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Change soughtJustin Trudeau, leader of the federal Liberals, wants Canada’s electoral system updated
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Council now faces decision on buying back hotel land
The currently vacant site for the proposed SSS Manhao 21-storey hotel off of downtown Nanaimo’s Gordon Street. Council voted Monday against giving a one-year extension for its right to buy back the property. [SPENCER ANDERSON/DAILY NEWS]
SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
Canadians head into this year’s federal election with three of the four major parties in favour of reforming how voters cast bal-lots and how MPs are elected.
The New Democrats and Green Party have supported propor-tional representation for years, but Liberal Leader Justin Tru-deau announced Monday that his party too supports scrapping the current first-past-the-post system and replace it with an alternative system, amid other proposed measures.
The first-past-the-post system is often criticized for producing election results that are out of sync with how the population actually voted.
With only a few exceptions, the system has awarded majority governments to parties with less significantly less than half of the total ballots cast, for example.
However, the system is also credited with providing clear-cut election results and being sim-ple to understand. Proponents also cite its tendency to create a strong local link between con-stituencies and MPs.
Still, issues like proportional representation rarely, if ever, show up as major campaign issues.
Dennis Pilon, a leading expert on Canadian electoral reform at York University in Toronto, said he doubts the issue will have much impact.
“I don’t think that voting sys-tem reform is going to be deci-sive in this campaign,” he said.
Pilon believes the issue may be used as a “boutique” policy in an attempt for a party to consoli-date support at the expense of other parties.
“These kinds of policies are designed to say, ‘Hey, come to us instead of the other guys,’” he said.
Wendy Bergerud, a national council member for Fair Vote Canada based out of Victoria, said she thinks promises to scrap FPTP will resonate come elec-tion time.
“A lot of people I talk to want to see the voting system changed,” she said.
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Vote may decide future of Gordon Street siteSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS
Nanaimo city council will revisit its option to buy back the proposed site of a 21-storey, $50-million
hotel project next to the Van-couver Island Conference Cen-tre next Monday, albeit with a shorter extension than what was sought by the developer.
The decision will be another key vote for the project.
On Monday of this week, council voted 5-4 to turn down a one-year delay on its right to buy back the property from Chinese tourism firm SSS Manhao Inter-national Tourism Group at the original price of $565,000 paid by the firm to acquire the land from the city in 2013.
Under an option to purchase agreement signed by the develop-er, the city can now buy back the site because the developer missed a May 30 deadline to
obtain a permit to begin con-struction the foundations of the building.
Five councillors, including Jerry Hong, Bill Bestwick, Jim Kipp, Bill Yoachim and Gord Fuller, voted to deny the one-year request, citing concerns about a lack of construction on the site as well as a lack of communica-tion from the developer on prog-ress on the site.
Mayor Bill McKay and council-lors Diane Brennan, Ian Thorpe and Wendy Pratt had supported the request.
However, council unanimously backed a motion from Hong that would seek a six month exten-
sion of the option to purchase agreement.
In practice, that means the city would have the right only to buy back the land if SSS Manhao has not obtained a building permit and started construction work by Nov. 30.
Under the motion, city staff would also be directed to get a formal commitment from the developer to invest $100,000 in improvements to Piper Park and give up its right of first negotia-tion for management of the con-ference centre.
Hong said he would likely support the new motion, which would provide the pivotal fifth vote to see it passed on coun-cil. However, he said he will also seek assurances from the developer that a construction timeline provided to council Monday night will be followed.
Under that timeline, site prep-aration and foundation work would begin in early November.
“I don’t care how many years it takes, I just want the project moving,” he said. Hong said Monday that work on Piper Park would be “a gesture of good faith” to the city.
SSS Manhao’s lawyer Perry Ehrlich said he and other repre-sentatives for the company left Monday’s council meeting “dev-astated” the city has not granted a one-year extension.
However, he said he was “pleased that staff . . . had taken the initiative in this regard,” he said, referencing the city report. Ehrlich said he is seeking direc-tion from his client.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17
8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mid-week flea market at Brechin United Church. Every Wednes-day all summer, outside parking lot, 1998 Estevan Road. 250-754-9212.
THURSDAY, JUNE 18
4-8 p.m. Maffeo-Sutton Park Market. Unique gifts, crafts, baked goods, jewel-ry, hidden treasures, antiques, pre-loved and used items, and local creations. Maffeo Sutton Park, 50 Arena Street.
FRIDAY, JUNE 19
5 p.m. Spaghetti Supper at Trinity United Church, 6234 Spartan Rd. Complete meal, $12.
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
Noon: Meeting of the Central Vancouver Island Orchid Society at the Harewood Activity Centre, 2nd floor, 195 Fourth St. Roy from H&R Nurseries will speak about Dendroblums.
2 and 7 p.m. Defying Gravity, an Innov-ate Dance Arts presentation. A year-end show involving a variety of dance styles including ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, tap, hip hop and musical theatre. Tickets $18. Port Theatre, 125 Front St.
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cedar Farmers Market at Crow and Gate pub field, 2313 Yellow Point Rd.
2 to 5 p.m. Cuban-born pianist Pablo Cardenas, bassist Peter Dowse and drum-mer Cyril Cyrus Lojda at the Crofton Hotel Pub, 1534 Joan Ave. In Crofton on Sunday. Admission: $10. Information: 250-324-2245 or www.croftonhotel.ca.
MONDAY, JUNE 22
9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Free drop-in pickle-ball. Drop-ins will be available Monday to Friday through July 17. $3 drop-in fee. Some drop-in date restrictions apply. Oceanside Place: 826 West Island High-way (Wembley Mall), Parksville.
3:30-4:30 p.m. Meadowood Commun-ity Park Opening Celebration will include a “walking school bus” for students from the Meadowood Store bus stop, games and crafts, speeches and a ribbon-cut-ting. 1800 Galvin Pl., Qualicum Beach.
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
6:45-7:45 p.m. Beginner Kizomba Dance Lessons at the Globe Hotel. $50 five-week course. 24 Front. St.
6-9 p.m. Annual Summer by the Sea Street Market. More than 140 vendors offer jewelry, food, massages, tackle and more. Craig Street in Parksville.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
7 p.m. Diane Bestwick speaking pres-entation on her new novel, .And A Bird Sang,. about China’s one-child law, St. Paul’s Anglican, 100 Chapel St.
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
8 p.m. Nanaimo Theatre Group’s
award-winning Bus Stop plays three encore performances June 25, 26, 27, at the Bailey Studio, 2373 Rosstown Rd. Tickets $15 at the door or 250-758-7224, festival seating.
8 p.m. CD release show with Daniel Wes-ley at The Queen’s. With Josh Hyslop. Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door. At Lucis, The Dog’s Ear, Desire Tattoo or www.ticketzone.com.
SATURDAY, JUNE 27
6 p.m. Fairwinds Presents a night of old time rock & roll music trivia , featuring music by Tsawwassen’s TimeMachine. Test your knowledge. Fairwinds Club-house Arbutus Room. Call 250-468-9915 for reservations.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Irwin Street work parties. Visit the community garden for hands-on volunteering, tours and field trips and workshops. Children and fam-ilies welcome. 256 Needham St.
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◆ COMMUNITY
Program launched to battle knotweed problem
Mid-Island communities are join-ing forces on the war on knotweed.
A new regional program was launched jointly the cities of Nanaimo and Parksville and the town of Qualicum Beach to get ahead of the leafy but invasive weed June invasive species action month.
This new program is in part-nership with the Coastal Invasive Species Committee to verify all knotweed reports within these municipalities and to treat knot-weed on select priority sites at no cost to landowners.
With home pesticide application now banned in many municipal-ities, the partnership is designed to provide residents with the resources needed to fight this diffi-cult to control plant.
Knotweed is a hollow-stem shrub that resembles bamboo. It can grow four centimetres a day and causes serious damage to founda-tions, driveways, septic systems, and natural habitats. For informa-tion: www.coastalisc.com.
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Electric bike users unhappy with sales taxesDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
As electric bicycles rise in popularity Nanaimo cyclists are unhappy sales taxes are paid on e-bikes, unlike pedal bicycles or electric cars.
Leo Boon, Greater Nanaimo Cycling Coalition chairman is mounting a push to get senior government to scrap sales taxes applicable on the purchase of e-bikes. Boon said cyclists see it as a good way to encourage a green, healthy alternative to driving. That’s the reason the provincial government gives incentives worth up to $5,000 off the cost of an electric vehicle.
“In the 1980s we managed to convince government to drop PST on bikes and also to reduce import duties on bikes,” Boon said. “We had our little trial with HST and when it went back to GST we asked them to eliminate bikes and bike accessories, with they did. But they didn’t do it for e-bikes.”
While the province provides siz-able cash incentives to buyers of electric vehicles, retailers won-der why similar incentives don’t exist for e-bikes.
“That doesn’t make sense,” said Ruby Berry, owner of Pedego Elec-tric Bikes in Qualicum Beach. “If we’re encouraging people to use alternate transportation, an elec-tric bike is more of a car replace-ment than a regular bike.”
On an e-bike purchase of $2,500
or more, the sales tax can be significant, and customers are surprised to learn they aren’t tax exempt, like regular bikes.”
In response, Berry encourages clients to contact their elected representative.
“We want our MLAs to know, and we also want to provide some indication that there are a lot of us that believe that,” she said.
Lorne Freedman, a Nanaimo e-bike owner, enjoys riding around town but questions the discrepancy between electric and pedal bikes.
“You’re still pedalling on two weeks and can go on all paths,” Freedman said. “It’s not a motorcycle. In the U.S. they have already attempted, I think there’s a 10-per cent tax rebate for electric bikes. It’s time to do something.”
Boon prefers tax breaks to incentives.
“With the PST, its very hard to reverse it,” Boon said. “With rebates, when the government is looking for more money, they’ll just and the rebate program.”
Leo Boon rides his bike through Pleasant Valley in north Nanaimo. He and other cyclists want government to remove sales tax on electric bikes. [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]
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LADYSMITH
Neighbour feedback convinces council to change its vote on coach house proposalROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS
A development variance per-mit, denied by Ladysmith coun-cil two weeks ago, was given the green light Monday night.
Town residents Stephen and April Marrington approached council with a coach house pro-posal for the second level of their accessory building, but were denied in a 4-3 vote at the June 1 meeting.
But Mayor Aaron Stone brought the issue back to the table after receiving a “high volume of supportive feed-back” from the Marrington’s neighbours.
Stone had voted for the vari-ance on June 1, alongside coun-cillors Steve Arnett and Rob Hutchins, with councillors Carol Henderson, Joe Friesenhan,
Duck Paterson and Cal Fradin against.
But Paterson admitted he ‘made a mistake’ and changed his mind, which meant the vote changed to 4-3 in the Marring-ton’s favour.
“I had a lot of input from people in and around the area of the building and they were all OK with it,” said Paterson. “The people in the area is what the building has the most impact on.”
The Marringtons live near the downtown and the councillors who voted in favour put forward the argument that more people in that area add to the vibrancy and sustainability of what is a key part of the community.
Those against said the bylaws were for the whole community and had to be adhered to.
The Marrington’s proposed a variance 6.9 square metres in floor area and a foot in height for the coach house to fit the dimen-sions permitted in the coach house zoning bylaw, which came into place last summer, as well their accessory building.
They also requested a variance of 2.87 metres in the distance between the coach house and the principal dwelling. Under the bylaw, coach houses should be six metres from the principal dwelling — the Marrington’s will be 3.13 metres.
Stone said he had received more feedback on this issue than any other since his election last November.
“I was frustrated that negative feedback from outside the area had played into our decision,” said Stone.
Ahead of granting the permits, the town asks for feedback from residents within 60 metres of the building, which Paterson said he would like to see increased in the future.
Town residents Russell Barling and Pam Fraser both spoke against the variance at the meeting.
They stated it would set a bad precedent for the future.
Staff members denied that and said that each variance is treated on its own.
Council denied a similar per-mit application in January but Stone said council received “only negative” feedback and acted accordingly.
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Young Nanaimo man has big plansCedar Secondary graduate to spend summer interning for International Space UniversityROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS
When it comes to career options, Andrew Gates has his eyes set just a little higher than most people.
Gates, 21, who graduated from Cedar Secondary School in 2012, is spending his summer interning for the France-based Inter-national Space University, which is offering a nine-week program at Ohio University.
Gates is on loan to the ISU from the Royal Military College of
Canada in Ontario, where he will graduate in 2017 with a double major in physics and space sci-ence. He said he’s “very happy” to be attending courses in the ISU’s Masters-level university program, which is a pipeline for aspiring astronauts and supporting scien-tists looking for a career in space exploration.
But Gates, who has a pilot’s licence and will begin his formal flight training with the Royal Canadian Air Force next summer, said he still has a long way to
go before he would even be con-sidered for astronaut training.
“If I was contacted by the Can-adian Space Agency or NASA, I certainly wouldn’t say no,” he said. “But it’s a very competitive process. People like (Canadian Space Agency astronauts) Jer-emy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques spent years working towards their doctorates in very intense fields of study before being chosen to fly in space by 2024. It’s hard to speculate where I’ll be later in my career.”
But if he did decide to focus on being an astronaut and was successful in the application pro-cess, Gates said he has no desire to be the first man on Mars.
“At this stage, any trip to Mars would likely be one-way,” he said.
“I’d like to be focused on near-space flights, like to the Inter-national Space Station, but my goals could change over time.”
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On Monday night, Nanaimo city councillors debated for hours before deciding, in
a 5-4 vote, to reject a request an extension for the development of a proposed downtown hotel.
On the surface, it seems like an actual decision, giving the city the right to buy back the land where the much-ballyhooed 21-story hotel would be located.
