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B2 The newspaper of record for Nanaimo and region since 1874 || Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Premier in Surrey to talk about ongoing gang war Clark told reporters in Surrey City Hall that gang violence in B.C. is an example of how the actions of a few can rob everyone of a sense of safety and security. » British Columbia, A8 » Use your smartphone to jump to our website for updates on these stories or the latest breaking news. $1.25 TAX INCLUDED Two Lantzville councillors resign ‘I do not see that the situation will improve. In fact, it continues to deteriorate,’ states Jennifer Millbank SPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS District of Lantzville council- lors Jennifer Millbank and Rod Negrave, citing their concerns over council’s ability to function, resigned their seats on Monday. Millbank and Negrave’s announcements follow resigna- tions from two longtime senior staff members at the district, including chief administrative officer Twyla Graff. The reason for the staff departures are not clear. However, a March 26 leaked internal memo to council, signed by five senior staff mem- bers, cited “ridicule and criti- cism” at council meetings as a concern and called for a standard of conduct to be implemented at meetings. Following the release of that memo, Millbank, Negrave and councillors Graham Savage and Dave Scott signed a letter that was mailed out to the commun- ity stating they “do not condone” alleged inappropriate behaviour from “some members of coun- cil.” The district was also prepar- ing to bring in a mediator. A request to Negrave for com- ment was not returned on Wed- nesday. But in his resignation let- ter, Negrave said a lack of action on staff concerns was a main factor in his decision. “Over this matter, if nothing else, I would resign in protest and in sympathy with both Lan- tzville residents and staff,” he said, calling council “broken.” Millbank provided a copy of her resignation letter but declined further comment. In it, she says that “this new council has been unable to move forward on issues in a productive fashion that respects the role of council and the democratic process. I do not see that the situation will improve. In fact, it continues to deteriorate.” Mayor Colin Haime said he was surprised by the resignations, adding it was unclear exactly what the concerns of Millbank and Negrave are. “When it comes to the (staff) memo itself, we’re still not a hundred per cent sure what it is we’re trying to deal with,” he said. Haime also said nei- ther councillor raised points of order on how council was being conducted. “So now to kind of criticize the process is a resignation letter is a little bit strange,” Haime said. Spencer.Anderson @nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4255 » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to [email protected]. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown. Nepal residents continue to struggle after quake Villagers who have no idea when they might get help are still sleeping together in the mud and sharing whatever scraps of food they can pull from beneath their ruined buildings. » Nation & World, A9 Tension still simmering for Baltimore residents The city was under a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. emergency curfew, all public schools were closed and the Baltimore Orioles cancelled Tuesday night’s game due to the tension. » Nation & World, A6 » Labour Day of Mourning is a reminder that workplace deaths remain a tragic a reality for Canadians ROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS W endy Pratt has vivid memories of when her father’s cousin was killed on the job at the Harmac pulp mill when she was a teenager. The Nanaimo city councillor told a crowd of approximately 70 people Tuesday that the acci- dent was “hard” on her family and the impacts of the tragedy were felt all across the commun- ity at the time. Death in the workplace is not uncommon in Canada. In fact, about four workers died in the workplace in B.C. each week in 2014, and more than three workers died each day across Canada last year, accord- ing to labour groups. To commemorate those work- ers, and the thousands who are injured on the job each year, workers and labour leaders gath- ered in downtown Nanaimo as part of the annual National Day of Mourning, which is held each April 28 across the country. The day began with a motion passed in 1984 by the Canadian Labour Congress, and was offi- cial adopted by the federal gov- ernment in 1991. WCB’s Mike Milne said the day is set aside to raise awareness and help prevent fatalities and injuries in the workplace, as well as to commemorate the fallen. “Employers have a responsibil- ity to provide safe and healthy workplaces and workers have the right to be properly trained for their jobs and to refuse to work in unsafe work conditions,” he said. “Safety in the workplace needs to become a priority.” Mike Ball, president of the Nanaimo District Teachers’ Association, said no one should die just because they go to work one morning. “About three to four schools in the province have to deal with this tragedy every week in B.C., and the impacts it has on the children of these families,” he said. “We’re seeing a lot of deregula- tion in industry these days, so government needs to be held accountable so that workplace accidents can be avoided.” Sheila Malcolmson, the NDP federal candidate for Nanaimo- Ladysmith, said the largest min- ing accident in B.C. happened in Nanaimo 125 years ago. “More than 150 children lost their fathers in that accident,” she said. Shawna Walsh, from the B.C. Ferry and marine Workers’ Union, encouraged people to ensure that the safety issues spoken about at the gathering should become the “highest pri- ority” in their workplaces. “Four workers in this province will leave for work this week and won’t come home, and thousands more will be injured on the job. There isn’t enough safety on our workplaces. One worker not going home affects all workers.” Robert.Barron@ nanaimodailynews.com 250-729-4234 Sally Rye, chairwoman of the B.C. Government & Service Employees’ Union Local 402, leads the flag-waving at the annual Day of Mourning commemoration in Nanaimo on Tuesday. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS] “We’re seeing a lot of deregulation in industry these days, so government needs to be held accountable so that workplace accidents can be avoided.” Mike Ball , NDTA president Beekeeping grows Beekeeping grows in face of bee decline in face of bee decline Interest in the insects that Interest in the insects that are so vital to agriculture are so vital to agriculture is growing on the Island is growing on the Island Nanaimo Region, A3 Nanaimo Region, A3

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The newspaper of record for Nanaimo and region since 1874 || Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Premier in Surrey to talk about ongoing gang warClark told reporters in Surrey City Hall that gang violence in B.C. is an example of how the actions of a few can rob everyone of a sense of safety and security. » British Columbia, A8

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Two Lantzville councillors resign‘I do not see that the situation will improve. In fact, it continues to deteriorate,’ states Jennifer MillbankSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

District of Lantzville council-lors Jennifer Millbank and Rod Negrave, citing their concerns over council’s ability to function, resigned their seats on Monday.

Millbank and Negrave’s announcements follow resigna-tions from two longtime senior staff members at the district, including chief administrative officer Twyla Graff. The reason for the staff departures are not clear. However, a March 26 leaked internal memo to council,

signed by five senior staff mem-bers, cited “ridicule and criti-cism” at council meetings as a concern and called for a standard of conduct to be implemented at meetings.

Following the release of that memo, Millbank, Negrave and councillors Graham Savage and Dave Scott signed a letter that was mailed out to the commun-ity stating they “do not condone” alleged inappropriate behaviour from “some members of coun-cil.” The district was also prepar-ing to bring in a mediator.

A request to Negrave for com-ment was not returned on Wed-nesday. But in his resignation let-ter, Negrave said a lack of action on staff concerns was a main factor in his decision.

“Over this matter, if nothing else, I would resign in protest and in sympathy with both Lan-tzville residents and staff,” he said, calling council “broken.”

Millbank provided a copy of her resignation letter but declined further comment. In it, she says that “this new council has been unable to move forward on

issues in a productive fashion that respects the role of council and the democratic process. I do not see that the situation will improve. In fact, it continues to deteriorate.”

Mayor Colin Haime said he was surprised by the resignations, adding it was unclear exactly what the concerns of Millbank and Negrave are.

“When it comes to the (staff) memo itself, we’re still not a hundred per cent sure what it is we’re trying to deal with,” he said. Haime also said nei-

ther councillor raised points of order on how council was being conducted.

“So now to kind of criticize the process is a resignation letter is a little bit strange,” Haime said.

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Nepal residents continue to struggle after quakeVillagers who have no idea when they might get help are still sleeping together in the mud and sharing whatever scraps of food they can pull from beneath their ruined buildings. » Nation & World, A9

Tension still simmering for Baltimore residentsThe city was under a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. emergency curfew, all public schools were closed and the Baltimore Orioles cancelled Tuesday night’s game due to the tension. » Nation & World, A6

» Labour

Day of Mourning is a reminder that workplace deaths remain a tragic a reality for CanadiansROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Wendy Pratt has vivid memories of when her father’s cousin was killed on the job

at the Harmac pulp mill when she was a teenager.

The Nanaimo city councillor told a crowd of approximately 70 people Tuesday that the acci-dent was “hard” on her family and the impacts of the tragedy were felt all across the commun-ity at the time.

Death in the workplace is not uncommon in Canada.

In fact, about four workers died in the workplace in B.C. each week in 2014, and more than three workers died each day across Canada last year, accord-ing to labour groups.

To commemorate those work-ers, and the thousands who are injured on the job each year, workers and labour leaders gath-ered in downtown Nanaimo as part of the annual National Day of Mourning, which is held each April 28 across the country.

The day began with a motion passed in 1984 by the Canadian Labour Congress, and was offi-cial adopted by the federal gov-ernment in 1991.

WCB’s Mike Milne said the day is set aside to raise awareness and help prevent fatalities and injuries in the workplace, as well as to commemorate the fallen.

“Employers have a responsibil-ity to provide safe and healthy workplaces and workers have the right to be properly trained for their jobs and to refuse to work in unsafe work conditions,” he said.

“Safety in the workplace needs to become a priority.”

Mike Ball, president of the Nanaimo District Teachers’

Association, said no one should die just because they go to work one morning.

“About three to four schools in

the province have to deal with this tragedy every week in B.C., and the impacts it has on the children of these families,” he said.

“We’re seeing a lot of deregula-tion in industry these days, so government needs to be held accountable so that workplace accidents can be avoided.”

Sheila Malcolmson, the NDP federal candidate for Nanaimo-Ladysmith, said the largest min-ing accident in B.C. happened in Nanaimo 125 years ago.

“More than 150 children lost their fathers in that accident,” she said.

Shawna Walsh, from the B.C. Ferry and marine Workers’ Union, encouraged people to ensure that the safety issues spoken about at the gathering should become the “highest pri-ority” in their workplaces.

“Four workers in this province will leave for work this week and won’t come home, and thousands more will be injured on the job. There isn’t enough safety on our workplaces. One worker not going home affects all workers.”

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Sally Rye, chairwoman of the B.C. Government & Service Employees’ Union Local 402, leads the flag-waving at the annual Day of Mourning commemoration in Nanaimo on Tuesday. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]

“We’re seeing a lot of deregulation in industry these days, so government needs to be held accountable so that workplace accidents can be avoided.”Mike Ball, NDTA president

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5 p.m The Nanaimo Flea Market at 1630 East Wellington Road, Legion Hall, across from Quarterway school.

8 p.m Hart & Soul at the Longwood Brew Pub, 5775 Turner Rd.

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Through to Sunday Start of the Cas-cadia Poetry Festival: The all-access Gold Pass is just $25 for all four days (exclud-

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2:30 p.m. Island Bel Canto Singers perform I Dream a World, Brechin United Church, 1998 Estevan Rd., and again on May 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nanaimo Ecumenical Centre, 6234 Spartan Rd., Tickets $15, children free at the door. Quilted Duck, www.islandbelcanto.com, and [email protected].

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Vancouver Island Chil-dren’s Book Festival. Renowned authors and illustrators present their work. Festi-val: Diana Krall Plaza, Commercial Street. Tickets: $10 child, $25 family, through Port Theatre 250-754-8550, www.port-theatre.com, More info: www.bookfest.ca.

7 p.m. Camerata Singers present Shine on Me, a collage of spiritual music from John Rutter to John Lennon; Africa to Europe and beyond. directed by Leah Hokanson, St. Andrews United Church, with guests Nanaimo Junior Youth Choir. 311 Fitzwilliam St. Tickets $15.

7:30 p.m. A spring classical concert with baritone Craig Nim, and harpist Josh Layne, at St. Paul’s Anglican Church. Tickets $20, 250-753-2523.

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11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Annual Hike for Hospice — A Walk to Remember and Picnic in the Park at Maffeo Sutton Park. To register or get pledge forms call 250-591-8811, or go to www.nanaimohospice.com.

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7:30 p.m. Island Bel Canto Singers per-form I Dream a World at the Nanaimo Ecumenical Centre, 6234 Spartan Rd., Tickets $15, children free at the door, Quilted Duck, www.islandbelcanto.com and [email protected].

MONDAY, MAY 4

10 a.m Piano Master Class with Concert Pianist Ian Parker, Nanaimo Conserv-atory of Music [email protected] 250-754-4611.

TUESDAY, MAY 5 7-8:30 p.m. Planning Your Final Wishes, final instalment of a free four part ser-ies for end-of-life planning. At Brechin United Church, 1998 Estevan Rd. Darren Colyn, spiritual health practitioner, chap-lain at NRGH.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6

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Direct to Calgary via Air Canada set to fl yDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo travellers gain a sec-ond choice to fly directly to Cal-gary Friday. Air Canada flies its first Q-400 aircraft directly from Calgary to Nanaimo May 1.

Although flights to Calgary have been available through Air Canada for years, it was through Vancouver, which inevitably meant a stopover.

Direct flights will get passen-gers over the Rockies to their destination in one hour and 35 minutes.

WestJet was first to offer direct flights between Nanaimo and Calgary. It launched the service in the summer of 2013.

The service took off and West-jet increased it to two return flights daily in October.

In December, Air Canada announced plants to start one return trip daily.

“My understanding is the first flight coming in on May 1 is already full, and I understand the first one leaving the next day is full too,” said Mike Hooper, airport president and CEO.

