Red Deer
Red Deer’s Parker Thompson looking for strong finish to the Indy Pro 2000 season
From Parker Thompson Racing
With two events remaining in the 2019 Indy Pro 2000 by Cooper Tires Championship, Parker Thompson is focused on making a big impact. The Road to Indy veteran started the season in the best possible way, winning the opening two races with rookie team Abel Motorsports. Thompson has since become familiar with adversity. With Abel Motorsports, he has placed on the podium in six of twelve races, but struggles in other races put the team on its back foot entering the Oval Challenge of St. Louis this weekend. A strong finish was critical to maintaining Thompson’s contention for the overall championship.
After a near miss in qualifying, the young Canadian started the race from ninth position. He would work his way up to sixth place before the checkered flag fell, but failed to gain any ground on other top Championship contenders. With four races remaining, and a 64-point deficit to the leader, Lindh, Thompson knows that there is little room for error.
Parker Thompson
“On these oval tracks where there is a short 2-lap qualifying stint, we’ve got a small window to earn a good starting position. Unfortunately, I had a near miss with the wall on one of my laps that cost us a lot of time. After starting near the back of the field, we are satisfied to at least move up to sixth. That said, with two events remaining, you can bet that we are looking for a strong finish to the season. Our team knows that we can run at the front of the field on the road courses. We are not going to let the season end without a big fight.”
Results
Cooper Tires Indy Pro 2000 Oval Challenge of St. Louis – Rounds 13
Qualifying – Official (PDF)
Race – Official (PDF)
Overall Standings (PDF)
Next Events
August 30-31 – IP2000 Round 13 & 14 – Portland International Raceway, OR
September 20-22 – IP2000 Round 15 & 16 – WeatherTech Laguna Seca, CA
September 27-29 – GT3CAN Round 9 & 10 – Circuit Mont-Tremblant, QC
From The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT)
Large Cache of Guns Seized in Red Deer
More than a dozen firearms, some of which were stolen, have been recovered by ALERT’s Red Deer organized crime and gang team.
On September 11, 2019, ALERT executed a search warrant at a home in the Clearview Ridge subdivision. Red Deer RCMP provided assistance with the short-term investigation that began just weeks earlier.
Once inside the home, investigators seized:
- 56 grams of cocaine, worth an estimated $5,600;
- 12 rifles, including one semi-automatic rifle;
- two handguns;
- a sawed-off shotgun;
- a prohibited magazine; and
- more than 9,000 rounds of ammunition.
A preliminary check found that four of the weapons were reported stolen after a break-and-enter in Three Hills, Alta., in August. All the firearms seized will be submitted for forensic analysis and ballistic testing to determine if they were used in any criminal activities.
ALERT alleges that the home’s residents were involved in firearms and drug trafficking.
Two people were arrested when the search was carried out. Zane Middlemiss, a 26-year-old man, and Sage Sunderwald, a 21-year-old woman, have been charged with a total of 80 firearm- and drug-related offences.
Members of the public who suspect drug or gang activity in their community can call local police, or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Crime Stoppers is always anonymous.
ALERT was established and is funded by the Alberta Government and is a compilation of the province’s most sophisticated law enforcement resources committed to tackling serious and organized crime.
Parker Thompson is taking his auto racing career to a whole new level this year. Not only did Thompson race on two completely different North American Circuits, in his first season “inside” a race car, he managed to lead the pack from beginning to end and win the 2019 Canadian Touring Car Championship title for the GT Sport class.
In the more familiar open wheel Indy Pro 2000 circuit, Thompson has pushed the leaders all season long and sits in third place going into the final races of 2019.
As the season winds down Parker Thompson also finds himself in another race.. and this time you can help him win!
Thompson is up for the Move of the Year for a lightning quick move he made at The Streets of Toronto competition back in July. It’s hard to believe that a driver already moving at such speed can dispatch of another driver this quickly…
Parker Thompson: ” I am honoured to be nominated for the Indy Pro 2000 Championship AiM Sportline Move of the year.”
Click here to see Parker’s move and to vote for Alberta’s favourite race car driver, Parker Thompson
Parker Thompson about to overtake the competition with lightning speed!
“It has been thrilling to watch Erin Boake mature as an artist,” says Lorna Johnson, Executive Director. “She has mastered her drawing and painting skills and she continues to challenge herself with creative new projects. Hot Mess shows that even the most mundane of household tasks can be fuel for a creative mind and a source of beauty. We are very pleased to present Erin’s work at the MAG.”
Erin Boake was born and raised in Red Deer, where she completed her first two years of visual arts at Red Deer College, before transferring to Alberta College of Art & Design. She graduated with a degree in Painting in 2003. Erin spent many years traveling and living in various communities around Canada and abroad. Between 2008 and 2013, Erin had the opportunity to live and work in Iqaluit, Nunavut, teaching drawing and design at the Nunavut Arctic College. Erin has been teaching art for 17 years, and in the last year, has taken over the role of owner and operator of Artribute Art School, alongside her own studio practice. Erin currently lives in Red Deer with her husband and two small girls, and spends her time doing laundry when she’s not painting it.
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12 rifles including semi-automatic seized in Clearview Ridge
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