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Attention New Subscribers Sign up for a new 1 year subscription and receive a $25.00 Gift Card from Save-On Foods. AV Times 4918 Napier Street 250-723-8171 Call Gab 778-421-1899 ALBERNI ALBERNI BOOKKEEPING BOOKKEEPING SERVICES LTD. SERVICES LTD. ALBERNI ALBERNI BOOKKEEPING BOOKKEEPING SERVICES LTD. SERVICES LTD. Gabrielle Frost (Owner) Full Service Accounting & Bookkeeping or stop by Unit 3-4505 Victoria Quay www.albernibookkeeing.com • Accounts Receivable • Accounts Payable • Payroll • Employer Remittance • Financial Statements • A la Carte or Monthly Packages Available Serving the Alberni Valley www.avtimes.net Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Alberni bantam baseball player heads to provincials Sports, Page 5 26C 12C Sunny Weather 2 What’s On 2 Alberni Region 3 Opinion 4 Sports 5 Scoreboard 6 Comics 7 Classifieds 8 Nation & World 9 Taste 10 ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES VOLUME 66, NUMBER 143 $1.25 newsstand (GST incl.) Inside today FIRE Alberni resident attempted to live off the grid to save from paying BC Hydro’s hiked electricity rates Generator causes blaze: Fire chief MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES A Port Alberni resident is thank- ful to be alive after his house was destroyed by a fire early Monday morning. Firefighters concluded that a gas generator used to power the home, which was disconnected from the BC Hydro grid, caused the blaze. Kevin Fletcher and his girlfriend were not at home when their rent- ed house on Fourth Avenue burst into flames early on Monday. He and his girlfriend were out on the waterfront celebrating her birthday, Fletcher said, when they heard sirens. He knew something was wrong, he said. He returned to get his two dogs, which were tied up on the porch. Friends had been in the house looking for him, he said. No one was hurt. “My God, if I had lost [anyone] I don’t know what I would have done,” Fletcher said. Port Alberni firefighters responded to the emergency call at 3:46 a.m. on Monday, said fire chief Tim Pley. When they got to the house, it was already fully aflame. The house and two outbuildings were extensively damaged. Only a blackened hull remains of the detached garage. “BC Hydro had been disconnect- ed and they were running a gener- ator to power the house, so the fire was caused by that,” Pley said, adding he doesn’t recommend that residents use generators for all of their electricity. “In this case they had jury- rigged an exhaust pipe running from a generator inside the house,” Pley said. The heat from the exhaust pipe, which ran dir- ectly through the wall, caused the fire, he noted. Firefighters searched the house to ensure no one was inside, Pley said. They then worked to contain the blaze as it was spreading to a neighbouring property. Aside from the risk of fire, run- ning a generator to power your home has other risks, Pley said. Carbon monoxide poisoning can result from inhaling the exhaust, he said. The generated electricity can also feed back into the power system, potentially causing harm to BC Hydro workers who aren’t expecting live wires from a resi- dence, he said. Grateful for the lives spared, Fletcher lost all his belongings in the fire except the clothes on his back, some appliances and a beat- up pickup truck. “I’m in shock,” Fletcher said. “I’m wading through burnt stuff trying to find my girlfriend’s mom’s ashes.” He was also hoping to find any family pictures of his late father that might still be intact, he said. Fletcher had hooked up a gener- ator on Friday after BC Hydro cut the power to his home because he couldn’t pay the bills, he said. But he’s confused how it could have caused the fire at the time. See FIRE, Page 3 Measures needed to reduce bear conflicts PA was the first community on Vancouver Island to earn Bear Smart designation, but two years later those running the provincial program warn that more atten- tion is needed. » Alberni Region 3 Korean is slipping into your kitchens Everywhere you look, Korean food is screaming off the trend charts. » Taste, 10 » Use your smartphone to jump to our Facebook page for updates on these stories or the latest breaking news. Dan Peterson looks on at the aftermath of a fire At 3532 Fourth Avenue that destroyed a garage and house. Peterson’s friend Kevin Fletcher lived in the house but was not home when the fire happened. No one was injured. [MARTIN WISSMATH, TIMES]. ANIMAL CONTROL Two-year initiative reaches its goal to curb overpopulation of free-roaming cats Alberni shelter sees 800 sterilizations ERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES Eight hundred fewer cats will be multiplying in the community as the result of a two-year initia- tive to curb Port Alberni’s feline overpopulation. The total was announced Mon- day by the BC SPCA with the conclusion of a project launched in 2013 to spay and neuter 800 cats. With $110,900 in funding from PetSmart Charities of Canada, the Alberni-Calyoquot branch was able to focus on the sterilization of animals that would otherwise not be fixed. The overpopulation of cats in Port Alberni has been a problem for the local animal shelter, lead- ing the facility to send out 246 cats to other SPCA branches last year for adoption elsewhere. But in 2015, staff have seen fewer unwanted cats have come through the shelter with a 37 per cent decline of incoming stray kittens compared to 2011 numbers. “This is the first year that we have not been completely overwhelmed by kittens,” said the Alberni-Clayoquot branch manager Irene Towell in a media release from the BC SPCA. “We’ve also passed the 2015 spring peak of kitten season and have only seen two surren- dered pregnant cats come to the shelter.” A total of 447 female cats were spayed over the course of the two-year project, while 353 males were neutered. These include pets being cared for by residents as well as feral cats, which are domestic breeds that are born from strays outside a home, growing up without being accus- tomed to human contact. The SPCA estimates that most of the sterilized animals were strays – either free-roaming in a neighbourhood or living within one of Port Alberni’s several feral cat groups. “They were able to sterilized 100 per cent of the cats from five colonies and are still working on finishing two more,” said BC SPCA outreach coordin- ator Megan Munroe. “Both the branch and community partici- pated in the trapping of cats and taking them to the vet for their appointment.” Munroe saw a Port Alberni resident who was overrun with multiplying cats benefit from the sterilization program. “We were able to fix 12 of his cats and remove the kittens from his care,” she said. “He was happy with his decision to have his cats fixed, because he felt he was able to provide better care to fewer cats, his neighbours stopped complaining and local animal control bylaw officers no longer had to make visits to his home.” [email protected] 250-723-8171 Animal care attendant Reyna Waller handles Caroline Mars, a cat recently brought to the Alberni-Clayoquot branch of the BC SPCA for fixing and adoption. 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Inside today

FIRE

Alberni resident attempted to live off the grid to save from paying BC Hydro’s hiked electricity rates

Generator causes blaze: Fire chiefMARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

A Port Alberni resident is thank-ful to be alive after his house was destroyed by a fire early Monday morning.

Firefighters concluded that a gas generator used to power the home, which was disconnected from the BC Hydro grid, caused the blaze.

Kevin Fletcher and his girlfriend were not at home when their rent-ed house on Fourth Avenue burst into flames early on Monday. He and his girlfriend were out on the waterfront celebrating her birthday, Fletcher said, when they heard sirens. He knew something was wrong, he said. He returned to get his two dogs, which were tied up on the porch. Friends had been in the house looking for him, he said.

No one was hurt. “My God, if I had lost [anyone]

I don’t know what I would have done,” Fletcher said.

Port Alberni firefighters responded to the emergency call at 3:46 a.m. on Monday, said fire chief Tim Pley. When they got to the house, it was already fully aflame. The house and two outbuildings were extensively damaged.

Only a blackened hull remains of the detached garage.

“BC Hydro had been disconnect-ed and they were running a gener-ator to power the house, so the fire was caused by that,” Pley said,

adding he doesn’t recommend that residents use generators for all of their electricity.

“In this case they had jury-

rigged an exhaust pipe running from a generator inside the house,” Pley said. The heat from the exhaust pipe, which ran dir-

ectly through the wall, caused the fire, he noted.

Firefighters searched the house to ensure no one was inside, Pley said. They then worked to contain the blaze as it was spreading to a neighbouring property.

Aside from the risk of fire, run-ning a generator to power your home has other risks, Pley said. Carbon monoxide poisoning can result from inhaling the exhaust, he said. The generated electricity can also feed back into the power system, potentially causing harm to BC Hydro workers who aren’t expecting live wires from a resi-dence, he said.

Grateful for the lives spared, Fletcher lost all his belongings in the fire except the clothes on his back, some appliances and a beat-up pickup truck.

“I’m in shock,” Fletcher said. “I’m wading through burnt stuff trying to find my girlfriend’s mom’s ashes.” He was also hoping to find any family pictures of his late father that might still be intact, he said.

Fletcher had hooked up a gener-ator on Friday after BC Hydro cut the power to his home because he couldn’t pay the bills, he said. But he’s confused how it could have caused the fire at the time.

See FIRE, Page 3

Measures needed to reduce bear conflictsPA was the first community on Vancouver Island to earn Bear Smart designation, but two years later those running the provincial program warn that more atten-tion is needed. » Alberni Region 3

Korean is slipping into your kitchensEverywhere you look, Korean food is screaming off the trend charts.» Taste, 10

» Use your smartphone to jump to our Facebook page for updates on these stories or the latest breaking news.

Dan Peterson looks on at the aftermath of a fire At 3532 Fourth Avenue that destroyed a garage and house. Peterson’s friend Kevin Fletcher lived in the house but was not home when the fire happened. No one was injured. [MARTIN WISSMATH, TIMES].

ANIMAL CONTROL

Two-year initiative reaches its goal to curb overpopulation of free-roaming cats

Alberni shelter sees 800 sterilizationsERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Eight hundred fewer cats will be multiplying in the community as the result of a two-year initia-tive to curb Port Alberni’s feline overpopulation.

The total was announced Mon-day by the BC SPCA with the conclusion of a project launched in 2013 to spay and neuter 800 cats. With $110,900 in funding from PetSmart Charities of Canada, the Alberni-Calyoquot branch was able to focus on the sterilization of animals that would otherwise not be fixed.

The overpopulation of cats in Port Alberni has been a problem for the local animal shelter, lead-ing the facility to send out 246 cats to other SPCA branches last year for adoption elsewhere.

But in 2015, staff have seen fewer unwanted cats have come through the shelter with a 37 per cent decline of incoming stray kittens compared to 2011 numbers.

“This is the first year that we have not been completely overwhelmed by kittens,” said the Alberni-Clayoquot branch manager Irene Towell in a media release from the BC SPCA.

“We’ve also passed the 2015 spring peak of kitten season and have only seen two surren-dered pregnant cats come to the shelter.”

A total of 447 female cats were spayed over the course of the

two-year project, while 353 males were neutered. These include pets being cared for by residents as well as feral cats, which are domestic breeds that are born from strays outside a home, growing up without being accus-

tomed to human contact. The SPCA estimates that most

of the sterilized animals were strays – either free-roaming in a neighbourhood or living within one of Port Alberni’s several feral cat groups.

“They were able to sterilized 100 per cent of the cats from five colonies and are still working on finishing two more,” said BC SPCA outreach coordin-ator Megan Munroe. “Both the branch and community partici-pated in the trapping of cats and taking them to the vet for their appointment.”

Munroe saw a Port Alberni resident who was overrun with multiplying cats benefit from the sterilization program.

“We were able to fix 12 of his cats and remove the kittens from his care,” she said. “He was happy with his decision to have his cats fixed, because he felt he was able to provide better care to fewer cats, his neighbours stopped complaining and local animal control bylaw officers no longer had to make visits to his home.”

[email protected] 250-723-8171

Animal care attendant Reyna Waller handles Caroline Mars, a cat recently brought to the Alberni-Clayoquot branch of the BC SPCA for fixing and adoption. [ERIC PLUMMER, TIMES]

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ArtsAlberni Valley Community Band meets

Wednesdays, 7 to 9 p.m., E.J. Dunn band room. Info: 250-723-1285 (Cory) or 250-724-6780 (Manfred).

The Barkley Sounds Community Choir practices on Wednesdays, 6:45 to 9 p.m. at Alberni Valley United Church. Info: 250-723-6884.

Lounge Music with guitarist David Morton from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wed-nesdays at Char’s Landing.

Musicians open mic hosted by Jeff Hallworth from 7 to 9 p.m. first Wednesday of each month at Char’s Landing.

AV Transition Town Society meetings, 6 p.m. third Wednesday of each month at Char’s Landing.

Sports Drop-in circuit training on Wednesdays

at 6 p.m. Info: (778) 421-2721.Touch rugby games at the Port Alberni

Black Sheep Rugby Club Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Everyone welcome.

Bingo on Wednesdays at 6:45 p.m. and cards at 7 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Alberni Valley Branch.

Horseshoe Club practices on Wednes-days at 1 p.m. at Dry Creek Park. Info: 250-724-4770 or 250-723-6050.

