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There’s a world map on the wall of the Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association’s headquarters on
Wingrove Street that stands as a testament to the far-reaching capabilities of amateur radio.
Festooned with coloured tacks clustered on every continent, each represents an area where amateur radio enthusiast Ron Gibson made contact through his equipment.
“I sat here in this room one night with two other guys to do a contest night,” said Gibson. “We made contacts to everybody on that map up there, all over the world.”
Once contact is made, radio call signs and information are shared and postcards then exchanged to mark the time and date in which it occurred. To illustrate Gibson pulls one off the bulletin board which came from New Zealand.
It’s all part of the elaborate sub-
culture that is amateur or ham radio.
Much of this will be on dis-play April 18 when NARA celebrate both World Amateur Radio Day and the association’s 67th anniversary.
An open house is planned at 1415 Wing-rove Street to mark the occasion.
There will be demon-strations of voice and digital modes of ham radio and a fox hunt, where a radio transmit-ter is hidden and has to be found on a certain fre-quency through various search techniques.
Despite the fun aspects of amateur radio, Gibson stresses there is also a serious side to it that must never be underestimated.
“It’s a hobby, and every once in a while, the hobby turns into
a business, and when it does, the attitude changes,” said Gib-son. “When disaster comes to Nanaimo and here we are, we’ve
got no grid, we’ve got no communications, can’t make phone calls, that’s it. We’re dead in the water. But now if the citizens have people who live off Vancouver Island who want to get word to their loved ones, so where do they go?”
This is the most practical and essential application for ham radio, says Gibson, who feels it is crucial to keep the technology active for these emergency scenarios.Emergency prepared-
ness will be covered at the April 18 event by members of the Coastal Emergency Com-munication Association, who are also housed in the Departure Bay
Activity Centre. The date of the celebration
was selected because it was on that day in 1925 that the Inter-national Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris, said Yvonne Findlay, secretary of NARA.
According to author H. Ward Silver, there are an estimated three million ham radio oper-ators worldwide.
“A lot of people look at ham radio as an old man’s hobby, which it isn’t,” said Findlay. “I got into it for the emergency side of things, coming from the U.K. to a place that’s known for earthquakes.”
NARA are always seeking new members and funds for aging equipment, and will host a work-shop at the end of May.
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Radio WavesAfter 67 years, the Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association is not only still going
strong but remains an essential part of the city’s disaster response network
Nanaimo Amateur Radio Association club president Ron Gibson talks with a friend over the radio at the club’s headquarters in the Departure Bay Activity Centre. [JULIE CHADWICK/DAILY NEWS]
Group to celebrate its founding with open house
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Cedar students may get bus to LadysmithROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS
Secondary students from Cedar may be given the opportunity to take school buses to Ladysmith next year.
Trustees in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district are expecting a staff report to be tabled later this month on the costs of providing bus service for students from Cedar Secondary School, which closed in June, to Ladysmith Secondary School for one year.
Trustee Stephanie Higginson said staff were directed to pre-pare a report on the costs of the bus service after learning through a recent review of the district’s transportation depart-ment that there are a number of extra buses that could be used for the new route.
“Based on that, a motion was made by (board chairman Steve Rae) to find out the costs of run-ning some of them on that route next year,” Higginson said.
“There’s a possibility that CSS may reopen, but it wouldn’t be ready in time for school in the fall, so it would have to wait until the following year, if the board makes that decision.”
Many in the Cedar commun-ity have been critical of the old school board’s decision to close CSS and transfer its students to John Barsby Secondary School, with many students preferring to attend LSS if their school was to be closed for good.
But district staff said in a previous report that the cost of establishing a new and perma-nent bus route between Lady-smith and Cedar for the students would be expensive, costing $980,000 to purchase the buses and an annual operating cost of $256,000.
In related news, staff members will present the public feedback to the board on Wednesday from the Your Voice 2015 initiative in which the district gathered input into what people want for the future of local schools.
The public meeting will be held at the Shaw Auditorium in downtown Nanaimo beginning at 6 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8
6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Variety Children’s Radiothon, Woodgrove Centre is part-nering with 102.3 The Wave to host the Radiothon fundraiser for Variety – The Children’s Charity for children in Nanaimo who have special needs.
3-6 p.m. Island Roots Farmers Market. Support local growers, producers and artisans year-round. Pleasant Valley Hall, 6100 Dumont Rd.
7 p.m. Glen Foser, Kat, On The Dock with Rhodeo Drive at The Dinghy Dock Pub, 8 Pirates Lane. Tickets $20 from the art-ists, Dinghy Dock Pub, or at ticketzone.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 9
5-9 p.m. The Nanaimo Flea Market offers a variety of vendor goods. 1630 East Wellington, Royal Canadian Legion Hall.
7:30 p.m. Nanaimo Rhododendron
Society at Beban Park Social Centre. Free admission. For information: http://nanaimo.rhodos.ca.
7 p.m. 2015 Cultural Awards Celebration City of Nanaimo honours citizens and others for outstanding dedication to cul-ture, including Grant Leier, Nixie Barton, Amanda Scott, Arlene Blundell. Free at the Port Theatre. Book ticket online or through the Ticket Centre.
7:30 p.m. Nanaimo Historical Soci-ety meeting and presentation. Local author and historian, Doug Steel, with his upcoming fourth book: Nanaimo: A Pictorial History. Bowen Park Complex, Room 1. Free. For more information: [email protected]. 7-8 p.m. Dave Hart plays the Nanaimo Arts Council Youth Showcase, North Nanaimo Town Centre. For more infor-mation: 250-729-3947.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10
9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Annual orchid
show and sale. Central Vancouver Island Orchid Society at Nanaimo North Town Centre, 4750 Rutherford Rd. Free event
6-9 p.m. Nanaimo Beerfest Beban Park Social Centre features beer and cider from breweries on Vancouver Island and the mainland. Tickets $30, 250-668-0524
10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nanaimo Volunteer Fair – up to 25 volunteer organizations, at Woodgrove Centre. A variety of organiza-tions and opportunities are available.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11
9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Bottle drive, Nanaimo & Area Land Trust Bottles for the River fundraiser. Lucky’s Liquor Store parking lot, Country Club Centre. Pro-ceeds support Nanaimo River watershed stewardship.
10 p.m. The Bastion City Wanderers Volkssport Club invite you to a 6-km or 10-km Cedar/Cable Bay walk. Meet in the parking lot at the end of Nicola Road.
Registration starts at 9:45 a.m. For more information, call Ethel at 250-756-9796.
1–4 p.m. Nanaimo Lawn Bowling Club open house at Bowen Park, 500 Bowen Road. Bowls provided. Bring flat-soled shoes. For more information, David 250-245-5601.
1-4 p.m. Artist onsite, 100 Museum Way. Wilf Hatch drawings are on display through May. Nanaimomuseum.ca or 250-753-1821 for information.
1-5 p.m. Giselle Roeder is at Chapters Woodgrove to present, discuss and sign her book, ‘We Don’t Talk About That.’ SUNDAY, APRIL 12.
1-4 p.m. Condo Owners Seminar: Who Pays? Informative seminar for owners when water leaks, windows need repairs etc. Presented by nonprofit Vancou-ver Island Strata Owners Association, $30, $20 and $10 (members), tickets 250-920-0688.
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Oceanside RCMP executed a search warrant on a Parksville compassion club last Thursday, seizing an unspecified amount of dried marijuana and cannabis-based products, as well as cash.
Police carried out the search at 3:30 p.m at the Phoenix Pain Management Society, located at 120 Middleton Ave. in Parksville.
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Jesse Foreman said investigators have asked that details of the search and seizure of property not be disclosed as the matter is before the courts.
A 29-year-old man who was on the premises at the time the search was carried out was arrested. He was later released on a promise to appear in provin-cial court.
Police are recommending a charge of possession for the pur-
pose of trafficking against the man.
The Phoenix Pain Manage-ment Society, which also oper-ates a location in Nanaimo, was contacted by the Daily News Tuesday.
But a request for comment was directed to Phoenix’s lawyer Kirk Tousaw, who works mainly with clients charged with cannabis offences and people or organiza-tions in the medical cannabis industry, according to his web-site. Tousaw was not available for comment.
According to Phoenix’s website, the club offers a “variety of top
quality medical grade marijuana and marijuana products.”
In a press release issued Sat-urday, the RCMP said the action taken against Phoenix was “as a result of their alleged failure to operate within the current legal framework . . . under the medical marijuana access regulations.”
Under current regulations, dried medical marijuana for med-ical purposes must be distributed through licensed commercial producers who are regulated.
“All businesses in our com-munity are expected to operate within the law,” said Staff Sgt. Brian Hunter in the release.
“In a case where they are alleged to not be doing so, we have a responsibility to our com-munity to take action.”
There were 20 licensed produ-cers in Canada as of November, according to Health Canada.
Police say an investigation is ongoing.
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Mid-Island Brits carefully watch U.K. electionSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
Although the U.K. general election is taking place thou-sands of miles of way, it has caught
the attention — and stirred the emotions — of native Brits living abroad in Nanaimo and other parts of Canada.
According to Statistics Canada 2011 statistics, there are 4,580 immigrants from the U.K. now living in the Harbour City.
Eric McLean, a specialty food shop owner in Nanaimo who grew up near Glasgow, is one of them. He said he doubts the election will stir many expats from the U.K. to mail in oversea ballots.
“I’m sure people will be watch-ing it, but I don’t think many people will be voting because they’ve been away too long,” said McLean, who has lived in Can-ada for 30 years.
U.K. citizens are set to go to the polls on May 7. Prime Minister and Conservative Party Leader David Cameron is staving off a challenge from Labour’s Ed Milliband, the opposition leader. Current polls show the two par-ties are in a dead heat at 34 and 33 per cent, respectively.
The Liberal Democrats, whose leader Nick Clegg is deputy prime minister in the current coalition government with the Conservatives, are among sever-al other main parties in the race, including the U.K. Independence Party and the Green Party. Also on the ballot are the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru, which advocate state independ-ence for Scotland and Wales, respectively.
McLean says one “conten-tious” issue in the U.K. is the country’s future in the European Union. Cameron has pledged the Conservatives will hold a refer-
endum on the U.K.’s future mem-bership in the EU by 2017, while Labour does not support holding a referendum.
“If I was a betting man, I would probably say the Tories will get back in again,” albeit without a majority, said McLean.
He predicted dire results for the Conservatives in his native Scot-land, where “the political land-scape is quite different from the
rest of the U.K.” but also said he was curious to see what impact the Scottish referendum might have on May’s election results.
Kevin Ward, a local brewer, originally hails from Liverpool and grew up during the Margaret Thatcher years, an experience which caused him to leave the country and travel for several years.
“We suffered a lot under the
Tory government,” he said of the Thatcher years.
Ward, who does not intend to cast a ballot, moved back to the U.K. when Labour’s Tony Blair took office in the 1990s. When the Conservatives returned to power in 2010, Ward and his family decided to move to Canada.
Ward said he thinks the Con-servatives’ popularity is starting to wane.
“It’s prime now for Labour . . .” he said, but added he did not think “the leadership is there to take advantage of that.” Ward predicts a hung parliament.
Lynn Rutherford, who left the U.K. in 1977, said she expects immigration and EU member-ship to be key issues.
Nanaimo shop owner Eric McLean was raised in Glasgow and hasn’t lived in the U.K for 30 years. But the country’s upcoming general election in May has him and other Brits watching. [SPENCER ANDERSON/DAILY NEWS]
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‘Safety’ holding up track serviceMinistry says number of concerns and challenges still need to be addressed along Island corridorDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
Track safety is the holdup to passenger train service resuming on Vancouver Island.
Last fall the Island Corridor Foundation, which owns the tracks between Victoria and Courtenay, assembled the $20 million needed to restore damaged rails and ties, to meet Via Rail’s requirements to restore passenger service.
Graham Bruce, ICF executive director, recently said the repair project is held up by senior gov-ernment approval.
The Ministry of Transporta-tion and Infrastructure issued a statement Tuesday that shed more light on why it’s taking so long, and in a word it’s “safety,” according to a memo.
“The BC Safety Authority has conducted a review of the corri-dor and has identified a number
of concerns or challenges that will need to be addressed,” the memo said.
“Government is engaged in the discussion relating to those safety challenges with the Island Corridor Foundation and with Southern Railway.”
The review is being conducted by an independent consultant recommended by the BCSA.
Bruce said he won’t speculate on the outcome, or how long
the review will take, but said Southern Rail would operate well within the speed and weight restrictions for a class 3 track, which allows for passenger train speeds of up to 96 kilometres per hour.
“It’s making sure the scope of the project is fully understood,” Bruce said.
Continued project delays show the lack of commitment by the province to getting Island pas-
senger rail service rolling again, said Nanaimo-North Cowichan Opposition MLA Doug Routley.
“I don’t think there is any bet-ter measure of a failure of a rail-way than not having trains run,” Routley said.
