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Plumtree, Watson honoured for lifetime of work

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Red Deer is losing a long-running soup kitchen that’s also a safe place to hang out for people with no other place to go during the day.

On Monday, Loaves and Fishes announced its last day of operations is June 30 due to a ongoing funding shortfall, but The Mustard Seed, based in Calgary and Edmonton, will be moving in to fill in the void.

Mustard Seed is still determining what programs to offer out of Loaves and Fishes’ facility at 6002 54th Ave. So far it has decided, possibly with a partner, to carry on with Loaves and Fishes’ popular school lunch program that feeds 350 students daily.

Loaves and Fishes executive director Halina Jarvis said she is concerned about the gap in food service between the time Loaves and Fishes shuts down and Mustard Seed opens and where people will go during the day.

“We’re trying to work something out so people aren’t left out in the cold.

We are the only drop-in centre in town right now. There’s nobody so I don’t know what these folks are going to do.

We’re going to have to put our heads together.”

When Nellie Watson turned 90 her friends sang the Scottish song “Keep Right on to the End of the Road.”

“And that’s what I hope to do,” said Watson to a standing ovation after being honoured along with Red Deer’s Elizabeth Plumtree with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 9th Annual Women of Excellence Awards Gala on Wednesday night.

Watson was recognized for her decades of volunteer work with the Brownies, Olds College, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Central Alberta and 4-H, among others.

Her mailing address may say Eckville, she said, but she is a proud resident of the Everts district. About 40 km west of Red Deer, it was once a significant village and the only stopping point between Red Deer and Rocky Mountain House, added Watson, who has been deeply involved in collecting the history of the area in two books.

The Everts Ladies Community Club — of which she is a chartered member — is still going strong after 67 years, she said in her speech at the Sheraton Hotel Red Deer.

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Clint Kahl of Ponoka finds his groove on a standing wave in Red Deer Tuesday evening. Three parallel sets of rapids have formed on the Red Deer River just downstream from a temporary bridge installed at Great Chief Park this spring to accommodate riverbank construction on the south side of the river. Kahl and his friends Mila Bozdech and Rob Leier of Red Deer are pretty excited about the fast moving water and being able to kayak in Red Deer. All agree it would be great if, after construction is completed, the rocks could be left where they are to create a permanent set of rapids in the river.

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Residents greeted by mouldy fridges, overgrown lawns

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FORT MCMURRAY — Gag-inducing, dirty and tiring work was waiting for the first group of Fort McMurray residents to return to the city Wednesday, a month after a vicious wildfire forced everyone to flee.

Many set about right away to scrub down refrigerators fuzzy with mould that grew after the power was cut or mowing overgrown, dandelion-infested lawns.

Full coverage of re-entry to Fort McMurray Fenton Lovell cried as he drove back into his city. His eyes teared up again when he opened his smelly refrigerator.

“Fort McMurray strong!” he joked.

He was getting the house cleaned and ready so his wife and twin babies

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can return from Newfoundland. After boosting the dead battery in his pickup truck, he grabbed a welcome kit out of his mailbox and put a “natural gas required” sign in his front window.

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CHARITY: ‘A lot of people just come in for coffee’ She said visits climbed when the winter Warming Centre shut down for the season.

“We have a lot of people just come in for coffee.

We’re a safe place. They come in to be safe.”

She said clients are asking questions for which there are no answers yet. Staff are also adjusting.

“We’re all kind of walking around dazed. We’ve all been here a long, long time. This has been our life, our passion, our heart. It’s hard on all of us. It will hurt our hearts to leave,” Jarvis said.

Red Deer Food Bank executive director Fred Scaife said it’s very sad to see one of the food bank’s longest term partners close.

“They’ve got such a rich history in the city of helping the really downtrodden. This is a place where some of them have gone for 20 years and all of a sudden it’s going to be different,” Scaife said.

He said it’s going to be traumatic for some clients but Mustard Seed is a wonderful organization, although it’s an unfortunate way to move into the city.

“I think (Mustard Seed) is going to bring some much needed stability. The one thing that people need that we deal with, and Loaves and Fishes deals with, is stability.”

Mustard Seed already operates in big cities and Red Deer does have growing big city problems, Scaife said.

Robert Mitchell, executive director of United Way of Central Alberta, said other provincial charities already operate in Red Deer and Mustard Seed is well recognized and could bring in new programs that really fit here.

Kath Hoffman, executive director of Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing, said it’s been a privilege to stand beside Loaves and Fishes, an organization that has given a lot to many.

“We knew that person in that wheelchair on that winter day could stay at Loaves all day if they had to and you got a cup of kindness when you’re there,” Hoffman said.

Safe Harbour operates People’s Place, a 35-bed homeless shelter, in the basement of Loaves and Fishes which will have to eventually move to a new location as Mustard Seed moves in.

“We know that The Mustard Seed certainly have a reputation of honouring any community they’re in and the people there so we’re not panicking. We know they have a building now and they have important work to do in it and they’re going to want it,” Hoffman said.

Millie Frederick said a few years ago she used to meet up with a group of people quite regularly at Loaves and Fishes.

“We formed strong relationship right here. It was a wonderful place for us,” said Frederick, who was having coffee at Loaves and Fishes on Wednesday afternoon.

“Halina is a God-send and the others who have passed through,” said Frederick, who has trouble cooking because of arthritis in her hands.

Teresa Bjerstedt, who is staying at People’s Place, said a lot of people are concerned where they’re going to eat. Having a soup kitchen and shelter in the same location is convenient. Other meals are served in the downtown.

“It’s a lot of walking when you have to carry a lot of backpacks on your back,” said Bjerstedt, outside Loaves and Fishes.

She hoped Mustard Seed will develop more affordable housing and a program for those who need help saving enough money for damage deposits and rent.

Central Alberta Adventist Community Services Centre currently provides two suppers each week and one brunch every two weeks for those in need.

Attaleen Werner, the centre’s director, said the Adventist community will look at providing at least one more supper, if not more, to help out if required when Loaves and Fishes closes.

Chris Salomons, kitchen co-ordinator at Potter’s Hands Ministries’ soup kitchen, said Potter’s Hands does not have the resources to provide more meals.

“Everything we do is by private donation. We receive no funding from anywhere. We’re stretched. I know for a fact that we can’t handle anymore,” Salomons said.

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Elizabeth Plumtree, left, and Nellie Watson received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 9th Annual Women of Excellence Awards Gala on Wednesday night.

Potters Hands provides about 1,100 meals a week through its breakfast program that runs six days a week, lunch on Monday and supper on Tuesday, he said.

Like others, Potter’s Hands and the Salvation Army is waiting to see what Mustard Seed will offer in Red Deer.

“The rest of us may have to re-evaluate and see what we can do to try and help the situation. For now, there would be no immediate plans for us to step up to the plate,” said Salvation Army Maj. Larry Bridger. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

RE-ENTRY: Fridge was a ‘bit funky’ Dave Chalupa said his fridge was a “bit funky” but he could handle it. The weed-covered lawn, on the other hand, had to be attacked right away.

“This is going to take at least two passes of the lawn mower ‘cause, I’m going to choke it right to death.”

The fire destroyed 2,400 structures, nearly 10 per cent of the city, when it ripped through and forced more than 80,000 residents to flee.

The return is being staged. People returning Wednesday lived in areas that were mostly spared by the flames. Residents in harder hit areas are to return in the coming days.

Tammy VanMackelberg said the city looks better than she expected.

“It’s actually nice and green. When you’re in some areas you can’t even really tell there was a fire,” she said. “It’s actually like you just went on a little vacation and came back and your lawn needs to be mowed.”

While the vast majority of downtown was untouched, some scars from the fire were evident.

One home that burned to the ground in Crescent Heights was fenced off. Front doors of some nearby houses were marked with “restricted use” signs.

“I’m one of the lucky ones,” said Allan Fedun, whose house four doors down was fine to go into.

Traffic on the only highway into town was light as the city’s downtown officially reopened. It rained off and on throughout the day.

Billboards and banners that read “Safe Resilient Together” and “We Are Here. We Are Strong” line the streets.

On a bridge over the highway coming into town, two fire truck cranes formed an arch dangling a Canadian, Alberta and municipal flags. Several firefighters waved at people as they drove in, getting honks in return.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley was in Fort McMurray to welcome back the first returning evacuees.

She thanked the crews who have worked to get the city running again — including a bylaw officer who rescued a hamster weeks after the fire and called

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She thanked all of those who have helped her over the years, including her family and late husband of 69 years.

“My motto has always been, if you believe you can, you’re halfway there,” she said. “By gosh, I’m almost beginning to believe that,” she said to laughter.

Plumtree was honoured for her many years of community work, especially her decades associated with Cronquist House. She and husband David were among the dedicated group that saved the historic home and oversaw its move to Bower Ponds in 1976.

“I’m absolutely amazed. I’m really thrilled,” she said, shortly after picking up her award. She was also honoured in the arts, culture and heritage category.

Plumtree and her husband came to Canada with two children from Nottingham, U.K., in 1973 and, besides a short 10-month stay in Toronto, have lived in Red Deer since.

“We came from a big city and moved to a small town of about 30,000 people. I wondered where on earth my husband had brought me to,” she said.

“We settled in and we started volunteering. I find that volunteering is the best thing you can to make friends and do work in the community.”

Her many years at Cronquist House have been memorable. One day the phone rang and she was asked if she wanted to have Hockey Day in Canada at Bower Ponds. Another time, the caller was from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa asking if she would like to host a touring company of Ukrainian dancers at a time when that county was part of the U.S.S.R. The awards are organized by the Red Deer and District Community Foundation. Red Deer Advocate is presenting sponsor.

Other award winners include: Agriculture: Jennifer Blair Arts, Culture and Heritage: Elizabeth Plumtree Athletics, Recreation and Fitness: Monica Morrison Business and the Professions: Dr. Katherine Atchison Community Building: Kelly Tibbets Education and Training: Kathleen Finnigan Entrepreneurship: Melanie Warren Environment: Blayne West Health and Wellness: Cherilynne Purpur Human Services: Beverly Keeshig-Sonnias Young Woman of Excellence: Poshika Dhingra

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the pet’s five-year-old owner with the good news.

Notley said stories like that will brighten the tough days ahead as more people come home to see what’s left.

“These are the points of light in the midst of some very, very hard days,” she said.

“And many hard days lie ahead.”

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Clearview Ridge residents are worried they will be left in the shade if the Villa Marie expansion goes ahead.

The Municipal Planning Commission tabled a decision on a development permit application that would allow the addition of two-storeys west of the existing supportive living facility at 10 Carrington Drive on Wednesday.

Cody Place resident Paul Gowans acted as spokesperson for a group of about 15 homeowners who attended the meeting. Cody Place is located directly east of the proposed addition.

Gowans told the commission that the homeowners were not opposed to the assisted living care facility but the development’s design.

The proposed addition calls for a building footprint of 23,756 square-feet and a total floor area of 47,500 squarefeet. The addition would allow for 66 beds/units and associated uses such as dining, laundry and therapy areas.

The homeowners were not aware a two-storey building would be going up next to their homes, said Gowans.

There were concerns over depreciated property values and increased noise and traffic.

A chief concern was the loss of enjoyment of the homeowner’s properties due to the loss of sunlight and privacy because of the building’s height.

Up to four storeys are permitted under the current zoning.

It was enough for the commission to hold off on making a decision to allow administration to work with the applicant on the issues related to loss of sunlight, privacy issues and the potential for a one-storey development.

Acting MPC chair Ken Johnston said he appreciated the comments from the group. He was concerned about the loss of sunlight for the residents, which would mean the residents would lose somewhere between fourand-a half and five hours of sun every season.

The original development permit for the facility was issued in October 2010 for two phases. It opened in 2014 with 100 beds. It is operated by Covenant Care.

The city mailed out 57 letters and received 17 responses about the application to neighbouring properties.

MPC will consider application within four weeks. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

RDC student association president honoured for leadership

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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St. Francis of Assisi Middle School Grade 8 students Taylor Graff, left, and Nathan Beauchamp work to set up their Rube Goldberg machine for another demonstration at the school Wednesday. About 170 students working in teams created about 40 projects as part of their science curriculum and demonstrated their machines to community judges. The simple and complex machines had to demonstrate four transitions and perform a task during operation.

Red Deer Transit celebrates 50 years of service

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer Transit has come a long way since the days of offering a dial-abus service.

When the city took over transit service from private operators on Sept.1, 1966, there were nine buses on the road.

Today there are 60 low floor buses, 23-passenger community shuttles and 24 Action Bus vehicles in the fleet.

Buses fill up at the city’s diesel fuelling station and soon 16 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses will be filling up at the city’s new CNG fuelling station at Civic Yards.

At a special ceremony at Sorensen Station on Wednesday, the city celebrated 50 years of providing public transportation.

Transit manager George Penny said as the population grows so does the demand for public transportation. Last year there were 3.8 million trips and in 2014, there were four million trips in Red Deer. On average the buses make 10,000 trips every day.

Penny said the bus service continues to be robust despite a slight dip in 2015, which he attributes to the low economy.

Red Deer’s transit system will continue to be meet the needs of residents with its system-wide intelligence transit, which enables GPS, said Penny.

Bus riders will be able to see when the next bus is coming in real time.

The whole system is expected to be completed by the end of June 2017.

The city is currently in the project’s procurement stage.

But that is not the only change on the road.

A couple of years ago, the city decided to place its bets on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). By next September, the city will have 16 CNG buses in the fleet and a fuelling station at Civic Yards. Work on the new station will start in August and the first five buses should arrive by November.

The city will have 19 CNG buses and by 2019, 40 CNG buses in the fleet.

Investing in CNG in the ever-changing world of technology has been criticized, notably by Coun. Paul Harris who said it is not the way to go. Harris has said that the city ought to explore other technologies.

But Penny is convinced that CNG is the way to go and it leaves the option open for trying other technologies.

“Electric still has a long way to go but CNG is moving across the country,” he said. “A lot of transit agencies have them. It is cleaner burning, less emis-

A young woman who has shown top leadership as president of the Red Deer College Students’ Association has won a national award.

Maryanne McGrath was presented with the Student Leadership Award of Excellence Gold from Colleges and Institutes Canada at its national conference in Quebec City on Tuesday.

The award is presented annually to an outstanding, currently enrolled student leader who has made an exceptional contribution within the institution and communities it serves.

McGrath, who was re-elected to serve as students’ association president for the 2016-17 school year, has led several initiatives at the college.

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City of Red Deer mayor Tara Veer speaks to a group gathered at the Sorensen Station in Red Deer as the City of Red Deer celebrated the 50th anniversary of Red Deer Transit. sions, quieter and I think that is what people want.”

However the city is keeping a close eye on St. Albert, which is piloting a few electric buses in its fleet.

Different manufacturers have different charging methods for each type of electric bus, said Penny.

“If we went with one style bus we would have to put in a certain charging system and you wouldn’t be able to try another vehicle,” said Penny. “With CNG, that option is open. Across the country, places like Vancouver and Toronto are all moving to CNG … They are trying other options and I think we should look at other options. But I think CNG is a viable option for us.”

The city used in part GreenTrip funding and the Federal GAs Tax funding for the $6.1 million-project.

Mayor Tara Veer said the city recognizes that a key part of a healthy, active lifestyle for all citizens is having access to multi-modal transportation options to connect with the people and places in and around Red Deer.

Veer said it was a honour to recognize the transit staff both past and present during the ceremony. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Tories moving on to important battles MICHAEL TAUBE OPINION

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t last weekend’s Conservative Party policy convention, members gathered in Vancouver to say goodbye to former prime minister Stephen Harper’s near-decade of strong leadership, and hello to a new, “with-it” political party.

That was the goal, anyway. Did it succeed?

During the convention, Tories tweaked several long-standing policy positions in different directions. The party now supports a peace officer’s right to issue a ticket for “simple possession of small quantities of marijuana,” for example. They backed “conscience rights” for doctors, nurses and other health care professionals who refuse to perform medical procedures like abortion and euthanasia due to their own beliefs. There was strong support for “right-to-work legislation” to reduce union control.

An important additional phrase, “a belief in the value and dignity of all human life” was also added to the party’s governing principles. While some Tory critics, and reportedly a party delegate, mumbled that it had social conservative connotations, it really doesn’t. The statement should not be objectionable to anyone who treasures the basic principles of freedom, liberty and democracy.

The biggest issue that had some Tory supporters crowing, however, was the change in party policy on same-sex marriage.

Even though Canada legalized same-sex marriage in July 2005, the Conservative party constitution defined marriage as “the union of one man and one woman.” This policy was struck down in Vancouver by a vote of 1,036 to 462. All of the provinces and territories, except Saskatchewan, voted in favour of a neutral position on marriage.

The political left treated this decision in its usual mocking tone. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told attendees to the Liberal Party conference in Winnipeg: “Better late than never.

Who knows? … Ten years from now, they might finally be willing to admit

that climate change is real. Or that tax cuts for rich people don’t help the middle class. Or that government shouldn’t legislate what women can wear on their heads.”

Trudeau’s derogatory remarks aside, it’s clear that Conservative party members missed a few things.

First, a significant number of Tories haven’t paid close attention to the party’s traditional marriage policy since the Liberals forced our nation to accept same-sex marriage more than a decade ago. Second, younger Conservatives — in particular, millennials — are heavily supportive of gay couples getting married in Canada and beyond.

Third, there are small “c” conservatives who, like me, still oppose samesex marriage but don’t feel the need or desire to re-open these political war wounds again.

In other words, many Tories have either willingly or begrudgingly accepted the fact that the battle for marriage is over — and they lost. There are other important battles that need to be fought, and the party must focus its time and energies on them.

Fred Litwin, a Conservative activist who runs the blog Gay and Right, told Daily Xtra on May 28, “It’s cleaning up

a remnant that needed to be cleaned up.” Litwin, who also organizes the biannual Fabulous Blue Tent Party with Roy Eappen and Jamie Ellerton, makes a very good point. What made sense as policy in the past no longer does in the present, which means it’s time to adjust things.

Hence, the main selling feature for the recent Tory policy convention was a success, for the most part.

It is unclear, however, whether some of the holdout social conservatives accept the Tories’ shift on samesex marriage, and adjustments to other policy changes.

There’s an element of frustration over the watering down of social conservatism and traditional family values. It’s true that their political options are limited, and a massive shift to smaller outfits like the Christian Heritage Party is unlikely. However, social conservatives could sit at home in record numbers — and cause damage to the party in several key ridings.

We’ll see what happens.

Troy Media columnist and political commentator Michael Taube was a speechwriter for former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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In spite of Trudeau, G7 gets failing grade

BY THOMAS WALKOM SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Last week’s G7 meeting in Japan was an opportunity missed.

The leaders of seven important countries, including Canada, had a chance to do something that would rekindle the sputtering global economy.

Some, including Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Canada’s Justin Trudeau, tried to convince the group to do just that.

Abe and Trudeau urged their fellow leaders to foreswear austerity and, among other growth-inducing measures, spend money to stimulate the world economy.

They failed. Italy’s Matteo Renzi was on side with Canada and Japan, as were France’s François Hollande and U.S. President Barack Obama.

But Germany’s Angela Merkel and Britain’s David Cameron insisted that debt and deficit control were more important than fiscal stimulus.

The final communiqué from the two-day session said essentially that each nation would continue to do what it thought best.

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all economic co-ordination.

Given that the G7 was devised in 1975 specifically to encourage the world’s major capitalist economies to co-ordinate their actions, this was a signal failure.

Sometimes, attempts at international economic co-ordination have worked. The most notable example occurred in 2008, when an expanded version of the G7, known as the G20, agreed to run deficits in order to bring the world out of recession.

Even Stephen Harper, who at the time was Canada’s very fiscally conservative prime minister, signed on to that pledge. And it succeeded.

But there is no agreement now, either among the 19 nations that make up the G20 (the 20th member is the European Union) or among the seven who met in Japan on Thursday and Friday.

As a result, the global economy just slogs along. It’s not weak enough to push the world back into recession.

But it’s not strong enough to deliver jobs and adequate income.

Even Canada, which has done relatively well, isn’t exempt. The Bank of Canada predicts this country’s economy will shrink slightly in the AprilJune period, in part because of the News News tips 403-314-4333 Sports line 403-343-2244 News fax 403-341-6560 Sports editor 403-314-4363 editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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A Conference Board survey reports that Canadian manufacturers expect to reduce capital spending by almost 11 per cent this year.

The International Monetary Fund, which exists to backstop nations in financial trouble and which has never been a hotbed of radicalism, headlined its April update of the world economy: “Too slow for too long.”

The IMF has been urging world leaders to do exactly the kind of things that Trudeau and Abe called for last week in Japan.

So what do we make of the G7? In some ways, its time has passed. It no longer represents the world’s major economies. China is conspicuously absent. Russia, briefly a member of what was then called the G8, was summarily expelled in 2014 for the sin of annexing Crimea.

For a while, the hope was that the G20 (which does include China and Russia) would handle economic matters, leaving the G7 to ponder weightier questions, such as international security.

But the G20 seems increasingly bogged down. Its bright lights — the so-called emerging economies, such as

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Brazil, Russia, India and China - have dimmed.

Brazil is in political chaos. Russia has been hammered by falling oil prices. Even the Chinese economy is not as stellar as it was.

Meanwhile, the G7’s attempt to focus on security has been hamstrung by the gradual re-emergence of Cold War politics. Beijing is at daggers drawn with the U.S. and Japan over who controls the South China Sea. Russia and NATO are remilitarizing the border between Eastern and Western Europe.

When the pro-West G7 does pronounce on such matters — as it did again last week — it does so with little moral authority.