Yet as this happens, Nanaimo passengers lose scheduled ser-vice to Seattle.

After more than a year, Seattle-based Kenmore Air decided to end scheduled service effective May 4, due to low capacity.

“It was pretty simple, we didn’t get enough people in the airplanes,” said Craig O’Neill, Kenmore Air director of flight operations.

The carrier will continue serv-ing Nanaimo with charter and floatplane service to Seattle.

“We’ll keep an eye on this — we never say never,” O’Neill said. “If conditions change, we see ourselves taking another whack at it.”

Nanaimo Airport plans a bar-becue, ribbon-cutting and other celebrations Friday from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The first inbound flight from Calgary is scheduled to arrive at 1:43 p.m. The first outbound flight to Calgary is scheduled to depart at 2:15 p.m.

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Stan Reist sells approximately 700 ‘NUC colonies’ — essentially a starter set for novice beekeepers — each year. [DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO]

Increased concern over fate of bees also driving interest in beekeepingSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

A steady decline in bee popula-tions has raised alarm among scientists, but the plight of the mass pollinators may actually be contributing to a growing buzz surrounding beekeeping.

Local bee experts and enthusi-asts say there has been increased interest in the small insects, which play a key role in pollinat-ing crops across the world.

The Nanaimo Beekeepers Club is one group in the city that has noticed a distinct bump in popu-larity. The club meets once a month and provides information on bees and bee care, including workshops on beekeeping. The club’s members also manage a number of hives near McKay Lakes.

Club treasurer Lloyd Erickson said membership in the club has almost tripled over the past two years to 90 members, up from 35. Erickson attributes the jump to more awareness on of the dive in bee populations. Scientists say there is increasing evidence some types of pesticides used

for agriculture are contributing factors.

“I think there’s more interest in bees, because people feel they are threatened and they want to help,” Erickson said. “That’s my perception.”

He said an increased amount of online information has made it easier for people to learn not just about how to take care of hives, but also on measures people can take to help bees indirectly, such as planting certain varieties of flowers in gardens.

Erickson isn’t the only one who has noticed a growing interest in bees. Stan Reist, who co-owns Flying Dutchman Bee Supplies

with his wife, has noticed surge in demand for bees and bee products.

“There’s been a tremendous jump on the bandwagon to save the bees and it’s really satisfy-ing to see people care about the little critters,” he said, calling the increase in demand “drastic.”

Reist’s business sells approxi-mately 700 ‘NUC colonies’ — essentially a starter set for nov-ice beekeepers containing rough-ly 5,000 to 7,000 bees — each year. Each colony costs $170.

He estimated that between 1,200 and 1,400 packages of bees are being imported to Vancou-ver Island each year by other suppliers.

While he said he is pleased to see a growing number of bee-keepers in the city, he said bee enthusiasts also need to take care that their activities “don’t impinge on other people’s lives.”

Irresponsible behaviour, such as inadequate fencing between hives and a neighbour’s property, can result in complaints and give bee owners a bad name.

“The nicest thing is you don’t

need a licence in B.C. to keep bees,” Reist said. “The worst thing is that you don’t need a licence in B.C. to keep bees.”

Some municipalities, like Edmonton, are considering changing their bylaws to permit beehives in back yards. The City of Nanaimo already permits up to three hives on a lot less than one acre, with a maximum limit of three hives per acre for larger properties.

Bylaw services manager Randy Churchill said complaints about bee hives are not common, although the city did receive a complaint last year about one property that had 14 hives on it.

“It’s probably a reasonable pos-ition we have here,” he said of the bylaw.

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“The nicest thing is you don’t need a licence in B.C. to keep bees. The worst thing is that you don’t need a licence in B.C. to keep bees.”

Stan Reist, beekeeper

Tax hike reduced to six per centMayor pleased after staff members were able to fi nd additional savings from town’s operationsROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS

The good news for residents in the Town of Ladysmith is that the proposed municipal tax increase for this year’s budget has been trimmed by close to three per cent.

The bad news is that there will still be an increase of more than six per cent.

On Monday night, council dir-ected town staff to prepare the financial plan bylaw which cov-ers the next five years.

Currently, the residential muni-cipal tax increase sits at 6.29 per cent.

Mayor Aaron Stone said he was pleased to have shaved off a chunk of the original proposed increase that was outlined in the first draft of the town’s budget, which came out at the end March.

Stone commended staff on “finding savings from oper-ations” and said the town “used some reserves and visited our policy toward percentage of over-

all taxation based on zoning,” in order to bring down the tax increase.

Ironically, despite an inevitable increase, property taxes will only make up a quarter of the town’s budget for 2015, compared to 30 per cent last year.

The town will also borrow nearly $6 million more than what it did last year.

Borrowing of just under $10 million is proposed to make up a third of the budget, compared to just 17 per cent of it last year.

But the town is also set to lose approximately $1 million in government grants this time around.

As a result those grants are set to make up 15 per cent of the 2015 budget instead of 23 per cent that was covered in 2014.

Stone has expressed his frustra-tion at the decrease in financial support from senior levels of government towards local muni-cipalities, a trend he says con-tinues to plummet year-on-year.

Council will put aside five per

cent of the overall budget for future infrastructure projects.

Municipalities in B.C. have until May 15 to confirm their own budget for 2015.

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We guess you’ll have to chalk this one up as another “negative” for

their special graphs.On Monday night, Vancouver

Island Conference Centre general manager Denise Tacon gave what amounted to a state of the union address before Nanaimo’s city councillors.

We reported that she indicated the city-owned facility has main-tained “a consistent level of dele-gates over the past three years,” but remains “an underdog” com-pared to other B.C. markets.

No surprise there. As most every-one knows, the conference centre receives a municipal operating subsidy each year, slightly more than $1 million in 2014. This sub-sidy has been a bone of contention for many taxpayers.

As she should, Tacon high-lighted positive trends on Monday, saying that “strong repeat loyalty” is the VICC’s customer base, and pointed to high satisfaction rates from customers in the high nine-ties. Delegate days are expected to see an increase this year to 20,423 from 19,895.

By comparison, Victoria, just down the road, is anticipating 105,000 delegate days.

Tacon said the city’s limited supply of hotel rooms puts it at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting conferences and “invali-dates” comparisons to facilities elsewhere. The VICC also has fewer square feet than competing facilities in Victoria and Pentic-ton, she said. Saying anything “invalidates” comparisons to facilities anywhere seems silly.

Something either works, or it doesn’t.

Even sillier, however, was Tacon also saying negative media cover-age has played a role. Seriously?

She showed council a set of graphs which showed ‘negative’ versus ‘positive’ media coverage.

“We opened in 2008 and apart from the year of 2012, the negative content supersedes the positive — as high as 75 per cent in some years,” she said.

“And in the public forum (that) has cost us and in the end, benefits no one.”

You know what benefits no one? An ill-conceived, wildly expensive facility that far too few people actually use. The conference centre isn’t struggling because the meanies in the media correctly point out its shortcomings.

It is struggling because it was a boondoggle from minute one. From the questionable referen-dum to the exorbitant price tag to the “well, it’s better than nothing” push behind its very existence, it was a guaranteed money-losing “underdog” from the beginning.

It’s important to note that this paper, and most other forms of the nasty media, want people to be successful in the cities in which we operate. We want businesses to profit (and buy ads). We want people to come here, buy homes and raise their families.

But it’s also our job to explain to folks how their tax dollars are being spent.

This isn’t about the effort of people who work at the VICC. It’s difficult to push a boulder uphill with a feather.

“I don’t know that we have delivered poor performance by any regard,” Tacon said, after Coun. Gord Fuller asked “is this a new way that we justify poor performance?”

That said, the numbers and ‘for lease’ signs alone are all we need to understand how the centre is performing.

“I can say that we have done everything we possibly can, daily, weekly, monthly, annually, very cost-efficient. We’re always watching those numbers. And if we could change it, we would,” said Tacon.

We believe you. And you can’t change it, since it was so flawed from the start. It’s time to repur-pose the facility — and while you’re at it, stop with the feeble strategy of blaming the media.

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Wildwood too precious to be put in private hands

I am upset that The Land Con-servancy is selling Merv Wilkin-son’s Wildwood Ecoforest.

To sell Wildwood to a private party would be a terrible preced-ent for a property that was bought and paid for in full with public donations. Hundreds of people helped to raise over $1 million with the understanding that TLC would hold Wildwood in trust to protect this legacy forever.

Wildwood should never be sold to a private party, not even in part. Wildwood is too precious to lose. It’s one of the finest example of ecoforestry in North America and has inspired and educated people from all over the world about sus-tainable forestry practices.

Time is of the essence. We have formed a citizens group

committed to ensuring that the ownership and management of Wildwood remains in public hands.

Roblyn HunterNanaimo

Balanced budget seems to be smoke and mirrors

The Harper Government announced with much fanfare that the budget was balanced. They will take this supposed stu-

pendous feat of fiscal serendipity to garner votes all the way to the election — but sadly it’s not true.

The so called balanced budget is only a hopeful forecast for the 2015-16 budget year. On a total budget of over $200 billion they have managed to wangle a razor thin excess of $1.4 billion by sell-ing assets, over optimistic employ-ment, interest and growth rates as well as other unestablished and frankly unverifiable scenarios.

For any of this to actually come to pass is highly unlikely. For-tunately for the Harper gang, we will not actually find out if the budget is balanced until the public accounts come out in fall 2016, well after the election. Anyone willing to bet on an actual bal-anced budget in fall 2016?

Will anyone care by then?

Liz FoxLantzville

City should not pay to clean up Wellcox lands

Re: ‘Cash will go toward area risk assessment; Officials say they expect to get started on master plan for Wellcox land sometime this year’ (Daily News, April 23)

So Dave Witty recommends an arm’s-length organization to oversee future planning of the area. Does he plan on more

than $900,000 in salaries like the Nanaimo Development Economic and then come back for more?

Nanaimo has no say on the waterfront lands as they are controlled by the Nanaimo Port Authority. They bought taxpay-ers a dirty old rail yard, basically. Why are people paying to clean up a mess that should be a federal/provincial bill?

When, in June 2010, when the South End Neighbourhood Plan was finished, I had asked for an access to the beautiful sandy beach at the south end of the these lands, now city owned, dur-ing public input meetings.

Next meeting, moved to Beban Park, the borders of the south-end map had changed, shrunk in fact.

They no longer include the Well-cox Lands, the beach or the contro-versial intersection at Haliburton Street, Old Victoria Road and the Island Highway.

Neil SaundersNanaimo

Newcastle Island best left undeveloped, natural

About 100 years ago my father swam to Newcastle Island to get in on the free ice cream at the church picnics.

I don’t think the island has changed much since that time. It still has an open area for picnics

and camping, and it’s lovely wood-land trails. It is small pocket, so close to a growing harbour city, which is saved from commercial-ism and urban sprawl. For the sake of our sanity, let it be. Let us enjoy relatively unspoiled nature. An improved learning centre to celebrate First Nations traditions and the island’s history would be a good focal point for visitors, young and old alike — the frameworks is already there. Camping could be encouraged, giving fledgling campers a safe environment to experience “roughing it” and native studies.

Because there is no year-round access and, especially, no bridge, the island is naturally protected from overuse and abuse and has the winter months to regenerate.

We need all the help we can get to stay in touch with nature and each other. Please leave Newcastle Island as undeveloped, non-com-mercial and modestly accessible as possible

E.M. GavinGabriola Island

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BUSINESS NOTESNews from the Nanaimo business community

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◆ CITY

Sports fi eld work goes to tender

Nanaimo city council has given the go-ahead to proceed with replace-ment on one of the city’s

two artificial turf fields, the Merle Logan field.

The project is budget-ed to cost just under $600,000, with work expected to begin in July.

— DAILY NEWS

Clinic shifts name in effort to bring eye health into focus

Vision Arts Eyecare on Waddington Road has changed its name to FYi-

doctors, joining more than 200 optometrists in the organization across the country who are collaborat-ing to continue to offer high-standard vision care for their patients,.

Optometrist Michael Kel-lam, one of the owners of the Waddington Road clinic, said that in recent years, large retail stores like Costco and Walmart have entered the eye care market.

He said, in the view of many in the industry, these stores don’t traditionally have a “big emphasis” on the long-term eye health of their customers.

He said that seven years ago, 16 large optometrist clinics across the country banded together to fight against what they consid-ered to be a “downward creep” in eye care and formed FYidoctors to share resources and buy cheaper.

“By joining with FYidoctors, we can maintain top quality health care for our customers at competi-tive prices,” Kellam said.

“There’s little change at the clinic from the perspec-tive of our customers, and we still are locally owned and have control over how we do things.”

• TELUS is investing $12 million in new com-munications infrastructure

in Nanaimo this year to meet growing demand for high-speed Internet services, increase wireless speed and capacity, and enhance Optik TV service.

The investment is part of TELUS’ commitment to invest $4 billion in British Columbia through 2018 to bring advanced telecom-munications infrastructure to every corner of the province.

“We’re seeing the demand for Internet and wireless services rapidly increase in Nanaimo,” said Ray Lawson, TELUS general manager for Vancouver Island.