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

Child and youth Navy League Cadets (ages 9 to 12),

meet Wednesdays, 7 p.m., at the Port Alberni Youth Centre. Info: 250-723-6365 or 250-723-7442.

PacificCARE free music drop-in pro-gram for children and their families on Wednesdays, from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. at the Kiwanis Hilton Children’s Centre. Closures follow school calendar. Registration is required. Info: 250-735-3022.

Support and help Volunteers urgently needed to help

at Red Cross Loan Cupboard for four-hour shifts, once per week. Info: 250-723-0557 (call on Wed-nesdays or Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)

MS Port Alberni self-help group meets on the third Wednesday of each month at Echo Centre at noon. The group meets to support those living with MS and their fam-ilies. Info: 250-723-7403 (Susan).

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

GroupsThe Freemasons Barclay Lodge #90

meets the second Wednesday of

each month, 7:30 p.m. at the Free-masons Hall. Info: 250-723-6075 or 250-723-3328.

Genealogy Club members are able to visit at the Family History Centre in the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-day Saints on Wednesday mor-nings, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Addictions Al-Anon and Al-Ateen support groups

for family and friends of problem drinkers meet on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. at 3028 Second Ave. Info: 250-723-5526, 250-723-2372 or 250-720-4855.

Narcotics Anonymous, Port Alberni. Info: 1-800-807-1780.

Overeaters Anonymous meeting Wed-nesday evening 7 p.m. 4711 Elizabeth St., Info: 250-723-7486

Port Alberni Friendship Center offers

free counselling on addictions, men-tal health, relationships and other issues. Info: 250-723-8281. Everybody welcome.

What’s ComingOur Town events run by Port Alberni

Parks, Recreation and Heritage this summer: “Mardi Gras” on Aug. 4, 6–8 p.m. at Gyro Rec Park; Aug. 18 Luau Party 6–8 p.m. at the Harbour Quay. Info: Barbi Jackson / Lisa Krause, 250-723-2181.

Steam Up Antique Machinery Show, July 24-26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at McLean Mill.

Maritime Discovery Centre Pirate Day children’s event, July 25 from 10 a.m. to noon. Free, includes crafts and snacks.

Tsunami Hawgs Bike Fest, July 25 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at upper 3rd Avenue and Argyle Street. Show ‘n Shine, vendors, food and more.

Port Alberni Pride BBQ, July 26 from noon to 4 p.m. at Williamson Park.

Summer Picnic Dinner, July 31 at 5:30 p.m. at the Bread of Life. Tickets at Bread of Life and Cornerstones Thrift Store, 3130 3rd Ave.

Maritime Discovery Centre Service Boat Day children’s event at Cen-tennial Pier, Aug. 8 from 10 a.m. to noon. Free, includes crafts and snacks.

Centennial Belles fashion show, Aug. 9 from 2-4 p.m. at Rollin Art Centre. Proceeds to benefit Rollin Art Cen-tre programs.

Maritime Discovery Centre Build a Boat Day children’s event, Aug. 15 from 10 a.m. to noon. Free, includes crafts and snacks.

Maritime Discovery Fishing Derby for children, Aug. 22 from 10 a.m. to noon. Free, includes crafts and snacks.

A.V. Legion Branch 293 Fun Fishing Derby Saturday, Aug. 22 6a.m. to 9p.m., Sunday Aug. 23 6a.m.

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Steam UpAn aerial view of the STEAM UP and Antique Machinery Show at Mclean’s Mill this past weekend. [PHOTO BY DENNIS SEE]

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Bear Smart BC asks city for more support to decrease encounters due to garbage and fruit trees

Residents warned to not encourage bearsERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

Port Alberni was the first com-munity on Vancouver Island to earn Bear Smart designation, but two years later those running the provincial program warn that more attention is needed to pre-vent wildlife conflicts with people in town.

Over the first five months of this year 30 black bear incidents were reported to the B.C. Conservation Officer Service, including multiple sightings on Cameron Heights and Ship Creek Road as well as other South Port neighbourhoods. Home audits conducted by conservation officers found tote containers knocked over in garages and unsecured garbage bins.

Besides local education initia-tives, Port Alberni earned Bear Smart designation through it’s use of bear-resistant garbage bins. But the curbside residential containers are only useful if lids are locked between garbage collection, said Crystal McMillan, executive direc-tor of Bear Smart BC.

“Bears are very smart, they have intelligence comparable to apes,” she said, noting that an unlocked garbage bin can quickly come to represent an easy snack for the animals. “Bears are opportunistic.

They will exert the least amount of effort to get high-caloric food.”

With a sense of smell 50 times greater than a bloodhound, bears will seek out the most accessible means of sustenance, warned

McMillan. Accessible food can make the large mammals part of a neighbourhood. Bear Smart BC is asking the city to provide its bylaw enforcement officer with special-ized training to better educate

the public and media of means to discourage bears from milling around local neighbourhoods. The bear awareness organization is also requesting the municipality to invest $1,000 in more Bear Smart

brochures to remind the public that the hungry mammals are often just around the corner.

Besides garbage, fruit trees are the most concerning attractant for black bears in the Alberni Valley, said McMillan. Bear Smart BC points to the success of the Alberni Valley Gleaning Pro-ject in removing this hazard by organizing volunteers to pick fruit from trees in the community, but more help is needed. Last year the Gleaning Project harvested almost 10,000 pounds of produce, and Bear Smart is supporting the initiative’s request for the regular use of a municipal truck to transport lad-ders and fruit from picking sites throughout the season.

Black bears don’t have the dan-gerous reputation of grizzly bears, but they can act aggressively in self defence, said McMillan.

“While black bears on Vancouver Island are not, as far as we know, showing predatory behavior, they will show aggressive defensive behavior if their own survival is compromised,” she said.

Residents are encouraged to report black bears in their neigh-bourhood to the Conservation Offi-cer Service at 1-8777-952-7277.

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Multiplex expansion for fans’ convenienceKRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

By the time the Bulldogs hit the ice for the regular season, fans and users of the Alberni Valley Multiplex will have a more con-venient ticket-buying experience, according to Bob Cole, director of the Port Alberni Junior Hock-ey Society.

Although a month later than expected, plans are underway to use the legacy money gifted earlier this year from the Alber-ni Valley Community Forest committee. Final designs are currently being completed for an expansion of the ticket outlet and retail space of the multiplex lobby.

“We just need to have the city contract signed and the ground breaking work should take place in the next week or two,” Cole said.

When the existing business office and ticket outlet was built, it was an add-on to the arena. By tying in the box office and mer-chandise sales to a larger space, it is expected to be an improve-ment for staff, volunteers and fans, Cole said.

“The existing offices will just be used for business offices and there will be an expanded mer-chandise area,” he said.

The Society planned the archi-tecture and design based on local

materials and a consistent look to the multiplex.

“We will use wood exterior cladding to showcase the Coul-son Group and Western Forest Products and McLean Mill wood beams,” Cole said. “The round posts were donated by the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, so it all ties together.”

Outside the multiplex will be a new covered walkway for those lining up for tickets.

Cole believes it will allow the entire operation to run smoother.

The project is remaining within the budget of the $80,000 dona-tion, but Cole hopes to rally up approximately $40,000 more in in-kind donations.

“The community is always generous with these kinds of projects,” he said.

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“We just need to have the city contract signed and the ground breaking work should take place in the next week or two.”

Bob Cole, Port Alberni Junior Hockey Society director

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BC Hydro cautions residents who live off the gridSee FIRE, Page 3

“[The generator] was definite-ly not running,” Fletcher said. “It wasn’t a cigarette, it wasn’t anything stupid like that.”

Dave Beecroft owns the prop-erty and was at the house on Fourth Avenue on Monday waiting to hear back from his insurance company.

He expects it to be a loss upwards of $150,000, he said.

He also owns the garage on the neighbouring property, which was partially damaged as flames melted off the siding.

“No one was hurt; that’s all that matters,” Beecroft said.

BC Hydro community rela-tions manager for Vancouver Island, Ted Olynyk, said it’s a customer’s responsibility to install their own generator properly if they don’t want to pay the power company for

electricity. “[It’s] not only safety for

themselves and their home, but for BC Hydro workers and for the general public,” Olynyk said.

During a power outage, gen-erators could surge electricty through downed lines, he noted.

BC Hydro raised their rates by another six per cent in April this year, over the nine per cent rate hike in 2014. But the

company still has the third lowest rates in North America, Olynyk said; only Manitoba and Quebec are lower.

“It’s not as though we go out and consider, ‘Well, if we raise rates, people are going to use more generators’,” Olynyk said.

“I don’t see how running a gas generator would be more efficient than using BC Hydro,” considering the cost of gas, he said.

Alternatives to gas-powered generators that some residents may consider using include solar panels or wind turbines, Olynyk said.

“If a customer chooses to have a generator as opposed to being connected to the grid, that’s their choice, for what-ever reason,” he said.

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Danger of pit bulls cannot be underestimated

The coconut fallacy! How many Americans have actually been killed by coconuts this year?

No one, nor has anyone ever been killed by one.

But plenty of Americans have been mauled and killed by pit bulls this year. So you actually don’t have a bigger chance at being killed by coconuts.

I notice their shirts ask: When will they blame the humans? How about now! How about let’s blame the humans most responsible for pit bulls continuing to attack and kill people .

Let’s blame the pit bull advo-cates who continue to try to sell the American public on a breed that attacks or kills a person, or another beloved pet, every single day in the US or Canada.

Let’s blame the pit bull advocates who have perpetuated the myth that these are nanny dogs, and because of that lie continue to get children mauled or killed

Let’s blame the pit bull advocates who continue to put a dog breed before human life.

Let’s blame the pit bull advocates who are so busy defending this breed that they refuse to come up with solutions to help prevent more attacks and killings.

The simple truth is this: Just because these people love this breed, doesn’t make them experts on how to effectively advocate for it. In fact, they are dong a horrible job, not only in keeping pit bulls safe and secure, but also in pro-tecting the public against their breed of choice.

This mess is their fault. They are horrible at their job.

And they need to be shunned and fired and the grown ups need to step in and clean up their mess.

Oh I blame humans all right. I blame the people who have taken up this breed’s cause and failed the dogs and the public miserably!

Thomas McCartneyNanaimo

Beware the Child Care Benefit

As someone who prepares taxes for people, I feel that I should warn parents about the new Child Care Benefit, which is going to make my job much more unpleasant next tax season.

Parents should already be aware that this benefit is taxable, which means that if your family receives an extra $1,500 from the benefit this year, you should expect to pay approximately $500 more

(depending on your tax bracket) when you file your taxes next April.

The part that you may not real-ize is that the Conservatives also removed an existing child tax credit, which was a $2,555 deduc-tion when you filed your taxes. The elimination of this credit means that you can expect to pay approximately $825 more (again, depending on your tax bracket) at tax time than you did last year.

So in total expect a tax bill of over $1,300 next time you file your taxes. So the best thing to do is to keep this government cheque in the bank because you already owe it back to them.

And please don’t get angry at your tax preparer. It isn’t their fault.

Brett HodnettGatineau Quebec

An alternative to running up provincial debt

Standard & Poor castigates Ontario for running up additional debt which demands ever increas-ing interest payments.

There should be another option – low-cost financing from the Bank of Canada.

After the great financial crisis of

2008, the federal government cre-ated a $200-billion Extraordinary Financing Framework to bail our commercial lenders.

If the government can make huge loans to big banks, credit card issu-ers, retailers and car dealers, it can also lend modest amounts to prov-inces and municipalities for vital public infrastructure.

Well-known constitutional law-yer Rocco Galati and COMER (Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform) are currently suing the Bank of Canada on the grounds that it fails to make low-interest loans to provincial governments though mandated to do so.

Provinces and municipalities should support this lawsuit and help make the banking system work for Main Street and not just Bay Street.

The federal and provincial governments must renew infra-structure not only to kick-start the economy and put people to work, but also to leave a legacy of public goods for future generations.

The answer is to pay interest expense back to ourselves rather than hand over huge sums for the benefit of private banks and for-eign investment funds.

Larry KazdanVancouver

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PM’s Senate stance a bid for votesCanadians are thoroughly

sick of the Senate and its endless scandals. Many

would like to see it consigned to the dustbin of history. But reforming the 19th-century relic, much less abolishing it, is next to impossible.

And Prime Minister Stephen Harper knows it. His announce-ment on Friday formally “entrenching” his legally dubious 2 1/2-year moratorium on nam-ing new senators – there are 22 vacancies in the 105-seat chamber – comes conveniently on the eve of a federal election campaign. And it isn’t a serious bid to fix the place.