John Kirton of the University of Toronto’s G7 Research Group routinely grades summits. He gave this one a B-/ C+ grade over all, largely because of what the leaders said about security. I thought he was being kind.

But Kirton gave the summit a failing grade, F, for its approach to the global macroeconomy. I thought he was being kind there as well.

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BEAR VALLEY RESCUE

Hay costs, lack of space limits horse rescue

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A horse rescue society near Sundre is pulling in the reins on receiving any more animals because the high cost of hay depleted cash reserves and they are full.

Kathy Bartley, who runs Bear Valley Rescue with her husband, Mike, said that they have had more people than usual calling the past month wanting to surrender their horses. She attributes that to the difficult economic times — many people have lost their jobs or moving away.

“We can’t really take any more horses, especially not knowing what the price of hay is going to do and not having the cash reserves that we used to have.”

They have about 150 rescue horses on their 40-acre property located between Sundre and Cremona. They also have about 60 horses that are fostered elsewhere.

Bear Valley Rescue is a registered charity and the first equine sanctuary in Canada to be verified by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries, which legitimizes what they are doing, Bartley said.

They have been running the rescue operation for 13 years, something that grew to what it is now after her love for horses led her to begin rescuing them, many that had been destined for slaughter.

The price of hay hit “astronomical” prices last year. Bartley said in a typical year they spend $40,000 to $50,000 in hay but over the past winter they ended up spending about $120,000.

“We’re totally strapped for the coming year. We have no reserves. We don’t know what the price of hay is going to do.” They don’t have enough land to grow hay. Neighbours donate pasture land.

They keep the sanctuary going through mostly private donations, fees from the horses they adopt out, and corporate and other grants. But adoptions have been slow lately, something Bartley also attributes to the poor economy.

“We have to tell everybody ‘No,’ and the worst case scenario, well I don’t even want to think what the worst case scenario is. … We have 150 horses we have to look after. There’s just no option to not look after them.

“I’m surprised at the support we get. We just need more support.”

More information is available on Bear Valley Rescue at their website bearvalleyab.org barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Family prayed over starved teen

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Family members prayed over a starved, diabetic teen for about two hours after he stopped breathing before calling for help, a medical investigator testified Wednesday.

Emil Radita, 59, and his wife Rodica Radita, 53, are accused of first-degree murder in the 2013 death of their 15-year-old son Alexandru. Court has already heard the boy weighed less than 37 pounds and died from complications due to untreated diabetes and starvation.

Alexandru was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when he was three years old while the family lived in British Columbia.

Shauna Mitchell, a registered nurse who is an investigator for the medical examiner’s office, testified that initially Rodica Radita denied her son had any chronic health problems. The mother said he had been sick for about a month with the flu, diarrhea and a yeast infection in his throat that required he be fed baby food.

“She said he was a normal child who was walking and talking prior to becoming ill,” Mitchell said.

The mother later admitted that her son had been diagnosed with diabetes and, although she didn’t believe he was ill, she was giving him insulin, Mitchell said.

The nurse said she asked the parents when Alexandru was last seen alive.

“They said they went to church, I think it was after 1800 hours, and came home about 2000 hours. That’s when the father said he wasn’t breathing,” said Mitchell.

“So they were praying and they didn’t call EMS until sometime around 2200 hours. There were multiple people in the residence when I got there that were, from my understanding, part of their church and they were in the home praying together.”

Mitchell said she was shocked at the state of Alexandru’s body.

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Fairview Elementary School Grade 5 student Shukri Alwakkaa carries a box of donated supplies into the school followed by students from École Barrie Wilson Elementary School. On Wednesday, 51 students from Barrie Wilson brought the donated items to 12 Syrian refugee students at Fairview.

Barrie Wilson students donated items to support Syrian newcomers

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF École Barrie Wilson Elementary School reached out with gifts of games, toys, books and supplies to welcome Syrian students at Fairview Elementary School on Wednesday.

Twelve Syrian students joined Fairview in March and 51 students from Barrie Wilson have worked in groups to gather items as a way to help sup-

port the newcomers.

“It’s so special that they’re doing this. Children welcoming children,” said Linda Holden, English as a Second Language teacher at Fairview.

She said the Syrian students are already making strides in their new country.

“They’re starting to read. They’re starting to integrate and blend. It’s been wonderful,” Holden said.

Jan Ludwig, Grade 1 and 2 teacher at Barrie Wilson, said students raised

donations through the school community and washed the clothes and toys that were collected.

In addition to welcoming the newcomers, the project also gave Barrie Wilson students a chance to practise skills like collaboration and planning as they worked together as teams.

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A 39-year-old Red Deer man faces charges of breach of probation, trespassing and mischief.

Suspect in Sunnybrook Farm attempted theft corralled Police hunting for people who stole loaded gun safe Police are looking for thieves who made off with a gun safe containing several long barrel firearms after breaking into an Oriole Park garage.

The break-in occurred before 6 a.m. on May 29 when suspects pried open the side door to a detached garage that is accessible by the back alley and then opened the overhead door, say police.

There were six or seven long barrel guns in the safe.

A man was caught on camera driving up in a newer dark grey Dodge Ram truck with chrome accents and placing items in the back of the truck.

Police say the suspect drove away but returned shortly after with a second truck, a dark coloured Dodge Dakota. Three or four Caucasian men wearing dark clothing loaded more items from the garage into the trucks, including the gun safe and drove away.

RCMP continue to investigate.

Man accused of abusing children at unlicensed day home

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A Calgary man is accused of sexually abusing children at an unlicensed day home.

Police say young children told their parents that they had been touched inappropriately by a man at the privately-run business.

The alleged abuse happened at the home where the man lives between 2013 and this year.

Kenneth Alfred Jenkinson, who is 69, is charged with three counts of sexual assault and three counts of sexual interference.

His next court appearance is July 8.

A Red Deer man who was wanted on warrants and breached his probation after he attempted to steal a donation can from Sunnybrook Farm has been caught.

Police responded to a report of two suspicious men at Sunnybrook Farm Museum who were attempting to remove a large cream can used as a donation can on May 28.

One man had been caught on camera at the farm the day before, also attempting to steal a cream can.

Police say the men were no longer on scene when they arrived but police located a suspicious truck parked nearby and conducted a traffic stop.

The driver was wanted on a warrant out of Blackfalds and was breaching his court-imposed curfew conditions.

He was arrested without incident.

Police checked out the Sunnybrook Farm footage and determined he was one of the suspects.

Lacombe County manager honoured for building trails A Lacombe County manager has been recognized for his trail-building efforts.

Phil Lodermeier, the county’s operations manager, was named 2016 Trail Blazer by the Alberta TrailNet Society.

“It’s like the Stanley Cup of Trails,” says Betty Anne Graves, TrailNet’s vice-president of communications in a statement. Lodermeier was presented with the award at a ceremony in Cochrane on Saturday.

Lodermeier was singled out for his work overseeing the TransCanada Trail link from Red Deer to Blackfalds and the ongoing work to connect it to the Bluebird Trail in Ponoka County.

Lodermeier said he shared the award with other county staff and council members, who have all supported the trail-building initiative.

This year, Lacombe County building a 15.5-km stretch of trail from the City of Lacombe to the Ponoka County border. Lacombe will build a 1.9-km link connecting to its trail system.

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Alberta vows seemless transition for patients

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s health minister says there won’t be a legal vacuum when physician-assisted death becomes legal next week, even though two levels of government have failed to put rules in place.

Sarah Hoffman says the government is still trying to meet the Supreme Court of Canada’s Monday deadline, but the province will follow guidelines from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta if it can’t.

“We want to make sure we want to get it right, so we’re working as quickly as we can,” Hoffman said Wednesday.

“No matter what, though, there will be a seamless transition for patients.”

The Supreme Court ruled in February 2015 that physician-assisted dying should be legal and extended its original deadline of a year to give provinces and the new federal government time to craft legislation.

The federal government is running behind on its bill. It passed the house Tuesday and is now headed to the Senate, but isn’t expected to be ready by Monday.

Until the federal legislation is ready, Alberta is developing its own regulations that attempt to mirror the Supreme Court decision.

Opposition politicians in the legislature only saw the draft regulations this week and say it’s too critical an issue to rush.

“They’ve known June 6th was coming for a long time,” said Wildrose health critic Drew Barnes.

“They truly hoped the feds would have all this resolved,” added critic Richard Starke of the Progressive Conservatives. “This is an issue that is

very personal to people and they want to know what the rules are.”

Hoffman said the regulations will encompass and build on the Alberta college’s guidelines. Those specify that people of sound mind over 18 with grievous conditions that can’t be cured or rectified can ask for a doctor to help them take their own lives.

The entire process has to be verified with a second doctor and independent witnesses. Patients have to be notified of other treatment options and be reminded they can change their minds at any time.

The college says people who decide to take their own lives in such a way should, except in urgent circumstances, wait two weeks to reflect on their decision.

Any doctor who doesn’t wish to participate doesn’t have to, but must refer the patient to someone who can help.

Alberta has identified 80 physicians willing to assist.

Federal and provincial governments are all tasked with coming up with rules on assisted dying. Ottawa drafts the rules and the provinces design the framework to carry them out.

If Alberta’s rules conflict with the federal law, the provisions of the federal law will supersede them.

The federal bill is already facing sharp criticism.

While the Supreme Court ruling says physician assisted death is permissible for grievous and incurable medical conditions, C-14 restricts it to those who are in “an advanced stage of irreversible decline” from a serious and incurable illness or disability.

Quebec already has its own law, and Hoffman said Alberta has made more progress on its rules than any other province.

ASSISTED DYING

Senators air concerns about assisted dying bill OTTAWA — The Trudeau government’s controversial assisted dying bill made its official debut in the Senate on Wednesday and the initial reviews were devastating.

Conservative, independent Liberal and independent senators alike panned the legislation as they grilled first Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and then Health Minister Jane Philpott for four hours in the upper house.

The depth and breadth of senators’ objections suggest there’s little likelihood the bill will be passed by the Senate without some major amendments, which would take the government well past June 6 — the day on which the ban on medical assistance in dying will be formally lifted in accordance with last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling.

Philpott went repeatedly into what she called “plead mode,” urging senators to pass the bill by the deadline or risk having doctors refuse to provide assisted dying due to the legal uncertainty surrounding it.

That prompted independent Liberal Sen. Mobina Jaffer to go into a plead mode of her own.

“I’m sure all my colleagues have heard from thousands of Canadians with great pleas about (how) this is not the right legislation,” Jaffer told Philpott.

Sen. Art Eggleton, another independent Liberal, said it would be “better to get this right than to get it fast.”

The most frequent objection concerned the government’s insistence that only those who are near death will be eligible for medical assistance to end their lives. Numerous senators said that flies in the face of the Supreme Court ruling and the charter of rights.

“You are excluding those who are not at the end of their lives and you’re forcing those individuals to perhaps stop feeding themselves, to mutilate themselves or harm themselves to make themselves eligible for medical assistance in dying,” said Conservative Senate leader Claude Carignan.

Newly-appointed independent Sen. Andre Pratte said the bill will allow those near death to shorten their lives by a few weeks or months while forcing those who aren’t near death to suffer for years.

“From a logical and human perspective, it seems indefensible to me,” he said.

Conservative Sen. Kelvin Ogilvie said the bill offers no protection for “the very most vulnerable Canadians, those who are suffering horribly from a disease that may last for years.”

“How can you justify such a possible cruel interpretation (of the court ruling)?” he asked Wilson-Raybould.

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Penguins sink Sharks in overtime

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Penguins 2 Sharks 1 (OT) PITTSBURGH — The gaze of Joe Pavelski was steely and serious after the San Jose Sharks dropped Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final in overtime.

“We believe we’ve got another level and we’re going to have to find it here,” Pavelski said.

The Sharks clawed back from a sluggish two periods to even Wednesday’s affair in the final minutes of regulation only to fall 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Conor Sheary’s overtime winner.

They face a 2-0 hole as the series shifts back to San Jose for Game 3 on Saturday evening.

Again, it was a woeful start that felled the Western Conference champs for much of Game 2.

The highest scoring team throughout these playoffs, San Jose generated next to nothing offensively for much of the first 40 minutes and were stuck defending in their own zone most of the time.

When the Sharks did manage to get the puck into the offensive zone it wasn’t for long as the Penguins poked pucks free and used their speed to attack the other way.

“They swarm,” Sharks centre Logan Couture said of the Penguins defensive tendency, which designates five players to one area of the ice. “The biggest thing is you’ve got to move your feet and get out of there and create space and we haven’t been doing it. We’ve been stagnant and standing around and giving them time to check us.”

Pavelski pointed to the team’s inability to move the puck cleanly out of the defensive zone.

The Sharks had only 11 shots through the two first two periods and went more than 11 minutes at one point in the second without registering even a shot.

If not for Martin Jones, who stopped

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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Phil Kessel (81) scores a goal behind San Jose Sharks goalie Martin Jones (31) during the second period in Game 2 of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday, in Pittsburgh.

22-of-23 shots through 40 minutes and 28 of 30 overall, the Sharks may not have had an opportunity to rally and force overtime.

Much like in Monday’s opener, Jones had to be both sharp and lucky to keep his team close. The Sharks netminder made a left pad stop on Matt Cullen from high in the slot in the first frame, adding a right pad save on Phil

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New York Yankees’ Brian McCann is out at second as Toronto Blue Jays’ Darwin Barney throws to first during second-inning MLB action in Toronto, Wednesday.

Blue Jays shutout Yankees to complete sweep

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 7 Yankees 0 TORONTO — It didn’t take Aaron Sanchez long to realize his curveball was working for him on Wednesday night.

He knew after just three batters.

Sanchez threw four curveballs in the first inning, including a 79 mileper-hour one to get Carlos Beltran swinging, and stuck with it the rest of the night en route to a 7-0 Blue Jays victory over the New York Yankees.

“Early on I was spiking it a lot, I was pretty amped up there, but I think once I struck out the first guy to end the first I got a good feel of it then and kind of just ran with it after that,” Sanchez said.

“Numbers show that my splits against lefties aren’t good and going into the game I knew that was a pitch that was going to neutralize them and I did a really good job of that all night I felt like.”

Sanchez, Jason Grilli, Aaron Loup and Ryan Tepera combined to keep the Yankees off the scoreboard and

the Blue Jays offence rocked New York’s bullpen to complete a threegame sweep over their AL East rivals at home for the first time since Sept.

2000.

Edwin Encarnacion and Justin Smoak drove in two runs and Michael Saunders plated another over Toronto’s (29-26) five-run seventh inning.

Josh Donaldson broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the fifth, Saunders scored on a double play, and Darwin Barney was 3 for 3 with a walk and two runs scored.

Sanchez (5-1) allowed seven hits and two walks while striking out six through 6 2/3 innings.

The 23-year-old right-hander has held opponents to two earned runs or less in seven of his 11 starts, and has gone at least six innings in all but one outing this season.

“Sanchy’s on a nice little roll,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “I can’t think of any games where he’s struggled much. He just keeps getting better and better. His curveball is a big pitch for him. … And he’s strong.

He’s a strong kid and he’s doing a hell of a job here, he really is.”

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Kessel to his save total a short while later.

Kessel was the only Penguin to beat Jones in regulation. He and the Penguins took full advantage of a Roman Polak giveaway in front of the Sharks goal, teammate Brenden Dillon unable to control the puck thereafter. Dillon was picked free by the Penguins Carl Hagelin, who found teammate Nick

Bonino, his passing attempt effortlessly guided in by Kessel.

Jones was beaten by Sheary through traffic in overtime following a Sidney Crosby faceoff win.

“He gives us a chance each night and it’s up to us to find a way to score more goals and stop turning the puck over and making him work so much,” Couture said of Jones.

LeBron, Curry square off again in NBA Finals

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OAKLAND, Calif. — LeBron versus Steph. King James versus the Baby-faced Assassin. Nike versus UnderArmour.

Any way you slice it, it’s a dream matchup for the league in the NBA Finals. Again.

A second straight championship showdown between LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers and Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors puts the league’s two brightest stars on its biggest stage.

It could also mark the beginnings of a new rivalry between the long-time face of the league and the shooting supernova threatening to supplant him.

“It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever,” Curry said Wednesday, one day before the Warriors host the Cavs in Game 1.

“You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s what I’m all about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.”

Curry got his first last year, at James’ expense. And there have been subtle signs of a brewing rivalry ever since.

As the Curry hype was building during the Warriors’ run to the title last season, James went out of his way to proclaim himself “the best player on the planet” during the finals.

He played like it, too, averaging 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists while carrying a Cavs team missing Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love through six games in the series.

After Curry won his second MVP award this season in unanimous fashion — something no other player, including four-time winner James, had ever done — James offered a nuanced take on the achievement.

James said Curry’s numbers were tremendous, “but when you talk about most ‘valuable’ then you can have a different conversation, so, take nothing away from him, he’s definitely deserv-

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ing of that award, for sure.”

On Wednesday, James expanded, saying “Steph was definitely the MVP of our league.”

“You guys make rivals,” James said. “I think it’s great for the sport.

It’s great for all sports. I don’t think me and Steph, when you talk about rivalries, you talk about Carolina-Duke, you talk about Ohio State-Michigan.

It’s hard to say LeBron and Steph.

If there’s a smaller scale or another word for a rival.”

If not rivals, certainly peers at the top of the league’s food chain. They’ve both changed the league in different ways.

“I don’t think there’s just a face in the NBA,” Warriors guard Klay Thompson said. “I think there are faces because it’s such a star-driven league. … But I think it might be easier for the common fan to relate to Steph because it’s hard to be 6-8, 260 and have a 40-inch (vertical) and be the fastest guy on the floor.”

There are similarities between the locomotive and the lightning bolt.

They have reached the stratosphere within the league and global sporting conscience, have made their teammates better by virtue of their unparalleled skills and can take over a game in the blink of an eye. They also both were born in Akron, in the same hospital no less.

But there is not a lot of real estate to be sold on the common ground between James and Curry.

James has been a star since puberty, growing up with a single mother and under the glare created by the Sports Illustrated spotlight. No cover jinx there. He was the consensus No. 1 draft choice in 2004 and has fulfilled all of that promise and then some while asserting himself as the league’s conscience with his willingness to speak boldly on social issues.

The limelight hasn’t always been comfortable. James has been scrutinized as much as any athlete in his era, each tweet parsed for deeper meaning, each loss in the finals offered as a shortcoming.

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Murray rolls into French Open semis

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Entertaining as his French Open quarterfinal might have been, Andy Murray hardly enjoyed the experience.

“When you’re out there,” Murray said, “I personally find it quite stressful.”

You don’t say?

Yelling at his entourage and muttering to himself, the No. 2-seeded Murray alternated between brilliant and bad for the better part of two sets while dealing with a French opponent and a partisan crowd Wednesday, before righting things to beat No. 9 Richard Gasquet 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-0, 6-2 and reach his fourth semifinal at Roland Garros.

“I thought I did well, for the most part, in a tough atmosphere,” said Murray, whose next opponent is defending champion Stan Wawrinka, a 6-2, 6-1, 7-6 (7) winner against 55th-ranked Albert Ramos-Vinolas.

Murray had a much tougher time. He led 5-2 in each of the first two sets and got broken while serving for both at 5-3. Then he trailed 3-1 in the second-set tiebreaker, a critical moment.

“Had I won the second set,” Gasquet lamented later, “it would have been a totally different match.”

He didn’t, of course. After Murray’s ace made it 3-2, Gasquet got to a drop shot and wound up for what should have been an easy one-handed backhand, his signature shot. The ball clipped the net tape, though, allowing Murray a putaway for a winner.

That, basically, was that.

Hoping to see Gasquet become the first Frenchman to hoist the trophy since Yannick Noah in 1983, spectators urged him on with choruses of “Reeshard!” They even loved a tremendous point Gasquet lost, when he wound up flat on his back, leaving his arms, legs, shirt, socks and shoes caked with the rust-colored dirt.

Murray’s white hat was smudged with clay, too.

His entire being was smothered with angst.

He pointed at his temple. He screamed, “Hit it!

Just hit it!” He looked up the folks in his guest box, including coach Jamie Delgado, and shouted various complaints, mostly craving more feedback.

Now he can regroup Thursday, when the quarterfinals in the top half of the men’s draw will be played: No. 1 Novak Djokovic against No. 7 Tomas Berdych, and No. 12 David Goffin against No. 13 Dominic Thiem. Their fourth-round matches began Tuesday and finished Wednesday.

Because of showers, zero points were played Monday, and only about 2 hours’ worth were contested Tuesday. All the rain tightened the schedule to the

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Britain’s Andy Murray hits a return in the quarterfinal match of the French Open tennis tournament against France’s Richard Gasquet at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Wednesday. point that players will compete several days in a row to get to the final, instead of enjoying a major’s usual off-days.

With more wet weather in the forecast, the prospect of completing the tournament by Sunday is iffy.

Aiming to win his fourth consecutive major trophy and complete a career Grand Slam, Djokovic continued his charm offensive with the fans after a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 victory over No. 14 Roberto Bautista Agut, cajoling a ball boy to join him in bowing, then donning a floppy yellow hat.

Later, the first women’s semifinal matchup was established, with No. 4 Garbine Muguruza ending the surprising run of 108th-ranked American Shelby Rogers 7-5, 6-3, and 2011 U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur eliminating Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 6-4, 7-6 (6).

And in fourth-round matches originally slated for Monday, No. 9 Venus Williams lost, while her sister, No. 1 Serena, won.

With the temperature around 60 degrees (16 degrees Celsius), Venus warmed up in a zipped-up grey

coat, something that seemed more appropriate for winter wear. She came up short in a bid to get to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros for the first time in a decade, dropping eight games in a row during a 6-2, 6-4 loss to No. 8 Timea Bacsinszky.

