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Seniors Week Special Sign up for a new 1 year subscription or 1 year renewal of subscription between June 7th – June 13th and you will receive a $25.00 Gift Card from Save-On Foods. AV Times 4918 Napier Street 250-723-8171 Serving the Alberni Valley www.avtimes.net Tuesday, June 9, 2015 NIC instructor honoured with international award Alberni Region, Page 3 26C 11C 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 109 $1.25 newsstand (GST incl.) Inside today Outdoor party a hazard: Resident KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES A Beaver Creek resident is calling an outdoor rural festival the “Five Acre Money Maker.” Loren Smith put up with the loud three-day festival neigh- bouring his Mercy Road home last year and does not want to see a potentially dangerous situ- ation reappear on a residential property. Organizers, however, say they have it under control. The Five Acre Shaker was launched last year as a fund- raiser for the Zattzoo Project, in memory of Zakk Cross. Although not opposed to the concept of raising money for charity, Smith said he has a number of concerns, including the safety of party-goers and neighbours. Last year’s inaugural event attracted 500 people as a BYOB (Bring Your Own Booze) party on Lance Goddard’s acreage on Beaver Creek Road. With a vision of making it a lasting commun- ity event, Goddard expects to see double attendance at this year’s event, scheduled for Aug. 14–16. Included will be a beer garden, dance floor, stage, food truck, porta potties, EMT vehicles and campers. Smith’s main concern is the risk of fire. “We are in a record breaking month for lack of rainfall with predictions of the driest summer on record,” Smith said. “I live on a dead end road, so if a fire breaks out, I have no way of get- ting out,” Smith said. Goddard said he has a fire risk management plan in place approved by the Beaver Creek Fire Department. “It will be hayed a week before,” he said. “I will be mowing the lawn to keep it low and watering it. There will be zero tolerance for smoking outside the two designated smoking areas. If anyone is caught, they will be escorted off site.” He also said there will be no open campfires nor flames of any sort. Smith also feels the property is too small to hold such an event and believes an alternative venue should have been secured. He said it was his understanding that it would be a one-time event. “I never stated it was a one- time event,” Goddard said. “But this time I can say 100 per cent that it will be the last time on my property.” Goddard said he has written approval from all governing bod- ies, including the RCMP, Island Health, the Beaver Creek Vol- unteer Fire Department and the Ministry of Transportation and Intrastructure. He said the Bea- ver Creek Fire Department will have volunteers on site around the clock with first aid and there will be a professional security company that can handle the number of people. Goddard was offered the use of the Fall Fair grounds to hold the event, but said it would be a detriment to the festival’s atmosphere. “It would be a big dust pit,” Goddard said. “Because this is a music festival, it doesn’t suit what we are looking for. It is also more of a residential area than my property.” He said he has done his home- work and has enough room to host the event on his property for one more year before looking into a bigger space. “We have a vision for the future of keeping it as a festival in the fields with grass and don’t want to taint that vision by having it on the Fall Fair grounds,” God- dard said. Smith is also concerned about the noise factor. “If you have ever laid in bed and listened to a wailing siren, you can attest to the fact that you can hear it for miles,” he said. Although Goddard said he has a lot of support from residents, including written consent from neighbours within 200 feet of the property, Smith intends to con- tinue to canvass the area. “I started in my neighborhood and within an hour had 25 signa- tures opposing it,” Smith said. The issue is currently being reviewed by the Alberni-Clayo- quot Regional District and feed- back is being accepted until the board meeting on June 24. “It is a board decision but if the public feels it will either negatively or positively affect their property, they are invited to email their concerns or support,” said Beaver Creek director John McNabb. “I will personally be walking around my neighbour- hood to raise awareness and get opinions and will record them.” [email protected] Alberni Canal Downwind Challenge on the Inlet The Canal Beach Watersports Society is preparing to welcome dozens of paddle- boarders from around B.C. for their second annual race. » Sports, 5 » Use your smartphone to jump to our Facebook page for updates on these stories or the latest breaking news. Beaver Creek resident Loren Smith does not feel the location of the Five Acre Shaker festival is suitable for the number of attendees. [KRISTI DOBSON, TIMES] MUNICIPALITY Council looks to plant food in city MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES In the interests of improving food security for Port Alberni, the local parks and recreation depart- ment is looking at planting pro- duce in garden plots throughout the city. Fresh vegetables could be harvested from the city’s land and donated to local food banks such as the Salvation Army and Bread of Life, said Coun. Chris Alemany. Alemany brought the idea for- ward to city council last month, which voted in favour of the idea. “It came up just in discussion with the mayor about different things that the Food Security Committee and council could do for building up a little food resilience in the community,” said Alemany. “We have lots of plots around town that the city maintains.” Other communities such as Nanaimo and Victoria have also interspersed edible greenery on city property, he noted. Portland, Ore., has also imple- mented a similar program. Alemany hopes that associat- ed labour costs would be kept to a minimum by the parks department. “Hopefully they can integrate it so that it woudn’t cost in terms of (work) time,” he said. Alberni Valley residents have looked at other possible ways of improving local food security with the city’s help. One of Port Alberni’s oldest agricultural lands at the top of Burde Street, the Redford Farm, is on the market. With nearly 100 fruit trees and berry bushes, the orchard could provide opportun- ities for community participation, according to local organic farmer Heather Shobe. [email protected] ALEMANY “It came up just in discussion . . . about different things that the Food Security Committee and council could do for building up a little food resilience in the community.” Chris Alemany , city councillor » Community Beaver Creek man gathering support to oppose Five Acre Shaker festival “We are in a record breaking month for lack of rainfall with predictions of the driest summer on record.” Loren Smith, Beaver Creek resident » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to [email protected]. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.

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Inside today

Outdoor party a hazard: Resident

KRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

ABeaver Creek resident is calling an outdoor rural festival the “Five Acre Money Maker.”

Loren Smith put up with the loud three-day festival neigh-bouring his Mercy Road home last year and does not want to see a potentially dangerous situ-ation reappear on a residential property.

Organizers, however, say they have it under control.

The Five Acre Shaker was launched last year as a fund-raiser for the Zattzoo Project, in memory of Zakk Cross.

Although not opposed to the concept of raising money for charity, Smith said he has a number of concerns, including the safety of party-goers and neighbours.

Last year’s inaugural event attracted 500 people as a BYOB (Bring Your Own Booze) party on Lance Goddard’s acreage on Beaver Creek Road. With a vision of making it a lasting commun-ity event, Goddard expects to see double attendance at this year’s event, scheduled for Aug. 14–16. Included will be a beer garden, dance floor, stage, food truck, porta potties, EMT vehicles and campers.

Smith’s main concern is the risk of fire.

“We are in a record breaking month for lack of rainfall with predictions of the driest summer on record,” Smith said. “I live on a dead end road, so if a fire breaks out, I have no way of get-ting out,” Smith said.

Goddard said he has a fire risk management plan in place approved by the Beaver Creek Fire Department.

“It will be hayed a week before,” he said. “I will be mowing the lawn to keep it low and watering it. There will be zero tolerance for smoking outside the two designated smoking areas. If anyone is caught, they will be escorted off site.”

He also said there will be no open campfires nor flames of any sort.

Smith also feels the property is too small to hold such an event and believes an alternative venue should have been secured. He said it was his understanding that it would be a one-time event.

“I never stated it was a one-time event,” Goddard said. “But this time I can say 100 per cent that it will be the last time on my property.”

Goddard said he has written approval from all governing bod-ies, including the RCMP, Island Health, the Beaver Creek Vol-unteer Fire Department and the Ministry of Transportation and Intrastructure. He said the Bea-

ver Creek Fire Department will have volunteers on site around the clock with first aid and there will be a professional security company that can handle the number of people.

Goddard was offered the use of the Fall Fair grounds to hold the event, but said it would be a detriment to the festival’s atmosphere.

“It would be a big dust pit,” Goddard said. “Because this is a music festival, it doesn’t suit what we are looking for. It is also more of a residential area than my property.”

He said he has done his home-work and has enough room to host the event on his property

for one more year before looking into a bigger space.

“We have a vision for the future of keeping it as a festival in the fields with grass and don’t want to taint that vision by having it on the Fall Fair grounds,” God-dard said.

Smith is also concerned about the noise factor. “If you have ever laid in bed and listened to a wailing siren, you can attest to the fact that you can hear it for miles,” he said.

Although Goddard said he has a lot of support from residents, including written consent from neighbours within 200 feet of the property, Smith intends to con-tinue to canvass the area.

“I started in my neighborhood and within an hour had 25 signa-tures opposing it,” Smith said.

The issue is currently being reviewed by the Alberni-Clayo-quot Regional District and feed-back is being accepted until the board meeting on June 24.

“It is a board decision but if the public feels it will either negatively or positively affect their property, they are invited to email their concerns or support,” said Beaver Creek director John McNabb. “I will personally be walking around my neighbour-hood to raise awareness and get opinions and will record them.”

[email protected]

Alberni Canal Downwind Challenge on the InletThe Canal Beach Watersports Society is preparing to welcome dozens of paddle-boarders from around B.C. for their second annual race. » Sports, 5

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

Beaver Creek resident Loren Smith does not feel the location of the Five Acre Shaker festival is suitable for the number of attendees. [KRISTI DOBSON, TIMES]

MUNICIPALITY

Council looks to plant food in cityMARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

In the interests of improving food security for Port Alberni, the local parks and recreation depart-ment is looking at planting pro-duce in garden plots throughout the city.

Fresh vegetables could be harvested from the city’s land and donated to local food banks such as the Salvation Army and Bread of Life, said Coun. Chris Alemany.

Alemany brought the idea for-ward to city council last month, which voted in favour of the idea.

“It came up just in discussion with the mayor about different things that the Food Security Committee and council could do for building up a little food resilience in the community,”

said Alemany. “We have lots of plots around town that the city maintains.”

Other communities such as Nanaimo and Victoria have also interspersed edible greenery on city property, he noted.

Portland, Ore., has also imple-mented a similar program.

Alemany hopes that associat-ed labour costs would be kept to a minimum by the parks department.

“Hopefully they can integrate it

so that it woudn’t cost in terms of (work) time,” he said.

Alberni Valley residents have looked at other possible ways of improving local food security with the city’s help.

One of Port Alberni’s oldest agricultural lands at the top of Burde Street, the Redford Farm, is on the market. With nearly 100 fruit trees and berry bushes, the orchard could provide opportun-ities for community participation, according to local organic farmer Heather Shobe.

[email protected]

ALEMANY

“It came up just in discussion . . . about different things that the Food Security Committee and council could do for building up a little food resilience in the community.”

Chris Alemany, city councillor

» Community

Beaver Creek man gathering support to oppose Five Acre Shaker festival

“We are in a record breaking month for lack of rainfall with predictions of the driest summer on record.”

Loren Smith, Beaver Creek resident

» We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to [email protected]. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.

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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.

Sports Drop-in circuit training on Wednes-

days 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. at the Royal Canadian Legion Alberni Valley Branch.

Horseshoe Club practices on Wed-nesdays 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 cal-endar. 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 Wednes-days or Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)

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

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

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 Latter-day Saints on Wednesday mornings, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Addictions Al-Anon and Al-Ateen support groups

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

Port Alberni Friendship Center offers free counselling on addictions, men-tal health, relationships and other

issues. Info: 250-723-8281. Every-body welcome.

What’s comingUltimate Frisbee, June 9, 16, 23, 30 at

7 p.m. at Sweeney field. Drop in. No experience necessary.

Celebrate seniors in the Alberni Valley with Seniors’ Week June 7–13. All senior citizens are welcome to par-ticipate in special events and activ-ities. Seniors’ Week flyers available at the Echo Centre. For information call 250-723-2181.

ADSS pancake breakfast, June 11 from 7-9 a.m. at ADSS. Proceeds to KidSport.

Alberni Canal Downwind Challenge at Canal Beach June 13. Event starts at 2 p.m., race is at 3 p.m. Parking in upper lot of Canal Beach only. There will be a fun relay race for spectators.

ADSS Show ‘n Shine, June 13 at ADSS from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call 250-731-7782.

Exercise and nutrition workshop, June 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Gyro Youth Centre. Fund-raiser for Nepal earthquake relief. Email [email protected] or text 250-730-0008.

Hot dog sale fundraiser for Kuu-Us Crisis Society, June 19 from noon to 4 p.m. at Save-On Foods.

Literacy Alberni with Coast Realty realtors is hosting a fundraiser book and hot dog sale on June 20 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Info: Alana Bodnar 250-723-7323.

Summer Parkour classes begin June 23 with Ethos Parkour and Port Alberni Parks and Recreation at Echo Centre. Six classes are scheduled for Tuesdays 7:15 to 9 p.m. For info phone Michael Kleyn 250-735-0881.

Golden Oldies Show ‘n Shine, July 4 at Williamson Park from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 250-723-8344.