Mainly, it’s a stratagem to tem-porarily boost his Conservative party’s struggling fortunes by aligning the party with public disgust, purporting to throw the problem into the provincial premiers’ laps, and hoping to dis-

tance himself from it.But the Senate mud will stick,

no matter what. The Red Cham-ber has sunk to a new low on Harper’s long watch, chiefly because of his own poor judgment in appointing manifestly unfit cronies to the place. And now his party is paying a political price.

Disgraced Sen. Mike Duffy’s trial on fraud and bribery charges is set to resume next month, and Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright is expected to shed light on how he came to give Duffy $90,000 to repay disputed expenses. That can only mean more grief for the government at the worst possible time, as it trolls for votes in the run-up to the Oct. 19 federal election.

Meanwhile New Democrat Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau have both tapped into public anger. Mulcair, who is ahead in the polls and

whose party is untainted by the Senate scandals, boldly promises to abolish it despite the constitu-tional hurdles.

And Trudeau, with an eye to deep reform, has tossed senators from his party’s caucus and prom-ises to create a non-partisan Sen-ate if he comes to power.

Harper simply wants to deny his adversaries the moral high ground, at least for the next three months, and to shift the focus away from himself. Hence his invitation to Canadians to press their premiers to cook up the fix that he failed to deliver. “I think public pressure will rise,” he said after meeting with Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall.

Maybe so. Certainly, the vast majority of Canadians favour reform or abolition. The polls leave no doubt.

But as the Supreme Court force-fully reminded us last year, the

Constitution sets a high bar for both reform and abolition.

The Senate is part of Canada’s “constitutional architecture,” the high court ruled. Getting rid of the Senate would require the assent of Parliament – including both the Commons and the Sen-ate itself – plus the approval of all 10 provinces. And it can’t be abolished by stealth by allowing vacancies to pile up. Even the less-er reforms Harper once envisaged — making the Senate an elected body, and limiting senators’ terms — would need the support of Par-liament plus seven provinces with half the country’s population.

And Quebec Premier Phi-lippe Couillard, for one, is more interested in constitutional reform that recognizes Quebec’s distinctiveness.

There’s not much of a constitu-ency in Quebec for Senate reform for its own sake.

Canadians learned how hard it is to amend the Constitution over Quebec’s objections from the Meech Lake Accord of 1987, which unravelled, and from the Char-lottetown Accord of 1992, which went down to defeat in a nation-al referendum. Constitutional change doesn’t come easy in this country. And few have the stom-ach for yet another round.

So Harper’s claim that “the ball is in their (the provinces’) court” doesn’t amount to much.

It’s just a gambit to distract vot-ers from his failed reform bid, and the stench his appointments have caused.

This prime minister has gone full circle from ardent Senate reformer, to inept Senate stacker to petulant Senate boycotter, all in a single electoral cycle, and all for perceived Tory advantage. This cynical spectacle just never ends.

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Bantam baseball team heading to provincial championships this week with one player from Alberni

North Island Royals fi nish 6th in AAAMARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

The top boys’ minor baseball team for the Alberni Valley is on its way to the provincial cham-pionships this week.

The North Island Royals play in the British Columbia Minor Baseball Association’s AAA bantam division (ages 14 and 15), representing Alberni, Parksville, Courtenay and Campbell River.

The Royals played 20 home games, shared among their four communities during the season, finishing in sixth place out of 16 teams in the bantam AAA league. The league includes teams from the south Island, the Lower Main-land, and the Interior.

The top eight teams from the league qualify directly for the provincials, which start this Fri-day, with the semi-final and final games on Monday.

Two more teams qualify from playoffs at the end of the season for a 10-team provincial tour-

nament. Noah Fatur is the only player on the North Island Royals from the Alberni Valley. He’s jug-gling his time between the base-ball club and summer hockey prep camps, said Royals coach Ryan Chenard, who grew up in Port Alberni.

It can be a challenge to draw kids into baseball from more popular sports like hockey, Chenard said.

The Royals will face teams from Delta, Abbotsford and the Tri-Cities (Port Moody, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam), Chenard noted, adding that Abbotsford will be among their toughest competition.

“We can beat anybody, baseball’s a funny game like that,” Chenard said.

The Royals won the Island championship tournament – Bat-tle for the Rock – hosted in Parks-ville earlier this month.

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North Island Royals Rob Green (top from left) with players Brandon Nichol, Brad Teasdale, Ethan Christensen, Brody Commerford, Kiran Carcary, Kieran Finn, (bottom from left) Thomas Green, Noah Fatur, Kieran Bowles, Jacob Volkers, and Connor Hall. Not pictured are Griffen Maillicoat and coaches Ryan Chenard and Kurt Bowles. [TEAM PHOTO]

Canadian athletes look to Rio 2016 DONNA SPENCER THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Feeling a sum-mer-sport void now that the Pan American Games are over? It won’t last long — the opening ceremonies for the 2016 Summer Olympics are just over 13 months away.

Canada’s objective in Rio de Janeiro is a top-12 finish in total medals among the 200-plus par-ticipating countries.

For that to happen, Canada’s divers, swimmers, rowers, wrest-lers and paddlers need to come through, augmented by some track and field, cycling and tram-poline medals.

Those sports are the most heav-ily funded in Canada based on Olympic medal potential. Many are sports in which athletes can win multiple medals at one Olym-pic Games.

“They’re the bread and butter,” Own The Podium chief executive officer Anne Merklinger said.

“If we don’t perform well in those sports in terms of multi-medal potential, then we’re going to struggle to meet our targets.”

Canada’s eventual goal at the Summer Games is to finish in the top eight, but it will take a strong performance to crack the top doz-en in Rio.

Canada finished 14th in total medals with 18 in Beijing in 2008. The country moved up one spot winning the same number in Lon-don, but earned fewer gold and silver medals.

Merklinger said winning more than 18 medals is an objective for Rio. Canadian Olympic Commit-tee chief sport officer Caroline Assalian said the COC’s focus is the top-12 result.

“The reality is all sports have to come through because one or two medals made the difference between 13th and finishing 11th,” Assalian said. “Every single med-al counts.”

Own The Podium doles out funding to Canada’s sport feder-ations based on Olympic medal potential. Canada’s taxpayers are the biggest contributor via Sport Canada, although the COC contributes money to its coffers from its corporate sponsorship campaigns.

OTP doles out about $35 million annually for summer sport.

The 2015 world championships are the best performance-on-de-mand indicator of which athletes are tracking towards a medal in Rio. The majority of world cham-pionships are still upcoming, with the world aquatic championships just underway in Kazan, Russia.

Of the athletes who were top-five in their respective world cham-pionships in 2011, 60 per cent pro-duced an Olympic medal a year later in London. The conversion rate in Beijing was 67 per cent.

“Our best conversion rate was 67 per cent,” Assalian said. “That is absolutely our goal as well.”

Canada’s performance at the

Pan American Games in Toronto also rated as a measuring stick for Rio for OTP and the COC. Can-adians won a Pan Am record 217 medals, including 78 gold.

“Winning a medal in any Games is an important point in an ath-lete’s career,” Merklinger said. “Winning one at home in this kind of environment that people have referred to as a mini-Olym-pics is even more important.

“There’s been performances here where athletes have exceeded expectations because they’re per-forming on demand, they handled the environment so well.”

The federal government provid-ed an extra $3 million to OTP for the 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games to assist athletes with medal potential across all the sports — not just Olympic and Paralympic sports.

An important distinction in summer sport in Canada is there is a pot of money devoted to team sports not currently tracking for an Olympic medal.

Team sports are traditionally a weakness for Canada at Summer Games, but the women’s soccer team’s bronze in London and their dramatic semifinal loss to the U.S. resonated at home.

Women’s soccer and women’s rugby sevens currently receive “core” OTP funding because they have medal potential in Rio.

But the 2015-16 funding recom-mendation for women’s and men’s basketball, men’s rugby sevens, men’s volleyball, women’s and men’s water polo and women’s field hockey is a combined $5.6 million.

Team sports are expensive because several athletes need to be funded for only one medal, but Assalian and Merklinger both say the impact it has on Canadians makes it worth the money.

“There’s just something about team sports. They unite people,” Assalian said.

“I think the fact a tournament lasts at least a week . . . and the athletes from a team sport come from all over the country, there’s something about team sports that rallies a team, a country, a city like no other individual sport.”

Added Merklinger: “There are other nations we know that have said ‘We cannot afford to invest in team sports.’ That is not Canada’s position.”

Canada celebrates gold in women’s softball at the Pan Am Games. Canadians won 217 medals, the country’s best-ever total. [FRED THORNHILL, CANADIAN PRESS]

“Winning a medal in any Games is an important point in an athlete’s career. Winning one at home in this kind of environment that people have referred to as a mini-Olympics is even more important”Anne Merklinger, Own The Podium CEO

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TENNISWorld rankings (as of July 27)ATP (Men)q-qualified for ATP World Tour Finals-London, Nov. 15-221 q-Novak Djokovic, Serbia 13,8452 Roger Federer, Switzerland 9,6653 Andy Murray, Britain 7,8404 Stan Wawrinka, Switzerland 5,7905 Kei Nishikori, Japan 5,5256 Tomas Berdych, Czech Rep 5,1407 David Ferrer, Spain 4,3258 Milos Raonic, Toronto 3,8109 Marin Cilic, Croatia 3,49510 Rafael Nadal, Spain 3,00011 Gilles Simon, France 2,76512 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France 2,47513 Richard Gasquet, France 2,28514 David Goffin, Belgium 2,14515 Kevin Anderson, S Africa 2,09016 Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria 1,97017 Gael Monfils, France 1,93018 Feliciano Lopez, Spain 1,80019 John Isner, United States 1,68520 Viktor Troicki, Serbia 1,62929 Vasek Pospisil, Vernon 1,170

WTA (Women)1 Serena Williams, USA 13,1912 Maria Sharapova, Russia 6,4903 Simona Halep, Romania 5,1514 Petra Kvitova, Czech Rep 5,0005 Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark 4,9106 Ana Ivanovic, Serbia 3,8357 Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland 3,5608 Lucie Safarova, Czech Rep 3,5159 Garbine Muguruza, Spain 3,36510 Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain 3,28511 Ekaterina Makarova, Russia 3,21512 Karolina Pliskova, Czech Rep 3,21013 Angelique Kerber, Germany 2,98514 Timea Bacsinszky, Switz’and 2,92515 Venus Williams, USA 2,69616 Andrea Petkovic, Germany 2,48017 Sara Errani, Italy 2,32018 Madison Keys, USA 2,28019 Victoria Azarenka, Belarus 2,25220 Elina Svitolina, Ukraine 2,24526 Eugenie Bouchard, Montreal 1,882

This week’s tournaments

ATPGerman Tennis Championships, July 27-Aug 2Hamburg, Germany. Surface: Outdoor, Clay. Purse: €1,407,960.

Singles, Round 1Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, def. Nico-las Almagro (96), Spain, 6-4, 7-6 (3).Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, def. Taro Daniel, Japan, 6-4, 6-3.Lucas Pouille, France, def. Inigo Cervantes, Spain, 7-6 (2), 6-4.Florian Mayer, Germany, def. Albert Montanes, Spain, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

BB&T Atlanta Open, July 27-Aug 2Atlanta, Georgia. Surface: Outdoor, Hard. Purse: $659,070.

Singles, Round 1Gilles Muller (7), Luxembourg, def. Donald Young, United States, 6-2, 6-1.Lu Yen-Hsun, Taiwan, def. Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, 6-1, 7-6 (12).Go Soeda, Japan, def. Alexandr Dolgo-polov, Ukraine, 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-3. Swiss Open Gstaad, July 27-Aug 2Gstaad, Switzerland. Surface: Outdoor, Clay. Purse: €494,310

Singles, Round 1Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, def. Calvin Hemery, France, 7-5, 6-2.Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, def. Maxime Teixeira, France, 6-0, 6-4.Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, def. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 6-4, 7-6 (1).Federico Delbonis, Argentina, def. Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland, 6-4, 6-2.

WTAJiangxi Women’s Tennis Open, July 27-Aug 2Nanchang, China. Surface: Hard. Purse: $115,000.

Singles, Round 1Junri Namigata (JPN) def. [2] Saisai Zheng (CHN) 6-4, 6-2Na-Lae Han (KOR) def. [6] Luksika Kumkhum (THA) 7-5, 6-3[8] Fangzhou Liu (CHN) def. Shuai Zhang (CHN) 6-1, 6-4Miyu Kato (JPN) def. Yi-Fan Xu 6-3, 6-1

Baku Cup, July 27-Aug 2Baku, Azerbaijan. Surface: Hard. Purse: $226,750

Singles, Round 1Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (1), Russia, def. Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russia, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (4).Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, def. Dominika Cibulkova (3), Slovakia, 6-3, 7-5.Andrea Hlavackova, Czech, def. Bojana Jovanovski (5), Serbia, 7-6 (6), 7-5.Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Francesca Schiavone (8), Italy, 6-4, 6-2.