Venus slipped to her knees at the baseline on one point and produced only six winners, compared to 24 unforced errors.

“The first few games she made some errors,” Williams said, “and in the last 12 games, I made all the errors.”

Bacsinszky will play 58th-ranked Kiki Bertens, whose first Grand Slam quarterfinal came via a 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory over No. 15 Madison Keys.

Defending champion Serena defeated 18th-seeded Elina Svitolina 6-1, 6-1. Williams looked very much like a 21-time Grand Slam champion facing a 21-year-old who has reached only one major quarterfinal, and she now faces unseeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan.

“Of course she’s the best player,” Putintseva said.

“She’s a legend.”

New Big 3 on a roll going into Memorial

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ohio — Jason Day tightened his grip on No. 1 in the world the last time he played, a wire-towire victory in The Players Championship against the best field in golf to claim his seventh big title in the last 10 months.

That was three weeks ago. And in some respects, it seems like a long time.

The following week, Rory McIlroy headed home to Ireland and delivered two perfect shots with fairway metals over the last three holes at The K Club to win the Irish Open for his first victory of the year.

Not to be forgotten, Jordan Spieth won the following week at Colonial with a birdie-birdie-birdie finish — none of them easy — for a victory he badly needed to help erase any lingering disappointment from the Masters.

“I extended my lead for a while,” Day said. “And now Jordan and Rory are both closing in on it.”

Not quite.

The top three remain Day, Spieth and McIlroy, the same order it has been since Day first went back to No. 1 on March 27 when he won the Dell Match Play in Texas. And the Australian who now lives in Ohio is assured staying at the top regardless of what happens this week.

Spieth offered a different perspective.

“Jason may say we closed the gap. Well, he didn’t play,” Spieth said with a grin. “The last time he played, he beat the best field in golf.”

PGA TOUR One thing is certain: The top three in the world are on top of their game going into the Memorial, with the U.S. Open looming two weeks away.

The hype is building for another showdown at a major, just as it was at the Masters. But that never really materialized. Spieth was the only player of the top three who challenged for the green jacket until he blew up on the back nine and Danny Willett closed with a 67 to win by three.

Neither Day nor McIlroy broke 70 all week and tied for 10th.

The debate is whether they really deserve to be called the “Big Three,” a moniker first used for tournament host Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player. That title was more about marketing through Mark McCormack and IMG, and besides, they already had collected a large share of the majors.

But the youngsters — Spieth at 22, McIlroy just turned 27, Day at 28 — have made their case. They have rotated at No. 1 since Aug. 10. At one point, the top spot changed hands six times in six weeks. Plus, they have won five of the last seven majors.

Right now, everyone is chasing Day. “I heard a couple of weeks ago that it bothered Jordan that I was winning tournaments and have the No. 1 spot in the world, and it should,” Day said. “It should bother guys who are competitive and want to

Beterbiev eyeing Olympic berth

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Count Artur Beterbiev among the professional boxers who want to fight at the 2016 Olympic Games.

And the light heavyweight is willing to compete for either Canada, where he has been based in Montreal for three years, or his native Russia.

“I’m OK with that I would like to do that,” Beterbiev, the 2009 amateur world champion, said Wednesday at a news conference to promote his bout Saturday night at the Bell Centre against Ezequiel Maderna of Argentina.

The sports’ governing body, the AIBA, announced this week it will welcome pros at the Rio de Janiero Games in August and set up a qualifying tournament for them next month in Venezuela. The decision has sparked debate around the boxing world on whether pros belong at the Games.

Beterbiev’s promoter Yvon Michel would prefer that his fighter concentrate on moving up the light heavyweight ranking to be in position to fight for a world title next year, but won’t stand in his way if he opts for a shot at Olympic gold. Beterbiev will decide which route he’ll take after the fight with Maderna.

“It will be his call and, whatever he decides, we’ll help him as much as we can,” said Michel. “Our goal is to help our fighters to reach their goals.

“So far, the goal was always to be world champion or Canadian champion. Nobody ever asked us to be Olympic champion.”

Beterbiev fought at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics for Russia and, if he goes, would likely compete for that country again. Reports have said Russia is interested in having its pros compete in Rio. There has been no word from Boxing Canada, whose executive director Roy Halpin could not be reached for comment.

Michel said the AIBA called him asking if Beterbiev was interested in going to Rio, hoping it could produce a thrilling final against rising Cuban talent Julio Cesar de la Cruz.

So far, one Canadian male amateur boxer has qualified for Rio, Pan-Am Games gold medallist Arthur Biyarslanov, while others will get a last chance to qualify at a tournament opening June 14 in Azerbaijan.

Asked how he felt about pros at the Olympics, Biyarslanov tweeted: “I don’t mind in fact I hope to fight some of the best pro fighters.”

Some current and former boxers have expressed

stay on top as well. There’s nothing wrong with being bothered by that. I hope it motivates them just as much as it motivates me to see other guys on top of the world and winning tournaments.”

“It’s great to see how they’ve responded so quickly.”

Nicklaus was asked about the big three and he quickly mentioned another era — Sam Snead, Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan. He could have gone back to the Great Triumvirate of Harry Vardon, J.H. Taylor and James Braid from the turn of the century — the 19th century — when they combined to win the British Open 16 times over a span of 21 years.

Nicklaus believes a “Big Three” is not far away from being a big number of great players because of the depth in golf, which the 18-time major champion and tournament host says is the strongest he has ever seen.

McIlroy feels the same way.

“The three of us are at the top of the world rankings, but I think it really does the other players an injustice because the fields are so deep out here and there’s so many other great young players,” McIlroy said. “So just to focus on us three … OK, we’re at the top of the rankings and we’ve won a few majors between us, but I think it’s just unfair to focus on us.”

He mentioned Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed, Dustin Johnson and Hideki Matsuyama.

All of them are at Muirfield Village, which features the top five in the world. It’s enough to keep their attention, even with Oakmont only two weeks away.

Canada dominates Venezuela at Olympic volleyball qualifier

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Arthur Beterbiev, right, of Montreal wins a fight against Gabriel Campillo of Spain in an IBF title eliminator bout on April 4, 2015 in Quebec City.

Count Artur Beterbiev among the professional boxers who want to fight at the 2016 Olympic Games. concern that amateur may get hurt fighting pros, but Michel said it may be the other way around. Amateurs have trained to fight a succession of high-energy, three-round bouts over a two-week period, while pros would need to make that adjustment on only two months notice.

“To me, you have to prepare years ahead of time to be ready,” said Michel. “No matter what, Artur would be competitive, but it would not be the best Artur possible. Knowing that, I expressed my opinion on that to him and we’ll talk about it again after the fight on Saturday.”

Beterbiev (9-0, all by knockout) is coming off a right shoulder injury and hasn’t fought since a seventh round stoppage of Alexander Johnson last June 12. Right away, he will face a stiff test in Maderna (23-2, 15 KOs), whose only losses were to top light heavyweights Edwin Rodrigues and Thomas Oosthuizen on his two trips outside Argentina.

TOKYO — Canada improved to 2-2 at a last-chance men’s volleyball Olympic qualifying tournament Wednesday with a 3-0 (25-20, 25-20, 27-25) win over Venezuela.

Gordon Perrin led Canada with 16 points, including 14 attacks and two blocks. Gavin Schmitt and Justin Duff contributed 12 and 11 points respectively, including two blocks each.

Kervin Martin Pinerua led Venezuela (0-4) with 12 points.

“We knew Venezuela has some powerful attackers, and if they came up with some good defence, it was going to be difficult for us,” said Canada’s captain Rudy Verhoeff. “So I’m happy with the way that our team received and it made our game efficient.”

Coach Glenn Hoag said he was happy with he team’s straight-sets win, especially after a five-setter against Australia the day before.

“The good thing today was bench players coming in to play, such as Steve Marshall and Rudy Verhoeff, to work the end and it really helped to give us some oxygen,” said Hoag.

The top three teams and the top Asian squad will qualify for Rio. If the top Asian team is among the top three, the next team will also qualify.

Canada, ranked fifth in the standings, faces France on Thursday.

MLB ALL STAR VOTING The Chicago Cubs are dominating the All-Star balloting so far, with first baseman Anthony Rizzo receiving the most votes in the National League in the first update announced on Wednesday.

Rizzo could have plenty of company for the July 12 game in San Diego. Third baseman Kris Bryant, shortstop Addison Russell and second baseman Ben Zobrist also were the leaders at their positions, and centre fielder Dexter Fowler was in position to grab a starting spot.

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Local Sports Today ● Ladies Fastball: U16 Rage vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m., and Bandits vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park and Badgers vs. Stettler, 7 p.m., Stettler ● Midget Baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Red vs. Red Deer Midget Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Friday ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Junior B Fort Saskatchewan Rebels at Red Deer Rampage, 8:30 p.m., Kinex

Saturday ● Rugby: Irish women’s team vs. Red

Hockey

Deer Titans, 1:30 p.m., Titan’s rugby field ● Bantam Baseball: South Jasper Place Jays vs. Red Deer Braves, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., Great Chief Park

Sunday ● Bantam Baseball: South Jasper Place Jays vs. Red Deer Braves, 11 a.m., Great Chief Park ● Midget Baseball: Calgary Rockies vs. Red Deer Braves, 1 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Senior ladies Sherwood Park Titans vs. Red Deer Rage, 2:30 p.m. and Junior B Sherwood Park Titans vs. Red Deer Rampage, 5 p.m., Kinex

Basketball 2016 NBA Playoffs Third Round CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7)

Fourth Round THE FINALS (Best-of-7) Golden State (W1) vs. Cleveland (E1) Thursday’s game Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 5 Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 8 Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Friday, June 10 Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Monday, June 13 Cleveland at Golden State, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 16 Golden State at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 19 Cleveland at Golden State, 6 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Cleveland (1) vs. Toronto (2) (Cleveland wins series 4-2) Friday’s result Cleveland 113 Toronto 87 WESTERN CONFERENCE Golden State (1) vs. Oklahoma City (3) (Golden State wins series 4-3) Monday’s result Golden State 96 Oklahoma City 88 Saturday’s result Golden State 108 Oklahoma City 101

Ladies fastball Panthers Badgers Bandits U18 Rage Stettler U16 Rage

Wins losses 6 3 4 1 3 3 3 3 2 6 1 4

ties 2 2 1 0 0 1

points 14 10 7 6 4 3

Tuesday’s games

Stettler 9 Badgers 8 Panthers 4 Bandits 2 Panthers 11 U18 Rage 7 Thursday’s games U16 Rage vs. U18 Rage, 7 p.m.

Stettler vs. Badgers, 7 p.m.

Bandits vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m.

San Jose at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Sunday, June 12 Pittsburgh at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 15 San Jose at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs Fourth Round STANLEY CUP FINAL Pittsburgh (E2) vs. San Jose (W6) (Pittsburgh leads series 2-0) Wednesday’s result Pittsburgh 2 San Jose 1 (OT) Monday’s result Pittsburgh 3 San Jose 2 Saturday’s game Pittsburgh at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Monday, June 6 Pittsburgh at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Thursday, June 9

Wednesday’s summary Penguins 2, Sharks 1 (1st OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Martin SJ (delay of game) 12:09.

Second Period 1. Pittsburgh, Kessel 10 (Bonino, Hagelin) 8:20.

Penalties — Martin SJ (high-sticking) 8:50 Cole Pgh (interference) 18:49.

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Boston 32 21 .604 Baltimore 29 22 .569 Toronto 29 26 .527 New York 24 28 .462 Tampa Bay 22 29 .431 Central Division W L Pct Kansas City 30 22 Chicago 29 25 .537 Cleveland 27 24 .529 Detroit 25 27 .481 Minnesota 15 37 .288 West Division W L Pct Seattle 30 21 .588 Texas 31 22 .585 Oakland 25 29 .463 Los Angeles 24 29 .453 Houston 24 29 .453

GB — 2 4 7 1/2 9 GB .577 — 2 2 1/2 5 15 GB — — 6 1/2 7 7

Tuesday’s Games Houston 8, Arizona 5 Seattle 16, San Diego 4 Texas 7, Cleveland 3 Boston 6, Baltimore 2 Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Chicago White Sox 6, N.Y. Mets 4 Kansas City 10, Tampa Bay 5 L.A. Angels 11, Detroit 9 Oakland 7, Minnesota 4 Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox 2, N.Y. Mets 1, 13 innings Oakland 5, Minnesota 1 Cleveland 5, Texas 4, 11 innings Baltimore 13, Boston 9 Detroit 3, L.A. Angels 0 Toronto 7, N.Y. Yankees 0 Arizona at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City 6, Tampa Bay 3 Seattle at San Diego, late

Arizona (Greinke 6-3) at Houston (Keuchel 3-6), 12:10 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 7-2) at Baltimore (Jimenez 2-6), 5:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 4-3) at Cleveland (Carrasco 2-0), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 2-6) at Detroit (Boyd 0-0), 5:40 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Moore 2-3) at Minnesota (Gibson 0-3), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Miley 5-2) at San Diego (Rea 3-2), 7:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games L.A. Angels at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Seattle at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Oakland at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Washington New York Miami Philadelphia Atlanta Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Milwaukee Cincinnati San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado Arizona San Diego

National League East Division W L Pct 33 21 .611 29 23 .558 28 25 .528 26 27 .491 16 36 .308 Central Division W L Pct 36 15 .706 29 23 .558 28 26 .519 24 29 .453 18 35 .340 West Division W L Pct 33 22 .600 28 26 .519 24 28 .462 23 31 .426 20 33 .377

GB — 3 4 1/2 6 1/2 16 GB — 7 1/2 9 1/2 13 19 GB — 4 1/2 7 1/2 9 1/2 12

Tuesday’s Games

Thursday’s Games

Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Philadelphia 6 3 5 23 New York 6 7 1 19 Montreal 5 4 4 19 New York City FC 4 4 6 18 D.C. United 4 6 4 16 Toronto FC 4 5 4 16 Orlando City 3 3 7 16 New England 3 4 7 16 Columbus 3 5 5 14 Chicago 2 5 5 11

Third Period 2. San Jose, Braun 1 (Couture, Ward) 15:55.

Penalties — None.

First Overtime 3. Pittsburgh, Sheary 4 (Letang, Crosby) 2:35.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal San Jose 6 5 9 2 — 22 Pittsburgh 11 12 6 1 — 30 Goal — San Jose: Jones (L, 12-8-0). Pittsburgh: Murray (W, 13-4-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — San Jose: 0-1 Pittsburgh: 0-2.

Houston 8, Arizona 5 Seattle 16, San Diego 4 Washington 5, Philadelphia 1 Chicago White Sox 6, N.Y. Mets 4 Miami 3, Pittsburgh 1 San Francisco 4, Atlanta 0 L.A. Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 0 St. Louis 10, Milwaukee 3 Colorado 17, Cincinnati 4 Wednesday’s Games Chicago White Sox 2, N.Y. Mets 1, 13 innings Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 1 Washington 7, Philadelphia 2 Atlanta 5, San Francisco 4, 11 innings Miami 3, Pittsburgh 2 Chicago Cubs 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 Arizona at Houston, late Cincinnati 7, Colorado 2 Seattle at San Diego, late Thursday’s Games San Francisco (Bumgarner 6-2) at Atlanta (Blair 0-3), 10:10 a.m.

Arizona (Greinke 6-3) at Houston (Keuchel 3-6), 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Urias 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 3-4), 12:20 p.m.

Milwaukee (Anderson 2-6) at Philadelphia (Eickhoff 2-7), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Nicasio 4-4) at Miami (Chen 3-2), 5:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Simon 1-5) at Colorado (Butler 2-2), 6:40 p.m.

Seattle (Miley 5-2) at San Diego (Rea 3-2), 7:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games Arizona at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

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

Washington at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

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

Colorado at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.

LACROSSE CLINIC GF 21 24 22 20 14 14 23 19 18 10

GA 16 20 20 26 16 15 21 25 21 14

WESTERNCONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Colorado 8 2 4 28 17 10 FC Dallas 8 4 3 27 23 21 Vancouver 6 6 3 21 23 25 Real Salt Lake 6 4 2 20 20 19 Los Angeles 5 2 5 20 27 16 San Jose 5 3 5 20 16 15 Sporting KC 5 8 2 17 14 18 Portland 4 6 4 16 22 25 Seattle 5 7 1 16 13 15 Houston 3 7 3 12 19 21 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday, June 1 Philadelphia 3, Columbus 2 Seattle 2, D.C. United 0 San Jose at Portland, late

Thursday, June 2 Real Salt Lake at New York City FC, 5 p.m.

Houston at FC Dallas, 7 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 18 Philadelphia at New York FC, 11 a.m.

New England at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Toronto FC, 5:30 p.m.

San Jose at Orlando City, 5:30 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 5:30 p.m D.C. United at Houston, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Portland at Real Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

AMWAY CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINALS (two-game, total-goals series) Wednesday’s results First Leg Ottawa 2 Vancouver 0 Toronto 4 Montreal 2 Wednesday, June 8 Second Leg Toronto at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

CHAMPIONSHIP (two-game, total-goals series) First Leg — June 21 or 22 Second Leg — June 28 or 29

Gymnastics Results from the Summit Gymnastics Competition for the Exelta Gymnastics club Gold ribbon: Carys Baird (Junior Olympic level 1) Silver ribbon: Kendra Swartz (JO level 3), Kya Pritchard (JO level 3), Martine Lavoie (JO level 3), Maya Johannson (JO level 3), Paige Eklund (JO level 3), Charley Couture (JO level 3), Lily Snow (JO level 2), Janae Hrywkiw (JO level 2), Adalia Hansen

(JO level 2), Syndey Ziner (JO level 3), Andie Velichko (JO level 3), Reena MacKinnon (JO level 1), Olivia Gulbranson (JO level 3), Jayda Poelzer (JO level 1), Abigail Crossland (JO level 1) and Grace Williamson (JO level 1).

Bronze ribbon: Jasmyn Tiemens (JO level 3), Jessie Logan (JO level 1), Daphe Hansen (JO level 3), Reese Murray (JO level 3) and Claire Holliday (JO level 4).

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Cleveland OF Marlon Byrd 162 games after a positive test for a performance-enhancing substance in violation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned LHP Ashur Tolliver to Norfolk (IL). Recalled LHP T.J. McFarland from Norfolk.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed OF Marlon Byrd on the restricted list. Optioned RHP Shawn Armstrong to Columbus (IL). Recalled OF Tyler Naquin from Columbu8s. Selected the contract of LHP Tom Gorzelanny from Columbus.

DETROIT TIGERS — Placed RHP Warwick Saupold on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of RHP Bobby Parnell from Toledo (IL). Designated RHP Jose Valdez for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed OF Brett Eibner on the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Dillon Gee to Omaha (PCL). Recalled OF Reymond Fuentes and RHP Peter Moylan from Omaha.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed INF Cliff Pennington on the 15-day DL. Optioned LHP Chris Jones to Salt Lake (PCL). Selected the contracts of INF Brendan Ryan and RHP Javy Guerra from Salt Lake.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed OF Miguel Sano on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Max Kepler from Rochester (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Placed RHP Felix Hernandez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday.

Optioned 3B Patrick Kivlehan to Tacoma (PCL).

Recalled LHP James Paxton from Tacoma. Sent SS Ketel Marte to Tacoma for a rehab assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed RHP Brad Boxberger on the 15-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Traded 3B Jimmy Paredes to Philadelphia for cash.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Sent C Kyle Skipworth to Louisville (IL) for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent C Nick Hundley to Albuquerque (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

MIAMI MARLINS — Designated RHP Edwin Jackson for assignment. Optioned RHP Jose Urena to New Orleans (PCL). Recalled RHP Cody Hall from New Orleans. Reinstated LHP Mike Dunn from the

15-day DL. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned RHP David Goforth to Colorado Springs (PCL). Reinstated LHP Will Smith from the 15-day DL. Sent OF Domingo Santana to Biloxi (SL) and RHP Corey Knebel to Brevard County (FSL) for rehab assignments.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Transferred RHP Charlie Morton to the 60-day DL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent RHP Matt Belisle to Harrisburg (EL) for a rehab assignment.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Signed president of basketball operations Danny Ainge and coach Brad Stevens to contract extensions.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Announced assistant coach Monty Williams will not return.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — DE Stephen Bowen announced his retirement.

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Waived G Edawn Coughman, WR Chris King and S Brandon Person.

CHICAGO BEARS — Waived OL Tayo Fabuluje.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed WR Ricardo Louis and TE Seth DeValve.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed OL Dominick Jackson.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed G Lucas Patrick.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed DE Shelby Harris.

Waived DE Lawrence Okoye.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Waived LB James Gayle.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Agreed to terms with D Josh Wesley on a three-year, entry-level contract.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed F Cody Bass to a two-year contract and G Jonas Gunnarsson to a one-year, entry-level contract.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Signed F Brandon Baddock to a three-year, two-way, entry-level contract.

American Hockey League HERSHEY BEARS — Called up G Vitek Vanecek from South Carolina (ECHL).

ECHL SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Re-signed F Dylan Margonari to an amateur tryout agreement.

SOCCER Major League Soccer ATLANTA UNITED — Signed F Jeffrey Otoo.

MINOR BASEBALL Two close games highlighted the weekend for the Red Deer Mosquito AA2 Lock N Safe Braves.

They opened with a 10-9 loss to Sylvan Lake in a competitive game.

Noach Nakonechny, Avery Coumont and Kieran Peterson took the pitchers mound for the Braves, striking out seven.

