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French immersion holding steady in Red Deer

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

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Gizzmo the balloon animal maker puts the finishing touches on a penguin for some young customers at the Red Deer Market on Saturday. Thousands of shoppers have found their way to the new location for the market in Red Deer at the Memorial Centre.

Market still in transition at new location THOUGH MAJOR PROBLEMS WERE ABSENT ON THIRD WEEK

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Sunny weather attracted thousands of people to Red Deer’s public market, which is still finding its bearings in a temporary new location.

Despite some complaints about a lack of parking and long waits for some vendors to get market spots, there were no major hitches on Saturday in the Memorial Centre’s parking lot.

Regular market-goers were tracking down their favourite sellers or food, produce, plants, clothing and other goods — and brisk sales were reported by merchants.

“Red Deer has a fantastic market,” concluded Melissa Richards of Sherwood Park, who skipped her own farmer’s market to come here with Red Deer friends, “because of the people and the atmosphere.”

The transition to the new site “has been not difficult, but challenging,” said operator Dennis Moffat, who organized the set up of more than 200 booths.

The third Saturday market of the season went much smoother than on opening day, May 21, when vendors’ vehicles were backed up onto Michener Hill.

But with the fine weather, sellers turned up in droves. And for the first time, Moffat had to send about 100 ca-

sual vendors home because the new space is about 25 per cent smaller than the market’s previous home in front of the Red Deer Arena (which is being demolished and rebuilt over two years, necessitating the site change).

“It was the first time in 46 years I had to do that… but I can’t change it, so I have to make the best of it,” said Moffat, who passed on this same message to people who had gripes about the new location.

“I got many compliments about this being a wonderful space,” added the market founder, who is assisted by his son, daughter and others. But a few others were less impressed. Moffat said, “We are working our tails off, but it’s hard to please everyone…”

Some vendors arrived at 6 a.m. and had to wait more than an hour and a half to be assigned a space. Vendors booked for the season faced no waits.

But ones who come week by week had to see what spaces were left over.

“I tell them they’re lucky to be here,” considering how many couldn’t get a spot, said Moffat, who believes waits will likely lessen over time.

“I hate to say it, but some people will get discouraged waiting their turn, especially on a day that’s not as nice…”

As for parking, Moffat feels motorists just need to become aware of where the lots are.

“There are plenty of spaces,” in-

cluding: • The dirt lot just north of Camille J. Lerouge School and south of 58th Street • The lot behind the Memorial Centre (which can also be accessed from 59th Street) • The Camille J. Lerouge or Lindsay Thurber school lots (Thurber students are charging $3 for parking to go towards school programs) • Or a city playground lot at the bottom of Michener Hill, on the south side of 55th Street.

• Moffat noted a row of parking spots for the disabled was created in the bus lane by Lindsay Thurber school.

Most people interviewed Saturday were happy to see the market continuing. “I think people will come no matter where it is,” said vendor Janelle Spady of Sweetlegs.

“Everything is here, you just have to find your way around… We have to find the breakfast sandwiches,” said Krista Ruiz, a regular, who intends come weekly to the new location.

Customer Bonnie McCarty said, “I love the market” — even though she had to park three blocks away.

Linda Stevens walked to the market, and believes more people can get to the new location without a vehicle.

It will be in the Memorial Centre’s parking lot for at least 2016 and 2017. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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About 30 years ago when Red Deer parents wanted their children in French immersion, the main idea was that one day it would offer better employment opportunities within an officially bilingual Canada.

That’s changed now, said Rob Porkka, who has been involved almost from the beginning with French immersion in the Red Deer Public School District (RDPSD).

The French immersion program started with 15 kindergarten students in 1980 under the French Canadian Association of Red Deer.

The next year RDPSD took over the responsibility of it. The first French immersion class to graduate did so in 1993, from Lindsey Thurber Comprehensive High School.

Porkka said today about 10 per cent of students in the public district are French immersion students. There are about 1,100 students enrolled in the public system’s French immersion now.

That compares closely with Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, where about 1,050 students, or 11 per cent, are enrolled this year, said Kathleen Finnigan, the district’s associate superintendent of Inclusive Learning. École Camille J. Lerouge School will make the leap from a dualtrack French immersion school to Red Deer’s first single-track French immersion centre in September. The pre-kindergarten program will be in English but kindergarten to Grade 9 will be French immersion.

The demand for French immersion in Ontario has been so strong that some school boards have capped Grade 1 enrolment with parents forced to go to a lottery system.

It’s had a negative affect on the English programs in some cases.

It’s put a strain on finding qualified teachers as well.

“We’ve never been at the point where you’ve had to camp out in order to get in. We’ve been able to accommodate pretty much anyone who is interested in getting in the program.

But it’s always been growing,” said Porkka.

“We’re just a nice medium-sized city and so far we’ve been able to do it all,” he said.

“I think the popularity today is driven more by parents realizing that kids need to have a leg up somehow and they’re going to have to work internationally.”

Porkka, director of international education and retiring this month, taught the public district’s first middle school French immersion students in 1986.

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New doc sheds light on historical culture divide

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF With French farmers north of the river and English settlers south of it, Canada’s ‘two solitudes’ were once alltoo evident in Red Deer.

While it’s not widely known today, Red Deer was once a microcosm of this country’s cultural and linguistic divide, said city resident Mark Collings, who’s producing a documentary on the city’s history.

With these historic rivals staring at each other across the Red Deer River, “there must be some drama in there somewhere, just waiting to be drawn out…” he added, with a chuckle.

The Francophone neighbourhoods that sprang up around St. Joseph’s Convent in the late 1800s eventually became “absorbed” into a predominantly English-speaking community — like what happened in many other places in Alberta, said Collings.

But Red Deer retains connections with its Gallic past through a local Francophone association, the allFrench Ecole La Prairie School, and highly popular French Immersion programming in public and Catholic schools.

Collings, of Hwy2.TV, is making a one-hour documentary about Red Deer along with camera operator/director Marcelo Vilhena, a student in Red Deer College’s Motion Picture Arts Program.

The filmmakers are planning to interview local historian Michael Dawe, Ian Warwick of Sunnybrook Farm, Jim Robertson of the Kerry Wood Nature Centre, and other city residents about little known but

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Documentary filmmaker Mark Collings is currently producing a documentary on the city’s history. “fascinating” aspects of Red Deer’s past.

Collings hopes to complete the documentary in 2017, and make it available for possible airing on PBS, Shaw TV or the CBC.

But he will also be providing shorter local history lessons to the public starting this fall.

Collings is completing a series of filmed vignettes about destination points along the city’s walking

tours. He will be adding them to an interactive map he is creating at www. reddeercrossings.

By going to the website and clicking on each charted destination point along the walking tour map, people who are taking self-guided tours of Red Deer will be able to see one-to-two-minute films about various landmarks — including historic businesses, Ghost sculptures, downtown hotels, the former railway station, war memorials and old military sites.

Collings estimates about 10 vignettes per walking tour will be on the site by September.

The idea is to “flesh-out” the historic factsheet for local residents as well as tourists, said Collings, who took filmmaking at Algonquin College in Ottawa.

Having previously made a documentary about Hull, Que.’s gangster-ridden past, Collings believes this city has its share of colourful characters — such as Rev. Leonard Gaetz, who pulled a fast one when he gave some of this own land to the railway, altering the course of Red Deer’s history and his own financial profitability.

“We want to connect people to the city by exploring some of the stories.

We want to engage people in their environment,” said Collings, who has applied for various grants to make the longer documentary.

He said he’s already received a letter of support for the projects from the City of Red Deer. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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At about 4:45 a.m. Friday, suspects cut a barbed wire fence at Balmoral Golf Course, east of Red Deer off Hwy 11.

They entered from the west side of the golf course and stole nine golf carts from in front of the club house The carts were driven onto the course.

The suspects are believed to have then loaded them into a vehicle or trailer.

There are also indications several carts were driven off the course onto R.R. 271.

The golf carts are white Yamaha 2013 models.

Some have ‘Balmoral Golf Course’ written on the front.

Anyone with information is asked to call Blackfalds RCMP at 403-8853300. Those wanting to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers at 1.800.222.8477 (TIPS), or go to www.tipsubmit.com.

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After three weeks of preparation and organization of the thousands of donated items the SPCA Garage Sale was held over the weekend in Red Deer. The sale went for three days Friday to Sunday at the Pidherney Curling Centre. The annual garage sale is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Red Deer SPCA and helps to raise tens of thousands of dollars to support the local SPCA.

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Sunny ways and funny ways PRESS GALLERY DINNER

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Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose speaks during the annual Press Gallery Dinner at the Museum of Nature on Saturday. parliamentary press gallery, which actually incorporated a year before Confederation in order to cover the fledgling government.

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GATINEAU, Que. — Federal party leaders put down their swords to celebrate those who wield the pens and microphones Saturday night.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, interim Opposition Conservative leader Rona Ambrose and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair all spoke at a dinner honouring 150 years of the parliamentary press gallery.

None missed an opportunity for digs at themselves, each other and the reporters they gathered to celebrate. And neither did Trudeau’s wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.

In reference to recent coverage that she needs more staff, she called four members of Trudeau’s inner circle to the stage at the Museum of History and had them unveil a yoga mat.

She then balanced herself on her arms, legs up in the air, telling her husband that was how it was done — a dig at a photo of him doing a similar move that’s been widely circulated online.

Justin Trudeau also poked fun at another political counterpart — U.S. President Barack Obama.

At the recent White House Correspondents Dinner, Obama had cracked a joke at Trudeau’s expense.

“In fact, somebody recently said to me, Mr. President, you are so yesterday Justin Trudeau has completely replaced you — he’s so handsome, he’s so charming, he’s the future. And I said, Justin, just give it a rest.”

Trudeau’s response: he’ll miss him.

“There’s been a lot of talk about my bromance with President Barack Obama, how I look up to him, how I have so much to learn from him. And I’m like, Barack, you are absolutely right. Thank you for pointing it out, again.”

“I will miss his leadership, his good advice. I will not miss the wedgies.”

Another leader whose departure was noted — former prime minister Stephen Harper.

Ambrose, currently leading the Tories, made several jokes at his expense, noting his aversion to the press.

Harper never attended the dinner while serving as prime minister.

In offering up suggestions for new slogans for the current Conservatives, Ambrose suggested “the bad man is gone.”

On his way out — and choosing to hold nothing back — was NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who declared he was different than the others because he no longer cares.

Mulcair was voted out as leader of his party at their recent convention in Edmonton but is staying on until a new one is chosen.

After a speech laden with hits at pollsters, various media outlets and himself he drew to a close.

“I have a lot more here but I was just informed in Edmonton that I have to go,” he said.

He then dropped a microphone on the stage and declared “Mulcair out.”

Also at the event Saturday was Governor General David Johnston who paid tribute to the power of the press. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the

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THE ADVOCATE Monday, June 6, 2016

Assisted death about more than civil rights

BY THOMAS WALKOM SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

M

uch of the assisted-dying debate has focused on whether enough people in pain will be able to end their lives. In legal terms this is a good question. Why should some be denied their constitutional right to death?

But in broader human terms it has things backward. If government has any role in this life-and-death matter it is not to ensure that as many as possible exercise their right to die. Rather it is to create conditions that would allow as many as possible to keep on living.

The too-narrow critique was raised again in the Senate Wednesday as members of the upper chamber questioned Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Health Minister Jane Philpott.

Most questioners were particularly irked by a clause in the bill that would limit voluntary euthanasia to those near death.

Some senators asked why the right to be killed should be denied to those who face intolerable suffering but are not about to die. Others asked why the bill would bar people from deciding ahead of time that they should be

killed later if they found themselves with a debilitating condition such as dementia.

In the context of rights alone, these are valid questions. But in the context of life and death — which is what Bill C-14 is about — they are odd ones.

The right to death is not the same as other rights. Unlike, say, the right to free speech, it is irrevocable.

Those exercising free speech rights can reverse themselves later. Those exercising death rights cannot. Death is a one-way ticket.

Canadian society recognizes this when it comes to suicide. Suicide is seen as a tragedy. We devote medical resources to psychiatrists and others in the hope that they can talk people out of suicide. We involuntarily commit to hospital those deemed at risk of harming themselves.

In Toronto, special fences exist along the Bloor-Danforth viaduct to deter would-be suicides from hurling themselves into the Don Valley.

In short, while suicide is legal in Canada, society does everything it can to convince those weary of life from taking this extreme measure.

Yet most of the debate around medically assisted death is entirely different. Here, the questions most commonly raised are whether the proposed legislation is broad enough: Should it

include those suffering pain who are not near death? Should we let minors take advantage of the right to be voluntarily killed?

What about those fearful of getting Alzheimer’s in the future? Should they be allowed to make advance directives to be killed?

Rarely does the debate focus on measures that might persuade the sufferers to keep on living. To their credit, some senators did raise this issue Wednesday.

New Brunswick’s Paul McIntyre, a Conservative, asked Philpott how serious the government is about providing better palliative care to those near death. The health minister said the government is “prepared to make significant investments” in the field.

Ontario’s Tobias Enverga, another Conservative, asked a similar question: If Ottawa did pony up cash to make the lives of those near death more bearable, how could it be sure the provinces would spend it on palliative care?

Philpott answered that the debate over C-14 has “opened up a conversation for us as Canadians about what we want a good death to be like.”

Questions of the money devoted to palliative and long-term care matter because, in the end, it will be the elderly who end up availing themselves

of medically assisted death.

Most will do so not because they suffer from a relatively rare and high-profile condition, such as Lou Gehrig’s disease, but simply because they are old.

In Belgium, according to government statistics, 75 per cent of those who take advantage of voluntary euthanasia are between the ages of 60 and 89.

It is no coincidence that Canada’s debate over voluntary euthanasia comes as this country struggles over how to pay for the costs associated with an aging population. We may decry death, but it is the cheapest solution.

Some fret over whether some version of Bill C-14 will be enacted before the Supreme Court’s arbitrary June 6 deadline. I am not sure this matters much.

I am, however, puzzled that so much of the debate - particularly on the left - has been framed around simple questions of individual rights.

Yes, those in unbearable agony who want to die should be able to enlist medical help. But, where possible, wouldn’t it be better if Canadians collectively tried to alleviate that agony and provide reasons to live?

Thomas Walkom is a national affairs writer syndicated by Torstar.

• Working with the Loaves and Fishes staff to gain a clear understanding of their work.

• Continuing the School Lunch Program in September — either by operating it ourselves or in partnership with another agency.

• Continuing to rent the basement of the building to the Safe Harbour Society to run its People’s Place emergency shelter until another suitable location can be found.

• Conducting a needs assessment to determine where there might be gaps in programs and services in Red Deer for men and women who require assistance due to poverty and/or homelessness.

• Meeting and talking with community leaders, government officials, human service agencies, churches and other stakeholders as part of the discovery process.

• Developing a plan to be operational in Red Deer in some capacity by the fall.

The Loaves and Fishes staff, volunteers and donors have served Red Deer and area for two decades and they leave a rich legacy of devotion and service to others. The Mustard Seed hopes to offer the same care and compassion to those who need it most.

If anyone has questions or concerns, or would like to be part of our

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our premier for her adult response to the incident, also to Ms. Wynne for her very calm reaction.

