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Inside today Meals on Wheels nourishes lives A group of community partners is working together to feed those who are unable to put food on their table. » Alberni Region, Page 3 A look back into the history of Hunter’s Store Before it was Hunter’s Store, it was McConachie’s General Store, and before that, it was Freethy’s Store. » This Is Then, Page 10 » Use your smartphone to jump to our Facebook page for updates on these stories or the latest breaking news. CITY Council cancels plywood mill site lease MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES City council voted to cancel a lease to the port authority for the former Alberni Plywood mill site next to Canal Beach at Monday’s regular meeting. The brownfield site has been in the city’s possession for 25 years with no development. The city entered a lease agreement with the Port Alberni Port Authority on July 1, 2014 that stipulated at least $500,000 of industrial develop- ment would begin within one year from the lease date. Council delayed the cancellation for a few extra months to see whether any- thing would materialize over the summer. Seeing as that didn’t happen, the motion to cancel the lease this week carried unanimously, with a 90-day notice of termination begin- ning on Sept. 15. A petition started by Port Alber- ni resident Sandra Gentleman to cancel the lease started on the website change.org, gathering over 300 names in support of public space on the waterfront. “I support a waterfront green space beside Canal Beach on city- owned land,” reads the petition’s statement. The goal is to reach 500 names in support. PAPA had leased the property, which had only been used to sort logs in the Alberni Inlet for dec- ades, for $1,200 a month. The port authority planned to sublease the lots to Canadian Alberni Engin- eering for expanded shipping oper- ations that could have created 100 additional jobs. Plans fell through when CAE lost a bid to retrofit a Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft, according to Coun. Jack McLeman. Mayor Mike Ruttan said the city hasn’t decided what to do with the land and will bring it back up for discussion at a council meeting later this month. See LEASE, Page 3 Port authority fails to meet conditions for development ERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES An arrest has been made for the murder of Kristy Morrey, nine years after the 28-year-old was found dead in her Beaver Creek home. Larry Darling has been charged with first degree mur- der for Morrey’s death, an inci- dent that has been a mystery haunting the community since the Alberni Valley resident was discovered on Aug. 20, 2006. Darling, 51, was taken into police custody Friday in Surrey “without incident,” said Insp. Chuck McDonald of the RCMP’s E Division Serious Crime Unit at a Tuesday press conference in Port Alberni. The Abbotsford resident is scheduled to appear in Port Alberni Laws Courts today for the charge. As an ex-boyfriend of four years who had split with Morrey one month before her death, Darling was previ- ously a suspect in the murder case, but no charges were laid until last week. McDonald said more information about the cold case investigation will come forward in court proceedings, but he admitted recent developments in foren- sic evidence were a factor as police worked to piece togeth- er the case. “We have the last piece of a puzzle that has taken nine years to solve,” said McDonald, adding that the Serious Crime Unit joined the investigation two years ago. “A homicide investigation is complicated, with the amount to time that elapses sometimes new for- ensic tools become available to us and new information became available to us as the investigation continued.” After nine years of uncer- tainty, the recent arrest offers some relief for Morrey’s loved ones, said cousin Jaclyn Kon- ing. Before tearful friends and relatives sitting in the front row, Koning gave a statement on behalf of the family at the press conference. “Today we stand before you strong knowing that someone has been arrested. Our initial reaction was shock, relief and with a heavy heart betrayal,” she said. “It has been nine long years since Kristy was taken from us, and not a day goes by that we don’t think about it.” A number of other cold cases still hang over the Port Alber- ni community, but the recent development does provide some closure for the nine-year mystery of Morrey’s death, said Insp. Mac Richards of the city’s detachment. “From a community perspec- tive it’s a positive step,” he said. “The community’s been hurting for a long time.” Morrey’s body was found in bed under a blanket by a friend at 12:02 p.m. Aug. 20, 2006 in a house the 28-year- old rented on Lugrin Road in Beaver Creek. The young woman was expected to attend a friend’s wedding gift-open- ing ceremony that morning, leading others to send several unanswered telephone calls to Morrey’s home. She had been drinking with five friends the previous night at the Lugrin Road residence, who left Mor- rey’s home at 3:10 a.m. Darling was among this group. [email protected] Arrest announced in homicide First-degree murder charge laid for Kristy Morrey death in 2006 Jaclyn Koning, cousin of Kristy Morrey, speaks on behalf of the murdered Port Alberni resident’s family during a press conference in the city’s RCMP detachment Tuesday . Seated is Chuck McDonald, Officer in Charge of the RCMP’s E Division Serious Crime Unit. [ERIC PLUMMER, TIMES] » Murder investigation MORREY
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Inside today
Meals on Wheels nourishes livesA group of community partners is working together to feed those who are unable to put food on their table.
» Alberni Region, Page 3
A look back into the history of Hunter’s StoreBefore it was Hunter’s Store, it was McConachie’s General Store, and before that, it was Freethy’s Store.
» This Is Then, Page 10
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CITY
Council cancels plywood mill site lease
MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
City council voted to cancel a lease to the port authority for the former Alberni Plywood mill site next to Canal Beach at Monday’s regular meeting.
The brownfield site has been in the city’s possession for 25 years with no development. The city entered a lease agreement with the Port Alberni Port Authority on July 1, 2014 that stipulated at least $500,000 of industrial develop-ment would begin within one year from the lease date. Council delayed the cancellation for a few extra months to see whether any-thing would materialize over the summer.
Seeing as that didn’t happen, the motion to cancel the lease this week carried unanimously, with a 90-day notice of termination begin-ning on Sept. 15.
A petition started by Port Alber-ni resident Sandra Gentleman to cancel the lease started on the website change.org, gathering over 300 names in support of public space on the waterfront.
“I support a waterfront green space beside Canal Beach on city-owned land,” reads the petition’s statement. The goal is to reach 500 names in support.
PAPA had leased the property, which had only been used to sort logs in the Alberni Inlet for dec-ades, for $1,200 a month. The port authority planned to sublease the lots to Canadian Alberni Engin-eering for expanded shipping oper-ations that could have created 100 additional jobs. Plans fell through when CAE lost a bid to retrofit a Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft, according to Coun. Jack McLeman.
Mayor Mike Ruttan said the city hasn’t decided what to do with the land and will bring it back up for discussion at a council meeting later this month.
See LEASE, Page 3
Port authority fails to meet conditions for development
ERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
An arrest has been made for the murder of Kristy Morrey, nine years after the 28-year-old was found dead in her Beaver Creek home.
Larry Darling has been charged with first degree mur-der for Morrey’s death, an inci-dent that has been a mystery haunting the community since the Alberni Valley resident was discovered on Aug. 20, 2006. Darling, 51, was taken into police custody Friday in Surrey “without incident,” said Insp. Chuck McDonald of the RCMP’s E Division Serious Crime Unit at a Tuesday press conference in Port Alberni.
The Abbotsford resident is scheduled to appear in Port Alberni Laws Courts today for the charge. As an ex-boyfriend of four years who had split with Morrey one month before her death, Darling was previ-ously a suspect in the murder
case, but no charges were laid until last week. McDonald said more information about the cold case investigation will come forward in court proceedings, but he admitted recent developments in foren-sic evidence were a factor as police worked to piece togeth-er the case.
“We have the last piece of a puzzle that has taken nine
years to solve,” said McDonald, adding that the Serious Crime Unit joined the investigation two years ago. “A homicide investigation is complicated, with the amount to time that elapses sometimes new for-ensic tools become available to us and new information became available to us as the investigation continued.”
After nine years of uncer-tainty, the recent arrest offers some relief for Morrey’s loved ones, said cousin Jaclyn Kon-ing. Before tearful friends and relatives sitting in the front row, Koning gave a statement on behalf of the family at the press conference.
“Today we stand before you strong knowing that someone has been arrested. Our initial reaction was shock, relief and with a heavy heart betrayal,” she said. “It has been nine long years since Kristy was taken from us, and not a day goes by that we don’t think about it.”
A number of other cold cases
still hang over the Port Alber-ni community, but the recent development does provide some closure for the nine-year mystery of Morrey’s death, said Insp. Mac Richards of the city’s detachment.
“From a community perspec-tive it’s a positive step,” he said. “The community’s been hurting for a long time.”
Morrey’s body was found in bed under a blanket by a friend at 12:02 p.m. Aug. 20, 2006 in a house the 28-year-old rented on Lugrin Road in Beaver Creek. The young woman was expected to attend a friend’s wedding gift-open-ing ceremony that morning, leading others to send several unanswered telephone calls to Morrey’s home. She had been drinking with five friends the previous night at the Lugrin Road residence, who left Mor-rey’s home at 3:10 a.m. Darling was among this group.
Arrest announced in homicideFirst-degree murder charge laid for Kristy Morrey death in 2006
Jaclyn Koning, cousin of Kristy Morrey, speaks on behalf of the murdered Port Alberni resident’s family during a press conference in the city’s RCMP detachment Tuesday.Seated is Chuck McDonald, Officer in Charge of the RCMP’s E Division Serious Crime Unit. [ERIC PLUMMER, TIMES]
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Auxiliary afternoon jams every Thursday, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., at 3561 Third Ave.
AV Words on Fire Spoken Word open mic from 7 to 9 p.m. last Thursday of the month at Char’s Landing.
Timbre! Choir is looking for new members in all sections for their 43rd Season. Rehears-als commence Monday, Sep-tember 14th. Please contact Pat Venn at (250) 723-2380 or Patricia Miller at (250) 390-7508 for more detailed information.
Sports CONNECT A Parent Program
meets on Thursday even-ings, from 6 to 7 p.m. Info: 250-724-0125.
Drop-in Badminton on Mon-days and Thursday, Alberni Athletic Hall, 8 p.m. Everyone welcome. Info: 250-723-8990 (Marg).
Touch rugby games at the Port Alberni Black Sheep Rugby Club Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Everyone welcome.
Alberni Valley Billiards Club, 2964 Third Ave., adult mixed eight-ball league on Thursdays at 7 p.m. Info: 250-723-1212.
Horseshoe Club on Thursdays at 6 p.m. at Dry Creek Park. Info: 250-724-4770 or 250-723-6050.
Line dancing with Linda Ross, third Thursday of each month at Char’s Landing, from 7 to 9 p.m. Info: [email protected].
Child and youth Army Cadets, ages 12 to 18,
meet Thursdays at Cherry Creek Hall from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Info: 250-735-3517.
Join the Sea Cadets, ages 12 to 18. They meet Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:15 p.m. at 4210 Cedarwood St. E-mail: [email protected] or call 250-730-0944.
Youth Clinic services are avail-able at ADSS (around the left front corner) on Thursdays, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Info: 250-731-1315 or the Youth Clinic cell at 250-720-9591.
Support and help Having trouble connecting
with your teen? Connect, an attachment-based program to support parents and caregivers, is held Thursday evenings, from 6 to 7 p.m. Registration: 250-724-0125 or 250-731-1315 (ext. 41766 - Debra).
Grief Support Group meets Thursday afternoons at the Hospice Society office. Call Ruth at 250-723-4478 to register.
Urgently needed: The Can-adian Red Cross is seeking volunteers for the Health Equipment Loan and Disas-ter Management programs in Port Alberni. Please visit http://www.redcross.ca/volun-teer/who-is-needed details. To apply please email [email protected], call 1-855-995-3529 or visit the Red Cross office at 5100C Tebo Avenue.
KUU-US Crisis Line, plus mobile outreach support services. If
you, or someone you know, is having difficulties, please call 250-723-2040.
Service groupsAlberni Valley Legion Branch No.
293 meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. for its general meeting at 4680 Victoria Quay. No meet-ings in July or August.
Literacy Alberni, drop-in times Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Info: 250-723-7323.
Addictions Come and join Port Alberni
Friendship Center’s relapse prevention group every Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Coffee and snacks included.
Al-Anon and Al-Ateen Support Groups, for family and friends of problem drinkers, on
Thursdays at 8 p.m. at Elim church, 3946 Wallace St. Info: 250-723-5526, 250-723-2372 or 250-720-4855.
Narcotics Anonymous, 1-800-807-1780 for meeting times and locations.
Special interestMount Klitsa Garden Club meets
on the first Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. in the Dog-wood Room at Echo Centre. Everyone welcome.
STARFLEET Alberni Deep Space Port meets the second Thursday of each month at Echo Centre, from 6 to 8 p.m. For all Star Trek fans. Info: 250-724-7293 or [email protected].
Social Team Trudeau, Pints ‘n Politics from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays at Char’s Landing.
What’s coming
Exhibition of Watercolour paintings by Mae LeBlanc September 1 to 30, 2015 at Echo Centre.
Lunar Fun, Sept. 17 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the library. Ages 4 and up.