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Sunday driverThis guy didn’t move very far on Sunday but he found a sweet ride at the Westwind Pub’s Show ‘n Shine. [KRISTI DOBSON, TIMES]

The Canadian dollar traded Monday afternoon at 80.66 US, up 0.27 of a cent from Friday’s close. The Pound

Sterling was worth $1.9023 Cdn, down 0.29 of a cent while the Euro was worth $1.3994 Cdn, down 1.73 of a cent.

Canadian Dollar NASDAQ

5,021.63-46.83

➜ ➜S&P/TSX

14,743.33-213.83

Dow Jones

17,766.55-82.91

➜Barrel of oil

$58.14-$0.99

➜➜For June 6:649: 08-12-22-35-38-44 B: 27BC49: 06-19-28-31-35-45 B: 49Extra: 22-52-72-79

For June 5:Lotto Max: 02-10-13-16-30-33-48 B: 44Extra: 29-34-57-69

(Numbers are unofficial)

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RECOGNITION

NIC instructor honoured with awardKRISTI DOBSON ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

A local educator returned from the United States recently with a renewed passion to con-tinue inspiring others.

Sandra Faust, long-time instructor at North Island College was recently recognized with an inter-national award.

As the college’s English upgrading instructor at the Port Alberni campus, Faust was presented with a National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Award in May in Austin, Texas.

Faust attended the conference and awards ceremony in Austin along with colleagues and winners, Mickey Bliss and Albert Balbon, from Campbell River and the Comox Valley. She said it was an opportunity to make new connections with educators from all over North America.

“I was so inspired by the speakers and workshops and I feel refreshed and ready to bring new ideas and energy back into my

classroom in Port Alberni in September,” Faust said.

With additional experi-ence in writing, editing and working with young children, Faust has been teaching English Upgrading at North Island College for 14 years. She said she was surprised and honoured to received the award.

Coworker, Mac New-ton, however, said it was well-deserved. Newton has worked with Faust at the Port Alberni campus for about 10 years and said she sets an example for continual learning.

“She focuses her own professional development on learning skills to help

her students,” Newton said. “For example, she has been completing ESL teaching courses because many of her upgrading students speak English as a second language.”

Newton regards Faust’s classrooms as a home away from home for students.

“Sandy is the reason why the fundamental English program thrives at the Port Alberni campus,” Newton said. “She provides a safe learning environment for learners beginning their upgrading. She has a record of continual success. Many of her students progress into more advanced levels of upgrading and into other college programs.”

Working with those stu-dents is what drives Faust to excellence.

“A lot of my students have been out of school for a long time, so I love welcoming them back into learning and seeing them find their strengths and reach their goals.”

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NIC English Upgrading instructor Sandra Faust received a NISOD Excellence Award May 24 in Austin, Texas. [SUBMITTED PHOTO]

» The Port Alberni RCMP submit a column on a monthly basis about the things they deal with in the Alberni Valley.

COMMUNITY

Every Year, millions of people have their lives changed forever by crime.

They are our family, neigh-bours, friends, and colleagues. Crime victims often struggle to work, pay bills or support their loved ones.

Many have life changing injur-ies and need long term care and support.

These people have rights as victims of crime. In BC they have the right to receive infor-mation from the criminal justice

system including the status of the investigation, any outcome in court and the administration of the offender’s sentence.

They also have the right to financial assistance and bene-fits through the Crime Victim

Assistance Program. Victims have the right to be

treated with courtesy, compas-sion and with respect for their dignity and privacy. Any person who is a victim of crime can access on of the 92 police based victim services programs in BC and connect with a worker for assistance.

To assist we need to be aware that crime affects people in many ways: financially, phys-ically, emotionally and through secondary victimization which

can occur as a result of poor treatment after the crime.

Victims deserve assistance to help minimize these affects.

This assistance may take the form of crisis support at the scene of a crime or traumatic incident, practical assistance as needs arise in the days and weeks following an incident and ongoing court support as the file goes through the justice system.

Port Alberni RCMP Victim Services has been assisting vic-tims of crime over 30 years and

last year we assisted over 700 people.

A referral from a police officer is not required: If you or anyoneyou know is in need of assist-ance in Port Alberni contact RCMP Victims Services through your local RCMP detachment or directly at 250 724-8910.

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The mistake Tim Hortons made wasn’t signing a con-tract with Enbridge to run

ads for the pipeline company on its in-store screens, the mistake the coffee and doughnuts com-pany made was in surrendering to the online horde whining about the ads.

Now instead of upsetting a handful of social media activists, who wouldn’t be caught dead in a Tim Hortons at the best of times because it’s corporate and it’s for-eign-owned and whatever other nonsense they spout, the coffee giant has now upset its regular customers. The trending Twitter hashtag late this week was #boy-cotttims for pulling the ads.

Quick aside: MP Nathan Cullen quickly jumped on Twitter to make political hay of the situa-tion, blasting its U.S. operators but Tims is now owned by a Brazilian investment firm.

Regardless, this is a a textbook case on how to alienate more

than 11,000 people who work for Enbridge in Canada and the U.S., along with the tens of thousands of other Canadians and Amer-icans whose livelihoods are tied directly or indirectly to the pipe-line industry, including the hun-dreds of workers in Prince George. Those folks also have friends and families, too, not to mention an entire federal Conservative caucus that prides itself on appealing to the Tim Hortons voter and this is an election year, after all.

There is a big difference between opposing Northern Gateway, Enbridge’s proposed pipeline across northern B.C. to connect the Alberta oilsands to Kitimat, and opposing a company’s right to spend money on advertising and a company’s right to accept that money.

For the record, the Citizen has run numerous ads from Enbridge over the years. That does not mean the Citizen or its staff support Northern Gateway. The news-

paper runs tens of thousands of advertisements each year on behalf of individuals and busi-nesses. The role of the Citizen and any advertising outlet is to con-nect advertisers with customers, leaving the customers to decide for themselves whether they will support that business with their dollars or – in the case of Enbridge — their political support.

On the opinion side, we have run letters and commentary both for and against Northern Gateway and continue to do so. In this space, I wrote editorials in support of the pipeline in 2012 but that support decreased considerably in editorials I wrote in 2013 and 2014. After hearing the testimony at the public hearings and reading the recommendations made by the joint review panel, my confidence in numerous aspects of the project has been seriously eroded.

But my views in this space are my own and readers have every right to either ignore my views or

disagree and then write to me to say so. In the same way, readers are free to respond or not to any advertising that appears in our pages or on our website.

There is no difference advertis-ing in any other medium, venue or through the sponsorship of community events. A boycott of every company or organization in Prince George that has done business with Enbridge in the last five years would not only involve all the media outlets, including (gasp!) the CBC, as well as the movie theatres, but also numer-ous charities, not-for-profits and volunteer groups that have put on community events with the help of Enbridge sponsorship, including the 2015 Canada Winter Games.

The insanity of a boycott against Tim Hortons or anyone else doing business with Enbridge is to take the rationale behind the boycott to its logical extreme. Since Enbridge and their employees pay taxes in

Prince George, the water coming out of the tap, the roads, the pools, the arenas were all partially paid for by Enbridge. Factor in the provincial and federal taxes and Enbridge helps sponsor schools, hospitals, highways and airports, too.

Enbridge may have proposed running a pipeline through some of the most pristine wilderness in Canada to make a buck but, last we checked, neither making a buck nor pipelines were illegal. In fact, both are essential activities to the running of this country. Dis-agreeing with Northern Gateway is fine but tarnishing anyone who works for or does business with Enbridge is ridiculous.

If Tim Hortons no longer wants to accept some of Enbridge’s ad dollars, that’s their choice. Then make way for the businesses that still do, starting with this one.

— THE CANADIAN PRESS (PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN)

Alberni a natural beauty, lacks infrastructure

So, MoneySense has struck again (PA ranked 207th by Mon-eySense 2015).

This time the magazine was generous; they pulled the Val-ley’s anchor up off the bottom of the Slough of Despond. But not by very much, it seems.

In one sense the Valley has had a bad reputation, some of which has to do with its location and industrial past (in the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s it enjoyed one of the highest per capita incomes in North America).

But, in another sense the Val-ley is lucky, because the develop-ers who are now raping Vancou-ver and the rest of the mainland of British Columbia, making life ugly and unaffordable, have passed the Valley by, preserving something of its natural charm and real worth.

There’s nothing much wrong with the Alberni Valley or its people. Two years ago, when my wife and I were planning our return to Vancouver Island, Port Alberni was at the top of our “destination list.”

Only one thing deterred us from moving there was its lack of adequate medical infra-structure. We are both seniors and in medical parlance “com-plex patients.”

Aside from our strong and his-torical family ties to the Valley, my wife and I love the compara-tive freedom of its ready access to streams, rivers, the sea, the forests, and its farmlands. After you’ve lived in the bustling pros-perity of Vancouver for over 30 years, like we did, it’s wonderful to walk in a place where the

tallest things you’re looking at are trees. The fresh air and blue skies don’t hurt either. And if you long for the big cities of North America, you can have our share too, and with our blessings.

Brian McGregor-FoxcroftVictoria

Smart meters expensive and dangerous to health

The recent news of explosions of 8,000 smart meters in Stock-ton, California, caused by a pole landing on one wire, should cause pause for THINKING.

This latest incident caused untold damage to households and owners’ electrical equip-ment, not to mention these

homes being without power. The costs to replace and repair

the meters, housing, installation, all to be born by the user. In sim-ilar small scale cases with BC Hydro this means expenses paid by us, the taxpayers!

The millions of dollars for replacement of all the Saskatch-ewan meters last year was also born by the taxpayer, not the CEO’s who make these unedu-cated decisions.

In addition to the ongoing stream of smart meter challen-ges, “smart” meter programs:

– are enshrouded in fiscal negligence;

– are shown to NOT save energy;

– are linked with system-ic billing inaccuracy and wide-spread increase of bills;

– facilitate “time-of-use” bill-ing and future artificial austerity measures;

– facilitate monitoring of your activities and external control of your home;

– open the door to unprecedent-ed hacking vulnerabilities; and

– emit pulsed microwave radia-tion typically thousands of times stronger than a cell phone, leav-ing many unsuspecting home-owners feeling ill, killing pets, and affecting medical devices such as pacemakers.

It is difficult to imagine a more blatant failure, or a more harm-ful deployment of unproven technology, at the risk of the public.

How can utilities be getting away with it? More specifically, how is BC Hydro, supposedly a corporation owned by B.C. taxpayers, getting away with it? BC Hydro has demonstrated an appalling lack of response

to letters, being in legal default and ignoring these, making mis-takes in billing, and having their employees dispense inaccurate information and withhold help-ful information.

Not expecting any answers, certainly not anything sensible from BC Hydro; just expressing frustration and attempting to educate.

Lorene Benoit Duncan

Morden Mine needs to be saved as a historic site

Having just returned from Eng-land, where heritage sites range from ancient Roman ruins to Norman castles to stately Victor-ian homes [...] it is so dishearten-ing that we are allowing a piece of our heritage to disintegrate.

Why are we being so short-sighted?

Surely it is incumbent upon the City of Nanaimo to step in, and help preserve this historical site.

If we truly are interested in attracting cruise ships to our port, then why would we not pre-serve a site that would make for an interesting and informative excursion from said cruise ship?

Let’s keep those tourist dollars in our city, instead of having them go the other places on the Island that have had the sense to preserve their history.

Anne JudsonNanaimo

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Due to low reservoir levels it is necessary to impose restrictions on Outdoor Water Use including garden and lawn watering.

Therefore effective 12:01 a.m. June 8th , 2015 and until further notice, Outdoor Water Use is restricted as follows:

6:00 am – 9:00 am & 7:00 pm – 10:00 pmEven No. Addresses can sprinkle on even numbered calendar days Odd No. Addresses can sprinkle on odd numbered calendar days

In addition to the above restrictions your co-operation in adhering to the following water conservation practices is requested.

1. Minimize water used for non-essentials such as car washing, and hosing off your driveway.

2. Insure that sprinklers are not left running unnecessarily.

Stage 1 Exemptions include: municipal parks, school yards, sports fields, and public spray parks. Hand watering flowers and vegetable gardens are also exempt.

Adherence to these restrictions will assist the City in meeting your domestic and emergency water demands. Should the dry weather continue the City will impose further restrictions.

Individuals violating these restrictions are guilty of an offence under City Bylaw #4494.

For more information contact the City of Port Alberni at 720-2840 or go to www.portalberni.ca

Guy Cicon,City Engineer

CITY OF PORT ALBERNI

NOTICE OF STAGE IWATER RESTRICTIONS

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All participating golfers have a chance to win a set of golf clubs courtesy of Van Isle Ford!

Prizes for everyone non-golfer & golfers alike

Literacy Alberni Stepping Stones

Bread of LifeRescue Squad

Friday July 3: Registration 5 pm, Wine & Cheese Reception 6 pm. Silent Auction.

