKEES 4 Boston ab r h bi Betts cf 4 2 2 1 Pedroia 2b 4 0 2 0 Bogaerts ss 5 1 1 1 Ortiz dh 3 1 1 0 Rutledge ph-dh2 0 0 1 Shaw 1b 5 1 0 1 Holt rf 3 2 1 1 Swihart c 4 2 2 5 Marrero 3b 4 0 0 0 Bradley Jr. lf 4 1 2 0 Totals 38101110 Boston 600 N.Y. Yankees 400

N.Y. Yankees ab Ellsbury cf 4 Gardner lf 4 Rodriguez dh 4 McCann c 4 Beltran rf 4 Ackley 2b 4 Headley 3b 4 Bird 1b 4 Gregorius ss 2

r h bi 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

Totals 34 4 7 4 010 021 —10 000 000 —4

E—Bogaerts, Ackley. LOB—Boston 4, N.Y. Yankees 5. DP—Boston 1. N.Y. Yankees 2. 2B—Betts (42), Ortiz (35), Beltran (33), Holt (26), Bradley Jr. (16), Ellsbury (14). HR—Ackley (10). Betts (16); Swihart (5). SB—Gardner (20). Boston Porcello W, 9-14 Machi N.Y. Yankees Pineda L, 12-9 Mitchell Martin

IP 8 1 6 2 1

H R ER BB SO 6 4 4 1 8 1 0 0 0 1 7 2 2

7 2 1

7 2 1

0 2 1

4 2 0

WP — Porcello. HBP — Gregorius. 8PSLUHV—Home, Mike Everitt; First, Tim Welke; Second, Todd Tichenor; Third, Tim Timmons. T—2:57. A—38,512 (49,638) at N.Y. Yankees.

BRAVES 2, NATIONALS 1 :DVKLQJWRQ DE U K EL Rendon 3b 4 0 1 0 Turner 2b 3 1 2 1 Harper cf 3 0 0 0 Werth rf 4 0 1 0 Robinson 1b 4 0 1 0 Taylor pr 0 0 0 0 Desmond ss 3 0 1 0 Den Dekker lf 4 0 0 0 Ramos c 3 0 0 0 Roark sp 2 0 0 0 Grace p 0 0 0 0 Johnson ph 1 0 1 0 Difo pr 0 0 0 0 Treinen p 0 0 0 0

$WODQWD DE Garcia lf 0 Markakis rf 3 Castro 2b-3b 4 Freeman 1b 3 Pierzynski c 3 Swisher lf 3 Cunningham lf 0 Olivera 3b 1 Peterson pr-2b 1 Simmons ss 3 Bourn cf 3 Wisler sp 1 Jackson p 0 Ciriaco ph 1 Vizcaino p 0 Totals 31 1 7 1 Totals 26 :DVKLQJWRQ Atlanta 000 100 10x

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LOB—Atlanta 3, Washington 6. DP— Washington 2. Atlanta 3. 2B—Desmond (27). HR—Pierzynski (9). Turner (1). S—Wisler. :DVKLQJWRQ Roark L, 4-7 Grace Treinen Atlanta Wisler W, 7-8 Jackson H, 3 Vizcaino S, 8

,3 6 2-3 1-3 1

+ 5 0 0

5 (5 %% 62 2 2 1 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2

7 1 1

5 0 2

1 0 0

1 0 0

2 1 0

4 0 1

Wisler pitched to 1 batter in the 8th HBP — Olivera. 8PSLUHV—Home, Mike Muchlinski; First, Mark Wegner; Second, Sam Holbrook; Third, Marty Foster. T—2:30. A—15,272 (49,586) at Atlanta.