Saying that these scripted statements, apparently, were already in the agenda does not make them acceptable. Could not the party leadership, noting the presence of the intended target, have simply told the MLA not to get up and say anything at all? Also, the big promotion for getting the Saskatchewan Premier to come visit Alberta was utterly offside and irrelevant.

I would respectfully suggest that all our “rookie” MLAs have by now had enough time to learn the basics of behaviour in the legislature. There are likely many Albertans who would be just fine with such statements, even if they know zip about how Ontario operates or even care. Very likely the Ontario populace could say the same about Alberta. However, they now have a pretty vivid picture of how some of our elected members behave and it is not very impressive. If we are the first-class, pivotal Province of Canada, as loudly advertised, somebody needs to start behaving like adults without further adieu. I for one expect a lot better performance from my elected representatives whatever their party affiliation.

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We are saddened that the Loaves and Fishes Benevolent Society is no longer able to continue and will cease operations at the end of June, but we are also grateful and humbled by the board’s decision to transfer its assets to The Mustard Seed. Under the Canadian Revenue Agency’s dissolution requirements, “assets should be dispersed to a charity with a similar set of objectives as the organization that is dissolving.”

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Doctors, officials tackle assisted dying challenges in rural communities

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — Nestled in south-central Saskatchewan, surrounded by fields of mustard plants, is the town of Gravelbourg, a bilingual community that calls itself “a touch of Europe on the Prairies.”

It has 1,120 residents, give or take, and three doctors.

One of those physicians is Dr. Intheran Pillay.

As president of the Saskatchewan Medical Association and a rural doctor for 23 years, he is more familiar than most with the challenges doctor-assisted dying is creating for the medical community, especially in small-town Canada, where access to care is already an issue and choice of provider isn’t always an option.

“We’re aiming to try and figure out how to help patients that seek it out in a community where, say for instance, a physician is a conscientious objector, where there would be mechanisms in place that the patient can seek that care elsewhere,” says Pillay.

Shanaz Gokool, the CEO of Dying With Dignity Canada, says there are concerns about access, especially if the only doctor in a community opposes providing an assisted death.

“There has to be accommodations that don’t involve undue hardship on the person who’s already very ill and could potentially be dying to have to travel themselves,” Gokool says. “So I think there will have to be accommodations to make sure that they can access assisted death in their community.”

In a report last November, a provincial-territorial expert advisory group on physician assisted dying said the challenges already associated with delivering adequate health care in parts of the country “will present themselves with the introduction of physician-assisted dying as well.”

The group recommended a publicly funded co-ordination system to link patients with doctors willing to help a terminally ill person die.

It said such a system would ensure that people in rural and remote communities have equitable access to physician-assisted dying, perhaps through physician visits or telemedicine.

Saskatchewan is still trying to figure out which doctors will provide the service.

“We don’t expect that we will see the service available in every community, but we certainly expect that there would be broadly based accessibility in a number of health regions, so it won’t be available only in the big centres,” says Pauline Rousseau, executive director of the strategy and innovation branch with Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Health.

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Medical regulators in every province have issued guidelines instructing doctors how to proceed with assisted dying.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan policy says physicians can follow their conscience when deciding whether to provide the service.

However, the college also says doctors must not abandon a patient who makes the request.

“You don’t want patients who are potentially terminal, or certainly suffering, to have to go running around trying to find some doctor somewhere that’s prepared to deal with this,” says Bryan Salte, legal counsel for the college.

“And at the present time, we simply don’t have a handle on who is willing to assist and where those people are.”

Salte says with smaller numbers of physicians in some communities, it’s entirely possible that nobody will be prepared to undertake the assessment, the prescribing or the administration that would allow a patient to access medical aid dying. But he notes that patients in rural areas often have to travel to bigger cities for major operations.

“The reality is that certain things can be delivered in small communities and certain things can’t,” added Salte.

The federal legislation puts forward two possible approaches to assisted dying: Physician administered and physician prescribed.

Physician administered could mean the doctor delivers an injection Physician prescribed is sometimes referred to as the Oregon approach, where patients get prescriptions for lethal doses of medication that they can take at home on their own.

“That would be another vehicle through which there would be broader access,” says Rousseau.

Gokool noted that the proposed federal legislation would also allow nurse practitioners to support and provide an assisted death.

There are other workarounds too, such as conferring with a second doctor via telemedicine, she says.

“I think that’s going to be especially important in very remote communities,” says Gokool.

Pillay doesn’t think living in a rural area will be an obstacle.

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Couple convicted of conspiring to murder spouses

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Two lovers who were accused of plotting to kill their spouses in Saskatchewan have been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

The jury in Prince Albert took close to 30 hours before convicting Curtis Vey and Angela Nicholson on Sunday.

Crown prosecutor Lori O’Connor had argued that the pair planned to kill Vey’s wife, Brigitte, in a house fire, and Nicholson’s husband, Jim Taylor by drugging him and then making him disappear.

Court heard earlier in the trial that Brigitte Vey hid an iPod under the kitchen table at their farmhouse and secretly recorded her husband and Nicholson hatching the plan on July 1, 2013.

O’Connor said based on that conversation, both of the accused met the threshold for conspiracy to commit murder.

But Vey and Nicholson’s lawyers told court their clients weren’t serious about killing their spouses and didn’t have any intention of doing so.

In the scratchy recording, Angela Nicholson shows up and chats with Curtis Vey about her birthday, and

mentions the flowers that he gave her for Valentine’s Day, her pending divorce and his work on the farm.

Then the lengthy conversation shifts to their spouses.

“It could be a number of days before anybody’s suspicious he’s gone,” Vey is heard saying. “Is there going to be really anybody who really is worried about him?”

Nicholson and her husband had been married for 30 years at the time, but were separated. She’s heard talking about getting into his house.

“If I go in there, if I turn over, say the coffee table, and I open the cupboards, and I’d go upstairs and I’d pull dresser drawers out and make it look like they’re rummaging through for something. That’s going to make them suspicious, is it not?” she wonders.

“Just make sure you got gloves on,” Vey whispers.

A few minutes later, Vey wonders about a fire at his house.

“The bottom line is that’s how, you know, it’s set up to be an accident, right?” he says. “Do you know what I mean? Like, the house burns down.”

Both Vey and Nicholson were each convicted of two counts of conspiracy to commit murder — one for their own spouse and a separate count for the other’s.

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The parachute is a big hit with the kids.

Celebrating its 10th year the Central Alberta Children’s Festival was held in Red Deer over the weekend. Taking place at the Rotary Recreation Park behind the Recreation Centre in Red Deer the festival attracted thousands of youngsters and their families and caregivers over the two days of festivities.

With a focus on striving to provide new and unique opportunities for the Children of Central Alberta to learn, play and be active the annual event continues to bring great energy each year.

Schools from across Central Alberta attended the first day of the event on Friday, while young families enjoyed the event on Saturday. Along with the many booths set up by a variety of organizations live entertainment was featured on a performers stage. Over 40 tents and activity stations fill the park each year to keep everyone active and keep their imaginations running. Stations included bubble wrap popping, Science World, Diversity Corner, face painting, fun physical activities and more. All of these stations allow children and families the opportunity to be creative, build knowledge and most importantly have fun.

Family Services of Central Alberta is proud to be the main catalyst behind the Children’s Festival and through partnerships with other organizations.

Breanna Castillo, 5, chases after a large bubble her cousin Angie Manalo created.

Avery Ritchie adds her artistic touch to a wall of cardboard boxes at the painting booth.

ABOVE: Two boys make their way through an obstacle course Friday.

BELOW: Grade one students from Caroline Elementary School show off their multi-coloured tongues as they enjoy a treat.

Aiden Wang tries his best to ring the bell with the heavy sledge hammer Friday.

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‘There’s nothing left’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — Farid El-Hayouni manages to keep it together until he sees what is left of his son’s bike.

Along the drive up Highway 63 into Fort McMurray, he makes a series of matter-of-fact observations about what “the beast” spared and what it consumed. Most of the Beacon Hill neighbourhood burned to the ground, but the Burger King survived. This house is OK, but the one over there is flattened.

“Wow,” he mutters again and again, his rented SUV rolling past stands of charred forest.

He pulls over from time to time to send pictures to his wife, who stayed back in Edmonton with their boys Sohaib, 9, Sofian, 6, and Wassim, who is only six months.

The 33-year-old knows his house at 367 Prospect Drive in the city’s north went up in flames on May 3, when a raging wildfire breached city limits and everyone fled for safety.

He’s back with the hope of recovering something, even it’s just one of his children’s shoes.

There was no use subjecting his family to what he knew would be a devastating scene.

“I didn’t want to take my wife because the minute she breaks down, I’ll break down,” he says. “And who’s going to be the one to calm us down?”

El-Hayouni and his wife Ibtissam Saidi, a stay-at-home mom, bought the house six years ago brand new. His siblings and nieces and nephews live within a five-minute drive.

From their upstairs bedroom, the couple had a view of a nearby pond and a nice breeze would often blow through the window. The boys would play out back.

“We love this area so much,” he says. “You’re kind of open, there’s a space in front of you.”

Taking the exit into the Timberlea neighbourhood, El-Hayouni notices the trees on a hill overlooking the highway — the same trees he passed every day on his way to work at the Syncrude oilsands mine north of the city — were razed in an effort to deprive the beast of nourishment as it spread.

El-Hayouni grows quiet and clears his throat as he drives past a security

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checkpoint into the remnants of his subdivision.

“There’s nothing left in it,” he says finally. “To see this will just bring you down to your knees.”

He has to count the holes in the ground to figure out which one is his.

There’s a stub of a chimney and two cement front steps, where the family used to sit out and look at the lush valley across the way. Weeds are already beginning to grow between the cracks.

It’s when he sees the skeleton of a tiny bicycle leaning on its side, its tires melted, that El-Hayouni’s stoic demeanour finally gives way.

“My son’s bike,” he says, breaking into tears. “That’s his bike there.”

“That’s tough.”

He sniffs and tries to regain his composure.

He dials his wife up on video chat and scans the scene with his iPhone.

“So sad,” she says.

A neighbour whose house also burned down stops by. The two men embrace.

Then, since he’s there anyway, El-Hayouni checks the mail. Canada Post community mailboxes withstood the blaze.

Fort McMurray is the only Canadian home El-Hayouni has known since he immigrated from Morocco 18 years ago and he intends to call it home again.

“It’s like I was born here, basically,” he says.

“For me to go and look for another place, it will be just like starting from scratch again.”

After visits to relatives and friends, El-Hayouni heads an hour north on 63 to a work lodge.

His first shift in a month starts the next day.

As he pulls up to the front office, he grows uneasy when he sees the thick brush around the collection of trailers. Forests make him nervous now, he says.

When his stint at camp is done, he’ll head back to Edmonton, where he and his family have rented a place.

He’ll bring his family back to Fort McMurray when there’s at least a structure to show them, a semblance of a new home.

“You just have to accept it now and move on. There’s no other way. You don’t have any other options.”

“The options are just to rebuild, stay strong, always move forward.” discuss the process for selecting a new leader. O’Neill says they agreed the election of a permanent leader will be held next spring, before April 30, 2017.

Calgary-Hayes MLA Ric McIver has served as the PC’s interim leader after former premier Jim Prentice resigned following the party’s election loss to the NDP just over a year ago.

O’Neill says the board of directors has appointed a leadership election committee to iron out details for the contest. She says they’ll report back at the end of this month with a specific date that will then need to be ratified by the board.

Back on the air, but not back home for Fort McMurray radio program director

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FORT MCMURRAY — From the streetfront window of rock station 100.5 Cruz FM in downtown Fort McMurray, program director Andrew Wilcox can see the forested hill where his home still stands in the fire-scarred Abasand neighbourhood.

Under the original government re-entry plan, Wilcox would have been able to return Saturday to the house he shares with two roommates.

But the area sustained major damage when the voracious wildfire swept through parts of the city a month ago.

Toxic ash has rendered the homes of up to 2,000 people in the neighbourhoods of Abasand, Beacon Hill and Waterways uninhabitable, even though they’re still structurally sound.

“Literally where I sit right now, my home is basically a straight line up a hill and there’s a part of me that would love nothing more than to run up that hill and head to my house,” said Wilcox, who has been staying with a coworker since he got back into Fort McMurray.

He said it’s natural to feel angry and frustrated, but he understands authorities are trying to keep everyone safe.

Wilcox was allowed back into Fort McMurray a week ago, four days before the official staged re-entry began, as the radio station was deemed an essen-

tial service. On May 3, the day everyone had to flee, the station managed to stay on air until about 5:15 p.m., when backup generators for its transmitters cut off. Staff had left by then. Wilcox wanted to get back to work after packing up some of his things in Abasand, but by then the entire city was being evacuated.

“I tried — believe me. It was the most frustrating feeling I’ve ever had in my life, not being able to be here at that moment,” he said. “It is our job and our passion to inform people and talk to people over the radio. Nobody wanted to go. We all planned to be here all night long and we had to leave about 4 o’clock and it was the weirdest thing to drive away from town and listen to the station until it had basically stopped.”

The station was off the air completely for about two-and-a half days. After that, it came back in phases, streaming online from its sister station in Edmonton initially.

The fire came perilously close to its transmitter near the airport, but caused no harm to it in the end. So it was able to get back up and running more quickly than first feared. The station is now running with about half the staff it normally has.

Next Wednesday, Wilcox will be among those allowed back into their places briefly grab some belongings.

When he’ll be able to return for good is an open question.

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Memphis Police Department Interim Director Michael Rallings prepares to brief the media outside Regional Medical Center, early Sunday, where Officer Verdell Smith died after he was struck late Saturday by a fleeing vehicle of a man suspected in a downtown shooting, in Memphis, Tenn.

WINNIPEG — Close to 300 people on a flight from Washington, D.C. to Beijing had an unexpected stop in Winnipeg when their plane suffered a mechanical problem.

Scott Marohn with the Winnipeg Airports Authority says the Air China Boeing 777-300 developed some type of problem with one of its two engines on Saturday evening and wished to land in the city.

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Marohn says it was an emergency landing, but the plane landed safely and the passengers and crew stayed in Winnipeg overnight while Air China flew in another aircraft.

The passengers were scheduled to leave Winnipeg for Beijing on Sunday afternoon.

RCMP investigating fatal shooting in Lower Mainland RICHMOND, B.C. — Richmond RCMP have identified the man killed in what they call a bold and brazen weekend shooting.

Police say 56-year-old Amarjit Singh Sandhu died in hospital after being shot Saturday evening.

Staff Sgt. Jennifer Pound says the shooting happened in a very public setting and called the act selfish and cold. The incident occurred at a strip mall in the south end of the city.

Memphis officer struck, killed after 3 shot in Memphis MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A man suspected in a downtown Memphis shooting that left three people injured fled in a stolen vehicle that fatally struck a police officer, police said Sunday.

Justine Welch, 21, faces multiple charges that include first-degree murder, vehicular homicide, attempted first-degree murder, evading arrest and theft of property over $10,000, police spokeswoman Sgt. Karen Rudolph said in a news release. The release did not disclose Welch’s hometown.

Welch was being held at the Shelby County Jail. Jail records didn’t indicate whether Welch has an attorney.