Saturday July 4: Registration Desk Opens 9am. Shotgun start – 11:30am sharp. Dinner at 6 pm – Live & Silent Auction, Games of Chance, Presentations & Dance.

$150 Entry Fee will include: 18-Holes of Golf, Hole-In-One Insurance, Mulligans & Welcome Package.

Charity Golf Classic

General public is welcome to take part in the Silent Auction and all the Festivities!

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WATER SPORTS

STANLEY CUP FINALS FIFA SOCCER

Canal Beach Watersports Society hosts 2nd annual Alberni Canal Downwind Challenge

Inlet ideal for paddleboard races MARTIN WISSMATH ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES

The Alberni Inlet is the only place in B.C. where stand-up paddleboarders can enjoy a long down-wind race, says the director of the Canal Beach Watersports Society.

It’s the geography of the Inlet and its thermal winds that makes this one of the best places in the province for paddleboarding, according to the CBWS director, Sandra Gentleman. The water sport society is organizing its second annual Alberni Canal Downwind Challenge this Satur-day, June 13. Word is spreading about Alberni as a water sport-ing hotspot, said Gentleman, and they’re expecting about 50 paddleboarders from around the province to attend this weekend’s competition.

“This is the only long Inlet [in B.C.] that they do races on,” said Gentleman. “Because the Alber-ni Valley is the hottest place on the Island – the sun beats down, it heats the Valley, and then it sucks in the cold, coast air.” That cool breeze streams up the Inlet predictably in the mid-after-

noon at about 3 p.m. every day, said Gentleman. That’s good for windsurfers, kiteboarders and paddleboarders.

Gentleman helped to start the

Alberni Canal Downwind Chal-lenge last year with the help of other experienced paddleboarders, who identify the Valley as a “spe-cial, unique place for the stand-up

paddleboard races,” she said.Stand-up paddleboarding is a

fairly new water sport, popular-ized in the last 10 years. As the name implies, participants stand

upright and balanced on a board, propelled through the water with a paddle. Skilled racers can travel upwards of nine kilometres an hour, said Gentleman.

Last year’s inaugural ACDC attracted almost 40 participants, and Gentleman said they’re hoping for at least 10 more this year.

There are a variety of prizes for participants, including trophies, and even a hand-made flute.

Categories are divided between men and women racers, with each separated into the raceboard and surfboard classes. Raceboards are faster and designed for more advanced paddleboarders.

During the main race organiz-ers have planned a fun relay for spectators at Canal Beach who can register a team of five. It’s meant as a creative way to intro-duce newcomers to the sport, said Gentleman.

The race begins on Saturday at 3 p.m. Canal Beach will open for spectators at 2 p.m., but parking is available in the upper lot only, Gentleman said.

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Paddleboarders launch at Canal Beach Paddleboarders launch at Canal Beach in June, 2014 for the first Alberni Canal Downwind Challenge. The Canal Beach Watersports Society is hosting its second annual ACDC race on Saturday. [CANAL BEACH WATERSPORTS SOCIETY PHOTO]

Opening weekend sizzles at World CupNEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

EDMONTON — Sizzling pitch-level heat was a storyline on the opening weekend of the Women’s World Cup.

Fox Sports, on its game broad-cast, reported temperatures at turf level had reached 54 degrees Celsius during the early afternoon Norway-Thailand match Sunday in Ottawa and 43 degrees for the Germany-Ivory Coast match that followed.

FIFA listed the air temperature at 18 and 25 degrees, respectively, for the Ottawa doubleheader.

A Fox sideline reporter said turf temperatures had reached 49 degrees in Edmonton for the Canada-China game Saturday. Air temperature was 26 degrees.

The Canada and China coaches both referred to the heat in their post-game comments but did not point a finger at the artificial turf.

“I think that was the one thing (Saturday) that anyone watching at home probably didn’t appreciate — the temperature on the field was very hot,” Canadian coach John Herdman said Sunday.

The Canadian team spent a week in Mexico prior to the tournament to get acclimated to heat.

“We knew we could have some hot days (at the tournament) and we certainly got one,” said Herdman. “And it slows the game down.”

Herdman said his data showed the team would hit a plateau and then spike in energy. It didn’t help that the Chinese lay back in defence, forcing the Canadians to expend more energy on attack.He said that took its toll on his players at times but was pleased with the high-tempo finish from the Can-adians.Saturday’s Canada kickoff was 4 p.m. local time. It should be cooler Thursday when Canada’s game against New Zealand is a 7 p.m. start.Defender Kadeisha Buchanan said while Saturday was hot, the Canadians had prepared for it in advance of the tournament. They had spent a week in Mexico to get acclimated to the heat.

“I didn’t find it scorching hot. I didn’t find it too too hot, like not (able) to function” she said of the China game. “But definitely there was a bit of heat.”

Bishop battles as Bolts win 3-2 to take the leadSTEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

CHICAGO — While Ben Bishop battled pain, the Tampa Bay Lightning and Chicago Black-hawks put on another fast, fun, classic performance in the Stan-ley Cup final.

Bishop gutted through an apparent injury to make 36 saves, and Cedric Paquette scored the winner with three minutes left as the Lightning beat the Black-hawks 3-2 in Game 3 on Monday night at United Center. Tampa Bay takes a 2-1 series lead into Game 4 on Wednesday.

Bishop looked like he couldn’t move side-to-side or up-and-down at times. At others he was bril-liant, getting the job done despite obviously labouring.

“He’s a competitor,” said Tampa forward Tyler Johnson. “He’s got all the confidence in the world from us. He never lets us down.”

The Blackhawks beat him twice, a power-play goal by Brad Richards and one from the slot

by Brad Richards, but Bishop making it through all 60 minutes was an accomplishment in itself.

“I thought he was excellent,” said Lightning coach Jon Cooper, who said he never considered pulling Bishop.

At the other end, Ryan Calla-han, Ondrej Palat and Paquette scored on Corey Crawford (29 saves) to improve the Lightning’s road record in these playoffs to 8-3. With a raucous sellout crowd of 22,336 roaring for the first Cup final game here in two years, the Lightning weren’t intimidated and came out flying. As coach Jon Cooper aggressively changed lines to get favourable matchups, players made it pay off.

Victor Hedman made one of the game’s best heads-up plays by hitting Callahan perfectly at the blue line with a slap pass from inside his own goal line at 5:09. Callahan finished by firing top shelf on Crawford to open the scoring.

More than 10 minutes of com-plete Blackhawks domination

followed. As Bishop fought through pain moving side to side and getting up and down, Chica-go took 15 straight shots on net.

One of them beat Bishop. Richards bombed away from the point on the power play, and with Andrew Shaw screening, tied the score 14:22 in. After ending a 13 minute 19 second shot drought and getting out-shot 19-7 in the first, the Lightning turned the tables in the second with 17 shots to the Blackhawks’ seven. Crawford stopped them all, none better than Nikita Kucherov’s breakaway out of the penalty box.

“I think we responded well and played well the last 40 minutes,” said Hedman.

Crawford also helped the Black-hawks kill a five-on-three power play for 1:26 that fired up the building and built some momen-tum. With Bishop fighting through the pain, the Lightning got caught on for a long shift in the third period that led to Chica-go’s go-ahead goal.

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FOOTBALLCFLPre-season schedule

Yesterday’s resultOttawa at Hamilton, 4:30 p.m.

Today’s scheduleWinnipeg at Toronto, 4:30 p.m., at Varsity Stadium

Friday, June 12BC Lions at Calgary, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 13Montreal at Ottawa, 4:30 p.m., at Stade TELUS-Universite Laval, Quebec City

Saturday, June 13Saskatchewan at Edmonton, 7 p.m., at SMS Equipment Stadium, Fort McMurray

HOCKEYNHL

Stanley Cup FinalsTampa Bay Lightning vs. Chicago Blackhawks (Best of seven series)

Yesterday’s result (Game 3)Tampa Bay 3, Chicago 2 (Tampa Bay leads series 2-1)

Game 1, Wednesday June 3Chicago 2, Tampa Bay 1

Game 2, Saturday, June 6Tampa Bay 4, Chicago 3

Wednesday, June 10 (Game 4)Tampa Bay at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Saturday, June 13 (Game 5)Chicago at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Monday, June 15 (Game 6*)Tampa Bay at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 17 (Game 7*)Chicago at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

American Hockey League Calder Cup FinalManchester Monarchs vs. Utica Comets

Sunday’s result (Game 2)Manchester 2, Utica 1 (OT) (Manchester leads series 2-0)

Wednesday, June 10 (Game 3)Manchester at Utica, 4 p.m.

Friday, June 12 (Game 4)Manchester at Utica, 4 p.m.

Saturday, June 13 (Game 5*)Manchester at Utica, 4 p.m.

BASKETBALLNBA Championship final(Best-of-seven series)

Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors

Sunday’s result (Game 2)Cleveland 95 Golden State 93 (OT) (Series tied 1-1)

Today’s schedule (Game 3)Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Thursday, June 11 (Game 4)Golden State at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Sunday, June 14 (Game 5)Cleveland at Golden State, 5 p.m.

BASEBALLMLB - Results and standings

Yesterday’s resultsMilwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 0Toronto 11, Miami 3Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 4San Diego 5, Atlanta 3 (11 innings)Chicago Sox 3, Houston 1Kansas City 3, Minnesota 1Colorado 11, St. Louis 3L.A. Dodgers 9, Arizona 3

Sunday’s resultsNY Yankees 6, LA Angels 2Toronto 7, Houston 6Baltimore 7, Cleveland 3Cincinnati 4, San Diego 0Boston 7, Oakland 4Pittsburgh 3, Atlanta 0Philadelphia 6, San Fran 4Detroit 6, Chicago Sox 4Minnesota 2, Milwaukee 0Kansas City 4, Texas 3Chicago Cubs 6, Washington 3Miami 3, Colorado 2NY Mets 6, Arizona 3Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 1St. Louis 4, L.A. Dodgers 2

Today’s schedule with probable startersBoston at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Rodriguez (2-0) vs. Gonzalez (5-4)Washington at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Scherzer (6-4) vs. Tanaka (3-1)Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Nelson (2-6) vs. Liriano (3-4)Miami at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Haren (6-2) vs. Buehrle (7-4)Chicago Cubs at Detroit, 4:08 p.m. Lester (4-4) vs. Sanchez (3-7)San Diego at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m. Shields (7-0) vs. Foltynewicz (3-2)L.A. Angels at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Santiago (4-3) vs. Karns (3-2)Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Harang (4-6) vs. DeSclafani (4-4)Seattle at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Walker (2-6) vs. Kluber (3-6)San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Heston (5-4) vs. Syndergaard (2-3)Kansas City at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Young (4-2) vs. May (4-3)Houston at Chi. White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Keuchel (7-1) vs. Rodon (1-0)St. Louis at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Wacha (8-1) vs. De La Rosa (2-2)

Today’s late gamesTexas at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Martinez (4-2) vs. Gray (7-2)Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Ray (1-0) vs. Frias (4-3)

GOLFCanadian Tour - Victoria

Bayview Place Island Savings Open presented by Times Colonist, Daily through Sunday, June 7Uplands Golf Club. Par 70, 6,420 yards. Purse: CDN$175,000. Final group tee off today: 12:40 p.m.