On the sticks, Coumount, Peterson, Elijah Cadeux, Austin Goruk and Carter Krause all drove in runs while Addison Giesbrecht scored twice.

On Sunday, the Braves drew even with the Wetaskiwin Nationals, 11-11.

Nakonechny, Luke Schmitt and Giesbrecht picthed seven strong innings, striking out eight batters.

Cadieux hit a grand slam and drove in five RBIs, Owen Dixon had a home run as well for the Braves. Avery Bettesworth and Disbrect with two-for-three with two RBIs each and Daven Comfort hit an RBI double.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Josh Sullivan of Red Deer, centre, poses with a young group of Red Deer Chiefs novice lacrosse players at the Kinex in Red Deer Wednesday evening. Sullivan, now a National Lacrosse League professional player with Colorado Mammoth Lacrosse in Denver, attended practices for the novice team and the Red Deer Chiefs Bantam and Midget Girls practice, leading some drills and teaching the players some skills.

LOCAL LACROSSE A weekend split for the Red Deer Renegades has their record at 4-4, sitting in third in the Junior B tier II south conference of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League.

They opened with a 15-5 win over the Lacoka Locos. Tyler Shumacher had a hat trick while Curtis Hallman, Cody Rush and Colton Levie had two goals each.

Rounding out the scoring

were Tristian Clark, Carson Stuve, Kole Weik, Andrew Keller, Marshall Smith and Jordie Potter.

In their second game, the Renegads fell 15-8 to the Medicine Hat Sun Devils.

Hallman had the hat trick for the Renegads while Keller had two goals. Levie, Clark and Kyle Kaldenbach had one goal each.

In other local lacrosse action: The Red Deer Junior B Rampage crushed the St. Albert Crude 20-2 and then lost

Rebels BRIEFS Assistant coach O’Rourke will not return to Rebels After three seasons as an assistant coach, Steve O’Rourke will not return to the Red Deer Rebels for the 2016-17 Western Hockey League season.

In a release, Rebels gm/head coach Brent Sutters said O’Rourke will not be back, citing family reasons. He will return to his hometown of Penticton, B.C. Prior to his work with the Rebels, he has been an assistant coach with the Abbotsford Heat in the American Hockey League for two seasons, the general manager and head coach with Langley in the British Columbia Hockey League and a coach with the Okanagan Hockey Academy.

Nogier pens contract with Winnipeg Jets Just days after competing in his second Memorial Cup, Red Deer Rebels defenceman Nelson Nogier has signed his first professional contract.

Drafted in the fourth round in 2014 by the Winnipeg Jets, the team announced Wednesday they had signed Nogier to a three-year, two-way National Hockey League entry-level contract. The contract has an average annual value of $771,700.

a squeaker to the Sherwood Park Titans, 10-9.

The Rampage now have five wins, three losses and a tie good enough for second in the north division of the Junior B RMLL. They are one point back of the Titans in the standings.

The Red Deer senior ladies Rage were shutout by the Calgary Cardinals 5-0. The are in last place in the ladies division with no wins and seven losses.

Nogier finished off his fourth Western Hockey League season with the Red Deer Rebels playing in 69 games and scoring four goals and 17 assists.

He followed it up with 17 playoff games and two goals and two assists. He had one assist in four games in the Memorial Cup. He was acquired by the Rebels from the Saskatoon Blades mid-way through the 2014-15 season.

Nogier was named the WHL’s scholastic player of the year in 2013-14.

Bleackley to re-enter NHL draft after not being signed by Coyotes After a tumultuous 2015-16 season, Red Deer Rebels forward Conner Bleackley can re-enter the NHL draft.

Bleackley, 20, was not signed by the Arizona Coyotes by the Wednesday deadline. As a result, the Coyotes will receive a 2016 supplemental second-round draft pick.

The move makes Bleackley eligible to enter the 2016 NHL draft, scheduled for June 24 and 25 in Buffalo, New York.

Originally drafted with the 23rd overall pick, first rounder, by the Colorado Avalanche, Bleackley was part of a trade with Alex Tanguay to the Coyotes for Kyle Wood and Mikkel Boedker.

He played 55 games with the Rebels in 201516, scoring 13 goals and 33 assists. Hampered by injury throughout the season, he missed the playoffs because of a cut wrist in a March 19 game against the Edmonton Oil Kings and he missed six weeks with a broken kneecap sustained on Jan. 23.

He returned for the Memorial Cup and registered two assists, playing primarily on the second line with Evan Polei and Adam Musil.

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‘Flies everywhere — big ones’ FORT MCMURRAY RESIDENTS FACE UNPLEASANT REALTIES UPON RETURNING TO THEIR CITY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — What happens when a city of more than 80,000 shuts down and stands largely empty for a month? Lives were put on hold and households left without utilities when people fled a wildfire that burned parts of Fort McMurray a month ago. Here’s a look at some of the more unpleasant things evacuees found as they returned to their city Wednesday.

A CITY SMOKED

The smell of smoke still hung in the air like a doused campfire the morning after. But this wasn’t a momentary whiff. The Red Cross was handing out masks for people to use during cleanup. The province has suggested people with heart conditions, pregnant women, children under seven and seniors not return until the air quality improves.

FRIDGE FUNGUS

When the power was cut to many homes, refrigerators and freezers shut down. Many people simply taped up their appliances and pushed them to the curb Wednesday. White and bluegreen fuzz covered plastic-wrapped plates in Bachir Kourani’s fridge. It was possible to make out the shrivelled remnants of a handful of snow peas, but other than that the leftovers were unrecognizable. “For sure I have to throw out everything,” Kourani said.

MAGGOT MADNESS

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Bachir Kourani shows mouldy dishes from his refrigerator after returning to the city as residents re-enter fire-ravaged Fort McMurray on Wednesday. and her family were allowed back to the area early and spent the last week cleaning out their restaurant in Anzac. She said it still smelled of rotten food. One freezer was hauled out for the dump. “It was mouldy, had maggots and everything. We just threw the whole thing out,” she said. “Everything had to go.”

As business owners, Dorothy Jomaa

Not everything will be fully operating for residents returning to Fort McMurray FORT MCMURRAY — Residents of Fort McMurray started to return to the fire-damaged city in northern Alberta on Wednesday, but officials have warned that they should not expect everything to be running normally right away. Here is what they are facing: Health Care: The Northern Lights Regional Heath Centre, the city’s only hospital, is not expected to return to full operations until after June 21. Its emergency department is to be open this week and some limited services are to be available in the beginning days of the reentry. A temporary urgent care centre has been set up outside the Syncrude Sport and Wellness Centre.

Schools: Classes are to resume in September. Students can finish their school year in communities where they have been

staying since the evacuation.

Waste disposal: Normal residential garbage collection is to resume June 16 and temporary transfer stations are to be available by Thursday (June 2).

Airport: Commercial air service to Fort McMurray International Airport is tentatively scheduled to resume June 10.

Stores: Crews have been working to get critical businesses such as banks, grocery stores and pharmacies running again. Supplies of some items may be limited in the beginning.

Residents start returning in stages Phased re-entry for fire evacuees from Fort McMurray and nearby communities began Wednesday. People who lost their homes to the northern Alberta fire may want to inspect their property and salvage belongings. Those with houses still standing are advised to do a thorough cleaning and toss out rotting food. Here’s a list of

WELL-FED FLIES

Pilar Ramirez was hit with the smell of rotting food as she arrived at the downtown house she shares with co-workers at a concrete company. But that wasn’t the worst of it: “Flies everywhere,” Ramirez said. “And big ones.

I said, ‘Oh my God, what happened here?”’

who gets in when: Wednesday: People from Fort McMurray’s Lower Townsite, including the downtown, as well as from the nearby communities of Anzac, Fort McMurray 468 First Nation and Gregoire Lake Estates.

Thursday: People living on the north side of Fort McMurray in the neighbourhoods of Parsons Creek, Stone Creek, Timberlea, Eagle Ridge and Dickensfield.

Friday: Residents of north-central and south Fort McMurray in the neighbourhoods of Thickwood, Wood Buffalo, Gregoire, Prairie Creek and Saprae Creek Estates.

Saturday: There are different scenarios for residents of south-central Fort McMurray in some of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods. People from Grayling Terrace and Draper are to return as scheduled. However, as many as 2,000 people with undamaged homes in Waterways, Abasand and Beacon Hill have been told it is unsafe for them to move back right away.

Government officials expect the return for most evacuees to be completed by June 15.

TIMELINE As people head back to Fort McMurray after the wildfire, here is a look back at the events of the last month: May 1 — A fire starts in a remote part of forest southwest of Fort McMurray. Investigators don’t know how it started, but have noted that most spring wildfires are caused by people.

May 3, 6:31 p.m. — All of Fort McMurray is placed under a mandatory evacuation order.

May 3, 10:20 p.m. — Emergency officials say whole neighbourhoods have been destroyed. Still, there are no reports of serious injuries. Crews are trying to maintain crucial infrastructure, including the only bridge across the Athabasca River and Highway 63.

May 6, 6 a.m. — A massive convoy gets underway to move evacuees stranded at oilfield camps north of Fort McMurray through the fire-ravaged community to safe areas south of the oilsands capital. The RCMP and military oversaw the procession of an estimated 1,500 vehicles on Highway 63.

May 9 — Notley says 2,400 buildings were lost in the fire, but she praises firefighters for saving 25,000 more.

Reporters are taken on a tour of devastated neighbourhoods.

May 13 — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tours the city. He says Canadians have yet to grasp the scope of what happened and the lengths firefighters went to in saving almost 90 per cent of Fort McMurray.

May 16 — Notley says the air quality in Fort McMurray is at dangerous levels and is hampering efforts to get residents back to their homes. The air quality heath index scale is normally one to 10, with 10 being the worst, but the reading that morning was at 38. Fire officials say the blaze, now at 2,850 square kilometres, remains out of control and a threat as crews deal with hotspots.

May 17 — Alberta officials say they are taking a second look at their plan to allow people to return home. The fire destroys a 665-room workcamp north of the city. An explosion in the city damages several houses and the restoration of gas services needs to be stopped. Poor air quality forces staff working to clean the hospital to leave the city.

May 18 — The Alberta government says people could return home starting on June 1 if conditions are deemed to be safe. Notley says the re-entry will be done in stages and will be voluntary.

The wildfire has now scorched more than 3,500 square kilometres as conditions remain dry and windy.

May 19 — Officials say the threat of the Fort McMurray wildfire has diminished as the flames move into Saskatchewan. Crews have been successful holding the fire back from oilsands facilities and work camps. The blaze has now burned 5,000 square kilometres, the same amount of forest as all fires consumed in Alberta last year.

May 20 — Conditions have improved enough for the province to bring in an extra 1,000 firefighters over the next two weeks to try and gain an upper hand on the fire.

May 30 — Re-entry remains on track, but Notley says up to 2,000 evacuees will not be able to do so until possibly September. She says more than 500 homes and about a dozen apartment complexes that escaped the wildfire in three otherwise heavily damaged neighbourhoods are not safe to be lived in yet. She says that conclusion was reached with health experts following tests on air, soil, ash and water.

June 1 — People in some of the least damaged areas of Fort McMurray are allowed home.

Tootoo applauded for showing courage to battle addiction

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Hunter Tootoo likely “hit a brick wall” before deciding to step down from his Liberal cabinet post to get help for a drinking problem — a struggle that’s all too familiar to members of his family, his aunt said Wednesday.

“He has made his decision to get help, get treatment he knows he has hit a brick wall,” Rose Tootoo, 65, said.

“Hunter definitely is … a very intelligent guy and I am so happy for him t h a t h e ’ s d e - HUNTER TOOTOO cided that he should go for treatment …

Canada is watching.”

The Tootoos, a prominent family in Nunavut, are far from alone in their struggles with alcohol, but their battles have been very public as a result of both fame and tragedy.

Rose’s son Terence, a rising hockey star, was just 22 when he died by suicide in Brandon, Man., 14 years ago in the wake of a drunk driving incident.

His brother, 33-year-old NHL forward Jordin Tootoo, also documented his battle with alcohol — including a stint in rehab — in his 2014 book All

The Way: My Life On Ice. On Wednesday, the New Jersey Devils winger surfaced on Twitter to acknowledge and congratulate his cousin for his show of courage.

“It takes blood sweat and tears to stand up and ask for help,” he tweeted, adding that “admitting is the first step.

You got this cuz.”

Rose said Jordin suggested she should get help for alcohol addiction but she was able to go “cold turkey” on her own.

“A year and some later, I’m still going strong,” she said. “I … can say that alcohol is not the answer in anybody’s life … it will kill you in the end. Alcohol is no answer to anybody.”

In his statement Tuesday, the MP said he would resign both from his post as fisheries minister and from the Liberal caucus to avoid becoming a distraction from “the important work” of his colleagues.

“I have decided to seek treatment for addiction issues and ask for privacy at this time,” said Tootoo, 52.

Dominic LeBlanc, the government’s House leader, has assumed Tootoo’s cabinet responsibilities as fisheries and oceans minister, including oversight of the Canadian Coast Guard.

Speaking outside of the Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday, Trudeau said Tootoo’s decision was his and his alone, and that it followed “a very difficult situation.”

“This was his own choice,” Trudeau said. “We will have nothing further to say on this matter.”

The prime minister’s remarks, how-

ever, did not stop widespread speculation about what prompted Tuesday’s surprise announcement.

Sources familiar with Tootoo’s career as a member of the territorial legislature in Nunavut say he has a history of alcohol problems.

Police in Winnipeg, where Tootoo attended the annual Liberal policy convention on the weekend, went so far Wednesday as to publicly deny that they were ever involved in any sort of incident involving the member of Parliament.

“Winnipeg Police Service has no record of any official police contact with this individual,” said Const. Robert Carver, a public information officer with the force.

“I cannot be more clear about that — no record.”

Tootoo’s decision to seek help was widely applauded Wednesday by both colleagues and indigenous leaders, including Perry Bellegarde, the national chief for the Assembly of First Nations.

Liberal MP Andrew Leslie, the government’s whip, said he has the “utmost respect” for Tootoo.

“I admire him greatly for stepping forward and identifying his problem, and being willing to embrace treatment starting right away,” Leslie said.

“That takes a huge amount of courage, and I suspect he feels relief because I know he is a good and honourable man.”

Health Canada bans powerful street drug known as W-18 OTTAWA — Health Canada is banning the powerful street drug W-18, which it says can be 100 times more potent than fentanyl.

The synthetic opioid is being added to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and classed as a restricted drug under federal regulations.

That means production, possession, importation or exportation and trafficking of the drug are now illegal.

The department says W-18 has been used recreationally in Europe and Canada over the last two years.

It says Canadian police have seized samples that were made to look like legitimate prescription tablets, such as oxycodone.

The W-18 compound was developed in the 1980s as a potential pain reliever, but it was never marketed commercially and has no legitimate use, authorities say.

“Synthetic, street-level opioids are extremely dangerous since they are often mixed with or disguised as other drugs prone to abuse, such as oxycodone or heroin,” the department said in a news release.

“When abused, they can cause serious injury and death.”

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Camouflaged gunman terrorizes Windsor SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER SEVEN-HOUR MANHUNT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINDSOR, Ont. — A manhunt for a camouflaged gunman that had a Windsor, Ont., neighbourhood on lockdown came to an end Wednesday morning as police arrested a 29-year-old suspect.

Officers tracked a suspect to a building on Pillette Road around 7:30 a.m., roughly seven hours after the search began, police said.

They evacuated the building before attempting to make contact with the man, who then walked out of the build-

ing and was arrested around 9:30 a.m., they said.

Police said the suspect, Richard Wallace, is known to police and now faces weapons-related charges.

Investigators had been seeking a man they said was dressed in camouflage clothing and armed with a long gun after at least one shot was fired at a home overnight.

The search prompted police to warn residents to stay away from the area between Pillette Road, Riverside Drive and South National Street, just south of the Detroit River.

Residents in the area were also asked to stay inside and two schools in the area — Brennan Catholic high school and Corpus Christi middle school — were closed.

A stretch of Pillette Road was closed to traffic as officers and police dogs searched the area.

Police spokesman Const. Andrew Drouillard said officers were called to a home around 12:30 a.m. on reports that shots had been heard. The caller also reported seeing a bullet hole in her neighbour’s house, he said.

They were then told one suspect

was believed to be in the area of Pillette Road and Wyandotte Street East, he said.

Officers who arrived in that area heard more gunshots and stopped a vehicle that was attempting to flee around 2:30 a.m., Drouillard said.

Two people who were in the vehicle were arrested, he said. Police later said a 27-year-old man and a 21-yearold woman were charged with possession of stolen property. Their names have not been released.

Drouillard said no injuries have been reported.

Pride flag raised in all-party show of support

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Pride flag flew on Parliament Hill on Wednesday in a historic all-party show of support to mark the start of the month celebrating Canada’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had the honour of raising the distinctive rainbow banner on the Hill for the first time at a celebration attended by MPs from all federal parties, as well as dozens of onlookers.

“This is a great day for Canada and it is part of a long series of milestones this country has hit over the years,” Trudeau said.

“It hasn’t been easy, it hasn’t been automatic. A lot of people fought for a long time for this day and for the many days that led up to this day to happen.”

The fact that MPs from across the political spectrum attended sends a significant message, he added.

“Canada is united in its defence of rights and in standing up for LGBTQ rights this is what we are truly celebrating today,” he said to cheers and applause under a hot late-spring sun.

Trudeau said there is still more work to do, pointing to a bill introduced by his government last month to strengthen transgender rights following several attempts by private members to do so under past governments.

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The pride flag flies following a raising ceremony on Parliament Hill Wednesday in Ottawa.

Trudeau will make more history this month when he becomes the first sitting prime minister to attend Pride parades.

Wednesday’s event was the first time the Pride flag has flown on Parliament Hill.

It was raised on the west lawn after six weeks of negotiations led by Edmonton MP Randy Boissonnault, who said the idea was suggested in conjunction with a two-day conference on

Saskatchewan trims spending to tackle $434M deficit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has joked that deficits are like potato chips — not good for your long-term health and bet you can’t stop at just one.

But Wall wasn’t joking Wednesday after his government tabled a budget with a projected $434-million deficit.

“I don’t like it at all. My analogy doesn’t work. It’s not like potato chips at all. I’d love to be able to stop at just one,” said Wall.

“I do think it’s manageable, especially when you consider what’s going on in some other provinces, but it’s a deficit and I think we’re better off always having a balanced budget or better.”

The document tabled by Finance Minister Kevin Doherty shows the province expects to spend $14.5 billion in the 2016-17 fiscal year, while bringing in $14 billion.

The deficit is largely because revenue from non-renewable resources

such as oil, natural gas and potash has plunged nearly $1 billion.

Non-renewable resource revenue is expected to bring in just under $1.5 billion this year — the lowest since 2003-2004.

Doherty said there was little choice but to run a deficit.

“I don’t like debt,” he said. “But at the same time, I’m not prepared to dramatically … reduce spending and … put people out of work when our economy’s going through these challenging times that we think are going to be temporary.”

Doherty said the government needs to look at core services it has to deliver in the years ahead.

“The short answer is that everything’s on the table — and I know that sounds cliche — but I literally mean that on both the revenue side and the expenditure side.”

The review is to include the appointment of a special commissioner to recommend options for fewer health regions and more efficient delivery of services.

Marriage that lasted 80 years ends with death of husband at age 101

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LIVERPOOL, N.S. — A Nova Scotia man who was part of one of Canada’s longest-lasting couples has died after 80 years of marriage at the age of 101.

According to an obituary, Bill Nickerson passed away peacefully on Sunday in the brick house he had shared with his 98-year-old wife, Bertie, since 1935.

They met by chance in Bill’s hometown of Liverpool and married after dating for three years so that 15-yearold Bertie could finish high school.

Around the couple’s 80th wedding anniversary last year, Bill told the Queen’s County Advance newspaper that it was love at first sight for him.

“It was like heaven. Something went over me that I can’t explain,” he said.

In December, they were named the longest-married couple among those nominated across Canada in 2015 in a contest run by the Catholic organization Worldwide Marriage Encounter.

In an interview with the Canadian Press in February, Bertie said a doctor had recommended the couple move into a nursing home. They wouldn’t hear of it.

“We’re content where we are,” she said. “He looks at me and says, ‘I’m so glad you’re here.”’

LGBT rights currently taking place in Ottawa.

He said he was given just 48 hours notice that raising the flag would be permitted and paid tribute to the fact he had support from all parties in the House to make it happen.

He said the fact the flag was raised sends a crucial signal.

“It says that this is a government, this is a Parliament, that believes in inclusion and diversity,” he said.

Over the weekend, the federal Conservatives took their own step forward on LGBT issues by dropping language from their policy handbook opposing same-sex marriage.

Trudeau mocked their conversation, noting it was coming more than a decade after the Liberal government had made same-sex marriage legal.

“Well, better late than never,” he said.

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Dixie Chicks back on tour in America FIRST TIME IN 10 YEARS

BY EMILY YAHR ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

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A scene from “Doom.”

A dance of death ‘DOOM’ A THRILLING, REMORSELESS ADVENTURE

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRD ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES

REVIEW

DOOM Developed by: id Software Published by: Bethesda Softworks Available on: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One The burden of every shooter game is to create a viable frame for its violence, a scenario that can justify pulling a trigger or clicking a mouse button over and over. Doom, the ferocious new reboot from id Software, does this by leveraging what its 1993 namesake did so well: thrusting players into a situation where violence is the only reasonable course of action while tying the ensuing carnage to a riff-heavy soundtrack that makes good on (nineteenth-century English critic) Walter Pater’s maxim that, “all art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”

Although id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D (1992) is credited with spawning the first-person shooter genre, it was Doom (1993) that stamped the company’s name onto the cultural landscape and turned the game’s lead programmer John Carmack into one of the most well-known video game programmers in the United States. And for all of its technical innovations the game’s success was buoyed by controversy.