The NDP caucus plans to soon hold a series of public forums on Island rail, Routley said.
I n almost any workplace, big or small, there are often issues.
Such issues may include per-sonality clashes, office politics, folks eating food out of the com-pany fridge; the list is endless.
But it remains a little jarring when you hear of apparent big problems involving the people who make decisions on a grand scale within our respective communities.
The Daily News reported this week that an internal memo to Lantzville’s mayor and council says district staff have become “concerned with the tone of council meetings, particularly with the ridicule and criticism of staff’s work in a public meeting where we cannot respond or set the record straight.”
Some city councillors agree with the memo and say more needs to be done to improve what Coun. Jennifer Millbank described as a “hostile” work environment.
The memo, dated March 26, is signed by the district’s five sen-ior staff members: Chief admin-istrative officer Twyla Graff, dir-ector of financial services Jedha Holmes, corporate administra-tion director Trudy Coates, pub-lic works director Fred Spears and Lisa Bhopalsingh, commun-ity planner.
The memo calls for council to consider setting up a “standard of conduct” for public meetings, citing “disrespectful” comments made during those meetings.
Graff gave notice to council last Wednesday that she was resign-
ing, although it was not clear if her notice was connected to the issues raised in the memo.
Lantzville Coun. Rod Negrave said he was “extremely con-cerned” with the issues laid out in the memo.
“I certainly would not be sur-prised if we had further resigna-tions from senior staff,” Negrave said.
Negrave’s statement alone should throw up big red flags. If your senior staff are resigning, or even considering resigning, something needs to be done.
Things in Lantzville have occa-sionally been contentious over the years, with plenty of friction from members of the public as well as those on the “other side” of the fence. Too much ‘he-said, she said’ nonsense, really.
The memo was called “pretty accurate” by another councillor, Graham Savage: “It certainly indicates a working environment that senior staff are not comfort-able with,” said Savage.
As detailed in our story, Mill-bank said that “a fundamental lack of respect at the council table” was an underlying cause of the staff complaints.
Mayor Colin Haime quite right-ly wants to get to the bottom of the matter. He indicated he wants clarification and specific examples from district staff on what their concerns are.
“I think it’s important for us before everyone jumps on the path of considering the item to understand what it is staff is raising the concerns about,” he said.
That’s entirely fair. More spe-cific examples will help lead to more specific solutions.
At this point, it’s imperative those solutions be found before more senior staff decide to leave the fold.
The potential damage to the community, from dealings with other agencies to overall reputa-tion, is considerable. As import-ant is that all district staff, senior or otherwise, have a respectful and positive workplace.
Find out what the actual com-plaints are, take immediate steps to rectify the situation, and tell the taxpayers what in detail how this is going to be fixed.
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Some want to balance creation and evolution
Your poll question, “do you believe in the theory of evolu-tion?” poses to me another ques-tion. Why do we have to choose between creation and evolution?
What is wrong with choosing both; I think that is the logical and practical way to go.
I believe that without creation, evolution would not exist, and without evolution all things cre-ated could not exist.
If our world did not evolve after it was created, it would still be a molten mass of magma. How many millions of years would it take for an ocean to beat a solid wall of mountains into a sandy beach? This is creation being formed by evolution.
I believe that the universe was created then left to evolve through countless millions of years until environmental conditions were just right for mankind to evolve, about six million years ago accord-ing to scientific studies.
It is obvious that mankind has evolved tremendously since his beginning, but he is not yet the finished product of creation and evolution, but remains yet on the drawing board. We are far from being perfect, so it is good that we are not yet the finished product. Maybe there is still hope for man-
kind if he does not destroy him-self in his eagerness to wage war on one another, or choke to death in his own filth, or if maybe he can overcome some of his worst imperfections such as greed, hate and ego. He might even evolve into something worthwhile and good. I’m sure that this would indeed please our creator.
My beliefs are right for me, and are not meant to criticize anyone else’s.
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Canada must focus on economy, not bombing
Re: ‘Not clear bombing will assist Canada’ (Editorial, Daily News, March 27)
Yet again for Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper it’s become an all too familiar political scenario that he’s continually blindly following U.S. President Barack Obama’s Amer-ican crusade against the forces of the evil-minded, with the supply-ing of not only the very lives of the Canadian Armed Forces, but also the tax dollars to back up his egotism on the world stage and his bravura on the home front.
The bombings of Syria will only result in Canada losing its positive
world image of being the white dove of peace and reason. Overall Canada cannot morally afford to pay the too-high price just to back up President Obama’s foreign follies.
Finally Prime Minister Harper should be making tracks to repair Canada’s derailed economic train of recovery.
Al MunroNanaimo
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I live just outside Vancouver and my sister lives in Nanaimo.
On Saturday, (Easter weekend) we had for over a week been unable to make contact with my sister who lives alone and has been diagnosed with a ‘medical condition.’
Her oldest daughter, who lives in Metro Vancouver had made numerous calls to her mom say-ing she was coming to visit for the Easter weekend, but there was no response.
When her daughter arrived in Nanaimo there was no response to knocking and banging on the door and her Mom’s car was parked in the driveway.
Frantic and alarmed, my niece called me and asked what to do.
I immediately called my local police department who helped me contact the Nanaimo RCMP detachment and requested an officer be sent check on my sister’s well-being.
Const. Ramos was sent to her home and was unable to get a response to his determined knock-ing and banging on her door.
He then contacted me requesting permission for further investiga-tion. Eventually he was able to gain access to my sister’s home and check on her.
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How about some bacon with your favourite Nanaimo bar?
S mokin’ George’s, the popu-lar Nanaimo restaurant on Mostar Road that special-
izes in barbecued foods, is now serving its own two unique ren-ditions of the Nanaimo bar.
The latest offering is the Deluxe Dulce De Leche Nanaimo bar, which has a white chocolate topping instead of the traditional dark chocolate, and is topped with the restaurant’s own in-house bacon.
The new Nanaimo bar follows Smokin’ George’s Maple Bacon Topped Nanaimo bar, which won the Judges Choice category in the 2014 Nanaimo bar competi-tion hosted by the Downtown Nanaimo Business Improvement Association.
Co-owner Lea Ortner said the restaurant will hold a contest starting on April 10 to allow customers to decide which of the two Nanaimo bars they like the best.
A winner will be chosen from amongst the entries who will be given a ticket to the Sunfest Country Music Festival in the Cowichan Valley this summer.
“Our staff came up with the recipes for the two Nanaimo bars,” she said. “Having our in-house bacon on top meshed with our barbecue brand.”
Exclusive agreementThe Nanaimo-based Little
Cedar Falls fish farm has entered into an exclusive marketing agreement with Albion Fisheries Ltd. to purchase all the steelhead trout that are currently being raised at the land-based farm.
Cody Smith, a spokesman for
the Victoria-based Albion Fish-eries, said his company has also entered into a second exclusive marketing agreement with Qual-ity Foods to sell LCF’s trout to its Island stores. He said the agree-ment with Quality Foods will stay in place until July 1 when Albion Fisheries will begin sell-ing the trout to other retailers.
“There’s a growing market for products from land-based aquaculture projects like LCF and we’re big promoters of land-based technologies,” Smith said.
“LCF currently produces about 1,500 steelhead trout a week and there’s a big demand for it.”
Heritage purchaseThe real estate team Cooper,
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recently purchased the heritage building at 301 Franklyn St., that used to be the headquarters of the Hobs Hargrave law firm.
CMA, which is affiliated with ReMax Nanaimo, is a full-ser-vice portal for Vancouver Island real estate searches that has been in operation in Nanaimo since 2008. John Cooper, who is partnered with Sean McLintock in the business, said the decision was made to move from the long-time leased office on Bowen Road to allow for expansion and the opportunity for the company to own its own building.
He said CMA is has undertaken “substantial” renovations to the building before moving in this week.
“The building has not been renovated since the early 1900s
and when it was first switched from a residential to a commer-cial property in the 1970s, it was intended to be a real estate office so we’re in the process of bring-ing it back to its former glory,” said Cooper, who is also the cur-rent president of the Downtown Nanaimo Business Improvement Association.
Odds and ends• Estheticans Monique Lopez
and Jasmine Smith have started as private contractors at Eye Kandy Studio.
• Old Victoria Road’s Wolf Breweries has expanded its facilities.
George Kulai, owner of Smokin’ George’s restaurant, displays one of two types of bacon-topped Nanaimo bars the business has created. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]
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◆ COMMUNITY
Church celebrates 150th anniversary in Nanaimo
The congregation of St. Andrews Presbyterian churchwill celebrate its 150-year anni-versary this year with a series of events.
Founded in 1865, the church ori-ginally held their services in the city court house before moving to a church on Fitzwilliam St.
Today the congregation num-bers 120 and are located in a church on Departure Bay Road.
“We’re doing a variety of things through the year to get people excited and involved,” said mem-ber Karen Hovestad.
The events include a perform-ance by the Wellington Jazz per-formance on April 17, a vintage car and roadside antiques show on May 23, a songfest on May 31, a heritage evening with a story-teller on June 19, a car rally on July 18, a garden party on Aug. 29, a “homecoming Sunday” on Aug. 30, a vintage fashion show and tea on Sept. 19 and more, culminating in an anniver-sary dinner Nov. 28.
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New car dealers association helps out VIUFOR THE DAILY NEWS
Students in Vancouver Island University’s Automotive Service Technician program are practis-ing their skills on a new state-of-the-art tire changer, thanks to a generous donation by the New Car Dealers Association of B.C.
“It was a unanimous decision by the board to donate the $7,180 John Bean tire changer to VIU,” says John Wynia, chairman of the board for the association.
“We have a vested interest in supporting the education stream of future mechanics,” said Wynia. “Students will even-tually find jobs in the industry as apprentices, and some are already working as second-, third- or fourth-year apprentices. Our goal is to ensure there are quality mechanics in industry.
A big part of their training is the opportunity to practise
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“The new tire changer replaces a piece of equipment that broke
recently and was too expensive to repair,” he says. “With costs going up all the time, our pro-gram depends on industry sup-port. It’s important that we have modern equipment available in our shops to guarantee that stu-dents get the training they need and are ready for employment.”
VIU’s Automotive Service Tech-nician Program provides a ten-month Foundation (pre- appren-ticeship) training program for 36 students per year.
High school students are eligible to apply through the VIU’s Dual Credit program operated with school districts in Nanaimo-Ladysmith and Parksville-Qualicum.
Levels one to four apprentice training is also available, and VIU typically runs five classes per year with approximately 80 students in each class.
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“We are one of the few training centres in B.C. where most of the in-the-shop training is carried out on customer-owned vehicles. This means our students experi-ence realistic breakdown situa-tions and follow the same stan-dards and procedures that are in use industry-wide.
“To prepare students for the workplace we need to provide them with experience on the everyday workhorse equipment that they will encounter as apprentices out in the field.”
Pushor adds that there’s a growing demand for trained mechanics throughout B.C.
The donation of the tire chan-ger was arranged through VIU’s Advancement and Alumni Rela-tions Office. For more informa-tion, go to www.viu.ca/giving.
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Mall attack was ‘childish’: NuttallGEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — Planting bombs in a shopping mall wasn’t enough for an accused terrorist, who referenced the 9-11 attacks in the United States to describe what he had in mind for British Colum-bia, a court has heard.
In a clandestine May 2013 video played in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday, John Nuttall tells an undercover officer about dismissing a roommate’s pro-posal to detonate explosives in a mall as “childish.”
“That’s not my thing,” Nuttall says to the officer. “I have to think bigger than that,” he says of the “full-on” attack he is considering.
Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody — both recent converts to Islam — are accused of plotting to set off homemade pressure-cooker bombs on the grounds of the B.C. legislature in Victoria during Canada Day festivities in 2013.
They have pleaded not guilty to four ter-
rorism-related charges.In Tuesday’s video, Nuttall and Korody
are seen returning with the officer from a reconnaissance mission to Vancouver Island.
Nuttall talks about having copied down the schedule for public tours at the legislature buildings, saying he wants to avoid killing tourists and instead target politicians.
“These are the people that need punish-ment,” he says, becoming agitated as he discusses staging an attack while the legislature is in session.
“They’re the ones who should be butch-ered and killed, not the innocent Muslims in Afghanistan and in Palestine.”
At one point he reveals to the officer that he worries whether he’s smart enough to carry out the mission.
Nuttall tells the officer he otherwise has no doubts about going through with the terrorist attack, adding that he wants to join a model rocketry club to learn how to build deadly weapons.
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Antipsychotic drugs given to seniors concerns advocateTHE CANADIAN PRESS
VICTORIA — The advocate for seniors in B.C. says too many people in government care are prescribed antipsychotic drugs without being properly diagnosed.
Isobel Mackenzie reviewed assessment records for 54,000 seniors in both residen-tial and home care in her report, Place-ment, Drugs and Therapy ... We Can Do Better.
Of the 25,000 people in residential care, about a third are prescribed antipsychotic drugs, but only four per cent of them have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disor-der, she said.