Final leaderboardGolfer Par R1 R2 R3 R4* Denotes Canadian golfer

1 *Albin Choi -15 64 65 70 66 (Won $31,500)T2 *Eugene Wong -12 65 67 70 66 (Second place won $13,067)T2 Jason Millard -12 71 65 65 67T2 *Adam Svensson -12 68 69 62 69T5 *Cory Renfrew -11 67 67 67 68T5 John Ellis -11 66 68 66 69T7 Sam Ryder -10 69 70 66 65T7 Ethan Tracy -10 68 66 70 669 *Kevin Spooner -9 70 66 67 68T10 Brien Davis -8 68 70 70 64T10 Paul McConnell -8 69 69 68 66T10 Vince Covello -8 68 67 69 68T10 Drew Weaver -8 67 68 68 69T10 JJ Spaun -8 65 70 66 71T15 Dillon Rust -7 69 70 68 66T15 *Riley Fleming -7 68 69 69 67T15 *Brad Clapp -7 68 70 67 68T15 Charlie Bull -7 69 67 69 68T15 *Ryan Williams -7 71 67 66 69T20 Mike Van Sickle -6 67 72 71 64T20 Chris Worrell -6 67 72 68 67T20 *Adam Cornelson -6 66 68 70 70T23 *James Love -5 69 69 71 66T23 Joshua Stone -5 69 70 67 69T23 Nick Sherwood -5 69 67 68 71T23 Edward Figueroa -5 70 66 68 71T23 William Kropp -5 70 67 62 76T28 Drew Evans -4 66 73 68 69T28 Bo Hoag -4 71 68 68 69T28 Olin Browne Jr. -4 68 68 70 70T28 *Mackenzie Hughes -4 67 71 68 70T28 *Taylor Pendrith -4 64 75 67 70T33 Nate McCoy -3 71 66 73 67T33 *Peter Campbell -3 66 69 72 70T33 Daniel McCarthy -3 68 68 70 71T33 John Catlin -3 69 65 70 73T33 Matt Hansen -3 70 66 68 73T33 Chase Marinell -3 67 70 66 74T39 Nicholas Reach -2 68 70 71 69T39 Dan Buchner -2 64 72 72 70T39 Conner Godsey -2 69 67 72 70T39 Drew Preston -2 66 72 69 71T43 Robert Karlsson -1 72 67 72 68T43 Kevin Penner -1 69 68 74 68T43 Daniel Miernicki -1 68 71 70 70T43 Jay Vandeventer -1 68 71 70 70T47 Jared Wolfe E 71 63 74 72T47 Ryan McCormick E 67 69 72 72T47 Zach Edmondson E 67 72 69 72T47 *Aaron Cockerill E 68 71 68 73T51 Mike Ballo 1 70 69 70 72T51 Phillip Mollica 1 69 70 68 74T51 Clark Klaasen 1 69 66 71 75T54 Jaime Gomez 2 72 67 76 67T54 Jeff Rein 2 68 71 72 71T54 Neil Johnson 2 70 68 70 74T57 Zack Byrd 3 69 70 76 68T57 Chris. Trunzer 3 69 70 71 7359 Wade Binfield 5 66 68 77 74

West Coast LeagueStandingsEast Division W L Pct GBYakima Valley Pippins 3 0 1.000 -Kelowna Falcons 2 1 .667 1.0Walla Walla Sweets 1 2 .333 2.0Wenatchee AppleSox 0 0 0.000 -

West Division W L Pct GBBellingham Bells 2 1 .667 -Victoria HarbourCats 1 2 .333 1.0Kitsap BlueJackets 1 2 .333 1.0Cowlitz Black Bears 0 0 0.000 -

South Division W L Pct GBMedford Rogues 3 1 .750 -Bend Elks 2 1 .667 -Corvallis Knights 1 2 .333 1.0Klamath Falls Gems 0 4 .000 3.0

Yesterday’s resultMedford 13, Klamath Falls 1

Sunday’s resultsKelowna 8, Victoria 3Bend 7, Corvallis 1Kitsap 3, Bellingham 1Yakima Valley 16, Klamath Falls 2Medford 10 Walla Walla 9

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

Wednesday June 10Klamath at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Bend at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m.Kitsap at Victoria, 6:35 p.m.Yakima Valley at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Bellingham at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.Wenatchee at Walla Walla, 7:05 p.m.

Sunday at Royal Athletic Park

Falcons 8,Harbourcats 3Kelowna Victoria ab r h bi ab r h biGrimsley RF 4 0 1 0 Rogers 2B 4 1 0 1Grimsley RF 4 0 1 0 Rogers 2B 5 0 1 0Esposito 3B 5 2 3 1 Rankin CF 4 0 1 0Gamba 1B 4 0 1 1 Fougner RF 3 1 0 0 White 1B,PH 2 0 0 0 Francis LF 4 1 1 0Flores DH 5 1 3 2 Thoreson 1B 4 0 1 2Villanueva SS 4 0 1 0 Willow DH 2 0 0 0Gulden LF 4 2 1 0 Takhar PH 1 0 1 0Jackson CF 5 1 3 2 Floyd SS 4 1 0 0Egan C 4 1 3 2 Fujinaka C 2 0 1 0Hearn 2B 4 1 1 0 Varley 3B 3 0 1 1Totals 41 8 17 8 Totals 32 3 7 3

Kelowna 002 100 410 8 17 0Victoria 000 000 201 3 7 1

2B: V.Esposito (1), W.Gulden (1), K.Francis (1). HR: V.Esposito (1), J.Flores (1), A.Jackson (1), J.Egan (1). RBI: V.Esposito (1), B.Gamba (4), J.Flores 2 (2), A.Jackson 2 (2), J.Egan 2 (2), J.Thoreson 2 (4), M.Varley (3). HP: B.Grimsley (1), V.Esposito (1), W.Gulden (2), M.Hearn (1), D.Fujinaka (1). SB: D.Fujinaka (1). CS: B.Grimsley 2 (2), J.Egan (1), M.Varley (1). E: B.Rogers (2). LOB: Kelowna 13, Victoria 7. DP: M. Hearn(2B)-H. Villanueva(SS)-B. Gamba(1B)

Kelowna Falcons IP H R ER BB SOE. Bedolla (W,1-0) 6.0 2 0 0 2 7S. Murphy 1.0 2 2 2 2 1A. Kearney 1.0 1 0 0 0 1M. Kirk 1.0 2 1 1 0 0Vic Harbourcats IP H R ER BB SOS. Kennedy ll (L,0-1) 5.0 9 3 3 1 3R. Edmonds 2.0 4 4 4 1 0C. Suing 1.0 2 1 1 1 1P. Ryan 1.0 2 0 0 0 1

B.C. Premier LeagueTeam W L Pct GBNorth Shore 17 5 0.773 -Vic Eagles 21 8 0.724 .5Langley 19 `8 0.704 .5North Delta 12 6 0.667 3Nanaimo 17 11 0.607 3Okanagan 17 11 0.607 3Whalley 14 16 0.467 7Abbotsford 8 15 0.348 9.5Coquitlam 9 19 0.321 11White Rock 9 21 0.300 12Vic Mariners 6 17 0.261 11.5Parksville 4 16 0.200 12

Sunday’s resultsOkanagan 9, Victoria Eagles 0Nanaimo 8, Whalley 2Coquitlam 10, Victoria Mariners 3White Rock 6, North Shore 4Langley 10, North Delta 0Victoria Eagles 5, Okanagan 1Victoria Mariners 15, Coquitlam 9Nanaimo 13, Whalley 3Langley 8, North Delta 4North Shore 7, White Rock 1

Today’s scheduleNorth Delta at North Shore, 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday June 10Parksville at Nanaimo, 6 p.m.Vic Mariners at Vic Eagles, 7:30 p.m.

Other ToursResults, WinningsPGAThe Memorial Tournament pre-sented by Nationwide, June 4-7.Muirfield Village Golf Course Dublin, Ohio. Par 72, 6875 yards. Purse: $6,200,000

Final leaderboardGolfer Par Winnings1 David Lingmerth -15 $1,116,0002 Justin Rose -15 $669,600T3 Jordan Spieth -13 $359,600T3 Francesco Molinari -13 $359,600T5 Marc Leishman -12 $226,300T5 Hideki Matsuyama -12 $226,300T5 Jim Furyk -12 $226,300T8 Tony Finau -11 $179,800T8 Kevin Kisner -11 $179,800T8 Keegan Bradley -11 $179,800T11 Billy Horschel -10 $148,800T11 Vijay Singh -10 $148,800T13 George McNeill -9 $116,250T13 Kevin Na -9 $116,250T13 Dustin Johnson -9 $116,250T13 Andy Sullivan -9 $116,25017 Brendon Todd -8 $99,200T18 Russell Knox -7 $78,120T18 Bill Haas -7 $78,120T18 Robert Streb -7 $78,120T18 Harris English -7 $78,120T18 Ryan Moore -7 $78,120T18 Kevin Streelman -7 $78,120Canadian golfersT26 Graham DeLaet -5 $45,880T57 Adam Hadwin +1 $13,826

LPGAManulife LPGA Classic, June 4-7.Grey Silo Golf Course, Waterloo, Ont. Par: 71, 6,532 yards. Purse: $1,500,000

Final leaderboardGolfer Par Winnings1 Suzann Pettersen -22 $225,0002 Brittany Lang -21 $139,5723 Mariajo Uribe -18 $101,250T4 Minjee Lee -16 $59,030T4 Jacqui Concolino -16 $59,030T4 So Yeon Ryu -16 $59,030T4 Cristie Kerr -16 $59,0308 Shanshan Feng -15 $37,826T9 Hyo-Joo Kim -14 $32,477T9 Ilhee Lee -14 $32,477T11 Jenny Shin -13 $26,000T11 Inbee Park -13 $26,000T11 Charley Hull -13 $26,000T11 Julieta Granada -13 $26,000T15 Alison Lee -12 $20,479T15 Anna Nordqvist -12 $20,479T15 Catriona Matthew -12 $20,479T15 Sarah Jane Smith -12 $20,479T19 Sandra Gal -11 $16,076T19 Caroline Masson -11 $16,076T19 Mi Hyang Lee -11 $16,076T19 Sei-Young Kim -11 $16,076T19 Thidapa Su’napura -11 $16,076T19 Laetitia Beck -11 $16,076T19 Katie Burnett -11 $16,076T19 Pernilla Lindberg -11 $16,076Canadian golfersT27 Alena Sharp -10 $10,934T54 Sue Kim -5 $4,432T59 S. Maude Juneau -4 $3,76068 Natalie Gleadall E $3,209

Champions TourPrincipal Charity Classic, June 5-7 (54 holes) Wakonda Club Des Moines, Iowa. Par 72, 6,959 yards. Purse: $1,750,000

Final leaderboardGolfer Par Winnings1 Mark Calcavecchia -12 $262,500T2 Brian Henninger -11 $140,000T2 Joe Durant -11 $140,0004 Cod Spittle -10 $104,125T5 Rod Spittle -10 $104,125 St. Catharines, Ont. T5 Tom Pernice Jr -9 $64,225T5 John Cook -9 $64,225T5 Davis Love III -9 $64,225T5 Jeff Maggert -9 $64,225T10 Paul Goydos -9 $64,225T10 Billy Andrade -8 $36,500T10 Guy Boros -8 $36,500T10 Steve Lowery -8 $36,500T10 David Frost -8 $36,500T10 Peter Senior -8 $36,500T10 Kirk Triplett -8 $36,500T17 Michael Allen -8 $36,500T17 Chien Soon Lu -7 $27,125T17 John Huston -7 $27,125T19 Russ Cochran -6 $22,983T19 Tommy Armour III -6 $22,983T19 Rocco Mediate -6 $22,983T22 Jeff Hart -5 $17,216T22 Dan Forsman -5 $17,216T22 Jay Haas -5 $17,216Also from CanadaT56 Jim Rutledge E $3,500

Web.com TourGreater Dallas Open, June 4-7.The Lakes at Castle Hills Lewisville, Texas. Par 72, 7,356 yards. Purse: $500,000.

Final leaderboardGolfer Par Winnings1 Tyler Aldridge -23 $90,000T2 Lucas Lee -21 $44,000T2 Gregory Yates -21 $44,0004 Adam Long -20 $24,000T5 Rick Cochran -19 $18,250T5 Troy Matteson -19 $18,250T5 Steve Marino -19 $18,250T8 Tommy Gainey -18 $14,500T8 Matt Weibring -18 $14,500T8 Michael Kim -18 $14,50011 Travis Bertoni -17 $12,500T12 Peter Malnati -16 $11,000T12 Brent Witcher -16 $11,000T14 Jamie Lovemark -15 $8,250T14 Seamus Power -15 $8,250T14 Tim Petrovic -15 $8,250T14 Mark Silvers -15 $8,250T14 Julian Etulain -15 $8,250T14 Joel Dahmen -15 $8,250T20 Edward Loar -14 $5,238Canadian resultT27 Brad Fritsch -13 $3,538

European TourNordea Masters, June 4-7.PGA of Sweden National, Lakes Course, Bara, Sweden. Par 72, 7,417 yards. Purse: $1,500,000.

Final leaderboardGolfer Par WinningsNOTE: €1=CDN$1.351 Alexander Noren -12 €250,002 Soren Kjeldsen -8 €166,66T3 Alexander Levy -6 €71,250T3 Jens Dantorp -6 €71,250T3 Seb. Soderberg -6 €71,250T3 Max. Kieffer -6 €71,250T7 Fab. Zanotti -5 €33,250T7 Lee Slattery -5 €33,250T7 Jonas Blixt -5 €33,250T7 Bernd Ritthammer -5 €33,250T7 Tom Murray -5 €33,250T7 Nic. Colsaerts -5 €33,250T13 Darren Fichardt -4 €20,812T13 Alej. Canizares -4 €20,812T13 Peter Hanson -4 €20,812T13 Chris Paisley -4 €20,812T13 R Cabrera Bello -4 €20,812T13 Callum Shinkwin -4 €20,812T13 Kris. Broberg -4 €20,812T13 Henrik Stenson -4 €20,812T21 Thomas Bjorn -3 €16,950

This week’s schedulePGA:FedEx St. Jude Classic, June 11-14TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee. Par 70, 7,244 yards. Purse: $6,000,000. 2014 champion: Ben Crane.