Although I found its multiplayer component serviceable but not life-changing, the new Doom is the most mesmerizingly pure shooter I’ve played in a while. By “pure,” I mean that this is a game about the pleasure of unambiguous violence.

Demons deserve no pity. There is no

reason to wonder about their backstory or whether their lives went astray because of nature or nurture. Since they want nothing more than to rip your limbs off and beat you with them, blowing them to bits with the firearm of your choosing is as logical as a mathematical formula.

In the opening chapter, you find yourself in a military facility that houses a tomb in which you, the Doom Marine, are trapped. After the lid of your prison is removed by robotic arms, you spot a straggly group of monsters that are easy to dispatch. A quick check of a local computer reveals that a demonic invasion is underway. The game then makes a show of having your avatar chuck the computer across the room so as to disregard the ingratiating chitchat being directed your way by the station’s commander.

Such an action communicates to the player that this is a game that won’t trip itself up with superfluous exposition. This, however, is a ruse of sorts since a careful player can find interesting nuggets of backstory scattered through the game, which spices up the adventure.

When I asked Marty Stratton, the game’s creative director, about the most conceptually challenging aspect of Doom’s development, he cited the implementation of the game’s story.

“We went through a lot to try to get something that stayed out of the way of players who just wanted to fight demons and blow (things) up. And also to use the mentality that players are coming to this game to fight demons … They should have no other pre-con-

ceived notions about what they are going to do. But we wanted to create more lore … And keep it out of the players’ way so if you invest you’ll get something fun out of it.”

As the Doom Marine, fated to kill “the slaves of Doom,” everything has been fine-tuned to give you an escalating sense of accomplishment. As you progress through the campaign’s thirteen chapters, you’ll hear pithy tales about your conquest of hell’s forces. In order to make it through the last quarter of the game, you’ll need to internalize enemy patterns to such an extent that you move confidently through the game’s space like a precise predator.

Stratton likened playing the game to speed chess. In Doom, he said, “movement is king. (It’s about) using your speed to counteract what the demons do.”

Mick Gordon’s industrial, bone-rattling soundtrack, which sounds like something Nine Inch Nails might have done, intensifies the overall experience tremendously. Not since Hotline Miami have I played a game that so adroitly lulls the player into a murderous trance. For long stretches throughout “Doom’s” campaign, my thoughts were focused on not dying because I didn’t want to impede the music.

Some of Doom’s environments — its pipe-laden corridors and worksite areas — reminded me of shinier areas of other games that I’ve played. (I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen a flickering fan smothered in light and shadows.) But what Doom gets noticeably right is its pacing. The ebb and flow of combat is as balanced as a keystone.

Doom is a Dance of Death in honor of your inner monster.

Central Alberta Theatre unveils one-act plays tonight Comedy and drama will be served up in bite-sized bits starting tonight at the Central Alberta Theatre One Act Play Festival.

Several short plays that offer revealing glimpses of life will be shown June 2, 3 and 4, at Nickle Studio, upstairs at the Memorial Centre. A different set of plays will be staged when the festival continues the following week, on June 9, 10 and 11.

The event features community players from the Red Deer region, including students from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, who previously showed some of these plays at the Alberta high school one act festival.

Tickets are $10 at the door for the 7:30 p.m. performances.

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Sharon Lightbown rehearses her original one-act-play in the Nickle Studio at the Memorial Centre on Tuesday. Central Alberta Theatre, along with students from Lindsay Thurber, are combining to stage seven one-act-plays. Curtain at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets $10 at the door.

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Royal Canadian Legion, Lacombe Branch Decoration Day Ceremony will be commemorated on June 3 at 1 p.m. in Veterans section, Fairview Cemetery, Lacombe. All schools and general public are invited to attend this half hour event. Decoration Day is to honour the veterans who survived the wars and came home. The graves of veterans are decorated with flags and a parade and service are held.

On Wednesday night at an amphitheater in Cincinnati, the Dixie Chicks will take the stage in front of thousands. It’s a significant moment for the Texas trio, as it marks the first time in 10 years they’ll headline a tour in America.

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Then everything imploded in March 2003 when lead singer Natalie Maines uttered her famous statement about President George W. Bush during a concert in Britain, close to the invasion of Iraq: “We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”

Country music fans reacted with horror — the Dixie Chicks were soon dropped from country radio and their hit single at the time, Travelin’ Soldier, plummeted from the top of the charts.

As shown in the documentary Shut Up in Sing about the aftermath of the controversy, one country station invited people to trash their Dixie Chicks CDs; another scene showed a bulldozer crushing a huge pile of albums.

The group lost sponsorship deals and ticket sales, and were vilified by the internet and some fellow Nashville stars. Not to mention receiving death threats.

In the midst of it all, the group released one more album, the fiery, unapologetic Taking the Long Way, and went on another tour in 2006 — some dates had to be scrapped because of lack of sales. The tour wrapped in Dallas in December 2006; a couple months later, they scooped up a bunch of Grammy Awards (including album of the year) for Taking the Long Way. After that, it appeared the Dixie Chicks were done.

Until now. In the last decade, the trio tried out some new projects, as Maines recorded a rock album and sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire formed a bluegrass duo called the Courtyard Hounds. Though they performed as the Dixie Chicks on some quick tours in Europe and had some scattered dates opening for the Eagles in America, this is the first time they’ll attempt a headlining tour (titled DCX MMXVI World Tour) in the United States since the fallout.

The question remains: how will it go when they return to the country where they’re still considered polarizing?

While the Cincinnati opening night tour stop is sold out, tickets are still readily available for some shows in other areas, where the group is playing some pretty big venues. So much time has passed, but when you say “Dixie Chicks” in America, people still vividly remember the controversy.

“What sucks is where people’s opinions used to be a truer opinion about our music, now it feels tainted,” Maines recently told the Oakland Press.

“If someone hates it, it’s probably because they hate me politically. So the judgment of it just isn’t as honest and pure as it used to be.”

On their recent European leg of the tour, the crowds were thrilled to see them — they remain quite popular overseas. And no, in case you’re wondering, they’re still not afraid of speaking up about politics.

On a screen with background graphics during the European shows, there were caricatures of all this year’s presidential hopefuls when the group played Ready to Run. And during their famed hit Goodbye Earl, the screen showed a picture of abusive men throughout history — and an image of Donald Trump with devil horns.

RDC FILM WORKS 2016 AT WELIKOKLAD EVENT CENTRE CINEMA Join Red Deer College June 3 to 5 at 7 p.m. at Welikoklad Event Centre Cinema for Film Works 2016. RDC will be celebrating the best films of the year by their student actors, directors, cinematographers and allround filmmakers. Film Works does come with a violence and language warning. Admission is by donation. for more info call 403-755-6626 or 1-800-661-8793.

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Heroes battle over the future in Civil War II

BY DAVID BETANCOURT ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES When comparing Marvel’s first comic-book Civil War from 10 years ago to the superhero battle that takes place in the new Civil War II, writer Brian Michael Bendis said the biggest difference is diversity.

“Thor is a woman. Captain America is African-American. Spider-Man is a biracial teen. There’s all these different flavours and experiences and perspectives that were not at the forefront like they were last time,” he said. “Having all these different voices and perspectives to push against was a damn good reason to tell the story.”

The first issue of the miniseries Civil War II, written by Bendis and illustrated by David Marquez, hit newsstands both real and digital Wednesday.

Bendis and Marvel’s top editors decided the next big storyline featuring all of the Marvel’s top characters would involve the heroes dealing with personal accountability. He wanted a new character in the Marvel universe to cause a rift between heroes because of a special power that some felt too powerful. But even after deciding on major players and who would take what side, Bendis still didn’t know he was crafting Marvel’s second Civil War until Marvel’s publisher, Dan Buckley pointed out the obvious to him. “(Dan) said, ‘We’re going to call this Civil War,” Bendis said. “Everyone else will. We might as well.”

Civil War II was born.

The series’ conflict involves an a young man linked to the Inhumans (a race of super-powered beings) with the power to see into the future and a difference of opinion as to whether such a power should be utilized or not.

Bendis enjoyed plotting the conflict, especially because each side of this new Marvel war makes a convincing argument.

“Having your characters in a world dilemma where there is no right or wrong answer is a very special and cool thing,” Bendis said. “It was such a creative challenge.”

At the center of this new conflict are two of Marvel’s heaviest hitters.

Iron Man once again finds himself in a war, siding against the use of seeing into the future, telling everyone that playing with the unknown is a bad idea. On the other side of the argument is Captain Marvel, who believes that if you can stop something before it starts, do it.

Bendis starts Civil War II’s first issue with Marvel’s heroes taking down an unexpected threat and celebrating with a party afterwards before lines are drawn and sides are taken.

“The things that I’m most excited for people to experience in the first issue is that we open with this gigantic win and most events open with a gigantic disaster,” Bendis said. “Having the characters relate to each other in a friendly setting first was something that I was eager to do … When it becomes a very personal stake, you know they’re being honest because it isn’t just the stress of the story talking to them. We know how they felt on a good a day.”

Marquez, Civil War II’s illustrator, previously had the difficult task of replacing Sara Pichelli as the regular illustrator on Marvel’s Ultimate Spider-Man/Miles Morales title. Bendis and Marquez clicked so well on Ultimate Spider-Man that they collaborated on Invincible Iron Man next. Bendis envisioned a years-long, Stan Lee/Jack Kirby like run on Iron Man with Marquez, but when he began plotting Civil War II with Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso and they began wondering who could draw the event, Bendis knew Marquez’s Iron Man run was over.

“Drawing everyone in the Marvel universe flying at you is not easy,” Bendis said. “So I sat down with David and I said, good news/bad news. I don’t think we’re going to (complete) our Iron Man run. Any time a publisher offers (an event like Civil War II ) it’s immensely flattering. It’s them trusting you with the whole damn thing. I knew him enough to know that if he said yes, he would roll up his sleeves and kill on this.”

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In a nutshell, the story of the ‘Star Wars’ prequels is the triumph of the empire over democracy, facilitated by Anakin Skywalker and resulting in the autocratic rule by Chancellor (later Emperor) Palpatine, left.

What would Anakin do?

YOU MAY HATE THE STAR WARS PREQUELS — BUT THEY PREDICTED OUR CURRENT POLITICAL ERA

BY CASS SUNSTEIN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Cool people dislike the Star Wars “prequels” - Episodes 1, 2, and 3. The dialogue is wooden, the actors are stiff, and there’s far less energy and wit than in the beloved original trilogy.

But if you’re looking for a quick guide to current political struggles — both in the United States and all over the world — you should give the prequels another chance.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, paralyzing political divisions threatened democratic governments.

Disputes over free trade, and the free movement of people and goods, were a big reason. Stymied by polarization and endless debates, the Senate proved unable to resolve those disputes.

As a result, nationalist sentiments intensified, leading to movements for separation from centralized institutions. People craved a strong leader who would introduce order — and simultaneously combat growing terrorist threats.

A prominent voice, Anakin Skywalker, insisted, “We need a system where the politicians sit down and discuss the problem, agree what’s in the interest of all the people, and then do it.” And if they didn’t, “they should be made to.”

Eventually, something far worse happened. The legislature voted to give “emergency powers” — essentially unlimited authority — to the chief executive. An astute observer, Padme Amidala, noted, “So this is how liberty dies … with thunderous applause.”

That, in a nutshell, is the story of the Star Wars prequels: the triumph of empire over democracy, facilitated

by Anakin Skywalker and resulting in autocratic rule by Chancellor (later Emperor) Palpatine.

It’s a bit of a cartoon, of course. But before filming, George Lucas studied real transitions from democracies to dictatorships — which sometimes occurred right after nations had moved to embrace democracy in the first

place. He asked why “the senate after killing Caesar turn(ed) around and g(a) ve the government to his nephew?. …

Why did France, after they got rid of the king and that whole system, turn around and give it to Napoleon?”

He noted, “It’s the same thing with Germany and Hitler. … You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control.” The problem is “a democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody’s squabbling.”

‘AUTHORITARIAN POLITICIANS WITH NATIONALIST TENDENCIES HAVE BEEN ATTRACTING SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT IN AUSTRIA, GERMANY AND FRANCE. THEIR PLATFORM? PROTECTION AGAINST TERRORISM AND CRIME, ECONOMIC NATIONALISM, DOUBTS ABOUT FREE TRADE . . . .’

In Germany, Hitler’s rise was solidified by his successful claim to unlimited authority to make law, free from any requirement of legislative permission. In the midst of an apparent crisis, signaled by a fire at the Reichstag (legislative) building, Hitler demanded and obtained that authority.

A chilling newspaper account from Feb. 2, 1933, reads like something right out of Star Wars (above all, the grant of emergency powers to Palpatine), but it’s real: “The power to dissolve Parliament at his discretion and to rule Germany by decree without Parliament was entrusted today to Adolf Hitler, Germany’s new chancellor, by President Paul von Hindenburg, according to the

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, an organ close to the government. President von Hindenburg signed a decree for the dissolution of Parliament, which is expected to become effective before the reconvening of Parliament, scheduled for next Tuesday.”

Which brings us to the present day.

After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia showed significant movement in the direction of democratic self-government. But amidst the nation’s economic and political challenges, Vladimir Putin rose to power. He has often been a recipient of thunderous applause, not least when he defended the illegal seizure of Crimea.

More recently, authoritarian politicians with nationalist tendencies have been attracting significant support in Austria, Germany and France.

Their platform? Protection against terrorism and crime, economic nationalism, doubts about free trade and an insistence on a muscular government, striking against the pervasive forces of disorder.

That is Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s platform as well. With respect to the Islamic State: “I would just bomb those suckers. … I’d blow up every single inch.”

One of his defining slogans is “America First.” With respect to trade, he proposes a 45 percent tariff on foreign goods as “a threat. It will be a tax if they don’t behave.”

He warns and threatens those who oppose him; sometimes he sues them.

He doesn’t seem to think all that well of freedom of speech, promising to “open up” libel laws. He exclaims, “We need law and order!”

When he says such things, Trump is often greeted with (you guessed it) thunderous applause. Is this how liberty dies?

We can’t really know what Trump would do as president, and for over 200 years, U.S. institutions have proved to be spectacularly robust. In our country, any question about the potential death of liberty — as occurred in a galaxy far, far way — seems wildly excessive. But here’s a lesson from “Star Wars”: That’s an essential question to ask.

Bonnaroo at 15: Memorable moments from years past

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE — In 2002, a new music festival featuring jam bands became an instant hit as fans loaded up their camping gear and converged on a 700-acre farm southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, to create a unique musical experience.

Now in its 15th year, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has featured a diverse lineup from Elton John and Jay Z to Paul McCartney, DeadMau5 and Bruce Springsteen. This year’s festival runs June 9-12 and features Pearl Jam, Dead and Company, LCD Soundsystem and J Cole.

Here’s a look at some of the most memorable moments in Bonnaroo’s history:

RADIOHEAD TURNING POINT “The real turning point, frankly from a media standpoint, when people stopped using the jam band word, it was literally the day we announced Radiohead,” said Superfly’s Rick Farman, of the English rock band’s 2006 headlining appearance. “That literally changed the perception.”

KANYE’S LATE ARRIVAL Bonnaroo is known for its good vibes, but plenty of fans voiced their frustrations in 2008 when rapper Kanye West was two hours late to his

already delayed set. He didn’t take the stage until nearly 4:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Tired fans booed and chanted some threw trash onto the stage.

MY MORNING JACKET’S RAINY SET The Louisville rock band has been a Bonnaroo staple since its second year in 2003 and has earned a reputation for lengthy, improvised late night jams. But in 2008, frontman Jim James and his band went with a marathon performance of nearly four hours in a drenching rain.

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Birdfeeder season in full swing LINDA TOMLINSON GARDENING Gone are the grab greys and browns of winter. They have been replaced by the bright colors of spring. During the winter months, birdfeeders are filled to entice birds into the yard. In the average yard the feeders are removed in spring or remain empty until fall.

Bird enthusiasts or birders, usually fill their feeders year round as it attracts birds to their yard. Due to migration, different birds visit the feeders each season.

For those who fill their feeder occasionally, do not believe the myth that once birds start using the feeder it must be full at all times or the birds will starve.

In the wild, birds eat at many different locations in any given day or week. If all the food is gone, they use other locations and continue to look for new ones. If the feeder stays empty for a period of time birds will ignore the feeder. Once filled, it can take the birds a while to discover the new food source.

Commercial bird seed is a welcome addition to most bird’s diets. A few years ago there was a debate as to whether to use striped or black oil seed in the feeders.

The argument is over, according to Myra Pearman, of the Ellis Bird Farm, the black oil have more food value and have a thinner shell making it easier for the birds to crack.

She also said to steer clear of mixed bird feed as they contain a number of varieties of seed that are not eaten by local birds.

Setting out fruit out in a flat feeder in the spring will attract birds that usually feed on insects or local fruit.

Orange halves are popular with Orioles, House Finches and Sapsuckers.

Jays, robins and finches also enjoy apple pieces. Extra treats in the spring give birds a much needed energy boost after their long flight Small portions of suet can be set out during the summer to attract woodpeckers but it will need to be changed frequently to avoid becoming rancid.

Hummingbirds feed happily on a solution of four parts water to one part sugar. Heat the water to dissolve the sugar then cool the solution before pouring it in feeders. Bees and hornets will be attracted to the feeder if it leaks.

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Mixed bird seed is not ideal for birds in Central Alberta as they contain a number of varieties of seed that are not eaten by local birds.

Do not put food coloring in the solution as it is harmful to the birds.

Do not worry about emptying the feeder in the fall to encourage birds to migrate. Instead, keep the feeder full as birds tend to come in flocks in the fall, depleting the feeders quickly as they bulk up before migrating Yellow Belly Sap Suckers are often blamed for the death of trees. The birds do drill holes in the trees allowing sap to flow out which will shorten a tree’s life span.

The birds choose specific trees according to the sweetness of the sap.

Trees that are stressed, sick or dis-

eased produce a sweeter sap than healthy trees.

Once the sap is flowing it is not just the sapsuckers that come to feed. Open sours allow the hummingbirds to feed.

When feeding birds or making birdhouses, take care to attract native birds as opposed to introduced ones such as House Sparrows.

Once House Sparrows find a feeder they usually stay year round driving out other species and taking over nesting areas displacing native species.

Popular feeders also attract birds that do not stop at the feeder. Instead, birds of prey on the song birds that are

attracted to the feeders.

Birds classified as corvids, jays, magpies, crows, ravens, starlings, are attracted to feeders and song bird nests. It is possible to protect the smaller birds by making holes into nests small which keeps out larger birds.

Birds are a great addition to the yard, any season, Take time to plan the yard adding features that will encourage the birds to gather in the garden.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist that lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com

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SCIENCE THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2016

Feeding humanity in a warming world DAVID SUZUKI SCIENCE MATTERS Calculating farming’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is difficult, but experts agree that feeding the world’s people has tremendous climate and environmental impacts. Estimates of global emissions from farms range widely. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency puts them at 24 per cent, including deforestation, making agriculture the second-largest emitter after heat and electricity.

Agriculture contributes to global warming in a number of ways. Methane and nitrous oxide, which are more potent than CO2 but remain in the atmosphere for shorter times, make up about 65 per cent of agricultural emissions. Methane comes mainly from cattle and nitrous oxide from fertilizers and wastes.

According to the World Resources Institute, “Smaller sources include manure management, rice cultivation, field burning of crop residues, and fuel use on farms.” Net emissions are also created when forests and wetlands are cleared for farming, as these “carbon sinks” usually absorb and store more carbon than the farms that replace them. Transporting and processing agricultural products also contribute to global warming.

We need to eat. So what’s the answer? That obesity is epidemic in parts of the world while people starve elsewhere, and that an estimated one-third of food gets wasted, shows improving distribution and reducing waste are good places to start — but won’t be enough to significantly curtail agriculture’s contribution to climate change.

‘There’s hardly anything left’ SCIENTISTS FIND VIBRANT U.S. MARINE RESERVE NOW A CORAL GRAVEYARD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — El Nino’s super warm water has turned what had been one of the world’s most lush and isolated tropical marine reserve into a coral graveyard, scientists said Wednesday.

Researchers finishing an emergency undersea expedition found 95 per cent of the coral dead around Jarvis Island in the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument. In November, much of the coral had bleached white but was alive.

“There’s hardly anything left on the bottom in terms of the coral. It basically looks like a graveyard,” said the expedition chief scientist Bernardo Vargas-Angel of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “The skeletons are still there but they are covered with algae.”

The algae was red, the colour of blood or wine, and below it was a sea of dead coral, he said, returning from a 10-day diving expedition to the region along the equator, 1,400 miles southwest of Hawaii.

Scientists say the area around Jarvis Island is a special place that normally looks like something out of a technical colour movie, vibrant with coral, plankton, fish and sharks. A unique ocean current normally brings cold water up from the deep, making it teem with life, said Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist Anne Cohen, who is involved in the research but wasn’t on this trip.

“It’s like the Super Bowl of coral reefs, this place,” Cohen said. “The coral cover is astronomical.

The amount of life that it supports is just sky high: fish, turtle, dolphins, sharks. You name it, you find it there in large numbers.”

The coral can normally survive short bouts of warm water but the water just got too warm for too long, scientists said. The water was about 7 degrees warmer than normal (4 degrees Celsius), Cohen said.