Elder College Open House, Sept. 18 at 10:30 a.m. North Island College. Guest speaker Mag-gie Hodge- Kwan from the Community Foundation’s Vital Signs project.
Yoga for Terry Fox Fundraiser, Sat. Sept. 19 at 10am at Cen-tennial Pier. By donation.
Happy Un-Birthday Party, Sept. 19 from 2-3 p.m. at the library. Ages 4 and up.
Port Alberni Scottish Country Dancers open house Monday Sept. 20, 7 p.m. at the Legion Hall. Bring soft-soled shoes and a smile. for more info contact 250-723-0516.
Dad’s Night Out, Sept. 23 from 6:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. in cele-bration of Raise-a-Reader Day at the library.
Cardboard Challenge, Sept. 26 from noon to 3 p.m. at Glen-wood Centre.
Dad’s Night Out Pirate Mystery Scavenger Hunt, Oct. 21 from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. at the library.
Boo to You, Scooby-Doo Hallow-een Celebration, Oct. 24 from 2-3 p.m. at the library.
Kids Tech Tuesday: Learning App Afternoon, Nov. 17 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the library.
Holiday Book Giving, Nov. 21 from 2-3 p.m. at the library. Bring and decorate a book for a collection for the Christmas hampers.
Deck the Halls Tree Trimming party, Dec. 5 from 1-3 p.m. at the library.
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Snow on ArrowsmithAfter months of having a bare surface, a thin layer of snow was visible on Mount Arrowsmith Tuesday. [JERRY FEVENS FOR THE TIMES]
The Canadian dollar traded Tues-day afternoon at 75.49 US, up 0.06 of a cent from Monday’s close.
The Pound Sterling was worth $2.0318 Cdn, down 1.37 of a cent while the Euro was worth $1.4928 Cdn, down 0.55 of a cent.
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Port Alberni residents conserve household use as rainfall helps replenish ground table, says engineer
Water restrictions down to Stage 1MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
Thanks in part to a 30 per cent reduction in water consumption over the summer months in Port Alberni, restrictions have been lowered this week from Stage 2 to Stage 1.
“We’ve had a recent visit up to Lizard Lake and Bainbridge Lake and the water reservoir levels have risen,” said city engineer Guy Cicon at the regu-lar council meeting on Monday night. “The concern about water restrictions has eased.”
After a record low snowpack on mountains around the Alber-ni Valley last winter – only 15 per cent of the usual amount – and a dry spring, the City of Port Alberni enacted Stage 2 water restrictions for the first time in its history in July.
Water usage dropped from a high of above 17,000 cubic metres per day on July 1 – in 33-degree weather – to just over 12,000 cubic metres on average in August, said Cicon.
“We should be quite pleased how the general public reduced their water consumption due to our ask,” he said.
“We were able to protect our water levels within our reser-voir; that’s very important. The weather did break on us just recently. So we had those three
major things working in our favour to avoid any serious con-cerns about water volume and quality.”
Coun. Jack McLeman asked Cicon what it would mean if the snowpack levels stayed low over the winter months.
Cicon said that even with-out snow, rainfall has man-aged to replenish the ground water table to serve the city’s reservoirs.
“It’s that ground water table that provided the source of water that collected to the streams – and we were able to draw from that,” said Cicon.
“If the snow level is minimal again this year, I’m hopeful that there’ll be enough rain to recharge the water table. But that’s where we were getting our water from this year.”
Currently there is no system in place to monitor the water table in the China Creek watershed, Cicon said. But there is interest in ground water drilling as a possible future development.
“We want to learn as much about our watershed as pos-sible,” he said. “Understanding the ground water is part of that.”
Without a snowpack in the winter, the city may need to return to Stage 2 water restric-tions next summer, Cicon noted.
Water restrictions this year will likely be lifted entirely within the next month, Cicon added.
For Stage 1 restrictions,
even-numbered residential addresses may sprinkle their lawns on even-numbered calen-dar days from 6–9 a.m. or 7–10 p.m. and odd-numbered address-es on odd-numbered calendar days. Outdoor washing of cars, boats, houses, driveways and
sidewalks must be done by hand using either a bucket or a hose with a spring-loaded shut-off nozzle. Further details on water restrictions are available on the city’s website: portalberni.ca.
File photo of the China Creek Intake Dam circa 2010. After implementing Stage 2 water restrictions for the first time in history, the City of Port Alberni saw a 30 per cent reduction in consumption over the summer months. City engineer Guy Cicon said rainfall helped to replenish the ground water table recently. [CITY OF PORT ALBERNI PHOTO]
CICON
“It’s that ground water table that provided the source of water that collected to the streams – and we were able to draw from that.”
Guy Cicon, city engineer
Cypress Restaurant cook, Lance Dodding, ladels up some soup for a hot meal that Wholesome Meals on Wheels coordinator Janet Buchanan will send out with a volunteer driver to deliver to a client. [KRISTI DOBSON, TIMES]
Meals on Wheels can save livesKRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
A group of community partners is working together to provide nourishment to those who are unable to shop and cook for themselves.
For 45 years, Wholesome Meals on Wheels has been delivering hot meals with the help of vol-unteer drivers. These volunteers play an important role in the lives of meal recipients. Some are ill, lonely or unable to get out of the house for any social interaction.
“The volunteers spend time with them,” said coordinator Janet Buchanan. “Sometimes they are the only people they see all day and the drivers get to know them. They become friends.”
Buchanan said the drivers also become an extra set of eyes and ears for families who may not always be available.
“We run into emergencies a lot,” she said. “The drivers will report if they notice anything off and we
will contact the family. We have saved lives because (the clients) sometimes tell the drivers things they won’t tell their family.”
Clients who use Meals on Wheels vary, but the majority, an estimated 75 to 80 per cent, are seniors.
In the Alberni Valley, with a total population of almost 25,500, there are approximately 5,100 residents aged 65 and older.
The service is open to anyone who has difficulty with meal preparation, and other cli-ents include hospital patients returning home, those with physical or mental disabilities and people requiring support for nutrition.
The group has 45 volunteer driv-ers and although the number is adequate, more are always need-ed for support.
“Some spend time on the canal in the summer or go south for the winter, so we need about seven to 10 spares,” Buchanan said.
The organization’s president,
Claude Lavertu said they have never run into a situation in which a meal went undelivered.
“Others take over the extra routes,” Lavertu said. “It just makes it a little more difficult if someone can’t make certain days.”
Last week the organization started working with The Cypress Restaurant, whose cooks provide up to 1,200 meals per month. Food and beverage manager Vishal Dewli said it is also a chance for people who are unable to go to his restaurant to try the food.
“We will customize for every-one’s different needs,” he said.
Meals are prepared and deliv-ered Tuesday through Saturday between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.
With partial funds from the BC Gaming Branch, the combined partnerships share a similar man-date of community giving.
For more information, contact Buchanan at 250-730-0390.
Fraudster calling residents in Alberni posing as Canada Revenue Agency
RCMP warn of phone tax scam
MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
Threatening phone calls demanding banking information to pay for overdue tax debt are not from the Canada Revenue Agency, says the Port Alberni RCMP detachment.
Over the past several weeks Port Alberni residents have received phone calls from a fraudster posing as a CRA rep-resentative, according to local Mounties. The caller attempts to persuade people to pay for a fic-titious tax debt, and can become aggressive or threatening in an attempt to scare you into forking over your money.
Hang up and call the Can-adian Anti-Fraud Centre – 1-888-495-8501 – instead, police recommend.
This is the same tax scam reported all over British Colum-bia and across Canada, said Insp. Mac Richards, officer in charge of the Port Alberni RCMP. Local police noticed at least a dozen reports in Port Alberni about the scam starting about two weeks ago, Richards said. So far he is not aware that anyone in the Alberni Valley has become a vic-tim of the scam. Calls are made at random and don’t appear to be targeted, he noted. Finding the fraudster, however, is unlikely.
“Most of these are untraceable phone calls,” Richards said. “It’s pretty tough, depending on how they set it up. If the money goes out of the country, it’s even tougher. Most are money orders or direct transfers – you never see that money again.”
A number of different phone scams schemes asking for per-sonal or banking information seem to recycle themselves every few years, Richards said, adding it’s important that people are aware of them.
Fraudsters may manipulate caller IDs to appear to be a local or provincial number – a tech-nique known as “spoofing.”
“It’s important that the public recognizes that these phone calls are a scam,” stated Const. Aaron Aasen of the Port Alberni RCMP’s serious crime investi-gation section. “No personal or banking information should ever be provided over the phone prior to verifying the authenticity of the caller.”
The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre lists two different types of tax scams on its websites. Besides demanding payment for fictitious overdue debt, some scammers request information with the promise of a fictitious refund payment. Attempts to gather personal information for fraudulent purposes is known as “phishing.” The anti-fraud centre recommends people call the CRA to verify whether they owe back taxes or are entitled to a refund.
The Canada Revenue Agency’s website includes descriptions of various scams, some of which are over email or by text mes-saging. Further information on how to recognize a tax scam and protect yourself is available on the CRA website at www.cra-arc.gc.ca.
City acts in community’s interest: Port AuthorityLEASE, from Page 1
Port Alberni Port Authority’s director of public relations, David McCormick, sent a statement to the AV Times on Tuesday regarding the lease cancellation.
“The port enjoys and values
its great working relationship with the City of Port Alberni. We share a number of priorities and we will continue to work together on these other initia-tives; most notably, a high visibil-ity attraction development at Clutesi Haven Marina grounds,” McCormick stated. “Given this
relationship and our shared interests, we respect The City’s decision to give notice to termin-ate the lease. We are confident that the City is continuing to act in the best interests of the community.”
Empty health care promises from the feds
Albeit well-meaning promises made by electioneering federal leaders are only empty promises as long as provincial govern-ments are not held accountable for how federal health-care transfer payments are spent.
For example: there’s some-thing wrong when people in B.C wait weeks or months for diag-nostic testing and sometimes years for treatments including surgeries, because of provincial under funding for diagnostic technicians, doctors, and nurs-es while umpteen health care so-called “authorities” execu-tive teams enjoy $500,000 salar-ies, perks, and bonuses.
Too much money is spent pay-ing executives and hiring expen-sive consultants to reinvent the health care wheel, when all that’s needed is whatever med-ically trained and experienced staff ask for: the tools and per-sonnel to provide patient-cen-tered care.
So unless the federal govern-ment is going to start holding provincial governments more
accountable, by monitoring whether transfer payments are well spent and that needed funds aren’t squandered on bureaucratic compensation, then their promises about improving health care dis-appointingly amounts to just empty promises.
Unless the federal government holds the provincial govern-ment more accountable, health-care will just continue as a base for consolidating political power. For surely B.C’s appoint-ed health care “authorities” are also a B.C Liberal Party “special interest group” of supporters.
As a retired R.N, it’s disheart-ening to continue to watch the corpartization of health care management increase along with patient wait lists. The latter was considered anathema before the former came along.
Liz Stonard Port Alberni
Election signs are falling down
I often drive around the
federal constituency of Courteney-Alberni in the mornings. I have noticed that a substantial number of Con-servative Party signs are fall-ing down overnight, like leaves in the fall. Surely the people running the Conservative campaign for candidate John Duncan could borrow a leaf from one of their three utopian opposition parties and learn how to put up signs properly? Their signs stay up.
Sadly, under current law, there is no penalty for putting up signs that fall down.
The law only deals with defacing or pulling down cam-paign signs which is a criminal offence and can carry a fine up to $5,000 or two years in prison.
The law needs to be amended to repair this deficiency.
Nestor E. Gayowsky Qualicum Beach
Conservation officer made the right choice
Conservation officer Bryce Casavant made, as we now
know, the right decision in sav-ing the two bear cubs.
Unfortunately, the bosses in the Ministry of the Environ-ment would not accept his judgment that there were good reasons to make an assess-ment with respect to human habituation before carrying out execution.
Are we to believe the chain of command in the ministry is so insecure that it can’t accept that a professional on the ground may be right?
With a little bit of mature circumspection by the high-er-ups, this whole power play and media circus could have been avoided and Casavant’s job as conservation officer saved.
But then this is the minister and his policy makers who again chose to shoot them-selves in the proverbial foot, just like they did when approv-ing trophy hunting of a dwin-dling stock of grizzlies in the Kootenays just so someone can gloat about another kill.
Paul Snickars Parksville
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Aid, defence spending can’t slide moreIn decades past Canadians
had reason to feel proud of the role our country played
in the world. We deployed peace-keepers, championed the Inter-national Criminal Court, gave generously to foreign aid, fought apartheid, and battled ethnic cleansing.
But Stephen Harper’s vision for Canada’s role in the world has never been an ambitious one, and the numbers prove it.
Canada has slipped far behind other industrial countries on Harper’s watch, in terms of what we spend pulling our weight abroad.