Officer Verdell Smith, 46, was pronounced dead from his injuries at 10:43 p.m. Saturday, Memphis Police Department Director Mike Rallings said during a news conference.

Police said two people were taken to the hospital after being shot at about 10 p.m. Saturday by the suspect, who then ran to a retail complex and shot a male employee. Memphis police spokeswoman Sgt. Karen Rudolph said Sunday the 21-year old employee has been released from a hospital, while the other

two victims, ages 39 and 57, remained in critical condition. Their names weren’t released. Police said the suspect then fled in a vehicle and later struck Smith, who had been working with other officers to clear the area. The suspect then fled briefly on foot but was apprehended by police and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Rudolph said the vehicle driven by the suspect was reported stolen earlier in the day. She said four incident reports were filed by police due to the multiple locations, and an investigation is ongoing.

“Due to the magnitude of these incidents, it will take time to go through all the details,” Rudolph said.

Rallings said Smith was an 18-year police veteran who is survived by a father, fiance, son and two daughters.

“He’s a man’s man and he was an officer’s officer. He was definitely a great father,” Rallings said. “Like I said, he loved his son—always talked about him, always had him with him. I think his son is taking it really, really hard. He had two daughters as well.”

Rallings said the department mourned the loss not just of Smith but of other officers killed in the line of duty, including Officers Sean Bolton in 2015.

No escorted temporary absences for man convicted in Creba slaying

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A man convicted of second-degree murder in the shocking slaying of a Toronto teenager on Boxing Day ten years ago has been denied escorted temporary absences from prison. Jorrell Simpson-Rowe was one of four people found guilty in Jane Creba’s death.

The 15-year-old Creba was shopping with family on Toronto’s busy Yonge Street when she was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between rival gangs in December 2005.

In a recent Parole Board of Canada decision, Simpson-Rowe, who began serving a life sentence in 2009, was not authorized for escorted temporary absences from prison after the board concluded they would present “an undue risk.”

The absences would have allowed the 28-yearold Simpson-Rowe to attend six “Long Term Inmates Now in the Community” meetings intended to provide support and begin his gradual reintegration into the community. The Parole Board found Simpson Rowe still needed to demonstrate, over a sustained period of time, an ability to “fully manage” his risk factors, which included emotional orientation and attitude, and use self-management plans he had developed before being granted such absences.

The shooting that killed Creba sparked a debate about gun violence in Toronto.

Simpson-Rowe and Jeremiah Valentine were convicted of second-degree murder in the shootout. Louis Raphael Woodcock and Tyshaun Barnett were found guilty of manslaughter.

On the day Creba was shot, Simpson-Rowe, who was 17 at the time, and a friend got into an argument with a group of people on Yonge Street, with Simpson-Rowe pulling a gun out from under his jacket and firing the weapon at the group, the Parole Board decision said.

The board noted that

at a recent hearing, Simpson-Rowe admitted to having fired a gun during the incident, after denying doing so at his last appearance.

“You stated that when you last saw the board you were in denial and did not want to take full responsibility and accountability for the death and harm caused,” the board wrote in its decision.

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Central Middle School French immersion teacher Laura Gough works with grade six student Carmen Wirtanen. Gough went through the French immersion program in Red Deer Public Schools as a student and is now passing on the language to new students.

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FRENCH: Skills A bilingual country is part of the Canadian identity, but it’s also the idea that learning another language develops different thinking skills, different problem-solving skills, and helps to prepare students for global competencies. People are going to have to work in other places in the world and that’s what’s driving the demand to learn a second language more now, he said.

Alberta Education’s numbers show that last year about six per cent (42,285) of Alberta students were in French immersion in the province.

The 2011 census, ranked Alberta fifth in bilingual population. There were 238,770 bilingual Albertans compared to 178,505 in 1996 — a 34 per cent increase. Overall last year, 29 per cent of kindergarten to grade 12 students (198,264) were enrolled in either French immersion, francophone or French second language programs in 2014-15.

He believes a healthy French immersion program includes teachers

that are Canadian French native speakers and people who learned it as second language because they understand the process.

The public system has French teachers from New Brunswick, Quebec, France, Haiti and Switzerland. It now also have several teachers who took French immersion in the RDPSD and went on to become French immersion teachers within the same system.

Finnigan said that they attend a lot of job fairs in Alberta and in Eastern Canada to find French teachers.

Recruiting is harder because there is an added component in trying to find teachers since the Catholic system is faith-based. The general problem of trying to recruit French immersion teachers is felt both provincially and nationally, she said.

One of their bigger problems is that it is difficult to obtain educational resources in French and that teachers spend a lot of time having to translate newer programs.

They have seen a 3.5-per-cent increase in French immersion enrolment in the past three years, Finnigan said.

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A TWO-TIER MARKETPLACE HUSKY ASSET SALES POINT TO UNEVEN GROWTH IN ENERGY MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A two-tier marketplace is developing for western Canadian oil and gas properties, with bidders starting to line up to buy crude-producing properties — although companies marketing natural gas wells are finding few takers.

Volatility in oil and gas prices over the past year have scared many buyers out of the market while making valuations difficult for buyers and sellers to agree upon, observers say.

Benchmark West Texas Intermediate oil rose above US$50 per barrel recently, the highest in six months, but spot natural gas prices in Alberta are at about $1.50 per thousand cubic feet, down nearly $1 from a year ago.

Players in the energy mergers-and-acquisition market have been closely watching Calgary-based Husky Energy’s (TSX:HSE) efforts this year to sell non-core oil and gas assets in Alberta and Saskatchewan, analyst Michael Dunn of FirstEnergy Capital said Friday. The company wants to bolster its balance sheet for what it fears will be a long period of low oil and gas prices.

“The read-through for the Husky asset sales so far is that there are bidders for oil assets, because … what they’ve announced so far is mostly weighted towards oil,” he said.

“There’s still a market.”

At its Investor Day in Toronto last week, Husky said it expects to raise $2.9 billion from closed or pending asset sales, including $1.7 billion from pipeline and storage assets in its core heavy oil region on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, and about $1 billion from the sale of mainly oil-weighted wells producing 22,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

It had less to say about the Alberta gas properties it’s trying to sell — only that discussions are ongoing for assets producing about 18,000 boe/d.

Dunn said the gas wells in the portfolio are likely losing money on a cash flow basis due to low prices. He added the age of the portfolio suggests it is

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Pumpjacks pump crude oil near Halkirk. A two-tier marketplace is developing for western Canadian oil and gas properties, with bidders starting to line up to buy crude-producing properties, although companies marketing natural gas wells are finding few takers likely burdened with heavy reclamation liabilities as depleting gas wells are retired.

“The M and A (mergers and acquisition) market was quite focused on what would happen from the Husky process so we may see other deals not related to Husky happen,” he said. “Some people were waiting for that to be cleaned up before moving on to whatever the next opportunities are.”

Tom Pavic, vice-president of Calgary-based Sayer Energy Advisors, says Canadian energy deals so far in 2016 add up to about $15 billion, roughly equal to the total for all of 2015, but far below the $49 billion in 2014.

Most of this year’s spending resulted from the Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) takeover of Canadian Oil Sands for

$6.6-billion in shares and assumed debt.

In a note to investors last week, oil and gas analyst Justin Bouchard of Desjardins Capital Markets said he thinks the M and A market will start to loosen up as bank revisions to lending limits put pressure on debt-burdened energy companies to sell, and new stock issues provide potential buyers with funds to shop for bargains.

Bouchard said “the very early stages of a potential pickup in M and A activity” could be underway, citing two recent deals involving Saskatchewan oil assets — Whitecap Resources’ (TSX:WCP) $595-million purchase of a Husky package and Spartan Energy’s (TSX:SPE) takeover of private Wyatt Oil and Gas for $77 million in shares

and assumed debt.

Whitecap paid for its purchase in part by selling shares worth about $470 million.

“We expect these trends to persist into the summer as banks look to reduce exposure to the sector, with not even the higher-quality facilities completely immune to a potential reduction,” Bouchard wrote.

He pointed out that Penn West Petroleum (TSX:PWT) is under increasing pressure to market its core Viking and Cardium oil assets to avoid debt agreement violations as early as this month. Bouchard said mid-sized companies selling shares recently to pay down debt and increase flexibility include Enerplus (TSX:ERF), raising $230 million, and Bonavista Energy (TSX:BNP), taking in $100 million.

Bruce Edgelow, vice-president of strategic initiatives at ATB Financial, said he disagrees that the energy M and A market will take off soon. He thinks the overhang of poor natural gas prices and the volatility of oil prices will prevent that.

North American oil production is down, which supports price levels, but can be ramped up very quickly if prices strengthen, he said.

“It’s going to get choppy and as long as it’s choppy, you’re going to see capital wait a bit,” Edgelow said. “People I talk to say until we get some really sustained prices that we’re comfortable with … you’re going to have to wait for a couple of quarters for the real capital to come back in, which would also be M&A capital.”

He said Raging River Exploration’s (TSX:RRX) deal to buy oil producer Rock Energy (TSX:RE) last week is typical of a down market — the offer is worth $109 million, but $67 million of that is assumed debt. And the remainder is being paid in Raging River shares.

“There was no cash, just a share exchange, and not much of a premium for Rock when you look at their trailing days of trading,” Edgelow said.

Timing of economic rebound hard to forecast

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says it’s hard to predict when the Canadian economy will rebound from the huge Alberta wildfire that destroyed communities and forced the shut down of crucial oil operations.

For Poloz, part of that calculation depends how quickly shuttered oilsands facilities go back online.

The other major factor, which is tougher to get a handle on, is when evacuees return to work and the rebuilding efforts are well underway, he said.

“And all those kinds of things (are) very, very much up in the air,” Poloz told reporters Saturday at the University of Ottawa when asked about the timing of an economic bounce back.

“It’s a very difficult situation for people, so we’re watching that with a lot of interest. And I don’t want to translate that into a mechanical thing.”

Experts like Poloz expect the disaster to have Canada-wide economic consequences.

The central bank recently predicted the fire, which erupted last month in the province’s oil-producing region, will shave 1.25 percentage points off economic growth in the second quarter of 2016. However, it called its May 25 estimate a preliminary assessment.

In April, the bank had predicted growth at an annual rate of 1.0 per cent

for the second quarter, as measured by real gross domestic product.

That means the fallout from the blaze could be severe enough to turn Canada’s already-feeble growth outlook for the second quarter into a contraction.

The Bank of Canada’s downgrade followed similar decisions by economists at some of the big banks.

On Saturday, Poloz predicted about half — or perhaps a little more than half — of the estimated loss of 1.25 percentage points would be due to lost oil output.

The rest of the decline is “much more highly judgmental,” said Poloz after delivering a lecture at the university that explored various implications of combining monetary and fiscal policies.

The central bank also said in its May statement that it expected the economy to rebound in the third quarter, once oil production had resumed and reconstruction had begun.

Poloz compared calculating the broader economic impact of the wildfire to the devastating floods that struck Southern Alberta in 2013. In that case, the rebuilding process that followed was gradual, he noted.

The Bank of Canada would try to give a better sense of the impact of the wildfire next month when it releases its monetary policy report, Poloz said.

“By then, hopefully, the picture is clearer and we can make better guesses,” he said.

“IT’S A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION FOR PEOPLE, SO WE’RE WATCHING THAT WITH A LOT OF INTEREST. AND I DON’T WANT TO TRANSLATE THAT INTO A MECHANICAL THING.” STEPHEN POLOZ Experts have estimated more than one million barrels per day of crude was taken offline because of the wildfire.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has said it will take years to recover from the disaster that destroyed 2,400 homes and businesses in Fort McMurray — nearly one-tenth of the city.

More than 80,000 people were forced to flee May 3 when the fire roared into Fort McMurray. Residents started returning last week to check their homes and to begin the massive clean-up.

In his lecture Saturday, Poloz focused on another topic: the impact of economic policy decisions on private and public debt loads.

He said private and public debt levels are closely influenced by the combination of how much the government spends and how monetary policy, such as the central bank’s key interest rate, is used.

Poloz said the optimal mix of mon-

etary and fiscal approaches varies depending on the economic situation.

His lecture came as many countries around the world adjust their fiscal and monetary policy mixes in the hope of boosting stagnant economic growth.

The Trudeau government has shifted gears in recent months to seek deficit-fuelled growth by committing billions more dollars toward economy-enhancing investments such as infrastructure.

In his lecture, Poloz said a Bank of Canada model shows the combination of more government spending and higher interest rates leads to lower private-sector debt and higher public debt.

If the policy levels are reversed then private debt would climb and government debt would slide, he added.

Poloz stressed that finding the right balance is complex for policy-makers since high levels of private and public debt can both create financial stability concerns in an economy.

Women entrepreneurs in Canada on the rise TALBOT BOGGS MONEYWISE More and more women in Canada today are taking the time, effort and risks to start and grow small businesses.

Small- and medium-sized businesses account for a majority of the jobs created in Canada.

In 2011 women entrepreneurs contributed more than $148 billion to the Canadian economy. Statistics show that between 2001 and 2011 950,000 women were self-employed, accounting for 35.6 per cent of all self-employed persons, and 47 per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises in the country were entirely or partially owned by women.

“We know that women today are starting more businesses than men and are opening businesses in many, many different fields,” Susan Brown, Bank of Montreal’s senior vice president of personal and commercial banking

for Alberta and the Northwest Territories told a media conference on a new study of women entrepreneurs

by BMO, Carleton University and The Beacon Agency.

The report found that although the number of self-employed women with an incorporated business has increased by 15 per cent since 2007 women entrepreneurs in Canada have difficulty getting funding from financial institutions because they are perceived as being averse to risk and are unable to generate the same economic growth as men.

The study found that 68 per cent of female-owned companies reported capturing a larger share of their existing market through innovation and businesses which had majority female ownership reported the highest instance of average yearly revenue growth of more than 20 per cent.

It also found that women entrepreneurs make decisions that require risk to grow and build their businesses.

They tend to take a relationship and longer term approach in business and a holistic approach to calculating riskbased decisions.

Women entrepreneurs often are misrepresented as being averse to risk even though their businesses are not underperforming their male counterparts and their businesses are more likely to be funded personally rather than assuming debt from a financial institution.

“There is too much emphasis on the notion of taking risk as an end in itself when it is not the main objective (but might be) necessary to achieve social and economic goals,” said Claire Beckton, executive director of Carleton’s Centre for Women in Politics and Public Leadership. “Women entrepreneurs make decisions that require risks to achieve their goals which include long-term sustainability for their businesses. Many describe themselves as being risk rational – they sought out the information necessary to make the decision and then made an informed choice.”

The study also found that women tend to take a relationship rather than a transactional approach to customers, clients, employees and funders, meaning they want a relationship with groups and organizations which are

interested in their business and committed to its success.

“Many financial institutions have not fully understood (this) and as a consequence women largely self-fund (their enterprises), often with support from family and friends, thereby slowing their rate of start-up and later their rate of growth,” Beckton said.

The study also uncovered an interesting difference in how women and men approach risk.

“Women may be less willing to take on large risks when they’re responsible for children but more willing when they have less responsibility for others,” Brown said “As I have observed this is different from men who often take less risk as they grow older and more conservative and want to take some of their chips off the table. Many women are very risk aware and manage risk in a way that matches their lives.”