Scientists measure how warm the water is for coral in something called degree weeks. The record had been 18 degree Celsius weeks in 2014. This maxed out at 31.3, said NOAA coral reef co-ordinator Mark Eakin. It has been over 20 degree Celsius weeks for almost eight months, worse than anywhere else, Eakin said. That warmer water is mostly from El Nino — the natural warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather worldwide — assisted by man-made warming, Eakin said.

A study earlier this year found almost as much loss in a nearby island called Kiribati, but Eakin said this was worse.

“Just as I thought it couldn’t get any worse, it does,” Eakin said.

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SpaceX lands another rocket after satellite delivery

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX pulled off another rocket landing Friday, the third in just under two months.

The first-stage booster of the unmanned Falcon rocket settled vertically onto a barge 400 miles off Florida’s east coast, eight minutes after the late afternoon liftoff. Cameras on the barge provided stunning, real-time video.

“Falcon 9 has landed!” said a SpaceX flight commentator.

The touchdown occurred after the rocket launched an Asian communications satellite. Like the last successful landing, this one was especially difficult given the speed and heat of the incoming 15-story booster.

SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk said via Twitter that the rocket’s landing speed was close to the design maximum, thus the back and forth motion. He said it was probably OK, “but some risk of tipping.” No one was aboard the barge at touchdown for safety reasons.

SpaceX’s first booster landing actually occurred in December — on land at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The California-based company followed up with a successful touchdown on its floating platform in the

Reducing meat and animal-product consumption and production — especially beef — would cut emissions, but wouldn’t get us all the way.

Some suggest finding better ways to feed as many as nine billion people by 2050 means rethinking our agricultural systems. Industrial agriculture has made it possible to produce large amounts of food efficiently, but comes with problems, including pollution, reduced biodiversity, pesticide resistance and consequent increased chemical use, destruction of forests and wetlands, and human health issues such as antibiotic resistance. Soil loss and degradation, increased drought and flooding and changing growing patterns caused by climate change add to the complexity.

Some say the best fix is genetic modification — to produce more nutritious plants that can withstand pests and a changing climate. Others note that when humans try to improve on or override nature, the outcome is often not what was expected.

And a U.S. National Academies of Science report concludes, “GMO crops have not, to date, increased actual yields.” Failing to recognize that everything in nature is interconnected has led to numerous unintended consequences, from DDT causing bird deaths and toxic buildup in the food chain to widespread antibiotic use facilitating the evolution of “superbugs”.

The growing field of agroecology — working with nature — is one solution. Many researchers argue it’s more efficient, less environmentally damaging and more equitable for farmers and local communities than industrial methods and GMOs. The goal, writes University of California-Berkeley agroecology professor Miguel Altieri, “is to design an agroecosystem that mimics the structure and function of local natural ecosystems; that is, a system with high species diversity and a biologically active soil, one that promotes natural pest control, nutrient

recycling and high soil cover to prevent resource losses.”

A study by the Rodale Institute, a research organization devoted to organic farming, concluded global adoption of agroecological practices such as “cover crops, compost, crop rotation and reduced tillage” could “sequester more carbon than is currently emitted.”

About 40 per cent of Earth’s land surface is used for agriculture, entailing massive geophysical alteration, so working with nature as much as possible to maintain or restore balance to natural systems makes sense.

Agroecology appears to be a better way to feed humanity than doubling down on industrial agricultural, from many angles: reducing pollution and chemical use, enhancing rather than degrading soils, increasing biodiversity, protecting water, growing healthier food and creating more equitable food systems.

In This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein quotes former UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier De Schutter: “Today’s scientific evidence demonstrates that agroecological methods outperform the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting food production where the hungry live — especially in unfavourable environments.”

He further notes, “agroecological projects have shown an average crop yield increase of 80% in 57 developing countries, with an average increase of 116% for all African projects.”

We are part of nature, so harming it hurts us. The planet provides resources to feed us. We must learn to use them sustainably.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Editor Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

RIGHT; This photo provided by the e University of Victoria shows dying g Pocillopora or cauliflower coral. The corall on the sea floor around Kiritimati looked d like a boneyard in November. Stark, white e and lifeless. But there was still some hope..

BELOW; This photo taken in July 2015,, shows different species of coral alive and d colorful at the Pacific island of Kiritimati..

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Atlantic in early April, then again May 6. All three of those recovered boosters are now side by side, horizontally, in a SpaceX hangar. The second recovered booster will be tested and should fly on another mission later this year.

Musk wants to recycle boosters to lower launch costs and open space up to more payloads and people. These first-stage boosters normally are discarded in the ocean. SpaceX is the only one ever to land the stages left over from orbital missions.

NASA is a major customer SpaceX flies cargo to the International Space Station and aims to transport astronauts, too, by the end of next year.

A glitch in the rocket’s engine system prevented liftoff Thursday.

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Study: Canada lacking in ocean protection

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS North American governments aren’t living up to promises to protect their oceans and Canada is performing worst of all, says a new survey.

“We’ve been concerned about just how slow the progress has been in protecting our marine environment,” Sabine Jessen, who did the study for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, said Wednesday.

Canada, Mexico and the United States have all pledged to protect at least 10 per cent of their waters. For Mexico and Canada, that commitment dates back to international agreements ratified in the early 1990s.

Jessen’s analysis found that less than one per cent of the oceans off the continent are in fully functioning pro-

tected areas with permanent legal status and a management plan. Commercial or industrial activity is banned from only 0.04 per cent.

Canada, with the largest coastline of the three, has protected 0.11 per cent of it. The U.S. figure is 1.29 per cent.

Mexico is the best of a bad lot at 1.62 per cent.

And just 0.02 per cent of Canadian oceans are in strictly protected reserves that ban all commercial fishing, shipping, and industry.

Canada has 14 marine protected areas under consideration, which could bring the total up to three per cent.

It’s the word “consideration” that is the problem, said Jessen. Consideration has lasted for decades.

The Lancaster Sound area at the eastern gate of the Northwest Passage was first proposed for protection by

the Inuit in 1987.

Jessen recalls marine conservation icon Jacques Cousteau joining local advocates in calling for a marine park in B.C.’s southern Georgia Strait in the late 1960s.

“We’re still working on it,” she sighs. “I just don’t think it’s been a high enough priority for government to do.”

The report urges Canada to streamline what’s required to create new protected areas and that waters that come under such management should be larger.

It suggests the three countries work together to establish jointly managed areas such as in the Beaufort Sea, which is shared by Yukon and Alaska.

Nor should 10 per cent be a final goal, said Jessen. The latest science suggests that 30 per cent — similar to

what has been proposed for Canada’s boreal forest — is a more scientifically defensible threshold.

Jessen said marine protected areas are important not only to protect beautiful and biodiverse waters, but also to preserve the health of commercial fishing grounds.

“The science is very clear that they in fact have wider benefits. Fish do move, larvae of fish move, and so providing refuges from our use will actually benefit those uses outside — especially things like fishing.”

Modern fishing technology leaves fish few places to hide, said Jessen.

Marine protected areas could give them safe water to reproduce and replenish stocks elsewhere.

“We have to make sure there are some places where Nature can thrive.”

Floating the idea of wind farms in the ocean COMPANIES PROPOSE DEEP-WATER WIND FARMS OFF HAWAII SHORES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU — Massive wind turbines could end up floating in deep ocean waters off Hawaii’s shores under proposals to bring more renewable energy to the islands.

Two companies have proposed offshore wind turbine projects for federal waters off Oahu as Hawaii pushes to meet its aggressive renewable energy goals.

Their plans would use technology that floats the tall turbines in deep waters miles offshore. The proposals are in the early stages and would face years of environmental reviews and community meetings before possible approval.

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the agency that would decide whether to approve ocean leases for the projects, held a meeting about the proposals Monday.

A.W. Hawaii Wind, a Texas company that’s a subsidiary of Denmark-based Alpha Wind Energy, is proposing two offshore floating wind farms, each generating about 400 megawatts of energy with 50 turbines.

One is proposed for the northwest side of Oahu 12 miles off the coast of Kaena Point, in waters about a half-mile deep. The company also is proposing a wind farm in waters 17 miles south of Diamond Head.

A second company, Progression Hawaii Offshore Wind, is proposing a $1.8 billion, 400 megawatt wind farm using 40 to 50 floating turbines off Oahu’s South Shore, in waters that are also about a half-mile deep.

A 400 megawatt wind farm could provide roughly a quarter of Oahu’s power, said Chris Swartley, partner with Portland, Oregon-based Progression Energy.

Both companies are proposing to use a technology called WindFloat, where a turbine that stands about 600 feet is attached to a triangular platform that floats near the surface of the ocean.

The floats would be anchored to the ocean floor, and undersea cables would transfer the energy to power plants on land. Offshore wind farms are not new, but most use turbines fixed to the ocean floor, and floating turbines are rare.

There are many challenges to taking on a project of this scope in Hawaii, including cultural and environmental

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This Oct. 2011, photo provided by Principle Power shows a WindFloat Prototype (WF1) handoff to ocean going tug vessel, Sado River Estuary near Setubal, Portugal. Massive wind turbines could end up floating in deep ocean waters off Hawaii’s shores under proposals to bring more renewable energy to the islands. Two companies have proposed offshore wind turbine projects for federal waters off Oahu as Hawaii pushes to meet its aggressive renewable energy goals. Hawaii has set a goal for its utilities to use 100 percent renewable energy by the year 2045. issues, deep water, a relatively small electric grid, and unexploded ordnance in the ocean waters surrounding the island, said Jens Borsting Petersen, owner of A.W. Hawaii Wind.

“This is by far the most difficult thing in wind that’s ever been attempted on this globe,” said Petersen.

“When you talk about wind energy, trying to do something on Hawaii offshore is exceptionally complicated.”

Progression Energy has held more than 140 meetings with environmental, tourism, Native Hawaiian and other stakeholder groups, using their feedback to choose a site, Swartley said.

Looking out from the beach, most of the turbines would be over the horizon, he said.

“You’ll be able to see them if you

really look for them, but it will be really tough,” Swartley said.

Among concerns raised so far is the potential danger that whales or submarines could bump into the cords anchoring the turbines to the ocean floor, said Henry Curtis, executive director of Life of the Land, a Hawaii non-profit organization.

“Do you want to really turn the ocean into the next industrial site?”

Curtis asked.

Some fishermen are concerned about the possible impact on birds flying over the sea.

“The best fish spotters we have are birds,” said Ron Tam, secretary of the Hawaii Fishermen’s Alliance for Conservation and Tradition. “And then, are we going to be able to fish in and

about and through these floating machines? We don’t know…That has a definite economic impact.”

Hawaii has set a goal for its utilities to use 100 per cent renewable energy by the year 2045. The state’s utilities are currently generating about 24 per cent of their energy from renewable sources through wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy, said Mark Glick, energy administrator for the Hawaii State Energy Office. Offshore wind farms could help the state meet the larger goal, Glick said.

“We have to figure this out together, because the low-hanging fruit has been collected, and essentially the tougher decisions are before us…the next steps are going to be crucial,” Glick said.

NASA tries again to inflate new room at space station

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANVERAL, Fla. — NASA is trying once more to inflate a new experimental room at the International Space Station.

On Saturday, astronaut Jeffrey Williams introduced more air into the compartment, 22 seconds’ worth, then eight seconds.

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, barely expanded during Thursday’s first inflation attempt. Experts believe the soft-sided compartment was packed up tight for so long before last month’s launch that the fabric layers had trouble unfolding. By now, there should be less friction among the layers and it should stretch its full 13 feet in length.

BEAM was launched by SpaceX in

April following months of rocket delays and attached to the outside of the station. NASA relieved some of the pressure inside BEAM on Friday to relax the materials and, hopefully, allow the chamber to expand more easily on the next go-around.

Bigelow Aerospace is behind the technology demonstration. The Nevada company envisions using inflatable spacecraft to house tourists orbiting

Earth, as well as astronauts bound for Mars.

Because this has never been done before at a space station, NASA is proceeding slowly and methodically to inflate the room, said mission operations manager Kenny Todd. If too much force was exerted by BEAM on the space station — say by a rapid pressurization — the connecting modules could be weakened.

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Pair of artists given 3D printing grants BE3DIMENSIONAL INNOVATION FUND

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Two artists from British Columbia and Ontario are recipients of the first grants from a fund dedicated towards promoting innovative work through 3D printing technology.

Vancouver-based Geoffrey Farmer and Duane Linklater of Moose Cree First Nation in northern Ontario will be able to draw from the $100,000 Be3Dimensional Innovation Fund.

The fund is a collaboration between Ryerson University and Toronto-based 3D printing studio Think2Thing, co-founded by famed photographer Edward Burtynsky and designer David Didur.

Farmer and Linklater will have their completed projects displayed at the Ryerson Image Centre and the National Gallery of Canada.

Linklater has had his work exhibited and screened at home and abroad at venues including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Power Plant in Toronto and the Family Business Gallery in New York.

The University of Alberta graduate said he sees an “exciting opportunity” to experiment with 3D technology, particularly for museums.

He witnessed such partnerships firsthand while at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts last year where he was exposed to the possibilities provided through 3D tech involving a collection of native American objects.

“I was interested in unauthored art objects, more specifically, those objects that don’t have an attributed artist to their name,” said the North Bay, Ont.based artist.

“I thought that this is an interesting problem to work with. For me, it’s reflected what happens with native American objects when they enter into pre-

dominately European modern and contemporary museums — that they often lose information when they’ve been acquired.

“I was looking for a particular way of making these objects, copying these objects as part of creating an analogous object to speak to that loss,” Linklater added.

“As a result, the final sculptures that were presented, of course, are representative of all of this lost information, missed translations. For me, that was a really important project to do.”

Farmer has had his works shown in several solo and group exhibitions over his 20-year career, including the Louvre in Paris, the Tate Modern in London and the National Gallery of Canada.

The 48-year-old is preparing to represent Canada on the world stage at the 57th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy, next year, where he plans to integrate 3D technology in creating his work for the project.

“As an artist, I’m still trying to understand what it means, and I think it will take us time to understand how it’s going to change our world. But we definitely know it’s changing it,” said Farmer.

“We’ve always been making reproductions of things in the world, so these things aren’t necessarily new. But in the way the technology is able to do it now is different. I’m able to go out into the world and if I see something, I can scan it and bring it back into the studio and work with it within the studio.”

Farmer said the award comes at the “perfect time” in allowing him to use a new methodology linked to something familiar — using photography as his source material.

“I feel like there’s this link or this bridge that’s created with this new technology to further explore those interests that were already there.”

Apps to help fight digital distraction

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS When busy people sit down at night to pay bills, answer emails or RSVP for their kids’ school events, they don’t plan to procrastinate. But somehow a quick visit to Facebook becomes 20 minutes of mindless scrolling, and a momentary search for a needed item morphs into a half-hour of virtual shopping.

“We have more distractions than ever and that makes getting things done harder,” says Donna Smallin, author of “Get Organized: Secrets of Professional Organizers” (Flying the Koop Press, 2014).

“When I have to get work done, I have to log out of Facebook. … Same goes for email.”

The strangest thing about procrastination is that the only thing standing between you and the joy of completing your work is … you. Yet willpower is rarely enough to keep us from wasting time, says Justin Couchman, assistant professor of psychology at Albright College in Reading, Pa. “People like to be distracted,” he says. “They like to do what makes their mind feel rewarded immediately.”

It doesn’t help that today our work and play happen on the same devices. What’s the solution?

“Setting a timer to work for 30 minutes and then taking a five-minute break” can be effective, says Smallin. “Or giving yourself a treat or reward when you complete a project.”

But technology offers its own solutions: There are now dozens of apps designed to help us stop wasting time online. They help “set up a situation in advance that makes it just a little bit harder or a little less convenient” to stray off task, says Couchman.

Here are six: WHEN YOU CAN’T STOP SURFING You should be doing something productive around the house but instead you’re wandering the social media landscape. If you can’t fight the urge to keep switching to other screens, SimpleBlocker is a free Google Chrome extension designed to block access to websites of your choice. You set a timer, blocking sites for as long as you choose. You can always shut the timer off earlier, or alternatively make it harder to turn off by adding a password.

Other Google Chrome extensions for selective blocking include StayFocusd, which lets you set a time limit for visiting sites that distract you.

Beyond Chrome, there’s an app called Forest that works with Apple, Android, Windows Phone, Chrome and Firefox. It merges digital gaming with a dose of environmental guilt: If you stay off your blacklisted sites, you earn virtual coins that eventually are donated as real money toward planting an actual tree.

But give in to distraction and you won’t earn those coins, meaning the real tree doesn’t get planted because you wasted a half-hour on Facebook.

WHEN YOU WANT THE TRUTH RescueTime (for Apple, Android and Windows) tracks the sites you visit and how many minutes you spend there. The idea is that keeping an honest accounting of how many minutes you’ve spent on time-sucking places online can help you pare down that wasted time. It can be eye-opening to realize you spent 90 minutes on social media during your work day when you were sure you’d wasted less than

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Geoffrey Farmer is shown in a handout photo.

Farmer, from British Columbia, and Duane Linklater of Moose Cree First Nation in northern Ontario are recipients of the first grants from a fund dedicated towards promoting innovative work through 3D printing technology. They will be able to draw from the $100,000 Be3Dimensional Innovation Fund.

Female video game developers on the rise

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A screen shot of the application RescueTime, which allows people to track their time spent on various websites to find out just how many minutes each day they’re spending on non-essential tasks and casual web surfing. Sometimes the solution to distracting technology is more technology.

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Parents can use RescueTime to monitor children’s web browsing, making sure that kids who are doing homework on a computer or tablet aren’t actually elsewhere on the web.

You also can use RescueTime as a site blocker.

For privacy, you can delete your data at any time, and RescueTime pledges not to sell its customers’ online behaviour data or use it in any other way.

Many phones actually have built-in time trackers that list the websites where you’ve spent the most minutes.

WHEN YOU MUST WRITE TODAY In the digital world, everyone writes: Maybe it’s an email or report, a blog entry or a business plan.

Or maybe it’s the novel you’ve promised yourself you’ll start. To jumpstart any writing project, consider Flowstate, an app that offers little more than a blank screen but will begin deleting everything you’ve written if you stop writing for more than a few seconds. Again, you can set a timer.

The app’s creators have said that your writing “flow” really kicks in after about 15 minutes.

WHEN YOU WANT A STEADY REMINDER Momentum, another free Google Chrome plug-in, is a landing page that appears each time you open a new tab. At the start of your day, you type in a goal for the day. Each time you open a tab (perhaps to go shopping or web surfing), you see that goal in a large font in the centre of your screen.

It’s a nice prod to make sure that whatever you’re doing is in the service of that goal. And if you achieve that first goal of the day, you can replace it with another.

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PHILADELPHIA — Students from an all-female arts college in Philadelphia attended a conference for video game developers last year and, without even trying, they stood out.

“We were basically the only girls in the room,” recalled Lindsey O’Brien, 21, a rising senior at Philadelphia’s Moore College of Art & Design.

The male-dominated video game industry is changing as more women develop games, play games and take jobs reviewing games. While the ongoing cyber harassment of female gamers known as “Gamergate” indicates a reluctance by some to accept the growing number of women in the industry, mainstream institutions are welcoming all to the console.

Moore’s animation and gaming arts program will see its first class of game developers graduate next year. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology created its Game Lab in 2012. New York University’s Tisch School began offering a video game design degree last year.

“There’s going to be a huge boom of women entering the industry in the next 10 years,” said Stephen Wood, Moore’s gaming arts professor, who took over the fledging program when he joined the faculty in 2014. “In the ’80s and ’90s, video games were seen as things boys do. But in the ’90s and early 2000s, girls said, ‘We’re going to play, too.’ Now those girls are going to college and studying video games. We’re helping close that gender gap and being part of the solution.”

According to a 2015 survey by the International Game Developers Association, the number of female video game developers has doubled in the past seven years, from 11 per cent in 2009 to about 21 per cent now. About 79 per cent of the survey’s 2,000 respondents agreed diversity in the industry is “very” or “somewhat” important.

“Much dialogue has occurred in the past couple of years around the topic, (with) a strong majority recognizing that greater diversity on development teams creates a stronger foundation for the team to create games that may maximize their appeal,” said Kate Edwards, executive director of the association.

Since joining Moore, Wood has seen the gaming arts program grow from eight students to about 40.

He acknowledges he had some bias against female game creators until he saw his students’ work.

“They create these awesome games that are no different than what you’d see in the industry today,” he said. “It’s a misperception that girls are making games with rainbows and unicorns. They’re really not. I don’t play a new game and say, ‘Oh, this was designed by a woman, this was designed by a guy.”’

O’Brien learned the ins and outs of gaming from her mother, who could tear up the Atari. O’Brien started out on Sega Genesis and PlayStation systems, bonding with her brother as they played games.

“I have tons of female friends who like shooter games, like ‘Call of Duty,”’ she said. “A lot of people who aren’t part of the community are shocked when they hear that.”

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Core values important: Anderson

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Culture evolves, but values never change, says the president of a Red Deer retailer that has earned a solid footing against corporate giants.

Peavey Industries, recognized earlier this year as one of Canada’s most admired corporate cultures in 2015

by Ontario-based Waterstone Capital, makes a continued effort to keep that culture alive for the benefit of its customer base of farmers, acreage owners and urban homesteaders.

Success in retail goes beyond making a profit through the sale of products, CEO and president Doug Anderson told a gathering of about 50 business and political leaders at a luncheon hosted by the Red Deer Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.

Peavey Industries continues to expand throughout Western Canada, recently opening a new Peavey Mart in High Level and new MainStreet Hardware stores in both Blackfalds and Vermilion.

A new Peavey Mart will soon open in Ponoka as well.