In fairness to the Conserva-tives, the slide didn’t begin with them. It dates back to the Liber-als’ time in office. But the trend has continued and reached a new low point under the Harper Tor-ies and it is hobbling Canada’s ability to help ease suffering in the world and contribute to global stability.
The gap has grown so wide that whoever wins the current feder-al election will face a hard slog restoring Canada’s currency on the international stage.
A new research paper for Open Canada, an online foreign affairs forum for the Canadian Inter-national Council, concludes that
Ottawa has become a “free rider” when it comes to spending on defence and foreign aid, two key benchmarks of a nation’s global engagement.
If that sounds harsh, consider the numbers:
Canada now spends about $19 billion on the military and $5 billion on foreign aid, for a total of $24 billion. That’s rough-ly 1.2 per cent of our economic output measured as gross domes-tic product, the report’s auth-ors Robert Greenhill and Meg McQuillan point out.
Our current spending makes us shirkers compared to our partners in the Group of Seven. We’re tied in the G7 for last place with Japan, spending 40 per cent less last year than the G7 average.
We’re also last in a peer group of mid-size economies that includes Australia, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
“We have been laggards for years: today, we rank last,” the report concludes. “We are the least committed to global engagement of our international peer group.” That wasn’t always the case.
Between 1975 and 1995, Canada’s spending on both defence and aid was far more ambitious under both Progres-sive Conservative and Liberal governments.
Granted, the Cold War is over. But any “peace dividend” has long since been exhausted, and the calls on our military keep coming. Canadian troops have been deployed to thwart geno-cide in the Balkans, fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban, deter pir-acy and battle the Islamic State.
And while the Harper govern-ment has invested heavily in mother and child health care abroad, that good work has been more than offset by aid cuts elsewhere.
Canadians can usefully debate where best to put money, into the military or aid.
But if we want to play a serious role in securing a more prosper-ous, stable world for the next generation, we will need to dig deeper. What would it take to bring us back up to the G7 aver-age? We’d need to boost spending by $13 billion or more a year, a 50 per cent hike. And that isn’t on any of the major party agendas.
While Canada’s drift to the bot-tom hasn’t stirred much notice in the election campaign, it should be on the new government’s agenda once the dust settles. We have catching up to do.
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Many people think that once they receive their Certificate of Incorporation, their company is ready to operate. But incorporating a private BC company is not as easy as it might seem.
Choosing and reserving an appropriate company name, deciding on an authorized share structure, settling on the Articles (rules and regulations that govern the conduct of your com-pany), completing the Incorporation Agreement and filing the Incorporation Application (with attached Notice of Articles) through Corporate Online are only the first steps. After you get your Certificate of Incorporation, things still need to be done to complete the organization of your company.
You can have an actual organizational meeting, but the business can just as easily be done through consent resolutions signed by all directors.
Shares have to be issued to the incorporators/shareholders. It’s the proportion each share-holder receives that’s important, not the number. If there are two shareholders and they are to “own” the company equally, then they should each be issued the same number (it could be ten shares each or 5,000 each).
Then there’s the appointment of officers. While a company isn’t required to have any particu-lar officers such as a president and a secretary (unless your Articles say so), it’s traditional to appoint officers of the company to handle the day-to-day operations. If you have a one-person company, you can be both president and secretary at the same time.
You may also want to appoint a banker and authorize the transfer of assets or money into the company.
The Business Corporations Act requires that minutes of all company meetings must be pre-pared and kept at the records office, along with other company records. So you need a com-pany records or minute book to hold the minutes of your company meetings (or written and signed directors’ resolutions, if meetings are done by consent resolutions instead).
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You might also consider a “buy-sell” agreement, so existing shareholders retain control of the company if a shareholder dies or wants out, or a broader shareholders’ agreement.
And then, once your company is organized, other things must still be done to maintain your company, for example, filing annual reports with the Corporate Registry.
Your lawyer can assist you with all of this. If it’s a problem keeping your own records, con-sider using the “records office” services offered by your lawyer for an annual fee.
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Critics say BC Ferries cuts are damaging serviceKRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
BC Ferries saved several thou-sands of dollars more than its target last year through service cuts, according to a report done by the chairman of the Ferry Advisory Committee.
John Hodgkins, a transpor-tation specialist and head of a group of Ferry Advisory Commit-tee chairs, found that BC Ferries achieved significantly more in savings than it was ordered to by the province three years ago.
“The actual cost reductions indi-cated by our estimates . . . varied widely from the net savings tar-gets set by government — in some cases by a factor of two or three — suggesting that the approach to cost reduction was, in some cases, more aggressive than necessary to deliver the mandat-ed targets,” Hodgkins wrote.
Jim Abram, regional director for Quadra Island, said Hodgkins found the figures for the Camp-bell River-Quadra Island route to be the “most striking.”
Hodgkins admits in his report that while the figures are derived from BC Ferries data, the num-bers have not been confirmed by BC Ferries.
Nevertheless, his report finds that operating costs on the Quadra Island ferry route were reduced by roughly $450,000 in 2014 while BC Ferries estimated the route would lose $125,000 in revenue.
That means BC Ferries achieved a savings of $325,000 last year, which is $140,000 more than the $185,000 BC Ferries was ordered by the government to cut out of the route through service reductions.
Abram said the “enlightening” report reveals that BC Ferries went too far.
“Instead of saving $185,000 as they projected, they in fact saved $325,000, which is a good indica-tor of how much we are being gouged,” Abram said in an email.
Hodgkins agrees.“Taking account of best esti-
mates of the likely revenue effects, it does appear that the net savings achieved on some routes are below the targets set by government, whereas on other routes the net savings delivered substantially exceeded those targets,” Hodgkins wrote.
While the Quadra Island route produced excessive savings, that wasn’t the case on all minor routes. The Crofton-Vesuvius Bay (Salt Spring Island) run only achieved $40,000 in savings com-pared to the government’s target of $105,000; the Buckley Bay-Den-man Island route had $224,000 in savings which fell short of the $330,000 target while the Denman Island-Hornby Island run missed its target of $180,000 with a sav-ings of just $137,000.
The Nanaimo to Gabriola Island ferry route reported the greatest savings. Through ser-vice reductions, a savings of $886,000 was realized while the government’s target savings was $400,000.
Hodgkins said BC Ferries has told the Ferry Advisory Com-mittee that it is unlikely to pub-lish its own details of savings achieved on a route-by-route basis due to “perceived commer-cial confidentiality.”
He said BC Ferries “was satis-fied that the government’s finan-cial objectives had been met.”
Hodgkins said the province is not requiring BC Ferries to pro-vide financial outcomes for each route and that “government was satisfied that as long as BC Fer-ries made the cuts, they would achieve the required savings.”
BC Ferries was ordered by the government in 2013 to come up with $18.9 million in savings with cutbacks to its minor and major routes effective April 2014 after the corporation suffered a $16.5 million loss and a 21-year low in passenger traffic and a 13-year low in vehicle traffic in 2011.
Ferries, however, recently announced that foot passenger traffic was up five per cent while vehicle traffic rose by 4.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year.
The corporation said the increase in traffic generated a $5 million increase in Ferries’ net earnings compared to last year.
Harper pushes economic record following surplus, mocks TrudeauTories also lose sixth candidate since campaign began after Facebook commentsALLISON JONES, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Stephen Harper was hanging 10 on the crest of a surprise budget surplus Tuesday, showing off his fiscal bona fides as the federal election campaign prepared to convene in Calgary to debate the state of the Canadian economy.
But it wasn’t all smooth surf-ing for the Conservatives: yet another would-be Tory MP took a tumble over inappropriate com-ments on social media.
Newfoundland and Labra-dor candidate Blair Dale was dropped over Facebook com-ments that were “incompat-ible with our party,” said a spokesman.
Dale is the sixth Conservative to be shown the door since the campaign began Aug. 2.
Earlier in the day, Harper had a little spring in his step in Vancouver as he boasted about Finance Department numbers that show a $1.9-billion surplus in 2014-15 where once there was a predicted $2-billion shortfall.
Back on one of his favourite talking points, the prime minis-ter mocked the fiscal-manage-ment chops of both Rachel Notley, Alberta’s new NDP pre-mier, and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.
“We know why there’s a reces-sion (in Alberta) — it’s not because the government ran a $2-billion surplus,” he said.
“There’s a recession because oil prices have fallen by half, and the recession has been made worse because the NDP govern-ment came in and followed up by raising taxes on everybody.”
Trudeau — who has linked the economic slowdown to the
government’s relentless pur-suit of a pre-election balanced budget — seems to think that $2-billion surplus provoked a worldwide fall in oil prices, Harp-er continued.
“I mean, seriously,” the Con-servative leader said to laughter from the partisan crowd.
“They think that somehow under these conditions, plunging the country back into deficit for years to come would be a good thing. Canadians get that, given the turmoil in the world, the fact that we have a budget balanced — and we’re going to keep that balanced — is a good thing for this country.”
Trudeau has criticized the sur-plus as the product of failing to spend adequately on those vul-nerable Canadians — an accusa-
tion the Conservatives deny.The surplus was achieved
in part by departments under-spending their budgets by $8.7 billion — a tactic known as lapsed funding and one deplored by critics as spending cuts by stealth. The Conservatives had budgeted for $7.2 billion in lapsed funding but wound up with $1.5 billion more than anticipated.
A Liberal government would stick with its plan to run deficits for the first three years in office, making investments in infra-structure and seniors despite the surplus, Trudeau has said.
Monday’s surplus news couldn’t have come at a better time for Harper, who will join his NDP and Liberal counterparts Thursday in Calgary for a debate on economic issues, sponsored
by the Globe and Mail and Goo-gle Canada.
All three are now also con-firmed for the Munk debate on foreign policy, which is sched-uled to take place later this month.
Mulcair and Trudeau had raised concerns about how bilin-gual the debate would be, but after reviewing the final format they agreed Tuesday to take part.
Trudeau was in a contested southwestern Ontario riding Tuesday to promise $750 million for skilled trades funding, part of a previous $2 billion employment announcement Trudeau made a week ago in New Brunswick.
A Liberal government would give $500 million to the provinces and spend $200 million on train-ing for workers who can’t get fed-eral training, plus $50 million to help aboriginal people improve their skills and job prospects.
“You’ve seen your personal debt rising as your job prospects sink. You want to seek out bet-ter opportunities but you can’t access the training you need,” Trudeau told supporters and apprentices at a local plumber and pipefitter’s union.
“Stephen Harper doesn’t know what that’s like. When he was first elected, Windows 95 was still two years away . . . (and) the cutting-edge way to apply for a job was to send in your resume by fax.”
Mulcair, meanwhile, promised to establish a $100-million men-tal health innovation fund for children and youth — just the latest in a series of big-ticket health-care spending promises this week.
Former gangster sues B.C. government and jailhouse staff, claiming beating was ignoredTHE CANADIAN PRESS
SURREY — An inmate has filed a lawsuit against the B.C. govern-ment and corrections staff at the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre where he alleges his screams were ignored during a five-hour beating.
Daniel Cunningham said in his notice of civil claim that he was repeatedly punched, kicked and
stomped on and had his head forced into a toilet in an attempt to drown him.
Cunningham said two fellow inmates led him to a cell near a guard’s desk before he was assaulted and knocked uncon-scious at least three times.
“He was forced to lick his own blood off the shoes of his attackers, and clean his blood off the floor and walls using his
clothes,” the court document said.
The former Red Scorpions gang associate, who is now in protect-ive custody, said he suffered a brain injury, multiple broken bones, chipped teeth and facial lacerations as a result of the attack in June.
The lawsuit said other inmates on the unit yelled at the attack-ers to kill him but staff did not
intervene until his cellmate activated an alarm from another cell.
Cunningham was remanded into custody in April on drug-trafficking charges and then remanded on robbery char-ges about three weeks later.
He pleaded guilty to the drug charges on June 11 and was sen-tenced to six months, which he served at the pretrial centre.
CORRECTIONS
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper speaks to supporters during a campaign stop in North Vancouver on Tuesday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
MUNICIPAL POLITICS
City manager exits post in VancouverLAURA KANE THE CANADIAN PRESS
Vancouver is launching a global search for a new city man-ager after announcing that veter-an civil servant Penny Ballem is out of the job.
Mayor Gregor Robertson said Tuesday that council voted in an in-camera meeting to end Bal-lem’s contract, under which she will receive $556,000 in severance.
He tied the decision to his promise to “do things different-ly” after the 2014 election, when his government faced criticism for a perceived lack of transpar-ency and consultation.
Robertson said the city had a challenging year, including a transit referendum and econom-ic growth that has placed pres-sure on staff to keep up.
“We’re now at a point where it’s a good time to make change,” he said. “(It’s) an opportunity to really bring some new eyes, some fresh ideas to the table and new leadership for the city for the years going ahead.”