Canadian PGA TourNo tournament this week

LPGA:KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, June 11-14Westchester West Course, Harrison, New York. Par 71, 6,980 yards. Purse: $3,500,000. 2014 champion: Inbee Park.

European Tour:Lyoness Open, June 11-14Diamond Country Club, Atzenbrugg, Austria. Par 72, 7,386 yards. Purse: $1,000,000. 2014 champion: Mikael Lundberg.

Champions Tour:Constellation Senior Players Championship, June 11-14Belmont Country Club, Ashburn, Virginia. Par 72, 7,212 yards. Purse: $2,700,000. 2014 champion: Bernhard Langer.

Web.com Tour:Rust-Oleum Championship, June 11-14Lakewood Country Club, Westlake, Ohio. Par 71,6,824 yards. Purse: $600,000. 2014 champion: Steve Alker.

Pacific Coast Soccer LeagueTeam W D L GF GA PtsVictoria 5 4 1 19 10 19Mid Isle 5 1 1 14 7 16Vancouver Utd 4 2 0 11 3 14Vancouver Tbirds 3 2 1 14 9 11Khalsa 3 1 2 11 8 10Kamloops 2 1 4 12 16 7Tim Hortons 2 0 4 11 19 6Abbotsford 0 3 4 7 14 3FC Tigers 0 2 7 13 26 2

Sunday’s resultsVancouver Tbirds 3, Kamloops 1Khalsa 3, FC Tigers 2

Today’s scheduleVancouver Utd vs. Abbotsford, 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 13Abbotsford vs. Tim Hortons, 2 p.m.Mid Isle vs. Vancouver Tbirds, 4 p.m.Victoria vs. Khalsa, 4 p.m.FC Tigers vs. Vancouver Utd, 5 p.m.

MLS

Sunday’s resultsColorado 0, Salt Lake 0Dallas 0, San Jose 0

CONCACAF World Cup qualifierThursday June 11Canada at Dominica, 4 p.m.

Saturday, June 13NY City vs. Montreal, 4 p.m.Columbus vs. LA Galaxy, 4:30 p.m.New England vs. Chicago, 4:30 p.m.Seattle vs. Dallas, 7 p.m.

Eastern LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GADC United 28 16 8 4 4 20 15N. England 21 15 5 4 6 20 20Toronto 19 12 6 5 1 19 16Orlando 17 14 4 5 5 19 19NY Red Bulls 17 13 4 4 5 17 17Columbus 16 14 4 6 4 20 21Philadelphia 15 16 4 9 3 18 25Montreal 14 10 4 4 2 13 15Chicago 14 13 4 7 2 17 20NY City FC 11 14 2 7 5 12 18

Western LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GASeattle 26 14 8 4 2 20 11Vancouver 26 16 8 6 2 18 15Sporting KC 24 14 6 2 6 22 15Portland 22 15 6 5 4 15 14Dallas 22 14 6 4 4 18 19Los Angeles 21 16 5 5 6 15 18Houston 20 15 5 5 5 21 19San Jose 19 14 5 5 4 14 15Salt Lake 18 15 4 5 6 13 18Colorado 14 14 2 4 8 11 12

SOCCERFIFA Women’s World CupJune 6-July 5Defending champion: Japan

Yesterday’s results (Groups C, D)Sweden 3, Nigeria 3Scoring Sweden: Oparanozie 21’ (OG); Fischer 31’; Sembrant 60’. Nigeria Okobi 50’; Oshoala 53’; Ordega 87’

Cameroon 6, Ecuador 0Scoring: Ngono Mani 34’; Enganamouit 36’, 73’, 90’+4 (pen); Manie 44’ (pen); Aboudi Onguene 79’ (pen)

United States 3, Australia 1Scoring USA: Rapinoe 12’, 78’; Press 61’. Australia: De Vanna 27’

Japan 1, Switzerland 0Scoring: Miyama 29’ (pen)

Sunday’s resultsNorway 4, Thailand 0Scoring: Trine Ronning 15’; Isabell Her-lovsen 29’ and 34’; Ada Hegerberg 68’

Germany 10, Ivory Coast 0Scoring: Celia Sasic 3, 14, 31’; Anja Mittag 29, 35, 64’; Simone Laudehr 71’; Sara Daebritz 75’;, Melanie Behringer 79’; Alexandra Popp 85’

Today’s schedule (Groups E, F)France vs. England, 10 a.m. at MonctonColombia vs. Mexico, 1 p.m. at MonctonSpain vs. Costa Rica, 1 p.m. at MontrealBrazil vs. South Korea, 4 p.m. Montreal

Group standings, rulesTwo top teams in each group plus the four best third-place teams advance to the tournament’s knock-out stage, the Group of 16.

Group A W D L GF GA Pts1 Canada (H) 1 0 0 1 0 32 Netherlands 1 0 0 1 0 33 New Zealand 0 0 1 0 1 03 China 0 0 1 0 1 0

Saturday’s June 6 (at Edmonton)Canada 1, China 0Netherlands 1, New Zealand 0

Group B W D L GF GA Pts1 Germany 1 0 0 10 0 32 Norway 1 0 0 4 0 33 Thailand 0 0 1 0 4 04 Ivory Coast 0 0 1 0 10 0

Sunday’s June 7 (at Ottawa)Norway 4, Thailand 0Germany 10, Ivory Coast 0

Group C W D L GF GA Pts1 Cameroon 1 0 0 6 0 32 Japan 1 0 0 1 0 33 Switzerland 0 0 1 0 1 04 Ecuador 0 0 1 0 6 0

Yesterday’s results (at Vancouver)Cameroon 6, Ecuador 0Japan 1, Switzerland 0

Group D W D L GF GA Pts1 United States 1 0 0 3 1 32 Sweden 0 1 0 3 3 12 Nigeria 0 1 0 3 3 14 Australia 0 0 1 1 3 0

Yesterday’s results (at Winnipeg)Sweden 3, Nigeria 3United States 3, Australia 1

Group E W D L GF GA Pts1 Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 02 South Korea 0 0 0 0 0 03 Spain 0 0 0 0 0 04 Costa Rica 0 0 0 0 0 0

Today’s scheduleSpain vs. Costa Rica, 1 p.m. at MontrealBrazil vs. South Korea, 4 p.m. Montreal

Group F W D L GF GA Pts1 France 0 0 0 0 0 02 England 0 0 0 0 0 03 Colombia 0 0 0 0 0 04 Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0

Today’s scheduleFrance vs. England, 10 a.m. at MonctonColombia vs. Mexico, 1 p.m. at Moncton

Thursday, June 11 (Groups A, B)China vs. Holland, 3 p.m., EdmontonGermany vs. Norway, 1 p.m. at OttawaIvory Coast vs. Thailand, 4 p.m. OttawaCanada vs. New Zealand, 6 p.m. at Edmonton

AUTO RACINGFormula OneCanadian Grand PrixSunday, June 7, Ile Notre Dame, Montreal (street circuit). 305.270 km, 70 laps, 4.361 km per lap.

Results1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:31:53.145 2. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes +00:02.285 3. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Williams-Mercedes 00:40.666 4. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari 00:45.625 5. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Ferrari 00:49.9036. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams-Mercedes 00:56.381 7. Pastor Maldonado (Venezuela) Lotus-Mercedes 01:06.664 8. Nico Huelkenberg (Germany) Force India-Mercedes 1 lap 9. Daniil Kvyat (Russia) RedBull-Renault 1 lap 10. Romain Grosjean (France) Lotus-Mercedes 1 lap 11. Sergio Perez (Mexico) Force India-Mercedes 1 lap 12. Carlos Sainz Jr (Spain) Toro Rosso-Renault 1 lap 13. Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) RedBull-Renault 1 lap 14. Marcus Ericsson (Sweden) Sauber-Ferrari 1 lap 15. Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Toro Rosso-Renault 1 lap 16. Felipe Nasr (Brazil) Sauber-Ferrari 2 laps 17. Will Stevens (Britain) Marussia-Ferrari 4 laps Did not finish:Roberto Merhi (Spain) Marussia-Ferrari 13 laps Jenson Button (Britain) McLaren 16 laps Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren 26 laps

NASCARPocono 400Sunday, June 7, 10:18 a.m.Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Lap length: 2.5 miles

Results (Start position in parentheses)1. (3) Martin Truex Jr., Chev, $201,8102. (5) Kevin Harvick, Chev, $232,8503. (9) Jimmie Johnson, Chev, $176,0864. (11) Joey Logano, Ford, $166,6835. (1) Kurt Busch, Chev, $133,0506. (19) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, $140,0017. (14) Jamie McMurray, Chev, $124,8568. (15) Kyle Larson, Chev, $117,7239. (10) Kyle Busch, Toyota, $134,45610. (8) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, $101,61511. (20) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chev, $101,64012. (27) Greg Biffle, Ford, $116,23313. (12) Kasey Kahne, Chev, $97,67514. (4) Jeff Gordon, Chev, $131,98615. (2) Carl Edwards, Toyota, $82,55016. (18) Casey Mears, Chev, $107,28317. (7) Brad Keselowski, Ford, $125,26618. (29) Ty Dillon, Chev, $96,77819. (6) Austin Dillon, Chev, $117,10620. (30) Justin Allgaier, Chev, $102,50321. (28) Tony Stewart, Chev, $106,70922. (23) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, $113,30323. (21) David Ragan, Toyota, $106,009

Race StatisticsAvg Speed of Winner: 134.266 mphTime of Race: 2 hours, 58:45Margin of Victory: 1.346 secondsCaution Flags: 8 for 31 lapsLead Changes: 12 among 6 drivers

LACROSSEWestern Lacrosse AssnWLA Senior A

Standings GP W L T PtsNew Westminster 4 4 0 0 8Victoria 5 3 2 0 6Nanaimo 5 2 3 0 4Langley 4 2 2 0 4Coquitlam 3 1 2 0 2Burnaby 3 1 2 0 2Maple Ridge 4 1 3 0 2

Sunday’s resultMaple Ridge 16, Nanaimo 10

Today’s scheduleNanaimo at Burnaby, 7 p.m.Langley at Maple Ridge, 7:45 p.m.

Wednesday, June 10Victoria at Langley, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 11Burnaby at New Westminster, 7:45 p.m.

Saturday, June 13Burnaby at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

BC Junior A Lacrosse League

Standings GP W L T PtsCoquitlam 11 10 1 0 20Delta 13 10 3 0 20Victoria 12 8 4 0 16New Westminster 10 5 5 0 10Nanaimo 10 4 5 1 9Langley 13 3 8 2 8Port Coquitlam 12 3 8 1 7Burnaby 13 2 11 0 4

Sunday’s resultsNanaimo 10, Langley 10 (OT)Burnaby 9, Port Coquitlam 7

Today’s scheduleNanaimo at Victoria, 8 p.m.Port Coquitlam at New Westminster, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 10Port Coquitlam at Coquitlam, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 11New Westminster at Langley, 8 p.m.

Friday, June 12Delta at Port Coquitlam, 8 p.m.

Saturday, June 13Coquitlam at Nanaimo, 5 p.m.Burnaby at Delta, 7:30 p.m.

TENNISFrench Open - Men, WomenGrand Slam event:Stade Roland GarrosParis, FranceSurface: Clay. Total purse (men and women): €13,008,000

Men’s singles - FinalStan Wawrinka (8), Switzerland, def. Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4.

Women’s Doubles - FinalIvan Dodig, Croatia, and Marcelo Melo (3), Brazil, def. Bob Bryan, United States, and Mike Bryan (1), United States, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-5.

Current tournaments

ATPATP Top 10 (last week’s ranking in parentheses):1 (1) Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 13,845 points2 (2) Roger Federer, Switzerland, 9,4153 (3) Andy Murray, Britain, 7,0404 (9) Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, 5,8355 (5) Kei Nishikori, Japan, 5,5706 (4) Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 5,0507 (8) David Ferrer, Spain, 4,4908 (6) Milos Raonic, Canada, 4,4409 (10) Marin Cilic, Croatia, 3,46010 (7) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 2,930

Topshelf Open, June 8-14‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Surface: Grass. Purse: €537,050 (CDN$742,700)

Singles - Round 1Vasek Pospisil (9), Vernon, B.C., def. Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 6-3, 6-2.Robin Haase, Netherlands, def. Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia, 6-2, 7-5.Marius Copil, Romania, def. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, def. Marsel Ilhan, Turkey, 6-0, 7-5.

Doubles - Round 1Daniel Nestor, Toronto, and Leander Paes (2), India, def. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, and Daniel Gimeno-Traver, Spain, 6-4, 6-3.Lleyton Hewitt, Australia, and Matt Reid, Australia, def. Marin Draganja, Croatia, and Henri Kontinen (4), Fin-land, 2-6, 6-3, 10-5.