RAYS 4, MARLINS 2

0LDPL DE U K EL 7DPSD %D\ DE Gordon 2b 3 1 1 0 Guyer dh 4 Yelich lf 4 1 2 1 Mahtook lf 4 Prado 3b 4 0 2 1 Longoria 3b 4 Bour 1b 4 0 0 0 Forsythe 2b 0 Ozuna cf 4 0 2 0 Beckham 2b 2 Dietrich dh 4 0 1 0 Jaso ph 1 Realmuto c 4 0 1 0 Franklin pr-2b 0 Suzuki rf 4 0 0 0 Cabrera ss 3 Solano ss 3 0 0 0 Souza Jr. rf 3 Loney 1b 4 Kiermaier cf 2 Maile c 3 Totals 34 2 9 2 Totals 30 0LDPL 7DPSD %D\ [

U K EL 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 6 4 Âł Âł

E—Gordon, Moore. LOB—Miami 6, Tampa Bay 6. DP—Tampa Bay 2. 2B— Ozuna (27), Yelich (27), Gordon (23), Guyer (21), Souza Jr. (15). HR—Mahtook (7); Cabrera (14). SF—Kiermaier. 0LDPL ,3 + Conley 6 5 Ellington 1 0 Morris L, 5-4 1 1 7DPSD %D\ Moore 7 7 Cedeno H, 19 1-3 1 Colome W, 7-5 BS, 5 2-3 2 Boxberger S, 39 1 0

5 (5 %% 62 2 2 2 5 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 1

1 1 0

1 0 0

3 0 0

0

0

0

1

WP — Colome. HBP — Forsythe. 8PSLUHV—Home, Tony Randazzo; First, Gerry Davis; Second, Ben May; Third, Phil Cuzzi. T—2:27. A—9,150 (31,042) at Tampa Bay.

PHILLIES 4, METS 3 N.Y. Mets ab r h bi Granderson rf 4 0 1 0 Wright 3b 3 0 1 0 Murphy 2b 5 1 1 0 Cespedes cf 5 0 0 0 Duda 1b 5 2 3 3 '¡$UQDXG F Conforto lf 4 0 1 0 Tejada ss 3 0 1 0 Colon sp 2 0 0 0 Johnson ph 0 0 0 0 Niese p 0 0 0 0 Goeddel p 0 0 0 0 1LHXZHQKXLV SK Torres p 0 0 0 0

Philadelphia ab Galvis ss 4 Herrera cf 4 Altherr lf 4 Ruf 1b 4 Asche 3b 4 6ZHHQH\ E Rupp c 4 Bogusevic rf 3 Buchanan sp 1 Loewen p 1 Hinojosa p 0 Neris p 0 '¡$UQDXG SK Garcia p 0 Giles p 0 Totals 37 3 9 3 Totals 34 N.Y. Mets 000 100 002 Philadelphia 300 000 10x

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E—Bogusevic. LOB—N.Y. Mets 12, Philadelphia 6. DP—N.Y. Mets 1. 2B— Tejada (23), Conforto (14). HR—Ruf (11). Duda (27). N.Y. Mets IP Colon L, 14-13 5 Niese 1 2-3 Goeddel 1-3 Torres 1 Philadelphia Buchanan 4 2-3

H R ER BB SO 8 3 3 0 3 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6

1

1

2

3

Loewen W, 1-0 Hinojosa H, 1 Neris H, 2 Garcia H, 16 Giles S, 14

1-3 1 1 1 1

0 1 1 0 1

0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 2

0 1 0 1 1

1 0 0 1 2

T—2:46. A—15,227 (43,651) at Philadelphia.

TENNIS ATP

SHENZHEN OPEN

At Shenzhen, China Tuesday, Sept.. 29 results MEN 6LQJOHV First Round Hyeon Chung, South Korea, def. Di Wu, China, 6-1, 6-0. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4. Yan Bai, China, def. Takuto Niki, 6-1, 7-5. Adrian Mannarino (5), France, def. Lucas Pouille, France, 6-0, 6-3. Zhizhen Zhang, def. Go Soeda, Japan, 6-4, 6-4. Jiri Vesely (6), Czech Republic, def. Ze Zhang, China, 6-3, 6-2. Victor Estrella Burgos (8), Dominican Republic, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia, 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4. Hiroki Moriya, Japan, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-4, 6-3. Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austria, 6-2, 7-6 (7-2). Aljaz Bedene (7), England, def. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, 6-3, 6-3.