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors

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Rebels have tough decisions ahead

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF In the aftermath of building a roster to win in 2016, the Red Deer Rebels have some important pieces coming back.

Change is a constant in junior hockey, but Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter pointed out that there are a number of forwards returning into the lineup.

“It’s just the way it works,” said Sutter. “We’re going to have six or seven new players in our lineup.

That being said 10 of our 14 forwards are coming back. We have a chance to have a 20-year-old goaltender coming back.”

A certain headache will be which three overage players they choose to keep goalies Rylan Toth and Trevor Martin as well as defenceman Colton Bobyk and forwards Conner Bleackley, Evan Polei and Ivan Nikolishin are all eligible to return.

But those decisions won’t have to be made until October.

Forward Jake DeBrusk and defencemen Haydn Fleury and Nelson Nogier could qualify as overagers, but all have signed entry-level contracts and are likely to take the next step in their development and move on to their professional organizations. DeBrusk to the Bruins, Fleury to the Hurricanes and Nogier to the Jets.

Dawson Weatherill, 17, saw some action late in the season and will be in the mix to backup the starting goaltender.

Centre Adam Musil, 19, who played big in the Memorial Cup and has scored big goals throughout the season and playoffs, is on track to be the team’s top centre next year.

Brandon Hagel, 18, Braden Purtill, 19, Grayson Pawlenchuk, 19, and Jeff de Witt, 18, were all regulars in the Rebels lineup throughout the season.

Joining them could be Taden Rattie, 18, Akash Bains, 17 and Reese Johnson, 18, who saw limited work often as healthy scratches down the stretch.

Questions linger on whether or not Nikolishin, Russia, or 19-year-old Michael Spacek, Czech Republic, could return as the team’s import players.

“We feel good about our young defenceman. We think they’re going to be good players,” said Sutter.

A core group of blueliners could also return as Josh Mahura, 18, and Austin Strand, 19, lead the pack and could be joined by Bobyk, who hasn’t been drafted by an NHL team. Austin Shmoorkoff played 64 regular season games and at 19 has at least one more season in the WHL. Two late season callups also have a chance to crack the Rebels blueline as both Ethan Sakowich, 17, and Carson Sass, 17, saw some playing time late in the season. The 17-year-olds could fill in the gaps left by the departing veterans. As well, Rebels 2015 WHL Bantam draft first round pick Jacob Herauf, 16, (16th overall) is eligible and was one of 27 players at

Photo by Jeff Stokoe/Advocate Staff

Quinn Martin of Santa Fe, NM. works out during the 2016 Red Deer Rebels Prospects Camp at the Penhold multiplex Saturday. The camp ran from Friday to Sunday and featured 27 potential Rebels participating in drills, scrimmages and shootouts. Players born in 1999, 2000 and 2001 came to the camp from all over Western Canada and even as far away as New Mexico. the 2016 Rebels Prospect Camp.

Sutter isn’t too worried about a Memorial Cup hangover. Trading for DeBrusk, Adam Helewka and Luke Philp at the deadline involved moving some younger pieces and draft picks.

“I’m not too worried about that,” said Sutter. “The trades we did make, we knew we had to make them and yet, they were made because we knew we had enough depth to build and move on afterwards.

We’re still going to have a lot of good players coming

World mourns the man, the myth, the legend MUHAMMAD ALI

Sharks train top defensive weapons at Crosby

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Muhammad Ali’s younger brother wept, swayed to hymns and hugged anyone he could reach. He raised his hands to the sky, eyes closed, surrounded by congregants at the church where their father once worshipped.

Rahaman Ali took centre stage at the two-hour service at King Solomon Missionary Baptist Church, sitting in a front-row pew with his wife, Caroline. The church is not far from the little pink house in Louisville’s west end where the Ali brothers grew up.

It was one of several emotional remembrances Sunday as the city joined together to mourn its most celebrated son, the Louisville Lip. Later this week, politicians, celebrities and fans from around the globe are expected for a Friday memorial service that Ali planned himself with the intent of making it open to all.

An airplane carrying the boxing great’s body landed in his grieving hometown Sunday afternoon.

At services all over town, they recited Ali’s words on religion: “Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water,” Ali once said. “So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth.”

At a Sunday evening memorial at the Louisville Islamic Center, speakers from many faiths — Muslims, Christians, Catholics, Jews — lamented that Ali’s death came at a time when political rhetoric is getting more divisive.

They did not mention Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump by name, but the reasons for the theme were clear.

The Republican presidential candidate said he would temporarily ban all Muslims from entering the United States, a proposition Ali used one of his last public statements to rebuke.

“When the clamour of the disaffected targets those considered other we need someone to cry out that people are not born other —

back into our lineup.

“We’re going to have a pretty competitive hockey team next year.”

In fact, Sutter sees the younger player’s Memorial Cup experience as a benefit to the team next year.

“They’ve all had a taste of it and they see how much of a commitment, how good of a team they have to be,” said Sutter. “Hopefully it motivates them to get better and we’ll be a better team for it.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Boxing gloves and a message sit among flowers at a makeshift memorial to Muhammad Ali at the Muhammad Ali Center, Saturday, in Louisville, Ky. Muhammad Ali died Friday at age 74. we make them other, through our fear, through our prejudice, our hatred, our desire to grasp for more than is rightfully ours,” said Rev. Derek Penwell, who leads a Christian church in Louisville.

“We need a voice who knows that true power is to help us to see that our determination to love in spite of our fear is the greatest expression of power that human beings can muster.”

Ali famously converted to the Islamic faith and refused to fight in the Vietnam War, though it cost him years of his boxing career. He insisted throughout his life that people of all faiths and colours should come together in peace, and the speakers at the Islamic Center pondered whether anyone else has the strength or statute to take on the fight.

“Now who will push back the agents of hatred and watch our back?” asked Dr. Muhammad Baber. “When we fight these demons of Islamophobia, who will show the light to our youth surrounded by traitors of terror? …

Who will testify for our innocence in this season of witch hunting?”

Even after his conversion, Ali sometimes attended King Solo-

mon Missionary Baptist Church.

Ali’s father, Cassius Clay Sr., a painter, was an active member of the congregation before his death decades ago. He painted a mural of Jesus’ baptism that still hangs behind the pulpit.

“There is no greater man that has done more for this city than Muhammad Ali,” the church’s assistant pastor, Charles Elliott III, said Sunday morning, drawing a round of “amens” and prolonged applause from the congregation.

Elliott recalled the comical side of the former boxing champion and global humanitarian, who died Friday night at an Arizona hospital.

Elliott said his grandmother was once a nanny to Ali’s family. He visited as a wide-eyed young boy, he said, and recalled the house had an elevator and a parrot who called out: “Here comes the champ, here comes the champ.”

His father, the Rev. Charles Elliott Jr., knew Ali for decades and remembered his generosity.

He recalled when he was raising money in the 1960s to keep a program running to feed the city’s hungry, and Ali cut him a check.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sidney Crosby, for one night at least, was contained.

The Pittsburgh Penguins captain and Conn Smythe Trophy candidate was held off the scoreboard in a Game 3 loss to the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night. His line was mostly neutralized by the Sharks’ top shutdown defensive pair of MarcEdouard Vlasic and Justin Braun.

“I thought they were outstanding (Saturday) night,” San Jose coach Pete DeBoer said of the duo’s efforts against Crosby and Pittsburgh’s top line.

Dominant in Games 1 and 2, Crosby and linemates Conor Sheary and Patric Hornqvist generated few quality scoring chances in Game 3 and were held to a combined six shots, their lowest cumulative total of the series.

The unit was held without a shot for the first 34 minutes of the game, with Hornqvist getting the first one on net with six minutes to go in the second period.

It was home-ice advantage and the subsequent benefit of last line change which allowed the Sharks to zero in on their preferred matchup with Crosby. Vlasic and Braun were on the ice against Crosby for more than 13 minutes at even-strength in Game 3, according to War-On-Ice, a hockey analytics website. That was almost double the icetime the pair saw against the Penguins captain in Games 1 and 2, both in Pittsburgh.

“It’s a lot easier that way, having the last change, seeing what the matchup’s going to be,” Braun said.

Crosby’s line had 19 shots combined in the opening two games of the final, generating a goal each night. Hornqvist did score in the final minute of the second Saturday, but with neither Vlasic or Braun on the ice.

“It is hard playing against a guy like that,” Braun said of Crosby. “A couple of those chances he created because he’s strong on the boards.

You think you have him pinned and he’s spinning out of there with the puck. Not many guys in the league are doing that.”

Crosby, at one point in the first, tried to lose Vlasic behind the net with some shifty movements, but his defender held serve and eventually vanquished the play.

The matchup shines a light in particular on Vlasic, who is quietly one of the league’s more effective defensive defenceman.

A key member of the 2014 Canadian Olympic team and one of the first four defenders named to Canada’s World Cup team, Vlasic’s game is predicated on smarts, positioning and nifty stickwork.

“Not a lot of people on the East Coast get to see this guy play,” Sharks centre Logan Couture said.

“He’s an incredible defender. He’s a great skater, great stick, plays physical. He’s the superstar that doesn’t get talked about.”

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Field hockey finding footing locally

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Three years ago three friends who played field hockey together at the University of Alberta agreed to get a field hockey program started in Red Deer and in Didsbury.

That first year, the Red Deer Storm field hockey program had 12 people committed to playing. Now they have 54 committed players spread among five teams.

Three years later, Red Deer hosted its first field hockey festival featuring 23 teams with more than 200 athletes from Calgary, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Didsbury and Red Deer. Teams ranged in age from U12 to U18.

Sue McRorie and Heidi Olstad, of Red Deer, and Jenny Johnson, of Didsbury, played together while in university. McRorie and Johnson went on to play for Team Canada in field hockey.

Together the three agreed to launch field hockey programs in their communities with the help of Field Hockey Alberta.

“I’m hoping it will keep growing,” said McRorie. “This is our first tournament and I’m hoping the surrounding communities will see this and want to come out and play.

“It was so much fun for the players and us to get it going again. The girls, and guys, love it.”

Due to the smaller number of participants the teams are co-ed.

Wendy Stewart, Field Hockey Alberta grassroots development staff member, said the program in Red Deer has gradually grown and they’ve been supporting the work of McRorie and

Photo by MURRAY CRAWFORD/Advocate Staff

Red Deer Storm Olivia McAuley moves the ball upfield during a field hockey game on Saturday at St. Francis Assissi. She was one of more than 200 players participating in Red Deer’s first field hockey festival.

Olstad in Red Deer and Johnson in Didsbury.

“Sue and Heidi contacted the Field Hockey Alberta office and Red Deer was one of the zone areas we wanted to put some development into,” said Stewart. “Before we didn’t have the volunteers or coaches. When Sue and Heidi came along and offered, we wanted to help them.”

Canadian men’s volleyball team qualifies for Olympic Games

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TOKYO — After nearly a quarter century of waiting, Canada’s men’s volleyball team has qualified for the Olympic Games in Brazil.

Canada beat China in five sets on Sunday to get within sight of its first Olympic berth since 1992 in Barcelona, but had to wait a few more hours for Poland to knock off Australia in straight sets to start celebrating.

“It feels like joy,” said libero Dan Lewis, who, at 40 is the oldest member of the team. “It feels like something that just gave you the shivers. You feel good and you don’t really have to explain it. You can’t help but think about everybody that’s been a part of this program.”

The Canadians won their match against China 25-16, 20-25, 24-26, 2520, 15-9 at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. However, they needed Poland, which had qualified earlier in the tournament, to beat Australia to earn their ticket to the Rio Games.

Canada finished up fourth overall to join Poland, France and Iran as the tournament’s three other Olympic qualifiers.

“I wasn’t even sure that I was going to make it to this tournament,” said Gavin Schmitt, who started for Canada after recently undergoing surgery for a stress fracture in his leg.

Schmitt had been sidelined when Canada tried to qualify in January but just missed after coming in second to Cuba in a tournament in Edmonton.

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER Lakers 3 Raiders 2 A hat trick from Dagan Slimmon helped the H.J. Cody Lakers edge the Lindsay Thurber Raiders boys soccer team 3-2 in Central Alberta High School Soccer League action.

Slimmon scored all the goals for the Lakers in the win.

Obai Altaiyan and Tony Castro had one goal each for the Raiders.

“I had to watch the last qualification on TV as the guys went through it and I’m just so proud of the guys that we came to the tournament with,” he said.

Gord Perrin of Creston, B.C., led the way with 25 points in the attack and one block while Schmitt, of Grande Prairie, Alta., had 23 points, including a few late ace serves.

Needing a win or at least a five-set loss to keep its Olympic dreams alive, Canada looked comfortable in the first set and was aided by mistakes in China’s service reception. Canada easily took the set in just over 20 minutes.

Roles were reversed in the second set with Canada making the mistakes and China building a lead that grew to as much as six points. Canada was able to cut the deficit to three points but China closed strong.

Canada unravelled in the third set.

Just five points away from losing it, China suddenly came alive to outscore Canada 11-4 in the final 15 points of the set.

Both teams’ Olympic hopes were hanging in the balance in the fourth with Canada needing at least a point from the game and China knowing it couldn’t allow it to go to five sets.

Canada reeled off a few points in a row to go up 19-16 and, unlike the previous set, saw out the final few points that eliminated China.

With their Olympic hopes dashed, China looked deflated as Canada went up 8-2 early with a few aces from Schmitt and finished off the fifth set to collect two crucial points.

Rams 4 Spartans 0 The Lacombe Composite Rams shutout the Olds Spartans 4-0 Friday in boys high school soccer play.

Marcel Shek led the Rams, potting all four goals in the victory.

Cougars 5 Rams 1 Stingy play from the Notre Dame Cougars held the Lacombe Composite Rams to one goal in a 5-1 win for the girls team.

Nat Frenette led the Cougars with a hat trick while Emily Downey and Kelli-Rae Sieban had one goal each.

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Born in Lloydminster, McRorie didn’t play the sport until she was 18.

She played a little in her hometown at the suggestion of a friend and after the first practice she and a few friends heard Team Saskatchewan was in need of a few players. They road tripped and flew to tournaments with the team. It was at a tournament in Ottawa that she spoke with a University

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She joined the team and after her first year she played for the junior national squad, she then graduated to the senior national team and traveled the world playing field hockey. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com the season.

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Warriors hammer Cavs to take 2-0 series lead

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Warriors 110, Cavaliers 77 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Draymond Green emphatically flexed his bulging biceps with big plays on both ends of the floor, and these Golden State Warriors might just be far too strong for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

That repeat title Golden State has spoken of since the very start more than eight months ago is suddenly two wins from reality.

It will be the only way the Warriors’ record-setting season ends right. For now, they sure seem unstoppable.

Green had 28 points with five 3-pointers, seven rebounds and five assists, while MVP Stephen Curry scored 18 points despite foul trouble, and Golden State thoroughly overwhelmed Cleveland 110-77 in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night.

“There’s no point in celebrating or jumping up and down saying, ‘Look at us.’ We’re two games away from winning a championship, but we still have to go out and get the job done,” Curry said. “It’s a trap to think that we’ve figured things out, that we have the perfect formula to beat Cleveland and they have no chance in the series. That’s not how we’re supposed to think.”