Mercedes Cup, June 8-14Stuttgart, Germany. Surface: Grass. Purse: €574,965 (CDN$795,150)

Singles - Round 1Philipp Kohlschreiber (6), Germany, def. Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-3.Viktor Troicki (8), Serbia vs. Borna Coric, Croatia, PostponedAndreas Haider-Maurer, Austria vs. Maximilian Marterer, Germany, Postponed

Doubles - Round 1Rohan Bopanna, India, and Florin Mergea (4), Romania vs. Marin Cilic, Croatia, and Frank Moser, Germany, PostponedJuan Sebastian Cabal, Colombia, and Robert Farah (5), Colombia vs. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, and Dominic Thiem, Austria, Postponed

WTACurrent rankings (released June 8)Genie Bouchard drops 5 placesPlayer Points1 Serena Williams (USA) 11,2912 Petra Kvitova (CZE) 6,8703 Simona Halep (ROM) 6,1304 Maria Sharapova (RUS) 5,9505 Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 5,0006 Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 4,3057 Lucie Safarova (CZE) 4,0558 Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 3,6209 Carla Suarez (ESP) 3,34510 Angelique Kerber (GER) 3,12011 Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 3,11812 Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 3,01013 Agnie. Radwanska (POL) 2,76514 Andrea Petkovic (GER) 2,66015 Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) 2,62816 Venus Williams (USA) 2,58617 Elina Svitolina (UKR) 2,40518 Madison Keys (USA) 2,39519 Sabine Lisicki (GER) 2,16520 Sara Errani (ITA) 2,140

Topshelf Open, June 8-14‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Surface: Grass. Purse: $226,750

Women’s Doubles - Round 1Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (1), France, def. Eugenie Bouchard, Montreal, and Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 1-6, 6-2, 11-9.

Singles - Round 1Coco Vandeweghe (3), United States, def. Andreea Mitu, Romania, 7-6 (1), 6-1.Camila Giorgi (5), Italy, def. Irina Falconi, United States, 7-5, 6-2.Michaella Krajicek, Netherlands, def. Oceane Dodin, France, 7-5, 6-4.

Lightning 3 Blackhawks 2First Period1. Tampa Bay, Callahan (2) (Brown, Hedman) 5:092. Chicago, Richards (3) (Shaw, Hossa) 14:22 (PP)Penalties: Saad Chi (Cross checking Valtteri Filppula) 8:12, Coburn Tb (Trip-ping Marian Hossa) 8:12, Coburn Tb (Hooking Brandon Saad) 12:42

Second PeriodNo scoringPenalties: Kucherov Tb (Tripping Johnny Oduya) 8:53, Bickell Chi (Roughing Ryan Callahan) 15:18, Saad Chi (Goalkeeper Interference Ben Bishop) 15:52

Third Period3. Chicago, Saad (7) (Keith, Hossa) 4:144. Tampa Bay, Palat (8) (Kucherov, Johnson) 4:275. Tampa Bay, Paquette (3) (Callahan, Hedman) 16:49

Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd TTampa Bay 7 17 8 32Chicago 19 7 12 38

Goaltending summary:Tampa Bay: Bishop (36/38), Chicago: Crawford (29/32)

Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Tampa Bay: 0 of 2, Chicago: 1 of 2

Blue Jays 11, Marlins 3Miami Toronto ab r h bi ab r h biGordon 2B 4 0 0 0 Reyes SS 4 1 1 0Prado 3B 4 1 1 0 Don’son DH 5 1 2 3Stanton DH 4 2 3 2 Bautista RF 3 1 1 0Bour 1B 4 0 0 0 Colabello 1B 5 1 1 1Ozuna CF 4 0 2 1 Martin C 3 2 1 0Yelich LF 4 0 0 0 Valencia 3B 5 2 2 2Realmuto C 4 0 1 0 Pillar CF 3 1 2 2Hech’arria SS 3 0 0 0 Carrera LF 5 1 1 1Suzuki RF 3 0 1 0 Kawasaki 2B 3 1 1 1Totals 34 3 8 3 Totals 36 111210

Miami 000 201 000 3 Toronto 610 010 30x 11

SB: MIA Suzuki, I (4, 2nd base off Estrada/Martin, R); TOR Pillar (8, 2nd base off Hand/Realmuto), Carrera (2, 2nd base off Rienzo/Realmuto). 2B: MIA Stanton 2 (10, Estrada, Delabar); TOR Valencia 2 (11, Hand, Mazzaro), Kawasaki (2, Hand), Carrera (5, Maz-zaro). GIDP: MIA Hechavarria. HR: MIA Stanton (19, 4th inning off Estrada, 1 on, 0 out); TOR Donaldson (16, 2nd inning off Rienzo, 0 on, 0 out). Team Lob: MIA 4; TOR 9. DP: TOR (Reyes-Kawasaki-Colabello). E: MIA Realmuto (1, throw).

Miami IP H R ER BB SOB Hand (L, 1-2) 0.2 6 6 6 1 1A Rienzo 4.1 2 2 1 3 5V Mazzaro 1.2 3 3 3 3 0Toronto IP H R ER BB SOM Estrada (W, 3-3) 7.0 7 3 3 0 6S Delabar 1.0 1 0 0 0 1D Tepera 1.0 0 0 0 0 1

Time: 2:47. Att: 17,582.

Royals 3, Twins 1Kansas City Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h biEscobar SS 4 0 0 0 Dozier 2B 3 0 1 0Moustakas3B 4 1 2 0 Hunter RF 3 0 0 0Cain CF 4 0 1 0 Mauer 1B 4 0 0 0Hosmer 1B 4 1 2 1 Plouffe 3B 4 0 0 0Morales DH 4 1 1 2 Vargas DH 4 0 1 0Gordon LF 3 0 1 0 Suzuki C 4 0 0 0Rios RF 4 0 0 0 Rosario LF 4 1 2 1Perez C 3 0 1 0 Escobar SS 3 0 2 0Infante 2B 4 0 0 0 Hicks CF 3 0 2 0Totals 34 3 8 3 Totals 32 1 8 1

Kansas City 020 000 010 3 Minnesota 000 000 100 1

2B: KC Perez, S (10, Hughes, P); MIN Hicks, A (2, Vargas, J). GIDP: KC Cain, L; MIN Hunter, To, Mauer. HR: KC Morales, K (7, 2nd inning off Hughes, P, 1 on, 0 out); MIN Rosario, E (3, 7th inning off Madson, 0 on, 2 out). Team Lob: KC 6; MIN 6. DP: KC 2 (Escobar, A-Infante-Hosmer, Infante-Escobar, A-Hosmer); MIN (Escobar, E-Dozier-Mauer).

Kansas City IP H R ER BB SOJ Vargas (W, 5-2) 6.0 5 0 0 0 2R Madson 1.0 3 1 1 0 2W Davis 1.0 0 0 0 1 1G Holland 1.0 0 0 0 0 1Minnesota IP H R ER BB SOP Hughes (L, 4-6) 7.2 7 3 3 1 3A Thompson 0.1 1 0 0 1 1T Pressly 1.0 0 0 0 0 1

Time: 2:36. Att: 22,796.

American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Yankees 32 25 .561 - W6Tampa Bay 31 27 .534 1.5 W1Toronto 29 30 .492 4.0 W6Boston 27 31 .466 5.5 W3Baltimore 26 30 .464 5.5 W1Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 32 23 .582 - W2Minnesota 33 24 .579 - L1Detroit 30 28 .517 3.5 W2Cleveland 27 29 .482 5.5 L1Chicago Sox 26 30 .464 6.5 W1West W L PCT GB StrkHouston 34 25 .576 - L5Texas 30 27 .526 3.0 L1LA Angels 28 29 .491 5.0 L5Seattle 25 32 .439 8.0 L1Oakland 23 36 .390 11.0 L3

National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Mets 31 27 .534 - W1Washington 30 27 .526 0.5 L2Atlanta 27 30 .474 3.5 L2Miami 24 34 .414 7.0 L1Philadelphia 22 37 .373 9.5 L1Central W L PCT GB StrkSt. Louis 38 20 .655 - L1Pittsburgh 31 26 .544 6.5 L1Chicago Cubs 30 25 .545 6.5 W2Cincinnati 25 31 .446 12.0 W2Milwaukee 21 37 .362 17.0 W1West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 33 25 .569 - W1San Francisco 32 26 .552 1.0 L1San Diego 30 29 .508 3.5 W1Arizona 27 30 .474 5.5 L2Colorado 26 30 .464 6.0 W1

SCOREBOARD

Toronto Blue Jays Jose Bautista and Chris Colabello celebrate scoring against the Miami Marlins during MLB action on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

6 | ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES | TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015 SPORTS

Jays beat Marlins for sixth staight winLARRY MILLSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — First baseman Chris Colabello extended his hit streak to 18 games and the Toronto Blue Jays scored six runs in the first for an 11-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday, extending their win streak to six.

Designated hitter Josh Donaldson homered and had three runs batted in for the Blue Jays (29-30). Right-hander Marco Estrada (3-3) pitched seven innings for his second winning start in a row. He allowed seven hits and three runs in the opener of the three-game interleague series.

Designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton homered for Miami (24-34). Marlins left-hander Brad Hand (1-2) allowed six hits and six runs in two-thirds of an inning.

It was the first game between the teams since they made a blockbuster trade on Nov. 19, 2012.

The Blue Jays sent catcher Jeff Mathis, short-stops Adeiny Hechavarria and Yunel Escobar, pitchers Henderson Alvarez, Justin Nicolino and Anthony DeSclafani and outfielder Jake Marisnick to the Marlins.

Toronto received shortstop Jose Reyes, pitchers Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson, infielder Emilio Bonifacio, and catcher John Buck from Miami.

The Blue Jays scored six runs in a first inning that was started by a single by Reyes and a one-out single by right fielder Jose Bautista. Colabello then extended his hit streak to 18 games with an RBI single.

Catcher Russell Martin walked, third baseman Danny Valencia hit a two-run double and cen-tre-fielder Kevin Pillar hit a two-run single.

After second baseman Munenori Kawasaki hit a two-out RBI double, Hand was replaced by right-hander Andre Rienzo.

Donaldson led off the second with his 16th homer of the season. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, who was celebrating his 53rd birthday, was ejected from the game in the second after Bautista struck out on a checked swing.

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ACROSS 1 Fluid rock 6 Broker’s advice 10 Part of the range 14 Sirius follows him 15 Emmy relative 16 Catch the bus 17 Kind of toast 18 Like some plans (hyph.) 20 Heavy-hearted 21 Longbow’s sound 23 Al of Indy fame 24 Wild hog 25 EPA stat 26 Hot and humid 29 Hugged hard 34 Dangerous 35 Angle less than 90 degrees 36 Flamenco shout 37 Comes to a halt 38 Braid 39 Earthquake 40 Passport datum 41 Fern foliage 42 A Simpson 43 Eject (2 wds.) 45 Frothy dessert 46 Pitch in 47 Wyo. neighbor 48 Fleeced 51 Condescend 53 Harpers Ferry st. 56 Dark horse? 58 Flute cousins 60 Alice’s chronicler 61 Elegant 62 Two-wheelers 63 Chirp 64 Shrink’s reply (2 wds.) 65 Dozed off

DOWN 1 Family members 2 Circle size 3 -- the lily 4 Horde 5 Premed class 6 Cheap heat 7 Poet’s black 8 Ding-a- -- 9 Relay race portion 10 Part of Roy G. Biv 11 Monsieur’s wines 12 Perimeter 13 Not e’en once

19 Madras money 22 Passage 24 Happy hour sites 25 Dog without papers 26 Bundle 27 Fiery dance 28 Lightweight quilt

29 Barely enough 30 Tobacco chew 31 Expands 32 Cherbourg shes 33 Raison -- 35 Felipe or Matty 38 Cattle mover 39 Bon --, Yves! 41 Bluff 42 Schmoozes with 44 Drive-in employee 45 Tilly or Ryan 47 Sister’s girl 48 Be impatient 49 New employee 50 Peer with a leer 51 Dit opposites 52 Buffalo’s lake 53 Came to 54 Prez’s stand-in 55 Type of prof 57 Roman 1101 59 Puppeteer -- Baird

BLONDIE by Young

HI & LOIS by 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

Difficulty: Fill in the blank cells using numbers 1 to 9. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and 3x3 block.