But then, in what has become typical of Nanaimo politicians, the waffling began.
After rejecting the request, council then unanimously sup-ported a separate motion to get a staff report back on giving a shorter extension of six months (as opposed to a year), as well as requiring the company to give away its right of first negotiation to operate the Vancouver Island
Conference Centre.So you pretend to stand firm
for a few notable seconds, then hedge your bets by asking for a report on a slightly shorter extension? You can spare us the perfunctory “we’re just trying to get assurances it will get built, so we need more information” baffl-egab. What happens next?
If yet another report comes back and recommends the short-er extension be given, what was the point of not granting the request in the first place?
Asking for some extra money for park cleanup hardly seems worth this rigamarole.
We’ve said before, it’s time to shout or get off the pot. In this case, our leaders have essentially whispered a little and slid slight-ly off said pot.
It’s too reminiscent of the way things have been done here.
Take the Colliery dams. Within three years, city coun-
cil has decided to remove the dams, remove and rebuild them, upgrade them, deny there is a problem and do nothing, choose a previously rejected option, then appeal the province’s order compelling the city to do some-thing — against legal advice.
Flip-flop, waffle, waffle could be our official motto.
The bureaucratic bungling has driven developers of all stripes crazy for years, and it has to stop.
The 5-4 vote Monday night came despite assurances from hotel developer SSS Manhao’s lawyer that his client intends to follow through on its agreement with the city.
Perry Ehrlich also said his client has already invested close to $5million in total costs for the project, including hundreds of thousands in local costs to contractors.
“Dark day,” Mayor Bill McKay uttered following the vote.
He may be right, but what real-ly tends to make for dark days is the lingering inability, through countless administrations, to actually get things done.
There were legitimate reasons to consider the extension. The potential for ongoing dealings with Chinese companies. The fact the struggling Vancouver Island Conference Centre can use all the help it can get.
Has the city done enough to properly communicate with the developer in this case? There’s
even the “well, it’s better than nothing” argument that gave us the VICC in the first place.
The reasons against were fairly straightforward as well.
We’ve seen this movie before. How many missed deadlines do you need before it’s time to cut bait? Do we really think the thing is actually going to be built?
We needed a decision.One that shows developers (and
taxpayers) that our leaders mean business, one way or the other.
Instead, we got yet another wishy-washy attempt at a pseu-do-solution that leaves no one confident or happy.
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Key questions for hotel project need to be asked
With the proposed downtown redevelopment project I have only three questions.
How much money and conces-sions do they want from taxpay-ers? In what order will the differ-ent parts of the proposal be built? What zoning changes, particularly for height, will the developer demand?
Let’s not buy another pig in a poke.
S.I. PetersenNanaimo
Partnership should be goal in hotel negotiations
Re: ‘Hotel Extension bid turned down’ (Daily News, June 16)
I have great difficulty in inter-preting the headline in Tuesday’s Daily News. When I read the story what I in fact find, is that what was turned down was the first pro-
posal from the hotel group, i.e. that there be no real conse-quences to their failure to meet the contract originally signed and that they proposed to double the contract time available for a pen-alty of $2.
It should come as no surprise that such an offer, particularly in the light of its apparent failure to keep council informed of what was going on, would be seen to be an insult.
I have had a feeling that this deal could work both for the project proponents and for the city. Cer-tainly no other proposal to bring in a regular external clientele has been forthcoming. But such an arrangement requires an active partnership which seems to have been neglected by the proponents and perhaps by the city as well.
Discussions in this matter should have taken place long before last night. They appar-ently did not. There appears to be a gap in the roles of staff and council which leaves us open to such miscommunication and misunderstanding.
What I see here is a negotiation process which is being played as if it were a war.
Theatre is fine — and there was a lot of it Monday night — but I hardly think that it is appropriate for a city administration in a mat-ter as important as this one.
I look forward to reading about the negotiations with SSS Manhao and whether they are to join us as partners in the enterprise of the City of Nanaimo.
Ron BolinNanaimo
Racism and intolerance in city are unacceptable
Re: ‘North-end graffiti investi-gated as hate crime’ (Daily News, June 16)
We here at Nanaimo Youth Services Association want the racists amongst us in this and any other community to know that racism and intolerance is not OK.
The positive past and current Chinese contribution to the health and wealth of the Nanaimo and area community is well-docu-mented and their presence among us needs no defence.
The board, staff and youth we serve at NYSA apologize to anyone who was hurt and harmed as a result of this act, because in our collective experience it does not represent the majority of opinion of the local population.
So again to the racists among us, know that racism and intolerance is not OK.
Not here. Not now. Not Ever.
Steve ArnettNanaimo
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Modern Cafe in Nanaimo has new owners
Downtown Nanaimo’s Mod-ern Cafe on Commercial Street has new owners.
The husband-and-wife culinary team of Daniel Caron and Tam-my Deline, owners of Commer-cial Street’s 2 Chefs affair, took possession of the Modern Cafe on June 1.
Caron said, because the restau-rant has been part of the down-town landscape for decades, it will retain the same name under its new ownership.
He said the couple also are keeping the same staff that were working at the Modern Cafe up until they bought the business from long-time owner Bill Bel-land. Caron said he’s working on changes to the menu and intends to work with farmers in the region to introduce a lot more local products.
He said 2 Chefs affair will con-tinue operations as usual.
“We’re taking baby steps now that we’ve taken over operations at the Modern Cafe and working with our staff on research and development to find ways to make it even better,” Caron said.
Motorcycle toursSiegfried Hildebrandt is not
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But driving is in Hildebrandt’s blood and he decided to estab-lish Discovery Motorcycle Tours Nanaimo, which offers custom-ers a variety of motorcyle tours around Vancouver Island that he personally leads and provides his riders with bikes and all the required equipment.
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Security launchThe newest addition to the
Nanaimo-based Wenner Group of Companies, Wenner Security, will officially launch on July 1.
Wenner Security, which will operate out of the Wenner Group’s headquarters at 1920 Northfield Rd., offers com-plete home and business secur-ity systems across Vancouver Island, including monitored alarms, video surveillance and access control systems.
The family-owned and operated group of companies began in Nanaimo as Wenner Electric in
1945 and currently also includes Wenner Sound & Vision. Owner Ryan Wenner said the decision to open Wenner Security was to “fill the void” in the region for a new and reputable security company.
“Our plan is for Wenner Secur-ity to operate from our North-field Road location for the next 18 months until we build our new corporate headquarters on Box-wood Road,” said Wenner.
Odds and ends• Julia Dow has been named
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Dow is relocating from Edmon-ton where she has been the property manager at Southgate Centre.
She will replace Mark Fenwick, who has been hired to be the general manager of the new Tsawwassen Mills Mall which is scheduled to open in May 2016.
• Sephora, a store dedicated to beauty products and cosmetics, will open its doors on June 19 at the Woodgrove Centre.
The 3,735 square-foot space will feature an unparalleled offering of exclusive brands and prod-ucts, matched with professional beauty advice for all.
• Mike Keough is the new man-ager of Nanaimo’s Cabelas store, the outdoor sports supply store located in Dickinson Crossing.
• John Day is celebrating his fifth anniversary as The Foam Guy, located on Portsmouth Road.
The Foam Guy sells beds, cushions and upholstery for resi-dential, hospitality, recreational, medical and commercial use.
Dan Caron and Tammy Deline, owners of downtown’s 2 Chefs affair, are the new owners of the Modern Cafe. Above is Caron at the Modren Cafe with waitress Kaitie Delorme in the background. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]
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Rise in construction, but rentals shrinkingDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS
More housing is going up in Nanaimo, as the rental market tightens.
Housing starts hit 339 units by the end of May, according to the latest data from Central Mort-gage and Housing Corp.
At the same time, the nation-al housing agency reports a shrinking rental market, with vacancies down to 2.9 per cent in April this year, the latest month available in quarterly reports by CMHC.
The vacancy rate was reported-ly 5.3 per cent last spring.
Nanaimo’s housing industry was slower than usual last year, but now it’s showing signs of recovery.
Builders started work on 44 new single homes in April, up from 41 a year ago. Multiple housing was much stronger, with 133 units started, from 13 in April 2014.
Year-to-date, multiple housing was up as well, with 201 units started, versus 63 units in 2014. Single family homes rose to 138, from 100.
Economists know house con-struction is tied to demand, including rental availability.
“There is a link,” said Carol Frketic, CMHC regional economist.
“In the last couple of years, there has been more pur-pose-built construction in Nanaimo, and it takes a while for that to be absorbed into the market. So the vacancy rate has
moved lower, as those units are occupied.”
In April a total of 177 new units of housing started, for what Frketic describes as a “rebound” in the housing industry.
The average Nanaimo renter paid $703 for a one-bedroom suite in April.
A benchmark two-bedroom apartment rented for $811, a 1.6 per increase from last year.
That’s roughly half the prov-incial rent increase of three per cent.
Market forces may partly explain the sharper provincial change. Across B.C., vacancy rates are tighter, on average, at 1.8 per cent.
Nanaimo’s spring vacancy rates peaked at 8.3 per cent in April, 2013.
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Worldwide Knit in Public Day was celebrated at the Wellington Branch library Tuesday and attracted a crowd of yarn enthusiasts.
‘I’m on a dishcloth bender,’ says Paula Bernard. She first started knitting as a way to earn her craft badge in Brownies.
The event was celebrated in 56 countries and in 882 different locations.
The largest knitter event in the world, Worldwide Knit in Public Day started in 2005 as a way for knitters to gather, enjoy each other’s company and share skills while completing projects. Paula Bernard shows off her first large knitting project — a delicate shawl she completed with the help of a Knit-A-Long or KAL group run through local knitting supply shop Mad About Ewe. [JULIE CHADWICK PHOTOS/DAILY NEWS]
Frances Holbrook started knitting when she was eight years old, where it was required learning at her school in England. She now regularly crochets comfort shawls for palliative patients and their loved ones through Nanaimo Hospice.
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Furlong’s response to article shocked journalist
A journalist who is suing for-mer Vancouver Olympics CEO John Furlong for defamation says she was devastated by his response to an article she wrote alleging he abused students at a northern British Columbia school more than 40 years ago.
Laura Robinson began her testimony Tuesday in her civil trial, where she is alleging that Furlong’s public comments after the story was published in the Georgia Straight newspaper have damaged her reputation, career and health.
Furlong held a news conference the day the story was published in September 2012, where he absolutely denied any wrong-doing and accused Robinson of “a shocking lack of diligence” and a “personal vendetta.”
“I was completely shocked,” Robinson testified.
◆ LANGFORD
Homeless man hands in $2,000 found in street
The honesty of a homeless man who turned in more than $2,000 he found on a suburban Vic-toria street could pay off for the unidentified Good Samaritan.
West Shore RCMP Const. Alex Berube said Tuesday that police are looking for the man to tell him his good deed has spurred people to donate to a fundraising effort that’s already hit $1,400.
Berube said police patrols are keeping watch for the man, who has no fixed address but is known in the community of Langford, just west of Victoria.
He said police have had num-erous media requests to allow the man to tell his story, but he hasn’t been located.
RCMP said the man handed over the money because he felt it was the right thing to do. Police will return the money to him if no one claims it within 90 days.
◆ SURREY
Motorbike seen in global chase video is seized
The owner of a motorcycle has been fined about $13,500 after the vehicle failed to stop for police as it was driven down an escalator at a suburban Vancouver mall.
Mounties in Surrey seized the bike captured in a Feb. 20 video and say they’re holding it pend-ing the outcome of a civil forfeit-ure hearing, though they can’t positively identify the driver.
Police say registered owners are responsible for their vehicles at all times and can choose to provide officers with information about who was driving during an offence.
Mounties say owners who don’t co-operate can be charged with the offence under the Motor Vehicles Act.
Police say the 58 traffic viola-tions that led to the fine included speeding, disobeying a red light and driving without insurance.
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A 17-year-old Vancouver resi-dent has been charged with aggravated assault after a stab-bing in Whistler.
RCMP say a warrant for the teen’s arrest was issued in Sur-rey on Monday, when he made a court appearance.
Whistler RCMP Sgt. Rob Knapton says the suspect is being held in custody for another appearance on Thursday and that his name isn’t being released because of his age.
Police say the stabbing occurred in May, the same month 19-year-old Luka Gordic was killed in Whistler.
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Mountie has fallen ‘a long way,’ says lawyerGEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — The lawyer for an ex-Mountie who lied at a pub-lic inquiry into Robert Dziekan-ski’s death is recommending house arrest and community service for his client, calling him a “poster child for failure.”
“He’s fallen a long way and I think he could bring some insight to others who struggle, particularly in the aboriginal community,” said David Crossin, who represents former RCMP corporal Benjamin (Monty) Robinson.
Robinson was in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday for a senten-cing hearing, three months after he was convicted of perjury stemming from testimony he gave at an inquiry into Dziekan-ski’s death at Vancouver’s airport.
Crossin recommended Rob-inson be sentenced to one year of house arrest followed by 12 months of curfew and 200 hours of community service, preferably in the area of drug and alcohol counselling.
Reading from a doctor’s sub-mission, Crossin said Robinson suffered from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse when he testi-fied at the inquiry in early 2009, and that he remained in that state until his trial in 2012.
“It was the conviction in 2012 that brought these matters, in a way, crashing down on Mr. Rob-inson,” Crossin said. “He began in March of 2012 the process of recovery.”
Crossin also brought up Rob-inson’s aboriginal heritage as a mitigating factor, as well as his
family history of alcohol abuse.Robinson, who is in his mid-40s,
left the RCMP in 2012 and has been sober since then, Crossin said.