• A new real estate com-pany, which has yet to be officially named, is opening in Nanaimo.

Dean Philpott owned and operated “Bald Guy Real Estate, a successful Re/Max real estate company, in Whitehorse for more than 10 years and turned it into the top real estate firm in the Yukon capital.

He moved to Nanaimo last year and is now partnering with local Re/Max realtor Scott Parker in the new business.

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• Six buildings in Nanaimo took top prizes at the 8th Annual Vancouver Island Real Estate Board Commer-cial Building Awards held last week.

There were a total of 34 entries in 11 categories from the Cowichan Valley to

Campbell River represented at the gala, which was co-ordinated by Business Examiner Vancouver Island.

The city’s Uplands Walk Supportive Housing build-ing won top honours in the Community Institutional category, while Nanaimo’s Vancouver Island Regional Library won in the Com-munity Institutional- Reno-vations category.

Island Optimal Health/Moksha Yoga won in the retail category and Real Estate Webmasters took top prize in the Commercial Renovation category.

McGregor Thompson won in the Industrial category and Trojan Collision Centre was the winner in the Industrial Renovation category.

Optometrist Michael Kellam, right, from FYidoctors on Waddington Road, demonstrates an eye exam on his colleague, John Lam. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]

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◆ OTTAWA

Secret committee ruled on expenses, trial told

Not only were Senate expense policies broad, vague and con-fusing — now a court is hearing that at least one of them was passed along between adminis-trative staff by word of mouth.

The Senate’s top financial official, Nicole Proulx, testi-fied Tuesday that she was told at some point in the past that senators were not allowed to claim travel expenses when they attended partisan fundraisers.

Senator Mike Duffy is facing 31 charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, with 18 of them related to travel expenses. In several cases, he was attending Conservative political events.

Duffy’s defence lawyer Donald Bayne seized on Proulx’s claim that such travel was prohibited. He has taken the court through all of the Senate’s guidelines, rules, and travel policies multiple times and hadn’t come across that edict.

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Homeless man accused of killing other homeless

Police believe the killer of three men who lived on Winnipeg streets was homeless himself.

John Paul Ostamas is accused of two counts of first-degree murder in the weekend deaths of Donald Collins, 65, and Stony Bushie, 48. He is also facing charges of second-degree murder in the killing of Myles Monias, 37, following an assault in a bus shelter earlier this month.

Supt. Danny Smyth said Collins went into a laneway Saturday night with Ostamas where police believe he was attacked and killed.

“He was left for dead in the alley,” Smyth said at a news con-ference Tuesday.

Following the killings, police released security footage featur-ing a “person of interest,” who turned out to be Ostamas.

“I wouldn’t say they were friends,” Smyth said. “There is no motive that I’m aware of.”

U.S. National Guard patrols BaltimoreAMANDA LEE MYERS AND DAVID DISHNEAU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Baltimore was a city on edge Tuesday as hundreds of National Guardsmen patrolled the streets against unrest for the first time since 1968, hoping to prevent another outbreak of rioting.

Maryland’s governor said 2,000 Guardsmen and 1,000 law officers would be in place overnight to try to prevent a repeat of the unrest that erupted Monday in some of the city’s poorest neigh-bourhoods and sent a shudder through all of Baltimore.

“This combined force will not tolerate violence or looting,” Gov. Larry Hogan warned.

In a measure of how tense things were, the city was under a 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. emergency curfew. All public schools were closed. And the Baltimore Ori-oles cancelled Tuesday night’s game at Camden Yards and — in what may be a first in baseball’s 145-year history — announced that tonight’s game will be closed to the public.

The streets were largely calm all morning and into the evening. But police with riot shields lined up shoulder to shoulder and kept close watch over a growing, chanting crowd of about 1,000 people at the corner where some of the worst violence took place the night before.

The real test was expected after dark, with the start of the curfew.

The looting and rock- and bottle-throwing by mostly black rioters broke out just hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a

25-year-old black man who suf-fered a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody. It was the worst such violence in the U.S. since the unrest that erupted last year over the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Political leaders and residents called the violence a tragedy for the city and lamented the dam-age done by the rioters to their own neighbourhoods.

“The same community they say they care about, they’re destroy-ing. You can’t have it both ways,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said: “I had offi-cers come up to me and say, ’I was born and raised in this city. This makes me cry.”’

But the rioting also brought out a sense of civic pride and respon-

sibility among many Baltimore residents, with hundreds of vol-unteers turning out to sweep the streets of glass and other debris with brooms and trash bags donated by hardware stores.

Blanca Tapahuasco brought her three sons, ages 2 to 8, from another part of the city to help clean up the brick-and-pave-ment courtyard outside a looted CVS pharmacy in the hard-hit neighbourhood where Gray was arrested.

“We’re helping the neighbour-hood build back up,” she said. “This is an encouragement to them to know the rest of the city is not just looking on and won-dering what to do.”

CVS store manager Haywood McMorris said the destruction didn’t make sense: “We work here, man. This is where we stand, and this is where people actually make a living.”

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Premier in Surrey to talk about gang warKEVEN DREWS THE CANADIAN PRESS

While RCMP were inves-tigating another shooting Tuesday, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark was just blocks away try-ing to reassure residents of Surrey that everything possible was being done to fight an escalating gang war.

Clark told reporters in Surrey City Hall the gang violence is an example of how the actions of a few can rob everyone of a sense of safety and security.

Tuesday’s gunfire brings the number of shooting incidents since the begin-ning of March to almost two dozen in Surrey and nearby Delta. One man has been killed and others have been injured.

Police say many of the shootings are the result of a dispute between two groups of South Asian and Somalian descent over the low-level drug trade.

Clark said authorities are working hard so residents feel safe and secure.

“I want the people of Sur-rey to know that this city is not alone. The govern-ment of British Columbia stands with you in making sure we do everything we can to combat this threat.”

NDP Justice critic Mike Farnworth criticized Clark’s funding plan, saying she’s allowing 20 at-risk Surrey youths to join gangs and face early deaths.

“What’s particularly concerning, and in fact disturbing about the announcement is the pre-mier admits that there are 40 kids on the wait-list for this program,” said Farn-worth at the legislature.

“Forty kids who are on a path to a gang lifestyle that tragically could end up, where they end up dead.”

Surrey Mounties have said those involved in the dispute aren’t talk-ing. Police even took the unusual move of publi-cizing photos of those injured, asking for public help in solving the crimes.

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A B.C. Supreme Court jury has had a firsthand look inside a pair of pres-sure cookers that were allegedly made into bombs and left to detonate outside the provincial legislature.

A sheriff showed the 14 jury members the stain-less steel containers, which were still lined with nails.

John Nuttall and Amanda Korody are on trial for allegedly plotting to set off the devices on the legislature grounds in Victoria on Canada Day 2013.

◆ VANCOUVER

Upgraded charges in paparazzi case

A Vancouver-area celeb-rity photographer faces more serious charges over allegations he criminally harassed Ryan Reynolds over a six-week period before hitting the actor with his car.

Three charges were sworn Monday before a justice of the peace against Richard Fedyck, a 52-year-old paparazzo.

Fedyck was arrested after the movie star was alleged-ly struck in the parkade of a luxury hotel on the even-ing of April 10.

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City to get public views on pot shops

Vancouver city coun-cil has decided to hold a public hearing on its proposal to regulate mari-juana shops as the federal government made new demands Tuesday for the controversial plan to be dropped.

The city is considering new regulations to control illegal pot dispensaries. The rules would include a $30,000 licensing fee and require stores to be 300 metres from schools, com-munity centres and each other.

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◆ BRUSSELS

Hopes rise for deal to bail out Greece

Hopes for a deal on Greece’s bailout rose Tuesday after the prime minister said he expected an agreement could be reached within two weeks and the EU reported a pick-up in the negotiations.

Greece has to repay the International Monetary Fund a total of almost 1 billion euros by May 12. It is expected to have enough money to make that, if it manages to raise as much as it hopes from a move to grab cash reserves from local entities like hospitals and schools.

— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH

Residents near Nepal quake epicentre struggle to surviveKATY DAIGLE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PASLANG, Nepal — There is almost nothing left of this village but enormous piles of broken red bricks and heaps of mud and dust.

One of those piles was once Bhoj Kumar Thapa’s home, where his pregnant wife pushed their five-year-old daughter to safety in a last, desperate act before it collapsed and killed her during Saturday’s earthquake.

On Tuesday, Thapa and others in Paslang were still waiting for the govern-ment to deliver food, tents — any kind of aid — to this poor mountain village near the epicenter of the quake that killed more than 4,700 people, injured over 8,000 and left tens of thousands homeless.

“When I got home, there was nothing,” said Thapa, an army soldier. “Every-thing was broken. My wife — she was dead.”

He was put on leave from his army unit to mourn, one of the few Nepalese soldiers not deployed in the country’s massive

rescue and recovery oper-ation. But instead of sad-ness, there is anger.

“Only the other villagers who have also lost their homes are helping me. But we get nothing from the government,” Thapa said.

An official came, took some pictures and left — without delivering anything to the village of about 300 people north of the capital of Kathmandu, he said.

“I get angry, but what can I do? I am also working for the government,” Thapa said. “I went to ask the police if they could at least

send some men to help us salvage our things, but they said they have no one to send.”

Paslang is only three kilo-metres up the mountain from the town of Gorkha, the district headquarters and staging area for rescue and aid operations.

But the villagers, who have no idea when they might get help, are still sleeping together in the mud and sharing whatever scraps of food they can pull from beneath their ruined buildings. Three people in the hamlet have died.

Officials and foreign aid workers who have rushed to Nepal following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake are struggling against stormy weather, poor roads and a shortage of manpower and funds to get assistance to the needy. On Tuesday, the district managed to co-ordinate 26 helicopter trips to remote villages to evacuate 30 injured people before a major downpour halted the effort.

“We need 15,000 plastic tarps alone. We cannot buy that number,” said Mohan Pokhran, a district disaster management committee member. Only 50 volunteer army and police officers are distributing food and aid for thousands in the immediate vicinity, he said.

Across central Nepal, including the capital of Kathmandu, hundreds of thousands of people remained living in the open without clean water or sanitation more than three days after the quake. It rained heavily in the city Tuesday, forcing people to find shelter wherever they could.

Women walk through their destroyed village of Paslang near the epicenter of Saturday’s massive earthquake. [AP PHOTO]

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Cooking and eating together is an easy way to pass on traditions

T he best way to pass on family food traditions is to cook with your chil-dren from an early age. Time spent

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Small children love to help out in the kitchen.

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· Give toddlers simple jobs like tearing up lettuce or scooping the seeds out of a cantaloupe.

· Have them wash fruits and vegetables. Children as young as three can be given a plastic knife and can cut up fruit for fruit salad or the vegetables for dinner.

· Give children everyday jobs like wash-ing the dishes in a sink full of warm soapy water, or putting, spoons and forks in the dishwasher. Let them stir the cake batter or shake the plastic bag when you coat your chicken.

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Food lovers and health enthusiasts alike, jump for joy; Nanaimo finally

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At Olive This & More, all the balsamic vinegar is aged a minimum of 12 years and come from Italy’s Modena region. All flavourings are from botanical extractions and blended to perfection.

The extra-virgin olive oil also comes in a large selection of delicious flavours, again from botanical sources. Some flavours are steeped in the oil, some are crushed with the olives and some are blended from botanical oils.

For those who think oil and vinegar is something simply to dunk your bread in, it’s time to unravel the possibilities! How about a cranberry and pear white balsamic vinegar blended with essence-of-lime olive oil?

Not only as a bread dip, but for use on your next veggie side dish or salad.

Olive This & More owners Laura and Will Levirs will be showcasing some of these wonderful products in a soiree-style tasting event in the Mezzanine of Lucky’s Liquor Store at Country Club Centre on Tuesday, May 12.

Not only will you taste a variety of flavoured balsamic and olive oil, we will also create gourmet treats using them. How about a gooey rich chocolate brownie drizzled with Tahitian Vanilla bal-samic? We will also be sam-pling a new style of cocktail called a “shrub”, a delicious concoction incorporating bal-samic vinegar for an amazing result. Wines and beers will be showcased and paired with these extraordinary oils and vinegars.

For more info and access to our limited seating, visit us at www.luckysliquor.ca, find us on Facebook or call 250-585-2275 to book your spot.

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Mix up lime and avocado for streusel mini muffi nsMELISSA D’ARABIAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

For me, this has been the year of the avocado.

In addition to using them in all

the usual suspects — guaca-mole, cobb salads and club sandwiches — my family also has been smashing them up on toast (try topping them with tomato slices, prosciutto, a drizzle of olive and a sprinkle of sea salt), tucking slices in flatbread wraps and sushi rolls, tossing cubes with toma-toes and balsamic for a quick salad, or using them as a nutri-tious and tasty topping for egg white omelets.

And it’s a great thing to do. Avocados are bursting with healthy fats that satisfy, as well as fiber that fills you up. They also are a good source of several vitamins, including vitamin C and folate. What you may not know is that because of its creamy-fatty texture, avocado also can be used in baked goods in place of other fats.