MALAYSIAN OPEN

$W .XDOD /XPSXU 0DOD\VLD Tuesday, Sept.. 29 results MEN 6LQJOHV First Round Radu Albot, Moldova, def. Viktor Troicki (5), Serbia, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5). Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, def. Ramkumar Ramanathan, India, 6-2, 6-2. Jeremy Chardy (6), France, def. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. Tatsuma Ito, Japan, def. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3). Vasek Pospisil (8), Canada, def. Yasutaka Uchiyama, Japan, 6-3, 6-4. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, def. Yuichi Sugita, Japan, 7-6 (8-6), 6-0. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, def. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1.

WTA DONGFENG MOTOR WUHAN OPEN

At Wuhan, China Tuesday, Sept.. 29 results WOMEN 6LQJOHV Second Round Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, def. Caroline Wozniacki (4), Denmark, 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6). Camila Giorgi, Italy, def. Belinda Bencic (11), Switzerland, 6-2, 0-0 (retired). Carla Suarez Navarro (7), Spain, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Coco Vandeweghe, United States, def. Caroline Garcia, France, 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6). Roberta Vinci (15), Italy, def. IrinaCamelia Begu, Romania, 6-4, 6-3. Venus Williams, United States, def. Julia Goerges, Germany, 6-4, 6-3. Johanna Konta, England, def. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 6-4, 1-0 (retired). Garbine Muguruza (5), Spain, def. Sloane Stephens, United States, 6-2, 6-0. Petra Kvitova (3), Czech Republic, def. Daria Gavrilova, Russia, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5. Simona Halep (1), Romania, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 6-2, 6-1.

TASHKENT OPEN

At Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tuesday, Sept.. 29 results WOMEN 6LQJOHV First Round Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, def. Jelena Ostapenko (7), Latvia, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, def. Urszula Radwanska, Poland, 6-2, 6-4. Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, def. Andreea Mitu (8), Romania, 7-5, 6-3. Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistan, def. Petra Martic, Croatia, 6-4, 6-0. Katerina Siniakova (5), Czech Republic, def. Paula Kania, Poland, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5). Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, def. Klara Koukalova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-0. Johanna Larsson (4), Sweden, def. Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, 6-3, 6-3. Jana Cepelova, Slovakia, def. Sabina Sharipova, Uzbekistan, 6-2, 6-1. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, def. Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, 6-2, 6-4. Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Annika Beck (1), Germany, def. Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russia, 6-3, 6-1. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, def. Polona Hercog (3), Slovenia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

WEEK 3

WHL All Times Mountain

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

EAST

EAST DIVISION GP Saskatoon 2 Brandon 2 Moose Jaw 2 Regina 2 Prince Albert 2 Swift Current 2

W 1 1 1 1 1 1

L OTL SOL GF GA 0 1 0 12 8 0 0 1 5 3 0 1 0 5 4 1 0 0 4 5 1 0 0 8 12 1 0 0 3 5

Pt 3 3 3 2 2 2

CENTRAL DIVISION Red Deer Calgary Lethbridge Medicine Hat Edmonton Kootenay

GP 2 2 2 2 2 2

W 2 2 1 1 0 0

L OTL SOL GF GA 0 0 0 7 3 0 0 0 5 2 1 0 0 8 6 1 0 0 6 8 1 1 0 3 7 2 0 0 2 5

Pt 4 4 2 2 1 0

WESTERN CONFERENCE B.C. DIVISION GP Vancouver 2 Victoria 2 Kelowna 3 Prince George 2 Kamloops 2

W 2 2 2 1 0

L OTL SOL GF GA 0 0 0 8 4 0 0 0 10 6 1 0 0 13 11 1 0 0 5 3 2 0 0 6 11

Pt 4 4 4 2 0

W 1 1 0 0 0

L OTL SOL GF GA 0 0 0 6 4 1 0 0 3 5 1 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 4 6 2 0 0 6 10

Pt 2 2 0 0 0

New England Buffalo N.Y. Jets Miami

Spokane Everett Seattle Tri-City Portland

)ULGD\¡V JDPHV Calgary at Brandon, 6:30 p.m. Kelowna at Edmonton, 7 p.m. Spokane at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Swift Current at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Saskatoon, 7:05 p.m. Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Saturday, October 3 Kelowna at Red Deer, 7 p.m. Calgary at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Lethbridge at Kootenay, 7 p.m. Brandon at Regina, 7 p.m. Everett at Portland, 8 p.m. Prince George at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. Kamloops at Victoria, 8:05 p.m. Spokane at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m. Sunday, October 4 Vancouver at Saskatoon, 2 p.m. Swift Current at Edmonton, 4 p.m. Calgary at Regina, 4 p.m. Kelowna at Lethbridge, 6 p.m. Seattle at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m. Tuesday, October 6 Vancouver at Brandon, 6 p.m. Kelowna at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m. Kootenay at Prince Albert, 7 p.m. Red Deer at Lethbridge, 7 p.m. Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Indianapolis Jacksonville Houston Tennessee