“We know we are over-prescribing drugs to seniors,” Mackenzie said in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s called polypharmacy, too many drugs to the same person at the same time. But this is a very stark presen-tation of just how bad the situation is and the magnitude out there.”
Her report also said just under half of residential care clients are being pre-scribed antidepressant medications, but only 24 per cent have been assessed with depression. She said seniors are often over-prescribed medications in efforts to help them, their families and caregivers through potentially stressful and harmful situations.
NATIONAL NEWSThe Canadian Press
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◆ TORONTO
Eight farms scramble after bird fl u outbreak
Eight poultry farms in south-western Ontario have been placed under quarantine as agri-cultural authorities scramble to contain an outbreak of a bird flu virus found on a turkey farm near Woodstock.
The virus, of the H5 subtype, has been found on one farm in an area densely populated with poultry operations. The other farms have been quarantined because of their proximity to the affected farm, officials said Tuesday.
The National Centre for For-eign Animal Diseases in Winni-peg is doing testing to determine the subtype of the virus.
They will want to see if the culprit is an H5N2 virus that has been hopscotching among poultry operations in British Columbia and a number of U.S. states since late last year.
◆ WASHINGTON
U.S. military seeking to put sensors in Arctic
The U.S. military is prepar-ing to ask that new sensors be installed in the Canadian Arctic that would be able to track differ-ent types of incoming missiles.
A senior defence official said Tuesday the request is being made to U.S. policy leaders — as well as the Canadian govern-ment. He said it’s too early in the process to set a target date.
“I don’t think we have a time-table just yet,” said Admiral William Gortney, the head of the Canada-U.S. Norad program and of Northern Command — the Colorado-based body with track-ing responsibility for the U.S. missile-defence program.
He told a news conference at the Pentagon that it’s nearly time to replace the aging sensors in the Canada-U.S. North Warn-ing System, along the old Cold-War era DEW Line.
◆ ST. JOHN’S, N.L.
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A Newfoundland man shot dead by an officer checking out perceived Twitter threats against Premier Paul Davis had aimed a loaded rifle at the investigator, says the RCMP.
“Evidence indicates the police officer responded to this threat with lethal force by drawing and discharging his service pistol,” Sgt. Greg Hicks said Tuesday.
Hicks said a loaded .22-calibre rifle was seized from the home of 59-year-old Don Dunphy in Mitchells Brook, southwest of St. John’s, where he died Sunday. It was found on the floor of the small, tree-shrouded residence next to Dunphy’s body and will be examined at a forensic lab, he added.
“The police officer was faced with Mr. Dunphy holding a long barrel firearm which was pointed at the officer.”
◆ EGYPT
Lawyer says only feds in way of Fahmy passport
The lawyer for a Canadian jour-nalist facing long-decried terror charges in Egypt is accusing the federal government of being the only impediment to a new pass-port being issued for the man.
Mohamed Fahmy — who spent more than a year in a Cairo pris-on and has been working to get a passport ever since his release on bail in February — claims the lack of official documentation has placed him in a precarious situation.
Fahmy’s Vancouver-based lawyer, Gary Caroline, claims there is nothing in Canadian law that should prevent Fahmy from being issued a new passport, nor is there any indication Egypt’s courts don’t want the 40-year-old to have one.
“The only impediment is Can-ada,” Caroline told The Canadian Press.
◆ TORONTO
Bell to use opt-in policy to track customer usage
Bell Canada has reversed its position and will seek customer consent before tracking their Internet, TV and phone call use in order to deliver targeted online advertising.
After insisting for more than a year that customers can end such tracking by opting out, the telecommunications giant made an about-face Tuesday hours after the privacy commissioner issued a report urging a change in approach.
“Bell will abide by the privacy commission’s decision, including the opt-in approach,” Bell said in an email.
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Day 1 of Duffy trial reveals ugly side of Ottawa powerDefence lawyer delivers unfl attering snapshot of the country’s highest offi ceJENNIFER DITCHBURN AND STEPHANIE LEVITZ THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — The trial of Mike Duffy got underway Tuesday with a series of ugly portraits: the senator himself, the prime minister’s former right-hand man and the much-maligned upper chamber as a whole.
The Crown alleges the senator made personal trips on the pub-lic dime, paid acquaintances for questionable contracts and extorted the Prime Minister’s Office to cover his fraudulent liv-ing expenses.
Defence lawyer Donald Bayne delivered an unflattering snap-shot of the country’s highest office, depicting an alleged con-spiracy by Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper’s most senior staff to force a sitting senator to repay expenses he never believed were wrong in the first place.
The rules, regulations and administrative policies of the Senate, meanwhile, were por-trayed as a lax, vague, anything-goes mess.
As the long-awaited proceed-ings got underway, it took 15 minutes for the Ontario Court of Justice clerk to read the 31 fraud, breach of trust and bribery char-ges into the public record.
“I am not guilty, Your Honour,”
responded Duffy, clad in a dark pinstripe suit adorned with a white pocket square.
Crown attorney Mark Holmes proceeded to lay out for Ontario Justice Charles Vaillancourt a road map of the prosecution’s case.
The most politically toxic area is the one involving a bribery charge — the allegation that Duffy set a series of condi-tions before he’d agree to repay $90,000 worth of contested living expenses.
Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright secretly paid that $90,000, while Duffy told the pub-lic it was he who had repaid the public purse, back in early 2013.
“Sen. Duffy was at least an equal partner in this arrange-ment, if not the instigator and the principal party involved in this negotiation,” Holmes said.
But Bayne, quoting from emails and police interviews with wit-
nesses, argued Duffy had in fact been railroaded by a small group of Harper’s staff.
They concocted a scheme, he said, where Duffy would take the blame and pretend to repay his expenses in order to make a political embarrassment go away — the “mistake-repay scenario.”
The entire repayment scandal was spurred in the first place by a question that surfaced in late 2012 about Duffy’s status as a senator from Prince Edward Island.
Reporters began asking how much time he actually spent at the place he called his primary residence, while he collected liv-ing expenses for his “secondary residence” — in fact his longtime Ottawa-area home.
Holmes said any “common sense” reading of what consti-tutes a primary residence would indicate that Duffy wasn’t really living in P.E.I.
PM rejects stimulus, will stay course on budgetANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Stephen Harper is making it clear that pretty much nothing will make him stray from his balanced-budget target this fiscal year.
The prime minister slammed the door Tuesday on the possibil-ity the government would open the vault for a stimulus program to help the economy, which has
been hobbled by lower oil prices.Harper’s remarks came a day
after the government unloaded its multibillion-dollar stake in General Motors, a deal expected to help the Conservatives achieve their long-running pledge to balance the upcoming election-year budget.
The government isn’t con-templating stimulus because the weakened economy is still
expected to grow, albeit at a slower rate than anticipated, Harper told a news conference in Vancouver.
“Embarking on a major stimu-lus program when the economy’s growing, and driving us back into deficit, makes absolutely no long-term economic sense what-soever,” he said after announcing a change to the student loan program.
Harper has repeatedly insisted the government will erase the deficit despite the oil slump — a promise that could be key to his chances in this year’s election, scheduled for October.
The transaction came a few days into the 2015-16 fiscal year, which means the proceeds will help pad the bottom line in this year’s budget. The budget will be delivered April 21.
POLITICS
DUFFY
POLITICS
Alberta voters set to go to the polls on May 5DEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS
Premier Jim Prentice dropped the writ a year early for an elec-tion that will send Albertans to the polls on May 5.
By law, the province was not slated to hold a vote until the spring of 2016, but Prentice told cheering supporters in Edmon-ton on Tuesday that his plan to remake the economy demands an endorsement from the people.
“Tough choices need to be made and our province needs a realistic plan to the immediate challenges that we face and also for the long term,” said Prentice, surrounded by candidates at a community hall just after he met with Lt.-Gov. Don Ethell to dis-solve the legislature.
“I am asking Albertans for a mandate to implement the chan-ges that this province needs so badly.”
The law allows earlier votes if circumstances warrant.
This year’s budget, introduced March 26, is designed to reshape the foundations of government bookkeeping so that day-to-day program spending is no longer hostage to the wild swings in oil prices.
A recent sharp drop in those prices has erased an estimated $7 billion from Alberta’s bottom line this year.
Wildrose Leader Brian Jean has said he is focused on getting his five-member team off the mat and back into the fight with the goal of retaining official Oppos-ition status.
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AGING & TECHNOLOGY
Seniors are willing to try new technologyNANCI HELLMICH USA TODAY
Although some people want to move to a warmer climate or exotic locale in retirement, for most folks, their current home is where their heart is.
They want to age in place, continuing to live in their home or at least in the same commun-ity. And they’re not afraid to remodel and try new technolo-gies to make that happen, new research shows. They’d even be willing to have a cleaning robot or heated driveway.
The vast majority of people age 50 and older want to stay in their homes and communities for as long as possible, AARP data show. The group has expanded the definition of aging in place to include people either remaining in their own home or staying in the same community in other possible housing options, says Rodney Harrell, director of Liv-able Communities in AARP’s Public Policy Institute.
It’s no wonder retirees want to stay put. About two-thirds (65 per cent) of retirees say they’re living in the best home of their lives, according to a recent national survey of more than 3,600 respondents. Most respond-ents were over age 50; 1,668 were already retired. It was sponsored by Merrill Lynch in partnership with Age Wave.
“There is something deeply nourishing about our homes, and people become increas-ingly appreciative of that emo-tional connection as they get older,” says gerontologist Ken Dychtwald, CEO of Age Wave.
Seniors are also willing to try technology. The Merrill Lynch-Age Wave survey found:
— 80 per cent of retirees are interested in new technologies to reduce their home expenses, such as smart thermostats or apps to control appliances.
— 76 per cent are interested in technologies to monitor their health at home, such as sensors, alerts or medication reminder apps.
— 67 per cent are interested in home technologies to help them optimize their health, such as devices for air purification or to improve sleep.
— 58 per cent are interested in technologies to help them main-tain their home, such as cleaning robots or heated driveways.
In homes of the future there may be cleaning robots, thermo-stats that go up and down as you go in and out of rooms, alerts to take your medication or go to your doctors’ appointments, Dychtwald says. “There may be homes that can be reshaped and remodeled to accommodate visitors or guests. Imagine walls moving and desks disappearing and trundle beds coming out when the grandkids come.”
Dychtwald says 52 per cent of people over the age of 75 live alone, and there will be more technologies that let adult chil-dren know if a parent needs help.
“Technology can help people keep an eye on mom or dad.
“The good news is that all of these breakthroughs are on the drawing board or already avail-able, but they are waiting for the market to take more full advan-tage of them,” he says.
New technology is a huge boon for people who want to continue to live in their home, Languirand agrees. “The smart-home con-cepts are wonderful because there are so many functions of the home that can be pro-grammed and made automatic. Help is often one button push away so you are never really out of touch. It helps people feel more secure.”
She says many age-in-place con-cepts could be useful to people of all ages, such as easy-to-operate window hardware; easy-to-read, programmable thermostats; lighting fixtures that make rooms brighter; low-mainten-ance exteriors and anti-scald devices on showers.
MENTORING
Youngsters get university aid to learn about roboticsUniversity of Michigan started the trend with its Michigan Engineering ZoneMIKE HOUSEHOLDER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An increasing num-ber of students from Michigan’s most financially strapped urban school dis-
tricts, including Detroit and Flint, are joining robotics teams because local universities are making space and materials available at no charge.
The University of Michigan started the trend with its Mich-igan Engineering Zone. The 5,200-square-foot facility in Detroit, filled with two com-puter labs, a machine shop, robot testing area and collaborative workstations, hosts 18 teams from city schools. Many of them wouldn’t be able to participate in the FIRST robotics contest otherwise.
Michigan has more high school teams competing in the annual competition than any other state. But both participants and advisers say that beyond the con-test, the teams further students’ interest in learning about related topics and help keep them engaged in school.
“Michigan Engineering Zone is the greatest thing I’ve ever been to,” said Papia Aziz, the captain of a team known as the Pink Panthers from the Detroit Inter-national Academy for Young Women.
Aziz, a 16-year-old junior who wants to be a pediatrician, cred-its the MEZ, as it is commonly known, with furthering her interest in STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math.
She said she enjoys “figuring out ways to solve a problem” and the fun of competing.
Competitions are nice, but suc-cess at them is not the ultimate goal, says Gail Alpert, the pres-ident of FIRST in Michigan.
“They think they’re doing
robotics. They have no idea that the robot is just the vehicle to excite them about STEM,” Alpert said, adding that nearly every student who competes in FIRST robotics graduates from high school.
Of the 42 seniors who spent time at the MEZ during last school year, 38 went on to higher
education, while four joined the military. Either way, they all graduated.
That compares with 2014 gradu-ation rates of 78 per cent for the state and 71 per cent for Detroit Public Schools.