He said Ballem was aware that council was considering voting on the matter on Tuesday. She did not attend the mayor’s news conference.
Robertson said he could not say whether the vote was unani-mous since it was an in-camera meeting.
George Affleck, a member of the opposition Non-Partisan Association, posted on Twitter that city hall was “rudderless”
under the control of Robertson’s Vision Vancouver party.
“Vision and Mayor now control-ling a city with four permanent (senior) management positions empty. That’s not good govern-ment,” he wrote.
Vancouver’s chief city plan-ner Brian Jackson announced in July that he would retire by year’s end.
Ballem was hired in 2008 short-ly after Vision Vancouver came to power. She helped oversee the 2010 Winter Olympics, the finan-cial turnaround of the Olympic Village community and the recent regulation of illegal mari-juana dispensaries.
Robertson said he didn’t ask her to resign before Tuesday’s vote.
Deputy city manager Sadhu Johnston will act as city man-ager during the search, which the mayor said will also include a compensation review to ensure the best value for taxpayers.
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Krein beats Kenji for logrolling title
MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
Port Alberni’s esteemed logger sports expert, Alan Boyko, and his wife Jean, will be stepping back from the better part of organizing the event at the fall fair after 44 years.
Boyko will continue to serve as announcer and master of ceremonies for the event next year, but he’s done with the hard labour.
“I’m coming up to my 80th birthday and we just figured that it’s time for us to leave while everything is going well. The grounds are in perfect shape, we did a lot of work and it’s in good hands,” Boyko said. He and his wife Jean are celebrating their 58th wedding anniversary next month.
Boyko took over organizing the logger sports back in 1971. Since then the prize money handed out at the event – which includes six Canadian Championships – has
increased from $3,000 to $10,000, Boyko said.
His grandson, Kenji Boyko, competed in the championship for novice logrolling against Nathan Krein. The two competi-tors are neighbours. While Kenji was the defending champion, Krein earned the title this year.
The shape of the log used for the logrolling final was long-er than usual and somewhat warped, Krein observed after his win. “It felt weird on the feet,” he said, adding luck was a factor.
Other Canadian Champions were: Leo Coudrau for the standing block chop; Allison Briscoe and Anita Jezowski for the ladies’ double-hand bucking; Brian Bartow for tree climbing; Bartow and Nick Hall for the underhand butcher block; Wayne Paulson and Kat Spencer for the Jack and Jill bucking. All around logger honours went to Stirling Hart of Maple Ridge and Allison Briscoe of Port McNeill.
Kenji Boyko, 14, slips into the water as Nathan Krein, 19, wins the Canadian Championship for novice logrolling at the Alberni District Fall Fair on Sunday. Boyko won the championship last year. [MARTIN WISSMATH, TIMES]
Alan Boyko retiring from logger sports organization after 44 years of service
Wickaninnish Inn Pro-Am Sept. 18JACKIE CARMICHAEL WESTERLY NEWS
Island golfers are expected to hit the links at Long Beach for the Wickaninnish Inn Pro-Am, set for Sept. 18.
The tournament will be attended by 35 club professionals from the Island and the mainland as well as an estimated 100 additional golfers.
The premier tournament for the Long Beach Golf Course direct-ly benefits West Coast youth in support of their extra-curricular activities at Ucluelet Secondary School.
These funds allow the sports and academic teams to buy supplies and arrange transportation for competitions and field trips. With-out this money, these students would not be able to compete in sporting events or other competi-tions, as the government funding for these purposes is virtually non-existent, said Keith Gibson of Long Beach Golf Course.
“Helping kids experience extracurricular activities is very rewarding. Some of these experi-ences may be lifetime memories that they will never forget,” Gib-son said.
“I grew up around team sports and still remember the people and the places. And knowing the Pro Am could help someone have this, is great,” he said.
The event only works as many people come together to support the cause, Gibson said.
“The events represents people coming together recognizing that high school is a big part of the future of the community. And allowing kids access to things without financial borders will con-tinue to make USS a great learn-ing environment,” he said.
Last year, the Wick Inn Pro-Am raised over $15,000 in support of the local high school. In the last 12 years, over $125,000 has been raised for this specific cause.
USS Principal Carol Sedgwick said the tourney is the most important fundraiser of the school’s entire year.
“The amount of money that comes in, is able to benefit every school athlete that we have,” she said.
“I am constantly in awe, after being in these communities and living in Ukee for 18 years, of the generosity of our communities, the amount of funds and time people give to our youth – it’s just incredible,” Sedgwick said.
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Gaunce eager to gain Canucks’ confi dence after position switch
JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS
PENTICTON — Brendan Gaunce knows it can take a long time for young players to gain the trust of an NHL team. He hopes a change he made last season will help speed that process along with the Vancouver Canucks.
The 26th pick at the 2012 draft was moved from centre to the wing last season with the AHL’s Utica Comets, a switch the 21-year-old from Markham, Ont., said has helped improve his over-all game.
“I think it will be a benefit in the long run,” said Gaunce. “With the Canucks knowing I can play both those positions and that I can play them well enough that they’ll trust me, it was defin-itely a positive.”
Gaunce just completed his third Young Stars rookie tourna-ment after scoring 11 goals and 18 assists in 74 AHL games last season. He added four goals and five assists in 21 playoff games.
“I found playing wing I know what the centre is going to do,” he said. “I played centre my whole life so you kind of know where the centre’s going to be on certain plays. It really helps you on the wall because you don’t always have eyes on the play.”
One of the draft picks in the Canucks’ system who wasn’t selected by the current manage-ment regime, on the surface it
would appear as though Gaunce has been surpassed by other prospects in the organizational pecking order — namely 2014 first-rounders Jake Virtanen and Jared McCann — with training camp set to begin Friday.
Utica head coach Travis Green, who led Vancouver’s prospects in Penticton at the Young Stars tournament, said he wouldn’t be surprised to see Gaunce play in the NHL at some point this season.
“He’s taken off. He’s had a good summer,” said Green. “I think he’s one of those guys that if he has a good camp and progresses the way he should ... he should put himself in a good spot to play
some (NHL) games.”The Canucks remain a team in
transition, with younger players getting sprinkled among the vet-eran core. For his part, the six-foot-two 205-pound Gaunce isn’t focused on anything other than continuing to improve.
“I think that’s the mentality you have to have as a young guy,” he said. “You can’t look at it like you need to be on the team and if you’re not it’s a huge downer. I’m confident in myself that I can play at the NHL level. You just have to get them to trust you.
“You can’t go into it slowly. You have to go into it full press. There’s definitely an opportunity for me this year.”
Former 26th overall pick looks to crack the team’s roster
Brendan Gaunce, left, hopes he made enough of an impact at the Young Stars tournament to warrant a shot on the Canucks lineup. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
“The amount of money that comes in, is able to benefit every school athlete that we have.”Carol Sedgwick, Ucluelet Secondary School principal
Patriots back on top of power rankingsNew England jumps up two spots after loss from former No. 1 Seattle Seahawks to the St. Louis RamsSIMMI BUTTAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are back to a familiar spot after the first week of the regular season.
The top of the NFL.The Patriots jumped two spots
on Tuesday and are the No. 1 team in the AP Pro32 power rankings.
In balloting by 12 media mem-bers who regularly cover the NFL, the Patriots finished ahead of the Green Bay Packers and the Denver Broncos.
The Super Bowl champion Patriots earned seven first-place votes and 379 points.
Green Bay received five first-place votes and 376 points.
Brady threw four touchdown passes in the Patriots’ 28-21 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the regular-season opener on Thursday night.
“Picking up right where they
left off, as if the off-season con-troversy didn’t even happen,” The Monday Morning Quarter-back’s Jenny Vrentas said of the Patriots.
“In Week 2, here’s betting Rex
Ryan’s Bills pass defence will be more of a challenge to Rob Gronkowski than the Steelers’ overmatched secondary.”
The Broncos were third, fol-lowed by the Dallas Cowboys
and the Seattle Seahawks, who dropped three spots after an overtime loss to St. Louis.
“They ran into a ferocious St. Louis D, but it’s far too early to count them out,” ESPN’s Herm Edwards said.
Dallas moved up two spots after rallying for a 27-26 win over the Giants on Sunday night.
“It’s time to stop focusing on what Tony Romo hasn’t accom-plished ... give the man his due,” said Ira Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune.
The Seahawks have another road test on Sunday night when the travel to Lambeau Field to face Aaron Rodgers and the Packers in a rematch of last sea-son’s NFC championship game.
“No team has three-peated as a conference champion since the 1990s Bills,” said Rick Gosselin of The Dallas Morning News.
“Now the 0-1 Seahawks are discovering the difficulty of the
challenge.”The Packers opened with a
31-23 win over the Bears.“Aaron Rodgers renews con-
nection with James Jones,” Fox Sports’ John Czarnecki said of the receiver who caught two touchdown passes in his return to Green Bay.
Arizona, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Kansas City and San Diego rounded out the top 10.
“Looking for an early comeback player of the year candidate? How about Carson Palmer, who put up three touchdown passes in his first game back from a knee injury.” Newsday’s Bob Glauber said.
Palmer led the Cardinals to a 31-19 victory over New Orleans on Sunday. Jameis Winston and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are 32nd after their 42-14 loss to the Marcus Mariota and the Tennes-see Titans in a matchup of the top two picks in the draft.
Tom Brady and the New England Patriots beat the Pittsburgh Steelers to open the 2015 NFL season. [AP PHOTO]
EVENT APPAREL
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SOCCERBASEBALLAMERICAN LEAGUEHOUSTON — Placed RHP Scott Feld-man on 60-day DL. Selected the contract of INF Matt Duffy from Fresno (PCL).MINNESOTA — Reinstated RHP Phil Hughes from the 15-day DL.
NATIONAL LEAGUEATLANTA — Placed 1B Yonder Alonso on 60-day DL. Assigned RHPs Jake Brigham & Michael Kohn outright to Gwinnett (IL).PHILADELPHIA — Placed SS Cesar Hernandez on the 60-day DL. Selected
Lehigh Valley (IL).ST. LOUIS — Reinstated OF Matt Hol-liday from the 15-day DL.
FOOTBALLNFLATLANTA — Signed OT Jake Long. Waived S Charles Godfrey.DALLAS — Waived OT Darrion Weems. Released S Tim Scott from the practice squad. Signed OT Charles Brown.GREEN BAY — Placed LB Sam Bar-rington on injured reserve. Activated DE Datone Jones from exempt status.OAKLAND — Waived TE Gabe Holmes. Placed S Nate Allen on injured reserve-designated for return. Signed S Taylor Mays and DL C.J. Wilson.
CFLHAMILTON — Traded negotiation list rights to QB Tahj Boyd to Winnipeg for a conditional 2017 draft pick.
HOCKEYNHLLEAGUE OFFICE — LW Simon Gagne announced his retirement.
MOVINGMLSEASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA PtNew York 26 13 7 6 46 30 45D.C. 29 13 10 6 36 35 45Columbus 29 12 9 8 47 48 44New England 28 12 9 7 41 37 43Toronto 27 11 12 4 46 47 37Montreal 25 9 11 5 34 37 32Orlando 29 8 13 8 36 51 32Philadelphia 29 8 15 6 36 47 30New York City 28 7 14 7 39 48 28Chicago 28 7 15 6 36 45 27
WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA PtVancouver 28 15 10 3 40 28 48Dallas 27 14 8 5 40 31 47Los Angeles 29 13 8 8 49 33 47Seattle 29 13 13 3 35 32 42Kansas City 27 11 8 8 41 38 41Portland 28 11 9 8 29 32 41San Jose 28 11 11 6 34 32 39Houston 28 9 11 8 36 37 35Salt Lake 28 9 11 8 32 41 35Colorado 28 8 10 10 26 30 34All times Eastern
Toronto at New York City, 7:30 p.m.New York at New England, 7:30 p.m.Montreal at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Dallas at Kansas City, 7 p.m.
Colorado at Toronto, 2 p.m.San Jose at New York City, 7 p.m.Columbus at D.C., 7 p.m.Seattle at Vancouver, 7 p.m.New England at Montreal, 8 p.m.Orlando at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m.