The RCMP has held up Robin-son as an example of a bad apple in its ranks, and that assessment included a separate, unrelated case when he was convicted of obstruction of justice before he left the force in 2012.
Robinson was behind the wheel in October 2008 when his vehicle struck and killed a 21-year-old motorcyclist in Delta, south of Vancouver.
He told his trial that immedi-ately after the crash he went home and drank two shots of vodka to calm his nerves.
Robinson was given a condi-tional sentence of 12 months after a judge ruled he had used his police training to fend off
accusations of impaired driving.“He’s come a long way and I
think he could do some good,” Crossin told court on Tuesday. “I think he could bring a lot of insight, especially to the aborig-inal community.”
Crown lawyer Richard Peck disagreed with Crossin’s propos-al and recommended the judge order Robinson to serve between a year and a half and three years behind bars.
“An impassioned plea doesn’t change the Crown’s position that the appropriate sentence here is a custodial term,” Peck said.
Robinson’s punishment should be all the more serious because he was a police officer tasked with upholding the law, Peck added.
Justice Nathan Smith has reserved his decision until July 24.
Benjamin (Monty) Robinson called ‘poster child for failure’
RCMP Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson is seen on a monitor as he testifies at the Braidwood inquiry in Vancouver on March 2009. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
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◆ EDMONTON
Neil Young postpones anti-oilsands show
Canadian rock music legend and environmental activist Neil Young has postponed a planned benefit concert in Edmonton.
Eriel Deranger, spokeswoman for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, says the delay is due to internal management issues.
No new date for the concert has been set.
The show was to have been one of several concerts to benefit the northern Alberta band which lives in the oilsands region.
The First Nation has mounted court challenges to development approvals in the region.
◆ ST. JOHN’S, N.L.
Province to announce new oil royalty regime
Newfoundland and Labrador will announce a new royal-ty regime in coming weeks to help speed up offshore oil development.
Premier Paul Davis announced the move as he opened a major oil and gas conference in St. John’s today. Davis says the new regime is modelled on a more streamlined and agile approach that has succeeded in Norway and other offshore sectors.
The oil price plunge since last June has hammered provincial finances, which rely on those earnings for about one-third of revenues.
◆ ANTIGONISH, N.S.
Grit candidate quits over party’s Bill C-51 support
A former federal Liberal candi-date in Nova Scotia said he quit his foray into politics over the party’s support for the govern-ment’s anti-terror law, Bill C-51.
David MacLeod, a former Canadian Forces member, said he resigned his candidacy in Central Nova as a matter of principle.
MacLeod said as a former mem-ber of the military who served in Cyprus, Bosnia and Kosovo, he couldn’t support Bill C-51.
“The whole idea of serving in the military was to protect the rights and freedoms of Can-adians,” he said.
◆ MONTREAL
Teens facing charges in terror case denied bail
Two Montreal teens facing terrorism-related charges were denied bail Tuesday by Quebec Court Judge Robert Sansfacon.
El Mahdi Jamali, 18, and Sabrine Djermane, 19, will remain in detention until the end of the legal case against them.
Family and friends were present in the courtroom as the decision came down.
The pair, a couple, have been detained since their arrests in mid-April.
From the outset, Sansfacon said granting bail would have been “particularly difficult” given the circumstances.
◆ OTTAWA
Youth in swatting case may face Florida charges
An Ottawa teen whose alleged crank tweets and 911 calls put law enforcement officials from across North America on his trail may face charges in Florida.
The youth was in an Ontario youth court for the start of his trial for “swatting,” a practice where emergency services or police tactical units — also known as SWAT teams — are called out to bogus crises.
Prosecutor Kerry McVey deliv-ered a lengthy opening state-ment describing the Crown’s case, which will include teen wit-nesses from California, Florida, Laval, Que., and Milton, Ont.
◆ REGINA
Woman denied haircut settles rights complaint
The owner of a Regina barber shop has apologized to a woman who was refused a haircut.
Evie Ruddy complained to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission after she couldn’t get a cut last August.
A statement from the commis-sion says Ruddy has reached a settlement with Ragged Ass Barbers.
The owner of the shop, Craig Zamonsky, has apologized and acknowledged it was wrong to turn the woman away.
He says the shop will provide service to anyone who wants a traditional, men’s-style haircut.
Trudeau plan seeks democratic reformsJOAN BRYDEN THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau wants this fall’s national vote to be the last federal election con-ducted under the first-past-the-post electoral system.
And, if the Liberal leader becomes prime minister, it may also be the last election in which Canadians can choose not to vote, as well as the last in which the only way to vote is by mark-ing an X on a paper ballot.
Changing the way Canadians vote is just one element of a 32-point plan to “restore democ-racy in Canada” that Trudeau announced Monday.
Some of the measures have been previously announced, such as strengthening access-to-information laws; empowering backbench MPs by allowing more free votes and beefing up legislative oversight by Commons committees; and ending partisanship in the scan-dal-plagued Senate.
Others are new or build upon previous commitments. Among other things, Trudeau promised a Liberal government would:
• Reform question period in the House of Commons so that one day each week would be devot-ed solely to grilling the prime minister.
• Impose spending limits on political parties between elec-tions, not just during election campaigns.
• Appoint an equal number of men and women to cabinet and adopt a government-wide appointment policy to ensure gender parity and greater rep-resentation of aboriginal people and other minorities.
• Create performance standards for services offered by the fed-eral government, complete with streamlined application pro-cesses, reduced wait times and money-back guarantees.
• Create individualized, secure online accounts for Canadians who want to access all their gov-ernment benefits and review key documents.
Perhaps the most ambitious promise is Trudeau’s vow to do away with first-past-the-post in time for the next election.
The current system badly dis-torts voters’ choices, allowing a party to win the majority of seats in the House of Commons with less than 40 per cent of the
vote, and delivering wildly dif-ferent seat counts to parties that win similar shares.
Trudeau promised he’d intro-duce electoral reform legislation within 18 months of forming gov-ernment. The legislation would be based on the recommen-dations of a special, all-party parliamentary committee man-dated to fully and fairly study alternatives to first-past-the-post, including ranked ballots and pro-portional representation.
The committee would also explore the notions of manda-tory voting and online voting.
Electronic voting has also been touted as a way to entice busy Canadians to cast ballots. But Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government last year effectively scotched Elec-tions Canada’s plans to experi-ment with online voting, requir-ing any such tests to be approved by Parliament.
First-past-the-post has long been viewed as the primary cul-prit behind declining turnout, contributing to Canadians’ belief that their votes don’t count.
Trudeau has also said he’s willing to consider proportional representation, a more complex reform for which there are a var-iety of possible models.
Changing way Canadians vote just part of 32-point proposal
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PM admits RCMP told to destroy gun dataBRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper acknowledges his government pressured the Moun-ties to swiftly destroy long-gun registry records, even though they’d been warned it was illegal.
An exchange in the House of Commons on Tuesday marked the first time the Conservative government has flatly asserted that it was actively encouraging the RCMP to delete the registry data in 2012 — notwithstand-ing an ongoing investigation by information commissioner Suzanne Legault and a written promise from the public safety minister to respect the law.
The matter is now being inves-tigated by the Ontario Provincial Police, after Legault recom-mended charges because Moun-ties knowingly destroyed records that were protected under the Access to Information Act.
Legault is also in Federal Court, seeking to preserve a remaining copy of Quebec gun registry data while championing the right of access to govern-ment records under an act of Parliament.
An affidavit filed in Federal Court by one of her investigators
presents evidence the RCMP was being pressured by the public safety minister’s office and the Prime Minister’s Office to swiftly destroy the records at the same time the government was assur-ing Legault they’d be preserved until her investigation was complete.
During question period Tues-day, Liberal deputy leader Ralph Goodale accused the government of “counselling illegal behaviour and cover-up.”
“It was this Parliament and this government that passed legislation explicitly to destroy that registry,” Harper responded, referring to the April 2012 bill known as the “Ending the Long-gun Registry Act.”
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Suspended senator Mike Duffy has bank accounts, taxes exposed at trialJENNIFER DITCHBURN THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — The mortgages, Sen-ate salary, private side business and the famous $90,000 repay-ment from Nigel Wright — Sen. Mike Duffy’s financial history was laid out for all to see at his trial Tuesday.
Government forensic account-ant Mark Grenon’s testimony on his analysis of Duffy’s financial data trail won’t necessarily be accepted as fact. Ontario Justice Charles Vaillancourt has yet to decide on that point.
But Crown prosecutors appear to be using the dizzying array of numbers to paint a picture of a high-flying senator who was perpetually living on the edge — a senator who perhaps had a compelling reason to pad his income and to extort the prime minister’s chief of staff into covering a $90,000 reimburse-ment of his contested expense claims.
Duffy has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges of fraud, breach of trust and bribery related to his Senate living, travel and office expenses.
The court was shown slide after slide of balance sheets and pie charts, chronicling Duffy’s financial life from late 2008 to mid-2013.
In that time period, $1.2 mil-lion got deposited into his bank account. In addition to his Sen-ate salary, Duffy received a pen-sion from CTV and from the gov-ernment. He also made $25,000
doing speaking engagements through his side company.
The sale of his late mother’s home netted approximately $50,000.
Still, the available records showed that money was flowing out faster than it was coming in, with a line of credit that crept up steadily to over $100,000 at one point in 2012. Duffy’s Ottawa-ar-
ea home is heavily mortgaged. His vehicle is leased.
“There was a continued amount of overspending in the account that had to be funded with some sort of money. That money was the line of credit,” Grenon said.
Grenon revealed that the agency that follows potential money laundering and terror-ist activity, Fintrac, raised the alarm at one point that Duffy’s line of credit had risen to more than $100,000. It’s not clear when that discovery was made.
Duffy’s defence lawyer Donald Bayne argued that Grenon’s testimony should not be entered into evidence, that it amounted to innuendo and was irrelevant to the charges at hand.
“You just let their dump truck back up to your courtroom and dump thousands and thousands of records ... and just leave it hanging there like a Sword of Damocles for the rest of the file,” Bayne said.
“For what purpose? Is Sen. Duffy in his defence then going to have to account for 5,500 trans-actions over his financial life? It will distort this trial.”
Suspended Senator Mike Duffy arrives at court in Ottawa on Monday.[THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Trump joins presidential race in U.S.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The Donald is running for president.
Real-estate mogul and real-ity-television star Donald Trump said Tuesday he will seek the Republican nomination for presi-dent. He’s the 12th high-profile Republican to enter the 2016 race, with more to come in the weeks ahead.
“All of my life, I have heard, a truly successful person, a really successful person, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run for public office, just can’t happen,” Trump said.
Trump made the announce-ment at the midtown Manhat-tan tower that bears his name, giving a rambling speech that wandered from foreign policy to President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul to Trump’s achievements in business. In his well-known bombastic style, he mixed boasts about his wealth with promises to defeat effort-lessly the Islamic State group and negotiate trade deals with China.
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» Eileen Bennewith is a registered diet-itian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at [email protected].
I n a recent news story, there has been yet another recall of foods causing illness by
Listeriosis. This time it was ice cream prod-
ucts from Blue Bell Creameries in Texas. Listeriosis is a potentially serious food borne infection.
It comes from eating foods con-taminated with the bacteria Lis-teria monocytogenes.
This bacterium (germ) lives in the soil, on vegetation and in the feces of animals and humans. Food may be contaminated by food handlers or unclean equip-ment where food is prepared.
For most people, if they get ill from food contaminated by Lis-teria monocytogenes, they may have a mild flu-like illness and nothing more. For a pregnant woman, this illness can cause ser-ious harm to the unborn child.
Listeriosis can start with flu-like symptoms such as fever and muscle aches, headache and back-ache, and maybe diarrhoea. In serious cases, the illness may lead to meningitis or blood infection, which could be fatal especially in the very old, the very young or those with other medical condi-tions. Listeriosis can also cause miscarriage or stillbirths in preg-nancy and can be passed to new-borns by infected mothers. Sadly, a mother may have only mild symptoms, which can be mistaken for symptoms of pregnancy so she may not even know that she has an infection from listeriosis.
You can reduce your risk of con-tracting Listeriosis by being very careful with food handling.
• Thoroughly cook all raw foods of animal origin (beef, fish, poult-ry, and eggs).
• Wash vegetables and fruit well before cooking or eating them raw.
• Keep uncooked meats separate from vegetables and other ready-to-eat foods.
• Wash hands, knives and cutting boards after handling or process-ing uncooked food.
• Make sure all milk and milk products and fruit juices have been pasteurized.
• Do not keep foods in the refrigerator for more than two days because Listeria may grow even in cold temperatures.
If you are pregnant, the follow-ing foods should be avoided or cooked thoroughly:
Soft cheeses such as brie, camembert, feta, blue veined, and Mexican style cheeses such as queso blanco fresco, hot dogs, cold cuts or deli meats, fresh patés or meat spreads, smoked sea foods, sushi or previously cooked seafood.
All of these foods go through processing that could allow them to become contaminated.
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Beer complements many favourite summer foods
With all this hot weather and the limited number of sunny days we all get to enjoy,
Islanders are cooking outdoors whenever they can. With a little imagination and tin foil, good meals can be turned out on the barbecue.
Surprise, surprise, hot weather can also make us thirsty too. Not so much for wine but for that carbonated stuff that’s a little lower in alcohol, but a true thirst quencher nonetheless.
Enter the art of beer and food pairings. Just as with wines, certain beers can either comple-ment or overpower your favour-ite foods.
Should you be turning out chicken quesadillas in foil on your BBQ, the recommended best to compliment this Mexican delicacy would be an amber or red ale.