Home 2-0-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0

Away 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-1-0

AFC 3-0-0 2-1-0 2-0-0 0-2-0

NFC 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 1-0-0

Div 1-0-0 1-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0

W 3 2 1 0

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .000

PF 85 76 58 70

PA 56 52 72 84

Home 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-1-0 0-1-0

Away 2-0-0 1-1-0 0-1-0 0-2-0

AFC 3-0-0 0-1-0 1-2-0 0-3-0

NFC 0-0-0 2-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0

Div 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0

W L 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .333 .333 .333 .333

PF 56 49 56 89

PA 80 91 60 77

Home 0-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0

Away 1-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 1-1-0

AFC 1-2-0 1-1-0 0-1-0 0-2-0

NFC 0-0-0 0-1-0 1-1-0 1-0-0

Div 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0

W L 3 0 2 1 1 2 1 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .333

PF 74 77 66 79

PA 49 86 83 89

Home 1-0-0 1-1-0 1-0-0 0-1-0

Away 2-0-0 1-0-0 0-2-0 1-1-0

AFC 2-0-0 2-1-0 0-1-0 1-1-0

NFC 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 0-1-0

Div 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0

PF 75 78 55 58

PA 75 72 59 63

Home 1-1-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-1-0

Away 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 1-1-0

NFC 2-1-0 1-2-0 1-1-0 0-2-0

AFC 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 1-0-0

Div 2-0-0 1-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

L 0 1 2 3

WEST Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington Philadelphia

W L 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .333 .333 .333

W L 3 0 2 1 0 3 0 3

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .000 0 .000

PF PA 96 68 60 50 56 83 46 105

Home 2-0-0 2-0-0 0-1-0 0-2-0

Away 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-2-0 0-1-0

NFC 2-0-0 1-1-0 0-1-0 0-3-0

AFC 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-2-0 0-0-0

Div 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

W L 3 0 3 0 1 2 0 3

T Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .333 0 .000

PF 71 89 49 60

PA 48 72 80 84

Home 2-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

Away 1-0-0 2-0-0 1-1-0 0-2-0

NFC 1-0-0 3-0-0 1-0-0 0-3-0

AFC 2-0-0 0-0-0 0-2-0 0-0-0

Div 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-2-0

W L 3 0 1 2 1 2 1 2

T Pct PF 0 1.000 126 0 .333 50 0 .333 74 0 .333 45

PA 49 67 61 93

Home 2-0-0 1-1-0 1-0-0 1-0-0

Away 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-2-0 0-2-0

NFC 3-0-0 1-1-0 1-2-0 1-1-0

AFC 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0

Div 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0

NORTH

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans WEST Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

0RQGD\ 6HSWHPEHU Green Bay 38 Kansas City 28 Thursday, October 1 Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 8:25 p.m. Sunday, October 4 N.Y. Jets at Miami, 9:30 a.m. N.Y. Giants at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Oakland at Chicago, 1 p.m. Houston at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Kansas City at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 1 p.m. Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Cleveland at San Diego, 4:05 p.m. Minnesota at Denver, 4:25 p.m. Green Bay at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. St. Louis at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. Dallas at New Orleans, 8:30 p.m. Monday, October 5 Detroit at Seattle, 8:30 p.m.