New York at Portland, 5 p.m.Houston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Wednesday, Sept. 23Chicago at Montreal, 8 p.m.Kansas City at Houston, 8:30 p.m.Friday, Sept. 25Orlando at New York, 7 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 26Chicago at Toronto, 2 p.m.D.C. at Montreal, 5 p.m.Portland at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.Philadelphia at New England, 7:30 p.m.Colorado at Houston, 8:30 p.m.New York City at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Sunday, Sept. 27Seattle at Kansas City, 5 p.m.Salt Lake at San Jose, 7 p.m.Dallas at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
UEFACHAMPIONS LEAGUEGROUP STAGEGroup AParis St-Germain (Fra.) 2 Malmo (Swe.) 0Real Mdrd (Spn.) 4 Shkhtr Dontsk (Ukr.) 0Group BPSV Eindhvn (Neth.) 2 Mnchstr U. (Eng.) 1Wolfsburg (Ger.) 1 CSKA Moscw (Rus.) 0Group C
Galatsry (Turkey) 0 Atltico Mdrid (Spn.) 2Group DManchester City (Eng.) 1 Juventus (Ita.) 2Sevilla (Spn.) 3 Monchngladbach (Ger.) 0
ASIAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUEQUARTER-FINALS
Gngzh Evrgrnd (Chi.) 1 Kshw Rysl (Jap.) 1(Guangzhou advanced on 4-2 total)
Lekhwiya (Qatar) 2 Al Hilal (S. Arabia) 2(Al Hilal advanced 6-3)
ENGLANDCHAMPIONSHIPBirmingham 0 Nottingham Forest 1Brightn & Hove Albion 2 Rotherham Un. 1Burnley 2 MK Dons 1Cardiff 0 Hull 2
Leeds 0 Ipswich 1Middlesbrough 3 Brentford 1Preston North End 1 Bristol City 1
Reading 0 Derby County 1
SCOTLANDPREMIERSHIPAberdeen 1 Hamilton Academical 0
CFLEAST GP W L T PF PA Ptx-Hamilton 11 8 3 0 392 221 16Ottawa 10 6 4 0 224 259 12Toronto 11 6 5 0 277 322 12Montreal 10 4 6 0 207 196 8
WEST GP W L T PF PA Ptx-Calgary 11 8 3 0 287 224 16x-Edmonton 11 7 4 0 272 197 14B.C. 10 4 6 0 222 281 8Winnipeg 11 4 7 0 209 317 8Saskatchewan 11 1 10 0 262 335 2All times EasternWEEK 13Bye: Toronto
B.C. at Calgary, 9 p.m.
Edmonton at Hamilton, 4 p.m.Ottawa at Saskatchewan, 9 p.m.
Winnipeg at Montreal, 1 p.m.
PERFORMERS OF THE WEEKWEEK 11. Trevor Harris, QB, Tor.; 2. Jeff Fuller, WR, Cal.; 3. Drew Willy, QB, Wpg.WEEK 21. Trevor Harris, QB, Tor.; 2. Rakeem Cato, QB, Mtl.; 3. Ryan Smith, WR, Ssk.WEEK 31. Travis Lulay, B.C.; 2. S.J. Green, SB, Mtl.; 3. Weston Dressler, WR, Ssk.WEEK 41. Shakir Bell, RB, Edm.; 2. Jon Cornish, RB, Cal.; 3. Marcus Howard, DE, Edm.WEEK 51. Henry Burris, QB, Ott.; 2. Aston White-side, DL, Ott.; 3. Chris Williams, WR, Ott.WEEK 61. Drew Willy, QB, Wpg.; 2. Patrick Watkins, DB, Ed.; 3. Marquay McDaniel, SB, Cal.WEEK 71. Emanuel Davis, DB, Ham.; 2. Andrew Harris, RB, BC; 3. Keith Shologan, DL, Ott.WEEK 81. Bo Levi Mitchell, QB, Cal.; 2. Zach Collaros, QB, Ham.; 3. Eric Norwood, DE, Ham.WEEK 91. Mike Daly, DB, Ham.; 2. Zach Collaros,
WEEK 101. James Franklin, QB, Ed.; 2. Kendial Law-rence, SB, Ed.; 3. Derel Walker, WR, Ed.WEEK 111. Zach Collaros, QB, Ham.; 2. Charles-
WR, Ham.WEEK 121. Mike Reilly, QB, Edm.; 2. Jeremiah Johnson, RB, Ott.; 3. Adarius Bowman, SB, Edm.
PERFORMERS OF THE MONTHJULY1. Trevor Harris, QB, Tor.; 2. Marcus Howard, DE, Edm.; 3. Rakeem Cato, QB, Mtl.AUGUST1. Zach Collaros, QB, Ham.; 2. Eric Norwood, DE, Ham.; 3. Derel Walker, WR, Edm.
NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCEEAST W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 31 10Buffalo 1 0 0 1.000 27 14New England 1 0 0 1.000 28 21Miami 1 0 0 1.000 17 10
SOUTH W L T Pct PF PATennessee 1 0 0 1.000 42 14Jacksonville 0 1 0 .000 9 20Houston 0 1 0 .000 20 27Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 14 27
NORTH W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 33 13Baltimore 0 1 0 .000 13 19Pittsburgh 0 1 0 .000 21 28Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 10 31
WEST W L T Pct PF PADenver 1 0 0 1.000 19 13Kansas City 1 0 0 1.000 27 20San Diego 1 0 0 1.000 33 28Oakland 0 1 0 .000 13 33
NATIONAL CONFERENCEEAST W L T Pct PF PADallas 1 0 0 1.000 27 26Washington 0 1 0 .000 10 17Philadelphia 0 1 0 .000 24 26N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 26 27
SOUTH W L T Pct PF PAAtlanta 1 0 0 1.000 26 24Carolina 1 0 0 1.000 20 9Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 14 42New Orleans 0 1 0 .000 19 31
NORTH W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 1 0 0 1.000 31 23Detroit 0 1 0 .000 28 33Minnesota 0 1 0 .000 3 20Chicago 0 1 0 .000 23 31
WEST W L T Pct PF PASt. Louis 1 0 0 1.000 34 31Arizona 1 0 0 1.000 31 19San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 20 3Seattle 0 1 0 .000 31 34All times Eastern
San Francisco 20 Minnesota 3Atlanta 26 Philadelphia 24
Denver at Kansas City, 8:25 p.m.
Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 1 p.m.Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Arizona at Chicago, 1 p.m.Houston at Carolina, 1 p.m.San Francisco at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m.San Diego at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.Tennessee at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Atlanta at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.St. Louis at Washington, 1 p.m.Baltimore at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.Miami at Jacksonville, 4:05 p.m.Dallas at Philadelphia, 4:25 p.m.Seattle at Green Bay, 8:30 p.m.Monday, Sept. 21N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 8:30 p.m.
FOOTBALL TENNISWTANATIONAL BANK CUPAt Quebec City
Alexa Glatch, U.S., def. Tatjana Maria (6), Germany, 1-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Evgeniya Rodina (7), Russia, def. Sachia Vickery, U.S., 6-2, 6-2.
Paula Kania, Poland, def. An-Sophie Mestach (8), Belgium, 6-4, 6-3.
Amandine Hesse, France, def. Maria Irigoyen, Argentina, 6-3, 6-2.
Jessica Pegula, U.S., def. Nicole Gibbs, U.S., 1-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4).
Samantha Crawford, U.S., def. Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, 6-2, 6-1.
Tatjana Maria, Germany, and Anna Tatishvili, U.S., def. Sharon Fichman, Toronto and Carol Zhao, Richmond Hill, Ont., 6-2, 6-4.
JAPAN OPENAt Tokyo
Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, def. Carla Suarez Navarro (1), Spain, 6-4, 6-4.
Zarina Diyas (2), Kazakhstan, def. Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4.
Zheng Saisai, China, def. Alison Riske (4), U.S., 0-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Irina Falconi, U.S., def. Naomi Osaka, Japan, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3.
Risa Ozaki, Japan, def. Bojana Jova-novski, Serbia, 6-1, 6-1.
Johanna Larsson, Sweden, def. Wang Qiang, China, 0-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Kurumi Nara, Japan, def. Andreea Mitu, Romania, 6-1, 6-4.
Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, def. Alexandra Panova, Russia, 6-3, 6-4.
Magda Linette, Poland, def. Lauren Davis, U.S., 6-3, 6-2.
Nao Hibino, Japan, def. Hiroko Kuwata, Japan, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia, 6-1, 5-7, 7-5.
Gabriela Dabrowski, Ottawa, and Alicja Rosolska (3), Poland, def. Chan Chin-wei, Taiwan, and Darija Jurak, Croatia, 6-7 (6), 7-6 (3), 10-5.
BCHLINTERIOR DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtSalmon Arm 1 1 0 0 0 4 2 2West Kelowna 2 1 1 0 0 10 9 2Vernon 2 1 1 0 0 8 7 2Merritt 2 1 1 0 0 9 10 2Trail 2 1 1 0 0 7 8 2Penticton 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 0
ISLAND DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtCowichan Valley 2 2 0 0 0 9 5 4Powell River 2 1 1 0 0 4 4 2Nanaimo 2 1 1 0 0 4 4 2Victoria 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 0Alberni Valley 1 0 1 0 0 3 6 0
MAINLAND DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtWenatchee 2 2 0 0 0 13 1 4Chilliwack 1 1 0 0 0 5 3 2Langley 1 1 0 0 0 6 3 2Coquitlam 2 1 1 0 0 6 6 2Surrey 2 0 2 0 0 4 9 0Prince George 2 0 2 0 0 1 13 0All times Local
Salmon Arm at MerrittTrail at West Kelowna
Vernon at Penticton, 7 p.m.
Powell River at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.Victoria at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.Penticton at Surrey, 7 p.m.Coquitlam at Vernon, 7 p.m.Chilliwack at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.
Prince George at Langley, 6 p.m.Powell River at Nanaimo, 6 p.m.Chilliwack at Vernon, 6 p.m.Victoria at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.Coquitlam at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.Penticton at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.Merritt at Trail, 7:30 p.m.
Powell River at Alberni Valley, 2 p.m.Wenatchee at Langley, 3 p.m.Chilliwack at Salmon Arm, 3 p.m.Prince George at Surrey, 4 p.m.
HOCKEY
BETTINGTHE LINES
MLBINTERLEAGUEFAVOURITE LINE UNDERDOG LINEToronto -245 ATLANTA +225
AMERICAN LEAGUEFAVOURITE LINE UNDERDOG LINEBALTIMORE -120 Boston +110TAMPA BAY -124 NY Yankees +114CLEVELAND -141 Kansas City +131Houston -137 TEXAS +127CHICAGO -115 Oakland +105MINNESOTA -155 Detroit +145SEATTLE -130 Los Angeles +120
NATIONAL LEAGUEFAVOURITE LINE UNDERDOG LINEWashington -180 PHILADEL. +165Chicago -133 PITSBRGH +123NEW YORK -217 Miami +197St. Louis -150 MILWAUK. +140ARIZONA -115 San Diego +105LOS ANGELES -180 Colorado +165SAN FRAN. -157 Cincinnati +147
NFLThursdayFAVOURIT OPN TODAY O/U UNDRDOGKAN. CITY PK 3 (42) DenverSundayFAVOURIT OPN TODAY O/U UNDRDOGCAROLINA 2 3 (401/2) HoustonN.ORLEANS 7 10 (47) Tampa BayPITSBRGH 7 5 (45) San Fran.MINESOTA 21/2 3 (43) DetroitN.England 21/2 PK (45) BUFFALOArizona 3 2 (441/2) CHICAGOTennessee +4 1 (411/2) CLEVLNDCINCINATI 31/2 31/2 (46) San DiegoSt Louis 21/2 31/2 (41) WASHING.NY GIANTS 21/2 2 (51) AtlantaBaltimore 4 OFF (OFF) OAKLNDMiami 6 6 (411/2) JCKSNVLPHILADEL. 4 5 (55) DallasGREEN BAY 3 31/2 (49) SeattleMondayFAVOURIT OPN TODAY O/U UNDRDOGINDIANAPL 91/2 7 (47) NY Jets
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AMERICAN LEAGUEEAST DIVISION W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayToronto 82 62 .569 — — 6-4 L-2 47-25 35-37New York 79 65 .549 3 — 4-6 L-1 41-32 38-33Baltimore 71 73 .493 11 51/2 6-4 W-3 42-28 29-45Tampa Bay 70 74 .486 12 61/2 4-6 W-1 35-38 35-36Boston 68 76 .472 14 81/2 6-4 L-2 39-35 29-41
CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayKansas City 85 59 .590 — — 3-7 W-1 48-27 37-32Minnesota 75 69 .521 10 11/2 6-4 L-1 43-27 32-42Cleveland 71 72 .497 131/2 5 6-4 L-1 32-36 39-36Chicago 68 75 .476 161/2 8 5-5 L-1 36-37 32-38Detroit 66 78 .458 19 101/2 5-5 W-1 33-38 33-40
WEST DIVISION W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayTexas 77 67 .535 — — 6-4 W-3 36-33 41-34Houston 77 68 .531 1/2 — 3-7 L-2 48-24 29-44Los Angeles 72 71 .503 41/2 4 5-5 L-2 44-31 28-40Seattle 70 75 .483 71/2 7 6-4 W-1 33-40 37-35Oakland 62 83 .428 151/2 15 4-6 W-1 33-42 29-41
Atlanta 3 Toronto 2Tampa Bay 6 N.Y. Yankees 3Baltimore 6 Boston 5 (13 inn.)Texas 6 Houston 5Kansas City 2 Cleveland 0Oakland 17 Chicago White Sox 6Detroit 5 Minnesota 4L.A. Angels at Seattle
Minnesota 7 Detroit 1Baltimore 2 Boston 0Texas 5 Houston 3Cleveland 8 Kansas City 3Chicago White Sox 8 Oakland 7 (14 inn.)Seattle 10 L.A. Angels 1N.Y. Yankees 4 Tampa Bay 1
Boston (Owens 2-2) at Baltimore (M.Wright 2-4), 7:05 p.m.