More specifically, an excel-lent complementing craft beer would be Dageraad Amber Ale. Its medium body is balanced by toasty malt that boosts the cheesy goodness of the quesadilla.
Dageraad Amber’s slightly dry and bitter finish accents the quesadilla spices. A little bit more beer improves the taste of
the chicken which, pretty much makes it a match made in heav-en! At $6.10 for a large bottle that shares well between two people, it’s easy on the pocket book while big on the flavor front.
What would a barbecue be without burgers? Beef or salmon burgers are well paired with a dark lager and the dark roasted malts in the Okanagan Springs Brewmaster mirror the richness of beef or salmon.
The Brewmaster’s crisp, clean finish cleanses your taste buds for another big bite. It’s great for entertaining and comes with a decent price tag of $12.25 for a six-pack.
If barbecued seafood is your thing, look no further than a refreshing Hefeweizen or Witbier wheat beer which makes Kronen-
bourg Blanc an ideal choice. Light and slightly tart with an
exciting effervescence, this pale wheat beer delivers lemon/lime flavours with a hint of coriander and orange peel.
The subtle flavors let your sea-food shine through and while you can find the six packs under $13, Kronenbourg Blanc is so refreshing it serves well as a good aperitif.
An overall crowd pleaser that also works with a wide range of dishes is pale ale. Not too heavy, not too malty, not too bitter, it’s a good smooth beer that works with most foods. Offer it at your next potluck when you want to make a good impression.
On the other hand, a couple of beer styles should be avoid-ed when cooking on the BBQ.
Strong ales and barley wine, for instance, will overwhelm most foods. These beers go well with bold cheese, game and some deserts, but are difficult to pair with most foods, especially off the grill.
Luckys Liquor’s Gourmet Mezzanine at Country Club Centre is hosting a beer pairing event in our Eat, Drink & Learn series.
On Friday, June 19 at 7 p.m. join us as we explore and enjoy an evening of beer and sliders. Delectable mini-burgers with unique house-made accompani-ments will be paired expertly with unique local craft beers.
For more information visit us at www.luckysliquor.ca or find us on Facebook. To reserve your spot call us at 250-585-2275.
Burgers and beer go well together, especially in the hot weather.
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To make dad happy on Father’s Day, upgrade his barbecue to enjoy benefi ts of lump charcoal
A lthough men have been assigned the stereotype of working the backyard
grill, it is a joy that is shared by all home culinary enthusiasts. It’s a summertime passion. The aroma of lump charcoal being lit starts my mouth watering as my mind conjures up recollections of flame-licked meats, and fire caramelized vegetables. Lump charcoal is the new black when it comes to barbecuing, and with a few basic tips and some research, you can overcome any intimida-tion you may have towards this natural fuel.
Before I get into the benefits of lump charcoal, I must stress that the quality of equipment is important.
I hear of so many people pur-chasing equipment just because the price is right.
Your outdoor cooking appli-ance is a significant purchase and should not be looked upon differently than the purchase of a new oven/stove for your kitchen. If anything, quality in an out-
door cooker should be of higher importance that your indoor oven/stove because it will be sub-jected to the elements; even with a cover over it the environment is more humid than anything you use indoors.
A barbeque should not be considered a disposable fixture. You should not have to replace it every few years.
You would never dream of doing that with your indoor oven/stove, so why do you expect to do that with your barbecue? Do your research.
How long has the company been operating for? How long is the warranty? Is the warranty administered through the retail-er or do you have to deal with the manufacturer yourself?
How easy is it to get replace-ment parts and accessories? Tak-ing the time to investigate before you purchase will pay off in the long run.
Barbecued flavor from natural wood is the best in my opinion and natural lump charcoal is arguably the way to go.
Sure there are other products that will give you smoke flavor like pellets or bisquettes in dif-ferent smokers. However these are made from wood chips and/or sawdust compressed together, and because of that they are
more susceptible to moisture absorption, and also not usually used in direct high heat sear-ing. The old standby square formed briquettes, compressed with binding ingredients, are also no comparison to natural lump charcoal. Lump charcoal is basically just chunks of wood that have been heated with little oxygen.
This process carbonizes the wood and transforms it into this incredible long-lasting fuel that naturally adds amazing flavor to anything grilled with it. I have read that archeological digs have proven that we as humans have been making charcoal for the purpose of cooking for over thirty thousand years.
This would then be the oldest known form of cooking to man-kind. It’s simple: we take from nature through sustainable resources, cook our food, and give back to nature by contribut-ing the compostable ash to our gardens.
The bag you purchase must say “lump charcoal” to know that you’re getting the real deal. There are many brands in the market place to choose from.
Charcoal made from only hardwood will be the premium choice. Hardwood lump charcoal lasts longer, is easier to light,
makes food taste better in my opinion, and is more receptive to oxygen flow.
To have fire, in the simplest form, is to have fuel, ignition and oxygen.
Controlling the flow of oxygen through air vents on a charcoal grill to increase/decrease temper-ature will replace the working of gas knobs on a gas/propane grill. A fire can’t burn, or let alone increase in temperature, without oxygen.
Increase the oxygen and you will increase the amount of fire, and thus increase the temper-ature of the cook. The opposite will happen with the decrease of oxygen. It’s that simple, and your food has never tasted better.
To make Dad the true king of the barbecue this Father’s Day get him cooking on the most natural fuel and the taste of his famous barbecued food will increase dramatically.
There is a ton of information on the internet and in books on charcoal cooking that will help make the transition as easy as possible.
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White Rapids successful in season-opening meetDAILY NEWS
The Nanaimo White Rapids Summer Swim Club has kicked off its season in spectacular fash-ion with a stack of medals won at the opening meet.
The Icebreaker Meet was held at the Cowichan Pool in Duncan on June 6 and 7 with 65 local swimmers in attendance from the Nanaimo club.
Danielle Barberie was arguably the star of the show with five first place finishes in Division 1.
Those included the 100m IM, 50m free, 50m back, 50m fly and the 50m breast as well as a silver in 100m free.
Grace Lim finished third in the 50m back in the same division.
In Division 2, Dylan Barberie finished second in the 100m IM, 50m fly, 50m breast and third in the 50m free.
Carter James was third in the 50m back, 50m breast and 100m free.
Peter Morch won all five of his events in the 100m IM, 50m fly, 50m back, 50m breast and 100m free.
Cadence Jones was first in the 50m breast, second in the 100m IM, 50m back and 100m free.
In Division 3, Yulia Bobkova was third in the 50m breast. Nyah De Pol finished the same in the 50m back. Gus Johnson was first in both the 100m IM and 50m breast.
Jack Laroche finished third in the 50m fly. Cam Laturnus was second in the 50m free and also third in the 100m IM and 50m back.
Bryan Moore was third in the 50m breast. Kayley Morch was first in the 100m free, second in the 50m back, 50m fly and 100m IM and also third in the 50m free.
Finally in Division 3, Stewart Stephen was first in the 50m free,
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In Division 4, Tayden DePol finished in the top two across six events which included a win in the 100m back. Ava Johnson was similar and won the 100m back and 100m free.
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“It was great to be able to take such a large group of swimmers down to Cowichan and kick off the swim season with two days of fast racing,” said head coach Gareth Saunders.
“Our focus now turns to the NWRSC Invitational at the Bowen Park Kin Pool. We have teams from all over Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland prepping for our meet in which we will have close to 500 swim-mers racing.”
The club is the defending Island champion.
Saad will likely return to Hawks: GM JAY COHEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Moments after Chicago won the Stanley Cup for the third time in six seasons, Stan Bowman went back to work. The general manager of the Blackhawks found forward Brandon Saad on the ice at the United Center and made plans for more big parties in June. Saad is eligible for restricted free agency this summer, and his contract situation is a key part of the shortened off-season for the champions.
“I just talked to him right after we won,” Bowman said after Chicago’s clinching victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6 on Monday night.
“We gave a hug and said, ‘This is the first of many. We’re going to win a lot together.’ He gave me a big hug and said, ‘Let’s go.’ He’s going to be here. I don’t think he’d want to leave after this scene here.”
The sixth NHL title in franchise history was the first time since 1938 that the team wrapped up the championship at home.
Warriors win it all THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND — Revived by a fresh-faced shooting superstar and a first-year coach who made them believe, the Golden State Warriors again reign supreme.
Their 40-year NBA champion-ship drought is finally over.
A half century of misery in Cleveland drags on. LeBron James just didn’t have enough help.
Stephen Curry and finals MVP Andre Iguodala scored 25 points apiece, Draymond Green recorded a triple-double and the Warriors — using a barrage of 3-pointers in the fourth quar-ter — won their first title since 1975 by finishing off James and the Cavaliers 105-97 on Tuesday night in Game 6.
For the first time since Gerald Ford was in the White House, disco was in vogue and Rick Barry was flicking in free throws under-handed, the best pro basketball team resides in the Bay Area. And these Warriors are a lot like Barry and his old crew: fluid, balanced, together. Just like coach Steve Kerr hoped.
After falling behind by two points early in the third quarter, the Warriors took control with Curry, the league’s MVP, and Iguodala, who made his first start of the season in Game 4, leading the way.
“World champs,” Curry said, letting the title sink in.
“This is truly special. This group is a special group. From the time we started the season this is what we envisioned and a lot of hard work goes into it, all the way down to the last minute of this game. This is what it’s all about. . . . We’re going to remem-ber this for a long time.”
Golden State allowed the Cava-
liers to creep within eight points in the fourth before unleashing a flurry of 3s to ensure they would be taking the Larry O’Brien Tro-phy back to California.
Curry’s step-back made it 78-68, and after the Cavs closed within seven on J.R. Smith’s trey, Iguo-dala, Curry and Klay Thompson each drained one in a span of 81 seconds to make it 89-75.
Iguodala added another long shot for good measure before he strutted back on defense holding out three fingers on each hand.
He could have shot an index finger into the air at that point — Golden State is No. 1.
James returned from Miami to deliver a title to his home region, but the 30-year-old, left to do most of the work by himself after All-Stars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were injured in the postseason, came two wins shy of giving Cleveland its first pro sports championship since 1964.
They city’s three pro teams — the Cavs, Browns and Indians
— have gone a combined 144 sea-sons without one of them win-ning it all. James had 32 points, 18 rebounds and nine assists in Game 6 and was dominant dur-ing the series, showing why he’s the world’s best player.
The Warriors were simply the better team. James was replaced in the final seconds, but before he left the court, the four-time MVP shook hands with Curry and offered congratulations to Kerr and the rest of the Warriors.
“The sacrifice every guy made from Andre and David (Lee) step-ping away from the starting line-up, we just played,” Kerr said.
“And they were all in it just to win. That’s all that mattered. This is an amazing group of guys.”
This series, which opened with two overtime games in Oakland, flipped when Kerr employed a small lineup in the fourth quar-ter of Game 3 and the Warriors nearly overcame a 20-point defi-cit before losing.
Cleveland’s endless championship drought continues on
Golden State Warriors centre Festus Ezeli hugs the trophy after winning the NBA championship in Cleveland on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]
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Chambers Bay will provide ‘horrors’
As the world’s best golfers converge on Chambers Bay, they are finding
a mix of the sublime and the diabolical.
That’s quite different than “a farce,” which was Ian Poulter’s word-of-mouth assessment of a course that is unlike most any-thing seen on American shores.
To these eyes, that’s a very good thing. And I’ll wager that by Sunday, most eyes will agree with me, except maybe the ones attached to hidebound PGA golfers.
“It’s a fun challenge,” said Jordan Spieth, the 21-year-old savant. “It’s a beautiful challenge as well.”
The visuals on Monday, while players went through their prac-tice rounds and the fans soaked it all up (at least the ones who weren’t jamming the merchan-dise pavilion), were suitably spectacular.
At times, when I was on the higher elevations, looking back toward the sparkling Sound, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, it was down-right breathtaking.
And yet the course, aesthetic-ally pleasing as it is, will be filled with unique challenges.
That includes holes that will be magically transformed over-night by virtue of the tee box, pin placement, or a combination thereof — “four new golf cours-es every day” is the way Tiger Woods recently put it after a practice round.
Challenged to describe the course in one word, Spieth came up, finally, with “inventive.” And don’t think the United States Golf Association (USGA), which will determine the setup each morning, isn’t milking the intrigue (and angst) amongst the golfers over the daily layout par-
ticulars. “To be honest, I think it’s more just to get in our heads ahead of time,” Spieth said when asked about the “elasticity” of Chambers Bay.
Many other features will test the creativity of golfers. The ele-vation changes on the course can be daunting. As with most links-style courses, the ball will roll and roll, potentially negating the advantage of long hitters. The slopes and swales on the greens will turn seemingly spot-on approach shots into catastrophes if the ball rolls askew. Or, con-versely, it can make a resourceful golfer look like a genius if he cor-rectly reads the angles.
Most people have seen video of the practice-round putt that Bubba Watson put up on social media, in which he turned his back to the hole, sent it up and back down a steep slope and right into the cup, like some cutup at the local putt-putt course.
The only thing missing was the clown’s mouth, which helps explain Martin Kaymer’s recent description of Chambers Bay as “a tricked-up links course.”
Maybe, but it’s OUR tricked-up links course. There’s definitely some Northwest pride at stake here. You can’t help but want
the rest of the world to see our region with its finest foot for-ward; the glorious weather Mon-day was a great start.
Yet the strangest fact of all is that while Chambers Bay is surrounded by characteristic Northwest beauty, and quirky regional charm (like the train that periodically rumbles past, and the military planes that fly overhead), the course itself can be antithetical to Puget Sound stereotypes. This may be the Evergreen state, but the fescue grass of Chambers Bay is not of a particularly vivid green color. To be perfectly honest, it has more of a brownish hue, particu-larly on the, uh, green.