LATE MONDAY

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

PACKERS 38, CHIEFS 28 W 5 4 4 3 3 2

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Pt 10 9 8 7 6 4

ISLAND DIVISION W 5 3 3 1 1

L 2 1 3 4 4

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First Quarter GB — Montgomery 8 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 9:44. GB — Cobb 3 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 2:18. Second Quarter KC — Charles 9 run (Santos kick), 12:02. GB — FG Crosby 44, 6:15. GB — Jones 27 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 0:56. Third Quarter GB — Cobb 4 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 7:18. KC — Maclin 5 pass from Smith (Santos kick), 0:56. Fourth Quarter GB — Cobb 4 pass from Rodgers (Crosby kick), 12:10. KC — Charles 4 run (pass from Smith to Kelce), 9:56. KC — Charles 7 run (pass from Smith to ), 1:25. A — 78,214 at Green Bay. TEAM STATISTICS First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punts Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

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RUSHING — Kansas City, Charles 11-49 Smith 6-33, Thomas 1--7. Green Bay, Lacy 10-46, Starks 17-32, Harris 2-17, Rodgers 2-16, Cobb 1-12. PASSING — Kansas City, Smith 24-40-290-1-1. Green Bay, Rodgers 24-35-333-5-0. RECEIVING — Kansas City, Maclin 8-141, Kelce 6-80, Charles 5-33, Conley 1-16, Thomas 2-12, Avant 2-8. Green Bay, Jones 7-139, Cobb 7-91, Lacy 3-41, Starks 1-19, Rodgers 2-15, Montgomery 2-14, Quarless 2-14.

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SOCCER ROUNDUP

Chelsea falls 2-1 in Champions League action a one-sided game. Bayern was up by four goals after 28 minutes in a comfortable win that saw a hat trick for Robert Lewandowski and goals for Douglas Costa and Mario Gotze.

JAMES ELLINGWORTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW — Jose Mourinho’s season took another turn for the worse on a night of surprises in the Champions League. With Chelsea floundering in 14th in the English Premier League, a win at Porto on Tuesday would have been a much-needed boost, but instead Mourinho watched a 2-1 defeat at the hands of the club he led to the Champions League title in 2004. Mourinho said his team paid the price for “two ridiculous mistakes� in defence as Yacine Brahimi and Maicon’s goals powered the Portuguese team to victory. Arsenal fared no better than its London rival, losing 3-2 at home to Olympiakos. That leaves Arsenal bottom of Group F with rapidly shrinking hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages. Another surprise was in store in Belarus, where BATE Borisov upset Roma 3-2. However, Barcelona pulled off a dramatic escape to avoid defeat against Bayer Leverkusen, scoring in the 80th and 82nd minutes to turn defeat into a 2-1 home victory. “We are the European champions and we knew that in the second half we had to show it,� said Luis Suarez, who scored the winner. Here is a look at Tuesday’s Champions League matches. Group E Barcelona’s dramatic comeback was achieved without Lionel Messi, who is set to miss two months with a torn knee ligament, and the team’s injury worries grew when Andres Iniesta was forced off in the second half with an apparent thigh injury. Sergi Roberto poked in the rebound of a strike by fellow substitute Munir El Haddadi to equalize in the 80th, and two

Chelsea’s Ramires, left, brings down Porto’s Yacine Brahimi during a Champions League soccer match between FC Porto and Chelsea FC at the Dragao stadium in Porto, Portugal, Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

minutes later El Haddadi passed for Luis Suarez to drive in the winner, sending Barcelona top of the group. Leverkusen outplayed the defending champions for an hour and looked set to take revenge for its 7-1 loss last time the German side visited Camp Nou in 2012 when Messi scored a record five goals. Defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos scored the opener in the 22nd, but Leverkusen faded late and didn’t have the legs to keep up with Barcelona’s reinforcements. Also in Group E on Tuesday, BATE Borisov beat Roma 3-2. BATE was widely expected to be a serial loser in Group E, but two goals from left-back Filip Mladenovic powered the Belarusian team to a surprise victory.