“It’s almost a miracle if you think about,” said Jeanne Murabito, a University of Mich-igan College of Engineering offi-cial who helped create the MEZ six years ago.
It’s not just the tools and space that make the MEZ what it is. It’s also the people, Murabito said.
Each team has access to profes-sional engineers as well as fac-ulty, staff and students from the University of Michigan.
The same is true at Flint’s Ket-tering University, home to the
recently opened FIRST Robotics Community Center. Unlike the MEZ, though, which is 40 miles from Ann Arbor, Kettering’s facility is on the school’s campus, meaning that faculty, staff and students who serve as team men-tors don’t have far to travel.
While Kettering’s robotics hub is just getting going, the MEZ has been around long enough that it has reached capacity. In fact, the MEZ was forced to turn away teams this year, said Murabito, who is looking for additional funding opportunities to expand the space.
“It’s like an infection,” said Jul-ian Pate, a retired Ford Motor Co. executive who runs the MEZ. “They’re bitten, and it doesn’t go away.”
Detroit International Academy for Young Women student Tunzzina Chowdhury works on the Pink Panthers robot at the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, FIRST, Robotics district competition in Livonia, Mich. Michigan has more high school teams competing in the annual contest than any other state. [AP PHOTO]
SAFETY
High-tech U.S. military gear looked at to improve safety for fi refi ghtersWILL SOWARDS CRONKITE NEWS
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. ––Nearly two years ago, 19 firefighters died fighting a blaze near Yarnell, Ariz. Since then, experts have looked for ways to prevent simi-lar loss of lives.
They said they hope a new piece of communications tech-nology, previously used by the military and adapted for wildfire fighters, will help.
Ralph Lucas, a battalion chief with the Prescott Fire Depart-ment, said he knew all 19 mem-bers of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew. When federal officials approached him to test the communication and tracking system, he saw an opportunity to help protect other firefighters.
“One of the issues that occurred on the Yarnell Hill fire was resources not being able to locate one another,” Lucas said. “In the aftermath of the Yar-nell Hill Fire, federal resources came to us and offered us some equipment that has been used in military applications, and they thought that we might be inter-ested in trying to test some of this equipment.”
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, which creates and researches technol-ogy for the Defense Department, developed the system, the Fire Line Advanced Situational Awareness for Handhelds, or FLASH.
Special operations groups like the Navy SEALS and Army
Green Berets used the system in combat. But after the Yarnell Hill Fire, the agency began look-ing at civilian applications for the system.
FLASH uses radios, handheld tablet computers and sensors to create an interactive “battle-field” for fighting fires. Firefight-ers on the ground can track fire locations, and command units can coordinate how best to fight the flames.
“It comes down to situational awareness,” said Chris Stalzer of Scottsdale-based Juggernaut Defense, a company that helped
develop FLASH and its military counterpart. “The incident com-mand will know where (firefight-ers) are, they’ll have good situa-tional awareness because they can look to these maps for real-time data and then communicate to each other.”
Stalzer said situational aware-ness is key to firefighting, espe-cially in diverse terrain.
In some areas, it can be nearly impossible to communicate because of a lack of relay anten-nas or geographic barriers, but FLASH can overcome these issues by creating a “mesh” net-
work made from the radios and other technology that each indi-vidual or team carries.
The system weighs about 15 pounds and has a battery life of 12 to 15 hours with heavy use. It is designed to go into the most rugged areas and survive under-water or in heavy dust.
But the system isn’t ready for widespread use just yet.
“Another issue we have been talking about is the cost,” Lucas said. “These units with the har-nesses cost $12,000 each as they sit right now. For agencies to be able to purchase something like that, it would be really expen-sive. But there are ways we can simplify the system, decrease its weight and bring it to a much more manageable cost.”
Technology can help, but it is only part of the firefighting equation, experts said.
“The biggest avenue to protect firefighter safety is training,” said Sean Newton, a director in emergency services training at Mesa Community College. “Fire-fighters rely heavily on quality simulated training, especially when they are talking about high-risk, low-frequency events. Those that don’t happen that often.”
“We have a phrase that we use,” Newton said. “ ’Practice how you play.’ We try to make our practice scenarios as realistic as possible in order to prepare us for that incident and that’s how firefighters get better, through high-intensity training.”
“They think they’re doing robotics. They have no idea that the robot is just the vehicle to excite them about STEM.”
Gail Alpert, president of FIRST
A new communication and tracking system known as FLASH, or Fire Line Advanced Situational Awareness for Handhelds, was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. [TNS]
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TENNIS
Players successful at WesternsLocal residents win awards at national senior event and hope more come out to play this springROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS
A group of local tennis players attained success at the Canadian Western Senior Nationals this past weekend and now hope their exploits get more people out on the court in Nanaimo.
Holly Calvin, 51, from Nanaimo finished fourth in the women’s over 50 singles contest at the championships, which were held across three separate recrea-tion centres in Victoria on the weekend.
Calvin’s friend Lynne Cowan won the women’s over 65 doubles alongside partner Jean Martin.
Darlene Dorman, from Cedar, also finished fifth in the women’s over 55 singles contest.
All of the players practise at Westwood Tennis Club and were joined at the tournament by fel-low clubmates Karen Martin, Shaun Gessner and Marilyn McKenzie who all “went out in the early rounds.”
They also compete for West-wood at “three or four club events throughout the year” according to Calvin and practise “three days a week” at this stage
in the calendar. Calvin is also a tennis instruct-
or through parks and recreation at the City of Nanaimo and hopes more residents come out to play the game this spring.
Calvin, who has been playing tennis since she was 12, is one of a number of instructors who will lead weekly coaching courses put on by the city starting later this month.
“It’s a lot fun, very exciting, it’s great exercise and has a great social element to it,” said Calvin on her favourite aspects of the game.
“We definitely need to get more
people out playing the game and give it a try. There’s lots of public courts and it’s great fun to play with friends.”
One course Calvin will teach herself will be an adult ten-nis class held every Monday at 5:30 p.m. beginning on April 27. The course runs until May 18 at Pioneer Park.
Details on a number of other tennis courses for children and adults, being held at Pioneer Park, Bowen Park and Westwood Tennis Club, can be found at ireg.nanaimo.ca.
[email protected] 250-729-4230
Darlene Dolman, left, and Holly Calvin, right, hold up their awards from the Western Senior National tennis championships held in Victoria last weekend. Calvin will instruct tennis courses put on by the City of Nanaimo this spring. [SUBMITTED]
LACROSSE
Timbermen announce deal with Red Shirt FoundationROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS
The Nanaimo Junior and Senior ‘A’ Timbermen have announced a partnership deal with the Red Shirt Foundation ahead of the 2015 season.
The Timbermen will wear Red Shirt stickers on their helmets throughout the campaign in order to support the prevention of violence in the workplace, which is the main aim of the charity.
The Red Shirt Founda-tion came about after the shootings at Western Forest Products mill in
Nanaimo last April saw two men die.
“Michael Lunn, who was one of the guys who lost their lives, always wore a red shirt and the foundation gives the tools and resources to stop workplace violence,” said Tali Campbell, the Timber-men’s director of market-ing. “This is our way of giving back but we’re not only promoting this as a team, it’s about giving knowledge and education as well.”
Campbell says education on workplace violence and stopping it should begin
early and believes the Junior Timbermen players to be some of the perfect advocates for the cause.
“A lot of our guys are 17 and 18 so they’re just about to enter the workplace, are looking at university or going into a trade.”
The Senior ‘A’ Timber-men take on the Coquitlam Adanacs on June 14 at Frank Crane Arena and $1 from every ticket sold for that game will be donated directly to the Red Shirt Foundation.
RArmour @nanaimodailynews.com
CFL
B.C. Lions sign Morrah and BigelowTHE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions signed receiver Cam-eron Morrah and running back Brendan Bigelow on Tuesday.
The international players are familiar to first-year Lions head coach Jeff Tedford, who coached both at the University of California.
After college, Morrah played 27 games for the
Seattle Seahawks from 2009 to 2011, finishing with 16 receptions for 194 yards. After being released by Seattle, the 28-year-old had brief stints with San Fran-cisco, Detroit and Denver.
Bigelow attended the Tampa Bay Buccaneers training camp last season after four years at Cal under Tedford.
The 22-year-old rushed for 877 yards on 155 car-ries with five touchdowns
during his time with the Golden Bears.
He added 42 receptions for 305 yards and was also a special teams’ threat with 1,363 yards on 62 kick-off returns.
Morrah and Bigelow join former Cal receiver Lavelle Hawkins on the Lions’ roster after the 28-year-old signed with the team last month.
The new CFL season begins June 25.
“We definitely need to get more people out playing the game and give it a try. There’s lots of public courts and it’s great fun to play with friends. “
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Tiger Woods talks with Lindsey Vonn and his son Charlie during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament Tuesday, in Augusta, Ga. [AP PHOTO]
Woods still motivated by winning and expects no less at MastersDOUG FERGUSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods hit the ball so pure that he felt like a 14-time major champion. Before long, the swing left him and he resembled a guy who couldn’t break 80.
He became so frustrated that he even threw a few clubs because of a game that had never been so maddening.This wasn’t Woods playing in the Masters.
This was the last seven weeks when he was trying to decide if he should even show up.
“I worked my (tail) off,” Woods said Tuesday with a smile of satisfaction. “That’s the easi-est way to kind of describe it. I worked hard. People would never understand how much work I put into it to come and do this again.
“But it was sunup to sundown, whenever I had free time. If the kids were asleep, I’d still be doing it. And then when they were in school, I’d still be doing it. So it
was a lot of work.”And he got his answer.It took nearly two months, fol-
lowed by two practice rounds at Augusta National last week, before Woods decided to end his self-imposed break and return at the Masters.
Woods last played the Masters two years ago. He was No. 1 in the world and the overwhelming favourite. Now he is at No. 111 in the world and Las Vegas bookies may have been generous in list-ing him at 40-1.
Golf’s biggest star always lights up Augusta National, and such was the case when he arrived Monday afternoon.
Only now, expectations have been replaced by sheer curiosity. Never mind that he hasn’t played in nearly two months and hasn’t won the Masters in 10 years.
When last seen at a tourna-ment, Woods couldn’t hit a simple chip shot, and the rest of his game was barely PGA Tour quality.
Adam Scott listed a half-dozen players that he could see contend for a green jacket, and he was asked why Woods was not on that short list.
“My guess is as good as yours,” Scott said. “I really don’t know. I have no idea what he’s doing. I’ve listed a bunch of guys that I’ve watched play a little bit and followed their results. But it’s a little bit unknown with Tiger because he hasn’t played for a few months.
“When you’re talking about a world-class player, you just don’t know,” he said. “I’m sure he has high hopes.”
That he does.Woods didn’t look anything
like the player who shot 82 at the Phoenix Open; who bladed a bun-ker shot over a green and into the bleachers; who walked off the course at Torrey Pines after 11 holes of the first round. Dur-ing practice Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, he looked closer to normal.
SOCCER
Confi dent Caps face ColumbusJIM MORRIS THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — A quick start to the season has the Vancou-ver Whitecaps brimming with confidence.
Vancouver is riding a fran-chise-high four-game win streak, which has pushed the Whitecaps to the top of the Major League Soccer standings with a 4-1-0 rec-ord for 12 points.
The Whitecaps are doing many things right but the players know they can’t be complacent head-ing into Wednesday night’s game against the Columbus Crew at BC Place Stadium.
“Complacency would be a big mistake for us,” said goalkeeper David Ousted.
“I don’t think we have proven anything yet.
“We’ve got some good wins but we are still early in the season. We need to prove we can be con-sistent and be a team that people can count on being up there in the standings.”
Skeptics can say the Whitecaps have built their record off the backs of teams below .500.
The four clubs Vancouver has beat — Chicago, Orlando, Port-land and L.A. — have a total of five wins between them.
The Whitecaps did dominate the defending MLS champions Galaxy in Saturday’s 2-0 victory, but were badly outplayed by Portland the week before. Van-couver also needed late goals for three of their wins.
“I don’t think anybody is look-ing too much at the table right now because it’s really young,” said midfielder Russell Teibert. “We know that we’ve won a couple games in a row. We’re just going to try to keep doing what we were doing that got us here.
“We will do the simple things well and hopefully we will keep getting results.”
The Crew has started the sea-son 1-2-0 and sits seventh in the Eastern Conference with three
points. Ousted said that record can be deceiving.
“You look at their team and they have a chance of hurting us,” said Ousted, who has three clean sheets so far this year.
“We need to be aware there are no easy games.
“We are off a little bit of a high beating L.A. We need to be really consistent and really focused on what the task is.”
The Crew will be without Argentine midfielder Federico Higuain, who is suspended after receiving a red card in a 2-1 loss to the New York Red Bulls.
Coach Gregg Berhalter said Higuain’s absence will give other players an opportunity.
“We bring someone in with different qualities and it might change slightly how we’re going to play,” Berhalter told the Crew’s website.