For best swapping results, only substitute part of a reci-pe’s regular fat with avocado. Also, be aware that avocados will add a pale green colour to your baked goods. This goes mostly unnoticed in items such as chocolate cake, but could be off-putting in your vanilla cake. But in the case of my lime and avocado streusel mini muffins — one of my favourite weekend breakfast treats — the colour can be a good thing.

I make mine gluten-free by using a combination of almond meal, coconut flour and a nice medium-weight glu-ten-free flour (check the flour label, as you are looking for 2 to 4 grams of protein per 1/4 cup for this recipe). Or you can use wheat flour, if you prefer.

Whip up a batch of these to enjoy on the weekend, then stick the extras in zip-close plastic freezer bag for a quick snack that thaws in minutes

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LIME (AND AVOCADO) STREUSEL MINI MUFFINS

Start to finish: 30 minutesMakes 24 mini muffinsFor the muffins:1/2 medium avocado, peeled

and pitted (about 1/4 cup flesh)2 tablespoons butter, room

temperature2/3 cup sugar1 teaspoon lime zest1 teaspoon vanilla extract2 eggs3/4 cup gluten-free baking

flour or whole-wheat pastry flour

1/2 cup almond meal (finely ground almonds)

1/4 cup coconut flour1 1/2 teaspoons baking

powder1/4 teaspoon baking soda1/4 teaspoon table salt1/4 cup buttermilk1/4 cup lime juice1/4 cup apple sauceFor the streusel topping:

1 tablespoon butter2 tablespoons packed brown

sugar2 tablespoons flour (gluten-

free or whole wheat pastry)1/8 teaspoon table saltHeat the oven to 350 F. Coat

2 mini muffin pans (you need 24 muffin cups) with baking spray or line with paper muf-fin cups.

In a large bowl, use an elec-tric mixer to cream together the avocado, butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Mix in the zest and vanilla. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing until incorporat-ed after each. Set the avocado mixture aside.

In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, almond meal, coconut flour, baking powder and soda, and salt.

If the almond meal is too coarse to pass through the sifter, whisk it into the sifted flours to ensure even blend-ing. In a small bowl or meas-uring cup, stir together the buttermilk, lime juice and applesauce.

Add both the flour mixture and the buttermilk blend to the avocado mixture, half at a time, blending on low with the mixer until completely incorporated.

Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin pans, filling each cup about three-quarters of the way.

In a small bowl, use a fork to mix together the streusel ingredients until the streu-sel resembles coarse sand or small pebbles. Spoon a small amount of streusel on top of each muffin, then bake until the muffins are turning golden and spring back when touched lightly, 15 to 18 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for a few minutes before removing from the muf-fin pans.

Nutrition information per muffin: 80 calories; 35 calories from fat (44 per cent of total calories); 4 g fat (1.5 g satur-ated; 0 g trans fats); 20 mg cholesterol; 11 g carbohydrate; 1 g fibre; 6 g sugar; 2 g protein; 95 mg sodium.

Lime and avocado streusel mini muffins. Avocados are bursting with healthy fats that satisfy, as well as fibre that fills you up. They also can be used in baked goods in place of other fats. [AP PHOTO]

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Raiders make a coaching switch Jeremy Conn diagnosed with health problem, Jerome Erdman will take overSCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

Sixteen days ahead of spring camp, the Vancouver Island Raiders have been forced to make yet another coaching change.

According to the team, head coach Jeremy Conn will be unable to run the program this season due to a recent serious health concern, and newly hired defensive co-ordinator Jerome Erdman will take over his position.

Raiders president Kabel Atwall said Conn informed the team of his health problems last Sunday, and made the decision to step down last Tuesday.

“He had a really bad day on Monday, especially at the off-field (optional team activity),” Atwall said of Conn. “It’s a condition where it’s affecting his eyes and his ability to see and things like that.

“He made the decision that he couldn’t continue, based on the advice of his doctors, who told him that, along with possible surgery, he just needed complete rest and to sort of be away from anything that would cause phys-ical exertion or any type of stress

. . . (coaching) takes a lot of time and energy and there is a lot of stress involved.”

Conn was hired in December after the Raiders fired 2014 head coach Brian Ridgeway after a 5-5 season.

He had been the head coach of the Ballenas Whalers Varsity AA high school program in Parks-ville for the past eight years, leading his team to the provin-cial semifinal this season.

He will remain with the team in an advisory role, where possible.

Erdman, the new head coach, took the defensive co-ordinator job in February after it was announced that Doug Hocking, a former national championship-

winning DC with the Raiders would not be joining the team after it was announced that he would in December.

Hocking later took a coaching job with the Westshore Rebels in Victoria due to personal reasons.

Atwall said Erdman will be the team’s permanent head coach.

“We had to look at it as a long-term position, not just an interim position because no one knew how long Jeremy was going to be dealing with his health issue,” Atwall said.

“He thought it could take a couple years for things to clear up for him.”

When Conn was hired, he had planned to also be in charge of the Raiders’ offence while Erd-man ran the defence.

Erdman is still expected to focus on the defensive side of the game, as well as overseeing the entire team, but an offensive co-ordinator has not yet been named.

“That’s going to be an evalua-tion that takes place,” Atwall said.

“We’ve got a couple of candi-dates who are on staff, and you can appreciate this happened very quickly, so I don’t think

Jerome has made a final decision in that regard. To some degree, spring camp will be an opportun-ity to observe and see who’s con-ducting themselves properly, and who has the ability to do that.

“There’s not going to be a very fast decision in that regard, but we’ve got a couple of really good candidates on staff who can take over without a doubt.”

While this will be Erdman’s first head coaching position, he comes with a lot of experience in the three-down game.

He was a member of the 1994 Grey Cup champion Winni-peg Blue Bombers team, as well as the B.C. Football Conference Renfrew Trojans national cham-pionship team in his junior days.

As well, he has coached with the B.C. Lions, Hamilton Tiger Cats and the Toronto Argonauts in the pro game and with the UBC Thunder Birds, Simon Fraser Clan and the McGill Red-men CIS programs.

“He had a desire to come back to B.C., because he had been coaching in Montreal,” Atwall said.

“When we were looking for a defensive co-ordinator, things sort of just fit.

“Once we heard the news about Jeremy, we asked him to take over and he was more than will-ing to come on board and take on the head coaching position for us.

“We were just very fortunate that he’s got tons of experience.”

The Raiders’ three-day spring training camp begins May 15 at Merle Logan Field.

They open up the 2015 BCFC schedule at home at Caledonia Park on July 25 against the defending champion Langley Rams.

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Lions’ QB ‘learning how to fall’JOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

SURREY — Travis Lulay is learning how to fall.

After a frustrating 2014 that saw the B.C. Lions’ quarterback re-injure his surgically repaired throwing shoulder in his only start of the season, Lulay has taken a unique approach in his continued rehabilitation.

“There’s no way to prevent injury,” Lulay said Tuesday.

“We know that’s part of the game, but you’ve got to train the brain to not be afraid of the next injury.

“You can’t play tentative.”With that in mind, the 31-year-

old spent part of the off-season doing a series of contact drills using bags and mats in hopes that he can withstand the next big hit, whenever it comes.

“Learning how to fall, teach-ing my brain that it’s OK to fall and fall the right way,” Lulay said in describing the regimen. “What it’s about is going from a physical movement to telling my brain that it’s OK. That’s all part of the injury recovery process, and so far to this point its been positive.”

The 2011 Grey Cup MVP ori-ginally hurt his right shoulder on a goal-line plunge back in September 2013. He came back for the Lions’ playoff loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders that year before opting for surgery, and the belief was that he would be ready for training camp last season.

But his rehab took much longer than anticipated and his only start of 2014 was cut short when he injured the same joint in Ottawa against the Redblacks on Sept. 5, basically undoing the surgery.

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Red Wings’ Kronwall suspended for Game 7

The Detroit Red Wings are used to counting on Niklas Kronwall in big games. As they go into their biggest of the season, he’s been counted out by the NHL.

The NHL department of Player Safety announced Tuesday even-ing that Kronwall has been sus-pended one game for “launching into a hit” on Tampa Bay forward Nikita Kucherov.

That means the Wings will be without Kronwall when they play the Lightning on Wednesday at Amalie Arena in Game 7 of the first-round series.

“We disagree with the deci-sion,” general manager Ken Holland told the Free Press. He didn’t want to make any further comment.

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No rush for Raptors GM on head coach’s future

Just two days after the Toronto Raptors were “punched in the face” by the Washington Wizards, GM Masai Ujiri said he’ll take some time determining the direction of the squad — including the fate of coach Dwane Casey — rather than make changes when emotions are high.

“Everybody is going to be held accountable, everybody is going to be evaluated,” Ujiri said Tuesday. “There’s no doomsday here, hon-estly. This is not as dramatic as we are making it.

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Canada Post will be issuing a new stamp to commemorate Canada hosting the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup this summer.

The stamp features Canada’s most accomplished women’s soccer player, Olympian Christine Sin-clair, teammate Kadeisha Buchan-an and Japanese goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori, captured in various action shots. “Canada Post is highlighting these athletes and the most pres-tigious tournament in women’s soccer,” said Deepak Chopra, Pres-ident and CEO of Canada Post.

Seahawks GM John Schneider is in his comfort zone as draft nearsSeattle’s coach-manager tandem has 11 picks to make on draft day ThursdayTIM BOOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RENTON, Wash. — John Schn-eider is back in his comfort zone.

The Seattle Seahawks general manager will go into the NFL draft with a load of picks, 11 to be exact, more than any other team. And that number gives him the flexibility to move around and try to land the right players to keep Seattle as the class of the NFC.

All the Seahawks lack is a first-round pick, but the acquisi-tion of perennial Pro Bowl tight end Jimmy Graham more than makes up for that absence and Seattle being forced to wait until No. 63 before its first selection.

“You just start thinking of, ‘OK, what does your team look like? Where can you go?’ ” Schneider said. “It gives you a lot of flex-ibility to either move, stay where you are or move back. I meant move up because I think there is going to be some anxious people waiting until 63, you know, with names coming off.”

Now entering his sixth draft with the Seahawks, Schneider will be without a first-round pick for the third straight year. But he’ll enter with a bounty of selec-tions after having only six when the 2014 draft began. Schneider was able to make enough deals last year to where the Seahawks ended up with nine picks.

This time, Seattle surrendered its first-round pick to New Orleans as part of the trade that brought Graham along with a fourth-round pick. Schneider said the way they evaluated the No. 31 pick, there would not be a player available with the same impact as Graham. That was also the case two years ago when Seattle was set to pick No. 25 and traded that selection to Minne-sota as part of the deal to acquire Percy Harvin.

“It’s 80 to 90 per cent of it. It’s enormous,” Schneider said. “When you acquire a player of

Jimmy’s calibre with the 31st pick, that makes it that much easier to sleep at night knowing that we wouldn’t be able to get a player like that.”

While there was plenty of attention placed on Seattle’s splashy acquisition of Graham, there are significant needs the Seahawks will try to address in the draft.HOLD THE LINE: The offensive line leads Seattle’s list of needs. Gone is former All-Pro centre Max Unger, packaged to New Orleans for Graham. Gone is left guard James Carpenter, a former first-round pick who signed with the Jets.

Having to part with Unger was a significant blow. He started only six games last season due to injuries, but Seattle was a significantly better offence when he was on the field. Of Russell Wilson’s 56 career starts — regu-lar and post-season — Unger was at centre in 43.

Offensive line depth will be addressed by Schneider.

“I think I’d be lying to you if I told you any different. But say-ing that, that doesn’t mean that we need to go hog wild doing something, either,” Schneider

said. “We are going to continue (to) address it as we go. It could be the draft. It could be a cap cas-ualty in the summer. It could be someone who was just waived, it could be a trade yet. We’ll never stop evaluating every position.”SECONDARY CONCERN: The defensive backfield will be another area for adding depth.

The Seahawks signed corner-backs Cary Williams and Will Blackmon as free agents, but lost Byron Maxwell to Philadelphia and Jeron Johnson to Washing-ton. They’re also unsure when Jeremy Lane will return after suffering knee and arm injuries in the Super Bowl.CATCHING ON: While the addi-tion of Graham gives Seattle a dynamic pass catcher, wide receiver is another position where injuries have left depth concerns. Seattle is likely with-out Paul Richardson until mid-season after tearing his ACL in the NFC divisional playoff game.LATE GEM: Who will be the latest player uncovered by Schn-eider and his staff? Seattle’s become known for its finds in the later rounds, such as Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor, J.R. Sweezy and K.J. Wright.

“We are always trying to evalu-ate how we are doing, and fix as much as we possibly can and add as much as we possibly can to this team, and do what is right by this organization,” Schneider said.

Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll takes a selfie during the annual ‘We Day’ celebration, an inspirational event and a year-long educational initiative Thursday in Seattle. [AP PHOTO]

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AUTO RACINGNASCARGeico 500 (Aaron’s 499)Sunday, May 3, 10:19 a.m., Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama. Tri-oval, 2.66 miles per lap.

SpongeBob SquarePants 400 (STP 400)Saturday, May 9, 4:46 p.m., Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas. Tri-oval, 1.5 miles per lap.