The 33-point win was the Warriors’ most lopsided ever in a finals game — and they have won the first two by a combined 48 points.

“They just beat us,” LeBron James said. “We didn’t win anything. No points of the game did we beat them in anything.”

Once the Splash Brothers found their shooting touch, Cleveland couldn’t keep up. Klay Thompson got hot after halftime to finish with 17 points as Golden State became the first team to go ahead 2-0 in the finals since the Lakers in 2009 against Orlando.

Now, the series shifts to Cleveland, and James and the Cavs must show up for Game 3 on Wednesday in front of

their title-starved fans down 2-0 to the defending champs and with forward Kevin Love dealing with a head injury.

“We’ve got to be tougher,” Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said.

The NBA said Love experienced dizziness early in the second half and left for the locker room to be re-examined, then was placed in the NBA’s concussion protocol.

He hadn’t exhibited any symptoms before then, even after taking an elbow to the back of the head from Harrison Barnes in the second quarter and going down for several minutes before returning following a timeout. He immediately made a baseline 3-pointer for the Cavs’ first basket in nearly 5½ minutes.

After a scoreless first quarter when he missed all five shots but had five assists, James scored 14 of his 19 points in the second and also finished with nine assists and eight rebounds, but seven turnovers — and he took the blame. James’ teams had won nine straight postseason Game 2s after losing the series opener dating back to a loss in the 2008 Eastern Conference semifinals to Boston.

“I’m definitely surprised at the margin of victory tonight,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.

“It happens in the NBA, sometimes things get away from you. Sometimes shots go in, sometimes they don’t. …

Everything changes when we go to Cleveland, we know that.”

After Curry and Thompson combined for only 20 points in Thursday’s 104-89 Game 1 win on 8-for-27 shooting and the bench carried the load, they each hit four 3-pointers and went 13 for 24. And Curry got a postgame treat: He exchanged jerseys with Barcelona and Brazil soccer star Neymar.

Green shot 11 for 20 and made 5 of 8 3-pointers, sparking a suggestion he might apply to be a Splash Brother alongside fellow All-Stars Curry and Thompson.

“Stop it,” Green said with a chuckle.

“Tonight, he’s one of us,” Thompson said.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) shoots against Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James during the first half of Game 2 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., Sunday.

Djokovic caps career Grand Slam with French Open win PARIS — A French Open champion at long last, and the first man in nearly a half-century to win four consecutive major championships, Novak Djokovic grabbed a racket and etched a heart in the very red clay that had given him such heartache in the past.

Then, when he finally was handed the La Coupe des Mousquetaires — the one trophy he truly yearned for, the one he needed to complete a career Grand Slam — Djokovic held it overhead, his eyes shut, before kissing it, exhaling and smiling broadly. Later, Djokovic’s father and friends sipped champagne from it.

In his 12th appearance at Roland Garros, and fourth final, the top-seeded Djokovic earned that elusive title with a 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 victory over No. 2 Andy Murray on Sunday, buoyed by a supportive crowd that repeatedly chanted his nickname, “No-le!”

“It’s really a very special moment,”

Djokovic said. “Perhaps the greatest moment of my career.”

Since losing the 2015 final in Paris, Djokovic has won 28 Grand Slam matches in a row, from Wimbledon and the U.S. Open last year, to the Australian Open in January, and now, after quite a wait, the French Open.

“This is something that is so rare in tennis,” said Murray, who is now 2-8 in Grand Slam finals. “It’s going to take a long time for it to happen again.”

The last man to hold all four major titles simultaneously was Rod Laver in Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Novak Djokovic kisses the trophy after winning the final of the French Open tennis tournament against Andy Murray in four sets 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4, at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Sunday.

1969, when he earned a calendar-year Grand Slam. Djokovic now can set his sights on that ultimate tennis achieve-

Estrada flirts with no-hitter as Jays down Red Sox

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 5 Red Sox 4 BOSTON — Marco Estrada had no flashbacks to his near no-hitters last season. He didn’t feel those two starts were memorable enough.

Estrada took a no-hitter into the eighth inning for the third time in a year before it was broken up by Chris Young’s home run with one out, and the Toronto Blue Jays held off the Boston Red Sox 5-4 on Sunday.

“No. That’s last year. Last year’s over with,” Estrada said about flirting with a no-hitter twice last June. “This is a new year. If I would have finished a no-hitter last year maybe once in a while I’d think about it. I’ve never done one. This is a new year. I don’t think about those things.”

Jose Bautista opened the game with a home run, the first of four Toronto hit over the Green Monster. Edwin Encarnacion added a two-run shot, and Darwin Barney and Russell Martin each had a solo homer.

Estrada (4-2) walked three, struck out five and was lifted with a 5-1 lead after giving up his second hit, Dustin Pedroia’s leadoff double in the ninth.

“He’s a master at his craft. He’s not going to light you up with that changeup, but he’s a pitcher — a very good pitcher,” Toronto manager John Gibbons said. “He’s been doing that for two years. It shouldn’t surprise anybody.”

Roberto Osuna got the final three outs to preserve the victory — but not before giving up RBI doubles to David Ortiz and Hanley Ramirez. Jackie Bradley Jr. also added an RBI single.

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Djokovic, a 29-year-old from Serbia, owns six titles from the Australian Open, three from Wimbledon and two from the U.S. Open for a Grand Slam total of 12. Among men, only Roger Federer (with 17), Rafael Nadal (14) and Pete Sampras (14) have more.

Djokovic is also one of eight men with at least one championship at each major.

“He’s there, for sure — one of the best now,” said Marian Vajda, Djokovic’s co-coach with Boris Becker, one of the many stars of the sport who never won the French Open. “Hard to say who’s the greatest.”

Of Djokovic’s 11 career losses at Roland Garros, six came against Nadal, one against Federer.

Three came in finals, against Nadal in 2012 and 2014, and against Stan Wawrinka a year ago, when Djokovic’s eyes welled with tears and the arena feted him with an unusually long ovation as he accepted his runner’s-up

plate.

Djokovic’s 2016 path was unencumbered by any member of that trio: Federer withdrew before the tournament and Nadal before the third round, both citing injury Wawrinka lost to Murray.

Still, Djokovic’s most imposing adversary might very well have been the knowledge that the tournament that meant the most to him was the only tournament he couldn’t conquer.

Until now.

“Winning it, you know, I felt it,” Djokovic said. “I felt the tension and excitement. All the emotions. You name it.”

When Djokovic sketched a valentine to his fans and then laid down on his back, it repeated a gesture made famous by three-time French Open champion Gustavo Kuerten.

“He asked me (for) permission,” Kuerten said with a laugh.

On Sunday — the weather overcast but dry, unlike so much of the rainy past two weeks.

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SCOREBOARD MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2016

Local Sports Tuesday ● Ladies fastball: Badgers vs. Bandits and Panthers vs. Stettler, 7 p.m., Panthers vs. U16 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park

Hockey

Titans, 8 p.m., Titan’s rugby field ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Beaumont Bandits vs. Red Deer ladies Rage, 8:30 p.m., Kinex

Saturday

Wednesday ● High school sports: Notre Dame athletics awards banquet, 6 p.m., Notre Dame High School ● Bantam baseball: Edmonton Cardinals vs. Red Deer Braves, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park

Thursday ● High school sports: Hunting Hills awards banquet, 6 p.m., Hunting Hills High School ● Ladies fastball: U18 Rage vs. U16 Rage, 7 p.m., and Badgers vs. U18 Rage, 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park. Stettler vs.

Bandits, 7 p.m., Stettler

Friday ● Rugby: Calgary Hornets vs. Red Deer

● Bantam baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Black vs. Red Deer Braves, 2 p.m., and Okotoks Dawgs Red, 5 p.m., Great Chief Park ● Alberta Football League: St. Albert Stars vs. Central Alberta Buccaneers, 6 p.m., M.E. Global Field, Lacombe ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Strathmore Venom vs. Red Deer Junior B tier II Renegades, 2:30 p.m., Kinex

Sunday ● Bantam baseball: Okotoks Dawgs Black vs. Red Deer Braves, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park ● Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League: Olds Mavericks vs. Red Deer Junior B tier II Renegades, 2:30 p.m. and Calgary Axemen vs. Red Deer ladies Rage, 5 p.m., Kinex

Basketball CLEVELAND (77) James 7-17 4-4 19, Love 2-7 0-0 5, T.Thompson 3-8 2-2 8, Irving 5-14 0-0 10, Smith 2-6 0-2 5, Jefferson 4-6 4-6 12, J.Jones 0-0 0-2 0, Frye 0-1 0-0 0, Mozgov 1-3 3-4 5, Williams 0-3 0-0 0, Dellavedova 2-9 2-2 7, Shumpert 1-3 0-0 3, D.Jones 1-2 1-2 3.

Totals 28-79 16-24 77.

GOLDEN STATE (110) Barnes 2-7 1-2 5, Green 11-20 1-1 28, Bogut 1-4 0-0 2, Curry 7-11 0-0 18, K.Thompson 6-13 1-1 17, Iguodala 3-6 1-3 7, Ezeli 2-3 2-2 6, Speights 1-2 0-0 3, Livingston 3-4 1-1 7, Clark 3-4 0-0 7, Rush 0-0 0-0 0, Barbosa 5-7 0-0 10. Totals 44-81 7-10 110.

2016 NBA Playoffs Fourth Round THE FINALS (Best-of-7) Golden State (W1) vs. Cleveland (E1) (Golden State leads series 2-0) Sunday’s result Golden State 110 Cleveland 77 Thursday’s result Golden State 104 Cleveland 89 Wednesday’s game 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.

3-Point Goals—Cleveland 5-23 (Dellavedova 1-2, Shumpert 1-3, Love 1-4, Smith 1-4, James 1-5, Williams 0-2, Irving 0-3), Golden State 15-33 (Green 5-8, K.Thompson 4-8, Curry 4-8, Speights 1-1, Clark 1-2, Iguodala 0-2, Barnes 0-2, Barbosa 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Cleveland 34 (James 8), Golden State 46 (Curry 9). Assists—Cleveland 15 (James 9), Golden State 26 (Livingston, K.Thompson, Green 5). Total Fouls—Cleveland 19, Golden State 20.

Sunday’s summary Cleveland 21 23 18 15— 77 Golden State 19 33 30 28—110

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF Philadelphia 14 6 3 5 21 Montreal 13 5 4 4 22 New York 14 6 7 1 24 New York City 15 4 5 6 22 Toronto 13 4 5 4 14 Orlando 13 3 3 7 23 D.C. 14 4 6 4 14 New England 14 3 4 7 19 Columbus 13 3 5 5 18 Chicago 12 2 5 5 10

GA 16 20 20 29 15 21 16 25 21 14

Pt 23 19 19 18 16 16 16 16 14 11

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Colorado 14 8 2 4 17 10 28 Dallas 16 8 4 4 24 22 28 Salt Lake 13 7 4 2 23 21 23 Los Angeles 13 5 2 6 27 16 21 Vancouver 15 6 6 3 23 25 21 San Jose 14 5 4 5 16 16 20 Portland 15 5 6 4 23 25 19 Kansas City 16 5 8 3 14 18 18 Seattle 13 5 7 1 13 15 16 Houston 14 3 7 4 20 22 13 Note: Three points awarded for a win one for a tie.

Thursday’s results Salt Lake 3 New York City 2 Houston 1 Dallas 1 Kansas City 0 Los Angeles 0 June 3-17 No Games Scheduled due to Euro 2016 and Copa America tournaments.

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

New England at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

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

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

D.C. at Houston, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Portland at Salt Lake, 8 p.m.

Euro 2016 At Sites in France

Group Stage Group A Abania, France, Romania, Switzerland Group B England, Russia, Slovakia, Wales Group C Germany, Northern Ireland, Poland, Ukraine Group D Croatia, Czech Republic, Spain, Turkey Group E Belgium, Italy, Republic of Ireland, Sweden Group F Austria, Hungary, Iceland, Portugal Friday, June 10 Group A At Saint-Denis, France France vs. Romania, 1 p.m.

Saturday, June 11 Group A At Lens Aggio, France Albania vs. Switzerland, 7 a.m.

Group B At Bordeaux, France Wales vs. Slovakia, 10 a.m.

At Marseille, France England vs. Russia, 1 p.m.

Sunday, June 12 Group D At Paris Turkey vs. Croatia, 7 a.m.

Group C At Nice, France Poland vs. Northern Ireland, 10 a.m.

At Lille Metropole, France Germany vs. Ukraine, 1 p.m.

Monday, June 13 Group D At Toulouse, France Spain vs. Czech Republic, 7 a.m.

Group E At Saint-Denis, France Republic of Ireland vs. Sweden, 10 a.m.

At Lyon, France Belgium vs. Italy, 1 p.m.

Ladies fastball Red Deer Ladies Fastball League Wins loss ties points 6 3 2 14 4 1 2 10 4 3 1 9 3 4 0 6 2 5 1 5 2 6 0 4

Panthers Badgers Bandits U18 Rage U16 Rage Stettler

Last Tuesday’s games Stettler 9 Badgers 8 Panthers 4 Bandits 2 Panthers 11 U18 Rage 7

Last Thursday’s games U16 Rage 8 vs. U18 Rage 6 Stettler vs. Badgers, rainout Bandits 15 U16 Rage 7 Tuesday’s games Badgers vs. Bandits, 7 p.m.

Panthers vs. Stettler, 7 p.m.

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

Thursday’s games U18 Rage vs. U16 Rage, 7 p.m.

Stettler vs. Bandits, 7 p.m.

Badgers vs. U18 Rage, 8:45 p.m.

Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Placed C Ryan Hanigan and LF/C Blake Swihart on the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Noe Ramirez to Pawtucket (IL). Recalled OF Rusney Castillo and RHP Heath Hembree from Pawtucket. Selected the contract of C Sandy Leon from Pawtucket.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Buck Farmer to Toledo (IL). Reinstated RHP Shane Greene from the 15-day DL. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with 3B Irving Falu on a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent RHP Kyle Gibson to Rochester (IL) for a rehab assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Optioned RHP J.B. Wendelken to Nashville (PCL). Reinstated RHP Sonny Gray from the 15-day DL. SEATTLE MARINERS — Released RHP Joel Peralta.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed OF Brandon Guyer on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Nick Franklin from Durham (IL).

TEXAS RANGERS — Sent C Robinson Chirinos to Round Rock (PCL) on injury rehab assignment.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Ryan Tepera to Buffalo (IL). Recalled 3B Matt Dominguez from Buffalo.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent OF David Peralta to Reno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed RHP Mike Foltynewicz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Wednesday.

Recalled RHP Mike Grant from Gwinnett (IL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent LHP Boone Logan to Albuquerque (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Designated OF Carl Crawford for assignment. Assigned OF James Ramsey outright to Oklahoma City (PCL). Recalled C Austin Barnes from Oklahoma City (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned RHP Cody Hall to New Orleans (PCL). Recalled RHP Brian Ellington from New Orleans.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Returned 3B Colin Walsh to Oakland.