Kansas City (D.Duffy 7-7) at Cleveland (Salazar 12-8), 7:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Severino 3-3) at Tampa Bay (Archer 12-11), 7:10 p.m.
Toronto (Price 15-5) at Atlanta (S.Miller 5-14), 7:10 p.m.
Houston (Keuchel 17-7) at Texas (M.Perez 2-5), 8:05 p.m.
Detroit (Da.Norris 2-2) at Minnesota (E.Santana 5-4), 8:10 p.m.
Oakland (Chavez 7-15) at Chicago White Sox (E.Johnson 1-0), 8:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Weaver 7-10) at Seattle (Iwakuma 7-4), 10:10 p.m.
Oakland at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m.Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.Toronto at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.Houston at Texas, 8:05 p.m.L.A. Angels at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.
MLB
Atlanta 3 Toronto 2St. Louis 3 Milwaukee 1 (10 inn.)Miami 9 N.Y. Mets 3Washington 4 Philadelphia 0Pittsburgh 5-1 Chicago Cubs 4-2 (DH)San Diego at ArizonaColorado at L.A. DodgersCincinnati at San Francisco
San Francisco 5 Cincinnati 3San Diego 10 Arizona 3Washington 8 Philadelphia 7 (11 inn.)N.Y. Mets 4 Miami 3L.A. Dodgers 4 Colorado 1
Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 19-6) at Pitts-burgh (Burnett 8-5), 7:05 p.m.
Washington (G.Gonzalez 10-7) at Philadelphia (Morgan 5-6), 7:05 p.m.
Miami (Conley 3-1) at N.Y. Mets (B.Colon 14-11), 7:10 p.m.
Toronto (Price 15-5) at Atlanta (S.Miller 5-14), 7:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Jai.Garcia 8-5) at Milwaukee (W.Peralta 5-8), 8:10 p.m.
San Diego (Cashner 5-15) at Arizona (Ray 4-11), 9:40 p.m.
Colorado (J.De La Rosa 9-6) at L.A. Dodgers (A.Wood 10-10), 10:10 p.m.
Cincinnati (Lorenzen 4-8) at San Francisco (Peavy 6-6), 10:15 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 12:35 p.m.Miami at Washington, 7:05 p.m.Toronto at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.St. Louis at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUEEAST DIVISION W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayNew York 83 62 .572 — — 8-2 L-1 46-25 37-37Washington 74 70 .514 81/2 9 5-5 W-3 41-29 33-41Miami 62 83 .428 21 211/2 6-4 W-1 36-39 26-44Atlanta 57 88 .393 26 261/2 3-7 W-1 34-36 23-52Philadelphia 56 90 .384 271/2 28 3-7 L-2 33-41 23-49
CENTRAL DIVISION W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwaySt. Louis 90 54 .625 — — 4-6 W-2 50-24 40-30Pittsburgh 87 57 .604 3 — 7-3 L-1 50-23 37-34Chicago 83 61 .576 7 — 6-4 W-1 43-28 40-33Milwaukee 62 82 .431 28 21 3-7 L-4 33-40 29-42Cincinnati 60 83 .420 291/2 221/2 5-5 L-2 34-40 26-43
WEST DIVISION W L Pct GB WCGB L10 Str Home AwayLos Angeles 83 60 .580 — — 8-2 W-3 48-21 35-39San Francisco 76 68 .528 71/2 7 7-3 W-4 42-27 34-41Arizona 68 76 .472 151/2 15 3-7 L-3 34-39 34-37San Diego 68 77 .469 16 151/2 3-7 W-1 35-37 33-40Colorado 60 84 .417 231/2 23 4-6 L-1 31-40 29-44
BRAVES 3, BLUE JAYS 2INTERLEAGUE
Revere lf 5 0 0 0 0 0 .325Donaldson 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .302Bautista rf 4 0 0 0 0 3 .252Smoak 1b 3 2 1 1 1 2 .223Ru.Martin c 3 0 0 0 1 2 .239Goins ss 3 0 1 0 1 1 .240Aa.Sanchez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Pillar cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .261Penningtn 2b-ss 3 0 2 1 1 0 .143Buehrle p 1 0 0 0 1 0 .143a-Carrera ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .281b-Colabello ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .329Cecil p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Lowe p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Barney 2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000Totals 32 2 5 2 5 10
Markakis rf 4 1 2 0 0 0 .297D.Castro 2b 3 0 1 0 0 2 .304F.Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .279Ad.Garcia 3b 4 1 2 0 0 1 .2772-Cunninghm pr 0 1 0 0 0 0 .234Pierzynski c 4 0 3 0 0 0 .2963-Bethancourt pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 .188Swisher lf 2 0 0 0 1 1 .2301-Maybin pr-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .267A.Simmons ss 4 0 1 2 0 0 .264Bourn cf-lf 2 0 0 0 1 0 .176Teheran p 2 0 1 0 0 0 .109McKirahan p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000Cunniff p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Marksberry p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Moylan p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-c-J.Peterson ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .238Vizcaino p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Totals 31 3 10 2 2 5
a-was announced for Buehrle in the 6th. b-lined out for Carrera in the 6th. c-grounded out for Moylan in the 8th.1-ran for Swisher in 7th. 2-ran for Ad. Garcia in 9th. 3-ran for Pierzynski in 9th.E—Smoak (3). LOB—Toronto 8, Atlanta 6. 2B—Markakis (36), Pierzynski (22). HR—Smoak (16), off Teheran. RBIs—Smoak (49), Pennington (5), A.Simmons 2 (40). SB—Pillar (19). S—D.Castro.Runners left in scoring position—Tor 4 (Revere 2, Buehrle, Colabello); Atl 1 (Te-heran). RISP—Toronto 1 for 5; Atl 1 for 6.Runners moved up—A.Simmons. GIDP—F.Freeman, Ad.Garcia, A.Simmons 2.DP—Tor 4 (Pennington, Donaldson, Smoak), (Goins, Pennington, Smoak), (Buehrle, Goins, Smoak), (Goins, Smoak).Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERABuehrle 5 6 2 1 1 2 66 3.66Cecil 1 0 0 0 0 2 10 2.83Lowe 1 0 0 0 1 0 15 1.60Aa.Snchz L, 7-6 11/3 4 1 1 0 1 31 3.10Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERATeheran 52/3 5 2 2 4 7 113 4.34McKirahan 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 4 5.55Cunniff 1 0 0 0 1 2 22 4.40Marksberry 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 3 5.31Moylan 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 5 4.50Vizcaino W, 3-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 9 2.16Inherited runners-scored—McKirahan 2-0, Marksberry 1-0, Moylan 1-0.T—2:45. A—16,399 (49,586).
A.L. LEADERS G AB R H BACabrera, Det 106 386 58 131 .339Bogaerts, Bos 138 540 69 173 .320Brantley, Cle 128 497 67 159 .320Altuve, Hou 136 561 70 176 .314Cain, KC 127 496 95 155 .313Cruz, Sea 136 528 81 164 .311Fielder, Tex 139 538 66 166 .309Donaldson, Tor 141 555 109 169 .305
RUNS SCOREDDonaldson, Tor, 109; Bautista, Tor, 98; Dozier, Min, 95; Cain, KC, 95.RUNS BATTED INDonaldson, Tor, 119; Davis, Bal, 106; Bautista, Tor, 101; K.Morales, KC, 101; Encarnacion, Tor, 99.SLUGGING PERCENTAGECruz, Sea, .589; Donaldson, Tor, .586; Trout, LA, .572; Davis, Bal, .559; Ortiz, Bos, .553; J.Martinez, Det, .549; Teixeira, NY, .548; Cabrera, Det, .547; Encarna-cion, Tor, .541; Bautista, Tor, .538.TOTAL BASESDonaldson, Tor, 325; Cruz, Sea, 311; J. Martinez, Det, 291; Trout, LA, 290; Davis, Bal, 283; Abreu, Chi, 281; Machado, Bal, 277; Ortiz, Bos, 263; Bautista, Tor, 261.HOME RUNSDavis, Bal, 42; Cruz, Sea, 41; Don-aldson, Tor, 38; J.Martinez, Det, 36; Bau-tista, Tor, 35; Pujols, LA, 35; Trout, LA, 35; Ortiz, Bos, 34; Encarnacion, Tor, 32.DOUBLESBrantley, Cle, 44; K.Morales, KC, 41; Donaldson, Tor, 38.HITSAltuve, Hou, 176; Bogaerts, Bos, 173; Donaldson, Tor, 169.
BLUE JAYS STATISTICSBATTERS AB R H HR RBI AVGRevere 149 30 50 1 10 .336Hague 3 1 1 0 0 .333Colabello 300 51 99 14 53 .330Donaldson 555 109 169 38 119 .305Travis 217 38 66 8 35 .304Carrera 160 27 45 3 24 .281Encarnacion 468 79 127 32 99 .271Pillar 521 67 136 10 47 .261Bautista 485 98 123 35 101 .254Martin 399 66 96 19 64 .241Goins 318 43 76 5 39 .239Tulowitzki 155 30 36 5 17 .232Navarro 148 14 34 3 17 .230Smoak 253 37 56 15 48 .221Thole 41 5 9 0 2 .220Kawasaki 19 4 4 0 1 .211Saunders 31 2 6 0 3 .194Pompey 85 13 16 2 6 .188Pennington 39 5 4 1 4 .103PITCHERS W L SV IP SO ERALowe 1 2 1 49.2 57 1.63Osuna 1 4 16 62.1 68 2.02Price 15 5 0 201.1 203 2.46Hendriks 5 0 0 58.1 61 2.62Hawkins 1 0 1 13.0 11 2.77Cecil 3 4 5 46.2 54 2.89Tepera 0 1 1 28.0 20 2.89Sanchez 7 5 0 85.2 53 3.05Estrada 12 8 0 152.1 113 3.31Schultz 0 1 1 41.2 31 3.46Buehrle 14 7 0 174.1 80 3.72Dickey 10 11 0 196.1 118 4.08Jenkins 0 0 0 2.0 2 4.50Delabar 2 0 1 27.2 30 4.55Loup 2 5 0 39.2 44 4.76Hutchison 13 4 0 147.0 127 5.33Stroman 1 0 0 5.0 2 5.40Francis 1 2 0 18.1 18 6.87
RAYS 6, YANKEES 3
Ellsbury cf 4 0 0 0 0 1 .251Gardner lf 5 0 0 0 0 0 .267A.Rodriguez dh 3 2 1 1 1 1 .257B.McCann c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .242Beltran rf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .2791-Noel pr-rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Bird 1b 3 1 1 2 1 0 .235Headley 3b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .267Gregorius ss 3 0 0 0 1 0 .267Drew 2b 1 0 0 0 1 0 .203b-C.Young ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .247B.Ryan 2b 0 0 0 0 0 0 .225c-Ackley ph 1 0 1 0 0 0 .228Totals 33 3 5 3 4 6
Jaso dh 4 0 2 0 1 2 .284Sizemore lf 2 1 1 0 0 1 .228a-Souza Jr. ph-rf 2 0 0 0 1 1 .216Longoria 3b 4 0 1 0 0 2 .270Forsythe 2b 4 1 2 1 0 2 .285A.Cabrera ss 2 0 0 0 0 0 .262Franklin ss 2 1 1 2 0 1 .143Loney 1b 4 1 1 0 0 0 .271Mahtook rf-lf 4 1 3 0 0 0 .262Kiermaier cf 4 1 0 0 0 1 .262Arencibia c 3 0 2 2 1 0 .364Totals 35 6 13 5 3 10
a-struck out for Sizemore in the 5th. b-lined out for Drew in the 7th. c-singled for B.Ryan in the 9th.1-ran for Beltran in the 8th.E—B.McCann (7), Loney (6), Franklin (5). LOB—New York 8, Tampa Bay 8. 2B—Mahtook (3). HR—A.Rodriguez (32), off Odorizzi; Bird (6), off Odorizzi; Franklin (2), off Rumbelow. RBIs—A.Rodriguez (83), Bird 2 (19), Forsythe (60), Franklin 2 (5), Arencibia 2 (15). SB—Souza Jr. (12), Mahtook (2). S—Ellsbury.Runners left in scoring position—New York 5 (A.Rodriguez, Headley, Gardner 3); Tampa Bay 4 (A.Cabrera, Longoria, Forsythe, Souza Jr.). RISP—New York 0 for 5; Tampa Bay 2 for 9.GIDP—A.Cabrera.DP—New York 1 (Bird, Gregorius, Warren).New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERAWarren 4 6 2 2 0 4 65 3.33Pazos 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 16 0.00Rumbelow L, 1-1 1 3 2 2 0 2 20 3.95Shreve 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 2.40Pinder 2/3 0 0 0 1 2 16 2.39Mitchell 2/3 3 2 2 1 1 21 6.04Ch.Martin 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 3 6.00Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERAOdorizzi W, 8-8 6 3 3 3 3 5 110 3.26E.Romero H, 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 18 5.09Colome H, 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 3.50B.Gomes S, 1-2 1 1 0 0 0 0 18 3.25Inherited runners-scored—Rumbelow 2-0, Shreve 1-0, Ch.Martin 2-0. WP—Odorizzi, E.Romero.Umpires—Home, Ron Kulpa; First, Larry Vanover; Second, Tom Woodring; Third, Vic Carapazza.T—3:14. A—13,539 (31,042).