“It’s a chance early in the sea-son to give guys an opportunity to play and that is valuable. Obviously it’s a little bit frustrat-ing not being able to play the same lineup, but at the same time you get a look at guys early on and test your depth.”
Crew midfielder Ethan Finlay said this is a good time for his team to start turning the season around.
“It’s going to be a tough test and it’s a tough place to play,” he said. “But I think we’re up to the task.”
Vancouver forward Octavio Rivero has a league-leading four goals and is tied for most shots on goal with nine.
With the Whitecaps playing three games in eight days — they travel to San Jose on Saturday — the coaching staff has some roster decisions to make.
“We have to think about ‘Do we freshen things up,’ ” said assist-ant coach Gordon Forrest. “The fortunate thing we do have is a fantastic roster, a number of players that can come in and out of the team.
Players know they can’t be complacent
Put your spine in place and talk directly no matter how hard it is
Dear Annie: I have a close acquaintance who is a fitness instructor at the health club where I often work out.
Two years ago, I saw her at a local peace parade and got very worked up over something she wrote on the signs she was wearing. I became so crazed over it that I forgot myself and said some awful things about her. I also stopped going to her workout classes for a month and deleted her Facebook pages.
Then I found out her husband had had a stroke the day of the parade.
I realized how hideous my behavior had been. I returned to her workout class and intended to apologize profusely to her, but she wasn’t there that day.
When she finally came back, I told her I’d been praying for her and her husband.
Sometimes it seems she has forgiven me and everything is the same between us, but on other days, I’m not so sure. I apologized to her, in a general way, in a holiday greeting card, not men-tioning the parade.
I’ve lost countless hours of sleep crying from guilt, shame and regret. I’ve finally decided I have to do something. Please print this so she can see it and we can talk about it.
— DistraughtDear Distraught: Printing this in the paper
and hoping she sees it is a copout. You need to put your spine in place and talk
to her directly, no matter how hard it is. A semi-apology in a holiday greeting card doesn’t count, and telling her you will pray for her is kind, but insufficient.
Ask your friend whether she is available for coffee, or find some other time when neither of you is rushed and you can speak privately. Here’s what you say: “I know it’s been a while, but I need to tell you how sorry I am for my behavior at the parade and afterward. I don’t know what came over me.
I value our friendship a great deal, and I am hoping you can forgive me.” Whatever happens after that, at least you will know you truly tried to make it right.
Dear Annie: “Grandma” has every right to be concerned about her stepson’s nearly three-year-old child who barely speaks. She should follow her instincts and strongly encourage that the
girl be assessed by a speech therapist. The lack of expressive language could also be a sign of autism.
While the suggestions to spend more time inter-acting with the child are great, professional inter-vention might be necessary.
It is deplorable that the pediatrician has not caught this, as early intervention can change the trajectory of a child’s life.
As a special education teacher over the past 10 years, I’ve seen the terrible repercussions caused by the lack of early intervention and the over-worked school systems that regularly miss identi-fying these needs.
— Concerned Special Ed Teacher Dear Teacher: Several readers pointed out that
the lack of speech could be a sign of autism. Others told us that their kids didn’t speak much at that age and turned out just fine. There’s no way for us to know what’s going on, but we abso-lutely concur that the child should be evaluated by a speech therapist to find out. Unfortunately, that is Dad’s call, and he seems disinclined to do anything.
If “Grandma” can take her, wonderful. If not, talking and reading to this little girl could be a godsend.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
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HOCKEYNHL
Playoffs and Wildcardsz-Clinched conference titley-Clinched divisionx-Clinched playoff spotw-Wild card leaders (Conference)e-Eliminated from playoffs
Yesterday’s resultsCarolina 3, Philadelphia 2Columbus 5, Pittsburgh 3Winnipeg 5, Vancouver 4NY Islanders 3, Buffalo 0Detroit 3, Minnesota 2NY Rangers 6, New Jersey 1Tampa Bay 4, Florida 0Boston 2, Toronto 1Ottawa 4, Washington 3Dallas 4, Nashville 3Arizona 5, San Jose 3Los Angeles 3, Colorado 1Calgary 4, Edmonton 0
Today’s schedulePittsburgh at Philadelphia, 9:30 a.m.Montreal at Florida, 2 p.m.Washington at Detroit, 2 p.m.Ottawa at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.St. Louis at Chicago, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, April 6Carolina at Buffalo, 4 p.m.Columbus at NY Rangers, 4 p.m.Winnipeg at Minnesota, 5 p.m.Los Angeles at Vancouver, 7 p.m.Dallas at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.
Western Hockey League
PlayoffsAll series best-of- seven
Yesterday’s resultsPortland 5, Seattle 3 (Portland leads series 3-2)Kootenay 4, Calgary 2 (Series tied 3-3)Medicine Hat 4, Red Deer 3 (Medicine Hat wins series 4-1)Victoria 5, Prince George 4 (OT) (Victoria wins series 4-1)Spokane 4, Everett 3 (OT) (Everett leads series 3-2)
Today’s gamesNo games scheduled
Monday, April 6*Kootenay at Calgary, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 7*Swift Current at Regina, 6 p.m.Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.Tri-City at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.Portland at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Yesterday at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
Royals 5, Cougars 4 (OT)First Period1. Victoria, Chase 3 (Soy, Walker) 9:04 (PP)2. Prince George, Pochiro 2 (Erricson, Morrison) 9:543. Victoria, Fushimi 1 (unassisted) 13:414. Victoria, Chase 4 (Soy) 17:04Penalties: Pochiro P.G. (roughing) 7:44; Carroll Vic (kneeing) 14:28
Second Period5. Prince George, Pochiro 3 (Harkins), 15:14 (PP)Penalties: Walker Vic (hooking) 5:34; Ruopp P.G. (roughing) 9:17; Walker Vic (hooking) 14:10; Morrison P.G. (high sticking) 19:54
Third Period6. Prince George, Pochiro 4 (Ruopp) 14:007. Victoria, Chase 5 (Walker) 15:168. Prince George, Morrison 2 (Harkins) 18:46 (PP)Penalties: Gagnon Vic (checking to the head) 16:17; Magee Vic (delay of game) 18:43
Overtime9. Victoria, Magee 6 (Forsberg, Carroll), 1:42Penalties: No penalties
Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd OT TPrince George 9 15 14 0 38Victoria 9 8 7 3 27
Goaltending summary:Prince George: Ty Edmonds (22/27);Victoria: Coleman Vollrach (34/38)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Prince George: 2 of 5; Victoria: 1 of 3
Att: 5,839
B.C. Hockey LeagueFred Page Cup FinalsBest of Seven series
Friday, April 10 - Game 1Nanaimo at Penticton, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 11Nanaimo at Penticton, 6 p.m.
Monday, April 13Penticton at Nanaimo
Tuesday, April 14Penticton at Nanaimo
Saturday, April 4*Nanaimo at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.
Cyclone Taylor Cup(B.C. provincial Junior B championship)All games at Mission Leisure Center, Mission, B.C.
Teams: Kimberley Dynamiters (KIJHL)North Vancouver Wolf Pack (PIJHL)Mission City Outlaws (PJHL)Campbell River Storm (VIJHL)
Friday’s results (Games 1)Campbell River 6, North Vancouver 3Kimberley 2, Mission City 1
Yesterday’s resultsCampbell River 4, Kimberley 3 (OT)Mission City 7, North Vancouver 6 (SO)
Today’s gamesNorth Vancouver vs. Kimberley, 3 p.m.Mission City vs. Campbell River, 7:30 p.m.
Monday, April 6Bronze Medal game, 11 a.m.Gold Medal final, 3 p.m.
IIHF World Women’s ChampionshipsMalmo, Sweden.
Yesterday’s resultsBronze Medal gameFinland 4, Russia 1
Gold Medal gameUnited States 7, Canada 5
American Hockey League
Yesterday’s resultsAlbany 4, Binghamton 1Providence 5, St. John’s 4Hartford 3, Manchester 2Bridgeport 3, Syracuse 2Utica 3, Hamilton 2W-B/Scran 3, Lehigh 0Grand Rapids 7, Toronto 2Springfield 5, Portland 2Hershey 2, Norfolk 0Adirondack 7, San Antonio 3Rockford 7, Rochester 2Texas 6, Chicago 2
Today’s scheduleNo games scheduled
Monday, April 6Worcester at Bridgeport, 4 p.m.
BASEBALLMLB
Final pre-season standings
Grapefruit LeagueTeam W L Pct GBNY Mets 19 12 .613 -Toronto 18 13 .581 1Boston 16 12 .571 1.5Pittsburgh 15 12 .556 2Tampa Bay 15 12 .556 2St. Louis 13 11 .542 2.5Miami 14 12 .538 2.5Houston 12 11 .522 3NY Yankees 16 16 .500 3.5Minnesota 13 15 .464 4.5Atlanta 14 17 .452 5Philadelphia 13 17 .433 5.5Washington 11 15 .423 5.5Baltimore 12 18 .400 6.5Detroit 11 20 .355 8
Cactus LeagueTeam W L Pct GBOakland 22 10 .688 -Kansas City 19 10 .655 1.5LA Dodgers 16 11 .593 3.5San Diego 17 12 .586 3.5Arizona 18 14 .562 4Cincinnati 15 13 .536 5Colorado 16 14 .533 5LA Angels 15 14 .517 5.5Chi Cubs 15 16 .484 6.5Cleveland 14 17 .452 7.5Milwaukee 12 16 .429 8Chi Sox 11 17 .393 9Seattle 11 17 .393 9San Francisco 12 21 .364 10.Texas 9 19 .321 11
Yesterday’s results(Final spring training games)Detroit 1, Tampa Bay 0Boston 4, Minnesota 2NY Yankees 4, Washington 3Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 4Toronto 9, Cincinnati 1NY Mets 4, Texas 4Atlanta 5, Baltimore 3Milwaukee 4, Cleveland 3Seattle 6, Colorado 3Kansas City 3, Houston 1San Fran 2, Oakland 1Arizona 4, Chicago Cubs 2 LA Angels 6, LA Dodgers 6
Opening DayToday
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs 5 p.m. Adam Wainwright vs Jon Lester
Monday, April 6Toronto at NY Yankees 10 a.m. Drew Hutchison vs Masahiro TanakaMinnesota at Detroit 10:08 a.m. Hughes vs PriceColorado at Milwaukee 11:10 a.m. Kendrick vs LohseBoston at Philadelphia 12:05 p.m. Buchholz vs HamelsBaltimore at Tampa Bay 12:10 p.m. Chris Tillman vs Chris ArcherNY Mets at Washington 1:00 p.m. Colon vs ScherzerChicago Sox at Kansas City 1:10 p.m. Samardzija vs VenturaLA Angels at Seattle 1:10 p.m. Jered Weaver vs Felix HernandezPittsburgh at Cincinnati 1:10 p.m. Liriano vs CuetoSan Diego at LA Dodgers 1:10 p.m. Shields vs KershawAtlanta at Miami 1:10 p.m. Teheran vs AlvarezCleveland at Houston 4:00 p.m. Kluber vs KeuchelSan Francisco at Arizona 7:00 p.m. Bumgarner vs Josh CollmenterTexas at Oakland 7:05 p.m. Gallardo vs Gray
Tuesday, April 7Atlanta at Miami 4:10 p.m. Alex Wood vs Mat LatosBaltimore at Tampa Bay 4:10 p.m. Wei-Yin Chen vs Nathan KarnsSt. Louis at Chicago Cubs 5:05 p.m. Lance Lynn vs Jake ArrietaColorado at Milwaukee 5:10 p.m. Jordan Lyles vs Matt GarzaSan Francisco at Arizona 6:40 p.m. Undecided vs Rubby De La RosaTexas at Oakland 7:05 p.m. Colby Lewis vs Jesse HahnLA Angels at Seattle 7:10 p.m. C.J. Wilson vs James PaxtonSan Diego at LA Dodgers 7:10 p.m. Tyson Ross vs Zack Greinke
Wednesday, April 8Minnesota at Detroit, 10:08 a.m. Ricky Nolasco vs Anibal SanchezSt. Louis at Chicago, 11:20 a.m. John Lackey vs Jason HammelBoston at Philadelphia, 4:00 p.m. Rick Porcello vs Aaron HarangToronto at New York, 4:05 p.m. R.A. Dickey vs Michael PinedaNew York at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Jacob deGrom vs Jordan ZimmermannPittsburgh at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Gerrit Cole vs Mike LeakeAtlanta at Miami, 4:10 p.m. Shelby Miller vs Tom KoehlerBaltimore at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. Miguel Gonzalez vs Jake OdorizziChicago at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. Jose Quintana vs Danny DuffyColorado at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Undecided vs Wily PeraltaCleveland at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Carlos Carrasco vs Scott FeldmanSan Francisco at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. (Pitchers to be determined)San Diego at LA Dodgers, 7:00 p.m. Andrew Cashner vs Brandon McCarthyTexas at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Ross Detwiler vs Scott KazmirLA Angels at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Matt Shoemaker vs Hisashi Iwakuma
GOLFPGA TourThis week’s eventApril 2-5: Shell Houston OpenGolf Club of Houston, Humble, Texas. Par 27, 7,441 yards. Purse: $6.6 million. 2014 champion: Matt Jones.