NEW YORK METS — Assigned RHP Jeff Walters outright to Las Vegas (PCL). Sent C Travis d’Arnaud to St. Lucie (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Assigned INF Emmanuel Burriss outright to Lehigh Valley (IL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHP Erik Johnson to El Paso (PCL).

American Association JOPLIN BLASTERS — Released RHP Matt Swilley. Signed OF Ronnie Richardson and LHP Noel Arguelles. Traded INF Jake Taylor to Sioux Falls for cash.

ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed RHP Benji Waite.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Traded RHP Paul Demny to Bridgeport for a player to be named.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed C Simon Gravel and INF Kori Melo.

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM — Released RHP Andrew Miller.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Placed LHP Brett Maus on the suspended list.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Fred Williams, DE Andrew Robinson and DL Emmanuel Dieke.

FEMALE HOCKEY Two Red Deer defencemen are among the 46 female hockey players invited to the Team Alberta U18 summer development camp.

The camp is a first step towards cracking the Team Alberta lineup at the 2016 National Women’s Under 18 Championship, Nov. 9 to 13 in Regina.

Emma Thomas and Caleigh Meraw were among the 16 defencemen selected to the camp.

The camp will run July 12 to 17 in Camrose. The 46 were selected from a spring selection camp in Spruce Grove 88 players attended.

From the July camp, a shortlist will be established and those players will be invited to a selection camp in the fall.

3. Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 8 (Lovejoy, Maatta) 19:07.

Penalties — Hagelin Pgh (tripping) 10:39.

Third Period 4. San Jose, Ward 7 (Donskoi, Thornton) 8:48.

Penalties — Bonino Pgh (double high-sticking) 4:48.

First Overtime 5. San Jose, Donskoi 6 (Tierney) 12:18.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 14 6 13 9 — 42 San Jose 6 9 7 4 — 26 Goal — Pittsburgh: Murray (L, 13-5-0). San Jose: Jones (W, 13-8-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Pittsburgh: 0-1 San Jose: 0-3.

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

Thursday’s game 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.

Monday, May 30 Pittsburgh 3 San Jose 2

NHL playoff scoring leaders

Saturday’s summary Sharks 3, Penguins 2 (1st OT) First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Lovejoy 2 (unassisted) 5:29.

2. San Jose, Braun 2 (Thornton, Vlasic) 9:34.

Penalties — Ward SJ (high-sticking) 2:58.

Second Period

Logan Couture, SJ Joe Pavelski, SJ Brent Burns, SJ Joe Thornton, SJ Nikita Kucherov, TB Phil Kessel, Pgh Tyler Johnson, TB Sidney Crosby, Pgh Nick Bonino, Pgh

G 8 13 6 3 11 10 7 6 4

A 18 9 16 17 8 9 10 11 13

Pts 26 22 22 20 19 19 17 17 17

Vladimir Tarasenko, StL Jamie Benn, Dal Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Robby Fabbri, StL David Backes, StL Carl Hagelin, Pgh Jonathan Drouin, TB Jaden Schwartz, StL Victor Hedman, TB Troy Brouwer, StL Joel Ward, SJ Patrick Marleau, SJ Alex Killorn,TB Colin Wilson, Nash Jason Spezza, Dal Paul Stastny, StL Patric Hornqvist, Pgh Joonas Donskoi, SJ Alex Ovechkin, Wash John Carlson, Wash Kris Letang, Pgh Marc-Edouard Vlasic, SJ Tomas Hertl, SJ John Tavares, NYI Chris Kunitz, Pgh Kevin Shattenkirk, StL Nicklas Backstrom, Wash

9 5 4 4 7 5 5 4 4 8 7 5 5 5 5 3 8 6 5 5 2 1 6 6 4 2 2

6 10 11 11 7 9 9 10 10 5 6 8 8 8 8 10 4 6 7 7 10 11 5 5 7 9 9

15 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 11

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 32 23 .582 Boston 33 24 .579 Toronto 31 27 .534 New York 26 30 .464 Tampa Bay 25 30 .455 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 31 24 .564 Kansas City 30 26 .536 Chicago 29 28 .509 Detroit 28 28 .500 Minnesota 16 40 .286 West Division W L Pct Texas 34 22 .607 Seattle 31 25 .554 Houston 28 30 .483 Los Angeles 26 30 .464 Oakland 25 32 .439

Tampa Bay at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Cleveland at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Boston at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

GB — — 2 1/2 6 1/2 7 GB — 1 1/2 3 3 1/2 15 1/2 GB — 3 7 8 9 1/2

Saturday’s Games Boston 6, Toronto 4 Pittsburgh 8, L.A. Angels 7 Detroit 7, Chicago White Sox 4 Houston 6, Oakland 5, 12 innings Tampa Bay 7, Minnesota 4 Cleveland 7, Kansas City 1 N.Y. Yankees 8, Baltimore 6 Texas 10, Seattle 4 Sunday’s Games Cleveland 7, Kansas City 0 Detroit 5, Chicago White Sox 2 Baltimore 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 L.A. Angels 5, Pittsburgh 4 Toronto 5, Boston 4 Houston 5, Oakland 2 Tampa Bay 7, Minnesota 5 Texas 3, Seattle 2 Monday’s Games Kansas City (Duffy 1-0) at Baltimore (Worley 2-0), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 3-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 3-1), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Happ 6-2) at Detroit (Fulmer 5-1), 5:10 p.m.

Houston (Fiers 3-3) at Texas (Lewis 5-0), 6:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 3-7) at Arizona (Ray 2-4), 7:40 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 3-2) at Seattle (Paxton 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Kansas City at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 5:10 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Miami at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

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

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. VMartinez Det 55 199 24 70 .352 Bogaerts Bos 56 238 46 82 .345 Ortiz Bos 51 194 28 66 .340 Nunez Min 47 182 27 61 .335 Altuve Hou 58 230 44 76 .330 Bradley Jr. Bos 53 189 29 61 .323 Hosmer KC 56 212 30 68 .321 JRamirez Cle 49 161 26 51 .317 Pedroia Bos 55 228 41 72 .316 Kinsler Det 53 222 47 70 .315 Home Runs Frazier, Chicago, 18 Trumbo, Baltimore, 18 Cano, Seattle, 16 Ortiz, Boston, 16 KDavis, Oakland, 14 Napoli, Cleveland, 14 Betts, Boston, 14 Machado, Baltimore, 14 Longoria, Tampa Bay, 14 4 tied at 13.

Runs Batted In Ortiz, Boston, 54 Cano, Seattle, 48 Encarnacion, Toronto, 46 Betts, Boston, 45 Trumbo, Baltimore, 43 Napoli, Cleveland, 42 Trout, Los Angeles, 41 Beltre, Texas, 40 NCruz, Seattle, 40 Frazier, Chicago, 40.

Pitching Sale, Chicago, 9-2 Tomlin, Cleveland, 8-1 Zimmermann, Detroit, 8-2 Hill, Oakland, 8-3 Tillman, Baltimore, 7-1 Price, Boston, 7-2 Porcello, Boston, 7-2 ERamirez, Tampa Bay, 7-4 Latos, Chicago, 6-1 2 tied at 6-2.

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 34 23 .596 31 24 .564 30 27 .526 28 29 .491 16 40 .286 Central Division W L Pct 39 16 .709 30 26 .536 30 27 .526 26 31 .456 21 36 .368 West Division W L Pct 35 24 .593 31 27 .534 25 31 .446 25 34 .424 23 35 .397

GB — 2 4 6 17 GB — 9 10 14 19 GB — 3 8 10 11

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1/2

1/2 1/2 1/2

Saturday’s Games Chicago Cubs 5, Arizona 3 Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 8, L.A. Angels 7 Cincinnati 6, Washington 3 N.Y. Mets 6, Miami 4 St. Louis 7, San Francisco 4 L.A. Dodgers 4, Atlanta 0 San Diego 4, Colorado 3

Sunday’s Games Washington 10, Cincinnati 9 Miami 1, N.Y. Mets 0 L.A. Angels 5, Pittsburgh 4 Philadelphia 8, Milwaukee 1 Arizona 3, Chicago Cubs 2 L.A. Dodgers 12, Atlanta 6 St. Louis 6, San Francisco 3 Colorado 10, San Diego 3 Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs (Lester 6-3) at Philadelphia (Morgan 1-4), 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Matz 7-1) at Pittsburgh (Niese 5-2), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 3-7) at Arizona (Ray 2-4), 7:40 p.m.

Atlanta (Perez 2-1) at San Diego (Friedrich 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Colorado (Chatwood 6-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Bolsinger 1-2), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Miami at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

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

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

Boston at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Murphy Was 55 211 34 81 .384 Braun Mil 46 172 23 58 .337 ADiaz StL 54 192 38 63 .328 Yelich Mia 52 180 26 59 .328 Zobrist ChC 52 184 39 60 .326 Marte Pit 53 215 30 70 .326 Herrera Phi 56 202 32 64 .317 Harrison Pit 52 193 24 61 .316 Lucroy Mil 53 193 30 61 .316 Ozuna Mia 56 210 35 66 .314 Home Runs Arenado, Colorado, 17 Duvall, Cincinnati, 16 Cespedes, New York, 15 Story, Colorado, 15 Kemp, San Diego, 14 Seager, Los Angeles, 14 Carter, Milwaukee, 14 6 tied at 13.

Runs Batted In Arenado, Colorado, 44 Bryant, Chicago, 40 Rizzo, Chicago, 40 Bruce, Cincinnati, 40 Kemp, San Diego, 39 Story, Colorado, 38 Polanco, Pittsburgh, 38 Murphy, Washington, 37 Cespedes, New York, 37 2 tied at 36.

Pitching Strasburg, Washington, 9-0 Arrieta, Chicago, 9-1 Cueto, San Francisco, 9-1 Fernandez, Miami, 9-2 Kershaw, Los Angeles, 8-1 Hammel, Chicago, 7-1 Matz, New York, 7-1 Bumgarner, San Francisco, 7-2 Greinke, Arizona, 7-3 Samardzija, San Francisco, 7-4.

Golf PGA Tour-Memorial Tournament DUBLIN, United States — Scores Sunday following the final round of the PGA Tour’s The Memorial, played on the 7,392-yard, par-72 Muirfield Village Golf Club (x-won on second hole of playoff): x-William McGirt, $1,530,000 70-68-64-71—273 Jon Curran, $918,000 68-67-68-70—273 Dustin Johnson, $578,000 64-71-68-71—274 J.B. Holmes, $334,688 71-68-67-69—275 Matt Kuchar, $334,688 66-66-70-73—275 Rory McIlroy, $334,688 71-66-70-68—275 Gary Woodland, $334,688 68-65-69-73—275 Keegan Bradley, $246,500 68-69-70-69—276 Patrick Reed, $246,500 68-71-69-68—276 Kevin Streelman, $246,500 67-68-69-72—276 Byeong Hun An, $158,667 71-70-69-67—277 Roberto Castro, $158,667 70-70-71-66—277 Tony Finau, $158,667 70-69-70-68—277 Marc Leishman, $158,667 69-71-69-68—277 Charl Schwartzel, $158,667 68-69-72-68—277 John Senden, $158,667 69-70-68-70—277 Emiliano Grillo, $158,667 67-66-70-74—277 Adam Hadwin, $158,667 70-66-67-74—277 Webb Simpson, $158,667 69-70-66-72—277 Matt Jones, $88,643 71-68-68-71—278 Smylie Kaufman, $88,643 71-67-71-69—278 Phil Mickelson, $88,643 68-69-69-72—278 Kyle Reifers, $88,643 71-67-71-69—278 Brendan Steele, $88,643 65-67-75-71—278 Soren Kjeldsen, $88,643 71-69-64-74—278 Robert Streb, $88,643 68-73-64-73—278 Zac Blair, $59,075 69-67-68-75—279 Scott Brown, $59,075 69-67-69-74—279 Jason Day, $59,075 66-71-68-74—279 David Hearn, $59,075 66-73-72-68—279 John Huh, $59,075 69-69-67-74—279 David Lingmerth, $59,075 68-73-68-70—279 Jason Dufner, $45,900 68-70-70-72—280 Lucas Glover, $45,900 70-67-73-70—280 Brian Harman, $45,900 68-70-69-73—280 Russell Henley, $45,900 68-70-69-73—280 Geoff Ogilvy, $45,900 68-69-70-73—280 Bud Cauley, $34,000 69-73-66-73—281 Bryson DeChambeau, $34,000 72-67-69-73—281 Patton Kizzire, $34,000 73-67-70-71—281 Ben Martin, $34,000 69-71-69-72—281 George McNeill, $34,000 71-71-69-70—281 Ryan Ruffels, $34,000 67-71-70-73—281 Daniel Summerhays, $34,000 72-67-70-72—281 Hudson Swafford, $34,000 66-71-69-75—281 Jonas Blixt, $25,500 71-69-69-73—282 Hiroshi Iwata, $25,500 75-67-70-70—282 Kevin Chappell, $21,930 71-70-70-72—283 Jason Gore, $21,930 72-67-71-73—283

GYMNASTICS EDMONTON — Results from the Canadian National Championships held from June 1 to 4.

Thunder Country Trampoline: Gold medals: Kalena Soehn (womens team trampoline and womens team double mini trampoline).

Silver medals: Kalena Soehn (national junior women: trampoline and double mini trampoline), Zachary Blakely (national junior men: double mini trampoline), Alexandra Potter (national level 6 U17 women: trampoline) and Keegan Soehn, Ashton Henfrey and Zachary Blakely (mens team trampoline).

Bronze medals: Keegan Soehn (national senior men: trampoline), Zachary Blakely (national junior men: trampoline and mens team double mini trampoline), Kyle and Keegan Soehn (national senior men: synchronized trampoline) and Ashton Henfrey and Zach Blackley (national level 5 men: synchronized trampoline).

Charles Howell III, $21,930 Ryan Moore, $21,930 Rafa Cabrera Bello, $19,822 K.J. Choi, $19,822 Jim Furyk, $19,822 Danny Lee, $19,822 Jamie Lovemark, $19,822

72-70-72-69—283 70-67-70-76—283 69-73-71-71—284 68-69-69-78—284 69-70-72-73—284 66-75-68-75—284 69-72-70-73—284

ShopRite LPGA Classic Sunday At Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club (Bay Course) Galloway, N.J. Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,179 Par: 71 Final Anna Nordqvist, $225,000 64-68-64—196 Haru Nomura, $138,191 65-66-66—197 Karine Icher, $100,248 68-62-69—199 Christina Kim, $77,549 69-66-65—200 Jing Yan, $62,419 67-69-66—202 Annie Park, $39,116 67-73-63—203 Mika Miyazato, $39,116 70-69-64—203 Brittany Lang, $39,116 69-70-64—203 In-Kyung Kim, $39,116 69-66-68—203 Christel Boeljon, $39,116 66-68-69—203 Danielle Kang, $26,555 67-69-68—204 Jacqui Concolino, $26,555 68-66-70—204 Na Yeon Choi, $26,555 67-64-73—204 Charley Hull, $19,577 73-66-67—206 Jennifer Song, $19,577 69-70-67—206 Sakura Yokomine, $19,577 67-72-67—206 Beatriz Recari, $19,577 66-72-68—206 Kim Kaufman, $19,577 68-69-69—206 Samantha Richdale, $19,577 68-68-70—206 Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $19,577 66-69-71—206 Mariajo Uribe, $19,577 69-65-72—206 Sarah Kemp, $13,955 71-69-67—207 Ashleigh Simon, $13,955 71-69-67—207 Sandra Gal, $13,955 72-67-68—207 Jenny Shin, $13,955 70-69-68—207 Lizette Salas, $13,955 67-71-69—207 Celine Herbin, $13,955 70-67-70—207 Pernilla Lindberg, $13,955 69-68-70—207 Karrie Webb, $13,955 67-70-70—207 Ai Miyazato, $13,955 64-71-72—207 Mackenzie/PGA Tour of Canada VICTORIA — Leading scores Sunday from the Mackenzie/PGA Tour of Canada’s Bayview Place Island Savings Open: Par — 70 Final Round Adam Cornelson 64-67-64-65—260

Taylor Moore Jeff Rein Seann Harlingten Scott Vincent Thomas Hay Paul Barjon Dan McCarthy Ryan Heisey Trevor Cone Brad Clapp Chris Evans Joseph Harrison Sean Dale Eric Onesi Brock Mackenzie Wil Bateman Benjamin Polland Hunter Hamrick Jonathan Khan

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McGirt wins Memorial in a playoff

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ohio — William McGirt won for the first time in 165 starts on the PGA Tour, and the timing couldn’t have been better.