Roma staged a second-half comeback with goals from Gervinho and Vasilis Torosidis, but was denied a point when Alessandro Florenzi’s shot hit the crossbar late on. Barcelona rose to the top of the group with four points, followed by Leverkusen and BATE Borisov with three each. Roma is last with one point. Group F A goalkeeping blunder by David Ospina helped Olympiakos beat Arsenal 3-2, leaving the Gunners in real danger of its first group-stage exit in 16 years. Ospina fumbled a corner over his line to give the visitors a 2-1 first-half lead, and substitute Alfred Finnbogason scored the winner in the 66th minute —

almost immediately after Alexis Sanchez had drawn Arsenal level. Arsenal, which has advanced past the first group stage every year since 2001, has now lost both its opening games — and still has two meetings with Group F leader Bayern Munich to come. Bayern beat Dinamo Zagreb 5-0 to take a tight grip on first place in the group. “It leaves us in a bad position, but we are still in it,� Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. “We have to make a result in our next game against Bayern at home. We are not out of it.� Wenger rested first-choice goalkeeper Petr Cech, just as in the opening 2-1 loss at Dinamo. In Munich, Dinamo never came close to repeating that victory in

Group G Chelsea’s miserable start to the season opened a new chapter as it lost top spot in Group G with a 2-1 defeat at FC Porto. Jose Mourinho’s former club went ahead in the 39th when Yacine Brahimi beat Branislav Ivanovic and Gary Cahill on the left, with goalkeeper Asmir Begovic pushing away Brahimi’s shot only as far as Andre Andre who fired a first-time volley into the net. Willian levelled with a curling free-kick in first-half added time as Iker Casillas, making a competition record 152nd appearance, didn’t even move. Maicon sealed it in the 52nd, putting the Portuguese club level with group leader Dynamo Kyiv on four points, one ahead of Chelsea, which is also struggling in the Premier League. In Israel, Dynamo cruised to a 2-0 win over Maccabi Tel Aviv, which is yet to score a goal in this season’s group stage. Andriy Yarmolenko put the Ukrainian team ahead in the fourth minute, before Junior Moraes struck five minutes into the second half. Group H Hulk delivered a man of the match performance as Zenit St. Petersburg made it two wins from two matches in Group H with a 2-1 defeat of Gent. Hulk had two assists while Artem Dzyuba scored his first Champions League goal and Oleg Shatov notched the winner. Meanwhile, Valencia got its campaign back on track with a 1-0 win at Lyon following an opening home loss to Zenit. Midfielder Thomas Matton scored his fourth goal in three games for Gent, equalizing in the 56th minute.

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Former FIFA ofďŹ cial gets banned from sport for life

Getting their goat at Tim Horton’s

Repeated acts of bribery cited in World Cup bidding process ROB HARRIS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ZURICH — Four years after stepping down in disgrace, former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner was banned from soccer for life on Tuesday, accused of repeated acts of bribery related to World Cup bidding votes. Warner, a long-time ally of President Sepp Blatter who was allowed to resign from FIFA in 2011 with his “presumption of innocence� maintained, is currently fighting extradition from Trinidad and Tobago on U.S. charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money-laundering. The decision by the FIFA ethics committee on Tuesday shows that judge Hans-Joachim Eckert will pursue officials long after they have left their jobs. A more pressing case for the ethics body is an investigation into Blatter, who was interrogated by Swiss prosecutors on Friday in part over allegations

he undervalued the awarding of World Cup television rights to Warner. Blatter, who denies wrongdoing, is at risk of being suspended by his own organization. Warner’s lifetime FIFA ban stems from Eckert’s report on the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. “I do not believe however that this will serve as the distraction to the FIFA’s present problems as the FIFA wishes it to be,� Warner said. “Given what is happening in Zurich with Sepp Blatter I guess that there is no such thing as a coincidence.� As leader of the CONCACAF region from 1990-2011, Warner gained considerable influence in World Cup votes by the FIFA executive committee and now the extent of his wrongdoing has been reinforced by Eckert. “Mr. Warner was found to have committed many and various acts of misconduct continuous-

ly and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF,� the FIFA statement said. “In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, as well as other money-making schemes.� The case highlights how the spectre of corruption has hung over FIFA under Blatter’s 17-year presidency. Former FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon, who hopes to succeed Blatter in February’s election, said Tuesday the leadership crisis is so severe that an emergency task force should be set up to run the game. Blatter is under criminal investigation and general secretary Jerome Valcke suspended from work and being investigated by the ethics committee.