Golfer Par R1 R2 R31 Jordan Spieth -14 69 66 67T2 Scott Piercy -13 63 74 66T2 Johnson Wagner -13 69 68 66T2 Austin Cook -13 68 65 705 Shawn Stefani -12 66 69 69T6 Kelvin Day -11 68 69 68T6 Paul Casey -11 68 69 68T6 Charles Howell III -11 66 70 69T6 Russell Henley -11 69 68 68T10 Patrick Reed -10 68 71 67T10 Keegan Bradley -10 70 66 70T12 Cameron Tringale -9 68 70 69T12 Sergio Garcia -9 67 71 69T12 Alex Cejka -9 65 72 70T12 Michael Putnam -9 68 68 71T12 Hunter Mahan -9 67 68 72T12 Luke Guthrie -9 66 68 73T18 Chad Collins -8 69 69 70T18 Kevin Streelman -8 70 69 69T18 Brendon de Jonge -8 73 67 68T18 K.J. Choi -8 71 69 68T18 Daniel Berger -8 70 70 68T18 J.B. Holmes -8 65 70 73T18 Phil Mickelson -8 66 67 75Canadian golfersT26 Graham DeLaet -7 67 67 75T44 Adam Hadwin -5 70 70 71T52 David Hearn -4 69 70 73
LPGA TourThis week’s eventApril 2-5: ANA InspirationDinah Shore Tournament Course, Mis-sion Hills Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California. Par 72, 6,769 yards. Purse: $2.5 million.
Golfer Par R1 R2 R31 Sei Young Kim -10 72 65 692 Stacy Lewis -7 72 69 68T3 Brittany Lincicome -6 72 68 70T3 Morgan Pressel -6 67 72 71T3 Ariya Jutanugarn -6 71 73 66T6 Shanshan Feng -5 71 70 70T6 Moriya Jutanugarn -5 71 70 70T6 Jenny Shin -5 71 69 71T9 Lexi Thompson -4 72 69 71T9 So Yeon Ryu -4 69 72 71T9 Anna Nordqvist -4 71 72 69T9 Pat Hurst -4 71 71 70T9 Mi Hyang Lee -4 74 68 70T14 Karrie Webb -3 74 72 67T14 Carlota Ciganda -3 74 71 68T14 Marina Alex -3 73 71 69T14 Inbee Park -3 74 69 70T14 Mirim Lee -3 71 70 72T19 Stephanie Meadow -2 76 68 70T19 Catriona Matthew -2 71 69 74Failed to make cut (+3) - Alena Sharp (CAN) +5 76 73 -
Upcoming Tour events
PGA TourThe MastersApril 9-12, Augusta National, Georgia. Par 72, 7,435 yards.Purse: $9,000,000. 2014 champion: Bubba Watson
LPGA TourNo events this weekApril 15-18, LPGA Lotte Championship, Ko Olina Golf Club, Kapolei, Hawaii. Par 72, 6,383 yards.Purse: $1,800,000. 2014 champion: Michelle Wie
Champions TourNo events this weekApril 17-19, Greater Gwinnett Cham-pionship (54 holes), TPC Sugarloaf, Duluth, Georgia. Par 72, 7,259 yards.Purse: $1,800,000. 2014 champion: Miguel Angel Jimenez
Web.com TourNo events this weekApril 16-19, El Bosque Mexico Cham-pionship, El Bosque Golf Club, Leon, Mexico. Par 72, 7,701 yards.Purse: $700,000.
BASKETBALLMarch Madness(Tournament rankings in brackets)
SemifinalsLucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis)Yesterday’s results(1) Wisconsin 71, (1) Kentucky 64(1) Duke 81, (7) Michigan State 61
Championship GameMonday, April 6, Duke vs. Wisconsin
Awards announced Saturday:AP Coach of the Year: John Calipari, Kentucky (38-0)AP Player of the Year: Frank Kaminsky, Wisconsin
NBA
Playoffs and Wildcardsz-Clinched conference titley-Clinched divisionx-Clinched playoff spot
Yesterday’s resultsCharlotte 92, Philadelphia 91Boston 117, Toronto 116 (OT)Atlanta 131, Brooklyn 99Detroit 99, Miami 98Washington 92, Memphis 83Orlando 97, Milwaukee 90Golden State 123, Dallas 110LA Clippers 107, Denver 92Portland 99, New Orleans 90Phoenix 87, Utah 85
Today’s scheduleHouston at Oklahoma City, 10 a.m.Chicago at Cleveland, 12:30 p.m.Miami at Indiana, 3 p.m.Golden State at San Antonio, 4 p.m.Philadelphia at New York, 4:30 p.m.Utah at Sacramento, 6 p.m.Los Angeles at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, April 6Portland at Brooklyn, 4 p.m.
TENNISMiami OpenFlorida. Through Sunday, April 5. Out-door. Surface: Hard Purse: $5,381,235. Entry field 96 singles, 32 doubles
MenSingles - Final today, 10 a.m.Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, vs. Andy Murray (3), Britain
Men’s Doubles, Final Bob Bryan, United States, and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Vasek Pospisil, Vernon, and Jack Sock (2), United States, , 6-3, 1-6, 10-8.
WomenSingles - FinalSerena Williams (1), United States, def. Carla Suarez Navarro (12), Spain, 6-2, 6-0
Doubles, Final today, 1 p.m.Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, and Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, def. Andrea Hlavackova, Czech Republic, and Lucie Hradecka (9), Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2.
This week’s tournaments
ATPGrand Prix Hassan II April 6-12, Casablanca, Mo-rocco. Surface: Clay. Purse: €439,405 (1€=$CDN1.36)
US Men’s Clay Court ChampionshipApril 6-12, Houston, Texas. Surface: Clay. Purse: $488,225
WTAFamily Circle CupApril 6-12, Charleston, South Carolina. Surface: Clay. Purse: $731,000
LACROSSENational Lacrosse LeagueWest W L GB Pct GF GAEdmonton 8 4 - .667 163 115Colorado 8 5 - .615 165 154Vancouver 4 8 4 .333 152 171Calgary 3 10 5 .230 156 170
East W L GB Pct GF GAToronto 11 3 - .786 191 159Rochester 8 4 2 .667 132 127Buffalo 7 6 3 .538 156 159Minnesota 5 8 5.5 .384 143 166 New England 3 8 6.5 .272 121 148
Yesterday’s resultsNew England at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.Minnesota at Rochester, 4:30 p.m.Colorado 9, Calgary 8 (OT)Edmonton at Vancouver (OT)
Friday’s resultsRochester 11, Toronto 7Minnesota 12, New England 8Colorado 9, Calgary 8Edmonton 15, Vancouver 14
Spring Training recordsAmerican LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkToronto 19 13 .594 0.5 W1Boston 17 12 .586 1 W1Tampa Bay 15 13 .536 2.5 L1NY Yankees 17 16 .515 3 W1Baltimore 12 19 .387 7 L1Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 19 10 .655 1.5 W3Minnesota 13 16 .448 5 L1Detroit 12 20 .375 7.5 W1Cleveland 14 18 .438 8 L2Chicago Sox 11 17 .393 9 L1West W L PCT GB StrkOakland 22 11 .667 - L2Houston 12 12 .500 3.5 L2LA Angels 15 14 .517 5 W2Seattle 13 17 .433 7.5 W2Texas 9 19 .321 10.5 L8
National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Mets 19 12 .613 - W1Miami 14 12 .538 2.5 W2Atlanta 15 17 .469 4.5 W1Philadelphia 14 17 .452 5 W2Washington 11 16 .407 6 L1Central W L PCT GB StrkPittsburgh 15 13 .536 2.5 L3St. Louis 13 11 .542 2.5 W1Cincinnati 15 14 .517 5.5 L1Chicago Cubs 15 17 .469 6.5 L2Milwaukee 13 16 .448 7.5 W2West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 16 11 .593 3 L3San Diego 17 12 .586 3 W2Arizona 19 14 .576 3 W5Colorado 16 16 .500 5.5 L2San Francisco 13 21 .382 9.5 W2
Frozen FourU.S. NCAA Hockey ChampionshipFinals among four regional winners at TD Garden, Boston, April 9-11
Thursday, April 9 - SemifinalsOmaha vs. Providence, 2 p.m.North Dakota vs. Boston University, 5:30 p.m.
FinalSaturday, April 11, 5:30 p.m.
Blue Jays 9, Reds 1NOTE: Played in Montreal, attendance 50,231.Cincinnati Toronto ab r h bi ab r h biHamilton CF 1 0 0 0 Reyes SS 3 0 1 1Negron PH-2B 2 0 0 0 Smoak 1B 2 1 1 0Votto 1B 1 0 0 0 Martin C 3 1 0 0Schu’ker CF 2 0 0 0 Ochinko C 1 0 0 0Frazier 3B 2 0 0 0 Bautista RF 2 0 1 1Dom’guez 3B 1 1 0 0 Tolleson RF 2 2 1 1Mesoraco C 2 0 0 0 Enc’cion 1B 2 0 1 1Boesch RF 2 0 0 0 Berti PR-LF 2 1 1 0Byrd LF 2 0 0 0 Don’son 3B 3 1 2 2Smith LF 2 0 2 1 Valencia 3B 2 0 1 1Bruce RF 2 0 0 0 Navarro DH 3 0 2 1Skipworth C 2 0 0 0 Smith PH-DH 1 0 0 0Phillips 2B 1 0 0 0 Pompey CF 3 0 0 0Vincej SS 1 0 0 0 Goins SS 1 0 0 0Pena DH 2 0 1 0 Pillar LF-CF 3 1 1 0De Jesus DH 1 0 0 0 Travis 2B 2 1 2 0Cozart SS 2 0 0 0 Kawasaki 2B 1 1 1 0Wallach 1B 1 0 0 0 Totals 36 9 15 8Totals 29 1 3 1
Blue Jays 9, Reds 1 (Cont’d)
Cincinnati 000 000 001 1 Toronto 010 143 00x 9
GIDP: cin Votto; tor Reyes, Martin, R. Team Lob: cin 5; tor 8. DP: cin 2 (Phillips-Cozart-Votto, Cozart-Phillips-Votto); tor (Reyes-Encarnacion). E: cin Boesch (2, fielding).Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SOA DeSclafani (L, 1-2) 4.0 3 2 2 2 3K Gregg 0.2 4 4 4 1 0C Carpenter 0.1 2 0 0 0 0M Parra 0.2 5 3 3 0 1J De La Torre 0.1 0 0 0 0 0J Hoover 1.0 1 0 0 1 3J Diaz 1.0 0 0 0 0 2Toronto IP H R ER BB SOD Norris (W, 4-0) 3.0 1 0 0 3 1M Castro 1.0 0 0 0 0 2R Osuna 1.0 0 0 0 0 1J Hynes 1.0 0 0 0 0 2L Perez 1.0 1 0 0 0 1M Estrada 1.0 0 0 0 0 1T Cole 1.0 1 1 1 1 0HBP: Travis (by DeSclafani).
Time: 2:49. Att: 50,231.
Mariners 6, Rockies 3Seattle Colorado ab r h bi ab r h biJackson CF 2 0 0 0 Blackmon CF 1 0 0 0Ruggiano CF 1 0 0 0 Richardson CF 3 0 0 0Miller CF 2 0 0 0 Dickerson LF 1 0 0 0Smith RF 2 0 0 0 McClure LF 1 1 1 0Guerrero RF 2 0 0 0 Tulowitzki SS 0 0 0 0Cano 2B 2 0 1 0 Descalso SS 1 0 1 0Bonilla PR-2B 2 2 2 1 George SS 1 1 0 0Cruz DH 2 0 1 0 Gonzalez RF 1 0 0 0Littlewood DH 2 1 0 0 Prigatano RF 3 0 0 0Seager 3B 2 1 2 2 Ynoa 3B 2 0 0 0Lara PR-3B 2 0 1 0 Rivera 3B 2 0 0 0Morrison 1B 1 1 1 2 Morneau 1B 1 1 1 1Weeks PH 1 0 0 0 Rosario 1B 1 0 0 0Kivlehan 1B 2 0 0 0 Ribera 1B 2 0 1 2Zunino C 2 0 1 0 Stubbs DH 2 0 0 0Sucre C 0 0 0 0 Rosario DH 2 0 0 0Baron C 1 0 0 0 Hundley C 1 0 0 0Ackley LF 1 1 1 0 McKenry C 1 0 0 0Bloomquist LF 1 0 0 0 Marte C 1 0 0 0Blash LF 2 0 0 0 LeMahieu 2B 1 0 0 0Miller SS 2 0 0 0 Jones 2B 2 0 0 0Rein’mer SS 2 0 0 0 Totals 30 3 4 3Totals 36 6 10 5
Seattle 032 000 010 6 Colorado 010 002 000 3
GIDP: col Jones. Team Lob: sea 4; col 5. DP: sea (Bonilla-Kivlehan); col (Ynoa-Rosario, W). E: col McClure (1, fielding).Seattle IP H R ER BB SOT Walker (W, 4-0) 2.0 1 1 1 1 2F Rodney 0.2 0 0 0 1 1E Cochran-Gill 1.1 1 0 0 0 1Y Medina 1.0 0 0 0 1 0C Furbush 0.1 0 2 2 2 1E Pagan 1.2 1 0 0 0 2J Gillheeney 2.0 1 0 0 0 3Colorado IP H R ER BB SOT Butler (L, 1-4) 2.1 6 5 5 0 1C Friedrich 1.2 1 0 0 0 1B Brown 1.0 1 0 0 0 1R Betancourt 1.0 0 0 0 1 1J Axford 1.0 0 0 0 0 2J Arrowood 1.0 2 1 1 0 2T Ybarra 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Time: 2:39. Att: 6,738.