TODAY’S CROSSWORD

CONCEPTIS SUDOKU by Dave Green

PREVIOUS PUZZLE

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Try not to lose control in a discus-sion where someone considers him- or herself to be above the majority of people. Follow your intuition, and test out any solu-tions in your head before you ver-balize them. Curb statements that could cause a problem. Tonight: Play it low-key.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)Remain focused on your objec-tives, and don’t allow any uproar to distract you. Addressing one item at a time will be the best way to proceed. You might have to switch gears when you least expect to, and it could add to the present confusion. Tonight: Where your friends are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Tension is likely to build as an authority figure starts causing a problem and creating additional pressure. You might be past the point of worrying about this per-son’s wishes, but that could cause you a major problem where you least want it. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

You might want to maintain a lower profile than usual. Anger might rise to the surface, but be smart and don’t reveal anything that you’d rather not discuss. Financial gain is possible if you can keep your eye on the big picture. Tonight: Get some extra R and R.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)It doesn’t take a genius to see how stressed out many of your friends and loved ones are. Listen carefully, and try to reconcile all the different opinions. One-on-one relating will result in a differ-ent reaction from what you might have anticipated. Tonight: Work through a problem.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)When you try to initiate a conver-sation with a parent or higher-up, you could discover that there is a problem. You might feel as if this person is using you as his or her punching bag. Use your instincts, and you won’t make a bad deci-sion. Tonight: Vanish while you can.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Your focus and determination

continue to be your strong suits. Others might want to play devil’s advocate and go into deep reflec-tion, but you will get the job done. Tension is likely to emerge because of what you must do. Tonight: Put your feet up and relax.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)An interesting conversation with a loved one or someone you are financially involved with is likely to spur your imagination. A dis-cussion with an expert or an older friend will point you toward a positive path. Follow through, and don’t question yourself. Tonight: Be a duo.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You could be juggling more than you want to handle. You’ll see an important relationship or a mat-ter involving your home experi-ence some ups and downs. You might find it hard to be present, especially as others seem to be demanding! Tonight: Go for what you want.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Keep communication moving. You might feel as if you have too much information. You will want to change your approach with several people, especially if they are loose cannons. Listen to an associate who is argumentative, but wait to comment. Tonight: Relax.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)You might want to revise your thinking about a risk for now. Your creativity easily translates into ingenuity when dealing with a touchy associate or loved one. Don’t get your funds involved in any of your dealings, except when paying for lunch! Tonight: Pay bills.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might want to come to a better understanding of what is happening with a loved one. You could be overwhelmed by this person’s attitude, which is likely to be cantankerous and difficult. Go off and do something just for you. Tonight: Let the games begin!

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAMEby David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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Gloria Joan Zwarych

(nee Robinson)Born August 10, 1930 in

East Vancouver,

Died May 31, 2015 peacefully in her home in Port Alberni. Gloria will be most remem-bered for her years of teach-ing in Port Alberni, gardening and her love of family.

Predeceased by her parents (Thelma Freer and Joseph Robinson) and her sister Faye Tate. Gloria is survived by her brothers Don and Alvin Robinson, her children Wendy and Roger Gregoire, Wilda Zwarych, Brett Zwarych, grand-children Tana & Rob Cole, Kirstin & Nana Lyle, Tarek Lyle, Danielle & Jonathan Emmett, Jeremy and Crystal Gregoire, Brayden Zwarych and Katie Zwarych, great-grandchildren Jory, Rylan, Holden & Zaya Cole, Austin, Rhonde & Amari Lyle, Hanna Lyle, Fiona & Joshua Emmett, Berlyn & Jules Gregoire, her great-great-granddaughter Mila Cole, and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

A Celebration Of Life will be held on Thursday, June 11th,

at the Rollin Art Centre in Port Alberni, from 12 to 3 pm. In lieu of fl owers, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be gratefully accepted.

The award-winning Victoria News has an immediate opening for an editor.

The successful candidate will possess an attention to detail as well as the ability to work under pressure in a deadline-driven environment.

The successful candidate can expect to produce news copy and editorials, take photographs, edit stories, paginate the newspaper, assign stories, and write compelling narratives. Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, and Canadian Press style is vital.

If you have a passion for, and are comfortable with, all aspects of multimedia journalism, you may be the candidate we are seeking.

The Victoria News connects with local readers in Victoria and Esquimalt and is essential in telling the stories of people and activities in these two municipalities and community neighbourhoods.

Black Press community news media is an independent and international media group with more than 190 community, daily and urban publications, 14 press facilities and over 160 websites in B.C., Alberta, Washington, Hawaii and Ohio.

Please forward your cover letter and resumé by June 15, 2015 to:

Penny SakamotoGroup Publisher818 Broughton StreetPhone. 250.480.3204 or Fax. [email protected]

Thank you to all who apply. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

EditorVictoria News

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Black Press (B.C.) has exciting career opportunities for the right people. An Editor is required to manage a team of journalists at the award-winning Saanich News serving a circulation of more than 31,204.

The successful applicant will possess the skills to manage a busy newsroom, while developing and maintaining a high profile in the community and co-operating with all other departments in the successful production of the twice-weekly publication.

Working with the Publisher, the Editor will take an active role in editorial staff development, and will work as part of the management team to enhance the paper’s position and reputation in the community.

The Editor will be responsible for a range of duties including editing, page design, story assignment and development, commentary and feature writing; plus multi-media management for saanichnews.com, Facebook and Twitter. Strong design skills are required. Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite is a key asset and experience in newsroom management is important. Photography skills will also be helpful.

As the largest municipality on Vancouver Island, Saanich News serves a diverse urban, rural and agricultural population of 110,000 residents. With more than 170 parks, pristine lakes and oceanfront access, the District of Saanich is an ideal place to work and play.

Black Press community news media is an independent and international media group with more than 190 community, daily and urban publications, 14 press facilities and over 160 websites in B.C., Alberta, Washington, Hawaii and Ohio.

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Thank you to all who apply. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORY ofANN ARBANAS

Days of sadness still come o’er us. Tears and silence often fl ow. Memory keeps you ever near us. Though you died 2 years ago.

Our loving sons and families, Rick, Tom,

George & John.

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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

FULL TIME PROJECT COORDINATOR

Port Alberni & Anacla Govern-ment Offi ces Salary $36,400 - $49,400.

Key Accountabilities Include:

• Assisting the Senior Pro-ject Manager in the initia-tion, planning, directing, and fl ow of the project(s).

• Managing assigned and approved projects as di-rected from the Senior Project Manager.

• Maintaining confi dentiality and neutrality at all times.

Job Duties Include: • Being the go-to person for

project and program teams.

• Managing and administer-ing time tracking systems.

• Preparing and delivering project budgets and re-ports.

• Working with the Senior Project Manager and pro-ject stakeholders to devel-op project charts related to project implementation, in-cluding proposed econom-ic development projects.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Demonstrate ability and experience upholding the HFN Organizational Val-ues Professionalism, Re-spect, Health, Effective Communication, Trust, and Support.

• Degree/Diploma in, Engi-neering, Project Manage-ment (PMP or Prince2), Construction Manage-ment, or related fi eld.

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• 2+ year experience sup-porting project managers.

• Knowledge of building de-velopment and redevelop-ment industry. For the full Job Posting see our web-site at Huuayaht.org

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Email covering letter & resume to:

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Haahuupayak school is seeking to fi ll a Grade 4/5 T.R.O.T. teaching position for the September-Decem-ber, 2015 school term. The position may be extended to June 2016. Candidates considered must have:• A current BC teaching

certifi cate.• Flexible and able to

make adaptations to meet diverse learning needs.

• Ability to work in a col-laborative team w/other education professionals.

• Strong relationship build-ing skills.

• Effective classroom management strategies.

• Prior teaching experi-ence in a FN school is an asset.

• Willingness to use assis-tive technology in les-sons to promote learn-ing.

• Short and long term planning skills.

• Interest in planning learning activities that in-corporate nuuchahnulth culture.

• Knowledge of grade lev-el IRPs and assessment practices.

• Willingness to contribute in the wider school com-munity.

Interested applicants are asked to submit their full re-sume with references in person or by e-mail to:

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by 12 noon, Monday, June 15, 2015.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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City of Port Alberni Building and Plumbing

Inspector

The City of Port Alberni is ac-cepting applications from qualifi ed applicants for a Build-ing and Plumbing Inspector. Under the direction of the City Planner, this position provides technical expertise and advice relating to building permit/in-spection and related bylaws, codes and regulations. The Building and Plumbing Inspec-tor undertakes the inspection of all types of building con-struction, repair and alteration, the checking of plans, pro-cessing of permit applications and the inspection of plumb-ing, sewer and foundation drainage installations for com-pliance to applicable regula-tions, by-laws and require-ments. In addition, the incumbent is responsible for enforcing City by-laws and for providing technical informa-tion, advice and direction to a variety of contacts. Consid-erable independence of judg-ment and action is exercised in directing and participating in inspectional, regulatory and enforcement duties.

Applicants must have the following qualifi cations:

• Secondary School gradua-

tion plus completion of a diploma program in a building technology from a recognized institute or community college or pos-session of a Jour-ney/Trades certifi cation plus related courses, and over fi ve years practical job experience in the con-struction industry or in-spectional and regulatory experience.

• Experience in Microsoft Offi ce and Tempest and key boarding skills.

• Eligible for memberships in the Building Offi cials As-sociation of British Colum-bia - Level 2 Certifi cate and the Plumbing Offi cials Association of British Co-lumbia - Level 1

• Preferably to have a WETT (Wood Energy Transfer Technology) cer-tifi cation for Inspection.

• Class 5 Driver’s License - Province of British Colum-bia.

Short listed applicants will be required to complete a fi tness test. Rate of pay is per CUPE, Local 118, Collective Agree-ment.

Resumes with a covering letter with proof of required

qualifi cations and references will be received until 4:30 p.m June 12, 2015

by: Theresa Kingston, Director of Corporate

Services at City Hall, 4850 Argyle Street, Port Alberni,

B.C., V9Y 1V8 or humanresources_resumes@

portalberni.ca

Please indicate which position you are applying

for. We regret that only those applicants selected

for interview will be contacted.

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Canada in focus as G7 calls for energy sector to shiftGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel had put climate change at heart of agendaMIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS

SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany — Canada’s energy sector will have to transform itself to lower greenhouse gas emissions in the long term, Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper said Monday.

He was commenting at the end of the G7 leaders’ summit which called on its members to put their energy sectors on a low-car-bon footing by 2050, a move with serious implications for Can-ada’s greenhouse-gas-emitting oilsands.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel fell short of her goal of pushing her fellow leaders to a broad, iron-clad commitment to a low-carbon economy by 2050. Instead, the G7 agreed to a full-blown no-carbon economy, but not until 2100.

“We commit to doing our part to achieve a low-carbon global economy in the long-term, including developing and deploying innovative technolo-gies striving for a transformation of the energy sectors by 2050 and invite all countries to join us in this endeavour,” the leaders said in their final communique.

“To this end we also commit to develop long-term, national low-carbon strategies.”

Asked what this means for Can-ada’s energy sector, Harper said:

“Nobody’s going to start to shut down their industries or turn off the lights. We simply got to find a way to create lower-carbon emit-ting sources of energy.”

Harper took part the G7 lead-ers’ shortened talks on climate change as the summit entered its second and final day.

“All leaders understand that to achieve these kinds of mile-stones over the decades to come will require serious technologic-al transformation,” Harper said.

The Canadian Press has been told by sources who saw the working draft of the G7’s climate-change communique that Canada and Japan worked behind the scenes to water down the statement.

Harper’s spokesman Stephen Lecce said that was “false,” not-ing the G7 reached a consensus

that Canada supported.Merkel placed the fight against

climate change at the heart of her sweeping agenda.

She wanted the G7 summit to give France momentum when it hosts the United Nations cli-mate change conference this December, which aims to reach a breakthrough agreement in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Merkel had been pushing the G7 to endorse a pledge to reach zero carbon emissions, but Can-ada and Japan were holdouts.

“Canada and Japan are the most concerned about this one,” said one source who was privy to discussions but would only speak on the condition of anonymity.

“The two of those countries have been the most difficult on every issue on climate. They don’t want any types of targets in there, so I think they are try-ing to make it as vague as pos-sible at this point.”

Harper and Merkel spoke together on Sunday, but the prime minister’s office said they

did not discuss climate change.“It’s shocking that Mr. Harper

didn’t even bother to bring up climate change as an issue for discussion during his bilateral meeting with Chancellor Mer-kel,” said New Democrat foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar.

He said Harper is out of touch and sidelining Canada internationally.

Liberal environment critic John McKay said the prime min-ister “has embarrassed Canada on the world stage.”

“Other G7 countries have very clearly identified strong and immediate actions to tackle cli-mate change,” McKay said in a statement. “Unfortunately, Mr. Harper is fixated on ensuring that he obstructs all progress nationally or internationally.”

Harper’s office said in a state-ment that today’s French-led climate talks focused on the “col-lective response to reduce green-house gas emissions and the advancement of energy security in the face of escalating threats.”

It said the G7 leaders chose to

devote a portion of the climate session to a discussion of global security threats posed by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria and the ongoing fight against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria. Harp-er’s only bilateral meeting on Monday was with newly elected Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

A senior Canadian govern-ment official, speaking on the condition on anonymity, said Canada endorses a statement by the G7 that would support the December climate change talks in France.

“We support agreement in Paris that includes all GHG emitting countries,” the official said, noting that in 2013 Can-ada’s emissions were 3.1 per cent below 2005 levels.