Brasil Tennis Cup, July 27-Aug 1Florianopolis, Brazil. Surface: Clay. Purse: $226,750.

Singles, Round 1Tatjana Maria (1), Germany, def. Maria Fernanda Alves, Brazil, 6-2, 6-3.Ajla Tomljanovic (2), Croatia, def. Laura Pous-Tio, Spain, 7-5, 7-6 (6).Paula Kania (8), Poland, def. Susanne Celik, Sweden, 6-4, 6-1.Doubles, Round 1Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, and Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (1), Spain, def. Carolina M. Alves and Luisa Stefani, Brazil, 6-4, 6-2.

GOLFMoney leaders and this week’s tournaments

PGAQuicken Loans National, July 30-Aug. 2Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Gainesville, Virginia. Par 72, 7,425 yards. Purse: $6,700,000. 2014 champion:Justin Rose.Leading money winnersThrough July 27Player 2015 Winnings1 Jordan Spieth $9,170,2152 Bubba Watson $4,724,5183 Dustin Johnson $4,355,3314 Jimmy Walker $4,190,6905 Rory McIlroy $4,147,8496 Jason Day $4,140,2057 Zach Johnson $3,883,6878 Justin Rose $3,377,4279 J.B. Holmes $3,251,10310 Brandt Snedeker $3,238,79211 Charley Hoffman $3,224,59612 Kevin Kisner $3,103,57613 Robert Streb $3,074,12414 Hideki Matsuyama $2,977,64915 Patrick Reed $2,902,62416 Louis Oosthuizen $2,893,97917 Rickie Fowler $2,821,92318 Danny Lee $2,741,52119 Jim Furyk $2,697,58220 Paul Casey $2,654,028

Canada (MacKenzie Tour)ATB Financial Classic, July 30-Aug. 2Links of Glen Eagles, Calgary. Par: 72, 7,019 yards. Purse: $175,000. 2014 champion: Brock MackenzieOrder of Merit ($CAD)Through July 27Player 2015 Winnings* - denotes Canadian J.J. Spaun $70,2632 Drew Weaver $44,4503 *Albin Choi $40,0794 *Kevin Spooner $36,5755 Cheng Tsung Pan $33,4296 Michael Letzig $32,0867 Robert Karlsson $25,7828 *Adam Svensson $24,6179 *Benjamin Silverman $23,95210 Sam Ryder $22,65811 Nicholas Reach $22,18512 Clark Klaasen $19,49113 Vince Covello $18,90014 *Riley Wheeldon $18,07315 Jason Millard $17,39316 *Corey Conners $16,45017 Talor Gooch $16,24218 *Eugene Wong $15,60419 *Mackenzie Hughes $15,48720 Clayton Rask $14,811

LPGAWomen’s British Open, July 30-Aug. 2Turnberry Golf Club, Ailsa Course, Ayrshire, Scotland, Par 72, 6,156 yards. Purse: $3,000,000. 2014 champion: Mo MartinLeading money winnersThrough July 27Player 2015 Winnings1 Inbee Park $1,732,1652 Stacy Lewis $1,200,4323 Lydia Ko $1,180,1074 Sei-Young Kim $1,162,2435 Amy Yang $1,110,7846 Lexi Thompson $862,9747 Morgan Pressel $825,0218 Brittany Lincicome $807,3929 Na Yeon Choi $748,27410 Anna Nordqvist $737,10911 So Yeon Ryu $695,50612 Hyo-Joo Kim $692,24913 Cristie Kerr $667,91614 Suzann Pettersen $524,78115 Ha Na Jang $520,08316 Shanshan Feng $508,56817 Mirim Lee $507,68218 Minjee Lee $504,17519 Jenny Shin $388,21020 Ilhee Lee $352,342Canadian golfers78 Alena Sharp $100,341131 Sue Kim $15,129153 Rebecca Lee-Bentham $10,421

Champions Tour3M Championship, July 31-Aug. 2TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, Minnesota, Par 72, 7.013 yards. Purse: $1,750,000. 2014 champion: Kenny PerryLeading money winnersThrough July 27Player 2015 Winnings1 Colin Montgomerie $1,448,7002 Jeff Maggert $1,400,0653 Bernhard Langer $1,118,8034 Joe Durant $886,2065 Kevin Sutherland $734,2916 Bart Bryant $710,2967 Esteban Toledo $700,8758 Billy Andrade $682,9009 Olin Browne $672,64910 Lee Janzen $660,84711 Tom Pernice Jr. $660,03512 Tom Lehman $636,36813 Paul Goydos $600,30514 David Frost $576,44615 Marco Dawson $569,94316 Michael Allen $568,55517 Ian Woosnam $526,22318 Kirk Triplett $520,31419 Russ Cochran $494,37120 Woody Austin $482,524

Web.com TourUtah Championship, July 30-Aug. 2Golf Club at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah. Par 72, 7,714 yards. Purse: $650,000.Leading money winnersThrough July 27Player 2015 Winnings1 Patton Kizzire $274,6992 Peter Malnati $268,4993 Wes Roach $236,5164 Kelly Kraft $199,9645 Martin Piller $198,8526 Abraham Ancer $192,9457 Shane Bertsch $188,8788 Miguel Angel Carballo $181,5419 Tyler Aldridge $171,05310 Rod Pampling $167,56011 Jamie Lovemark $164,92112 Smylie Kaufman $164,24713 Andrew Landry $164,04114 Dawie van der Walt $163,68315 Bronson Burgoon $162,57565 Brad Fritsch $61,101

European TourSaltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match-play, July 30-Aug. 2Murcar Links Golf Course, Aberdeen, Scotland. Par 71, 6,409 yards. Purse: $1,000,000.

Madeira Islands Open, July 30-Aug. 2Clube de Golf do Santo da Serra, Madeira, Portugal. Par 72, 6,826 yards. Purse: €600,000Leading money winnersThrough July 27Player 2015 Winnings1 Rory McIlroy, NIR €2,875,6452 Louis Oosthuizen, RSA €2,454,4693 Danny Willett, ENG €2,098,4394 Bernd Wiesberger, AUT €1,546,9035 Branden Grace, RSA €1,415,8226 Justin Rose, ENG €1,373,1147 Byeong An, Hun KOR €1,198,6548 Thongchai Jaidee, THA €1,087,7959 Ross Fisher, ENG €1,004,60210 Miguel A Jimenez, ESP €969,81011 Tommy Fleetwood, ENG €947,57112 James Morrison, ENG €928,25713 Henrik Stenson, SWE €912,14714 Anirban Lahiri, IND €908,69115 Marc Warren, SCO €891,50816 Kiradech Aphibarnrat, THA €866,06617 Andy Sullivan, ENG €861,60218 Alex Noren, SWE €838,83019 Soren Kjeldsen, DEN €830,74420 David Howell, ENG €803,025

FOOTBALLCFL

West W L T Pts PF PAEdmonton 3 1 0 6 112 58Calgary 3 2 0 6 112 126BC Lions 2 2 0 4 102 113Winnipeg 2 3 0 4 109 169Saskatchewan 0 5 0 0 143 162

East W L T Pts PF PAToronto 3 1 0 6 118 103Ottawa 3 2 0 6 105 127Hamilton 2 2 0 4 119 88Montreal 2 2 0 4 87 69

Week 5 resultsYesterday’s resultHamilton 31, Saskatchewan 21

Saturday’s resultEdmonton 32, Winnipeg 3

Friday’s resultsOttawa 29, Calgary 26 (OT)Toronto 30, BC Lions 27

Week 6 schedule (with odds by Oddsshark)

Home team in CAPSFavourite Line (O/U) UnderdogThursday, July 30, 5:30 p.m.BC Lions 5.5 (n/a) WINNIPEG

Friday, July 31Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 1Montreal at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 3Toronto at Hamilton, 4 p.m.

League leadersPassing yards1 Kevin Glenn, Sak 1,4832 Henry Burris, Ott 1,3723 Bo Levi Mitchell, Cgy 1,2934 Zach Collaros, Ham 1,2155 Trevor Harris, Tor 1,1776 Drew Willy, Wpg 9947 Travis Lulay, BC 9508 Rakeem Cato, Mtl 8229 Matt Nichols, Edm 65810 Brian Brohm, Wpg 217

Passing TDs1 Trevor Harris, Tor 11T2 Henry Burris, Ott 7T2 Travis Lulay, BC 74 Kevin Glenn, Ssk 6T5 Bo Levi Mitchell, Cgy 5T5 Drew Willy, Wpg 5T7 Rakeem Cato, Mtl 4T7 Zach Collaros, Ham 4T7 Matt Nichols, Edm 4

Rushing Yards1 Jerome Messam, Sask 3292 Jon Cornish, Cgy 3253 Anthony Allen, Sask 3014 Andrew Harris, BC 2845 Tyrell Sutton, Mtl 2806 Brandon Whitaker, Tor 2557 Paris Cotton, Wpg 2478 Shakir Bell, Edm 2399 Chevon Walker, Ott 19210 C.J. Gable, Ham 13511 Travis Lulay, BC 11812 Henry Burris, Ott 10413 Cameron Marshall, Wpg 100

Receiving Yards1 Chris Williams, Ott 4322 Weston Dressler, Sask 4033 Eric Rogers, Cgy 4004 S.J. Green, Mtl 3415 Nick Moore, Wpg 308T6 Clarence Denmark, Wpg 283T6 Ryan Smith, Sask 2838 Brad Sinopoli, Ott 2789 Andy Fantuz, Ham 27210 Adarius Bowman, Edm 27011 Bakari Grant, Ham 26512 Chad Owens, Tor 26313 Marquay McDaniel, Cgy 25214 Jamel Richardson, Sask 25015 Jerome Messam, Sask 237T16 Emmanuel Arceneaux, BC 225

BASEBALLMLB - Results and standings

Yesterday’s resultsBaltimore 2, Atlanta 1 (11 innings)Chicago Sox 10, Boston 8Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 2Kansas City 9, Cleveland 4Chicago Cubs 9, Colorado 8NY Yankees 6, Texas 2St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 1Arizona 4, Seattle 3 (10 innings)San Francisco 4, Milwaukee 2

Today’s schedule with probable pitchersTuesday, July 28 (Early games)Atlanta at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Teheran (6-5) vs. Jimenez (7-5)Philadelphia at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Morgan (1-2) vs. Doubront (1-0)Washington at Miami, 4:10 p.m. Zimmermann (8-5) vs. Fernandez (3-0)Chi. White Sox at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Samardzija (6-5) vs. Miley (8-8)Detroit at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Price (9-3) vs. Odorizzi (5-6)Kansas City at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Young (8-5) vs. Bauer (8-6)San Diego at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Shields (8-3) vs. Syndergaard (4-5)Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m. De La Rosa (6-4) vs. Hendricks (4-5)N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Tanaka (6-3) vs. Perez (0-1)L.A. Angels at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Shoemaker (5-7) vs. McHugh (11-5)Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Morton (6-4) vs. Pelfrey (5-7)Cincinnati at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. Leake (8-5) vs. Lackey (8-5)Oakland at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Gray (10-4) vs. Bolsinger (5-3)Arizona at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Anderson (4-4) vs. Iwakuma (2-1)Milwaukee at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. Fiers (5-7) vs. Cain (2-1)

Wednesday, July 29 (Early games)Kansas City at Cleveland, 9:10 a.m. Guthrie (7-5) vs. Kluber (5-10)Detroit at Tampa Bay, 9:10 a.m. Verlander (0-3) vs. Archer (9-7)Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 10:10 a.m. Liriano (5-6) vs. Santana (1-0)Colorado at Chicago Cubs, 11:20 a.m. Butler (3-6) vs. Lester (5-8)Arizona at Seattle, 12:40 p.m. Corbin (1-2) vs. Hernandez (11-5)Milwaukee at San Francisco, 12:45 p.m. Nelson (7-9) vs. Peavy (1-4)Atlanta at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Banuelos (1-1) vs. Tillman (7-7)

B.C. Premier LeagueBCPBL playoffsBest-of-three series

Sunday’s resultOkanagan 4, Langley 1 (Okanagan wins playoff 2-1)

Saturday’s resultsVictoria Eagles 4, North Delta 0Victoria Eagles 3, North Delta 1 (Victoria Eagles win playoff 2-0)

Nanaimo 2, Whalley 1Nanaimo 7, Whalley 2 (Nanaimo wins playoff 2-0)

North Shore 7, Abbotsford 0North Shore 5, Abbotsford 0 (North Shore wins playoff 2-0)

Langley 5, Okanagan 2Okanagan 1, Langley 0 (Playoff tied 1-1)

BCPBL Provincial ChampionshipFriday, July 31-Monday, Aug. 3Royal Athletic Park, Victoria

Friday, July 31Okanangan vs. North Shore, 2:30 p.m.Nanaimo vs. Vic Eagles, 5:30 p.m.