MARLINS 9, METS 3D.Gordon 2b 5 2 4 2 0 1 .331Yelich cf-lf 5 2 3 2 0 0 .284Prado 3b 3 1 1 1 1 1 .284Bour 1b 5 1 3 2 0 2 .258Ozuna rf-cf 4 0 1 1 0 1 .249Dietrich lf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .257B.Morris p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Ellington p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Realmuto c 3 0 0 1 0 0 .250Rojas ss 4 1 1 0 0 0 .215Koehler p 3 1 1 0 0 2 .133Dunn p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000I.Suzuki rf 1 1 1 0 0 0 .246Totals 36 9 15 9 2 9
Granderson rf 4 1 1 0 1 2 .259Cespedes cf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .302Dan.Mrphy 2b-1b 5 0 0 0 0 1 .271D.Wright 3b 3 1 1 1 2 0 .295Conforto lf 3 1 2 0 1 1 .297
Duda 1b 3 0 0 0 0 0 .240
Parnell p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Nieuwnhuis ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 .211D.Alvarez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Stauffer p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Tejada ss 3 0 2 1 1 0 .265deGrom p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .164Goeddel p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000K.Johnson 2b 1 0 0 0 1 1 .269Totals 33 3 7 3 6 9
LOB—Miami 4, New York 10. 2B—Yelich (23), Bour (16), Koehler (1), D.Wright (4), Conforto (11), Tejada (21). HR—D.Gordon (3), off D.Alvarez. RBIs—D.Gordon 2 (38), Yelich 2 (36), Prado (53), Bour 2 (56), Ozuna (37), Realmuto (44),
(27). CS—D.Gordon (17), Ozuna (2). SF—Prado, Realmuto.Runners left in scoring position—Miami 2 (Bour 2); New York 7 (Duda 3, deGrom 2, Dan.Murphy, D.Wright). RISP—Miami 6 for 12; New York 2 for 14.DP—Miami 1 (Rojas, D.Gordon, Bour); NY 1 (Tejada, K.Johnson, Dan.Murphy).Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERAKoehlr W, 10-13 6 5 1 1 4 4 102 3.90Dunn 1 0 0 0 0 3 13 4.47B.Morris 1 2 2 2 1 2 29 3.28Ellington 1 0 0 0 1 0 18 1.89New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERAdeGrom L, 13-8 5 10 6 6 0 5 86 2.64Goeddel 11/3 1 1 1 0 1 12 2.15
2/3 1 0 0 1 1 16 12.38Parnell 1 0 0 0 1 0 8 5.82D.Alvarez 1/3 3 2 2 0 0 13 13.50Stauffer 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 11 10.80Koehler pitched to 2 batters in the 7th.Inherited runners-scored—Dunn 2-0,
(Cespedes). WP—Goeddel. Balk—D.Alvarez.T—3:16. A—25,633 (41,922).
CUBS 2, PIRATES 1SECOND GAME
Fowler cf 5 0 1 1 0 2 .255A.Jackson lf 5 1 1 0 0 2 .237Bryant rf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .267Rizzo 1b 3 0 1 1 1 0 .276St.Castro 2b 4 0 1 0 0 0 .255J.Baez 3b 4 0 2 0 0 1 .302A.Russell ss 4 0 0 0 0 3 .239D.Ross c 4 1 2 0 0 1 .193Lester p 3 0 0 0 0 2 .036Totals 35 2 8 2 2 13
J.Harrison 2b 4 0 0 0 0 2 .275Bastardo p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000S.Marte lf 4 0 1 0 0 2 .281McCutchen cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 .301Ar.Ramirez 3b 4 1 2 0 0 0 .250Cervelli c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .299Morse 1b 2 0 0 0 1 0 .234S.Rodriguez rf 2 0 0 0 0 1 .249Florimon ss 2 0 0 0 0 1 .091Kang ph-ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 .288Happ p 2 0 0 0 0 1 .063Caminero p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-N.Walker ph-2b 1 0 0 0 0 0 .264Totals 30 1 5 0 1 9
E—Florimon (2). LOB—Chicago 9, Pittsburgh 4. 2B—Fowler (28), A.Jackson (5), J.Baez (3), D.Ross (9). RBIs—Fowler (43), Rizzo (89). SB—McCutchen (9). CS—J.Baez (2), S.Marte (10). S—Lester.Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 4 (A.Russell, St.Castro 2, Fowler); Pitts-burgh 3 (Ar.Ramirez, Morse, Kang).
Lester W, 10-10 9 5 1 1 1 9 111 3.38
Happ L, 5-2 52/3 8 2 2 2 8 94 1.96Caminero 21/3 0 0 0 0 4 26 3.50Bastardo 1 0 0 0 0 1 19 3.02T—2:44. A—25,914 (38,362).
CARDS 3, BREWERS 1 (10 INN.)M.Carpenter 3b 5 0 0 0 0 2 .257Piscotty lf 4 1 0 0 1 2 .323Heyward rf 4 2 3 2 1 0 .296Jh.Peralta ss 5 0 2 1 0 0 .274M.Adams 1b 2 0 0 0 1 1 .248Mar.Reynolds 1b 2 0 0 0 0 1 .231Molina c 4 0 0 0 0 2 .275Wong 2b 3 0 1 0 1 0 .265Jay cf 3 0 0 0 1 0 .218Bourjos pr-cf 0 0 0 0 0 0 .201C.Martinez p 3 0 1 0 0 1 .151G.Garcia ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .278Siegrist p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Rosenthal p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000Totals 36 3 7 3 5 9
Gennett 2b 5 0 0 0 0 1 .263E.Herrera 3b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .241Braun rf 2 0 1 0 2 1 .291Lind 1b 4 0 0 0 0 0 .284K.Davis lf 3 1 2 1 0 0 .236Jeffress p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Fr.Rodriguez p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-J.Rogers ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .283Thornburg p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000Do.Santana cf-lf 4 0 0 0 0 4 .261Segura ss 4 0 0 0 0 2 .270Maldonado c 3 0 0 0 0 2 .189Sardinas ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .205A.Pena p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000Knebel p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-S.Peterson ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .256W.Smith p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-L.Schafer cf 2 0 2 0 0 0 .227Totals 32 1 5 1 4 13
E—Lind (4). LOB—St. Louis 8, Milwau-kee 6. 2B—Heyward 2 (32), C.Martinez (2). HR—Heyward (12), off Thornburg; K.Davis (21), off C.Martinez. RBIs—Hey-ward 2 (55), Jh.Peralta (61), K.Davis (55). SB—Heyward (22). S—E.Herrera.Runners left in scoring position—St. Louis 5 (Jh.Peralta, Piscotty, Jay 2, Mar.Reyn-olds); Milwaukee 2 (Lind, Do.Santana). RISP—St. Louis 1 for 8; Milw 0 for 2.Runners moved up—Jh.Peralta, Lind. GIDP—Jay, Lind, Segura.DP—St. Louis 2 (Mar.Reynolds, Molina), (Jh.Peralta, Mar.Reynolds); Milwaukee 2 (Lind), (Segura, Gennett, Lind).St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERAC.Martinez 8 4 1 1 2 9 103 3.02Siegrist W, 7-1 1 0 0 0 2 2 27 2.17Rosnthl S, 44-46 1 1 0 0 0 2 17 1.56Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERAA.Pena 5 4 1 1 3 5 92 3.46Knebel 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 3.40W.Smith 1 1 0 0 0 1 15 2.88Jeffress 1 1 0 0 1 1 21 2.69Fr.Rodriguez 1 0 0 0 1 0 14 2.49Thornburg L, 0-2 1 1 2 1 0 1 26 3.56A.Pena pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.Inherited runners-scored—Knebel 1-0. IBB—off C.Martinez (Braun).T—3:14. A—30,349 (41,900).
NATIONALS 4, PHILLIES 0Rendon 2b 5 0 1 0 0 2 .285Y.Escobar 3b 4 2 1 0 1 0 .320Harper rf 3 2 3 4 1 0 .338Werth lf 3 0 0 0 1 2 .226C.Robinson 1b 4 0 0 0 0 1 .271Desmond ss 4 0 0 0 0 1 .233W.Ramos c 4 0 1 0 0 1 .237M.Taylor cf 4 0 1 0 0 1 .236Strasburg p 2 0 0 0 1 2 .097den Dekker ph 0 0 0 0 1 0 .206Treinen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000Totals 33 4 7 4 5 10
Sweeney lf 4 0 0 0 0 2 .185Galvis ss 3 0 0 0 1 1 .267O.Herrera cf 3 0 0 0 0 3 .296A.Blanco 2b 3 0 0 0 0 2 .296Asche 3b 3 0 1 0 0 1 .246Ruf 1b 3 0 0 0 0 1 .237Bogusevic rf 3 0 0 0 0 2 .300Ruiz c 3 0 0 0 0 1 .216D.Buchanan p 1 0 0 0 0 1 .125
Lu.Garcia p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Loewen p 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000Murray p 0 0 0 0 0 0 —-Francoeur ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 .267Totals 28 0 1 0 1 14
E—Sweeney (2). LOB—Washington 7, Philadelphia 2. 2B—Y.Escobar (22). HR—Harper (38), off D.Buchanan; Harper (39), off Loewen. RBIs—Harper 4 (90).Runners left in scoring position—Wash 5 (Strasburg, C.Robinson, Rendon 2, Y.Escobar). RISP—Wash 1 for 6; Phil 0 for 0.GIDP—Werth, C.Robinson.
Strasburg W, 9-7 8 1 0 0 1 14 105 3.98Treinen 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 3.79Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERAD.Buchan L, 2-9 6 5 2 2 2 5 74 8.49Lu.Garcia 1 0 0 0 1 1 19 3.69Loewen 2/3 1 2 2 1 2 25 8.79Murray 11/3 1 0 0 1 2 26 5.06WP—Lu.Garcia.T—2:35. A—15,325 (43,651).
Toronto won’t bid on Olympics for 2024: ToryLIAM CASEY AND DIANA MEHTA THE CANADIAN PRESS
Toronto will be a great venue for the Olympics one day but not this time, Mayor John Tory said Tuesday as he announced the city will not be bidding to host the 2024 Summer Games.
Tory had until Tuesday to submit a letter of interest to the International Olympic Commit-tee to register as a potential can-didate to host the Games.
“Let me be clear, I’m not saying no to the Olympics, I’m saying not this time.”
Talk of Toronto potentially making a bid emerged as excite-ment built around this summer’s Pan Am Games, which were hosted by Toronto and surround-ing communities.
But he said there wasn’t enough time to put together enough information for the polit-icians, the business community and the city’s residents.
The city was focused on the Pan Am and Parapan Games, which ended last month, and had little time to crunch numbers, he said. “I can’t look people in the eye at this point in our city’s development and tell them that
an Olympic bid is the best use of our time or our energy or our investment,” Tory said. “But now I can look into the eyes of my colleagues at other levels of gov-ernment and say this — together we should be making the invest-ments talked about in the con-text of the Olympics.”
Tory said the city’s time and money will be better spent investing in transportation and transit, addressing the afford-able housing crisis and reducing poverty. He said he “will con-tinue to be very careful in how our money is invested and to what end.”
Tory didn’t need approval to submit a letter of interest to the IOC, but would have required
support from city council and provincial and federal govern-ments to go forward with a bid.
“In the end it is not my job to be rash. It is my job to make the best decision for Toronto,” Tory said.