While Canada’s emissions did drop below 2005 levels during the 2008-09 global recession, Environment Canada data shows they have been on a slow, steady increase for four years in a row up to 2013, the most recent year for which data is available.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, front right, with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, front left, at the G7 Summit in Garmisch, Germany, on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

POLITICS

MPs own expenses spared scrutiny JOAN BRYDEN THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — As the very exist-ence of the Senate is called into question over less than $1 millionin allegedly improper spending by 30 senators, more than double that number of MPs have been accused over the past five years of mis-spending more than quad-ruple that amount.

Yet unlike the Senate, there have been no external audits, no suspensions, no referrals to the police, no criminal investi-gations, no charges laid, and no auditor general poring over the minutiae of how MPs spend tax-payers’ dollars.

Transgressions by MPs have been handled solely by the secretive, multi-party board of internal economy, which polices House of Commons spending and typically demands only that the improperly spent funds be reimbursed. A double standard?

No question, says Garry Clem-ent, a retired police chief and former RCMP superintendent in charge of financial crime investigations.

“When you look at those cases (involving MPs) and actually what happened, it’s breach of trust,” Clement said in an interview.

“I would suggest that every one of those could be supported under a criminal charge.”

Since 2010, the board has demanded reimbursement from:

• Liberal MP Judy Sgro, $60,000 in improperly claimed living expenses for renting an Ottawa condo she had sold to her children.

• Liberal MP Wayne Easter, $8,050 in living expenses claimed for a property he no longer owned.

• Former Liberal MP John Can-nis, $106,842 for living expenses claimed for an apartment rented from his wife.

• 68 current and former NDP MPs, $2.7 million for allegedly improperly using their Commonsbudgets to pay the salaries of staffers in satellite party offices.

• 23 NDP MPs, $1.17 million for allegedly improperly using free parliamentary mailing privileges to send almost 2 million partisan missives.

The board entirely missed the case of former Liberal cabinet minister Joe Fontana, convicted last year of fraud, breach of trustand uttering a forged document after using his parliamentary budget to pay for a banquet hall for his son’s wedding. That came to light through media reports years after the fact.

The board has also ruled that former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe wrongly used parliamentary resources to pay the $100,000-plus annual salary of his party’s director general for six years. However, it did not demand reimbursement in that case because, it concluded, the rules governing the use of par-liamentary resources were not clear at the time.

The rules have since been clarified but not sufficiently to prevent a nasty dispute over NDP MPs’ subsequent use of par-liamentary resources.

POLITICS

Senate trio deny wrongdoing as they repayJORDAN PRESS AND JOAN BRYDEN THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — A scathing report on the spending habits of Can-adian senators suggests there’s a strong sense of entitlement among members of the upper chamber, many of whom often ignore “economical” options that would save taxpayers money.

Auditor general Michael Fer-guson makes the statement early in a highly anticipated report, coming Tuesday, that finds about $1 million in problematic spend-ing after a two-year review of 80,000 transactions worth about $180 million.

“We found that the oversight, accountability, and transparency of senators’ expenses was quite simply not adequate,” reads the report, a copy of which was reviewed by The Canadian Press.

“We also found that senators did not always consider the

requirement to ensure that expenses funded through the public purse were justifiable, rea-sonable, and appropriate.”

From stopovers on the way home to the choice of flight routes, Ferguson’s report identi-fies areas where senators could make decisions that are “more economical for taxpayers” — part of the “transformational change” he calls for in a report that reportedly carries a $21-mil-lion price tag.

Part of that report is now in the hands of the RCMP, who have been asked by the Senate to review the files on nine of the most cavalier spenders.

But the fallout won’t end there: The Mounties are also expected to look at the 21 other senators named in the audit and their tens of thousands of dollars in dubious claims before deciding if they, too, warrant criminal investigation.

On Monday, a trio of top sen-ators said they would repay expenses flagged in the audit, even though they felt they had done nothing wrong.

Senate Speaker Leo Housakos, his deputy Nicole Eaton, and Senate Liberal leader James Cowan all said they would give up the right to appeal Ferguson’s findings.

Together, they accounted for about $20,000, including Cowan’s $10,000 bill.

Senate government leader Claude Carignan has also already repaid about $3,000 in questionable travel claims for one of his staff.

The trio faced tough questions from their colleagues last week over why, despite having been named in Ferguson’s report, they were involved in setting up an arbitration process that gives senators a chance to potentially quash Ferguson’s findings.

Housakos, Cowan and Carignan were accused of having a conflict of interest for setting up a pro-cess that could end up helping them.

Housakos said he repaid about $7,500 in all for travel by a staffer and contracts handed out through his office before he became Speaker because he didn’t want to impugn the “integrity of the process or the manner in which it was implemented.”

Cowan, too, denied any conflict of interest, saying he continues to “respectfully disagree” with Ferguson’s claim that three trips to Toronto in 2011 were for per-sonal events, rather than parlia-mentary business.

B.C. farms declared to be free of avian fl uTHE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — British Columbia farms have been declared free of avian flu after a three-month surveillance period to ensure eradication of the disease in domestic poultry.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says about two dozen countries that had restricted import of birds and bird products from B.C. may now resume normal operations. The H5N2 influenza outbreak that began last December affected 11 commercial chicken and turkey farms in the Fraser Valley, as well as a couple of backyard coops.

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When reading about milk and dairy products on the Internet, there are

many confusing websites that would lead you to doubt the purity of the milk you are drink-ing. In Canada, milk meets strict government standards to make it both safe and healthy to drink.

In some parts of the world, it is legal to use growth hormones to stimulate milk production in cows.This increases the amount of milk a farmer will get from each cow. There is a myth that milk in Canada is full of hormones. In Canada, these synthetic growth hormones are not approved for useby farmers and are not approved for sale. There are no hormones that should not be there naturally in milk from Canadian cows.

The use of growth hormones may cause cows to develop infec-tions. If a cow gets sick, she may need to be on antibiotics. Since we do not use growth hormones in Canada, cows are less likely to need antibiotics. Another commonmyth is that our milk is full of antibiotics. In Canada, if a cow needs antibiotics, there are strict regulations that the milk from that cow must be disposed of for a mandatory length of time to allow all antibiotics to get out of her system. Milk is tested before it leaves the farm to make sure that there are no traces of antibiotics in any of the milk in the tank. Anymilk containing antibiotics must be destroyed and cannot enter the food system.

Another common dairy myth is that raw milk is better for you than pasteurized milk. Milk is pasteurized to destroy harmful disease causing bacteria that may be in the milk. To do this, the milk is not boiled, but heated only to a temperature that destroys the bac-teria that can make you sick. The vitamins and minerals in milk are not harmed by this heating pro-cess. Pasteurization is an import-ant process to make the milk safe to drink.

In the time before pasteuriza-tion, many people became sick from drinking raw milk. The types of bacteria that cause illness from raw milk have changed over the years so drinking raw milk today can cause a much more serious illness than it did in the past.

Milk is the source of 16 different nutrients necessary for growth and good health. These include protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin, Niacin, Thiamine, Pantothenic Acid, Folate, Vitamin D, Calcium, Mag-nesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Zinc, and Selenium. Milk pro-duced in Canada is safe to drink and will give you many nutrients as part of a healthy diet.

EileenBennewithNutritionNotes

» Eileen Bennewith is a registered diet-itian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at [email protected].

WINE

Match up wines and BBQ fl avours over the summerA Pinot Gris goes best with seared salmon and fresh crab from the grill

With the summer weather already upon us, it’s not difficult to locate

those smells which means that backyard barbeques are well underway. Summer blue skies and warm temperatures create a perfect occasion for outdoor get togethers’ with family and friends.

While it is understandable that most folks tend to fill up their cooler with beer for their grilling feast, there are some great wines that simply are a must have at your next outdoor BBQ event.

To get the most out of your surf and turf menu, you really need to consider how the sea-food is prepared to make the right choice in wine pairing. For example, to balance the oily richness of your fish, a Pinot Gris goes best with seared sal-mon and fresh crab from the grill dipped in rich creamy garlic butter.

This opulent white wine is also a cousin of the Pinot Noir that offers balanced acidity, a silky mouth-feel and delicate aroma that doesn’t over power seafood dishes. For less than $20, Blue Mountain’s Pinot Gris is rich in citrus and pear aromas, with notes of orange peel and a slight spice on the finish.

For all the loving carnivores who salivate at the mere idea of a great big fat juicy steak or even a humble hamburger, a big bold Cabernet Sauvignon should be on the menu. That is because the tannins in the wine cut through

the fattiness and richness from the steak making for an excellent pairing. At less than $25, Aus-tralia’s Wolf Blass Yellow Label Cabernet Sauvignon is a perfect choice. You will find that the fla-vours of blackcurrant and cherry with a subtle hint of oak and fine tannins produce a balanced palate that pairs really well with any grilled meat.

However, if you could only make one wine choice, then a dry rose is a must have. Its versatility pairs well with everything from Dungeness crab to strip-loin steaks. From the Naramata area, Black Widow Rose offers a slight-ly spicy flavour with hints of

strawberry and raspberry lead-ing to a palate of black cherry and plum before concluding to a fresh crisp finish. Made from 100% Syrah grapes and priced at less than $20, this intense salmon colored rose is a real winner.

And to make a really good impression, a perfect salad to go with this rose would be a roasted beet and goat cheese topped with pistachios. Serve it on your favor-ite greens and toss it in a light dressing made with equal parts olive or pistachio oil and a sherry vinegar. Pair it with your choice of grilled salmon or steak and your next summer BBQ party will be a sure-fire hit!

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if you could only make one wine choice, then a dry rose is a must have.

Milk still tops for nutrition

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Some special recipes for making your own rubs

Rubs don’t have to be “rubbed” onto meat.

A simply dredging or sprinkling will do just fine, but that being said, any rubbing will help the spices to penetrate the meat better in most cases. I never purchase pre-made spice mixes from the store.

I always get greater satisfaction from making my own and having them stored in labeled Mason jars.

Today I would like to share

some of my favourite recipes with you because barbecue sea-son is well under way.

Take the time to start stocking miscellaneous individual dried spices and herbs like the ingredi-ents mentioned in the recipes below, and start trying different combinations yourself.

Smoked paprika comes in both sweet and hot varieties and it is far superior to just regular paprika.

I prefer the sweet (mild) variety because I would rather control the amount of spiciness with ground cayenne pepper instead. Enjoy!

Beef Rub4 tbsp sweet smoked paprika2 tbsp granulated garlic (or gar-

lic powder)4 tsp salt2 tsp ground black pepper2 tsp dried thyme leaves1/2 tsp ground cayenne pepper,

optional Greek Rub4 tsp dried oregano4 tsp granulated onion (or

onion powder)4 tsp granulated garlic (or gar-

lic powder)4 tsp dried parsley4 tsp dried rosemary4 tsp white sugar2 tsp cornstarch2 tsp salt2 tsp ground pepper

Chilli Rub2 tbsp sweet smoked paprika

1 tbsp granulated garlic (or gar-lic powder)

1 tbsp Mexican chilli powder2 tsp salt1 tsp ground black pepper1 tsp dried oregano1/2 tsp ground cumin

Cajun Rub1/4 cup sweet smoked paprika2 tsp ground dried oregano2 tsp ground black pepper2 tsp salt1 tsp ground dried thyme1/2 tsp ground cayenne pepper

ChefDezOn Cooking

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Depleted cattle herds could drive up beef pricesTHE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Shocked by what the local grocer is charging for your favour-ite steak or ground beef for the grill?

You’re not alone. Indus-try experts have warned a cattle shortage would send prices through the roof this year.

“Thinking of barbe-cue, it’s very top of mind right now,” says Sylvain Charlebois, a professor with the University of Guelph’s Food Institute.

He says retail beef prices have risen about 40 per cent over the past three years and the trend has continued to build each month from January through April,

according to the most recent food prices compiled by Statistics Canada.

“So there’s still momen-tum upward. I don’t think we’ve actually reached our peak yet.”

That view is shared by Kevin Grier. The independ-ent food industry analyst in Guelph, Ont., says the North American cattle herd has been on the decline for about 15 years but 2014 and 2015 has been “kind of a tip-ping point.”

Grier says he’s been recently swamped by calls about beef prices, which he monitors as well as pork and chicken prices.

Grocery flyers were adver-tising popular cuts of steak at $4.99 a pound (about $11

a kilogram) as recently as two years ago, Grier says, but that was before prices went up.

“Now you’re seeing $7.99, $8.99, $9.99. And that’s the specials.”

Charlebois says as shocking as it has been for Canadian beef lovers to see prices rise, it’s a phenom-enon being experienced around the Western world.

“Let’s look at the United States, for example. Since 2009, beef prices have almost doubled. So the increase in the United States has actually been higher than it has been in Canada,” Charlebois says. “Herds in the United States are much more depressed than in Canada.”


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