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Formula OneSpanish Grand PrixSunday, May 10, 5 p.m., Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

BASEBALLMLB

Yesterday’s resultsKansas City 11, Cleveland 5Toronto 11, Boston 8NY Yankees 4, Tampa Bay 2Chi. White Sox at Baltimore postponedCincinnati 4, Milwaukee 2Miami 4, NY Mets 3Washington 13, Atlanta 12Chicago Cubs 6, Pittsburgh 2Seattle 2, Texas 1Minnesota 3, Detroit 2St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 5Oakland 6, L.A. Angels 2Arizona 12, Colorado 5San Francisco 2, L.A. Dodgers 1Houston 14, San Diego 3

Today’s scheduleMilwaukee at Cincinnati, 9:35 a.m. Garza (1-2) vs Leake (0-1)Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 10:05 a.m. Smyly (0-0) vs Pineda (2-0)Detroit at Minnesota, 10:10 a.m. Greene (3-0) vs Hughes (0-3)Houston at San Diego, 12:40 p.m. Keuchel (2-0) vs Cashner (1-2)Kansas City at Cleveland, 3:10 p.m. Duffy (1-0) vs Salazar (1-0)Toronto at Boston, 3:10 p.m. Dickey (0-1) vs Porcello (1-2)Chi. White Sox at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Quintana (1-1) vs Gonzalez (2-1)Washington at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m. Zimmermann (1-2) vs Wood (1-0)N.Y. Mets at Miami, 4:10 p.m. Colon (4-0) vs Latos (0-3)Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m. Cole (2-0) vs Lester (0-2)Seattle at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Hernandez (2-0) vs Rodriguez (0-0)Philadelphia at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. Harang (2-1) vs Martinez (1-0)Colorado at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. Butler (1-1) vs Collmenter (1-2)L.A. Angels at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Shoemaker (2-1) vs Chavez (0-1)San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Heston (2-1) vs Greinke (2-0)

LA Angels 200 000 000 2 6 1Oakland 500 001 00x 6 7 0W: S. Gray (3-0) L: J. Weaver (0-3)HR: LAA-None OAK-B. Lawrie (2), J. Reddick (2)

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HOCKEYNHL

PlayoffsAll series best-of-seven

Round 1 - Today’s final gameDetroit at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m. (Series tied 3-3)

Western Hockey League

PlayoffsAll series best-of- seven*=if necessary

Eastern Conference FinalCalgary vs. BrandonWestern Conference FinalKelowna vs. Portland

Yesterday’s results (Games 3)Calgary 2, Brandon 1 (OT)Portland 7, Kelowna 3

Today’s schedule (Games 4)Brandon at Calgary, 6 p.m. (Brandon leads series 2-1)Kelowna at Portland, 7 p.m. (Portland leads series 2-1)

Friday, May 1 (Games 5)Portland at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.Calgary at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.

Western Canada CupJunior A championshipCasman Centre, Fort McMurray, Alberta

TeamsBCHL, Penticton VeesSaskatchewan JHL: Melfort MustangsManitoba JHL: Portage TerriersAlberta JHL: Spruce Grove SaintsHosts: Fort McMurray Oil Barons

Round Robin standingsTeam GP W L T Pts GF-APenticton 3 2 1 0 4 19-6Portage 3 2 1 0 4 10-8Fort McMurray 3 2 1 0 4 8-11Melfort 2 1 1 0 2 7-9Spruce Grove 3 0 3 0 0 10-20

Yesterday’s resultsPortage 3, Penticton 2Fort McMurray 5, Spruce Grove 4

Monday’s resultsMelfort 4, Spruce Grove 3 (OT)

Sunday’s resultsPortage 6, Melfort 3Penticton 6, Fort McMurray 0

Today’s scheduleMelfort vs. Penticton, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 30Portage vs. Spruce Grove, 1:30 p.m.Fort McMurray vs. Melfort, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 2Semifinals, 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 3Finals, 3 p.m.

American Hockey League Calder Cup playoffs - Round 1All series best-of-five

Yesterday’s result (Game 4)Hartford 2, Providence 1 (Series tied 2-2)

Today’s scheduleWorcester at Hershey, 4 p.m. (Worcester leads series 2-0)Chicago at Utica, 4 p.m. (Series tied 1-1)Toronto at Grand Rapids, 4 p.m. (Toronto leads series 2-0)W-B/Scranton at Syracuse, 4 p.m. (W-B/Scranton leads series 2-1)Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 5 p.m. (Oklahoma City leads series 2-0)Texas at Rockford, 5 p.m. (Texas leads series 2-0)

Thursday, April 30 (Game 4*)Manchester at Portland, 7 p.m. (Manchester leads series 2-1)

GOLFSchedule, with 2015 money win-nings as of April 27

This week’s tournamentWGC-Cadillac Match Play (Begins today, play through Sunday)TPC Harding Park, San Francisco, California. Par 72, 7,169 yards. Purse: $9,250,000. 2014 champion: Jason Day

Golfer 2015 Winnings1 Jordan Spieth $5,087,996 2 Jimmy Walker $3,509,349 3 Dustin Johnson $3,013,887 4 J.B. Holmes $2,942,520 5 Bubba Watson $2,720,950 6 Jason Day $2,351,128 7 Patrick Reed $2,344,556 8 Justin Rose $2,252,000 9 Charley Hoffman $2,240,915 10 Ryan Moore $2,171,580 11 Hideki Matsuyama $2,156,046 12 Brandt Snedeker $2,029,667 13 Sang-Moon Bae $1,942,781 14 Robert Streb $1,808,680 15 Brooks Koepka $1,747,981 16 Ben Martin $1,707,823 17 Bill Haas $1,655,606 18 Daniel Berger $1,602,258 19 Paul Casey $1,565,580 20 Jim Furyk $1,544,661 Canadian golfers 51 Nick Taylor $941,944 73 David Hearn $751,506100 Graham Delaet $489,608124 Adam Hadwin $381,522197 Mike Weir $72,800

LPGA TourThis week’s tournamentVolunteers of America North Texas Shootout, April 30-May 3Las Colinas Country Club, Irving, Texas. Par 71, 6,809 yards. Purse: $1,300,000. 2014 champion: Stacy Lewis.

Golfer 2015 Winnings1 Lydia Ko $908,810 2 Sei Young Kim $742,306 3 Stacy Lewis $706,660 4 Inbee Park $615,261 5 Brittany Lincicome $531,488 6 Amy Yang $528,685 7 Hyo Joo Kim $453,493 8 Morgan Pressel $416,643 9 Mirim Lee $390,834 10 Cristie Kerr $369,146 11 Na Yeon Choi $364,171 12 Shanshan Feng $305,294 13 Ha Na Jang $292,907 14 Anna Nordqvist $271,162 15 Ariya Jutanugarn $259,416 16 Ilhee Lee $249,838 Canadian golfers 86 Alena Sharp $31,380 116 Sue Kim $10,697 139 Rebecca Lee-Bentham $4,253

Web.com TourThis week’s tournamentUnited Leasing Championship, April 30-May 3Victoria National Golf Club, Newburgh, Indiana. Par 72, 7,239 yards. Purse: $600,000. 2014 champion: Greg Owen.

Golfer 2015 Winnings1 Peter Malnati $184,207 2 Wes Roach $166,917 3 Patrick Rodgers $162,070 4 Andrew Landry $150,870 5 Dawie van der Walt $126,896 6 Patton Kizzire $123,999 7 Kevin Tway $121,122 8 Mathew Goggin $120,299 9 Kelly Kraft $119,912 10 Harold Varner III $97,267 11 Steve Marino $95,308 12 Miguel Angel Carballo $81,991 13 Erik Barnes $81,810 14 Steve Allan $77,775 15 John Mallinger $73,379 16 Henrik Norlander $72,756 17 Andrew Yun $71,573 18 Rhein Gibson $71,500 19 Timothy Madigan $71,054 20 Abraham Ancer $68,135 From Canada T95 Roger Sloan $11,660

Champions TourThis week’s tournamentInsperity Invitational, May 1-3 (54 holes)The Woodlands Country Club, The Woodlands, Texas. Par 72, 7078 yards. Purse: $2,050,000. 2014 champion: Bernhard Langer.

Golfer 2015 Winnings1 Olin Browne $492,399 2 Bart Bryant $458,092 3 Mark O’Meara $448,242 4 Paul Goydos $385,900 5 Joe Durant $383,131 6 Miguel Angel Jimenez $365,792 7 Rocco Mediate $358,317 8 Billy Andrade $349,054 9 Tom Pernice Jr. $338,925 10 Colin Montgomerie $329,737 11 Marco Dawson $329,308 12 David Frost $323,109 13 Lee Janzen $320,920 14 Bernhard Langer $290,400 15 Kevin Sutherland $262,245 16 Tom Lehman $252,984 17 Esteban Toledo $238,475 18 Gene Sauers $236,629 19 Michael Allen $235,631 20 Scott Dunlap $221,541 Canadian golfers 31 Rod Spittle $140,151 33 Stephen Ames $135,694 93 Jim Rutledge $16,775

European TourNo tournament this week.European Tour pros will play at WGC-Cadillac Match Play (see PGA above)

Golfer 2015 Winnings1 Rory Mcilroy €1,224,6702 Danny Willett €1,118,6913 Justin Rose €927,9724 Ross Fisher €805,6805 Anirban Lahiri €749,0026 Kiradech Aphibarnrat €733,2317 Bernd Wiesberger €727,9428 Branden Grace €692,2799 Louis Oosthuizen €666,07110 David Howell €546,53112 Henrik Stenson €514,94413 Andy Sullivan €500,52014 Marc Warren €482,42415 Alex Noren €435,47216 George Coetzee €432,40617 Thongchai Jaidee €404,49018 Luke Donald €383,40619 Richie Ramsay €378,46820 Ian Poulter €360,85921 Martin Kaymer €357,938

BASKETBALLNBAPlayoff scheduleNote: 16 teams, all series best-of-seven

Yesterday’s resultsHouston 103, Dallas 94 (Houston win series 4-1)San Antonio at L.A. Clippers(Series tied 2-2)

Today’s scheduleGame 5 Brooklyn at Atlanta(Series tied 2-2)Game 5 * Portland at Memphis(Memphis leads series 3-1)

Thursday, April 30Game 6 * Chicago at Milwaukee(Chicago leads series 3-2)Game 6 * L.A. Clippers at San Antonio

Friday, May 1Game 6 * Atlanta at BrooklynGame 6 * Memphis at Portland

Saturday, May 2Game 7 * Milwaukee at ChicagoGame 7 * San Antonio at L.A. Clippers

SOCCERMLS

Sunday’s resultsToronto 2, Orlando 0Portland 0, Seattle 1NY Red Bulls 1,LA Galaxy 1 Friday, May 1Dallas at Houston, 5 p.m.San Jose at Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

English Premier LeaguePosition/Club W D L GF GA Pts1 Chelsea 23 8 2 65 26 772 Man City 20 7 7 70 36 673 Arsenal 20 7 6 63 32 674 Man United 19 8 7 59 34 655 Liverpool 17 7 10 47 37 586 Tot Hotspur 17 7 10 55 49 587 Southampton 17 6 11 47 26 578 Swansea 14 8 12 41 44 509 Stoke City 13 8 13 39 42 4710 Everton 11 11 12 44 43 4411 West Ham 11 11 12 42 42 4412 Crystal Pal 11 9 14 42 47 4213 West Brom 9 10 15 32 46 3714 Newcastle 9 8 17 36 57 3515 Hull City 8 10 16 32 45 3416 Aston Villa 8 8 18 26 48 3217 Leicester 8 7 18 35 51 3118 Sunderland 5 15 13 26 49 3019 Q.P. Rangers 7 6 21 38 59 2720 Burnley 5 11 18 26 52 26

Yesterday’s resultsHull 1, Liverpool 0

Today’s scheduleLeicester vs. Chelsea, 11:45 a.m.

Saturday, May 2 Leicester vs. Newcastle, 4:45 a.m.Aston Villa vs. Everton, 7 a.m.Liverpool vs. Q.P. Rangers, 7 a.m.Sunderland vs. Southampton, 7 a.m.Swansea vs. Stoke, 7 a.m.West Ham vs. Burnley, 7 a.m.Man United vs. West Brom, 9:30 a.m. Sunday, May 3 Chelsea vs. Crystal Palace, 5:30 a.m.Spurs vs. Man City, 8 a.m.

LACROSSEBC Junior A Lacrosse League

Standings GP W L T Pts Langley 1 1 0 0 2 Delta 1 1 0 0 2 Coquitlam 1 1 0 0 2 Victoria 0 0 0 0 0 New Westminster 0 0 0 0 0 Nanaimo 1 0 1 0 0 Burnaby 1 0 1 0 0 Port Coquitlam 1 0 1 0 0

Sunday’s resultsCoquitlam 10, Nanaimo 9Port Coquitlam 10, Burnaby 7New Westminster at Victoria postponed

Friday May 1Langley at Burnaby, 8 p.m.

Saturday May 2Delta at Nanaimo, 4:30 p.m.Port Coquitlam at Victoria, 5 p.m.

Sunday May 3Victoria at Coquitlam, 2 p.m.Nanaimo at New Westminster, 5 p.m.