Ryan Moore, whose University Place roots are strong, was asked if the fescue meant that golfers were going to miss a lot of putts
“Yeah, just like every tourna-ment, we miss a lot of putts,” he said wryly. “We make a lot, too. But honestly, they’re definitely not the prettiest greens in the world, but no fescue greens are that pretty.
“But it actually rolls a lot better than it looks.”
There is water everywhere — but none on the course. And while we’re renowned in these parts for our copious quantity of
trees, this course has just one, a Douglas fir behind the 15th green that won’t be a factor.
That last fact amused Lee Jan-zen, who won a U.S. Open title in 1998 in part because a ball pre-sumed to be stuck in a tree fell down right before he was going to re-hit.
“Where is it?” Janzen asked of the lone tree at Chambers Bay, then joked: “Actually, I sent some guys out here a few months ago to try to chop it down, but they didn’t get it done.”
Added Janzen, “I usually like to play courses with trees because they frame the hole. But on links courses, with the dunes and the hillsides and the background, can also shape the hole really well, too.”
So the first U.S. Open in the great Northwest features no water and one tree, framed in beige. Go figure.
“I think the golf course isn’t really going to portray the Pacif-ic Northwest,” Janzen said. “It’s so unique to itself that I don’t know if anybody has played any course like this, from what I’ve read and what I’ve seen in print.”
I guess you could say, to para-phrase the commercial, it’s a lot like us — a little different.
Larry StoneThe Seattle Times
Martin Kaymer hits out of the bunker on the fifth hole during a practice round for the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay Tuesday in University Place, Wash. [AP PHOTO]
Argos’ QB Ray injured, will sit out six gamesTHE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — The Toronto Argo-nauts won’t have quarterback Ricky Ray under centre when they open the 2015 CFL season.
The Argos put their star quarterback on the six-game injured list Tuesday as he con-tinues to recover from off-season shoulder surgery. Ray, 35, was the CFL’s passing leader last sea-son and the East Division nom-inee for the league’s outstanding player award.
Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich said the club made the move now so as to not create a distraction next week as the Argos prepare for their sea-son-opening home game June 27 against the Edmonton Eskimos in Fort McMurray, Alta. Backup Trevor Harris assumes the start-ing position.
“We knew for a couple of weeks that was probably the case so we wanted to go ahead and get this over with,” Milanovich told reporters.
Milanovich said Ray continues to make progress and remains on schedule.
BASEBALLMLB - Results and standings
Yesterday’s resultsSt. Louis 3, Minnesota 2Houston 8, Colorado 5Oakland 6, San Diego 5San Fran 6, Seattle 2Boston 9, Atlanta 4Pittsburgh 3, Chicago Sox 0Baltimore 19, Philadelphia 3Cincinnati 5, Detroit 2Miami 12, NY Yankees 2NY Mets 3, Toronto 2Washington 16, Tampa Bay 4Cleveland 6, Chicago Cubs 0Texas 3, LA Dodgers 2Kansas City 7, Milwaukee 2Arizona at L.A. Angels
Today’s schedule with probable startersBaltimore at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Jimenez (4-3) vs Correia (0-0)Tampa Bay at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Archer (7-4) vs Zimmermann (5-4)Miami at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Urena (1-2) vs Pineda (7-3)N.Y. Mets at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Niese (3-6) vs Hutchison (5-1)Chi. Cubs at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m. Hammel (5-2) vs Salazar (6-2)Detroit at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Price (6-2) vs Cueto (4-4)Boston at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m. Kelly (2-4) vs Wood (4-4)St. Louis at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Garcia (2-3) vs Milone (2-1)Milwaukee at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. Fiers (3-6) vs Ventura (3-6)Pittsburgh at Chi. White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Locke (3-3) vs Danks (3-6)Houston at Colorado, 5:40 p.m. Oberholtzer (1-1) vs Kendrick (2-8)L.A. Angels at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. Santiago (4-3) vs Anderson (2-1)San Diego at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Despaigne (3-4) vs Chavez (2-6)San Francisco at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. Bumgarner (7-3) vs Hernandez (9-3)Texas at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Rodriguez (3-2) vs Kershaw (5-3)
Thursday, June 18 (Early games)Baltimore at Philadelphia, 10:05 a.m. Norris (2-4) vs O’Sullivan (1-5)St. Louis at Minnesota, 10:10 a.m. Lyons (1-0) vs Pelfrey (5-3)Houston at Colorado, 12:10 p.m. McHugh (6-3) vs Hale (2-1)San Diego at Oakland, 12:35 p.m. Kennedy (3-5) vs Graveman (3-3)L.A. Angels at Arizona, 12:40 p.m. Wilson (4-5) vs Collmenter (3-6)
B.C. Premier LeagueTeam W L Pct GBNorth Shore 21 6 .7778 -Langley 22 10 .688 2.5Vic Eagles 23 10 .697 3.0Nanaimo 18 11 .621 3.5North Delta 13 9 .591 5Okanagan 18 14 .563 5Whalley 17 17 .500 7.5Coquitlam 12 20 .375 11Abbotsford 9 19 .321 12Vic Mariners 8 17 .320 11.5White Rock 9 22 .300 13Parksville 5 20 .200 14.5
Yesterday’s resultsNorth Shore 1, Langley 0Whalley 8, White Rock 7
Saturday June 20Parksville at Vic Mariners, 12 p.m.Nanaimo at North Shore, 12 p.m.Coquitlam at Abbotsford, 12 p.m.Vic Eagles at North Delta, 1 p.m.Parksville at Vic Mariners, 2:30 p.m.Nanaimoi at North Shore, 2:30 p.m.Coquitlam at Abbotsford, 2:30 p.m.Vic Eagles at North Delta, 3:30 p.m.
West Coast League
Yesterday’s resultsKlamath 4, Bend 3Cowlitz 3, Victoria 2Yakima Valley 4, Corvallis 3Wenatchee 8, Medford 3Bellingham 4, Walla Walla 3
Today’s scheduleBend at Klamath, 6:35 p.m.Victoria at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m.Yakima Valley at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.Medford at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.Walla Walla at Bellingham, 7:05 p.m.
Thursday, June 18Bend at Klamath Falls, 6:35 p.m.Medford at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m.Yakima Valley at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.Walla Walla at Bellingham, 7:05 p.m.
GOLFWinnings, year to dateand upcoming schedule
PGAThis week: U.S. Open Championship, June 18-21 (Major)Chambers Bay Golf Club, University Place, Washington. Par 72, 7,585 yards. Purse: $9,000,000. 2014 champion: Martin Kaymer
Player 2015 Winnings1 Jordan Spieth $6,063,838 2 Jimmy Walker $4,102,257 3 Rory McIlroy $3,912,533 4 Dustin Johnson $3,448,960 5 J.B. Holmes $3,116,200 6 Charley Hoffman $3,049,872 7 Justin Rose $3,007,424 8 Bubba Watson $2,838,174 9 Brandt Snedeker $2,811,110 10 Rickie Fowler $2,758,848 11 Hideki Matsuyama $2,734,824 12 Patrick Reed $2,604,191 13 Jason Day $2,400,513 14 Ben Martin $2,396,211 15 Kevin Kisner $2,387,707 16 Robert Streb $2,317,172 17 Ryan Moore $2,317,101 18 Jim Furyk $2,313,161 19 Gary Woodland $2,305,905 20 Steven Bowditch $2,275,123 Canadian golfers71 Nick Taylor $1,006,519 108 Graham Delaet $634,967 109 Adam Hadwin $629,685 202 Mike Weir $72,800
Canadian PGA TourNo tournament this weekThe Syncrude Boreal Open, June 25-28Fort McMurray Golf Club, Fort McMurray, Alta. Par 72, 6,912 yards. Purse: $175,000. 2014 champion: Joel Dahmen
NOTES: Winnings in CAD$. * denotes Canadian golfer1 *Riley Wheeldon $56,8732 *Mackenzie Hughes $53,8203 *Albin Choi $44,1344 Mark Hubbard $40,6965 Hugo Leon $39,8976 Wil Collins $39,7087 Joe Panzeri $39,3138 *Nick Taylor $36,7159 Chris Epperson $36,29610 Drew Weaver $35,52511 John Ellis $33,98412 *Cory Renfrew $33,70113 Carlos Sainz Jr $33,10614 Kyle Stough $32,92015 *Eugene Wong $32,91416 Stephen Gangluff $32,46117 Nathan Tyler $30,46818 Max Gilbert $28,54119 Lucas Lee $25,82420 David Skinns $25,744
LPGANo tournament this weekWalmart NW Arkansas Champion-ship, June 26-28Pinnacle Country Club, Rogers, Arkansas. Par 71, 7,001 yards. Purse: $2,000,000. 2014 champion: Stacy Lewis.
Player 2015 Winnings1 Inbee Park $1,422,500 2 Sei Young Kim $1,096,834 3 Lydia Ko $942,476 4 Stacy Lewis $804,768 5 Brittany Lincicome $719,143 6 Morgan Pressel $663,951 7 Hyo Joo Kim $639,784 8 Anna Nordqvist $618,794 9 Amy Yang $584,967 10 Cristie Kerr $577,043 11 Lexi Thompson $506,712 12 Suzann Pettersen $505,423 13 Mirim Lee $479,344 14 Minjee Lee $427,876 15 So Yeon Ryu $426,232 16 Shanshan Feng $419,009 17 Na Yeon Choi $413,911 18 Ha Na Jang $341,236 From Canada78 Alena Sharp $70,638
Champions TourNo tournament this weekU.S. Senior Open Championship, June 25-28Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, California, Par 71, 7,121 yards. Purse: $3,500,000. 2014 champion: Colin Montgomerie
Player 2015 Winnings1 Colin Montgomerie $1,043,700 2 Bernhard Langer $904,261 3 Joe Durant $886,206 4 Jeff Maggert $690,865 5 Esteban Toledo $648,886 6 Olin Browne $644,465 7 Tom Pernice Jr. $609,450 8 Kevin Sutherland $594,810 9 Paul Goydos $583,920 10 Tom Lehman $555,721 11 Billy Andrade $539,419 12 Bart Bryant $539,128 13 Marco Dawson $536,298 14 Michael Allen $514,288 15 Ian Woosnam $499,880 16 Kirk Triplett $489,477 17 Mark O’Meara $480,347 18 Gene Sauers $464,461 19 Lee Janzen $457,263 20 Russ Cochran $424,449 Canadian golfers31 Rod Spittle $298,601 44 Stephen Ames $184,894 95 Jim Rutledge $28,412
Web.com TourNo tournament this weekAir Capital Classic, June 25-28Crestview Country Club, North Course, Wichita, Kansas. Par 72, 6,959 yards. Purse: $600,000. 2014 champion: Sebastian Cappelen
Player 2015 Winnings1 Patton Kizzire $254,699 2 Peter Malnati $234,163 3 Kelly Kraft $197,524 4 Wes Roach $180,170 5 Shane Bertsch $178,678 6 Miguel Angel Carballo $175,545 7 Tyler Aldridge $166,113 8 Smylie Kaufman $164,247 9 Patrick Rodgers $162,070 10 Andrew Landry $150,870 11 Rod Pampling $147,460 12 Steve Marino $145,744 13 Dawie van der Walt $140,565 14 Kevin Tway $127,191 15 Harold Varner III $122,953 Canadian golfer77 Brad Fritsch $35,165
European TourNo tournament this weekBMW International Open, June 25-28Golfclub Munchen Eichenried, Munich, Germany. Par 72, 6,963 yards. Purse: $2,000,000. 2014 champion: Fabrizio Zanotti
Player 2015 WinningsNote: €1=CDN$1.3591 Rory Mcilroy €2,665,1692 Danny Willett €1,823,6563 Byeong Hun An €1,148,4564 Justin Rose €1,037,7175 Bernd Wiesberger €1,003,3396 Thongchai Jaidee €939,4027 Louis Oosthuizen €927,5638 Branden Grace €909,7399 Miguel Angel Jimenez €886,59010 Alex Noren €835,25211 Ross Fisher €834,24912 Anirban Lahiri €823,38913 Kiradech Aphibarnrat €776,98114 Tommy Fleetwood €776,56515 Soren Kjeldsen €753,104
BASKETBALLNBA Championship final(Best-of-seven series)
Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors
Yesterday’s result (Game 6)Golden State 105, Cleveland 97 (Golden State wins series 4-2)
Soccer (Cont’d)CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers
Yesterday’s resultCanada 4, Dominica 0at BMO Field, Toronto
Open Cup, Round FourAll teams MLS unless noted
Today’s schedulePhiladelphia Union 0(3), Rochester Rhinos (USL) (1)0New York Red Bulls 3, Atlanta Silver-backs (NASL) 0Sporting Kansas City 1, Saint Louis FC (USL) 0Chicago Fire 1, Louisville City (USL) 0Football Club Dallas 4, OKC Energy (USL) 1Colorado Rapids 4, Colorado Springs Switchbacks (USL) 1Real Salt Lake 2, Seattle Sounders 2, (USL) 1San Jose Earthquakes 2, Sacramento Republic (USL), 2,Seattle Sounders 1, Portland 2
Wednesday, June 17Richmond Kickers (USL) vs. Columbus Crew SC, 4 p.m.Pittsburgh Riverhounds (USL) vs. D.C. United, 4 p.m.New York Cosmos (NASL) vs. New York City FC, 4:30 p.m.Charleston Battery (USL) vs. Orlando City, 4:30 p.m.New England Revolution vs. Charlotte Independence (USL), 4:30 p.m.Houston Dynamo vs. Austin Aztex (USL), 6 p.m.LA Galaxy vs. PSA Elite (USASA Reg. IV), 7:30 p.m.