McGirt played the final 22 holes of the Memorial without a bogey, and his 6-foot par on the second extra hole to beat Jon Curran, earn a handshake from host Jack Nicklaus and move high enough in the world ranking (No. 43) to get into the U.S. Open in two weeks at Oakmont.

He had to work harder than ever for his first victory.

McGirt, who made one birdie in his closing round of 1-under 71, kept it steady as everyone around him was falling apart on the back nine. His final par in regulation was the most important, a two-putt from 65 feet to join Curran in a playoff.

Curran showed his mettle, too, hitting out of a fairway bunker on the 17th hole to 7 feet for a birdie that carried him to

a 70.

They finished at 15-under 273, one shot ahead of Dustin Johnson (71), with Rory McIlroy (68) among those two shots behind.

McGirt was in trouble on the first playoff hole until he played expertly from the deep bunker short and left of the green, using the slope behind the hole for the ball to roll back to a few feet for par. Curran missed his 25-foot birdie putt for the win.

Returning to the 18th for the third time, both players were in trouble. McGirt went over the green from the fairway. Curran went from a fairway bunker into the gallery, pitched long and two-putted for bogey. McGirt played a superb flop shot than ran out just over 6 feet from the cup, and he clenched his fist before it even dropped in.

It was the third straight year the Memorial was won by a first-time PGA Tour champion, following David Lingmerth and Hideki Matsuyama.

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Dark and delicious pear crumble PEAR AND DARK CHOCOLATE CRUMBLE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS My four daughters all have a sweet tooth, and I blame genetics. I can sidestep French fries, chips and salty stuff pretty easily, but chocolate makes me drool. So if you love sweets, at least know you are in good company.

But, healthy-eating friends, let’s have some straight talk about dessert: it’s full of sugar, which means we can’t have dessert every single time we want it.

In our house, we eat (real) dessert only on weekends. During the week, I serve plain fruit or unsweetened yogurt after dinner, saving the sweeter treats for family meals where we linger around the table, connecting.

Even weekend desserts, though, are not a free-for-all sugar-fest. I follow one simple guideline to keep my family’s sugar consumption in check: I make all our own desserts.

There are three major advantages to this rule. First, while sugar can wreak havoc on our health, weird chemicals — fake flavours, colours, preservatives — scare me even more.

If I make the food myself, I can skip the strange ingredients I can’t pronounce, and that’s a win for our health.

Second, having to cook my own treats (usually) stops me from mindlessly eating something I brought home from the store. Permission to eat anything that is homemade is simultaneously enough freedom to indulge our cravings sometimes and enough brakes to keep us from scarfing down a random box of cookies. Lastly, if I make the desserts myself, then I have control over the recipe. Usually, I reduce sugar and simple carbohydrates and add protein and fiber, which all slow down the sugar rush.

For instance, this week’s pear and dark chocolate crumble turns almond flour and oats in a tasty topping that isn’t loaded with empty calories, and a tiny splash of almond extract brilliantly tricks the palate into thinking this dessert is sweeter than it is. Splurge on some high-quality dark chocolate chips (or just chop up a bar) — you’ll be amazed how satisfying a small bit of dark chocolate can be.

Start to Finish: 1 hour Yield: 6 servings For the filling: 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 4 pears, peeled and diced 1 granny smith apple, peeled and diced 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon corn starch For the crumble topping: 1/3 cup almond flour 1/2 cup oats 1/3 cup dark chocolate chips (recommended: 63% cacao) 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 Tablespoons cold butter, cut into small cubes Preheat the oven to 350. In a large bowl, mix the lemon juice and almond extract. Add the fruit and toss to coat.

Sprinkle the sugar and corn starch on the pears, and stir until mixed in.

Spoon the fruit into a 1.5 or 2-quart baking dish sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. In a small food processor, place the almond flour, oats, chocolate chips, sugar, and salt. Pulse once or twice to mix.

Top with the butter and pulse 8 or 9 times until mixture looks like wet sand.

(Chocolate chips may still be quite large and that’s perfect.)

Spread the oat and almond mixture over the fruit and gently press down into the fruit. Spray the top of the crumble with a little nonstick spray. Bake until fruit is tender and bubbling, and topping is golden brown, about 40-45 minutes.

Cool for 15 minutes before serving.

NOTE: one granny smith apple is used to add depth of flavour and texture, but another pear can be used instead.

Nutrition information per serving: 254 calories 113 calories from fat 13 g fat (6 g saturated 0 g trans fats) 13 mg cholesterol 107 mg sodium 37 g carbohydrate 6 g fiber 23 g sugar 4 g protein.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pear and Dark Chocolate Crumble

Smoking is the new grilling

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Most people wouldn’t dream of smoking ice cream, but grilling guru Steven Raichlen insists you can.

In his pursuit of adding depth of flavour to food, he’s tried smoking almost everything.

Not only does Raichlen smoke the traditional — ribs, pork shoulder, brisket, chicken — but he likes to push the envelope with eggs, cheesecake and even ice cubes for cocktails.

The TV host and author calls smoke the “umami of barbecue” because it acts like a flavour intensifier, transforming familiar foods into something unique.

Smoked eggs taste as if they’ve been kissed by a brisket or smoked salmon.

A quick strong blast of smoke on ice cream keeps it from melting and is “just enough to get a wonderful patina.”

“It’s the best ice cream you’ll ever taste because it has something that ice cream doesn’t normally have,” Raichlen says during a recent visit to Toronto.

In trying to put it into words, he offers: “You know the movie ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ the point in the movie where it goes from black and white to colour?

I would say regular ice cream is black and white, and then when it’s smoked it goes to Technicolor.”

While researching his new book “Project Smoke,” published by Workman, Raichlen built a cedar smokehouse at his property on Martha’s Vineyard, then experimented with a huge array of condiments and seasonings.

He came up with smoked mayonnaise, which is “absolutely wondrous” on a BLT or a lobster roll, and smoked sour cream for baked potatoes. He infused heavy cream for whipping, and experimented with smoking vanilla, salt, sugar, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard, honey and maple syrup.

But he found chocolate and peppercorns did not smoke well, likely because of their bitter, earthy flavour profiles.

“Smoking is easy, but it’s not simple,” he says, and so he leads newbie and experienced smokers alike through the intricacies of buying one of the many types of smokers on the market.

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The cover for “Project Smoke: Seven Steps to Smoked Food Nirvana, Plus 100 Irresistible Recipes from Classic (SlamDunk Brisket) to Adventurous (Smoked Bacon-Bourbon Apple Crisp)” is shown in this undated handout Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

He also provides tips on techniques like hot, cold or smoke-roasting, building a fire, choosing the right wood for meats and determining when the cook is done.

Raichlen, the author of more than two dozen books including “The Barbecue! Bible,” “How to Grill” and “Planet Barbecue!”, said writing his latest “was a real journey of discovery for me quite literally.”

He travelled to Oaxaca, Mexico to learn how mezcal is made with smoked and roasted cactus hearts Islay Island, Scotland where barley is smoked over peat to make Scotch whisky Scandinavia for smoked fish and the Italian Alps for smoked ham and cheese.

He often visits Quebec to film TV shows in French — “Le Maitre du Grill” and most recently “La Tag BBQ” — and is a fan of Montreal’s smoking scene. He includes a recipe for Montreal meatballs in the book.

A friend in Montreal introduced him to spruce smoking. Grill a steak over a hot fire. Just before it’s finished, remove the steak, throw a spruce branch on the fire and put the steak on top of the branch for 30 sec-

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onds. The burning needles release oil which flavours the meat.

For curious cooks without a smoker, Raichlen advises that smoker pouches or cast-iron boxes with wood pellets can be used in a grill to give food a taste of smoke.

Or try plank smoking trout or Camembert, which takes just 10 minutes.

Heat the grill to high and, contrary to most recipes, don’t soak the plank.

“You actually want to char that plank and let it almost catch fire because that’s where all the smoke is.

Char one side, turn it over, put your fish or cheese on it, (put it) back on the grill and char the bottom.” He keeps some water handy in case the edges catch fire.

There’s a huge range of woods that can be used in smoking depending on the type of food being prepared.

But what matters most is how the wood is added — very gradually, once every 40 minutes to an hour.

The smoke should be pale blue. If it’s black or billowing, you could be adding too much or the wood may be damp or green, which can give off a bitter flavour.

FAMILY ENRICHMENT PROGRAM FOCUSES ON SELF CARE The Family Enrichment Program and Canadian Mental Health Association are offering a series of free mini educational workshops for parents.

This Tuesday the theme is Put Your Oxygen Mask on First: The Importance of Self Care. Workshops are open to all parents with children ages 3 to 17. Pre-registration is required. Call Donna Damsgaard at 403-347-8844 for more information.

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1 cup (250 mL) old-fashioned or quick-cooking rolled oats 1/2 cup (125 mL) flour 1/2 cup (125 mL) packed golden brown sugar 1 tsp (5 mL) cinnamon 1/2 tsp (2 mL) ginger 1/8 tsp (0.5 mL) salt 1/2 cup (125 mL) butter, chilled and cubed 1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped pecans 4 cups (1 L) sliced rhubarb (1/2 inch/1.25 cm) 2 cups (500 mL) raspberries 3/4 cup (175 mL) sugar 2 tbsp (25 mL) cornstarch Ice cream, optional To prepare crumb topping, combine oats, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger and salt in a bowl. Using fingertips, rub in butter until mixture is crumbly. Stir in pecans. Combine rhubarb, raspberries, sugar and cornstarch. Spoon into a greased shallow 2 quart (2 L) baking dish. Sprinkle with crumb topping. Bake at 350ºF (180ºC) for 45 minutes or until juices are thick and bubbly and topping is golden brown. Serve warm with ice cream. Serves 4 - 6.

ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen’s column on healthy eating for busy families runs Fridays in the Red Deer Advocate. For tips on energy safety, food or household matters, call 1-877-420-9090 toll-free, email bfkanswerline@atco.com or live chat with us online at atcoblueflamekitchen.com. Connect with us on Twitter at @ATCOBlueFlame, on YouTube at youtube.com/TheBlueFlameKitchen and on Pinterest at pinterest.com/ ATCOBlueFlame.

LIBRARY LAUNCHES NEW EBOOK CLUB Join the new eBook Club for coffee, conversation and tech help. Bring your device — eBook reader, tablet or smart phone — and the Red Deer Public Library will bring the coffee.

The book of the month to download is The Great Gatsby. The club will meet and discuss the book on July 5. On Tuesday they will be meeting from 10:30 a.m. to noon at the downtown branch.

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GERMAN Elizabeth (Betty) Lovingly, we say goodbye to a wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and sister. Elizabeth was born February 2, 1929 in Eckville, Alberta and past away peacefully on May 31, 2016.

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Florida prepares for Colin, Texas deals with floods

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Tropical Storm Colin formed in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday and was speeding on a course to hit Florida on Monday with rains that forecasters said could cause serious flooding along much of the state’s Gulf coast.

A large portion of Florida’s western and Panhandle coast was already under a tropical storm warning when the National Hurricane Center announced that a quickly moving depression had become a named storm.

The centre said it is the earliest that a third named storm has ever formed in the Atlantic basin.

It is the latest in a series of severe whether events across the country, from record-breaking heat in the West, flooding in Texas and storms that are expected to cause problems in the nation’s capital and mid-Atlantic region.

The storm was moving at a speed of about 12 mph (19 kph) and was expected to pick up the pace later Sunday.

“It’s going to impact most of the state in some way,” Gov. Rick Scott said in a phone interview. “Hopefully we won’t have any significant issues here, but we can have some storm surge, some rain, tornados and some flooding.”

Scott postponed a political meeting with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump scheduled Monday in New York so he can remain in the state capital to monitor the weather.

Tropical storms carry wind speeds of between 39 mph (63 kph) and 73 mph (117 kph).

Tropical Storm Colin was likely to bring dangerous rainfall levels, and residents were warned about possible flooding and hazardous driving conditions. Rain began falling in the Tampa Bay area just past noon Sunday.

Scott warned residents not to simply look at the centre of the storm, saying the heaviest rain will be to the east and west of it.

The National Weather Service in Mobile issued a flood warning for the Shoal River near Crestview and warned of possible widespread flooding in streams, creeks, and canals.

Wind gusts threatened to bring down trees and branches and cause power outages.

The Georgia coast and the north Florida Atlantic coast were placed under a tropical storm watch Sunday evening.

Sand bags were being distributed to residents in St. Petersburg, Tampa

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Chris Reid, left, and Levi Goode, right, unload cases of water to be given away at the Myrtle Wilks Community Center, Friday, in Cisco, Texas. The city currently is out of water after flood damage to the city’s water treatment plant near Lake Cisco. and nearby cities.

“We’re surrounded on three sides by water,” said Pinellas County spokesman Nick Zoller, who said the county distributed 3,300 sand bags on Saturday, a number he expected to go up now that a tropical storm warning is in effect.

Just to the north, Pasco County Emergency Services Director Kevin Guthrie said the message is to be prepared.

“We are going to flood in parts of Pasco County,” Guthrie said in an email.

TEXAS TRAGEDY Fort Hood officials have identified the last of nine soldiers who died in Texas floodwaters during a training exercise as a 25-year-old Army specialist from California.

Army officials on Sunday said Spc. Yingming Sun enlisted in 2013 and first arrived at Fort Hood nearly two years ago. He and eight others who were previously identified died when fast-moving waters washed a 2 ½-ton vehicle from a low-water crossing Thursday.

Three others soldiers survived and have returned to duty.

Heavy and persistent storms the past two weeks have dumped more than a foot of rain in parts of Texas.

The rain is expected to diminish this week and dry out areas such as South-

east Texas, where officials gave evacuation order to about 2,000 homes.

TAKING AIM AT THE U.S. CAPITAL The National Weather Service is warning of an “enhanced” risk of severe storms in the mid-Atlantic region with the possibility of damaging winds.