National Lacrosse LeagueWest W L GB Pct GF GAy-Edmonton 12 5 - .706 228 167x-Colorado 9 8 2.5 .529 202 205Calgary 6 11 5.5 .353 198 204Vancouver 5 12 6.5 .294 198 251

East W L GB Pct GF GAx-Toronto 13 4 - .765 220 178x-Rochester 12 5 1 .706 193 160Buffalo 10 7 3.5 .588 216 198Minnesota 5 12 8 .294 172 214New England 4 12 8 .250 169 219

Sunday’s resultBuffalo 20, New England 9

Friday, May 1Toronto at New England, 4 p.m.

Remaining scheduleSaturday, May 2Edmonton at Colorado, 6 p.m.Calgary at Vancouver, 7 p.m.New England at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.Rochester at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

HORSE RACINGKentucky DerbyChurchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, Post time 3:24 p.m.

Horse: trainer; jockey oddsAmerican Pharoah: Bob Baffert; Victor Espinoza 5-2Dortmund: Bob Baffert; Martin Garcia 4-1Carpe Diem: Todd Pletcher; John Velazquez 15-2Mubtaahij: Mike de Kock; Christophe Soumillon 10-1Materiality: Todd Pletcher; Javier Castel-lano 12-1Firing Line: Simon Callaghan; Gary Stevens 16-1Frosted: Kiaran McLaughlin; Joel Rosario 16-1International Star: Mike Maker; Miguel Mena 18-1Upstart: Rick Violette Jr.; Jose Ortiz 20-1El Kabeir: Trainer; John Terranova II; Calvin Borel 33-1Far Right: Ron Moquett; Mike Smith 33-1Ocean Knight: Kiaran McLaughlin; Irad Ortiz, Jr. 40-1Itsaknockout: Todd Pletcher; Luis Saez 40-1Bolo: Carla Gaines; Rafael Bejarano 40-1Danzig Moon: Mark Casse; Julien Leparoux 40-1Madefromlucky: Todd Pletcher; unde-cided 30-1Mr. Z: D. Wayne Lukas; Ramon Vazquez 50-1Ocho Ocho Ocho: Jim Cassidy; Elvis Trujillo 50-1Tencendur: George Weaver; Manny Franco 66-1

Current odds, Bovada.lv

Kentucky Derby LingoMint Julep: The official drink of the Kentucky Derby. It consists of bourbon, mint, and a sweet syrup.

Burgoo: Thick, meaty traditional stew.

Millionaire’s Row: The premium seating area that houses all of the rich and famous Kentucky Derby guests during the races.

Kentucky Derby Festival: The two-week series of events around the race.

TENNISThis week’s tournaments

ATPWorld Rankings: SinglesPlayer Points1 Novak Djokovic (SRB) 13,8452 Roger Federer (SUI) 8,3853 Andy Murray (GBR) 6,0604 Rafael Nadal (ESP) 5,3905 Kei Nishikori (JPN) 5,2806 Milos Raonic (CAN) 5,0707 Tomas Berdych (CZE) 4,9608 David Ferrer (ESP) 4,4909 Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 3,49510 Marin Cilic (CRO) 3,40561 Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 815

Millennium Estoril OpenEstoril, Portugal. Surface: Clay. Purse: €439,405 (NOTE: 1 euro=CDN$1.33)

Singles - Round 1Richard Gasquet (5), France, def. Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 7-6 (7), 6-1.Nick Kyrgios (7), Australia, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3).Nicolas Almagro, Spain, def. Stephane Robert (96), France, 6-3, 7-6 (4).Kenny De Schepper, France, def. Gastao Elias, Portugal, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, def. Con-stant Lestienne, France, 6-3, 6-1.Albert Montanes, Spain, def. Martin Fischer, Austria, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.Guillermo G’rcia-Lopez, Spain, def. Ro-berto Carballes Baena, Spain, 6-2, 6-2.Rui Machado, Portugal, def. Joao Sousa, Portugal, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Doubles - Round 1Treat Huey, Philippines, and Scott Lipsky (2), United States, def. Joao Domingues, Portugal, and Pedro Sousa, Portugal, 6-3, 6-0.Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, def. Gong Mao-Xin, China, and Hsien-Yin Peng, Taiwan, 6-2, 6-4.Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, and Alejan-dro Gonzalez, Colombia, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, and Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 6-3, 6-4.

BMW Open by FWU AGMunich, Germany. Surface: Clay. Purse: €439,405Singles - Round 1Dominic Thiem, Austria, def. Vasek Pospisil, Vernon, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (9).Alexander Zverev, Germany, def. Benja-min Becker, Germany, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, def. Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 7-6 (4), 6-4.Philipp Kohlschreiber (5), Germany, def. Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-2.Janko Tipsarevic, Serbia, def. Bernard Tomic (6), Australia, 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (3).Fabio Fognini (8), Italy, def. Bastian Trinker, Austria, 6-2, 7-6 (3).Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic, def. Farrukh Dustov, Uzbekistan, 6-1, 4-1, retired.Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Dustin Brown, Germany, 6-1, 7-6 (2).Mischa Zverev, Germany, def. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-4.Lukas Rosol, Czech Republic, def. Florian Mayer, Germany, 6-2, 6-2.Sergiy Stakhovsky, Ukraine, def. Mikhail Ledovskikh, Russia, 6-0, 6-0.

Paribas Istanbul OpenIstanbul, Turkey. Surface: Clay. Purse: €439,405

Singles - Round 1Ivan Dodig, Croatia, def. Andreas Haider-Maurer (5), Austria, 7-5, 6-3.Mikhail Kukushkin (6), Kazakhstan, def. Aleksandr Nedovyesov, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-4.Diego Schwartzman (8), Argentina, def. Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia, 6-2, 6-1.Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, def. Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, 6-4, 7-5.

WTAWorld Rankings: Singles

Player Points1 Serena Williams 99812 Simona Halep 77553 Maria Sharapova 75254 Petra Kvitova 60605 Caroline Wozniacki 47906 Eugenie Bouchard 41227 Ana Ivanovic 40008 Ekaterina Makarova 34659 Agnieszka Radwanska 334510 Carla Suarez Navarro 3335

Doubles1 Sania Mirza 76602 Sara Errani 73602 Roberta Vinci 73604 Martina Hingis 64655 Cara Black 58706 Shuai Peng 56327 Ekaterina Makarova 53157 Elena Vesnina 53159 Su-wei Hsieh 511010 Kristina Mladenovic 4515

GP SAR La Princesse Lalla MeryemMarrakech, Morocco. Surface: Clay.

Singles - Round 1(1)(WC)G. Muguruza (ESP) d. (WC)D. Kasatkina (RUS) 6-4, 6-1K. Mladenovic (FRA) d. M. Erakovic (NZL) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3(8)M. Puig (PUR) d. (Q)A. Van Uytvanck (BEL) 6-0, 7-6(3)(2)T. Bacsinszky (SUI) d. E. Rodina (RUS) 6-3, 7-5T. Maria (GER) d. C. Witthoeft (GER) 6-3, 6-2(4)E. Svitolina (UKR) d. D. Vekic (CRO) 6-2, 6-2T. Babos (HUN) d. (5)M. Barthel (GER) 6-4, 6-0

Prague OpenPrague, Czech Republic. Surface: Clay. Purse: $250,000

Singles - Round 1(1)K. Pliskova (CZE) d. A. Beck (GER) 2-6, 6-1, 6-3T. Pironkova (BUL) d. (Q)O. Govortsova (BLR) 7-5, 6-1(Q)A. Konjuh (CRO) d. (7)B. Bencic (SUI) 7-5, 6-7(8), 7-6(3)(3)B. Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) d. M. Brengle (USA) 7-6(5), 6-3Elena Vesnina (Russia) beat Jana Cepelova (Slovakia) 6-2 6-1

Blue Jays 11 Red Sox 8Toronto Boston ab r h bi ab r h biTravis 2B 5 2 1 1 Betts CF 5 2 2 2Donaldson 3B 5 3 3 2 Pedroia 2B 4 0 1 1Bautista DH 4 2 2 3 Ortiz DH 3 1 2 2Enc’acion 1B 5 1 2 2 Ramirez LF 5 1 2 2Martin C 3 0 1 0 Sandoval 3B 5 2 4 0Saunders RF 5 0 2 1 Nava 1B 3 0 0 0Valencia LF 5 0 1 0 Craig PH-1B 1 0 0 0Pillar CF 4 2 3 0 Holt RF 3 0 0 0Goins SS 5 1 2 1 Bogaerts SS 5 1 1 1Totals 41 11 17 10 Hanigan C 4 1 1 0 Totals 38 8 13 8

Toronto 005 310 011 11 Boston 040 110 020 8

SB: TOR Pillar (3, 2nd base off Varvaro/Hanigan). 2B: TOR Pillar (6, Ross); BOS Sandoval 2 (4, Hutchison, Hutchison), Betts (4, Hutchison), Ortiz, D (3, Loup). 3B: TOR Goins (1, Varvaro). GIDP: TOR Goins, Saunders, M. HR: TOR Bautista (5, 8th inning off Breslow, 0 on, 0 out), Donaldson (5, 9th inning off Tazawa, 0 on, 2 out); BOS Ramirez, H (9, 8th inning off Loup, 1 on, 2 out). Team Lob: TOR 10; BOS 11. DP: BOS 2 (Pedroia-Bogaerts-Nava 2). E: BOS Ramirez, H (1, fielding).

Toronto IP H R ER BB SOA Hutchison 4.0 9 6 6 5 0M Estrada (W, 1-0) 3.0 0 0 0 2 3A Loup 0.2 3 2 2 0 2L Hendriks 0.1 0 0 0 0 0B Cecil 1.0 1 0 0 0 1Boston IP H R ER BB SOC Buchholz (L, 1-3) 2.2 6 5 4 1 4E Mujica 1.1 3 3 3 2 0A Varvaro 1.1 3 1 1 1 3R Ross 1.2 2 0 0 1 1C Breslow 1.1 2 1 1 1 2J Tazawa 0.2 1 1 1 0 1

Time: 4:01. Att: 33,920.

Yankees 4, Rays 2Tampa Bay NY Yankees ab r h bi ab r h biDeJesus LF 5 0 0 0 Ellsbury CF 4 2 3 0Souza Jr. RF 4 1 1 0 Gardner LF 4 1 1 1Cabrera SS 4 0 2 1 Teixeira 1B 3 1 1 0Longoria 3B 4 0 0 0 McCann C 4 0 2 3Loney 1B 3 1 2 0 Beltran RF 3 0 0 0Forsythe 2B 4 0 2 1 Young RF 1 0 0 0Kiermaier CF 4 0 2 0 Jones DH 4 0 0 0Beckham DH 4 0 0 0 Headley 3B 4 0 1 0Rivera C 4 0 0 0 Drew 2B 3 0 0 0Totals 36 2 9 2 Gregorius SS 3 0 1 0 Totals 33 4 9 4

Tampa Bay 001 001 000 2 NY Yankees 200 020 00x 4

SB: NYY Ellsbury 2 (7, 2nd base off Odorizzi/Rivera, Re, 2nd base off Cedeno, X/Rivera, Re), Gardner, B (6, 2nd base off Odorizzi/Rivera, Re). HR: None. 2B: TB Cabrera, A (3, Whitley), Kiermaier (6, Whitley); NYY Teixeira (5, Odorizzi), McCann 2 (4, Odorizzi, Odorizzi). 3B: TB Forsythe (1, Shreve). Team Lob: TB 10; NYY 6. E: TB Rivera, Re (1, throw).

Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SOJ Odorizzi (L, 2-2) 6.1 9 4 4 0 4X Cedeno 0.2 0 0 0 1 1E Ramirez 1.0 0 0 0 0 1NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SOC Whitley (W, 1-0) 5.0 6 1 1 1 5C Shreve 0.1 1 1 1 1 1E Rogers 2.2 1 0 0 1 5C Martin 1.0 1 0 0 0 1

Time: 2:58. Att: 36,934.

Royals 11, Indians 5Kansas City Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h biEscobar SS 4 1 2 2 Kipnis 2B 3 0 0 0Moustakas 3B 5 1 2 1 Ramirez SS 5 0 1 0Cain CF 4 0 0 0 Brantley LF 5 1 2 0Hosmer 1B 5 1 2 0 Santana 1B 2 1 1 0Morales DH 5 4 3 3 Moss RF 4 2 2 3Gordon LF 3 2 2 2 Murphy DH 2 0 0 0Perez C 5 1 3 1 Raburn DH 2 0 0 0Infante 2B 5 1 3 2 Chisenhall 3B 4 1 2 0Dyson RF 5 0 1 0 Hayes C 4 0 0 0Totals 41 11 18 11 Bourn CF 3 0 1 2 Totals 34 5 9 5

Kansas City 010 101 602 11 Cleveland 020 003 000 5

SB: CLE Bourn (2, 2nd base off Guthrie/Perez, S). 2B: KC Morales, K (6, Bauer), Infante (6, Atchison), Escobar, A (6, Atchison), Hosmer (4, Swarzak); CLE Brantley (5, Guthrie). GIDP: KC Mousta-kas, Infante. HR: KC Gordon, A (3, 2nd inning off Bauer, 0 on, 0 out), Morales, K (3, 7th inning off Shaw, 2 on, 2 out); CLE Moss (4, 6th inning off Finnegan, 2 on, 0 out). Team Lob: KC 7; CLE 7. DP: CLE 2 (Bauer-Ramirez, Jo-Santana, C, Kipnis-Ramirez, Jo-Santana, C). E: CLE Hayes (1, missed catch).