The company competes successfully with the big chains through its approach of maintaining a corporate culture that reflects its core values, which have not changed in the past 10 years and are not likely to change in the next 10 years, said he said.

That success is not based on the price of goods, but on making sure that the right people are in the jobs that are right for them, and that they embrace those core values.

“One of our values that we talk about in our company is, always remember where we come from. To us, what that means is that we need to acknowledge and respect the fact that our success today has been built on the success and the hard work and the dedication of existing employees and past employees over the last 50 years.

It’s important to us to recognize that and stay true to the principles that got us here in the first place.”

Within that credo, Peavey Industries has developed a culture of innovation around the opportunities offered to its people as well as various value-added services for its customers and the communities in which they live.

And its leadership has always remained nimble, grabbing opportunities as they arise and grow.

For example, the new MainStreet Hardware in Blackfalds was developed when the company learned that

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Peavey Mart employees Heather Ware, centre, and Manpreer Kaur help Les Slunecka at the Red Deer Peavey Mart location Wednesday. Peavey Mart recognizes its people as the most important factor in its success. the existing store in the town of nearly 10,000 was about to shut down.

Anderson and his staff put their heads together and examined the possibilities.

It took only eight weeks from the development of the idea to create a brand and logo, set up an advertising program, find and fix up a building and get the new store up and going, said Anderson.

“I don’t know of any other retailer who could do that, and I think that was our biggest strength in coming together,” he said.

“It happens by everyone just throwing their best efforts in and putting their company’s needs ahead of their own departments. Some of our employees call it chaotic dysfunction. At the same time, they wear it as a badge of honour. That’s an important part of who we are as a company.”

Peavey Industries recently restructured its finances to enable employees to buy into an internal mutual fund

with a minimum investment of $1,000.

It updates staff and gets input from them through The Hive, a learning management system that includes courses, news and videos of various company activities.

“In some ways, it resembles a social media site. It allows for not only us to put on videos and training tools for traditional training … but it also allows us to upload video content for cultural training,” said Anderson.

“It allows us to exchange ideas. It creates an extra layer of connection to our employees, and I think that’s important, because I don’t know most of our employees.”

Recent innovations more visible to customers include the development of education seminars on such topics as keeping urban chickens and urban bees. Peavey was also the first retailer in North America to install charging stations for electric cars across its entire network.

“That goes back to our value of be-

ing forward looking. Incidentally, Ikea copied us after that, but they only have them at 11 locations,” he said.

Peavey also becomes deeply involved in the communities it serves, such as efforts its store and staff made to help rebuild after disasters such as the flood in High River.

In Central Alberta, it financed the update of Sylvan Lake author Myrna Pearman’s book on feeding birds, and then directed money from sales to support the Ellis Bird Farm, which she manages.

“We root our culture in our values … and we make sure that the people we hire are in alignment with our culture. At the end of the day, we celebrate our success, and we do that in a lot of ways,” said Anderson.

“It’s never finished. It’s always a repeat. We always have to go back and question ourselves and go back and start it all over,” he said. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

McDonald’s wraps sustainable beef pilot

BRIEF Chamber seeks nominations for Business of the Year awards

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — McDonald’s Canada has wrapped a pilot project to verify cattle ranches as producing sustainable beef, an initiative that one expert says could be a “gamechanger” for the industry.

The Canadian arm of the burger giant announced on Wednesday the results of a two-year partnership with the beef industry to advance environmental and ethical standards.

More than 180 beef operations in Canada were verified as sustainable after being assessed by a third-party auditor for principles including natural resources, animal welfare and community engagement.

Jeffrey Fitzpatrick-Stilwell, senior manager of sustainability at McDonald’s Canada, said consumers are increasingly interested in how their food is grown and raised.

“Canadians like that you’re sourcing 100 per cent Canadian beef, 100 per cent Canadian chicken, 100 per cent Canadian potatoes, on and on. They really respond to that,” he said.

“But then the next level is: Are you making sure that they’re being produced in a responsible and sustainable manner?”

A recent decision by Earls Restaurants Ltd. to source certified humane beef from the U.S. drew a backlash from Alberta cattle ranchers, prompting the chain to backtrack and say some Canadian burgers and steaks would be back on its menu.

The fiasco drew attention to beef standards in Canada, with many ranchers insisting they already produced humane meat. But the industry is also recognizing that consumers increasingly want evidence that their animals were raised ethically.

Betty Green, owner of G7 Ranch in Fisher Branch, Man., said getting verified under the pilot project is an opportunity to demonstrate the high standards she was already meeting.

“It’s no longer good enough for us to just say, ‘We’re doing it. Trust us.’ We now have to step to the plate and offer some evidence,” she said.

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Cows are pictured on a Canadian ranch that has been verified sustainable under a McDonald’s Canada pilot project. nadian beef from ranches primarily in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The company began working with the industry on the pilot in 2014 as part of a broader goal to source all its food and packaging sustainably.

The principles by which ranches were assessed were developed by the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, a multi-stakeholder initiative created to advance sustainability in the industry.

Now, the pilot results are in the hands of the Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, an initiative working towards similar goals locally. It will now create a verification framework based on the pilot to be finalized by late 2017.

Fawn Jackson, executive director of the Canadian roundtable, said McDonald’s helped bring the conversation about sustainability to the mainstream. The roundtable had recently formed when the fast-food chain first approached it in 2014.

“In Canada, we had a number of the

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different, what I’ll call puzzle pieces, to sustainability. But the pilot project has really helped put those puzzle pieces together.”

World Wildlife Fund U.S. is one of the founding members of the global roundtable, and its beef director Tim Hardman said beef production impacts more natural resources than any other animal that’s raised for food.

“It’s critical to us that beef is produced in a way that delivers maximum benefit from finite resources. We know that in a world with a growing population and a growing middle class, global demand for beef is going to increase,” he said.

Sylvain Charlebois, a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, said McDonald’s is such a massive company that it has the power to drive lasting industry change.

He pointed out that other chains followed suit when McDonald’s announced last year that it would serve only cage-free eggs by 2025.

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Nominations have opened for Red Deer-area businesses that lead the pack between their walls and within the community they serve.

The Red Deer Chamber of Commerce is now seeking nominations for its annual Business of the Year awards, to be presented this fall in conjunction with Small Business Week.

This year, the Chamber introduces the Young Entrepreneur Award, open to people under 35 who lead financially viable and growing businesses that they helped plan and establish.

Awards will also be presented in three categories: Small businesses with 10 or fewer people (full-time equivalents), medium businesses with 11 to 20 people and larger businesses with 21 or more people.

Nominees will be evaluated in four categories: • The nature of the business and its impact on the community, • Exemplary customer service, growth, staff and facility development, awards, innovation and positive media attention, • Excellence in core functions and a dominant player within its market while promoting Central Alberta, • Staff and corporate participation in support of community services and organizations at the local, regional or national level.

Nominations are due at the Chamber office by 4:30 p.m. on July 29.

Information and forms are available online at reddeerchamber.com/nominate or from the office at 3017 Gaetz Ave., Red Deer.

Awards will be presented ion the foyer of the Red Deer College Arts Centre, starting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 19.

Tickets are $40 each, available from the Chamber.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 118.25 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 43.71 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.43 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.47 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.02 Cdn. National Railway . . 77.20 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 170.85 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 36.47 Capital Power Corp . . . . 19.48 Cervus Equipment Corp 11.60 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.58 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.48 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 21.97 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.09 General Motors Co. . . . . 30.22 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 23.39 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.67 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 53.02 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 34.30 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.50 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . . 6.36 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.23 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 142.44 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.58 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.50 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — There was little movement across Toronto and New York stock markets Wednesday as traders wait to see what emerges from this week’s meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

The S&P/TSX composite index was in negative territory for a third straight day, but down a mere 2.24 points at 14,063.54.

Wall Street indexes were up slightly in the face of mixed economic reports out of the U.S. and China. The Dow Jones industrial average added 2.47 points to 17,789.67, while the broader S&P 500 gained 2.37 points to 2,099.33 and the Nasdaq edged up 4.20 points to 4,952.25.

Oil ministers from the 13 members of OPEC are meeting in Vienna on Thursday to discuss whether a production cap is needed to prop up still weak crude oil prices. Total daily production from OPEC is now at 32 million barrels a day.

“I don’t think they will come to any type of agreement in terms of production caps. They’re all defending market share,” said Kevin Headland, senior investment strategist at Manulife Investments.

“It seems like prices are starting to work in favour of OPEC members. I don’t think there is any reason for them to take measures … to cap production at this point.”

Crude prices have been steadily rising in recent weeks to their current level of around US$50 a barrel, but are still a far cry from the US$100 level seen just two years ago.

Headland said oil will continue to stay volatile until the markets can find a balance between

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On Wednesday, the July contract for benchmark North American crude pulled back nine cents to US$49.01 a barrel.

However, the Canadian dollar, which usually follows oil prices, was up 0.25 of a U.S. cent at 76.53 cents US. In other commodities, the July contract for natural gas posted another strong advance, up nine cents at US$2.38 per mmBTU after having shot up 12 cents on Tuesday. August gold bullion was down $2.80 at US$1,214.70 a troy ounce and July copper lost two cents to US$2.07 a pound.

In economic news, the Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index expanded for the third straight month in May, rising to 51.3 from 50.8 in April. Anything above 50 signals growth.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Commerce Department reported construction spending dropped 1.8 per cent in April after a 1.5 per cent gain in March for the biggest monthly decline since a 4.1 per cent plunge in January 2011.

In China, two surveys released Wednesday showed that factory activity remains feeble.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,063.54, down 2.24 points Dow — 17,789.67, up 2.47 points S&P 500 — 2,099.33, up 2.37 points Nasdaq — 4,952.25, up 4.20 points Currencies: Cdn — 76.53 cents US, up 0.25 of a cent

Essential Energy. . . . . . . 0.570 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 89.24 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 42.15 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.05 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 15.18 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 41.46 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 2.30 Penn West Energy . . . . . 0.860 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 5.89 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 35.36 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1.750 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 2.42 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 43.26 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.1800 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.35 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.89 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.93 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 25.82 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 35.04 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 38.14 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 91.69 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 19.35 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.20 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.500 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.10 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 45.13 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.36 Pound — C$1.8829, down 1.60 cents Euro — C$1.4626, up 0.40 of a cent Euro — US$1.1193, up 0.67 of a cent Oil futures: US$49.01 per barrel, down nine cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,214.70 per oz., down $2.80 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.754 oz., down 7.2 cents $699.39 kg., down $2.32 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ‘16 $7.00 higher $517.40 Nov. ‘16 $4.90 higher $521.90 Jan. ‘17 $5.30 higher $525.60 March ‘17 $5.10 higher $526.60 May ‘17 $5.50 higher $528.20 July ‘17 $5.50 higher $529.30 Nov. ‘17 $4.90 higher $513.80 Jan. ‘18 $4.90 higher $513.80 March ‘18 $4.90 higher $513.80 May ‘18 $4.90 higher $513.80 July ‘18 $4.90 higher $513.80.

Barley (Western): July ‘16 unchanged $171.00 Oct. ‘16 unchanged $171.00 Dec. ‘16 unchanged $171.00 March ‘17 unchanged $173.00 May ‘17 unchanged $174.00 July ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Oct. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 Dec. ‘17 unchanged $174.00 March ‘18 unchanged $174.00 May ‘18 unchanged $174.00 July ‘18 unchanged $174.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 396,100 tonnes of canola 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley). Total: 396,100.

Ottawa should do more to cool Toronto, Vancouver real estate markets: OECD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says Ottawa needs to introduce new measures to reduce some of the risk associated with soaring home prices and household debt levels in Toronto and Vancouver.

In a report issued Wednesday, the OECD said the possibility of a housing market correction, particularly in those two markets, could threaten the country’s financial stability.

It’s not the first time that the OECD has called for measures to cool skyhigh house prices in Toronto and Vancouver, which together comprise a third of the country’s real estate market. The organization made similar comments in its report last December.

Since then, Finance Minister Bill Morneau has increased the minimum down payment for homes over $500,000, a measure aimed specifically at the red-hot Toronto and Vancouver markets.

As of February, homebuyers must put down 10 per cent on the portion of a home over $500,000. Buyers can still put down five per cent on the first $500,000 of a home purchase.

The previous Conservative government tightened rules for new insurable mortgage loans four times between 2008 and 2012, including reducing the maximum amortization period to 25 years from 40 years in several stages.

However, CIBC deputy chief economist Benjamin Tal says all of the changes have done little to take the steam out of the country’s hottest markets.

“Obviously it’s not helping, especially not in Toronto and Vancouver,” says Tal. Following the introduction of Morneau’s new down payment rules, sales activity in Toronto and Vancouver declined in March compared with the previous month, according to statistics from the Canadian Real Estate Association.

And the following month, sales in

Vancouver were virtually flat on a month-to-month basis, while sales activity in Toronto climbed a relatively modest 3.2 per cent.

However, prices in both markets have continued to climb.

According to CREA’s figures for April, home prices were up more than 25 per cent year over year in Greater Vancouver and more than 12 per cent in Greater Toronto.

Tal says federal changes are doing little to slow price growth in Toronto and Vancouver because the rules only affect a small segment of the market.

“Most of the changes were made to the insured segment of the market, but a lot of the activity that is happening, especially over $1 million, is in the non-insured segment of the market,” says Tal. Homebuyers who purchase a property with a down payment of less than 20 per cent are required to take out mortgage insurance from a company such as Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Homes that cost over $1 million don’t require mortgage insurance because they can’t be purchased without a down payment of at least 20 per cent.

If the government hopes to address the uninsured segment of the market, one way to do so would be to target foreign investment, says Tal. But limiting the impact of foreign investment on home prices is tricky, he adds.

“It’s a very complex issue,” says Tal. “You don’t want to close Canada to foreign investors.”

Rules such as those in Australia, where foreign investors can only purchase new developments, rather than existing homes being re-sold, are too restrictive, says Tal. Ottawa could instead choose to introduce a capital gains tax or a tax on flipping houses that would target foreign investors, he says.

TD economist Diana Petramala says such a measure would be the “sharpest, bluntest tool” that the government could use to limit the impact of speculative investing on Canadian home prices.

Calls grow to pay out oil profits

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A rising chorus of voices is calling for the oil industry to reduce spending on growth and begin rewarding shareholders through things like higher dividends and share buybacks.

Investment researchers, think-tanks and newspaper editorials have recently begun advocating that big petroleum companies return as much capital to shareholders as possible as the transition away from fossil fuels gathers momentum and profits fade.

“Demand forecasts are way too positive,” says Paul Sankey, managing director of New York-based Wolfe Research.

“Really the essence of the opportunity for oil is to be dividend stocks to pay out. Not to attempt to grow, but actually to orderly liquidate.”

Speaking at a PwC energy forum in Calgary last week, Sankey said lower than expected oil demand growth and increasing action on climate change will mean alternative energy sources will displace oil in the next 30 years.

His comments echo a recent Financial Times editorial that oil companies are entering their twilight years and should focus on dividends and share buybacks. The newspaper specifically singled out the high-cost, high-carbon Canadian oilsands as having some of the lowest justification for growth.

At this year’s ExxonMobil annual general meeting, a shareholder resolution called on the company to increase dividend payouts and share buybacks in light of the risks of climate change policy and stranded assets.

The resolution only garnered 4.1 per cent of shareholder support, with Exxon recommending shareholders vote against it because it is already factoring in carbon policies in growth decisions and has steadily increased its dividend. Sankey said it’s hard for companies to accept that they face eventual decline.

“It’s very tough for companies such as an Exxon, with a big corporate ego, to really reflect that it’s the end of the oil age and they should shrink.”

Paul Stevens at the London-based Chatham House think-tank published

a report earlier in May that also argued that the business model of major oil companies is broken.

Stevens said there is “growing disillusion on the part of their shareholders with a business model rooted in assumptions of ever-growing oil demand, oil scarcity and the need to increase bookable reserves.

These assumptions increasingly lack validity, he said.

However, if the major oil companies can shift their business models they will be able to “slip into a gentle decline but ultimately survive, albeit on a much smaller scale,” he said.

Al Monaco, chief executive of Enbridge Inc., said at the PwC forum that the industry is already responding to a changing world with lower costs and emissions and that it’s moving away from the idea of growth for growth’s sake.

“I think the industry has done a very good job over the last, let’s call it five years, focusing on returns on capital. So it’s not just about production growth for our industry, it’s about making sure that when we invest capital it’s earning a very solid return,” said Monaco.

Energy analyst Jackie Forrest at Arc Financial said even if demand drops in the future, oil companies still need to invest in more production to maintain output. But she said potential increases in carbon prices mean companies will likely opt for smaller expansion projects, while megaprojects like some in the oilsands will be harder to justify.

“Those projects are more challenged right now, and it’s not just because of carbon policy. It’s because there’s real uncertainty around the future trajectory of the oil price, and the belief that it will be quite volatile,” said Forrest.

Capital spending is already down considerably in Canada’s oil and gas industry, with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers forecasting it will have dropped by $50 billion or 62 per cent from 2014 by the end of the year. Those cutbacks are being echoed across the globe and the lack of spending on new production will mean big spikes in prices in the near to mid term, said Sankey.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Chad Robertson, a fuel truck driver who was evacuated from Husky Energy’s Sunrise project, northeast of Fort McMurray, leaves Edmonton International Airport, Friday, May 6. Husky Energy has pushed back the date to achieve full production to early 2017.

Wildfire pushes full ramp-up of Husky’s Sunrise oilsands project into 2017

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Husky Energy has pushed back the date to achieve full production at its Sunrise oilsands project to early 2017 from late this year because of the wildfires last month in Fort McMurray, Alta.

The Calgary-based company says the project was restarted in the past week after it was forced to shut down on May 7.

Husky wouldn’t say how much Sunrise is currently producing, though it

was more than 30,000 barrels per day before the fires.

Sunrise was commissioned last year and is expected to reach a capacity of about 60,000 barrels per day.

Experts estimate more than one million barrels per day of crude was taken offline as wildfires raged through the heart of Alberta’s oilsands region.

Some of the 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray, which was evacuated, are being allowed back into the city.

D3 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, June 2, 2016 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

HI & LOIS

PEANUTS

BLONDIE

HAGAR

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PICKLES

GARFIELD

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June 2 1997 — Jean Chrétien wins re-election for the Liberals; out of 301 seats, the Liberal Party takes 155, to 60 Reform Party, 44 Bloc Québecois, 21 NDP, 20 PC and 1 Independent; major bloc voting and the regionalization of parties sees the Liberals strong in Ontario and West Quebec, and Reform in Western Canada. Preston Manning’s Reform Party will form the Official Opposition in the

so-called Pizza Parliament, after the Bloc falls to 44 seats from 54, the NDP win 21 seats (up from 9) and Conservatives 20 (up from 2).

1977 — Québec raises provincial minimum wage from $3.00 to $3.15 per hour; highest in Canada.

1953 — Canadian Army troops in Korea celebrate coronation of Queen Elizabeth II by firing red, white, and blue smoke shells at the enemy.

1950 — Huge forest fire starts with a small wildfire in the northeast corner of B.C. and burns until September 30, casting a huge pall of smoke over parts of North America.

ARGYLE SWEATER

RUBES

TODAY IN HISTORY

TUNDRA

SUDOKU Complete the grid so that every row, every column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 through 9.

SHERMAN‛S LAGOON

Solution

TO PLACE AN AD:

D4

403-309-3300 FAX: 403-341-4772 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

wegotads.ca

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Office/Phone Hours:

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9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Mon - Fri

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DEADLINE IS 4:30 P.M. FOR NEXT DAY’S PAPER

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announcements

ARE YOU EXPECTING A BABY SOON?

Welcome Wagon

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Personals

60

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CALL:

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CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Janitorial

770

ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work 40/hrs. per week w/some weekends, daytime hrs. $15/hr. Floor skills would be an asset. Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 or e-mail: lobb-black-valerie @aramark.ca. Attn: Val Black Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

#204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

Restaurant/ Hotel

EXECUTIVE ESTATE Police Bike Auction

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.

10 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.

Education not req’d.

Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

HOODIE, LACOSTE, blue child’s size 12, very good condition. $10.

403-314-9603 SUITCASE, Child’s Ladybug, by Samsonite, $15. 403-314-9603

EquipmentHeavy

Firewood

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

1660

B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

PH. Lyle 403-783-2275

Health & Beauty

1700

POWER Wheel Chair, 3 yrs. old. Barely used. $2500. 403-845-3292 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Household Appliances

wegot

1640

METRIC Socket, plus tool box. $100.

403-343-6044

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

stuff

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Tools

1720

WANTED

1580

Children's Items

Household Furnishings

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Sunday June 5, 2016, 10 a.m., Viewing 9 a.m.

Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only Balance of Police Bikes – 11 Hard Wall Office Trailers – Flare Stack on Trailers – Antiques – Collectables – Collector Coins, Stamps and Bills – Furniture – Leather Sofas – Misc. and More.

Complete list and Directions visit www.cherryhillauction.com Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals Phone 403-342-2514

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jobs

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Rocky Support Services is seeking an individual who is looking for an opportunity to use their experience in business to expand relationships with local employers and identify employment opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities.

The Employment Manager has the responsibility to develop relationships with local businesses and identify employment opportunities for adults with disabilities that would add value to the We are hiring an business and match the INSTRUMENT career interests of the indiTECHNICIAN vidual. This is a leadership to work as part of our position that will capitalize on your business experi- service team in the dairy industry. The ideal ence and successful track candidate must have a record working with teams valid driver’s licence along to maximize successful employment placements with the following abilities: troubleshooting, for clients and business.