MLS
Friday, June 19Dallas at Colorado, 6 p.m. Saturday, June 20San Jose at Seattle, 1 p.m.NY City FC at Toronto, 4 p.m.Orlando at Montreal, 5 p.m.Houston at Portland, 7:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 21New England at DC United, 2 p.m.Sporting KC at Salt Lake, 7 p.m.
Pacific Coast Soccer League W L D GF GA PtsVan United 7 2 0 19 5 23Victoria 6 5 1 25 13 23Mid Isle 6 2 1 16 8 20Van Tbirds 3 5 1 18 13 14Khalsa 3 1 4 12 13 10Kamloops 2 1 4 12 16 7Tim Hortons 2 1 6 14 26 7Abbotsford 1 3 5 10 16 6FC Tigers 0 2 8 13 29 2
Sunday’s resultsVancouver United 3, Tim Hortons 2Victoria 2, Vancouver Tbirds 2Mid Isle 1, Khalsa 0
Saturday’s resultsAbbotsford 3, Tim Hortons 0Mid Isle 1, Vancouver Tbirds 0Victoria 4, Khalsa 1FC Tigers 0, Vancouver United 3
Saturday, June 20Kamloops at Mid Isle, 5 p.m.FC Tigers at Khalsa, 5 p.m.Van United at Vancouver Tbirds, 6 p.m.Tim Hortons at Abbotsford, 7 p.m.
SOCCERFIFA Women’s World CupJune 6-July 5Defending champion: Japan
Yesterday’s results (Final group games) (Groups C, D)Japan 1, Ecuador 0, at Winnipeg Scoring: Ogimi 6’
Cameroon 2, Switzerland 1, Edmonton Scoring: Cameroon Onguene 47’, Ngono Mani 62’; Switzerland Crnogo-rcevic 24’
USA 1, Nigeria 0, at Vancouver Scoring: Wambach 45’
Australia 1, Sweden 1, at Edmonton Scoring: Australia De Vanna 5’; Sweden Jakobsson 15’
Today’s schedule (Final group games) (Groups E, F)Mexico vs. France, 1 p.m. at OttawaEngland vs. Colombia, 1 p.m. MontrealCosta Rica vs. Brazil, 4 p.m. at MonctonSouth Korea vs. Spain, 4 p.m. at Ottawa
Group standings, rulesTwo top teams in each group plus the four best third-place teams advance to the tournament’s knock-out stage, the Group of 16.
Group A W D L GF GA Pts1 Canada (H) 1 2 0 2 1 52 China 1 1 1 3 3 43 Netherlands 1 1 1 1 2 44 New Zealand 0 2 1 2 3 2
Monday, June 15Netherlands 1, Canada 1, at MontrealChina 2, New Zealand 2, at Winnipeg
Thursday, June 11 at EdmontonChina 1, Netherlands 0Canada 0, New Zealand 0
Saturday, June 6 at EdmontonCanada 1, China 0Netherlands 1, New Zealand 0
Group B W D L GF GA Pts1 Germany 2 1 0 15 1 72 Norway 2 1 0 8 2 73 Thailand 1 0 2 3 10 34 Ivory Coast 0 0 3 3 16 0
Monday, June 15Norway 3, Ivory Coast 1, at MonctonGermany 4, Thailand 0, at Winnipeg
Thursday, June 11 at OttawaGermany 1, Norway 1Thailand 3, Ivory Coast 2
Sunday, June 7 at OttawaNorway 4, Thailand 0Germany 10, Ivory Coast 0
Group C W D L GF GA Pts1 Japan 3 0 0 4 1 92 Cameroon 2 0 1 9 3 63 Switzerland 1 0 2 11 4 34 Ecuador 0 0 3 0 17 0
Tuesday, June 16Japan 1, Ecuador 0, at WinnipegCameroon 2, Switzerland 1, Edmonton
Friday, June 12 at VancouverSwitzerland 10, Ecuador 1Japan 2, Cameroon 1
Monday, June 8 at VancouverCameroon 6, Ecuador 0Japan 1, Switzerland 0
Group D W D L GF GA Pts1 United States 2 1 0 4 1 72 Australia 1 1 1 4 4 43 Sweden 0 3 0 4 4 34 Nigeria 0 1 2 3 6 1
Tuesday, June 16USA 1, Nigeria 0, at VancouverAustralia 1, Sweden 1, at Edmonton
Friday, June 12 at WinnipegAustralia 2, Nigeria 0United States 0, Sweden 0
Monday, June 8 at WinnipegSweden 3, Nigeria 3United States 3, Australia 1
Group E W D L GF GA Pts1 Brazil 1 0 0 2 0 32 Spain 0 1 0 1 1 12 Costa Rica 0 1 0 1 1 14 South Korea 0 0 1 0 2 0
Saturday, June 13 at MontrealBrazil 1, Spain 0South Korea 2, Costa Rica 2
Tuesday, June 9 at MontrealSpain 1, Costa Rica 1Brazil 2, South Korea 0
Group F W D L GF GA Pts1 France 1 0 0 1 0 32 Colombia 0 1 0 1 1 12 Mexico 0 1 0 1 1 14 England 0 0 1 0 1 0
Saturday, June 13 at MonctonColombia 2, France 0England 2, Mexico 1
Tuesday, June 9 at MonctonFrance 1, England 0Colombia 1, Mexico,1
Thursday, June 18Friday, June 19Rest and travel days
Saturday, June 20Round of 16 begins(All games elimination)Winner Group B vs. 3rd Group A/C/DMatch 39 at Ottawa, 1 p.m.
Runner-up Group A vs. Runner-up Group CMatch 37 at Edmonton, 4:30 p.m.
Sunday June 21Winner Group E vs. Runner-up Group DMatch 41 at Moncton, 10 a.m.
Winner Group F vs. Runner-up Group EMatch 40 at Montreal, 1 p.m.
Winner Group A vs. 3rd Group C/D/EMatch 44 at Vancouver, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, June 22Runner-up B vs. Runner-up Group FMatch 43 at Ottawa, 2 p.m.
Winner Group D vs. 3rd Group B/E/FMatch 38 at Edmonton, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, June 23Winner Group C vs. 3rd Group A/B/FMatch 42 at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
TENNISCurrent tournamaents
ATPGerry Weber Open, June 15-21Halle, GermanySurface: Grass. Purse: €1,574,640
Doubles - Round 1Eric Butorac, United States, and Scott Lipsky, United States, def. Julian Knowle, Austria, and Vasek Pospisil (3), Vernon, B.C., 6-7 (5), 6-4, 10-8.Rohan Bopanna, India, and Florin Mergea (2), Romania, def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, and Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, 2-6, 6-3, 10-8.
Singles - Round 1Kei Nishikori (2), Japan, def. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 7-6 (4), 7-5.Tomas Berdych (3), Czech Republic, def. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, 7-5, 6-3.Gael Monfils (4), France, def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4.Tommy Robredo (5), Spain, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (1).Jerzy Janowicz, Poland, def. Pablo Cuevas (6), Uruguay, 6-3, 6-4.Steve Johnson, United States, def. Ber-nard Tomic (7), Australia, 6-3, 7-6 (4).Ivo Karlovic (8), Croatia, def. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4.Andreas Seppi, Italy, def. Tommy Haas (96), Germany, 7-5, 6-2.
Aegon Championships, June 15-21Queen’s Club, London, EnglandSurface: Grass. Purse: €1,574,640
Singles - Round 1Andy Murray (1), Britain, def. Lu Yen-Hsun, Taiwan, 6-4, 7-5.Stan Wawrinka (2), Switzerland, def. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, 6-3, 6-4.Marin Cilic (4), Croatia, def. Adrian Mannarino, France, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2.Alexandr Dolgopolov, Ukraine, def. Ra-fael Nadal (5), Spain, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4.Grigor Dimitrov (6), Bulgaria, def. Sam Querrey, United States, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.Gilles Simon (7), France, def. David Goffin, Belgium, 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-2.Feliciano Lopez (8), Spain, def. Joao Sousa, Portugal, 6-3, 6-4.John Isner, United States, def. Jared Donaldson, United States, 7-6 (11), 6-4.
Doubles - Round 1Marc Lopez, Spain, and Rafael Nadal, Spain, def. Milos Raonic, Toronto, and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, 6-4, 6-4.
WTA Aegon Classic Birmingham, June 15-21Birmingham, EnglandSurface: Grass. Purse: $665,900.
Singles - Round 2Simona Halep (1), Romania, def. Naomi Broady, Britain, 6-4, 6-2.Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, def. Andrea Petkovic (7), Germany, 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4).
Round 1Barbora Strycova (10), Czech Republic, def. Monica Niculescu, Romania, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.Victoria Azarenka (12), Belarus, def. Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 7-6 (7), 6-4.Svetlana Kuznetsova (13), Russia, def. Karin Knapp, Italy, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-2.Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakia, def. Irina-Camelia Begu (14), Romania, 4-6, 7-6 (10), 6-4.Jelena Jankovic (15), Serbia, def. Tereza Smitkova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-4.Caroline Garcia (16), France, def. Tatjana Maria, Germany, 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (6).
FOOTBALLCFLPre-season schedule
Last Saturday’s resultsMontreal 26, Ottawa 9, at Stade TELUS-Universite Laval, Quebec City
Edmonton 31, Saskatchewan 24 at SMS Equipment Stadium, Fort McMurray
Last Friday’s resultCalgary 20, BC Lions 6(at McMahon Stadium, Calgary)
Preseason C
Thursday, June 18Toronto at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, June 19Hamilton at Winnipeg, 5:30 p.m.
Calgary at Saskatchewan, 6:30 p.m.
Edmonton vs. BC Lions, 7 p.m., at David Sidoo Field, Thunderbird Stadium, UBC
Regular seasonWeek 1
Thursday, June 25Ottawa at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.
Friday, June 26Hamilton at Calgary, 6 p.m.Saturday, June 27Edmonton at Toronto, 2 p.m., at SMS Equipment Stadium, Fort McMurrayWinnipeg at Saskatchewan, 5 p.m.
Week 2Thursday, July 2Hamilton at Winnipeg, 5:30 p.m.
Friday, July 3Calgary at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 4BC Lions at Ottawa, 3 p.m.
Sunday, July 5Toronto at Saskatchewan, 12:30 p.m.
BC Junior A Lacrosse League
Standings GP W L T PtsCoquitlam 14 13 1 0 26Delta 15 11 4 0 22Victoria 14 9 5 0 18New Westminster 13 8 5 0 16Langley 15 4 9 2 10Nanaimo 13 4 8 1 9Port Coquitlam 15 4 10 1 9Burnaby 15 2 13 0 4
Yesterday’s resultsCoquitlam at New Westminster, 8 p.m.
Thursday, June 18Port Coquitlam at Langley, 8 p.m.
Friday, June 19New Westminster vs. Port Coquitlam, 8 p.m.
LACROSSEWestern Lacrosse AssnWLA Senior A
Standings GP W L T PtsNew Westminster 6 6 0 0 12Victoria 6 4 2 0 8Coquitlam 5 3 2 0 6Burnaby 7 3 4 0 6Maple Ridge 7 2 5 0 4Langley 6 2 4 0 4Nanaimo 7 2 5 0 4
Yesterday’s resultsBurnaby 5, Maple Ridge 4 (OT)
Today’s scheduleBurnaby at Langley, 7:45 p.m.
Thursday, June 18Langley at New Westminster, 7:45 p.m.
Friday, June 19Coquitlam at Victoria, 7:45 p.m.
Saturday, June 20New Westminster at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.
Sunday, June 21Victoria at Maple Ridge, 6:45 p.m.
AUTO RACINGNASCARNext raceToyota/Save Mart 350Sunday, June 28, 12:19 p.m.Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, CaliforniaQualifying: Saturday, June 27, 11 a.m.
Driver standings, year to dateDriver Pts Winnings1 Kevin Harvick 576 $4,840,1512 Martin Truex Jr. 561 $2,668,7583 Joey Logano 520 $4,015,8204 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 508 $3,171,9555 Jimmie Johnson 506 $3,718,8716 Brad Keselowski 480 $2,790,2957 Jamie McMurray 464 $2,431,2158 Matt Kenseth 456 $2,835,9309 Kasey Kahne 447 $2,175,24910 Jeff Gordon 434 $2,835,180
Formula OneAustrian Grand PrixSpielberg, June 21, 5 a.m.Qualifying Saturday, June 20, 5 a.m. Track Length: 4.326 Km2014 winner: Nico Rosberg
F1 LeadersDriver, Team Pts1 Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes 1512 Nico Rosberg, Mercedes 1343 Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari 1084 Kimi Räikkönen, Ferrari 725 Valtteri Bottas, Williams 576 Felipe Massa, Williams 477 Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull 358 Felipe Nasr, Red Bull 199 Romain Grosjean, Lotus 1710 Daniil Kvyat, Sauber 16
NFLPreseason scheduleSunday, Aug. 9Hall of Fame game, Canton, OhioMinnesota at Pittsburgh 5 p.m.
Week 1Thursday, Aug. 13New Orleans at Baltimore, 4:30 p.m.Green Bay at New England, 4:30 p.m.NY Jets at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.Miami at Chicago, 5 p.m.Washington at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Dallas at San Diego, 7 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 14Tennessee at Atlanta, 4 p.m.Carolina at Buffalo, 4 p.m.Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 4:30 p.m.NY Giants at Cincinnati, 4:30 p.m.St. Louis at Oakland, 7 p.m.Denver at Seattle, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 15San Francisco at Houston, 5 p.m.Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 5 p.m.Kansas City at Arizona, 9 p.m.