Turns out the goat who wouldn’t leave a Tim Hortons in Saskatchewan got a bum rap. The goat was one of three taking part in the University of Saskatchewan rodeo team’s annual event just north of Saskatoon on the weekend. Katie Dutchak, co-founder of the team, says it’s believed the goat — which came from Alberta — was kidnapped and let loose in the coffee shop’s parking lot. Dutchak says goats are companion animals and don’t wander off by themselves and the Timmy’s is about a 10-minute car ride south of the corral grounds where the rodeo was held. She says goats are known to chew anything, but there was no evidence left to show that Goliath did that. Team members are thankful he is back safe and sound, but Dutchak says tampering with animals or using them in a joke is something they don’t want to promote. “We can’t see any contestants doing anything like this. Everyone is very respectful of the stock,� she said Tuesday. “We all take very good care of the stock. These animals are athletes to us ... so we’re pretty certain it wasn’t anyone who was competing.� She said contestants in the rodeo have been told if they did something like this they could be suspended from competing for the rest of the year.

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FOOD

Island gourmets can just open up and say ‘cheese’ Lynette Burns The Lucky Gourmet

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nybody with an interest in eating locally doesn’t have to look far on Vancouver Island. So many local farmers and food producers use nature’s bounty from our land and sea to make yummy, ready-to-eat vittles. Take cheese for example. We have four cheese producers within 100 kilometres on the east side of the Island. The two main producers, Island Pastures Cheese Company and Little Qualicum Cheeseworks, sell their cheese at grocery stores. And to make it taste as local as humanly possible, all the milk used in Little Qualicum Cheeseworks’ products comes from their own dairy farm which, of course, means zero carbon footprint here! The line-up of Little Qualicum products is truly impressive; they make feta, brie, monterey jack, wine-marbled cheese, fresh curds, tangy blue cheeses, and my personal favorite, fromage frais. Unripened and containing flavourful (human-friendly) fungi/bacteria, fromage frais is a spreadable, tart cheese and one you can eat as a snack blended with garlic and herbs or on your morning toast with jam which, I personally, find irresistible. Island Pastures Cheese Company is located in Courtenay and their cheese is also available at several grocery stores in the mid-Island region. To achieve their desired standard, the milk they use also comes from local farms as well as their own herd of cows and water buffalo. With water buffalo milk, Island Pastures makes a rich,

Vancouver Island produces a wide variety of fabulous cheeses. [THE LUCKY GOURMET]

creamy award winning brie known as Comox Brie. With unique earthy tastes, Comox Brie is so good that it has won numerous international cheese competitions, including the gold medal at the 2008 World Cheese Championships! Try the Comox Brie with a local Pinot Grigio. The wine’s slight acidity really brings out the best in this cheese. Within a 100-kilometre radius we also have The Happy Goat Cheese Company in Duncan. Available at the year-round downtown Duncan farmers’

market, this exotic array of artisan goat cheeses is worth the drive to Duncan alone, especially with hard-to-find choices like Mandolin, La Mancha, Tallentire and Tomme De Vallee. The La Mancha is a firm, buttery cheese with a sweet goat-milk finish. Try it with dried fruit and/or a cold bottle of Longwood Breweries Steampunk Dunkle. The rich and malty Dunkle beer compliments the tangy nutty flavours of La Mancha perfectly. Salt Spring Island is home to Moonstruck Cheese, an organ-

ic farmstead cheese-making operation. The fragrant organic milk from their herd of pasture-roaming Jersey cows is transformed into nine different artisan cheeses with beautiful, complex flavours – including an ash-ripened camembert. Thankfully, Moonstruck Cheese can be ordered online if a trip to Salt Spring Island is a little out of your way. With so much expert advice surrounding us, why not make your own cheese? It’s fun and not nearly as0 difficult as one might imagine.

Vegetarian Italian soup sure to make splash Meat-free version of sausage and gnocchi recipe will get your taste buds tingling Recently I featured a recipe on Global TV and then in my column for Italian sausage and gnocchi soup. The amount of positive feedback I received from this recipe was overwhelming to say the least. One of the requests I received within this feedback was for a vegetarian version of this soup, and it is with this column I am happy to oblige. Now let’s be honest: I can’t think of anything vegetarian that would replicate the flavour of sausage, but I guess if you are vegetarian you more than likely don’t want that flavour anyway. This recipe otherwise is very reminiscent of the original. This recipe is extremely easy and screams “classic Italian.”