Saturday Aug. 1Okanagan vs. Nanaimo, 10 a.m.Nanaimo vs. North Shore, 12:30 p.m.Okanagan vs. Vic Eagles, 3 p.m.Vic Eagles vs. North Shore, 5:30 p.m.

West Coast League

Yesterday’s resultsBellingham at BendWalla Walla 2, Kitsap 0Medford 5, Yakima Valley 3

Today’s scheduleWenatchee at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Cowlitz at Victoria, 6:35 p.m.Walla Walla at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m.Bellingham at Bend, 6:35 p.m.Klamath Falls at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.Medford at Yakima Valley, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, July 29Cowlitz at Victoria, 6:35 p.m.Bellingham at Bend, 6:35 p.m.Klamath Falls at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.Walla Walla at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m.Wenatchee at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Medford at Yakima Valley, 7:05 p.m.

Thursday July 30Cowlitz at Victoria, 1:05 p.m.Wenatchee at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Klamath at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.

Friday July 31Kitsap at Klamath, 6:35 p.m.Bend at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Yakima Valley at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m.Kelowna at Bellingham, 7:05 p.m.Victoria at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Saturday Aug. 1Bend at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Kitsap at Klamath, 6:35 p.m.Yakima Valley at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m.Victoria at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.Corvallis at Walla Walla, 7:05 p.m.Kelowna at Bellingham, 7:10 p.m.

Sunday Aug. 2Kelowna at Bellingham, 3:05 p.m.Corvallis at Walla Walla, 5:05 p.m.Yakima Valley at Cowlitz, 5:05 p.m.Kitsap at Klamath, 5:05 p.m.Victoria at Wenatchee, 6:05 p.m.Bend at Medford, 6:35 p.m.

AUTO RACINGNASCARThis week’s racePennsylvania 400, Sunday, Aug. 2, 10:48 a.m.Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Penn-sylvania.2014 winner: Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Current points standings, with 2015 winnings1 Kevin Harvick 777 $5,909,8762 Joey Logano 708 $5,019,5353 Dale Jr. 677 $3,995,7954 J. Johnson 675 $4,607,4465 M. Truex Jr. 668 $3,384,2916 Brad Keselowski 638 $3,661,5507 Matt Kenseth 615 $3,627,5608 Kurt Busch 612 $2,732,8759 Jamie McMurray 602 $3,125,93510 Denny Hamlin 591 $4,210,37711 Jeff Gordon 575 $3,589,49512 Ryan Newman 563 $3,223,83313 Paul Menard 558 $2,546,06513 Kasey Kahne 558 $2,775,69915 Clint Bowyer 538 $3,272,785

Formula OneNext raceBelgian Grand Prix, Sunday, Aug. 23, 5 a.m.Circuit Of Spa Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium. 7.004 km (4.352 miles), 20 turns.

Last week: Hungarian Grand PrixHungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary.Track length 4.381 km (2.722 miles), 16 turns

Top finishers1 Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari2 Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Red Bull3 Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Red Bull

Driver Standings (Points)(after Round 10 of 19)1 Lewis Hamilton, GBR Mercedes 202 Nico Rosberg, GER Mercedes 1813 Sebastian Vettel, GER Ferrari 1604 Valtteri Bottas, FIN Williams 775 Kimi Raikkonen, FIN Ferrari 766 Felipe Massa, BRA Williams 747 Daniel Ricciardo, AUS Red Bull 518 Daniil Kvyat, RUS Red Bull 459 Nico Hulkenberg, GER Force India 2410 Rom. Grosjean, FRA Lotus 2311 Max Verstappen, NED Toro Rosso 2212 Felipe Nasr, BRA Sauber 1613 Sergio Perez, MEX Force India 1514 Pas. Maldonado, VEN Lotus 1215 Fernando Alonso, ESP McLaren 11

SOCCERMLS

Sunday’s results

Wednesday, July 29MLS All-Stars vs. Tottenham

Saturday, Aug. 1Montreal at NY City FC, 11 a.m.NY Red Bulls at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.Salt Lake at DC United, 4 p.m.Columbus at Orlando, 4:30 p.m.Toronto at New England, 4:30 p.m.Houston at Sporting KC, 5:30 p.m.Los Angeles at Colorado, 6 p.m.Vancouver at Seattle, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 2Portland at San Jose, 2 p.m.Dallas at Chicago, 4 p.m.

LACROSSEBC Junior A Lacrosse League

Playoffs - Championship FinalBest-of-7*=if necessaryCoquitlam Adanacs vs. Delta Islanders

Yesterday’s result (Game 3)Coquitlam 17, Delta 6 Coquitlam leads series 3-0

Today’s schedule (Game 4)Coquitlam at Delta, 8 p.m.

Thursday July 30* (Game 5)Delta at Coquitlam, 7:30 p.m.

Western Lacrosse AssnWLA Senior A

Standings GP W L T PtsVictoria 17 13 4 0 26New Westminster 17 11 6 0 22Burnaby 16 9 7 0 18Langley 16 8 8 0 16Maple Ridge 16 8 9 0 16Coquitlam 16 6 10 0 12Nanaimo 17 3 14 0 6

Today’s scheduleMaple Ridge at Burnaby, 7:45 p.m.

Wednesday, July 29Coquitlam at Langley, 7:45 p.m.

Thursday, July 30Burnaby at New Westminster, 7:45 p.m.

English Premier LeaguePosition/Club W D L GF GA Pts1 Arsenal 0 0 0 0 0 02 Aston Villa 0 0 0 0 0 03 Bournemouth 0 0 0 0 0 04 Chelsea 0 0 0 0 0 05 Crystal Palace 0 0 0 0 0 06 Everton 0 0 0 0 0 07 Leicester City 0 0 0 0 0 08 Liverpool 0 0 0 0 0 09 Man City 0 0 0 0 0 010 Man United 0 0 0 0 0 011 Newcastle 0 0 0 0 0 012 Norwich 0 0 0 0 0 013 Southampton 0 0 0 0 0 014 Stoke City 0 0 0 0 0 015 Sunderland 0 0 0 0 0 016 Swansea 0 0 0 0 0 017 Tot Hotspur 0 0 0 0 0 018 Watford 0 0 0 0 0 019 West Brom 0 0 0 0 0 020 West Ham 0 0 0 0 0 0

FA Community ShieldSunday, Aug 2Chelsea vs. Arsenal, 7 a.m.

Saturday, Aug 8Man United v Tottenham, 4:45 a.m.Bournemouth v Aston Villa, 7 a.m.Everton v Watford, 7 a.m.Leicester v Sunderland, 7 a.m.Norwich v Crystal Palace, 7 a.m.Chelsea v Swansea, 9 a.m.

Sunday, Aug. 9Arsenal v West Ham, 5:30 a.m.Newcastle v Southampton, 5:30 a.m.Stoke v Liverpool, 8 a.m.

Monday, Aug. 10West Brom v Man City, noon

TRANSACTIONSRecent deals, trades and player move-ments in major league sports.

Hockey - NHLCalgary - Signed F Paul Byron to a one-year contract.New Jersey - Re-signed D Adam Lars-son to six-year contract.

Baseball - MLBNational LeagueLA Dodgers - Activated P Zack Greinke off the paternity list; recalled P Yimi Garcia from Oklahoma City (PCL); optioned P Josh Ravin and P Chin-hui Tsao to Oklahoma City. St. Louis - Added P Steve Cishek to the active roster; optioned P Tim Cooney to Memphis (PCL). Atlanta - Activated 1B Freddie Freeman from 15-day disabled list; optioned IF/OF Joey Terdoslavich to Gwinnett (IL); recalled IF Daniel Castro and OF Adonis Garcia from Gwinnett.

American LeagueOakland - Recalled P Chris Bassitt from Nashville (PCL); optioned P Angel Castro to Nashville. Boston - Placed 2B Dustin Pedroia on 15-day disabled list; recalled P Steven Wright from Pawtucket (IL); activated P Heath Hembree from the 15-day disabled list and optioned him to Pawtucket. NY Yankees - Optioned P Branden Pinder to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL); selected P Nick Goody from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre; designated IF Gregorio Petit for assignment.

Football - NFLPittsburgh - Signed GM Kevin Colbert to a two-year contract extension.Minnesota - Signed K Blair Walsh to an undisclosed contract exten-sion.

Basketball - NBACleveland - Re-signed G/F James

MLB leadersBatting - AL H RBI Avg1 Miguel Cabrera, DET 97 54 .3502 Prince Fielder, TEX 124 58 .3373 Jason Kipnis, CLE 122 38 .3214 Jose Iglesias, DET 92 19 .3195 Xander Bogaerts, BOS 113 47 .3176 Mike Trout, LAA 113 64 .3157 Lorenzo Cain, KC 104 46 .3128 Nelson Cruz, SEA 115 60 .3119 Billy Burns, OAK 93 18 .30510 Eric Hosmer, KC 108 49 .30411 Jose Altuve, HOU 112 43 .30112 Michael Brantley, CLE 101 55 .29813 Mike Moustakas, KC 99 39 .29614 Brett Gardner, NYY 103 43 .29515 Manny Machado, BAL 109 51 .29516 Adam Jones, BAL 98 44 .28917 Jose Abreu, CHW 104 52 .28918 Josh Donaldson, TOR 112 68 .28919 Alcides Escobar, KC 105 35 .28820 Dustin Pedroia, BOS 87 34 .287

Batting - NL H RBI Avg1 Paul Goldschmidt, ARI 119 74 .3452 Dee Gordon, MIA 122 22 .3383 Bryce Harper, WSH 102 64 .3304 Buster Posey, SF 110 67 .3285 Yunel Escobar, WSH 107 30 .3226 Gerardo Parra, MIL 98 31 .3177 DJ LeMahieu, COL 109 39 .3148 Joe Panik, SF 113 34 .3119 A.J. Pollock, ARI 113 44 .30610 Troy Tulowitzki, COL 97 52 .30511 Joey Votto, CIN 105 48 .30312 Ben Revere, PHI 107 26 .30213 Matt Duffy, SF 92 46 .30214 Ender Inciarte, ARI 86 24 .30015 Adrian Gonzalez, LAD 107 60 .29816 Char. Blackmon, COL 107 44 .29317 And. McCutchen, PIT 101 61 .29218 Jhonny Peralta, STL 108 49 .29219 Starling Marte, PIT 102 52 .29120 Yadier Molina, STL 97 38 .290

ERA - AL WHIP ERA1 Scott Kazmir, OAK/HOU 1.05 2.242 Sonny Gray, OAK 1.01 2.303 David Price, DET 1.09 2.314 Dallas Keuchel, HOU 0.99 2.325 Hector Santiago, LAA 1.15 2.436 Chris Archer, TB 1.02 2.677 Felix Hernandez, SEA 1.07 2.698 Chris Sale, CHW 0.99 2.859 Wei-Yin Chen, BAL 1.13 2.8810 Edinson Volquez, KC 1.25 3.1511 Yovani Gallardo, TEX 1.32 3.1912 Garrett Richards, LAA 1.18 3.2513 Clay Buchholz, BOS 1.21 3.2614 Mark Buehrle, TOR 1.19 3.2915 Jesse Chavez, OAK 1.25 3.4516 Nathan Karns, TB 1.25 3.4717 Kyle Gibson, MIN 1.27 3.4818 Jose Quintana, CHW 1.28 3.5619 C.J. Wilson, LAA 1.21 3.5920 Corey Kluber, CLE 1.12 3.59

ERA - NL WHIP ERA1 Zack Greinke, LAD 0.83 1.372 Jacob deGrom, NYM 0.88 2.053 Gerrit Cole, PIT 1.08 2.244 Shelby Miller, ATL 1.13 2.275 Max Scherzer, WSH 0.83 2.336 Carlos Martinez, STL 1.23 2.347 Clayton Kershaw, LAD 0.94 2.518 Jake Arrieta, CHC 1.00 2.619 Johnny Cueto, CIN 0.93 2.6210 A.J. Burnett, PIT 1.29 2.6811 Lance Lynn, STL 1.23 2.8012 John Lackey, STL 1.23 2.8813 Francisco Liriano, PIT 1.03 2.9114 Matt Harvey, NYM 1.09 3.1615 Madison Bumgarner, SF 1.10 3.1616 Tom Koehler, MIA 1.20 3.1617 Chris Heston, SF 1.15 3.1818 Jason Hammel, CHC 1.02 3.2019 Michael Wacha, STL 1.12 3.2720 J Zimmermann, WSH 1.23 3.30

Cardinals 4, Reds 1Cincinnati St. Louis ab r h bi ab r h biPhillips 2B 4 1 1 0 Wong 2B 3 1 1 4Votto 1B 2 0 1 0 Carpenter 3B 4 0 2 0Frazier 3B 3 0 0 0 Peralta SS 4 0 0 0Bruce RF 1 0 0 1 Heyward RF 3 0 0 0Pena C 4 0 0 0 Molina C 2 1 1 0Byrd LF 4 0 0 0 Cruz PH-C 2 0 0 0Suarez SS 4 0 1 0 Piscotty LF 4 1 1 0Iglesias P 1 0 0 0 Bourjos CF 2 1 0 0Bourgeois PH 1 0 1 0 Lynn P 3 0 1 0S’maker PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 27 4 6 4Hamilton CF 4 0 1 0 Totals 29 1 5 1

Cincinnati 001 000 000 1 St. Louis 000 400 00x 4

2B: CIN Votto (18, Lynn); STL Molina (18, Iglesias, R), Carpenter, M (23, Badenhop). GIDP: CIN Pena, B. HR: STL Wong (11, 4th inning off Iglesias, R, 3 on, 2 out). S: CIN Iglesias, R. Team Lob: CIN 8; STL 7. DP: STL (Peralta-Wong-Johnson, D).

Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SOR Iglesias (L, 1-3) 6.0 6 4 4 0 7B Badenhop 1.0 1 0 0 1 0J Diaz 1.0 0 0 0 0 2St. Louis IP H R ER BB SOM Lynn (W, 8-5) 7.0 5 1 1 3 5K Siegrist 1.0 0 0 0 0 1T Rosenthal 1.0 0 0 0 0 1HBP: Votto (by Lynn).

Time: 2:38. Att: 42,553.

Orioles 2, Braves 1(11 innings)Atlanta Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h biMarkakis RF 5 0 2 0 Reimold L-RF 4 0 2 0Maybin CF 5 0 1 0 Davis RF-1B 3 0 0 0Freeman 1B 5 0 0 0 Machado 3B 5 0 0 0Pierzynski DH 5 0 1 0 Jones CF 5 1 1 0Garcia 3B 5 1 2 1 Wieters C 5 1 3 1Peterson 2B 4 0 0 0 Hardy SS 3 0 1 1Simmons SS 4 0 0 0 Snider DH 4 0 0 0Perez LF 4 0 3 0 Schoop 2B 2 0 0 0Totals 37 1 9 1 Lough PR-LF 1 0 0 0 Flaherty 1-2B 4 0 0 0 Totals 36 2 7 2

Atlanta 000 000 001 00 1 Baltimore 000 000 001 01 2

SB: ATL Perez, E (1, 2nd base off O’Day/Wieters), Ciriaco (2, 2nd base off Brach/Wieters); BAL Lough (2, 2nd base off Frasor/Lavarnway). 2B: ATL Markakis (23, Gausman), Garcia, A (1, Gausman); BAL Reimold (3, Vizcaino). HR: ATL Garcia, A (2, 9th inning off Britton, 0 on, 1 out); BAL Wieters (4, 11th inning off Avilan, 0 on, 0 out). Team Lob: ATL 8; BAL 9. DP: BAL (Schoop-Flaherty).

Atlanta IP H R ER BB SOR Wood 7.1 3 0 0 2 7J Johnson 1.0 2 1 1 0 1A Vizcaino 1.0 1 0 0 1 1L Avilan (L, 2-4) 0.0 1 1 1 0 0Baltimore IP H R ER BB SOK Gausman 7.2 6 0 0 1 5B Matusz 0.1 0 0 0 0 1Z Britton 1.0 1 1 1 0 1D O’Day 1.0 1 0 0 0 0B Brach (W, 4-2) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1

Time: 3:20. Att: 26,256.

White Sox 10, Red Sox 8Chicago Sox Boston ab r h bi ab r h biEaton DH 6 1 3 2 Betts CF 5 0 3 2Saladino 3B 5 1 1 1 Ramirez LF 5 0 0 1Cabrera LF 5 2 2 1 Bogaerts SS 5 1 0 0Abreu 1B 3 2 2 1 Ortiz DH 5 1 1 2Garcia RF 4 1 2 0 Napoli 1B 1 0 0 0Shuck CF 3 1 1 1 Nava 1B 2 1 0 0Ramirez SS 4 0 0 0 Sandoval 3B 5 1 2 1Flowers C 5 1 2 2 Castillo RF 2 2 1 0Sanchez 2B 5 1 2 0 Hanigan C 5 2 2 0Totals 40 10 15 8 Weeks 2B 4 0 2 1 Totals 39 8 11 7

Chicago Sox 401 011 201 10 Boston 220 210 001 8

2B: CWS Cabrera, Me 2 (19, Kelly, J, Kelly, J), Abreu (16, Breslow), Sanchez, C (10, Ross, R), Eaton (15, Ross, R), Shuck (6, Ross, R), Flowers (8, Layne); BOS Hanigan (4, Danks, J), Betts (25, Danks, J), Sandoval (14, Danks, J). 3B: CWS Eaton (8, Kelly, J), Saladino (2, Kelly, J). GIDP: CWS Ramirez, Al. HR: BOS Ortiz, D (20, 1st inning off Danks, J, 1 on, 2 out). S: CWS Shuck. Team Lob: CWS 9; BOS 9. DP: BOS (Weeks, J-Napoli). E: CWS Saladino 2 (2, fielding, throw); BOS Kelly, J (4, fielding).

Chicago Sox IP H R ER BB SOJ Danks 4.1 9 7 6 1 2M Albers (W, 1-0) 1.2 1 0 0 0 0Z Duke 0.2 0 0 0 0 0J Petricka 1.1 1 0 0 0 3D Robertson 1.0 1 1 1 2 0Boston IP H R ER BB SOJ Kelly 3.1 7 5 4 0 2C Breslow 1.0 1 1 0 2 1A Ogando 0.2 0 0 0 0 1R Ross (BS, 1)(L, 0-1) 2.0 5 3 3 1 1J Tazawa 1.0 0 0 0 0 2T Layne 1.0 2 1 1 1 1HBP: Nava (by Duke).

Time: 3:54. Att: 37,401.

Rays 5, Tigers 2Detroit Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h biKinsler 2B 4 1 1 0 Jaso DH 2 0 0 0Cespedes LF 4 1 2 2 Butler PH-DH 2 0 0 0Martinez DH 4 0 2 0 DeJesus LF 3 1 1 0Martinez RF 4 0 0 0 Guyer PH-CF 1 0 0 0Castellanos 3B 4 0 0 0 Longoria 3B 3 0 2 0Avila C 2 0 0 0 Loney 1B 4 0 1 0Iglesias SS 4 0 0 0 Forsythe 2B 4 0 2 1Romine 1B 2 0 0 0 Souza Jr. RF 3 2 1 0Davis PH-CF 1 0 0 0 Kiermaier CF 3 0 1 1Gose CF 2 0 0 0 Beckham SS 4 0 1 0Marte PH-1B 1 0 0 0 Casali C 4 2 3 3Totals 32 2 5 2 Totals 33 5 12 5

Detroit 000 000 110 2 Tampa Bay 001 110 02x 5

2B: TB Longoria (22, Sanchez, An), Souza Jr. (10, Sanchez, An), Kiermaier (20, Sanchez, An), Beckham, T (6, Alburquerque). GIDP: TB Forsythe. HR: DET Cespedes (16, 7th inning off Karns, 0 on, 0 out); TB Casali 2 (5, 3rd inning off Sanchez, An, 0 on, 0 out; 8th inning off Rondon, B, 1 on, 2 out). S: TB Elmore. Team Lob: DET 5; TB 8. DP: DET (Kinsler-Iglesias, J-Romine).

Detroit IP H R ER BB SOA Sanchez (L, 10-8) 5.1 8 3 3 2 6A Alburquerque 0.0 2 0 0 0 0I Krol 0.2 0 0 0 0 1W Wilson 1.0 1 0 0 0 0B Rondon 1.0 1 2 2 1 2Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SON Karns (W, 6-5) 6.0 3 1 1 0 3K Jepsen 1.0 0 0 0 1 1J McGee 1.0 2 1 1 0 2B Boxberger 1.0 0 0 0 1 2

Time: 3:06. Att: 13,348.

Yankees 6, Rangers 2NY Yankees Texas ab r h bi ab r h biGardner C-LF 4 0 0 0 Odor 2B 5 0 0 0Young LF-RF 4 0 1 1 Choo RF 4 0 0 0Rodriguez DH 5 1 1 1 Fielder DH 4 0 1 0Teixeira 1B 4 0 1 0 Moreland 1B 2 0 1 0McCann C 4 0 1 0 Beltre 3B 4 0 0 0Beltran RF 2 1 0 0 Andrus SS 3 1 1 1Headley 3B 4 2 3 0 Martin CF 3 0 1 1Gregorius SS 4 1 3 4 Chirinos C 3 0 0 0Ryan 2B 4 1 1 0 Telis PH 1 0 0 0Totals 35 6 11 6 Totals 29 1 4 2

NY Yankees 003 001 200 6 Texas 020 000 000 2

SB: TEX Martin, L (14, 2nd base off Nova/McCann, B). 2B: NYY Headley (16, Harrison, M); TEX Andrus (18, Nova), Moreland (17, Nova). 3B: NYY Ryan, B (2, Harrison, M). GIDP: NYY Rodriguez, A. HR: NYY Gregorius (5, 3rd inning off Harrison, M, 1 on, 0 out), Rodriguez, A (24, 6th inning off Harrison, M, 0 on, 1 out). Team Lob: NYY 6; TEX 9. E: NYY McCann, B (5, throw).

NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SOI Nova (W, 3-3) 5.0 5 2 2 2 3C Shreve 2.0 0 0 0 1 4J Wilson 1.0 0 0 0 1 1D Betances 1.0 0 0 0 1 1Texas IP H R ER BB SOM Harrison (L, 1-2) 6.0 6 6 6 2 2S Freeman 1.0 1 0 0 0 0P Klein 2.0 4 0 0 1 1HBP: Andrus (by Nova).

Time: 3:01. Att: 33,691.

Eastern LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GADC United 38 23 11 7 5 27 22Columbus 31 22 8 7 7 34 33NY Red Bulls 29 19 8 6 5 29 23Toronto 28 19 8 7 4 31 31N. England 28 23 7 9 7 29 35Montreal 24 18 7 8 3 25 27NY City FC 24 21 6 9 6 29 31Orlando 24 21 6 9 6 26 31Philadelphia 22 22 6 12 4 28 37Chicago 19 20 5 11 4 22 30

Western LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GADallas 38 21 11 5 5 32 25Vancouver 36 22 11 8 3 27 22Los Angeles 34 23 9 7 7 36 28Sporting KC 33 19 9 4 6 29 20Seattle 32 22 10 10 2 25 21Portland 32 22 9 8 5 24 28Salt Lake 29 22 7 7 8 23 27Houston 27 21 7 8 6 27 26San Jose 25 20 7 9 4 22 27Colorado 24 20 5 6 9 18 19

American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Yankees 56 42 .571 - W3Toronto 50 50 .500 7.0 L1Baltimore 49 49 .500 7.0 W3Tampa Bay 50 51 .495 7.5 W1Boston 44 56 .440 13.0 L1Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 60 38 .612 - W3Minnesota 52 46 .531 8.0 L2Detroit 48 51 .485 12.5 L2Chicago Sox 47 50 .485 12.5 W5Cleveland 45 53 .459 15.0 L5West W L PCT GB StrkLA Angels 55 43 .561 - W1Houston 55 45 .550 1.0 L2Texas 47 51 .480 8.0 L2Seattle 46 54 .460 10 L1Oakland 44 56 .440 12.0 L4

National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkWashington 52 45 .536 - L1NY Mets 51 48 .515 2.0 W2Atlanta 46 53 .465 7.0 L1Miami 41 58 .414 12.0 L3Philadelphia 37 63 .370 16.5 W4Central W L PCT GB StrkSt. Louis 64 35 .646 - W1Pittsburgh 57 41 .582 6.5 W1Chicago Cubs 52 46 .531 11.5 W1Cincinnati 43 54 .443 20.0 L2Milwaukee 43 57 .430 21.5 L3West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 56 44 .560 - L2San Francisco 55 44 .556 0.5 W6Arizona 47 51 .480 8 W3San Diego 47 52 .475 8.5 W3Colorado 42 55 .433 12.5 L1 East W L PCT GB Strk

Kelowna 27 14 .659 - 2WYakima Valley 22 21 .512 6 1LWalla Walla 21 21 .500 6.5 1WWenatchee 19 23 .452 8.5 1LSouth W L PCT GB StrkBend 30 11 .732 - 3LCorvallis 23 19 .548 7.5 2WMedford 20 23 .465 11 1WKlamath Falls 9 33 .214 21.5 2LWest W L PCT GB StrkBellingham 27 15 .643 - 1WVictoria 20 21 .488 6.5 2WKitsap 17 26 .395 10.5 1LCowlitz 17 25 .405 10 5L

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New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez signs autographs for fans before a game against the Texas Rangers, Monday in Arlington, Texas. [AP PHOTO]

A-Rod turns 40 in Texas vs. old teamSTEPHEN HAWKINS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARLINGTON, Texas — Alex Rodriguez doesn’t remember any clubhouse conversations as a young player about still being in the game at 40 years old.