Eastern LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GADC United 28 17 8 5 4 20 16N. England 24 16 6 4 6 22 20Orlando 20 15 5 5 5 20 19Toronto 19 12 6 5 1 19 16NY Red Bulls 17 13 4 4 5 17 17Columbus 17 15 4 6 5 21 22Philadelphia 15 16 4 9 3 18 25Montreal 14 11 4 5 2 14 18Chicago 14 14 4 8 2 17 22NY City FC 14 15 3 7 5 15 19
Western LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GASeattle 29 15 9 4 2 23 11Vancouver 26 16 8 6 2 18 15Sporting KC 24 14 6 2 6 22 15Portland 22 15 6 5 4 15 14Dallas 22 15 6 5 4 18 22Los Angeles 22 17 5 5 7 16 19Houston 20 15 5 5 5 21 19San Jose 19 14 5 5 4 14 15Salt Lake 18 15 4 5 6 13 18Colorado 14 14 2 4 8 11 12
Mets 3, Blue Jays 2Toronto NY Mets ab r h bi ab r h biReyes SS 4 1 1 0 Gran’son RF 4 0 0 0Donaldson 3B 3 0 0 0 Lagares CF 4 1 2 0Bautista RF 3 0 1 1 Duda 1B 4 0 1 0Enc’acion 1B 4 0 2 1 d’Arnaud C 4 0 1 0Colabello LF 4 0 1 0 Flores SS 3 1 1 1Martin C 4 0 0 0 Ceciliani LF 3 0 2 0Carrera CF 3 0 1 0 Tejada 3B 3 1 1 1Navarro PH 1 0 0 0 Herrera 2B 3 0 0 0Goins 2B 3 1 0 0 Harvey P 2 0 1 1Copeland P 1 0 0 0 Mayberry PH 1 0 0 0Smoak PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 3 9 3Pillar CF 1 0 1 0 Totals 32 2 7 2
Toronto 000 000 020 2 NY Mets 021 000 00x 3
SB: NYM Lagares (5, 2nd base off Schultz/Martin, R). 2B: TOR Encarnacion (10, Harvey); NYM Flores, W (9, Copeland), Harvey (1, Copeland). 3B: TOR Bautista (2, Harvey). GIDP: NYM Herrera, D. Team Lob: TOR 6; NYM 5. DP: TOR (Donaldson-Encarnacion).
Toronto IP H R ER BB SOS Copeland (L, 1-1) 4.0 8 3 3 0 1P Schultz 2.0 1 0 0 0 1D Tepera 1.0 0 0 0 0 1R Osuna 1.0 0 0 0 0 1NY Mets IP H R ER BB SOM Harvey (W, 7-4) 7.0 4 0 0 0 6C Torres 0.1 2 2 2 2 0
Time: 2:35. Att: 24,522.
Giants 6, Mariners 2Seattle San Fran ab r h bi ab r h biMorrison 1B 3 0 0 0 Aoki RF-LF 4 0 1 0Smith LF 3 0 1 0 Panik 2B 3 0 1 0Cano 2B 4 0 0 0 Pagan CF 4 0 1 1Cruz RF 4 0 0 0 Posey 1B 3 2 1 0Seager 3B 4 1 1 0 Crawford SS 3 1 0 0Jones CF 2 0 0 0 Duffy 3B 4 2 3 3Miller SS 4 1 2 2 Belt LF 3 0 0 0Zunino C 4 0 1 0 McGehee PH 1 0 1 2Happ P 1 0 0 0 Susac C 3 1 1 0Ackley PH-LF 1 0 0 0 Lincecum P 2 0 0 0Totals 30 2 5 2 Maxwell RF-CF 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 6 9 6
Seattle 000 011 000 2 San Fran 020 010 03x 6
SB: SEA Jones, J (1, 2nd base off Lincecum/Susac), Morrison (4, 2nd base off Lincecum/Susac). 2B: SF Susac (3, Happ), McGehee (4, Wilhelmsen). GIDP: SEA Happ; SF Pagan 2. HR: SEA Miller, B (6, 5th inning off Lincecum, 0 on, 0 out); SF Duffy, M (6, 2nd inning off Happ, 1 on, 1 out). Team Lob: SEA 6; SF 5. DP: SEA 2 (Miller, B-Cano-Morrison, Seager-Cano-Morri-son); SF (Susac-Crawford, B-Panik). E: SF Susac (4, throw).
Seattle IP H R ER BB SOJ Happ (L, 3-3) 6.0 7 3 3 2 5F Rodney 1.0 0 0 0 0 0T Wilhelmsen 1.0 2 3 3 2 1San Fran IP H R ER BB SOT Lincecum (W, 7-3) 5.2 5 2 2 4 3G Kontos 0.2 0 0 0 0 0J Lopez 1.0 0 0 0 0 0S Romo 0.2 0 0 0 0 0S Casilla 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Time: 2:39. Att: 41,267.
Nationals 16, Rays 4Washington Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h biSpan CF 4 1 2 1 Kiermaier CF 5 0 1 0den Dekker LF 1 0 0 0 Butler DH 3 0 0 1Rendon 3B 5 2 2 2 Casali C 1 0 0 0Escobar DH 4 1 1 3 Longoria 3B 2 0 2 0 PH-DH 1 0 0 0 Franklin IF-P 2 0 0 0Harper RF 3 1 3 1 DeJesus LF 3 0 0 0Moore PH-1B 2 0 0 0 Guyer PH-LF 1 0 0 0Ramos C 5 2 2 4 Forsythe 2-3B 4 0 2 0Rob’son 1B-RF 5 3 4 2 Souza Jr. RF 4 0 0 0Espinosa 2B 5 3 5 0 Cabrera SS 3 1 1 0Taylor LF-CF 6 2 2 1 Elmore IF-P 3 1 0 0Desmond SS 4 1 2 1 Rivera C-1B 4 2 2 3Totals 45 16 23 15 Totals 35 4 8 4
Washington 060 040 312 16 Tampa Bay 000 010 003 4
2B: WSH Harper (14, Colome), Robinson, C (5, Colome), Rendon (4, Franklin); TB Rivera, R (9, Roark). GIDP: WSH Desmond, Ramos, W. HR: WSH Robinson, C (2, 2nd inning off Colome, 0 on, 0 out), Harper (22, 5th inning off Riefenhauser, 0 on, 0 out), Ramos, W 2 (7, 8th inning off Elmore, 0 on, 0 out; 9th inning off Franklin, 1 on, 2 out); TB Rivera, R (3, 9th inning off Storen, 2 on, 2 out). Team Lob: WSH 10; TB 6. DP: TB 3 (Cabrera, A-Forsythe-Elmore, Souza Jr.-Rivera, R, Elmore-Forsythe-Franklin). E: TB DeJesus (1, fielding).
Washington IP H R ER BB SOT Roark (W, 3-2) 7.0 6 1 1 1 4F Rivero 1.0 0 0 0 0 2D Storen 0.2 2 3 3 1 1M Thornton 0.1 0 0 0 0 0Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SOA Colome (L, 3-3) 2.0 7 6 6 3 2C Riefenhauser 2.1 2 2 2 1 0E Romero 2.0 6 5 4 1 1B Gomes 0.2 2 0 0 0 0J Elmore 1.0 3 1 1 0 0N Franklin 1.0 3 2 2 0 0HBP: Espinosa (by Franklin).
Time: 3:08. Att: 11,491.
Athletics 6, Padres 5Oakland San Diego ab r h bi ab r h biBurns CF 3 1 1 2 Alonso 1B 4 0 2 0Sogard SS 5 0 1 1 Upton LF 4 1 1 0Reddick RF 5 1 1 0 Kemp RF 4 1 1 1Zobrist 2B 4 1 1 2 M’brooks 3B 4 0 2 0Butler 1B 2 0 1 0 Barmes SS 3 0 1 1Muncy 3B-1B 4 1 1 0 Venable PH 1 0 0 0Phegley C 4 0 0 0 Span’berg 2B 4 0 0 0Fuld LF 2 1 0 0 Hedges C 3 1 1 1Kazmir P 2 1 1 1 Norris PH 1 0 0 0Semien PH 1 0 1 0 Cashner P 2 0 0 0Vogt PH 1 0 0 0 Solarte PH 1 0 0 0Totals 33 6 8 6 Totals 31 3 8 3
Oakland 000 032 001 6 San Diego 001 110 020 5
SB: OAK Burns (13, 2nd base off Kimbrel/Hedges), Sogard (4, 2nd base off Kimbrel/Hedges)GIDP: OAK Phegley; SD Upton, J. HR: OAK Zobrist (3, 6th inning off Cashner, 1 on, 0 out); SD Hedges (1, 3rd inning off Kazmir, 0 on, 1 out), Kemp (3, 8th inning off Scribner, 0 on, 2 out). Team Lob: OAK 6; SD 3. DP: OAK 2. E: OAK Kazmir (2, throw).
Oakland IP H R ER BB SOS Kazmir 5.0 5 3 2 1 6F Rodriguez 1.0 0 0 0 0 2T Pomeranz 1.0 2 1 1 0 1E Scribner (BS, 4)(W, 2-1) 1.0 2 1 1 0 0T Clippard 1.0 0 0 0 0 3San Diego IP H R ER BB SOA Cashner 5.0 5 5 5 3 3D Thayer 2.0 1 0 0 1 0B Maurer 1.0 1 0 0 0 1C Kimbrel (L, 1-2) 1.0 1 1 1 2 1
Time: 2:57. Att: 28,482.
Marlins 12, Yankees 2NY Yankees Miami ab r h bi ab r h biGardner CF 3 0 0 0 Gordon 2B 5 2 3 1Williams CF 1 0 1 1 Dietrich 3B 4 1 2 1Gregorius SS 4 1 1 0 Yelich LF 4 3 2 0Teixeira 1B 2 0 0 0 Stanton RF 4 2 2 3Murphy C 1 0 1 0 Ozuna CF 4 1 2 2McCann C-1B 4 0 2 1 Bour 1B 5 1 1 1Headley 3B 4 0 0 0 Realmuto C 5 1 2 2Beltran RF 4 0 1 0 H’varria SS 4 1 2 2Young LF 2 0 0 0 Baker PH 1 0 0 0Drew PH-2B 1 1 0 0 Phelps P 2 0 0 0Ryan 2B-SS 4 0 0 0 Solano PH-SS 1 0 0 0Capuano P 1 0 0 0 Totals 39 12 16 12Jones LF 3 0 1 0 Totals 34 2 7 2
NY Yankees 000 001 100 2 Miami 800 030 01x 12
2B: NYY Beltran (14, Phelps), Williams, M (1, Phelps); MIA Dietrich (2, Eovaldi). 3B: MIA Hechavarria (3, Eovaldi). GIDP: NYY Headley. HR: MIA Stanton (24, 5th inning off Martin, Ch, 2 on, 2 out). S: MIA Phelps. Team Lob: NYY 7; MIA 8. DP: MIA (Dietrich-Hechavarria-Bour). E: MIA Dietrich (1, fielding), Hechavarria (4, throw).
Marlins 12, Yankees 2 (Cont’d)
NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SON Eovaldi (L, 5-2) 0.2 9 8 8 0 0C Capuano 4.0 4 2 2 2 5C Martin 1.1 1 1 1 0 0J Ramirez 2.0 2 1 1 1 2Miami IP H R ER BB SOD Phelps (W, 4-3) 7.0 6 2 2 2 5S Cishek 1.0 1 0 0 0 1S Dyson 1.0 0 0 0 0 0HBP: Ozuna (by Capuano).