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RECIPES

CHEF DEZ ON COOKING

Eileen Bennewith

Vegetarian or not, I think this finished dish at your next dinner party will be a splash (figuratively, hopefully not literally). Rustic Italian Bread Soup “My version of a classic bread soup. Very simple, but very delicious!”

tomatoes • 1 – 900 ml tetra pack of vegetable broth • 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil leaves • 1 tsp white sugar • 1/2 to 1 tsp salt • Parmiggiano Regianno cheese, grated or shaved, for garnish

• 500g loaf of bread (crusty Italian or sourdough), cut in large cubes • 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil • 1 tsp dried basil • 1 tsp dried oregano • 1 tsp salt • A few grinds of black pepper • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil • 1 small/medium onion, diced small • 4 garlic cloves, minced • Salt and pepper • 1 – 796 ml can of diced

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Toss the bread cubes with the 1/4 cup olive oil, dried basil, dried oregano, 1 tsp salt, and a few grinds of black pepper. Spread on a baking sheet and bake 10 to 15 minutes until golden (like large croutons). Set aside. 2. Heat a pot over medium heat. Add the 2 tbsp olive oil, onion, garlic, and a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Cook, while stirring occasionally, for 2 to 3 minutes until

CARRIERS WANTED!!

the onion & garlic are soft. 3. Add the can of diced tomatoes and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes over medium heat. 4. Add the vegetable broth and bring to a boil. 5. Remove from the heat and stir in the fresh basil, sugar, and salt. 6. Divide the baked bread cubes into 8 soup bowls. Ladle an equal amount of soup into each bowl over the bread cubes. Garnish with the Parmiggiano and serve immediately. This makes eight portions. Chef Dez is a Food Columnist, Culinary Instructor & Cookbook Author. Visit him at www.chefdez. com Write to him at dez@chefdez. com or P.O. Box 2674, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6R4

his week (Oct. 1 to 7) marks the annual celebration of World Breastfeeding Week in Canada. Balancing work and family life, including breastfeeding, is increasingly necessary for women’s rights, a strong, healthy and vibrant workforce-and a healthier society. This year highlights the importance of integrating women’s and men’s productive and reproductive work which ultimately can benefit the communit in a lot of ways, including: productivity, family income and job security, women’s and children’s health and well-being, employers’ long-term profits and a nation’s socio-economic health and stability. This year’s theme “Let’s Make it Work” therefore involves everyone. Together, we can make it work! The World Health Organization and Health Canada both recommend that mothers breastfeed their babies for up to two years and beyond. Breastfeeding has many health benefits and protective factors for both the mother and her baby. Since mothers are encouraged to breastfeed for two years and beyond, employers are wise to support breastfeeding mothers by allowing feeding breaks, and by having comfortable places where mothers can pump and store breast milk if necessary. Flexibility in shifts, longer maternity leaves or part-time situations will also support a breastfeeding mother. Breastfed babies are less likely to become sick so employers who support mothers with breastfeeding actually have less sick time to deal with. By supporting your employees to work while they continue to breastfeed makes sense. Your best employees will be willing to come back after maternity leave if they know that the employer understands why breastfeeding is important and is willing to accommodate some workplace changes to help the breastfeeding mother to continue to feed her baby when she returns to work. Island Health community nutritionists, public health nursing, Vancouver Island regional libraries, and others are partnering again this year to provide an event for breastfeeding families and their friends to attend. We hope to see you at one of many Island locations to participate in story time at 10:30 a.m., followed by latch-on at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct 3. Locations include the Port Alberni Health Unit, 4227- 6th Avenue At 11 a.m. “The Latch” will occur worldwide, and the number of participants are counted and recorded on the Quintessence Foundation Website.

» Eileen Bennewith is a registered dietitian in the public health program for Island Health. Reach her at eileen.bennewith@viha.ca.

WINE

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writes it are very different, too. In 1991, when MacNeil started researching the first edition, she was not the star that she is today: a highly respected wine educator and chairman emeritus of the Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley. After the first book was published, a lawyer friend of hers calculated that she made six cents an hour in the 10 years it took her to research it. “Every fact was checked by U.S. postal mail,” she says, “and in the latter part of the 10 years by the incredible invention of the fax machine.” MacNeil does not

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