The Program specializes in programming and repairing circuit boards and controls, providing career planning, development, training and perform work in a safe and efficient manner to support to adults with deestablished industry velopmental disabilities to be successfully employed standards, with the ability to interact with customers, with local businesses.

Rocky Support Services self-motivated and able to work alone. If you are Society is an accredited agency and registered comfortable with heights, working around livestock, under the Alberta Societies Act. and willing to take some Qualifications: on-call work, please send ~ Post-secondary educayour resume to tion in business and at curtis@prolineinc.ca least five (5) years’ experience ~ Strong leadership and Employment organizational skills Training ~ Valid drivers license Rocky Support Services Society offers a benefit package and employee TRAINING CENTRE friendly policies.

OILFIELD TICKETS Closing Date: June 13, Industries #1 Choice!

2016 “Low Cost” Quality Training Please Mail, Fax or Email a resume and cover letter to: 403.341.4544 Linda Bozman, Director of 24 Hours Administrative Services Toll Free 1.888.533.4544 Rocky Support Services R H2S Alive (ENFORM) Society R First Aid/CPR PO Box 1120 Rocky Mountain House, R Confined Space AB T4T 1A8 R WHMIS & TDG Phone: 403-8445-4080 x R Ground Disturbance 102 Fax: 403-845-6951 R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. Email: lbozman@ R D&C (LEL) rockysupportservices.ca

SAFETY

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to work as part of our service team in the dairy industry. The ideal candidate must have a valid driver’s licence, and be able to perform work in a safe and efficient manner to established industry standards. If you are a team player who is comfortable working around livestock and are able to use power tools, please send resume to curtis@prolineinc.ca.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

1530

Auctions

We are hiring a

900

has a special package just for you & your little one!

For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

50-70

880

Misc.

Help

General Labourer

EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Births

CLASSIFICATIONS

810

Rocky Support Services Society

Funeral Directors & Services

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Professionals

1710

WANTED TO BUY Apt. size deep freeze, must be in good condition and good price.

403-346-5360

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

SONY STEREO Component System, $30.

403-358-5247

Misc. for Sale

Apt. size humidifier, $20; 2 picnic coolers, $25 for both; vegetable steamer, $20; and 2 Mexican blankets, $20 for both.

403-309-5494 CAMPING dishes, unbreakable, Durawere Set. $35.

Coleman Propane lantern, $50. Coleman Propane Camp Stove, $100.

403-343-6044 COFFEE Maker, under counter, $30.

403-343-6044 COPPER clad aluminum #2, booster cables $40.

403-343-6044 GOLF cart, large wheeled, used 2 times, $50; and Singer sewing machine in 3 drawer desk, $70.

403-346-4462 GRILL, 3 in 1, Hamilton Beach.

New still in box. $40.

403-358-5247 SOCCER BOOKS, (3) plus box of player cards. $35. 403-314-9603 SUITCASES (3) $10.

Stepping Stool, Oak $100.

Gas Barbecue, Portable. $20. 403-358-5247

1830

KITTENS, 1 Siamese and 1 Burman, $50 each, and 1 grey and white kitten for free. 403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

1860

INVERSION Table, $200.

403-343-6044 WANTED TO BUY, FOLD-AWAY cot/table for exercising. Must be clean and in good condition.

403-346-5360

1870

ANTIQUE Railroad Train Set, 65 yrs. old. Complete set of 40 pieces & book volumes. Like New $800.

403-845-3292, 895-2337

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1760

5TH WHEEL tail gate, $257; Dodge truck box, 8’ with tail lights and gate, $1500 obo; outdoor cooker 2 burner camp stove, $75; tie down bar for Dodge Dakota, $50; aluminum tool box, $200. 403-358-6579.

Cats

Collectors' Items

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

4 BDRMS, 2 1/2 baths, single car garage, 5 appls, $1495/mo. in Red Deer.

403-782-7156 403-357-7465 HOUSE in Lacombe, 2 bdrm., 2 bath, $995/mo.

403-782-7156 / 403-357-7465 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds LARGE 1/2 duplex, newly reno’d, downtown area, across from park, responsible family preferred, $1,200/mo., dd same, 403-347-3149 LICENCED for group home in Lacombe, 8 bdrm., 3 bath, 2 fireplaces, dbl. garage, $2,995/mo.

403-782-7156 403-357-7465 SYLVAN: fully furn. rentals incld’s all utils. & cable. $550 - $1300. By the week or month. 403-880-0210

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

2 BDRM. townhouse/ condo, 5 appls., 2 blocks from Collicutt Centre. $1225/mo. + utils., inclds. condo fees. 403-616-3181

SEIBEL PROPERTY ONE MONTH FREE RENT

6 locations in Red Deer, well-maintained townhouses, lrg, 3 bdrm, 11/2 bath, 4 + 5 appls.

Westpark, Kentwood, Highland Green, Riverside Meadows. Rent starting at $1000. SD $500. For more info, phone 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545

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Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300 Bower

Michener Hill

Rosedale

2821 BOTTERILL CRES. MULTI GARAGES June 2 & 3 Thurs. 6:30-9, Fri. 9:30-5 Sports, tools, household...

CONDO, yard and bake sale. Fri., June 3, 12:30 7, on the condo patio on Michener Ave, close to Michener Extendicare. New and vintage bargains plus baking from 150 households.

20 FAMILY SALE Rosedale Community Hall June 2 & 3 Thurs. & Fri. 12 - 7 Don’t Miss this One!!!

Inglewood 55 INGLIS CRES. June 3, 4 & 5 Fri. 5-8, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 10-1 MOVING SALE Something For Everyone!

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Lancaster Green 130 LOGAN CLOSE June 3 & 4 Fri. 10-5 & Sat. 10-2 Awesome selection!

Something for everyone.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

Mountview 3522 45 Ave June 3 & 4 Fri. 3-9 pm & Sat. 9-5pm 100 gallon fish tank, electric garage door openers, electric twig and leave mulcher, large glass windows. LOTS of stuff for everyone in the family!

Rain or shine!

Parkvale MULTI-FAMILY 4641 - 42 STREET CRES. Thurs. & Fri., June 2 & 3, 11-5, Sat., June 4, 9-2.

Plants, antiques, DVD’s, household, much more.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

West Park

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...Free est.

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 COUNTERTOP replacement.

Kitchen reno’s.

Wes 403-302-1648

38 WISHART ST. June 2, 3 & 4

Thurs., Fri. & Sat. 11 am - 6 pm Tools, housewares, toys, garden supplies and more!

1160

Entertainment

DANCE DJ SERVICES 587-679-8606

Handyman Services

1200

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 505-4777

Moving & Storage

1300

Decorators

1310

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

WCB covered, fully Licensed & Insured.

403-896-4869

QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s MOVING? Boxes? Appls.

BOOK NOW! Roofing. Re-roofing removal. 403-986-1315 For help on your home specialist. Fully insured. projects such as bathroom, Start your career!

Insurance claims welcome. main floor, and bsmt.

10 yr. warranty on all work.

See Help Wanted renovations. Also painting 403-350-7602 and flooring.

Call James 403-341-0617 Painters/ Seniors’ Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

DALE’S HOME RENO’S Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

DAMON INTERIORS Elite Retreat, Finest Drywall, tape, texture, in VIP Treatment.

Fully licensed & insured.

Free Estimates. Call anytime Dave, 403-396-4176

Misc.

Services

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

MIKE’S Refresh Painting Exterior/Interior, Prompt & Courteous Service 403-302-8027

Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Yard Care

1430

TREE /YARD CARE, Paintinglife, FREE JUNK Removal, Garage estimates, residential commercial, 403-877-0658. Door Service. 403-358-1614 TUSCANY PAINTING 403-598-2434

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED 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 MOUNTVIEW ROSEDALE GARDEN HEIGHTS MORRISROE Call Prodie at 403-314-4301

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED 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 Tammy at 403-314-4306

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 Accounting

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

YARD CARE Call Ryan @ 403-348-1459

CARRIERS NEEDED For CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE 1 day a week INNISFAIL PENHOLD LACOMBE SYLVAN LAKE OLDS BLACKFALDS PONOKA STETTLER Call Sandra at 403- 314-4303

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED INNISFAIL 6 DAYS A WEEK BY 6:30 AM Call Joanne at 403- 314-4308

Earn Extra Money

¯ ROUTES AVAILABLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Red Deer Ponoka

Sylvan Lake Lacombe

call: 403-314-4394 or email:

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For that new computer, a dream vacation or a new car

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, June 2, 2016 D5

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

3050

ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. now or July 1. 403-304-5337

GLENDALE

2 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $925. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. now or July 1.

403-304-5337

ORIOLE PARK

3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $975. rent, s.d. $650, incl water sewer and garbage.

Avail. now or July 1st.

403-304-5337 TWO WEEKS FREE CLEARVIEW, 4 plex 2 bdrm. + den (bdrm), 1 1/2 baths, $975.mo. n/s, no pets, . 403-391-1780 WESTPARK 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls.

Rent $925/mo. d.d. $650.

Avail. now or July 1 403-304-5337

Houses For Sale

4020

SPACIOUS 1,150 ft. duplex condo in Michener Place, one bdrm with ensuite, walk-in closet, den, basement 60 % Ànished with bdrm., full bath, rec room, rear deck with awning, 2 car garage, only 459,900.

Call 403-505-8625.

No agents pls.

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Officers swarm UCLA in massive response to murder-suicide

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of heavily armed officers swarmed the sprawling UCLA campus Wednesday following a shooting that forced thousands to barricade themselves in classrooms and offices, some using belts and chairs to secure doors, until authorities determined the gunman and single victim were dead.

About two hours after the first 911 call came in around 10 a.m., with the centre of campus still saturated with officers, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said it was a murder-suicide and declared the threat over.

Two men were dead in an engineering building office, and authorities found a gun and what might be a suicide note, he said.

Authorities did not identify the men, and a motive was not immediately clear.

The response to the shooting was overwhelming: Teams of officers in helmets and bulletproof vests looking for victims and suspects ran across the normally tranquil campus tucked in the city’s bustling west side. Some with high-powered rifles yelled for bystanders to flee.

Groups of officers stormed into buildings that had been locked down and cleared hallways as police helicopters hovered overhead.

Advised by university text alerts to turn out the lights and lock the doors where they were, many students let

friends and family know they were safe in social media posts. Some described frantic evacuation scenes, while others wrote that their doors weren’t locking and posted photos of photocopiers and foosball tables they used as barricades.

It was the week before final exams at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose 43,000 students make it the largest campus in the University of California system. Classes were cancelled Wednesday but would resume Thursday.

Olivia Cabadas, a 22-year-old nursing student, was getting ready to take a quiz in the mathematics building when her classmates began getting cellphone alerts. Through a window, they could see students rushing down the hallway.

An officer yelled that everyone should get out.

“It was just a little surreal — this is actually happening,” Cabadas said. “It was chaos.”

Those locked down inside classrooms described a nervous calm.

Some said they had to rig the doors closed with whatever was at hand because they would not lock.

Umar Rehman, 21, was in a math sciences classroom adjacent to Engineering IV, the building where the shooting took place. The buildings are connected by walkway bridges near the centre of the 419-acre campus.

“We kept our eye on the door. We knew that somebody eventually could come,” he said, acknowledging the ter-

ror he felt.

The door would not lock and those in the room devised a plan to hold it closed using a belt and crowbar, and demand ID from anyone who tried to get in.

Scott Waugh, an executive vice chancellor and provost, said the university would look into concerns about doors that would not lock. Overall, he said, the response was smooth.

Tanya Alam, 19, also was in the same classroom with about 20 other students. She said she saw an alert on her phone that warned of police activity near Engineering IV. Then, several minutes later, an alert said there was an active shooter.

“I let that sink in. Then I realized there was a shooter on campus and Engineering IV is right here! So I said it out loud,” she said.

The teacher’s assistant told students to shut their laptops, turned out all the lights and switched off the projector. They were ordered to be quiet and got under their desks. Sitting on the ground, Alam cried.

Students were told to put their phones away, too, but no one did, she said. In the darkened room, the glow of screens illuminated many faces.

“On one hand, yes, this is an emergency. But on the other hand when your mother is calling from miles away …” Alam said, trailing off.

Their entire classroom was finally allowed to leave. Students were greeted by a phalanx of SWAT team members but were not searched.

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CAIRO — A French ship searching the Mediterranean has detected black box signals from a missing EgyptAir flight in the waters between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast, a development that could help solve the mystery of why the aircraft crashed into the sea last month, killing all 66 on board.

The discovery, announced Wednesday, could help guide search teams to the wreckage and the flight’s data and cockpit voice recorders, which if retrieved unharmed could reveal whether a mechanical fault or a hijacking or bomb caused the disaster.

In the two weeks since Flight 804 disappeared from radar en route to Cairo from Paris, only small pieces of debris and human remains have been retrieved from the crash site. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility, though Egypt’s civil aviation minister, Sherif Fathi, has said terrorism is a more likely cause than equipment failure or some other catastrophic event.

The flight recorders will be critical to determining whether the disaster was caused by an accident or a deliberate act.

Equipped with sophisticated underwater sensors, the French naval vessel Laplace had been taking part in the search for the missing Airbus A320 since last week. On Wednesday, the Egyptian agency leading the inquiry into the crash said the ship had received signals “from the seabed of the wreckage search area, assumed to be from one of the data recorders.”

Hours later, the French company Alseamar confirmed that its equipment aboard the ship had detected signals from one of the black box recorders.

It said the naval vessel started searching for the signals at midday Tuesday, and “less than 24 hours were necessary … to locate signals from one of the recorders of flight MS804.”

The statement did not indicate how the company knew the signals were from the plane’s black box, and the French air accident investigation

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An EgyptAir plane flies past minarets of a mosque as it approaches Cairo International Airport, in Cairo, Egypt. A French company says Wednesday its equipment aboard a French naval ship has detected signals from one of the black box flight recorders on the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month. agency BEA said it was impossible to tell whether they were from the flight’s data or voice recorder.

However, Sebastien Barthe, an agency spokesman, said the signal was specific enough to indicate that it came from one of the flight’s data recorders. BEA investigators are aboard the Laplace.

Locator pings emitted by flight data and cockpit voice recorders can be picked up from deep underwater. The Laplace is equipped with three detectors designed to pick up those signals, which in the case of the EgyptAir plane are believed to be at a depth of some 3,000 metres (9,842 feet). By comparison, the wreckage of the Titanic is lying at a depth of some 3,800 metres (12,500 feet).

A second ship, the John Lethbridge, equipped with sonar and other equipment capable of detecting wreckage at depths up to 6,000 feet, was to join the

search later this week.

The EgyptAir Airbus A320 had been cruising normally in clear skies on an overnight flight on May 19 when it disappeared from radar and plunged 38,000 feet into the sea. A distress signal was never issued, the airline said.

Since the crash, only small pieces of wreckage and human remains have been recovered in a search that has been narrowed down to five-kilometre (three-mile) area of the Mediterranean.

Locating the black boxes could significantly narrow the search site.

Hani Galal, a former EgyptAir pilot who has investigated other air disasters, said the flight recorders are located in a compartment under an aircraft’s tail, so finding them “means there is 90 per cent probability that the wreckage, or at least the tail, will be found.”

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Husband doesn’t have to hit to be abuser KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: I’ve been married for 29 years. I have three sons who are all grown.

I held a job only for a few years of that time. I am not working now. I have custody of one grandson, and babysit him and another grandson.

For the past five years, my husband and I haven’t gotten along. He is so controlling. He took the car and bank account card away. Now he won’t let me touch any money, and I’m stuck in the house with no way to get anywhere.

I have to cook what he buys, whether I like it or not. I have to beg for a soda. He will only buy water for me. I’m not allowed to have anything. My mom has tried to help with shampoo and stuff. The little money I get from babysitting I use for toothpaste and body wash.

I moved into a spare bedroom a year ago. Now he won’t pay for my doctor visits and leaves my medi-

cations at the pharmacy for weeks at a time. I have asthma, high blood pressure and a blood disorder. I need those medications.

I’m scared he will hurt me if I try to go to the bank for money. Is this abuse? — Help Me, Please Dear Help: Yes, this is abuse.

Your husband doesn’t have to hit you to be an abuser. Controlling all the money, as well as access to your medications and doctors, is also a form of abuse.

Please contact a domestic violence hotline. Someone there can help you find the safest way to leave this situation.

Please don’t wait. Call right now.

Dear Annie: My daughter was recently a bridesmaid in a wedding. The bride was one of her closest friends growing up, and I always thought of her as a second daughter.

My husband and I looked at her registry and purchased expensive china for her that cost us hundreds of dollars. We just received her thank-you note in the mail. It was a postcard with a short message thanking us for the “dinnerware.”

I am greatly disappointed to have received a postcard instead of an actual, thoughtful, handwritten note. I know it’s the thought that counts and we

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should be grateful to receive an acknowledgement since so many newlyweds don’t even bother, but does this generation lack the finer skills of proprietary and manners?

I know I taught my daughter better than that and she sent personalized thank-you notes for her wedding gifts. Should I say anything to the bride? — Concerned Mom Dear Mom: Please don’t say anything to the bride.

As close as you may be, you are not her mother. We know you are disappointed in the quality of your thank-you note, and we understand.

However, you did receive an acknowledgement of your gift, along with a “thanks” of some kind. That will simply have to do.

A proper thank-you note should always say something specific, gracious and appreciative. It’s too bad so many brides and grooms don’t realize how important that small effort is to the recipient.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ creators.com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

You can also find Annie on Facebook at Facebook.com/ AskAnnies.

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With a golden head, a white patch on black wings, and a call that sounds like a rusty farm gate opening, the Yellow-headed Blackbird demands your attention. You can find them in wetlands, where they nest in reeds directly over the water. This one was seen at Slack Slough.

BRIEF Bank robber who used sex toy as fake bomb is sent to prison A Pittsburgh man who robbed a bank with a fake bomb made out of phone wires, duct tape and a sex toy has been sentenced to 1 ½ to 3 years in prison.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports an Allegheny County judge sentenced 36-year-old Aaron Stein on Tuesday after rejecting requests for leniency, including house arrest.

The judge says he couldn’t tell the community Stein’s case warranted only house arrest. He says, “It can’t be that simple.”

Stein pleaded guilty in March. He says he robbed the PNC Bank in Crafton last June because he was desperate after losing $9,000 he’d invested to cover his approaching honeymoon.

His attorney says desperation drove him to don an Iron Man mask and used the fake bomb to threaten tellers.

Probation for man who threw alligator into restaurant A Florida man who threw an alligator through a

drive-thru window was sentenced to a year of probation after throwing himself at the mercy of the court.

Twenty-four-year-old Joshua James told the judge Tuesday that he’s sorry he threw the alligator through the window at a Wendy’s last October. He said he found the nearly four-foot gator by the side of the road and meant to play a prank on a friend at the restaurant.

James was initially charged with felonies including assault with a deadly weapon. But no one was hurt by the gator, which was captured and returned to the wild.

The Palm Beach Post reports that James entered an open plea on two misdemeanours.

Treasure hunters to gather for celebration in New Mexico Searchers fixated with finding a treasure hidden in the mountains north of Santa Fe will converge in the city.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that people are expected to gather Saturday for “Fennboree” and a screening of the documentary, “Fenn’s Searchers.”

The annual gathering is inspired by author Forrest Fenn, who stated in his 2010 memoir that he had hidden a chest containing nearly $2 million in coins.

The treasure has drawn interest for years.

Randy Bilyeu, of Colorado, disappeared in January after telling family he planned to search for it.

Some critics have said the search should be stopped because of the dangerous terrain.

Organizers of “Fennboree” say they will honour Bilyeu with a moment of silence.

Thursday June 2 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Charlie Watts, 75; Sergio Aguero, 28; Lasse Hallstrom, 69 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Energy, confidence and common sense are low so pace yourself.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: You are a talented problem-solver.

Over the coming year, aim to spend more time at home with family and friends. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Avoid the temptation to rush communication and jump to crazy conclusions today Rams. It will be easy to get confused, and you might find you’ve bitten off more than you can comfortably chew! TAURUS (April 20May 20): The more passion and creativity you pour into group projects, the more successful the day will be. But don’t get carried away and let your imagination play tricks on you. Keep it real Taurus.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Expect chaos and misunderstandings at work today, as Neptune confuses communication. Try not to be discouraged Gemini, as the gap between your goals and reality appears to be so wide.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t let what’s happened in the past mar relations with others. Strive to approach close relationships with a clean slate. The only person who is likely to sabotage situations at the moment is you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You won’t feel particularly confident, energetic or motivated today, as the Sun squares Neptune. So use the time to focus on your physical health; eat well; and try to wind down, recharge and relax!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your curiosity is stimulated as you uncover a secret, find a missing object, or unearth information that others miss. When it comes to a loved one, don’t assume you know what they are thinking.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You want everything to run smoothly but it’s just not going to happen. Close relationships will be confusing and loved ones unpredictable, so try to relax and take things as they come.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpios are usually very smart savers. But — with Saturn still reversing through your money zone — your bank balance could slide backwards. So steer clear of spontaneous spending sprees.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Making assumptions could land you in trouble. You’re keen to teach or instruct others, but don’t assume you have all the answers. The more humble you are, the better the day will be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The more intently you micro-manage close relationships, the more loved ones will distance themselves from you. So confusion and misunderstandings are likely, unless you can be more cooperative.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Relations with a child, teenager or close friend will be confusing today, as you agree to disagree on a controversial topic. So find ways you can cooperate, while both retaining your independence. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll experience a wide range of conflicting emotions today, as you pick up on the moods of those around you. Just remember there’s a fine line between delicious daydreams and dodgy delusions.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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