“You talk more about 35, coming into your mid-30s. Forty’s not really talked about,” Rod-riguez said. “So, sure, there’s a certain amount of pride.”

A-Rod marked his 40th birthday Monday night with the New York Yankees’ series opener at Texas. He was the designated hitter and batted third against the team that gave him his first huge contract. It came a year after Rodriguez turned 39 while serving a season-long suspension for violations of baseball’s drug agreement and labour contract.

“I had a lot of time to think and evaluate. It was a dark time, for sure,” Rodriguez said. “To be able to come back this year and look back, and hopefully I’m going to be a better player but more importantly a better person for the next 40 years.”

When asked what a 40-year-old A-Rod would tell the 30- or 20-year-old A-Rod, he first said he wasn’t in position to give anyone advice, includ-ing himself. But he then said there was a point in time when hitting home runs and being a great player were all that mattered to him.

“I figured that if I hit more home runs, it would justify for whatever behaviour I had off the field,” he said, without being specific. “And I realize today that it’s not that way at all. Hitting home runs doesn’t make you a good father. It doesn’t make you a good friend. And it certainly doesn’t make you a good teammate. And to me, they’re both important.”

Rodriguez went into Monday night’s game hit-ting .277 with 23 home runs and 58 RBIs. He got his 3,000th career hit June 19 against Detroit, and this is his 16th career 20-homer season — he is fourth on the major league homer list with 677.

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ACROSS 1 Gift-tag word 5 Summarize 10 Goat cheese 14 Rocker Jon Bon -- 15 In the least (2 wds.) 16 Unwelcome obligation 17 Comet, to an ancient 18 Pantyhose hue 19 Gam or Rudner 20 Old movies, maybe 22 Got one’s act together (2

wds.) 24 Eccentric 25 Fluffs, as hair 26 Cartoon shrieks 28 Rides the rapids 32 Certain autumn colors 35 Auricle 37 Major oil exporter 38 Guitar, slangily 39 In leaf 41 Bleachers shout 42 Returns 45 Snowmobile part 46 Extremely 47 Wander 48 Sicilian spouter 50 Barked 54 Plains roamers 58 Made twice as clean 61 Run a baseball team 62 Declare frankly 63 Pond growth 65 First name in jazz 66 Vaccines 67 Archaeology find 68 Proofer’s word 69 Zebras, to lions 70 Stock or bond 71 Rookie

DOWN 1 Viking’s bay 2 Bard’s teen 3 Conspicuous 4 Jiffies 5 Ship deserters 6 Plato’s H 7 Grounds

8 -- Centauri 9 Urgent requests 10 Knew beforehand 11 Oklahoma town 12 Dance wear 13 Pronto 21 PBS “Science Guy” 23 Where Cuzco is 25 Autocrat 27 Barrels

29 Writer Kellerman 30 Level 31 Overnight visit 32 Flashlight output 33 Toll-booth site 34 Wapiti 36 Matter, in law 37 Clingy fabric 40 Just scraped by 43 Payment plan 44 Does Easter eggs 46 Least humble 49 Shaq’s org. 51 Tibet’s capital 52 Hides 53 Beats by a hair 55 Like pretzels 56 Certain wolf 57 Cool! 58 Grate upon 59 Even once 60 Sported 61 Assemble 64 Dart-thrower’s quaff

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might feel the need to let others know that you will support yourself in getting what you want. Stay tuned in to what is happening around you, because an opportunity you will want to jump on could arise when you least expect it. Tonight: Don’t hesitate to take the lead.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)You might not feel as sure of yourself in the morning as you would like. By midafternoon, you will feel as if you are nearly unstoppable. Use this moment to focus on what is important to you. Others finally bend in your direction. Tonight: Where you want to be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Your flexibility allows you to go from being quiet and passive to active and assertive. A key rela-tionship will provide you with an opportunity to allow your full personality to come out. Careful diplomacy is advised. Tonight: Finish up any last-minute details.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)You will know what to do in order to move a certain cause

forward. You could be in a situ-ation where you have to play a low-key role. You have some major changes ahead. Speak your mind, but be as diplomatic as possible. Tonight: Say “yes” to an invitation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)Your playful side emerges and allows you to make a difference in a challenging work-related situation. Once the tension dissolves, others’ perspectives will change and the situation will become workable. Be more direct in what you decide to do. Tonight: Playful as ever.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)You might want to change your direction and respond more openly to your own needs. Stay on top of a problem, and you will do much better than you have in a while. You seem to be unusually confused about a personal matter; do noth-ing until you are sure. Tonight: Head home.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)You might be in a changeable and somewhat volatile situa-tion. How you deal with a per-sonal matter could evolve given some time, but you don’t have

that luxury right now. The reso-lution will come to you more easily than you had anticipated. Tonight: At home.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Deal with a financial matter now, before it deals with you. You will be relieved once you find the right response. Speak your mind. A friend steps for-ward and gives you support. You’ll want to take news with a grain of salt; it might be too good to believe. Tonight: Play it easy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Tap into your imagination in order to find the right solution to a money question. You might opt for a conservative response until you verify that a different course of action is right for you. Discomfort could result when trying out a new idea. Tonight: Relax at home.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)One-on-one relating opens up a new possibility that you might not want to share at first. Listen to news with openness. You are more aware than others of what can happen with a loved one. You have the wherewithal to change this person’s fate. Tonight: Listen to news.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)A meeting will remind you that you have many supporters on a key project. A friend or loved one might be confused about which direction to head in. You could be in a situation where you don’t have any choice but to take the lead. Tonight: Where the crowds are.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Your ability to bring others together emerges. Host a fun event if you can. A meeting initially could appear to be very serious, but that will change. Exchange ideas more freely. Touch base with a friend whom you don’t see often. Tonight: The more friends, the merrier.

BORN TODAYFormer U.S. first lady Jacque-line Kennedy Onassis (1929), actress Lori Loughlin (1964), art critic Robert Hughes (1938).

BLONDIE by Young

HI & LOISby Chance Browne

ONE BIG HAPPY by Rick Detorie

ARCHIE by Henry Scarpelli

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE by Chris Browne

ZITS by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman

BEETLE BAILEY by Greg & Mort Walker

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAMEby David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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SIMPSON, JEAN January 31, 1934 ~ July 22, 2015

Jean passed away at West Coast General Hospital on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at the age of 81 years with family by her side.

Predeceased by her parents Wil-liam and Nancy; brother William Jr. ; daughter Valeta Jean and son Sean Barry ; Jean is survived by her husband of 62 years, Barry McKay and her daughter Nancy Lee of Port Alberni, BC. Sadly, she is missed by 7 grandchildren: Katherine, Victoria, Erik, Jennifer, Hannah, Richard and Esther and 16 great grand-children; brother Peter Donald (Marilyn) , Kaleden, BC; sister Sarah Patricia (Tom) Fruitvale, BC; sister Lynne Marie (Ralph), Port Alberni, BC; sister, Alanna Jane (Peter), Taylor , BC as well as numerous nieces and nephews .

Jean was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan. She moved to BC when she was 14 and lived on Kootenay Lake in the Gray Creek area where she met her husband Barry at the age of 18 she moved to Vancouver, BC where she attended VVI working for KER and KER real estate as a secretary on completion of her schooling. She and Barry were married in 1952 and lived in various places in BC before settling in Port Alberni in 1958. Jean was a warm, loving and active member of the community while raising her children; participating in PTA, the ACW, selling Avon, and teaching music. Jean loved music and it was always a big part of her life, as well as teaching piano to numerous students over the years, she was also the choir master and one of the organists for All Saints Anglican Church for many years. In 1991 the church purchased a new or-gan which she was certainly one of the driving forces be-hind as well as dedicating her eff orts to the memory of their daughter Valeta who had passed away in 1973. She was there for the last Mass and Deconsecrating of the All Saints church on Feb 29, 2004.

She loved reading biographies and mysteries, loved gardening, especially her roses and rhododendrons; Jean was a great cook and loved baking while her family watched and waited in anticipation with many conversa-tions and advice given over tea and cookies. Jean’s family and church were her main vocation and she always gave generously of her many gifts to them.

Prayers and visitation will be held at Chapel of Memories Funeral Home, 4005 6th Avenue, Port Alberni, at 7:00pm on Friday;, July 31, 2015.

Funeral Mass will be held at 11:00am on Saturday, August 1, 2015 at Notre Dame Roman Catholic Church, 4731 Burke Road, Port Alberni, BC with Father Stephen Paine offi ciating.

In lieu of fl owers, donations in Jean’s memory may be made to Alzheimer Society of B.C or Heart and Stroke foundation 300-828 W. 8th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V5Z 1E2.

Stories and condolences may be left for the family by visiting www.chapelofmemories.ca

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYCity of Port Alberni

A.V. Multiplex/Glenwood Sports Centre Program Assistants

The City of Port Alberni is accepting applications from enthusiastic and reliable people to work part-time in a variety of roles, including skate patrol, concession, skating instruction and skate shop, at the Alberni Valley Multiplex and Glenwood Sports Centre. Applicants must have completed Grade 10, be able to ice skate and/or roller blade confidently, have basic mathematical skills, good customer service skills, and the ability to work weekends and evenings. Applicants must have or be willing to obtain a Standard First Aid and CPR C certificate.

Rate of pay is per CUPE, Local 118, Collective Agreement.

Resumes, with covering letter and photocopies of First Aid and CPR C certificates, will be received until 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 11, 2015 by Theresa Kingston, Director of Corporate Services at City Hall, 4850 Argyle Street, Port Alberni, B.C. V9Y 1V8 or by email: [email protected]

We regret that only those applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

Full Time Building Inspector/Building

Bylaw Enforcement OfficerThe Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District is looking for a Full Time Building

Inspector/Building Bylaw Enforcement Officer. The successful candidate must

have a thorough knowledge of the BC Building Code, a solid understanding of

construction methods and materials, and will be required to have or obtain, as

a minimum, a Level 1 certification from the Building Officials Association of

BC. Excellent communication skills, computer literacy, and a valid BC Driver’s

Licence are required for this position. In general terms, the candidate would

provide the public with building inspection services, inspection of wood

burning appliances, and deals with building bylaw infractions.

The successful candidate will be required to be a member of CUPE

Local 118 (Alberni-Clayoquot Unit). The pay is $35.79 per hour based

on a 35 hour work week. Benefits are outlined in the Collective

Agreement. This is a permanent full time position.

A detailed job posting is available on our website at www.acrd.bc.ca

Please reply to:

Mike Irg, Manager of Planning and Development

3008 Fifth Avenue, Port Alberni, BC, V9Y 2E3

Phone: (250) 720-2700 Fax: (250) 723-1327

Email: [email protected]

CLOSING DATE: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 4:30 pm

Full time Maintenance Worker The successful candidate will be responsible for the full maintenance of an 84 room hotel and 4500 sq ft. of banquet facilities. Your duties would include being able to maintain areas such as the kitchen, laundry, Sports bar, beer and wine store.

Must have Strong communication skills, the ability to work independently. Experience needed with HVAC, electrical, plumbing, carpentry as well as general maintenance skills

Must be able to solve routine maintenance issues, Have a valid driver’s license and transportation and be in excellent health (heavy lifting may be required).

Please apply in person with resume to 4277 Stamp Ave, Port Alberni.

Must have solid references.

SALES PROFESSIONALSAlberni Auto Group is currently seeking individuals that have the desire to be Top Sales Professionals, who are

eager to learn, be trained, follow a successful automotive selling process and who believe their earning potential is

unlimited if they work hard and smart!

Skills and Qualifications:Clean Driver’s abstract, Grade 12 graduate,

professional attitude, confident people person and a team player.

Apply in person to Neil Compton or Shawn Elder at Alberni Auto Group.