He said he came to the decision late Monday, just a day before the deadline. The federal election also played a role in his decision he said. He spoke to the big three party leaders about a possible bid.
“They were supportive and rec-ognized the federal government had a role to play if we were to have an Olympic bid, but they were not writing — and I would not ask them — to write a big cheque,” Tory said.
He said business leaders were also cautious, because he want-ed the majority of the bid to be funded privately.
“No one was rushing forward with their chequebooks to hand me big cheques,” he said.
He did announce that he would form an advisory group which would look at the merits of competing for future large-scale events like the Olympics, Inter-national Expos or soccer’s World Cup.
“When and if we decide to com-pete for any of these events, we will do it right,” he said.
The Canadian Olympic Com-mittee says it respected Tory’s decision and appreciated the thorough consideration he had given the matter.
“We remain optimistic Toron-to could and should host the Olympic Games in the future,” president Marcel Aubut said in a statement. “The Canadian Olympic Committee is deter-mined to have the Olympics back in the country at the earliest opportunity.”
The IOC was supportive of Tory’s decision.
“We realize that time was too short for such a detailed project to get the necessary support in just a few weeks following the successful Pan Am Games,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.
“The International Olympic Committee highly appreciates what Toronto has done as it continues to work on a future candidacy.”
Toronto made two unsuccessful bids for the Games — in 1996 and in 2008 — and Tory had said he doesn’t want to lead a third failed attempt.
TORY
NHL annouces new deal with Adidas for ‘17STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS
Adidas will take over produc-tion of NHL uniforms beginning in the 2017-’18 season, and it’s unclear just how many changes will come as a result.
The NHL announced a sev-en-year deal with Adidas to be its on-ice uniform supplier and also to serve as outfitter for next year’s World Cup of Hockey. Commissioner Gary Bettman repeatedly shot down specula-tion about the announcement opening the door for advertise-ments on jerseys and said he didn’t think they’d go through a major redesign.
“Reinventing isn’t something we’re about to embark upon,” Bettman said on a conference call.
“If there are better fabrics that are more comfortable and help performance, that’s one thing. But we happen to like our jerseys a lot, and we think our fans do as well. ...
“We’re not looking to revamp our jerseys.”
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ARIES (March 21-April 19)You could be dragging far more than you realize. Motivate your-self by working on a project that has been on the back burn-er. Be willing to ask a partner to pitch in and help you. You have done plenty of favors for this person in the past. Tonight: Chill out at home.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)If you are angry with someone, do yourself a favor and opt for a discussion rather than holding in your feelings and exploding. You might be surprised how much can be handled calmly in this situation. Tonight: Let someone explain where he or she is coming from.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)Clear the air in a sensitive way. You will be surprised by what you can accomplish once you have aired out a problem. Your schedule becomes busier and busier. Be ready for a pleasant diversion or some interference, depending on your outlook. Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)Extend yourself, and be open to a different approach, especially
regarding a domestic matter. You will be the one in charge who has the final say on what goes on in your home. Relaxing your boundaries might be dif-ficult. Tonight: Add some spice to the mix.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You might not realize that you often come off as pushy. Today, someone could start backing away because of what he or she perceives your attitude to be. A conversation is likely to be melodramatic later in the day. Tonight: Have a long-overdue talk with a family member.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might be at the point of changing direction, but try to hang in there a little while longer. With Jupiter, the planet of luck, in your sign, there could be a sudden shift in what is going on. Communication brings better results in the afternoon. Tonight: Say what you feel.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)You could become the office cheerleader this morning, as you seem to express so much positive energy and enthu-siasm. Be aware of the costs
of choices you make in the afternoon. Listen to what is being said, but clarify where you stand. Tonight: Make it your treat.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)You might wonder why you have experienced such extremes late-ly. You seem to go from wanting to cocoon at home to feeling ready for nearly anything. Do not get into someone else’s con-flict, even if you are vested in the outcome. Tonight: Whatever suits your fancy.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)You could be in a situation where you would prefer to share more of what is happening with-in you. Do this in the morning, as others are likely to be more receptive then. All you need to do is observe and listen. Cut off someone who is being sarcastic. Tonight: Take a personal night.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)You might be baffled by a boss’s response to you. Clearly, this person has an issue with something you have done. In a discussion with him or her, make an attempt to clear the air with-out getting personal. Neutralize any negativity. Tonight: Join a friend.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)You will be on top of a project and have the perspective need-ed to bring it to fruition. How you see a personal matter could change after a conversation. Please confirm what you have heard before reacting. In the long run, verifying is the smart thing to do. Tonight: A force to behold.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might be able to visualize a better interaction with someone who is key to your life. Some-times you get in a tangle with this person. Neither of you is comfortable with the situation. Have this discussion in a good moment. Tonight: Say “yes” to a fun invitation.
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BLAIRMORE, Alta. — RCMP in southern Alberta say they have arrested a suspect in the killing of a father and the abduction of his two-year-old daughter, but they still don’t know where the toddler is.
Supt. Tony Hamori wouldn’t name the 22-year-old man who was arrested in Blairmore on Tuesday because no charges have been laid.
The search was still on for Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, who officers believe was taken from her Crows-nest Pass home in a speeding white van early Monday morning. Her 27-year-old father, Terry Blanchette, was found dead in the home and police believe his death was a homicide.
“To my knowledge that person has been arrested in association (with) both the homicide and the disappearance of Hailey,” Hamori said at a news conference. He said the suspect is a resident of the town, 220 kilometres southwest of Calgary near the boundary between Alberta and British Columbia.
RCMP say they have found a van that could be associated with the investigation, but have not called off the search for the suspect vehicle.
“It is too soon for police to know if this is the van that was reportedly seen near the Blanchette home early Monday morning,” Mounties said.
As the search for Hailey con-tinued, a clearer picture of her fath-er emerged.
Blanchette, who worked as a cook in a restaurant and was described as a doting father by friends and his boss, had many criminal convic-tions between 2010 and 2012.
Court records indicate he was con-victed of failing to appear in court in Lethbridge in 2010 and was fined $300. He also pleaded guilty and was fined $750 for failing to stop his vehicle and evading police in late February 2012.
The following month, Blanchette stole beef jerky from a Dollarama store and assaulted a man. He
pleaded guilty and was fined $500. A separate incident that month at a Zellers resulted in a charge of theft under $5,000. He pleaded guilty and was fined $100. In April 2012 he pleaded guilty to assaulting a man at or near Calgary and was fined $500.
There are no court records after 2012. That’s when Blanchette’s Facebook posts switched from talk of court dates to pictures of him with his baby daughter.
“I’m not the bad guy for not want-ing my child around drug-addicted pedofiles,” said a post attributed to Blanchette on March 8, 2013.
Family friend Corette Harrington said Hailey’s mother, Cheyenne Dunbar, and Blanchette amicably
shared custody of their little girl. She lived with her dad full-time and Dunbar visited every few weeks from Edmonton. Hamori said Dun-bar is working with investigators.
“To my knowledge, she has been co-operative with the investiga-tion,” he said. “Police have been speaking with her and obviously, at this point in time, followup inves-tigation is going to be done on all information we receive.”
Neighbour Angela Mathieson said Blanchette’s father took care of Hailey while BlanchetteBlanchette was at work.
She said it was clear he loved being a father.
“His dad came and took care of her while he was at work. He was
taking good care of her. There was always laughing and giggling going on over there.”
Mathieson said she returned home from a shift at around 3 a.m. — the time police believe Hailey was taken — and noticed nothing unusual.
“I didn’t hear anything and the dogs never responded to anything going on there either.”
Blair Painter, mayor of Crowsnest Pass, said everyone in the area is feeling the pain of this tragic case.
“This is devastating for our small community. We’re very tight-knit,” he said.
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Arrest made but girl still missingHAILEY DUNBAR-BLANCHETTE ABDUCTION
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Rescuers trudge muddy ground after fl ash fl ood kills at least a dozenKIMBERLY PIERCEALL AND BRADY MCCOMBS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HILDALE, Utah — Search-and-res-cue teams trudged through muddy streambeds Tuesday in a small polygamous town on the Utah-Ari-zona border, looking for people who were missing after a devastating flash flood that killed at least 12 people.
With more rain in the forecast, men in helmets were perched at high points along the route, watching carefully for any more
floodwaters that could suspend the search in Hildale, the secluded community that is the home base of Warren Jeffs’ polygamist sect.
Only one person was still missing Tuesday afternoon out of 16 people — three women and 13 children — who were in two vehicles that got smashed Monday by a wall of water and carried several hundred yards downstream. Authorities had not identified the dead. Three people survived, all of them children.
On Tuesday, the streets were caked in red mud, and earth mov-
ers cleared the roads and piled up mounds of dirt. As a helicopter buzzed overhead, crowds of boys in jeans and girls and women in deep-colored prairie dresses watched the rescue effort.
Residents called it the worst flood in memory for the sister towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, which are 315 miles south of Salt Lake City at the foot of pic-turesque red rock cliffs.
It was in this area at Maxwell Can-yon where heavy rains sent water down Short Creek and barrelling
through the towns.The torrent was so fast, “it was
taking concrete pillars and just throwing them down, just moving them like plastic,” said Lorin Holm, who called the storm the heaviest in the 58 years he’s lived in the community.
The women and children were in an SUV and a van on a gravel road north of the towns. They were returning from a park when they stopped at a flooded crossing and got out to watch the raging waters, Hildale Mayor Philip Barlow said.
Amanda Blanchette, right, sister of Terry Blanchette, waits with a friend outside police headquarters in Blairmore, Alta., Tuesday, as the investigation into the disappearance of Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette continues. [THE CANADIAN PRESS/JEFF MCINTOSH]
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This Is Then...This Is Then...With Kris PattersonWith Kris Patterson
I ENJOYED HEARING peo-ple’s memories at the AV Times booth during the Fall Fair this year. Th ere is a lot of history and Hunter’s Store generated a
lot of memories for people. I ran the photo of the fi re at
Hunter’s Store a few weeks back and I thought this would be a good time to look at the beginnings of what would become Hunter’s Store.
Please send me your memories and photos at [email protected] or call me at 250-723-8171 ext. 228
Before it was Hunter’s Store, it was McConachie’s General Store, and before that, it was Freethy’s Store.
By the way, before Chester and Chris Freethy created their store in 1947, they had leased Th e Flitton Store, just down the highway, adja-cent to Bell Road. So the Flitton fam-ily also played a part in what would eventually become Hunter’s Store in 1966.
More about that later, but fi rst, thanks to Marjorie Jarrett (nee McConachie) we can revisit McCo-nachie’s General Store.
“My parents purchased the store
from Freethy’s in late ‘63 or early ‘64, and owned and operated it until 1966. Dad had been the manager of Fletcher’s Store for many years and Mom had worked in convenience stores before she married. Th ey both wanted to try owning their own business.”
**Bill Freethy tells me that his parents actually sold the business to Wally & Kay Smith in 1963, who nev-er changed the name or had it very long. He remembers the Smiths were the ones who turned Freethy’s Store over to the McConachies.** Now back to Marjorie’s story....
“Mom and Dad, along with my brother Wayne, and their many employees, worked hard to off er a full line of groceries and other items, along with the gas service 364 days a year, although they usually had to open at least once on Christmas day for some type of emergency.
Using ice cream as a draw was Dad’s idea. Th ey set up the ice cream bar with a big variety of fl avours. McConachie’s was the fi rst in the area to bring in black licorice. Th ey used a
10-cent sized scoop, but only charged a nickel a scoop. People would leave the store with cones piled “fi ve scoops high,” sometimes with fi ve diff erent fl avours.
Mom and Dad sold so much ice cream that Dairyland parked a freezer-trailer in the lot so that the store would have back-up bins of the delectable treat. Th e employees who worked on the ice cream bar devel-oped very good biceps. We still meet people today, who remember going to McConachie’s for ice cream.”
Marjorie recalls her parents experimenting for weeks, with pure beef and the best combination of condiments, before they started “June’s Hamburger Stand,” on the store site. By the way, Gasoline was 32 and 35 cents a gallon at the time.
“Mom and Dad sold the business to Wes and Elaine Hunter in 1966, and moved to Prince George, where Dad worked for Woodward’s.”
Th e Hunters put their name on the store, and it stayed there until 1973, although the business had changed hands just before it was de-stroyed in a spectacular fi re on June 20th. Lou Burrows was the owner
at the time of the blaze. I hope you enjoyed reading about the begin-ning of this successful “local family business,” which was operated by more than three families for about 25 years.
Red & June McConachie, with how the store looked back in June of 1964.
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A look back at the history of Hunter’s Store“Mom and Dad sold so much ice cream that Dairyland parked a freezer-trailer in the lot so that the store would have back-up bins of the delectable treat.”Marjorie Jarrett (nee McConachie)