Time: 3:09. Att: 33,083.Warriors 105, Cavaliers 97Cleveland MIN PT RB A ST B TOJames 46:42 32 18 9 2 0 6Thompson 37:27 15 13 0 0 1 1Mozgov 32:31 17 12 2 0 4 3Shumpert 35:58 8 3 0 0 1 2Dellavedova 25:20 1 4 2 0 0 2Smith 34:16 19 5 1 1 1 1Jones 27:24 5 1 0 0 0 1Totals 97 56 14 3 7 16
G’den State MIN PT RB A ST B TOIguodala 36:21 25 5 5 2 0 0Barnes 35:27 9 2 2 1 0 0Green 41:28 16 11 10 3 1 3Thompson 24:40 5 5 2 0 1 2Curry 43:06 25 6 8 3 0 3Livingston 32:19 10 3 0 0 1 0Ezeli 10:56 10 4 0 0 1 1Barbosa 14:30 5 3 1 2 0 0Totals 105 39 28 11 4 9
Cleveland 15 28 18 36 Golden State 28 17 28 32
3 FG: Cleveland 6-26, Golden State 13-34. FT: Cleveland 27-39, Golden State 18-29. Fouled Out: Cleveland - I. Shumpert, M. Dellavedova, Golden State - K. Thompson
Att: 20,562 Time of game: 2:47
Black Bears 3, HarbourCats 2Victoria Cowlitz ab r h bi ab r h biDegoti 4 1 1 0 Aguilar 3 0 0 1Rankin 4 0 0 0 Benard 4 0 0 0Guibor 3 0 1 0 Bevacqua 4 0 1 0Collard 4 0 2 1 Archibald 3 1 1 0Thoreson 4 0 0 0 Ogata 3 1 1 0Fougner 3 1 0 0 Henderson 4 0 0 0Floyd 3 0 1 0 Perrin 3 0 2 0Goldstein 2 0 0 0 Graffanino 3 1 1 1Francis 2 0 1 1 DeMarco 1 0 0 0Rogers 3 0 0 0 Lande 1 0 0 0Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 29 3 6 2
Victoria 000 001 100 2 Cowlitz 000 300 00x 3
2B: HAR A DeGoti (1). E: BLA Graffanino
Victoria IP H R ER BB SOJ Walker (L) 3.2 4 3 3 4 4N Wojtysiak 3.0 1 0 0 1 4M Wright 0.1 0 0 0 0 0S Kennedy ll 1.0 1 0 0 0 0Cowlitz IP H R ER BB SOC Neely (W) 6.0 4 1 1 1 5J Nelson 0.2 1 1 1 1 0S Rayburn 2.1 1 0 0 0 1
Att: 1,013. Time: 2:36
American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkTampa Bay 36 30 .545 - L1NY Yankees 34 30 .531 1.0 L2Baltimore 33 31 .516 2.0 W2Toronto 34 32 .515 2.0 L2Boston 28 38 .424 8.0 W1Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 36 25 .590 - W2Minnesota 34 30 .531 3.5 L2Detroit 34 31 .523 4.0 L1Cleveland 30 33 .476 7.0 W1Chicago Sox 28 35 .444 9.0 L5West W L PCT GB StrkHouston 38 28 .576 - W3Texas 35 30 .538 2.5 W2LA Angels 32 32 .500 5.0 L2Seattle 29 36 .446 8.5 L1Oakland 28 39 .418 10.5 W3
National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Mets 36 30 .545 - W3Washington 34 31 .523 1.5 W1Atlanta 31 34 .477 4.5 L1Miami 29 37 .439 7.0 W2Philadelphia 22 44 .333 14.0 L8Central W L PCT GB StrkSt. Louis 43 21 .672 - W5Pittsburgh 37 27 .578 6.0 W6Chicago Cubs 34 28 .548 8.0 L1Cincinnati 29 35 .453 14.0 W1Milwaukee 24 42 .364 20.0 L4West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 37 28 .569 - L2San Francisco 35 31 .530 2.5 W1Arizona 31 32 .492 5.0 W4San Diego 32 35 .478 6.0 L3Colorado 28 36 .438 8.5 L2
East W L PCT GB StrkYakima Valley 7 3 0.700 - W1Kelowna 6 3 0.667 .5 W4Walla Walla 5 5 0.500 2 L1Wenatchee 2 5 0.286 3.5 W1South W L PCT GB StrkBend 7 3 0.700 - L2Medford 5 5 0.500 2 L4Corvallis 5 5 0.500 2 L1Klamath Falls 2 8 0.200 5 W1West W L PCT GB StrkBellingham 7 3 0.700 - W2Kitsap 4 5 0.444 2.5 W2Cowlitz 3 5 0.375 3 W2Victoria 4 7 0.364 3.5 L2
SCOREBOARD
Seattle Mariners pitcher J.A. Happ throws against the San Francisco Giants in an MLB game on Tuesday in San Francisco. [AP PHOTO]
B4 | DAILY NEWS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 SPORTS
Mariners continue slide with 6-2 lossJOSH DUBOW THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — J.A. Happ hit his spot the first time he faced Matt Duffy only to watch the ball leave the ballpark.
Duffy helped wake up San Francisco’s silent bats with a two-run homer in the second inning and added an RBI single in a three-run eighth that helped the Giants snap a nine-game home losing streak by beating the Seattle Mariners 6-2 on Tuesday.
“The pitch before was also down and in,” Happ said.
“How many people hit that ball where it was? That was pretty frustrating. I wasn’t as sharp as I wanted to be but I gave us some innings and a chance.”
It wasn’t enough as Seattle failed to generate much offence and the bullpen allowed the Giants to break it open late. Brad Miller homered and drove in two runs for the Mariners, who split the two-game series in San Francisco and finished 4-4 on an eight-game road trip and fell seven games under .500.
“It’s perception versus reality,” manager Lloyd McClendon said.
“The perception is we’re treading water and the reality is we’re not playing as well as we should be playing. Today was a perfect example. We did not get the one hit to get us over the top.”
Casey McGehee added a two-run double and Angel Pagan hit an RBI single as the Giants snapped their longest home skid since an 11-gamer at New York’s Polo Grounds in 1940. Tim Lincecum (7-3) allowed two runs and five hits in 5 2/3 innings to get the win in his second start against his hometown team.
“This is a game we needed just to kind of change momentum of how things have been going,” McGehee said.
“Definitely a better taste in our mouth get-ting on the plane this way rather than the alternative.”
DIVERSIONS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 | NANAIMO DAILY NEWS | B5
HI AND LOIS
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
SHERMAN’S LAGOON
BLONDIE
BABY BLUES
BC
ARCTIC CIRCLE
CRANKSHAFT
ZITS
ANDY CAPP
WORD FIND
CROSSWORD
CRYPTOQUOTE
BRIDGE
SOLUTION: HEARS EVERY BID
Frozen Dealer: East N-S vulnerable
NORTH ♠Q104 ♥AQ1085 ♦Q53 ♣82
WEST EAST ♠J98 ♠K732 ♥972 ♥KJ3 ♦1092 ♦A8 ♣J1043 ♣K765
SOUTH ♠A65 ♥64 ♦KJ764 ♣AQ9
W N E S 1♣ 1♦ Pass 1♥ Pass 1NT All Pass Opening Lead: ♣3
S h d h ki i h
South topped the king withthe ace and drove out the ace of diamonds. The club
return was taken by the queen and declarer ran the diamonds, discarding two hearts from the table. West won the club exit and cashed another culminating in a four-card ending. Dummy had reduced to the queen-ten of spades and the ace-queen of hearts but East had retained the king- seven of spades and the king-jack of hearts. West played a heart but South put up the ace and exited with the queen throwing East on play. The forced spade return resulted in nine tricks, N-S +150.There was no escape for West because the opening bid had marked him with both major suit kings. If West elects to play a spade in the endgame, South will insert dummy’s ten to score another nine tricks.The nine-trick game is a viable proposition but perhaps too hard to reach. North could not reasonably offer an invitation by raising to 2NT. Partner would not hold 15 HCP and would ven-ture a diamond overcall with substantially less than the 14 HCP that he actually held.Game would not be reached when East passed as dealer. After a sequence of one dia-mond - one heart - 1NT, North would simply pass to ensure a plus score.
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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B6 | NANAIMO DAILY NEWS | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015
The law firm of Johnston Franklin Bishop is seeking persons who witnessed a multi-vehicle accident that occurred on the evening of Monday, May 11, 2015 at the intersection of Bowen Road and Dufferin Crescent.
The accident happened in the southbound middle lane of Bowen Road. An unidentified vehicle believed to be a blue pick-up truck rear-ended an older model black Jeep Cherokee, which then struck the rear end of a blue 1995 Ford F-150 pick-up truck that was stopped at a red light. The driver of the unidentified vehicle fled the scene.
Anyone who witnessed or has any information regarding this accident is asked to contact Stuart Cappus at 250-756-3823 or e-mail [email protected]
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The problem is, this woman is now coming home in the wee hours of the morning, sometimes as late as 5 a.m. She often returns slightly drunk and with some random guy. They slam the car doors and beep the horn multiple times trying to lock the car, laughing and talking loudly out in the road. They wake us up all the time.
My husband asked her nicely one day to please use the lock inside the car door instead of using the key fob, which beeps. Well, now when we’re outside, she will beep the car horn for no reason. Her new, live-in boyfriend is a police officer in a neighbouring town, and he likes to beep the horn late at night.
What do you do with a bully cop? How do you complain to the police who usually protect their own? We worry that if we report him, then our kids will be harassed and pulled over by his friends. What can we do?
— Can’t Stand the Sight of ThemDear Can’t: This immature officer needs to be
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Tim Tebow feels like a new playerAfter sitting out, maligned college star now competing for Eagles’ third-string roleBARBARA BARKER NEWSDAY
PHILADELPHIA — During a single practice, coach Chip Kelly’s mix tape can lurch from genre to genre without any apparent rhyme or reason. In one 30-minute period at the Philadel-phia Eagles minicamp Tuesday, it went from heavy metal to hip-hop to pop to house music.
As of yet, Kelly has not includ-ed Christian rock in his practice repertoire. But don’t rule it out. With Tim Tebow competing with Matt Barkley to be the Eagles’ third-string quarterback, it appears that anything is possible in Philadelphia.
Tebow hasn’t worn a NFL uni-form since Patriots coach Bill Belichick cut him right before the 2013 season. In the interven-ing 22 months, he has worked as a broadcaster on the SEC network, co-hosted Good Mor-ning America, kept a grueling public speak/preaching schedule, worked on his foundation and been the target of numerous jokes about his inability to catch on in the NFL with even “Orange Is the New Black” getting in on the act this past week.
He also put in hundreds of hours with California-based quarterback guru Tom House in order to modify a throwing motion that many felt kept him from sustained success in the league.
Tebow no longer makes an exaggerated looping motion when preparing to pass the ball. These new mechanics have led to a quicker release, a better out-look and a shot of making a NFL roster. Tuesday, after the first day of a mandatory three-day mini-camp, Tebow told reporters that, thanks to House, he feels like a new player.
“I just feel so much more con-fident, so much more accurate,” Tebow said. “I feel quicker, able to trust a lot more.”
Tebow, 27, hasn’t played in a regular season game since the final game of the Jets regular season in 2012. But he sees no reason why his new mechanics won’t make the transition from seven-on-seven drills to a game-day situation.
“I’ve gotten so many thousands and thousands of reps. It’s so ingrained,” he said referring to the amount of work he’s done with House over the past two years. “It’s muscle memory.”
It was House’s endorsement that got Tebow a visit with Kelly this past winter and then a one-year contract. At first glance, Tebow and Kelly seem like the oddest of couples. Kelly is a culture guy, a coach who puts a premium on how a player fits the team’s overall philosophy and
system. This was driven home this week when it was revealed that the team had released guard Evan Mathis, a two-time Pro Bowler, after a second offseason in dispute of his contract.
Tebow, with his legion of rabid fans, has always been a bit of a freelancer. He proved to be a big distraction three years ago with the Jets and he also did not fit in well enough with the Patriots to hang on past training camp.
Kelly, who missed the playoffs last year after his team went 10-6, has always seen himself as a maverick.
Figuring out how to use Tebow, succeeding where coaches such as Bill Belichick have failed, has it’s appeal.
What’s more Kelly is bringing in Tebow with no pressure,
no oversized expectations. He already has two quarterbacks capable of being starters in Sam Bradford and Mark Sanchez with Bradford expected to start if he is healthy enough. In Kel-ly’s round-robin-style practice system, backup quarterbacks get plenty of reps. Tebow, with is mobility and arm, has a chance to flourish in Kelly’s system.
Wide receiver Jordan Matthews believes the quarterback com-petition will make everyone a better player.
“We’ve got four guys who are all hungry and all want to work,” he said.
“I don’t want to see whose the front runner. I just catch the ball. I see a brown thing and I catch it.
“To me, it doesn’t matter who throws it.”
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Tim Tebow, left, throws a pass as quarterback Sam Bradford moves to his next drill during NFL football minicamp, Tuesday, in Philadelphia. [AP PHOTO]
Flynn not focused on Patriots’ starting QB job HOWARD ULMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Matt Flynn is back at the stadium where he made his first NFL start. He’s not focusing on mak-ing another in place of Tom Brady. Flynn practiced with the New England Patriots on the first day of their three-day mini-
camp Tuesday, four days after signing with the Super Bowl champions. Brady is appealing his four-game suspension for using deflated footballs in the AFC championship game. If NFL commissioner Roger Goodell doesn’t eliminate it after an appeal hearing Tuesday, Flynn or second-year quarterback Jimmy
Garoppolo would be in line to start the season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 10. But with a new offence to learn, Flynn has more important things to think about.
“I look at it right now as I’ve got a big task ahead of me and that’s the only thing that I’m thinking of right now,” Flynn said, “and
that’s the only thing that they’re telling me to do right now, that’s to learn, learn, learn.”
Flynn fondly recalled his start-ing debut on Dec. 19, 2010, with Green Bay as the replacement for an injured Aaron Rodgers.
Facing the Patriots at Gillette Stadium, Flynn completed 24 of 37 passes for 251 yards.
U.S. drops Nigeria to clinch top spot in Group DJOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — Abby Wambach scored just before halftime Tues-day as the United States defeated Nigeria 1-0 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
The American captain flicked her boot at a Megan Rapinoe corner kick in the 45th minute, slicing the ball home to give the U.S. a deserved lead.
With the victory, the Americans won Group D — the so-called “Group of Death” because the U.S., Sweden and Australia are all ranked in the top-10 — with seven points and will play its match in the round of 16 on Monday in Edmonton. Australia secured second spot in the group after tying Sweden 1-1 in Edmonton. The Australians wound up with five points, while the Swedes picked up its third straight draw to finish third with three points. Nigeria, meanwhile, completed its World Cup at the bottom of the group with a tie and two losses.
The 35-year-old Wambach, who had blamed a lack of U.S. goals on the tournament’s use of arti-ficial turf, came off the bench as a substitute in her team’s 0-0 draw with Sweden on Friday. She got nod the from the start in this one alongside fellow striker Alex Morgan, leading the charge for an American side that had a number of chances before the breakthrough. U.S. defender Julie Johnston’s effort that beat Niger-ian goalkeeper Precious Dede off a free kick was ruled offside in the eighth minute, while Wambach saw a header go up and over the bar in the 18th.
Despite the pressure from the Americans, Nigeria had a great chance to open the scoring in the 25th minute when Asisat Osho-ala got on the end of a perfectly weighted pass behind the U.S defence. But with the striker bear-ing down on American goalkeep-er Hope Solo, Johnston recovered just in time to block Oshoala’s shot. B.C. Place Stadium could have been mistaken for U.S. territory during the match as thousands of fans draped in red, white and blue roared with approval.
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