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OLYMPIC GAMES

Toronto cheers as Boston jumps off 2024 bandwagonPAOLA LORIGGIO THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Boston’s withdrawal from the race to host the 2024 Summer Olympics could make a potential Toronto bid “far more attractive,” particu-larly if no other American city steps up to the plate, experts said Monday.

“The Boston decision today certainly makes the landscape easier for a Can-adian bid, a Toronto bid,” said Bruce Kidd, an Olym-pics expert at the Univer-sity of Toronto.

“With no U.S. bid, a Canadian bid has a much stronger argument,” he said, noting that by 2024, it will have been almost three decades since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the last time the Summer Games were held in North

America.A spokesman for the U.S.

Olympic Committee said Monday that the organiza-tion has severed ties with Boston, where the pros-pect of a bid for the ’24 Summer Games was met with low public support

and an active opposition group.

Little time remains for the organization to find another potential host city — the deadline to register interest with the Inter-national Olympic Commit-tee is Sept. 15. But there is

speculation Los Angeles could be in the running.

Meanwhile, there’s talk of a third Toronto Olympic bid following the city’s successful Pan Am Games, which wrapped up Sunday.

Toronto Mayor John Tory said he wants to let the

dust settle before making a decision, adding that offi-cials will conduct a “careful analysis” to determine whether a bid is in the city’sbest interest.

“They say it’s not a good idea to go grocery shopping when you’re hungry and in the euphoria of what were a tremendously successful (Pan Am) Games... this is a serious, rational decision that has to be made,” Tory said Monday.

The head of the Canadian Olympic Committee wants to forge ahead with the pitch, and the president of the Canadian Paralympic Committee has also thrown his support behind the idea.

Organizers for the Pan Am Games have said they should have ballpark fig-ures for the total cost of the event before the bid deadline.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police lower the Pan Am and Olympic flags during the closing ceremony of the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto on Sunday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS}

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◆ MONTREAL

Unmarked police cars parked during review

Quebec provincial police are limiting their use of semi-un-marked vehicles pending a review following a fatal collision.

The probe was launched after an officer driving such a car smashed into another vehicle and killed three elderly people on July 18 in Dolbeau-Mistassini, about 300 kilometres north of Quebec City.

Semi-unmarked cars are diffi-cult for motorists to identify.

Lt. Guy Lapointe said the force will use the vehicles less fre-quently to respond to emergen-cies while it conducts its review.

◆ OTTAWA

Hackers shut down sensitive website

Hackers have broken into the network of the tribunal that adjudicates disputes between public servants and the federal government.

The website of the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board has been down since Friday after security officials discovered hackers had exploited a weakness to get into the tribunal’s public network.

It’s not known how long the hackers were in the system, or exactly what — if anything — they took during the breach, which was discovered last Thursday.

◆ QUEBEC

Defence contract worth nearly $500 million

The federal government has awarded contracts to a Mont-real-area company as part of its investment in military technology.

Defence Minister Jason Ken-ney says the contracts obtained by Rheinmetall Canada Inc. are potentially worth more than $493 million.

They involve equipment for the Integrated Soldier System project, including weapon acces-sories and electronics such as a radio, a smartphone-like comput-er to run battle management soft-ware, a global positioning system and a communications headset

◆ TORONTO

Police seek man in vulgar Pan Am shouting

Police are working to identify a man heard hurling vulgarities at a CBC reporter moments after the end of the closing ceremonies of the Pan Am Games.

Charlsie Agro was live on air Sunday night recapping the impressive performance of Can-ada’s female Pan Am athletes when a man shouted an obscen-ity that’s frequently directed at female reporters on the job.

Agro says she tried to chase the man down to confront him, but lost him in the crowd.

She wound up filing a report with Toronto police.

◆ MONTREAL

CP seeking appeal of train derailment rulingCanadian Pacific Railway is officially asking for permission to appeal the approval of the $430-million settlement fund for victims and creditors of the Lac-Megantic train derailment.

The company states in court documents obtained by The Canadian Press that the fund is unfair and the Superior Court justice who gave it the green light earlier this month had no jurisdiction to do so.

The fund was created when about 25 companies accused in the July 6, 2013, incident that killed 47 people offered to com-pensate victims.

El Nino far more than just a weather patternWarming current spurs dramatic shifts in the global economy with U.S. and China among the winnersSETH BORENSTEIN AND FRANK BAJAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — In California, they’re counting on it to end an historic drought; in Peru, they’ve already declared a pre-emptive emergency to prepare for devastating flooding. It’s both an economic stimulus and a recession-maker.

And it’s likely to increase the price of coffee, chocolate and sugar.

It’s El Nino — most likely, the largest in well over a decade, forecasters say. A lot more than mere weather, it affects lives and pocketbooks in different ways in different places.

Every few years, the winds shift and the water in the Pacific Ocean gets warmer than usual. That water sloshes back and forth around the equator in the Pacific, interacts with the winds above and then changes weather worldwide. This is El Nino.

Droughts are triggered in places like Australia and India, but elsewhere, droughts are quenched and floods replace them. The Pacific gets more

hurricanes; the Atlantic fewer. Winter gets milder and wetter in much of the United States. The world warms, goosing Earth’s already rising thermometer from man-made climate change.

Peruvian sailors named the formation El Nino — the (Christ)

Child — because it was most noticeable around Christmas. An El Nino means the Pacific Ocean off Peru’s coast is warm, espe-cially a huge patch 100 metres below the surface, and as it gets warmer and close to the surface, the weather “is just going to be

a river falling from the sky,” said biophysicist Michael Ferrari, director of climate services for agriculture at the Colorado firm aWhere Inc.

Around the world, crops fail in some places, thrive elsewhere. Commercial fishing shifts. More people die of flooding, fewer from freezing. Americans spend less on winter heating. The global economy shifts.

“El Nino is not the end of the world so you don’t have to hide under the bed. The reality is that in the U.S. an El Nino can be a good thing,” said Mike Halp-ert, deputy director of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmos-pheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center.

This El Nino officially start-ed in March and keeps getting stronger. If current trends continue, it should officially be termed a strong El Nino early in August, peak sometime near the end of year and peter out some-time next spring. Meteorologists say it looks like the biggest such event since the fierce El Nino of 1997-1998.

California mudslides notwith-

standing, the U.S. economy benefited by nearly $22 billion from that El Nino, according to a 1999 study. That study found that 189 people were killed in the U.S, mainly from tornadoes linked to El Nino, but an estimated 850 lives were saved due to a milder winter.

A United Nations-backed study said that El Nino cost Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela nearly $11 billion. Flooding in Peru destroyed bridg-es, homes, hospitals and crops and left 354 dead and 112 missing, according to the Pan-American Health Organization. The miningindustry in Peru and Chile was hammered as flooding hindered exports.

Though this year’s El Nino is likely to be weaker than the 1997-1998 version, the economic impact may be greater because the world’s interconnected econ-omy has changed with more vul-nerable supply chains, said risk and climate expert Ferrari.

Economic winners include the U.S., China, Mexico and Europe while India, Australia and Peru are among El Nino’s biggest losers.

In this Jan. 15, 1998 file photo, a women sifts through rubble near her home after much of the town of Santa Teresa in Cuzco, was destroyed by a mudslide brought on by persistent rains attributed El Nino. (AP PHOTO/OSCAR PAREDES, FILE)

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One of the oldest wineries on our fair island is Cherry Point Estate Winery.

Located just off the Island Highway in Cobble Hill, its 24-acre vineyard has been interestingly planted to follow

the dictates of the land and not the wine market specifically.

Why does that make a differ-ence? Quite simply, the happier the grapes, the better the wine. The land makes the grapes, and the grapes make the wine.

The plantings were calculated by an agricultural engineer in 1990, following an age-old adage of planting according to what the land will give.

Some grapes, for instance, like to grow in the clay soils of the

valleys while others prefer stony hillocks.

That is why the Cherry Point Ortega sells out each year. No more can be produced since there are no more clay soil val-leys at Cherry Point, which the Ortega grape needs to flourish.

By the time current owners Xavier and Maria Bonilla pur-chased the vinery in 2009, the vineyards of Cherry Point were well-established and flourishing. With more than 35 years of agri-

cultural experience, it was easy for Xavier to choose such a well-thought out vineyard to nurture.

Using a very European approach to his wine making, Xavier can produce wines of exceptional varietal character from 100 per cent estate-grown grapes.

The Pinot Blanc from Cherry Point is a prime example of the grape making the wine. True to form, this grape displays aro-mas of green apple, citrus and

orchard blossoms in the wine. On the palate, flavours of peach-es, delicate apricot and crisp minerals abound.

The acidity of this wine makes it the perfect partner for rich creamy dishes, waking up and cleansing your palate between bites. The value price point of $21 is easily appreciated by the complexity and depth in your glass.

Often you will hear the lam-entation that Vancouver Island reds, outside of the Pinot Noir grape that likes our cool, coastal climate, leave something to be desired.

Cherry Point Bete Noire Gran Reserva is an exception to this slight truism. This rich, red wine is a blend of Castel and Agria grapes, reminiscent of a Rioja blend from Spain. Load-ed with juicy plum flavours, enhanced by a good hit of earthy bouquet, the deep-coloured red wine has great tannins. Just a hint of vanilla alongside tart cherry lingers on the tongue.

Pair it with a blue-cheese topped steak and you will truly experience a match made in culinary heaven. This structured wine opens up when decanted and at $21 a bottle, it represents great value.

Lucky’s Liquor Store at Coun-try Club Centre Mall in Nanaimo stocks numerous well-made wines from Cherry Point Estate Winery where the land makes the grapes and the grapes make the wine.

Come sample these delicious wines in our dispenser which will be available any time the store is open Monday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.

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Everywhere you look, Korean food is screaming off the trend charts. Kimchee has become a household con-diment. Korean barbecue is universally loved. Gochujang is about to have its heyday.

But in the decade that Korean food has been inching its way into the spot-light, we haven’t seen a proliferation of Korean restaurants as we did with other Asian cuisines. I’d even argue that the mystery of Korean cuisine hasn’t even begun to be unpacked for the mainstream.

Rather, the rise of Korean food is driven by its pantry ingredients, not traditional restaurants.

One of the main reasons for this is because even though the cuisine of the homeland is complex and ritualistic, the ingredients are not. They made the leap pretty quickly into the North American taste vernacular.

In fact, the assimilation of Korean food happened so fast, we found our way to kimchee tacos faster than we did kimchi ji-gae (a traditional Korean stew).

It’s that same versatility that will define the future of Korean food here. The ingredients are already adapting to everything from burgers to poutine. And it’s not just here. The line between Western influences and traditional fla-vours is becoming less and less rigid.

We don’t need to wait a generation anymore to discover the next incarna-tion of Korean food. And that’s good — and delicious — for us. What is popular in Korea now is instantly translatable to the American table. The expanding Korean pantry is already here to entice an audience hungry for more umami and spice.

Now, I’ll grant you that sea squirt sashimi may never gain traction here. But jeotgal is something that can easily become a Westernstaple. It is a category that denotes any fermented seafood.

It can be anything from 40-day-old fish guts to a lighter, almost ceviche-like cold dish of oysters with chili and fish sauce. It is delicious as a condi-ment, added to a rice dish or served with fatty pork. And there are as many varieties as there are fish in the sea.

When we think of Korean ingredi-

ents, we think of fermented products. But there are also many fresh herbs and vegetables that are becoming more widely available. Teardrop or hachiya persimmons, chrysanthemum leaves and Asian pears are staples I see all the time now.

Meanwhile, gochujang is the Korean ingredient Americans are most likely to encounter first. It is a fermented chili paste that is essential to many Korean dishes. It has yet to penetrate the typical household, but chefs have been using it for years to add depth to stews, glazes and marinades.

Samjang is its more complex (and less spicy) brother. It is a seasoned dipping sauce made from gochujang, garlic, sesame oil and soybean paste. Typically it is used only as a condiment to barbecue, but it has so much more potential. I use it in gravy, in hummus, or just eat it with raw vegetables.

And that is exactly why this sauce will gain in popularity here. Without the limiting blinders of tradition, North American chefs will see it as a limitless pantry item. And that’s the exciting part — watching these ingredi-ents take on new roles.

FINE WINE

Located in Cobble Hill, Cherry Point Estate Winery has been owned and operated by Xavier and Maria Bonilla since 2009.

SheilaHockinThe LuckyGourmet

Spicy oyster jeotgal with pork sausage, from a recipe by Edward Lee. (AP PHOTO/MATTHEW MEAD)

HAPPY GRAPES, HAPPY GRAPES, TASTY WINETASTY WINE

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“Using a very European approach, Xavier can produce wines of exceptional varietal character from 100 per cent estate-grown grapes.”

Sheila Hockin, The Lucky Gourmet


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