Sterling, Virginia-based meteorologist Chris Strong says the primary threat in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area is from damaging wind gusts, and there’s a lesser threat for tornados.

Wakefield, Virginia-based meteorologist Lyle Alexander says the threat on the Eastern Shore is from winds and more localized heavy rain.

The weather service warns that heavy rain in central Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley could mean flooding in areas that received rain Saturday. Flash flood watches are in effect until evening.

Mount Holly, New Jersey-based meteorologist Lance Franck says in Delaware the threat is from high winds and torrential downpours bringing flooding to urban areas and areas with poor drainage.

In New York City, the last day of a music festival that was to include performances by Kanye West and Death Cab for Cutie was cancelled because of weather concerns.

Philippine president-elect urges public to kill drug dealers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighbourhoods.

In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd in the southern city of Davao that Filipinos who help him battle crime will be rewarded.

“Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun — you have my support,” Duterte said, warning of an extensive illegal drug trade that involves even the country’s police.

If a drug dealer resists arrest or refuses to be brought to a police station and threatens a citizen with a gun or a knife, “you can kill him,” Duterte said.

“Shoot him and I’ll give you a medal.”

The 71-year-old Duterte won the May 9 presidential election on a bold promise to end crime and corruption within six months of the start of his presidency. That vow resonated among crime-weary Filipinos, though police officials considered it campaign rhetoric that was impossible to accomplish.

Human rights watchdogs have expressed alarm that his anti-crime drive may lead to widespread rights violations.

Duterte, a longtime Davao mayor, has been suspected of playing a role in many killings of suspected criminals in his city by motorcycle-riding assassins known as the “Davao death squads,” but human rights watchdogs say he has not been criminally charged because nobody has dared to testify against him in court In his speech on Saturday, Duterte asked three police generals based in the main national police camp in

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Rodrigo Duterte answers questions from the media in Manila, Philippines. The Philippine president-elect encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime and urged citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who would resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods. Duterte told a huge crowd celebrating his presidential victory late Saturday, in the southern city of Davao, that Filipinos who would help him in the bloody war against criminality would be rewarded. the capital to resign for involvement in crimes that he did not specify. He threatened to humiliate them in public if they did not quit and said he would order a review of dismissed criminal cases of active policemen, suggesting some may have bribed their way back onto the force.

“They go back again crucifying the Filipino,” he said. “I won’t agree to that.”

“If you’re still into drugs, I will kill you, don’t take this as a joke. I’m not trying to make you laugh, son of a bitch, I will really kill you,” Duterte said to loud jeers and applause.

The foul-mouthed former government prosecutor said crimes were committed by law enforcers because of “extreme greed and extreme need.”

He said that he would provide a small amount to an officer who was tempted because his wife has cancer or a mother died, but that those who would break the law because of extreme greed “will also be dealt with by me.

I’ll have you killed.”

Duterte, who starts his six-year presidential term on June 30, repeated a plan to offer huge bounties to those who can turn in drug lords, dead or alive.

capital, Raqqa.

Abu Layla, who commanded a brigade inside the predominantly-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, was hit

by IS sniper fire on the outskirts of Manbij, an Islamic State group stronghold that controls the supply route between the Turkish border and Raqqa, the Kurdish website Rudaw said. He was evacuated by U.S. forces to a hospital in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, where he died.

The commander fought against IS militants in Kobani in early 2015, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group. Those battles, the

first major setback to the IS advance in northern Syria, were seen as instrumental to securing U.S. support for Kurdish forces in the country’s multi-layered conflict.

The SDF are now advancing on Manbij, 155 kilometres to the northwest of Raqqa, as Syrian government forces backed by Iranian, Lebanese and Russian firepower, advance on the IS capital from the south. It is unclear whether the twin offensives were co-ordinated.

Pro-government forces reached within 40 kilometres of the Tabqa Air Base, to the west of Raqqa, according to the Observatory.

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This image released by Paramount Pictures shows, from left, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael in a scene from ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.’ The movie opened to $35.3 million according to comScore estimates Sunday, close to half of what the first film opened to in 2014.

Turtles takes top spot at box office

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Turtle power isn’t all that strong the second time around, according to comScore estimates Sunday, but not all is bleak at the box office. While many of the season’s sequels continue to struggle, the healthy debut of the romantic drama Me Before You proved that there is room for more than superheroes in the summer.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows won the box office, but its estimated $35.3 million debut is not exactly cause for a celebratory pizza party. The $135 million production from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies comes just two years after the studios rebooted the property.

The 2014 movie performed surprisingly well — opening to $65.6 million and going on to gross $493.3 million worldwide — despite lacklustre reviews.

While lower in turnout, those who did show up liked this film far better than the first, according to exit polls.

Out of the Shadows doubles down on the fan elements with the introduction of a number of villains from the ’80s cartoon. But it was a bit too late for some who turned out for the first. The studio noticed a drop in attendance from the “nostalgia” audience of 25 to 34-year-olds this time around.

“You have to work a little bit harder to get people to a property if they

didn’t feel that we hit the fan beats as hard on the last movie as this movie does,” said Megan Colligan, Paramount’s President of Worldwide Distribution and Marketing. Colligan is hopeful that word of mouth will play a part in getting the audiences they lost back to the theatre.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is just the latest in a string of underwhelming openings for sequels this summer movie season, which runs from the first weekend in May through Labor Day. Some of the lacklustre showings include Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Alice Through the Looking Glass, and even X-Men: Apocalypse, which fell a hefty 66 per cent in its second weekend in theatres, earning $22.3 million for a second-place finish.

“When we’ve had this many sequels in a row not performing well in an industry where sequels are king, that’s disconcerting,” said Paul Dergarabedian, comScore’s Senior Media Analyst.

“What people want is good movies. If they truly deliver, I don’t think there’s a stigma against sequels.”

In a marketplace saturated with sequels, the romantic tearjerker Me Before You stood out from the pack and performed quite well because of it, earning $18.3 million for a third-place finish. The film, based on Jojo Moyes’ bestselling novel, has gotten mixed reviews from critics, but audiences, who were 81 per cent female and 53 per

cent over the age of 35 gave the film a solid A CinemaScore.

Warner Bros. distributed the film, a co-production between MGM and New Line Cinema which cost a reported $20 million to produce.

“We looked at a busy marketplace and said ‘where is there a movie for older females and younger females?

Let’s put it right against the more male-driven, superhero, four quadrant movies. Zero in on the female demographic,”’ said Jeff Goldstein, executive vice-president of Domestic Distribution for Warner Bros. “We were hoping to do somewhere between $13 and $15 million. It’s a big win for us.”

Meanwhile, the Lonely Island mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, earned a disappointing $4.6 million to take eighth place. Critics liked the film, but audiences were less enthusiastic, giving the satirical comedy a B CinemaScore.

“We wish that it was grossing more, but our critical response is really good on the film and we have been able to reach our core male audience,” said Nick Carpou, Universal’s President of Domestic Distribution.

While things have slowed down at the box office since the summer kicked off so strongly with Captain America: Civil War in early May, the year is still up some 5 per cent. Dergarabedian thinks that things will get back on track soon, especially with more

promising sequels like The Conjuring 2, Finding Dory, and Jason Bourne on the horizon.

“We can’t blame it all on sequel-itis,” Dergarabedian said. “I don’t think anyone cares what the title is, what number the movie is, as long as the movie really delivers.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to comScore.

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, $35.3 million ($34 million international).

2. X-Men: Apocalypse, $22.3 million ($84.4 million international).

3. Me Before You, $18.3 million ($7.7 million international).

4. Alice Through the Looking Glass, $10.7 million ($30.9 million international).

5. The Angry Birds Movie, $9.8 million ($16.7. million international) 6. Captain America: Civil War, $7.6 million (4.2 million international).

7. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, $4.7 million ($2.4 million international).

8. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, $4.6 million.

9. The Jungle Book, $4.2 million ($3.7 million international).

10. The Nice Guys, $3.5 million ($5.5 million international).

Former Canadian teen idol Bobby Curtola dies TORONTO — Former Canadian teen idol and singer Bobby Curtola has died. He was 73.

His death was announced Sunday in a statement from his children, who called Curtola “an amazing man who did so much for the people in this world.”

A teen idol in Canada during the early ’60s, Curtola also made his mark internationally in 1962 with the singles Fortune Teller and Aladdin.

Curtola, who was born in what is now Thunder Bay, Ont., was named to the Order of Canada in 1997. He was also known for his charity work, particularly for children.

In a statement issued through Curtola’s Facebook and Twitter pages, Chris Curtola and Michael Curtola said their father loved his fans.

“He loved each and every one of you more

than you will know, and never took for granted the life you gave him.

He would want you to do something kind for one another today and each day.

“He would also want you to know he loves you, and that you have another angel watching over you.”

A number of those

fans took to social media upon hearing of Curtola’s death to remember the singer.

“I’m shocked and heartbroken, the man was an icon,” tweeted one man.

“You were such a big piece of my early years.

You were my first big crush,” a woman said on Curtola’s Facebook page.

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No, you should not breastfeed your teen son KATHY MITCHELL AND MARCY SUGAR ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My wife and I are expecting our fourth child. She is a firm believer in breastfeeding and plans to do so when our baby arrives. Our oldest child, “Travis,” was 3 years old when his first sibling was born.

My wife continued to breastfeed him along with the baby, and continued to do so through the birth of our third child, born when Travis was 5. I thought it was a little odd, but I did not object.

Travis is now 13 years old. A few weeks ago, he asked his mom if he could breastfeed like he did when he was little. He told her he remembers it and loved how safe he felt. He said he

wants to feel that closeness with her again.

When she told me, I thought she was joking. But she was dead serious and had already told him “yes.” I do not agree with this and have expressed my concerns.

Travis is a boy in the middle of puberty who has suddenly become girl crazy. I cannot help but feel there is a sexual component to this. I had hoped her obstetrician would side with me, but we asked about it, the doctor replied, “I admit it is unusual to breastfeed a child at that age, but it is not likely it will harm him.”

Am I unreasonable to think a teenage boy doesn’t belong anywhere near his mom’s breasts? Please help me learn to accept this or to get my wife to rethink it. She has agreed to listen to your advice. — An Unreasonable Husband Dear Husband: The obstetrician was undoubtedly responding solely to the

nutritional benefits of breastfeeding.

No, the milk will not harm him. But emotionally and psychologically, your wife is setting Travis up for years of psychotherapy.

It’s not like your wife has been breastfeeding Travis for the past 13 years. This is a recent request.

Yes, of course, there is a sexual component, even if it’s subconscious and unintentional. The boy is 13. Girls are on his mind.

We guarantee female breasts are on his mind. Mom should not let him practice on her. It can create all kinds of physical sensations and attachments, not only for him, but also for Mom, none of which is emotionally healthy.

Mom, if you’re listening, please put your child first. Indulging this request doesn’t do either of you any good. It’s OK to say “no.” Simply tell Travis that he’s too old to do what babies do.

Surely, you can help him feel safe and loved in a more age-appropriate

way. You also can discuss this with Travis’ pediatrician, who might have a better handle on a teenage boy’s emotional health.

Dear Annie: When I eat out, am I supposed to cut a hamburger in half before eating? I have done this, but it makes it so messy to eat. — M. Dear M.: Sandwiches (especially hamburgers) can be eaten whole, unless doing so would require a bib or a larger mouth. Most folks would cut a grilled cheese sandwich, for example, but if cutting a hamburger makes it too sloppy, then by all means, don’t do it.

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.

‘Deaths of despair’ shorten expected lifespans of white Americans THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Rising drug and alcohol overdoses, suicides, and disease from chronic alcoholism — labeled “deaths of despair” by one expert — are cutting the lives of white Americans short by a half a year on average.

Increases in these types of deaths among whites means that life expectancy for whites is not increasing as fast as it is for other groups, according to a government report that offers an unusual look at how different threats

are affecting U.S. lifespans.

“Things are moving in the wrong direction,” said Anne Case, a Princeton University researcher, of what she calls “deaths of despair.”

Drawing from death certificate data, the new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focuses on what happened to white life expectancy between 2000 and 2014.

The work was a reaction to recent research that suggested drug overdoses and suicides have caused alarming increases in death rates for middle-aged white Americans. The new re-

JOANNE MADELINE MOORE HOROSCOPE June 6 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Frida Gustavsson, 23; Steve Vai, 55; Sandra Bernhard, 61 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Todayís stars are lucky for love, creativity and money.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Avoid isolating yourself from others.

The next 12 months is the time to contribute to making the world a better place. As you reach out to help others, your personal life will improve.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rams can become quite self-absorbed. Todayís stars remind you that there is much fun and enjoyment to be had within your neighbourhood. So find the time to connect with some local like-minded souls.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Being bored is a big no-no today Bulls, as you search for more meaning in your life. Others will sit up and take notice of your views, so make sure you are saying something worthwhile.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Original thoughts and creative ideas could strike at any time so have your phone, tablet, laptop, pen and paper, or paint brushes within easy reach. No one does creative communication better than you!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Give negativity the flick today Crabs! Instead, tune into all the people and places that make you feel good about yourself. Itís also a fortuitous time to fine-tune your communication skills.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take a deep breath and talk up your creative talents, as you promote your accomplishments with confidence and plenty of chutzpah. If you donít believe in yourself; why should anyone else?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you stuck in a stifling rut?

The focus is on your career today Virgo, and youíll find a creative and cooperative approach will get professional matters moving in a positive new direction.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Youíre in the mood for fun, adventure and excitement today Libra, so do all you can to shake up your usual routine. Study, reading, outdoor activities and international connections are also favoured.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you been overworking and burning the midnight oil Scorpio? Todayís stars favour taking time out to recharge your run-down batteries, as you contemplate your life and where youíre going.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): With peace-maker Venus visiting your partnership zone, do all you can to bring

port, which did not perform the same analysis for blacks and Hispanics, was posted online Friday.

Overall, white life expectancy still grew because other things were improving. Deaths from heart disease — the nation’s No. 1 killer — dropped significantly, and that alone added a year to white life expectancy. Nearly one more year was added because of falling death rates from cancer, stroke, and motor vehicle crashes, the researchers found.

But then drugs and alcohol subtracted about 4 months from life ex-

more harmony into your close relationships. Singles — look for love with a lusty Leo or a gregarious Gemini.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Can you keep a secret Capricorn? Youíre usually very discreet, but someone may try to persuade you to divulge information thatís best kept private.

Resist the urge to spill the beans with a gracious smile.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Expect some interesting insights today, especially involving a relationship with a child, teenager or close friend. Itís also a fabulous day to stretch your creative wings in expansive new directions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Hopefully home sweet home is a pleasant place to be, as the Sun and Venus visit your domestic zone. So itís a suitable time to socialise with family members, or buy something beautiful for your home.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

pectancy, according to Kenneth Kochanek, a CDC statistician who was the report’s lead author. No other cause of death had a bigger negative impact.

White life expectancy grew to nearly 79 in 2014, from about 77 ½ years in 2000. Black life expectancy rose to a little over 75 from about 71 ½. Life expectancy for Hispanics rose to 82 years from 79.

Earlier this week, CDC issued a report on preliminary death data for 2015 that showed the U.S. death rate rose slightly — the first increase in a decade.

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