Diamondbacks 4, Cubs 2Chicago Cubs Arizona ab r h bi ab r h biHan’mann RF 4 0 0 0 Pollock CF 2 0 1 0Russell SS 4 0 1 0 Marzilli RF 2 1 0 0Schwarber C 3 1 1 0 Inciarte OF 3 1 1 0Lopez C 1 0 0 0 O’Brien CF 1 0 0 0Baez 2B 3 1 1 0 Gold’midt 1B 1 0 1 1Lake LF 4 0 2 1 Lamb PR-1B 2 1 1 0Almora CF 4 0 2 1 Pacheco IF 1 0 1 0Candelario 3B 2 0 0 0 Trumbo DH 2 1 2 3Cervenka P 0 0 0 0 Peralta DH 2 0 0 0Silva PH 1 0 0 0 Hill 3B 3 0 0 0Cruz P 0 0 0 0 Leyba 2B 1 0 0 0Parker P 0 0 0 0 Tomas LF 3 0 0 0McKinney PH 0 0 0 0 Dorn LF 0 0 0 0Baxter 1B 4 0 0 0 Owings 2B 2 0 0 0Wood P 0 0 0 0 Ahmed SS 0 0 0 0Hendricks P 0 0 0 0 Worth PR-SS 0 0 0 0Zagunis PH 0 0 0 0 Laird C 2 0 0 0Germen P 0 0 0 0 Thomas C 1 0 0 0Valaika 3B 2 0 0 0 Pennington IF 3 0 1 0Totals 32 2 7 2 Lalli 1B 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 4 8 4
Chicago Cubs 000 002 000 2 Arizona 202 000 00x 4
GIDP: chc Lake, Silva. Team Lob: chc 6; ari 4. DP: chc (Schwarber-Russell, A); ari 2 (Owings, C-Pennington-Lamb, Lamb-Ahmed-Krehbiel).Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SOT Wood (L, 1-2) 1.0 3 2 2 0 1K Hendricks 1.0 0 0 0 0 0G Germen 1.0 2 2 2 0 2C Cervenka 2.0 0 0 0 0 2F Cruz 2.0 2 0 0 0 2R Parker 1.0 1 0 0 0 1Arizona IP H R ER BB SOF Banda (W, 1-0) 5.0 4 0 0 1 1J Krehbiel 1.0 3 2 2 0 0A Miller 1.0 0 0 0 0 1S Bracho 1.0 0 0 0 0 2J Sherfy 1.0 0 0 0 1 1HBP: Baez, J (by Krehbiel), Ahmed (by Cruz, F).
Time: 2:30. Att: 15,852.
Eastern ConferenceAtlantic W L PCT GB L10x-Toronto 45 32 0.584 0.0 5-5Brooklyn 35 41 0.461 9.5 8-2Boston 35 42 0.455 10.0 5-5e-Philadelphia 18 59 0.234 27.0 3-7e-New York 14 62 0.184 30.5 1-9
Central W L PCT GB L10x-Cleveland 49 27 0.645 0.0 8-2x-Chicago 46 30 0.605 3.0 6-4Milwaukee 38 39 0.494 11.5 4-6Indiana 33 43 0.434 16.0 3-7Detroit 30 47 0.390 19.5 6-4
Southeast W L PCT GB L10z-Atlanta 57 19 0.750 0.0 5-5x-Washington 44 33 0.571 13.5 5-5Miami 34 42 0.447 23.0 4-6Charlotte 33 43 0.434 24.0 4-6Orlando 24 53 0.312 33.5 3-7
Western ConferenceNorthwest W L PCT GB L10x-Portland 49 26 0.653 0.0 5-5Oklahoma City 42 34 0.553 7.5 5-5e-Utah 34 41 0.453 15.0 5-5e-Denver 28 49 0.364 22.0 2-8e-Minnesota 16 60 0.211 33.5 2-8
Pacific W L PCT GB L10y-Golden State 63 13 0.829 0.0 10-0x-LA Clippers 51 26 0.662 12.5 9-1Phoenix 38 38 0.500 25.0 4-6e-Sacramento 26 49 0.347 36.5 4-6e-LA Lakers 20 55 0.267 42.5 3-7
Southwest W L PCT GB L10x-Houston 52 24 0.684 0.0 8-2x-Memphis 52 25 0.675 0.5 5-5x-San Antonio 50 26 0.658 2.0 9-1Dallas 46 31 0.597 6.5 4-6New Orleans 41 34 0.547 10.5 5-5
Jets 5, Canucks 4First Period1. Winnipeg, Slater (5) (Tlusty, Enstrom) 4:342. Winnipeg, Frolik (18) (Little, Per-reault) 5:243. Vancouver, Henrik Sedin (18) (Edler, Daniel Sedin) 9:37 (PP)4. Vancouver, Daniel Sedin (17) (Hamhuis, Vrbata) 17:375. Winnipeg, Stempniak (13) (Per-reault, Myers) 18:13Penalties: Little Wpg (Tripping) 7:55, Hamhuis Van (Delaying Game - Puck over Glass) 15:15, Baertschi Van (Hold-ing) 19:24
Second Period6. Winnipeg, Scheifele (15) (Wheeler, Trouba) 19:047. Vancouver, Burrows (17) (Bieksa, Sbisa) 19:12Penalties: Trouba Wpg (Hooking) 6:18, Baertschi Van (Hooking) 8:50, Sbisa Van (Roughing) 19:51, Lowry Wpg (Roughing) 19:51
Third Period8. Winnipeg, Stempniak (14) (Per-reault) 9:369. Vancouver, Burrows (18) (Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin) 17:55
Jets 5, Canucks 4 (Cont’d)
Third Period - PenaltiesMyers Wpg (Tripping) 6:01, Henrik Sedin Van (Hooking) 9:51
Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd TVancouver 11 7 12 30Winnipeg 16 12 8 36
Goaltending summary:Vancouver: Lack (31/36), Winnipeg: Pavelec (26/30)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Vancouver: 1 of 3, Winnipeg: 0 of 4
Att: 15,016
Lightning 4, Panthers 0First PeriodNo scoringPenalties: Barberio Tb (Highstick) 7:20
Second Period1. Tampa Bay, Stamkos (41) (Nesterov, Johnson) 6:10 (PP)2. Tampa Bay, Stamkos (42) (Callahan) 11:19Penalties: Johnson Tb (Hooking) 2:16, Kopecky Fla (Tripping) 5:12
Third Period3. Tampa Bay, Callahan (24) (Stamkos) 1:034. Tampa Bay, Johnson (27) (Drouin) 18:13Penalties: Koekkoek Tb (Interference) 10:38, Witkowski Tb (Tripping) 12:14
Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd TTampa Bay 7 9 6 22Florida 7 15 12 34
Goaltending summary:Tampa Bay: Bishop (34/34), Florida: Luongo (18/22)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Tampa Bay: 1 of 1, Florida: 0 of 4
Blue Jackets 5, Penguins 3First Period1. Pittsburgh, Crosby (27) (Cole, Hornqvist) 8:21Penalties: Connauton Cbj (Hooking) 1:43, Downie Pit (Goalie Interference) 8:41, Dubinsky Cbj (Tripping) 18:05
Second Period2. Pittsburgh, Sutter (18) (Cole, Spal-ing) 11:073. Columbus, Foligno (28) (Anisimov, Dubinsky) 16:254. Columbus, Calvert (11) (Letestu, Dano) 18:28
Third Period5. Columbus, Foligno (29) (Dubinsky) 6:466. Columbus, Hartnell (26) (Wennberg, Dano) 9:297. Pittsburgh, Lovejoy (2) (Comeau, Winnik) 10:108. Columbus, Foligno (30) (Dubinsky, Savard) 19:03Penalties: Downie Pit (Holding) 3:16, Johnson Cbj (Roughing) 12:30
Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd TPittsburgh 15 10 11 36Columbus 12 10 13 35
Goaltending summary:Pittsburgh: Fleury (30/34), Columbus: Bobrovsky (33/36)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Pittsburgh: 0 of 3, Columbus: 0 of 3
Hurricanes 3, Flyers 2 (SO)First Period1. Carolina, Lindholm (17) (Staal, Staal) 11:00Penalties: Lecavalier Phi (Tripping) 12:47, Schultz Phi (Hooking) 17:29
Second Period2. Carolina, Staal (5) 3:273. Philadelphia, Raffl (21) (Del Zotto, Couturier) 9:46 (PP)Penalties: Semin Car (Hooking) 7:56
Third Period4. Philadelphia, Couturier (14) (Schenn, Del Zotto) 18:10Penalties: Nestrasil Car (High-sticking) 6:27, Vande Velde Phi (Tripping) 9:50
ShootoutCarolina, Gerbe Goal, Terry Goal, Rask No goalPhiladelphia, Voracek No Goal, Cousins Goal, Giroux No Goal
Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd OT TPhiladelphia 4 8 11 0 23Carolina 7 7 11 1 26
Goaltending summary:Philadelphia: Emery (24/26), Carolina: Ward (21/23)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Philadelphia: 1 of 2, Carolina: 0 of 3
Bruins 2, Maple Leafs 1 (SO)First PeriodNo scoringPenalties: MacWilliam Tor (Hooking) 12:29, Kadri Tor (Interference) 17:37
Second Period1. Boston, Bergeron (22) (Marchand, Krejci) 0:192. Toronto, van Riemsdyk (26) (Gar-diner, Rielly) 14:31Penalties: Krejci Bos (Holding) 10:58
Third PeriodNo scoringPenalties: MacWilliam Tor (Slashing) 7:54, Smith Bos (Holding) 9:47
ShootoutToronto, Bozak, van Riemsdyk, Kadri, No GoalBoston, Krejci No Goal, Bergeron Goal
Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd OT TToronto 6 11 8 3 28Boston 19 12 16 3 50
Goaltending summary:Toronto: Reimer (49/50), Boston: Rask (27/28)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Toronto: 0 of 2, Boston: 0 of 3
Rangers 6, Devils 1First Period1. New York, Nash (42) (Yandle, Zuc-carello) 5:102. New York, Yandle (6) (Kreider, Stepan) 11:593. New York, Moore (8) (Fast, Glass) 12:24Penalties: Brassard Nyr (Holding) 14:12
Second Period4. New York, Stepan (14) (Nash, McDonagh) 19:57 (PP)Penalties: Cammalleri Nj (Embellish) 8:46, Zuccarello Nyr (Unsportsmanlike) 8:46, Hagelin Nyr (Tripping) 19:04
Third Period5. New York, Brassard (18) (Staal, St. Louis) 1:556. New York, Moore (9) (Girardi, McDonagh) 12:007. New Jersey, Ruutu (8) (Tootoo, Fraser) 16:30Penalties: Moore Nyr (High-sticking) 0:11, Gelinas Nj (Interference) 1:01, Girardi Nyr (Interference) 3:26
Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd TNew Jersey 13 12 11 36New York 8 16 8 32
Goaltending summary:New Jersey: Kinkaid (23/26), Schneider (3/6), New York: Lundqvist (35/36)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):New Jersey: 0 of 4, New York: 0 of 1
Senators 4, Capitals 3 (OT)First Period1. Ottawa, Stone (21) (MacArthur, Gryba) 3:212. Ottawa, MacArthur (15) (Karlsson, Zibanejad) 9:03 (PP)3. Ottawa, Zibanejad (20) (Ryan, Karls-son) 9:56 (PP)Penalties: Ward Wsh (Interference) 7:17, Fehr Wsh (Hooking) 8:27, Holtby Wsh (Delaying Game - Puck over Glass (Served by Brooks Laich)) 8:55, Wilson Wsh (Fighting) 16:48, Borowiecki Ott (Fighting) 16:48
Second Period4. Washington, Johansson (19) (Orpik, Carlson) 6:26Penalties: Hoffman Ott (Hooking) 16:48
Third Period5. Washington, Green (9) (Backstrom, Brouwer) 7:186. Washington, Brouwer (21) (Fehr, Carlson) 15:50Penalties: Gryba Ott (Roughing) 13:32, Wilson Wsh (Cross checking) 13:32
Overtime7. Ottawa, Turris (23) 3:14
Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd OT TWashington 7 12 11 2 32Ottawa 13 7 4 4 28
Goaltending summary:Washington: Holtby (24/28), Ottawa: Hammond (29/32)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Washington: 0 of 1, Ottawa: 2 of 3
Att: 19,961
Coyotes 5, Sharks 3First Period1. Arizona, Ekman-Larsson (22) (Moore, Arcobello) 11:53 (PP)2. San Jose, Hertl (13) (Tierney, Fedun) 16:36 (PP)3. Arizona, Doan (14) (Stone, Ekman-Larsson) 18:57 (PP)Penalties: Doan Ari (Hooking Justin Braun) 4:49, Stollery Sj (Hooking Sam Gagner) 10:27, Ekman-Larsson Ari (Interference of Tommy Wingels) 15:39, Goodrow Sj (Tripping Klas Dahlbeck) 17:50
Second Period4. Arizona, Ekman-Larsson (23) (Gagner, Doan) 17:465. San Jose, Thornton (15) (Burns, Karlsson) 18:05Penalties: Doan Ari (Hooking Joe Pavelski) 3:55
Third Period6. Arizona, Arcobello (17) (Doan, Rieder) 5:307. San Jose, Tierney (6) (Irwin, Fedun) 6:48 (PP)8. Arizona, Gagner (14) (Moss, Erat) 19:49 (PP)Penalties: Moss Ari (High-sticking Taylor Fedun) 1:27, Stone Ari (Hooking Joe Pavelski) 5:46, Thornton Sj (Hooking Oliver Ekman-Larsson) 9:53, Fedun Sj (High-sticking Craig Cunningham) 12:51, Moss Ari (Delaying Game - Puck over Glass) 17:11
Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd TSan Jose 16 14 15 45Arizona 14 12 10 36
Goaltending summary:San Jose: Niemi (31/35), Arizona: Smith (42/45)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):San Jose: 2 of 6, Arizona: 2 of 4
Att: 14,752
Kings 3 Avalanche 1First Period1. Los Angeles, King (12) (Carter, Regehr) 13:56Penalties: Williams La (Slashing) 4:31
Second Period2. Colorado, O'Reilly (16) (Tan-guay, Landeskog) 1:123. Los Angeles, Martinez (6) (Carter, Toffoli) 10:09
Third Period4. Los Angeles, Gaborik (26) (Kopitar, Regehr) 18:04