Kansas City IP H R ER BB SOJ Guthrie 5.0 6 4 4 3 3B Finnegan (W, 1-0) 1.0 2 1 1 1 0C Young 1.0 1 0 0 0 0J Frasor 1.0 0 0 0 0 1Y Pino 1.0 0 0 0 0 1Cleveland IP H R ER BB SOT Bauer 6.0 7 3 3 2 2S Atchison (L, 0-1) 0.1 3 3 3 0 0M Rzepczynski 0.1 1 2 2 1 0B Shaw 0.1 1 1 1 0 0A Swarzak 2.0 6 2 2 1 1HBP: Kipnis (by Finnegan).

Time: 3:13. Att: 10,698.Reds 4, Brewers 2Milwaukee Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h biSegura SS 4 0 0 0 Hamilton CF 4 0 0 0Parra LF 3 0 0 0 Cozart SS 4 0 1 0Herrera PH 1 0 0 0 Votto 1B 4 1 2 1Braun RF 4 1 1 1 Frazier 3B 3 0 0 0Lind 1B 4 0 1 0 Bruce RF 3 1 1 0Ramirez 3B 2 1 1 1 Phillips 2B 4 1 1 2Schafer CF 3 0 0 0 Byrd LF 3 1 1 1Maldonado C 3 0 0 0 Pena C 2 0 0 0Gomez 2B 3 0 0 0 Cueto P 3 0 1 0Lohse P 2 0 0 0 Chapman P 0 0 0 0Rogers PH 1 0 0 0 Totals 30 4 7 4Blazek P 0 0 0 0 Totals 30 2 3 2

Milwaukee 000 010 100 2 Cincinnati 100 300 00x 4

HR: MIL Ramirez, Ar (2, 5th inning off Cueto, 0 on, 0 out), Braun (2, 7th inning off Cueto, 0 on, 0 out); CIN Votto (7, 1st inning off Lohse, 0 on, 2 out), Phillips (1, 4th inning off Lohse, 1 on, 2 out), Byrd (2, 4th inning off Lohse). SB: None. Team Lob: MIL 2; CIN 5. DP: MIL (Segura-Gomez, H).

Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SOK Lohse (L, 1-4) 7.0 7 4 4 1 5M Blazek 1.0 0 0 0 2 1Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SOJ Cueto (W, 2-2) 8.0 3 2 2 0 6A Chapman 1.0 0 0 0 0 2HBP: Ramirez, Ar (by Cueto).

Time: 2:11. Att: 19,238.

Marlins 4, Mets 3NY Mets Miami ab r h bi ab r h biGranderson RF 4 1 2 0 Gordon 2B 4 1 2 0Lagares CF 5 0 1 3 Prado 3B 2 1 0 0Duda 1B 5 0 1 0 Stanton RF 4 1 1 1Campbell 3B 5 0 1 0 Ozuna CF 3 1 1 0Murphy 2B 4 0 3 0 Morse 1B 4 0 1 1Tejada SS 4 0 0 0 Realmuto C 4 0 1 1Nieu’huis LF 4 1 1 0 Suzuki LF 4 0 0 0Recker C 3 1 1 0 H’avarria SS 2 0 0 0Montero P 2 0 0 0 Phelps P 2 0 0 0Carlyle P 0 0 0 0 Ramos P 0 0 0 0Flores PH 1 0 0 0 Dunn P 0 0 0 0Torres P 0 0 0 0 Baker PH 1 0 0 0Cuddyer PH 1 0 0 0 Morris P 0 0 0 0Torres P 0 0 0 0 Cishek P 0 0 0 0Totals 38 3 10 3 Totals 30 4 6 3

NY Mets 000 000 300 3 Miami 000 003 01x 4

HR: None. 2B: NYM Granderson (3, Phelps, D), Lagares (3, Ramos, A), Murphy, Dn (6, Morris, B); MIA Gordon, D (5, Montero). S: MIA Prado. SB: None. Team Lob: NYM 10; MIA 6. E: NYM Campbell (3, throw), Granderson (1, fielding); MIA Stanton (2, fielding).

NY Mets IP H R ER BB SOR Montero 5.2 5 3 3 1 6E Carlyle 0.1 0 0 0 0 0A Torres 1.0 0 0 0 0 3C Torres (L, 1-1) 1.0 1 1 1 2 0Miami IP H R ER BB SOD Phelps 6.0 7 2 2 0 4A Ramos 0.1 2 1 1 0 0M Dunn 0.2 0 0 0 0 1A Morris (W, 3-0) 1.0 1 0 0 1 1S Cishek 1.0 0 0 0 1 1

Time: 2:46. Att: 17,255.

Mariners 2, Rangers 1Seattle Texas ab r h bi ab r h biJackson CF 4 0 0 0 Martin CF 4 0 1 0Ruggiano RF 4 0 2 0 Andrus SS 4 0 1 0Cano 2B 4 0 0 0 Fielder DH 4 0 1 0Cruz DH 4 1 3 0 Beltre 3B 4 0 1 0Seager 3B 3 0 0 1 Chirinos C 4 0 1 0Weeks LF 3 1 2 1 Smolinski RF 2 1 1 0Ackley LF 1 0 0 0 Peguero PH 1 0 0 0Morrison 1B 4 0 0 0 Rosales 1B 4 0 0 0Miller SS 2 0 0 0 Odor 2B 4 0 0 0Zunino C 3 0 0 0 DeShields LF 3 0 1 1Totals 32 2 7 2 Totals 34 1 7 1

Seattle 000 200 000 2 Texas 000 000 100 1

SB: SEA Ruggiano (2, 2nd base off Detwiler/Chirinos). 2B: SEA Cruz, N (3, Detwiler); TEX Martin, L (4, Happ), DeShields (1, Happ). 3B: SEA Cruz, N (1, Detwiler). GIDP: SEA Weeks, R, Cano. HR: SEA Weeks, R (2, 4th inning off Detwiler, 0 on, 1 out). Team Lob: SEA 5; TEX 7. DP: TEX 2 (Andrus-Odor-Rosales, Odor-Andrus-Rosales). E: SEA Miller, B (3, throw).

Seattle IP H R ER BB SOJ Happ (W, 2-1) 6.2 6 1 1 1 9T Olson 0.1 0 0 0 0 0D Leone 0.0 1 0 0 0 0C Furbush 0.1 0 0 0 0 0Y Medina 0.2 0 0 0 0 0F Rodney 1.0 0 0 0 0 2Texas IP H R ER BB SOR Detwiler (L, 0-3) 5.1 5 2 2 2 5A Bass 1.2 0 0 0 0 0S Tolleson 1.0 1 0 0 0 1N Feliz 1.0 1 0 0 0 0

Time: 2:43. Att: 23,714.

Twins 3, Tigers 2Detroit Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h biGose CF 4 0 1 1 Santana SS 4 0 3 1Kinsler 2B 4 0 0 0 Hunter RF 4 0 0 0Cabrera 1B 4 0 0 0 Mauer 1B 4 0 0 0Martinez DH 4 0 0 0 Plouffe 3B 4 0 1 0Martinez RF 4 1 1 0 Nunez DH 3 1 1 0Cespedes LF 3 0 1 1 Escobar 2B 4 1 1 1Avila C 1 1 0 0 Arcia LF 3 1 2 0Castellanos 3B 3 0 0 0 Robinson LF 1 0 0 0Iglesias SS 3 0 0 0 Suzuki C 2 0 2 1Totals 30 2 3 2 Schafer CF 3 0 0 0 Totals 32 3 10 3

Detroit 001 100 000 2 Minnesota 001 000 20x 3

SB: DET Gose (4, 2nd base off Pelfrey/Suzuki, K); MIN Escobar, E (1, 2nd base off Alburquerque/Avila). 2B: DET Marti-nez, J (6, Pelfrey), Cespedes (7, Pelfrey); MIN Escobar, E (2, Sanchez, An). HR: None. GIDP: DET Iglesias. S: MIN Suzuki, K. Team Lob: DET 3; MIN 7. DP: MIN (Escobar, E-Santana, D-Mauer). E: MIN Santana, D (6, fielding).

Detroit IP H R ER BB SOA Sanchez (L, 1-3) 7.0 9 3 3 0 6B Hardy 0.1 0 0 0 0 0A Alburquerque 0.2 1 0 0 1 0Minnesota IP H R ER BB SOM Pelfrey (W, 2-0) 7.0 3 2 1 2 7C Fien 1.0 0 0 0 0 0G Perkins 1.0 0 0 0 0 0

Time: 2:40. Att: 18,169.

Cardinals 11, Phillies 5Philadelphia St. Louis ab r h bi ab r h biRevere LF 4 1 2 0 Jay CF-LF 5 0 2 2Herrera CF 4 1 1 2 Carpenter 3B 4 2 2 1Utley 2B 5 0 1 2 Holliday LF 5 2 3 1Francoeur RF 2 0 0 0 Bourjos PR-CF 0 1 0 0McGowan P 0 0 0 0 Adams 1B 4 1 3 2Ruf PH 1 0 0 0 Peralta SS 4 0 0 1Diekman P 0 0 0 0 Kozma SS 0 0 0 0Blanco PH 1 0 1 1 Heyward RF 2 2 1 0De Fratus P 0 0 0 0 Molina C 3 1 1 2Gomez P 0 0 0 0 Wong 2B 5 1 2 0Howard 1B 3 0 0 0 Wacha P 2 1 1 2Asche 3B 4 0 1 0 Choate P 0 0 0 0Ruiz C 4 0 0 0 Stanley PH 1 0 0 0Galvis SS 4 2 3 0 Harris P 0 0 0 0Gonzalez P 0 0 0 0 Villanueva P 0 0 0 0Sizemore RF 2 1 0 0 Totals 35 11 15 11Totals 34 5 9 5

Philadelphia 002 020 100 5 St. Louis 223 020 02x 11

SB: STL Bourjos (4, 2nd base off De Fra-tus/Ruiz). 2B: PHI Herrera (6, Wacha), Blanco (2, Choate); STL Holliday (2, Gonzalez, S), Adams, M (2, Gonzalez, S), Carpenter, M (12, Diekman). 3B: STL Carpenter, M (1, Gonzalez, S). HR: None. GIDP: STL Peralta. S: PHI Herrera; Gonzalez, S. Team Lob: PHI 7; STL 9. DP: PHI (Utley-Galvis-Howard). E: PHI Sizemore, G (1, fielding), Galvis (3, fielding); STL Carpenter, M (3, throw).

Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SOS Gonzalez (L, 0-1) 2.2 10 7 7 2 0D McGowan 1.1 1 0 0 0 2J Diekman 2.0 2 2 2 3 2J De Fratus 1.2 1 2 0 1 0J Gomez 0.1 1 0 0 0 0St. Louis IP H R ER BB SOM Wacha (W, 4-0) 5.2 6 4 4 2 4R Choate 1.1 2 1 0 0 2M Harris 1.0 1 0 0 0 0C Villanueva 1.0 0 0 0 0 1HBP: Howard (by Wacha).

Time: 2:58. Att: 40,143.

Cubs 6, Pirates 2Pittsburgh Chicago Cubs ab r h bi ab r h biHarrison 3B 3 0 0 0 Fowler CF 4 0 3 2Liz P 0 0 0 0 Rizzo 1B 4 1 0 0Polanco PH 1 0 0 0 Soler RF 3 1 0 0Hughes P 0 0 0 0 Bryant 3B 4 0 1 1Mercer SS 4 0 0 0 Castro SS 5 2 3 1McCutchen CF 4 1 1 0 Lake LF 5 1 2 1Hart 1B 4 0 1 0 Castillo C 3 0 1 0Marte LF 4 1 2 2 Wood P 3 0 0 0Walker 2B 3 0 0 0 Coghlan PH 1 0 1 0Cervelli C 3 0 0 0 Rosscup P 0 0 0 0Rodriguez RF 3 0 1 0 Motte P 0 0 0 0Locke P 1 0 0 0 Russell 2B 3 1 1 1Bastardo P 0 0 0 0 Totals 35 6 12 6Kang PH-3B 2 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 5 2

Pittsburgh 000 200 000 2 Chicago Cubs 031 200 00x 6

SB: CHC Fowler (6, 3rd base off Locke/Cervelli), Rizzo (6, 2nd base off Locke/Cervelli), Bryant (2, 3rd base off Bastardo/Cervelli), Castro, S (2, 2nd base off Bastardo/Cervelli), Coghlan (2, 2nd base off Liz/Cervelli). 2B: PIT Hart (1, Wood, T); CHC Russell, A (3, Locke), Lake (1, Locke). HR: PIT Marte, S (6, 4th inning off Wood, T, 1 on, 2 out). Team Lob: PIT 3; CHC 12. E: PIT Hart (2, throw), Harrison, J (4, throw); CHC Castro, S (3, fielding). PICKOFFS: PIT Locke (Fowler at 1st base).

Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SOJ Locke (L, 2-1) 3.2 8 6 5 3 5A Bastardo 0.1 1 0 0 0 0R Liz 3.0 2 0 0 3 2W Hughes 1.0 1 0 0 0 1Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SOT Wood (W, 2-1) 7.0 5 2 2 0 9Z Rosscup 1.0 0 0 0 0 1J Motte 1.0 0 0 0 0 1HBP: Fowler (by Liz).

Time: 2:51. Att: 29,915.

Eastern LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GAN. England 14 8 4 2 2 10 7DC United 14 7 4 1 2 8 6NY Red Bulls 12 6 3 0 3 10 5Columbus 11 7 3 2 2 12 6Chicago 9 6 3 3 0 6 7Orlando 8 8 2 4 2 6 10Toronto 6 6 2 4 0 10 11NY City FC 6 8 1 4 3 5 7Philadelphia 6 9 1 5 3 10 17Montreal 2 4 0 2 2 2 6

Western LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GAVancouver 16 9 5 3 1 11 9Dallas 14 8 4 2 2 11 11Seattle 13 7 4 2 1 10 5Los Angeles 12 8 3 2 3 9 8Houston 10 8 2 2 4 10 8Sporting KC 10 8 2 2 4 11 12San Jose 9 7 3 4 0 7 9Portland 9 8 2 3 3 7 8Salt Lake 9 7 2 2 3 6 9Colorado 7 7 1 2 4 6 6

American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Yankees 13 8 .619 - W3Boston 11 10 .524 2.0 L1Tampa Bay 11 10 .524 2.0 L2Toronto 10 11 .476 3.0 W1Baltimore 9 10 .474 3.0 W2Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 14 6 .700 - W2Detroit 14 7 .667 0.5 L1Chicago Sox 8 9 .471 4.5 W2Minnesota 9 11 .450 5.0 W1Cleveland 6 13 .316 7.5 L4West W L PCT GB StrkHouston 13 7 .650 - W5LA Angels 9 11 .450 4 L2Seattle 9 11 .450 4 W2Oakland 9 12 .429 4.5 W1Texas 7 13 .350 6 L2

National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Mets 15 6 .714 - L1Atlanta 10 10 .500 4.5 L1Miami 9 12 .429 6.0 W1Philadelphia 8 13 .381 7.0 L1Washington 8 13 .381 7.0 W1Central W L PCT GB StrkSt. Louis 13 6 .684 - W1Chicago Cubs 12 7 .632 1.0 W4Pittsburgh 11 10 .524 3.0 L2Cincinnati 10 10 .500 3.5 W2Milwaukee 4 17 .190 10.0 L2West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 13 7 .650 - W2Colorado 11 9 .550 1.0 L1San Diego 11 11 .500 3.0 L2Arizona 9 11 .450 4.0 W1San Francisco 8 13 .392 4.5 L2

Diamondbacks 12, Rockies 5Colorado Arizona ab r h bi ab r h biBlackmon CF 5 2 3 2 Pollock CF 4 2 1 0Dickerson LF 4 0 1 0 Owings SS-2B 5 1 1 0Tulowitzki SS 5 0 1 1 G’schmidt 1B 5 2 3 3Morneau 1B 5 1 3 1 Trumbo RF 4 3 4 4Arenado 3B 5 0 1 0 Ahmed SS 1 0 0 0Gonzalez RF 4 0 1 0 Peralta LF 4 2 2 2Hundley C 3 1 1 0 Tomas 3B 3 0 2 1LeMahieu 2B 4 0 1 1 Ziegler P 0 0 0 0Kendrick P 2 1 1 0 Reed P 0 0 0 0Bergman P 1 0 0 0 Hill 2B-3B 4 1 1 1Ynoa PH 1 0 0 0 Gosewisch C 4 0 0 0Rondon P 0 0 0 0 Bradley P 0 0 0 0Totals 39 5 13 5 Chafin P 1 0 0 0 Dorn PH 0 0 0 0 Hudson P 0 0 0 0 Pen’gton PH 1 0 0 0 Perez P 0 0 0 0 Inciarte RF 1 1 1 1 Totals 37 12 15 12

Colorado 010 201 001 5 Arizona 300 230 13x 12

HR: ARI Peralta, D (3, 4th inning off Kendrick, K, 1 on, 0 out), Trumbo (2, 5th inning off Kendrick, K, 1 on, 1 out).

SCOREBOARD

Toronto Blue Jay Ryan Goins throws to first base in the seventh inning of a baseball game on Tuesday in Boston. [AP PHOTO]

Jays crack 17 hits, beat Red Sox 11-8JIMMY GOLEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — Jose Bautista had an RBI in Toron-to’s five-run third inning, another in a three-run fourth and then added a homer to help the Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 11-8 on Tuesday night and snap a four-game losing streak.

Josh Donaldson had three hits, including a homer, and Kevin Pillar also had three of Toron-to’s 17 hits. Marco Estrada (1-0) pitched three innings of hitless relief for the win. Brett Cecil pitched the ninth for his first save.

The Red Sox took a 4-0 lead against Drew Hutchison in the second. But Clay Buchholz (1-3) gave the lead right back, allowing five in the top of the third. Buchholz got just eight outs while allowing five runs — four earned — on six hits and a walk while striking out four.

Hutchison lasted four innings and gave up six runs. The Blue Jays led 10-6 when Aaron Loup struck out Mookie Betts and Dustin Pedroia to start the eighth. But David Ortiz doubled, and Hanley Ramirez hit his 200th career homer to make it 10-8, then Pablo Sandoval singled — his fourth hit of the game. Liam Hendriks got Allen Craig on a first-pitch one-hopper back to the mound to end the inning. Donaldson added a solo homer in the ninth to make it 11-8.UP NEXT

The teams complete their three-game series on Wednesday. RHP R.A. Dickey (0-2) will face RHP Rick Porcello (1-2).TRAINER’S ROOM

Blue Jays: The team placed SS Jose Reyes on the 15-day disabled list late Monday night with a left rib fracture.

Red Sox: OF Shane Victorino (strained right hamstring) might spend more time on the dis-abled list rather than return when eligible on May 8. Manager John Farrell said the new turf in Toronto is said to be hard on players’ legs. OF Rusney Castillo is scheduled to return to Triple-A Pawtucket from a stint in the minor leagues.

B4 | DAILY NEWS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015 SPORTS

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DIVERSIONS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2015 | 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: IT’S GREAT FUN

A Conclusion Dealer: South None vulnerable

NORTH ♠9873 ♥AQ8 ♦Q105 ♣AQ4

WEST EAST ♠AQ5 ♠K1064 ♥92 ♥654 ♦98732 ♦KJ64 ♣975 ♣K6

SOUTH ♠J2 ♥KJ1073 ♦A ♣J10832

W N E S Pass Pass 1♣ Pass 1♥ Pass 1♠ Pass 3♣ Pass 3♥ Pass 4♥ All Pass Opening Lead: ♦9

Declarer played low from the table, drew trump ending in hand and rode the jack of clubs to the king. East switched to a spade but ten tricks were in the bank, N-S +420. If trumps had divided 4-1, declarer would play a low club to the queen. If he runs the jack to the king, the defense would be able to force out his last trump while the club suit was blocked. 3NT would be soundly defeated. East may begin with a diamond but a spade will also be effective. With the king of clubs offside, there will be no hope of success. A diamond lead would position the defense to score nine tricks when North runs the jack of clubs at trick two. The major suit game was duly reached when South revealed invitational values with excellent club support. North held sufficient values to accept the game try and disclosed three-card heart sup-port on the way to game. North would pass three clubs without game interest and, therefore, three hearts was forcing to some game contract. South was happy to advance to the major suit game when part-ner revealed heart support. A club contract would yield another ten tricks but the minor suit game would finish down one. 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.

CALLING BILL HALEY ACROSS1 Two-band, as a radio5 Is durable10 Samples of soup14 Reduced-price event15 In the lead16 Contralto’s solo17 Phrase of understanding18 Like a lot19 Tough journey20 Nautical trial run23 Always, in poetry24 Likely (to)25 One mailing a letter29 From Bangkok32 Pie __ mode35 Commercial on the tube36 Ship docks37 Driveway material38 Venomous attack42 End of UCLA’s URL43 Strong point44 Slightest amount45 Pay-__-view movie46 Hardens47 French film festival city49 Belly muscles51 Solomon, to King David52 Feature of some cell-phone

plans61 Cleveland’s locale62 Texting alternative63 Food takeout order64 Technical sch.65 Name of a book66 Molecule part67 A whole bunch68 Spirited horse69 Hydrant attachment

DOWN1 Without a warranty2 Pulverize, as potatoes3 Dog-biting bug4 Timid5 Machine that fills dump trucks

6 Compound conjunction7 Pack away8 Unable to decide9 Risky business, for short10 Stopped slouching11 Annoyance12 Fruit-filled desserts13 “For Pete’s __!”21 Wide shoe width22 Elevate25 Throat ailment26 Steer clear of

27 Charles Darwin’s occupation28 Banned insecticide29 Fork prongs30 What furnaces output31 Biblical boat33 Espresso with milk34 Vicinities36 “Hey, over here!”39 Cowboy’s rope40 Language suffix41 Storage container47 Formed a spiral48 Raggedy doll50 Ink stains51 Look happy52 Churn up53 “This is terrible!”54 Former soldiers, for short55 Give off56 Evaluate57 State east of Nevada58 Wizard of Oz dog59 Psyche sections60 A few

PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Generally your communication

excels, but when others remain nonresponsive, you can get very upset. What you choose to do is likely to shake up the status quo, but it might not draw the response you desire. Tempers suddenly could flare up. TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

A caring gesture will warm up emotional waters. You can be dir-ect as long as you are nonjudg-mental and exhibit depth and caring. A friendship will allow you to spread your wings and understand others better. Let your fun side emerge. GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Listen to a loved one before you make a decision. Someone might be whispering gossip in your ear rather than facts. Go directly to the source. Remain on top of what you need to do. Express your feelings in a way in which they can be heard. CANCER (June 21-July 22)

You could be past the point of no return. Your ability to have a discussion despite someone’s manipulation and some excess anger might surprise even you. You tend to understand this per-son better than he or she under-stands him- or herself. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Much is happening behind

the scenes. The less you say, the more information you will get. Someone who cares a lot about you might not be able to express it. Be kind to this person, as you don’t get friends like this very often. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Someone you need to answer to or who can cause commo-tion in your life could be quite enthralled with what you are doing. This person might be unwilling to share his or her thoughts. Pressure builds around a decision to break past barriers. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

You might not realize how important you are to someone. As a result, you could feel left out. Make a call to a loved one and have a long-overdue discus-sion. Be aware that communica-tion is off right now. Proceed with care. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Your understanding of others easily could pay off. A friend will seem calculating and cool, but he or she could be quite emotional. You’ll see through this person’s defenses, but you might choose to not let him or her know. Tonight: SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

You could feel as if a boss or an associate tends to be overbear-ing. You might want to run away. Perhaps a discussion at a later date would be appropriate. A family member, who likely will

have good intentions, could make the situation worse.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Reach out to someone you care about. Your ability to make a difference will take you down a new path. You could see a situa-tion in a totally different light as a result. Be careful not to be too distracted. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

You might feel as if a partner is too controlling about a finan-cial matter. Be careful if you are unhappy, as you are likely to do whatever it takes to stop overthinking the issue. A fam-ily member encourages you to spend. Ask yourself why. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Your emotional mood could evoke a strong reaction from someone who is often too much in his or her own head. Bypass this person and get to the root of the problem. You might not be able to clear the air immediately, but you will soon. YOUR BIRTHDAY (April 29) This year you often feel as if you have to cater to a loved one who might be very emotional. You often have a strong reaction to that type of behavior. Your creativity will tend to save the day and find solutions.

Through August, you will be happiest close to home. If you are single, you will meet some-one who makes you feel worry-free and cared about.

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Bridal shower about gifts; use a registry to help out newlyweds

Dear Annie: My brother is 42 years old and is getting mar-ried for the first time. His bride-to-be has been married before.

My mom and I would like to give her a bridal shower, but it seems they have most of what they need. However, they don’t own their own home.

How do we send out invites and ask guests to give money toward either the cost of the wedding or larger purchases like new furniture or a down payment on a home without being rude? Is there a proper way, or is it not OK to ask for this?

— Stumped in Wisconsin Dear Stumped: It is not OK

to expect guests to pay for the wedding. The bridal couple should have the wedding they can afford. Showers, however, are about gifts, so there is some

leeway when it comes to regis-tries. There are now registries for honeymoons, vacations and, yes, houses, including furniture and appliances. If the couple has such registries, the websites can be listed on a separate sheet of paper with the shower invitation. You also can pass along such preferences by word of mouth.

But part of a shower is unwrap-ping gifts so everyone can “oooh”and “aaah.” It might be wise for the bride to register at more traditional places where unwant-ed gifts can be returned or exchanged for something more to her liking (after she writes her thank-you notes, of course).

Dear Annie: I’d like to help those who feel the same as “Also Lonely in Chesapeake, Va.,” the 29-year-old virgin who hasn’t found Mr. Right. I know it may sound strange in this day and age, but 15 years ago, my hus-band was a virgin. Due to low self-esteem and a lack of self-confidence, he was afraid to ask awoman out. We were 43 when we met, and I am so glad. We’ve had 15 very happy years, and I hope there are many more to come. — Donna

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