Shots on goal by period: 1st 2nd 3rd TColorado 3 4 3 10Los Angeles 9 10 7 26
Goaltending summary:Colorado: Varlamov (23/26), Los Angeles: Quick (9/10)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Colorado: 0 of 1, Los Angeles: 0 of 0
Eastern ConferenceAtlantic W L OT SL GF GA PtsManchester 45 16 6 3 221 162 99Providence 38 23 7 2 191 171 85Worcester 39 23 4 2 208 172 84Portland 37 25 6 1 188 169 81St. John’s 30 32 8 2 169 224 70
Northeast W L OT SL GF GA PtsSyracuse 40 21 9 0 204 196 89Hartford 38 23 5 4 203 205 85Springfield 36 27 8 1 182 196 81Albany 33 26 5 6 178 187 77Bridgeport 26 36 6 1 196 225 59
East W L OT SL GF GA PtsHershey 43 20 5 3 205 167 94W-B/Scranton 40 23 3 4 191 151 87Lehigh Valley 31 31 6 1 182 215 69Binghamton 30 32 7 1 216 238 68Norfolk 24 38 6 3 149 204 57
Western ConferenceNorth W L OT SL GF GA PtsUtica 43 19 6 1 199 164 93Hamilton 32 26 12 0 185 184 76Toronto 33 27 9 0 176 190 75Adirondack 33 28 6 2 213 210 74Rochester 27 37 5 1 195 231 60
Midwest W L OT SL GF GA PtsGrand Rapids 42 20 6 2 230 168 92Rockford 41 21 5 2 197 163 89Chicago 36 26 6 1 189 177 79Milwaukee 33 25 7 6 195 196 79Lake Erie 31 26 8 4 184 213 74
West W L OT SL GF GA PtsSan Antonio 43 21 5 1 234 209 92Oklahoma City 38 24 5 3 208 197 84Texas 35 21 13 1 218 201 84Charlotte 29 35 6 1 159 216 65Iowa 22 43 2 2 157 221 48
Eastern ConferenceAtlantic GP W L OT GF GA Ptsx-Montreal 79 47 22 10 209 182 104x-Tampa Bay 80 48 24 8 255 206 104Detroit 78 41 24 13 226 213 95w-Boston 79 41 25 13 209 201 95Ottawa 78 40 26 12 226 208 92e-Florida 79 36 28 15 198 215 87e-Toronto 79 29 43 7 205 251 65e-Buffalo 79 22 49 8 155 265 52
Metropol’n GP W L OT GF GA Ptsy-NY Rangers 78 50 21 7 240 182 107NY Islanders 79 46 27 6 241 219 98Washington 79 43 25 11 235 198 97w-Pittsburgh 78 42 25 11 214 199 95e-Columbus 78 39 35 4 219 240 82e-Philadelphia 78 31 29 18 204 223 80e-New Jersey 79 32 34 13 174 205 77e-Carolina 78 29 38 11 180 216 69
Western ConferenceCentral GP W L OT GF GA Ptsx-Nashville 79 47 22 10 227 197 104x-St. Louis 78 48 23 7 240 196 103x-Chicago 78 48 24 6 224 180 102w-Minnesota 78 44 26 8 223 192 96w-Winnipeg 78 40 26 12 222 208 92Dallas 79 38 31 10 248 258 86e-Colorado 79 36 31 12 212 223 84
Pacific GP W L OT GF GA Ptsy-Anaheim 80 50 23 7 234 221 107Vancouver 79 45 29 5 229 216 95Calgary 79 43 29 7 234 208 93Los Angeles 78 39 25 14 212 195 92San Jose 79 39 31 9 223 222 87e-Edmonton 79 23 43 13 188 272 59e-Arizona 79 24 47 8 167 262 56
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Ottawa Senators goaltender Andrew Hammond (30) makes a save against Pittsburgh Penguins’ Patric Hornqvist (72) and Evgeni Malkin (71). [CP PHOTO]
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Senators keep playoff hopes aliveLISA WALLACE THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Mark Stone scored the winner 2:43 into overtime as the Ottawa Senators scored four unanswered goals to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 Tuesday night and keep their playoff hopes alive.
Stone also scored a third-period goal, while Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Mike Hoffman had the others for the Senators (40-26-13), who played their final home game. Andrew Hammond, who is 18-1-2, made 25 saves.
Sidney Crosby and Patric Hornqvist had a goal and an assist each for the Penguins (42-26-11), while Beau Bennett scored his first in 31 games. Marc-Andre Fleury turned away 40 of 44 shots.
The Senators, with 95 points, moved into a tie with the idle Boston Bruins, who hold the final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference. Ottawa trails the Penguins, who hold the first wild card spot, by just one point.
Ottawa trailed 3-1 heading into the third period, but cut the deficit to one just 34 seconds in as Stone picked up his 23rd of the season. The goal extended his point streak to seven games with five goals and four assists.
Hammond was pulled for the extra attacker with just over two minutes remaining. Ottawa took advantage as Hoffman tied the game at 18:12 to send the sellout crowd of 20,263 into a frenzy.Ottawa outshot Pittsburgh 18-3 in the third.
Down 3-0, the Senators came out firing in the second period and outshot the Penguins 16-13. Ottawa had a number of good scoring chances, but Fleury was solid.
The Senators finally got on the board with a short-handed goal at the 14-minute mark of the second as Pageau came down the ice and fired. His rebound went in off Derrick Pouliot.
The Senators were without Matt Puempel (high ankle sprain) and Milan Michalek (headaches).
Jared Cowen and Colin Greening were healthy scratches.
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SOLUTION: BEAUTIFUL STATE
Questions Dealer: South None vulnerable
NORTH ♠A6542 ♥AK9 ♦95 ♣J86
WEST EAST ♠KQ1093 ♠J7 ♥4 ♥10762 ♦AK8 ♦J10742 ♣AK74 ♣53
SOUTH ♠8 ♥QJ853 ♦Q63 ♣Q1092
W N E S Pass 1♠ Pass Pass 2♥ dbl 3♥ Pass Pass dbl All Pass Opening Lead: ♦K
West switched to the king of clubs and continued with the ace to deliver
the third round ruff. The dia-mond jack was not covered but West took the ace and fired back a fourth club. Declarer ruffed high in dummy and drew trump but the contract was down one, N-S - 100. East was confronted with a bidding problem when partner re-opened with a second double. He could advance to four diamonds, offer a spade preference at the three-level or pass in the hope of defeating the partscore. Four diamonds would likely be the winning action when West held four- card diamond support. East has virtually no chance of corralling ten tricks since South will lead a spade. A spade contract yields nine tricks in spite of the 5-1 break where West will score a satisfying +140. East’s resolve to take his chances on defense seems appropriate. He owns a virtual Yarborough but may score a ruff or two. South had the option of balancing with a heart overcall or opting for a takeout double. The overcall was a better plan since partner might pass the double with spade length in the expectation of a set. North should not pass a balancing double because his spades are not good enough to guarantee more than one trick. An advance to 1NT would be suggested. Author: Dave Willis - visit his website at www.insidebridge.ca Questions on bridge can be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The New Canadian Bridge c/o Torstar Syndication Services, One Yonge St., Toronto, M5E 1E6.
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SOCCER
Benteke hat trick saves Aston Villa in draw with Queens Park Rangers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BIRMINGHAM, England — Christian Benteke scored a hat trick as Aston Villa twice came from behind against Queens Park Rangers on Tuesday to draw 3-3 and stay out of the rel-egation zone.
Benteke’s final goal came dir-ectly from a free kick in the 83rd minute of a thrilling encounter at Villa Park.
Villa remains three points clear of the relegation zone where QPR sits in 18th place with six games to go, two points behind Hull.
In an action-packed opening 10 minutes, Matt Phillips’ headed opener for QPR was cancelled out by Benteke, who then com-pleted a counterattack to give Villa the halftime lead.
QPR responded after the break with goals from Clint Hill and Charlie Austin and was poised to climb above Hull and send Villa into the bottom three.
But Benteke came to Villa’s res-cue with his seventh goal in five league games.
“The situation we know is hard now, every game is going to be crucial for us,” Benteke said. “We need to keep fighting until the end.”
QPR was in front in the seventh minute when Phillips met Bobby Zamora’s cross.
Villa levelled just 151 seconds later when Fabian Delph played in Benteke and the striker was given too much time to cut in from the left, with his shot deflecting off Steven Caulker and past goalkeeper Rob Green.
Villa recovered from the early setback and was in control when Benteke grabbed his second in the 33rd. Carlos Sanchez’s tackle on the edge of his own box fell to Gabriel Agbonlahor to send Benteke clear.
The Belgian still had to run the length of the half but he cut inside Hill and sent Green the wrong way with a composed fin-
ish from 16 metres.Agbonlahor then glanced a head-er inches wide as Villa looked for a killer third but it never came and the home side paid the price 10 minutes after the break.
QPR had offered little threat since going behind but Hill head-ed in his first Premier League goal from Phillips’ corner after out-muscling Ciaran Clark.
The deflated hosts began to give QPR hope, and Austin scored in the 78th. Phillips was involved again as he wriggled free on the right and found the forward in space to strike under Guzan from seven yards.But Charles N’Zogbia was fouled by Hill, and Benteke curled in a 25-yard free kick off the post and into the net.
Villa’s Christian Benteke celebrates after scoring his third goal against QPR during the English Premier League soccer match between Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers at Villa Park, Birmingham, England on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]
SOCCER
Blatter to receive all of Africa’s 54 votesGERALD IMRAY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Every one of Africa’s 54 mem-ber countries will vote for Sepp Blatter in next month’s FIFA presidential election, the contin-ent’s soccer boss said on Tues-day, referring to the 79-year-old Swiss as “dear Sepp.”
In front of Blatter’s three chal-lengers, Issa Hayatou, president of the Confederation of African Football, promised unanimous support in his speech to open
CAF’s annual congress in Cairo.African football leaders applauded his pledge in apparent agreement.
“Africa is comfortable having you. Africa stays with you,” Hayatou said to Blatter, accord-ing to a transcript of his com-ments provided by CAF.
Blatter was present in his role as FIFA president, and made a speech to the delegates, where he praised Hayatou as “a pillar” of African football, according to CAF.
“I’m a happy man,” Blatter said.
Africa is the largest of the six continental confederations and has 54 of the 209 FIFA member countries eligible to vote in the presidential election in Zurich on May 29.
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